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Acronym GINK referring to people with no kids for environmental reasons stands for what?
Green Inclinations No Kids
the brand name for a range of die-cast zamak zinc alloy scale model vehicles, traffic lights, and road signs produced by British toy company Meccano Ltd. They were made in England from 1934 to 1979, at a factory in Binns Road in Liverpool.
Dinky Toys
American brand of scale model cars invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on May 18, 1968, main competitor to British company Matchbox.
Hot Wheels
a pull-string “talking” doll originally created by Ruth and Elliot Handler and manufactured by the Mattel toy company from 1959 to 1965
Chatty Cathy
For what does FIRE stand for in FIRE movement, a lifestyle movement with the goal of gaining the initialled goal. The model became particularly popular among millennials in the 2010s, gaining traction through online communities via information shared in blogs, podcasts, and online discussion forums.
Financial Independence Retire Early
His voice roles include Bugs Bunny in the 1996 film Space Jam and several subsequent projects, the title characters of Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, as well as the Futurama characters Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan and many more.
Billy West
Ren and Stimpy, Ren is which specific breed of animal?
Chihuahua
Ren and Stimpy, Stimpy is which specific breed of animal?
Manx Cat
An animated television series and sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and produced by Jumbo Pictures, airing from August 11, 1991 to June 26, 1999 on Nickelodeon and ABC. The show focuses on the early adolescent life and zany hijinks of its title character in hometown of Bluffington.
Doug
Which pianist played alongside Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa in Goodman’s
jazz trio?
Teddy Wilson
Gene Krupa known for which instrument?
Drums
Released in 1973, what was the first James Bond film to star Roger Moore?
Live and Let Die
A portrait of Ulysses S. Grant appears on which denomination US dollar bill?
$50
Which surname originally meant a female baker?
Baxter
In Einstein’s equation E=mc2 what does the letter E represent and m stand?
Energy and Mass
Active mainly in the 1930s and 40s, who was Chesney Allen’s double-act partner?
Bud Flanagan
Based on the results of a poll of the readers of FIFA Magazine and members of
the FIFA committee, which American footballer was voted FIFA female player of
the 20th century? She won the Golden Shoe at the 1991 World Cup
Michelle Akers
Which Norwegian footballer won best player at the 1995 World Cup held in Sweden? Later went on to manage England at 2021 Olympics.
Hege Riise
Which Norwegian footballer won golden shoe at 1995 world cup in Sweden won by Norway?
Ann Kristin Aarones
First womens world cup held in which country in 1991? MIchelle Akers won the golden shoe.
China
1999 Womens World Cup which Brazilian won jointly the golden shoe with 9 goals?
Sissi
1999 Womens World Cup which Chinese player won jointly the golden shoe with 9 goals and also the best player award?
Sun Wen
Hosted in the USA, the 2003 Womens World Cup was won by Germany and which player won the Golden Shoe for 7 goals and also player of tournament?
Birgit Prinz
2007 Womens World Cup hosted in China, Germany won their second title, which Brazilian won golden shoe with 7 goals and won best player?
Marta
2011 Womens World Cup held in Germany and won by Japan, which Japanese footballer won top scorer and best player?
Homare Sawa
2015 Womens World Cup held in Canada and won by USA, which American won joint golden shoe and won best player?
Carli Lloyd
Which German was co-winner of golden shoe at the 2015 womens world cup with 6 goals?
Celia Sasic
Who won golden shoe at the 2023 womens world cup?
Hinata Miyazawa
Which Spaniard who plays for Barcelona won Best Young Player at the 2023 Womens world cup?
Salma Paralluelo
Until his death in 1984, Lennard Pearce played a character with what relation to
Del Boy and Rodney in the TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses?
Grandad
Which TV soap’s first episode was broadcast on Channel 4’s opening day, in
1982?
Brookside (Hollyoaks was 1995)
Which artist painted the 19th century works Three Lovers and The Wounded
Cuirassier?
Theodore Gericault
The Bagan Empire, also known as the Kingdom of Pagan, was a kingdom
located in which modern-day Southeast Asian country?
Myanmar
One of the first fighting games to use 3D animation, which game, associated with
the playstation and published by Bandai Namco, allowed players to fight as Kuma
the bear, Nina Williams and Marshall Law?
Tekken
Which surname originally meant a female weaver?
Webster
Moon Beams, Explorations and Portrait in Jazz are albums by trios led by which
jazz pianist?
Bill Evans
Released in 1985, what was the last James Bond film to star Roger Moore?
A View to a Kill
Who succeeded Jeremy Thorpe as leader of the UK Liberal Party, and remained
in office until the party merged with the Social Democrats to form the Liberal
Democrats?
David Steel
Published by Sega, which game is widely recognised as the first 3D fighting
game to be released? Players can fight as Wolf Hawkfield, Sarah Bryant and
Akira Yuki.
Virtua Fighter
In September 2023 Channel 4 announced that which long-running soap opera
would be removed from its schedule but remain on E4 and streaming services?
Hollyoaks
Which artist painted the 20th century works Grey Tree and Trafalgar Square?
Piet Mondrian
What is the process in which a body of water becomes progressively enriched
with minerals and nutrients, often leading to the appearance of algae blooms on
the surface of the water?
Eutrophication
a process involving the hydrolysis of fats on its reaction with alkali, thereby leading to the formation of salts of fatty acids and glycerol
Saponification
The first advert shown on ITV was for which product?
Gibbs SR Toothpaste
Founded by Mark Dixon, which company is the biggest serviced office provider in
the UK?
Regus
Richard Stilgoe wrote the original lyrics for which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?
Starlight Express
The Leaf is a popular make of electric car by which manufacturer?
Nissan
Hyundai luxury division car brand?
Genesis
Marbella and Torremolinos are on which Spanish Costa?
Costa Del Sol
In which sport are positions of ruckman and centre half-forward?
Australian Rules Forward
Which tennis player who reached final of 2023 Australian Open is coached by his father Apostolos?
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Which word completes the name of the comedy folk band from St Helens, the Lancashire ______, whose members include Dickie Ticker?
The Lancashire Hotpots
The Swale is a tidal channel of the Thames estuary that separates which island from the rest of Kent?
Sheppey
Which poem by John Keats begins “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!”?
To Autumn
Which of the 31 members of NATO comes first alphabetically?
Albania
Eliza’s dads name in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady?
Alfred
Which unit of time is a one billionth of a second?
Nanosecond
Which two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, performed on same bill, are set in dining room of the Beauregard Private Hotel in Bournemouth?
Separate Tables
Sharing his name with a planet, which Greek god was father of Titans?
Uranus
Who is only European golfer to win both Masters and US Open?
Jon Rahm
In which building in Paris, whose crypt contains remains of many national heroes, did Leon Foucault construct a pendulum beneath central dome in 1851?
Pantheon
The final commemorative stamps of Elizabeth II celebrated which centenary, they were sold in March 2023?
Flying Scotsman
Established in 1897 and usually third Monday in April which city holds the world’s oldest marathon?
Boston
Which of the six major world marathons is held earliest in the year in March since 2019? February before.
Tokyo
Which of the six major world marathons is held latest in the year in November?
New York
Which European runner won the London and Chicago marathons making her first female european winner since Paula Radcliffe’s New York marathon wins in 2007 and 2008?
Sifan Hassan
British Paralympic wheelchair athlete. He has won a total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games, and has won the London Marathon on eight occasions. He was born with a spinal cord transection that left him unable to use his legs.
David Weir
All time great in male wheelchair marathon, which Swiss has won 26 world major marathons since 2016?
Marcel Hug
Which American wheelchair marathon has won 8 world major marathons since 2018? Last ones Boston 2022, Chicago 2021.
Daniel Romanchuk
Which female wheelchair marathoner has won 22 world major marathons since 2016?
Manuela Schar
American paralympic athlete of Russian descent has won 20 paralympic medals and 7 world major marathons since 2016?
Tatyana McFadden
Kenyan long-distance runner and the marathon world record holder. This runner is the only person in history to run the marathon in under two hours and one minute in a record-eligible race. Won 2023 London and Chicago in his first two major world marathon wins.
Kelvin Kiptum
Principal conductor of the Halle orchestra between 1943 and 1970?
John Barbirolli
In Greek myth, which Titan, the youngest, castrated his father and threw genitalia into the sea?
Cronos
Who was the last golfer from England to win a major championship?
Matt Fitzpatrick
Which supermarket has its roots in a Blackpool shop called The China House which opened in 1847?
Booths
Alfred Radio is a community station that broadcasts from Shaftesbury in which county?
Dorset
Which London station is the subject of the painting of William Powell Frith’s 1862 painting The Railway Station?
Paddington
In which city is a mens tennis tournament held in April with matches on Court Rainier III and Court des Princes?
Monte Carlo
The debut studio album by which indie rock band from Wigan How Beautiful Life Can Be debuted at number one in the UK charts in October 2021?
The Lathums
Blakeney Point is a national nature reserve on the North coast of which county in England?
Norfolk
Which poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ends “if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
Ode to the West Wind
Who led the English forces at Battle of Poitiers in 1356?
Edward the Black prince
Timmy Tiptoes is what animal in beatrix potter?
Squirrel
In NFL, which position must wear numbers between 0 and 19?
Quarterbacks
Which australian born singer had number one singles in usa with “i am woman” in 1972 and “angie baby” in 1974?
Helen Reddy
What is title of recent BBC tv drama that centred on the Brink’s Mat robbery in 1983?
The Gold
Old Honiton, Genoese and Mechlin are all types of what?
Lace
What is the nickname of former England cricket captain Sir Alastair Cook?
Chef/Cookie
In 1990, which former Soviet Republic was the first to declare its
independence from the USSR?
Lithuania
The village of Edwinstowe, close to the Major Oak, is in which English
forest?
Sherwood
A global ambassador for The Prince’s Trust, which award winning male
American singer appeared at the Coronation Concert?
Lionel Richie
Two other European countries are in the same time zone as the UK and
Ireland. Name either.
Portual and Iceland
The name of which East Lancashire town was changed around 1848 from
Marsden, to avoid confusion between this town and the one in West
Yorkshire?
Nelson
In 2009, STV held a vote to decide who was the greatest ever Scot. Which
20th century scientist, knighted in 1944, came third in the list behind Robert
Bruce and William Wallace?
Alexander Fleming
In the apartheid era in South Africa, the police were known to use a
weapon called a sjambok (pron SHAM-BOCK). What type of weapon was it?
Whip
The two largest ceramic tile producers in Europe, PAMESA and STN Group,
are both based in which country?
Spain
The last official battle of World War 1 occurred on 11th November 1918
when the Canadians recaptured which Belgian town from the Germans,
who had held it since 1914?
Mons
Which of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wears a red bandana?
Raphael (for R)
Which of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wears a blue bandana?
Leonardo (Mona Lisa looking blue)
Which of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wears a orange bandana?
Michelangelo (David’s hanging oranges)
Which of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wears a purple bandana?
Donatello (royal purple)
A deck of tarot cards is divided into 56 suit cards and 22 others made up of
a fool and 21 trumps. Respectively, these are known as the minor and
major what?
Arcana
The 13th Duke of Argyll is the Chief of which Scottish clan?
Campbell
Which post war British architectural style is characterised by minimalist
constructions, usually with angular shapes and in a monochrome colour?
Examples include Preston Bus Station and Piccadilly Plaza in Manchester
Brutalism
In which part of England would something very good or excellent be
described as Bosting or Bostin’?
West Midlands
Probably most well known for his work with the Temptations, which songwriter wrote or co-wrote 61 hits on the UK charts and 92 on the US charts, often working with Barrett Strong?
Norman Whitfield
Which songwriter was behind Rose Royce’s Car Wash, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, I Heard It through the grapevine? Working with Barrett Strong.
Norman Whitfield
Together, they wrote some of the most successful and critically acclaimed soul songs ever to be released by Motown, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by both Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips; “War” by Edwin Starr; “Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)” by Marvin Gaye; “Smiling Faces Sometimes” by the Undisputed Truth; and the long line of “psychedelic soul” records by the Temptations, including “Cloud Nine”, “I Can’t Get Next to You”, “Psychedelic Shack”, “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)”, and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”, amongst others.
Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield
A leather belt with a supporting strap going over the right shoulder is
named after which British Indian Army General?
Sir Samuel BROWNE
The Sault Ste Marie International Bridge connects two cities of that name,
one in the Canadian province of Ontario and one in which US State?
Michigan
The ITV police series “Grace” is set in and around which city?
Brighton
Who stars as Roy Grace in ITV show “Grace” set in Brighton?
John Simm
Who played DI Lisa Armstrong in first two seasons of ITV show The Bay? Aslo appeared in The A Word and Grantchester.
