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Rachel Weisz plays twin gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly mantle in 2023 tv series based on which 1988 David cronenburg film in which Jeremy irons plays the twins?
Dead Ringers
Which Austrian currently holds team principal for Mercedes’ f1?
Toto Wolff
Who “takes a trip” in name of famous boutique that opened on london kings road in 1966 and was noted for its psychedelic murals on its shopfront?
Granny
Which player, number 7 seed, made 147 break at worlds snooker championship in his first round match against Ryan day? He lost in second round and has same surname with another player at crucible this year 2023?
Kyren Wilson
Which American costume designer won oscwr for black Panther and sequel? First black woman to win Oscar’s twice in same category.
Ruth E Carter
Which DJ released his debut single Hyph Mngo in 2009 helping to popularise dubstep at end of 2000s? Dj stage name is one letter different from that of member of travelling Wilbur us?
Joy Orbison
One of most famous exhibits at which English museum is a taxidermied walrus that was overstuffed due to taxidermists being unaware that walruses had wrinkled skin?
Horniman Museum
In a metal mood is a 1997 album of jazz and big band style covers of hard rock and heavy metal songs performed by which singer! Second biggest selling act of 1950d after elvis in America, songs included Love Letters in the Sand and Ill be Home.
Pat Boone
Cholesterol, fats and organic oils are all part of what wider group of molecules? One type of molecule in this group, triglycerides, is main component of body fat in humans.
Lipids
Which player 6 seed made two 146 breaks at 2023 world snooker championships in first round match against Wu Yize? He lost in second round and shares his surname with another player who played at crucible Mathis year.
Neil Robertson
Rising to prominence through work on Merchant Ivory films which English costume designer has been nominated for an academy award in twelve occasions, winning for A Room with a View, Mad Max: Fury Road and Cruella? Stephen fry deleted Twitter after a joke about her.
Jenny Beavan
A central aim of monetary policy is to control which economic variable, defined as the ease with which assets can be connected into cash? In a so called trap named for this variable, monetary policy becomes ineffective as a means of controlling an economy.
Liquidity
Associated with swinging sixties scene a chain of London boutiques noted for selling a range of old fashioned military uniforms was called “I was (whose) valet”?
Kitchener
Another of Theseus Labour saw him kill the Crommyonian Sow which was the offspring of typhon and which cave dwelling monster taking half woman half serpent form?
Echidna
Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Kaplan star as Dan Gallagher and Alex Forrest in a 2023 tv series based on which 1987 film directed by Adrian Lyne?
Fatal Attraction
Who held role of team principal for Red Bull since 2005?
Christian Horner
Which rocky island located off coast of iverAgh peninsula off county Kerry was declared as a unesco whs 1996? Along with smaller neighbour formed in same geological event that created MacGillycuddys Reeks?
Skellig Michael
Which tyre company has a logo known as wingfoot which is based on foot of Roman god Mercury?
Goodyear
Emperor Gaozu’s grandson Gaozong was married to which empress, who served as empress consort and dowager empress before reigning in her own right from 690 to 705Ce. The only empress regnant in Chinese history she was deposed by her son Zhongzong and his wife Empress Wei.
Wu
A branch of the natural history museum featuring a large taxidermy collection of extinct and unusual hybrid animals can be found in which Hertfordshire town?
Tring
Playing Jerry Leadbetter in The Good Life and Jim Hacker in Yes Minister?
Paul Eddington
Which band, grime and punk rock, won kerrang best album 2022 and best alt music act at 2022 mobos? Band name one letter different from that of an ever of travelling wilburys.
Bob Vylan
What is name of Japanese craft that differs from origami in that it can be cut as well as folded?
Kirigami
What word follows Act of to give the common name of legislation passed in 1701 that disqualified catholics from inheriting the throne leading to the accession of Queen Anne?
Settlement
Which photographer won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography with The Terror of War an image depicting children trying to escape from a napalm bomb attack during the Vietnam war?
Nick Ut
What word is given to a common component of a routine medical examination that involves a physician checking a patients body with their hands to check the size, consistency, texture, location and tenderness of an organ or body part? It is often listed second in a sequence of four techniques used in abdominal exam.
Palpation
Nominated for best international film feature film academy award but losing out to Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret in the Their Eyes which 2009 Jacques Audiard film stars Tahar Rahim in the title role as an imprisoned French-Algerian petty criminal who becomes an assassin and drug trafficker while incarcerated?
A Prophet
Which river, the longest in South Africa, rises in Drakensberg mountains along the border between South Africa and Lesotho before flowing westward to the Atlantic ocean?
Orange River
President of Turkey 2007 until 2014?
Abdullah Gül
In horticulture, what word is used to describe a kind plant that has bred and selected for desired traits and when propagated retains those traits? These include almost all agricultural crops and many ornamental flowers.
Cultivar
Which actor received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her role as title character’s daughter Darlene, in the tv sitcom Roseanne? She later had a recurring role as Leslie Winkle on The Big Bang Theory.
Sara Gilbert
“A time of gifts” was a 1977 travel book that recounts a journey taken on foot from Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Written by which acclaimed British writer and soldier who fought in the Cretan resistance during WW2 and who died in 2011?
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev founded which dating app in 2006? Using a smiling heart as it’s logo, worlds most widely used dating network.
Badoo
Russian search engine internet site
Yandex
Which is the 14th battle listed in Edward Shepherd creases book the 15th decisive battles of the world taking place in 1792 which saw the French army defeat the Prussian forces led by the Duke of Brunswick and led to the National Convention formally establishing the French first Republic
Battle of Valmy
Which Finnish ski jumper list of accolades includes four World Cup titles and five Olympic medals including three golds in 1988? Flying Finn.
Matti Nykanen
What word is given to common component of a routine medical examination that involves a physician listening o the internal sounds of a patient body usually by using a stethoscope? Often listed fourth in sequence of four techniques used in abdominal examination.
Auscultation
abdominal examination consists of which four basic components
inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation
What word follows “acts of….” to give name of two pieces of legislation passed by English Parliament in 16th century that established the monarch as the head of Church of England?
Supremacy
Which photographer won 1969 Putlizer prize for breaking news photography with Saigon Execution an image depicting execution of Nguyen Van Lem an officer of Viet Cong?
Eddie Adams
Only person to win the RTE Sports Person of the Year award more than Katie Taylor is which Irish athlete who has won the award five times? Silver medal at 2000 Olympics and gold at 1995 world camps both in 5000m.
Sonia O’Sullivan
Telling story of three sheffield families over course of sixty years, which musical with lyrics and music written by Richard Hawley won the 2023 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical?
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
What word given to biological sonar used by certain species of bats whales birds to navigate and detect?
Echolocation
Which English pop singer had transatlantic hit 1986’witj cover of Supremes “you keep me hangin on”? Biggest hit since 1981 debut single.
Kim Wilde
12th battle in Edward Shepherd Crease’s book 15 decisive battles of the world, taking place 1709 decisive battle of great northern war and Peter tbe great defeated Swedish forces led by Charles XII
Battle of Poltava
Which author of crime fiction created character dci jane tennison, Helen Mirren in prime suspect?
Lynda La Plante
Operating with slogan “find your crush” which French dating app has over 50!’illion users worldwide? Thunderbolt logo, on it crossed paths.
Happn
Of the many ways to propagate a cultivar what technique involves joining the roots of one plant known as the root stock with another plant known as the scion which has been selected for is desirable leaves flowers or fruits
Grafting
Travel writer a novelist made us 1977 debut with a book about his experiences in South America titled in Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
Chancellor of the exchequer Grace and favour home found in Buckinghamshire
Dorneywood
Country house used as grace and favour for foreign Secretary found in Kent
Chevening House
Which French basketball player who plays for Metropolitans 92 is believed to be one of best prospects of all time and widely expected pick one by San Antonio Spurs in nba draft.
Victor Wembanyama
Which powerful Japanese feudal lords owned most of the land during the Edo Period and were only subordinate to the shogun and emperor?
Daimyo
Templo Mayor was the central temple of the mexica people and was the primary location for tributes and human sacrifices. Which Aztec god of sun and war was the left half of the Templo Mayor dedicated to?
Huitzilopochtli
Film director of Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and ShAw, Bullet Train?
David Leitch
Who was the director of the John Wick films?
Chad Stahelski
Which singer had uk hit in 1993 with his composition “Fields of Gold”? When asked about origins of song he claimed “there’s something inherently sexy about the sight, something primal, as if the wind were making love to the barley”.
Sting
Which Marxist social historian helped found the journal Past and Present? He later developed his history of the “long 19th century” in his trilogy of “age of” books comprising Revolution, Capital and Empire.born 1917 Alexandria.
Eric Hobsbawm
Most southerly city in South America? This Argentinian city is end destination of series 2 of race across the world.
Ushuaia
British designer Esme Young created an outfit themed around which animal worn by Renee Zlweger in 2001 film Bridget jones diary?
Bunny
Who played Martha jones dr who?
Freema Agyeman
Which welsh rugby Union player and lock for the Ospreys since 2005 has most caps of any rugby Union player?
Alun Wyn JONES
Which class of subatomic particles have half integer spin and obey the Pauli Exclusion principle?
Fermions
Which teen magazine first published in 1983 and discontinued in 2004 was sister of smash hits? It is not to be confused with main rival Sugar.
Just Seventeen
Eastenders Walford post code
E20
Which British soap shown on channel 4 and set in liverpool showed the first pre watershed lesbian kiss on British television in 1994 between Beth and Margaret?
Brookside
Which English real housewife of Beverly Hills is subject of several spin off shows? These have included one focussing on her restaurant titled “_______ Rules” and one focussing on her dog sanctuary.
Lisa Vanderpump
Chinese American particle physicist worked on Manhattan project but perhaps best known for her eponymous experiment to establish whether or not conservation of parity applied to wean interactions?
Chien-Shiung WU
Named for a salvation army’s children’s home in liverpool, Beatles strawberry fields forever was one half of a double a sided number one in 1967. What song also named for a location in liverpool was the other a-side of this record?
Penny Lane
Which Aztec god the god of rain and water was right half of the Templo Mayor dedicated to?
Tlaloc
Which teen magazine first published in 1993 and discontinued 2023 in its later years has advertised itself as the number 1 magazine for YouTubers? Zoella and Sprinkle of Glitter both had columns in this magazine.
Shout
Which Irish rugby Union player and former outside centre for Leinster between 1999 and 2014 has the most caps of any Irish player and the fifth most caps of any rugby Union player?
Brian O’Driscoll
Sarah in Palm Springs and mother in how j met your mother
Cristin Milioti
New Zealand lock and player for crusaders who is currently second higher for country in rugby Union appearances behind richie mccaw for time being by five games (May 2023)
Sam Whitelock
Most rugby Union appearances for Italy?
Sergio Parisse
Most rugby Union appearances for Australia?
George Gregan
Most rugby Union appearances for Romania ?
Florin Vlaicu
Most rugby Union appearances for South Africa?
Victor Matfield
Capped for Ireland rugby Union 124 times before retiring 2019, was captain for 2016-19
Rory Best
Most rugby Union appearances for England?
Ben Youngs
Most rugby Union appearances for Georgia ?
Davit Kacharava
Most rugby Union appearances for Scotland?
Ross Ford
Portuguese rugby Union brothers with first names Vasco and Gonçalo.
Uva
Castleford Tigers stadium
Wheldon Road
Catalans Dragons stadium
Gilbert Brutus Stadium
Huddersfield Giants stadium
Kirklees Stadium
Hull FC stadium
MKM Stadium
Hull Kingston Rovers stadium
Craven Park
Leeds Rhinos stadium
Headingley
Leigh Leopards stadium
Leigh Sports Village
St Helen’s stadium
Totally Wicked Stadium
Wakefield Trinity stadium
Belle Vue
Warrington Wolves stadium
Halliwell Jones Stadium
Wigan Warriors stadium
DW Stadium
Bath rugby Union stadium
The Recreation Ground
Bristol Bears rugby Union stadium
Ashton Gate
Gloucester rugby Union stadium
Kingsholm Stadium
Harlequins rugby Union stadium
Twickenham Stoop
Leicester tigers rugby Union stadium
Welford Road
London Irish rugby Union stadium
Gtech community stadium
Newcastle falcons rugby Union stadium
Kingston Park
Northampton Saints rugby Union stadium
Cinch stadium at Franklins Gardens
Sale Sharks rugby Union stadium
Aj bell stadium
Saracens rugby Union stadium
Copthall Stadium/StoneX
fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops owned by Amancio Ortega
Inditex
Richest woman in the world, heiress to L’Oréal fortune
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers
Which communist social historian helped found the journal New Left Review? He also wrote one of foundational history works on class consciousness, the making of the English working class?
Edward Palmer Thompson
Co-writer of Wittgenstein film by Derek Jarman, which author wrote Why Marx was Right, Literary Theory: An Introduction.
Terry Eagleton
Which actor played the part of Dr Who companion Bill Potts? Sharing name with wedding anniversary in 2023 she was honour Newton in Tim Jones and Alysse in Netflix The Diplomat?
Pearl Mackie
Played by Judi Dench in 2020 film, the elderly medium Madame Arcati appears in which comedy by Noel Coward in which she holds a seance to contact a writers deceased first wife?
Blithe Spirit
Which group had top ten uk hit with Fields of Fire (400 miles) in 1983?
Big Country
Which US band had top five uk hit with Cotton Fields in 1970?
Beach Boys
Name of Half Life theoretical physicist during an alien invasion at Black Mesa facility
Gordon Freeman
DICE develops this series of military shooters which focus on large maps and vehicle warfare. In 2016 this series tenth instalment taking place in WW1 and conusfing numbered as 1.
Battlefield
This most recent Counter-Strike game was released in 2012. The danish team Astralis has won the most titles at this game’s major championships.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
System shock and system shock 2 major innovators in fps hybrid both see the player against this rogue AI.
SHODAN
System Shock’s spiritual sequel BioShock follows a protagonist who has been brainwashed to always follow instructions preceded by this three word trigger phrase?
Would you kindly….
Following operative JC Denton, this video game would receive a 2011 sequel subtitled human Revolution.
Deus Ex
The ever popular Call of Duty franchise first introduced its endless zombies mode in this game. This games single player campaign follows Dimitri Petrenko and C Miller.
Call of Duty: World at War
Settings for this open ended game series include the mountainous Kyrat, the Tropical Rook Islands, the dictatorship of Yara and the cult infested Hope.County, Montana.
Far Cry
This series by RunningwithScissors feature an immoral protagonist and a whole lot of south park esque shock humour. A memorable moment from this series second game has the player ask people to sign a petition.
Postal
1998 Gods and Monsters won an Oscar for screenplay and stars Ian McKellen as which film director’s experience of WW1?
James Whale
Philosophical sci fi novel Roadside Picnic 1972 authors
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
In 2011 shooter Homefront, you play an American guerilla fighting against invading forces of this nation.
North Korea
Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in this city in the Free States of California, called a city of dreams by protagonist V.
Night City
The Launch game for Xbox, halo in 2011 had which subtitle on first game
Combat Evolved
1993 video game in which player travels via special book to titular mysterious island, problem solving then to the end.
Myst
Sony video game released 1997 in europe about a rhythm game rap based gameplay namesake rapping dog title character.
PaRappa the Rapper
First arcade video game released in 1971. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted dab ey. Derivative of 1962 Spacewar! Featuring rocket controlled in a battle with flying saucers.
Computer Space
Name of inquiry set up to identify the lessons to be learnt from the Iraq war.
Chilcot Inquiry
Which Persian physician and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age is considered the father of paediatrics? He was first physician to recognise the reaction of eyez pupil to light and first to distinguish between smallpox and measles.
Abu Bakr Al-Razi
Directed by Jonathan Demme, Stop Making Sense is a concert album featuring which iconic music group?
Talking Heads
2 F1 champions who took their title with only one Grand Prix that year. The first was which Brit driving for Vanwall in 1958? He would go on to lose his life just three months later.
Mike Hawthorn
2 F1 champions who took their title with only one Grand Prix that year. 1982 winner?
Keke Rosberg
Which 1998 crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh is adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel of same name? George Clooney plays an escaped bank robber who falls for his kidnapped US Marshal played by J Lo.
Out of Sight
Compiled by Cato the Elder in early 2nd century BCE and covering the period of founding of Rome to his contemporary time, what is the name of the now lost work considered the first example of Roman historiography?
Origines
Alongside his now-wife sophie Habboo which made in Chelsea star cohosts the podcast Nearly Weds, documenting their journey to the altar? Replaced by eventual champion Kelvin Fletcher in 2019’s Strictly after injuring his foot.
Jamie Laing
Which west African ethnic group whose spiritual home is in Daura, Nigeria has the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-asiatic family? With several communities scattered along the traditional Hajj route this ethnic group practices islam.
Hausa
In only fools and horses, Rodney’s wife Cassandra is played by which actress?
Gwyneth Strong
Referred to as golden voice of africa which Malian singer songwriter is notable for his albinism that saw him ostracised due to bad luck in Mandinka culture?
Salif Keita
The New Zealand based fitness company Les Mills produces a wide range of workout programmes. Which programme uses a mix of non contact martial arts inspired exercises to help cardio fitness and train the whole body?
BodyCombat
What is name of Les Mills fitness programme that uses elements of Pilates and Tai Chi to form a yoga based workout to music?
BodyBalance
Which English rugby Union team entered administration in October 2022 six days before wasps? They played their games at sixways and their closest rivals are Gloucester.
Worcester Warriors
In only fools and horses; Del boy’s Raquel played by which actress?
Tessa Peake-Jones
One of the most prominent African singers of her time; which beninese/French singer songwriter was made a polar music laureate in 2023 and is notable for many collabs on albums such as 2007’s Djin Djin?
Angelique Kidjo
Directed by Martin Scorsese, the last waltz is a classic concert film depicting the farewell appearance of which Canadian music group?
The Band
Whcuh 2002 sci film by Steven soderberg is adapted by Stanislaw Lem novel of same name? Set on space station orbiting the titular planet and stars George Clooney and Viola Davis.
Solaris
Which artist appears scene times in list of 30 most expensive photographs ever, with works taken from his Untitled (Cowboy) series? He is known for reappropriating other photos to create new work.
Richard Prince
WhT is pear shaped lute type instrument that is a staple of Levantine, Arabic, and Middle Eastern folk?
Oud
Both cashews and nutritional yeast are popular vegan replacement for what foodstuff due to its strong flavour?
Cheese
Due to its expansion, which European country’s economy in the 1990s and 2000s is referred to as its tiger period ?
Ireland
Which west African ethnic group contributes to a fifth of Nigeria’s population and is second largest in the country? This groups traditional relgiion revolves around concept of Orisa, various gods and spirits who serve the creator force.
Yoruba
Compiled by Sima Tan and Sima Qian during the Han Empire and covering a 2500 year period, what is the name of the text that is considered the foundational text of Chinese historiography?
Shiji
One of four queens of crime; which author known for hero the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion?
Margery Allingham
In 2023, who broke Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s british world record for high jump?
Morgan Lake
Which British newspaper has a logo of an eagle carrying a newspaper in its talons?
The independent
On Indian restaurant menu what type of seafood is Kekra?
Crab
Which season completes the title of Ingmar Bergman’s 1978 film about a concert pianist ______ Sonata?
Autumn
In the books by Lynley Dodd, what type of animal is Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s dairy?
Dog
Which British guitar group had uk hits in 1960s with FBI, Kon Tiki and Stingray?
The Shadows
How many Indians jones films have been directed by Spielberg?
Four (the fifth The Dial of Destiny is m by James Mangold)
Which director of Girl Interupted, Walk the Line; 3:10 to Yuma, The wolverine; Logan and Ford v Ferrari, will direct the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny?
James Mangold
Teflon non stick polymer made up of which two atoms?
Carbon and Fluorine
Which English composer wrote music for 1915 childrens play The Starlight Express?
Edward Elgar
Which spice is traditionally used in Skolebrod also known as Norwegian custard buns?
Cardamom
According to proverb, the shoemakers son always goes…
Barefoot
Game of thrones; which houses sigel is a crowned black stag on a field of gold?
Baratheon
The space of disse is in which organ of human body?
Liver
In which city did deposed Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz live in exile until his death in 1915?
Paris
What is second book of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy?
Insurgent (third is Allegiant)
Situated on banks of the Brahmaputra river, Guwahati is largest city in which Indian state?
Assam
One Man Up (2001) was directorial debut of which Italian film maker?
Paolo Sorrentino
I was dreaming when I wrote this forgive me if it goes astray?
1999
What is a singing hinny in the north east of England?
Dessert (type of cake)
Kings date of birth
14th November 1948
In what month of the year does trooping the colour normally take place in?
June
Who was second oldest to come to throne after King Charles III?
William IV (who was 64)
In which Gulf of the Mediterranean Sea would you find the island
of Ischia? This densely populated island of around 62000 people
was the victim of an 1883 earthquake which saw 3000 deaths and
80% of the homes on the island destroyed.
Gulf of Naples
Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders at Rorke
Drift, but this is not actually the highest number awarded to
fighters at a single battle. That record goes to British soldiers at
Crimean War battle of the 5th November 1854. What was that
battle?
Battle of Inkerman
One of the important sea routes between the Atlantic and the
Pacific, which natural passage was first discovered by a Spanish
expedition in 1520 and named after their Potuguese captain?
Straits of Magellan
The Menai Suspension bridge was the first major suspension
bridge in the world and was an engineering marvel when it was built in 1826. Who built it?
Thomas Telford
A proposed tunnel connecting Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula
with Yantai on the Shandong Peninsula in China will go under
what strait? This strait takes its name from a marginal sea on the
east coast of Mainland China?
Bohai Strait
What was the two-word name of the memoir and expose writter
by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of the actress Joan
Crawford? It attracted much controversy for its portrayal of joan
Crawford as a cruel, unbalanced, and alcoholic mother
Mommie Dearest
White Clam Pie, a pizza, originated in which New England city?
This is the third-largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport and
Stamford.
New Haven
The Convention of Kanagawa effectively meant the end of Japan’s
220-year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku) by opening the
ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. In what decade was this treaty
signed?
1850s
Who wrote the novel “Submission”, which imagines a scenario
where an Islamist party win the 2022 French General Election? The
book drew an unusal amount of attention as it was released on
the same day as the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Michel Houellebecq
Which European city lies on banks of Dambovita river? 4th largest in EU
Bucharest
Whcih Australian desert is an erg that contains worlds longest parallel sand dunes? 4th largest desert in Oz location of big red bash which is most remote music festivals.
Simpson Deserr
Banned in the Irish republic, what was the name of Nancy Friday’s
1973 book of women’s sexual desires? The title, if not the
content, is similar to a 1911 story by Frances Hodgson Burnett
My secret garden
Name of winter palace used. Y Dalia lamas 1649-1959
Potala Palace
What is the second-largest anglophone city in the Caribbean,
after Kingston, Jamaica? The city was the subject of a namesake
song by Bobby Bloom in 1970
Montego Bay
Name of Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark?
Sacagawea
Which NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer did Janelle
Monae play in the movie “Hidden Figures”? This American
scientist shared her surname with the songs “Is she really going
out with him” and “Steppin’ out”
Mary Jackson
Which “Father of Geology” (1726 to 1797) was an early exponent
of uniformitarianism, the science which explains features of the
Earth’s crust as the outcome of continuing natural processes over
the long geologic time scale?
James Hutton
Who was emperor of rome when Pompeii destroyed in AD79
Titus
Constructed by the Teutonic Knights, which Polish castle and
UNESCO world heritage site is the largest castle in the world
measured by land area?
Malbork
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In Ancient Rome, the “Crisis of the 3rd Century” ended when
which man became Emperor in 284? This Emperor, nicknamed
Jovius, separated and enlarged the empire’s civil and military
services and reorganized the empire’s provincial divisions
Diocletian
43 - With the initial one released in 1999, the first twelve installments
of which video game series all take place during World War I1? The
story of the first three games was created by film director and
producer Steven Spielberg
Medal of Honour
45
_Percy Fawcett was a British explorer who disappeared in the
jungles of Brazil in 1925. What name did he give to the supposed
ancient lost city he was searching for? Charlie Hunnam played
Fawcett in a 2016 movie about this
Lost City of Z
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After his discovery the MP John Stonehouse attempted to win
asylum in which island nation rather than return to the UK? The
flag of this country is called the “Four Bands” and is comprised of
four horizontal bands of equal width coloured red, blue, yellow
and green from top to bottom
Mauritius
Which General of the Confederate Army led an ill-fated charge
towards the centre of the Union lines on the last day of the
Battle of Gettysburg? Often cited as one of the turning points of
the war, the farthest point reached by the attack has been
referred to as the high-water mark of the Confederacy.
George Pickett
What African lake is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the
world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in
all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia?
Tanganyika
What “B” is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge
developed by the British army for use in WW2?
Bailey Bridge
The Japanese islands of Honshu and Kyushu are separated by
which straits? These straits silt up at the rate of about 15
centimetres per annum, and dredging has made it possible to
build the Kitakyushu Airport at low cost.
Kanmon Straits
Which empire did the British governer of Sierra Leone, Sir Charles
McCarthy, declare war on in 1823? He was later killed in the
battle of Nsamankow, with his skull used as a trophy of war.
Ashanti
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Which hard Italian cheese made from Sheep’s milk has a name
derived from the Italian for sheep? The six main varieties all have
protected designation of origin status, with Romana being the
most famous
Pecorino
Which English polymath (1794-1866) coined, among other terms,
scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism,
uniformitarianism, and astigmatism? He also suggested to
Michael Faraday the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and
cathode.
William Whewell
Mount Everest farthest from sea level, what Hawaii mountain tallest in world when measured from its base?
Mauna Kea
Some say that the famous Portland vase in the British museum
shows Cleopatra seducing Mark Anthony. What is the Portland
vase made from?
Cameo Glass
The Gulf of Martaban is situated off the shore of which Asian country? This country is home to the Laykyun Sekkya, the 3rd tallest statue of Buddha in the world
Myanmar
Which UK bookshop chain, which was a feature of high streets
between 1987 and 2006 shared its name with two Kings of
Bohemia, one of them being a son of Wenceslaus I?
Ottokar’s
In the video game “Life is strange”, the protagonist Max Caulfield
is a student of which subject at Blackwell Academy? Jeff Bridges
and Lenny Kravitz are keen hobbyists in this area of the arts
Photography
Ngerulmud is one of those rare capitals which has a lower
population than the Vatican. It became the capital of which Pacific
Island republic in 2006?
Palau
Capital of Nauru
Yaren
Largest city of Denigomodu is largest city of which country?
Nauru
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Siblings Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal have both been Oscar
nominated. Maggie got a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for
which 2021 psychological drama starring Olivia Colman? The movie
was based on a 2006 novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante.
The Lost Daughter
In 1838 Friedrich Bessel made the first successful measurement of
the distance to a star other than the Sun. What constellation was
that star located in? This constellation is one of the most
recognisable, and it features a prominent asterism known as the
Northern Cross
Cygnus
What was the name of the small highly-maneuverable sailing
ships developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore
along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean? It was
in such ships that Christopher Columbus set out on his expedition
in 1492
Caravel
The traditional Libyan food of Couscous is made of steamed rolled
granules of what? This substance has a name deriving from the
Italian for Bran Flour
Semolina
80
The first implicit measurement of Gravity with an accuracy within
about 1% is attributed to a 1798 experiment by which scientist?
He is also noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed
“inflammable air”
Henry Cavendish
The hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, with a population of around 1000, is
one of the few permanent settlements on the shores of which
marginal sea? The longest river in Canada, the MacKenzie River,
flows into this sea
Beaufort Sea
If Amelia Earhart was repeating her 1932 Transatlantic flight
today, in which country would she be taking off from and in
which country would she be landing? Both for the point
Canada and Northern Ireland
Which young adult novel written by Jay Asher in 2007 became the
third-most banned book in the United States between 2010 and
2019? Critics raised concern as to how the novel’s subjects of
bullying and suicide impact young adult readers. A 2017 Netflix
adaptation starred Dylan Minnette
Thirteen Reasons Why
87
What name is given to the wind that arises from warm, dry,
tropical air masses that are pulled northward by low-pressure
cells moving eastward across the Mediterranean Sea? The wind
originates in the Arabian or Sahara deserts
Sirocco
Which African coastal desert has endured arid or semi-arid
conditions for 55-80 million years and therefore may be the
oldest desert in the world? It contains some of the world’s driest
regions, with only South America’s Atacama Desert to challenge it
for age and aridity benchmarks
Namib Desert
Located in what is now modern Libya, the ancient city of Leptis
Magna was founded by which Semitic thalassocratic civilization
originating in the Levant?
The Phoenicians
96
Which British astronomer predicted the position and existence of
Neptune using only mathematics? The post of Astronomer Royal
was offered him in 1881, but he preferred to pursue his teaching
and research in Cambridge.
John Couch Adams
In which country would you find the “Great Bitter Lake”? The so-
called “Yellow Fleet” of 15 ships were trapped in this lake between
1967 and 1975
Egypt
Known officially as the “Off-shore Islands” by the Namibian
government, how are the islands stretching along the coastline of
this country more commonly known? The name comes from the
birds that live there
Penguin Islands
1Queen Victoria’s new title of “Empress of India” was proclaimed at
the Delhi Durbar on Ist January of what year? At that point in
time Benjamin Disraeli was the British PM and Ulysses 5 Grant
was US president. 3 years either way accepted
1877
Rather than snow “men” there is a tradition in Japan of making
snow versions of what animals? The Japanese call these
“Yukiusagi”. In literature General Woundwort was one of these
animals
Rabbit
The four biologically defined deserts of North America are the
Mojave, Sonoran, Chihuahuan and which other? This desert lies
between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch ranges
Great Basin Desert
Ciampino airport in Rome lies very close to which large film
studio, once dubbed “Hollywood on the Tiber”? Recent
productions made here include HBO’s “Rome” and the 2019 movie
“The Two Popes”
Cinecitta
Neil Gaiman is a great advocate of using fountain pens. He claims
to have used a certain brand of fountain pen to sign one million
signatures. What brand? This brand are the largest pen
manufacturers in Japan
Pilot
The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of two major US national
parks, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and which other?
