Low Class Flashcards
Lucille Ball husband
Desi Arnaz
Smashing Pumpkins debut studio album.
Gish
Jen in IT Crowd and Lauren in Spreadsheet.
Katherine Parkinson
Company that makes Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts.
Square Enix
Canadian company owned by EA has Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars Knights of Old Republic, Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
BioWare
Born Sarah Faith Griffiths, single Mirror Talk, named Rising Star at 2021 Brit Awards. Debut mixtape One Foot in Front of the Other.
Griff
Signed for Gingerbread Man Records, sid soundtrack to Trying and debut album You Signed Up For This.
Maisie Peters
What does MASH stand for?
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
Name of nightclub in New York featuring DJ Larry Levan, lends name to garage music.
Paradise Garage
First two hosts of Blue Peter.
Christopher Trace and Leila Williams
Longest serving Blue Peter presenter
John Noakes
Second longest serving Blue Peter presenter
Peter Purves
Longest serving female and overall third longest presenter of Blue Peter.
Konnie Huq
Fourth longest serving presenter and second longest female of Blue Peter.
Valerie Singleton
Who played Tony in West Side Story 1961?
Richard Beymer
Name of Hyacinth Bucket’s unseen son in KUA?
Sheridan
Oven chips and Microwavable chips, largest frozen potato goods?
McCain
Name of the Tindall children
Mia, Lena and Lucas
Which PSP successor was released by z Sony in 2011, discontinued 2019?
PlayStation Vita
German experimental band formed in Cologne in 1968 with vocalists such as Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki?
Can
Royal Brierley is a crystal brand based in which county!
Devon
15th wedding anniversary is which gift? Royal Brierley and Baccarat dead giveaway.
Crystal
Magazine centre/left political, founded in 1913, edited by Jason Crowley now. Guest edited Gordon Brown.
The New Statesman
Belfast theatre founded in 1951 and was nominated for Stirling Prize after redevelopment in 2011?
Lyric Theatre
Which handheld device was released by a valve Corporation in February 2022?
Steam Deck
Nepal time zone?
+5.45 GMT
20th anniversary? Belleek and Haviland make this.
Porcelain China
1996 Terry McMillan novel adapted into 1998 film with Angela Bassett and Taye Diggs?
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Emerald anniversary is how long?
55 years
60 years is what anniversary?
Diamond
Name of digital video game storefront launched in 2018 as alternative to market leader Steam (run by Valve).
Epic Games Store
What was the name of the football team in Footballers Wives?
Earls Park FC
Name given to make up brush used to apply foundation with two layers of bristles and blunt end.
Stippling Brush
Band fronted by Nathan Moore also with Eg White. Best songs The Harder I Try and He Ain’t No Competition. Album: Get Even.
Brother Beyond
Yanny vs what shrub?
Laurel
Boy band with Phil Creswick, Mark Gillespie and Jason John, best song Blame It On The Boogie.
Big Fun
Name given to small make up brush resembling mascara brush used to comb and shape eyebrows.
Spoolie
Cloud gaming platform developed and operated by Amazon
Luna
Cloud gaming service operated by Google shutting down in January 2023
Stadia
Grape is 76% of Marlborough Region yield in New Zealand
Sauvignon Blanc
Canadian sketch group troupe including Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Dcott Thomson and Kevin McDonald
The kids in the hall
Who bought the topshop and Miss selfridge brands in 2021 after collapse?
Asos
Released EP the walls are way too thin in November 2021z winner of brit award rising star at the 2022 Awards
Holly Humberstone
Hotel on 11 floors of Burj Khalifa owned by which brand more known for fashion
Giorgio Armani
Which online retailer bought Dorothy Perkins, Burton and Wallis in 2021?
Boohoo
Alan Hawkshaw composed Chicken Man the original title music to which now defunct kids tv show
Grange Hill
Winner of BBC sounds of 2022, her debut album To Hell With It gave us Just For Me and Pain.
PinkPantheress
American sketch show by Keenan ivory wayans and the wayans family. Launched Jim carrey; J Lo and Jamie foxz
In Living Colour
Ellie Goulding 2015 On My Mind is an answer song in response to which 2014 Ed song?
Don’t
Only sound of music song by a von trap without their siblings is which song by Liesl and Rolfe
Sixteen going on seventeen
Which singer is the sister of Ray J and cousin of Snoop Dogg and known for sitcom Moesha and playing Cinderella and I still know what you did last summer: sang the boy is mine with Monica.
Brandy Norwood
1975 sitcom starred Spike Milligan in brown face playing illegal Asian immigrant. Only pilot shown.
The Melting Pot
Omaha variant of poker means player dealt how many hole cards instead of two?
Four
Sometimes known as French parsley and smells like myrrh resin, what French cuisine fines herbes begins with C
Chervil
Master of Ballantrae novel written by who after they visited Nuku Hiva in 1888? Nuku Hiva is largest of the Marquesas Islands.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When You’re in Love and Bless Your Beautiful Hide are songs in which musical performed by Adam?
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
John Mayer 2013 song Paper Doll allegedly answer song to which 2010 Taylor swift song?
Dear John
Which 1990 sitcom had Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Goldensteins? Only pilot shown.
Heil Honey I’m Home
Most mother goose productions from Hickory Wood’s 1902 version which starred which music hall actor in role? Actor paired with The Limehouse Golem in novel bt Peter Ackroyd. Real name George Wild Galvin
Dan Leno
Which US recreational vehicle brand named via county in Iowa in which founded is named after Native American people
Winnebago
Theme tune of 1969 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Performed by Louis Armstrong and final words James Bond says to his wife in movie
All the Time in the World
Who played Madam Pomfrey in Harry Potter? Also Bridget Jones mother
GemMa Jones
Take the A Train and work with Billy Strayhorn
Duke Ellington
Model in video for Billy Joel uptown girl in 1983
Christie Brinkley
American sitcoms with Brooke shields as title role and judd Nelson as boss about San Fran mag writer
Suddenly Susan
Jay Rayner Podcast where they go to slap up meal and interview famous face
Out to Lunch
French fashion designer head designer at Dior at 21, trapeze line. Go set up own brand where he made Le smoking tuxedo for women and launched rive gauche range
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent was born in Oran, Algeria
But has museum in which North African city?
Marrakesh
Westlife uptown girl video had which model married to David copper field and Matthew Vaughan
Claudia shiffer
American sitcom starring Kirstie Alley in title and Wallace langham as assistant about lingerie designer adjusting single life
Veronica’s closet
Jazz saxophonist known for Blue Train and 1963 collab with Duke Ellington
John Coltrane
Who played Quirinus Quirrel in Harry Potter? Playing John Lennon in backbeat and Arthur Conan Doyle in finding neverland
Ian Hart
Visit Ban Jelacic Square, Lake Jarun, Megredvad Fortress in which European city?
Zagreb
Carly Simon song that was 1977 born film The Spy Who Loved Me
Nobody Does It Better
Last king to reside in which Richmond palace was George II, renovated by Wren
Hampton Court Palace
Who was managing Pierre Cardin boutique in Manilla at 22 and then known for torso shaped bottles of perfume
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jessie Ware podcast about eatin meal at mother Lennie’s house
Table Manners
All female band featuring Lita Ford; Joan Jett and Jackie Fox; cherry bomb song
The runaways
Rob Halford is lead singer of which heavy metal band
Judas Priest
Frontman of Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath (replacing Ozzy), Dio and Heaven & Hell died in 2010
Ronnie James Dio
1968 concept album inspired by Devon and Under Milk Wood features Picture Book and Do You Remember Walter?
Village Green Preservation Society
Bon Jovi 1986 album has songs wanted dead or alive and Livin’ on a Prayer
Slippery When Wet
Falcon and Winter Soldier actor who played Tommy Lee in recent Disney plus show
Sebastian Stan
Which band was playing at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris in November 2015 attacks.
Eagles of Death Metal
Swedish metal band known for focus on historical wars share name with piece of armour, most famous song is Primo Victoria about Normandy landings
Sabaton
Name of music festival held at Catton Hall in Walton/on/Trent Derbyshire since 2005?
Bloodstock Open Air
Which actor was in a 1980s punk band with Craig Ferguson called Dream Boys
Peter Capaldi (also won 1995 best doc Oscar for Franz Kafka Wonderful Life)
American retired as tress played Cindy loo hoo in grinch and Jenny Humphrey on gossip girl quit acting and now lead singer of The Pretty Reckless since 2009
Taylor Momsen
Robson and Jerome played Dave tucker and paddy Garvey in which tv drama mitliary theme
Soldier soldier
Traditional part of Scottish highland dress, pouch on front of kilt
Sporran
Name of 1996 debut film of Paul Thomas Anderson starring Philip Baker Hall, JC Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman, veteran gambler take a homeless man under wing.
Hard Eight
Named after contemporary artillery gun, which gin and champagne cocktail is particularly associated with movie Casablanca?
French 75
Sainsburys Premium Own Label Range
Taste the Difference
ASDA premium brand is called what
ASDA extra special
From May 2022 what is ASDa value brand known as
aSda just essentials
Who wrote and presented The Twilight Zone
Rod Serling
Who directed Bend it like Beckham, Blinded by the Light, Bride and Prejudice, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Bhaji on the Beach?
Gurinder Chadha
Hilary Mantel book about French Revolution
A place of greater safety
Now on BBC6Music, Cerys Matthews former lead singer of whcich band?
Catatonia
Hepworth, Dark Star and Weltons are all breweries that can be found in which modern English county?
West Sussex
Which fashion designer created the meat dress Lady Gaga wore to the MTV VMAs 2010?
Franc Fernandez
Who is founder of Comme des Garçons (little heart with eyes) and Dover Street Market?
Rei Kawakubo
Which mind and body exercise regime designed to improve strength posture and fitness named after German creators
Pilates
Now on BBC6Music, Huey Morgan is former front man of whcih abdn?
Fun Lovin Criminals
Wild weather, elusive and siren can be found in whcih county - breweries?
Berkshire
Who started as Jesminder Bharma in Bend it like Beckham, she went into be in ER
Parminder Nagra
Hilary Mantel book about psychic travelling around Home Counties who is haunted by ghosts from her childhood
Beyond black
Which actress is daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and therefore granddaughter of Elvis and Priscilla?
Riley Keough
Which author has written books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones and the Six and Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Who wrote the tv anthology series tales of the unexpected based on his short stories
Roald Dahl
Named after music genre, what 1979 baseball promotion saw Chicago White Sox forfeit match due to explosive damage on field
Disco Demolition Night
Named after beverage, what 1974 baseball promotion saw Indians forfeit to Rangers due to drunken fans
Ten Cent beer night
Harold Wilson presented two episodes of which chat show after holding office?
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Fashion designer designed Bjork’s swan dress worn to Oscar’s?
Marjan Pejoski
Who began exploratory excavations at Hisarlik (site of Troy) seven years before Heinrich Schliemann got there?
Frank Calvert
Name of Bogotá airport, meaning golden one
El Dorado international airport
Who wrote and performed Mississippi Goddamn in 1964, angry at murders of Medgar Evers and Emmett Till
Nina Simone
Name of Laurie Anderson’s album from which O Superman was taken?
Big Science
Mind and body exercise regime means supreme ultimate fist in Chinese but frequently done by old people
Tai Chi
Ginger rogers won best actress Oscar for which 1940 film
Kitty Foyle
Liz Truss husband name
Hugh O’Leary
Liz truss children
Frances and Liberty
Rishi Sunak wife
Akshata Murthy
Rishi Sunak children
Krishna and Anoushka
Lead singer of The Seekers
Judith Durham
Pop band formed by Keith Potger with Eve Graham with songs I’d Like to teach the world to sing, you won’t find another fool like me, Beg steal or Borrow (1972 eurovision).
The New Seekers
Actress found dead in car in 1935 mysteriously, roles in Monkey Business and Speak Easily and worked with laurel and hardy.
Thelma Todd
Stefano Massini 2014 play about the breadodwn of us company in 2008
The Lehman Trilogy
Which music producer of Tornados hit “Telstar” in 1962, shot his landlady Violet Shenton in 1967?
Joe Meek
Actor okayed superman in 1950s adventures of superman and was in from here to eternity died of gunshot to head, ruled suicide, sceptical.
George Reeves
Former model target of murder in 1975 and his dog Rinka killed, portrayed by Ben Wishaw in 2018 A Very English Scandal
Norman Scott
Organisation provider of physical and virtual shared spaces founded by Neumann and McKelvey had a failed IPO of company stock.
WeWork
Who was consort of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark? Refused to be buried next to her as she wouldn’t make him King Consort.
Prince Henrik
Michael Cashman played Colin Russell in which soap opera? In 1989 he was one half of the first gay kiss on a British soap.
Eastenders
Lead singer of A-ha
Morten Harket
Lead attorney for the defence in notorious Leopold and Loeb trial in Chciago in 1924 inspiring Hitchcock film Rope.
Clarence Darrow
Sequel to knives out name
Glass Onion
Name of five piece string jazz band formed by Django Reinhardt in Paris
Quintette du Hot Club de France
Actor who was Sweeney Todd in original cast alongside Angela Lansbury and then also recurring character Michael Haggarty in Murder, She Wrote.
Len Cariou
Carmen Callil founded which publisher in 1973 from Latin for strong woman
Virago Press
Anna Friel played Beth Jordache in which soap opera? In 1994, she was one half of the first lesbian kiss on British soap!
Brookside
Lead singer of ABC
Martin Fry
Lead singer of Depeche Mode
Dave Gahan
Lead singer of human league
Philip Oakey
Lead singer of Aztec camera
Roddy Frame
Discussions of cryptography; alice and Bob are used to show close knit pals talking; which E is the one trying to intercept message?
Eve
Martha Rowe and Rosie Boycott in 1972 founded which feminist magazine based on a biblical reference?
Spare Rib
2022 film starring Farrell and Gleeson directed by Martin McDonagh
The Banshees of Inisherin
Sega successor to genesis?
Saturn
Violinist founded quintette du hot club de France with django Reinhardt ?
Stephane Grappeli
Subgenre, deriv of cyberpunk, is optimistic vision of sustainable future of tech and nature?
Solarpunk
Vehicular soccer video game published by Psyonix
Rocket League
Brand of brandy produced in Gascony traditionally made using column stills as opposed to pot stills.
Armagnac
Social Media publisher known for mash up songs: Still MaY featuring Snoop Mogg and Fight for your right to party by Boris Johnson
Joe
Interregnum period of the British isles
1649-60
Ted and his gardener Ralph, Swiss Toni, Ron Manager appear on which sketch show?
The Fast Show (Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams)
Which Fast Show character says “I’m very very drunk”
Rowley Birkin (played by Paul Whitehouse)
Which fast show character is a football commentator played by Paul Whitehouse
Ron Manager
Which fast show characters work in formal wear shop with catchphrase suits you sir
Ken and Kenneth
Which fast show character paints scene and gets depressed at the colour black
Johnny Nice Painter
Name of fast show character who “used to be a _____ myself” obsessed with Frank Sinatra and sings “high hopes”
Archie the Pub Bore
Fast show catchphrase said by Paul Whitehouse when in boring or bizarre situations says this line at which point him and the men leave the scene.
“anyone fancy a pint”
Fast show character with catchphrase “oh bugger”, lonely old age pensioner played by Whitehouse
Unlucky Alf
What was stage name of Thomas Henry Sargent and billed as the cheeky chappie. They don’t make em anymore duck, now there’s a funny thing, listen listen, there’ll never be another.
Max Miller
English comedian born 1900 in Dingle known for short stature and glasses, catchphrases: hello playmates, I thank you, before your very eyes.
Arthur Askey
Lisa Kudrow played Ursula Buffay a waitress in which sitcom before Friends?
Mad About You
Who played Paul Bachman and Jamie Buchman a married couple living in New York from 1992 to 1999?
Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt
Name of Louis Tomlinson #1 album in 2022
Faith in the future
Booker Dewitt is protagonist of which third game of Bioshock series first not underwater in Rapture and 2013
Bioshock Infinite
Subtitle of new 2022 Gods of War release hinting at Norse battle
Ragnorak
Subtitle of first Elder Scrolls released in 1994
Arena
Subtitle of Elder Scrolls II released in 1996
Daggerfall
Subtitle of elder scrolls III released in 2002
Morrowind
Subtitle of elder scrolls iV released in 2006
Oblivion
Subtitle of elder scrolls V released in 2011
Skyrim
Catherine Bordey and commissioner Patterson only regular characters to appear in every series of which popular bbc crim programme
Death in Paradise
Main characters of Death in Paradise in order please
Ben Miller (Richard Poole), Kris Marshall (Humphrey Goodman), Ardal O’Hanlon (Jack Mooney), Ralf Little (Neville Parker)
Mrs Melrose Ape, Miles Malpractice appear in which 1930 book where all employed by Mr Chatterbox to write gossip column.
Vile Bodies
Awash river found entirely in which country?
Ethiopia
Jamal Edwards founded which music platform in 2006
SBTV
Name of Mitchell and Webb look characters who are alcoholic chain smoking snooker commentators
Ted and Peter
Name of the Mitchell and Webb look tv debate show hosted by Raymond Terrific
Big Talk
Australian singer #6 in uk in 1994 with “chains”, one of highest selling Australian artists with 10m albums worldwide.
Tina Arena
Main character of Mass Effect
Commander Shepard
Main villains in Mass effect 1 game
Reapers
Name of video game character from Metroid series
Samus Aran
What is the subtitle of the fourth mass effect game which stars Pathfinder Ryder as protagonist
Mass Effect Andromeda
Main character from escape from monkey island (2000)
Guybrush Threepwood
Name of electorjic act produces mashup songs with videos normally “______ vs the target of the parody”
Cassetteboy
French First Republic Dates
1792-1804
French spirit and aperitif, first commercialised by Paul Ricard in 1932c is made from star anise?
Pastis
Primary source of Jewish law, central text is comprised of Mishnah (written transcription of oral Torah) and the Gemara (analysis and commentary on Mishnah itself)?
Talmud
Name of urban music focused media outlet platform cofounder by Mark Thorne (Sketchy).
GRM Daily
What Is a quarter of a barrel known as?
Firkin
Whcih novel by Nathaniel West is named after the newspaper advice column written by unknown main character
Miss Lonelyhearts
Who author of 1933 Miss Lonelyhearts and 1939 The Day of the Locust
Nathaniel West
Death in Paradise set on which fictional island capital honore
St Marie
Name of Samoan born New Zealand. Chef former judge on master chef the professionals and has restaurant “mere”.
Monica Galetti
Which Irish chef replaced Monica Galetti on master chef the professionals in 2022. She has restaurant called Myrtle
Anna Haugh
Director of Blue is the warmest colour and winner of Palme dor
Abdellatif Kechiche
Director of die Hard 2, cliffhanger; the long kiss goodnight and deep blue sea. Bad film Cutthroat Island has guiness record for largest box office loss.
Renny Harlin
Name of Scottish porridge spoon
Spurtle
Actresss married to Lewis Casson, Bernard Shaw wrote Saint Joan especially for her.
Sybil Thorndike
Actress married to Herbert Wilcox (producer and director). Portrayed Nell Gwyn (1934), Queen Vic (Victoria the Great and Sixty Glorious Years), Edith Cavell (1939) and Florence Nightingale (1951).
Anna Neagle
Who played the role of Billy the Kid in 1988 film “Young Guns”?
Emilio Estevez
Who played Buzz Aldrin in Damien Chazelle’s First Man
Corey Stoll
Chilean filmmaker directed No (2012), Neruda (2016), Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021)
Pablo Larrain
Who directed Solaris, Stalker, Mirror, Ivan’s Childhood?
Andrei Tarkovsky
Who directed The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Ordet (1955), Vampyr (1932)?
Carl Theodor Dreyer (Danish born 1889)
Who directed Tokyo Story, Late Spring, An Autumn Afternoon, Early Summer
Yasujiro Ozu
Which director did Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot Le Fou (1965). Early career film critic for magazine Cahiers du Cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard
Whalebone traditionally used as stiffening in which womens garment?
Corset
Which species of whale known for underwater singing as seen in Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home
Humpback Whale
Which day named after Odin’s wife?
Friday (Frigg)
Bingo: what is snakes alive
55
Bingo stairway to heaven
67
What is the name of the hickory wood stick used in Shinty?
Caman
What game was developed in British India from earlier game of Battledore
Badminton
Song: “I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me”
Norwegian Wood by the Beatles
Song: “The old hometown looks the same”
The Green Green Grass of Home by Tom Jones
Song “I see a red door”
Paint it black by Rolling Stones
Song “desert loving in your eyes all the way”
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club
Breed of Dougal the dog from magic roundabout
Skye Terrier
Whose autobiography was called Arias and Raspberries
Harry Secombe
Harry Secombe sequel to Arias and Raspberries (1989)
Strawberries and Cheam (1996)
Who wrote “Unreliable Memoirs”
Clive James
Whcih music manager was played by Richard Madden in Rocket Man and by Aidan Gillen in Bohemian Rhapsody?
John Reid
Who wrote The Prestige
Christopher Priest
Uk #2 song “I’m gonna make you mine” and us #1 Lightnin Strikes is by whcih American
Lou Christie
Senegalese musician associated with Mbalax. Achieved hit with 1994 duet with Neneh Chrrry.
Youssou N’Dour
Which Nigerian musician associated with afrobeat, his 1977 album Zombie achieved acclaim.
Fela Kuti
Which athleisure clothing line is owned by Beyoncé and crossed with Adidas and with topshop back in day
Ivy Park
2015-21 which Radio 4 sitcom written by Ed Rowett, starring Nigel havers, Matthew Baynton and Josie Lawrence “London’s worst advertising agency”
Reluctant persuaders
Who won BMX racing silver and gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for team GB
Kye Whyte and Bethany Shriver
AEW (all elite wrestling) star villain lost to CM Punk at Revolution 2022z. Doesn’t breakncharacter even at conventions.
MJF
Caryl Churchill 1982 play features Marlene, pope Joan and patient griselda
Top Girls
Five genders been recognised in Bugis people, majority of whom live on what island? This island most populous city is Makassar.
Sulawesi
Actress won 2 Oscar’s one for 1946 To Each His Own and 1949 The Heiress. Died 2020 at 104
Olivia de Havilland
Actor died in 2014 at 104 won back to back best actress forn1936 Great Ziegfeld and 1937’s The Good Earth
Luise Rainer
2012-16 Radio 4 sitcom written and starring Jack Doherty along with Kerry Godliman, John a Thompson, Charlie Higson and Katherine aparkinson follows three couples with marriages in various stages of disrepair
Start/Stop
Nadleehi one genderfluid social role among which Native American people that govern 71k square km consisting Utah; New Mexico, arizona
Dine (accept Navajo)
Canadian pop star had uk #3 single in 2020 with You Broke Me First and 2022 single #14 She’s all I wanna be
Tate McRae
Which popular 1980s line of fruit scented dolls that featured eponymous character and friends such as Apple Dumplin’ and Crepes Suzette
Strawberry Shortcake
Name of the Prison in Porridge
Slade
1971 the who album with baba O’Riley, behind blue eyes, won’t get fooled again
Who’s next
Us time zones startin east….
Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific
Lead singer of the Sweet who died in 1998
Brian Connolly
Dance of the sugar plum fairy in whcih opera
Nutcracker
Sweets for my sweets 1963 hit for which group
The Searchers
2022 book Fairy Tale is by which American author
Stephen King
Who released second book Young Mungo in 2022 after his first book Shuggie Bain?
Douglas Stuart
Comic published between 1974 and 1986 featured Union Jack Jackson, Bomber Braddock and Spider Wells
Warlord
Which comic features characters Big Vern, Millie Tant, Roger Mellie?
Viz
Who played Sgt Ernest “Ernie” Bilko in his namesake sitcom in the 1950s?
Phil Silvers
Name of test pilot extraordinaire as main hero of supermarionation tv series Supercar
Mike Mercury
Who was described as a “bank clerk who went to war” at the ashes 1975, cricketer went prematurely grey, played for Northamptonshire. Voted SpOTy 1975.
David Steele
Three actors who starred in comedy sketch show Three of a Kind in 1981
Lenny Henry, Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield
In The Night Garden: IgglePiggle(blue) best friends with what character with flower in name?
Upsy Daisy
Which in the night garden character lives in cave!
Makka Pakka
Name of the trio in In the night garden made up of Unn, Ooo, Eee, live in a bush.
Tombliboos
Neighbours of the Pontipines in In the night garden, wear blue
The Wottingers
Neighbours of the Wottingers in In the Night Garden, wear red
The Pontipines
Ninky Nonk is a train in In the Night Garden, what is the name of the airship
Pinky Ponk
Group of birds who sing in In the night garden
Tittifers
Laurel and Hardy fan club name
Sons of the Desert
By the sleepy lagoon by Eric Coates theme music for which radio show
Desert Island Discs
Name of theme music of The Archers. Written in 1924 by Arthur wood. Recording made by Sidney Torch and orchetsra.
Barwick Green
Who played Ironside
Raymond Burr
Ironside’s first name
Robert T Ironside
Perry Mason played Raymond Burr was invented my which author
Erle Stanley Gardner
Virus in alpha virus family named after the woody region of northern Victoria region of Australia
Barmah Forest Virus
Ebola named after river in which country
DRC
Zika virus named after forest in which country
Uganda
Hantavirus named after river in which country
South Korea
From Greek “to wither”, whcih form of severe malnutrition is characterised by energy deficiency.
Marasmus
Which severe protein malnutrition shown by Edema and enlarged liver is insufficient protein consumption specific distinguishing itself from marasmus. From Ga language (Ghana) for “the sickness the baby gets when new baby comes”
Kwashiorkor
Who plays adult Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of Dragon
Emma D’Arcy
Who plays young Rhaenyra Targaryen in Hiuse of Dragon?
Milly Alcock
Who composed score and theme song to house of dragon
Ramin Djawadi
Who played Galadriel in The Rings of Power
Morfydd Clark
Who played Elrond in Rings of Power
Robert Aramayo
Which actor played MLK in Selma, Seretse Khama in A United Kingdom, Robert Katende in Queen of Katwe. Danny Hunter in Spooks and Javert in Les Mis on tv.
David Oyelowo
What multiplayer online battle arena game published by Riot Games. Main mode is called Summoner’s Rift, destroys the enemy’s Nexus. Has lots of leagues.
League of Legends
In video games what does MOBA stand for
Multiplayer online battle arena
Dota is a series of strategy video games by Valve. What does Dota stand for? You are a hero and try to destroy the opponent large structure which is the A of the title.
Defence of the Ancients
Name of current Chief Mouser
Larry
Gordon Brown’s chief mouser cat
Sybil
David Cameron’s chief mouser between 2012-14
Freya
Cat Chief Mouser between Thatcher, Major and Blair 1989-1997
Humphrey
Evidence that which Lord Chancellor 1515-29 introduced concept of chief mouser when he kept his cat while as LC
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Name of brownie made without chocolate, with vanilla used instead of cocoa.
Blondie
In Anglican tradition what service is broadly equivalent to Vespers in Catholic liturgy?
Evensong
What are Canonical Hours in order? 9 of them
Vigil (2am), Matins (3am), Lauds (dawn), Prime (first hour of daylight), Terce (9am), Sext (noon), Nones (3pm), Vespers (6pm), Compline (end of day)
Name of the video game where teams of twrrorists battle to perpetrate an act of terror while counter terrorists try to prevent it.
Counter-Strike
Counter strike was originally a mod (modification) for whcih game developed by Valve?
Half Life
What is the name of the character which must escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after invaded by aliens in Half Life?
Gordon Freeman
What is the subtitle of the 2020 VR first person shooter of Valve game Half Life?
Alyx
In which riot games shooter set in near future are the playable agents split into four roles: duellist, sentinel, initiator and controllers. Sort of like counter strike.
Valorant
Which first player hero shooter by Blizzard are players assigned into teams of six from large roster of players, complete map specific objectives, set 30 years after the Omnic Crisis. Two soldiers in charge of it: Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison.
Overwatch
Military sci fi franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard. 26th century, four species struggling for dominance: Terrans, insectoid Zerg, powerful Protoss and godlike Xel’Naga in distant part of Milky Way called Koprulu Sector
StarCraft
Paltrow’s mum
Blythe Danner
Emma Thompson mother
Phyllida Law
Daniel Day Lewis mother name
Jill Balcon
Whose movies include Mamma Mia, The Iron Lady and Herself
Phyllida Lloyd
Who directed The Greatest Showman
Michael Gracey
Which film director Titus, Frida, The Tempest (Mirren is Prospero), The Glorias (2020 about Steinem)
Produced Lion King theatre
Produced/directed jukebox movie Across the Universe about a Beatles songs
Julie Taymor
Brian Cox plays whcih role in Succession?
