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In 1972 who became first Oscar winner to also have parents who both won Oscar’s?

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Liza Minnelli

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Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek won 1985 award for Best Makeup for which film starring Cher?

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Mask

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Which 73 yo actor entertained the audience at 1991 ceremony by performing one armed press ups while collecting his Oscar for best supporting actor?

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Jack Palance

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In chess “fianchetto” is a term for the development of which piece?

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Bishop

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Who was first presenter of tv programme Question Time?

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Sir Robin Day

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Which word for building in a sports ground in which player change their clothes and store equipment comes ultimately for latin for butterfly?

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Pavilion

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Which French Revolution group got its name because it’s members sat on the highest benches in the assembly?

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Montagnards

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Whose last words to his executioner in 1794 was “show my head to the people, it is worth the trouble”

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George’s Danton

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Which civic religion did Robespierre create to replace Christianity and the cult of reason

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Supreme Being

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Which English radical was elected to represent Calais in 1793 as a Deputy to the National Assembly?

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Thomas Paine

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Which pollitical group were also known as the Brissotins after their founder Jacques-Pierre Brissot?

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Girondins

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In June 1791? The French royal family escaped from Paris, in which town were they arrested and turned back to the capital?

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Varennes

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Who composed La Marseillaise

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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

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The price of crude oil from which North Sea field is widely used as a benchmark in Europe and the opec countries?

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Brent

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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?

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Cortisone

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Which Yorkshire and England cricketer was first bowlers to take 300 test wickets?

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Fred Trueman

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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?

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Porcelain

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Crude by Wally Schirra Donise all the more Cunningham which was the first man Apollo flight

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Apollo 7

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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

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Genesis rock

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What is buzz aldrin titled his autobiography after phrase used on the moon to describe the lunar landscape what was the phrase

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Magnificent desolation

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The name of which variety of pasta normally served stuffed literally means big tubes or pipes

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Cannelloni

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Which classic Bruce Springsteen song begins with the line in the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream

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Born to run

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Which of Shakespeare’s comedies has a heroine named hero

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much ado about nothing

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In the film Sylvia which poet was played by Daniel Craig who starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow

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Ted hughes

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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

Which bird is also known as the storm cock because of its habit of singing even in the worst of the weather

Mistlethrush

Special structures in the peregrines for nostrils enable the birds breathe at great speed when stupid what are they generally called

Baffles

The male of which large bird related to the Heron has a call known as a boom that resembles a distant foghorn

Bittern

What is the common name of buteo buteo who is Numbers dropped greatly in 1950s my favourite food rabbits with decimated by myxomatosis

Buzzard

What is the common name of the small passerine birds of the genius anthus that has species called Rock tree and water

Pipit

The Gare fowl was an alternative name for which now extinct bird which was probably last seen in Britain on Saint Kilda in 1840

Great Auk

A white heart shaped face and an eerie shriek of distinguishing features of which out

Barn owl

Which resident shorebird with the scientific name hematopus Ostralagus is sometimes called the Sea Pie?

Oyster catcher

What is the name of the wild fowl wetlands trust nature reserve in Lancashire that attracts huge box of pink footed geese each winter

Martin Mere

The Whitland bird a little grebe the smallest of the British grebes has a alternative common name

Dabchick

The whip whip whip cool of which migratory game bird is I said to sound like wet my lips

Quail

Which conductor found in both the London Philharmonic at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Set Thomas Beecham

Which time for the band of colour formed when a beam of visible light is split into its constituent wavelengths was coined by Isaac Newton and 1672

Spectrum

Founded in 1858 Blackheath you play at the Rectory field claim to be the oldest continuously exist in English club in which sport

Rugby union

What is the name of the chalk headland situated in Eastbourne which is one of the highest cliffs on the south coast of England

Beachy head

1966 film Walk don’t run was the last screen appearance of which Debonair British-born film actor

Cary Grant

Which 17th-century invention is called Thea bushel in France a Kirk a tracker in the Netherlands in a cava Tappi in Italy

Corkscrew

Graham Nash left which group in 1968 to join David Crosby in Stephen Stills

The Hollies

Which battle in the summer and autumn of 1917 the spearheaded by British commander in chief said Douglas Haig aimed at destroying German submarine base is located in the north coast of Belgium that I saw tremendous loss of life minimal allied games Allied gains

Battle of Passchendaele / third battle of Ypres

The name of which language group is in the Indian subcontinent from the Sanskrit word for the Tamil language as well as Tamil languages? in this family include Telugu kannada and Malayalam

Dravidian

Another major source of information of the Mali empire was this North African historian and philosopher who died in 1406 this is which arab scholar, who in the historiographical work of Macademia proposed a cycle in which empires gradually lose a severe or social cohesion

Ibn Khaldun

Karl Marx first formulated his dictum that religion is the opium of the people in a critique of which philosophers 1820 work elements of the philosophy of right? This thinker employs term “Aufhebung” to describe the interaction between a thesis and an antithesis

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Maria Cristina of the two Sicilies acted as regent in the early part of the reign of which queen of Spain a daughter who reigned from 1833 into 1868 is Queens reign saucepan transition from an absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy

Isabella II

In which opera does the cobbler Hans Sachs instruct the Young at night Walther about music before singing competition

The master singers of Nuremberg

As females can give us an unpleasant smell after being pollinated city planners have favour planting only males of which species of tree is native to China on first appear 270 million years ago? This has had adverse health effects due to the mils of this tree having highly allergenic pollen and unusually for free motile sperm?

Gingko (Maidenhair Tree)

Analogous to the plasmodesmata that link the cytoplasm of plant cells, what name is given to specialised connections between two animal cells created by hexameric hemichannels of the protein connexin?

Gap Junctions

The Sign of Shakuntala is a play by which classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist of 4th and 5th centuries CE? Adapts story of title character, mother of emperor Bharata from epic poem Mahabharata

Kalidasa

South of the Zagros mountains about 50 km from ancient Persepolis lives which city the capital of the Fars province of Iran? it is known as the city of poetry in the famed poet Hafez and Saadi are buried nearby.

Shiraz

Who wrote The Palm Wine Drunkard?

Amos Tutuola

About halfway through the main road from tehran to Shiraz north-east of the Zagros mountains which city is the capital of eponymous province is the main centre for iran’s texture textile industry known for the huge Naqsh-e-Jahan Square officially Imam Khomeini Square, at south side of which is Shah Mosque also called Imam Mosque.

Isfahan

Two branches of a family who are fighting in the Mahabharata?

Kaurava and Pandava

Throughout her reign, Isabelle II was opposed by which reactionary traditionalist political movement named after her uncle, an Infante of Spain who opposed her accession to the throne? This movement, which gives its name to theee wars fought between 1833 and 1876, was merged with Falangism by General Franco in 1937.

Carlism

The Pandavas in Mahabharata are the five sons of Pandu who all marry which beautiful Princess? After her husband Yudhisthira loses her in rigged game of dice, Duryodhana, eldest of Kauravas, attempts to disrobe her but she is saved from further humiliation by divine intervention from Krishna.

Draupadi

Premiering in 1942 Capriccio was the final opera written by which composer who described it as a conversation piece about music it concerns a poet and the musician collaborating on an opera and discussing with the musical poetry is the higher art form

Richard Strauss

The final human guru of Sikh ism Guru Gobind Singh named which central scripture of Sikhism as his successor of the final and last eternally living guru of Sikhism?

Guru Granth Sahib

Hegel uses the process of dialectic to trace the progression of thought in which 1807 work widely regarded as his magnum opus? the title entity of this work is created from the dialectical synthesis of the idea and nature to form absolute knowledge

Phenomenology of Spirit

What capital of east Azerbaijan province in Iran is located about 60km east of Lake Urmia? It’s cultural heritage has suffered through several dearthquakes throughout centuries, but among its famous sights are a Blue Mosque built by Shah Jahan and a Grand Bazaar claimed to be worlds largest covered bazaar.

Tabriz

The best known passage in The Phenomenology of Spirit is a dialectic given what name? In this passage, Hegel describes two independent self consciousnesses who struggle to the death, with one being subjugated and both failing to be recognised as self conscious by the other.

Master-Slave Dialectic

During a partial eclipse, the observer is in what region of shadow in which light source is only partly obscured by the occluding body? This is contrasted with the umbra, in which observer experiences a total eclipse and the antumbra in whi observer experiences an annular eclipse.

Penumbra

What names of Spanish kings between the bourbon restoration of 1878 and the establishment of second Spanish republic in 1931?

Alfonso XII Alfonso XIII

The central theme of Strauss’ Capriccio is same as which Italian composer’s opera First the Music and then the Words? That opera buffa written in 1786 for a competition when pitted against German singspiel The Impresario, both performed same time in Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna?

Antonio Salieri

Which book of John F Kennedy win the Pulitzer prize for biography in 1957

Profiles in courage

What nickname was given to the wife of president Roosevelt B Hayes because she banned alcohol in the executive mansion

Lemonade Lucy

1957 Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into which state capital to force the desegregation of schools in compliance with the orders of federal court

Little Rock Arkansas

Which law did Benjamin Harrison have passed in 1890 to limit anti-competitive business practices

Sherman anti trust act

Sweeping program of the reform by lbj specifically areas of civil rights and the war on poverty

The Great Society

Italians use the word Tedesco for which European nationality in language

German

What word for the testing of a metal to determine its ingredients of purity comes from an old French word meaning trial or attempt

Assay

What is the name of the early flowering deciduous shrub with yellow bell like flowers which is a member of the Olive family in widespread in the UK

Forsythia

Who wrote Love on the Dole, 1933 novel about working-class poverty

Walter Greenwood

What determines the number of men and women who receive Maundy money from the monarch and also the amount that are given

The age of the Monarch

In ancient Greece what general name is given to the Chief Magistrate in many city states

Archon

In English verse what name is given to a pause in the middle of a Metrical line

Caesura

Emerson, Lake & Palmer only British hit was composed by Aaron Copland what’s the title

Fanfare for the Common man

In ancient Egyptian mythology who was the patron of scribes and the God of the moon

Thoth

What Italian dessert is made by whisking egg yolks wine and sugar together over a gentle heat

Zabaglione

Which opera by Puccini is it in the days of the California gold rush

The girl of the Golden West

Frederik Willem Lanchester who built one of the first motor cars in Britain patented what type of break now standard on motorcars

Disc

What word for a nickname comes from an early French word for playful tap under the chin

Soubriquet

What well-known revolutionary socialist hymn what is the national anthem of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1944

The Internationale

Who wrote the poem one of his sonnets dedicated to liberty that opens Milton thou shouldst to be living at this hour

William Wordsworth

Architect Sir Frederick Gibbard best known for the crown of thorns design of Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral was responsible for planning which Newtown in Essex

Harlow

Who was the long-term presenter of BBC’s record Breakers

Roy Castle

What was the name of Google’s messaging app which rent from 2016 2019?

Allo

The three most performed operas at the Met known as the Abc what are they stand for

Aida La Boheme Carmen

Stefan and a Scottish granny a character is used by which female ventriloquist

Nina Conti

In 1963 Diana Vreeland became editor in chief of what fashion magazine

Vogue

Slow loris release is venom from which part of its body

Elbows

The Enfield case is the subtitles the sequel of what horror film

The conjuring

Which TV physicist cowrote universal a guide to the Kosmos with Geoff forsure

Brian cox

What is the only Worcestershire sauce that may be called original and genuine

Lea and perrins

What sort of creature is a sea biscuit

Sea Urchin

What TV quiz did Henry Kelly often say what am I

Going for Gold

Which British peace envoy was quick Kidnapped in Beirut in 1987

Terry Waite

Which artist created the cover for the Blur album think Tank

Banksy

Trident replaced which former nuclear weapons program

Polaris

What word follows war in a slang term for make up

Paint

What royal navy rank comes between admiral and rear admiral

Vice Admiral

Which jockey turn the writer wrote a biography of Lester Piggott

Dick Francis

Dangerous lady is a book by which female crime writer

Martina Cole

What was the last Alfred Hitchcock film shot in black and white

Psycho

Greek mythology who was the God of marriage

Hymen

Washington Heights is a neighbourhood and what New York borough

Manhattan

What is the other horse race other than the Grand National known as the spring double

Lincoln handicap

Who is the founder of gym shark

Ben Francis

What Irish black comedy developed by Sharon Horgan won best drama series at 2023 BAFTAs?

Bad Sisters

2020 2TV show written by Tony Schumacher set in Liverpool starring Martin Freeman

The responder

2022 Channel 4 drama filmed in South Wales star in Lewis Grabban nominated for BAFTAs

Somewhere boy

Comedy by Daisy May Cooper broadcast on BBC from 2022 also stars in Lenny rush as Ollie

Am I Being Unreasonable?

