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Video game August 2023 players assume the role of Grace, a college dropout who finds herself accused of murdering the last muse. Grace must prove her innocence to a pantheon of Greek gods, consisting of Athena, Apollo, Persephone, and Aphrodite, all within seven days. She must learn to wield her newly developed powers of music to find out the truth behind Calliope’s death.
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Born 1887 Little Rock, noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra, 4 symphonies, Mississippi River Suite.
Florence Price
Born 1899 Anniston, Alabama, his Negro Folk Symphony of 1934 garnered a great deal of attention at its world premiere by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The symphony was revised in 1952 with added African rhythms inspired by the composer’s trip to West Africa.
William Levi Dawson
Finnish composer born 1952, opera L’Amour de loin was only second opera by female composer played at the Met in 2016. second oper was Adriana Mater. Third was Emilie in 2010 based on Emilie du Chatelet.
Kaija Saariaho
Born 1922 Washington DC, American composer, pianist, and organist, and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which he received for his work Lilacs in 1996.
George Walker
Born 1895 Woodville, Mississippi, “Dean of Afro-American Composers” considered part of Harlem Renaissance. He was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. He is known primarily for his first symphony, Afro-American Symphony (1930), which was, until 1950, the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. Symphony ‘2 Song of a New Race, Troubled Island, A Bayou LEgend, The Sunday Symphony.
William Grant Still
Premiered in 1928, which composer’s Yamekraw, a Negro Rhapsody, was named after a black community in Savannah, Georgia. William Grant Still was orchestrator and Fats Waller the pianist as the composer was contractually obliged to conduct his and Waller’s hit Broadway show Keep Shufflin.
James P Johnson
William Grant Still’s opera Troubled ISland was about which Haitian revolutionary the leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution?
Jacques I or Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Italian bandmaster in Italy and the United States. He was born in Naples, Italy on June 21, 1871, and died in New York City on August 15, 1952. His fame rivaled that of John Philip Sousa, and he was known for performances that were engaging for both their showmanship and musicianship.
Giuseppe Creatore
Born 1873 Florence, Alabama, American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. Wrote The Memphis Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Beale Street Blues (named after Memphis street and gives name to James Baldwin book).
WC Handy
American composer whose music is inspired by nature, especially the landscapes of Alaska, where he lived from 1978 to 2014. His orchestral work Become Ocean was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
John Luther Adams
2021 musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, and lyrics and book by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on Lindsay-Abaire’s 2001 comedy of the same name. The show tells the story of a lonely teenage girl, namesake name, who suffers from a condition similar to progeria that causes her to age rapidly.
Kimberly Akimbo
a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia.
Parade
2022 musical with music and lyrics by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and a book by Robert Horn. Cast member Alex Newell became one of the first two openly non-binary performers to be nominated for and win a Tony Award, with their win for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. About love for corn.
Shucked
She achieved success as a performer on two R&B chart toppers: as half of Mickey & Sylvia with the 1957 single “Love Is Strange”, and her solo record “Pillow Talk” in 1973. She later became known for her work as founder and CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records.
Sylvia Robinson
mythical folk hero of Vietnam’s history and one of The Four Immortals. According to the legend, he was a boy who rode on an iron horse and won against the enemy of the state. The most well known version of the legend had him battle against the Chinese army, thus, he is considered the first anti-invasion hero of the Vietnamese.
Thanh Giong
primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology who separated heaven and earth
Pangu
a demigod, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
Väinämöinen
English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman’s final Test match innings, in which he needed only four runs for a Test average of 100.
Eric Hollies
A batsman who is dismissed without facing a ball (most usually run out from the non-striker’s end, but alternatively stumped or run out off a wide delivery) is said to be out for a what?
Diamond Duck
With Pierre-Simon Laplace, this person names an equation which describes capillary action? Colour tri-chromatic theory is named for this man and Hermann von Helmholtz. This man used the term ‘enchorial’ to refer to Demotic Egyptian, which this man deduced uses both ideographic and phonetic signs.
Thomas Young
A 2023 play by Kimber Lee is called untitled fck [this musical] play. A character in this musical leaves Room 317 after meeting Ellen, the wife of her lover. This musical opens in Dreamland, a bar owned by a hustler known as the Engineer. A character in this musical sings “I’m an American - how could I fail to do good?” Simon Bowman originated this musical’s role of Chris, who sings “Sun and Moon” with a 17-year-old sex worker. This musical’s lead role Kim was originated by Lea Salonga.
Miss Saigon
political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe
ZANU-PF
Along with ‘principal’, ‘azimuthal’ and ‘spin’, this adjective names one of the four quantum numbers that characterise a quantum system. A unit named after Niels Bohr and symbolised ‘mu-B’ is used to measure a moment named for this adjective. This adjective is prefixed with ‘dia-‘ when denoting a property typically possessed by particles whose electrons are all paired, while in the opposite case, this adjective is prefixed with ‘para-‘. This adjective appears in the name of a property which is measured in teslas, and which quantifies the force generated by a field named for this adjective
Magnetic
The only English place besides Penzance whose name ends in ‘zance’ is this county’s hamlet of Guyzance, while another village in this county, Cottonshopeburnfoot, claims to have the longest English placename. A Stewart Lee routine applauds the frequent attempts to turn the first ‘L’ into a ‘T’ in road signs to this county’s village of Shilbottle. This county contains England’s largest manmade woodland and most capacious manmade reservoir, which share a name contains England’s highest point not in Cumbria, The Cheviot.
Northumberland
Saturday morning TV show SM:TV featured a spoof of Friends which starred Ant and Dec with Cat Deeley. What was the name of the parody show?
Chums
Which theorem in maths states that for a vector field on a sphere, there must be at least one point where the vector field equals zero?
Hairy Ball Theorem
The no-hair theorem states that a black hole can be characterised by mass, electric charge, and what other quantity? Kepler’s second law is equivalent to the conservation of this quantity.
Angular momentum
Which Italian mountaineer was in September 2023 controversially stripped of his record for being the first climber to ascend all of the eight-thousanders, after an investigation by an amateur sleuth suggested he had not quite reached the summit of Annapurna?
Reinhold Messner
The star of the Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible, which Nepal-born British climber climbed all 14 eight-thousanders in six months six days in 2019?
Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja
Tenjen Sherpa broke record in 2023 for climbing all 14 8000ers in 92 days but later declared dead after climbing which 14th highest mountain during an avalanche in October 2023? It was the last 8000er to be climbed having been done in 1964.
Shishapangma
Which Nepalese-British mountaineer led the group which made the first winter ascent of K2 in January 2021?
Nirmal Purja
Name the two Brits who were the first to ascend Kangchenjunga doing so in May 1955?
George Band and Joe Brown
Name the Polish mountaineer who was 5th man to climb all 8000ers and the first to climb Everest, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse in winter?
Krzysztof Wielicki
Italian mountaineer and alpinist known for having made first winter ascents of four of the fourteen eight-thousanders: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011, and Nanga Parbat in 2016.
Simone Moro
Name of Polish mountaineer who if Reinhold Messner is ruled out on technicality was the first to climb all 14 8000ers doing so in 1987? Was also the first climber to ascend Kangchenjunga, Dhaulagiri I and Annapurna I in the winter?
Jerzy Kukuczka
Basque Spanish mountaineer. On May 17, 2010, she became the first woman to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders in the World –and the 21st person to do so. Oh Eun-sun claim disputed as didn’t get up Kanchenjunga all the way.
Edurne Pasaban
Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without the use of supplementary oxygen or high-altitude porters.
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Which current CEO of LVMH was the richest man in the world for a brief period in 2023?
Bernard Arnault
In 2019, LVMH launched its first new fashion house in 32 years in partnership with which person who also oversees an identically-named cosmetic brand? The branding styled its name with a mirror-reversed N as its central letter.