Logan Roy
Jeremy Strong plays who in Succession?
Kendall Roy
Name of company in Succession?
Way star Royco
What name is shared by a composer and lutenisr who wrote music for shakespeare and the other a blues pioneer reputed to have learnt his craft from the devil!
Robert Johnson
Which brown finch gets name for fondness for flax seeds - Linaria Cannabina
Linnet
Which finch with a characteristic beak is often accorded the description Scottish and is the only bird species endemic to the Uk?
Scottish Crossbill (Loxia Scotica)
Which common garden finch; green with black and yellow markingsF once known as an Aberdevine? Spinus Spinus
Siskin
How many seasons of Friends
10
How many episodes of Friends
236
Title of arctic monkey’s Whatever People Say I Am, That’s what I’m not is a line delivered by Albert finney in which 1960 film based on Alan Sillitoe novel
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Who composed and name of opera with subtitle “pictures of pagan Russia in two parts”
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Specific mode of transport propelled by a Quant
Punt (accept Barge)
Spanish word for cyclists achievements
Palmares
Named after the Hertfordshire location which it was created, method of efficient dough production to make bread quickly, developed by Bill Collins and co.
Chorleywood
Henry VIIi and Francis I met at which event in 1520
Field at the Cloth of Gold
Sulfite turns to Sulfate with the addition of an atom of which element
Oxygen
Which politician party founded as Brexit Party in 2018 changed name to what in Jan 2021 after Brexit
Reform UK
Whcih two word French term describes the situation in which a pawn captures a horizontally adjacent enemy pawn that has just advanced two squares in a single move
En Passant
From the German to bungle, what is the P for a weak chess player
Patzer
Meaning “I adjust” in French, what utterance before making a move allows a player to legitimately move a piece within its square
J’adoube
Suricata Suricatta is a small mongoose found in Southern Africa better known as what
Meerkat
Prairie dog is actually type of
Squirrel
Which French actor and mime artist associated with Bip the clown
Marcel Marceau
French actor film maker associated with persona of Monsieur Hulot
Jacques Tati
In reference to one in biblical Jerusalem on a site which had been source of high quality clay for ceramics, what name given to graveyards reserved for unidentified and destitute
Potters Field
Most common application of four in hand knot
Tying a tie
Taking name from one in Corsica, name given to small circular forts constructed around englands south coast defend again napoleon france
Martello Towers
Real name of Siouxsie Sioux
Susan Ballion
Oldest kardashian and married to Travis Barker
Kourtney Kardashian
Sauce uses butter and egg yolks, white wine vinegar, shallot, chervil, peppercorns and tarragon.named after province near Pyrenees.
Bearnaise
Which source is egg yolks and butter but with lemon juice as opposed to other herbs like bearnaise.
Hollandaise
Sauce made from butter:flour 1:1 and then milk, can use salt or nutmeg. Named after a financier who held honorary post of chief steward to Louis Xiv
Bechamel
What sauce is espagnole sauce as base with mushrooms and shallots
Sauce Chasseur
Named after nationality, what sauce dark brown roux, brown stock added, beef, vegetables and seasoning.
Espagnole sauce
Which sauce is a clear sauce made by reducing clear stock (made from unroasted bones) and thickened with white roux. Named for its texture in French.
Veloute sauce
French chef born 1784 known for The King of Chefs and the chef of kings. Hired by Talleyrand during Congress of Vienna. Replaced service a la France (serve all at once) with service a la russe (each dish in order).
Marie-Antoine Careme
Emperor of Russia between 1801 and 1825
Alexander I
Which French diplomat has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomac, 1st prince of benevento, bishop of autun, 1st prime minister of France, minister of foreign affairs
Talleyrand
Congress of Vienna dates
1814-15
Congress of Vienna chaired by which foreign minister of Austria who became chancellor in 1821-48
Klemens von Metternich
Koblenz, city in Rhineland-Palatinate, is named for the confluence of which two rivers?
Rhine and Moselle
Which country has international vehicle registration code A
Austria
Which country has international vehicle registration code B
Belgium
Which country has international vehicle registration code BH
BELIZE (british Honduras)
Which country has international vehicle registration code BY
Belarus
Which country has international vehicle registration code CH
Confederarion Helvetica
Which country has international vehicle registration code CL
Sri Lanka
Which country has international vehicle registration code FL
Liechtenstein
Which country has international vehicle registration code G
Gabon
Which country has international vehicle registration code HKJ
Jordan
Which country has international vehicle registration code HR
Croatia (Hrvatska)
Which country has international vehicle registration code IS
Iceland (island)
Which country has international vehicle registration code K
Cambodia
Which country has international vehicle registration code L
Luxembourg
Which country has international vehicle registration code M
Malta
Which country has international vehicle registration code RA
Argentina
Which country has international vehicle registration code RG
Guinea
Which country has international vehicle registration code RU
Burundi (ruanda-urundi)
Which country has international vehicle registration code TCH
Chad (in French chad is Tchad)
Which country has international vehicle registration code UA
Ukraine
From 2021, the Uk changed their car code from GB to what?
UK
Name of Ben Stiller mum and wife of Jerry Stiller
Anne Meara
Finn and Jake the Dog are from which animated series
Adventure Time
Who played Chuck Bartowski in Chuck
Zachary Levi
Who played Shazam in the DC films
Zachary Levi
Who are the fictional comedy duo from South Park and lots of fart jokes
Terrance and Philip
Stan surname in South Park
Marsh
Kyle surname in South Park
Bloflovski
Comedy duo who create and host Yourube series Good Mythical Morning
Rhett and Link
Comedy partner of Ed Gamble in the Parapod and self named podcast. Real name Richard Ian Boldsworth
Ray Peacock
Everybody loves Raymond’s surname
Barone
Who played Everybody loves Raymond
Ray romano
John Ratzenverger character name cheers
Cliff Clavin
Hilary “Norm” Peterson played by which actor in Cheers
George Wendt
Who is Frasier’s wife in the sitcom
Dr Lilith Sternin
Who played Lilith Sternin in Frasier and cheers
Bebe Neuwirth
Sweet Charity title character surname
Charity Hope Valentine
Lyrics of Sweet Charity by
Dorothy Fields
Book of Sweet charity by
Paul Simon
Who was Bob Fosse wife and muse
Gwen Verdon
Sweet Charity based on screenplay for 1957 film by Federico Fellini?
Nights of Cabiria
Improvisation group with one half Mike Nichols
Nichols and May (Elaine May)
Walter Matthau won oscar for best supporting actor for whcih Billy wilder film 1966
The Fortune Cookie
Who starred in ten films together including The Odd couple, The front page and grumpy old men
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
Named after character from Cats, name of Timmy Mallet’s band that did Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
Bombalurina
Name shared by Antarctic explorer Lawrence and the English priest blamed for Popish Plot to kill Charles II
Titus Oates
Nicknamed The Beast and winner of 2012 and 2016 4x100m golds and silver in 100m and 200m in 2012
Yohan Blake
Who plays Victor Laszlo in Casablanca
Paul Henreid
Which English golfer replaced Henrik Stinson as Ryder Cup captain for 2023 Ryder Cup
Luke Donald
Capital of Formentera (Balearic)
Sant Francesc Xavier
In Catalan, Vila d’Eivissa is the capital of whcih Mediterranean’s island
Ibiza (known as Ibiza town in English)
Capital of Menorca
Mahon
Capital of Mallorca
Palma
Capital of Lanzarote
Arrecife
Capital of Gran Canaria
Las Palmas
Capital of Fuerteventura
Puerto del Rosario
Capital of Tenerife
Santa Cruz
Capital of Canary Islands from 4th largest island to 1st
Arrecife (Lanzarote), Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura), Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
Last complete poem by Edgar Allen Poe
Annabel Lee
Name of the silent scorer in I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
Samantha
Presenter of Im Sorry I haven’t a clue from 1972-2007
Humphrey Lyttelton
Presenter of Im Sorry I Haven’t a clue since 2009
Jack Dee
700 verse Hindu scripture part of epic Mahabharata
Bhagavad Gita
John Lennon God lyrics
Magic, I-ching, Bible, Tarot, Hitler, Jesus, Kennedy, Buddha, Mantra, Gita, Yoga, Kings, Elvis, Zimmerman, Beatles
a wish or prayer for the repose of a dead person, latin for may he/she rest in peace
requiēscat
Dog Collar Museum location
Leed Castle
Lawnmower museum Location
Southport
Pencil museum
Keswick
Which Uk county gets name from “border district”
Kent
Scottish First Ministers in order
Donald Dewar
Henry McLeish
Jack McConnell
Alex Salmond
Nicola Sturgeon
Humza Yousaf
Welsh First Ministers in order
Alun Michael
Rhodri Morgan
Carwyn Jones
Mark Drakeford
Who was First Minister of Northern Ireland between June 2021 and February 2022
Paul Givan
Name of ranger in yogi bear
Ranger Smith
1974 film by Sam Peckinpah about El Jefe, powerful rancher, who finds out daughter pregnant.
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Who played James “Sonny” Crockett in Miami Vice
Don Johnson
Who played Ricardo tubbs on Miami vice
Philip Michael Thomas
Actress in Brief Encounter and won bafta best supporting actress Prime of miss Jean Brodie
Celia Johnson
Male lead in brief encounter
Trevor Howard
Collins English Dictionary 2018+
2019: climate strike. 2020: lockdown.
2021: NFT. 2022: Permacrisis
Merriam-Webster word of year 2018-22
2018: Justice. 2019: they.
2020: pandemic. 2021: vaccine 2022: gaslighting
Oxford English Dictionary word of the year 2018-21
2018: Toxic
2019: climate emergency
2020: no word chosen
2021: vax
2022: goblin mode
Whcih board game won the 2022 spiel des Jahres Game of the Year set in namesake region of Pacific Northwest where you get habitat and wildlife tickets
Cascadia
Which board game won the 2022 spiel des Jahres Connoisseur Gamer Game of the Year, a deck building tile placement game where people aim to rescue forest trees from Onibi a fictitious beast.
Living forest
Grand National fences: Fence 6, 7, 8, 9
6: Bechers Brook
7: Foinavon
8: Canal Turn
9: Valentines Brook
Fence 15 of Grand National is nicknamed what
The Chair
Whcih fence number of Grand National is water jump?
Fence 16 - only jumped once as stops repeating at Fence 14/30
Number of fences jumped at grand national
30 (14 repeats then The Chair and the Water Jump on own)
Whcih jockey wins a record five Grand Nationals in the 1800s
George Stevens
Name of owner stud or Rule the World 2016 and Tiger Roll 2018/2019
Gigginstown House Stud
Fastest vs Slowest win at grand national
Mr Frisk (1990 8:47) and Lottery (1839 14:53)
Winner of 1967 grand national, also Fence 23 (and 7)
Foinavon
Jockey of tiger Roll
Davy Russell
Jockey of Minella Times
Rachael Blackmore
Jockey of Noble Yeats (2022)
Sam Waley-Cohen
Which jockey won grand national 2015 (many clouds) and 2014 (pineau de re)
Leighton Aspell
First grand national female jockey to enter race in 1977
Charlotte Brew
First female jockey to complete race at grand national on Cheers in 1982
Geraldine Rees
Coca Cola brand introduced in 2015 and then out in 2020, South America first
Coca Cola life
Clarion is old type of what instrument
Trumpet
Sackbut is an old version of whcih instrument
Trombone
The Odyssey Complex is a sports and entertainment complex in which uk city
Belfast
Carpetbag steak is steak with what
Oysters
Named after American physician, name of steak dish that is pretty much posh burger
Salisbury steak
Dilbert artists, dilbert has dog called dogbert
Scott Adams
Whcih Greek politician party comes from the Greek for “from the roots”
Syriza
Name of Spanish political party translated as “we can”
Podemos
Whcih Irish party known as “we ourselves” in Irish
Sinn Fien
Chinese Zodiac in order
ROT RDS HGM RDP
Richard of Texas rents dead swans. He gunned more rabid dead penguins.
Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig
Divine Comedy lead singer
Neil Hannon
UTC time stands for
Coordinated Universal Time
Four John Ford Oscar’s
The Informer (1935): Liam O’Flaherty
The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Steinback
How Green Was My Valley (1941): Richard Llewellyn
The Quiet Man (1952): short story by Maurice Walsh
God is a Beckham by who
Faithless
Surname of Gunnar (winner of 1974 economics) and Alva (winner of 1982 peace) Nobels
Myrdal
Married Couples win Nobels
1903: Pierre and Marie curie physics
1935: Frederic Joliot and Irene J-C Chem
1947: Cori and Radnitz-Cori, Medicine
2014: moser and moser medicine
2019: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, economics
The 2007 film Next was set on which Philip k dick story
The Golden Man
First lines of My Favourite Things
Raindrops on Roses, Whiskers on Kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.
Food glorious food first four foods
Hot sausage and mustard,
Cold Jelly and Custard
8 Cranial Bones front to back
Front to back: Ethmoid, frontal, parietal (2), occipital.
Sides: sphenoid, temporal (2).
Name of the wire cage that fits over champagne or sparkling wine
Muselet
Cross of Lorraine made of how many lines
3
Who wrote 2008 non fiction The drunkards walk how randomness rules our lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Manager of Iran at World Cup 2022, played versus England
Carlos Queiroz
Lead singer of Shed Seven, albums include Change Giver, A Mazimum High and Let It Ride
Rick Witter
Four letter A word is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to axe but cutting Edge perpendicular to handle rathe than parallel
Adze
Fruit from Malay for hair
Rambutan
Japanese game meaning “celestial map”, played 7x7 board find stars similar to mine sweeper
Tentaizu
Righteous Brothers members
Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield
President of European Commissions…
Romano Prodi 1999-2004
Jose Manuel Barroso 2004-14 (Portugal)
Jean Claude Juncker 2014-19
Ursula von DER Leyen 2019+
Last four UN GS
Boutros Boutros Ghali (1992-96 Egypt)
Kofi Annan (1997-2006 Ghana)
Ban Ki-Moon (2007-16 South Korea)
Antonio Guterres (2017+)
UN GS between 1982-1991
Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru)
UN GS (1972-81)
Kurt Waldheim (Austria)
UN GS 1962-71
U Thant
UN GS 1953-61
Dag Hammarskjold
First GS of uN
Trygve Lie (Norway)
Who is sec gen of NATO, from Norway
Jens Stoltenberg
First NaTo gen sec
Hastings Ismay
British Gen Sec of NATO from 1984-1988
Peter Carington
Who was the British NATO gen sec between 1999 and 2003
George Robertson
Who was NATO gen sec between 2004-09
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Who was the Danish NATO gen sec between 2009 and 2014
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Last four NATO gen Secretary
George Robertson
Jaap Scheffer
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Jens Stoltenberg
Last four presidents of FIFA
Stanley Rous (1961-74 England)
Joao Havelange (1974-88 Brazil)
Sepp Blatter (1998-2015 Switzerland)
Gianni Infantino (2016+ Switzerland/Ital)
Father Mapple appears in which 1851 novel
Moby dick
Cadfael author
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
Who is current bishop of Gloucester
Rachel Treweek
Current archbishop of York
Stephen Cottrell
2021 Time Person of the Year
Elon Musk
Last four TIme people of year
2018 The Guardians
2019 Greta Thunberg
2020 Joe Biden/Kamala Harris
2021 Elon Musk
Elon Musk middle name
Reeve
Who is the chairman and founder of namesake group; Indian billionaire #1-4 in the world depending on Time
Gautam Adani
Founder and chief executive of LVMH 2nd richest in world
Bernard Arnault
Salma Hayek husband named ceo and chairman of Kering
Francois-Henri Pinault
Name of the reverend in Dads Army played by Frank Williams
Timothy Farthing
Channel 4 weatherman
Liam Dutton
Name of Weatherman on good morning Britain who annoyed Piers Morgan
Alex Beresford
BBC One weatherman welsh and drumming and LFBtQ
Owain Wyn Evans
2022 British reality tv series presented by Holly Willoughby and Lee Mack: Freeze the fear with ______
Wim Hof
BBC one weather presenter Scottish and has written the hotel on the riviera, under a Greek moon
Carol Kirkwood
Name of a publishers emblem or imprint usually on the title of a book, Ancient Greek for peak or finishing touch
Colophon
Cofounder of Yahoo with Jerry Yang
David Filo
CS gas stands for
Corson and Stoughton (American founders)
Lead singer of Tears for Fears
Roland Orzabal
Zeus turned Callisto into what animal
Bear
Zeus turned Io into what animal
Cow
Artemis turned who into a stag
Actaeon
Who turned Arachne into a spider?
Athena
Four forces on aircraft
Lift, Weight, Thrust, Drag
Pep Guardiola real first name
Josep
Jurgen Klopp managed which team before Dortmund from 2001-08?
Mainz 05 (founded in 1905)
Pep Guardiola teams managed
Barcelona B, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester City
Erik ten Hag teams managed
Go Ahead Eagles, Bayern Munich II, Utrecht, Ajax, Man U
Who played Ilya Kuryakin in The Man From UNCLE and also Dr Donald Ducky Mallard in NcIS
David McCallum
NCIS stands for
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Which chef opened Murano with Gordon Ramsay and then bought it outright?
Angela Hartnett
Who played Bugsy Siegel in the 1991 film Bugsy directed by Barry Levinson
Warren Beatty
I Claudius by who
Robert Graves
Surname of Lily on How I Met Your Mother
Aldrin
First four on moon
Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bean
What county is Broadchurch set in
Dorset
What county is fawlty towers set in Torquay
Who played title character Eve In All about Eve
Anne Baxter
Eve’s surname in All About Eve
Harrington
All About Eve directed by
Joseph L Mankiewick
All About Eve 1950 film based on 1946 short story The Wisdom of Evenby who
Mary Orr
PM of Cambodia twice in 1960/ with palindromic name
Lon Nol
Famous businessman known for famous for his work on the Lost Gardens of Heligan, the Eden Project
Tim Smit
2015 Mercury prize winner
Benjamin clementine
Perks of being a wallflower author
Chbosky
Lead vocalist of Roxette
Marie fredericksson
Singer of Dr Feelgood
Lee Brilleaux
Lead singer of Cocteau Twins
Elizabeth Fraser
Lead singer of Deacon Blue
Ricky Ross
Lead singer of Steely Dan
Donald Fagen
“All your base are belong to us” quote from what video game
Zero Wing
Who played the prisoner Number 6 in the tv show
Patrick McGoohan
What unorthodox punch was named after the Filipino machete used to cut down sugar cane?
Bolo Punch
Spanish golfer who won 1994 and 1999 Masters
Jose Maria OLAZABAL
Chris Gaines is a fictional rock personal created by which singer?
Garth Brooks’ fictional person created for film The Lamb which didn’t materialise
Jo Calderone is a male alter ego of whcih singer?
Lady Gaga male persona name?
Latin name for house fly
Musca Domestica is Latin name for which creature?
1985 film with Clint Eastwood who plays lead, The Preacher
Pale Rider is a 1985 film directed by who?
Name of 1985 soviet anti war film directed by Elon Klimov based on I Am From The Fiery Village, nazi occupation of Belarus.
Come and See
Kirk yetholm and Edale are the Mrs of whcih walkway?
Pennine Way’s terminus points are what?
Relative to size what cat has strongest bite
Jaguar
Pseudonym Madame D’Arblay used by which author who held post of Keeper of the Robes of Cherlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George IiI queen. Evelina: a young lady’s entrance into the world in a series of letters, cecilia, camilla, the wanderer.
Frances Burney known for which books?
Co founder of Factory Records and founder manager of Hacienda nightclub, known as Mr Manchester, played by Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 hour party people and Craig Parkinson in Anton Corbijn’s Conrrol.
Tony Wilson
Director of music videos “Enjoy the Silence” by depeche mode, Coldplay’s talk and viva La Vida.
Anton Corbijn
Director of Ian Curtis biopic Control, The American (2010), A Most Wanted Man (JLC) and Life (2015 shout Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) and James Dean).
Anton Corbijn
What region Thomas of Aquinas born in and year?
Roccasecca, Lazio in 1225
De regimine principum, de regno, summa theologica by which Italian
Thomas of Aquinas
Francis of Assisi born in which region and year
1181/82 and Assisi, Umbria
The radio character Paul Temple catchphrase
By Timothy
Paul temple radio character created by which English writer, catchphrase “by Timothy”.
Francis Durbridge
First metal to be smelted and made into alloy
Copper (1000 years before iron)
Who played Nero in Quo Vadia?
Peter Ustinov
Quo Vadis based on 1896 novel by which polish Nobel laureate
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Who directed the 1932 film The Sign of the cross, the Ten Commandments, the greatest show on earth, the story of Dr Wassell
Cecil B De Mille
B in Cecil B De Mille
Blount
Who plays Nero in De Mike’s 1932 film the sign of the cross
Charles Laughton
Who plays Nero in I Claudius, who plays Claudius, who plays Caligula
Nero: Biggins
Claudius: Jacobi
Caligula: Hurt
Livia Drusilla (wifeAugustus): Sian Phillips
Gaius Octavius (Augustus): Brian Blessed
Tiberius: George Baker
Antonia Minor: Margaret Tyzack
SeJanus (treason 31bc); Patrick Stewart
First six emperors in order
Augustus (31bc-14ad
TIBERIUS (14-37)
Caligula (37-41)
Claudius (41-54)
Nero (54-68)
Galba (68-69)
Which Roman emperor of Dacia was found to be possibly real after coin found with his image in Transylvania a couple hundred years ago?
Sponsian
LG stands for and country
Lucky Goldstar (Life’s Good) and South Korea
HTC stands for and country
High Tech Computer and Taiwan
Company founded in 1976 in Taiwan making computers, Latin name of a tree variety
Acer
Laptop company founded 1989 in Taiwan, name taken from an equine
Asus
Katherine Parr four husbands
Edward Burgh
John Neville
Henry VIII
Thomas Seymour
Romes Seven Hill (can queen Victoria eat cold apple pie)
Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine
Qiviut is the inner wool of which creature
Muskox is a arctic mammal, what’s its fur called?
Who has won 9 constructor world championships in F1, second currently
Williams
Which constructor has 7 championships, last winning in 1978?
Lotus
Name some f1 championship constructors who only have one win, last one was 2009
Vanwall, BRM, Matra, Tyrrell, Benetton, Brawn
Which civil engineer was on £5 notes before replaced by Elizabeth Fry in 2002
George Stephenson
Histories of Bank Notes, last fours
£5/£10/£20
£5: Duke of Wellington (1971), George Stephenson, Elizabeth Fry, Churchill (2016).
£10: Florence Nightingale (1975), Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Jane Austen (2017)
£20: Michael Faraday (1991), Edward Elgar, Adam Smith, JMW Turner (2020)
£50: Christopher Wren (1981), John Houblon, Matthew Boulton and James Watt, Alan Turing (2021)
Before Michael faraday in 1991 on £20 bank notes
William Shakespeare
Who took the 1941 portrait of Winston Churchikk that is now on £5 note
Yousuf Karsh
Tax from French for “a part cut out of the whole”
Tallage
German for body tax means the special toll Jews had to pay in mostnauropean states from middle age to 19th c?
Leibzoll
Name of the medieval land tax enacted by Richard I in 1194 Based on size of estate; replaced Danegeld, levied six times, linked to amount of plough teams used
Carucage (carucate meant land area a plough team of eight oxen could till in a single annual season)
From hungarian for three stringed viola, what is the Romanian stringedninsturment common in Transylvanian
Kontra
Secret Service name for Joe Biden
Celtic - Jill Biden is Capri
Donald trump secret service name
Mogul - Melania was Muse, Jr Mountaineer, Ivanka Marvel, Eric Marksman and Jared Kushner Mechanic
Barack Obama secret service name
Renegade - Michelle was Renaissance, malia radiance, Sasha Rosebud, Marian Shields Robinson (MIL) rain dance
Name of Meghan markle mum
Doria Ragland
Who was the American bishop who appeared at Harry and Meghan wedding
Michael Curry
George W bush secret service name
Tumbler, then Trailblazer - Laura Tempo, Barbara Turquoise, Jenna Twinkle
Bill Clinton secret service name
Eagle - Hillary Evergreen, Chelsea Energy
George HW Bush secret service name
Timberwolf - Barbara Bush Tranquility
George HW Bush kid names six
George, Robin (Pauline Robinson), Jeb (John Ellis), Neil, Marvin, Dorothy
Ronald Reagan secret service code name
Rawhide / Nancy Rainbow
Jimmy Carter secret service name
Dasher to Deacon - Rosalyn Carter Dancer
Gerald Ford secret service code name
Passkey - Betty Pinafore
Richard Nixon secret service name
Searchlight - Pat Starlight
Lyndon Johnson secret service name
Volunteer - Claudia “Lady Bird” Victoria
Which composer suffered from stage fright and neuroses, he held his head under chin while conducting as thought it would fall off
Tchaikovsky
John Caldwell Calhoun Vice President 1825-32 two presidents, which ones
John Quincy Adams 1825-29
Andrew Jackson 1829-37
Whcih bird (anarhynchus frontalis) is plover endemic to New Zealand, only species in world with beak that’s bent sideways in one direction, always to the right
Wrybill
Greek for “expedition up from”, most famous work of Xenophon?
Anabasis is most famous work of whcih Greek professional soldier and writer?
Thucydides most famous work
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Football club based in Slovakia only club and former Czechoslovakia to win one of European cup competitions, Cup Winners Cup when defeating Barcelona in 1969.
Slovan Bratislava
Scottish chemist won 1904 Nobel Chemistry for “inert gaseous elements in air” discovered neon, krypton, xenon
William Ramsey
1904 Nobel Physics for discovery of argon, President of Royal Society 1905-08, gave name to law with Jeans for classical black body radiation. Theory of Sound 1877 still used today.
John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh
Radio soap opera on bbc Asian network 2004-10 focused on British south Asian community.
Silver Street
Tamazight is the standardised national variety of Berber spoken in which country?
Algeria Berber officially know as what T?
Three official languages of Belgium
Dutch, French, German
Official language of Bhutan
Dzongkha
Name of language spoken by 9m people in Burundi, official language of Burundi
Kirundi
Meeussen’s Rule is a special case of time reduction in what family of languages?
Bantu
Official language of Rwanda, it’s a Bantu language, mutually intelligible to Burundi’s Kirundi.
Kinyarwanda
Aboriginal language with highest number speakers in Canada, 117k, a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages.
Cree
Official language of Central African Republic alongside French.
Sango
Kalaallisut is name of whcih language named after island
Greenlandic
One of east Timor’s two official languages alongside Portuguese, austronesian language spoken on island of Timor.
Tetum
Official language alongside Spanish in Ecuador
Quechua
Language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia
Tigrinya
Official working language of Ethiopian federal government, most widely spoken in Ethiopian, grew out of Geez script.
Amharic
Which language has the largest number of native speakers in Ethiopia and second in Ethiopia by total number of speakers?
Oromo
Two languages are official languages in Finland
Finnish and Swedish
Senegambian language spoken by around 30m, belongs to Niger-Congo, does not have tones
Fula
Most widely spoken language in Senegal, also in Mauritania and Gambia, in Niger Congo family.
Wolof
Romance language spoken mainly in Dolomite Mountains in N Italy, one letter away from alternative name to Judeo-Spanish.
Ladin (Ladino is Judeo-Spanish)
Official languages of Luxembourg
Luxembourgish
French
German
Official language of Malawi alongside English
Chichewa
Endonym of Maldivian language spoken in Maldives
Dhivehi
The Bottom is the capital of whcih special municipality of Netherlands
Saba
Oranjestad is the capital of whcih special municipalities of Netherlands
Sint Eustatius/Aruba
Kralendijk is the capital of whcih special municipality of Netherlands
Bonaire
Willemstad is the capital of which special municipality of Netherlands
Curacao
Philipsburg is the capital of whcih special municipality of Netherlands
Sint Maarten
Cambridge uni named after Victorian painter/author
Anglia Ruskin
Charles University in Prague named after which Charles
Charles IV (also Charles of Luxembourg)
Who the first King of Bohemia to become Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV
In which city is there a university named after George II?
Gottingen (Lower Saxony)
Kings College London named after which King?
