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‘House on Fire’ was a 2022 hit for which British singer? She performed the song in front of Buckingham palace as part of
the platinum jubilee celebrations earlier this year.

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Mimi Webb

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What French term describes a slicing technique in which herbs and vegetables are cut into long thin strips by rolling them tightly and slicing the leaves perpendicular to the roll?

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Chiffonade

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What is the two word name of the wind which originates in the Canadian plains, east of the Rockies and swoops down
across the US midwest and Great Lakes? The name is a reference to the Canadian province in which it originates

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Alberta Clipper

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Who starred as the playwright Skip Donahue in the 1980 comedy film ‘Stir Crazy’? The film follows Donahue’s prison
journey when he and friend Harry Monroe are falsely convicted of robbing a bank dressed as woodpeckers

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Gene Wilder

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At which 48 BC battle did the forces of Julius Caesar defeat those of the Roman Republic under the command of Pompey, effectively bringing the republic to an end?

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Pharsalus

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With 226 points, and playing for the Catalan Dragons, who was the leading point scorer in the 2021/22 Rugby League
Super League?

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James Maloney

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Super League 2023 ended in October 14th 2023, who won the Super League beating Catalans Dragons in the final?

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Wigan Warriors

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Which Australian rugby league player for Wigan Warriors won Man of Steel Award in 2023 season?

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Bevan French

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Which English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a scrum-half and stand-off for the Wigan Warriors in the Betfred Super League and both England and the England Knights at international level was top point scorer with 218 of the Super League 2023?

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Harry Smith

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Which Lebanese international rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League? Was top try scorer in Super League 2023 with 28 tries.

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Abbas Miski

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The Halliwell Jones Stadium is home to which Rugby League team?

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Warrington Wolves

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What is the chemical name of caustic soda?

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Sodium Hydroxide

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Signed in 1947, what does the acronym GATT stand for?

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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

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‘She’s all I wanna be’ was a 2022 hit for which American singer? She was supported by Mimi Webb on her 2022 tour. Back in the charts in 2023 with Greedy and in 2020 You Broke Me First.

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Tate McRae

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Pocket, Leggie and Kook are all terms in which sport? It is one of the 5 new sports introduced to the Tokyo Olympics

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Surfing

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Which element was discovered by Bernard Courtois in 1811 when he added sulfuric acid to seaweed ash? It is used in pharmaceuticals, disinfectants, printing inks and dyes.

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Iodine

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What French term describes a cooking technique in which food is cooked in fat, oil or grease at low temperatures?

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Confit

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Commencing in 1969, what does the acronym SALT stand for?

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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Which lithograph by MC Escher depicts a large mansion house with a number of looping staircases on the roof of the
building?

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Ascending and Descending

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Over which Island group in the pacific did the US detonate “Castle Bravo”, the largest nuclear warhead the US ever
detonated?

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Marshall Islands

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21 people were killed in Boston, USA, in 1919 when a tank of what substance burst, causing a leak?

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Molasses

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Placing second in “The Dirtiest Race in History” was which man? He was promoted to the gold medal, one of nine Olympic
gold medals he has won. In 2003 Wade Exum, the US Olympic Committee’s director of drug control named him as one of
100 US athletes that had failed drug tests between 1988 and 2000 and should not have competed.

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Carl Lewis

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Who began hosting Radio 1’s weekday mid-morning show in 2021 alongside Melvin Odoom and Ricky Haywood Williams?
She previously worked with the duo on Kiss FM.

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Charlie Hedges

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Recently performing at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert were Queens of the Stone Age. Queens of the Stone Age themselves lost a long-time collaborator when which singer died in 2022? Formerly he had been the lead singer of The Screaming Trees.

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Mark Lanegan

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What is the two word name of the wind which originates off the coast of Western Australia and cools the coastal towns in the afternoons? The name is a reference to a place which benefits greatly from the wind

Freemantle Doctor

Who starred as teen ‘Samantha Baker’ in the 1984 comedy film ‘Sixteen Candles’? The film follows an upset Baker after her family forgets her 16th birthday.

Molly Ringwald

What is the chemical name of baking soda?

Sodium Bicarbonate

Which word replaces Circle in the name of the American version of the Magic Circle?

Magic Castle

Who directed the Spaghetti western film ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’?

Sergio Leone

Lead singer of Rixton, son of Colleen Nolan

Jake Roche

Rickets is a deficiency of which vitamin?

D

The insurance and banking firm First Direct is a division of which much larger banking and financial services organisation?

HSBC

On which island nation are the Troodos Mountains located?

Cyprus

Together with the Tumen River to the east, which river forms much of the border between North Korea and China?

Yalu

Roger Federer has recently retired after a highly successful career that included a record eight Wimbledon men's singles titles. Which Australian, known for his big serve, did he beat in the 2003 final to claim his first title?

Mark PHILIPPOUSSIS

Who is the world's longest-serving current head of state? He became the 29th Sultan of Brunei in October 1967, 56 years ago, and has also been the country's Prime Minister since it became independent from the United Kingdom in 1984.

HASSNAL BOLKIAH

Observable in a poorly-designed pumped liquid circuit, what name is given to the phenomenon where the static pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure, leading to the formation of small gas bubbles? These bubbles then collapse as they pass through the pump, generating shock waves and noise.

CAVITATION

Sometimes known as the “Master of the Thrill”, which Italian giallo [JALLᐧoh] film-maker directed The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, as well as the Three Mothers horror film trilogy, which includes Inferno and The Mother of Tears?

Dario Argento

In 1743, the new Bourbon King Charles of Spain and his wife, Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony, founded which porcelain factory near Naples known for its production of elegant figurines and vases with intricate floral designs? The factory was intended to emulate the success of the Meissen[MYᐧsun] factory that had been founded by the Queen’s grandfather.

CAPODIMONTE

Which Ugandan athlete won the men's race at the 2022 Great North Run? He won gold in both 5,000 and 10,000 metres at this year's Commonwealth Games, improving on his bronze medals at the latter distance at both the Tokyo Olympics and the World Championships in Eugene, where he finished behind compatriot Joshua Cheptegei on both occasions.

Jacob Kiplimo

What was the unflattering nickname given to the government formed in February 1852 by the Earl of Derby, after he succeeded Lord John Russell as Prime Minister? The name was derived from the response of the Duke of Wellington when its members were being announced in the House of Lords?

Who? Who? Ministry

In Microsoft Excel, which function is used in a formula to return the number of characters in a text string? The answer has three letters.

LEN

In the folklore of West Virginia, which winged, humanoid creature was reportedly sighted in the Point Pleasant area between 1966 and 1967? One theory holds that the creature sighted was actually a large sandhill crane.

Mothman

Which 1999 album, the third by Blink-182, contained the hits 'What's My Age Again', 'All the Small Things' and 'Adam's Song'?

Enema of the State

Dario Argento's Three Mothers horror trilogy also contains which 1977 film about a dance student who enrols in a ballet academy run by a coven of witches? The film was remade in 2018, with Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton in starring roles.

Suspiria

Depending on how the measurement is taken, the longest-serving head of state in Africa is either Paul Biya of Cameroon or which other man, the President of Equatorial Guinea? He was Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council and the Supreme Military Council before declaring himself President in October 1982.

Teodoro OBIANG Nguema Mbasogo

In the design of a pumped liquid circuit, cavitation and consequential damage to the pump can be avoided by ensuring sufficient NPSH is available at the inlet to the pump. In this context, if NP stands for “Net Positive”, what do the letters S and H represent?

Suction Head

The National Trust for Scotland owns most of which island off the west coast of Mull, but not its 6th-century abbey?

Iona

Despite winning multiple titles in the other three Grand Slam events, Roger Federer won only one French Open singles title. Which Swedish player did he defeat in the 2009 final?

Robin Soderling

In Microsoft Excel, which function is used in a formula to return a specified number of characters from the start of a long text string? The answer is a four-letter word.

Left

In US folklore, which winged, bipedal figure with a high-pitched scream is said to inhabit the forested area of the Pine Barrens? One theory holds that sandhill cranes are actually the basis of the legend.

Jersey Devil

Which 1994 album, the third by the Offspring, featured the singles 'Come Out and Play', 'Self Esteem', and 'Gotta Get Away'?

Smash

Sharing its name with a post-punk band from Greater Manchester, which 2013 TV crime drama starred Gillian Anderson as a Northern Irish police officer, DSU Stella Gibson, on the hunt for serial killer Paul Spector, played by Jamie Dornan?

The Fall

The Ministry of all the Talents was the nickname given to the government formed in February 1806 by which prime minister, who attempted to build the strongest possible government following the death of William Pitt the Younger?

Lord Grenville

Which Kenyan athlete won the women's race at the Great North Run in 2022, a title she also won in 2021? She finished second at the last two Olympics over 5,000 metres behind Sifan Hassan and her compatriot Vivian Cheriuyot, but has twice won world championship gold at that distance.

Hellen Obiri

First seen on TV-am in 1983 and then getting his own Spectacular Shedvision show, which alliteratively-named puppet rodent lived under King's Cross railway station and was friends with a hamster called Errol and a Gerbil called Kevin?

Roland Rat

Meissen's position as the producer of the most sought-after fine porcelain in Europe was challenged in the mid-18th century by which French state-owned porcelain factory, named after the city in Hauts-de-Seine in which it has been based since 1756? This city was, itself, later supplanted as France's premier centre of porcelain production by Limoges.

Sevres

According to the usual rules of the long-running Radio 4 game show Just a Minute, panellists must speak on a given topic without doing one of three forbidden things: what?

Hesitation, Deviation and Repetition

Which darts player, nicknamed the “Prince of Style”, was the last player to end the year ranked as world number one by the World Darts Federation before the PDC split from the BDO? He went on to win two World Matchplay titles, but never won the World Championship?

Rod Harrington

Everyone around the world was devastated to hear of the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II. On what date did she pass away?

September 8th 2022

Who won the 400m Hurdles at the 2022 Commonwealth Games for the British Virgin Islands. He had previously won the same event in 2018 and in doing so won British Virgin Islands their first ever gold medal at the Commonwealth Games

Kyron McMaster

The Outlander and Eclipse are current car models made by which manufacturer?

Mitsubishi

If playing Bridge in No Trumps, how many tricks would a partnership need to win to make "Game"?

9

The songs, The Harder I Try and She Ain't No Competition were both written by Stock, Aitken and Waterman and released by which boy group?

Brother Beyond

The MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed since 2015, which MP was made Secretary of State for Transport in Liz Truss's first cabinet?

Anne-Marie Trevelyan

At 279m above sea level, what is the highest point in Dorset?

Lewesdon Hill

Made in conjunction with Beyond Meat, what is the name of the new vegan burger produced by McDonalds?

McPlant

Which 1950s song by Bobby Darin was banned by some radio stations as it depicts him having a bath which is usually done naked and was therefore too racy to be broadcast?

Splish Splash

Which South African golfer won the very first LIV Golf invitation tournament picking up $5,000,000 when he won the LIV Golf Invitation London? His only Major win was the 2011 Masters

Charl Schwartzel

Which lawyer and judge was Master of the Rolls from 1962 to 1982 and produced the report into the Profumo affair? Maggie Thatcher described him as "probably the greatest English judge of modern times".

Lord Denning

What is the last name of the character Martin, played by Martin Clunes, in the TV show Doc Martin?

Ellingham

At 88 years old, who became the oldest author ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his 2022 work Treacle Walker?

Alan Garner

Prepatellar bursitis is another name for which medical condition that affects the leg?

Housemaids Knee

The Challenger and Charger are current car models made by which manufacturer?

Dodge

The MP for Chippingham since 2015, which MP was made Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport in Liz Truss's first cabinet? Later, Education.

Michelle DONELAN

At 251m above sea level, what is the highest point in Kent?

Betsom's Hill

In Greek mythology, who is the Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry?

Thalia

The songs Can't Shake the Feeling and Handful of Promises were both written by Stock, Aitken and Waterman and released by which boy group who had their biggest chart success with a cover of Blame it on the Boogie?

Big Fun

Which moon of Saturn is thought to be the most likely to contain life as it is covered by a layer of ice and scientists have observed plumes containing water vapour suggesting liquid water may exist on this moon?

Enceladus

What is the capital of the Marshall Islands?

Majuro

In contract bridge, an undertrick occurs when a team fails to make their contract. How many penalty points are awarded for each undertrick when in a contract and when they are not vulnerable or doubled?

50

At 116 pages long, Which author's 2022 work Small Things Like These is the shortest book ever to be nominated for the booker Prize?

Claire Keegan

All waterfowls, such as duck, geese and swans are in what order of birds?

Anseriformes

What is the last name of the character Gary, played by Martin Clunes, in the TV show Men Behaving Badly?

Strang

The "Travolta dress" designed by Victor Edelstein in 1985 and the "Revenge dress" designed by Christina Stambolian in 1994 were both famous dresses worn by which woman?

Princess Diana

Dalai Lama is the title given to the spiritual leader of which school of Tibetan Buddhism?

Gelug or Yellow Hat

Who won the first ever track and field medal for Guernsey at the Commonwealth Games when he took 3rd in the 400m Hurdles?

Alistair Chalmers

What 10 letter word is used for a prolonged period of slow economic growth?

Stagnation

What 1950s song by the Everly Brothers was banned by some radio stations because the couple in the song innocently arose at 4am but the radio stations believed they weren't just sleeping at that time?

Wake Up Little Susie

Filton is a suburb of which British city?

Bristol

Who played the piano on Cat Stevens’ recording of ‘Morning has Broken’?

Rick Wakeman

Which American realist painter depicted a 1923 world heavyweight title fight in his work Dempsey and Firpo? He is also known for depictions of urban life such as his painting Cliff Dwellers.

George Bellows

Bitches Brew was an acclaimed 1970 jazz album by which composer and bandleader?

Miles Davis

What are the names of the pair of extremely foul-mouthed drunken lavatory attendants created by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in the 1970s?

