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Title of which 1995 Rushdie novel taken from sotry of Boabdil last king of Granada? Key events in India in 1990s including demolition of Babri Masjid and 1993 Bombay bombings.

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The Moor’s Last Sigh

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Lake Kariba is worlds largest reservoir by volume, formed namesake dam on which river, empties out in Indian Ocean in Mozambique?

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Zambezi

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Five letter Italian word in music is slower than lento but faster than Grave?

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Largo

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Which spirits of Haitian voudou act as intermediaries between creator Bondye and human? Analogous to cuban Orishas and Yoruba Orishas.

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Loas

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Poet whose first published work phases appeared in poetry magazine in 1914 poems include the emperor of ice cream and 13 ways of looking at a blackbird his collection harmonium

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Wallace stevens

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Following suleiman the magnificent rise to throne in 1520, Ottoman Empire saw rise in number of influential and powerful women controlling affairs within imperial palace. Name usually given to this period that lasted 150 years.

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The Sultanate of Women

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Hyperbolic geometry often called ____ geometry or Bolyai-_____ geometry after which Russian Copernicus of geometry? 1829 publish details of fully developed non Euclidean geometry.

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Lobachevsky

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The Bents were among first western archaeologist to investigate which Ethiopian city?

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Axum

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In Haitian voudou, what Loa of death and cemeteries is commonly depicted as a skeletal figure wearing top hat and black coattails?

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Baron Samedi

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Which poet was author of the red wheelbarrow and this is just to say

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William Carlos Williams

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Second largest African river to flow into Indian Ocean after Zambezi does so 900km south in Mozambique? Upper Zambezi used to flow into this river:

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Limpopo

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Seven letter Italian word used in music for generic fast tempo: faster than moderato but slower than vivace?

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Allegro

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Canova sculpture of two Greek mythology figures: one of them pass butterfly to other, in another one revives the other with a kiss?

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Cupid and Psyche

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Whcih cigar smoking loa of Haitian voudou often depicted with cane and straw hat? This Loa associated with crossroads because he opens and closes gate between Earth and realm of the gods.

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Papa Legba

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Whcih seven letter Italian word is used in music for fairly slow music, slower than moderato but faster than adagio?

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Andante

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Antonio Canova also produced a statue of which of the military leader dressed as a Roman general of it was destroyed in a fire in 1831 as figure was also the picture of Zeus in a sculpture by Horatio Greennow and a fresco by Constantino Brumidi depicts his apotheosis

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George Washington

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Commonly depicted drinking rum and chilli peppers and symbolism black rooster; Loa of death is consort of baron samedi. Similar sounding Irish Saint whose feast day is Imbolc.

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Maman Brigitte

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Which six letter word used in music for extremely fast tempo even faster than vivace? Summer by Vivaldi.

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Presto

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Big painting by George’s Seurat at the art institute of chicago of life on the Seine/

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A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte

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Which opera has a song “Il Dolce Suono” referred to commonly as the Mad Scene?

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Lucia di Lammermoor

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Many Hindus chose to fast during festivals such as Navaratri which honours which goddess, depicted riding tigers and fighting buffalo demon Mahishasura?

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Durga

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La Venta is a pre Colombian archaeological site in the Mexican state of Tabasco that is best known for its enourmoia basalt heads carved by which early meaoamerican civilisation?

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Olmecs

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The bronze head of Ife is a large copper alloy sculpture from 14th and 15th century. Depicts head of a king of which west African ethnic group found primarily in nigeria Togo and Benin.

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Yoruba

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Name commonly used for three species in Canidae family: the black-backed, side-striped and the golden? African golden wolf once considered one of these. They are africa/Eurasia equivalent of coyotes in North America/

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Jackals

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Separating Yemen on the Arabian peninsula from the Horn of Africa which strait that connects the red Sea to the Gulf of Aden has the name of the road from the Arabic the gate of lamentation

Bab-el-Mandeb

major process in which African country during the Arab spring went to President Omar al Bashir announcing he would not seek a further ten past two thousand and fifteen ELAD he lied I was a coup in two thousand and nineteen

Sudan

Essais (Essays) is the title of three books published between 1580 and 1595 but a French philosopher who is credited with popularising the essay as a literary genre. Also essays is written by an English philosopher of empiricism died effects of freezing on meat preservatio.n

Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon

Which Arabic term translating approximately as of the Dawn is used for the meal consumed by Muslims in the morning before fasting starts during Ramadan

Suhur

Sutherland’s last full length performance in an opera was as Marguerite the Valois in which opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer about the French wars of religion?

Les Huguenots

Ismail I founded which dynasty in 1501 in Iran? First native Persian dynasty to rule since Muslim conquest of the Sassanians in the 7th century.

Safavid Dynasty

Collected essays on the sociology of religion was work published in 1920 and 21 by rich socialist and political economics German other major works include the religion of China Confucianism Taoism and the religion of India the sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism

Max Weber

Worlds longest species of lizard is it found only in New Guinea and belongs to which family of large carnivorous lizards many species in this family are semi aquatic and his family also increase the grammar and the Komodo dragon

Monitor lizards

What name is given to the complex of DNA DNA and proteins that make up a eukaryotic chromosome it may exist as a highly convinced coiled arrangement or a more likely pack open form that is accessible for transcription these two forms of prefix hetero and EU respectively

Chromatin

The Rakes Progress opera with libretto by WH Auden and Chester Kallman was music by which Russian composer? Premiered Venice 1951.

Igor Stravinsky

Alphonse Mucha produced seven art nouveau posters to promote appearances of which 19th century French actress’s in plays such as Dumas’s La Dame aux Camelias and Hamlet?

Sarah Bernhardt

Which is largest cityninnnorthbofn nigeria? Largest Hausa speaking city in the world and cultural hub for Hausa.

Kano

Which Muegel emperor stayed with his Ismails son Tahmasp in the Safavid court, he was the son of Babur?

Humayun

Weber argues that Calvinist enterprise had a profound effect on economic growth in the bath of modern economies in northern Europe in which 19 0485 book that ends with discussion of an iron cage or shell hard as steel brought about by the increased rationalisation and bureaucratic Seshan of society

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Which striking mountain in the Guyanan Highlands is the highest of the packer Rama chain of tabletop mountain some shares its name with a northern state of Brazil straddling the borders of Venezuela Brazil in Guyana this Mountain sports with served as the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle is the lost world

Mount Roraima

Which small proteins with a high proportion of positively charged amino acids bind to DNA and play a key role in chromatin structure these proteins act as spools around which DNA is wrapped

Histones

Built by the Genovese in 1348 in Romanesque style as a Christian building Galata tower got its famous cone shaped roof a few hundred years later on the Muslim rule it is located in which city is the most populous country but not the capital

Istanbul

Tibulous, Propertius and Ovid all wrote type of poem consisting of alternating dactylic hexameters and pentameters. Poems often sorrow; longing or remembrance m, term later been used for melancholy or sombre works in general. what word?

Elegy

City capital of Rivers State considered the commercial centre of Nigerian oil industry?

Port Harcourt

Which city is capital of Nigeria’s Edo state and home to majority of Edo speakers? The Oba was hereditary ruler of Edo people and palace good site.

Benin City

Mucha first poster for Sarah Bernhardt depicted in Sardou’s play Gismonda. Also in which other Sardou play depicting an opera singer and turned into Puccini opera?

La Tosca

Along with Weber and Durkheim the other major classical sociologist of religion was Karl Marx who famously described religion as the A-Team of the masses and work the critique excerpts taken from which man is 1820 book elements of the philosophy of right

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Which city largest in nigeria at independence but since overtaken by Lagos and Kano? Capital of Oyo and lies in centr of Yoruba homeland.

Ibadan

Horace wrote books of 18 of these; Juvenal wrote 16 of these. What are theyV

Satires

Which word meaning house of gods in Pemon language is given to table top mountains such as Mount Roraima and Angel Falls?

Tepui

Sarah Bernhardt also appeared in The Woman of Samaria, also L’Aiglon as Napoleon II, most famous of this playwright was Cyrano de Bergerac?

Edmond Rostand

Van Gogh best known for sunflowers but also painted noted series of works depicting which other flower while at asylum during final years? 1987 one painting became most expensive ever sold.

Iris

In 1893 Gandhi went to which South African province discovered by Vasco de Gama on Christmas Day?

Natal

Palermo was founded as Ziz meaning flower by which civilisation from Levant region whose territory centre in Lebanon,l? Name we know these people likely refers to best known export a sought after dye also known as Tyrian purple.

Phoenicians

Acid found in vinegar

Acetic acid

Gandhi made decision to fight racial discrimination in South Africa at which city’s railway station? Capital and second largest of KwaZulu-Natal.

Pietermaritzburg

Derived from Sanskrit for five principles “Pancasila” was founding philosophical theory of which country? 1944 by future President founded.

Indonesia

In January 1900, Gandhi formed a group of more than 1k stretcher bearers to support British troooa against the Boers. Which battle saw then at frontline supporting forces in besieged city of Ladysmith? Winston churchill also here as war correspondent.

Battle of Spion Kop

Name given to humans preceded Homo sapiens (2m to 100k before ago) includes Java Man and Peking Man

Homo Erectus

Which word from sanskritnforbflowing around given to cycle of births and deaths in which all are subjectV in jainism etc.

Samsara

In Buddhism you escape Samsara by nirvana; what is the term for escape samsara in Hinduism from Sanskrit for to free?

Moksha

Term derived ultimately from Latin for head became popular and used for Franco title in 1938

Caudillo

In jainism what name from Sanskrit for Ford-maker, is given to spiritual teacher who has conquered samsara and provides bridge for others to follow him from samsara to moksha? According to Jainism, always exactly 24 of these teachers every cycle.

Tirthankara

Who played Alf Roberts for over 30 years in Corrie! He also played gangster killed by Michael Caine I. Get Carter

Bryan Mosley

Which English javelin thrower from leeds took silver for England at three commonwealth games running 1986-94? Since been Jessica Ennis coach

Mick Hill

What T is a ball sport that is played on a curved table combining elements of sepak takraw and table tennis? Currently 4 Hungarians in world top ten.

Teqball

In Taming of the Shrew who is sister of title character Katherina?

Bianca

Jamie Lee Curtis won a best supporting actress bafta in 1984 for playing prostitute Amelia

Trading Places

Designed by Mohamed Hamzah and adopted it in 1950, which commonwealth country’s flag is nicknamed Stripes of Glory?

Malaysia

Which NYC crime boss set up italian American civil rights league and assisted in production of 1972 movie The Godfather?

Joe Colombo

Freddie Mercury real name

Farrukh Bulsara

Wat Tyler leader of peasants revolt, what county did he lead his followers from?

Kent

Spirit of St Louis aircraft found in which museum?

Smithsonian Museum

Singer alfie Boe was labelled the opera dude when he appeared on recordings by Clint Boon experience, clint boon had been organist with which Madchester band who once had Noel Gallagher as their roadie?

Inspiral Carpets

Hunter Valley is located in which Australian state?

New South Wales

Italian inventor Marconi married into which Irish whiskey family? These whiskey makers now based at new Middleton distillery in county cork make by far the best selling Irish whiskey in the world?

Jamesons

Port Jackson, harbour of Sydney, Australia, is an inlet of what sea?

Tasman Sea

Alf Stewart is only remaining original character in the soap Home and Away. Who has played the character since 1988?

Ray Meagher

Which British businessman was chairman of “Britain stronger in europe” campaign in the run up to the 2016 brexit referendum?

Stuart Rose

Which of Rossini’s operas was originally subtitled The Useless Precaution?

The Barber of Seville

Capital of Emilia-Romagna region?

Bologna

Name of uncooked sauce in cuisine of Argentina and Uruguay made of parsley, garlic, oregano and vinegar

Chimichurri

Born in Bologna in 1966, which Italian skier would go onto win three Olympic golds and two world championships?

Alberto Tomba

In the uk, ketchup was historically prepared with which primary ingredient rather than tomatoes?

Mushroom

Mayonnaise takes name from city on which island

Menorca

What three word term is used to describe a period of social turmoil and political violence in Italy that lasted from 1960s until late 1980s marked by wave of far left and far right incidents of terrorism?

Years of Lead

Which man could not match Olympic gold when he finished behind Anderson peters of Grenada in mens javelin at 2022 world athletic championships?

Neeraj Chopra

In which of the four track and field outdoor throwing events is womens world record the longest distance?

Hammer

Bologna famous for its elegant and extensive sets of what architectural feature basically covered walkways?

Porticoes

An African fish eagle can be found on flag of which landlocked commonwealth country?

Zambia

Who played lonely old pensioner Unlucky Alf in the Fast Show? His catchphrase was Oh Bugger:

Paul Whitehouse

A black and white shield central to the flag of which commonwealth country? Flag designed by King Sobhuza II.

eSwatini

Named after founder of a brand of popular five and ten cent stores, what was the tallest building in the world in 1927?

Woolworth Building

Who was former attorney general who organised the Ulster volunteers opposed to Irish home rule just before the First World War?

Edward Carson

Which sauce with a name meaning seafood sauce in Cantonese is a thick sauce made from toasted mashed soybeans, vinegar, farlic and peppers

Hoisin sauce

In You cna call me Al, Paul simons says the title and that he can you what five letter name?

Betty

Based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure; Das Liebesverbot (the ban on love) is a forgotten comic opera by which composer?

Richard Wagner

Which word meaning exciting and energetic derives from 1920s us stunt pilots who would perform tricks to entertain people during Great Depression?

Barnstorming

Saint Paul told the chief captain who arrest led him that he was a citizen of “no mean city”. Which city?

Tarsus

Which spokesman for religious intolerance owned a newspaper called the Dearborn Independent between 1920 and 1927?

Henry Ford

Which English actress was Lola in Atonement, Keeley Jones in Ted Lasso and Bettye McCart in The Offer?

Juno Temple

Which athlete was the British javelin champion 8 times during the 1980s? He took silver at 1984 Olympics and then gold at 1986 edinburgh commonwealth games.

David Ottley

Who wrote early Rolling Stones hit “I wanna be your man”

Lennon and McCartney

Which woman is founder of rag doll tpdouctions? Rosie and Jim; teletubbies and in the night garden

Anne Wood

Which athlete won British javelin championships for ten years between 2003-13? Real name Katherine, shares nickname with actress who rose to fame on Rowan and Martin’s laugh in.

Goldie Sayers

Named athlete of the century in her home country, what was the nationality of Yvette Williams? She won gold medals at the commonwealth games in long jump, discus and shot putt and a bronze in the javelin.

New Zealand

What did WAC stand for in name of childrens tv series broadcast in the uk on the breakfast tv channel tv-am between 1984 and 1989?

Wide Awake Club

What is style of boat building called in which the external planks overlap downwards?

Clinker

Up to 2013, the Southampton suburb of Swaythling was a manufacturing centre for which car giant? From 1960s to the 1980s 4500 workers were employed there.

Ford

Years of life of Henry the Navigator

1394-1460

Name of Charles Mackesy work which won 2023 Oscar for best animated short?

The Boy The Mole The Fox and the Horse

Who is current womens javelin world record holder? Set in 2008.

Barbora Spotakova

In May 2023, which English boxer defeated Irish boxer Katie Taylor for the first time in her professional career defeat?

Chantelle Cameron

Who won the European rugby Union Heineken Cup in May 2023?

La Rochelle

Which large whale lives exclusively in Arctic waters and gets its common name from the distinctive shape of its huge head

Bow head whale

Which large well also known as the cachalot can be identified that the distance by its forward angled blowhole directed to the left

Sperm whale

I’ve got alternative name after Bird is the beluga sometimes nine because of the variety of sounds it makes which can be heard above and below the surface

Sea canary

What name is generally given to dried shark skin when is used as an abrasive for smoothing and polishing

Shagreen

Which large whale known by whalers as the devil fish because of its ferocity when threatened is the only living member of the family and genius names of the Danish naturalist Daniel eschrich

Grey whale

Which name for college of religious instruction comes from the Arabic for the study

Madrasa

What pen name did newspaper columnist Sir William Conor use when he writes for the daily mirror

Cassandra

What is the name of the trophy awarded to the man of the match of the rugby league challenge cup final

Lance Todd trophy

In which English county does the River Trent rise

Staffordshire

What was the last pitched battles to be fought on English soil in July 19,80 1685

Sedgemoor

Who was the second wife of Jacob in the mother of Joseph and Benjamin in the Bible

Rachel

Which is the only member of the cat family which cannot fully retract its claws

Cheater

Which sculptor created gilt bronze baldachin that stands over the tomb of Saint Peter in Rome

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Which Paul Simon song written more who’s on a tour of English clubs is commemorated by the black one Widnes station Liverpool Liverpool

Homeward bound

To two decimal places, how many centimetres are there in an inch?