Perhaps singing John Denver’s “Country Roads” will help
Shenandoah
What bird lends its name to a special construction of floors used
in Japan so that the boards made a chirping sound as people
moved across them?
Nightingale Floors
What city on the left bank of the Euphrates river was the capital
of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, and then the
capital of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017?
Raqqa
The Volta reaches the Gulf of Guinea in which African country? The
area formerly known as British Togoland is now part of this
country
Ghana
129
Which British overseas territory is nicknamed “The Emerald Isle of
the Caribbean” both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for
the Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants?
Montserrat
The Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 gave Germany control of
the Caprivi Strip, which was vital for access to the Zambezi River.
The geographic salient known as the Caprivi Strip can be found in
which modern African country?
Namibia
Which Battle of 1827, fought between an allied force of Russian,
French and British against the Ottoman Empire, is said to be the
last major naval battle fought entirely with sailing ships?
Battle of Navarino
167 Named after the explorer Felix Booth who lived between 1780
and 1850, the Gulf of Boothia is a geographical feature of what
country? The Fury and Hecla Strait can be found in the same area
Canada
166 What name is given to the posited body that struck the Earth to
produce the Moon?
Theia
34
Which ancient Roman stadium, adjacent to the Colloseum and
now a public park, is the supposed location of the legendary
“rape
of the Sabine women”?
Circus Maximus
What straits separate the Gulf of Aquaba from the Red Sea?
Blockades of Israeli shipping from these straits and the Suez
Canal have led to wars in 1956 and 1967
Straits of Tiran
Which mountain is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica
(after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and
the southernmost active volcano on Earth?
Mount Erebus
Which lake, the southernmost lake in the East African Rift System,
is thought to be home to more species of fish than any other in
the World?
Lake Malawi
The Olmecs got their name from the Nahuatl word for which
substance? This substance having been used by the Olmecs since
ancient times
Rubber
The Nachi Waterfalls of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan are believed
to be home to the spirits worshipped in Shintoism. With 4
letters, what word is used for the deities, divinities or spirits in
Shintoism?
Kami
What Straits separate Ellesmere Island and Greenland? Its name
derives from a British naval officer. It has a nearly permanent
current from the north, powered by the Beaufort Gyre, making it
harder to traverse for ships coming from the south,
Nares Strait
Anise is used around the Mediterranean to flavour various
traditional spirits. In Italy these would be called Sambuca, in
Greece they’d be called Ouzo. What they most likely be called in
Turkey?
Raki
The Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido are separated by
which strait? The world’s longest undersea tunnel by overall
length, the Seikan Tunnel, runs under this strait
Strait of Tsugaru
The word
“Sahara
‘ is derived from the Arabic word for desert.
What desert name is derived from the Tuareg word for desert?
Tenere
What bridge is “The Great Bridge”
according to the name of David
McCullough’ 1972 non-fiction classic? This suspension bridge
designed by John A. Roebling was the longest in the world when
it was opened in 1883
Brooklyn Bridge
How is lake Tiberius more commonly known?
Sea of Galilee
What was the two word title of the Rabbids and Mario game
which is believed to be the best selling non-Nintendo created
game for the Switch? The 2017 game follows Mario, his friends,
and a group of Rabbids who try to save their world from invadin
Rabbids that accidentally misused a powerful invention and
began to wreak havoc
Kingdom Battle
Which seabird found around the British Isles takes its name from
its distinctive call? Beginning with the letter “k” a colony of these
birds on the Tyne Bridge are the furthest inland colony in the
World
Kittiwakes
Of all the current members of OPEC, which African country has the
lowest population? The small volcanis island of Annobon is the
only part of this country south of the Equator
Equatorial Guinea
Which cat was left £1.3m in Karl Lagerfeld’s will?
Choupette
Who was the creator of Buck Rogers debuting in 1929?
Philip Francis Nowlan
First appearance 1929 in Thimble Theatre, Popeye created by?
EC Segar
Who created Lone Ranger in 1933 and Green Hornet and Kato in 1936?
George Trendle
Conan the Barbarian first appeared in 1932 by the hand of which writer?
Robert E Howard
Dick Tracy first appears in 1931 by which artists hand?
Chester Gould
First appearing in On the Planet Mongo in 1934 Flash Gordon created by who?
Alex Raymond
Superman first appeared in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in which comic books first issue?
Action Comics #1
Bob Kane and Bill Finger created Batman in 1939 in the #27 issue of which comic book series?
Detective Comics
Which superhero, with the real name Jay Garrick, first appeared in 1940 namesake comic series by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert?
Flash
All American Comics #16 by Martin Nodell, Bill Finger debuted which real name Alan Scott character?
Green Lantern
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby debuted which superhero in March 1941 in namesake comic book series?
Captain America
Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941)
Aqua Man
Pearl harbour date
7th December 1941
D day landing date
6th June 1944
In 2020, NK Jemisin created Sojourner Mullein as latest version of which hero in Far Sector #1.
Green Lantern
Who plays Kamala Khan in Ms Marvel
Iman Vellani
Who plays She Hulk: Attorney at Law
Tatiana Maslany
Meaning evening courier, best selling paper in Italy published in Milan
Corriere della Sera
Who created Rupert the Bear
Mary Tourtel
False authenticity of Hitler diaries ruined this historian reputation
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Fashion designer born Darlington, Durham, in 1969, worked with New Look and been in relationship with Gwendoline Christie since 2013.
Giles Deacon
Long side whiskers worn without a beard named after a lord from Tom Taylor’s comedy 1858?
Dundreary
Rome 1918 company founded as leather and fur workshop by Adele Casagrande until changed name in 1925 when got married.
Fendi
Long side whiskers merging into a moustache nMed after emperor of Austria
Franz Josef
Originally clog or wooden sole attached to shoe, now overshoe usually made of rubber or plastic
Galosh
French fashion designer designed Madonna cone bra for 1990 blond ambition tour
Jean Paul Gaultier
Plain woven cotton cloth especially striped or checked literally means striped in Malay
Gingham
Venezuelan born fashion designer best known for dressing First Ladies Jacqueline Onassis to Michelle Obama
Caroline Herrera
Fashion designer artistic director at Louis Vuitton 1997-2014
Marc Jacobs
Welsh fashion designer 1943-92 revolutionised menswear by introducing high fashion to Savile row in 1969 funded by cilla black?
Tommy Nutter
British fashion designer the creative director of fashion brands Céline from 2008 to 2018 and Chloé from 2001 to 2006
Phoebe Philo
From Dutch for small dot, what make up brush used to apply variety of make ups?
Stippling Brush
Who does make up brand Flower?
Drew Barrymore
Make up Kora organics by which actress
Miranda Kerr
Selena Gomez make up brand
Rare Beauty
Ariana Grande make up brand
REM Beauty
Idris Elba make up brand with Sabrina
S’able
Florence by Mills is make up brand by who?
Millie Bobbie Brown
Who owns Humanrace make up brand, now Louis Vuitton mens creative director replacing Virgil Abloh
Pharrell Williams
Who plays Cameron Frye in Ferris Buellers Day off, Connor Roy in Succession?
Alan Ruck
Who stars as Siobhan “Shiv” Roy in Success?
Sarah Snook
Who plays Kendall Roy in Succession? Also Lee Harvey Oswald in PARKLAND, Jeremy Rubin in The Trial of Chicago 7 (by Aaron Sorkin)?
Jeremy Strong
Who plays Roman Roy in succession?
Kieran Culkin
Term used in modern times to describe power of the press
Fourth estate
Name of series of bilateral superpower summit meetings held in 1980s between Gorbachev and Reagan?
Geneva Summit 1985
name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki
Bockscar
Political slogan adopted by Mao
Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)in 1956 and launched as a movement in February 1957 to allow more free speech in Communist China. The high level of.strikes that followed caused Mao to retract his original statement and suggested that the campaign
was a means of identifying reactionary elements.
100 Flowers Bloom
Hungarian former communist PM who took power of Hungary to withdraw from Warsaw Pact in 1956
Imre Nagy
Pro soviet regime of post Hungarian uprising Hungary After Imre Nagy was which prime minister?
Janos Kadar
From Arabic for shaking off, Palestinian mass popular uprising in the Gaza Strip and West Bank which started in December 1987 with demos, strikes and violent confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli occupying forces. Israel responded with an iron first approach.
Intifada
What year was Iranian embassy siege?
1980
Term coined by gaddafi means state of the masses
Jamahiraya
What year was Khaki Election?
1900 called by marquess of Salisbury named after boer war khakis
Building in name of which agreement lord Carrington brokered which ended UDI and heralded independence of Rhodesia. Ian Smith present, bishop Abel Muzorewa, Robert Mugabe.
Lancaster House Agreement
Bulgarian journalist killed 1978 by poison ricin from on from umbrella
Georgi Markov
June 1955 meeting between foreign ministers of Belgium France Italy Luxembourg Netherlands and west Germany which led to rome treaty of 1957.
Messina Conference
Hoard of Roman silver of 4th century discovered ploughing in Suffolk in 1942, the great dish.
Mildenhall Treasure
Film about excavation of Sutton Hoo starring Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown
The Dig
Peacock Throne used for which country’s royalty?
Iran
Trial and acquittal of who in uk in 1985 under 1911 official secrets act, high flying civil servant accused of leaking classified info to Tam Dalyell of Labour relating to Belgrano ship dining in 1982.
Clive Ponting
Architect who used bribery and corruption and led to Reginald Maudling resigning as Home Secretary in 1972
John Poulson
Newly elected Czechoslovakia leader who underwent Prague Sppring before getting booted
Alexander Dubcek
Czech student who self immolation during prague spring uprising
Jan Palach
Proposal advanced by French foreign minister on 1950 which formed the European coal and steel community?
Schumann Plan (Robert Schuman)
Two defections in 1951 of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Who was third man in 1963?
Kim Philby
Two defections in 1951 of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Who was third man in 1963 Kim Philby. Who was fourth man in 1979
Guy Burgess
Escalating violence during and after the apprentice boys March in Derry on 12 august 1969 became known as the battle of what?
Bogside
In July 1988, which American warship mistook an Iran air commercial flight for a fighter and shot it down killing 290 lives.
Vincennes
What year Waco siege?
1993
carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine
Tumbrel
French for a knitting woman. The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women in the French Revolution who sat in the gallery supporting the left-wing politicians in the National Convention
Tricoteuse
Wild hog with upturned tusks native to Malay archipelago
Babirusa
Arboreal civet of Southern Asia with shaggy black coat and a prehensile tail
Binturong
Specific fish which makes Bombay duck
Bummalo
Six letter alt name for the bush baby specifies Lorisidae
Galago
Most cats have how many toes
18
Name of cheese with maggots in it
Casu Marzu
Six letter term for flying lemur
Colugo
Genus astacus also known as spiny lobster
Crayfish
Small beetle which makes. Sound like a watch ticking once supposed to portend death
Death watch beetle
Beginning with d, cuon alpinus, fierce canine pack hunting mammal of forests of central and Southeast Asia
Dhole
Glis Glis
Edible dormouse/fat dormouse
Night monkey or owl monkey monkey of South America has large staring eyes
Douroucouli
Largest of the living antelopes has spirally twisted horns
Giant Eland
What is a galliwasp?
West Indian lizard
Brownish baboon with a bare red patch on its chest native to Ethiopia
Gelada/sometimes Bleeding Heart Monkey
Large powerful monkey of the plants and open rock area of southern Arabia or Arabian baboon
Hamadryas
Wild ass of a race native to tibet with a thick furry coat, subspecies of asiatic ass
Kiang
Z domestic humped ox of Asia and Africa
Zebu
Dali had a pet called Babou of what animal type
Ocelot
Which Australian island is primary setting for the Quokkas off coast of Perth Western Australia?
Rottnest Island
Short tailed primate some English-speaking parts of Africa, they are called “softly-softlys”, has vertebral spines protruding through its neck.
Potto
Tropical rainforest mammal of central and South America, Potos Flavius, based on the Algonquian name for the wolverine.
Kinkajou
Felis Pardalis
Ocelot
Small Asian deer has jo antlers and males hVe long protruding canine teeth?
Musk Deer
Small North American rattlesnake named from corruption of an Ontario river?
Massasauga
Capra falconeri - large spiral horned wild goat of Central Asia
Markhor
Felis Wiedii - small wild central and South American cat
Margay
Papio Sphinx monkey with bright face and big buttocks
Mandrill
Six letter name for the Malayan stink badger or skunk badger
Teledu
Helostoma Temminckii - small brightly coloured freshwater fish, a popular aquarium pet
Kissing Gourami
Term for fish who swim up a river from sea to spawn
Anadromous
Term for any placental ungulate mammal whose hoofs have even amount of toes like pigs, sheep, camels, deer, cattle etc.
Artiodactyl
How many noses does an ant have and also how many eyes does a bee have?
Five of each
Term for a fish that swims down. River to the sea to spawn
Catadromous
If carapace is the top of a Chelonian creature she’ll what is the bottom part?
Plastron
One word alternative name of a Russian Hunting Sighthound
Borzoi
Dog guards monasteries and translates as bark lion sentinel dog
Lhasa Apso
Which terrier breed named after Haverfordwest, Wales, the estate of Captain John Edwardes?
Sealyham Terrier
Which spaniel breed named after estate of Duke of Newcastle?
Clumber Spaniel
Dog breed named after character created by Sir Walter Scott in his novel Guy Mannering (1815)
Dandie Dinmont Terrier
Dog breeed Chinese for “sand-skin.”
Shar Pei
Dog breed named after translates to little lion in mandarin
Shih Tzu
Dog breed quickly became popular on the barges and earned its name, which means “little captain” in Flemish
Schipperke
Pimlico Plumbers owner
Charlie Mullins
Other great Lama of Tibet other than Dalai Lama
Panchen Lama
Religion founded by Persian in 6th or 7th century BCE
Zoroastrianism
Relgiion founded by a Persian prophet 216-74 based on conflict between good and evil. Describes any heretical philosophy involving dualistic doctrines.
Manichaeism (Mani)
First translation of what to English was by George Sale in 1734 from native language, although Alexander ross translated French into English in 1649?
Quran
Founder of Jehovah’s Witness
Charles Taze Russell
Two branches of Buddhism
Theravada and Mahayana
Nickname black friars order
Dominicans
Nickname black monks order
Benedictines
Nickname grey friars order
Franciscans
Nickname white monks order
Cistercians
Nickname white friars order
Carmelites
Adams first wife before Eve
Lilith
Dog licences abolished year
1988
Spraints are droppings of which animal?
Otter
Crotties are the droppings of which animal
Deer
Term used for the hibernation like state that cold blooded animals utilise during very cold weather?
Brumation
Word for a black and white horse colouring
Piebald
Word for a brown and white horse colouring
Skewbald
Term for any placental ungulate mammal whose hoofs have an odd number of toes eg horse tapirs and rhinoceros?
Perissodactyl
Pismire is a Middle English name for whcih insect as smell
Ant
Name of a young hare
Leveret
First garden city designed by Ebenezer Howard opened in 1903
Letchworth in Hertfordshire
Term for bird having a keel less breastbone and therefore unable to fly
Ratite
Term for bird having a keel breastbone and therefore able to fly
Carinate
Term for a young bird or animal requiring care and feeding by the parents after hatching or birth
Altricial
Term for those species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.
Precocial
Brian Boru died at which battle 1014
Battle of Clontarf
Which Slovenian cyclist won 2023 Giro Ditalia beating Geraint Thomas? Also won Vuelta a espana2019/20/21
Primoz Roglic
South American cyclist won Giro 2014 and Vuelta 2016?
Nairo Quintana
Who beat Gujarat Titans to win IPL in 2023?
Chennai Super Kings
After Jameson, which is second largest brand of Irish whisky globally? It is named after county town of Offally in republic where distilled.
Tullamore DEW
Chongqing and Antwerp have dedicated walkways separating phone users and non phone users. Which portmanteau word used for pedastrians walking slowly and without attention to their surroundings because they are focused upon their phones?
Smombie
First held in 1780, which was first outdoor sporting event to be televised live in 1931?
Epsom Derby
Coinage Act 1971: 1p and 2P can be used to pay for bill of what maximum price?
20p
Coinage Act 1971: 5p and 10p can be used to pay for bill of what maximum price?
£5
F1, 2017 changed to how many points for a win?
25
Coinage Act 1971: 20p and 50p be used to pay for bill of what maximum price?
£10
Which former anchor for Newsnight left bbc in 2022 after allegations of lack of impartiality over Rod Liddle, Dominic Cummins and Piers Morgan, now hosts podcast The News Agents?
Emily Maitlis
Which city in the Palestine territory is located 846 ft below sea level, which makes it the lowest city in the world and, with archaeological
remains dating back to 9,000 BC, also has a claim to be the oldest
city in the world?
Jericho
Which creatures in Scottish myth are said to live as seals in the sea but shed skin to come humans on land?
Selkies
Which mythical monster whose primary purposes seems to frighten children into good behaviour inspired 1977 picture book which in turn gave us 2016 tv adaptation starring Timothy Spall with Victoria Wood in her final TV appearance?
The Bogeyman
Said to be man on moon but according to Asian and indigenous north and Central American folklore which animal is in markings on near side of moon?
Rabbit/Hare
Founded in 1861, by what name was Bristol Beacon concert hall known as until 2020?
Colston Hall
Coach in charge of wolrd cup winning springboks in 2007? Captain was John Smit
Jake white
Which actress won best support actress Oscar for Cactus Flower in 1969, costarred with Peter Sellers in Theres a girl in my soup and costarred with Bette midler and Diane Keaton in the first wives club?
Goldie Hawn
What tile was adopied by Anne of Cleves following the annulment
of her marriage to Henry VIlI? No doubt Henry was wishing to
promote the fact that the marriage had not been consumated
The Kings Beloved Sister
The Queen Consort of George IV was Caroline of Brunswick but he
had undergone an unsanctioned marriage earlier in his life at the age
of 21. What was the name of the woman he had “married” on that
occasion?
I
Maria Fitzherbert
James V of Scotland married which powerful French joblewoman?
This woman was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and she ruled
Scotland as regent for a time
Mary of Guise
The name of which of the Dinosaurs means Heavy Claw alluding to the very large claw on the animal’s first finger? It was first discovered by an amateur fossil collector in Surrey in 1983
Baryonyx
Name for fossilised faeces
Coprolites
Dinosaur name beginning with A means deceptive lizard?
Apatosaurus
Mary Anning discovered that Belemnite fossils contained fossilised what? Made them similar to modern day cephalopods.
Ink Sacs
15% of all mid jurassic discoveries made worldwide have occurred on which Scottish island?
Skye
The Nemegt Basin, which is noted for its fossil treasures including
early mammals, dinosaur eggs, and prehistoric stone implements,
can be found in which desert?
Gobi Desert
In Egyptian mythology, which Ibis headed scribe of the gods invented X
hieroglyphics? His Greek equivalent was Hermes
Thoth
Ancient Egyptians referred to their own country name with what term beginning with K, means Land of Black Soil?
Kemet
The ram-headed god Khnum was believed to dwell under which island near the present day city of Aswan from which he controlled the flooding of the Nile?
Elephantine
What “H” is the name given to the period when Egypt was first ruled
by foreigners? The true extent and duration of this period is uncertain,
but is believed that the horse and chariot was introduced to Egypt at
this time
The Hyksos Period
Scoring a US number one and a UK top 40 hit in 1981, which
succesful American duo warned us that “Private Eyes”,
were
watching you?
Hall and Oates
Who, in 1974 at the age of 10, became the youngest person in
history to have an album in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart
with “Mal He’s making eyes at me”? The single of the same name
also reached the top ten
Lena Zavaroni
Which American vocalist’s only two UK solo number ones of the 1970s both had the word “Eyes” in their titles?
Art Garfunkel
“The night had a thousand eyes” according to which man in
1963? This man got his big break when he filled in for Buddy
Holly at the concert Holly had been heading to when he crashed
Bobby Vee
Which alliteratively-named former page 3 model, now the wife of
ex-Brookside actor Sam Kane, took a song called “Eye Contact”
into the UK top 100 in 1986?
Linda Lusardi
The 1968 top 5 hit “Blue Eyes” by the one man band Don Partridge is unusual in that it begins with what instrument?
Kazoo
What sort of eyes did Billy Idol sing about in his 1984 top 20 hit?
Without A Face
Greek city of Thessaloniki sits on which body of water on which sea?
Thermaic Gulf on the Aegean Sea
Named after the explorer Felix Booth who lived between 1780
and 1850, the Gulf of Boothia is a geographical feature of what
country? The Fury and Hecla Straits can be found in the same
area.
Canada
55 ~ Which gulf is situated between the north coast of Somalia and
the south coast of Yemen? Ibn Majid referred to this as the Gulf
of Berbera but we usually refer to it using the name of a Yemeni
city
Gulf of Aden
What gulf sits between Sfax and Djerba in Tunisia?
Gulf of Gabes
Bbc radio station serving Derry NI?
Foyle
Gene Hackman character in French connection
Popeye Doyle
Baddy from Blade Runner played by Rutger Hauer
Roy Batty
Writer of Derry Girls
Lisa McGee
Name of good witch who helps Dorothy when first arrives in Oz
Glinda
What does Dorothy need to say while clicking heels to get backs home
There’s no place like home
Which man born William Duckinfield 1880-1946 was originally the wizard in wizard of Oz?
Wc fields
Of all the musical adaptations of L Frank Baum’s work which one has most Tony awards?
The Wiz
Which steam locomotive was the first to hit 100mph in the UK?
This occurred on the 30th November 1934
Flying Scotsman
The carriages of the luxury train running between Pretoria and
Cape Town were traditionally painted in which colour? The line
would eventually become synomonous with this
Blue Line
The Maitree Express (meaning Friendship Express) runs from the
Indian city of Kolkata to which national capital?
Dhaka
In the Harry Potter movies, which viaduct, lying on the Mallaig to
Fort William line, is regularly featured in scenes when Harry is
travelling to Hogwarts?
The Glenfinnan Viaduct
Which city is the most northernly on the Canadian Pacific
Railway? Indeed, this provincial capital of over one million people
is regarded as the Northernmost “large” city on the continent
Edmonton
According to 2020/21 data, busiest train station in Britain outside London?
Birmingham New Street
In which Canadian city would you find longest fully automated driverless mass transit system in the world? This city has fourth largest port by tonnage in Americas.
Vancouver
The “Miniatur Wunderland” exhibition home to worlds largest railway. 15,400m of railway track, in which German city?
Hamburg
Name of train going from Adelaide to Darwin?
Ghan
Who is New Zealand’s highest ever run scorer in test cricket?
Ross Taylor
With 519 in total, which man is West Indies top wicket taker in test cricket?
Courtney Walsh
Who is highest run scorer in history of Pakistani cricket?
Younis Khan
Which man took over 400 test wickets for Pakistan cricket and therefore has record?
Wasim Akram
Who is Sri Lanka’s highest ever run scorer in test cricket?
Kumar Sangakkara
Which man has taken more wickets for New Zealand than any ever?
Richard Hadlee
What was the name of Armando lanucci’s 2009 book where he
cast his eye over modern life? The title of this book differs by
just one letter from Barack Obama’s 2006 bestseller
The Audacity of Hype
What unit of length is defined as exactly 1852 metres?
Nautical Mile
The word parsec is the portmanteau of what short series of words?
Parallax of one second
Who has been fittingly French face of Chanel No 5 since 2020!
Marion Cotillard
In which country would you be if you were enjoying the winter
sport facilities at Jaca? This location has bidded for the Winter
Olympics four times but has failed on each occasion
Spain
Until retirement in 2022, June spencer at 103 was most probably oldest soap actress of all time. Played who in The Archers?
Peggy Woolley
Colombian Beto Perez credited with founding which fitness craze in 2001? This activity involves cardio and Latin inspired dancing.
Zumba
Which man British champion jump jockey in 1953/54 season? He was onboard Devon Loch when it fell in 1956 grand national.
Dick Francis
Name of Russian battleship sank 80 miles south of Odesa in 2022? Became largest warship to be sunk since ww2.
Moskva
Which American politician became highest ranking us official to visit Taiwan since 1990s this year? China responded by carrying out huge military exercises in area.
Nancy Pelosi
Which actor was Raj Koothrappali in The Big Bang Theory? Forbes
listed him as the world’s third-highest-paid television, actor in
2015 and 2018
Kunal Nayyar
Who played Howard Wolowitz on BBT?
Simon Helberg
Shared name of shipping forecast area and a disputed uninhabited islet which lies 187 miles west of Scotland and 263 miles north west of Ireland?
Rockall
What foodstuff thrown at Mona Lisa in 2022 by just stop oil?
Cake
The Eysturoy Tunnel featuring the worlds first undersea roundabout can be found in what island group?
Faroe Islands
Fenster in Usual Suspects, imagine people say “hand my the keys you cocksucker” to him still on a daily basis?
Benicio Del Toro
Starred in some huge movies like Outbreak, Get Shorty, Ransom, In the Line of Fire
and Lethal Weapon 3 & 4 then more or less vanished.
Rene Russo
My first crush as a young lad, she starred as Arnie’s daughter Jenny in Commando
before starring in TVs Who’s The Boss and Charmed.
Alyssa Milano
Played Mrs Doyle in Father Ted and Libby Croker in Shameless.
Pauline McLynn
One of three acting brothers, he was in old school, Charlie’s angels, anchorman.
Luke Wilson
Actor was in Casper, Final Destination, played title character in Eminem’s video Stan.
Devon Sawa
Plays either someone upholding the law or breaking it. He’s played villains such as
one of the Fratellis in the Goonies, Bond nemesis in Licence to Kill and snide FBI
agent Johnson in Die Hard
Robert Davi
Actor started opposite Schwarzenegger in Commando and Predator, also appears in Sister Act 2, A Rage in Harlem, tv played Percy Odell in Black Lightning.
Bill Duke
Received Oscar nominations for Nixon, The Crucible and The Contender. Played John travolta wife Eve in Face/Off, Governor in Death Race and recurring role in The Bourne films.
Joan Allen
Played kelly Taylor in Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise.
Jennie Garth
Nadia in American pie; scary movie and Colin brings home at end of love actually.
Shannon Elizabeth
Started in ET, Shauni in Baywaych then got kit off as playboy model in Steven seagal action flick Under Siege.
Erika Eleniak
Played Ricky Fitts in American Beauty, was in hunger games and mission impossible fallout.
Wes Bentley
Actor who was in The Fisher King, Jurassic Park III, Eduard Delacroix in The Green Mile.
Michael Jeter
Started in itv Band of Gold, films Emma, Jane Eyre, two Oscar nominations one for Sweet and Lowdown and one for In America. Was in Fantasgic Beasts and where to find them and also The Whale 2022.
Samantha Morton
squeaky voices lady done loads of voice work, was bride of Chucky and dated Frasier crane as two different characters in cheers and Frasier.
Jennifer Tilly
Hit it big after the full monty, had success with A Knights Tale and played Fred flintstone in big screen. Also Robert Baratheon on game of thrones
Mark Addy
John Wick’s wife, i robot and Lord of War. In Blue Bloods tv show.
Bridget Moynihan
Actress in Cocktail, Red heat, showgirls, face off, ps I love you, house of Versace, played Gladys Jones on Riverdale. Also Brooklyn nine nine guest star.
Gina Gershon
Alexander Mahone in Prison Break, was in Crash, Eric Sacks/Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
William Fichtner
Chesty Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Heywood in Shawshank Redemption, Colonel Stuart in Die Hard 2.
William Sadler
John McClane’s wife Holly Genaro in Die hard 1 and 2.
Bonnie Bedelia
Most recognised role is Tricia Poe in con air wife of nic cage( also along came a spider and patch Adams:
Monica Potter
Played Lolita in 1997 Adrian Lyne adaptation, also Jamie Archer in John Woo’s Face/Off. Also music video to Shawn Mullins Chart hit Lullaby.
Dominique Swain
Once one of recognisable plus size actors, lost weight and been on American history x, evolution and Wolf of Wall Street; also my name is Earl:
Ethan Supplee
Jon Arbuckle in Garfield movies, first in clueless, then lead in Road Trip.
Breckin Meyer
Starred in Road Trip, strange little intro at start of britney’s Boys music video and also Legit with Jim Jefferies.
DJ Qualls
The original Buffy in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, also known for being Christie Boner in Dude WhereS My Car?
Kristy Swanson
Royal family member who died 18 February 1478 drowned in a barrel of Malmsey wine?
George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence
King of France died when striking head on lintel of door on way to watch real tennis in 1498
Charles VIII
Despite efforts of Ambroise Pare and Andreas Vesalius, which king of France died 1559 from sepsis from splintered Lance of one of his Scottish guards?
Henry II of France
Astronomer died 1601 from issue resulting from not peeing at a banquet?
Tycho Brahe
Scottish Arkstkcrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais’s writings into English said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne?
Thomas Urquhart
Moliere died 1673 during performance of which play?
Le malade imaginaire
Son of George II and father of George iii said to have died from struck by cricket ball
Frederick Prince of Wales
Which famous detective died 1884 when he tripped and severely bit tongue resulting I. Gangrene
Allan Pinkerton
Empress Elisabeth of Austria assassinated in 1898 by which Italia. Anarchist while strolling through Geneva?
Luigi Lucheni
French President died 1899 while engaging in sexual action? George’s Clemenceau said he thought he was Caesar but he died as Pompey (pun on pomper meaning to suck out).
Felix Faure
Austria-Hungary tailor and inventor died 1912 jumping from Eiffel Tower wearing parachute of own invention?
Franz Reichelt
Name of servant to Frank Lloyd wright who went on murder spree in 1914 at his Taliesin studio in Wisconsin with a hatchet?
Julian Carlton
Flood in 1919 in Boston of what?
Molasses
Which president’s son died while at White House playing tennis for blister on foot which got infected?
Calvin Coolidge
Which author died 1931 drinking two water in Paris and got typhoid; warned of it too he was?
Arnold Bennett
Chemical engineer involved in leaded gasoline and first CFCs, polio left disabled so he made device which ended up strangling him.
