High Class Flashcards
Rwanda President died 1994 in plane crash?
Juvenal Habyarimana
Coined by Gaddafi and meaning “state of the masses”, what Arabic word can also mean “people’s republic”?
Jamahiraya
Stellar Classification order of letters from hottest O to coldest M.
OBAFGKM
Lady who sat on bus in 1955 before Rosa Parks did it.
Claudette Colvin
Les Liasons Dangereuses author
Choderlos de Laclos
Author of Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Two wheeled cart used in French Revolution to take prisoners to guillotine from French “to fall”.
Tumbril
First husband of Bathsheba and killed by David so David could make her his eighth wife.
Uriah the Hittite
Lyon sits on the confluence of the Rhone and which other river?
Saone
Small proteins important in cell signalling, peptides and cannot cross lipid bilayer of cells to enter the cytoplasm. Interferons (IFN) belong to this large class.
Cytokines
Antibody produced from a cell line made by cloning a unique white blood cell. Known as a mAb.
Monoclonal antibody
Treaty signed by Spain and Portugal in 1494.
Tordesillas
Novels include Horseman, Pass By (1982), The Last Picture Show (1966) and Terms of Endearment (1975). 1985 novel Lonesome Dove won Pulitzer Prize. Adapted screenplay of Brokeback Mountain which won him Oscar with Diana Ossana. Died 2021.
Larry McMurtry
Treaty between Alfred the Great and Viking king Guthrum the Old signed after the Battle of Edington in 878.
Treaty of Wedmore
Uranus description in Holst’s Planets.
The Magician
Neptune’s description in Holst’s Planets.
The Mystic
Millennium Prize problem dealing with defining elliptic curves over the rational numbers.
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Millennium Prize for projective algebraic varieties, rational linear combinations of algebraic cycles.
Hodge Conjecture
Millennium Prize describing the motion of fluids.
Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness
Millennium Prize question for all problems for which an algorithm can verify a given question quickly, an algorithm can also find that solution quickly.
P versus NP
Millennium Prize function who argument s may be any complex number other than 1. Zeta Function.
Riemann Hypothesis
Millennium Prize quantum field theory, difference in energy between vacuum and the next lowest energy state.
Yang-Mills existence and mass gap
Which muscle made from supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor muscle and subscapularis?
Rotator Cuff
French physician and member of WW2 resistance saved over 500 Jewish children during holocaust.
Odette Abadi
Where in body as Biceps Femoris?
Thigh
Where in body is Gastrocnemius?
Chief muscle of calf
Ukrainian city which used to be called Hughesovka. Welsh businessman who set up steel plant there.
Donetsk
President of DRC
Felix Tshisekedi
Pillars of Creation are found in which constellation?
Serpens
Name of ceremonial exchange system that Malinowski’s Trobriand Islands in work Argonauts of the Western Pacific?
Kula Ring
James Cook ship he took on third expedition of Pacific Ocean where he died in Hawaii?
HMS Discovery
James Cook used which ship on first voyage of discovery to Australia and New Zealand from 1768 to 1771? Launched as Earl of Pembroke.
HMS Endeavour
Name of the islands which contain Huahine, Raiatea and Tahiti in French Polynesia?
Society Islands
Spanish pianist and conductor known for Asturias, Granada, Sevilla, Tango in D. Born in 1860 and died 1909 in France.
Isaac Albeniz
Name of the theatre built into rocky granite at Porthcurno in Cornwall.
Minack Theatre
1914 law which banned kites; binoculars and whistling.
Defence of the Realm Act (1914).
Author of How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
Author of A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel and Something Out of Place.
Eimear McBride
Scientist coined “Martians” term and dictated letter against nuclear programme. Invented concepts of electron microscope and cyclotron.
Leo Szilard
Name of gift exchange that Marcel Mauss studies in his work The Gift
Potlatch
Marcell Mauss was the nephew of which socialogist?
Emile Durkheim
Famous photo by Hubble telescope gives name to which nebula located in Orion constellation and designated Barnard 33?
Horsehead Nebula
The Eagle Nebula, found by Philippe de Cheseaux, is found in which constellation?
Serpens
Name given to pleated skirt like item of clothing worn by men in folk outfits in Balkans and Greece?
Fustanella
Names of the twin girls in Enid Blyton books The Twins at St Clare’s?
Pat or Isabel
From Sanskrit for “cleanse” name given to sarong looking like loose trousers worn by men in Indian subcontinent?
Dhoti
GCMS stands for what as an analytical method in science!
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Surname of Manne (1924) and Kai (1981) both Swedish winners of Nobel Prize for Physics. Father and Son for work on X-ray spectroscopy.
Siegbahn
White Lotus Rebellion took place in 1794-1804 during which dynasty of China?
Qing
Taiping Rebellion fought between Qing and the Han in which years?
1850 to 1864
The An Lushan Rebellion was an uprising against which Chinese dynasty?
Tang Dynasty
Name of JJ Thomson’s son who won 1937 Nobel in Physics for discovering the wave like properties of the electron.
George Paget Thomson
The Decemberist Revolt took place in 1825 in Russia following the sudden death of which emperor?
Alexander I
Pugachev’s Rebellion took place 1773-75 in Russia after who seized power in 1762?
Catherine II (wife of Peter III)
What year did Nicholas II become emperor?
1894
French cubist Artist born 1882 known for Houses at Estaque, The Portuguese, Man with a Guitar, Violin and Candlestick.
Georges Braque
Along with Albert Gleizes, this French painter born 1883 wrote first theoretical work on Cubism: Le Gouter, La Femme au Chevalier, Dancer in a Cafe, paintings.
Jean Metzinger
Who known as Witchfinder General, wrote The Discovery of Witches in 1647?
Matthew Hopkins
Who discovered Charon moon of Pluto?
James W Christy
Highest peak of Peak District?
Kinder Scout
Czech painter cofounder orphism (along with Robert and Sonia Delaunay), painted discs of newton.
Frantisek Kupka
Hymn writer known for when I survey the wondrous cross; joy to the world; our god our help in ages past. Born in Southampton
Isaac Watts
Djoser step pyramid found in which location/settlement in Egypt
Saqqara
French criminologist formulated namesake exchange principle that crime doer will leave something there for evidence
Edmond Locard
What’s the name of the opening of a yurt dome which is shown on the flag of kyrgyzstan?
Tunduk
Son of Zeus fought for trojans, killed only mortal horse of Achilles and then struck down by Patroclus who was wearing Achilles armour.
Sarpedon
Who killed Hector in the Iliad
Achilles
Who killed Achilles in the Iliad
Paris
Who killed Paris in the Iliad?
Philoctetes
Who killed Patroclus, the friend of Achilles, in the Iliad?
Hector
Elementary particle acts as exchange particle for strong force?
Gluon - they bind together quarks in hadrons such as protons and neutrons
Which Italian violinist born 1782 Genoa and died 1840 Nice
Niccolo Paganini
Name of Gurkha knife
Kukri
Known as “culture struggle”, name given to conflict between von Bismarck’s Prussian government and Pius IX’s Catholic Church between 1872-78
Kulturkampf
Mexican settlement near Puebla is location of namesake Great Pyramid to Quetzalcoatl which is largest pyramid by volume although shorter than Giza pyramid.
Cholula
French policeman formulated his namesake identification system involving keeping records of five bodily measurements to help identify criminals. Invented mug shot.
Alphonse Bertillon
Art critic wrote and presented Ways of Seeing as response to Kenneth Clark’s civilisation. Introduced concept of male gaze.
John Berger
Translating as “customs Union” which German name given to coalition of German states which lasted from 1834 to 1919 with intention of managing tariffs and Econ policies?
Zollverein
Once Patroclus donned Achilles armour, Automedon drove chariot pulled by two immortal horses into battle, what names?
Balius and Xanthus
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is theory and light and matter interactions. Which theory describes strong interaction between quarks? Assigns property to quarks and gluons called colour change.
Quantum chromodynamics
Author of Color’s of London (2022), Queer City (2017), Dickens (1990), London The Biography (2000), Hawksmoor (1985).
Peter Ackroyd
American poet won Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1967 Live or Die. Peter Gabriel dedicated song Mercy Street on his 1986 album So to Sexton. Suicide at 45 in 1974z
Anne Sexton
Pentoxide of which metal most commonly used catalyst in Contact process use to produce Sulfuric Acid
Vanadium
River on border between China and North Korea along with Paektu Mountain and Tumen river has whcih name?
Yalu
Most common sedimentary rock on earth formed from mud and noted for fissility, mix of clay and silt sized particles.
Shale
Used in combo with 10% rhodium, whcih metal main catalyst in Ostwald Process used to produce Nitric acid
Platinum
Which six letter name metamorphic rock comes from Greek for “to split”? Mineral grains orientated in way it is easily split along parallel planes
Schist
What five letter term was the ideology of Kim Il-Sung?
Juche
Name of the knife in traditional Scottish dress found in socks
Sgian-Dubh (skee-un-DOO)
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan is UNESCO site in China, it’s made up of Jinsha (Yangtze), Lancang (Mekong) and whcih other?
Salween
Pyrrhus who invaded Italy in 280BC which cost him loads of losses was King of where?
Epirus
Which A is the framework around whcih a sculpture is built?
Armature
Organic chemistry what name given to functional group consisting of carbon-oxygen double bond with carbon bonded to two other carbon containing groups
Ketones
What is the simplest ketone where the two R groups are methyl (CH3)?
Acetone ( (CH3)2CO)
Which amino acid has one letter symbol N, name doesn’t begin with this letter and was first amino acid to be discovered?
Asparagine (N)
SN 1054 a supernova leading to Crab Nebula creation is in which constellation?
Taurus
Amino Acid has one letter symbol Q but doesn’t start with letter, is most abundant amino acid in blood.
Glutamine
SN1987A, supernova visible to naked eye, occurred in which galaxy, part of local group and largely found in constellation Dorado.
Large Magellanic Cloud
Olympia by Manet is at which paris gallery; full of Impressionism and postnimpressionism and housed in former railway.
Musee D’orsay
Organic chemistry, name of functional group consisting of nitrogen atom with lone electron pair and bonded to combination of three substituents or hydrogen atoms.
Amine
Major murder scandal 1677-1682 during Louis XIV and named after the method of murder
Affair of the Poisons
Chemical compound tested on British army officers as part of Rawalpindi Experiments in 1930s. It’s a blister agent.
Mustard Gas
What is the new prefix for 10^30 with the symbol Q?
Quetta
What is the new prefix for 10^27 found between Yotta and Quetta
Ronna
New prefix for 10^-27 with the symbol R?
Ronto
What is the prefix for 10^-30 with the symbol Q?
Quecto
10^-24 Y
yocto
10^-21 Z
Zepto
10^24 Y
Yotta
10^21 Z
Zetta
10^18 E
Exa
10^15
Peta
10^-18
Atto
10^-15
Femto
10^-12
Pico
10^-9
Nano
10^12
Tera
10^9
Giga
Used in treatment of HIV, drugs known as ARVs stand for what?
Anti-RetroViral
Drugs to combat infection with hiv are known as PrEP, what does this stand for?
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Actor played Harry McGraw on murder she wrote 1985-91, Lennie briscoe in law and order 1992-2004 and lumiere in beauty and the beast?
Jerry Orbach
Sucrose made up of which two monosaccharides
Glucose and Fructose
Lactose made up of which two molecules
Glucose and Galactose
Maltose is made up of which two molecules
Glucose and glucose
Type of white blood cell, important antigen presenters tonT Cells are derived from monocytes and name relating to relative size
Macrophages
Humorous system of units FFF what does FFF stand for
Furlong-Firkin-Fortnight
First well known greek philosopher whose advice “know thyself” engraved on front facade of temple of Apollo in Delphi
Thales of Miletus
Name of Athenian legislator and reformer who gave new laws, Seven Sages of Greece
Solon of Athens
Spartan politician, one of Seven Sages of greece, the militarisation of Sparta attributes to him.
Chilon of Sparta
What type of peridotite chiefly known as main host matrix of diamonds? Occur in crust in namesakenpipes and named after location of diamond discovery in 1860/?
Kimberlite
In 1998, national geographic society changed from Robinson projection to a modified azimuthal projection named after which German cartographer? His tripel map projection aimed to minimise three distortions: area, direction and distance.
Winkel
What index used to classify folk tales,
Aarne-Thompson-uther Index
Type of white blood cell, name from branched projections grown during certain stages of development.
Dendritic cells
Daydreams, passions and March to the Scaffold movements on for whcih symphony
Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
What reagent made from sodium carbonate, sodium citrate and cooper Sulfate pentahydrate named after American chemist is used to detect aldehydes or other reducing sugars?
Benedict’s Reagent
Which reagent used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones is solution of silver nitrate, ammonia and sodium hydroxide and named after German chemist?
Tollens’ Reagent
What verb form is used to describe an event that is expected or planned to happen before a time of reference in future eg I will have finished by tomorrow?
Future Perfect
What one word verb form type relates to an action that occurred prior to an aforementioned time in the past: we had arrived, they had written.
Pluperfect
Type of hexagonal crystal form of ordinary ice known as what code name
Ice One H
Ice IX s different from normal ice but is also known as Ice Nine from Kurt Vonnegut novel?
Cats Cradle
Margherita Beloch invented a new way to solve cubic roots by which way: it’s become known as the Beloch fold.
Origami
What is the Japanese name for a person who folds one thousand origami cranes -
Then joined by a string who will be granted a wish by the gods.
Senbazuru
Which astronomical treatise written by Ptolemy in 2nd century concerns apparent motion stars and and planets in sky. From Arabic term meaning the greatest.
Almagest
Trinidad born civil rights activist big in American black power movement, later moved to Guinea, central to All-African Poeples revolutionary party. Married to Miriam Makeba.
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Highest peak of Virunga National Park in DRC and volcanos on border with Rwanda.
Mt Karisimbi
National popular dance music of Senegal and Gambia, Youssou N’Dour is an example
Mbalax
Pre-Incan civilisation which flourished in northern highlands of Peru between 9th and 3rd centuries BC. Built underground canals shaped so that water running through sound like jaguar.
Chavin
What name is shared by national park in Western Uganda and a mountain range situated on the country’s eastern border with DRC? Mt Stanley is highest peak in this range.
Rwenzori
Name of 1963 film set in Wakefield and starring Richard Harris as rugby league player Frank Machin. Directed by Lindsey Anderson.
This Sporting Life
1969 #2 Oh Happy Day by whcih American gospel choir?
The Edwin Hawkins Singers
Bronze is made of copper and which element?
Tin
Brass is made of copper and which element ?
Zinc
Which ballet by Adolphe Adam does titular peasant girl die of heartbreak and then join band of spirits in afterlife who seek vengeance on those who betray them?
Giselle
Whcih Japanese language term translate into English as “beautiful youth” describes cultural aesthetic where young men depicted as androgynous and pretty. Manga and anime.
Bishonen
Ptolemy’s Almagest discusses work of which Nicaean astronomer who lives in 2nd century BCE. Based on island of Rhodes, developed model for motion of sun and moon and discovered precession of the equinoxes
Hipparchus
American political activist and academic, former member of black panther, known for her campaign for abolition of American prison system. Arrested in 1970 when used in armed takeover though acquitted.
Angela Davis
Name taken from their capital, given to civilisation which flourished in Peru between 2nd/8th century. Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna Built by this civilisation.
Moche
Four letter name given to plant structure whcih supports growth of plants such as crocuses and cyclamen. Bulbs consist of immature leaves whereas these structures consist of short, swollen stems.
Corm
Who assassinated Henri III in 1589?
Jacques Clement
Who assassinated Henri IV in 1610?
Francois Ravaillac
Wife of Henri IV who was regent of France between 1610 and 1617 while son Louis XIII’s minority.
Marie de Medici
What year was St Bartholomews DAy Massacre?
1572
What king was in power at the time of St Bartholomew Day Massacre although it was said his mother Catherine de Medici was the instigator
Charles IX
The attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny led to which massacre in 1572?
St Bartholomews Day Massacre
Ancient King who ruled Pontus 120-63 took small doses of poison to develop immunity to them.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Set theory was founded by which German mathematician born in 1845 St Petersburg. Formulated continuum hypothesis and proved natural numbers contain fewer elements than the real numbers
Georg Cantor
Known in French as the gigot sleeve, which style of sleeve sharing name with cut of meat puffs out of shoulder and tapers to tight fit to wrist
Leg of Mutton
2013 stage musical based on graphic novel of Alison Bechdel
Fun Home
2019 novel by Natalie Haynes is modern retelling of experiences of women such as Penelope and Cassandra in aftermath of Trojan war
A Thousand Ships
Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart characters in which video game 1997
Final Fantasy VII
What is the Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder featuring exodus from Egypt.
Haggadah
In Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, Roman Camillus paired with which Athenian politician who was commander of naval forces against Persians at Artemisium and Salamis
Themistocles
Final land battle of the second Persian invasion of Greece in 479BC near this city in Boeotia.
Battle of Plataea
Name for portion of matzo meant to be dessert after Seder meal and whcih is typically hidden away by an adult prior to the Seder meal and children hunt after meal.
Afikoman
In Plutarch Parallel Lives, Pyrrhus of Epirus paired with Roman politician general and army reformer who victories against Jugurthine and Cimbric Wars before fighting Sulla for control of Rome
Marius
Which female became the fourth woman to win Nobel Prize in Physics when provides evidence of black hole at centre of universe?
Andrea Ghez
Manic dancing took place in French city 1518, gothic cathedral tallest building in world from 1647 to 1874.
Strasbourg
Whcih bird is found in flag of Dominica, it’s a type of parrot?
Sisserou
Stage name of rapper with name Oakley Neil H T Caesar-Su, mixtape 23, single Obsessed with You
Central Cee
Edict of Nantes signed 1598 by whcih king ? Gave calvinsitnprotestants known as Huguenots rights in nation
Henri IV
Whcih Edict revoked the edict of Nantes in 1685 by Louis XIv
fontainebleue
Which bagpipe lament often played at military funerals mourns the Scot’s defeat at the 1513 Battle of Flodden
Flowers of the Forest
Whcih composer born 1659 wrote the 1695 music for the funeral of queen Mary?
Henry Purcell
What is the name of the mill on mill on the floss?
Dorlcote Mill
Whcih russian author’s novel & quiet flows the don led to his 1965 nobel prize for literature
Mikhail Sholokhov
Best known Cuban song, with poem by Cuban poet Jose Marti for lyrics. Also used in football chants “there’s only one ….”. “You’re getting sacked in the morning”, Robbie Williams “sing when you’re winning”
Guantanamera
Which colour appears in highest points of Herefordshire, West Yorkshire and West Sussex
Black (Mountain, Hill, Down)
Which word for high ground particularly in chalk landscapes found in highest point in Isle of Wight, Bedfordshire and West Sussex
down (St Boniface, Dunstable, Black)
Which word implying summit with historical use is in names of highest points of Somerset, Worcestershire and East Sussex
Beacon (Dunkery, Worcestershire, Ditchling)
King incited to heresy by wife Jezebel
Ahab
Which book of New Testament are Ananias and Sapphira struck down for supposedly lying about how much money they could donate to Church
Acts (of the Apostles)
Lumiere brothers first names
Auguste and Louis
Orville and Wilbur Wright first sustained flight state
North Carolina
Montgolfier brothers were in business of manurfactuirn which product used in their hot air balloons?
Paper
What is Andy’s surname in toy story franchise
Davis
Forename of the hostess of the party featured in Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s party? 15yo Abigail having party unseen next door
Beverly
What diminutive of Edward is used in Scotland to describe a hooligan and title of 2010 film
Ned (non educated delinquent)
Sawney was an 18th century Englishman nickname for any Scotsman > stupid person. Sawney is diminutive of whcih formal name
Alasdair or Alexander
Which archipelagos comprise Macaronesia
Azores, Madeira, Canaries or Cabo Verde
The Honours of Scotland are equivalent of what for Uk as a whole
Crown Jewels
What are the three cities in Essex now; there weee none in 2012
Chelmsford, Southend, Colchester
Italian wine Lacryma Christi made from grapes grown on slopes of whcih mountain?
Mt Vesuvius
Which word latin for pith or marrow, describes soft centre of brain, kidney and other body parts
Medulla
From the Latin for neck what is anatomical term for neck itself and neck of uterus
Cervix
Finnmark is a region of whcih country?
Norway - means where east meets west
Liquor comes from Latin word for elderberry, created in 1850 by Luigi manzi
Sambuca
Name means a little bitter, which almond liqueur from city of saronno shares name with type of biscuit
Amaretto
Taking yellow colour from saffron, which liqueur name from Italian for witch
Strega
A reference to how they died, name given to graveyards in western USA where gunfighters buried
Boot Hill
Hungarian doctor revolutionised clean child births dropping rates
Semmelweis
FL = Liechtenstein what does F stand for
Furstentum
Largest of the Bahamas islands
North Andros Island
Second largest Cuban island and 7th in Caribbean
Isla de La Juventud
What island of Venezuela is 13th largest in Caribbean
Isla Margarita
Western half of Guadeloupenisland
Basse Terre
Eastern half of Guadeloupe proper separated by narrow sea channel called rivière salee.
Grand Terre Island
Ambergris Caye is the largest island of whcih Central American country?
Belize
1990 Coen Brother film about power struggle between two rival gangs with Gabriel Byrne, John turturro and Albert finney
Miller’s Crossing
1994 coen brother films with Paul Newman appointing Tim robbins (norville Barnes) as graduate becoming ceo
Hudsucker Proxy
Actress starred in FastbTimes at Ridegmont High, Dorothy Parker in Mrs Oarker and the Vicious Circle, Margot at the Wedding, Anomalisa, The Hatedul Eight (nom BSA)a
Jennifer Jason Leigh (real surname Morrow)
2015 Kaufman drama exploration of Fregoli delusion with main character David Thewlis
Anomalisa
Telluride Film Festival found in which state
Colorado
Name of delusion where believe different people a single person who change appearance or in disguise, named after Italian actor
Fregoli Delusion
Delusion where person holds delusion that a friend spouse or family has been replaced by an identical imposter named after French psychiatrist
Capgras Delusion
Name of delusion by French neurologist who describes people who hold belief they are dead, do not exist, have lost blood or organs.
Cotard’s Syndrome
Munchausen Syndrome named after fictional character written by which author
Rudolf Erich Raspe
Disease named after American physician described in 1872, with lack of coordination and unsteady gait, neurodegeneratuve disease mostly inherited.
Huntington’s Disease
Charcot coined whichndisease’s name naming it after a doctor who wrote about it in 1817 An Essaynonnthe Shaking Palsy
Parkinson’s Disease
Neurodevelopmental disease character by difficulties in social interaction and non verbal comms named after Austria pediatrician
(Hans) Aspergers
Neurodegenerative disease starts slow and worsens progressively, cause 60-70% of dementia, named after German psychiatrist
(Alois) Alzheimers
Disease named after two German neurologists, invariably fatal degenerative brain disorder.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Queen of Georgia between 1184 to 1213, member of Bagrationi dynasty
Tamar the Great
Most England rugby Union appearances currently from 4th to 1st
Dylan Hartley (ended 2018), Owen Farrell (-still going), Jason Leonard (1990-2003) and Ben Youngs (-still going)
Courtney Lawes current and one below Hartley
Owen Farrell captain of whcih premiership side
Saracens
George Ford plays at fly half for whcih side premier league
Sale Sharks
Which rugby player for England has second most tries for England with 35, only behind Rory Underwood
Jonny May
New Zealand actor and comedian plays Murray Hewitt in Flight of Conchords, starring alongside Taika Waititi in Our Flag Means Death
Rhys Darby
Who played Aunt May in original Spider-Man tohey mafuire one
Rosemary Harris
President of France between 1954 and 1959
Rene Coty
Who played Brian Stimpson in Clockwise
John Cleese
Who played Man with Rock in Jabberwocky
terry gilliam
Who plays Brian Hope/Sister Euphemia in the 1990 Nuns on the Run
Eric Idle
Miklos Laszlo’s Parfumerie play gives which Nora Ephron written 1998 film
You’ve Got Mail
Who played Janice in Friends
Maggie Wheeler
Name of prison in Green Mike
Cold Mountain
Orange is New Black prison name
Litchfield Prison
Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, Claudius becomes whcih vegetable
Pumpkin/Gourd (apocolocyntosis = pumpkinification)
Tyrosine has which one letter symbol
Y is the symbol for whcih amino acid
Phenylalanine has which one letter symbol
F is the one letter symbol for which amino acid
Lysine has what one letter symbol
K is the one letter symbol of whcih amino acid
Asparagine has which one letter symbol
N is the one letter symbol of whcih amino acid
Tryptophan’s has which one letter symbol
W is the one letter symbol of whcih amino acid
Bislama is a language used in whcih pacific state where it shares official status with English and French
Vanuatu is the country which has which pidgin language as an official language?
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers make up which folk rock music duo
Indigo Girls
National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers leaders
Knapp > Crow > Cash > Lynch
The deputy of the Speaker of House of Commons known by which title, held currently by Eleanor Laing
Chairman of Ways and Means is held current by which MP
Last four speakers and constituency’s
Betty Boothroyd: West Bromwich West
Michael Martin: Glasgow springbuck/N
John Bercow: Buckingham
Lindsay Hoyle: Chorley
Second Peter rabbit book after PR
Squirrel Nutkin
First four PEter rabbits
Peter Rabbit, squirrel Nutkin, tailor of Gloucester; benjamin bunny
Hedgehog in Potter’s 1905 6th tale
Mrs Tiggy Winkle
Beatrix Potter about cat called Ribby holding tea party for dog called duchess
Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
The Story of Miss Moppet in BeatrixnPotter is what animal
Kitten
Mr Samuel Whiskers is what type of animal
Fancy Rat - rattus norvegicus/brown rat - first in The Roly Poly Pudding, Mrs Tabitha Twitchit is a cat
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, shopkeepers. Tabitha Twitchit is competition.
Ginger is a tomcat and Pickles is a terrier
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, what is animal
Squirrel
The Tale of Mr Tod is which animal
Fox - arch enemy with Tommy Brock (badger)
Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, what is title character
Brown mouse
Whcih Beatrix potter tale is based on the pig from Edward Lear’s the owl and the pussycat
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Pumpkin named after Japanese island
Hokkaido Pumpkin
Type of winter squash also known as Japanese pumpkin in America
Kabocha
Term for an old cultivar of a plant used for food that is grown and maintained by gardeners and farmers particularly in minority communities.
Heirloom variety
Bill Bailey real first name
Mark
Bilbo Bagshot in Spaced played by
Bill Bailey
Who plays Daisy Steiner in Spaced, she’s the roommate of Tim Bisley?
Jessica Hynes - what is Simon Peg’s character in spaced name?
What type of lakes are lakes that have a uniform temperature and density from surface to bottom at a specific time during the year, which allows the lake waters to mix in the absence of stratification. Opposite of Meromictic Lake.
Holomictic
Muscle that is contracting is called what? Contrast to antagonist
Agonist
Opposite of flexor muscle
Extensor
Abductor opposite of what muscles
Adductor (inwards), abductors are outside
Louis van Gaal real name
Aloysius
From the Hebrew for contact combat, what Israel martial art was developed by Israel defence forces
Krav Maga
From Tupi words “forest round”, which martial art name comes from Brazilian interior where fugitive slaves would hide
Capoeira
From the Portuguese for bean, what Brazilian stew is national dish
Feijoada
One of first superstar footballer, Welshman played for Man City and Man United, won 48 caps for Wales, habit of chewing on toothpick
Billy Meredith
Which football managed managed Great Britain at 1948 Olympics and who did GB at 2012 Olympics
Matt Busby
Stuart Pearce
Who was englands first manager and managed team gb at 1952 Olympics
Walter Winterbottom
Which American won gold at the 2020 mens golf Olympics
Xander Schauffele
Which Slovakian got silver mens golf 2020 Olympics
Sabbatini
Who came Gold and Silver at 2016 golf Olympics mens
Justin Rose GB
Henrik Stenson Sweden
Gold and Silver at 2016 Olympics womens
Gold: Inbee Park (SK)
Silver: Lydia Ko (NZ)
Gold and Silver at 2020 golf womens
Gold: Nelly Korda (US)
Silver: Mone Inami (Japan)
Who was manager of Team GB women at 2012 Olympics
Hope Powell
Who was manager of Team GB womens 2020 Olympics
Hege Riise
Mancunian businessman 1801-1888 textile magnate left loads of money, UoM library named after him
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Who flew from St Johns Newfoundland to Clifden Ireland in June 1919, first nonstop transatlantic flight
John Alcock and Arthur Brown
Which politician introduced Premium Bonds (1956) and Postcodes (Norwich 1959) as Paymaster General and oversaw significant road construction (opened first section of M1 1959) and Beeching Cuts as Minister of Transport.
Ernest Marples
Known for catchphrases “ding dong” and “hello” catchphrases, appeared in carry on and doctor in the house films and was sorting hat in Harry Potter
Leslie Phillips
BBC radio comedy sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge
The Navy Lark (Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray)
Whcih radio station from 1945-1967 was replaced by R1 and R2
BBC Light Programme
BBC Home Service was radio station from 1939 to 1967 before being replaced by what
BBC Radio 4
Character played by Robbie Coltrane in GoldenEye and World is not enough
Valentin Zukovsky
Died in October 2022, real name Anthony McMillan actor.
Robbie Coltrane real name is…
Died in July 2022, born Zlin, Czechia, with surname Zelnickova.
Ivana Trump
QVC used to stand for what initialism
Quality, Value, Convenience
Founded by bertrand Russel, Fenner Brockway and John Collins in November 1957 CND
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Berkshire RAF camp known for nuclear cruise missiles
Greenham Common
Born 1929, died June 2022, sec gen of CND and succeeded Sean MacBride as president of International Peace Bureau
Bruce Kent
Died May 2022, Greek musician did Blade Runner, Chsriots of Fire (Oscar), Alexander
Vangelis (evangelos odysseas papathanassiou)
Composer born 1944 English composer for The Lamb (1982), The Protecting Veil (1988) and Song for Athene (1993)
John Tavener
Italian film director won academy award for 2013 The Great Beauty and then nominated for The Hand of God in 2022
Paolo Sorrentino
Whcih 1934 born composer did The Triumph of Time 1972, The Mask of Orpheus 1986, Gawain 1991 and The Minotaur 2008.