Morven Christie
The show first featured Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton), and subsequently vicar William Davenport (Tom Brittney), each of whom develop a sideline in sleuthing with the help of Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, played by Robson Green. Based on short stories by James Runcie.
Grantchester
A play on his name, which Australian cricket umpire and former Test
cricketer is nicknamed Pistol?
Paul Reiffel
In 1991, which country was the first former state of Yugoslavia to declare its independence?
Slovenia
The towns of Coleford and Cinderford are in which English forest?
Forest of Dean
At the Coronation concert, Welsh opera singer Sir Bryn Terfel sang a duet
with which other opera star?
Andrea Boccelli
Apart from India, which other country is in the time zone of five and a half
hours ahead of GMT?
sri lanka
Electrolux AB, the second largest producer of domestic electrical
appliances in the world, is based in which European country?
Sweden
Which Chinese company is the largest producer of domestic electrical appliances in the world?
Midea
The last military operation of World War 2 in Europe actually came after VE
Day, when Soviet troops liberated which European capital city?
Prague
What is the exact date of VE Day?
8th May 1945
What date is celebrated as VJ Day in UK?
15th August 1945
Which actress appeared in her last film “With Six, You Get Eggroll” in 1968 and spent much of the remaining fifty years of her life involved in animal welfare?
Doris Day
Which shade of blue derives its name from the Latin words for sea water?
Aquamarine
Which card game is played using two packs of cards without the two to six
cards, i.e. a total of 64 cards? From Persian for juggler.
Bezique
The 12th Duke of Atholl is the Chief of which Scottish clan?
Murray
Which British architectural movement of the second half of the 19th century
was influenced by the architecture prevalent in Europe between the 12th
and 16th centuries? Examples are Manchester Town Hall and St Pancras
Railway Station in London.
GOTHIC REVIVAL (accept
NEO-GOTHIC or
VICTORIAN GOTHIC)
In which part of England does the word Gadgie mean a man or a bloke?
North East
For over 60 years, who has been the husband and song writing partner of
Cynthia Weil?
Barry Mann
office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood, famous for housing music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular American songs were written.
Brill Building
Who wrote song “Somewhere Out There” for film An American Tail winning a Grammy with husband Barry Mann? Also wrote On Broadway, I Just Cant Help Believing, Saturday Night at the Movies.
Cynthia Weil
In books and comic strips, what is the name of Billy Bunter’s sister, who had
a great deal in common with her brother?
Bessie
Who created Billy Bunter?
Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards
What name is given to the type of cap worn by soldiers in the Royal
Regiment of Scotland, which shares its name with a river valley near Loch
Ness?
Glengarry
What name is given to the place of worship used by Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Kingdom Hall
Which annual publication is edited by Lawrence Booth?
Wisdens Cricketer Almanack
Situated on top of a grass mound, what is the name of the largest
remaining part of York Castle?
Cliffords Tower
Hackney carriages or licensed taxis in Leeds are all painted in which two
colours?
Black and White
Smartglasses released by Snap Inc. featuring a camera lens and are capable of recording short video segments and syncing with a smartphone to upload to the user’s online account. Colloquial name for sunglasses.
Spectacles
Rayban smartglasses created as a collaboration between Meta Platforms and EssilorLuxottica. The product includes two cameras, open-ear speakers, a microphone, and touchpad, all built into the frame. Name includes something you can add on facebook.
Rayban Stories
brand of smart glasses developed and sold by Google. It was developed by X (previously Google X), with the mission of producing a ubiquitous computer Stopped completely in 2023
Google Glass
American technology company that released a head-mounted augmented reality display which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects. It is attempting to construct a light-field chip using silicon photonics. Founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010, left in 2020 replaced by Peggy Johnson. Made through AT&T.
Magic Leap
an augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) headset developed and manufactured by Microsoft, owes its development from Microsoft Kinect used with Xboxes
HoloLens
Which word follows Bose ______ (Enjoy lifelike sound without headphones from Bose sunglasses with exclusive Bose open-ear audio technology) and Amazon Echo ______ (smart audio glasses that give you hands-free access to Alexa) to give two smart glasses products?
Frames
“Tulips from Amsterdam” was 1958 hit by which entertainer?
Max Bygraves
Which Jewish festival takes place 9 days after Rosh Hashanah?
Yom Kippur
tenth month of the lunar based Islamic calendar. Name stems from the verb shāla which means to ‘lift or carry’, generally to take or move things from one place to another, so named because a female camel normally would be carrying a fetus at this time of year
Shawwāl
Rosh Hashanah (1st Day), Yom Kippur (10th Day) and Sukkot (15th Day) are all in which Hebrew month?
Tishrei
Hannukah begins in which Hebrew month?
Kislev
Purim and Fast of Esther are in which Hebrew month?
Adar
Passover occurs in which Hebrew month?
Nisan
Third month of the Hebrew calendar, Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) is celebrated in this month?
Sivan
Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius and Gustav Holst all died in which year?
1934
Originally used as a rat poison, which drug is most commonly used to treat thrombosis and embolism?
Warfarin
Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral, designed by Frederick Gibberd, is built above the crypt for a much larger proposed building shelved for financial reasons, who designed the original?
Edwin Lutyens
Which national team were first to lose two World Cup finals?
Hungary (1938 and 1954)
What name is given to art of decorating an object by gluing coloured paper cut outs on to it, often with added paint effects?
Decoupage
The story of Lot and his wife turning into salt is in which book of bible?
Genesis
Who at the time of marriage was youngest wife of Henry VIII?
Catherine Howard
Historians no longer use AD for Anno Domini prefering to use which two letters?
CE (Common Era)
In 2022 World Cup, only team to beat champions Argentina?
Saudi Arabia
Which ship, first at the scene, picked up over 700 survivors of Titanic?
Carpathia
Which Yorkshire cricketer of Asian descent made allegations of racism regarding time at Yorkshire Cricket Club which were investigated in Squire Patton Boggs report?
Azeem Rafiq
In England, where or what are Decoy, Filby, Hickling, Ormesby, Rockland and Ranworth amongst others?
Norfolk Broads
His name commemorated in Wetherspoons opposite Manchester Town Hall, who designed Natural History Museum too?
Alfred Waterhouse
Which keyboard player made 1970s albums inspired by Henry VIII’s wifes, journey to centre of earth and Arthurian legend?
Rick Wakeman
Which sister ship of Titanic was lost during ww1 when hit a mine off Kea in Aegean Sea?
SS Britannic
What does USA call its version of BBC World Service?
Voice of America
In June 2022, following resignation of Imran Khan Tory MP, Labour’s Simon Lightwood won which constituency’s by-election?
Wakefield
Jazz musician Errol Garner is associated particularly with which instrument? Known for instrumental ballad ‘Misty’.
Piano
Three of the symphonies of which composer have the names or nicknames Tragic, Little C Major and Great C Major.
Franz Schubert
Netball game involves four playing periods each lasting how many minutes?
15 minutes
Octopus, Squid and Cuttlefish are members of which class of mollusc?
Cephalopoda
The title Earl of Essex was bestowed on which man, Henry VIII’s chief minister, shortly before his downfall and execution in 1540?
Thomas Cromwell
Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire was former home of which notable Briton?
Sir Isaac Newton
Which ingredient added to a basic bechamel sauce to produce a soubise sauce?
Onion
Which daughter sauce of french cuisine consists of velouté, a “mother sauce”, thickened with cream and strained?
Supreme
What savory sauce that is made from a roux and a light stock takes name from French for velvety?
Veloute
What type of sauce is a bechamel (white roux and milk) with shredded or grated cheese added?
Mornay Sauce
What mother sauce of French cuisine takes name from financier who held the honorary post of chief steward to King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century? Roux and milk, maybe ground nutmeg.
Bechamel
A Greek baked pasta dish with ground meat and béchamel sauce, with variations of the dish found in other countries of the Mediterranean Sea, name comes from the 16th century as “any manner of pastie or pye”.
Pastitsio
Named after a Napoleonic general who in turn was giving a dukedom named after a lake near Valencia, which sauce is based on a supreme sauce which in itself is derived from veloute sauce but with added meat glaze? Chiefly served with poultry and sweetbreads.
Albufera Sauce
What is a sauce in French cuisine based on a light-colored velouté sauce (typically veal; chicken and shellfish veloutés can also be used), but thickened with egg yolks and heavy cream, and seasoned with lemon juice? One of Careme’s four mother sauces but not one of Escoffier’s five mother sauces.
Allemande Sauce
Named after a French region, which culinary sauce prepared with velouté, fish velouté or fish stock, cream, butter and egg yolk as primary ingredients?
Normande Sauce
Which of Escoffier’s mother sauces is a brown sauce based on a brown stock reduction, and thickened with a brown roux. Ingredients typically include roasted bones, bacon, and tomato (puréed or fresh).
Espagnole sauce
Which of Escoffier’s mother sauces is a warm emulsion of egg yolk, melted butter, and lemon juice or vinegar?
Hollandaise
Classified as a petites sauce by Marie Antoine Careme, what is a peppery sauce used in French cuisine, a mirepoix thickened with flour, heavily seasoned with pepper?
Sauce Poivrade
Named after a town in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region known for its crayfish, what is a classical French sauce consisting of a bechamel base, cream and crayfish butter and tails?
Nantua sauce
What foodstuff is a mixture of creamed fish or meat, sometimes combined with breadcrumbs, with a light egg binding, formed into an egg-like shape, and then cooked from German for ‘dumpling’?
Quenelle
Which two word term used in French cooking is rich brown sauce in French cuisine used by itself or as a base for other sauces? It traditionally made by combining one part espagnole sauce and one part brown stock. The sauce is then reduced by half, strained of any leftover impurities, and finished with a sherry wine.
Demi-Glace
Which sauce is a sauce made of butter, egg yolk, white-wine vinegar, and herbs, particular tarragon? It is regarded as a child of hollandaise. Named after traditional province in the Pyrenees and served with steaks commonly.
Bearnaise
French chef credited with several well-known culinary innovations in the 1830s including Béarnaise sauce and Pommes soufflées (puffed potatoes)?
Jean-Louis-François Collinet
Who was the last Queen of France by marriage to Louis Philippe I (1830-48)? Grandchildren include Leopold II of Belgium, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (Tsar 1908-18), died in Claremont House Surrey in 1866.
Queen Marie-Amelie (Maria Amalia)
King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent 23 years in exile from 1791: during the French Revolution and the First French Empire (1804–1814), and during the Hundred Days.
Louis XVIII
King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile. Married to Marie Therese of Savoy.
Charles X
First president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870. Died in Chislehurst in 1873 and buried in St Michaels Abbey Farnborough.
Napoleon III
Who were the two wives of Napoleon Bonaparte?
Josephine de Beauharnais
Marie Louise of Austria
Napoleon II was born in Tuileries Palace in 1811 and died in which Viennese palace in 1832 from tuberculosis? It was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers and means beautiful spring.
Schonbrunn Palace
family of sauces and soups made with egg yolk and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken, comes from Greek for egg-lemon.
Avgolemono
a Belgian condiment commonly served with Belgian fries. The sauce is also popular and widely used throughout France. It consists of mayonnaise, tomato paste, and peppers, such as pimientos or roasted bell peppers, named after region of Spain.
Sauce Andalouse
From Italian for “lightly fried”, basic preparation in Mediterranean, Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking. It typically consists of aromatic ingredients cut into small pieces and sautéed or braised in cooking oil for a long period of time over a low heat. In Spanish, consists of garlic, onion and peppers cooked in Olive Oil.
Sofrito
international brand of seasonings, instant soups, and noodles that originated in Switzerland in the late 19th century. 1884 by Julius ______.
Maggi
a Georgian sauce primarily made of cherry plum, sometimes alucha or other varieties of plum. Both red and green varieties of plum are used. The flavor of the sauce varies, but generally tends to be pungently tart.
Tkemali
Meaning sauce of the pork butcher, what sauce is a Sauce Robert but with a garnishing of chopped gherkins?
Charcutiere
Made with demi-glace or espagnole sauce as a base, Minced mushrooms, butter, shallots and parsley with red wine and demi-glace?
Chasseur
thick purée in Greek cuisine and Turkish cuisine, made of garlic in a base of potatoes, walnuts, almonds or liquid-soaked stale bread mixed with olive oil in to make a smooth emulsion, to which some vinegar is added
Skordalia
a condiment from the Netherlands based on mayonnaise with mild curry spices. It is commonly offered in fast food restaurants in the Netherlands and Belgium, but is also available in grocery stores.
Joppiesaus
Cumberland sauce contains what fruit jelly?
Redcurrant
British condiment often made from a blend of tomatoes, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and black pepper, often credited to Fanny Cradock and served with seafood.
Marie Rose sauce
In September 2022, NASA crashed an object into asteroid Dimorphos in the DART programme, what does DART stand for?
