Middle ground Flashcards
Forest of Bowland county?
Lancashire
Drummer of Garbage and producer of Nevermind.
Butch Vig
Actress who was Ruth in Spooks, in 2022 Marriage and Unforgotten.
Nicola Walker
NikkieTutorials, Dutch YouTuber real name.
Nikkie de Jager
Third son of David died during Battle of Ephraim’s wood (2 Samuel).
Absalom
American make up artist with surname Dickinson.
James Charles
American YouTuber and make up artist founder of own cosmetic company and album Beauty Killer (Lollipop Luxury) and surname Steininger.
Jeffree Star
Director of A Separation (2011), A Hero (2021) and The Salesman (2016).
Asghar Farhadi
Cannock Chase Forest county.
Staffordshire
Author of “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”, the Poisonwood Bible, Flight Behaviour and Demon Copperhead (2022).
Barbara Kingsolver
Author of “Redhead by the Side of the Road” (2020), French Braid (2022), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl (Taming of the Shrew) and the Accidental Tourist.
Anne Tyler
Vinegar Joe from WW2 American general surname?
Joseph Stilwell
Brokeback Mountain, Postcards, The Shipping News author.
Annie Proulx
American actor known for “The Method” and father of method acting.
Lee Strasberg
American urban planner who designed New York State Parkway system and had book “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro written about him.
Robert Moses
Designer of Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace and worked with Calvert Vaux.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Activist of urban studies, book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Protect the urban renewal and slum clearance.
Jane Jacobs
Nightclub in Chicago, first director Frankie Knuckles, gave name to House music.
Warehouse
Five letter term for a “chapter” in the Quran.
Surah
Surahs (chapters) of the Quran are split into which four-letter term for “verse”?
Ayah
Japanese name for bullet train.
Shinkansen
Subtitle of Thespis by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Gods Grown Old
Subtitle of HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Lass that Loved a Sailor
Subtitle of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Slave of Duty
Subtitle of Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Bunthorne’s Bride
Subtitle of Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Peer and the Peri
Subtitle of Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Castle Adamant
Subtitle of The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Town of Titipu
Subtitle of Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Witch’s Curse
Subtitle of The Yeoman of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Merryman and His Maid
Subtitle of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The King of Barataria
Subtitle of Utopia, Limited by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Flowers of Progress
What is the name of Gilbert and Sullivan’s final Savoy Opera, released in 1896 and subtitle “or The Statutory Duel”.
The Grand Duke
Which type of pasta takes its name from Sicilian for bride/groom?
Ziti
10 Plagues in Order
Blood, Frogs, Lice, Flies, Livestock Pestilence, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness and Killing of Firstborns.
Term in horticulture used to describe trees and plants that live for more than two years.
Perennial
Which militant guerilla movement founded by Abdullah Ocalan in 1970s want to overthrow Turkish government?
PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party)
Cornish Lost Garden of _____ found in estate near Mevagissey owned by Tremayne family?
Heligan
Full name of the main character of the Malory Towers books by Enid Blyton? Pamela Cox wrote some books focusing on sister Felicity in 2009.
Darrell Rivers
MP for Tottenham between 1987 and 2000, one of first black MPs elected to Parliament.
Bernie Grant
MP for Brent South 1987-2005, first Black cabinet minister in 2002 (chief secretary to treasury). BHC to SA after then Lords.
Paul Yaw Boateng
Living 1945-82, part of New German Cinema, movies include The Merchant of Four Seasons, Ali: fear eats the soul, the marriage of Maria Braun. Died of cocaine cocktail.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Handsworth riots took place in 1981 and 1985 in which city?
Birmingham
Seat of Federal Government of Malaysia?
Putrajaya
Hampshire town known as Home of the British Army?
Aldershot
Total number of dots on a 28 tile pack of dominos.
168
How many tiles in a standard Double Six pack of dominos?
28
Prime Minister of Spain who was assassinated in December 1973 by ETA as an ally of Franco. Car blown up in air = Spains first astronaut.
Luis Carrero BLANCO
What does Basque nationalist group ETA stand for?
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna
Moderna vaccine official name?
Spikevax
Astra Zeneca official name vaccine?
Vaxzevria
Pfizer official name for vaccine?
Comirnaty
What county is Scafell Pike in?
Cumbria
American chef blond spiky hair stars in Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Guy Fieri
New Zealand lizard like reptile with third eye (parietal).
Tuatara
Town in North Yorkshire, site of world’s largest British Army garrison houses nearly 6000?
Catterick
Spanish PM between 1996 and 2004 and was targeted by ETA in 1995 assassination. 2004 Madrid bombings by Al Qaeda but blamed ETA. Zapatero then PM between 2004 and 2011 when Rajoy came by from 2011 and 2018.
Jose Maria AZNAR
Self governing city in SK founded in 2007, completed by 2030 is site of government and intended to replace Seoul?
Sejong
Name of Indonesia’s intended new capital city found on Borneo?
Nusantara
County town of Galway
Galway
County town of Leitrim
Carrick on Shannon
County town of Mayo
Castlebar
County town of Roscommon
Roscommon
County town of Sligo
Sligo
County town of Carlow
Carlow
County town of Kildare
Naas
County town of Kilkenny
Kilkenny
County town of Laois
Portlaoise
County town of Longford
Longford
County town of Louth
Dundalk
County town of Meath
Navan
County town of Clare
Ennis
County town of Donegal
Lifford
County town of Offaly
Tullamore
County town of Westmeath
Mullingar
Two county towns of County Tipperary
Clonmel is largest and then Nenagh is second largest
County town of Wexford
Wexford
County Town of Wicklow
Wicklow
County town of Kerry
Tralee
County town of Cavan
Cavan
County town of Antrim
Antrim
County town of Armagh
Armagh
County town of Down
Downpatrick
County town of Fermanagh
Enniskillen
County town of Londonderry
Coleraine
County town of Tyrone
Omagh
Capital of Anguilla
The Valley
Capital of Bermuda
Hamilton
Main base of British Antarctic Territory
Rothera
British Indian Ocean Territory main Naval Support Facility on which atoll in Indian Ocean. It’s claimed by Mauritius.
Diego Garcia
Capital of Cayman Islands
George Town
Capital of British Virgin Islands
Road Town
Capital of Falklands
Stanley
Capital of Gibraltar
Capital of Montserrat
Plymouth (abandoned so now Brades)
Capital of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
Adamstown
Capital of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Jamestown
Capital of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
King Edward Point (claimed by Argentina)
Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia capital
Episkopi Cantonment
Capital of Turks and Caicos Islands
Cockburn Town
Egyptian city at North of Suez Canal
Port Said
Burj Khalifa and Willis Tower (Sears) and 1WTC are which firm (including Adrian Smith)
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)
BA Humbugi is a type of which mollusc found in Viti Levu in Fiji.
Land snail
Nicolae Ceaucescu wife first name
Elena
Panamanian city lies on Atlantic entrance of Panama Canal
Colon
Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal is which near which city? Share currency.
Balboa
City near south of Suez Canal
Port Suez
Including six of NI, how many traditional counties of Ireland are there?
32
Russian for Ears is the name of which type of headwear with the flaps
Ushanka
Ruga Ignatova, Bulgarian born fraudster founded of which Ponzi scheme cryptocurrency, “the missing crypto queen”
OneCoin
Art critic presented and wrote The Shock of the New
Robert Hughes
Book called Typee by which American author!
Herman Melville
Lake Mead is lake made by which dam and found in Nevada and Arizona
Hoover Dam
Lake Powell is artificial reservoir found in Utah and Arizona and is formed by which dam?
Glen Canyon Dam
Who was Brahma’s wife?
Saraswati
Who was the wife of Vishnu?
Lakshmi
What is the word referring to Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati?
Tridevi
Who is Shiva’s wife?
Parvati
Made from alpaca wool, name of typical Andean hat with ear flaps can be tied under chin?
Chullo
Jan Marsalek, Austrian born fraudster was ceo of which German payment processing company collapsed in 2020, Netflix doc Skandal!.
Wirecard
Zincblende less used name of which sulfide mineral which is most commercially important ore of zinc
Sphalerite
Largest Man made lake in USA found in south and North Dakota? Missouri River
Lake Oahe
Second largest reservoir in America named after Lewis and Clark guide. Found in North Dakota.
Lake Sakakawea
Nottingham House expanded by Wren in 1689 to become which royal palace
Kensington Palace
Part of brain which is embedded in temporal lobe and has major role in learning and memory.
Hippocampus
Region of brain adjacent to hippocampus is primarily involved in processing of emotions and memories associated with fear.
Amygdala
Viru Gate, Toompea Castle and Kadriorg Palace is which Northern European capital city?
Tallinn
Sometimes called Wedding Cake Church what name of church on Fleet Street with distinctive spire and designed by Wren
St Brides Church
Capital city is Gustavia which comes from a Swedish colony from 1784-1878, which caribbean island now an overseas collectivity of France.
St Barthelemy/St Barts
Church of St Mary Le Bow whose bells and earshot traditional definition of cockney, located on which thoroughfare in the city of London
Cheapside
Highest point of Slovenia shown on flag
Mount Triglav
Bangkok airport name
Suvarnabhumi
Guernica painting is in which Madrid gallery which focuses on 20th century art?
Museo Reina Sofia
Tsar of Bulgaria 1943-46 and PM 2001-05.
Simeon II
Name of the January uprising in Berlin from 5-12 January 1919 including Rosa Luxembourg
Spartacist Uprising
Highest point of Ecuador as shown on its flag?
Chimborazo
Rotten borough of Dunwich, medieval port city, in which county?
Suffolk
Name of naacp’s first field secretary in Mississippi who was assassinated by Byron de labeckwith in June 1963
Medgar Evers
Name of 14 year old who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 in a racist attack
Emmett Till
Who served as King of Cambodia twice last time ending 2004 and then Prime Minister twice
Norodom Sihanouk
Who became king of Cambodia in 2004 after death of Norodom Sihanouk? Educated in czechoslovakia and a classical dance instructor.
