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
