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The Boys of 86 are nickname for which football teams 1985-86 team, got third in first division highest ever, team started Tony Cottee and Alvin Martin, Phil Parkes. Managed by John Lyall.
West Ham
Nickname of group of five Dutch footballers of Surinamese descent who played for Ajax and Netherlands during the 1996 euros: Winston Bogarde, Edgar David’s, Patrick kluivert, Clarence seedorf, Michael reiziger.
De kabel (the cable)
Which country did Edgar Davids and Clarence Seedorf born in ?
Paramaribo, Suriname
Only player to have won the Champions League with three clubs: Ajax 1995, Madrid 1998 and AC Milan 2003/2007
Clarence Seedorf
Nickname with literary origins given to Hibernian’s forward line of Gordon smith, Bobby Johnstone, lawrie reilly, Eddie turnbull and Willie ormond. Stand at Easter road named after them.
The famous five
Hibernian stadium in Edinburg called what
Easter Road
Scottish football club play at Tannadice Park nicknamed The Terrors or The Tangerines. Supporters known as the Arabs.
Dundee United
Geographically closest Derby in Britain
Then England
Dundee United vs Dundee FC
Nottingham Forest vs Notts County
Scottish football team nicknamed The Dee or The Dark Blues play at Dens Park.
Dundee FC
Hearts of Midlothian city and stadium and nickname
Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh, the Jam Tarts
Aberdeen stadium name
Pittodrie Stadium
Vegetable nickname of Edinburg team Hibernian which is rhyming slang for Hibs
Cabbage (cabbage and ribs)
Kilmarnock stadium in East Ayrshire
Rugby Park
Livingston founded as Ferranti Thistle in 1943 play games at which stadium in West Lothian
Almondvale Stadium
Nickname the Steelmen and play in North Lanarkshire at Fir Park, what team? Winners of Scottish cup in 1991.
Motherwell
Ross County play at Victoria Park in which town in Highland. Nicknamed the Staggies.
Dingwall
St Johnstone, play at McDiarmid Park in which Scottish city?
Perth is the home to which stadium of St Johnstone?
Which Scottish premier league nicknamed the buddies team play in Paisley, Renfrewshire?
St Mirren play in which Scottish town?
Tv show written and directed by Nida Manzoor following eponymous British punk rock band that consists of Muslim women.
We are Lady Parts
Who played Ms Marvel
Iman Vellani
Netflix tv series inspired by a character created by Maurice Leblanc in early 1900s and actor who plays title role
Lupin (Omar Sy plays Assane Diop based on Arsene Lupin)
Largest river on Isle of Wight
Medina
Scottish football team called whay stadium Somerset Park have what nickname from a line in Robert Burns Tam O Shanter.
Ayr United - Honest Men
Cove Rangers plays in Cove Bay; Aberdeen with their stadium what named after a local ish famous building?
Balmoral Stadium
Scottish team based in glasgow with nickname Maryhill Magyars and stadium Firhill Stadium
Partick Thistle
Raith Rovers based in which Scottish city in Fife?
Kirkcaldy
Hosted at the New York Comic Con since 2017 whcih comic book prize named after the writer-artist Kurtzman was founded by Gary Groth in 1988?
Harvey Awards
Trophy for the mens singles at French Open tennis
Coupe des Mousquetaires
Trophy for the womens singles at French open
Coupe Suzanne Lenglen
Trophy to mens doubles at French open tennis
Coupe Jacques Brugnon
Trophy to womens doubles at French open tennis
Coupe Simone Mathieu
Trophy to French open mixed doubles winners
Coupe Marcel Bernard
Nadal won French Open in 2022. How many is that in total?
22 total - 14th French Open
Norwegian tennis player got to final of French Open and Us open in 2022
Casper Ruud
Spanish tennis player winner US Open 2022 and QF of French open
Carlos Alcaraz
Soviet/American economist won Nobel in 1973 and four of his doctoral students have won the prize (Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1973, Smith 2002, Schelling 2005). Known for research on input-output analysis
Wassily Leontief
Swedish author for Pippi Longstocking, The Brothers Lionheart, Emil of Lonneberga, Karlsson on the Roof and Six bullerby children.
Astrid Lindgren
Formerly Lester B Pearson Award, award given to NHL most outstanding player in regular season as judged by players.
Ted Lindsay Award - Hart award is mvp but by professional writers association
1848 born in Gorbals, Glasgow, founder of tea company and lost 5 straight americas cup matches in boats called Shamrock. Trophy and Cup by his name contested in Italy before 1930.
Thomas Lipton
Russian polymath who discovered atmosphere of Venus and law of conservation of masses in chemical reactions. Founder of modern geology. Domodedovo airport officially named after him.
Mikhail Lomonosov
Name of the cup awarded by the Gaelic Athletic Association to the team that wins All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.
Liam MacCarthy Cup
Cup awarded by Gaelic Athletic Association to the team that wins All Ireland Senior Football Championship.
Sam Maguire Cup
Name of trophy for All Ireland Senior Ladies Football championship
Brendan Martin Cup
Gaelic football number of players on a team
15
Gaelic football how many points for ball into goal
3
Gaelic football how many points for ball through posts above the goal and crossbar
1 point
Name for the ball used in hurling
Sliotar
Italian physicist worked on neutrino masses and disappeared in 1938 mysteriously on ship. Wave equation named after him and fermions that are its own antiparticle named after him also.
Ettore Majorana
Fermion named after which scientist are fermions which is different from its anti particule
Dirac fermion - this is majority of fermions
National personification ofnfrance state during the Revolution
Marianne
2024 Olympics mascot planned
Phryge (Phrygian Cap)
Bing Dwen Dwen mascot of 2022 Winter Olympics was what animal?
Panda
Name of the robot mascot for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Miraitowa
2018 Pyeongchang mascot Soohorang and 1988 Seoul mascot Hodori both what time of animal
Tiger
2012 London mascot was named after which Shropshire town which help precursor to Olympics in 1800s
Much Wenlock
Name of the official mascot for Rio 2016 named after Bossa Nova composer but also current Brazilian footballer
Vinicius
Legendary figure similar to Father Christmas with roots in Slavic mythology.
Ded Moroz
2014 Sochi mascots were whcih three animals
Polar Bear, Snow Leopard, Hare
Quatchi and Miga were what creatures 2010 Vancouver
Sasquatch and Sea Bear (part Orca and part kermode bear)
2002 Salt Lake City mascots Powder, Copper, Coal which creatures
Snowshoe Hare
Coyote
American black bear
2004 Athens mascots names
Athena and Phevos
2000 Sydney mascots and names
Olly the Kookaburra
Syd the Platypus
Millie the Echidna
Genus Dacelo are whcih kind of Australian birds in kingfisher family
Kookaburra
Sole living taxon of the Ornithorhynchidae family
Platypus
Tachyglossidae also known as spiny anteaters
Echidnas
Hakon and Kristin were mascots of which Winter Olympics
1994 Lillehammer
First computer generated mascot was which name in Atlanta 1996
Izzy
Cobi was the mascot of 1992 Barcelona and what type of dog!
Catalan sheepdog
1992 albertville Olympics mascot - man star
Magique
Hidy and Howdy were which creatures when mascots of Calgary 1988
Polar Bears
1984 Olympic mascots summer and winter
Winter - Sarajevo - Vucko the Wolf
Summer - LA - Sam the Eagle
1980 Moscow Olympics mascot
Misha the Bear
1980 Lake Placid mascot named after the Adirondack mountain range
Roni the Raccoon
Mascot of Montreal 1976, name comes from Algonquin for beaver
Amik
1976 Innsbruck mascot name for snowman
Schneemann
1972 Munich Waldi the mascot was which type of dog
Dachshund
1932 LA “official mascot” for Olympics was which type of dog Smoky born in Olympic village before Olympics
Scottish Terrier
First Olympic mascot born in 1968 called Schuss and a little man on skis. Which Olympics was this!
Grenoble 1968
Sondre Norheim Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing. He is called the father of what type of skiing?
Telemark
Type of skiing named after Norwegian region is where only front of foot is bound, free heel.
Telemark skiing
In Super-G racing discipline of skiing what does the G stand for?
Giant as it’s super giant slalom
Football team named after explorer based in Rio de Janeiro
Vasco de Gama
Name of Chilean football club named after Mapuche cacique (chief), won Copa Libertadores in 1991.
Colo Colo
Paraguayian sports club in Asuncion which has won three Copa Libertadores
Club Olimpia
Colombian team won Copa Libertadores twice 1989 and 2016
Atletico Nacional
Which Porto Alegre football team has won Copa Libertadores three times: 1983, 1995 and 2017?
Gremio
Which rionde Janeiro football team has won Copa Libertadores three times 1981, 2019 and 2022
Flamengo
From Italian for sand dune what is a landform that develops over time between two formerly separated islands due to specific conditions
Tombolo
From Saxon term meaning landing place what’s name of the shingle beach in Hastings that’s been beaching boats for more than thousand years, home to europes largest fleet of beach launched fishing boats.
The Stade
Rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from shore interrupting river flow and limitations movement of sediment. Word comes from Latin for snout.
Groyne
Ash Latin name
Fraxinus Excelsior is Latin name for what tree
Weeping Willow Latin name
Salix Babylonica Latin name for which tree
Acer Pseudoplatanus is what tree
Sycamore Latin name is?
Horse Chestnut Latin name
Aesculus Hippocatanum
Alnus Glutinosa is what tree
Common alder Latin name
Betula Pendula
Silver Birch
Betula Pubescens
Downy Birch
Carpinus Betulus
Hornbeam
Castanea Sativa
Sweet chestnut
Fagus Sylvatica
Beech
Juglans Regia
Walnut
Malus sylvestris
Crab Apple
Populus Tremula
Aspen
Prunus Avium
Wild Cherry
Quercus Petraea
Sessile Oak
English Oak
Quercus Robur
Populus
Poplar
Salix Caprea
Goat Willow
Sorbus Aria
Whitebeam
Sorbus Aucuparia
Rowan
Quercus Ilex
Evergreen Oak/Holly Oak
Tilia tree type
Lime
La Donna e Mobile opera and year
Rigoletto 1851
Name of tenor aria from Puccini’s La Boheme sung by Rodolfo to Mimi when first meet
Che gelida manina
Thomas Vinterberg 2018 thriller about true story doomed Russian submarine
Kursk
Which actor played Edward II in Derek Jarman film, One Night in Istanbul, Kursk, Uncharted
Steven Waddington
Which queen of England did tilda swinton play in a 1991 Derek jarman film
Isabella of France (she Wolf)
1993 experimental film by Derek Jarman called Wittgenstein had original screenplay by which English literary theorist, critic and public intellectual?
Terry Eagleton
Who wrote lyrics to west side story
Stephen Sondheim
Larix Decidua
European Larch
Picea Abies
Norway Spruce
Picea Sitchensis
Sitka Spruce
American city formlerly known as New Archangel when under Russia rule 1799-1867
Sitka
Second most populous city in Alaska named after Indiana senator at time but later Vice President 1905-09 under Teddy Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Pinus Sylvestris
Scots Pine
What is Yew Latin name
Taxus Baccata
Capreolus capreolus species of deer in Uk
Roe Deer
Red Deer Latin name
Cervus Elaphus
Sika Deer Latin name Uk
Cervus Nippon
Dama dama Latin name for
Fallow Deer
Hydropotes inermis mammal of UK
Water Deer
Latin name for wild boar
Sus scrofa
Notamacropus rufogriseus is what type of macropod wild in UK?
Red necked wallaby
Which island on Loch Lomond has a wild population of red necked wallabies as introduced by Fiona gore countess of arran in 1940s?
Inchconnachan
Old desert island disc host Kirsty Young is married to which founder of Soho House club?
Nick Jones
Castor fiber is Latin name for whcih British mammal
Eurasian beaver
Rodents are characterised by continuously growing which teeth?
Incisors
Arvicola amphibius is Latin name for which animal?
European Water Vole
Family of rodents containing true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, New World rats and mice.
Cricetidae
Microtus Arvalis what mammal?
Common vole
Apodemus Sylvaticus what Latin name
Wood mouse
Micromys minutus Latin name
Eurasian harvest mouse
House mouse Latin name
Mus musculus
Black rat Latin name
Rattus rattus
Brown rat Latin name
Rattus norvegicus
Glis glis known as
Edible Dormouse
Gray squirrel Latin name
Sciurus Carolinensis
Red squirrel Latin name
Sciurus Vulgaris
Gulo Gulo animal
Wolverine
Rangifer tarandus animal
Reindeer
Ursus arctos animal
Brown bear
Grampus Griseus animal
Risso’s Dolphin
Tursiops Truncatus animal
Bottlenose Dolphin
Mesoplodon europeaus is animal with comedians name in name
Gervais’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon is beaked whale - Sowerbys is Bidens, True’s is Mirus)
Physeter Macrocephalus animal
Sperm Whale
Kogiidae Breviceps animal
Pygmy sperm whale
Phocoena phocoena is Latin name for what
Harbour porpoise
Megaptera novaeangliae animal
Humpback Whale
Term for the largest group of baleen whales containing ten species including blue whale, name taken from Norwegian word meaning red whale.
Rorqual
Blue Whale Latin name
Balaenoptera Musculus
Balaenoptera Physalus animal, second longest species of cetacean on earth
Fin Whale
Named for the Norwegian word for pollock, Balaenoptera borealis Latin for
Sei whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata named after a Norwegian sailor
Common minke whale
Mysticeti is name for whcih parvorder of whales?
Baleen
Name of Scottish poet laureate
Makar
Who was the first Makar in 2004? He had been Glasgow Poet Laureate in 1999. Born in 1920, last survivor of canonical “Big Seven”.
Edwin Morgan
Scottish Gaelic poet born on island of Raasay between skye and mainland. He became head teacher in 1956. Compared Highland Clearances to contemporary events. Most famous poem Hallaig.
Sorley MacLean
1921 born Stromness on Orkney, 2021 centenary Orkney Museum “Beside the Ocean of Time” after his last novel. Autobiography For the Islands I Sing. Collections: Tryst on Egilsay, Foresterhill.
George Mackay Brown
The 12 apostles of Ireland so called as they were all saints of 6th century who studied under which Saint at his famous school Clonard Abbey in County Meath.
St Finnian
Orkney cathedral on Kirkwall known as what
St Magnus Cathedral
Second largest town on Orkney islands
Stromness
Glasgow cathedral named after which saint
St Mungo’s Cathedral
Edinburgh cathedral named after which saint
St Giles Cathedral
Aberdeen cathedral named after whcih saint
St Machar’s Cathedral
Name of cathedral named after saint on the Scottish island of lismore just off coast of Oban
St Moluag’s Cathedral
Saint in the name of the Scottish episcopal church in Perth
St Ninian’s Cathedral
Glasgow and Edinburgh Scottish episcopal cathedral named after which saint
Mary
Inverness and Aberdeen Scottish episcopal cathedrals named after whcih saint?
Andrew
Catholic cathedral in Oban named after whcih saint
St Columba
Catholic cathedral of Paisley is named after patron saint of Paisley whcih is who?
St Mirin
The Cornish flag is known as the flag of whcih saint
Saint Piran
Flag of Devon has the flag of which saint, patron saint of Devon
St Petroc
Which spice contains strong anaesthetic known as eugenol which is why they’re so good at fighting cavities and people chew them when tooth pain
Cloves
German student and anti nazi active within white rose non violent resistance group in nazi germany killed alongside her brother Hans
Sophie Scholl
Swedish nobleman known for murder of Elvira Madigan in murder suicide act in 1889
Sixten Sparre
Born Hedvig Jensen, circus performer best known for relationship with Sixten Sparre which ended in suicide pact. Mozart’s Piano Concert 21 come to be known as her concerto.
Elvira Madigan
Worlds largest Buddhist temple found on Central Java, Mahayana temple in magelang regency.
Borobudur Temple
Who killed himself with Mary Vetsera in January 1889 at Mayerling hunting lodge. Only song of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elizabeth.
Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria
Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria killed himself at Mayerling incident alongside whuchnbaronesss at which hunting lodge?
Mary Vetsera at Mayerling Hunting Lodge
King of Bavaria 1864-86, known as swan king, commmissioned Neuschwanstein Castle, Linderhof Palace and Herrenchiensee (in Herreninsel on Chiemsee lake).
Ludwig II
“Growth of a poets mind” is subtitle to whcih famous Wordsworth poem in blank verse written in 1850
The Prelude
1955 American film about teachers in an interracial inner city school and breakout role of Sidney Poitier.
Blackboard Jungle
Which director nominated 8 Oscar’s in career: blackboard jungle, cat on a hot tin roof, Elmer gantry, in cold blood, looking for mr Goodbar.
Richard Brooks
Born 1929, nominated for BSA Oscar for Hamlet (Ophelia), Guys and Dolls (golden globes), Elmer Gantry, The Happy Ending (Oscar nominated), The Thorn Birds TV
Jean Simmons
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 book and The Ladies of Missalonghi a 1987 book by which Australian author?
Colleen McCullough
1970 Sequel to In the Heat of the Night (1967). Followed by 1971 film The Organisation.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Ochotonidae (pikas) and Leporidae (hates and rabbits) make up which order?
Lagomorphs
Where in New Zealand 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township spree shooting by David Gray?
Aramoana Massacre / killed 13
American astronomer born 1855 talked of canals on Mars and ninth planet, founded namesake observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona which led efforts to find Pluto discovered in 1930
Percival Lowell
Fruit with name Citrullus Lanatus, botanically a pepo. Seeds found in Libya in 3500 BC. Farmers in Zentsuji region of Japan found way to make them Cubic.
Watermelon
Which colour etymology is denoting a usually Undyed and y bleached woolen fabric of this colour in French?
Beige
Which brownish-purple colour comes from French for flea?
Puce
Fruit prunus armeniaca, Armenian peach, name comes from Latin “cooked before” as they saw it as a peach ripened early, could be Latin for sunny as also ripen in this environment.
Apricot
Fruit prunus Persica, short for Persian apple. Could be french for “sin”.
Peach
Prunus persica is a peach if fuzzy skin and the non fuzzy variety is called what? Comes from mutation in the MYB25 gene making it glossy skin.
Nectarines
Fruit (cucumis melo) name comes from the Italian area which was formally a papal seat near Rome after fruit introduced from Armenia. Called rockmelon in Australia/NZ. Spanspek in SA.
Cantaloupe
Word derived from the old English term for line around house where rain would drop down from roof, representing standing under the part of house to spy on neighbours.
Eavesdrop
Term for French for “cover fire”, fire safety regulations under whcih bell ring in evening to tell people to extinguish fires and go to sleep.
Curfew
Word comes from Hindi for “pleasant” or “happy”.
Cushy - khush
Term from Latin for “smooth out, flatten or make planar”, a good method of this will make the rough points easier.
Explain
Flower name comes from opening in the day and closing at night.
Daisy / day’s eye
Fruit cross between raspberry, blackberry, dewberry and loganberry and named after Anaheim, California horticulturalist.
Boysenberry
Rubus caesius and rubus aboriginum are Eurasian and American version of which berry?
Dewberry
Rubus Idaeus which type of fruit?
Raspberry
Rubus Fruticosus European fruit Latin name for ?
Blackberry
Fruit hybrid of North American blackberry (rubus ursinus) and European raspberry (rubus idaeus). Named after a judge in Santa Cruz, CA in 1881.
Loganberry
Fruit named after Scottish river cross between European blackberry and European raspberry.
Tayberry
Small dry one seeded fruit that does not open to release the seed, the tiny bits on the sides of strawberries. From Greek “to gape”.
Achenes
Prunes are dried what?
Plums
Type of plum with name derived from capital in Middle East.
Damson
Type of plum named after a British landowner and politician who introduced cultivar from France in 1724
Greengage
Prunus Spinosa known as what? Also type of tree
Blackthorn or Sloe
Sloe flavoured liquor commonly drunk in Spain in Navarre.
Patxaran
Common wood to use walking sticks like an Irish Shillelagh
Blackthorn
Central and Eastern Europe spirit made from Damson plums
Slivovitz
What type of leaves were used by Adam and Eve in Bible?
Fig Leaves
Phoenix Dactylifera cultivated for which edible sweet fruit
Dates
Sometimes known as Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths, Jewish holiday for seven days beginning on 15th day of Tishrei.
Sukkot
Commonly known as Feast of Weeks, from Hebrew from “weeks”, occurs on sixth day of Hebrew month of Sivan. Marks the wheat harvest in the land of Israel.
Shavuot
Three Pilgramage Festivals of Judaism
Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot
Passover, Weeks/Pentecost, Tabernacles
Fruit name comes from Greek for “large melon”. Competitive competition called Chunking involving chucking them as far as possible.
Pumpkin
Term for “field beet” or old “root of scarcity”. Variety of BETA vulgaris. Name from German for Chard Root
Mangelwurzel
North American name for Swede root vegetable. Form of brassica napus.
Rutabaga
Celtic festival celebrated on Isle of Man on 31st October like Halloween. Celebration of Samhain.
Hop-tu-Naa
Gaelic Festival on 1 November marking start of winter. Celebrations start 31 October.
Samhain
Also called Saint Brigid’s Day, Gaelic Festival marks beginning of spring, end of winter, 1 February.
Imbolc
Gaelic May Day Festival on 1 May.
Beltane
Gaelic Festival marking beginning of harvest season held on 1 August, corresponds to English Lammas.
Lughnasadh (Loo-ne- se)
Four Gaelic festivals starting 1 February going through the year.
1 Feb: Imbolc
1 May: Beltane
1 Aug: Lughnasadh
1 Nov: Samhain
What Christian holiday celebrated in northern hemisphere on 1 August?
Lammas
Launched in 1999, one of great observatories, the Chandra observatory observes which type of electromagnetic radiation?
X-Ray
X-ray observatory sent in space on 1999 named after which Nobel prize winning astrophysicist?
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Hubble space telescope observes which two types of radiation?
Visible light and near ultraviolet
Compton Observatory primarily observed which type of radiation until deorbited in 2000
Gamma Rays
Fermi Space telescope launched in 2008 is CERN experiment and observes which type of radiation?
Gamma Ray
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is nasa studying what energetic explosions from distance galaxies?
Gamma Ray Bursts and monitoring afterglow in X-ray
The Spitzer Space Telescope launched in 2003 and ending 2020 observes which radiation?
Infrared
Star Trek character played by Nichelle Nichols
Nyota Uhura
Which astronomer conceived ideas of telescopes operating in space, has a namesake infrared observing telescope and as a mountaineer he made first ascent of Mount Thor (Baffin Island)?
Lyman Spitzer
In 1976, Rick Sylvester performed BASE jump with Union Jack flag for The Spy who Lovrd Me, skiing down which mountain on Baffin Island?
Mount Asgard
Mount Thor and Mount Asgard on which island?
Baffin Island
Smallest and southern most province of China consisting of islands in South China Sea.
Hainan
Capital of the province of Hainan, letter out becomes a poem.
Haikou
Named after French chemist who won Nobel for creating it, name of chemical compound with general formula R-Mg-X where X is halogen and R is organic group (alkyl or aryl). Popular Reagent in organic synthesis for creating new carbon-carbon bonds.
Grignard reagent
Emerging during Tang Dynasty; type of Chinese ink brush painting uses black ink, great emphasis on virtuoso brushwork.
Ink wash painting
Japanese for “great god”, video game by Capcom shows Amaterasu taking form of a white wolf and used traditional art rendering.
Okami
English portrait specialist born in 1723 in Plympton, Plymouth.
Joshua Reynolds
British portrait and landscape painter born 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk.
Thomas Gainsborough
Landscape painter born 1776 in East Bergholt, Suffolk.
John Constable
Painter born 1775 died 1851 in London, all initials please
Joseph Mallord William Turner
French painter born surname Gellee, famous paintings Landscape with Narcissus and Echo, The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula
Claude Lorrain
Which Saint sailed with 11,000 virginal handmaidens to join husband Conan Meriadoc of Armorica. All virgins died by Huns hands in Cologne in 383.
Saint Ursula
Whcih group of islands were named after St Ursula and her 11000 handmaidens
Virgin Islands
Founder of art movement Futurism, what Italian poet in 1909? Released on front page manifesto of Le Figaro.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Paper in France named after a character in a play by Beaumarchais (1732-99).
Le Figaro (play was Marriage of Figaro)
Pierre Beaumarchais wrote three Figaro plays: the barber of Seville, the marriage of Figaro and which third play?
The Guilty Mother
1786 Mozart did The Marriage of Figaro, 1816: Rossini did Barber of Seville. In 1966 which member of Les Six composed an opera of “The Guilty Mother”?
Darius Milhaud
Playwright Pierre Beaumarchais was librettist on which of Antonio Salieri’s opera premiered in 1787? It’s a soldier and later reworked into Italian version Axur, re d’Ormus.
Tarare
Who wrote the book The Power of the Dog in 1967?
Thomas Savage
New Zealand author born Dunedin 1924, her three volume autobiography adapted into An Angel at My Table in 1990 by Jane Campion. Books: The Carpathians, Owls do Cry.
Janet Frame
New Zealand author born 1888 in Wellington books include Garden Party, The Doll’s House, Miss Brill, Bliss.
Katherine Mansfield
Regulus regulus bird
Goldcrest
Regulus Ignicapilla bird
Firecrest
Spinus Spinus bird
Siskin
What is three letter term for aggregation of male animal gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals to entice visiting females? Comes from Swedish for “play” or less rule bound games.
Lek
Fruity name for the mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales. Acts as sound lens.
Melon
Kwa-Zulu-Natal run of which fish takes place May-July when billions of this fish spawn in cool waters of Agulhas Bank.
Sardine Run - sardinops sagax
Connochaetes genus, antelope in Bovidae family which known for migration patterns.
Wildebeest/Gnu
Optics experiment by Humphrey Lloyd in 1834 about reflected light interfering with source direction. Has impact on underwater acoustics, sonar operations and can cause marine animals to not hear ships etc.
Lloyds Mirror
What occurs during last evolutionary stage of massive Star or when white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion? Term coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1929.
Supernova
Last supernova to be directly observed in Milky Way was whcih supernova in 1604?
Kepler’s Supernova
1933 term coined by Fritz Zwicky when using the virial theorem to infer existence of unseen substance.
Dark matter
Scientist born 1811 in Gottingen, discovered arsenic antidote , new ways to analyse gases, invented zinc-carbon cell and in 1864 flash photography using burning magnesium.
Robert Bunsen
In 1860, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered which two elements both named after colours due to using flame spectroscopy.
Caesium and Rubidium
French astronomer Pierre Jansen and British astronomer Norman Lockyer independently discovered which element in 1868?
Helium
1916 American chemist introduced what namesake structures representing atoms and molecules with dots for electrons and lines for covalent bonds.
Lewis Structures
What foodstuff used in Kekule’s benzene formula initially?
