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
Which basketball player won the 2006 Basketball World Cup with Spain, the MVP trophy of that year and won two NBA championships both with LA Lakers?
Pau Gasol
Who won first FIBA Basketball World Cup in 1950? Hosted in Argentina.
Argentina
Which country won back to back Basketball World Cups in 1959 and 1963
Brazil
Which two teams have won the most FIBA basketball world cups with 5 wins!
USA and Yugoslavia
2019 FIBA World Cup mvp for Spain while they won the contest?
Ricky Rubio
South African American actor born in Pretoria played Imhotep in The Mummy and sequel, Colonel CoetZEE in blood diamond, Bones and 24.
Arnold Vosloo
Philosophical system recognising only that which can scientifically verified or which is capable of logical or mathematical proof, therefore rejecting metaphysics and theism.
Positivism
Born 1798 in Montpelier, who formulated doctrine of positivism? May have coined altruism.
Auguste Comte
Plays by which Romanian playwright: The Gas Heart (1921), Handkerchief of Clouds (1924).
Tristan Tzara (real name Samuel Rosenstock)
Maddermarket Theatre in which city?
Norwich
1934 Nobel Literature - Henry IV, Right You Are, Liola, 6 characters in search of an author.
Luigi Pirandello
Four letter term meaning “with the bow” musical direction
Arco
In computer science, ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity. What does A stand for? Means transaction is indivisible and irreducible.
Atomicity
In computer science, ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity. What does C stand for? Means must be valid to defined rules and must change affected data only in allowed way.
Consistency
In computer science, ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity. What does I stand for? Determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems.
Isolation
In computer science, ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity. What does D stand for? Guarantees that transactions that have committed will survive permanently.
Durability
Formic acid is simplest carboxylic acid and is systematically named what?
Methanoic Acid - formic acid made from methanol
Who was Princess Diana mother name?
Frances Shand Kydd (born Roche)
Sci fi drama created by Lana and Lily Wachowski and J Michael Straczynski for Netflix. Eight strangers from different parts of world discover they are mentally and emotionally linked.
Sense8
Who created Babylon 5 (1993-98), spin-off Crusade, Sense8 (2015-18). Executor of estate of Harlan Ellison. Wrote film Changeling (2008).
J Michael Straczynski
Who wrote the 1959 book Psycho? Also won Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award.
Robert Bloch
Cycle of narratives “A Boy and his Dog”, Vic and telepathic dog (Blood) in post nuclear war world. I have no mouth and I must scream short story. Won 8 Hugo Awards. Born 1934 Cleveland Ohio.
Harlan Ellison
Which 1945 Hitchcock film was based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr Edwardes by Hilary Saint George-Saunders and John Palmer?
Spellbound
What 1948 Hitchcock film based on a 1929 play of same name by Patrick Hamilton?
Rope
Strangers on a Train is a 1951 Hitchcock film based on 1950 novel by which author?
Patricia Highsmith
What Hitchcock movie was the only film to be filmed in 3D?
Dial M for Murder
Which English playwright wrote plays on which Dial M for Murder by Hitchcock and Wait Until Dark adapted by Terence Young both adapted from?
Frederick Knott
Which director directed Dr No 1962, From Russia With Love 1963, Thunderball 1965, Wait Until Dark (1967 Audrey Hepburn), 1968 Mayerling (about Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Maria Vetsera), 1981 film Inchon (about 1950 Battle of Inchon).
Terence Young
1954 Hitchcock film based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story “it had to be murder”.
Rear Window
Which 1955 Hitchcock film based on 1952 novel of same name by David Dodge?
To Catch a Thief
1958 Hitchcock film based on 1954 novel D’entre Les morts by Boileau-Narcejac
Vertigo
What writer had Oscar nominations for writing Sabrina, North by Northwest, West Side Story, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Also Best picture for WAOVW and Hello Dolly!
Ernest Lehman
Who wrote the 1961 novel with same name as 1964 Hitchcock film “Marnie”? Better known for Poldark.
Winston Graham
Who wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972) and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973 based on David Pinner’s 1967 novel Ritual), play Sleuth, Murderer, Whodunnit.
Anthony Shaffer
Born surname Boreman, American pornographic actress who became famous for her performance in the 1972 hardcore film Deep Throat
Linda Lovelace
Lead singer of T. Rex born with whcih name ?
Mark Feld
Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein. Who real name?
Mark Felt
best known as the writer, director and star of the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which is based on the musical of the same name that he wrote the book for. He also portrayed the role of Joe Exotic in the Peacock limited series Joe vs. Carole in 2022.
John Cameron Mitchell
2022, she played the role of Tiger King subject Carole Baskin in the miniseries Joe vs. Carole.
Kate McKinnon
Originating as Greek word for “tunic”, term for Sword-and-sandal films, a genre of Greco-Roman era costume adventure films, mostly made in Italy. Also, short gathered or pleated strip of fabric attached at the waist of a woman’s jacket, dress, or blouse to create a hanging frill or flounce.
Peplum
The singer Julee Cruise having died earlier in the same year, which American composer of the Twin Peaks theme died in December 2022, and had also scored films for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, and Mulholland Drive?
Angelo BADALAMENTI
Realm of the dead in ancient Egypt
Duat
Hell for Islam
Jahannam
Land of the dead for Shinto
Yomi
Tannenbaum” is the German word for which Christmas feature?
Christmas Tree
name of the Los Angeles record store chain founded by James Greenwood that gave its name to the title of a 2021 (2022 in the UK) Oscar-nominated film?
Licorice Pizza
Lady Susan Hussey trouble for asking who where they from at Bucks Palace
Ngozi Fulani
Who was lead singer of Mud getting two #1s Lonely This Christmas and Tiger Feet
Les Gray
Shakin’ Stevens real name
Michael Barrat
Who did comic relief Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree?
Kim Wilde and Mel Smith
Band with vocalist Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot - number one album Keep Your Distance, song Down to Earth, Misfit
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Arch enemy of Dan Dare first appearing in Eagle comics.
The Mekon
Slade lead singer
Noddy Holder
Slade first #1, in 1971
Coz I Luv You
Wizzard lead singer
Roy Wood
Fairytale of New York featured on which The Pogues album
If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica created from former regions of Languedoc-Roussilon and Midi-Pyrenees. Same territory similar to that ruled by Counts of Toulouse in 12th and 13th centuries. Prefecture is Toulouse, biggest other cities are Montpelier, Nimes, Perpignan, Albi, Carcassonne.
Occitania
Prefecture of Calvados department, William the Conqueror buried in Abbey of Saint-Etienne of the city.
Caen
Cities include Rouen, Caen, Le Havre and Cherbourg. Comes from Viking for “northmen”.
Normandy
Largest administrative region in France created by merger in 2014 of Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. Prefecture is Bordeaux. Other large settlements: Bayonne, Limoges, Poitiers, Pau and La Rochelle.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Administrative region of France with prefecture Orleans and largest city Tours. Other settlements: Orleans, Bourges, Blois.
Centre-Val de Loire
One of 18 regions of France, two administrative regions; northern Haute-_____ and _____-du-Sud. Second largest town is Bastia after regional capital.
Corsica
Medal named after “The Father of Childrens Literature” born 1713 in England given to author of most distinguished contributions to American literature for children.
Newbery Medal
Winner of Newbery Medal in 1978, Bridge to Terabithia by which author?
Katherine Paterson
Diego Velazquez slave portrait?
Juan de Pareja
Author winner of Newbery Medal of 1966 for I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
The Merry Mex golfer, born Garland, Texas, won two PGAs, two US Opens, two British Opens.
Lee Trevino
American medal for distinguished picture book for children. First winner Dorothy P Lathrop for Animals of the Bible.
Caldecott Medal
1970 illustrator won Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.
William Stieg
Double Caldecott Medal for 1982 Jumanji and 1986 The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg
Which illustrator known for Caldecott Medal winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret (adapted into Hugo by Scorsese), Wonderstruck, The Marvels and Kaleidoscope 2021.
Brian Selznick
Jon Klassen author of which 2012 book about a little fish who has stolen an item of clothing from a big fish and how big fish reacts to theft.
This Is Not My Hat is the work of which American illustrator
American illustrator of Last Stop on Market Street (written by Matt de la Peña). Also illustrated The Bench by Meghan Markle in his first illustrations in watercolour.
Christian Robinson
Javaka Steptoe won 2017 Caldecott Medal for Radiant Child - a picture book about which painter?
Jean Michel Basquiat
Double winner of Caldecott Medal for Finding Winnie: The True Story of the Worlds Famous Bear (2016) and Hello Lighthouse (2019).
Sophie Blackall
Two day race riot between May 31-June 1 1921 when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of Greenwoon District.
Tulsa race massacre, in Oklahoma
One of two triple Caldecott Medal winners for Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, Once a Mouse and Shadow.
Marcia Brown
One of two triple Caldecott Medal winners for Tuesday (1991), The Three Pigs (2001) and Flotsam (2006)
David Wiesner
NBA Championship winning team trophy
Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy
Until 2022, the NBA MVP trophy had what name named after first president of NBA 1946-1963.
Maurice Podoloff Trophy
From 2022-23 season, NBA MVP trophy named after which famous player replacing Maurice Podoloff Trophy from before this?
Michael Jordan Trophy
Pritzker Prize controversy when Robert Venturi won but not his partner, who?
Denise Scott Brown
Controversy in Pritzker Prize when who didn’t win when Wang Shu the Chinese architect won in 2012 without his wife who he founded Amateur Architecture Studio with?
Lu Wenyu
Four first female winners of Pritzker Prize include 4 and 5 partners.
Zaha Hadid 2004
Kazuyo Sejima 2010
Carme Pigem 2017
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara 2020
2021 was Anne Lacaton
Burkina Faso born Architect became first African to win Pritzker Prize in 2022
Diebedo Francis Kere
youngest player of either sex to play Test cricket for England
Holly Colvin
Trilogy by Robert Rodriguez starring character El Mariachi by Carlos Gallardo and Antonio Banderas.
Mexico Trilogy or Desperado Trilogy
Who played title character in El Mariachi the first of Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy?
Carlos Gallardo
Third movie of the Desperado/Mexico Trilogy of Robert Rodriguez?
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Bang & Olufsen is luxury brand speakers founded in 1925 in which country?
Denmark luxury company for speakers
French tightrope Walker who walked Niagara Gorge 1859.
Charles Blondin
Hollywood Forever sunglasses made by which company?
Gucci
Which street are U2 walking down on music video for “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”?
Fremont Street in Las Vegas
Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley mothers both have which first name?
Gladys
2022 movie Beast about Idris Elba fighting off which animal
Lion
Actress received four consecutive Emmy Nominations for outstanding lead actress for Alias
Jennifer Garner
Surname of Baptista, father of Bianca and Katherine, in The Taming of the Shrew.
Minola
In Baccarat, what’s the highest score possible in a hand
Nine - hands are valued according to units digit of the sum of their constituent cards so 9 is highest as 10 would be zero for example
Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon is painting by who?
Salvador Dali
National Wallace Monument is in which Scottish city?
Stirling
Amphitheatre like valley formed by glacial erosion, concave shape is open on downhill side while cupped section generally steep.
Cirque
Geological landform considered typical for Negev desert of Israel, Hebrew origins.
Makhtesh
Scottish word for pot or cauldron, alternative for cirque, geographical amphitheatre like valley formed by glacial erosion
Corrie
Welsh word for pot or cauldron, alternative for cirque, geographical amphitheatre like valley formed by glacial erosion
Cwm
Folk group and folk musician who wrote “Flower of Scotland”
The Corries - Roy Williamson
English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, musician and political activist. Campaigned for English Parliament, Benny Hill statue, and said controversial things like about Frank Bruno’s arse.
Garry Bushell
Established in 1938 with Martin Dies as chairman and associated with McCarthyism although he had nothing direct to do with them was HUAC. What’s that stand for?
House Un-American Activities Committee
FC Sheriff Tiraspol based in which country?
Moldova (technically Transnistria)
CFR 1907 Cluj football team play which country?
Cluj-Napoca in Romania
FC Ballkani professional football club for which country?
Kosovo
Fussball Club Vaduz from Leichtenstein and play in which league?
Swiss Challenge League
Japanese video game designer creator of Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and Pikmin.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Which video game franchise with 2021 release “Bloom” was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, focuses on directing a horde of plant-like title creatures in order to collect items by destroying obstacles avoiding hazards and fighting fauna.
Pikmin
Who won Softball and Baseball at 2020 Olympics after its reintroduction?
Japan
Which island country got Bronze at Baseball Olympics 2020?
Dominican Republic
Which country came second to Norway at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Germany
Who skipped GB’s curling team to gold in 2022 Winter Olympics?
Eve Muirhead
Who skipped men gb curling team to Silver at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Bruce Mouat
Directed by Robert Davi (Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, Agent Johnson in Die Hard, Franz Sanchez in Licence to Kill. John James plays Joe Biden and Laurence Fox his son in which 2022 film?
My Son Hunter
Indian American right wing political commentator and conspiracy theorist: America: Imagine the World without Her, Hillary’s America, Trump Card and 2000 Mules.
Dinesh D’Souza
Noel E Parmental Jr originated which phrase used against Richard Nixon about his trustworthiness?
Would You Buy a Used car from this man
German based plush toy company founded in 1880. Toys began as elephants but now premium teddy bears.
Steiff
Japanese for “serve on the female body” known as eating off sushi off naked body is which Japanese term?
Nyotaimori
Staff writer for NME, described as outspoken and offensive. 2004 novel Sugar Rush adapted for tv. Sued for libel by Ash Sarkar. 2021 Welcome to the Woke Trials.
Julie Burchill
English journalist and author began at NME, married Julie Burchill, author of 1999 Man and Boy and 2006 Stories We Could Tell and more
Tony Parsons
Popular name given to juvenile echidna or platypus between hatching and weaning, also a crossbreed of two dog breeds.
Puggle (pug and beagle)
Also known as Māori hen or woodhen, flightless bird of rail family endemic to New Zealand.
Weka
Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015-19. Was MP since 2005.
David Mundell
MSP and Leader of SNP between 2000 and 2004
John Swinney
Leader of SNP from 1979-1990
Gordon Wilson
First leader of SNP was who in 1934?
Alexander MacEwan
MSP from 1999-2003. MP for Wyre and Preston North since 2005. Secretary of State for Defence since 2019.
Ben Wallace
Qarabag FK originated from namesake region now based in capital of whcih country?
Azerbaijan
First album by Half Man Half Biscuit puns on a Beatles song
Back in the DHSS
Members of Half Man Half Biscuit
Nigel Blackwell, Neil Crossley, Carl Henry and Karl Benson
Len Ganley was a referee in which sport?
Snooker
English comedy magician and former president of Magic Circle has what stage name? Real name William Oliver Wallace.
Ali Bongo
President of Gabon from 2009, son of Omar who was President of Gabon from 1967-2009.
Ali Bongo
Who anchored World of Sport from 1968 to 1985? His eyes mentioned in a HMHB song.
Dickie Davies
Derbyshire farmer Credited with concept of pick-your-own strawberries, first guest in dictionary corner on Countdown first show. Named in a HMHB song.
Ted Moult
HMHB sang of All I want for Christmas is a dukla prague away kit. same album Back Again in the DHSS, is “I was a teenage armchair ____ fan” which Hungarian sports team?
Honved
Trumptonshire Trilogy consisted of whcih three shows?
Camberwick Green
Trumpton
Chigley
Hill five miles west of Telford, on border of Shropshire and Telford. Mentioned in AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad and HMHB, Edward Lear talks of Old Man of the ______. Location on Assassins Creed Valhalla.
Wrekin
Tenerife airport disaster on March 27 1977 when two Boeing 747s collided, they belong to which carriers?
Pan Am and KLM
August 12 1985 from Haneda Airport from Tokyo to Itami International Airport in Osaka. Crashed into Mount Takamagahara near Ueno which was which prefecture with capital Maebashi.
Gunma Prefecture
Played Winston Churchill in 1972 film Young Winston and Bishop Gardiner in The Tudors. Son in law is Michael McIntyre
Simon Ward
Played Elizabeth Hardy the female lead in Barry Levinson’s Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). Sister in law to Michael McIntyre, was in Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre (2011). First novel was long listed for Booker Prize: Love and Other Thought Experiments (2020).
Sophie Ward
From Irish word for “littlest ridge” it is an elongated hill in shape of inverted spoon or half buried egg, formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine. Low ground between two are known as dungeon.
Drumlins
Which Scottish city built on swarm of drumlins? They are glacial deposition shaped like half an egg.
Glasgow
Both Matisse and Picasso called which painter as “the father of us all”?
Paul Cezanne
Winning couple of Strictly 2022
Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal
Named after city being built, the first Type 26 frigate to be built for the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy?
HMS Glasgow
1.
HISTORICAL
a piece of armour consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened together.
2.
MEDICINE
an artificial ventilator which encloses the body, leaving the limbs free, and forces air in and out of the lungs by changes in pressure.
Cuirass
Soap doctors is Set in the fictional Midlands town of What?
Letherbridge
One of five annually elected senior magistrates in ancient Sparta where oversaw actions of kings
Ephor
Short and witty phrases associated with Sparta: Philip II “if I invade Laconia, I shall turn you out”. Sparta: “if”.
Laconism
Who founded the Achaemenid Persian Empire? Xenophon wrote a biography.
Cyrus the Great
Which emperor established the Tetrarchy? Edict on Maximum Prices, the great persecution 303-312 against Christianity. Ruled 284-305.
Diocletian
Thucydides’ History of the Peloponessian War includes famous “funeral oration” given by which statesman and said to be written by Aspasia?
Pericles
What type of plane is Air Force One?
Boeing 747-200B
What type of car is President of USA’s “the Beast”?
Cadillac
Battle of 1314 between Robert the Bruce and Edward II army
Bannockburn
Battle of bannockburn took place in the grounds of which Scottish city in 1314?
Stirling
Film director two Oscar nominations for Deliverance and Hope & Glory. Also Excalibur, The General, The Tailor of Panama etc.
Sir John Boorman
Author of 1961 novel Solaris which became film directed by Tarkovsky
Stanislaw Lem
Native American people who developed in Florida in 19th February. Today live in Oklahoma and Florida.