2.54

What traditional toppin of a simnel cake

Marzipan (balls)

It’s in the words of a popular first world war song it’s a long way to where

Tipperary

Which prolific writer of romantic fiction was born Tyne Dock County Durham in 1906 set many novels in her native north-east

Catherine Cookson

In Christianity which title date in back to the fifth century A.D. was originally given to the bishops of the five major episcopal sees namely Rome Alexandria Antioch Constantinople and Jerusalem

Patriarch

What name is given to the method of printing of design that was originally drawn to a special place a flat limestone with a greasy crayon

Lithography

Which royal residences overlooked by the hill known as Arthur seat

Holyroodhouse

Which instrument did Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five play

Drums

Which actress appeared with Mike Sarbe on the 1962 chart-topping single come outside

Wendy Richard

Which DJ had hits of the 1960s with so much love and it’s only love which he complained as fellow DJs refuse to play

Tony Blackburn

In 1957 which song is Elvis Presley’s first UK number one single

All shook up

Which singer sometimes referred to as Britain’s Elvis was released from the army in 1959 is medically unfit after two months

Terry Dean

Which Everly Brothers single was number one in the UK charts for seven weeks in 1960

Cathy’s clown

Which group led by Gary Brooker topped the UK singles charts in 1967 with a hit inspired by a bach suite

Procol Harum

Which chart-topping single of 1958 was written by Otis Blackwell and jackhammer

Great balls of Fire

What was the third of Gerry & The Pacemakers three consecutive number one hits

You’ll never Walk alone How do you do it and I like it are the other two

Which creator of the twang guitar style first into the charts in 1958 with rebel rouser which reach number 19 in the UK charts

Duane Eddy

Which record by The Shangri-Las reach number 11 early in 1965 despite being banned in by the BBC

Leader of the Pack

Which singer of The Hollies sang uncredited about Jennifer Eccles and her terrible freckles on the scaffold is Lily the Pink

Graham Nash

In March 1959 which Paul Anka song post to mislead gave Buddy Holly his only solo UK number one hit

It doesn’t matter anymore

In the early 1960s which singer had a day job as a fitter with the gas board played at night in his brothers skiffle group the Cavaliers

Joe Cocker

Cilla Black Dionne Warwick and Mary may all took which song into the charts in 1964

Anyone who had a heart

Which group formed in 1969 featured Robert Fripp Greg Lake and Ian McDonald among its original lineup

King Crimson

Which founder member of Fleetwood Mac wrote the number one instrumental here albatross

Peter green

Arnold Layne was the first single released by which group it reach number 20 in the UK charts in 1967

Pink Floyd

The city of sterling stands on the right bank of which major river

Forth

Who played checkoff in the original Star Trek series

Walter koenig

The Aspen or trembling poplar belongs to which family of shrubs and trees

Willow

In 1844 teams from Canada and the USA play the first international match in which sport

Cricket

Which word derived from the old French for a splinter of wood is used to describe an artist workshop or studio

Atelier

What is the furthest celestial object visible to the naked eye is 2.3 million light years away from earth

Andromeda galaxy

What name is given to the two relatively small galaxies visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere which were first recorded and 1519

Magellanic clouds

What time is similar to Big Bang is used for the theory that the universe might eventually collapse back on itself and compressed to the singularity

Big crunch

When viewed from to widely different points in space a nearby start appear to have shifted slightly in position with respect to more distant stars what is this apparent displacement called

Parallax

What name is given to the phase of the moon or a planet when it appears more than half but not completely full

Gibbous

Which, named after two amateur American astronomer who discovered it reach does perihelion on first of April 1997

Hale bopp

What small constellation found at the foot of Orion represents the animal that the mythical giant was fond of hunting

Lepus or the hair

Which 19th-century English astronomer gives his name to the scale University use for measuring the brightness of a stellar object

Pogson

Which orange giant star represents the so-called bull’s-eye in Taurus

Aldebaran

Which Observatory situated about 40 miles north of San Diego is home to the 200 inch hail telescope which until 1976 what is the largest of its type

Palomar

What time describes the apparent path of the suns annual motion through the so-called fixed stars

Ecliptic

There in two seconds which classic album by Miles Davis one of the best selling jazz records of all times features the tracks so what and blue in green

Kind of Blue

Glenn moy and Glenn ample of varieties of which soft fruit widely grown in Scotland

Raspberry

Which actor whose first major success was the title role in the TV adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby is the son of a former attorney general and Lord Chancellor

Nigel Havers

Which Birmingham band first top the UK singles charts in 1983 with is there something I should know

Duran Duran

Which Steve has got his name because its presence was believed to be a sign the bad weather was coming

Storm petrol

In 2005 David Trimble succeeded as the leader of which political party by so Reg Empey

Ulster Unionist party

Who commanded the Parliamentary forces at the battle of Edgehill in October 1642

Robert Devereux Earl of Essex

In which city did Charles establishes headquarters after being turned back from London in November 1642

Oxford

In 1648 which Colonel purged the House of Commons of those MPs who wanted to negotiate with Charles

Prides purge

Which Parliamentary commander ended Scottish resistance by taking Sterling in August 1651 and Dundee the following month

George Monck

Did Charles the second issue a declaration on the 4th of April 1660 agreeing to an amnesty for most of those who have posed an excuse father paving the way for the restoration of the monarchy

Breda

Which word for a person who sets too much value on social standing was originally a slang term for a cobbler

Snob

Which Mediterranean island group came a little protection of the British crown in 1802 is Bonnie annex in 1814

Malta

Rich crooners last TV appearance was with David Bowie on the Mario Chris Michele recorded in September 1977

Bing Crosby

Which BBC television sports programs for Shannon 1958 here for the last time into two thousand and seven

Grandstand

In which country is the city of Schaffhausen mistakenly bombed by the Americans on April Fools’ Day 1944

Switzerland

What is the name of the Stone Age village on mainland in the Orkneys that was exposed by storm in the 1850s of being covered for thousands of years by saint sand

Skara Brae

A Which crime buying and selling ecclesiastical benefits is named after the biblical sorcerer who tried to buy spiritual powers from Peter and Jon

Simony

Who popularised the term is you and Noko New for types of speech and behaviour

Nancy Mitford

Which middle eastern city was the emperor Hadrian about A.D. 130 and renamed E in his honour

Jerusalem

Which modern French designers work include the furniture from President Mitterrand’s private suite in the Elysee Palace the interior of the café customers in Paris and juicy Salif lemon squeezer

Philippe Starck

In music what is the general term for a sombre select form of instrumental accompaniment such as one in an opera oratorio

Aria

Who played a successful but world-weary stand-up comedian called Rick spleen in the TV comedy series lead balloon

Jack Dee

In India Which general term from the Sanskrit word meaning accomplish is given to any Swami or saintly holy man

Sadhu

Who played the title role in the original London production of the musical Barnum

Michael Crawford

Who presented the TV series the tube with Paula Yates from 1982

Jools Holland

What name is given to the representations also known as :-) is used in emails and other electronic communications to indicate the writers feelings

Emoticons

INDIY what time is used for the enlargement of the rim of a drilled holes of a screw screw bolt can be inserted flush with the surface

Countersinking

According to accepted wisdom it is best to eat oysters is the name of the month includes which letter

R

What type of written work with Quentin Crisp described as an obituary in cereal form with the last instalment missing

Auto biography

Which monarch owned 640 dogs comprising 32 breeds?

Queen Victoria

Which clothing brand began in the Market Place in South Shields?

Barbour

What has topped the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch for the past 20 years?

Sparrow

Which food safety measure was pioneered by microbiologist Alice Evans?

Milk Pasteurisation

Old Faithful, or 11 to 15, is an opening move in which game?

Checkers/Draughts

Philippe Halsman famously photographed his subjects doing what?

Jumpimg

What links: Lieutenant Kijé; Comrade Ogilvy; Bunbury; Captain Tuttle; Susie?

Characters who don’t exist: Russian novella; the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; The Importance of Being Earnest; M*A*S*H; Seinfeld

What links Ba’; Bottle-kicking; Scoring the Hales; Uppies and Downies?

Medieval football games still played in the UK.

What links Lost in a Good Book; Havisham; Jack Maggs; Mister Pip?

Novels inspired by Great Expectations: Jasper Fforde; Ronald Frame; Peter Carey; Lloyd Jones.

What links Gas giant; Neptunian; super-Earth; terrestrial?

Categories of Exo-Planet

What links England (1485); France (923); Germany (1298); Scotland (1513)?

Last monarch to die in battle: Richard III at Bosworth; Robert I at Soissons; Adolf at Göllheim; James IV at Flodden.

Birthday was Bilbo celebrate another begin in the Lord of the rings

111

Token and his friend CS Lewis and Charles Williams members of which informal literary discussion group at a pub in Oxford

Inklings

Which two middle earth characters appear on token and his wife’s grave stones

Beren and Luthien

Which Smith of originally on forge the rings of power

Celebrimbor

In which year did the general strike take place in Great Britain

1926

What is the longest river in Northern Ireland with a total length of round 80 miles

River Bann

Which time was coined by Newton in the 17th century did the score of the band of colour formed when a beam of visible light like a split into its constituent wavelengths and literally means appearance in Laiten

Spectrum

What name is given to the fourth relocation of the Cherokee Native Americans to the western United States during the winter 1838

Trail of tears

What was the name of the lookout who is credited with the first sighting of the iceberg with which the Titanic collided

Frederick Fleet

How’s the titanic was sinking rich wealthy passenger appeared on back in for the evening dress with his valet in the And declared dressed in our best and I prepared to go down like gentleman

Benjamin Guggenheim

In which year did Robert Ballard’s expedition discover the wreck of the Titanic

1985

Indian cuisine what name derived from the Persian word meaning fried is often given to a dish of Basmati rice mixed with meat often topped with a thin omelette and salad with a separate vegetable curry

Biriyani

What name is given by Westerners to members of the Moore Laurie sector found in Anatolia because they chanted the ritual prayers with musical accompaniment while spinning on the right foot

Whirling Dervishes

Who resigned from his post of leader of the House of Commons in March 2003 in protest over the decision to take military action over against Iraq

Robin cook

What word is used for the attribution of human characteristics to any nonhuman objects especially animals

Anthropomorphism

Which type of dark coloured china tea has the name which is the Chinese for black dragon or black snake

Oolong

Richard Scottish painter painted the singing Butler

Jack vettriano

In 1965 who had a top 20 hits of a comedy version of a hard Day’s night in which he recited the lyrics in the style of Laurence Olivier’s Richard the third

Peter Sellers

Who composed the score for the film the piano

Michael Nyman

In cycling talk what are snakebites

Punctures

An awfully big adventure is a novel by which author

Beryl Bainbridge

Which Roman emperor was the grandson of Olivia and the nephew of Tiberius

Claudius

Who was the first husband of actress Joan Collins

Maxwell read

Which year were the first euro banknotes introduced into the EU

2002

The 1979 film the rose was lethal based on the life and death of which singer

Janis Joplin

Which Jane Austen character owns Dunwell Abby and estate

Mr Knightley

Which kind of geographical feature is a strath

Valley

In weaving what’s the directions to go in opposite ways called

Warp and Weft

Britain’s Charlie Magri was a world champion in which sport

Boxing

Which Australian state capital shares its name with the river on which it stands

Brisbane

The Amalienborg Palace is found in which European capital city

Copenhagen

Which London theatre was the 1st to be lit by electricity

Savoy

The auditorium ceiling of the Paris Opera house was painted by which artist

Mark Chagall

Which of the Channel Islands has a hereditary overlord known as the Seigneur

Sark

Which people rule in a stratocracy

Military

Which art galleries part of London Southbank complex

Hayward Gallery

Before getting into comedy what was Jackie Mason’s job

Rabbi

Manicotti is a variety of food

Pasta

Kurt Russell played Wyatt Earp in what western film

Tombstone

Micro biology is the study of what tiny organisms

Microbes

Cricketer Viv Richards was born on what island

Antigua

The first Disneyland theme park open in what decade

1950s

Pima Is a superior variety of what fabric

Cotton

The rutherGlenn wine region as in what country

Australia

Who created Rumpole of the Bailey

John Mortimer

Gilt frame is the colour of which metal

Gold

Lusty glaze Beach is in which Cornish resort

Newquay

The Irish oaks horse race is run out what course

The Curragh

Who wrote the 2011 of the fear index

Robert Harris

M What kind of fish is a bonnet head

Shark

John loveday is the title character in what Thomas Hardy novel

Trumpet major

A traditional seed cake is made using What seed

Caraway

The iron guard was a fascist movement what country

Romania

Wellingborough and Daventry are in the English county

Northamptonshire

What type of pet is a Grimalkin

Cat

Clive Hamilton was the synonym of which writer

CS Lewis

Which sport is nicknamed the sweet science

Boxing

Which spring month is traditionally said to be windy

March

American David Duval was a famous name in what sport

Golf

What animals did an ostler look after

Horses

John Fowles novel of What animals did an ostler look after is mainly set in what country What animals did an ostler look after

John Fowles novel the magus is mainly setting what country

Greece

Which satirical magazine features poems by EJ Thribb

Private eye

Abierto means open in what European language

Spanish

Aibileen and Minny Are maids is in what bestselling novel

The help

What sport was 80s kids shows jossys Giants based around

Football

Who is only American First Lady to win an Emmy award

Jackie Kennedy

We are in a chicken would you find a comb

On top of the head

BBC home service was replaced by what radio station

Radio four

What name is London criminal Jack mcvitie better known

Jack the Hat

What country did the Beckhams wed in 1999

Ireland

What colour wine is Chablis

White

Bert Weedon was famous as a teacher of what instrument

Guitar

What does peppermint patty call Charlie Brown in peanuts

Chuck

Finish the saying a new broom sweeps what

Clean

Who played Lancelot in the 1995 film first knight

Richard Gere

Name of what floor covering is the nickname for a wig

Rug

Maarivim Evening prayers in what religion

Judaism

In what county is Southwell racecourse

Nottinghamshire

Major bagstock is in which dickens novel

Dombey and son

Syon park estate in what capital city

London

Habichtsburg castle was ancestral seat of which dynasty?

Hapsburg

Which Italian composed the opera La Forza Del Destino

Giuseppe Verde

ISBN stands for what

International standard book number

When I was a youngster was the 2011 July 2011 for which cure which duo

Rizzle kicks

Which actor played Jack Taylor in the film one fine Day

George Clooney

Which German car company makes the fayton and the Jetta models

VW

Santiago Cabrera played sir Lancelot on what TV drama

Merlin

For the first time for what Irish Pop rock band

The script

Native to Australia what creature is a planes Wunderer

Bird

Cry me out was a hit for which British pop star

Pixie Lott

Iceman is the nickname for which Finnish Formula One driver

Kimi Räikkönen

Since 1971 syria been ruled by men with what surname

Assad

Girl band eternal originally had how many members

For

Which actress won an Oscar for the film the accidental tourist

Geena Davis

Which Bulgarian tennis player was nicknamed Baby Fed

Grigor Dimitrov

Which mrl Gibson film featured the villain toe cutter

Mad Max

Acetylene contains carbon what other element

Hydrogen

This homo Heidelberg Ensis it’s also regarded as the ancestor of which of a group of humans that is known to have in a bread with modern humans this group is named after a cave in Siberia

Denisovans

After losing the presidential election in 1930, which politician seized power in Brazil in an armed revolution and acted as a dictator until ousted in 1945? Won presidential election again in 1950.

Getulio Vargas

Prado painting 1562 painting by Bruegel the elder showing people herding into coffin by army of skeletons, starving dog feeding on child’s corpse, post apocalyptic.

The Triumph of Death

Extinction of thylacine and Tasmanian devil has left the mammals as largest marsupial predator in mainland Australia? Largest species call the tiger cat.

Quoll

Term “Deus ex Machina” used btw chun Greek playwright famously in his tragedies including Hippolytus, Andromache and Helen?

Euripides

Before partnership with Nureyev, Fonteyn would partner which Australian dancer? He replaced Ashton as choreographer to Vic-wells ballet during ww2.

Robert Helpmann

The Onin War large scale civil war often considered start of which period of Japanese history? Name roughly translates as warring states.

Sengoku Period

Two word term Carl Jung used to described deepest part of human mind where primitive experiences rest?

Collective unconscious

Which striped marsupial, related to quolls and dunnarts, has a diet that consists of almost entirely of termites? It’s range over covered most of continents

Numbat

Bottom left of painting a woman wraps demon in pillow; man ties a bell to a cat, one man swims against the tide, another bangs head against wall; name of this Bruegel the Elder painting?

Netherlandish Proverbs

Sex hormones in humans consist of three major groups: androgens, oestrogens and what third group? Involved in menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryo formation.

Progestogens

In Poland solidarity Union badges were banned under martial law so they donned pins of which icon that was symbol of national resistnce?

Black Madonna of Czestochowa

Which play by Moliere ends up with fa Lois example of a Deus ex Machina in which king makes first appearance to intervene in order to save the naive Orgon from arrest

Tartuffe

Which man born a peasant became trusted retainer of Nobunaga and succeeded him as second great unifier of Japan?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Which Mexican general lost leg in 1838 during pastry war and ordered it be buried with full honours? Later leg was dug up and dragged around in protest of tax rise.

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Which two Latin words did Jung use to describe most important anthropomorphic archetypes: unconscious masculine component of the female psyche and the unconscious feminine component of male psyche?

Anima and Animus

Famous Danish male ballet dancer, partnered with Alicia Markova and Carla Fracci, long relationship with Rudolf Nureyev.

Erik Bruhn

Vargas killed himself in 1954, in 1955 who became president of brazil on a pro Vargas coalition with future president Joao Goulart? This man’s 10 year presidency saw widespread economic reforms as well as founding of Brasilia.

Juscelino Kubitschek (JK)

Ending of whcih playwright’s The Dog in the Manger arguably a Deus ex Machina revealed Teodoro is counts lost long son and therefore free to marry Diana. Other play sees magistrate intervene on behalf of Ferdinand and Isabella to pardon villagers of fuenteovejuna.

Lope de Vega

Before death in 1598, Hideyoshi appointed council of five elders to assist his five year old son. One of this council was which man, the third great unified of Japan and the founder of his namesake shogunate that marked the end of the Sengoku period, and the beginning of the Edo period.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Catabolic hormones control body’s breaking down of molecules, main one is produced in pancreas and has opposite effect to insulin in bloodstream. What is it?

Glucagon

Which head of Catholic Church in Timor leste won 1996 Nobel peace prize ?

Carlos Belo

Jung used the anima to refer to someone’s innermost being, he contrasted this with which term that refers to the mask or public face that an individual presents to the world?

Persona

Lesser species of which Australian marsupial related to the bandicoots went extinct in the 1950s over the greatest species still survive stay are nocturnal boring rabbit sized omnivores with a long nose and strikingly big ears and they are used instead of an Easter bunny buy some Australian confectioners

Greater Bilby

Name of Shiva’s bull

Nandi

One of the earliest social realist art movements in United States which school are by Robert Henry this movements paintings to pick it every day life in New York at the turn of the 20th century

Ashcan School

Which comet was first observed by Pierre Mechain in 1786 but was named after German astronomer who recognised it as a periodic comet and calculated orbit in 1819? It is coded 2P.

