Mastermind book Flashcards
In 1972 who became first Oscar winner to also have parents who both won Oscar’s?
Liza Minnelli
Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek won 1985 award for Best Makeup for which film starring Cher?
Mask
Which 73 yo actor entertained the audience at 1991 ceremony by performing one armed press ups while collecting his Oscar for best supporting actor?
Jack Palance
In chess “fianchetto” is a term for the development of which piece?
Bishop
Who was first presenter of tv programme Question Time?
Sir Robin Day
Which word for building in a sports ground in which player change their clothes and store equipment comes ultimately for latin for butterfly?
Pavilion
Which French Revolution group got its name because it’s members sat on the highest benches in the assembly?
Montagnards
Whose last words to his executioner in 1794 was “show my head to the people, it is worth the trouble”
George’s Danton
Which civic religion did Robespierre create to replace Christianity and the cult of reason
Supreme Being
Which English radical was elected to represent Calais in 1793 as a Deputy to the National Assembly?
Thomas Paine
Which pollitical group were also known as the Brissotins after their founder Jacques-Pierre Brissot?
Girondins
In June 1791? The French royal family escaped from Paris, in which town were they arrested and turned back to the capital?
Varennes
Who composed La Marseillaise
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The price of crude oil from which North Sea field is widely used as a benchmark in Europe and the opec countries?
Brent
Which hormone secreted by outer layer of the adrenal glands has been synthesised and used as an anti inflammatory agent for rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments?
Cortisone
Which Yorkshire and England cricketer was first bowlers to take 300 test wickets?
Fred Trueman
 The name of which type of ceramic comes from the Italian for cowrie shell and was used by Marco Polo to describe the pottery he saw in China?
Porcelain
Crude by Wally Schirra Donise all the more Cunningham which was the first man Apollo flight
Apollo 7
What name is given to the 4 billion year old chunk of Crystaline igneous rock that was found by Jim Irwin and brought back by Apollo 15
Genesis rock
What is buzz aldrin titled his autobiography after phrase used on the moon to describe the lunar landscape what was the phrase
Magnificent desolation
The name of which variety of pasta normally served stuffed literally means big tubes or pipes
Cannelloni
Which classic Bruce Springsteen song begins with the line in the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
Born to run
Which of Shakespeare’s comedies has a heroine named hero
much ado about nothing
In the film Sylvia which poet was played by Daniel Craig who starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow
Ted hughes
What is the award called that in rowing has been completed for annually since 1715 and one of the worlds oldest continuing races
Doggett’s Coat and Badge
During the Spanish Civil War the nationalist general Vidal is credited with coining what term for a clandestine force of subversive agents
Fifth column
What name is given to the sleeveless out of vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Roman Catholic and some other churches were presiding at Mass or holy communion
Chasuble
At which Olympic games did the Olympic flame first butrn throughout the three-month period of competition
Amsterdam 1928
In Beijing in 2008 who added a cycling gold medal to the rowing silver she had one for years
Rebeca Romero
At the Melbourne games in 1956 British gold medallist Dirk McTaggart was also ordered the Val barker of trophy given to the competitive the best style and technique in which sport
Boxing
On which gymnastics apparatus did Nadia Comaneci achieve a perfect score of 20 points to win the gold medal in montreal
UnEven bars
The Hungarian fencer aladar gerevich won gold medals at how many successive games
Six
Father and son Charles and Richard Burnell both won gold medals for Britain in 1908 in 1948 respectively in which sport
Rowing
Italian klaus Dibiase won three consecutive gold medals in which sport from 1968 onwards at the Olympics
Diving
Who were the surprise gold medallists in the first women’s Olympic hockey tournament in Moscow in 1980
Zimbabwe
In which sport did American Darrell pace win gold in 1976 and 1984 and team silver in 1988 Olympics
Archery
Which French player won the women’s singles tennis gold medal at the Antwerp games of 1920 she also won six Wimbledon titles during her career
Suzanne Lenglen
In English business law what name is given to the insolvency process whereby accompanies debts are frozen or rescue package is attempted by a person appointed by the court to take over the company
Administration
Which small fruit that resembles an orange and originated in China can be eaten a whole as the rind is edible
“ Kumquat
Which form of musical composition as a name derived from the past participle of the Italian verb meaning to sound
Sonata
Which influential post impressionist artist once said that for an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject to realise sensations
Paul Cézanne
What expression for noble the Sun comes from the Spanish sangria Azul and his thoughts of the road from the visible veins of the fair skinned aristocracy
Blue blood
In which city of London institution is based at 10 Paternoster Square
London stock exchange
What is the title of the allegorical 14th century poem usually attributed to William Langland
Piers Ploughman
The radio series the archers setting which fictional county
Borsetshire
In 1994 the globe theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in London was renamed in honour of which actor as well as to avoid confusion with the reconstructed Shakespearean theatre
John Gielgud
In Julius Caesar who is described as the last of the romans
Cassius
Printed in 1594 what is Shakespeare’s first Roman tragedy
Titus Andronicus
In Richard the third which eight words complete the opening sentence that begins now is the winter of our discontent
Make glorious summer by this son of York
What is the name of the tragic heroine who is final line is shall we not see these daughters and the sisters
Cordelia
Which Shakespearean king is described as more sinned against than sinning
King Lear
What is the only Shakespeare play with the named dog
Two gentlemen of Verona
What is the name of the simple constable in measure for measure
Elbow
Which play the opens at Antioch and ends in Ephesus did not appear in the 1623 Folio by William Shakespeare
Pericles Prince of tyre
In Romeo and Juliet what is the name of Capulet’s niece with him Romeo is enamoured before he met Juliet
Rosaleen
What animal is unknown in the west until 1869 when the French missionary Armand David obtain some furs
Panda
According to the Bible what is the name of the hill in Jerusalem on which the existing Jebusite fortress became David’s royal capital
Mount Zion
Which English football team founded in 1862 claims to be the worlds oldest surviving professional football club
Notts county
What name is given to the plant disease caused by fungi which produce a dusty white surface particularly on leaves
Mildew
Which album by The Rolling Stones released in 1968 includes the track sympathy for the Devil and Street fighting man
Beggars Banquet
Which painting by Velazquez completed in 1635 shows the symbolic handing over of the keys of a Dutch city to the Victorius Spanish army after a siege
The surrender of Breda
What is the most northerly of the five Great Lakes of North America
Superior
Which fish hatch in the Sargasso Sea the larvae turning into immature adults as they are carried by currents across the Atlantic before entering British rivers
eels
Which impressionist is noted for his admiration of the female form said I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it
Renoir
Who is chairman of the British railways board from 1961 to 1965 and gave his name to the plan under which Britain’s railway mileage was substantially reduced
Beeching
Which word for a plan of action designed to achieve an overall aim comes from the Greek word meaning generalship
Strategy
What adjective meaning disdainfully superior in Manor comes from the Latin for eyebrow
Supercilious
In which part of the body of a cuboid and cuneiform bones
Foot
From here to eternity was a book about the experiences of servicemen in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor and was by which author
James Jones
Who resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1935 of the details of his pact with Pierre Laval leaked to the press
Samuel Hoare
The statement issued on the 25th of January 1981 by the so-called gang for announcing their intention to leave the Labour Party is known by what name
Limehouse declaration
What was described as Balfours poodle fetches and carries for him a box for me by anybody that he says it on to David Lloyd George said this
House of Lords
Who was appointed as Home Secretary in Tony Blair’s first cabinet in May 1997
Jack Straw
Who is Margaret Thatcher’s chief press secretary from shortly after the 1979 general election until a resignation in 1990
Bernard Ingham
Whom did Michael foot beat by 10 votes to become leader of the Labour Party in 1980
Denis Healey
Which musical direction the noting a moderately slow tempo literally means going in Italian
Andante
Which play by Terence Rattigan was based on the true case of George archer she who was expelled from Osborne Naval College for petty theft
The Winslow boy
The popular humming chorus is from which popular opera by Puccini
Madame butterfly
Which town in Cornwall is the centre of the China clay industry the white spoil mounds that surround it been known locally as the Cornish Alps
Saint Austell
Who took Bonnie Prince Charlie from Benbecula to sky disguised as a Irish made Betty Burke
Flora MacDonald
Cochise and Geronimo were leaders of which Native American tribe that inhabited the south-western states
Apache
Which 1976 record by the damned is generally regarded as the U.K.’s first punk single
New Rose
Which David Bowie song contains the line I’ve never done good things I’ve never done bad things
Ashes to Ashes
Under what name the comedian Graeme Fellows also known as John Shuttleworth have a top 10 hit in 1978
Jilted john
Which former member of the animals produced Slades hits in the 1970s after seeing them perform at the London a club
Chas Chandler
who. co wrote Smokey Robinson’s chart topper tears of a clown with Henry Cosby and smoky himself
Stevie Wonder
Queens Bohemian Rhapsody was originally released as a track on which of the vans albums
Night at the Opera
After the break up of Deep Purple in 1976 David Coverdale formed which group
Whitesnake
Between December 1975 in February 1970 8ABBA had a run of seven consecutive top three hits which of these was the only one not to top the UK charts
Money money money
 Which guitarist replaced Brian Jones in The Rolling Stones before leaving the group in 1974
Mick Taylor
The saxophone on Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty was played by which session player on the 1978 hit single
Raphael Ravenscroft
Which song gave Cliff Richard a number one hit in 1979 its first since congratulations in 1968
We don’t talk anymore
Who is first Chart entry was 2468 motorway at a top 10 hit in 1977
Tom Robinson
Which singer and songwriter’s debut album released in 1977 was called my aim is True
Elvis Costello
Which shipping forecast area lies between the Irish Sea to the north Fastnet to the west in Plymouth to the south
Lundy
In English folklore he was Robin Hood Chaplain
Friar Tuck
In architecture what name is used for the decorative end or ridge of the gable often in the form of a spike or bunch of leaves
Finial
Which of its former allies declared war Nazi Germany on the 13th of October 1943
Italy
In his work man and Superman George Bernard Shaw claims every man over 40 as a what
Scoundrel
Which American boxer known as the Boston strangler was the last holder of the world heavyweight championship on the London
Prize ring bear knuckle rules
John L Sullivan
Which American state is the petrified Forest National Park
Arizona
The area of what regions can be calculated using a probing gas such as nitrogen in combination with the BET isotherm? the structure of these regions could be modelled using the terrace electric Kink model
Surfaces/interfaces
The YJE is an all woman militia formed in 2015 to protect which minority group in Kurdistan from ISIL’s genocidal attacks?