Derek and Clive

In bouldering and sport climbing terminology, the most technically challenging point in the climb is known by what four-letter term?

Crux

What was the name of the Canadian-American magician and sceptic who found fame challenging paranormal and pseudoscientific claims? The foundation which bears his name sponsored the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered this sum to anyone who could demonstrate supernatural powers in controlled conditions.

James Randi

In genetics, what adjective describes a locus that contains different alleles on each chromosome? This is typically notated with one uppercase and one lowercase letter for that gene.

Heterozygous

With 2022 acts including Kae Tempest, Kraftwerk and Michael Kiwanuka, which music and arts festival held annually near Crickhowell is the largest music festival in Wales with a capacity of 25,000?

Green Man Festival

Which British social media personality hosts the YouTube channel SprinkleofGlitter, which until 2016 she used as a pseudonym? She also writes a blog on beauty and motherhood.

Louise Pentland

Breathless is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by who?

Jean-Luc Godard

The 400 Blows is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of which director?

Francois Truffaut

Born in 1898, which bass-baritone, lawyer and NFL footballer embraced a career in international political activism, opposing the Spanish Civil War and admonishing President Truman after World War II for his failure to legislate against lynching? He is commemorated by a plaque at London's School of Oriental and African Studies where he studied Swahili.

Paul Robeson

Which psychologist is associated with experiments on learned helplessness he conducted in 1967? After exposing three groups of dogs to electric shocks, the last of which had no ability to prevent the shocks, the experiment found that the third group demonstrated learned helplessness by not attempting to escape when given a way out. He is also known for his contributions to positive psychology.

Martin Seligman

With one team and two individual gold medals, Frenchman Teddy Riner [REE-ner] is among the most successful Olympians in which sport? Nicola Fairbrother and Neil Adams have won Olympic medals for Team GB in this sport.

Judo

In genetics, what name is given to a situation in which both versions of a gene in a heterozygous pair are expressed? The blood type AB is one example of this trait.

Codominance

Which horse owned by the Marquess of Rockingham won the first St Leger?

Allabaculia

What are the names of the pair of camp, double entendre-loving characters played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams in the 1960s BBC radio series Round the Horne?

Julian and Sandy

In bouldering and sport climbing terminology, any information, advice or hints about how best to ascend a climb, are known by what four-letter term?

Beta

James Randi was one of a number of sceptics to investigate which English psychic medium who first rose to prominence in Australia and was known for selling out Sydney Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall? She died in 1987, around the time that it was demonstrated she used audience plants for her shows.

Doris Stokes

Featherweight boxer Billy Smith was the model for which American realist painter's works Between Rounds, Salutat, and Taking the Count? He is also known for depictions of medicine, such as The Gross Clinic.

Thomas Eakins

Which psychologist is associated with experiments he conducted on conformity and peer pressure in the 1950s? Individual subjects were placed in a group where all the other members were part of the experiment – when asked a simple question, the other members picked a clear incorrect answer and the subject conformed with them 40% of the time.

Solomon Asch

Which British social media personality hosts the YouTube channel Pointlessblog? He has written a number of books related to the channel, and in 2018 hit the headlines when he released a video in which he attempted to live on £1 for 24 hours.

Alfie Deyes

Ostwald process is main industrial process of making whcih acid?

Nitric Acid

Sharing its name with an antiquated term for a mental health institution, what legal term is given to protection and immunity from extradition granted to political refugees?

Asylum

Based on the mini-comics of the same name by Charles Forsman, which British black comedy-drama series, broadcast between 2017 and ’19, stars Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden as a pair of troubled teens who run away together?

The END OF THE F***ING WORLD

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America is a book by which American journalist? She is known for her prolific reporting on Trump for The New York Times, authoring or co-authoring 599 articles in 2016 alone.

Maggie Haberman

Which 1970s film stars Robert De Niro as a jazz saxophonist who has a tempestuous relationship with a nightclub singer played by Liza Minelli?

New York New York

Which lager was advertised on TV in the 80s with a series of adverts featuring a cockney bear called George playing a range of traditional pub games?

Hofmeister

WALTER is a former Progress Wrestling Heavyweight Champion. He was also the 3rd NXT UK Champion. He currently wrestles in WWE under which name?

Gunther

In which specific part of the body would you find the sartorius muscles?

Thigh

The Hoffmeister TV adverts were directed by which veteran American film director? He won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his first film in 1941, which he also directed and starred in.

Orson Welles - Kenosha, Wisconsin

Fallon Sherrock made history when she became the first female Dart player to win a match at the PDC world Championship in 2019. Who did she beat?

Ted Evetts

Which 1970s film stars Gene Hackman as a private investigator and surveillance expert who relaxes in his apartment by playing jazz saxophone?

The Conversation

Which British county’s flag, registered in 2008, features the yellow St David’s cross on a blue background? In the centre there is a Tudor rose, representing King Henry VII who was born in this county.

Pembrokeshire

Edward the Confessor’s wife was Edith of which location?

Wessex

The principal character of Quint in The Turn of the Screw was written, like many of Britten’s lead roles, for which tenor, his personal and professional partner for nearly 40 years.

Peter Pears

Droupadi Murmu is the most recently elected female head of state in the world. She was elected President of which country in July 2022?

India

Pete Dunne is a former Progress Wrestling Heavyweight Champion. He was also the 2nd NXT UK Champion. He currently wrestles in WWE under which name?

Butch

Which musical won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2014? Written by Steven Lutvak and Robert L Freeman, it is based on the 1907 novel "Israel Rank: the autobiography of a criminal". This book was also the basis for a 1949 film by Alec Guinness which has a different title.

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

What word precedes “Girl” in the name of a poster distributed by retailer Athena in 1978 that sold over 2 million copies? It featured 18-year-old Fiona Butler in a risqué pose while taking part in the title activity.

Tennis

The 2022 PDC World Cup of Darts saw which nation win the tournament for the first time? Their team, made up of Simon Whitlock and Damon Heta [HETT·ah], had lost to Wales in the two previous years but defeated them in the final in 2022.

Australia

Set in Aberystwyth, which Welsh-language crime drama first aired on S4C in 2013, and subsequently on BBC Four, featured troubled Detective DCI Tom Mathias fleeing from his London past to solve crimes in rural Wales with his partner DI Mared Rhys?

Hinterland

Sharing its title with one of their songs, what was the name of the feature film released in 1987 starring the Pet Shop Boys? Noted for its surreal content, the film included appearances from Barbara Windsor and Joss Ackland.

It Couldn't Happen Here

Which Soviet-Latvian chess player was known during his career for his creativity in offence and exceptional improvisational play, which earned him the nickname “the Magician”? He became World Champion in 1960, defeating Mikhail Botvinnik.

Mikhail Tal

Sittwe is the capital of which state in Myanmar? The state has been in the news in recent years as it is home to much of the heavily persecuted Rohingya [roh·HIN·juh] people.

Rakhine

Beginning with P, which ginger cake is made with oatmeal and treacle is popular in Yorkshire and traditionally eaten on Guy Fawkes Night?

Parkin

Noted for her work in the field of sphere packing, in 2022 which Ukrainian mathematician became the second woman to win the Fields Medal after Maryam Mirzakhani?

Maryna VIAZOVSKA

Which former winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction released the novel The Marriage Portrait in 2022? It is a novelisation of Lucrezia de' Medici's unexpected rise to become Duchess of Ferrara.

Maggie O'FARRELL

On UK beaches, flags consisting of which two colours signify that an area should be used for surfing, kayaking or paddleboarding, but not swimming?

Black and White

What is the name of the surreal musical feature film, released in 1968, that starred all four members of The Monkees and Victor Mature? The film included numerous cameo appearances, one of which being co-writer Jack Nicholson.

Head

First airing in 2018 on S4C before its appearance on BBC Four , which Welsh language crime drama filmed around Snowdonia, Bangor and Caernarfon features the detective pairing of DI Cadi Jon and DS Owen Vaughan?

Hidden

Released in the summer of 1999, which album by Moby includes the hit singles 'Porcelain' and 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad'? The album eventually reached number one in the UK in April 2000 and was one of the best selling albums of that decade

Play

Which former winner of the Costa Book Award released the novel Shrines of Gaiety in 2022? It tells the story of Nellie Coker, fictional queen of nightlife in 1920s London?

Kate Atkinson

Which Perth-based company is one of the UK's largest bus operators and owned the Virgin Trains East Coast franchise until it was terminated in 2018? The company accepted a bid from rival National Express in 2021 but later reversed its decision.

Stagecoach

Which Aberdeen-based company is one of the UK's largest bus operators and also owns railway franchises such as Great Western Railway, Avanti West Coast and TransPennine Express?

FirstGroup

The Kutupalong refugee camp is the largest refugee camp in the world as a result of Rohingya people fleeing Rakhine State. It is located near which city in southern Bangladesh that is known for its long beach?

Cox's Bazar

The Tom Jones recording of 'You Can Leave Your Hat On' was used for the final strip routine in The Full Monty, but Joe Cocker's recording was used for a striptease routine in which 1986 film?

9 1/2 Weeks

The name of which street in Westminster has become a byword for the British think tank industry as a building there is home to several right-wing think tanks and lobby groups such as the Taxpayers' Alliance and Migration Watch?

(55) TUFTON Street

The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a book about conversion centre experience of title character by which author?

Emily M. Danforth

Other Words for Home is a 2019 free verse children's book by which author? The story is about a family of Syrian refugees with Jude, a 12-year-old girl, as protagonist.

Jasmine Warga

Monetization platform founded in 2013 by Jack Conte, Sam Yam

Patreon

For-profit crowdfunding platform founded by Brad Damphousse; Andrew Ballester in 2010

GoFundMe

Social platform for giving founded by Anne-Marie Huby, Zarine Kharas in 2000

JustGiving

American public benefit corporation founded 2009 in Brooklyn by Perry Chen, Charles Adler, Yancey Strickler for raising money for companies

Kickstarter

The 2002 film The Whale Rider was directed by Niki Caro and based on book written by who?

Witi Ihimaera

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 film and 1999 book both directed and written by which American author?

Stephen Chbosky

What is the second book in the Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman?

Knife Edge

ONLY CONNECT: what are the first four Noughts and Crosses series books by Malorie Blackman?

1) Noughts and Crosses 2) Knife Edge 3) Checkmate 4) Double Cross

Who plays Carrie Matheson in Homeland?

Claire Danes

Actress plays Brody's wife in Homeland, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Greenland, Inara Serra in Firefly

Morena Baccarin

APV, Ertiga, and Solio are minivans produced by which Japanese automaker?

Suzuki

The characters of the US TV series Riverdale were based on the characters of which comic book series?

Archie Comics

From the Greek for "wedge" or "plug", what term coined by Rudolf Virchow refers to an unattached mass that travels through the bloodstream and is capable of creating blockages?

Embolus

What agricultural tool is depicted in Grant Wood's famous painting American Gothic?

Pitchfork

Released in 2014, Dark & Wild is the debut studio album of which South Korean music group?

BTS

Which dynasty held the throne of England from 1154 until 1485?

Plantagenet

In painting, what do you call the white paint mixture made from binder, chalk, gypsum or pigment that is used to coat rigid surfaces?

Gesso

In rugby league, a try is worth how many points?

4

Which Georgian Square in central London is overlooked by the BT Tower and was the long-term home of author Ian McEwan, who set much of his 2005 novel Saturday in the square?

Fitzroy Square

Which alcoholic drink invented in 1973 and named after a London restaurant now comes in a range of flavours including Tiramisu, Eton Mess, Salted Caramel and Orange Truffle?

Baileys

Which book by Shirley Hughes features a boy and his lost stuffed dog, and won the public vote for the best of the first 50 years winners of the Kate Greenaway Award for "distinguished illustration in a book for children"?

Dogger

Which decade of the 19th Century saw the wedding of Queen Victoria, the Irish Potato Famine, the invention of the telegraph by Samuel Morse and the first use of anaesthetics?

1840s

The International Hydrographic Organization defines the western limit of the Strait of Gibraltar as a line that joins Cape Spartel in Morocco to the south with which headland in the Province of Cadiz?.

Cape Trafalgar

Who had a UK number 1 single in the 1960s with Runaway?

Del Shannon

Which 6 letter word for a foreign merchant or businessman in China is also the title of a 1986 novel by James Clavell and the name for a large, fast-moving, highly venomous snake endemic to Australia and New Guinea?

Taipan

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets, receives an annual ground rent of "the gift of one fish" from the City of London Corporation for which 13 acre building complex on the Isle of Dogs?

Billingsgate Fish Market

Art Garfunkel had only two solo top 20 UK singles, both of which made it to number 1. Which word occurs in the title of both songs?

Eyes – Bright Eyes and I Only Have Eyes for You

Which was the first UK general election in which women could stand as candidates, in which Constance Markievicz became the first woman to be elected to Westminster, but as an Irish nationalist, never took her seat?

1918

Which fabric named for a type of medieval smock coat was patented in 1888 by Thomas Burberry as a waterproof fabric for hard wearing overcoats?

Gabardine

Which Portuguese folk dance is a comic character from 16th Century Italian theatre invited to perform in Bohemian Rhapsody?

The Fandango

What was the name of the baby christened in Springsteen’s Reason to Believe?

Kyle

According to Nina Simone, who is not her baby’s style, as “My Baby Just Cares for Me”?

Liz Taylor

According to Oliver’s Army by Elvis Costello, If you're out of luck or out of work, where could we send you to?

Johannesburg

On Don McLean’s American Pie, whose coat did the jester borrow?

James Dean

According to When I’m 64 by The Beatles, where could we rent a cottage every year, if it’s not too dear?

Isle of Wight

Described by Harold Wilson as the greatest living Yorkshireman, who appeared in a 1970 episode of Dad’s Army, two years after his retirement from professional cricket, as a ringer in a cricket team when the ARP wardens challenged the platoon to a match?

