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Who were the first two sisters to have number one solo albums on the US charts?
Beyonce and Solange Knowles
Justin Vernon is the frontman for which American indie band founded in 2006?
Bon Iver
Among the best-known works of which author are “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”, “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing”and “Deenie”?
Judy Blume
What famous children’s book about a squashed man was written by the American author Jeff Brown and first published in 1964?
Flat Stanley
Which alliteratively named TV and Radio Doctor is credited with popularising the 5:2 diet?
Michael Mosley
What did TCB stand for in the name of Elvis Presley’s backing group, the TCB band?
Taking Care of Business
The city of Las Vegas is part of which Nevada county?
Clark County
What is the stage name of the English comedian Robert James Blair Simpson? Since 2012, he has presented a programme on BBC Radio Four called My Teenage Diary
Rufus Hound
Tony Allcock was the last male English World Champion in what sport?
Bowls
Winning it five times, which country has won the World Bowls Team Championship more than any other?
Scotland
What actress is best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in Doc Martin from 2004 to 2022?
Caroline Catz
Rose Gold is an alloy of Gold with which other metal?
Copper
What character was played by Sue Nicholls in the kids TV show “Rentaghost”?
Nadia Popov
In series one of which 1970s sitcom did Sue Nicholls play “Joan Greengross”? She was a secretary fantasised over by her boss
The fall and rise of REGINALD PERRIN
Sue Nicholl’s real life husband Mark Eden played which villainous Coronation Street character of the late 1980s?
Alan Bradley
What was the first name of the fictional comic book and movie character Judge Dredd?
Joe/Joseph
What was the first name of Jean Boht’s character in “Bread”?
Nellie Boswell
What famous Spa hotel is located in Tring, Hertforshire?
Champneys
The Stillman Diet and the Scarsdale Diet all recommend high protein and low what?
Carbohydrate
Dubbed the “Unhappy Hour”, what is the two-word name for the policy where pubs put their prices up at busy times?
Surge Pricing
In 1970, Hunter S Thompson wrote an unconventional magazine feature titled “The BLANK BLANK Is Decadent and Depraved”. What sporting event fills the blanks?
Kentucky Derby
What soft drink takes its name from a 19th-century slang term for whiskey, especially Highland Scotch whisky?
Mountain Dew
Amin Mohamedis the real name of which EnglishYouTube personality?
Chunkz
Who wrote the songs “Rock DJ”, “Feel”, “Millennium”, “Let Me Entertain You” and “Angels” with Robbie Williams?
Guy Chambers
In The Magic Roundabout (1965 to 1977), what type of animal was Brian?
Snail
The architect Archibald Leitch is best remembered for designing what?
Football Stadiums
What class of men’s sailing, introduced in 1952, will be dropped from the Olympics from 2024?
Finn
Who is the rival of Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago?
Roxie Hart
“Try to remember” is the signature song from which Broadway show?
The Fantasticks
In theatre, what 6-letter word is used to describe a stage that extends into the audience on three sides, giving the performer greater intimacy with the audience?
Thrust Stage
Which athlete did Ben Cross play in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire?
Harold Abrahams
Mrs Beakley was the housekeeper of a very rich individual in which Disney cartoon series which originally ran from 1987 to 1990?
Duck Tales
Queen’s series of performances at what venue in October 1984, in transgression of the South Africa boycottof the time, caused considerable controversy?
Sun City
The protest group “Artists United Against Apartheid” was set up by which E-Street band guitarist?
Steven Van Zandt
What gameshow does Ben Shephard present alongside Chris Kamara and Rochelle Humes?
Ninja Warrior
What was the two-word name of the ITV Christmas charity telethon which ran from 2011 to 2015?
Text Santa
What county cricket team has Ben Stokes played for since 2009?
Durham
What two word collective name has been given to the group of comedy actors including Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Vince Vaughn?
Frat Pack
Which band had a 1979 hit with the song “My Sharona”?
The Knack
Ben Roethlisberger, nicknamed “Big Ben”, played 18 seasons with which NFL team?
Pittsburgh Steelers
Which former American football Quarterback, born 1960, is the only individual to be associated with all three of the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl wins in one capacity or another?
John Elway
Which former Arsenal, now Real Sociedad, defender was born in Douglas on the Isle of Man in 1997?
Kieran Tierney
Which New Zealand actor played Jim Robinson in Neighbours?
Alan Dale
The American actress Pam Dawber (wife of Mark Harmon) had her most famous role in which sitcom of 1978 to 1982?
Mork & Mindy
What was the 7-letter name of the 1977 spin-off to “Bewitched”?
Tabitha
Who played main character Samantha in Bewitched?
Elizabeth Montgomery
Which British multinational company own the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream brand?
Unilever
The British reality show Castaway 2000, the launched the career of Ben Fogle, was set on which Scottish island?
Taransay
How many players on a Volleyball team?
Six
Often considered one of the greatest running backs in NFL history, which player was named NFL MVP in 2012 while playing for the Minnesota Vikings? He has been named to seven NFL Pro Bowls during his career.
Adrian Peterson
In which 1974 Western comedy film, directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder, does a brawl lead to the fourth wall literally being broken? The cast end up landing on a neighbouring film set and engaging in a food fight that leaves most characters covered in pie.
Blazing Saddles
First released by Capcom in 1987, which Japanese fighting video game featured characters such as Ryu, Ken and Sagat? Its second version, released in 1991, is considered to have established many of the conventions of the genre.
Street Fighter
Despite a number of record One Day International (ODI) scores in recent times, the top five batsmen on the ICC’s all-time ODI rankings are all retired. Which Indian superstar, with a top ranking of 911, is the highest-ranked active player on the list?
Virat Kholi
Often considered one of the greatest defensive ends in NFL history, which player won three NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards between 2012 and 2015 while playing for the Houston Texans? He now plays for the Arizona Cardinals.
JJ Watt
In the ICC’s all-time test cricket bowling rankings, who is the highest ranked player still to be playing international cricket? His ranking of 914, achieved against England, puts him joint-fifth with fellow Australian Glenn McGrath.
Pat Cummins
Awarded a Special Prize at the Spiel des Jahres in 2018, Matt Leacock is best known as the designer of what board game, for which two Legacy variants have been released? Players work co-operatively to first discover a cure for four dangerous diseases, and then eradicate them from the world.
Pandemic
Which British high-street bookstore chain was established by its namesake founder in 1982? During a period of ownership by HMV, the retailers Ottakar’s and Dillons were merged into this brand.
Waterstones
Which Northern Irish drag queen, who lost out to The Vivienne on the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, went on to win the first season of Drag Race UK vs The World in 2022?
Blu Hydrangea
First released by Bandai Namco in 1994, which Japanese fighting video game franchise features characters such as Paul Phoenix and Yoshimitsu, and follows the King of the Iron Fist tournament? It has sold more copies than Street Fighter, but fewer than the Mortal Kombat franchise.
Tekken
Often considered one of the greatest defensive tackles in NFL history, which player won three NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards between 2017 and 2020? He has spent all his career with the Los Angeles Rams, who he won the Super Bowl with in 2022.
Aaron Donald
Often considered one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history, which player led the NFL in receiving yards in both 2011 and 2012? Nicknamed Megatron, he spent his entire career with the Detroit Lions.
Calvin Johnson
In which 1978 comedy film, directed by John Landis, does John Belushi’s character, Bluto, pop his cheeks and spit mashed potatoes over his tablemates, before initiating a large-scale food fight?
Animal House
Vlaada Chvatil is best known for designing what board game, the winner of the Spiel des Jahres prize in 2016? It is played by two teams consisting of a spymaster and their field operatives, with the spymaster giving clues to the players that allow them to select correct words from the 25 on the board.
Codenames
In which widely-lambasted movie of 1987 is the Statue of Liberty lifted from its base by Nuclear Man and hurled into the streets of New York? This movie had the subtitle The Quest For Peace.
Superman IV The Quest for Peace
Which Japanese fighting video game franchise is named after the second game in its series, released in 1998? Set in a historical fantasy version of the 16th and 17th centuries, games in this franchise take their names from mythical swords.
Soulcalibur
With bat dominating ball in One-Day International cricket at present, you have to look down as far as number 19 on the all-time ODI bowling rankings for a currently active player. This is which Indian right-arm fast bowler, known for his unorthodox bowling technique?
Jasprit Bumrah
Which Carry On film of 1970 ends with a scene where a character played by Hattie Jacques throws a cake into the face of Sid James’ character, sparking a huge food fight? The plot of the film centres around a dating agency run by these two characters, and also features Kenneth Williams in the role of Percival Snooper.
Carry On Loving
Which Portuguese football team play at A Pedreira (The Quarry), a stadium carved into the side of a mountain?
Braga
Which Danish driver has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans nine times, more than any other driver?
Tom Kristiensen
Which Belgian driver won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times?
Jacky Ickx
Which British driver is tied third with five wins at Le Mans? First in 1975 and then in 1980s. Also won the Daytona 24 three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice.
Derek Bell
The two different teams which have won the 24 hours of Le Mans race more than any other are both based in what country?
Germany (Joest Racing and Porsche)
24 Hour of Le Mans has been won by which team the most times? They’ve won 13 times and is named after a former Porsche works racer.
Joest Racing
Scottish professional footballer and manager. Regarded as one of the game’s great midfielders, he combined precision passing skills with tenacious tackling and physical stamina. He played for Leeds United from 1959 to 1976, serving as captain from 1965, in one of the most successful periods in the club’s history. Played for Hull and Doncaster too.
Billy Bremner
Which Swedish two-time runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship died in the 1978 Italian Gran Prix?
Ronnie Peterson
What is the location of the Italian F1 Grand Prix?
Monza
In 1974 “Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen” became the last novel by which man?
PG Wodehouse
Strictly speaking, Jeeves from the Jeeves and Wooster stories wasn’t a butler. What was his title?
Valet
Tennis was reintroduced into the Olympics in 1988. Steffi Graf won the women’s event, which Czechoslovakian won the men’s?
Miloslav Mečíř
Who was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954)?
Dorothy Dandridge
Who played the title character in the 1999 biographical film Introducing “Dorothy Dandridge”?
Halle Berry
What was the name of Alannah Myles’ 1990 US number one song?
Black Velvet
Which band had a a1970s hit with the song “A Glass of Champagne”?
Sailor
Which country took Gold at the Men’s field hockey event at the 2020 Olympics?
Belgium
Which country took Gold at the Women’s field hockey event at the 2020 Olympics?
Netherlands
The 1956 musical movie “High Society” was a remake of which 1939 play?
The Philadelphia Story
Who provided music and lyrics for the 1956 musical movie “High Society”?
Cole Porter
A wolf called Vučko was the mascot for which Olympic games?
1984 Sarajevo
A Parat is a large flat plate used to mix the ingredients for making what Indian flatbread?
Chapati
In Bouldering, what “F” is to ascend a route on the first attempt?
Flash
Jill Parker-Hammersley-Shirley and her daughter Kate Parker have both represented England in what sport?
Table Tennis
Henry Cooper retired in 1971 after a controversial loss to which other boxer?
Joe Bugner
In what sport might you encounter a “Dilscoop”?
Cricket
What Sri Lankan batsman created the Dilscoop?
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Which girlfriend of Prince Andrew appeared in the erotic film Emily (1976)?
Koo Stark
What was the name of the Butler played by Tim Curry in the movie “Clue”?
Wadsworth
Which American-born Puerto Rican boxer was the youngest world champion in the sport’s history, earning his first of three world titles at the age of seventeen?
Wilfred Benitez
Which promotergained a controlling interest in theWorld Snooker Tour in 2010?
Barry Hearn
Which rider from Luxembourg won the 2010 Tour De France?
Andy Schleck
Who managed Lazio when they defeated Manchester United to win the UEFA Super Cup in 1999?
Sven-Göran Eriksson
What was the name of the FA secretary with whom Sven-Goran Ericcson had an affair?
Faria Alam
In what capacity was Nan Winton a famous name on British telly?
First Female Newsreader
In feet, how wide are goals in Football?
24 Feet (8 yards x 8 feet)
Which darts champion born in Ipswich was “The Milky Bar Kid”?
Keith Deller
Which Greater Manchester rugby league side won the 2022 Challenge Cup?
Leigh Leopards
What was the name of the Hart’s beloved pet dog in the US mystery TV series “Hart to Hart”?
Freeway
At what weight did Barry McGuigan win his world boxing titles?
Featherweight
Which card game has been descibed as the “longest-standing British representative of the Poker family”?
Brag
Falkland Palace in Scotland has one of the oldest courts in the world for playing what game?
Real Tennis
What was Fifty Fifty’s record-setting single of 2023, the first single by a K-pop girl group to hit the UK Top 10?
Cupid
The 3rd September 1939 saw the only Motor Grand Prix held in which Eastern European city?
Belgrade
What is the name of Donald Duck’s sister?
Della Duck
The voice and expressions of Spike in the Tom and Jerry cartoons were based on which gravelly voiced American singer and actor?
Jimmy Durante
Cambodia,Egypt,Iraq, andLebanonboycottedthe 1956 Olympic Games for what reason?
Suez Crisis
Between 1973 and 1984, which woman won a record six times at theBadminton Horse Trials(on six different horses)?
Lucinda Green
In the song “Waltzing Matilda”, what is a Jumbuck?
Sheep
The Defender Burghley Horse Trials is an annual three-day event held at Burghley House near Stamford in which county?
Lincolnshire
The FEI say there are seven elite 3 day events for horse jumping including Badminton and Burghley House. What event is held in namesake town in Lower Saxony in Germany?
Luhmühlen Horse Trials
The FEI say there are seven elite 3 day events for horse jumping including Badminton and Burghley House. What event is held in namesake town in Pyrenees-Atlantique department in France?
Etoiles de Pau
In which award winning movie of the year 2000 did Connie Nielsen play Lucilla and Djimon Hounsou play Juba?
Gladiator
What is the maximum number of clubs you are allowed in your bag in a game of Golf?
14
A Wimbledon junior champion in1998and former ball boy, which man won his first major singles title at Wimbledon in2003at age 21?
Roger Federer
Other than Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, who is the only other man to defeat Roger Federer in a Grand Slam singles final? This happened in the US Open in 2009
Juan Martin del Potro
Which Swedish Tennis player was the first player to defeat Rafael Nadal at the French Open?
Robin Soderling
Which production company were behind the films “Philomena” and “24 Hour Party People”?
Baby Cow Productions
In which sitcom did Steve Coogan play a former roadie with anger issues who now owns a pest control business?
Saxondale
Gethin Jones, Kym Marsh and Sam Quek have all been presenters of which BBC tha airs at 9:15am on week days?
Morning Live
What colour is Superman’s cape?
Red
What colour is Fred Flintstone’s tie?
Blue
In 1999 while playing against Pakistan, which Indian spinner dismissed all ten batsmen in a Test match innings?
Anil Kumble
In Medley Swimming, what stroke comes last?
Freestyle
Who played Cliff Barnes in Dallas?
Ken Kercheval
Who was Pamela Barnes Ewing in 250 episodes of Dallas?
Victoria Principal
In its early years, what game was known as Poona?
Badminton
Who was the lead singer of the band “The Seekers” who died in August 2022 aged 79?
Judith Durham
Who was the last Englishman to manage Barcelona FC?