Yazidi
Three bridges cross the panama canal two of which are considered to carry the Pan-American Highway the bridge of the Americas at balboa and the centennial bridge over the Culebra Cut. The third bridge completed in 2019 does so near which major city seaport on the Caribbean
Colon
Many of the Ardent critics of Jon cages work were adherents of which method of composition, an extension of Schoenberg’s 12 Tone row in which many aspects of the composition such as rhythm or dynamics are determined by sequences
Serialism
The formation of the “surface” kind of what quasiparticles may explain the signal boost in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy? These quasiparticles can be conceived of as a collected excitation of a free electron gas.
Plasmon
The main character in Kafka’s the Trial shares his first name with a Nobel Prize winner of 1980s who is known for poetry collections such as A Part of Speech and the essay collection Less Than One, what was surname of writer?
Joseph Brodsky
Basho’s masterwork is commonly considered to be which travel diary written in haiku and prose that describes authors trip with Kawaii sora to title location? Australian author Richard Flanagan took the English title language of this work as title of 2014 Booker prize winner book/
Narrow Road to the Deep North
Some travellers along pan American highway bypass the Darien Gap by taking the ferry from Panama City to Buenaventura in Colombia. Buenaventura is 100km away from whcih city, third largest in Colombia - after Bogotá and Medellin - and largest on pacific side of the mountains?
Cali
Named after a 7th century female Arabic poet; the Al Khansaa Brigade is an all woman unit of ISIL. The unit is operational in Mosul and which Syrian city serving as ISIL’s de facto capital.
Raqqa
Which German serialist composer did seven full length operas inspired by days of the week?
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sky of my Childhood is a 2011 film about early life of which dictator who had Kazakh capital named after him for a period.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
The title character of La Dame aux Camelias by younger Dumas shares her first name with a writer who won the 1984 Prix Goncourt for the novel The Lover. But what was writer’s surname?
(Marguerite) Duras
Another method of probing surface structures is which microscopy technique that moves a very sharp tip across a surface and measures the deflection using a laser?
Atomic Force Microscopy
There is no road officially designated as the Pan American Highway in the USA however Mexico section reaches the us border at Nuevo Laredo in which Mexican state? This state on the gulf of Mexico is bordered by San Luis Potosí to the south, NUEVO LEON TO west and Texas to the north, and capital at Ciudad Victoria.
Tamaulipas
In Jewish traditional which future king of Israel the father of Solomon escapes from King Saul’s men because the entrance to the cave he is hiding in is covered by web spun by a spider?
David
Alfred Nobel later invented which explosive by dissolving nitrocellulose or gun cotton in nitroglycerin and mixing the result with wood pulp and saltpetre? This substance is as the name suggests jelly-like.
Gelignite
Surfaces can be studied using a form of spectroscopy that utilises what effect( where ionisation of an inner shel electron leads to internal relaxation followed by emission of another electron? This effect was independently discovered by its French namesake and Lise Meitner.
Auger Effect
Famously associated with John Cage, what name is given to a piano that has had its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers? It’s invention is typically traced to Cage’s pre-war dance piece Bacchanale.
Prepared Piano
Gulnara Karimova was jailed for violating house arrest in 2019 after her fall from Grace following the death in 2016 of her extremely unpopular father. Which country did Karimova’s father lead from 1989 until his death?
Uzbekistan
Demetrius I, or Damartra, created which ancient region kingdom in Central Asia north of Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan in second century BC!
Bactria
What is tech capital of India, home to unicorns such as Udaan, Swiggy, RazorPay?
Bengaluru
What fine grained igneous rock makes up 90% of all volcanic rock on earth?
Basalt
Claude Debussy’s Voiles, the second of his twelve Preludes for solo piano, makes extensive use of which musical scale? This scale divides the octave into six equal steps.
Whole-tone scale
In shia islam this term is given to descendants of Muhammad and his family considered infallible leaders. In sunny islam this term from Arabic for leader is given to person who lead prayer in mosqu?
Imam
Faraday’s Law states that minus the partial derivative of magnetic field with respect to time is equal to what operation on the electric field? This operation is equivalent to the cross product of del with the vector of interest.
Curl
Because it forms from magma rich in magnesium and iron; basalt is WhT kind of igneous rock contrasted with a felsic rock?
Mafic
Best known treatment of Faust play is mostly in rhymes verse published in two volumes 1808 and 1832. Who wrote it? Considered a polymath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gauss’ Law for Magnetism states the divergence of the B field is zero and therefore implies which particles do no exist? Assuming that these particles can exist allows the symmetrisation of Maxwell’s equations.
Magnetic monopoles
In which 1964’essay by Susan Sontag does she analyse title concept seeing it as things “good because they are awful” and involves love of artifice and exaggeration. She gives Aubrey Beardsley drawings, novels of Ronald Firbank and Ivy Compton Burnett and Swan Lake as examples.
Notes on Camp
In October 2021, general Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan dissolved the transitional government and detained government officials in the capital of what African country?
Sudan
Along with Beijing and Bangalore what other city has become major tech hub in Asia? Lazada, Shopee and Garena some companies, Biopolis campus in city too witj biotechnology focus.
Singapore
Debussy uses whole tone scale through Voiles except for six bar passage in middle which played entirely on black keys. Black keys on piano are most famous example of what type of scale?
Pentatonic
What typical feature of mosque is a slender town from which Muslims are called to prayer?
Minaret
Which Lithuanian born American artist is considered to be founding member of Fluxus group and composed manfiesto? Work includes USA Surpasses All the Genocide Records.
George Maciunas
Notes on Camp was collected in what 1966’debut collection of essays by Susan Sontag? In title essay she criticises contemporary tendency for criticism to focus on content or meaning of an artwork rather than developing an appropriate vocab to describe it!
Against Interpretation
Around 329BC Bactria put up vigorous resistance to Macedonians and Alexander realised he would have to deal with continued insurgence worked out a truce and involves marrying which native Sogdianan princess?
Roxana
What name given to phenomenon where materials have a negative magnetic susceptibility and therefore slightly repel external magnetic fields? In general, substances that display this phenomenon do not have unpaired electrons.
Diamagnetism
What title given to Muslim who calls to prayer typically from balcony on the minaret?
Muezzin
In which 1978 work did Susan Sontag look at how society viewed those suffering from diseases challenge idea that diseases reveal character in some way?
Illness as Metaphor
The kingdom we call Bactria was centred around city of Bactra “mother of all cities”, city was known to Persians as Zariaspa but today what name also name of province in Afghanistan with capital at Mazar-e Sharif?
Balkh
Since it forms by cooling on earths surface, basalt is what type of rock? Rhyolite, pumice; other examples of this kind of igneous rock?
Extrusive
Fruits bats can see in colour due to having retinas that contain not just rods but what other cells that respond differently to light of different wavelengths, cells named for shape.
Cone cells
Gamelan May also have influenced Debussy’s use of which interval, also known as augmented fourth or diminished fifth? Prelude What the west wind saw makes frequent use of this dissonant interval.
Tritone
Which British born American artist associated with Fluxus( coined term “intermedia” for his cross-disciplinary work which included printmaking, composing and pottery? Fell out with George Maciunas after founding the publishing house Sometjing Else Press.
Dick Higgins
Susan Sontag 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others is considered a follow-up to 1977 essay collection in which argued title activity has set up chronic voyeuristic relation to world?
On Photography
The most recent African coup took place January 2022 when president Roch Marc Christian Kabore was deposed by military?
Burkina Faso
WhT is name of effect where superconductors display perfect diamagnetism and expel all internal magnetic fields below a critical temperature?