Sausage formula
Which Irish crystallographer used x Ray crystallography to confirm benzene cyclical structure as asserted by august Kekule?
Kathleen Lonsdale
Small cake/biscuit from Italian for paste, typically from ground almonds
Macaroons
Bonxie is another name for which seabird?
Great Skua
Amália Rodrigues was the “queen” of which Iberian music style?
Fado
Which novel’s title alludes to the start of 15 August 1947?
Midnights Children
The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest group of what?
Yakuza
Which writing system was once called “letters of the birds”?
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
What is the oldest university in Belgium?
Leuven
A baby’s caul was said to protect against which fate?
Drowning
Chevalier Rebsomen was a one armed virtuoso on which instrument?
Flute
Def Leppard one armed drummer
Rick Allen
Who was an American musician who was the bassist for heavy metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986?
Cliff Burton
Which forts were built during the Victorian period on the recommendations of the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, prompted by concerns about the strength of the French Navy? Named after prime minister at time.
Palmerston Forts
Circular small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century? Named after a ruined tower on Corsica named after area.
Martello Towers
Which armed towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer?
Maunsell Forts
Written in PHP with founders, American developer Matt Mullenweg and English developer Mike Little, which content management system used by 43% of top 10 million websites as of Oct 2021?
WordPress
Israeli software company, publicly listed in the US, that provides cloud-based web development services founded by A Abrahami, N Abrahami, Giora Kaplan.
Wix
Founded by Anthony Casalena in 2004, American website building and hosting company set up from dorm room of University of Maryland?
Squarespace
Which British journalist had written The Fate of Abraham: why the West is wrong about islam, the assault on truth: Boris Johnson Donald trump and emergence of new moral barbarism, wounded tiger/white on green both about Pakistan, basil d’oliveira, dangerous delusion WhT west wrong about nuclear Iran.
Peter Oborne
2003 judicial enquiry in uk about circumstances surrounding death of Dr David Kelly.
Hutton Inquiry
British public inquiry into nation’s role in the Iraq war named after its chairman.
Chilcot Report
Name of the review done by chairman for government examining intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
Butler Review
What year aberfan disaster
1966
Bloody Sunday Inquiry named after chairman of the inquiry in 1998
Saville Inquiry
Which inquiry appointed in July 2011 was into culture practices and ethics of British press following the news international phone hacking scandal?
Leveson Inquiry
1999 London rail crash that occurred when two trains crashed head on. 31 killed.
Ladbroke Grove rail crash.
Name of colliery in gwent, wales, in June 1960 site of underground explosion killed 45/48 miners in the mine.
Six Bells Colliery
Inquiry report written about Hillsborough disaster of 1989, 97 victims in total.
Taylor Report
Price of colour tv when first sold in 1968
£5
When was colour tv licence introduced
1968
What tv channel showed colour in uk in 1967
BBC2
First product to be advertised on colour tv in the uk?
Birds eye frozen peas
First company and product tv advertisement in 1955 with intro of ITV
Gibbs SR toothpaste
ITV first introduced on tv in uk
1955
Channel 4 date introduced
2 November 1982
S4C started broadcasting in UK on which date
1 November 1982
S4C stands for what
Sianel Pedwar Cymru
1 to 10 in welsh
Un, Dau/Dwy, Tri/Tair, Pedwar/Pedair, Pump/Pum, Chwech, Saith, Wyth, Naw, Deg
How much radio/tv licence when first issued in June 1946?
£2
Dog licence abolished in what year in Uk
1987
Window tax was first introduced by which monarch?
William III in 1696
Which monarch introduced beard tax in uk
Henry VIII 1535
Current tv licence price in 2022 will be same until 2024
£159
Book: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story written by which singer
Bono
Pastry created and trademarked in 2013 by French pastry chef Dominique Ansel in New York soho neighbourhood.
Cronut
Deep fried pastry like a doughnut made from rectangle of dough with a cut made in the middle that allows pulled over and through itself to make twists in side of pastry.
Cruller
Cream filled croissant that debuted at New York city’s Lafayette grand cafe and bakery.
The Supreme
Directed by Claude Berri and starring Gerald Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil and Yves Montand. Based on Marcel Pagnol book. Followed by Manon des Sources.
Jean de Florette
Whcih French actress won best actress Oscar for Room at the Top (1959) and married Yves Montand in 1951? Eunice Waymon took name from this actress.
Simone Signoret
In 1946, first filmmaker elected to the academie francaise, play called Marius, novel called Jean de Florette, and Manon des sources
Marcel Pagnol
Tv show spin off from greys anatomy, set at a fire station in Seattle. Onto sixth series now.
Station 19
Production company of the creator of Greys Anatomy. Done Bridgerton, Inventing Anna to name a few
Shondaland
Tv show with main character Marianne Sheehan as a police detective set in Philadelphia.
Mare of Easttown (Kate Winslet)
Form of glucose found in naturally occuring food like corn or other starch. From Latin for on the right.
Dextrose
Who founded Mastodon in 2016
Eugen Rochko
Hq of World Health Organisation is where
Geneva
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations HQ city
Rome
Qu Dongyu is Director-General of which UN backed agency with motto “fiat panis” meaning let there be bread
Food and Agriculture Organisation
IMF stands for
International Monetary Fund
IMF managing director from 2019. Ceo of world bank group from 2017-19.
Kristalina Georgiova
President of World Bank Group from 2019
David Malpass
World Bank President from 2012-19
Jim Yong Kim
World Bank President from 1968-81 also longest serving Secretary of Defence from 1961-68
Robert Strange McNamara
IMF managing director 2011-19 and now President of ECB 2019+
Christine Lagarde
IMF managing director 2007-11
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
President of ECB before Lagarde 2011-19
Mario Draghi
ECB first four presidents
Wim Duisenberg 1998-2003 Dutch
Jean-Claude Trichet 2003-11 French
Mario Draghi 2011-19 Italian
Christine Lagarde 2019+ French
Soweto is township of Johannesburg in Gauteng province, it’s a syllabic abbreviation for which three words.
South Western Townships
How many hundredweight in a ton?
20 Hundredweights in a Ton
Short Hundredweight of 100lbs used in USA.
Long hundredweight of how many pounds used in imperial system?
112lbs
Metric ton is 1000kg, how many lbs is a long ton compared to 2000lbs in a short ton.
2240lbs as used 112lb in hundredweight imperial weighting
What Surrey hill features in Jane Austen book Emma where Emma Woodhouse has a picnic there?
Box Hill
Which coastal town features in the Jane Austen novel Persuasion
Lyme Regis - Dorset
Persuasion novel main character
Anne Elliot
Northanger Abbey main character
Catherine Morland
Which 2004 book features characters Sonmi-451, Robert Frobisher, Old Georgie, Meronym, Zachry and Rufus Sixsmith?
Cloud Atlas
Genus of mosquitos derived from Greek for useless, one of best known for spreading malaria parasite plasmodium falciparum.
Anopheles
DDT stands for
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Zika virus named after forest of what country
Uganda
Which fever gets name from Swahili phrase meaning cramp like seizure?
Dengue Fever
Infection first identified in 1952 in Tanzania, term from Kimakonde language means “to become contorted”.
Chikungunya
What disease caused by trypanosoma cruzi spread by kissing bug bugs, is named after Brazilian physician after whom it is named?
Chagas Disease
Name of manifestations caused by parasites through bite of sandflies. Could be known as “Jericho buttons” back in the day. Named after a Scottish pathologist and director general of army medical services 1923-26.
Leishmaniasis
Painting by John Waterhouse inspired by John Keats 1820 poem about a bridegroom who discovers his bride is monstrous half serpent on wedding night.
Lamia
Oil paintings by John Waterhouse inspired by the first line of Robert Herrick’s poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”.
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
1897 oil painting by John Waterhouse depicting scenes from an 1830 Tennyson poem of woman who is praying for return of the lost love, dictator Angelo, who spurned her. “And in the liquid mirror glowed the clear perfection of her face”.
Mariana in the South
Herbie was what type of car
1963 Volkswagen Beetle
Number on side of Herbie the Beetle
53
Herbie the beetle car reg
OFP 857
5 car on wacky races driven by Penelope pit stop
Compact Pussycat
Mean Machine number driven by Dick Dastardly and Muttley
00
Slag Brothers car #01
Bouldermobile
02 The Creepy Coupe driven by which pair in wacky races
The Gruesome Twosome
Who drive #3 The Convert-a-Car in wacky races
Professor Pat Pending
Red Max drove which car #4 in wacky races
The crimson haybAler
Sergeant Blast and Private Meekley drive what car #6 in wacky races
The Army Surplus Special
Who drive #7 The Bulletproof Bomb in wacky races
The Ant Hill Mob
Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear drive which #8 car in wacky races
The Arkansas Chug-a-Bug
Peter Perfect drives which #9 car in wacky races
The Turbo Terrific
Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth drive which #10 car in Wacky Races?
The Buzzwagon
How many wheels does Lady Penelope rolls Royce have and car reg?
Six wheels: FAB 1
Cocina is Spanish for whcih room of house?
Kitchen
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010 born in China involved in ending communist one party rule.
Liu Xiaobo
Narragansett, Bronze and Norfolk Black all breeds of what?
Turkey
Debut album of abba in 1973
Ring Ring
Tall cylindrical military cap usually with visor often worn by drum major named after Hungarian origins
Shako
Chef hat official name
Toque
Who was the fourth Rice Krispie mascot but dropped back in the early 1950s
Pow
Which rice krispies mascot portrayed Wearing chef toque and red neckerchief
Snap
Which rice krispies mascot portrayed Wearing red/white sleeping cap and a white neckerchief?
Crackle
Which rice krispies mascot portrayed Wearing a drum major’s shako and wearing red?
Pop
First British pM to be born after WW2?
Tony Blair
Theme from Star Trek was composed by who? Originally aired 1966-69.
Alexander Courage
Who won French Open thrice in 1980s, Australian Open 1989 and 1990. Then US Open thrice in 80s too. Never Wimbledon.
Ivan Lendl
What vegetable used for Brazilian cake Bolo de Cenoura?
Carrot
Doris Day sings Just Blew In From the Windy City in which 1953 film musical?
Calamity Jane
Wellington Boots manufacturer founded in 1856!-: the North British Rubber Company
Hunter
Chinese Zodiac 2023 will be the what year?
Year of the Rabbit
Name given by fragrant climbing plants of genus Lonicera and actress who plays Samantha in Foyles War
Honeysuckle
Australian island colloquially known as “Quokka Island”
Rottnest Island
Which Capetian monarch was king of France at time of battle of Hastings 1066?
Philip I
Hindu mythology term for half human half snake
Naga
Bruce Springsteen 2022 album
Only the Strong Survive
Which British school has motto Stet Fortuna Domus (may the fortune of the house stand)
Harrow
WhT is motto of Eton?
Floreat Etona
8th hole of Royal Troon nicknamed what?
“the coffin” bunker is on of which golf course’s 8th hole
Royal Troon nickname for 8th hole?
Postage Stamp
1881 of Disraeli painted by which Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood painter?
John Everett Millais
Organ of body affected by dressler syndrome?
Heart / it’s inflammation of sac surround heart (pericarditis)
Which American author wrote the 2022 novel Long live the pumpkin queen as a sequel to Tim Burton’s The Nightmare before Christmas ?
Shea Earnshaw
Japanese snack takoyaki traditionally use whcih seafood
Octopus
Niger River flows through two capital cities : which two!
Niamey and Bamako
In 1984 Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman released first set of whcih novels based on a series of D&D game modules.
Dragonlance
Name of the horse Princess Anne ride at 1976 Equestrian event?
Goodwill
1999 film directed by Julie Taymor stars Anthony Hopkins as Roman general returning from 10 years at war with the goths
Titus
Which democrat won popular vote but lost election in 1876 presidential election?
Samuel Tilden
Samuel J Tilden won popular vote but lost 1876 election against which president?
Rutherford B Hayes
Lost city was discovered by Greek archaeologist Eleni Korka in 2018?
Tenea (built by Trojan prisoners of war)
Which French jewellery house was official jeweller for Napoleon?
Chaumet
Who was the founder of House of Chaumet, becoming official jeweler to Napoleon?
Marie-Etienne Nitot
Egyptian Ratscrew alternative to what four letter word name for card game similar to British beggar-my-neighbour
Slap
System of brain training popular in UK during first half of twentieth century devised by namesake memory institute. Card game where matching pairs must be selected from memory from cards laid face down.
Pelmanism
Ru Paul Drag Race UK season 1
The Vivienne
Ru Paul Drag Race UK season 2
Lawrence Cheney
Ru Paul Drag Race UK season 3
Krystal Versace
Ru Paul Drag Race UK season 4
Danny Beard
Real name Darren Watkins Jr. American YouTuber known for variety livestreamS of Fortnite or NBA 2K. Also not
Seeing Cristiano Ronaldo.
I show speed / Speed
Inspector Morse character sergeant Lewis first name
Robbie
Who played sergeant Lewis in Inspector Morse?
Kevin Whately
First Motown number one in USA
Please Mr Postman
Which term originating in 2000 with board game Carcassonne is defined in dictionary as a small figure typically in stylised human form used as playing piece?
Meeple
Lady Gertrude Stock founded which modern day charity in 1891
Dogs Trust
Which charity was named The National Canine Defence League until 2003
Dogs Trust
Which Volkswagen marquee is named after German word for trade wind?
Passat
Which Volkswagen marquee is named after larger Berber ethnic group inhibiting Sahara desert?
Tuareg
T20 World Cup 2022 hosted which country
Australia
Winner of player of series for T20 2022 Cricket World Cup? Plays for Surrey and Oval Invincibles.
Sam Curran
Which Dickens novel was inspiration for Nolan film The Dark Knight Rises?
1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities
1858 Dickens was first celebrity spokesman for a medical charity potentially when raising money for whcih hospital
Great Ormond Street
Great Ormond Street founded what year
1852
Which member of The Goon Show played Mr Bumble in Oliver!
Harry Secombe
Who played Fagin in 1948 film Oliver Twist, accused of antisemitism?
Alec Guinness
Least populous country of Africa
Seychelles
Top 4 populous countries in Africa
4: DRC
3: Egypt
2: Ethiopia
1: Nigeria
After being retired in 2017, what monopoly playing piece is first to return from Spring 2023?
Thimble
Which monopoly piece introduced in 2017 is to be retired in 2023 after losing vote?
T Rex
Which other two pieces other than returning thimble were retired in 2017 monopoly?
Wheelbarrow and Boot
Which two other pieces were introduced same time as the future retired T. rex of monopoly playing pieces?
Rubber ducky and penguin
In 2013, which monopoly piece was introduced and which piece retired?
Cat in, iron out
Also called the Amar Opening, the Ammonia Opening is what opening move?
Knight to H3 (NH3)
Longest running single to be #1 at 9 minutes 38 seconds
Oasis’ All Around the World
Shortest uk number one song at 1 minute and 35 seconds
What do you want? By Adam Faith
Which mammal always keeps one leg on the ground even running?
Elephant
What does ASMR stand for
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Lowest vocal male singing voice of all types
Bass
What is higher mens voice than tenor?
Countertenor
Lowest female voice type
Contralto
Female singing voice between contralto and soprano
Mezzosoprano
Highest vocal range of all voice types
Soprano
Name given to senior diplomat in charge of diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth government to another?
High Commissioner
What oil is essential oil obtained from leaves and stems of different species of Cymbopogon (lemongrass)?
Citronella
Are you Lonesome tonight has a spoken word bit with lyrics inspired by what Shakespeare play and speech?
As you like it: all the worlds a stage
Protagonist of Oklahoma! In love with farm girl Laurey Williams?
Curly McLain
Which actress recovered from being box office poison in 1940 with successful movie The Philadelphia Story?
Katherine Hepburn
Where was the torture chamber Room 101 assigned to Winston Smith in 1984?
Ministry of Love
Fruit dessert served “belle Helene” in syrup, vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup.
Pears (Poires Belle Helene)
Hryvnia official currency in which country since 1996?
Ukraine
Who was the bride of Charles Laughton and bride of Frankenstein?
Elsa Lanchester
Singer inducted in country hall of fame 1999 and rock and roll hall of fame 2022
Dolly Parton
Mallory, Alex, Jennifer and Andy were siblings on what 1980s sitcom?
Family Ties
Who wrote Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners!
John Bunyan
Which book stars the Bundren Clan?
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
What family used by Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury, they make appearances in Absalom, Absalom! And “That Evening Sun”.
Compson Family
Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner.
Yoknapatawpha County
Which movie did Bond drive a Lotus Esprit S1 capable of converting into a submarine?
The Spy Who Loved Me
LNB is governing body for what sport in France?
Basketball
German American electronic dance music duo known for “Be My Lover”, “Sweet Dreams (Ola Ola E)”, “Tonight is the Night”?
La Bouche
Vera Bradford was a world renowned classical pianist from which country?
Australia
Pringles mascot name
Mr P, Julius Pringles
Only Austrian company who is a Big Four of Piano manufacturer, since 2008 owned by Yamaha
Bosendorfer
One of big four piano manufacturers, founded in 1853 by Carl in Berlin Germany
Bechstein
German company one of big four piano manufacturers, founded in 1853 by Julius in Leipzig.
Bluthner
German American piano company founded in 1853 by Heinrich Engelhard ______g. Factory in NYC does America, factory in Hamburg does rest of world.
Steinway and Sons
Which war was predicted by HG Wells to be the war that will end war
World war one
Horseradish Latin name
Armoracia Rusticana
Name of fictional island which features in a Alistair MacLean book and sequel “Force 10 from ______”.
Navarone
Letter of green alphabet can mean a very small amount
Iota
Young pretender victorious at battle of prestonpans in 1745
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Which geography terms comes from Finnish for barren/treeless plain?
Tundra
Term for transition area between two biological communities where two communities meet and integrate.
Ecotone
What has been called the world’s largest land biome? Word comes from “land of the little sticks” in Russian, possibly of Mongolian/ Turkish origins meaning coniferous forests.
Taiga
From Latin for shore, what zone is part of sea, lake or river that is close to shore?
Littoral zone
Coming from Latin for river bank, what is the interface between land and a river, a terrestrial biome? Plants and communities that live along river margins and bank are this type of vegetation.
Riparian zone
Shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water( used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. As a biome, distinct saline woodland or shrub land habitat characterised by depositional coastal environments where fine sediments collect in areas protected from high energy wave action.
Mangrove
Actor who appeared in film versions of Rodger and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! And Carousel and was opposite Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay and By the light of the silvery moon.
Gordon Macrae
Capital and largest city of Angola.
Luanda is the capital of which African country?
In which French city is there a replica statue of Michelangelo’s David standing in Prado roundaboutV
Marseille
Lizzo four albums
Lizzobangers 2013
Big Grrrl Small World 2015
Cuz I Love You 2019
Special 2022
Who played Cowley in 1977-83 tv show about fiction CI5 agency in The Professionals?
Gordon Jackson
Who played Doyle in 1977-83 tv show about fiction CI5 agency in The Professionals?
Martin Shaw
Who played Angus Hudson butler in Upstairs Downstairs, George Cowley head of CIS in The Professionals and Intelligence in The Great Escape?
Gordon Jackson
2001-07 tv show starring Martin Shaw as title character a high court judge who tries to seek real justice.
Judge John Deed
Who wrote 46 novels featuring Inspector George Gently?
Alan Hunter
Which tv show from 2007-2017 starred Martin Shaw as eponymous detective and Lee Ingleby as DS John Bacchus?
Inspector George Gently - written by Alan Hunter
Whcih premier league stadium has a Gwladys Street Stand?
Goodison Park - Everton
On which year was first COP 1 held?
1995
Where was COP 1 held in 1995?
Berlin germany
What does COP stand for in climate change meetings stand for?
Conference of the Parties
COP 26 was held where?
Glasgow
COP 27 was held where
Sharm El Sheikh
COP 28 in 2023 due to be held where?
Dubai
COPs up to Glasgow (and beyond?)
COP 23: Bonn
COP 24: Katowice
COP 25: Madrid
COP 26: GLASGOW
Cop 27: Sharm El Sheikh
Cop 28 (2023): Dubai
999 poem titled pale fire is written by which fictional poet by Nabakov?
John Shade
Who is the fictional narrator of Vladimir Nabakov’s pale fire? Foreword, commentary and index written by John Shade’s neighbour and colleague.
Charles Kinbote
Which luxury department store started as a linen shop on corner of Knightsbridge and Sloane street on London in 1831?
Harvey Nichols
In which country were Neenish Tarts created?
Australia
Whcih German city home to Zwinger Palace is capital of Saxony?
Dresden
Which trees leaves are favoured host of the Cynipid wasp?
Oak (oak gall wasps)
Which battle in 1911 was between forces of Porfirio Diaz and rebel forces of Francisco Madero (who became president of Mexico in 1911-13)?
Battle of Ciudad Juarez
Whcih Mexican revolutionary leader rose up to support Francisco Madero who fought alongside Pancho Villa at Battle of Ciudad Juarez in 1911? Issued a plan with his name in 1912 against Madero.
Pascual Orozco
Whcih Mexican revolutionary leader born Jose Doroteo arango arambula in 1878, was general in Mexican Revolution ousting Porfirio Diaz and in comes Madero before Huerta in 1913. Assassinated in 1923
Pancho Villa
American journalist who interviewed Pancho Villa and worked for Metropolitan during Mexican Revolution and World War 1 for The Masses? He was at October Revolution in Petrograd. Wrote 1919 Ten Days That Shook the World.
John Reed
American journalist one of three Americans buried at Kremlin wall necropolis.
John Reed
Who did coup against democratically elected Francisco Madero with aid of generals and US ambassador to Mexico. Nicknamed the “ten tragic days”. Taft supported but not Wilson so lost backing and out of power by 1914. Arrested and died in US custody in 1915.
Victoriano Huerta
Mexican revolutionary born 1879 and died 1919 in an ambush. Nicknamed attila of the south, El Caudillo del Sur. commanded liberation army of the south. Main leader in the Mexican state of MORELOS. Madero denounced his troops as bandits.
Emiliano zapata
November 1911 Zapata created what plan whcih called for substantial land reforms, Madero in turn sent forces to Morelos to find Zapatistas.
Plan de Ayala
What state was Emiliaino Zapata most associated with? Currently one of the 32 states of Mexico and capital is Cuernavaca. Second smallest after Tlaxcala.
Morelos
What was a major meeting during Mexican Revolution between factions of Mexican Revolution whcih had defeated Victoriano Huerta’s Federal army and forced his exile in 1914? Call for it from Venustiano Carranza. Moved to namesake city as Pancho Villa wouldn’t attend Mexico City.
Convention of Aguascalientes
Political manifesto of Governor of Coahuila, Venustiano Carranza, in response to execution of President Madero.
Plan of Guadalupe
Who became Mexican President in 1917-20 after earlier writing Plan of Guadalupe? Later ousted by Adolfo de La Huerta under the Plan of Agua Prieta.
Venustiano Carranza
After Adolfo De La Huerta took over from Venustiano Carranza, who replaced him after only six months of Presidency? Sonoran born general. He defeated Villa’s army in 1915 during civil war. Plan of Agua Prieta, took over from Carranza via De La Huerta. Assassinated in 1928.
Alvaro Obregon
Only naturally occurring chemical element to contain all five vowels?
Praseodymium
Which George Bernard Shaw play is set in parsonage of reverend morell?
Candida
Southampton won FA cup, Ed Moses won Olympic 400m hurdles and Chris hoy born?
1976
Birjand is the capital of which Iranian province?
South Khorasan
Barry Corbin played retired astronaut Maurice Minnifield in which comedy drama tv series?
Northern Exposure
The Mascara earthquake of 1994 had its epicentre in which country?
Algeria
Name of pig in dr Doolittle books by Hugh lofting?
Gub-gub
How many pieces used per player at start of a game of draughts?
12
How many squares are there on a draughts board?
64 - 24 pieces
Third highest mountain in Ecuador, south slope is highest point in world crossed by equator and only point on equator with snow cover.
Cayambe
Hudson River School artist who painted The Heart of the Andes (Chimborazo in distance), New England Scenery, Cotopaxi, Niagara, Our Banner in the Sky.
Fredric Edwin Church
Which mountaineer first climbed Cayambe, Chimborazo, Mont Blanc, Mount Whymper (in Canadian rockies), Matterhorn.
Edward Whymper
Which mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, first ascent by Christian almer, Peter bohren (both Swiss) and Irish Charles Barrington.
Eiger
Name of observatory located above the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland and named after the Rocky summit it is located.
Sphinx Observatory
Highest railway station of Europe is underground railway station named after which saddle connecting two major 4000ers of the Bernese Alps.
Jungfraujoch
Second highest peak of Ecuador, it is active volcano.
Cotopaxi
Highest mountain in ecuador, peak furthest from the earths centre.
Chimborazo
Heinrich Harrer book called The White Spider is about the first successful ascent of the infamous Nordwand (north face) of which mountain?
Eiger
Lotka-Volterra equations are pair of first order non linear differential equations used to describe which biological dynamics?
Predator-Prey
Named after a soviet mathematician born 1903; what namesake equations characterise continuous-time Markov processes? Describe how the probability that a continuous time Markov process in a certain state changes over time. Said “every mathematician believes that he is ahead of the others. The reason none state this belief in public is because they are intelligent people”.
Kolmogorov Equations
French mathematician born 1854 Nancy, formulated his namesake conjecture solved by grigori Perelman in 2002-03z
Henri Poincare
Named after Russian mathematician born 1856 best known for work on stochastic processes, what is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which probability of each event depends only on the state attained in previous event.
Markov Chain
Named after French mathematician born 1781 in Pithiviers, what elliptic partial differential equation of broad utility in theoretical physics is a generalisation of Laplace’s equation?
Poisson’s Equation
Named after French scholar and polymath born 1749 in Normandy, which second-order partial differential equation makes the sum of unknown function equal zero useful in Physics. Uses namesake operator.
Laplace’s Equation
US Basketball star swapped for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout held in america for 12 years in December 2022.
Brittney Griner
Real name of the singing nun, who recorded and released the French language song “Dominique” that went to #1 for four weeks in 1963?
Jeannine Deckers
What species of banana native to Philippines also harvested for fibre, is perhaps also known for being alphabetically first among all fruits and plants in dictionary?
Abaca
Disease for immune system destroying melanocytes, notable Michael jackson, Winnie Harlow and edouard philippe.
Vitiligo
Who as PM of France from 2017-20 under Macron?
Edouard Philippe
French PM between 2020-2022
Jean Castex
PM of France since May 2022. She is member of Macron’s Renaissance.
Elisabeth Borne
Elisabeth Borne is the first female PM of France since which PM from 1991-92?
Edith Cresson
Tomihiro Nishikado drew inspiration from Star Wars, novel War of the Worlds and shooting games like Breakout and Gun Fight to develop which 1978 arcade game?
Space Invaders
Paul Giamatti won Emmy for playing which President in HBO series?