George IV as founded by him in 1829
Montreal university named after wealthy merchant and war hero
McGill University
Most populous city of Quebec province
Montreal
Famous Indiana uni named after 1802 born industrialist born in Indiana
Purdue University
University in Aberdeen named after merchant who died in 1731 leaving estate to create school for boys
Robert Gordon University
University named after patent medicine vendor and philanthropist born in 1800
Royal Holloway
Leicester uni named after 13th century earl
De montfort
Edinburgh uni named after goldsmith and inventor names together
Heriot-Watt
Frankfurt uni named after who
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University of Mainz named after which German
Johann Gutenberg
University of Linz, Austria, named after which German
Johannes Kepler
Liverpool uni named after founder of Littlewoods and football pools company.
Liverpool John Moores Uni
Sydney university named after fifth governor of New South Wales 1810-21
Macquarie University
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University found in which polish city
Lublin
Edinburgh uni named after mathematician
Napier University
Edinburgh uni named after queen of Scotland died 1093
Queen Margaret University
Birmingham uni named after writer Tracts for the Times (1833–1841), his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865–1866), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865), which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar. He wrote the popular hymns “Lead, Kindly Light”, “Firmly I believe, and truly”, and “Praise to the Holiest.
Newman University
Nicolas Copernicus University found in which polish city
Torun
Which British singer-songwriter was behind hits including Little Lies, Everywhere, Don’t Stop, Say You Love Me, and Songbird and died November 2022?
Christine McVie
Bengali for old Ganges, one of most polluted rivers in Bangladesh due to garment washing and dyeing plants.
Buriganga
What type of cadence is named after (1325-1397) blind florentine organist.
Landini cadence
Cadence named after ancient region of Anatolia based on namesake mode
Lydian
Also known as Royal road progression, IV^7 V7 iii7 vi progression popular in which countries pop music
Japan
British curler most famous for skipping the British womens team to gold at the 2002 salt lake Olympics
Rhona Martin
Name of slang used in Britain by some actors, fairground, criminals, gay subculture.
Polari
Created by Daniel Quasar in 2018 what’s name of flag which is normal rainbow but with trans pride flag and brown and black colours added in a chevron
LGBT Progress Pride Flag
Who invented the rainbow flag lgbt?
Gilbert Baker
How many colours did gilbert Bakers first rainbow flag have!
Eight - Pink then the normal colours rainbow but turquoise instead of blue
How long in UK does copyright last for after death of author?
70 years
Welsh word for homesickness tinged with grief and sadness over the lost or departed especially in welsh culture.
Hiraeth
Who was first African American patent holder in history when granted 1921 patent for dry cleaning.
Thomas Jennings
Anodorhyncus Hyacinthus is a parrot native to South America, largest flying parrot species (although Kakapo is heavier but can’t fly)
Hyacinth Macaw
Name of animal and name of Irene Pepperberg’s research famous of studies in animal cognition.
Alex the Parrot
Melopsittacus Undulatus third most common pet in World found wild in parts of Australia
Budgerigar (parakeet in America, budgie nickname)
Cacatuidae (cockatoos) along with true parrots and strigopoidea (NZ parrots) make up which order?
Psittaciformes
Pink and white Major Mitchell’s ___, pink and grey Galah, mainly grey Gang-Gang and large black plumaged Palm are all type of which parrots
Cockatoos
Who wrote Phenomenology of Perception in 1945, lead editor of Les Temps Modernes, born 1908.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Who wrote The Phenomenology of Spirit, most discussed philosophical work of the philosopher.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Spanish philosopher and essayist born 1883 characterised as “philosophy of life”. Famous maxim: Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia (I am me and my circumstance). Revolt of the Masses (1929) and Meditations on Quixote (1914).
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Who wrote the 1961 essay The Phenomenology of Mike Bongiorno?
Umberto Eco
How many victims and names of Jack the Ripper
5 - Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly
First appeared item in Perceval in 12th century by Chretien de Troyes
Holy Grail
Robert Owen’s American utopian community in USA after New Lanark?
New Harmony in Indiana
Type of early Anglo-Saxon army that was mobilised from freemen to defend estates or join royal expedition. Bulk of King Harold’s army at SB and Hastings.
Fyrd.
Term for a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe. Smaller part of the militia, Fyrd, of Harold Godwinson’s armies.
Housecarls
Open air museum in Durham telling story of life in North East England in 19th and early 20th centuries.
Beamish
Whcih english earldom created for Geoffrey de Mandeville and also held by Thomas Cromwell and Robert Devereux
Earl of Essex
Collective noun of nymphs who tend garden guarding hera’s golden apples
Hesperides
French forest find railway carriage CIWL #2419 on both 11 November 1918 and 22 June 1940
Forest of Compiegne
Who was executed at pentonville prison 3 august 1916 and buried in prison grounds, exhumed and given state funeral in Dublin buried in 1965.
Roger Casement
Milliarium Aureum meaning golden milestone erected by emperor Augustus in central forum. All roads around Roman Empire measure relative to it leading to what phrases
All roads lead to Rome
US Special Envoy for NI under Bill Clinton; chaired the all party peace negotiations which led to 1998 Good Friday agreement
George Mitchell
Whcih museum founded 1989 originally near Tower Bridge moved to Kensington in 2016 to larger site formerly housed commonwealth institute
Design Museum
Peace treaty which ended first opium war 1839-42 between GB and Qing dynasty
Nanjing Treaty
Which Scottish archaeologist, businessman heir to marmalade business, dealt with Avebury in Wiltshire in 1930s
Alexander Keiller
Which queen of Connacht in Ulster Cycle best known for starting the cattle raid of Cooley to steal Ulster’s prize bull!
Queen Meabh
1912 East Sussex man “discovered” by Charles Dawson
Piltdown Man - found in Pleistocene beds
1903 excavated Snake Goddess figurines found from which Mediterranean civilisation?
Knossos on Crete
Sculpture behind Sleeping Christ, Deposition and Prospero and Ariel for front of Broadcasting House BBC
Eric Gill
English economist and financial speculator christened as “If-Jesus-Christ-had not died for thee thou hadst been damned” gives name to parliament in 1600s
Nicholas Barbon (Barebone’s Parliament July to December 1653)
Whcih social activist, with Herbert Burrows, helped organise London match girls strike of 1888 by women working for Bryant and May Factory in Bow?
Annie Besant (supporter of Indian self-rule)
Designed by Sir John Soane, London’s oldest public art gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery of Southwark
Philosopher 1910-89 books Language Truth and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956)?
Alfred Freddie Ayer known as AJ Ayer
Born 1789 in Llanycil, welsh nurse who served in crimea known as welsh Florence nightingale
Betsi Cadwaladr
Foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. GROUP OF BOOKS INCLUDING on mystical aspects of the Torah (five Books of Moses). First publicised by Moses De Leon (1240-1305).
Zohar
Tim Patch Australian artist who uses his genitalia to paint
Pricasso
Trafalgar Square on 21 January 1855 1500 pelted buses cabs and pedestrians with what projective in protest against Crimean war
Snowballs
Bullet in John Paul II now preserved within the crown of a statue of the Virgin Mary at whcih shrine and pilgrimage site
Fatima
According to Tacitus who was chieftain of the Caledonian confederacy who fought the Roman army of Agricola at Battle of Mons Graupius in 83/84AD
Calgacus
Name of battle in 83/84AD where Agricola fought Calgacus of Caledonian confederacy
Battle of Mons Graupius
Nicknamed “the Baddy”, scouse UFC fighter in Lightweight division known as ?
Paddy Pimblett
With a country in name, condition where child born with missing or underdeveloped chest muscles.
Poland Syndrome
R&B group winners of 14th season of X Factor
Rak-Su
Anita Blake:Vampire Hunter series by Laurell Hamilton set in which us city?
St Louis
Sex Education tv show school name
Moordale High
Derry Girls school name
Our Lady Immaculate College
Business name from Emily in Paris
Savoir
From “head neck” traditional Italian and Corsican pork cold cut (salume) made from the dry-cured muscle running from the neck to the fourth or fifth rib of the pork shoulder or neck.
Capocollo
Italian American pronunciation of cold meat capocollo known from The Sopranos
Gabagool
American chess player born Osaka, tenth highest in history.
Hikaru Nakamura
Born 1990 Russian grandmaster, lost world championship 2021 challenge against Magnus Carlson. Qualified for 2023 challenge too. Second in fide Fischer random chess championship 2022.
Ian Nepomniachtchi
The tv show The Staircase about which man who could have murdered wife but not sure really. Colin Firth plays him in 2022 tv show.
Michael Peterson
most recognized achievement is her commentary on Isaac Newton’s 1687 book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica includes a contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postulate of an additional conservation law for total energy, of which kinetic energy of motion is one element.
Émilie du Châtelet
Pease Pudding is how old according to nursery rhyme
Nine days old
Four premier league 9-0 matches
March 95: Man U vs Ipswich 9-0
Oct 2019: Soton vs Leicester 0-9
Mar 2022: Man U vs Soton 9-0
Aug 2022: Liverpool vs Bourn 9-0
mass number (represented by whcih letter?) is defined as the total number of protons and neutrons in an atom
A
Atomic number symbol
z
WW2 after Americans sent CARE packages to Europe, what did care stand for
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
Michael Jackson famous albums
1979 Off the Wall
1982 Thriller
1987 Bad
1991 Dangerous
1995 HIStory: Past, Present and Future
2001 Invincible
Capital of Hesse state in Germany
Wiesbaden
Largest city in the state of Hesse in Germany, second is capital Wiesbaden
Frankfurt am Main
Name of school in new Addams family tv show Wednesday on Netflix
Nevermore Academy
Prefab steel cylinder shelters especially used for barracks designed during ww1 by American engineer and inventor, used extensively through WW2 named after inventor
Nissen Hut
American version of the Nissen Hut known as what named after site first deployed at a battalion centre in Rhode Island.
Quonset Hut
Factory that the 1888 match strike took place
Bryant and May Factory
Edinburgh name in Gaelic Scottish
Dun Eideann
Newport welsh name
Casnewydd
Cardiff welsh name
Caerdydd
Which Scottish city known as Obar Dheathain in Scottish Gaelic,
Aberdeen
Inverness in Scottish Gaelic
Inbhir Nis
Perth in Scottish Gaelic?
Peairt
Stirling Gaelic Scottish name
Sruighlea
England name in Gaelic Scottish
Sasainn
Sefton Park, Calderstones Park, Otterspool Park, Chavasse Park all found in which city?
Liverpool
Fletcher Moss Park, Heaton Park, didsbury park all which city
Manchester
Which city has City of Caves part of National Justice Museum, Motorpoint Arena (not Cardiff one)
Nottingham
City of National Emergency Services Museum, Holly Hagg Community Farm, Kelham Island Museum, Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Owlerton Greyhound Stadium, Rivelin Valley nature trail
Sheffield
Royal Armouries Museum, Roundhay Park, Temple Newsam, Kirkstall Abbey, Harewood House, Thackray Museum of Medicine
Leeds
Three word term for photo taken by Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 coined by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot
What mosaic of 60 frames was taken by voyager 1 in 1990 including Pale Blue dot.
Family Portrait
Project code name of 1958 plan of USA to detonate nuclear bomb on moon
Project A119
SETI stands for
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
1977 book by Carl Sagan subtitles Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence, title from how man’s early struggle would have been about fear of reptiles and how transferred into dragons.
The Dragons of Eden
1979 book by Carl Sagan subtitled Reflections on the RomNce of science. Named in honour of French physician best known for part of brain known for speech production.
Broca’s Brain
Name of brain area which used for speech production named after French scientist
Broca’s Area
German neurologist who mapped the cerebral cortex into 52 regions named after himself
Brodmann Areas
Part of brain named after German neurologist involved in comprehension of written and spoken language
Wernicke’s Area
The molar gas constant symbolised by R is equivalent to what two constants multiplied together.
Boltzmann constant and Avogadro’s constant
The Hot Brown, an open-faced turkey sandwich with bacon and Mornay sauce, was created in and is most associated with what city?
Louisville Kentucky
Name of sauce which is a béchamel sauce with shredded or grated cheese added?
Mornay Sauce
What nationality were the Vengaboys?
Dutch
1993 first person shooter developed by iD software. Followed previous FPS Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. Set in moons of Mars and hell.
Doom
1992 game player role of Allied spy William BJ Blazkowicz during WW2 as he escapes from namesake nazi castle and carries out crucial missions.
Wolfenstein 3D
Computer programmer and video game developed confounded iD software and lead programmer of Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake. 2013 went to work for Oculus VR as their CTO.
John Cormack
Corporate successor to Oculus (2012-19) and Oculus from Facebook (2019-2022). Founded by Michael Antonov. Released Oculus Rift. Works in VR and AR.
Reality Labs
In Japan which two original Pokémon games were released in 1996?
Red and Green
Toby Gard known for designing whcih famous 1996 introduced female video game character
Lara Croft
Original Tomb Raider set in which four locations
Peru, Greece, Egypt, Atlantis
Main protagonist of 1997 Final Fantasy 7, video game hall of fame, a mercenary who joins eco terrorist organisation to stop a world controlling mega corporation. Main antagonist is Sephiroth.
Cloud Strife
Fiction kingdom of Legend of Zelda
Hyrule
Who is primary antagonist of Legend of Zelda franchise
Ganon
Fictional artefact and icon of Legend of Zelda series, gives holder godlike power.
Triforce
Quote from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link from 1987 where villager introduces themselves with obviously wrong name.
I am Error
Main form of transportation for Link in Legend of Zelda games
Epona the Horse
1998 Legend of Zelda game
Ocarina of Time
2000 Legend of Zelda game
Majora’s Mask
2002 Legend of Zelda game
The Wind Waker
2006 Legend of Zelda game
Twilight Princess
2011 Legend of Zelda game
Skyward Sword
2017 Legend of Zelda game
Breath of the Wild
2023 Legend of Zelda game
Tears of the Kingdom
1998 military sci fi real time strategy game by Blizzard. 25th century Koprulu Sector, Terrans are humans exiled from earth, Zerg are race of insectoid aliens and Protoss are humanoids with advanced tech and psionic abilities.
StarCraft
Developed by Konami released in 1998, arcade game judges accuracy of dancing on time and accuracy from Perfect, Good, Great, Boo, Miss.
Dance Dance Revolution
Animal Crossing original out what year, meet cat called Rover who designs your character?
2001
What type of creature is Tom Nook, other wise known as raccoon dog?
Tanuki
Four sequels of animal crossing names?
2005: Wild World
2008: City Folk
2012: New Leaf
2020: New Horizons
The tile matching puzzle video game Bejeweled has how many different colour gemstones?
7 - Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple White
Term for geometric shape composed of four squares, lends name to famous 1984 video game
Tetromino
Straight, Square, L, T, Skew, are all types of what?
Tetronimo or Tetris shapes
How many free tetronimos there? How many on sides tetrominos are there?
Free: 5
One Sided: 7 (these can be rotated but not reflected) - these then get named after letter IOTJLSZ
What city is GTA III from 2001 set in?
Liberty City
Protagonist of GTA III
Claude
GTA 2 setting from 1999
Anywhere City
Grand Theft Auto in 1997 had three city settings, what?
Liberty City (NYC), San Andreas (San Francisco) and Vice City (Miami)
Playable protagonist of GTA San Andreas
Carl CJ Johnson
Grand Theft Auto IV playable protagonist
Niko Bellic
Two episodic expansion packs of 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV
The Lost and the Damned
The Ballad of Gay Tony
Three playable protagonists of 2013 Grand Theft Auto V
Michael de Santa
Franklin Clinton
Trevor Phillips
Video game 2012 Max Payne 3 is set in which country?
Brazil
What is the artificial intelligence that accompanies Chief in 2001 video game Halo?
Cortana
First 2001 launch game of Xbox developed by Bungie, subtitle needed too. Set in 26th Century.
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo set in which century?
26th Century
Halo sequel released in 2021 as sixth mainline entry in series following Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Infinite
World of Warcraft takes place within which world?
Azeroth
November 2022 released expansion pack for World of Warcraft
Dragonflight
Warcraft first video game in 1994 subtitled what? They are the two playable roles.
Orcs and Humans
II: Tides of Darkness
III: Reign of Chaos
Both sequels of what video game?
Warcraft
Who created Minecraft
Markus “Notch” Persson
Modes in Minecraft five options
Survival, Hardcore, Creative, Adventure, Spectator.
Which 1992 film by John Woo stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector “Tequila” Yuen? John Woo’s last HK film before Hollywood.
Hard Boiled
Tommy Carberry rode which horse to 1975 Grand National victory?
L’Escargot
Air filled skull cavity from Latin for pocket/curve/fold.
Sinus
Neoclassicism style originated in which century when artists began to imitate Greek and Roman antiquity in reaction to excessive style of Baroque and Rococo?
18th century
Who directed 1932 film The Mummy?
Karl Freund
Who played Dracula in 1931 Tod Browning directed Dracula?
Bela Lugosi
Who plays Henry Frankenstein in 1931 Frankenstein film?
Colin Clive
Born William Pratt in 1887 Dulwich Surrey, who plays The Mummy (1932), the monster of Frankenstein (1931), and voiced Grinch in 1966 animated tv special winning a Grammy?
Boris Karloff
Whcih film director directed Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Show Boat (1936)? Born 1889 in Dudley, Worcestershire .
James Whale
The 1937 film The Road Back was a sequel of which 1930 film?
All Quiet on the Western Front
Who recorded “Ha! Ha! Said the clown” in 1967
ManFred Mann
Vengaboys two #1s?
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
We’re going to Ibiza!
Debut novel Lessons in Chemistry is by which American author
Bonnie Garmus
The Swedish sportsman Gert Fredriksson competed in four Summer Olympics winning six golds out of eight medals in which sport?
Canoeing
Only tropical rain forest managed by the Us forest service?
El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico
Quinault Rain forest is in which US state?
Washington - part of Olympic national park
Who painted his half brother Henry Pelham as the model in the painting A Boy With a Flying Squirrel?
John Singleton Copley
Born 1738 Boston, painted Watson and the Shark 1778, The Death of the Earl of Chatham 1781, The Death of Major Peirson 1783?
John Singleton Copley
Jean Paul Gautier has collaborated with which French footballer ok three sets of sunglasses?
Karim Benzema
Tupac favourite sunglasses were 56-6106 sunglasses by which fashion house?
Jean Paul Gaultier
Who composed Carnaval, Kinderszenen and Waldszenen?
Robert Schumann
Schumann’s Kinderszenen meant scenes from childhood, what does Waldszenen mean?
Forest Scenes
Which amendment repealed the ban on alcohol called prohibition?
21st Amendment got rid of prohibition
Which amendment introduced prohibition?
18th Amendment introduced prohibition
Which amendment limits terms of President to two?
22nd amendments put in two term limit
Which amendment prohibits the denial of a vote based on sex in effect recognising women right to vote?
19th prohibition introduced womens right to vote!
The 20th amendment moved the beginning and end of terms of President, Vice President and members of Congress to January from which month it had been previously?
March
Which amendment prohibits denying or abridging a citizens right to vote on account of race or skin colour?
15th amendment ratified in 1870
Landmark civil rights case in which Supreme Court rules fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same sex couples by clauses in 14th amendment?
Obergefell v Hodges
Landmark decision of US Supreme Court that held Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent enslaved or free thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the constitution conferred upon American citizens.
Dred Scott v Sandford
Which amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime?
13th amendment abolished slavery
What was the latest amendment made to US constitution? It first submitted in 1789 but not completed until 1992 making it a period of 202 years. It prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of Congress from taking place until after next election.
27th Amendment
Which year was the 26th amendment ratified which reduced voting age to 18?
1971 (first election in 1972)
South African swimmer who won the 2020 gold for 200m breaststroke and silver for 100m
Tatjana Schoenmaker
Japanese for grilled bird, which Japanese meal of skewered chicken?
Yakitori
Who says in what book: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship?
Amy March in Little Women 1868
Actress born in Ireland 1911, played Jane in Tarzan films opposite Weissmuller? Mother to Mia Farrow.
Maureen O’Sullivan
Which American two time Olympic swimmer and film actor portrayed the top three syndicated comic strip heroes of 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers?
Buster Crabbe
Which sci fi adventure hero was created by Philip Francis Nowlan in 1929?
Buck Rogers
In the original Buck Rogers comic book strip it said he was from which century?
25th Century
Flash Gordon was originally created and drawn by which artist in 1934 for King Features Syndicate?
Alex Raymond
Stan Lee was the writer for a lot of Marvel but who was the artist behind Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Thor, Xmen, Iron Man?
Jack Kirby
Who was the French naval officer in charge of French and Spanish fleets at Battle of Trafalgar?
Pierre Villeneuve
Nelson at Trafalgar was on Victory, what was Cuthbert Collingwood on?
Hms Royal Sovereign
At the 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent, Horatio Nelson was Commodore on which Ship?
HMS Captain
Who became Commander in Chief at Battle of Trafalgar on the death of Horatio Nelson in 1805?
Cuthbert Collingwood
Lord Nelson, Dukedom was called what?
Duke of Bronte
Lord Nelson died which year which battle
1805 battle of Trafalgar
George Stubbs 1770 painting ____ Frightened by a _____
Horse by lion
Scottish Fold is a type of what?
Cat
Card game: easy to pick up and impossible to put down?
Uno
Who played Hercules Poirot in three adaptations made by Twickenham in 1930s: Alibi, Black Coffee and Lord Edgware Dies?
Austin Trevor
Chicken dish named after county which uses cider?
Somerset Chicken
French term for silver-gilt or silver which has been gilded with gold.
Vermeil
Oasis first top 40 hit in 1994
Supersonic
Oasis first top 10 song in 1994
Live Forever
Oasis first #1, occurred in 1995
Some Might Say
Oasis and Blur songs which had the battle of britpop in 1995
Blur’s Country House beat Oasis’s “roll with it”
Author of San Francisco set “Tales of the City” 2019 miniseries.
Armistead Maupin
Born 1948 in Łódź Poland, fantasy writer and trained economist.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Title character of The Witcher novels by Sapkowski?
Geralt of Rivia
Group of islands in Indian Ocean consisting of islands of Mauritius and department of Reunion. Named after Portuguese navigator first visited in 1512.
Mascarene Islands
Protagonist of comic fantasy history mystery novels by British author Jasper Fforde? She first introduced in Fforde’s first published novel The Eyre Affair in 2001.
Thursday Next
Lake Tahoe between which two states
California and Nevada
Island with name meaning “island” in the Nile River in central Cairo.
Gezira Island
Born 1714 in Upper Palatinate: Iphigenie en Tauride (1779), left Paris at poor reception of Echo et Narcisse (1779). Most famous “Orfeo ed Euridice”.
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Vandal Kingdom established by which King of Vandals and Alans 428-477? Most remembered for Sack of Rome 445 and persecution of nicene Christian’s in favour of Arian Christianity.
Gaiseric
451 battle between coalition of Roman and Visigoths against the Huns commanded by Attila
Battle of Catalaunian Plains
Visigoth King who fought and died at the Battle of Catalaunian Plains/Troyes/Chalons in 451?
Theodoric I
Which First King of Visigoths from 395 to 410, responsible for the Sack of Rome in 410?
Alaric I
Which Italian king did Theodoric the Great beat in 489 becoming new ruler lf Italy from 493-526?
Odoacer
Mausoleum of Theodoric containing body of King of Italy, Ostrogoths, Visigoths is found in which Italian city
Ravenna
378 battle between Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels led by Fritigern. Modern day Edirne in Turkey.
Battle of Adrianople (Hadrianopolis)
Lincolnshire sausages are most commonly flavoured with which herb
Sage
Newmarket sausages are geographically protected and come in two types with family butchers names, which?
Powters and Musks
Polish for dog
Pies
2022 coming of age drama by Spielberg based on his adolescence and first years as a filmmaker, fictional Sammy.
The Fabelmans
Who plays lead character Sammy Fabelman in Spielberg’s 2022 film The Fabelmans?
Gabriel LaBelle
Who played Alex Rieger on Taxi (1978-83), John Lacey on Dear John, Alan Eppes on Numb3rs. Ordinary People, Independence Day, Uncut Gems, The Fabelmans. Is an O away from EGOT.
Judd Hirsch
2022 psychological drama directed by Todd Field and Cate Blanchett playing the title renowned composer.
Tar
2022 film directed by Damien Chazelle chronicling rise and fall of multiple characters during Hollywood transition from silent to sound films.
Babylon
Everything everywhere all at once directors
The Daniels: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
2022 film Blonde was based on 2000 book by who?
Joyce Carol Oates
Marilyn Monroe born name
Norma Jane Mortenson
Australian film director and screenwriter, directed Chopper 2000, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007, Killing Them Softly 2012 and Blonde 2022
Andrew Dominik
Voice of Pinocchio in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio 2022
Gregory Mann
Who voices Benito Mussolini in 2022 Pinocchio, also voices SpongeBob?
Tom Kenny
H Jon Benjamin voices which two famous cartoon men
Sterling Archer and Bob Belcher
2018 musical Ain’t Too Proud was a jukebox musical of which bands music
The Temptations
British actor and director who played Finlay Newton in Casualty. Plays include Elmina’s Kitchen in 2005. Current artistic director of Young Vic. Wrote One Love: The Bob Marley Musical.
Kwame Kwei-Armah
In the 2022 play The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten, who played Andy Warhol in original West End?
Paul Bettany
In the 2022 play The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten, who played Jean Michel Basquiat in original West End?
Jeremy Pope
Which writer has written biopics The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, Bohemian Rhapsody and The Two Popes? Nominated for Oscar’s for Theory of Everything and Two Popes.
Anthony McCarten
Who directed 2022 film The Inspection starring Jeremy Pope?
Elegance Bratton
American actor played Ernest P Worrell in TV and film, Jed Clampett in film of Beverly Hillbillies and Slinky Dog in Toy story first two. Died 50 years old in 2000.
Jim Varney
Who plays title roles of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart in Hart to Hart?
Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers
Saw 2017 and 2021 films with one word titles
Jigsaw
Spiral
Who played Detective Captain Stephen “Steve” McGarrett in Hawaii 5-0?
Jack Lord
Who was Detective Captain Stephen “Steve” McGarrett’s sidekick and partner in Hawaii 5-0
Danny “Danno” Williams
Which character would regularly say “Book em Danno” in Hawaii 5-0
Stephen “Steve” McGarrett
Manager of Morocco at World Cup 2022
Walid Regragui
What type of fat is the fat between your cheekbones and jaw bones that help make up the shape of your face
Buccal Fat
FK RFS are football team from what country?
Latvia - Rigas Futbola Skola
Debut film was Jane Austen in Manhattan, in 1981 Stripes, played Rachael in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. Chani in original Dune.
Sean Young
Blade Runner (1982) set in which year
2019
Silkeborg IF football team from which country?
Denmark
Region of France third largest in Metropolitan France and second most populous after Ile-de-France. Prefecture is Lyon. Other cities Grenoble, Saint Etienne, Clermont-Ferrand.
Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
Northernmost region of France, merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy in 2014. Prefecture is Lille. Others include Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing and Dunkirk.
Hauts-de-France
Region of France with prefecture Marseille. Previously PACA, now adopted Region Sud as a brand name. Major cities include Nice, Toulon, Aix-en-Provence.
Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
French region in northeastern France superseded three former regions of Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine in 2016. Sits atop three water basins (Seine, Meuse and Rhine). Prefecture is Strasbourg and others include Reims, Metz (confluence of Moselle and Seille), Mulhouse, Nancy (capital of Duchy of Lorraine).
Grand Est
Singer of “One of Us”, if god was one of us song
Joan Osborne
Musical act Karen DiConcetto and _____ Cruz. Schools Out, UGLY, Ooh stick you.
Daphne and Celeste
Played Lance Corporal Jones and sang “Grandad” #1 on 51st birthday in 1971.
Clive Dunn
Summer Son band, lead singer Sharleen Eugene Spiteri
Texas
Agnolo di Cosimo artist from Florence mannerist and named after relatively dark skin or reddish hair
Bronzino
1545 allegorical painting by Bronzino held in National gallery. Four terms in title.
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
The Monty Python foot comes from which painting by who
Bronzino’s Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Who is married from Kevin Bacon since 1988
Kyra Sedgwick
non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Who composed music to Silent Night
Franz Xavier Gruber
Kumpupintil Lake is new name for which endorheic salt lake located in the Little Sandy Desert in Western Australia?
Lake Disappointment
Cold soup from Granada and Malaga, made from bread, crushed almonds, garlic, water, olive oil.
Ajoblanco
FK Spartaks, a Latvian football team play at which city?
Jurmala
1800-23 pops, captured by Napoleon after papal bull excommunication Quum Memoranda, remained until 1814 allowed to go back to rome.