Meissner Effect
The direction of Kaaba in Mecca indicated in mosque by semi circular niche called the Mihrab found on a wall given what name!
Qibla
MORB is a kind of basalt found along which geological features! Magnetic striping around these features show evidence for seafloorbsprading and geomagnetic reversals?
Boundary
In chemistry, BOC, TMS and TIPS are common examples of what groups that are added to certain reactive groups to prevent unwanted side reactions in multi step syntheses?
Protecting Groups
Only nation to lie in all four Cardinal hemispheres!
Kiribati (known as Gilbert Islands before)
What language is the lingua franca of both northern India and Pakistan? Also called Hindu-Urdu it was language Gandhi proposed as unifying language for india.
Hindustani
In which 1941 work did the Frankfurt School psychoanalyst Erich Fromm identify authoritarianism, destructiveness and conformity as three mechanisms by which people might perform the titular, apparently paradoxical action?
Escape from Freedom
Which Latin American poet( who served in his country’s senate was inspired to write his epic Canto General after crossing Andes on horseback!
Pablo Neruda
Before Roman lyric poet Horace become spokesperson of Augustus he opposed him in serbice of Brutus
And Cassius in which battle in macedon in 42BC! Marc Antony and Octavian beat them.
Battle of Philippi
Name of west African story tellers or Troubadours sometimes known as praise singers. By what name are these people better known?
Griots
Another species found at La Brea tar pits is which large canine in genus Aenocyon! Extinct 9.5k ago, more known now due to tv show.
Dire Wolf
Whcih welsh politician was chancellor of exchequer from 1967-1970 under Harold Wilson as PM? He later served as President of the European Commission from 1977-81.
Roy Jenkins
Which Cuban poet composed Guantanemera)? Got Havana airport
Jose Marti
A common use of BOC protecting group is in the solid phase synthesis of what compounds that contain multiple amide bonds! The antioxidant glutathione and the hormone oxytocin are examples of these compounds.
Peptides
What Mexican poet who supported leftist causes was known for collection Luna Silvestre and the epic poem The Sun Stone?
Octavio Paz
Which 1947 work did the Frankfurt School theorists Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer discuss how fascism may have arisen from progressive ideology of titular intellectual movement of 17/18th centuries?
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Male is capital and largest city of whcih Asian nation!
Maldives
Chinese mythology, a weaver girl Zhinu and cowherd Niulang banished to sides of Milky Way, one day a year magpies form a bridge between them. Celebrated in China as Qixi Festival a day roughiyncorresponding to which day of the year in the west)
St Valentine’s Day
Scientific name for sabre toothed tigers?
Smilodon
Which French banker served as mep from 1979-81 and then as nation’s minister of finance from 1981-84? In 1985 he would become president of European Commission until 1995.
Jacques Delors
Adding trizoles like HOBt during peptide synthesis can improve control over which property of the products? Molecules with this property cannot be superimposed on their mirror images.
Chirality
With some 80m speakers, which is largest of so called Altaic languages? Had its Arabic script replaced by Latin in 1929.
Turkish
Which Italian economics professor and former banker served twice as Italian PM 1996-98 and 2006-08? President of European Commission 1999-2004.
Romano Prodi
One problem encountered when using DCC to speed up peptide synthesis is formation of insoluble derivatives of which compound? Arginine is hydrolysed into ornithine and this compound is one step of a metabolic cycle that produces this compound from ammonia.
Urea
In which unfinished work written between 1927 and 1940 did the Frankfurt school theorist Walter Benjamin examine the effect of Baron Haussmann’s renovations in the architecture of Paris and in particular the destruction of the titular types of building?
Arcades Project
In Chinese myth, the god Pangu cracked the egg in which he was sleeping, which then separated into what two specific things? The lighter one rose to create the sky while the heavier one formed Earth.
Yin and Yang
This 17th century Berber diplomat and author is another major source of info on the Mali Empire through his book Description of Africa which he dictated in Italian. This is which man who converted from Islam to Christianity after being captured by pirates and sold into slavery before being freed after he was presented to pppe Leo X?
Leo Africanus
First of three books that make up which Murakami novel is entitled Book of Thieving Magpie in reference to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie which is regularly whistled by characters in work? In this novel Toru Okada keeps hearing the sound made by the title toy animal.
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
The austronesians are thought o have invented what lateral support floats, allowing them to create the first ocean going vessels? A trimaran with two of these structures is shown into be Borobudur ship relief.
Outriggers
Which island thought to been the starting point for austronesian expansion? This island’s indigenous people began migrating southwards across the Luzon strait to the Philippines around 2000BCE.
Taiwan
Sun Wukong is most famous monkey in Chinese myth that is retold in which of the great classical novels of Chinese literature. Sometimes called Monkey.
Journey to the West
Which Portuguese politician and academic a former communist who later joined right of centre Partido Social Democrata, was PM of nation between 2002-04? 4 months after he was appointed European Commission President until 2014.
Jose Manuel Barroso
The suicide of this Latin American poet’s fiancé led to creation of Sonnets of Death. These poems would later appear in which poet’s collection Despair?
Gabriela Mistral
What was the name of the obnoxious cockney Plasterer created by Harry Enfield in the late 1890s
Loadsamoney
Which show written by John Sullivan feature of the characters Vince Pinner and Penny Warrender
Just good friends
In which sitcom does lead female character played by one of the shows cobras have a son named David Kiani Ronan
Royal family he is the son of Denise best born Royal played by Caroline are you home
In birds of a feather what was the name of Sharon and Tracy is toyboy loving next door neighbour
Dorian green
In which series were Simon pill and Oliver Smallbridge rival antique dealers
Never the Twain
What was the name of the crimpton on Sea holiday camp in Heidi hi
Maplin’s
Which could show featured in invented language that phrases including Scorpio Chris Waddle and Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The fast show
Lenny Henry played the title character Gareth Blackstock in which sitcom
Chef
What is the name of Audrey Forbes Hamilton’s butler who moved into one of the lodges of Grantley Manor with her after husband dies
Brabinger
Better known for his portrayal of policeman who played Henry Willows is in the sitcom home to roost
John thaw in between play and Jack Reagan in the Sweeney and Inspector Morse
What was the name of the voluptuous movie star created by Kenny Everett who did everything in the best possible taste
Cupid stunt
Which of Lord Byron’s messages right in her diary after the first meeting that he was mad bad and dangerous to know
Lady Caroline Lamb
Edward Elgar’s Opus 36 variations on in original theme is more usually known by what title
Enigma variations
The name of which religion means disciple in Hindi
Sikh
What name from the Greek for weapon was given to the heavily armed foot soldiers of ancient Greece
Hoplite
In classical architecture what name is given to a restructure Spotify columns that forms the entrance to the building or is extended into a colonnade
Portico
The popular name of which religious group are said to have a coin in 1650 by just is Bennett of Darby in mockery of the exhortation to tremble at the word of God
Quakers
Which segment is well with the heart that lies between the right atrium and the right ventricle prevents the backflow of blood
Tricuspid
Bodies immune system is based on which specialised white cells with two types T and B which respond to infection or cell abnormalities by producing antibodies
Lymphocytes
What is the inner region of the adrenal gland called from which the hormone adrenaline produced as part of the bodies response to Thea or stressed
Adrenal medulla
What name from the Greek is given to the white blood cells defend the body against both infectious disease and for materials
Leucocytes
Sabin vaccine names of the Polish American Doctor Who developed the Cincinnati in 1950s is an oral preparation as use against which disease
Polio
Which fifth century BC writers nine volume history includes an account with the boys between the Greeks and the Persians is known as father of history
Herodotus
What general term is used for a small body of the bushy plant that several stems none of which are dominant
Shrub
What is the second largest of the English lakes it’s drained st northern end den by river eamont
Ullswater
Which London club was founded in 1831 as a place where actors
And men of refinement and education might meet on equal terms
Garrick club
What is the name of the small Russian pancakes traditionally served with sour cream and caviar
Blinis
Born at Selby Yorkshire who was the first English born king of England after the Norman conquest
Henry first
The company of Scotland made a disastrous attempt to colonise which area on the isthmus of Panama that they renamed new Caledonia
Darien
Which lawyer let the pilgrimage of grace which began in Yorkshire in October at 1536
Robert Aske
What was the name of the attendance of throne who claim to be Richard the third nephew Edward Earl of Warwick and was crowned in Dublin Cathedral at Edward the sixth on 24th of May 14 87
Lambert Simnel
In which city did Charles the first raise the Royal standard on the 22nd of August 1642 in proclaim the commons on the soldiers traitors
Nottingham
Which district of the West End of London takes its name from the type of collar popular in the early 17th century there was a speciality of Robert Baker at local Taylor
Picadilly
 What nickname was given to the carvery troops commanded by Oliver Cromwell witch or a key factor in the Parliamentary victory of Marston Moor
The Ironsides
Which informal name is given to the group of whigs in the rains of William the third and Queen Anne included Lord John Somers is the isle of Wharton on the Isle of Orford
Junto