Harrison Birtwistle
Born 1937 in Prague with surname Korbelova. Died March 2022
Madeline Albright
American satirist and journalist, wrote over 20 books best known Holidays in Hell. Wrote for National Lampoon: how to drive fast on drugs while getting your wing wang squeezed and not spill your drunk. Parliament of Whores.
PJ O’Rourke
Jane March, actor, who acquired the nickname after starring in the risque The Lover in 1992.
Sinner from Pinner
Laurence Foley, Australian middleweight boxer won a bout in 1890s and money and is origin of what phrase
Happy as Larry
Giambattista Vico’s magnum opus is the 1725 book New Science which talks of societies falls and rises and gives origins of what term
Vicious Circles
Catherine de Medici used network of listening Tubes at the Louvre Gabe origin to what phrase
Walls have ears
Term for half a pig cut sideways which was awarded back in day
Flitch
1104 couple impressed Prior of Little Dunmow and award them a flitch so gave origins of what phrase
Bringing Home the Bacon
Ancient India chucking ghee at deities sculptures to secure favours gave which term
Buttering someone up
Known as Coueism or the Coue method: what phrase mantra like autosuggestion did Emile Coue suggest:
Every day in every way I’m getting better and better
Term first coined by John Dee in 1576 book General and rare memorials pertaining to the perfect art of navigation. He was advisor to Elizabeth I.
British Empire
France first satellite in 1965
Asterix
West Germany first satellite in 1969
Azur
Sweden first satellite in 1986
Viking
Denmarks first satellite named after a Danish physicist who discovered electromagnetism in 1820
Orsted
Vandenberg Space Force Base is in whcih state?
California
Wallops Flights Facility is a rocket launch site in which state of USA - Italy first satelitte San Marco sent up from there
Virginia
France first satellite sent up from Hammaguir which is rocket launch site in which country
Algeria
The Kourou Launch site was French site found in whcih territory
French Guiana
Georgi Ivanov was first cosmonaut of whcih nationality in 1979 Soyuz 33
Bulgarian cosmonaut first ever which astronaut
First German in space in 1978
Sigmund Jahn
Aboard Soyuz 28 1978, first and only Czechoslovak in space, first outside soviet or USA.
Vladimir Remek
First and only Polish national in space when on Soyuz 30 in 1978.
Miroslaw Hermaszewski
What was invented in late 1950/ by Stanislav Brebera and Radim Futatko in Czechoslovakia. Named after a suburb of Pardubice.
Semtex (named after Semtin)
Colourless oily liquid invented in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero at Uni of Turin, used as medicine as vasodilator to treat heart conditions, now more so in explosives namely dynamiteSl.
Nitroglycerin
Large cemetery is in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, largest in Uk and second largest in Europe
Southern Cemetery
Philip Baybutt was the first British citizen to receive which award in 1864
Medal of Honour
Only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor
Mary Edwards Walker
Catchphrases “how do, how are yer?”, “are yer courting”, what’s on the table Mabel, give them the money Barney. Did show Have A Go. He was Billy Liar’s father in 1959 film directed by John Schlesinger (novel by Keith Waterhouse).
Wilfred Pickles
What in 1994 comet fly into Jupiter
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Named after French astronomer whcih limit is distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body will disintegrate because of tidal forces exceed gravitational self attraction
Roche Limit
Which comet did the ESA Rosetta Mission’s lander Philae land on in 2014?
Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Designated 2P/ after 1P/Halley and named after German astronomer
Johann Encke
Which comet discovered in 1995 and visible in 1996/97
Comet Hale-Bopp
Periodic comet with 33 years orbit independent discovered in 1865/66
German Wilhelm Tempel and American Horace Parnell Tuttle
Tempel Tuttle comet the parent body of what meteor shower
Leonids
Perseids in Mid August have which parent comet?
109P/Swift-Tuttle is the parent body of whcih meteor shower?
Halleys Comet is the parent objet of what meteor shower
Orionids are the meteor shower of whcih comet parent
1938 comedy is You Shouldn’t Kiss Leopards in Germany
Bringing Up Baby
1959 comedy is Jazz is for Girls Only in Russia
Some like it hot
1965 musical called All Together Passionately in Italy and Smiles and Tears in Spain
Sound of Music
Terminator name in Poland
Electronic Murderer
Name of China release of Knocked Up
One Night Big Belly
Hong Kong released which 1995 film as The Happy Dumpling to be walks and solves agricultural problem
Babe
Yorkshire three peaks
Pen y Ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough
Peter Sallis character in Last of the summer wine
Clegg
Bill Owen character name in Last of the Summer Wine
Compo Simmonite is played by which actor in Last of the Summer Wine
Whcih fast food chain was opened in 1928 near tram stop in guiseley, West Yorkshire
Harry Ramsden
Marsupial family Peramelieae contains all of whcih species
Bandicoots
Aldi founders
Karl and Theo Albrecht
Fun stage direction from The Winters Tale
Exit pursued by a bear
Whcih Shakespeare play contains stage direction: messenger enters with two heads and a hand
Titus Andronicus
In Titus andronicus: enter messenger with two heads and a hand, who do the heads belong to?
Martius and Quintus (hand is of Titus)
Who is “exit pursued by a bear” in The Winters Tale”
Antigonus
First of seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s a la recherche du temps perdu
1) Swann’s Way
2) In the shadow of Young Girls in Flower
3) The Guermantes Way
4) Sodom and Gomorrah
5) The Prisoner
6) The Fugitive
7) Time Regained
Which composer wrote in 1913 only eat white foods: eggs( sugar coconuts( rice etc: titles include Flabby Preludes, Desiccated Embryos, Dreamy Fish
Erik Satie
Which French poet (born 1842) did L’apres-midi d’un faune (inspiring Debussy), major symbolist poet
Stephane Mallarme
1821 Paris born, book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du Mal, wrote Le Spleen de Paris, coined term modernity, died 1867 aged 46
Charles Baudelaire
Born 1844 Metz, poet associated with symbolism and the decadent movement, one of greatest fin de siecle (end of century). Poem “clair de lune” put to music by Debussy. Affair with younger poet. Died 1896 at 51.
Paul Verlaine
Born 1854, major work Illuminations, A Season In Hell, went to Abyssinia. Poem The Drunken Boat. Affair with older poet. Died 1891 at 37.
Arthur Rimbaud
Duke of Wellington’s home name
Apsley house
Who created Mars the Peacemaker (based on Napoleon), the three graces and born in 1757 in Possagno, Veneto?
Antonio Canova
Russian playwright exponent of Theatre of Absurd. The Parody, Professor Taranne, The Poltiics of Rubbsih.
Arthur Adamov
German dramatist and writer of Young Germany movement writer of Danton’s Death, Lenz (about German writer), Leonce and Lena and Woyzeck (alban berg)
Georg Buchner
Austrian poet and novelist born 1875, wrote Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus , The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Letters to a Young Poet.
Rainer Maria Rilke
French playwright born 1910 wrote The Thief’s Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
Jean Genet
Romanian-French playwright who wrote anti play The Bald Soprano, Amedee: or How to get rid of it, The Killer, Rhinoceros, Exit the King, Macbett.
Eugene Ionesco
Which East German football club won the 1974 European Cup Winners Cup Final against Milan?
Magdeburg (capital of Saxony-Anhalt)
Conductor nickname Flash Harry and wore white carnation
Malcolm Sargeant (born 1895), chief conductor of proms between 1947 and 1967.
Kiwi Ferns is the nickname of which womens New Zealand sports team
Rugby League
The Black Ferns is the womens New Zealand team nickname for which sport
Rugby Union
The silver ferns is the nickname for womens New Zealand team for which sport!
Netball
Thomas Sweeney played by Michael Starke in Brookside better known as which name?
Sinbad
Italian director 1922-75 possibly killed by mafia: Mamma Roma, The Gospel According to St Matthew, Salo or 120Days of Sodom
Pier paolo Pasolini
Name of French launch site in French Guiana
Kourou
Marsha Hunt and Claudia Lennear both claim to be subject of a song whcih reached #2 in 1971
Brown Sugar by Rolling Stones
Which British criminal was nicknamed Black Panther
Donald Nielsen
Founders of Black Panthers party
Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen in Trial of Chicago 7)
Which early leader of Black Panther party wrote Soul on Ice in 1968, prison, raid where Bobby Hutton killed, went abroad, back to be Mormon
Eldridge Cleaver
Nickname links Eusebio, Paul McGrath and ship old name Wicked Wench
Black Pearl
2 in 1982 about heroin and a girl, lead singer Hugh Cornwell
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Old Leader of SNP in Westminster, succeeded Angus Robertson in 2017. Now followed by Stephen Flynn in 2022.
Ian Blackford
National Velvet author and director
Enid Bagnold
Clarence Brown
England and Wales have National Trails, what do Scotland call theirs?
Great Trails
Scotland’s Grrat aTrail: Three Lochs Way in Argyll and Bute named for which three lochs
Lomond, Gare Loch, Loch Long
215km long distance route from Helensburgh to Dunbar is named after which Scottish conservationist who become founder of US National Park Service.
John Muir Way
Name of Scotland Great Trail that follows from Fort William to Inverness, 125km following a fault line.
Great Glen Way
Most north westerly point in mainland Britain, cape in Durness parish of Sutherland
Cape Wrath
100km trail between Melrose Abbey and Lindisfarne off coast of Northumberland, named after Saint 7th century.
St Cuthberts Way
Scottish footpath From Drymen in Stirling to Pitlochry in Perth and Kinross. Named after Scottish folk hero.
Rob Roy Way
Viscount Dundee killed at which 1689 battle against Hugh Mackay in Perthshire
Battle of Killiecrankie
Cocktail consisting of whisky and vermouth created in 1894 at Waldorf Astoria named in honour of operetta by Reginald de Koven
Rob Roy
National Path between Hessle and Filey
Yorkshire Wolds Way
The national path Thames Way, ends at Woolwich foot tunnel in London, it starts at Kemble in which county
Gloucestershire
630 mile national trail from Minehead in Somerset to Poole Harbour in Dorset, climbs 35000m.
South West Coast Path
National trail goes from Winchester to Eastbourne (East Sussex).
South Downs Way
Which national trail goes from Overton Hill near Avebury (three stone circles in Wiltshire) to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.
The Ridgeway
Highest point in Oxfordshire name and famous site
White Horse Hill: Uffington White Horse
Pennine Way trailheads
Edale, Derbyshire, to Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders.
Waterfall on River Tees near Middleton-in-Teesdale.
High Force is a waterfall on which river?
Highest point of the Pennines?
Cross Fell highest point outside Lake District
Poppit Sands to Amroth is which welsh national trail
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
Which two footpaths mean Holme-next-the-sea to make a national trail in Norfolk
Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail
Who was the leader of the 1953 everest expedition and also opened Offas Dyke Path in 1971
Lord Hunt
Trailheads are Sedbury, Gloucestershire and Prestatyn, Denbighshire. National trail loosely follows the Wales-England border.
Offa’s Dyke Path
Trailheads of whcih national trail are Farnham in Surrey and Dover Kent
North Downs Way
Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, to Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria, are the trailheads of which national trail
Hadrians Wall Path
National trail from border town Knighton (river Teme between Powys and Shropshire) to Welshpool (Powys/historically Montgomeryshire) is whcih national trail
Glyndwr’s Way
Final resting place of Catherine parr is which castle in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. Only privately owned castle to have a queen of England buried in grounds.
Sudeley Castle
Highest point of Cotswolds and of Gloucestershire
Cleeve Hill
Name of the folly on hill near large village in Worcestershire, second highest point of the Cotswolds.
Broadway Tower
National trail between chipping campden in Gloucestershire and bath in Somerset
Cotswolds Way
National Trail in North Yorkshire between Helmsley and Brigg, skirting the North York Moors National Park
Cleveland Way
Died in 2009 at age of 111, known as last fighting tommy having fought at Passchendaele?
Harry Patch
Who played Mel Bush for 6th and 7th incarnations of the doctor
Bonnie Langford
Who won Brit Award for Best Solo female in 2020? Two albums High Expectations in 2019 and About Last Night (2022)
Mabel
Town of 11k is closest town to Glastonbury Festival. Once had englands oldest prison but closed in 2013z
Shepton Mallet
Which poet had unrequited love for Laura de Noves for 21 years until her death in Avignon from Black Death in 1348
Petrarch
Buddy Holly song became Rolling Stones first top 10 single in 1963, song appeared in scotch tape in 1985.
Not Fade Away
Vulpes Zerda
Fennec Fox or Desert Fox
Which company discontinued controversial trade mark in 2002 due to PC?
Robertsons Jam
Name of traditional orange marmalade made by Robertsons - paddington on jars since 2010
Golden Shred
Named after American tin smith and made in 1858, also known as canning jar or fruit jar
Mason Jar
From Cornish for “hill of swallows”, highest point of Bodmin Moor and Cornwall?
Brown Willy
Unit of Electrical Inductance
The Henry is the SI of what? Named after American born in 1797.
Name of which scientist used as a unit of 1/12 of mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12.
Dalton
Which unit of measurement expresses ratio of two values of a power or root power quantity on a logarithmic scale?
Decibel
Hectare is equal to what in square metres
10000 metres squared
How many litres in a cubic metre
1000
A volume of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm gives what metric unit of volume
Litre
What is a logarithmic unit for ratios of measurements of physical field nd power quantities such as gain and loss of electronic signals? Named after inventor of logarithms.
Neper (after John Napier)
Planck constant symbol and exact value
h = 6.626 x 10^-34 Joule.second
Elementary charge symbol and exact value
e = 1.602 x 10^-19 C
Boltzmann Constant symbol and exact value
k = 1.380649 x 10-23 Joule/Kelvin
Avogadro Constant symbol and exact value
NA = 6.022 x 10^23
Speed of light in vacuum
299,792,458 m/s
Unit of entropy and Heat Capacity
J/K - joule per kelvin
Second official definition uses periods of radiation from state of which element and isotope atom
Caesium-133
Metre official distance travelled by light in how many seconds
1/299,792,458 seconds
Kilogram official definition uses which constant
Planck’s Constant h 6.626x10^-34
Ampere, unit of electric current, uses which scientific constant in the definition
Elementary Charge e 1.602x10^-19
Kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, uses which constant?
Boltzmann Constant k 1.381x10^-23
Only SI base unit with three letter symbol
Mole (mol)
Mole, unit of amount of substance, uses which constant in definition
Avogadro Constant Na 6.022x10^23
Base SI unit for luminous intensity
Candela
What is derived unit for plane angle (2D)
Radian
What is derived unit for solid angle (3D geometry)
Steradian
Derived Unit of weight and force
Newton
derived unit of stress
Pascal (also pressure)
Derived unit of heat and work
Joule (also of energy)
Derived unit of radiant flux
Watt (also Power)
Derived unit for electric charge
Coulomb is the derived unit for what?
Derived unit for electric potential
Volt
Derived unit for capacitance
Farad is the derived unit for what
Derived unit for reactance
Ohm
The Ohm is the derived unit for which three things
Resistance, Impedance, Reactance
Omega is the symbol for which derived SI unit
Ohm
Derived unit of electrical conductance
Siemens is the derived unit of what
Derived unit of magnetic flux
Weber is the derived unit of what
Derived unit of Magnetic Flux Density
Tesla is the derived unit of what?
Derived unit of inductance
Henry is the derived unit of what?
Derived unit of luminous flux
Lumen is the derived unit of what
Derived unit of illuminance
Lux is the derived unit of what
Derived unit of radioactive decay
Becquerel is derived unit of what
Derived unit of absorbed dose of ionising radiation
Gray is the derived unit of what
Derived unit of equivalent dose of ionising radiation
Sievert is the derived unit of what?
Derived unit of catalytic activity
Katal is the derived unit of what
Greek letter symbol for Torque
Tau
Dynamic Viscosity Greek letter symbols used
Mu for mechanical and chemistry engineers
Eta for chemists, physicists and IUPAC
What does IUPAC stand for
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Symbol for Kinematic Viscosity (defined as ratio of dynamic viscosity (mu) over the density of fluid (rho).
Nu (13th letter)
What is mass/volume and what is symbol for it
Density (rho - 17th letter)
Mexico’s largest freshwater lake
Lake Chapala
Primarily working in Telugu cinema, highest paid director in India, RRR 2022 film, Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion 2017) are three of five top grossing in India to date.
SS Rajamouli
Whcih 2022 epic action drama film directed by SS Rajamouli is about two real life revolutionaries Raju and Bheem against British raj?
RRR
What term coined by 2022 Nobel Chemistry winner Carolyn Bertozzi, refers to any chemical reaction that can occur inside of living systems without interfering with native biochemical processes?
Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Who won Nobel 2022 Chemistry?
Carolyn Bertozzi
Morten P Meldal
Karl Barry Sharpless
2022 Chemistry Nobel given to Bertozzi, Meldal and Sharpless for development of whcih type of chemistry (class of biocompatible small molecule reactions commonly used in bioconjugation)
Click Chemistry
French born American industrial designer designed Shell, Exxon, TWA logos, Coca Cola vending machines, lucky strike package, Studebaker Avanti and Champion and the livery of Air Force 1.
Raymond Loewy
Who was knight and lord, companion in arms of Joan of Arc and known for confessed serial killer of children? Inspiration for Bluebeard
Gilles de Rais
Nickname of John MacTavish in Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Soap
Born in Botswana, who is a Motswana middle distance runner won silver in 800m at 2012 Olympics, Botswana first Olympic medal?
Nijel Amos
Which Kenyan runner won golds in 800m in 2012 London and 2016 Rio?
David Rudisha
Which pair of German brothers invented the Bioscop, and showed a moving picture in November 1895 before Lumiere brothers’ cinematographe in 1895
Max and Emil Skladanowsky
What was the name of the movie projector invented by the German Skladanowsky brothers?
Bioscop
What is the worlds second largest coral atoll; part of outer islands of Seychelles and has a giant tortoise named after ?
Aldabra
Who acquired Buck Palace? Queen Vic became official residence.
George III
Whcih monarch of England actually christened Albert
George VI
Which king had a Japanese dragon tattoo
George V
Originally born in Virginia 1809, who was first and seventh president of Liberia?
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Architect known for master plan of Reston, Virginia. The lower Manhattan plan. The UN sponsored master plan for Dodoma, Tanzania.
James Rossant
Israel Security Agency is internal security service and better known as what two Hebrew letter and two word name
Shin Bet
Israel foreign intelligence service known as
Mossad
Israel military intelligence known as
Aman
Who is the voice of Sterling Archer in Archer?
H Jon Benjamin
Who is the voice of Bob Belcher in Bob’s Burgers!
H Jon Benjamin
What is the largest species of wild ass, native to Tibetan plateau?
Kiang
Most widely spoken Creole language with over 12million speakers
Haitian Creole
87% of Sierra Leone speaks which language?
Krio
Four letter language, central tanonoanguage and primarily in Ghana and some of Ivory Coast.
Akan
What language, also a female animal, is spoken by approx 20m in west Africa, Ghana, Togo, Benin
Ewe
Six letter alternative name for Cameroonian creole
Kamtok
Five million speakers speak as a creole language through Papua New Guinea
Tok Pisin
Sranan Tongo is a language spoken in what country?
Suriname
What is the creole language spoken in Suriname?
Sranan Tongo
Also referred to as sea island creole, which language has 250k speakers across coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Gullah
Also known as Kouri-Vini, this creole language spoken and named by those in which state!
Louisiana
Kriolu is the name of a creole language of which island country
Cape Verde
Name of the creole language spoken on islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao
Papiamento
Forro Creole is a creole language spoken by 70k people on which island nation?
Sao Tome and Principle is the country with which creole language spoken by 70k people?
Congo based creole spoken by 5.4m people
Kituba
Largest Malay based creole, mostly based in indonesia, 2.7m people
Betawi
Chavacano is a Spanish based creole spoken by 290k people in which country
Philippines is where which creole language comes from spoke by 290k
Coined by Emile Durkheim, what word means a social condition defined by a breakdown of any moral values “, conflict of belief systems.
Anomie
Ismail Kadare first novel, he won the first International Booker Prize in 2009.
The General of the Dead Army
Who wrote the Hindi work Tomb of Sand winning the 2022 INt Booker Prize
Geetanjali shree
Name of the 2022 winner of Interantional Booker Prize by Geetanjali Shree
Tomb of Sand
2021 winner of Int Booker Prize by David Diop
At Night All Blood is Black
Who wrote 2021 int Booker prize winner At Night all blood is black
David Diop
Who wrote Discomfort of Evening (2020 IBP)
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Rijneveld novel that won 2020 IBP
The Discomfort of Evening
Jokha Al-Harthi, author of Celestial Bodies, winner of 2019 IBP, is whcih nationality
Omani
Olga Tokarczuk novel which won 2018 IBP
Flights
Name of David Grossman’s Hebrew language book whcih won 2017 IBP
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Han Kang’s Korean language book whcih won the 2016 IBP
The Vegetarian
Which Albanian won the first IBP in 2005?
Ismail Kadare
Which Nigerian won 2006 IBP
Chinua Achebe
Which Canadian won 2009 IBP
Alice Munro
Which American 2011 winner of IBP?
Philip Roth
Which short story writer, novelist, translator was the 2013 IBP winner?
Lydia Davis
Whcih Hungarian author was 2015 IBP winner
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Which Hungarian author has written the books Satantango (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai is which nationality
Capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Urumqi is the capital of which Chinese province
All About Eve lead singer
Julianne Regan
All About Evenmost famous song
Martha’s Harbour
First man to climb seven summits and now it is his list compared tonMessner List
Richard Bass
Alternative name for Puncak Jaya is ____ Pyramid, what word missing
Carstensz Pyramid
Second highest peak in South America, Argentina/Chile
Ojos del Salado
Second highest mountain in North America, canada
Mount Logan
Second highest mountain in Europe in Russia
Dykh-Tau
Second highest mountain in Africa
Mount Kenya
Second highest mountain in Antarctica
Mount Tyree
According to Bass List what is second highest mountain in Australiasia, it’s found in SNOWIES in Australia
Mount Townsend
According to Messner List what is the second highest mountain in australiasia, found in indonesia
Puncak Mandala (found on highland Papua)
Fortran was founded by who at IBM
John Backus
Fortran stands for what
Formula Translating System
ALGOL is a family of programming languages and is short for what
Algorithmic Language
What is colloquially known as the Demon star, Beta Persei?
Algol
COBOL stands for what
Common Business Orientated Language
Who wrote The Camomile Lawn set in Cornwall, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not that sort of girl, Second Fiddle.
Mary Wesley
Rankings of Detective going up
Detective Constable
Detective Sergeant
Detective Inspector
Detective Chief Inspector
Capital and largest city in rivers state Nigeria, fifth most populous city in Nigeria named after colonial Secretary
Port Harcourt
Five most populous cities of Nigeria
5: Port Harcourt
4: Benin
3: Ibadan
2: Kano
1: Lagos
Motorcycle manufacturer founded after WW2 by Alberto beggio with name from “to open”
Aprilia
Famous South African referee in rugby Union including 2011 World Cup final
Craig Joubert
Bald Italian referee
Pierluigi Collina
Who sang spaceman?
Babylon Zoo
Who originated lead roles in gentlemen prefer blondes 1949 and Hello Dolly 1964 winning Tony Award for Best actress. Won golden globe for playing Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).
Carol Channing
Youngest ever to Win competitive Oscar was who for playing Addie Loggins in Paper Moon (1973) opposite father? And age?
Tatum O’Neal - 10 years old
Ancient area of open heathland occupying ridge top of High Weald AONB found in East Sussex. Famous as setting for Winnie the Pooh stories by aa milne.
Ashdown Forest
What score in cricket is called a Nelson
111 - one eye, one arm, one leg
What day of the week is in a Conservative party alignment british political pressure group founded in 1961 to oppose left leaning tendencies of MacMillan administration?
Conservative Monday Club
Hebrew term for Passover and what month it occurs in Hebrew month
Pesach, takes place 15th day of Nisan
American singer appeared on The adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, song “poor little fool” in 1958 first #1 on Hot 100 chart. Got golden globe nomination for Rio Bravo. Died in plane crash ar 45.
Ricky Nelson
Who wrote lyrics for Swanee, Crazy Rhythm, Tea for Two, the musical No No Nanette (popular myth financed by babe Ruth sale from Boston Red Sox to Yankees causing curse of the bambino)
Irving Caesar
Curse of the Bambino was on whcih team and for what period
Boston Red Sox - 1918-2004
The Curse of the Billy Goat was on which team and when
Chicago Cubs - 1945-2016
Whcih curse hit Chicago White Sox from 1919-2005 referring to a betting scandal
Curse of the Black Sox
1985 Japanese urban legend on Hanshin Tigers baseball team called what curse use to statue chucked in river
The curse of the colonel was on what Japanese baseball team
Curse of Coogan’s Bluff was a curse on which MLB team from move in 1957 until won World Series in 2010
San Francisco Giants
The Curse of Rocky Colavito is still going now stopping which MLB team winning World Series, unpopular trade of Rocky Colavito to Detroit Tigers
Cleveland Guardians (haven’t won since 1948)
Which curse apparently applied to Philadelphia Eagles until their super bowl win in 2018?
Lombardi Curse
The Curse of 1940 or Dutton’s Curse was an explanation for whcih NHL team to not win stanley cup from 1940-94
New York Rangers
The Curse of Muldoon prevented which team from winning NHL between 1927 and 1967
Chicago Black Hawks
Curse of LeBonte took place in 1972 finals of which sport world championship
Curling - Canada vs USA
English actress first play We Happy Few (2004), Films Privileged 1982 and a summer story 1988, married to Trevor Nunn 1994-2011
Imogen Stubbs
John Vincent, Henry Dimbleby and Allegra McEvedy cofounders of which fast food chain?
Leon
Winner of I’m a Celeb 2022
Jill Scott
Birmingham microengraver who has done tiniest nativity scene on speck of gold. Same person did on Wilkinson shaver, portrait of queen and £5 Jane Austen giveaway.
Graham Short
Bournemouth manager from Oct 2022
Gary O’Neil
Whcih couple did sainsbury wing of National Gallery? He was Pritzker prize without her in 1991. She wrote essay Room at the top? Sexism and the star system in architecture.
Denise SCOTT BROWN and Robert VENTURI
Which, at the time married, couple did Selfridges Building in Birmingham, Lords Media Centre, MAAT in Lisbon and exhibition road extension to V&A. Female is principal of AL_A. He leading practice Future Systems still.
Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete
LDPE and HDPE stands for?
Low/High density polyethylene
Chemical name for Polyester (PET)
polyethylene terephthalate
Which D was a storm in February 2022, killed lots in Poland and then one in Uk
Dudley
Which E storm in February 2022, rare red warning issued for south east England, strongest gust ever recorded on Isle of Wight of 122mph. 17 killed.
Eunice
Which C to F storm combo was in January - February 2022? The latter three first time ever three named storms in one week in UK.
Corrie, Dudley, Eunice, Franklin
YouTube Channel got famous due to Storm Eunice at Heathrow airport
Big Jet TV
Seen lots of Big Jet TV , name of aborted landings seen during Storm Eunice
Go-arounds (aborted landings)
Touch-and-Go landings (landing but taking off again without full stop)
Who directed My Dinner with Andre, codirected The Silent World with Jacques Cousteau (1956 Palme Dor and 1957 best documentary oscar), dramas Lacombe Lucien, Pretty Baby and Atlantic City.
Louis Malle
Which four directors have won Golden Lion twice?
Andre Cayatte (1950, 1960)
Louis Malle (1980, 1987)
Zhang Yimou (1992, 1999)
Ang Lee (2005, 2007)
Andre Cayatte has won Golden Lion twice, whcih films?
Justice is Done (1950)
Tomorrow is My Turn (1960)
Who directed the Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu/Apur Sansar). Famous characters Feluda the Sleuth, scientist Professor Shonku and Tarini Khuro the storyteller.
Satyajit Ray (1921 a Kolkata)
Who directed Bicycle Thieves?
Vittorio de Sica
French direct directed Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad and Muriel
AlAin Resnais
Screenplay of Hiroshima mon Amour written by whcih French author
Marguerite Duras
Louis Malle wins golden lion twice what films?
1980 Atlantic City
1987 Au revoir Les enfants
Jean Luc Godard only Golden Lion win in 1983?
First Name: Carmen
Agnes Varda Golden Lion winner in 1985
Vagabond
Tom Stoppard Golden Lion win in 1990
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Who wrote book Night in Tunisia, won a screenplay oscar for The Crying Game and won a Golden Lion for Michael Collins?
Neil Jordan
Zhang Yimou is double winner of Golden Lion for which two films?
1992: The Story of Qiu Ju
1999: Not One Less
Which Iranian directed the 2000 film “The Circle” and won Golden Lion
Jafar Panahi
Ang Lee has won two Golden Lions, names of film
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2007: Lust, Caution
Sofia Coppola won Golden Lion for which 2010 film
Somewhere
2021 French film by Audrey Diwan, based on 2000 novel of same name by Annie Ernaux, won the 2021 Golden Lion?
Happening
Whcih 2022 film directed by Laura Poitras won the 2022 Golden Lion?
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Which director made the 2015 Best Doc Oscar winner Citizenfour, while My Country, My Country was nominated. Won 2014 Pulitzer for Public Service for NSA reporting. 2022 Golden Liom for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed about Nan Goldin and fall of Sackler family.
Laura Poitras
Pharma company owned by Sackler family made OxyContin as seen in Hulu series Dopesick.
Purdue Pharma was owned privately by which family?
Which American photographer and activist most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency 1986. Founding member of PAIN (Prescription Addition Intervention Now)
Nan Goldin
Who presented Antiques Roadshow pilot aired 1977 recorded in Hereford presented by which two presenters
Bruce Parker and Arthur Negus
Arthur Negus presented whcih programme 1965-77 before going into similar Antiques Roadshow
Going for a Song
Which painter painted The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke and watercolour painting The Artists Halt in the Desert seen on Antiques Roadshow? Crazy and spent time in Bethlem and Broadmoor.
Richard Dadd
Longest running antiques roadshow presenter 1981-2000 and had been on Spotlight and Nationwide before
Hugh Scully
Who was on Antiques Roadshow 2000-2007, also This is Your Life 1987-2003 after Eamonn Andrews died?
