GK 2 Flashcards
(200 cards)
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Which writer of plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest wrote the letter De Profundis to his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas while imprisoned in Reading Gaol?
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Oscar Wilde
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Which crisp brand notorious for its perverse decisions on colouring its packets (where for instance salt and vinegar is green and cheese and onion is blue) is ultimately owned by PepsiCo? Footballer Gary Lineker is associated with this brand’s advertising.
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Walker’s
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Also the name of a Shakespearean character what is the four-letter name of the vulcanised rubber disc which fills the function of the ball in ice hockey roller hockey and Octopush?
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Puck
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Mindanao and Luzon are the largest islands in which Asian island nation the capital of which is Manila?
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Philippines
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It is sometimes suggested that the expression funny bone is related to the name of which bone running from the shoulder to the elbow with a name which is a homophone of an adjective meaning funny? It probably relates more boringly to the funny feeling you get if you compress your ulnar nerve.
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Humerus
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India’s is longest Monaco’s is shortest and the US has the world’s oldest codified one in continuous use. The UK’s is often said to be unwritten. This is which aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity and determines how that entity is to be governed?
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Constitution
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Blur Oasis Suede and Pulp were bands associated with which musical and cultural movement of the 1990s which produced brighter and catchier alternative rock and formed part of the broader Cool Britannia movement?
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Britpop
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Emily Maitlis was reprimanded last week for delivering a monologue on Dominic Cummings’ breach of COVID-19 guidance on which BBC news programme usually broadcast at 2230 on weekdays on BBC Two? It was felt by some observers to be more opinion than factual reporting.
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Newsnight
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What six letter word connects a language spoken in cities such as Pamplona or Bilbao with an item of lingerie consisting of a bra with material continuing down beneath it and finishing at the top of the hips or waist?
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Basque
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Which artist painted The Two [Forename of this Artist]s. depicting her in a traditional white European dress on the left and a traditional tehuana dress from her native Mexico on the right?
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Frida Kahlo
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Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven are two of classical music’s Three Bs. Peter Cornelius suggested the third member was a French romantic composer of Symphonie fantastique and Hans von Bulow suggested a German romantic composer of A German Requiem. Name either of these potential Third Bs.
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Hector Berlioz or Johannes Brahms
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Voltaire is associated with the observation that what multi-ethnic complex of territories in western Europe in existence from the Early Middle Ages until 1806 was none of the three components in its name?
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Holy Roman Empire
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Less easy for beginners as it requires technique and strong muscles which B is a swimming stroke that involves moving the arms simultaneously accompanied by a namesake kick to achieve a wave-like body motion?
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Butterfly
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In physics what is the name of the resistance of a physical body to any change in its velocity (either speed or change of direction)? Newton’s First Law concerns this property which can be used more generally to refer to a feeling of sluggishness or reluctance to take action.
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Inertia
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What was the name of the anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle featuring in a series of Walt Disney movies beginning with 1968’s The Love Bug?
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Herbie
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The alphabetically last of the world’s currencies is which currency used in Poland divided into 100 grosz?
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Zloty
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What is the common name of Rumex obtusifolius a perennial considered an invasive species in some locales which in the UK is often found near nettle leaves and said to help calm a nettle sting if rubbed on it?
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Dock
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The laundry symbol consisting of a circle in a square with a cross through it indicates you should not use what process in respect of the garment?
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Tumble drying
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Demonstrating his trademark of leaving service ducts pipeworks and so on exposed on the building’s exterior the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyd’s Building in London were designed by which British architect?
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Richard Rogers
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Name any two of three London boroughs permitted to describe themselves as a Royal Borough.
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Kensington and Chelsea Kingston-upon-Thames Greenwich
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Lorena Ochoa who has spent most weeks at the top of the world rankings for female players of golf is from which Latin American nation?
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Mexico
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Which Southern African kingdom which fought a war against the British Empire in 1879 rose to prominence under the leadership of Shaka who ruled it from 1816 to 1828?
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Zulu
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Which country became independent in 2006 and began using the .me internet code the following year? It had previously adopted the .yu code used by its predecessor state and hence changed from .yu to .me pleasingly for trivia fans.
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Montenegro
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Which gemstone a typically blue variety of corundum classically celebrates a 45th wedding anniversary but was also used to name the 65th Jubilee reached by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017?
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Sapphire
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And when they buried him / the little port had seldom seen a costlier funeral are the much mocked final lines of the 1864 narrative poem Enoch Arden written by which then Poet Laureate the longest-serving in the role?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Keli Richards dislikes film questions which focus excessively on Academy Award winning films so just to annoy him: which Best Picture winner of the 2000s was directed by Clint Eastwood and concerns the underdog amateur boxer Maggie Fitzgerald played by Hilary Swank?
Million Dollar Baby
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The title track inspired by an act of police brutality witnessed by cowriter Renaldo Obie Benson of the Four Tops Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) and Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) were tracks on which classic 1971 album by Marvin Gaye?
What's Going On?