Rihanna
Only two other South Korean films have made the Academy Awards shortlist, but neither reached nomination stage. Most recently shortlisted was which 2022 romantic mystery film directed by Park Chan-Wook?
Decision to Leave
A publishing phenomenon in her native France, which author wrote the 2006 work The Elegance of the Hedgehog?
Muriel Barbery
Which first-person shooter videogame franchise, developed and published by Valve, features protagonists Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance? The first title takes place in the Black Mesa Research Facility.
Half-Life
Another Valve series set in the same universe as the Half-Life series is which 2-part franchise set in the Aperture Science Centre, a direct competitor to Black Mesa?
Portal
Your business is growing successfully, so the next stage is to raise which type of funding, named for the preferred stock that will be sold to external investors? If you continue to be successful, you can move onto similar funding rounds suffixed B, C or even D.
Series A
Al Gore’s loss has sometimes been blamed on the votes given to which Green Party candidate? This man came to prominence with the 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed about the manufacture of dangerous cars.
Ralph Nader
Who was the Reform Party’s candidate in the 2000 election? This key figure in paleo-conservatism had stood for the 1992 and ‘96 Republican nomination, having previously been an advisor to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Pat Buchanan
John Hagelin stood as the candidate for which fringe party? This party is best remembered in Britain for its embrace of ‘yogic flying’ and for standing over 300 candidates in the 1992 General Election.
Natural Law Party
The shot which in US pool is known as a bank shot, which involves the object ball being driven against a rail before being pocketed, is known as what in the UK? This word may precede ‘hit’ or ‘kiss’ in other cue sports terms.
Double
Hitting either the left- or right-hand side of the cue ball in UK pool is referred to as playing with ‘side’. In the US, you would be described as playing with left-hand or right-hand what? This word is also an adjective that may describe Mosconi Cup players like Steve Davis or Darren Appleton.
English
In quantum mechanics, the Bloch sphere representation is a geometric visualisation of what basic unit of quantum information?
Qubit
Qubits are an example of a two-level system. Under certain conditions, the population in all two-level systems exhibits cyclic behaviour - this oscillation is named for which Polish-American physicist?
Isidor Rabi
Who originally released Skyscraper, which Sam Bailey covered when she won The X Factor in 2013? In 2008 this singer released This is Me with Joe Jonas.
Demi Lovato
Which Puritan theologian and writer recorded events and defended his own involvement in the Salem witch trials in his book Wonders of the Invisible World?
Cotton Mather
Bourdain describes which foodstuff as the backbone of good cooking, suggesting you make a few months’ worth to be stored in the freezer, or you combine it with sauce espagnole and reduce to make demi-glace?
Stock
Bourdain also describes which three-word French term as the religion of all good line cooks, saying your station, its condition and its state of readiness are an extension of your nervous system?
Mise en place
On some measures the population of La Paz, Bolivia’s seat of government, has been overtaken by which adjacent city? As its name suggests, this city is the highest major city in the world with an average elevation of over 4,000 metres.
El Alto
Most poplous city in Bolivia
Santa Cruz
Another very high Bolivian city is which city which lies at the foot of a mountain of the same name where Spanish colonists mined significant amounts of silver?
Potosi
Which Sri Lankan cricketer gives his name to a shot played from a good length delivery, where the batter drops to one knee and scoops the ball over the head of the wicketkeeper?
TM Dilshan (Dilscoop)
Who did the first quadruple axel in 2022?
Ilia Malinin
Which book argues that humans should not be treated as a means to an end by introducing The Kingdom of Ends? This work of de-ontology argues that there are three propositions regarding duty.
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals uses which moral law, which states one should act only in a way that could become a universal law of nature?
Categorical Imperative
The filming of Meet Pamela is the central concept of what Francois Truffaut(tru-FO) film, itself named after a technique used in filmmaking?
Day For Night
Qin Shi Huangdi was influenced by the writings of Han Fei to employ which philosophy, which was first espoused by Shang Yang? This philosophical movement emphasised strict adherence to laws.
Legalism
Which legalist prime minister convinced Qin Shi Huangdi of the importance of foreigners with his ‘sultry girls of Zhao’ oration? With Zhao Gao, this prime minister engineered the succession of Qin Er Shi.
Li Si
Which fashion brand, noted for its popularity in the skateboarding scene, is erroneously associated with the stylised ‘S’, sometimes called the ‘Cool S’, often drawn by schoolchildren on exercise books?
Stussy
Which US brand makes streetwear under the Work in Progress range? This brand once issued a T-shirt with a photograph of people looting its Hackney store during the 2011 London riots.
Carhartt
In 2021, a California man was arrested for stealing more than 42,000 pounds of what high-value nut? He might have had other problems before long, as these nuts have been known to spontaneously combust when improperly stored.
Pistachios
It was reported this year that manufacturers had begun microchipping wheels of which cheese, which has EU protected designation of origin for its namesake home in northern Italy, to deter counterfeiting?
Parmigiano reggiano
Founder of Twitch
Justin Kan
breakthrough role was Gittel in the Amazon original series Transparent, Dr Barbie in Barbie
Hari Nef
American actress and singer who rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014) and Kimberly Woodruff in the Oscar-nominated film Straight Outta Compton (2015), Storm in X-Men, Susan in Tick Tick Boom and Writer Barbie in Barbie.
Alexandra Shipp
Basketball Ken in Barbie, Malcolm X in One Night in Mimai, Marcus Summer in Vera, Will play Bob Marley in Bob Marley: One Love in 2024?
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Teen Talk Barbie in Barbie and upcoming Amy Winehouse in film Back to Black
Marisa Abela
In The Divine Comedy, Dante wakes to find himself in Limbo in the Canto of this number, while the circle of Hell of this number is associated with the sin of Greed. The Inextinguishable, by Carl Nielsen, and Heroes by Philip Glass, are nicknames for symphonies with this number. One molecule of the simplest alkyne, acetylene, contains this many atoms, and in 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken proved a mathematical theorem named after this number of colours.
Four (C2H2)
Buddhist word for the truth of suffering in the Four Noble Truths
Dukkha
Buddhist word for the truth of the origin of suffering in the Four Noble Truths
Samudaya
Buddhist word for the truth of the cessation of suffering in the Four Noble Truths
Nirodha
Buddhist word for the truth of the path to the cessation of suffering in the Four Noble Truths
Magga
A group of women who supposedly sat beside guillotines, continuing to knit, were called what?
tricoteuses
Which Irish rugby player was nicknamed ‘Uncle Fester’ and ‘the raging potato’ because of his baldness?
Keith Wood
What numerical “call” was Willie John MacBride’s policy of “one in, all in” called druing 1974 British Lions tour of South Africa?
99 Call
Full name of Scottish rugby union footballer. Nicknamed “Broon frae Troon” he is considered one of Scotland’s greatest-ever rugby players during the 1970s?
Gordon Brown
This function appears in the name of a connected curve which is not path connected, known as the topologist’s version of this function. Osborn’s rule states that a minus sign must be added to identities involving the square of the hyperbolic version of this function, which is defined as the difference between two exponentials divided by two. This function is multiplied by the imaginary number in formula. Cosecant is the reciprocal of this function
Sine
Bengali poet, writer, musician, and is revered as the national poet of Bangladesh known for “The Song of Destruction”, “The Comet” and nicknamed Rebel Poet.
NAZRUL Islam
Name of Indian national anthem
Jana Gana Mana
Name of Bangladeshi national anthem
Amar Sonar Bangla
This person’s mother wrote the book The Private Lives of the Three Tenors under the pen-name Martha Lewis, and in 2014 this person described themselves as the “patient zero” of online harassment. This person’s name became public when they confided in a work colleague who secretly taped those conversations and passed them to an Independent Counsel investigating the Whitewater affair: those tapes made by Linda Tripp were passed to Kenneth Starr.