Thomas Midgley
Logician who developed fear of poisoning and only eat if wife did it, wife hospitalised sk be starved to death.
Kurt Godel
Year was Georgi Markov poisoning with ricin on street?
1978
Actor who died in 1982 filming twilight zone the movie?
Vic Morrow
Dick Wertheim died in 1983 as a tennis linesman got hit in groin by an errant serve by which tennis player at US Ooen?
Stefan Edberg
2006 which Russian former FSB officer was assassinated with polonium 210?
Alexander Litvinenko
Name of segwayniwjernwhonfirr off a Cliff in Thorp Arch England?
Jimi Heselden
Australian test and ODI cricketer killed by a bouncer striking his neck causing artery dissection November 2014
Philip Hughes
Name of cinematographer who died on set of western film Rust when actor Alec Baldwin discharged a colt. Also hit Joel Souza director.
Halyna Hutchins
1903 name of elephant killed/executed and caught on 74 second of film
Topsy
1916 elephant name of elephant who photograph hanged from neck of crane for killing trainer in Tennessee.
Mary
How many bars on wifi logo?
3
Contactless payment logo has how many curved bars
4
What are spirits in Japanese folklore that inhabit trees? Seen in Princess Mononoke
Kodama
Which Saudi team just won the league in 2023? They beat Ronaldos Al Nasr. Managed by Nuno Espírito Santo.
Al-Ittihad
Who was the first recipient of the Michael Faraday Award by Royal Society for communicating scientific ideas in 1986?
Charles Taylor
British neuroscientist 1989 recipient of the Michael Faraday Award by Royal Society for communicating scientific ideas, known for work in vision and development of brain and controversial due to positive views on animal testing?
Colin Blakemore
Michael Faraday Prize 1990, royal society President 1985-90, Nobel prize chemistry in 1967 with Eigen and Norrish. Known for flash photolysis and applied photophysics.
George Porter
Who wrote 1884 book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions?
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Mathematician and winner of Michael Faraday Prize wrote Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos, Flatterland (sequel of Flatland), The Science of Discworld.
Ian Stewart
Malacologist is studied of what phylum?
Mollusc
Scientist and broadcaster female House of Lords member known for treatment of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Wrote fiction 2121 and non fiction about Mind Change, controversial views in digital impact.
Susan Greenfield
British scientist and tv presenter known for work in ivf and fertility treatment
Robert Winston
South African born developmental biologist who has won the Michael faraday award. Known for his French flag model of embryonic development where used French flag as visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics. Books: Triumph of the Embryo, Malignant Sadness, how we live and why we die.
Lewis Wolpert
Born 1939 Wisbech and winner of Michael faraday award, also won 1996 Nobel prize for chemistry with Robert curl and Richard smalley for discovering fullerenes.
Harry Kroto
American Pie, American Beauty and costar in Loser which was teenage dirtbag film.
Mena Suvari
This guys best role was in oscar nominated in As Good As it Gets
then a few years later a career low point playing Matt Damon’s
conjoined twin in Farrelly Bros
“comedy” Stuck On You. Recently
starred in the excellent Black Bird on Apple TV
Greg Kinnear
90s pinup went saved by the bell to 90210 then back to saved by bell for reboot
Tiffani Thiessen
Played Johnny Rico in starship troopers followed by supporting role in sleepy hollow then TV movies and video games?
Casper Van Dien
Most famously detective Mike Hammer on Tv and warden Henry pope in tv prison break
Stacy Keach
Best known for portraying Tichard Thornburg the reporter in die hard and die hard 2 and also Walter peck in ghostbusters.
William atherton
The one not many girls fancied on 90210 but later married Megan fox so not too bad
Brian austin green
A well known face in 90s thanks to Point Break, a league of their own with Madonna and most famously tank girl. Made comeback on orange is the new black.
Lori Petty
Orange is new black prison name
Litchfield penitentiary
Career highlight was the usual suspects, became born again religious convert after 9/11 then now religious movies mostly
Stephen Baldwin
First attention as Dr Jack Boomer Morrison in St Elsewhere; then green mile as “brutal”, contact; 12 monkeys, the rock, big bloke.
David Morse
Ben Dtiller ex wife in dodgeball( zooland( tropic thunder
Christine Taylor
Actor prominent role in four spike Lee movies, West Indian Archie in Malcolm x, also Crooklyn; clockers, da 5 bloods. Also in Get shorty, cider house rules; gone in 60 seconds
Delroy Lindo
Road trip; rat race, the butterfly effect actress.
Amy Smart
Ex wrestler turned movie tough guy playing Brian in Predator and Captain Freedom in The running man?
Jesse Ventura (governor of Missouri)
2002 how to build a time machine, 2010 The eerie silence, 1995 Templeton prize, Michael faraday prize.
Paul Davies
Born 1962 Baghdad. Michael faraday prize 2007, science and Islam 2009, shock and awe story of electricity 2011.
Jim Al-Khalili
The Music of the Primes, what we cannot know; around the world in 80 games. Godmother was Valerie Eliot. Second Simonyi Professor for public understanding of science at uni of Oxford.
Marcus de Sautoy
1943-2014 British planetary scientist, was principal investigator for Beagle 2 Mars lander project. Won Michael faraday prize.
Colin Pillinger
1967 born British biochemist and writer, won Michael faraday 2016 prize: books power sex suicide mitochondria and the meaning of life, life ascending the ten great inventions of evolution, transformer the deep chemistry of life and death?
Nick Lane
British chemist working on gaining insights into chemistry and environment acceptable materials, core is supercritical fluids. Main presenter for YouTube channel Periodic Videos. Hit news for saying World Cup couldn’t be solid gold as couldn’t pick up.
Martyn Poliakoff
2020 Michael Faraday Prize winner which statistician, books Sex by Numbers, The Art of Statistics, Covid By Numbrszx
David spiegelhalter
Robin ince and Brian cox radio 4 comedy and popular science series show from 2009-present?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Whcih K is a capital of Kush 2400-1500BC before moving onto Meroe as the capital?
Kerma
QUESTION TWO
Greek mythology tells the story of which prince of Troy, who was taken as a lover by Eos? Eos asked Zeus to make this man immortal but forgot to request he also be granted eternal youth, and this prince eventually became a cicada,
Tithonus
QUESTION THREE
Which author wrote a series of ten letters to the officer cadet Franz Xaver Kappus between 1902 and 1908? These letters were published as the collection Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (Letters to a Young Poet) three years after their author’s death in 1926.
Rainer Maria Rilke
JESTION ONE
Art Nouveau is said to have reached its apex in France in 1900, when which designer
Created the first generation of entrances to Paris Metro underground stations? To
date, 86 of this man’s entrances are still in place
Hector Guimard
QUESTION TWO
In the April 1994 edition of The Modern Language Review, Donald Shaw wrote about the Latin American Boom and the difficulty in establishing when the movement began and ended. He starts by citing Alfred MacAdam, who states that the Boom began in 1963 with which postmodern novel by Julio Cortázar, notable for including almost 100
“expendable chapters”?
Hopscotch/Rayuela
QUESTION THREE
Europe’s tallest statue, Rodina-mat’ zovyot! (The Motherland Calls) stands 85 m (279 ft) high and can be visited in which city?
Volgograd (Stalingrad or Tsaritsyn)
QUESTION ONE
The existence of the neutrino was originally hypothesised by Wolfgang Pauli, and its
name coined by Enrico Fermi, to explain the continuous energy spectrum of which
specific physical process?
Beta Decay
UESTION TWO
A gamelan orchestra typically includes several kendang players and a bedug. The
kendang and bedug belong to what general class of instrument, other examples of
which include the tom-tom, dholak, and cajón?
Drum
Who popularised the term BRIC and MINT?
Jim O’Neill
Leakey’s orangutan expert
Birute Galdikas
Donald Shaw goes on to refer to the arguments of Gerald Martin, who claims that the Latin American Boom’s beginnings can be traced back to the 1949 publication of Hombres de maíz (Men of Maize), a novel written by which Nobel Prize-winning author? Three years earlier this author wrote El Señor President, basing the dictatorial
President on Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Plato uses the character of Socrates to argue that the soul is immortal in which of his dialogues? This is the fourth dialogue about Socrates’ final days and ends with him drinking hemlock as ordered by the Athenian government.
Phaedo or On the Soul
QUESTION THREE
Hector Guimard [ghee-mar] rose to prominence as an architect with his design for which apartment building, the first in Paris to be designed in the Art Nouveau style? To further promote Art Nouveau (and himself), Guimard organised a marketing campaign
based around this building.
Castel Beranger
Beta decay is a generic term for three decay mechanisms - beta plus and minus, and electron capture. In beta plus decay, a proton is converted into a neutron, releasing an electron-neutrino and which other subatomic particle?
Positron/antielectron
Another of Leakey’s ‘Trimates” was Dian Fossey who is remembered for her work at the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. Both the park and the centre are in which mountain range also known as Mufumbiro?
Virunga Mountains
the only English king since the Norman Conquest to be crowned during his father’s reign
Henry the Young king (son of Henry II and died 1183)
In which city is the tallest statue in south america( a 46.72m version of Virgin Mary? Was tallest Mary until 2021 of Mary in Batangas City Philippines?
Trujillo, Venezuela
The Calvin Cycle is the name given to the series of light-independent reactions that occur during photosynthesis. In plants, these reactions occur within the stroma of which membrane-bound organelle?
Chloroplast
The Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang attempted to become immortal by drinking which substance? A later description of his tomb by historian Sima Qian [see-ma chee-an] said that it contained a hundred rivers made from this substance.
Mercury
Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 1968), Boquitas pintadas (Heartbreak Tango, 1969), and El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
Manuel Puig
Another of Rilke’s [rill-kuh’s] best-known works written in the same “creative storm” that produced Die Sonette an Orpheus (The Sonnets to Orpheus), is which collection of ten elegies, named after the castle on the Adriatic Sea coast near Trieste where they
were composed?
Duino Elegies
Chinese mythology holds that the immortality of the deities was granted by which fruit? In Xi You Ji Journey to the West), Sun Wukong is given the duty of protecting these fruits and he consumes one before Xi Wangmu arrives to host a banquet of this
fruit.
Peaches
Hector Guimard’s [ghee-mar’s] design for Castel Béranger was inspired by the time he spent in Brussels with the Belgian architect, Victor Horta. Guimard was particularly inspired by which town house, designed by Horta and named after the scientist for whom it was built in 1892 and 1893? It is often cited as the first Art Nouveau building.
Hotel Tassel
A gamelan orchestra may also include a suling, which is an example of what sort of instrument? The suling, Indian bansuri, and the Western concert examples of these instruments are side-blown, whereas the Chinese xiao and Malagasy sodina are end
blown.
Flute
The transmutation of a proton to a neutron in beta plus decay occurs due to the conversion of an up quark to a down quark, and vice versa in beta minus decay. This process is mediated by the weak force, via the exchange of which subatomic particle?
W Boson
Who wrote Satantango
Laszlo Krasnahorkai
Which 14th century French philosopher known for namesake ass that presents the paradox brought about by having to choose between two things of equal value?
Jean Buridan
Occasionally called the Moa eagle, largest eagle ever known to have existed is which New Zealand species that hunted moa and according to Māori, hunted humans until extinction of moa caused its own extinction in around 1400?
Haast’s Eagle
In which village in Gyeonggi province on de facto border between north and South Korea was the armistice signed that ended Korean War in 1953?
Panmunjom
Which 1987 chinua Achebe novel takes place in imaginary west African country Kangan where officer identified only as Sam and known as his excellency has taken power following military coup?
Anthills of the Savannah
Name derived from Greek word for digestion, which enzyme is released by chief cells in stomach to degrade food proteins into polymers of amino acids?
Pepsin
Donald Shaw cites two other scholars who agree that the Latin American Boom began in 1963, but argue the first major work was La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero), the debut work from which author? The book was so critical of the Lima military academy in which it was set that copies were burned by the academy’s leaders as ‘Ecuadorian propaganda’.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Who is the title character* of Rilke’s [rill-kuh’s] only full-length novel, who asks “Ist es möglich, daß die ganze Weltgeschichte mißverstanden worden ist?” (*‘Is it possible that the whole history of the world has been misunderstood?”) You may give the
character’s first name or last name,
Malte Laurids Brigge
The Wu experiment investigated the beta-minus decay of Cobalt-60 to an excited state of Nickel-60 to prove that the weak force violates parity conservation. This was shown experimentally by measuring the emission direction of what type of electromagnetic radiation, released by the excited Nickel-6o before decaying to its ground state?
Gamma rays
Both Hector Guimard [ghee-mar] and Victor Horta took inspiration from which French architect whose 1872 book Entretiens Sur L’Architecture (Lectures on Architecture) laid out several principles adopted by Art Nouveau? This man’s own architectural projects included restoration work done on French landmarks including Mont Saint-Michel and the walls of Carcassonne.
Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc
In the 1990s Codemasters had major success with a series of games based on
which toy cars? For 3 to 4 years, they were the largest selling toy car line in
the US with total dollar sales exceeding the combined sales of the next top-
selling lines: Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette.
Micro Machines
Eleven men were inducted at the founding of the Golf Hall of fame in 1974
Which one of these men was “The Long Ball Hitter from West Virginia”? -He is
credited with winning 82 tour events, a record only matched by Tiger Woods
Sam Snead
What film name links (allowing for a spelling difference) a Craig Brewer-
directed comedy movie of 2021 and a 1988 comedy movie directed by John
Landis? Saul, the Jewish barbershop customer, is a character in both movies
Coming to America/Coming 2 America
What kind of Eyes gave Al Martino a smash hit in 1966? Originally composed
as “Moon over Naples”, this song has been recorded over 500 times
Spanish Eyes
What 1992 hit was one of only 2 UK top 5 hits for Richard Marx? The chorus
included the lyrics “I swear I left her by the river, I swear I left her safe and
sound’
Hazard
How is the reality TV star Nicole Elizabeth LaValle (née Polizzi) better known?
As well as her TV work she has competed at Wrestlemania
Snooki
Which “Suzie” currently holds the highest score and highest batting average in
the New Zealand Women’s Twenty20 cricket team?
Suzie Bates
Achieving a Gamespot review score of 10 out of 10, Guns of the Patriots was
the 4th game in which video game series? 3-word answer
Metal Gear Solid
13
The “in Memoriam” section at the 2023 Oscars ceremony included a nod to
which American actor whose last film credit might well be the unusual comedy
horror film “Cocaine Bear”? In the world of video games this man voiced
characters in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Call of Duty: Black Ops Il
Ray Liotta
14
Carey Mulligan received a Golden Globe nomination in 2023 for her role as the
real life reporter Meghan Twohey. In the movie “She Said”, Twohey is
investigating what man?
Harvey Weinstein
The TV show “Wednesday” received a couple of nominations at the 2023
Golden Globes. Which Puerto Rican actor took on the role of Gomez Adams in
that show? His film credits include Boogie Nights and Traffic
Luis Guzman
16
Sounding like a Chinese dish, which Australian group have been ARIA Award
nominated for the songs “Stranger” and “Fire/ Reprisal”? Two word answer
Peking Duk
17
Which female Tennis player was the top-ranked Australian singles player for
452 consecutive weeks, from October 2008 to June 2017? She won a Grand
Slam singles title at the 2011 US Open, where she beat Serena Williams in the
final and became the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley
in 1980 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament
Samantha Stosur
8 The cyclist Bernard Hinault was nicknamed “The Badger”. He won the Tour de
France general classification five times. Can you name any of the years this
happened?
1978/79/81/82/85
What song from “Honeysuckle Rose” was nominated for the Best Original
song Academy Award in 1980? Lyrics of this country and western classic
include “Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway”
On the Road Again
20 Which WW2-themed vertical scrolling shooter arcade game gave Capcom one
of their first big hits? Despite being made by a Japanese company, the aim of
the game was to reach Tohyo and destroy the Japanese Air Fleet
1942
The multi-million-selling game franchises Resident Evil, Street Fighter and
Devil May Cry were all created by which Japanese company?
Capcom
26 Which actor was Johnny Cade in ‘The Outsiders’? His most famous role was
playing a character who defeated johnny Lawrence in the final of the 1985 ‘All
Valley tournament
Ralph Macchio
Chloe Zhao was full of praise for which Irish actor who appeared as Druig in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals? This man would later win a
BAFTA for best supporting actor in the movie “The Banshees’of Innisherin”
Barry Keoghan
In 2011 Corey Feldman appeared in the video for which Katy Perry song? Lyrics
of this song include “There’s a stranger in my bed, there’s a pounding in my
head”
Last Friday Night
29 The Lahore cricket ground which hosted the 1996 Cricket world cup final was
named after which dictator who lived between 1942 and 2011?
Colonel Gaddafi
31
Dave Grohl joined with Josh Homme and John Paul Jones to form which rock
supergroup? Together they won a Grammy in 2011 with the song “New Fang”.
3 word answer
Them Crooked Vultures
32 What Spanish man went 14 games unbeaten in the Davis Cup between 2011 and 2016? This player, born 1982, holds the distinction of winning the most
matches on the ATP Tour without ever winning a Major
David Ferrer
34 In 1998 Eg White wrote the song “Chained” for which man? He was the long-
time lead guitarist with Bon Jovi and the former husband of actress Heather
Locklear
Richie Sambora
35 In Fl what colour flag means “A faster car is approaching. Move aside’?
Blue
36 Real name Douglas Trendle, who was the impressively named lead singer of
the ska band Bad Manners? First and last name required
Buster Bloodvessel
38 Which “Geoff” is an Australian professional golfer who won the 2006 U.S. Open and has also won three World Golf Championships?
Geoff Ogilvy
39
Which genre of dance music developed in London in the early 2000s out of
UK garage scene? It draws influences from jungle, Dancehall and hip hop
Grime
40 As heard on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack, who became the first Native American band to get into the US top 5 when they released “Come and get your love” in 1974?
Redbone
Which English actress, a star of “Harlots”, has received two Academy Award
nominations, one for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen’s Sweet and
Lowdown (1999), and the other for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan’s In America
(2003)?
Samantha Morton
42 The American electronic engineer Jerry Lawson was the inventor of what item, which help speed up the growing popularity of video games? These items
were larger than floppy disks and had less memory space but that didn’t stop
their widespread use throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s
Game Cartridges
43 . Set against the backdrop of Nazi occupied Italy in 1944, “BLANK is dead” is a 2022 psychological horror game. What girls name fills the blank? This is also the first name of the woman who is the oldest ever Sport Illustrated Swimsuit cover model
Martha
44 Hugh Hefner made a voice-only appearance as himself in which 2011 Easter themed movie? James Marsden was the live action star whilst Russell Brand voiced the central CGI character
Hop
45 Natasha Khan was nominated for the Ivor Novello award in 2013 for the song
“Laura”. Under what 3-word name does Natasha Khan perform?
Bat for Lashes
Jamie Murray has been partnered by which American woman in his last three
mixed doubles finals? This woman has won nine Grand Slam titles, and an
Olympic gold medal, and is a former world No. 1 in doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Which American TV host and Media Mogul created the game shows “Jeopardy”
Ind “Wheel of Fortune”?
Merv Griffin
49 - What was the 5-letter name of the construction foreman, Mario and Luigi’s
boss, according to the recent Super Mario movie? This character shared his
name with the Fonzie’s cousin, Snoopy’s Brother and Dexter Fletcher in Press
Gang
Spike
Second defined as tradition between two hyperfine levels of ground state of an atom of which isotope?
Caesium 133
Which base unit uses Planck constant (6.626 x 10^-34) in its definition?
Kilogram
Which base unit for electric current uses the elementary charge as part of its definition?
Ampere
Which base unit uses the Boltzmann constant k (1.381 x 10^-23)?
Kelvin
Which base unit named after a scientist born 1775?
Ampere (electric current)
10^30
Quetta
10^27
Ronna
10^24
Yotta
10^21
Zetta
10^18
Exa
10^15
Peta
10^-30
Quecto
10^-27
Ronto
10^-24
Yocto
10^-21
Zepto
10^-18
Atto
10^-15
Femto
10^-12
Pico
10^-9
Nano
Unit named after an American scientist who invented the bolometer, is a unit of heat transmission used to express rate of solar radiation received by the earth?
Langley
Non-SI unit of spectral flux density or spectral irradiance used especially in radio astronomy and named after American physicist who in 1933 was first to discover radio waves emanating from Milky Way in Sagittarius.
Jansky
Metric unit of area equal to 10^-28 m^2 used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions.
Barn
What distance defined as exactly 1852m?
Nautical mile
What is defined as exactly 1.852km/h
Knot (one nautical mile per hour)
Unit of acceleration typically used in precision gravimeter. Defined as 1cm/s^2.
Gal (named after Galileo Galilei)
Si derived unit for plane angle
Radian
Si derived unit for a scientist born 1857 Hamburg
Hertz (Frequency)
Si derived unit named after scientist born 1643
Newton (Force, Weight)
Si derived unit after scientist born 1623, defined as one Newton per square metre
Pascal (used in internal pressure, stress, Young’s Modulus, ultimate tensile strength)
Si derived unit after physicist born 1818
Joule (energy, work, heat)
Si derived unit after english inventor born 1736
Watt (power, radiant flux)
Si derived unit after French scientist born 1736
Coulomb (electric charge)
Si derived unit after scientist born 1745
Volt (electric potential, voltage; emf)
Si derived unit after scientist born 1791
Farad (capacitance)
Si derived unit after scientist born 1789
Ohm (resistance, impedance, reactance)
Si derived unit after engineer born 1816
Siemens (electrical conductance)
Si derived unit after physicist born 1804
Weber (magnetic flux)
Si derived unit after inventor born 1856
Tesla (magnetic flux density)
Si derived unit after scientist born 1797
Henry (inductance - he was first secretary of Smithsonian institution)
Si derived unit after Nobel laureate born 1852
Becquerel (activity referred to a radionuclide, decays per unit time)
Si derived unit after English physicist born 1905
Gray (absorbed dose of ionising radiation)
Si derived unit after Swedish physicist born 1896
Sievert (equivalent dose of ionising radiation)
Si derived unit after Swedish physicist born 1701
Degree Celsius
Monteverdi last opera priE her Venice 1643 about mistress of Roman emperor Nero?
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Successor of teacher Monteverdi in Venetian musical life; did operas Ormindo, Giasone, La Calisto.
Francesco Cavalli
The first opera and by who performed in Florence 1598 music now lost?
Dafne by Jacopo Peri
The earliest opera whose music survives performed in 1600 and by who?
Euridice by Jacopo Peri
Based on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, the first opera written by a woman was La Liberazione di Ruggiero? Who by?
Francesca Caccini
First German opera was 1627 Dafne, music now lost and was by who?
Heinrich Schutz
First Spanish opera was 1660 La Purpura de La Rosa, music now lost and was by who?
Juan Hidalgo
First French opera was 1671 Pomone, was by who?
Robert Cambert
First English opera was 1683 Venus and Adonis, music now lost and was by who?
John Blow
Who wrote the Libretti to Ricard Strauss’s operas Elektra 1909, Der Rosenkavalier 1911, Ariadne Auf Naxos 1912, die frau ohne schatten 1919, Die Agyptische Helena 1928, Arabella 1933?
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1873 opera Boris Godunov only completed opera by which Russian composer?
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Which Italian composer did La Cenerentola? Cinderella.
Gioachino Rossini
Mozart opera by librettist Caterino Mazzola with title Roman emperor
La Clemenza di Tito
Czech language opera The Cunning Little Vixen by which composer?
Leos Janacek
Who did libretto for Henry Purcell 1688 opera Dido and Aeneas?
Nahum Tate
Who did opera Don Pasquale and L’elisir d’amore?
Gaetano Donizetti
Which French composer did two operas: L’enfant et Les sortileges and L’heure espagnole?
Maurice Ravel
Based on Alexander Pushkin novel in verse 1825-32, who did opera Eugene Onegin?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Italian librettist and composer whose only completed opera was Mefisfofele? Did libretto to Verdi’s Otello and Falstaff and Ponchielli’s La Gioconda.
Arrigo Boito
Which French composer did Le Tribut de Zamora about battle of Zamora 939, Romeo et Juliette 1867, La Reine de Saba, Sapho 1851, Faust 1859, Philemon et Baucis?
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Who composed La Forza Del Destino?
Giuseppe Verdi
German composer born 1786, operas Der Freischutz (The Marksman), Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbam), Silvana, Abu Hassan, Euryanthe and Oberon.
Carl Maria von Weber
Derived from Alexander Pushkin’s 1834 poem The TAle of the Golden Cockerel, who did opera The Golden Cockerel ?
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
German composer who created Les Huguenots, L’Africaine (about Vasco de Gama), L’etoile du nord, Robert Le diable including the ballet blanc Ballet of the Nuns?
Giacomo Meyerbeer
One word title Mozart opera with subtitle “re di creta” or king of Crete?
Idomeneo
Name of the title character of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri?
Isabella
Premiered in Brno in 1904 who composed Jenufa? Also did Kata Kabanova
Leos Janacek
Who was the librettist of The Magic Flute and builder of the Theater an der Wien?
Emanuel Schikaneder
Based on 1731 Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prevost, who composed Manon? Also did Le Cid, Werther, Thais,?
Jules Massenet
Who did the Libretti to The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte?;94/5 Professor of Italian literature at Columbia university?
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian composer born 1760-1842, first opera Demophoon, Eliza, Medee, Ali Baba?
Luigi Cherubini
Composer of Moses und Aron, Erwartung (Expectation), Von Heute auf morgen.
Arnold Schoenberg
Who composed Norma? Pasta dish named after. Premiered Milan 1831.
Vincenzo Bellini
Born 1714, Orfeo ed Euridice 1762, two Iphigenie operas, did loads.
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Opera with libretto by Montagu Slated based on section in George Crabbe’s long narrative poem The Borough?
Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
I Puritani set in English civil war some sources say Walter Scott’s 1816 novel Old Mortality and is composed by which composer?
Vincenzo Bellini
English language opera The Rake’s Progress with libretto by WH Auden and Chester Kallman is by which composer?
Igor Stravinsky
Who did Libretti for Verdi on Rigoletto, Attila, Macbeth, Il Corsair, Simon Boccanegra
Francesco Maria Piave
French composer operas Samson et Delilah (mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix), Henry VIII, Proserpine, Phyrne, Helene?
Camille Saint-Saens
Opera by Gioachino Rossini set on Voltaire’s tragedy in turn of this legendary Assyrian king. Premier 1823 Venice.
Semiramide
La Sonnambula (the sleep Walker) by which composer?
Vincenzo Bellini
Verdi opera with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on La Dame aux Camelias play by Alexander Dumas.
La Traviata (originally called Violetta)
Libretti who did majority of Il Trovatore for Verdi, also Luisa Miller, Alzira. Also did Lucia di Lammermoor for Gaetano Donizetti also Roberto Devereux.
Salvadore Cammarano
Composer of Les Troyens
Hector Berlioz
Who did libretto for Benjamin Britten operas The Turn of the Screw, Death in Venice and Owen Wingrave?
Myfanwy Piper
Who did Wozzeck and Lulu?
Alban Berg (Austria born 1885)
Which team current holders 2022 of womens vitality netball super league title?
Manchester Thunder
Who were second team to win a super bowl doing so in 1969
New York jets
Which snooker player lost in both 2000 and 2005 world mens championship?
Matthew Stevens
One of endearing memories of 1980 Moscow Olympics which nation won gold in field hockey womens?
Zimbabwe
Team europe won the 1995 mosconi cup defeating USA 16-15. Alex Higgins and which former snooker world champion played for team Europe?
Steve Davis
Which world athletics championship winners uncle played for West Bromwich Albion in 1966 league cup final?
Steve Cram
Name of horse Charlotte Dujardin landed double dressage gold with 2012 and 2016?
Valegro
Colour dot on squash ball indicates fast speed of play ideal for beginners?
Blue
Who was first skier to win mens Olympic alpine triple crown doing so in 1956?
Toni Sailer
Other than Toni Sailer only one other skier has won triple crown of alpine skiing at Olympics (slalom, giant slalom, downhill). Which French skier?
Jean-Claude Killy
Which greyhound broke Mick the Miller’s record of 19 consecutive wins by winning the aptly named Mick the Miller Record Stakes in 1974?
Westpark Mustard
In which sport would you compete for the MacRobertson International Shield?
Croquet
Who is only speedway rider to have places SPOTY finishing second in 1964 and 1966?
Barry Briggs
Baseball player voted American League MVP in 1939/41/47?
Joe DiMaggio
Bobby George reached his second BDO world darts championship in 1994 but who defeated him to take title?
John Part
Which boxer was awarded the wbc heavyweight title in March 1978 without fighting for the title?
Ken Norton
Which grand national winning jockey 2016 on Rule the World retired at age of 24?
David Mullins
Which Scottish bowler has won 5 world indoor bowls championships in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2011 and 2017?
Paul Foster
Which Scottish bowler has won a record 6 world indoor bowls championships in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2015.
Alex Marshall
Which female bowler has won record five World Indoor Bowls championships?
Katherine Rednall
Translating as “deciding technique” what word used for a winning move in a sumo wrestling bout?
Kimarite
Who was 6th president of IOC holding 1972-80?
Lord Killanin
Who was IOC president 2001-13
Jacques Rogge
Who was President of the IOC 1980-2001
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Who was president of the IOC 1952-72?
Avery Brundage
Who was the fourth president of the IOC from 1942-52?
Sigfrid Edstrom
Third president of the IOC from 1925-42?
Henri Comte de Baillet-Latour
Who was the first president of the IOC from 1894-96 leaving after native greece held first Olympics and replaced by Baron Pierre de Coubertin?
Demetrius Vikelas
Who is most successful superside sidecar racer in history with four world championship and six World Cup wins between 1987 and 2004?
Steve Webster
Who scored all four goals for Royal Navy vs army in final of Polo’s Rundle Cup in 1979?
Prince Charles
First mentioned in 1624, what is maximum allowed length of a cricket bat in inches?
38 inches (width no more than 4.25 inches)
At odds of over 1000-1, which Englishman won mens singles at the 1980 European table tennis championship?
John Hilton
Which swimmer won the mens 400m individual medley event at 1972 summer Olympics by two one thousands of a second?