John Adams
Who is the founder of Huawei Technologies?
Ren Zhengfei
Name of Ren Zhengfei’s daughter, the chief financial official of Huawei who has been held in Canada from 2018-September 2021
Meng Wanzhou
American tv quiz show hosted by Chuck Woolery for one season in 1999, accused of being like Who Wants to be a Miklionaire?
Greed
Smilidon Floridius is which extinct species?
Sabre toothed tiger
1997 which nhl team had a sabre toothed tiger be it’s logo after skeleton found beneath the UBS Tower?
Nashville Predators
The First American Cave is an archaeological and palentological site found in the downtown of which US city? Named after the national bank building under which it was found. Sabre toothed tiger found inspiring local nhl team name and mascot Gnash.
Nashville
Which weapon came into wider circulation in 1695 after mention by character in William Congreve’s play Love for Love?
Cat o’nine tails
Named after Louis Bosc, which type of fruit is “Bosc” is known for warm cinnamon colour and used in art.
Pear
Who was in Never Let Me GO, Oblivion, Birdman, Death of Stalin, amsterdam. Played Margaret thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley.
Andrea Riseborough
1984 musical comedy film starring Stallone and Dolly Parton (called Jake) based on 1975 song written by Larry Weiss.
Rhinestone
Kianoush Rostami, Sohrab Moradi, Saeid Mohammedpour and Navab Nassirshalal are Olympic medal winners for Iran in which sport?
Weightlifting
Popular Christmas Carol by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 based on Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk. Used in Home Alone.
Carol of the Bells
In music what term is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch. From Italian for obstinate.
Ostinato
Ninth month of Islamic calendar in which the Quran believed to be revealed to Muhammad.
Ramadan
My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph Pistone was adapted into which 1997 film?
Donnie Brasco
Term for a story, dialogue, question or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the great doubt and to practice or test a students progress in Zen.
Koan
Who made the VHS?
JVC (Victor Company of Japan)
What date and year was Battle of Waterloo
18 June 1815
Wide outermost layer of a stars atmosphere?
Corona
What type of horse used in Budweiser adverts for over 80 years?
Clydesdales
Who invented Lego in 1932?
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Jarlsberg is from which country?
Norway
Highest civilian award given by India created in 1954?
Bharat Ratna
Tommy Dorsey played which instrument? Theme song “I’m getting sentimental over you”. Known as “sentimental gentleman of swing”. Younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey.
Trombone
Who play clarinet in the Grammy hall of fame songs “Singin’ the Blues” 1927 and “Georgia on my Mind” 1930? Also standards I’m Glad There Is You and It’s the Dreamer in Me”. Clarinetist and Saxaphonist.
Jimmy Dorsey
Plural of genus
Genera
Term for any atom that has a net electrical charge?
Ion
Atom or molecule with a negative electrical charge?
Anion
An atom or molecule with a positive electrical charge?
Cation
What is the movement of an aeroplane from left to right?
Yaw
What is the movement of an aeroplane from up and down?
Pitch
What is the movement of an aeroplane rotation about an axis running from nose to tail?
Roll
What part of an airplane usually at rear of aircraft controls the aircraft’s pitch (up or down rotation)?
Elevators
What on the vertical tail of an airplane produces yaw (left to right movement)?
Rudder
What part of an aircraft, flaps on wings that move in opposing directions produces roll )rotation through nose to tail)?
Ailerons
President of Cuba since 2019 and First Secretary of Communist Party of Cuba from 2021 succeeding Castros.
Miguel Diaz-Canel
What member of E Street Band played Silvio Dante in the Sopranos and Frank Tagliano in Lilyhammer?
Steven Van Zandt
Name of tv show starring Steven van zandt about a gangster Frank Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated place in Norway.
Lilyhammer
What word is used for dried jalapeños when they left on bush until lost the moisture?
Chipotle
Splitting of mature plant structure along a built in line of weakness to release its contents, common with fruits anthers and sporangia. If complete detachment of part, these structures are said to be what?
Dehiscent
Structures that do not open along a built up line to release seeds are called what? They rely on decay or predation to release the contents. For example drupes such as peach, coffee, jujube etc.
Indehiscent
Fruit of Annona Muricata, a broadleaf flowering evergreen tree. Has an aroma similar to pineapple, flavour is combination of strawberries and apple with sour citrus flavour notes contrasting with an underlying thick creamy texture like banana. Sometimes promoted as an alternative cancer treatment.
Soursop
Common name for a fruit and for the tree that bears it, Annona Reticulata. Flavour is sweet akin to taste of the foodstuff it is named after.
Custard Apple
Fruit (artocarpus altilis) specifies of flowering tree in mulberry and jackfruit family. In Hawaii, myth says it originated from sacrifice of war god Ku. Bligh was off on Bounty to collect this fruit.
Breadfruit
Who had mutiny on the bounty in 1789? All reached Timor alive. Appointed Governor of NSW in Australia in 1806.
Captain William Bligh
Dobby and treadle are types of what machine?
Loom
Rene Magritte painting The Therapist is of a man sat down dressed but with what as a body and head?
Birdcage
Rene Magritte painting Man in a Bowler Hat has what over the man’s face?
White Dove
What colour man’s tie in Rene Magritte’s 1964 painting The Son of Man?
Red
What year was Rene Magritte born in Lessines, Belgium?
1898
What year and location Frans Hals born?!Paintings Malle Babbe, Laughing Cavalier, Shrovetide Revellers, The Lute Player, The Gypsy Girl, The Merry Drinker.
1582 Antwerp
1569 Brussels, painted The Hunters in the Snow, Netherlandish Proverbs, The Harvesters, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, The Tower of Babel, Childrens Games.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Latin term saying “thus always to tyrants”. Tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. John Wilkes Booth said it after shooting Abraham Lincoln.
Sic semper tyrannis
Who wrote 1966 Against Interpretation, 1968 Styles of Radical Will, 1977 On Photography.
Susan Sontag
Alfred Dreyfus, Susan Sontag, Charles Baudelaire, Serge Gainsbourg, Marguerite Duras (pot and saucer of planted pens), Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre all buried at which cemetery?
Montparnasse Cemetery
Allegorical poem by Shakespeare in 1601 as supplemental to Loves Martyr by Robert Chester. Funeral for two dead birds to which some invited but some not.
The Phoenix and the Turtle
On the album London Calling by the clash what colour is the word “London”?
Pink
On the album “London Calling” by The Clash what colour is the word calling?
Green
The front of London Calling by The Clash features which bassist for The Clash smashing his Fender Precision Bass?
Paul Simonon
What does the acronym TED stand for?
Technology, Entertainment, Design
Anglican communion: what type of bishop is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop? Catholic Church: this bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese.
Suffragan Bishop
Term for Chinese torture and execution used in China known as death by a thousand cuts
Lingchi
Highest rank of Sumo
Yokozuna
Auricular relating to whcih organ
Ear
CBD abbreviation for what
Cannabidiol
In December 2022, which original drummer for 1970s punks The Stranglers, died aged 84?
Jet Black
Mary II died at which age in 1694?
32
Where was Mary II born in 1662? She married William III in the same palace.
St James’s Palace
Which King of England born in The Hague in 1650?
William III
What was the name of William III mother? Daughter of Charles I of England who married William II of Orange.
Mary
Anne married which King
George of Denmark
George I born name
George Louis
George II born name
George Augustus
George III full name
George William Frederick
George IV full name
George Augustus Frederick
Which king of England was son of Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Luneberg and Sophia of the Palatinate?
George I
Who did George I marry?
Sophia Dorothea of Celle
George I died in 1727 in which city in the German state of Lower Saxony?
Osnabruck
Which king of England born in the Leineschloss in Hanover?
George I
What former summer residence of the House of Hanover in namesake district of Hanover was George II born in?
Herrenhausen Palace
Who did George II marry?
Caroline of Ansbach
George III was born in which townhouse Westminster location?
Norfolk House
Who was parents of George III?
Prince Frederick and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Relationship between George II and George III
Grandson
George III married who?
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Who was the first monarch to die at Windsor castle?
George III
First king to use windsor castle as a residence
Henry I
George IV wife
Caroline of Brunswick
Latin name Ophrys Apifera what is county flower of Bedfordshire?
Bee Orchid
County flower of Berkshire, scientific name Leucojum Aestivum
Summer snowflake
County flower of Cheshire, Cardamine Pratensis.
Cuckooflower
Erica vagans is which county flower of Cornwall?
Cornish Heath
Also known as Bog star, parnassia palustris is scientific name for which county flower of Cumbria
Grass-of-Parnassus
County flower of Derbyshire, polemonium caeruleum.
Jacobs-Ladder
County flower of Devon, Primula Vulgaris is the scientific name for which flower?
Primrose
Erica ciliaris is county flower of dorset, what plant?
Dorset Heath
Essex county flower, papaver rhoeas.
Common Poppy
Name of 2022 film with Clooney and Julie Roberts, head to Bali to stop daughter marrying a seaweed farmer.
Ticket to Paradise
Who directed Mamma Mia! here we go again (2018) and 2022 Ticket to Paradise. Married to Thandiwe Newton.
Ol Parker
Who gained recognition as guitarist of The Internet, debut solo album Apollo XXI. Featured on vampire weekend song Sunflower. Second album Gemini Rights (2022). Single: Bad Habit, US number one.
Steve Lacy
LA alt rock band, Dylan Minette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole Preston. 2017 viral song Pleaser. Debut album Nothing Happens in 2019 with song Are You Bored Yet?. Second album 2022 Tell Me That It’s Over.
Wallows
1975 film Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was directed by who? It won Sight and Sound poll in 2022.
Chantal Akerman
Name of monthly magazine published by British Film Institute. Conducts once a decade poll of greatest films of all time. 2022 winner Jeanne Dielman ____ by Chantal Akerman
Sight and Sound
Oxford’s 2022 word of the year means “behaviour which is self indulgent, lazy, selfish and greedy”.
Goblin Mode
Which group bought two pieces of land in Saxony upon which they were going to create own self administered state in 2022?
Konigreich Deutschland
Who was head of a right wing movement to overthrow German government in 2022? Royal title.
Prince Heinrich XIII
Thylacine better known as what extinct mammal
Tasmanian Tiger
Last thylacine or Tasmanian tiger died where in what year?
Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1936
A full length of what 100 million year old marine reptile found in Australia for first time in 2022
Plesiosaur
First appearing in Triassic period; which marine reptile takes name from “near approach lizard”
Plesiosaur
Last collectible coin to be minted with the queens portrait will have which fictional thing on its reverse?
Hogwarts Express 50p
American singer referred to as Queen of Christian Pop, “father’s eyes”, “el shaddai”, “angels”. Albums Unguarded and Lead Me On. First number one song with Peter Cetera “the next time I fall”.
Amy Grant
Who was lead singer and bassist of Chicago from 1967-85? Solo hit “Glory of Love” and “the next time I fall” number ones. Glory of Love is theme song with Karate Kid Part II nominated of Oscar.
Peter Cetera
What two words are after Chicago in 1969 debut album of Chicago?
Chicago Transit Authority
Cuban born American composer won 2021 Pulitzer for Music for Stride (orchestral composition). 2022, awarded Kennedy Center Honor.
Tania Leon
Founded in 1926, artist community on 400 acre estate in Saratoga springs in New York. “Nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment”. Purchased by the Trask’s.
Yaddo
Creator of TV shows Bored to Death and Blunt Talk. Novels include The Extra Man and You Were Never Rrally Here.
Jonathan Ames
Kennedy Centre Honours are given to those in performing arts for lifetime of culture achievement given in namesake opera house in which city?
Washington DC
Jazz saxophonist member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet and cofounder jazz fusion band Weather Report.
Wayne Shorter
Irish musician drummer of U2
Larry Mullen Jr
Bass guitarist for U2
Adam Clayton
U2’s The Edge real name
David Evans
April 2022, Jon Batiste Album won Album of the Year at Grammys?
We Are
2019 Grammy Album of the Year is which album by country singer Kacey Musgrave?
Golden Hour
Who coined the term psychodrama
Dr Jacob Moreno
The hit show The Traitors is hosted by which host
Claudia Winkelman
The Traitors is set at which Highlands castle?
Ardross Castle
Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars are both by which Irish playwright
Sean O Casey
Hitchcock 1936 film Sabotage is loosely based on which 1907 novel
Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White was adapted into which 1938 Hitchcock film?
The Lady Vanishes
Three of Daphne du Maurier works to be adapted by Hitchcock
Jamaica Inn 1939
Rebecca 1940
The Birds 1963
Wife of Hitchcock name
Alma Reville
Meet Me in St Louis 1944 film based on 1942 novel by which author? This author also helped write screenplay of Shadow of a Doubt.
Sally Benson
Three Putlizer Prizes the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. Also wrote screenplay to Hitchcok’s shadow of a doubt.
Thornton Wilder
Hitchcock 1944 film Lifeboat based on story by whcih American artist
John Steinbeck
Since 2012 of Microsoft range of touch screen laptops?
Surface
Connects Melbourne NRL, Manchester Ice Hockey, South West England cricket team and Wales women cricket team.
Storm
In “I get a kick out of you”, Sinatra sings that he gets no kick at all from which two rhyming substances?
Champagne and cocaine
Which performing reptile originally lived at The House on East 88th Street?
Lyle the Crocodile
How many ways are there said to be to get out in cricket?
10
No batsman has ever been dismissed in test cricket by hitting the ball twice or timed out. England’s Len Hutton at the Oval in 1951 is only test batsman to be given out by which method?
Obstructing the Field
Nuchal rigidity means stiffness of what
Neck
Footballer is English player who has scored most goals in premier league without earning senior cap for his country?
Kevin Campbell
Which brand name, “first branded fabric in the world”, was registered as trademark in 1896 and named after the A5012 near Matlock in Derbyshire?
Viyella (road is Via Gellia)
Dusty Springfield only uk number 1 - 1966?
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Hey Duggee narrated by who?
Alexander Armstrong
What name of activity club headed by dog Duggee?
The Squirrel Club
Hey Duggee name of purple octopus
Betty
Hey Duggee name of brown mouse
Norrie
Hey Duggee name of grey hippo
Roly
Clumsy blue rhino on Hey Duggee
Tag
Tall easy going green crocodile in Hey Duggee
Happy
Which English king created Order of the Garter at 1348?
Edward III
You can’t make bricks without ______ proverb
Straw
Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist
Bill Watterson
Lead singer and bassist of rock band Cream
Jack Bruce
Cofounder of NME and father of modern top 40 charts
Percy Dickins
Major figure in early modernist poetry movement, which American poet wrote the 1934 injunction “Make It New”?
Ezra Pound
The Smurfs creator in 1958
Pierre Culliford (Peyo)
Stan Lee credited which 1930s pulp magazine character as being the forerunner to modern superheroes? Created by Henry W Ralsron and mainly written by Lester Dent.
Doc Savage
Restaurant terminology, what menu is multi course meals with only a few choices are charged at a fixed total price.
Table d’hotes
Opened by a Swiss hotelier in 1906, which hotel in Piccadilly became first to receive a royal warrant from prince of wales for its banquet and catering services in 2002?
The Ritz
What treaty of 1905 bought end to Union of which two countries ?
Karlstad Treaty - Sweden and Norway
Castlebay, with a name pertaining to the impressive Kisimul Castle located nearby, is the largest village on which Scottish island?
Barra
Which English peninsula is bound by English channel to south and east and by marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north?
Isle of Purbeck
In September 1913, which Frenchman became the first person to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean!m?
Roland Garros
Roland Garros, French aviator, was born in Saint Denis on which French overseas department? Died 1918 one month before 30th birthday. Killed by Herman Habich.
Reunion
In 1974 French government organised a referendum with Comoros archipelago in regards to self determination, which part voted to stay with France?
Mayotte
Born in 1905 in South Carolina which American crime boss in Harlem, NYC, played by Clarence Williams in American Gangster and Forest Whittaker in 2019 Godfather of Harlem?
Bumpy Johnson
US President 1841-45 support of confederacy meant only president whose death was not officially mourned in Washington DC?
John Tyler
Daughter of Amram and Jochebed, who was older sister of Moses and Aaron?
Miriam
Mark Gonzales born 1968 nicknamed Gonz, is regarded as godfather of modern street _______?
Skateboarding
Bill Hoskyns represented Great Britain in five Olympics games in which sport? Two silvers, one 1960 and one 1964.
Fencing
Largest uninhabited island in the world?
Devon Island
Which island is the second largest uninhabited island in the world? Located in Antarctica, named after a Russian tsar?
Alexander Island
Will smith and Margot Robbie came together to star in which con man movie in 2015?
Focus
Alan “Nasty” Nash was 17 time world champion in whcih specific type of wrestling?
Toe Wrestling
Square emblem commonly used by native people of Andes, 7x7 patchwork in seven colours organised diagonally. 2009 constitution of Bolivia made this dual flag of Bolivia.
Wiphala
Chairman of Conservative Party 1922 committee between 2001 and 2010? Shares name with comedian.
Michael Spicer
What year was 1922 Committee founded?
1923
Which canadian filmmaker debut feature Black List (1995), The Young Victoria (2009 - Claire Foy), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Wild (2014). HBO Big Little Liars 2017 and Sharp Objects 2018. Died heart attack 58.
Jean-Marc Vallee
2018 Sharp Objects on HBO based on which author’s 2006 debut novel?
Gillian Flynn
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC name before independence from France in 1960?
Ubangi-Shari
Animal completes the name of the 1994 book by Stanford University biologist Robert M. Sapolsky: Why ______ don’t get ulcers?
Zebras
What nickname given to US First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes due to her strong support for the temperance movement?
Lemonade Lucy
The Kippax was a stand at which now demolished stadium up north
Maine Road
Which racket sport was invented in 1965 as a childrens backyard game on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Usa. Now official sport of Washington.
Pickleball
Who plays Sgt Wells in Dog Soldiers, 1997 sci-fi film Event Horizon, Inspector LeStrade in CBS’s elementary and Alfred Pennyworth in Fox’s Gotham. Narrator of Masterchef: The Professionals and Zero Hour.
Sean Pertwee
Who play role of antagonist Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dads Army?
Bill Pertwee
Maria Santiago married which singer in 1958?
Buddy Holly
Big Bopper real name, songs “Chantilly Lace” and “White Lightning”? Killed in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1959.
Jiles Perry Richardson
Pilot of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big BOPPER flight?
Roger Peterson
Chinese tea from Fuzhou district with name meaning Pinewood Small Sort
Lapsang Souchong
Which song was recorded by Lynn Anderson in 1970? Original by Billy Joe Royal. Later by kd lang in 1985.
Rose Garden
John Major played by which actor in series 5 of the Crown!
Jonny Lee Miller
Actor played Qyburn in Games of Thrones, Thomas More in Wolf Hall, Harold MacMillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom and Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour
Anton Lesser
Actor is Mr Knightley in Emma, Thomas More in The Tudors and Anthony Eden in The Crown.
Jeremy Northam
Actor who played Edward Heath in The Crown?
Michael Maloney
Which actor played lead role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies which he won BAFTA Best Actor, Gavin Strong in Trollied, Simon Harwood in W1A, Gordon Shakespeare in Nativity. Harold Wilson in The Crown.
Jason Watkins
British crime drama McDonald & Dodds is set in which city?
Bath
Who plays DCI Lauren McDonald in McDonald & Dodds?
Tala Gouveia
Who played DS Dodds in McDonald & Dodds?
Jason Watkins
What word can be a car model made by Reliant or a style of shoe heel?
Kitten
How many legal deliveries are bowled in a T20 cricket match?
240
Name is shared by Richie Cunningham’s Dad in happy days, duck in Guardians of Galaxy, and an ex astronaut in Big Bang Theory?
Howard
Web browser logo is compass pointing northeast
Safari
On the safari logo what way is the compass pointing
North East
Italian city was ruled by Sforza family between 1450-1512
Milan
Second largest city in Tunisia
Sfax
Who won best director Oscar in 1974 for The Sting
George Roy Hill
How many points in rook worth in game of chess?
5
Knight or Bishop is worth how many points in Chess
Three
Queen is worth how many points in Chess?
9
What is only piece in chess not to have a point value?
King
Between 1936-40, which African leader lived at Fairfield house in bath, and regular at Tropicana swimming pool in Weston-super-mare?
Haile Selassie
How many gods lived on Mount Olympus
12
BRAT diet for when nauseous or diarrhoea?
Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast
FODMAP diet stands for what?
Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides and Polyols
Paleo diet short for
Palaeolithic - fruit, veg, meat, fish, eggs.
Keto diet short for
Ketogenic
Acromial relates to whcih part of human body
Shoulder
Also called javelina or skunk pig, pig like hoofed mammal of family Tayassuidae in Americas.
Peccary
Romanian artistic gymnast won four gold medals at the 1984 Olympics?
Ecaterina Szabo
In Moroccan cooking, what is Warqa?
Pastry (sometimes called brick pastry)
Which Archbishop of Canterbury presided over the coronations of William IV and Queen Victoria?
William Howley
Name of the first VHS was which South Korean film
The Young Teacher
Which movie in 2006 was the last film to be released on VHS?
A History of Violence
The last major movie released on Betamax was which film in 1996
Mission Impossible
First two movies sold on DVD in 1997
Mars Attacks and Twister
Which film starring Robert de Niro based on the book The Executioners by John D MacDonald?
Cape Fear
Which Canadian psychologist and author of The Organisation of Behaviour lends their name to a form of learning used in AI software?
Donald Hebb
Which city is the United Bank of Africa HQ
Lagos
City of United Bank for Africa HQ
Lagos
Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler were members of which 1980s mod/punk rock band?
The Jam
Mod when used in musical genre is short for what longer word
Modernist
Which Spanish fast fashion retailer founded in 1994 uses a treble clef as its logo?
Stradivarius
Messier 45 asterism
Seven Sisters
1730 born Badonviller published astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters known as namesake Objects.
Charles Messier
Agreement between Greece and north Macedonia led to resolution about matters name, treaty named after lake which has shorelines in both and Albania.
Prespa Agreement
Two sausages in uk have protected geographically status, one is Cumberland sausages, what others?
Newmarket Sausage
Jill Valentine recurring character though which series of survival horror video game?
Resident Evil
Livonian War 1558-83 fought between which two countries
Russia and Sweden (also Lithuania-Poland)
Livonia is present day which two countries
Estonia and Latvia
Sweden and Russia signed which treaty in 1583 to stop Livonian War for while
Treaty of Plussa
Jack Carver was main protagonist in first of what series of video games?!ubisoft made these series which don’t share shared narrative but all place player in wilderness where have to fight despots.
Far Cry
Black Pudding from which Scottish town holds geographically protected status? Third largest island town in Scotland after Lerwick in Shetland and Kirkwall in Orkney.
Stornoway
Largest settlement on Shetland Islands
Lerwick
Statue of which footballer can be found in courtyard of Northampton guild hall? THird person of mixed heritage to play in top division of football league and was killed in action on the 25th March 1918.
Walter Tull
Jade and Johnny Cage from which computer game? Developed by Midway Games in 1992.
Mortal Kombat
1328 England parliament ratified which treaty which recognised Scotland as an independent kingdom?
Treaty of Northampton
Which town may you visit Delapre Abbey, a very large public park called “The Racecourse” or a large carlsberg brewery?
Northampton
Kate Moss half sister who announced she would sell nude photos via OnlyFans on 2021?
Lottie
Who founded Only Fans in November 2016?
Tim Stokely
The largest war memorial in the world in Victoria state?
Great Ocean Road
Only town or city in UK to hold geographically protected status for gin produced there?
Plymouth
Model wife of tv presenter Joel Dommett?
Hannah Cooper
565AD, Saint Catherine’s monastery part of Eastern Orthodox Church, is regarded as oldest continually inhabited Christian monastery in world. What country?
Egypt
Roger Federer is Swiss and what other nationality due to nationality of his mother?
South African
Authors work inspired Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six.
Tom Clancy
Treaties of 1212 and 1217 were named after which borough of London? Latter peace treaty signed by Louis of France ending First Barons War.
Lambeth
EU demand war crimes investigation after mass grave found 75 miles southeast of Kharkiv at which Ukrainian city?
Izium
Organisation established by the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994?
WTO
Name of James Bond father? Also Ms Davis son in Toy Story?
Andrew
Meghan Markle first husband name
Trevor Engelson
Which man who played Russ Nightlife in Toast of Tinseltown was domestic partner of actress Natasha Lyonne between 2014 and 2022?
Fred Armisen
Who presented Moneybags on channel 4? Married to Cathy Tyson in 1980s.
Craig Charles
Who played Simone, an elegant prostitute, in 1986 Mona Lisa? BAFTA supporting actress winner for tv film Help in 2021.
Cathy Tyson
1985 book by anthropologist Wade Davis and Wes Craven 1988 horror film about Haitian voodoo zombies.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Which 1901 treaty between USA and UK was legal preliminary to Panama Canal?
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Since 1997 the logo of which car manufacturer has consisted of a set of V shaped wings within an oval?
Mazda
Name of Happy Days fonzie’s father name character? Same as first name of Michael Corleone’s father in the Godfather.
Vito
Ancient Roman satirist coined the phrase “a rare bird, as a black swan”?
Juvenal
Israeli PM at the time of 1978 Camp David Accords
Menachem Begin
Only fresh meat pork product in the UK which holds geographical status comes from which breed of pig? This breed name contains an English county.
Gloucestershire Old Spot
Most common dismissal in test cricket
Caught
Type of creature is Daisy, Gene Wilder’s affections in 1972 Woody Allen movie Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask
Sheep
LA dodgers originally in Brooklyn and named after residents skill at avoiding whcih public transport?
Trolley buses - Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers
which weekly magazine launched in UK in 1988 as local edition of family run Spanish magazine founded in Barcelona in 1944?
Hello
Which expression refers to portions of a legal case that are held not in open court but in private before a judge?
In camera
Magazine founded in 1843 to muster support for repeal of which system of import tariffs in UK?
The Corn Laws
Which triannual magazine has the largest print magazine circulation in Britain?
National Trust magazine
Only capital city to stand on Rhine river? Flows into North Sea in the Netherlands.
Vaduz
UK number one single was written by Nobel winner, gave name to film starring denzel Washington and is frequently heard at premiership rugby grounds?
The Mighty Quinn
What does Op Ed stand for?
Opposite Editorial
India’s is longest; San Marino’s is oldest in writing still active, Monaco’s shortest, according to 2008 study life expectancy of 19 years. UK’s doesn’t exist. What?
Written Constitutions
National Lottery went from 49 balls to 59 balls in what year and 16 to 18 year old minimum in what year
2015: changed to 59 balls
2021: 18 new minimum
Which motorcycle manufacturer has logo design made up from three interlocking tuning forks?
Yamaha
Proclaimers two brother names
Craig and Charlie Reid
Largest castle in Wales
Caerphilly
Heavy duty band clamp known as Marman clamp was produced by which actor and engineer?