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The aviator Charles Kingsford Smith who disappeared during a flight over the coast of Burma in 1935 gives his name to the airport in which southern hemisphere city?
Sydney
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What five-letter word meaning a shadowy group of plotters is said to have derived from the initial letters of the surnames of five of the key members of the ministry who advised Charles II between around 1668 and 1674 although this is most likely a folk etymology with no basis in fact?
Cabal
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One of the achievements for which Dorothy Hodgkin won a Nobel Prize was for determining the complete chemical structure of which largest and most structurally complex vitamin in the Vitamin B complex also known as Cobalamin?
B12
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The prolific Norwegian frontman Erling Braut Haaland scored the first goal after the post-lockdown resumption of the Bundesliga for which side Champions League winners in 1996-97 in the Revierderby against local rivals Schalke 04?
Borussia Dortmund
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English comedian Tom Walker is the person behind which fictional satirical news correspondent whose rants about British and US politics are often shared on social media?
Jonathan Pie
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Which mother of Romulus and Remus gives her name to the prominence on the surface of the asteroid Vesta which by some measures is the highest mountain in the solar system measured from peak to base?
Rhea Silvia
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Which nation's rugby league team are nicknamed The Kumuls which means birds of paradise in the local creole Tok Pisin?
Papua New Guinea
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In Egyptian mythology which warrior goddess and goddess of healing a protector of the Pharoahs is often depicted as a lioness holding a uraeus (the stylised form of the upright cobra)?
Sekhmet
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Which scientist gives his name to the constant in physics and chemistry which represents the magnitude of electric charge per mole of electrons?
Michael Faraday
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The name of which adhesives company alludes to its foundation in 1889 in the town of Chelsea which sits the other side of the Mystic River from a particular US city?
Bostik (refers to Boston)
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Coined by the Australian commentator A.A. Phillips what alliterative phrase refers to an internalized inferiority complex that causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries?
Cultural cringe
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Pre-dating Claudio Monterverdi's subsequent works which 1597 work by Jacopo Peri is the earliest known work that by modern standards could be described as an opera?
Dafne
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In 1946 the right-wing Zionist organisation Irgun bombed the British administrative headquarters for Palestine which were based in what building in Jerusalem which gives its name to the bombing?
King David Hotel
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The 1969 autobiography The Movies Mr Griffith and Me was written by which American actress known for her association with the works of D.W. Griffith? She appeared in his Birth of a Nation and later on in Duel in the Sun and Night of the Hunter dying aged 99 in 1993.
Lillian Gish
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What integer comes next in the following sequence of integers: 0 4 18 48 100?
180 (n^3-n^2)
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Which American Paralympic swimmer blind from birth competed in every Paralympic Games from 1980 to 2004 winning an astounding 55 medals in total (41 of them gold)?
Trischa Zorn
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Which Portuguese explorer (born c. 1452) became in the 1480s the first European known to sight and enter the Congo River and to explore the West African coast between Cape St. Catherine near the equator and Walvis Bay in Namibia?
Diego Cao
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Luigi was President of Italy from 1948 to 1955. His son Giulio founded a publisher regarded as Italy's most prestigious in the postwar period. Giulio's son Ludovico has scored films including This is England and I'm Still Here. What is their common surname?
Einaudi
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Steve Blackman is the showrunner of which Netflix series returning for a second season in July 2020 which revolves around a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who reunite to solve the mystery of their father's death and the threat of an impending apocalypse?
The Umbrella Academy
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Killer Mike who made a memorable speech in response to the death of George Floyd due to US police brutality forms which hip-hop supergroup with producer El-P? They have announced they will release their fourth album due this Friday for free.
Run the Jewels
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Which tonic and patent medicine was created in 1863 by the Corsican chemist who gave it its name and was made with Bordeaux wine and coca leaves the wine extracting the cocaine from the leaves and giving the drink its effect? It is said to have inspired John Pemberton to develop Coca-Cola.
Vin Mariani
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What was the pen name of the Danish thriller writer Borge Petersen (1917-2012)? Despite selling millions of copies his books are not stocked in Danish libraries after it was revealed in the 1960s that he had been a member of the Wehrmacht during WW2 and been convicted as a traitor on his return to Denmark.
Sven Hassel
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With a population of just 2970 people in the 2011 census which is the smallest university town in the UK?
Lampeter
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What name is shared by an American state with its capital at Atlanta and an ex-Soviet state with its capital at Tbilisi?
Georgia
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Which letter of the alphabet is the international vehicle registration code for Germany and the Roman numeral for 500?
D
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The Ukrainian dish borscht derives its distinctive red colour from its use of which vegetable as its primary ingredient? In recent years it has been claimed that juice made from this vegetable can reduce blood pressure in hypertensive people.
Beetroot
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After Greenland which is the world's next largest island to belong to a single country? This island nation is separated from Mozambique by the Mozambique Channel.