Bobby Robson
Who wrote the screenplay for the 2002 American teen comedy-drama road film “Crossroads”?
Shonda Rhimes
Which ex Peaky Blinders actor took on the role of Harry Palmer in ITV’s 2022 Ipcress File TV series?
Joe Cole
“Set in a Nottinghamshire mining village, two shocking killings shatter an already fractured community with a dark past. Divisions from theminers’ strike have persisted. The story is loosely based on the murder of trade unionist Keith Frogson in 2004” What 2022 TV show is being described?
Sherwood
In James Graham’s 2023 play Dear England, what lead role does Joseph Fiennes play?
Joseph Fiennes
Who wrote The Motive and the Cue starring Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud?
Jack Thorne
Which wildlife board game designed by Randy Flynn and published by Flatout Games won the 2022 Spiel des Jahres?
Cascadia
a city-building puzzle video game developed and published by Toukana Interactive. In the game, players need to place hexagonal tiles of various biomes to create an idyllic landscape, it’s board game adaptation won spiels de jahre 2023?
Dorfromantik
What stadium played host to the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
Alexander Stadium
What was the title of the 2022 “Sex and the City” spin-off series?
And Just Like That
What character did Cynthia Nixon play in “Sex and the City”?
Miranda Hobbes
Rumoured to be about the actress Sarah Jessica Parker, what song was Joshua Kadison’s biggest hit in the UK charts?
Jessie
Born in 1977 in Preston to a Sikh family, which woman is a regular presenting deputy on “Good Morning Britain” and “Lorraine”?
Ranvir Singh
The Serbian entry for the 2022 Eurovision song contest was the first ever to be partly sung in what language?
Latin
Name either of the two countries which made their Winter Olympics debut in 2022
Haiti and Saudi Arabia
At Beijing 2022 which country finished at the top of the medal table for the second successive Winter Olympics?
Norway
What is the English singer Jessie J’s real surname?
Cornish
Which man served as Brian Clough’s assistant manager at many clubs from the 1960s to the 1970s?
Peter Taylor
What is the 4-letter name of the robotic villain action figure who is Buzz Lightyear’s archenemy?
Zurg
What is the surname of Andy, the overarching protagonist of the Toy Story franchise?
Davis
Laurie Metcalf received an Oscar nomination for her part in which 2017 movie?
Lady Bird
An iconic Life magazine photograph of 1943 shows Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James engaged in what popular dance style of the time?
Lindy Hop
Who is the only eight-division world champion in the history of boxing?
Manny Pacquiao
Who played the SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in the HBO film Conspiracy (2001)?
Kenneth Branagh
“The Golden Quill” is an annual award given in honour of which beknighted British actor?
Sir John Gielgud
What name is given to the top flight league in Australian men’s football?
A-League
Which US college football team won the National Championships in 2021 and 2022?
Georgia Bulldogs
Which British girl group with a 3-letter name won the BBC Sound of the Year award in 2023?
Flo
In 2022, who portrayedAnna Sorokinin the Netflix miniseriesInventing Anna?
Julia Garner
“The Panic in Central Park” was an episode in which 2010s comedy drama?
Girls
Alongside Alec Berg, which American actor co-created the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023)? He played the title role
Bill Hader
In 1988 who became Vogue’s first African-American male creative director?
Andre Leon Talley
Which Dominican-American former professional baseball player was nicknamed “Big Papi”?
David Ortiz
Which ground has been the home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team since 1912?
Fenway Park
Which real life scientist provided exclamations on the Thomas Dolby song “She blinded me with science”?
Magnus Pyke
Zoi Sadowski-Synott was a Snowboarding medal winner for which country at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
New Zealand
Hands(2009),Nocturnes(2013) andWorking Girl(2015)are the three solo albums to date by which pop singer, real name Victoria Christina Hesketh?
Little Boots
What was the two-word name of the 2022 crime TV series starring Vicky McClure as a police bomb disposal expert in London?
Trigger Point
What character has Michelle Gomez played in numerous episodes of Dr Who?
Missy
As of 14th January 2022, what is the highest ranked movie of the 21st century on Rotten Tomatoes with a 96% score from 500 reviews? This 2018 movie “elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU’s most absorbing stories”
BLACK PANTHER
Which French actress, born 1964, received numerous awards and nominations for her roles as Hana in The English Patient (1996) and Vianne in Chocolat (2000)? In 2022 she appeared in the crime miniseries “The Staircase”
Juliette Binoche
Gregg Popovich has been the Head Coach of which NBA team since 1994?
San Antonio Spurs
What was the surname of the British twins who finished 3rd and 4th in the 2023 Tour De France?
Yates
The most-played track of 2009 according toPRS for Music, which Australian sang “Sweet about me”?
Gabriela Climi
To mark the 110th anniversary of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne & Co. commissioned which British actres to write The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit?
Emma Thompson
Louie Anderson, the actor who played Maurice in both Coming to America films, died in 2022. What was the name of the fictional Fast Food restaurant that he worked at in the original film?
McDowells
Eve Muirhead skipped the Great Britain Women’s Curling team to gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but who had performed the same role when GB won Gold back in 2002?
Rhona Martin
“His Dark Material” was a 2021 Netflix special by which controversial comedian?
Jimmy Carr
Which former physician rose to fame playing Leslie Chow in The Hangover film series?
Ken Jeong
What “Jack” was the only male presenter on the BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury in 2023?
Jack Saunders
With which side do the Boston Red Sox baseball team have their most intense rivalry with?
New York Yankees
Who played Carly Shay in the teen sitcom iCarly (2007–2012)?
Miranda Cosgrove
Which burger was created by Jim Delligatti to compete with Big Boy Restaurants’ Big Boy hamburger?
Big Mac
Which team was James Hunt driving for when he won the 1976 F1 World Championshipo?
McLaren
Piccadilly Radioon 97.0 FM was a local radio station in which British city?
Manchester
In the 1980s Maureen Flowers was the world number one in which sport?
Darts
What “J” is the national drink of the Netherlands?
Jenever
What was the first name of the American industrialist and ex-astronaut who was the Patriarch of the Tracy family in Thunderbirds?
Jeff
When Tom Selleck was Magnum PI, who was Higgins?
John Hillerman
Britain only won one track medal at the 1976 Olympics. Which man took the prize?
Brendan Foster (10k bronze)
What is largest hospital in Gaza? It has become a flashpoint in the Israel-Hamas war as Israel moves to seize the hospital.
Al-Shifa Hospital
What team won the 2023 NWSL championship?
NJ/NY Gotham FC (defeated OL Reign)
Which real life movie director did Ian Mckellen play in the 1998 period drama “Gods and Monsters”? Directed Frankenstein.
James Whale
Which football club did Brendan Rogers manage between his two stints with Celtic?
Leicester City
How many tiles does each player have at the beginning of a game of Mah Jong?
13
Veronica Hamel was Joyce Davenport in which highly rated US Cop TV show?
Hill Street Blues
What was Dorothy’s surname in the TV show “The Golden Girls”? portrayed by Bea Arthur
Zbornak
Evangeline Lilly was Kate Austen in which highly rated US TV drama of the 2000s?
Lost
Who played Tony’s wife “Carmela” in the TV drama “The Sopranos”?
Edie Falco
What was the surname of the character played by Lucille Ball in the show “I Love Lucy”?
Ricardo
Name the actress who acted alongside Tom Hanks in the 2016 film “Inferno”?
Felicity Jones
One of the most famous rappers of the last 5 years, which rappers real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk?
Dababy
One of the most famous rappers of the last 5 years, which rappers real name is Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr?
Roddy Ricch
Which West Indian bowler held the record for the most test wickets from 2000 until 2004 when he was overtaken by Shane Warne?
Courtney Walsh
What “C” is a unique vodka brand made from grapes, which sets it apart from traditional grain or potato vodkas. It’s known for its premium positioning and collaborations with celebrities like Diddy.
Ciroc
What “B” is a Polish rye vodka brand that is highly regarded for its quality and craftsmanship? It is named after the Polish presidential palace in Warsaw
Belvedere
BLANK’S Handmade Vodka is an American vodka brand that has gained popularity for its handcrafted approach and smooth flavor profile.What man’s name, also one of the Jackson Five, fills the blank?
Tito
Who played Commander Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek Deep Space Nine?
Avery Brooks
Who played Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek Voyager?
Kate Mulgrew
Who played Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek Enterprise (2001 to 2005)?
Scott Bakula
He is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jonathan Frakes
In Quantum Leap Scott Bakula played Sam Beckett, but which former child actor played Al?
Dean Stockwell
Who captained England to victory in the 2019 Cricket World Cup?
Eoin Morgan
Who captained Australia to victory in the 2015 Cricket World Cup?
Michael Clarke
Who captained India to victory in the 2011 Cricket World Cup?
MS Dhoni
Who captained Australia to victory in the 1999 Cricket World Cup?
Steve Waugh
Who captained India to victory in the 1983 Cricket World Cup?
Kapil Dev
Which character in the Top Cat cartoon with an innocent nature and rotund appearance, often found himself reluctantly caught up in Top Cat’s misadventures?
Benny the Ball
Which character in the Top Cat cartoon with a tall and slender appearance served as the voice of reason in the gang, with his calm demeanor and sensible thinking?
Choo Choo
Which character in the Top Cat cartoon was a debonair cat with a taste for the finer things in life? He is always dressed to impress and chasing after love interests.
Fancy Fancy
Which character in the Top Cat cartoon was timid and easily frightened? He added comic relief to the group with his neurotic personality.
Spook
Who was Lady Mary Crawley in 52 episodes of “Downton Abbey”?
Michelle Dockery
What was the name of the Western TV series starring Michelle Dockery about a New Mexico town inhabited almost completely by women?
Godless
Which 2019 Guy Ritchie movie starred Matthew McConaughey and Michelle Dockery?
The Gentlemen
Including Eddie and Will, which family in The Archers are seen as the working class foil to the Archer family?
The Grundy’s
Which character in The Archers is played by the blind Scottish actor Ryan Kelly?
Jazzer / Jack McCreary
“Dead Lions” is the name of the second series of which spy thriller TV series based on the books of Mick Herron?
Slow Horses
British mystery and thriller novelist. He is the author of the Slough House series (Jackson Lamb by Gary Oldman), early novels of which have been adapted for the Slow Horses television series. He won the Crime Writers’ Association 2013 Gold Dagger award for Dead Lions. Also did Zoe Boehm series.
Mick Herron
With 17 in total, which Irish player has made the most appearances for the British and Irish Lions rugby side?
Willie John McBride
With 69 in total, which Scottish Full Back has scored more points for the British Lions than any other?
Gavin Hastings
In 1977 the British Lions played their very first ever official “home” game. Who were the opposition that day?
The Barbarians
Which Welshman captained the British and Irish Lions on their 2021 tour of South Africa?
Alun Wyn Jones
Who created and wrote the long-running sitcom “Last of the Summer Wine”? Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.
Roy Clarke
“Last of the Summer Wine”was set and filmed in and aroundwhich West Yorkshire town?
Holmfirth
Originally aired in the late 1980s, what was the name of the prequel to “Last of the Summer Wine”?
First of the Summer Wine
Which man composed the theme music for Are You Being Served?, Yes Minister, and The Two Ronnies?
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Reaching no. 2 on the UK charts in 1970, complete the name of the track: “Groovin’ with Mr. BLANK”
Bloe
What was the name of the Duran Duran side-project group who released the album “So red the rose” in 1985?
Arcadia
Alongside Simon Le Bon, who was the only other original member of Duran Duran who stuck with the group right through until their official reunion in 2004?
Nick Rhodes
“Duran Duran won a recording contract after supporting which woman on her UK tour? Her biggest hits include ““Eighth Day””, ““D-Days”” and ““Will You?””
Hazel O’Connor
What was the last of the seven Bob Hope/ Bing Crosby “Road To” movies?
Road to Hong Kong
Seven Road to films with Hope/Crosby
Singapore (1940)
Zanzibar (1941)
Morocco (1942)
Utopia (1943)
Rio (1947)
Bali (1952)
Hong Kong (1962)
What objects would you use to play the game “Toad in the Hole”?
Coins
Who played Captain “Howling Mad” Murdock on the 1980s action series The A-Team?
Dwight Schultz
Mollie Ralston, Christopher Wren and Mrs Boyle are characters in which play?
The Mousetrap
The 2021 Netflix seriesThe Unlikely Murderer was about the assassination of which Swedish man?
Olaf Palme
Grace Kelly’s father won Olympic medals for the USA in which event?
Rowing
What is the nickname of Bradford City FC?
Bantams
Which Scotsman has managed Bradford City FC on four different occasions?
Stuart McCall
Samuel Ryder, the man who gave his name to the Ryder Cup, was a very succesful businessman in what field?
Seeds
Including the song “Purple Heather”, “A Spanner in the Works” was a 1995 studio album for which music artist?
Rod Stewart
In the 1990s Melanie Sykes was the face of TV adverts for which beer?
Boddingtons
Who took over as voice of the show when Paul O Grady had a stint as the host of Blind Date in 2017?
Mel Sykes
Which TV Chef co-presented “Let’s Do Lunch” alongside Melanie Sykes?
Gino D’Acampo
Who was the American beauty queen who was stripped of her Miss World title following a number of high profile romances?
Marjorie Wallace
What were Laurel and Hardy putting on according to the name of their 1927 debut movie?
Putting Pants on Philip
Liverpool’s Cavern Club is located on what street?
Mathew Street
With a total of 148, which flanker of the 2000s is New Zealand’s highest capped rugby player?
Richie McCaw
With a total of 142, which number 8 is Italy’s highest capped rugby player?
Sergio Parisse
“Language Timothy!” was a catchphrase which 1980s sitcom by ROnnie Corbett?
Sorry!
What was Sonny Liston’s actual first name?
Charles
Which famous German car manufacturer is headquartered in Ingoldstadt, Bavaria, Germany?
Audi
In which country was the England Test Cricket captain Ben Stokes born?
New Zealand
In which 1974 movie did Cleavon Little play Sheriff Bart and Madeline Kahn play Lili Von Shtupp?
Blazing Saddles
“Housey, Housey” was a forerunner to what game?
Bingo
Jim Lea, Dave Hill and Don Powell were all members of which 1970s chart toppers?
Slade
Who was the first presenter of Blankety Blank on UK television?
Terry Wogan
Who presented the terrible game show “Take Off” alongside Bradley Walsh?
Holly Willoughby
With their home ground at The Oval, which team won the English County Cricket championship in 2022?
Surrey
Lee Marvin won his only Academy Award for his role in which 1965 Western?
Cat Ballou
Winning just before her 50th birthday, at which of the Majors did Martina Navratilova take her last victory? It was the Mixed Doubles title at the event
US Open
What was Bing Crosby’s real first name?
Harry
Bernard Bosanquet is remembered as the inventor and first user of which specific type of cricket delivery?
Googly
Bernard Hopkns was the undisputed World Boxing champion at what weight between 2001 and 2005?
Middleweight
Who played the pretentious hotel guest Mr Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode “The Hotel Inspectors”?
Bernard Cribbins
The foul-mouthed character Joanie Taylor was the subject of which 2022 comedy film that starred Matthew Horne amongst others?
The Nan Movie
Which 1960 British comedy is about robbers who plan to break out of prison, commit a robbery and then try to re-enter prison in order to give themselves an alibi?