Who won best actress in 2023 factors for playing Ruth and I am Ruth which also won the best single drama

Kate Winslet

What is the name of Kate Winslet’s daughter who starred opposite her in the 2023 BAFTA award winning I am Ruth

Mia Threapleton

Name of the ITV show on thousand 22 about the John Darwin disappearance case

The Thief his wife and a canoe

British espionage thriller starring Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis nominated for best mini Siri set a 2023 BAFTAs

A spy among friends

Which BBC show one best soap and continuing drama at 2023 BAFTAs

Casualty

Spy thriller TV series based on the Slough house series of novels by Mick Heron on Apple TV+ on the 1st of April 2022 starring Gary Oldman is Jackson lamb

Slow Horses

Gained prominence through his role as Sam Uley in the twilight films and now playing Sergeant Eli whip wounded Wolf in the English 2020 2TV show nominated for bafta 2023

Chaske Spencer

Maxine Peake was nominated 2023 BAFTAs playing which woman in the British historical drama and about the titular campaigner of the Hillsborough disaster

Anne Williams

Which TV show starring Billie Piper as Susie pickles was created by Lucy Prebble and Billie Piper and Billy was nominated for a bafta 2023

I hate Susie too

British comedy drama TV series on sky one from 2019 starring Joe Gilgun as Vinny O’Neill

Brassic

French historical drama released in 2022 on Disney+ set primarily in 1980s Paris the series follows the events leading up to and following the death of the namesake French Algerian student

Oussekine

In which country house did Hercules poirot Solve both his first and his last murder cases

Styles House

Who created the television series Grange Hill Brookside and Hollyoaks

Phil Redmond

Which Caribbean island British overseas territory was cited in 1493 by Christopher Columbus reminder after the monastery in Catalonia and the jagged Mountain it sounds on

Montserrat

In Buddhism what name of Sanskrit origin is given to the universal truth or law as expounded by the Buddha

Dharma

Which pop artist featured in Ken Russells pop goes the easel and produce the collage Toyshop in 1961 using glass and cut outs

Peter Blake

What is slang mean where FBI agents commonly referred to in the 1930s it was also the title of James Cagney film

G-Men

Cape Comorin is the southernmost point of which Commonwealth country

India

In 60 4BC who defeated Catalin for the following years consulship and subsequently played the leading role in the capture and execution of his followers

Cicero

Room for a succession of wars against which Italian people whom they eventually subdued despite a famous defeat at the caudine forks

The samnites

What was the name of Caligula favourite horse which allegedly planned to appoint as the council

Incitatus

Rome suffered its bloody is defeat to Hannibal in which battle of 216 BC when their forces were in circled in a pincer movement

Cannae

Which Christian heresy proclaimed that the son was of a different substance from the father was supported by the emperors Constantius the second and Valens

Arianism

Europe’s longest river the Volga empties into which sea

Caspian Sea

Which instrument did Anton Caras play the theme music to the film the third man

Zither

What is the popular name for the flight in capsule is intended to make canned beer taste like draft

Widget

Heath Marsh and dark green are species of which butterflies whose name comes from the Latin for dice box because of the spotted markings

Fritillaries

What is the proper name of the flag that sometimes known as the red duster and which is flying by the British merchant Navy

Red ensign

In a radio broadcast from Madrid in July 19306 Dolores Ibarruri proclaimed of they shall not pass which became a republic in slogan in the Spanish Civil War by what are the girl is she better known

La Passionaria

Which conclusive battle in 1954 saw of the defeat of the French forces in Indochina by the Vietminh

Dien Bien Phu

What name is commonly given to bismarks edited version of the final interview between Prussian King Wilhelm and the French ambassador which precipitated the Franco Prussian war in 1870

Ems Dispatch

Which American army general commanded the force is the liberated Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War

Norman Schwartzkopf

What name was given to Willy Brandt’s policy that was intended to create closer ties between western east Germany and to improve relations with Poland and Soviet union

Ostpolitik

Which former lawyer was president of France throughout the First World War and head of the government of national unity from 1926 to 1929

Raymond Poincare

What name the Russian for fist was given to the wealthy peasants in the Soviet government sought to liquidate as a class in a campaign launched in 1929

Kulaks

The gemsBok the scimitar horned and the Arabian are free species of which large antelope

Oryx

What name is shared by a river that flows through the Derbyshire Peak District and one that forms part of the English Welsh border

Wye

What time is the first part of which is the right from the German for rag or rabble the Karl Marx coin for the lowest stratum of the industrial working-class including tramps and criminals

Lumpenproletariat

What title did Ja bach give to his set of 24 Préludes and fugues for keyboard in each of the major and minor keys and also a second second post later in Leipzig sometimes called the 48

The well tempered Klavier

Which Australian player attempted to use an aluminium bat during the protest in the 1979 to 80 Ashes series

Dennis Lillee

Who captained England in 19 home test matches between 1970 7981 was never on the losing side in the oven

Mike Brearley

During Don Bradman’s final test innings which English bowler famously dismissed him for a duck to deny him a career test average of 100?

Eric Hollies

What name is given to the fertile low-lying area reclaimed Marshlands into the west and south of the wash

The Fens or Fenlands

What are martial art was introduced as Olympic sport in Tokyo games of 1964

Judo

Who starred as the gang boss Charlie Croker in the original 1969 version of the Italian Job

Michael Caine

The opening of which of London is Bridges in 1917 is the subject of one a few paintings by constable not feature of pastoral scene

Waterloo Bridge

In 1535 who completed the first translation of the Bible to be printed in English and edited for what became known as the great bible for 1539

Miles Coverdale

According to Shakespeare’s play who struck the first blow in Julius Caesar was assassinated

Casca

What French term is used in ballet for dancing on the tip of the toe in specially designed stiffen shoes

En Pointe

Which current British army regiment was founded as the first Regiment of foot guards in 1656

Grenadier Guards

The name of which precious stone comes from the Greek for nail or claw the pink and white bands of one of his varieties are set resemble fingernail

Onyx

Name of group fronted by John Lennon that Paul McCartney joined in 1957

The Quarrymen

In April 1964, which Beatles single became the first record to top the British and us charts simultaneously?

Can’t Buy Me Love

What was the title of Beatles first uk number one hit single which spent 7 weeks at top of charts in 1963?

From Me To You

Who directed the Beatles first feature film a hard Day’s night

Dick Lester

Which New York Stadium did the Beatles play the first concert of the 1965 American tour in front of a crowd of 55,000

Shea Stadium

She loves you knocked which group off the top of the UK charts the song bad to me had also been written by Lennon and McCartney

Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas

Title of John Lennon first literary work book of nonsense verse in 1964

In his own write

Which of the Beatles UK number one singles doesn’t feature the title anywhere in the lyrics

The ballad of John and Yoko

In the 19th century which empire became known as the sick man of Europe

Ottoman Empire

What is the name of the traditional Welsh broth normally made with lamb bacon leaks potatoes and cabbage?

Cawl

Which bbc economics editors father was one half of a double act with Donald Swann

Stephanie Flanders

Kingsley Amis won the 1986 Booker prize for which novel about a notable but obnoxious author who retires to Wales meet up old friends that drops dead

The old devils

The Jazz classic mood Indigo is particularly associated with his Orchestra

Duke Ellington

What is the largest British freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster

Crayfish

Which date is the Eton Wall game played when the eton college Collegera play the Oppidians annually?

St Andrews Day

Which Upland area is those dozemary pool where according to tradition Sir Bedivere threw King Arthur sword Excalibur after the battle of Camlan

Bodmin Moor

Which region form is the toe of Italy

Calabria

Formally known as old is Beverley Street in which English city is there a street called the land of green ginger

Hull

In which modern country is the bulk of the ancient regions of Volinia and Podolia located?

Ukraine

Rising to the height of 1250 feet above sea level wills neck is the highest point at which the range of somerset Hills

Quantock Hills

Which peninsula the formerly belong to Italy was incorporated into Yugoslavia by settlements of 1947 at 19:54

Istria

Which mountain range lies between the Elbe and the Weser rivers was divided by former border between east and west Germany

Harz Mountains

What’s the name of the dense scrubland vegetation of the Mediterranean the name is also given to a French resistance movement

Maquis

Which British Cathedral city does a medieval Gateway called the bishops eye straddle the approach to the moat-ringed Bishops Palace

Wells

Which country’s highest point is Mount Musala, in section of Rhodopi massif known as the Rila Planina?

Bulgaria

Line off the coast of the island of Jersey which group of rocks from the southernmost point of the British Isles

Les Minquiers or The Minkies

Rising to height of 10,964 feet what is highest mountain in the Dolomites?

Marmolada

The rivers DochArt and LochAy whose confluence is just east of the town of killin, are principal headwTers of which river?

Tay

Adjective otic refers to which part of the body?

Ears

Sebastian Coe and which other athlete broke the Mile World Record three times in a ten day period in august 1981?

Steve Ovett

What does word Croeso mean on welsh road sign

Welcome

What term from Italian for “to touch” is given to a keyboard piece intended to display the dexterity of the performer?

Toccata

In biology what word for minute body or cell in an organism especially red and white blood cell comes from the Latin for little body

Corpuscle

In physics what name is given to the phenomenon in which waves appear to bend or spread out as they pass for a small aperture or around the edge of a barrier

Diffraction

Which deadly viper named after an 18 century Scottish naturalist is known as the Tic Polonga in Sri Lanka where cause of many serious snakebites?

Russell’s Viper

Which snake shares its common name of a city in southern France and produces a special secretions to polish its scales?

Montpellier Snake

Which highly poisonous snake that can be fatal to man has an Afrikaans name meaning tree snake

Boomslang

Snakes belong to which order within the class Reptilia which also includes lizards and worm lizards

Squamata

How is the snake family Crotalinae generally known because of orifices between each eye and nostril that contain heat sensitive membranes

Pit viper

Who wrote the Winslow boy

Terrence Rattigan

With which 1956 play of John Osborne first achieve theatrical success

Look Back in Anger

Which aria does Lauretta sing to her father, Gianni Schicchi, in Puccini’s opera, beginning to be allowed to marry Rinuccio?

O Mio Babbino Caro

Woman on a pedestal wearing classic cool drapery and with a torch held high in a right hand is a trademark of which Hollywood film studio

Columbia

The name of which alcoholic spirit comes from the Dutch wine

Brandy

Which prison did Johnny Cash before the concert in February 1969 included the song a boy named Sue

San Quintin

In which of Shakespeare’s plays other title characters last words the rest is silence

Hamlet

Which garden herb with varieties such as lemon and Silverqueen is used for parsley and breadcrumbs to make a stuffing for veal and poultry

Thyme

In five 9060% from the Benedictine monastery of St Andrew in Rome to England by pope Gregory the great to convert the country to Christianity

Saint Augustine

Which of the Dodecanese islands is the most easterly in the Aegean Sea

Rhodes

Who is Chancellor of the Exchequer for 1947 to 1950 when he retired because of ill health he was noted for his Austerity policies

Stafford Cripps

In Egyptian mythology the God Thoth is usually shown with the head of which wading bird

Ibis

In physics what term is used for the transfer of heat through fluid or gas by the actual movement of fluid itself

Convection

What is the better 99 for musician Douglas Trendle he took a stage name from the bus conductor in the Beatles 1967 film magical mystery tour?

Buster Bloodvessel (frontman for Bad Manners)

1991 Grand National was won by the smallest horse in the race New Zealand train to gelding which coincidentally share this name of the principal sponsor of the race of the Canadian whiskey distillery

Seagram

What four letter word might mean a throw a small pile of convoluted Earth, group of actors, moulded model; or spreading out of hounds in different directions in search of a lost scent?

Cast

Which league 1 club is the only professional football club in England not to be named after place and hold the record for the most seasons in the second tier of football with 41 without ever reach in the first year

Port Vale

Where might we frequently see the Latin phrase Decus et Tutamen, taken from Virgil’s Aeneid, which means “an ornament and a safeguard”?

£1 coin

Which chef created the French inspired coronation quiche for the coronation including spinach broad beans cheese and which herb one of the four fine herbs of French cooking

Mark Flanagan and Tarragon

What was the name of Andrew Lloyd Webber official Coronation anthems commission for the coronation

Make a Joyful Noise

According to the Royal Twitter account is the Kings favourite flower sometimes known as Larkspur’s family of flowers takes its name from the ancient Greek for a marine creature because the flowers are said to be so shaped

Delphinium

England’s largest landlocked county

Shropshire

Which is the shortest Street on the traditional version of the London monopoly board named after a pub it is the date in short and from a long road in the early 18 century going to the building of Regent Street

Vine Street

Which 18th century monument to Norman King Minstead is one of the brown properties in The New Forest version of the game Monopoly released recently

Rufus Stone

The fynboss is a Mediterranean shrubland known for incredible diversity plant life it’s found in which country is home to the King protea this country’s national flower

South Africa

Who was founder of Sikhism and first of ten human gurus?

Guru Nanak Dev

Which third son of Pandu wins Draupadi’s hand in marriage by demonstrating his skill at archery? The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between this Prince and Krishna who acts as his charioteer.

Arjuna

Which Iranian city is capital of the Razavi Khorasan Province in the country’s northeast, well connected to both Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and Herat in Afghanistan? It was declared by President Ahmadinejad to be the country’s spiritual capital and known for major pilgrimage site the shrine of Imam Reza.

Mashhad

Nigerian author for Nobel Prize in literature plays The Lion and the Jewel and Death and the Kings Horsemen?

Wole Soyinka

Which Nicaraguan dictator served as President until overthrown in 1979? Assassinated in Paraguay a year later this man’s ousting ended a family dynasty that had been in power since 1937.

Anastasia Somoza Debayle

Which architect designed the original world trade centre in New York City? Born in Seattle where he designed Rainier Centre.

Minoru Yamasaki

Which Spanish word meaning beach is used in Mexico and the western US for a dry lakebed? This word follows Racetrack in the name of one of these features in Death Valley which is known for its sailing stones which move along the flat valley floor:

Playa

Taking a dramaturgical approach to the study of social interactions, the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is an influential 1956 work by which sociologist?

Erving Goffman

According to Pseudo-Apollodorus who was the only woman among Jason’s Argonauts of Greek myth? This woman is also known for her major role in the Caledonian boar hunt.

Atalanta

Which one of the lanthanide elements is alloyed with iron and boron to make the strongest type of permanent magnet commercially available, important for hybrid and electric vehicles as well as other applications requiring magnets? This element is also used with yttrium, aluminium garnet to create the media used in a laser that emits 1064 nanometer radiation.

Neodymium

Some of Yamasaki’s work is classified as belonging to which modernist architectural style? Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock included “no applied ornament” and “architecture as volume” in their definition of this style’s principles.

International Style

Although Atalanta won the hide of the calydonian boar by being first to wound it, the creature was slain by which man, a prince who would become her consort! The host and leader of the hunt, this man is also mentioned as one of the argonauts.

Meleager

French city where kings traditionally crowned?

Reims

Which French historian considered leader of Annales School, wrote the three volume work Civilisation Materielle, ECONOMIE Et Capitalisme? The first volume published in 1967 is entitled The structures of everyday life and includes chapters on food clothing and housing in Pre industrial world.

Fernand Braudel

Which is only lanthanide element lacking a stable isotope, making it extremely rare in the earth’s crust? Along with technetium, it is one of only two of the first 82 elements to have no stable nuclides. It does not have widespread applications but has been used in atomic clocks and luminous paint.

Promethium

What name given to collection of right wing rebel groups in Nicaragua that formed in 1981 to overthrow this country’s Sandinista government? CIA funded.

Contras

Later adapted into film, 1957 film The Scapegoat tells of an Englishman who encounters his doppelgänger in France and is forced into swapping places with him. Novel was written by which English author known for her literary thrillers.

Daphne du Maurier

Another greek hero thought to be an Argonaut was which father of Achilles by the sea-Nymph Thetis? Like his brother Telamon, this hero was a friend of Heracles and served in his campaign against the Amazons.

Peleus

What word beginning with P precedes Papers in 2021 leak of 2.9TB of financial data?

Pandora

The 2002 novel The Double tells story of teacher Tertiliano who sees his doppelgänger in film. Which Portuguese Nobel lit prize winner?

Jose Saramago

Another important theorist of the everyday is which Russian literary theorist who developed concepts of carnivalesque and grotesque realism in work “Rabelais and his world”?