Madagascar
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The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer took place on 12 February 1994. Perhaps because of the focus on this event thieves chose this day to steal which 1893 painting undoubtedly the country's most famous? Thankfully the painting was recovered three months later.
The Scream or Der Schrei der Natur or Skrik
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Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of what in the title of a 1992 book? The Greek writer Herodotus is often described as the 'father' of a field of study of this name.
History
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Which tennis player had won six singles majors by the time she was stabbed on court aged 19 while playing in Hamburg? She did not return to tennis for two years and subsequently won only one further majors title triumphing at the 1996 Australian Open.
Monica Seles
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The heroine of which Verdi opera dies after being entombed alive with her lover Radamès?
Aida
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Commissioned in 1806 to honour those who died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars which well-known structure in Paris was designed by Jean Chalgrin and stands at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle?
Arc de Triomphe
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Which American actor won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993 for his role as the title character's husband in the American TV sit-com Roseanne?
John Goodman
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The older brother of a future Israeli Prime Minister Yonatan Netanyahu was the only soldier killed during Operation Thunderbolt in which the Israeli army freed over 100 people who had been taken hostage at the airport in which African city? The city in question had served as capital of Uganda until replaced by Kampala in 1962.
Entebbe
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During the 1970s which golfer made the cut in 39 of the decade’s 40 majors finishing in the top 10 in 35 of them?
Jack Nicklaus
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Measured in hertz what property is found by dividing the velocity of a sine wave by its wavelength?
Frequency
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The French-born Argentine singer Carlos Gardel died in a plane crash in Colombia in 1935 at the height of his fame. He is perhaps the most famous figure in the history of which style of music and dance that originated either side of the Río de la Plata in the late 19th century?
Tango
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Which term was invented by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 to describe a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale? The Koch snowflake was one of the earliest to be described.
Fractal
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Which video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance surpassed Facebook YouTube and Instagram to become the world's most downloaded iOS app in mid-2018 and in October 2018 became the first Chinese app to become the most downloaded app in the USA?
TikTok
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In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi led a 240-mile march between the towns of Sabarmati Ashram and Dandi in order to protest against British taxes on which commodity?
Salt
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The slightly creepy song Thank Heaven for Little Girls is the best-known number from which stage musical based on the 1958 film musical of the same name starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier? The film was itself an adaptation of a novella by Colette.
Gigi
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At 84 metres (276 ft) underground Park Pobedy station is one of the world's deepest metro stations. It is to be found on which city's metro system Europe's longest and busiest?
Moscow
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This is the logo of which global fashion retail brand owned by Abercrombie & Fitch that is targeted at and particularly popular with teenagers and young adults?
Holister
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Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.” (As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”) One of literature's most famous lines this sentence opens which 1915 literary work by Franz Kafka?
The Metamorphosis or Die Verwandlung
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Portrayed by Woody Harrelson in a 1996 Miloš Forman film which American porn mogul who introduced Hustler magazine in 1974 was left paralysed from the waist down due to injuries he suffered in a 1978 murder attempt by the serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin?
Larry Flint
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Subdivided into 100 kobo the naira is the unit of currency in which country of around 200 million people?
Nigeria
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Embryonic and Adult are the two major types of which undifferentiated biological cells with the unique ability to develop into specialised cell types in the body? These cells can be used to replace lost or damaged cells that our bodies can’t replace naturally but their use in medical research remains controversial.
Stem cells
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Which great Soviet ballet dancer defected to Canada in 1974 and later played Carrie Bradshaw's love interest in the final series of Sex and the City?
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In which European city did followers of the preacher Girolamo Savonarola collect and burn thousands of books and artworks in the Piazza della Signoria on Shrove Tuesday 1497 in an event known today as the Bonfire of the Vanities? In one of history's little ironies Savonarola would himself be burned at the stake in the same square the following May.
Florence
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Three of the last four Laureus Awards for Sportswoman of the Year have been awarded to which American artistic gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and five more at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart?
Simone Biles
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Almost a third of them being found in Mumbai fire temples are places of worship for members of which religion based on the teachings of an Iranian prophet of the 2nd millennium BCE?
Zoroastrianism
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Brian Selznick's Caldecott Medal-winning 2008 novel The Invention of ____ Cabret tells the story of the titular 12-year-old boy who lives in a Parisian train station where he encounters the great film-maker Georges Méliès. The book was adapted to film by Martin Scorsese in 2011 with the boy's first name providing the film's title. What boy's name completes the title of the novel and provides the title of the film?
Hugo
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Possibly in use since the 3rd millennium BCE what is the name of the ‘talking knots’ regularly used by the Andean civilisations of South America as recording devices until the 17th century?
Quipus
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At the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha the host nation's only gold medal winner was Mutaz Essa Barshim who retained his 2017 title by winning which field event?
High jump
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Corvus corax is the Latin binomial for which large bird species that takes the role of trickster god in many of the myths of the indigenous peoples of North America?
Raven
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Milan Hlavsa who died in 2001 was the founder and chief songwriter of which Czech rock band which became the foremost representative of the underground culture that flourished following the Prague Spring of 1968?