Two Way Stretch
Later the wife of David Frost, who did Peter Sellers marry in 1977?
Lynne Frederick
The British guitarist Bernard Butler is best known for being the guitarist with which 1990s band?
Suede
Which alliteratively named 6ft 7in tall actor appeared in at least 14 Carry on movies?
Bernard Bresslaw
What vessel flute musical instrument has the nickname the “Sweet Potato”?
Ocarina
What is the height of the crossbar on American football goalposts?
10 Feet
Malcolm Walker is the founder of which supermarket chain, which began in Oswestry (Shropshire) in 1970?
Iceland
Which man, probably most associated with Marks and Spencer, has been Chairman of ASDA since 2021?
Stuart Rose
Which actress had her breakthrough role as a sex symbol in the 1943 movie “The Outlaw”?
Jane Russell
Whose first Derby win came on the back of Never Say Die in 1954? He’d enjoy 8 more Derby victories in his career
Lestor Piggott
The Epsom Derby is always ran on the first Satuday of which month?
June
In 1956, at the age of 21, who became the youngest boxer in history to win the World Heavyweight boxing champion?
Floyd Patterson
How many players on an Australian Rules Football team?
18
In the famous Mark Twain book, what was the name of Tom Sawyer’s half-brother?
Sid
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Geoff Hunt was regarded as the World’s greatest player in what sport?
Squash
A former Blockbusters contestant, which man is referred to as “The Undercover Economist” in the media?
Tim Harford
The winners of the first section of which TV quiz show would go on to play the bonus “Gold Run” round?
Blockbusters
Marc Sylvan is a very common name to be seen in UK TV show credits - in what capacity?
THeme Tune Composer
Mary MartinandTheodore Bikel were the stars when which Tony Award winning musical opened on Broadway in 1959? It became a hugely popular movie 6 years later
The Sound of Music
Ian Holm was David Rizzio in a 1971 movie about what monarch?
Mary Queen of Scots
In the Superman comics and other media, what newspaper does Clark Kent work for?
Daily Planet
Spiderman works for which newspaper in the comics?
Daily Bugle
What country have won the Speedway World Cup on its last three occasions (2016, 2017 and 2023)?
Poland
How many strings does a Mandolin have?
Eight
Who wrote the novel “The Boys from Brazil” on which the 1978 Gregory Peck movie was based? Also Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives.
Ira Levin
What American clarinettist and bandleader was the husband of Ava Gardner in the 1940s?
Artie Shaw
The play “The History Boys” is set in a Grammar school in which English city?
Sheffield
The controller in the original Guitar Hero game was modelled on a guitar from which American musical instrument manufacturer?
Gibson SG
Actor Jared Leto fronts which US rock band? Their biggest UK hit was “The Kill” in 2006
30 Seconds to Mars
Neil Patrick Harris guest starred in one episode of a US crime drama which ran from 2005 to 2010. The show followed FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his brother Charlie Eppes, a college mathematics professor and prodigy, who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI. What was the name of that show?
Numbers
What “U” are pickled fruits common in Japan?
Umeboshi
Mainly portrayed byJeremy Bulloch, which Star Wars character is an armored bounty hunter that featured in both the original and prequel film trilogies?
Bobba Fett
Cardinal Sauce is usally what colour?
Red (lobster butter and cayenne pepper)
In which 2012 game for the Playstation 3 does the player control a robed figure in a vast desert, traveling towards a mountain in the distance? One word, seven letters
Journey
Can you hear me? Which character does Shazad Latif play in Toast of London?
Clem Fandango
Which British journalist became known popularly as the “fake sheikh” because he often posed as a sheikh during the course of his investigations?
Mazher Mahmood
In 2016 a life-sized statue of which deceased member of the Eagles was unveiled at the Standin’ on the Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona?
Glenn Frey
Don Henley plays what instrument for Eagles?
Drums
The Dutch sportswoman Marianne Vos is a big name in which sport?
Cycling
According to the Urban Dictionary, what name is given to a wall, usually in a professional’s office, covered with an inordinate number of framed diplomas, certificates, and other tokens of academic achievement?
Ego Wall
Which Scrum Half holds the record for appearances for the England men’s rugby union team?
Ben Youngs
Which actress was married to Peter Davison between 1978 and 1994?
Sandra Dickinson
Who played Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium series (2009)?
Noomi RapaceWhat brand of watch did Neil Armstrong wear when he walked on the moon?
What brand of watch did Neil Armstrong wear when he walked on the moon?
Omega Speedmaster
Which South Sudanese-Australian model was chosen as “Model of the Year” by models.com in 2018, an honour which was repeated the next year too?
Adut Akech
Which British playwright gave us the 1975 play “Bedroom Farce”?
Alan Ayckbourn
Which Argentinian tennis player was runner-up in the singles event at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships?
David Nalbandian
Complete the name of the 2022 Post Malone album: “Twelve Carat BLANK”
Toothache
Which Spanish golfer, born 1964, has won 21 times on the European Tour, holds the record for most starts on the European Tour, and has been a member of two victorious Ryder Cup teams?
Miguel Angel Jiminez
Who plays thief-turned-Rebel spy Cassian Andor in the Disney+ series “Andor”?
Diego Luna
What “O” is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime and manga?
Otaku
Which British dance music duo are best known for their single “Turn Around”, which became an international hit in 1999
Phats and Small
Which British singer joined Chase & Status for the 2023 top ten hit “Disconnect”?
Becky Hill
Which former England Rugby player has been has been Chairman of World Rugby since 1 July 2016?
Bill Beaumont
“Which country are second to Japan on the overall medal table for Judo at the Summer Olympics?
“
France
What is a Petit-suisse?
Cheese
“Sir Duke” and “Pastimes Paradise” were songs from which 1976 Stevie Wonder album?
Songs in the Key of Life
What two word name is given to a specialized school that trains its students to achieve particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities?
Cram School
Between 1994 and 1996 Ian Botham was involved in a libel trial with which Pakistani cricketer? Botham would go on to lose
Imran Khan
What is the official nickname of Scunthorpe United FC?
The Iron
What tune do the bells of St Clement Danes in London play every day at 9 am, noon, 3pm and 6pm?
Oranges and Lemons
Which character is Arkwright’s fiance in Open All Hours?
Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron)
What was the name of Elvis Presley’s mother?
Gladys
What was the name of Elvis Presley’s father?
Vernon
Who had a UK number one with the song “Glad All Over” in 1964?
The Dave Clark Five
Who was John McEnroe married to between 1986 and 1994?
Tatum O’Neal
Who played the waitress Polly in Fawlty Towers?
Connie Booth
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Wendy Turnbull was a big name in what sport?
Tennis
Which restaurant chain, puportedly the world’s third-largest hamburger fast-food chain, has it’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio?
Wendy’s
Who composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980)?
Wendy Carlos
What male Australian Tennis star won consecutive US Open titles in 1997 and 1998,?
Pat Rafter
What actress played Pauline Fowler on the soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 2006?
Wendy Richard
What is the common two-word name of the lizardfish “Harpadon nehereus”?
Bombay Duck
Who do Stoke City play in the Potteries Derby?
Port Vale
Who was Clark Gable’ film star wife who sadly died in a plane crash in 1942?
Carole Lombard
Which Italian is the only female driver who scored points in Formula One?
Lella Lombardi
Which huge star of the time played Bathsheba Everdene in the 1967 movie version of “Far from the Madding Crowd?”
Julie Christie
What is the name of the dog in the Famous Five stories?
Timothy/Timmy
What colour light is found on the starboard wing of an aircraft?
Green
Before 1844, what word was used to refer to the left side of a boat? We now say “Port”
Larboard
Which Scotsman captained the English Test Cricket team 19 times between 1973 and 1975?
Mike Denness
As well as being a renowned fraudster, Allen Stanford is well known for the money he invested into what game in the 2000s?
Cricket
Later starring in Star Trek: The Next Generation, who played the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 TV mini-series “Roots”?
LeVar Burton
The sports stadium used by the Israeli national football team (and also used by Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Jerusalem) shares its name with what children’s toy?
Teddy Stadium
Born in 1922, movie star was the real name “Doris Day” real surname?
Doris Kappelhoff
Who starred alongside Doris Day in the movies “Move Over, Darling” (1963) and “The Thrill of It All” (1963)?
James Garner
“Moonlight Serenade” was the signature tune of which Big Band Leader of the 1930s and 1940s?
Glenn Miller
Which American actor played Glenn Miller in the 1954 movie “The Glenn Miller Story”?
James Stewart
Which 2000 mockumentary film, directed by Christopher Guest and featuring
an ensemble cast including Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins and Jane
Lynch, follows the entrants in a dog grooming competition?
Best in Show
In the stories by P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster has two memorable aunts,
one red-faced and full of bonhomie and the other haughty and overbearing.
Give either of their forenames.
Dahlia or Agatha
Launched in 2021, name of lifestyle brand launched by Holly Willoughby
Wylde Moon
Thanks to Ben Ainslie (2004-‘12) and Giles Scott (2016-‘20), Great Britain has
won Olympic gold in the last five events using which class of single-handed
dinghy?
Finn
Which 2003 mockumentary film, directed by Christopher Guest and featuring
many of the cast members from Best in Show, follows the reunion of three
folk bands for a television concert?
A Mighty Wind
In September 2023, private equity firm Consortium acquired the lifestyle
brand Draper James. It was founded by which actress?
Reese Witherspoon
Which chimpanzee served as the third wheel in a relationship between
Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan and Maureen O’Sullivan’s Jane?
Cheeta
Which apple cultivar was first developed in the US in the early 20th century
but went on to become the most popular cultivar in Europe? It has a yellowgreen skin and a very sweet taste but needs careful handling because it is
prone to bruising
Golden Delicious
Ben Ainslie’s first Olympic gold medal, won in Sydney, came not in the Finn, but which other class of single-handed dinghy? Ainslie also won silver in this boat class at the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics.
Laser
Which Northern Irish motorcycling legend won a record 26 victories at the
Isle of Man TT races between 1976 and 2000, including a hat-trick of victories
in three of those years? He died while racing in Estonia in 2000 and the cup
for the most successful rider at the TT races is now named after him
Joey Dunlop
Founded in 1976 by Geoff Travis, which record label began life as a shop in
West London? This band was home to acts such as Stiff Little Fingers and The
Smiths, and more recently The Libertines.
Rough Trade
Portrayed by Josephine Tewson, what is the name of nervous neighbour of
Hyacinth and Richard Bucket [boo-KAY] in Keeping Up Appearances? From series two she lives with her brother Emmet.
Elizabeth Warden
Since the 2012 Olympics, Hannah Mills has won two golds and one silver
alongside, first, Saskia Clark and then Eilidh McIntyre in which class of dinghy,
the name of which is a three-digit number?
470
Founded in 1976 by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera, which London based
record label was home to acts like Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and Madness? The
generally accepted first punk single New Rose by The Damned was released
on this label.
Stiff Records
What was the name of the orang-utan character who accompanied Philo
Beddoe, played by Clint Eastwood, in Every Which Way but Loose and Any
Which Way You Can?
Clyde
Which Irish bookmaking firm ran an advert in 2014 that informed customers
they would refund all losing bets on the trial of Oscar Pistorius if he was
found not guilty? It was not the first time this company’s ads had been
frequently complained about.
Paddy Power
Portrayed by Bob Grant, what is the name of womanising neighbour of the
Butler family in On the Buses? He also works as the conductor on Stan’s bus.
Forename or surname is acceptable
Jack Harper
Which British motorcycling legend won the 500cc motorcycle world
championship in consecutive years in 1976 and ‘77, and remains the last
British premier class world champion? He was known for his long flowing hair
and lavish lifestyle and died of cancer in 2003 aged 52.
Barry Sheene
What is the surname of Roderick, the Earl of Sidcup who leads a fictional
fascist group called the Black Shorts in the Jeeves stories? Wooster delivers a
memorable rebuke to this man, modelled on Oswald Mosley, in The Code of
the Woosters.
Spode
What stage name beginning with L did the New Zealand electropop singersongwriter Pip Brown take from a 1985 Richard Donner film? Her 2008
eponymous album spawned singles like Paris is Burning and My Delirium.
Ladyhawke
In which 2016 comedy film directed by Christopher Guest do entertainers
from the world of sport compete against each other to win the coveted
Golden Fluffy award? As well as many of the usual cast members, Kerry
Godliman and Chris O’Dowd also appear.
Mascots
Founded in 1989 by Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes, which label was originally
launched to release rave and dance music? Notable early releases on this
label included several albums by The Prodigy, and later success came with
Badly Drawn Boy, Dizzee Rascal and Adele’s 21.
XL Recordings
Which apple cultivar was first produced in Australia by John Cripps by crossing a Golden Delicious with a Lady Williams? Despite its slightly misleading name, it has a mixed red and green skin with a slightly tarter taste than Golden Delicious
Pink Lady
One competitor to Steam, aggressively offering exclusive content on their
system, is the games store of which video game company, who also created
the wildly popular video game Fortnite
?
Epic Games
Another popular Antipodean cultivar of Apple is which cultivar produced by
crossing a Golden Delicious and a Kidd’s Orange Red in the 1930s? This apple,
nowadays the most cultivated apple in the US, was itself crossed with a
Braeburn apple to make a Jazz.
Gala
What name beginning with L did Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu use for the
electropop band they formed with vocalist Mira Aroyo, taking it from a Roxy
Music track? Their albums include Light & Magic, containing the single
Seventeen, and Witching Hour, containing Destroy Everything You Touch.
Ladytron
Fiona Bruce began her career as a researcher for which BBC documentary
series that has ran since 1953? In its early days, this show featured the
infamous spaghetti-tree hoax.
Panorama
Coming to prominence for her appearance in the video for the 2013 single
Blurred Lines, which model, activist and author of the 2021 autobiography
My Body launched her own swimwear brand Inamorata in 2017?
Emily Ratajkowski
At the 2020 Olympics, Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell won gold in which
class of sailing boat, a two-handed skiff that features a two-digit number in
its name?
49er
Portrayed by Rudolph Walker, what is name of the conservative neighbour of
the racist Eddie Booth in Love Thy Neighbour? He is a big fan of West Ham
United. Forename or surname is acceptable.
Bill Reynolds
Who played the racist Eddie Booth in Love Thy Neighbour?
Jack Smethurst
What is the double-barrelled surname of Bertie Wooster’s lifelong friend with
the forename Gussie? This bespectacled newt-fancier masquerades as Bertie
Wooster in The Mating Season.
Fink-Nottle
Which 2006 comedy film directed by Christopher Guest follows three actors,
who discover that they are tipped to win awards for their upcoming film,
Home for Purim - despite it not having yet been made?
For Your Consideration
In a viral clip, often used as a meme, actor Shaun Williamson sings which Labi
Siffre song in front of a nonplussed crowd at the World Indoor Bowls
Championships at Hopton-on-Sea?
Something Inside (So Strong)
TikTok-famous chef Poppy O’Toole, also known as Poppy Cooks, refers to
herself as the ‘Queen of’ which staple foodstuff?
Potatoes
What short word goes before Bitch in the name of an influential weekly
British gossip email, and before Justice in the name of an influential music
blog that runs the yearly Twenty Quid Music prize?
Pop
Bon Jovi and Talk Talk have had hit singles with which three-word title?