Fred Trueman

Which five letter word might mean a Cornish pie chiefly composed of mutton, apples, and onions, with a thick crust, the padded back or side of a car-seat, or a young pigeon?

Squab

Which British film is the only Best Picture winner to contain all of the letters o,s,c,a and r in its title?

Chariots of Fire

English cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet

Graham Kerr

Which Christian or given name connects The Galloping Gourmet, an England fast bowler who shared a series-turning century stand with Ian Botham at Headingley 1981, and the voice of the contestant summaries on Blind Date?

Graham

Which express mail service went bankrupt after just 18 months of operation when the first transcontinental telegraph line was completed by Western Union in October 1861?

The Pony Express

Which name connects an early cartoon dog created by British comic strip artist George Studdy, a chimpanzee which starred in a 1951 film with Ronald Reagan, the nickname of Led Zeppelin’s drummer, and Madame Butterfly’s uncle?

Bonzo

Who hung the Sword of Damocles suspended by a single horsehair?

Dionysus

Which golfer was considered one of the best never to win a major before claiming the 2017 Masters? With 28.5 points from 10 appearances he is Europe’s highest ever points scorer in the Ryder Cup.

Sergio Garcia

Which four-step thermodynamic cycle has the theoretical maximum efficiency for converting heat energy into work? It is named after a French physicist sometimes described as ‘the Father of Thermodynamics’.

Carnot Cycle

What is the name of the spyware sold by the Israeli company NSO Group to various governments who want to hack into iOS and Android phones? Its iOS exploit was identified in August 2016.

Pegasus

Which Jacobean playwright, the author of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, collaborated with the actor William Rowley to write The Changeling?

Thomas Middleton

The violinist Fritz Kreisler created several musical forgeries over the course of his career. One such composition was Variations on a Theme by Corelli, which he attributed to which 18th-century Italian violinist and composer, best known for the Devil’s Trill Sonata.

Giuseppe Tartini

The Afar Triangle in east Africa is home to which geological depression at the meeting point of three tectonic plates? Lying about 125 metres below sea level, it is home to Dallol, a ghost town which was the hottest place inhabited by humans.

Danakil Depression

Loz Hardy was the lead singer of which indie band from Hull, active in the early nineties? Their biggest hits include Queen Jane and Ten Years Asleep.

Kingmaker

Which 30-year-old former political aide became the youngest ever life peer after receiving the appointment in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours?

Charlotte Owen

In the Born–Landé equation for lattice energy, which physical constant is symbolised by the letter M? Named after a German physicist, it is a constant of proportionality that depends on the geometric arrangement of ions in a crystal.

Madelung Constant

Which Bavarian-born journalist is the English football correspondent for the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung? He is a regular on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro Leagues show.

Raphael Honigstein

What six-letter word of Hindi origin is given to a person who rides, trains or looks after elephants?

Mahout

In English law, a contract is only binding if both parties offer something of value to each other as part of their agreement. What name is given to the value so offered?

Consideration

In which spin-off from Happy Days did Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams play the two title characters, a pair of friends who worked at the fictional Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee?

Laverne and Shirley

The 2022 British drama film Living was adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro from which 1952 Akira Kurosawa picture? Both films tell the story of a bureaucrat who seeks meaning from the final months of his life after a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Ikiru

What Levantine dish consists of meat, rice, and fried vegetables which are cooked in a pot which is flipped upside down when served? The name of this dish is literally ‘upside down’ in Arabic.

Maqluba

Rich and Strange and Purple Love Balloon were top 40 hits in 1992 for which Leeds-based indie band with Carl Puttnam as their lead singer?

Cud

Another musical forgery by Fritz Kreisler was an Allegretto that he attributed to which 18th-century Italian cellist and composer, whose best-known works include string quintets written at the Spanish royal court?

Luigi Boccherini

Which brand of cigarettes, not sold in the UK, shares its name with a green Monopoly property and a tube station on the Central Line and Jubilee Line? An Elizabeth Line station also serves this location.

Bond Street

The Afar Triangle in east Africa is home to which basaltic shield volcano? Around 600 metres above sea level, it contains one of the world’s handful of lava lakes, the oldest such lake in the world.

Erta Ale

What is the name of the malicious computer worm that targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems that is believed to have been jointly developed by the USA and Israel to target Iran’s nuclear program?

Stuxnet

A letter sent to a newspaper, politician or other public figure that expresses extremely eccentric views, stereotypically with prolific use of underlining and capital letters, is said to be written using what colour ink?

Green Ink

Which Elizabethan playwright of The Shoemaker’s Holiday collaborated with Thomas Middleton on The Roaring Girl?

Thomas Dekker

Sergio Garcia was ineligible to play in this year’s Ryder Cup due to joining the breakaway LIV tour. Another such player is which Brit, known as a Ryder Cup specialist for his 15 win and 8 loss record and also for his garish dress sense?

Ian Poulter

In the United States, most states are subdivided into counties, but what is the equivalent in Alaska? Like parish, this name is a type of political division sometimes found in the UK.

Boroughs

What Levantine dish is made of lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served with rice or bulgur? Its name comes from the term ‘large tray’ in Arabic.

Mansaf

In English law a person has committed the civil wrong of negligence if (among other things) they breach an obligation imposed on people and companies to avoid causing foreseeable harm to those around them. What three-word term is given to that obligation?

Duty of Care

Which spin-off from Happy Days followed the lives of the two title characters as they moved from Milwaukee to Chicago to start a music career? Erin Moran and Scott Baio starred as the titular duo.

Joanie Loves Chachi

Akira Kurosawa's film Ikiru was partially inspired by which 1886 Leo Tolstoy novella which tells the story of a magistrate’s search for contentment after he realises that he is dying?

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

What six-letter word of Hindi origin is given to a platform on the back of an elephant? A mahout may ride on one of these, perhaps with wealthy tourists.

Howdah

Which Sanskrit word, roughly translating into English as ‘reverence to you’ is a common form of greeting in Hindu communities, often accompanied by a bow?

Namaste

Which equation, named after the Russian who derived it from the Born–Landé equation, can be used to estimate the lattice energy of an ionic crystal that is experimentally difficult to determine? This equation features a namesake constant symbolised K.

Kapustinskii Equation

Which Barcelona born journalist writes for Spanish football newspaper Diario AS and is a regular on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro Leagues show?

Guillem Balague

‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey takes her nickname from that of which villainous Canadian wrestler who died in 2015? This man wore a kilt, played the bagpipes and was billed as being from Glasgow.

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper

Who was UK Prime Minister during cricket’s Bodyline series?

Ramsay MacDonald

What Latin phrase, attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon river, is usually translated into English as "the die is cast"?

Alea iacta Est

Which Italian businesswoman has been the CEO of Vodafone since January 2023? She is also chair of the Hundred Group, which represents the Chief Financial Officers of several FTSE 100 companies.

Margherita DELLA VALLE

In the 2022/23 season, which Aston Villa striker won the Women's Super League Golden Boot, with 23 goals? Despite playing as a striker for her club side, for England she has often been deployed as a wing back.

Rachel Daly

In Multicultural London English, if someone "pars" someone - or "pars them off" - what are they doing? Pars can either have you creasing, or be particularly deep.

Verbally Abusing or Insulting Them

In 1990, Richard Rodney Bennett composed Concerto for Stan Getz. This was written for which wind instrument, not found in a classical orchestra? Getz; Lester Young; and John Coltrane were all virtuosi on this instrument; a one-word answer is sufficient.

Tenor Saxophone

In 2013, who became the first female conductor to lead the Last Night of the Proms?

Marin Alsop

In the acronym MCL, if the CL stands for collateral ligament, for what does the M stand?

Medial

Which Sri Lankan bowler is the most successful left-arm spinner in men's Test cricket history? He took 433 wickets between 1999 and 2018.

Rangana Herath

In Greek mythology, who is the goddess of magic and witchcraft; crossroads; and necromancy (among other associations)?

Hecate

queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War

Hecuba

Written by founder and lead singer Linda Perry, "What's Up?" was a 1993 hit for which band? It peaked at number 2 in the UK charts, but was a number one in multiple countries.

4 Non Blondes

Unrelated to the Shakespeare play of the same name, La Tempesta [The Tempest] is a painting by which Italian Renaissance master?

Giorgione

Formally designated C/1995 O1, which comet was discovered independently on the 23rd of July 1995 by two Americans - one a professional astronomer, and another an amateur?

Comet Hale-Bopp

The Chicken Connoisseur is the alter ego of which man, an internet celebrity and fried chicken critic known for his YouTube series The Pengest Munch?

Elijah Quashie

Which aid worker is the only Irish person to have been honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by the state of Israel? She is credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children during the Holocaust in Vichy France.

Mary Elmes

Which epic poem by Ferdowsi, with a title literally meaning "Book of Kings", is considered the national epic of Greater Iran? It is of central importance to the Persian culture and language.

Shahnameh

Which London-based jazz act won the 2023 Mercury Prize for Music, with their album Where I'm Meant To Be? They are the first jazz act to be awarded the prize.

Ezra Collective

The second most successful left-arm spinner in men's Tests is which New Zealander, with 362 wickets? He captained his country between 2007 and 2011.

Daniel Vettori

Scheduled to be inaugurated on 17 August 2024, what city will replace Jakarta as the capital of Indonesia?

Nusantara

In Greek mythology, who is the goddess of retribution - usually for the sin of hubris - and the personification of vengeance?

Nemesis

Which African-American composer was one of the first black men to conduct a symphony orchestra? He is best known for his 1930 work Afro-American Symphony, and is considered a leading classical music figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

William Grant Still

In the acronym PCL, if the CL stands for cruciate ligament, for what does the P stand?

Posterior

XXXX [spell out], played by Daniel Craig, is the anonymous protagonist of which 2004 British crime film, Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut? The title refers to social strata in the criminal underworld.

Layer Cake

The hedonic - or felicific - calculus is an algorithm formulated by which English philosopher, the founder of utilitarianism? It serves as a way to calculate the amount of pleasure a specific action is likely to induce.

Jeremy Bentham

In 1954, Malcolm Arnold composed a concerto for which free reed wind instrument, not found in a classical orchestra? Virtuosi on this instrument include Larry Adler and Toots Thielemans.

Harmonica

What Latin phrase, the principal rallying cry of the Crusades, is usually translated into English as "God wills it"? In the 21st century, this phrase has been co-opted by far right and white supremacist groups as a slogan.

Deus Vult

Which English businesswoman has been the CEO of GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) since April 2017? Prior to this she worked for L'Oréal for 17 years.

Emma Walmsley

Which Bayern Munich player scored the only goal of the game for England vs Haiti in their opening game of the 2023 Women's World Cup? Usually a midfielder, her versatility saw her at right back, and at one point as the second choice goalkeeper, while she was at Manchester City.

Georgia Stanway

In 1990, which American was first physicist to be awarded the Fields Medal? Considered the practical founder of M-theory, his areas of research also include quantum gravity; string theory; and Feynman integrals.

Edward Witten

Which American actress played Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development, and was the voice of Malory Archer on the FX animated series Archer? She also starred opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1971 film Play Misty For Me.

Jessica Walter

Which fourteenth-century work is considered the national epic of Ethiopia? Ethiopian Christians consider this work to hold the genealogy of the Solomonic dynasty.

Kebra Nagast

Which British model; actress; and TV presenter lends her first name to a handbag introduced in 2009 by Mulberry?

Alexa Chung

Which Scottish music act lost out to Ezra Collective for the 2023 Mercury Prize with their album Heavy Heavy? They did, however, win the 2014 prize, with Dead.

Young Fathers

Which Japanese diplomat is the only person from his nation to have been honoured as Righteous Among the Nations? Serving as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania, against his official orders, he issued transit visas that helped thousands of Jews flee Europe through Japanese territory.

Chiune Sugihara

Which doubly-named comet broke apart in 1992 and crashed into Jupiter in 1994, providing the first direct observation of a collision of objects in the Solar System? You don't need the comet's number.

Shoemaker-Levy 9

Widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time, who is the current head coach, and general manager, of the New England Patriots? He has six Super Bowl wins as a head coach, the most ever.

Bill Belichick

Which Finnish-American architect won a design competition for the Gateway Arch in St Louis in 1947? Construction only began in 1963, and was completed in 1965.

Eero Saarinen

The Three Witches, based on Macbeth, is a painting by which Swiss-born Romantic painter, known for his depiction of the supernatural?

Henry Fuseli

What five-letter acronym refers to the "Big Five" executive search firms? This acronym refers to a titular film character voiced by Mike Myers.

SHREK (Spencer Stewart, Heidrick & Struggles, Russell Reynolds, Egon Zehnder and Korn Ferry)

After overthrowing the Goryeo dynasty in 1392, who was the founder and first ruler of the Joseon dynasty of Korea?

Taejo of Joseon

Which fashion journalist was appointed the editor-in-chief at British Vogue in September, thus becoming the first black woman to head the title? She is cohost of the Vogue podcast The Run-Through, and has previously worked for Fader and Trace.

Chioma Nnadi

Head of WTO - Nigerian economist

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

What episode name of Dr Who on 22 November 1963?

An Unearthly Child

Performed once every 52 years, what is the name of the ceremony the Aztecs conducted in order to ensure that the sun would return for another 52 years?

The New Fire Ceremony

Originally known as The Universal History of the Things of New Spain, what name is commonly given to the twelve-book compilation of Aztec history and lore by Bernardo de Sahagun, so named for the Italian city in which it was rediscovered?

Florentine Codex

Which underwater creature with the binomial Somniosus microcephalus has the longest known lifespan of any vertebrate?

Greenland Shark

Named for a French naturalist, which animal holds the record for both the deepest and longest documented dives of any mammal, reaching a depth of almost 3,000m and a dive time of over three hours?