Norodom Sihamoni
Which Watergate figure gives her name to an effect where patients accurate recall treated as delusional? Married to Attorney General. Played by Julia Roberts in Gaslit.
Martha Mitchell
Centre of 1963 divorce scandal including photos of headless man, Clare foy this woman in A Very British Scandal in 2021. Thomas Ades opera Powder Her Face
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
Associatite justice of Supreme Court accused by Anita hill of sexual harassment.
Clarence Thomas
Convicted under Espionage Act disclosing 75000 documents to wikileaks. Transitioned during incarceration.
Chelsea Manning
Former showgirl’s home was shot at Johnny Edgecombe in December 1962? Portrayed by Joanne Whalley in 1989 film scandal
Christine Keeler
Elizabeth Holmes company fraudulent blood.
Theranos
Woman described as Confederate Mata Hari, operated from fathers hotel and provided info to Stonewall Jackson
Belle Boyd
US President previously been mayor of buffalo and governor of NY accused of father illegitimate child with Maria crofts Halpin
Grover Cleveland
Which associate justice of Supreme Court accused by Christine blasey Ford of sexual misconduct?
Brett kavanaugh
Watergate figure was the source known as “Deep Throat”. Name released in 2005.
Mark Felt
Major criminal case in papal states 1659-60, use of Aqua Tofana to kill husbands. Named after the main poisoner and astrologer.
Spana Prosecution
US President several scandals including Teapot Dome and illegitimate child with Nan Britton, nicknamed penis Jerry.
Warren G Harding
Art historian and Surveyor of Queen’s Pictures confessed to being spy for Soviet Union exposed by thatcher in 1979. Portrayed by Samuel west In the crown.
Anthony Blunt
Which large peninsula in County Down wit Bangor at north and Strangford Lough to west includes Burr Point (most easterly point)?
Ards Peninsula
Literary and artistic sub genre, deriv of cyberpunk, based on post steam tech and aesthetics from 1920s to 50s such as WW2 2012 film Iron Sky.
Dieselpunk
Biggest part of Venus atmosphere (gas)
Carbon Dioxide
Biggest composition of Mercury atmosphere (gas)
Oxygen
Titan atmosphere composition is 95% what
Nitrogen
Biggest part of Mars atmosphere composition
Carbon Dioxide
Biggest part of gas giants compositions
Hydrogen
Clarence Darrow was defence for scopes monkey trial which inspired Kramer’s Inherit the Wind, which Presidential candidate was lead for prosecution?
William Jennings Bryan
What state was Scopes Monkey Trial
Tennessee
Roe vs Wade was a court case which originated in case brought by Norma McCorvey in whcih us state
Texas
Brown vs Board of Education of which state capital and therefore in that state?
Topeka (Kansas)
Which large peninsula in County Donegal includes Malin Head, the island of Ireland’s most northerly point?
Inishowen Peninsula
What are the four extreme counties of Ireland? Cardinal directions.
North: Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal. East: Ards Peninsula, County Down. south: Clear Island, county cork
West: Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry
Which river flows through Stuttgart
Neckar
Source of Islamic law, term refers to writings are considered report actions or opinions of Muhammad - distinct from Quran which is word of god revealed to Muhammad.
Hadith
Type of peridotite, which magnesium iron silicate mineral is primary component of upper mantle of earth, 55%? Peridot is gemstone variety of this mineral.
Olivine
What are the troops of FON MILITARY leader Agojie known as seen in 2022 The Woman King starring viola Davis.
Amazons of Dahomey (modern day Benin)
Running from Place de La Concorde eastwards past the Louvre until it meets Rue Saint-Antoine, what thoroughfare in Paris is named after a military victory of Napoleon?
Rue de Rivoli
German politics SDP, FDP and Green Party coalition described as whichnohject due to colours
Traffic light coalition
What colour are the Christian Democratic Union or the Christian Social Union in Bavaria
Black
The social Democratic Party of Germany are whcih colour
Red
What nickname of coalition of CDU, FDP and Greens
Jamaica coalition
What colour are the free Democratic party in Germany
Yellow
What nickname of the coalition between CDU, SPD, FDP
Germany coalition
What nickname between CDU, SPD and Greens
Kenya coalition
Name of the map projection preferred by unesco to Mercator as has no distinction from 45 degrees north and south. Named after Scottish clergyman and German historian.
Gall-Peters Projection
Name of the instrument classification system that puts instruments into the nature of the sound producing material:idiophone for example
Hornbostel-Sachs
What name of instruments under Hornbostel-Sachs classification which the actual body of the instrument is vibrating, nearly all percussion other than drums.
Idiophones
What name of instruments under Hornbostel-Sachs classification which vibrate via a tightly stretched surface including drums and kazoos.
Membranophones
What name of instruments under Hornbostel-Sachs classification which the vibration of strings including keyboard, pianos…
Chordophones
What name of instruments under Hornbostel-Sachs classification which vibrating air
Aerophones
Two most famous double Reed instruments
Oboe and Bassoon
Running from brandenburg gate to th city palace, what broad boulevard in the Mitte district named after the trees that line it?
Unter der Linden
The Solo river largest on which Asian island where specimen of homo erected found on banks in 1890:
Java
Kwasi Kwarteng constituency
Spelthorne
Liz Truss constituency
South West Norfolk
Jeremy Hunt constituency
South west surrey
Term Wild West coined by which British author?
Charlotte Bronte
Who was commander of Admiral Graf Spee during battle of river plate off coast of Uruguay in 1939?
Hans Langsdorff
Born Henry Pitt’s Brown, name of bandleader who was on Goon Show from 1951-60, wife Anita west who was 2nd female presenter of Blue Peter and son Lance Is a strictly come dancing singer.
Ray Ellington
What number symphony is Mahler’s Symphony of a 1000?
8
What river is the longest river running entirely through Wales?
River Tywi (Towy)
Largest lake in Japan
Lake Biwa
Which pope had real name Angelo Roncalli and came power 1958-63
John XXIII
Which historic dockyard was described as mother dock of all England by William Camden. Henri Grace a Dieu (flagship of Henry EIGHTh), vanguard, hms beagle, hms repulse (last wooden battleship in 1868)
Woolwich Dockyard
Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre opened exhibition in May 2022 about how which vehicle and film prop was built there in the 1970:
Millennium Falcon
Which female assistant to Edward Pickering helped with sorting star into 22 types according to their hydrogen levels?
Wilhelmina Fleming
Which female assistant to Edward Pickering in 1901 worked on star classification and offered up OBAFGKM as a possible sequence. Only big and fearsome goats kill men.
Annie Jump Cannon
Who discovered the robust characteristics of Cepheid variables in 1908 which helped relationship between luminosity and pulsation period.
Henrietta swan leavitt
Who performed the first measurements for radial velocities for galaxies and the sodium layer of neutral atoms of sodium within earths mesosphere
Vesto Slipher
Name of the iceman found in the alps between Austria and Italy in 1991, from 3350-3105bc
Otzi the Iceman
Name of the tattoos practiced by the Māori
Ta Moko
Novel way to describe dead on social medias to stop being demonetised
Unalive
Nonoprofit open source repository for fan fiction biggest source online: name?
Archive of our Own (AO3)
Winner of Hugo award in 2022, Arkady Martine wrote which book
A Desolation Called Peace
A Desolation called Peace is the sequel to which earlier novel which won Hugo for Martine in 2020
A memory called empire
Which 2021 Martha wells Novel won the Hugo and the nebula awards
Network effect
Who wrote network effect
Martha Wells
Who wrote the the Teixcalaan series including A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace?
Arkady Martine
Whcih P Djeli Clark novel won 2022 nebula award?
Master of djinn
Who wrote A Master of Djinn
P djeli clark
Andy Weir 2021 novel
Project Hail Mary
2020 book by NK Jemisin, her first book since triple Hugo award winning Broken Earth series
The City We Became
Tamsyn Muir Locked Tomb series is four books so far of “___ the Ninth”, name the four starting with Gideon 2019 debut.
Gideon, Harrow, Nona, Alecto
Who won the first Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1953 with “The Demolished Man”
Alfred Bester
Musical instrument chiefly associated with Egypt, frame wire rattle
Sistrum
Most northerly of the Shetland Islands
Unst
Name of the mist coming off North Sea in the north east of the uk
Haar
The name of the current flows down east coast of Africa
Agulhas Current
The name of the current whcih flows down west coast of Africa named after city in Angola
Benguela Current
Which Middle Eastern city has gates called Golden, Dung, Lions, Jaffa and Zion.
Jerusalem
Which British city has medieval gates named north gate, east gate, bridge gate and watergate
Chester
What two kings between 1377-1485 didn’t get their own shakespeare play
Edward IV and Edward V
Which author wrote chronicles which were main inspiration to shakespeares histories
Raphael Hollinshed
In animal world, what are Chimney Sweeper, angle shades and vapourer.
Moths
What are weevers, rocklings and lumpsuckers? Nature
Fish
Norwegian city nickname city of seven mountains
Bergen
Misselthwaite Manor was the title location of which novel?
The secret garden
Home of OHara family in gone with the wind novel
Tara
Clock stuck at what time at Miss Havisham’s in Great Expectations
8:40
Author born 1882 wrote books at Monks House Sussex
Virginia Woolf
Max Gate, Dorset was home of whcih author
Thomas Hardy
Shibden Hall in West Yorkshire was home of whcih explorer and diarist?
Anne Lister
What bird is nicknamed Bonxie in the UK?
Great Skua (stercorariidae)
Whcih human organ is nearly 60% fat?
Brain
HDL cholesterol stands for what?