Seminole
Who directed 2001 The Others, won Oscar for 2004 The Sea Inside, 2009 Agora about Hypatia (Weisz), and 1997 film Open Your Eyes which was remade into Vanilla Sky?
Alejandro Amenabar
Director of Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Say Anything, Aloha
Cameron Crowe
Director of 20000 leagues under the sea, Dr Dolittle, Tora! tora! Tora!, Soylent green, Conan the destroyer.
Richard Fleischer
German politician who was last communist leader of the German Democratic Republic during revolutions of 1989? Succeeded Honecker.
Egon Krenz
Season or year round second home often located in exurbs of post soviet countries including Russia.
Dacha
Real ninjutsu expert who won a secret martial arts tournament called Kumite in 1975. Served as inspiration for 1988 film Bloodsport starring Jean Claude Van Damme as the same person.
Frank Dux
Who wrote My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Also starred as main character.
Nia Vardalos
Max Patkin known as the clown Prince of which sport
Baseball
Playing for Leicestershire at county, who made his international debut on 17 December 2022, becoming England men’s youngest Test debutant?
Rehan Ahmed
Actor married to Naomi Watts since 2017 after split from Liev Schreiber
Billy Crudup
Who played Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen 2009
Billy Crudup
1960 movie Purple Noon and 1977 The American Friend are both adaptations of which authors work?
Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley series
Who won Best actress Oscar for Mildred Pierce
Joan crawford
Who wrote The Postman Always Ring Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce books?
James M. Cain
Who played Walter Neff in 1944 Double Indemnity?
Fred MacMurray
Who played Phyllis Dietrichson in 1944 Double Indemnity?
Barbara Stanwyck
CDOs are used for refinancing mortgage backed securities, synthetic investment product that is different loans bundled together and sold by lender. What does CDO stand for?
Collateralised Debt Obligation
Who directed Goodbye Mr Chips, Play it again Sam, Pennies from Heaven, Footloose, Steel Magnolias.
Herbert Ross
Jean Renoir 1937 film about French officers plotting escape during WW1. Title comes from 1909 book by Nobel Peace prize winning Norman Angell.
La Grande Illusion
Who played Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story
Alden Ehrenreich
films Tetro (2009) and Twixt (2011) last two films of which director?
Francis Ford Coppola
Who sang “Danny’s Song” in 1973 after written by Kenny Loggins in 1971?
Anne Murray
American rock-pop duo known for songs “Danny’s Song”, “House at Pooh Corner”, “Your Mama Don’t Dance”. Both went onto further success.
Loggins and Messina
Who sang 1964 song “A Summer Song”? Their first hit song was “Yesterday’s Gone”, “Willow Weep for Me”, “Before and After”.
Chad & Jeremy
Who sang “Love Song”, composed music and lyrics for “Waitress” musical, work on SpongebobSquarepants musical? Currently in Girls5Eva. Albums: careful confessions, little voice and kaleidoscope heart.
Sara Bareilles
Who sang the No No song in 1974 from album Goodnight Vienna? Backed by song Snookeroo. Says no to Colombian marijuana, Mallorca cocaine and Nashville moonshine whiskey.
Ringo Starr
Who sang “Authority Song” in 1984? From album Uh-Oh.
John Cougar Mellancamp
Whose debut single was #3 “New Song” in 1984? Other songs What is Love?, Things Can Only Get Better. Album Human’s Lib got to #1.
Howard Jones
American rock band formed in 1977, song Angel Song in 1989. Album Once Bitten 1987 and …Twice Shy 1989.
Great White
Who sang “This Song” in 1977 off album Thirty Three & 1/3?
George Harrison
Nickname of the 1930s-80s symbol put on clandestine files on applicants accused by British security service of being political subversives or communists. Green arrow but looked like the given nickname.
Christmas Tree Files
In English what party in Spain has the initials PSOE
Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party
Who got to number one in 1976 singing “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” on evita concept album?
Julie Covington
Who played Judith Iscariot in Life of Brian and was Mayor of Aberystwyth from 2008-09? Had a top 10 hit with “OK” with Julie Covington, Rula Lenska and Charlotte Cornwall.
Sue Jones-Davies
Band of building in Westminster owned by billionaire Richard smith that has a network of libertarian think tanks and lobby groups dubbed “Nine entities” such as TaxPayers Alliance, Civitas, Adam Smith Institute, Leave Means Leave, Global Warming Policy Foundation, Institute for Economic Affairs.
55 Tufton Street
Where is Drake’s Drum?
Buckland Abbey
Who played Martha kent, superman’s mum in movies 2013-17
Diane Lane
Who created Zorro
Johnston McCulley
Family of animals are kangaroos and wallabies a part of?
Macropodidae
Only team from football’s league of Ireland who are based in Northern Ireland?
Derry City
National flags that are square x2
Switzerland and Vatican City
Name of the processional route runs from Antonia fortress to the church of the holy sepulchre in Jerusalem
The Via Dolorosa
American black and white photographer of dust bowl unemployed people in depression
Dorothea Lange
Who designed Central Park?
Olmstead
Max Boss and Stine Omar are members of which German electronic band?
Easter
What is official name of plane nicknamed Spruce Goose
Hughes H-4 Hercules
Aircraft Spruce Goose mainly made of which wood?
Birch (Betula)
Which Burns poem starts “upon that night when fairies light”?
Halloween
Who presented bbc shows with Muffin the Mule in 1946-55?
Annette Mills
Which puppeteer best known for Muffin the mule?
Ann Hogarth
Level 42 lead singer and bassist?
Mark King
Main knight character name from 1957 The Seventh Seal
Antonius Block
2022 film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris she’s off to Paris to get. Dress of which designer?
Christian Dior
What does Jack Lemmon use to strain his pasta in The Apartment?
Tennis Racquet
In Zootopia, what kind of animal is crime boss Mr Big?
Arctic Shrew
Team name of the Illinois baseball team from A League of their Own?
Rockford Peaches
Which 1971 epic war film depicted failed WW2 allied mission, operation market garden, in Netherlands?
A Bridge Too Far
Character played by Harry Styles at end of 2022 Marvel film Eternals?
Eros
Don Lockwood, Kathy Seldon, Cosmo Brown friends in which 1952 movie musical?
Singin in the Rain
Who played Kathy seldon in Singin in the Rain? Mother of Carrie Fisher.
Debbie Reynolds
Who played Cosmo Brown in Singin in the Rain?
Donald O’Connor
Who played wife of Richard Gere in 2004’s Shall We Dance? And 2012’s Arbitrage?
Susan Sarandon
In what movie did Robert Redford play Tom Booker the films title character?
The Horse Whisperer
What actor starred as mafia informant Joe Valachi in the 1972 movie The Valachi Papers?
Charles Bronson
Which actress was credited with saving Universal from bankruptcy with films such as Every Sunday, Three Smart Girls, One Hundred Men and a Girl?
Deanna Durbin
Who played Grace Hanson in Netflix’s Grace and Frankie?
Jane Fonda
Who played Frankie Bergstein in Netflix’s Grace and Frankie?
Lily Tomlin
Who wrote 2009 book The Lost Child of Philomena?
Martin Sixsmith
Canadian actress who played Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and 1980s movies Monsignor, Tightrope, Trouble in Mind.
Genevieve Bujold
Name of battle axe wielded by Thor in 2022 movie Thor: Love and Thunder
Stormbreaker
The 1927 Greta Garbo film Love was based on what Leo Tolstoy novel?
Anna Karenina
Which actress received first Oscar nomination for film debut in Lonelyhearts in 1958 but didn’t win an Oscar until appearing in Reds in 1981?
Maureen Stapleton
Aldous Huxley co-wrote the screenplay for the 1940 film adaptation of which famous novel?
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Name of Malt Shop where T Birds and Pink Ladies hang out in 1978 movie Grease
Frosty Palace
The policemen in 1973 film Horror High were played by members of which NFL team?
Dallas Cowboys
Emma John’s memoir “Following On” is about which sport
Cricket
Which Catalan sauce is traditionally made from toasted almonds, bread, garlic, and parsley?
Picada
Who lives in the top-left hand corner of Wales and works for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Ltd.?
Ivor the Engine
Name meaning “painful catfish”, ancient Egyptian pharaoh unifier of Egypt and founder of First Dynasty and first king of unified Egypt. Reigned 3150BC.
Narmer
How high are nba nets?
10 feet
Director of Get Carter and Flash Gordon died December 2022?
Mike Hodges
What is NBA designated court size
94 by 50 feet
The free-throw line, where one stands while taking a foul shot, is located within the three-point arc at how long away from the plane of the backboard
15 feet
When is the observable public holiday Lincoln’s Birthday each year?
12th February (1809)
Presidents Day (sometimes known as Washington’s Day) is celebrated on what Monday each year?
Third Monday of February
Asap in asap Rocky stands for what
Always strive and prosper
Cardi B little sister name? Drink goes along with Bacardi nickname for her.
Hennessy
Traditional form of collapsible oilskin rain hat longer in back to protect the neck fully, worn by sailors.
Sou’wester
Die Hard set on which book by which author?
Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp
2022 winner of Jhalak Prize with “The Roles We Play”
Sabba Khan
Winner of the 2021 Jhalak Prize with “The First Woman”
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Winner of the 2020 Jhalak Prize with “Afropean: Notes from Black Europe”?
Johny Pitts
Which Grenada born poet and playwright was Winner of 2017 Jhalak Prize with “The Bone Readers”?
Jacob Ross
The 1954 film On the Waterfront had three actors nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Who were they?
Lee J Cobb (Willy Loman in DOAS, 12 AM)
Karl Malden (ASNamedD won BSA Oscar)
Rod Steiger (Bill Gillespie in ITHOTN won him BA oscar)
Who played title character of Quincy ME and was Juror 5 in 12 Angry Men?
Jack Klugman
“The Old Man”, “Sisters” and “Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)” all appear in which film?
White Christmas
Name of princess played by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday?
Princess Ann
Which 1953 film noir begins with the police investigation of the suicide of cop Tom Duncan?
The Big Heat
What song and band did Girls Aloud beat to get to #1 with Sound of the Underground in 20@2
One True Voice’s “Sacred Trust”
What was B side to Last Christmas in Wham’s 1984 song?
Everything She Wants
Anthony Quinn won Oscar BSA for playing f whcih artist in 1956 Lust for Life
Paul Gauguin
Which actress played mistress of corrupt lawyer Louis Calhern in the 1950 The Asphalt Jungle
Marilyn Monroe
Which actress appeared in a variety of Chinese gowns designed by Oscar winning Charles LeMaire in 1955 film Love is a Many Splendored Thing?
Jennifer Jones
In which romcom does playboy songwriter Brad Allen assume identity of Texas rancher named Rex Stetson?
Pillow Talk opposite Doris Day’s Jan Morrow
Name of the fictional humour alien in the 1951 film The Day The Earth Stood Still? His catchphrase is “_____ barada nikto”.
Klaatu
Marlon Brando character played in The Wild One 1953
Johnny Strabler
Marlon Brando character name in 1955 Guys and Dolls
Sky Masterton
Jamie Farr, Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier all played high school students in which 1955 movie?
Blackboard Jungle
Which chant made famous by Max Boyce in rugby circles and football also is derived from Cornish expression for pasty?
Oggie oggie oggie
Who plays the title character Renfield in 2023 film opposite nic cage’s Dracula
Nicholas Hoult
Which Irish based childrens tv show features flatulent Pygmy Shrew named Mossy?
Puffin Rock
What is debut album of the Cranberries released in 1993?
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
Which group of islands in Galway were the filming location for Father Ted?
Aran Islands
Which four letter term, originally meaning a stake or a fence, was used to describe the area of Ireland under English jurisdiction between the 12th and 16th centuries?
Pale
County in Ireland, the only one beginning with the letter “O”, was known for a long period as King’s County, named after Philip II of Spain?
Offaly
Which county of Ireland was named Queen’s County between 1556 and 1922 and named after Mary I?
Laois
County town of Laois was known as Maryborough from 1556 due to Mary I?
Portlaoise
Which Irish county had the county town Tralee?
Kerry
Who wrote autobiography “1966 and All That”?
Geoff Hurst
Who wrote poem “Father Thames”: One of England’s watery gems. Oily brown, greasy, muddy. Looking foul, and smells of cruddy”?
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan real first name and born year location
Terence - 1918 - Ahmadnagar, India
Who was Mr White in Reservoir Dogs?
Harvey Keitel
Who did Tim Roth play in Reservoir Dogs?
Mr Orange
Who did Michael Madsen play in reservoir dogs?
Mr Blonde
Who played Mr Blue in Reservoir dogs?
Edward Bunker
Quintin Tarantino played which character in Reservoir Dogs?
Mr Brown
What imperial measurement is double size of a butt and equal to eight barrels?
Tun
Which imperial measurement is worth two hogsheads, three tierce or 108 imperial gallons?
Butt
A hogshead of ale was equal to three what?
Kilderkins
What imperial measurement of beer was equal to two kilderkins?
Barrel
From the Dutch for “small cask”, what imperial measurement is equal to two firkins?
Kilderkin
From Dutch for “fourth”, what imperial measurement is a quarter of a barrel or half a kilderkin?
Firkin
What imperial measurement is equal to half a firkin?
Pin
Name of 2021 HBO tv show starring Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel and based on 2014 novel by Emily St John Mandel (winner of Arthur C Clarke Award).
Station Eleven (Georgia Flu is the disease in the novel)
Most decorated African Olympian in history? Swimming Two Golds, Four Silvers, One Bronze. Current Zimbabwean minister for Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation.
Kirsty Coventry
Which darts player won the 2018 PDC World Championship beating Phil Taylor 7-2 in the final?
Rob Cross
Who played Adam Carter in Spooks, Clive Reader in Silk, DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel and Mr Quintan in horror show The Strain? was Mayor Don Mitchell in The Batman in 2022.
Rupert Penry-Jones
Presenter of Question of Sport in pilot episode
Stuart Hall
First presenter of Question of Sport 1970-72, 1974-77
David Vine
Second presenter at Question of Sport 1979-1997
David Coleman
Welsh rugby Union player who was one of first captains on Question of sport?
Cliff Morgan
In which oasis song do they posit that someone is in a “family full of eccentrics”?
She’s Electric
Robin Pecknold is the lead singer of which Seattle band?
Fleet Foxes
Who is American singer-songwriter and musician from St Louis, Missouri and has released albums including Burn Your Fire for No Witness 2014, My Woman 2016, All Mirrors 2019, Whole New Mess 2020 and Big Time 2022?
Angel Olsen
Shifty Henry and The Purple Gang are characters that feature in which elvis Presley song?
Jailhouse Rock
Which skater clothing brand was acquired by JD Sports in 2011 and named after train station?
Fenchurch
Brand of cigarettes launched in 1992 with slogan “a good smoke at a fair price”?
Mayfair
Who was bbc royal correspondent between 1999 and 2003?
Jennie Bond
Which British journalist presented bbc news 1973-2002, host of bbc4 The Moral Maze since 1990, presenter of 999 from 1992-2003? His reporting of Ethiopian famine in October 1984 inspired the band aid charity record and live aid.
Michael Buerk
Jeremy corbynnconstituency
Islington North
Which train station is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line?
London Euston
Name of shopping complex located at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol?
The Mall at Cribbs Causeway
Which British naval officer chiefly remembered for his controversial actions following the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805?
Robert Calder
Sicilian naval admiral in service of Spanish empire, was in charge of Principe de Asturias at Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Shot by grapeshot and died of wounds in Cadiz.
Federico Gravina
Born 1824 in Konigsberg, German physicist coined black-body radiation in 1862, award named after him and Robert Bunsen for spectroscopy awards. Three laws of spectroscopy named after him and a law of thermal radiation and law of thermochemistry.
Gustav Kirchhoff
Layer of ionised gas occurring 90-150km above ground also known as E region and named after two scientists?
Kennelly-Heaviside Layer
The F Region of the ionosphere is named after which two scientists: one is Nobel Physics winner 1947 and the other is New Zealand physicist.
Appleton-Barnett Layer
Name of the seven sticked candle holder in Kwanzaa
Kinara
Blackcurrant liqueur called what
Crème de cassis
Cherry liqueur called what
Kirsch
traditional Danish dessert served at Christmas dinner and julefrokost (Christmas lunch). It is made of rice pudding mixed with whipped cream, sugar, vanilla, and chopped almonds
Risalamande
Who was first overall pick in 1973 NFL draft and played most career with Oakland Raiders and retired 1981 after winning second Super Bowl? Became actor including playing Sloth in The Goonies?
John Matuszak
What city is the Goonies set in? 1985 film oldest city in Oregon named after first multi millionaire in USA who set up American fur company.
Astoria, Oregon
Director of The Goonies
Richard Donner
Whose father was Keith Carradine and Shelley who originated role of Crissy in off Broadway production of Hair? She herself won emmy for the good wife guest appearance in 2012
Martha Plimpton
Who played Data in The Goonies in 1985 and since played Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022?
Ke Huy Quan
Who is married to Tim McGraw?
Faith Hill
George Cukor’s 1941 Two Faced Woman was which actress final film?
Greta Garbo
George Cukor’s 1942 Her Cardboard Lover was which actress final film?
Norma Shearer
Director of Birdman of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster), The Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra), The Train, The Island of Dr Moreau, won four Emmys.
John Frankenheimer
A terrorist called The Puppet Master hacks into brains of people and force crime is pursued by Motoko Kusanagi, beautiful cyborg agent with Section 9 in which anime film?
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell manga is by which manga artist?
Masamune Shirow
Who plays FBI agent in The Town, Bad Times at the El Royale and Richard Jewell?
Jon Hamm
Which actor played Frankenstein’s monster in Hammer horror films The Horror of Frankenstein and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell? Only actor have played Hammer Frankenstein’s monster more than once.
David Prowse
Prize given to creative achievement for American comic books, named after a cartoonist best known for The spirit (1940-52). Given at San Diego Comic Con.
Eisner Awards
Which award given for comic books and awarded at New York comic con since 2017? Founded by Gary Groth in 1988 president of publisher Fantagraphics.
Harvey Awards
Harvey Awards in comic books are known for which writer/artist comic book Mad and Little Annie Fanny strips in Playboy 1962-88.