Mikhail Bakhtin

Burundi new capital from 2019

Gitega

Philip Johnson collaborated with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on which international style. Building on Manhattan park avenue? Building completed for and named after Canadian whisky distiller:

Seagram

Which Sandinista leader became president of Nicaragua in 1979 until defeated in 1990 general reelection by VIOLETA Chamorro? 2007 he elected President and still to this day.

Daniel Ortega

Which publication did the inaugural Sherlock Holmes story study in Scarlet first appear in 1887

Beetons Christmas annual

Which metallic element is commonly used with nickel and batteries and in control rods for nuclear reactions

Cadmium

And filmset drag on what name is given to the assistant or apprentice to the gaffer or key grip

Best boy

What does the suffix is Chester or caster in British place names indicate

Roman/army camp

What name now used for a fanatic originally meant a member of a Jewish sect uncompromising in opposition to the polytheism of ancient Rome

Zealot

It’s still the same old story a fight for love and glory is a line from a classic song

As time goes by

What word originally used for an inhabitant of an ancient Greek town on the Italian mainland has come to mean anyone who is devoted to the luxury

Sybarite

In the 1960s which building on Broadway was an important centre a popular music songwriting with offices for artists like Carole King Gerry Goffin Neil Sedaka

Brill Building

Which Florentine banker instigated the plot of 1571 the aim to put Mary Queen of Scots in English throne instead of Elizabeth with the help of the Spanish invasion

Ridolfi

Which pope issued the ball regnans in excelsis excommunicated Elizabeth in 1571

Pius V

Which artist and Goldsmith painted a number miniature is limnings of Elizabeth from the early 1570s as well as designing the great seal of the realm

Nicholas Hilliard

Which spy by arrested by Walsingham’s men in November 15 83 was executed after confessing that the Duke of guise was planning an invasion to install Mary Queen of Scots the Queen of England

Francis Throckmorton

By area what is the smallest state in mainland Australia

Victoria

Which TV presenter began his career as the reporter of Mike channel on radio active and later on itv

Angus Deayton

In a plant what is the name of the single main root from which lateral roots develop

Tap root

Which left-handed ex-paratrooper usually play the right-handed guitar upside down

Jimi Hendrix

What was the name of the series of American space station is the first which was launched in 1973

Skylab

Which French word is used to describe wine brought to room temperature

Chambre

Other than Borneo the island of the natural habitat of the great ape Orangutang

Sumatra

Which nuts are the favourite food of the common dormouse given it it’s alternate name

Hazel nut

Which mammals of the New World rainforest have coats that often appear green because it has algae growing around the hairs

Sloth

The asiatic lion which was once widespread found in which national park in Gujarat India

Gir forest national park

Herd of reindeer introduced in Britain in 1952 in which Scottish mountain range

Cairngorms

What baleen whale that has a Latin specific name meaning sharp snouted is most common whale species in British waters especially in Scotland?

Minke

Which jackal sized black and fawn striped member of the family Hyenidae is unlike the other three species of hyena in that it’s jaws are weak and diet consists mainly of termites?

Aardwolf

Colugas are gliding animals found in south East Asian forests better known by flying what?

Lemurs

Which antelope like animal of family antilocapridae is fastest mammal in North America, attaining speeds of up to 90km per hour?

Pronghorn

What name is given to the specialist skin nourishes the growth of deer antlers and guides information and development of the Tines

Velvet

Which Wagner opera is based on the legend of the night of the swan

Lohengrin

Which spice was known in the middle ages of Indian saffron because of its colour

Turmeric

Which town that was the site of the battle in the wars of the roses lies at the confluence of the river is Avon and severn

Tewkesbury

Green fly and black fly or two members of which family of soft bodied insects that feed on plants sap

Aphids

Which architectural feature can be dog like straight open well or circular

Staircases

Which shipping forecast there in the north sea is directly north of German bight

Fisher

What is the meaning of the nautical term avast

Stop

Opened in 1837 which was London’s first mainline railway terminus

Euston

What was the only single on Michael Jackson’s thriller that reached number one in the UK

Billie Jean

What was the title of madonnas first UK number one single in 1985 the song featured in the film desperately seeking Susan

Into the groove

Which British actress appeared as the fairy godmother in the video of Adam & The Ants Prince Charming

Diana Dors

Which Birmingham bass band fronted by lead singer Dennis Seaton had six top 40 singles in the 1980s

Musical Youth

Which model appeared in the video for Billy Joel uptown girl and later married the singer

Christine Brinkley

Which groups first UK top 10 hit single gimme all your lovin’ 984

ZZ Top

What was the stage name of Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs

Bonehead

Which group 1st chart success was with Johnny come home which got to number 8985

Fine Young Cannibals

Soldiers of the UN peacekeeping forces were berets of what colour

Blue

Which legendary Irish hero city built the Giants Causeway lived in a cave on the island of Staffa

Finn McCool

Which actor plays withnails uncle Monty in the code 1987 film comedy wothnail and I

Richard Griffiths

Which of the base of the stories about the spy Ashenden on his experiences in the British secret service during the First World War

William Somerset Maugham

Dried leaves of which plant that is the only member of the genius Lawsonia produce a red orange dye That’s been used since ancient time for a body and hair dye

Henna

What name is given to the cliff face of the southern end of the capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors were flown to the death

Tarpeian Rock

Which time in a strict disciplinarian taken from the name of Louis the 14th inspector general of infantry who devised a rigourous system of drill

Martinet

Which contact composer and pianist was the first American to contact at the Scala Milan in 1953

Leonard Bernstein

Which world champion in Formula One survived an accident at Monaco in 1955 he drove off the circuit and into the harbour only to die by testing a new Ferrari four days later

Alberto Ascari

Who is the only man to win world titles in motorcycling and Formula One

John Surtees

What was the name of the mall long straight on the Paul Ricard circuit which for many years was the venue for the French Grand Prix

Mistral

What was unusual about the Terrell card which Jody Scheckter won the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix

Six wheels

Which pig like mammal whose natural habitat ranges from the southern desert of the USA to Patagonia has three species called collared, white lipped and chacoan

Peccary (javelina)

Grammar which tense denotes an action that was completed before the past point in time and is formed in English by the use of the word had and the past participle of the verb

Pluperfect

What is the name of the past that links Innsbruck in Austria with Balzano in Italy

Brenner pass

From 1948 into 1967 the Mandelbaum gate was there the border crossing point in which divided city

Jeruselym

In Don Quixote by Cervantes what is the name of his manservant

Sancho Panza

Who before leaving the Philippines in March 1942 told her successor hold on I shall return

General Douglas MacArthur

Which German victory of late August 1914 was regarded as revenge for the battle of the same name in 1410 at which the Teutonic Knights had been routed by polls and Lithuanians

Battle of Tannenberg

Which marshal of the Soviet union personally commanded the final assault in Berlin April 1945 and went onto servers minister of defence from 1955 to 57

Georgy Zhukov

Which British Colonel commanded the Arab force that captured the red Sea port of Aqaba on the 6th of July 1917

TE Lawrence

The RAF used to main fighter planes in the battle of Britain the Spitfire was one what was the other

Hawker hurricane

What nickname did the British seventh armoured division of doctor in the north African campaign in the Second World War

Desert rats

On the D-day the allies suffered the greatest number of casualties in which of the beaches which was given epithet bloody

Omaha

Kitten Kong planet of the rabbits and bunfight at the OK tea rooms what episode of which 1970s television comedy series

The goodies

Which palm tree is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar gives its name to the fibre made from its leaves which is used to make hats and baskets

Raffia

Which resort in the Cairngorms is the major city centre of Scottish highlands

Aviemore

In Islam what name from the Arabic for story is given to the traditions in the settings of the prophet Muhammad

Hadith

Which word for mental condition typically characterised by delusions of persecution comes from the Greek for beyond the side and mind

Paranoia

Miss Adelaide as a character from which musical

Guys and dolls

What is the name of a Crossing Circle board game originated in ancient India is described in the ancient text Mahabharata and played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross comes from the Hindi word mean in 25

Pachisi

What was the name of the main enemies of Captain Scarlett

The Mysterons

In which sport did ray illingworth captain England

Cricket

To turn it upside down would be to say turn what insert animal name here

Turn turtle

What was the name beginning with S where Florence Nightingale established the hospital to 10 the wounded of the Crimean war

Scutari

In the West End the show the play what I wrote was a tribute to which comedy Duo

Morecambe and Wise

What is a sampan

Boat

Baroness Marie Christine von reibnitz is better known by what name

Princess Michael of Kent

Which actress was born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra

Meg Ryan

Term beginning with B which is where the letters has matured and reach the end of its life cycle

Bolted

The magazine of hughes appreciation society is entitle railway cuttings

Tony Hancock

In the Bible how long did Jonah spend in the belly of the great fish

Three days

What is the name of Barnsley Stadium in South Yorkshire

Oakwell

Who is the mother of the actor Toby Stephens who played Bonvillain Gustav graves in the 2002 die another Day

Maggie Smith

Traditionally what creature is kept in a byre

Cattle

Balmoral castle built for which Monarch

Queen Victoria

What is the name of the small reddish orange roe of a scallop called

Coral

Which country was Ursula Andress born in 1936

Switzerland

Which actress is the only one to have won the best actress award for Cesar awards acting five times

Isabelle Adjani

Which comedian had a hit in 1984 with Ullo John got a new motor?

Alexi Sayle

The painter George Suratt is a subject of what sondheim musicals

Sunday in the Park with George

What type of hat is traditionally worn by the brigade of guards

Bearskin

What Dutch cheese is named after a town just north east of Rotterdam

Gouda

In gardening what time means removing flowers when they are dying or dead

DeadHeading

In 1991 you could be mine was a hit single for what do US rock band

Guns N’ Roses

In the Charlie says public information films what animal was Charlie voiced by Kenny Everett

Cat

Set a New York 1971 thriller starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland

Klute

Which EastEnders character was played by the late Gretchen Franklin

Ethel Skinner

Which Doncaster born Sopranos released the album I will wait for you

Lesley Garrett

What name is given to a horse in a circus that performs without a rider

Liberty horse

What Word connect an aircraft landing strip and a models walkway

Runway

The Irish festival held in County Kerry each year is called the rose of where

Tralee

George the second was the last reigning occupant of a palace

Hampton Court

Lacrima Christi wine is made from grapes grown on the slopes of the volcano

Vesuvius

1976 Prince Charles retired from which of the armed forces

Royal Navy

What cyclist rang a giant belt start a 2012 Olympic opening ceremony

Wiggins

According to legend, the Greek carpenter Epeius built which famous object

Trojan Horse

Bill Cassidy the cowboy created by Clarence Mulford has what nickname

Hopalong

Which cockney stand up comedian is a former Billingsgate Porter?

Mickey Flanagan

The traditional horn blown by Swiss Herdmans communicate is called a what

Alphorn

What type of seashell was used on the logo of shell oil

Scallop

Who wrote the country diary of an Edwardian lady

Edith Holden

What Italian sunglasses brand is named after the law and order enforcers

Police

The title character of what Adolf Addams Ballet dies of a broken heart

Giselle

Which Greek goddess encourage the Trojan prince Paris to abduct Helena

Aphrodite

Add to christening the Church of England requires a minimum of how many godparents

Three

Hawaiian seabreeze cocktail contains cranberry and what other fruit juice

Pineapple juice

Which Irish boy band had a 90s hit with every day I love you

Boy Zone

What trousers share the name of combustible device is the bright light

Flares

What region of Portugal was named after the Arabic for the west

Algarve

Which British athlete became the oldest ever Olympic 100 m champion in 1992

Linford Christie

What does the M stand for in the name of the writer Louisa M Alcott

May

What was the first in the series of books about schoolboy William Brown

Just William

According to an advertising slogan what toys wobble but they don’t fall down

Weebles

Who played Peter in the 1992 British film Peter’s Friends

Stephen Fry

Stone cold sober and New York where hits for which singer

Paloma Faith

How soon is now and panic singles by the 1980s Manchester band

The Smiths

Talbot Rothwell route several scrips for what series of British comedy films

Carry on film series

What manager change Coventry City’s nickname from bantams to sky blues

Jimmy Hill

In the original Yoho ho and a bottle of rum how many member on the dead man’s chest

15

In the comic strip what is the name of the dog in Garfield

Odie

Sterling silver is commonly an alloy of silver and which othera metal

Copper

What is the official Sydney residents of the prime minister of Australia

KirriBilli house

Bula Is the national greeting in which pacific country

Fiji

Which Perth psychedelic rock band fronted by Kevin Parker

Tame Impala

Which James Bond film was the first star Roger Moore

Live and let die

Which one of the lanthanide elements has an isotope that is best neutron absorber of any stable isotope leading to its use in nuclear reactors and in medical imaging? This element is central to research on magnetic refrigeration because it’s temperature varies with the surrounding magnetic field.

Gadolinium

Which Jewish festival commemorates the re dedication of the second temple of Jerusalem in 164bc at beginning of Maccabean revolt?

Hannukkah

The name of which string instrument the rise from the Turkish word meaning broken or modified now much more closely associated with Greece this long necked lute with a pear shaped body was brought to Greece from Anatolian the early 20th century

Bouzouki

Ivan Voynitsky twice attempts to shoot Professor Serebryakov after hearing of professor’s deSire to sell his estate. By what name is Ivan known in the title of one of Chekhov’s best known plays?

Uncle Vanya

In 63BC which Roman general was invited to help settle dispute and ended up occupying judea? Member of first triumvirate this general later became enemy of Julius Caesar.

Pompey

Which south-western Chinese province has the name translating at south of the clouds and has a very landscape encompassing snowcapped mountains rice terraces lakes and deep gorgeous ordering Tibet Laos Vietnam Myanmar it is one of the countries most ethnically diverse in his home to China’s largest diversity of plant life

Yunnan

Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians while she was attempting to lift the siege on which town on river Oise in northern france? The armistice that ended world war 1 and the armistice agreed by Nazi Germany and third French Republic in June 1945.

Compiegne

Also commonly depicted as one of argonauts, who became King of Pylos after father and brothers slain by Heracles? Living to great age as giving life spans of slain family members, which son of Neleus is particularly valued for his wise counsel in both Iliad and Odyssey?

Nestor of Gerenia

Rabelais was also the subject of studies by which French socialist and philosopher an important theorist of the every day who wrote the 1947 work critique of every day life span is no in French troops in the concept of social space and right to the city

Henri Lefebvre

In Inuit myth, Sedna is goddess of this realm and the creatures that live in it, while Mazu the Chinese goddess of this realm and protector of those. In Norse myth, Aegir serves as personification of which place?

