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Forest of Bowland county?

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Lancashire

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Drummer of Garbage and producer of Nevermind.

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Butch Vig

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Actress who was Ruth in Spooks, in 2022 Marriage and Unforgotten.

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Nicola Walker

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NikkieTutorials, Dutch YouTuber real name.

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Nikkie de Jager

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Third son of David died during Battle of Ephraim’s wood (2 Samuel).

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Absalom

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American make up artist with surname Dickinson.

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James Charles

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American YouTuber and make up artist founder of own cosmetic company and album Beauty Killer (Lollipop Luxury) and surname Steininger.

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Jeffree Star

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Director of A Separation (2011), A Hero (2021) and The Salesman (2016).

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Asghar Farhadi

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Cannock Chase Forest county.

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Staffordshire

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Author of “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”, the Poisonwood Bible, Flight Behaviour and Demon Copperhead (2022).

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Barbara Kingsolver

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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.

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Anne Tyler

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Vinegar Joe from WW2 American general surname?

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Joseph Stilwell

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Brokeback Mountain, Postcards, The Shipping News author.

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Annie Proulx

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American actor known for “The Method” and father of method acting.

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Lee Strasberg

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American urban planner who designed New York State Parkway system and had book “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro written about him.

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Robert Moses

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Designer of Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace and worked with Calvert Vaux.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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Activist of urban studies, book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Protect the urban renewal and slum clearance.

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Jane Jacobs

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Nightclub in Chicago, first director Frankie Knuckles, gave name to House music.

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Warehouse

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Five letter term for a “chapter” in the Quran.

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Surah

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Surahs (chapters) of the Quran are split into which four-letter term for “verse”?

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Ayah

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Japanese name for bullet train.

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Shinkansen

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Subtitle of Thespis by Gilbert and Sullivan.

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The Gods Grown Old

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Subtitle of HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan.

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The Lass that Loved a Sailor

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Subtitle of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.

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The Slave of Duty

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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

Only Connect: as of Feb 2023, top four nba by points scored

1) LeBron James 2) Kareem Abdul Jabbar 3) Karl Malone 4) Kobe Bryant

Nickname shared with monopoly term for offensive line for buffalo bills during mid 1970s featuring OJ Simpson

Electric company

Nickname for Seattle Seahawks back line in early 2010s. Came to be whole of the defence.

Legion of Boom

Defensive line nickname for Pittsburgh steelers in 1970s. Won four Super Bowls in six year.

Steel Curtain

lightly salted fermented Baltic Sea herring traditional to Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century

Surstromming

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.

Leon Damas