High Density Lipoprotein
What radioactive material is used in smoke detectors?
Americium-241
Bird has Latin name “Pandion Haliaetus”
Osprey
William the Conqueror wife name
Matilda of Flanders
Marie Antoinette born when and where
1755 in Vienna
Soweto Blues was a song performed by Miriam Makeba and written by her former husband, who? He had #1 in American 1968 for Grazing in the Grass.
Hugh Masekela - trumpeter - also wrote Bring Him Back Home.
French-language name given to fashion subculture most prominent in Brazzaville and Kinshasa in which people wear extravagant brightly coloured clothes?
La Sape
February 1945 big three met at which Crimean peninsula
yalta
from Greek for “take root”, name given to fleshy underground plant stem from which roots can grow, these structures store carbs such as inulin and they support growth of plants such as irises.
Rhizomes
Whcih director directed Performance (1970), Don’t Look Up (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Witches (1990)?
Nicolas Roeg
Name of the celebration of 15th birthday of females in Spanish roots in Latin America
Quinceanera
Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Eleanor Olyphant is Completely Fine author
Honeyman
Style of sleeve typically loose fitting and flared and generally not covering whole arm is named after insect
Butterfly
Otisis is inflammation of what
Ear
Name of 2022 Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith
The Ink Black Heart
French for “the anvil”, what is the name of the Cartmel, Cumbria, restaurant run by chef Simon Rogan, it has three Michelin stars .
L’Enclume
Shortest serving Taoiseach from 1994-97
John Bruton
Shortest serving pope (13 days).
Urban VII
Longest serving pope after St Peter, 1846-1878 31 years
Pius IX
Top four pope name
Clement 14
Benedict 15
Gregory 16
John 21 (16 was anti pope and 20 not used)
Dr Who in Order
Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, T Baker, Davison, Baker, McCoy, McGann, Ecclestone, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, Whitaker, Gatwa
Have the police been dialled? Boys may make every time special. Cads will go.
Astrological almanac published in Britain since 1697 published by which “ Irish merlin”, first contained weather forecasts
Old Moore’s Almanack
What reference book has been cancelled after it’s 153rd edition in 2021? First published in 1868 postponing publication upon learning of Disraeli resigniation.
Whitaker’s Almanack
A copy of Whitaker’s Almanack is sealed into which sculpture on the River Thames side.
Cleopatra’s Needle
Leaders of Green Party since October 2021
Adrian Ramsey and Carla Denyer
Abbott and Costello first names
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Hale and Pace first name
Gareth Hale and Norman Pace
Little and Large full name
Syd Little (Cyril Mead) and Eddie Large (Edward McGinnis)
Cannon and Ball full name
Tommy Cannon (Thomas Derbyshire) and Bobby Ball (Robert Harper)
Last five Israel pm
Ehud Olmert, Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, BN again, Israel PMs
Last four Japanese PM
Noda, Abe, Suga, Kishida Japan
Last four Australian PM
Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison, Albanese Australian
Which paris landmark is situated in the Place Charles de Gaulle historically known as the Place d’Etoile
Arc de Triomphe
What’s another name for the common seal? Named after place found. Phoca Vitulina
Harbour Seal
In French what is French toast called
Pain Perdu
What British dish does Hachis Parmentier most resemble
Shepherds Pie
Baked Alaska in French
Omelette Norvegienne
Blue plaque at Marnock Road, Brockley,SE4 commemorates Amanda Grayson (2210-58), who is her famous son?
Spock
What is known as a Texas gate in America
Cattle grid
In uk what is the American beltway known as
Circular road or ring road
What does letter I stand for in highway names of USA : I5 links Canada and Mexico
Interstate
On a ship what is the function of a head/heads
Toilets
Term for upright wall or partition within hull of a ship
Bulkhead
What is the term for process of sealing between planks of a wooden vessel with a fibrous material soaked in tar
Caulking
Who is Dr Mirabilis, 13th century friar, optics and scientific method and record gunpower
Roger Bacon (1220-92)
City in Romeo and Juliet location shares name with loosengown fashionable in 16th century France
Mantua
Whcih Italian port shares its name with a type of cake and a sail known as overlapping jib?
Genoa
Which city once the south eastern terminus of the Appian Way shares its name with a song that accompanies drinking (toasting)
Brindisi
Uk city known as Stroke city not coz of health but punctuation
Derry/Londonderry
City in south of England known as Chi (why) to inhabitants
Chichester
Which town by some reckoning Cornwall most populous is known to locals as Snozzle
St Austell
It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child said by which artist
Pablo Picasso
I saws the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free said by who
Michelangelo
Michelangelo’s surname
Buonarotti
Afton Down, site of musical festivals between 1968-70 last of whcih had Joni Mitchell and jimi Hendrix
Isle of Wight
Name of farm near Pilton, Somerset that hosts Glastonbury owned by Michael eavis, daughter Emily
Worthy FArm
Name of King Charles step daughter
Laura Lopes
Which band and its former personnel are central to what was previously known as Cropredy Festival
Fairport Convention
Latin word meaning bark, rind, shell or husk, often used anatomically for surface area of organs such as brain or kidney
Cortex
Which country borders Guatemala and Honduras
El Salvador
What country borders Honduras and Costa Rica?
Nicaragua
What country borders Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua
Honduras
Second Brightest star of the night sky after Sirius and the constellation
Canopus in Carina
Alpha Centauri made up from three star?
Rigil Kentaurus, Toliman, Proxima Centauri (AC C - closest to it)
Brightest star of Bootes
Arcturus
Brightest star of Auriga?
Capella
Beta Orion name
Rigel
Alpha Canis Minor
Procyon
Alpha Eridanus
Achernar
Alpha Orion
Betelgeuse
Alpha Aquila
Altair
Beta Centauris
Hadar
Alpha Taurus
Aldebaran
Alpha Scorpio
Antares
Alpha Virgo
Spica
Beta Gemini - brightest in constellation
Pollux
Alpha Cygnus
Deneb
Alpha Piscis Austrinus
Fomalhaut
Alpha Leo
Regulus
Alpha Gemini
Castor
Constellation Grus named after which bird
Crane
Marion Prison is found in which US state
Illinois
Second album of Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Second album is Doolittle by which band
Pixies
Radiohead debut album
On a Friday
Radiohead second album
The Bends
How do you pronounce Xhosa
Kourza
American singer songwriter, originally in Whiskeytown, left and released debut album Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
Uppercase eta is what capital letter?
A capital H is the upper case symbol for which Greek letter?
Upper cast upsilon is the same as what capital letter?
Y is which green letter’s upper case symbol
Upper case Rho looks like what letter of alphabet?
P is the upper case symbol for which Greek letter?
How long has Smokie been living next door to Alice
24 years
Latin name for parsley
Petroselinum Crispum
Latin name for sage
Salvia Officinalis
NRS Social Grades are system of demographic classifications in UK, what does NrS stand for
National Readership Survey
Tosk and Gheg two major dialects of which language
Albanian
Welsh, Cornish and Breton make up which family of Lnfuages?
Brittonic family contains whcih three languages
Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx are in which language family?
Goidelic family contains whcih three languages?
Agatha Christie’s husbands
Archibald Christie and Max Mallowan
Labour Party chancellor 1945-47 quit after info of budget leaked
Hugh Dalton
Leader of Labour and Opposition 1955-1963 death, chancellor between 1950 and 1951, preceded by Cripps (1947-50)
Hugh Gaitskell
Luke the Gospel wrote the third gospel, Luke, and also whcih other book
Acts
Who wrote the uses of literacy, spoke at Lady Chatterlys Lover trial, father to Simon, News Quiz host, played by David Tennant in a tv show about The Chatterly Affair
Richard Hoggart
Which road goes from Lower Manhattan 13 miles through to Sleepy Hollow?
Broadway
The PlAy that goes wrong is by which company
Mischief Theatre
Polish-British meteorologist currently works for bbc weather
Tomasz Schafernaker
First name of Mrs Browns Boys
Agnes
Creator of Mrs Browns Boys
Brendan O’Carroll
Red Pac-Man ghost called what
Shadow/Blinky
Pink Pac-Man ghost called
Speedy/Pinky
Cyan Pac-Man ghost called
Bashful/Inky
Orange Pac-Man ghost name
Pokey/Clyde
Reginald Perrin’s walk to work, four roads, three ports
Coleridge Close
Tennyson Avenue
Wordsworth Drive
Station Drive
Sports broadcaster on Wimbledon, Rugby Special and Grandstand, controversy with Marion Bartoli not being a looker, congratulated Andy Murray for beingnfirstntennisnplayer to win two gold medals but he corrected it was Williams won four.
John Inverdale
What is the theme tune of Rugby Special recorded by The Shadows’ drummer Brian Bennett
Holy Mackerel
Theme from the TV series “Golf”
Chase Side Shoot Up
Name of Ski Sunday theme song
Pop Looks Bach
Formula One theme by Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
Theme tune for BBC cricket coverage and later Test Match Special with marimba solo by Terry Manning and cowbell by Isaac Hayes.