Pius VII
Pope 1775-1799 fought Napoleon and taken prisoner and off to France he went. Died after 18 months in Valence.
Pius VI
1949 James Cagney film directed by Raoul Walsh. Based on story by Virginia Kellogg. Cagney plays Arthur “Cody” Jarrett.
White Heat
Longest river on Cuba and in Caribbean
Cauto
47km river that acts as water supply for Havana. Final stretch runs through Havana.
Almendares River
River runs through heart of Madrid and source of fresh water
Manzanares River
River goes through Seville and Cordoba
Guadalquivir
Second largest city in Ecuador known as gateway to Galápagos Islands.
Guayaquil
River flowing through Valencia
Turia
River through Toledo and Aranjuez
Tagus
River flow through Valladolid, Tordesillas, Porto
Douro
Which river flows through Zaragoza and is second longest in Spain
Ebro
River flows through Toulouse, Bordeaux and parts of Spain.
Garonne
Burke Shelley was the lead vocalist and bassist of which rock band?
Budgie
Keith McCurdy is a famous tattoo artist known by which nickname?
Bang Bang
Which German battleship called The Beast by Churchill was destroyed by Operation Catechism on 12 November 1944 near the Norwegian city of Tromso?Brits had no casualties.
Tirpitz
Which ship’s wreck found in 1989 by Robert Ballard?
Bismarck
Sink the Bismarck! Was a 1960 war film based on 1959 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by which author?
CS Forester
Name of cat also known as Oscar who survived three ship sinking during ww2
Unsinkable Sam
Unsinkable Sam the cat who survived three ships suffered sinking of which three ships?
Bismarck
Cossack
Ark Royal
British Masters International One Loft Race takes place in which sport
Pigeon Racing
Casca says what of a Seneca speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar?
It was greek to me
Which brand sells the Dionysus shoulder bag?
Gucci
iTaukei are the major indigenous people on which island group?
Fiji (its alternative name for Fijians)
Lebanese business tycoon who was PM of Lebanon from 1992-98 and 2000-04. Credited with constructing the Taif Agreement that ended the 15 year Lebanese Civil War. Assassinated in 2005 by Hezbollah suicide truck bomb in Beirut.
Rafic Hariri
PM of Lebanon 2009-11 and 2016-20. Born in Riyadh. Son of assassinated father. Strongest figurehead of the March 14 Alliance named after date of Cedar Revolution.
Saad Hariri
Jessica Ennis-Hill was world champion in heptathlon how many times
Three
Tenth album by Madness, album cover by Peter blake. Lots of yes words.
Oui, oui, si, si, ja, ja, Da, Da
Villajoyosa in Spain known for what foodstuff
Chocolate
Whose first solo album was “She’s the Boss” in 1985?
Mick Jagger
Dodo Latin name
Raphus Cucullatus
First book about HP Lovecraft: first novel Whatever, Atomised, Platform, The Art of Struggle. 2010 published The Map and the Territory which won the Prix Goncourt. 2015 book Submission controversy due to depiction of Islam. 2022 book Aneantir.
Michel Houellebecq
Main character of The Stranger (L’etranger) set in Algeria
Meursault
Whcih author born 1913 in present day Drean (Mondovi) in Algeria?
Albert Camus
Born 1859 Mulhouse, French artillery officer whose trial in 1894 for treason was very polarising and has gone down in history.
Alfred Dreyfus
De facto ruler of Francia from 718 to 741. Son of Pepin of Herstal. Name comes from hammer.
Charles Martel
732 Battle when Umayyad invasion of Gaul. Frankish forces won led by Charles Martel over forces led by Al-Ghafiqi, governor of Al-Andalus.
Battle of Tours (known in Arabic as Battle of tiles of Martyrs)
Charles Martel two sons he split kingdom into. One became first king of Carolingian dynasty.
Carloman and Pepin the Short (751-768 father of Charlemagne)
Born 1758 in Arras, elected as public accuser in 1791, brought about fall of monarch on 10 August 1792 and creation of National Convention. People turned against him. Died in July 1894 in event preceding the Thermidorian Reaction.
Maximilian Robespierre
Name references item of clothing, common people of lower classes in late 18th century France. Opposing aristocrats. Used in derogatory sense by Murnan in 1791 to describe an army of this type.
Sans-culottes
Two rivers flowing through Lyon
Saone and Rhone
The Loire empties into the Atlantic Ocean at which port?
Saint-Nazaire
Name given to Europe’s biggest purpose built business district found in Paris?
La Defense
Green skinned grape from burgundy region of France the second most commonly used variety of white wine grape
Chardonnay
Wines from this region have preferred blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and 15% Merlot?
Bordeaux
Region of France with prefecture Dijon. Other settlements: Besancon, Belfort, Auxerre, Macon, Nevers.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comte
Westernmost region of France, prefecture is Rennes. One of two regions which does not contain any landlocked departments along with Corsica. Anthem of this region sang same tune as national anthem as wales and Cornwall: Bro Gozh Ma Zadou. Other towns: Brest, Quimper, Lorient, Vannes.
Brittany
English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. Dutch form of this is Delftware, all others is this term.
Faience
Western region of France with prefecture Nantes, Angers, Saint-Nazaire, Le Mans other settlements.
Pays de la Loire
Region of France containing Paris
Ile-de-France
Six islands overseas region of France: islands Basse-Terre (also capital), Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Desirade and two unhabited Iles des Saintes.
Guadeloupe
Most populous city of Guadeloupe (not capital Basse Terre).
Les Abymes
Largest national park of France and of EU covering 41% of French Guiana.
Guiana Amazonian Park
French overseas department and region consists of Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre in Mozambique Channel.
Mayotte
Mayotte’s capital and largest city?
Mamoudzou
1993 film by Jon Amie starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster adapted by account of French peasant Martin Guerre.
Sommersby
White supremacist terrorist organisation operated in southern states during late 19th century founded by Alcibiades DeBlanc in 1867.
Knights of the White Camelia
Named after clothes and colour, white supremacist paramilitary groups active in late 19th century in reconstruction era of USA.
Red Shirts
Condition similar to yips that affects dart players
Dartitis
Gymnastic term similar to Yips affecting Simone Biles at Olympics
Twisties
Who said “I loved deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by”?
Douglas Adams
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” said by who?
Mae West
Head of New Zealand Rugby Union team from 2012-19 winning the 2015 World Cup. High Chief of Vaiala (Samoa).
Sir Steve Hansen
New Zealand rugby Union head coach between 2004 and 2011, nicknamed Ted and won Rugby World Cup in 2011
Sir Graham Henry
South Africa Rugby Union head coach from 2004-07 winning the 2007 Rugby World Cup and the 2004 Tri Nations.
Jake White
Head coach of South Africa rugby Union team from 2018-19 winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Rassie Erasmus (born Johan)
“Third world” coined by which French demographer in 1952?
Alfred Sauvy
Capitalist world was first world, third world was everybody else but who was second world?
Eastern Bloc or Communist States
George Manuel, Canadian aboriginal leader, coined which term to describe nations who live within or across state boundaries like native Americans.
Fourth World
Hugh Dennis comedy partner met at Footlights while at Cambridge Uni.
Steve Punt
Earl of Ypres, commander in chief of the British Expeditionary Force for the first year and a half of WW1. Replaced by Haig due to blame for battle results including Battle of Loos.
John French
Commander of British Expeditionary Force on Western front from late 1915 until end of war, in charge for Somme, Arras, 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele 1917).
Douglas Haig
Eden Project North will be based where?
Morecambe, Lancashire
What has a pintle, knuckles and two leaves?
Hinge
Name for striking a ball so that it hits in any order the other cue ball and the red ball on the same shot. Scores two points.
Cannon
Who plays the cook in the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover in 1989 film?
Richard Bohringer
Who plays the thief in the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover in 1989 film?
Michael Gambon
Who plays the cook in the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover in 1989 film?
Richard Bohringer
Who plays the lover in the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover in 1989 film?
Alan Howard
John Ford 1620s play, about Giovanni brother to sister Annabella.
Tis Pity She’s a whore
Parts of whcih book are: Recalled to Life, The Golden Thread and The Track of a Storm?
A Tale or Two Cities
Nicknames of whcih sports team include Bombers, Pinstripers and the Evil Empire?
New York Yankees
Official name for the insignia of the Church of Satan the pentagram looking thing
Sigil of Baphomet
Hedgehog Latin name
Erinaceus europaeus
Hindu goddess of time and death. Tongue and lips of Rolling Stones created in 1971 inspired by stuck out tongue of this goddess.
Kali
The Rolling Stones tongues and lip logo was created by which British art designer
John Pasche
Name of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell’s design team coined by Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. Designed “A Saucerful of Secrets” for them. Famously did The Dark Side of the Moon.
Hipgnosis
Who co-founder of Hipgnosis worked solo from 1983 doing albums for Robert Plant, Kajagoogoo and Big Country. Also Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations.
Storm Thorgerson
Lion monument created by Bertel Thorvaldsen was by which Swiss city?
Lion of Lucerne
Danish sculptor did the Tomb monument of Pius VII the only work by a non catholic in St Peters Basilica
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Original virgin records logo created by who? Famous for album covers by Yes; Fragile, Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans.
Roger Dean
Lead singer Bernie Shaw, guitarist Mick Box, keyboardist Phil Lanzon and Dave Rimmer bassist.
Uriah Heep
Graphic designer 1957-2019, record label 4AD close relationship. Produced artwork for every Pixies album during his lifetime: come on pilgrim, surfer Rosa, doolittle, bossanova.
Vaughan Oliver
Graphic designer born 1955 cofounder of Factory Records with Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus. First album cover very famous Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division. Did Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album So. Designed 2010 England football team home shirt. 2018 redesigned Burberry’s logo.
Peter Saville
Debut album by Joy Division released in 1979. Famous artwork cover by Peter Saville.
Unknown Pleasures
American artist known for 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster and album designers including Grateful Dead logo.
Stanley “Mouse” Miller
1913-1992, American artist best known for illustrations on jazz record albums. Did Time Magazine covers too. bird and diz. Loads of iconic ones.
David Stone Martin
What Swiss artist best known for airbrushed images that blend humans with machines. Won Oscar for visual design of Ridley Scott’s Alien and created Alien design. Albums: Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, KooKoo by Deborah Harry.
HR Giger
HP Lovecraft initials
Howard Phillips
Main graphic arts designer for Frank Zappa and/or The Mothers of Invention. Did Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart. Debut album of Tom Waits: Closing Time, then The Heart of Saturday Night, Nighthawks At The Diner.
Cal Schenkel
Don Van Vliet performed under whcih stage name using a rotating ensemble backup called The Magic Band.
Captain Beefheart
Cover of Band Aid’s Do They Know Its Christmas, 2006 album Stop the Clocks (Oasis greatest hits), painting The First Real Target 1961 at Tate. Did Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover work.
Peter Blake
American art director known for designing The Barbara Streisand Album in 1963, Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits in 1967, Underground by Thelonius Monk in 1969, Chicago X in 1976 (8th album), Love Notes by Ramsey Lewis in 1977.
John Berg
Who created Fritz the Cat and Mr Natural, comic Zap Comix, illustrated biography of Kafka: Introducing Kafka.
Robert Crumb
Obey Giant sticker, Mozilla former logo, Obama Hope poster.
Shepard Fairey
Swiss typeface designer best known for Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960.
Max Miedinger
Who designed the Nike Swoosh?
Carolyn Davidson
American graphic designer known for book covers most famously Jurassic Park
Chip Kidd
American graphic designer and Oscar winner, best known for film posters and title sequences: The Man With The Golden Arm by Otto Preminger. Film posters: Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder, Schindlers List. Hanna-Barbera swirling star logo, designed United Airlines logo, Continental Airlines logo, logo Bell System.
Saul Bass
Director of taboo films such as The Man With The Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder, Advise & Consent, Laura and Fallen Angel. Bonjour Tristesse; Saint Joan, Porgy and Bess, Carmen Jones.
Otto Preminger
I Love NY, Brooklyn Brewery Logo, DC Comics Logo.
Milton Glaser
Supermodel born 1942 High Wycombe, icon of Swinging London. Helped launch miniskirt. Romance with Terence Stamp, married Michael Cox in 1979. Played by Karen Gillan in We’ll Take Manhattan in 2012.
Jean Shrimpton
Father of Graphic Design. Born 1914; logos of IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC and NeXT.
Paul Rand
Yuri Gagarin’s first words upon taking off Vostok 1 at Baikonur cosmodrome
Poyekhali / let’s go!
Vostok 1 took off from what Kazakhstan cosmodrome?
Baikonur
Who sang “Fight Song” in 2015? Albums: Wildfire, Waves.
Rachel Platten
Song written by Goffin and King and performed by Monkees as theme song for 1968 film Head.
Porpoise Song
Who sang The Boll Weevil Song? Other hits like It’s Just a Matter of Time, Endlessly.
Brook Benton
One of largest land animals of all time named after country it was found in. Led by palaeontologist Jose Bonaparte.
Argentinosaurus
What do they call wooden clogs in Dutch?
Klomp (plural klompen)
Google engineer who made free fall jump in 2014 breaking Felix Baumgartner world record.
Alan Eustace
American video game developer founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984: Crash Bandicoot (1996), Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001), Uncharted (2007-) and The Last of Us (2013-).
Naughty Dog
2022 comedy film directed by Tom Gormican stars Nicolas Cage as fictionalised version of himself.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Capital of Marche region
Ancona
Capital of Abruzzo
L’Aquila is capital of which Italian region
Capital of Apulia
Bari is the capital of which Italian region
Capital of Basilicata in Italy
Potenza is capital of which Italian region
Which italian region is the toe of Italy?
Calabria
Capital of Calabria in Italy
Catanzaro is the capital of which region?
Naples is capital of which Italian region?
Campania
Bologna is the capital of which Italian region?
Emilia-Romagna
Trieste is the capital of which Italian region?
Friuli-Venezia-Guilia capital?
Genoa capital of which region?
Liguria
Molise region of Italy’s capital
Campobasso is the capital of which Italian region
Turin is capital of which region?
Piedmont
Trento capital of which region?
Trentino-South Tyrol
Umbria capital?
Perugia is capital of which Italian region?
Venice is capital of which Italian region?
Veneto
Most populous Italian region
Lombardy
Least populous region of Italy
Aosta Valley
Largest area region of Italy
Sicily
Least in area region of Italy
Aosta Valley
After sicily, what is the largest inland region of Italy?
Piedmont
Lake Eyre officially known as what now?
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
Kati-Thanda-Lake Eyre is a lake in which state and 700km north of its capital?
South Australia - north of Adelaide
Third largest city in Zambia is size and population
Ndola
Second largest city of Zambia
Kitwe
What did Messi get draped with before picking up the World Cup?
bisht
Emir of Qatar since 2013
Tamim Al Thani
Official language of Goa is which K
Konkani
New weight class in boxing used by WBC named after 6 year old American who saved his sister from a stray dog in 2020. The weight is placed between heavyweight and cruiserweight.
Bridgerweight
Which Colombian boxer has been the first inaugural WBC Bridgerweight champion since 2021?
Oscar Rivas
The southernmost point of Asia is which Indonesian island?
Pamana Island
Study found that what five letter word statistically best wordle word to start with? The word means a light round helmet extending over back of neck replacing the bassinet in 15th century.
Salet
What now defunct helicopter manufacturer was centre of political scandal in mid 1980s that led to Michael Heseltine’s resignation from cabinet?
Westland
Second largest lake in Lake District
Ullswater
Pooley Bridge can be found at north end of what lake? Named after a bridge going over the river Eamont.
Ullswater
Who managed Brazil at 2002 World Cup?
Luiz Felipe Scolari
Who managed Italy to a World Cup in 2006?
Marcello Lippi
Named after an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, Asia Minor, what form of silica can be seen in the Book of Revelation however it is a hapax legomenon so hard to tell if same precious gem we see today.
Chalcedony
Hindu deity the 8th incarnation of Vishnu?
Krishna
First Pokémon region for Blue red yellow
Kanto
Region of Pokémon for gold silver crystal.
Johto
Region of Pokémon for third round of games Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.
Hoenn
What region is the setting of fourth generation of Pokémon games: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum?
Sinnoh
Fifth generation of Pokémon games Black and White was set in Unova region, based on what metropolitan city?
New York
Sixth generation of Pokémon games for X & Y was set in Kalos region which was based on the northern half of which country? Kalos comes from beauty.
France
What is the region of seventh generation Pokémon games that is Sun, Moon. Based on Hawaii?
Alola
Setting of eighth generation of Pokémon games, Sword and Shield, is the Galar region which is based on which country?
Great Britain
The Isle of Armor expansion pack to Pokémon Sword and Shield is said to be which British island?
Isle of Man
The Crown Tundra expansion pack to Pokémon Sword and Shield is said to be which Area of GB?
Scotland
Ninth generation of Pokémon games set in Iberian inspired Paldea region, what is the name of the Pokémon games?
Scarlet and Violet
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) was occupation protest and self declared autonomous zone in Capital Hill neighbourhood of which American city in 2020 by George Floyd protestors.
Seattle
Brentford’s football ground up to AUgust 2020, name referred to logo of fullers brewery who had owned orchard at original site of stadium. Famous for having a pub on each corner.
Griffin Park
Name of trophy awarded annually to leading goal scorer in NHL.
Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy
Which Russian ice hockey player for Washington Capitals won his ninth rocket Richard Trophy in 2019-20?
Alexander Ovechkin
Which Canadian ice hockey player born 1928 played for 25 seasons for Detroit Red Wings? Nicknamed Mr Hockey, considered most complete player ever, scored 801 goals, 1049 assists and 1850 total points all records until Wayne Gretzky came along. Won the Art Ross Trophy six times. Won Stanley Cup four times.
Gordie Howe
International rugby Union trophy awarded to winner of British & Irish Lions vs Australia test series. Named after only Australian born player who represented both the Wallabies and the Lions. He took part in Gallipoli campaign.
Tom Richards Cup
Which trophy awarded to NHL player who leads leagues in points at end of season (goals and assists)?
Art Ross Trophy
Who has won the Art Ross Trophy four times? First 2016-17, up until 2021-22. Playing for Edmonton Oilers.
Connor McDavid
First Ryder Cup occurred in which year?
1927
Who was Secretary of War from 1925-29 for President Herbert Hoover? Better known for founding a tennis competition for international mens teams founded in 1900.
Davis Cup
NBA Sportsmanship Award named after which trophy named after former Detroit pistons player who was inaugural recipient?
Joe Dumars Trophy
Winner of Daytona 500 wins which trophy?
Harley J Earl Trophy
What car is on top of the Harley J Earl Trophy given to winner of Daytona 500?
Firebird I Prototype
How many laps does the Daytona 500 run for?
200 (each lap is 2.5 miles)
Who won the Daytona 500 a record seven times?
Richard Petty
Winner of the Kontinental Hockey League playoffs win which trophy? Ak Bars Kazan have won record three times.
Gagarin Cup
Jack Gibson Cup is a trophy given to winners of National Rugby League game between which two local teams?
Parramatta Eels and Sydney Roosters
Player in gridiron football who is responsible for the kicking duties of Field Goals and Extra Points.
Placekicker (or Kicker)
Position in gridiron football person who receives snapped ball directly from line of scrimmage and then kicks football to opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage. Generally happens on a fourth down in American football.
Punter
Trophy given to MVP in the NHL voted by the members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association? Won record nine times by Gretzky - 8 for Edmonton Oilers and 1 for LA Kings
Hart Memorial Trophy
Annual award for MLS MVP award is named after which player in 2015?
Landon Donovan
Award given to outstanding athlete at each commonwealth games based on performance, fair play and overall contribution.
David Dixon Award
Singaporean table tennis player who won the David Dixon Award at the 2022 Birmingham commonwealth games
Feng Tianwei
2014 Glasgow Commonwealth games David Dixon Award given to which welsh gymnast who won Gold for ribbon at the games
Francesca Jones
Bar mitzvah done at what age for boys
13
Bat mitzvah done at which age for girls
12
Bulgarian actress who played Tutar Sagdiyev in 2020 sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, nominated for Oscar. Role in Judd Apatow’s 2022 The Bubble, A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies and The Honeymoon.
Maria Bakalova
Four largest cities in Bulgaria
4 Burgas
3 Varna
2 Plovdiv
1 Sofia
Production company founded by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges and named after an Italian motorway Katz was driving down. First release Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. Distributed five top grossing: EEAAO 2022, Hereditary (Toni Collette), Lady Bird, Moonlight, Uncut Gems.
A24
Profilic character actor 1926-2022, starred Roger Corneal in original Oceans 11, The Manchurian Candidate, Johnny Cool and Sharky’s Machine?
Henry Silva
Member of Rat Pack born in UK and brother in law of JFK
Peter Lawford (married Patricia Kennedy)
Which Bond girl reunited with Sean Connery for the 1968 movie western Shalako?
Honor Blackman (Goldfinger)
Who was only cast member of 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby to return for 1976 TV movie sequel Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby?
Ruth Gordon
Which author wrote Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil and play Deathtrap?
Ira Levin
Which actor only appeared in five films before he died: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter?
John Cazale
What director directed What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard?
Robert Aldrich
Scientific term for identical twins?
Monozygotic
What can be either monozygotic or dizygotic?
Twins
To the Manor Born manor name?
Grantleigh Manor
Penelope Keith’s character name in The Good Life?
Margo Leadbetter
Penelope Keith’s character name in To the Manor Born
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton
1991 film starred Helena Bonham Carter, Rupert Graves and is set on EM Forster book which took title from saying by Alexander Pope?
Where Angels Fear to Tread
According to proverb what butters no parsnips?
Fine words
Sam Curran has become the most expensive auction buy in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after being bought by which team for £1.85m?
PUNJAB KINGS
In the proverb, what word follows the title of a sitcom starting in 1981?
Work (Only Fools and Horses work)
Whose wife should be above reproach? Who is she?
Caesar’s
Married to Calpurnia at time of death. Others Cornelia and Pompeia.
It ain’t over until the fat lady sings is colloquialism referring to which Wagner character in Gotterdammerung.
Brunnhilde the Valkyrie
Who wrote 2021 book “Why We Kneel, How We Rise” in aftermath of murder of George Floyd? It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
Michael Holding
Former head of Russia’s national anti-doling laboratory, winner of William Hill 2020 sports book of the year for The _______ Affair.
Grigory Rodchenkov
Phase change from gas directly to solid
Deposition or Desublimation
Phase directly solid to gas
Sublimation
What is the 4th perfect number
8128
What is the third perfect number
496
What is the fifth perfect number
33,550,336
What gemstone is “Star of Adam” found in Sri Lanka
Sapphire
African bird in passerine family used by humans to find bee hives for a long time. Family indicatoridae.
Honeyguides
Crypts of Fuchs are found in which part of eye?
Iris
Scientific name for a wishbone in birds
Furcula
Songs: Wake Up in the Sky, Everybody Looking, Mr Davis, The Appeal. Featured on Rae Sremmurd song Black Beatles.
Gucci Mane
Real name Gazzy Garcia, born Miami to Colombian parents, first song 2017 Gucci Gang diss track to Canadian airline WestJet who once kicked off flight.
Lil Pump
Florida based rapper singles “Look at Me” and “Sad!”. Albums 17, ?, Skins. Murdered in 2018 during robbery.
XXXTentacion
Born in LA to American mother and Eritrean father, 2016 album “Victory Lap” reached #2 in states, shot in 2019 by Eric Holder.
Nipsey Hussle
Puerto Rican rapper has albums YHLQMDLG, El ULTIMO Tour Del Mundo, Un Verano Sin Ti. Wrestler too and won 24/7 title with WWE.
Bad Bunny (Benito Ocasio)
2020 album Good News, songs WAP and Savage. Recently in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Megan Thee Stallion
Houston rapper with albums Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight and Astroworld. Singles Sicko Mode, Highest in the Room, The Scott’s, Franchise.
Travis Scott
Born in Germany with first name Jermaine, was first chair violinist at high school but focused on rap career. All six albums gone number 1 in America.
J Cole
Real name Jonathan Kirk, North Carolina based rapper with 2019 album Kirk and singles Suge and Rockstar, shot man in self defence in Walmart, trouble in 2021 for homophobic comments at Miami concert.
Da Baby
Actress played Laura in Logan 2017, Lyra Belacqua in His Dark Materials.
Dafne Keen
Born in Compton as Michael Nguyen-Stevenson, with a backronym as name, famous song is Rack City, faded, Far Away, Still Got It.
Tyga (thank you god always)
Pitbull real name born Miami
Armando Perez
Soulja Boy real name
DeAndre Way
Flo Rida real name
Tramar Dillard
What hip hop group from Memphis won Oscar for its hard out there for a pimp from Hustle & Flow? Contains Juicy J.
Three 6 Mafia
Real name Dennis Coles, rapper from WTC, first album Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Fishscale. Name from 1979 kung fu film Mystery of Chessboxing.
Ghostface Killah
Atlanta rapper Lil Jon surname
Smith
Lil Kim surname
Jones
American record label founded by Lil Wayne, also had some Nicki Minaj on it, early Drake.
Young Money Entertainment
American record label founded by Ronald Slim Williams and Bryan Birdman Williams, home to Juvenile, Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj). Got singles One Dance, Gods Plan, Nice for What, In My Feelings.
Cash Money Records
Ja Rule name
Jeffrey Atkins
American record label founded by Chris and Irv Gotti in 1998. Flagship artist is Ja Rule. Also Ashanti, Lloyd.
Murder Inc Records
Real name Terius Gray, rapper best known for cash money records work, member of group Hot Boys. Album 400 Degreez, Tha G-Code, Project English. Song Slow Motion and Hit song “Back That Azz Up”.
Juvenile
Hip hop duo of NYC, rappers Prodigy and Havoc. Songs Shook Ones (Part II). Prodigy had sickle cell disease.
Mobb Deep
Who sang Centerfield which got celebrated at Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York?
John Fogerty
What 1908 song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer unofficial anthem of North American baseball? Sung as part of seventh inning stretch of baseball.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Rapper was 1991 defendant in court case by Gilbert O’Sullivan song Alone Again (Naturally) all about sampling songs
Biz Markie
One of first rappers who sang “The Breaks” and “Basketball”?
Kurtis Blow
Which nfl team released the Super Bowl Shuffle in 1985 before winning the real thing the same year?
Chicago Bears
Who sang “Talkin’ Baseball”?
Terry Cashman
First commonwealth games 1930 host
Hamilton, Canada
First year London hosted Commonwealth Games
1934
1938 Commonwealth Games host
Sydney
1950 commonwealth games host
Auckland NZ
1954 Commonwealth Games host
Vancouver, Canada
1958 Commonwealth Games host
Cardiff
1962 commonwealth games host
Perth Australia
1966 commonwealth games host
Kingston Jamaica
1970 commonwealth games host
Edinburgh
1974 commonwealth games host
Christchurch
1978 Commonwealth Games host
Edmonton, Canada
1982 commonwealth games host
Brisbane
1986 commonwealth games host
Edinburgh
1990 commonwealth games host
Auckland
1994 commonwealth games host
Victoria Canada
1998 commonwealth games host
Kuala Lumpur
2002 commonwealth games host
Manchester
2006 commonwealth games host
Melbourne
2010 commonwealth games host
New Delhi
2014 commonwealth games host
Glasgow
2018 commonwealth games host
Gold Coast
2026 commonwealth games host
State of Victoria - Australia
Which cities have hosted Commonwealth games twice: 1950 and 1990 one of them, 1970 and 1986 for the others?
Auckland 50/90 and EDINBURGH 1970/86
Fatalii is a type of what?
Chilli Pepper
Godello is a type of what fruit
Grape (named after town near Valencia)
Maura Labingi is the name of which literary character in their own language?
Frodo Baggins in Hobbitish
Best selling video game of all time?
Minecraft by Mojang Studios
Among best selling video games ever, what sandbox game developed by Re-Logic, first released in 2011 do you explore; craft, build, paint and combat designed by Whitney and Andrew Spinks.
Terraria
RPG in gaming stands for what?
Role Playing Game
Who won the Six Nations championship and Grand Slam in 2022?
France
Top point scorer at the 2022 Six Nations was which fly half for Harlequins
Marcus Smith
2022 Six Nations player of the tournament was which scrum half who plays for Toulouse in Top14 and captains France
Antoine Dupont
Which Irish rugby player was top point scorer at 2021 six nations and is captain of Leinster and Ireland?
Jonathan Sexton
Who was player of tournament at 2021 Six Nations? Plays for Edinburgh Rugby in United Rugby Championship and for Scotland?