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
According to nonsense poem by Edward Lear, who went to sea in a sieve?
The Jumblies
Which flower, referred to as gillyflower by Shakespeare and Chaucer, was once used as a treatment for fever and is now the symbol for mothering sunday?
Carnations
Who first published his American Dictionary of the Enlgihs Language in 1828?
Noah Webster
Whitby is at one end of the North York Moors heritage railway, in which town is the other terminus?
Pickering
Which style of hat was the trademark of musical comedy star Maurice Chevalier?
Straw Hat/Boater Hat
Which hobby involves using needles to sew different sizes and shapes of fabric onto a larger piece to make a design?
Applique
Fourchette is the French word for which item used on a daily basis?
Fork
Including the number ring, how many circular metal rings make up a traditional trebles dartboard?
7 (one on outside too)
Glasson Dock stands at the mouth of which river in Lancashire?
Lune
How many cans feature in the artwork Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, the number of varieties that company produced at the time?
32
The £ sign shares which number on QWERTY keyboard?
3
The $ sign shares which number on QWERTY keyboard?
4
The % sign shares which number on QWERTY keyboard?
5
The & sign shares which number on QWERTY keyboard?
7
The ! sign shares which number on QWERTY keyboard?
1
Who in 1796-98 composed the oratorio The Creation?
Joseph Haydn
Which actor, who played sports teacher Mr Sugden in the film Kes, also wrestled professionally as “Leon Arras the Man from Paris”?
Brian Glover
In 1955, the first Royal Variety Performance held outside London took place at the Opera House theatre in which town?
Blackpool
Clark Air Force Base, the largest overseas base of the US AIr FOrce was in which country?
Philippines
Which is the westernmost administrative region of mainland France?
Brittany
Who led the Welsh forces in the 1402 Battle of Bryn Glas?
Owain Glyndwr
Long Meg and her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle in which English county?
Cumbria
Who was first woman to walk in space?
Svetlana Savitskaya
Who founded the Carthusian Order in 1084?
Saint Bruno
MnO4 is which chemical compound?
Permanganate
Which event did Mary Peters win a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Pentathlon
Who founded a monastery on Lindisfarne in 634?
St Aidan
The Whitsunday Islands are off the coast of which Australian state?
Queensland
Which niece of Lord Capulet is Romeo’s unrequited love of Romeo at start of R&J?
Rosaline
In which battle of 1403 did an army led by Lancastrian King Henry IV defeat a rebel army led by Henry Percy from Northumberland?
Shrewsbury
James Todd Smith is the birth name of which rapper and actor who stars in tv spin off crime drama NCIS: LA
LL Cool J
In 1986, Andreas Whittam Smith was the first editor of which national newspaper, now online only, whose current editor is Geordie Greig?
The Independent
Which club has twice won the FA Cup in consecutive seasons this century?
Arsenal
Between 1968 and 1973 inhabitants of which island in the British Indian Ocean Territory were forcibly expelled so that a joint UK/US military base could be built there?
Diego Garcia
Who composed the oratorio Elijah first performed in 1846?
Felix Mendelssohn
Brian Glover played manservant Magersfontein Lugg in two TV series of Campion, who played title character?
Peter Davison
Munster cheese is from which country?
France
Three main ingredients go in to make Dauphinoise potatoes. Two are
potatoes and cream, what is the third?
Garlic
Situated in the South of the country, which of Germany’s 16 Laender or
states is the largest by area?
Bavaria
Which motor manufacturer makes the Grand Tourneo van?
Ford
What was the former name of Musselburgh racecourse?
Edinburgh
The character Jac Naylor died in the last programme of which long running
BBC drama series, which ended in 2022?
Holby City
Before becoming a founder member of Crosby, Stills and Nash, David Crosby had been a member of which American folk rock band?
The Byrds
Before becoming a founder member of Crosby, Stills and Nash, Graham Nash had been a member of which American folk rock band?
The Hollies
Two members of the extended Royal Family have Diana as a forename. One is Princess Charlotte, who is the other?
Lilibet
The Blaydon Bridge carries the A1 across which river?
Tyne
In 2004, which became the first malt whisky produced in Wales for over a
century?
Penderyn
Which company now runs former North Sea Ferries route from Hull to Rotterdam?
P&O
Which musical, first premiered in New York in 1967, is the most famous musical written by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDemot?
Hair
Keswick stands on the banks of which body of water in the Lake District?
Derwentwater
Although he was never a member of the band, Bobby Keys regularly appeared on stage and in the studio with the Rolling Stones. What was his
main instrument?
Saxophone
Liverpool Mountain is which Swiss artist’s first public artwork in the UK and the first of its kind in Europe. Inspired by naturally occurring Hoodoos (spires or pyramids of rock) and the art of meditative rock balancing, this 10-metre high sculpture stands within Mermaid Courtyard, outside Tate Liverpool on the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool. It consists of coloured rocks, stacked vertically which seem to defy gravity.
Ugo Rondinone
A statue of which locally born singer stands behind Tate Liverpool close to
the banks of the Mersey?
Billy Fury
Cumbria County Council disappeared on 31st March, and was replaced by
two unitary authorities. One is Cumberland, while the name of the other
references a former county and the part of a third county. What is its
name?
Westmorland and Furness
Situated in the North West of the country, which of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain is the largest by area?
Castile and Leon
What would you get if you added butter and cream to hot sugar syrup?
Caramel
Which Asian motor manufacturer makes the Outlander Sports and Utility vehicle?
Mitsubishi
Situated off the coast of Tuscany, and home to Napoleon Bonaparte for ten months, which is the third largest Italian island?
Elba
The racecourse once known as Great Leighs now bears what name?
Chelmsford
In 2017, the title character of which BBC detective series was shot dead on
a beach in the North East of England?
George Gently (played by Martin Shaw)
Two members of the Royal Family have Philip as a forename. One is the
King, who is the other?
Prince William
Wine from which historic county was awarded a PDO (Protected
Designation of Origin) in 2022, the first English county to gain this legal
status? Among its major producers are Nyetimber, Bolney and Ridgeview.
Sussex
American Stephen Schwartz has written several hit musicals including
Godspell (1971) and which 2003 musical, which first appeared in London
and 2006 and is now on its third tour of the UK and Ireland?
Wicked
Ambleside stands on the banks of which body of water in the Lake District?
Windermere
Ian Stewart was a founder member of the Rolling Stones but was sacked in
1963 because his image didn’t fit. However he continued with the band for
over twenty years working as road manager and playing which instrument
both on stage and in the studio?
Piano
Which former Liverpool MP is immortalised in a statue at Liverpool Lime
Street station where she is shown having a chance meeting with Ken Dodd?
Bessie Braddock
At the 2020 Democratic Convention, Joe Biden defeated which senator by a
margin of three to one to gain the Presidential nomination?
Bernie Sanders
Temba Bavuma is currently the captain of which men’s international Test team?
South Africa
What is the name of the cross platform web browser first introduced in
2015 by Microsoft?
Edge
Often used as a form of address, what is the meaning of the Russian word
Tovarich?
Comrade
What two word term is used to describe the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey?
Crown Dependencies
Herstmonceux Castle, the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and the hill figure the Long Man of Wilmington, are in which
traditional English county?
East Sussex
In the Bible the name Via Doloroso, or mournful way, was given to the road to which place?
Calvary
Hughenden Manor, the home of Benjamin Disraeli, and Stowe Park which has gardens designed by Capability Brown, are in which English county?
Buckinghamshire
The ICA is an organisation founded in London in 1946 to provide a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas, what does the C in the acronym stand for?
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Which mythological figure appears on the logo of the flower delivery company Interflora?
Hermes/Mercury
Oak Apple Day, introduced to celebrate the escape of Charles 2nd from the
Roundheads, is celebrated in which month?
May 29th
8 towns were awarded city status as part of Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, 3 in England: Colchester, Doncaster and which other?
Milton Keynes
Which Warrington based betting company which now has over 1,400 shops was established in Salford by brothers with the surname ‘Done’?
Betfred
The company Lenovo which produces almost a quarter of the world’s PCs is
based in which country?
China
In the USA Labor Day, a federal holiday, is celebrated on the first Monday
of which month?
September
Which shortcrust, custard and fruit tart, sometimes including bananas, is
topped with raspberry jam, coconut and a cherry?
Manchester Tart
Which actress, better known for her film roles, played the former soap
opera star Noele Gordon in the TV dramatisation, ‘Nolly’?
Helena Bonham-Carter
At which 1460 War of the Roses battle in Yorkshire did Henry VI Lancastrian
forces defeat the Yorkists led by Richard Duke of York?
Wakefield
Which company, founded by John Hargreaves, moved its HQ in 2014 from
Skelmersdale to Knowsley?
|Matalan
Which art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures was
stripped of his Knighthood in 1979 after it was revealed that he had been a
Soviet spy?
Anthony Blunt
Names and codenames of Cambridge 5?
1) Donald Maclean - Homer
2) Guy Burgess - Hicks
3) Kim Philby - Sonny/Stanley
4) Anthony Blunt - Johnson
5) John Cairncross - Liszt
Which film director who did Bloody Sunday 2002, three Bourne films, United 93, Green Zone and Captain Phillips, wrote the 1987 controversial book Spycatcher with Peter Wright?
Paul Greengrass
American film director and producer. He is known for directing the films Swingers (1996), Go (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and American Made (2017).
Doug Liman
Which animal, scientific name ‘Mustela vison’, is now classed as an invasive species around UK rivers after being imported for commercial purposes?
American Mink
In trigonometry, supplementary angles add up to how many degrees?
180
In trigonometry, complementary angles add up to how many degrees?
90
The International Astronomical Union designates 5 celestial bodies as dwarf
planets, Pluto and Ceres are 2 name one of the others?
Makemake, Haumea, Eris
To within 5,000 miles either way what is the distance between Earth and
the Moon?
239,000
Paul Kaye played which 1990’s spoof celebrity interviewer with dyed red hair and thick glasses?
Dennis Pennis
Who was appointed limited overs captain of England in June 2022?
Jos Buttler
What colour is the triangle on the Czechia flag?
Blue
Who played Eva Peron in the first West End production of Evita in 1978?
Elaine PageWh
Which country hosted the first F1 of the 2023 season?
Bahrain
Name the hosts of the podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage
Brian Cox or Robin Ince
In a series of novels by Stieg Larsson which magazine does Michael Blomkvist publish?
Millenium
Who was the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1968 to 1979?
Andre Previn
Which former player was manager of WIgan Athletic when they won FA Cup in 2013?
Roberto Martinez
In golf, the US Masters was won in 2007 and 2020 by two different Americans with which same surname?
Johnson (Zach and Dustin)
Who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong?
Chris Patten
Which is the highest peak of the Southern Alps?
Aoraki (Mount Cook)
Four books in Old Testament have names with four letters, what are they?
Ruth, Ezra, Joel, Amos
In which nineteenth century war was the Battle of Lookout Mountain also known as Battle Above The Clouds?
American Civil War
Who first wrote “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” in which work also of 1819?
Ode to the West Wind by Peter Bysshe Shelley
Which store chain was founded by Tom Morris in Liverpool in 1976?
Home Bargains
Who founded Littlewoods?
John Moores
Rex Hunt was appointed Governor of which British Overseas Territory in January 1980?
Falkland Islands
Name either of the hosts of podcast Parenting Hell.
Rob Beckett or Josh Widdicombe
Name either play, one a winger and one a half back, who holds the record for most tries in a match, 10, for Wigan RLFC, both achieved in 1992?
Martin Offiah or Shaun Edwards
What is the first name of the Coronation Street character whose last name was Littlewood, then Bates, Fairclough, Sullivan and Tanner?
Rita
What does UPVC stand for?
unplasticized polyvinyl chloride
Which two books of the Old Testament contain the letter V?
Leviticus and Proverbs
Which historic city completes the name of Tunis-_______ International Airport?
Carthage
In the 1632 painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp he is explaining the musculature of which part of the body?
(Left) Arm
“The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker” and “The Battle for Godfrey’s Cottage” are episodes from series two of which UK sitcom?
Dad’s Army
Which word is missing from trad english folksong about man admiring girlfriend as she goes through stages of washing and ironing clothes: “Dashing Away with the _______ iron”?
Smoothing
Which city is served by Arlanda Airport?
Stockholm
Frankie Dettori won the Champion Stakes at Ascot in October 2023 in his last ever race, he rode which horse to victory?
King of Steel
What is Frankie Dettori’s real first name?
Lanfranco
The 1938 TFL poster called “Keeps London Going” is a black and white pair poster with Saturn and a roundel against the backdrop of a dark night’s sky by which renowned artist?
Man Ray
What is a fer-de-lance?