Herbert “Zeppo” Marx
Zeppo Marx real first name
Herbert
Barbara Blakeley was married to who second and who third?
Zeppo Marx and Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra four wives
Nancy Barbato
Ava Gardner
Mia Farrow
Barbara Marx
Chico Marx first name real
Leonard
Harpo Marx real first name
Adolph
Adolph Marx later known as Harpo marx changed his name to whcih A
Arthur
Groucho Marx first real name
Julius
Gummo Marx real first name
Milton
Eden Hartford known for being whose wife 1954-1969
Groucho Marx
2017 video game set in fantasy setting, game after transistor. Rites takes place on a field with two columns of flame at opposite ends and the three exiles facing off against three opponents on a top-down perspective.
Pyre
The collection of statistical models and their associated estimation procedures known as ANOVA stands for what?
Analysis of Variance
Girl with a watering can a painting in 1876 by which impressionist born 1841
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Drafted by a UN committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, accepted by General Assembly in 1948. Its an international document that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Irish animation studio based in Kilkenny founded by Paul Young, Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey?
Cartoon Saloon
First feature film by cartoon saloon, about an illuminated manuscript from the 9th century. First in Moore’s Irish Folklore Trilogy.
The Secret of Kells
Second feature and second In trilogy of Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore Trilogy. Follows 10 year old Irish boy Ben who discovered his mute sister saoirse is a selkie who has to free faerie creatures from Celtic goddess Macha (goddess of Ulster (site of Navan Fort and Armagh)).
Song of the Sea
2017 film by Cartoon Saloon by Nora Twomey based on book by Deborah Ellis. Parvana is 11 year old in Afghanistan dealing with being her family’s namesake.
The Breadwinner
2020 film by Cartoon Saloon, third in Moore’s “Irish folklore trilogy”. Follows Robyn goodfellowe young apprentice hunter arrives in Ireland with father during time of superstition and magic to wipe out last wolf pack.
Wolfwalkers
2022 film directed by Nora Twomey and in the Cartoon Saloon family. Based on 1948 childrens book by Ruth Stiles Gannett. Mythical creature in title.
My Father’s Dragon
Figure from Irish mythology translated as “great queen” or “phantom queen”. Associated with war and fate, often appears as a crow, the BADB. Encourages warriors to do good deeds. Could be three individuals: BADB, Macha and Nemain.
The Morrigan
Little Mix member surname Leigh-Anne
Pinnock
Little Mix surname of Jade
Thirlwall
Who played Lois Lane in first four superman films?!
Margot Kidder
Cousin of rapper Nas, which American actress played oldest daughter Zoey Johnson on Blackish and spin off Grownish?
Yara Shahidi
YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl, HBO show Insecure, she will voice Spider Women (Jessica Drew) in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse (2023)?
Issa Rae
American film and tv writer created Blackish, Grownish and Mixedish. Developed America’s Next Top Model with Tyra Banks. Wrote film Girls Trip. 2020 acting debut in #BlackAF on Netflix.
Kenya Barris
The 2020 movie The Witches was written by the director Robert Zemeckis and which other two? One Blackish creator, one Oscar winning director.
Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro
Campanula Rotundifolia what name! Called bluebell of Scotland also.
Harebell
Bluebell Latin name
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Anthriscus Sylvestris also known as Queen Anne’s lace or keck or wild carrot, animal name in name.
Cow Parsley
Children of the Revolution is a song by which band #2 UK
T. Rex
Song in Moulin Rouge “Nature Boy” was recorded first by which artist who has UK #1
Nat King Cole
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend is from which musical come out in 1949
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rhythm of the Night is a song by which group released in 1985?
DeBarge
Sting debut album name released in 1978
Outlandos d’Amour
Which Canadian pair won the 2010 and 2018 Ice Dance gold medals?
Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue
Which French pair won Gold for Ice dance at 2022 Beijing and silver at 2018 Pyeongchang?
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron
Who plays Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas stand up, in the 2021+ HBO tv show Hacks
Jean Smart
Who plays Ava Daniels, a down on her luck comedy writer in the 2021 HBO SHOW Hacks?
Hannah Einbinder
Who created Abbott Elementary (2021+)? Started in first season of A Black Lady Sketch Show. Norminated for three Emmys in comedy category.
Quinta Brunson
Name of the tv show where Jeff Bridges plays Dan Chase off the grid CIA operative killsbsomeone and goes on run. John Lithgow is FBI Harold Harper going against him.
The Old Man
Kevin Costner and Luke Grimes star in what 2018-22 tv show following the Dutton family owners of largest ranch in Montana.
Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is mostly in which state but also which two others
Wyoming (also Montana and Idaho)
Name of character played by Diego Luna in Star Wars sci fi show created by TonY Gilroy from 2022.
Cassian Andor
Name of American sci fi psycho thriller series created by Dan Erickson where Mark employee of Lumon Industries agrees to severance program in which non work memories are separated from work memories.
Severance
American drama ABC starring Hilary Swank as journalist seeking a fresh start in Anchorage.
Alaska Daily
2022 film Women Talking directed by which director also played Ramona Quimby in tv show Quimby.
Sarah Polley
2022 Puss in Boots sequel has what subtitle
The Last Wish
Brazilian actor who was in Elysium, Elite Squad and played Pablo Escobarnuj Narcos two seasons.
Wagner Moura
Cocreator of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, SNL member, Bobs Burgers, Parks and Rec as Mona-Lisa, appeared in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Jenny Slate
2021 Japanese animated musical film by Masaaki Yuasa. Set in 14th century and centres on friendship between title character a dancer and Tomona blind musician.
Inu-Oh
Vietnamese born actor played Short Round in Temple of Doom and Data in Goonies. Everything Everywhere All AT Once got him nominated for golden globe for Waymond Wang.
Ke Huy Quan
Irish actress who Stacey Ehrmantrout in Better Call Saul, voice of Friday in Marvel films, starred in The Banshees of Inisherin in 2022.
Kerry Condon
Who played Saul Goodman in better call Saul and breaking bad
Bob Odenkirk
Who played Mike Ehrmentraut in Breaking Bad, Frank McPike in Wiseguy, Beverly Hills Cop, Airplane, Gremlins.
Jonathan Banks
Filipina actress in Triangle of Sadness (for which she has a golden globe nomination), Verdict and Historya ni Ha
Dolly de Leon
2022 Noah Baumbach film adapted from 1985 Don DeLillo book. Stars Adam Driver as professor Jack gladney and Greta Gerwig as Babette Gladney
White Noise
Actress in Queen and Slim, played Anne Boleyn in Anne Boleyn, Zayn Malik’s pillowtalk. In Kogonada’s After Yang.
Jodie Turner-Smith
Irish soap opera on RTE One since 1989, most popular and longest running Irish drama serial. Set in fictional suburb of Dublin.
Fair City
RTE is Irish tv channel and stands for what?
Raidio Teilifis Eireann
Fictional suburb of north side part of city of Dublin that the Irish soap Fair city is set in?
Carrigstown
2022 sex drama starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The 2022 sex comedy Good Luck To You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson was written by which comedian?
Katy Brand
2022 film starring Ralph Fiennes amongst an ensemble cast, focuses on group of diners at an exclusive restaurant who discover celebrity chef owner intends to kill them all before night is out.
The Menu
Two historians who host podcast The Rest is History?
Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook
Who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938-45?
Joachim von Ribbentrop
also known as the Persian Greyhound, which dog bred to hunt on sight rather than smell
Saluki
Capital of Martinique
Fort-de-France
France has a long standing dispute with Comoros over which island which France runs as an overseas department
Mayotte
Lying between Madagascar and Mauritius which overseas territory?
Reunion
Capital of Reunion?
Saint-Denis
Frances national state owned railway company is SNCF what stands for what?
Societe nationale des chemins de fer francais
TGV trains stands for what in France
Train a grande vitesse
Colombian painter born 1942, started Pop Art moved towards abstract, cubism and realism. Focused on Afro-Colombian and Mestizo (mixed European and indigenous American ancestry). Lots of fruit.
Ana Mercedes Hoyos
Vivre sa vie, Les Carabiniers, Week End. All films by who in 1960s.
Jean Luc Godard
1956 And God Created Women, 1962 A Very Private Affair, 1963 Le Mepris, 1965 Viva Maria. All star which actress?
Brigitte Bardot
French heavy metal band starring Joe and Mario Duplantier. Two albums first: Terra Incognita and The Link then From Mars to Sirius.
Gojira
French pop rock and new wave band formed in 1981, songs include “L’Aventurier” and “Canary Bay”. 2002 album “Paradize”. Frontman is Nicola Sirkis.
Indochine
David Guetta real first name and birth city
Pierre and Paris
Composer and performer of old Occitan lyric poetry during High Middle Ages (1100-1350). Earliest known was the Duke of Aquitaine.
Troubadour
Term for a female troubadour
Trobairitz
Son of 1983 French Open winner, played for Chicago Bulls and French national basketball team.
Joakim Noah
Born in Kinshasa, born 1985, goalkeeper plays for Rennes and France national team. Made over 600 appearances for Marseille in career.
Steve Mandanda
Brazilian defender who plays as captain of PSG and plays for Brazil team. Moved to PSG at 19.
Marquinhos
Descartes 1637 book about philosophy and autobiographical treatise. Source of “I think therefore I am” je Pense donc je suis.
Discourse on the Method
Latin version of I think therefore I am “cogito, ergo sum” found in which Descartes 1644 book.
Principles of Philosophy
Architecture style taught at namesake school in Paris from 1830s to end of 1800s.
Beaux-Arts
Roman goddess of fruitful abundance. Her name comes from Latin for fruit.
Pomona
Term in architecture for an ornament of a face usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, supposed to frighten away evil spirits.
Mascaron
Real name Gaspard-Felix Tournachon born 1820-1910. French photographer, balloonist and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. 1858 first to take aerial photographs.
Nadar
Born Jean-Paulin Habans, known as one word mononym, French singer and entertainer born 1845. Became most popular singer in Paris of 1870s and 1880s.
Paulus
French writer born 1808 best known for collection of poems Les Filles du Feu (The Daughters of Fire) which included novella Sylvie and poem “El Desdichado”.
Gerard de Nerval
French landscape and portrait painter in 1796. Ville-d’Avray, Hagar in the Wilderness, Interrupted Reading, Souvenir de Mortefontaine.
Camille Corot
French painter born 1814 one of founders of Barbizon school. Realism movement. 1857 The Gleaners, The Angelus, A Winnower, The Sower.
Jean-Francois Millet
Name of process by which chaff is separated from grain, also used to remove pests from stored grain. Usually follows threshing in grain preparation. Throwing in the air, can be done with a fan.
Winnowing
What process following reaping, is the loosening of the edible part of the grain or other crop from the straw to which it’s attached? Bashing it really, can be done with a flail.
Threshing
Who wrote The Revenant whcih becnae film with Leonardo du caption
Michael Punke
I am Number four author
Pittacus Lore
Liberty Leading the People painting by Eugene Delacroix showing which Revolution in year?
July Revolution of 1830
The July Revolution of 1830 toppled which French king?
Charles X
Eugene Delacroix commemorated which atrocity on a Greek island by ottoman forces in 1822?
Massacre at Chios
Inspired by a third siege on namesake Greek location by ottoman forces in 1826, what 1826 painting by Eugene Delacroix is now at Musee des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux?
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
Three works by Delacroix based on Lord Byron 1813 poem?
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan
Oil painting by Eugene Delacroix in 1827 based on a King of Assyria inspired by Byron play of 1821 and cantata by Hector Berlioz.
The Death of Sardanapalus
Last king of Assyria sometimes called although Ashur-uballit II holds this distinction. Culturally significant plays and operas.
Sardanapalus
King of Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669BC to 631BC. Longest of any Assyrian king. British museum exhibition 2018-19.
Ashurbanipal
Neo-Assyrian King after death of 705BC-681BC. Named in 1815 poem The Destruction of _______ by Byron. “The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”.
Sennacherib
1831 painting by Eugene Delacroix showing 1477 battle and the death of Charles the Bold.
The Battle of Nancy
1863-65 painting by Edouard Manet, shows nude woman lying on bed modelled by Victorine Meurent and servant art model Laure. Modelled after Titian’s Venus of Urbino.
Olympia
Wife of Hector in Greek mythology
Andromache
Hector’s son in Greek mythology, mum was Andromache
Astyanax
Greek anatomist and royal physician of Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. Set up school of anatomy in Alexandria and in painting by Jacques-Louis David.
Erasistratus
Greek king of Seleucid Empire from 281-261BC after succeeding father Seleucus I Nicator. Famously loved his stepmother Stratonica in painting by David. Last known ruler to be attributed the ancient Mesopotamian title King of The Universe.
Antiochus I Soter
Mythical boatman of Mytilene in Lesbos who was lover of Sappho, famous lyric poet.
Phaon
Son of Odysseus and Penelope
Telemachus
Frederic Leighton’s painting Flaming June is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce which is on which island?
Puerto Rico
1748 anonymously written work influenced founding fathers of USA and written by 1689 born Montesquieu.
The Spirit of Law
Born in Paris and raised largely in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wrote the comic book series Asterix. Died in 1977.
Rene Goscinny
Illustrator of Asterix died in 2020.
Albert Uderzo
Asterix best friend name
Obelix
Wealthy aristocrat among the Helvetii, a Celtic speaking people in what is now Switzerland during the consulship of Julius Caesar.
Orgetorix
What tribe was Vercingetorix the chieftain of in failed revolt against Roman forces during Gallic wars? Executed by garrotting.
Arverni
Druid in Asterix called Getafix in English language, what in French?
Panoramix
First French satellite launched in 1965 and named after whcih French literary character?
Asterix
Second most visited theme park in France
Parc Asterix
Chief of Asterix’s Gaulish village
Chief Vitalstatistix
Obelix pet dog in Asterix
Dogmatix
Matriarchal wife of chief Vitalstatistix in Asterix
Impedimenta
Village bard in Asterix
Cacofonix
Oldest inhabitant of Asterix village
Geriatrix
Village fishmonger in Asterix
Unhygienix
Village smith in Asterix
Fulliautomatix
Asterix mother in Asterix has what name (Smilax Ornata)
Sarsaparilla
Obelix mother in Asterix has what name
Vanilla
Roman champion driver found in Asterix and the Chariot Race was named what?
Coronavirus
Belgian cartoonist creator of Lucky Luke comic about gunslinger in American Wild West.
Morris (Maurice De Bevere)
Historians Dionysus and Herodotus both both in which Turkish ancient city?
Halicarnassus
Japanese avant garde artist group founded in Hanshin region by young artists under leadership of Jiro Yoshihara in Ashiya in 1954.
Gutai Art Association
Term first used by Allan Kaprow during 1950s to describe range of art related events. Used in 1959 at George Segal’s farm.
Happening
Black Mountain College was private liberal arts college from which state founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice and Theodore Dreier.
North Carolina
Also known as Australian Impressionism, term for Australian art movement of late 19th century: coined by Sidney Dickinson in 1891 looking at works of Arthur Streeton and Walter Withers. Named after suburb of Melbourne.
Heidelberg School
Who coined term Impressionism based off Monet painting Impression Sunrise painting of Le Havre?
Louis Leroy
Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Serusier, art group name comes from Hebrew for prophets coined by Auguste Cazalis.
Les Nabis
Swiss-French painter and printmaker associated with group of Les Nabis born 1865. French landscapes, female nudes, Perseus killing the dragon (except that it’s a gator)
Felix Vallotton
Japanese term meaning folk craft or folk art developed from mid1920s by philosopher Yanagi Soetsu together with craftsmen including potters.
Mingei
German term for New Objectivity coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub. Georg Scholz, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz.
Neue Sachlichkeit
Time Magazine coined term for which art movement? Famous Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely and British Bridget Riley.
Op Art
Venezuelan op and kinetic artist sculpture and painter. Namesake sphere, penetrate Amarillo.
Jesus Rafael Soto
Term coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912 as offshoot of Cubism focusing on pure abstraction and bright colours. Frantisek Kupka, Delauneys.
Orphism
Who coined term Pop Art? Married to Sylvia Sleigh American artist.
Lawrence Alloway
French cubist painter founder of the Purist movement.
Amedee Ozenfant
Real name of Le Corbusier born 1887
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
Founders of Stuckism art movement
Billy Childish and Charles Thomson
Group of poets founded in Kent 1979: Billy Childish, Miriam Carney, Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming.
The Medway Poets
Superflat art movement founder
Takashi Murakami
Founded by Kazimir Malevich in 1913: focused on fundamentals of geometry painted in a limited range of colours.
Suprematism
Who coined term “Surrealism” in 1917 and “Orphism”? Surrealism term in program notes for Diaghilev’s Parade ballet (written by Cocteau, music by Satie).
Guillaume Apollinaire
French style of abstract painting derived from French for stain?
Tachisme
Contemporary art movement that originated in 1990s in Emmen, Netherlands. Playful nature of artworks and philosophy behind it. Coined by artist Dejo.
Toyism
Artistic style emerged in 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of coloured atmosphere or mist. Two leading painters George Inness and James McNeill Whistler.
Tonalism
19th French art movement named after location in the Seine-et-Marne department?
Barbizon School
Term which translate from Japanese “pictures of the floating world”.
Ukiyo-e
Who coined the term Vorticism? Art movement formed in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis.
Ezra Pound
Nero Wolfe author
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe assistant in Rex stout books
Archie Goodwin
Traditional Dutch stew based on diced meat, fish or poultry and vegetables.
Hachee
1968 Winter Olympics host
Grenoble
German sculptor who designed the Quadriga placed on top of the Brandenburg Gate? Horses’ reins are held by Victoria goddess of victory.
Johann Gottfried Schadow
Argentina manager at World Cup 2022?
Lionel Scaloni
Little sister of Sindy doll first sold in 1966
Patch
Sindy’s boyfriend first sold in 1965?
Paul
Doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbie’s younger sister
Skipper
Barbie was born in which fictional town and state?
Willows, Wisconsin
Sisters of Barbie in order going back to Barbie
Kelly/Chelsea (Kelly 1995-2010, 2011+)
Stacie
Skipper
Barbies parents names
George and Margaret Roberts
Port city on Persian gulf is largest city of the eastern province of Saudi Arabia?
Dammam
Also known as western province in Saudi Arabia, what is term meaning The Barrier in Arabic, contains Mecca, Medina, Jeddah?
Hejaz
Voice of “are you sitting comfortably…” in Listen with Mother 1950-71, part of original cast of Corrie as Esther Hayes. Mrs Plummer in Man About the House.
Daphne Oxenford
Word relating to an alternative name for Aphrodite, means relating to Venus?
Cytherean
Capital of Basque Country in Spain
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Largest by population city of Basque Country?
Bilbao
Which cosmetic company sells 24 shades of its Ultra HD Snap! Nail polish
Revlon
Which Girls Generation member was announced as global ambassador for Revlon in 2020?
Jessica Jung
Salty porridge Khichdi or Khichri is dish in south Asian cuisine made from rice and what other ingredient?
Lentils
1910 Great Flood of which European capital?
Paris
Which polish referee was in control for 2022 World Cup final?
Szymon Marciniak
Which Argentina referee took charge of final of World Cup 2018 final?
Nestor Pitana
2014 World Cup final between Argentina and Germany was referred by which Italian referee?
Nicola Rizzoli
Who was referee for 2010 World Cup Final between Netherlands and Spain?
Howard Webb
First Belgian player to attain #1 rating in tennis
Kim Clijsters
What instrument would find a gizmo key?
Flute - found on B foot joint of certain flutes
Monte San Salvatore mountain overlooking which city and namesake lake on Switzerland/Italy border.
Lugano
Woodlawn and City Island are both neighbourhoods found in which borough of NY?
Bronx
Which bbc comedy features characters of Vince Noir and Howard Moon?
The Mighty Boosh
Who founded mighty boosh alongside Noel fielding?
Julian Barratt
British sitcoms written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, six episodes in 2005 starring Nicholas Burns as title character a webmaster, guerilla filmmaker and screenwriting DJ.
Nathan Barley
Which annelid has 32 brains, 10 stomachs and 5 pairs of eyes?
Leeches
Who sang lead vocals of Yellow Submarine?
Ringo Starr
Vacherin cheese of what animal
Cow
Plantar Fascia band of issue found where?
Bottom of foot
How many Punic wars between Carthage and Rome?
Three
Cleopatra’s father
Ptolemy XII Auletes
Cleopatra regnal number (famous one)
VII Philopator (meaning father-beloved)
Mother of Constantine the Great, found true cross while tour holy land
St Helena
Fictional Maine village where Jessica Fletcher lived
Cabot Cove
Mr Miyagi actor
Pat Morita
First name of cartoon character Mr Magoo
Quincy
Which flag flies permanently over Buckingham Palace London?
The Royal Standard
Creature of Greek mythology is male spirit with ears and tail of horse and a permanent, exaggerated erection.
Satyr
Royston Vasey was based on Alston in which county of England third largest
Cumbria
Tahliah Debrett Barnett stage name, gave court case to Shia LaBeouf in 2020
FKA Twigs
What Olympics did Tessa Sanderson first represent UK
1976 Montreal
Swedish American actress who appeared in Viva Las Vegas opposite Elvis. Married to Roger Smith who played title role in Mister Roberts.
Ann-Margret
Area of London is home to Art Deco Hoover Building
Perivale
Mortal enemy of JR Ewing in Dallas
Cliff Barnes
Emi Koussi is highest peak in Sahara Desert and is in which country?
Chad
Company was founded as London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company Limited in 1909?
Lonrho
Hottest desert in US and Mexico which desert covers majority of Baja California peninsula?
Sonoran Desert
Backwards, earlier, indeed and since are all examples of which part-of-speech which don’t end in LY?
Adverbs
Broadcaster who popularised 5:2 diet! Been on Trust Me I’m a Doctor since 2013
Michael Mosley
Who had song with Be Bop A Lula in 1956
Gene Vincent
Two characters who owned shop in league of gentlemen
Edward or Tubbs
New wave band Icehouse had songs called “Electric Blue” and “Hey Little Girl” and formed in which country?
Australia
Marlborough Palace saved in 19th century by Duke of Mark’s marriage to whcih American railroad heiress?
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Fortress home of He Man
Castle Grayskull
Jim Davison 1980s tv sitcom referencing area of south london
Up the elephant and round the castleb
Suffragette founded the Womens Social and Political Union?
Emmeline Pankhurst
Who played Tanya Branning in Eastenders
Jo Joyner
Which North Yorkshire stately home used as Brideshead Castle in 1981 tv adaptation?
Castle Howard
Sebastien Flyte in BR describes his alcoholism as what outdated term beginning with D
Dipsomania
Only chess player to have died while holding world championship title?
Alexander Alekhine
2012: Korean born New Zealand golfer became youngest golfer to win LPGA event at only 15
Lydia Ko
Which woman holds the British record in heptathlon?
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Most famous book by man who wrote under name Robert Tressell?
The Ragged Trousered philanthropist
Real name of author Robert Tressell
Robert Noonan
Lead singer of the Three degrees biggest hits like When Will I see you again, John thaw’s wife and sue Johnston’s character in Brookside
Sheila
Who was married to John Thaw and won Laurence Olivier awards and Tony Award nominations?
Sheila Hancock
Pub featured in An American Werewolf in London?
The Slaughtered Lamb
Authors most famous book 1995 memoir A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer
Which amendment of US Constitution guaranteed women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
Pixies lead singer
Black Francis
First names Lennie and Dianne gives name to British folk and pop duo with songs of “Welcome Home” #1, first album “We Can Make It”.
Peters and Lee
Nomadland was based on book by who?
Jessica Bruder
Ebla are remains founded in early Bronze Age in which country?
Syria
Who played Dr Watson opposite Basil Rathbone in 14 movies?
Nigel Bruce
Van Halen frontman
David Lee Roth
French term for fashionable, wealthy young people
Jeunesse Doree
Kiki Dee real name
Pauline Matthews
Amy Winehouse two albums
2003: Frank
2006: Back to Black
Name of an English matador, the most senior level of bullfighter, who was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1944. He died as a result of a hang-gliding accident, while demonstrating it by jumping off a 200 ft high hill in 1978.
Henry Higgins
“Bent double like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” first line of which poem
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
1990 war drama film starring Matthew Modine and Harry Connick Jr in debut, about a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber. Plane and film named after Robert Morgan’s sweetheart Margaret Polk.
Memphis Belle
Beatrice Harrison virtuoso on which instrument including on duet with a nightingale in her garden?
Cello
What does LIDAR stand for?
Light Detection and Ranging (or Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging)
Instrument used to measure drop size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometers.
Disdrometer
Hygrometer measures what?
Water vapor
Instrument for measuring the concentration of suspects particulates in a liquid or gas colloid. Named using the Greek for cloud.
Nephelometer
Type of actinometer used for measuring solar irradiance on a planar surface? Greek for fire above sky.
Pyranometer
What does SODAR stand for? Based on scattering of sound waves by atmospheric turbulence.
Sonic detection and ranging
Shelter to meteorological instruments against precipitation and direct heat radiation from outside sources.
Stevenson Screen
How did Tennessee Williams refer to his play Glass Menagerie as where lead character narrates events of play drawn from his mind?
Memory Play
Which Tennessee Williams play features a miniature unicorn?
The Glass Menagerie
Leonard Cohen first we take Manhattan then we take ______
Berlin
1960 earthquake which hit Chile known as what named after nearest town?
Valdivia
American composer known for his Tempest Fantasty which got 2004 Pulitzer Music. Also operas The Letter 09) and The Shining (2016)
Paul Moravec
Latin term for female who has never been pregnant
Nulligravida
Latin term for female who has never carried pregnancy beyond 20 weeks (one who hasn’t given birth)
Nullipara
Which country has the 500km Saint Paul Trail from Perge to Yalvac?
Turkey
Name of Britney Spears first fragrance - tagline Do You Dare?
Curious
Britney Spears second fragrance. Tagline: Everybody Has One
Fantasy
2018 fragrance by Britney Spears named after her 2004 song
Prerogative
Girls Aloud four #1 songs
Sound of the Underground
I’ll Stand By You
Walk This Way
The Promise
Who had albums What Will The Neighbours Say 2004 and Chemistry 2005? 2008 Out of Control went to #1.
Girls Aloud
Who says “Am I not my brothers keeper” in the Bible and so which book?
Cain - Genesis
Red Alert a 1958 novel by Peter George and was inspiration for which 1964 film?
Dr Strangelove (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Who Australian actress 2010 alice in wonderland title role. Jane Eyre, Madame Bovery, Crimson Peak. Reprise Alice Through Looking Glass 2016.
Mia Wasikowska
Born Rosemary Brown, Who Put the lights out 1971 was whose second hit single?
Dana
Who wrote Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
Blaydon Races is a song associated with which football team?