Cuvier's Beaked Whale

The Colony of Eden Prime is the starting point for which 2007 video game, which sees the player attempting to prevent an invasion by an ancient machine race known as Reapers? The most recent game in this series is subtitled Andromeda.

Mass Effect

Copernicus, Reinhold and Tombaugh are all parts of a colony in which location that follows "Deliver Us" in the title of an adventure-puzzle game released in 2018?

The Moon

In the X-Men series of comics, what is the name of Professor X’s mutant-finding device? It is also the name Dustin gives to his radio mast at the start of Series 3 of the television series Stranger Things.

Cerebro

What is the name of the antagonistic group of mutants led by Sebastian Shaw in the movie X-Men: First Class? The group shares its name with an 18th century society led by Francis Dashwood and also lends its name to the title of an episode of Stranger Things.

The Hellfire Club

Another X-Men reference in Stranger Things is comic #134, which features the debut of which character? One of the series' best-known storylines, this character titles the 2019 film in the cinematic franchise

Dark Phoenix

Which lake in Campania was considered by the Romans to be the entrance to Hades and came to be used as a synonym for the underworld?

Avernus

As described in the Prose Edda, Hel, the goddess of Helheim in Norse mythology, was the daughter of the giantess Angrboda and which Asgardian?

Loki

In Greek Mythology, which river is traditionally depicted as the entrance to the underworld across which Charon ferries the souls of the dead? In later Roman texts, this role is attributed to the River Styx.

Acheron

Mandrill Mayhem, Mamba Strike and Ostrich Stampede are all rides in World of Jumanji, a new area that opened at which UK theme park in 2023?

Chessington

Which inverted rollercoaster at Alton Towers is currently closed for a major refurbishment and set to re-open in 2024? It should not be confused with a similar ride at Thorpe Park that has the addition of Inferno to its name.

Nemesis

Thomas Hobbes engaged in a polemic debate with which clergyman and mathematician across several decades of the 17th century? The controversy spilled into the nascent Royal Society, to which Hobbes was never admitted.

John Wallis

The Hobbes-Wallis controversy was sparked by Hobbes' claim to have solved which mathematical problem, now known to be impossible, in his 1655 work De Corpore?

Squaring the Circle

Which midfield player has made the most appearances of alltime for both the US Men's National Team and for the LA Galaxy? His time playing overseas included a single season at Coventry City in the mid-1990s.

Cobi Jones

Which English striker joined La Galaxy on a short-term contract in August 2023 and scored a hat-trick against Minnesota United a month later? This player is best known for playing more than 300 times for Sheffield United.

Billy Sharp

Which hill in East Sussex is the accepted location at which Harold Godwinson deployed his troops prior to the Battle of Hastings in 1066?

Senlac Hill

The Church of St Mary the Virgin in the village of Westonzoyland served as a prison for around 500 soldiers following which battle, by some measures the last to be fought on English soil?

Battle of Sedgemoor (1685)

Which scheduled monument south of Worcester gives its name to a 1642 skirmish that was the opening engagement between the principal Royalist and Parliament forces during the First English Civil War?

Powick Bridge

Originally sold via Kickstarter, which co-operative fantasy roleplaying game features 95 different scenarios, each of which take 1-2 hours to complete? It was the number one rated game on boardgamegeek.com until February of this year.

Gloomhaven

With an appropriate name for a board game that takes a long time to play, which 2004 game sees up to seven players controlling dynasties over an in-game time period from 4000BCE to 2000CE?

7 Ages

The Werewolf, The Company of Wolves and Wolf-Alice are stories in which collection of short fiction by Angela Carter, published in 1979?

The Bloody Chamber

Which 1962 children's novel by Joan Aitken is set in an alternative reality wherein a large number of wolves have migrated north through a tunnel and repopulated the UK? It was adapted into a 1989 movie starring Stephanie Beacham and Mel Smith.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

In which novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second in his Border Trilogy, does the young cowboy Billy Parham trap a pregnant she-wolf and attempt to return her to the mountains of Mexico?

The Crossing

Abbreviated to BBN, what is the name of the process predicted to have taken place in the minutes following the Big Bang, when protons and neutrons began to fuse together and form nuclei other than hydrogen?

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

What are the three novels within Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy?

All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Cities of the Plain

Which process is postulated to have occurred during the Early Universe to produce a fundamental imbalance between matter and antimatter?

Baryogenesis

The first epoch immediately following the Big Bang, in which all four fundamental forces were united, is named for which German scientist? This physicist’s study of blackbodies resulted in his theory of the quantization of energy.

Max Planck

The music for which Christmas Carol was adapted from Felix Mendelssohn’s Vaterland, in Deinen Gauen?

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Which Christmas hymn, which features the word ‘gloria’ being sung over six bars, is set to an originally secular tune written by Jehan Tabourot?

Ding Dong! Merrily on High

Two artists released albums called Listen in 2014. Name both the Brighton-formed band who released their fourth studio album that year and the French DJ who released his sixth.

The Kooks and David Guetta

Listen is a song recorded for the 2006 film adaptation of which 1981 musical? This musical is heavily based on the history of Motown, and The Supremes in particular?

Dreamgirls

“People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening” are lyrics from which song, first released in 1964?

The Sound of Silence

During the summer of 1816, the Villa Diodati was being rentedby which poet, who had left England earlier that year following the collapse of his marriage?

Lord Byron

Which author and playwright developed an obsession with Villa Diodati after Byron's death, referencing it in his 1842 work Albert Sevarus?

Honore de Balzac

Where is the Principality Stadium situated?

Cardiff

Where is Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road situated?

Leicester(shire Cricket Club)

Where is Mattioli Woods Welford Road situated?

Leicester (Tigers)

Where is Easter Road located?

Edinburgh (Hibernian)

Charleston capital of whcih state?

West Virginia

Brian Blessed character in Z Cars was what?

PC Fancy Smith

What TV show did Bob Ferris appear in as a character?

The Likely Lads or Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads

Anna Karen, the last surviving star of the hit ITV sitcom On The Buses, has died in a house fire at the age of 85 in Feb 2022, she played which character?

Olive Rudge

Rita Rawlins was a character played by Una Stubbs in which 1965-75 TV show?

Till Death Do Us Part

Mike Rawlins played by which actor in Till Death Do Us Part?

Anthony Booth

Alf Garnett played by which actor in Till Death Do Us Part?

Warren Mitchell

Else Garnett played by which actor in Till Death Do Us Part?

Dandy Nichols

What type of vegetable or fruit: Money Maker, Gardeners Delight

Tomato

What type of vegetable or fruit: Ruby Perfection, Savoy

Cabbage

What type of vegetable or fruit: Ailsa Craig, Red Burgundy

Onion

Who was an internationally renowned Scottish ballet dancer and actress. She was famous for her performances in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom

Moira Shearer

Who was Moira Shearer's husband for ages? This man's father commanded the ill-fated HMS Rawalpindi.

Ludovic KennedyN

World's largest producer of Cheese country?

USA

Country with the most active volcanoes?

Indonesia

Author Ian Fleming whilst in British Naval Intelligence was involved in which disastrous All Arms Operation in 1942. Codename Operation Jubilee.

Dieppe

Name the backing group: Brian Poole and the...

Tremeloes

Name the backing group: Wayne Fontana and the...

Mindbenders

Name the backing group: Meatloaf and the...

Neverland Express

Name the backing group: Booker T and the ...

MGs

Name the backing group: Ziggy Stardust and the...

Spiders from Mars

Carl Barlow was 13 when he starred in the commercial, pushing a bike with a basket of bread up Gold Hill in Dorset. The advert was once voted the most iconic of all time, and the cobbled Shaftesbury street went on to become a popular tourist destination. Directed by which film director in 1973?

Ridley Scott

Ever since, the term "swiftboating" has entered American political jargon associating swift boat service with political smear tactics. As the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, which then-Senator's military record was attacked by a political 527 group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?

John Kerry

Written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729 what word replaces the blank in the title of the essay: A Modest Proposal For preventing the [BLANK] of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick?

Children

What company introduced Swift, a high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language intended to support many core concepts associated with Objective-C?

Apple

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying what immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies?

Gammy-Ray Burst

The River Swift is a 14-mile (23 km) long tributary of what English river? It rises in south Leicestershire, and flows through the town of Lutterworth before joining this river at its confluence at Rugby, Warwickshire?

Avon

The Yellow Line, alternatively known as the Skokie Swift, is a branch of the "L" in what American city?

Chicago

In September 2023, NASA released its findings into a probe of hundreds of UFO reports. Instead of using the term UFO standing for Unidentified Flying Objects, they decided to call them 'UAPs'. What does the abbreviation UAP stand for?

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

With a habit of impaling their prey (insects, rodents and other birds) onto thorn trees, which family of birds are also known as "Butcherbirds"?

Shrikes

The Human Body. Happening when you get spooked (or feeling cold). What is the process known as 'piloerection' more commonly known as?

Goosebumps

Seen below and living between the Triassic and Creatacous (around 230 - 66 million years ago). The Loch Ness Monster is believed by some to be a member of which clade of which very extinct sea reptiles?

Plesiosaurs

First photographed by scientists in 1989 and inaccurately called upper-atmospheric lightning. What name is given to the large scale electrical discharges occur in the mesosphere (up to altitudes of 50–90 km) and appear as luminous red flashes of light?

Sprites

Which colourless and highly flammable gas has a chemical formula PH3? Along with Methane (CH4), its spontaneous combustion is one possible explaination for the atmospheric ghost lights seen in swamps and marshes known as Will-O-The-Whisp.

Phosphine

With a ghostly looking appearence, which owl with the latin name Tyto alba, is the most widely distributed Owl in World being found in most places apart from in polar regions and deserts?

Barn Owl

Also known as 'The Gates of Hell' (or officially the "Shining of Karakum"). In which country would you the Darvaza gas crater? A collapsed natural gas field that has been burning non stop since the 1970's.

Turkmenistan

Manufactured during the Manhattan Project. What name was given to the 6.2 Kg sphere of subcritical plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents during two criticality experiments at Los Alamos, conducted in 1945 and 1946?

The Demon Core

With a name derived from the Greek word for "Wolf". Which modern breed of domestic cat also known as the Werewolf Cat?

Lykoi

With a name meaning "ghoul" in Arabic and apparently bringing bad luck, which variable star and 2nd brightest in the constellation of Perseus is also known as the "Demon Star"?

Algol

In paleontology. What name is given to a fossil that has been eroded out of layer of rock and then re-deposited in a much younger layer of sediments? The fossil could be wrongly interpreted as going on a walk, despite the organism being long dead.

Zombie Taxon

Defined by two diametrically opposite points of a circle and studied by 18th century Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi. What mathematical curve with a mistranslated name can be seen below?

Witch of Agnesi

Which 1989 martial arts film spawned several sequels, despite Jean Claude Van Damme not returning to the lead role of Kurt Sloane, the fighter referred to in the title?

Kickboxer

Which English rock band had their biggest hit singles with 1989’s Hey You and 1990’s I Don’t Love You Anymore? Following a 2022 split, the singer Spike and guitarist Guy Griffin now lead two separate lineups in ongoing dispute over their name.

The Quireboys

Cells in mammals that produce pigmentation are known by what name, meaning 'black cell'?

Melanocytes

Which Queen of Castille, along with her husband, financed and authorised Christopher Colombus' first voyage to the New World?

Isabella I

Wife of Edward I

Eleanor of Castile

The only year in the history of golf when all four men's major titles were won by non-Americans was 1994. The Zimbabwean Nick Price accounted for two of those, while which South African took the US Open, the first of his four majors?

Ernie Els

Which motorcyclist won the MotoGP world championship six times in seven years between 2013 and 2019? His brother Álex has been a world champion in both Moto2 and Moto3 and now competes in MotoGP too

Marc Marquez

Which nationality precedes 'deadlift' in the name of a strength exercise that targets the hamstrings more than a traditional deadlift? Unlike a regular deadlift, the movement begins in a standing position, and the barbell does not touch the ground between reps.

Romanian

Named after a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, what is the second largest moon of Uranus?

OberonAn isthmus called La Coupée connects the 'Greater' and 'Little' parts of which of the Channel Islands, the fourth largest by both area and population?

An isthmus called La Coupée connects the 'Greater' and 'Little' parts of which of the Channel Islands, the fourth largest by both area and population?

Sark

The films Spencer, Inherent Vice and There Will be Blood all feature soundtracks created by which musician and guitarist of the band Radiohead?

Jonny Greenwood

Although it is colloquially a synonym for speed, in physics which quantity differs from speed because it involves a particular direction?

Velocity

The popular Dutch dish Hagelslag, whose name means 'hailstorm', is made from buttered white bread topped with what type of confectionery?

Chocolate Sprinkles

Who has hosted Capital FM’s Breakfast Show since 2017, with earlier co-hosts Vick Hope and Sonny Jay now replaced by Chris Stark and Siân Welby? This presenter has also featured on Celebrity Gogglebox with his father, a 1980s pop star.

Roman Kemp

Which American philosopher, who died in 2001, was a proponent of modal realism, the idea that all possible worlds are as real as the actual world, and wrote books including Counterfactuals and On the Plurality of Worlds?

David Lewis

Which battle of 991 AD, that saw Anglo Saxons fail to repulse a Viking raid in Essex, is the subject and title of an Old English poem of the same name?

Maldon

Which is the largest and lowest pitched of the four types of musical instrument making up the brass section of a standard symphony orchestra?

Tuba

1994’s uniquely non-American list of major winners in men’s golf was completed by which Spaniard, who took the first of his two Masters titles?

Jose Maria Olazabal

The tomb of which 18th/19th century Frenchman in the Père Lachaise cemetery is often adorned with potatoes? He heavily promoted them as a food and gives his name to various potato dishes?

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

The cells that produce colour in cold-blooded animals are known by what name, meaning 'colour bearer'?