Encke’s Comet

Beginning with the famous line I am American Chicago born which 1953 novel transparent listen penniless protagonists name in the title free pay pre-and post oppression Chicago it’s loose episodic structure is typical of picaresque novel is

The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)

Which African country is the worlds only nation to have French Spanish and Portuguese as official national languages

Equatorial Guinea

Known as the Queen of the Hansa which city on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast today within/ Schleswig-Holstein served as a de facto capital of the Hanseatic league

Lubeck

Which common sedimentary rock is composed of tiny grains of silica finer than gravel and cut metamorphosis into quartzite

Sandstone

Which faith practises proxy baptism of ancestors?

Mormons

What is the chemical element with the longest name?

Rutherfordium

Which hell-raising actor kept a suite at the Savoy for 28 years?

Richard Harris

In 1717, the value of what was fixed at 21 shillings?

Guinea coin

Winning 1942 Carnegie Medal, author Denys Watkins-Pitchford wrote under which pseudonym?

BB

George William Russell was an Irish nationalist writer who wrote under which two letter pseudonym?

AE

What links: Portuguese colony, 1702; invaded by Indonesia, 1975; independent, 2002?

Timor Leste

What links Pontcysyllte Aqueduct; Menai Suspension Bridge; Caledonian Canal?

Thomas Telford designs

Which Aqueduct designed by Thomas Telford goes over river Dee and carries the Llangollen canal?

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

What are the three types of mammals?

Egg-laying monotreme; marsupial; placental

What links: Maria Teresa de Filippis; Lella Lombardi; Divina Galica; Desiré Wilson; Giovanna Amati?

Female drivers to have driven in F1

Which German word literally mean in building up is used to describe the principle that electrons are atomically configured such that they feel lower energy orbitals before higher energy ones

Aufbau

Heth the son of Canon and great grandson Noah gave name to which biblical civilisation live canaan at the time of Abraham the same name as used by ancient group in the indoEuropean who moved into a Asia Minor and formed empire at Hattusa at the tutor in Anatolia around 1600 BC

Hittites

Among schools of early realism was Peredvizhniki, labourers and farm workers. Best known work Barge Haulers on the Volga by which artist who also did Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks?

Ilya Repin

Liu Biao had been appointed Governor of Jingzhou during which popular uprising against Han dynasty? Named after clothing.

Yellow turban rebellion

In which major city did Hanseatic League establish a Kontor called tbh e SteelyArd sometimes in 13th century? Most of sites buildings destroyed in 1660s

London

Which German’s namesake “rule of maximum multiplicity” states that electrons will fill orbitals of equal energy simply before filling them in pairs to achieve the greatest spin?

Friedrich Hund

Vanuatu capital city

Port Vila

Which comet was dubbed great comet of 1996 as it was more visible than the Hale Bopp COMET? It was discovered by and named after a Japanese amateur astronomer and first comet to be observed emitting x rays.

Comet Hyakutake

Solzhenitsyn’s best known non fiction work is which three volume account of life in Soviet forced Labour camps, written 1958-68? Books title compares camp to chain of islands known only to those who visit them.

The Gulag Archipelago

Eastern most major city in which the Hanseatic league established a contour which Russian city famed for its first in pounds which was then the capital of its namesake Republic you should not be confused with similar name city on the Volga there was a major trade half centuries later

Novgorod

Zhuge Liang advisor to Liu Bei at which battle the largest naval battle in history which saw forces combine to defeat larger forces of Cao Cao? Named after geographical feature on south bank of Yangtze.

Battle of Red Cliffs

Another metamorphic rock used as a building material is this rock created by the metamorphism of shell or a similar sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash this is which find green grey or greatest rock that easily split into smooth flat plates which can be used as roof tiles

Slate

According to genesis: Mizraim, Cush and Phut were sons of Ham who made up Hamite branch. Mizraim is Hebrew and Aramaic name for which country whose inhabitants todaynknown their nation by related Arabic name of Misr.

Egyptb

Founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais which experimental group of mostly French-speaking writers sought to create works using constrained writing techniques

Oulipo

Which genus of mosquitos transmits malaria!

Anopheles

Which 1940 novel by Arthur Koestler set during the Moscow show trials ends with the execution of the prisoner rubbishoff

Darkness at Noon

Founded by the Golden horde in the late 13th century and the most popular city on the river Volga Kazan is the capital of which Russian republic

Tatarstan

Until 2017, Mugabe has been leader of what Zimbabwe party since 1980?

ZANU-PF

Which American artist created the cat mobile in the Museum of contemporary Art Chicago made from sheet metal in steel wire and features the face of a cat painted in the sculptures signature red suspended in front of a black body

Alexander Calder

In 2013 Caroline short became the youngest person to win the Pulitzer prize for music for her a cappella work partita for eight voices thousand 19 following accusations of cultural appropriation from Tanya Tagaq one of the leading formers in which vocal tradition

Katajjaq or Inuit throat singing

A former Panopticon prison repurposed into a museum can be found in the capital of an island whose name when translated means isle of youth. Island formerly isle of pines is second largest of which island country.

Cuba

Named after an American chemist which chemical reagent made of a mixture of sodium carbonate sodium citrate and copper sulphate pentahydrate is often used in place of Fehlings solution to detect the presence of reducing sugars?

BeneDicts Reagent

Which queen of Halicarnassus was an ally of Xerxes the first during his invasion of Greece she personally command to navy split at the battle of salamis an escape the battle by deliberately running and sinking of friendly ship it was blocking her own ships path

Artemisia the first

Which political party has ruled Mozambique since independence in 1975? Founded in 1962 to fight for Mozambique’s independence for a bit of civil war against the anti-Communist faction RENAMO

FRELIMO

What is the numerical name used to refer collectively to the period of massive intellectual expansion in which several different philosophies developed and florist in the spring and autumn warring states period of ancient China

100 schools of thought

Which German physicist an astronomer born in 1876 gives his name to the radius below which the gravitational attraction between the particles of a body must cause it to undergo irreversible gravitational collapse

Karl Schwarzschild

Featuring a selection of interlink stories based on the lives of residence of a Parisian apartment block the 1978 novel life users manual is among the best-known works of which member of a OuLipo

Georges Perec

Originally published in Russian in the mid-1930s which Vladimir Nabokov novel describes the final days of the prisoner CincinnatusC and ends with a prisoner on the scaffold awaiting his execution

Invitation to a Beheading

Which French astronomer and mathematician born in 1820 gives his name to the limit or minimum distance to which a satellite can approach its primary body without being this integrated by the latter’s tidal forces

Edouard Roche

During 6th century BC, which ancient queen reigned over the Massagetae a nomadic Scythian people from Central Asia? According to Herodotus her armies were responsible for killing Cyrus the Great in 530BC

Tomyris

Its residents known as jalapeños and I’m also given to the popular peppers cultivated hear the city of Xalapa is the capital of which Mexican state

Veracruz

Which contemporary artist produced the enormous bronze sculpture of a cat found in the neighbourhood of El Raval Barcelona the cat is an example of the exaggerative a swollen form typical of this artist

Fernando Botero

Which chemical reagent mainly used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones functional groups often produces a characteristic silver mirror in a positive test

Tollens Reagent

One of the best name works using a Oulipo’s constraint writing techniques which 300 page 1969 novel by George Perec written entirely without using the letter E

A Void

In the book of exodus who is what is the mother of women the mother of Moses according to traditional biblical chronology she was 130 years old when she gave birth to him

Jochebed

Which short story by Kafka is there a torch Machina cast the name of the Lord has been broken into the body of the content repeatedly until the prisoner succumbs to the wounds

In the Penal Colony

From the ancient Greek for leaving out a letter what is the name of the kind of constraint writing demonstrated in perec’s novel A Void in which a letter a group of letters avoided for entire work

Lipogram

Formerly known as Pietersburg and country’s largest urban centre north of Gauteng, Polokwane is the capital of which South African province?

Limpopo

Which artists 2007 self portrait is a bronze sculpture that features a five legged cat withhhuman face! Sculptor produced many sketches inspired by childhood cats Tyger and Champfleurtte

Louise Bourgeois

Surname of the ancient Vietnamese sisters who ruled the country for three years after rebelling against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam in 40 AED

Trung

Which political party is served as governing party of Namibia since the countries independence in 1990 founded in 19 60,000 independence movement this party launched attacks against the South African military using MPLa bases in Angola

SWAPO

Which sculptor created 1954 work The Cat shown at the Met in New York? Said his brother Diego’s cat would pass narrowly by and this is reflected by extremely narrow body.

Alberto Giocometti

Which English astronomer physicist born in 1882 gives his name to the theoretical upper limit of the mass of a star beyond which is luminosity would be so high that would blow off the outer layers of the star

Arthur Eddington

Sometimes considered founder of the Druze relgiion( which shepherd and priest from Midian was father of law of Moses in exodus’s?

Jethro

Which 1890 short story by Ambrose Bierce describes the thoughts of the slave owner Peyton fuck off at the time of his execution is there an American Civil War fuck you was hanging from the titular structure

An occurrence at owl creek bridge

Shammuramat reigned as regent of Assyria in late 9th century BCE. Believed to be inspiration of which mythical warrior queen who said to have built a tunnel under Euphrates? Legendary queen appears among souls of the lustful in second circle of hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Semiramis

Formerly known as Fengtian and Mukden and most populous city in northeast China, Shenyang is capital of which Chinese province?

Liaoning

Poem in ten cantos by Luis Vaz de Camoes considered Portugal’s national epic?

Os Lusiadas or The Lusiads

Because he was feared for hail thunder and lightning, children were drowned annually as a sacrifice to him. Which Aztec deity, commonly with goggle eyes and fangs was god of rain, fertility and water?

Tlaloc

Ninth after the American Secretary of State and Spanish Foreign Minister who negotiated the which treaty of 1819 seeded Florida to the United States

Adams-Onis Treaty

Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia was originally constructed as a personal mausoleum for whcih 12th century Khmer king whose regnal name can be translated as protected by the sun?

Suryavarman II

After Kaaba in Mecca and Prophets Mosque in Medina what is the third holiest site in Islam and what city?

Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

What is is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying

Mihrab

From Arabic for direction, term used for the direction of Mecca shown by a Mihrab in a mosque?

Qibla

Arguably the fourth holiest site in Islam where is the mosque in which city that houses the mausoleum of saladin the mosque had been the shrine dedicated to John the Baptist until the Muslim conquest of the city and 634CE

Damascus

What is the medical name of the soft very thin and down here that often found in the body of a fetus or a newborn baby

Lanugo

The Angkor Wat temple was sacked and 1177 by which traditional enemies of the Kaymer based in central and southern Vietnam is kingdom built the Mai San temple complex between the fourth in the 14th century is

Champa Kingdom

Some hydrocarbons are polymers such as this one made from a monomer derived from benzene with the chemical formula C6 H5CHCH2 this is which hydrocarbon polymer commonly used as lightweight packaging

Polystyrene

What ballet with music by Stravinsky and choreography by Michel Fokine follows the actions of free puppet suit brought to life by the charlatans Shrovetide fair

Petrushka

Which swampy inland delta in Botswana was the thousandth site to be officially inscribed in the UNESCO world Heritage list all the big five game animals are found here as a marabou storks and Nile crocodiles

Okavango delta

Focusing on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events the 2007 book the Black Swan the impact of the highly improbable is a work by which Lebanese born American scholar and former option trader

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Written in late 10th and early 11th centuries by Persian poet Ferdowsi, which poem tells mythical past of Persian empire from creation until Muslim conquest and widely considered epic of Iran?

Shahnameh or The Book of Kings

Something in the sanctuary of Abraham as Islam is 45 this site fourth holiest site site visit by the prophet Muhammad during his night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem is located in which middle eastern city

Hebron (Palestine)

The oldest surviving major work a French literature which 11th century epic poem tells of the Frankish military leader and the Charlemagne and his role at the battle of Roncevaux Pass?

La Chanson de Roland

Following sack of Angkor Wat, new Khmer capital was established on West Bank of Siam Reap a mile or so to the north. This is which city, the last and most enduring capital of Khmer empire c

Angkor Thom

What if European city is known in Arabic is the city of Saints old ward section of the city is listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO which notes of the areas that are fourth holiest city of Islam?

Harar

Painted while Velasquez was travelling in Italy in 1650 which portrait hits the artist in slaved assistant it was the first painting to sell for more than £1 million

Portrait of Juan de Pareja

With a name meaning Book of the Community, in the Kiche language, which 16th century mesoamerican manuscript recounts the mythology and history of the Maya kingdom of Kiche in highland Guatemala?

Popol Vuh

Some hydrocarbons are solids such as this compound with the molecular formula C 10 H8 which aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a fused pair of benzene rings is the best known as the traditional primary ingredient of mothballs

Naphthalene

What derisive nickname was given to the parliament met briefly and 1614 during the reign of James the first dissolved in despite having passed no legislation

Addled Parliament

One of the first signs of George the third madness was allegedly addressing an oak tree as if it were the king of which country

Prussia

Edward the second is one of to Plantagenet king is born in Wales who is the other

Henry the fifth

Edward the seventh state visit to France in 1903 sets with paved the way for an agreement between Britain and France the following year what name is given to this agreement

Entente cordiale

Mary Tudor appointed Stephen gardener and the Bishop of Winchester to which position in August 15 53 despite his role in her parents divorce

Lord Chancellor

Who led a revolt against Queen Mary in January 15 54 marching from Kent to London where he was forced to surrender

Wyatt

Who did Prince of Wales later George the fourth secretly in a legally marry at her home in Park Street Mayfair on the 15th of December 1785

Maria Fitzherbert

When James the second’s wife Mary of modena er give birth to a son in 1688 it was rumoured that the child was not really hers and have been smuggled into her bedroom inside water object

Warming pan

Name of William the Conqueror’s half brother who fought with him at the Battle of Hastings but was later arrested for allegedly aspiring to the papacy

Odo

Which order of chivalry was remodelled and had it ordinances rewritten by Edward the sixth

Order of the garter

At which battle of May 14 71 forces of Edward the fourth defeat those of Queen Margaret of Anjou

The battle of Tewkesbury

What was the full name of John of Gaunt’s third wife through whom Henry the Tudor claim direct percent from King Edward the third

Katherine Swynford

What was the name of the house in Yorkshire where the future Edward the seventh of staying when he became embroiled in a card cheating scandal

Tranby Croft

In 1867 the English position Thomas Albert invented the short version of which basic clinical instrument earlier models have been a foot long and took 20 minutes to work

Thermometer

Thomas Hardy’s last novel

Jude the obscure

What name is given to a loaf made from two rounds of dough a smaller one placed on top of a larger one

Cottage loaf

In the TV series Life On Mars in which year does DI Sam Tyler find himself living and working after a car crash

1973

Which element has the lowest normal boiling point

Helium

In Hinduism beliefs of which herb closely related to a plant used in Italian cooking laid on the dead body to ensure it safe arrival in Paradise

Basil

Who was the first king of the united Picts and Scots Ihis rule extended over the part of Scotland north of the fourth and Clyde

Kenneth McAlpine

Steve McQueen had his first starring role in which 1958: horror film about an amorphous creature from out of space

Blob

Which 1956 film star in Grace Kelly was a musical remake of the Philadelphia story

High Society

In the Bible who was succeeded by Joshua is the leader of the Israelites

Moses

Which word of Russian origin as used to the flat generally treeless grassland that extends Eastwoods from Hungary through Siberia and into north-eastern China

Steppe

What name is used for the side piece or post of the door or window frame

Jamb

Which champagne was first produced in 1876 in its characteristic clear bottle for Alexander the second set of Russia

Cristal

Memphis was established by Menes as the first capital of which ancient country

Egypt

Which British three of them planted on riverbanks to help prevent erosion is suitable for charcoal making and was once used for making clogs

Alder

What name is traditionally used for seats in the uppermost gallery of a theatre because the blue sky painted on many theatre ceilings was fought to represent heaven

The Gods

Bernard Leach established a pottery which Cornish resort in 1920

St Ives

Smoked fish is one of the main ingredients in an omelette Arnold Bennett

Haddock

In mash what was the nickname of corporal Walter o’Riley played by Gary Burghoff

Radar

How many pounds in a monkey

500

What furry animals with the interview at Eurovision 1974

Wombles

Maybe fourth holiest site in islam is great mosque of which Tunisian city of same name! Also known as mosque of Uqba.

Kairouan

Sometimes known as beestings or first milk in English, medical name for sticky yellowish fluid loridxdd by mammary glands and encourage baby to pass the meconium?

Colostrum

What name given to long whip like appendage primary used for locomotion that protrudes from body of certain eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells?

Flagellum

Forced to abdicate in 1912 who was last emperor of China and final Qing ruler?

Puyi

Designed by CY Lee and CP Wang this super tall Asian skyscraper was worlds tallest building from 2004 until 2009

Taipei 101

The island of Babeldaob is largest island of which country! Located in western Caroline islands this island makes up over 70% of country’s land area?

Palau

1949 novel Confessions of a Mask told story of weakly boy struggling come terms with attraction with other boys and gay identity. Work by which Japanese novelist?

Yukio Mishima

Austrian pianist between 1932 and 35 recorded Beethoven 32 piano sonatas first time

Arthur Schnabel

Becoming extinct in 1844 which species of flightless bird was only modern species in genus pinguinus? Last two specimens killed on Icelandic island of Eldey.

Great Auk

Which totalitarian fiction state founded by political group Sons of Jacob following assassination of US President?

republic of Gilead

What is Japanese name of shape shifting foxes who play role of tricksters in Japanese folktales? Foxes serve as messengers of Shinto spirit Inari.

Kitsune

Mishima: A Vision of the Void is a 1980 volume length essay by which Belgian born French author! First woman admitted to academie Francaise, best known for Memoirs of Hadrian.

Marguerite Yourcenar

N essay of 1756 which French writer described Holy Roman Empire neither holy nor Roman nor an empire

Voltaire

Which prominent Labour politician was Mp for ebbw vale from 1929 to deYh in 1960

Nye Bevan

What type of fruit is a costard from which we get the word costermonger?

Apple

Which Swiss city stands on river Rhine where French, German and Swiss borders meet?