Snake
Who is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques?
King Salman of Saudi Arabia
Which British fabric pattern features a Persian teardrop motif?
Paisley
Polish politician who has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was Marshal of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014, the first woman to hold the office, as well as Prime Minister of Poland from 2014 to 2015. Doctor before politics.
Ewa Kopacz
What links: Julia by Sandra Newman; Beasts of England by Adam Biles?
2023 retelling/sequel to Orwell novels: 1984; Animal Farm.
Alongside Olivier and Lyttelton stages at the National Theatre, what is the smallest and most flexible stage there named after a Chair of the Princes Trust?
Dorfman Stage
In 1995, which England rugby union player described the Rugby Football Union
general committee as “57 old farts”, which led to his sacking as captain?
Will Carling
Portrayed by Bob Hope in the 1957 film ‘Beau James’, which flamboyant politician
was elected Mayor of New York City in 1925 and held that post until a corruption
scandal led to his resignation in 1932?
Jimmy Walker
Sometimes called the ‘mercy seat’, what is the small wooden shelf on the
underside of a folding seat in a church, installed to provide a degree of comfort for
a person who has to stand during long periods of prayer?
Misericord
The tomb of which English king can be found in Gloucester Cathedral?
Edward II
Who sang the theme song of the 1950s television series ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ and went on to co-found Northern Songs and set up DJM Records?
Dick James
Which supermarket replaced its “Live Well for Less” slogan with “Helping
Everyone Eat Better” in 2021?
Sainsbury’s
Considered one of the first war correspondents, which journalist for the ‘Times’
reported on the Crimean War, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the American Civil
War and the Franco-Prussian War?
William Howard Russell
At which battle of the Hundred Years War, fought in 1356, did a force under
Edward, the Black Prince, defeat a French army commanded by King John II?
Poitiers
Which air race for seaplanes was held between 1913 and 1931 when it was
discontinued following three consecutive victories by the English entrant
Supermarine?
Schneider Trophy
In a speech at the Labour Party conference in 1963, who said that if the country
was to prosper, a “new Britain” would need to be forged in the “white heat” of a
scientific revolution?
Harold Wilson
Which Roman Emperor was killed at the Battle of Adrianople in 378?
Valens
Which European country won the Fed Cup (now known as the Billie Jean King Cup) six times between 2011 and 2018, and has won the trophy on 11 occasions in total?
Czech Republic
Czech player who won two majors, Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014. She also won bronze for Czechia in 2016 olympics.
Petra Kvitová
The population of which British Overseas Territory was evacuated in October
1961 when the island was threatened by a volcanic eruption?
Tristan de Cunha
Named after the house in which they were living, which publishing house was founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917?
Hogarth Press
Queen’s Ware and Jasperware were styles of pottery originally developed by
which 18th Century English manufacturer?
Josiah Wedgewood
What is the surname of the identical twin brothers who served as president and
prime minister of Poland from 2006 to 2007?
Kaczynski
Robert Herrick, John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace belonged to what school of
poets, that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War?
Cavalier
Better known for his exploits as a journalist and explorer, who was Liberal Unionist MP for North Lambeth from 1895 to1900?
Henry Morton Stanley
Grand Ballon is the highest point in which range of mountains in France, near its border with Germany?
Vosges
Which treaty was signed between Napoleon Bonaparte and Tsar Alexander I of
Russia in June 1807 on a raft in the middle of the Neman river?
Tilsit
Who piloted the first British test flight of Concorde 002, from Filton to RAF Fairford
in 1969?
Brian Trubshaw
Which South African fast food consists of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread filled
with curry?
Bunny Chow
Subsequently made into a television series, in which children’s story by Dick KingSmith does Harmony Parker find a magical 50p coin?
The Queen’s Nose
‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’, which both reached No 1 in the UK Singles
Charts, are songs taken from which Miley Cyrus album?
Bangerz
What is the name of the fast-breaking evening meal eaten by Muslims during the
month of Ramadan?
Iftar
Eaten early in the morning before sunrise, what is this meal of the day called during Ramadan in contrast to Iftar after sunset at end of day?
Suhoor
In the BBC television series ‘Killing Eve’, which Irish actress played Carolyn
Martens, head of the Russia Section at MI6?
Fiona Shaw
Often depicted as a boy carrying a horn-shaped container of wheat called a
cornucopia, in Greek mythology, which god, the personification of wealth, was the
son of the goddess Demeter and the mortal Iasion?
Plutus
Who was UK Ambassador to the USSR from 1940 to 1942, President of the Board of Trade from 1945 to 1947 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947 to 1950?
Stafford Cripps
Initially used by Tesla to refer to their battery manufacturing facilities, what term is
now used for any facility that produces batteries for electric vehicles on a very
large scale?
Gigafactory
Which English prima ballerina was married to Panamanian diplomat Roberto Arias
and was implicated in a plot to overthrow the Panamanian government in 1959?
Margot Fonteyn
Which flat open plain in County Kildare is home to the Irish National Stud, the
racecourse which hosts all five Irish classic flat races and the Training Centre of
the Irish Defence Forces?
The Curragh
What is the only Central American country that does not have a Caribbean coastline?
El Salvador
Which Swedish electropop duo had a UK number 1 single in 2013 with ‘I Love It’?
Icona Pop
The Turner Prize was held at Tate Liverpool for the first time in 2007, with which
artist winning for the installation ‘State Britain’, that recreated all the objects in
Brian Haw’s anti-war display in Parliament Square?
Mark Wallinger
Which Czech composer’s operas include ‘From the House of the Dead’, ‘Jenůfa’ and ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’?
Leos Janacek
Which Italian architect, who developed the Elizabethan Baroque style, designed a
number of buildings in Saint Petersburg in the 18th century, including the Winter
Palace and the Catherine Palace?
FRANCESCO
BARTOLOMEO
RASTRELLI
During the First World War, whilst Aintree racecourse was requisitioned by the
War Office, where was a substitute Grand National named the War Steeplechase
run?
Gatwick
Which English racing driver was killed in 1952 whilst attempting to break the
World Water Speed Record on Loch Ness? three times holder of the World Land Speed Record, in 1938, 1939 and 1947, set at Bonneville Speedway in Utah, US. He was awarded the Segrave Trophy in 1947.
John Cobb
In the acronym ‘LAMP’, which refers to the technologies used to create a web
server, what do letters stand for?
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP
What was the stage name of Irish dancer and actress Eliza Gilbert who became
the courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria?
Lola Montez
In accordance with the ban on alcohol consumption in Islamic countries, what
drink is used instead of champagne on the podium of the Bahrain Grand Prix and
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix?
Rose Water
1 Early in his career which comedian and entertainer was billed as Professor Yaffle
Chuckabutty, Operatic Tenor and Sausage Knotter’?
Ken Dodd
2 What name is given to circles of differing diameters that share the same centre?
Concentric
7 What single word is the common name for the insect Vespa crabro?
Hornet
In news a lot lately, what is Vespa mandarinia?
Asian Giant Hornet
What are you making if you grind the nib to produce a mass that is later conched?
Chocolate
Which Swiss psychiatrist noted for his contributions to the understanding of mental
illness coined the terms ‘schizophrenia’, ‘schizoid’ and ‘autism’?
Paul Eugen Bleuler
14 Which river of South East England rises in the High Weald, Sussex and flows for 70
miles through Tonbridge and Maidstone before emptying into the Thames
Estuary near Sheerness?
River Medway
Which English author has written under the pen names Martin Fallon, Hugh Marlowe,
James Graham and Jack Higgins?
Henry Patterson
Launched in Bristol in 1843 what was the name of the first ocean going ship to have
both an iron hull and a screw propeller?
SS Great Britain
Which word for anti-aircraft fire is derived from the German word Fliegerabwehrkanone
literally ‘flyer defence cannon’? The word now also means hostile comments or
questions.
Flak
As from the 2019 awards ceremony the Olivier Award for best director has been named
after which eminent English theatre, opera and film director whose obituary in The
Times declared him ‘the most important figure in British theatre for half a century’?
Peter Hall
Sharing its name with a mythical water sprite associated with a river running close to a
former production site which brand of motor scooter was originally made in Milan by
Innocenti?
Lambretta
In 1859 Wallachia united with Moldavia to form the United Principalities. Following
World War I other territories including Bukovina were added forming which present day
country?
Romania
Who designed the High Level Bridge, a road and rail bridge opened in 1849 in
Newcastle-on-Tyne and the original Britannia Bridge (1850) across the Menai Strait?
Robert Stephenson
Which was the last country to host both the summer and winter Olympic Games in the
same year?
1936 Germany
What nickname for three World War I medals, the 1914 or 1914-15 Star, the British War
Medal and the Victory Medal, derives from a popular cartoon strip of the time that
featured a dog, a penguin and a rabbit?
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Which photographer who died in 2019 took the photographs that featured on the covers
of the Beatles albums ‘With The Beatles’, ‘Beatles For Sale’, ‘Help!’ and ‘Rubber Soul’?
Robert Freeman
In Greek mythology which brother of Europa was told by the Oracle of Delphi to follow a
cow and to build a city where it lay down? Thus he became the founder and first king of
Thebes.
Cadmus
Compiled by former librarian Steve Roud and containing more than 240,000 references
to almost 25,000 songs in the English language the eponymous Roud Index is a
database of which genre or style of music?
Folk Songs
Following the death of Ron Saunders in December 2019 who is the only living
Englishman to have managed the title winning team of the top division in English
football?
Howard Wilkinson (Leeds Utd)
Famous English manager of Aston VIlla leading to two titles in the 1970s?
Ron Saunders
The Marillion song ‘Out Of This World’ is a tribute to which famous Englishman who
died in an accident on 4th January 1967?
Donald Campbell
In which London borough will you find: The Oval cricket ground, the British Film
Institute, the National Theatre and the official residence of the Archbishop of
Canterbury?
Lambeth
Appearing in her collection ‘Poems For Our Children’ who wrote ‘Mary Had A Little
Lamb’ and also campaigned successfully for the creation of Thanksgiving as an
American holiday and Bunker Hill Monument?
Sarah Josepha Hale
The Vendel Period from 550 to 790 that came between the Migration Period and the
Viking Age is a period in the pre-history of which present day European country?
Sweden
Who was the first reigning British monarch to meet a President of the United States of
America?
George V (1918, Woodrow Wilson)
Dwight D Eisenhower stayed in which Scottish castle overnight in 1959 when on a UK visit? Overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, Carrick, in South Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland
Culzean Castle
ONLY CONNECT: first four livery companies in order of preference?
4th: Fishmongers
3rd: Drapers
2nd: Grocers
1st: Mercers
The phrase “at sixes and sevens” has potential origins in the order of preference in 6th and 7th of the livery companies which both dispute who was first? Who are at 6s and 7s?
6th: Skinners
7th: Merchant Taylors
The chief of Clan Murray holds which dukedom?
Duke of Atholl
The chief of Clan Campbell holds which dukedom?
Duke of Argyll
Who was first British monarch to visit USA?
George VI (1939)
The Belfast Agreement, or Good Friday Agreement, was signed on which date?
10 April 1998
Who was Taoiseach when the Good Friday Agreement was signed?
Bertie Ahern
Who was President of Ireland 1997 to 2011?
Mary McAleese
Who was 7th President of Ireland from 1990-97?
Mary Robinson
an official government residence in Northern Ireland. It is the official residence of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and the official residence in Northern Ireland of the British monarch and other members of the British royal family when they visit the region, as well as a guest house for prominent international visitors.
Hillsborough Castle
Who was Taoiseach between 2011-17?
Enda Kenny
Taoiseach between 2008-11?
Brian Cowen
Meaning “causeway” in Cornish, what was the venue of G7 in 2021, a seaside resort in Cornwall lies 1 mile southeast of St Ives?
Carbis Bay
President of Argentina since 2019?
Alberto Fernandez
Turkish economist and energy expert who has been executive director of the International Energy Agency since 1 September 2015?
Fatih Birol
Nigerian-American economist who has been Director-General of WTO since March 2021?
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
South Korean President since 2022?
Yoon Suk Yeol
Which Alfred Hitchcock film that starred Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant shares its title
with a Duran Duran song?
Notorious
Which American singer-songwriter composed and sung the theme to the television
series ‘Dukes of Hazard’ and also performed as the narrator?
Waylon Jennings
Which businessman fled Britain for Northern Cyprus in 1993 following the collapse of
his company Polly Peck after an investigation by the Serious Fraud Squad?
Asil Nadir
Which motorcycle manufacturer claims to be the oldest in the world in continuous
production? It produced its first motorcycle in Redditch in 1901, supplied motorcycles to
the Indian army in the 1950s which resulted in production eventually moving to India
where they are still made.
Royal Enfield
Which dukedom created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset is the only current
British dukedom to take its name from a place outside of the British Isles?