Chromatophores

Which London hard rock band, fronted by Danny Bowes and named for a natural phenomenon, had their biggest hit singles with 1991’s Love Walked In and 1993’s A Better Man? They have had something of a resurgence in recent years, with all five albums released since 2015 reaching the top ten.

Thunder

Which 1988 martial arts film spawned several sequels, despite Jean Claude Van Damme not returning to the lead role of Frank Dux, a fighter in an underground tournament called the Kumite?

Bloodsport

Which Belarussian writer and activist was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature and is known for her books including War Does Not Have a Woman's Face and Zinky Boys?

Svetlana Alexievich

1881 also saw the assassination of which Russian tsar in an explosion caused by the revolutionary socialist group Narodnaya Volya, whose name means 'People's Will'?

Alexander II

Catherine the Great husband who she got killed in 1762

Peter III

Son of Peter III and Catherine II Assassinated. Reigned from 1796-1801.

Paul I

Son of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna First Romanov King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. Reigned from 1801-1825. Suffered losses of War of Third Coalition in Austerlitz and Friedland, switched and signed Treaty of Tilsit with Napoleon.

Alexander I

Disputed emperor in Russia in 1825. Son of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, Younger brother and heir presumptive of Alexander I, Secretly abdicated in 1823, proclaimed emperor in capital, abdicated again)

Constantine

Austerlitz now in which country? Battle of 1805

Czech Republic

Son of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna. Reigned 1825-55. Reign began with failed Decembrist revolt. Later led Russia into Crimean War in 1853.

Nicholas I

Tsar of Russia 1855-81, emancipation of the Serfs in 1861. Assassinated in 1881.

Alexander II

Tsar of Russia 1881-1894. Wife was Dagmar of Denmark who became Maria Feodorovna. Names an ornate bridge over the Seine in Paris connects Eiffel Tower and the Invalides with Champs-Elysse Quarter.

Alexander III

Born 1827, a Russian jurist and statesman who served as an adviser to three Russian emperors. During the reign of Alexander III of Russia, he was considered the chief spokesman for reactionary positions and the éminence grise of imperial politics.

Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Which presenter and former model was the host of Capital FM’s Breakfast Show from 2012-17, at first alongside Lisa Snowdon and latterly with Lilah Parsons and George Shelley? He currently hosts Absolute Radio’s Breakfast Show.

Dave Berry

Which American philosopher and mathematician, who died in 2016, was a proponent of semantic externalism, the idea that meanings are determined by factors outside of the mind, and was known for his 'Twin Earth' thought experiment?

Hilary Putnam

In philosophy, the brain in a vat (BIV) is a scenario used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of human conceptions of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, consciousness, and meaning. Originated by which American philosopher? It is a modernized version of René Descartes's evil demon thought experiment.

Gilbert Harman

Which battle of 937 AD, the subject of an Old English poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, saw King Aethelstan defeat an alliance of the kings of Dublin, Strathclyde and Scotland? Its unknown location has caused much debate, with one of several candidates being a village in the Wirral with a similar name.

Brunanburh

The Solitaire Collection bundled with Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 combines Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, and which other patience game that has been included with every release of the Windows operating system since 1995?

FreeCell

In maths and physics, quantities with no direction, such as speed, are called scalars. Quantities like velocity, that include a direction are referred to by what corresponding word, also beginning with V?

Vectors

Which type of mythical being precedes 'bread' in the name for the dish, particularly popular in Australia and New Zealand as a children's party food, that consists of buttered white bread topped with hundreds and thousands?

Fairy

Which nationality precedes 'split squat' in the name of a strength exercise? While a regular split squat has the rear foot on the ground, in this variation, it is elevated on a bench or other object behind the person instead.

Bulgarian

What is the single-word name for the island whose two main settlements are New Grimsby and Old Grimsby, and which is the second largest of the Scilly Isles by both area and population?

Tresco

Marc Márquez's run of MotoGP championships was only interrupted by which fellow Spaniard who won the 2015 title, to add to his earlier championships in 2010 and 2012?

Jorge Lorenzo

Pietermaritzburg is the provincial capital and Durban is the largest city of which South African province?

KwaZulu-Natal

Bhisho is the provincial capital and Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) the largest city of which South African province?

Eastern Cape

Bloemfontein is both the capital and largest city of which South African province?

(Orange) Free State

Polokwane (Pietersburg) is both the capital and largest city of which South African province?

Limpopo

Located on the Crocodile River, Mbombela (Nelspruit) is both the capital and largest city of which South African province?

Mpumalanga

Mahikeng (Mafikeng/Mafeking) is the capital and Rustenburg the most populous city of which South African province?

North West

Kimberley is the capital and most populous city of which South African province?

Northern Cape

Cape Town is both the provincial capital and most populous city of which South African province?

Western Cape

Which American feminist artist created a collage adaptation of Da Vinci’s Last Supper called Some Living American Women Artists? The heads of the disciples were replaced with photographs of the artists, with Georgia O’Keeffe as Jesus, and more artists, including Judy Chicago, around the border

Mary Beth Edelson

Consisting of a network of tunnels beneath the ground, what term is given to the den of a badger?

Sett

The novel The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is narrated by which character, a lawyer who travels to Eel Marsh House following the death of its reclusive owner? He shares his name with an H. G. Wells protagonist.

Arthur Kipps

At a beauty pageant in the film Miss Congeniality, host William Shatner is surprised to be told that one of the entrants’ idea of a perfect date is a day when it’s, quote, “Not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.” Which day of the year is she talking about, now known by some as Miss Congeniality Day?

April 25th

Introduced in the UK in 2005, a CIC is a form of limited company that can be used to incorporate social enterprises. If the second C stands for Company, what does CI stand for?

Community Interest

Which non-profit founded in the United States by Dan Savage and Terry Miller aims to empower and uplift LGBTQ young people facing bullying? The project’s three-word name is a statement that features in many of its videos.

It Gets Better Project

Which musical comedian’s YouTube channel includes series called Map Men, Unfinished London and Politics Unboringed? His brother is the beatboxer Beardyman.

Jay Foreman

Which Stephen Sondheim musical first performed on Broadway in 1984 features the songs Color and Light and Finishing the Hat?

SUnday in the Park with George

Ruling from 69 to 79 CE, which Roman Emperor was the last to reign in the Year of the Four Emperors and the first of the Flavian dynasty?

Vespasian

The Henley Passport Index ranks countries according to the number of other countries accessible without visas using a citizen’s standard passport. Which Asian country overtook Japan to top the 2023 ranking with visa-free access to 193 other countries?

Singapore

In the standard model of particle physics, there are three types of charged lepton. One is the electron - name either of the other two.

Muon or Tauon

The first woman to hold the post, who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020? One of her most significant judgments was that Boris Johnson’s 2019 prorogation of Parliament was unlawful.

Brenda Hale

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, cyclist Tom Pidock won gold for Team GB in the men’s event in which discipline?

Mountain Biking

Which term, formed of the same two-letter word twice, names a European form of pop music inspired by British and American counterculture and rock and roll, and incorporating styles including French chanson? The singer France Gall was particularly associated with the genre.

Ye-ye

A prominent feature of pub-based quizzing, ethanol is a molecule formed of an ethyl group (formula -CH3CH2) linked to which other type of functional group?

Hydroxyl Group

Ruling from 81 to 96 CE, which Roman Emperor, a son of Vespasian who succeeded his older brother, was the last of the Flavian dynasty?

Domitian

Which Asian country is bottom of the Henley Passport Index, its passport providing visa-free access to only 27 other countries? It has been consistently near or at the bottom of the table since the ranking began in 2006.

Afghanistan

Which rail writer and video maker’s YouTube channel includes series called Least Used Stations, London’s Lost Railways and End of the Line? He made Secrets of the London Underground for the Londonist channel, and is a former Guinness World Record holder for the Tube Challenge.

Geoff Marshall

Which Stephen Sondheim musical first performed on Broadway in 1976 features the songs Welcome to Kanagawa and Chrysanthemum Tea?

Pacific Overtures

Companies including Ben & Jerry’s and The Body Shop hold B Corp status, certified by an organisation called B Lab, that requires its holders to demonstrate social and environmental sustainability. What does the B stand for?

Beneficial

Lindsay Lohan’s character in the film Mean Girls remembers a certain day of the year clearly because on that date her love interest Aaron asked her the date. What was that date, now known by some as Mean Girls Day?

October 3rd

Which sometimes derogatory term refers to a style of light European pop music and comes from the German word meaning ‘to hit’? German singer Helene Fischer has been referred to as the queen of this genre.

Schlager

Acetic acid and formic acid are examples of acids that contain a COOH group. What name, which also names this type of acid, is given to a COOH group?

Carboxyl Group

The first woman to hold the post, who is the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales? She succeeded Lord Burnett in October 2023.

Dame Sue Carr

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, cyclist Charlotte Worthington won gold for Team GB in the women’s event in which specific discipline?

BMX Freestyle

Arthur Ashe became the first African-American man to win a Grand Slam singles title at the US Open in 1968. Which Dutch player did he defeat in the final?

Tom Okker

Also designated by a Greek letter, what is the lightest type of meson in the standard model of particle physics? These mesons consist of a first generation (i.e. up and/or down) quark-antiquark pairing, and the charged form usually decay into muons.

Pions

Meri Huws [Hughes], Aled Roberts and Efa Gruffudd [Ever Griffith] Jones have each held which office, appointed by the Welsh Government?

Welsh Language Commissioner

Playwright Richard Bean adapted his play One Man, Two Guvnors from which 18th century Commedia dell'arte work by Carlo Goldoni?

The Servant of Two Masters / Il servitore di due padroni

Consistently among the most lucrative tournaments in eSports, The International is the primary annual event for which Valve video game? After a few years being hosted in different cities, the event returns to Seattle this coming weekend.

Dota 2 (Defence of the Ancients 2)

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2021, which American video-sharing platform was originally founded as a spin-off of comedy website CollegeHumor in 2004?

Vimeo

Which mononymous Greek keyboardist and composer wrote and performed the official Anthem for the 2002 World Cup held in South Korea and Japan?

Vangelis

During the Plantation of Ulster in County Derry/Londonderry, which London livery company, third in the order of precedence, was assigned the area around Moneymore and another town now named for this Company?

Worshipful Company of Drapers (Draperstown)

Three-word name needed. Which railway station on the Tees Valley Line in North Yorkshire was built in 1978 to serve a major industrial base in the region, but has been disused since 2019 as a result of the decline of the namesake industry? It may return to use in the future due to development works happening in the area.

Redcar British Steel

One of Billboard’s biggest moments of the 2010s, which album by U2 was announced at an Apple event in 2014 and automatically added to everyone’s iTunes accounts at no cost? This wasn’t well-received, with many considering the auto-download an invasion of privacy.

Songs of Innocence

Considered to be a “Father of Emergency Medicine”, which cardiologist from Hillsborough, County Down invented the portable defibrillator in 1965? His designs were quickly taken up across the world, including one that treated President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1972, but this man was saddened that uptake in the UK was much slower, with all ambulances not fitted with one until 1990.

Frank Pantridge

Just as the word geography derives from the Greek for “description of the Earth”, other similar constructions exist for other bodies in the solar system. What term, referencing the Greek goddess of the Moon, is used for the geography of the Earth's Moon?

Selenography

Morning Edition and All Things Considered, two of the most popular radio shows in the United States, are produced and broadcast on which radio network, made up of over 1000 stations across the country? This network was formed by an Act of Congress in 1970.

National Public Radio (NPR)

One of the earliest video-sharing platforms to support HD video was which French site, founded in 2005? The French government blocked a takeover of this company by Yahoo! in 2013, and it is now a subsidiary of Vivendi.

Dailymotion

Actress Bríd [pronounced "Breedge"] Brennan originated the role of Agnes Mundy in which 1990 play by Brian Friel, which won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play? Brennan also won the Tony for Best Featured Actress, and played Agnes in the 1998 film adaptation.

Dancing at Lughnasa

One of Billboard’s biggest music moments of the 2010s, which 2010 album by Arcade Fire was the first from an indie act to win the Grammy for Best Album? Before this, the band hadn’t even notched a hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Suburbs

The uncle of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, which Indian physicist won the 1930 Nobel prize in Physics for “his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”? That namesake effect, the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, is utilised in a type of spectroscopy.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

The lamb dish lechazo asado [le-CHA-zo a-SAA-doh] is part of the cuisine of which European nation? The lamb is roasted in traditional wooden stoves, and is particularly treasured in the province of Burgos in this country.

Spain

What Greek-derived term, referencing the equivalent Greek god, is used for the geography of Mars?

Areography

Spain celebrates its national day on the 12th of October, commemorating what historic event? The national motto of Spain, Plus Ultra, a reversal of an older phrase alleged to have been inscribed on the Pillars of Hercules, also relates to this historical event. A descriptive answer is acceptable

Columbus discovery of America

Bríd Brennan was nominated for an Olivier Award for her role as Aunt Maggie Far Away in which 2017 play by Jez Butterworth, which won both Olivier and Tony Awards? Set in rural Armagh and running originally at London’s Royal Court Theatre, the play was directed in that run by Sam Mendes.

The Ferryman

Satellite radio in the United States is dominated by which network, which operates over 150 channels? The company was formed from and named for two previous companies in the space through a merger in 2005 and the consistently popular Howard Stern has broadcast exclusively with this network since 2006.

Sirius XM

Which other London livery company, ninth in the order of precedence, was assigned the area around Magherafelt in County Derry/Londonderry? Originally focused on the trade of a specific mineral, the Company is nowadays more focused on charitable work.

Salters

Three-letter name needed. Which railway station on the Inverclyde Line at Greenock was built in 1978 to serve a major company in the area, and named for this company? It has been disused since 2018, following the closure of the namesake site.

IBM

Through his development of the three point linkage system, which mechanic and inventor from County Down is considered the inventor of the modern agricultural tractor? He also developed the first four wheel drive Formula One car, the P99, and was the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own plane.