Newcastle - Geordie Ridley wrote it
1967 company founded by Chung Ju-Yung initially to build the Ford Cortina
Hyundai
First woman to run a sub-5 minute mile
Diane Leather
What is the opposite of the zenith ie the lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation? In astronomy the point on celestial sphere directly below an observer.
Nadir
Time or period when at its best most successful, astronomy means point in sky overhead
Zenith
What term is the direction of a celestial object from the observer expressed as the angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon?
Azimuth
Words which have six successive consonants?
Catchphrase, archchronicler, latchstring, lengthsman, postphthisic.
Name of the story book published weekly 1908-40 which contained story of Greyfriars School, situated in Kent and starring Billy Bunter. Greyfriars written by Charles Hamilton under pen name Frank Richards.
The Magnet
Fictional Oxford college, Beaumont College, most associated with which novels?
Inspector Morse
Christminster university appears in which Thomas hardy novel?
Jude the Obscure
Name of school in Matilda
Crunchem Hall
Series of books by Anthony Buckeridge about namesake schoolboy at Linbury Court prep school.
Jennings
Author of the worst witch
Jill Murphy
School setting of The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy?
Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches
Main character of The Worst Witch by Murphy
Mildred Hubble
Nigel Molesworth attended which English prep school? Illustrated by a Ronald Searle.
St Custard’s
Who wrote the Nigel Molesworth books illustrated by z Ronald Searle?
Geoffrey Willans
Who did St Trinians and then also Nigel Molesworth
Ronald Searle
Name of Australian cricketer mostly known by nickname, one of fastest bowlers ever, opening partner of fellow fast bowler Dennis Lillee.
Jeff Thomson
Four composers who suffered from The Curse of the Ninth
Gustav Mahler; Beethoven; Franz Schubert; Ralph Vaughan Williams
What is the simple piano piece known as Chopsticks known as in Germany give German or translation
Flohwalzer or Flea Waltz
Whcih English rock band has more chart single hits than any other rock band with over 60 chart hits? Also more appearance on Topbofnthe pops than any other group?
Status Quo
What was first song performed on TOTP in 1964 debut?
Dusty Springfield’s I Only Want To Be With You
First band to perform on Top of the Pops
Rolling Stones: I Wanna Be Your Man
Who were last act to play live on weekly show TOTP?
Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars
Which F1 driver holds record for most races before achieving first pole position with 215 and won his third GP at Monaco in 2022?
Sergio Perez
Circle of Willis found in which organ?
Brain - connected the anterior and posterior circulations of brain
Which Oxford college founded in 1379 by William Wykeham Bishop to Winchester?
New College
Collective name given to the members of security council of UN China, France, Russia, USA, UK.
Permanent members
In song Oranges and Lemons lyrics
O&L says St Clements
you owe me 5 f says St Martins
When will you pay says Old Bailey
when I rich says Shoreditch
When will that be? says Stepney
I do not know says Bow
Travel agent at one point largest chain in uk, founded 1965 defunct in 2005 as rebranded as Thomson now TUI. Names come from two companies merged in 1965.
Lunn Poly
2700 acre campground at 20601 Bohemian Avenue in Monte Rio, California belonged to private club known as the Bohemian Club. Mid July each year most prominent men in the world meet there. Motto is Weaving Spiders Come Not Here. Manhattan project met there.
Bohemian Grove
English scientific advisor and presenter, worked for Ministry of Food most known for Thomas Dolby hit “She Blinded Me With Science”
Magnus Pyke
Vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen. Can be used as division between double doors.
Mullion
Transverse horizontal structure beam or bar separating a door from a window above it. Whereas mullion is vertical, this is horizontal.
Transom
architectural term comes from Latin for raven due to beak like appearance: structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, type of bracket.
Corbel
Scottish Italian hotelier who founded the namesake hotel company. He opened first catering facility at Heathrow and first full motorway service station at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, on M1 in 1959. Empire included Little Chef and Happy Eater, Travelodge. Left to son Rocco.
Charles Forte
The Iranshah Atash Behram is a sacred fire housed in a temple in Udvada, Gujarat and is first of eight fire temples which are important to which religion?
Zoroastrianism
Scottish Italian racing driver four time Indy Car Series Champion 2007-/09/10/11), three time winner of Indy 509 2007/2010/2012) and winner of 24 Hours of Daytona 2008.
Dario Franchitti
In 2015 who announced a 10 year sponsorship deal with Welsh Rugby Union for naming rights for the Millenium Stadium?
Principality
Who was known for playing Greek tavern owner “Costas” in Shirley valentine and was nominated Oscar for best actor for Reuben, Reuben?
Tom Conti
Italian Scottish football born name Luigi, played for Manchester United, was one of the Quality Street Gang Celtic team, best known for Man U where they got promoted back to first division and played in fa cup win in 1977. Then manager of West Ham, Stoke, Celtic.
Lou Macari
What world championships are held at the Egremont Crab Fair in Cumbria each year?
National Gurning Championships
Old Italian for crust, construction material made of aggregates, a binder and water. Applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. Used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings; external walls and sculptures.
Stucco
Drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain and then Primal Scream founding member. 2021 memoir “Tenement Kid”.
Bobby Gillespie
“If you let me stay” in 1987 was by Terence Trent D’Arby, what’s their current name they go by
Sananda Maitreya
Angkor Wat originally dedicated to which God
Vishnu
Lead singer of Altered Images, also acted in Gregory’s Girl 1981 (Bill Forsyth) and was first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski in Red Dwarf
Clare Grogan
The Nachi waterfalls of Wakayama prefecture believed to be home of which spirits worshipped in Shintoism? Four letters.
Kami
In architecture, what C is the head of a column, usually featuring mouldings or carvings?
Capital
What was the name of Duran Duran side-project which had top 10 hit with “Election Day” and released one album “So Red the Rose” in 1985? Simon Le Bon formed with Nick Rhodes
Arcadia
In what year was the driving theory test introduced in uk?
1996
Scottish Italian actress who played Anna Forbes in This Life and a second bafta for 2009 role in Annie Griffin’s New Town?
Daniela Nardini
Montgomery MacNeil, Ralph Garci and Doris Finsecker were high school students in what 1980 musical?
Fame
Who voiced Coraline in 2009 film directed by Henry Selick?
Dakota Fanning
Fictional character created by Rob Zombie first appeared in House of 1000 Corpses played by Sid Haig and then same in The Devil’s Rejects and 3 from Hell? Murderous clown.
Captain Spaulding
Born a Robert Bartleh Cummings in 1965 director and music in shock rock “White Zombie”, directed some horror movies too.
Rob Zombie
Elvis Presley doesn’t watch which film reputedly due to death of his costar Judy Tyler?
Jailhouse Rock
Which film by Park Chan-wook stars Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman? Written by Wentworth Miller under pen name.
Stoker
Director 2022 Decision to Leave, 2016 The Handmaiden, 2009 Thirst. The Vengeance Trilogy: Sympathy for Mr Vengeance 2002, Oldboy 2003, Lady Vengeance 2004.
Park Chan-wook
Who wrote the book The Outsiders made into film by Francis Ford Coppola?
SE Hinton
In which us state was Where the Red Fern Grows, The Outsiders and Silkwood set?
Oklahoma
Who plays the Lord of the Manor, Earl of Darlington in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day?
James Fox
2022 espionage movie Hunt is the directorial debut of which Squid Game actor?
Lee Jung-jae
Denzel Washington FBI and Annette Bening CIA team up to fight terrorists in which 1998 action thriller?
The Siege
Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki play star crossed lovers in what 1957 film also starring Marlon Brando as Major Ace Gruver?
Sayonara
The 1995 film Circle of Friends starring Chris O’Donnel and Minnie Driver was based on book written by which Irish author?
Maeve Binchy
Which actress ended career at 21 after playing Corliss Archer in the 1949 movie A Kiss for Corliss?
Shirley Temple
Name of Spike Lee’s production company
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Which 1979 movie starred Peter Sellers as an illiterate gardener named Chance? Melvyn Douglas won BSA Oscar for same film and Sellers nominated BA.
Being There
What ship is under company of captain Jack Aubrey in 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World?
HMS Surprise
Author of Aubrey-Maturin series
Patrick O’Brian
Jack Aubrey is captain and who is the ships surgeon in series of books by Patrick O’Brian?
Stephen Maturin
Who killed Billy the Kid in 1881?
Pat Garrett
Bob Dylan write “knock in’ on heavens door” for which 1973 film soundtrack
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Which actress starred opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters in 1947, Lone Star in 1952 and Mogambo in 1953?
Ava Gardner
Which fictional counter-agent created by Donald Hamilton was played by Dean Martin in four films from The Silencers in 1966 to The Wrecking crew in 1969?
Matt Helm
Which actor born Manuel Oaxaca won two Oscar’s for Viva Zapata (Eufemio Zapata brother of Emiliano) 1952 and Lust for Life 1956. Also in Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia
Anthony Quinn
James Stewart character name in Rear Window
LB Jeff Jefferies
Who played the Rat Pack in 1998 film The Rat Pack
Sinatra: Ray Liotta
Davis Jr: Don Cheadle
Martin: Joe Mantegna
I Am Legend written by who
Richard Matheson
Who was Vince Clarke’s partner in Erasure
Andy Bell
Who was original members of Depeche Mode
Dave Gahan (singer), Martin Gore, Andy Fletch Fletcher and Vince Clarke
Depeche Mode debut album in 1981
Speak & Spell
Who was Vince Clarke’s partner in the band The Assembly?
Eric Radcliffe
Green P plates when you pass car driving test stand for what?
Probationary
Architecture; term for any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture. Generic term.
Cornice (coving is a type of cornice that it uniform in profile)
The Zombies biggest hit in the UK.
She’s Not There
The Zombies lead singer
Rod Argent
Which band released She’s Not There, Tell Her No and Time of the Season
The Zombies
The Bridge Inn in Santon Bridge in Cumbria is the venue for which annual contest?
Worlds Biggest Liar
Highway Code fog lights should only be used when you can’t see for more than what distance
100m
Glamorgan Sausage made of what
Cheese
First voice to be heard on Channel 4 introducing Countdown. On 2 November 2022, he introduced Countdown again that day in 40 years anniversary.
Paul Coia
Which Sussex town known for its annual bonfire and has burnt many famous effigies?
Lewes Bonfire
Holyhead is the largest town of Anglesey but not actually on Anglesey what island is it on?
Holy Island
Welsh dish used for soup or broth, meat with leeks potatoes swede carrots, national dish of wales
Cawl
Temple dedicated to which Roman god was discovered below the city of London in 1954? Most known Roman discovery of 20th century in london.
Mithras - called London Mithraeum now
Which comedian known for anti-German jokes and said a Focke-Wulf joke on Des O Connor in 1980s? Racist jokes at Leeds went down badly.
Stan Boardman
What type of cheese is rolled at the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling contest near Gloucester annual?
Double Gloucester
Who was Republic nominee for 1960 presidential election along Richard Nixon? Lost to JFK. Grandson of another famous senator with same name. Became ambassador to bunch of places.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Who became Mr Play School after appearing on show for 21 of its 24 year history?
Brian Cant
Who played John Steed in The Avengers 1961-69 opposite Honor Blackman (Cathy Gale), Diana Rigg (Emma Peel) and Linda Thorson (Tara King)? Also Julie Stevens (Venus Smith)
Patrick Macnee
What term is an exterior or interior feature generally horizontal aloft underside any construction element? It is the underside of eaves.
Soffit
Architectural term for vertical frieze or band under roof edge which forms outer surface of a cornice visible to an observer? Whereas soffit is underneath this is the side.
Fascia
Term for a finely dressed stone either an individual stone or a structure built by said stones. It’s the finest stone masonry Unit generally cuboid and mentioned by Vitruvius. Contrasts to rubble masonry which uses irregularly shaped stones. Word might come from Latin for plank.
Ashlar
Large adobe religion worship building found in Mali.
Great Mosque of Djenne
The Wentworth scale can be used to classify whcih types of rocks?
Sedimentary (grains)
Extinct marine arthropod with name meaning three lines, all disappeared at the mass extinction at end of Permian period.
Trilobite
In astronomy what Is the name for the celestial point in the sky from where the path of a meteor appears to originate from? During meteor showers, paths of all meteors converge to this point.
Radiant
Term for the place inside earth’s crust where an earthquake originates as opposed to term epicentre which is directly above where this term is?
Focus
Which small helicopter was released by Martian lander Perseverance in 2021?
Ingenuity
What range of electromagnetic radiation was discovered by Paul Villard
Gamma Radiation was discovered by which scientist observing radium
Who discovered Ultraviolet radiation in 1801?
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
Infrared radiation was discovered by which scientist in 1800
Sir William Herschel
Term for a rare skin condition that can occur if silver builds up in your bod over a long time, can turn skin blue-grey.
Argyria
Term in medicine where state of severe hyper extension and spasticity in which head neck and spinal column turn into arching position. Term from greek for behind tension.
Opisthotonus
President of Turkey 1989-93 died in office; could have been poisoned potentially Strychnine
Turgut Ozal
Hybrid of a canary and a finch known as what term
Mule
1645-1715 during which sunspots were rare. First spotted by Gustav Sporer and then noticed more by married couple Edward and Annie who give it its namesake term.
Maunder Minimum
DART was a nasa space mission aimed at testing planetary defence against near earth objects. What stand for
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
NASA did DART on which asteroid’s moon called what
Didymos’ moon called Dimorphos
Which element is formed in triple alpha process whereby three helium-4 (alpha particles) atoms are fused together?
Carbon
Hippotragus Leuciphaeus is extinct species of antelope in South Africa until 1800 and named after its hue?
Bluebuck
An FRB is a transient pulse of length ranging from fraction of millisecond to 3 seconds. First discovered by Duncan Lorimer.
Fast Radio Burst
In what year was the red dragon of wales officially recognised?
1959
Who directed Night of the Living Dead series? dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead etc.
George A Romero
What annual cross country running event takes place in Tywyn, Mid Wales over a distance of 14km?
Race the Train
Which annual endurance contest took place in Heinola, Finland between 1999 and 2010 when it ceased?
World Sauna Championships
Who was said to have died after having a turtle dropped on their head by a falcon?
Aeschylus
Which first recorded legislator of Athena was said to have been smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered on him by citizens of Athena?
Draco of Athens
Sicilian lawgiver who issued law about bringing weapons into Assembly be out to death and he forgot to take off his knife so committed suicide.
Charondas
Sporting event at ancient games empty hand submission sport with few rules, boxing/wrestling.
Pankration
Famous Greek athlete said to split tree with hands, got trapped, wolves ate him.
Milo of Croton
Which Greek painter died of laughter at his portrait of Aphrodite as an old lady had modelled for it? Also had a contest and beaten by Parrhasius.
Zeuxis
Who beat Zeuxis in a painting contest when Zeuxis drew grapes which birds tried to get but also tried to open victor’s curtains which he had painted?
Parrhasius
Known as the weeping philosopher in comparison to Democritus laughing philosopher. Believed in Flux, said “no man ever steps in the same river twice”. Said to have died by dog attack after smeared in cow manure to cure dropsy.
Heraclitus
Which Athenian general who won Battle at Salamis widely rumoured to have drunk Bull’s Blood (Realgar, Ruby of Arsenic)?
Themistocles
Which philosopher of Akragas best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. Love and strife are opposing physical forces. Said to have chucked himself into Mount Etna.
Empedocles
Which playwright has multiple death legends: choked on unripe grape, died of joy after last play victorious, died of suffocation trying to read Antigone without taking breath?
Sophocles
Term from Greek for boat for Persian method of execution mentioned by Plutarch trapping victim between two boats and feed and cover with milk and honey and allowing to be devoured by insects and other vermin.
Scaphism
Which philosopher founder of Stoicism tripped and broke toe struck ground with fist and died on spot holding his breath
Zeno of Citium
First emperor of China who created Terracotta Army and ingested mercury pills thinking make him eternal
Qin Shi Huang
Which stoic philosopher died of laughter seeing a donkey eating his figs?
Chrysippus
Who daughter of Cato the Younger and second wife of Brutus said to have died by swallowing hot coals?
Porcia Catonis
Which apostle of Jesus was SAWN IN HALF in Persia
Simon the zealot
Which Saint was roasted alive on giant grill and said turn me over I’m done on this side. Patron saint of cooks, chefs and comedians.
Saint Lawrence
Roman emperor from 364-375 who suffered stroke provoked by yelling at foreign envoys in anger
Valentinian I
Which Byzantine emperor 641-668 said to have been assassinated with a bucket by chamberlain?
Constans II the Bearded
Viking hero and Danish and Swedish king. Died 865 after capture by aella King of Northumbria and thrown into pit of snakes?
Ragnar Lodbrok
Which king of France died 882 after hitting head on lintel trying to chase after girl on horseback?
Louis III
Byzantine emperor 867-886 got entangled in deer antlers and dragged 16 miles through woods. Died of fever after.
Basil I
Which king of England said to have been stabbed whilst on a toilet by assassin hiding underneath in 1016?
Edmund Ironside
Which king of England died after eating too many lampreys?
Henry I
Which king of England died with red hot poker up his bum
Edward II
Who was said to be the lover of Edward II’s wife Isabella of France?
Roger Mortimer
Shalimar Gardens are a Mughal garden complex located in which city?
Lahore, Pakistan
Husband of Mumtaz Mahal who constructed Taj Mahal and Shalimar Gardens
Shah Jahan
Shalimar is a perfumed created in 1921 for which perfume house, flagship product.
Guerlain
Introduced in 1889 by Guerlain, what is the oldest continuously produced perfume in the world?
Jicky
Perfume by Guerlain in production since 1919 with name derived from Japanese female.
Mitsouko
Who is the presenter of 2022 tv series Blankety Blank?
Bradley Walsh
Private secretary of Mary queen of Scot’s murdered in edinburgh in 1566
David Rizzio
Who is the white frontiersman and hero of Last of the Mohicans?
Natty Bumppo
Who is the son of Chingachgook in The Last of the Mohicans?
Uncas
The last of the mohicans is set within which wider war? Subtitled “a narrative of 1757”.
Seven Years War
Main Indian in last of the mohicans, son is Uncas, friend of Natty Bumppo
Chingachgook
Tom and Maggie surname in mill on the floss
Tulliver
In tv show Bonanza, the Cartwright family live on what ranch?
The Ponderosa
Historic house in West Lothian, seat of Dalyell family and home of Tam Dalyell until his death in 2017.
The Binns
Who proposed the West Lothian question on whether non English MPs should be able to vote upon English only matters after political devolution?
Tam Dalyell
Which Romsey stately home is home of Earl and countess Mountbatten of Burma, Elizabeth II and Philip and prince of wales and Diana born separately went there for honeymoon in 1947 and 1981 respectively?
Broadlands
Manor House in Cotswold village in west Oxfordshire known as the country home of the designer William Morris from 1871-96.
Kelmscott Manor
20 Forthlin Road is national trust property in allerton in south liverpool and childhood
Home of which musician?
Paul McCartney
Paxtu Cottage was which person’s final home in Nyeri, Kenya?
Robert Baden-Powell
On banks of Tweed in Melrose, what is the name of 1800s baronial mansion lived in by Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford
Nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse or Kiki de Montparnasse, was French model with what real name? Inspiration for Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres.
Alice Prin
Name of German photographer and artist known for association with Beatles during Hamburg phase. Met Stuart Sutcliffe and later engaged until his death in 1962.
Astrid Kirchherr
Sara Lowndes was former actress and model who was first wife of what musician between 1965 and 1977.
Bob Dylan
“Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” song found on album Blonde on Blonde by which musician?
Bob Dylan
English model and photographer, married George Harrison 1966-77 then Eric Clapton 1979-89. Inspiration of songs “Something” and “Layla”. Autobiography “Wonderful Today” in 2007 because on Clapton song “Wonderful Tonight”?
Pattie Boyd
Which footballer born Dudley 1965, 13 years at Wolverhampton wanderers holds record most goals with 306 goals. Capped 13 times for England game.
Steve Bull
First battle of bull run/first manassas fought in 1861 in which US state?
Virginia
King of Lesotho since 1990
Letsie III
British woman famous for “spend spend spend” about husband Keith winning football pools in 1961.
Viv Nicholson
Pretender to throne of England in 1487 pretended to be Edward Plantagenet? Became figurehead organised by John de La Pole Earl of Lincoln? Pardoned and hired as a scullion and later groom of the stool.
Lambert Simnel
Name of battle undertaken by Lambert Simnel’s army against king’s army in 1487 in Nottinghamshire.
Battle of Stoke Field
Pretender to throne of Henry VII claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, second son of Edward IV and one of princes in tower. Executed in 1499.
Perkin Warbeck
Which river flows through Bordeaux?
Garonne River
One of most famous climbs on Tour de France, included more than any other pass, one of the highest paved mountain passes in French Pyrenees. Name comes from French for “bad trip”.
Col du Tourmalet
Mountain in Provence region of southern france, nicknamed beast of Provence. Name from windy. Death of Tom Simpson in 1967 during Tour de France.
Mont Ventoux
Pink granite coast found in which French province?
Brittany
Name the 91-year-old actress and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation, who has been made a dame for services to wildlife conservation and to wild animal welfare.
Virginia MCKENNA
William Smellie was a Scottish printer who edited first edition of what?
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Playwright of Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, blood brothers and our day out.
Willy Russell
Born 1933 Leicester died 1967, plays include What the Butler Saw, Loot, The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr Sloane.
Joe Orton
English actress Lancashire, Nellie pledge in Nearest and dearest, Aunt Ada in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Mrs Sowerberry in Oliver!. Dang you’re the one that I want with Arthur Mullard. Her act was “she knows y’know” catchphrase.
Hilda Baker
Comedian “hello playmates”, “I thank you” and “before your very eyes”. Born 1900 Dingle, Liverpool. Song The Bee Song. Films “Charley’s (Big hearted) Aunt” and “the ghost train”.
Arthur Askey
Lancashire comedian born 1901 catchphrase “eeeeeh! Isn’t it grand when you’re daft?” Lots of pantomime, poked fun out of morecambe.
Albert Modley
English prof football turn comedian, one of first black stand ups in uk. Catchphrase “me old flower” in broad Yorkshire accent.
Charlie Williams
British singer actor comedian rose to fame on New Faces. Tv presenter You and Me, So You want to be top and showstoppers. Done loads of west end and pantomime.
Gary Wilmot
Comedian stepped into host Sunday a night at London Palladium, catchphrases like “swinging” and “dodgy” with accompanied thumbs up or thumbs down. He devised the show Bullseye which Jim Bowen presented.
Norman Vaughan
Host of Sunday night at palladium in 1960s, led Live from Her Majesty’s in 1980s, other tv shoes Winner takes All, Full Swing,
Jimmy Tarbuck
First programme to be shown on bbc in colour in July 1969 on bbc2
Pot Black
First colour programme on bbc1 was what concert in November 1969
Petula Clark
Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers were mainstays of The Goon Show but who was 4th goon in first two series?
Michael Bentine
Voiced by Kenneth Williams, who was suggestive folk singing character in Round the Horne?
Rambling Syd Rumpo
In 1923, the bbc introduced an annual licence fee for all households which owned a wireless set. How much was it?
Ten shillings
In October 2022 what did Leigh centurions change their name to?
Leigh Leopards
Which British golfer won her first LPGA tour title in california in October 2022?
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
What was Rolling Stones’ 1st uk number one hit record?
It’s All Over Now
In which gilbert and Sullivan opera does Jack point appear?
The Yeomen of the Guard
What was Cliff Richards first uk number one hit record?
Living Doll
Which most populous county in the Illinois; second in country?
Cook County contains Chicago
Adam Faith had two number one songs in 1959 and 1960.
1959; what do you want?
1960: poor me
What was Richard Adams second novel after warership down published 1974 and in Beklan Empire series?
Shardik
Aber- and Inver- both place names meaning what?
Mouth of river or confluence
Bourne or burn in town cities means what?
Large stream/small river
Three rivers of Pittsburgh, one 1579km, one 523km, one 209km. MAO
Ohio
Allegheny
Monongahela
Bury or brough or borough in place name means what
Fortified enclosure
Caster, Chester, cester in place name means what?
Camp/fortification
Cheap/chipping in place name means what?
Market
Roman auxiliary fort just south of hadrians wall in northern England, which originally predated. Name from white meadow.
Vindolanda
Johnny Logan eurovision winning songs
Hold Me Now
What’s Another Year?
Why Me? written by him for Linda Martin
Which 1986 American teen drama was named after a 1981 song by The Psychedelic Furs?
Pretty in Pink
Which oasis song shares its title with an adventure drama film of 1968?
Wonderwall
Which Granada TV drama series of 1984 starred Charles Dance, Geraldine James and Art Malik?
The Jewel in the Crown
Bbc childrens tv show 1993-2001 originally presented by Andi Peters, Emma Forbes and John Barrowman.
Live & Kicking
Queens debut single 1973
Keep Yourself Alive
Novelist who writes the Tom Thorne crime novels
Mark Billingham
Who played Lord Brett Sinclair, a nobleman playboy, who solves cases police cannot in 1971 The Persuaders!?
Roger moore
Who played Danny Wilde, a rough diamond, who solves cases police cannot in 1971 The Persuaders!?
Tony Curtis
2022 comedy mystery film by Tom George about 1953 The Mousetrap play.
See How They Run
Who plays Agatha Christie in See How They Run (2022)?
Shirley Henderson
Name of three grandchildren in When I’m 64?
Vera, Chuck and Dave
Football stadium of Notts County FC?
Meadow Lane
What other La Liga teams are from Madrid other than Real and Athletico?
Getafe and Rayo Vallecano
Barcelona and Espanyol have been joined in La Liga this season by which other Catalonian team
Girona FC
Which Italian surname literally means left handed, is a manager?
Mancini
Prime minister known as Three Bottle
Man
William Pitt the Younger
Who introduced Free Milk to school children in Uk as education minister first female in 1946?
Ellen Wilkinson
Which popular board game originated in India in the 2nd century AD and intorudced in Britain in 19yh century
Snakes and ladders
Which official position was held by Mr Claude Gordon (played by Eric Longworth) in Dad’s Army?
The Town Clerk
Name of a mutoscope reel, early example of erotic films as seen by namesake worker. Generic term for devices and movies of this kind. Phrase entered popular culture after divorce of Lord Colin Campbell and Gertrude Elizabeth Blood.
What the Butler Saw
Who played John Jarndyce in bbc bleak house, Gordon urquhart in Local Hero, new tricks, wedge Antilles in Star Wars trilogy.
Denis Lawson
British sports car maker 1952-72 was particularly known for frog eye sprite model sold between 1958-61
Austin Healey
What name attributed to Thomas Carlyle was given to conflict between uk and Spain 1739-48 mainly in New Granada
War of Jenkins Ear
Name the Canadian historian and expert on international relations born 1943 who gave 2018 reith lectures
Margaret MacMillan
First reith lecturer who in 1948 on Authority and the Individual
Bertrand Russell
2022 Reith Lectures was titled The Four Freedoms, who did “Freedom of Speech”?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2022 Reith Lectures was titled The Four Freedoms, who did “Freedom of worship”?