Harvey Kurtzman
Feargal Sharkey was lead singer of which band?
The Undertones
Winner of first Womens Rugby Union World Cup in 1991
USA
England have won the Womens World Cup in rugby Union twice, what years?
1994 and 2014
New Zealand won the Rugby Union Womens World Cup in 2022 (2021 tournament). It was how many overall?
Sixth - 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2017 and 2022
Who was top scorer at the Rugby World Cup Womens 2021/2022? English player plays for Loughborough Lightning.
Emily Scarratt
Who was top scorer at the 2021/22 Mens Rugby League World Cup? Samoan player who plays for Penrith Panthers.
Stephen Crichton
Whcih England player scored most tries with nine for England during the 2021/22 Rugby World Cup Rugby League? Plays for Newcastle knights in NRL.
Dom Young
Which St. Helens winner scored joint second most points at 2021:/22 rugby league World Cup with 68 point?
Tommy Makinson
Which team won the Womens Rugby League World Cup in November 2022? Won 54-4 and took place in Old Trafford Manchester.
Australia
Which English player who plays for York Valkyrie was the top scorer at the 2021/22 Womens Rugby League World Cup?
Tara Jane Stanley
Who is new England rugby Union head coach? Captained England 2008-10. Was head coach of Leicester Tigers 2020-22.
Steve Borthwick
Gymnast who won gold in floor exercise at 2022 world championships, nominated for SPoTY.
Jessica Gadirova
What is the name of the award given at SPOTY ceremony given for outstanding achievement in face of adversity (Rob Burrow in 2022)? Named after first female presenter of Grandstand died in 1999 at age of 43 after having cancer.
Helen Rollason Award
Boxer who was paralysed and near killed in fight with Chris Eubank. Won Helen Rollaston Award at SpOty for finishing London Marathon even though took him six days.
Michael Watson
Martine Wiltshire took part in which sport at 2012 Paralympics five years after being in 7/7 bombings
Sitting Volleyball
Which rugby Union Scottish player died in November 2022 after battle with MND? Scotland Wales trophy named after him.
Doddie Weir
2021 Helen Rollason Award went to which Arsenal and Scotland footballer who carried on playing football while fighting breast cancer.
Jen Beattie
2022 European Champions double gold on 10m platform and synchro, same at Commonwealth Games. Bronze in World Championships. Won 2020 Young spoty
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix
Which Australian tennis player was last to play Serena Williams in a grand slam after knocking her out of third round US Open in 2022?
Alja Tomljanovic
LA Rams won Superbiwl 2022 beating which team in final?
Cincinnati Bengals
Which horse did Dick Francis fall on in Grand National 1956
Devon Loch
Eventual winner of 1956 Grand National after Devon Loch debacle
ESB
Which horse won the 1913 Epsom Derby after the Anmer Emily Davison debacle?
Aboyeur
Which island was agreed to be split by Denmark and Canada in 2022 after 17 years of negotiation? This created a second land border for each of the countries.
Hans Island
Which Framnaes product was discovered in 5 March 2022, 107 years after sinking in the Weddell Sea?
Endurance
Whose king nickname was Der Alte Fritz
Frederick II the Great
Which B is a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket is placed to lie in state or carried to the grave
Bier
Treaty signed between James IV of Scotland and Henry VII in 1502 putting end to intermittent warfare between Scotland and England in previous 200 years?
Treaty of Perpetual Peace
Which queen consort died 37th birthday nine days after her seventh confinement?
Elizabeth of York (Henry VII missus)
Who died tragically aged four months and remembered by Scouler’s statue?
Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (William IV child)
Who was maternal half sister to Queen Victoria?
Feodora of Leiningen
Who was maternal half brother of Queen Victoria?
Karl, Prince of Leiningen
Which Scottish church was the burial place for Elizabeth de Burgh’s organs, Robert the Bruce wife?
Cullen Old Church (Auld Kirk)
Born in 1596 to James I and Anne of Denmark, who was wife of Frederick V of Palatinate and Queen of Bohemia? Reign in Bohemia one year and called Winter Queen. She was link between Stuart and Hanover houses and died in Leicester House.
Elisabeth Stuart
Who was Prince Rupert of the Rhine’s parents?
Frederick V Elector of Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart
What day did Elizabeth II die on?
8 September 2022
First wife of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester and known for death by falling down flight of stairs?
Amy Robsart, Lady Dudley
Shared tomb bears epitaph describing half sisters In Spe Resurrectionis?
Elizabeth I and Mary I
Fictitious mascot and cover boy of American humour magazine Mad.
Alfred E. Neuman
Irish director who done MJ’s Billie Jean, Aha’s take on me, money for nothing, summer of 69, Africa, music videos. Also Mike Bassett, cone heads, films.
Steve Barron
In which carol will you find
the couplet “To save us all from
Satan’s power. When we were
gone astray”?
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
What Christmas favourite was
recorded at the same LA studio
where John Lennon recorded the
album ‘Mind Games’?
Merry Xmas Everybody
Which German city has an annual Stollen festival?
Dresden
Uk Toy Association 2021 toy of year
Barbie Day to Night Dreamhouse
Which dolls were Toy of the Year UK 2017-19
L.O.L. Surprise
How say Merry Christmas in Italian
Buon Natale
Merry Christmas in Portuguese
Feliz Natal
Which band Rick Danko (bass, guitar, vocals, fiddle), Garth Hudson (organ, keyboards, accordion, saxophone), Richard Manuel (piano, drums, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, songwriting, vocals), and Levon Helm (drums, vocals, mandolin, guitar)?
The Band
Who wrote “Y: The Last Man” and “Alias” featuring Jessica Jones not the tv show Alias?
Brian K Vaughan
Which Eisner award winning comic book artist created Locke & Key? Books are Heart Shaped Box, The Fireman, NOS4A2.
Joe Hill
Who became only female winner of Eisner Award for Best Writer when won jointly in 2018?
Marjorie Liu
Who became second winner of Eisner Award for Best Writer in 2020 got for Skim, This One Summer, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me,
Mariko Tamaki
Who won Eisner Award for Best Writer in 2021 and 2022? For “Something is Killing the Children”, work on Batman.
James Tynion IV
Who directed Saturday Night Fever, Dracula 1979, WarGames 1983, Short Circuit 1986?
John Badham
Who won PEN/Faulkner Award 2013, wrote Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Original acronym for PEN ie PEN/Faulkner Awards was what?
Poets, Essayists, Novelists
British-Lebanese mathematician won Fields Medal in 1966 for work in K-theory, proved index theorem of elliptic operators on complex manifold era.
Michael Atiyah
Stateless mathematician who won Fields Medal in 1966 for building on work of Weil and Zariski and effected fundamental advances in algebraic geometry. Revolutionised homological algebra in celebrated “Tohoku Paper”
Alexander Grothendieck
French mathematician who won Fields Medal 2010, director of Sorbonne University’s Institut Henri Poincare from 2009-17. Joined politics as member of La Republique En Marche! but left party to set up “Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity”.
Cedric Villani
First woman to win Fields Medal in 2014. Worked at Stanford Uni. Won same year as Brazilian mathematician ARTUR Avila.
Maryam Mirzakhani
Male 2022 winner of Fields Medal for bringing ideas of Hodge Theory to combinatorics, proof of Dowling-Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, proof of Heron-Rota-Welsh conjecture for matroids.
June Huh
Ukrainian mathematician became only second female to win Fields Medal in 2022 for proof that E8 lattice provides densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions.
Maryna Viazovska
Which poet is quoted on obverse of Fields Medal alongside Archimedes. “Rise above oneself and grasp the world”.
Manilius
name for shoes also known as bar shoes or doll shoes, closed low cut shoe named for female character in comic strip “Buster Brown”?
Mary Jane
Courage the Cowardly Dog and Porthos (Captain Archer’s dog in Star Trek Enterprise) are which breed of dog?
Beagle
Name of Reddit mascot
Snoo
Cold northerly wind on the Mediterranean coast of France from the Latin/Provençal “master wind”.
Mistral
Hot dust laden wind blowing over southern Italy from Libyan deserts from vulgar Arabic for “the east wind”.
Sirocco
From Latin for “across the mountains”, a northern wind blows on Occitania. Also term for Italians who lives on the other side of mountains?
Tramontane
Major change made after transport truck caught fire in which tunnel in 1999 killing 39 people?
Mont Blanc Tunnel
Who was a “merry old soul” and among other things “called for his pipe” and “called for his bowl”?
Old King Cole
Lycopene, bright carotenoid found in some fruit and veg, has eleven conjugated double bonds which give it which colour?
Red
Who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981?
Mehmet Ali Agca
Mehmet Ali Agca was a member of which fascist Islamic Turkish ultra nationalist organisation with animal name?
Grey Wolves
The Altima, the Sentra and the Versa are which type of Car company?
Nissan
S is language of the elves in Tolkien verse
Sindarin
Which Q is an elvish language
Quenya
Which Q language spoken by tribes primarily in Peruvian Andes. Can be called Runasimi
Quechua
1991 Nobel Peace laureate and minster of foreign affairs for Burma 2016-21
Aung San Suu Kyi
Which concentrate powder is a step in the processing of uranium after it has been mined out before uranium enrichment?
Yellowcake
Icterine is what colour?
Yellow
In which war was the Viriatos and the British Independent Labour Party on opposing sides?
Spanish Civil War
The MPLA is an angloan left wing, social democratic party and cofounded by which first president of Angola from 1975-1979
Agostinho Neto
Who was the founder of the UNITA Party who fought with MPLA in war of independence and against then in the subsequent civil war?
Jonas Savimbi
President of South Sudan since 2011, known big cowboy hat.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
How many balls including cue ball in the billiards game Russian Pyramid
16 - 15 white balls and a red/yellow cue ball?
Name of Nigella Lawson first cookery book published 1998
How to Eat
Which welsh jewellery company is named after a gold mine in snowdonia?
Clogau
Second most populous city in Iran?
Mashhad
2nd most city in Afghanistan
Kandahar
Second largest city in Japan
Yokohama
1975 10CC song: Life is a _______
Minestrone
Which Scottish author wrote: The Comforters, A Far Cry From Kensington, last The Finishing School 2004, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1961, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Hothouse by the East River.
Muriel Spark
Which arctic mammal used to be known as the Morse?
Walrus
Which country is the “Teeth of the Dog” golf course in?
Dominican Republic
French sci fi series comic created by Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mezieres made into film by Luc Besson in 2017.
Valerian and Laureline
Who played Harry Osborn/Green Goblin in Amazing Spider-Man 2, Valerian in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, lucien carr in Kill Your Darlings?
Dane DeHaan
Who played Richard Harrow in Boardwalk Empire, Ben-Hur in 2016 drama and in Fargo fourth season? Also Jack Kerouac in Kill Your Darlings.
Jack Huston
Italian term for breadsticks
Grissini
State Great Khural is the unicameral Parliament of which country?
Mongolia
Word can follow bishop, lantern, raglan and butterfly?
Sleeve
Worlds first 13 sided coin was issued in 1993 by which country?
Czech Republic - 20 Koruna Coin
Which New Zealand governing island has 2 dollar triangular coins?
Cook Islands
Capital of Cook Islands on the island of Rarotonga?
Avarua
How many sides does current uk pound have?
12
Which South Korean band had nine members before Jessica Jung left? Other members include Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Sooyoung, Yoona.
Girls Generation
Which Korean band had loads of top 40 hits in uk: Sour Candy with lady gaga and Ice Cream with Selena Gomez? #1 album Born Pink.
BlackPink
Which band’s first Top 40 song was Idol in 2018, Dynamite #3 in 2020, Butter #3 in 2021, My Universe #3 with Coldplay in 2021. Albums #1 include Map of the Soul - Persona, Map of the Soul - 7.
BTS
Politician was second president of South Africa after Nelson Mandela?
Thabo Mbeki
Which American city destroyed by Great Fire of October 1871?
Chicago
Who voiced Bo Peep in Toy Story films? Plays Sheldon’s grandmother in Young Sheldon.
Annie Potts
Modern Art movement started in which century?
19th
Kader Nouni is a French umpire in which sport
Tennis
What year new amsterdam renamed New York? Same year in Kronenberg name.
1664
Who is Barcelona and germany number one goalkeeper?
Marc-Andre ter Stegen
Actor who played Gomer Lyle in Full Metal Jacket, Edgar the Bug in Men in Black, Robert Goren in L&O Criminal Intent, Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in Marvel universe.
Vincent D’Onofrio
Mongolian for black city, abandoned city in Alxa League in Inner Mongolia, China. Appears in Marco Polo travels.
Khara-Khoto
What “forficula auricularia” known as perce-oreilles in France and pincher bug in USA
Earwig
Sheep Latin name
Ovis Aries
What 2022 song is by James Hype and Miggy Dela Rosa?
Ferrari
Which 2015 KSI song featuring P Money is a car in title?
Lamborghini
It’s easy enough to get to Ireland, it’s just a strait walk across Irish Sea as far as I’m concerned? Said by who in football legend
Brian Clough
“They’re the second best team in the world - and there’s no higher praise than that” by which football legend
Kevin Keegan
Which character in To Kill A Mockingbird was based on Truman Capote, friend of Harper Lee?
Dill
Manager of England netball and captain of England netball
Manager: Jess Thirlby
Captain Natalie Metcalf
Head coach of England womens cricket team
Jon Lewis
Head coach of englands womens rugby Union team
Simon Middleton
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair.”, first Black woman elected to the US Congress
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Who was jailed in Iran for ages on trumped up journalism spy charges
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
In December 2022, Russia released which Phoenix Mercury center after a trade for Viktor Bout Russian arms dealer?
Brittney Griner
Who was due to play Batgirl before it got cancelled in 2022
Leslie Grace
Which moon of Jupiter features in 2001: a space odyssey
Europa
“What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare” is poem Leisure by which poet known for The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp?
W.H. Davies
In electromagnetism which P is the measure of magnetisation that a material obtains in response to an applied magnetic field? Represented by letter Mu. Coined by Kelvin in 1872.
Permeability
In electromagnetism, which P (denoted by epsilon) is a measure of the electric polarisability of a dielectric? Introduced by Oliver Heaviside to complement Kelvin’s permeability.
Permittivity
What is a symbol of musical notation indicating that note should be prolonged behind the normal duration it’s note value would indicate, could also be a prolonged rest? Latin for stop.
Fermata
What term was introduced by Murray Gell-Mann as a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in string and electromagnetic interactions which occur in a short period of time?
Strangeness
Finnish composer born 1952, works include Petals, a La Fumee, Sept Papillons, La Passion de Simone, Notes on Light.
Kaija Saariaho
Which Finnish composer born 1928 best works is First Piano Concerto, Cantus Arcticus and seventh symphony Angel of Light?
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in which year with the royal family of Piedmont-Sardinia the ruling monarchs?
1861
What was established in NYC in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Olcott and Judge?
Theosophical Society
Sequel “No Longer at Ease” was a 1960 novel to which earlier book?
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Inadmissible Evidence, Luther, Epitath for George Dillon. Which playwright born 1929 died 1994?
John Osborne
Playwright 1911-77. The Winslow Boy, French Without Tears, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables, The Browning Version.
Terence Rattigan
Peking Man, Java Man and Solo Man are all early specimens of which extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene?
Homo erectus
Mauer 1, a jawbone, was first specimen found on which subspecies of archaic human?
Homo heidelbergensis
From Latin for pioneer man, which extinct species of archaic human was recorded in Spanish sierra de atapuerca, first fossils found in Gran Dolina cave in 1994.
Homo antecessor
Name of the set of fossilised hominid footprints dating to Pleistocene over 800k years ago discovered in 2013 in newly uncovered sediment layer of Cromer Forest Bed on beach in namesake village in Norfolk. Photographed in 3D before destroyed by tide.
Happisburgh Footprints
Discovered in 2009, in field near village of Hammerwich in namesake county, largest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold and silver metalwork found in UK. Gold silver and garnet cloisonné jewellery.
Staffordshire Hoard
Which hoard of 52.503 Roman coins found in 2010 by Dave Crisp in namesake Somerset location. Largest group coins issued during reign of Carausius who ruled Britain 286-93 first emperor to strike coins in Britain?
Frome Hoard
Village and civil parish in Darlington, Durham. Site of Roman fort in 260-270 point where Dere Street (York to Scotland) crossed Tees. It’s Roman bridge site still there and big finds occurred recently.
Piercebridge
Archaeological culture named after drinking receptacle found from European Bronze Age, arising from 2800-1800BC in Britain at least. Succeeded by Unetice culture.
Bell Beaker culture
Partially or entirely artificial island usually built in lakes or estuarine waters of Scotland, wales and Ireland. Comes from old Irish for tree.
Crannog
Mesolithic archeological site in North Yorkshire. 5 miles south of Scarborough. Important to Mesolithic as Stonehenge is to Neolithic. Excavation of site began in 1948 a year after artefacts found by John Moore.
Star Carr
Traditional form of puppet theatre originating from Indonesian island of Java.
Wayang
Which Javan city was Indonesian capital 1946-48
Yogyakarta
First supersonic aircraft flown which entered service as airliners. Russian.
Tupolev Tu-144
What Mach number does an aircraft have to fly over to be hypersonic?
Mach 5
Which philosopher A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
David Hume
Who was Danish painter and transgender woman among early recipients of sex reassignment surgery? Successful painter under birth name Einar Wegener. Born 1882.
Lili Elbe
Two purine DNA bases?
Adenine and Thymine
Two pyrimidine bases?
Cytosine and Thymine (Uracil in RNA)
Which name comes from a Canaanite god often portrayed as enemy of the Hebrew god Yahweh?
Balthasar from Baal
National god of ancient Israel and Judah. Could be Iron Age or late Bronze Age.
Yahweh
The piano composition Kreisleriana was by which German composer?
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Which composer born 1819, The Tales of Hoffmann, opera Die Rheinnixen.
Jacques Offenbach
River known in Chinese as Black Dragon River is worlds 10th longest and forms border of Russian Far East and northeastern China.
Amur
CRP blood test stands for what?
C-reactive protein
ESR blood test stands for what
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
TSH blood test stands for what
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
Two of the three surviving Eleanor Crosses (Eleanor of Castille wife of Edward I) are in Geddington and Hardingstone both in which county?