Hamish Watson
2020 six nations player of the tournament who also won POT in 2022 too
Antoine Dupont
Who was Player of Tournament in 2019 Six Nations playing for champions Wales? Most capped rugby Union player ever and plays as lock for Osprey currently.
Alun Wyn Jones
Which Irish player won Player of Tournament in 2018 Six Nations when he set record for most tries in a single 6 Nations with 7 tries?
Jacob Stockdale
Who won Player of the tournament in both 2016 and 2017 six nations ?
Stuart Hogg
Which country won most Golds at 2022 Commonwealth
Australia
Most gold medals at 2022 Commonwealth games?
22 - India
26 - Canada
57 - England
67 - Australia
With pen name meaning the memoriser or the safe keeper in Persian, who was a Persian lyric poet, words used as proverbs in current day? Born Shiraz 1325. Known most for The Divan of _____.
Hafez
What is an ancient festival in Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey celebrated on the winter solstice.
Yalda
Ancient European yew found in churchyard of namesake village in Perthshire’s estimated at 5000 years old.
Fortingall Yew
What economic terms is a good for which demand increases as the price increases? typically high-quality goods that are made well, are exclusive, and are a status symbol.
Veblen Goods
Whose known for best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), They coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
Thorstein Veblen
What economic term is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa—violating the basic law of demand in microeconomics? The good is so strongly an inferior good in the minds of consumers (being more in demand at lower incomes) that this contrary income effect more than offsets the substitution effect, and the net effect of the good’s price rise is to increase demand for it.
Giffen Good
1970 film about motley crew of American GIs who go AWOL in order to rob a French bank located behind German lines of their Nazi gold bars.
Kelly’s Heroes
Tv show HBO Max by James Gunn based on DC character played by John Cena, spin-off of 2021 The Suicide Squad. Real name Christopher smith.
Peacemaker
Tsar of Russia 1796-1801, only son of Peter III and Catherine the Great. Assassinated by own officers.
Paul I
Tsar of Russia 1801-25, oldest son of Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg. 1805 joined Britain in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon lost at Austerlitz (Moravia, Czechia 1805), Friedland (Pravdinsk, on Lava River, Kaliningrad), signed Treaty of Tilsit with Napoleon. Died of Typhus in 1825.
Alexander I
Name of revolt took place in Russia 26 December 1825 during interregnum following sudden death of Alexander I.
Decembrist Revolt
Port city on Sea of Azov where Anton Chekhov born 1860 and Alexander I died in 1825.
Taganrog
Tsar of Russia 1825-55, third son of Paul I and brother of Alexander I. Failed Decembrist Revolt first thing. Led Russia into Crimean war in 1853. Married charlotte of Prussia (Alexandra Feodorovna).
Nicholas I
Tsar Russia 1855-81 until assassination by Nikolai Rysakov bomb and Ignacy Hryniewiecki bomb. Emancipation of Russia’s serfs in 1861. Sold Alaska to USA in 1867. Joined League of 3 Emperors with German and Austria.
Alexander II
Tsar Russia 1881-94, did some counter reforms, fought no wars so called Peacemaker. Married Dagmar of Denmark (Maria Feodorovna).
Alexander III
Tsar Nicholas II term of reign
1894-1917
What building in Yekaterinburg was Nicholas II and his family executed in July 1918?
Ipatiev House
HBO Max tv show created by David Jenkins set in gold age of piracy. Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet and Taika Waititi plays Blackbeard
Our Flag Means Death
HBO max sequel to Sex and the City has which name
And Just Like That…
Pink mountain lion originally from Quick Draw McGraw Show and Yogi Bear Show. Now on Jellystone! On hbo max.
Snagglepuss
Huckleberry Hound was which type of dog? Now mayor of jellystone in Jellystone!
Bluetick Coonhound
What was Spanish alter ego of quick draw McGraw who now is character in Jellystone!
El Kabong
The Banana Splits, what is Fleegle?
Beagle/Dog name
The Banana Splits Bingo was what animal?
Gorilla was called what ?
Drooper in the banana splits was what animal
Lion is the what animal
Snorky is what animal in banana splits
Elephant is what name in Bs
Three bears of Hair Bear Bunch
Hair Bear, Bubi Bear, Square Bear
Which voice actor originated voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Loopy de Loop, Quick Draw McGraw, Elroy Jetson and Hair Bear?
Daws Butler
First person to build and patent a mechanical artificial heart as well as original voice of tigger, dick dastardly, gargamel, bubi bear.
Paul Winchell
Sociopathic green alien from the flint stones
Great Gazoo
Parents in the Jetsons names
George and Jane
Children in the Jetsons names
Judy and Elroy
Name of Jetson’s Great Dane in the Jetsons
Astro
Name of the Jetsons robotic maid and housekeeper
Rosie
Name of George jetson’s boss in the Jetsons
Mr Cosmo G. Spacely
American actor played Thomas Schiff in Dark Knight, Kurt in Ant-Man, Abra Kadabra in the Flash, Abner Krill/Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad, in three of Denis Villeneuve’s films.
David Dastmalchian
Chilean-French avant garde filmmaker born 1929 best known for El Topo 1970 and The Holy Mountain 1973. Cancelled attempt at making Dune. Tusk, Santa Sangre, The Rainbow Thief.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Australian slang for someone whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated. There’s a river in NSW with same name.
Bogan
English actor who played Lock-Nah in Mummy Returns, Nykwana Wombosi in Bourne Identity, Killer Croc in Suicide Squad, Mr Eko in Lost, Ogunwe in His Dark Materials.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
American actress played Tatsu/Yamashiro/Katana in 2016 Suicide Squad and as Kimiko Miyashiro/The Female in The Boys. Glimmer in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power too.
Karen Fukuhara
In pantomime whose sweetheart was Columbine?
Harlequin
The Muppets: what’s miss piggy surname
Lee
Who are Bob, Kevin, Stuart and Otto?
Minions
What is a water like fluid that lies in front of the lens?
Aqueous Humour
Gel like substance that lies behind the lens and in front of the retina?
Vitreous Humour
Who wrote Coming Up For Air in 1939
George Orwell
Mrs Dalloway first name
Clarissa
Lady Chatterley real name
Constance Reid
Spondulix is 19th century slang for what
Money or Cash
Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Panama Hattie, musicals. Songs: Anything Goes, Begin the Beguine (Jubilee), I Get A Kick Out Of You (anything goes), I’ve got you under my skin (born to dance), let’s do it lets fall in love (Paris), Tom dick or Harry (kiss me Kate), too darn hot (kiss me Kate), who wants to be a millionaire (high society), you’re the top (anything goes)
Cole Porter
Social media AMA stands for?
Ask Me Anything
Crayford and Romford are London’s last venues for which sport?
Greyhound Racing
What country been subject to us sanctions since 1962?
Cuba
City far north of Queensland is considered the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef
Cairns
Which Beatles song did The Overlanders take to number one?
Michelle
What is the Cornish fishing village which is the setting of Doc Martin? It is filmed at the real Port Isaac.
Port Wenn
Operating title of British theme parks operating in 1990s by Noel Edmonds where Noel house party tv programme based.
Crinkley Bottom
Who married marketing consultant Alex Sawyer in 2004?
Priti Patel
Which king wore two shirts on a freezing January day?
Charles I
Which monarch was buried in an almost square shaped coffin?
Queen Anne
What spirit is main constituent in a margarita?
Tequila
Who was the only tennis player to beat Martina Navratilova in singles in 1983?
Kathy Horvath
Which Hampshire village is said to be the birthplace of cricket?
Hambledon
What did Mary of Teck call a pretty kettle of fish?
Abdication Crisis
What were anti nuclear weapons demonstrations in 50/60s taking place on Easter weekend between Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in namesake Berkshire location and London. First one was 1958.
Aldermaston Marches
Series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at namesake RAF base in Berkshire. Began in 1981 after welsh group arrived protesting.
Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp
Term for a small ornamental case for holding needles, cosmetics and other articles.
Etui
Which novelist wrote lesser known “The Food of the Gods” and “In the days of the comet”?
Herbert George Wells
In Penguin books what colour was mystery and crime books?
Green
In penguin covers what colour were the covers for travel and adventure?
Cerise (pink)
In penguin covers, what colour were biographies
Dark Blue
In penguin cover colours, what colour were drama books?
Red
In penguin covers what colour were world affairs?
Grey
In penguin colours what colour were the rarer essays and belles letters?
Purple
Which town would you find The Piece Hall?
Halifax
Anne Lister, Gentleman Jack tv show, lived at which Yorkshire house?
Shibden Hall
2022 drama show starring Adrian Dunbar as retired DI who gets lured back into service to crack a murder case.
Ridley
Which comedian presents The 1% Club?
Lee Mack
Which heroine flings herself from a castle parapet after the death of her lover Cavaradossi?
Tosca
Sisyphus was a king of which place
Corinth
Which Greek figure attached to a winged fiery wheel always spinning?
Ixion
Who was God of war, storms, disorder and violence in Egyptian mythology?
Set
M11 motorway links London to what city?
Cambridge
Demi Moore real name
Demetria Guynes
Top rank in Army, Navy, RAF.
General, Admiral, Air Chief Marshall
2nd highest rank in army, navy, Air Force:
Lieutenant General, Vice Admiral, Air Marshall
Third highest rank in Army, Navy, RAF
Major General, Rear Admiral, Air Vice-Marshal
Fourth highest rank in Army, Navy, RAF
Brigadier, Commodore, Air Commodore
Fifth highest rank in Army, Navy, RAF
Colonel, Captain, Group Captain
Sixth highest rank in Army, Navy, RAF
Lieutenant Colonel, Commander, Wing Commander
Seventh highest rank in Army, Navy, RAF
Major, Lieutenant Commander, Squadron Leader
Lowest rung of Military rank army navy Air Force
Private, Able Rate, Aircraftman
Helminthophobia is a fear of what?
Parasitic worms
What type of creature is a Shubunkin?
Goldfish
Term for the servant who would opera the fan in colonial India?
Punkah Wallah
Last PM to be born in the 19th century?
Harold MacMillan Earl of Stockton
Pompidou Centre, Lloyds Centre, Millennium Dome, Senedd Building architect.
Richard Rogers
Author of Biggles
WE Johns
The History of Cardenio by Shakespeare likely based on a character from which famous 17th century novel who goes mad.
Don Quixote
Which welsh philosopher “a history of western philosophy” and “the principles of mathematics”, became peer in 1931
Bertrand Russell
Which scientist won 1923 Nobel Physics for his namesake oil drop experiment? Conducted with Harvey Fletcher experiment deduced elementary electric charge value and the amount of charge carried by a single proton (or electron in the negative)?
Robert Millikan
What was the original show from Netherlands that The Traitors was made from?
De Verraders
Which NHL team has won stanley cup most times with 24 times? Haven’t won since 1993.
Montreal Canadiens
Which teams has won NBA won most times with 17 times?
LA Lakers (Minneapolis Lakers 5)
Boston Celtics
Which two teams have won most Superbowls?
New England Patriots
Pittsburgh Steelers
Which team has won the most MLS Cups with five?
LA Galaxy
Which team has won most World Series with 27? Second is St Louis Cardinals with 11.
New York Yankees
Word used to describe the last community card drawn in a game of of Texas Hold Em Poker?
River
Which 2022 tv show stars Steve Carrell as a therapist held captive by serial killer played by Domhnall Gleason who wants to curb his psychopathic tendencies?
The Patient
Who founded Christian Science, born 1821 in Bow New Hampshire
Mary Baker Eddy
Who is author of Divergent series?
Veronica Roth
What are the latter two books in the Divergent trilogy?
Insurgent and Allegiant
Five factions in Divergent series?
Dauntless, Amity, Erudite, Abnegation, Candor
Who wrote the Maze Runner series?
James Dashner
Largest island of Cape Verde
Santiago
Which consumer goods company HQ in Slough was formed through merger of uk and Dutch company owns series of power brands such as Dettol, Durex, Lemsip and Gaviscon.
Reckitt
The Nativity Story is told in which two of the four gospels?
Luke and Matthew
What year were these two December number ones? Greatest Day by Take That and Run by Leona Lewis.
2008
Four main food groups according to Elf.
Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn, Syrup
In Muppet Christmas Carol which muppet plays Tiny Tim?
Robin the Frog
In Nativity, what is name of Mr Maddens classroom assistant?
Mr Poppy
First Christmas number one in 1952
Here in my Heart - Al Martino
2014 Christmas number one by Ben Haenow?
Something I Need
When does advent begin?
Fourth Sunday before Christmas
How many Sundays are there in advent?
4
What colour is the season of advent represented by?
Purple (lent too, rest are pretty much white all the one off days)
In which decade did the first chocolate advent calendar appear?
1950s (1958)
What is the meaning of Advent?
Coming or Preparation
When does advent end?
24th December
Also known as Olibanum, second gift given to magi, aromatic resin obtained from trees of genus Boswellia?
Frankincense
Which gum resin extracted from number of small thorny tree species of genus commiphora?
Myrrh
Term for penalty in German
Elfmeter
Who beat who in only premier league game played on Christmas Eve ever - in 1995, Mcallister, yeboah, Deane scoring and cole for opposition?
Leeds beat Manchester United
Competed between two cars and run over 1/4 mile which form of motor racing uses Christmas tree lights starting system?
Drag Racing
Trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Ruby Walsh, which horse won King George VI on Boxing Day a record five times between 2006-2009 and 2011?
Kauto Star
Which racehorse won the Derby, Irish 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby in 1964?
Santa Claus
In what 1947 film did Edmund Gwenn win a best supporting actor Oscar for playing Kris Kringle?
Miracle on 34th Street
James Bond film features nuclear physicist Dr Christmas Jones played by Denise Richards?
The world is not enough
Piggybacking on ESA’s Mars Express, which UK space probe crash landed on Mars on Christmas Day 2003?
Beagle 2
Christopher Columbus first landed in which modern country in 1492?
Bahamas
Name of island in Bahamas that first land in the new world sighted and visited by Columbus on 12 October 1492?
Guanahani
Which Portuguese explorer was first European to reach east coast of South Africa naming it Natal in 1492 (now KwaZulu Natal)?
Vasco da Gama
Mount Cook highest point in New Zealand in Māori called what?
Aoraki
Saturnalia was Roman pagan festival celebrated in which month?
December
Roman festival of Lupercalia was celebrated in which month?
February 15
Two main ingredients for a snowball cocktail?
Advocaat and Lemonade
Juice of what fruit goes into a poinsettia cocktail?
Cranberry Juice (with Triple Sec and fizzy wine)
Saint of bricklayers and stonemasons named after Saint stoned to death by Jewish council after he condemned them for murder if the messiah?
Saint Stephen
What type of dog is a plum pudding dog or the firehouse dog?
Dalmatian
Which President on $50 bill
Ulysses S Grant / declared Christmas American holiday in 1870
Only national park of the UK (and largest) is the only place in uk with herd of free roaming reindeer?
Cairngorms
Which famous Finnish architect (1898-1976) was brought in to redesign capital of Lapland (Rovaniemi)? Meant to be a reindeers head.
Alvar Aalto
In which country would you find Gavle? Famed at Christmas time for the Gavlebocken, giant straw yuletide goat that has been set on fire 31 times since 1966.
Sweden
On 2nd January 2022 which African country’s Parliament was burned down in arson attack? Arrested was homeless man named Zandile Christmas Mafe.
South Africa
In what year did british and German troops do the Christmas truce football and songs
1914
Which treaty ended the War of 1812 (1812-1815)?
Treaty of Ghent
Designed by aviator/conman William Whitney Christmas what was name given to strut less biplane considered to be the worst plane ever built? Only two ever built and both killed pilots on maiden flights.
Christmas Bullet
Published in 1857, what song first to be played in space when on 16 December 1965 it was broadcast during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight?
Jingle Bells
Most liked TikTok video owned by
Bella Poarch
Master Blaster nickname for cricketer
Sachin Tendulkar
Dada nickname Indian cricket player
Sourav Ganguly
Indian cricketer nickname Jumbo
Anil Kumble
Name of Simon Bolivar’s horse
Palomo
Taken by Joe Rosenthal, name of the mountain which American troops lifted USA flag on in February 1945
Mount Suribachi
Modest Mussorgsky’s pictures at an exhibition was dedicated to which Architect whose series of pictures inspiration
Viktor Hartmann
On back of Pritzker: firmitas, utilitas, venustas. Inspired by which architect’s De Architectura.
Vitruvius
Which muse of Andy Warhol died at 28 years old of barbiturate overdose?
Edie Sedgwick
For Those About to Rock We Salute You album 1981 by who? Also Power Up in 2020 both #1s
Ac/dc
Which rapper visual artist and hip hop pioneer features in lyrics and video of 1981 blondie song rapture?
Fab 5 Freddy
In ancient Europe it was believed that whcih bird would cut its breast open with its beak and feed its young with its own blood if there was not enough food? Seen as passion of Jesus symbol.
Pelican
What phallic object symbolising fire from lord shiva emerged to claim superiority over Brahma and Vishnu?
Lingam
Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice got medicine Nobel 2020 for what virus?
Hepatitis C
What word means relating to an illness caused by medical examination or treatment?
Iatrogenic
Hyoid bone takes its name from the shape of which lower case letter in Greek alphabet?
Upsilon
Highest rank in sumo
Yokozuna
Who was first Mongolian to reach Yokozuna rank in sumo wrestling?
Asashōryū Akinori
Chinese five spice powder ingredients
Star Anise
Cloves
Chinese Cinnamon
Sichuan Pepper
Fennel Seeds
Real name of Pele
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Cheeky Girls surname of Gabriela and Monica
Irimia
Fictional street that Banks family lived on in Mary Poppins book
Cherry Tree Lane
Whose fictional address was 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam?
Tony Hancock
Term for underground layer of water bearing and saturated with water permeable rock, groundwater can be extracted using water wells. Latin for “water bearing”.
Aquifer
Name of a constructed sunken ditch with a vertical barrier on one side and an uninterrupted view on the other side?
Ha-ha
Most successful British Olympian by gold medals won is which person with seven?
Sir Jason Kenny
Which two football league teams are preceded by AFC in their name?
Wimbledon and Bournemouth
Which biennial offshore yacht race starts at Cowes and is sponsored by Rolex?
Fastnet Race
Fastnet Race always start at cowes, used to finish at Plymouth until 2019 but since 2021 ends at which city?
Cherbourg
Race oldest regularly scheduled ocean race is from Newport, Rhode Island, to which caribbean island? Up there with Fastnet race and Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
Newport-Bermuda Race
Which boat capsized in 1985 Fastnet race trapping Phil Holland and Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran before saved by navy.
Drum
Who was first black tennis player to win a grand slam title?
Althea Gibson (1956 French open)
Wanderers stadium is an international cricket ground in which city?
Johannesburg
Which country will host the 2023 rugby World Cup for mens rugby Union?
France
Which footballer played for Swindon and Manchester City over 500 times in the 1960s/70s? Man City won league in 1967-68, fa cup win 1969. Man City player of the year 1972 and 1973.
Mike Summerbee
Us presidential election always take place on which day of the week in November?
Tuesday
Juliet Stevenson was nominated for a bafta for her role in which 1990 film opposite Alan Rickman?
Truly Madly Deeply
Name fo chain of tea shops opened by J Lyon’s and Co in 1924 but closed in 1977
Corner Houses
Car named after Henry Ford son 1957 debut
The Edsel
Name of the super city proposed in the 1960s which encompassed Chorley, Leyland and Preston but never got off ground?
Central Lancashire New Town
Which car manufacturer produced a hill wing car in 1981 in Northern Ireland but only 3500 of 7000 units were sold leading to bankruptcy?
DeLorean
5 door hatchback produced by Austin from 1969 to 1981?
Austin Maxi
CANADIAN cosmetics manufacturer founded in Toronto in 1984 by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo?
MAC Cosmetics (Make-Up Art Cosmetics)
Mens short close-fitting jacket made without sleeves worn over doublet?
Jerkin
Brimless boat shaped hat with a cleft down centre, typically having two ribbons hanging at the back, worn as part of highland dress. Also term for highland valley.
Glengarry
Jacket named after fact was used by this type in British navy, worked mid ships and had to work the sails.
Reefer Coats
Satirical tv program uniting longstanding satirical team of the Two Johns with a satirical impressionist Rory. 1999-2010.
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Who played Mike Fisher the landlord in OFAH
Kenneth MacDonald
Pub in OFAH
The Nags Head
Raquel Turner in OFAH
Tessa Peake-Jones
Cassandra Trotter in OFAH
Gwyneth Strong
Mickey Pearce in OFAH
Patrick Murray
Marlene Boyce in OFAH
Sue Holderness
Denzil Tulser in OFAH
Paul Barbr
British tv presenter from Blackburn presented Big Brother’s Bit on the Side, 2021 Married at First Sight: Afters.
AJ Odudu
Inspector created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in first appearance The Shape of Water?
Salvo Montalbano
Mother of Greta Thunberg, represented Sweden at Eurovision 2009, opera singer.
Malena Ernman
Swedish term meaning flight shame is an anti flying social movement?
Flygskam
How many cranial nerves are there?
12 pairs of cranial nerves
Cranial nerves in order
Olfactory
Optic
Oculomotor
Trochlear
Trigeminal
Abducens
Facial
Vestibulocochlear
Glossopharyngeal
Vagus
Accessory
Hypoglossal
First movie where Fred Astaire and ginger Rogers appear in together?
Flying Down to Rio
Largest island of the Cyclades at 166 square miles?
Naxos
Most northerly racecourse in England?
Hexham
Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher solo bands
Noel: High Flying Birds
Liam: Beady Eye
How many emirates make up the UAE?
Seven
Nosocomephobia is the phobia of
Hospitals
What was the name of a planner sixth beach at D-Day landings but didnt get used due to local flooding?
Band
Prime minister of Spain since June 2018
Pedro Sanchez
Who played Eva and Che in the first run of West End show Evita?
Eva: Elaine Paige
Che: David Essex
Leather clad character played by Richard Gibson in eight series of popular bbc tv sitcom between 1982 and 1992?
Herr Otto Flick
First Spaniard to win womens single title at Wimbledon in 1994?
Conchita Martinez
Spanish female tennis player won French open 1989, 1994, 1998 and US Open in 1994?
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
Most northernmost point of the Isle of Man and the northernmost point of Wales too.
Point of Ayr
Year and place of birth of Luciano Pavarotti
1935 Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
British rock group formed in 1975 albums “Difficult to Cure”, “Down to Earth” and “Long Live Rock n Roll”? Formed by Ritchie Blackmore.
Rainbow
Parasitic skin disease caused by microscopic mites. Can be Sarcoptic (under surface) or Demodectic (in hair follicles).
Mange
Neogale Vison - American and European - in November 2020 Denmark killed 15-17 million to stop spread of Cluster 5 coronavirus.
Mink
Birthplace and year of Robert Burns
Alloway - 1759
Bruce Lee final film
Game of Death
Soil Stradivarius made in Cremona owned by who from 1950-86? American born did most performing in Britain.
Yehudi Menuhin
Soil Stradivarius made in Cremona owned by who from 1986? Israeli-American violinist.
Itzhak Perlman
Ethiopian runner who won 5k and 10k at 1980 Moscow. Nicknamed “the shifter”.
Miruts Yifter
2007 film starring Sam Riley as Ian Curtis. Directed by Anton Corbijn (2015 Life (Dennis Stock and James Dean), A Most Wanted Man, The American, Linear).
Control
Ravenglass in Cumbria and Whitby in North Yorkshire lie on different rivers of what name? Another one on Scottish border before flowing into Solway Firth.
Esk
Which group of nine replaced their Gnats with Hawks in 1979?
Red Arrows
Which song by The Doors opens and closes the film Apocalypse Now?
The End
Portrayed by Joan Sanderson, name of the hard of hearing hotel guest who disapproved of the view from her bedroom in fawlty towers?
Mrs Richards
Bulgaria vs England football match central to plot of No Hiding Place a 1973 episode of which tv programme?
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Who played Bob Ferris in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Rodney Bewes
Who played Terry Collier in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
James Bolam
In Dads Army scene “don’t tell him Pike”, which welsh actor played the U Boat captain?
Philip Madoc
Who played Captain George Mainwaring in Dads Army?
Arthur Lowe
Who played Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dads Army?
John Le Mesurier
Who played Lance Corporal Jack Jones, the local butcher, in Dads Army? Took part in Gordon relief expedition and in kitcheners campaigns in Sudan.
Clive Dunn
Who played Private James Frazer, “We’re doomed, we’re Doomed”, was at Battle of Jutland cook?
John Laurie
Which Dad’s Army character catchphrases were “They don’t like it up em” and “don’t panic, don’t panic”?
Lance Corporal Jones - Clive Dunn
Dads Army character catchphrase “do you think that’s wise sir?”
Sergeant Arthur Wilson - John Le Mesurier
Who played private Joe Walker a black market spiv in dads army, written out after actor death in 1973?
James Beck
Private Charles Godfrey played by which actor in Dads Army?
Arnold Ridley
Ian Lavender character in dads army “you stupid boy”.
Private Frank Pike
Bbc radio sitcoms sequel to dads army?
It Sticks Out Half a Mile
Frank Williams play which effete, petulant vicar in Dads Army?
Reverend Timothy Farthing
Colin Bean played which minor character in Dads Army, a sheep farmer, 76 of 80 episodes.
Private Sponge
Talfryn Thomas played which Welshman who worked for local paper in Dads Army. Replaced private Walker after James beck death.
Private Cheeseman
Geoffrey Lumsden played which pompous commanding officer of rival Eastgate Platoon and who served with Lawrence of Arabia during Great War. “You blithering idiot”
Captain Square
Surname of the cardinals in Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch.
Cardinal Ximinez - Palin
Cardinal Fang - Terry Gilliam
Cardinal Biggles - Terry Jones
Father Ted and Dougal song wanted to enter in eurovision contest.
My Lovely Horse
Which singer’s biggest hit was cover of Doris Day’s secret love, she was runner up in 1965 Eurovision Song Contest too with “I belong”?
Kathy Kirby
Mick Jones of the Clash or Big Audio Dynamite, is cousin of which conservative mp?
Grant Shapps
Who preached Natural Supernaturalism, called laissez Faire political economy as the dismal science. Born 1795.
Thomas Carlyle
English retail consultant and broadcaster , 30 on board of harvey Nichols. Became tv “Queen of Shops”.
Mary Portas
Surname of Mel and Kim with 1987 single Respectable. Mel died of cancer. Kim dating Craig Logan of Bros fame.
Appleby
English poet known for “Vitai Lampada” and “Drake’s Drum”.
Sir Henry Newbolt
Poet wrote “Going Going” starts “I thought it would last my time - the sense that beyond the town”
Philip Larkin
September 2022 book Act of Oblivion about 17th century America by which author?
Robert Harris
Which 2022 book begins with the discovery of the body of creator of a popular cartoon in Highgate Cemetary?
The Ink Black Heart - Robert Galbraith
Who wrote poem “Talking Turkeys”, Be nice to Yu turkeys this Christmas cos’ turkeys just wanna hav fun…
Benjamin Zephaniah
43 line poem written in 1927 by TS Eliot about nativity.
Journey of the Magi
Who wrote Brother Cadfael?
Ellis Peters - pen name of Edith Pargeter
Who created detective inspector Jack Frost who made first appearance in 1984 “Frost at Christmas”?
RD Wingfield
English writer and critic became Manchester guardian’s cricket correspondent in 1919 and chief music critic in 1927 holding both until 1940.
Neville Cardus
Christmas Eve 1968 famous picture taken by William Anders Apollo 8
Earthrise
What’s name of the kings college chapel service put on every Christmas Eve?
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Most popular Christmas pieces is known as what and from opera Lieutenant Kije by Sergei Prokofiev
Troika
Who plays Holly Martins in The Third Man? Was in three orson Welles films: 1941 citizen Kane, 1942 magnificent Ambersons, 1943 Journey into Fear.
Joseph Cotten
Who wrote The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams? Both won Pulitzers.
Booth Tarkington
Allegorical characters under Scrooge’s robes
Ignorance and Want
Official title of Clement Moore’s well known 1823 poem about Christmas
A visit from St Nicholas
DH Lawrence first novel in 1911
The White Peacock
On which Scottish island would you find the Callanish Standing Stones?
Isle of Lewis
The Kosciuszko National Park containing Mount Kosciuszko is shared between which two states?
New South Wales and Victoria
The Tiwi Islands comprising two main islands Bathurst and Melville and can be found 80km from which major city?