Soul Limbo by Booker T and the MGs
Booker T surname
Booker T Jones
Wimbledon theme composed by Keith Mansfield was known as what
Light and Tuneful
The Trap by Ron Goodwin used as theme for what sport event
London Marathon
Drag Racer by the Doug Wood band used as theme song for what sport coverage
Snooker
Last four Vice Presidents Secret Service Names
Angler, Celtic, Hoosier, Pioneer
Canadas first satellite
Alouette I
Britains first satellite
Ariel
USA first satellite 1958
Explorer 1
First Russian and ever satellite in 1957
Sputnik 1
Gagarin’s spacecraft in 1961
Vostok 1
Alan Shepard first space flight in 1961
Freedom 7
John Glenn first orbital flight in 1962
Friendship 7
Lake Victoria shared by which countries
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
Tanganyika Lake countries
Tanzania, DRC, Burundi, Zambia - second oldest lake in world, second largest in volume, second deepest, longest freshwater lake. Drained into Congo river and into Atlantic
Lake Malawi split into countries
Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania - flows into the Shire which is in Malawi
What term for lake where water layers do not mix
Meromictic lake
Countries around Caspian Sea
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, russia, iran
Great Lakes in Order
SHMEO
Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario
Some heavy men eat onions
Largest lake entirely within Canada
Great Bear Lake (Northwest territories)
Deepest lake in North America and 10th largest in world, Northwest Territories
Great slave Lake
Largest Lake in Europe
Ladoga
Large lake in Kazakhstan 15th in world
Balkhash
Largest lake in Antarctica
Vostok
Second largest lake in Europe
Onega
Known as Cocibolca or Granada in country of origin, largest lake in Central America, contains fresh water sharks
Nicaragua
20th largest lake in world in Saskatchewan and Alberta
Athabasca Lake
Lake shared between Kenya and Ethiopia largest permanent desert lake , known lake rudolf
Turkana
22nd lake in world betweennsaskatchewan and Manitoba named after animal
Reindeer Lake
Second largest mountain lake in world found in kryrgyzstan
Issyk-Kul
Largest lake in EU - found in Sweden
Vanern
Largest lake on an island: Baffin Island
Nettilling
Second largest lake in Manitoba, contains name of city
Winnipegosis
Also known as Lake Mwitanzige, and once as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, lake shared between Uganda and DRC
Lake Albert
Lake on border of Zambia and DRC 28th largest in world
Lake Mweru
Largest lake in China
Qinghai
Largest trans boundary lake in Europe found between Estonia and Russia
Lake Peipus
Largest lake in Mongolia by surface area
Uvs
Source of Blue Nile and largest lake in Ethiopia
Tana
Who sang original of Tainted Love covered by Soft Cell
Gloria Jones
Whose debut album was Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Soft Cell - Marc Almond and David Ball
Mad World was song by Tears for Fears and sung by their bassist who?
Curt Smith
A1 top #1
Take on me
Same old brand new you
Lonely mountain in the hobbit known as what Sindarin name
Erebor
Name of the Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion in 5th century
Hengist and Horsa
5th century warlord May have been the superbus tyrannus said to have invited Hengist and Horsa to aid him in fighting Picts and Scot’s. Went wrong.
Vortigern
Moroccan city that is high in rif mountains, very blue, very Instagram
Chefchaouen
Highest mountain on Borneo
Mount Kinabalu
1991 eruption of whcih Luzon volcano
Mount Pinatubo
BBC tv show between 1981-85 abouts experience of brits, Australian and dutch captured after fall of Singapore in February 1942. Ann Bell is Marion Jefferson. Patricia Cole is Beatrice Mason.
Tenko
Trio created after success in Rainbow, originally featuring Matthew Corbett, son of Sooty creator Harry Crobett but then replaced.
Rod, Jane and Freddy
Dido real first name and albums
Florian Armstrong: No Angel (1999), Life for Rent (2003)
Name of 7 Up mascot before Cool Spot was introduced
Fido Dido
PL travers stands for
Pamela Lyndon
CS forester stands for
Cecil Scott
CP snow stands for
Charles Percy
Books: Corridors of Powers, The Masters, The Two Cultures. Series known as: Strangers and Brothers.
CP Snow
Chicago MLS team
Chicago Fire
New England Revolution based what state
Massachusetts
Name of Colorado MLS team play at Dicks Sporting Goods Park
Colorado Rapids
Kansas City MLS team uses whcih word in name seen in Europe
Sporting Kansas City
Vancouver MLS team
Vancouver Whitecaps
Seattle MLS team
Sounders
San Jose MLS team
Earthquakes
Portland MLS teams
Timbers
What band was Danny Elfman in 1979-1995
Oingo Boingo
Who composed Simpsons theme
Danny Elfman
Hans Zimmer was in which band’s 1976 hit, and then two Oscar’s he’s won
The Buggles
The Lion King and Dune
Has done gladiator, pirates, dark knight, all Nolan stuff apart from tenet
Which composer did Tenet for Christoper Nolan? He also did Black Panther and won Oscar. Did Fruitvale Station and creed, all directed by Ryan Coogler
Ludwig Goransson
MP for Perth and North Perthshire, was in bands Runrig and Big Country
Pete Wishart
Which Lakers player was depicted in the NBA logo?
Jerry West
Which baseball player is depicted on the MLB logo?
Harmon Killebrew (Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins)
What position did Derek Jeter play at baseball?
Shortstop
Derek Jeter played entire career with whcih MLB team?
Yankees - he was CEO of Miami Marlins 2017-22 - relationship with Mariah Carey
Which logo contains the son of Robert Hunt via silhouette?
Dreamworks
Who is the title character of A Woman of No Importance by Wilde
Mrs Arbuthnot
Lady Chiltern, Lord Goring and Lord Caversham from which Wilde play?
An Ideal Husband
Title character name of Wilde play The Duchess of Padua
Beatrice
Wilde’s first play based on life of ___ Zasulich in Russia
Vera; or, The Nihilists
Englands first Area of Outstanding Beauty designated in 1956 in Somerset
Quantock Hills
Sanskrit for “wise; educated or learned man” and used for jawaharlal nehru
Pandit
Which author wrote the 2010 book Room and the 1995 book Hood, 2016 novel The Wonder turned into 2022 film with Florence Pugh.
Emma Donoghue
2022 novel by Emma Donoghue set among monks on Skellig Michael 11km west of Iveragh Peninsula (home to Carountoohil) in County Kerry.
Haven
Wayne Gretzky was famous for wearing which shirt number?
99
Wayne Gretzky four NHL teams
Edmonton Oilers 1979-88
Los Angeles Kings 1988-95
St Louis Blues 1995-96
New York Rangers 1996-99
Wayne Gretzky coached which NHL team from 2005 to 2009
Phoenix Coyotes
Name of the trophy awarded to NHL for sportsmanship and performance
Lady Byng Trophy
Trophy awarded to the MVP of the Stanley Cup playoffs
Conn Smythe Trophy
Ted Lindsay Award awarded annually to what league’s most outstanding player in regular season
NHL
Name of the annual award for most valuable player in the NHL voted by PHWA.
Hart Memorial Trophy
Whcih Trophy awarded to NHL player with most league points at end of regular season
Art Ross Trophy
Bill Russell number was retired by the NBA in 2022, which number
6
Five letter name for the small king handled pot with a pouring lip designed to make Turkish coffee
Cezve
Type of coffee popularised over covid 19 with name derived from Korean sugar candy and whipped.
Dalgona Coffee
Geisha coffee variety of coffee tree originating in which country
Ethiopia
Named after yemeni city; stove top coffee maker that brews coffee by passing boiling water pressurised by steam through ground coffee
Moka Pot
If lungo is a long coffee (more water), what term used for a “shortened, narrow” one using less water.
Ristretto
Digital sans-serif typeface family designed by Lucas de Groot released in 2007 Microsoft office. Replaced times new Roman as default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as default in Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook and Wirdpad.
Calibri
Five letter term for Japanese hot springs and bathing facilities.
Onsen
Branching off from the Cistercians, which religious catholic order of monks following rule of st Benedict, named after an abbey in Orne, France. Make beers bearing their name.
Trappists
Known for collaborations with Miles Davis, shared surname of the jazz pianist Gil and jazz saxophonist Bill.
Evans
Walter “Sonny” Rollins: st Thomas, oleo, doxy, airegin, plays which instrument?
Saxophone
Stan Getz played which instrument
Tenor Saxophone
Charles Mingus “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” elegy for which saxophonist who died in 1959.
Lester Young
Mingus asked which singer to write lyrics for Goodbye Pork Pie Hat and this singer created a 1979 album Mingus.
Joni Mitchell
ArtBlakey played whcih instrument, born 1919
Drums
Thelonius Sphere Monk played which instrument: round midnight, blue monk, straight no chaser, Ruby my dear.
Piano
Charlie Parker played which instrument: known as yardbird.
Saxophone
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie played which instrument
Trumpet
Art Blakey band leader of which jazz combo
Jazz Messengers
Nicknamed Hawk and Bean, Coleman Hawkins played which instrument
Saxophone
Igor Stravinsky wrote the 1945 Ebony Concerto for which band leader’s band?
Woodrow Herman
John Coltrane born 1926, died 1967 age 40, played which instrument? Most acclaimed album A Love Supreme (1965). His second wife Alice was pianist and harpist known by sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda.
Saxophone
Miles Dewey Davis born 1926 in Alton Illinois played which instrument? Recorded Birth of the Cool, ‘Round about Midnight, Sketches of Spain, Milestones, Kind of Blue.
Trumpet
Herbie Hancock, born 1940 Chicago, known for cantaloupe island, watermelon man, maiden voyage and chameleon, played which instrument? Won oscar for best original score in 1986 for Round Midnight (directed by Bertrand Tavernier)
Piano
Austrian born American composer scored Anthony Adverse and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Erich Korngold
Which composer won 9 Oscar’s for best original score: Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Tin Pan Alley, love is a many splendoured thing, The King and I, Camelot.
Alfred Newman
Which composer won 3/24 Oscar’s nominations, Austria born 1888: The Informer, Now Voyager, Since You Went Away. Others: King Kong, Casablanca, The Searchers, Gone with the Wind. Won first golden globe for best original score: Life with Father.