Basel

Which Icelandic volcano is erupted over 20 times since the 11th century is according to myth the gateway to Purgatory

Hekla

Serra da Estrela are highest mountains on mainland of which European country?

Portugal

Which Canadian city at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike River what’s the service and supply centre of the late 19th century gold rush

Dawson city

Monte Cinto What’s the highest point which Mediterranean island

Corsica

The aberdare mountains are situated just south of equator in which country

Kenya

Which major of German river empties into the North Sea port of Bremerhaven

Weser

Which active volcano has local name Mongibello meaning beautiful mountain

Mt Etna

In which country do Tigris and Euphrates both rise?

Turkey

What is longest river in Iberian peninsula?

Tagus

Name of which Mexican volcano mean Smoky Mountain in at the local Indian language

Popocatepetl

Crush leaves of which plant yield blue dye used by ancient Britons body paint

Woad

The 16th Earl of Warwick also known as the kingmaker was killed at which battle in 1471

Barnet

Anatomy which organs of the body located with a membrane known as the visceral pleura

Lungs

In Othello what’s the name of Iago’s wife

Emilia

Who both won and lost French presidential elections against around François Mitterrand and

Giscard d’Estaing

Name of young hare

Leveret

What is the code name for the allied landings in north-west African November 1942

Operation Torch

What first solo hit with Suedehead which reached number five in the UK charts in February 1988

Morrisey

Which fashion designer opened her first boutique in Chelsea Kings Road in 1955 with a future husband Alexander Plunkett green

Mary Quant

Which ferry port lies on holy island on the north west top of wales?

Holyhead

Stalin ate my homework is title of which comedians childhood memoirs?

Alexei Sayle

Which American comedian was famous for parodies of pop songs of mid 1950s such as The Great Pretender and The Banana Boat Song?

Stan Freberg

Luftwaffe literally means what in English

Air weapon

Which Russian ballet star defected to the west in September 1970

Makarova

Who wrote the lyrics for the song I could write a book

Lorenz Hart (for Rodger’s and Hart musical Pal Joey also known for song Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered)

Vladimir Horowitz was virtuoso on which instrument? He married Wanda Toscanini.

Piano

Myra Hess was a virtuosos on which instrument?

Piano

Cape Breton Island is in which Canadian province?

Nova Scotia

Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale two of the big three furnitures, who was the third with first name George?

George Hepplewhite

Who was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer in the labour government at 9:45

Hugh Dalton

name of clay ring in sumo wrestling

Dohyo

What does vegetables macedoine meN?

Diced

Which quiz show host directed the 1970s comedy Bless This House?

William G Stewart

In which Surrey town was classic sitcom Terry and June set?

Purley

Named after the Dordogne rock shelter where five skeletons were discovered in 1868, were first early modern humans to settle in Europe migrating from Western Asia?

Cro-Magnons

A museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, is devoted to culture of this Laotian people who helped the US AND OFTEN CAME HERE.

Hmong

Among high profile Beninese-Americans is this Oscar nominee for In America and Blood Diamond?

Djimon Hounsou

This Moliere comedy about an imposter was first performed for king Louis XIV at Versailles in 1664

Tartuffe or The Imposter/Hypocrite

Oddly there’s an Alcatraz east crime museum in this town more famous as the home of Dollywood

Pigeon Forge

She played a mom on 2 very different shows: married with children and sons of anarchy.

Katey Sagal

Pursued by Apollo, the nymph Daphne was transformed into this tree associated with poets

Laurel

The bony socket that surrounds the eye is also called this?

Orbit

Located near today’s Mary in Turkmenistan which major city on Silk Road was centre of satrapy of Margiana?

Merv

Which historic Uzbek city on Silk Road is home to Kalyan Minaret and served as capital of Samanid Empire in 9th and 10th centuries? City’s inhabitants are primarily tajik speakers.

Bukhara

Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome result from compression of which nerve of the forearm?

Median nerve

Marguerite Yourcenar’s early works heavily influenced by which author whose own gay awakening in North Africa in mid 1890s heavily influenced works such as The Fruits of the Earth?

Andre Gide

Argentine pianist made first recording of Beethoven first piano concerto. Gave up in 1981 as felt lonely on stage she did.

Martha Argerich

Capital of Xinjiang in northwest China?

Urumqi

In which 19th century poem does narrator implore “is there balm in Gilead?” To the taciturn title figure?

The Raven by Poe

1989 which political leader asked Mikhail Gorbachev to send the Soviet army to oppress protest in Leipzig? Ring Gorbachev refuse this man was forced from office and replaced as general secretary by Egon Krenz shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall

Erich Honecker

Is there no balm in Gilead is question asked by titular prophet in whcih book of Old Testament? Sometimes known as weeping prophet, according to tradition, also said to have written the Book of Kings and Book of Lamentations.

Jeremiah

Zhou Yougang who died in 2017 developed which writing system the officially used romanisation for Mandarin Chinese?

Pinyin

Originating in the works of Aristotle which word from the Greek for conclusion or inference Is given to the logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two propositions that are taken to be true

Syllogism

After circling KaAba, pilgrims performing Hajj often stop to drink from which well that is said to have been divinely created to allow Ishmael to quench his thirst?

Zamzam

Which Prussian mathematician give us a note of function returns one is the value of the integers I and J are equal and zero if they are not equal

Leopold Kronecker

Emil Fischer and Arthur Speier developed and give their names to process of forming which organic compounds? In their method a carboxylic acid and an alcohol are refluxed in presence of an acid catalyst.

Ester

Discovered in 1851 by William Lassell, which moon of Uranus the third largest is named after dusky melancholy sprite from Alexander pope poem Rape of the Kock

Umbriel

Big Planets Moons in size order codes

Jupiter: GCIEA Saturn: TRIDTEM Uranus: TOUAM Neptune: TPLNG (Triton, Proteus, Nereid, Larissa, Galatea)

Occupying narrow isthmus between Hauraki Gulf and Manukau Harbour, which city, established in 1840 was named after a future Governor General of India? It lost its status as capital city in 1865

Auckland

Which new world monkeys belong to genus Ateles which means incomplete as they have no vestigial thumbs or lack them?

Spider Monkeys

Which English composer included spirituals Steal Away, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen and Deep River in his secular oratorio A Child of Our Time which was written during Second World War in response to Kristallnacht.

Michael Tippett

Large desert stretches across India to Indus to eastern hills? Sometimes called Great Indian Desert.

Thar Desert

Which former capital located on Ebrie Lagoon was connected to sea in 1951 by Vridi Canal? Lost capital status in 1983 during rule of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny.

Abidjan

Another writer at Pere Lachaise is which Nobel prize winning Guatemalan author whose 1949 masterpiece Men of Maize is seen as defence of a Mayan culture:

Miguel Angel Asturias

Known as Lun Yu in chinese( which of four books of Confucianism is collection of sayings and speeches by Confucius that compiled during warring states period after his death

Analects

Criminal Viennese draft Fischerle dreams of defrauding Peter Kien so he can travel to America to become a chess champion in Auto da Fe (Die Blendung) one of best known works of which Nobel prize winning novelist?

Elias Canetti

Allan Kaprow was student of which man whose 1952 multimedia performance event at black mountain college (theatre piece no 1) has been retroactive Ely described as the first happening? Several of the works in this composer’s variations series are considered notable Happenings.

John Cage

Sometimes called African Mahler which English composer did overture The Song of Hiawatha?

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn were among those who spearheaded which political group active during the English civil war whose demands for reform included universal male suffrage? The diggers were splinter group otherwise known as the True _____.

Levellers

In the novel “Le Pere Goriot” the central character is buried in Pere Lechaise cemetery anticipating the burial there of r which author of the novel?

Honore de Balzac

“I wanna be ready”, “Wade in the water” and “sinner man” are among sliritauals used in revelations a modern dance piece about history of African American faith by which choreographer? It is signature work of his namesake dance companyz

Alvin Ailey

In which disproportionation reaction named after its Italian discoverer do aldehydes lacking an alpha-hydrogen react to form a carboxylic acid and an alcohol?

Cannizzaro Reaction

Also buried at Pere Lachaise is which American author of memoir Black Boy, who describes the murder of a white woman by a black youth in novel Native Son?

Richard Wright

In which novel set in fictional Central European province of Castalia, does Joseph Knecht achieve the rank of Magister Ludi after mastering the novels titular activity?

The Glass Bead Game

Yin and Yang are associated with broken or solid lines in which Chinese text consisting of 64 hexagrams used for divination? Commonly translated as Book of Changes or Classic of Changes.

I Ching

Which female American composer included spirituals “deep river”, “go down, Moses” and “nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen” in 1934 work Mississippi River Suite?

Florence Price

Located at mouth of Haulover Creek on coast of Caribbean Sea, which city almost entirely destroyed in October 1961 when Hurricane Hattie swept ashore. Built new inland capital.

Belize City

Proposed for reclassification as an organ due to 2012 research using electron microscopes, the mesentery is a continuous set of tissues formed by the double fold of which serous membrane that forms lining of abdominal cavity?

Peritoneum

When awarded the Nobel prize the Nobel committee cited Mann’s 1901 novel Buddenbrooks which was set in which city( the same city Mann born in 1875

Lubeck

In Norse mythology; what was the name of the ship owned by Freyr which although enormous could be folded up when not needed and placed in one’s pocket?

Skidbladnir

Which uninhabited coral island, territory of USA about 1709km sw of Honolulu is best known as island Earhart never reached? Airstrips built in late 1930s for her have gradually fallen into disuse and disappeared.

Howland Island

Which German scientist won the 1961 Nobel physics for effect since named after him, in which a nucleus emits or absorbs gamma radiation without loss of energy to nuclear recoil?

Rudolf Mossbauer

On its completion in 1869, it’s composer decided not worthy of number and declared it didn’t count. As a result, the third symphony by which composer is commonly known as the Zeroth Symphony?

Anton Bruckner

Architectural firm Foster and Partners designed which planned city project in Abu Dhabi? This city is designed to rely primarily on solar energy and it is home to HQ of the internaitonal renewable energy agency.

Masdar City

Which Bangladeshi entrepreneur won 2006 Nobel peace prize and founded Grameen Bank which gave micro loans.

Muhammad Yunus

One of WW2’s most decisive battles on Burma front was which town now capital of Nagaland Indian state from April to June 1944? One point fighting descended into hand to hand with only a tennis court separating two sides in on the hill.

Kohima

Name of irrigation system used on Bali to grow rice?

Subak

Name of actor born Harvey Yeary

Lee Majors

In the Addams family what is Wednesdays middle name in the Addams family

Friday

Which member of the Bach family was known as the English Bach

Johann Christian Bach

Which member of the family was known as the Berlin bark and then the Hamburg Bach when he succeeded Teleman as couple master there

Carl Philip Emanuel Bach

Knut Hamsun won which Nobel prize

Literature

With which political organisation was Chief Buthelezi chiefly associated?

Inkatha

The Czech city of Ostrava has an airport named after which classical composer of music

Leos Janacek

Bookmakers slang what does carpet mean

3/1

The Rye House plot of 1683 was planning to assassinate which king

Charles II

Which language is also known as Lettish

Latvian

The opera and musical the chocolate soldier was based on which play by George Bernard Shaw

Arms and the man

What day celebrated annually in America on the third Monday of January each year

Martin Luther King day

Which day is celebrated annually in the United States on the third Monday of February

Presidents’ Day

Which federal holiday in the US celebrated on the first Monday in September annually

Labor Day

On which moving day each year is Canadian thanksgiving held on

For second Monday in October

What day of the week is the US elections always held on

Tuesday

What day of the week is the UK elections always held on

Thursday

Talisker whiskey is distilled on which island

Skye

Of which group of islands is Muckle Flugga a part!

Shetland islands

In Spanish tradition 12 which fruit should be eaten as the clock strikes midnight at December 31

Grapes

Who plays title character of judge John deed

Martin Shaw

Name given to row of decorative flags

Bunting

Who wrote the sitcom just good friends and dear John

John Sullivan

Vincent Cassel played which French gangster in at 2008 film

Jacques Mesrine

Jason Donovan played Mitzi West End stage musical

Priscilla Queen of the desert

What was the name of Tony’s wife in the Sopranos

Carmela

Zane Lowe it was born in which country

New Zealand

The great asparagus was the nickname of which French leader

Charles de Gaulle

Who played Colonel Ryan in the war film Von Ryan’s express

Frank Sinatra

What is the name of Jasper Conran’s mum and dad both famous new pet baby

Shirley and Terence

Which sauce means Hunter in Italian?

Cacciatore

What Matt Greater Manchester football club is nicknamed the shakers

Bury

What pie topping consists of Kris Kross strips of pastry

Lattice

Amarelle What is a type of what small stone fruit

Cherry

Doris Day plays singer a Ruth etting in which 1955 musical

Love me or leave me

Who wrote this sci-fi novel the many coloured land

Julian May

Peggy Ashcroft won an Oscar for what David Lean film

A passage to India

Who is environmental search for Terry during the mad cow disease crisis and said his daughter beefburger on TV, known as Baron Deben

John selwyn Gummer

Who is Parliamentary undersecretary for health during the salmonella crisis and said that most eggs were covered in salmonella

Edwina Currie

Which former jockey wrote the novel second wind

Dick Francis

What kind of bags can be pyramid one cup or hot water

Teabags

Meryl Streep sang stay with me in what film musical

Into the woods

What is the common name of the fast-growing Twining plant Ipomoea

Morning Glory

Name of which flower comes directly from Middle English name for the asphodel?

Daffodil

Which plant of genus Pogostemon produces a strongly scented essential oil used in perfumes and aromatherapy?

Patchouli

Which vegetable has varieties including Alisa Craig, Bedfordshire Champion and Express Yellow?

Onion

Alba, gallica and damask are all types of which flowering shrub?

Rose

What colour are berries of mistletoe in uk?

White

Which valuable hardwood tree with scientific name Tectona Grandis has been used for timber in India for more than 2k years and is common in shipbuilding because of durability?

Teak

“Blue jacket” and “Delft Blue” are varieties of which scented flower?

Hyacinth

Which tree has sweet smelling white flowers that can be used to make cordial and black berries that can be used to make wine?

Elder

The name of which shrub, related to the rhododendron and cultivated for its spectacular blooms, comes from the Greek for “dry” because of the soil some species prefer?

Azalea

Five letter word is a modified leaf with a flower or cluster of flowers in its axil. Chances are good that you've seen one before. The classic examples are poinsettia and bougainvillea

Bract

Which plant takes its name from a port in Mexico and is a source of fibre used especially for making ropes and matting?

Sisal

What common name is used for seed pods of the ash tree which flutter down to earth in little bunches?

Keys

In Afghanistan which nut is known as charmarghz meaning four brains?

Walnut

BeFor decimalisation what name is given to the British two shilling coin minted originally in 1849

Florin

In music what word is generally used for a countermelody either composed or improvised above a familiar Melody

Descant

Which novel about public school life published in 1857 was originally credited to an old boy

Tom Brown School days

who wrote tom browns school days

Thomas hughes

Imprinting and wordprocessing what time is used for the arrangement of texture that is aligned with the left or right margins or both

Justification

On board ship how long does a dog watch last

Two hours

In 1892 who first entered parliament as an independent labour MP for West Ham South

Kier Hardie

Name is given to the style in which hair of shoulder length or longer is rolled under on either side from the tops of the years to the nape of the neck

Pageboy

The god Dagon Who is worshipped extensively throughout the ancient Middle East is traditionally set to be the inventor of which agricultural implements

Plough

What name is given to both young tree that is larger than a seedling and also to a greyhound before is a-year-old

Sapling

Which Oxford College founded on 1438 by Henry the sixth and Henry shell traditionally has no undergraduates

All Souls

Which order of monks was founded by Saint Bruno and 1084

Carthusians

Extremely hard and widely used as an abrasive what is the more common name for the solid compound siliconcarbide

Carborundum

In which region of France is white wine known as Chablis produced?

Burgundy

What was the name of the mother of Tiberius and Gaius crackers who is considered the model Roman matron

Cornelia

Who wrote the orchestral work first performed in 1841 that’s known as the Spring Symphony

Robert Schumann

Found mainly in the fens what is the largest species of butterfly native to Britain

Swallowtail

Which island off coast of dorset is source of nearest stone to true marble quarries in England?

Purbeck

Which type of engraving in which a metal plate was rough and and then polished produced areas of light and shade takes its name from the Italian for halftone

Mezzotint

Which building in Whitehall was designed by Inigo Jones and completed in 1622

Banqueting house

Which English field Marshall defeat of Turkish forces at Megiddo in 1918 was quickly followed by Turkey surrender

Allenby

What word is used in synagogues for the male singer who chants the liturgy and leads the congregation in prayer and in Christian churches for the leader of the choir

Cantor

Which American directors films include Clute all the presidents men and Sophie’s choice

Alan pakula

What is the Latin word for liquid describe the motion of residence proteins and other organic substances extracted from certain plants

Latex

Which present-day Welsh current county incorporates the area once known as the county of Radnorshire

Powys

Which 19th-century American social reformers name was given to an outfit consisting of a skirt worn over loose trousers gathered at the ankle

Amelia Bloomer

Which small dog first bread in Belgium to guard canal barges is known by the Dutch name meaning little Boatman

Schipperke

George II was last British monarch to lead troops personally into battle in which 1743 battle

Dettingen

DIsraeli on his return from which conference told the gathered crowd that he had brought back peace with honour

Congress of Berlin

Which new class of all big gun battle ship firing 812 inch guns on a broadside was introduced by the Royal Navy in 1906

Dreadnought class

What was the name of the political party that Sir Oswald Mosley formed after breaking from labour in 1931 before launching the British union of fascists the following year

The new party

On the 6th of May 1840 the post office issued to adhesive postage stamps for general use the penny black and which other

Two penny blue

What was the name of the triple defence line that was constructed at wellingtons command north of Lisbon from October 1809

Lines of the Torres Vedras

In what year was the killer Smog killed 4000 people in London

1952

During the boar war which besieged town was relieved by Calvary charge led by Major General John French in February 1900

Kimberley

At Vimiero during peninsular wars which British officer tested his own design of hollowed out shell which burst in air scattering grapeshot downwards?