Monica Lewinsky
What is added to Bailey’s to make a cement mixer?
Lime Juice
Ralph A. Bagnold wrote a book on the physics of these things, whose movement is dependent on the cube of the friction velocity. The tallest one of these things is in Argentina and named after Federico Kirbus, while any example of these things over 300 metres in height is known as a draa. A European example of these is found near La Teste-de-Buch and named [this thing] of Pilat. Singing examples of these features exist in China’s Badain Jaran, while the oxidation of iron is responsible for the orange colour of these features at Sossusvlei in Namibia.
Sand Dunes
For this singer’s last top 40 hit, he collaborated with patients of Weymouth’s Trimar Hospice to record the three-track single We Laughed. This singer featured on the Beats International track Won’t Talk About It. Singles from this singer’s album Talking With The Taxman About Poetry included Greetings to the New Brunette and a single about the lead singer of the Four Tops, Levi Stubbs’ Tears. This singer’s only UK number one formed a double-A side with Wet Wet Wet’s With A Little Help From My Friends: that track was a cover of She’s Leaving Home. Which folk and protest singer, the writer of the song A New England, is nicknamed ‘The Bard of Barking’?
Billy Bragg
The Hall–Héroult process is the major industrial process for smelting what element? It involves dissolving the oxide (obtained earlier through the Bayer process) in molten cryolite, and electrolyzing the molten salt bath, typically in a purpose-built cell.
Aluminium
In The Boys from Brazil, Laurence Olivier’s character lives in this city, which is also the home of Eisenheim the Illusionist. In The Living Daylights, the British bureaucrat Saunders is crushed by sabotaged sliding doors in this city, while during a production of Turandot in this city, Ethan Hunt tries to prevent an assassination from the rafters of an opera house in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Jesse and Celine disembark from a train in this city to spend the night together in Before Sunrise, while Alfred Hitchcock directed a biographical film titled Waltzes from this city.
Vienna
A ballet by this composer features games including Rival Tribes before a character is picked as l’élue(lay-LU). This man composed the music for the 22-minute ballet Agon(AY-gon), which formed part of a Greek trilogy whose first ballet Apollo used costumes designed by Coco Chanel. 13 enchanted princesses play a catching game in an enchanted garden before Prince Ivan is instructed to break an egg, killing Koschei, in another ballet by this composer.
Igor Stravinsky
What word follows Apollo in the common name of a marble sculpture of Apollo, dated to the 2nd century BC, and held in the Vatican since 1489? Though its reputation has declined, it was long considered to represent the pinnacle of ancient sculpture.
Belvedere
Apollo and Daphne, a depiction of a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, was the last work that Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned from which Italian Baroque sculptor? His other works include The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The 1972-73 Philadelphia Flyers were given what nickname, based on the location of their home stadium and their aggressively physical play, which saw them rack up a record number of penalty minutes? In 1974 they became the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup.
Broad Street Bullies
Originally sung by King George III in the musical, Jimmy Fallon performs You’ll Be Back accompanied by which hip-hop band, Fallon’s house band on The Tonight Show?
The Roots
The ten-point scale classifies countries into four tiers based on detailed assessment of their degree of political freedom and stability of institutions - full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, and what lowest tier?
Authoritarian Regimes
Which small nation is the only African polity that the Index considers to be a full democracy? It last went to the polls in 2019, electing Prithvirajsing Roopun as its seventh President.
Mauritius
Polish desert which is Central Europe’s largest accumulation of loose sand in an area away from any sea, deposited thousands of years ago by a melting glacier. It occupies an area of 32 km2 (12 sq mi). The sands have an average depth of 40 m, up to 70 m at the maximum. The Biała Przemsza River divides the desert in two from east to west.
Bledow Desert
In 2015, a Met Office spokesperson denied the urban legend that the rain levels in Dungeness were low enough to qualify it as a desert. Dungeness is located in which English county?
Kent
Which cold Asian desert is sometimes considered independent and other times considered part of the Gobi? Located in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, folklore holds that this desert’s name means ‘Place of No Return’.
Taklamakan Desert
Which band’s 1982 power ballad Hard to Say I’m Sorry is sometimes referred to as Hold Me Now due to it being the first line of the chorus?
Chicago
What does the ‘NT’ stand for in the abbreviation VANTA? It stands for the same term in another abbreviation, CNT, where the ‘C’ stands for ‘carbon’.
Nanotube
Deterministic growth of carbon nanotubes in regular arrays is most commonly achieved with thermal or plasma-enhanced CVD. What does the abbreviation CVD stand for?
Chemical Vapour Deposition
Which podcast by Wondery and the Los Angeles Times was adapted into a Netflix series starring Eric Bana, Julia Garner and Connie Britton? It concerns a con artist who is murdered by his stepdaughter.
Dirty John
Based on a podcast of the same name, the 2022 series WeCrashed charts the rise and fall of which property co-working company founded by Adam Neumann?
WeWork
Which composer’s saxophone concerto Panic became in 1995 the first piece of contemporary music to be performed at the Last Night of the Proms? This composer died in 2022.
Harrison Birtwistle
Birtwistle’s first major success was which other opera inspired by Greek mythology, which premiered in 1986?
The Mask of Orpheus
David de Gea’s 2015 transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid supposedly collapsed due to a faulty example of what piece of electronic equipment, still regularly mentioned in deadline day chatter despite being rendered obsolete by DocuSign and deal sheets?
Fax Machine
Which Italian sports journalist is the current king of transfer tittle tattle on deadline day, with over 18 million followers on Twitter? He is known for the tagline “here we go!” when announcing a deal.
Fabrizio Romano
Fray Alonso de Ojeda convinced Isabella and Ferdinand that Judaism was still being practiced in secret, leading to them petitioning which Pope to establish an Inquisition in Spain in 1478? His accomplishments as pope included the construction of the Sistine Chapel and the creation of the Vatican Library. Your answer needs a regnal number.
Sixtus IV
Kamerlingh Onnes first observed superconductivity in a wire made from what metal, immersed in liquid helium? In metallurgy, an amalgam is an alloy that consists primarily of this metal.
Mercury
Which actor is remembered for her role alongside Crosby and Hope as the principal female star in six of the seven Road to… movies?
Dorothy Lamour
Considered to be two of the world’s finest Art Deco buildings, the Cinema Impero and the Fiat Tagliero service station were built in the 1930s under Italian colonial rule in which African capital city?
Asmara
The massive Hawke’s Bay earthquake in 1931 led to the construction of many Art Deco buildings in which southern hemisphere city, many designed by local architect Louis Hay?
Napier, New Zealand
Both the jade egg and a different treatment involving the use of steam to “cleanse the uterus” were widely criticised by gynaecologists, notably including which doctor, columnist and author of The Menopause Manifesto?
Jen Gunter
Steve Smith, David Warner and which other player were banned from cricket after they were caught tampering with the ball in a 2018 test match against South Africa?
Cameron Bancroft
The controversial match was played at Newlands cricket ground, often regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful grounds and located in which South African city?
Cape Town
Which Radio 4 programme focuses on mental health, psychology and neuroscience? It is presented by Claudia Hammond.
All in the Mind
Which psychiatrist known for his work on This Morning presented All in the Mind until 2006, when he became embroiled in plagiarism allegations concerning his book From the Edge of the Couch?
Raj Persaud
Which Irish psychiatrist, best known for presenting In the Psychiatrist’s Chair and being the narrator of QED, was the first presenter of All in the Mind?
Anthony Clare
Which author who co-founded Redstockings with Ellen Willis wrote The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution?
Shulamith Firestone
Which author is known for sparking the second wave of the feminist movement with her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique? In 1970 she organised a Women’s Strike for Equality.