Max Steiner
Which composer won 1949 score oscar for The Heiress
Aaron Copland
Which composer won 1957 best original score for The Bridge on the river Kwai
Malcolm Arnold
Who won 1958 best original score oscar for Gigi, 1959 Porgy and Bess, 1963 Irma La Douce, 1964 My Fair Lady
Andre Previn
Who won 1962 best original score for Lawrence of Arabia, 1965 for Dr Zhivago
Maurice Jarre
Who won Best score oscar for breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961
Henry Mancini
Which composer won best scores Oscar’s for 1966 Born Free and 1968 The Lion in Winter
John Barry
Whcih composer won 1967 oscar score Thoroughly Modern Millie? Ten Commandments, to kill a mockingbird, great escape, ghostbusters, airplane, the magnificent seven
Elmer Bernstein
Who scored Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (directed by George Roy Hill) in 1969?
Burt Bacharach
The Beatles won oscar for original song score in 1970 for whcih film
Let It Be
Who directed The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)?
Jacques Demy
Who scored Jacques Demy’s films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)? Won first Oscar for song Windmills of your Mind from Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and won additional Oscar’s for Summer of ‘42 and Yentl.
Michel Legrand
Whcih English composer born 1936 scored Far from Madding Crowd, Nicholas and Alexandra and Murder on Orient Express were oscar nominations? Did operas The Mines of Sulphur, All the Kings Men, The Midnight Thief.
Richard Rodney Bennett
John Williams oscar winning scores;
Fiddler on the Roof
Jaws
Star Wars
ET the Extra Terrestrial
Schindlers List
French composer Alexandre Dusplat has won two academy awards for which films
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have two Oscar’s for which films
The Social Network (2010)
Soul (with Jon Batiste 2020)
Also nominated for Mank in 2020
Argentine composer won back to back best original score Oscar’s in 2005 (Brokeback mountain) and 2006 (babel)
Gustavo Santaolalla
Composer who won oscar best score for crouching tiger hidden dragon
Tan Dun
Which member of Art of noise won oscar for scoring the full Monty
Anne Dudley
Who won an Oscar for scoring the last emperor? Member of yellow Magic orchestra, composed music for 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Debut film was Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Sir Laurens van der Post POW Japan WW2 starring David Bowie and this guy).
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Takeshi’s Castle surname, he was the director of Hana-bi whcih won Golden Lion at Venice in 1997. 2017 completed Outrage crime trilogy with Outrage Coda. Started in Battle Royale.
Takeshi Kitano
Who was frontman and principal songwriter of the band Japan?
David Sylvian
David Byrne won an academy award for Best Original Scote for which movie?
The Last Emperor (1987 directed by Bernardo Bertolucci)
2013 video game by Naughty Dog, control Joel and Ellie across a post-apocalyptic USA. Defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated fungus in genus Cordyceps.
The Last of Us
Whcih sequel video game in 2020 is set five years after original and characters are Ellie and Abby in post apocalyptic USA. Scored by double oscar winner Gustavo Santaolalla.
The Last of Us Part II
Video game released 2020 takes place in Night City and assume character of Mercenary known as V who can hack and use machinery.
Cyberpunk 2077
Uncharted video game subtitles
1: Drake’s Fortune
2: Among Thieves
3: Drake’s Deception
4: A Thief’s End
Character played by Tom Holland in 2022 film Uncharted?
Nathan Drake
Director of Zombieland, Zombieland 2: Double Tap, 2018’s Venom, Gangster Squad and Uncharted.
Ruben Fleischer
Norse realm of fire
Muspelheim
Realm of the light elves in Norse mythology
Alfheim
Land of the dead in Norse mythology
Hel(heim)
Realm of the giants in Nordic mythology
Jotunheim
Name of earth in Norse mythology
Midgard
Term used for immediate prelude to events of ragnarok. Means great winter.
Fimbulwinter
In Norse mythology who are the group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom and ability to see future. Namesake of their location Vanaheimr. God Njordr, Freyr, Freyja (pulled by two cats). They go to war against Aesir
Vanir
Other group other than Vanir: gods of principal pantheon in Norse: Odin, Friggb, Hodr (tricked into shooting mistletoe at Baldr), Thor and Baldr)
Aesir
Name of wolf that chases the sun according to Norse Prose Edda
Skoll
Name of wolf that chases moon according to Norse prose Edda
Hati
Who voiced Kratos in God of War and sequel; voice Black Panthernin avengers video game and played Teal’c in star gate SG-1.
Christopher Judge
Star gate SG1 is tv show created by Brad Wright and Jonathan glassner, based on 1994 film directed and co-written by which director?
Roland Emmerich
Subtitle of Roland Emmerich’s 2016 Independence Day sequel
Resurgence
Who voices Atreus in 2018 game God of War and played Bob in Yorgos Lanthimos 2016 The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Sunny Suljic
Lead singer of Harold Melvin and the Blue, became paralysed after car crash
Teddy Pendergrass
Chryselephantine sculptures were made from whcih two materials
Gold and Ivory
Who is the father of actor Lucas, wrote novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, received oscar nomination in 2002 for about a boy, wrote Dan in real life, odd life of Timothy green.
Peter Hedges
Mantaro and Apurimac rivers are both in which country and claim to be source of Amazon
Peru
Also called Takhi, rare and endangered species of horse native to steppes of central asia. Named after a Russian geographer and explorer. Reintroduced in 1990/s after nearly extinct.
Przhevalsky’s Horse
Sharing name with a Roman weapon catapult, which asiastic wild ass also known as hemione, first named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1775. Equus hemionus.
Onager
Davina McCall 2022 tv show where English date Spanish in Andalusia. Spanish host is Ricky Merino.
Language of Love
Who plays Shang Chi in Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)?
Simi Liu
Harbin largest city of which Chinese province
Heilongjiang largest city is what?
Hamida Djandoubi was last person executed by guillotine in France in what year?
1977
Nicholas Pelletier first to be executed by which method in 1792?
Guillotine
Mother of the prophet Samuel in the first book of Samuel
Hannah
Second Wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin, her older sister was Leah.
Rachel
First wife of Jacob, mother of his first son Reuben, then Simeon, Levi and Judah. No more sims until Rachel (sister) offers her night with Jacob for some mandrake root, then This wife had Issachar and Zebulun and only daughter Dinah.
Leah
Jacob son of whcih couple
Isaac and Rebecca
Isaac son of which parents
Abraham and Sarah
Jacob’s fraternal elder twin
Esau
Jacob had 12 children: wives Leah and Rachel and then two concubines by which names
Bilhah (Dan/Naphtali) and Zilpah (Gad/Asher)
Jacob’s only daughter was Dinah, she was the daughter of which woman?
Leah
In whcih book of Bible does, susannah and the elders story, elders undone by the type of tree, one says mastic and one says oak. Title character of book does the questioning of elders.
Daniel - taken in by Nebuchadnezzar II - most famous tomb at Susa in Iraq site known as shush-e Daniyal.
Which book of Bible does Belshazzars Feast occur?
Daniel - he is only one who can interpret the message written behind Belshazzar (son of Nebuchadnezzar).
Who are Daniel’s three pals in the book of Daniel after given Babylonian names
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Daniel himself became Belteshazzar)
Bel and the Dragon is contained in the extended version of whcih book
Daniel: first, priests pretending gods eating food. Second; danielndestroys serpent, revolt, Daniel starved but prophet Habakkuk miracle feeds him.
What is the name of the project to build a huge floating airfield from ice during WW2
Project Habakkuk
What was the name of the thesis named after a British economist’s theory that land abundance and Labour scarcity in antebellum America led to high wages which resulted in effective searches for labour saving techno innovations.
Habbakuk Thesis - after Sir John Habbakuk
1973 film directed by Nicolas Roeg based on Daphne du Maurier 1971 short story
Don’t Look Now
Which two countries have won the most Miss World titles with 6 each
India and Venezuela
Who won the 2000 Miss World title for India?
Priyanka Chopra (married to Nick Jonas)
Who won the 1994 Miss World title for India? First commercial success in 1998 Jeans, Mohabbatein, Dhoom 2, Guru. Married Abishek Bachchan in 2007.
Aishwarya Rai
1976 winner of Miss World for Jamaica, mother of Damian Marley through relationship with Bob Marley
Cindy Breakspeare
Who won the 1975 Miss World for Puerto Rico? She married Sir Bruce Forsyth from 1983-2017.
Wilnelia Merced
Big Four international beauty pageants
Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, Miss Earth
Last judicial hanging in the UK to Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen happened in whcih year
1964
Which PM abolished capital punihsment
Harold Wilson in 1964
First fight between Ali and Liston won in Miami BeAch Florida in a major upset Ali win took place in what year
1964
Nikola Khrushchev term of power
1953-1964
Leonid Brezhnev term of power
1964-1982
Yuri Andropov term of power
1982-1884
Konstantin Chernenko term of power
1984-1985
Mikhail Gorbachev term of power
1985-1991
Nelson Mandela imprisoned to life imprisonment at Robben Island in what year
1964
What were Mandela’s three prisons
Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and then lastly at Victor Verster Prison
Which number piano concerto was by Sergei Prokofiev and commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein?
Piano Concerto #4
Piano pieces for Paul Wittgenstein
Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #4
Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Korngold’s Piano concerto LH C Sharp
Richard Strauss’ Panathenaenzug
Beano character first appeared as “the strong man’s daughter”
Pansy Potter
Tulip Siddiq aunt name who PM of Bangladesh since 2009
Sheikh Hasina
What was Lily Munster’s maiden name?
Dracula - she is a vampire
Herman Munster is what type of monster
Frankenstein
Eddie Munster was what type of monster
Werewolf
What was Theodore Cleaver’s nickname in American sitcom aired 1957-63
The Beaver / Leave it to the beaver
1973 novel fear of flying author
Erica Jong
1963 book by Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique was 1963 book by who?
Simone de Beauvoir 1949 book on feminism
The Second Sex 1949 book by who?
Sexual Politics is a 1970 book by who?
Kate Millett wrote which 1970 book on feminism?