The sea

Which Italian artist who died in 1920 rejected art nouveau an impression of them after been introduced to African sculpture elongated faces at the almond shaped eyes of the figures depicted in sculptures such Tete and painting such as reclining nude show the influence of bowel a mask from Cote d’Ivoire and guilt masks of the Fang people of Gabon

Amedeo Modigliani

Which neurodegenerative disease was formally common among four people of Papua new Guinea and it’s caused by the transmission of miss folded proteins called Prains who is transmitted through Fuinary cannibalism and it’s disappeared since that practice ended

Kuru

Which Greek word translating into English as union is given to the demand of ethically Greek communities living outside Greece to be reunited with their motherland the best-known example probably that of Greek Cypriots

Enosis

Since 2016 the Pakistani port of Gwadar has been leased by Chinese company as key part of which Chinese government strategy aiming to build infrastructure through Asia?

Belt and Road Initiative

Some scholars have like in the Merriwa of wits between Beatrice and Benedict and William Shakespeare’s much ado about nothing to sprezzatura and effortless display of witty conversation of good humour the concept of sprezzatura first appears in the book of the courtier a hugely popular courtesy book by which Italian author

Baldassare Castiglione

Archbishop was leading figure in the Cypriot campaign for enosis and served as president of Cyprus from its independence regarded as the father of the nation by groups eight Cypress he was briefly deposed in a poop that that in 1974

Makarios III

Area around Gwadar port is being developed as wha kind of free market orientated area? Shenzhen and Zhuhai in Guangdong were among the first of these areas in China.

Special Economic Zones

Star is the brightest in the constellation Auriga and sixth brighter in the night sky overall

Capella

Tsetse flies spread which disease?

African sleeping sickness/trypanosomiasis

Mary Anning discovered which dinosaur similar to dinosaur from fish

Ichthyosaurs

Mary Anning also discovered the first nearly complete skeletons belonging to which order of extinct marine reptiles? Species had long neck and small head.

Plesiosaurs

Which Greek statesman and advocate for Athenian naval power oversaw the construction of a fleet of over 200 triremes to face the invading Persian army at the Straits of Artemisium?

Themistocles

In his lectures on aesthetics, Hegel classifies and ranks what he considered the five major arts along an axis from most material to most expressive. Counting down from most expressive to most material, they are poetry, music, painting, sculpture and which “first” art?

Architecture

The l paramilitary organisation founded in 1955 to campaign for an end to British rule in Cyprus and for enosis with Greece is known by what four letter acronym?

EOKA

Didicas Island emerged from the sea following a volcanic eruption in 1952 just to north of whcih large island that lies around 350km south of Taiwan?

Luzon

Which star is brightest in constellation Aquila, and twelfth brightest in the night sky overall? Forms the Summer Triangle asterism with Deneb and Vega.

Altair

Some elements from Hamlet such as play within play and vengeful ghost appear to be drawn from the Spanish Tragedy a work by which English playwright?

Thomas Kyd

Mary Anning’s main trade as fossil collector came from selling the shells of belemnites and which other cephalopods which were then known as snake stones? These fossils superficially resemble nautilus shells.

Ammonite

The Joy of Life is a painting by which French painter?

Henri Matisse

EOKA was founded by which Greek Cypriot soldier and politician nicknamed Dighenis? This figure often referred to by military title colonel died in 1974 having done his best to encourage coup against Makarios later that year:

Georgios Grivas

Two islands formed in Indonesia in 20th century: Anak Krakatoa and Banua Wuhu. Banua Wuhu is part of SangihenIslands, which lie to north of the Minahasa Peninsula, one of four main peninsulas of which large island in Malay Archipelago?

Sulawesi (or Celebes)

Over 200m people are affected by which disease caused by parasitic flatworms acquired from infected water? Also known as bloodnfoukes and released in larval state by freshwater snails.

Schistosomiasis

Name given to fossilised faeces?

Coprolite

Hugo Wolf used translation of Michelangelo poetry for his Michelangelo lieder, but which composer used original texts for his Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo? Also did Six Holderlin Fragments and Thomas Hardy in Winter Words.

Benjamin Britten

Which American geographer and historian examined factors which cause societies to fail or succeed in his 2005 work Collapse looking at case studies include ing Easter island and Greenland Norse? Other works include Guns, Germs and Steel and Upheaval.

Jared Diamond

Porro and Vallenato are genres related to what form of dance music that originated in Colombia? Gaita flutes and percussion instruments called Guacharacas are typical of this form of music that emerged as fusion of African, European and indigenous music.

Cumbia

Three autumn months of French revolutionary calendar?

Vendemiaire, Frimaire and Brumaire

Which second century bishop of Lyon was first theological to regard all four of canonical gospels as essential? 2022 he became most recent person to be declared a Doctor of the Church.

Saint Irenaeus of Smyrna

Two word term coined by HL Mencken in 1927 to describe part of southern US where socially conservative Protestantism plays key role in society and politics?

Bible Belt

What name given to the diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel to indicate nasal in Polish and in transcriptions of some indigenous American languages?

Ogonek

Which 1976 Argentinian novel by Manuel Puig is told almost entirely in dialogue between two cell mates; gay man named Molina and revolutionary named Valentin? Molina describes to his cell mate the plots of various films that he has seen as method of escapism.

The Kiss of the Spider Woman

Archaeologist James Henry Breasted popularised which term to describe the region of Levant and the Med basin that curves from Persian gulf to Egypt?

Fertile Crescent

Three winter months of French revolutionary calendar?

Nivose, Ventose and Pluviose

Which American anthropologist and activist who died 2020, argues that early human societies were more diverse and complex than is popularly supposed in posthumous 2021 work The Dawn of Everything? Other works include Debt: The First 5000 Years and Bullshit Jobs.

David Graeber

When deriving special relativity; Einstein assumes that space has two properties that by Noethers Theorem; imply the laws of conservation of linear and angular momentum. Those are; respectively; homogeneity and which other property?

Isotrophy

Who became last monarch to dismiss a serving British prime minister when he dismissed Lord Melbourne in favour of Sir Robert Peel?

William IV

Three spring months of French revolutionary calendar?

Germinal, Floreal and Prairial

Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal among powerful kings of which civilisation that fell to babylonians in 7th cent bc! Sites include Ninevah, Ashur and Nimrud.

Assyria

Used in genres such as plena and danza, which instrument that originated in Puerto Rico consists of hollowed out gourds with notches carved in it and played by rubbing with a stick?

Guiro

An early test of special relativity was the Rossi-Hall experiment, the experiment confirmed predictions of length contraction and time dilation by observing the lifetimes of what second generation leptons?

Muons

In which 1956 novel does David an American man living in Paris, tell the story of his affair with title character, who is awaiting execution in prison for the impulsive murder of the owner of. Gay bar?

Giovanni’s Room

Some downslope winds such as North America’s chinook winds are not katabatic because they are caused by rain shadow rather than gravity. What German name given to these dry warm winds that occur when air descends quickly over Leeside of a mountain?

Fohn

Which Canadian born psychologist, linguist and public intellectual argued that violence in human societies has declined steadily over time in 2011work The Better Angels of our Nature? Other works by this thinker include The Oanguage Instinct and How the Mind Works.

Steven Pinker

An important set of Gnostic texts, including the gospel of Thomas and testimony of truth were found buried in a sealed jar in 1945 at which town in upper Egypt?

Nag Hammadi

1975 Australian constitutional crisis saw the Governor General John Kerr dismiss which prime minister, leader of Labour Party, and appoint leader of opposition Malcolm Fraser in his place?

Gough Whitlam

Another example of katabatic wind are which downslope winds best known for role in fanning wildfires in south california? Sometimes called devil winds, name derived from name of canyon in Orange County.

Santa Ana Winds

Which American political scientist identified state building, rule of law( and accountable government as three components of a stable state in his 2011 book The Origins of Political Order looking at case studies ranging from cooperative hunting in chimpanzees to the French Revolution? Others include The End of History and the Last Man and Our Posthuman Future.

Francis Fukuyama

Which Belt in the US describes those parts of northeastern and Midwest Us where manufacturing industries declined drastically in late 20th century leading to depopulation? Detroit and Flint.

Rust Belt

In English this diacritic is sometimes known informally as check, wedge, inverted circumflex, inverted hat, used in Slavic and Baltic languages.

Háček or Caron

Probably completed during 1810s, The Burial of the Sardine depicts the namesake Carnaval in Madrid which culminates on Ash Wednesday with burial of namesake object on the banks of river Manzanares. By who?

Francisco Goya

Arguably third largest barrier world, worlds longest continuous barrier reef, is found off coast of which French overseas territory in southwest Pacific Ocean, reef surrounds the archipelago largest island Grande Terre and is broken by the Boulari passage which leads to the territory’s capital Noumea?

New Caledonia

Literally meaning Year of the Yang Earth Dragon and sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution which civil war fought between 1868-69 between Tokugawa Shogunate and Imperial Court considered final military phase of the Meiji Restoration?

Boshin War

Florida Reef sometimes argued to be worlds third largest coral barrier reef and it is only living one in continental US. The most spectacular reefs found off which island the biggest of Florida Keys?

Key Largo

Decline of us rust belt is said to contrast with rise of which belt stretching one side of us to other on the 36th parallel, cities like Phoenix and Houston grown attracted by warmth.

Sun Belt

What name of Greek origin given to strong north easterly katabatic winds of Adriatic coast that commonly occur in winter when cold air crosses mountains from east and descends to coast, blowing into coastal regions of Italy Slovenia and Croatia?

Bora winds

1904 play Pandora’s Box, Lulu imprisoned for murder of her husband. The lesbian Countess Geschwitz who is in love with Lulu frees her beloved by adopting her identity and taking her place in prison. The play is a work by which German dramatist whose controversial earlier work Fruhlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening) explored teenage sexuality.

Frank Wedekind

Three summer months of the French revolutionary calendar?

Thermidor, Fructidor and Messidor

Some sections of the Nag Hammadi codices match fragments from which group of manuscripts found in Egyptian rubbish dump in 1898? An ancient Egyptian town on site of the dump was named Fter fish that ate Osiris’ penis.

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

A 1925 constitutional crisis with which rhyming name occurred when lord Byng refused to request an election by which longest serving prime minister of canad) this Canadian pm went on to lead country through WW2?

William Lyon McKenzine King (King-Byng affair)

The marimbula - a plucked percussion instrument descended from the African mbira - the accordion, the tambora are among instruments commonly used in what dance music from Dominican Republic?

Merengue

Which Russian poet and author established the literary journal The Contemporary in 1836? It was where he first published his historical Novel The Captains Daughter and narrative poem The Bronze Horseman before his death the following year.

Alexander Pushkin

The jazz standard “autumn leaves” was composed by Joseph Kosma for Gates of the Night a collab between Director Marcel Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert. kosma earlier provided the score to which film by Carne and Prevert tells story of four men who love a Parisian courtesan.

Children of Paradise

Sometimes considered the first work in the analytical philosophy tradition, Begriffsschrift (concept script) is an 1879 book that sets out titular system of logic. By who?

Gottlob Frege

Who wrote Scarlet Pimpernal?

Baroness Orczy

Kazakhstani currency since 1993 takes name from words meaning set of scales?

Tenge

Which Russian author first found fame when Sovremennik published his trilogy Childhood, Boyhood and Youth 1852-54? Also Sevastopol Sketches.

Leo Tolstoy

Cellulose is an example of which type of compound, long chain polymers composed of many units of simple sugars? These compounds may be used structurally like cellulose or for storage; like starch.

Polysaccharide

In physics, what properly symbolised by mu, represents the relation between shear stress and the shear velocity of a fluid? It has units of Pascal-seconds.

Viscosity

Which book, first published in 1921, gives a nod to Frege’s influence on its author by using the term Begriffsschrift as a synonym for logical formalism? This book opens with the line “the world is everything that is the case”.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The Yuan dynasty avoided using ethnic Chinese in high positions of state instead importing administrators from Persia and Central Asia. These became the main ancestors of China’s second largest modern ethnic minority after the Zhuang. Mostly Muslims, these people are known by what three letter name?

Hui

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus onlt adopted title when translated into English. The change was suggested by which English philosopher as homage to Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus? Man wrote the Principia Ethica and A defence of common sense in latter of which he attacked philosophical scepticism with his famous Here Is One Hand argument.

GE Moore

Which physical property represented by Mu used extensively in mechanics but also in particle collision calculations, is given by the product of two masses divided by their sum?

Reduced Mass

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn collabed on number of film scores. First of these 1959 courtroom drama by Otto Preminger that features an appearance from anti mccartyite lawyer Joseph N Welsh.

Anatomy of a Murder

Which intensive property in a thermodynamic system represented by mu describes the change in energy with respect to the change of particle number?

Chemical potential

Miles Davis provided an improvised soundtrack to Elevator to the Gallows: directed by which frenchman also known for My Dinner with Andre and codirexting Jacques Cousteau’s Thr Silent World.

Louis Malle

Which instrument is described in Angels in America as the sound that of a duck if the duck was a song bird and indeed is the duck in Peter and the Wolf?

Oboe

Close contact with the rest of the Mongol empire is lead to new foods reachin China during the Yuan dynasty such as which grain plant originated to the Sahel in Africa and the worlds fifth largest cereal crop of the maze rice wheat and barley

Sorghum

Russian writer known for A Sportsman Sketches and most for Fathers and Sons?

Ivan Turgenev

Moore’s Here in one hand argument rests on his reversal of scepticalnoremises from being in the form of Modus Ponensbto taking which other form? We are looking for two word latin term given to rule of logic that states that if a conditional statement (“if p then q”) is accepted and the consequent does not hold (not q) then the negation of the antecedent (not-p) can be inferred.

Modus tollens

Which physical quantity represented by mu, relates the magnetic flux density B with the magnetic field intensity H? When denoted as mu bought this is a physical constant used extensively in electromagnetism.

Permeability

Actor and comedian Jimmy Morales was president of which country 2016-20

Guatemala

Which highly branched polysaccharide of glucose is sometimes called animal stRchch although it is also used for storage in fungi as well as animals? This is major stores of carbs energy in animals and is most abundant in liver and muscle cells.

Glycogen

Mauritania currency comes from Arabic term for ounce and one of two non decimal currency along with Ariary.

Ouguiya

The Theatre and it’s double is a collection of essays by antonin Artaud which contains his manifestos for which form of theatre that aimed to shock audiences by assaulting their senses through gesture, image, sound and lifhting.

Theatre of cruelty

Mid 14th century many Jewish communities blamed for spread of Black Death leading to series of Pogroms. Among the most infamous occurred in Valentine’s Day 1349 when 100s of Jewish people publicly burnt to death in what free imperial city in Alsace?