Beaufort (castle in France)
What is the surname of these father and son scientists? The father won the 1906 Nobel
Physics Prize for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases and the son shared the 1937 Nobel Physics Prize for the
experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
Thomson (Joseph John and George Paget)
Which prefix common in Welsh place names means parish or settlement around a
church?
Llan
According to Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ which Knight of the Round Table
threw the sword Excalibur into the lake following the death of Arthur?
Sir Bedivere
Huckaback is a type of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric that is now mainly used
to produce what items?
Towels
Cornish Kings, Purple Majesty and Apache are all British varieties of which vegetable?
Potato
Who wrote the 1965 play Relatively Speaking?
Alan Ayckbourn
Which country’s first lunar orbiter, Danuri, sent back its first images of the Moon’s surface in January 2023?
South Korea
In US politics, which animal is traditionally used to symbolise the Republican Party?
Elephant
In the US embassy in which European country did Cardinal Mindszenty take long-term refuge in 1956?
Hungary (Budapest)
Which 2021 film is a prequel to The Sopranos an award-winning
television drama series (1999-2007)
The Many Saints of Newark
Which prefect of the Pretorian Guard, was left in charge of Rome when the Roman Emperor Tiberius retired to Capri? He led a
number of purges against his political opponents until he was accused of treason in 31AD and executed.
Sejanus
Pisonian Conspiracy led by Piso was against which emperor?
Nero
Which poison, an alternative name for monk’s hood or wolfsbane, can be derived naturally from the plant?
Aconite
Which military leader, who died in February 2023, was President of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008?
GENERAL PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
What is the most common rice used to make a traditional risotto?
Arborio
Yestinia Pestis, the plague, has three main forms - pneumonic, bubonic and which other?
Septicemic Plague
What shape are reniform leaves?
Kidney shaped
In the world of finance what does the abbreviation LDI stand for?
Liability Driven Investment
The Monodontidae family of animals contains only two living members. One is the beluga which whale is the other?
Narwhal
There are four basic types of animal tissue; these are epithelial, muscle, nervous tissue and, which other?
Connective
Which engineer designed the Mallard railway locomotive?
Sir Nigel Gresley
Which English actor played the title character in the New York premiere of the musical Barnum?
Jim Dale
a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum, Candide and Me and My Girl. He also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels in the Harry Potter series, for which he won two Grammy Awards. Did carry on films.
Jim Dale
Which US bank note was nicknamed a Sawbuck
$10
The song, Our Lips Are Sealed, co-written by Jane Weidlin and Terry Hall, was released in 1981 by which group?
The Go-Gos
Which President of the Royal Society said in 1895 that “heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible”?
Lord Kelvin
With 350 elected members the Congress of Deputies, is the lower House of the Parliament of which European country?
Spain
The Myrmidons were associated with which Greek hero?
Achilles
In the British Army, for what did the letter “O” stand for in the RAOC?
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
In heraldry what is a mullet?
Star
Which South African wine brand suggesting the habits of a certain animal has a name punningly derived from the French wine Cotes du Rhone?
Goats Do Roam
Chris Mason replaced whom as host of Radio 4’s Any Questions? in October 2019?
Jonathan Dimbledy
Which golf course, one of those which stage the Open Championship, is nicknamed the “Beast of Angus” due to its formidable reputation for difficulty?
Carnoustie
Which Edwardian adventurer, revived in sixties Britain in a television series of that decade, was played by Gerald Harper?
Adam Adamant (Lives!)
In which field of the arts was the American Robert Frank (1924 -2019) a noted exponent?
Photography
“Up in Annie’s Room” is used in darts to denote which score?
Double One
Which Austrian artist painted the 1903 work Mirch ForestI which sold for £89 million at auction in November 2022?
Gustav Klimt
Which bank installed the world’s first ATM at its Enfield branch in
June 1967? Which comedian used it?
Barclays by Reg Varney
Which French liqueur is named after the surname of brothers Edouard-Jean and Adolphe, who originally sold the product in 1849
as Triple Sec White Curacao?
Cointreau
Breslau was the former name of which city in Poland, from the 15th century up to the end of World War 2
Wroclaw
Which Hindu god is the husband of Parvati?
Shiva (SP) BS VL SP
Which Hindu god is the husband of Lakshmi?
Vishnu (VL) BS VL SP
Which Hindu god is the husband of Saraswati?
Brahma (BS) BS VL SP
What was the name of the dwarf who guarded the Ring of the Niebelungen?
Alberich
Owen Brenman plays Heston Carter in which BBCTV daytime soap which has run since 2000?
Doctors
Which Two African countries have hosted a Formula One Grand Prix?
South Africa and Morocco
Which voice actor of Mario and Luigi retired in 2023 so there is a new voice in new October 2023 game Super Mario Bros Wonder.
Charles Martinet
Three word term for period of extreme internal instability from 861 to 870 in the history of the Abbasid Caliphate, marked by the violent succession of four caliphs, who became puppets in the hands of powerful rival military groups - seen in Assassins Creed Mirage
Anarchy at Samarra
October 2023 new video game: Set in 9th-century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age—in particular during the Anarchy at Samarra—the story follows Basim Ibn Ishaq (a character first introduced in Valhalla), a street thief who joins the Hidden Ones to fight for peace and liberty
Assassins Creed Mirage
2023 video game by Bethesda (first new intellectual property in 25 years) is set in an area that extends outward from the Solar System for approximately 50 light-years called the Settled Systems.
Starfield
Which game studio does Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Starfield?
Bethesda
Captain Olimar is main player character of which Nintendo game franchise, the fourth of which came out June 2023?
Pikmin 4
Players create a character from one of five playable classes—Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, or Sorcerer— in which Blizzard Entertainment game franchise, the fourth of whcih came out June 2023?
Diablo IV
Players control the US agent Leon S. Kennedy, who must save Ashley Graham, the daughter of the United States president, from the mysterious Los Illuminados cult in which video game sequel from March 2023?
Resident Evil 4
adventure of young Jedi Knight, Cal Kestis is which 2019 Star Wars video game?
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
adventure of young Jedi Knight, Cal Kestis continues in which 2023 Star Wars video game sequel to 2019 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order?
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Who voices headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black in Hogwarts Legacy?
Simon Pegg
Which actress best known for playing Beryl Patmore in Downton Abbey, who voices Professor Matilda Weasley in Hogwarts Legacy?
Lesley Nicol
2023 action role-playing video game developed by Omega Force and published by Electronic Arts under its EA Originals label. The game tasks the player to hunt massive monsters in Azuma, a fantasy world inspired by feudal Japan.
Wild Hearts
a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Developed later than the tachi, it was used by samurai in feudal Japan and worn with the edge facing upward.
Katana
With a name derived from a game, what is the three word British video game journalism website launched in July 2007 to focus on PC games and was acquired by Gamer Network, a network of sites led by Eurogamer, in May 2017?
Rock Paper Shotgun
In 2022, which Burkina Faso-born architect became the first African person to win the Pritzker Prize?
Diébédo Francis KÉRÉ
The benzene derivative toluene [TOL-you-een] represents a benzene aromatic ring with the addition of which functional group?
Methyl
The benzene derivative phenol represents a benzene aromatic ring with the addition of which functional group?
Hydroxyl
Which architect became the first Indian winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2018?
BV Doshi
What was the name of the fictional village that was the setting for the TV series All
Creatures Great and Small?
Darrowby
Trina Gulliver was a world champion in which sport every year from 2001 to 2007?
Darts
The motto of a famous school, what, according to the play by JM Barrie, were the last
words of Captain Hook?
Floreat Etona
The Valkyrie, Rapide and DBX are all models produced by which car maker?
Aston Martin
Which British household appliance manufacturer, named after its two founders who met whilst working for Morphy Richards, invented the world’s first automatic coffee
percolator in 1952?
Russell Hobbs
British brand of electrical appliances founded by two founders headquartered in Swinton, in South Yorkshire, England. Its products were formerly made at its historic home of Mexborough, and in other facilities across the United Kingdom. However, since the 1990s, all of its manufacturing is now carried out in the Far East
Morphy Richards
AEX is principal index of whcih Europeans citys stock market
Amsterdam
Opened in 1966, what is the name of the 33-storey tower block on New Oxford Street
and St Giles High Street in London that is almost directly above Tottenham Court Road
tube station?
Centre Point
Laura Hollins is the real name of which model, born in Manchester in 1983?
Agyness Dean
The Tanggulla Pass, site of the world’s highest railway track, is in which country?
China
Which cricket fielding position is between Square Leg and Mid-on?
Midwicket
Welsh, Breton and Cornish known as what language group?
Brythonic
Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four Grand Slam events at least
four times?
Steffi Graf
Which English town was given city status in 1992 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
Queen’s accession to the throne?
Sunderland
What name is given to the flowers of some species of dahlia, where the flowers are
tightly packed forming a small, globular ball?
Pompons
Which US TV series of the 1990s concerned a New York doctor stranded in Cicely,
Alaska?
Northern Exposure
For which future king was Clarence House built while he was Duke of Clarence?
William IV
Which unusually-named island in the Shetlands, one of the most northern points in the
British Isles, is named from the Old Norse meaning ‘large steep-sided island’?
Muckle Flugga
Wragby Hall is the home of which literary character?
Lady Chatterley
Specific types of which synthetic fibre include viscose, modal and lyocell?
Rayon
In the 1968 film musical Finian’s Rainbow, who plays the leprechaun Og, whose pot of
gold is stolen by the title character?
Tommy Steele
“A Handful of Songs”, “Rock with the Caveman” (1956) and the chart-topper “Singing the Blues” (1957) are songs by which singer and actor? In films, The Happiest Millionaire and Finian’s Rainbow.
Tommy Steele
Which Japanese dish consists of thinly sliced beef, slowly cooked at the table, alongside
vegetables and other ingredients, in a shallow iron pot?
Sukiyaki
n the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, what is Tess’s surname?
Durbeyfield
flavored Polish vodka, which contains a bison grass blade (Hierochloe odorata) in every bottle
Zubrowka
Zubrowka Bison Grass Vodka has a blade of bison grass in every bottle, it is sourced from whcih forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. It is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain - bison
Białowieża Forest
Most international caps for women’s football with 354 is whcih American footballer?.
Kristine Lilly
Most international caps for Scotland women’s football?
Gemma Fay
Who has most caps for England women’s football?
Fara Williams
Welsh professional footballer and coach who plays as a midfielder for OL Reign and the Wales national team? Most wales caps for women’s international.
Jess Fishlock
Most caps for wales men football
Gareth Bale
Most capped for Scotland men’s football?
Kenny Dalglish
Top of scotland goals scorers for men’s is Kenny dalglish joint with who?
Denis Law
Northern Ireland men’s most capped player is which midfielder
Steven Davis
Top goal scorer for Northern Ireland men’s is whcih player with 36 goals?
David Healy
Who has been Republic of Ireland manager since 2020? Won eight trophies with Dundalk (county town of county Louth) beforehand?
Stephen Kenny
Who is manager of scotland men’s football?
Steve Clarke
Which Italian manager current manager of Turkey men’s?
Vincenzo Montella
Austria have qualified for euros 24, who is their manager?
Ralf Rangnick
Austria have qualified for euros 24, who is their most capped player?
Marko arnautovic
Austria have qualified for euros 24, who is their all time top scorer?
Toni Polster
Manager of Spain since 2022 mens
Luis de La Fuente
German Italian football manager whose been manager of Belgium since 2023? Manager of Leipzig 2021-22.
Domenico Tedesco
Name of island people go to in And Then There Were None
Soldier Island
Right to Roam Artist illustrator man
Nick Hayes
Viktor and Rolf known for flower bomb and bonbon and spice bomb are a perfume company from which country?
Netherlands
Born 1870, an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
Franz Lehar
Matthew Perry biography name from 2022
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
In 1794 Richard Allen founded (the first independent Black denomination in the United States) the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in which state?
Pennsylvania
The dystopian drama “The Kitchen” which premiered at the London Film Festival in October 2023 is the directorial debut of which British Academy Award Best Supporting Actor (2021) winner?
Daniel Kaluuya
Regarded as one of the greatest point guards, players, and passers of all time, he spent his entire NBA career (1984–2003) with the Utah Jazz, and the team made the playoffs in each of his 19 seasons. In 1997 and 1998, together with his longtime teammate Karl Malone, he led the Jazz to the franchise’s only two NBA Finals appearances, both of which were lost to the Chicago Bulls.
John Stockton
ten-time NBA All-Star and holds the NBA records for most career assists and steals by wide margins.
John Stockton
His 36,928 career points scored rank third all-time in NBA history behind LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and he holds the records for most free throws made and attempted, and most regular season games started, in addition to being tied for the second-most first-team All-NBA selections with Kobe Bryant and behind LeBron James.