Rowan Williams
2022 Reith Lectures was titled The Four Freedoms, who did “Freedom of want”?
Darren McGarvey (Loki)
2022 Reith Lectures was titled The Four Freedoms, who did “Freedom of fear”? Witness at impeachment enquiry for trump, chancellor of Durham uni in 2023.
Fiona Hill
2021 Reith Lectures by which computer scientist, coauthor of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach with Peter Norvig.
Stuart J Russell
2016 October Reith Lectures called Mistaken Identities by which philosopher known for book in my fathers house: Africa in philosophy of culture; cosmopolitanism: ethics in a world of strangers, novel Avenging Angel.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth named after Scottish mountain
The Schiehallion experiment
Name of the nouveau riche, new owner of Grantleigh Manor played by Peter Bowles in To the Manor Born
Richard DeVere
Which British prime minister was first cousin of author rudyard Kipling?
Stanley Baldwin
Who was leader of opposition and leader of Labour Party between 1932-35? Relative of famous actress.
George Lansbury
Who was hanged on morning of December 2nd 1859 and this became first citizen of USA to be legally executed for treason against his country?
John Brown
Which livery company represents the fine leather workers and shoemakers
Cordwainers
Which livery company was for makers of metal parts for bridles harnesses spurs and other horse apparel?
Lorimers
Over eight centuries of its existence st Edwards chair been removed from Westminster abbey twice, one WW2 and one what?
Oliver Cromwell inducted as Lord Protector
Which British prime minister gave permission for stone of scone to be returned into Scottish soil exactly 700 years after it was taken to London by Edward the first?
John Major 1996
How is Ellen Douglas referred to in the title of a long narrative poem by Walter Scott which subsequently turned into romantic opera under same name by Rossini 1819
The Lady of the Lake
Roughly 2030km of the Canada-USA border runs along what number parallel north?
49th
A marathon is 26 miles and how many yards
385 yards
How many yards in a mile?
1760
What year saw Thomas a Becket killed in Canterbury Cathedral
1170
Prior to Korean War what number parallel north forms the border between North Korea and South Korea?
38th Parallel
How many gifts in total given during 12 Days of Christmas?
364 gifts
What year did Steve Brookstein become first winner of X Factor
2004
In Bible how many people were on Noah’s Ark?
8
Lee Brennan, Jimmy Constance and Simon “Spike” Dawbarn are members of which band
911
What is current 100m world record by Usain Bolt
9.58 seconds
Current 200m world record set by usain bolt?
19.19 seconds
How many pence were in a half crown?
30 - two shillings and six pence which means 30 shillings as 12 pennies in a shilling
What paper size measures 148mm by 210mm
A5
Which 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow stars Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, set on titular German submarine?
U-571
At what number house do the Simpsons live?
742 Evergreen Terrace
What number symphony was Beethoven’s Choral Symphony?
9th
“The lord is my shepherd” are the first words of which psalm?
Psalm 23
Name of the London detective in the mystery novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins?
Sergeant Cuff
City in Japan is home to the Urawa Red Diamonds football club ?
Saitama
Which nut is traditionally used in the Syrian spicy pepper dip Muhammara?
Walnut (and roasted red pepper)
First women elected to House of Representatives in Australia and first to serve in federal cabinet? Wife of an Australian prime minister.
Dame Enid Lyons
800m mens world record holder
David Rudisha
World record holder for 1500m, mile and 2000m
Hicham El Guerrouj
5000m and 10000m world record winner
Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda)
400m world record by Wayde Van Niekerk
43.03 seconds
400m word record holder
Wayde van Niekerk
Which athletic running length has the world record time of 3:26:00
1500m
Which athletic running length has the world record time of 26:11:00
10,000m
Who holds record for 400m hurdles mens 45.94
Karsten Warholm
Who holds 110m world record hurdles?
Aries Merritt
High jump world record holder 2.45m
Javier Sotomayor
Pole Vault world record length by Armand Duplantis
6.21m
Which athletics world record is a distance of 18.29m
Triple jump
Which athletics event has a world record distance of 23.37m
Shot put
Long jump world record length and by who
8.95m by Mike Powell
Which athletics world record is a distance of 74.08m
Discus
Who hold discus world record of 74.08m
Jurgen Schult
Who holds hammer throw world record of 86.74m
Yuriy Sedykh
86.74m is the world record distance in which athletics discipline
Hammer throw
Javelin throw world record holder at 98.48m
Jan Zelezny
Which athletics discipline has a world record distance of 98.48m
Javelin
Who has the world record shot put distance of 23.37m
Ryan Crouser
In which city did Jonathan edwards set triple jump world record with 18.29m in 1995?
Gothenburg
Womens 100m record time set by Florence Griffith Joyner
10.49 seconds
200m womens world record holder who with 21.34 seconds
Florence Griffith Joyner
400m womens world record holder
Marita Koch
800m womens world record holder
Jarmila Kratochvilova
1500m womens world record holder
Genzebe Dibaba
5000m and 10000m womens world record holder
Letesenbet Gidey
Womens marathon holder
Brigid Kosgei
Set in 24 July 2022 which hurdler set Womens 100m hurdles world record in Eugene?
Tobi AMUSAN
Which 400m hurdles broke world record for women in 22 July 2022 in Eugene?
Sydney Mclaughlin
High Jump Womens world record broken in 1987 by which Bulgarian
Stefka Kostadinova
Womens Pole Vault world record holder which Russian
Yelena Isinbayeva
Long jump Womens world record broken in 1988 by which Soviet ?
Galina Chistyakova
Triple jump Womens world record
Yulimar Rojas
Shot Put world record holder for Womens broken in 1987 by which Soviet
Natalya Lisovskaya
Discus throw Womens worlds record set in 1988 by which East German?
Gabriele Reinsch
Hammer throw Womens world record set by which polish athlete in 2016?
Anita Wlodarczyk
Javelin world record Womens set in 2008 by which Czech?
Barbora Spotakova
Heptathlon Womens world record held by which female athlete
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Who holds indoor 50m world record plus won gold in 1996 Olympics in 9.84 seconds? Canadian.
Donovan Bailey
Which Namibian won 4 silver medals in 100m and 200m across 1992 and 1996 Olympics?
Frankie Fredericks
Delfeayo Marsalis, brother of Wynton, plays which instrument
Trombone
Branford Marsalis, brother of Wynton, plays which instrument?
Saxophone
Wynton Marsalis was first jazz composition to win Pulitzer Prize for Music for which album
Blood on the Fields
Jason Marsalis, brother of Wynton, plays which instrument?
Drum
Tommy Dorsey known for playing which instrument? Known for “I’m getting sentimental over you”.
Trombone
Jack Teagarden plays which instrument?
Trombone
Medeu Ice Skating Rink, highest sports complex in world located in which Asian city?
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Name of gallbladder surgical removal
Cholecystectomy
Which English singer had a uk hit single with Rebel Yell in 1985?
Billy Idol
Who directed 1964 movie The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
Swiss artist painter sculptor born 1889 Davos, met her husband German-French painter in 1915. Associated with Dada movement.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
At airport runway 27 what direction you taking off?
West
Sheermal bread is a flatbread eaten in Iran flavoured by which spice? Name comes from milk rub.
Saffron
In 1949 who became the first pontiff to give a televised Easter message?
Pius XII (1939-58)
Spicy pork sausage from Calabria in southern Italy
‘Nduja
Italian cured meat Guanciale is made from what part of pig? Comes from Italian for this pig part.
Cheeks/Jowls
Letters and memorandums written by Charles III while PoW to ministers and politicians known by what nickname, somewhat controversial, named after bad writing.
Black spider memos
Who was the engineer born in Stroud Gloucs in 1796 who invented a lawnmower 1830 and adjustable spanner 1842?
Edwin Beard Budding
Christmas (2011) is the seventh studio album by which Canadian jazz singer
Michael Buble
2022 horror film based on novella by Stephen King and directed by John Lee Hancock.
Mr Harrigan’s Phone
Swahili term Mamba means what animal in English?
Crocodile
Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren to star as Jacob and Cara Dutton in which prequel to Yellowstone?
1923
Smallest species of deer, they’re found in South America
Pudu
Which s is Japanese form of chess?
Shogi
Brian Cant narrated “Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb” during episodes of which show, first aired in 1967?
Trumpton
Town in Amhara region of Ethiopia known for its distinctive rock cut churches from 12/13th centuries for coptic Christian’s?
Lalibela
People with surname Fuller, Walker or Tucker probably had ancestors who were involved which material?
Wool (cloth)
Which famous author is behind the “Revisonist History” podcast?
Malcolm Gladwell
Which comedian born Wales 1971 links shows Lab Rats, The Thick of It and Mock the Week?
Chris Addison
14th PM of Israel between 1 July - 29 December 2022
Yair Lapid
Male and female Turkey names in uk?
Male Stag
Female Hen
Adult male turkeys name in USA
Juvenile makes in UsA name
Adult: Gobblers
Juvenile: Jakes
What black supremacist performed as a calypso singer under the stage name Calypso Gene prior to joining the Nation of Islam?
Louis Farrakhan
What US Government Office was held by William sessions, Louis freeh and Robert mueller
FBI Director
Earths inner Van Allen radiation belt dips down to an altitude of 120 miles at a point over what continent
South American - named south Atlantic anomaly
The distinctive wattle under turkeys face shares its name with item of hair or head wear!
Snood
Qatar only team to make debut in 2022 World Cup. Which only two to debut at 2018?
Iceland and Panama
Patta Gobhi is an Indian dish using which vegetable
Cabbage
Chana in Indian cuisine means what?
Chickpeas
Who gave their name to the smallest distance (1.6 x 10^-35) at which classical ideas of physics hold up. Below this quantum physics apply.
Planck length
Which letter lends its name to the theory which unifies all the versions of superstring theory - which in turn attempts to explain all the particles and forces of the universe?
M Theory
Name of main character of Grantchester, vicar played by James Norton.
Sidney Chambers
The Pig and Potato War fought by which two countries?
USA and UK
What company produces the Lensa AI app allowing users to create AI generated profile pictures?
Prisma Labs
What novelistsms first work of historical fiction, Eternal, takes place during fascist rule of Italy under Mussolini beginning in 1920s?
Lisa Scottoline
Play by Nilo Cruz won Pulitzer Drama in 2003 about a cigar factory in Florida.
Anna in the Tropics
The Argonautica, an epic poem written by who about Jason adventures?
Apollonius Rhodius
Amos Tupper and Mort Metzger were sheriffs on what long running mystery series?
Murder She Wrote
Whose stadium Pittodrie Stadium literally means dung heap?
Aberdeen
In which decade did The Who have their last uk top 10 hit to date? #9 with You Better You Bet.
1981 - 80s
Food traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day in Scotland
Steak Pie
Who is current Lord of Mann?
King Charles III
Since 2004 what has been toll to cross the Skye Bridge?
Free
2003 movie Gods and Generals is primarily concerned with the life and death of which confederate general of the US civil war?
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Nickname of chicago prohibition era gangster George Clarence Moran? Seven members of his gang killed at St Valentines Day Massacre.
Bugs
Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson all members of which group?
B-52’s
UK Green Party has its roots in article written by Paul Ehrlich in which magazine?
Playboy
Cricket umpire raises index finger up in air?
Out
Cricket umpire raises arm vertically on one side?
No-ball
What type of bowl is delivered in ODI or T20 after a no ball delivery? Signalled by an umpire rotating their hand over their head.
Free-Hit
Cricket umpire raises both hands horizontally on the sides.
Wide Ball
Cricket umpire waving one hand back and forth in front of chest or waist?
Four Runs
Umpire raises both hands in the air above their heads
Six Runs
Cricket umpire signals one arm extended over their head shown when batter can take a run
Bye
Cricket umpire signals crossing and uncrossing both hands below waist
Dead ball
Literary device in which established facts in fictional plot are adjusted, ignored or contradicted by subsequent work which recontextualises with the former?
Retconning (retroactive continuity)
The Grillo sisters claimed which person took cocaine for years during a fraud trial 2013?
Nigella Lawson
Spanish for ham
Jamon
Who became famous after appearing in 1975 Opportunity Knocks? Poet. 2011 autobiography The Necessary Aptitude.
Pam Ayres - oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth
What was the name of the 2021 sopranos prequel movie
The Many Saints of Newark
I’m the 20th March 1969 which location saw marriage of Lennon and Yoko Ono? Sean Connery also married his first and second wives in this city.
Gibraltar
Darter nicknamed king of bling
Bobby George
Banker nicknamed Steady Eddie governor of BoE from 1993-2003
Lord George
Which American actor who died in January 2023 was best known for playing criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019, archive footage only)?:
Earl BOEN
Winner of World Masters in darts in 2004, shared name with governor of Bank of England m
Mervyn King
Pat Cullen is leader of which group in UK?
RCN nursing union
Fictional village where Rupert the bear lives
Nutwood
From album “too low for zero”, who wanted to “kiss the bride” in 1983?
Elton John
Wife of Spencer Pratt by maiden name too
Heidi Monday (second son called Ryker)
LGBT+ rights campaign started by Dutch FA in 2020 became prominent in 2022 fifa World Cup.
One Love
What trend was boys going to watch Despicable Me spin off while suited?
Gentleminions
Name of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet that was sunk in April 2022 by Ukrainian anti ship missiles
Moskva
Who was alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein and was given out of court settlement by Prince Andrew in 2022
Virginia Giuffre
Who won bafta best actor for Mark Cobden in Time?
Sean Bean
Largest lottery jackpot in world history $2.04 billion won in which competition in November 2022
Powerball
Coffin of Elizabeth II was rest at which edinburgh cathedral before flying to London?
St Giles Cathedral
Georgia Meloni I’m October 2022 been pm of Italy, what party?
Brothers of Italy
Film based on 2019 musical and streamed on Netflix in 2021 won bunch of Razzies inc worst picture?
Diana the Musical
Who wrote The Perks of Being a Wallflower and directed 2017 Wonder and 2021 Dear Evan Hansen
Stephen Chbosky
March 2022 Bruce Willis retired due to diagnosis of what? Inability to comprehend or formulate language because of brain damage.
Aphasia
Which English football club sold naming rights to west stand at ground resulting in name given of Gilbert and Rose West Stand? Name of stadium too.
Southend United - Roots Hall
What is latest instalment of Call of Duty released October 2022?
Modern Warfare II
November WHO announced monkeypoz renamed it what
Mpox
Who was president of Timor Leste May 2022? Had been President from 2007-12. Won nobel in 1996 with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo.
Jose Ramos-Horta
American born but compete for China freestyle skier won big air, half pipe golds and slopestyle silver at 2022 Winter Olympics. Also model.
Eileen Gu
Which male biathlon won individual and pursuit golds for France at 2022 Beijing Olympics?
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Which male biathlon won Beijing 2022 golds in Spring and Mass Start for Norway? Also team gold.
Johannes Thingnes Bo
Which female Norwegian biathlon won golds in Sprint and Pursuit and also bronze in individual at Beijing 2022 Olympics? Also team gold.
Marte Olsbu Roiseland
Which Norwegian cross country skier won three individual golds at 2022 Olympics 10k, 15k and 30k?
Therese Johaug
Who beat GB in mens curling final at 2022 Beijing
Sweden
Who did GB beat in womens curling final at 2022 Beijing
Japan
Who won mens ice hockey at 2022 Beijing?
Finland
Who won womens ice hockey at 2022 Beijing?
Canada
Who won gold for Canada in Slopestyle mens snowboarding at 2022 Winter Olympics?
Max Parrot
Which American snowboarder retained her half pipe gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics?
Chloe Kim
Whcih Austrian retained her gold in the Big Air snowboarding event at 2022 Beijing Olympics
Anna Gasser
Who retained her Parallel Giant Slalom /!snowboarding gold at 2022 Beijing Olympics? In 2018 she had also got gold in Super G Alpine Skiing.
Ester Ledecka
Which swede won double gold in 5k and 10k speed skating at 2022 Beijing Olympics
Nils Van der Poel
Which female Dutch speed skater won three golds in 3k, 5k and mass start at 2022 Beijing?
Irene Schouten
What was name of the Bollywood playback singer whose voice was soundtrack to hundreds of Indian films died in Feb 2022 at age of 92? Guinness B of R had her at one point as most recorded artist in history.
Lata Mangeshkar
Kent Wildlife Trust and the Wildwood Trust reintroduced what animal that was once indigenous in UK to woods near Canterbury in 2022?
Wild Bison
Whose May 2022 number one album “Ribbon Around the Bomb”
Blossoms
Lead singer of Blossums
Tom Ogden
Who got number one in January 2023 with Escapism
RAYE featuring 070 Shake
Which country has Presidency of the Council of the EU since January 2023?
Sweden
Which country had Presidency of the Council of the EU from July 2022 to January 2023?
Czech Republic
Name of uninhabited island that is roughly equidistant between Greenland and Ellesmere Island that has been source of Whisky War between Canada and Denmark since 1971? Dispute ended this year.
Hans Island
Book 1905 tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City’s high society around the end of the 19th century.[
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1920 novel Newland Archer and disappearance of Countess Ellen Olenska
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Which title character is described by narrator as “the most striking figure in Starkfield” - 1911 book?
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1980 horror movie by Oliver stone about a. Killer body part
The Hand
Character played by Estelle Skornik called Nicole advertised what in 1990s?
Renault Clio
Known as father of video games did blueprint for first home video game console Magnavox Odyssey and the Simon electronic game.
Ralph H Baer
Clementine Churchill maiden name, they married in 1908
Hozier
George bush in 1988 said what three words after “read my lips…”
No new taxes
According to tradition which Saint so moved when observing Jesus carrying the cross that she offered him her veil to wipe his face?
Saint Veronica
The Conjuring horror movie franchise supposedly based on which real pair of ghost hunters?
Ed and Lorraine WARREN
Operation Jubilee of august 1942 is more commonly referred as raid on which French port city? Mission was failure was led to lessons for later D-Day landings.
Dieppe
At Oxford Uni, Jeremy Thorpe was friend of which future editor of The Times between 1967 and 1981, later served as High Sheriff of Somerset and two political children.
William Rees-Mogg
Shared name of Brendan o’Carroll’s Mrs Brown, founder of Girl Guides and Mrs McKenzie of How cleannis your house?
Agnes
Younger sister of Robert badennpowrll who founded girl guides
Agnes
In 1988 which northern Irishman had to be removed from European Parliament for shouting “I denounce you as the antichrist” to Pope JP2.
Ian Paisley
What was port city of Ancient Rome? Today only district of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Ostia
Leader of Reform UK since 2021, partners with Isabel Oakeshott
Richard Tice
Founder and first leader of Reform UK from January 2019 to March 2019
Catherine Blaiklock
What series of WW2 video games developed by Muse Software features William “BJ” Blazkowicz and his fight against the axis powers? The 1980s editions were pioneers in the First Person Shooter genre.
Wolfenstein
Which car sized rover is currently sending images back from Jerezo crater on Mars?
Perseverance
Which year was Roots published by Alex Haley and Not a penny more not a penny less by Jeffrey Archer
1976
Carbon-14 decays into what other element? N
Nitrogen-14
Which isotope used in carbon dating
Carbon-14
Which isotope was used in Little Boy Hiroshima bomb?
Uranium 235
Which isotope was used in Fat Man Nagasaki bomb?
Plutonium 239
During Beatles Get Back doc they are visited by which comedy star? There to meet Ringo, between marriages with Britt Eckland and Miranda Quarry.0
Peter Sellers
Which affluent residential area of Hampstead, London, is mentioned in the song “Kayleigh” by Marillion? The HQ of world association of girl guides and Girl Scouts to be found here.
Belsize Park
Which state is Macon in?
Georgia
Flag carrier of Colombia since 1919. Bombed by Escobar in 1989 Flight 203.
Avianca
Aral Sea two bordering countries
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
First name of the son of Pope Alexander VI who became first person to resign as a Cardinal? He went into lead French forces in the Italian Wars and became inspiration for the book “The Prince”?.
Cesare Borgia
99% of nine dart finishes in darts use same route, what would you aim for in last three darts?
Triple 20-Triple 19-Double 12
First TV nine dart finish 1984
John Lowe
First nine darter at world championships?
Paul Lim
Who hit a nine-darter in the 2023 PDC World Darts Championship final against Michael Van Gerwen going onto win the contest?
Michael SMITH
Who was the first player to hit a nine-darter in a PDC World Darts Championship final back in 2011 twelve years before Michael Smith achieved the feat a second time in the 2023 final?
Adrian LEWIS
Which Oscar winning actor was best man when Ronald Reagan married Nancy? Films include bridge on the river Kwai and Network.
William Holden
In Godfather Part 3, Joey Zasa presents Michael Corleone with an Italian of the Year award named after which inventor? This man who lived between 1808 and 1889 is credited by some sources as inventing telephone.
Antonio Meucci
In France the Bayeaux tapes try is known as tapestry of which queen? This woman was wife of William the conqueror?
Matilda
The Hotel de Palais, originally built for empress eugenie around 1855 as summer villa, can be found in which French town?
Biarritz
As tide turned in 1991 gulf war, iraqi troops set fire to Kuwait oil wells, what fire expert did US send in to help? This Texan also helped to put out Piper Alpha fire in 1988.
Red Adair
6 July 1988 oil platform explosion killed 165 in the North Sea
Piper Alpha
Which landscape gardener who married into a brewing family has won six gold medals at Chelsea flower show and regular contributor to Gardener’s Question Time?
Bunny Guinness
Fish real name from Marillion
Derek Dick
Japanese manga artist Kazuo Takahashi died in July 2022, best known creating which manga series?
Yu-Gi-Oh!
European city second largest in northern Germany is biggest city on the river Weser?
Bremen
When Anthony Hopkins Nixon in 1995 movie by O Stone, which Brit who had been camel tender in Bedouin tribe for two years played J Edgar Hoover
Bob Hoskins
Artistic technique where colours and forms in certain parts of painting are blurred together?
Sfumato
Names of the two Noble Kinsmen of Shakespeare
Theseus and Palamon
Who has been make up designer on Strictly since 2013, former wife of ant mcpartlin?
Lisa Armstrong
How long is nautical mile in metres?
1852 metres
1604 the Maine coast explored by which French navigator, gives name to freshwater lake on border of NY and Quebec?
Samuel de Champlain
Which impressive French chateau spanning the river Cher is one of the best know chateaus of the Loire Valley? Catherine de Medici made it her personal residence in the 1560s.
Chateau de Chenonceau
Sharing name with fictional doctor which British garden designer created over 400 gardens many in partnership with architects Edwin Lutyens or Robert Lorimer?
Gertrude Jekyll
Giant wire frame statue located in Netherlands and called “Exposure” is work by which artist born 1950? Locals call it the Shitting Man.
Anthony Gormley
When uk national anthem lyrics first published in 1745 what was first line
God save great George our king
What was Roman version of Greek Athena?
Minerva
Single letter name of 1980s mini series and later tv series regarding aliens arriving in USA. Strangers humanoid but were reptilian under synthetic skin.
V (for visitors)
1784 war between Netherlands and Holy Roman Empire, only one shot fired and hit namesake item.
Kettle War
Better known for inventing clockwork radio, which Londoner was regular face on Big Breakfast during 1990s?
Trevor Baylis
2008 Karen matthews reported daughter as missing to get money from publicity. Name of daughter?:
Shannon
Turiddu, Santuzza and Mama Lucia are characters in which opera? It features in the final part of the Godfather Part III as key element of films climax.
Cavalleria Rusticana
Name of fellow who chucked shoe at Bush
Muntadhar al-Zaidi
Austria American pyschologist Leo Kanner has been credited as first to identify which neurodevelopmental condition? He had written about “an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness”.
Autism
Which Dr gave Gloria Estefan and Miami sound machine their first interNational hit single? Reached uk top ten in 1984.
Dr Beat
Which book starts “in the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crime came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul”
Dune
Feargal Sharkey lead singer which band in
Undertones
Which man composed theme tune for Neighbours? Also wrote downtown for petula Clark and famous for stint as blunt New Faces judge in 1970s.
Tony Hatch
Hyphenated term for French descent born in Algeria during French rule 1830-1962
Pied-Noir
On Magnetic Mountain in Ozarks range you can find Christ of the Ozarks statue, in which state?
Arkansas
Which author is forefront of modern day stoicism with books The Ego is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic and The Obstacle is the Way?
Ryan Holiday
Clint Eastwood joined forces with Richard Burton in which war movie of 1968?
Where Eagles Dare
Who played Flash Gordon (1980)
Sam J. Jones
1983 film directed by Bill Forsyth, burt Lancaster and Peter riegertstar as businessman trying to buy village in scotlandZ
Local Hero
Spanish-Chilean director directed The Others, The Sea Inside, Open Your Eyes (Vanilla Sky), Agora.
Alejandro Amenabar
Who directed My Fair Lady 1965
George Cukor
Who directed Breakfast at Tiffanys 1961 starring George Peppard as Paul Varjak opposite Holly Golightly.
Blake Edwards
Roman Holiday character names of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck?
Princess Anne
Joe Bradley
The Damien O’donnell film East is East 1999 starring Om Puri as Zahir Khan, name from 1889 poem The Ballad of East and West by who?
Rudyard Kipling
Who plays Dorothy Shaw in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) directed by Howard Hawks?
Jane Russell
1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noel Coward and David Lean? Exploits of destroyer HMS Kelly when sunk during Battle of Crete. Stars Coward as Captain Kinross.
In which we serve
Which actor played Wild Bill Hickok in Calamity Jane 1953, Hannibal in Jupiter’s Darling 1955, Fred Graham/Petruchio in Kiss Me Kate?
Howard Keel
Peter Ustinov two Oscar’s?
1961: Spartacus
1965: Topkapi
2020 film directed by Clark Duke in directorial debut. Liam Hemsworrh, Michael Kenneth Williams , Eden Brolin?
Arkansas
Castel Sant’Angelo is in parco adriano, commissioned by which emperor as a mausoleum for himself?
Hadrian
Set in Egdon Heath, which novel by Thomas hardy centres on thomasin Yeobright and Damon Wildeve two young lovers trapped in an unhappy marriage because they marry for wrong reasons?
The Return of the Native
CR record acronym in athletics
Championship Record
MR record acronym in athletics
Meet Record
Giving its name to a class of acids; NH2 is formula of what functional group?
Amino
Published in 2020, Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel Glass Town is reimagining of which group of writers?
Brontë Sisters
The Shia Muslim Fatimid Caliphate ruled Egypt from 10th to 12th centuries before overthrown in 1171 by which Sunni dynasty founded by Saladin, controlled until 1260/1341.