The Plastic People of the Universe
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Which halogen is the most electronegative of all the elements reacting with all other elements except for argon neon and helium?
Fluorine
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Known locally as Kelb tal-Fenek (literally 'rabbit-dog' as it was originally bred to hunt rabbits) the English name for this breed is Pharaoh Dog because of its resemblence to the dogs depicted in the tomb paintings of Ancient Egypt. This dog is by far the best-known breed to originate on which European island?
Malta
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Played by Úrsula Corberó the runaway robber Silene Oliviera nicknamed Tokyo is the central character in and unreliable narrator of which hugely-successful Spanish crime drama television series first aired in 2017?
Money Heist or La casa de papel
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This two word phrase describes a stereotypical romanticised wild character primitive but uncorrupted by civilisation and symbolising the innate goodness of humanity. This phrase is commonly associated with Rousseau though he did not use the term but it does appear in French in the writings of Jacques Cartier and Michel de Montaigne. First appearing in English in John Dryden's play The Conquest of Granada this is which phrase?
Noble savage or bon sauvage
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The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is the name sometimes given to the claim that a person's world view is affected and/or informed by… what?
The language spoken by that person
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Inspired by the suicide of her lover the 1914 collection Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death) was the first major literary work by which poet who later became the first Latin American winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Gabriela Mistral
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Founded in Barcelona in 1919 by the doctor Isaac Carasso and named after his son this company has been based in Paris since 1929. Which multinational food-products corporation's brands include Activia Actimel Alpro Evian and Volvic?
Danone
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His soldiers were commanded to attack and pillage the sea and bring back countless chests full of worthless seashells. Which tyrannical Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty declared war on Neptune in 40 CE?
Caligula or Gaius (Caesar)
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Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione are the members of which Brechtian punk cabaret duo best-known for the songs Girl Anachronism and Coin-Operated Boy?
Dresden Dolls
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After the pair of scientists who created it what name is given to a scatter graph of stars showing the relationship between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities versus their spectral types or classifications and effective temperatures?
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and sharing its title with a sign of the zodiac which Brazilian-French film stars Sonia Braga as the last resident of the title building who refuses to sell her apartment to a construction company?
Aquarius
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Set in the year 2105 Brutal Deluxe is the subtitle of the second (and best-known) video game to feature which cyberpunk sport with similarities to both ice hockey and handball in which teams gain points both for scoring goals and for injuring opponents?
Speedball
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Extending from Cape Point in the south to Angola in the north which broad northward flowing ocean current forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre off the coast of south-west Africa? The current shares its name with one of Angola's largest cities.
Benguela current
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Winning the Spiel de Jahres award in 2006 which board game - in which players seek to build postal networks and post offices in Bavaria - is named after the German noble family that was a key player in European postal services between the 16th and early 19th centuries? That company's mail monopoly is central to the plot of Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49.
Thurn und Taxis
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Which French-Canadian cartoonist is best-known for his graphic novels set in the cities in which he has worked and lived including Shenzhen (2000) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003) Burma Chronicles (2007) and Jerusalem (2011)?
Guy Delisle
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Sometimes said to be the world's earliest city twinning Le Mans has been unofficially twinned with which German city since 836 CE largely because this city is the burial place of St. Liborius of Le Mans? The city is also home to the world's largest computer museum and to a football club that is currently experiencing only its second-ever season in the German top division.
Paderborn
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The largest castle in the world when measured by land area and Europe's largest brick building is which Polish castle and UNESCO World Heritage Site originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century?
Malbork Castle
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Mo Farah Nadiya Hussain Sadiq Khan and the artist formerly known as Sinéad O'Connor (now Shuhada' Sadaqat) are all followers of which religion the second largest in the world by number of followers?
Islam
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Which British actor and comedian known for his roles in 'Gavin and Stacey' and 'The History Boys' took over from Craig Ferguson as host of the US talk show 'The Late Late Show' in 2015?
James Corden
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What adjective describes both the Tudors in the title of a 'Horrible Histories' book and the Russian Tsar Ivan IV?
Terrible
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Greg Rusedski and Wayne Gretzky are both athletes from which country?
Canada
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Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' are sequels to which novel by Suzanne Collins?
The Hunger Games
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What Greek letter is in uppercase used to indicate the product of the elements of a sequence (in the same way that sigma is used to indicate the sum) and in lowercase represents the result of dividing a circle's circumference by its diameter?
Pi
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The companies Beyond and Impossible both produce burgers with what property as their USP?
They are vegan but taste like meat
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Malena Ernman who represented Sweden in Eurovision in 2009 is the mother of which schoolgirl climate activist and founder of the 'Skolstrejk för klimatet' movement?
Greta Thunberg
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What nickname is shared by boxer Nigel Benn and chaser Shaun Wallace?
The Dark Destroyer
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Mjölnir used by the Norse God Thor is what type of weapon?
Hammer
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What was the surprisingly appropriate unmarried name of Buzz Aldrin's mother Marion?