Karl Malone
What Netflix show from creator Mike Flanagan is inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe?
The Fall of the House of Usher
Gen Z slang: What term, a shortening of the word “goddamn”, is used to describe a curvy woman? It can also be used generally to refer to anyone that someone finds attractive.
Gyat
In mid-September, India’s parliament passed a bill reserving a third of seats in its lower house and state assemblies for what people?
Women
The rapper, whose real name is Melesha O’Garro, had been accused of assaulting her ex-girlfriend Sidnee Hussein and Ms Hussein’s then partner, Chante Boyea. Who is this who in 2023 said her career was finished due to charge?
Lady Leshurr
On Sunday in March 2022, who became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Oscar?
Billie Eilish
What far-right conservative from Louisiana has been elected to be the next Speaker of the House after Kevin McCarthy left?
MIKE Johnson
What is Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, which he had been working on at the time of his death? This musical is now getting a posthumous premier in New York.
Here We Are
What type of art includes paintings or sculptures that look so “real” they resemble high-resolution photographs?
Hyperrealism
Australian sculptor working in the United Kingdom - he designed, performed, and voiced the character of Ludo in the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy film Labyrinth - big body parts hyperrealism.
Ron Mueck
The Chinese fishing fleet has the world’s worst reputation for IUU fishing. What does IUU stand for?
Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated
What right-wing ruling party of Poland lost its majority in general elections in October 2023?
Law and Justice Party
In early October at the Chicago marathon, what Kenyan runner broke Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon record, setting a time of 2:00:35?
Kelvin Kiptum
Five new sports to be added to 2028 Olympics LA
CRICKET, BASEBALL/SOFTBALL, SQUASH, LACROSSE, and FLAG FOOTBALL.
Genocide may have returned to Darfur. What ethnic minority is being targeted by the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group that has wreaked havoc in Sudan since April 2023?
Masalit
What South American country will be going to run-off elections in November 2023, pitting radical libertarian Javier Milei against Peronist Sergio Massa?
Argentina
What African nation is suing Privinvest over the fallout of a “tuna bond” scandal that devastated one of the world’s poorest economies?
Mozambique
As Israeli troops mass on the northern border of the Gaza Strip ahead of a ground invasion in 2023, what border crossing with Egypt has opened up on the southern end, providing much needed humanitarian aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians inside?
Rafah Border Crossing
Binyamin Netanyahu has warned what Iran-backed Shia militia against attacking Israel, saying that Israeli troops would hit them with “a force it cannot even imagine”?
HIZBULLAH
After a tumultuous election season, Daniel Noboa has been chosen by voters to be the next president of what South American country in October 2023?
Ecuador
In a referendum vote, Australians rejected what proposed advisory body that would have given Indigenous people more influence in Canberra in 2023?
INDIGENOUS VOICE TO PARLIAMENT
In October 2023 What team has won the WNBA Championship for the second consecutive year?
Las Vegas Aces
What actress and singer, who appeared on “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” has transitioned to the music business with the release of her 2023 album Snow Angel?
Renee Rapp
What Indian movie, starring Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as father and son doppelgangers, has become the highest-grossing Indian movie of 2023?
Jawan
Highest grossing Hindi film of all time 2016 about a father who coaches his daughter to become a wrestler
Dangal
What Mexican artist, dubbed the reigning king of corridos tumbados, has had a breakout year with songs such as “Ella Baila Sola” and “Lady Gaga”?
PESO PLUMA (translates as feather weight)
What 2023 movie starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun is based on a viral New Yorker story of the same name from 2017?
Cat Person
What exactly is the fitness trend known as “plogging”?
Jogging while picking up trash
“JaJa’s African Hair Braiding,” a recently premiered Broadway play featuring an all-black cast, is written by what Ghanaian-American playwright?
Jocelyn Bioh
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for their discovery and synthesis of what nano-materials?
Quantum Dots
Robert Fico’s leftist-populist Smer party won parliamentary elections in what European nation, putting him on track to become prime minister again? October 2023
Slovakia
Written by composer Mason Bates, an opera about what tech founder premiered in San Francisco this September?
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Which writer and illustrator created the ‘Mog’ series which was based on her family cat, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’, and ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ which was inspired by her family’s escape from Nazi Germany?
Judith Kerr
Which Japanese artist creates self-portraits, embroidered objects and living sculptures that challenge misconceptions about our bodies? Artist has prosthetic legs due to amputated legs.
Mari Katayama
What sci-fi movie, directed by Gareth Edwards, sees a future in which the human race is at war against forces of artificial intelligence?
The Creator
Based on “The Antisocial Network” by Ben Mezrich, what film follows the GameStop memestock saga?
Dumb Money
What fitness trend involves walking around with a weighted backpack?
Rucking
Gen Z slang: What choking term, which sounds like a reaction you would have to something disgusting, is in fact a positive term indicating amazement?
Gagged
America’s most prominent AI chatbot is Chat GPT. What is the Chinese equivalent?
Ernie Bot
What three-letter abbreviation is used for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency? Over the past 18 months, they have been responsible for pulling off assassinations of key Russian officials.
HUR
Eslon Hindundu is a musician from what African country? He is the composer and choral director behind the first European premiere of an opera from this country.
NAMIBIA; his “Chief Hijangua” opera is the first Namibian opera to see a European stage
Conservatory Garden, located in Central Park in New York City, is not a secret—it contains a fountain and sculpture created in honor of, and named after, WHAT British-American novelist? The sculpture depicts the literary characters Mary and Dickon.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
NAME the co-founder and, from 1925 to 1951, the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker who was also an original member of the Algonquin Round Table literary group
Harold ROSS
Lyin’, cheatin’, and stealin’ are all par for the course for WHAT fictional organization that made its first appearance in Marvel Comics’s Strange Tales #135 and that plays a major role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly films such as Captain America: The First Avenger, its direct sequel, and the television show Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Hydra
WHAT 1963 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier short story of the same name, which film held the distinction of being the most-watched film aired on television until supplanted by Love Story in 1972?
The Birds
Which baseball team based in Arlington won World Series 2023?
Texas Rangers
English post-punk music duo, formed in 2007 in Nottingham. The band features vocalist Jason Williamson and, since 2012, musician Andrew Fearn. They are known for their abrasive, minimalist musical style and embittered explorations of austerity-era Britain, culture, and working class life, delivered in Williamson’s East Midlands accent.
Sleaford Mods
district in Osaka, Japan. Known as one of Osaka’s principal tourist and nightlife areas, the area runs along the namesake canal from namesake-bashi Bridge to Nipponbashi Bridge in the Namba district of the city’s Chūō ward. Historically a theater district, it is now a popular nightlife and entertainment area characterized by its eccentric atmosphere and large illuminated signboards.
Dotonbori
What is Japan’s longest river?
Shinano River
longest river in South Korea, which passes through the major cities of Daegu and Busan
Nakdong River
it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river of Indonesia and one of the world’s longest island rivers
Kapuas
Longest river of Mongolia
Orkhon
the presence of Ursula Buffay in Friends means it exists in the same universe as what other sitcom?
Mad About You
The character Chandler Bing of Friends appeared in a crossover episode of which NBC show which ran from 1995-99 and starred Lea Thompson as the titular character?
Caroline in the City
Which Opposition leader defeated incumbent George Weah to be elected as the next president of Liberia?
Joseph Boakai
In 1946, where did the monthly inflation rate reach 41.9 quadrillion per cent?
Hungary
Before 1827, theft of more than what amount was defined as grand larceny?
12 pence
Which predatory mammals were released in the Cairngorms this year?
Wildcats
The Legend of the Octopus is a sports tradition during which nhl team home playoff games involving dead octopuses thrown onto the ice rink.
Detroit Red Wings
Which US female lineage-based group is known as DAR?
Daughters of the American Revolution
What links: Locke; Player; Els; Oosthuizen?
South African players who won The Open
What links: The Cow; The Cattle; The Bee; The Ant; The Spider; The Elephant?
Surahs of the Qur’an named after animals
What links Catherine Parr; Anne Dacier; Constance Garnett; Anthea Bell?
Celebrated translators: Latin Psalms; Greek poetry; Russian literature; Asterix.
English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov’s work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English
Constance Garnett
Born 1647 which Frenchwoman scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey
Anne Dacier
English translator of literary works, including children’s literature, from French, German and Danish. These include The Castle by Franz Kafka, Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the French Asterix comics with co-translator Derek Hockridge.
Anthea Bell
Incumbent President Andry Rajoelina looks to retain power in what African island country, in an election that opposition leaders are calling an “institutional coup”?
Madagascar
The Doklam plateau is located at the intersection between China, India, and what tiny Asian nation?
Bhutan
Serbian List is a political party in what country? Serbian List serves in effect as a branch of Serbia’s own ruling party.
Kosovo
What post-Brexit legal framework, which regulates the movement of goods between the EU and Northern Ireland, went into effect on October 1st?
WINDSOR FRAMEWORK
Congressman Joel Pritchard and his friends invented the sport of pickleball in 1965 while at Pritchard’s home on Bainbridge Island, a city and island that is part of WHAT U.S. state? It is the second-largest city in Kitsap County by population; the largest is Bremerton.
Washington
Congressman Joel Pritchard and his friends invented the sport of pickleball in 1965 while at Pritchard’s home on Bainbridge Island, a city and island that is part of WHAT U.S. state? It is the second-largest city in Kitsap County by population; the largest is Bremerton.
Washington
Who directed Wicker Man original 1973
Robin Hardy
The first of these, By Footpath and Stile (1922), is for voice and string quartet; the others, including A Young Man’s Exhortation and Earth and Air and Rain, for voice and piano. Among his other songs, the settings of Shakespeare poems in the cycle Let Us Garlands Bring (1942) are the best known. He also wrote incidental music to Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1946). For voice and orchestra he composed the above-mentioned Dies natalis, and the pacifist Farewell to Arms (1944).
Gerald Finzi
A chess variant listed at Lichess.org, the second-most-popular chess server in the world, has all of the rules of standard chess, except that a player can also win by moving their king to any of the spaces d4, d5, e4, or e5. WHAT is the name of this variant, also the name of a television show that aired from 1997 to 2010 (and that is being revived on Hulu)?
King of the Hill
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin once wrote that “[m]ost of the great women in the Bible either are married to a great man or related to one,” but that a rare exception to this pattern is WHAT woman, “perhaps the Bible’s greatest woman figure”? He adds that the only thing we know about her personal life is the name of her husband, Lapidot.
Deborah
The television show NCIS has been on the air since 2003 and has aired 457 episodes. That’s just over twice as many as the 227 episodes of WHAT show, of which NCIS is a spin-off and that was once described by The New York Times as a cross between Top Gun and A Few Good Men?
JAG
More is known about the life of a woman named Oney than any other person with whom she was enslaved, as she gave several interviews to abolitionist newspapers in the 1840s. She lived most of her life in New Hampshire as a fugitive due to the first iteration of the Fugitive Slave Act, signed into law by WHAT person, from whom Oney escaped and who repeatedly wrote letters entreating others to recapture her?
George Washington
Merdith Wilson’s the music man is set in which city and state?
River City, Iowa
Character in a legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders. It is also associated with a reel of the same name, also known as the Glasgow Reel. The story revolves around the rescue of namesake character by his true love from the Queen of the Fairies.
Tam Lin
1953 Magritte painting with loads of bowling hat men dropping from air, shares name with diamonds mined in the Godavari delta region of the present-day states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India and named after namesake fort.
Golconda
Starting Elizabeth Olsen as candy Montgomery and Jesse Plemons as lover, tv show premiered April 2023
Love & Death
British police procedural tv show based on Kate London’s Metropolitan trilogy book series starring Gemma Whelan as officer sarah Collins. Stars Jimmy Akingbola as DC Steve Bradshaw too.
The Tower
campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the H and N in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire. It was the first genocide to begin in the 20th century, occurring between 1904 and 1908.
Herero and the Nama
Taiwan have elected a new president in January 2024 replacing Tsai Ing-wen
William Lai
Nicknamed The King of the Kippax and Nijinsky, which Man City player?
Colin Bell
roles in These Final Hours (2013) and The Nice Guys (2016). She played Betty Brant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For her starring role in Ladies in Black (2018), she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 2024, she starred as Cady Heron in the musical film Mean Girls.
Angourie Rice
gained recognition for starring as Regina George in the Broadway musical Mean Girls (2019–2020). She reprised the role in the 2024 film Mean Girls and also contributed to its soundtrack. Rapp has also starred in the Max comedy series The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021–present).
Renee Rapp
In addition to her solo work, she is a member of the indie supergroup boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus.