Northamptonshire
The third surviving Eleanor cross after two in Northants, is in which Hertfordshire town?
Waltham Cross
Greek letter symbol for density in physics
Rho
Martin Esslin coined which term in a 1960 book of same name
Theatre of the Absurd
Fictional county created by George Eliot as setting to Adam Bede, Felix Holt and Middlemarch. First four letters is soil composed mostly of sand, silt and small amount of clay.
Loamshire
17th century mughal painter and court artist grew up in reign of Jahangir (1605-27). Earlier to depict dodo in colour and also Siberian crane. Chameleon too.
Ustad Mansur
Chilean novelist short story writer and poet. 1953-2003 died in Barcelona. Books: The Savage Detectives, 2666, Nazi Literature in the Americas, Antwerp, By Night in Chile.
Roberto Bolano
Born in Iran 1919, short story writer and novels The Grass is Singing, The Good Terrorist, The Golden Notebook.
Doris Lessing
“Between the Acts” was the final novel by which author released in 1941?
Virginia Woolf
Nickname of Tipu Sultan ruler of Kingsom of Mysore (1782-1799) and pioneer of rocket artillery
Tiger of Mysore
Term for languages such as Korean and Basque which can’t be classified into larger language families.
Language Isolate
Born Herman Poole Blount 1914 Birmingham Alabama, jazz composer bandleader, piano and synthesiser player, led the Arkestra. 1974 film Space is the Place.
Sun Ra
Castle of the Teutonic Order in Poland is 13th century castle and fortress located near which town? Largest castle in world measured by land area and a unesco world heritage site.
Malbork Castle
Which polish city was Copernicus born in in 1473?
Torun
Churches of Peace were three churches build from wood, loam and straw outside city walls in Poland all in which historical region of Poland
Silesia
2020 Netflix doc about Craig foster forging friendship with sea creature in South Africa kelp forest
My octopus teacher
Questlove documentary whcih won Oscar and bafta
Summer of Soul (or when the revolution could not be televised)
Whcih documentary maker won Oscar for short film Wasp in 2005. Film Fish Tank won Jury Prize at 2009 Cannes.film American honey won jury prize at Cannes. Documentary called Cow in 2021.
Andrea Arnold
Doc 2021 The Rescue about which cave rescue in 2018 mission in Thailand
Tham Luang cave
2020 doc The Dissident focussed on assassination of which journalist by Saudi Arabia?
Jamal Khashoggi
Who won Oscar for American Factory (2020). Also documentaries Union Maids 1977, Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists 1984, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant 2010.
Julia Reichert
2019 documentary about Waad Al-Kateab’s journey as journalist and rebel in Syrian uprising. Won bafta doc.
For Sama
2017 doc by Bryan Fogel about doping in international scale by grigory rodchenkov.
Icarus
2016 doc by Raoul peck based on James Baldwin unfinished manuscript remember this house and narrated by SL Jackson.
I am Not Your Negro
2016 documentary by Ava DuVernay about mass incarceration in USA and named after abolition of slavery amendment to constitution.
13th
Laura Poitras documentary about Edward snowden in 2014
Citizenfour
2022 Laura Poitras documentary which explored life of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler Family (Purdue pharma). Won golden lion making it only second doc to win top prize at Venice.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
In 2013 who did Novak Djokovic play in a rematch battle of the sexes at Beijing’s Olympic Park?
Li Na
In 1992 which male and female faced off in battle of sexed match “battle of champions” as both #1.
Jimmy Connors beat Martina Navratilova
Bantu language spoken in DRC and Rep of Congo in both their capital cities. 8 million speakers as a lingua franca.
Lingala
Otherwise known as bleeding heart monkey, what species of old world monkey found in Ethiopia highlands? Theropithecus ______
Gelada
What type of ibex is endangered species of wild goat found only in Simien mountains of northern Ethiopia?
Walia
Term for spirits play key role in Yoruba religion of west Africa.
Orisha
Shango in Yoruba religion, Agni in Hinduism, both gods of which matter?
Fire
French scientist born 1794 in Lusignan: namesake principle states that diffraction pattern from an opaque body is identical to that from a hole of the same size and shape except for the overall forward beam intensity.
Babinet’s Principle
What problem was proven by Alan Turing in 1936 and involves problem of determining whether a program will finish running or continue to run forever?
Halting Problem
Who wrote the play The Lion in Winter and won Oscar for adapted screenplay, younger brother won couple Oscar’s for screenwriting? Wrote the book for Follies. Also wrote a play and a film called They Might Be Giants which gave rise to namesake band.
James Goldman
Fur Alina is a work for piano composer by which Estonian composer born 1935. Essential work for tintinnabuli style.
Arvo Part
Four valve brass instrument named after and commissioned by namesake composer. Combines tubas and French horns.
Wagner tuba
French women footballer who captains PSG and plays defensive midfielder. Born in DRC.
Grace Geyoro
Who plays forward for Man U and England national team, ended 2022 euros with four goals including back heel against Swedish Lindahl which was goal of tournament.
Alessia Russo
Term for symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, futility of pleasure and certainty of death. Latin for emptiness.
Vanitas
American artist pioneered photo realism, statue of Catherine of Braganza in Lisbon, Marilyn (Vanitas), World War II (Vanitas), Wheel of Fortune.
Audrey Flack
Artocarpus Altilis fruit
Breadfruit
Malayan term for dried white flesh of coconut from which coconut oil extracted.
Copra
Malayan Term for coconut fibre, extracted from outer husk of coconut used in floor mats, brushes and mattresses.
Coir
1936 Nobel Medicine shared by English physiologist for study of acetylcholine as agent in chemical transmission of nerve pulses.
Henry Hallett Dale
GABA is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in mammalian central nervous system. What does it stand for?
Gamma AminoButyric Acid
Term for a non protein chemical compound or metallic ion that is required for an enzymes role as a catalyst. Can be considered “helper molecules”.
Cofactor
What term for chemical that nerve cells use to send signals, by wide margin the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in vertebrate system?
Glutamate
Brazilian born biologist works on graft rejection and discovered of acquired immune tolerance, “father of transplantation”. Stephen Jay Gould “the cleverest man I have ever known”. 1960 Nobel Medicine for discovery of AIT.
Peter Medawar
Which English statistician and epidemiologist has paradox named after him (incidence of cancer does not correlate with number of cells in an organism), leading expert on deaths related to tobacco use, worked on logrank test with brother Julian.
Richard Peto
British scientist 2002 Nobel Medicine, work on cell lineage and genome of work Caenorhabditis Elegans, fronted up bail money for Julian Assange and lost 75% of it.
John Sulston
C elegans worm the c stands for
Caenorhabditis
What infection in childhood affects trachea, bronchi, larynx and has distinctive barking cough and make harsh sound known as stridor when they breathe in?
Croup
Term applied to tuberculosis of the neck from Latin for brood sow.
Scrofula
British surgeon renowned for appendicitis surgery, saved King Edward VII in 1902. Known for friendship with Joseph Merrick dubbed Elephant Man.
Fredrick Treves
19th century British surgeon best known for first account of namesake syndrome, congenital deformity now described as underdevelopment or absence of the chest muscle on one side of the body and webbing of fingers (syndactyly) on hand same side.
Alfred Poland
Born 1749 Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Created smallpox vaccine first ever in world. Inquiry into the Variolae Vaccinae known as the Cow Pox. Appointed physician to George IV.
Edward Jenner
French writer and art critic born 1822 Nancy. Founder of namesake academie and prize.
Edmond de Goncourt
Winner of 2022 Prix Goncourt for “Vivre Vite”. A recit about death of husband Claude at age of 41. Female writer born in Algeria.
Brigitte Giraud
Who is Italian and Swiss essayist and novelist, founding chairman of think tank Volta. 2022 debut novel Le Mage du Kremlin (wizard of Kremlin - main character based on Vladislav Surkov, Putin advisor).
Giuliano da Empoli
What colour is the shade Angelica
Green
Name given to ships used as prisons in 18th and 19th centuries anchored of coast of Woolwich?
Hulks
Who presented Through the Cakehole 1993-96
Jo Brand
Surreal 2004 sitcom by reeves and Mortimer. Named after village in north Yorkshire gives name to britains largest army base.
Catterick
Singer of theme tune of Detectorists, played Dylan Witter in Lovesick and Bowie in Stardust. Band is _____ and the Sussex Wit. Born joburg South Africa. Played a George Knightley in 2020 Emma and Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat.
Johnny Flynn
What is meaning of “mendicate”
To beg
French writer believed to have died caffeine poisoning caused by drinking 50 coffees per day?
Honore de Balzac
What programme does Izzie Balmer work on?
Antiques Roadshow
Who presents the jewellery making reality tv show All That Glitters?
Katherine Ryan
Who is only non disabled host of The Last Leg
Josh Widdicombe
Name of journalist and presenter best known for The Last Leg, has hand and arm differences and a right leg amputated.
Alex Brooker
Smallest and least accessible of the Balearic Islands
Formentera
Literally meaning Sons of Man what is name of political party based on Isle of Man who don’t want British dependency anymore?
Mec Vannin
Roman name for Isle of Wight
Vectis
Regime of the Colonels took over which country in 1967-74?
Greece - known as Greek junta
How much did the pig sell his ring to owl and pussycat for in poem?
One shilling
What did owl and pussycat take to sea in a pea green boat?
Some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note
What instrument was the owl playing as he sang to pussycat in owl and pussycat poem?
Guitar
Member of Gogglebox known for “not a fucking terrorist though Chris”.
Stephen Webb
What is the name of family from gogglebox from Derby, dad Sid, two songs Baasit and Umar?
The Siddiquis
Name of English tv producer launched tv formats wife swap, faking it, secret millionaire, undercover boss and gogglebox.
Stephen Lambert
Name meaning “scented” in Spanish, variety of fortified wine made in Jerez, normally darker than Amontillado.
Oloroso
Rick Flag is the leader of which comic book group?
Suicide Squad
Who wrote the plays The Lehman Trilogy winning tony award?
Stefano Massini
Who wrote 1999 “How to talk to anyone”
Leil Lowndes
Who wrote Atomic Habits
James Clear
Who wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
Who wrote The 5AM Club
Robin Sharma
Who wrote “The 48 Laws of Power” 1998, “The Art of Seduction” 2001, “The 33 Strategies of War” 2006?
Robert Greene
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People author
Stephen Covey
Japanese term for “a reason for being” meaning something gives sense of purpose. Book by Miralles and Garcia.
Ikigai
Which Motown group teamed up with The Four Tops to record the 1971 album The Magnificent Seven?
The Supremes
Dot is a perfume by which perfume house
Marc Jacobs
Official retreat of French President
Fort de Bregancon
Welsh for chair
Cadair
Captain of South African rugby Union team?
Siya Kolisi
How many letters in Greek alphabet
24
Magellan born Sabrosa Portugal in 1480 and died 1521 in which country?
Mactan, Philippines
Which Manchester rock band included Bonehead and Guigsy in original line-up?
Oasis
Book which movie Babe based on
Dick King-Smith’s The Sheep-Pig
Who played Birdman of Alcatraz 1962
Burt Lancaster
1929 which country became first in South America to give women the vote?
Ecuador
How many roads radiate from the Magic Roundabout in Swindon?
Five
Which material would you cut using Grozing Pliers
Glass
Which Italian fashion house sells the Divina and Ocarina ranges of bags?
Valentino
In Pete Seeger song If I Had A Hammer, which percussion instrument is the subject of the second verse?
Bell
Which spice is traditionally used to flavour the Indian dish Adraki Murgh?
Ginger
How many oblasts in Russia?
46
Which prison did Eamon de Valera the future president of Ireland escape from in February 1919?
Lincoln Prison
In which art form would you use a rubber kidney?
Pottery
Which 2022 novel by Douglas Stuart is the follow up to Shuggie Bain?
Young Mungo
Lost city was discovered by Swiss explorer Jean-Louis Burckhardt in 1812?
Petra
Baby It’s Cold Outside performed by Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams is an Oscar winning song from which 1949 film musical?
Neptunes Daughter
Which profession would typically use escutcheons and a warding file?
Locksmith
Clark Gable real first name
William
Album by Green Day shares name with great grandson of Noah and ship owned by Shackleton
Nimrod
Which Alsatian theological and Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote The Quest of the Historical Jesus
Albert Schweitzer
How many major energy centres or Chakras are there in yoga?
Seven
What herb used to make dragoncello sauce?
Tarragon
Mumbai is summer capital of state of Maharashtra but what is the winter capital?
Nagpur
Which prickly evergreen conifer also known as Aitnach, horse-Savin or melmot, is title of Brothers Grimm fairytale?
The Juniper Tree
What is fictional coffee shop in Frasier called?
Cafe Nervosa
What was the title of Dolly Parton’s 1967 debut studio album? It is the same as the title of a well-known musical except with the word “I’m” in the middle.
Hello I’m Dolly
Rishi Sunak wife first name
Akshata
Boris Johnson first wife 1987-93
Allegra Mostyn-Owen
Boris Johnson second wife 1993-2020
Marina Wheeler
Chapters within whose 2010s cookbook included Salad Eating Bitches, Pasta Like a Rasta, rapper died 2022
Coolio
Until burned by paris commune in 1871, which palace on the right bank of the Seine acted as usual Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henri IV to Napoleon III?
Tuileries Palace
Whose autobiography was “I’m a believer”, now past surviving monkee?
Mickey Dolenz
Which Monkee died in 2021 leaving only Micky Dolenz as only surviving member of The Monkees?
Michael Nesmith
Crustaceans named after a shallow Sandy bay inside of namesake spit on south shore of the straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State
Dungeness Crabs
Battle fought on July 30 1864 in Virginia as part of siege of Petersburg graphically portrayed in opening scenes of 2003 film Cold Mountain
Battle of the Crater
Who plays Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Kate Capshaw
John D Rockefeller died this decade, also 147,365 people at Hampden Park for cup final between Celtic and Aberdeen remains record for European football club match.
1930s (1937 final)
Two main characters in Of Mice and Men
Lennie Small and George Milton
Which northern Irish snooker player was left red faced when his opponent and former partner Reanne Evans refused his offer of a handshake before 2021 British Open match?
Mark Allen
Which man said good night to Jim Bob and Mary Ellen when he won the 2001 BDO Darts Championship?
John “Boy” Walton
Which abba song of 1979 begins “half past twelve, and I’m watching the late show in my flat all alone, now I hate to spend the evening on my own”?
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Yom Kippur, day of atonement? Can fall in which two different months of Gregorian calendar?
September/October
What is shared name of shipping forecast area and a disputed uninhabited islet which lies 187 miles west of Scotland and 263 miles north west of Ireland
Rockall
In world of Shakespeare who is eponymous king of Britain who is angered by his daughter imogen secretly marrying Posthumus?
Cymbeline
Named one of 100 Greatest Britons in a bbc poll, which author, born 1880 wrote controversial 1918 sex manual Married Love, she also founded first birth control clinic in Britain
Marie Stopes
What was name of Damien Hirst art installation consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding on. rotting cows head
A thousand years
Which man lived early 10th century was ancestor of Will Conq and vikings and became first ruler of Normandy?
Rollo
Which man with surname of Spanish for magpie was partner of French photographer Dora Maar between 1935-43
Pablo Picasso
Whcih early 20th century method for teaching actors cultivates act of experiencing and named after Russian?
Stanislavsky’s System
Pakistani American actor Eternals, the big sick, Silicon Valley, Welcome to Chippendales as Steve Banerjee
Kumail Nanjiani
Only two marriages of reigning queens, first was Queen Mary I, when and where?
1554, Winchester Cathedral
Only two marriages of reigning queens, second was Victoria I, when and where?
1840, St James’s Palace
Who killed Baldr with mistletoe arrow?
Hod
Medea killed her brother of what name
Absyrtus
Who killed Osiris because Osiris father Anubis with Nephthys
Seth
Who killed who Romulus and Remus
Romulus killed Remus
First recorded assassination by firearm happened in Scotland in January 1570. Who was killed and outside what palace which also birthplace of Mary queen of scots?
James Stewart, Earl of Moray - killed at Linlithgow Palace
Which battle of 1346 took place a mile outside Durham resulting in victory for England and capture of Scottish king David II?
Battle of Neville’s Cross
Which Scottish gangster active in glasgow during 1950s said Krays could kiss his ass. His son Fatboy was shot three times outside family home.
Arthur Thompson
Which musician and lyricist of duo The Dresden Dolls has been married to Neil Gaiman since 2011
Amanda Palmer
Which Scottish antique expert with initials NRS is daughter of Scottish artist Philip and has appeared in bunch of antiques shows?
Natasha Raskin Sharp
Who presents Antiques Adventures since 2021 on Channel 5
Susan Calman
What show first shown on bbc 2 in 2010 narrated by Tim Wonnacott, travelling around antique experts competing against each other?-‘
Antiques Road Trip
Which tv show has been on since 1979 after a 1977 documentary and first presenters Bruce Parker, Angela Rippon and Arthur Negus?
Antiques Roadshow
Which tv show broadcast since 2002 and presented by Paul Martin
Flog It! Is presented by which tv presenter
Which tv show aired on 2000 on bbc 1 presented by tv host known for it who left 2004 and by Tim Wonnacott from 2003-16
Bargain Hunt
Who presented Bargain Hunt 2003-16 and previously a director of Sothebys? Narrator of Antiques Road Trip since began in 2010?
Tim Wonnacott
Which fellow actor joined outlander Co star Sam Heughan to co write Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other?
Graham McTavish
What Scottish meat pastry originates from Forfar looks similar to pastry but no potato?
Bridie
President of Kenya since 2022 Sept
William Ruto
With Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista, and Turlington she was one of the original group to be regarded as “The Big Five” supermodels of the 1990s. Which German model and actress who appeared in the music video “Freedom! ‘90” by George Michael, and was associated with the photographers Herb Ritts and Peter Lindbergh, died of breast cancer in January 2023?:
Tatjana PATITZ
Who hosted Golden Globes 2023
Jerrod Carmichael
Russian American animator who created dexters lab, samurai Jack, Star Wars clone wars, and directed first three Hotel Transylvania films.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Cliff Richard two Eurovision appearances songs
1968: Congratulations
1973: Power To All Our Friends
The Shadows represented UK at Eurovision when and what song?