Strasbourg

Languages which can’t be classified into larger language families as no known relationships are known by what name? Ainu in Japan and Haida in z north americanfit this.

Language isolates

The Zulu Kingdom was founded in 1816 by which powerful king who credited with changing nature of warfare in im Southern Africa with injovations such as buffalo horns formation?

Shaka Zulu

Which Italian architect helped shape Brazilian modernism with a brutalist designs for the São Paulo Museum of Art? In 1988 she turned a burnt office building into a performance space for Teatro Oficina.

Lina Bo Bardi

Who finished Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minir after his death?

Franz Xavier Sussmayr

A mathematical set named after which German mathematician has property of self similarity and is therefore often described as the prototype of a fractal? It’s so called ternary set can be created by iteratively removing the open middle third from a set of line segments.

Georg Cantor

Which American architect designed brutalist structures in Honolulu such as IBM building, Lum House and Annexes in city airport? Born Russia; educated in Japan he was renowned for homes in Hawaii with Liljestrand House being foremost example.

Vladimir Ossipoff

Stretching north eastwards from the Pantanal wetlands is a huge eco region of tropical savanna about ten times as big. The Brazilian highlands known as Planalto make up a significant portion of which eco region declared the biologically richest savanna in world by WWF?

Cerrado

What fish like invertebrate chordate is most distantly related ancestor to share the same olfactory receptors with humans? Named after resemblance to. Weapon used by cavalry soldiers, primitive filter feeder can be found buried in the sand with only the mouth end projecting.

Lancelet

Artaud cofounded Theatre Alfred Jarry to stage works that would influence Theatre of Cruelty. Named after French author nest know for which comic play a bizarre 1896 parody of Shakespearean tragedy that centres on the titular infantile and slovenly antihero?

Ubu Roi

During black death( many Jewish people fled to Poland to seek protection of which king? Around 70% of Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry back to Poland as direct result of this man’s reforms.

Casimir III the Great

The Titius-Bode Law, a rough rule that predicts the spacing of the planets in the solar system, was proposed by the duo in 1766/78. Now mathematical coincidence but led to discovery on 1 January 1801 of which dwarf planet named after Roman goddess of agriculture.

Ceres

John wrote book of revelations while on this island

Patmos

In the Bible Pharoah says Joseph’s family May and eat this, What Lennie longs for in Of Mice and Men

The fat of the land

Once a journalist himself, he began writing his first novel with his hero being fined 150k kronor for aggravated libel

Stieg Larsson

Annual champions dinner at the Masters began in 1952 when he hosted, a year after his first masters win and three years after near fatal car wreck

Ben Hogan

July 28 1794 he dominated the Committee of Public Safety but then guillotined

Robespierre

This speciality coffee is grown in volcanic soils in coffee belt of same name at base of Mauna Loa

Kona

Want to start a war? You’d better have this taken word justification.

Casus Belli

Company legend says Theodore Roosevelt praised Maxwell House coffee with these five words a slogan still used today.

Good to the last drop

Great Dark Spot on what planet

Neptune

Bright rays visible at bottom of moon emanate from this impact crated named for an astronomer

Tycho

Letter to this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel the house of the spirits

Allende

A kneeling trio offers Christ child gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh in this 1480s paintings by da Vinci?

Adoration of the Magi

The Us navy issued these double breasted hip length and dark blue to new recruits until 2019

Peacoats

Coat name from ww1 worn by Joel mCcrea in foreign correspondent

Trench coat

Enjoy an interior view of the arm of a Dutch criminal in this Rembrandt masterpiece depicting renowned physician at work

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp

Similar to a parka this hooded jacket gets it’s name in part from Greenlandic Inuit

Anorak

In 1915 the assassination of President Sam got Uncle Sam to this country beginning a 19 year military occupation?

Haiti

First name of the Dwight Eisenhowers first lady

Mamie

Former Ellen Herndon died in 1880 the year this future president was elected veep?

Arthur

From 70s it could have been titled Defazio & Feeney

Laverne & Shirley

Ronald Reagan’s first wife she had for Oscar nominations 4 the first for 940 the yearling

Jane Wyman

Born Martha Wayles, she served as first lady of Virginia but never served as US First Lady.

Jefferson

Decisions he was born in 1865 to combat counterfeiting as at the Civil War end nearly a third of the currency in circulation was fake

Secret service

US Fish and wildlife service in the bureau of reclamation a part of this cabinet department

Interior

Appointed by Reagan he was chief justice of the United States military before John Roberts

Rehnquist

New York mayoral residence

Gracie Mansion

This Mississippi city is home to one of the worlds longest man-made beaches

Gulfport

Choux pastry is used to make the buns for this decorative desert traditionally served at France weddings and with a name that means Crisp in mouth

Croquembouche

Ferde Grofe account of his first time at this place about which he wrote a suite includes All of a sudden bingo there it was

Grand Canyon

The caterpillar of the Monarch butterflies are toxic to many predators because it feeds entirely on this planet

Milkweed

The fictional maestro in Tar is trying to record the 1902 fifth giant Symphony by this Austrian composer

Gustav Mahler

The first movie to get PG-13 rating in America was this 1984 one by the team is called themselves wolverines

Red Dawn

Ones an Aussie mogul who produced sale of the century, one flows better Laredo and Nuevo Laredo

Reg Grundy and Rio Grande

Rudy ray Moore make this film debut as this character The 1975 along with it’s all go army of kung fu killers

Dolomite

Language or jargon used by lawyers and language or people of Sri Lanka

Legalese and Sinhalese

Emperor Jimmu is legendary founder of this country’s first dynasty?

Japan

Exercises are similar to sit ups But you don’t lift ip as far sounds like a breakfast cereal

Crunches

Last name of Joseph the leader of newly independent Poland after World War I

Pilsudski

His name again legendary from the bed he built the force people to fit into

Procrustes

Honda said this models name reflected the company’s desire for harmony between people society and the automobile

Accord

What Tampa Bay rays play their home games in the cities Tropicana Field

Saint Petersburg

Horizontal yarns used on the loom when making rugs are called weft, the vertical this other W word

Warp

On the periodic table vertical columns of elements are called these or family is number 11 is aka the copper family

Groups

This town in south-western Colorado has a decades-old film festival in a ski area with a 4000 foot vertical

Telluride

What is the flick of the wrist Worcestershire sauce is dispensed in the small bartending units each 6 to 8 drops

Dashes

It means shortened by having a part cut off and it’s from the Latin for part of a tree

Truncated

Some of this highways length is 19,000 miles with stops include in Fairbanks Alaska Monterrey Mexico in Lima Peru

Pan American highway

In Mexico what does Huava mean foodstuff?

Egg

In 1922 the USS Langley was commissioned as the first of these big ships in the US Navy

Aircraft Carriers

The ship commanded by James Cook on his first Pacific voyage later gave its name to a space shuttle

Endeavour

In parts of the Middle East and Asia a payment can be construed as a typical bribery is known by this word from the Persian

Baksheesh

This semi autobiographical novel by Larry McMurtry is set in the small town of Thalia Texas during the 1950s

The Last Picture Show

The character of Monroe Stahr in this 1941 novel was based on Irving Thalberg

The Last Tycoon

Name of superman dog

Krypto

This French author penned the last of cherie, a novel about a man who was once in a relationship with an older woman

Colette

Though this ship sank in Antarctic in 1915, it lived up to its name, from Latin for hard, and was found in 2022.

Endurance

Rare Cheich watch by this jeweller from Paris?

Cartier

$100 invested in this Midwest based company in 1965 would have been worth $2.4 million in 2020.

Berkshire Hathaway

French poet Chretien de Troyes wrote romances including one about this brash knight that introduces the story of the grail?

Percival

Rocky isle ar entrance of mAnila bay is home to pacific war memorial?

Corregidor

The shell of the knobbed type of this invertebrate is New Jersey’s state she’ll

Whelk

Fast for strokes stands for what

Face arms speech time

Wrote book for an indelible portrait of loss and grief after passing of her husband John Gregory Dunnee

Didion

To literally or figuratively cover over the flaws perhaps not in a good way

Whitewash

If you want to be fancy about it, a tailcoat can have this longer name that fits the category

Swallowtail

Peter Buxton vis a vis the Tuskegee syphilis study

Whistleblower

It’s measure of randomness or molecular disorder of a system, universes said to be increasing

Entropy

In 2023 to celebrate current lunar new year the Solomon Islands issued 3 coins featuring this animal

Rabbit

Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci fi classic.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

This 1979 film about a small group of friends who cycle to victory was ranked by AFI as one of the most inspiring of all time

Breaking Away

This type of printer from apple that used pins hitting an inked ribbon

Dot matrix

The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Bering Sea from this one that has ports in eastern Russia and on Hokkaido

Okhotsk

Frank Lloyd wright’s spiral design of the Guggenheim in NYC is said to evoke the shell of this chambered mollusk.

Nautilus

Some argue that Verdi’s masterpiece is Don Carlos based on 1787 play by this German writer

Schiller

Ernest Pontifex in The Way of All Flesh is a stand-in for this author of the posthumously published masterpiece?

Butler

Philadelphia painter known for The Gross Clinic

Eakins

This gaming company which had a splashy IPO in 2021 gets virtual explorers to create worlds by themselves or with friends?

Roblox

Aperture Science Laboratories is setting of this classic that’s among steam’s top ranked games?

Portal

The first patriarch’s first home

Ur (Abraham’s home)

Signifying negation or absence it’s the response to the famous koan “does a dog have Buddha nature?”

Mu

It’s when James and Margaret claimed the Dutton Ranch

1883

A karate dojo in San Fernando Valley

Cobra Kai

A small Canadian town full of hicks skids hockey pllayers and Christian’s. Gives name to this tv show/

Letterkenny

Served under Andrew Jackson as Sec of State and then succeeded as president

Martin Van Buren

I messed up saying I was “in control” in the White House, but earlier I really was as a shaky Richard Nixon’s last chief of staff, which sec of state?

Alexander Haig

John Romkey’s 1990 computer controlled toaster was a breakthrough in this IoT short for this!

Internet of Things

This problem stems from Nick Bostrom’s thought experiment where AI is told to make this product and uses up all resources to do so

Paperclip

On succeeding to the presidency in 1841, he was disparagingly called “his accidency”?

John Tyler

1867’s Forever Free by Edmonia Lewis quotes this presidential edict on its base and its its title?

Emancipation Proclamation

19th century artists like Ingres and Renoir liked this subject, French word for a woman part of a harem?

An Odalisque

CFBR means what on internet chat

Commenting for Better Reach

Dealer legally free to sell lower or higher but cars have a MSRP?

Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price

Remember your cell biology? ER is this membrane system with a name that fun to say.

Endoplasmic Reticulum

Born in Darmstadt in 1872 and died in Yekaterinburg in 1918?

Alexandra (last Romanov Czarina)

Greek for upright slab, this type of decorated or inscribed stone marker was common in the ancient world.

Stele

Notorious ravine on outskirts of Kiev is site of mass grave of tens of thousands of holocaust cixtims

Babi Yar

This word meaning narrow-minded is subtitle of MiddlemRch

Provincial

Want to walk on ice? Use these set of spikes similar to cleats

Crampons

This 15 letter adjective simply means beautiful

Pulchritudinous

Anointing with oil : it used to be in name of extreme catholic sacrament

Unction (extreme unction)

In 1975, John Wayne presented honorary Oscar to this alliterative man who had directed him in Red River and Rio Bravo?

Howard Hawks

Title character in Humboldts Gift by this author based on his friend poet Delmore Schwartz

Saul Belliw

At the end of Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number?

The crying of lot 49

Walter Scott wrote of him “conspicuous by his long gun waving tartans and the single plume of the high gentleman?

Rob Roy

Despite rumours, David Mamet said he doesn’t actually use this musical device to mark time but does count syllables

Metronome

Strong players apply this sticky stuff to their boss to create friction, allowing bows to grip to the strings and make them vibrate more clearly

Rosin

AUGUSTE mustel invented this keyboard instrument in 1886 it’s heavenly name evokes the sky?

Celesta

American decathlete and film actor who won 1960 gold medalist and silver in 1956? One of people to tackle Sirhan Sirhan after he shot Robert F Kennedy.

Rafer Johnson

This sun dappled city of southern france is home to famed hot springs and the atelier of Paul Cezanne

aix-en-provence

A company’s stock float is calculated by subtracting restricted stock from these abbreviated O/S

Outstanding shares

The Mayo Clinics page on eye floaters reveals that they’re commonly caused by clumps of this fibrous protein?

Collagen

In 1972, John McPhee compared monopoly properties with a declining Atlantic city in his essay “the search for” this property?

Marvin Gardens

Oscar nominated for Goodfellas, she would later receive 4 emmy nominations for her role as a tv therapist

Lorraine Bracco

Marcia Wallace played feisty receptionist Carol to the psychologist on this show?

The Bob Newhart Show

Dr Linda Martin; therapist of this title guy, worked on a book about him called Sympathy for the Devil?

Lucifer

From Arabic for hill, it’s an artificial mount created by many generations building and rebuilding on the same spot?

Tell or tel

Extremely thin, perhaps as the result of malnutrition?

Emaciated

A soothing substance for the skin beginning with EM

Emollient

A body of water that juts into land, or a window recess shaped like one: EM…

Embayment

After her husband left office a minister wrote the White House was purer because this First Lady had been it’s mistress?

Lucy Hayes (lemonade Lucy)

This cotton like fiber from fruit of this tropical tree is often used for stuffing life preservers and mattresses?

Kapok

What river runs through Mosul!

Tigris

What river runs through Kiev

Dnieper

Ron Chernow’s first book “the house of …” this big name in banking?

Morgan

Before he was part of the Kennedy administration this tall economist advocated government spending in The Affluent Society?

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wes Moore was John Hopkins first black Rhodes scholar and in 2022 became which states first African American governor?

Maryland

This group term for each of the 9 orders of angels like cherubim and seraphim sounds like they’re singers in a church

Choir

Of 9 current member of us Supreme Court this one there longest

Clarence Thomas

Hans Zimmer film opens in Germany, takes place partly in Mexico and hero is known as the Spaniard

Gladiator

Sergio Leone epic where Henry Fonda played a baddy

Once upon a time in the west

which year did us involvement in vietnam officially end

1973

Alicante is on which Spanish coast

Costa Blanca

How many sisters made up of The Pointer Sisters

4

Which country is it generally regarded as the first training school for guide dogs for the Blind open in 1916

Germany

Which romantic novelist wrote the Tilly Trotter series of novels

Catherine Cookson

Hugo Junkers is most associated with the design of what type of transport

Aeroplanes

Officially known as the long range penetration groups what was the term for the special operations unit to the British and Indian armies which saw action during Burma campaign of World War

Chindits

In a game of bar billiards many holes are set in the table’s surface

9

The British composer Eric Coates is associated with which famous March

The dambusters

Caitriona Balfe plays the out of place and out of time title character of this series based on Diana Gabaldon’s books?

