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