Harry Ferguson

The Majors of which Valve first-person shooter are consistently among the most lucrative tournaments in eSports? The game is commonly known by a four letter initialism.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO)

The English version of the official song of the 1990 FIFA Men's World Cup in Italy was To Be Number One, written by which pioneer of synth music and EDM?

(Giovanni) Giorgio Moroder

Distinct from a loanword, what term in linguistics is used for a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation? This word is actually a loanword from French, whilst the word “loanword” is itself an example of this concept from the German Lehnwort.

Calque

Which country is hosting the current men's Cricket World Cup, its first time as a solo host of the tournament in 2023?

India

Which is the only borough of New York City situated on the US mainland?

Bronx

The term “champing” has been coined to describe overnight camping in what kind of location?

Churches

In the New Testament, who is identified as the father of the apostles James and John?

Zebedee

Of which element does ammonium sulfite has one atom fewer than ammonium sulfate?

Oxygen

Which Derbyshire village is the source of all the UK’s Blue John?

Castleton

Which Yorkshire coastal town is particularly associated with the mining of jet?

Whitby

Which form of smoky quartz used in Scottish jewellery is named after a mountain and the highland area surrounding it?

Cairngorm

Which country is making its first appearance in a Rugby World Cup finals tournament 2023?

Chile

Which country is the most populous of the 20 represented of at the 2023 rugby union world cup?

Japan

What is the two-word title given to the top mathematics undergraduate at Cambridge?

Senior Wrangler

A common design for what scientific instrument is attributed to the 17th century French priest, Laurent Cassegrain?

Telescope

Which scientist gives his name to a thermometer comprising a sealed tube of clear liquid containing a column of glass bulbs, each designed to float or sink according to temperature?

Galileo

What is the port city that serves Athens?

Piraeus

Which city, itself the second most populous in Chile, serves as a port for Santiago?

Valparaiso

For which Australian city is Fremantle the principal port?

Perth

What adjective follows "county" in traditional designations of Cheshire, Lancashire and Durham?

Palatine

Until it was reunited as Ireland’s largest landlocked county in 2014, which county was divided into separate North and South Ridings?

County Tipperary

At the coronation of Charles III, which member of the Royal Family fulfilled the role of GoldStick-in-Waiting, nominally responsible for the monarch’s safety?

Princess Anne

From descriptions of their hunting techniques, dragonfly species are divided into two groups, hawkers and which other?

Darters

Chester’s in 1962 and Glasgow’s in 1964 were the two most recent of what sort of UK institution to cease operation?

Assay Office

Which literary character gives his name to a challenge that tests recall of a set of objects after looking away?

Kim (Kimball O'Hara)

Which part of the British armed forces has historically been nicknamed “the Andrew”?

Royal Navy

Which is the largest of the marine creatures collectively known a rorquals?

Blue Whale

Which island is home to the international conservation facility known as the Global Seed Vault?

Spitzbergen

As of the start of October 2023, who is Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

Oliver Dowden

Which three English monarchs were born within present day borders of Wales?

Edward II, Henry V, Henry VII

What are common names of the three species of newt native to Great Britain?

Common/Smooth Newt, Great Crested/Warty Newt, Palmate Newt

In Richmal Crompton’s William books, what are the names of William’s three “Outlaw” friends?

Ginger, Douglas, Henry.

Which resident British bird, Buteo buteo, is jokingly referred to in some areas as the “tourist eagle”?

Buzzard

What is the term for art which depicts scenes from everyday life?

Genre Painting

What source of illumination can precede “song” to describe a love song that laments unrequited or lost love?

Torch Song

What pair of names was shared by the long-time conductor of the Good Old Days orchestra and a film composer notable for collaborations with Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock?

Bernard Herrmann

What one-word title was shared by number one hits for Jet Harris and Tony Meehan in 1963 and Rihanna in 2012?

Diamonds

What is the title character’s occupation in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro?

Valet (manservant)

On which motorway does the Charnock Richard service area stand?

M6

Which M5 service area has a name similar to that of a TV history presenter?

M5

Marking the western terminus of the M4, what is Great Britain’s most westerly motorway service area?

Pont Abraham

Name either of the surnames of the painter, Rembrandt.

Harmenszoon (from father’s name) or van Rijn (family lived nr Rhine)

How many players are in the notably small casts of these celebrated 20th century plays? JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls.

7

How many players are in the notably small casts of these celebrated 20th century plays? Waiting for Godot

5

How many players are in the notably small casts of these celebrated 20th century plays? Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth

2

What measures 5 feet 3 inches on the island of Ireland but 4 feet 8½ inches in Great Britain?

Standard Railway Gauge

What term familiar to hi-fi enthusiasts is an extension of electrical resistance to alternating current circuits, taking account of capacitance and inductance?

Impedance

What term can relate to a form of golf where each green has two flags, the first six overs of an innings in Twenty20 cricket, or the period of a sinbinning in ice hockey?

Power Play

What connects clubs, a rope, a ball, a ribbon and a hoop?

Rhythmic gymnastics apparatus

Which is the only UK city that gives its name to both a Catholic and an Anglican archbishop?

Armagh

Name either of the islands of Great Britain where the numerical parts of classified road numbers can start with one of two digits, specifically a 4 or a 5?

Anglesey

Which island must be crossed on a road journey between North and South Uist?

Benbecula

Which harbourside suburb of Sydney shares its name with a French fashion house, in spelling though not pronunciation?

Balmain

Which seaside suburb with an iconic ferry link to central Sydney, was named for the admirable qualities of the indigenous men encountered there?

Manly

What ingredient precedes “tart” in the name for a sweet pastry said to originate from Ontario, and “pie” in that of a speciality of Preston, Lancashire, also known as “Catholic pie”?

Butter

Comprising layers of crumb, custard icing and chocolate, the cloyingly sweet Nanaimo Bar is named after a city on which large Canadian island?

Vancouver Island

Which singer was born Kim Smith in Brixton in 1960?

Kim Wilde

What is the stage name of the singer born Bryn Jones in Pant Glas, Caernarfonshire in 1965?

Bryn Terfel

By what acronym is the security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced in 2021 known?

AUKUS

Name either country that collaborates with the aforementioned three in AUKUS in the Five Eyes alliance for signals intelligence.

Canada or New Zealand

What was the name of the 1904 alliance between the UK and France forged in the face of perceived German aggression?

Entente Cordiale

Which city boasts the largest cathedral organ in the UK?

Liverpool (Anglican Cathedral)

Which instrument, which wraps around the player, vies with the tuba to be considered the largest and deepest of the brass family?

Sousaphone

Its name suggesting that it might be considerably deeper than a double bass, what is the largest of the violin family, 3½ metres tall and requiring a lever system to “finger” the strings?

Octobass

Which spoof history textbook from 1930 was written by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman?

1066 And All That

What was the surname of the brothers George and Weedon who wrote The Diary of a Nobody?

Grossmith

Believed to be Shakespeare’s last, which of his plays was jointly attributed to John Fletcher?

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Arguably most notable for his July feast day, which saint is patron saint of the city of Winchester, where he was at one time bishop?

Swithun

Which letter is the only one to appear in isolation on a netball bib?

C

Which letter appears most frequently on the bibs of a netball team?

G

In keeping with its description as the “Aston to Acton Line”, which station is in construction as the London terminus of HS2?

Old Oak Common

In keeping with its description as the “Aston to Acton Line”, which station is in construction as the Birmingham terminus of HS2?

Curzon Street

In what capacity is Hermann Tilke renowned in motor sport?

Circuit Design

What is the most notable feature of the sculptures produced by Willard Wigan?

Microscopic

Name the governor of Hawaii, who has been repeatedly in the news following the recent devastating fires on the island of Maui; for example, he spoke at a United Nations sustainability summit in September 2023.

Josh Green

Which racecourse in northern England is also known as the Knavesmire? As well as hosting an annual festival each August, it hosted the Royal Ascot meeting in 2005 when Ascot was being redeveloped.

York

Which play by Jez Butterworth, an exploration of English identity with Mark Rylance in the role of caravan-dweller “Rooster” Johnny Byron, was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010, losing out to The Mountaintop?

Jerusalem

a play by American playwright Katori Hall. It is a fictional depiction of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on earth set entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination in 1968. First black woman to win Best Play Olivier Award.

The Mountaintop

What descriptive word precedes ‘Bay’ in the name of a New Zealand winery founded by David Hohnen and known for its internationally acclaimed upmarket Marlborough sauvignon blanc wines first exported in the 1980s?

Cloudy

Named for a computer programmer who introduced it in 1967, which eponymous law, primarily applied to software, states that “any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation’s communication structure”?

Conway's Law

Which writer composed the poem ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’, the inspiration for Stephen King’s Dark Tower series of fantasy novels? The poem was published in 1855 as part of the collection Men and Women.

Robert Browning

Founded by Achille [a-KEY-lay] Maramotti in 1951, which Italian ready-to-wear fashion house has subsidiaries including Marella, MAX & Co and Weekend? Its much-copied camel wool and silk Teddy Bear coat celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2023.

Max Mara

The USS Housatonic was, in 1864, the first ship sunk by what?

Submarine

Who was Roman emperor at the time of Boudica’s uprising?

Nero (60-61)

Which illusionists were surnamed Fischbacher and Horn?

Siegfried and Roy

What links: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; He Loved Him Madly; I Remember Clifford; Sweet-Pea?

Jazz tributes to late musicians: Charles Mingus for Lester Young; Miles Davis for Duke Ellington; Benny Golson for Clifford Brown; Wayne Shorter for Billy Strayhorn.

What links: Adam Blade; Franklin W Dixon; Carolyn Keene; Daisy Meadows?

Pseudonyms of multiple authors: Beast Quest and more; Hardy Boys; Nancy Drew; Rainbow Fairies.

What links: Clockmakers’ Museum; Energy Hall; Equinor Gallery; Tomorrow’s World?

Parts of Science Museum

What links: England (10); Wales (3); Scotland (2); Northern Ireland (0)?

UK National Parks

What links Dalek; cicada-killer; cuckoo; fig; paper; yellow jacket?

Wasps

What links Joséphine de Beauharnais; Zelda Fitzgerald; Sandra Hill; Princess Margaret?

Played on film and TV by Vanessa Kirby: Napoleon; Genius; Everest; The Crown.

Which classic film’s title came from the Pease Pudding rhyme?

Some Like It Hot

Who described himself as the “stately homo of heavy metal”?

Rob Halford (Judas Priest singer)

Playa Girón was the site of which military fiasco?

Bay of Pigs invasion

The Buddhist text Bardo Thödol is popularly known as what?

Tibetan Book of the Dead

In 100 million years, what might Amasia be?

New continent

What links 15 metopes; 17 pedimental figures; 75m of frieze?

Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum

NFL Kansas city chiefs kicker: led the NFL in scoring in 2019, and is a three-time Super Bowl champion, having won LIV, LVII and LVIII with the Chiefs. Longest made field goal in a Super Bowl: 57 yards (Super Bowl LVIII).

Harrison Butker

Kicker for the 49ers who held the record for longest field goal at 55 yards until Butker got record for the chiefs.

Jake Moody

Which English football manager who was the director of football operations for Chicago Red Stars and is currently the manager of Chelsea Women will become the the manager of the United States women's national team in Summer 2024?

Emma Hayes

commercial teletext service first broadcast on the ITV network in 1978 and later additionally on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1982. The service ceased on both channels at 23:59 UTC on 31 December 1992, when it was replaced by Teletext Ltd.

Oracle

the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service

Ceefax

the brand name for the UK Post Office Telecommunications's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979

Prestel

A cosmic year is the time the sun takes to do what?

Orbit the centre of the Milky Way galaxy (225m years)

Hornsea 2 in the North Sea is the world’s largest what?

Offshore wind farm

Whose Blazing World is claimed to be the first sci-fi novel by a woman?

Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle

What links II (Augustus); III (the Bold); IV (the Fair); V (the Tall)?

Philips of French King

What links: Tie up; sealing food in tins; smallest Yorkshire city; legal rules of society?

Shortest serving British PMs: Truss; Canning; (Earl of) Ripon; Law.

What links NTSC; PAL; SECAM?

Video format standards

The first American standard for analog television NTSC stands for what?

National Television System Committee

PAL stands for what? colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM.

Phase Alternating Line

an analog color television system that was used in France, Russia and some other countries or territories of Europe and Africa, alongside PAL and NTSC, SECAM is French acronym stands for?

Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire

What links: Crewe Alexandra; Sampdoria; Tottenham Hotspur; Vasco da Gama; Willem II?

Football clubs named after real people: Princess Alexandra; Andrea Doria; Henry Percy (Hotspur); Vasco da Gama (Rio club); Dutch king.

a Genoese statesman, condottiero, and admiral, who played a key role in the Republic of Genoa during his lifetime. Died in 1560, football team and ship named after him.

Andrea Doria

Which ship crashed into the SS Andrea Doria causing it to sink?

Stockholm

American adventure novelist and underwater explorer.[1] His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Founder of NUMA national underwater marine agency.

Clive Cussler

What links; Samaritan woman; Draupadi; Wife of Bath; Gail Platt?

Fictional women with five husbands: John’s gospel; Mahabharata; Canterbury Tales; Coronation Street.

Which British fashion model and actress who appeared as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World in 2024 founded Gurls Talk, a platform that provides resources and a safe space for young women and girls to discuss mental health?

Adwoa Aboah

He won the 1,000 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics after all of his opponents were involved in a last-corner pile-up. He was the first athlete from Australia and also the Southern Hemisphere to win a Winter Olympic gold medal, and he was also part of the short track relay team that won Australia's first Winter Olympic medal, a bronze in 1994.

Steven Bradbury

Spanish for thorn or spike, small snack found in bars in Spain Basque Country in north with a skewer or toothpick

Pintxo

March 2024 What Scandinavian country will be joining NATO, after Hungary's parliament finally approved their accession?