General Shrapnel

Who designed the interiors of the new Palace of Westminster after the old building has been destroyed by fire in 1834

Augustus Pugin

Where in the body are the intercostal muscles

Ribs

Which river forms boundary between Salford and Manchester

Irwell

the Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon guards took an instrumental version of which hymn to number one in the UK single charts in 1972?

Amazing Grace

Which Latin legal term means under judicial consideration?

Sub judice

According to William Blakes poem which bird in a cage puts all heaven in a rage

Robin redbreast

Owen Stanley range on which island

Papua New Guinea

Which British finch gets its name from its unusually shaped beak which it uses for extracting seeds from conifer cones

Crossbill

Which liquor is added to gin and lemon juice to make a white lady cocktail

Cointreau

Which beautiful ornamental tree that is widely grown in warm parts of the world has blue or purple foxglove like flowers and attractive oppositely paired compound leaves

Jacaranda

What was Don Quixote’s horse in Cervantes novel

Rosinante

Which actor who appeared in 11 carry on films wrote the words for the 1966 Oscar-nominated song Georgy girl

Jim Dale

In which battle of 1620 with a bohemian protestant reformers decisively defeated by combined Catholic forces marking the end of the Bohemian period of the 30 years war

The battle of the white mountain

Which frozen desert usually consisting of two or more kinds of ice cream is named after the spiracle mould in which is traditionally made

Bombe glacé

Which colourful tender plant often with reddish purple papery bracts and popular in Mediterranean is named after French navigator?

Bougainvillea

Sodium and which other metallic element with first isolated in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davey using electrolysis

Potassium

Which former priest who was excommunicated in about 1366 for sermonising about a classless society as one of the leaders of the peasants revolt

John Ball

What name is commonly used in the UK to refer to Paraguay T witches brew from the dried leaves of a shrub related to

Yerba mate

Who painted Flood at Port Marly in 1876 in which the houses are reflected in the floodwater?

Alfred Sisley

What name is given to inflammation of the thin double layered membrane separating the lungs from the chest cavity caused by a virus killed Anna Pavlova in 1931

Pleurisy

What was traditionally measured in Ells?

Cloth

What title was won by a Gervaise Brook-Hampster in class Monty Python sketch?

Upper class twit of the year

In 1985 Clive Ponting was charged with anything details of the sinking of the Belgrano to which MP

Tam Dalyell

Worlds first airmail serve was in which country in 1911

UK as part of George V coronation celebrations

What was the original name of Cliff Richard’s backing band the shadows

The Drifters

Penultimate book of the Bible?

Jude

Last book of Old Testament

Malachi

Penultimate book of Old Testament

Zechariah

Big bud disease can happen in blackcurrants and tomatoes and causes by which pest

Mites

On a ship what is a Davit?

Crane

Thomas Tompion famous for making what?

Clocks

At what speed are winds categorised as hurricanes in mph?

74mph as per the Saffir-Simpson Scale

Husband of Lady Godiva

Leofric

Husband of Boudicca

Prasutagus

Which three initials comprised distress signals call prior to sos which made standard in 1908?

CQD

Term mushimono refers to food that has been what in Japanese cuisine

Steamed

im all there with me cough drops was catchphrase of which popular comedian?

Jimmy Clitheroe

Which classic British sitcom evolved from a play called The Banana Box?

Rising Damp

Which line, proposed in 1919, divided Russia and Poland?

Curzon Line

Which Apollo 13 astronaut was unwittingly creating famous catchphrase for first time in 1970?

John Swigert Jr

Who performs rap song “Christmas in Hollis” featured in film Die Hard?

Run DMC

In 1814 what did george stephenson call his first locomotive

Blucher

Who graduated from Oxford uni at tender age of 13 in 1985?

Ruth Lawrence

Who famously said of Ingrid Bergman that “she speaks 5 languages and can’t act in any of them?”?

Sir John Gielgud

Which designer used a moulding machine nicknamed the Kazam!?

Eames

which roman emperor described as ordering his troops to "gather seashells" after abandoning an invasion of britain?

Caligula

From which Italian city are narrators of the tales in Boccaccio’s Decameron?

Florence

Lisette Model was teacher of which photographer, first artist to have photographs exhibited at Venice Biennale? Famous for pictures on Coney Island and have made subjects appear grotesque.1923-71.

Diane Arbus

Who directed The White Tiger, the book was by Aravind Adiga?

Ramin Bahrani

When investigating problems about pumping water, which scientist became first person to create permanent vacuum using mercury and water?

Evangelista Torricelli

The first three of what were fish Matsya, tortoise Kurma and boar Varaha?

Avatars of Vishnu

Flag of which African country displays a white edged red diagonal band running from bottom left to right with blue triangle above and green triangle below, there’s a sun with 12 triangular rays on blue triangleS

Namibia

What term coined by Martin Esslin in essay where discussing Pirandello’s six characters in search of an author and Ionesco’s Bald Soprano?

Theatre of the Absurd

Impaired by torricleli’w creation of first artificial vacuum, which German physicist developed the piston operated vacuum pump? An experiment where he sealed and pumped the air from two copper hemispheres creating a vacuum in a sphere that couldn’t be pulled apart by horses?

Otto von Guericke

Moritz Schlick was chair of which group of philosophers and scientists who met at his uni between 1924 and death? Others include Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath:

Vienna Circle

Lisette Model and Diane Arbus weee both influences on which photographer, best known for her slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency? Like Arbus, this photographer took many photographs of drag queens such as Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a Taxi.

Nan Goldin

Another scientist to perform early experiments with air pumps was which frenchman, a student of Christian Huygens, who invented the steam digester in 1679? Sometimes called first pressure cooker:

Denis Papin

Like a lot of his furtniture, which Finnish designer’s Paimio chair was produced by Artek a company this designer and architect founded with his wife Aino to sell glassware they had designed?

Alvar Aalto

The vienna circle was along with berlin circle central in driving the development of which movement in western philosophy much influenced by Wittgenstein which held only empirically verifiable statements are meaningful?

Logical Positivism

In which city does the Puccini opera Tosca take place?

Rome

Which Egyptian lawyer and diplomat won 2005 Nobel prize peace alongside International Atomic Energy Agency? Succeeded Hans Blix as head of IAEA in 1997 and served until 2009.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Beckett’s play catastrophe dedicated to which Czech playwright? Czech wrote The Garden Party and The Memorandum.

Vaclav Havel

Diane Arbus seen as successor to which streeet photographer born in kingdom of Hungary (now Ukraine) as they both took photographs of outsiders like circus and nudists? Known by one word pseudonym and remembered NYC black and white photos:

Weegee (Arthur usher Fellig)

Which Iranian lawyer and human rights activist won 2003 Nobel peace prize?

Shirin Ebadi

Which Chinese politician who served as premier from 1949-76 is widely reported to have said “it’s too soon to tell” in response to question about French Revolution although actually referring to unrest in May 1968? The comment made during Nixon 1972 China visit arranged by this politician.

Zhou Enlai

Sita, regarded as a form of Lakshmi, was abducted by Ravana, the king of Lanka. Sita was consort of what seventh avatar of Vishnu, a blue skinned prince from Ayodhya?

Rama

Which philosopher widely held to have imported logical positivism, and the verification principle into the English speaking world in 1936 Language, Truth and Logic?

AJ Ayer

Aalto’s Paimio chair was inspired by which designer’s Wassily chair? This Hungarian born architect of unesco Hq in Paris also designed the Cesca chair and collaborated with textile designer Gunta Stozl on African chair.

Marcel Breuer

What final avatar of Vishnu will appear at the end of the present age, Kali Yuga, when Dharma or virtue has disappeared and world ruled by unjust?

Kalki

Denis Papin developed a steam release valve for his bone digester and watching valve gave idea of piston steam engine. Which British engineer combined the work of Papin and Thomas savery to develop atmospheric engine, the first practical steam engine? Design later improved by James Watt.

Thomas Newcomen

Arguably first American absurd play was The Zoo Story which premiered in berlin alongside a production of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Zoo Story by who same person as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

A 24 rayed yellow sun is found in the upper right hand corner of the flag of which African country? The sun is found in top; double width, horizontal blue band which sits above narrower yellow and green bands.

Rwanda

The battle for whcih island fought between April and June 1945 is called rain of steel in japaornse or typhoon of steel in English? Japanese died 70k and 150j civilians die

Okinawa

The subduction zones at edges of tectonic plates have intense pressure and extreme heat which creates a metamorphic rock usually has dark and pale bands of crystals, some oldest rocks on planet, 4 billion years ago. Name comes from old German word for spark because rock glitters?

Gneiss

Later to become a staple in fantasy genre, which fantastical hybrid creature did Ludovico Ariosto invent in his 16th century epic poem Orlando Furioso? Astolfo journeys to Ethiopia on back on one.

Hippogriff

Franciscan friar William Baskerville and his Benedictine novice add soda milk of a central characters in which 1980 investigating a series of mysterious deaths in the ministry

The name of the rose

First rigorously defined in the 1850s by Rudolf Clausius, which physical law states the entropy of a closed system always increases?

Second law of thermodynamics

Which taliban leader became de facto head of state of Afghanistan following fall of Kabul in 2021?

Hibatullah Akhundzada

What Afrikaans name often translated as pioneers is given to Boers who left the British controlled cape colony from mid1830s onwards and migrated into the interior of what is now South Africa settiling north of the Orange river?

Voortrekkers

What name given to famous 1867 thought experiment proposed to contradict second law of thermodynamics?

Maxwell’s Demon

Which composer’s work Les Preludes is often regarded as the first symphonic poem? He wrote 12 such works between 1848 and 1858 included Orpheus and Hungaria.

Franz Liszt

What name is used in apartheid South Africa to refer to the underdeveloped urban areas that was reserved for nonwhites Soweto a suburb of Johannesburg has the name that’s party derive from the name of these communities

Township

Another species listed in Michael Nyman’s Bird List Song is the mooruk, a very large flightless bird found in New Guinea and new Britain. The mooruk is the smallest of the three species of which birds?

Cassowary

The mastermind of murders in The Name of the Rose is a blind monk named Jorge de Burgos who poisoned the pages of a book. Inspiration is Jorge Luis Borges book in which title place divided into hexagonal rooms and houses all possible 410 page books.

The Library of Babel

Bird List Song also mentions the wryneck which is one of the few migratory species belonging to which family of birds? Other birds in this family include the sapsuckers and the flickers.

Woodpeckers

The Gulf of Ob is worlds longest estuary and forms part of which marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean that is also fed by the Yenisey? This sea is named after a smaller river that also gives its name to a major meteor crater found near its mouth.

Kara Sea

Book that is poisoned in name of the rose is a work on comedy by which philosopher? In real life this second volume of Poetics is lost and only work first volume survives; that first volume known for its treatment of tragedy, which author believes should induce catharsis in the audience.

Aristotle

Often referred to as worlds largest slum, Dharavi is a community in which city? Dharavi was established in a namesake island that is now part of the island of Salsette.

Mumbai

Voortrekkers migration into interior of South Africa led to creation of several Borr states such as South African republic which became known by what other name referring to location in respects to largest tributary of the Orange river?

Transvaal Republic

James Maxwell called his demon a finite being with demon being used by which physicist in an 1874 edition of nature? The heat engine statement of the second law of thermodynamics was developed by and commonly jointly named after Max Planck and this man the first British scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords.

William Thomson, baron Kelvin

What term does Rawls employ in a Theory of Justice to name the metaphorical shield behind which individuals exist in the Original Position that prevents them from knowing details of their social circumstances?

Veil of Ignorance

1974 book Anarchy, State and Utopia is by which American philosopher?

Robert Nozick

The Chelyabinsk meteor was largest known natural object to have entered earth’s atmosphere since which event of 1908? This event is named after a tributary of the Yenisey river.

Tunguska Event

Mexico meteor crater name

The Chicxulub Crater

December 1895-January 1896 more than 500 men in British South Africa company police under instruction of Cecil rhodes attempted to topple transvaal government. What name given to failed raid that contributed to onset of second Anglo boer war?

Jameson Raid

Who was president of Transvaal Republic at time of Jameson Raid? Former Voortrekker nicknamed uncle Paul, served as President between 1883-1900 and fives name to telegram sent to him by German kaiser following repelling the Jameson raid.

Paul Kruger

In anarchy state and utopia, Robert Nozick argues that Rawls difference principle is incompatible with liberty by introducing a famous thought experiment involving which real life basketball player?

Wilt Chamberlain

This Hungarian American physicist observed that Maxwell’s demon is impossible as demon would need means to measure molecular speed. Which scientist also conceived nuclear chain reaction in 1933 and wrote letter signed by Einstein about Manhattan project?

Leo Szilard

Another of bird sun Bird List Song is the jabiru. Found in neo tropics, the jabiru is one of tallest flying birds in world and belongs to which family.

Stork (ciconiidae)

The Popigai crater is fourth largest verified impact crater on earth and May have contributed to the Eocene-Oligocene extinction event. It is named after a river that flows into which sea of the Arctic Ocean, the major inflow of which is the Lena?

Laptev Sea

Which German astronomer lends name to famous paradox that asks why night sky is dark despite the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe?

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

Virgin Islands named after which Saint and her 11k virgins to martyrdom in cologne?

Ursula

The first former head of state to be convicted for human right abuses in court of another nation; which former chadian presiendet guilty of human rights abuses in May 2016 and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Senegalese court?

Hissene Habre

In Greek mythology the poisoned tunic that killed Heracles was smeared with the poisoned blood of whcih centaur whom Heracles had slain?

Nessus

Named after American scientist whose recording of CO2 at Mauna Loa observatory first alerted world to global warming what name given to graph showing accumulation of CO2 in earths atmosphere?

Keeling Curve

Hindu vahana for warrior goddesses, Egyptian myth the goddess of war Sekhmet is this creature and in Greek myth makes up part of chimaera and sphinx?

Lion

Which English meteorologist gives his name to cell of global air circulation in which warm air rises around the equator, moves towards the poles, descends in the subtropics and then returns towards the equator?

George Hadley

In traditional Indian numbering system, what name given to unit equal to 100,000

Lakh

Who wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro?

Ernest Hemingway

Which French structural anthropologist developed the concept of Bricolage - the skill of using that which is at hand and recombining it to create something new - to describe the characteristic patterns of mythological thought?

Claude Levi-Strauss

What city is largest in Indonesia not to be located on island in Java? North of Sumatra across straits of Malacca from a Malaysian city of Penang.

Medan

Which French avaitor wrote The Little Prince?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In which country were Verdingkinder a group of indentured child labourers?

Switzerland

Male Artist that Marina Abramovic worked with, partners until 1988 when they ended their relationship in a performance called Lovers on Great Wall of China?

Frank Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay)

Emmanuel macron party founded in 2016

Renaissance (Republique en Marche)

What name given to topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space? Two dimension examples of these spaces are known as surfaces.

Manifold

Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, which imperial power was losing side in the battle?

Russia

Also known as easterlies, what name given to prevailing east-to-west winds that occur in the equatorial region of worlds oceans? Their English name refers to fact they facilitated faster sea routes for sailing ships.

Trade Winds

Chinese character for which traditional unit of lengtgr combines characters for field and earth because this distance was an approximation of the length of a village? Standardised as half a km.

Li

Indonesias proposed new capital Nusantara will be built near cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda in East Kalimantan. Those cities are seaports on a strait named after which city on Sulawesi, largest city in Indonesian not to be on Java or Sumatra?

Makassar

Daniel Auber was first composer to adapt whcih French novel into an opera? Later ones by Jules Massenet, Puccini opera containing Donna Non Vidi Mai and Hans Werner Henze’s ooera Boulevard Solitude.

Manon Lescaut

The Caduveo, the Bororo and the Nambikwara are some of the Amazonian tribal people discussed by Claude Levi-Strauss in which travelogue that opens with the ironic line “I hate travel and explorers”?

Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics)

What name given to the fast flowing meandering westerly air currents located in earth’s tropopause?

Jet stream

Which one widely used Ancient Greek unit of length was equal to 600 greek feet (or podes)? This unit gave its name to a popular ancient running event and ultimately to the venue at whcih such an event took place.

Stadion

Battle of Lepanto in October 1571 who was losing side in battle?

Ottoman Empire

Snow Country was one of three novels cited in 1968 when which Japanese author became first man from his nation to win Nobel prize in literature?

Kawabata

Named after a water sprite from Slavic mythology, which opera was premiered in 1901 by Antonin Dvorak? Written by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, originally by Alexander Pushkin.

Rusalka

Which left wing Greek political party founded in 2004 but took off when reigns used into unitary party in 2013? Long time leader Alexis Tsipras was PM in 2015-19. Sounds like Greek word for from the roots.

SYRIZA

Trade winds converge at the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) historically known by sailors as the doldrums. The latitudinal oscillation of the ITCZ causes seasonal precipitation known by what name that comes from the Arabic for season?

Monsoon

Until her death Jeanne-Claude was one half of an artistic duo with her husband, who is known by which name. Wrap stuff.

Christo (Vladimirov Javacheff)

Levi-Strauss developed his concept of Bricolage in 1962 in which he contrasts it with work of Engineer who possesses a civilised form of the title concept. This is which book in which Levi Strauss argued all human beings capable of same mental processes.

The Savage Mind

Which 2D manifold which in truest form exists in four dimensions, is a non-orientable surface with no boundary and is only exception to Heawood conjecture as only six colours are needed to colour any map on surface.

Klein bottle

Boiling, roasting and smoking are three points on a culinary triangle proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss in first volume of massive four volume work in which he traces. Single folktale northward from South America tip to arctic circle.

First volume The Raw and the Cooked All: Mythologiques

1588 battle of gravelines is fought between victorious France and which loser?

Spain

Who writes Miss Smilla’a Feeling for Snow about death of Greenlandic boy in Denmark was 1992 bestseller for which Danish author?