Under which act of 17 m01 oh one with Roman Catholics in anyone married to a catholic explicitly excluded from the line of succession to the English throne
Act of settlement
Which royal favourite was assassinated by John Felton in August 1628
Duke of Buckingham George Villiers
What name is given to the plot of 1683 to assassinate Charles the second and his brother on the way home from Newmarket racecourse
Rye House plot
In December 1648 which Colonel purge the House of Commons of those MPC want to negotiate with king Charles the first
Thomas pride
By which act of parliament of 1534 was Henry the eighth the claimed to be supreme head on Earth of the Church of England
Act of supremacy
What name is given to the clear savoury jelly used to coat food such as cold meat or fish
Aspic
What term for the theory of philosophy of law comes from the Latin for knowledge of the law
Jurisprudence
Which composer who died at the age of 31 and 1828 had been a torch bearer of Beethoven’s funeral and buried next to him
Schubert
Which ornamental highly poisonous Evergreen shrub that as thick Lance shaped leaves and strike in red or white flowers is also known as rose bay rose Laurel
Oleander
Cricket who was appointed as the England team direct 20,090 coaching to ashes win ou in the winter of 2010 to 11
Andy flower
Which of the seven hills of Rome was the home of the word featuring the Republican Iran of the empire became the side of the Imperial palaces
Palatine Hill
In which 1973 film did Roger Moore make the first for seven appearances as James Bond
Live and let die
Which character did Robbie Coltrane play in goldeneye in the world is not enough
Valentin Zukovsky
Sean Connery return to the road James Bond in the 1983 film Never Say Never again which is a virtual remake of which earlier bond film
Thunderball
In which film does Bond uncovered a plot by renegade Russian general and an ex Afghan Prince to detonate an atomic bomb on an American airbase
Octopussy
In which of the films does bon take on the Colombian drugs Baron Fran Sanchez
License to kill
Which peninsula forms the mainland portion of Denmark and also includes part of the German state Schleswig-Holstein
Jutland Peninsula
The order Acarina comprises ticks and which other small arthropods which names means anything very tiny
Mites
Which two words Hindi name translating roughly is hot mixture is given to a combination of roasted spices sometimes blend of water and vinegar go off the news in Indian cookery
Garam masala
In around 182 BCE which military leader poisoned himself in bithynia in Asia Minor where he was taking refuge from the Romans
Hannibal
Which channel link in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans lies between the tip of mainland South America in the island of Tierra del Fuego
Magellan strait
Which authors work a rose for winter published in 1955 tales of his return to Spain of his wife 15 years after the Civil War in which he fought on the Republican side
Laurie Lee
According to the gospel of Mark and Jon who was the first person to see Christ after his resurrection
Mary Magdalene
Which shrub that is similar to Gorse but without the spines grows on heathland and sandy soil over most of Britain
Broom
French reinforcements were transported to the front in a fleet of Paris taxis during which battle of September 1914 halted the German advance on the city
First battle of the Marne
The chief electrician responsible for the lighting of the set in the film and television studios night by what title
Gaffer
Which aromatic plant has a stalk that turns bright green when candies and is used to decorate cakes and trifles
Angelica
What name was given to the art exhibition of 1863 held by command of Napoleon the third for those artists whose work has been rejected by the jury of the official salon
Salon des Refusés
Which journalist writing in the satirical magazine Charivari and 1874 gave the painters name Impressionists
Louis Leroy
Which of Manet’s paintings appears in the background of his 1868 portrait of Emile Zola
Olympia
In which resort area on the river seine our suburb of Northwest Paris did Monet live in the 1870s of them working from the studio boat he had there
Argenteuil
Which the impression is join the 10th cavalry regiment and start the Franco Prussian war in 1870 was posted to the bone in the Bordeaux region where a contract of dysentery
Renoir
Which popular open-air Dancehall and café bar in Montmartre is the subject of renoirs well-known painting of 1876 showing people seated talking and dancing in dappled sunlight
Moulin de La Galette
What profession did Cezanne give up to move to Paris in 1861
Lawyer
In the third impressionist exhibition of 1877 Monet exhibited views of which Paris railway station its immediate surroundings
Gare St Lazare
Which French painter who post for Renois was encouraged to draw and paint by Degas and was the mother of the artist Maurice Utrillo
Suzanne Valadon
Which I spent part of his childhood in Lima in Peru exhibited with impressionist in the early 1880s and also live briefly in Denmark and other places before dying in the marquesas
Gauguin
Mao zedong launched in 1966 upheaval called what?
Cultural revolution
In snooker in billiards what time is used to describe the series of successive score in shots made by anyone player
Break
What is the most abundant element in the earths crust consisting of nearly half its mass
Oxygen
Which novel by Nicholas Monsarrat tales of the trials and tribulations of the crew of the Corvette HMS compass rose during the battle of the Atlantic
The cruel Sea
In the 1840s British troops in India with first issued with uniform of which colour of the name derives from the Persian for dust
Khaki
In which television series the teams represent their hometowns compete over a series of obstacle courses from the right to represent Britain in European finals of juice on frontier
Its a knockout
Which word for substance to access biological catalyst regulating the rate at which biochemical reactions proceed comes from the Greek for inLeven
Enzyme
1969 who became the first person to sail solo non-stop around the world in his boat Suhaili
Robin Knox Johnston
Which is the only one of the new Testament gospel is there’s not synoptic
John
How old was Moses when he died according to the book of Deuteronomy
120
What did Jesus compares with mustard seed in a parable their peers and three of the gospels
The kingdom of God
Which of the tribes of Israel that Samson belong?
Dan
Which miracle prompted a meeting of the Sanhedrin with a high priest Caiaphas predicted is that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation
Raising of Lazarus
In the book of Daniel who interprets the vision of the RAM and the she goat to Daniel
Gabriel
Which prophetess one of the judges who ruled Israel urged Barak to fight Sisera the song of triumph to celebrate his victory of them being called after her?
Deborah
In Kings what is the name of the priest who anoints Solomon with oil
Zadok
What is the opening line of psalm 137
By the Rivers of Babylon
What name for the toxic substance used by South American Indians to tip arrows for hunting comes from an Indian word for poison
Curare
Which Greek islands became a British protectorate after the fall of Napoleon proceed it back to Greece in 1864
Ionian Islands
In Oscar wilde’s the importance of being Earnest what is the name of algy Moncrief formidable aunt?
Lady Bracknell
What name is given to the 90 mile long system of gorges and rapids on the river Danube that forms part of the border between Romania and Serbia
Iron Gate
What day is Saint Swithins day
15th of July
Adrian mole who wrote Adrian mole
Sue Townsend
Who wrote the novel is about the soldier Richard Sharpe?
Bernard Cromwell
Something every day and ordinary is often described as common or what
Garden
square emblem commonly used as a flag to represent some native peoples of the Andes that include today’s Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, northwestern Argentina and southern Colombia.
Wiphala
Manitoulin Island is in which lake?
Lake Huron
What is the traditional name for Cinderella’s father in the pantomime
Baron hardup
What animal do you keep from the door if you ward off poverty
Wolf
What crop proceeds the word sugar in a type of boiled sweet
Barley
In horseracing what does the abbreviation SP stand for
Starting price
Who directed the TV play nuts in May
Mike Leigh
In Morse code what does dot dash represent
A
What animal is children’s character Miffy
Rabbit
What volcano on Martinique erupted in 1902
Mount Pelee
Queen Victoria had how many children
9
Indian cuisine what is kulfi
Ice cream
What does SW stand for on the radio
Short wave
Who played Dirk gently on TV in 2010
Stephen Mangan
What London theatre opened in 1818 is the Royal Coburg
Old Vic
Who is the famous brother of DJ Janice Long
Keith Chegwin
Who wrote the play absurd person singular
Alan Ayckbourn
The brown Swiss is a breed of what farm animal
Cow
Who wrote the horror novels the dark and the fog
James Herbert
Herm belongs to which island group
Channel Islands
What is Putin’s party called?
United Russia
I should Coco it was the number one album for which Britpop band
Supergrass
Bell metal is mainly an alloy of tin and more of a metal
Copper
Wyandotte is a breed of what farm animal
Chicken
Pentland Hills overlook what Scottish city
Edinburgh
Which Irish novelist wrote anybody out there
Marian Keyes
Who is supported by his rhythm and blues orchestra
Jools Holland
30th wedding anniversary is traditionally given what
Pearl
Electric Warrior was an album by which 1970s band
T. rex
The Irish Grand National take place Which racecourse
Fairy house
The flag officer serves in which of the armed forces
Navy
Potting and squopping are techniques on which game?
Tiddlywinks
Kuala Lumpur host the Commonwealth Games in what year
1998
Which city Judy Garland die
London
Who wrote the book on which the film Bambi is based
Felix Salten
Call theatre what stage direction is Latin for he goes out
Exit
In what English city is the Roodee racecourse
Chester
What was Buddy Holly’s real first name
Charles
Who directed the film the Untouchables
Brian de Palma
In the 80s what was the name of Bruce Hornsby backing band
The range
Branston pickle was first made by crosse and who
Blackwell
Which Welsh composer wrote the musical is gay’s the word
Ivor Novello
In the saying in the proof of the pudding is in the what
Eating
The game Trivial Pursuit was invented in what country
Canada
Which former Olympic medallist founded the great north run
Brendan Foster
Florida softshell us a species of reptiles
Turtles
What colour are the lions claws on the coat of arms of England
Blue
What decade did the Jack the Ripper murders happen
1880s
Boer and Bagot are breeds of what farm animal?