Sweden

March 2024 Intuitive Machines successfully landed what lander on the Moon, making them the first commercial company to do so?

Odysseus

What UN agency, established in 1949 to aid Palestinian refugees, is fully enmeshed in the current conflict between Israel and Hamas?

UN RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY (UNRWA)

March 2024 Feleti Teo is the new prime minister of what tiny South Pacific island nation that is slowly sinking into the sea? It is one of just 12 nations with diplomatic ties to Taiwan.

Tuvalu

What two-word phrase refers to ships who engage in deceptive practices in order to transport crude oil or other cargo?

DARK FLEET or SHADOW FLEET

March 2024 What city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the main city in eastern Congo, is currently under siege by M23 rebels?

Goma

Ukraine's special forces are allegedly operating in what African country in support of the SAF? This is seen to be a proxy war against Russia, who backs the RSF.

Sudan

In 2019, el estallido social (the social revolution), shattered the stability in what South American country? Since then, the country has rejected two attempts at reforming the Constitution, including a failed plebiscite in December 2023.

Chile

What Turkish-American artist is famous for using AI models and machine learning to generate dream-like, hallucinogenic animations projected onto large surfaces?

REFIK ANANDOL

Inventor Joseph Plateau did not give a name for the device when he first published about it in January 1833. Introduced as word Greek for deceiving/cheating eye/face. Early example of new media art.

Phenakistiscope

an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. It improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors

praxinoscope

Born 1889, musician and inventor. He is best known for his light art, which he named lumia, and his designs for color organs called Clavilux.

Thomas Wilfred

Born 1925, Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as Métamatics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Alongside Niki de Saint Phalle, designed Stravinsky Fountain next to Centre Pompidou.

Jean Tinguely

Born Texas 1925 well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture

Robert Rauschenberg

a Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications.

Nam June Paik

Who has been captain of England at 2024 Six Nations? Since O Farrell stepped away.

Jamie George

Welsh-born English professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for Premiership Rugby club Exeter Chiefs and England. Maiden appearances at 2024 Six Nations.

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso

Naomi Campbell 1994 debut novel, which was set in the world of modelling and high fashion, had what avian name?

Swan

To help thwart an attempted 18th-century invasion of Britain Jemima Nicholas is believed to have faced down French troops in February 1797 with what farming implement?

Pitchfork

What Max miniseries is a satire starring Kate Winslet as an authoritarian leader in a fictional European country?

In “THE REGIME,” out now on Max, Winslet plays Chancellor Elena Vernham

What is the title of Ariana Grande’s latest album, which references in part an Oscar-nominated film from 2004?

Eternal Sunshine - lead single is “Yes And”

Which English football manager who is the current head coach of the Canada women's national team, coached England's women's U-17 squad, and was an assistant coach of the England women's national football team under head coach Phil Neville from 2018 to 2020?

Beverly Priestman

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were wearing whcuh watch when landed on moon?

Omega Speedmaster

Hawaii Five-O, starring Jack Lord as which character

Steve McGarrett

any disease with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin from Greek for one’s own suffering

Idiopathic disease

three word phrase william james 1890 The Principles of Psychology book describe mrs dalloway ulysses etc

Stream of Consciousness

Which American adult animated sitcom, featuring a cynical high school student voiced by Tracy Grandstaff, was ranked #91 by Variety (2023) in its list of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time?

Daria (Morgendorffer first shown on Beavis and Butthead)

Doing so in March 2024, who became first woman to complete Barkley Marathons/Trials?

Jasmin Paris

he also proved a skilled comic actor in The Pink Panther franchise, playing the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in seven films. Born Czechia with surname schluderpacheru. He also originated the role of the King of Siam in the original West End production of The King and I

Herbert Lom

Actor born Casablanca Morocco as Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez

Jean Reno

Italian-born British actress, writer, radio announcer, television personality and game-show panellist. She became best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest on a record four occasions: in 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974; the first three in London and the last in Brighton, England. She was also an agony aunt, answering problems that had been posted by readers of the TVTimes. Born Caterina Francavilla.

Katie Boyle

American college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. She is the NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer.

Caitlin Clark

Born Richard Ihetu in Amigbo 1929, Nigerian-born professional boxer who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships. Based in liverpool start of career, died 42 liver cancer.

Dick Tiger

American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 18.21 m (59 ft 8+3⁄4 in), which ranks 2nd on the all-time list. Won 2012 and 2016 Olympic golds.

Christian Taylor

a Burkinabé athlete who specialises in the triple jump and the long jump. He is the world indoor record holder in the triple jump with a jump of 18.07 m (59 ft 3+1⁄4 in) set in 2021 and the reigning world champion, winning the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2023 World Championships.

Hugues Fabrice Zango

Japanese professional boxer. Nicknamed "The Monster", Inoue is known for his timing, speed, punching power, and body-punching ability, having a knockout ratio of 90.4% in world title matches, which is the highest KO rate in the history of world title matches. He is a four-division world champion, and only the second male boxer (following Terence Crawford) to become the undisputed champion in two different weight classes in the four-belt era. He is the current, first, and only ever undisputed super bantamweight world champion, holding the WBC and WBO super bantamweight titles since July 2023.

Naoya INOUE

Djokovic, Federer and Nadal are the top three in terms of men's Grand Slam final appearances, with 36, 31 and 30 respectively. Who is fourth, with 19?

Ivan Lendl

Romanian former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top singles spot from 23 August 1973 to 2 June 1974, and was the first man to hold the position on the computerized ATP rankings. Won US 1972 and French 1973 open.

Ilie Nastase

Which six time African Footballer of the year who joined Bay FC from Barcelona scored Bay FC’s first NWSL goal during the opening weekend of the 2024/25 season?

Asisat Oshoala

Arabic word that literally means “shaking off”, and in the Palestinian context, it is understood to mean a civil uprising - first one 1987

Intifada

His first major role was as Stiles Stilinski in the MTV supernatural series Teen Wolf (2011–2017). He achieved further prominence for his lead role in the science fiction Maze Runner trilogy (2014–2018), which led to more film appearances.

Dylan O’Brien

He is best known for his roles as Minho in the Maze Runner film series[2] and Dong Nguyen in the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Ki Hong Lee

Which 2023 documentary film uses archive footage and interviews with players to tell the story of the unofficial Women’s World Cup which was played in Mexico?

Copa 71

Singles including Rock with the Caveman and Singing the Blues. Soundtrack to his 1957 film was first British album to reach number one on UK albums. In films the duke wore jeans and Tommy the toreador which spawned hit Little White Bull. Originated Kipps in Half a Sixpence.

Tommy Steele (born Hicks)

In 1943 sculptor and art teacher, Selma Burke created a bronze plaque portrait of which man? Her portrait is believed to be the inspiration for the image on the back of the U.S. ten cent coin.

FDR

C in George C Scott sounds for what?

Campbell

In Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, mana is a supernatural force that permeates the universe. Anyone or anything can have this force. They believed it to be a cultivation or possession of energy and power, rather than being a source of power. It is an intentional force.

Mana

lit. 'horse-necked one') is a Hindu deity, the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu.

Hayagriva

god of the annual flooding of the Nile in ancient Egyptian religion

Hapi

one of the earliest-known Egyptian deities in Upper Egypt, originally associated with the Nile cataract. He held the responsibility of regulating the annual inundation of the river, emanating from the caverns of Hapy, the deity embodying the flood. Ram head.

Khnum

the bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Shiva. He is also the guardian deity of Kailash, the abode of Shiva.

Nandi

the fourth avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. He is believed to have incarnated in the form of a part-lion, part-man being to kill Hiranyakashipu, to end religious persecution and calamity on earth, thereby restoring dharma

Narasimha

a creature of Philippine folklore said to lurk in the mountains and rainforests of the Philippines. It is a tall, bony humanoid (half human half horse) creature with the head and hooves of a horse and disproportionately long limbs, to the point that its knees reach above its head when it squats down.

Tikbalang

, "boar") is the avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, in the form of a boar.

Varaha

an Egyptian goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog. To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. They was originally the female counterpart of Khnum, or the wife of Khnum by whom she became the mother of Her-ur.

Heqet

American actor known for portraying John Cooper in the NBC/TNT drama series Southland for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013, Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, and Sergeant Abraham Ford in the AMC horror series The Walking Dead.

Michael Cudlitz

Who composed soundtrack to Gone with the Wind and Casablanca? composed over 300 film scores with RKO Pictures and Warner Bros., and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935); Now, Voyager (1942); and Since You Went Away (1944).

Max Steiner

His 2017 novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,[1] as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[2] He also received a Whiting Award.[3] For his second novel Trust, he was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (shared with Kingsolver).

Hernan Diaz

Which T or phylacteries, are a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah.

Tefillin

Which T are specially knotted ritual fringes, or tassels, worn in antiquity by Israelites and today by observant Jews and Samaritans as reminders of the commandments of Deuteronomy 22:12 and Numbers 15:37–41.

Tzitzit

F: (Latin for "little torch") is a bright spot on a planetary body.

Facula

Four presenters of Blankety Blank

Terry Wogan Les Dawson Paul O’Grady Bradley Walsh

Which poet pointed out his name was an anagram of “hug a shady wet nun”?

Wystan Hugh Auden

Charlemagne is buried in which cathedral?

Aachen

What was established in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures?

Victoria and Albert Museum

What links: Trois-Îlets, Martinique in 1763; Hofburg Palace, Vienna in 1791?

Births of Napoleon’s wives: Joséphine; Marie-Louise

Which sci-fi character’s hairstyle was inspired by Mexican revolutionary Clara de la Rocha?

Princess Leia

What indignity did Sandy Island, New Caledonia, suffer in 2012?

Proved not to exist

Who founded Virago Publishing House?

Carmen Callil

ADX Florence in Colorado is the last of what in the US?

Federal Supermax Prison

The Kirkwood gaps are interruptions in what?

Asteroid Belt

Which BBC programme for deaf people has run since 1981?

See Hear

Which two Labour party leaders died in office?

High Gaitskell and John Smith

What links: Rankin; Stillz; Weegee; Yevonde; Yosigo?

Mononymous photographers

Born 1966 as John Waddell, which mononymous photographer has photographed, amongst other subjects, Björk, Kate Moss, Madonna, David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II? Married to Bill Oddie’s daughter Kate Hardie for three years.

Rankin

Born 1899 as Arthur Fellig, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.

Weegee

Who is claimed to have found the true cross around AD326?

(Saint) Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine)

In climate history, what was the LIA?

Little Ice Age

At 4,690 metres (15,387 ft), its south slope is the highest point in the world crossed by the Equator, and the only point on the Equator with snow cover. Which volcano in ecuadorian andes? Third highest mountain in Ecuador.

Cayambe

(from the German for mountain cleft) is a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above. Bad for mountaineers.

Bergschrund

German for marginal cleft/crevasse, is the headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier. Distinct from bergschrund whcih is ice on ice gap.

Randkluft

English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent. He also made important first ascents on the Mont Blanc massif and in the Pennine Alps, Chimborazo in South America, and the Canadian Rockies.

Edward Whymper

What links: Jean Harlow; Marlene Dietrich; Reese Witherspoon; Ana de Armas?

Stars of Blonde films: Platinum B; B Venus; Legally B; Blonde

British wildlife artist who produces both public and privately commissioned sculptures using galvanised chicken wire mesh to create wire sculptures of wild animals. Waterloo elephant sculpture. Made animal sculptures for Tower of London.

Kendra Haste

What links Hans Larive; Airey Neave; Pat Reid; Hank Wardle?

Successfully escaped from Colditz

Which UK national park has the highest population?

South Downs

Dutch-American football coach who has spent the majority of his playing and coaching career in the United States. His stint managing the American Samoa national team was covered in the 2014 documentary Next Goal Wins, and the 2023 biographical comedy-drama also called Next Goal Wins.

Thomas Rongen

English sports coach who is best known for coaching the Fiji sevens team to a gold medal in sevens rugby at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is currently Performance Director at association football club Brentford.

Ben Ryan

Temwa Chawinga who now plays for Kansas City Current in the NWSL ended 2023 as the leading female goalscorer of the calendar year with 63 goals (51 for Wuhan Jianghan and 12 for her national team) is from which country?

Malawi

the duo known as The Judds, which became a very successful country music act, winning five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards. Older shot self dead in 2022. First names?

Naomi and Wynonna

Writer and singer of "This Land is Your Land"

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie

American singer, rapper, choreographer, and YouTuber. He gained national attention on the ninth season of the televised singing competition American Idol. Following this, he amassed a huge following on YouTube with viral videos including original songs, parodies, and skits. "Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels"

Todrick Hall

Stephen King son name

Joe Hill

What links: Giant’s Causeway; 96 and 98 St Mark’s Place, New York; Wiltshire thatcher Lot Long?

Appear on Led Zeppelin album covers: Houses of the Holy; Physical Graffiti; IV.

What is London’s and Europe’s biggest brick building?

Battersea Power Station

Quanah Parker led which people in war and peace?

Comanche

“I pressed the fire control …” is written on which artwork?

Whaam! By Roy Liechtenstein

What links John Luther; Scottish cyclist; moneysaver; designer Zandra; boxer Félix?

Island surnames: (Idris) Elba; (Chris) Hoy; (Martin) Lewis; Rhodes; Trinidad.

What links Spinner; Allotter; Inflexible?

Moirai (Fates) in Greek myth: Clotho; Lachesis; Atropos.

What links Huronian; Cryogenian; Andean-Saharan; Karoo; Quaternary (ongoing)?

Five major ice ages.

What links Carlos, Prince of Asturias; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; William Tell?

Plays by Schiller

What links Coffee plant; Dead Sea scrolls; Herrerasaurus dinosaur?

Discovered by goatherds: in Ethiopia, according to legend; Qumran, 1947; Argentina, 1959.