1975: Let Me Be the One
Came second to Dutch group Teach-In singing “Ding-a-Dong”
French ye-ye singer who won Eurovision Song Contest 1965 for Luxembourg
France Gall
France Gall sang which song written by Serge Gainsbourg when winning eurovision for Luxembourg in 1965?
Poupee de cire, poupee de son
Who was third Childrens Laureate 2003: 1st Quentin Blake, 2nd Anne Fine, 3rd…?
Michael Morpurgo
Smartphone by Nokia which combined mobile and handheld game system released 2003
N-Gage
How many stars and colour on Papua New Guinea flag
Five white stars
How many stars and colour on Burundi Flag?
Three Red flags
Colour and number stars on syria flag
Two green flags
Number and colour of stars on Tuvalu flag?
Nine yellow stars
What colour star on Senegal flag
Green
Colour star on Myanmar flag
White
How many stars and colour on Grenada flag
Seven yellow stars
How many stars on St Kitts and Nevis flag?
Two white stars
Number of stars and colour on brazil flag
27 white stars
Number and colour of stars on Honduras flag?
Five blue stars
Revolution Baltic states 1988-1991
Singing Revolution
1986 Revolution in Philippines
People Power
1908 Revolution in Ottoman Empire
Young Turk
1963 Revolution in Iran
White Revolution
1952 Lebanon Revolution Name
Rosewater
1873 Revolution in Spain
Petroleum
1810 Revolution in Rio De La Plata
May Revolution
First untethered space flight, 1984
Bruce McCandless II
1981: first space shuttle orbiter
Columbia
1968: first person to go into space three times
Wally Schirra
First commercial astronaut, 2004
Mike Melvill
2001, first space tourist
Dennis Tito
1971: first space station
Salyut 1
2022 winner of Nobel Literature
Annie Ernaux
Tanzanian born Nobel Literature 2021 winner
Abdulrazak Gurnah
2022 winner of britains got talent
Axel Blake
San Pellegrino’s Best Restaurant in the World of 2022
Geranium restaurant in Copenhagen
Name of ghost writer of Prince Harry’s autobiography?
J R Moehringer
2021 coming of age film directed by George coooney based on 2005 memoir of JR Moehringer
The Tender Bar
JR Moehringer has ghost written autobiographies for Andre Agassi, Phil Knight and Harry, all?
Open
Shoe Dog
Spare
Reaching number 16 in 2003, what is the only UK chart hit for Lisa Marie Presley?:
LIGHTS OUT
Containing body part, the accessory fruit of the various species of rose plant
Rose Hip
German named bath in which a person sits in water up to the hips
Sitzbath / Hip Bath
1953-1965 tv show Rag, Tag and Bobtail, what animals were they?
Rag: Hedgehog
Tag: Mouse
Bobtail: Rabbit
Latin Christian method of excommunication by anathema, imposed on a person who had committed an exceptionally grievous sin known by three items?
Bell, book and candle
Three daughters of St Sophia share names with three theological virtues
Faith, Hope and Charity
Japanese name for nonograms, shade or colour squares in as per instructions
Hanjie
Logic puzzle by Nikoli where you split a square into rectangles of size dictated by number given in square
Shikaku
Known as Takegaki in Japan, English name of puzzle where you draw a single loop around numbers instructions
Slitherlink
Swedish name given to range of large plush toys, sold by ikea and named after big brown bear
Djungelskog
BCC is name given to type of atom arrangement found in nature - what stand for?
Body Centered Cubic
Name given to floral decoration, the male equivalent of corsage, put in button hole of lapel?
Boutonnière
Irish athlete Michelle Smith won three golds and a bronze at 1996 Olympics in which sport? Doping allegations never proved.
Swimming
2012 gold medal for Katie Taylor was Ireland’s first gold since Michelle Smith’s swimming three in 1996. What sport is Katie Taylor?
Boxing - lightweight
Highest mountain in Bhutan highest unclimbed mountain in world
Gangkhar Puensum
Which politician then leader of DUP resigned as first minister of Ni in 2021 giving it over to Givan
Arlene Foster
In epic of Gilgamesh what is name of wild man who is created to fight Gilgamesh but ultimately becomes companion?
Enkidu
Gilgamesh is king of where!
Uruk
What is the monster of the epic of Gilgamesh fought by king and enkidu?
Humbaba (and bull of heaven)
What online publishing platform primarily uses as outlet for journalists launched 2012 by Evan Williams envisaged as somewhere publish stuff longer than tweet?
Medium
Capital of Nova Scotia
Halifax
Three Maritime provinces of Canada
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
1996-2003 which British comedian presented satirical “comedy product” on channel 4
Mark thomas
The Peña Palace built in 19th century is situated in mountains above which Portuguese town
Sintra
Deodorant company sure known as what in USA and Canada? It is rexena in Japan, Shield in South Africa, sure in uk.
Degree
Major Murgatroyd, officer of dragoon guards, is central character of which G&S opera, also features poet Reginald bunthorne and chorus of maidens
Patience (or Bunthornes Bride)
The Italian side Benetton Rugby are based in which Italian city?
Treviso
The other Italian team to play in United Rugby Championship other than Benetton Treviso are which team playing in Emilia Romagna?
Zebre Parma
United Rugby Champjonship team based in Durban!
Durban Sharks
United Rugby Champjonship team based in Pretoria!
Bulls
United Rugby Champjonship team based in Johannesburg!
Lions
United Rugby Champjonship team based in cape Towns!
Stormers
What online publishing platform founded in 2017 by Chris best, jairaj sethi and hamish mckenzie is primarily used as means of publishing subscription newsletters?
Substack
Sequel to Space Jam in 2021 titled what
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Which American singer nominated in best new artist category at 2021 Grammys followed widespread acclaim for album Punisher? 2017: Strange in the Alps. 2021 EP Day After Tomorrow. 2022 EP: So Much Wine.
Phoebe Bridgers
The northern species of which dabbling duck is found throughout, makes known for brown heads, white necks and grey wings? Named for distinctive profusion tapering at back of body.
Pintail
Who is most recent American tennis player to win mens singles in French open (1999) and Australian (2003)
Andre Agassi
Since 2009 which British comedian has written and presented Radio 4 show title claims “In Town”, presents facts about town he is in.
Mark Steel’s In Town
Seven Anglo Saxon kingdoms collectively known as Heptarchy.
Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Kent, East Anglia, Essex and Sussex.
Mountain in Tibet is unclaimed as said to be sacred in four religions; Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bon.
Mount Kailash
In chemistry, HCP refers to crystalline structure exhibited by substances such as magnesium and titanium, what does this stand for?
Hexagonal Close Packed
From French word meaning to sweep, name given to hair colouring technique in which highlights are hand painted or swept onto the surface of random sections of hair.
Balayage
Wife of Socrates and mother of three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus?
Xanthippe
Which country skilled January 1 1995 to switch other side of the date line in 1994?
Kiribati
Topher Grace played Eric Forman in That 70s Show. Omar Epps played Eric Foreman in what tv medical drama?
House MD
Series of books by Andrea Beaty and adapted into tv by Netflix by Obama’s Higher Ground production company, pint sized female scientist with surname Twist has what first name?
Ada Twist
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, whcih British engineer became first woman to be awarded Hughes medal for her experimental investigations on the electric arc and also on sand ripples?
Hertha Ayrton
Openly lesbian couple in Peppa Pig are called what and daughrrr name too
Penny Polar (Bears)
Highest summit in Rocky Mountains found in state of Colorado?
Mount Elbert
Born in Malawi 1981, leader of Womens Equality Party since 2019?
Mandu Reid
2002 bbc jazz awards rising star award was won by which British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper? His debut albums conversations with the unseen was nominated for 2003 Mercury prize
Soweto Kinch
First black woman and former federal public defender to appear on Supreme Court from June 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson
In musical notation, most common F-clef still in use places the clef on the fourth line. By what more common name is this clef known as?
Bass Clef
Which bony fish females are larger than male? When mate he bites into skin releasing enzyme that fuses them together ?
Anglerfish
In 1985, which Jamaican reggae group won first ever Grammy award for best reggae album for their album Anthem?
Black Uhuru
In Washington DC what fresco is most famous work of Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi?
Apotheosis of Washington
Name of Claudia winkleman’s half sister? Big Suze in Peep Show and married lord Frederick windsor the son of Prince Michael of Kent
Sophie Winkleman
Whose 2003 autobiography was called “and why not” after catchphrase? Presented same film 1972 to 1998 - yet shows name changed every year.
Barry Norman - Film
Name of Emma Thompson husband, Louis Mountbatten on The Crown and 2021 strictly?
Greg Wise
The shortest verse of Bible is “Jesus Wept” which was in reference to who?
Death of Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus two sisters
Mary and Martha
What K is state ruled and run by least competent
Kakistocracy
Winston churchill reputation tarnished after involvement in what 1909 event? As Home Secretary Churchill prevented fire fighters entering a building potentially saving two people?
Siege of Sidney Street
The ranting fictitious journalist Jonathan Pie is creation of which English actor?
Tom Walker
Johnny Logan wrote whcih song whcih won 1992 eurovision by Linda Martin?
Why Me?
In 1982 who had number one with Oh Julie?
Shakin’ Stevens
Word meaning “vented” is a contralto extending her upper range and encompassing the coloratura soprano tessitura?
Sfogato
German word for method of classifying singers primarily opera according to range weight and colour of voices?
Fach
Type of operatic soprano voice fach often female character, term arrived in English from Provençal and means “conceited” or “coy”?
Soubrette
What diagonal road connects White House and the us Capitol building
Pennsylvania Avenue
Which person born nears Barnsley was first male celebrity to win strictly?:/4
Darren Gough
Who played commander William riker in The Next Generation
Jonathan Frakes
Who played Captain Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine
Avery Brooks
Who plays Captain Kathryn Janeway on Voyager
Kate Mulgrew
Who played Captain Jonathan Archer in Enterprise
Scott Bakula
2017- Present Star Trek subtitle starring Jason Isaacs as Captain Gabriel Lorca series 1, season 2 Captain Christoper pike by anson Mount, season 3 Captain Saru by Doug Jones and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) end of season 3?
Discovery
2020 animated show by Mike mcmahan spin off of Star Trek
Lower Decks
2021 Star Trek animated show focusing on teens who embark on an adventure upon an abandoned starfleet ship.
Prodigy
2022 Star Trek series depicting early days of enterprise with Anson Mount as Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, Rebecca romjin as Number One.
Strange New Worlds
Latin term for “again scrape”, manuscript page from whcih text has been scraped or washed off so page can be reused for another document
Palimpsest
Which is states ceded land to make washing dc
Maryland and Virginia
Which strictly come dancing professional from Grimsby win 16th series in 2018 and became partner of his partner
Kevin Clifton (and Stacey Dooley)
Which tv show stars Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott as title characters working in realty?
Property Brothers
Used by retroviruses (eg HIV) to replicate their genomes, which two word name denotes the enzyme that catalysed the transcription of viral rna into dna?
Reverse Transcriptase
Which country eurovision entrants include Guy Sebastian, Dami Im, Isaiah, Jessica Mauboy, Kate Miller-Heidke, Montaigne, Sheldon Riley?
Australia
Who plays rufus the main guide of bill and teds excellent adventure
George Carlin
What was most prominent tv role of state and screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes?
Ellie Ewing
First two editions of which video game series about a street gang was set in fictional city of Stillwater, Michigan?
Saints Row
Which dorset town south of Poole is said to have been the best preserved Saxon town walls in England?
Wareham
Turbot War of 1995 was bloodless fishing rights argument between which two country?
Canada and Spain
Which Mp for Croydon south who has acted as chief secretary to the treasury since September 2022?
Chris Philp
Which titular character acted in 1976 TV movie “the boy in the plastic bubble”?
John travilta
2010 who became youngest world champion F1
Sebastien Vettel
English actor Johnathan Morris was poet Adrian Boswell in which sitcom 1986-91
Bread
In human fertilisation, what name given to cell is created when released female gamete (ovum) and male gamete (haploid sperm cell) combine?
Zygote
1907 which group had uk number one for one week “Start!”
The Jam
Named after Ancient Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord, term refers to an argument that aims to successfully dispute another argument rather than searching for truth? Arguing for sake of conflict as opposed to resolving.
Eristic
Female Dancer born miami 1983 best known for So You Think You Can Dance, on strictly com dancing, married to Slovenian Aljaz Skorjanec, June 2021 announced host strictly come dancing it takes two with rylan Clark?
Janette Manrara
Uk scored nil points at eurovision twice, which two did it?
Gemini and James Newman
What is name of space within a cell that is empty of cytoplasm lined with a membrane and filled with fluid?
Vacuole
From Aramaic for “field of blood” name for place in Jerusalem associated with Judas iscariot where he committed suicide.
Akeldama
1988 which group has number one for one week with “perfect”
Fairground Attraction
An external angle of a wall or building, masonry blocks at corner of a wall: which Q?
Quoin
Britain last hosted Eurovision Song Contest in 1998, which two hosts?
Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson
Kearns-Sayre syndrome and MELAS are genetic diseases occuring in which organelles which contain their own DNAgenome discrete from that found in nucleus?
Mitochondria
Which royal poet musician is described as “sweetest Psalmist of them all” in book of Samuel? Often thought of main writer of biblical book of Psalms.
David
What T is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one?
Trochee
What I is a metrical foot consisting of a unstressed syllable followed by an stressed one?
Iamb
A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two un accented syllables like poetry and basketball, are both what type of words?
Dactylic
What is a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable eg unabridged, engineer?
Anapaest
A foot consisting of two stressed syllables
Spondee
Following on from Gallipoli disaster, Asquith agreed coalition with Bonar Law on condition churchill sacked from what post?
First Lord of the Admiralty
In 1987 which duo had number one song for a week with “Respectable”?
Mel and Kim
1975 #1 song Tears on My Pillow by who?
Johnny Nash
Chat GPT, what does GPT stand for?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer
Which law or principle of chemistry states that if a dynamic equilibrium is disturbed by changing the conditions, the position of equilibrium shifts to counteract the change to reestablish an equilibrium? Namesake of who discovered.
Le Chatelier’s Principle
Which Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer won 8 world championship titles in the 500cc class with victories in seven consecutive years between 1966-72?
Giacomo Agostini
In the Beano comics what is name of characters nicknamed “the softy” who is main antagonist of Dennis the Menace?
Walter the Softy
Which pianist had two #1 singles in 1950s with “let’s have another party” and “the poor people of Paris” and remains only female instrumentalist to top the UK Charts?
Winnifred Atwell
Bounded by Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, name of the large peninsula that forms the northernmost part of Australian state of Queensland?
Cape York Peninsula
Which actor played role of captain peacock in are you being served? He later played role of Herbert truelove in last of the summer wine
Frank Thornton
Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as ufo chasing siblings in which 2022 Jordan Peele film?
Nope
Mahler Symphony of a Thousand number?
8
Capital of Para state in Brazil
Belem
Name and regnal number of sultan who led Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 bringing end to Byzantine empire and claiming title of Caesar?
Mehmed II (the Conqueror)
Tim Ferriss 2007 self help book, how many hours does ideal work week have!
Four
Which town in Kent gives name to predominately white/grey species of tern that has black cap and long black bill with yellow tip?
Sandwich Tern
Winner of Womens singles at Wimbledon in 1887 at age of 15, which English tennis player also an archer and hockey player went on to be first woman to win five singles titles at Wimbledon?
Lottie Dod
Which actor played role of Mr Lucas in sitcoms Are You Being Served? He later played role of Toby Mulberry Smith in Last of the Summer Wine.
Trevor Bannister
Which pianist and composer had two uk number one singles in 1950s with the instrumentals “side saddle” and “roulette”?
Russ Conway (or Trevor Stanford)
Which Egyptian god of sky and kingship, son of Isis and Osiris, is often depicted with head of falcon?
Horus
In the beano what is name of Gnasher’s son?
Gnipper
Pablo Picasso five nude prostitutes in which important painting of 1907
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
The Eyring equation was derived from which equation that models how reaction rates are affected by temperature and contains the pre exponential factor A?
Arrhenius Equation
Which British GP motorcycle racer won four world championships in 500cc class achieving the feat in four consecutive years between 1962-65
Mike Hailwood
First play by Eugene Ionesco, this title singer does not appear and only mentioned as non-sequitur during dinner party?
The Bald Soprano
What town in Kent give its name to a small dark long tailed species of warbler that has a reddish breast and red eye rings?;
Dartford
Which American tennis player won 19 grand slams singles titles during her career, including 8 Wimbledon victories between 1927-38?
Helen Wills Moody
According to title of Robert Greene’s 1998 self help book how many laws of powers are there!
48
It’s name meaning stronghold or castle what is capital city of the Brazilian state of Ceara?
Fortaleza
The first sultan with which regnal name led the Ottoman conquest of Mameluke Emppire in 1516-17 becoming first Ottoman ruler to legitimately style themselves Caliph?
Selim I
Meaning ground meat? What Japanese name is given fish paste used to make crab sticks and other imitation seafood products?
Surimi
Who defeated Ren Cancan and Mary Kom en route to winning a historic gold at the 2012 summer Olympics? Also won 2016 Olympics gold.
Nicola Adams
What is the name of the mesa and UNEsco world heritage site in present day Sudan established by conquering Egyptians around 1450BC to denote the southern limit of their empire, that contains temples to gods Mut and Amun?
Jebel Barkal
Which rock band won 1996 Brit award for international group? This win came a decade after the release of their first us #1 You Give Love a Bad Name?
Bon Jovi
What is reindeer better known as in North America( where it’s common name comes from a French Canadian misinterpretation of a Mi’kmaq word meaning snow shoveler?
Caribou
Currently located in Galleria Borghese “Apollo and Daphne” is a 17th century work created by which baroque Italian sculptor?
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has circumvented a 20 year ban on moviemaking by releasing works recorded covertly, including 2011 doc about his life under house arrest, smuggled to the Cannes festival on flash drive titled This is not a ….
Film
Brentford home stadium until 2020
Griffin Park
Brentford stadium since 2020
Gtech Community Stadium
If travelling due West from Lands End, across Atlantic Ocean, in a straight line, which country would be first landfall?,-
Canada
The town of Gimli, Manitoba, is home to largest population of which national descent, having been settled by early climate refugees after Mount Askja erupted in 1875?