Darwin
Which book won the Booker of Bookers award in 1981?
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Who wrote the text for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony?
Walt Whitman
Who are the Big Three consumer credit reporting agencies?
Experian
Equifax
TransUnion
Debut album 1978 of X-Ray Spex?
Germfree Adolescents
In which building does the Senate in France meet in?
Palais du Luxembourg
In which building does the National Assembly of France meet?
Palais Bourbon
a distinctive, asymmetrical dagger from the Indonesian island of Java
Kris
1973 directorial debut of Terrence Malick starring Martin Sheen and sissy Spacek going on a spree killing.
Badlands
Which Scottish footballer remembered for wonderful solo goal against Netherlands in World Cup 1978?
Archie Gemmill
British tv presenter who did A History of Scotland, Vikings and Coast and has worked for GB News since 2021.
Neil Oliver
Sharing name with historic Scottish county town, what was name of Alasdair Gray’s most famous novel?
Lanark
Who voiced Mrs Incredible in The Incredibles? In Oscar win she played a mute Scottish woman in a remote part of New Zealand.
Holly Hunter
First British footballer to win European cup with overseas team
Paul Lambert - Borussia Dortmund 1997
Four British players to win European Cup with overseas team?
Paul Lambert - BD 1997
Steve McManaman - RM 2000/02
Owen Hargreaves - BM 2001
Gareth Bale - RM 2014/16/17/18
Which Scottish player joined Barcelona 1984-88 and lost in European cup final 1986?
Steve Archibald
Losing British players in overseas teams for European cup final?
1980
1981
1986
1991
1980 Kevin Keegan Hamburg
1981 Laurie Cunningham RM
1986 Steve Archibald Barcelona
1991 Chris Waddle Marseille
Scottish broadcaster retired from LBC in august 2022, hosted Radio 4’s daily news magazine PM. Sometimes newsnight and any questions. Stood in for The Andrew Marr show following Marr stroke.
Eddie Mair
Which Scottish swimmer won four medals, record for British athlete at one Olympic Games, at Tokyo 2020, gold was 4x200m freestyle. Won five medals at Birmingham Commonwealth including golds 200m freestyle and medley.
Duncan Scott
Scotland’s first new town on 6 May 1947. Largest town in South Lanarkshire.
East Kilbride
Who played Francis Urquhart in bbc house of cards tv trilogy?
Ian Richardson
Administrative capital of Fife, has whiskey distillery. Created not for glasgow overspill but as a house of miners working at local colliery.
Glenrothes
Which Scottish American man appointed head of national coal board by thatcher? Said American women more productive than Yorkshire miners.
Ian McGregor
Large shopping centre formerly known as Almondvale can be found in which town? The football team plays at Tony Macaroni Arena nicknamed the Soaghettihad
Livingston
Who played Gwen Dawson in Downton Abbey and Ygritte in game of thrones? Married Kit Harrington in 2018
Rose Leslie
This Scottish actor played Rab C Nesbitt and The Baldy Man in tv sitcoms
Gregor Fisher
What two word name given to the reef which lies 11 miles out from Arbroath on the East Coast of Scotland ? The reef is home to oldest sea washed light house in the world built by Robert Stevenson.
Bell Rock (accept Inchcape)
Whcih steep sided Volcanic plug island in River Forth is the world largest colony of Northern Gannets with 150k birds estimated to live on island? Island looks white coz of drippings.
Bass Rock
Which lady starred in A Castle for Christmas, film Netflix set Scotland 2021? Was MJ’s date at Elizabeth Taylor wedding.
Brooke Shields
Surname of “Mellow Yellow” singer Donovan.
Leitch
Whcih former royal marine who lost two fingers and his elbow disintegrate while serving in afghan? Done strictly and bbc coverage of commonwealth games.
JJ Chalmers
Australian soap opera setting of “Prisoner”, official name in UK and USA was Prisoner: ______
Cell Block H
How many ML in imperial pint
568ml
Peer to peer social e-commerce company founded in Roncade, Italy in 2011 by Simon Beckerman.
Depop
Lithuanian online marketplace for buying, selling and exchanging new or secondhand items, mainly clothing and accessories, founded 2008?
Vinted
Band Aid was recorded on 25 November 1984 at which London studios
Sarm West Studios
Who followed Charles Hamilton and Frank Kennedy?
Rhett Butler (Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind)
Edith Holden’s Nature Notes for 1906 become a bestseller under what title?
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
London congestion charge year introduced
2003
London ULEZ scheme introduced
2019
ULEZ fee London as of January 2023
£12.50
Current congestion. Charge at the moment as of January 2023
£15
viral 2021 TikTok challenge in which American middle or high school students posted videos of themselves stealing, vandalizing, or showing off one or more items they stole in their school, typically from a bathroom
Devious lick
What are Ghawar (Saudi Arabia); Burgan (Kuwait); Ahvaz (Iran); Grane (Norway)?
Major Oil Rigs
What links Carole Hersee; Bubbles the clown; noughts and crosses?
Test Card F
All I Want For Christmas is A Beatle
Dora Bryan
Original release of “All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)”
Spike Jones and his City Slickers
How to Cheat at Cooking was whose first book?
Delia Smith 1971
Which wetland lies between the Liffey and the Shannon rivers?
Bog of Allen
Father of football in Brazil, which sportsman introduced football to Brazil?
Charles Miller
Who tweets as @SecondGentleman?
Doug Emhoff
Warre, Langstroth and top-bar are designs of what animal home?
Beehive
Which energy giant has its origins as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company?
BP
What virtue is the collective noun for vicars?
Prudence
Real tennis handicapping system; unglazed pottery; seafood soup?
Bisque
What links Adele; Jessie J; Kae Tempest; FKA twigs; Amy Winehouse?
Attended the Brit School
Small pox medical name
variola
lonrho controversial ceo born Calcutta and tried to take over Harrods
Tiny Rowland
Locomotion original singer 1962
Little Eva
Slang known by gypsies and gay community
Polari
Third man to break four minute mile
László Tábori (’55, year after original)
Jürg Marmet (’56, three years after) was third man to do what?
Summit everest
Who was third man to walk on moon?
Pete Conrad
Last country to abolish slavery which it did in 1981?
Mauritania
Who contested Kadesh, history’s biggest chariot battle in 1275Bc
Egyptians and Hittites in 1275BC
Which singer had the entire Top 10 on the US Hot 100 last year?
Taylor Swift
What is the largest non-football stadium in Europe?
Croke Park (Dublin)
Fentanyl; oxycodone; morphine; heroin; codeine all classed as what?
Opoids
the “unholy trinity” of British folk horror films
Witchfinder General; The Blood on Satan’s Claw; The Wicker Man
Director of British film Witchfinder General
Michael Reeves
Director of The Blood on Satan’s Claw
Piers Haggard
Director of The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy
The Curry Mile is a nickname for the part of Wilmslow Road running through the centre of which area of Manchester
Rusholme
What links Bequia; Mustique; Canouan; Mayreau; Petit St Vincent?
Islands of the Grenadines
What sea known as Tartar Sea, Lena Sea, Siberian Sea and icy sea was named in 1935 after surname of two cousins who mapped it
Laptev Sea
Also used for pointed or Gothic arch, what term is used for alternating wage crests and valleys that appear as dark and light bands of ice on glaciers?
Ogives
Lake Chad four countries
Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger
Allegory with three word title from book vi of Plato’s Republic also songs of Doors, Erasure, Robert plant, Alphaville, Doves…
Ship of Fools
Which three word English title of 2022 is given as “without filter” in French?
Triangle of Sadness
On the traitors what affiliation is the opposite of Traitor?
Faithful
Three winners of The Traitors UK 2022
Meryl, Hannah and Aaron - £101,050
Which influential New York City rock and roll impresario and DJ of 1950s 60s 70s frequently referred to as fifth beatle during early days and first to originate term
Murray Kaufman
Island Settings of series 1 and 2 of The White Lotus
Hawaii
Sicily
Andy Pask most successful work Overkill is theme tune to which show
The Bill
Debut album of Rick Astley in 1987, first song is Never Gonna Give You Up
Whenever You Need Somebody
Banana Massacre occurred between December 5 and 6 of 1928
Colombia
Boeing 747 first flight
1969
Dmabusters raid by 617 Squadron was which operation
Operation Chastise
Four Pests Campaign by Mao were which four pests
Rats, flies, mosquitoes, sparrows.
Named after son of Noah’s son Ham, it existed from around 1070 BC to 550 AD, which ancient kingdom of Nubia was centred along Nile Valley in current north Sudan and South Egypt?
Kush
Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VII) was married to which king of France?
Louis XII
Piet Mondrian refused to use which colour in art saying it was untidy!
Green
1898 Morgan Robertson move about British ocean liner that sunk in North Atlantic after strike iceberg?
Futility
Only two books of Hebrew Bible that do not mention God
Song of Songs
Esther
Name of sculpture and by who above south east side of Oxford street John Lewis
Barbara Hepworth’s Winged Figure
Which Vermeer painting Esta image at 250m $ and estimated at most valuable stolen object in the world?
The Concert
Vernon is surname of which title character in epistolary novella by Jane Austen, written in 1794 but not published until 1871?
Lady Susan
Who alliteratively is Florence Owens Thompson, whose birth name was Florence Leona Christie in a famous photograph?
Migrant Mother
Bahrain mma fighter who was namesake of the 2022 St Leger winning horse
Eldar Eldarov
Voice actor who voices the minions
Pierre Coffin
New Zealand anthropologist known for criticism of Margaret Mead’s wok on Samoan society?
Derek Freeman
Six letter name of largest Asian antelope, name literally mean blue cow? One of very few creature to have same chromosome count as humans.
Nilgai
7 factorial And also Plato ideal number of people in a state
5040
Houses in smurfs and super mushroom power ups in mario are which type of fungi
Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria)
How many people sit on Monetary Policy Committee of Bank of England?
9
What is second largest fish after whale shark?
Basking Shark (Cetorhinus Maximus)
Which Italian racing car driver won CART championship in 1997 and 1998, lost his legs, did loads more racing, won two golds at paralympics in hand cycling in 2016?
Alex Zanardi
Scoring system used in golf named after someone, involves scoring points based on number of strokes at each hole, so start at Par and - one for each stroke. Can pick up ball when hit zero.
Stableford Method
Nickname of poker player David Ulliott.
Devilfish
Ukrainian born British player who died 2014 of cancer, Nottingham open Womens singles trophy named after her as won three tournaments in city?
Elena Baltacha
Name either of two remaining franchises from NFLs founding in 1920 that still compete in NFL.
Chicago Bears or Arizona Cardinals
Argentine footballer Julian Alvarez, welsh darts Mark Webster and American wrestler Randy savage all have had which nickname
The Spider
South American team to make first ever appearance at rugby World Cup in France in 2023
Chile
Itv hub rebranded as what in November 2022
ITVX
Postcodes mentioned on death certificate of queen refer to Aberdeenshire and which English county where informer normally resides?
Gloucestershire
Group F in Europa League 2022-23 season group stage finishes with 8 points each 2 W, 2 D, 2 L. Who was in group in order?
Feyenoord
Midtjylland
Lazio
Sturm Graz
Which city and hotel had cylindrical aquarium collapse in December 2022
Radisson at Berlin
Speaker of House of Representatives finally in 2023 after loads of no votes
Kevin McCarthy - California
Patty Murray senator from Washington has held which position in Us Senate since January 2023 putting her fourth in succession for president?
President Pro Tempore
Norwegian band known for what does the fox say
Ylvis
an educational video game released by Broderbund on April 23, 1985, distributed with World Almanac?
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Name of newspaper in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee
Colour and name used for police van
Black Maria
Similar to Italian cannoli, name has spirit in it uk baked casing with cream in
Brandy Snaps
Dianthus barbatus flower legend says to honour Duke of Cumberland after Battle of Culloden (1746). Old ballad “Fair Margaret and ______ ___________”
Sweet William
Tune of I Wish I was back home in Derry composed by Bobby Sands is based on that of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald a hit in 1976 for which Canadian singer
Gordon Lightfoot
Mohamed Kader goal at 2006 word cup in 2-1 loss vs South Korea remains only goal by which nation at a World Cup
Togo
Produced from vegetable starch by partial hydrolysis, which polysaccharide food additive is used to increase the mouthfeel of certain foodstuffs? In case of crisps it imparts a slightly sweetened taste to enable aDdictiveness
Maltodextrin
Which overarching religious system comprises the beliefs and traditions of its namesake people on Ghana and Ivory Coast? Subgroups include Ashanti, Fanti and Wassa.
Akan
Known in Czech as the Labe, which river flows through the German state capital of Dresden and Magdeburg as well as city state of Hamburg?
Elbe
Born British Hong Kong 1982, played Emma Woodhouse in 2009 Emma, Briony Tallis in Atonement (sister to Keira’s Cecilia Tallis), dirty dancing: Havana Nights.
Romola Garai
Born 1906 Linden, 1958 The Human Condition, 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Hannah Arendt
Reflector telescope combination of primary concave mirror and secondary convex mirror named after 1629 Catholic priest who invented it.
Cassegrain Reflector
Born 1932 St Louis, died 1975, 1961 Album The Blues and the Abstract Truth, centrepiece most famous work “Stolen Moments”.
Oliver Nelson
2013 debut novel “Ancillary Justice” about artificial consciousness and gender blindness won 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novel as well as Nebula Award. Sequels were Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy. Imperial Radch universe.
Ann Leckie
Born Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, born 1913, noted east Asia scholar, Norstrilla, The Rediscovery of Man, A Planet Named Shayol, Scanners Live in Vain.
Cordwainer Smith
The property possessed by planet by a round shape that is flattened at the poles.
Oblateness
Inner region of a organ or tissue especially when distinct from outer region/cortex eg kidney, adrenal gland.
Medulla
Named after mountain in New Hampshire, isolated hill of bedrock standing conspicuously above general level of the surrounding area.
Monadnock
Vouvray, Sancerre, Pouilly-Fume are appellations associated with which French wine region best known for white wines?
Loire Valley
Which French tennis male double best ever with five grand slams to name? 39 weeks at top of doubles ranking. Most famous for losing to John Isner in longest tennis match in history at Wimbledon 2010.
Nicolas Mahut
In darts, what is the highest possible odd numbered checkout?
167
What pyrotechnic colorant; burns red and most often used in flare guns has chemical formula Sr(NO3)2?
Strontium Nitrate
Which Piccadilly and district line station is geographically closest to Gunnersbury Park? It is not Gunnersbury.
Acton Town
Which Russian soldier and politician replaced Orlov as Catherine the Great’s lover and de facto Co-ruler from 1774? Famous battleship and silent film after this man.
Grigory Potemkin
What river known as Moldau in German, goes through Prague?
Vltava
Tolpuddle Martyrs county and year
Dorset 1834
Ahmed Radhi scored which country’s only World Cup goal in 1986 during Loss against Belgium.
Iraq
Also a polysaccharide thickening agent which food additive is commonly used to bind ingredients together? This sugar derives it’s two word name from the bacteria used in fermentation process needed to synthesise it.
Xanthan Gum (accept E415)
Most modern languages that bear name pidgin are in fact examples of which linguistic category meaning a former pidgin that has become a fully expressive mother tongue.
Creole
The tune of The Tri-Coloured Ribbon composed of Peadar Kearney, is based on that of which traditional English folk song a version of which was a hit for 1975 Steeleye Span?
all Around My Hat
Which horse won 2017 grand national, becoming second ever Scottish trained winner
One for Arthur
Skateboard in French
Planche a roulette
American author wrote childrens novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Which Indian state is Taj Mahal in?
Uttar Pradesh
Which Romanian high jumper set 14 world records and was first woman to jump over six feet?
Iolanda Balas
Which Scottish born governor of New South Wales is memorialised by statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park?
Lachlan Macquarie
Which king of Spain (1665-1700) was known as “the bewitched”?
Charles II
Mr MacPhisto was alter ego of which rock star
Bono
The Wolf prize an annual prize awarded to scientists and artists is presented at ceremony held in which city?
Jerusalem
In Indian cuisine what is Chingri?
Prawns
Which Us state setting for 1967 Gil cool hand Luke
Florida
Which it girl amateur detective features in Agatha Christie novel The Seven Dials Mystery and The Secret of Chimneys?
Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent
An ephyra is name given to Young of which marine invertebrate?
Jellyfish
Real name of Joseph Conrad
Jozef Korzeniowski
Member of Jackson 5 sang “let’s get serious”?
Jermaine Jackson
Which Roman emperor founded the city of antinoopolis in Egypt in 130AD
Hadrian
Which Gloucester rugby centre and fly half has the nickname 36?
Billy Twelvetrees
Illustration by Phiz “major bagstock is delighted to have that opportunity” found in which novel by Dickens Boz?
Dombey and Son
In which sport do Australia and New Zealand compete for the Constellation Cup?
Netball
Dreadnought and Parlour are types of which musical instrument?
Guitar
Meera Syal’s debut novel 1996 semi autobiographical
Anita and Me
The Kalmar Strait separates the island of Oland from mainland of which country?
Sweden
Foucault knife-edge test is used to test quality of which component in a telescope?
Concave curved mirrors
Between 1995 and 2003, Fernando Henrique Cardoso served two terms as the president of which South American country?
Brazil
Which style of woodworking joint is named after hindmost part of a bird?
Dovetail Joint
Which lung of human body has an indentation called the cardiac notch?
Left Lung
Female Dutch cyclist won the first Tour de France Femmes in 2022? Won Giro d’Italia Donne in 2018, 2019 and 2022.
Annemiek van Vleuten
1992 film directed by Robert zemeckis, Meryl Streep and goldie hawn both rivals after Bruce Willis and drink magic potion
Death Becomes Her
2017 film directed by Doug Liman starring Tim cruise and Domhnall gleeson inspired by life of Barry Seal, former TWA (Trans World Airlines) who flew missions for cia and drug smuggler for Medellin cartel.
American Made
1984 movie directed by Susan Siedelman starring Madonna as title character and Rosanna Arquette as Roberta Glass.
Desperately Seeking Susan
Jeff Bridges plays title character of which John Carpenter directed 1984 film?
Starman
1987! Film stars Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall as title character. Song by starship “nothings gonna stop us now”.
Mannequin
Who plays Ted Striker in hit film Airplane!
Robert Hays
Who directed Airplane!, ghost 1990, Rat Race 2001?
Jerry zucker
Who plays Will Graham in 1986 Manhunter opposite Brian Cox’s Hannibal Lector. Also Gil Grissom in CSI (LV)
William Petersen
1956 film by John Ford with character Ethan Edwards played by John Wayne after his niece (Natalie wood)
The Searchers
Which Russian greco Roman wrestler won nine world championship and three Olympic gold medals? Nicknamed Russian King Kong, the experiment.
Aleksandr Karelin
Which Austrian physicist discovered cosmic rays during a balloon flight in 1912?
Victor Hess
Which Japanese leafy vegetable, scientific name Brassica rapa var. nipposinica, is commonly found in supermarket mixed salads?
Mizuna
Which New Zealand singer won four billboard music awards at the 2013 awards?
Lorde
Which Byzantine empress associated with quote “royal purple is the noblest shroud”?
Empress Theodora
Harry Haller is title character from which novel by Herman Hesse?
Steppenwolf
Which migrant butterfly named after a district of London between Peckham and Brixton, and is also known as mourning cloak in the US
Camberwell Beauty
Cincinnati was favourite war horse of which republic US president?
Ulysses S Grant
Which town in Fife Scotland was birthplace of economist Adam Smith and Val McDermid, home to Raith Rovers football club?
Kirkcaldy
Which Rob Reiner directed film does novelist Paul Sheldon became victim of car accident?
Misery
Jamaican dish Escovitch contains what?
Fish fried
Which character from The Fair Penitent (1703) by Nicholas Rowe is now a byword for an obsessive seducer?
Lothario
Name of Victor meldrew’s wifr in one foot in grave
Margaret
Pratt & McClain sang theme song to which sitcom?
Happy Days (set in Milwaukee)
Which Japanese motorcycle manufacturer uses a wing logo inspired by goddess Nike?
Honda
Which Japanese motorbike maker has logo stylised representation of the Japanese character meaning River?&
Kawasaki
Who played Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better call Saul?
Jonathan Banks
Name of operation carried out by Indian forces in June 1984 to remove Sikh leader from golden temple (harmandir sahib)
Operation Blue Star
Middle name of Stephen K Amos?
Kehinde
Works in which art museum in Florence includes primavera, the birth of Venus, and Judith and Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi? Most visited art museum in Italy.
Uffizi
Which sportswoman who also excelled in basketball and athletics became first woman to win 1950 to win three golf majors in one year?
Babe Zaharias
Battle that Caesar beat Pompey in 48BC in Greece?
Battle of Pharsalus
Setting of Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa film?
Spider Web Castle
Actor best known for 16 film collaboration with Akira Kurosawa such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress (two peasants transport undercover Prince and Princess across enemy lines), Throne of Blood and Yojimbo (ronin arrives in small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy).
Toshiro Mifune
Jane Seymour plays solitaire in what film? 1973
Live and Let Die
Who plays Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die? Died Manila March 2021.
Yaphet Kotto
Which broadcaster made fame in 2022 before death from cancer, hosted podcast You, Me and the Big C alongside Lauren Mahon and Steve Bland.
Deborah James
Which gallery in Florence is home to Michelangelo’s sculpture of David?
Galleria dell’Accademia
The 1964 movie The Outrage starring Paul Newman is a remake of which 1950 Akira Kurosawa movie?
Rashomon
Name the two consecutive Whitbread Award for Poetry winning books for Ted Hughes in 1997 and 1998. One retold classical literature and one concerns Suicide of Hughes former wife Sylvia Plath.
1997: Tales of Ovid
1998: Birthday Letters
The universal house of justice, central governing body of the Baha’i faith in is which third largest city of Israel? The Shrine of the Bab is located on north slope of Mount Carmel outside this city.
Haifa
Chris and Rosie Ramsey podcast name
Shagged Married Annoyed
In molecular biology, which analytical technique uses antibodies to detect specific proteins? Common application is confirmatory test for HIV that uses reverse transcriptase to infect CD4+ T cells and macrophages. Play on words on another technique used for dna detection named after inventor.
Western Blot
Method used in molecular biology for the detection and quantification of a specific DNA sequence in dna samples named after English biologist inventor.
Southern Blot
Technique used in molecular biology research to study gene expression by detection of RNA in a sample.
Northern Blot
What common Yoruba name is surname of Miami heat basketball player with forename Bam and forename of recently retired Wycombe wanderers striker with surname Akinfenwa?
Adebayo
In 2013, what shirt hitting Asian golfer known for her putting, became the only non American woman to win three golf majors in a year, winning the ANA Inspiration, Womens PGA and US Womens Open?
Inbee Park
Paul McCartney’s 1984 #2 No More Lonely Nights was lead track to which 1984 film features a fictional day in his life?
Give my regards to Broad Street
Who in 2023 is to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s prime minister after becoming only nominee for Labour Party leader?:
Chris HIPKINS
Who won 2011 Whitbread award for poetry with The Bees and 1993 for Mean Time?
Carol Ann Duffy
Forcing the surrender of the Arveni tribe chieftain Vercingetorix, Caesar effectively won Gallic wars with successful 52BC siege of which fortress in east central France?
Alesia
Rump Parliament name given to Parliament which remained after 1648 purge of MPs considered hostile to new model army. Which colonel led forces carried out this purge which is thus named after him?
Thomas Pride
Which online marketplace founded in Japan in 1997, is one of largest ecommerce sites in world, sponsors Barcelona and often called Amazon of Japan?
Rakuten
Which city in Iraq is pilgrimage destination of millions of Shia Muslims for the religious festival of Ashura? It is the site of the martyrdom of Muhammad’s grandson Husayn.
Karbala
Most Shi’as (between 68% and 80%) live in mainly four countries:
Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, and Iraq.
In 1961, which woman became second golfer to win three Womens majors in a year? Her 13 majors puts her second on all time list behind Patty Berg.
Mickey Wright
Unofficially made into SERGIO LEONE WESTERN a fistful of dollars was remake of which 1961 Akira Kurosawa film
Yojimbo
Protein EPO stands for what
Erythropoietin
Another use of western blots is a test for which protein, produced by kidneys that stimulates red blood cell production in bone marrow in response to hypoxia? The test for this protein is commonly used by World Anti Doping Agency
EPO
What common Yoruba name is forename to anti brexit activist Oluwole and forename of musician Fela Kuti’s grandson?
Femi
President of Nigeria 1983-85 and 2015+
Muhammadu Buhari
Femi Kuti, Nigerian musician, son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, was grandson of which politician campaigner, Womens rights activist and traditional Aristocrat born 1900 nigeria?
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Which feminist and activist hosts podcast Visible Women? Author of invisible women and led campaign on women on banknotes.
Caroline Criado-Perez
Western blots are used as definitive test for variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease or mad cow disease which is caused by what misfolded protein?
Prions
Which 47BC battle in Turkey did Caesar beat Pharnaces II, King of Pontus, who wanted to expand his empire? Caesar said to told senate “Veni, Vidi, Vici” after victory.
Zela
American anthropologist who studied Japanese culture in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict
Former barracks and prison now stores Donatello’s David and Michelangelo’s Bacchus?
Bargello
Which online marketplace founded in Italy 2011 allows users to buy and sell items mostly used and vintage.
Depop
Who hosted original run of Ready Steady Cook from 1994-2000 before Ainsley? This persons father Tony was actor who appeared don’t wait up and robins nest.
Fern Britton
Robins nest 1977-81 spin off of which show
Man About the House
Names of two 17th century English pRliMents reflecting failure to transact any business. One sat two months in 1614 and one for similar time in 1625
Addled or Useless
City in Uttar Pradesh is holy site in Hinduism because it was the birthplace of Rama and the initial setting of the Ramayana? This city also site of the Babri Masjid mosque, which was demolished by Hindu activists in 1992.
Ayodhya
Who won Whitbread Award Poetry in 1987 for The Haw Lantern and the 1996 win for The Spirit Level?
Seamus Heaney
In 1986, who became the third woman to claim three golf majors in year? Her nephew with same surname less successful but did win 2011 us pga for his own major.
Pat Bradley
What name given to Parliament which followed rump Parliament in 1653? Name not adjectival but derived from a surname of one of members.
Barebones Parliament (whose forename was Praise-God)
Which anthropologist known for studying Ishi, the last Yahi Indian of california? Also father of Ursula K Le Guin.
Alfred Kroeber
A test using western blot has high specificity for detecting Tularemia, or rabbit fever, disease often spread by which parasites? Also spread Rocky Mountain spotted fever and the bacterium Borrelia Burgdorferi.
Ticks
1985 king Lear inspired Kurosawa film starring Tatsuya Nakadai as aging warlord?
Ran
Paul McCartney #13 in 1985 for title song to which Chevy chase and Dan Ackroyd espionage comedy?
Spies Like Us
Which former Observer journalist hosts podcast How to Fail in which interviews guests about failure? Book published 2019.
Elizabeth Day
Poet win Whitbread poetry by then the Costa Award in 2017 for Inside the Wave? She was also winner of inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction for A Spell of Winter.
Helen Dunmore
1999 Fern Britton dating which chef who she married for 20 years. Shares name with England rugby captain.
Phil Vickery
Which 45BC battle in southern hispania ulterior was final battle of Caesar’s civil war against leaders of the optimates? With this military victory and deaths of Labienus and Pompey’s eldest son? Caesar able to return and rule as dictator?
Munda
Labels applied to Roman supporters of the continued authority of the senate from Latin for best ones.
Optimates
Labels applied to those romans operating before popular assemblies, generally in opposition to the senate. From Latin for “supporters of the people”.
Populares
Which covered exterior gallery located adjacent to the Uffizi, home to many sculptures including Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa? Name of this gallery generally more used for coveted exterior gallery and that single word is sufficient.
Loggia dei Lanzi
What physical property of a material can be defined as its ability to be drawn for example into a wire?
Ductility
Which US political activist is known for his book 1965 Unsafe at any Speed about safeness of us automobiles and his frequent presidential runs?4-
Ralph nader
Which webcomic by Randall Munroe describes self as a webcomic of romance sarcasm math and language
XKCD
Name given to common Scottish boat shaped hat worn as part of civilian highland dress and a real estate development being peddled by Four estate agents in 1984 David mamet play?
Glengarry
Which baseball pitcher, nickname references a WW2 film stars Frank Sinatra in title role, holds all time strikeout record with 5714 strikeouts? Retired 1993 at age 46.