Michael Aspel
Who has presented Antiques Roadshow since 2008? Also Question Time since 2019.
Fiona Bruce
Best known work of William Empson, literary critic and poet?
Seven Types of Ambiguity
French literary theorist and philosopher engaged in variety of sign systems. 1957 essay collection Mythologies, 1967 essay The Death of the Author and 1970 S/Z talking of Sarrasine, short story by Honore de Balzac
Roland Barthes
What is the bitter tasting alkaloid found in cocoa and chocolate that is toxic to dogs
Theobromine
Name of a New York based non-profit organization founded by Audacia Ray that advocates on behalf of sex workers and strives to empower them by giving them a voice
Red Umbrella Project
Called the “master of us all” by Christian Dior which company was founded by Christobal in San Sebastián in 1919.
Balenciaga
Maria de los Angeles Hernandez Gomez was first woman to get licence for what in 1974
Bull-fighting
Group of novelists, poets, philosophers Spanish named after the year of Spanish-American War. Coined by Jose Martinez Ruiz.
Generation of ‘98
Type of sword, called a tuck in English, used by a matador in bullfighting called espada de matar toros. In pseudonym of Marie-Paule Alice Courbe French writer, sculptor and cross dressing feminist.
Estoc (Gisele d’Estoc)
The three stages of bullfighting
Tercio de varas
Tercio de banderillas
Tercio de muerte
Also known as Berenike, which Saint was moved seeing Jesus carrying cross to Calvary and gave him veil to wipe face, image in it, became namesake Veil. She names a move in bullfighting where cloth goes over head of bull.
Veronica
James Mellaart discovered which Neolithic settlement in Turkey in 1961.
Catalhoyuk
Which archaeologist was controversial with Dorak affair black market antiquities, forgeries with Beykoy 2, discovered Catalhoyuk
James Mellaart
Hypothesised confederation that attached ancient Egypt in east med prior to and during Late Bronze Age collapse (1200-900BC). Term coined by Emmanuel de Rouge.
Sea Peoples
FX 2004-11 Denis Leary firefighter drama
Rescue Me
Mother of The Partridge Family, Shirley Partridge, played by whcih actress who won BSA for Elmer Gantry?
Shirley Jones
Who played Keith Partridge in The Partridge Family and sang Come On Get Happy?
David Cassidy
2022 Apple TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel about a Korean family caught up in the Japanese occupation
Pachinko
Female lead opposite Bruce Willis in Moonlighting
Cybill Shepherd
Originally comic strip by Aaron McGruder, tv show militant Huey Freeman and younger brother Riley. Shown on Adult Swim.
Boondocks
Who sang Malcolm in Middle theme tune
They Might Be Giants
Big Bang Theory theme song singer
Barenaked Ladies
Paula Cole’s song I Don’t Want to Wait theme tune which show
dawson’s creek (1998-2003)
Frasier theme song
Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs
“You’ve Got Time” is the main title theme song for the Netflix Original Series Orange Is the New Black by which artist
Regina Spektor
Song by Carole King theme song of Gilmore Girls
“Where You Lead”
Tv produced in charge of law and Order franchise, Chicago franchise and fbi franchise
Dick Wolf
Four of Chicago franchise by Dick Wolf
Chicago Fire
Chicago PD
Chicago Med
Chicago Justice
Who created SpongeBob SquarePants
Stephen Hillenburg
Tv produced Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Sex and the City, Younger, Emily in Paris
Darren Star
Tv producer NipTuck, Glee, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Pose, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Directed Eat Pray Love, the Prom.
Ryan Murphy
OJ Simpson exwife name
Nicole Brown Simpson
Season 1 of American Horror Story
Murder House
Season 2 of American Horror Story
Asylum
Season 3 of American Horror Story
Coven
Season 4 of American Horror Story
Freak Show
Season 5 of American Horror Story
Hotel
Season 6 of American Horror Story
Roanoke
Season 7 of American Horror Story
Cult
Season 8 of American Horror Story
Apocalypse
Season 9 of American Horror Story
1984
Season 11 of American Horror Story
NYC
33 prints by Francisco Goya in 1816 about bullfighting
La Tauromaquia
Joaquin Rodriguez born 1743 known as father of what
Bullfighting
Name of the traditional clothing that bullfighters wear
Traje de luces (suit of lights)
Term for stick with red cloth hanging from it used in final third, tercio de muerta, of a bullfight. Obscures the sword.
Muleta
Term for the pair of horse mounted bullfighters in bullfight that jab the bull with a Lance.
Picador
Name of the torero who plants the little flags on the bulls shoulders before the matador finishes them off.
Banderillero
Meaning “mound of the dead men”, archaeological site in province of Sindh, largest settlements of Indus Valley Civilisation.
Mohenjo-daro
Archeological site found in Punjab; Pakistan, Bronze Age civilisation, name from modern village near former course of Ravi river.
Harappa
1966 collection of essays by Susan Sontag includes some of best known works including “On Style” and eponymous essay.
Against Interpretation
Author of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism? Alludes to song by Oscar Brown.
Henry Louis Gates Jr
Author of Uncle Tom’s Children, Native Son, Black Boy; The Outsider, The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Born 1908 in Mississippi, died 52 in Paris.
Richard Wright
1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo, set in 1920s New York, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, the last days of Louisiana red; Japanese by spring
Ishmael Reed
Filipino terrorist group that did the worst terrorist attack MV Superferry 14 in 2004, name means father of sword smith and is a jihadist group based in Jolo/Basilan islands. Moro groups already want Moro Province independent.
Abu Sayyaf
Japanese architect designed KL International Airport, Astana International Airport and whole of Astana master plan. 1934-2007 one of founders of Metabolist Movement.
Kisho Kurokawa
American architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin did designs for which planned capital city
Canberra
Landscape architect for Brasilia
Roberto Burle Marx
Looking like a airplane or butterfly, which Brazilian architect urban plan for Brasilia. His own Parque Guinle project was the model for Brasília’s many residential tower-in-a-park superblocks.
Lucio Costa
Who best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil’s capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York?
Oscar Niemeyer
Whcih hurricane in 1961 near destruction of Belize City meant new capital planned becoming Belmopan?
Hurricane Hattie
Who was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi’s most notable government structures.
Herbert Baker
Who played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India? Also cenotaph, castle drogo, Thiepval Memorial to Somme.
Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944)
The Central Business District of Abuja was designed by whcih Japanese architect? Won 1987 Pritzker Prize. Known for Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Plan for Skopje, Tokyo Olympic arenas, St Mary’s Cathedral.
Kenzo Tange
A 1944 film where a husband slowly manipulates his wife into questioning her own reality is the origin of what word that is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2022?
Gaslighting
Who directed 1944 film Gaslight?
George Cukor
Who made her film debut in 1944 Gaslight?
Angela Lansbury
Who won Best actress Oscar for Gaslight 1944 and Anastasia 1956 and BSA Murder on Orient Express
Ingrid Bergman
Casablanca director
Michael Curtiz
Who played Dr Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man and Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca
Claude Rains
Bolivian lawyer and tv presenter who was president of Bolivia 2019-20
Jeanine Anez
Bolivia PM since 2020
Luis Arce
Capital and largest city of state of Parana in Brazil
Curitaba
Which criminal investigation by Federal police of brazil began in March 2014 and led to Petrobras and political controversy hitting presidents Fernando Collornde Mello (1990-92), Michel Temer (2016-18) and Lula (2003-10, 2022+)
President of Chile since March 2022 - youngest in history
Gabriel Boric
Elijah Quashie born in Enfield known as what nickname and presenter of The Pengest Munch
The Chicken Connoisseur
Crash Bandicoot sister name
Coco Bandicoot
Often called Lost City of the Incas, it means “sacred plain” in Quechua. Was capital of Neo-Inca state from 1539-72. Hiram Bingham thought Machu Picchu was this place in 1911. In 1964, Gene Savoy released its location.
Vilcabamba
Equestrian statue in Padua by Donatello is known as what?
Gattamelata
Born 1529, Douai France, also known as Jean de Boulogne, sculptures include Fuente de Neptune, the rape of the sabine women, The Apennine Colossus.
Giambologna
Villa Demidoff and the Park of Pratolino, which holds Giambologna’s Apennine Colossus, are found in which Italian city?
Florence
Name of Antonio da Correggio’s work on the dome of the Cathedral of Parma includes four protector saints of Parma: St John Baptist, St Hilary, St Thomas, St Bernard.
Assumption of the Virgin
Who did Zeus have his way with in the form of a swan
Leda
Leda’s children via Zeus in swan form?
Helen and Polydeuces
Leda’s children via husband Tyndareus, King of Sparta? As opposed to two with Zeus the Swan.
Castor and Clytemnestra
Who plays She-Hulk and also Sarah Manning in Orphan Black?
Tatiana Maslany
What type of Reliant did the Trotters actually own?
Reliant Regal
In august 2022 Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua II, billed as Rage on the Red Sea, what city?
Jeddah (King Abdullah Sports City)
What is female equivalent of Davis Cup in tennis?
Fed Cup
What is mixed competition equivalent to men’s Davis Cup and women’s Fed Cup in tennis? Named after Australian tennis player who guided Australia to 15 Davis cup titles.
Hopman Cup (Harry hopman)
Which country has won most Hopman Cup with 6 titles
UsA
Whcih Country has won the most David cup in tennis
UsA 32 titles
Which nation won their first Davis Cup in 2022
Canada
Which country won their first Fed Cup in 2022 as well as their fourth Hopman Cup?
Switzerland
The Fed Cup has been renamed to what to honour former #1 in 2020?
Billie Jean King Cup
Luxembourg author who founded Hugo Awards
Hugo Gernsback
Who’s novels include Ralph 124C 41+, Baron Munchausen’s Scientific Adventures and Ultimate World? Awards named after him.
Hugo Gernsback
Award given to active MLB player who best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire of a mlb manager who died year before award given.
Hutch Award
Samuel Johnson Prize now called what for best non fiction writing in English language.
Baillie Gifford Prize
British tv executive best known for producing 3000 episodes of BBC’s food and drink and Ready Steady Cook. Jan 2005 chairman of Endemol UK, Chairman of ITV betweenn2016 and September 2022.
Sir Peter Bazalgette
Who became youngest ever winner of Samuel Johnson Prize/Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction in 2022 for Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne?
Katherine Rundell
Patrick Radden Keefe won Baillie Gifford Prize in 2021 for whcih book about historynofbSackler family and Purdue Pharma?
Empire of Pain: Secret History of Sackler Dynasty was written by which author?
2020 winner of Baillie Gifford Prize from Craig Brown called 1 2 3 4 _______ In Time
The Beatles
Sudhir Hazareesingh wrote a 2020 book called Black Spartacus about which person?
Toussaint Louverture
2014 winnernofnSamuek Johnson Prize was which book it won Costa book prize too and has a bird on cover and title
H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald
Winner of 2013 Samuel Johnson Award, duff cooper award and Costa biography: The Pike was aboutnwhich Italian substitles Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War.
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Best known for novels Green Henry and cycle of novellas The Poeple from Seldwyla, and A Village Romeo and Juliet (later made into opera by Delius). Award for Swiss literature named after him.
Gottfried Keller
Against Pakistan in 2022 who took 150 off 115 balls but in progress took 27 runs off single over, a record for English player in history (broke 24 runs record by himself and Ian Botham).
Harry Brook
One of the three meninges, the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. It is so named because of its resemblance to a spider web?
Arachnoid mater (subarachnoid haemorrhages)
Delicate most inner layer of meninges, surrounds brain and spinal cord, means tender mother?
Pia mater
Meaning tough mother, thick membrane made of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. It is the outermost of the three layers of membrane called the meninges that protect the central nervous system?
Dura Mater
Hindu god of love and desire
Kamadeva
Fictional talent agency found in Call My Agent!
ASK (agence Samuel Kerr)
Released on Amazon prime 2022 what is the British comedy series based on French series call my agent!
Ten percent
Behind every star is South Korean version of what French show
Call my agent!
Actor played Tarzan in Greystoke (1984), subway (1985 cesar award for best actor), Connor Macleod in 1986 Highlander.
Christoper Lambert
Who played Elektra King in The World is Not Enough (1999), La Boum and La Boum 2 (1982). Partner to Christopher lambert 2007-14.
Sophie Marceau
Actress only performer to win five cesar awards for acting: Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988)? La Reine Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009).
Isabelle Adjani
Who played Persephone in Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, Bride of Dracula in Dracula, Gaspar Noe’s controversial Irreversible. Played Mary Magdalene in Passion of the Christ. Appeared in Spectre, oldest Bond girl.
Monica Bellucci
French actress 1975 Aloise, Violette Noziere, The Piano Teacher (2001), Amour (2012), Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022 - written by Paul Gallico).
Isabelle Huppert
Actress daughter of Jane Birkin and French musician. Musical debut with father on Lemon Incest at 12. Albums 5:55, IRM, Stage Whisper), appeared in Depression Trilogy by Lars von Trier (Antichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac).
Charlotte Gainsbourg
French actor born Casablanca in 1948 in Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible. Leon the Professional.
Jean Reno
Who directed Leon the Professional, The Messenger: the story of Joan the Arc, The Fifth Element, 2014 Lucy, 2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Luc Besson
Who played man in black in Lost, Silas Adams in Deadwood, Jimmy O’phelan in sons of anarchy and LAPD Harry Bosch?
Titus Welliver
mid-water side trawler Cevic is seen on the logo of what strong menthol lozenges
Fisherman’s friend
Last king of Italy 34 days in 1946 called the May King
Umberto II
1965 film on Frances racist post colonial relationship with Senegal in “Black Girl” directed by whcih director in their debut?
Ousmane Sembene
Director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of 2010 Palme d’Or, 2004 film “Tropical Malady”.
Apichatpong (Weerasethakul) - Thai
Jean-Luc Godard once wrote, “He is the French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music.”. 1956 “A Man Escaped”, 1962 “The Trial of Joan of Arc”, Au Hasard Balthazar in 1966, which director?
Robert Bresson
La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) and Lola Montès (1955) directed by which German/French film director.
Max Ophuls
Best-known films include Senso (1954) and The Leopard (1963 - Palme d’Or), Sandra (1965 - Golden Lion), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), and his “German Trilogy” – The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973).
Luchino Visconti
His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954) which Japanese director.
Kenji Mizoguchi
Golden Horse prize awarded for whcih film festival
Taipei Film Festival
Who won Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi? Born in Shanghai but considered Taiwanese: That Day on the Beach, Taipei Story, A Brighter Summer Day 1991.
Edward Yang
2000 film debut Barking Dogs Never Bite, Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother, Snowpiercer, Okja and 2019 Parasite.
Bong Joon-Ho
Films Joint Security Area (2000), Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), Decision to Leave (2022) and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005).
Park Chan-Wook
Hong Kong director known for Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels, 1997 Happy Together. 2013 film The Grandmaster was about Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man whose famous student Bruce Lee.
Wong Kar-wai
French actor died 2021 known for Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981).
Jean Paul Belmondo
Directed by Victor Erice, which film focuses on a young girl named Ana and her fascination with the 1931 American horror film Frankenstein and also explores her family life and schooling?
The Spirit of the Beehive
Which director directed The Spirit of the Beehive and El Sur?
Victor Erice
Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, director
David Lynch
French film director new wave and cahiers du cinema films including L’amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
Jacques Rivette
Director pair known as The Archers: best-known of these are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Colonel Blimp comic strip by who?
David Low
Hungarian author novels Satantango (Sátántangó, 1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája, 1989)
László Krasznahorkai
Films: Damnation (1988), Almanac of Fall, Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011). Hungarian director.
Bela Tarr
German director success with film melodramas Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, and “Imitation of Life”.
Douglas Sirk
Who directed Journey to Italy (1954), Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948).
Roberto Rossellini
Italian director best known for directing his “trilogy on modernity and its discontents L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L’Eclisse (1962)—as well as the English-language film Blow-up (1966)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Belgian born French director
La Pointe Courte (1955)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961)
Vagabond (1985)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Faces Places (2017)
Agnes Varda
Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) , The Big Heat (1953) Austrian director, 1000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse
Fritz Lang
French director best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983)
Chris Marker
Chris Marker’s sci-fi short film Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white.
La Jetee
French new wave director best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
Jacques Demy
Russian director Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Senegalese film Touki Bouki (also called The Journey of the Hyena) (1973) by which Senegal film director?
Djibril Diop Mambéty
British director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968)
Carol Reed
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by who?
Graham Greene
Whose 1991 feature Daughters of the Dust became the first full-length film directed by an African-American woman to obtain general theatrical release in the United States
Julie Dash
Film director medicine for melancholy, moonlight, if Beale street could talk, The Underground Railroad tv director?
Barry Jenkins
Born 1920 Rimini: La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), the “Toby Dammit” segment of Spirits of the Dead (1968), Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972).
Federico Fellini
Russian director noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).
Sergei Eisenstein
“Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, News From Home, Les Rendez-Vous d’Anna all films from which Belgian director?
Chantal Akerman
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Despair, Lili Marleen, Lola, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Satan’s Brew, Querelle. German film director?
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Which Cameroonian footballer who plays for Al Nassr in Saudi league score winner against Brazil in group stages of World Cup 2022 then immediately sent off as took shirt off?
Vincent Aboubakar
How many shillings were in a pound
20
How many pennies in a shilling
12 pennies
How many pennies in a pre decimalisation pound
240 - 20 shillings of 12 pennies
How many farthings in a halfpenny?
2
How many farthings in a penny
4 - 2 half pennies of 2 farthings
1 Guinea was how many shillings
21 - was one pound and one shilling
What coin was nicknamed a Joey
Thruppence (3p)
What coin was nicknamed a tanner?
Sixpence
What coin was nicknamed a Bob
Shilling (12p)
What coin nicknamed 2 Bob Bit
Florin = 2 shillings = 24p
A florin was how many pennies?
24 - florin as two shillings which was 24 pennies
2 shillings and 6p was worth what
Half Crown
1 Crown worth how many shillings
5
1 crown worth how many pennies
60 - 1 crown was 5 shillings whcih was 12 pennies each
How many pennies in a groat?
4 pennies in a groat
How many pennies in a Guinea?
252 - 21 shillings multiplied by 12 pennies
How many farthings in a florin?
96 - florin = 2 shillings = 24 pennies = 96 farthings
Author of 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen’s 2022 Pulitzer Fction winner novel tells fictional tale of which family
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Which author published Palmares in 2021, Pulitzer Prize nominee and first novel in 22 years?
Gayl Jones
Author of Pulitzer Prize 2022 nominee Monkey Boy, also The LONG night of white chickens (1992 debut), The Ordinary Seaman, The Divine Husband.
Francisco Goldman
Which Dutch footballer scored in every group match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup?:
Cody GAKPO
Which Spanish footballer scored in every group match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup?:
Álvaro MORATA
Which female referee did German Costa Rica at World Cup becoming first female ref at World Cup?
Stéphanie Frappart
Neuza Back was part of all-female referee team Germany gs Costa Rica World Cup 2022, what nationality was this linesman?
Brazilian assistant referee at World Cup 2022?
Mexican female referee linesman for the germany Costa Rica game?
Karen Diaz is what nationality?
Rwandan female referee who at World Cup 2019 and 2022?
Salima Mukansanga is what nationality?
Japanese female referee one of three women referees at World Cup 2022?
Yoshimi Yamashita
American female referee one of six at World Cup 2022? 2020 took charge of a MLS Cup game.
Kathryn Nesbitt
Which English referee who officiated at the 2022 FIFA World Cup also refereed the 2017 and 2020 FA Cup finals, both between Chelsea and Arsenal, both won by Arsenal 2–1, and was the first man to referee a second FA Cup final since Arthur Kingscott in 1901?
Anthony TAYLOR
Which English referee who officiated at the 2022 FIFA World Cup also issued nine yellow cards during the second leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final between Real Madrid and Juventus in 2018 and was in charge for the 2021 FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Leicester City?
Michael Oliver
Formerly The Old Suffolk Punch, what is the name of the KFC pub which opened on the 25th at 80 Fulham Place Road, Hammersmith?
THE COLONEL’S ARMS
What year communist manifesto published
1848
What year Seneca Falls Convention in New York for first womens rights convention
1848
Prime Minister of Italy since October 2022
Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni has been leader of what Italian party since 2014 becoming Italian PM in 2022?
Brothers of Italy (FdI - Fratelli d’italia)
Only top 10 song by Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
Great Britain only medal in athletics at the 1976 Montreal Olympics?
Brendan Foster 10000m
Taking name from a castle in Switzerland, which family ruled Holy Roman Empire from 13th century to fall in 1806?
Habsburg
Ian Anderson is lead singer, founder and only constant member of what British prog rock band?
Jethro Tull
Dynasty is German royalb1871-1918 name comes from castle in Swabian Jura of central Baden-Wurttemberg. Frederick II the Great 1772-86 Prussia to Wilhelm II 1888-1918.
Hohenzollern
German Emperor in 1888 for three months in between Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II
Frederick III
First German emperor 1871-88
Wilhelm I
Dynasty most prominent rulers were Frederick I Barbarossa 1155-1190 (died in modern day Goksu River, Turkey).
Hohenstaufen
Which pope crowned Frederick Barbarossa holy Roman emperor in 1155 in Rome?
Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear)
Nicholas Breakspear reign as Adrian IV
1154-59
Russian Ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty Turkish police officer, at an art exhibition in Ankara, Turkey on the evening of 19 December 2016.
Andrei Karlov
Who was a Gambian-British photographer exhibited at the Venice biennial in 2017, died in Grenfell Tower fire.
Khadija Saye
iirc stands for
If I recall correctly
Born with name Anna Mary Robertson _____, American folk artist born 1860. Scenes of New England landscapes.
Grandma Moses
Name of measure of income inequality intended to show 0-1 from nation to nation equal to non equal.
Gini Coefficient
Graphical representation of distribution of income and wealth. Shows proportion of overall income or wealth assumed by bottom x% of people. Commonly shown under line of equality.
Lorenz Curve
Economic curve illustrates a theoretical relationship between rates of taxation and resulting level of governments tax revenue.
Laffer Curve
What is a macroeconomic theory that postulates economic growth can be most effectively fostered by lowering taxes, decreasing regulation and allowing free trade?
Supply side economics
WhT economic curve proposed in 1996 by American economist suggests a level of government spending that maximises economic growth?
Richard W Rahn
Nickname of positive empirical relationship between cross-sectional income inequality and persistence of income across generations.
Great Gatsby Curve
Named after a British economist and liberal politician what curve (also known as UV) is a graphical representation of the relationship between unemployment rate and the job vacancy rate? Number of unfilled jobs expressed as proportion of labour force.
Beveridge Curve
AD-AS model in macroeconomics stands for what?
Aggregate demand-aggregate supply model
Graph of power production over course of day that shows timing Imbalance between peak demand and renewable energy production. Animal name.
Duck Curve
Also known as Lakner-Milanovic graph, graph that illustrates the unequal distribution of income growth for individuals belonging to different income group. Named after animal.
Elephant Curve
Known as Hicks-Hansen model, the IS-LM model stands for what?
Investment Saving-Liquidity preference-Money Supply
Mathematical model proposed by Ugo Bardi to describe situations where systems rate of decline is much sharper than earlier rate of growth. Named after writer who said Fortune is of a sluggish growth but ruin is rapid.
Seneca effect (letters to lucilius)
Economic model named after New Zealand economist who hypothesised a correlation between reduction in unemployment and increased rates of wage rises within an economy.
Phillips Curve
Austrian zoologist who won 1973 medicine with Tinbergen and Von Frisch. Studied instinctive behaviour in animals such as greylag goose and jackdaws. Discovered imprinting, nidifugous birds (birds that leave nest early) do within first hours of hatching.
Konrad Lorenz
Which zoologist wrote King Solomon’s Ring, On Aggression, Man Meets Dog.
Konrad Lorenz
Who wrote Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View?
Stanley Milgram
Who did the Yale experiment about giving electric shocks to other people and peoples willingness to do so?
Stanley Milgram
On top of electric shock experiment what experiment did Stanley Milgram do which led to analyse the degree of connectedness including six degrees of separation concept?
Small world experiment
What university did Stanley Milgram do his famous inflicting pain experiments at?
Yale University
Which Stanford university progress or did a famous 1971 prison experiment?
Philip Zimbardo
What uni did Philip Zimbardo do his famous 1971 prison experiment ?
Stanford
Name of 28 year old bartender who raped and stabbed outside apartment building in Queens New York where bystanders didn’t intervene leading to Bystander Effect
Catherine Susan Genovese
Hawaiian word for someone of multiracial ancestry.
Hapa
What location located off southern tip of mainland south America was named after the birthplace of the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Shouten who rounded it in 1616?
Cape Horn
Device that uses powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. Conceptualised by Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov.
Tokamak
What term was popularised in 1862 by Ivan Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons? Hero Bazatov was a believer of this.
Nihilism
Who wrote An American Dream, 1965.
Norman Mailer
Who wrote An American Marriage, 2019’winner of womens prize for fiction.
Tayari Jones
Who wrote My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the time being and 2022 winner of womens prize for fiction “The Book of Form and Emptiness”?
Ruth Ozeki
Name of 2022 winner of Womens Prize for fiction by Ruth Ozeki
The Book of Form and Emptiness
American author enrolled member of Chippewa Indians who wrote 2021 book The Sentence and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2021 for 2020 The Night Watchman?
Louise Erdrich
2021 winner of Pulitzer Prize for fiction by Louise Erdrich
The Night Watchman
First Native American to be US Poet Laureate which she served 2019-22
Joy Harjo
24th US Poet Laureate from 2022, first Latina to be so. Big Fake World, Bright Dead Things, The Carrying.
Ada Limon
American poet won Pulitzer for Poetry in 1950 for Annie Allen and Poet Laureate (Consultant in Poetry) from 1985-86.
Gwendolyn Brooks
First African American to have been US poet laureate, second African American to win Pulitzer poetry in 1987 for Thomas and Beulah.
Rita Dove
Which African American poet was 22nd poet laureate of USA from 2017-19 and won Pulitzer Prize for poetry for 2011 Life on Mars?
Tracy K. Smith
First Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for music for “voiceless mass” in 2022?? Born within Navajo nation.
Raven Chacon
Which composer composed 1986 “X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X”, 2007 “Wakonda’s Dream”, 2019 “The Central Park Five”?
Anthony Davis
American writer known for novels on great plain: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Antonia. Awarded 1923 Putlizer Prize for Fiction for “One of Ours”.
Willa Cather
Author of So Big (1925 Putlizer Prize Fiction), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, Ice Palace.
Edna Ferber
1926 Putlizer prize fiction winner by Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
Thornton Wilder 1928 Putlizer prize fiction winner
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author for 1906 novel The Jungle
about meat packing, King Coal (1917), Oil! (1927), 1943 Putlizer Prize fiction for Dragon’s Teeth?
Upton Sinclair
Loosely adapted in South Pacific, which author won Fiction Putlizer for 1948 Tales of the South Pacific
James A Michener
1951 Fiction Putlizer winning “The Caine Mutiny” by which author?
Herman Wouk
Four writers have won two Pulitzer Prize for fictions
Booth Tarkington 1912, 1922
William Faulkner 1955, 1963
John Updike 1982, 1991
Colson Whitehead 2017, 2020
Richard Powers book won Putlizer in 2019
The Overstory is by which author?
The 2018 Pulitzer winning novel “Less” is by which author
Andrew Sean Greer wrote which 2018 winning novel?
Which author wrote the Putlizer winning 2016 The Sympathizer and the sequel The Committed published in 2021?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Name of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2021 sequel to 2015 book The Sympathizer?
The Committed
2015 Pulitzer winner by Anthony Doerr name is what?
All the Light We Cannot See
Adam Johnson 2013 Putlizer winner was which book?
The Orphan Master’s Son
2010 Putlizer winning book by Paul Harding
Tinkers
Junot Diaz 2007’book which won Putlizer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Name of reform-minded journalists, writers and photographers in progressive era of USA who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions?
Muckrakers
Theodore Roosevelt coined the term muckraking for investigate journalists and took from character from which 1678 classic book?
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program called what: demands were conservation of natural resources, control of corporations and consumer protection.
Square Deal
Architect of New York Guggenheim
Frank Lloyd wright
Bilbao Guggenheim architect
Frank Gehry
Which President is on the nickel?
Thomas Jefferson
Which President is on the dime?
Franklin D Roosevelt
What President is on the quarter?
George Washington
Who is on $1
George Washington
Who is on the $2 bill
Thomas Jefferson
President on $5 note
Abraham Lincoln
Fifteen letter isogram meaning not protected by exclusivity laws
uncopyrightable
Sixteen letter isogram about skin
subdermatoglyphic
Home planet of Daleks
Skaro
Small saltwater forage fish in family Engraulidae used as human food and fish bait - scotch woodcock, tapenade
Anchovies
Of Sicilian cuisine, Catania in particular (after Palermo), pasta and eggplant dish named in honour of Vincenzo Bellini native opera.
Pasta Alla Norma
Sicilian composer born 1801 composed adelson e salvini, bianca e gernando, il pirata, i capuleti e i montecchi, la sonnambula, norma, i puritani
Vincenzo Bellini
Opera set in English civil war and based on Walter Scott’s 1816 novel old morality.
I Puritani
Lucia di Lammermoor by which composer and based on what novel
Gaetano Donizetti - based on Walter Scott’s 1819 Bride of Lammermoor
Surname of Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti’s opera and Scott’s book.
Lucy Ashton
Pasta dish of butter and Parmesan, named after chef in Rome did ceremony by the table side.
Fettuccine Alfredo
Spaghetti dish - Naples - olive oil, olives, anchovies, chilli peppers, capers. Named after Italian for whore or prostitute.
Spaghetti alla puttanesca
Video games controls the Kid as moves through floating fantasy themed environments and fights enemies. Collects special shards of rock to power a structure (name of game) in wake of apocalyptic Calamity.
Bastion
Video game controls main character Red as travels through series of locations fighting enemies known as the Process and a mode called “Turn()”. City called Cloudbank. Name of game is the weapon in the video game, also a semiconductor device.
Transistor
British painter born 1846 in Lausanne Switzerland who specialised in painting scenes from military battles including The Roll Call (Crimean), The Defence of Rorkes Drift, Scotland Forever! (showing Scot’s Greys at Waterloo).
Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson)
French female portrait painter in 1755. Painted Marie Antoinette; self portrait.