Outlander

Subject of. Biopic this actress began in vaudeville before starting in Carmen jones?

Dorothy Dandridge

The Age of This, when humans used their brains to figure things out, also title of an anti-religion Thomas Paine work.

Age of Reason

Though he would continue to write non fiction and essays Sophie’s Choice was which authors last novel?

William Styron

In 2016, this beloved author of Fudge books and her husband George opened bookstore in key west Florida

Judy Blume

Insect also called a lightning bug

Fireflies

El Mariachi trilogy by Robert Rodriguez

El Mariachi Desperado Once upon a time in Mexico

Which director did a trilogy in 1990s includes Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco?

Whit Stillman

This looney tooner frequently lamented that he should have taken. Left turn at Albuquerque

Bugs Bunny

2023 book has title of this two word aimless activity the radical power of killing time

Hanging Out

Jane Austen use this twice hyphenated term not about a mom but for an indolent man

Stay at home

The name star-nosed this mammal sounds lovely describing that nose as 22 fleshy pink tentacles in a star like pattern less so

Mole

House of the Foundation of HeVen on Earth, Babylon’s etenenanki has been associated with this structure from genesis

Tower of Babel

This Parisian avenue is named for a paradise of Greek myth; it’s less heavenly these days since it’s clogged by traffic

Champs d’Elysee

Lyrics oh look what you’ve done to this rock ‘n’ roll clown oh look what you’ve done photograph I don’t want your

Photograph by Def Leppard

Get up everybody’s gonna move their feet get down everybody’s gonna leave the seat lose your mind in Detroit Rock city

Detroit Rock City by Kiss

I’m on the highway to hell song by

AC/DC

Before replacing these, check whether you need the bayonet, J hook or side post type

Windshield wipers

Sidney Reilly of “Ace of Spies” fame worked as an operative of this UK department concerned with national security

Secret Service (precursor to MI6/SEcret Intelligence Service)

The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency author and main character name and who plays the main character in hbo/bbc series

1) Alexander McCall Smith 2) precious Ramotswe 3) Jill Scott

Starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander this series was named for a detective and a medical examiner in Boston

Rizzoli & Isles

The myth about this great singer is a Natural opera subject and in 2021 Juilliard revive the 1647 Italian version

Orpheus

Many an artist has lived in this neighbourhoods in Manhattan east village that runs through avenues A B C and D)

Alphabet City

Also a Stephen king book title, this group of workers is smallest amount possible to successfully fill a shift

Skeleton Crew

Who wrote best seller The First Phone Call from Heaven

Mitch Albom

Port Nicholson is the historical name for the harbour of this NZ city, home to national symphony orchestra

Wellington

Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? German judges in this movie.

The Judgement at Nuremberg

BBB, or this barrier is crucial to regulating entry of microorganisms into the central nervous system?

Blood-Brain Barrier

Victorious general Giap compared the French position in this decisive 1954 battle in Vietnam to the bottom of a rice bowl?

Dien Bien Phu

What was Princess Margaret favourite cocktail

Gin and tonic

A recess in a wall,‘or any perfect job, it comes from a word for “nest”

Niche

This New Orleans set HBO series opened with the Rebirth Brass Band playing Feel Like Funkin It Up during a second line

Treme

Noodling a sport involving catching these barehanded officially became legal in Louisiana in 202

Catfish

This inventor who struggled to cash in on invention of vulcanisation of rubber did time in debtors prison in Philadelphia, Boston and Paris?

Goodyear

In 1898 this Gift of the Magi author spent time in the pokey for embezzlement of bank funds

O Henry

This device that converts perfume into a fine spread is the noun form of a verb meaning break into tiny pieces?

Atomiser

Burt Bacharach was married to this actress in the years she made Point Blank, Big Bad Mama and Dressed to Kill?

Angie Dickinson

This road novel by erskine Caldwell is used as a synonym for situations of depressing poverty

Tobacco Road

It’s this incense fragrance, warm, slightly sweet, slightly musky, from trees in the genus Santalum

Sandalwood

Lawyers spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn are on opposite of a case in this classic comedy

Adams Rib

Similar to tofu, this six letter Indonesian foodstuff is made from fermented soybean and often used as meat sub

Tempeh

The J is pronounced like an H in name of this crisp vegetable that’s native to Mexico

Jicama

Eugene O’Neills play about “arboreal” passion

Desire Under the Elms

Two homophones for a circle and a jewellers magnifying glass

Loop and loupe

In 1872, as a candidate of the new equal rights party she was the first woman to run for US president

Victoria Woodhull

A self titled 1961 LP of arias sung by LP is known to opera lovers as the blue album?

Leontyne Price

The last name of an Uber-cool Hollywood icon is also a verb meaning to hog something which is way not cool

Bogart

In physics it’s the intermolecular force that holds together a liquid or solid

Cohesion

What does A-fib and V-fib stand for heart conditions

Atrial Fibrillation ventricular Fibrillation

A VDT is one of these modern devices

Visual display terminals

The ratio of the velocity of light in one medium to its velocity in another is called the index of this…

Refractive Index

What magazine synonym for Adequate Home Maintenance

Good Housekeeping

Each September this very old city re-enacts the 1565 landing of founder Pedro Menendez de Avioes

St Augustine

This city bears the name of the man who led a military installation built in 1838 during second Seminole war

Fort Lauderdale

In 1896, about 400 people lived in this city on Biscayne Bay; now Florida second biggest city

Miami

This canine term is used of a long, involved story that typically has an unsatisfying ending

Shaggy Dog Story

What is a barrette used for?

Hair clip

Joe Barbera often described this character as Yogi’s conscience

Boo-Boo

“Heavens to Murgatroyd” was a catchphrase of this pink mountain lion

Snagglepuss

A gazelle of Arabia named for the growth on its throat that resembles a swelling in humans

Glittered Gazelle

The colosseum is the setting for the climax of GBS’s play called “____ and the Lion”?

Androcles

This filtering organ is on the left side of the abdominal cavity under the diaphragm, or maybe “are under” - some grow more than one

The spleen

Kuwait’s head of state Sheik Nawaf of the Al-Sabah dynasty, holds this four letter title from Arabic for commander

Emir

the training of these swift raptors is a popular pastime in Kuwait and one appears on national emblem

Falcon

In Sunset Boulevard this Oscar winning actor played a screenwriter in Network he’s a tv executive

William Holden

After ceding Joao Franco immense power, in 1908 King Carlos I was assassinated in this capital along with song Luis Filipe

The Regicide in Lisbon

This Caribbean island nation flies a flag featuring a cross and a Bible, only national flag with a Bible on it

Dominican Republic

What was Mariinsky baller formerly known as in St Petersburg?

Kirov

Which ballet company in 1825 dated is in Moscow?

Bolshoi

Non-flowering plants like horsetails propagate using these horizontal, underground stems

Rhizomes

From an Italian word for boat, what was type of song originally sung by Venetian boatmen?

Barcarolle

French for “work” this vowel heavy word is often used for all of the works by an artist or composer?

Oeuvre

Medieval theologian John Duns Scotus, the subtle doctor, pioneered this doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin?

The Immaculate Conception

A vision of Mary as she appeared to St Juan Diego in Mexico’s Tepeyac Hill is known as Our lady of…

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Which author wrote the Dirk Pitt novels: Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Casper, Iceberg, Raise the Titanic!

Clive Cussler

Who wrote French country cooking, A book of Mediterranean food, Italian food?

Elizabeth David

Which country is Derek Quinnell and his sons Scott and Craig play rugby union

Wales

Alderley edge what county

Cheshire

Chickenpox caused by which virus

Varicella zoster

Also called the giant gum what is Australia’s tallest tree

Mountain ash, swamp gum

Swaythling and Corbillon Cup both male and female world cups for which sport?

Table tennis

Who wrote the novel the good companions

JB Priestley

Who succeeded Winston Churchill in 1955

Anthony Eden (before MacMillan)

Name of Britain’s first nuclear power station

Calder Hall

Which TV presenter wrote the novel the soldiers return

Melvyn Bragg

Which Saint is associated with town of Lisieux

Therese

Which rockstar names of self after hearing aid shop

Bono

Who was the composer of the song there’s no business like show business

Irving Berlin

Flotsam vs Jetsam definitions

Flotsam is as result of shipwreck or accident. Jetsam deliberately thrown overboard to lighten the ships load.

Term used to goods or wreckage lying on the seabed. Shares name with a river.

Lagan

Who is the author of principles of geology which Darwin made frequent use of during his voyage around the world

Charles Lyell

In 1669 Newton became the second holder of what chair of mathematics at Cambridge University

professor of mathematics Lucasian

In 1860 who attempted to ridicule Darwin’s origin of species by asking Darwin supporter Thomas Huxley with a he’d rather be descended from a monkey through his grandmother or grandfather

Samuel Wilberforce

Which 1871 work a sequel to origin of species included Darwin’s famous declaration man still bears in his body frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin

The descent of man

What is the name of the house in Kent Darwin port in 1842 and lived in for the rest of his life

Down house

Glenn Miller cowrote which piece of music that was recorded by his Orchestra in 1939 and was adopted as their signature tune

Moonlight Serenade

What generic name is given to French aperitifs such as pernod and ricard for flavoured with aniseed and turn cloudy let yellow when water is added

Pastis

In 1987 which Labour politician in the speech of nuclear this summer moment said I would die for my country but I would not let my country die for me

Neil Kinnock

Which British architect designed the new Wembley Stadium which open to the public in 2007

Norman Foster

Which piece of sporting equipment has limbs a belly and A knocking point

Archery bow

In the Anglican church this Sunday before Ascension Day is sometimes known by what name that is derived from the Latin for to ask

Rogation Sunday

What name is given to a large-scale musical work typically on a religious subject for solo voices chorus and orchestra there’s normally performed without scenery costumes or acting

Oratorio

Poison And water to deadly kinds of which herbaceous plant that’s a member of the parsley family

Hemlock

Which city in Northern Ireland stands on the River Foyle

Derry Londonderry

Ken Russell described which of his films as the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac

The music lovers it’s a pic of Tchaikovsky

A Who plays the jewel parts of Madeleine Elster and Judy barton in vertigo

Kim Novak

Which Hitchcock movie are said to be the only film ever made using only the 10 minute take

Rope

In which his films that Hitchcock make his traditional cameo appearance as a bus passengers sitting next to Cary Grant’s character John Ruby

To catch a thief

Salvador Dalí designed dream sequences for which Hitchcock film

Spellbound

Who compose the music for several Hitchcock films including the street violence in psycho

Bernard Herrmann

Which 195 6 Hitchcock film was a remake of the film he had made in England in 1934

The man who knew too much

In which Hitchcock film did Marlene Dietrich syn cole porter is the laziest girl in town

Stage fright

Which film features the cricket loving charters and Caldecote played by basil Radford and Naunton Wayne Hitchcock film

The Lady vanishes

Hitchcock based Marnie on which authors 1961 novel

Winston Graham

The term Tynwald Is used to describe the legislator of the Isle of Man it consists of the legislative Council and which lower house

House of Keys

Joseph Lister pioneered the use of which acid as an antiseptic

Carbolic acid

Which Tropical Asian fig tree has aerial roots which developed from its branches in the centre the ground to become a new trunks

Banyan

Which sport is played in three periods of 20 minutes each of which starts with a face off

Ice hockey

Which Liverpool pop group topped the charts for the first time in April 1963 with how do you do it

Gerry and the pacemakers

The works of which 20th century American realist painter include August in the city Cape Cod afternoon and drugstore

Edward Hopper

In ancient Greece the common people were referred to as hoi polloi what was the equivalent in ancient Rome

Plebeians

What name is given to the visible surface of the Sun which emits most of the line that reaches the Earth

Photosphere

Which Irish seaport is situated near the mouth of the River Lee

Cork

Which British architect was jailed in 1974 having been found guilty of bribing public figures to win contracts

John Poulson

Which Conservative member of Parliament caught up in the Jon Paulson architect scandal was Home Secretary Between 1970 and 72 And Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1962 to 1964

Reginald Maudling

What name taken from the German for splash is given to a drink consisting of equal parts of white wine and soda water or sparkling mineral water

Spritzer

The little, great crested and black necked our species of which water bird

Grebe

Which style of trousers did the British Royal Navy replace with flares in 1977

Bellbottoms

In which film does Michael Palin slay the Dragon that is menacing the mediaeval kingdom of king Bruno the questionable played by Max Wall

Jabberwocky

On which date the anniversary of Alfred Nobel death to the award ceremonies for the noble prizes take place

December 10th

Which Swedish poet was ordered to 2011 prize for literature Nobel

Tomas Transtromer

Which term is commonly used for the economic theory of which 1976 economics Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman was the leading exponent

Monetarism

Which 1908 Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate discovered the existence of a positively charged atomic nucleus

Ernest Rutherford

In 1896 future physics laureate Guglielmo Marconi have received the first patent to be brat granted for what system that he has developed a year later he founded the company of the same name

Wireless Telegraph

What name is given to the anti particle whose mass is equal to that of the electron has the opposite of electric charge is existence was predicted by Nobel laureate Paul Dirac in 1930

Positron

What is the name of Europe’s largest wading bird which is noted for its distinctive bubbling call and long downward curving bill

Curlew

Which islands in the Atlantic take their name from the Portuguese for goshawks where it is now believe that the early explorers who reached the islands misidentified buzzards instead

Azores

Who wrote the music for the opera oratorio Oedipus Rex which has performed for the first time in Paris in 1927

Igor Stravinsky

Which American born British sculpture created by brutalist religious works Genesis and ecce homo in the 1930

Jacob Epstein

According to Islamic tradition which angel dictated the Quran to the prophet Muhammad

Gabriel

Which British cyclist won a gold silver and bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics

Bradley Wiggins

What was the name of the pirate radio DJ from the Brixton broadcasting Corporation who has created and played by Lenny Henry

Delbert Wilkins

What name is given to the seasoned jellied loaf made from the boned meat of the head of a pig or cough

Brawn

Wenceslas Square is a popular Boulevard in which European capital

Prague

Winston Churchill brought which house in Kent in 1922 Richie renovated in self with Brooklyn

Chart well Manor

What about which labour Minister did Churchill quip but for the grace of God goes God