1970 germane Greer work most famous
The Female Eunuch
Against our will; Men. women and rape. Was 1975 work by which feminist
Susan Brownmiller wrote which 1975 book
First a pamphlet; then conference; then book with three authors, Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright, what’s it called
Beyond the fragments
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 work by which author, other work includes Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins)
Intercourse, a 1975 book, was by which author
Andrea Dworkin wrote which 1975 book? Not her other book Portography
Name of 1990 Naomi Wolf work
The Beauty Myth was by which author
The 2014 work Bad Feminist was by which author of fourth wave feminism
Roxane Gay
American writer of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Difficult Women and memoir Hunger. She is married to host of Design Matters podcast Debbie Millman
Roxane Gay
Began tv with cold feet 2016-20, then Marianne Sheridan in Normal People, Brenda Lafferty in 2022 Under the Banner of Heavean (created by Dustin Lance Black and based on Jon Krakuer book). Also played kya Clark in Where the crawdads singS
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Jon Krakauer book Where Men Win Glory is subtitled The Odyssey of _____ who am American football player who enlisted in army after 9/11 and subsequently killed
Pat Tillman
Who played Frankie Lewis on Eastenders and won 2021 Strictly Come Dancing with Giovanni Pernice?
Rose Ayling-Ellis
Actress best known for Samantha Stewart in itv Foyle’s wAr
Honeysuckle Weeks
Foyle’s War was created by which author
Anthony Horowitz
Who played the title character Christopher Foyle in Foyle’s War?
Michael Kitchen
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Number 5 was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf and premiered in 1811 in Leipzig. What’s it’s nickname
The Emperor Concerto
Beethoven’s only piano concerto he could not premiere himself perform as deafening
5 Emperor Concerto
The Land of Fire team which national football team
Azerbaijan
Belarus team nickname is what after a book by Uladzimir Karatkievich
White Wings - Thr Land Beneath White Wings
Icelandic nickname for football team StrakanirnOkkar means what
Our Boys
Kakazhstan football team
Nickname after rare animal
Snow Leopards is the nickname of whcih international football team
Football team known as Sable antelopes
Angola
Football team known as the squirrels
Benin
Botswana team nickname
zebras
Comoros football team nickname after type of fish
Coelacanths
Which African country football nickname is The Leopards
dRC
Red Sea Camels football nickname
Eritrea
Shore men of the Red Sea football nickname
Djibouti
The African wild dogs footbal nickname country
Guinea-Bissau
Lesotho football team nickname
Crocodiles
Mauritania football team nickname after a Berber Muslim dynasty
Almoravids
Mauritius team nickname
Dodos
Credited with discovery of photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of solar cell in 1839, son of Antoine, dad of Henri.
Becquerel
Sponsored Henry Morton Stanley’s trip to find Livingstone and USS Jeanette voyage to arctic, name now used as expression of incredulity, father founde New York Herald
James Gordon Bennett Jr
Worlds oldest gas balloon race first race Paris 1906 named after owner of New York Herald
Gordon Bennett Cup
Colombian artist born Medillin 1932, depicts people in large volume, Mona Lisa Age Twelve, Pope Leo X (after Raphael), Death of Pablo Escobar
Fernando Botero
Trophy awarded to the winners of the French rugby Union league Top14, named not after famous Gallic warrior but an artist .
Bouclier de Brennus or Brennus Shield
Professional rugby union club from Occitanie, won the Brennus Shield in 2022 after Top14 win. Named after river too.
Montpellier Herault
Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children named after whcih British artist and illustrator born in 1846
Caldecott Medal
Massive rocket propelled explosive laden cart designed by British military WW2.
The Great Panjandrum
Nickname for a forward throwing anti-submarine weapon used during WW2 (anti-submarine project)
The Hedgehog
Trophy awarded to the nhl’s rookie of the year award( named after the first President of the nhl
Calder Memorial Trophy
Trophy given to winners of test cricket series between India and Australia named after two distinguished captains.
Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Allan Border
Sunil Gavaskar
In 1999 while playing for India, which bowler dismissed all ten batsman in a test match innings joining Jim Laker as second to achieve this
Anil Kumble
Indian bowler nicknamed Apple and Jumbo. Most successful Indian bowler of all time and 4th highest all time.
Anil Kumble
Most test runs for England cricket
Alistair cook
Most test runs for Australia - second all time
Ricky Ponting
Most test runs for South Africa - third all time
Jacques Kallis
Fourth on all time list of most runs in test cricket, second highest Indian
Rahul Dravid
Highest test run scoring Sri Lanka
Kumar Sangakkara
Highest scoring West Indies test run, born Trinidad
Brian Lara
8th all time and 2nd highest West Indies test runs, born in Guyana, known for unorthodox style described as crab like
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
9th all time test runs list, Sri Lankan second all time test runs, current head coach of IPL Mumbai Indians, only third Sri Lankan in hall of fame after muttiah muralitharan (bowler) and Kumar Sangakkara (batter).
Mahela Jayawardene
Trophy for ODI cricket series between Australia and New Zealand named after legendary cricketing families of both.
Chappell-Hadlee Trophy
Which cricket player became infamous after bowling underarm delivery for Australia against NZ in 1981? Greg Chappell was the Australian captain who told him to do it.
Trevor Chappell
Hong Kong born Canadian journalist who served 1999-2005 as Governor General of Canada
Adrienne Clarkson
Born in Haiti; who was Governor General of Canada between 2005 and 2010
Michaelle Jean
Governor General of Canada since July 2021, she is Inuk making her first indigenous person to office.
Mary Simon
Who was Japanese writer names an award for Japanese literary, he is known as father of Japanese short story and he committed suicide at 35 through an overdose of barbital.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
What type of dusk is when the centre of suns disk is 6 degrees below the horizon
Civil dusk
What type of dusk is when the centre of suns disk is 12 degrees below the horizon
Nautical dusk
What type of dusk is when the centre of suns disk is 18 degrees below the horizon
Astronomical dusk
Brisbane NRL team
Broncos
Canberra NRL team
Raiders
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, the Rabbitohs, Parramatta Eels, St George Illawarra Dragons, Wests Tigers and the Roosters all play in whcih NRL city?
Sydney
Penrith NRL team
Panthers
North Queensland NRL team
North Queensland Cowboys
Gold Coast NRL team
Gold Coast Titans
Melbourne Storm and Newcastle Knights play whcih sport in Australia
Rugby League (NRL)
Where did Charles II spend 6 September 1651?
Up an oak tree (at Boscobel House).
Who most expensive female footballer November 2022 latest and team from/to
Keira Walsh (reported £350,000 from Man City to Barcelona).
The Bhagavad Gita is part of which larger work?
Mahabharata
Anne Lister nickname diarist
Gentlemen Jack
Joe Perry snooker player nickname
Gentleman Joe
Worlds largest subdivision
Sakha Republic
Worlds third largest subdivision (russia)
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Worlds largest second subdivision
Western Australia
What links: Beverly and Laurence; Goldberg and McCann; Edward and Lavinia
Attendees of play parties: Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party; Pinter’s The Birthday Party; TS Eliot’s The Cocktail Party.
Assegai; bardiche; partisan; pilum; sarissa types of what?
Historical pole/spear weapons
What
Connects
Magnificent; splendid; Twelve-wired; Raggiana; King of Saxony?
Birds of Paradise
Which 1988 Noam Chomsky book argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”
Manufacturing Consent
Which book is an influential work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. It is an elaboration of his teacher Zellig Harris’s model of transformational generative grammar.
Syntactic Structures
Prince Harry memoir name due to saying coined by Consuelo Vanderbilt
Spare (from saying heir and a spare)
Liechtenstein bordering countries
Switzerland and Austria
South Korean born American director who directed Columbus (2017), After Yang (2021), Pachinko (2022 4 episodes)?
Kogonada
Which author wrote “Giant”, “Show Boat”, “Cimarron” and “Ice Palace”?
Edna Ferber
Actor performance as Kwame in the miniseries I May Destroy You (2020), he received Primetime Emmy and British Academy Television Award nominations. George Boleyn in Anne Boleyn 2021
Paapa Essiedu
2021 tv show Anne Boleyn stars who as Anne Boleyn opposite Mark Stanley as Henry VIII
Jodie Turner-Smith
Whcih actor married to Jodie Turner-Smith, Pacey Witter in Dawson’s creek, Charlie Conway in mighty ducks, in Fringe, in The Affair, When They See Us, Little Fires Everywhere and and Dr. Christopher Duntsch in Dr. Death (2021)
Joshua Carter Jackson
Who wrote Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, Our Missing Hearts?
Celeste Ng
Who preceded Zac Goldsmith as liberal MP for Richmond Park 2005-10, minister for transport in coalition government 2013-15?
Baroness Susan Kramer
Four The Jam #1s
Going Underground/Dreams of Children 1980
Start 1980
Town Called Malice/Precious 1982
Beat Surrender 1982
Only The Jam #1 album (1982)
The Gift
Whcih Chinese born American director directed Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019)? Married to Barry Jenkins.
Lulu Wang
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel and 2010 film set in an alternative history and centres on Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, organ donors.
Never Let Me Go
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
John Roberts
Clarence Thomas replaced who on Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Samuel ALITO Supreme Court replaced who in 2006?
Sandra Day O’Connor
Who replaced David Souter on Supreme Court in 2009
Sonia Sotomayor
Who replaced John Paul Stevens in 2010 on Supreme Court!
Elena Kagan
Who replaced Antonin Scalia in 2017 on Supreme Court
Neil Gorsuch
Who replaced Anthony Kennedy in 2018 on Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh
Who replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Supreme Court in 2020
Amy Coney Barrett
Who replaced Stephen Breyer on Supreme Court in 2022?