It’s My Life
Who won the Best Actress Academy Award in 1932 for her role as the title
character in The Sin of Madelon Claudet? She was the first woman to win an
EGOT.
Helen Hayes
The celebrity couple with surnames Affleck and Lopez were first known by
what portmanteau name when going out between 2002 and ‘04? They would
get back together and marry in 2022.
Bennifer
Which Russian pole vaulter was named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year in
both 2007 and ‘09? She won Olympic gold on two occasions and still holds
the world record in the event.
Isinbayeva
Which German synth pop duo had their biggest UK hit with the 1986 track
Brother Louie? None of this band’s numerous other German number ones,
including You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul, cracked the UK top 40.
Modern Talking
The first six years of the Power Rangers franchise are named for which
character, the creator and mentor to the title characters? Appearing as a
giant disembodied white head floating in a tube, this character also gives his
names to the giant robot vehicles that the Power Rangers control in battles.
Zordon
Founded in 1831, which luxury UK department store has its flagship store on
Knightsbridge, just round the corner from Harrods? The shop was a particular
favourite of Patsy in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
Harvey Nichols
Who won the Best Actress Academy Award in 1936 for her role as Anna Held
in The Great Ziegfeld? A year later she won her second Best Actress award
and is the longest-lived Academy Award winner, dying aged 104 in 2014.
Luise Rainer
Which Croatian alpine skier was awarded the title of Laureus Sportswoman
of the Year in 2006? As well as being World Cup champion on three
occasions, she is the only woman to have won four Olympic gold medals in
the sport.
Janica Kostelic
British singer James Morrison, who made his debut on the UK singles chart in
2006 with You Give Me Something, enjoyed his biggest hit two years later
with the song Broken Strings, a duet with which Canadian singer?
Nelly Furtado
2006 saw the release of the fourth generation of Pokémon games, which
began with Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon what?
Pearl
Which German pop and rock band had their biggest UK hit with the
Christmas 1988 hit Keeping the Dream Alive? This band dropped the word
‘Münchener’ from their name in English-speaking markets.
Münchener FREIHEIT
Although not technically a true portmanteau, the most successful NFL
quarterback in history and his Brazilian supermodel wife were jointly known
by what name, a pun on the name of a US TV show?
Brady Bundch
Which Kenyan long-distance runner was named Laureus Sportswoman of the
Year in 2012? She won the 5,000 metres gold medal at both the 2010
Commonwealth Games and the 2016 Olympics, and has been world
champion at both 5,000 and 10,000 metres.
Vivien CHERUIYOT
Who won the Best Actress Academy Award in 1930 for her role as Jerry
Martin in The Divorcee? She was the wife of the impresario Irving Thalberg
until his 1936 death.
Norma Shearer
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, what is the name of the professor
to whose house the Pevensie children are evacuated? This person serves as
the main protagonist in the prequel The Magician’s Nephew. Either a
forename or surname is acceptable.
Digory Kirke
Singer James ‘Jim Bob’ Morrison and guitarist Fruitbat were the main
members of which British band, whose early 90’s heyday included the hit
singles Sheriff Fatman and The Only Living Boy In New Cross?
Carter USM (the Unstoppable Sex Machine)
Who was the primary villain in the earliest years of the Power Rangers, first
on her own and then alongside Lord Zedd and Master Vile? An evil space
witch with an alliterative name, at the start of the series she escapes from
her prison on the moon after 10,000 years with a plan to conquer Earth.
Rita Repulsa
What is the forename of the English weightlifter with the surname Smith
who, aged just 16, won a bronze medal in the women’s 58kg event at the
2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi? She won gold in the same event at
Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games and has represented Great Britain at
two Summer Olympics
Zoe
Which German band had their biggest UK hit with the 1982 song Da Da Da? It
came from their self-titled debut album, which was produced by the artist
Klaus Voormann.
Trio
Who won the Best Actress Academy Award in 1943 for her role as the title
character in The Song of Bernadette? This woman retired from acting in
1974, after appearing in The Towering Inferno.
Jennifer Jones
Which luxury UK department store is located on Great Marlborough Street in London’s West End? The store is known for its mock-Tudor façade and archway.
Liberty
Perhaps the first instance of a celebrity couple using a portmanteau name, in
the 1950s, the actors with surnames Arnaz and Ball combined their first
names to give what name, which they took for their production company?
Desilu
Which rock band’s first UK number one single was the 1964 record It’s all
Over Now?
It’s All Over Now
In a Scottish television drama, what is the forename of the titular character,
played by Nicola Walker, who works for the Glasgow based Marine Homicide
Unit?
Annika
Which Radio 4 phone-in show hosted by Anita Anand is broadcast on
Saturday afternoons immediately following the show Any Questions??
Any Answers
Which German actress plays the character Marie Kreutz in The Bourne
Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, having made her breakthrough in 1998’s
Lola Rennt?
Franka Potente
At the 2023 football World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which Bayern
Munich player scored England’s first goal, as they beat Haiti 1-0?
Georgia Stanway
In which television sitcom do Jamie Quinn and Kieran Hodgson play a couple
named Ian and Gordon?
Two Doors Down
Which red wine grape has a name deriving from the French word for
‘blackbird’? It is often blended with the later-ripening Cabernet
Sauvignon, and is one of the primary grapes used in Bordeaux wine.
Merlot
The music drops out after Olivia Rodrigo sings “Now I’m gettin’ in the car,
wreckin’ all my plans/I know I should stop” on which August 2023 single,
the second from her sophomore album Guts?
Bad Idea Right?
Which athlete retained his 1912 gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle
at the 1920 Summer Olympics? Born to a minor noble family in Hawaii,
this person is now best known for popularising the sport of surfing.
Duke KAHANAMOKU
The 6:30pm slot on Radio 4 is traditionally used for comedy. One recent
success is which Monday night show, hosted by The Chase’s Paul Sinha,
in which he details some of his favourite questions?
Perfect Pub Quiz
The Ryder Cup is a biennial event which sees male professional golfers
from the USA taking on those from Europe. What is the equivalent event
for female professional golfers?
Solheim Cup
Which athlete won his third successive gold medal in water polo for Great
Britain at the 1920 Summer Olympics, having also won a swimming gold
medal in 1908? The four gold medals won by this multitalented athlete
would remain a British record until broken by Steve Redgrave.
Paolo ‘Paul’ RADMILOVIC
What full name is the title of the 2011 Rodrigo Garcia period drama that
garnered acting nominations at the Academy Awards for Janet McTeer
and Glenn Close, her sixth? Close portrayed the title character, an Irish
butler who is secretly a trans man.
Albert Nobbs
Name either of the two Street Fighter characters first included as
downloadable content for the 3DS and Wii U versions of Super Smash
Brothers. Unusually, these characters retained the control scheme from
their home game for special moves such as the hadouken.
Ryu or Ken
Angel Face, Goodbye My Love and The Tears I Cried were among the five
top ten hits for which glam rock band, whose name reflects the fact they
were another singer’s backing band until 1974?
The Glitter Band
Six years before Frasier, what 1987 sitcom was the first spinoff series
from Cheers? Starring Dan Hedaya as Nick, the ex-husband of Rhea
Perlman’s character Carla, the series lasted for a single season before
being cancelled.
The Tortellis
Imparting flavours of plum and strawberry to its varietal wines and taking
its name from the Spanish for ‘early’, a reference to its early ripening,
which red wine grape native to Spain is the major component of Rioja?
Tempranillo
Which sitcom which ran from 1987 to 1993 was a spin-off of The Cosby Show,
and centred around the Huxtables’ daughter Denise and her time at a
historically black college where her best friend was a white student played by
Marisa Tomei?
A Different World
What full name is the title of the second, and most recent, movie directed by
Tom Hanks? Hanks starred in the title role, a middle-aged divorced man who
returns to education after losing his job, in this 2011 film.
Larry Crowne
Which Radio 4 comedy show, shown in the 6:30pm comedy slot, is hosted by
David Mitchell and sees contestants attempt to pick out incredible facts from
a group of lies?
The Unbelievable Truth
American golfers assemble to take on a team representing the rest of the
world (without Europe) in which event? In 2024 this event will be held at the
Royal Montreal Golf Club in Canada.
Presidents Cup
The music drops out after Britney Spears sings “And the world is spinning,
and she keeps on winning/But tell me what happens when it stops?” on
which 2000 single, focusing on the titular unhappy Hollywood star?
Lucky
Which comedian and actress played a fictionalised version of herself in
season two of Only Murders in the Building, proposing an idea for a TV series
to Martin Short’s character Oliver? She had earlier risen to fame with the
sketch series Inside [this person], which ran from 2013 to ’16.
Amy Schumer
Which Italian competitor won five gold medals in fencing at the 1920
Summer Olympics? The same games saw his brother Aldo win three gold
medals in the same sport.
Nedo Nadi
The Bump, Fancy Pants and Julie Anne were the three UK top ten hits for
which glam rock band, managed by Mickie Most, who initially considered
Keith Chegwin for the lead singer role?
Kenny
Which Californian red wine grape imparts blackberry, cinnamon, star anise
and black pepper flavours to its wines? It is also used to make a very popular
semi-sweet rosé wine called, confusingly, White [this grape].
Zinfandel
Which Radio 4 comedy series, also broadcast in the 6.30pm comedy slot, and
hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, attempts to challenge people’s deeply
held opinions on a subject?
Heresy
1973’s All Because of You was the only UK top ten hit for which glam rock
band, whose vocalist Brian Johnson went on to join AC/DC in 1980?
Geordie
which grape is the major component of Chianti?
Sangiovese
Voiced by Eddie Murphy, which dragon assists the protagonist in the Disney
film Mulan?
Mushu
Based on an unfinished short story by Edgar Allen Poe, Willem Dafoe and
Robert Pattinson are the only two important characters in The Lighthouse, a
minimally-cast film by which director? He made his debut in 2015 with The
Witch, and has since directed The Northman.
Robert Eggers
The beat drops out when Eminem raps “Alright, stop, pajama time” in the
intro of which 2004 single, the first released from his album Encore? It was
his fourth album in a row to lead with a comedy single, following My Name
Is…, The Real Slim Shady and Without Me.
Just Lose It
Similar to the Ryder Cup in that the US and Europe compete, what is the
equivalent event for female amateur golfers? This competition is not to be
confused with the Walker Cup, which sees the US team take on Great Britain
and Northern Ireland’s amateur golfers.
Curtis Cup
Which character is the protagonist of Final Fantasy 7? Wielding the massive
Buster Sword, he has since been included in the playable roster in Super
Smash Brothers Ultimate despite not coming from a Nintendo franchise.
Cloud Strife
Which actor played Teddy Dimas in seasons one and two of Only Murders in
the Building? Other TV roles for this man include Pepper Saltzman in Modern
Family and Clarke Hayden in The Good Wife.
Nathan Lane
What full name is the title of the second film directed by Scottish director
Lynne Ramsay? Samantha Morton stars as the title character of this 2002
film, a woman who sells the manuscript of her boyfriend’s novel after he kills
himself.
Morvern Callar
Given Cloud Strife’s appearance, it was apt that which character, the
antagonist of Final Fantasy 7, also made an appearance in Super Smash
Brothers Ultimate as downloadable content?
Sephiroth
Which wise and kind character is the last Luck Dragon in the universe in the
classic children’s novel and film The Neverending Story?
Falkor
1974’s Tell Him and 1975’s New York Groove, the latter later covered by
Kiss’s Ace Frehley, were the only UK top ten hits for which glam rock band?
Hello
Which athlete won gold in the 100 metres at the 1920 Summer Olympics in
Antwerp? A year after the games, he ran the 110-yard race in 10.2 seconds, a
time only beaten in the 100 metres in 1956.
Charley Paddock
What 1970s sitcom starred Bea Arthur as the title character? Arthur had
already appeared as this character twice in All In The Family, where her
liberal politics and civil rights activism clashed with Archie Bunker.
Maude
Which Radio 4 comedy series, broadcast on Monday evenings at 6.30pm,
sees former policeman turned comedian Alfie Moore discussing real life
scenarios from his police career, with a humorous twist?
It’s a Fair Cop
What full name is the title of the debut film directed by Denzel Washington?
In this 2002 film, Washington stars as the psychiatrist of the title character, a
young man in the Navy struggling to confront his troubled upbringing.
Antwone Fisher
Dividing the golfing members of Team Europe, which biennial event sees a
team from Great Britain and Ireland competing against a team from
Continental Europe?
Seve Trophy
Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada star in what 1959 Alain Resnais film, another
example of minimalist casting? Just six lines in the film are spoken by a
character other than Riva or Okada’s unnamed protagonists, all at the very
end.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
US rapper Lil Nas X sampled the banjo riff from the song 34 Ghosts IV for his
smash hit Old Town Road . Which US rock band recorded the track 34 Ghosts
IV?
Nine Inch Nails
By what name was the character born Annika Hansen known in Star Trek:
Voyager? Played by Geri Ryan, this character was a former Borg drone who
was returned to her human state.
Seven of Nine
Which former England cricketer is currently head coach of the Afghanistan
national side, steering them to a win over England by 69 runs at the 2023
Cricket World Cup?
Jonathan Trott
Emily Watson made her film debut in which 1996 drama directed by Lars von
Trier, the first film in his Golden Heart trilogy? Watson received an Academy
Award nomination for starring alongside Stellan Skarsgard in this film.
Breaking the Waves
Who was lead singer of the Temptations during their ‘classic five’ period,
before leaving the band in 1968 and being replaced by Dennis Edwards?
David Ruffin
Subject of the 2023 stage musical ‘RIDE’, which cyclist became the first woman
to bicycle around the world? The surname under which she became famous was
taken from a sponsorship deal with a bottled water company
Annie Londonderry /
Annie Kopchovsky
A bar in London’s Rosewood Hotel, featuring an ‘Off the Wall’ menu, is named
after which political cartoonist?
Gerald Scarfe
Three of ‘The Seven Sins of Memory’ listed by Daniel Schachter are transience,
absent-mindedness and blocking. These are described as ‘sins of…’ what,
referring to the fact they all involve the complete absence of a memory?
Sins of Omission
Also found on architectural drawings, what is the name of former One Direction
singer Louis Tomlinson’s debut album?
Walls
First described by Leon Festinger in the 1950s, which psychological term refers
to the opposite of cognitive dissonance?
Cognitive Consonance
One of several places with the nickname Gate City, Pocatello can be found in
which US state? It is the state’s 6th most populous city, just behind Caldwell.
Idaho
Floyd R Turbo and Carnac the Magnificent are characters associated with which
comedian, who joined a successful American TV series in 1962?
Johnny Carson
Sharing its name with an Amazon Prime Video series, what term describes the
17th to 19th century practice of upper-class young European men travelling
through Europe?
Grand Tour
In the UK, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series was originally broadcast
with the word ‘ninja’ replaced by what other word due to features the original
name may be too violent?
Hero
First appearing in 1882, which short story by Frank R Stockton has a title that has
since become an allegory for an unsolvable problem? The dangerous feline in the
title lies behind one of the doors its protagonist must choose between.
The Lady or the Tiger
What alliterative term, popularised by TikTok and described as “part fashion,
part mindfulness”, refers to the trend of letting your choice of clothing improve
your mood?