Iceland
Achieving career high ranking of #2 in April 2022 who is currently the highest ranked womens tennis player from Spain? Her best grand slam result was 2021 French open quarter finals.
Paula Badosa (Gibert)
Selmasongs is title of soundtrack to which 2000 Lars von Trier movie? It was mostly written by Bjork who received award nominations for both work on soundtrack and acting in film?
Dancer in the Dark
What two word name is given to technique of using satellite based or aircraft-based technologies to detect info about surface of the Earth or other planets without making physical contact? The Landsat imaging network belongs to this general field.
Remote Sensing
What is three word name of three separate massive trees planting projects across Africa China and India aimed to mitigate climate change desertification and air pollution?
Great Green Wall
“dreamers” was song on official soundtrack of 2022 World Cup which member of BTS performed it at opening ceremony with Fahad Al Kubaisi, a famous singer from Qatar?
Jungkook
All the kings of England from House of Lancaster had which regnal name? Final Lancaster king of this name died aged 49 in the Tower of London.
Henry (Henry VI died in tower aged 49)
Born in Harrogate and previously representing team gb in bobsleigh, Axel Brown piloted with caribbean country’s bobsleigh at 2022 Winter Olympics? Ato Boldon is former athlete from this country.
Trinidad and Tobago
The anti deforestation organisation known as the Green Belt Movement was founded 1977 by which Kenyan activist the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize?
Wangari Maathai
On 1 January 2024, the lev will be replaced by euro as which country’s official currency? This nation directly south of Romania.
Bulgaria
Which Czech model a former Victoria’s Secret Angel is still the youngest person to have graced the big four vogue covers (America, Britain, France, Italia)? She achieved this in 2001 the same year Kaia Gerber was born.
Karolina Kurkova
Which oldest member of BTS began his mandatory military service in December 2022 leading to the groups temporary separation?
Jin
Name of which common North American pest derived from a Powhatan term meaning “animal that scratches with its hands”?
Raccoon
In 2019, the autonomous region of Bougainville voted 98% in favour of independence from which country in Oceania? This country itself became independent from Australia since 1975.
Papua New Guinea
Sudanese unesco world heritage site of Jebel Barkal is also the location of a number of pyramids part of a royal cemetery used by which kingdom starting in the 3rd century BCE?
Kingdom of Kush (Meroe)
The red M&M is voiced by who? Also voice of Fry in futurama.
Billy West
Which country became and remains the smallest country to have won eurovision when Severine won in 1971? This country has not appeared at Eurovision since 2006.
Monaco
Which explorer discovered Vinland in 11th century, bringing wheat timber and grapes to Greenland in return?
Leif Erikson
2022 Richard Osman married who, first appeared in show House of Games in 2021?
Ingrid Oliver
Psyche revived by cupids kiss is an 18th century work created by which neoclassical Italian sculptor?
Antonio Canova
If travel south from lands end on way to African continent, which country you first arrive?
Morocco
In 2015, Jafar Panahi won the Golden Bear at the Berlin festival for which movie, named for the vehicle in which it was filmed while travelling around Tehran?
Taxi
In January 2023 california representative Katie Porter spotted reading a self help book “the subtle art of not…”
Giving a fuck
What regime was overthrown in 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal?
Estado Novo
After a 17 year break from movies, Bjork appeared in which Robert eggers film released in 2022?
The Northman
Achieving a career high ranking of #2 in June 2022, who currently highest rank Womens tennis player from Estonia? Her best grand slam result is 2021 Australian open quarter finals.-‘
Annett Kontaveit
Also known as 3D laser scanning, which method of bouncing a laser beam off a surface and measuring its reflection time is often used in remote sensing? It’s other applications include obstacle detection for driverless cars.
LIDAR (light detection and ranging)
Which South Korean singer songwriter is only female K-Pop artist to be on Rolling Stones latest 200 greatest singers all time?
IU
Lead guitarist and founding member of Dr Feelgood. Died November 2022
Wilko Johnson
Which recently deceased actor known as America’s little brother and starred as Nicholas Bradford on tv show eight is enough
Adam Rich
What title of 2022 sci fi horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone? The plot centres around an AI doll that turns evil.
M3GAN
Gas Mark 5 is how many degrees Celsius?
190 degrees Celsius is equal to what gas mark?
200 degrees Celsius is equal to how many gas mark?
Gas Mark 6 is what degrees Celsius?
170 degrees Celsius equal to what gas mark?
Gas Mark 3 is what degrees Celsius?
Gas Mark 4 is equal to what degrees celsius?
180 degrees celsius is what gas mark?
Gas Mark 7 is equal to what degrees Celsius?
220 degrees Celsius equal to what gas mark?
In June 2022, Richard Foord won by-election for lib dems, after resignation of Neil Parish after porno Parliament. What constituency with two towns in name?
Tiverton and Honiton
Early TV role for Richard Wilson saw him play Jeremy Parsons QC in which drama series? Set in fictional town of Fulchester, show typically depicted progress of fictional legal cases heard in front of jury composed of real members of public.
Crown Court
Obadele Thompson is only summer Olympic medalist of which country? Bronze in 100m at 2000 Olympics.
Barbados
Which Kazakh cyclist is the only man to win two Olympic road race medals, silver in Sydney and gold at London?
Alexander Vinokourov
Which manufacturing group was founded in 1935 by a merger of the aircraft company that made the Hurricane, and engine building company that made the Sapphire turbojet engine?
Hawker-Siddeley
Fat Duck one of four restaurants to win Worlds Best Restaurant only once, another is which restaurant in Menton, France, run by Argentine chef Mauro Colagreco, won only time in 2019?
Mirazur
Which dynasty ruled Vietnam from 1802-1884, and thereafter as nominal heads of state of the French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin?
Nguyen
Capital of Boavista, what is northernmost state of Brazil? Contains and shares name with a mountain located at tripoint with Venezuela and Guyana.
Roraima
Which Canadian brand was founded by Chip Wilson in British Columbia in 1998 to supply yoga and related accessories?
Lulu Lemon
Carolyn Bertozzi introduced strain to her reaction by trapping the alkyne in a ring containing how many carbon atoms? Also the number of electrons in the valence shell of a noble gas atom, and solid sulfur mainly exists in rings containing this many atoms.
Eight
With capital at Kota Kinabalu, what is the northernmost state of Malaysia? 17 years before independence, it was known as the crown colony of north Borneo.
Sabah
Which Copenhagen restaurant, located in the Parken Stadium, won the worlds best restaurant title for first time in 2022? Noma, in same city, has won five times.
Geranium
Which renaissance composer collaborated with his teacher on the Cantiones Sacrae series of motets and wrote the keyboard collection My Lady Nevell’s Book? He and his teacher were 21 year monopoly on printing music by Elizabeth I.
William Byrd
Which Italian cyclist won the mens road race at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics? He tragically died on a stage of the Tour de France in 1995.
Fabio Casartelli
Which African country has won only one medal at summer Olympics doing so in 2004? Zersenay Tadese won bronze in 10000m.
Eritrea
Which DA Pennebaker film follows Bob Dylan on 1965 tour of England, and depicts moment when heckler called Dylan “Judas”?
Don’t Look Back
Which company controversially acquired by Citigroup in 2011 and broken up following year? Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hounsfield developed first CT machine while working at this company lab in Hayes. It’s not known for scientific work though.3
EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries)
Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson starred alongside Richard Wilson in which 1987 John Byrne comedy about band enduring a chaotic anniversary tour?
Tutti Frutti
Written as a response to the approach of the WW2, 1939 book length poem Autumn Journal is a work by which Northern Irish born poet? Other works for which he is known include Snow and Letters from Iceland, latter a collab with WH Auden.
Louis MacNeice
Which 1929 silent doc by Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov depicts urban life of that era in Moscow, Kyiv and Odessa.
Man with a Movie Camera
One time winner of Worlds Best Restaurant title is which New York restaurant owned by the Swiss chef Daniel Humm? Named after its address.
Eleven Madison Park
Founded by Sharif ibn Ali, which dynasty replaced the Saadi Dynasty in Morocco in 17th century and is still ruling dynasty of that country?
Alaouite
Which Chinese fast fashion retailed founded Nanjing in 2008 by Chris Xu? This business use of TikTok and promotion by social media influencers helped it become the worlds largest online only fashion retailer in 2020.
Shein
Which B vitamin is essential for healthy hair and nail growth?
B7 Biotin
Before becoming actor Richard Wilson worked in hospital, helped when playing Dr Thorpe in which sitcom 1979-1982 also starring James Bolam and Peter Bowles?
Only When I Laugh
Which African country has won only two medals at summer Olympics? Both silver and 1980 Moscow, 3000m steeplechase Filbert Bayi and Suleiman Nyambui in 5000m.
Tanzania
California Love song taken from which 1996 album by Tupac, 2017 biopic starring Demetrius Shipp Jr had same name.
All Eyez On Me
Which man, earlier PM of Portugal, served as President of European Commission from 2004-09?
Jose Manuel BARROSO
Dwarf planet in 2004, named after Hawaiian goddess of fertility, two moons and first ring system for TNO
Haumea
Greek letter between Eta and Iota
Theta
In MLB, teams which train in Florida in spring ahead of main season form a league named after which citrus tree?
Grapefruit
C means two angles equal 90
S means two angles equal 180
Complementary
Supplementary
Dianne Wiest won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as alcoholic faded actress Helen Sinclair in which Woody Allen film?
Bullets Over Broadway
Barefoot Contessa tv show features which celebrity chef?
Ina Garten
Which French speaking city, lies on the Rhone, second most populous city of Switzerland?
Geneva
What part of face links a small arched window that projects into the roof to allow light into an upper story?3
Eyebrow Window
Podcast by Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell
The rest is politics
Scotland’s oldest daily newspaper based in Aberdeen also britains best selling regional paper?
The Press and Journal
Number links time of Olympic field hockey match and distance in feet from foul line to the kingpin in ten pin bowling?
60
Physics equation I = V / R, what letters stand for
I Electric Current
V Voltage
R Resistance
Name of battle fought in modern day Iraq 750 which signalled end of Umayyad Dynasty and rise of Abbasids?
Battle of the Great Zab River
Mount Paget 2935m is highest peak in which south Atlantic island? Discounting Antarctica, highest point in any British territory.
South Georgia
Gymnast Larisa Latynina, tennis player Andrei Medvedev and pole vaulter Sergey Bubka all born in which former soviet republic?
Ukraine
Opera Armide is among works of which composer born Florence 1632, collabed with Moliere and worked under Louis XIV
Jean Baptiste Lully
Archbishop Canterbury during 1945-61, EII’s wedding and first holder since reformation to meet reigning pope?
Geoffrey Fisher
In Germany and spain cats said to have how many lives compared to nine in uk
Seven
Original voiceover of Gogglebox and Denise Best on Royale Family actress? Also Mrs Merton.
Caroline Aherne
Tv show The Pioneer Woman stars which celebrity chef from her Oklahoma ranch?
Ree Drummond
Whcih German speaking city which lies on Rhine is third most populous city in Switzerland
Basel
What word links region of human body and a roof in which all sides slope down to the wall such that no vertical faces?
Hip
Which Jamaican duo has 1971 #1 uk with “Double Barrel”?
Dave and Ansell Collins
Mens golf who last Scotsman to win open championship in Scotland? 1999 victory at Carnoustie remains only major title.
Paul Lawrie
Gustavo Petro assuming office e in 2022 current President of which South American nation? Ivan Duque other President previous in country?
Colombia
In MLB, teams which train in Arizona in the spring ahead of the main season form a league named after which plant?
Cactus
Which man, twice PM of Italy, served as President of European Commission 1999-2004?
Romano Prodi
Whcih dwarf plant in 2005 named after creator of humanity and fertility in Rapa Nui mythology?
Makemake
Greek alphabet letter appears between upsilon and chi?
Phi
Who Arch of cant 1980-91, presiding over Charles III first wedding and first visit to uk by reigning pope?
Robert Runcie
In Turkey and Arabic worlds, cats said to have how many lives compared to nine in uk?
Six
In Turkey and Arabic worlds, cats said to have how many lives compared to nine in uk?
Six
In Turkey and Arabic worlds, cats said to have how many lives compared to nine in uk?
Six
At 2062 metres, Queen Mary’s Peak is highest peak on which south Atlantic island? Highest point of any British territory with a permanent population.
Tristan de Cunha
Gymnasts Olga Korbut, Vitaly Scherbo and tennis player Victoria Azarenka all born in which former soviet republic?
Belarus
Opera Medee is among works of which composer born in Florence 1760 and settled in France, friend of Chopin, they are buried next to each other in Pere Lechaise?
Luigi Cherubini
In September 2022 who became first female Deptuy PM? Previous and succeeded by Raab.
Therese Coffey
Which model is in Le violin d’Ingres most expensive photo in 2022 by Man Ray?
Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin)
Capital of Ashanti Empirr, second largest in present day Ghana
Kumasi
Dundee newspaper founded in 1801 and Britain’s second best selling regional newspaper?
The Courier
Name of podcast by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland?
The rest is history
Name of podcast by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland?
The rest is history
Number links duration of senior inter county hurling match and distance in metres from archer to target in Olympic archery?
70
Physics Q = I x t stand for
Q electric charge
I current
T time
Battle fought in modern day Serbia in 1697 Austria defeated ottomans to become preeminent power in central Europe
Battle of Zenta
Name of German philosopher, psychologist and critic of fascism, books: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), Negative Dialects (1966)
Theodor W Adorno
Written in Gurmukhi script and in Punjabi language, the Mul Mantar is first verse of which religious scripture?
The Guru Granth Sahib
In logic, what three word Latin phrase, also called an apagogical argument, refers to a form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the e opposite scenario would lead to ridiculousness and contradiction?
Reductio ad absurdum
Mythical mother of Romulus and Remus?
Rhea Silvia
After Eddy Merckx in 1974 and Stephen Roche in 1987, which Dutch cyclist in 2022 became third person in history to win the so called “triple crown of cycling” by winning the Tour de France Femmes, Giro Donne, and UCI World Championship?
Annemiek van Vleuten
Figure skating jump named after Austrian skater who performed it in 1913, toepick assisted jump with an entrance from back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of opposite foot.
Lutz Jump
Figure skating oldest and most difficult jump named after Norwegian with surname Paulsen, only basic jump in competition with forward take off?
Axel Jump
In 2022, American Ilia Maliniri was first skater to successfully complete which jump in competition?
Quadruple Axel first done in competition by which American figure skater?
Quadruple Axel first done in competition by which American figure skater?
Ilia Maliniri
First to do single axel, double axel, triple axel and quadruple axel.
Axel Paulsen
Dick Button
Vern Taylor
Ilia Malinin
An edge jump in figure skating named after Danish born Swedish figure skater with first name Ulrich in 1909?
Salchow
What figure skating element can be Upright (Layback/Biellmann), Sit or Camel?
Spin
Sharing name with mathematician, what is name for edge jump in figure skating called the half loop jump in ISU regs before 2018-19 season. In Europe, known as Thoren jump after inventor Swedish skater.
Euler Jump
Figure skating move where squatting position with thighs held parallel to ice and torso kept upright. Named after Russian ice dancer who did it in 1988 Olympics with partner Andrei Bukin.
Besti Squat
Figure skating turn with Native American turn in name now called S turn in Canada because of the shape it makes. They are two foot equivalents of rockers and counters.
Choctaw Turn
Figure skating turn with Native American term in title, in Canada called a C turn due to shape. These are two foot equivalents of three turns and brackets.
Mohawk Turn
Known as the Quad King which figure skater first name in history to perform five types of quadruple jumps in one competition when performs toe loop, Salchow, loop, flip and Lutz in Milan in 2018? Won Beijing 2022 singles Gold and Silver Gold.
Nathan Chen
Similar to paintball, goal of whcih team game to eliminate opposing team by tagging them out of game with spherical plastic projectiles from weapons and guns?
Airsoft
Although he won a gold medal at Sydney Olympics, American Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner best known for retiring which athlete in same final?
Aleksandr Karelin
Kazakhstani reigning female champion at Wimbledon after 2022 victory?3@3’a
Elena Rybakina
Which food name comes from Tupi for “nut that produces itself”? Anacardium Occidentale
Cashew
Euterpe Oleracea is a species of which tree and gives us açai berries (name comes from fruit that gives us water in Tupi)?
Palm (also gives us Hearts of Palm)
Genus dasyprocta, Rodent native to middle and South America, similar to Guinea pigs.
Agouti
Avocado is a tree in which tree family?
Laurel
From nahuatl for “two stalks” after god who transformed into the animal. Ambystoma mexicanum.
Axolotl
Banisteriopsis Caapi, normal name comes from Quechua for spirit vine sue to psychoactive drink.
Ayahuasca
Manihot Esculenta, name from Taino or Tupi or Guarani as several names. Main one comes from Portuguese.
Cassava, Manioc, Yuca
Salvia Hispanica or salvia columbariae, name comes from Nahuatl for “oily”
Chia
Rodent with name from Ottawa language for Red Squirrel literally those who descend headfirst.
Chipmunk
Alternatively name stinkbird, Ophisthocomus _____, species of tropical bird found in swamps and mangrovesbofnAmazon and have chicks that have claws on two of their wing digits?
Hoatzin
Jalapeño name comes from “from Xalapa” whcih is the capital of which Mexican state?
Veracruz
Only member of genus Photos and also known as honey bear, name from Algonquian for wolverine.
Kinkajou
Leopardus Wiedii names from guarani for “cat” via Portuguese found in central and South American in forest.
Margay
Leopardus Pardalis medium sized spotted wild cat south western USA, Mexico, central and South America.9,3
Ocelot
Alces alces with name meaning “he strips off” from Algonquian
Moose
Largest order of marsupials in Western Hemisphere, didelphimorphia order, with name from Powhatan for white animal.
Opossum
Lophophora Williamsii, name from Nahuatl for caterpillar cocoon or to glisten. Native American hallucigenic.
Peyote
Flowering plant in the amaranth family “chenopodium”, from Quechuan word, popular edible seed.
Quinoa
Charles VI the Mad of France (1390-1422) was father of which two English queens?