Elisabeth Le Brun
Largest river flowing into Indian Ocean from Africa
Zambezi River
Second longest river in Africa
Congo
14th studio album by Joan Baez. Recorded during a us bombing raid on Hanoi over 1972. Telford Taylor (lawyer and professor) on album. Anti Vietnam.
Where are you now, my son?
1970 protest song “I Should Be Proud” was by which Motown group!
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Alice’s Restaurant Massacre by which singer ?
Arlo Guthrie
Singer of anti war song “19”
Paul Hardcastle
Satire on WW1 developed by Joan Littlewood musical. 1963
Oh, What a Lovely War!
Anti war song by Creedence Clearwater Revival from album Willy and the Poor Boys in 1969.
Fortunate Son
Which Scottish football team are nicknamed the Honest Men from Robert Burns Poem
Ayr United
1960 Euros winner beating Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
What year was the first Euros championship for mens?
1960
Which country hosted the first Euros in 1960?
France
1964 euros champions beating Soviet Union
Spain
London hosted the European championships in what year?
1996
Winner of 1968 euros beating Yugoslavia in final
Italy
Winner of 1972 euros final beating Soviet Union?
West Germany
1976 euros winner beating West Germany?
Czechoslovakia
Which country won Euros 1980 beating Belgium in the final?
West Germany
Which country beat Spain in the 1984 euros final?
France
Which country won 1988 euros championship beating Soviet Union in the final?
Netherlands
Which country won 1992 euros beating Germany in the final?
Denmark
Which country won the 1996 euros beating Czech Republic in the final?
Germany
Which country won the 2000 euros beating Italy in the final?
France
Which country won the 2004 euros final beating Portugal ?
Greece
Only word in Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss that has more than one syllable
Anywhere
What country won the 2008 euros by beating a Germany in the final
Spain
Which country won 2012 euros beating Italy in the final?
Spain
Which team won 2016 euros beating France ?
Portugal
Which team won the 2016 euros beating France in final?
Portugal
Which team won 2020 euros beating England on penalties in the final?
Italy
Portugal won the euro 2016 final 1-0 after extra time goal by who?
Eder
Which three players missed penalty for England in euros 2020 final?
Marcus Rashford, Jordan Sancho, Bukayo Saka
Which two Italian players missed penalties in their penalty shoot out win over England in Euro 2020 final?
Belotti and Jorginho
England lost on penalties in the euro 2020 final against Italy: who did score two penalties for England?
Kane and Maguire
Which three Italians scored for penalties against England in 2020 euros final?
Berardi, Bonucci, Bernardeschi
Who scored for England in the 1-1 normal time draw in Euro 2020 final against Italy?
Luke Shaw (Leonardo Bonucci scored for Italy£
Lisbon stadium that hosted 2004 euros final and home stadium for benfica
Estadio da Luz
2008 euros final venue and largest stadium in Austria
Ernst Happel Stadion (Praterstadion until 1992 - Happel won European Cup twice Feyenoord 1970 and Hamburg 1983)
Built for 1958 World Cup and hosted final of 1992 Euros is which Gothenburg stadium?
Ullevi
Feyenoord play in whcih Dutch city?
Rotterdam
Rotterdam’s stadium is nicknamed De Kuip which means what?
The Tub
Brussels stadium site of 1985 disaster and final of 1972 euros.
Heysel Stadium
Last four hosts of Euros
2008 Austria and Switzerland
2012 Ukraine and Poland
2016 France
2020 11 Cities in 11 Countries
Whcih Russian stadium used as a venue for Euros 2020 in st Petersburg
Krestovsky Stadium (Gazprom Arena)
Budapest venue of Euro 2020 11 stadiums
Puskas Arena
Copenhagen stadium in the 11 stadiums that hosted euros 2022
Parken Stadium
Amsterdam stadium that home of Ajax and was one of 11 hosts of Euro 2020
Johan Cruyff Arena
Spanish stadium used in the Euros 2020 tournament as one of 11 stadiums?
La Cartuja
Bucharest stadium part of the 11 stadiums that hosted euros 2020
Arena Nationala
What is the name of the 2022 World Cup mascot?
La’eeb
FIFA World Cup 2022 has a soundtrack as opposed to one song. One of five is “dreamers” performed by which boy band member?
Jungkook of BTS
One of the five songs making up World Cup 2022 soundtrack, “Tukoh Taka” is performed by which rapper alongside Maluma and Lebanese singer Myriam Fares?
Nicki Minaj
The 2022 Qatar World Cup mascot is what type of traditional headdress worn by men?
Ghutrah (in Arabic - could be Keffiyeh)
Name of the wolf mascot of the 2018 World Cup in Moscow translates to the goal scorer.
Zabivaka
Three banded armadillo with green Bermuda shorts was mascot for Brazil 2014 World Cup. Name?
Fuleco
2010 South Africa World Cup mascot name leopard?
Zakumi
2006 Germany World Cup mascot name of the lion?
Goleo VI
Ato, Kaz and Nik (the spheriks) were computer generated creatures acting as mascots at whcih world cup hosting country and year?
Japan and South Korea 2002
Footix, mascot of 1998 World Cup, was WhT type of creature?
Cockerel
Name of the 1994 USA World Cup mascot dog
Striker the World Cup Pup
Name of Italy 1990 world cup mascot of a stick figure player
Ciao
1986 mexico World Cup mascot was what type of foodstuff and nameV
Pique the jalapeño pepper
1982 Spain world cup mascot talking oranges
Naranjito
1966 World Cup first official mascot name and animal?
Willie the Lion
1970 Mexico World Cup mascot name
Juanito
1978 Argentina World Cup mascot
Gauchito
1974 west Germany World Cup two mascots names
Tip and Tap
2023 Womens World Cup due to be hosted by which two countries
Australia and New Zealand
2023 Womens world cup mascot creature and name (portmanteau of a sea and a word)
Tazuni and Little Penguin
2019 Womens World Cup mascot was the daughter of 1998 World Cup mascot Footix. What creature and name?
Ettie the Chicken
2015 Canada Womens World Cup mascot was Shueme, what type of creature?
Great white owl (name comes from chouette French for owl)
2011 German Womens World Cup mascot Karla Kick what type of animal
Cat
2007 China womens World Cup mascot was which legendary heroine
Hua Mulan
1999 Womens World Cup mascot was called Nutmeg, which creature?
Fox
1995 World Cup was called Fiffi the Viking, what country host?
Seeden
1991 Womens World Cup hosted where, mascot name was Ling Ling
China
In the childrens song “There’s a hole in my bucket” it’s a protracted dialogue by which two characters
Henry and Liza
What oil used to treat cricket bats?
Linseed oil
Traditional longbows were made of what wood?
Yew
Lovely waterfalls, Croatia’s largest national park covering almost 30,000 hectares
Plitvice Lakes National Park
”Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes”
Goldbach’s Conjecture
Who wrote Elf on the Shelf?
Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell / illustrated by Coe Steinwart
Play by Danny Robins, premiered west end 2021 with various actresses playing Jenny main character.
2:22 A Ghost Story
Played Yasmin Khan in 2018 Doctor Who for Jodie Whitaker doctor - criterion theatre Jenny for 2:22 a ghost story
Mandip Gill
Actresses of Jenny in Danny Robins 2:22 a ghost story over 2021-23
Lily Allen, Giovanni Fletcher, Cheryl Tweedy, Laura Whitmore, Mandip Gill, Constance Wu
Actress who played Jessica Huang on Fresh off the boat and then Rachel Chu in Crazy Rich Asians.
Constance Wu
Louis Huang on Fresh off the boat and Kim Jong Un in The Interview, Jimmy Woo in marvel films
Randall Park
creator of Don’t Trust the Bitch in apartment 23 and fresh off the boat. Directed Always Be My Maybe.
Nahnatchka Khan
Animated sitcom for Netflix starring Tiffany Haddish as a toucan, Ali Wong as a song thrush and Stephen Yeun.
Tuca and Bertie
Rose to prominence as Sophia Burset on Orange is New Black, first transgender person to be nominated for prime time emmy in acting.
Laverne Cox
Actress breakthrough role on Girls Trip (2017), memoir The Last Black Unicorn, Tuca and Bertie, The Afterparty, Black Mitzvah (2019 Grammy for Best Comedy Album).
Tiffany Haddish
Norman Keith Collins was a tattoo artist in Hawaii well known for nautical tattoos. Nickname?
Sailor Jerry
Kenny Howard was a American motorcycle mechanic, gunsmith, metal fabricator name was posthumously used for whcih American fashion brand. Popularised by Christian Audigier.
Von Dutch
Tattoo artist known for tattoos and named fashion brand licensed by Christian Audigier.
Don Ed Hardy
Who is best known for his long-running role as Phillip “Lip” Gallagher on the Showtime dramedy series Shameless and now Carmy Berzatto chef in Hulu show The Bear?
Jeremy Allen White
Which dickens novel first alphabetically?
Barnaby Rudge
Name of a shape with two sides?
Digon
Shape with 20 sides
icosagon
Enneacontagon has how many sides
90
Megagon has how many sides?
1000000
Name of a shape with infinity number sides
Apeirogon
Six pointed geometric star figure term
Hexagram
What notation symbol is a notion of form (p, q, r, …) that defines regular poly ropes and Tessellation and named after 19th Century Swiss mathematician they’re named after!
Schlafi Symbol
Regular polyhedron that has q regular p-sided polygon faces around each vertex is represented by (p, q), how is a cube represented?
(4,3)
Regular polyhedron that has q regular p-sided polygon faces is represented by (p, q), (5,3) is which Platonic solid ?
Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron is made up of 12 of what polygon?
12 Pentagons
Regular polyhedron that has q regular p-sided polygon faces is represented by (p, q), what Platonic solid is (3,5)?
Icosahedron
Icosahedron is made up of how many of what polygon
20 triangles
Regular polyhedron that has q regular p-sided polygon faces meeting at each vertex is represented by (p, q), (3,4) is what Platonic solid?
Octahedron
Octahedron made up of how many of what polygon?
8 triangles
Tetrahedron schlafli symbol?
(3,3)
How many vertices does a dodecahedron have?
20
How many vertices does an Icosahedron have?
12
How many edges does a dodecahedron and a Icosahedron have ?
30 each : V - E + F = 2
Cube and Octahedron both have how many edges?
12 edges
What type of crystal are rare force attuned crystal that grow naturally and used in lightsabers?
Kyber Crystal
Who was created Earl of Snowdon in 1961?
Antony Armstrong-Jones
What year did Princess Margaret marry Anthony Armstrong jones?
1960
Who was firstborn of Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret in 1961?
Viscount Linley
Who was the daughter of Antony Armstrong-Jones and Princess Margaret born in 1964?
Lady Sarah Chatto
Who regularly photographed the queen including an official 80th birthday portrait of her in March 2006? Family connections
Anthony Armstrong Jones (1930-2017)
Which religion values the three treasures or three jewels? Compassion, frugality and humility.
Taoism
International Rules Football was developed to try to facilitate matches between which two sports?
Australian rules and Garlic rules football
Only international sports organisation to recognise First Nations bands and Native American tribes as sovereign states.
World Lacrosse
Phil Wizard is a world champion in whcih sport
Break dancing
Which sport is to debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
Breakdancing
Battle of the Year, The Notorious IBE, Chelles Battle Pro and Red Bull BC Ones are all major competitions in which sport
Breakdancing
Djambarrpuyngu, gupapuyngu, liyagalawumirr are all dialects of which aboriginal language found in Northern Territory Australia?
Dhuwal Language
Who became president of Colombia in August 2022, former guerrila fighter and first ever left wing president? He was member of 19th April movement.
Gustavo Petro
Ron Weasley middle name
Bilius
Military commander of the Byzantine emperor called one of “last of the romans”.fought at battle of Ad Decimum, Battle of Tricamarum against Gelimer of Vandals. Beat Persians at Dara in 530 but lost at Callinicum. Lifted siege of ariminum (siege of Rimini) without a fight.
Belisarius
Belisarius was commander of Byzantine empire under which eastern Roman emperor who ruled from 527-565?
Justinian I
Who was last Germanic ruler of the Vandals after being defeated by Belisarius in 533 Ad Decimum and Tricamarum before surrender in 534 and who fought for Justinian I?
Gelimer
What was the most googled word in 2022?
Wordle
Who won the Turner Prize for 2022?
Veronica Ryan
Danish architect and furniture designer, remembered for chairs: egg, drop, swan, ant.
Arne Jacobsen
American married couple industrial designers, lounge chair and dining chair, kinetic mathematic concepts Mathematica: A World of Numbers… and Beyond
Charles and Ray Eames
American title of Murder on the Orient Express
Murder in the Calais Coach
Actress with 8 Emmys so alongside Julia Louis Dreyfus most awarded. Also an academy award for Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971) as the neglected wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s; she won the Best Supporting Actress. Played Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show getting a spin-off.
Cloris Leachman
Phyllis, Rhoda and Lou Grant all spin-offs of which tv show?
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Who starred as newspaper editor Lou Grant in the spin off from Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Ed Asner
In The Mary Tyler Moore Show what was Mary Tyler Moore’s character’s surname?
Mary Richards
What was Dick Van Dyke’s character name in The Dick Van Dyke Show?
Rob Petrie
NCIS Spin-off started 2009
NCIS Los Angeles
NCIS spin off aired from 2014
New Orleans
NCIS Spin off started in 2021
NCIS Hawaii
On February 2022, it was announced NcIS would have first overseas spin off?
NCIS: Sydney
Who plays Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NcIS?
Mark Harmon
Michael Weatherly left NCIS in 2016 to start which courtroom drama show which ran from 2016 to 2022?
Bull
American medical drama series from 1982-88 stars Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, William Daniels, teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital.
St. Elsewhere
Desert in Southern Israel, largest city and administrative capital being Beersheba.
Negev or Negeb
Which Chilean born actress played Ziva David in NCIS?
Cote de Pablo
Who plays lead G. Callen in NCIS LA
Chris O’Donnell
Who plays Sam Hanna in NCIS LA
Ll cool j
Who played Henrietta Hetty Lange in NCIS LA, won BSA Oscar for playing male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerousl, narrator of video game God of War.
Linda Hunt
Who plays NcIS New Orleans lead Character Dwayne Cassius Pride?
Scott Bakula
Who played Christopher LaSalle in NCIS New Orleans and Sean Boswell in Fast and Furious franchise?
Lucas Black
Vin Diesel character in Fast and Furious franchise
Dominic Toretto
Paul Walker character in Fsst and furious franchise
Brian o’connor
Fast and furious spin off in 2019 with Dwayne Johnson and Jason statham as their roles in normal series
Hobbs and Shaw
Guyana born actress played Dr Angela Hicks in ER, Claudette Wyms in The Shield, DR Loretta Wade on Ncis New Orleans.
CCH Pounder
Five players who played for Man U and Man City?
Law, Kidd, Schmeichel, Cole, Tevez
I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball’s character surname?
Lucy Ricardo
Name of Andy Griffith’s character in 1960-68 The Andy Griffith Show
Andy Taylor
Name of character played by Bob Newhart in TV show Newhart
Dick Loudon
Roseanne Barr character in 1988-2018 show Roseanne
Roseanne Connor
Patty Duke character name in The Patty Duke Show from 1963-66
Patty Lane
Bill Cosby character name in the 1984-92 The Cosby Show
Dr Cliff Huxtable
Who played Clair Huxtable in The Cosby Show?
Phylicia Rashad
Who played Denise Huxtable in The Cosby Show?
Lisa Bonet
Ellen DeGeneres character name in 1994-98 show Ellen
Ellen Morgan
Reba McEntire’s character name in the 2001-07 show Reba?
Reba Hart
Terry and June Surname in the tv show 1979-87
Medford
Who played Terry and June in the 1979-87 tv show?
Terry Scott and June Whitfield
Who was offered a chocolate hat to eat after losing a bet to Andrew Neil about Lib Dem losses in 2015?
Paddy Ashdown
Who at his own new book “Brexit: Why Britain voted to leave European Union” after Labour polled over 38% under Jeremy Corbyn?
Matthew Goodwin
Which director ate his shoe after promising to if Errol Morris ever completed film Gates of Heaven?
Werner Herzog
Rare entity in which one malformed vertebrate fetus is enclosed within body of its twin?
Fetus in fetu
Theatre company founded and headed by Simon McBurney makes plays like A Disappearing Number (Ramanujan and Hardy), The Master and Margarita (based on Bulgakov novel), 2022 Drive Your Plow Over Your Bones of the Dead (based on Olga Tokarczuk).
Complicite (pronounced complicity)
Theatre company founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981. Known for Italian version of Middletown’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, Russian version of Measure for Measure and Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Cheek by Jowl
Theatre company founded in 2000 by Felix Barrett, form of immersive theatre in which no audience member will have same experience as another. Related to promenade theatre but utilises audience immersion more extensively.
Punchdrunk
French playwright born 1639 wrote one comedy Les Plaideurs, tragedies Phedre, Andromaque, Athalie, Brittanicus.
Jean Racine
Born 1606 in Rouen, which French playwright most known for Le Cid, Andromede, Nicomede, Attila, Tite et Berenice (Roman general Titus took Berenice of Cilicia the sister of Herod Agrippa back to Rome over sack of Jerusalem in 70ad).
Pierre Corneille
Which Archbishop of York was the illegitimate son of Henry II? Richard I named Him A of Y after ascension.
Geoffrey
Prb painter born 1828 London - The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, Bocca Baciata (model Fanny Cornforth), The Day Dream (model Jane Morris), Lady Lilith (Fanny Cornforth), Proserpine (Jane Morris)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
First wife of Adam and primordial she-demon
Lilith
Cain and Abel other brother, Adam and Eve third son
Seth
Noah’s three sons
Shem, Ham, Japheth
Prb painter born 1833 Birmingham - The Beguiling of Merlin, Sidonia von Borcke (Pomeranian noblewoman tried and executed for witchcraft in Stettin), The Golden Stairs
Edward Burne-Jones
Dutch painter born 1836 in Uk painted The Education of the Children of Clovis, The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Silver Favourites, Sappho and Alcaeus.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Term for warm bathroom of Roman baths heated by a hypocaust.
Tepidarium
Artist born 1834 in Walthamstow married to Jane Burden, Red House in Bexleyheath.
William Morris
When was the Medal of Honour first awarded?
1863
Which US president won the Nobel peace prize and the Medal of Honor?
Theodore Roosevelt
Blighia sapida is a fruit of the Sapindaceae (soapberry) family, name refers Bligh who took from Jamaica to Kew Gardens
Ackee
dragon’s eye alternative name for what fruit tree member of soapberry family
Longan
Nephelium lappaceum fruit name from malay hair
Rambutan
Snowdon welsh name
Yr Wyddfa
Which Islay whisky advertised its taste as “burning hospital”?
Laphroaig
Who contested the 1972 World Chess Championship?
Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky
Alternative name X for African ground squirrel
xerus
Four letter alternative name for Mexican hairless dog
Xolo
Pristella maxillaris known as what due to translucent body?
X-Ray Fish
Four letter alternative name for Sabine’s Gull?
Xeme
Amarcord 1973 semi-autobiographical tale by which director about Titta a boy growing up in Italian village in 1930s fascist Italy?
Federico Fellini
Which Scottish playwright wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin’ Heart.
John Byrne
Daughter of playwright and actress, which actress starred in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II?
Honor Swinton Byrne
Which actress appeared in American Horror Story, Mr Robot, married Mark Ronson
Grace Gummer
Husband of Meryl Streep
Don Gummer
Who directed semi-autobiographical 2019 film The Souvenir and the 2021 sequel The Souvenir Part II?
Joanna Hogg
Second biggest island of Isles of Scilly? Name means island of the elder trees.
Tresco
Biggest island of the Isles of Scilly?
St Mary’s
Longbridge plant in Birmingham now used as research and development facility for which company?
MG
Mini car plant found in which Oxford suburb
Cowley
Jaguar Land Rover factory plant in Which Merseyside location
Halewood
Luton car plant used by which car company
Vauxhall
my name is red by which Nobel laureate
Orhan Pumak
My Name Is Mina is a 2010 children’s novel by which author of Skellig? This acted as a prequel to Skellig.
David Almond
Book by David Almond 1998 about boy Michael who meet an Angel type creature title character in new house.
Skellig
Born Mandy Theresa O’Loughlin and author of My Name is Leon 2016
Kit de Waal
Lucy by the Sea (2022), Oh William (2021), Anything is Possible, My Name is Lucy Barton (2016). Author.
Elizabeth Strout
Whose Histories start in 264BC and end in 146BC?
Polybius
Term for presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city. Played integral role in Polybius’ understanding of history. Means fate or fortune.
Tyche
Which two city states were destroyed by Rome in 146BC?
Carthage and Corinth
According to Suetonius, Augustus said he found Rome a city of what and left it a city of what?
Brick and Marble
Athenian politician and general convinced polis to increase naval power of Athens, built 200 triremes, effectively commanded at Battle of Artemisium and Salamis in 480BC.
Themistocles
What 480BC battle took place on sea simultaneously to Battle of Thermopylae in land?
Artemisium
479BC battle final land battle during second Persian invasion of Greece?
Plataea
Eastern Roman Emperor 527-565, married to Theodora.
Justinian I
Prominent Roman historian of 6th century, accompanied Roman general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian’s wars. Wrote History of the Wars, Buildings, Secret History.
Procopius
Battle in 401BC between Persian Artaxerxes II and brother Cyrus the Younger for control of Achaemenid throne. Aftermath was March of the Ten Thousand as stated by Xenophon’s anabasis.
Battle of Cunaxa
Emperor Roman 361-363, philosopher and author. Rejection of Christianity, embarked on ambitious campaign against Sassanian Empire, won Battle of Ctesiphon in 363. However, died at Battle of Samarra.
Julian the Apostate
Which Roman emperor died at the Battle of Adrianople in 378
Valens
Who played Mama Fratelli in The Goonies and Mrs Lift in Throw Momma from the Train in 1987?
Anne Ramsey
Which actor played Francis Fratelli in The Goonies, played Caesar in Wachowski’s debut Bound and Cypher in The Matrix? Michael Gorski in Sense8, Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos are tv roles.
Joe Pantoliano
Whcih actress Oscar nomination for playing olive neal in bullets over Broadway 1994, played Violet in Bound 1996 and also voice of Tiffany Valentine (bride of Chucky). Since 1999 voiced Bonnie Swanson in Family Guy. Also first celebrity to win a World Series tournament.
Jennifer Tilly
Who has played The Tick, Jeff Bingham on Rules of Engagement, Lemony Snicket on ASOUE, Joe Swanson on Family Guy?
Patrick Warburton
Actress plays Lois in Family Guy and Susie Myerson in The Marvellous Mrs Maisel (Miriam Midge Maisel).
Alex Borstein
Replacing Mike Henry in 2020, who now voices Cleveland Brown in Family Guy?
Arif Zahir
PatrickMavros is a luxury brand selling which goods?
Jewellery
In august 2022 Sara Sabry became first of whcih nationality to reach Space?
Egypt
Who is patron saint of children
Saint Nicholas
Patron saint of animals and environment
St Francis of Assisi
4 largest cities by UN 2018 estimates
4 São Paulo 21.6m
3 Shanghai 25.6m
2 Delhi 28.5m
1 Tokyo 37.4m
4 largest cities by metropolitan areas (Wikipedia)
4 Seoul 25.5m
3 Delhi 29m
2 Jakarta 33.4m
1 Tokyo 37.3m
Largest 10 countries by area
1 Russia
2 Canada
3 China
4 USA (China and USA can switch Water)
5 Brazil
6 Australia
7 India
8 Argentina
9 Kazakhstan
10 Algeria
Third longest river in world
Yangtze
5h longest river system in world and largest to drain into Arctic Ocean, drains into namesake gulf in the Kara Sea. One of three big Siberian rivers that flow into Arctic sea alongside Ob and Lena.
Yenisey
What river of Russia China and Kazakhstan is the chief tributary of the Ob and is second largest tributary in the world after Parana river?
Irtysh
Which river system forms the seventh longest in the world? Main city on bank is Novosibirsk, largest city of Siberia and third largest in Russia. It’s namesake Gulf is worlds longest estuary.
Ob (along with Irtysh)
Yacyreta and Itaipu Dam are both on which river in South America!
Parana River
The Three Gorges dam is which river and which Chinese province
Yangtze and Hubei region
Which Chinese dam is second largest capacity and is on the Jinsha River?
Baihetan Dam
Third largest by output dam in world on brazil Paraguay border
Itaipu Dam
The Belo Monte Dam, the largest by output solely in Brazil is in which state?
Para State
Located on Caroni River, name of the largest by output dam in Venezuela and otherwise known as Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant.
Guri Dam
Largest dam by output in USA on Columbia River in Washington State
Grand Coulee Dam
Name of Pakistan’s largest dam by output? It’s Earth filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan’s khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Tarbela Dam
The Niagara hydroelectric power station used as a dam with good output is named after which American?
Robert Moses
1st largest dam by size in world is which Pakistan dam?
Tarbela Dam
Largest by volume dam in USA is which Montana dam located on Missouri River?
Fort Peck Dam
Third largest by volume dam in the world is which Turkish dam?
Ataturk Dam
Which Mozambiquian Dam is one of two major dams located on the Zambezi? Largest in Southern Africa and owned by Moza and Portugal.
Cahora Bassa Dam
Which dam is found on Zambezi between Zambia and Zimbabwe?
Kariba Dam
Enguri Dam is second highest concrete arch dam with height of 271.5m, in what country?
Georgia
Large dam in north Sudan make it one of largest in North Africa? On the river Nile.
Merowe Dam
Construction of which Ghanaian dam flooded part of Volta basin and created Lake Volta.
Akosombo Dam
South American lake found on borders of Argentina and Chile
O’Higgins/San Martin Lake
Indonesian lake is 10th deepest in world, deepest lake on an island by maximum depth?
Lake Matano
Norway and Europe’s deepest lake?
Hornindalsvatnet
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of Year 2015 was “Night Games” by Anna Krien, it was about which sport?
Australian Rules Football
Which German goalkeeper committed suicide in 2009? Book “A Life Too Short” written by Ronald Reng won WH Sports Book of the Year.
Robert Enke
Name of swimmer who in 1988 swam English Channel at 11 years 330 days, wrote autobiography “A Boy in the Water” winning WH Sports Book of Year in 2018.
Tom Gregory
2008 cricket autobiography called “Coming Back to Me” by which English cricketer
Marcus Trescothick
Robert Twigger’s award winning book “Angry White Pyjamas” was about his one year intensive program of studying which sport?
Aikado
American author of Seabiscuit: An American legend, and Unbroken: A WW2 story of survival, resilience and redemption.
Laura Hillenbrand
Duncan Hamilton is a three time winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year all with books about which three subjects?
Brian Clough
Harold Larwood
Neville Cardus
Where is FA’s national football centre based?
Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire (opened 2012)
Alternative Arabic name for Fez beginning with T
Tarboosh
What British site of remembersnce was opened at Alrewas in Staffordshire in 2001?
National Memorial Arboretum
What year was Battle of Britain?
1940
What inventor of chicken tikka masala has died?
Ali Ahmed ASLAM
Which Joni Mitchell song, which begins with the line “It’s coming on Christmas …” shares its name with Joaquin Phoenix’s first son with Rooney Mara?
River
Which actor famously utters the line “And call off Christmas!” in a 1991 film?
Alan Rickman as Sheriff of Nottingham
Name of tv presenter who did “just normal men” clip
Lauren Layfield
Created by Neil Sterenberg, voiced by Phil Fletcher 2009+, “we’re just normal men”
Hacker T Dog
Which British photographer took the photo that Messi put on Instagram which became most liked photo on Instagram
Shaun Botterill
Tv show from 2002 about real estate and purchasing out of the city. Current big name is Nicki Chapman.
Escape to the Country
Name of tv show reality game show B&B owners who go around staying at each other’s and ratings.
Four in a Bed
Narrator of Come Dine With Me
Dave Lamb
Repair Shop narrator Series 1, 5-Present
Bill Paterson
Narrator of Repair Shop Series 2-4
Robert Pugh
Tv show follows a couple who buy and renovate a French country house in Martine-Sue-Mayenne. Narrated by Tracy-Ann Oberman and on 8 series currently.
Escape to the Chateau
Main guy of Escape to the Chateau
Dick Strawbridge
Who plays Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North?
Christopher Eccleston
Who played Terry “Tosker” Cox in Our Friends in the North?
Mark Strong
Jackie Laverty in Line of Duty and Our Frirnds in the North as Mary Cox and Caterina Sforza in The Borgias
Gina McKee
Character played by Daniel Craig in Our Friends in the North
Geordie Peacock
Which real life married couple presented Great Canal Journeys in the first 10 series?
Timothy West and Prunella Scales
From Series 11, which duo presented Great Canal Journeys?
Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock
2022 tv show Cunk on Earth features Philomena Cunk asking the big questions about humanity’s progress played by which actress?
Diane Morgan
Strictly Come Dancing companion show
It Takes Two
Winner of 20th Series of Strictly matched with Jowita Przystal, born in Sudan, known as Ranger on CBeebies. Presented Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.
Hamza Yassin
British chef and tv presenter best known for C4’s Food Unwrapped and BBC’s Saturday Kitchen. Ran the restaurant The Foxhunter in Nant-y-derry before concentrating on tv.
Matt Tebbutt
Road code for South Circular Road in south London, England, is a major road that runs from the Woolwich Ferry in the east to the Chiswick Flyover in the west
A205
Road name for The North Circular Road is a 25.7-mile-long ring road around Central London in England. It runs from Chiswick in the west to Woolwich in the east
A406
man known for calling for “clear blue water”, who was surprisingly defeated by Stephen Twigg
Michael Portillo
Stephen Fry as a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance? South Korean zombie tv show too and for example Fungi.
Kingdom
Poetry collection illustrated poetry collection subtitled Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
Songs of Innocence and Experience
New Year’s; Dirty; Another; and Beautiful can all be followed by Day to make what groups songs?
U2
Who played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me? Married to Ringo Starr.
Barbara Bach
Lead singer of Dinosaur Jr
J Mascis
Author of The Gift of the Magi
O Henry
Real name of author of Cabbages and Kings
William Sydney Porter (O Henry)
Who did Raul Julia play in 1994 film street fighter?