Nolan Ryan Jr (nickname The Ryan express)
Which 60s singer had number ones with YeH YeH, Get Away and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde?
Georgie Fame
1 album by The Courteeners in January 2023
St Jude
January 2023 #1 song by Miley Cyrus
Flowers
New Zealand PM 1997-99
Jenny Shipley
New Zealand PM 1999-2008
Helen Clark
Which Italian actress died January 2023, had one night affair in 1968 with Christian Barnaard heart transplant surgery?
Gina Lollobrigida
Founder of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology SVANTE PAABO is one of founders of what discipline that studies the past by examining preserved genomes of ancient organisms?
Paleogenetics
Who won Nobel Medicine 2022 for being founders of paleogenetics particularly for work on Neanderthal genome
Svante Paabo
ALS stands for what in terms of Lou Gehrig Disrase
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Medici, Qin, Taj Mahal, Keltis, Lord of the Rings, winner of Spiel des Jahres has designed all these board games?
Reiner Knizia
Considering as third major national card games in Italy along with Briscola and Tresette, which card game got its name from “broom” Italian due to wanting to sweep up all cards?/
Scopa
One of Italy’s three national card games along with Scopa and Briscola, which forty card trick taking game has a name derived from “three sevens” as that used to be a winning hand?
Tressette
One of three Italy’s national card games along with Scopa and Trissette, which card game is a trick taking, Ace-Ten card game.
Briscola
Known by nickname Clown Prince of Denmark and the Unmelancholy Dane, which comedian began careeer as concert pianist in Copenhagen? Developed most trademarks while hosting own show on NBC.
Victor Borge
Brendan B Brown lead singer of which band?
Wheatus
Candela is leader of Team Valor, Blanche leader of Team Mystic and Spark is leader of Team Instinct in which Niantic augmented reality mobile game
Pokémon Go
With map set on fictional chicago inspired lakeshore city, New instalment of Need for Speed in 2022 has which subtitle?
Need for Speed Unbound
What desert 15th largest in world name from Turkic for Red Sand?
Kyzylkum Desert
What desert name from Turkic for Black Sand and occupies about 70% of Turkmenistan?
Karakum Desert
Folk etymology, desert “place of no return”, situated in southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China, bounded by Kunlun mountains to south, Pamir Mountains to west, Tian Shan range to the North and Gobi desert to the east.
Taklamakan Desert
Located within Fiordland National Park on New Zealand’s South Island, which word was once called Eighth wonder of the world by rudyard Kipling?
Milford Sound
An example of trans border type, the Azerbaijani city of Astara forms an agglomeration with which city in Gilan province of Iran?
Astara
What crusade was 1202-04 and called for by Pope Innocent III? Aim to capture Muslim controlled Jerusalem being held by saladin’s Ayyubid dynasty.
Fourth Crusade
What was first major action for fourth crusade in 1202 with a siege of the oldest continuously inhabited city of Croatia?
Siege of Zara
What was the culmination of the fourth crusade in April 1204 after which Baldwin of Flanders was crowned emperor of namesake location.
Sack of Constantinople
The first crusade 1096-99 was done after which pope convened the Council of Clermont and supported the crusade?
Urban II
Four crusader states established in holy land after first crusade.
Kingdom of Jerusalem
County of Edessa
Principality of Antioch
County of Tripoli
Second crusade 1145-49 was started in response to fall of County of edessa in 1144 to forces of Zengi. Announced by which pope?
Eugene III
Which French king was presented on the second crusade 1145-49?
Louis VII
Which crusade was fought between 1145 and 1149?
Second crusade
Which crusade fought between 1189 and 1192?
Third crusade
Which three European monarchs led the third crusade between 1189 and 1192? France England and holy roman. Following capture of Jerusalem by Ayyubid sultan Saladin.
Richard I of England, Philip II of France and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
The result of which battle of 1187 before third crusade caused Pope Urban III to die? Fought in Israel and named for the shape of a nearby extinct volcano. Saladin’s forces whooped vast majority of crusader forces.
Battle of the Horns of Hattin
Ritual submission of holy Roman emperor Henry IV to Pope Gregory VII at namesake castle in 1077 is known as what! During the investiture controversy
Humiliation of Canossa or Road to Canossa
Which crusade is 1217-1221, campaign to re acquire Jerusalem by first conquering Egypt rules by Ayyubid sultanate led by Al-Adil the brother of Saladin? Innocent III called for it once more.
Fifth Crusade
Also known as crusade of Frederick II, what crusade was 1228-29, wanted to recapture Jerusalem. Little fighting in this one due to diplomatic manoeuvring of Frederick II.
Sixth Crusade
1248-54 which number crusade, first of two crusades led by Louis IX of France.
Seventh Crusade
In which country did Louis IX of France die in during the eighth crusade against the Hafsid dynasty in 1270? Died of dysentery.
Tunisia
1982 arcade game made by Gottlieb, isometric graphics of a pyramid with Orange title character hop on top of cube while avoiding obstacles?
Q*Bert
Frederick Barbarossa died during the third crusade drowning in which Turkish river 1190?
Saleph River (Goksu in modern times)
1982 maze arcade game by Namco have to inflate or burst enemies (Pookas, Fygars), tunnelling through dirt.
Dig Dug
Town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; famous for many polar bears in autumn, named after a British duke.
Churchill
American photographer born 1886 Lennox Massachusetts, known for portraits of black New Yorkers. Famous for Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Marcus Garvey and Countee Cullen (poet and playwright).
James Van Der Zee
American poet 1903-46, married to Yolande du Bois (only surviving child of WEB (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois. Poems: The Black Christ, Copper Sun, One Way to Heaven.
Countee Cullen
Largest island of the Dodecanese
Rhodes
Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1520-66. Son of Selim so. Fought Battle of Mohacs against Hungary 1526, Siege of Vienna 1529.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Son of Suleiman the Magnificent. Reigned 1566-74.
Selim II
Second sultan of Ottoman Empire following Osman I. 1324-62. Turkish author.
Orhan
Third Ottoman Sultan, 1362-1389 died at Battle of Kosovo in 1389 against Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic.
Murad I
Which Ottoman sultan commanded ottoman forces to cause the fall of Constantinople in May 1453 against Emperor Constantine XI Palailogos?
Mehmed II (the conqueror)
Philosophical sci fi novel by Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1972 which was later made into 1979 Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky?
Roadside Picnic
Elric of Melnibone is fictional character in the Elric Saga created by which writer?
Michael Moorcock
Born 1970 Reno, Nevada, 2016 became first artist in residence at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Works: Sleep (arrangement of Robert frost Stopping by woods on a snowy evening), Water Night, Lux Aurumque, Goodnight Moon, Cloudburst, Godzilla eats Las VegasZ
Eric Whitacre
Indigenous language of Andes and Altiplano regions of Peru and Bolivia. Ends in -ara.
Aymara
English based creole used in Papua New Guinean official language
Tok Pisin
Born 1892 Rochester New York, third all time majors (11) after Jack Nicklaus (18), Tiger Woods (15).
Walter Hagen
Only golfer to win all four major golf tournaments of his era (pro and amateur of both us and uk) in 1930. Played by Jim Caviezel in film “x x: Stroke of Genius”
Bobby Jones
Which golfer from Jersey won the open championship a record six times 1896-1914?
Harry Vardon
Yorkshire football manager took Huddersfield town to FA Cup and two First Divisiom titles in four years. In 1925 Arsenal went FA Cup and 2 First Division titles. Died suddenly 1934 at 55.
Herbert Chapman
Czech long distance runners won three gold medals at 1952 Olympics 5000m, 10000m and marathon (first ever). Had won 10k in 1948 London gold too.
Emil Zatopek
French First Republic dates
1792-1804
French Second Republic dates
1848-1852
French Third Republic dates
1870-1940
French Fourth Republic dates
1946-58
French Fifth Republic dates
1958-Present
Author born 1927 for 1977 Dogger (winner of Kate Greenaway Medal) and Ella’s Big Chance (2003). Won Eleanor Farjeon Award for childrens literature services.
Shirley Hughes
Name of book by Shirley Hughes and also an essay by Orwell subtitled “Socialism and the English Genius”.
The Lion and the Unicorn
What Christmas song lyrics “lullay, thou little tiny child, sleep well, lully, lullay” dating back to 16th century as part of mystery play called the Pageant of the Shearman and Tailors?
Coventry Carol
What cape is southern tip of African continent?
Cape Agulhas
Portuguese mariner and explorer in 1488 became first European navigator to round southern tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias
Tip of Cape Angela in northern Tunisia which is northernmost point of African continent?
Ras ben Sakka
Easternmost point of African mainland is which promontory in Somalia’s Bari region?
Ras Hafun
Westernmost mainland point of Africa which point on Cap Vert Peninsula of Senegal?
Pointe des Almadies
African geographical centre is village of Epena in which country?
Republic of Congo
Lowest point of Africa is which place in Djibouti
Lake Assal
Born 1952, who was first non white player of post apartheid era (after Charlie llewellyn in 1912) to play for South Africa? Played for Scotland after.
Omar Henry
South African born lawyer who in South Africa took part in treason trial of Mandela and 1978 inquest into Steve Biko death, also Albert Luthuli. In UK defended P&O after 1987 Zeebrugge Ferry disaster.
Sydney Kentridge
Playwright of 1896 play Ubu Roi
Alfred Jarry
President general of African National Congress from 1952-67. Was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for leading the non violent apartheid anti movement.
Albert Luthuli
Who was leader of African National Congress between 1967 to 1991? Johannesburg airport now named after him.
Oliver Tambo
Who succeeded Nelson Mandela in 1999 to become 2nd president of South Africa?
Thabo Mbeki
South African artist best known for prints, drawings and animated films especially for hand drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s? Son of judge.
William Kentridge
405BC naval battle last confrontation of Pelopommesiam War, Spartan fleet under Lysander smashed Athenian fleet.
Aegospotami
Who scored last minute winner in 1979 FA Cup final for arsenal against Manchester United!
Alan Sunderland
Which British venue holds European record for an international football match?
Hampden Park - 1937 Scotland v England 149,415
Who won 2022 The Great British Bake Off?
Dr Syabira Yusoff
Only two African cities have subway stations which are??/
Cairo and Algiers
National sport of Bangladesh, two teams of seven players, raider runs on other half to touch out as many opponents within thirty seconds.
Kabaddi
Afghanistani sport horse mounted players attempt place a goat carcass in goal.
Buzkashi
Which French city is capital of Loire department? It is also name of band whose lead singer is Sarah Cracknell.
Saint-Etienne
Which singer songwriter wrote the songs Mr Pharmicist, Totally Wired and Theme from Sparta FC?
Mark E Smith (died 2018)
Wife of Kurt Weill 1926-33, 1937-50, played Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love 1963 and nominated for Oscar in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone?
Lotte Lenya
Which French city is capital of Vienne department? Site of famous battle and homophone of name of actor who played Dr John Wade Prentice, unwelcome guest in 1967 film.
Poitiers
French city capital of Duchy of Lorraine until annexed by France in 1766 by Louis XV?
Nancy
Who won Booker Prize for The Finkler Question?
Howard Jacobson
Who wrote opera and libretto of “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny”?
Kurt Weill opera
Bertolt Brecht libretto
What significant event took place at Port of Tilbury on 21 June 1948?
Arrival of Empire Windrush
Which magazine first published in New York on 3 March 1923? Founded by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce.
Time
Which country gained independence from Great Britain on 4 February 1948?
Sri Lanka
India Indepedence Day and year
15 August 1947
Which country declared a republic on 29 October 1923?
Turkey
Whcih seminal album was released on 1 March 1973? First words to be heard are “I’ve been mad for fucking years - absolutely years”?
The Dark Side of the Moon
Head of WHO since 2017
TEDROS ADHANOM Ghebreyesus
Name of Netherlands parliament building in The Hague
Binnenhof
Meeting place of Jamaica Parliament in Kingston called what?
Gordon House
Parliament Building also known as Tintenpalast (Ink Palace) is seat of both houses of which countries parliament?
Namibia
Russsell Lissack is guitarist for which band
Bloc Party
Lead singer of Bloc Party
Kele Okereke
Whose primary achievement was advancement of theory he called Immaterialism? Famous quote about trees.
George Berkeley
Which West Indies cricketer born Bridgetown, Barbados, 1936, played 1954-74. Captain of WI 1965-72.
Sir Garfield Sobers
Guyanese born West Indies cricketer born 1944, captained Windies 1974 and 1985, won World Cup in 1975 and 1979. Nicknamed Super Cat and Hubert.
Sir Clive Lloyd
Australian cricketer and captain 1997-2004, captained victory in 1999 Cricket World Cup. Considered one of the most successful ever. Nickname Tugger or Ice Man.
Steve Waugh
British flat racing trainer champion 1943-2013 trainer ten times, four winners of Derby and multiple of all the other classics. Trained Frankel for 2010 and 2011 season.
Henry Cecil
Picture book written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published 1979 looking for jewelled golden hare.
Masquerade
Savoury dish with county in name with savoury option one end of crust dumping and sweet option at other end.
Bedfordshire Clanger
Located just outside the town of Sandy, The Lodge is the HQ for which organisation, founded by Emily Williamson in 1889 at her house in Fletcher moss botanical garden?
RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon stage name of far right activist
Tommy Robinson
Zoological Society of London runs which two zoos?
London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo (Bedfordshire)
England rugby Union player 31 England caps, has appeared in all Harry Potter films as hagrid stand in and stunt double.
Martin Bayfield
Subtitled “An Oxford Love story”, only novel of max Beerbohm with famous quote “death Cancels all engagements” and everyone dying coz of title character?
Zuleika Dobson
Gracie Fields song from November 1938 for film Keep Smiling. Popular houseplant in title.
The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
English translation of the motto of bond family by Ian fleming
The world is not enough
Name of the family home of Titus Groan
Gormenghast Castle
Name of the tribunal presided over by a judge advocate.
Court Martial
Boxing promoter and manager of fighters such as Frank Bruno and Chris eubank.
Frank Warren
English title of 1970 animated film based on the magic roundabout
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Name of cartoon where “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad ___, Mr Jones” and the namesake person says “part of it are excellent”. Published in Judy.
The Curate’s Egg
2021 animated film does titular family have to save the earth from a global robot uprising?
The Mitchells vs the Machines
Canadian born 1944, British former newspaper publisher and businessman. Pardoned by Donald Trump for crime on 2019. Took Baronage of Crossharbour.
Conrad Black
Chairman of bbc Husband of Baroness lady in waiting for queen who was fired for offending Ngozi Fulani (Sistah Space) in 2022?
Marmaduke Hussey
2002 film does Jack Nicholson recently widowed character take a road trip across Midwest in Winnebago? Directed by Alexander Payne.
About Schmidt
A defence contracting agreement between three countries which excluded France caused something of a fuss in late 2021?
Aukus
1st century ad British chieftain of Catuvellauni tribe who resisted conquest of Britain. Shares first name with a Dick Van Dyke character.
Caractacus
What is name of web site and fake news organisation owned by Alex Jones in 1999?
InfoWars
French singer and actor, Oscar nominations for The Love Parade and The Big Pond, songs “livin in the sunlight”, “valentine”, “louise”, “mimi”. Sang theme song to “The Aristocats”.
Maurice Chevalier
Appeared in Rebecca, All About Eve and Ivanhoe but is probably best remembered as the voice of Shear Khan in Jungle Book?
George Sanders
English actress played Ahme in Help!, Doctor in Alfie, Margaret spencer in Bedazzled.
Eleanor Bron
In Great War, what nickname given by British troops to the German 77mm artillery shell?
Whizz Bangs
Who torments other characters in Waiting for Godot has double z in name?
Pozzo (and Lucky!
What is name of curved knife used by chefs for mincing herbs and garlic?
Mezzaluna
Monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio family, also ghost story by MR James. Comes from Italian for half dye.
Mezzotint
Who directed 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front?
Lewis Milestone
Who directed the 2022 All Quiet on the Western Front?
Edward Berger
Who portrayed Zaphod Beeblebrox in radio and tv versions of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Mark Wing-Davey
British jazz musician chiefly saxophone was founder of the Jazz Warriors?
Courtney Pine
British daytime soap 1972-79, aiming to replicate predecessor “Emergency - Ward 10”.
General Hospital
Scottish tv soap 2002 to now in fictional district of Shieldinch
River City
Welsh longest running tv soap opera produced by bbc as since 1974, set in Cwmderi.
Pobol y Cwm
Welsh soap opera shown on S4C since 1995 claimed to be first Celtic related language soap specifically directed at a youth audience set in fictional a harbour town of Glanrafon in Anglesey.
Rownd a Rownd
Soap set in a covered market in Salford in northwest of England. Launched 1985 to celebrate Corrie 25 years. Main character superintendent Derek Owen played by David Hargreaves.
Albion Market
1962-71 tv drama series based on AJ Cronin’s 1935 novella Country Doctor, storyline centred on fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during late 1920s. Namesake junior partner played by Bill Simpson.
Dr Finlay’s Casebook
Mick Jones Ex clash which band with song E=MC2 1986
Big Audio Dynamite
Band did 1985 Thinking of You, had Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three and The Specials
The Colourfield
Band of Pat and Greg Kane sang Looking for Linda and Labour of Love?
Hue and Cry
Debut studio album of ABC?
The Lexicon of Love
The 1981 third studio album of The Human League?
Dare
In which 1949 film directed by Raoul Walsh did James Cagney say “made it Ma! Top of the world”?
White Heat
Which land mammal has the longest tongue?
Giant anteater
Which dog lives with Chilli, Bandit and Bingo
Bluey
Which island, 40km off Venezuela, has capital Willemstad?
Curacao
Capital of Bonaire
Kralendijk
Aruba capital
Oranjestad
Curacao capital
Willemstad
Glen Canyon Dam in Utah and Arizona forms which lake?
Lake Powell
Hoover Dam forms which lake of Nevada and Arizona?
Lake Mead
Kraft renamed to what in 2012
Mondelez
Which British mountain climber led 1975 ascent of south west face and became first Briton on its summit?
Chris Bonington
Oldham born composer of Belshazzar’s Feast
William Walton (known with the Sitwell siblings and known for Facade, Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre)
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster from 1976-99
Basil Hume
American double murderer executed in 1977 executed by firing squad in Utah
Gary Gilmore
G - Tributary of the River Mersey
Goyt
Forged Roman imperial decree by which namesake Roman emperor supposedly transferred authority over rome and Roman Empire to the pope Sylvester I
The Donation of Constantine
“Youth is wasted on the young” coined by who?
George Bernard Shaw
What was name of 1990s real estate scandal involving both Hillary and Bill Clinton?
Whitewater Scandal
What was the name of 19th century irish secret society famously accused of murder and kidnapping in the Pennsylvanian coal fields in 1870s?
Molly Maguires
Which New Zealand born athlete won mens 1500m gold at the 1976 Olympics?
Sir John Walker
Who won darts world championship twice first in 1982 and again in 1989?
Jocky Wilson
US soap opera, spin off of Dallas, tan from 1979 to 1993 and featured Gary Ewing and his family ?
Knots Landing
Which former Labour Party leader wrote books Guilty Men, The Pen and the Sword and biographies of Jonathan Swift and Aneurin Bevan?
Michael Foot
Irish broadcasting legend Gay Byrne presented which chat show for 37 years from its inception in 1962?
The Late, Late Show
Major Frank Burns played by Larry Linville was character in the early series of which US tv show?
MASH
Second line of which burns poem reads: “that’s newly sprung in June”?
A Red, Red Rose (O my luve’s like a red red rose -….)
Which song by Robert burns is the party song of the SNP?
Scots Wha Hae
Due to switching, who is only Mp to be cabinet minister in all Thatcher, Major and Blair governments?
Lord Howarth
In which city is the Essendon Australian Rules Football Club based?
Melbourne
Which fish traditionally used to prepare the Japanese dish tekkadon?
Tuna
Quinsy infection of which organs?
Tonsils
Oh Hell No is the subtitle of the third installment of which fish-themed comedy horror film franchise?
Sharknado
Series of volcanic eruptions in LA unleash a swarm of gigantic arachnids in 2015 sci fi film in Sharknado universe.
Lavalantula
Debussy only opera
Pelleas et Melisande
Sauvage is by which perfume house
Dior
Black Opium by which perfume house?
Yves Saint Laurent
Music group shares name with which perfume by Guerlain
Shalimar
Flowerbomb by which perfume house
Viktor & Rolf
Dutch luxury fashion house founded in 1993 by men surnames Horsting and Snoeren. Female: Flowerbomb and Bonbon. Male: Antidote and Spicebomb.
Viktor & Rolf
Guerlain first bronzing powder released in 1984
Terracotta
Guilty by which perfume house
Gucci
Black Orchid by which perfume house founded 2005?
Tom Ford
Which multinational cosmetics company founded by namesake creator (born England 1963) in 1993
and owned since 1999 by Estée Lauder?
Jo Malone
Euphoria by which perfume house?
Calvin Klein
Swedish perfume house name from portmanteau founded by Ben Gorham in 2006. Gypsy Water, Mojave Ghost, Oud Immortel.
Byredo (By Redolence)
J’Adore perfume house
Christian Dior
La Vie est Belle perfume house, advertised by Julie Roberts
Lancome
Venezuelan-American fashion designer known for dressing First Ladies (Onassis, Laura Bush, Mich Obama, Melania Trump). 2016 released “Good Girl” in namesake perfume house with Karlie Kloss face.
Carolina Herrera
Which Dior perfume comes with a bow tie on?
Miss Dior
Perfume “Daisy” launched in 2007 by which perfume house
Marc Jacobs
Filipino-British singer songwriter born Beatrice Laus debut album Fake It Flowers 2020 and Beatopia 2022.
Beabadoobee
Four Elena Ferrante Neopolitan novels
1) My Brilliant Friend
2) The Story of a New Name
3) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
4) The Story of the Lost Child
American fashion designer creative director of Louis Vuitton from 1997-2014
Marc Jacobs
Si perfume house founded 1975
Giorgio Armani
American manufacturer of skincare founded 1968 by Evelyn Lauder (daughter in law of Estée Lauder). Perfume includes Aromatics Elixir. 2020 Emilia Clarke first global ambassador.
Clinique
Santal 33 perfume house founded 2005 by Eddie Roschi and Fabrice Penot, owned by Estée Lauder. Others include Another 13, Baie 19, Rose 31, Tonka 25, loads.
Le Labo
Angel (1992) and Alien (2005) perfume house founded , died Jan 2022 (did Demi Moore indecent proposal dress).
Thierry Mugler (first name actually Manfred)
Lady Million and 1 Million perfume house by Spanish founder. His mother was chief seamstress at Cristobal Balenciaga’s first couture house in Basque Country. Said to have been prostitute in time of Louis XV and to have known Jesus, murdered a pharoah.
Paco Rabanne
Comme Des Garçons and DOVER street market founder.
Rei Kawakubo
Belgian fashion designer and eponymous brand, born 1958 Antwerp. Dressed Cate Blanchett 2008 Oscar’s. Acquired by Spanish fashion firm Puig in 2018.
Dries van Noten
British perfume house founded in 1860s by Cornish barber who became court barber and perfumer to queen Victoria. Blenheim Bouquet, Hammam Bouquet first couple perfumes.
Penhaligon’s
British entrepreneur and make up artist, namesake beauty company born 1973, London. Through covid did “Beauty Happy Hour” livestreams. Got Hot Lips lipsticks.
Charlotte Tilbury
Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer born 1954.
Mario Testino
Russian supermodel, actress and UN goodwill ambassador, nicknamed supernova. Medusa in Clash of the Titans. Founder of Naked Heart Foundation. Married to Antoine Arnault (heir to Arnault fortune).
Natalia Vodianova
Italian fashion designer born1940 Florence, known for exotic prints and sand blasted look for jeans. Namesake fashion house.
Roberto Cavalli
Italian born French fashion designer known for avant garde style and space age designs. Born 1922-2020. Bubble dress in 1954. Brand went down toilet when licensed extensively onto key chains etc.
Pierre Cardin
Brand of alcoholic beverages produced in France since 2003, portmanteau of French for peak and rock due to region where mauzac grapes are grown. Grape derived vodka.
Ciroc
Dolce & Gabbana founded 1985 in Legnano. First names of businessman.
Domenico (Dolce) and Stefano (Gabbana)
1885 born Metzingen designed SA,SS and Wehrmacht uniforms.
Hugo Boss
Original paramilitary wing of Nazi party, both initialism and out full
SA - Sturmabteilung
Major paramilitary organisation under adolf Hitler under Nazi germany, acronym and full
SS - Schutzstaffel
Born Karl Anderson Jr. 1959, first womens ready to wear designer for French house Celine from 1997-2003. Namesake company after.
Michael Kors
Lawrence Stroll is Canadian billionaire owner of which F1 team? His son Lance drives for this team.
Aston Martin F1
Celebration of girls 15th birthday in Mexico and Hispanic settings
Quinceanera
Born with surname Lifshitz, fashion designer, kitted out Annie Hall actors in his garments. His son married to granddaughter of George HW Bush. Got loads of fantastic cars.
Ralph Lauren
June 2022 which make up company filed for bankruptcy. Founded NYC 1932 by brothers Charles and Joseph.
Revlon (by Revson brothers)
1930-2016, French fashion designer created the poor boy sweater and dubbed “Queen of Knits”?
Sonia Rykiel
Born 1932 in Lombardy town Voghera, with the surname Garavani. Which mononymously known fashion designer was famous for designing lots of Jackie Onassis stuff?
Valentino
Which celebrity behind perfume “Wonderstruck”?
Taylor Swift
Nicole Kidman has advertised which exact perfume known for Marilyn Monroe quote?
Chanel No 5
Emily Blunt advertised which YSL perfume?
Black Opium
Penelope Cruz advertised the Tresor perfume for which fashion house?
Lancome
Charlize Theron advertised which exact perfume for Dior?
J’Adore
Kristen Stewart advertised the perfume Florabotanica for which fashion house?
Balenciaga
Scarlett Johansson advertised the perfume Rose The One for which perfume house?
Dolce and Gabbana
Famous perfume 1994 advert with Calvin Klein and Young Kate Moss.
CK One
212 VIP Black by which perfume fashion house?
Carolina Herrera
Luna perfume by Which perfume house?
Nina Ricci
Agua Fresca de Rosas Blancas by which perfume house founded by Spanish fashion designer who studied philosophy and art at university?
Adolfo Dominguez
Pure XS perfume by which fashion house?
Paco Rabanne
2013 Giorgio Armani perfume add for Si is which Oscar winning actress?,
Cate Blanchett
2013: “street of dreams” directed by Martin Scorsese with Scarlett Johansson and Matthew mcconaughey was advertising which perfume?
The One by D&G
Liz Hurley wore a dress by which designer to four weddings premiere, safety pins.
Versace
Jennifer Lopez dress to Grammy 2000 is green and by which designer
Versace
January 2019 which company took control of Gianni Versace, Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo.
Capri Holdings Ltd
Which fashion company has opened hotels in Gold Coast (2000), Dubai (2015) and Macau?
Versace
Fashion photographer partnership one Turkish (Alas) and one welsh (Piggott). Influenced by Guy Bourdin.
Mert and Marcus
French luxury fashion brand founded by Hubert in 1952. 2017-20 artistic director was Clare Waight Keller (Markle wedding dress). Famous for dressing Audrey Hepburn.
Givenchy
2021 which K-pop band become global ambassadors for Givenchy. Four members Karina, Giselle, winter and Ningning. Debuted with “black mamba”.
Aespa
Fashion designer known for his “New Look”, born 1905 Granville, died 52 in Tuscany, Italy. Father was a French resistance fighter during war. Employed by Robert Piguet who helped train him. In Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico she goes to Paris to buy a this designer dress.
Christian Dior
Swiss born French based fashion designer known for training Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy.
Robert Piguet
French fashion designer born 1914 who founded post war namesake fashion house. Created outfits for 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and outfits for Queen SiriKit of Thailand. Namedropped in Peter Sarstedt Where do you go to (my lovely)?
Balmain
Peter Sarstedt Where do you go to (my lovely)? You dance like “______”, which French ballet dancer who appeared in Anything Goes with Bing Crosby.
Zizi Jeanmaire
In November 2022, which fashion house criticised for Instagram posts featuring children holding teddy bears dressed in bondage and BDSM gear.
Balenciaga
Georgian fashion designer, creative designer at Balenciaga since 2015
Demna (Gvasalia)
November 2012-15 creative designer at Balenciaga was which American in their 20s?