Gunnar Larsson
Which skier won womens slalom World Cup title seven times between 2013 and 2023?
Mikaela Shiffrin
Who is only South Korean skater to have won the womens world figure skating title doing so in 2009 and 2013?
Yuna Kim
Who is britains most successful ever male paralympian with record of 16 golds and 2 silver medals between 1976 and 1988?
Mike Kenny
Who is second most successful male paralympian with 14 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze all in equestrian? He last competed in 2020 so still active.
Lee Pearson
Scottish paralympian female who won 10 golds, 4 silver and 4 bronze in athletics, shooting and swimming? 1984-2004
Isabel Newstead
British paralympian female who has 10 golds, 2 silver and 5 bronze across athletics, table tennis, swimming and wheelchair fencing 1964-76, 1988?
Carol Bryant
The Yonkers Trot, The Kentucky Futurity and the Hambletonian make up the American triple crown for which sport?
Harness Racing
Which uk singles chart topper played baseball for tbe St. Louis cardinals farm team in 1944 S a right hand pitcher?
Jim Reeves
The Iquiri National Forest us in whcih South American country?
Brazil
The philabeg traditionally worn by highlanders was precursor of which modern article of clothing
Kilt
What word to describe a thick tropical forest is derived from the Hindi word for wilderness?
Jungle
Pentland Javelin, Russet Burbank, and Shepody are all varieties of what vegetable?
Potato
Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga is the current president of the
governate of which country?
Vatican City
The Sea of Cortez, found for coast of Mexico; better known as the gulf of what state?
California
Which brand of tea is made by adding lemon peel and orange peel
to Earl Grey tea?
Lady Grey Tea
John Biffen was Leader of the House of Commons under which UK
prime minister?
Margaret Thatcher
Which animals are primarily affected by Newcastle disease?
Birds (poultry in particular)
Which evergreen tree, also known as the blue wattle, shares its
name with a star in the constellation Crux and a cocktail made
with champagne and orange juice?
Mimosa
Nhat first name links song titles by John Leyton, Fine Young
Cannibals, and Chuck Berry?
Johnny (Johnny remember me, Johnny come home and Johnny b goode)
What term is given to electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths
between 10 picometres and 10 nanometres?
X Rays
In 2006, which West End show became London’s longest running
musical after overtaking Cats?
Les Miserables
Before decimalisation in the UK, how many shillings were there in
a crown?
5
Which Hindu festival is named after a traditional Sri Lankan dish
made by boiling rice in milk?
Pongal (meaning to boil over)
Which American artist is most famous for the story quilt Tar Beach?
Faith Ringgold
In French cluedo; what weapon is called the Poignard?
Dagger
Which offal meat is the main ingredient of ecuadorian dish guatitas?
Tripe
Which British singer had a 2013 hit with Big When I Was Little?
Eliza Doolittle
Which King of Scotland was killed by Mormaer of the Mearns in
1094?
Duncan II
Which South Paciflc territory was the world’s first Dark Sky Place
and is served by Hannan International Airport?
Niue
46 Which Polish Nobel laureate wrote the children’s book When
Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories?
Isaac Bashevis Singer
49 Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde were the title characters of
which 1970s television series?
The Persuaders (Roger Moore was Lord Brett Sinclair and Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde)
In the lyrics to the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful, what
colour are the mountains?
Purple
1711 Handel opera loosely based on Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Jerusalem Delivered
Rinaldo
The Beggars Opera was a 1728 ballad opera with words by John Gay and music by which German composer
Johann Christoph Pepusch
1733 opera buffa intermezzo La Serva Padrona or The Maid turned Mistress was by which composer? Did Opera seria too with L’Olimpiade and did Stabat Mater.
Giovanni battista pergolesi
French composer who did first opera Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes Galantes, Castor et Pollux, Platee?
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 born)
La Buona Figliuola (the good natured girl) is an opera buffa 1760 by which Italian composer? The libretto by Carlo Goldoni was based on Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded.
Niccolo Piccinni
The first opera seria in English was Artaxerxes by which English composer? Also known for song “A-Hunting We Will Go” made for a 1777 production of The Beggar’s Opera. Born 1710.
Thomas Arne
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera with subtitle re di ponto meanjng King of Pontus, after Jean Racine play, premiere 1770?
Mitridate
1792 opera Il Matrimonio Segreto regarded as which composer’s best opera? Leopold II Grand Duke of Tuscany compelled singers to go again.
Domenico Cimarosa
Georgian football playing for Napoli
Kvaratskhelia
Italian composer born 1774 who composed Milton 1804 and famous La Vestale 1807 about vestal Virgin in love.
Gaspare Spontini
Rossini opera 1816 subtitled Or the Useless Precaution
The Barber of Seville
Rossini opera 1819 based on Walter Scott narrative poem lady of the lake 1810.
La Donna Del Lago
Opera Comique La Dame Blanche (white lady) was by whcih French composer born 1775 Rouen? Based on multiple works of sir Walter Scott such as guy mannering, the monastery and the abbot.
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
Name of Georges Bizet opera in four acts based on 1828 novel The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott
La jolie fille de Perth
Opera Il Pirata is by which Italian composer?
Vincenzo Bellini
German composer important one between Weber and Wagner, born 1795. Known for operas Hans Heiling, Der Vampyr and Der Templer und die Judin.
Heinrich Marschner
French composer 1782-1871 director of Paris Conservatoire, wrote first French grand opera La Muette de Portici (dumb woman of Portici) and 1830 Fra Diavolo about a neopolitan rebel leader.
Daniel Auber
1830 Anna Bolena and 1832 Lelisir d’amore, 1833 Lucrezia Borgia by which composer?
Gaetano Donizetti
Richard Wagner 1835 opera loosely based on shakespeares Measure for Measurr?
Das Liebesverbot (the ban on love)
French composer born 1799 most known today for opera La Juive (the jewess)?
Fromental Halevy
1836 opera A Life for the Tsar and the 1842 opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by which Russian composer born 1804?
Mikhail Glinka
Whose first opera was Benvenuto Cellini in 1838? Also did 1846 La Damnation de Faust,1858 Les Troyens, 1862 Beatrice et Benedict.
Hector Berlioz
1842 Wagner opera based on 1835 novel by Edward Bullet-Lytton. Set in Rome and based on a late medieval Italian populist figure, the subtitle of opera is “der Letzte der Tribunen” meaning the last of the tribunes.
Rienzi
Irish composer born 1808 best remembered for operas especially The Bohemian Girl?
Michael Balfe
Which 1845 Wagner opera is about the Minnesangers Contest at Wartburg?
Tannhauser
FBI is shorthand for three common de composers of dead trees: stands for?
Fungi, Bacteria and Insects
The by name of this 11th century Castilian military leader a national hero of Spain comes from Arabic for lord?
El Cid
This paramilitary group of
young people was used in
the 1960s to enforce the
Cultural Revolution
The Red guard
In 1958 The Champs had a
No. 1 hit with this sax-heavy
tune whose only lyric is the
title booze
Tequila
High performance car company version of SEAT
Cupra
Isak and Nahman Andic created which fashion brand in 1972?
Mango
In 2023 who has just died who was first person to run the 100m in under 10 seconds. Did so in 1968 shortly before winning gold for 100m at Mexico City.
Jim Hines
Which Facebook react button is a sad face but red?
Angry
in february 2022, russia officially recognised two breakaway
territories of ukraine as sovereign states. One was Donetsk People’s
Republic, the other was which “people’s republic” that is commonly
abbreviated as LPR?
Luhansk Peoples Republic
motion sickness and funeral both appear on 2017 album stranger in
the alps, this was critically acclaimed debut release by which
musician?
I
Phoebe Bridgers
who is only king of england to be buried at canterbury cathedral? His
reign saw him crush rebel army of harry hotspur at battle of
shrewsbury
Henry IV
Fenix series of watches are produced by whcih company competitor of Fitbit and company ?
Garmin
what is name of dallas character portrayed by victoria principal?
married to bobby ewing and suffers severe burns in season 10 when
crashes her car
Pamela Ewing
located high up in alban hills, which town is home to apostolic palace
that served as summer residence of pope for many years? JPIl called
it vatican number two
Castel Gandolfo
1983 hit is there something i should know was first uk number one for
which band
Duran Duran
Dirk Nowitzki spent entire nba career with which franchise?
Dallas Mavericks
bob dylan holds up cue cards with words such as basement
government and sickness on them in two and half minute film clip tha
was shot for which song of his? The video is considered a forerunner
of music videos.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
which proctor and gamble owned brand of fabric softener sells the
unstoppables range of in-wash scent boosters
Lenor
the final track on the mtv unplugged in new york album by nirvana is
a version of which traditional american folk song? recorded famously
by lead belly.
In the Pines/Where Did You Sleep Last Night
which successful racehorse won cheltenham gold cup five times in a
row 1932-36
Golden Miller
beginning in may 2023 and hosted bj dannii mingoue which bbc
player and bbc three show has been dubbed the uks first exclusively
gay dating show
I kissed a boy
third largest city in greece and capital (of region of western greece?
said to be location of saint andrew’s martyrdom
Patras
which jean-francois millet painting depicts two peasants bowing in a
field over a basket of potatoes whilst praying? the name of the
painting references a catholic devotion commemorating christ
The Angelus
hirohiko arak is best known for which long-running manga series that
features the antagonist Dio Brando?
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
calidris alpina is binomial name of which small wader that nests
around the world’s arctic regions? the bird has a slightly down-curved
bill and a distinctive black belly patch in breeding plumage.
Dunlin
In july 2022, a professor at adelaide university claimed to identify the
somerton man as carl “charles” webb. Found dead on a beach in
1948, and his identity considered one of the biggest mysteries in
Australia, the case of the Somerton Man is commonly known by which Persian phrase taken from scrap of paper found in pocket of this man’s trousers?
Tamam Shud
Somerton Man otherwise known as Tamam Shud was found in the suburb and named of which Australian city? Page was from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyim.
Adelaide
the trophy presented to the winner of the women’s singles at the
australian open is named in honour of which player who won the
australian open singles title five times from 1925-30? This person
tragically passed away in 1933, aged 29, from complication during pregnancy.
Daphne Akhurst
which Bolshevik revolutionary acted as the editor-in-chief of Pravda
from 1918-29? Executed in 1938 at the order of once close friend
Stalin, it is said the note this person wrote to Stalin just prior to
execution was still found on Stalin’s desk upon his death in 1953.
Nikolay Bukharin
Which debut novel by Somerset Maugham depicts the title character
death, an 18 year old factory worker living with aging mother who
lives on fictional Vere Street in the titular location of the work?
Liza of Lambeth
The american R&B artist Lloyd has only top five UK single to date in
2011 track featuring Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne? Song was edited for
radio with the frequently sang word “Pussy” replaced with “lovin”.]
Dedication to My Ex
Mickey Rourke plays an NYC private investigator who is hired to
solve the disappearance of a man known as Johnny Favourite in
which 1987 psychological horror film? The film is adapted from a
novel by William Hjortsberg.
Angel Heart
In 2021, who became first woman to referee an english football
league match when she was appointed to referee a game between
Harrogate Town and Port Vale? The following year she became first
woman to referee a third round men’s FA Cup game.
Rebecca Welch
David Allen and Gilli Smyth were founding members of which
progressive rock band that recorded the 1971 album Camembert
Electrique at an 18th century Chateau near Paris?
Gong
Often abbreviated to KK theory, which classic unified field theory of
gravitation and electromagnetism is built around a fifth dimension that
goes beyond space and time? It is named for a German and a
Swedish scientist who both contributed to the theory.
Kaluza-Klein Theory
Mount Tambora, the volcano that erupted in and caused the Year
without a Summer, is located on which of the Lessa Sunda Islands?
Sumbawa
Captain Olimar is the main character of what series of video games,
developed by Nintendo, that are described as a hybrid of real-time
strategy and puzzle? Olimar commands the series namesake variety
of plant creatures to solve puzzles and fight off enemies.
Pikmin
The Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire sat in which modern-
day German city in 1526-29? The 1526 gathering saw the
suspension of the Edict of Worms, while the 1529 gathering is widely
believed to have seen the first use of the term “protestant”.
Speyer
Known as the Polish Prince and Special K, which driver won the
1992 NASCAR Winston Cup series while driving for his own small
race team that had far less funds than many rival teams? He
tragically died in an aircraft crash a few months after winning the Cup series and never defended his title.
Alan Kulwicki
Cosmology. Named after a Soviet physicist (1888 - 1925), whose set
of equations describe the expansion of space for homogeneous and
isotopic models of the Universe? These were developed in the
framework of general relativity.
Friedmann Equations
What kind of limestone made up of “Ooids”
‘ - small (0.25-2 mm)
spherical grains composed of concentric layers of calcium
carbonate? These Ooids are produced from sand grains that roll
around the floors of shallow, warm seas.
Oolitic Limestone
In a chemistry lab what name is given to the piece of equipment seen
below, consisting of a graduated glass tube with a stopcock at one
end? Its name was coined 1824 by the French chemist Joseph Louis
Gay-Lussac.
Burette
Derived from the Gaelic word for ridge or elevation. What 5 letter
word is given to the long winding banks of stratified sand and gravel
produced by glaciers as they melt? These landforms can range from
100 m to 500 km long and 3 m to 200m tall!
Esker
Song “A Girl Like You”, never met a girl like you before lyric.
Edwyn Collins
In mathematics what name is given to the dividing line between the
numerator and the denominator of a fraction, or a ligament like band
of connective tissue in the Human body?
Vinculum
With a name meaning wild horse” in Kazakh/Kyrgyz. What name
was given to the free-roaming horses found on the Russian Steppes
between the 18th and 20th Centuries? The last captive individual
died in a Russian zoo in 1909.
Tarpan
Based on the S programming language. What single letter
programming language mainly used for statistics was developed by
Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993?
R
What is the common name of visible deposits of protein and cell
debris found in the vitreous humour of the eyes? Seen as (annoying)
tiny shadows, in Latin they are known as muscae volitantes - “flying
flies”
Floaters
Q Also called a pyroduct, what name is given to a volcanic cave
produced when lava melts and tunnels its way through a pre-existing
lava flow?
Lava Tube
What Italian word is used for the portion of a concerto where the
orchestra stops playing, leaving the soloist to play alone in free time?
The Cadenza
According to a speech by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, who was the fairies midwife?
Queen Mab
Which country lost more than half of its population during the War of the Triple Alliance fought from 1865 to 1870?
Paraguay
Green Onions; debut album of Booker T & the MGs was issued in 1962 on what record label?
Stax
Which car company made a model called the Atoz from 1997 to 2014?
Hyundai
Which Batman movie featured female characters named sugar, spice and dr chase meridian?
Batman Forever
N’Djamena the capital of Chad is near the border of which other country?
Cameroon
Dark Helmet, Yogurt, and Pizza the Hutt are characters in what 1987 sci fi movie spoof?
Spaceballs
Sport codified in 1907/1910 Provence France and the word from Occitan language for foot fixed?
Pétanque
From French for passage or corridor name for narrow gully with steep gradient in mountainous terrain often used in ice climbing?
Couloir
Disk flicking dexterity board game possibly if Canadian origin. Name is derived from a French word for a kind of cookie or a pastry similar to a doughnut.
Crokinole
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu founded and developed in 1925 by siblings with which surname?
Gracie
Sport in which both world cups have been won by Thailand, name is from malay for to kick a rattan ball?
Sepak Takraw
Indoor team sport developed in 1970s by Swiss biologist Hermann Brandt, reduces injuries, lowers aggression. Rebounder and 7 on pitch for one team at a time. Malaysia won 2019 World Cup. Used to be dominated by Europe now asia.
Tchoukball
Name derived from three of its founders, sport developed in Australia involving both route planning and navigation between checkpoints using variety of maps. 24 hours long for championship.
Rogaining (Rod, Gail and Neil)
Contact winter team sport played on ice rink with skates, straight skates and a blue rubber pneumatic ring designed for ice use?
Ringette
Sport thought to have been invented in Acapulco by Enrique Corcuera in 1969 after he modified squash court to incorporate elements of platform tennis. It’s a racket sport typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a double tennis court.
Padel
Sport of European origin played in German spekakingnnations butnalsonin brazil. Similar to volleyball with the net but hands have to be held in a certain exact way.
Fistball
Chinese term meaning “martial arts” in contemporary arts, can be known as king Fu but has its own term name.
Wushu
Team sport designed for blind people, teams of three and throw ball with bells inside
Goalball
Ball sport played on curved table combining elements of Sepak Tekraw and table tennis; can hit football with any part of the body. Invented by three Hungarian football enthusiasts.
Teqball
What world champjonship has been held annually since 1971 on second Saturday in July in village of witcham in Ely, Cambridgeshire?
World Pea Shooting Championship
Held annually on second Sunday in October in Northamptonshire what world championships?
World Conker Championships
Boxer shorts that eliminate odour, named same as cereal.
Shreddies
12 Which British brand of tea was named in 1903 after the Mandarin Chinese word for “doctor”?
Typhoo
15 Which imperial measurement is equivalent to 2,83% of a cubic metre?
Cubic foot
Which (according to Wikipedial) is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the British version of the game of Scrabble, and is also the only letter in the English language that is never silent?
V
24 Coppicing is the cutting down of trees periodically so that new shoots may grow from the stumps, but which term is used when the trees are cut back at a height of about 6 feet, instead of close to ground level?
Pollarding
Spanish for “to marinate” gives us this Philippine’s dish of marinated meat with garlic soy sauce vinegar and spices.
Adobo
This term for a fictional energy barrier has been traced back to 1931 sci fi story Islands of Space?
Force Field
Meatwad, Frylock & Master Shake make up this threesome whose misadventures laved out on Adult Swim for 11 seasons
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
French term for a clause in a contract protecting one or both parties if an act of god messes everything up
Force Majeure
The Seattle PD “de”fines it as actions “that seek to minimize the likelihood of the need to use force* in a situation
De-escalation
Some hot air balloons can fit up to 30 people in this basket suspended below & carried aloft
Gondola
As well as a kind of vessel, it’s the kitchen area aboard one
Galley
The first part of the name of this super-glam Tokyo shopping district means
“silver”
Ginza
What sword is used to kill jabberwocky in alice and wonderland films, it’s also mentioned in the poem l, begins with V?
Vorpal
The first ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins it’s about three footloose sailors “on the town”
Fancy free
Goes up the “Congo”; hears about “the horror”; questions western civilisation
Charles Marlow
Likes being a sailor or foretop man, depending on the edition, kills Claggart, doesn’t make it to end of story
Billy Budd
In Walden, Thoreau says “the mass of men lead lives of…” this?
Quiet desperation
It’s the vertr hard to get substance that causes humans to set up shop in Pandora
Unobtanium
The curse of Coogans Bluff site of the polo grounds hit this team after it left New York and lingered until the 2010 World Series
San Francisco Giants
The curse of the bambino loomed over this team from 1920 after it traded babe Ruth until 2004 when it finally won. World Series?
Boston Red Sox
In 1751, his Experiments and Observations on Electricity was published
Benjamin Franklin
Lynda Bellingham played the mother of a family that appeared in a series of adverts in the 1980s and ’90s for what brand?
Oxo
With its name derived from a gambling game played on the streets of Naples, which Campanian organised crime syndicate is divided into individual clans that include the Mazzarrella clan and the Secondigliano Alliance?
Camorra
Which infectious disease of the small intestine is also known as ‘the Blue Death’, due to an extreme loss of fluids causing the skin to turn a bluish-grey colour? It is caused by a bacterium in the genus Vibrio.
Cholera
What 2023 Netflix action thriller stars Gabriel Basso as FBI agent Peter Sutherland who finds himself trying to uncover a mole at the top level of the US government?
The Night Agent
What name is given to a Greek dish of lamb marinated with lemon juice and then slow cooked with potatoes?
Kleftiko
‘Money on My Mind’, ‘Stay With Me and Lay Me Down’ are songs on which eight-times platinum 2014 album by Sam Smith?
In the Lonely Hour
16
Jon Anderson was the lead singer of which prog rock band, who released the 1971 album Fragile?
Yes
What name is shared by an autonomous community in Spain and a region of Eastern Europe that straddles the border between Poland and Ukraine?
Galicia
In knitting, what term is used for correcting a mistake a few rows down by ripping out those rows? It is contrasted with tinking or unpicking, which involves undoing the work stitch by stitch.
Frogging
In 1914, who became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry? He did so for his work on determining the atomic weights of a large number of elements.
Theodore William Richards
Which American conceptual artist is particularly noted for her Truisms, a series of one-liners pasted onto walls and buildings around Manhattan? During the 1980s, she began to incorporate LEDs and electronic billboards in her work.
Jenny Holzer
Which German battleship, which was involved in Operation Rheinübung, sank 300 nautical miles west of Brittany on the 27th
May 1941?
Bismarck
What very short word comes before “metal”, in the name of a subgenre of metal music that rose to popularity in the 1990s, exemplified by bands such as Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit?
Nu
Which England player was the top point scorer at the 2022 Women’s Six Nations, repeating a feat she had achieved at the two previous Six Nations tournaments, as well as at the 2021 edition of the Women’s Rugby World Cup?
Emily Scarratt
‘Heaven’, Next To Me and ‘Read All About It, Part 3’ were songs on which eight-times platinum 2012 album by Emeli Sandé?
Our Version of Events
In Greek cuisine, what name is given to a dish of fried meatballs? Their name is derived from that of a similar meatball dish originating in the Middle East.
Keftedes
So-named because of patients’ skin turning pale, the ‘Great White Plague’ is an historic alternative name for which infectious disease, which has been observed in humans throughout history? It is caused by a bacterium in the genus Mycobacterium.
Tuberculosis
Which 2023 Netflix political thriller follows Keri Russell as Kate Wyler, the US ambassador to the UK, as she adjusts to her new role in London alongside her husband played by Rufus Sewell?.
The Diplomat
Come and See, a 1985 Soviet anti war film based on 1971 novel Khatyn and 1977 memoir I am the fiery village was directed by which soviet filmmaker?
Elem Klimov
Who voices Miles Morales in Spider-Man into the spider verse? And Spider-Man across the spider verse.
Shameik Moore
Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan appeared in a series of adverts from 1987 to 1993 as a couple embarking on
The adverts were a campaign for a product made by what brand?
Nescafé Gold Blend
With its name derived from the Greek term for heroism, which organised crime syndicate was founded in Calabria in the 1790s?
A faction of this organisation kidnapped John Paul Getty III in 1973,
‘Ndrangheta
What short word precedes “hop” in the name of a genre of music that originated in the 1990s and fused hip hop with electronica? It was exemplified by Bristol bands such as Massive Attack and Portishead.
Trip
Which British scientist won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, using his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule?
Francis William Aston
As well as co-hosting a number of popular children’s programmes in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Blue Peter and Going Live!, which TV personality starred in the controversial 1992 pseudo-documentary Ghostwatch, which has never been repeated in the UK?
Sarah Greene
A poster bearing the words “Your body is a battleground” is among the best-known works by which American conceptual artist, who designed the poster for a pro-choice rally in 1989? A recurring motif in her works is the use of white block letters on bright red boxes, which later inspired the logo for the fashion company Supreme.
Barbara Kruger
In knitting, what name is given to a piece of yarn or thread that runs through every stitch of one row and is used as a preventive measure that keeps stitches safe in case the knitting needs to be unravelled at a later point?
Safety Line or Lifeline
Geddy Lee was lead singer of which prog rock band who released 1975 album Fly By Night?
Rush
Symbolised G what is simplest amino acid?
Glycine
Recently calling snap election following regional and local elections, which politician is current prime minister of Spain?
Pedro Sanchez
As defined in the public order act of 1986, what minimum number of people are required to constitute a riot?
12
Star Trek, to which humanoid race does the character Quark belong? These humanoids are characterised as being reedy profiteers, as well as being well endowed in the ear department.
Ferengi
The Apostle St Matthias is, at least partially, buried in which German city, the birthplace of Karl Marx?
Trier
In which podcast does Simon Parkin ask guests to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their ver own fictional games machine?
My perfect console
What is the residence of mr rochester in jane Eyre?
Thornfield Hall
Which still-active American indie band, fronted by Conor Oberst, achieved success with albums such as Fevers and Mirrors, and 2005’s I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning?
Bright Eyes
Which bookshop, whose flagship Piccadilly store claims to be the oldest in London, was acquired by Waterstones in the late 1990s? Its only other branch is in St Pancras Station.
Hatchard’s
Founded in 1792 in Norwich, which brand of children’s shoes was granted royal warrants in 1955 and ‘89, although were revoked in 2003 when they moved production out the UK?
Start-Rite
Which French Rugby Union club reached the final of the European Rugby Champions Cup in 2022 and ‘23, winning the cup on both occasions?
La Rochelle
Named after German physicist what is the SI derived unit of magnetic flux?
Weber
Born in Ukraine and considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, which 20th century musician, who became an American citizen, was especially renowned for his interpretation of the works of Franz Liszt?
Vladimir Horowitz
Which Roman historian’s works include the Annals and the Histories, which examined the history of the Empire from the death of Augustus to the death of Domitian?
Tacitus
“The ‘Moonies’ is a nickname for which new religious movement founded in 1954 in South Korea by Sun Myung Moon?
He views himself as the second coming of Christ, and the movement is known for its mass wedding ceremonies.
Unification Church
Whcih American director’s three feature films so far consist of The Witch, The Lighthouse and 2022’s The Northman?
Robert Eggers
Which light hitting shortstop in baseball failed to achieve a batting average of .200 five times in 9 major league seasons and gives name to namesake Line?
Mario Mendoza
The apostle St Thomas is buried in which Indian city?
Chennai
As defined in the public order act of 1986, what minimum number of people are required to constitute violent disorder?
3
What is the name of the mostly villainous Star Trek “collective whose aim is to assimilate other beings into their own? Th character Seven of Nine is one of these, as was, Captain Picard - briefly.
Borg
Dan Quayle first name full
Danforth
Which bookshop chain, founded in Oxford in the late 19th century, was acquired by Waterstones in 2022? It is mostly associated with university textbooks and the proximity of its stores to university hubs.
Blackwell’s
Which still-active American indie band, fronted by Ben Gibbard, achieved success with albums such as Transatlanticism and 2005’s Plans?
Death Cab for Cutie
created by Ubisoft, which podcast takes a dive into the past as inspired by the game Assassin’s Creed?
Echoes of History
Which American director’s three feature films so, far consist of Midsommar, Hereditary, and 2023’s Beau Is Afraid?
Ari Aster
Which Roman historian’s most famous work was The Twelve Caesars, a collective biography of the Empire’s first leaders?
Suetonius
Deer Park, in New York state, is home to which new religious movement founded in China in the early 1990s and banned by the Chinese government just under a decade later? The movement aims to educate audiences around the world with its Shen Yun dance spectacular.
Falun Gong
The British band Starsailor take their name from an album by which American musician who died in 1975 aged 28? His son Jeff was also a musician who would also die tragically young.
Tim Buckley
Which Irish Rugby Union club reached the final of the European Rugby Champions Cup in 2022 and ‘23, but finished runners-up on both occasions?
Leinster
Founded in France in 1970, which youth shoe-brand’s Lo style of shoe is a popular choice amongst British boys at secondary school?
Kickers
Born in Poland and considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, which 20th century musician, who became an American citizen, was especially renowned for his interpretation of the works of Frédéric Chopin?
Arthur Rubenstein
Ella Fitzgerald found success early in her career singing with which jazz drummer and bandleader’s orchestra?
Chick Webb
What name is given to the preserved body of a man discovered in 1984, referencing the name of the Cheshire peat bog in which the discovery was made? He is thought to have died in the Iron Age or Romano-British era.
Lindow Man
Tina turner real first name and born and year
Anna Mae Bullock, 1939, Brownsville Tennessee
Which English actress was wife of playwright Jack Rosenthal? Since 2018 she’s been Evelyn Plummer in coronation street.
Maureen Lipman
Special name given to robe donned by Charles III at coronation shortly after the anointing ceremony for the vesting of the spurs and sword of offering?
The Supertunica
Which Apple TV show won the Best Drama series award at the 2023 TV
BAFTAs? Sharon Horgan starred in this black comedy which was based on the Belgian series
“Clan”. Two word answer
Bad Sisters
13 Saoirse-Menica Jackson
starred in which show that won the Best Scripted
Comedy award at the 2023
BAFTAs? This show, that aired on Channel 4, ended in 2022
Derry Girls
14
At the 2022 Wimbledon
Men’s singles who became the first unseeded man to reach a major final since
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the
2008 Australian Open?
Nick Kyrgios
15 At King Charles’ coronation, the crown atop the Diamond Jubilee State coach was carved from the oak wood of what ship? With 245 years of service as of 2023, she is the world’s oldest naval vessel still in commission.
Hms victory
Chalcopyrite is the principal ore of which metal?
Copper
24 Which BBC sitcom with a cast including Lolly
Adefope, Jim Howick and Simon Farnaby was BAFTA nominated AGAIN in 2023?
Ghosts
25 Which US Golfer from
Florida, a multiple major winner, led the 2023 US
Masters going into the final round but lost out to Jon Rahm? He’d win the
2023 US PGA championship at the Oak
Hill country club about one month later
Brooks Koepka
26 What was the name given to Tina Turner’s backing singers when she was part of the Ike & Tina Turner review?
Ikettes
28 Coming from the Greek for band or fillet, what “D” is a type of crown,
specifically an ornamental headband worn by monarchs?
Diadem
31 What was the shared first name of the two men who came first and second in the 2022 Golf Open
Championship at St
Andrews?
Cameron Smith winner
Cameron Young runner up
36 “Le maître du jeu” is the Quebecois (pronounced kebekwa) version of which
British comedy panel show which was TV BAFTA nominated at the 2023 ceremony?
Taskmaster
38 In the lyrics of “Proud Mary”, Tina Turner sings that she pumped a lot of what down in New Orleans? This 4-letter word is slang for gas/ petrol. Please answer carefully
Tane
40 In September 1963, which country saw Juan Bosch deposed as President by a coup d’état led by the military with civilian support? This country is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area
Dominican Republic
41 “ kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her BLANK BLANK”. What two words are missing from the lyrics of “I kissed a girl”, Katy Perry’s 2008 debut hit? I’m looking for a brand and a flavour
Cherry Chapstick
43 Nicknamed “Bully Boy”, which Englishman won his first World Dart’s championship at the Alexandra Palace in
January 2023?