Abbuyid Dynasty
Which European country flag has aspect ratio 15:13 making it shortest rectangular flag of any country in the world?
Belgium
With 29 days in yellow between 2004 and 2015, which Swiss time trial specialist holds record for most yellow jerseys worn in Tour de France without ever winning overall race!
Fabian Cancellara
The all terrain mobility platform is lightweight six wheeled amphibious vehicle used by British army since 1988, what feline sounding name?
Supacat
Antoine de Caunes presented which music show which ran 1988-1992 and which gave name to production company behind his later show eurotrash?
Rapido
Appearing together on celebrity google box, which broadcaster is mother of DJ Woody Cook? They were joined in one episode by her own father, woodys grandfather, who is also tv personality?
Zoe Ball
Named for caste of freed slave soldiers led by the sultan; what name given to state that ruled Egypt from 1250 when they overthrew the Ayyubids until the Ottoman conquest in 1517?
Mamluks
Which novel by Thomas hardy tells the story of romantic entanglement of Dick Dewy, a church musician, and Fancy Day, a school teacher?
Under the Greenwood Tree
Giving it’s name to class of acids, COOH is formula for what functional group?
Carboxyl
Which American band had uk hits in late 1960s and early 70s including proud Mary, travelling band and up around the bend?
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Site of battle of austerlitz is now in Czechia but at the time in which other country now neighbour too south?
Austria
Third grand dame of Impressionism after Mary Cassatt and berthe Morisot?
Marie Bracquemond
Which other hormone produced in adrenal cortex and released in response to stress or low blood sugar is colloquially referred to as the stress hormone, and is not to be confused with related compound whose name has ending -one?
Cortisol
Stock trading what s describes rapid increase in a stocks price, such happened with GameStop in 2021? In this scenario short sellers see their shares are moving up instead of down so buy large volumes to cover position thus driving it up further(
Squeeze
The former radio 4 newsreader Alice Arnold is married to which person?
Clare Balding
In response to call of objection; an American judge would use what nine letter word to signal agree with objection
Sustained
Produced by Rapido TV and shown on late nights channel 4 from 1994-96, Andi Oliver and IceT hosts of which show exploring wilder side of black culture?
Baadasss TV
Which harlequins player captained England rugby Union team a record 59 times including 1991 World Cup final and 1995 semi final followed a controversy over description of RFU committee as 57 old farts?
Will Carling
Forced to do so after breaking collarbone in crash on stage six in 2015, which German time trial specialist was last cyclist to quit the Tour de France while wearing the yellow jersey?
Tony Martin
Which Middle Eastern country flag has aspect ratio of 28:11 making it longest rectangular flag of any country in the world?
Qatar
In which dickens novel would you find Lizzie Hexham, John Harmon and Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin?
Our mutual friend
Although he represented Bromley during premiership; which British pM had earlier been Mp for Stockton on tees for most of time 1924-45 and later Earl of stockton in Lords
Harold MacMillan
The Tears was a band formed by Brett Anderson with which former member of suede who had also been part of a duo with David mcalmont
Bernard Butler
Two strangers, Wall Street trader John (Mickey Rourke) and art gallery assistant Elizabeth (Kim Basinger), become involved in a new relationship
9 1/2 Weeks
Greater siren (siren lacertina) is one of three members of genus Siren in what class of animal?
Amphibian
Android 1.1 code name, doesn’t begin with A or B
Petit Four
First android four code names named after food starting F going back to C
Froyo
Eclair
Donut
Cupcake
K and L on Android code name systems are pies, what are they?
Key Lime Pie (KitKat) and Lemon Meringue Pie (Lollipop)
Last ANDROID system named after foodstuff before Android 10 was which p
Pie
Nba player with Baltimore bullets and New York knicks nicknamed the Pearl?
Earl Monroe (Earl the monroe) also black Jesus
In the Iliad who led a fleet of a thousand ships to attack Troy?
Agamemnon
King of Sparta husband of Helen
Menelaus
Wha
Name of demonic beings who come from puzzle boxes in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser series.
Cenobites
Which metal band had first number one metal album in the us selling six million of “Mental Health”? Songs “cum on feel the noize” and “metal health”.
Quiet Riot
Who played guitar solo on MJ song “Beat It”?
Eddie Van Halen
The theft of antique gold egg and murder of British agent 009 sets stage for which James Bond movie?
Octopussy
James Caan made a guest appearance as an LAPD detective on what tv series with his son Scott?
Hawaii 5-0
Which Canadian born actress known for playing Sidney Prescott in scream films played young Princess Elizabeth in 2004 satirical comedy film “churchill: the Hollywood years”?
Neve Campbell
Man who designed Elizabeth II wedding dress?
Sir Norman Hartnell
Otherwise known as the Old North Road what name of road of Roman road that connected London to both Lincoln and york?
Ermine Street
1994 who was first male footballer to win PfA player of the year who was born outside of British isles?
Eric Cantona
Professor Pierre ARONNAX is narrator of which novel by Jules Verne which also features the Flemish servant Conseil?
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
French general elections always take place on which day?
Sunday
Katy, Rival and Castlebrite are varieties of which fruit?
Apricot
Which football club plays at Easter Road, Andy Murray is a fan?
Hibernian
According to subtitle of RD Blackmore 19th century novel Lorna Doone, it was a romance of where?
Exmoor
Founded in 1993, merger of NALGO, NUPE and COHSE, name of largest trade union in UK, majority public sector workers?
Unison
Beginning with S, name of girl who features in Judith Kerr book The Tiger Who Came To Tea?
Sophie
Word describes unexpected military attack is also the collective noun for tiger?
Ambush
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Mortan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
In a line delivered on 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean Lock said he would like to have ashes spread in which notorious British media personalities eyes?
Piers Morgan
Best known as tottenham all time leading goal scorer? Jimmy greaves also played for which team team for 157 games scoring 124 goals between 1957 and 1961.
Chelsea
Who directed the UP series of documentaries
Michael Apted
Which civil servant did investigation into lockdown parties in #10
Sue Gray
Greyhound Racing Trap 1
Red with White Number
Greyhound Racing Trap 1
Red with White Number
Greyhound Racing Trap 2
Blue with White Numeral
Greyhound Racing Trap 3
White with Black Numeral
Greyhound Racing Trap 3
White with Black Numeral
Greyhound Racing Trap 4
Black with White Numeral
Greyhound Racing Trap 5
Orange with Black Numeral
Greyhound Racing Trap 6
Black & White Stripes with red Numeral
Bricklayers going up ladders traditionally carried their bricks in or on what?
Hod
1969 RAF began to replace their Shackleton aircraft with which other for sea going patrols?
Nimrod
What was Ben Gurion airport in Israel called until 1973? Remembered for massacre.
Lod
Which term describes both the rite in Freemasonry where candidates bares foot by taking off shoe, and someone displaying carelessness behaviour or work?
Slipshod
QED stands for
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Which town did 1974 song off Elton John Caribou album sing it has “a thousand delights”?
Grimsby
Super Gran actress
Gudrun Ure
Who played arch nemesis of Supergran, The Scunner Campbell?
Iain Cuthbertson
Who wrote The Culture series of science fiction novels
Iain M Banks
Citizen Kane, Vertigo and Taxi Driver composer
Bernard Hermann
Who was The Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) sidekick played by Leo Carrillo?
Pancho
Which Wild West pair rode horses called Diablo and Loco?
Cisco Kid and Pancho
Percherons and Clydesdales are two of largest breeds of draft horse. But what is largest?
Shire
The Queen’s fell pony passed by funeral cortège had same name as which Jane Austen character(
Emma
Two parts of heartbeat,
Diastole and Systole
Which author called Nottinghamshire “the country of my heart”?
DH Lawrence
Butchers preparing liver have to be careful not to pierce which other gland?
Gallbladder
The Prussian army mainly took its officer from which class of German society?
Junkers
Foreign minister of Russia since 2004
Sergey Lavrov
Error codes 400-404 on computer
400 bad request
401 unauthorised
403 forbidden
404 page not found
Ardbeg, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Lagavulin, Laphroaig are whiskey distilleries all on which island?
Islay
Swindon Town, Cheltenham Town, Bristol City, Ilkeston all which nickname
Robins
What type of rock common to Derbyshire and Gibraltar?
Limestone
Which act top ten hit with “sorry I’m a lady” in 1977
Baccara
Who played Florence Nightingale in 1951 farm “the lady with a lamp” also Nell Gwyn, Queen Victoria (Victoria the Great and Sixty Glorious Years), Edith Cavell?
Anna Neagle
Long distance endurance cycling involving passing through checkpoints within specified time limits particularly in groups is called what?
Audax or Randonneuring
In which cycle race are contestants paced on a motorcycle?
Keirin
Fred Gwynne (Car 54, Herman Munster in Munsters) and Rondo Hatton were affected by which physical condition?
Acromegaly
Which river separated the Roman republic from cisalpine Gaul?
Rubicon
The river Farset runs under the High Street of which
Home capital?!
Belfast
Which river flows through centre of edinburgh?
Water of leith
Cardiff three mains rivers?
Taff, Ely, Rhymney
Which song by Neil and also Traffic has phrase “I climbed on the back of a giant albatross”?
Hole in My Shoe
In which of his singles does elvis lresley speak part of Shakespeare’s seven ages of man?
Are you lonesome tonight!
Which actor died 1976 four days after last episode of Bless This House
Sid James
Who was camp host of Maplin’s Holiday Camp
Ted Bovis
Whose artwork A Year in Normandie at 90.75m was the artists biggest painting ever when released in Saltaire, Yorkshire, in May 2022
David Hockney
Anne Charleston appeared as which character’s ghost in final episode of Neighbours?
Madge Bishop
Which MP had problems researching tractor brands in House of Commons in 2022
Neil Parish
At commonwealth 2022 golds, Australia silvers and England golds were same number, how many?
57
Bbc political editor after Laura Kuennsberg
Chris Mason
August 2022 saw deaths from floods in which Asian city often rated as one of asias most livable cities
Seoul
Which town in Yorkshire became city in 2022
Doncaster
Pipelines transporting natural gas from Russia to Germany are called what?!94;
Nord Stream
Chicken Veronique or Sole Veronique is cooked with which fruit
Grapes (white6
Which Paul Simon song was inspired by either the Chinese chicken foo yung or tbh r japanese dish Oyakodon
Mother and Child Reunion
Which brand name now appears on sweet packets jointly with Maynards
Bassetts
Which 1982 tv series on Chinese cookery and its spin off recipe book gave bbc one of their greatest commercial successes?&3’
Ken Hom
Yoghurt comes from which language word
Turkish
What vicious water is created from legume seeds drenched water? Chickpeas leftover water changed into this.
Aquafaba
In 1933 film I’m no Angel who instructed Beulah to peel a grape for her?
Mae West
In his epistle to whom did St Paul write “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out”
Timothy
Who created Brookside
Phil Redmond
Oliver Postgate and Peter firmin created which series set in stop motion Northlands?’
Noggin the Nog
1604 Johannes Kepler saw what extreme and rare astronomical event):7
Supernova (in constellation Ophiuchus)
Who costarred in Basic Instinct, Waterworld and Criminal Minds tv?
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Which comedian appeared in Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (1944-55) and Beyond our Ken (1958-64)?
Kenneth Horne
Which year was bread first rationed in 1940s
1946
Status Quo 1972 song with transport in name
Paper Plane
Type of poem such as “do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, five tercets followed by a quatrain?
Villanelle
Which n is the most widely used pint glass in British pubs, bulge at top!
Nonic
Removal of the brown husk of rice results in loss of which vitamin (70% loss)
B
If dish describes “a La lyonnaise” it includes what
Onions
London Pride, Chiswick Bitter and ESB are brands of which brewing company?
Fullers
What is a truckle in food terms
A cylindrical cheese
What do Bayonne, Parma and Serrano hams have in common?
Air Dried (uncooked)
Catherine was novelists wife who he legal separated and long relationship with Ellen Tiernan actress. Who?
Charles Dickens
Brian May’s actress wife?
Anita Dobson
Ringo Starr’s actress wife!
Barbara Bach
Where are confectionary Uncle Joes Mint Balls made?
Wigan
World of Glass Museum and Visitors Centre ?
St Helens
Bank Quay railway station found where?
Warrington
Which Yorkshire town until 1978 had a famous variety club where Louis Armstrong, Beegees, Roy Orbison played?
Batley
Which town was home to the Society of Equitable pioneers?
Rochdale
What are Nordisch, Rhenish, Swiss, Berliner and Ciner?
newspaper formats
Smurfs in French
Les Schtroumpfs
Charlemagne father and son
Father Pepin the Short
Son Pepin the Hunchback
Who was nicknamed the Honorable John Company
East India Company
Which Nazi leader died in paddington in 1981
Albert Speer
British boxer who in 1951 became world middleweight champion when he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson? Nicknamed Leamington Licker.
Randolph Turpin
1958 first nuclear powered aircraft: USS ________
Enterprise
Which song also released by Fifth Dimension was a 1967 UK hit for the Johnny Mann singers?
Up Up and Away
John Denver only one top 40 song, went #1 in 1974 in Uk
Annie’s Song
Song “Move Closer” was uk number one in April 1985 for who?
Phyllis Nelson
In whcih country bulldozer Revolution?
Yugoslavia
Which MP opposed by the Dog Lovers party in 1979?
Jeremy Thorpe
Four Ministries of Oceania in 1984
Love, Peace, Truth and Plenty
Which decorative item might have a knop, column, sconce and pricket?
Candlestick
Opened in 1945 fully, the Churchill Barriers were built to protect which body of water?
Scapa Flow
New Zealand radio and television broadcaster, presenter of the fishing documentary show Fish of the Day
Clarke Gayford (fiancée of Jacinda Ardern)
In ice hockey when player serving a penalty and their team one less player they are said to be in state of what?
Short Handed
Deriving from an indigenous word for “ball” or “game”, what is two words name for traditional Indigenous Australian football games played at gatherings and celebrations by sometimes more than 100 players?
Marn Grook
Bogside, Waterside, Creggan and Shantallow are areas in which Northern Irish city?
Derry
Which athlete born liverpool but rep NI in Commonwealth, won Spoty in 1972 after winning pentathlon at Munich ?
Mary Peters
Who is current leader of alliance party of Northern Ireland since October 2016
Naomi Long
James Ellis appeared as Bert Lynch in 629 episodes of which 1962-78 series? It centred on work of mobile uniformed police on the fictional Newtown, based in Kirkby, liverpool?
Z-Cars
Which river, rising at Slieve Muck in the mournes and running to the Atlantic nee port Stewart, is Northern Ireland’s longest?
River Bann
Which 1978 Undertones hit was so beloved by Kohn Peel it’s on his headstone
Teenage Kicks
What type of geological tourist attraction brings visitor to County Fermanagh village of florencecourt?
Marble Arch Caves
Belfast entrepreneur Nicky Kinnaird founded and contributed partially to the name of which cosmetics retailer ?
Space Nk
Who shared 1976 Nobel peace prize for work with northern Irish organisation community of peace people?
Betty Williams and Mairead Maguire
French video game company known for assassins creed, far cry, just dance, prince of Persia.
Ubisoft
What was surname of brothers Thomas, naval architect of titanic, John M second PM of Northern Ireland and James Lord Chief Justice of NI?
Andrews
Which river up which Ted Hastings in line of duty suggests he’s come up in a bubble runs through Belfast ?
Lagan
Although widely thought of as Australian, which actress born in carrickfergus, County Antrim, played Susan Kennedy in neighbours from 1994 to show end?
Jackie Woodburne
Credited with invention of chocolate milk; born 1660 Ireland, 13th president of royal society 1727-41, bequeathed bunch to British nation leading to British museum, library, natural history museum.
Hans Sloane
Which brtipop band whose classic line up is Tim Wheeler, Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray boasts Goldfinger, Oh Yeah and Shining Light as it’s best performers in charts? Girl from Mars might be signature hitS
Ash
1998 Nobel Peace Prize winners
David Trimble (died 2022) and John Hume (died 2020)
Shankill, Ardoyne, Tiger’s Bay are areas in whcih northern Irish city?
Belfast
El Niño and Everyday were among biggest hits for which northern Irish trance duo, active between 1997 and 2014?
Agnelli & Nelson
Which Ship sharing name with commonwealth capital city was last ocean liner completed by titanic shipbuilders Harland and Wolff in 1961?
SS Canberra
Which Belfast Tv presenter blue Peter host 1986 to 1990 leaving to join radio 5? Died breast cancer 14 years later at 41.
Caron Keating
Actor who played Charlie Fairhead in Casualty?
Derek Thompson
Featuring in five sherlock novels, an Ulster was a Victorian item of which type of clothing?
Coat
Which County Antrim town became Northern Ireland’s main ferry port from mid 19th century?
Larne
Johnny Cash song about Ireland?
Forty Shades of Green
Which London terminus regained title as uk busiest station again in 2022 after dropped to fourth year before?
Waterloo
Japanese word refers to buying books and pile up without reading
Tsundoku
Pearl Jam debut album Ten is named after jersey number of which NBA player, Pearl Jam originally named after player?
Mookie Blaylock
Which 1991 film starring Gong Li and directed by Zhang Yimou tells story of young woman in China who becomes concubine of wealth man during warlord era?
Raise the Red Lantern
Which former patriots and colts kicker( who played 1996-2019, leads NFL all time in points scored? His game winning kick in super bowl 36 won patriots first championship.
Adam Vinatieri
Which Chinese emperor and military leader (1735-1796), fifth of Qing Dynasty, saw China reach its greatest expanse during his reign?
Qianlong Emperor
Danish chef and Co owner of Noma restaurant in Copenhagen
Rene Redzepi
Wild Swans 1991 book by which Chinese British author
Jung Chang
Ethical code of Jainism, which of five vows relates to non-greediness, non grasping and non possession?
Aparigraha
Ethics of Jainism, what is non violence?
Ahimsa
In ethics of Jainism what is truth
Satya
In ethics of Jainism what is non stealing ?
Asteya
In ethics of jainism, what concept literally means to stay in conduct within one’s own self, chastity or sexual abstinence?
Brahmacharya
Which German chess master famous for brilliant sacrificial attacking play particular the Immortal Game and The Evergreen Game?
Adolf Andersson
1886-1894 the first official world champion chess what Austrian player?
William Steinitz
Widower of Vivienne Westwood, Austrian creative designer and fashion partner?
Andreas Kronthaler
Peruvian Secretary General of UN 1982-1991
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Form of textile produced by using knotting rather than weaving or knitting? Name Arabic in origin, with moorish conquest first bringing the craft to Spain, then rest of Europe.
Macrame
Who is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer and have work played by major orchestra in 1933? 2009, old manuscripts found igniting interest in musicZ
Florence Price
Widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuosos of his time before dying in car accident at 25, which jazz bassist closely associated with pianist Bill Evans composer standards including Jade Visions and Gloria’s Step?
Scott Lafaro
Volcano that erupted in 2010 in Iceland and disrupted air travel for ages
Eyjafjallajokull
Tax of medieval origin levied intermittently in kingdom of England until middle of 17th century. Typically on coastal areas, Charles I tried doing in peacetime and went badly z
Ship Money
French 18th century composer and chess player who has defence chess opening named after him. Contributed to early development of Opera Comique.
Philidor (Defence)
Which fashion designer is Viennese Westwood’s son? Founder of Agent Provocateur.
Joseph Corre
Queen of Soul singer
Aretha Franklin
American author known for novel The Joy Luck Club?
Amy Tan
Area along border of Egypt and Sudan which is unhabitated and unclaimed by either countries
Bir Tawil
Which 1993 film starring Gong Li and directed by Chen Kaige tells story of peking operas actors and friends exploring homosexuality and social instability in China?5/
Farewell My Concubine
In American football, the annual award given to most outstanding punter in college football is named after which player?
Ray Guy
Which Chinese emperor reigned 1402-1424 and was third of Ming Dynasty oversaw Forbidden city construction and the Porcelain Tower of nanjingV
Yongle Emperor
Chemistry 2020 Nobel
Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
Saladin dynasty name
Ayyubid Dynasty
Widely regarded as one of most talented virtuosos of his time before dying 25 in 1956, which jazz trumpeter closely associated with drummer max roach, composed standards Sandu, Daahoud, Joy Spring?
Clifford Brown
Pseudonymous t Twitter user know for idiosyncratic style of absurdist humour and non sequiturs. Proper weird twitterS
Dril
WPP, Publicis Groupe, Omnicom, Interpublic, Dentsu and Havas are the Big 6 in which industry?
Advertising
Horse racing the Irish Derby is held at which racecourse in County Kildare?
The Curragh
Which American patriot led the green mountain boys militia of Vermont in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during revolutionary war?
Ethan Allen
Netball World Cup first held in 1963, won by Australia, New Zealand and which other country?
Trinidad and Tobago
Name of musical mode more commonly referred to as natural minor scale? One of four tribes of Greece.
Aeolian
Maud Apatow, daughter of Leslie Mann and Judd, stars in which HBO teen drama series?
Euphoria
Three NFL sides in Florida
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Miami Dolphins
Jacksonville Jaguars
Who reported seeing apparition of Virgin Mary in 1858 in Lourdes?
Bernadette Soubirous
Name of the Turkmenistan “door to hell” gas crater?
Darvaza
Who was last king of the Quilombo dos Palmares, 17th century settlement largely comprised of escaped slaves in Brazil? Black consciousness day in Brazil sometimes called after this king on November 20th.
Zumbi
In which poker variant does a player have four cards in hand and five community cards on table? Must use two in hand and three on table to make best five?
Omaha Hold’Em
Which 80s supermodel appeared in Billy Joel music video for Uptown Girl?
Christie Brinkley
Which author wrote the Wheel of Time franchise and wrote 12 books in series until 2007 death? Tv show on Amazon prime in 2021.
Robert Jordan
Who is leader of SNP in House of Commons from December 2022 after Ian Blackford stepped down?
Stephen Flynn
Which composer’s Romanza (Symphony in D) was played on organ at queen’s funeral?
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Primarily known for working in horror genre, what is name of the film production company that produced Paranormal Activity and Insidious film series?
Blumhouse
In radio system terminology, what does the MW stand for in MW?
Medium Wave
In poker variant which does a player have to make best five card hand possible from cards in their hand, four of which dealt face-up so every one can see them, three dealt face-down. Before rise of Texas Hold’Em, this was one of the most widely played variants.
7 Card Stud
Which Danish 90s super model appeared in Chris Isaak music video for Wicked Game?
Helena Christensen
Queen Nzinga served as queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 17th century kingdoms in which modern day African country?
Angola
Known as Mouth of Hell, Masaya Volcano is found in which Central American country?
Nicaragua
Which of escoffier’s mother sauces of French cuisine is made by reduction of clear stock (made from unroasted bones) and thickened with white roux??3@
Veloute
2022, who became second woman to win fields medal in Ma th s?
Maryna Viazovska
What is name of musical mode more commonly referred to as the major scale? Derives name from one of four major tribes of Ancient Greece.
Ionian
Three NFL franchises in California
San Francisco 49ers
LA Rams
LA Chargers
Which fantasy author’s works finished the wheel of time series following Robert Jordan’s death? Works include the Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive series of novels. 2022 became most funded author on kickstarter.
Brandon Sanderson
With an estimated population of just 74, all in Indonesia what is most critically endangered of the five extant species of rhino in world?
Javan Rhinoceros
Which anti-obesity drug is a saturated derivative of lipstatin which stops the hydrolysis and absorption of fats in the intestine, resulting in modest weight loss, but with notorious effect of loose oily stools and incontinence?
Orlistat
Which single word describes the process of a plasma turning back into a gas, such as when fluorescent light is switched off? This name refers to positive ions combining with electrons or negative ions to form neutral atoms again.
Recombination
Who designed the “Choose Life” t shirt worn by Wham in 80s? Designed a new one with “Choose Love” for Help Refugees in 2015.
Katharine Hamnett
One of the best known arguments in epistemology, the “missing shade of blue” was an idea first expounded by which philosopher in his 1739 work A Treatise of Human Nature?
David Hume
In the game of Go, a vacant point that is horizontally or vertically adjacent to a stone is known in English by what word beginning with L? A stone or group of stones must have at least one of these to survive.
Liberty
Brazilian Jujutsu was developed by which brothers?
Gracie brothers
In theatrical lighting, an ellipsoidal reflector floodlight is also known by what name, shares with character in Bob the Builder?
Scoop
Which 1993 film directed by Richard Linklater received acclaim for soundtrack of 1970s hits although it did not include song of the same title by Led Zeppelin?
Dazed and Confused
Which 1993 film directed by Richard Linklater received acclaim for soundtrack of 1970s hits although it did not include song of the same title by Led Zeppelin?
Dazed and Confused
Which ancient English custom takes place annually on May 8th in Cornish town of Helston? It incorporates the Hal-an-Tow pageant and see participants wearing a Lily-of-the-Valley flower while participating in the activity that a popular song is named for.
Furry Dance
In 1617, Pocahontas died in which town in Kent, buried there in George’s church?
Gravesend
Which Uk businessman, current CEO of vitamins company Vitabiotics, one of dragons den from 2017-21, succeeding Nick Jenkins and being replaced by Steven Bartlett?
Tej Lalvani
Which Olympic Games saw germanys only defeat in the team dressage of the last forty years with the gold going to host nation instead?
2012 London Olympics
The Senegal river forms most of border between Senegal and which country to north of it?
Mauritania
Who designed the lay out and street plan of Washington DC?
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Who appointed by Napoleon III to renovate street plan of Paris in 1850s and 60s
Baron Haussman
What single word denotes process of a gas turning into a plasma, such as when fluorescent light is switched on? Name refers to creation of electrically charged particles.
Ionisation
In the game of Go, an internal fully surrounded liberty of a group of stones is known in English by what name first letter E? A group of stones with two or more of these can never be captured.
Eye
Theodore Roosevelt took up which martial art meaning “gentle art”?
Jujitsu
Sapho, Manon and Werther are all operas by which French composer?
Jules Massenet
Which injectable drug, developed as a longer acting alternative to liraglutide for treating diabetes, has also been widely prescribed off label as an anti obesity miedication? Drug saw surge in popularity 2022 after musk tweeted about using it.
Semaglutide
With estimated population of over 15,000 in Southern Africa what is by far most abundant five extant species of rhinoceros in world?
White Rhinoceros
The Scott Report was result of inquiry into government approvals of banned sales of defence equipment to a certain Middle Eastern country in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Scandals became known as Arms-to-…. Which country?
Iraq
Lisa Marie Presley first husband was Danny Keough (had kids Riley Keough actress and Benjamin shot in head 2020), who was 2, 3 and 4 husband?
Michael Jackson
Nicolas Cage
Michael Lockwood
Who played The Stranger in The Big Lebowski? Also 2018 A Star is Born which he got nominated for Oscar BSA.