Dopamine Dressing
Gladys Knight & The Pips’ song Midnight Train to Georgia was a cover of which
song by Jim Weatherly? While both songs reference the same time, they refer to
completely different US cities and methods of transport.
Midnight Plane to Houston
Frequently used as a meme, Mariah Carey responded “I don’t know her” in a
2001 German TV interview after being asked about which of her contemporaries?
J Lo
Named after a nursery rhyme, which Run DMC hip hop track states that the title
character “picked peppers, but Run rapped rhymes”?
Peter Piper
Meaning ‘mountain copper’, what mythological metal was described by Plato as
having been found in Atlantis? In popular culture, it has appeared as a crafting
material in many Square Enix RPGs, such as the Dragon Quest series.
Orichalcum
Directed by Ron Howard, which 1988 fantasy film features the creature known as
the Eborsisk, in reference to the movie critics Siskel & Ebert?
Willow
Ernestine and Edith Ann are characters associated with which comedienne, who
joined a successful American TV series in 1969?
Lily Tomlin
First appearing in an article by Fred Goldner in the 1980s, which psychological
term refers to the opposite of paranoia?
Pronoia
London’s Rosewood Hotel is paired with the Carlyle in New York. The Carlyle’s
bar is named after Ludwig Bemelmans, best known for creating which fictional
resident of a Parisian boarding school?
Madeline
Four of ‘The Seven Sins of Memory’ listed by by Daniel Schachter are
misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. These are described as ‘sins
of…’ what, referring to the fact a memory is present, but not in the desired form?
Sins of Commission
Also found on architectural drawings, what is the name of the 2023 Lizzy
McAlpine UK Top 10 hit? Former One Direction member Niall Horan covered
this track for the BBC’s Live Lounge this April.
Ceilings
Subject of the 2023 stage musical Glory Road, which cyclist was nicknamed the
Pious? He managed the cycling team sponsored by the bottled water brand
S.Pellegrino between 1956 and 1963.
Gino Bartali
Marcus Brody, portrayed by Denholm Elliott, appears in the first and third of
which series of films associated with Steven Spielberg?
Indiana Jones
Meaning ‘unconquerable’, what mythological material was thought to been used
to make the sickle with which Cronus castrated his father Uranus? In popular
culture, Lord Asriel’s tower in His Dark Materials is made of his substance.
Adamant
Directed by Roland Emmerich, which 1998 sci-fi action film features an
incompetent mayor and his assistant, depicted as lookalikes of the movie critics
Siskel & Ebert?
Godzilla
Frequently used as a meme, in a 2019 interview Keke Palmer said the lines “I
don’t know who this man is. I mean, he could be walking down the street, I
wouldn’t know a thing. Sorry to this man.” This was in reference to a picture of
which man, who achieved his highest political office in 2001?
Dick Cheney
Jim Weatherly’s Midnight Plane To Houston was written about which celebrity
couple, both separately famous for starring in action series in the 1970s?
Lee Majors & Farrah
Fawcett
In Malaysia, the Power Rangers TV series was banned because it was
concerned part of the show’s full title might be confused with which drug?
Morphine
First appearing in 1902, which short story by WW Jacobs has a title that has
since become an allegory for the consequences of greed? The namesake object
grants its owner three wishes which come at a great cost.
The Monkey’s Paw
What portmanteau term, popularised by TikTok and described as “uniforms for
giving up”, combines the name of a colour and term referring to a set of clothes,
in stark contrast to Barbiecore aesthetics?
Groutfit
Born in 1879, which actress is most associated with the line “That’s all there is,
there isn’t any more”?
Ethel Barrymore
In Greek mythology, which all-male tribe was said to annually copulate with the
Amazons in order to create new members?
Gargareans
According to a 2023 internet song by Brian Jordan Alvarez’s character TJ Mack,
what “wonderful thing to do” is the opposite of “hanging from a barbell”, “running
around” and, most obviously, “standing”?
Sitting
Also a demonym, what is the surname of the conman behind the ‘Great Reality
TV Swindle’ of 2002, where 30 Brits were conned into thinking they were part of
the next big television series?
Nik Russian
What term refers to the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion?
Tribology
Verdigris is the common name for poisonous copper salts of acetic acid that produces what color?
Green
Originating from Tanzania and Mozambique and first described in 1952, what viral infection is spread by mosquitos and is commonly characterised by fever and joint pains that may last for months or years?
Chikungunya
Derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word for meditation, what school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasises rigorous self-restraint, meditation-practice, and insight and the personal expression of this insight in daily life for the benefit of others?
Zen
Which host of It’s Not Rocket Science quit his PhD to pursue a career as a comedian?
Ben Miller
Actress Melanie Griffith is the daughter of which famous actress?
Tippi Hedren
The International Cricket Council suspended which Asian country from international cricket in November 2023 due to government interference in the country’s cricket activities?
Sri Lanka
Menswear designer John Varvatos is commonly thought to have pioneered the boxer briefs during his stint at which fashion house in the 1990s?
Calvin Klein
Which famous writer wrote the 1990 children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which he dedicated to his son?
Salman Rushdie
A bottle of milk has been presented to the winner of which annual automobile race since 1936?
Indy 500
Nneka was drafted first overall by the Los Angeles Sparks. Two years later, her sister Chiney made the same feat at the 2014 WNBA draft, in which she was picked by the Connecticut Sun. What is the surname of these women basketball players?
Ogwumike
Which German Dominican friar, known for granting indulgences on behalf of the Catholic Church in exchange for money, inspired Martin Luther to write his Ninety-five Theses?
Johann Tetzel
According to the giant-impact hypothesis, what is the name of the planet in the early Solar System that collided with Earth and resulted in the formation of the Moon?
Theia
Which Soviet cosmonaut was the first person to conduct a spacewalk in March 1965?
Alexey Leonov
First published in the French newspaper Le Gaulois, the short story “The Necklace” is known for its ironic ending. It was a work of which French writer?
Guy de Maupassant
Which 5 letter word connects a musical instrument thought to be named after the capital of The Gambia, an Australian $10 note, and a British chocolate bar of the 1970s and 1980s?
Banjo
Which French city known as The Pearl of Aquitaine is, after Paris, the city with the most listed or registered monuments in France?
Bordeaux
Which word derived from the French for a roll of parchment is a legal agreement between two people in which money or property is kept by a third person until a particular condition is met?
Escrow
- Which city in 1990 became the first British city to be European Capital of Culture?
Glasgow
What was achieved by American Bobby Riggs at the Wimbledon Championships in 1939 and also by Australian Frank Sedgman in 1952, which has never been repeated since?
They both won the singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles
Which comedian qualified in medicine at Emmanuel College Cambridge and King’s College London, but never practised, and devised and is a regular panellist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and The Unbelievable Truth?
Graeme Garden
In November 2013, the National Trust authorised the temporary placement of a huge grass moustache measuring 36 feet by 9 feet on which Dorset landmark, the UK’s largest chalk hill figure?
Cerne Abbas Giant
Which Australian fast bowler nicknamed Fruitfly (apparently, a reference to Australia’s greatest national pest) took a hat-trick against the West Indies at the WACA in 1988, spread across three separate overs, two innings and two different days?
Merv Hughes
Which county in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland was the birthplace of Louis Walsh and has the two-letter vehicle registration plate county identifier MO?
Mayo
What is the largest amount of money in coins that you could have in your pocket without being able to pay a bus fare of £1 (or any multiple of £1) in exact change?
£1.43 (50p, 4x20p, 1x5p and 4x2p)
Derived from the Greek for royal and sometimes still known in French as “l’herbe royale”, which herb comes in varieties including Genovese, Cinnamon, Lemon, Globe, Thai and “African Blue”?
Basil
Named Young Cricketer of the Year in 2006, which England bowler was hit for 6 sixes in an over at the T20 World Cup in Durban in 2007 by Youvraj Singh on his way to a 12 ball 50?
Stuart Broad
Eugene the Jeep was the pet of which nautical comic strip character?
Popeye
Channique Sterling-Brown plays lawyer Dee Dee Bailey in which British soap?
Coronation Street
Filbert, taklon, and sablene are all types of what art material?
Paintbrush
What does HDMI stand for?
High Definition Multimedia Interface
What links the codename for the capture of an Enigma machine from German U-boat U-110, the younger sister of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, and a flower described by Wordsworth as growing where “the glow-worms hang their lamps”?
Primrose
Which blue gemstone is only found in the Merelani Hills near the base of Mount Kilimanjaro?
Tanzanite
What clothing design feature can follow welt, bellows, and patch?
Smooth-coated, Spotted-necked, and Congo clawless are all species of which semiaquatic mammal?
Otter
Victory City (2023) is the fifteenth novel by which Booker Prize-winning author?
Salman Rushdie
The 1641 Battle of Montjuïc took place in which Spanish city?
Barcelona
What surname links the authors of the Friday Night Feast Cookbook and The Pepperpot Diaries?
Oliver (Jamie and Andi)
Build a Rocket Boys! (2011) was the fifth studio album by which Manchester rock band?
Elbow
Which country can you cross into from China via the Mintaka Pass?
Pakistan
If a cut of meat is described as “chine”, what does it contain?
Backbone
Which Indian river flows past the Taj Mahal before entering the Ganges?
Yamuna River
Named after a nocturnal mammal, which Gloucestershire sculpture foundry was started in 1985 by Rungwe Kingdon and Claude Koenig?
Pangolin
Also known as Bernadines or White Monks, which religious order was founded in 1098 by St. Robert of Molesme?
Cistercians
Which American musician sang “I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand” in 1978?
Warren Zevon
Celebrating her 105th birthday this year, which Manchester-born neuropsychologist is best known for discovering where memory formation occurs in the brain?
Brenda Milner
Which French king is played by Orson Welles in the 1970 film Waterloo?
Louis XVIII
What number completes the title of the 1897 autobiography by Louis Hughes, ___ Years a Slave?
30
In which country is the annual Two Oceans Marathon held?
South Africa
Which British king had a pet African grey parrot called Charlotte?
George V
In which county is Ireland’s northernmost point?
Banba’s Crown (the tip of Malin Head) - County Donegal
What’s the most southerly point on mainland Britain?
Lizard Point
Land’s End is most westerly point of England but what is the most westerly point of Great Britain? Headland on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Lochaber, Highland
Corrachadh Mor
Which European capital city stands on 14 islands?
Stockholm
What body of water separates the Orkney Islands from the Scottish mainland?
Pentland Firth
Who was married to Edward IV and is referred to as the White Queen in a Philippa Gregory novel about her life?
Elizabeth Woodville
Play: If music be the food of love, play on.
Twelfth Night
Who says: If music be the food of love, play on.
Duke Orsino
TV programme theme: I would like to leave this city, this old town don’t smell too pretty.
The Royle Family (Half the World Away - Oasis)
In which constellation is the Horsehead Nebula?
Orion
In plants, the process of geotropism is a response to what force?
Gravity
The process of galvanisation involves applying a coating of which element?
Zinc
In which sport might you play a York round, a Hereford round, a St. George round or an Albion round?
Archery
In which sport, an Olympic sport in 1900, are games won by the first team to score two peg points to bring their total to 14?
Croquet
How many teams are there in the current Formula One season?
Ten
Which US state gives its name to the largest sports stadium in the western hemisphere – the home of the football team of the university of the same name?
Michigan
Whose death by poisoning in AD 54 was allegedly instigated by his wife Agrippina?
Claudius
Who wrote that “assassination is the extreme form of censorship”?
George Bernard Shaw
In the 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, who played Jesse James?
Brad Pitt
Dick Dewy and Fancy Day are central characters in which novel by Thomas Hardy?
Under the Greenwood Tree
Which archaeological period lasted approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC?
The Bronze Age
Who opposed the Clantons and the McLaurys, in the Gunfight at the OK Corrall (in 1881)?
The Earps
China produces more than 70% of the world’s supply, and France around 25%, of which natural product, used in the manufacture of rope?
Hemp
Which ironically–named Welsh footballer played 300 League games for Tottenham Hotspur between 1962 and 1974, and managed the Welsh national team for eight years in the 1980s?
Mike England
Lancastrian entertainer, deported from South Africa in 1946 after refusing to perform before an all–white audience.
George Formby
Australian singer who died in 2022; her group enjoyed considerable chart success in the 1960s.
Judith Durham
Leeds–born, best–selling novelist whose debut novel was A Woman of Substance, published in 1979.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Journalist, TV presenter and Labour party peer; her affair with Harold Pinter was the basis of his 1978 play Betrayal.
Joan Bakewell
Which song, composed in 1878, replaced God Save the Queen as the official national anthem of Australia in 1984?
Advance Australia Fair
In World War II, what was the code name of the German invasion of the USSR?
Barbarossa
What name was given to Britain’s loneliest sheep after it was recently rescued from the bottom of a Scottish cliff?
Fiona
Which country’s national anthem is entitled The Soldier’s Song?
Ireland
The first recorded use of the word ‘snob’ dates from the late 18th century, as a term for which type of craftsman?
Cobbler or shoemaker
Which poet died of sepsis while on his way to Gallipoli in 1915?
Rupert Brooke
Which famous person owns a fox red Labrador named Nova?
Rishi Sunak
Which fashion store and company were founded in 1964 by Barbara Hulanicki?
Biba
What natural feature connects Kabul in Afghanistan with Peshawar in Pakistan?
Khyber Pass
The gallant and peerless Palmieri brothers are the title characters in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
The Gondoliers
On what date is Trafalgar Day celebrated?
21st October
How many degrees of longitude equal one hour in time?
15
Which former MP is the author of the recent book entitled The Plot: the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson?
Nadine Dorries
What was investigated by the Leveson Inquiry, instigated by David Cameron?
The practices and culture of the press (accept phone hacking)
What’s the family seat of the Duke of Bedford?
Woburn Abbey
What name is traditionally given to the next full moon after the harvest moon?
Hunter’s Moon
Who was the front man of the punk band Generation X?
Billy Idol
The works of which author, born on this day in 1932, include The Bottle Factory Outing and Master Georgie?
Beryl Bainbridge
What’s the upper age limit for jury service in England and Wales?
75
What’s the only fish that has a prehensile tail?
Seahorse
What was broadcaster James Alexander Gordon most famous for doing, between 1974 and 2013?
Reading the classified football results
According to the Bible, which king of Israel was the son of David and Bathsheba?
Solomon
Which British colony issued a famous set of triangular stamps in 1853?
The Cape of Good Hope
Who was Sir Alan Sugar’s female aide on the first four series of The Apprentice?
Margaret Mountford
A ginnery is used in the production of what commodity?
Cotton
Which cocktail consists only of gin and lime juice?
Gimlet
Which bird is sometimes known as the landrail?
The corncrake (Crex crex)
In Greek legend, which daughter of King Priam, after being given the gift of prophecy, was fated always to tell the truth but never to be believed?
Cassandra
Which actor, well known for a number of TV presenting roles, played Steven Taylor – a companion to the first Doctor Who?
Peter Purves
In the US Presidential election, only two States award Electoral College votes by Congressional district, instead of automatically giving all their votes to whoever wins the statewide contest. One of them is which State in New England?
Maine
What 1996 US film, co-starring, co-written, and co-directed by Stanley Tucci, centres around preparations for an Italian culinary extravaganza for expected guest Louis Prima?