Michael smith
44 In the lyrics of “Nutbush
City Limits” by lke and Tina Turner, Tina sings that the city of Nutbush can be found on the Highway with which number?
Nineteen
46 Between May and
September 1963, a period
of unrest referred to as the Buddhist Crisis occurred in which country?
The crisis was precipitated by the shootings of nine unarmed civilians who were protesting against a ban of the Buddhist flag.
South Vietnam
47 The form of body modification called Lip plates is still common amongst the Musi and Surna people of which
African country? This country is the most populous landlocked country in the world
Ethiopia
49 Which actress, the former wife of James McAvoy, won the 2023 TV BAFTA for Best Supporting actress for her role as Grace in
Bad Sisters?
Anne Marie Duff
What was Tina Turner’s last UK top 40 hit of the 1980s? Described as
“delightfully risque and as one of her “sexiest” hits? The song begins “) was thinking about parking the other night, we was out on the back road’. Two word answer
Steamy Windows
55 The organisation of the recent coronation was the responsibility of Edward Fitzalan-Howard, the Duke of where?
Norfolk
58 Which British group had recorded “What’s Love got to do with it” a few months before it was released by Tina Turner?
The Dubliner Mike Nolan was a member of this chart-topping pop group
Bucks Fizz
62 The Coronation emblem for the coronation of King Charles III was designed by what man, better known for his work with Apple?
Jony Ive
65 What Australian singer and actor was ‘Bassey’, one of Tina Turner’s character’s henchmen in Mad Max 3? He’s much better known for singing
“Suddenly”, the tune made famous by Scott and Charlene’s wedding in
• Neighbours
Angry Anderson
09 Justin Welby was in office as Archbishop of
Canterbury at King Charles
Ill coronation, but who was Archbishop of Canterbury at Queen Elizabeth Il’s in 1953?
Geoffrey Fisher
71 Siobhán McSweeney won the TV BAFTA for best comedy performance in
2023. What was the first and last name of her nun character in Derry Girls?
This was also the name adopted by the man who had 1980s US number ones including “Monkey” and “Praying for time”
George Michael
73 In 2022 which country endured: an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister Ariel Henry, a flood which led to 2500 people being evacuated and 934 killings related to gang violence in the capital city?
Haiti
74 What is the name of Salt
Bae’s restaurant chain?
Nusr-Et
75 Which high profile and well connected U.S.
Representative lost her
Wyoming seat to the Trump-backed candidate
Harriet Hageman in 2022?
Liz Cheney
80 Luschka’s Crypts can be found in which part of the human body?
Gall Bladder
81 Give any year in the life of Johnathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels
1667-1745
82 Cameron Ford, a spokesperson for Insulate Britain, was left speechless when which
TalkRadio host claimed that concrete could be grown on trees?
Mike Graham
84 Who was the winning jockey in the first Grand
National race back in
1836? A fence which is jumped twice during the race is named in his honour
Captain Martin Becher
Comic opera by Peter Cornelius based on a story in one thousand and one nights, premiere in 1858
The barber of baghdad
Offenbach opera with the cancan bit
Orphee aux enfers (Orpheus in the underworld)
Hungarian composer operas Batori Maria, Hunyadi Laszlo, Bank Ban
Ferenc Erkel
Opera bouffe by Offenbach paradoxes the story of Helen’s elopement with Paris
La belle Helene
1864 opera by Charles Gounod based on epic poem by Frederic Mistral based on Provençal folk tunes
Mireille
French composer most known for operas Mignon 1866 and Hamlet 1868
Ambroise Thomas
Who did The Bartered Bride
Bedrich Smetana
1867 Bizet opera based on a 1828 Walter Scott book
La jolie fille de Perth
La Perichole an opera by Offenbach is set in which country?
Peru
First part of the ring cycle by wagner
Das Rheingold
Second part of the ring cycle by wagner
Die Walkure
Third part of the ring cycle by wagner
Siegfried
In the wagner play Siegfried what is name of dragon that Siegfried slays?
Fafner
Fourth part of the ring cycle by wagner
Gotterdammerung
Name of Cumbria town which hosts annual horse fair
Appleby
best known as the first woman to train a winner of an American Triple Crown race, having conditioned Arcangelo to victory in the 2023 Belmont Stakes
Jena Antonucci
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 four banned breeds uk
Pit Bull Terrier
Japanese Tosa
Dogo Argentino
Fila Brasileiro
Which team based in Texas won the inaugural season of XFL in May 2023?
Arlington Renegades
Found in tide pools and coral reefs of Indian and pacific oceans, what four species of octopus are named after colourful characteristics skin patterns? One of worlds most venomous marine animals.
Blue Ringed Octopus
Consisting of a spherical vessel with a long downward pointing neck, what piece of chemistry equipment is used for distillation with neck acting as a condenser.
Retort
What astronomical objects populate two regions known as the blue cloud and red sequence when plotted onto a colour magnitude diagram similar to hertzsprung-Russell diagram for stars?
Galaxies
Giving some bruises their green colour what bile pigment has a Latin name meaning green bile? Rapidly breaks down into bilirubin or red bile.
Biliverdin
Also known as flying lemur despite its not lemur and can’t fly, six letter name given to south Asian mammal that uses a fur covered membrane called a patagium to glide between trees? Primates are their closest evolutionary relative.
Colugo
What name given to species or population of animals that strictly bound to living in underground habitats such as caves. Species show traits such as blindness, lack of pigmentation and slow metabolism.
Troglobite
In which Central African country would you find the Oklo reactor? Discovered down the Oklo mine it was the site of the only known naturally occuring nuclear fission reactor. Abundances of certain isotopes of uranium and fission products found at the site reveal that at around 1.7 billion years ago a layer of rock rich in uranium ore here was able to undergo nuclear fission whilst being moderated by ground water.
Gabon
Named after German physicist born 1742 who discovered them, what name given to the tree like electrical discharge patterns caused by lightning that exhibit fractal properties?
Lichtenberg Figure
10 How is Sophie Hinchliffe, born in Essex in 1990, better known? Her Instagram account, containing tips on home cleaning brought her fame, and she went on to have several chart-topping book releases around the subject of cleaning as well as her 2020 memoir ‘This Is Me’
Mrs Hinch
13 In January 2023, who was eventually announced as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives after 15 rounds of voting?
Kevin McCarthy
15 Which two player board game created by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 2014 involves players playing on a personal 9x9 game board, using buttons as a currency all with the aim of being to produce the highest scoring quilt?
Patchwork
19 In February 2023, who became the first British woman to be appointed as Head of Science at Nasa?
Nicola Fox
24 First airing in 2021, which American drama series tells the tale of a group of female teenage soccer players involved in a plane crash in 1996?
Yellowjackets
25 In April 2023, who was appointed as the first female director of GCHQ in its 104 year history
Anne Keast-Butler
27 The St Regis Chicago is the tallest skyscraper in the world designed by a woman. Which American architect designed it was well as the Aqua Tower in the same city?
Jeanne Gang
30 Winning Gold for Team GB at the 2020 Summer Olympics in cross-country mountain biking, which cyclist won the iconic Alpes D’Huez solo climb stage of the 2022 Tour De France, becoming the youngest rider ever to do so?
Tom Pidcock
The tallest building within its country, and the sixth tallest in the world, in which Asian Capital city would you find the Lotte World Tower, that was first opened to the public in 2017
Seoul
In 1974, which American model became the first African American to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine? in 2012, she also starred in a reality series titled her “Full House
Beverley Johnson
33 Which Apple TV musical comedy series, is named after the fictional musical town in which the lead characters find themselves in after getting lost on a backpacking trip? The town itself is perpetually tapped in a Golden-Age style musical
Schmigadoon!
Which British model was the first transgender model in the UK for L’Oreal? In 2018, shortly after the release of Channel 4 documentary ‘What Makes a Woman’, she was appointed as LGBT adviser to the Labour Party.
Munroe Bergdorf
35 Which Flemish artist painted ‘The Ugly Duchess’ around 1513, which now hangs in the National Gallery and is said to have been the influence for John Tenniel’s illustration of the Duchess character in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’?
Quintin Matsys
What name for the 2023 Amazon studios mini series based on best selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid?
Daisy Jones and the Six
Which British pop band had their first, and to date only, UK Number one in 2014 with the song ‘Me and My Broken Heart? One member of this band was Jack Roche, the son of actor Shane Richie and singer/presenter Cöllen Nolan.
Rixton
12 The Pilcomayo River forms the majority of the border between Argentina and which other country? Along with two other rivers, this forms one of the largest natural border in the world.
Paraguay
Subtitle of 2023 Luther movie starring idris Elba
The Fallen Sun
17 In February 2022, who was sworn in as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, succeeding Cressida Dick in the role?
Mark Rowley
Name of second largest city in Saudi Arabia behind Riyadh? Commercial capital and second biggest port in Arab world.
Jeddah
20 At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, which American Speed Skater became the first black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in an individual event when she did so in the 500m race?
Erin Jackson
21 Which British Photographer began work at ‘Vanity Fair and ‘Vogue’ magazines in the 1920s, served in the British Ministry of Information during World War II and later won academy awards for his costume design in ‘Gigi’ (1958) and ‘My Fair Lady’ (1965)? He was knighted in 1972
Cecil Beaton
22 What is the two-word name of the social media platform created in 2021 by Trump
Media?
Truth Social
25 Which Roman Road ran for 226 miles from Eboracum (York) to the Antonine Wall? The Kingdom that this Road derived its name from is thought to have taken its name from a River in Yorkshire.
Dere Street
26 Six days after her death in 1885, the painter Jeanette Pickersgill became the first person to legally undergo what? Due to concerns regarding this process, two doctors had to certify that she was dead and the process took 75 minutes to complete.
Cremation
27 Which man who, in 2021, became the first African American elected to the office of New York County District Attorney made news in 2023 as being responsible for bringing criminal charges against Donald Trump?
Alvin Bragg
Which Australian footwear brand, founded in Australia in 1870, supplied boots for Australian troops in the World Wars? These boots gained unexpected attention in 2023 when worn by Gary Linker whilst taking his dog for a walk at the height of his BBC fall-out.
Blundstone Boots
Which Italian Racing Driver was the first woman to race in a Formula One Grand Prix when she competed in the 1958 Belgian Grand Prix?
Maria Teresa De Filippis
31 One of the four main lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals, which lobe, the smallest of the four, is the visual processing area of the brain? It is associated with visuospatial processing, distance and depth perception, face recognition and memory formation and is located in the rear-most part of the brain
Occipital Lobe
32 Which Germany physicist coined the term ‘black-body radiation’ in 1862? In addition to this, his first circuit law states that ‘the algebraic sum of currents in a network of conductors meeting at a point is zero’ and his name features in the title of an award for Spectroscopy named after him and Robert Bunsen
Gustav Kirchhoff
33 What is the name of the largest verified impact structure on Earth that is located near its namesake town in South Africa?
Vredefort
Despite having received no professional cookery training. which Northern Irish an launched the ‘Bored of Lunch’ social media channels during Lockdown? The fame gained from the 40m followers he earned has lead to a series of best selling sokbooks under the ‘Bored of Lunch’ banner including ‘The Healthy Slow Cooker book’ and ‘The Healthy Air Fryer book’
Nathan Anthony
The UK’s longest direct train journey is 774 miles long, takes over 13 hours and runs once a week to Penzance in Cornwall, originating in which city?
Aberdeen
What type of creature was Otis a puppet presenter on bbc who as on weakest link and children in need?
Aardvark
The world’s shortest funicular railway is the Fisherman’s Walk Cliff Lift in which seaside town?
Bournemouth
15 Since 2010 onwards, Team England have used the hymn “Jerusalem” as their victory anthem at The Commonwealth Games, replacing which patriotic song after a public vote?
Land of Hope and Glory
17 A stretch of Tennessee State Route 19, immortalised with the song lyric
“A church house, gin house, A school house, outhouse, On Highway Number Nineteen, The people keep the city clean” is named after which rock singer, sometimes known as “The Queen of Rock and Roll”?
Tina Turner
19 What name is given to mature peas that have been allowed to dry out naturally in the field, rather than being harvested while still young, often used to make mushy peas?
Marrowfat
The original Royal Oak was in the grounds of Boscobel House, where
Charles hid after losing The Battle of Worcester in 1651. Which county is
Boscobel in?
Shropshire
24 In which National Park is The Knightwood Oak, also known as the Queen of the Forest, which is over 500 years old and has a girth of over
24 ft?
New Forest
25 The two main species of oak in the UK are the English Oak, Quercus Robur, the pedunculate oak and the Irish Oak, Quercus Petraea, the sessile oak. What does pedunculate mean?
Having a stalk
26 It is thought that in the UK, one species buries up to 4 million acorns a year, making this animal the principal propagator of oak trees. Which one?
The Jay
29 May is also celebrated annually as Founders Day at which West
London charitable institution, founded by Charles II in 1682?
Royal Hospital, Chelsea
29 According to the Woodland Trust, how old does an oak tree need to be before it is defined as “ancient”?
400 years
37 Can you name one of three US states which are adjacent and begin with the same letter?
Indiana, Illinois or Iowa
The most populous state in India was known as United Provinces under the Raj; preserving the acronym, what is it now called?
Uttar Pradesh
40 Which name is shared by a US President, the first British Asian to play in the Premier League, and the actor who played Charles Carson in Downton Abbey?
Jimmy/James Carter
17
Which traditional meat and vegetable dish is known as the
National Soup of Scotland?
Cock a Leekie Soup
18
Which US government agency was founded in 1908 by
Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte?
FBI
Who wrote Queens Gambit?
Walter Tevis
24 In 2007, Peter Gilchrist set a world record highest break of
1,346 in which sport?
Billiards
26 Which Australian city is known as ‘The Emerald City’?
Sydney
31 Which UK Conservative prime minister served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards during World War 1?
Harold Macmillan
35 The popular street food kapsalon, consisting of French fries. and doner meat topped with melted cheese, originated in which country?
Netherlands
37 Alpine skier Janica Kostelid has won four Olympic gold medals for which country?
Croatia
42 Which ancient Olympic combat event, a mixture of boxing and wrestling, derived its name from the Greek for “all powers”?
Pankration
44 Which U.S. secretary of state coined the term “brinkmanship” in 19567
John Foster Dulles
45 Which French dish from the Aubrac region is prepared using mashed potatoes, cream, and cheese?
Aligot
46 The manat, subdivided into 100 tenge, is the currency of which country?
Turkmenistan
48 The monthly fashion magazine Fucsia is based in which South
American country?
Colombia
Female independent filmmaker with films such as Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, Queen of Diamonds, The Bloody Child, The Great Sadness of Zohara, Magdalena Viraga.
Nina Menkes
1940 Rome director known as Master of the Thrill and Master of Horror with films like Suspiria 1977, Deep Red 1975, Inferno 1980, Dark Glasses 2022, Tenebrae 1982.
Dario Argento
Who was last ever winner of X Factor?
Dalton Harris
Which percussion instrument whose name comes from Tupi language of Brazil is Bez from The Happy Mondays famous for playing?
Maracas
Ancient Rome, a seiugis was a chariot drawn by how many horses?
Six
400 acre Barley Barber Swamp located in which US state?
Florida
What is studied by a pomologist?
Fruit
Which Cagney & Lacey character was played by Tyne Daly?
Mary Beth Lacey
Who formed a duo with Daryl Hall on the 1982 hit single Maneater?
John Oates
NATO gen sec Jens Stoltenberg is former PM of which country?
Norway
In standard archery target, what colour is outermost ring?
White
Canoeist Lisa Carrington has won five Olympic gold medals for which country?
New Zealand
31 What bird completes the title of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting The ______ on the Gallows?
Magpie
35 Pointe-Noire is the second-largest city and principal port of which African country?
Republic of Congo
Kimono My House was the 1974 breakthrough album by which American pop duo?
Sparks
39 Which American salad typically consists of rows of bacon, chicken, eggs, and avocado?
Cobb salad
Which king of France is memorialised in the equestrian statue over the entrance of the Basilica of Sacré Coeur in Paris?
Louis IX
Which South American city was founded by the Spanish conquistador
Francisco Pizarro in 1535?
Lima
At which London hospital are the Florence Nightingale Museum and the memorial statue of Mary Seacole?
St Thomas’ Hospital
Which Czech chef wrote the memoir A Treasury of White House Cooking after working as executive chef for President Eisenhower?
Francois Rysavy
In which Australlan state can you visit the Burke and Wills Dig Tree near
Cooper Creek?
Queensland
Which indoor ball game takes its name from the Basque for “merry festival”?
Jai Alai
Which short story by Kurt Vonnegut refers to the telephone number for the Federal Bureau of Termination?
2BR02B
Which French pop star was the subject of the 2012 biopic Cloclo?
Claude Francois
In data storage terminology, what does the acronym RAID stand for?
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
In Jaques Original Happy Families card game, what is name of the carpenter?
Mr Chip
accountant who just broke 10 secs (9.93) to become 4th fastest UK male 100m sprinter
Eugene Amo-Dadzie
100m sprinter who broke British record in June 2023
Zharnel Hughes
100m 9.93m time British accountant June 2023
Eugene Amo-Dadzie
Who is The head of the Wagner group will leave for Belarus and charges against his mercenaries will be dropped following their rebellion
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Who was captain when her team won the inaugural 1973 Women’s Cricket World Cup, which England hosted? Captain of England 1966-78. First female to hit a six in a test match.
Rachel Heyhoe Flint
Belgian shot putter who ran hurdles at European team championships in 2023 June?
Jolien Boumkwo
Elon Musk replaced as Twitter ceo in June 2023 by which woman?
Linda Yaccarino
Jez and Andy Williams and Jimi Goodwin formed which dance band before forming Doves?
Sub Sub
Which name connects the UK’s largest manufacturer of touring caravans based in Hull, a model of supermini which has been on the market since 1983, and a breed of bird whose lifetime migratory travels are thought to be equivalent to the moon and back five times?
Swift
Which brand name connects the best-selling range of ignition products (firelighters to you and me) in the UK, and an archive file format that supports lossless data compression?
Zip
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What is unusual about the infantry regiment The Atholl Highlanders?
Europes only private army
14 In 1825, Michael Faraday instituted Christmas Lectures which have taken place every year since (apart from 1939 to 1942) at which London organisation based in Albemarle Street?
Royal Institution
15 Which country, whose current national flag of plain white with Arabic script in black was adopted in 2021, has used about 19 different national flags since 1919, more than any other country?
Afghanistan
Word used for improvised verses in welsh sung to the accompaniment of a harp especially in contest at an eisteddford?
Penillion
Which country in world legalised recreational cannabis second in all time after Uruguay did it in 2013? Doing so in July 2018.
Georgia (SA and Canada third and fourth)
34 If there were green alligators and long-necked geese, Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees, Some cats and rats and elephants … which animal was the loveliest of all?
The Unicorn
35 Which word connects the home of Canada’s most prestigious horse race, the King’s Plate, a brand of cigarettes launched in 1888 and discontinued in 1988 and a Shakespearian nickname for honeysuckle?
Woodbine
On which date is Fibonacci Day celebrated?
11/23 23rd November
38 The 2021 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture entitled “Going Viral: How
COVID Changed Science For Ever” was given by which former Deputy
Chief Medical Officer for England?
Jonathan Van Tam
Conrad and Bean piloted which Apollo 12 lunar lander to moon?
Intrepid
Apollo 14 lunar lander name?
Antares
Apollo 15 lunar lander piloted by Scott and Irwin?
Falcon (Eagle, Intrepid, Antares, Falcon)
Found at midoceanic ridges, volcanically active areas and hotspots, what name given to geothermal fissures found on ocean floor that are capable of producing black and white smokers?
Hydrothermal Vents
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On a circuit board diagram what can be represented by a circle containing an X?
Bulb
The positions of what relatively low temperature features on the surface of the Sun, plotted over time results in a so-called Butterfly Diagram? Through an 11 year cycle these features first form at high latitudes, and then move towards the Sun’s equator.
Sunspots
What ‘O’ is the name given to the specialised subunits of a cell that has a specific function?
Organelle
Which Atlantic whitefish consumed as an alternative to Cod and Haddock was briefly rebranded as ‘Colin’ in the UK by Sainsbury’s supermarket in 2009, in a bid to boost its sales?
Pollock
10 Known as chambeli in the country, what is the national flower of Pakistan? This climbing plant of the olive family is known for its intensely fragrant white flowers.
Jasmine
What name is given to galaxies that are denoted as ‘So’ galaxies in the Hubble tuning fork diagram? These are an intermediate type of galaxy which have both spiral arms as found in spiral galaxies (denoted Sa, sb, Sc, Sd galaxies) and a large central bulge that resemble elliptical galaxies (denoted EO-E9).
Lenticular Galaxies
13 Formed by dropping molten glass into water and named after the Royalist commander of the cavalry during the English Civil War. What hardened tadpole shaped droplets of glass were once a scientific curiosity, being able to withstand a high impact (such as hammer blow) at the bulbous end whilst explosively shattering with minimum effort if pinched at the tail end?
Prince Rupert Drops
16 Now illegal to collect due to it being mildly radioactive. What usually green, glassy man-made mineral takes it name and was produced by the first nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico?
Trinitite
17 Which critically endangered antelope of the Russian steppe can be seen below? Its bloated nose warms cold air in winter and filters out dust in hot summers. In recent times, their population has been known to swing rapidly from hunting and disease, with their numbers dropping from ~2 million in 1950 to ~21,000 in 2000, and recovering back up to ~1.3 million in 2022.
Saiga
Found in lighthouses across the World and said to be the “invention that saved a million ships”. Which French physicist (1788 - 1827) invented the Catadioptric (reflective/refractive) lens?
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Not an Arctic Tern, which is known to stop for rest during its migration. Tracked with GPS and with tag number “234684”, a juvenile of which species of wading bird flew from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania in 2022 without stopping for food or rest? This is the longest non-stop flight of 13,560 kilometres (8,435 miles) known for a bird. The wading bird’s name in English derives from it’s call and is genus Limosa means ‘Mud’ in Latin.
Bar-Tailed Godwit
Bolton born actress known for her roles as Twinkle in the BBC One sitcom dinnerladies (1998–2000), Veronica Ball in the hit Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless (2004–2007), Martha Costello in the BBC One legal drama Silk (2011–2014)
Maxine Peake
Who played Julia Child in 2022 tv show Julia?
Sarah Lancashire
Which Lytham-raised comedienne and actress won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1995? She has appeared in TV’s Grumpy Old Women and Loose Women among many other TV shows.
Jenny Eclair
roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks
James Bolam
Who did John Smith beat in the 1992 Labour Party leadership election? His brother popularised Sudoku in the west and got Time most influential 2006.
Bryan Gould
Who did John Major beat in 1995 Conservative Party leadership election?
John Redwood
Who did Maggie thatcher beat in 1989 landslide victory leadership election?
Sir Anthony Meyer
Which 6ft 6in tall Argentinian was the only man outside of the Big 3 (Djokovic, Nadal, Federer) to win a major between the 2005 French Open and the 2012 US Open, a span of 30 tournaments?
Juan Martin Del Potro
Born in Lausanne, which Tennis star, still in the Top 100 at the time of writing, has won three Grand slam titles, defeating the then world no 1 in the final on each occasion?
Stan Wawrinka
Which Czech former Tennis player defeated both Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on his way to the 2010 Wimbledon final? This man took part in the longest ATP doubles match ever
Tomas Berdych
In 2007 which Argentinian defeated Nadal, Federer and Djokovic in consecutive rounds on his way to winning the Madrid Masters? After his Tennis retirement this man became a rally driver and competed in the World Rally Championship
David Nalbandian
“Highway to Hell’, AC/DC’s only top ten hit in the UK, was produced by what man? This man, the former husband of Shania Twain, is known by a canine nickname
Mutt Lange
The 1980 AC/DC hit “Back in Black” was written by Brian Johnson in tribute to which man? Johnson had replaced this man in the band following his death earlier that year
Bon Scott
in the 1991 movie “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”, when Alan Rickman was the sheriff of Nottingham, which actress played Maid Marian? Elsewhere this woman was Al Pacino’s sister in Scarface and Oscar nominated for her role in.
“The Color of Money”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Who starred opposite Alan Rickman in the 1990 Anthony Minghella-directed movie “Truly, madly, deeply”? Her stage and screen career has seen her win an Olivier award as well as being nominated for BAFTAs and an Emmy
Juliet Stevenson
In the 1996 movie “Michael Collins”, when Alan Rickman played Eamon De Valera, which actress was Kitty Kiernan? This woman broke up with Kiefer Sutherland 3 days before the date of their wedding in 1991
Julia Roberts
In the 1988 movie Die Hard, Alan Rickman played Hans Gruber, but which woman played “Holly”, the estranged wife of John McLane? In real life this woman is the aunt of Macaulay and Kieran Culkin
Bonnie Bedelia
Andy Hamilton voices Captain Squid in which British pre-school animated series? This series, which features elves and fairies, shares a large portion of its voice cast with Peppa Pig
Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom
Taking it’s title from a name for the devil, what was the name of the Andy Hamilton sitcom which ran on Radio 4 between 1995 and 2012?
Annette Crosbie and Felicity Montagu also appeared in this show set in
Hell. 3-word answer
Old Harry’s Game
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Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkins worked together again to write which
BBC sitcom of 2007 to 2014 which saw Claire Skinner BAFTA nominated?
Outnumbered
16 In the first series of Man V Food, Adam Richman visited which famous New York restaurant located at 205 East Houston Street in Manhattan?
Since its founding, this restaurant has been popular among locals and tourists alike for its pastrami on rye, which is considered among New York’s best.
Katz’s Deli
18 A 2010 Super Bowl special brought the Man V Food team to Miami. Whilst there Adam Richman took on a steak eating challenge set by which man, the head coach of the Miami Dolphins between 1970 and 1995?
Don Shula
19 What show won “Best New Musical” at the 2023 Olivier Awards? With music and lyrics written by Richard Hawley of Pulp, this musical tells the story of three families living in Sheffield
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
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What is the six-letter name of the character played by the US entertainer
Stevin John, who was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2023? Known for wearing blue and orange colours and for having child-like enthusiasm, this character has almost 20 million YouTube subscribers
Blippi
24 Pete Andre’s career really got going when he was a contestant on the Australian version of what show? The British version had been hosted by Derek Hobson in the 70s and Marti Caine in the 80s
New Faces
What was name of Peter Andre first uk number one single reaching the top in 1996? This 5-letter word might put you in mind of William Drayton Ir of the band “Public Enemy”
Flava
26 What was the name of the David Brent movie of 2016? As Brent’s music career fails, his band members leave to join up with Peter Andre. 4-word
answer
Life on the Road
What was the surname of Ron Perlman’s and Katey Sagal’s characters in the series “Sons of Anarchy”? This was also the adopted surname of the actor born Victor Morozoff, who died in a similar manner to Katey Sagal’s father, Boris
Morrow
Ron Perlman has long been associated with which video game series, where he has acted as a narrator? This post-apocalyptic series, originally developed by Black Isle studios, is set in the 21st century and beyond but has artwork influenced by the USA of the 1950s
Fallout
32 What was the name of the group who reached out to Gareth Malone after his success with “The Choir”? Their true story was later made into a movie starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan
The Military Wives
Which Australian group, a psychadelic rock project led by Kevin Parker, have contributed the song “journey to the real world” to the 2023 Barbie movie soundtrack? They’ve had two UK top 5 albums to date, “Currents” and “The Slow Rush”. Two word answer
Tame Impala
Australian rapper and singer songwriter has song Forever & Again on Barbie 2023 soundtrack?
The Kid Laroi
South Korean girl group formed in 2022 has song Barbie Dreams on Barbie 2023 soundtrack?
Fifty Fifty
American singer who goes by middle name with full name Taylor Rutherfurd
Gayle
American singer with song Hey Blondie on 2023 barbie soundtrack? Debut album What could possibly go wrong. In 2022 cast member of euphoria as Elliot.
Dominic Fike
Who created Euphoria and also known for 2023 The Idol?
Sam Levinson
Which old Grey Anatomy’s actor (Dr Mark Sloan) plays Cal Jacobs in Euphoria?
Eric Dane
Jules Vaughn on euphoria played by which American model, actress and lgbtq rights activist? Campaigned against North Carolina anti lgbt legislation HB2.
Hunter Schafer
39 Which Irish actor, previously known for playing Julius Caesar in Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, was Oscar nominated in 2022 for his part in “Belfast”?
Ciaran Hinds
41 Who is South Africa’s highest ever wicket taker? This fast bowler was nicknamed the “(his name) gun” and played internationally between 2004 and 2020
Dale STEYN
Who is currently the only West Indian player to appear on the list of men who have taken over 500 test wickets in Cricket? Indeed he was the first bowler to reach the 500 mark. For many years he had an opening bowling partnership with Curtly Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
With 619 to his name, who is the top Indian on the list of the top Test cricket wicket takers of all time? In 1999 while playing against Pakistan, he dismissed all ten batsmen in a Test match innings, joining England’s Jim Laker as the second player to achieve the feat
Anil Kumble
48 “Temptation” and “Come live with me” were songs on the 1983 album
“The Luxury Gap”. This was the best-selling studio album for which
Sheffield band?
Heaven 17
What was the alliterative name of the Ivor Wood-created character in a stop animination show of 1987? Michael Williams provided the voice of this joyful clown character
Charlie Chalk
51 In one of his last roles, which man provided his voice talent for the 1986 Ivor Wood show “Bertha”? This man, who also voiced Pipkin in Watership Down, died in Spain in 1988 after falling from a horse
Roy Kinnear
Traditional name for 20th wedding anniversary gift?
Porcelain / China
Traditional gift for tenth wedding anniversary? Also in band name whose biggest hits Here’s where the story ends (1998) and What I am (1999).
Tin (Tin Tin Out)
Alongside many other alternative comedians, Alexai Sayle made his name as the MC at which London club, originally located at 69 Dean Street, Soho?