Betty Friedan
Which author is known for her books Woman Hating and Intercourse? An anti-pornography campaigner, she worked with Catherine MacKinnon.
Andrea Dworkin
In Olympic diving, the platform events all involve diving from a platform at what
height?
10m
At 559 metres, Shining Tor is the highest point in which ceremonial county of England, despite not being the highest summit of the national park it is in?
Cheshire [in Peak
District, whose
highest summits are
in Derbyshire]
Which designer, already made a dame for her services to fashion in 2015, was
added to the Companions of Honour in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List, but
died just months later in April?
Mary QUant
Blondie, Go West, Spagna [Span-ya] and Jamelia have all had different hits with
which two-word title?
Call Me
Which Irish racehorse trainer is the most successful Epsom Derby trainer of all
time with 9 wins, including Auguste Rodin in 2023?
Aidan O’Brien
Which type of logic gate only returns a true output if both the two inputs are true?
AND Gate
Tasheliyt, Kabyle, Tarifit and Shawiya are all languages in which branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, mainly spoken by a North
African people?
Berber
Give either of the words used in physics for the third derivative of position with
respect to time, or in other words, the rate of change of acceleration?
Jerk
The Thunderbirds character Scott Tracy was named after a member of the
Mercury Seven group of astronauts with the first name Scott and which traditional
occupation as his surname?
Scott Carpenter
Which word completes the title of the German sociologist Marianne Weber’s 1912 work Authority and Autonomy in _____? In it, she argued for a ‘companionate’ form of this institution, and rejected the patriarchal idea that
women gave over their autonomy by entering into it.
Marriage
An August 2023 operator bundle for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 allowed fans
to play as which real-life hip hop star, complete with hair, vehicles and guns in all
pink, such as the Super Freaky?
Nicki Minaj
Which African capital city, on the shores of Lake Victoria, is located less than one
degree north of the Equator?
Kampala
On the menu in a Korean restaurant, the suffix ‘-guk’ indicates what type of dish?
Soup
Which British actor, perhaps best known for his role in the Harry Potter films, voiced Admiral Zhao, the main villain in the first season of the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender?
Jason Isaacs
Which type of logic gate only return a false output if both the two inputs are false?
OR
Which type of logic gate only return a false output if both the two inputs are true?
NAND
Oromo, Somali, Beja and Afar are the most spoken languages in which branch of
the Afro-Asiatic language family, primarily spoken in the Horn of Africa? Despite
what the name might suggest, no link has been shown between this group and
the language of a certain ancient kingdom.
Cushitic
Which Irish racehorse trainer is the most successful trainer in the history of the
Cheltenham Festival, with 94 winners, including Galopin Des Champs in the 2023
Cheltenham Gold Cup?
Willie Mullins
At 703 metres, Black Mountain is the highest point in which ceremonial county of
England, and also the highest English summit south of Yorkshire? It is on the
edge of a national park that does not extend into this county.
Herefordshire
Which English author was given a knighthood in the 2023 King’s Birthday
Honours List, which was backdated to the date he accepted it in May, just one
day before his death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73?
Martin Amis
Ennobled in 2023 in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours, which 36-year-old Mayor of Tees Valley was appointed as a life peer despite being under investigation over financial irregularities and potential fraud following the sale of
Redcar’s steel works?
Ben Houchen
In Olympic diving, the springboard events all involve diving from a springboard at
what height?
3m
On a recycling symbol, the number 5 and the letters PP indicate which
compound, made by chaining monomer units of C3H6, that is the second-most
produced plastic in the world, after polythene?
Polypropylene
One of the three children of Loki and Angrbodr, what type of animal was Jörmungandr, who encircled the Earth?
Serpent
Which American actor, perhaps best known for his role is a series of popular sci-fi films, voiced Fire Lord Ozai, the ultimate antagonist and main villain of the third and final season of Avatar: The Last Airbender?
Mark Hamill
On the menu in a Korean restaurant, what is the primary ingredient common to
dishes whose names end with ‘guksu’?
Noodles
Signed in 1923 and named for a French-speaking city in Switzerland, which treaty sought to end the conflict between Allied Powers and the remains of the Ottoman Empire that had continued since the First World War, and settle the borders of Turkey?
Lausanne
Although it had been written almost 40 years earlier, which American modernist
composer was awarded the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony
number 3; The Camp Meeting?
Charles Ives
The Thunderbirds character Gordon Tracy was named after a member of the Mercury Seven group of astronauts with the first name Gordon and which traditional occupation as his surname?
Cooper
Which word completes the title of the German sociologist Marianne Weber’s 1912 work On the Valuation of _____? In it, she argued that women should be paid for this form of labour, guaranteeing them a personal income.
Housework
In 2014, which band became the first heavy metal group to headline at the
Glastonbury Festival?
Metallica
Edward and Alphonse Elric live in Resembool with their mother Trisha and father Van Hohenheim, a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa.
Fullmetal Alchemist
The Banksy work Choose Your Weapon depicts a young man with a chained
cartoon dog. The dog image was borrowed from which American street and pop
artist who died in 1990 aged just 31?
Keith Haring
Apple Inc is headquartered at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, to the west of
which city in the San Francisco Bay area?
San Jose
Which wine estate in Burgundy, considered one of the greatest in the region, and often the most expensive is the owner of the La Tâche vineyard?
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, or DRC
Liberland is an unrecognised European micronation proclaimed in 2015, that sits
on the border between two nation states, both formed after the collapse of another country in the early 90s. Neither of the states wants to claim this land as their own: name either country.
Serbia or Croatia
The German composer Carl Orff is probably best known for his work Carmina
Burana. This work is the first part of a trilogy of cantatas called Trionfi. What is
the second work in the trilogy? Part of the answer is in this question.
Catulli Carmina
The actor Joshua Malina played US Attorney General David Rosen in which
political drama created by Shonda Rimes?
Scandal
Which imperial unit is defined as ‘a mass that is accelerated by 1 foot per second per second when a net force of one pound is exerted on it’?
Slug
On the first day of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which Dutch athlete led in the final straight of the 10,000m, but fell on the track? She would win a silver medal in the 5,000m and bronze in the 1,500m.
Sifan Hassan
Which model of office chair, sold by the Hermann Miller company since 1994, is
part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art?
Aeron Chair
Between 1967 and 1972, Edward Woodward played the titular character in which UK TV series? His character is a UK secret service agent working for The Section.
Callan
Which UK ministerial department has its headquarters building on Whitehall, in
between Horse Guards Avenue and Richmond Terrace?
Ministry of Defence
Which soft cow’s-milk cheese is named after a region of Northern France roughly corresponding to the modern département of Seine-et-Marne? Notable UK examples of the cheese are made in Somerset and Cornwall.
Brie
The Aralkum Desert, created following the drying up of an endorheic lake, is considered the youngest desert in the world. It is located in two countries – name either one.
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
Name either of the first two people listed on the memorial at the ancient scaffold site on Tower Hill. They were executed in 1381 during the Peasant’s Revolt?
Simon Sudbury (Lord Chancellor) or
Sir Robert Hales (Lord High Treasurer)
Spice World, the Spice Girls’ 1997 cinematic masterpiece, featured an impressive supporting cast. Which actor and comedian, who originated the role of Mr Sowerberry in Lionel Bart’s Oliver! and later starred as Fagin in other productions, played Kevin McMaxford, a newspaper owner trying to ruin the Spice Girls’ reputation?
Barry Humphries
Which UK ministerial department has its headquarters building on Whitehall, in
between Downing Street and King Charles Street?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Which model of chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the
German Pavilion at the International Exposition of 1929, has been produced by
the Knoll company since 1953?
Barcelona Chair
Which imperial unit is defined as ‘the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot
per second per second to a mass of 1 pound’?
Poundal
Name the last person listed on the memorial at the ancient scaffold site on Tower Hill. He was executed in 1747 for his involvement in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion?