Peter Hoeg

One of founders of topology was which mathematician who pioneered study of 3-D manifolds and who in 1904 paper wondered whether every simply connected 3-manifold can be easily reshaped into 3 sphere?

Henri Poincare

Donizetti opera based on play Friedrich Schiller focusing on title character reslafionBip with cousin and is second of three Donizetti Queens operas?

Maria Stuarda

In 2012, Pablo Iglesias Turrion was among founders of which left wing Spanish political party emerging from anti austerity 15M movement?

Podemos

What name from Latin for pit is given to part of eye located in centre of macula region of the Retina that is responsible for sharp central vision?

Fovea Centralis

The painter Amedee Ozenfant and architect Le Corbusier wrote manifesto for which art movement? Derived from cubism, the movements main concepts in APRES LE CUBISME.

Purism

Introduced by Edward Witten in 1995, what is one letter name of theory found in quantum physics that combines the five existing different string theories into one all encompassing theory?

M-Theory

In poetry, term used to describe running on of a thought from one line to another eg from wasteland “April is the cruellest month, breeding / lilacs out of the dead land, mixing”

Enjambment

A student called Shigekuni Honda is central character in Spring Snow. It is first novel in which tetralogy by Yukio Mishima?

The sea of fertility

First identified by Alan Turing in 1936 what problem in theoretical computer science asks whether it is possible to determine for all possible inputs whether a computer program will stop executing or run indefinitely!

Halting problem

The American critical theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick perhaps best remembered for her 1990 book The Epistemology of …

The Closet

Which Dutch jurist and humanist author of The Free Seas was incarcerated in Loevestein Castle in 1618 soon after outbreak of 30 years war, upon life sentence? Escaped by hiding in chest of books.

Hugo Grotius

15th century Netherlandish painter did Saint Jerome and the Lion? Also popularised Swoon of the Virgin with panel painting The Descent from the Cross now in Prado.

Rogier Van der Weyden

Which chieftain of Cherusci tribe defeated Varus at Battle of Teutoburg Forest? Assassinated by other Germanic nobles in 21CE.

Arminius

After escaping Loevestein Castel, Grotius fled to france, where he wrote perhaps his best known work On the Law of War and Peace in 1625 which he dedicated to which monarch who awarded him annual pension?

Louis XIII

Pedro Santana was the first leader of which country after it declared independence from its neighbour in 1844? He later reintegrated this country into the Spanish empire and died in its restoration war.

Dominican Republic

946CE eruption of whcih volcano resulted in significant climate change in nearby Manchuria? This eruption resulted in formation of hEaven lake highest caldera lake in the world.

Paektu

Baha’i faith founded by Persian aristocrat Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri who took which Arabic title meaning glory of god?

Baha’u’llah

In modern poetry, what term from Latin is used to describe a complete pause or break within a line, often marked by punctuation? An example from WB Yeats Lake of Innisfree; I hear lake water lapping || with low sounds by the shore”

Caesura

The consumptive Buddhist monk Mizoguchi is central character in which Mishima novel which ends with him choosing not to kill self after destroying title structure?

The temple of the golden pavilion

Haiti had unified Hispaniola under leadership of Jean-pierre Boyer who annexed Spanish Haiti in 1822. Boyer had earlier reunified French speaking Haiti after suicide of which revolutionary general who had established a kingdom in north of the country in 1811.

Henri Christophe (Henry I)

Segdwick’s Epistemology of the Closet same year as Butler’s Gender Trouble. Butler criticises which Bulgarian-French philosopher’s Powers of Horror where she argued Lacan’s mirror stage is preceded by pre symbolic semiotic stage called the chora.

Julia Kristeva

Famed for spiral minaret of great mosque which archaeological Iraqi city on east bank of Tigris, has been world heritage in danger since first inscribed during Iraq war in 2007

Samarra

Which scientists namesake dispersion force is weakest of the Van der Waals Froces and formed d between instantaneous induced dipoles?

Fritz London

What term of Greek origin is used to describe the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at beginning of successive lines or clauses? An example from William Blake’s London is “in every cry of every man / in every infant’s cry of fear / in every voice in every ban / the mind forged manacles I hear”

Anaphora

In which’s semi autobiographical novel by Mishima does Kochan struggle with sexual feelings for other boys and develop morbid fascination with dying in the manner of Saint Sebastian so that he doesn’t need to wear metaphorical title objects?

Confessions of a Mask

Short story by Katherine Mansfield shares name okay with John Dryden and a paintings by Hogarth that depict Earl and countess of Squanderfield

Marriage a La mode

One of Grotius’ primary influences was the Spanish jurist Francisco de Vitoria a proponent of just war tradition who is perhaps best remembered for founding which philosophical school named after Spain’s oldest university where de Vitoria was based?

School of Salamanca

1965, Putlizer for music jury recommended which jazz composer of east St. Louis toodle-oo and Mood Indigo?

Duke Ellington

Baha’u’llah was exiled from Persia due to his adherence to a messianicreligion founded in 1844 by a merchant from Shiraz named Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shiraz. Now a forerunner to Baha’i faith, Ali Muhammad now got what a pointed self appointed title?

Bab

Who was second jazz musician to be awarded posthumous Pulitzer Prize received in 2006? Pianist known for Round Midnight and Straight No Chaser.

Thelonius Monk

What first king of Visigoths led sack of rome in 410ce? He died from fever a few months later and was succeeded by his brother in law Athaulf.

Alaric I

What term of greek origin is used to describe the device in which the words or grammatical constructions of one phrase are repeated in reverse order in the following phrase, such that key concepts from original phrase reappear inverted in the second phrase? An example of Paradise Lost “in his face / divine compassion visibly appeared / love without end and / without measure grace”

Chiasmus

Which American jazz composer and saxophonist was awarded 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music for live album Sound grammar? Pioneer of free jazz and earlier Broadway Blues became standard.

Ornette Coleman

Earliest surviving work of which 15th Venetian painter is Saint Jerome in Desert, a scene he painted several times? He also depicted Saint Jerome in San Zachariah altarpiece and is known as teacher of Giorgione and Titian.

Giovanni Bellini

In 1936, Alan Turing and which other maths and computer scientist published papers independently showing general solution to the Entscheidungsproblem is impossible? This man and Turing Co-name a thesis that states that any calculable function can be computed using a Turing machine and vice versa.

Alonzo Church

Haiti and Dominican Republic conflict in 1937 when Trujillo ordered massacre of Haitians at border, known by what name after word the Dominicans would get victims to say to see if french or Spanish speaking?

Parsley Massacre

This “effect” was first noticed in colloids when it was realised that their Van der Waals forces had unexpected values and one theory holds that that is a variety of Van der WAals force. This is which effect a small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates?

Casimir Effect

Which Ostrogoth ruled much of western Roman Empire after deposed Odoacer as king of Italy and brought Visigothic Spain under his control in 511CE? Buried in mauseolem in Ravenna

Theodoric the Great

Name literally meaning Land of Million Elephants and White Parasols, the kingdom of Lan xang Hom Khao existed between 1353 and 1707 and is considered a precursor of which current Asian nation?

Laos

In meteorology what name from Latin for twig or branch is given to observable streak or shaft descending from a cloud that is caused by rain that evaporates or sublimates before reaches ground?

Virga

What name is shared by central character in Jeffrey eugenides novel Middlesex, the Greek muse of epic poetry and a musical instrument that produces sound by sending gas or steam through large locomotive whistles?

Calliope

One of most studied cases in all of neuroscience psychology and neurology which American railroad construction foreman is remembered for 1848 accident in which large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal lobe? Improbably he survived but changed personality.

Phineas Gage

Her work inspired Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Movement she was most prominent member of “the five” a group of women who tried to contact so called High Masters. Creating highly stylised automatic drawings as early as 1896, she is considered by some to be worlds first abstract artist. Which Swedish painter?

Hilma af Klint

It’s seven verses are a prayer for the guidance of Allah and it’s name means the “opener” in Arabic. Which is first sura of the Qu’ran?

Al-Fatiha

It’s goals being to end child Labour and suffering, Bachpan Bachao Andolan is an Indian campaign group founded in 1980 by which Nobel prize laureate?

Kailash Satyarthi

Find for her comic monologues who wrote the autobiography George don’t do that

Joyce Grenfell

Meaning very soft what musical term is represented by the letters PP

Pianissimo

Edna Birch as a character in which soap opera

Emmerdale

What is central African country became the 54th member of the Commonwealth in 2009

Rwanda

Who won the 1990 World Cup football men’s

West Germany

Roll on a visit to England to paint a Rubens was knighted by which king

Charles I

What time refers to a word that is formed from the first letters of other words

Acronyms

Whcih West Indies cricketer was nicknamed Big Bird?

Joel Garner

In the 50s and 60s Jo Grimond led what political party?

Liberal Party

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe author

Fannie Flagg

What South Africa city nicknamed mother city?

Cape Town

Lambdoid suture is found in what part of the skeleton?

Skull

Qof and Yod are letters in which alphabet?

Hebrew

In the sound of music which character is 16 years old

Liesl von Trapp

Who played Dr Who companion Clara Oswald?

Jenna coleman

What word follows hummingbird hawk in the name of an insect?

Moth

Which dickens title character lodges with Mr Wickfield?

David Copperfield

gael monfils is a star in which sport?

Tennis

Rule Britannia was last novel by which Cornwall based writer?

Daphne du Maurier

RHD when describing a car?

Right hand drive

What vegetable is the Edzell Blue?

Potato

The Foss is a tributary of which North Yorkshire river?

Ouse

Two main characters of Much Ado About Nothing?

Benedick and Beatrice

Alliterative nickname for chicago bears initially to ini of chicago maroon football team on south side of chicago

Monsters of the Midway

Terrorists take hostages at a party in the South America set novel Bel Canto by this woman who also did The Dutch House, Commonwealth and State of Wonder?

Ann Patchett

1993 Pigs in Heaven is a sequel to her first novel The Bean Trees?

Barbara Kingsolver

He was not so thrilled when his novel “the corrections” was selected for Oprah’s book club

Jonathan Franzen

This language family includes Cherokee, Mohawk and Seneca

Iroquoian

From Latin for “call together”, it’s a group of people called together for an assembly be it of clergy or college students?

Convocation

A sort of sci-fi “Groundhog Day”, Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel “All You Need is Kill” became this tom cruise movie

Edge of Tomororw

“Vengeance” nonfiction about an Israeli counterterrorist team came to the big screen under this title?

Munich

Some of greatest love letters written between this medieval pair, theologian and his student, after their separation?

Abelard and Heloise

Woody growth of the Phyllostachys genus

Bamboo

Swindon produced Andy partridge & this “senses working overtime” band?

XTC

Theatre audiences would retire to this five letter room for warmth between acts now it refers to any entrance hall or lobby

Foyer

The duke of Ferrara commissioned titian to spend the early 1520son this boozy title Roman god and Ariadne

Bacchus

This Russian author and founder of literary socialist realism adopted a surname meaning “bitter”

Gorky

Made into a tasty 1992 film it’s Laura Esquivel’s Novel in Monthly Installments with recipes romances and home remedies?

Like Water for Chocolate

1500 this sailor headed to India but made right turn and landed in brazil

Pedro Alvares Cabral

In 1673 these 2 men one a missionary sought the mouth of the Mississippi but turned back at Arkansas?

Marquette and Joliet

The imaginary country Boca Grande figures in “A book of common prayer” by this late Californian better known for her essays?

Joan Didion

National hero first radicalised during ten years war of 1868-78 and died in his fight for Cuban independence in 1895

Jose Marti

You get an A if you know this is highest ranking and cleanest burning coal available

Anthracite

The final episode of Dawson’s Creek killed off Jen played by which actress?

Michelle Williams

A 2022 study noted the wandering type of this tailed amphibian can parachute some 300 feet down from a redwood tree?

Salamanders

This eleven word for period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for steal?

Bereavement

This novel set in the 1920s asks “what do you know about lady Brett Ashley, Jake”

The Sun Also Rises

An almost 12 year old girl, last name Simon, is mentioned in title of this classic by Judy Blume

Are you there god? It’s me Margaret

Both inspector Clouseau’s and the green hornet are helped by men called this?

Kato/Cato

Wet and dry are two types of this age related eye disorder that causes gradual loss of central vision?

Macular Degeneration

Used to make chowder, large east coast hard shell clams often go by this Native American name?

Quahog

Derived from Spanish’s but sounding but French it’s a wire used to strangle someone or the act itself

Garotte

From French for “wine taster” it’s a term for a connoisseur of fine food and drink?

Gourmet

Baa baa Kara Koyunlu, ie these, have you any land? Yes in 1410 our alliance conquered from Azerbaijan south to Baghdad.

Black Sheep

This term for small plane used for short connecting flights sounds like it flies over small pools of water

Puddle Jumper

Though Geneva is pretty low as Swiss cities go a Cold War meeting there was first one called this top level type?

Summit

A doctor in the French army lent his name to this part of the foot which athletes are often injuring?

Lisfranc

In 1974 the LA Dodgers pitcher had ligament surgery and the operation subsequently bore his name ?

Tommy John

Born into slavery, she wrote under the name Iola, became a newspaper owner and campaigned against lynching?

Ida B Wells

405BC battle decisive Lysander destroyed Athenian fleet ending peloponnesian war?

Aegospotami

Mod style included these shoes name for a coin and worn by miles Davis

Penny loafers

This Norwegian ice skater and future movie star won the first of her Olympic gold medals at age 15 at 1928 st moritz?

Sonja Henie

2023 is 100 year anniversary of this birth of novelist who wrote the naked and the dead?

Norman Mailer

Johanna Spyri character

Heidi

Used to describe giraffes and big snakes it means having net like markings?

Reticulated

Kids of the 70s, this character “a man barely alive, we can rebuild him, better, stronger, faster”

Six Million Dollar Man

In computing what does LAN stand for

Local Area Network

Some protozoans that cause dysentery move and gather food using these small 5 letter projections that resembles hairs?

Cilia

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card is second book in the series about this character and his genocide Game.

Ender Wiggin

A man awakens from a coma with power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen king work

The dead zone

This frenchman died on 1937 never knowing he’d play a musical part in a Bo Derek film?

Ravel

Mongo is setting of what series

Flash Gordon

This explorer was first known European to see Victoria falls and named them for monarch?

David l Livingston

Which battle did Julius Caesar do Veni Vidi Vici after

Battle of Zela

Guernica held in which gallery?

Museo Reina Sofia

Who painted Christina’s World?

Andrew Wyeth

Which American architect dictum that “form should follow function”?

Louis Sullivan

Who got chief bronze doors of Florence baptistery?

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Term from Dutch for face that are portraits in which subject has unusual artificial facial expression or costume? Famous with Frans Hals.

Tronie

Female Dutch artist born 1609 known for The Proposition, Self Portrait etc.

Judith Leyster

Who directed Au Hasard Balthazar in 1966 about a donkey who is given o many cruel owners?

Robert Bresson

Who plays Monsieur Hulot includes films Playtime, Mon Oncle?

Jacques Tati

Who directed Hiroshima mom amour, Last Year at Marienbad, Night and Fog?

Alain Resnais

Who directed Chocolat (1988), White Material (2009) and best known Beau Travail (1999) based on Billy budd?

Claire Denis

Philip Glass opera The PhotogrPher about which photographer who killed his wife’s lover?

Edward Muybridge

Female photographer known for fortune and life magazines, net author erskine Caldwell and husband, ww2 correspondent at Buchenwald and intervieeed Gandhi before his assassination.

Margaret Bourke-White

Photographer in Hitler’s bathtub ?

Lee Miller

Most expensive photos ever sold of 99 cent II diptychon and Rhein II?

Andreas Gursky

Spanish architect who has done Olympic sports complex of athens, WTC transportation hub in nyc, turning torso tower in malmo Sweden.

Santiago Calatrava

Polish American architect done One WTC, royal Ontario museum, Jewish museum of berlin.

Daniel Libeskind

St Regis Chicago is the tallest building designed by a woman, as was Aqua building also in Chicago. Who was architect?

Jeanne Gang

American sculptor who created The Minute Men for Concord Mass, standing Lincoln for Nebraska state capitL and the seated statue of Lincoln memorial

Daniel Chester French

Franz Boas 1911 the mind of primitive man describes gift giving ceremony known as the what P?

Potlatch

Anthropologist known for work in symbolic anthropology in book The Interpretation of Cultures. Introduced “thick description” appearing in “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”.

Clifford Geertz

Who was the orangutan expert in Leakey’s Trimates?

Birute Galdikas

French economist (1694) undisputed leader of the Physiocrats, big on laissez faire politics and notion that land is ultimate source of all wealth.

Francois Quesnay

Which psychologist did the Little Albert experiment

John Watson

Which psychologist has namesake box used to test operant conditioning? Similar to puzzle box developed earlier by Edward Thorndike.

The Skinner Box

Name of the doll experiment used to study perception of race in children, it showed an inherent sense of inferiority by age of five

Clark doll experiment

Who known for conformity experiment who used base lines to see if individuals conform to group think?

Solomon Asch

Who did his 1961 obedience experiment at Yale university?

Milgram

Who did the Bobo Doll experiment at Stanford University in 1961 watching an adult dealing with a bobo doll and then how kids do?

Albert Bandura

Who did learned helplessness experiments in 1967 about groups getting electric shocks in dogs and how they could escape or not?

Martin Seligman

Who did Stanford prison experiment in 1971

Philip Zimbardo

Which psychologist did Walden II?

BF skinner

Germ man born American psychologist who did social institutions reflecting psychosocial development, eight states development process and wrote several psychohistories?

Erik Erikson

What saying from genesis invokes to denote the rewards yielded by. Persons own hard work?

The sweat of your brow

Behemoth creature appears in which biblical book!

Job

Which saying comes from Jesus sermon on the Mount to preach his teachings but to not waste time on those who do not welcome the message?

Pearls before swine

Good Samaritan “but a sa Martin who was on a journey came upon him and when he saw him he felt compassion? In what bible book!

Luke

Sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism

Avesta

Hebrew for instruction( what is the codification of Jewish oral law consists of Mishnah (laws themselves) and the Gemara (scholarly commentary)?