Isabella of France (Richard II)
Catherine of Valois (Henry V)
El Caminos in the West was first single from whcih American indie band 2003 album Sumday? 2000 album The Sophtware Slump.
Grandaddy
Mountain and ski resort of Vitosha (ski resort Aleko) overlooks which European capital which is linked by a gondola lift?
Sofia
Sometimes called Mathdoku or Calcudoku, which Japanese logic puzzle requires each cage to be filled with numbers that produce a target number when combined with a particular math operation? Unlike Kakuro numbers can be repeated in cage as long as not in same row or column.
KenKen
Which Japanese logic puzzle is played 16x16 grid of black and white cells is completed by inserting digits 1-9 in white cells so they add up to associated numbers clue?
Kakuro
Which ghost village near Lulworth, Doreset, evacuated during the WW2 when war office requisitioned the heathland surrounding the purbeck hills?
Tyneham
First coined by Gary Larson in 1982 in comic strip Far Side, what name has since been adopted to describe the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of dinosaurs like the Stegosaurus?
Thagomizer
Mountain and ski resort of Tochal lies in Alborz range is linked by ski lift to which Asian capital city by gondola lift?
Tehran
Robert Fyfe played character of Howard, womanising, serial marriage cheat in 230 episodes of which long running British sitcom set in Yorkshire?
Last of the Summer Wine
Romeo was a 1977 hit for which British band who shared name with an American rock band who had a 1992 hit with “To Be With You”?
Mr Big
Magic Fly was a 1977 hit for which French band who shared name with a britpop band who had 1996 hits with “female of the species” and “neighbourhood”?
Space
2022 stop motion film directed by Henry Selick written by him and Jordan Peele. Peele and Keegan-Michael Key star as titular characters.
Wendell & Wild
Which former captain of Pakistan cricket team became first triple-centurion in a day/night test match when he amassed a score of 302 against the West Indies in 2016?
Azhar Ali
Serving with General Patton in WW2 campaigns in North Africa and Sicily which five states us army general was chosen by general Eisenhower as the field commander of the American forces for the 1944 Normandy landings?
Omar Bradley
Which author contributed the open mind to the 2022 Agatha Christie project? In 2017 she won Womens prize for The Power.
Naomi Alderman
1943 novel written by Betty smith
A tree grows in brooklyn
Israeli American fantasy author known for young adult Grishaverse novels including Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology and King of Scars duology. Debut Ninth House.
Leigh Bardugo
Which British author wrote The Paris Apartment and The Guest List?
Lucy Foley
British comedian and author who wrote “A Thousand Ships” retells from mythology of Trojan war from perspective of women involved. Fourth novel Stone Blind retelling myth of Medusa was 2022.
Natalie Haynes
Who wrote the Languedoc trilogy, Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel, British novelist and broadcaster?
Kate Mosse
Born Louise Emma Joseph, British novelist wrote Gangland Girl series, DI Rio Wray Thriller, Flesh and Blood series, Big Mo Crime series.
Dreda Say Mitchell
Trained by Cristobal Balenziaga and Antonio Del castillo, which Dominican fashion designer (1932-2014) had boutiques in Harrods of London and Madison Avenue in New York?
Oscar de la Renta
Which word from Sanskrit for “descent” has come to represent the material appearance or incarnation of deity on earth in Hinduism?
Avatar
British tv drama 1985 one series, policeman Ronald craven played by Bob peck unravel truth behind murder of daughter Emma played by Joanne Whalley.
Edge of Darkness
Val Kilmer married to which British actresss 1988-96 star of Edge of Darkness, had son Jack?
Joanne Whalley
Which element 18 on table has name form Greek for lazy or inactive
Argon
The “Continental GT” is a grand tourer by which British luxury car maker?
Bentley
Award given to man of the match in rugby leagues annual challenge cup final is named after which New Zealand born player and administrator who was killed in road accident during ww2?
Lance Todd Trophy
Which tequila company founded by George Clooney in 2013?
Casamigos
Mirfak is brightest star in which constellation?
Perseus
In 2014 the rugby football league announced they would rename the man of steel award in honour of which great St. Helens full-back, who had died of stomach cancer the previous year?
Steve Prescott
Enif is the brightest star in which constellation?
Pegasus (also it’s Epsilon star)
City of tequila is located in which central western Mexican state?
Jalisco
Five good emperors in order
Nerva 96-98
Trajan 98-117
Hadrian 117-138
Antoninus Pius 138-161
Marcus Aurelius 161-180
Which burrowing rodent, that is native to parts of east Africa is the only mammalian thermoconformer?
Naked Mole-Rat
Often mocked for big bushy eyebrows which Labour politician was chancellor of exchequer during James Callaghan period as PM?
Denis Healey
April 20 - May 20 star sign
Taurus
May 21-June 21 star sign
Gemini
June 22-July 22 star sign
Cancer
August 23-September 22 star sign
Virgo
September 22-October 23 star sign
Libra
Star sign November 22 and December 21
Sagittarius
Star sign January 20 to February 18
Aquarius
Who played and character name of Hyacinth Bucket husband name?
Richard Bucket by Clive Swift
Eurostar new and old terminus uk
New: St Pancras
Old: Waterloo
Dougal French name in magic roundabout
Pollux
Dougal what dog in magic roundabout
Skye Terrier
Talking back in the box magic roundabout English and French
Zebedee / Zebulon
Snail in magic roundabout E/F
Brian / Ambroise
Cow in the magic roundabout E/F
Ermintrude / Azalee
Hippy rabbit in magic roundabout
Dylan / Flappy
Young girl name on the magic roundabout?
Florence
The elderly moustached operator of the the magic roundabout
Mr Rusty
Dogmatix dog of Obelix in Asterix comics is called what in French?
Idefix
Son of George v and Mary of Teck died in 1919
Prince John
Mother of Prince Philip name born 1885 Windsor Castle
Alice of Battenburg
Jargonelle type of what fruit?
Pear
Laxton’s Superb is what fruit?
Apple
Which British singer “eighth day”, “D-Days”, Will You?, started as Kate in 1980 film Breaking Glass?
Hazel O’Connor
Who played Olivia Hanan in Sex Education and Kathani “Kate” Sharma/Lady Bridgerton in Bridgerton?
Simone Ashley
Which genus of nectar producing Australian flowers are named after English botanist who was president of Royal Society for over 41 years, from 1778 to 1820?
Banksia
What name given to eucalyptus tree as ooze saps if bark broken?
Gum Tree
From which work did Beatles “Fool on the Hill” originally come?
Magical Mystery Tour
Elkie Brooks had a hit with “Fool if you think it’s over” in 1982, but who originally wrote and released?,
Chris Rea
First spymaster for Elizabeth I
Francis Walsingham
SIS alternative name for MI6? Stand for.
Secret Intelligence Service
The Hay Wain by Constable shows a scene by which English river?/
Stour
Who was quizmaster 1955-68 on original series of Take Your Pick on British tv?
Michael Miles
Which author created character of Dirk Pitt
Clive Cussler
Who together with cousin Ben Warriss, had a 32 year career as a comedy team, and were first such team to have their own programme on British tv?
Jimmy Jewel
Which villain was first named in 15th century ballad of Robin Hood and went on to be played in the adventures of Robin Hood by Basil Rathbone?
Guy Gisbourne
What is actual name of the car that shared its nickname with one used for common undistinguished cat?
Morris Minor (Moggie)
Hopwood Park motorway services on what?
M42
Michaelwood North on which motorway?
M5
What formed the basic diet of the BFG?
Snozzcumbers
Which city did James fly his giant peach to?
New York City
In which city is only one of the top ten buildings of England not to be found in London?
Manchester
1473-1481 Sistine Chapel built on the orders of which pope who gives its name?
Sixtus IV
Which batsman scored most Test runs in the 1970s?
Sunil Gavaskar
Which batsman scored most Test runs in the 1980s?
Allan Border
Which batsman scored most Test runs in the 1990s?
Alec Stewart
Which American poem by Ernest Thayer about sport is set in town of Mudville?
Casey at the Bat
What sort of museum was founded by broadcaster Gyles Brandreth?
Teddy Bear Museum
Name of pub where the Inklings (JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis etc) used to meet in Oxford?
The Eagle and Child
Which play set in the Monkswell Manor Hotel, run by Giles and Mollie Ralston?
The Mousetrap
How was Paulie Gualtieri known in the tv show The Sopranos?
Paulie Walnuts
Which French word from 19th century means someone who strolls or wanders without purpose?
Flaneur
Zimbabwean cricket coach England coach between 1999-2007?
Duncan Fletcher
Zimbabwean cricket coach, statistically the greatest batsman Zimbabwe has produced, head of England cricket team 2009-2014. Current head coach of Lucknow Super Giants.
Andy Flower
Australian cricket coach head of England cricket from 2015-19
Trevor Bayliss
Four foreign cricket cricket England head coaches
1999-2007 Duncan Fletcher (ZIM)
2009-2014 Andy Flower (ZIM)
2015-2019 Trevor Baylis (AUS)
2022+ Brendan McCullum (NZ)
Australian coach of England cricket for ODI and T20 from 2022
Matthew Mott
England ODI and T20 captain since June 2022
Jos Buttler
First statutory National Curriculum introduced by which education Secretary in 1988 Education Reform Act?
Kenneth Baker
Which directors last film was A Passage to India in 1984 with long time collaborator Maurice Jarre composing score?
David Lean
Which directors last film was A Passage to India in 1984 with long time collaborator Maurice Jarre composing score?
David Lean
This 1937 comedy film starring Will Hay playing a hapless station-master takes its title from a music hall song?
Oh, Mr Porter!
Which criminal defence lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner was played on us television by Raymond Burr from 1957-66?
Perry Mason
Whcih actress played Guinevere in Excalibur (1981) and lead role in the manageress on Channel 4 (1989-90)?
Cherie Lunghi
Which 18th century poet coined phrase “ignorance is bliss” and in what poem?
Thomas Gray in “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”, when ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.
King of Portugal died 2nd July 1932 the day after watching tennis at Wimbledon? Wife was queen Victoria Auguste.
Manuel II
Name of white Spanish wine grape notably in Montilla-Moriles, used for sweet dark sherry.
Pedro Ximenez
What sporting term can refer to member of curling team or a defensive player in football?
Sweeper
Tom Beck fictional President in which 1998 film!
Deep Impact
“Close Every Door” from which musical, released by Phillip Schofield in 1992.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
South Island in Māori
Te Waipounamu
North island in Māori
Te Ika-a-Maui
The diacritical mark above a vowel in Māori for example is called what
Macron
The diacritical mark above a vowel in Māori for example is called what
Macron
The French diacritical mark going left and going right called what
‘ acute
Other way grave
Brontë has an example of what diacritical mark made of two dots? From Greek for separation or division.
Diaeresis
São Paulo and senor in Spanish has a diacritical mark above the letters with which name?
Tilde
Diacritical hook placed under lower right corner of a vowel in several Latin alphabets. Comes from polish for “little tail”
Ogonek
Diacritical mark from French for hook or tail, used in French Portuguese and Catalan under a C.
Cedilla
Symbol common in Baltic, Slavic, Finnic languages, can be known as wedge or inverted circumflex. Has which two names, one shared with French actress and one with a group of gram negative bacteria and Czech for hook.,
Caron / Háček
Czechoslovak politician and philosopher first president from 1918-35
Tomas Masaryk
Second president of cZechoslovakia from 1935-38 and 1945-48. Led them in exile during WW2 too from UK. Communist coup took him down.
Edvard Benes
Champagne company founded in 1772 and based in Reims. Founder credited with creating first known vintage champagne in 1810 and inventing the riddling table process.
Veuve Clicquot
French champagne brand based in Reims and founded by namesake in 1843.
Krug
Three champagne varieties are what
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier
French term used to designate champagnes made exclusively from Chardonnay grapes?
Blanc de blancs
Which French champagne company’s cuvee de prestige is Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill? Founded 1849 and in town of Epernay. Holds current royal warrant for champagne to royal family.
Pol Roger
Cristal is the flagship cuvee of which champagne company. It was created in 1876 for Alexander II tsar of Russia.
Louis Roederer
Which company founded 1812 by Alphonse Pierlot has the cuvée de prestige champagne Grand Siecle?
Laurent-Perrier
What term for champagne meaning all grapes used to make the wine were harvested in the same year?
Vintage
What term for champagne meaning all grapes used to make the wine were harvested in the same year?
Vintage
What term for champagne meaning all grapes used to make the wine were harvested in the same year?
Vintage
What champagne company colloquially known as Ace of Spades is owned by Jay Z and LVMH, sold in opaque metallic bottles? Gold Brut is cuvee de prestige.
Armand de Brignac
30 litres of champagne bottle in 2002 sold by House Drappier. Nickname of that bottle after a king of Salem and preist of El-Elyon.
Melchizedek
Champagne Bottle Size Mnemonic from 2 bottles to 20 bottles
Michael Jackson Really Makes Small Boys Nervous
Magnum (2), Jeroboam (4), Rehoboam (6), methuselah (8), Salmanazar (12), Balthazar (16), Nebuchadnezzar (20)
Name of bottle used for chianti
Fiasco
24 bottles of champagne in one 18 litre has what name after a wise man?
Melchior
20 litres/26 bottles roughly champagne named after which king of Israel, son of David
Solomon
World athletics 2022 1500m male winner British
Jake Wightman
World athletics 2022 800m female silver British
Keely Hodgkinson
World athletics 2022 1500m female bronze British, won silver 1500m at Tokyo Olympics too
Laura Muir
English swimmer 2022 world champion at 50m freestyle, commonwealth games gold in freestyle and butterfly.
Ben Proud
Gold commonwealth boxing heavyweight 2022 Birmingham
Lewis Williams (delicious orie was super heavyweight)
Gold commonwealth boxing super heavyweight
Delicious Orie
Commonwealth game diver gold double, bronze at team event. Daughter of tv celebrity.
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix
Vercingetorix had beaten Julius Caesar army at which earlier 52BC battle? Location is near Clermont-Ferrand in France.
Battle of Gergovia
A popular challenge when walking the Appalachian trail to is try and hike in a day the entire forty miles of the trail located in which state? Within this state you would mostly pass the South Mountain State Park in Washington and Frederick Counties.
Maryland
Which author was among the first to be on the shortlist for the Booker prize, being nominated in 1969 for the public image? Better known for The prime of miss Jean Brodie.
Muriel Spark
In famous AIDS: Don’t die of ignorance tv advert of 1980s, which director and cinematographer he’s known for directing the witches, the man who fell to earth and don’t look now directed the advert?
Nicolas Roeg
1963 saw two foreign language songs get to #1 in US. One was sung in French by singing nun? Song about Spanish born priest who founded order of preachers?
Dominique
Name of Belgian known as Singing Nun
Jeanne-Paule Jeannine Deckers
1893: what was the last book of the Rougon-Macquart series to be written by Emile Zola?
Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal)
Two English footballers have come second in the running for the Ballon D’Or Feminin. Which striker playing for arsenal in 2023 came second in 2022?
Beth Mead
First broadcasting in 1971, which non profit media in organisation with three letter acronym serves as the national syndicator for over 1000 public radio stations in US?
NPR (National Public Radio)
In organic chemistry, what type of acids have the general formula R-C(O)OH l, where R is an organic radical?
Carboxylic Acids
Which Hungarian leader who served as PM of Hungary from 1867 to 1871 and Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary 1871 to 1879 played a crucial role in Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and in Congress of Berlin as principal Austria-Hungary negotiator? Budapest boulevard named for this person links Erszebet Square to City Park.
Gyula Andrassy
Which African country has international dialling code of +27
South Africa
What type of device converts electrical energy into mechanical energy?
Motor
Playing partner of Charlotte Ritchie’s character in channel 4 series Feel Good, who follows her into Taskmaster Series 15?
Mae Martin
Second busiest railway station in Spain is which barcelona station named after district in which it is located?
Barcelona Sants
In which museum in The Hague would you find Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl earring and view of delft?
Mauritshuis
Which Dutch motor circuit known as The Cathedral, never hosted F1 but has hosted highest number of grand prix motorcycle races.
TT Circuit Assen
One of two new franchises in 2022 IPL, which team came third? Captain KL Rahul and wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock.
Lucknow Super Giants
Where do giants live in Norse mythology?
Jotunheim
In computer science, what two word term describes application of computational techniques to gain knowledge through learning through observational data and experience? A practical application of this is in developing predictive models in data science.
Deep Learning
In new FIDE rule from 2014, in a game of chess after how many moves in succession must the arbiter declare a draw if no pawn has been moved or capture made?
75 moves
Martin Scorsese 2005 documentary about Bob Dylan
No Direction Home
Shine a Light
Martin Scorsese 2008 concert film about Rolling Stones?
Abolition of slavery had become an official goal for the Union army in the American civil war prior to Gettysburg address following which rhyming presidential executive order by Lincoln in January 1863?
Emancipation Proclamation
Which experimental jazz band nominated twice for Mercury prize: 2005 Held on the Tips of Fingers and 2014 In Each and Every One?
Polar Bear
West Sussex home Goodwood House is the ducal seat for which family?
Dukes of Richmond
Private eye has whatnnickanme for Charles iii
Brian
Formerly known as Golovin Street, Rustaveli Avenue is a major thoroughfare in which Caucasus capital city?
Tbilisi
Amanda Pritchard took over from Simon Stevens as Chief executive of which organisation in august 2021?
NHS England
In which month of Hebrew calendar are feasts including Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot celebrated? Month usually falls between September and October in the Gregorian calendar.
Tishrei
What seven letter general name given to any member of a class of organic compounds that feature an oxygen atom bonded to two carbon atoms in a highly strained triangular arrangement?
Epoxide
Just 38m taller than nearby Mauna Loa, which dormant volcano in Hawaii is sometimes considered tallest on earth if taken from sea bed?
Mauna Kea
Which Italian brand of vermouth, obtained by infusing herbs in alcohol and available in both Rosso and Bianco versions was advertised in 1970s by an oafish Leonard Rossiter managing to spill a drink over his prim wife played by Koan Collins’s
Cinzano
Surname of which man, head of the NKVD from 1936-38 precedes -shchina in an alternative name for Stalin’s Great Purge of that period?