Moon
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Puffy Diddy P. Diddy and Puff Daddy (but not as yet Paddy Duffy) have been among the stage names used by which American rapper?
Sean Combs
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Which 2007 movie begins with the oft-memed narration According to all known laws of aviation there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee of course flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.?
Bee Movie
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What is the name of this react depicting an emoji cuddling a heart which was added to Facebook in 2020?
Care
115
Coprolite is the fossilized form of what subtance?
Feces
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In Seattle it's called ORCA. In Sydney it's called Opal. In Paris it's called Navigo. What is it called in London?
Oyster (Smart travel cards)
117
Name BOTH the British bands currently listed in the music category on the wikipedia disambiguation article for the title 'PSB'.
Pet Shop Boys and Public Service Broadcasting
118
The Modern Pentathlon consists of cross country running pistol shooting swimming and two other disciplines. Name either.
Show jumping fencing
119
What is the only animal that appears in both the Chinese and Western Zodiac? The version that appears in the Western Zodiac is a mythical aquatic version though these animals are usually land-based.
Goat
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Published posthumously by his son 'The Silmarillion' is a collection of stories by which author that describe the history of the universe in which many of his works are set?
J. R. R. Tolkein
121
This is the logo of which service which provides song lyrics and also interesting if dubious facts about those lyrics?
Genius
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One of the richest Americans in history which railroad and shipping magnate nicknamed The Commodore gives his name to a university in Nashville Tennessee?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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What is the first UN Member State alphabetically that contains the word and in its usual short-form English name?
Antigua and Barbuda
124
A neon light that contains pure neon will glow what colour?
Orangey-red (accept orange or red)
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One of only three women to be named Time Magazine's Woman Of The Year while it was still officially 'Man Of The Year' who was the first female President of the Philippines in office from 1986 to 1992?
Corazon Aquino
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The term in vitro referring to studies done on samples from living organisms outside of their usual context ie in a test tube is contrasted with what two-word term referring to studies done on whole living subjects?
In vivo
127
In 2016 which politician the then-Justice Secretary rescinded his support for Boris Johnson and announced his own bid for the leadership of the Tory Party? His announcement contained the memorable quote Whatever charisma is I don't have it.
Michael Gove
128
What name is given in filmmaking to the reproduction of everyday sound effects that can be edited back into a scene? The producer of such noises is known as a [NAME] Artist
Foley
129
What is the stage name of Raymond Bingham the drum and base DJ who is a long-time collaborator with fellow DJ Fabio?
Grooverider
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What was the name of the sign language traditionally used by bookmakers at racecourses to indicate movements in the price of a horse?
Tic-tac
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What youth organisation (which includes your setter among its erstwhile members) was founded in 1925 by Leslie Paul as a breakaway group from the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift itself a less militaristic alternative to the Scouts? They are sometimes referred to as the Hippy Scouts and are definitely not a cult.
Woodcraft Folk
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In 2019 Roula Khalaf was announced as the first female editor of which newspaper in its 131-year history?
Financial Times
133
After calling 999 if you are unable to talk but wish to confirm it is a genuine emergency you may be prompted to follow up with what 2-digit key combination?
55
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Which Equestrian currently holds the record for the most appearances of any athlete at the Olympic Games? His first was in 1972 and his most recent was in 2012.
Ian Millar
135
Gaining some attention of late what is the name of the Kingdom inhabited by Rapunzel in the film 'Tangled'?
Corona
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What name for the Hebrew Bible is an acronym derived from the titles of its 3 sections? The first of these sections is the Torah.
Tanakh
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It's too late in the quiz for it to be the obvious answer. The fashion brand Stradivarius originated in which European country?
Spain
138
What is the two-word French term for a musical composition that uses recordings of real world sounds as well as instruments? Examples include 'Symphonie pour un homme seul' by Edgard Varèse and the theme song to 'Are you Being Served?'.
Musique concrète
139
What term from the greek for same and time is given to a curve where an object sliding down it from any starting point will reach the bottom in the same amount of time?
Tautochrone Curve
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Published in 1957 'The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution' which reccomended that homosexuality should be decriminalised was more commonly known by what name that of the Chair of the committee that authored it?
The Wolfenden Report
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Apart from the US itself what is the only other country with a capital city named after a US President?
Liberia (Monrovia after James Monroe)
142
What name follows 'Love ...' in the title of the upcoming TV spin-off of the film 'Love Simon'?
Victor
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Adding what letter to the title of a 1976 horror movie starring Gregory Peck gives the title of a 1939 comedy film with an all-female cast including Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford?
W (The Omen/The Women)
144
Which two scientists give their name to a stress inventory in which various life events are given points values (such as 20 points for a change in working conditions 25 for a change in living situation or 53 for a major illness)? Those with 300 or more points are said to be at high risk of having a breakdown within the next 2 years.
Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe
145
The works of which botanical artist who became known for travelling solo around the world and painting the plants and animals she came across are now held in a namesake gallery in Kew Gardens?