Goat
What letter is represented by for Dots Morse code
H
According to the saying what part of a camel must do not let under the tent
Nose
What term is used to describe the remains of a bird after is been hit by an aircraft
Snarge
What name is adopted by actors in the British theatre who wish to remain anonymous
Walter Plinge
The great fire of London start in pudding Lane And ended where
Pie corner
Which quiz show host has played James Bond in 1956 radio adaptation of Ian Fleming’s novel Moonraker
Bob Holness
Sung in hits like california gurls by Katy Perry; the sound pattern using the two syllables Wa-Oh is known by what two word term
Millenium Whoop
lowest vocal register and is produced through a loose glottal closure that permits air to bubble through slowly with a popping or rattling sound of a very low frequency? Popularised by Kim K
Vocal Fry
In which Tom Clancy novel does Jack Ryan save the Prince and Princess of Wales from an IRA splinter group
Patriot games
Who is the last private resident of 10 Downing Street named after a bird
Mr chicken
What’s the traditional term for a female hare
Doe
What fruit is silver in the rhyme I had a little nut tree
Nutmeg (and a golden pear)
What Norman Mailer’s novel is about Gary Gilmore
The executioner’s song
What river does KIev stand on
Dnieper
The musical kismet is set in which middle eastern city
Baghdad
What creature is a bitterling
Fish
Name of what airline means Union in Arabic
Etihad
Who is the leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution
Ayatollah Khomeini
Who is the narrator of 1001 nights
Scheherazade
The Bluebird Café is a setting in which American TV drama
Nashville
What Christian festival is called Paques in French?
Easter
What was the first complete car design by Alec Issigonis
The Morris Minor
Ray Daly replace Terry McCann in what TV series
Minder
Jamie Peacock retired from Which sport in 2015
Rugby league
In 1921 Faisel the first became king of what country
Iraq
The orange river in South Africa flows into what ocean
Atlantic Ocean
What author created the fictional Scottish setting of stonemouth
Iain Banks
First Roman triumvirate
Julius Caesar, Crassus and Pompey
Who were second triumvirate?
Mark Anthony, Lepidus and Augustus
Varaha is an avatar for which Hindu God
Vishnu
What long-running TV gardening show started in 1968
Gardeners world
In the 90s phil de Glanville captained England in what sport
Rugby union
Darts legend Jocky Wilson was born in which UK country
Scotland
In 2016 which female tennis player was banned for two years
Maria Sharapova
A cheroot is a short thin type of what object
Cigar
What nature charity run to the annual Trevira contest
Woodland trust
Gary Mabbutt played 16 seasons for what football team?
Tottenham
Soldiers cleaning duties are known as spit and what
Polish
A croquette is usually cooked by what method
Frying
Actor William Mapother is the cousin of which actor
Tom Cruise
Stand as one is 2016 thousand and 16 live album for which music festival
Glastonbury
In what sport do women compete for the Espírito Santo Trophy
Golf
According to the saying what does misery loves
Company
Traditionally sailors would get a tattoo of what Bird after travelling over 5000 nautical miles
Swallow
In 1986 what colour balls are introduced at Wimbledon
Yellow yellow green yellow
Flammable air was an early name for what gas
Hydrogen
Running through Devon and CornwLl, the A39 has what nickname?
Atlantic Highway
What vegetable is also known as turnip cabbage
Kohlrabi
At night what colour light indicates starboard on a ship
Green
Which George Cole character often said a nice little earner
Arthur daly
What radioactive noble gases produced by the decay of radium
Radon
Who played JJ McClure in the film the cannonball run
Burt Reynolds
Which Australian singer wrote Rihanna’s hit song diamonds
Sia
What is the name of the mill mill on the floss George Eliot novel
Dorlcote
In 1471 which King won the Battle of Tewkesbury
Edward the fourth
What year is Bagpuss first shown on TV
1974
Whitehaven as a port in what county
Cumbria
Chorusgirl Peggy Sawyer is the heroine of what musical
42nd Street
Ticklah is a mature type of what cheese
Cheddar
Which poet laureate wrote the memoir is summoned by bells
John Betjeman
What what was the Dickin medal for animals first awarded
Ww2
Which female singer had a hit in the 80s with manchild
Neneh Cherry
The name of a vegetable means cabbage sprouts in Italian
Broccoli
What name is given to the dissolved substance in a solution
Solute
Violator and ultra albums by what Electro band
Depeche Mode
Song my man’s gone now is from what Gershwin opera
Porgy and Bess
What is an Erne
Bird/ eagle
Which burger chain took its name from a Popeye character
Wimpy is
Live SOS was the 2014 album by which Australian band
5 Seconds of Summer
Who played coughing Bob Fleming on the fast show
Charlie Hixson
Redcar in Ripon are venues for professional sport
Horse racing
In my shoes is the memoir of a co-founder of what shoe brand
Jimmy choo
Who hosts the TV show man finds food man versus food
Adam Richman
Who played heiress Traci Lord in the film high Society
Grace Kelly
What bank did William Paterson found in 1694
Bank of England
Dutch Foyle consists of zinc and what are the metal
Copper
The gulf stream current is named after what golf
Gulf of Mexico
International Velvet was the number one album by which welsh group
Catatonia
Joan is the first name of the Father Ted character
Mrs Doyle
Food writer Matthew fort is a judge on what TV cooking show
Great British menu
The Birman Is a breed of a domestic animal
Cat
Which female humorous poet wrote oh no I got a cold
Pam Ayres
Dean Stockwell played Al in what TV time travel show
Quantum leap
The battle of Kentish knock took place in what sea
North Sea
The Norris trophy is awarded in what winter sport
Ice hockey
What would you do with a Bedford rascal
It is a van so drive it
What TV cartoon feature of the cowardly pet tiger cringer
He-man
Reinforced covering for the toe of a boot is called what
Toecap
We’ll all have tea is a line from what nursery rhyme
Polly put the Kettle on
Common name is given to Marker pens with fluorescent ink
Highlighters
What Roman God gives his name to the bone above the upper lip
Cupid
Wassermann is the German name for what side of the zodiac
Aquarius
World darts champion Bob Anderson picks for the 1968 British Olympic team for what event
Javelin
In a standard UK plug what terminal is connected to the fuse
Live
In TVs Dallas who was the youngest of the Ewing Bros
Bobby
EastEnders actress also played the bionic woman
Michelle Ryan
Who played Alex Owens in Flashdance
Jennifer Beals
Eilat is a resort in what country?
Israel
Which circle runs through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
Meridian
Fenners is the cricket ground of which university
Cambridge
Which single was ABBA’s final UK number one
Super Trouper
Who played Blake Carrington in dynasty
John Forsyth
What 80s film Dustin Hoffman turn into Dorothy from Michael
Tutsi
Who won a Golden Globe for his role in Dr Zhivago
Omar Sharif
Graham Onions has played for England in what sport
Cricket
What cities at the northern end of the M11
Cambridge
What are the spines on a porcupine called
Quills
In which team sport did Jane sixSmith play for England?
Hockey
Heraklion is the capital of which Greek island
Crete
Who is the Greek name for the capital city of the Greek island of Corfu
Kerkyra
Which American city is also known as Beantown
Boston
Pamela Anderson married which singer and rapper in 2006
Kid Rock
Which spirit is in a bloody Maria cocktail
Tequila
In which county is Gatcombe Park
Gloucestershire
Who played commandment Yamauchi in the TV show Tenko
Burt kwouk
Urban hymns was the best selling album for what band
The Verve
In 1976 Basil Hume became the archbishop of what diocese
Westminster
Which comedian created Theophilous P wildebeest
Lenny Henry
Who starred in the film is double impact and Timecop
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Who is the original presenter of Blankety Blank
Terry Wogan
The eclipse stakes horse race is run at what course
Sandown Park
Which music water founded in 1996 by kanya king
Mobos
Who writes the warrior of Rome series of books
Harry Sidebottom
Who is the main host of that’s life
Esther Rantzen
What part of the face can be described as lantern
Jaw
In Thunderbirds who is Lady Penelope driver
Aloysius Parker
Jim Dixon is the hero of War Kingsley Amis novel
Lucky Jim
How do you pop singers nickname to Peter Pan of pop
Cliff Richard
Jane couch was the world champion in what sport
Boxing
What sitcom see in the offices of Globelink news
Drop the dead donkey
Elizabeth the first died of the Royal Palace
Richmond
What was the name of Leona Lewis’s debut album
Spirit
What Buckinghamshire stadium hosted national wheelchair championships
Stoke Mandeville Stadium
Helen Mirren played Morgana in what film about King Arthur
Excalibur
Current editor of the Sun
Victoria Newton
In which 90s film did Arnold Schwarzenegger play I Spy called Harry Tasker
True lies
The actor Lee Marvin got number one in the UK with what song
Wondering star
In the UK and US bazooka Joe is the mascot of what kind of confectionery
Bubblegum
Who stars in Venter Cade Yeager in the film Transformers age of extinction
Mark Wahlberg
The name of what Japanese comics memes aimless pictures
Manga
When it first opened what motorway run from Watford to Crick
M1
One leg to few is a biography of Peter Cook and who else
Dudley Moore
In the rhyme Tinker tailor soldier sailor who follows beggar man?