The Comedy Store
“How ya diddlin” was the catchphrase of which Scouse comedian warmup character played by Alexai Sayle?
Bobby Chariot
Which comedy actor joined Alexai Sayle in “At last the 1981 show”? This man is best known for his portrayal of Holly, the ship’s computer in Red dwarf, and he shares his surname with a character in Sweeney Todd
Norman Lovett
Alexai Sayle was a guest star in a 2022 episode of which sitcom starring
Diane Morgan? One word, five letter answer
Mandy
The success of the first two films. in what series inspired an ABC sitcom called Baby Talk, which aired from 1991 to 1992, and featured Tony Danza as the voice of “Baby Mickey”?
Look Who’s Talking
Which NBA star had a cameo in “Look who’s talking now”, the third and final movie in the series? This man, nicknamed “the round mound of rebound” had been part of the 1992 Olympics “Dream Team” and was with the Phoenix Suns at the time of this film’s release in 1993
Charles Barkley
67 Which woman had the uncredited part of Baby Julie in “Look who’s talking”? Also during the 1980s this woman was “Dot Matrix” in Spaceballs.
Joan Rivers
68 Yogi Bear and Boo Boo first appeared as a segment in which other Hanna Barbera show? Two word answer
Huckleberry Hound
In the world of video games, by what one word name is Miles Prower better known? This two-tailed fox first appeared in 1992 in the game Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as a sidekick to the title character
Tails
Longyearbyen is the world’s most northern settlement with a population of over 1,000 and can be found on which island? This island is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago
Spitsbergen
Matthew McConaughey voices the title character in which 2023 animated Netflix show in which a legendary popstar “trades in his jumpsuit for a jetpack when he joins a secret government spy agency”?
Agent Elvis
‘Fathers and Sons’ (1862) is one of the most notable works of which Russian novelist who also wrote ‘A Month in the Country and the short story collection ‘A
Sportsman’s Sketches’?
Ivan Turgenev
27 Which English DJ had his only UK Number one single to date in 2015 with the track “House Every Weekend”? His name differs from that of a famous British music legend by just one letter
David Zowie
28 Which 1931 Charlie Chaplin film marked the first time Chaplin himself composed A the film score to one of his own productions? He lost a lawsuit for not crediting Jose Padilla for his use of the song La Violetera (Who’ll buy my Violets)
City Lights
29 Considered to be the national opera of Denmark ‘Maskarade’ is a work by which composer (1865-1931)? He also wrote six Symphonies, the last of which was entitled ‘Sinfonia Semplice’
Carl Nielsen
In April 2023, which company purchased the WWE for around $9 billion? The company in question, having already owned UFC, intends to merge the two and list on stock exchanges under the initials TKO
Endeavour (TKO Holdings)
Which Irish racehorse trainer is the most successful trainer in the history of the Cheltenham Festival with 94 winners? This includes three wins in the Gold Cup, including a double for Al Boum Photo and the 2023 winner Galopin Des Champs
Willie Mullins
33 What name is given to the dream that Sigmund Freud had on a night in July
1895, that after analysis led him to arrive at his theory that dreams are wish fulfilments? The dream featured a patient he had been treating that year and her unwillingness to accept a treatment solution
Irma’s Injection
34 What name is given to the impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico estimated to be around 110 miles in diameter? It is the second largest confirmed impact structure on earth and is widely accepted as causing the Cretaceous- Paleogene extinction event around 66 million years ago
Chicxulub Crater
9 In May 2023, it was the announced the UK was seeking to extend the ban on the trade of Ivory (The Ivory Act 2018), not just from Elephants. But Ivory from Narwhals, Killer Whales, Sperm Whales, Walruses and which other African land animal?
Hippo (teeth)
15 Beginning with ‘L’. What name is given to the partial loss of pigmentation in animals causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles? Unlike Albinism however the eyes are unaffected.
Leucism
3 Which process beginning with ‘B’, is a chemical process of producing synthetic fuel from bituminous coal? It is named after the winner of the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1931, who won it with fellow German Carl Bosch for high pressure chemistry.
Bergius Process
The perihelion precession of the orbit of which planet in our solar system was one of Albert Einstein’s classical tests of general relativity he proposed in 1915? This planet’s observed orbit was discrepant with those predicted by Newtonian mechanics, but not with general relativity.
Mercury
Named after French mathematician born 1809, whose namesake theorem states that every bounded entire function must be constant?
Liouville’s Theorem
event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances
Dyatlov Pass incident
Who wrote Last temptation of Christ and zorba the Greek?
Niko’s kazantzakis
French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Considered one of the greatest basketball prospects of his generation, he was selected first overall by the Spurs in the 2023 NBA draft
Victor Wembanyama
What was Joe Biden first wife’s Name died in car crash 1972 with daughter Naomi
Neilia
What is the name of the process in which a body of water becomes progressively enriched with nutrients and minerals, which may lead to excessive plant growth and harmful algal blooms?
Eutrophication
The end of which song by Bill Withers features a note held for 18 seconds and the title phrase being repeated 68 times?
Lovely Day
One of the “Big Five’ supermodels who appeared in George Michael’s ‘Freedom! ‘90’ music video, which German model, animal rights and ecological campaigner died in January 2023?
Tatjana Patitz
In 1856, former US President Millard Fillmore stood unsuccessfully for the office again as a candidate for which party that arose in response to a perceived overwhelming influx of Catholics from Ireland and Germany?
Know Nothings
Which comedian is a regular on the late-night chat show The Last Leg, along with Josh Widdicombe and host Adam Hills?
Hills describes the show as “three guys with four legs talking about the week”, as both Hills and this comedian use prosthetic right legs
Alex Brooker
Which popular antiseptic cream brand, sold in blue-and-white packaging, derives its name in part from its original ICI manufacturing site near the mouth of the river Avon?
Savlon
In 2017, which American boxer beat Julius Indongo to become undisputed light welterweight champion? Currently ranked as the best pound-for-pound boxer by ESPN, he has since become WBO welterweight champion and has recorded wins against Amir Khan, Kell Brook and Shawn Porter
Terence Crawford
Following her gold medals in the team pursuit and the omnium at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, Laura Kenny won her most recent gold medal in which cycling discipline at the 2020 games?
Madison
Which Austrian psychotherapist wrote the work The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology, in which he posits that factors such as birth order influence personality development?
Alfred Adler
In 1848, former US President Martin van Buren stood unsuccessfully for the office again as a candidate for which party that was formed to oppose the expansion of slavery into the western territories?
Free Soil Party
The third verse of which song by Bill Withers consists of the words “I know” repeated 26 times?
Ain’t No Sunshine
Also appearing in George Michael’s Freedom! ‘90’ music video, which American supermodel became an advocate for global maternal health? In 2014, she and her actor husband Ed Burns fronted a campaign for Calvin Klein’s Eternity, 25 years after she first promoted that brand.
Christy Turlington
Which short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1864, is presented as an excerpt from the memoir of
2a an unnamed narrator, who outlines his nihilistic and alienated worldview and recounts past events to support it anecdotally?
Notes from Underground
What name is given to the process where a series of secondary extinctions are triggered by the extinction of key species in an ecosystem? This often occurs following the loss of the top predator, allowing the prey species to overexploit their food resources.
Cascade Effect
The radical Arthur Thistlewood was the central conspirator in which famous plot of 1820?
Cato Street Conspiracy
Which English merchant introduced the printing press into England in 1476?
William Caxton
Which Austrian psychiatrist’s 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning describes his experiences as a prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp as well as introducing his theory of logotherapy?
Viktor Frankl
Cancelled after two seasons by Netflix, what cyberpunk series was set more than 300 years into a future where a person’s consciousness is stored on disc and can be placed in new bodies? The main character, Takeshi Kovacs, was played by Joel Kinnaman in the first series and then Anthony Mackie in the second.
Altered Carbon
Following her gold medal in the sprint at the 2008 Olympics, Victoria Pendleton won her second gold medal in which cycling discipline at the 2012 games?
Keirin
Which American boxer defeated Kell Brook at Bramall Lane in 2017 to win the IBF welterweight title? He will fight a unification bout against Terence Crawford in July.
Errol Spence Jr
With a distinctive pink coloration and scented with oil of wintergreen, which antiseptic ointment formulated in 1925 was originally marketed by Bayer? The antiseptic cream is sold in blue, pink and white packaging.
Germolene
The same night that Benny Goodman played Carnegie Hall, the Savoy Ballroom hosted a battle of the bands that saw Ella Fitzgerald and the Chick Webb Orchestra defeat Billie Holliday and the orchestra led by which pianist and bandleader? This pianist formed his band in Kansas City and wrote ‘One O’Clock Jump’.
Count Basie
Which retired judge and crossbench peer is chairing the inquiry into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Heather Hallett
Jacobs manufactures which wholewheat snack that are coated in yeast extract and have a “distinctive knobbly shape”?
Twiglets
In 2022, which baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees broke Roger Maris’ 61-year-old record for most home runs in a single season of the American League?
Aaron Judge
For his influence in the area of advanced computer programming techniques and compiler construction, who in 1966 became the first winner of the Turing Award?
Alan Perlis
The 1993 World Darts Championship was the last tournament before the Professional Darts Corporation and British Darts Organisation split to set up separate World Championships? Which player won this last unified championship beating Alan Warriner 6-3 in the final to win his third and final World Championship?
John Lowe
Jessika Carr, Chad Patton, Charles Robinson and Daphanie LaShaunn all currently work for the WWE in what capacity?
A job formerly carried out by Earl Hebner and Joey Marella.
Referee
За
The Horsehead Nebula can be found in which constellation just south of the Alnitak star system?
Orion
Steps second single and first top ten hit Last Thing on my Mind was a cover version of a song originally recorded by which band?
Bananarama
Which city gives its name to the style of pizza where the cheese is spread to the edge which then caramelises against the high-sided heavyweight rectangular pan which it’s cooked in to give it a lacey crispy edge?
Detroit
In existence from 1974 to April 2023, what was the name of the non-Metropolitan district in the West of North Yorkshire on the Lancashire border, which had the town of Skipton as the location of its administrative headquarters?
Craven
Due to the numerous tensions throughout his reign, the French King Louis X was given what epithet?
The Quarrelsome
The TV shows Dad’s Army, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Hi Di Hi and You Rang M’°Lord were all created by which pair of writers?
Both names are required.
Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Which footballer in his 274 league games for middlesborough and Sunderland between 1955 and 1965 scoring 251 goals, only two caps for England? Much more known for managerial career.
Brian Clough
Which Booker Prize winner author’s first published novel was the 1982 novel Union Street?
Pat Barker
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Which Arnold Schwarzenegger film is an adaptation of the French comedy film La Totale?
True Lies
In Japanese culture Geta are traditionally worn on what part of the body?
Feet
In existence from 1974 to April 2023, what was the name of the non-Metropolitan district in the centre of North Yorkshire, which had Northallerton as the location of its administrative headquarters?
Hambleton
The TV series The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen Pet were all written by which pair of writers? Both names are required
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
What is surname of Shakira?
Ripoli
For his invention of Ethernet, who won the Turing Prize in 2022?
Robert Metcalfe
The 1989 World Darts Championship was the first championship where the drinking of alcohol on stage was banned. Who won the competition that year to win his second and final world title? His form however noticeably dipped after the tournament due to no longer being able to drink on stage to calm his nerves.
Jocky Wilson
Which Booker Prize winner author’s first published novel was the 1969 novel The Edible Woman?
Margaret Atwood
Which footballer after being the top goal scorer in Scottish Division One in the 1965-66 season transferred to Rangers in what was then a record fee for a Scottish player? Despite this, he is much better remembered for his managerial career.
Alex Ferguson
In Isaac Newton’s second law of motion. When a body is acted upon by a force, the force will equal the time rate of the change of its what? This is measured using Kilogram metres per second.
Momentum
Alicia Taylor, Samantha Irvin and Mike Rome all currently work for the WWE in what capacity? A job formerly carried out by Howard Finkel and Lillian Garcia?
Ring Announcer
Joan Jett and The Blackheart’s highest charting single I Love Rock and Roll was a cover version of a song originally recorded by which band?
Arrows
Which city gives its name to the style of pizza which has a thin cracker style crust made without yeast which is then cut into squares or rectangles rather than wedges?
St Louis
Who voiced Bob the Builder in the 2015 reboot replacing Neil Morrisey?
Lee Ingleby
Currently playing in Ligue 1, which French football team when they hired Corinne Diacre in 2014, became the first men’s professional team to have a female manager?
Clermont
Which woman is caretaker manager of League 2 Forest Green Rovers in July 2023?
Hannah Dingley
What Irish county is blarney castle?
County Cork
During the 1970’s, The Wurzels had a number of successful ‘Scrumpy and Western’ themed covers of popular songs. One of these was in 1976 with the Number 1 hit ‘Combine Harvester’, which was a cover of 1971’s ‘Brand New Key’ released by which artist?
Melanie (Safka)
Name either of the recipients of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine. They won for their work in discovering insulin as well as its potential for treatment of Type 1 Diabetes. Other men, Charles Best and James Collip, also contributed significantly so had the prize money shared with them by the recipients.
Frederick Banting
John Macleod
What was the name of one of the first major Darts tournaments which ran from 1927 to 1997? First set up by a popular newspaper, the tournament was open to all and it was known for its gruelling best of 3 format. It was one of the first televised darts events, shown on ITV.
The News of the World Championship
‘What’s up slappers?” is the common opening tagline for which Italian music YouTuber? Known for his bass guitar content ant deadpan comedy, at the time of writing he has 12.9 million subscribers.
Davie 504
Who was the first man to run 100m in less than 10 seconds? This American achieved this at the 1968 US Championships when he recorded a hand-timed 9.9 seconds before winning gold at the 1968 Olympics, where an electronic timer in Mexico City recorded him at 9.95. He sadly passed away last week at the age of 76.
Jim Hines
Prior to the introduction of the Billboard Hot 100, which song spent the most weeks at number one on the Billboard singles charts?
Spending 13 weeks at the top in 1950, this song was released by Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers and is a cover of a classic Lead Belly song released in 1933.
Goodnight Irene
In computer programming, which loop is commonly used for executing a block of code repeatedly for a specific number of times or until a certain condition is met?
For Loop
What is a traditional dish of the Philippines, which is a savory stew made with tender chunks of meat, vegetables, and a flavorful broth thickened with peanut sauce?
Kare-Kare
The Canadian slang term ‘hoser’, popularised by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, is often used to refer to someone with little intelligence or education in the same vein as an American Hillbilly. An example of this stereotype can be seen in the characters of which long running Canadian Mockumentary series following the lives of petty criminals Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles?
Trailer Park Boys
In 2014, which artwork by Georgia O’Keefe sold for $44.4m making her the most expensive female artist?
Jimson Weed/white flower no. 1
What is the largest lake located completely inside Canada? It is located in the Northwest Territories.
Great Bear Lake
Located in the wild in Africa and the Middle East, what name is given to the small, thickset herbivorous mammals which look similar to pikas and marmots but are described as being the closing living relative of the elephant?
Hyrax
Revolution, All in and The Streets are entries in which film franchise?
Step Up
In November 2021, which art work by Frida Kahlo sold for $34.9m making it the second most expensive work by a female artist? The painting depicts Kahlo herself with another person’s face superimposed onto her forehead.
Diego Y Yo
What was the lararium in a Roman home?
Religious Shrine
In computer programming, which loop is commonly used for repeatedly executing a block of code as long as a specified condition remains true?
While Loop
In which TV series with the subtitle A Woman Scorned did Suranne Jones play the title character between 2015 and 2017?
Doctor Foster
What is the traditional Filipino dessert made with sweetened bananas, jackfruit, sweet beans, shaved ice, and topped with evaporated milk and various sweet toppings?
Halo-Halo
Which member of The Weavers went on to have solo success as a prominent song-writer and a social activist despite being blacklisted?
Writing songs such as ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone? and ‘If I Had a Hammer’, he was deeply involved in protests regarding worker’s rights and Civil rights. He performed at Obama’s Inauguration and died in 2014 aged 94.
Pete Seeger
Jim Hines’ 100m record lasted 13 years until it was broken by which American runner? He ran the 100m in 9.93 seconds at the US Olympic Festival at Colorado Springs in 1983. In that same year he won gold in the 200m and 4x100m relay at the inaugural Athletics World Championship and won gold in the 4×100m relay at the 1984 Olympics.
Calvin Smith
In the context of metabolism and insulin signalling, what is the term used to describe the process of converting excess glucose into fatty acids for storage in adipose tissue?
Lipogenesis
Shortly after ITV started covering the News of the World, the BBC set up which show that hosted televised Darts from 1973 to 1978? Produced by future commentator Sid Waddell and hosted by former cricket player Fred Trueman, the show hosted various typical pub sports such as darts, pools and billiards which lend the show its name.
The Indoor League
Another hit from The Wurzels was ‘I am a Cider Drinker’ which reached number 3 in 1976. This was a cover of which song, originally released by Dutch band George Baker Selection in 1975?
Una Paloma Blanca
Which former Radio 2 DJ moved over with his feature entitled Confessions to Greatest Hits Radio in 2022? Back in 2012, He presented a revival of the quiz show Blockbusters.
Simon Mayo
What is the deepest lake in North America? It is the second largest in the Northwest Territories.
Great Slave Lake
In the Tour de France, what colour jersey is worn by the winner of the points classification?
Green
In Hinduism what name is given to most prominent male deities such as Brahma?
Trimurti
Swiss tennis player who won women’s gold at 2020 Olympics
Belinda Bencic
German tennis player who won men’s gold at 2020 Olympics
Alexander Zverev
What term is given to a musical ornament in which a very short unemphasised grace note precedes the principal note? It is written as a grace note with an oblique stroke through the stem.
Acciaccatura
Which 1884 play by Henrik Ibsen tells the story of Gregers Werle, a young man who returns to his hometown following exile and is reunited with his friend Hjalmar Ekdal? Hjalmar’s daughter Hedwig creates a fantasy world in a loft surrounded by her pets and dies violently at the end of the play.
The Wild Duck
What Greek-derived name is given to the ability of an animal to sever one of its own appendages, usually for the purpose of escaping a dangerous situation? Many reptiles and amphibians can shed their tails via this process.
Autotomy
In moral philosophy, what name is given to the ethical theory that the morality of an action can be judged by universal moral standards and that actions are either right or wrong according to a set of defined rules, rather than based on their consequences?
Deontology
Located on the Lizard Peninsula and around 1.5 miles further south than Penzance, what Cornish town is the most southerly town on the island of Great Britain? The most famous example of the folk custom Furry Dance takes place here.
Helston
What group of people are the subject of Heinrich Kramer’s 1487 book Malleus Maleficarum, which is often translated as “ The Hammer of [these people]”?
Witches
Used in IV shows such as Torchwood and in the movie Moulin Rouge, which 1997 hit single by Lamb samples the second movement of the title composer of Symphony of Sorrowful Songs?
Gorecki
Aliona Vilani won the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2011, partnering which member of boyband McFly? Following his bandmate’s example, Tom Fletcher went on to participate in a later series.
Harry Judd
During winter months, many reptiles and amphibians exhibit a behaviour similar to hibernation, in which their metabolic processes are suppressed and their physical activity decreases. What Latin-derived term was coined in the 20th century to refer to this behaviour?
Brumation
Tears of the Kingdom is the follow-up to which instalment in the Legend of Zelda series that was released on the Nintendo [Switch and Wit U in 2017 and praised for its open-world gameplay?
Breath of the Wild
Similar to a trill, what term is given to the rapid alternation between a main note and a note above or below it? ‘The upper type of this musical ornament is symbolised with a zigzag line, and the lower type by a zigzag line with a short vertical line through it.
Mordent
Aliona Vilani won the thirteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2015, partnering which member of boyband The Wanted?
Following his bandmate’s example, Max George went on to participate in a later series
Jay McGuiness
Sometimes called the principle of universalizability, the first formulation of what concept in deontological ethics, introduced [in the 18th century, states that any action you take should have a rationale that you believe should become a universal standard?
Categorical Imperative
The southernmost point of the United Kingdom as a whole lies on which of the Isles of Scilly? Troy Town Farm, on this island, is the most southerly settlement in the UK.
St Agnes
Which three-letter name is given to a Polynesian garland of flowers commonly worn around the neck?
Lei
What is the only feature film directed by the actor Charles Laughton? It starred Robert Mitchum as a murderous preacher, alongside Shelley Winters and Lilian Gish.
The night of the Hunter
Ons Jabeur played which Czech unseeded player in 2023 Wimbledon final ?
Marketa Vondrousova
Latvian Pm since 2019 who was born in Wilmington DelWare
Krišjānis Kariņš
Birds do all sorts of crazy stuff in opera. Who composed the opera The Cunning Little Vixen, which includes a gossipy owl and an ordained woodpecker who performs the title character’s marriage ceremony?
Leos Janacek
Aldila Sutjiadi was controversially disqualified from the women’s doubles at this year’s French Open 2023 after her partner accidentally hit a ball girl with a tennis ball. Who was her Japanese partner who caused this controversial incident?
Miyu Kato
In the 1974 James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun, what was the name of Bond’s sidekick, plaved by Britt Eckland? Either first name or surname is acceptable.
Mary Goodnight
Judith Jarvis Thomson coined the term the “Trolley Problem’ to describe a thought experiment that which 20th-century British philosopher proposed in her essay ‘The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect?
Philippa Foot
A lack of which essential nutrient during the earliest stages of pregnancy has been shown to be the leading cause of neural tube defects in newborns?
Folic Acid/Folate
Ruling over large parts of modern-day Central Asia and the Levant, the Seljuk Turks were a primary target of the First Crusade due to their wars against Byzantium. In 1071, Alp Arslan led the Seljuk army at what battle, during which they captured Emperor Romanos IV [the fourth] Diogenes?
Manzikert
The period of English history known as the Anarchy came about from a succession crisis following the accidental death of what nobleman, the only legitimate son of Henry I [the first] and heir apparent to the throne?
William Adelin
In Mesopotamian mythology, what son of Enki and Damkina is the patron god of the city of Babylon? He is a central figure in the Babylonian creation epic Enüma Elis, which lists his fifty names.
Marduk
Christian de Duve and colleagues won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for the discovery of which cellular organelle? This organelle is a membrane-bound sac with an acidic interior that contains hydrolytic enzymes used to break down proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleie acids within the cell.
Lysosome
Which band had a 1965 UK number 1 hit with a cover of the Bob Dylan song ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’?
The Byrds
Released as a single in 2021, ‘Money’ was a viral solo hit for which member of Blackpink? The album from which ‘Money’ was taken was the first album by a K-pop soloist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify.
Lisa
In Italian cuisine, what name is shared by a soft cheese made from buffalo milk, a flavour of ice cream, and a soup made by dropping an egg-mixture into a hot broth?
Stracciatella
In the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, what was the name of the Soviet agent, played by Barbara Bach, who teams up with Bond to defeat Karl Stromberg? Either first name or surname is acceptable.
Anya Amasova
Which colleague of Philippa Foot, with whom she shared a flat, was the author of Sartre: the Romantic Rationalist and The Sovereignty of Good? She is better known as a novelist, writing such works as The Bell and Under the Net.
Iris Murdoch
Which volcano on Ross Island, the site of a famous air disaster, is the largest active volcano in Antarctica and the southernmos active volcano in the world?
Mount Erebus
Bottled in a namesake hamlet in Ceredigion, which Welsh water brand is known for its cobalt blue bottles, a mainstay of many luxury hotels and restaurants?
Ty Nant
Miyu Kato found redemption later on at the 2023 French Open when she won the mixed doubles competition playing alongside Tim Putz. In the final they beat Michael Venus and which woman, who won a grand slam singles title in 2019 and has had a peak singles ranking of 4?
Bianca Andreescu
In 2023, which member of BTS became the fastest solo K-pop artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify? His solo hit ‘Dreamers was part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup official soundtrack.
Jungkook
Which Italian chopped salad is so-named because its main ingredient is stale bread? It also includes tomatoes and onions, and regional variants include cucumber and basil.
Panzanella
Which South West-based football team will replace Reading in the Women’s Super League after winning the Championship in
2022-23 season? This club’s men’s team plays in the Championship.
Bristol City
Which Grade I-listed country house and estate on the Wiltshire-Somerset border, famous for its gardens and artificial lake inspired by classical antiquity, is one of the National Trust’s ten most-visited properties, according to the Trust’s most recent annual report?
Stourhead
John Virgo was the referee on which snooker-based BBC gameshow, hosted by Jim Davidson between 1991 and 2002?
Big Break
In the Enuma Elis, Marduk defeats what primordial goddess of the sea? She is sometimes associated with the image of a dragon or sea-serpent, and has been portrayed as such in popular culture.
Tiamat
Christian de Duve and his co-workers also discovered which other organelle that breaks down organic molecules, and is important [in phospholipid biosynthesis? It contains enzymes involved in oxidation processes that generate the highly toxic compound that gives this organelle its name.
Peroxisome
Competing in Formula One between 1950 and ‘54, Prince Bira was a member of which country’s royal family?
Thailand
Name and regal number required. Catherine the Great became empress of Russia when she overthrew which man, her husband, who had ruled between January and July of 1762?
Peter III
Found in the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, the Minster in which city has held the title of the world’s tallest church since 1890?
Ulm
How many balls need to be potted to make a maximum 147 break in the game of snooker?
36
Gerty Cori became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her work on the catalytic conversion of which large poly saccharide, the main form of energy storage in the human body?
Glycogen
Which band released the single “Cannonball in 1993, reaching number 40 in the UK charts? The band’s members include Kim Deal, who founded this band on the side of her work with the Pixies.
The Breeders
Co-founded by Gary Lineker, Tony Pastor and Jack Davenport in 2022, what is the name of the podcasting production company responsible for shows such as The Rest is Politics? The name of the company could be seen as a description of Linker’s playing style during his career.
Goalhanger Podcasts
Founded in 1926, the UK’s oldest ballet company is named for which Polish-born dancer and pedagogue? Though the company is best-known for touring, they have a headquarters on the South Bank.
Marie Rambert
What is the name of the tequila brand created by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson?
Teremana
In guitar notation, the letter a instructs the player to pick the string with which digit? This is shorthand for the word for that digit in Spanish anular.
Ring finger
What is the name of the production company created in 2010 by Sunil Patel, Jake Humphrey and David Coulthard?
Humphrey announced in 2023 that he would be stepping back from his broadcasting work to focus on the company.
Whisper Group
A series of mass protests across Turkey began in 2013 in which major city square in Istanbul, and the adjacent Ge Park? Its name translates from the Arabic for “division” or “distribution”.
Taksim Square
The Rambert Ballet’s first performance was A Tragedy of Fashion. It was choreographed by which man, who was the founding choreographer of the Royal Ballet and also created the ballet Façade?
Frederick Ashton
Sold to Diage in 2020, what is the name of the gin brand once owned by the actor Ryan Reynolds?
Aviation
In guitar notation, the letter p instructs the player to pick the string with which digit? This is shorthand for the word for that digit in Spanish, pulgar.
Thumb
The Dreamcast succeeded which other Sega console? Released in Europe in 1995, it was also a commercial flop, as it lost much of its market share to the Nintendo 64.
Sega Saturn
Which lover of Catherine the Great was elected king of Poland in 1764 following her support? His power was slowly eroded by the three Partitions of Poland and he would end up as the final monarch.
Stanislaw II Poniatowski
One of the Five Pillars of Islam, what Arabic word describes the practice of praying in the direction of Mecca five times a day?
Salat
Which Austrian cyclist was the shock winner of the women’s road race at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics? She was a full-ti mathematician until this point, then raced as a privateer in 2022, before joining the Israel Premier Tech Roland team for 2023?
Anna Kiesenhofer
Tu Youyou became the most recent woman to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine, for her discovery of which compound, now a standard treatment against the most deadly form of malaria? Its name derives from the genus of wormwood plant from which it can be extracted.
Artemisinin
Which 10-time NBA All-Star forward, known for playing on the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks, retired in May 2023 after recent unsuccessful stints in Portland and Los Angeles?
Carmelo Anthony
Now manufactured by Walkers, Monster Munch crisps were created by which other crisp company?
Smiths
Which English indie band released the albums Pala in 2011 and Inflorescent in 2019? Their self-titled debut album was shortlisted for the Mercury prize in 2009.
Friendly Fires
Issued by what was then British Guiana in 1856, what is regarded among philatelists as one of the most famous rare stamps?
In June 2021, the only known surviving copy of this stamp sold at auction for more than $8 million.
One Cent Magenta
Who has served as the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party since 2021, following the extremely brief incumbency of Edwin Poots? MP for Lagan Valley since 1997, he is also the Leader of the DUP in the House of Commons.
Jeffrey Donaldson
Which musician, who is known for the prominence of harp in her compositions, released the critically acclaimed indie folk album The Milk-Eyed Mender in 2004?
Joanna Newsom
The concept of elan vital (eh-lan vee-tahl], a supposed force that guides the evolution and development of organisms, was introduced by which French philosopher in his 1907 book Creative Evolution?
Henri Bergson
Located in the Red Sea, Tiran Island is administered by which country? It was ceded to this country from Egypt in 2017.
Saudi Arabia
Which Algerian athlete won the women’s 1500 [fifteen hundred] metres gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, also becoming world champion at this distance in 1991 and 1995?
Hassiba Boulmerka
The optical illusion of a room that, when viewed from a certain angle, appears to be a rectangular cuboid in which people seem to change size depending on where they stand, is named after which American scientist?
Adelbert Ames
Javanese name is given to a mudflow of volcanic material that flows quickly down the slopes of a volcano?
Lahar
Following a match-fixing scandal revealed by Valenciennes [val-ahn-syen] player Jacques Glassmann, which football club was relegated from the French top tier after their UEFA Champions League win against AC Milan in 1993?
Marseille
What name is given to the often S-shaped curves or turns on a motor-racing track that force a driver to slow down? One of these was added to the high-speed Tamburello corner at Imola after the death of Ayrton Senna.
Chicane
What name is commonly given to the ultranationalist, anti-communist political ideology developed by Ahn Ho-Sang and particularly associated with South Korea’s first President, Syngman Rhee?