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson replaced whcih Supreme Court justice in 2022
Stephen Breyer
Who is the President of the Supreme Court of UK from 2020
Lord Reed of Allermuir
Who was President of Supreme Court of Uk from 2017-20
Baroness Hale of Richmond
Who was President of Supreme Court of Uk from 2012-17
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Who was President of Supreme Court of Uk from 2009-12
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Three locations mentioned on Del Trotters Reliant Robin
New York Paris and Peckham
At UFC 199 who became first British fighter to win a ufc championship!
Michael Bisping
Jamaican born English MMA fighter who became UFC welterweight champion in 2022
Leon Edwards
Who did Leon edwards beat in August 2022 to become ufc welterweight champion
Kamaru Usman
Who became first British WWE champion at Wrestlemania 36
Drew McIntyre
Queens borough of New York named after which queen
Catherine of Braganza (Charles II)
Who is longest continuously serving female MP since 1982 as MP for Camberwell and Peckham
Harriet Harman
Who has served as mp for derby south since 1983 and 1974-1979 for Lincoln? Longest serving female MP overall but not continuous
Margaret Beckett
Who was longest continuously serving MP, elected 1835 and mp for over 62 years.
Charles Pelham Villiers
Since start of 20th century longest continuous service was 51 years 80 days for who?
Ted Heath
Irish nationalist politician who MP 1875-91, leader of home rule league from 1880-82, hung Parliament of 1885 saw him hold balance between Gladstonrs liberals and Salisbury’s conservatives. So Gladstone made home rule central tenet of liberal party.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Churchill constituencies
Oldham, Manchester North West, Dundee, Epping, Woodford
William Ewart Gladstone constituencies
Newark, Oxford University, south Lancashire, Greenwich, Midlothian
Football with the surname Tejada scored for Costa Rica at World Cup 2022, what’s his first name, named after famous politician
Yeltsin Tejada
Who played Betty in Some Mothers Do Ave Em?
Michele Dotrice
Music hall act trio capitalised on ancient Egypt imagery making their sand dance parody of Egyptian tomb paintings main part of act?
Wilson, Keppel and Betty
Ben Elton written, David Mitchell starring tv show about Shakespeare
Upstart Crow
Which ballroom dance evolved in 1920s from a combination of steps from foxtrot and the Charleston
Quickstep
Who defected from Soviet Union in 1961? Later partnership with Margot Fonteyn.
Rudolf Nureyev
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves opera and composer
Nabucco - Verdi 1842
Actress married to John Torode, won celebrity master chef in 2010 and joined eastenders in 2017 playing Fi Browning
Lisa Faulkner
The book Israel Rank: Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman gave us A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder musical and also what Ealing studio film
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Richard Dean Anderson starred as which character in 80s90s action adventure tv series? In 2016 reboot Lucas till took the lead role.
MacGyver
Surname of Lady Susan in Jane Austen novel not published in lifetime
Vernon
2016 film starring Kate Beckinsale and based on Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan?
Love & Friendship
Name shared between Nicholas Poussin painting and 12 volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell 1951-75
A dance to the music of time
Which sitcom stars Martha Howe-Douglas as Debbie Maddox a housewife who is told by elf she is chosen one? Made by horrible histories lot:
Yonderland
Mark Sandman of the band Morphine, Mike Scaccia of Rigor Mortis and Nick Menza of Megadeth all died how?
onstage while performing
Who wrote “last dragonslayer” novel and the “Thursday Next” series of books
Jasper Fforde
Nick Helm and Elliot Speller-Gillott featured in which tv show between 2014-17
Uncle
Star of silent screen actress with nickname The Vamp
Theda Bara
Who married Sam Mendes in 2017, won young British classical performer at Classical Brit award in 2006 and female artist of year same place.
Alison Balsom
Painting called Sleeping Lady with Black Vase was rediscovered on Stuart Little, by whcih painter
Robert Bereny
The poem “The Faeries” was by which Irish poet “we darent go a hunting, for fear of little men”?
William Allingham
Which band released albums self titled Mercury prize winning 2009’album( then coexist (2012) and i see you (2017) latter two reaching number one?
The XX
Which actor played Joshamee Gibbs in Pirates films, played lead role in re-recorded Hancock’s Half Hour in 2014?
Kevin McNally
Two word latin term taken from text of final couplet of the Dies Irae? Best known is probably Faure’s Requiem but Sarah Brightman took it to #3.
Pie Jesu
What award by European Broadcasting Union is for excellence in television?
Rose d’Or
Which 2016 game show hosted by a Stephen Mulhern and voiced by Roy Walker won Rose d’Or
Pick Me!
Historical blank verse by lord Byron is set in Nineveh and recounts fall of Assyrian monarchy and last king. Inspired painting by Delacroix and works by Berlioz, Liszt, Ravel.
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Who was first British woman to be nominated for academy award for best actress after performance in Cavalcade (1933)?
Diana Wynyard
First British actor to win an academy award playing Disraeli, also nominated for The Green Goddess in same year (1930)?
George Arliss
Which English actor was in 39 Steps, and won oscar for Goodbye Mr Chips?
Robert donat
Which British boxer turned Hollywood actor won the best actor for starring in John Ford’s The Informer?
Victor McLaglen
Second British winner of best actor Oscar for Private Life of Henry VIII
Charles Laughton
Who was wife of Charles Laughton and which queen did she play when he won oscar for private life of Henry VIII
Elsa Lanchester and Anne of Cleves
Elizabethan play considered written by Anthony Monday however notable manuscript as Shakespeare has three page handwritten revision which is believed to be only surviving manuscript text written by Him?
Sir Thomas More
Which singer served as Armenia’s ambassador to Switzerland? Had number one in 1974 with She.
Charles Aznavour
The album “Sonder” is #1 album in November 2022 and by which artist?
Dermot Kennedy
Peter Wimsey ends up getting whcih aristocratic Dukedom?
Duke of Denver
Whcih author continued the Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane mysteries after Dorothy L Sayers?
Jill Paton Walsh
Name of Lord Peter Wimsey’s valet and former Batman
Mervyn Bunter
Peter Wimsey first book appearance in 1923?
Whose Body?
Term in printing for a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500
Incunabula
First Poirot book
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
First Jane Marple book
The Murder at the Vicarage
Second Poirot book (1923)
The Murder on the Links
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie was first book in what series
Tommy and Tuppence
The Man in the Brown Suit was Agatha Christie first book of what character?
Colonel Race
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie introduced which character in first book of series?
Superintendent Battle
1-4 Hercule Poirot books
4: the big four
3: the murder of roger ackroyd
2: the murder on the links
1: the mysterious affair at styles
Jane Marple second book
The Body in the Library
In the Christie and Poirot book “the ABC murders”, what does the ABC stand for?
Andover - Alice Ascher
Bexhill - Betty Barnard
Churston - Carmichael Clarke
D ends up being Doncaster
Last Marple novel written although Sleeping Murder last published
Nemesis (1971)
Last Marple novel published by Christie, although Nemesis last one written.
Sleeping Murder
Poirot’s last case, published 1975 but written in 1940s
Curtain
Four Christie novels to have never been adapted.
Postern of Fate, Death Comes as the End, Destination Unknown, and Passenger to Frankfurt.
Last novel Christie wrote was Postern of Fate (not last published as some came later), what recurring characters were in this novel?
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
Tommy and Tuppence surname of the Christie characters
Beresford
Egyptian Revolution year with Naguib and Nasser
1952
Who first president of Egypt 1953-54
Mohammad Naguib
President Egypt 1954-70
Gamal Nasser
President of Egypt 1970-81
Anwar Sadat
What year was 6 Day War between Israel and coalition of Arab states (Egypt, Syria and Jordan)
1967
1967 six day war also known as what months war from the month it was set in
June War
Yom Kippur War also known as Ramadan War was in what year between Israel and Arab states?
1973
Yom Kippur War in 1973 known as what months war after the month it was fought in
October War
Egyptian President 1981-2011
Hosni Mubarak
President of Egypt 2012-13
Mohammad Morsi
President of Egypt since 2013
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Rugby Union position 1
Loosehead Prop
Rugby Union position 2
Hooker
Rugby Union position 3
Tight head Prop
Rugby Union position 4
No 4 Lock (second row)
Rugby Union position 5
No 5 lock (second row)
Rugby Union position 6
Blindside Flanker
Rugby Union position 7
Open side Flanker
Rugby Union position 8
Number 8
Rugby Union position 9
Scrum Half
Rugby Union position 10
Fly Half
Rugby Union position 11
Left Wing
Rugby Union position 12
Inside Centre
Rugby Union position 13
Outside Centre
Rugby Union position 14
Right Wing
Rugby Union position 15
Full Back
First Grand National held year
1839
Name of road known for association with grand national; a thoroughfare through village of Aintree
Melling Road
Fences at grand national created with what wood from where
Spruce from Lake District
Which grand national fence gets its name from the 1840 Grand National where horse supposedly vaulted it almost sideways to land hind legs first
Valentines
Only jockey death at grand national is Joe Wynne in 1862 after pile up at whcih fence
The Chair
What was decimalisation day in the Uk?
Monday 15 February 1971
DIPG tumour on brain stem (pons), what does DIPg stand for
diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
Who coined the term “deathmatch”, spearheaded Daikatana, worked on Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, known for long hairstyle which he’s proud of for Native American reasons?
John Romero
Quake video game had soundtrack by which lead singer?
Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails
1990 FPS starring title character voiced by John St. John? New one in 2011 poorly received.
Duke Nukem
1997 FPS protagonist Caleb seeks revenge against dark god Chernobog for betraying him and friends? Expansion packs plasma pak and cryptic passage.
Blood
N64 game chronicles rivalry between Carrington Institute and dataDyne
Perfect Dark
Half Life 2 was developed on which influential game engine -@/9 powered Garry’s Mod and Insurgency?
Source
Which series of military shooters, beginning in 1999, has been 2002’s Allied Assault, 2006’s Heroes, 2012’s Warfighter? Developed by Dreamworks interactive before defunct in 2013.