Sam Elliott
Which annual folk custom takes place annually on May Day in Cornish town of Padstow and involves two separate processions each carrying the object which gives the festival its name?
‘Obby ‘Oss Festival
Which UK businesswoman, the founder and owner of the crafting supply company Crafters Companion, has been one of dragons on dragons den since 2019, succeeding Jenny Campbell?
Sara Davies
Which name used for model of Ford car built between 1951 and 1975 was also the title of highest elected political office in ancient Roman republic?
Consul
Second simplest carboxylic acid, ethanoic acid, is main component of vinegar (other than water) and is also known by what name?
Acetic Acid
Template used in theatrical lighting, placed between the lamp and the lenses to control shape of light and its shadow is known by what name that it shares with one of Fraggles in Fraggle Rock?
Gobo
Which serving French President, addressee of Emile zola’s open letter J’Accuse, died suddenly from stroke in Elysee palace while with mistress Marguerite Steinheil in 1899?
Felix Faure
Which sculpture did Mount Rushmore?
Gutzon Borglum
Although forms border with Mauritania to north, headwaters of Senegal river lie in which country that borders Senegal to the south?
Guinea
Donald Duck parents names
Hortense and Quackmore
anonymous French street artist and muralist whose ceramic tile mosaics depict characters from 1970s arcade games is known by what pseudonym? Inspired by title of one such classic game.
Invader
Which 1975 film based on 1973 London stage musical is still in limited release in 2023 and is therefore longest running theatrical release in film history?
Rocky Horror Picture Show
How are roughly spherical reddish spongy growths formed in leaf-buds of an oak tree by the developing larvae of a gall wasp generally known?
Oak Apple
Largest private garden in London bounded by constitution hill and grosvenor place?
Buckingham Palace Garden
Three of the four suits in a pack of cards are mentioned in the Beatles song titles, which one not?
Spades
Which British product and quality mark has been in use since 1903 when introduced as trademark on tramway rails?
The Kitemark
Shop sells chocolates in boxes of 6, 9 or 20, what is largest number of chocolates impossible to buy?
43
Canada and Denmark island that 2022 settled after 25 year fight, it’s in Ellesmere Strait near Baffin Bay.
Hans Island
Last British PM to be born in 19th century?
Harold MacMillan
What name is used in stock market for an issue of shares offered at a special price by a uk company pro rata to its existing shareholders?
Rights Issue
First British chess player to become a candidate for the world chess championship and lost to Garry Kasparov in 1993?
Nigel Short
First British chess player to become a candidate for the world chess championship and lost to Garry Kasparov in 1993?
Nigel Short
First Englishman to earn chess grand master title?
Tony Miles
What well known term for a empty tomb or monument erected in honour of person or group whose remains are elsewhere?
Cenotaph
10 January 1863 first section of London Underground opened. Which two stations did it link?
Paddington to Farringdon
Two Shakespeare plays set on Sicily
The Winters Tale
Much Ado About Nothing
Out of 7 countries formed from breakup of Yugoslavia only 2 are currently eu members, who?
Croatia and Slovenia
Nativity of Jesus described in which two of the gospels?
Matthew and Luke
Chemical solution Aqua Regia is one of few liquids capable of dissolving gold and platinum, what mixture two acids?
Nitric and Hydrochloric Acid
Which two writers plaques at 29 Fitzroy Square? One Irish Nobel prize winner and second a Bloomsbury group novelist.
George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf
Name of the administrative centre of London borough of Tower Hamlets? Also name of DLR and location of 1921 Rates Revolt.
Poplar
What is name of American right wing political advocacy group that was founded in 1958? The group is fanatically anti-communist and supports social conservatism.
The John Birch Society
What was the name of the now jailed alleged fantasist who claimed Ted Heath, Lord Brammall, Leon Brittan and others part of a YIP paedo ring?
Carl Beech
Two word name of training facility at McDonald’s HQ in chciago Illinois?
Hamburger University
French word for paper clip?
Trombone
In which UK general election were 18 year olds allowed to vote for first time?
1970
Name of singer who became first woman to win big four categories of best album, record year, song of year and best new artist at January 2020 Grammy?
Billie Eilish
1983 Brinks-Mat robbery took place near which airport?
Heathrow
2016 autobiography Revolution by who?
Emmanuel Macron
Who has been Burnley manager since June 2022?
Vincent Kompany
Sheffield Manager manager since 2021?
Paul Heckingbottom
The first royal porcelain factories in Jingdezhen were built during which Chinese dynasty?
Ming
Which political drama tv series takes name for Danish for “the castle”
Borgen
Muesli invented by which Swiss physician?
Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Word links jazz musician famous for 1966 hit “Get Away” and a perfume by Paco Rabanne?
Fame
Metal used as protective coating during process known as galvanisation?
Zinc
Tv series Tulsa King starring Sly Stallone set in which US state?
Oklahoma
Who composer score for 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ?
Peter Gabriel
Lillehammer was which country and year olympics
1994 in Norway
Which novel by Toni Morrison shares name with British electronic music group
Beloved
The “ashen light” phenomenon is a faint glow observed on dark side of which planet?
Venus
Judy Garland sings “I want to go back to Michigan” in which film musical?
Easter Parade
The Gulf of Martaban is situated off coast of which Asian country?
Myanmar
The March “Hail to the Chief” first played at inauguration of which US President?
Martin Van Buren
2022 fantasty film 3000 years of longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton is based on short story by which novelist
AS Byatt
2022 fantasty film 3000 years of longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton is based on short story by which novelist
AS Byatt
How many countries in Africa end in “ia”
11
Which Israeli born arcihitect designed Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
Moshe Safdie
Busiest railway station in Spain is which Madrid station named for district it is in?
Madrid Atocha
In a game of chess after how many moves in succession can a player claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved?
50 movies
In computer science, what three word term describes the application of computational techniques to understanding written and spoken language? Such as Virtual Assistants.
Natural Language Processing
Two new cricket franchisss go becomes part of IPL in 2022, which team won the IPL that year? Captain Hardik Pandya and batter Shubman Gill.
Gujarat Titans
Which jazz trumpeter has been nominated for Mercury prize twice, for Into the Blue in 1995 and for Soundtrack in 2002?
Guy Barker
Julius Caesar defeated Vercingetorix and his Gaullisg army at which 52BC battle following a siege at the titular location?
Battle of Alesia
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among few directors who won Palme D’OR twice? Their first win was 1999 for which film, whose titular character attempts suicide at end.
Rosetta
Harpers Ferry is in which current us state? Known for 1859 John Brown’s Raid.2
West Virginia
Who narrated the famous AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance tv advert of 1980s?
John Hurt
Tim Duncan is currently only nba #1 draft pick from which Winston-Salem, NC university?
Wake Forest University
Published in 1871, what was first book of the Rougon-Macquart series to be written by Emile Zola?
La Fortune Des Rougon
Collective title given to twenty novels by Emile Zola subtitles natural and social history of a family under the second empire. Follows two titular branches of fictional family living during second French empire (1852-1870).
Les Rougon-Macquart
1963 saw two songs in foreign language hit number one in Us. One of them was which song sung in Japanese by Kyu Sakamoto? Songs popular title is same name of a Japanese hot pot dish with cooked beef.
Sukiyaki
Known as the father of American anthropology and associated with historical particularise and cultural relativism which German American anthropologist at Columbia had among students Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead and Edward Sapir?
Franz Boas
Known as wise man of the nation, which Hungarian leader was key contributed to the April Laws, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and the Hungarian Nationalities Law? 1803-76.
Ferenc Deak
Hungarian nobleman and lawyer governirnpresident of kingdom of Hungary during revolution of 1848-49? Great talker. Speeches impressed Daniel Webster who wrote a book about his life. Called Father of Hungarian Democracy.
Lajos Kossuth
In organic chemistry, what type of acids have the general formula RS(=O2)-OH where R is an organic radical?
Sulfonic Acid
Blackman and Stayman are conventions in which sport?,
Contract Bridge
Which saying comes before “though fools seldom differe”?
Great minds think alike
Which saying comes before “though fools seldom differe”?
Great minds think alike
Emperor Taisho of Japan 1912-26 had which personal name?
Yoshihito
All female singer seater racing championship since 2019 has what name.
W Series
Which British racing driver has won the W Series each year from its inception: 2019, 2021 and 2022? Competed at the 2022 Race of Champions for Great Britain alongside David Coulthard.
Jamie Chadwick
Four drivers to have won Indy 500 four times
AJ Foyt
Al Unser Sr
Rick Mears
Helio Castroneves
Which British driver was runner up to the 2001 F1 championship behind Michael Suchmacher?
David Coulthard
Only two women participated in the 2022 Race of Champions: britains Jamie Chadwick and which Finnish driver who also is in W Series?
Emma Kimilainen
One of only two countries in Africa to have international dialling code, +20 is who?
Egypt
Which type of device converts mechanical energy into electrical energy?
Generator
Playing the husband of Charlotte Ritchie’s character in Ghosts, which actor will feature in series 15 of taskmaster? Also plays Dean in Stath Let’s Flats?
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
English stand up comedian born in Tokyo 1990. Appearing in Taskmaster series 15. Younger ever winner of So You Think You’re Funny in 2009. Eton posh boy.
Ivo Graham
Canadian born comedian and actor based in England starring Netflix series Feel Good.
Mae Martin
Who plays Adam Groff in Sex education?
Connor Swindells
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have won palmedor twice, second win in 2005!;94 which film where titular character sold into an underground adoption ring?
L’enfant (the child)
Founded by Michael Pickard in 1973, chain wanted to compete against British roadside restaurant Little Chef who they absorbed in 1997.
Happy Eater
In which year Sputnik launched, size of basketball?
1957
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, which giant was thrown from a cliff during wrestling match with Corineus?
Gogmagog
Whcih film writer wrote the dr who episode Vincent and the Doctor?
Richard Curtis
Roy Orbison first number one in UK
Only the Lonely (other two were It’s Over and Oh, Pretty Woman)
Who were the Travelling Wilburn members?
George Harrison
Bob Dylan
Jeff Lynne
Roy Orbison
Tom Petty
Which modern day country last large habitable land to be settled by humans and first to adopt the universal franchise?
New Zealand
Which singer had number 1 hits in the 1970s with Can the Can and Devil Gate Drive?
Suzi Quatro
Which colour named after rich brown pigment derived from ink sac of common cuttlefish and name given to photography?
Sepia
Named after emblem worn by first airborne corps on D-Day, how did the Benouville Bridge in Normandy become known in 1944?
Pegasus Bridge
What number is at 3pm on dartboard?
What number is at 6pm on dartboard?
What number is at 9pm on dartboard?
6
3
11
Dart numbers on board from 20 to 6 (at 3pm).
20 1 18 4 13 6
Dart numbers on board from 6 (3pm) to 3 (6pm)
6 10 15 2 17 3
Dart numbers on board from 3 (6pm) to 11 (9pm)
3 19 7 16 8 11
Dart numbers on board from 11 (9pm) to 20.
11 14 9 12 5 20
Pandora, setting of Avatar films, is a moon of a gas giant orbiting which star?-@0
Alpha Centauri A
According to Auguste Escoffier in 1903, an “omelette aux fines herbes” should contain four fresh herbs: parsley, chives, a little chervil and which other?
Tarragon
Ferguson’s Gang was an anonymous group of patriotic and philanthropic women hiding behinds masks and pseudonyms who raised significant amount of money in 30s and 40s for which institution?
National Trust
Which word connects cigarette smoking, a double drum stroke, a type of motor racing and in physics the force which resists motion of an object through a fluid?
Drag
Which expression generally meaning one who comes last or behind is derived from a nickname for the rear-gunner in a WW2 bomber?
Tail End Charlie
Only President to have not been TIME Person of the Year?
Gerald Ford (also not elected as President or Vice President)
On which island off coast of Western Australia would you find the Quokka?
Rottnest Island
On which island off coast of Western Australia would you find the Quokka?
Rottnest Island
From Greek for face and non knowledge, word more commonly known as face blindness.
Prosopagnosia
Which Australian state capital known as city of churches
Adelaide
The largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria and home to Anindilyakwa people has what name? Given by Abel Tasman, archaic spelling of Dutch for large island.
Groote Eylandt
Nickname for a $5 note in Australia
Prawn due to pink colour
Psychrolutes Microporos voted 2013 ugliest animal and found in deep water Tasman Sea, common name?
Blobfish
Worlds first McCafe was opened in which city said to be coffee capital of their country maybe due to high level of Greek and Italian heritage people.
Melbourne
Name of Regatta held annually in august along Todd River of Alice Springs, special as fry river with no water.
Henley-on-Todd
Sydney Company Where 2 Technologies bought out 2004 and launched 2005 as which well known product?
Google Maps
Second most populous city in emilia-Romagna, known for prosciutto and cheese?
Parma
In which film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer does an oil tycoon plan to overthrow communism using a supercomputer?
Billion Dollar Brain
In which film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer does an oil tycoon plan to overthrow communism using a supercomputer?
Billion Dollar Brain
Developed by riot games in 2009, which multiplayer online battle arena (MObA) game is most played esport in world?
League of Legends
Which inland waterway starts at Mersey estuary and follows original route of river Medway and Irwell through Lancashire and Cheshire? Opened 1893 and 58km long.
Manchester Ship Canal
Which inland waterway starts at Mersey estuary and follows original route of river Medway and Irwell through Lancashire and Cheshire? Opened 1893 and 58km long.
Manchester Ship Canal
Quills of porcupines, prickles of hedgehogs and stinger of stingray are examples of what hard needle like structures?
Spines
Which 2002 novel by Sarah Waters concerns the plan of a petty thief and con man to share inheritance of rich lady who the conman will marry?
Fingersmith
Which 2002 novel by Sarah Waters concerns the plan of a petty thief and con man to share inheritance of rich lady who the conman will marry?
Fingersmith
Which 2002 novel by Sarah Waters concerns the plan of a petty thief and con man to share inheritance of rich lady who the conman will marry?
Fingersmith
Aneuran Bevan and Michael Foot among former editors of which socialist magazine founded 1937 to campaign against fascism?
Tribune
Which organ, sits beneath the sternum in upper front part of the chest produces T-Lymphocytes for immune system?
Thymus
What enzyme breaks down dietary fats into fatty acids and glycerol
Lipase
As member of Australian womens hockey team in 1996 summer Olympics who became first aboriginal Australian to win Olympic gold? In 1998 she won womens 200m at commonwealth games.
Nova Peris-Kneebone
What type of sword with single edge that normally has a basket hilt was popular with European in 17th and 18th century?
Backsword
What type of sword with single edge that normally has a basket hilt was popular with European in 17th and 18th century?
Backsword
Real name of Sophia Loren
Sofia Scicolone
NASA tess project stands for what
Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite
Which drummer led the Jazz Messengers for 35 years?
Art Blakey
Which learned society met at Soho House in Handsworth?
Lunar Society of Birmingham
Frederick Belmont established which cafe in Harrogate in 1919?
Betty’s
Jenny Berggren former lead singer of which Swedish band?
Ace of Base
Lead singer of the Cardigans
Nina Persson
Members of Roxette
Marie Frederiksson
Per Gessle
Andre Agassi; Phil Knight; Prince Harry? How connected?
Autobiographies all ghostwritten by JR Moehringer.
Chapman’s; Crawshay’s; Grant’s types of what
Zebra (Burchells and Grevys too)
Who replaced Andrew Cuomo has Governor of New York from 2021 becoming first female governor of New York
Kathy Hochul
New York mayor since 2022 replacing Bill de Blasio
Eric Adams
Governor of California since 2019
Gavin Newsom
Governor of Florida since 2019
Ron DeSantis
Governor of Arkansas since 2023. Her father was same role 1996-2007. She was White House Press Secretary under Trump 2017-19.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Member of famous family who own Hyatt, who has been Governor of Illinois since 2019?
JB Pritzker
Which African American US politician was blind and served out Eliot Spitzer Governor of NY role 2008-10?
David Paterson
Mayor of DC since 2015
Muriel Bowser
In mechanics, which physical quantity represented by lower case sigma is defined as in the internal forces that neighbouring particles of a continuous material exert on each other? Shear, compressive or tensile all this quality type.
Stress
James Jones wrote a War Trilogy: The Thin Red Line, Whistle and which other that was adapted into a 1953 film?
From Here to Eternity
Which Native American war leader of Oglala Lakota involved at Battle of Little Big Horn is commemorated by an incomplete sculpture in black hills of SD?
Crazy Horse
Japanese architect won 1995 Pritzker Prize, designed Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Suntory Museum of Tokyo, Langen Foundation in Neuss Germany.
Tadao Ando
Which French Artist painted the portrait of Ben Franklin that’s on $100 bill? Also did Jacques Necker (finance minister of Louis XVI) and Christoph Willibald Gluck -“and Louis XVI himself.
Joseph Duplassis
Titled after WH Auden’s poem dedicated to Russian conductor and composer Serge Koussevitzky what is nickname for Symphony No 2 by Leonard Bernstein?
Age of Anxiety
Nora Ephron three Oscar nominations
Silkwood
When Harry Met Sally
Sleepless in Seattle
Execution of which American in 1977 inspired Norman Mailer’s novel The Executioners Song and the U2 song Exit?
Gary Gilmore
What word used to refer to seed producing plants such as conifers and cycads in contrast to flowering plants?
Gymnosperm
Widely regarded as magnum opus, which 1966 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney includes the poem Digging, one of the author’s best-known works?
Death of a Naturalist
Name of traditional female dress worn in Austria, South Tyrol, Bavaria, based on traditional clothing of alpine peasants?
Dirndl
What Hebrew name is given to Jewish festival marking both wheat harvest and day God give Torah to the nation of Israel? Known as Feast of Weeks or Pentecost in Greece.
Shavuot
Arabic for “the directions”, what name given to direction of celestial object from the observer as angular distance from north or south point of the horizon to the point at which vertical circle passing through object intersects the horizon?
Azimuth
Arabic for “the directions”, what name given to direction of celestial object from the observer as angular distance from north or south point of the horizon to the point at which vertical circle passing through object intersects the horizon?
Azimuth
Arabic for “the directions”, what name given to direction of celestial object from the observer as angular distance from north or south point of the horizon to the point at which vertical circle passing through object intersects the horizon?
Azimuth
Largest island inland in the British Isles to be located in a lake is found in Loch Lomond? What called?
Inchmurrin
Also nominated for Oscar in 1985’fikm My Life as a Dog, which swede director directed almost all of ABBA’s music videos?
Lasse Hallstrom
Lying off coast of Pembrokeshire, which island home to half the worlds population of Manx Shearwaters, as well as large puffin community?
Skomer
Located in County Clare, which region of Karst landscape, of which Cliffs of Moher are south western feature, forms the smallest of Ireland’s six national parks?
The Burren
Mens singles finals at the first open era tennis tournament, 1968 British hard court championship and the first open era grand slam tournament, 1968 French open, both saw which player defeat Rod Laver in four sets?
Ken Rosewall
Lead singer Euros Childs, which welsh language rock band in era known as Cool Cymru, only band to have eight top 75 singles without making it to Top 40? Best known track Patio Song.
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
Sequel to Three Men in a Boat where George, Harris and Jerome switch to bicycles
Three Men on the Bummel
First European war o the 21st century was august 2008 between Russia and which country
Georgia
Common name for Humulus Lupulus a species of perennial herbaceous climbing plant in hemp family
Common Hop
In 1950s, bounty of 1 shilling paid by UK Agri Ministry for tail of which animal?
Grey Squirrel
Elvis song #1 uk 8 weeks, based on Neapolitan song which was also used in number of tv adverts for cornetto ice cream?
It’s Now or Never (O Sole Mio)
Melody of second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor was adapted by Eric Carmen into which power ballad, best known as top 10 hit for Celine Dion in 1996 with famous high note.
All By Myself
What Russian composer piece used as background music of 1945 film Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard and screenplay by Noel Coward?
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2
Providing soundtrack to a Hamlet cigar advert, second movement of Johann Seb Bach Orchestral Suite #3 also instrumental melody for debut single which went to #1 for 6 weeks in summer of love 1967?
Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)
Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor features in famous introduction to the film Rollerball, but also provided the inspiration for the guitar riff in whcih single by Muse, voted best of 20th century in poll by Total Guitar magazine?
Plug In Baby
Founder and lead singer of Procol Harum
Gary Brooker
Which Take That number one opens with a fanfare taken from Verdi’s Requiem Mass?
Never Forget
Who wrote plays The Accidental Death of Anarchist and Can’t Pay Won’t Pay? 1997 Nobel Lit.
Dario Fo
What childrens book about a beloved toy was written by Margery Williams and first published in 1922?
The Velveteen Rabbit
Berlin Tegel airport was named after which German pioneer of aviation known as the flying man. Used big wings he made.
Otto Lilienthal
New Berlin airport name including person named after
Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt
Two Dubai airports are Dubai InternTional Airport DXB and which other named Dubai World Central and named after Dubai ruling family
Al Maktoum International
Which airport in China is nicknamed the starfish it is one of two serving the capital and border of it and Hebei Province
Beijing Daxing
Cumbrian agriculture businessman expanded into haulage company and now in all transport systems across Europe and named after founder.3::
Eddie Stobart
Name of black and white layered liqueur coffee and vanilla flavour, two bottles.
Sheridans
What group were Vila, Gan, Jenna, Avon, Cally and Zen the Computer a part of?
Blake’s 7
Which politician said “all political lives… end in failure”?
Enoch Powell
Which bbc series brought back to life in 2015 with Michael Palin narrating Uk and William shatner narrating us versions of Oliver Postgate original show?
Clangers
Which bbc series brought back to life in 2015 with Michael Palin narrating Uk and William shatner narrating us versions of Oliver Postgate original show?
Clangers
Which bbc series brought back to life in 2015 with Michael Palin narrating Uk and William shatner narrating us versions of Oliver Postgate original show?
Clangers
Sept 2010 Scottish singer world record for oldest artist to #1 debut album
Susan Boyle
Sauce Paloise is version of Bearnaise Sauce with mint substituted for which other herb?
Tarragon
Who’s exploring the shores of southern England in 1818 Mary Anning discovered the first complete Skelton of which 200m marine reptile resemble dolphin
Ichthyosaurs
Who’s exploring the shores of southern England in 1818 Mary Anning discovered the first complete Skelton of which 200 million old marine reptile resemble dolphin
Ichthyosaur (did Plesiosaur in 1823)
Central character of which OT book commanded to go to Ninevah and unsuccessfully tries to flee instead?
Jonah
Lakota people trace their creation to the He Sapa mountain range better known by what name?
Black Hills
In Iliad, who tried to avoid fighting in Trojan War by disguising himself as a woman named Pyrrha?
Achilles
What tv series started Elizabeth Moss as Detectivr Robin Grififn investigating sudden disappearance of young girl in NZ?
Top of the Lake
What high prices variety of coffee coming from Ethiopian forest, shares name with a variety of Japanese entertainer?
Geisha
What rapper made his first appearance as a dancer in the music video for “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground?
Tupac Shakur
A scientist and single mother in the 1960s becomes the star of a tv cooking show in what 2022 best selling novel by Bonnie Garmus?
Lessons in Chemistry
Which city’s Shepheard’s Hotel and Casino Opera were destroyed in 1952 fire during riots triggered against British Army troops?
Cairo
Which variety of gemstone found in Australia is considered to be worlds oldest being dated to 4.4 billion years old?
Zircon
Last four victories of Lionesses at Euros 2022
Northern Ireland 5-0
Spain 2-1 (aet)
Sweden 4-0
Germany 2-1 (aet)
Raducanu last four games at 2021 US Open win
4R Shelby Rogers
QF Belinda Bencic
SF Maria Sakkari
F Leylah Fernandez
Only gold medal at the 2022 Paralympics Winter was which alpine skier mens Super G for Team GB? Also won Bronze
Neil Simpson
Female Team GB multiple medalist at 2022 paralympics for alpine skiing one silver and one bronze.
Menna Fitzpatrick
Manchester version of the London Oyster card
Get Me There
Paris version of the Oyster card
Navigo
Fhxjx
What two word term refers to public prosecutors in Scotland? Also act as equivalent of coroners in England and Wales, while the second word in their name derives from their power to impose certain fines.
Procurator Fiscal
Newmarket famous for races and sausages in which county?
Suffolk
Who has won NASCAR a record 7 times each? Three of them.
Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson
Which 2002 novel by Ben Elton tells the story of Labour MP Peter Paget and his mission to legalise all recreational drugs in UK?
High Society
Featuring a red and yellow billiard ball on a black background, the Hipgnosis designed album cover for Venus and Mars was photographed by member of band who record this 1975 album? What was name of band, whose previous 1973 album cover had featured amongst others Kenny Lynch, Clement Freud and Christopher Lee?
Wings
Which pair did comedy version of You’re the One That I Want #22 in September 1978, actor and actress?
Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard
Born 1938 and appearing on Wings’ Band on the Run album cover: #10 hits with Up on the Roof, You Can Never Stop Me Loving You. One of few black singers at the early 1960s in uk.
Kenny Lynch
Which WBC Light Heavyweight between 1974-78, gold at commonwealth games edinburgh 1970 and appeared on 1973 album cover of Band on the Run by Wings? Won second year of Superstars.
John Conteh
Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee and John Conteh were on album cover of which 1973 album?
Wings’ Band on the Run
Which northern Irish snooker player, 2018 Masters champion, has had countless run ins with snooker chief Barry Hearn due to outspoken nature? 2011 famous appeared for press with sticky tape on mouth. Ex was Reanne Evans.
Mark Allen
2003 South Korea horror film directed by Kim Jee-woon depicts former patient at a mental institution who is realised only to be haunted by ghosts in family home? First South Korean film to be screened in American theatres and English title is inspired by name of Charles dickens novel.
A Tale or Two Sisters
South Park: what is name of main police officer in town? Terrible vocabulary and extremely incompetent.
Officer Barbrady
Which film composer scored Fellini’s La Strada (1954), 8 1/2 (1963), Nights of Cabiria, Coppola’s The Godfather Part 1 and 2 (won Oscar for godfather part 2).
Nino Rota
Which 2006 novel by Ben Elton is a satire of X Factor singing shows? Calvin Simms is the Simon Crowell type character in this work and other Beryl Blenheim.
Chart Throb
Which video game experienced a virtual pandemic in 2005 when it introduced a spell known as Corrupted Blood? An oversight by developers allowed affliction to be transported out of its initial location via pets and minions leading to widespread infection and death across game world.
World of Warcraft
Timothy Spall playing LS Lowry in which 2019 with Vanessa Redgrave as his mother?
Mrs Lowry & Son
2014 film with Timothy Spall as famous painter born 1775?
Mr Turner
Korean sensation Psy had which follow up to Gangnam Style?
Gentleman
Who is the Chicken Connoisseur?
Elijah Quashie
What YouTube show is hosted by Sean Evans eating chicken wings?
Hot Ones