So Stafford Cripps

In 1898 churchill took part in the famous cavalry charge which battle in Sudan

Omdurman

Which word of old Norse origin as used in Scotland to refer to a narrow inlet of the sea or a river history such that Clyde

Firth

Which pressure group formed by young conservatives takes its name from the location of the East End of London where they held their first meeting in February 1951

The bow group

In music what English term this is the derived from the Latin for against note describes the art of combining two or more melodies that sound simultaneously

Counterpoint

Smooth palmate and warty are all species of which amphibian its native to Britain

Newt

Which province of Ireland includes Dublin and the south eastern countries

Leinster

In Rastafarianism the name of which ancient city is used for evil

Babylon

Which American businessman was involved in perfecting an electronic keyboard instrument that was patented in 1934 and named after him

Lauren’s Hammond

Which Dickensian the headmaster had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two

Wackford Squeers

Which novel features the fictional government department the circumlocution office who is the principal is how not to do it

Little dorrit

Which novel published in 1864 to 1865 what is the last work the dickens completed

Our mutual friend

Which dickens novel was confirmed by Thomas McCauley for its sullen socialism

Hard times

Which alternative word for an umbrella comes from the surname of the nurse in Martin Chuzzlewit

Gamp

Which debtors prison forms part of the setting for Little Dorrit

Marshalsea

Of Dickens villains has daughters who are ironically name to charity and mercy

Seth Pecksniff

In the Roman republic what title is held by the two Chief Magistrate Su were elected by the committee century writer and hold power for one year

Consul

Name was given to the series of American space probes that were launched from 1958 onwards the first was intended to study the moon while the 11th past Neptune in 1990

Pioneer

Which fragrant white spring flower that is used in France as a symbol of May Day has just one species whose scientific name is Khánh Valaria majlis

Lily of the valley

Ulema Is the name used for a group of religious and legal scholars in which religion

Islam mobile

NAD 325 which city was the venue for the first ecumenical council of the church summoned by the emperor Constantine to deal with the Arian controversy and gave its name to a creed that was formulated later

Nicaea

Who is speech attack in Denis Healey is 1978 budget was described by Healy himself as rather like being savaged by a dead sheep

Sir Geoffrey Howe

Barbara the fourth Mrs Frank Sinatra has been married previously to which of the marks brothers

Zeppo

Britain’s largest sea bird which was formally called the solan goose is now commonly known by what name

Northern Gannet

In ancient times which city was referred to as the hospitable sea apparently in an attempt to plus side the powers that are believed to control the elements all the Pontus Euxinus

Black Sea

In grammar what name is given to the word this place before a noun or pronoun to express the relation between it’s and another word

Preposition

Lakshmi Hindu goddess of wealth and fortune is known by what name in the Ramayana where she is the wife of Rama

Sita

Which tropical plant of the P family was once widely cultivated for the dark blue dye that can be produced from its leaves

Indigo

Which American singer who had originally been a jazz pianist had UK top 10 hits with somewhere along the way and when I fall in Love

Nat King Cole

In the mid to late 1460 is Leonardo da Vinci was apprenticed which Florentine sculpture and painter

Verrocchio

Leonardo da Vinci is the last supper can be found in which church in Dominican comment in Milan

Santa Maria delle Grazie

What is the popular name for Leonardo is portrait of Cecilia Gallerani painted in 1480 is

Lady with an ermine

Leonardo and his friend he accomplished mathematician Luca Pacioli collaborated on which book 1st published in 1509

On devine proportion

Cording to a popular legend now disproved Leonardo died in the Arms of which king

Francis the first of France

Study of the proportions of human form homo add succulent has waddle Turnitin name after a Roman architect by Leonardo da Vinci

Vitruvian man

Singer sculptured the statue of Eleanor Rigby situated in Stanley Street Liverpool

Tommy Steele

Which term for a Hidden double six spiritual leader is derived originally from Sanskrit for venerable

Guru

In 2008 who hosted the TV series and published a book both called how to cheat at cooking

Delia Smith

What name is given to the branch of chemistry there is concerned with the study of compounds of carbon

Organic chemistry I should

In Spanish what name is given to a wine shop or a place for storing and maturing wine

Bodega

Some species of which brightly coloured small marine fish of a tickly nine for clearing parasites from larger fish and even cleaning my teeth for them

Cleaner Wrasse

In a standard modern Symphony Orchestra the first violins appear immediately to the left of the conductor which stringed instruments appear immediately to the right of the conductor

Cellos

Which play by Oscar Wilde’s subtitled a trivial comedy for serious people

The importance of being Earnest

Whom did Paul famously described as the beloved physician in his epistle to the Colossae ends

Saint Luke the evangelist

Which Gaelic word is used for a social gathering involving traditional music and dancing

Ceilidh

Victor mature refused to wrestle with a line which biblical epic even when he was told that he had no teeth on the grounds that he didn’t wish to be gummed to death

Samson and Delihah

In which wouldn’t cottage built in the grounds of Osborne house where the Royal children to manual and housekeeping skills of Queen Victoria

Swiss cottage

In 1530 who died at Leicester Abby while under arrest during his journey to London

I don’t know Thomas Wolsey

Henry wrote the defence of the seven sacraments as a response to which authors treaties the captivate Babylonica

Martin Luther

Henry wrote the defence of the seven sacraments as a response to which authors treaties the captivate Babylonica

Martin Luther

Which act of March 15 34 declared Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be utterly void and Anand

Act of succession

What is the name of Jane Seymour’s family home in Savernake in Wiltshire

Wolf hall

Which word means fix number of people who are required to attend the meeting first proceedings to be regarded as valid

Quorum

Which French literary heroin of the 19th century is seduced by Rudolph ball launcher

Madame Emma Bovary

Wrote Madame Bovary

Gustav Flaubert

Which play by Anthony Shaffer was filmed in 1972 and 2007 with Michael Caine in one of the leading roles each time

Sleuth

Which German composer whose most famous work in his first violin Concerto in G Minor what is the contact of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society from 1880 to 83

Max Bruch

In which county is Britain’s deepest cave known as Titan which is around 460 feet deep

Derbyshire

In painting what Italian term is used for thick opaque oil paint applied with a brush knife or fingers for textural affect

Impasto

According to a well-known proverb which king of Israel was renowned for his furious chariot driving

Jehu

Which novel by CS Lewis takes the form of a series of letters between a senior devil and his novice nephew one would giving him advice on how to secure the damnation of an earthly man known as the patient

The Screwtape letters

In the 1966 World Cup finals which was the only one of England is opponents but they failed to beat

Uruguay

Who was goalkeeper for England in the free to defeat to west Germany in the 1970 World Cup quarter-final

Peter Bonetti

Against Morocco in 1986 who became the first England footballer to be sent off at the World Cup finals

Ray Wilkins

Who scored West Germany is equaliser in the last minute of the 1966 World Cup final say in the match into extra time

Wolfgang Weber

The ballad Opera Polly by John gay the sequel to which was earlier works

Beggars opera

What term is used for the procedure by which an MP who is persistently disappeared into the Can be suspended from commons chamber

Naming

Which percussion instrument consisting of tuned metal bars takes its name from the German for Bella and play

Glockenspiel

Which the apostles is the Pentrant saint of tax collectors and accountants

Saint Matthew

Which film director played Victor Ziegler in Kubrick’s last film eyes wide shut

Sidney Pollack

What was the name of the renegade general played by Sterling Hayden and Dr Strangelove

Jack d ripper

Title sequence of clockwork Orange is accompanied by an electronic version of which English composers music for the funeral of Queen Mary

Henry Purcell

Which actors are in full metal jacket with scripted largely from his Falmouth improvisation

R Lee Ermey

Later to become famous for parts including a TV detective which old and born actors first credited film roses gang member dim in a clockwork Orange

Warren Clarke who later played Andrew Daiziel in Dalziel and Pascoe

Which virtuoso of the Moog synthesiser provided electronic music and sound effects in a clockwork Orange and later worked on the shining

Wendy Carlos

Who played the title role in Kubrick’s controversial adaptation of Nabokov novel Lolita

Sue Lyon

Kubrick replace Anthony Mann as the director of which film after just one week shooting

Spartacus

In a clockwork Orange what is the name of the technique employed to turn Alex against violence by a form of aversion therapy

Ludovico

Name of the three characters played by peter Sellers in Kubrick’s doctor Strangelove

Dr Strangelove group Captain Lionel mandrake and president Mirkin Muffley

Which novel by George Eliot opens with the line miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor Speel

Middlemarch

Who is the longest running Blue Peter presenter he hosted show 1965 to 1978

John Noakes

What term describes the way of walk in particular to mammals including humans in which the whole lower surface of the foot on the ground

Plantigrade

In a classic Monty Python sketch water company lobster Thermidor okra vets with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle Patty Randy and a fried egg on top

Spam

Nickname of the Boeing B-29 plane

Superfortress

In which Italian port to 21 Fairey swordfish from HMS illustrious severely damaged the ships of the regular Marina in a torpedo attack on the 11th of November 1940

Taranto

What animal name was given to the first British fighter to mount a side-by-side pair of synchronised forward firing machine guns

The sop with camel

Nickname of the B-17 Boeing

Flying Fortress

During the winter of 1942 to 43 the Luftwaffe lost 488 aircraft flying supply missions to which beleaguered army

The sixth army at Stalingrad

Who piloted the modified B 29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Paul Tibbetts

In architecture what name is usually given to the upright division between the paint of the window

Mullion

Royal house ruled France from 1328 until 1589

Valois

Garry Shandling played which fictitious television chat show host it was modelled on David Letterman

Larry Sanders

Film producers reputed to have said a verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

Sam Goldwyn

In ancient Roman times what name is given to the open spaces in the middle of towns which were surrounded by public buildings and used generally is meeting places

Forum

Which author has written the books mortal engines a darkling plain and lark light

Philip Reeve

(in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets.

Agora

Which nursery rhyme features of dainty dish to set before the king

Sing a Song of sixpence

In 1648 Charles the first tried to break out of what isle of white castle

Carisbrooke Castle

What word meaning ready do Italian say when answering the phone

Pronto

What company makes the Victoria biscuit selection box

McVities

The fictional Barden university was the setting for which musical films

Pitch Perfect

The Hotel Pennsylvania claims of the oldest phone number in what US city

NYC

Book of Genesis who let Haran and travel to found a new nation

Abraham

In architecture what name is given to the square slabs at the base of a column

Plinth

What cereal ingredient is pieces of grain husk separated from flour after milling

Bran

According to the proverb what type of wind blows nobody any good

An ill wind

2017 what underwear company open the museum in New York

Victoria’s Secret

Which future prime minister introduced in 1911 bill that made tea breaks a legal requirement

Winston Churchill

Carney Wendy and China from the US girl group

Wilson Phillips

Who did Frank Muir call the thinking man’s crumpet

Joan Bakewell

In 1959 which Soviet pro became the first craft to leave earths gravity

Luna one

What Japanese company makes the piagerro digital piano

YaMaha

In Gilbert and Sullivan mikado who is the son of the Mikadoi

Nanki poo

In which city was orange marmalade devised in the 18th century

Dundee

Who is the hero of James Fenimore Cooper’s the last of the Mohicans

Natty Bumppo

Steerforth is a character in which dickens novel

David Copperfield

What was the first name of the British designer with the surname Muir

Jean

What kind of material is Morocco

LeaTher

Cambridge what is the name of the lawns which slopes down to the river? Rounds packs lefts or rights

The backs

The Cook Islands form a territory of which country

NZ

In which poetic form did Nostradamus write his predictions

QuaTrains

Who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line

Samuel Cunard

In the Monty Python sketch John Kreese working in this government office grants Michael Palin research fellowship on LaMarche futile

Ministry of silly walks

Cameron Thomas was known by the short form of wizard a relative added an Arabic word and now Cameron is him

Wiz Khalifa

As a beastie boy Adam Horovitz became him

Ad rock

Alternatively known as the brainstem what is the lowest part of the brain stem having two word name

Medulla oblongata

Connective tissues include ligaments and this would usually attach muscles to bones

Tendons

This divorcing doctor played by Jesse Eisenberg is in trouble in a novel by Taffy Brodessor-Akner and the FX adaptation?

Fleischman

Called England’s great architect he began work on the Queens house England’s first classical building it was commissioned by Anne of Denmark

Inigo Jones

After century with its original supplier in 1976 the MLB said goodbye Mr this and make Rawlings its new official ball

Spalding

In addition to its volleyballs this company has been making official NFL football since 1941

Wilson

These perforated plastic balls and made playing the same named game in spaces that are too small for baseball

Wiffle ball

Father of modern make up he created the first make up a film in today his historic building houses the Hollywood museum

Max Factor

In 1927 Norma Talmage began the tradition here when she accidentally stepped in wet cement while it was on the construction

Graumann’s Chinese Theatre

The rap scene in and around the city’s produce Scarface Travis Scott and local girl Megan Thee Stallion

Houston

What are you called a post impressionist he had work like house of the hanged man in the first impressionist of show in 1874

Paul Cezanne

2022 Security Council resolution maintained an arms embargo on this country in light of the threat from the Al-Shabab group

Somalia

We the people is begins the preamble to this founding UN document that took affect October 24, 192045

United Nations Charter

Spacecraft was it when it passes a celestial body while close enough to gather scientific data

Fly by

In 1864 Britain ceded to the Greeks these islands of Greece is West Coast spangle to see if the same name

Ionian Islands

The cities of the Achaean league situated on the northern part of this peninsula met the feet in 14 6BC at the hands of Rome

Peloponnese peninsula

In 1967 Greek politicians worried about a coup by generals but a group of this lower rank took over for seven years

Regime of the Colonels

Which Beatle song contains the lyrics Sundays on the phone to Monday Tuesdays on the phone to me

She came in through the bathroom window

Who is John Gait? He’s the organiser of a strike of great minds in this novel

Atlas Shrugged

In a mark Twain novel thinking he’s none too bright the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname

Pudd’nhead Wilson

In using your 40-piece army, a good st—un, a good plan in this game is to save your miners for the endgame

Stratego

This desert animals name is a misnomer as it’s really a reptile I’ve got his name because it looks like a type of amphibian

Horned Toad

Expropriation is another word for this to work at the government’s prerogative in America to take your stuff without your comment or consent

Eminent domain

1994 is creep by this letter perfect female trio sampled hey young world by Slick Rick

TLC

My Prerogative by this singer is noted as a prime example of R&B’s new Jack swing era

Bobby Brown

Jamie Lee Curtis says to Kevin Kline: to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people

A fish called Wanda

Plunge into this crescent shaped lake on the border between France and Switzerland the largest European alpine lake

Lake Geneva

A lively whimsical piece that’s not too long; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote one “Italien”.