Medal of Honour
Travis lead singer
Fran Healy
Which singer’s Instagram handle is @trumanblack
Matt Healy
Whose Instagram is @letthelordbewithyou
Scott Disick
Scott Disick is the partner of which Kardashian from 2006-15?
Kourtney Kardashian
Lizzo’s Instagram handle?
@lizzobeeating
Whose Instagram @teddysphotos
Ed Sheeran
Latest Battlefield video game released November 2021 subtitles with whcih year
2042
EA Dice developed which franchise of FPS games, focuses on large maps and vehicle warfare, first game is subtitled 1942, latest 2042.
Battlefield
This most recent Counter Strike game was released in 2012, Danish team Astralis has won most titles at this games championships.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
2000 role playing game by Eidos Interactive, set in cyberpunk world in 2052 following JC Denton an agent of agency UNATCO given superhuman abilities by nanotech.
Deus Ex
Fictional artificial intelligence main antagonist of System Shock and System Shock 2?
SHODAN
Underwater city of Bioshock setting
Rapture
Jack the main character of 2007 Bioshock is brainwashed to carry out instructions preceded by which three words
Would you kindly
First Oasis #1 album in 1994
Definitely Maybe
Second Oasis album #1, 1995
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Third Oasis album #1, 1997?
Be Here Now
First Oasis album not to reach #1, #2 in 1998
The Masterplan
Fourth #1 album by Oasis, 2000
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Fifth Oasis #1 album, 2002?
Heathen Chemistry
6th #1 album by Oasis, 2005
Don’t Believe The Truth
7th #1 album by Oasis, 2008
Dig Out Your Soul
8th #1 album by Oasis, 2010
Time Flies - 1994-2009
Spice Girls 4 albums
1996 Spice #1
1997 Spiceworld #1
2000 Forever #2
2007 Greatest Hits #2
What was Spice Girls first song to not reach #1 in singles chart after Wannabe, Say You’ll Be There, 2 Become 1, Mama/Who Do You Think You Are, Spice Up Your Life, Too Much were first six?
Stop - reached #2 in 1998
First UK #1 single by Take That in 1993?
Pray
First Westlife #1 in 1999
Swear It Again
First Westlife song to not get to #1 in UK was which song after 7 #1s in row: Swear It Again, If I Let You Go, Flying Without Wings, I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun, Fool Again, Against All Odds, My Love were first seven?
What Makes A Man
Westlife #2 album in 2021
Wild Dreams
Take That 2018 album got to #1
Odyssey
Westlife #1 album in 2019
Spectrum
The Columbus Monument is a 60m tall monument to Christopher Columbus in which Spanish city?
Barcelona - built for the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition
Which North American country became independent from UK in 1982?
Canada
What North American country became independent from UK in 21 September 1981
Belize
Pont Jeanne d’Arc bridge in Rouen crosses which river?
Seine
American city “Truth or Consequences” named after radio show in 1950 is found in which state?
New Mexico
Name of building at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
Kaaba
National dish of Iceland consisting of cured Greenland shark
Hakarl
Name of equation that’s a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilisations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Drake Equation
FSC for responsible management of the world’s forest.
Forest Stewardship Council
Which group’s songs top 40 were Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand) and also Leader of the Pack, lead singer was Mary Weiss?
The Shangri-La’s
Worcester Warriors stadium name (rugby Union).
Sixways Stadium
Franklin Gardens stands names? Stadium of Northampton Saints rugby Union.
Carlsberg, Cinch, Church’s, Barwell
Name of Northampton Town FC stadium
Sixfields Stadium
Never Mind the Buzzcocks returned in September 2022 with who hosting?
Greg Davies
Ubisoft video game developed using Disrupt game engine; first in 2014, latest instalment third is subtitled “Legion” in 2020. First is set in fictionalised Chicago, follows grey hat hacker Aiden Pearce.
Watch Dogs
Term for a computer hacker or computer security expert who may sometimes violate laws or typical ethical standards but does usually not have malicious intent.
Grey Hat
Female darts player born in Doncaster in 2004, current World Darts Federation womens world champion winning in 2022 at age of 18.
Beau Greaves
Iranian-French actress known for performances in M for Mother, Body of Lies, About Elly, girls of the sun and Extraction. In animated film 2022 My Fathers Dragon.
Golshifteh Farahani
Whose neutrality was guaranteed by the 1839 Treaty of London?
Belgium
Which woman had nine works in the first impressionist exhibition?
Berthe Morisot
Which tycoon once owned Land’s End and John o’ Groats?
Peter de Savary
Which book begins with The Sisters and ends with The Dead?
Dubliners by James Joyce
What party originated in Coventry as PEOPLE in 1972?
Green Party
Term used in Latin America for professional wresting?
Lucha libre
The battleship game ship with 5 pins is called what
Carrier
In the battleship game, sinking an actual battleship is worth how many points?
4
Two vehicles worth 3 points in Battleship game?
Cruiser (called Destroyer from 2002) and Submarine
Since 2002, What is smallest ship called in the game of Battleship, it can be sunk with two hits?
Patrol Boat (used to be Destroyer but this changed to a 3 piece replacing cruiser in 2002)
Eric Boswell famous for composing whcih Christmas song also sung by the Beverley Sisters
Little Donkey
Las Ketchup famous for The Ketchup song we’re three sisters with which surname
Lucía, Lola, and Pilar Muñoz
Modern day Iznik, Turkey, is the site of which Bithynian city of Anatolia?
Nicaea
Which ecumenical council convened in 325 AD gather by Constantine I, settlement of christological issue of divine nature of God the Son and God the father, construction of first part of namesake Creed, mandates uniform observation of date of Easter.
First Council of Nicaea
787AD Second Council of Nicaea convoked by Constantine VI and Empress Irene and decided to restore what act which had been suppressed by Byzantine Empire during reign of Leo III and son Constantine V?
Veneration of Icons
Which city hosted First (1245) and Second (1274) Councils? English Lord Chancellor Thomas Cantilupe was an attendee of both. Aquinas died on way to second. First one decided on 7th crusade led by Louis IX.
Lyon
St Louis in America named after which French king
Louis IX
Louisiana state named after which King?
Louis XIV
Port Louis, capital of Mauritius, named after which French king? It was taken control of by French in 1736.
Louis XV
Louis XIV reign
1643-1715
Louis XV reign
1715-74
Louis XV wife
Marie Leczinska
Wife of Louis XIV between 1660-83
Maria Theresa of Spain
Louis XIV second wife (privately) from 1683?
Francoise d’Aubigne, Marquis de Maintenon
Chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745-51
Madame de Pompadour
French term for royal mistress of the monarch
Maitresse-en-titre
Last maitresse-en-titre of Louis XV, real name Jeanne Becu, executed by guillotime during French Revolution due to accounts of treason.
Madame du Barry
Who was a lesser mistress of Louis XV and possibly a model for Francois Voucher’s painting The Blonde Odalisque?
Marie-Louise O’Murphy
Art museum in Munich one of oldest galleries in world, refers to time period covered by collection 14th-18th century? Altdorfer’s Battle of Issus, Da Vinci’s Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Carnation), Durer’s self portrait.
Alte Pinakothek
Name of Munich gallery focusing on 18th and 19th century art? Van Gogh’s sunflowers, munch, Gauguin, Monet
Neue Pinakothek
Munich art gallery for modern art, it is the third gallery alongside Alte and Neue. Has German expressionism, Picasso, Delauney, Franz Marc, August Macke.
Pinakothek DER Moderne
Spanish baroque painter born 1618, born in Seville. Lots of Bible stuff.
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Who was captain of Pharoah’s guard to whom Joseph was sold to in book of genesis?
Potiphar
What council 1414-18 ended the western schism and elected Pope Martin V? Last papal election to take place outside of Italy. Also condemned Jan Hus as a heretic and facilitated his execution.
Council of Constance
Which council was held between 1545 and 1563 issued key statements about scripture, biblical canon, original sin, salvation, mass, lord more. Paul III convoked the council, Julius III carried on, Pius IV finished.
Council of Trent
Julius II pope reign. Established Vatican Museums, rebuilt St Peters Basilica, organised famous Swiss Guards, ratified Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), commissioned Raphael Rooms and Michelangelo’s paintings of Sistine Chapel.
1503-13
Who wrote Julius Excluded from Heaven about drunken Julius II denied entry by St Peter into heaven?
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Which trophy is annual award given by AFL Players Association to the MVP in the Australian Football League? Named after first MVP award winner from 1982. In contrast, Brownlow Medal given to “best aNd fairest”.
Leigh Matthews Trophy
Named after author born 1874 in Paris, which British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors? Set up by author in 1947 to enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining exp in foreign countries.
Somerset Maugham Award
British-GhanaiAn writer whose debut novel Open WAter won Costa Book Award for First novel?
Caleb Azumah Nelson
British-Australian writer written two books about how trauma affects body: “I Choose Elena” (2020 - short memoir) and “My Body Keeps Your Secrets” (2021)?
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Roseanne Watt, Scottish poet. Her first poetry collection Moder Dy won Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2018 and Somerset Maugham Award in 2020. Its written in English and what other dialect?
Shetland
Who is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, filmmaker work is on queer identity, cultural representation. Made cameo in 2021 Venom: Let there be carnage? Autobiography: Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from shame to pride and everything in between.
Amrou Al-Kadhi
Head coach of Australian rugby league team and former Australian rugby player. Most appearances in history for Australia in rugby league. Undefeated 1982 squad known as The Invincibles. Undefeated 1986 squad known as The Unbeatables.
Mal Meninga
Name of rugby league Australians who considered the nations greatest ever. Mal Meninga became the 13th of these in August 2018.
Immortals
Name of the trophy awarded to champion of FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Naismith Trophy
Who won 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup?
Spain