M Bison
Character played by Jean Claude Van Damme in Street Fighter
Guile
Which singer played Cammy in Street Fighter 1994?
Kylie Minogue
Medical name for excessive inward angulation towards body’s midline of the distal segment of bone/joint, in legs it would be seen as bow legged.
Varus
Medical name for knock kneed appearance where excessive outward angulation.
Valgus (Varus is bow legged so imagine R with open legs)
Lead singer of the Birthday Party
Nick Cave
Which king of Aragon said to have died from indigestion and uncontrollable laughter from jester joke about deer eating figs?
Martin of Aragon
Administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland’s northernmost province Lapland?
ROVANIEMI
Phaethon Lepturus appears on which flag?
Christmas Island flag - it’s a white tailed tropicbird
From Turkish for fork tumulus, large Neolithic and chalcolithic (copper) settlement in southern Anatolia overlooking the Konya Plain. First excavated by James Mellaart in 1958?
Catalhoyuk was first excavated by who in 1958?
Brand used by M&S from 1928, introduced by Simon Marks in 1928 after his father and cofounder of M&S Michael Marks.
St Michael
M&S was founded by which two people? First names please.
Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds
Which salmon company known for 2000 ad where man fights bear?
John West
2006 advert with 250k colourful balls bounding down San Fran street was for which company
Sony Bravia
Singer of Here Comes The Hotstepper
Ini Kamoze
Cher got to #35 in January 1994 singing I got You babe with whcih duo
Beavis and Butthead
Nickname given to the distinctive black and white chequered pattern associated with police in Scotland. But then all overS named after chief constable of city of glasgow police.
Sillitoe Tartan
Imperial paper sizes: Albert, Duchess, Duke and then what in Quarto and Folio? Small Post and Large Post in Octavo and Quarto come after this.
Foolscap
Folio is one fold with two sheets and 4 pages, what is term for 8 pages, 12 pages, 16 pages?
Folio > Quarto > Sexto > Octavo
British rail excuse in 1991 for problems caused to rail services after adverse weather
The wrong type of snow
Name of 2020 film starring Blake Lively, Jude Law and Sterling K Brown about deaths in plane crash potential terrorism and cover up ongoing.
The Rhythm Section
Sterling K Brown middle name
Kelby
Which 1977 film based on Peter Benchley novel and starred Robert Shaw both like Jaws and launched career of a Jacqueline Bisset.
The Deep
Kingston Calypso some film score music by Monty Norman for which James Bond film
Dr No
From Russia with Love theme song composed by which British composer?
Lionel Bart
From Russia with Love 1963 sung by which singer
Matt Monro
Which pair of composers wrote Feelin’ Good (Nina Simone but composed for The Roar of the Greasepaint) and What Kind of Fool Am I (Sammy Davis Jr)? Wrote Pure Imagination and also Goldfinger sung by Bassey.
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (Bricusse and Newley)
Which James Bond title theme was first called Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Thunderball
Who eventually sang theme song for 1965 Thunderball
Tom Jones
Which country musician sang a song “Thunderball” for the James Bond film but not used, did end up being recorded by them regardless.
Johnny Cash
Who sang You Only Live Twice 1967?
Nancy Sinatra
What was name of the theme song for 1969 On Her Majesty’s secret Service?
We Have All the Time in the World
Lyrics of We Have All the Time in the World by which Bacharach collaborator
Hal David
Who sung theme song We Have All the Time in the World?
Louis Armstrong
First bond theme to be nominated for Oscar for best song?
Live and Let Die 1973
Who sang The Man with the Golden Gun 1974
Lulu
Who scored the James Bond movie Live and Let Die?
George Martin
Which rock star had an alternative theme song for The Man with the Golden Gun before dropped for Lulu?
Alice Cooper
What was the theme song for the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me?
Nobody Does It Better
Who sang Nobody Does It Better 1977?
Carly Simon
Which lyricist won Oscar for Arthur’s Theme (Best that you can do) in 1982, Grammy for “that’s what friends are for”, did lyrics for 1977 Nobody Does It Better?
Carole Bayer Sager
Which James bond theme song was composed by Marvin Hamlisch
Nobody Does It Better - The Spy Who Loved Me
Who scored the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me?
Marvin Hamlisch
Which Nicaraguan did Mick Jagger marry between 1971-79?
Bianca Macias
Who has dated Melanie Hamrick since 2014
Mick Jagger
Who did Mick Jagger date between 2001 and 2014 before she committed suicide?
L’Wren Scott
About whom did Mick Jagger write the song Sister Morphine a song on album Sticky Fingers?
Marianne Faithfull
Who had relationship with Mick Jagger between 1974-76? Also 1972-77 with Utopia’s Todd Rundgren. Is the mother of Liv Tyler who she had with Steven Tyler.
Bebe Buell
Married to Jack white between 2005-13, model and singer songwriter with album “The Ghost who Walks” in 2010, second Double Roses 2017 and third Green in 2022
Karen Elson
Supermodel 1990 Brent, music videos for XO and Yonce, hosts a cooking show on Jay Z Life+Times YouTube channel.
Jourdan Dunn (Well Dunn is cooking show)
Which British model born 1970 died suicide 2020? Worked for big names, model of year 2011 British fashion awards, walked runway with campbell and moss at 2012 Olympics closing ceremony.
Stella Tennant
Who was the first editor of Vogue in Britain?
Elspeth Champcommunal
Who was British Vogue editor between 1992 to 2017?
Alexandra Shulman
Jude Law and Sadie Frost daughter who is a model and actress as Soo Catwoman in miniseries Pistol so shaved head.
Iris Law
Who sang Moonraker 1979?
Shirley Bassey - goldfinger, diamonds are forever too
Who sang For Your Eyes Only in 1981? Written by Bill Conti.
Sheena Easton
Who is the only artist to date seen singing the theme song to a Bond movie during its opening titles?
Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only
What song released for Octopussy 1983
All Time High
Who sang All Time High in 1983 for Octopussy?
Rita Coolidge
Which Swedish actress played two roles in James Bond film, in The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 and then as title character in Octopussy 1983
Maud Adams
To this day, only James Bond theme song to have reached number one on the Us Billboard Hot 100
A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
1987 Bond theme song “The Living Daylights” was sung by which band?
A-Ha
Lead singer of a-Ha.
Morten Harket
Which duo were asked to complete soundtrack for The Living Daylights before they backed out as wasn’t able to do whole soundtrack?
Pet Shop Boys
Songs “Where Has Everybody Gone” and “If There was a Man” are both appearing in The Living Daylights soundtrack and by which group?
The Pretenders
Who sang theme song for Licence to Kill 1989?
Gladys Knight
The song “If you asked me to” featured on soundtrack of 1989 film Licence to Kill. Who originally recorded this Diane Warren penned track?
Patti LaBelle
The theme song to Goldeneye was written by which two people?
Bono and the Edge
Who sang Goldeneye 1995
Tina Turner
Which south Sudanese model appeared in music video for Goldeneye?
Alek Wek
Who sang theme song for “tomorrow never dies” 1997
Sheryl Crow
Who originally recorded a song called Tomorrow Never Dies for 1997 film but after Sheryl Crow version it got relegated to end credits and renamed Surrender?
k.d. lang
Which alt rock band wrote a song for theme song of Tomorrow Never Dies later named to Tomorrow Never Lies?
Pulp
The World Is Not Enough 1999 theme song was performed by which band?
Garbage
Who is lead singer of Garbage?
Shirley Manson
Faithless singer died December 2022
Maxi Jazz
Born 1927 in Baku Azerbaijan, famous Russian cellist and composer. 1997-2001 played with curved Bach bow.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Who was was a Hungarian-American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 331⁄3 rpm phonograph disc, the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations?
Peter Carl Goldmark
What does LP stand for in the music format?
Long Playing
Jay Baruchel’s character name in How to Train Your Dragon franchise?
Hiccup Haddock
Director of Lilo and Stitch and all the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
Dean DeBlois
Who wrote Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, loads more, won tons of Eisner Awards
Alan Moore
Only winner of four consecutive Eisner Awards for Best Writer 1991-94
Neil Gaiman
Northern Irish-American Eisner Award best writer 1998 for Vertigo series “Preacher”, “The Boys” with Darick Robertson, nine years on “Punisher” franchise, “Hitman” with John McCrea.
Garth Ennis
Founded by
Arkady Volozh
Arkady Borkovsky
Ilya Segalovich in 1997, Russias leading search engine and website.
Yandex
Baidu means 100 times and was founded in 2000 by which two
Robin Li and Eric Xu
Japanese telecommunications with 19th most visited website in world with name from abbreviation plus also word meaning everything in Japanese?
Docomo
Alexis Rose on Schitts Creek played by which Canadian actress?
Annie Murphy
In the tournament held in Almaty, Magnus Carlsen succeeded Nodirbek Abdusattorov as World Champion in what form of chess in 2022?:
Rapid
In the tournament held in Almaty, Magnus Carlsen succeeded Maxime Vachier-Lagrave as World Champion in what form of chess in 2022?:
Blitz
Which comedian and actor who coined the title of the show That Was The Week That Was (1962-1963) died in December 2022?:
John Bird
Anzac Day is on
25 April
Australia Day always celebrated
January 26th
What is Shardik in the Richard Adams book Shardik?
Bear
Richard ADAMS 1984 book written as prequel to Shardik
Maia
Which welsh ornithologist and naturalist appears as a character in Richard ADAMS’ The Plague Dogs also helped hmm with development of watership down?
Ronald Lockley
Names of dogs in Richard Adams’ The Plague Dogs
Rowf and Snitter
Who best known for series of works featuring Flashman?
George MacDonald Fraser
Name of John Wyndham’s novel inspired by Tennyson sonnet and describes alien invasion from a gas giant who go lives in deeps of the ocean.
The Kraken Wakes
Joseph Heller’s second novel thirteen years after Catch 22. Narrator is Bob Slocum.
Something Happened
The Thackray Museum of Medicine is in which British city?
Leeds
In 1886, which Bolton born brothers became one of first to manufacture soap from vegetable oils. Their product became known as Sunlight Soap.
Lever Brothers
Founder of the Whitby Abbey, patron saint of schools and colleges and a famous college at Oxford university?
Hilda of Whitby
Glen Moy and Glen Ample are both what type of fruit?
Raspberry
Word can be a male donkey, an apparatus for lifting heavy object and a national flag?
Jack
First African country to score at 2022 World Cup
Ghana - Ayew
The humming chorus is from which operatic work?
Madam Butterfly
Verdi opera Aida is set during war between which two countries?
Egypt and Ethiopia
Which biscuit company founded in Reading in 1822
Huntley & Palmers
Which multinational cigarette company was founded in 1857 in Londonderry/Derry?
Gallaher
Which company founded Black Eagle Brewery in Brick Lane 1666 becoming one of largest brewers in world but closed in 1989
Truman’s Brewery
Which hand tool company was founded in 1843 in New Britain, Connecticut?
Stanley
Which fabric is a durable twill worsted wool, originally waterproof, modern use by Thomas Burberry in Basingstoke who invented fabric and patented in 1888. Worn by Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton. From Middle High German for pilgrimage.
Gabardine
Which brand name for dessert was founded in 1837 in Birmingham, developed as founder wife allergic to eggs. Relocated Banbury then Kent.
Birds Custard
Which non Newtonian fluid made of starch in water comes from Dr Sueuss book Bartholomew and the ______.
Oobleck
Felicia Dorothea Hemans poem starting “the boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; the flame that lit the battles wreck Shone round him o’er the dead”.
Casabianca
Hemans’ poem “Casabianca” commemorates actual incident that occurred in 1798 during which battle?
Battle of the Nile
Which English poem wrote poems with opening lines “The stately homes of England” and “the boy stood on the burning deck”?
Felicia Hemans
John Keats poem starts “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”.
To Autumn
John Keats poem starts “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”.
Endymion
John Keats poem starts “Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn”.
Hyperion
Which John Keats poem starts “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time”? Last lines “Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Which John Keats poem starts “they toil not, neither do they spin”? First line “one morn before me were three figures seen”.
Ode on Indolence
John Keats poem starts “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolfs-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine”?
Ode on Melancholy
John Keats poem: “my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”?
Ode to a Nightingale
Which John Keats poem “O Goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear”?
Ode to Psyche
John Keats poem starts “Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen”? Mentioned Cortez when with eagle eyes… silent upon a peak in Darien.
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
John Keats poem features line “that mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of old time”?
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats poem “O golden-tongues Romance with serene lute”?
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
Which John Keats poem features two insects?
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Poem starts “the curfew tolls the knell of parting day”.
Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Which poem has inspired “paths of glory”, “far from madding crowd”?
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
John Milton sonnet number: “when I consider how my light is spent” ere half my days, in this dark world and wide.
Sonnet 19 first line by John Milton
Shakespeare sonnet number for “shall i compare thee to a summers day”?
Sonnet 18 first line by Shakespeare?
First line of Shakespeare Sonnet 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
What poem by Wordsworth was “oh! Pleasant exercise of hope and joy”
The French Revolution as it appeared to enthusiasts at its commencement
WB Yeats poem “and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made”?
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Robert Burns: “O my luve is like a red red rose, That’s newly sprung in ____” what month?
June
If I should die think only this of me that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. Poem and poet?
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
Poet and poem “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”?
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Poem and poet: “what passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”.
Wilfred Owen’s Anthem for Doomed Youth
Brantwood, historic house museum on banks of Coniston Water, known for being house of which person who has museum there?
John Ruskin
British property business based in Manchester retains stakes in ports and MediaCity. Trafford Centre is landmark development, Manchester Ship Canal stake, founded by John Whittaker?
Peel Group
Beer founded in 1857 brewed in Bangalore, market share of 36% in India
Kingfisher
Gold Star beer country?
Israel
Greek beer brand created in 1997 and since 2015 produced by Olympic Brewery!
Mythos
Gambrinus beer named after a legendary European king famed for brewing skills. What country from?
Czech Republic
Highest selling beer in Belgium with 40% share by volume.
Jupiler
Beer brand owned by East African Breweries, loads sold in Kenya/ largest African beer brand in Diageo group.
Tusker
Colourless Chinese liquor distilled from sorghum, it’s worlds best selling liquor more than many others combined.
Baijiu
As of 2021 largest beverage company in world, in 2022 overtook Tencent as chinas largest company by market cap. Specialises in production of Maotai Baijiu.
Kweichow Moutai
In what year Battle of Culloden; Charles Edward Stuart defeated by governments force under Duke of Cumberland on Drummossie Moor near Inverness. Last pitched battle fought on British soil.
1746
Zulu word meaning war or combat and by association any body of men gathered for war?
Impi
Battle of Isandlwana 22 January of what year?
1879
What battle took place same day and day after Battle of Isandlwana in 1879?
Battle of Rorke’s Drift
Which major depicted by Michael Caine in Zulu and part of 139 soldiers who fought off 4000 Zulu warriors at Battle of Rorkes Drift?
Gonville Bromhead
Colonel at Rorkes Drift in 1879 where he assumed command of outpost and portrayed by Stanley Baker in Zulu film.
John Chard
Commander in chief of Zulu army during Anglo-zulu war of 1879.
Cetshwayo
Pole weapon used for throwing by Zulu forces and other tribes, Arabic for spear.
Assegai
Northern Irish golfer who won us open in 2010?
Graeme McDowell
Scottish lightweight boxer who won Olympic gold medal in 1956?
Dick McTaggart
Fictional county in The Archers
Borsetshire
Most abundant three elements in the mantle
1) Oxygen 44.33%
2) Magnesium 22.17%
3) Silicon 21.22%
Most abundant five elements in Earths Crust
1) oxygen 46.1%
2) silicon 27%
3) aluminium 8%
4) iron 5%
5) calcium 4%
Which Secretary of State for employment proposed the white paper In Place of Strife about reducing the power of trade unions? Reworking of title of Nye Bevan’s In Place of Fear.
Barbara Castle
Who performed Yellow Pearl whcih used as top of pops theme tune for a bit
Phil Lynott
Who composed The Wizard for top of the pops theme song between 1986 and 1991
Paul Hardcastle
Top of pops dance troupe headed by Jo Cook between 1964 to 1968
The Go-Jos
Dance troupe on top of pops 1968-76 with Louise Clarke, Flick Colby, Babs Lord, Ruth Pearson, Andi Rutherford.
Pan’s People
Short lived dance troupe in 1976 and top of the pops between Pans People and Legs and Co.
Ruby Flipper
November 1976-October 1981 dance troupe on top of the pops between Ruby Flipper and Zoo
Legs and Co
Last proper dance troupe on Top of the Pops after Legs and Co. 1981-1983.
Zoo
Mercury Prize winner 1992 by Primal Scream
Screamadelica
Mercury Prize winner 1993 with self titled album
Suede - Suede (singer Brett Anderson)
Mercury Prize winner 1994 M People
Elegant Slumming
Mercury Prize winner 1995 Portishead
Dummy
Mercury Prize winner 1996 Pulp
Different Class
Mercury Prize winner 1997 Roni Size & Reprazent
New Forms
Mercury Prize winner 1998 Gomez
Bring It On
Mercury Prize winner 1999 Talvin Singh
Ok
Mercury Prize winner 2000 Badly Drawn Boy
The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Mercury Prize winner 2001 PJ Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Mercury Prize winner 2002 Ms Dynamite
A Little Deeper
Mercury Prize winner 2003 Dizzee Rascal
Boy in da Corner
Mercury Prize winner 2004 self titled album
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Mercury Prize winner 2005 Antony and the Johnsons
I am a bird now
Mercury Prize winner 2006 Arctic monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Mercury Prize winner 2007 Klaxons
Myths of the Near Future
Mercury Prize winner 2008 Elbow
The Seldom Seen Kid
Mercury Prize winner 2009 Speech Debelle
Speech Therapy
Mercury Prize winner 2010 self titled
The XX - XX
2011 Pj harvey Mercury Prize winner
Let England Shake
Mercury Prize winner 2012 alt-J
An Awesome Wave
Mercury Prize winner 2013 James Blake
Overgrown
Mercury Prize winner 2014 Young Fathers
Dead
Mercury Prize winner 2015 Benjamin Clementine
At Least For Now
Mercury Prize winner 2016 skepta
Konnichiwa
Mercury Prize winner 2017 Sampha
Process
Mercury Prize winner 2018 Wolf Alice
Visions of a Life
Mercury Prize winner 2019 Dave
Psychodrama
Mercury Prize winner 2020 album featuring self titled part
Kiwanuka
Mercury Prize winner 2021 Arlo Parks
Collapsed in Sunbeams
Mercury Prize winner 2022 Little Simz
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Most nominations for Mercury prize without a win with five nominations
Radiohead
Second most nominations for Mercury prize without a win with four nominations
Laura Marling
Albania name for own country
Shqiperia
Singer known for 1979 song “Silly Games”. Founder of Bibi crew britains first theatre troupe made up of entirely black women.
Janet Kay
Tv presenter who wrote One Enchanted Evening 2018, Moonlight Over Mayfair, We’ll Meet Again, The Ballroom Blitz, A Christmas to Remember.
Anton du Beke
Died September 2022, 1980 Naming and Necessity and 1982 Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language.
Saul Kripke
Name of officer in West Side Story
Officer Krupke
Uncle Albert in OFAH
Buster Merryfirld
Grandad in OFAH
Lennard Pearce
Trigger in OFAH
Roger Lloyd Pack
Wild horse confined to Mongolian national park discovered in 1897 named after Russian?
Przeewalski Horse
Cloud coverage measured in what scale?
Oktas
What was 11th state to join USA doing so in July 16 1788
New York
First four states to USA
1) Delaware 1787
2) Pennsylvania 1787
3) New Jersey 1787
4) Georgia 1788
13th state to join USA which ratified it as a country?
Rhode Island
14th state first to be admitted to USA as first 13th ratified it as a state? Doing so in 1791.
Vermont
In Cluedo, the study has a secret passage to which room?
Kitchen
In cluedo, the conservatory has a secret passage to which other room?
Lounge
Nigel Plaskitt played Malcolm a young man with a heavy cold for which product’s adverts?
Vicks Sinex
How many times was Dick Whittington Lord Mayor of London?
Four times
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is which Indian city airport
Kolkata
Which champagne is drunk most episodes by Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone in Ab Fab?
Bollinger
Who played Saffron “Saffy” Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous?
Julia Sawalha
Who plays Edina Monsoon’s mother in Ab Fab?
June Whitfield
Edina Monsoon’s assistant name and actress in Ab Fab?
Bubble - Jane Horrocks
Who reached #10 with “Raindrops Keep Falling On my Head” in 1970, Scoubidou, The Good Life. Involved with Brigitte Bardot for a year.
Sacha Distel
Acorn Antiques was a sketch show seen on which tv show?
Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV
In the sketch called officially “Waitress” not “Two Soups” who plays the waitress and the two customers?
Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and Duncan Preston
Name of gorilla on the Not the Nine o’Clock News sketch
Gerald the Gorilla
Satirical tv show starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Marty Feldman started and original showing of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.
At Last the 1948 Show
Taboo defying off colour joke told since vaudeville era about troupe trying to get booked by an agent. Called what?
The Aristocrats
Which English singer “Terence Parsons” came second in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest with “I Love the Little Things”?
Matt Monro
Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia, she was first black woman to have a number one hit in the Uk Single Charts and is still only female instrumentalist to do so?
Winifred Atwell
Triturus Cristatus is what amphibian?
Northern Crested Newt
First UK City of Culture in 2013
Derry-Londonderry
Second uk city of culture 2017-21
Hull
2021 Uk city of culture / third one
Coventry
2025 will be city of culture where in uk?
Bradford
Second largest city of Lithuania whcih is European city of culture 2022
Kaunas
Second largest city of Luxembourg is which European capital of culture 2022?
Esch-sur-Alzette
Second largest city of Serbia is whcih 2022 European capital of culture?
Novi Sad
Hungarian city which is European Capital of Culture in 2023, sits 9 miles above Lake Balaton. Name comes from Slavic for “stubborn”.
Veszprem
Romanian city which is 2023 European City of Culture, third biggest in Romania after capital and Cluj-Napoca? Nicknamed city of flowers and in 2013 had fastest internet download speed in world.
Timisoara
Greek city which is 2023 European City of Culture? 18km northwest of Athens. Birthplace of Aeschylus, largest oil refinery in Greece and home of Aeschylia Festival.
Eleusis (acc. Elefsina)
Itv show Brideshead Revisited, Julio Iglesias has only #1 single with Begin the Beguine and Pope John Paul II shot by Agca in what year?
1981
Men’s 2022 The Hundreds Champion?
Trent Rockets
Womens 2022 The Hundreds Champion?
Oval Invincibles
Womens 2021 The Hundreds Champions?
Oval Invincibles
Mens 2021 The Hundred Champion
Southern Brave
In physics which Greek letter usually used to represent Wavelength?
Lambda
Vueling airline based in which country?
HQ at El Prat in Barcelona - Spain
First episode of Doctor Who ever launched 23 November 1963, title?
An Unearthly Child
William Hartnell played CSM Percy Bullimore in which Tv show 1957-61 before dr who?
The Army Game
Wizz Air based in which country?
Hungary
Hilda Ogden left 1987 Corrie after 23 years, had spin off video in 1998 with Betty Williams (played by Betty Driver), who is actress?
Jean Alexander
2022 T20 Blast won by which Twenty20 cricket team?
Hampshire Hawks
Limited over team of Derbyshire cricket called what?
Derbyshire Falcons
Limited over team of Lancashire cricket called what?
Lancashire Lightning
Limited over team of Leicestershire cricket called what?
Leicestershire Foxes
Limited over team of Northamptonshire cricket called what?
Northamptonshire Steelbacks
Limited over team of Nottinghamshire cricket called what?
Notts Outlaws
Limited over team of Warwickshire cricket called what?
Birmingham Bears
Limited over team of Worcestershire cricket called what?
Worcestershire Rapids
Limited over team of Yorkshire cricket called what?
Yorkshire Vikings
Limited over team of Essex cricket called what?
Essex Eagles
Limited over team of Hampshire cricket called what?
Hampshire Hawks
Limited over team of Kent cricket called what?
Kent Spitfires
Limited over team of Sussex cricket called what?
Sussex Sharks
The song “If” by Telly Savalas, Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, NM, and Spanish dictator General Franco died. Year?
1975
Two countries cohosting FIFA Womens World Cup 2023?
Australia and New Zealand
Who plays Princess Margaret in Series 5 of The Crown?
Lesley Manville
Who plays Prince Charles in S5 of The Crown?
Dominic West
Which actor played Peter Townsend the man Margaret once hoped to marry in the Crown?
Timothy Dalton
Actor played Tony Blair in S5 of The Crown, original Trunchbull in Matilda, Rupert Murdoch in Ink, both theatre. On TV played Jonathan Strange in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Bertie Carvel
From October 2022 who has been new president of bbfc?
Natasha Kaplinsky
Bbfc stands for
British Board of Film Classification
Alan Jope 2019-23 ceo of what company?
Unilever
“the story you are about to see is true. the names have been changed to protect the innocent” is heard at the beginning of which episode of tv show?
Dragnet
Dragnet is tv show created and starring which actor playing LAPD detective Joe Friday?
Jack Webb
Title of Edna o’Brien’s first novel in 1960 which was banned as “filth” in Ireland?
The Country Girls
Who was Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker in 2022?
Hadi Matar
Contest used to find a google search query that returns a single result.
Googlewhack
E Numbers E100-199 are which category?
Colours
E Numbers E200-299 are which category?
Preservatives
Who was Jacob’s wife and mother of Joseph and Benjamin his youngest sons?
Rachel
Four wives of Jacob
Leah
Rachel
Bilhah
Zilpah
Youngest cricketer to score a century in test cricket
Mohammad Ashraful (Bangladesh v SL 2001)
Oldest cricketer to score a century in testmatches
JB Hobbs for England v Australia 1929 (46y)
Islamic terrorist group in Somalia and Kenya
Al-Shabaab
RAF navigator shot down and captured during Gulf War in 1991?
John Nichol
1982 black comedy starring Mary Woronov and Robert Beltran who resort to killing and robbing affluent swingers to earn money for their dream restaurant?
Eating Raoul
Latin term meaning second to none
Nulli Secundus
Police officer killed by Fat Fred Sewell in 1971 in botched jewellery robbery in Blackpool?
Gerry Richardson
WH Auden married the daughter of whcih novelist in 1935 in a sham marriage aimed to get her over to Uk?
Thomas Mann (daughter is Erika)
Cofounder of the Oxford Movement who in the 1830s sought a renewal of Roman Catholic thought and practice within the Church of England, was canonised by the pope in 2019?
John Henry Newman
Born 1939 Hill of Beath, Scottish footballer known as one of best players for Scotland known as “Slim Jim” played for Rangers, very big drinker, played Sunderland and Notts Forest too.
Jim Baxter
Decisive battle of war of the roses, king Edward IV defeated house of Lancaster with Edward of Westminster, Prince of wales, killed. Henry VI killed in Tower of London.
Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire)
Deltiologist collects what?
Postcards
Key ring collector term
copoclephilist
Croatia just joined euro replacing which currency?
Kuna
who co-founded the Born Free Foundation to stop the suffering of animals in captivity - made dame in 2022
Virginia McKenna
Rusty Nail cocktail is what two ingredients
Scotch Whisky and Drambuie
Who wrote the story BUtterfield 8, the film adaptation of whcih won Elizabeth Taylor her first Oscar?
John O’Hara
small, rounded, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales
Coracle
informal term for a person who issues frank, harsh or severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage or admonish someone - includes demonym
Dutch Uncle
Designer of Inamorata
Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski
Fictional town setting of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man. Also name of country house “Castle” by George Wightwick
Watermouth
Who was sole survivor of retreat from Kabul, got to Jalalabad. Painted by lady butler.
William Brydon
Born Henry Ogus 1928-2021, choreographer, tap dancer and tv presenter. Born Montreal.
Lionel Blair
Which man was owner of Shergar when stolen in 1983
Aga Khan
Exocets sunk which ship in May 1982
Hms sheffield
Which 9th century Varangian Prince began the dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus and then Russia until 1598?
Prince Rurik
During general strike the flying Scotsman train derailed by striking miners near which Northumberland town? Sting was once a schoolteacher in this town.
Cramlington
Name for development of a new individual from a single unfertilised reproductive cell often an egg
Parthenogenesis
Which woman was the wife of Julius Caesar at time of his assassination?
Calpurnia
Settlement Camelon was under a mile north of Antonine Wall and now part of what city
Falkirk
Falkirk Wheel connects which two canals?
Forth & Clyde Canal and Union Canal
Russia claimed to fire shots in path of what ship in 2021 when Royal Navy ship supposed entered Russian territorial waters in Black Sea!
HMS Defender
Two elements which have been named after living people.
Seaborgium (106) and Oganesson (118)
Guardian described him as britains most famous and controversial art critic. Acerbic view of turner prize. Father was Philip Heseltine better known as Peter Warlock.
Brian Sewell
2014 gothic horror tv show produced by Sam Mendes starring Timothy Dalton and Eva Green? Lurid Victorian fiction featured dracula and Van helsing.
Penny Dreadful
On 21st June 1954, Australian who did the second person to run four minute mile?
John Landy
Who wrote Travis McGee series? Man also wrote The Executioners which became Cape Fear.
John D. MacDonald
Described as “greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth” which artist created works including “the railway station”, “Charles dickens in his study”, “the crossing sweeper”?
William Powell Frith
In 1905, what man appointed as first prime minister of Russian Empire?
Sergei Witte
The name “The League of Gentlemen” is taken from a 1960 film starring what man? This English actor appeared in bridge on the river Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and he was drunken minister in Zulu.
Jack Hawkins
Jack Hawkins was married to who 1932-40? Oscar winning actress.
Jessica Tandy
First ever Concorde flight took off from what city in 1969?
Toulouse
Australian Labour Party leader served as PM from 1991-96
Paul Hawking
President of Sinn Fein since February 2018
Michelle O’Neill
What means “terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute obversation”
Aphorism
Who murdered February 2017 in Kuala Lumpur Airport?
Kim Jong-Nam
5 November 1854 battle during Crimean war and followed by siege of Sevastopol. Nicknamed “The Soldier’s Battle”. Lots of Victoria Crosses given out:
Battle of Inkerman
Which hobby did Winston Churchill do, practicing on grounds of Kent home? On top of painting and writing.