Simon Fraser
The world’s largest sand desert, covering much of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the
United Arab Emirates and Yemen, has what name?
Rub’al-Khali - The Empty Quarter
Joshua Malina also starred in another political drama - The West Wing - as a
speech writer Will Bailey, who assisted which other character?
Toby Ziegler
In the motoring acronym PHEV, the letters HEV stand for Hybrid Electric Vehicle.
What hyphenated term does the P represent, a reference to the method of
charging an electric battery with a cable?
Plug-In
Which wine estate in the Pomerol appellation of Bordeaux, considered one of the
greatest in the region, and often the most expensive, belongs to the Moueix
family?
Château Pétrus
On the first day of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which Dutch athlete
led in the final straight of the 4x400m mixed relay, but fell on the track? She
would win a gold medal in both the 400m hurdles and women’s 4x400m.
Femke Bol
Between 1985 and 1989, Edward Woodward played the main character in which
US TV series? His character is a retired covert operative of an unnamed US
intelligence agency.
The Equalizer
A number of Banksy works include images of rodents. These reference the French graffiti artist Xavier Prou, who has been described as the “father of stencil graffiti”. Prou is more commonly known by the name Blek le WHAT?
Rat
The German composer Carl Orff is probably best known for his work Carmina
Burana. This work is the first part of a trilogy of cantatas called Trionfi. What is
the third work in the trilogy? Part of the answer is in this question
Trionfo di Afrodite
What is the name of the disputed micronation situated off the coast of Suffolk?
Founded by Paddy Roy Bates, it took over a defunct WWII fort but its claim for
independence came to an end when the UK extended its territorial waters in
1987.
Principality of Sealand
Which club, at 104 Pall Mall, is the start and end point for Phileas Fogg’s journey
in Around the World in 80 Days?
The Reform Club
What is the title of the satirical novella by Edwin Abbot Abbot published in 1884?
It tells the story of a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric figures
Flatland
Donald Knuth – author of the multi-volume work, The Art of Computer
Programming, also has an interest in computer typesetting. What is the name of
the typesetting system he developed?
TeX
brewdog vodka name
Abstrakt
Which Berber ethnic group are traditionally nomadic pastoralists and mainly live in the
Sahara in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Libya and Algeria? They speak a language of the
same name, which is also known as Tamasheq.
Tuareg
Which Japanese game designer was responsible for creating the arcade game Space
Invaders in 1978? It became the first so-called ‘killer app’ when it was made available to
home players on the Atari console.
Tomohiro Nishikado
In most versions of the legend, what is the name of King Arthur’s mother? She is
impregnated by Uther Pendragon while he is disguised as her husband, Gorlois, through
the magical intervention of Merlin.
Igraine
What capital of China’s Liaoning Province gives its name to the 1931 incident that saw
Japanese soldiers detonate an explosion there, something they used as a pretext to
invade Manchuria? You may give its name at the time or its current name.
Mukden or Shenyang
H is for Hawk is a 2014 memoir by which British author? It won the Samuel Johnson Prize
and Costa Book of the Year award.
Helen MacDonald
Which 31-year-old openside flanker has captained the Australian Rugby Union team
more than any other man? In a surprise, he was omitted from the Wallabies’ 2023 World
Cup squad.
Michael Hooper
What word beginning with the letter A refers to a section of a river that diverts from the
main channel of the watercourse but rejoins downstream? A bayou is often an example of
this type of feature.
Anabranch
Born in Scarborough in 1975 to a well-known folk musician couple, which female singer and fiddle player has released numerous albums, including Red Rice and Anglicana, both of which saw her nominated for the Mercury Music Prize?
Eliza Carthy
English folk group from Hull, Yorkshire. They performed mainly traditional songs with little or no accompaniment. Their distinctive sound came from their closely woven harmonies. They have been called the “most famous family in English folk music”. Joined by one’s husband Carthy.
The Watersons
One of these units is roughly 745.7 Watts.
Horsepower
Give one of the names used in film making and photography for a shot which has a
noticeable tilt on the camera’s x-axis? This technique is often used to indicate that
something in the scene is off kilter.
Dutch Angle
What is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the southernmost
large city in the country? It is one of the richest cities in Latin America and known for
its innovation of participatory budgeting.
Porto Alegre
Miracle Moist, Mighty Mega and Bonza Colour are products made by what shampoo
and hair care brand? This brand’s name reflects the country of origin of its
ingredients rather than of the brand itself.
Aussie
President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1971–73, who proposed the theory
of stellar nucleosynthesis? He is also associated with the Big Bang; both coining the
term and rejecting it as a theory.
Fred Hoyle
Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche play wealthy scheming brothers Randolph and
Mortimer Duke in which 1983 comedy directed by John Landis? The film also stars
Eddie Murphy as street hustler Billy Ray Valentine.
Trading Places
Who was the Assyrian king, known for assembling the world’s oldest known library,
who reigned during the 7th century BCE and is often described as the last great king
of the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
Ashurbanipal
On TikTok what girl’s name is used to describe a woman so popular people want to
either be her or be with her? It takes its name from a song that reached top 20 on the
UK singles charts in 2020.
Heather
In 2019 which then 20-year-old became the youngest man to represent France in
a Rugby Union World Cup? This fly half, whose father also played for Les Bleus,
missed the 2023 World Cup due to injury
Romain Ntamack
Which Jamaican duo had their only UK number one hit in 1971 with the song
Double Barrel? Despite what the act’s name might suggest, its members are not
related.
Dave and Ansel Collins
What word beginning with the letter A refers to the rapid abandonment of an old
river channel and the formation of a new one? Delta switching is an example of
this process that occurs near the mouth of a river.
Avulsion
What capital of China’s Shandong Province gives its name to the 1928 incident
there, a dispute between Chiang Kai-Shek’s National Revolutionary Army and the
Imperial Japanese Army?
Jinan
The Dalits, the lowest stratum of people in the Indian caste system, were
previously known by what English name, now considered to be offensive?
Untouchables
Name of a membrane which bounds the chief vacuole of a plant cell.
Tonoplast
Which Scottish comedian wrote the 2023 memoir Strong Female Character? She
has said that she dressed “like an alien” when she was a contestant on
Taskmaster as a “secret wink” to fellow neurodiverse people.
Fern Brady
In Ancient Roman culture, what four-lobed internal organ was used for divination
by a haruspex?
Liver
In 2023. Brewdog launched Duo, a brand of what alcoholic drink?
Rum
brewdog gin brand
Lone Wolf
What ethnic group mostly found in the Sahel make up 30% of Nigeria’s population, mostly concentrated in its North, and half of Niger’s population, mostly concentrated in its South?
Hausa
Which Japanese game designer led the team responsible for Pac-Man, the only
arcade game to have outsold Space Invaders? He spent his entire career with
Namco before leaving the company to become a university lecturer in 2007.
Toru Iwatani
In traditional Arthurian legend, who is Arthur’s father-in-law? This nobleman gives
the King his famous Round Table as a wedding gift when he marries Guinevere.
Leodegrance
On TikTok someone may use ‘BMS’ to describe someone so hot they exceed traditional
measures of attractiveness. In this context what does BMS stand for?
Broke My Scale
The most recent Center Parcs opened in the UK was opened in 2014 near Ampthill and
Flitwick in Bedfordshire. It is named after a supposed forest named after which local
village, also home to the Abbey which is the seat of the Dukes of Bedford?
Woburn
President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1921–23, who first proposed that stellar
energy was formed by the fusion of hydrogen into helium? He also undertook a 1919
expedition which proved the General Theory of Relativity.
Arthur Eddington
Which Assyrian king, the son of Sargon II, was known for his campaigns against Babylon
and Judah, and renovation of Nineveh in the 7th century BCE? The loss of this man’s
army during an attempted siege of Jerusalem was commemorated in an 1815 poem.