Capriccio

Play the notes of a chord in sequence instead of together and you’ve got this

Arpeggio

The arquebus was an early example of this 15th century type of firearm equipped with a device to ignite gunpowder?

Matchlock

It means to express unwarranted pride and if someone does it a lot, add “-ful”

Boast

At least 2k years old, one of oldest olive trees still bearing fruit is found in Ano Vouves on this largest Greek island

Crete

Subungual hematoma, I’m afraid blood collecting under this

Nail

Roberta takes her last boat ride with Clyde in this novel by Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy

In 2023 most of the Golden Globe awards which return to broadcast TV after a timer

Jerrod Carmichael

American comedian who got no respect like hearing about his physician Dr Vinny Boombats

Rodney Dangerfield

Sherron Watkins whistleblowing led to the collapse of Enron as well as this a accounting firm

Arthur Andersen

Used in science a substance that can’t be dissolved in a liquid is termed this

Insoluble

New Indonesian capital city name and island

Nusantara and Borneo’s East Kalimantan province

Six letter word refers to the zenith or father’s point such as the point where the moon is furthest from earth

Apogee

He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536 fell from power was executed in his reputation revive by the Hilary Mantell

Thomas Cromwell

Which state is Magnum PI set

Hawaii

Like oh my God Deborah Foreman Nicolas Cage a totally Starcross lovers in this iconic 80s flick

Valley girl

Financial firms separate analysts are advice clients and these people who get IPOs going names for when they signed at the bottom

Underwriters

A boning knife separates chicken from its carcass, this type of knife used to free fish meat from its skeleton and skin?

Filleting Knife

This “Trees” poet was born in New Jersey in 1886 and killed in action in WW1

Joyce Kilmer

In one of his final post before his death in 1895 this African Americans served as US minister Haiti

Frederick Douglass

Her ups and down in Myanmar won her a Nobel peace pri3

Aung San Suu Kyi

So starting with H it’s the large flat fish sometimes served as hirame at the sushi bar

Halibut

Chapters in dancing with myself by this ever sneering singer include drunk and stupid and naked

Billy Idol

Who was the king of the Lapiths in ancient myth mythology said to be father of the centaurs and also bound to winged fiery wheel always spinning?

Ixion

The name of the abyss is used as a dungeon of cement and suffering for the wicked and as a present for the Titans in ancient Greek mythology sister for Tantalus exion they all down there

Tartarus

In 2022, John Lahr published a new bio of this American playwright who was Arty from a young age as this what mom called him?

Arthur Miller

This actor starred in A Good Year where inherits vineyard and narrates doc Red Obsession about Bordeaux

Russell Crowe

The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is in this Missouri city?

Hannibal

Fashion fit for royalty is one of specialty tours offered at this palace in Honolulu once home to Hawaii’s monarchs?

Iolani Palace

Balmoral is on which Scottish river

Dee

Outspoken wife of president Nixon’s attorney general she was the southern socialite who turned Watergate whistleblower

Martha Mitchell

Legally bound to a man who ghosted her Deborah Reed was the common law wife of this printer in statesman

Benjamin Franklin

What is a Nudibranch

Gastropod mollusc

Large semi aquatic rodent alternatively known as a Coypu?

Nutria

Which Marx brother was the 1st to be born and also the first die

Chico Marx

Most elevation state capital in USA

Santa Fe

As chief justice he provided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson

Salmon P Chase

Turbulence can create lenticule the clouds if the temperature of the crest of the wave is reaches this saturation point

dew point

Nuts, seeds and plant oils are good sources of this fat soluble vitamin with a recommended daily amount of 15mg

Vitamin E

When visit in the south-west Monument Valley be respectful of this tribe upon his land the ancient sites is

Navajo

Maggie Kuhn Anti agism group had a long dignified name but this moniker from a TV announcement is the one that stock

Gray Panthers

Ibrahim Pasha was one of the men who held this important grand title the highest minister of state under a sultan

Grand Vizier

Richard Osman four books

The Thursday Murder Club The Man Who Died Twice The Bullet That Missed The Last Devil to Die

Names of four mains from Thursday Murder Club

Elizabeth Best, Joyce Meadowcroft, Ibrahim Arif, Ron Richie

Kanun was the system of administrative law in the empire that supplemented this Islamic code?

Shariah

In 1996, the library of Congress acquired the first selfie this type of photograph named for a Frenchman

Daguerreotype

The director of sometimes violent westerns made bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia in which Warren Oates gets ahead

Sam Peckinpah

No longer the Teflon Don he was found guilty and 13 counts including murder in racketeering and got life in 1992

John Gotti

Current chess world champion 2023 Chinese

Ding Liren

Four letter word means person demanding or fussy or Latin word for goddess

Diva

Show jumper Rupert Campbell-Black wins Olympic gold medal in which novel by Jilly Cooper the first of Rutshire Chronicles

Riders

Which British monarch was crowned king of Scotland Scone Palace in 1649

Charles II

The squaw man 1914 was the director debut of which American filmmaker

Cecil B DeMille

Main herb used in Gremolata

Parsley

Aikhal, the worlds largest diamond mine is in which country!47

Russia

French impressionist artist was awarded the legion d’Honneur in 1881

Eduoard Manet

Emilio Largo was main villain in which James Bond film?

Thunderball

Thought o he sits of secret nuclear bunker, Mount Yamantau, is a prominent peak of which mountain range?

Ural Mountains

How many bottles in standard case of wine

12

Nuclear submarine USS Tigerfish is in which 1968 Cold War film?

Ice Station Zebra

Known for its use of kicks, punches knees and elbows which martial art often referred to as the art of eight limbs

Muay Thai

What surname links winner of 2009 Turner Prize, American architect who designed Beth Sholom Synagogue and director of Last Night in Soho?

Weight (Richard, Frank Lloyd, Edgar)

Which heavy water repellant cloth made famous by lumberjacks is named after region of Michigan

Mackinaw

Which Emmy award winning sitcoms star starred as Captain Fred Hamill in SVing Prviate Ryan

Ted Danson

Mongolian, Pallid and Fat-Tailed are breeds of which pet

Gerbil

What H is a food prepared by treating Maize kernels with alkali mostly used in Mexican cooking?

Hominy

Whcih European country is worlds largest exporter of blood?

Switzerland

The Battle of Quifangondo 1975 is notable for being the first major engagement in which African country’s civil war?

Angola

Which musical instruments are the Antwerp firm Ruckers famous for making?

Harpsichords

Meaning individuals who foment rebellion against state or monarch, what name did Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McClaren give to helm their shop at 430 Kings Road between 1976-80?

Seditionaries

Similar to the British terms of red brick and plateglass what nine letter building materials often used to describe Australia’s oldest university

Sandstone

Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson comprised which group who topped the single charts twice in the 1970s?

Dawn

Who was holy Roman emperor at turn of second Millenium? His regnal name is five more than his regnal number.

Otto III

Only footballer to have won FA Cup in three different decades?

Dennis Wise

On august 2 1973 fifty people died in a fire at Summerland leisure centre in which town made. City in 2022?

Douglas

Name of horse that led red rum by fifteen lengths when clearing last fence at 1973 grand national before being caught just before the winning post

Crisp

In 1973, who linked third largest Balearic island with smallest national park in uk?

David Bowie (see the mice in their million hordes from Ibiza to the Norfolk broads, in life on mars?)

Invented by Harry Melbourne which chocolate bar did Cadbury’s introduce in 1973? Near name with character from best picture Oscar in 1973

Freddo

Although Darwin work with finches more known, theory of evolution was informed more by Galapagos species of whcih bird - also sssociated with finch family

Mockingbird

In 1928 Charles Ulm completed journey california to Hawaii to Fiji to Brisbane with whcih to Which other Charles

Charles Kingsford Smith

Two famous Charles share whcih forename? One player for Seattle Storm won Olympic gold USA 2012/16/21, the other is an English singer born with surname Hoskins

Tina Charles

The New Zealander Charles Upham who died in 1994 was the last man to achieve what feat on two separate occasions??

Victoria cross

Born Gerard Crosbie in 1984 which Glaswegian singer songwriter topped chart with 2020 sophomore album The Bonny

Gerry Cinnamon

Between 1987-88 Brad Pitt portrayed Randy the boyfriend of Charlie Wade in which tv soap?

Dallas

What nine letter word can mean either driving a. Car above the engines max rpm or withholding financial services from customers deemed to live in a low income neighbourhood? Only single word anagram of current world chess champion.

Redlining

Which sauce named after a chief steward of Louis XIv

Bechamel

What seven letter Name links of Cumbrian market town who is namesake castle was once home to Richard the third and the suburbs of Sydney namesake rugby league team have won the last two Australian premierships and lost this year’s world club challenge to Saint Helens

Penrith

Flapping eagle young native American man who received the gift of immortality is the protagonist of The 1975 debut novel by which writer second and fourth novels had some more impact

Salman Rushdie (Grimus)

What links Clapham and Worthing and winners of all six major categories at academy awards held in 2023

A24

What two letter initialism is the stage name of Kim Nam-Joon from BTS? It can precede Ballantine author of Coral island

RM

What is the performing name of Joshua cargill, Belfast born winner of RuPaul Drag Race: UK vs the World? Share name with plant which grows in soils with Ph of less than 5.5

Blu Hydrangea

Also associated with superhero Benjamin Tennyson, how many florins were there to a pound in pre decimal currency?

Ten

What is the adjective has been applied to both Whitney Chewston white miniature dachshund often seen of a glass of wine in an online meme; and on the phrase “fruit flavoured” has used by William Conor in the 1956 column in the daily mirror

Homophobic

Rapper of Barking born Ramone Rochester

Ramz

Politician born Margaret Oppenheimer in Cairo in 1944

Margaret Hodge

Born in Hammersmith on March 23 1972, who was last London born winner of bbc sports personality of year?

Joe Calzaghe

Airing between 1978-2008 which drama series was set in fictional London borough of Northam?

Grange Hill

Pierre Gagnaire is head chef at which London eatery whose restaurant (lecture room and library) was awarded third Michelin star in 2019

Sketch

Answer Smash: inner satellite of Uranus and a sixteenth century castle near Berwick upon tweed much altered by Lutyens in 1901.

Rosalindisfarne

Answer Smash: animal giving name to current Chinese year and the Grammy winning 1970 that became Miles Davis highest charting on billboard chart.

The RabBitches Brew

Answer Smash: the man alleged to have inspired the hymn Jerusalem and 2001 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction set during early years of comic book industry.

Joseph of ArimaTheAmazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Answer Smash: the highest circulation newspaper in world and subtitle of gilbert and Sullivan operatta patience

Yomiuri ShimBunthorne’s Bride

Answer Smash: the lover of Apollo who was killed by a discus and a best picture winning film based on a novel by John ball.

HyacInThe Heat of the Night

Which river runs through Luton? Shares name with surname of an English pharmacist who died in office in 1874 whilst serving as mayor of Worcester.

Lea

Launched in 1973, which car manufacturer makes the Granta, the Vesta and the XRay but is probably better known in tv sporting first on January 11 1982

Lada (Lada Classic was first man to do a televised 147 Steve Davis)

Allegedly beloved by both Tutankhamen and Nefertiti which board game said to date to 3100bc in Egypt?

Senet

What piece of music considered main theme of film Gladiator? Also in title of 2019 role playing video game following a different genre of music.

Elysium

Hazelnuts and which other fruit are produced by Turkey in greater quantity than any other country?

Apricots

The Crown was name of pub that features in which 1990s tv sitcom that broadcast itv in 1992 before later transfer with greater success to bbc1?

Men Behaving Badly

The bed of a snooker or Billiard table usuaullly made from whcih metamorphic rock)

Slate

Which celebrate British film actor made first of six collabs with director David lean when playing part of Herbert Pocket in 1946 film adaptation of great expectations?

Alec Guinness

What hymn was chosen as English national anthem that was performed for winning athletes at medal ceremonies at 2022 commonwealth games?

Jerusalem

Who wrote 2003 novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian?

Marina Lewycka

First staged in 2006, which annual music and arts festival with one word name takes place in grounds of Henham Park near Southwold in Suffolk in July over 4 days?

Latitude

Doing so at concert at liverpool empire in 1979 on the opening night of their Tour Of Life tour who is commonly regarded as the first music artist to use wireless headset microphone during live stage performance?

Kate Bush

In Turkmenistan, second Sunday in august is public holiday celebrating what fruit in gourd family?

Melon

The 1960 horror film Village of the Damned was adapted from which 1957 sci fi novel by John Wyndham?

The Midwich Cuckoos

Two bands Shaun Ryder had uk top 40 single with during 1990s

Happy Mondays and Black Grape

Two bands Shaun Ryder had uk top 40 single with during 1990s

Happy Mondays and Black Grape

Which crime fiction writer famed for creating a famous detective wrote a series of novels under pen name Barbara Vine?

Ruth Rendell (known for Reg Wexford)

1880 painting “luncheon of boating party” is work by which French impressionist painter?

Renoir

Element on periodic table takes name from Greek word for Violet?

Iodine

Which Middle Eastern republic became unified country in 1990?6

Yemen

Named after Italian ichthyologist are electroreceptors, sense organs able to detect electric fields. They form a network of mucus-filled pores in the skin of cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays, and chimaeras)

Ampullae of Lorenzini

What’s the scientific name given to the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts such as the katydid and the cricket

Stridulation

Theatre Alfred Jarry attracted many artists such as author who included Jarry as character in 1925 novel The Counterfeiters

Andre Gide

Huge semi arid lowland region of rio de La plata region found in Bolivia brazil, most of Paraguay?

Gran Chaco

Cambodian architect, student of Le Corbusier, did national theatre and national sports complex!

Vann Molyvann

Black Death pogrom in 1349 when anywhere between 100-3k Jewish people killed in i whcih thurginian city ?

Erfurt

Stretching north eastward from Andes in Colombia towards coast of Venezuela lies a large grassland plain of about 375k sq km. straddling Orinoco for long stretch, Spanish name of this region?

Llanos

What freshwater vertebra has helped research is uncovered the early terrestrial animals were able to hear sounds through their breathing organs named after an organ that evolved from a swim bladder this you like creature has existed since the Triassic and his closest living relative of limbs vertebrates

Lungfish

Dramatic and recognisable Dies Iraes is the best night movement in which Italian composers referee mass written in 1975 for the author Alessandro Manzoni it is the most famous of discomposes nonoperatic works

Giuseppe Verde

Whose French playwright play The Balcony? Brothel run by Irma

Jean Genet