Brick laying
Name of home of Winston churchill for over 40 years.
Chartwell
Which entertainer wrote 1973 autobiography “when the reviews are bad I tell my staff they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank”
Liberace
How many time zones Canada split into?
Six
How many time zones is USA split into?
Territory: 8
Contiguous: 4
How many time zones does record France have if including Antarctica claim?
13 with Antarctica and 12 without
1992 presidential candidate for independent and third party for 1996 as Reform Party
Ross Perot
Who directed Nanook of the North (1922), 1926 American silent documentary called Moana?
Robert J Flaherty
Term for complete shave of head usually performed on men if conclude Mecca visit.
Halq
Which strait separates Taiwan from Philippines?
Luzon Strait
Political activist born Jamaica 1887 and died London 1940.
Marcus Garvey
Largest breeed of duck native to America’s
Muscovy
Thomas Aquinas nickname
Doctor Angelicus/Communis
Roger Bacon scholastic accolade
Doctor Mirabilis
In Australia what is a Willy-Willy?
Wind (dust devil)
Which philosophers birth was supposedly hastened by news of the Spanish Armada? He is best known for 1651 book.
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
EMDR therapy stands for
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
ASMR stands for
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
778 Park Avenue which detective?
Benoit Blanc
891 Post Street #401, San Francisco, CA home of which detective
Sam Spade (Dashiell Hammett)
Which “not prime” number is said to be the Grothendieck Prime after a story where Alexander Grothendieck gave it as example of a particular prime number?
57
Who plays Matilda in the Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical in 2022?
Alisha Weir
1871 associated with Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern
Great Chicago Fire
Which term used in cricket was coined by Andrew miller, the uk editor of ESPNcricinfo to refer to the new attacking positive intention approach instigated by Brendan McCullum and Ben Stokes?
Bazball
Who played in The Railway Children tv in 1968, film in 1970 and The Railway Children Return in 2022?
Jenny Agutter
First Lady to become a supercentenarian (110), Marita Camacho Quiros is oldest living person in which country and is oldest former First Lady in the world?
Costa Rica
Business practice where more of the product is sold than is beneficial to the consumer is known by what term?
Churning
Real name of Zorro created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley
Don Diego Vega
Which retailer has stores at Bond Street, Chelmsford, Cabot Circus Bristol, Grand Central Birmingham, London Waterloo, The Royal Festival Hall and Westfield Stratford. Flagship on Charing Cross Road in London.
Foyles
First British female solo artist to have five #1s in uk had what surname at birth
Tweedy
First name of surname Barksdale, main antagonist in first season of The Wire
Avon
Who played Lorraine Baines-McFly in Back to the Future trilogy and Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck?
Lea Thompson
Who plays George McFly?
Crispin Glover
What laboratory device separates fluid at high speed within a container thereby separating fluids of different densities?
Centrifuge
Founded 1996, internet bank HQed in Derby is now a trading name of Yorkshire Building Society?
Egg
Term for a chimney corner or recess that adjoins a fireplace, also appears in name of a model railway train shunting puzzle ?
Inglenook
What type of slower ball in cricket is also name of baseball pitch thrown to minimise spin of ball in flight causing erratic unpredictable motion?
Knuckleball
Who played Narcos Pablo Escobar
Wagner Moura
11th Mr Men renamed to Mr Snooty from original due to racial connotations of original name
Mr Uppity
1968 200m podiums
1st Tommie Carlos
2nd Peter Norman
3rd John Carlos
David Sutch came third in Huyton 1966 general election behind Harold Wilson in first. What party not monster raving looney party?
National Teenage Party
Benjamin Boukpeti won Mens canoe slalom K1 in 2008 Olympics to win which countries first medal?
Togo
Who came third X factor 2009 behind Joe McElderry and Olly Murs?
Stacey Solomon
Who was third in US Presidential Election in 1968: Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and then who?(
George WALLACE
Whose album Disco in 2020 meant they had five consecutive decades of having a number one album?
Kylie Minogue
Martin Seligman and Steven Maier coined which term about failure to escape shock induced by uncontrollable aversive events
Learned Helplessness
Romanian born British intelligence officer who worked in France section of special operations executive from 1941-45
Vera Atkins
An orb with a cross and a surrounding planetary ring is the logo of which luxury fashion brand?
Vivienne Westwood
Alternative name for a houseplant aspidistra?
Cast iron plant
Wooden toy company founded in Sweden by Ivar Bengtsson? Name is acronym and known for wooden toy trains.
Brio
What year was Ioan of Arc burnt at stake?
1431
What breed of cat is a cross between an Asian leopard cat and a domestic tabby cat?
Bengal cat
Natural colorant “Annatto” is commonly added to which food?
Red Leicester cheese
Alhambra overlooks which Spanish city
Grenada
Who is only tennis player to have won all four grand slam singles titles in the same calendar year on more than one occasion?
Rod Laver
Non emergency phone number for police in uk
101
European emergency number
112
Described as “life lessons on finding beauty - inside and out” which tv presenter published book “reflections” in 2021?
Holly Willoughby
Which James Bond films did Martin Campbell direct?
GoldenEye
Casino Royale
PVG airport
Shanghai Pudong
Daxing is the second airport of which Asian city?
Beijing
What year Lady Jane Grey killed?
1554
Crufts first held in which year
1891
Only band to have headlines pyramid stage at Glastonbury four time
Coldplay
Novak Djokovic has won four wimbledons on bounce up to 2022, who did he beat each time
2019 Kevin Anderson
2020 Roger Federer
2021 Matteo Berrettini
2022 Nick Kyrgios
Which midwestern us state only unicameral state legislature (not house and senate like all others)?
Nebraska
Also known as “Your Fat Friend”, which author podcaster and activist Co hosts the health podcast Maintenance Phase ith Michael Hobbes
Aubrey Gordon
In 1950 Blanca Canales led which Puerto Rico uprising?
Jayuya Uprising
In birth control what does COCP stand for?
Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill
2010 the Ukrainian esports organisation Natus Vincere became first to win three premier tournaments in one calendar year? Achieved by playing what multiplayer FPS?
Half Life: Counter Strike
Consisting of first five Bible books and also called Pentateuch, name collectively given to first five books of Hebrew Bible?
Torah
1967 song by Jake Holmes and 1969 by Led Zeppelin which lends name to B&J ice cream flavour.
Dazed and confused (ice cream is Hazed and Confused)
Who was British prime minister at outbreak of American Civil War in April 1861? Had nickname Pam.
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1855-58 and 1859-65)
In Ada Twist, the engineer Revere has forename shared with allegorical cultural icon associated with American female defence workers during WW2?
Rosie (the Riveter)
Which Ancient Greek hetaira (or courtesan) was best known for trial of impiety in which she defended by orator Hypereides and was model upon which Aphrodite of Knidos based!
Phryne
In 2011, which country changed time zone from -11UTC to +13UTC by shifting date Line west and removed 30 December 2011 from calendar?
Samoa
Located in North Carolina, highest peak of the Appalachians?
Mount Mitchell (or Attakulla)
Dave Nellist leader of TUSC party in uk; what stand for?
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Which American psychologist and industrial engineer know for time and motion studies won hoover medal in 1966? Mother of authors of novels cheaper by the dozen and belles on their toes due to lots in household.
Lillian Gilbreth
In Hey Duggee, John and nigel are openly gay couple, what type of animal are they?
Crab
Which Jamaican reggae singer became youngest person and only woman to win Grammy award for best reggae album for 2019 ep rapture?
Koffee
Which American writer has been host of American history and pop culture podcast “Youre Wrong About” since 2018 launch?
Sarah Marshall
Famous as site of Jane Goodall work, Gombe Stream National Park is located in which African country that is bordered by Kenya to northeast?
Tanzania
In musical notation; most common G clef still in use places clef on second line. More common term?
Treble Clef
South Korean T1 won world championships in what multiplayer online battle arena three times 2013/15/16?
League of Legends
Birth control POP stands for what?
Progestogen Only Pill
What name of podcast by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri 2022 tagline “airport bestsellers captured hearts and ruined minds”?
If Books Could Kill
Founded by Michael Ondaatje in 1992 and named after his mother( what annual literary prize awarded to best work of lit in English by Sri Lankan resident the
Gratiaen Prize
Pizza margherita named after Italian queen marghertia of savoy who was consort to which king
Umberto I
Adele’s four albums add up to what number
95 (19+21+25+30)
Which district line station geographically closest to public park Turnham Green? It’s not Turnham Green station which is closer to Chiswick Common.
Chiswick Park
Catherine the Great husband
Peter III
Who led 1762 coup deposing Peter III and became de facto ruler with Catherine the Great
Grigori Orlov
Which pyrotechnic colorant which forms green flame and formula BaC2O4
Barium Oxalate
Which Swedish actress played Lisbeth Salander in original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? She later went on to achieve Hollywood films Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows and Prometheus
Noomi Rapace
Cote Rotie and Hermitage and Chateauneuf de Pape are appellations considered with which French wine region know for reds?
Rhone
Dr Kay Scarpetta is medical examiner in novels by whcih author? Includes Postmortem, Body of Evidence and From Potters Field
Patricia Cornwell
Johannes Radebe finalist partner in 2021 strictly, same sex couple?
John Waites
Nicola Adams same sex partner of Strictly in 2020?
Katya Jones
Jayde Adams same sex partner in 2022 strictly?
Karen Haeur
RICHIE ANDERSON SAME SEX PRTNER STRICTLY 2022
Giovanni Pernice
Dance dances to music of same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrin in 1950s?
Cha Cha Cha
Dance developed in 1920s by black Americans it’s origins are combination of slow foxtrot combined with the Charleston.
Quickstep
Genre of music appeared in east coast of USA during 1930s. Combined American big band music with Afro-Cuban rhythms primarily the son cuban, but also conga and nearly same cuban dance but this has extra h.
Rhumba
Dance originating with African Americans in 1930s, name from vernacular slang popularised by dictionary by Cabell Calloway
Jive
Dance similar to waltz but rhythm 4/4 time signature, instead of 3/4. Said to be named after vaudevillian.
Foxtrot
Latin dance first popularised in USA in 1960/ in NYCc mixture of Cuban dances like mambo, pachanga and rumba but also swing and rap
Salsa
Burgundy: what is only grape variety used to produce Premier Cru White Burgundy?
Chardonnay
Latest pink Floyd album 2014
The endless river
Download festival site and county do
Donington Park, Leicestershire
Corfu Greek name
Kerkyra
Underground station on northern line lying between Edgware and Colindale has tree in name
Burnt Oak
Whcih Slovenian cyclist won white jersey at 2022 Tour de France and yellow and white at 2021 tour?
Tadej Pogacar
Which king of france, son of Catherine de Medici married queen of Scot’s Mary in 1558?
Francis II
Chimay a la Biere, Herve and Passendale are all cheeses from which north Western European country
Belgium
Thomas Young 1801 experiment that supported wave theory of light is generally known by what name!;9
Double Slit Experiment
English hard rock band formed in 1978, whose hits include “fool for your loving” and “here I go again”
White snake
One of stadia for Qatar made of around 1000 containers, name of stadium with dialling code of country in name
974 Stadium
Which underground station on District Line lying between Hornchurch and Dagenham East features a trees in its name?
Elm Park
Latitude Festival takes place every year except 2020 since 2006 in Henham Park an estate of each county?
Suffolk
Burgundy: only grape variety used to make Premier Red Cru burgundy?
Pinot Noir
Val McDermid character who stars in The Mermaids Singing, The Wire in the Blood and the Last Temptation?
Dr Tony Hill
Romanised from mandarin as “ba”, which number considered particularly lucky in Chinese culture?
8
7th highest grossing film of 1980s, starring John teavolta, kirstie alley and Bruce Willis voicing one of Cha craters?
Looks Who’s Talking
English prog rock band formed in 1968 with songs 21st century schizoid man and Epitaph?
King Crimson
International dialling code for Germany a same price German train ticket infuriating going to in May 2023 after being €9 during summer 2022
49
T20 Mens circlet final 2022 England beat whcih team in fin al
Pakistan
Vacherin Mont D’Or and Schabziger are all varieties of cheeses from which Central European country?
Switzerland
Which experiment involves shining beams of light from same source in direction of earths orbit and also perpendicular to it effectively disproving luminiferous ether?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Which experiment involves shining beams of light from same source in direction of earths orbit and also perpendicular to it effectively disproving luminiferous ether?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Which experiment involves shining beams of light from same source in direction of earths orbit and also perpendicular to it effectively disproving luminiferous ether?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Which experiment involves shining beams of light from same source in direction of earths orbit and also perpendicular to it effectively disproving luminiferous ether?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Which experiment involves shining beams of light from same source in direction of earths orbit and also perpendicular to it effectively disproving luminiferous ether?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Which experiment involves shining beams of light from same source in direction of earths orbit and also perpendicular to it effectively disproving luminiferous ether?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
What is name of the organic chemical group similar to Benzene but with one less hydrogen with formula C6H5? When bonded to Alanine it makes common amino acid.
Phenyl
Inns and Cathedrals, Abbey and Mayor and the river are expansion packs for which board game?
Carcassone
Danish cyclist won Tour de France 2022? Finished second in 2021 to Pogacar.
Jonas Vingegard
Marguerite of Valois, daughter of Catherine de Medici, married which French king in 1572? First bourbon.
Henri IV
Three kings of France sons of Henry II and Catherine de Medici
Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III
Colour reflective studs known as cat eyes in right hand side uk dual carriageway (central reservation£
Orange
Pedras Rubras is main airport in which city of Portugal? Known for Ribeira riverside district and São Francisco church and sits across Douro.
Porto
compulsory in the Bobo Ashanti and Nyabinghi mansions, though not in the Twelve Tribes of Israel, diet celebrates by Rastafarian movement.
Ital (vital minus the v)
known for leading the West German postwar economic reforms and economic recovery (Wirtschaftswunder, German for “economic miracle”) in his role as Minister of Economic Affairs under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1949 to 1963, then chancellor 1963-66
Ludwig Erhard
the distance between the pedal attachment points on the crank arms, when measured parallel to the bottom bracket axle. It may also be referred to as the “tread” of the crankset. The term was coined by Grant Petersen during his time at Bridgestone Bicycles.
Q Factor
Name of civil war in 1847 in Switzerland ensued after seven catholic cantons formed the namesake alliance.
Sonderbund War
Tallest building in Scotland
Glasgow Tower
Tallest storeyed building in Northern Ireland
Obel Tower
Character in Camberwick Green: resident of Colly’s Mill, a windmill set atop a hill near the village of Camberwick Green, Trumptonshire, where he grinds corn
Windy Miller
Australian children’s music group formed in Sydney in 1991. The group are currently composed of Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Tsehay Hawkins
The Wiggles
Which international airline has had naming rights of Old Trafford international cricket ground since 2013?
Emirates
Only species of lion that are native to territory outside of Africa, the asiatic lion is found around the Gir Forest National Park in which Asian country?
India
In 2002 first country to ban plastic bags?
Bangladesh
Deriving name from Latin word for “berry”, what is name for indoor table game where object of the games to guide nine small balls into holes guarded by wooden pegs?
Bagatelle
Which prominent feature of Milton Keynes which town come to be associated, first appeared there in 1978
Concrete Cows (by Liz Leyh)
Which actor, later in Three Men and a Baby, made breakthrough appearance in 1978 war thriller film The Boys from Brazil?
Steve Guttenberg
Strait bounds by Baltic Sea to south, Sweden west, Denmark east. Has Gothenburg (second largest Sweden), Aarhus (second biggest Denmark).
Kattegat
Strait running between Jutland pensinsula, southeast coast of Norway and west coast of Sweden.
Skagerrak
Best known for playing Jim Robinson in Neighbours, actor Alan Dale played past of businessman Caleb nichol us teen drama 2003-07 and also featured Adam Brady and Mischa Barton
The OC
In which British city are two professional football club grounds in city only 200 yards apart
Dundee United (Tannadice Park) and Dundee FC (Dens Park)
2001 film gave Wes Anderson first Oscar nominations
The Royal Tenenbaums
In which sport do Europe and US compete annually for the Weber Cup?
Tenpin Bowling
In food production, how is mixture of two proteins present in cereal grains which is responsible for the elastic texture of dough more commonly known?
Gluten (glutenin and gliadin)
What was name of band that replaced the revolution as Prince’s backing group in 1990?
The New Power Generation
Sorcerer Baron von Rothbart and Prince Siegfried are characters that feature in which ballet composed by Tchaikovsky?
Swan Lake (Swan Queen is Odette)
Second largest English speaking city on Jamaica
Montego Bay (Spanish Town and Portmore 2nd and 3rd overall and MB 4th)
Famous landmark was halfway point in 2022 London marathon?
Tower Bridge
Town of Linton in Cambridgeshire is located near the halfway point of the A11 the road that connects London to which other city ?
Norwich
Noted for capacity to procrastinate of Mr Men had green body, white moustache
Mr Slow
First four Mr Men
- Mr Tickle (orange 1971)
- Mr Greedy (pink)
- Mr Happy (yellow)
- Mr Nosey (green)
What fruit appears on cover artwork to lightning seeds 1994 studio album Jollification?
Strawberries
Dissectologist does what?
Jigsaw Puzzles
Ashdown Forester’s, The Idle Hour and Lord of the Hundreds are all varieties of what foodstuff to be produced in Sussex?
Cheese
Whcih actor plays part of Brighton based Detectivre Superintendent Roy Grace in the tv adaptations of Peter James novels that have been screened on itv?
John Simm
Name of Roman palace situated on outskirts of Chichester?
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Running Up That Hill was Kate bush song on which 1985 album
Hounds of Love
What archaeological mystery novel with one word title was written by Kate Mosse and features character dr alice tanner and was second best selling book in uk in 2006?
Labyrinth
Robert Butt credited with inventing which popular alcoholic cocktail while working at oak beach inn in New York in early 1970s
Long Island Iced Tea
Who did Andy Murray beat in second round of Australian open in 5 hour plus tennis match 2023?
Kokkinakis
Type of katabatic wind that gives its name to Gore Vidal first book in 1946
Williwaw
Born 1827 British explorer known for search for source of Nile and first European to reach Lake Victoria. Known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863 in which he supposed that Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of Ham and why had power over Hutu.
John Hanning Speke
Elizabeth Taylor husbands in order
Conrad Hilton
Michael Wilding
Mike Todd
Eddie Fisher
Richard Burton x 2
John Warner
Larry Fortensky
Born with surname Fowell in 1943 and lead singer of band Midniters during 1960s, comedian impressionist and singer ;
Freddie Starr
What was the name of the hamster Freddie Starr apparently ate in 1986
Supersonic
Adjective used to describe which planet could be “cyllenean”?
Mercury
Capital of Tristan de Cunha
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Spanish conquistador and explorer who led large expedition from what Mexico to present day Kansas between 1540-42? First sightings of Grand Canyon and Colorado river.
Francisco de Coronado
Born 1500 in Extremadura, explorer and conquistador known for first European expedition deep into territory of modern day USA (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas). First to have crossed Mississippi. Died 1542 on its banks.
Hernando de Soto
A felicidade by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Manha de Carnaval by Luiz Bonfa are some of the soundtrack songs from which Marcel Camus film?
Black Orpheus
In 1929 experimental Ukrainian film, which director was “man with a movie camera”? The film was directed by his brother Mikhail and edited by wife Yelizavet?
Dziga Vertov
1929 films Red Heroine and Woman Warrior White Rose are considered the oldest films in which genre of adventure martial arts films, usually set in ancient China?
Wuxia
2020 film “made in Italy” stars liam neeson as Robert foster and who plays his son?
Micheal Richardson (his real life son)
The Kebra Nagast (The Glory of the Kings) is 14th century national epic from which country?
Ethiopia (written in Geez)
Group of novelists, poets and essayists active in Spain at end of Spanish-American war and committed to cultural renewal and associated with modernism.
Generation of ‘98
Who popularised the term “graphic novel” with his book “a contract with god” ?
Will Eisner
Name of Nabakov’s final published book before his death is which 1974 novel?
Look at the Harlequins!
From Greek for “a league of neighbours”, an ancient religious association of tribes formed before rise of green poleis has which term?
Amphictyonic League
Known as solo artist and member of band Weather Report which jazz bass player inducted into downbeat jazz hall of fame in 2017 as seventh bassist and first musician to play electric bass guitar?
Jaco Pastorius
Born 1860 Catalonia, piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms, Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Cordoba, Tango in D.
Isaac albeniz
French composer born 1893 first female winner of Prix de Rome and older sister was Nadia.
Lili Boulanger
Three word title awarded to most notable of female ballet dancers. First to be titled this was Pierina Legnani.
Prima Ballerina Assoluta
Finnish dk and producer Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen better known by which name
Darude
Known for designs with pure modernist elements which Japanese architect was only second woman to win Pritzker Prize when did so in 2010? Shared with Ryue Nishizawa.
Kazuyo Sejima
Known for realist manifesto which he presented theories about constructivism, who was born in Bryansk, Russia in 1890?
Naum Gabo
The Luxembourg artist Deborah de Robertis did a performance depicted in the image in front of which painting in Musee d’Orsay?
Gustave Courbet’s Origin of the World
Architectural element used to give appearance of a supporting column and to articulate extent of wall with only an ornamental function. Still has capital on top, plinth are bottom, just no support.
Pilaster
Italian renaissance divided into which four periods between 1300 and 1600
Proto-, Early, High, Mannerism
With capital at Lifford, what is northernmost county of Ireland? Along with Monaghan and Cavan, it is one of three counties of Ireland which form province of Ulster, along with the six counties of NI?
Donegal
First British cyclist to win an Olympic time trial gold medal doing so London 2012
Bradley Wiggins
Carolyn Bertozzi won a share of 2022 Nobel chemistry for work on strain promoted reaction between azides and what compounds that contain carbon carbon triple
Bond! Acetylene is simplest of these compounds.
Alkynes
The Pahlavi dynasty overthrown in 1979 overthrew which Iranian dynasty in 1925?
Qajar
In 2014 the film Sight & Sound compiled list of 50 greatest docs of all time. Which 1985 film by Claude Lanzmann which story ofnHolocaust and run over 9 hours was second place?
Shoah
December 2021 Helen Morgan Lib Dem beat Owen Paterson in which constituency?
North Shropshire
Which European country has only three medals at summer Olympics? Weightlifter Joseph Alzin, marathon runner Michel Theato, 1500m runner Josy Barthel?
Luxembourg
Another style of vocal music in renaissance era was named after which instrument? First songs in the genre were compiled in the First Booke of Songes or Ayres by John Dowland, who wrote Flow My Tears for this instrument.
Lute
The Joseon Dynasty founded by Yi Seong-Gyen in 1392 overthrew which dynasty?
Goryeo Dynasty
Monarch of Korea between 1864 and 1907. Emperor of Korea 1897-1907.
Gojong of Korea
One of founder members of the FT30 in 1935 which London brewery operated out of the Stag Brewery in Mortlake and was known for its keg beer Red Barrel? Company acquired by Grand Metropolitan in 1972 and closed 1979.
Watney
June 2021 Sarah green won by election in which constituency for Lib Dems after death of Cheryl gillan? Two towns in name both with tube stations in them.
Chesham and Amersham
Capital at Polokwane, what is the northernmost province of South Africa?
Limpopo (second longest river to flow through South Africa after the Orange)
Which Swiss cyclist was second man to win Olympic time trial gold medals, doing so Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016?
Fabian Cancellara
Carolyn Bertozzi demonstrated reaction could work in biological systems by testing it in PBS solution. If P is Phosphate and S is saline, what was B?
Buffered
Ocarina Italian for what
Little Goose
Czech born tennis player won four grand slam singles titles between 80 and 87, with Wimbledon only title that eluded her?
Hana Mandlikova
Manager of Beatles from 1961-67?
Brian Epstein
1818 central work of Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation
What general name given to computer programme that translate code written in one programming language (source) into another (target)?
Compiler
Elizabeth Taylor had two sons - Christoper and Michael - by which actor she was married to during 1952 and 1957? Films included Under Capricorn, Stage Fright and The Law and the Lady.
Michael Wilding
Two women to be nominated for cinematography Oscar. 2018 and 2022.
2018: Rachel Morrison - Mudbound
2022: Ari Wegner - The Power of the Dog
Which port city is seat of National Congress of Chile, HQ for navy.
Valparaiso
American city of Little Rock is located on southern bank of which river 2364km tributary of Mississippi?
Arkansas River
Which coordinate specifies the north south position on surface of the earth? Equator is marked 0 while poles are 90 degrees?
Latitude
Which English fashion designer is creative director of Alexander McQueen and designed Katherine Middleton wedding dress in 2011?
Sarah Burton
Widely popular due to interview by Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, what is the version of Negroni where it’s prosecco instead of gin? Italian for mistake.
Sbagliato
Which battle, codenamed Watchtower, and initiated in august of 1942, was first major land offensive by allied forces against the empire of Japan?
Guadalcanal Campaign
Last ruler of the Parthian empire (also Arsacid Empire after its founder Arsaces I), frequent conflicts with Seleucids, Scythians and Romans.
Artabanus IV
Russian naval officer, cartographer and explorer born 1778, Estonia. In first Russian circumnavigation and discovered continent of Antarctica on lead ship Vostok. Sea in Southern Ocean named after him and a plate.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
1962 peace treaties signed between France and Algeria ended independence war.
Evian Accords
Toussaint Rouge is name given to series of 70 attacks committed in 1954 in which country?
Algeria
During which crusade 1204 was the treaty Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae signed which saw division of Byzantine empire into Latin, Nicaean, Trebizond Empires and the Despotate of Epirus?
Fourth Crusade
Complete this quote from Alexander Pope:
“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan…” 7 words
The proper study of mankind is man
Lead singer of Phoenix and married to Sofia Coppola since 2011
Thomas Mars
1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner known for “Reverence of Life” and work in Gabon.
Albert Schweitzer
Of Muslim descent which South African cricketer holds records for fast run making, highest test score of any South African batsman, captain of test team 2014-16
Hashim Amla
What is vaccine for malaria against Plasmodium Falciparum? Also code name Mosquirix.
RTS,S
In September 2021 who was suspended from African Union for military coup deposing president alpha Conde.
Guinea
In October 2021, which country African Union membership suspended for military coup again prime minister Abdalla Hamdok
Sudan
31 January 2022 coup resulted in which African country suspending from African Union ?
Burkina Faso
Only partially recognised state member of African Union is which non self governing territory of Western Sahara?
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
In 1977, Ivory Coast’s received Oscar for best foreign language film for which film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud?
Black and White in colour
Second chinua achebe novel to appear in the African writers series? It takes title from TS Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi.
No Longer At Ease
Author of The Upright Revolution, Ngaahika Ndeenda, Weep Not Child 1961? Kenyan author and academic born 1938.
NGUGI wa Thiong’o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o writes primarily in what Bantu language of Kenya? Mainly spoken in area between Nyeri and Nairobi.
Gikuyu
Which singer recently collaborated with Angelique Kidjo in re-recording of 1980 protest song Biko? Also collaborated with Youssou N’Dour on 1986’s In Your Eyes.
Peter Gabriel
Fifteenth busiest African airport is Saint Denis airport on Reunion named after who?4
Roland Garros
Which Congolese director ruled country from 1965 to 1997?
MOBUTU Sese Seko
Who is richest man in Africa? Nigerian and talks of taking over Arsenal.
Aliko Dangote
Body of water part of Congo River which Brazzaville and Kinshasa are opposite each other on? Alternative name is of British explorer .
Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool)
Who sings The Coffee Cola Song
Francis Bebey
First Real Housewives franchise which started in 2006
real Housewives of Orange County
First international adaptation of Real Housewives which was European capital in 2011
Athens
2021 Real Housewives 11th installment was first non US installment shown on Bravo, where?
Dubai
Two UK versions of Real Housewives
2015: Cheshire
2020: Jersey
Otus Senegalensis: small owl widespread in sub Saharan Africa.
African Scops Owl
The African Writers Series, starring with chinua Achebe’s things fall apart in 1962 is by which British publishing house now imprint of Penguin random house
Heinemann
East African Rift is a divergent boundary at which the African plate sometimes called the Nubian Plate, is moving away from which other plate?
Somali Plate
1967 Carry On only one set in Africa? One of two with no Carry On in title
Follow That Camel
One of two Carry On films without carry on in title is 1967 set in France
Don’t Lose Your Head
First four carry on films
1958 Sergeant
1959 Nurse
1959 Teacher
1960 Constable
Tennis and ice hockey player, left czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled in Egyptian citizen becoming only player with African citizenshipntonwinnwimbledon (apart from Federer) when won in 1954?
Jaroslav Drobny
Who was head of state or Central African Republic from 1966-76 when he became Emperor until 1979 deposed?
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
In 1970 Algeria received the Oscar for best foreign language film for Z directed by who?
Costa-Gavras
Who was first golf major winner from South Africa? Four time open champion coined the phrase “You drive it for show, but putt for dough”
Bobby Locke
Sour fermented pancake like flatbread traditionally made of teff flour in Ethiopia
Injera
Ethiopian stew chicken and egg eaten with Injera
Doro Wat
John Sentamu born in what city
Kampala, Uganda
Genus Trichechus marine mammals in order Sirenia: Amazonian, West Indian and west African.
Manatee (sea cow)
Season of Migration to the North by which Sudanese author?
Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih novel set in Wad Hamid, same location as famous novel Season of Migration to the North. Marriage of the village idiot.5£3!
The Wedding of Zein
Nigerian funk musician famous for song Fantastic Man
William Onyeabor
Socialist ideology formed basis of Julius Nyerere social and economic development of Tanzania?
Ujamaa
Nguni Bantu term meaning humanity, sometimes “I am because we are”.African philosophy places emphasis on being self through others.
Ubuntu
In 1966, which DRC city was named Stanleyville after welsh American explorer?
Kisangani
Musical duo from Mali nominated for Grammy Award for Best World Album for Welcome to Mali. Both blind:
Amadou and Mariam
Name of the last known male in 2018 of northern white rhino. African country shares name.
Sudan
South African holding company is largest by market capitalisation in Africa deal in internet tech and multimedia
Naspers
Which comedian did 2009 one off period comedy A Child’s christmases in wales, a knock off of Dylan Thomas A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Mark Watson
Who was author of Babar
Jean de Brunhoff
Who played Catwoman in 1966 film Batman opposite Adam West?
