HANNAH

Question 1

He was captured by the Romans under Gaius Marius and Sulla in 105 BCE following the end of his namesake war and left to starve to death in a pit beneath the Tullianum in Rome. Who was this Berber King of Numidia who was betrayed by his neighbour, King Bocchus of Mauretania?

Answer 1

JUGURTHA

Question 2

“Got me a movie/I want you to know/Slicing up eyeballs” are the first lines in the Pixies’ song

Answer 2

DEBASER

Question 3

Briefly the world’s largest city during the 12th century, the Silk Road city of Merv was located near to the modern city of Mary in what is now which Central Asian country?

Answer 3

TURKMENISTAN

Question 4

Their name deriving from the Arabic for ‘owned’, who were the slave soldiers, mostly Kipchak Turks, who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ayyubid sultans from the 9th to the 16th Centuries?

Answer 4

MAMELUKES

Question 5

The last known sighting of the Hawaiian species of this bird was on the slopes of Mauna Loa in 1934, while the Kauaʻi species has not been sighted since 1987. What is the two-letter name of this extinct passerine bird species endemic to the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 5

OO

Question 6

‘The Immortal Game’ is the name given to one of the most famous chess matches ever played. In 1851, which German sensationally defeated Lionel Kieseritzky with his three remaining minor pieces after sacrificing his queen, both his rooks, and a bishop?

Answer 6

ANDERSSEN

Question 7

Chess playing sisters

Answer 7

MUZYCHUK

Question 8

CURRENT WOMENS CHESS WORLD CHAMP

Answer 8

JU WENJUN

Question 9

Literally meaning ‘after this, therefore because of this’, which Latin phrase is given to the logical fallacy that states that since Y followed X, Y must have been caused by X?

Answer 9

POST HOC PROCTER ERGO HOC

Question 10

Ideal gas law man

Answer 10

Emile clapeyron

Question 11

Perhaps the best-known African textile, which silk and cotton fabric is the royal and sacred cloth of the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast and is worn only in times of great importance?

Answer 11

kente

Question 12

Viktor Tsoi, who died in a car crash at the age of 28 in 1990, was the lead singer of which Russian post-punk band, perhaps the best-known rock band of the Soviet era?

Answer 12

VIKTOR TSOI

Question 13

Which Austrian table tennis player defeated Joo Se-Hyuk to win the 2003 Singles World Championship leading to him being voted Austrian Sportsman of the Year and selected in China as “The most popular foreign sportsman” of 2003?

Answer 13

WERNER SCHLAGER

Question 14

Later to become an internet meme, the poorly-translated phrase “All your base are belong to us” first appeared in the introduction to which side-scrolling shoot ‘em up video game?

Answer 14

ZERO WING

Question 15

Which star in the constellation Octans serves as the Southern Hemisphere’s pole star and counterpart to Polaris in the Northern Hemisphere?

Answer 15

SIGMA OCTANTIS

Question 16

Which princely castle in Baden-Württemberg, formerly a family estate of the Swabian Hohenzollern family, is best known today for briefly being the seat of the Vichy French Government after France was liberated by the Allies at the end of World War II?

Answer 16

SIGMARINGEN

Question 17

Named after the German physicist who first observed it in 1913, what name is given to the splitting of a spectral line into a group of closely spaced lines when the substance producing the line is subjected to a uniform electric field?

Answer 17

STARK effect

Question 18

The Rwandan Genocide was largely carried out by which Hutu paramilitary organisation with a name which translates into English as ‘those who fight together’?

Answer 18

INTERHAMWE

Question 19

Its name meaning ‘deep place’, which dungeon of torment found in Greek mythology was said to exist below Heaven, Earth and Hades?

Answer 19

TARTARUS

Question 20

Which 47-story building on the corner of Liberty Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan was demolished in 1968, making it the tallest building ever demolished legally (of all demolished buildings, only the towers of the World Trade Center were taller)?

Answer 20

SINGER BUILDING

Question 21

Which French economist (1913-1945) - who died in action whilst fighting with the Free French forces - wrote the book The Carthaginian Peace, or The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes in response to Keynes’ own book The Economic Consequences of the Peace?

Answer 21

Etienne MANTOUX

Question 22

Which village in the Haute-Vienne department of west-central France was destroyed in June 1944 when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company?

Answer 22

ORADOUR SUR GLANE

Question 23

The largest city in Russia which does not serve as an administrative centre of a federal subject, which city was renamed in 1964 after the leader of the Italian Communist Party and is home to the headquarters of Lada manufacturer AvtoVaz?

Answer 23

TOLYATTI

Question 24

Typically made from linen or cotton, liqui liqui is the national costume of which South American country?

Answer 24

VENEZUELA

Question 25

In Italian folklore, which old lady, usually portrayed riding a broomstick through the air and wearing a black, soot-covered shawl, is said to deliver presents to children on Epiphany?

Answer 25

LA BAFANA

Question 26

Adolf Dassler famously founded Adidas whilst his brother Rudolf Dassler founded Puma. But which German swimwear brand was founded by Adolf’s son, Horst Dassler, in 1973?

Answer 26

ARENA

Question 27

Which Austro-Hungarian otologist discovered that he had been awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the vestibular apparatus while interned in a Russian Prisoner of War camp?

Answer 27

BARANY

Question 28

Gerhard Domagk won the Nobel Prize for his work with which antibacterial drug? The first synthetic drug used in the treatment of general bacterial infections in humans, it was discovered in 1932 by a research team at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate.

Answer 28

PRONTOSIL

Question 29

Constructed in Reims between 1965 and 1966, the chapel of Our Lady Queen of Peace is better known by what name after the 20th Century Japanese artist who designed it?

Answer 29

FUJITA

Question 30

Later legend has it that he inherited Egypt from Horus. Which Egyptian Pharaoh, who founded both the First Dynasty and the city of Memphis in around 3100 BCE, was killed by a marauding hippopotamus?

Answer 30

MENES

Question 31

The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo are two of the best known works from which Mexican novelist known for his philandering behaviour which, according to him, included affairs with film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau and Jean Seberg?

Answer 31

CARLOS FUENTES

Question 32

According to the widely accepted giant impact hypothesis, the Moon was created after the Earth collided with which Mars-sized planet, named after a mythical Greek Titan, approximately 4.53 billion years ago?

Answer 32

THEIA