Big Night
The 2006 film Fur, starring Nicole Kidman, chronicles the life of which photographer, known for works such as Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962, and Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967?
Diane Arbus
What is the two-word name for the military rank in the RAF that is equivalent to a major in the British army? It ranks immediately below a wing commander.
Squadron Leader
The nephew of Emperor Constantine, who became Emperor of Rome in AD 361 and died from an injury
sustained in the Battle of Samarra against the Sassanids in 363 AD?
Julian the Apostate
Which Apollo astronaut is the only one of the four surviving men to have walked on the moon who also was
the commander of his mission?
David Scott
Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the original silver medalists, eventually shared the gold medal after revelations
of judge collusion in the Pairs figure skating competition at the Olympic Games held in which city?
Salt Lake City
The current president of SAG-AFTRA, Fran Drescher, is most associated with which US television program, in
which she starred as the titular character from 1993 to 1999?
The Nanny
John McVie, a member of one of the most successful rock bands of all time, plays what instrument in
Fleetwood Mac?
bass
Ada Yonath was a joint recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for her work on the studies of the
structure and function of the cellular machinery responsible for making proteins?
Ribosomes
The Caucasus Mountains were largely created by the collision of which minor plate from the south with the
Eurasian plate in the north?
Arabian Plate
In 364 AD the Roman Empire was again split into two parts - the Eastern and Western. Who was the Eastern Emperor defeated and killed by the Visigoths at Adrianople in 378 AD?
Valens
What is the two-word name for the military rank in the RAF that is the equivalent to a colonel in the British army? It ranks immediately above a Wing Commander.
Group Captain
Jennifer Doudna was a joint recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for her work on the development of
what method used to make specific changes to the DNA of a cell or organism?
Genome Editing
Which American actress co-founded the company Hello Bello, specialising in eco-friendly nappies and other baby
products and sold at ASDA, as well as Happy Dance, a hemp-based skin care line?
Kristen Bell
Bill Berry, a member of one of the most successful alternative rock bands of all time, played what instrument in
R.E.M. until his retirement in 1997?
Drums
The American team of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings have won three of the seven Olympic gold
medals awarded in which Summer Olympic discipline?
Beach Volleyball
Which is the most southerly of the provinces in Pakistan? It shares an international border with the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, and the capital of the province is Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.
Sindh
Just Kids, the 2010 memoir by Patti Smith, documents her relationship with which photographer, whose blackand-white photographs featuring erotic imagery resulted in controversies involving the National Endowment
for the Arts and the University of Central England, among others?
Robert Mapplethorpe
In the US Presidential election, only two States award Electoral College votes by Congressional district, instead of automatically giving all their votes to whoever wins the statewide contest. One of them is which Great Plains State?
Nebraska
Which Apollo 16 astronaut, who turned 88 last month, was the youngest person ever to walk on the moon
aged 36?
charles duke
Melissa Gilbert, who was the SAG president from 2001-2005 (prior to the merger with AFTRA), is most associated with which US television program, in which she starred as Laura (or Half-Pint to her TV dad) from 1974 to 1983?
Little House on the Prairie
Which type of knitting technique, involving a combination of a slipped stitch and a yarn over, is named for a
baked product whose fluffy texture the resulting knit supposedly resembles?
Brioche knitting
Which former head of state was arrested in London in 1998?
Augusto Pinochet
Where is Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump a world heritage site?
Canada (Alberta)
Which film set did Robin Williams call “Stalag Altman”?
Popeye
What classical music magazine has been in print since 1923?
Gramophone
2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández, written in a Spanish that evokes rural Argentina, is widely seen as the pinnacle of the genre of “gauchesque” poetry (poems centered on the life of the gaucho, written in a style known as payadas) and a touchstone of Argentine national identity.
Martin Fierro
What links: Countess; Garden; History; Hours; Pilgrim?
The Secret… novels: Eva Ibbotson; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Donna Tartt; Mick Herron; John le Carré.
Born 1925, British novelist born in Austria to a Jewish family who fled the Nazis. She is known for her children’s literature. Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea, The Star of Kazan.
Eva Ibbotson
Daisy Pulls It Off, a comedy play about nergetic Daisy Meredith, a girl from a poor background, is forced to face and overcome snobbish prejudice and schoolgirl pranks from the wealthier girls, is by which playwright?
Denise Deegan
Which play by Julian Mitchell premiered in 1981 and takes its title from a lyric in the British patriotic hymn “I Vow to Thee, My Country”? Loosely based on spy Guy Burgess renamed to Guy Bennett in play.
Another Country
The Island record label name was inspired by the song “Island In The Sun”. Who had a hit with it in 1957?
Harry Belafonte
Peel Island was the inspiration for “Wild Cat Island” in the Swallows and Amazons book. In which body of water is it found?
COniston Water
Which European country has more islands than any other worldwide?
Sweden
Which country hosted the football world cup
after Sweden and before England?
Chile
Which book comes between Foundation and
Second Foundation in Isaac Asimov’s
Foundation Trilogy?
Foundation and Empire
Gin, cherry brandy, Benedictine, angostura bitters, pineapple and lime juice?
Singapore Sling
Dark chocolate, ice, coffee-flavoured liqueur, vodka, Irish cream liqueur and double cream?
Mudslide
Ice, vodka, peach schnapps, oranges juice and cranberry juice?
Sex on the Beach
Ice, triple sec, lemon juice and cognac?
Sidecar
Which legendary beautiful queen was described in a
Shakespeare play as first appearing sitting in a barge “which
shone like burnished gold”?
Cleopatra
Which of Chaucer’s characters had had we are told, 5
marriages?
The Wife of Bath
Who in Jane Austen is described by her future husband on
their first meeting as “tolerable”?
Elizabeth Bennett
In which Childrens’ classic did the dreams of 2 lonely people from different generations coincide to reveal the life story of
one to the other?
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Who wrote Tom’s Midnight Garden?
Philippa Pearce
Which battle held the highest death rate in a single days fighting on English soil?
Towton (North Yorkshire/39k)
In the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 in Lancashire who was Elizabeth Southerns more commonly known as?
Demdike
In the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 in Lancashire who was Anne Whittle more commonly known as?
Chattox
What was the Beatles first No 1 song?
From Me To You
Same Song, Different Years: Dusty Springfield 1964 and The Tourists 1979
I Only Want To Be With You
Same Song Title: Cher 1965 and The Byrds 1965
All I Really Want To Do
Same Song, Differennt Years: The Kinks 1968 and Kirsty McColl 1989
Days
Same Song, Different Versions: The Shadows 1962 and Kathy Kirby 1963
Dance On
Same Song, Different Version: Harry Secombe 1967 and Petula Clark 1967
This Is My Song
Same Song, Different Versions: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes 1963 and Chaka Demus & Pliers
1993
Twist and Shout
The British-born driver Alex Albon races for which Formula One team in 2023?
Williams
The Spanish-born driver Fernando Alonso races for which
Formula One team?
Aston Martin
Bohemian Switzerland National Park is in which country?
Czechia
Biblical scholars generally agree that the Crucifixion of Christ occurred on which day of the week?
friday
Jozef De Veuster was the real name of which Roman Catholic priest who ministered to people afflicted with leprosy on the island of Molokai (fifth largest island of Hawaii)?
Father Damien
What country is the home of the fictional ice skater Hans Brinker created by Mary Mapes Dodge?
Netherlands
Which group recorded the top ten single “Love Is All Around” in 1967?
The Troggs
According to Forbes magazine in 2023, which city is home to 101 billionaires most in world?
New York City
Sgt. Jamie Reagan married Officer Eddie Janko in 2019 on which TV series?
Blue Bloods
Bobby Drake is the alter ego of which founding member of the X-Men?
Iceman
Which world capital city was previously known by the name Philadelphia in the 3rd century BC?
Amman
Sally Adams is a socialite widow appointed ambassador to Lichtenburg in which Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin?
Call Me Madam
Which single-seat fighter plane accounted for 60% of the losses suffered by the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain in WWII? Designed by Sidney Camm.
Hawker Hurricane
Which musical instrument is played by Lindsey Stirling?
Violin
Which American sprinter, a silver medalist in the 400 meter dash at the 1988 Olympics, was falsely banned for drug use for two years due to a drug testing flaw?
Butch Reynolds
Who was the first U.S. President to live at the White House without a wife?
Thomas Jefferson
Who won a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie Award for his appearance in the 1989 movie Ghosts Can’t Do It?
Donald Trump
Who was the court painter for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1425 until his death in 1441?
Jan Van Eyck
Which avant-garde string ensemble currently provides the theme music for University Challenge on BBC2?
Balanescu Quartet
The home ground of which current League 2 Football Club has the postcode BB5 5BX?
Accrington Stanley
The popular BBC TV comedy series The Good Life was set in which Southwest London suburb?
Surbiton
According to the first line of the song Nothing Compares 2U how long has it been “since you took your love away”?
7 Hours and 15 Days
After Karachi and Lahore what is Pakistan’s third largest city? Situated in the north-east of the country it is sometimes referred to as the ‘Manchester of Pakistan’ because of its industrial reputation and connection to textiles.
Faisalabad
The medieval English Bridge, Welsh Bridge and the Victorian Greyfriar’s Bridge are three of the seven bridges that can be found in which English county town?
Shrewsbury
Which Dublin stadium was demolished in 2007 to make way for the construction of the Aviva Stadium?
Lansdowne Road
Who is the BBC’s Security Correspondent and former Middle East correspondent who lost the use of his legs in an attack by al-Qaida gunmen in Saudi Arabia in 2004? His cameraman was killed in the attack.
Frank Gardner
Which successful football manager is often referred to as ‘The Eyebrow’?
Carlo Ancelotti
According to Jonathan Swift, Gulliver set out on his travels from the port of Bristol on May 4th 1699. What was his ship called?
The Antelope
Scherzo and Trio by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is the theme tune for which BBC Radio 4 quiz show?
Round Britain Quiz
The home ground of which current League 1 Football Club has the postcode FY7 6TX?
Fleetwood Town
According to the title of the first studio album released by Simon and Garfunkel in 1964 what time is it and on which day of the week?
Wednesday Morning 3am
In the centre of which English cathedral city can you find three stone-arch bridges called Framwellgate, Elvet and Prebend’s Bridge?
Durham
Who is the BBC’s Chief Political Correspondent in Washington and campaigner for equal rights for the visually impaired? He lost his sight in early childhood.
Gary O’Donoghue
What was the name of the 1944 musical based very loosely on Edvard Grieg’s life and using his music? A film version was released in 1970.
Song of Norway
What name is given to the notoriously gory historical event that took place in the oak room of the Antelope hotel in Dorchester in 1685?
The Bloody Assizes
The title of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel Tender is the Night is a quote from which poem by John Keats?
Ode to a Nightingale
In 1995 which stand-up comedian became the first woman to win the Perrier Award, the UK’s top comedy award?
Northern Irish actor. He is known for his lead role in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast (2021) based on Branagh’s childhood, for which Hill won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Young Performer. He has since starred in Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice (2023).
Jude Hill
Jeremy Renner plays Mike McLusky in which Crime Thriller TV Show created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillion.
Mayor of Kingstown
Which short opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams is based on a play of the same name by John Millington Synge and set on the Aran Islands in the west of Ireland?
Riders to the Sea
100 King Street Manchester, formerly the Midland Bank, was constructed between 1933-35 from a design by which world famous architect? It was one of the few times that he considered Manchester worthy of his talents.
Edwin Lutyens
“But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea” is the ending of which bestselling 1938 novel successfully filmed two years later? The novel has a well-known and often quoted first line.
Rebecca
What name is given to the vicious campaign by William the Conqueror over the winter of 1069-70 in which he laid waste to Yorkshire and neighbouring shires that had refused to accept Norman rule? His scorched-earth policy caused widespread famine in the north of England for years to come.
Harrying of the North
What archaic short word meaning pity or mercy survives in the English language today only in its negative and opposite sense?
Ruth
A beach town called Ouidah in which small west African country is thought to be the birthplace of the voodoo religion?
Benin
In the poem by Coleridge, which sacred river ran through Xanadu, the summer residence of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan?
Alph
Which opera by Alfredo Catalani features a memorable operatic death when the heroine flings herself into an avalanche? The scene is usually imagined off-stage because of bloody Health and Safety rules that prohibit the use of avalanches on stage.
La Wally
Austrian portrait and flower painter. An incident from her life served as the basis for the novel Die Geier-Wally by Wilhelmine von Hillern; an early example of feminist literature. Said to rappel down a cliff to remove an eagle’s nest.
Anna Stainer-Knittel
The title of which Oscar winning film from the 1980s is a Latin word meaning ‘loved by God’ or ‘love of God’?
Amadeus
The title of which 2021 Oscar winning film is a quote from Psalm 22 in the Old Testament’s Book of Psalms?
The Power of the Dog
Which two former Coronation Street actors went on to win Oscars? Both wins occurred in the 1980s, one as Best Actor and the other as Best Supporting Actress.
Ben Kingsley
(Gandhi 1982)
Brenda Fricker
(My Left Foot 1989)
Before going on to win an Academy Award for best original screenplay, who is the only person to appear in all three Godfather films, playing different characters in each and indeed playing a character of the opposite sex in the first of the trilogy?
Sofia Coppola
In the years from 1978 to 1981 the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went each year to an actress with the same initials. Two of the winners were Mary Steenburgen and Maureen Stapleton. Who were the other two?
Maggie Smith
(for California Suite)
Meryl Streep
(for Kramer vs Kramer)
Maggie Smith second Oscar which was for Best Supporting Actress was fgor which film?
California Suite
Which British actor picked up a Best Actor Academy Award in the 1990s despite only appearing on screen for just over 16 minutes in a film that lasted almost 2 hours?
Anthony Hopkins
Mother of Achilles
Thetis (father was Peleus)
Not the capital but this city is the largest and most populous in the German state of Saxony
Leipzig
Fictitious character and his backing group whose rise and fall is chronicled in a best-selling 1972 album;
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Canadian communication theorist who coined the phrase “The Medium is the Message”.
Marshall McLuhan
American singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his slide guitar work - he had chart success in the UK in 1979 with his single Little Sister taken from the album Bop Till You Drop.
Ry Cooder
Fire festival held annually in various communities in Shetland to mark the end of the Yule season;
Up Helly Aa
City in Syria, the former de facto capital of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate;
Raqqa
American political conspiracy theory and political movement for feckin eejits;
QAnon
1978 debut album by Kate Bush;
The Kick Inside
…… and what Dickensian eponym is applied to someone who is materialistic and philistine in outlook, an uninspired and assiduous seeker after facts?
Gradgrind
What English word for a food course is derived from a French verb meaning ‘to clear the table’?
Dessert
Which Ohio born right-of-centre political satirist and journalist of Irish extraction who died in 2022 included Belfast in his 1988 book Holidays in Hell? He introduces the reader to the place by writing: “Cave Hill rises to the north like Sugar Loaf Mountain above Ipanema beach, causing some to go as far as to call Belfast an ‘Hibernian Rio’”.
PJ O’Rourke
What is the name of the large Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, just to the east of St Mungo’s cathedral?
Necropolis
Which one of London’s so-called ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries was the first to open in 1833?
Kensal Green
Bucking the trend at the time which comedian decided against going for a mega-bucks deal and sold exclusive rights to his 2002 wedding photos to Viz magazine for just a pound?