Lee Meriweather
Who played Catwoman in the 1966-67 Batman tv series being replaced by Lee meriweather in the film!
Julie Newmar
First names of Lewis and Clark 1804-06 expedition
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Who directed Terrence Rattigan adaptations The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version? Others include Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest,
Anthony Asquith
What elementary particle of half integer spin has name comes from Greek for small?
Leptons
Who suffered the impeachment of their secretary of war William Belknap?
Ulysses S Grant
What is the name of the part of musical bow made of ebony which holds near end of ribbon and encloses the mechanism for tightening it?
Bow Frog
Which of nine canonical lyric poets of Ancient Greece is known for victory odes grouped as Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian?
Pindar
Which Spartan poet was the oldest of the Nine Lyric Poets?
Alcman of Sparta
Steve Wright stepped down to be replaced by Scott Mills but still hosts which radio 2 show with day of week in title?
Sunday Love Songs
Whcih city is capital of Sweden’s largest island, Gotland, in Baltic Sea?
Visby
Richard, Duke of York, and his son Edmund, Earl of Rutland, were killed at which 1460 battle in war of the roses and named for cardhedral city in West Yorkshire?!
Battle of Wakefield
Which American actress cofounded company Hello Bello?
Kristen Bell (with husband Dax Shepard)
Which Egyptian god of sky lost his eye after quarrel with uncle Seth?
Eye of Horus
Killed in 1969 plane clash, Rafael Osuna was the 1963 Us Open champion and last tennis player to win grand slam title from which country
Mexico
Wet Leg members
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
The Manze family opened shop 1902 on tower bridge road apart from eels known for what traditional London meal?
Pie and mash
Better known as musician and singer than actor who won golden raspberry in 1987 for his role in Under the Cherry Moon
Prince
Name of Colombian President since 2022
Gustavo Petro
Capital of autonomous Finnish region of the Aland Islands?
Mariehamn
Name given to decoratively carved wooden piece at end of neck of a violin typically in spiral shape whose mass important for tuning resonance?/
Scroll
At time opened by future Edward VII in 1890 whcih Scottish bridge was worlds longest cantilever bridge and only surpassed by one other since?
The Forth Bridge
Daughter of prime minister who starred in 1951 film royal wedding alongside Jane Powell and Fred Astaire?:
Sarah Churchill
American secretary who was mistress of Warren G Harding
Nan Britton
Who was convicted of bribery in 1929 and lost Secretary of Interior job in Teapot Dome Scandal?
Albert Bacon Fall
Shortlisted for Mercury prize in 2022 for album Prioritise Pleasure, stage name of Rebecca Lucy Taylor?
Self Esteem
Tubby Isaac closed in 2013 stall which since 1919 had served which famous London dish?
Jellied Eels
Killed in action during WW1, who was only New Zealand tennis player to win a grand slam singles title and won Wimbledon four times between 1906 and 1913?
Anthony Wildimg
Killed in action during WW1, who was only New Zealand tennis player to win a grand slam singles title and won Wimbledon four times between 1906 and 1913?
Anthony Wilding
Killed in action during WW1, who was only New Zealand tennis player to win a grand slam singles title and won Wimbledon four times between 1906 and 1913?
Anthony Wilding
Which actress founded the Honest Company
Jessica Alba
First cranial nerve from Latin for to smell
Olfactory
Second cranial nerve from Greek for seen?
Optic
Third cranial nerve from Latin for “relating to the eye”
Oculomotor
Fourth cranial nerve from Latin for “case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys”?
Trochlear
Fifth cranial nerve from “threefold”?
Trigeminal
Sixth cranial nerve from Latin for “drawing away, pulling aside”?
Abducens
Seventh cranial nerve from Medieval Latin for open
Facial
Eighth cranial nerve from “compartment pertaining to the part of ear”
Vestibulocochlear
Ninth cranial nerve from Greek for tongue pharynx?
Glossopharyngeal
Tenth cranial nerve from Latin for wandering/strolling?
Vagus
Eleventh cranial nerve from Latin for additional thing
Accessory
12th cranial nerve from Latin for under the tongue
Hypoglossal
Whose theorem states a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibrium configuration solely by electrostatic interaction of charges? It forbids magnetic levitation in many common situations.
Earnshaws Theorem
Largest island of st kilda known for high cliffs
Hirta
What word used for action of rower rotating the oar handle 90 degrees so that the blade is parallel to the water, long hair on the lower legs of some horses almost covering the hooves and Farah Fawcett’s hairstyle?
Feather
How are English speakers split into by Nancy Mitford in The English Aristocracy? While upper class have dinner in the evening, the lower class gave it in middle of day apparently.
U and non-U
Offspring of a male horse and female donkey?
Hinny
Father Day celebrated in Uk what month compared to Us- month?
Third Sunday in June UK and USA
When is Mother’s Day in UK compared to USA?
March in UK and May in USA
Thelma and Louise surnames in the 1991 comedy
Dickinson and Sawyer
Lady Penelope doubled barrel surname
Creighton-Ward
Who played lord Percy Percy and captain Kevin darling in blackadder series?
Tim Mcinnerny
Who submitted works fo the royal academy summer exhibitions in 1947 under pseudonym David winter
Winston Churchill
What name coined by Gerry Anderson in reference to his puppetry technique using electronic marionettes with a moveable lower lip, opened and closed in time with pre recorded dialogue?
Supermarionation
Which year to date when written in Roman numerals is longest of all (13 digits)?
1888 MDCCCLXXXVIII
Which Labour politician of Birmingham Sparkbrook for 32 years cancelled Have I Got News For You for third time in 1993 and replaced with Tub of Lard?
Roy Hattersley
English test wicketkeeper who scored 94 as a night watchman on debut in 1988?
Jack Russell
What does radio procedure term “Wilco” stand for?
I Will Comply
Term in cricket for lower order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the days play normally to play defensive so as not to lose any players by close of play.
NightwatchMan
Cricket term for a batsman promoted up the batting order in order to score quick runs. Need aggressive play to score lots runs in limited overs cricket.
Pinch hitter
Which British dancer played Mr Mistoffelees in original version of Cats in 1981, and famously danced with Diana at annual Christmas party of friends of Covent Garden in 1985, before appearing in The Real Marigold Hotel in 2016?
Wayne Sleep
14th and 17th president of Brazil 1930-45 and 1951-54?
Getulio Vargas
1) Utah famous film festival
2) Telluride Film Festival state
1) Sundance
2) Colorado
Who is only African born NBA player to win NBA MVP award twice?
Steve Nash (Canadian but born jihainnaesburg)
Who is only player to represent an African nation to win nba mvp award? Nicknamed the dream.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Which Serbian player won MVP NBA 2021 and 2022
Nikola Jokic
Slovenian basketball player won NBA All star 2020-23?
Luka Doncic
Who won 1981 Nobel physics 57 years after his dad?
Kai Siegbahn
Dating app created by Andrey Andreev in 2006, 190 countries and 47 languages making it worlds most used dating network?
Badoo
Andrey Andreev was main funder of Bumble when founded in 2014, it was founded by which female ceo?
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Author of Michael: A German Destiny in Diary Form
Joseph Goebbels
What song, two versions of which reached number one in uk charts in 1955, was composed by Spanish born French musician louiguy, who also composed La Vie en Rose.
Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White) - first by Prado and then Eddie Calvert
Which luxury goods company owns such brands as Cartier, Chloe, Dunhill, Montblanc? Founded by South African businessman Johann Rupert.
Richemont
Just Room Enough Island, smallest inhabited island in world, and Boldt Castle, can be found in which archipelago?
Thousand Islands
“Impossible is nothing” which sports company?
Adidas
Who came to prominence for the many record sleeves he designed for Factory Records, which he co-founded in 1978 alongside Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus
Peter Saville
Nominated for best actress at 2022 for film “Till”?
Danielle Deadwyler
Whitney Houston 2022 film title
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Who played Whitney Houston in 2022 I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Naomi Ackie
Son of Princess Eugenie name
August
Daughter of Princess Beatrice name
Sienna
Capital city of Champagne region
Reims
Capital city of Champagne region
Reims
Capital city of Champagne region
Reims
Capital city of Champagne region
Reims
Valdobbiadene known for which sparkling wine
Prosecco
Valdobbiadene known for which sparkling wine
Prosecco
Capital of Cava region, most important town
Sant Sadurní d’Anoia
Nestor notabilis new Zealand parrot also Greek Island
Kea
Nicknamed the eternal second, cyclist who came second in Tour de France three times and third more. Won one grand tour, Vuelta a Espana in 1964.
Raymond Poulidor
Dutch cyclist holds distance record in Tour de France history with 62,885km ridden. Won 1979 Vuelta a Espana and 1980 Tour de France.
Joop Zoetemelk
Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall characters in Bottom
AE: Edward Elizabeth Hitler
RM: Richie Rich / Richard Richard
Most southerly horse racin track in uk
Newton Abbot
Newest horse racing course opened in Wales in 2009
Ffos Las
Second newest horse racing track in uk polytrack opened in 2008
Chelmsford City
Oldest horse racing track in UK 1539
Chester
Second oldest horse racing course in 1584
Salisbury
Oldest four horse racing tracks in UK
4) Epsom Downs
3) Doncaster
2) Salisbury
1) Chester
Four newest horse racing courses uk
4) Chepstow
3) Taunton
2) Chelmsford City
1) Ffos Las
Midlands Grand National is at which horse racing course?
Uttoxeter (Staffordshire)
Graham Greene 1966 novel set in Haiti under Francois Papa Doc Duvalier and secret police Tontons Macoutes.
The Comedians
Blue Grotto in Capri is what in Italian
Grotta Azzurra
Ayers Rock is in which national park and which state?
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Northern Territory
Labour Party politician was Deputy Leader of Labour Party 1960-70, well known alcoholic. Foreign Sec 1966-68.
George Brown
Name shared by general secretary of Trades Union Congress from 1960-69 and also a Canadian writer of political biography, anarchist thinker and poet “anarchism: a history of libertarian ideas and movements”.
George Woodcock
1968 American film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Beryl Reid as George Buckridge and Susannah York as younger lover.
The Killing of Sister George
American director of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard?
Robert Aldrich
Scottish singer At ten years of age, with her album Ma! (He’s Making Eyes at Me), she was the youngest person in history to have an album in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart
Lena Zavaroni
Founder and ceo of Kering brand, married to Selma Hayek
Francois Pinault
French multinational corporation owner of Balenziaga, BottegA Veneta, Gucci, Alexander McQueen and YSL.
Kering
French fashion designer, protégée of Balenciaga, born 1923 Pau, defined the go-go boot and along with Mary Quant credited with inventing miniskirt.
Andre Courreges
Italian fashion company founded 1966 by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro. Historic slogan “when your own initials are enough”. Vogue said they’re “stealth wealth”.
Bottega Veneta
Shoe named Powhatan for shoe, famous Gucci versions.
Moccasins
French photograph and grand couturier, creative director of Dior Homme 2000-07, 2012-16 CD for YSL, since 2018 CD for Celine.
Hedi Slimane
EBITDA financial stands for
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortiSation.
Fashion designer founded namesake label (Sarah Burton CD) in 1992 and chief designer at Givenchy 1996-2001. Isabella Blow became patron. Well known stuff the bumsters, skull scarf and armadillo shoes. Resting place Kilmuir in Skye.
(Lee) Alexander McQueen
“What Katy Did” by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under pen name Susan Coolidge, main character has what surname?
Carr
€5 colour and architecture
Grey Classical
€10 colour and architecture
Red Romanesque
€20 colour and architecture
Blue Gothic
€50 colour and architecture
Orange Renaissance
€100 colour and architecture
Orange Renaissance
€100 colour and architecture
Green Baroque and Rococo
€200 colour and architecture
Brown Art Nouveau
Vernal is spring and autumnal is autumn. What is summer?
Aestival
Vernal is spring and autumnal is autumn. What is winter?
Brumal
Which Grimsby runner broke Mo Farah’s 3000m British record in January 2023 in Boston?
Sam Atkin
William Makepeace Thackeray novel shares name with Cornish castle and title character has first name Arthur?
Pendennis
1852 Thackeray novel telling tale of colonel in service of Queen Anne. Glorious Revolution, War of Spanish Succession, the Hamilton-Mohun duel (1712 Hyde park duel).
The History of Henry Esmond
Which 19th century French astronomer discovered 37 comets in his lifetime? As of 1960 recognised as greatest number of comets discovered by single person.
Jean-Louis Pons
The worlds largest musical instrument, The Swan Bell Tower, is located in which Australian city?
Perth
Villain Franz Sanchez appears in which bond film and played by which actor?
Licence to Kill (played by Robert Davi)
Which Putlizer prize winning American composer wrote the music for 1979 opera Miss Havisham’s Fire? Others include Postcard from Morocco, The Masque of Angels and the Aspern Papers.
Dominick Argento
Soup typically made by rebooking leftover bean and vegetable soups next day adding bits of stale bread for thicker stew. Italian for reboiled.
Ribollita
Which caliphate founded the city of Baghdad in 762?
The Abbasid Dynasty
Which green shepherd won the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896?
Spyridon Louis
Which flowering plants often used in herbal medicines are named after a king of Illyria (180-167BC)?
Gentians
Which endocrine gland in the human body produces the hormone oxytocin?
Pituitary Gland
Which hormone secreted by Adrenal Glands regulates salt, water balance and blood pressure?
Aldosterone
Which hormone secreted by adrenal glands controls key functions in the body, acts as anti-inflammatory, maintains blood sugar levels, blood pressure, muscle strengths?
Corticosteroid
Pituitary gland secretes LH and FSH, TSH hormones? What stand for?
LH: Luteinizing Hormone
FSH: Follicle-Stimulating Hormone
TSH: Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
Pituitary Gland secreted hormone which stimulates contraction of uterus and milk ducts in the breast?
Oxytocin
Pituitary gland secreted hormone which initiates and maintains milk production in breast, impacts sex hormone levels?
Prolactin
Kidneys secrete EPO hormone from interstitial cells, what does EPO stand for? Affects red blood cell production.
Erythropoietin
Hormone from pancreases raises blood sugar levels
Glucagon
Hormone from pancreas lowers blood sugar levels, stimulates metabolism of glucose, protein and fat.
Insulin
Where does Estrogen and Progesterone get secreted?
Ovaries
Adrenal glands hormone which increases heart rate, oxygen intake and blood flow?
Epinephrine
Melatonin released during night hours to help with sleep from where?
Pineal Gland
GHRH, TRH, GnRH and CRH hormones all secreted from where in brain?
Hypothalamus
GHRH released by hypothalamus, what stand for?
Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone
TRH released by hypothalamus, what stand for?
Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone
GnRH released by hypothalamus, what stand for?
Gonadotropin releasing hormone
CRH released by hypothalamus, what stand for?
Corticotropin releasing hormone
What roles does Peter Sellers play in Dr Strangelove?
Dr Strangelove
President Merkin Muffley
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake
What word links the painter of House by the Railroad with a dispensing container and an immature locust?
Hopper
What word links the painter of House by the Railroad with a dispensing container and an immature locust?
Hopper
What word links the painter of House by the Railroad with a dispensing container and an immature locust?
Hopper
What type of food is Mahi Mahi?
Dolphinfish
The 200m Britam Tower is in which African capital city?
Nairobi
Which of three tenors wrote the autobiography Singing from the Soul?
Jose Carreras
The sinking of which ship in 1940 stopped the Childrens Overseas Recpetion Board operation to get British kids over to USA (Kodakids etc.)? Named after colonial name for Varanasi.
SS City of Benares
The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of three rivers, two real, one mythical, in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad)?
Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati
Second largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and longest tributary in India, goes through Delhi and Agra, down to Allahabad at Triveni Sangam which is site of the Kumbh Mela.
Yamuna
Which river flows into Bangladesh as the Padma, man made canal called Farakka Feeder Canal connects Ganges to this river? Goes through Kolkata.
Bhagirathi Hooghly
Major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism celebrated every 12 years to celebrate every revolution Jupiter makes. Celebrated at Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Haridwar (Uttarakhand), Nashik (Maharashtra) and Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh).
Kumbh Mela
Name from Hebrew for “the stone of help” location mentioned in Books of Samuel as scene of battles between Israelites and Philistines.
Ebenezer
Battle fought 1025BC between Jonathan led Israelites against Philistines. Town east of Bethel and south of Migron. A miraculous earthquake through philistines into disarray.
Battle of Michmash
First century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader best known for The Jewish War. Do against romans in First Jewish-Roman War as head of Jewish forces in Galilee until surrendering to Roman forces led by Vespasian in 67ad after siege of yodfat. Also recorded 72-73AD siege of Masada on a hilltop in Israel.
Flavius JOSEPHUS
Eldest son of King Saul, good with bow and arrow, friends with David, hints of Achilles/Patroclus and Gilgamesh/Enkidu. Died at battle of Mount Gilboa along with father and brothers.
Jonathan
Who was Saul’s only surviving son after battle of Mount Gilboa, fought civil war with David who ultimately beat him and took throne of Israel?
Ish-bosheth
Which future year completes title of open world action role playing video game releases in 2020 with protagonist V, a mercenary in fictional mega city Night City: Cyberpunk ____?
2077
Zeitgeist which featured the hit singles Hope St and Just the One was a 1995 UK number one hit album by which group, name for a populist political movement of the 1640s?
The Levellers
Zeitgeist which featured the hit singles Hope St and Just the One was a 1995 UK number one hit album by which group, name for a populist political movement of the 1640s?
The Levellers
Which form of industrial industry abbreviated to VWF and is also known as hand-arm vibration syndrome?
Vibration White Finger
Located in Val-d’Espoir near Percé, Quebec he was famous as the only groundhog both used for Groundhog Day weather prediction and located on a World Heritage Site. He was found dead on 2 February 2023, coincidentally on Groundhog Day. What was his name?:
FRED la marmotte
Which company was relaunched in 1990 after initial founding in Saxony in 1845 German watches, nationalised and ceased to exist from 1948 after Soviet’s took over after WW2. Subsidiary of Richemont Group. Models Lange 1, Zeitwerk, Saxonia, 1815.
A Lange & Sohne
Julian Schnabel dedicated his movie At Eternity’s Gate (2018) to which Tunisian couturier and shoe designer who died 2017. Born 1935 in Tunis. Worked for Christian Dior, Guy Laroche and Thierry Mugler before opening his first atelier.
Azzedine Alaia
King Edward VII referred to which company as The Jeweller of Kings and the King of Jewellers. Founded 1847 by Louis-Francois. Made Jean Cocteau sword for his Academie Francaise 1955. Sold Taylor and Burton a big diamond. Designed Lincoln automobiles jointly.
Cartier
French luxury fashion house founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion (coined by Pret-a-Porter) helped by Jacques Lenoir. Owned by Richemont Group.
Chloe
English tobacconist, entrepreneur and inventor, founder of namesake luxury goods company. Brother of composer who composed a song cycle The Wind Among The Reeds and an operetta Tantivy Towers.
Alfred Dunhill
Swiss watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen Switzerland founded by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868. Known for luxury pilot aviation watches and using titanium in watches.
IWC
Swiss luxury watch located in Geneva, established in 1839 and named after two of founders. Of top 10 most expensive watches in world, eight are this brand. grandmaster chime, Henry Graves Supercomplication. One of slogans is, you never actually own a _______, you merely look after it for the next generation.
Patek Philippe
German manufacturer of luxury goods founded Berlin 1906 and based Hamburg. Luxury pens and bags and watches. Part of Richemont. Founded by Alfred Nehemias and August Eberstein.
MontBlanc
British gunmaker based in London specialising in shotguns and rifles and three royal warrants. Namesake founder did in 1814.
James Purdey & Sons
Swiss luxury watch maker founded in 1755 by namesake. Second oldest Swiss maker. One of most expensive sold owned by King Fuad I Egypt was one of these. Models: overseas, patrimony, metiers d’art.
Vacheron Constantin
French luxury jewellery company, founded in 1896 by Dutch diamond cutter and father in law in Paris.
Van Cleef and Arpels
Which mobile dating app launched as dating app in 2015? Users must link to their Instagram account and create a photo montage set to music.
Raya
Which dating app shared Anne with companion of Dame Hilda Bracket? uS sec of transportation Buttigieg met his husband on this site.
Hinge
“I’m telling you all this because you’re a writer…” is the beginning of Masha’s monologue to Trigorin in which Chekhov play?
The Seagull
“You can’t be nobody who you are, Cory” is the opening line from Rose’s monologue in which 1985 August Wilson play?
Fences
Which actor was first person to be named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alivr in 1985? Fathered ninth child 2017 aged 61.
Mel Gibson
Which country music singer who made his 2001 debut with the single Austin was named Sexiest Man Alive in 2017? He married Gwen Stefani in 2021.
Blake Shelton
In 510BCE which lawmaker overthrew the tyrant Hippias with the help of the Spartans, laying foundations of Athenian democracy? He is credited by Aristotle with establishing the punishment of Ostracism.
Cleisthenes
Making Plans for Nigel the lead single from albums Drums and Wires was released by which band in 1979?
XTC
In excitable cells, such as neurones, what two word term is given to the rapid depolarisation and repolarisation of the cell vital to the conduction of nerve impulses?
Action Potential
Working on giant squid axons to elucidate the ion channel kinetics of action potentials, which pair of English electrophysiologists won Nobel Prize medicine for their work alongside John Eccles, in 1963?
Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley
Name of prison in Dumas’ the count of monte cristo, in bay of Marseille
Chateau d’If
The site of Fort Mitchel, which island in Cork Harbour was used as a prison and convict transportation depot in 19th and early 20th century?
Spike Island
Repeatedly shouting “I did not move”, laying down on track and delaying proceedings by an hour in his refusal to leave track, which us sprint specialist was disqualified in 2003 Paris 100m individual quarter finals?
Jon Drummond
After Usain bolt disqualified for false start in 2011 100m world athletics final, which athlete became youngest 100m world champion in history?
Yohan Blake
Controversially disqualified for a false start in 110m hurdles in 2022, which holder of third fastest time in history, signed a contract with Philadelphia eagles as a wide receiver in April 2022?
Devon Allen
Professor Gunnar Borg devised RPE scale to measure the intensity of physical activity from 6-20. What does it stand for?
Rating of Perceived Exertion
What 4 letter acronym given to workout in which 60 seconds is given to complete a set number of reps of a particular exercise? Any remaining time given to rest, prior to next 60 second period where next set begins.
EMOM - every minute on the minute
The Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1711-40) was poisoned by mushrooms according to memoirs of which French philosopher who co-wrote Elements of the Philosophy of Newton with Emilie du Chatelet?
Voltaire (FM Arouet)
Known for long running feud with Dorothy Parker and her 1936 satirical comedy play The Women, which writer and politician survived arsenic poisoning in Italy in 1956 whilst US ambassador there?
Clare Boothe Luce
Which President of Ukraine from 2005-10 survived an assassination attempt by dioxin poisoning during his 2004 election campaign?
Viktor Yushchenko
Experiencing visions since childhood, which English poet and painter’s 1818 chalk and pencil drawings, Visionary Heads including the muscular miniature Ghost of a Flea?
William Blake
Strong Dream depicting an abstract figure below a giant crescent moon and a red circle, was a 1929 work built which Swiss German artist and teacher at Bauhaus?
Paul Klee
Making a reference to a biblical character, what name is given to apples baked under a layer of sponge cake mixture?
Eve’s Pudding
What name given to old fashioned English desssert of custard, cake or breadcrumbs and jam topped with a layer of meringue?
Queen of Puddings
Reflecting county of origin, name given to a dessert consisting of a suet crust filled with butter and sugar, with modern versions enclosing a whole lemon in the centre?
Sussex Pond Pudding
The term “AF” is most commonly used for a heartbeat which is irregularly irregular and constitutes a stroke risk. For what do the AF stand for?
Atrial Fibrillation
What name given to a cardiomyopathy referred to as “broken heart syndrome”, in which ventricle distorts and cannot pump, in the context of a physical or emotional stress? Name is derived from a Japanese term for an octopus trap.
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
A PFO is a residual defect between the right and left atrium of heart which fails to close after birth and implicated in strokes. PFO stands for what?
Patent Foramen Ovale
Martin Scorsese directed music documentary of 1978 follows final show of The Band at San Francisco Winterland Ballroom?
The Last Waltz
Names of the spinal tap drummers lost to spontaneous combustion
Peter Bond and Mick Shrimpton
The 1958 childrens novel Tom’s Midnight Garden features a young boy in quarantine, whose outdoor environment transforms into a lush Victorian garden when a grandfather clock strikes 13, written b who?
Philippa Pearce
Medieval armour worn to protect thigh, from French word for thigh.,
Cuisses
What name given to medieval armour that protected the knee? May be attached to a cuisse.
Poleyn or Genouillere
Since retiring in 2005, which Olympic bronze medalist in the 400 metres at Sydney Olympics has forged career in broadcasting, commentating on athletics and netball? 2020 she became first female instadium commentator at the Tokyo Olympics.
Katharine Merry
Aired between 2013-15 which CBeebies tv series featured BernRd Cribbins as a retired fisherman telling stories to his dog Salty?
Old Jack’s Boat
Which phylum contains sea anemones, corals and jellyfish?
Cnidaria
Which 1936 novel by Djuna Barnes tells story of Robin Vote, a young American woman living in Europe? Lesbian novel.
Nightwood
Who wrote Our Lady of the Flowers?
Jean Genet
James Baldwin book #2 on top 100 gay books by NYT?
Giovanni’s Room
5 on best gay books on NYT, “The Immoralist” by which 1947 Nobel Lit winner?
Andre Gide
Who wrote “The Well of Loneliness”?
Radclyffe Hall
Who wrote Kiss of the Spider Woman?
Manuel Puig
Born Brussels 1903, first woman elected to Academie Francaise, wrote “The Memoirs of Hadrian”?
Marguerite Yourcenar
Who is England rugby Union head coach since December 2022 after Eddie jones went back to Australia!
Steve Borthwick
Who is England rugby Union head coach since December 2022 after Eddie jones went back to Australia!
Steve Borthwick
Based on Neil Gaiman comic book character, which tv series which has aired on both fox and Netflix since 2016? Stars tom Ellis as individual from hell who opens nightclub called Liz and assists LAPD
Lucifer
On Monday following first Sunday after 4th September a horn dance takes place annually in which village in Staffordshire? Event involves reindeer antlers, a hobby horse, Maid Marian and a Fool.
Abbots Bromley
Which board game published in 2021 by flat out games sees players competing to score victory points by collecting habitat tokens and laying tiles to create habitat corridors?
Cascadia
Which board game published in 2021 by flat out games sees players competing to score victory points by collecting habitat tokens and laying tiles to create habitat corridors?
Cascadia
Which board game published in 2021 by flat out games sees players competing to score victory points by collecting habitat tokens and laying tiles to create habitat corridors?
Cascadia
What was the name of the Roman empress who was niece and fourth wife of emperor Claudius and mother of Nero?
Julia Agrippina the Younger
Which comic strip, written in Scots and following titular family who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street, has been published by the Sunday Post since 1936?
The Broons
Which 1973 novel by Rita Mae Brown fella coming of age of Molly Bolt? The novel is noted for containing atypically explicit portrayals of sex between women.
Rubyfruit Jungle
I’m which CBeebies stop motion series airing from 2019-20 narrated by Nina Sosanya does the doll Pepi Nana come to life when her owner is asleep, to play with her Toy House friends Mr Onion and Colly Wobble?
Moon and Me
Although evolved from bilaterally symmetrical ancestors, radial symmetry is a characteristic feature of what animal phylum which includes sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish?
Echinodermata
Not to be confused with brazing and used commonly on circuit boards, what industrial process involves items being joined together by use of filler metal which is applied to join? Filler metal must have lower melting point than adjoining items such as tin-lead alloy commonly used.:
Soldering
Not to be confused with brazing and used commonly on circuit boards, what industrial process involves items being joined together by use of filler metal which is applied to join? Filler metal must have lower melting point than adjoining items such as tin-lead alloy commonly used.:
Soldering
Not to be confused with brazing and used commonly on circuit boards, what industrial process involves items being joined together by use of filler metal which is applied to join? Filler metal must have lower melting point than adjoining items such as tin-lead alloy commonly used.:
Soldering
Forearm armour name
Vambrace
Name given to medieval armour for elbow?
Couter
Name of Roman empress who was wife of Augustus? Son Tiberius.
Livia Drusilla
First appearing in Sunday post in 1936, name of comic strip featuring Scottish schoolboy who is known for his spiky hair and dungarees? Most of his stories begin and end with him sitting on upturned bucket.
Oor Wullie
Which game won Connoisseur Game of Year at 2022 Spiel des Jahres? Tile placement game in which players aim to rescue a woodland by preventing trees from being burnt by fictional beast Onibi.
Living Forest
Which game won Connoisseur Game of Year at 2022 Spiel des Jahres? Tile placement game in which players aim to rescue a woodland by preventing trees from being burnt by fictional beast Onibi.
Living Forest
Which game won Connoisseur Game of Year at 2022 Spiel des Jahres? Tile placement game in which players aim to rescue a woodland by preventing trees from being burnt by fictional beast Onibi.
Living Forest
Jamie Lee Curtis started alongside Dan Aykroyd in 1991 film takes name from song by Temptations? Film stars Anna Chlumsky as the daughter of a funeral parlour owner and Macauley Culkin as her friend who dies from allergy bee stings.
My Girl
Ian McShane character name on American Gods, in fight with Media and Mr World.
Mr Wednesday
On 29th May unless that date falls on a Sunday, Garland king day takes place in which Derbyshire village? Event sees the Garland King on horseback and wearing floral attire while leading a procession through village.
Castleton
On 29th May unless that date falls on a Sunday, Garland king day takes place in which Derbyshire village? Event sees the Garland King on horseback and wearing floral attire while leading a procession through village.
Castleton
Nodes of Ranvier allow which specific type of conduction to occur, in which action potential is propagated along the neurons significantly faster than along unmyelinated axons?
Saltatory Conduction
Warren Gatland replaced who as Wales Rugby Union coach in December 2022?
Wayne Pivac
According to Acts of Apostles, what was name of apostle who replaced Judas iscariot?
Matthias
According to Acts of Apostles, what was name of apostle who replaced Judas iscariot?
Matthias
Juno Awards are most prestigious music awards in which country?