The word “phony” appears 35 times in which 1951 novel?

The Catcher in the Rye

Mammals of which order have no stomach?

Monotremata (monotremes: platypus and echidna).

Which 1913 exhibition introduced the US to modern art?

Armory Show

Blondie, in November 1978, were on the first cover of which magazine?

Smash Hits

PRNDL on automatic gearstick stands for what?

Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low

creator god of voodoo

Bondye

The Blandy family have sold which drink for more than 200 years?

Madeira

What links: LB Jefferies; Peter Parker; Laura Mars; Jimmy Olsen?

Fictional photographers: Rear Window; Spider-Man; The Eyes of Laura Mars; Superman.

1978 neo noir by Irvin Kershner. It follows a New York City fashion photographer (Dunaway) who suddenly develops the clairvoyant ability to witness disturbing serial murders from the point of view of the killer.

Eyes of Laura Mars

What links Clare Hall, Cambridge; Byker Wall, Newcastle; The Ark, London?

Designs by Ralph Erskine

What links: Katharine Hepburn; June Allyson; Winona Ryder; Saoirse Ronan?

All played Jo March in Little Women

What links: Blocky; dome; dry-dock; pinnacle; tabular; wedge?

Types of iceberg

What links Gilded urn; Frederick, Duke of York and Albany; Horatio Nelson?

Sit on top of London columns: The Monument; Duke of York Column; Nelson’s.

Kakheti and Kartli are wine regions in which country?

Georgia

Richard Nixon was obsessed with which 1970 war film?

Patton

a person mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis 4:22, known for being the first blacksmith. He is stated as the "forger of all instruments of bronze and iron". A descendant of Cain, he was the son of Lamech and Zillah

Tubal-Cain

master blacksmith originating in Germanic heroic legend, described by Jessie Weston as "the weird and malicious craftsman”.

Wayland

What links: Complacency; debauchery; earthshaking; enjoyable; pandemonium; terrific?

Words coined by John Milton

Whose likeness was found on 6 December 1912 in Tell el-Amarna, Egypt?

Bust of Nefertiti

Where in the UK is the world’s only rotating boat lift?

Falkirk

Which Guardian regular was the subject of a recent Pompidou Centre exhibition?

Posy Simmonds

What links: Uruguay; Mexico; France; Argentina; Portugal; West Germany?

England’s opponents in World Cup 66

What links Orange blossom; sun; warm; white; wild?

Name origins of Spanish Costas: del Azahar; del Sol; Cálida; Blanca; Brava.

an American political party based in South Carolina in the 1830s. Considered an early American third party, it was started by John C. Calhoun in 1828.

Nullifier Party

the earliest third party in the United States. Founded 1828 Solomon Southwick Thurlow Weed William Wirt

Anti-Masonic Partt

short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States. Martin van Buren, Salmon P Chase, John P Hale.

Free Soil Party

a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party. Lewis Charles Levin first leader. 1844-60.

Know Nothing

young, green, immature seeds of ash tree called what short word

Keys

1998 movie You’ve got mail based on which 1937 play by miklos laszlo

Parfumerie

2015 American musical crime comedy drama film, directed and produced by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee and Kevin Willmott. Set in Chicago, the film focuses on the gang violence prevalent in neighborhoods on the city's south side, particularly the Englewood neighborhood. Based on Lysistrata by Aristophanes.

Chi-Raq

The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. 1940 Howard Hawks film.

His Girl Friday

In December 2023, he had a brief appearance as Sir Isaac Newton in the Doctor Who 60th anniversary special "Wild Blue Yonder". He is best known for his role as Ash Mukherjee in the Channel 4 drama It's a Sin (2021).

Nathaniel Curtis

a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock. It doesn’t cut across older rock sheets like a dike./8

Sill

arboreal gliding mammals that are native to Southeast Asia. Their closest evolutionary relatives are primates. There are just two living species of _______: the Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus) and the Philippine flying lemur (Cynocephalus volans).

Colugos

X: a curry prepared in Goa, India, with complex spicing, including white poppy seeds, sliced onions, toasted grated coconut, and large dried red chillies.

Xacuti

an Italian former professional racing driver. She is the most recent female driver to have entered the Formula One World Championship

Giovanna Amati

American retired artistic gymnast and two-time Olympian. She was captain of both the 2012 "Fierce Five" and 2016 "Final Five" U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams, which won their respective team competitions. Won three golds including two Teams and 2012 floor exercise.

Aly Raisman

Last four Baby’s of the House Only Connect

Pamela Nash Mhairi Black Nadia Whittome Keir Mather

an English sea captain, shipbuilder and merchant best known for inventing namesake quadrant and serving the shah of Iran, Nader Shah.

John Elton

Founders of Atlantic Records

Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson

Last five entrants including 2024 uk for eurovision only Connect

Michael Rice James Newman Sam Ryder Mae Muller Olly Alexander

British speedway rider, world champion in 2013, 2015 & 2018

Tai Woffinden

Dandy who duels with Vladimir Lensky

Eugene Onegin

American abstract expressionist painter of Leda and the Swan

Cy Twombly

Monkey Island protagonist

Guybrush Threepwood

1977 Anthony Burgess novel about John Keats and Giuseppe Belli

ABBA ABBA

2013 conclusion of the Margaret Atwood trilogy beginning with Oryx and Crake

Maddaddam

2015 Neal Stephenson book about Dinah and six others, the only childbearing women left after a disaster

Seven Eves

Actual Name of Baby Yoda

Din Grogu

What non-profit organization founded by Jose Andres saw seven aid workers get killed in the conflict in Gaza, much to the outrage of the international community?

World Central Kitchen

Bassirou Diomaye Faye was inaugurated as president of what west African nation, becoming the country’s youngest president?

Senegal

What media company is publicly trading on the stock market under the ticker symbol “DJT”? After a blockbuster opening week, the stock has plummeted.

Trump Media (Truth Social)

He was well known for his role as Tonto, the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger in original tv show 1949-57?

Jay Silverheels

American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1952 and 1953 to 1957 on the television series of the same name and two related films from the same producers.

Clayton Moore

George Lucas 1971 film The film is set in a dystopian future in which the citizens are controlled by android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions.

THX 1138

1962 American adventure film loosely based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, For visual effects, a model of the balloon was used as well as a full-sized unicorn gondola hung from a crane.

Five Weeks in a Balloon

American actor and comedian. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1957 film Sayonara. He was nominated for awards for his acting work in films such as They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Harlow, and Pete's Dragon. He played the lead role of Private John Steele, the paratrooper hung up on the town steeple clock, in the 1962 international ensemble cast film The Longest Day.

Red Buttons

Peter Pellegrini won the presidential election of what European nation on Saturday, securing the position of pro-Russian prime minister Robert Fico?

Slovakia

the first person to serve as Pakistan’s president twice returning to office in 2024, nickname Mr 10%, married to Benazhir Bhutto as time of assassination.

Asif Ali Zardari

Who was chosen as the new leader of Fine Gael in Ireland, becoming the country’s prime minister after the resignation of Leo Varadkar?

SIMON HARRIS

2024 Finally, general elections in Portugal saw no one party achieve a majority of seats, although it did see the surge of what far-right party? Portuguese for “enough”.

Chega

They co-wrote and co-produced Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), for which they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Appeared twins in 22 Jump Street.

Kenny and Keith Lucas

British athlete silver 400m and 4x400m at 1996 atlanta

Roger Black

Which product takes part of its name from the 1871 Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel, The Coming Race?

Bovril

Whose films as director include Little Shop of Horrors, The Stepford Wives and Death at a Funeral?

Frank Oz

Which 1920 born American director films as director include Bell, Book and Candle (1958), The World of Suzie Wong (1960), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), How to Murder Your Wife (1965), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)?

Richard Quine

American film and television director, known for directing such films as Tremors (1990), City Slickers (1991), Heart and Souls (1993), and Mighty Joe Young (1998).

Ron Underwood

He was the only Chinese director to date to be a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the Directors Guild of America. He rose to prominence in 1957, directing the film Woman Basketball Player No. 5, and is considered one of the Third Generation directors of China. Most recently he was known for the direction of The Opium War (1997).

Xie (Jin)

French actress. She was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, with whom she starred in the 1967 musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort. Her other films include Philippe de Broca's movie That Man from Rio, François Truffaut's The Soft Skin, Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac, and Val Guest's Where the Spies Are.

Francoise Dorleac

“Rejoice” in Latin, sacred Christmas carol, thought to have been composed in the 16th century. It was published in Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish/Swedish sacred songs published in 1582. No music is given for the verses, but the standard tune comes from older liturgical books.

Gaudete

Only element whose symbols scrabble score is equal to its atomic number

Beryllium

Only element whose scrabble score is equal to its atomic number?

Aluminium

What date did Berlin Wall fall, Kaiser Wilhelm deposed, Munich Putsch failed?

9th November

a cocktail made with amaretto, Southern Comfort, sloe gin, and orange juice

Alabama slammer

Rob Halford lead singer of which band?

Judas Priest

Japanese author who wrote - born 1960. The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Suspect on the Night Train, Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts / Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai

Yoko Tawada

Singer of Dad’s Army Theme Tune (who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler)

Bud Flanagan

George Logan and Patrick Fyffe stage names

Hinge and Bracket

Jade Jones won Olympic medal in what sport

Taekwondo

ZiG is the name of a newly launched currency in what African country?

Zimbabwe Gold

English singer and acoustic guitarist, best known as the frontman of Ocean Colour Scene.

Simon Fowler

an Arabic word for a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It can be used to refer to an uprising against oppression.

Intifada

Who is Mrs Crocodile in Peppa Pig? Comedian

Jo Brand

Which Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and poet was an apprentice to the Florentine painter Ghirlandaio? At 16 while studying in the sculpture gardens of the Medici family he produced "Battle of the Centaurs" and "Madonna Seated on a Step"

Michelangelo

After making his league debut in 1979, which British man became the first black footballer to command a £1 million transfer fee, (Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in 1981) and was inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame in February 2020?

Justin Fashanu

Which former children’s laureate and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) announced the adult sequel to the Girls quartet, ‘Think Again’ in 2024?

JCqueline Wilson

After Winston Churchill declared “Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island” in 1940 the National Gallery's collection was hidden in the Manod Slate Mine in which Snowdonia town?

Blaenau Ffestiniog

Which architectural style that emerged in England from around 1485, has become synonymous with half-timber detailing, with long decorative wood beams?

Tudor architectural style

Stretching over 600 miles from the Northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula down to the Honduran Bay Islands, what is the largest barrier reef system in the Western Hemisphere?

Mesoamerican Reef

Welsh journalist and politician serving as the Leader of Plaid Cymru since June 2023. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ynys Môn since 2013.

Rhun ap Iorwerth (Rheen-ap-YORR-weth)

Computer Weekly exposed which scandal in 2009?

Post Office Horizon

Which actor flew combat missions in the second world war and Vietnam?

Jimmy Stewart

Grupo Globo is a media giant from which country?

Brazil

Which 20th-century prime minister won four general elections?

Harold Wilson

Which attraction is built on the site of the Coppergate archaeological dig?

Jorvik Viking Centre

What links: Beethoven (16); Brahms (3); Haydn (68); Elizabeth Maconchy (13)?

Number of String Quartets

What links: Ironside; Kurtz; Raeburn; Rayner; Sanders; Stoppard?

Agony Aunts

What links: La Presse; Le Soir; El Watan; Le Quotidien?

French language newspapers outside France: Canada; Belgium; Algeria; Senegal, Canada & Luxembourg.

What links: Gripit; Reggae Reggae Sauce; Skinny Tan; Tangle Teezer; Trunki?

Businesses on Dragon’s Den

What links: Houses of Parliament; Newgate prison; Skerne Bridge; Salamanca?

Depicted on £5 notes: Winston Churchill; Elizabeth Fry; George Stephenson; Duke of Wellington.

President of Kenya since 2022

William Ruto

Russian artist born 1889-1924, one of first females in Cubo-Futurism, in 1916 joined Supremus group for Suprematism, in 1917 onto Constructivism (5x5=25 exhibition). Birsk, Violin, Portrait of a Philosopher.

Lyubov Popova

Born 1891, Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.1921 5x5=25 exhibition first true monochrome paintings.

Aleksandr Rodchenko

American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. The highest price by one of his artworks in the art market was reached when Alternate Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd) (1964).

Dan Flavin

Blind contestant first on Strictly - Rudi in CBeebies Me Too!

Chris McCausland

Name for someone who knows Quran off by heart

Hafiz

the first Islamic call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin at five times of the day in a mosque, traditionally from a minaret.

Adhan

Which series of 181 young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal chronicles the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who live in a fictional California suburb?

Sweet Valley High

developer of free-to-play mobile games behind titles such as Township, Fishdom, Homescapes, and Gardenscapes. The company was founded in 2004 by Dmitry Bukhman and Igor Bukhman in Vologda, Russia, and moved its headquarters to Dublin, Ireland in 2013.

Playrix

In the 13th spot with £130m is which female, former chief executive of Team17, which created cult classic Worms, kitchen simulator Overcooked and fishing game Dredge.

Debbie Bestwick

Swiss-American artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association. Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the Lakota Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance movement.

Caroline Weldon

In 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant declared in an advisory to the federal government, “I will not move my army without _____!” What foodstuff missing?

Onions

Icelandic woman said to be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her brother, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the region with the first European contact. In Netflix show Vikings Valhalla.

Freydís Eiríksdóttir

Who had starring roles in the romance film Everything, Everything (2017), the drama film The Hate U Give (2018), the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), and the miniseries The Acolyte (2024) as main character?

Amandla Stenberg

Actress in Borat 2 and Bea in Bodies Bodies Bodies

Maria Bakalova

American actor. He is known for his roles as Reggie Mantle in the CW series Riverdale (2017–2023) and a young man married to a much-older woman in the drama film May December (2023).

Charles Melton