Thief
In the Bible Jesus feed the 5000 with two fish and how many loaves
Five loaves
Edith Bowman is a radio DJ And is married to Tom Smith the front of which UK band
Editors
Lay Landi shrub otherwise known as Leyland cypress is mostly used for what purpose
Hedging
Which famous sports venue are the Edrich stand and Compton stand
Lords
Prime Minister Edward Heath took part in which sailing event in 1971
Admirals Cup on bud boat morning cloud
Which sport would you find a stewards enquiry
Horse racing
Q we In the MMR vaccine what does the R stand for
Rubella which is German measles
What sort of water related term is used to describe a strong Baz yeah unexpressed public opinion
Or an increase in a certain public opinion amongst the masses
Groundswell
What French term means a meal served to all guests at a stated hour and fixed price
Table d’hote
Which English playwright is known for his farces? His biggest success, Run for Your Wife (1983), ran for nine years in London’s West End and is its longest-running comedy
Ray Cooney
After meeting James Dean which British actor of correctly predicted to be dead within a week
Alec Guinness
In 1985 which pop duo became the first western band playing communist China
Wham!
Goodbye grey sky hello blue as a line from the theme tune to what USTV series
Happy days
My Who ran the anchor leg when Great Britain won gold at 2004 Olympics in the men’s 4×100 meter relay
Mark Lewis Francis
Which luxury British car companies headquarters are in Crewe in Cheshire
Bentley
The Frankensteiner there is a move in what sport
Wrestling
To the nearest 10 minutes how many minutes does it take for the international space station to orbit earth
90 minutes
What is the term for the space between your full finger and thumb beginning with P
Purlicue
Bon Jovi mention which couple into this song is livin’ on a prayer and it’s my life
Tommy and Gina
Which brand of vodka is produced by the Nolet family distillery in the Netherlands
Ketel One
Which baseball great hit 3215 to Chris Kingle spa playing in 3562 career games has also the all-time MLB leader in hits game is played at the singles an ounce
Pete Rose
Whcih variety of orange was first hybridised from a pomelo and a mandarin orange by American agronomist William wolfskill?
Valencia
Married name of Australian tennis champion Evonne Goolagong?
Cawley
What was title of first pilot episode for the 1960s tv series Star Trek?
The Cage
In early 20th century the fur of which animal was sold in US as Hudson seal fur?
Muskrat (Ondatra Zibethicus)
Whcih Australian left handed batsman holds record for consecutive tests as captain (93, last being in 1994) and is only player in test history to have scored a century in both innings of a test match and take 10 wickets in a test match over his career?
Allan Border
Which song, the slow match of the welsh guards, was used during titles of How Green Was My Valley, famously in Zulu, opened the programming on radio 4 1978-2006 and sung before every Cardiff City home game?
Men of Harlech
Which London club was founded in 1832 as the home of the Conservative Party, was bombed by ira in 1990, and was location of Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour which led to the downfall of Boris Johnson?
Carlton Club
Who left Southampton at 2am on Saturday 12th December 1936 on hms fury, after original choice of ship hms enchantress was deemed inappropriate?
Edward VIII
Sometimes known as the shaddock, after Captain Chaddock of East India Company who took it first to Barbados in the 1640s what is common name of fruit citrus maxima?
Pomelo
Which four letter word might mean a kind of semi hard cheese made from pasteurised cows milk, a ships flag flown at the bow, a device for lifting heavy objects, or a device for removing footwear?
Jack
Which wife of Henry viii was last queen consort of England to have been born in England before Mary of Teck who was queen in 1910?
Catherine Parr
Kelly Sotherton won 2004 and 2008 Olympic bronze medals in what event?
Heptathlon
The holder of which office held by the Duke of Norfolk since 1672 has overall responsibility for organising the Kings coronation
The Earl Marshall
What unit calculated as the reciprocal of the focal length is used to measure the power of a lens
Dioptre
Which dukedom has been held by the British or English monarchs since the accession of Henry the fifth in 1413
Duke of Lancaster
Who is last words spoken in 1957 have been reported as I never should’ve switched from Scotch to martinis but will more likely to have been to see you Kidd hurry back spoken to his wife
Humphrey Bogart
What style of unglazed stone ware pottery developed by Josiah Wedgwood incorporates relief decorations giving a cameo affect most commonly in pale blue and white
Jasperware
Largest city in Delaware named after which second prime minister of GB?
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington
Born in Hersham Surrey in 1955 Jimmy Pursey is the founder in front of which punk rock band with the biggest hit Hersham boys
Sham 69
Which Staffordshire potter made his name with Florian Ware, set up his own factory in 1913 and is closely associated with London store liberty?
William Moorcroft
Whose last diary entry written in 1988 ended with words “oh what’s the bloody point”?
Kenneth Williams
The first, joint winners, in 1981 was Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen in April 2023 who became most recent?
Kelvin Kiptum
Henry Russell Marquis of Tavistock is currently heir apparent to what dukedom?
Duke of Bedford
What food is known in Spanish is manzana?
Apple
At coronation of monarchs what is the ampulla used for?
Holds the holy oil
In 2016, who became the first British woman to win medals at five Olympic Games?
Katherine Grainger
What time was given to someone who performs ambassadorial duties in one Commonwealth country on behalf of another
High Commissioner
Ten winners of best actress Oscar who were born in UK
Olivia Colman, Kate Winslet
Helen Mirren, Emma Thompson
Jessica Tandy, Glenda Jackson (x2)
Maggie Smith, Liz Taylor (x2)
Julie Andrews, Greer Garson
What was the name of the character played by January Jones in the number 2007-15?
Betty Draper
What was the name of June Whitfield’s character in The Glums which forms part of the radio show take it from here
Eth
Give a year in period of French history known as July Monarchy
1830-48
The Carole king/Gerry Goffin song It Might As Well Rain Until September was originally written for which singer who included it on his album The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Bobby Vee
The title of the 1999 film October sky starring Jake Gyllenhaal is an anagram of the original title of a memoir in which it was based what is the original title?
Rocket Boys
In which country did the so-called November revolution begin in 1918
Germany
Originally released as a single in 1980 December will be Magic again as a festive favourite by which act
Kate Bush
Which Cuban photographer took the iconic 1960 picture of Che Guevara
Alberto Korda
Who wrote the best selling sagas of the Courtney and Ballantyne family is largely setting in his native southern Africa
Wilbur Smith
Which London Street runs from Charing Cross to Parliament Square
Whitehall
The word Shakhtar used in name of Shakhtar Donetsk is Ukrainian for what occupation?
Miner
Who wrote the songs where have all the Flowers gone and turn turn turn?
Pete Seeger
Which group form to 1969 in the original three members of all died currently consists of Ruth Issa and Sadako
Pointer Sisters
What name is shared by the conferences on science and world affairs named after a Canadian village and a fictional pirate created by John Ryan
Pugwash
Commentator after whom the PDC world darts championship trophy named
Sid Waddell
Scottish speed skater who has won ten European gold medals?
Elise Christie
What is the fear of number 13?
Triskaidekaphobia
The greatest number of Victoria crosses one in a single day has 24 the day be in November 16, 1857 during which conflict
Indian rebellion
The Mond process is used to extract and purify which chemical extract ith atomic number 28?
Nickel
Largest victory margin in a competitive professional football game is 36 zero when which Scottish team nonleague bon Accord in 1885
Arbroath
According to Mecca bingo what’s the nickname of number 59
Brighton line
Who starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1987 film 84 Charing Cross Road
Anne Bancroft
Which 268 mile route the brainchild of the journalist Tom Stevenson opened in April 1965
Pennine Way
Who holds the record for the highest individual innings by an England batsmen in test matches with 364
Len Hutton
According to the Bible who is the grandfather of Methuselah live to be 962 years old
Jared
Which tennis player came first in Belarus to win a Grand Slam singles title in winning the women’s Australian Open in 2012 the winter go to world number one shortly after and she retain in 2013
Victoria Azarenka
Restless fourth UK number one single released in 1999 as a double a side of seasons in the Sun was a cover of which song originally recorded by ABBA
I have a dream
Which film won the golden bear award Berlin film festival in 2022
Carla Simon’s Alcarras
Golden bear 2023 at the Berlin film festival went to which documentary
On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert
Who is the presenter of the sixth series of the Great pottery throwdown into thousand and 23 the judges are Keith Brymer Jones and rich Miller
Siobhan McSweeney
The most decorated female Olympian of all time which Soviet artistic gymnast won the 18 medals including nine goals between 1956 in 1964
Larisa Latynina
Named after his initials the RKO is the signature finishing move which American wrestler
Randy Orton
The British Nigerian entrepreneur Steven Bartlett currently a dragon on the Dragons’ Den is the host of which popular podcast
Diary of a CEO
Which Laura Poitras film won 2022 golden lion in Venice?