Marianne North
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What name is given to a luxury good that increases in desirability as its price increases in apparent contradiction of the law of demand? Examples of such goods include diamonds champagne and lawyers. The equivalent term for non-luxury goods is a Giffen Good.
Veblen Good
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Who is the subject of the biography 'Spy Princess' by Shrabani Basu? The descendant of the Indian Prince Tipu Sultan she became the first female radio operator sent by the British into Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Noor Inayat Khan (Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan alias Nora Baker)
148
The Long Night' is an expansion to which zombie survival board game in which each player controls multiple characters who must work together to acheive both a common goal and an individual one? Anybody who succesfully betrays the group in pursuit of their individual goal gets to read out an evil monologue at the end of the game.
Dead of Winter
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Not to be confused for singles of the same name by Keith Urban The Style Council or Girls Aloud what song by Tom Robinson Band refers to the events of the Stonewall Riots and the period that followed?
Long Hot Summer
150
Many of you may already know that 'Trimalchio in West Egg' was considered as a title for 'The Great Gatsby' - the character Trimalchio being a wealthy and arrogant former slave who originally appeared in which work of fiction by the Roman author Petronius?
Satyricon
151
Literature: What is the name of the eponymous character who eats his way through one apple two pears three plums and so forth on his way to becoming a butterfly? Inspired by seeing pages with holes punched in them the book was written by Eric Carle and published in June 1969 and remains a cornerstone of children's literature even now. The intended answer contains four words.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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History: Who was the first President of the United States to be assassinated? He was shot in April 1865 by actor John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre Washington DC. In a 1982 survey carried out by Robert Murray and Tim Blessing to determine an unofficial ranking of the best ever presidents he came first.
Abraham Lincoln
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Words: Which two-word Latin term can be used in English to refer to a second personality? Literally meaning the other I the phrase is sometimes featured in TV & film and one early example of this phenomenon could be considered to be Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novella featuring the characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Alter Ego
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Science: The black-body radiation predicted to be released by the event horizons of black holes is named after which British physicist who first theorised it in 1974? He passed away in March 2018.
Stephen Hawking
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Film: According to a Reuters news article in October 2007 the success of a popular Pixar film set in a Parisian restaurant led to an increase of 50% in the demand for pets of which species of animal?
Rat (do not accept Ratatouille which is famously not a species of animal)
156
Sport: A large number of football teams such as Bayern Munich Rangers and Lazio have retired the squad number #12 as a sign of respect for whom?
Their fans (accept crowd etc.)
157
Literature: Which novelist born in Cornwall in September 1911 was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels which with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth illuminate the human condition in the world of today? He is perhaps best-known for his debut novel of 1954 Lord of the Flies.
William Golding
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Geography: What is the most-populated city in Pakistan? It is considered to be the most linguistically ethnically and religiously diverse city in the country and was known as the City of Lights in the 1960s and 1970s for its vibrant nightlife. Perhaps surprisingly the capital city Islamabad is only 9th on the list at least according to the results of the 2017 census.
Karachi
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Words: Which two-word term which has cropped up with much-increased regularity in the news and on social media in recent weeks is defined by Oxford Dictionaries Online as the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue? Model Emily Ratajkowski was amongst those to slam #BlackoutTuesday as an example of this suggesting that social media users who have not posted anything more substantial in regards to the movement were embarrassing.
Virtue signalling
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Rock Music: Which English band released the album Purpendicular (sic) in February 1996? It was their fifteenth studio album and the only single released from the album was Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.
Deep Purple
161
Mythology: Which daughter of Jupiter and Metis was the Roman goddess of wisdom? She is often depicted with an owl and from the second century BC onwards the Romans held her as an equivalent to the Greek goddess Athena.
Minerva
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Sport: Which 38-year-old rugby union legend announced on Thursday 4 June that he would be returning to New Zealand to play domestic rugby for Auckland-based side Blues? He last played for the international side in 2015 and has most recently been playing club rugby in Japan for the Kobelco Steelers.
Dan Carter
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Television: The only person to have ever won the light-hearted Rear of the Year award more than once won it for a second time in the year 2014. Three years later in 2017 her long-term successor in her former main television role was given the award. On which UK television show have both of these two women worked?
Countdown
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Art: Which artist born in Augsburg in the then Holy Roman Empire circa 1497 was dubbed the Apelles of our time by French intellectual Nicholas Bourbon? He is perhaps most well-known for being made King's Painter by Henry VIII in around 1535 and also painted many portraits of other important figures around this time.
Hans Holbein the Younger (accept Holbein)
165
Phrases: Although some sources suggest that the usage of the phrase came as early as the late 17th century which four-word phrase literally meaning to ignore or take no notice of undesirable information is often attributed to Admiral Nelson? This came about from his reportedly ignoring orders during the Battle of Copenhagen and having attributed it to his partial loss of vision.