Nikolay Yezhov (Yezhovshcina)
Nurungji, tahdig are both Korean and Persian terms for crust forms bottom of pan when cooking which food?
Rice
Korean term meaning “mixing rice”, rice topped with namul or kimchi, egg and meat too can be.
Bibimbap
One of largest aquifers in world beneath the Great Plains in the USA, named after town in Nebraska.
Ogallala Aquifer
One of founders of magnum photographic agency was which French humanist photographer who asked Henri Matisse to design the cover of his collections of photos The Decisive Moment?
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Fort William lies at the northern end of which sea loch in western Scotland, which also contains the island of Lismore? The southern end of the Caledonian canal runs into this loch which is likewise part of Great Glen fault?
Loch Linnhe
Which two word term with biblical connotations used in genetics to refer to most recent female ancestor from which all living humans are descended matrilineally?
Mitochondrial Eve
Which Dave Brubeck ensemble is in 9/8 time? It appeared on 1959 album Time Out and it’s name was also taken by an early 1980s British musical ensemble.
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Nickname for supporters of Parliament in English civil war
Roundheads
Who is the only writer to have won the Prix Goncourt, usually only awarded once, two times? Awarded to him under pen name Emile Ajar before it was realised who his true identity was.
Romain Gary
Which Luton town defender won one of his three int caps for England at 1954 World Cup? He player managed Luton to 1959 fa cup final being named FWA footballer of the year that season aged 36.
Syd Owen
Who played titular Goldfinger in James Bond film of Same name)
Gert Frobe
Who played Julius No in the film Dr No 1962?
Joseph Wiseman
Name of the empire that ruled present day Senegal 1350-1549? Also name of successor kingdom that ruled until 1875.
Jolof or Wolof
1980 mockumentary film by Julien Temple centres on sex pistols and their manager Malcolm mclaren? Soundtrack features sid vicious cover of My Way and Ronnie Biggs No One is Innocent?
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
What is the title of the US history and pop culture podcast hosted since its inception by Sarah Marshall and until 2021, Michael Hobbes that explores misunderstood media events by looking at how they are perceived by public?
You’re Wrong About
Water enters aquifers through process known as deepwater recharge in which surface moves downwards to groundwater. What term, from Latin for “to trickle through” is used in geology to refer to filtration of water through soil and permeable rocks?
Percolation
Another founder of the Magnum photographic agency was which Hungarian born photographer, partner of Gerda Taro, who captured death of a fighter in the Spanish civil war in The Falling Soldier?4
Robert Capa
The river Ness runs into which Firth in northern Scotland? Inverness stands at the entrance to this Firth which also lies at the northern end of the Caledonian Canal.
Beauly Firth
Surname of which man, thought to be Stalin’s successor in waiting until his 1948 death, precedes “schchina” in a name for an emphasis on pure communist ideology that he proposed in opposition to the pragmatism of Georgy Malenkov?
Andrei Zhdanov
Which Italian aperitif, dark red, advertised in 1970s by Lorraine chase delivering punchline “nah Luton airport” when asked if she had been wafted here from paradise?
Campari
What are two types of Lords called in House of Lords?
Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual
In 2022, John Isner broke which Croatian tennis player’s record for most aces on the ATP tour? This 6 ft 11 inch player never made it past QF of grand slam but famous for holding record for fastest serve which is now held by Isner?
Ivo Karlovic
Festival of Hanukkah begins on 25th day of which month of Hebrew calendar and ends on 2nd day of Tevet? Ninth Jewish month and falls between November and December in Gregorian calendar.
Kislev
Depending on orientation of the ring of carbon atoms, the compound cyclohexane can exist in two principal confirmations, the “chair” conformation and a more strained confirmation named after which object?
Boat
Depending on orientation of the ring of carbon atoms, the compound cyclohexane can exist in two principal confirmations, the “chair” conformation and a more strained confirmation named after which object?
Boat
With name referring to varied disciplines of her guests, podcast sees Alie Ward interview different scientist about their subject each episode? This podcast uses tagline “ask smart people stupid questions”.
Ologies with Alie Ward
Which British golfer, former world number one who has never won a major, who is new 2023 European Ryder cup captain?
Luke Donald
What was name of the empire that covered much of Chad, Libya and Niger from around 700-1380CE? From latter date it became part of wider Bornu Kingdom and sometimes known as _____-Bornu Empire.
Kanem
Which 2000 rockumentary film by Julian temple tells story of sex pistols from band members viewpoint and considered continuation of The Great Rock and Roll Swindle? Shared name with daily mirror headline after bands notorious appearance on Bill Grundy’s Today programme.
The Filth and the Fury
The commissioner for public appointments and the bbc are investigating the appointment of which man as Chairman of the BBC amid allegations he helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of £800k shortly before his appointment?
Richard Sharp
Romain Gary, double winner of Prix Goncourt, was married to which American actress whose films include Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger) and Breathless (Godard) from 1962-70? She committed suicide in 1979 a year before Gary did the same.
Jean Seberg
Which Newcastle forward appeared in all of englands games at 1954 World Cup, becoming first English player to score two goals in a game at a finals? In 1946 he had been appointed Carlisle player manager aged just 23 still an English league record.
Ivor Broadis
Four letter name given to set of human cells which have been reproducing continuously in labs since 1951 and have been used extensively in medical research? Name is contraction of the American woman from whom the cells were extracted without permission.
HeLa (from Henrietta Lacks)
A sonnet consisting of an octave with rhyme scheme AbbaAbba and a sestet with rhyme scheme CDECDE is named after which Italian poet of Il Canzoniere? Like Dante/Beatrice, this poet wrote poems for his Laura.
Petrarch
Which Dave Brubeck composition is 7/4 time? Appeared on 1961 album Time Further Out and takes name from similarity to particular style of country and western performance.
Unsquare Dance
Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz and San Sebastián are three largest cities of which autonomous region of northern Spain? This region shares name with language isolate.
Basque Country
Which Swiss astronomer coined Dark Matter to explain a gravitational anomaly he observed in the Coma Galaxy Cluster in 1933?
Fritz Zwicky
Cuba Gooding Jr father was a member of which band?
The Main Ingredient
Which London retailer located on Piccadilly was first to sell Heinz products in uk in 1895?
Fortnum & Mason
Which ira member elected as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981 and died less than month later?
Bobby Sands
Golf hall of fame is in which state?
Florida
In speed skating it’s known as To do a ______ after Australian short track speed skater who won 1000m gold at 2002 Olympics after all other contestants fell out on final lap.
(Steven) Bradbury
Namesake method in Nordic Combined developed by the Norwegian athlete first used in 1980s, point time differential set up between Ski Jump and cross Country skiing parts of event.
(Gunder) Gundersen Method
New Zealand boxer played both rugby league and union for New Zealand and has won Rugby World Cup twice. Has a hard driving tackle named after him.
Sonny Bill Williams (Sonny-Billed tackle)
Rugby league player played for Tonga, has three sons playing for Australia, most banned player of the modern era, 2018 banned 10 years from any involvement with rugby league in New South Wales. Banned for dodgy stuff on pitches.
John Hopoate
Three drivers who have won races in sports cars, formula one, NASCAR’s and Indy cars. Two American one Colombian.;
Dan Gurney
Mario Andretti
Juan Pablo Montoya
First of three drivers to Three drivers who have won races in sports cars, formula one, NASCAR’s and Indy cars. Began tradition of spraying champagne after winning 24 Hours of Le Mans with AJ Foyt in 1967. Created namesake flap which increases downforce and imposed only a relatively small increase in drag. First person to use full face helmet in 1968 German Grand Prix.
Dan Gurney
Colombian driver won Indy 500 2000 and 2015, Monaco Grand Prix 2003, 24 hours of Daytona 2007-08-13 and Race of Champions 2017.
Juan Pablo Montoya
Who is only driver to have won the triple crown of motorsport: Indy 500, Monaco Grand Prix and 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Graham Hill
Triple Crown in Baseball for hitters is if you lead the league in which three statistics
Batting Average
Home Runs
RBI (Runs Batted In)
Pitching Triple Crown in baseball is which three pitching statistics leading league
Wins
STRIKEOUTS
ERA (Earned Run Average)
The last baseball player to win Pitching Triple Crown was in 2020 which Cleveland Guardians pitcher?
Shane Bieber
Last triple crown of batting in baseball was which Venezuelan player for Detroit Tigers in 2012 the first for 45 seasons?
Miguel Cabrera
Namesake hat trick is where ice hockey player credited with goal, assist and fight in same game.
Gordie Howe Hat Trick
Device used to measure the speed of putting greens by namesake player
Stimpmeter
American figure skater 1988 Olympic champion and 1986/88 world champion has his won Lutz named after himself?
Brian Boitano
English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, delivery designed to deceive the batsman. It is nicknamed a Bosie for this man.
Bernard Bosanquet
Name of ruling after a Slovak handball player which says citizens of countries with EU agreements have same right to freedom of work and movement as EU citizens. Applicable to cricket, both codes of rugby too.
Kolpak Ruling
Indian cricketer known for world record setting opening partnership of 413 runs with Pankaj Roy in 1956 and also running out a batsman backing up. Giving his name to the type of dismissal.
Vinoo Mankad (Mankadding)
Alternative name for paddle scoop or ramp scoop used more in ODI or T20 as named after namesake Zimbabwe batsman.
Marillier Shot
Alternative name for paddle scoop or ramp shot or Marillier shot is what named after a Sri Lankan player who did during T20 2009 in England.
Dilscoop (by Dilshan)
Name of English welsh and Australian men who give name to accurate method of target score in limited overs match.
Frank Duckworth-Tony Lewis-Steven Stern Methid
The cricket shot Nat-meg which goes through the legs is named after which first cricket for England to take hat trick in a Womens T20 international match. Has captained England.
Nat Sciver
D’Arce Choke, Ezequiel Choke and Kimura Lock are moves in which specific martial art?
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Signature post move of Hakeem Olajuwon considered one of the most unguardable moves in NBA history.
Dream Shake
Strategy of commiting intentional fouls in basketball to purpose of lowering opponents scoring. Named after Dallas Macerwicks coach Don Nelson’s use of tactic against namesake player.
Hack-a-Shaq
Named after a Mexican baseball player a lifetime .215 hitter, the threshold of batting ineptitude which gives a batting average of .200 is what?
Mendoza Line
Nicknamed The Bionic Man, which baseball pitcher for 26 seasons 1963-89 had surgery named after him after a Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction operation.
Tommy John
Baseball term applied to talented players who seem to inexplicably lose their ability to throw a baseball named after a pitcher for Pittsburgh Pirates who went downhill from 1972.
Steve Blass Disease
What nationality was Jean Marc Bosman who lends his name to the Bosman ruling? What team was he trying to leave?
Belgian and was trying to leave RFC Liege
Five time gold medallist, Japanese gymnast who gives his name to a 1/4 or 1/2 turn onto the vault and back salto off.
Mitsuo Tsukahara
Sparrow from Minsk gymnast who won four gold medals, three at Munich 1972 on Team, Balance Beam and Floor. Has a namesake flip from balance beams and uneven bars.
Olga Korbut
What is the five letter term for a somersault in gymnastics? Body rotates 360 degrees around a horizontal axis with feet passing head.
Salto
American football NFL team is named after their first coach. Same coach would later take coach of Cincinnati Bengals which shared same colour scheme.
Cleveland Browns (after Paul Brown)
Name of NFL policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. Named after the former owner of Pittsburg Steelers and chairman of diversity committee.
Rooney Rule
Name of NFL policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. Named after the former owner of Pittsburg Steelers and chairman of diversity committee.
Rooney Rule
Who was Greek goddess of the soul? In mythology she taken to high rock spire due to prophecy and then saved by Eros.
Psyche
Rishikesh is pilgrimage town for Hindus and found near Dehradun the capital of which northern Indian state?
Uttarakhand
One most common ways of measuring brain activity is fMRI where f stands for?
Functional
Neural networks model the neurons in a biological brain, each connection transmits a signal to other neurons. Which term is used to refer to strength of a connection? Term in physics describes force on an object due to gravity.
Weight
Which French psychiatrist born 1901 was responsible for introducing “mirror stage” and “the real” into therapeutic work? Writing notoriously difficult to read.
Jacques Lacan
The hypothesis of linguistic relativity suggests that the structure of a language influences its speakers cognition or worldview. Often referred to by what other name after two people?
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Which neurotransmitter plays vital role in reward and movement regulation in body?
Dopamine
Cypress Hill biggest hit from second album Black Sunday (1993)
Insane in the Brain
In whcih year was Black Wednesday when Uk government forced to withdraw Sterling from European Ezchange Rate Mexhanism m?
16 September 1992
Which American magazine columnist had highest recorded IQ in guiness book, known for popularising Monty Hall Problem, last name used to refer to a genius?
Marilyn vos Savant
Name of Elon Musk’s Brain-Microchip company which manages to put one in a pig?
Neuralink
Film starring Sharlto Copley voice a humanoid robot that becomes friends with programmer played by Dev Patel? Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp.
Chappie
fMRI measures the BOLD contrast discovered by Seji Ogawa in 1990, what does bold stand for?
Blood-Oxygen-Level Dependent
With a tallest peak being Jade Emperor Peak which mountain of historical and culturally significant is highest point of Shandong province?
Mount Tai
System of personality describing people in terms of nine types named after Greek for nine
Enneagram of Personality
Male England prop who plays for harlequins capped 83 times for England and has namesake podcast. Wrote 2020 book Loose Head, confessions of an (un)professional rugby player.
Joe Marler
Used to describe soul in philosophy of Carl Jung. These terms both means Soul in Latin. One refers to unconscious masculine side of women and the other the unconscious feminine side of a man.
Animus (women) and Anima (men)
Omar Syed invented which game between 1997-2002 after inspired by Kasparov defeat at hands of Deep Blue. Uses standard chess board but difficult for computers to play. Named after son name backwards.
Arimaa
Which Austrian-British psychoanalysis was primarily known for work with children. Development of Object relations Therapy and works in collections entitle Love Guilt and Reparation and the Psychoanalysis of Children?
Melanie Klein
What structure connects and enables communication between two hemispheres of the brain?
Corpus Callosum
Who is the highest ranked woman chess player in the world at the moment? Born China she was youngest female player ever to qualify as grandmaster.
Hou Yifan
Problem in Ai whereby in many games the number possible states is immense and computers can only search a small portion of them.Hans Berliner named it this problem)
Horizon Effect
D Day landing beaches from east to west
Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword
Canadians on Juno
British on Gold and Sword
Until Only Good Jams Sell
Australian diver who is first openly gay male to win individual gold medal. 2008 Beijing 10m Platform.
Matthew Mitcham
Adelaide United footballer who came out as gay in 2021.
Josh Cavallo
Only one played in NFL history come out as gay while active player: June 2021 which Las Vegas Raiders and now Tampa Bay Bucc player?
Carl Nassib
May 2022, which Blackpool forward came out as gay, the only male professional to be out when active and first since Justin Fashanu in 1990?
Jake Daniels
First MLB player to come out as gay after 1976-79 LA Dodgers and Oakland Athletics? Retired due to the burden of it.
Glenn Burke
Whcih MLB player was second and final player to come out as gay? Works for inclusion for MLB now. Played for Dodgers, Tigers and Padres.
Billy Bean
July 2021 which Nashville Predators player became first gay player under contract to an NHL team?
Luke Prokop
Who was first cricket international to come out as gay when doing so for Somerset in 2011?
Steven Davies
Which basketball centre was first gay man to play for NBA team after coming out in 2013 and signing for Brooklyn Nets in 2014
Jason Collins
What was the swap undertaken by USA and Russia in December 2022? WNBA for arms dealer.
Britney Griner for Viktor Bout
American tennis player known to be lesbian won nine grand slams including 1936 Wimbledon and 1932-35 US Opens?
Helen Jacobs
Which American Olympic decathlete founded the Gay Olympics (or Gay Games)?
Tom Waddell
One of first to come out on the LPGA tour, which female golfer won six majors including 3 Womens PGA and 2 US Opens?
Patty Sheehan
Which mayor of San Fran was murdered by Dan White on 27 November 1978?
George Moscone
Which now US senator for california since 1992, replaced George Moscone As SF mayor after his assassination? Served ten years.
Dianne Feinstein
Which athlete who once 13th beat squash in USA known for long distance swimming including around Manhattan, from Cuba to Florida and Bahamas to Florida?
Diana Nyad
Which Belarusian tennis player won the 2023 womens Australian Open?
Aryna Sabalenka
Moon Knight stars who as Marc Spector and Steven Grant suffering from dissociative identity disorder as title chRCter.
Oscar Isaac
Queen of Palmyra conquered Roman provinces or Egypt
Zenobia
Type of lightning shares name with music term meaning perform with each note sharply detached or separated from the others
Staccato Lightning
From Basque Country try to the Costa de Galicia, four costas at north of Spain.
Costa Vasca
Costa de Cantabria
Costa Verde
Costa de Galicia
Starting Costa Calida going south Spanish beach areas
Costa Calida
Costa de Almeria
Costa Tropical
Costa Del Sol
Section of Andalusian coast facing the Atlantic Ocean.
Costa de La Luz
Starting Costa del Azahar going north, four beaches.
Costa Del Azahar
Costa Dorada
Costa Barcelona
Costa Brava
Alicante is on which coast of Spain?
Costa Blanca
Malaga is on which Spanish coast?
Costa Del Sol
Only Connect: Four top batsman in test cricket
4th: Rahul Dravid (india)
3rd: Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
2nd: Ricky Ponting (Oz)
1st: Sachin Tendulkar (india)
Which British cricketer has the most test runs T 12,474
Alistair Cook
Only Connect: top four wicket takers in test history cricket?
4th: Anil Kumble
3rd: James Anderson
2nd: Shane warne
1st: Muttiah Muralitharan
Four most test wickets by England cricket player
5) Fred Trueman - 307
4) Bob Willis - 325
3) Ian Botham - 383
2) Stuart Broad - 566
1) James Anderson - 675
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1) LeBron James
2) Kareem Abdul Jabbar
3) Karl Malone
4) Kobe Bryant
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lightly salted fermented Baltic Sea herring traditional to Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century
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French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. He also used the pseudonym Lionel Georges André Cabassou. Poetry: Pigments.
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