All the Beauty and the bloodshed
Who hosted the eighth series of the Great British sewing bee in 2022 to the judges were Esme Young and Patrick Grant
Sara Pascoe
the most decorated winter Olympian of all time which Norwegian cross country skier 15 medals including eight golds between 2002 and 2018 she won five medals at her final games in 2018 at the age of 37 before retiring at the end of the season
Marit Bjorgen
The golden leopard is the most prestigious prize awarded at the film festival which southern Swiss town Julia Murat’s Portuguese language grammar rule 34 won the award in 2022?
Locarno
the founder of Mowgli Street Food restaurants and the Mowgli Trust charity, a food writer and television presenter. She was a child protection barrister for 20 years, judge on Great British menu
Nisha Katona
Lieutenant Commander Shepard is the main protagonist in which series of video games published by by the way set within the Milky Way in the year 2183 Shepherd aims to stop a fictional fleet of sentence starships known as the reapers which into destroy all organic life
Mass Effect
Jay Chandrasekhar Kevin Hefferman Steve Lavery and Poole so to all members of which American comedy troupe they’ve done the film Super Troopers and club dread
Broken Lizard
The most decorated male winter Olympian of all time which Norwegian biathlete won 13 medals including eight golds between 1998 and 2014 his final goal saw him over take his fellow Norwegian Bjorn Daehlie in the all-time medal table
Ole Einar Bjorndalen
Westlife’s 13th UK number one singles a cover of which song which was originally released in 2002 by Norwegian Irish duo Secret Garden prior to the Westlife version 800 greatest assessment covered by American singer Josh Groban in 2004
You Raise Me Up
Which footballer currently paying for Wrexham FC and also known as the cycling goalkeeper is the host of the Fozcast podcast co-host with Tom ochoa content is typically fixed in the world football
Ben Foster
Which instant messaging platform with over 250 million users co-founded by Jason citron in 2015 has a blue logo featuring a gaming controller
Discord
Sometimes known simply as Surinamese which English base creole language serves as a lingua franca and Surinam alongside Dutch
Sranan Tongo
Featuring a Comedia dell’arte figure in the title which 1950 to Glen Tetley ballet is performed on scaffolding in a set to music by Arnold Schoenberg based on a perm cycle by the Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud?
Pierrot Lunaire
As well as winning the men’s time trial at the UCI Road world championships a record four times which German road cyclist also one in an Olympic silver medal in the time trial behind Bradley Wiggins in 2012
Tony Martin
One of only for footballer to play the nearest top-flight in four different decades this man was born in England to Yugoslavia and parents which goalkeeper to spells each with Arsenal and Leeds United between 1979 and 2001
John Lukic
After falling out with Sammy Hagar Van Halen recruit what singer is the new lead vocalist he first became famous with the rock band extreme a nice time with Van Halen was unsuccessful
Gary Cherone
Born present day Ghana there in around 1686 what was the name of the 18th century leader of the Windward Marines she let them in a guerilla war against the British in the first maroon war and its depicted on the Jamaican $500 banknote
Nanny of the Maroons
Highly critical of the diet industry and its reinforcement of unattainable body image ideals, which British writer in psychotherapist to Princess Diana wrote fat is a feminist issue in 1978
Susie Orbach
What name is given to the unleavened flatbread usually with a crispy texture to those part of the Jewish cuisine and particularly associated with the Passover festival
Matzah
Which Roman statesman and Oritor was assassinated in 43BC on the orders of Mark Anthony in response to a series of speeches known as the philippics speeches were delivered in the aftermath of the death of Julius Caesar and roundly condemned Anthony
Cicero
After Bruce Dickinson left Iron Maiden in 1993 to pursue a solo career Iron Maiden brought in what singer originally the front man for wolfsbane
Blaze Bayley
What name is given to the rebellion of enslaved people that began in Jamaica at Christmas and 1831 contributed to the abolition of slavery in the British empire this rebellion is so named because it was led by preacher Samuel Sharpe who is now the picture of the Jamaican $50 banknote
Baptist War
One of only for footballers that played in English top-flight in four different decades this man was born in England to Yugoslavian parents which goalkeeper who played a handful of games for Liverpool in the late 1970s and early 1980s went onto played for over 600 times for Coventry City between 1984 and 2000
Steve Ogrizovic
What name taken from Ottoman Turkish is given to the long seat formed of a mattress and laid against the side of the room that as distinct from the chaise long or fainting couch was equally likely to be found in 19th century boudoirs? Word also used for hollow frameless bed base.
Divan
As well as winning the women’s Road race at the UCI Road world championships a record five times which French cyclist also won the Olympic gold medal in the road race in 1996
Jeannie Longo
What instant messaging platform with over 700 million users who founded by Nikolai and Pavel Durov in 2013 has a blue logo featuring a paper aeroplane
Telegram
Which bank the formerly used the slogan of the worlds local bank rescued the UK arm of Silicon Valley bank after collapsing March 2023
HSBC
Which Roman statesman Protege of Sula served as a commander in the Sertorian and third mithridatic wars and was assassinated by Lucius Septimus following his defeat in the battle of Pharsalus in 48BC?
Pompey the Great
Who did Anita rani replace a secondary percent from woman’s hour she was the first host of the late night’s woman hour and was the first voice heard on BBC Radio 5 live when it was launched in 1994
Jane Garvey
Pure mathematics what term describes the new matrix obtained by flipping a matrix over its diagonal effectively rewriting the rows of the original matrix is the columns of the new matrix
Transpose
What name is most commonly given to Jewish bread particularly associated with the Shabbat which is usually braided into a mass of knots before baking?
Challah
Documenting the orchestration of strategies to hinder the advancement of women in society through regressive legislation and the beauty industry, backlash: the undeclared war against American women is a 1991 work by which Pulitzer prize-winning journalist
Susan Faludi
El Cloughico is the nickname for matches between Nottingham Forest and which rival English football club the name references Brian Clough who won league titles as a manager for both teams
Derby County
Which wetland area in Botswana was the 1000th officially inscribed on the UNESCO world Heritage list
Okavango Delta
Inspired by the Bechdel test in 2013 in the media organisation GL88D created a test measuring LGBT representation of films named after which American author and activist best known for book The Celluloid Closet
Vito Russo
Oh man dressed as which food stuff one 309 votes in the 2017 UK general election standing against Tim Farron
Fish Finger
Mathematically, 69 solution to the title of which ariana grande song
34 + 35
In womens 100m sprint at 2020, top 3 were Jamaican, Marie Josee La Tou came fourth representing which African country?
Cote D’Ivoire
Who alliteratively named British musician record of the famous saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty Baker Street he died in 2014
Raphael Ravenscroft
Which red head allrounder it was the first South African to take 400 test wickets
Shaun Pollock
Which parody tabloid journalist has appeared in the magazine Private eye since the 1960s are typically alternates praise and condemnation of the same person as often find at the end of her column
Glenda Slagg
Which German mathematician formulated the measure of fractal dimension of sets that bears his name? it relates to how fast the numbers of balls required to completely covered the set increases as their size decreases
Felix Hausdorff
The pier in which English town noted for its crab won the national Piers society pier of the year award in 2015? It is situated between Skegness to the north-west in Yarmouth to the south east
Cromer
Alan Menken won Oscar for best original score for what 1992 animated film?
Aladdin
Originally one of the so called three kingdoms of Korea, which kingdom controlled all of what is now South Korea throughout 8th and 9th centuries?
The Silla Kingdom
What were the three “Kingdoms of Korea”?
goguryeo, Baekje, Silla
Which British musician and father of BBC radio presenter played the tenor saxophone solo for several of the Pink Panther films he died in March 2023
Tony Coe
Into thousand and 21 which offspinner became only the third Australian bowler to take 400 test wickets after Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath
Nathan Lyon
The white cliffs of Dover mainly consist of chalk interspersed with layers of which mineral sedimentary form of quartz which has historically been used to make stone tools
Flint
Which chemical element is the third radioactive element in the periodic table after tech NETM and promethium its most stable isotope has a half life longer than the age of the observable universe it also has medicinal purposes and can be used to treat diarrhoea
Bismuth
A man dressed as which TV character one just three votes in the 2017 UK general election is election focus on the family Court reform but he failed to unseat Theresa May
Elmo
Which American mathematical physicist pioneering work in chaos theory led to the discovery of two mathematical constant is that bear his name they relate to the relative size of gaps between bifurcations in the logistic map
Mitchell Feigenbaum
Fictional drink from hitchhikers likened by Douglas adams to have brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around large gold brick?
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Obituaries written by which parody poet have appeared in magazine Private eye since 1970s age as a traditionally given at 17 1/2
EJ Thribb
Mathematically 4 is solution to title of which Bob Dylan song?
2 x 2
Mens 100m sprint at 2020 Olympics Marcell Jacobs won Italy first ever gold medal in event, Akani Simbine finished fourth representing which African nation?