Turn a blind eye
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Cities: What is the former name of the city in India that is now called Chennai? It is the capital and largest city of the state of Tamil Nadu and also shares its name with a curry dish which came second behind Jalfrezi in a survey of the most popular Indian dishes in the UK according to a July 2011 study conducted by BBC Newsbeat.
Madras
167
Art: Which painter created the fresco that is known in his native language as Scuola di Atene? It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of the decoration for the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
Raphael
168
Sport: Jack Wilshere Ashley Young and Lewis Hamilton were all born in the same town in Hertfordshire which is roughly 29 miles north of London. What is the nine-letter name of the town? It begins with a fairly common name.
Stevenage
169
Film: Of all of the Disney princesses there have ever been on film which features the least on-screen (in terms of total time)? Her total screen time has been measured as 18 minutes and coincidentally she also has just 18 lines of dialogue.
Princess Aurora (accept Aurora Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose)
170
Celebrities: Jade Jagger. Kathie Lee Gifford. Lily-Rose Depp. Emma Watson. All of these famous stars were born in which city?
Paris France
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Words: If you are stereoblind what can you not perceive? Historical experts from the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that Dutch artist Rembrandt may have suffered from this condition which would undoubtedly have influenced how he painted. A single-word five-letter answer is the intended response but I will try to be generous in accepting any synonym or accurate description.
Depth (accept 3D distance etc.)
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Geography: A small Austrian village roughly 33km north of Salzburg and close to the German border has drawn much attention in the English-speaking world for its unusual name. In 2009 it was announced that the village would install CCTV cameras in an attempt to deter tourists from filming themselves having intercourse in front of the village signs and in the same year a German brewery was initially refused permission to market a beer using the name of the village; only eventually authorised to do so in 2010 following an appeal. The two-word name of this beer contains the word 'Hell' - a German term for pale lager. What is the name of this village? A single seven-letter word is required as the answer.
Fucking
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Computing: In a light-hearted nod to the ubiquity of a popular Disney character which six-letter name can be used as the unit of the scrolling distance of a computer cursor controlled by a hand-held pointing device? Most online sources seem to agree that it was Microsoft who first introduced this witty term.
Mickey
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Sport: The motor racing circuit formally known as the Autódromo José Carlos Pace and perhaps more commonly known by a ten-letter single-word term simply meaning between lakes in its own language is located in which country? The race has often thrown up some drama over the years.
Brazil (do not accept Interlagos which is famously not a country)
175
Classical Music: Which eight-letter single-word title is shared by Ralph Vaughan Williams's third symphony and Ludwig van Beethoven's sixth? Both works have been praised for their emotive expression of feeling.
Pastoral
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Science/Language: The names of four chemical elements are ultimately derived from those of European capital cities whether it be directly or based on some Latin translation or interpretation. They have the atomic numbers of 67 71 72 and 115. Please name any two of these elements. One of you is going to name the cities please don't be that guy.
Holmium (Stockholm) Lutetium (Paris) Hafnium (Copenhagen) Moscovium (Moscow)
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Film: The playwright born Tomáš Straussler in Zlín Czechoslovakia in July 1937 shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1998 with Marc Norman for their work on a historical romantic comedy. By which name is he best known? He adopted the surname of his stepfather a major in the British army whom his mother Martha married in 1945 after the family had escaped his war-torn homeland.
Tom Stoppard
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Geography: Until the latter parts of the 19th century it was known as Большая Гора. At some indeterminate point in time it was informally locally and unofficially named after gold prospector Frank Densmore. A more legitimate and permanent change saw it renamed in honour of a candidate for the 1897 U.S. presidential election. In August 2015 after some political pressure it was renamed yet again this time to a local Koyukon name meaning tall one or great one. What is the current name of the specific geographical feature that am I describing?
Denali
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Astrology: Perhaps counter-intuitively the water-bearer star sign Aquarius is not considered to be one of the three traditional water signs of the Zodiac. To which other triplicity (a group of three star signs denoted by one of the four classical elements in cosmogonic theory) does it belong?
Air
180
Sport/Politics: The two finalists of the 2019 World Snooker Championship share their surnames with the incumbent presidents of which two countries? Both countries are required for the point.
USA & Ireland (do not accept Trump & Higgins which are famously not countries)
181
Literature: Which eight-letter name is given to the irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics first created by the novelist and humorist E.C. Bentley when he was at school aged 16? The name of this form of poem is shared with his middle name.
Clerihew
182
Art: Two Forms (Divided Circle) is a bronze sculpture designed in 1969 by which artist? The version that was on permanent display in Dulwich Park London was stolen in December 2011 and never recovered. It was one of her last works before she died in 1975.
Barbara Hepworth
183
Rap Music: Andre Young who is better known by a stage name that implies medical expertise or high-level academic qualification was born in which city in California? It is situated a few miles south of Los Angeles and the seven-letter name of the city features in a number of his song lyrics.