Johnny Vegas
English band whose debut Foxbase Alpha featured a cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Saint Etienne
American R&B group who had a hit with Could it be I’m Falling in Love?
Detroit Spinners
Scottish pop band of the Seventies who briefly had their own TV show called ‘Shang a Lang’.
Bay City Rollers
American rock band seen as a catalyst for punk rock but dismissed as ‘mock rock’ by Bob Harris
on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
New York Dolls
70s/80s Latin influenced band featuring Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
The original name of The Stranglers that featured the Surrey town in which they were formed.
Guildford Stranglers
UK group that provided the title music, Woke up This
Morning, for The Sopranos.
Alabama 3
Which English folk rock band’s hits included Lady Eleanor?
Lindisfarne
Which company builds the UK fleet of nuclear submarines?
BAE
If Astute Class is the current class of UK Nuclear powered attack submarines, what were the last thtree? Only Connect
From oldest to newest:
Churchill, Swiftsure, Trafalgar, Astute
Which company operates Heysham Nuclear Power
Stations in Lancashire?
EDF Energy
Which London football club began life as Dial Square? (Dial
Square being a workshop in the Royal establishment the
club are now named after)
Arsenal
One of many clubs originally named after a church, which
Midlands-based football team began life as St Lukes?
Wolverhampton Wanderers
The Roman settlement of ‘Coccium’ is generally accepted to
have been located on the site of which North-West town, the
hometown of Stuart Maconie, Ian McKellan and Kay Burley?
Wigan
He is a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where, alongside Mark Radcliffe, he hosts its weekend breakfast show, he said he started two urban legends: that Bob Holness, UK host of the game show Blockbusters, played the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty’s hit single “Baker Street” and that David Bowie invented the board game Connect Four.
Stuart Maconie
Who played Sax on Baker Street?
Raphael Ravenscroft
Former names of this Antipodean city include ‘Batmania’
(after the colonialist John Batman) and ‘Bearbass’. What is
its modern day name?
Melbourne
Vincent Furnier eventually assumed the name of his band as his own. In a career spanning over 50 years he had a string of hit singles and albums and became notorious for an incident with a chicken. Who is he today?
Alice Cooper
Which UK city was originally known as Dunedin (or
Din Eidyn in its original language)?
Edinburgh
What is the International Vehicle Registration Code for
Ukraine?
UA
What iconic decorative electrical item, still manufactured by
Mathmos in Poole, Dorset, celebrated its 60th birthday in
2023?
Lava Lamp
In Dr Who (which celebrates its 60th birthday on Thursday), which actor, who died in 2022, appeared as one of The Doctor’s companions in the 1966 feature film Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD, and returned to the ‘Whoniverse’ as Donna’s grandfather during David Tennant’s tenure as The Doctor?
Bernard Cribbins
In which European city would you find the world’s tallest medieval church or cathedral?
Ulm Minster
Arabic name for Great Mosque of Algiers contains tallest minaret and third largest mosque and tallest mosque in the wolrd.
Djamaa el Djazair
President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Which major director’s early works included the zombie
comedy Braindead (1992) and the ‘splatstick’ horror comedy
film Bad Taste (1987)?
peter jackson
What was the model number of the mutinous HAL computer on board Discovery One in 2001 – A Space Odyssey?
9000
In the original Back to The Future, what year does Marty McFly unintentionally travel back to when he flees in Doc Brown’s DeLorean-based time machine?
1955
In the original illustration in Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, what was the asking price for the Mad Hatter’s hat?
10/6
What shadow post is currently held by Ed Miliband?
Climate Change and Net Zero
Who is Leader of Plaid Cymru in Westminster?
Liz Saville Roberts
Who is Leader of Plaid Cymru?
Rhun ap Iorwerth
British politician who has served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party since June 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley since 1997, and leader of the DUP in the UK House of Commons since 2019. As of 2022, he is Northern Ireland’s longest-serving MP.
Jeffrey Donaldson
leader of the Ulster Unionist Party since 27 May 2021. He has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann since 2016. He is characterised as a ‘progressive’ and ‘liberal’ unionist.
Doug Beattie
Cornish for the Sons of Cornwall, two word name for the political party wanting independence ofr Cornwall - MK
Mebyon Kernow
Leader of SOcial Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) since 2015, MP for Foyle since 2019
Colum Eastwood
Leader of Sinn Fein, President of them since 2018.
Mary Lou McDonald
Co-leaders of Green Party since 2021
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay
Reclaim Party only MP in HoC is which MP for North West Leicestershire
Andrew Bridgen
Who are the co-leaders of Scottish Greens political party?
Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater
Leader of the Northern Iriish party Traditional Unionist Voice since its founding in 2007
Jim Allister
Leader of People Before Profit party in Northern Ireland since founding in 2005, Trotskyist has one MLA in Stormont
Eamonn McCann
Who is still leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party?
Howling Laud Hope
What movie stars Anne Hathaway as a prison psychologist, who develops a strange relationship with the titular character played by Thomasin McKenzie?
Eileen
Artist with Grammy 2023 nominations for Best New Artist and Best Song for “On My Mama”? Known for songwriting work on Ariana Grande songs “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings”.
Victoria Monet
What Best New Artist nominee has had a big year in country music, with hits like “Son of a Sinner” and “Wait in the Truck”?
Jelly Roll (Jason Bradley DeFord)
Which Grammy 2023 Best New Artist nominated artist released songs “ICU” and “Love is War”? She also played Hilary Banks in the 2022 remake Bel-Air.
Coco Jones
American song-writer nominated for Grammy 2023 Best New Artist, has had UK top 40 songs with Stick Season, Northern Attitude and Dial Drunk.
Noah Kahan
American country singer known for albums Same Trailer Different Park, Pageant Material, Golden Hour and Star-Crossed. 2023 song “I Remember Everything” with Zach Bryan got #1 in USA.
Kacey Musgraves
American singer-songwriter born 1999, 2020 Give Me a Minute, 2022 Five Seconds Flat. Hit #6 in UK with Ceilings.
Lizzy McAlpine
Two members of boygenius on top of Phoebe Bridgers
Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus
Music producer Michael Len Williams II better known as what stage name?
Mike Will Made It
Miley Cyrus 2023 album name
Endless Summer Vacation
Lana Del Ray 2023 album name
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
SZA 2022 album
SOS
2023 Olivia Rodrigo album
Guts
Who is nominated for two Song of the Year nominations at the 2023 Grammys for “A&W” and “Anti-Hero”?
Jack Antonoff
2023 album Heroes & Villains was by which well known rap music producer real name Leland Tyler Wayne?
Metro Boomin
American jazz singer. She released her self-titled debut album in 2021 and was subsequently named Best New Artist by JazzTimes. Her second album, Linger Awhile, was released in September 2022, winning the award for Best Jazz Vocal Album and herself for Best New Artist at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
Samara Joy
Name of the princess played by Ariana de Bose in 2023 film Wish?
Asha
Name of the King played by Chris Pine in the 2023 film Wish?
King Magnifico
Thai film director and animator. She worked on the Disney Animation films Frozen (2013), Moana and Zootopia (both 2016) as a storyboard artist, and as head of story on Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). She made her directorial debut with the feature film Wish (2023), which she directed alongside Chris Buck.
Fawn Veerasunthorn
He made his film debut as Jesus Christ in the musical Godspell (1973). He has also been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards along with the casts of the critically acclaimed films Titanic (1997), Milk (2008), and Argo (2012) winning for the latter. Other notable films include Sleepless in Seattle (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), Legally Blonde (2001), Sicario (2015), Dark Waters (2019), and Happiest Season (2020).
Victor Garber
President of Venezeual since 2013
Nicolas Maduro
He is best known for his role as Ash Mukherjee in the Channel 4 drama It’s a Sin (2021). Isaac Newton in Doctor Who.
Nathaniel Curtis
What country’s National Party set up blockades of railways, roads, and waterways last Wednesday in protest of the repression of the ruling party, the Awami League?
Bangladesh
The Philippine government has resumed peace talks with what rebel group, who it has been in conflict with for five decades?
NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY
South African runner founder of parkrun
Paul Sinton-Hewitt
Gomutra is used as medicine in some places of India, Myanmar, and Nigeria, two word answer of what it is?
Cow urine
The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world’s dairy exports and with revenue exceeding NZ $22 billion, making it New Zealand’s largest company. It is the sixth-largest dairy company in the world as of 2022, as well as the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Fonterra
Which passerine birds of the family Laniidae are also called butcher birds because they impale their prey on thorns to attract females and also as food storage?
Shrikes
British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn following her marriage to William Alwyn. Suffolk Suite.
Doreen Carwithen
with the help of his mentor and friend Rimsky-Korsakov, finished some of Alexander Borodin’s great works, the most famous being the Third Symphony and the opera Prince Igor, including the popular Polovtsian Dances. It is claimed that he reconstructed the overture from memory, having heard it played on the piano only once. most popular works nowadays are his ballets The Seasons and Raymonda, some of his later symphonies, particularly the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, the Polonaise from Les Sylphides, and his two Concert Waltzes. Last work saxophone concerto.
Alexander Glazunov
Jenna Maroney (born Yustrepa Gronkowitz; February 24, 1969) is a fictional character on the American television series 30 Rock, played by whcih actress? Also Elaine Vassal in the Fox legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (1997–2002) and Jacqueline White in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020).
Jane Krakowski
he voiced the character Fix-It Felix in the 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph, played Kenneth in 30 Rock.
Jack McBrayer
In population genetics, which doubly-named principle states that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences? Named after English mathematician and German doctor.
Hardy-Weinberg Principle
Born 1890, British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. From 1919, he worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station for 14 years, worked up ANOVA variance, outlined own principle (why the sex ratio of most species that produce offspring through sexual reproduction is approximately 1:1 between males and females), namesake runaway, sexy son hypothesis.
Ronald Fisher
observation that, at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism
Peto’s Paradox
hypothesis in evolutionary biology and sexual selection, proposed by Patrick J. Weatherhead and Raleigh J. Robertson of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1979, states that a female’s ideal mate choice among potential mates is one whose genes will produce males with the best chance of reproductive success
Sexy son hypothesis
Named after US president, biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners
Coolidge Effect
What effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population? It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942,W using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright.
Founder Effect
In biology, what two word term is used for what happens when crosses between two genetically distant groups or populations result in a reduction of fitness? It is a risk that sometimes limits the potential for genetic rescue or augmentations.
Outbreeding depression
Two word term for a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts; or human activities such as genocide, speciocide, widespread violence or intentional culling?
Population Bottleneck
What is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population due to random chance? may cause gene variants to disappear completely and thereby reduce genetic variation.
Genetic drift
Before it was replaced by the Euro, what was the name of the currency of Spain?
Pesata
Denoted in mathematics with a letter Z, what set of numbers are defined as whole numbers that can be positive or negative?
Integers
Alongside Greg Winter and George Smith, the chemical engineer Frances Arnold was awarded a 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on directed engineering of which catalytic biological molecules?
Enzymes
The 2019 Queer Palm was won by which Céline Sciamma historical drama film that tells the story of two 18th century Frenchwomen, a painter and her aristocratic subject, who fall in love?
Portrait of a Lady On Fire
Of all the cricket test matches held in Australia, which venue has held the most? This venue is the largest arena in the Southern Hemisphere and regularly hosts a test match which starts on Boxing Day.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Born in the early 6th century BCE, who was the 24th and final Jain Tirthankara? He is often considered the founder of Jainism?
MAHIVIRA or VARDHAMANA
The first woman to hold the Chilean presidency, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018, was which Chilean politician, who became a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022?
Michelle Bachelet
Which 2023 Pedro Almodóvar film, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as a pair of aging gunslingers, was nominated for the 2023 Queer Palm but didn’t win?
STRANGE WAY OF LIFE
Denoted in mathematics with the letter Q, what set of numbers can be expressed as a fraction of two integers?
RATIONAL Numbers
One of the most picturesque of all test cricket grounds, it is overlooked by Table Mountain in Cape Town. Which ground has hosted the most test matches in South Africa?
Newlands
A runner-up at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, who performed her own song Better The Devil You Know as part of the Liverpool Songbook in her home city?
Sonia Evans
Named after a foodstuff, what Edward Hopper painting shows two women dining at a restaurant?
Chop Suey
Winner of the Best Entertainment category at the 2023 British Podcast Awards, John Robins co-hosts the self-titled podcast alongside which Welsh comedian? This duo, since 2019, also host the BBC podcast How Do You Cope..?, focused on mental health.
Elis James
While Śvetāmbara Jains recite the Kalpa Sūtra during Paryushana, adherents of which other major Jain school recite the ten chapters of the Tattvartha Sutra on the ten days of Das Lakshan Parva that immediately follow Paryushana? This sect has a name meaning ‘sky-clad’ in reference to their traditional monastic practice of not wearing clothes.
Digambara
Established in 1868 and located in Wellington. Which stadium has hosted the most cricket test matches in New Zealand?
Basin Reserve
The Queer Palm award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival was won by which Japanese mystery thriller, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, that stars Sakura Andō as a mother attempting to understand her 11-year-old son’s behavioural changes?
Monster
As part of the Liverpool Songbook at Eurovision 2023, Sweden’s Cornelia Jakobs sang a rendition of I Turn To You, a song which reached number 1 in the UK in 2000 by which Liverpudlian singer? It featured on her debut solo album, Northern Star.
Mel C
Another 2023 British Podcast Awards nominee was which comedy podcast hosted by Jordan North and etiquette coach William Hanson? Since 2018, these two have taken on the role of agony aunts as listeners write in their dilemmas.
Help I Sexted My Boss
Alongside, Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal, the American chemist Carolyn Bertozzi won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on which type of chemical reaction, occurring within living organisms without affecting endogenous biological processes, and for which Bertozzi coined the term in 2003?
Bio-Orthogonal Chemistry
Winning Goal of the Season in the 1995 - 1996 season, which Ghanian striker played Premier League football for Leeds United after signing from Eintracht Frankfurt in January 1995?
Tony YEBOAH
Peseta is also the name of the currency used de jure in what partially recognised African state? Although it was adopted as the national currency in 1997, most transactions are carried out using the dirham due to the territory being mostly controlled by Morocco.
SAHRAWI Arab Democratic Republic (Accept WESTERN SAHARA)
Losing out to Portrait of a Lady on Fire in 2019, another Pedro Almodóvar film shortlisted for the Queer Palm was which film that stars Antonio Banderas as the movie director, Salvador Mallo, who is trying to cope with his physical and mental decline?
Pain and Glory
Denoted in mathematics with the letter N, what name is given to the subset of positive integers? Some also include zero in this set.
Natural Numbers
Who played Tiberius in I, Claudius? This man is also well-known for his starring role as Inspector Wexford in the long-running ITV series The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
George Baker
Dying from acute cocaine poisoning in 2004, what was the name of the Italian cyclist who won both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1998?
Marco PANTANI
Who is the alter-ego of aristocrat Sir Rodney Ffing in Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head?
Black Fingernail
A remix of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, Part II” was released in 2007, reaching number 2 in the UK. It was titled Proper Education and was the work of which DJ?
Eric Prydz
Which sea separates the Kamchatka Peninsula from the rest of mainland Russia?