Sennacherib
Give one of the names used in filmmaking for the effect where you move towards or away
from a subject while zooming in the opposite direction to keep the subject the same size
in the frame throughout? This makes the background appear to change size relative to
the subject, with an unsettling effect.
Dolly zoom (accept
Hitchcock shot, Vertigo
shot, Jaws effect or
Zolly shot)
What is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná, and the largest city in the south of the
country? It has the highest standard of living in Brazil and is known for its innovative
urban planning by the architect and politician Jaime Lerner.
Curitiba
Argan Oil, and White Grapefruit and Mossa Mint are products made by which shampoo brand owned by Clairol, whose name reflects its use of a wide variety of natural ingredients? This brand is known for adverts in which users of this product moan sensually in the shower.
Herbal Essences
Born in West Yorkshire in 1973 and known as the ‘Barnsley Nightingale’, which female
folk singer has released numerous albums, including The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly, Hand Me
Down, and Sleepless, which saw her nominated for the Mercury Music Prize?
Kate Rusby
Which imperial unit, which is roughly 4.2 Joules?
Calorie
Which river – known as the Guainia in its upper part – accounts for about a seventh of
the water in the Amazon basin? Sharing its name with at least five other rivers in South
America, its very dark colour is due to the presence of decomposed organic matter.
Rio Negro
Which Fante warlord and king was captured and enslaved by the Dutch in the mid-18th
century before leading a namesake slave rebellion in Jamaica in 1760 and 1761? This
rebellion led to others breaking out across the nation, including one in the west led by
Apongo.
Tacky
Abul-Abbas was an elephant sent as a gift to the Emperor Charlemagne by which man,
the fifth Abbasid caliph? This man’s reign is said to have seen the beginning of the
Islamic Golden Age and he established the legendary Bayt al-Hikmah (House of
Wisdom) in Baghdad.
HARUN al-Rashid
Which Venezuelan concert pianist released the album Bach and Beyond, which
consisted of a series of improvisations on themes by Bach? She is known for
performing real-time improvisations alongside standard works from the classical
repertoire.
Gabriela Montero
Jōdo-shū, founded by Hōnen, and Jōdo Shinshū, founded by Shinran, are two schools
of Buddhism that focus on achieving rebirth into what blissful realm that is described
in the The Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Immeasurable Life Sutra)? This realm gives its
name to a branch of Mahayana Buddhism.
Pure Land
The first to be seen in Europe since Abul-Abbas, the Cremona elephant was a gift to the
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II from the Sultan of Egypt, Al-Kamil. Al-Kamil belonged
to which dynasty that was founded by his uncle, Saladin?
Ayyubid
Which reflective medical imaging technique is performed with a transducer and can
be performed in amplitude (A) mode, brightness (B) mode or motion (M) mode
scanning?
Ultrasound
The epigraph of T. S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ quotes a man
speaking “without fear of infamy” from which other poem? The speaker of this poem
declares “I found myself in a forest dark”* before encountering a lion, a leopard, and a
she-wolf.
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Sharing its name with a Portuguese territory in the Atlantic Ocean, which river is the
biggest tributary of the Amazon accounting for 15% of its flow? Some 3,200 kilometres
long, it forms the border between Bolivia and Brazil for approximately 100 kilometres.
Madeira
Nianfo is a practice of repeating the name of which Buddha, the central figure of Pure
Land Buddhism? This Buddha has a name that means ‘infinite light’
Amitabha
Which transmissive medical imaging technique constructs images based on the
Fourier transform of x-ray radiographs at many projection angles?
computed tomography scan
Taking its name from his title of nobility, what 1775 document was written by John
Murray, the governor of the British colony of Virginia? It was intended to spark a slave
rebellion, as it guaranteed freedom for any slave of an American Patriot who joined the
British army.
Dunmore’s Proclamation
Several books of which Greek epic involve a frame story in which the hero tells the
court of king Alcinous of his adventures? These include the escape from the Sirens and
Scylla and Charybdis.
The Odyssey
Hanno was an elephant sent to Pope Leo X by a king of Portugal with what regnal
name? He is known for expanding the Portuguese Empire during the Age of Discovery,
and gives his name to a style of late Gothic architecture that developed during his
reign. Regnal number not required.
Manuel I
The now-extinct aurochs has been domesticated on at least two occasions. Once in the
Middle East, giving rise to taurine cattle, and once in India, giving rise to which
subspecies, sometimes known as indicine cattle? They are distinguished from taurine
cattle by the presence of a fatty hump and a dewlap.
Zebu
Which French jazz pianist, who led a namesake trio, released five albums in the Play
Bach series as well as interpretations of the Brandenburg Concertos and Goldberg
Variations? His style of music has been described as ‘third stream’, blending jazz and
classical and with an emphasis on improvisation.
Jacques Loussier
The epigraph of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land is a quote in which a Sibyl says “I
want to die,” found in which novel? At a feast in this novel, a freedman declares that
he wants the lines “He never listened to a philosopher. Fare thee well, Trimalchio: and
thou too, passer-by” to be inscribed on his own tomb.
The Satyricon by Petronius
Established in 1970 to house workers who were employed at Chernobyl plant and their
families, which city was forcibly evacuated after the 1986 nuclear disaster and remains
abandoned to this day?
Pripyat
Which Christian deacon led 60,000 enslaved people in rebellion against the Crown
Colony of Jamaica at Christmas 1831 in an event that is often called the Baptist War?
Although it was unsuccessful, it hastened the abolition of slavery across the British
Empire.
Samuel Sharpe
Which 13th-century Buddhist monk attacked Honen and the practice of Nianfo at a
lecture at Seicho-ji Temple? This monk gives his name to a major branch of Buddhism in
Japan, from which Soka Gakkai emerged in 1930.
Nichiren
Some people claim the Marañón River as the ‘hydrological source’ of the Amazon due
to its discharge rate, and it was once the name by which the Amazon was known. The
confluence of the Marañón with the Ucayali River happens in which country, after
which the river is called the Amazon?
Peru
What word for a Brazilian Muslim is given to the slave revolt that occurred in Bahia in
January 1835? This revolt was inspired by the Haitian Revolution and took place during
Ramadan, having been inspired by Muslim teachers.
Malê revolt
There are no wild species of bovid in South America, but two species of camelid were
domesticated there for wool, meat and as beasts of burden. One of those was the
vicuña, which gave rise to the alpaca; what was the other, which gave rise to the
llama?
Guanaco
Which emissive medical imaging technique reconstructs images in a manner similar to
CT scans, but uses radionuclides that undergo beta plus decay and generate pairs of
gamma rays that are tracked by detectors?
positron emission tomography
What is the foundational text of Nichiren Buddhism? Among its teachings is the belief
in an eternal Buddha and the idea that Buddhahood is attainable by all living things.
Lotus Sutra
A 1911 fire in which clothing factory in New York City claimed the lives of 146 workers,
mostly young immigrant women, and highlighted unsafe working conditions? This
tragedy led to labour reforms and improved workplace safety standards.
TRIANGLE Shirtwaist Factory
Which jazz ensemble released the album Blues on Bach? That album consisted of five
arrangements of Bach pieces by this group’s leader John Lewis, and four pieces in the
keys that spell out B-A-C-H*, two of which were written by Milt Jackson?
*In German musical notation, B-flat is represented by a B and B-natural by an H.
Modern Jazz Quartet
What name was given to the social and political movement launched by Mao Zedong in
1966 that sought to preserve communism by purging capitalism and some aspects of
traditional culture from Chinese society?
Cultural Revolution
Which 5th- and 6th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer developed Kuṭṭaka, an algorithm for solving linear Diophantine equations? He is also known for his
contributions to algebra and for making accurate estimates of pi and the
circumference of the earth.