Talmud

Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah at which age d

Girls bat at 12 Boys bar at 13

Divorce is Judaism is discouraged and can be effected by a document by which three letter word?

Get

After Jewish burial( what is name for the seven day period of mourning during which family receive visitors at home?

Shiva

Physician poet and humorist who wrote Old Ironsides and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Justice of the Supreme Court known as the Great Dissenter

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

What is final book of New Testament - be specific

Revelation

Term for Persian or Iranian new year?

Nowruz

Term for festive competitive street parade held in Bahamas on both New Year’s Day and Boxing Day.

Junkanoo

What are five pRts of the waste aland by ts wliot

The burial of the dead A game of chess The fire sermon Death by water WhAt the thunder said

Five stages of biological process Mitosis

Interphase Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase

First winner of medicine nobel prize for serum therapy remedy for diphtheria?

Emil Adolf von Behring

Winners of first Nobel peace prize one for Red Cross one for French peace society

Henri Dunant and Frederic Passy

Mighty Hndul - the five Russian composers

Modest Mussorgsky Mily Balakirev Alexander Borodin Cesar Cui Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines, first five named after scientists who observed them. Give five first going from lowest to highest.

Lyman Balmer Paschen Brackett Pfund

Five pillars of Islam

Shahadah - declaration Salat - prayer Zakat - charity Sawm - Ramadan Hajj - Mecca

Founder of modern Jainism, achieved Kevala Jnana or infinite knowledge while meditating under Salah tree.

Mahavira

Sikh holy book after founded by Guru Nanak?

Guru Granth Sahib

Founder of Christian Science, wrote book Science and Health with Key to the scriptures

Mary Baker Eddy

Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot and Yom Kippur both celebrated in which Hebrew month?

Tishrei

Which name for Jewish prayer said on Yom Kippur which releases Jews from vows or promises to god? Made into music Max Bruch most famous.

Kol Nidre

Which Jewish festival means weeks hence the homologous Christian holiday Pentecost? Celebrates giving of the Torah to Israelites at Mount Sinai. Book of Ruth read at this festival.

Shavuot

Which pope said “not angles but angels” and sent Augustine to Canterbury)

Gregory I the Great

Which pope ordered first crusade? Council of Clermont urged them on 1096-99 crusade.

Urban II

Pope 1198-1216 infuriated fourth crusade, the Albigensian crusade against Cathars of France. Excommunited King John for refusing to appoint Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Innocent IIi

Which pope accused of hosting scandalous banquet of the chestnuts. Assignees new world territory to Spain. Was a Borgia family member and excommunicated florentine friar Savonarola.

Alexander VI

Pope was son of Lorenzo de Medici revived unpopular sale of indulgences and Martin Luther did 95 Theses, was given white elephant by Manuel Inportugal.

Leo X

Who was longest reigning pope in history other than Peter? Reigned during Italian unification. 1846-1878

Pius IX

Which pope excommunicated holy Roman emperor Henry IV during investiture controversy?

Gregory VII

Which pope 1305-14 moved seat of papacy from Rome to Avignon?

Clement V

Which pope introduced new calendar in 1582?

Gregory XIII

Pope signed the Reichskonkordat with Nazi germany 1933, served as pope during WW2 z

Pius XII

The short Latin term Viz meaning “namely or to wit” comes from what longer words?

Videlicet

King Arthur mother name

Igraine

King Arthur wife

Queen Guinevere

Who does King Arthur give Excalibur to upon death

Sir Bedivere

5th century British ruler best known for inviting Saxons to Briton to stop incursions of Picts and Scot’s. In merlin legend too.

Vortigern

Which round table knight was raised by lady of the lake? Sometimes knight of the cart.

Lancelot

Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic son

Galahad

Only member of Arthur’s corps who can sit in the Siege Perilous set aside for those who could complete quest for holy grail

Galahad

Father of Lohengrin, accompanies Sir Galahad and Sir Bors on holy grail question. Raised in woods.

Sir Percival

Legendary author of epic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Pearl Poet

Who was ancient Egypt god head of Memphis?

Ptah

Ancient Egyptian head god of city Thebes?

Amon

Horus parents in Egyptian

Osiris and Isis

Name of the ostrich feather used in the Judgement of Osiris in hall of double justice where heart was weighed against it in afterlife

Ma’at

Nefertiti husband

Akhenaten

Ramses II wife

Nefertari

First female Pharoah ruling in own right before Hatshepsut

Sobekneferu

Thoth god with what head

Ibis

Lion headed Egyptian goddess

Sekhmet

Anubis parents

Osiris and Nepthys

Egyptian goddess head of cow

Hathor

Name of bandit who would offer to wash feet of people and then kick them over the sea, killed by Theseus

Sciron

Greek bandit killed by Theseus he would bend pine trees and then let go catapulting people away

Sinus

Theseus father name which names sea

Aegeus

Jason son of which man in Greek myth

Aeson

Parents of Achilles

King Peleus and nereid Thetis

Son of Odysseus and Penelope

Telemachus

Wife of King Priam

Hecuba

When I am laid in earth which opera

Dido and Aeneas

What is official name for queen of the night aria in magic flute

Hells vengeance boils in my heart

Figaro’s first major Aria of Rossini’s Tbe Barber of Seville, he’s approached by Count Almaviva afterwards in disguise. Figsro sings own name repeatedly.

Largo al Factotum

Aria commonly known as Lucia’s mad scene used a glass harmonica and officially known as what aria in Lucia di Lammermoor

Il Dolce Suono (the sweet sound)

Who sings La Donna e mobile in Verdi Rigoletto ?

Duke of Mantua

Aria from Bizet’s Carmen sung by title character first time she appears on stage? In style of Habanera. Throws flower to Don Jose at end.

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (love is a rebellious bird)

Name of aria by Canio at end of act 1 of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Enrico Caruso’s 1902 recording became first record to sell more than one million copies.

Vesti La Giubba

Which character sings Nessun Dorma (literally none shall sleep) in Puccini’s Turandot? Ends with three cries of Vincero “I will win”.

Prince Calaf

1912 opera by Paul Dukas featuring characyer Iksender who is Alexander the Great veiled.

La Peri

1920 Stravinsky opera about a title commedia dell’Arte character who is lovers with Pimpinella.

Pulcinella

Which Stravinsky opera subtitled Pictures of Pagan Russia?

The Rite of Spring

Who is the villain in 1890 Tchaikovsky opera?

Carabosse

Name of white swan and black swan in Swan Lake and the male lead and villain

White Swan: Odette Black Swan: Odile Hero: Siegfried Villain: Von Rothbart

Russian choreographer 1880-1942 born St Petersburg, choreographed Dying Swan by Anna Pavlova set to music by Saint-Saenz, mentored Nijinsky.

Michel Fokine

Bob Fosse wife name

Gwen Verdon

Born 1904 St Petes and trained in native Georgia which choreographer cofounded NYCB, one of wives was Maria Tallchief. Did ballet Orpheus with Stravinsky.

George Balanchine

Who taught dance to king Louis xiv at Versailles for over two decades. Codified five basic feet positions in ballet.

Pierre Beauchamp

Niece of Cecil director and Grady daughter of Economicst Henry George, most famous work was Rodeo, choreography. Fall River Legend based on life of Lizzie Borden.

Agnes de Mille

Crossover ballet choreographed (born 1941) Deuce Coupe and Push Comes to Shove. Found Broadway success with Movin’ Out. Created childrens ballet Princess and the Goblin.

Twyla Tharp

Playwright who wrote play about Madame Butterfly (from John Luther Long short story), also play The Girl of the Golden West.

David Belasco

Primordial cow in Norse myth

Audhumla

Wife of Odin and mother of Balder, Hoder, Tyr.

Frigg

Frey’s magic ship name in Norse myth

Skidbladnir

Freya magic necklace Norse myth

Brisingamen

Freya chariot pulled by ?

Cats

Frey chariot pulled by!

Gullinbursti a golden boar

Thor wife? Pulled by chariot animals?

Sif Pulled by goats

Name of Midgard serpent, son of Loki

Jormungandr

Clytemnestra lover who helped murder Agamemnon with her?

Aegisthus

Husband of Helen of Troy

Menelaus

Trojan war figure who stabs Aphrodite in wrist and wounds ares un stomach?

Diomedes

Who won the armour of Achilles after his death? Beating Ajax the Great for this.

Odysseus

King of Pylos, he is too old to participate in fighting of trojan war but serves as an advisor.

Nestor

Which son of Achilles kills King Priam in front of his wife and daughters during siege of Troy!

Neoptolemus

Wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax? Made concubine of Neoptolemus after war.

Andromache

Who says “I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts” famous for sculpture with serpent?

Laocoon

What is American version of the British Nissen hut? Named after town in Rhode Island.

Quonset Hut

Which q means a nosy Parker comes from Latin for what now?

Quidnunc

Told by Ovid, which couple were visited by Jupiter and hosted well so got a wish and so made into an oak and a linden tree respectively.

Philemon and Baucis

Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century

Hengist and Horsa

A perk is short for which longer word meaning fring benefits I

Perquisite

Which Aristotle system of philosophy takes name from Greek for “walk about”

Peripatetic School

Which 1952 experiment demonstrates material responsible for inheritance of traits was dna rather than protein?

Hershey-Chase Experiment

1952 experiment for how life could form from inorganic chemicals named after two scientists.

Miller-Urey Experiment

1922 experiment demonstrating angular momentum of an atom is quantised?

Stern-Gerlach experiment

1923-27 experiment confirmed De Broglie hypothesis by showing that electrons can exhibit wave like behaviour?

Davisson-Germer experiment

1958 experiment proved that dna replication is semi conservative meaning when a double helix strand of dna is duplicated the result is two double helix strands each of which has one helix from parent molecule and one newly synthesised helix?

Meselson-Stahl Experiment

Amethyst is type of which rock? Second most abundant minerals in earth crust.

Quartz

Natural diamonds almost always found in igneous rocks by which name!

Kimberlites

Group of silicate minerals known for their perfect basal cleavage? Examples are biotite and muscovite. Also serves as main constituent of metamorphic rock schist.

Micas

Which rock scientist wrote 1919 a method of reaching extreme altitudes? Namesake of a space flight centre in Maryland.

Robert Goddard

Russian scientist gives name to a rocket equation published in 1903 exploration of outer space by means of rocket device?

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

German scientist gives name to the effect of phenomenon by which rockets operate more efficiently when moving higher speeds?

Oberth

German scientist known for leading Nazi germany weapon fravoopkent and construction of V-2 rocket (vengeance weapon). After ww2 recruited by American Operation Paperclip.

Wernher von Braun

What is the moon that is large and has a retrograde orbit in the solar system

Triton

Last Halleys Comet and next scheduled year?

1986-2061

Who discovered Ceres, the most massive object in asteroid belt in 1801? Named after Roman goddess of agriculture.

Giuseppe Piazzi

Second most massive object in asteroid belt discovered by Heinrich Olbers who also discovered Pallas? Named after Roman goddess of the hearth. Has the Rheasilvia crater which is tallest mountain in solar system.

Vesta

Dwarf planet Eris is named after Greek goddess of strife, what is name of its moon?

Dysnomia

Name of the hypothetical solar system body that collided with earth 4-5 billion years ago in the giant impact hypothesis? Named after mythical Greek Titan was mother of Selene.

Theia

Volcano mt Fuji suicide forest on northwestern slope known by what Japanese name?

Aokigahara

Shield volcano most active of five colancoes on big island of Hawaii means spewing or spreading and is home to Pele.

Kilauea

Shield volcano on big island of Hawaii is most massive above sea volcano on earth? Not the most tallest in Hawaii which is similar named.

Mauna Loa

Shield volcano on big island of Hawaii is most tallest above sea volcano on earth? Not the most largest in Hawaii which is similar named.

Mauna Kea

Sponge phylum name

Porifera

Jellyfish phylum name

Cnidaria

Flatworms including tapeworms and flukes phylum

Platyhelminthes

Roundworms including hookworms and Caenorhabdis elegans phylum

Nematoda

Segmented works phylum like earthworms and leeches

Annelida

Most diverse phylum is which one containing subphylum of Uniramia, chelicerata (arachnids), Crustacea, Trilobitomorpha.

Arthropoda

Second most diverse phylum is which with classes Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda within it

Mollusca

Phylum containing starfish sea urchins and sea limited?

Echinodermata

Phylum containing humans?

Chordata

The Frasch process is method to extract which element from the ground by injecting superheated steam?

Sulfur

Most common metal in earths crust(

Aluminium

Bayer and Hall-Heroult processes used for which element

Aluminium

Double name used to describe equation that can be used to calculate the pH at any point during titration?

Henderson-Hasselbalch equation

Which lab technique calculates heat or enthalpy change of a chemical or physical process by using specialised vessels to measure change in temperature?

Calorimetry

What technique separates complex mixture into its individual components commonly illustrated by separation of pen ink into many colours?

Chromatography

Which testing technique identifies an unknown compound by ionising it fragmenting it into pieces then passing it through electromagnetic fields to separate the pieces based on their mass to charge ratio?

Mass Spectrometry

B term for mosses, liverworts and hornworts, seedless plant one of two groups.

Bryophytes

P term for ferns, club misses, quillworts and horsetails, seedless plants one of two groups.

Pterophytes

Seed producing plants split into two groups, what? One is cycads, ginkgo, confiders etc. one is flowering plants.

Gymnosperm (cycads and conifers) and Angiosperms

Many angiosperms fall into two classes based on number of cotyledons or embryonic seed leaves. Some have oje( others two.

Monocots and Dicots

What type of vascular tissue in a plant transports water and soluble nutrients from roots to the leaves?

Xylem

What type of vascular tissue in a plant carries nutrients like sucrose from their origin of synthesis or absorption to all parts of the plant

Phloem

Two parts of the stamen?

Anther and filament

Female part of flower is the Pistil and made up what three pieces?

Ovules, style and stigma

Quarks combine in pairs to create what

Mesons

Quarks combine in triples to form what

Baryons

What baryon is made up of two up quarks and one down quark?

Proton

What type of baryon made up of two down quarks and an up quark?

Neutron

What are composite particles generally made up from a quark and an anti-quark?

Mesons

Some particles have half integral spin some have integral spin, which is which?

Half integral spin: fermions Integral spin: bosons

What word used to describe any particles made up of quarks generally this means baryons and mesons? Greek for thick.

Hadrons

Term given to the particles that carry forces of nature eg strong nuclear force carried by gluons, weak nuclear force by the W Z- and Z+ particles, the electomagnetic force carried by photon and gravity is carried by the graviton?

Gauge Boson

In circuit components, what is an element that impedes the flow of current creating a voltage drop?

Resistor

Term used In circuit components, for taking a material of uniform resistivity and changing how much of material is in the circuit? Comes from Greek for stream.

Rheostat

In circuit components, what is a diamond shaped arrangement of two resistors of known resistance, one rheostat and a resistor of unknown resistance?

Wheatstone Bridge

In circuit components, what is a charge storing disconnection in a circuit usually made of parallel plates separated by a medium that blocks the passage of charge?

Capacitor

What is a pair of solenoids connected to a central core which permits the circulation of magnetic flux, they can be used to step up or step down voltage?

Transformer

In circuit components, what permits the flow of current in only one direction?

Diode

Title taken from Old Testament Song of Solomon, Lillian Hellman 1939 play set on plantation three Hubbard siblings scheme to earn vast riches.

The Little Foxes

Who wrote Planet of the Apes and The Bridge Over the River Kwai?

Pierre Boulle

During disco era in New York for short time open 1977-80 it was the place to be

Studio 54

In get smart, Don Adams was agent this, it means to get rid of something or someone

86

In Buddhism nirvana is said to be attained by following the noble this path?

Eightfold Path

Which female English translator born 1861 was first to do Chekhov’s works into English and first to translate all of Dostoyevsky’s fiction into English? Did most Russians.

Constance Garnett

Rachel Verdiner main character of which 1868 novel

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Policeman in The Moonstone

Sergeant Cuff

Which Holmes story was first to appear after The Final Problem but set before it?

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Name of lady in waiting of empress who only major work is Pillow Book

SEI Shonagon

Also called Kanze Motokiyo, the second master of the Kanze theatrical school, regarded as greatest playwright of the Noh theatre.

Zeami

Who wrote The Narrow Road to The Deep North and famous for haikus.

Matsuo BASHO

One of japans first professional dramatists (1653-1725) wrote for both Bunraku (puppet theatre) and kabuki (popular theatre). the Battles of Coxinga is famous.

CHIKAMATSU Monzaemon

Japanese author 1923-1996, converted Catholicism at 11, works White Man and Yellow Man explored differences of Japanese’s and western values. Silence tells of the martyrdom of Catholic converts. Did The Samurai.

Endo Shusaku

1994 Nobel literature, first work The Catch describes friendship Japanese boy and black American POW won him Akutagawa award. Others: A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry.

Oe Kenzaburo

Which German was in charge of the sixth army at the battle of Stalingrad? Hitler made him field Marshall when clear about to lose to hint at suicide but he surrendered anyway?

Friedrich Paulus

Name of operation where allied forces landed in Morocco and Algeria in ww2?

Operation Torch

July-August 1943 largest tank battle in history fought in western Russia? Russia well informed about German’s Operation Citadel.

Battle of Kursk

Which army brigadier said “nuts” to German requests to surrender at the siege of Bastogne as part of the wider battle of the bulge?

Anthony McAuliffe

Which battleship is now a Pearl harbour memorial?

USS Arizona

During ww2 what May 1942 battle on pacific was first major naval battle in history in which two opposing fleets never directly fired upon (or even sighted each other as all carrier based aircraft)? Was about invasion ti capture Port Moresby. US navy Lexington was sunk, Japan lost Shoho and Shokaku and Zuikaku. Led to the month after another battle.

Battle of the Coral Sea

Which June 1942 battle seen as turning point in the pacific theatre, Japan lost four aircraft carriers? Admiral Yamamoto tried to lure a trap but us said no and five Bomber a from enterprise did the business.