Canada
The name of which village in Yorkshire dales can precede Beck, Tarn and Cove to give the names of a stream, the highest lake in England and and an 80 metre high limestone cliff?
Malham
American artist photographer 1981-2009, sex drugs violence, related to Uma Thurman. Had tag SACE or SACER.
Dash Snow
What connects Lucy Munro’s face; Neville St Clair’s lip; Victor Hatherley’s thumb?
Body parts in titles of Sherlock Holmes stories: … Yellow Face; … Twisted Lip; … Engineer’s Thumb.
Cuban born visual artist 1957-96. Died of AIDS. 1987 joined Group Material a NY based group of artists. Untitled (Perfect Lovers) was a pair of clocks. Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA) is spilled pile of candies which people encouraged to take from.
Félix González-Torres
Born Alexina Sattler and known as Teeny. Her first husband had what surname being the art dealer Nd son of famous French artist born 1869? Second husband was which French artist born 1887?
Pierre Matisse
Marcel Duchamp
Which American artist best known for socially engaged food art in New York City? 1943-78 died young. Son of Chilean artist Roberto Matta.
Gordon Matta-Clark
Who is credited with creating #blacklivesmatter after acquittal of George Zimmerman on trial for murder of teenager Trayvon Martin?
Patrisse Cullors
Mannerist Italian nicknamed Il Furioso for his fast paced painting? Characterised by muscular figures such as the miracle of the slave.
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Whcih golf course located in Arizona hosts Phoenix Open as part of the PGA tour? Known for electric atmosphere of 16 hole as only hole on PGA tour to be fully enclosed by grandstands.
Scottsdale
When making a savoury sauce, what process involves adding liquid such as stock or wine to pan to loosen the food particles attached to the bottom from cooking or searing?
Deglazing
Which female gymnast was the first Briton to win a world title in artistic gymnastics, winning gold in floor exercise in 2009? Olympic bronze medalist in uneven bars at 2012, and won Dancing on Ice in 2013.
Beth Tweddle
2007 debut album This is the Life #1 uk, Scottish singer.
Amy MacDonald
Which German expressionist painter born 1876-1907 died only 31, was first female to draw nude self portraits and also have own museum opened exclusively to her in 1927 in Bremen?
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Which German expressionist painter born 1876-1907 died only 31, was first female to draw nude self portraits and also have own museum opened exclusively to her in 1927 in Bremen?
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Number one song by The Archies
Sugar Sugar
Worlds largest Buddhist temple?
Borobudur (on Java)
Women artistic gymnastics have what four events
Floor, Vault, Uneven Bars, Beam
Men artistic gymnastics have what six events?
Floor, Vault, Rings, Pommel Horse, Parallel Bars, Horizontal Bar
What are the two artistic gymnast events completed by both men and women?
Floor and Vaults
Which active volcano in Hawaii is worlds largest volcano in both mass and volume above sea level? However it is not tallest beaten by another in Hawaii.
Mauna Loa
2021 Nobel Peace Laureate Dmitry Muratov is cofounder and editor in chief of which independent Russian newspaper known for critical coverage of Russia political Afaairs?
Novaya Gazeta
Golf course outside of Jacksonville hosts Players Championship as part of PGA tour? Known for 17th hole Island Green regarded as one of golf’s most difficult holes.
Sawgrass
Golf course outside of Jacksonville hosts Players Championship as part of PGA tour? Known for 17th hole Island Green regarded as one of golf’s most difficult holes.
Sawgrass
In cooking, which process involves thickening or intensifying the flavour of a liquid mixture such as soap sauce wine or juice by evaporation?
Reducing
What is name of flowering plants that in a single season or year, germinate grow bloom and die when frost appears?
Annuals
What temple in Bihar marks the location where Buddha said to have achieved enlightenment? Major pilgrimage destination for Buddhists for over 2 millennia and was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 2002.
Mahabodhi
Which Mexican cinematographer won Academy Awards for directing photography on Gravity, Birdman and z the Revenant in 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively? Only to win 3 consecutive years.
Emmanuel Lubezki
Scottish singer songwriter released albums Peroxide, The Sun Will Come Up The Seasons Will Change, Alskar. Songs include Stay Out, The Best You Had and The Moments Im Missing. Was relationship with Ed Sheeran, in video Drunk and song Photograph about her
Nina Nesbitt
Ed Sheeran wife name
Cherry Seaborn
Which castle is in Ed Sheeran’s hometown, it’s the castle referenced on “Castle on the Hill”?
Framlingham Castle
Whcih northern Irish broadcaster was the host of The Krypton Factor for 18 years 1977-1995? Second cousin to Ed Sheeran.
Gordon Burns
Named for its Japanese creator, which version of HIIT does each workout last for only four minutes with alternating efforts of 20 seconds working out and 10 seconds rest.
Tabata
2021 nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa is Filipino ceo of which online news site?
Rappler
In chemistry, what name is given to pair of compounds that have exactly the same molecular formula, but differ from each other in the ways atom are arranged?
Isomers
In chemistry, what name is given to pair of compounds that have exactly the same molecular formula, but differ from each other in the ways atom are arranged?
Isomers
What Japanese tv series based on manga by Haro Aso follows people trapped in abandoned Tokyo forced to compete in dangerous games, whose type and difficulty are represented by playing cards?
Alice in Borderland
Luxury vehicle division of South Korean company Hyundai?
Genesis
The winner (Smith Australian) and runner up (Young American) of The 2022 Open Championship held in St Andrews in July shared whcih first name?
Cameron
Norwegian golfer finished T4 at 2022 The Open? Was leading at T3
Viktor Hovland
Links golf course in California hosted US open in 2019.
Pebble Beach Golf Links
What Dublin, Ohio golf course hosts the Jack Nicklaus fronted Memorial Tournament every year?
Muirfield Village
Golf Course which hosts tiger woods connected Genesis Invitational in California in Pacific Palisades.
The Riviera Country Club
North of San Diego, site of the Farmers Insurance Open, La Jolla, California; is which golf course on coastal bluffs and hosted 2008 US Open and 2021 US Open.
Torrey Pines
The US Open 2022 was hosted in The Country Club in which Massachusetts town? Hosted 1999 Ryder Cup too known as “Battle of ______”.
Brookline
Which English golfer won the 2022 US open at Brookline? Also T5 at the PGA Xhampionship 2022 in Southern Hills at Tulsa OKlahoma.
Matt Fitzpatrick
Which American won the 2022 pga championship at Tulsa Oklahoma Southern Hills Country Club? He also won the PGA Champs in 2017.
Justin Thomas
Who won 2022 Masters? Also T2 at US Open 2022.
Scottie Scheffler
Which American golfer came 2nd at Masters in 2021, 2nd in PGA Championship in 2022 and 2nd in US Open in 2022?
Will Zalatoris
Which Soviet chess player was womens world champion from 1927 to 1944 when she was killed in German raid on Kent?
Vera Menchik
Georgian female chess player who won Womens world champion from Nona Gaprindashvili in 1978 at age of 17, held until 1991.
Maia Chiburdanidze
Which Ukrainian Soviet chess player was second Womens world champion from 1950-53?
Lyudmila Rudenko
First woman to become a chess grandmaster was which Georgian player who held Womens world champion status 1962-1978?
Nona Gaprindashvili
Three Polgar sisters names
Susan (world champion 1996-99), Judit Polgar (was youngest ever grandmaster at one point at 15y4m) and Sofia
Who is current Womens world champion? Chinese chess grandmaster.
Ju Wenjun
Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Womens world champion 2004-06
Antoaneta Stefanova
In 2002 which Ukrainian-Russian became youngest ever grandmaster at 12y7m. Public approval of Russia invasion of Ukraine 2022 prompted a ban on future FIDE events for six months.
Sergey Karjakin
Since 2021, which American chess grandmaster became the youngest player to be grandmaster at 12y4m.
Abhimanyu Mishra
American chess grandmaster, twitch streamer and reigning World Fischer Random chess champion.
Hikaru Nakamura
Third best chess player of all time which Italian/American chess grandmaster born 1992 Miami.
Fabiano Caruana
Russian grandmaster born 1990, behind Magnus Carlson in classical chess, won silver behind Nakamura in Fischer Random Chess Champs 2022.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (NeePooNeechay)
Indian chess player won World Womens Rapid Chess championship in 2019, in 2002 became youngest woman to achieve grandmaster at 15y1m beating Judit Polgar, beaten by Hou Yifan in 2008.
Koneru Humpy
Which tv presented was on Blue Peter 1980-83, later did Going Live! With Schofield. Married DJ Mike Smith, was in helicopter crash in 1988 together.
Sarah Greene
Name the Lake District fell with colour inn name overlooks the Kirkstone Pass Inn
Red Screes
Who captained the England Womens rugby Union team in the rugby World Cup? Also has most caps for England Womens.
Sarah Hunter
Who hosted the BAFTAs in 2022
Rebel Wilson
Who hosted EGOTs in 2022
Emmy: Kenan Thompson
Grammys: Trevor Noah
Oscar’s: Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes
Tony’s: Ariana deBose
Lehman Trilogy won Tonys, who wrote it
Stefano Massini
Who won TonY Award for Henry Lehman in Lehman Trilogy in 2022 Tony’s? Also protested Lavrentiy Beria in The Death of Stalin.
Simon Russell Beale
Which actor was nominated for The LehmN Trilogy Tony award as Mayer Lehman, also played Elliot Schwartz in Breaking Bad and Phinneus Pogo in The Umbrella Academy. Was in Love Actually, Charlie and Choc Factory.
Adam Godley
2022 Laurence Olivier awards hosted by who!
Jason Manford
Who won Best New Play for Life of Pi at 2022 Oliviers?
Wife of Adrian Lester.
Lolita Chakrabarti
Lolita Chakrabarti wrote a play Red Velvet about which 19th century American born British actor regarded as one of first black actors, centre of controversy when he takes over from Edmund Kean in Othello?
Ira Aldridge
2:22 A Ghost Story by which playwright
Danny Robins
James Graham 2021 play about a fictionalised retelling of this 1968 debates between William Buckley Jr (founded National Review) and Gore Vidal.
Best of Enemies
Play by Nick Payne about beekeeper Roland and Marianne physicist. Lots of talk about cosmology, quantum mechanics and string theory. Won 2022 Olivier Best Revival
Constellations
2022 Olivier nominated for best revival. Caryl Churchill story structured around conflict between father and sons, two of which are clones of first one.
A Number
2022 Olivier nominated for best revival. Caryl Churchill story structured around conflict between father and sons, two of which are clones of first one.
A Number
Play by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon comedic exploration of behind the scenes drama took place during 1975 film Jaws.
The Shark is Broken
Sri Lankan actor who won Laurence Award for Best Actor for role in Life of Pi. Played Da Vinci in Botticelli in the Fire.
Hiran Abeysekera
Which actress won 2018 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in Musical for role as Marianne Laine in Girl from the North Country and 2022 for Best Lead Actress for Constellations also called Marianne?
Sheila Atim
Which actress known for leading role Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife, DC BethanY Whelan in VerA. Two Olivier Award nominations for playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and 2021 Hamlet too.
Cush Jumbo
Who won Oliver Award BSA in 2022 for role as Dr Emma Brookner in revival of The Normal Heart (Larry Kramer)? Known most for 2013 onwards role of Clarissa Mullery in Silent Witness
Linda Carr
Who hosted Brit award 2022, judge on masked singer and dancer and for the Lateish Show
Mo Gilligan
Who hosts Radio 4 Gardeners Question Time
Kathy Clugston (replaced Eric Robson)
In the dice game Yahtzee how many points must be scored in top section to earn the bonus? What is the bonus)
63 (you get 35 points as the bonus)
What monopoly piece replaced iron in 2013 after online poll?
Cat
Who was murdered in original uk version of cluedo? What called in USA
Dr Black / Mr Boddy
How many territories in Risk?
42
1 vs many semi cooperative game where one player security officer of the German forces, and others are escape officers for various nationalities or prisoners of war?
Escape from Colditz
How many possibilities are there in Cluedo?
324 (6 characters, 6 weapons and 9 rooms)
Who wrote The Warden, Framley Parsonage and The Way That We Live Now?
Anthony Trollope
Which tv presented accompanied on his travels by his Jack Russell Chalky?
Rick Stein
Name of the dog in Secret Seven?
Scamper
Secret Seven names with the dog Scamper
Peter, Janet, Jack, Pam, Barbara, Colin, George
Famous Five in age order
Julian, Dick, George, Anne, Timothy/Timmy the dog
What was name of poodle that lived in Queen Vic in Eastenders with Angie and Den Watts?
Roly
What was name of the Labrador that lived for many years on Ramsey Street in Neighbours?
Bouncer
What day is the coronation of Charles III?
May 6th 2023
Mens Cricket World Cup in which Country in September 2023?
India
Indiana Jones fifth film 2023 what name
The Dial of Destiny
Hunger Games prequel November 2023 called what
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Which 1963 musical film (based on successful show) inspired by Elvis being drafted into Us army? Ann-Margaret’s spirited performance in movie led to her being cast opposite Elvis in Viva Las Vegas afterwards.
Bye Bye Birdie
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire starred in which 1957 musical romance? Directed StanleynDonen and featuring Gershwin tunes: Think Pink, S’Wonderful.
Funny Face
Adapted by William Goldman from own novel, which 1974 John Schlesinger directed film is probably best remembered for Laurence Olivier posing question “is it safe?”?
Marathon Man
Who won Best aCtress Oscar for Mrs Miniver?
Greer Garson
Released in 1980 starring Dee Hepburn and directed by Bill Forsyth, which much loved British film told of young goalkeepers passionate longing for his teams centre forward?
Gregory’s Girl
The 2nd film directed by Martin Scorsese which 1972 movie starred Barbara Hershey in title role, she played a poor southern girl who freight hops as Great Depression starrs to bite.
Boxcar Bertha
Labour peer former trade union boss and is now Baroness of Upper Holloway?
Frances O Grady
In whcih Scottish coastal town site of a 1650’battle can you see a 16 foot bear erected in honour of naturalist John Muir
Dunbar
Large alluvial fan or delta found in Botswana?
Okavango Delta
Animal name of the Taktsang Palphug Monastery built into Cliff side of the upper Paro Valley in Bhutan.
Tigers Nest
In 1858 while residing at Ternate in Dutch East Indies which British naturalist wrote a seminal paper on development of species titled On the Tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from original type?
Alfred Russell Wallace
Which rock star published a novel And the Ass Saw The Angel?
Nick Cave
Which eminent novelist also published a book of verse called Pomes Pennyeach and a play called Exiles?
James Joyce
Which opera composer turned his hand to church music late in life with Le Petit Messe Solennelle?
Giacomo Rossini
Which great physicist who gives his name to an si unit of measurement also invented the rubber balloon?
Michael Faraday
Which metaphysical poet was MP Kingston-upon-Hull from 1659 until death in 1678?
Andrew Marvell
Which philosopher studied aeronautical engineering at Manchester University from 1908 until 1911?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Which 1995 album by Alanis Morisette sold over 33m copies? Singles: You Ought To Know and Ironic.
Jagged Little Pill
Which Glaswegian made over 350 appearances for Man City between 1968-80? He also appeared 35 times for Scotland and was in their World Cup squads for both 1974 and 1978 finals.
William Donachie
What name given to baked scallop dish served with shell particularly associated with Camino Santiago pilgrims route?
Coquilles Saint Jacques
Name of smoked sausage that originated in France and is also popular l in Cajujnculture . Pig chitterlings, tripe, onion, wine.
Andouille
Anne of Green Gables surname
Shirley
What did Jack from Jack and Jill take to bed to mend his head?
Vinegar and Brown Paper
Sir Galahad parents
Sir Lancelot du Lac and Princess Elaine of Corbenic
What is the named effect of the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it’s cooled below the critical temperature?
Meissner Effect
Who holds record for most top 10 singles with no number one (18), band had #11 hit with I Believe in 1993?
Bon Jovi
Which Wallonian from Tournai is credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the Dutch East India Company from Lenape Indians? Same person founded New Sweden in the Delaware Peninsula in 1638.
Peter Minuit
Member of a uk chart topping female duo, who had uk #11 hit with I Bleieve as solo artist in 1994?
Marcella Detroit
Who joined Siobhan Fahey to make Shakespears Sister in 1988? Their albums were Sacred Heart and Hormonally Yours. Same person co-wrote Eric Clapton hit Lay Down Sally.
Marcella Detroit
British mechanical engineer who worked on aircraft noise reduction for Concorde. President of Royal Academy Of Engineering from 2014-19 first female President.
Ann Dowling
In the New Testament, the book of Romans is attributed to which apostle?
Paul
Coro di Zingari or the Anvil Chorus is from which Opera?
Il Trovatore (1853 Verdi)
Sec State for Defence for 85 days in 2019, who is current leader of House of Commons since September 2022?
Penny Mourdant
Which web hosting service, acquired by yahoo in 1999, was launched in 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet?
GeoCities
Which England wicketkeeper, top scorer against Australia in the 2010 T20 World Cup final, suffered a serious eye injury whilst playing for Somerset against northants and subsequently had to retire aged just 28?
Craig Kieswetter
Historical drama series created by Steven Knivht with Connor Swindells as David Stirling and JCk OConnell as Paddy Mayne, Alfie Allen as Jock Lewes?
SAS: Rogue Heroes
Who played Adam Groff in Sex Education?
Connor Swindells
The only woman to reach the world top 10 of all genders, with wins against Carlson, Spassky, Karpov and Kasparaov, which 46 year old Hungarian chess grandmaster considered best female of all time?
Judith Polgar
Electrical resistance in metals decreases linearly with a fall in temperature, but what name is given to materials notably used in the magnets within mri machines whose electrical resistance drops abruptly to zero below a critical temperature?
Superconductor
At 150m the tallest Christian cross in world overlooks which Catholic basilica and memorial, which saw a notable exhumation in October 2019?
Valley of the Fallen
Va, Pensiero or the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, is a chorus from which Giuseppe Verdi opera?
Nabucco
Taking over from Ian blackford in December 2022, who is currently the leader of snp at Westminster?
Stephen Flynn
Appointed to order of merit in 2022, which biologist and ribosome expert served as first Indian born President of the Royal Society from 2015-20?
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
He built the defensive wall known as Wall Street and has various neighbourhoods in NYC named after him, who served as last Dutch director-general of colony of new Netherlands until it was ceded to English in 1664?
Peter Stuyvesant
Cristo de La Concordia a 34.2m statue of Jebus Christ is overlooking which city of Bolivia it’s fourth most populous?
Cochabamba
Tallest statue of world is Statue of Unity in Gujarat, who does it depict?
Vallabhbhai Patel (182m)
The largest statue of Buddha is in which Chinese state?
Lushan, HENAN
Third tallest statue in world is of Buddha 115.8m tall and which country?
Myanmar
Tallest statue of a female could be seen as which? Fifth tallest statue in world and was tallest 1991-93.
Kannon
Mother of All Asia - Tower of Peace is found in Batangas City in Philippines depicting which female?
Mary
Which Russian city has 85m tall Mother Motherland depicted by Yevgeny Vuchetich?
Volgograd
Tallest statue in Africa is African Renaissance Monument and is just outside which capital city?
Dakar
52.5m statue of Jesus found in which polish town?
Swiebodzin
40m statue of Jesus Christ found on which Indonesian island?
Sulawesi
The Drowners released in the spring of 1992 to be some of first ever britpop song, released by which band, who would go on to have top 10 hits with beautiful ones, stay together and animal nitrate?
Suede
Primarily residing in the UK until killers by V1 bomb in Clapton, which Czechoslovak chess player was first women world champion? 1927-1944.
Vera Menchik
Electrical resistance in metals decreases linearly with a fall in temperature, but what name is given to materials such as silicon used in microchips where resistance decreases with a rise in temperature?
Semiconductor
What was subtitle of the ninth Star Wars film episode? Last to date.
The Rise of Skywalker
Episode 8 Star Wars
The Last Jedi
Which Merseyside born artist 1955 young British artist, work encompasses sculpture, text and fascination with emblem of fighter aircraft and their role within culture and on film. Known for her wordscapes, frame by frame action in war films such as top gun or apocalypse now.
Fiona Banner/The Vanity Press
Which Merseyside born artist 1955 young British artist, work encompasses sculpture, text and fascination with emblem of fighter aircraft and their role within culture and on film. Known for her wordscapes, frame by frame action in war films such as top gun or apocalypse now.
Fiona Banner/The Vanity Press
South African wicket keeper who holds record for most test dismissals by a wicket keeper with 532 catches and 555 total. In 2012 suffered serious eye injury and retired from cricket.
Mark Boucher
Bridgerton first four born siblings from A-D
Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne
What are the three parts of the hip from Upper to Lower?
Ilium
Pubis
Ischium
National USA Soccer Hall of Fame is found in Toyota Stadium in which US state?
Frisco, Texas (suburb of Dallas)
Who was only participant of Jordan at a Winter Olympics having taken part in speed skiing at the 1992 Albertville Olympics?
Mohamed Hadid (father of Gigi and Bella)
Subfield of linguistics computer science and AI concerned with computers processing and analysing large amounts of data when being spoken to.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Largest amphibian in the world three word name
Chinese Giant Salamander
Ghanaian author playwright and poet, minister of education under Jerry Rawlings administration (1981-2001 was main period of Rawlings). Books: Anowa, Our Sister Killjoy, Changes: A Love Story.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ancient port city of northern Syria in outskirts of modern Latakia discovered by accident in 1928. Ruins often called Ras Shamra after headland where they lie.
Ugarit
2003 Taiwan film directed by Tsai Ming-Liang about a movie theatre about to close down and its final screening of the 1967 namesake wuxia film.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Born Natalie Laura Mering, American singer, 2022 album And in the Darkness; Hearts Aglow, 2019 Titanic Rising.
Weyes Blood
President of PSG and chairman of the BeIN Media Group, chairman of Qatar Sports Investments.
Nasser Al-Khelaifi
Fiction story set in Grosse Pointe; Michigan, during 1970s, centres of five doomed sisters the Lisbon girls. Book by Jeffrey Eugenides.
The Virgin Suicides
Chat GPT acronym
Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer
Computing systems inspired by animal brains like a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons.
Neural Networks
Nigerian born novelist based in UK from 1962: Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and THE jOYS OF MOTHERHOOD (1979). On Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists 1983.
Buchi Emecheta
Longest album ever name for one album. Band known for song about a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, a cider drink.
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
The dialogues of the dead, dialogues of the gods and the dialogues of the Courtesans are all by which Greek writer in time of Roman empire originally born in Syria.
Lucian
Cynic satirist who has a satire genre named after him. Up there with antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope and Crates for the cynics.
Menippus
Four most followed on TikTok
4th Addison Rae
3rd Bella Poarch
2nd Charli D’Amelio
1st Khabane Lame
Four most subscribed YouTube Accounts
- Mr Beast (Jimmy Donaldson)
- Sony Entertainment TV India
- Cocomelon
- T-Series
Which American veteran won Best Song at Grammys 2023 for “Just Like That”, known for original “I can’t make you love me”?
Bonnie Raitt
Which composer and violinist received the first ever Grammy for best video game soundtrack, recognising her work on Assassin’s Creed: Dawn Of Ragnarok.
Stephanie Economou
Viola Davis got her EGOT at 2023 Grammys for winning Spoken Word Album for which audiobook, her memoir?
Finding Me
What affair took place in 1926 in Canada, dominion of UK? One was elected PM and one represented George V.
King-Byng Affair
Name of the Islamic shrine in Jerusalem by the Al-Aqsa Mosque? Per Jewish tradition, contains the first stone that God created.
Dome of the Rock
Name of the Islamic shrine in Jerusalem by the Al-Aqsa Mosque? Per Jewish tradition, contains the first stone that God created.
Dome of the Rock
In title of a choral work by Hubert Parry, what four words description is given to the “sphere born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse”?
Blest Pair of Sirens
A polysaccharide thickening agent which food additive is commonly used to bind ingredients together? This sugar derives two word name from bacteria used in fermentation process needed to synthesise it.
Xanthan Gum
Which hotel on Woburn Place in Bloomsbury, north west of Russell Square, has 1630 bedrooms, the most in London and indeed Western Europe?
The Royal National Hotel
2013 Stephen king sequel to The Shining
Doctor Sleep
Who succeeded Montezuma II in 1520?
Cuitlahuac
Who succeeded Moctezuma II’s successor Cuitlahuac and was final Tlatoani of Aztec Empire 1520-21?
Cuauhtemoc
Decision to Leave is 2022 neo noir romantic thriller film directed and written by which filmmaker known for his Vengeance trilogy?
Park Chan-Wook
What is name of machine learning model created by OpenAI that generates images from a text description?
DALL-E
Who wrote How to be a Domestic Goddess
Nigella Lawson
Who wrote One is Fun! Cookbook
Delia smith
Mastering the art of French cooking is by which American cook with two French authors?
Julia Child
The intertidal zone in southeastern part of North Sea. Lies between coast of northwestern continental Europe and Frisian islands? Largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world.
Wadden Sea
The intertidal zone in southeastern part of North Sea. Lies between coast of northwestern continental Europe and Frisian islands? Largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world.
Wadden Sea
Road bridges between Tower Bridge and Westminster Bridge
Tower Bridge
London Bridge (Cannot St after but rail)
Southwark Bridge
Millenium Bridge
Blackfriars Bridge
Waterloo Bridge
Hungerford & Golden Jubilee Bridges
Westminster Bridge
What are the bridges from Westminster Bridge to Putney Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Lambeth Bridge
Vauxhall Bridge (grosvenor bridge rail)
Chelsea Bridge
Albert Bridge
Battersea Bridge
Wandsworth Bridge
Putney Bridge
What is the term for the wife of a Maharaja or in states where customary a woman ruling without a husband?
Maharani
What was the frigate from which the bell ring at Lloyd’s of London was taken after it’s sinking in 1799.
Lutine (bell called Lutine Bell)
What house had the Scottish kings from 1034-40 and 1058-1286? Referred to as “the Canmores”, first was Duncan I and last was Margaret in 1286.
House of Dunkeld
Who was command module pilot of Apollo 12, orbiting moon 45 times while Bean and Conrad went to moon?
Richard F Gordon
Which leaf shape is like a heart shape with bit at end, looks like heart on a deck of card?
Obcordate
Narrow layout of leaf spread known as what? Comparison to palmate being spread out!
Pinnate
What flag semaphore letter is arms flat out side to side left and right so looks like flat to the observer?
R
Which flag semaphore showing if you were looking at an L shape being made by person?
J
What flag semaphore being made if it looks like a backwards capital L, their left arm up and right up flat outwards?
P (and O and Q the left arm is rotating AC until flat at R)
What was subtitle of the 1992 Twin Peaks prequel made by David Lynch?
Fire Walk With Me
Whcih MP known for his namesake Diaries of life under thatcher? His book The Donkeys (1961) inspired the musical satire Oh What A Lovely War! He was MP for Kensington and Chelsea before Michael Portillo.
Alan Clark
Who hosts The Voice UK?
Emma Willis
Who won 2022 series of The Voice?
Anthonia Edwards
Songwriting partners behind Love Potion No. 9 and Hound Dog and Kansas City?
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Which 1992 film an early appearance for Sandra Bullock takes it name from 1959 hit song written by Lieber and Stoller?
Love Potion No. 9
Chemical formula for Pearl and the wedding anniversary it represents
CaCO3 and 30th wedding anniversary
Row of three stacks of chalk about 30m tall on western extremity of Isle of Wight called what?
The Needles
Row of three stacks of chalk about 30m tall on western extremity of Isle of Wight called what?
The Needles
Also called a tent rock or fairy chimney, what h is a tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion? Term comes from spiritual practice in America.
Hoodoo
Patsy Kensit four husbands and bands and also her band
Dan Donovan - Big Audio Dynamite
Jim Kerr - Simple Minds
Liam Gallagher - Beady Eye
Jeremy Healy - Haysi Fantayzee
Eighth Wonder
Name of top gear theme tune and by who?
Jessica by the Allman Brothers Band
Novel and author subtitled “or Virtue Rewarded”
Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
Novel and author subtitled “Or the History of a Young Lady” in 1748
Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
What are the four elements of Ytterby ascending in atomic order?
Yttrium 39
Terbium 65
Erbium 68
Ytterbium 70
Who wrote The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep: A New Way Of Getting Children To Sleep? Swedish author
Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin
Where was an artificial reef built to enhance surfing conditions in Dorset? First surfing reef to be constructed in northern hemisphere.
Boscombe
Largest artificial mound in Europe is which prehistoricalbmound found in Wiltshire and part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UnEsco?
Silbury Hill
What is Onopordum Acanthium?
Scottish Thistle
Who coined the term “birth control” in her magazine The Woman Rebel?
Margaret Sanger
What does Samuel French specialise in publishing?
Plays
2023 Brit Award designed by which Nigerian born London based artist
Oluola Slawn
Who hosted Brits 2023
Mo Gilligan
Stormzy third album released November 2022
This is what I mean
Who was nominated for best album at brits for “actual life 3”
Fred Again
George Ezra actual surname
Barnett
Rock duo made up of Amy Love and Georgia South, most recent album Supernova released June 2022
Nova Twins
What is stage name of Simon Green a dj based in LA, nominated for Grammys and Brit award in 2023?
Bonobo
Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah known by what stage name? 2022 album Reason to Smile.
Kojey Radical
Japanese British singer first album surname and second album Hold the Girl September 2022.
Rina Sawayama
Swedish folk duo consisting of sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg.
First Aid Kit
British American three piece band consisting of Jacob Lusk, Ryan Hope and Ari Balouzian. Nominated for Sounds of 2023 and Brit award 2023.
Gabriels
Who plays Ryan Cawood in Happy Valley?
Rhys Connah
Which British girl group won the BBC Sound of 2023 competition? Consists of Jorja Douglas,, Stella Quaresma and Renee downer.
FLO
Actress starred in Land Girls as Connie Carter and as Jen in Am I Being Unreasonable?
Selin Hizli
Who directed Drive MyCar
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
David Mamet play about an estate agents
Glengarry Glen Ross
Newcastle assistant manager centre of centre of attention scandal Twitter
Jason Tindall
What is the Argentinian sauce typically green in color used as a condiment for grilled meat that contains parsley, garlic, oregano, vinegar, and olive oil?
Chimichurri