Ilminism (one people principle)
In Chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, which figure is urged by angels to flee with his family from the city of Sodom?
Lot
Which Billy Wilder film that starred Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Picture?
The Lost Weekend
Located in the Red Sea, the three largest islands of the Hanish archipelago form part of which country? In 1995, these islands were the site of a territorial conflict between this country and Eritrea.
Yemen
Which Algerian athlete won the men’s 1500 metres gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and also won 3 World Championship gold medals at this distance between 1991 and 1995?
Nouredine Morceli
When Henri Bergson’s concept of élan vital fell out of favour, which other French philosopher tried to revive and elucidate it in his 1966 book Le Bergsonisme? Along with Félix Guattari, this man wrote the two-volume work Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
Gilles Deleuze
Produced in 1855, what Swedish stamp is another example of a rare stamp with only one known extant specimen? This stamp’s rarity is due to it being produced in the wrong colour for its value.
Treskilling Yellow
Who has served as the Vice President of Sinn Fein (shin fain] since 2018? The MLA for Mid Ulster since 2007, she is the presumptive First Minister of Northern Ireland, were the power-sharing agreement to renew.
Michelle O’Neill
Which musician, who usually features his own oboe and cor Anglais playing in his songs, released the critically acclaimed concept album Illinois in 2005?
Sufjan Stevens
Which Frank Capra film, that starred Edward Arnold as a rich banker who marries a woman from an eccentric family, won the 1938 Academy Award for Best Picture?
You can’t take it with you
What name is given to a corner in a racing track that turns about 180 degrees? One of these corners named after the Loews [lows] or Fairmont Hotel in Monaco is the slowest corner in Formula One.
Hairpin
What word, often translated from Swahili as “fraternity”, is commonly given to the socialist political ideology promoted by and particularly associated with Tanzania’s first President, Julius Nyerere?
Ujamaa
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis combined with David Baddiel and which other comedian to form The Mary Whitehouse Experience? This comedian formed a double act with Baddiel, before Baddiels work with Frank Skinner.
Rob Newman
The optical illusion of a two-dimensional drawing of a cube that can be interpreted to have a different orientation depending on the perception of the viewer is named after which 19th-century Swiss scientist?
Louis Albert Necker
What name of Greek origin is given to solid material, such as ash, that is ejected into the air during a volcanic eruption?
Tephra
What is the stage name of the Filipino-born English singer with the given name Bea Kristi Laus? She appeared on Powfu’s single Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head) in 2020 and released the album Beatopia in 2022.
Beabadoobee
Czech winner of 2023 women’s Wimbledon title
Marketa Vondrousova
Milton Keynes, Stevenage and Cumbernauld are examples of what planned settlements in the UK built after World War lI to house those needing to move from damaged areas of maior cities?
New Towns
Kirk Brandon was the lead singer and co-founder of which British post-punk band who had hits including ‘Liberator’ and
“The Wheel’?
Spear of Destiny
What felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone is commonly worn by males in much of southeast Asia, including by rulers such as Sukarno of indonesia?
Songkok
The Nintendo puzzle game series ‘Brain Age’, which is intended to improve mental dexterity, is based on the work of which Japanese neuroscientist? In the UK this series is known as ‘[This man’s] Brain Training’.
Dr Ryuta Kawashima
Also a noted Unionist politician, which barrister was the Marquess of Queensbury’s attorney in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde in 1895? This would lead to a second case where Wilde was found guilty of ‘gross indecency’ and imprisoned.
Edward Carson
Which Irish chat show host and radio presenter was the commentator on the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK bet
1971 and 2008?
Terry Wogan
Ray Houghton scored the only goal as Ireland beat England 1-0 in which year’s European Championships? Both sides went out in the first round with England losing all three games, but Ireland were considered to have done well at their first major tournament.
1988
Which opera company, whose early history was clearly associated with Lilian Baylis, was recently in the news after the Arts Council cut their funding? They are expected to move out of their home at the Coliseum in London and move to another city to save on costs.
English National Opera
The advert with the line ‘I’m a Secret Lemonade Drinker’ was for what brand of lemonade with yellow packaging?
R Whites
In recognition for their work in the design of social housing, name either member of the French duo which won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 2021.
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands which are disputed between Japan and Russia. Their northern end is near which large Russian peninsula whose volcanoes constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Kamchatka
There are more and more nations being represented at the World Snooker Championship. At the 2023 tournament which Chinese player reached the semi-final of the world snooker championship? He lost to eventual winner Luca Brecel of Belgium.
Si Jiahui
Beginning with the letter ‘T’, what name is given to the innermost layer of the earth’s atmosphere?
Troposphere
Jaz Coleman was the co-founder, keyboardist and vocalist of which British post-punk band who had hits including Love Like Blood’ and ‘Kings and Queens”?
Killing Joke
Dr Lobe is the fictional head of the titular institution in which series of Nintendo games which like Dr Kawashima’s Brain
Training are intended to measure and improve a player’s mental dexterity?
Big Brain Academy
The throne of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as numerous other European thrones, were occupied by members of which family from 1440 until 1740 and again from 1765 until 1806? Inbreeding, manifested in a pronounced lower jaw and lip, is thought to have contributed to the extinction of this family.
Habsburg
What cap with a flat circular top and peak is commonly worn by the French military including by rulers such as De Gaulle?
Kepi
Which choral group was in the news recently when it was axed to save money for UK licence fee payers? After an outcry from classical music fans, and a possible boycott of the Proms, the decision was reversed.
Bbc singers
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life’ is a seminal book in the symbolic interactionist school and was written by which Canadian sociologist?
Erving Goffman
At a libel trial in 1918, the eccentric MP Noel Pemberton-Billing suggested that the dancer Maud Allen was having a lesbian affair with which wife of a former Prime Minister, known for her witticism? Allen had sued Pemberton-Billing after he had suggested in his article ‘The Cult of the Clitoris’ that she was listed in a non-existent Black Book of “perverts”.
Margot Asquith
Beginning with ‘O’, what is the surname of the German-born French composer best known for his 1858 operetta ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’, from which the famous Can-Can music was taken?
Offenbach
The advert with the line ‘They’re tasty, tasty, very, very tasty. They’re very tasty’ was for what Kellogg’s breakfast cereal
Branflakes
What was the name of the institute that infamously allowed medical experimentation on poor black US men with syphilis by denying them treatment until 1972, even though penicillin had been an available treatment since 19402
Tuskegee
Also at the world snooker championship 2023, which Iranian player lost to England’s Ronnie O’Sullivan in the second round? He had, perhaps unwisely, made disobliging comments about O’Sullivan in the run-up to the game?
Hossein Vafael
A pioneer of Afro-futurism in music, what is the Egyptian-inspired name of the jazz musician who had an ever changing band called the Arkestra? Albums by this performer include ‘Space is the Place’ and ‘Lanquidity’.
Sun Ra
Ray Houghton scored the only goal as Ireland beat Italy 1-0 in which year’s FIFA World Cup? Both sides qualified for the next round, where Ireland went out but Italy went on to reach the final.
1994
Which popular family tree website was recently sold for $4.7 billion to Blackstone? The value of the site primarily comes from the data it has accumulated from its DNA genealogy kits which tell people their genetic past.
Ancestry.com
Which multi fruit flavoured soft drink created in 1908 in Lancashire was advertised by Purple Ronnie in the late 90s?
Vimto
Lead singer of Tears for Fears
Roland Orzabal
Which American-born German feminist researcher and writer first published her namesake report on female sexuality in 1976, critiquing the work of Masters and Johnson and Alfred Kinsey and debunking traditional views on sexual activity?
Shere Hite
Which American golfer held off Rory Mcllroy to win his first Major at the 2023 US Open in June?
Wyndham Clark
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Which Japanese-born classical violinist made her debut at the age of 11, as a guest soloist of the New York Philharmonic their New Year’s Eve Gala in 19822 She began to play the violin at the age of three and in 2018, she joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music.
Midori
Which South African politician, who founded the ANC Youth League with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, served as the president of the African National Congress between 1967 and 1991 while exiled in London?
Oliver Tambo
Which novelist, who died in 2023, publicised the slogan “Go to work on an egg” for the Egg Marketing Board during her stint as head of copywriting for the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather?
Fay Weldon
A prolific composer of soundtracks for TV and film, Mark Mothersbaugh [mothers baw] first came to prominence as the lead singer and keyboard player in what new wave band, whose singles include Jocko Homo’ and ‘Uncontrollable Urge?
Devo - who is lead singer of Devo?
The Coconut War was the name given to a 1980 conflict that took place shortly before and after the independence of which Pacific island nation?
Vanuatu
Which actor appeared as Susan Gately in the first two series of the Channel 4 comedy-drama Teachers? Her later roles included Mel in Lead Balloon and Phyllis Baxter in Downton Abbey.
Raquel Cassidy
With injury ruling Leah Williamson out of the upcoming women’s football World Cup, which Chelsea defender has been named as England captain for the tournament?
Millie Bright
Which man, closely linked to the Chicago School of Sociology is best known for his work within criminology, having invented the concept of ‘white-collar crime’ in 1939?
Edwin Sutherland
That name is given to the muscular pouch in the gullet of some birds? Pigeons are able to secrete from the pouch’s lining to feed eir young.
Crop
One of the Curtis Institute of Music’s most celebrated alumni is which American classical violinist, who began playing at the age of three? Considered among the world’s best contemporary violin players, a concerto written for her by Jennifer Higdon won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2010.
Hillary Hahn
Which South African politician was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for his non-violent activism against apartheid? He was the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
Albert Luthuli
A writer on the topic of female sexuality, which American author compiled and published My Secret Garden, a work composed of letters, interviews and transcribed tapes on the subject of women’s sexual fantasies?
Nancy Friday
One of the key developers of the Chicago School of Sociology was which urban sociologist, who was known for his work with Booker T. Washington, including on the 1912 work The Man Farthest Down?
Robert E Park
The Chicken War is the colloquial name for the 1537 anti-royalist rebellion in which European country?
Poland
Which actor appeared as Jenny Paige in the first two series of the Channel 4 series Teachers? Her later roles included playing Leigh Henry in Screw and Kate McKenzie in Last Tango in Halifax?
Nina Sossanya
42
Unicorn and Red Dragon are two of the best-known companies who make the tungsten implements used in which sport?
Darts
Which British chain of health clubs, spas and hotels are named after their founder, an entrepreneur famous for his stint on
Bannatyne Group
Which Welsh kingdom of the middle ages gives its name to a county in modern-day Wales that covers the area of the traditional counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Brecknockshire?
Powys
Which American guitarist had a hit in 1968 with his instrumental track ‘Classical Gas?? He later went on to be head writer on Saturday Night Live.
Mason Williams
Who directed the 1981 film Reds? He is more famous as an actor, whose roles include the bank robber Clyde Barrow and the gangster Bugsy Siegel.
Warren Beatty
In Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, what is the name of the central character, who convinces himself he has the right to commit murder? It is believed that his name derives from a Russian word meaning schismatic.
Rodion Raskolnikov
The Torres Strait separates Australia from which island, the second largest in the world?
New Guinea
In 2007, Italy replaced which other European country as one of the teams in the Women’s Six Nations Championship, to [bring it into parity with the men’s competition?
Spain
What was the name of the Mongolian leader who was the chief rival of Genghis Khan in the unification of the Mongol tribes? According to some accounts, he chose to be executed rather than swear allegiance to Genghis Khan after his defeat at the Battle of the Thirteen Sides.
Jamukha
What is the name of the British actor who starred as an incompetent leisure centre manager in The Brittas Empire, a sitcom which ran from 1991 to 1997?
Chris Barrie
Released in 2022, Happiness Not Included is the most recent release by which 80s synth-pop duo?
Soft Cell
Which country shares its name with a West African empire that lasted from circa 300 to 1100 AD? The empire of this name had its capital at Koumbi Saleh.
Ghana
At this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Elton John duetted with a number of other singers. On which song did he duet with Jacob Lusk, the lead singer of Gabriels? This song only became a hit for Elton in 2003 when a remix of the song went to Number 1 in the UK.
Are You Ready For Love?
Which movie directed by Ingmar Bergman, largely set in a secluded seaside cottage, concerns the relationship between a nürse named Alma and her patient Elisabet, who is a famous actress who has suddenly stopped speaking? The movie’s title references a term in Jungian psychology.
Persona
Being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, which singer has released singles including ‘All I Wanna Do’, If It Makes You Happy and ‘Everyday is a Winding Road?
Sheryl Crow
Which composer had several collaborations with director David Lean, composing the score to the movies Lawrence of Arabia andDoctor Zhivago
Maurice Jarre
b
Holly Bradshaw won a bronze medal for Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in which field event?
Pole vault
Released in 2023, Memento Mori is the most recent release by which 80s synth-pop group, now reduced to a duo?
Depeche Mode
What was the name of the Mongolian general who was chief military strategist to Genghis Khan, and later to Genghis’ son Ogedei? He is widely regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in history, and orchestrated Mongolian victories across Asia and Europe from China to Hungary.
Subutai
Since the current line-up of the men’s Six Nations Championship was established in 2000, Italy and which other country are the only two not to have won?
Scotland
In Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace, what is the given name of the central character who unexpectedly inherits a large fortune and the title of Count in the years leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia? First or last name is acceptable.
Pierre Bezhukov
Which traditional Scottish soup is made of potatoes, onion and smoked haddock? It is partly named after the town in Moray from where it originates.
Cullen Skink
Barbara McClintock was the first winner of the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, which recognises outstanding contributions to genetics. Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize in 1933 for work studying the chromosomes and genetics of flies of the species Drosophila melanogaster, which have what common name?
Fruit Fly
26
Which movement was aimed at purging any remnants of capitalist or traditionalist culture from communist China between 1966 and 1976? The movement was led by Mao Zedong, and later by the ‘Gang of Four’, and resulted in widespread violence by the ‘Red Guard’ brigades of radicalised students.
The Cultural Revolution
Being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, which singer has released albums including The Kick Inside, Hounds of Love and Aerial?
Kate Bush
4a
Which Italian composer composed the scores to the films The Godfather, and The Godfather Part IT? He is also famous for his score for Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, and several films directed by Federico Fellini.
Nino Rota
4b
Chelsie Giles won a bronze medal for Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in which martial art event?
Judo
At this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Elton John duetted with a number of other singers. On which song did he duet with Rina Sawayama? In 1976, this song gave Elton his first UK Number One single.
Don’t go breaking my heart
Prague symphony by Mozart is which number
38
За
The US Open tennis tournament begins on the last Monday of which month each year?
August
The Ghana Empire was eventually absorbed into which other West African empire, which lasted from circa 1226 to
1670 AD? This empire also shares its name with a modern West African country.
Mali Empire
Only triple landlocked usstate
Nebraska
Which moon of Jupiter, the 4th largest in the Solar System, was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and named after a priestess of Hera who became one of Zeus’s lovers?
Io
According to the name of psychotherapist Susie Orbach’s first book, what is a feminist issue? (In other words her book’s title is “BLANK is a feminist issue”
Fat
What “p” is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches?
Pollarding
Founder of penguin books
Allen Lane
What did scutage mean in relation to tax?
Tax to avoid military service
Please name either player who scored a 147 break at the 2022
World Snooker championship. One is an Australian, the other is a Scot
Neil Robertson or Graeme Dott
Who joined with Annie Lennox in the 1980s chart toppers
Eurvthmics? He’d have numerous successes elsewhere as a musician and producer
Dave Stewart
Hip hop as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in which borough of New York City?
The Bronx
Who was the UK Prime Minister when Dolly the sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell?
John Major
“A Year in Provence” flopped as a TV show but that doesn’t detract from the success of the bestselling book it was based on. Who wrote that book?
Peter Mayle
Named after slave soldiers who had converted to Islam, which dynasty ruled the Delhi sultanate between 1206 and 1290?
Mamluk Dynasty
Which catholic order, founded around 1209, had an original name which translates as “Order of Lesser Brothers”? This titled stemmed from their founders rejection of luxury and wealth
The Franciscans
What was the name of the duo composed of the Scouse sisters Linda and Aisling who are best known for their hit single “I’d Rather Jack”, which achieved success across Europe in 19897
The Reynold Girls
At the start of MacBeth, the title character is the Thane of Glamis (pro GLAMS). The village of Glamis lies 12 miles north of which Scottish city?
Dundee
Who was the UK Prime Minister when Sliced bread was first commercially sold by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri? (They were the first users of the Otto Rohwedder sliced bread machine)
Stanley Baldwin
Who did lon Anderson of “Yes” team up with for the 1981 hit
“I’ll find my way home”? This synth wizard died in 2022
Vangelis
with its builders trying to maximize the internal dimensions in order to reach for the heavens and bring in more light, which cathedral, overlooking the River Somme, is the largest in France?
Amiens
Name the either of the Shakespeare plays which are set on the island of Sicily?
The Winters Tale
Much Ado About Nothing
Who was the UK Prime Minister on the day that Christian
Barnard carried out the first Heart transplant?
Harold Wilson (1967)
How many members of the British Royal family have had the title “Empress of India”?
4 (Victoria, Alexandra, Mary, Elizabeth queen mother)
In which Heist film of 1999 did Catherine Zeta-Jones star opposite Sean Connery?
Entrapment
Containing the character Duke Vincentio, what is the only
Shakespeare play set in Austria?
Measure for Measure
Rhyme time: Elizabethan economist who gave his name to the principle stating that “bad money drives out good”, and the Bucks town which is the furthest terminus from central
London on the Metropolitan line
Gresham and Chesham
Pushed along by the high scoring fly-half George Ford, which club side won the English Rugby premiership in 2022?
Leicester Tigers
As well as Verona, which other Italian city has scenes in Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona” play? This city will co-host the 2026 Winter Olympic games
Milan
48 Who joined with Roland Orzabal to form the group Tears for
Fears? He share’s his surname with the singer who went 9 times Platinum with the album “In the lonely hour”
Curt Smith
Which racecourse, located about 12km from the centre of Paris, is the home to the prestigious L’Arc De Triomphe race? Over 50% of French Group One races take place here
Longchamp
Rhyme time: the CEO of Twitter until November 2019, and the British ventriloquist partner of Nookie Bear
Jack Dorsey and Roger de Courcey
After a year of being the de facto ruler of England, which nobleman was killed by forces loyal to king Hery Ill at the 1265
Battle of Evesham?
Simon de Montfort
What is the stage name of the American rapper Inga
Marchand? Her biggest UK hit was “I’ll be” in 1997. Her stage name is also the name of a 1974 Blaxploitation movie starring
Pam Grier
Foxy Brown
Which character in Shakespeare’s Henry VIll, a duke, would have had his hereditary seat at Wingfield Castle, 7 miles outside of the town of Diss?
Duke of Suffolk
The event known as the “1858 Bradford sweets poisoning” led to the death of 21 people after sweets laced with what were sold to the public?
Arsenic
7 Lying about 8 miles from Monaco and about 19 miles from the French-Italian border, what is the second most populous city on France’s Mediterranean coast? it was the birthplace of Henry Cavendish, the English scientist noted for his discovery of Oxygen
Nice
58 Who was the UK Prime Minister when Emmerdale (then
Emmerdale Farm) was first broadcast on UK television screens?
Edward Heath (1972)
Who created emmerdale farm in 1972
Kevin Laffan
Two creators of eastenders?
Julia smith and Tony holland
Corrie creator scriptwriter?
Tony Warren
Which American actor has graduated from playing Carlton
Banks in the Fresh Prince to a career on reality TV and dancing. shows?
Alfonso Ribiero
61
Which city, the 4th largest in France, is the headquarters of Airbus and the French construction location for Concorde?
Toulouse
Numerous cities including Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Venice and Mantua combined as what “League” in 1167 in order to thwart attempts by the Holy Roman Emperor to extend his influence over Italy?
Lombard League
65
Which rich port city on the Mediterranean coast became the de facto capital of the remnant Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1192?
In modern times this city of 50,000 people is the holiest city of the Bahá’i Faith in Israel and receives many pilgrims of that faith every year.
Acre
66
Who was the UK Prime Minister when Cassius Clay (later Muhammed Ali) defeated Sonny Liston to become the Heavyweigh Boxing Champion of the World?
Alec Douglas-Hume (1964)
What was the name of the February 313 AD agreement to treat
Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire?
Edict of Milan
Who joined with Vince Clarke to form the 1980s electronic duo
Erasure?
Andy Bell
Who joined with Marcella Detroit for. form the chart-topping duo Shakespeare’s Sister? This woman was the wife of Dave Stewart in the 1980s and 19905
Siobhan Fahey
Greg and Pat Kane formed which 1980s duo whose most memorable song is “Labour of Love”?
Hue and Cry
What card game was devised by Segundo Sanchez Santos and his Bridge partner, Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, ink 1939, in an attempt to design a time-efficient game that was as engaging as Bridge?
Canasta
Which 6ft tall Belarussian woman took the Women’s Singles title at the 2023 Australian Open tennis?
Aryna Sabalenka
Portland Cement, the most common type of cement used around the world, is made from which type of Carbonate sedimentary rock?
Limestone
What was the shared surname of the winner of the 2022
European Darts Championship in 2022 and the runner up in the same competition?
Smith (Ross and Michael)
A great example of Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” arrangements, which group took “The he kissed me” into the UK and US top tens in 1963?
The Crystals
The four key stylistic elements of Hip Hop culture could be summarised as Deejaying, Rapping, Breakdancing and what artistic style?
Graffiti
What was the four-word name of the 1971 to 1973 Larbey and
Esmonde sitcom which acted as a successor to Please Sir?
The fenn Street Gang
Which sketch comedy show of 1979 to 1982 gave Griff Rhys
Jones his first break in TV?
Not the Nine o clock news
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Which driver, “the Mexican Wunderkind”, took 2 victories in the 2022 F1 Grand Prix season?
Sergio Perez
The “Big 3” of American motor manufacturers, who between them shared strong markest share for decades, were Ford, General Motors and which other firm? Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, they are now known as Stellantis North
America
Chrysler
A succesful period in charge of which club side led to Aime Jacquet being given the Coach role of the French national football team, a role in which he’d lead them to World Cup victory? During his time in charge of this provincial club he led them to three national titles
Bordeaux
Who coached France to victory in World Cup 1998
Aime Jacquet
101 What is the two-word name of the controversial sports celebration used by fans of both the Kansas City Chiefs in the
NFL and the Exeter Chiefs in English rugby union? It involves moving the forearm forwards and backwards repeatedly with an open palm
Tomahawk Chop
102 Which synth-wizard joined with Neil Tenant in the 1980s to form the chart toppers The Pet Shop Boys?
Chris Lowe
05 Tsars Kaloyan and Ivan Asen Il were leaders of which empire which existed between 1185 and 1396? in the early part of that period they were a dominant force in the Balkans
Bulgarian Empire
Egyptian squash player Mr Fantastic brilliant in 2022
Ali Farag
110
Which Zimbadwean author saw her debut novel, We Need New Names, shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, and her second novel, Glory, shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize?
Noviolet Bulawayo
In which village of Southern France did the French priest
Bérenger Saunière supposedly find a hidden treasure in the
1900s? Elements of his story have found their way into the
books of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
Rennes Le Chateau
114 What was the name of the 2000 to 2003 mockumentary starring Rob Brydon (real name Rob Jones)? In the show Brydon’s character plays a taxi driver going through a messy divorce. Three word answer
Marion and Geoff
121
Name either Tupa Shakur’s record label owned by Suge Knight or the Notorious B.I.G’s record label owned by Sean Combs
Suge Knight: Death Row Records
Puff Daddy: Bad Boy Records
122 The real life Scottish King MacBeth was buried at what location, also the burial place of 1990s Labour Party leader
John Smith?
Iona
24 Which Breton city, the 6th largest in France and located on the River Loire, is famous for its vineyards that produce Muscadet white wine?
Nantes
126 Some 22 miles from the Spanish border, which French city on the Bay of Biscay is a luxurious seaside tourist destination known for the Hôtel du Palais?
Biarritz
Louise brown born what year
1978
The name of which genus of dinosaur comes from the Greek for “Arm Lizard”? They had disproportionately long necks, small skulls, and large overall size
Brachiosaurus
131 Who joined with Marc Almond to form the 1980s Chart toppers
Soft Cell? This man shares his surname with the stage name of comedian Robert Harper
Dave Ball
32 Which aquatic mammal has a name derived from the Latin for
‘pig fish’?
Porpoise
Bay of Pigs year
1961
136 The painful condition known as Gout is causeif due to the build-up of needle-like crystals of what acid?
Uric Acid
138 Beginning in the 1250s, inquisitors of the Catholic church were generally chosen from members of which monastic order that had been founded in 1216 to preach the gospel and oppose heresy?
Dominican Order
141
What is the only Shakespeare play where the settings span 3 different continents, Europe, Africa and Asia?
Anthony and Cleopatra
12 Which British-American singer was Oscar nominated for her song “hear my voice” which appeared on the soundtrack of
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”?
Celeste
What Broadway musical based on a 2001 play about a teenage girl who ages rapidly won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Musical?
Kimberley Akimbo
Who replaced Boris Johnson as Mp for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in july 2023?
Steve Tuckwell
Who replaced nigel Adams as Mp for selby and ainsty in july 2023?
Keir Mather
Who replaced David Warburton as Mp for somerton and frome in july 2023?
Sarah Dyke
Current leader of Monster Raving Loony party, got 32 votes in Uxbridge and South Ruislip by election 2023?
Howling Laud Hope
Piers Corbyn stood for which party in U and SR by election 2023?
Let London Live
130 years in the making: who was first side to beat all other 91 teams in the top four divisions of English football in competitive league games after beating newcomers Sutton?
Port Vale
What is added to a gin fizz to make it a golden fizz?
Egg Yolk
What does monkeys blood mean in a northern culinary sense?
Raspberry Sauce
Superior rectus muscle is found where?
Eye
Roman game of paganica is close to which modern day sport?
Golf
Mandelson replaced by stelling in what position in 2015
President of Hartlepool fc
Which artist of Taiwanese descent performed several one-year long pieces in the 1970s and 80s, including spending a year locked in a cage with no stimuli, a year punching a time clock once an hour every hour, a year in which he never went indoors, and a year where he was tied to female artist Linda Montano with them never allowed to touch one another?
Tehching Hsieh
Which extinct tetrapod from the late Devonian period, with a name of Inuit origin meaning “large freshwater fish”, has been proposed by some as an evolutionary missing link between fish and land-based tetrapods?
Tiktaalik
Which American won the Open in July 2023?
Brian Harman
Which performer sang with both the Diana Ross and Jean Terrell-fronted versions of the Supremes, and was the only continuous member of the group from its first releases in 1959 to its original disbandment in 1977?
Mary Wilson
Which Austrian company established the annual Cliff Diving World Series in 2009 where competitors jump from cliff platforms at heights ranging between 26 and 28 metres?
Red Bull
One of the main targets of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted rebellion with the Wagner Group was which man, the Russian Minister of Defence? This ethnic Tuvan is noted for his close relationship to Vladimir Putin.
Sergei Shoigu
Jakob Ingebrigsten set a world leading time of 3:27.95 [three minutes, twenty-seven point nine five seconds] in which Olympic track event at the 2023 Oslo Diamond League?
1500m
Which Chinese-owned marketplace app that launched in the UK in April has the slogan “shop like a billionaire”? It was the most-downloaded app in the United States in late 2022 and early 2023.
Temu
The name of which girl with frizzy purple hair appears alongside her dog Alistair in the tide of a children’s cartoon originally made for the BBC in the 1970s?
Crystal Tipps
What strait separates mainland Russia from Sakhalin?
Strait of Tartary
What adjective is used to describe an algorithm that solves a problem by making the most optimal choice at each individual stage? These algorithms are sometimes called “short-sighted”, as they do not evaluate the solution globally.
Greedy Algorithm
Which actor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role of Rocky Gravo in Sydney Pollack’s 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, which concerns a Depression-era Santa Monica dance marathon? This actor had previously been nominated for Teacher’s Pet and Come Fill the Cup.
Gig Young
Expressing the idea that human cultures are “personality writlarge”, Patterns of Culture is a work by which American anthropologist, also known for The Chrysanthemum, and the Sword?
Ruth Benedict
Which darts player, currently ranked 7th in the world, represented Wales in the 2023 PDC World Cup of Darts alongside Gerwyn Price as they won together for the second time? In 2021, he won the Premier League Darts.
Jonny Clayton
Which Irish writer, who died in 1939, wrote his own epitaph, which ends “Cast a cold eye / On life, on death, / Horseman pass by!”?
WB Yeats
Richard Taylor cartoons, the maker of Crystal Tipps and Alistair, was responsible for a series of public safety films of the 1970s featuring which ginger cat voiced by Kenny Everett, who warned children not to play with matches or go off with strangers?
Charley
Along with Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, the southern part of Sakhalin was traditionally home to which people, who speak a language isolate and whose culture venerated bears? Much of their culture has disappeared since the 19th century due to assimilation policies pursued by both Japan and Russia.
Ainu
Keely Hodgkinson set a world leading time of 1:55.77 (one minute, fifty-five point seven seven seconds) in which track event at the
2023 Paris Diamond League?
800m
The story of Effie White, the main character of the musical Dreamgirls, closely mirrors aspects of the life of which founder member of the Supremes, who acrimoniously departed the group in 1967 and died tragically in 1976?
Florence Ballard
Red Bull established which annual event in 2009 where amateur competitors race their motorless hand-made vehicles down different courses each year? At this event, which is named after the common name for home-made gravity racers, the vehicles are judged on their aesthetic as well as their speed.
Soap Box Race
Previously seen as an ally of Yevgeny Prigozhin, which Russian politician and military leader, the head of the Chechen Repub since 2007, offered to help put down the mutiny by the Wagner Group?
Ramzan Kadyrov
After leaving the Housemartins, Norman Cook founded which dance and hip-hop collective, whose debut single ‘Dub Be Good To Me’ reached number one on the UK singles chart in 1990?
Beats International
In the semi-final of the 2023 PDC World Cup of Darts, Wales beat a Belgian team consisting of Kim Huybrechts [HI-brekts] and which other player, the current world number 10 and winner of the 2020 World Matchplay?