Battle of Midway

October 1944 battle in Pacific said to be largest naval battle in history?

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Name of the forcible transfer by Japanese ofn75000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from one place to another in Philippines in 1942?

Bataan Death March

Treaty that ended war of Spanish succession (1701-14)

Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty signed to end War of 1812 but couldn’t stop battle of New Orleans two weeks later

Treaty of Ghent

Which treaty ended Russo-Japanese War 1904-05?

Portsmouth (signed in Maine)

1819 treaty signed to settle boundary dispute between US and Spain that rose from Louisiana purchase?

Adams-Onis Treaty

Name of treaties signed by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin brokered by Jimmy Carter at namesake location.

Camp David Accords

Treaty ended Mexican-American War (1846-48) signed in namesake Mexico City neighbourhood? Made Rio Grande boundary.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Collective name for two treaties 1648 ending Thirty Years War signed by countries.

Peace of Westphalia

What 1898 treaty ended Spanish American war and transferred Guam, Puerto Rico and Ohilippines to USA while cuba independence?

Treaty of Paris

Supreme Court case determined people of African ancestry did not have rights of ciritzens in USA? Namesake slave in Illinois but taken back to Missouri.

Dred Scott v Sandford

1896 Supreme Court case determined state imposed segregation was legal?

Plessy v Ferguson

Supreme Court case 1932 determined that defendants must be given legal counsel in a way that gives counsel enough time to do job! Bought by the Scottsboro Boys.

Powell v Alabama

1948 Supreme Court case determined that racially restrictive housing covenants could not be enforced by courts?

Shelley v Kraemer

1967 Supreme Court case determined that states could not ban interracial marriages striking down anti-miscegenation laws?

Loving v Virginia

Which spy had final words “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”

Nathan Hale

French military officer and spy for German empire who act of espionage wrongfully pinned on Alfred Dreyfus in 1894?

Ferdinand Esterhazy

1829-31 Petticoat Affair rocked which presidents cabinet! Sec of War z John Eaton wife Peggy unpopular and wore petticoat?

Andrew Jackson

The Whiskey Ring scandal tarnished the presidency of which president? Lots of bribes and suchz

Ulysses S Grant

The Pinchot-Ballinger Affair occurred during which presidency of USA?

William Howard Taft

Teapot Dome scandal named after Wyoming oil reserves happened to which president?

Warren G Harding

Name of special prosecutor investigating Clinton’s controversial Whitewater land deal when he found out from Linda Tripp about the affair with Lewinsky.

Kenneth Starr

Which philosopher worked as an official at Theodoric the Great’s Ostrogoth court?

Boethius

King of vandals when they sacked Rome in 455

Gaiseric

Cato Street Conspiracy put together to kill which British PM?

Lord Liverpool (after peterloo massacre)

The Wounded Knee Massacre year and state

1890 South Dakota

Battle of 732, Charles Martel’s franks and Al Ghafiqi’s Umayyads.

Tours

1071 battle Byzantine (Romanus IV) defeated by Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan.

Manzikert

1212 battle major turning point in the Reconquista of Iberian peninsula, Christian alliance beat Al-Nasir and the Almohads.

Las Navas de Tolosa

1242 battle Russia led by z Alexander Nevsky, beat Teutonic Knights/Livonian order, known as battle on the ice

Lake Peipus

1389 battle between Serbians Prince Lazar and Ottomans Sultan Murad I (BAYEZID I succeeded).

Kosovo

Teutonic Knights beat by polish-Lithuanians at which 1410 battle

Grunwald/Tannenberg

Islamic caliphate baghdad 750-1258 and carion1261-1517.

Abbasid

Saladin was leader of which Islamic caliphate

Ayyubid

Slave soldiers of foreign origin who deposed the Ayyubids in 1250.

Mamluk

What Islamic dynasty founded by a Sunni Sufi order under z shah ismail ruled Iran from 1502 until 1736? Esfahan capital during their height.

Safavid

Nickname of 1945 speech radio by emperor Hirohito announcing defeat and surrender

Jewel Voice Broadcast

Name of Militant wing of African National Congress led by Mandela and happy to “I am prepared to die” at Rivonia Trial.

Spear of the Nation

Famous napoleonic battle of 1813 popularly known as the Battle of the Nations

Leipzig

Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca and Onondaga make up this upstate New York group of Native American peoples?

Iroquois Confederacy

Algonquin-speaking people who lived in eastern Virginia when English colony of Jamestown founded 1607. His daughter was Pocahontas.

The Powhatan

One of five civilised tribes of southwestern US, has an original alphabet created by Sequoyah. Driven by Trail of Tears.

Cherokee

Native American tribe lived in now Florida and fought wars with USA. Treaty of paynes landing sent to Oklahoma.

The Seminole

Leader Blue Jacket allied with Miami people to crush an American incursion into region at the battle of the Wabash in 1791. Which people native to Ohio valley?

The Shawnee

Preeminent tribe of northern Great Plains before driven out of black hills and territory taken away. Led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse fought at Little Big Hirn.

Lakota Sioux

Native American people who lived among the Columbia river in Pacific Northwest and maintained good relationships. Chief Joseph was lead and said “I will fight no more forever”

The Nez Perce

Cochise and Geronimo both leaders of which southwest Native American people

Apache

Indigenous to American southwest devastated by Kit Carson, driven from arizona to New Mexico in long walk to bosque Redondo. During WE2 used language as coded message across pacific theatre. They now administer four corners monument.

The Navajo

Linear B was a syllabic script used for what writing type of Greek?

Mycenaean

Second major empire out of Persian, the Parthian empire founded by ArsacEs I who rebelled against Seleucid Empire. Often fought with rome, at battle of Carrhae 53bc Roman general Crassus killed. Supplanted by Sassanian Empire in 224.

Parthian Empire

Who became third woman to win Palme D’Or after Campion and Ducournau in 2023 winning for film Anatomy of a Fall?

Justine Triet

Known as Voice of Rugby Scottish rugby Union commentator

Bill McLaren

Australian cricketer born 1930 and famous commentator died 2015

Richie Benaud

Which Australian cricketer controversially bowled underarm to New Zealand cricketer Brian McKechnie to stop them getting a six?

Trevor Chappell

Famous darts commentator born 1940 northumberland

Sid Waddell

Professional golfer born 1931 berlin, golf commentator regarded “voice of golf” after death of Henry longhurst.

Peter Alliss

F1 commentator famous born 1923 Birmingham

Murray Walker

British middleweight boxer beaten by Marvelous Marvin Hagler at Empire Pool in 1980

Alan Minter

Boxing commentator famous as the “know what I mean ‘Arry?”

Harry Carpenter

Nicknamed the Jarrow Arrow, won silver medal 1500m 1984 LA

Steve Cram

Who said “they think it’s all over it is now” 1966

Kenneth Wolstenholme

First female presenter of bbc Grandstand, died 1999 of colon cancer.

Helen Rollason

English sports commentator whose son is actor who plays Jonny Goodman in Friday Night Dinner

Jim Rosenthal

Snooker commentator said to be “whispering”

Ted Lowe

Welsh rugby Union player and sports commentator born 1957 Newport. Died 2022 in Peru while raising money for prostate cancer.

Eddie Butler

Tv sports presenter anchored World of Sport from 1968-85

Dickie Davies

Athletics commentator got 10000m bronze 1976 Montreal?

Brendan Foster

Footballer for Hereford United 1971-73 went onto a career out of new age conspiracist

David Icke

Announcer for Bullseye presented by Jim Bowen, 1982-95

Tony Green

In which Shakespeare comedy would you find Sir Hugh Evans (a welsh parson), Caius (French doctor) and Anne (a girl known as Nan)

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Name of tonto’s horse in the Lone Ranger?

Scout

Who became current Secretary of State for culture media and sport in February 2023?

Lucy Frazer

William Oliver Wallace was noted comedy magician and president of magic circle who inspired Jonathan Creek, what was his stage name?

Ali Bongo

Which French post impressionist painter was once a successful stockbroker and businessman!

Paul Gauguin

In which fractious British colony did Bishop Abel Muzorewa win the first multicultural election in 1979?

Rhodesia (southern/Zimbabwe)

Stage name of Michael Balzary

Flea

food cooked Veronique what ingredient it has?

Grapes

Let It Bleed, Black and Blue, Beggars Banquet are all Rolling Stones albums and also books by which British crime writer?

Ian Rankin

Who wrote the 1999 the remorseful day?

Colin Dexter (final inspector morse novel)

First President of cyprus after it gained independence in 1960

Archbishop Makarios III

What is alternative English name for hedge sparrow?

Dunnock

Perfect world by Irish rock band Kodaline is used as theme tune for which tv show?

Gogglebox

What was Queen Victoria’s first given name?

Alexandrina

What name did Thomas Hardy use for city of Oxford in his Wessex novels notably Jude the obscure?

Christminster

Which car company had a factory at browns lane Coventry between 1951 and 2005

Jaguar

Jay Z and Beyoncé twin names

Rumi and Sir

Kylie Jenner kid names

Stormi and Wolf (changed to Aire)

Kim Kardashian kid names

North, Saint, Chicago, Psalm

Kourtney Kardashian kid names

Mason, Penelope, Reign

Of which actress did Groucho Marx say “I knew her before she became a virgin”?

Doris Day

Female forename used for furry sometimes knitted thick handgrip on church bell rope?

Sally

Which golf course overlooking the Firth of Forth, is home to the honourable company of edinburgh golfers?

Muirfield

Nicknamed Mr Las Vegas and The Midnight Idol which entertainer has performed 35000 shows in Las Vegas with signature tune Danke Shoen?

Wayne Newton

Which tv programme was described by John Betjeman as The Pickwick Papers of TV?

Coronation Street

The tune “Westminster Quarters” played by Big Ben, possibly based in part on I Know My Redeemer Liveth - a piece by which composer?

Handel

Which English engineer 1716-72 is generally credited as genius behind first British canal of modern era the Bridgewater Canal?

James Brindley

Which word meaning producer of suffering in Greek, is used to describe anything that can produce disease?

Pathogen

“For life” is main ad slogan and company ethos for which car manufacturer)

Volvo

Which US tennis player was first to win the Grand Slam?

Don Budge

Sir John Moore a distinguished British general in napoleonic wars died in 1809 battle; where was he buried in event commemorated in poem by Charles Wolfe?

Corunna

In original 1954 bbc production of Dylan Thomas under milk wood which actor took part of first voice, uttering opening words To Begin at the Beginning?

Richard Burton

Song Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy is used as the theme tune for which tv programme?

The Last Leg

Three pieces by Salvador Dali will appear in Britain for first time later in 2023 as part of an arts trail in which English town?

Shrewsbury

1000 Guineas is a horse race, how much is that worth in pounds Sterling?

£1,050

In 1923, Bolton wanders David Jack achieved which footballing first?

Scored first ever goal at Wembley in fa cup final

Two Americans to have won F1 championship

Phil Hill and Mario Andretti

Which English political philosopher coined the phrase survival of the fittest?

Herbert Spencer

What name did Francis drake give it to the land he had discovered when he landed in california ?

New Albion

Role of Harry Callahan was written originally for whcuh singer actor?

Frank Sinatra

Who will be captain of 2023 American Ryder cup team?

Zach Johnson

Which popular board game was devised by Anthony E Pratt from Balsall Heath; Birmingham!

Cluedo

Which group of people drove a car called Bulletproof Bomb in a famous cartoon series?

Ant Hill Mob

The English rugby league club nicknamed Bulldogs, who currently play in the championship are based in which town?

Batley

Jack Hoggan is the real name of which Scottish painter born in 1951?

Jack Vettriano

In whcih tv detective series did the main protagonist drive a Pontiac Firebird registration 853 OKG?

The Rockford Files

In rugby Union what team have won the European rugby champions cup (currently Heineken) the most times doing so most recently in 2021?

Toulouse

What number was displayed on Volkswagen Beetle in Herbie series of films?

53

Which British coin ceased being legal tender on 31st December 1960?

Farthing

Which Macclesfield fc footballer featured in 2023 winter series of love island?

Tom Clare

Which 19th century French socialist first suggested that property is theft?

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Based on number of major championships won who is most successful golfer ever from outside USA?

Gary Player

Who wrote the opera in which you’d hear the Humming Chorus?

Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly

The Groat was an old English coin traditionally worth how many pennies?

Four

What musical played at majestic theatre on Broadway 1988-April 2023?

Phantom of the Opera

Which American drama tv series featured family members Jason, Erin, Esther and Zeb?

The Waltons

The Hartumim were sacred magicians in which ancient civilisation?

Egyptian

What piece of sporting equipment features a stringer, skegs and a leg rope?

Surfboard

What food dish is used as title of singer Jessie Ware’s 2021 memoir?

Omelette

Who sang the song Silver Machine

Hawkwind

Blackbeard gained notoriety for criminal activity on North Carolina coast in which century?

18th century

Which SI unit of length is approx equal to 118 barleycorns or 9.8 hands?

1 metre

Langos a traditional deep fried flatbread originates from which country?

Hungary

Displayed in Uffizi museum; Museum 1597 is a self portrait by which Italian artist?

Caravaggio

Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett were singers in which 1970s disco group?!

Boney M

Which chemical element formed in Group 14 of the periodic table is third most abundant elements in earth after iron and oxygen!

Silicon

Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis are famous names in which winter sport?

Bobsleigh

Captain Benjamin Willard is narrator in which epic war film?

Apocalypse Now

In figure skating the three basic spin positions are upright spin, sit spin and which one?

Camel Spin

What French word for leg of lamb is also title of 1962 film starring Jackie Gleason?

Gigot

Name shared by 14th and 32nd US presidents?

Franklin

In February 2023, boxer Amanda Serrano defeated Erika Cruz to become undisputed champion at which weight class?(

Featherweight

What soft fabric created in Japan’s in 1951 is made from a combination of beech pulp tree and rayon?

Modal

The Fedchenko Glacier the worlds largest glacier outside the polar regions is located in which country?

Tajikistan

Which Victorian illustrator was famous for childrens picture book Under the Window?

Kate Greenaway

Irish walking stick/club made of blackthorn

Shillelagh

The eve of the 1964 world tour which member of the Beatles was hospitalised with tonsillitis

Ringo Starr

Which specific kind of sporting events I started electronically by system known as a Christmas tree

Drag Races

What country is the setting for the 1944 John Hersey novel a bell for adano?

Italy

Which fictional detective was described by his leg man Archie Goodwin as weighing a seventh of a ton

Nero Wolfe

What kind of oil is typically used as the basis for creating Castile soap

Olive Oil

At the 1985 live aid concert which band performed a 12 minute version of the song bad

U2

The 1940 film comedy one night in the tropics what’s the debut of which comedy duo

Abbott and Costello

What term is used for substituting random symbols for curse words in comic strips?

Grawlix

Neil Simon work was a 1963 Broadway play a 1967 movie Andy 1970s TV series

Barefoot in the Park

Which scientist coined the word dinosaur in 1842?

Richard Owen

What name given to underground body of rock or sediment that holds a source of groundwater? The great artesian basin in Australia is largest and deepest of these.

Aquifer

Nidoligy is study of what?

Birds Nest

Which bottom dwelling european freshwater fish has the Latin name Gobio Gobio? The UK Rod caught record is a whopping 5oz.

Gudgeon

On a circuit diagram, what two terminal (anode and cathode), current restricting (it only allows current to flow one way) component is represented by a triangle?

Diode

After demise of thylacine in 1936, what animal is currently the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial?

Tasmanian Devil

Abbreviated as Mb or MB, what iron and oxygen binding protein is found in cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue of vertebrates? In humans it is found in blood after muscle injuries and in food it gives red meat it’s colour.

Myoglobin

Named after a 19th cent German physicist and musician, what name is given to the sand patterns produced by resonating a metal plate with violin bow? The mathematics describing these nodal patterns can also be applied to quantum physics.

Chladni Pattern

With chemical formula MgAl2O4 what kind of gemstone is “Black Princes Ruby” found on UK imperial state crown?

Spinel

What fundamental constant of nature is denoted by the symbol epsilon nought or zero? It’s value is 8.8541878128 x 10^-12 farads per meter.

Permittivity of Free Space

In maths, what name given to complex number (a + ib) with an equal real part and an equal but opposite in sign imaginary part (a - ib)?

Complex Conjugate

British tv comedy character created by Charlie Higson, car dealer usually in grey suit and platinum blond bouffant quiff?

Swiss Toni

Which fruit thought to be Southeast Asia aphrodisiac, was described by Anthony burgess as “like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory”?

Durian

Samuel Pepys wrote in diary 4 September 1666 he buried his wine and which valuable food item in hole in garden?

Parmesan Cheeee

What is lacking at cathedrals of Salisbury, Norwich and Ely but is present at all other English cathedrals?

Bells

What pet, third most popular after dot and cat, has name derived from aboriginal for good eating?

Budgerigar

In which field event are womens world champs, Olympics and world records longer than mens records?

Discus - half the weight

Mohair fabric comes from which animal?

Angora goat

Angora fibre comes from which creature?

Rabbit

Cashmere comes from which creature?

Goats

Which song whose title means Hello Sir in Swahili sometimes referred to as Hakuna Matata was first released by Kenyan band Them Mushrooms in 1982 and covered by Boney M in 1983?

Jambo Bwana

Nocturnal bird sometimes known as goatsucker

Nightjar

Small falcon gives Latin name to tabletop game Subbuteo

Hobby

Which bird the national bird of Ireland named after curious flight and sometimes known as it’s call of Peewit?

Lapwing

Which bird is uk only black and white wading bird with a long bright Orange beak?

Oystercatcher

Crystal Gayle biggest song #5 in 1977

Don’t it make my brown eyes blue

Where are the annual Highland games held on the first Saturday in September; traditionally attended by the royal family?

Braemar

In which sport is area known as piste; marked with a centre line and two other lines 2 metres from the centre line?

Fencing

Which two teams finished fourth and fifth in Scottish league division 2 in 2023 echoing a joke between Eric Morecambe and James Alexander Gordon?

East Fife 4th and Forfar 5th