Aryabhata
What is the closest living relative of the puma or cougar? A medium-sized diurnal cat
with an elongated body, it is notable for having both grey and red colour morphs.
Jaguarundi
Susan Sontag wrote a 1964 essay about which sensibility? She identifies Aubrey
Beardsley drawings, old Flash Gordon comics and the novels of Ronald Firbank
and Ivy Compton Burnett as part of its canon.
Camp
In the Asterix books, what was generally sold by the shopkeeper Unhygienix?
Fish
Which poem by Paul Verlaine was the inspiration for a Claude Debussy piece of
the same name, which forms the third movement of his Suite bergamasque for
solo piano?
Clair de Lune
Which team did Toutai Kefu coach at the 2023 Rugby World Cup? He was born
in this country, although Irish rugby fans may remember him as the Australian
No.8 who had a fight with Trevor Brennan at the 1999 World Cup.
Tonga
Which playwright of the Spanish Golden Age first introduced the character of Don
Juan in his play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest?
Tirso de Molina
Which country in the Horn of Africa is the site of Camp Lemonnier, a US naval
base since 2002? This country also hosts a Chinese naval base at Doraleh.
Djibouti
What Greek-derived name meaning “bird-hipped” is given to a clade of dinosaurs
including Triceratops and Stegosaurus?
Ornithischians
Which Sky One sitcom starring Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer is set
primarily at GCHQ?
Intelligence
What is the nationality of Aliko Dangote, founder of Dangote Cement and the richest person in Africa, according to Forbes?
Nigeria
What is the nationality of the architects Arne Jacobsen and Jørn Utzon?
Danish
Robert Fripp played lead guitar on which 1977 David Bowie album? It was the
second of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy after the same year’s Low and contains the title
track that was a UK hit single as well as the song Beauty and the Beast.
Heroes
Robert Fripp is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of which progressive rock band?
King Crimson
Who has been married to King Crimson founder Robert Fripp since 1986?
Toyah Willcox
According to the Poetic Edda, Odin had two companion wolves who he fed with
food from his table. Name either of them.
Geri or Freki
Which wicketkeeper-batsman played 46 test matches for India in the 1960s and
1970s? His surname is a profession.
Farokh Engineer
Which Nahua woman acted as an advisor to Hernan Cortes during his conquest
of the Aztec Empire?
La Malinche
Which technique is used to determine the concentration of a solution by adding
small quantities of a reactant until a chemical change occurs? A burette is often
used for this?
Titration
One common element of Remembrance Day services is the reading of an
epitaph named for which Indian city, where it is on a memorial to British troops
killed in a 1944 battle? Capital of Nagaland.
Kohima
Which popular music of Sri Lanka and Goa takes its name from the Portuguese
verb meaning ‘to dance’? MS Fernando was known as the “Emperor” of this
music.
Baila
Which Olympic gymnast was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 until 2011, representing Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party? Uneven Bars gold 1996 and 2000.
Svetlana Khorkina
What is the nationality of the architects Jean Nouvel and Hector Guimard?
French
Stevie Ray Vaughan played lead guitar on which 1983 David Bowie album, which
contains the title track that was a UK hit single and the song China Girl?
Vaughan’s cocaine habit prevented him from joining the Serious Moonlight tour to
promote it.
Let’s Dance
According to the Prose Edda, Odin had two companion ravens who he sent out to
fly across the world and report back to him. Name either of them.
Hugin and Munin
Which group of saurischian dinosaurs, which includes modern birds, has a name
meaning “wild beast foot”?
Theropods
Which Channel 4 thriller mini-series starring Hannah Khalique-Brown and Simon
Pegg is set primarily at GCHQ?
The Undeclared War
Sonatrach, which is one of the largest companies in Africa, is the state-owned
petroleum company of which country?
Algeria
Which team did Jamie Joseph coach at the 2023 Rugby World Cup? He played
for this country at the 1999 tournament, but English rugby fans will remember him
better as the New Zealand flanker who stamped on Kyran Bracken in 1993.
Japan
Who wrote The Libertine, the first English play based on the story of Don Juan?
Unlike the Earl of Rochester, he became Poet Laureate, succeeding John Dryden
in 1689.
Thomas Shadwell
Which country in Central Asia hosted the US Air Force at Manas Air Base until 2014? Since 2003 it has also hosted Russian forces at Kant Air Base.
Kyrgyzstan
The philosopher Harry G Frankfurt wrote a 1986 essay on what concept? He
argues that this sort of speech, which is similar to humbug, differs from lying
because rather than covering up truth it simply disregards it.
Bullshit
In the Asterix books, what was the trade of Fulliautomatix?
(Black)Smith
Which poem by Stéphane Mallarmé was the inspiration for a Claude Debussy
piece of the same name, a symphonic poem for orchestra?
Prélude à l’après-midi
d’un faune (accept
Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Faun)
Which memorial at Ypres bears the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War whose bodies were never identified?
Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing
Which character played by Steve Coogan hosted his namesake House of Horrible on BBC2?
Dr Terrible
Which style of music is considered the national music of Cape Verde? Cesaria Evora was known as the “Queen” of this music
Morna
Which Olympic figure skater was appointed in 2022 as the US ambassador to Belize?
Michelle Kwan
Which theologian wrote The City of God, which was published in 426 AD shortly
after the sack of Rome by the Visigoths?
St Augustine of Hippo
What was the name of the group led by jazz composer and keyboard player Sun
Ra?
The Arkestra
Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Caravaggio both painted the conversion of which
biblical figure on the road to Damascus?
Saint Paul
Which Indian batsman played only ten tests for India between 1933 and 1951,
despite averaging over 70 in first class cricket? His surname is a profession.
Vijay Merchant
Historian David Pryce-Jones used the phrase “The Frivolity of Evil” in the title of
his book about which socialite and friend of Adolf Hitler?
Unity Mitford
Who won the men’s 200 metres final at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City,
becoming the first man to break the 20 second barrier officially?
Tommie Smith
Which song about a financial crisis was the first UK chart hit for the band Simply Red? Originally recorded by The Valentine Brothers, the lyrics mention both “Reagonomics” and “Nancy”
Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)
What was the patronymic surname of Norse explorer ‘Erik the Red’, the father of Leif Erikson?
Thorvaldsson
Despite being colourblind, which Academy Award winning actor wrote their
History of Art thesis on International Klein Blue whilst study at Trinity College, Cambridge?
Eddie Redmayne
Which Moroccan city, located in the foothills of the Rif [Reef] Mountains, is
nicknamed the “Blue City” due to its multitude of buildings painted in
shades of blue?
Chefchaouen
Viggo Mortensen was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his role playing which Mafia hard man in the 2018 movie Green Book? He was best known for his portrayal of crime boss Carmine Lupertazzi in the HBO series, The Sopranos. He portrayed real-life Bonanno crime family mobster Philip Giaccone in Donnie Brasco, and real-life Lucchese crime family mobster Francesco Manzo in Goodfellas
Tony Lip (Frank Vallelonga)
The names of three chemical elements are related to the colour green. Two of these are chlorine and beryllium - which post-transition metal, with the atomic number 81, takes its name from the Greek meaning “green shoot”?
Thallium
Which popular pantomime features a cow called ‘Milky-White’?
Jack and the Beanstalk
For what did the letter E stand in the name of US author E.B. White?
Elwyn Brooks White
Irish-born architect James Hoban modelled his design for The White House on which building in Dublin, home to the Oireachtas (irr-OKHtuhss)?
Leinster House
The 1980 AC/DC album ‘Back in Black’ was the first to feature which man as the lead singer of the band following the death of Bon Scott?
Brian Johnson
The leader of the Tour De France wears a yellow jersey, due to the first edition of the race being sponsored by which newspaper, which was printed on yellow paper?