Dimitri Van Den Bergh
Hatshepsut was daughter of which Pharoah and ruled from 1478-1458BC?
Thutmose I
Which American YouTube star, known for livestreams in which he plays video games such as FIFA, was assaulted by a rival fan at this year’s FA Cup final? This Manchester United fan also finally met his idol Cristian Ronaldo recently, having travelled extensively to try and get a selfie with him.
IShowSpeed
Which British actor, who had played Sophie Western in the 1963 film Tom Jones, was nominated for best Supporting Actress for her role as Alice in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Susannah York
Ruth Benedict and her partner Margaret Mead were among the many students of which German-born anthropologist who developed the concept of cultural relativism in anthropology and wrote The Mind of Primitive Man?
Franz Boas
Running for three series from 1985, which ITV drama show featured Glynis Barber as an aristocratic English police detective reluctantly pairing up with a streetwise New York cop played by Michael Brandon?
Dempsey and Makepeace
Cornell Lab of Ornithology produces which mobile app that uses AI to help identify birds by sight and sound?
Merlin BirdID
What Saudi team is Steven Gerard manager of 2023?
Al-Ettifaq
Which art forger, who copied the work of artists including Edgar Degas and Thomas Gainsborough, was assisted in the distribution of his forgeries by his partner Jane Kelly?
Tom Keating
WVhat is the numerical name of the range of skincare and anti-ageing products developed and sold by Boots the Chemist?
No 7
Which superleague Netball team with a weather related name play their home matches at the National Basketball Performance Centre in the north west of England?
Manchester Thunder
Which element, a gas at room temperature, is known in French as azote [A-zote], derived from the Greek for ‘no life”? It was given the name by Antoine Lavoisier, who observed it was an asphyxiant gas.
Nitrogen
Jeff Bridges played The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a movie celebrating 25 years since it was released in 1998. Which actor who played Maude Lebowski was nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance in Boogie Nights, another 1998 film?
Julianne Moore
Which American rock band headlined the Other Stage at Glastonbury in 2023 when Elton John was playing the Pyramid Stage? Their latest album is called In Times New Roman.
Queens of the Stone Age
The Boss Original highlighter pen is manufactured by which German stationer, also known for their fineliners and pencils
Stabilo
Which fast bowler, who plays county cricket for Durham, took seven wickets and scored 16 important fourth-innings runs in England’s victory in the Third Ashes Test this month?
Mark Wood
Which historian and travel writer, known for the Pax Britannica trilogy, wrote the Booker-shortlisted novel Last Letters from Hav and was one of the first authors to discuss gender dysmorphia and sexual reassignment in an autobiography?
Jan Morris
84 year old legendary singer songwriter lan Hunter released his 18th solo album on April 21st this year. It was the last album that featured which British guitarist before his untimely death on January 10th 2023?
Jeff Beck
Which member of Argentina’s 2022 Fifa men’s World Cup Final winning team played for Reading in the EFL from January to April 2019, while on loan from Arsenal?
Emiliano Martinez
Which novelist and travel writer wrote the travel book In Patagonia and the Booker-shortlisted novel Utz? One of the first high-profile British people to contract HIV, it proved to be one of his final works, as he died from an AIDS-related illness a year after his nomination.
Bruce Chatwin
Which superleague Netball team with a weather related name play their home matches at a University in Guildford?
Surrey Storm
Which German stationer is Europe’s largest manufacturer of pencils and pencil erasers? Their distinctive black and yellow pencils are widely used in schools.
Staedtler
Who was the first Labour Party female MP? She was elected to be the MP for Northampton in 1923.
Margaret Bondfield
Which actor who played Brandt in The Big Lebowski was nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar for his performance in Charlie Wilson’s War, a 2007 film in which he played CIA agent Gust Avrakotos? He later won the awarc best actor in the film The Master playing Lancaster Dodd.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Who is the only Scotsman after whom an SI derived unit is named?
James Watt
Which mountain is both the highest peak in Peru and the highest mountain in all of Earth’s tropics?
Huascaran
What is the name, partly from the Latin for sun, of the range of sun-care products developed and sold by Boots the Chemist?
Soltan
Which infamous art forger, born in the Netherlands, copied the work of artists including Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer and famously sold Nazi Herman Goering a forged painting?
Hans van Meegeren
The rapidly shrinking Aral Sea straddles the border between two former Soviet nations. Name either.
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Which member of England’s 1966 Fifa World Cup winning team played for Blackpool who, like Reading, were relegated into League One in May 2023? He went on to play for Arsenal later in his career
Alan Ball
Which series of computer role playing games takes its name from ultimate opponent in the first instalment, a lord of hell whose brothers are Baal and Mephisto?
Diablo
Formerly presenting the BBC’s Grounded podcast during lockdown, who launched his namesake podcast in June 2023 and has been near the top of the UK charts since then? This documentarian is also known for his quirky investigative television series, such as Weird Weekends.
Louis Theroux
Martin Sorrell was the founder and long-time chairman of which advertising company? Based in London, this is the world’s largest advertising company by revenue.
WPP
In Ancient Greece, the Olympic Games was just one in a cycle of four sports festivals collectively known as the Panhellenic Games. The other three were the Pythian Games [PITH-ian], the Nemean Games, and what other ‘Games?
Isthmian Games
Which 2005 documentary film directed by Martin Scorsese focuses on the early life and career of Bob Dylan? The film’s three-word title comes from a lyric in one of Dylan’s best-known songs.
No direction home
Highest point of Pyrenees
Aneto
Of the courses in the rotation to host the Open Championship, which golf course on the east coast of Scotland has hosted more times than any other besides St Andrews? It last hosted in 2013, when it was won by Phil Mickelson, and Jack Nicklaus [NICK-luss] once described it as “the best golf course in Britain”.
Muirfield
16
Which traditional Scottish soup consists of smoked haddock, cream, potatoes, and onions?
Cullen Skink
Based around a sample of David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes’, the song ‘Body II Body’ [body-to-body] was a UK top five hit in (2000 for which Irish singer? It was the follow-up to her debut hit ‘Gotta Tell You’.
Samantha Mumba
Which railway station, a National Rail terminus that straddles the Thames in central London, lies between Mansion House and Temple on the District and Circle lines of the London Underground?
Blackfriars
Katie Ledecky holds the women’s record for most individual swimming gold medals won at the World Aquatics Championship with 14 - which Swedish swimmer is second, with 10? She holds multiple world records in events over 50 metres and 100 metres, and became the first Swede to win a swimming gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Sarah Sjostrom
Sharing his name with a type of dance, what is the name of the intelligent chimpanzee from the IV series The Umbrella Academy who served as assistant to Sir Reginald Hargreeves and helped raise the protagonists?
Pogo
(Judi Missett created which fitness franchise that teaches fitness using dance routines and dance warmup techniques? This franchise, which was popular in the 1980s, features a genre of music in its portmanteau name.
Jazzercise
Though her birth name was María, the Argentinian President who was overthrown in Argentina’s 1976 coup d’état is usually referred to by what first name? She was the third wife of Juan Perón, after Aurelia and Eva or Evita.
Isabel
Which 2008 concert film directed by Martin Scorsese focuses on the Rolling Stones tour from two years previously? The film’s three-word title shares its name with a song on the band’s classic 1972 album Exile On Main Street.
Shine a Light
Part of the Gran Sasso massif and reaching a height of 2,912 metres, Corno Grande is the highest mountain of which mountain range in southern Europe?
Apennines
The Open Championship will next be held in Scotland in 2024 when it takes place at what golf course on the west coast, which includes both the longest and the shortest holes of any course on the Open rota?
Royal Troon
A quatrain forms the final stanza of what nineteen-line poetic form? ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas is a notable example of a poem in this form.
Villanelle
Which character in Turandot sings Nessun Dorma?
Calaf
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet was the founder of which French advertising company, one of the Big Four alongside WPP,
Interpublic and Omnicom?
Publicis
The Isthmus of Corinth, where the Isthmian Games were held, is close to the site of what enigmatic ancient religious ritual, which takes its name from the Attican city where it was held? The details of this ritual have largely remained secret throughout history, though it seems to have involved a re-enactment of the abduction of Persephone.
Eleusinian Mysteries
Sharing her name with a type of dance, what is the name of the ruthless assassin played by Mary J. Blige in The Umbrella Academy?
Cha-Cha
Who created Boxercise?
Andy Wake
Isabel Perón has been shown to have been instrumental in which period of state terrorism that saw the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance hunt down political dissidents? As many as 30,000 people disappeared during this campaign, which formed part of the US-backed Operation Condor across South America..
Dirty War
Commemorating George Washington’s actions during the Revolutionary War, which German-American artist painted
Washington Crossing the Delaware in 1851?
Emanuel Leutze
Based on a sample of David Bowie’s song ‘Andy Warhol’, the song ‘Funky Dory’ and its namesake album were released in 2003 by which British singer? The album was reissued the following year to include her top three hit ‘Some Girls’.
Rachel Stevens
Which railway station, a National Rail terminus in central London, lies between Monument and Mansion House on the District and Circle lines of the London Underground?
Cannon Street
After winning two in 2022, Sarah Sjöström overtook which Hungarian swimmer in having the most World Aquatic [Championship gold medals in individual swimming events for a European? Though her career appears to be near its end, she is still the world record holder in the 100 metres and 200 metres individual medley events.
Katinka Hosszu
Used widely as a model organism, Drosophila melanogaster is a species of what specific sort of insect? A two-word answer is needed.
Fruit Fly
In Slavie folklore, what creature that resembles a ferocious-looking old woman flies around in a pestle and mortar and lives in [a hut with chicken’s legs?
Baba Yaga
In contract bridge, what name is given to the hand opposite the declarer? This word also describes something that can be put in the mouth.
Dummy
In the British advert, on what foodstuff were people encouraged to “go to work on”?
An egg
At the 2023 Tony Awards, two non-binary actors won awards. Who was awarded Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for their portrayal of Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot? They also portrayed Andre Mayem in a Broadway production of Mrs Doubtfire.
J Harrison Ghee
In the UK honours system, which order is limited to 65 members? The insignia includes the motto “IN ACTION FAITHFUL AND IN HONOUR CLEAR”. The three most recent recipients are physician John Bell; writer lan McEwan; and fashion mogul Anna WIntour.
Companion of Honour
In taxonomy which species are humans?
Homo Sapiens
Kaarija came second at Eurovision in 2023, with the song “Cha Cha Cha”. He represented which country?
Finland
1b
Which daytime TV presenter was arrested for shoplifting a bottle of champagne from a Tesco in Manchester in 1994?
Richard Madeley
In the song “You’re So Vain”, to whom has Carly Simon confirmed she was referring when singing “you gave away the things you love and one of them was me”?
Warren Beatty
In medicine, which part of the body is better viewed through a fundoscope?
Retina (eye)
In the UK honours system, which order is limited to 24 living members, all of whom are selected by the monarch? Among the most recent recipients are broadcaster Floella Beniamin and scientist Paul Nurse.
Order of Merit
Which river forms much of the border between Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire?
Wye
Who won the 2023 Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for their portrayal of Lulu in Shucked? They also portrayed Unique Adams on the TV series Glee.
Alex Newell
One of the question writers was born on November 28th. Which sign of the Western Zodiac does their birthday fall on?
Sagittarius
In taxonomy in which family are humans
Hominids
Labour MPs are also affected by boundary changes, including which Labour MP, who represents Leeds West?
Rachel Reeves
In the British advert, what foodstuff helped people “work, rest and play” if eaten daily?
Mars Bar
In contract bridge, what term is used for playing a trump over an opponent’s card? This word also describes something that can be put around the neck.
Ruff
In March 2023, Roger Penrose’s discovery of two periodic tiles was improved upon, with researchers discovering a single shape that can tile the plane periodically. Informally called a “hat”, this is also known by what name, which in German is a play on words on the unique nature of the tile?
Einstein
On Saturday, who became Wimbledon Ladies singles champion? This Czech player was the first unseeded player in the Open Era to win the title.
Marketa Vondrousova
The title of what E.M. Forster novel based on the author’s time abroad is taken from a Walt Whitman poem in the ‘Leaves of Grass’ collection?
A passage to India
Who composed La Gioconda?
Amilcare Ponchielli
Who composed entry of the gladiators?
Julius Fucik
Who composed Parade of the Tin Soldiers?
Leon Jessel
What state is Goddard space centre in?
Maryland
She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954).
Dorothy Dandridge
Actress married to miles Davis in the 1980s, garnered widespread attention and critical acclaim for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder (1972), for which she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cicely Tyson
Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011
Loretta Devine
starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as three New York City drag queens who embark on a road trip
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round and reprised the role in the 1961 film version. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman (1966–1967).
Julie Newmar
first person to propose that the earth revolves around the sun, Ancient Greek in third century BC
Aristarchus of Samos
Morwegian striker who walked off before women’s world game against Switzerland in July 2023
Ada Hegerberg
With her book subtitled ‘River of Grass,’ environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known for her work in protecting what natural area?
Everglades
Slogan “a diamond is forever” created by which company
De Beers
Which salad vegetable comes in gardeners delight and moneymaker varieties?
Tomato
Lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during space race born 1907 in Ukraine
Sergei Korolev
What sumame links an American golfer known for his trademark plus-fours, an England wicket-keeper, and a Formula One champion from Dunbartonshire?
Stewart (Payne, Alec, Jackie)
16 Barbara Vine was the pseudonym of which crime writer?
Ruth Rendell
Royal Air Force motto
Per Ardua Ad Astra (through adversity to the stars)
20 Rembrandt’s painting The Shipbuilder and his Wife hangs in the
Picture Gallery at which royal residence?
Buckingham Palace
23 Which detective investigates a murder in the Agatha Christie novel Mrs McGinty’s Dead?
Hercule Poirot
24 Ensaïmada is a traditional sweet bread from which Mediterranean
Island?
Majorca
25 How many legs does a Common Tsessebe have?
Four (antelope)
26 The Three Seas Initiative is a forum of twelve EU states bordering Baltic Sea
the Adriatic, Black, and which other sea?
Baltic Sea
In which London park is annual wireless festival held in 2023?
Finsbury Park
28 Which city In Pakistan is famous for being the “twin city” of Islamabad and the birthplace of cricketer Shoaib Akhtar?
Rawalpindi
29 Which French luxury fashion house sells the Steeple and Fourbi ranges of handbags?
Hermes
30 If a “Madonna piercing” is on the right side of the mouth, what name is given to one on the left side?
Monroe Piercing
Which of the gospels in the Bible tells the story of Mary and Joseph’s “flight into Egypt” with the infant Jesus?
Matthew
Which artistic gymnast has competed in eight Olympics for USA, Uzbekistan and Germany? Won team gold in 1992 and silver for vault.
Oksana Chusovitina
Which female Brazilian gymnast has competed at five Olympics from 2000-16?
Daniele Hypolito
Which Canadian equestrianist has record 10 Olympics at Olympics spanning 1972-2012?
Ian Millar
Which female Georgian shooter has appeared at nine summer Olympics from 1988 to 2020? Won a gold and silver in 1988 and a bronze in 2008.
Nino Salukvadze
Which British archer represented GB at six consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2012 winning a bronze in 2004 athens?
Alison Williamson
Which female British equestrian represented Britain six times 1992-2012 winning team silver twice and team bron4 once.
Mary King
35 Held every two years in Lyon, the Bocuse d’Or is one of the world’s most prestigious competitions in which fleld?
Cookery
36 Which prison, now known as HM Prison Manchester, was the suffragette Emily Davison sent to for throwing rocks at the carriage of David Lloyd George?
Strangeways
37 Which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta features Strephon the half-fairy and Phyllis the shepherdess?
Iolanthe
39 Which fast-growing plant group is grouped into clumping and
running varieties?
Bamboo
41 Which traditional Brazillan dessert consists of condensed milk, butter, and cocoa powder coated in sprinkles?
Brigadeiros
45 What word completes the title of the 1961 Oscar-winning film
Splendour in the
?
Grass
46 What is the surname of the family whose four generations are followed in Samuel Butler’s novel The Way of All Flesh?
Pontifex
47 Which politican and coffee company owner was elected president of Panama in 1999?
Mireya Moscoso
49 Bordetella vaccine is administered by vets for protection against which animal disease?
Kennel Cough
HULL CITY PLAYERS: Which former Hull City player, played for the Tigers from
2014-2020, scoring 52 goals in 124 games despite predominantly playing as a winger? After winning Player of the Season twice at Hull, this man was bought by West Ham United for E25m, where he’s continued to impress, making his England debut in 2022 and most recently, scoring West Ham’s winning goal in the 2023 Europa Conference League final against Fiorentina.
Jarrod Bowen
SPIEL DES JAHRES WINNERS: Which board game won the Spiel des Jahres in 1983 and involves a team of players working together to track down a a player controlling a criminal as they move around the streets of London?
This game is named after the headquarters of the London Metropolitan
Police.
Scotland Yard
6RTS GAMES: It’s fourth main game entry hitting shelves in 2021, which realtime strategy video game series has sold over 25 million copies worldwide?
This game focuses on historical events, allowing players to take control of historical forces such as the British or the Ottomans.
Age of Empires
2023 ASHES: Which all-rounder, known for his off spin bowling, announced he was coming out of retirement of international test cricket in June 2023, to replace the injured Jack Leach for the first Ashes Test? This man remains England’s Vice Captain in the limited overs cricket and was in both England’s
2019 World Cup winning side, and England’s 2022 T20 World Cup winning side.
Moeen Ali
SPIEL DES JAHRES WINNERS: Which French game developed by Jean-Louis
Roubira, requires players to use a deck of cards containing dreamlike illustrations, to match a title suggested by the storyteller? A plethora of expansions have been released including ‘Daydreams’ and ‘Révelations’.
Dixit
14 CLASSIC R&B/SOUL: Which US R&B group, with a geographically inspired name, had a US Billboard top 5 hit with “Shining Star”? Their biggest hit was the US Billboard Number 1 “kiss and Say Goodbye”, which peaked at Number 4 in the UK in 1973.
The Manhattans
16 RTS GAMES: Combining RTS with turn-based strategy, which video game series has games set across different continents and eras, including
“Shogun”, “Rome” and “Medieval”? A modified version of the “Rome” variant was used in the TV show Time Commanders and the latest instalment
“Pharoah” is to be released in 2023.
Total War
18 2023 ASHES: Which right arm fast bowler is captaining Australia in the current Ashes tour? Currently ranked 3rd in the Men’s ICC Test Bowler rankings, this man played for the Kolkata Knight Riders from 2020-2022 in the IPL.
Pat Cummins
20 GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR SONGS: A medley of three distinctive musical passages, which Wings hit is playable within the game? The song begins
“stuck inside these four walls, sent inside forever”
Band on the Run
22 HULL CITY PLAYERS: Which hometown boy scored the 2008 Wembley winner, a volley from the edge of the box, to see Hull beat Bristol City 1-0 and gain promotion to the Premier League for the first time? Playing in the Premier League with Hull, Bradford and Middlesbrough, this stocky striker scored 198 goals across his career and has also appeared as a pundit on Sky Sports since retiring in 2012. His son scored the winner for Sheffield Wednesday in the League One Final in May 2023, in their 1-0 defeat of Barnsley,
Dean Windass
Jackie Wilson was originally in which group before leaving and released Reet Petite?
The Dominoes
25 STEPHEN KING ADAPTATIONS: Adapted from Stephen Kings short story collection Night Shift, which horror film series (with 8 instalments) began in 1984? Set in the fictitious town of Gatlin, Nebraska, sequels in this franchise have subtitles including ‘Urban Harvest’ and ‘Fields of Terror”
Children of the Corn
26 RTS GAMES: The “Dawn of War” RTS game series are set in which universe?
Based on a table-top game, races within this series include the Eldar and Tau.
Warhammer
31 ANIMATED TV SHOWS: Which Netflix anthology series (albeit with a few live action episodes), has a generally sci-fi/fantasy theme, where each episode is produced by a different animation studio? 3 seasons of this show have run so far, with the ‘Three Robots episode a mainstay of each series. In a further link to this quiz, the series is produced by David Fincher.
Love, Death & Robots
32 HULL CITY PLAYERS: Which Brazilian scored Hull’s first Premier League goal against Fulham on the opening day of the 2008/09 season? Also playing for Barcelona and Benfica, this ‘magician’ is best remembered for his winning goal for Manchester City in the 2007 Manchester Derby, and for hitting a screamer against Arsenal at the Emirates, that saw Hull claim a famous 2-1 away victory.
Geovanni
35 STEPHEN KING ADAPTATIONS: Which 2023 horror film is a loose adaptation of another Stephen King short story from his collection Night Shift? Directed by Rob Savage, the film follows a family haunted by the titular creature.
The Boogeyman
36 RTS GAMES: Subtitled ‘Reign of Chaos and followed up with the expansion
‘The Frozen Throne’, which 2002 RTS game is one of the best selling of all time? Players can play as one of the Orcs, Humans, Undead or Night Elves in this predecessor to one of the best selling MMORPG games of all time.
(Name and number required).
Warcraft III
38 2023 ASHES: Currently the highest ranking spin bowler in the world according to the ICC Men’s Test Bowling Rankings, which Australian off spin bowler has taken 8 wickets in the opening test? This man is Australia’s third highest wicket taker of all time and is nicknamed Garry by his teammates, due to sharing a surname with a legendary. AFL broadcaster.
Nathan Lyon
39 GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR SONGS: Featured three times in Guitar World
Tour, which American rock band are fronted by Maynard James Keenan? In the game, players can attempt “Schism”, “Vicarious” and “Parabola” by this band.
Tool
40 ANIMATED TV SHOWS: After huge success with The Simpsons and Futurama, Matt Groening went onto create which fantasy animated series for Netflix which began in 2018? The series follows Bean, a princess from Dreamland, alongside her personal demon Luci and friend Elfo.
Disenchantment
What is the name of the fictional scorer in the BBC quiz programme I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, frequently the butt of jokes with outrageous innuendo and double entendres?
Samantha
Played by Elizabeth Sladen, what was the name of the long serving companion of Dr Who, an investigative journalist who appeared in programmes from 1973 to 2005, before getting her own spin-off series from 2007 until 2011?
Sarah Jane Smith
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Which actress starred as a football manager in Channel 4’s The Manageress, performed in Strictly Come Dancing in 2008, and in Series 5 of Strike in 2022, but is probably best remembered as an urbane coffee sipper in Kenco coffee adverts from the 1990s?
Cherie Lunghi
18 Which sport did American political commentator George Will write
“combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings”?
American Football
19 How is Khufu, the second Pharaoh of the Egyptian Fourth Dynasty, generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, better known?
Cheops
20 Which surname connects a British bronze medal winner in the 400m
hurdles in the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Tasha Danvers
23 Which four letter word may mean an ally of James Bond in You Only Live Twice, Francine’s adoptive parents in American Dad, a member of the cod family of fish, or a northern English name for heather?
Ling
24 The top three wicket-takers in Ashes history are all Australians: Shane
Warne, Glenn McGrath and Hugh Trumble. Who is the highest wicket-taking Englishman in Ashes history, who was in the same year at school as rugby player Tom Croft?
Stuart Broad
25 Which organisation was founded in 1961 with the slogan “legal, decent, honest and truthful”?
Advertising Standards Authority
26 In a system dating from the 18th Century, what is measured by the weight, in fractions of a pound, of a solid sphere of lead?
The gauge of a shotgun
30 Which wind instrument is sometimes known as the French Harp?
Harmonica
In Physics what name is given to a wave which oscillates in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels in? Light and the ‘s’ waves produced by earthquakes are examples of these.
Transverse
The deflection of starlight by what body in our Solar System was the 2nd of Albert Einstein’s classical tests of general relativity he proposed in 1915? Frank Dyson and Arthur Eddington organised expeditions to observe a Solar eclipse in 1919, in Brazil and African island of Principe and verified the deflection was the amount predicted by general relativity.
The Sun
12 Resembling and related to the Bald Eagle. What large eagle is the national bird of Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe? It features on the Flag of Zambia and possibly on the Flag of Zimbabwe.
African Fish Eagle
15 Which free and open source distribution of the Linux operating system, first released in 2004 takes its name the Nguni (a cultural group including Zulu and Xhosa) philosophy for “humanity to others”?
Ubuntu
Named after an American astrobiologist (1930-2022). Whose famous equation details a probabilistic argument that can be used to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations with which humans could communicate in the Milky Way?
Drake Equation
20 Named after an Austrian printer and mineralogist who first noticed them in 1808, what name is given to the criss-crossing geometrical pattern of iron -nickel mineral crystals found in some iron meteorites after it has been cut and etched?
Widmanstatten Pattern
Oscar for best supporting actress nomination for Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime 1981, played Cora Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey?
Elizabeth McGovern
Played Marcus Summer in Vera and private detective Karim Washington in netflix The OA. Starred as Malcolm X in 2020 One Night in Miami. Played Gravik in Secret Invasion.
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Who is the woman on the bench in Barbie, she is a two time winner for best costume design Oscar for The English Patient and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom?
Ann Roth
Ben Mendelsohn’s character name in Secret Invasion 2023 show former leader of the Skrulls and ally of Fury.
Talos
British actor who sue to play captain nemo in nautilus on disney plus, Clem Fandango on Toast of London and dr Jekyll and mr Hyde on Penny dreadful. Also on spooks and Star Trek discovery.
Shazad Latif
What is the first name of the American football player Mr Young, who won the Heisman trophy and was the first pick of the 2023 draft?
Bryce
Name either belligerent army in the 1787 Battle of Caransebes which is remembered as one of the biggest incidencies of “Friendly Fire” recorded? It is claimed up to 100,000 people were killed
Austria or Ottoman Empire
The song “My name is” was Eminem’s first top 40 hit in the USA. It sampled a distinctive bass and guitar riff from Labi Siffre’s 1970s hit “ got the” What British rock duo played that Riff? They’d go on to great success in the 80s
Chas and Dave
What does the acronym ANPR stand for in a Policing context?
Automatic Number Plate Recognition
Name and regal number please of the Scottish King who was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle in 1460? He was the first Scottish monarch not to be crowned at Scone
James II
Surname beginning with Q, which British actress was the star of the sitcom “Kiss me Kate”?
Caroline Quentin
Surname beginning with Q, which actress became a well known face on TV following her role of Sharon in Birds of a Feather? She also played the title character in the detective show Maisie Raine
Pauline Quirke
The American chemist Alice Ball invented the “Ball method”, an effective treatment for which long-term bacterial disease?
Leprosy
In the Chas and Dave song Snooker loopy, what snooker star of the 1980s is described thus “London bred and he keeps his head, Though he’s got Italian roots”?
Tony Meo
Chas and Dave’s style could be classified under what rhyming subgenre of Blues? This music became popular during the late 1920s but had developed in African-American communities since the 1870s. The Andrews sisters referenced this style one of their biggest hits
Boogie Woogie
Which American former professional Tennis player with a surname beginning with “Q” holds the record for consecutive service aces in a match with 10? He set this record in 2007
Sam Querrey
Surname beginning with Q; which British actor was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days? He also starred in Lawrence of Arabia and The Guns of Navarone
Anthony Quayle
In the UK law enforcers needing to check on someone’s name or address will refer to the P.N.C. What does PNC stand for in this context?
Police National Computer
Goals from Guijarro and Rolfo saw which side win the 2023 Woman’s
Champion’s League football final?
Barcelona
In what year will Halley’s Comet next be visible to the naked eye?
2061
Halleys Comet last seen in which year, next seen in 2061?
1986
Thich French painter (1882 to 1963) is usually credited alongside Pablo icasso as the founder of Cubism?
Georges Braque
The phrase “form follows function” coined by which architect?
Louis Sullivan
The American style of bread known as ‘johnnycake’ - a kind of commeal flatbread, similar to a pancake - is considered a staple in which of the ten US states that has a two-word name? HP Lovecraft and Cormac McCarthy may have enjoyed a slice of this bread when they were young as they were both born in this state
Rhode Island
Surname beginning with Q, which American actor has now played Spock in 3 Star Trek movies? He also played Glenn Greenwald in the 2016 movie “Snowden”
Zachary Quinto
In British policing what is the job of someone referred to by the acronym “s.O.C.O”?
Scene of crime officer
What was the name of the film being recorded when Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed the producer Halyna Hutchins in 2021? One word, 4-letters
Rust
Which French King took up residency at the Lazienki Palace in Warsaw between 1801 and 1804? This was around the same time that Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France
Louis XVIII
45 Joan Quigley, a friend of Nancy Reagan, was in the news on a number of occasions in the 1980s. What was her job?
Psychic
What “s” is a chickpea flour pancake native to Nice, Menton and Monaco which is best served hot with lashings of olive oil and a generous grind of black pepper? The name of this pancake sounds like a 1970s musical style which tried to revise traditional calypso music
Socca
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What was the first name of the nuclear physicist Mr Oganessian who played a lead role in the discovery of the heaviest chemical elements, and who gives his name to Oganesson? 4-letter answer
Yuri
Which almond filling used in cakes, tarts and pastries is thought to be named after the perfumer to King Louis XIll of France? This almond custard is used in the making of a Bakewell Tart
Frangipane
Despite being overweight (at least for a top sportsman), which Scouse man with a surname beginning with Q, scored 57 goals in little over 100 games for Newcastle United in the late 1980s, early 19905
Micky Quinn
Catalan film director who directed House of Wax, Orphan and the Shallows? Also Unknown, Non-Stop, Run All Night and The Commuter with Liam Neeson. Also directed Jungle Cruise and Black Adam.
Jaume Collet-Serra
Film that Robert Redford has the meme where he looks like Zach Galifianakis
Jeremiah Johnson
who has served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate since 2023? Senator from Washington since 1993.
Patty Murray
Welsh former football player and manager at both club and international level. He is the father of television presenter Gabby Logan.
Terry Yorath
Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927).
Aloha Wanderwell
Director of Ad Astra, Armageddon Time, the lost city of Z.
James Gray
Which football Fern scored the first goal of women’s World Cup 2023?
Hannah Wilkinson
Who scored philippines first ever fifa women’s World Cup goal against New Zealand in July 2023?
Sarina Bolden