South Africa
What three letter modern slang term is a mild insult meaning mediocre average
Mid
Largest area of mangrove forest in the world its habitat for numerous endangered species including the Bengal tiger
Sundarbans
Silla kingdom control of the Korean peninsula followed that defeet of both Gorgoryeo nd which other of the so-called three kingdoms of Korea
Baekje
The old farm is the nickname for matches between Norwich City and which rival English football club the name reference is the nearby agrarian countryside
Ipswich
One year after the field of the cloth of gold King Henry the eighth sign the secret treaty of alliance against French with which holy Roman Emperor
Charles the fifth
Inspired by the Bechdel test in 2016 film critic Manohla Dargis proposed a test measure diversity and racial representation of films named after which American director
Ava Du Verney
Nelson who ate thousands of pounds worth of fish fish stocks from Essex reservoir of the unexpected visit in at 2023 is what sort of wild sea animal
Seal
Which English towns Pier one The National Pier society pier of the year award in 2019 situated between Brighton to the east Bognor Regis to the west and it’s Downlands estate forms part of the South Downs National Park
Worthing
Currently displayed in the National Gallery in London 17th century painting Minerva protects pax from Mars by which Flemish artist
Peter Paul Rubens
Now widely used which free word euphemism for drunk was popularised by the magazine Private Eye
Tired and Emotional
In 1990 which New Zealander became the first man ever to take 400 test wickets
Sir Richard Hadlee
West Indian bowler who took 519 test wickets between 1984 and 2001
Courtney Walsh
Indian bowler who took 619 test wickets between 1990 and 2008
Anil Kumble
Which Indian bowler who debuted in 2011 is 474 test wicket so far?
Ravichandran Ashwin
Which South African bowler has 439 wickets between 2004 and 2019
Dale Steyn
Which Indian bowler got 434 wickets between 1978 in 1994
Kapil Dev
Second behind mutTia Muralitharan in Sri Lankan test wickets who has 433 test wickets between 1999 and 2018
Rangana Herath
414 test wickets between 1985 and 2002 which Pakistani bowler has the most test wickets for Pakistan
Wasim Akram
Who is behind Sachin Tendulkar in the all-time most test runs for India He has 13,288 between 1996-2012
Rahul Dravid
Who has scored the most test runs for Australia in cricket between 95 and 2012
Ricky Ponting
Who has the most test runs for South Africa which is the score between 95 and 13
Jacques Kallis
Who has the most test runs for England score in 12,472 between 2006 and 2018
Alistair Cook
Who has the most test runs for Sri Lanka score in 12,400 between 2000 and 2015
Kumar Sangakkara
Who has second most west indies test crickets run behinds Brian Lara??352333’. 1994-2015.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Who has second most test runs for Australia behind Ricky ponting? He has 1978 to 1994.
Allan Border
Which Australian has third most test runs for Australia behind Ricky ponting and Allan border? Scored between 1985-2004.
Steve Waugh
Most test runs for Pakistan with 10099 between 2000-17
Younis Khan
Indian batsman scored 10,122 test runs between 1971 and 1987? Afjjolwsyee as one of greatest opening batsmen of all timeS
Sunil Gavaskar
Who is behind Tendulkar in all time ODI runs for india? Scored nearly 13k in 2008-2023
Virat Kholi
Nickname of the universe boss which Jamaican cricketer has got 10,405 ODI cricket runs for west Indies between 1990 and 2007
Chris Gayle
Whcih current captain of Bangladesh national cricket team has the most wickets in T-20 internationals of 136 wickets
Shakib Al-Hasan
Which Indian cricketer is the leading run scorer in T-20 internationals with currently 4008
Virat Kholi
What name is given to the continuous flow of charged particles that are rejected outward from the suns corona and released into an interplanetary space
Solar wind
What is the name of the tenuous layer of gas that lies below the suns corona gets its name from its reddish pink colour
Chromosphere
And 1639 who made the first recorded observation of a transit of Venus from his Lancashire home
Jeremiah Horrocks
Pandora and Prometheus the name of a collective name because they keep Saturns offering narrowed by Robert and just inside and outside of it
Shepherd
Surface gravity on which planet around 2.5x that of earth
Jupiter
Ring systems of the gas giants all lie within a gravitational Boundry inside Rich any large satellite be torn apart by tidal forces what’s the name of the boundary
Roche limit
What is the name of the huge rift system on Mars that straddles the planet just south of its equator
Valles Marineris
Which space probe launched on the 3rd of March 1959 designed to photograph the moon and measure radiation became the first American in space craft and solar orbit
Pioneer 4
Discovered in 1948 by Joel Cooper which is the smallest and innermost of the moons of Uranus
Miranda
Annual meteor showers caused by the debris left by the comet Tempel Tuttle
Leonids
Which word of German origin is used for a fissure or narrow channel on the moon surface
Rille
What name is given to the measure of backbench MP me introduce before public business on Tuesday and Wednesdays it’s time it’s sponsor me speak for gives its name
10 minute rule bill
What agricultural device was developed and used by the inventor Jethro Tull in around 17 oh one
Seed drill
In the English period what title ranks immediately below that of a duke
Marquis
Ned Maddrell who died in 1974 is generally known to be the last person to speak which form of Gaelic as his first language
Manx
Which word now especially apply to retired professor originally meant honourably discharged from public duty
Emeritus
Which Brazilian scored in every game in every round in the 1970 World Cup finals
Jairzinho
Who were the beaten team in both the 1974 and 1970 8FIFA World Cup finals
Netherlands
Who is the coach of west Germany when they won the World Cup on home soil in 1974
Helmut Schon
Who did England play in the 1966 World Cup semi-final to get them to the final against Germany
Portugal
In the 1982 World Cup final winners
Italy
Which fullback scored a goal in the 1974 World Cup final and also in the 1982 World Cup final
Paul Breitner
Who scored the first goal and go in World Cup history in France beat Paraguay in the second round of the 1998 World Cup finals
Laurent Blanc
1934 which country became the first from Africa to take part in the World Cup finals
Egypt
Who is the top scorer of the 1954 World Cup finals with 11 rows
Sandor Kocsis
What was the surname of the twin brothers who played for Netherlands in the 1978 World Cup finals
Van de Kerkhof
Which Mexican goalkeeper played in five World Cup final tournaments between 1950 and 1966 record equalled in 1998 by Lothar Matheus
Antonio Carbajal
Which Brazilian won the World Cup twice as a player and managed them to success in 1970
Mario zagallo
What was the name of the Yorkshire Man who managed Sweden in 1950 and 1958 tournaments
George Rayner
Which 1965 hit song for the Beatles contains a line: when I was younger so much younger than today
Help!
What fruit juice cordial is mixed with an equal quantity of gin to make a gimlet cocktail
Lime juice
The name of which friend of Odysseus is used for someone who is a wise and faithful advisor
Mentor
Anglo-French agreement of April 19 0480 Amelia Kerr been growing German power is known by what name
Entente cordiale
What word of Arabic origin is used for a dry Valley watercourse found an arid regions and subject to flash flooding
Wadi
In the third part of Gullivers travels what is the name of the flying island run by mad scientists
Laputa
In sailing what name is used for steering a zigzag course with the boat I have left or right of the wind direction in order to make progress up wind
Tacking
Ranunculus repens the creeping form of which common wildflower dreaded back garden farmers because it’s spread so quickly
Buttercups
1924 which Sunday broadsheet owned by Lord Beaverbrook became the first British newspaper to publish a crossword puzzle
Sunday express
What is the name of the Opera which the character Canio dressed as a clown sings the Vesti La Giubba?
I pagliacci
Who wrote the novels men at arms officers and gentlemen and unconditional surrender which were republished is the sword of honour trilogy in 1965
Evelyn Waugh
Closely related to the nasturtium, which peppery plant grows submerged in water in fast flowing streams it’s sharply flavoured leaves often used in green salads or as a garnish
Watercress
According to the Noël Coward song who go out in the midday sun
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
The popes Callistus the third and Alexander the sixth were members of which notorious family
Borgia
Fashion designer who worked at next lift to work for Asda with the George label and then went to per Una at Marks & Spencer’s
George Davies
Who is the manager of the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967
Brian Epstein
Who wrote his only novel Rasselas during the evenings of a single week in 1759 to pay for his mothers funeral expenses
Samuel Johnson
What is a measurement system of weights that uses pounds and ounces as units
Avoirdupois
What name is given to the traditional British system of weights based on the green in the pennyweight used to weigh precious metals
Troy weight
What is the scientific name like a Lagopus Scoticus which is the only bird indigenous solely to the British Isles
Red Grouse
Saxicola Torquata That’s what common name because it’s call resembles two pebbles being knocked together
Stonechat
Fruit of which tree is eaten all year round by the Jay which has a habit of hiding recovering food
Oak
Which bird officially recorded and 16 to 1916 return to breed in Scotland in the 1950s loch Garton
Osprey
Which remote island group around 40 miles west of north Uist is the largest gannetry in the world to be found
St Kilda
What is the common name for the bird also known as a green plover or peewit
Lapwing
Which is Britain’s smallest bird of prey the middle of the species helps to incubate the eggs
Merlin