Julien Baker
Moana and Janis in mean girls musical
Aulii Cravalho
He also played a high-school principal in the 2004 film Mean Girls, and reprised the role in Mean Girls 2 and the film’s 2024 musical adaptation. SNL star.
Tim Meadows
23 Which British rock band played to almost one million fans during their 1986 The Magic Tour?
Queen
25 What bird is celebrated every December at the Fête de la
Dinde in the French village of Licques?
Turkey
27 The Geminid meteor shower, an annua event in the night sky,
peaks in which month?
December
28 What was the first name of Mr Rochester in Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre?
Edward Fairfax Rochester
30 Which Indian port city lies where the mouth of the Adyar river meets the Bay of Bengal?
Chennai
31 Which animal rights organisation was founded in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk?
PETA
33 Which French poet wrote the 1845 essay How to Pay Your
Debts When You’re a Genius?
Charles Baudelaire
36 What number links Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One car with
Dirty Harry’s Magnum?
44
37 Which online fast-fashion retaller partnered with Kourtney
Kardashian with a range of clothing in 2022?
Boohoo
39 In which Britlsh Overseas Territory in the Caribbean can you visit Seven Mile Beach and the wreck of the MV Captain Keith Tibbetts?
Cayman Islands
40 Which American pop artist created the 2003 work Pay Nothing
Until April?
Ed Ruscha
41 Doris Day and Jack Straw sang 7½ Cents in which film musical?
The Pajama Game
42 Which toxic flowering shrub, also known as the Jamaican South Sea Rose, is the official flower of Hiroshima?
Oleander
John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, catalogued which gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant planet as ‘34 Tauri’ when he first observed it in December 1690?
Uranus
Andrew Yang’s “centrist” Forward Party is hoping to qualify for the ballot in all 50 states by November. Who, much better known in a field outside of politics, recently became the party’s leader in Washington state?
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana bassist)
Mountain in Ogwen Valley, Snowdonia, said to be the final resting-place of Sir Bedivere (Bedwyr) of Arthurian legend
Tryfan
a domesticated, locally adapted,[2][3][4] often traditional[5] variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species.[2] these are distinct from cultivars and from standard breeds.
Landrace
also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added. Example Jasper Johns Flag.
Encaustic Painting
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings and Dokkōdō
Miyamoto Musashi
‘Eduskunta’, which was founded in 1906, is the parliament of which european country?
Finland
Which Dundee built barque-rigged auxiliary steamship which was launched in 1901, carried Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first journey to the Antarctic?
Discovery
Which lion subspecies (Panthera leo leo) which lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt was declared extinct in the wild in 1922?
Barbary Lion
Which lion subspecies (Panthera leo leo) which lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt was declared extinct in the wild in 1922?
Barbary Lion
From Latin for smooth/hairless, the area of skin between the eyebrows and above the nose
Glabella
A statue with the inscription “More than a cell” by Helen Wilson-Roe unveiled by the University of Bristol in October 2021 is of which woman?
Henrietta Lacks
Tv composer Television credits include The Masked Singer, The Million Pound Drop, Pointless, Total Wipeout, Tipping Point, All Together Now, Cannonball, Family Fortunes, Alesha’s Street Dance Stars, The Bank Job, Golden Balls, 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow, Divided and Richard Osman’s House of Games.
Marc Sylvan
He has composed music for British game shows including The Weakest Link, The Chase, The Wheel, Dancing on Ice, the short-lived 2008 revival of Gladiators, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, The John Bishop Show, Ninja Warrior. His music was heard in Domino in 2005.[1] He also was the creator and composer of 1000 Heartbeats.
Paul Farrer
2024 grand national winner
I am Maximus
fictional robot created by Isaac Asimov. The “R” initial in his name stands for “Robot,” a naming convention in Asimov’s future society during Earth’s early period of space colonization. one of the two protagonists of Asimov’s Robot series books The Caves of Steel (1953), The Naked Sun (1956), and The Robots of Dawn (1983).
R Daneel Olivaw
Nickname of Martin Adams darts
Wolfie
Nickname of Ted Hankey darts
The Count
Christian Kist darts nickname
The Lipstick
nicknamed The Cobra, is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). In 2006, he became the youngest darts player to win the World Darts Championship, aged 21 at the time. He also is a Dutch Open champion.
Jelle Klaasen
Mark Webster darts nickname
The Spider
Archie Bunker actor from All in the Family
Carroll O’Connor
American former world No. 1 tennis player. He won four major singles titles, two at the French Open 91 92 and two at the Australian Open 92 93, and was the youngest man to reach the singles finals of all four majors, at the age of 22 years and 11 months.
Jim Courier
Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell books in order only Connect
Justine
Balthazar
Mountolive
Clea
Raj Quartet four books in order by Paul Scott only connect
The Jewel in the Crown
The Day of the Scorpion
The Towers of Silence
A Division of the Spoils
Richard Osman quarter and colours only Connect
Red: The Thursday Murder Club
Blue: The Man Who Died Twice
Green: The Bullet That Missed
Purple: The Last Devil to Die
Six Palliser novels in order from Anthony Trollope only Connect
Can You Forgive Her?
Phineas Finn
The Eustace Diamonds
Phineas Redux
The Prime Minister
The Duke’s Children
First four of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time only Connect
A Question of Upbringing
A Buyer’s Market
The Acceptance World
At Lady Molly’s
Scout Finch (Jean Louise Finch) played by who in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Mary Badham
steve bell cartoon in guaddian since 1981
If…
King Arthur’s foster brother?
Sir Kay
Born 1880 American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He was Hollywood’s first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.
Tom Mix
Name of an abbey few miles northeast of Cambridge restored by Baron Fairhaven in 1930s, misleading name
Anglesey Abbey
Essex-name-linked castle in Berkshire near Pangbourne, 18th century house and estate
Basildon Park
B four letters: body armour for war horses. The practice of armoring horses was first extensively developed in antiquity in the eastern kingdoms of Parthia and Pahlava.
Bard
collection of correspondence between members of the namesake family of Norfolk gentry and others connected with them in England between the years 1422 and 1509. The collection also includes state papers and other important documents.
Paston Family
Family name of the pair of MPs for Southend West 1935-58 and 1959-1997? First one had nickname Chips and wrote diary, second one son and was sec for transport 1987-89.
Channon
Nickname of police wagon with colour and women’s name
Black Maria
Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
Fanny Kaplan
English music manager, agent, and businessman. He managed the careers of rock acts such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Air Supply, Small Faces, The Move, Black Sabbath and Electric Light Orchestra. Sharon Osbourne is daughter.
Don Arden
Danger Mouse arch nemesis
Baron Greenback
Mr Jackson in The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse is what creature?
Toad
Who sings Elusive Butterfly?
Bob Lind
Full do re mi scale only Connect
Do re mi fa so la ti do
Liberian dictator killed 1990
Samuel Doe
Singer nicknamed The Prince of Wails
Johnny Ray
English writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children’s Encyclopædia, The Children’s Newspaper, and The King’s England. Born 1875.
Arthur Mee
What hoax appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in namesake West Yorkshire village?
Cottingley Fairies
general surgeon and gynaecologist in London, who in 1934 supposedly took a photograph purporting to show the Loch Ness Monster. This became known as “the surgeon’s photograph” and was widely regarded as genuine, although scepticism was expressed about this from the start.
Robert Kenneth Wilson
Hitchcock wife who helped co write many screenplays
Alma Reville
English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the “Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice”, she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Song Dreamboat got to #1.
Alma Cogan
Taming of the Shrew drunk spectator name
Christopher Sly
He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three Masters), and decisive historical events in Decisive Moments in History (1927). He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935) and Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, 1932), among others.
Stefan Zweig
American poet, best known for his only long poem, The Bridge. Brooklyn Bridge inspired.
Hart Crane
Northumberland poet British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English.
Basil Bunting
Pip’s lawyer friend in great expectations
Mr Jaggers
Singer nicknamed Dartford Warbler
Mick Jagger
British journalist and television presenter. He was best known for filming an East Timorese demonstration and its aftermath that became known as the Santa Cruz massacre. His coverage of East Timor’s struggle for independence is listed in Unesco’s Memory of the World register as a “turning point” in the birth of a new nation. Also Blue Peter presenter.
Christopher Wenner
Who wrote The Man Without Qualities?
Robert Musil
Fish in family Osmeridae
Smelt
Which Saint said to invent felt by walking on wool
St Clement
Penaeus monodon crustacean
Tiger prawn
Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty (c. 184–220) and became the effective head of the Han central government during that period.
Cao Cao
The Shoemaker’s Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by which playwright?
Thomas Dekker
Which bible sometimes called Breeches Bible as uses word Breeces instead of aprons in Genesis?
Geneva Bible
Scottish engineer and political economist, invented several types of diagrams: in 1786 the line, area and bar chart of economic data, and in 1801 the pie chart and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations,
William Playfair
Two of his finest works are the neoclassical buildings of the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy which are in the centre of Edinburgh. Co-architect of the National Monument in Edinburgh (Parthenon replica). Also national gallery of Scotland.
William Henry Playfair
American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America’s fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age; his genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack.
Jim Fixx
Tim Shipman Brexit Quartet only connect
All Out War 2016
Fall Out 2017
No Way Out 2024
Out 2024
Currently Childrens Laureate 2022-2024
Joseph Coelho
only extant manuscript of Beowulf known as Nowell Codex and contains what codex sharing name with material?
Cotton MS
English band leader and entertainer song Somebody Stole My Gal and known for catchphrase Wakey Wakey.
Billy Cotton
Animal chRCters from The Herbs only connect
Parsley the Lion
Sage the Owl
Dill the Dog
Constable Knapweed
Bayleaf the Gardener
Tarragon the Dragon
Author of Lassie Come Home, died in Suriname plane crash during ww2
Eric Knight
Who played Robin vS Adam West’s Batman on tv?
Burt Ward
Who won Masters 2024? Second win.
Scottie Scheffler
Which swede came second in masters 2024, it was his first major ever playing in?
Ludvig Aberg
Best known for her work on television sitcoms, she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sally Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun. She starred as divorce attorney Holly Franklin on The Exes, and as recovering addict Tammy Diffendorf on Mom. She has also appeared in the films Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Ice Age (2002), Music and Lyrics (2007), and Bride Wars (2009).
Kristen Johnston
American actor, best known for playing Harry Solomon on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, Inspector Gadget in the superhero comedy film Inspector Gadget 2 and Chef Rudy on the CBS sitcom Mom.
French Stewart
The Box of Delights is a children’s fantasy novel by which poet laureate? Sequel to The Midnight Folk.
John Masefield
George Galloway constituencies Only Connect
Glasgow Hillhead
Glasgow Kelvin - Labour/Ind/Respect
Bethnal Green and Bow - Respect
Bradford West - Respect
Rochdale - Workers Party of Britain
Jinro is the best selling brand of which spirit?
Soju
A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. She wrote her first book, Beast and Man (1978), when she was in her late fifties, and went on to write over 15 more, including Animals and Why They Matter (1983), Wickedness (1984), The Ethical Primate (1994), Evolution as a Religion (1985), and Science as Salvation (1992).
Mary Midgley
Born 1941 writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture. Wrote Flora Britannica, Nature Cure, Beechcombings.
James Mabey
First published in 1918 the cartoon strip containing interesting facts called ‘Champs and Chumps’ was created by Robert L Ripley, and was later re-titled with which what four word name?
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
First four books in Mapp and Lucia by EF Benson
Queen Lucia
Miss Mapp
Lucia in London
Mapp and Lucia
Who wrote My Antonia, O Pioneers! and Death Comes For the Archbishop?
Willa Cather
Harmonica player of the Goon Show
Max Geldray
With a total area of 5,136 km2 (1,983 sq mi) of which 176 km2 (68 sq mi) is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by total area. Capital is Arnhem.
Gelderland
Dutch goalkeeper who played for Aston Villa and Wolves?
Stefan Postma
Founder and first president of London Zoological Society is which person?
Stamford Raffles
British jazz pianist the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards “Lullaby of Birdland” and “Conception”
George Shearing
King Leontes and Queen Hermione daughter name in The Winters Tale?
Perdita
best known as the lead vocalist of Manfred Mann from 1966 to their dissolution in 1969, and as the composer of the songs “Handbags and Gladrags” and “Build Me Up Buttercup”, the latter of which was a hit for The Foundations.
Mike d’Abo
What is Japanese green leaf tea before it is bashed into matcha powder?
Tencha
Which caprine canyon has the world’s largest all-wood trestle bridge which was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway?
Goat Canyon Trestle
Callithrix Jacchus mammal
Common Marmoset
Sancho Panza’s donkey in Don Quixote
Dapple
Mykolas Alekna broke Jürgen Schult’s 38 year old record (the oldest men’s world record) in 2024 when he threw 74.35m in which event?