Compton
184
Comedy: Which comedian is the lesser-known-but-arguably-funnier spouse of popular Newcastle-based joker Sarah Millican? His first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Purist won generally positive reviews including four stars from comedy website Chortle and he has made 18 appearances on Mock The Week up to the time of writing. I went on a positive thinking course - it was shit is just one of his many punchy and witty one-liners. Please give his full name because there is an American comedian who shares the exact same surname.
Gary Delaney
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Words: Which alternative word for a yarmulke or brimless cap worn by members of the Jewish faith is also a homophone for a term for a dried and smoked fish? (Any of the four variant spellings that are listed in the Oxford Dictionaries Online will be acceptable for the purposes of this question but no more - so please do be careful with typing - and definitely don't just give the name of the fish - you deserve to lose the point if you do)
Kippa (accept kipa kipah or kippah)
186
Sport: A depiction of which fruit is found on top of the trophy presented to the annual winner of the Men's Singles competition at Wimbledon? The fruit indigenous to South America was seen as a desirable commodity that was very rare around the time of the competition's beginnings and therefore represents a theme of exclusivity.
Pineapple
187
Literature: In which Shakespeare tragedy would you find the characters Virgilia and Volumnia who are wife and mother respectively of the eponymous protagonist? In 2013/14 the character was played by Tom Hiddleston in a Donmar Warehouse theatre production in London's West End.
Coriolanus
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History: Who was the President of the German Reich from 30 April 1945 to 23 May 1945? He gave Alfred Jodl the order to sign the German Instrument of Surrender in May 1945 and following the war he was indicted as a major war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials on three counts.
Karl Dönitz
189
Television: 29 of the 30 most-watched single-network television broadcasts in US TV history are Superbowls. The other first shown in February 1983 was a 2-hour special television film broadcast of which popular series? It was the 256th and final-ever episode of the show with a reported percentage of over 60% of all households with televisions in the country tuning in.
M*A*S*H (accept Mash)
190
Awards: If omnishambles won it in 2012 selfie won it in 2013 and vape won it in 2014 what won it in 2015? (Based on the limitations of the answer box I would rather like to see a very specific five-word term as the answer although obviously I will try to be somewhat generous with adjudication if you don't know the exact wording provided that you have described it well enough for the purposes of an online quiz that has no prizes and is meant to be fun)
Face with Tears of Joy (Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year)
191
Technology: Which tech company turned down an offer to purchase Google for $750K in 1999? Emmy-winning journalist Justin Rohrlich called this a stupid business decision which seems like somewhat of an understatement based on the current valuation of its current parent company Alphabet at over $1 trillion.
Excite
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Sport: Only four countries have ever won the FIFA Women's World Cup. Of these four USA Germany and Japan are arguably the three most memorable to have done so. Which country is the fourth? They achieved this at the 1995 tournament which was held in Sweden by beating Germany 2-0 in the final.
Norway
193
Countries: Which country is designated as an 'Estado Plurinacional' in its official native name? It adopted this new title in a 2009 restructuring of its official constitution in recognition of its multi-ethnic population.
Bolivia
194
Cities: Which Asian capital city has a name that is ultimately derived from the Malay and Sanskrit languages and roughly means 'city of the aura of the gods'? It is home to one of the most beautiful buildings in the world - the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.
Bandar Seri Begawan
195
Television: The actor Michael Dorn who is perhaps best known for having played Lieutenant Commander Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation also provided the voice for the eponymous character of a cartoon which originally ran from 1997 to 2000 and was created for Cartoon Network. Which character?
I M Weasel (accept I Am Weasel)
196
Quotes: Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more and cooperation means 'do as I say and do it damn quick' are sayings attributed to which American railroad executive? He was born in Hempstead New York in 1848 and both a former annual award for railroad safety that ran until 2012 and a village in Orange County (NY) are named in his honour.
E.H. Harriman
197
Food & Drink: Which so-called Super Tuscan wine was the inspiration for the name of Meghan Markle's former lifestyle blog which she permanently suspended in April 2017? It uses a blend of 80% Sangiovese 15% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc grape varieties to create a rich and smooth flavour and she said that it represents moments of discovery for those with a hunger for food travel fashion & beauty. The answer is a ten-letter single-word name (and if you ever get a chance to try it do - it is out of this world).
Tignanello (the blog was called The Tig)
198
Sport/Languages: Car manufacturer Nissan often actively attempts to secure the use of which two-digit number for its motorsports teams? This tendency is based on the fact that the two individual digits are pronounced ni and san in Japanese even though the actual number itself is usually transliterated as nijuusan.
23
199
Pop Music: Before she became famous as P!nk Alecia Moore was a member of which largely unsuccessful girl group in the mid-to-late 1990s? Their main claim-to-fame was their song Key to my Heart which appeared on the soundtrack to 1996 comedy film Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal.
Choice
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Film: Who made a cameo in the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can as the French police officer that eventually brings Leonardo DiCaprio's character Frank Abagnale Jr. into custody? He was born in April 1948 in New York and has worked as an FBI advisor and anti-crime lecturer.
Frank Abagnale Jr.