Alexander Wang
Italian fashion house founded in 1884 founded by silversmith Sotirios Boulgaris in region of Epirus, Greece. Name came from Classical Latin alphabet small ring of founder surname.
Bulgari
Term from Middle French for head for gemstone that shaped and polished as opposed to faceted. Result usually convex (rounded) obverse with flat reverse.
Cabochon
French-Belgian fashion designer who has been womens creative designer at Louis Vuitton since 2013. Balenciaga 1997-2013 before replacing Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
Perfume house does Phantom and Invictus Victory?
Paco Rabanne
Perfume house has Eros and Dylan Blue
Versace
Italian luxury fashion house founded 1983 by Franco _______ in Milan. Did Roy Liechtenstein art piece in suit, founder died 1994 from AIDS. 2013+ creative director has been Jeremy Scott. Pill themed merchandise was controversial. Namechecked by Biggie in Hypnotize.
Moschino
Italian luxury fashion firm founded Rome 1925 by Adele and Eduardo _____. Now owned by LVMH. 1997 Baguette Bag. Maison designed clothes for Once Upon a Time in America, Evita, The Royal Tenenbaums.
Fendi
Kim Kardashian clothing brand founded 2019 focus on body positivity. Changed from Kimono due to controversy.
Skims
Big four cognac houses
Hennessy - 1765 - Irish founder black gauntlet holding a halberd logo
Courvoisier - 1835 - Josephine bottle named after Nap’s wife - logo silhouette of Napoleon himself
Martell - 1715 - swift logo
Remy Martin - 1724 - centaur logo
Four winners of Ru Paul Drag Race UK
The Vivienne
Lawrence Chaney
Krystal Versace
Danny Beard
At 2012 Tony Awards, who beat James Earl Jones, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frank Langella and John Lithgow to win best actor?
James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors)
Actor in Homeland and Divorce. Playwright for August: Osage County for which he won Tony and Pulitzer for Drama. Won best actor Tony for who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?5
Tracy Letts
a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement
EPOCH Times
From Spanish for raft, Ochroma Pyramidale is which fast growing tree native to Americas.
Balsa
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872) synmphojy 3 has what nickname a
Pastoral Symphony
Everything we do is driven by you by which car company
Ford
The lion goes from strength to strength what car company
Peugeot
Which organ of human body would you find Betz cells?
Brain
With name meaning cloud or halo which type of clouds are primarily responsible for rain and snow?
Nimbostratus
Who was first Motown female solo pop artist to top the Us singles chart
Mary Wells: My Guy
Who was first British athlete to run the 200m in less than 20 seconds?
John Regis
1990 sequel to 1974 film Chinatown?
The Two Jakes
In the film Marlowe starring James Garner, which screen legend played the hired muscle of the main villain?
Bruce Lee
In the film which Jane Fonda won her best actress Oscar, what was name of detective played by Donald Sutherland?
John Klute
What was the term used for slaves in Sparta?
Helots
Who did adolf hitler succeed as head of state in Germany?
Paul von Hindenburg
What was first food eaten by Dorothy after landing in the land of the munchkins?
Apples
Name of which type of jacket first appeared in print in 1952 reporting on the vivid coloured jackets worn by Cambridge rowing club?
Blazer
Which jacket was developed from the B5 flight jacket?
Bomber Jacket
Which type of jacket takes its name from one word by character in Peyton Place?
Harrington Jacket
Native or inhabitant of Vancouver name
Vancouverite
Which jockey with over 8000 wins in his career won his fourth and last Kentucky derby aged 54?
Bill Shoemaker
Who is the butler to Sir Henry who is BIL to escaped murderer in the Sherlock Holmes “The Hound of the Baskervilles”?
Mr Barrymore
According to the Celtic mythology who built the giants causeway?
Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool)
What is correct term for a litter of young piglets?
Farrow
What is correct name for young hedgehog?
Hoglet
Name of sequel to oscar winning film “in the heat of the night”
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
In which foreign capital did 2022 Tour de France start?
Copenhagen
What are the two winning numbers in craps?
7 or 11
Losing rolls in craps
2, 3 or 12
What number on back of shirt did both maradona and pele both say was lucky?
10
Who is only footballer to score 4 goals in a European cup final?
Ferenc Puskas
Which policeman has been played on tv by Michael gambon and rowan Atkinson?
Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret
David Rintoul and Bill Simpson played the same Scotsman in two different series of which stories?
Dr Finlay’s Casebook
Rachel Shelton and Carol Drinkwater have both played the wife of the central character in two series of which stories?
All Creatures Great and Small
Third Yamato class battleship after Yamato and Musashi, sunk by torpedos of US submarine Archerfish.
Shinano
River Tigris flows through which three countries
Turkey, Iraq and Iran
The river Axe rises which British tourist attraction where it is estimated people have lived for 50,000 years?
Wookey Hole (Somerset)
Which novel by Hemingway features running of the bulls at Pamplona?
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway first novella about pump factory in USA
The Torrents of Spring
1950 Hemingway novel derived from last words of Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
Across the River and into the Trees
1937 Hemingway book about Harry Morgan a fishing boat captain out of key west Florida?
To Have and Have Not
1940 Hemingway book about Robert Jordan a young American volunteer attached to republican guerilla unit during Spanish civil war.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
After their single “Baby Now That I’ve Found You”, reached #1 in USA and #11 in UK which follow up single reached #2 and #3 in uk and USA respectively.
Build Me Up Buttercup
Which character famous for her tea service with hand painted blue periwinkles?
Hyacinth Bucket
The noble Lady Emile Charlotte de Bathe made a career on the stage in the nineteenth century using which name?
Lillie Langtry (mistress of Edward VII)
Alternative name for Iva Toguri d’Aquino born 1916
Tokyo Rose (on the zero hour radio show)
Which female dance group was founded in Paris in 1930s and have been appearing at the Le Lido club de Paris for over seventy years?
The Bluebell Girls
Who played Ena Sharples on Coronation Street?
Violet Carson
Which racing team founded by Colin Chapman?
Lotus Card
Which racing team founded by Colin Chapman?
Lotus Cars
Which racing team founded by Colin Chapman?
Lotus Cars
Which racing team founded by Colin Chapman?
Lotus Cars
Last four winners of UK triple crown (2000 Guineas, The Derby, St Leger)
1917: Gay Crusader
1918: Gainsborough
1935: Bahram
1970: Nijinsky
Two women to have been presidents of India one 2007-12, one since 2022
1) Pratibha Patel
2) Droupadi Murmu
Born in Cameroon, who was the first winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race in USA in 2008
BeBe Zahara Benet
Located in County Kerry and created when Muckross Estate donated it in 1932, what was the first national park in Ireland?
Killarney National Park
Most recent national park added in Ireland was which County Mayo site in 1998, one of largest peatland in Europe?
Wild Nephin
One of six national parks in Ireland is which county Clare site, karst landscape. The smallest of the six.
The Burren
Second largest national park in Ireland contains Lough Veagh and in County Donegal.
Glenveagh
One of six Irish national parks is whcih County Galway site
Connemara National Park
English songwriter and producer Thomas Hull better known by what stage name. Co-wrote “Shake it Out” on Florence and machine. Co-wrote and produced “Harry’s House” with Harry Styles. Coproduction Miley Cyrus #1 “Flowers”.
Kid Harpoon
Fourth solo album of Bad Bunny 2022 first Spanish nominated for best album at Grammy’s.
Un Verano Sin Ti
2021 album by Coldplay with space theme on album cover. Produced by Max Martin.
Music of the Spheres
Thomas Pentz DJ name
Diplo
Colson Baker stage name nominated for Grammy for Mainstream Sellout album
Machine Gun Kelly
Jack Harlow 2022 album Grammy nominated, song featuring Drake “Churchill Downs”
Come Home the Kids Miss You
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu stage name, 2022 album Love, Damini.
Burna Boy
Who won Best Spoken Word Poetry Album at Grammys 2023 for The Poet Who Sat by the Door? Featured on Kanye song “Never Let Me Down”.
J Ivy
Who was nominated for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album at Grammys 2023 for “hiding in plain view”, known more for role as Theodore Huxtable on The Cosby Show got him nomination for Emmy?
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American film composer known for Succession, films Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk?
Nicholas Britell
American film composer first female to score a Disney animated film with Encanto for which she won Grammy in 2023?
Germaine Franco
Nominated for Call of Duty: Vanguard for first video game Grammy, composer also did God of War and RAGNAROK. Also The Rings of Power.
Bear McCreary
American record producer lead singer of Bleachers and drummer of pop band Fun, worked on 1989 and Folklore and St Vincent albums. Also The 1975.
Jack Antonoff
Makes of the tanks being talked about sent to Ukraine by US, germany and Uk
US M1 Abrams
Germany Leopard 2
UK Challenger 2
Which plane of motion splits Divides the body into right and left sides
Sagittal Plane
Which plane of motion Divides the body into top and bottom sections
Transverse Plane
Actor played Dudley Dursley in Harry Potter, Harry Beltik in The Queens Gambit, grandfather was Patrick Troughton (second doctor).
Harry Melling
Who played Edgar Allen Poe in 2022 movie The Pale Blue Eye?
Harry Melling
Who played Dre in Straight Outta Compton and Macduff in The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)?
Corey Hawkins
Who played Arabella Figg in Harry Potter series, Eedy Karn in Andor, Three Witches in Tragedy of Macbeth? Real name Aikaterini Hadjipateras.
Kathryn Hunter
Two Laurence Olivier for Miss Trunchball in Matilda, Ruper Murdoch in Ink, on tv okayed Jonathan Steange in Susannash Clarke adaptation, Simon foster in Doctor Foster and Adam Dalgliesh in Dalgliesh. Tony Blair in s5 and s6 of The Crown.
Bertie Carvel
Bertie Carvel was first actor to play two different characters in The Crown?
Robin Day and Tony Blair
The band “Danny Wilson” had two uk singles to reach top 40? Mary’s Prayer was first what was their second track?
The Second Summer of Love
Word from Hindi and Urdu for “solid”
Pukka
What type of food is a swallow found in West African cuisine? Karim Adeyemi of Borussia Dortmund says he’s fast as full of this foodstuff.
Fufu
Which American chain of pharmacies brought the British retailer boots in 2014?
Walgreens
What is name of Roman fort on hadrians wall known for tablets discovered there in 1973 which were once considered the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain?
Vindolanda
Old Roman name for vienna
Vindobona
Who was Danish scientist who introduced pH scale?
Soren Sorensen
For most of run 1987-93 the Saturday morning childrens magazine show Going Live was hosted by Sarah Greene with which male tv presenter previously known for being first cbbc host in the “broom Cupboard”?
Philip Schofield
Which British computer game designer was cocreator of the video games Populous, Theme Park, Black & White and Fable?
Peter Molyneux
Supposedly starring Daniel Baldwin after Ben Kingsley turned down role, the fictional slasher movie Cleaver features in
Which hbo drama series where it is passion project of the character Christoper Moltisanti?
The Sopranos
Both with names beginning with V, name either of the two brothers of Odin in Norse mythology?
Vili or Ve
Which American astrophysicist gives name to theoretical syndrome where collisions between space junk cause runaway cascade of debris that renders all space activity impossible?
Donald J Kessler
Which type of hat is named after a town in German state of Hesse, where originated as hunting headgear, but was popularised for semi-formal use in the late 19th century by future king Edward VII?
Homburg
Performing on 1969 album I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama, the Kozmic Blues Band we’re a backing group for which singer, who later replaced them with the Full Tilt Boogie Band?
Janis Joplin
Which artist who adopted the style and subject matter of the pre-raphaelite brotherhood but was never a member of it, painted The Lady of Shallott in 1888, a representation of ending of Alfred Lord Tennyson poem?
John William Waterhouse
Which now defunct company known for their smartwatches raised a then record sum on kickstarter jn 2012, followed their first model with Steel and Time versions before folding in 2016 with their intellectual property now being owned by Fitbit?
Pebble
What common name is given to vigorous, fragrant climbing plant of the genus Lonicera, sometimes known as woodbine?
Honeysuckle
For most of its run 1982-87, the Saturday morning childrens magazine show Saturday Superstore was hosted by Sarah Greene with which male presenter and DJ, previously also known for Pop quiz tv show?
Mike Read
Which British computer game designer, also known by pseudonym Yak, founded the software house Llamasoft in 1982 and created the games Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels and Tempest 2000?
Jeff Minter
Which excavated and preserved Roman Palace near Chichester is largest Roman residence north of the alps and is famed for mosaics and reconstructed gardens?
Fishbourne
The British physicist James Chadwick was awarded the Nobel prize for discovery in 1932 of which subatomic particle?
Neutron
Walgreens are second largest pharmacy in US behind which other company?
CVS
Which company founded in 2014 runs a massively multiplayer online cycling program where users compete interactively? During lockdown in 2020, they hosted a virtual Tour de France and have been sponsors of the real world Womens Tour de France since 2022?
Zwift
Who cofounded Peloton in 2012 giving the original idea to his other founders?
John Foley
The petiolaris species is a vigorous white climbing variety of which late summer flowering plant genus known for its large flower heads, whose colour can vary from pink to blue depending on acidity of the soil?
Hydrangea
In June 2021, who became the first Spanish golfer to win the mens US Open championship and is current world number one ranked player?
Jon Rahm
The Kozmic Blues Band were formed after Janis Joplin left which other group in 1968?
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Which artist associated with but not officially part of the PRB painted The Last of England in 1855, depicting two emigrants leaving England to start new life in Australia with their baby?
Ford Maddox Brown
In December 2022, which leader of Fine Gael returned to the role of Irish Taoiseach?
Leo Varadkar
Both with names beginning with B, name either of parents of the brothers Odin, Vili and Ve in Norse mythology?
Borr or Bestla
Which Russian astrophysicist gives his name to a scale measuring the technological advancement of hypothetical cosmic civilisations? In this scale type 1 civilisations can harness the total energy of their planet, type II the energy of their star, and type III that of their galaxy.
Nikolai Kardashey
Which type of hat named for title of 1882 play by French dramatist Victorien Sardou was popularised from 1920s by future king Edward VIII?
Fedora
Which hymn begins with its three word title followed by the words “fast falls the eventide”?
Abide With Me
What K is the German word, meaning “the turn”, used by commentators to refer to the change, or turn, in the works of Martin Heidegger part way through his career?
Kehre
Which word, in common usage, a synonym for ethanol, particularly in the context of drinks? In chemistry, it refers to a broader group of related compounds, of which ethanol is just one example.
Alcohol
What nationality is the nickname of Tchaikovsky’s third symphony?
Polish
Which Cockney rhyming slang term for “hair” is derived from famous fair once held in a market town formerly in Hertfordshire and is now part of London?
Barnet
Who plays title character of Ridley, itv series about a retired police detective in Lancashire who is haunted by the death of his wife and daughter in a house fire?
Adrian Dunbar
Lords Cricket Ground is in which district of London that lends its three word name to a station on Jubilee line? This district once northern part of the metropolitan borough of marylebone.
St Johns Wood
Ypres battles took place in what country?
Belgium
Found in national portrait gallery, portrait of lady Dorothy and sir Thomas Browne is by which artist, the first British woman known to have practiced painting professionally? Her married surname rhymes with northern city.
Joan Carlile
What two word term popularly describes the hypothesis that during a severe glaciation occuring over 650 million years ago during the Cryogenian period, the surface of this planet became almost entirely frozen?
Snowball Earth
Which Briton win the US masters his only major victory in 1991?
Ian Woosnam
Named after original greek city on the site, the Parth-eno-pean Republic was established in 1799 in which Italian city, after Ferdinand IV had fled the French revolutionary army? The king was restored six months later by Horatio Nelson.
Naples
Which freemium instant messaging service founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, and widely criticised for its limited content moderation, received large influx of users when Parler was deplatformed in January 2021?
Telegram
A particular issue in times of rapid inflation, the administrative and other costs incurred by business as a result of having to change its prices are described in economics by which four letter word?
Menu
2019 film Pain and Glory by which film director, first independent film was 1987 Law of Desire, then 1988 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown?
Pedro Almodovar
Almost sharing his surname with South Yorkshire town, which Labour politician is current metro mayor of liverpool city region?
Steve Rotheram
Who was second mayor of liverpool since 2021? Replaced her Joe namesake.
Joanne Anderson
Which actor was third doctor in Doctor Who and played Worzel Gummidge?
Jon Pertwee
National portrait gallery displays six portraits including one of Charles II, by which artist, considered first British woman to have been able to make a living and support her family by professional painting?
Mary Beale
Derived from the name of Chalfont St Giles, “chalfonts” is Cockney rhyming slang for which painful condition?
Piles/Haemorrhoids
Who plays title character in Grace, an itv series about a detective superintendent in Brighton, who is haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his wife several years previously?
John Simm
In her 1983 number one hit I’ve Never Been to Me, Charlene commits geographical solecism when she sings, as well as Nice, she’s been to the Isle of Which European country which has a substantial mainland component as well as numerous islands?
Greece
In economics, what two word phrase describes the cost in time and effort incurred by people due to need to minimise cash holdings in times of high inflation? Archetypical example is need for frequent trips to draw money from bank and spend it.
Shoe Leather costs
Esther Summerson novel
Bleak House
What word, describes a bodily feature, precedes wolf in the name of the largest member of the dog family indigenous to South America?
Maned Wolf
Named after fourth century bishop; the golden ambrosian republic was established in 1447 in which Italian city after its Visconti duke had died without a male heir? It was overthrown in 1450 by Francesco Sforza.
Milan
In Dorothy L Sayers ninth lord wimsey novel The Nine Tailors who or what are the nine tailors?
Church Bells
What word beginning with M is a medical term for urination?
Micturition
According to rather twee instruction that might be given to a young child in the evening, which English county is located “up the wooden hill”?
Bedfordshire
In 2008, whcih Mp for Meriden and chair of Conservative party was charged with misusing expense funds by paying nanny? Despite this controversy she went onto serve as sec state for environment food and rural affairs 2010-12?
Caroline Spelman
Marija Serifovic won Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 with her song Molitva, what country did she represent?
Serbia
What eight letter word beginning with p are preservatives used in cosmetics
Parabens
What was the title of Celine Sciamma’s 2019 historical drama film about the love affair between painter and noblewoman?
Portrait of a lady on fire
Songs include “you don’t own me”, “it’s judys turn to cry”, “it’s my party”? Also composed song for 1980 Fame with brother michael.
Lesley Gore
Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, she wears a blonde wig to mimic look of what French actor and sex symbol, who starred in 1956 film “and for created woman”?
Brigette Bardot
Which American YouTube personality hosts the podcast Anything Goes? She also hosted Vogue magazines red carpet coverage at 2022 Met Gala.
Emma Chamberlain
Which Tony nominated playwright has written works Eclipsed and In the Continuum? Perhaps better known for Okoye in Black Panther films and Michonne in The Walking Dead?
Danai Gurira
Who became first woman to enter football hall of fame? She played for Preston’s Dick Kerr Ladies team during ww1, before women were barred from playing in FA grounds in early 1920s.
Lily Parr
Ospyenko is location in what European country? Named after Polina Ospienko who set record for long distance flight in 1938.
Ukraine
Type of contraceptive device known as A coil? Full term
Intrauterine Device
Which chef the host of Great British Menu operates the Caribbean restaurant Wadadli?
Andi Oliver
Samoan born New Zealand chef, owner of Mere and was sous chef at Le Gavroche
Monica Galetti
Name of robbery occurred at the Heathrow International Trading Estate, London, United Kingdom, on 26 November 1983 and was one of the largest robberies in British history.
Brink’s-Mat
Name of Scottish professional triathlete, triathlon coach, screenwriter and film producer who won BAFTA for best adapted screenplay for All Quiet on the Western Front along with Swiss Edward Berger?
Lesley Paterson
Name of three star Michelin restaurant in Bray and which French chef? Fat Duck with Heston Blumenthal also in Bray.
The Waterside Inn by Alain Roux
Which Mayfair restaurant is three star Michelin owned by Mourad Mazouz and head chef Pierre Gagnaire?
Sketch
Which female French chef operating out of a hotel got third Michelin star in 2021?
Helene Darroze at the Connaught
Northern Irish female chef and her restaurant which has had three Michelin stars since 2021 previous chef patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay from 2012-16?
Core by Clare Smyth
Three star Michelin restaurant since 2022, opened in 2002, run by whcih head chef and his partner Penny Tapsell?
L’Enclume by Simon Rogan
Taylor Wimpey CEO since February 2022, first female ceo of a house building company of UK?
Jennie Daly
Which First Lady of USA founded namesake drug and alcohol rehab clinic after her own struggles with alcohol and tranquilliser abuse?
Betty Ford
In Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, wore dress similar to one worn by which Italian actor and sex symbol, who starred in 1964 film Marriage Italian Style and the 1995 film Grumpier Old Men?
Sophia Loren
Filipino American TikTok known for singles Inferno, Villain and Build a Bitch?
Bella Poarch
In 1835, royal astronomical society admitted which woman, one of two first, wrote books Mechanism of the Heavens and On the Connection of the Physical Sciences?
Mary Somerville
What does HUAC stand for from the early 1960s?
House Un-American Committee
The substance that makes shampoo foam is SLS which stands for what three word term? This surfactant is associated with squeaky clean feeling.
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
In 2021 census, over 5% of population of what South London borough identified as gay or lesbian? Represented in Parliament by Flo Eshalomi and site of Archbishop of Canterbury’s London residence.
Lambeth
Which 2014 Australian horror film directed by Jennifer Kent now a cult classic and resulted in character from pop up book being hailed as lgbt+ icon?
The Babadook
In 2011, which former Labour Home Secretary and MP for Redditch was found to have misused a home release scheme for prisoners? She had them paint her house.
Jacqui Smith
Loreen won Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 with song Euphoria for which country?
Sweden
Patricia Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt which was made into what 2015 film starring Cate Blanchett?
Carol
Combined oral contraceptive pill contains which two hormones?
Progestin and Oestrogen
Amanda Blanc is CEO of which British insurance company?
Aviva
Mariembourg is a town in which European country? Named after 16th century Mary of Hungary.
Belgium
Which Olivier nominated playwright has written the works ENRON and A Very Expensive Poison? Perhaps better known for collaborations with Billie piper.
Lucy Prebble
Blue plaque in East Sheen honours which tennis player who won 5 Olympics medals in tennis at Antwerp and Paris games of 1920s? She also won Wimbledon in 1924 and 1926.
Kathleen “Kitty” Godfree
Cecilia Vicuna is a Chilean artist whose work is currently on display at the Tate’s Turbine Hall. It consists of large knotted rope structures, traditionally used as a storytelling device. What are these rope structures called?
Quipu
Young of a porcupine is called what
Porcupette
What is the name of the sample test named after Austrian born American researcher for hardness of wood? Hardest is Australian Buloke and softest is Balsa.
Janka Test
Launched on April 12 1981 what was the name of the first space shuttle launched by NASA. Sadly on its 28th flight it broke up on re entry on 1st February 2003.
Columbia
Sports science, VO2 max stands for?
Volume Oxygen 2
On the 12th January 2023, The Green Comet - Comet C/2022 E3 reached its closest approach to the Sun at 1.11AU. What point given of an orbit where a celestial body is closest to sun?
Perihelion
What particle was first antimatter particle to be discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932 observed in cosmic rays passing through bubble chamber?
Positron
Used as cladding in uranium fuel rods for some nuclear power stations. what are the two main metals combined to make alloy magnox?
Aluminium and Magnesium
Which critically endangered living fossil is believed to be largest amphibian in the world up to 1.8m?
Chinese Giant Salamander
From Greek for “pan pipes”, name of specialised vocal organ found in birds, located in their trachea? Birds do have a larynx but they do not use this to sing.
Syrinx
What is scientific name for voice box?
Larynx
The Sun has a mass of roughly 2000 Quettagrams. What power of 10 does the prefix Quetta denote?
10^30
Running from upper thigh to the foot what is longest vein in human body?
Great Saphenous Vein
Produced in gastrointestinal tract and mainly the stomach, what hormone increases urges to eat and is known as hunger hormone?
Ghrelin
What hormone does your adipose tissue release that helps your body maintain your normal weight on a long term basis? It makes you feel full (opposite of ghrelin).
Leptin
The first marketing slogan for which soft drink was “just for the taste of it”?
Diet Coke
What roofed structure, often containing a window, projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof?
Dormer
Characters on which tv sitcom worked at the Winfred-Louder Department Store?
The Drew Carey Show
Which singer songwriter music was featured in Broadway jukebox musical A Beautiful Noise?
Neil Diamond
American comic created by cartoonist Chic Young with the Bumstead family included title character husband Dagwood?
Blondie
What was name of Bumsteads’ family dog in the comic strip Blondie? Best friends with Blondie’s husband Dagwood.
Daisy
What novel by Barbara Kingsolver reimagines the Charles dickens novel David Copperfield set in southern Appalachia?
Demon Copperhead
What nickname was shared by author Elmore Leonard, football player Earl Clark and US President Ronald Reagan?
Dutch
American novelist who wrote Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Mr Majestyk, Rum Punch (adapted as Jackie Brown). 3.10 to Yuma and The Tall T also made into films, tv series Justified.
Elmore Leonard
According to Plutarch, what Athenian orator overcame a stutter by learning to speak with pebbles in his mouth?
Demosthenes
In which city did Handel’s messiah first performed in 1742?
Dublin
Which specific term is used for taking down the body of Christ from the cross?
Deposition
What girl groups 1964 recording of Chapel of Love was debut released of Red Bird records?
The Dixie Cups
Fetch-22, Grime and Punishment, Mothering Heights, are books in which childrens literature series by Dav Pilkey?
Dog Man
Korean cuisine what type of food is Mandu?
Dumplings
What is nickname of athletic teams from Wake Forest University?
Demon Deacons
What chief librarian at Columbia University invented a library classification system named after him?
Melvil Dewey
What notation was introduced by Donald Knuth in 1976 and named after the punctuation marks used?
Knuth’s Up Arrow Notation
2^4 = 2 power of 4
2^^4 = 2^2^2^2
According to Knuth’s up arrow notation what is 2^^3?
2^(2^2)=2^4=16
2013 story from Swaziland said witches are banned from flying above what height?
150 metres
Prime Minisiter in UK from 1905-08
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
What battle took place in 9AD between romans led by Varus and Germans led by Arminius?
Battle of Teutoberg Forest
Propane chemical formula
C3H8
Solinus Duke of Ephesus and Egeon are some of the main characters in which Shakespearean play?
Comedy of Errors
Who won 1935 Nobel for physics for discovery of neutron?
James Chadwick
Which architect designed the Gateway Arch in St Louis?
Eero Saarinen
In golf how many under par is an albatross?
Double Eagle (3 under par)
Pearl Harbor exact date and day of week
Sunday 7th December 1941
Exact day of week and date of D Day landings in Normandy?
Tuesday 6th June 1944
What is name of ancient Egyptian goddess of love, beauty and fertility?
Isis
What was first smartphone sold in 1994 and announced by IBM in 1992?
Simon
What is the sacred text of Zoroastrianism?
Avesta
In Gordon Ramsey’s Fox “Next Level Chef” is set on how many levels of kitchens?
Three
What piece of sporting equipment consists of a Point, Barrel, Shaft and Flight?
Dart
Who played Grandad OFAH
Lennard Pearce
Who was known as The Polish Prince as a teen idol and cover song Blue Velvet was 1963 #1 US and 1990 #2 in 1990?
Bobby Vinton
Canadian singer songwriter known for “Black Velvet”?
Alannah Myles
Who released albums Duck Rock 1983, Fans 1984, Swamp Thing 1985, Waltz Darling 1989, Round the Outside! round the Outside!, Paris 1994? Song I like you in velvet.
Malcolm McLaren
From French for package, a Ballotine is what part of chicken used for food?
Leg
What year was Dunkirk evacuation
1940
In a song by Connie Francis, what cosmetic product “told a tale on you”?
Lipstick
Which English actor, destined by The Guardian as the east ends answer to George Clooney, was the voice for Mr Beaver in Narnia films?
Ray Winstone
Which Italian town on Ligurian coast holds music festival every February?
Sanremo
Which football club plays sporting Lisbon in Lisbon derby?
Benfica
Which peanuts character is known for his skill at playing the piano?
Schroeder
Which yellowy-orange stone fruit is also known as Armenian plum?
Apricot
Who played Mike Ross in Suits?
Patrick Adams
Who played Harvey Specter in Suits?
Gabriel Macht
Who plays Queen Charlotte in normal Bridgerton?
Golda Rosheuval
Who plays Queen Charlotte young in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story new prequel?
India Amarteifio