Sea of Okhotsk
Which island off the west coast of Scotland was the site of biological warfare testing with anthrax during World War II which made it uninhabitable until it was finally decontaminated in 1990?
Gruinard Island
The 1871 George Eliot novel Middlemarch had what 5 word subtitle?
A Study of Provincial Life
Deriving from a French term translatable as “horse soldiery”, what Medieval code of conduct emphasized bravery, military skill, piety, and courtesy to women?
Chivalry
One symbol of a knight’s commitment to chivalric causes was what accessory tied in a knot or loop? Edward III’s comment about one of these items is said be the origin of the name of Britain’s oldest order of chivalry.
Garter
The 1740 novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson was more correctly known as Pamela or ‘what’ 2 word phrase?
Virtue Rewarded
Originating in Occitania in the 11th century, what name was given to medieval poet-musicians who sung of chivalric ideals, often as wandering bards or minstrels?
Troubadours
The 1820 novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott has two common subtitles. Some texts simply refer to it as ‘a Romance’, but what is the more common five word subtitle of this work?
The Jew and His Daughter
Which comedian’s characters include the corrupt Dr. Bob, the Premier League footballer Jason Bent and the chav Lee Nelson? He also has a history of pranking public figures - in 2017, he interrupted Theresa May’s Conservative Party conference speech to give her a P45.
Simon BRODKIN
Popularised by Gaston Paris, what word precedes “love” in the concept of noble romantic devotion without the expectation of reciprocation?
Courtly
Rich Hall won the Perrier Award in 2000 performing as what character, a country music singer from the Deep South who is ostensibly Hall’s own uncle?
Otis Lee CRENSHAW
Born 1903 Tambov, Soviet mathematician who contributed to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity - KAM Theory, KPP-Fisher equation
Andrey Kolmogorov
Triply named theorem is a result in dynamical systems about the persistence of quasiperiodic motions under small perturbations? Two Russians and a German.
Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) theorem
American computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines.
Norbert Wiener
English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). He developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. Married to Margaret Mead 1936-50.
Gregory Bateson
Two word biology term is when an allele changes frequency not because it itself is under natural selection, but because it is near another gene that is undergoing a selective sweep and that is on the same DNA chain. When one gene goes through a selective sweep, any other nearby polymorphisms that are in linkage disequilibrium will tend to change their allele frequencies too.
Genetic Hitchhiking
What two word term is a type of intragenomic conflict, whereby one or more loci within a genome will affect a manipulation of the meiotic process in such a way as to favor the transmission of one or more alleles over another, regardless of its phenotypic expression? It is when one copy of a gene is passed on to offspring more than the expected 50% of the time.
Meiotic Drive
Doubly named U test is a nonparametric test of the null hypothesis that, for randomly selected values X and Y from two populations, the probability of X being greater than Y is equal to the probability of Y being greater than X. Nonparametric tests used on two dependent samples are the sign test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
Mann-Whitney U test
A signed-rank test is a non-parametric rank test for statistical hypothesis testing used either to test the location of a population based on a sample of data, or to compare the locations of two populations using two matched samples? Named after Irish-American chemist and statistician who, in a single paper, proposed both it and the rank-sum test for two independent samples.
Frank WILCOXON
Student’s t-test is a statistical test used to test whether the difference between the response of two groups is statistically significant or not. It is any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student’s t-distribution under the null hypothesis. Who made it under pseudonym Student?
William Sealy Gosset
Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient named after Charles Spearman who coined g factor and it is also named after a Greek letter for alphabet?
Spearman’s RHO
Kendall rank correlation coefficient, is a statistic used to measure the ordinal association between two measured quantities, named after which Greek letter?
Kendall’s TAU coefficient
Shingai Shoniwa was vocalist and bassist for which English indie band?
Noisettes
English singer-songwriter, She released her debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events, in May 2024. EP: Mama’s Boy, Better Off Without.
Rachel Chinouriri
Born 1945 with first name Don, American tattoo artist known for his tattoos, strong influence on the development of modern tattoo styles, and his eponymous apparel and accessories brand. The most famous licensee was Christian Audigier, previously of Von Dutch Originals, which marketed the imagery of Kenny Howard (aka Von Dutch), another noted American subculture artist.
Ed Hardy
Mercury Prize nominated albums Sing to the Moon, The Dreaming Room, Pink Noise.
Laura Mvula
English singer-songwriter and record producer. After initially writing hits for others, she had her own chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with UK top 10 single “Sugar Me”, and became the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song. She represented the UK in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest. Became the first woman to receive an Ivor Award for “Won’t Somebody Dance With Me” (The Best Ballad or Romantic Song) in 1974 and she went on to win another Ivor a year later for her TV theme song “No Honestly”.
Lynsey DE PAUL
a Spanish-American singer-songwriter born 1998 Munich, She was born without her right forearm due to amniotic band syndrome. Appeared on Coldplay set at Glasto playing piano. Song “Black Swan” won Ivor Novello 2024.
Victoria Canal
Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer and a grandchild of political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat. Played on song Arabesque with Coldplay at Glastonbury 2024.
Femi KUTI (Fela Kuti is dad and Nan was Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti)
English drummer and composer who is prominent in the South London contemporary jazz scene, He is known for his work with keyboardist Kamaal Williams, releasing the 2016 album Black Focus as the duo Yussef Kamaal, and with English singer and guitarist Tom Misch, releasing the 2020 collaborative album What Kinda Music. He released his debut solo album Black Classical Music on 8 September 2023.
Yussef DAYES
Born Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson in 1996. Her debut studio album, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, was released in February 2022 and entered the Irish Albums Chart at number one. Her second studio album, Crazymad, for Me was released in October 2023.
CMAT
Contemporary Irish folk music group from Dublin, consisting of multi-instrumentalists Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat. Nominated for Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize for False Lankum.
Lankum
2022 British film written and directed by Carol Morley, about the life and art of artist, Audrey Amiss. It stars Monica Dolan as Amiss, as well as Kelly Macdonald, and Gina McKee. Nominated for Ivor Novello.
Typist Artist Pirate King
British television drama series. The soundtrack won Arthur Sharpe an Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Sountrack on Thursday 23rd May 2024. Cheryl (Jean-Baptiste) and Alice (Staton) are two women without too much in common, but they do inadvertently share the same conman (Petrie).
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
French television series created by Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Jennifer Have, and Raphaëlle Bacqué. It stars Daniel Brühl as title person based on non-fiction book called Kaiser Karl.
Karl Lagerfeld
Kitty Franken, a teenage girl created by the Dutch children’s writer Cissy van
Marxveldt, is now commonly thought to be the inspiration for the ‘Kitty’ to whom the
entries are addressed in whose diaries?
Anne Frank
Many cultures around the world include culturally specific identities that Western
scholarship groups under the umbrella of “third genders”. India, Pakistan, and
Bangladesh are among the nations to recognise what identity as a third legal gender?
People with this identity may also consider themselves transgender women or be
intersex.
Hijras
Which medication, a combination of zinc oxide and iron oxide and derived from a
powdered form of a zinc ore, is commonly used as an antiseptic lotion to treat skin
irritations, such as rashes caused by poisonous plants or sunburn?
Calamine
Mikhail Sholokhov was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature almost exclusively
for which novel? Published in four volumes between 1928 and 1940, this novel
describes the lives of Cossacks living in the valley of the namesake river in the years
running up to World War I.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Which Atlantic archipelago, part of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was designated
a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001? An important feeding ground for turtles,
sharks, and other marine animals, around 70% of the area of this archipelago is
protected as a national marine park.
Fernando de Noronha
The Aztec deity, Quetzalcoatl [ket-zal-cwaht-ul], is associated, naturally, with quetzals but also with these New World parrots. In Kʼicheʼ [kee-cheh] Maya myth, the bird demon Vucub-Caquix, defeated by the Hero Twins, has a name commonly translated as ‘seven-[BLANK]’, with the blank filled by the name of which long-tailed, colourful parrots? In Inca myth, all of mankind is descended from the offspring of human-headed examples of these birds.
Macaws
Conic sections are curves obtained where a plane and a cone’s surface intersect. What
name is given to a conic section where the plane intersects with both halves of a
double cone, creating a diagram with two unconnected curves?
Hyperbola
Used in traditional huayno music, the siku, or zampoña, is an example of what type of
instrument that consists of multiple closed tubes?
Panpipes
Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour wrote a 1972 book that is
credited with influencing the development of postmodern architecture. Following on
from Venturi and Scott Brown’s earlier article, “A Significance for A&P Parking Lots”,
the book was titled Learning from [BLANK]. Which city fills in the blank?
LAS VEGAS
Which German Jewish philosopher, who converted to Catholicism and became a
Carmelite nun, identified self-image as an iterated form of empathy in her 1916 thesis
Zum Problem der Einfühlung (The Problem of Empathy)? She died at Auschwitz-Birkenau
in 1942 and is now celebrated as a patron saint of Europe.
Edith Stein
Which acidic compound, used as an antiseptic and chemical exfoliant and originally
derived from willow bark, is commonly used to treat skin conditions such as acne,
psoriasis, and warts? This acid is treated with acetic anhydride to synthesize aspirin.
Salicylic Acid
Quetzalcoatl [ket-zal-cwaht-ul] means ‘feathered serpent’ in the Aztec language,
Nahuatl [NA-WA-tl]. The Aztecs considered him to combine the features of the quetzal
and a member of which specific group of pit vipers, which were of enormous
importance to Aztec mythology and art? The Maya considered these creatures visionaries who acted as channels to the ‘otherworld’.
Rattlesnakes
The ideas John Ruskin introduced in The Seven Lamps of Architecture were developed
further in what three-volume work? In this work, Ruskin focuses on the title city and
the development of its architecture through its Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance
periods.
The Stones of Venice
Admonitio generalis and Epistola de litteris colendis were written works that served as
manifestos of which period of cultural renewal in Western Europe? Considered the
first of the three major medieval European renaissances, this period was accompanied
by developments in literature and the arts and is named after the empire in which it
flourished.
Carolingian Renaissance
The modern version of which western instrument, used in the huayno music of the
Peruvian Andes, was developed by the Vinaccia family in Naples in the 19th century?
This instrument has doubled strings tuned to g-d’-a’-e’’, the same as a violin.
Mandolin
What name is given in the traditional Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca to people
who are assigned male at birth but who adopt social roles conventionally associated
with women? Typically considered different from trans people because of an absence
of gender dysphoria, these people are sometimes thought to comprise a third gender.
muxe
The unnamed town in which 1979 V.S. Naipaul novel is often interpreted to be a
fictionalised version of Kisangani on the Congo River? This novel ends with the
protagonist, Salim, leaving on a steamboat before the arrival of a dictator known as
the Big Man.
A Bend in the River
To within 1 km either way, how wide is the Strait of Gibraltar at its
narrowest point?
13km
Strait of Dover is which length in km at narrowest?
33km
Which river flows for 53 miles from its source in Ravenstonedale in
Cumbria to the Irish Sea near Lancaster?
Lune
What was the most noteworthy event of 753 BC(E)?
Founding of Rome
In the TV show The X-Files, Special Agents Scully and Mulder work for which organisation?
FBI
Two British bands have had hits with separate songs called Fox On The Run, one in the 1960s and one in the 1970s. Name either.
Manfred Mann or Sweet
Two London Underground lines have a Western terminus at Ealing Broadway. The Central is one, which is the other?
District
Baseball bats are traditionally made from which wood?
Ash
Superficially resembling a mandolin or a ukulele, the charango is an instrument used in
huayno music that has a body made from which mammal?
Armadillo
First designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, this island off the Pacific
coast of Central America is popular with scuba divers attracted by its unique ecology,
which includes a large population of hammerhead sharks. The entirety of which Costa Rican island has been designated a National Park since 1978?
Cocos Island (Isla del Coco)
Edith Stein’s work on empathy elaborated the ideas of which Austrian-German
philosopher who was Stein’s doctoral supervisor? This man proposed that empathy
has its origins in intersubjectivity in his 1913 work commonly known as his Ideen (Ideas).
Edmund Husserl
Founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers, the American Federation of Labor was one of
the largest 19th century unions. Gompers had worked in the manufacture of what
objects since his teens? In his book Seventy Years of Life and Labor, Gompers said the
key to his trade was an “ability to utilize wrappers to the best advantage to shave off
the unusable to a hairbreadth, to roll so as to cover holes in the leaf”.
Cigars
The 1965 novel The River Between, which tells of two Gikuyu villages separated by the
spiritually significant title river, is a work by which Kenyan author? His debut novel,
Weep Not Child (1964), was the first novel in English to be published by a writer from
East Africa, although he later renounced writing in English and has since published
work in Kiswahili and Kikuyu.
NGUGI wa Thiong’o
Called the “third Carolingian renaissance” by Pierre Riché, the second major period of
Western European cultural renewal in the Middle Ages occurred during the reign of,
and is named after, the first three emperors of the Saxon Dynasty, all of whom were
patrons of science, economy, and art. What was their shared name which gave this
‘renaissance’ its common name?
Otto
What identity, sometimes considered a third gender, has existed in the traditional
culture of Naples since at least the 1700s, and some believe as far back as 300 BCE? This
term comes from Neapolitan words approximately meaning “little woman-man” and is not used insultingly.
Femminiello
The treatise Ornament and Crime, which criticised the excessive tendencies of the Art
Nouveau and Vienna Secession movements in architecture, was a work by which
Austrian architect? A famous critic of Art Nouveau, he was strongly influenced by his
time spent in America and the philosophies of Louis Sullivan.
Adolf Loos
The last of the three major renaissances of the Middle Ages in Western Europe laid
much of the intellectual groundwork for the Italian Renaissance and the Scientific
Revolution. It is named after which century, in which it occurred?
12th Century
What name is given in the Philippines to people, often considered a third gender, who
are assigned male at birth but who have since adopted a feminine gender expression?
Although some people in this group identify as women, they are not exclusively
transgender.
Bakla
Classed as a Zapovednik (the strictest level of protection available in the Soviet Union)
in 1976 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004, this Russian island lies in the
Arctic Ocean between the Chukchi and East Siberian seas. Which island is perhaps best
known for being the final known home of the woolly mammoth, with populations
surviving here until around 4,000 years ago?
Wrangel Island
Which organic compound, today the active ingredient in some oral analgesics, has
antiseptic properties that were utilised by Joseph Lister in his pioneering technique of
antiseptic surgery?
phenol or phenolic acid or carbolic acid
QUESTION THREE
While working as a teacher at a Dominican nun’s school, Edith Stein translated which
philosopher’s work De Veritate (Of Truth)? Stein’s work Endliches und ewiges Sein
(Finite and Eternal Being) was, in large part, an attempt to synthesize phenomenology
with the theological works of this man.
Thomas Aquinas
Seven of the Channel islands are permanently inhabited. Four are Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Name any of the other three.
HERM, JETHOU, BRECQHOU
Which company manufactures Irn-Bru?
AG Barr
Which river flows for 81 miles from its source in Mallerstang on the Cumbria/North Yorkshire border to the Solway Firth?
Eden
In the 1980s, two different songs called Who’s That Girl? were major hits in the UK, one by a UK duo, and one by an American female singer. Name either.
EURYTHMICS or MADONNA (also accept FLYING PICKETS)
Two London Underground lines have a North Western terminus at Uxbridge. The Metropolitan is one, which is the other?
Piccadilly