Discus
Which Lithuanian discus thrower broke WR in 2024 beating Jurgen Schultz’s 38 year old record?
Mykolas Alekna
Who wrote Baby Reindeer, Netflix show?
Richard Gadd
British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC’s 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon’s novels.
Rupert Davies
highest motorway in uk
M62
Eritrean currency named after town in northern Red Sea region
Nakfa
Nickname of Paul Arthur’s who plays guitar for oasis
Bonehead
Stage name for Brian Patrick Carroll played guitar for guns n roses from 2000-04. Wears a kfc item.
Buckethead
Stage name for Kevin Wasserman who serves as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the Offspring?
Noodles
Which American hip hop group formed in 1988 in Long Island, New York won a Grammy for their collaboration with Gorillaz on their single “Feel Good Inc.” ?
De La Soul
Omelette with haddock and cream named after who
Arnold Bennett
Kinetic Energy Formula
0.5 x m x v squared
El Fasher is the capital of what region? The United Nations has warned that 800,000 people in the city are in “extreme, immediate danger.”
North Darfur
What former prime minister of Haiti has tendered his resignation? He has handed power to a transitional government as Haiti contends with anarchic gang violence. 2024
Ariel Henry
China is focusing on investing green technologies into Latin America. Their “new three” include EVs, lithium-ion batteries, and what alternative energy item?
Solar Panels
What Kenyan runner won her second consecutive Boston Marathon title, becoming the first woman to repeat at Boston since 2005?
HELLEN OBIRI
What musical, produced by Malala Yousafzai and Hillary Rodham Clinton, tells the story of a group of women fighting for their right to vote?
Suffs
Hell’s Kitchen is a jukebox musical featuring the discography of what Grammy Award-winning musician, who grew up in the titular neighborhood?
Alicia Keys
Written by Peter Morgan, Patriots is a play that follows the rise and fall of a businessman in what European country?
Russia : play that follows the fall of businessman Boris Berezovsky, who aided Vladimir Putin in his rise to power. While Tom Hollander originated the role of Berezovsky in West End, Michael Stuhlbarg is playing the character on Broadway.
The show Illinoise will be a theatrical reimagining of what musician’s Grammy-nominated album Illinois?
Sufjan Stevens
What musical from Arcade Fire’s Will Butler tracks a rock band recording an album in 1970s Sausalito?
Stereophonic
Who became the world’s first democratically elected woman president in 1980, the fourth President of her country? She was re-elected three times before retiring in 1996.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Infinity stones by name and colour ONLY CONNECT
Reality - Red
Soul - Orange
Mind - Yellow
Time - Green
Space - Blue
Power - Purple
Xx
Xx
Masked Singer UK winners only Connect
Nicola Roberts - Queen Bee
Joss Stone - Sausage
Natalie Imbruglia - Panda
Charlie Simpson - Rhino
Danny Jones - Piranha
Ru Paul drag race uk winners only Connect
The Vivienne
Lawrence Chaney
Krystal Versace
Danny Beard
Ginger Johnson
The Frederica Quartet comprises: ‘The Virgin in the Garden’ [1978], ‘Still Life’ [1985], ‘Babel Tower’ [1996] and A Whistling Woman’ [2002]. By who?
AS Byatt
South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist. He is also known for his book “Chocolates for my Wife”, an autobiographical account of his experiences in South Africa and England.
Todd Matshikiza
What makes up an estimated 68% of the universe?
Dark Energy
Which great of English literature wrote novels in his third language?
Joseph Conrad (after polish and French)
Which transport service is run by Waymo in San Francisco and Phoenix?
Driverless Taxis
What is Nato’s second largest army?
Turkey (after USA)
Which song features a whaling ship called the Billy o’ Tea?
Wellerman
Fig trees are pollinated by which insects?
Wasps
What links: Alastair Cook; Phil Mickelson; Martina Navratilova; Mark Williams?
Famous left handers in sport
What links: Bridewell; Greenwich; Nonsuch; Richmond; Whitehall?
Lost Tudor palaces
Persian new year
Nowruz
Japanese new year term
Shogatsu
Thai new year
Songkran
Squeeze lead singer
Glenn Tilbrook
Fine young Cannibals lead singer
Roland Gift
Whitesnake lead singer
David Coverdale
Journey lead singer
Steve Perry
Parasite director
Bong Joon-Ho
Female bassist for Pixies
Kim Deal
Emma Raducanu four opponents from Fourth Round to winning final?
Shelby Rogers
Belinda Bencic
Maria Sakkari
Leylah Fernandez
Like Littler final four games at losing world darts championship 2024
Raymond van Barneveld
Brendan Dolan
Rob Cross
Luke Humphries
American musician and audio engineer best known as the frontman for the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987) and Shellac (1992–2024). He was the founder, owner, and principal engineer at Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago, Illinois. Died May 2024.
Steve Albini
Singer of Ireland’s Eurovision 2024 entry Doomsday Blue
Bambie Thug
Switzerland act for Eurovision 2024 with song The Code
Nemo
Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and a sweetener, often condensed milk
Kakigori
First four plastic recycling codes only Connect
1) PET
2) HDPE
3) PVC
4) LDPE
He made his directorial debut on the 2014 action film John Wick with Chad Stahelski, though only Stahelski was credited. He then directed the 2017 thriller film Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron, and 2018’s Deadpool 2. In 2019, he directed Hobbs & Shaw, a spin-off of the Fast & Furious franchise, and in 2022 directed Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt. Recently, he directed the 2024 film The Fall Guy.
David Leitch
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback
Jalen Hurts
Known as the “Leper King,” who ruled Jerusalem (1174-1185) during the Crusades?
Baldwin IV
Who plays juliet opposite Romeo hy tom Holland in London west end in 2024
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
Who plays juliet opposite Romeo hy tom Holland in London west end in 2024
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
Danish[4] chain of juice bars and coffee shops around the world. As of 2022 it has over 338 locations globally in Europe, Asia, and Australia with 64 locations in North America. Founded by Kaspar Basse in 2002.
Joe and the Juice
Which couple’s tomb was “discovered” at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191?
King Arthur and Guinevere
The M’Naghten rules are concerned with the legal definition of what?
Insanity
Which heron is known for its booming call?
Bittern
What links: Stars; Rip It Up; The Race; American Idiot; All Rise; Galileo; Crush?
Musical artist rainbow colours: Simply Red; Orange Juice; Yello; Green Day; Blue; Indigo Girls; Tessa Violet.
What links: Davis; Dellinger; Froines; Hayden; Hoffman; Rubin; Weiner?
Chicago Seven activists on trial in 1969
What links: The Emperor; Flights; Snow White and Russian Red; Solaris?
Books by Polish authors: Ryszard Kapuściński; Olga Tokarczuk; Dorota Maslowska; Stanislaw Lem.
What links: Old Indian coin; heavenly food; Australian lizard; grassland; African clawed frog; excessively cheerful?
Ending in -anna, getting longer: anna; manna; goanna; savanna; platanna; Pollyanna.
What links: Charing Cross; Notre Dame; Roman Forum; Zhengyangmen Gate?
Zero point for measuring road distances: London; Paris; (ancient) Rome; Beijing
What links: Abraham Lincoln; Pyotr Stolypin; Todor Panitsa?
Assassinated in theatres: US president, Washington, 1865; Russian PM, Kyiv, 1911; Bulgarian revolutionary, Vienna, 1925
The OED’s first citation for “video game” mentions which Atari product?
Pong
What athletics world record has stood at 7291 since 1988?
Heptathlon (Jackie Joyner-Kersee).
What brand name was used by M&S from 1928 until 2000?
St Michael
What links: Calderdale, West Yorkshire and Nova Scotia, Canada?
Capital is Halifax
What links: The Night Manager; Conversations with Friends; Notes on a Conditional Form?
Englishmen romantically linked to Taylor Swift: Tom Hiddleston (TV series); Joe Alwyn (TV series); Matty Healy (The 1975 album)
What links: Leda; Nut; Rebecca; Rhea Silvia?
Mothers of twins in myth and religion: Castor and Pollux; Isis and Osiris; Jacob and Esau; Romulus and Remus
What links: Beaded; flush; keyed; recessed; tuck; V-grooved; weathered?
Types of brick pointing.
Who won 2024 US PGA championships?
Xander Schauffele
English cyclist and Olympic gold medallist who competes internationally in Freestyle BMX. Won gold at bmx freestyle in 2020 Tokyo.
Charlotte Worthington
elite British cyclist, competing as a BMX racer. A World Junior champion in 2017, and winner of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup final event in Zolder in 2018. 2021 gold Olympic and world champion in bmx racing.
Bethany Shriever
Colombian cyclist, two-time Olympic gold medalist and BMX World Champion. 2012 and 2016 bmx racing gold female.
Mariana Pajon
He learned to surf on a three-foot-long lid of a coolbox his father used to transport fish to sell to restaurants in Baia Formosa, Brazilian surfer won men’s short board surfing gold at 2020 Olympics.
Italo Ferreira
a Hawaiian American Olympian, world champion surfer and activist. She was the first-ever winner of the Olympic Gold Medal in women’s short board surfing in 2020.
Carissa Moore
Spanish professional rock climber, specializing in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. He won gold at the first Olympic sport climbing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in August 2021.
Alberto Ginés
Slovenian professional rock climber who specializes in sport climbing and competition climbing, and who has won multiple competition lead climbing and competition bouldering events. In 2021, she became the first-ever female Olympic gold medalist in climbing and is widely regarded as one of the greatest competition climbers of all time.
Janja Garnbret
Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its principal activity is the production, marketing and sale of Isuzu commercial vehicles and diesel engines. Named after a river meaning 50 bells.
Isuzu
In 1989, which American singer known as “the Voice” donated two lion cubs to the Bronx Zoo in New York?
Whitney houston
Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which temple is the largest of the rock-cut Hindu temples at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India?
Kailasa Temple
Which species of monkey found in the mountain ranges of southwestern China, has a pale blue face, and a flat nose?
Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
Who was the umpire at the 1879 cricket match known as ‘The Sydney Riot’ who later became the first prime minister of Australia (1901)?
Edmund Barton
Who won Best Director at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy when he directed and starred in the feature-film Hedwig and the Angry Inch?
John Cameron Mitchell
also known as round-off entry vaults, are a family of vaults performed in artistic gymnastics in which the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the horse or vaulting table.[1] The gymnast then performs a salto, which may range in difficulty from a simple single tuck to a triple twist layout. Named after Soviet gymnast who first did in 1982.
Yurchenko
American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.[1] Bassist/lead vocalist Fat Mike, rhythm guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik Sandin are original founding and longest-serving members of the band
NOFX
a Dutch-born British-based sports broadcaster. Her presenting and commentary work has included the FIFA World Cup, the Premier League, the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and the Women’s Super League. She has worked for broadcasters such as the BBC in Britain, Ziggo Sport in the Netherlands, and CBS in the United States. In 2023, she became the first female to commentate on a live Premier League match in Britain for Sky Sports.
Pien Meulensteen
a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, he is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He was a notable figure of this school in its golden age (approximately 1570s–1670s) and an important geographer of Spain during the age of discovery
Abraham Ortelius
With eight goals Kadidiatou Diani was the 2023/24 UEFA Women’s Champions League top scorer in her debut season playing for which club?
Lyon
February 2024 world record for women: Zambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Women’s Soccer League club Bay FC and the Zambia women’s national team.
Rachael Kundananji
‘Butterfly in the Sky’ is a documentary about which American show, hosted by LeVar Burton, which aimed to encourage children to read and to love books?
Reading Rainbow
On early periodic tables which element was given symbol J from name Jod the elements name in German?
Iodine
Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie helped form which Scottish band in 1982?
Primal Scream
Anil Kapoor as President Omar Hassan in which shows final season in 2010?
24
Caribbean country has Independence Day 1st January and eats soup Joumou?
Haiti
First midfielder to score 100 goals in premier league, played for Southampton
Matt Le Tissier
which norwegian cyclist died from crash in 2024 tour of austria?
Andre Drege
New Zealand professional rugby sevens player and Olympic gold medalist.[2] She was the first female player to win back-to-back World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year titles in 2017 and 2018. She holds the record for the most tries by a New Zealand women sevens player in a single match (six against Sri Lanka at the 2022 Commonwealth Games) and also the record for most tries in a single fixture when she scored five tries against England in Langford in 2017.
Michaela Blyde
Who is an English professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion.
Tom Aspinall
Who is an English professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Welterweight Champion
Leon Edwards
The performance starring which artist at the Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show has been nominated for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) at the 76th Emmy Awards?
Usher
100m breaststroke Italian swimmer 2020 bronze medal Tokyo and gold medal 2024 beating Adam Peaty
Nicolo Martinenghi