L’Auto
What is the more correct name of the eye condition often referred to as
“pink eye”?
Conjunctivitis
England rugby centre Joe Marchant, who played in the 2023 World Cup semi-final defeat to South Africa, has paused his international
career to join which club side, known for their pink jerseys?
Stade Francais
Who wrote and first recorded the 1984 song Pink Cadillac, the title of which is believed to be a veiled reference to a vagina?
Bruce Springsteen
In the books of Michael Bond, Paddington Bear lived with the Brown family on which London thoroughfare?
Windsor Gardens
George Brown, who held the roles of Foreign Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, was the MP for which Midlands constituency from 1945 to 1970?
Belper
In chemistry, which common pH indicator solution is yellow in solutions above pH 4.4 and red in solutions below pH 3.1?
Methyl Orange
English king William III (aka William or Orange) was born in which city in the Dutch Republic?
The Hague
Which character, created by illustrator Giles Andreae, was adopted as the
mascot of the soft drinks brand ‘Vimto’?
Purple Ronnie
What name, derived from a 1958 novelty song, was given to the defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from 1968 to 1977?
Purple People
Eaters
What is the name of the poem by Jenny Joseph which begins with the line ‘When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple’?
Warning
In 1988, who became the first series champion of the television show Going for Gold?
Daphne Fowler
The chemical compound known as Fool’s Gold is composed of iron and
which other element?
Sulphur
Stuart Bithell and Dylan Fletcher won a gold medal for Team GB at the
2020 Summer Olympics in which sailing event, named for the length of the
boat’s hull?
49er
The song Hi Ho Silver by Jim Diamond was used as the theme tune to
which British TV series, first seen on ITV in 1986? It starred Michael
Elphick as the title character.
Boon
Which political analysis company, founded by Nate Silver in 2007, takes
its name from the number of electors in the US Electoral College?
FiveThirtyEight
Huang Xuechen of China holds the dubious Olympic record of winning the
most silver medals without taking a gold. Between 2008 and 2021, she
won five silvers and one bronze in which sport?
Synchronised
Swimming
The 1936 novel Mr Midshipman Easy is a semi-autobiographical work by which Royal Navy officer, perhaps best known for a historical children’s story?
Captain Frederick Marryat
Also known as the Harry Lime Theme, the instrumental title track used on
the 1949 film The Third Man was written by which composer?
Anton Karas
In the Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye, which cocktail is
described as “half gin and half Rose’s lime juice and nothing else”?
Gimlet
The Beige Room, a pioneering venue for female impersonators and drag
queens, was opened in 1949 in which US city?
San Francisco
The young adult novel Beige, published in 2007, was the third novel by which Montreal-based author? Her short story We Have Always Lived On Mars is being adapted into an upcoming film starring John Krasinski.
Cecil Castellucci
New Zealander Phil Keoghan is best known for hosting the US version of what reality game show since 2001?
The Amazing Race
Ictinus and Callicrates are credited as architects of what ancient temple?
Parthenon
The Australasian crested grebe or pūteketeke gained international attention in November 2023 after it was heavily campaigned to win New Zealand’s Bird of the Century competition by which US TV host?
John Oliver
The manat is the official currency in two former Soviet states. Which two countries?
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
From the start of the 2023-24 season, English Premier League teams are allowed to make up to how many substitutions in a match?
5
In baseball, what term refers to a set of two games played between the same two teams on the same day?
Doubleheader
Suspect Behavior and Beyond Borders were the two spin-off series to which crime drama TV series created by Jeff Davis?
Criminal Minds
Which British actress portrayed Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic films Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and The Marvels?
Lashana Lynch
In what century did a fleet of 11 British ships set sail to establish a penal colony in Australia?
18th - 1787
Which disciple of Jesus has been played on screen by Carl Andersen, David McCallum, and Ian McShane?
Judas Iscariot
The Schweizerische Volkspartie is the ruling political party of which European country?
Switzerland
What five-letter word links part of a bicycle, an imperial unit of length, a type of bridge, and an embroidery stitch?
Chain
Overlooked by the White Mountains, Lake Kournas is the largest lake on which Greek island?
Crete
In 1966, as commander of the Gemini 8 mission, which astronaut became the first to link two spacecraft together in Earth orbit?
Neil Armstrong
Which Hemsworth brother played Josh Taylor in Neighbours?
Liam
Stayman Winesap, Cosmic Crisp, and Jonathan are varieties of which fruit?
Apple
The Grand Bara Desert is located on which continent?
Africa - Djibouti
The artists Harvey Littleton and Vĕra Lišková were famous for working with which medium?
Glass
Mike Krack is the team principal of which UK-based Formula One team?
Aston Martin
Famous for being the birthplace of Sir Terry Wogan, which Irish city is situated where the mouth of the river Shannon meets the Wild Atlantic Way?
Limerick
In the Pip and Posy books by Camilla Reid, what type of animal is Pip and Posy?
Pip is RABBIT
Posy is MOUSE
Which Central American country was ruled by the dictator Omar Torrijos between 1968 and 1978?
Panama
Which African nation won the first women’s hockey Olympic gold medal, at the Moscow games in 1980?
Zimbabwe
Which English landscape gardener, famous for his “red books”, is mentioned several times in Jane Austen’s novel, Mansfield Park?
Humphrey Repton
Which 1950s television series starred a black stallion, played by Highland Dale, who only allowed a young orphan named Joey to ride him?
Fury
Which European capital is home to the Bite Club street food market?
Berlin
Which British female triathlete won gold at the World Triathlon Championship Series Montreal in June 2023?
Beth Potter
Gary Oldman played the villain Drexl Spivey in which film?
True Romance
Which Spanish cathedral, designed by Juan de Colonia, contains the tomb of El Cid?
Burgos Cathedral
Which unconventional musician released the 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch?
Frank Zappa
History teacher Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna are the main characters in which dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess?
The Wanting Seed
Ismail I, Shah of Iran (1501-1524), was the founder of which dynasty?
Safavid dynasty
Which organ of the body would you be studying if you were using Einthoven’s triangle?
Heart
In 1896, Lancashire carpenter Brian Gamlin devised the numbering system for which sport?
Darts
Which other type of building completes the title of the first expansion to the game of Carcassonne, released in 2002: Inns and _____?
Cathedrals
To distinguish him from the brother of Andrew, who was a more prominent
apostle of the same name, which one of the 12 apostles is referred to in the Bible
as either the Canaanite or the Zealot?
Simon
In graph theory, a path that traverses every edge exactly once is named after which mathematician, who used the concept to solve a famous problem in 1736?
Leonhard EULER
Currently playing in EFL League One, which Lancashire football team have only
played one season in the English Premier League - the 2010-11 season, when
they were managed by Ian Holloway?
Blackpool
Which area of the shipping forecast takes its name from the northernmost point of
Ireland?
Malin
The great spotted, the little spotted, the North Island brown, the Southern brown
and the Okarito are the five extant species of which birds of the genus Apteryx,
native to New Zealand?
Kiwi
Which jazz tenor saxophonist, once a member of Woody Herman’s Big Band,
gained his nickname ‘the Sound’ due to the warm, lyrical style of his playing and
made records including West Coast Live with Chet Baker and Big Band Bossa
Nova with the Gary McFarland orchestra?
Stan Getz
Gimme Shelter, documenting the Rolling Stones’ disastrous Altamont concert,
and Grey Gardens, a study of two reclusive former socialites, are among the
acclaimed documentaries directed by two brothers with what surname?
MAYSLES (Albert and David)
What is the name and regnal number of the current king of Norway, who has
reigned since his father’s death in 1991?
Harald V
Which American-Swiss multinational technology company, founded in 1989 in Kansas as ProNav, are primarily known for their GPS location and navigation products as well as wearable activity trackers?
Garmin
In graph theory, a path that visits every vertex exactly once is named after which
mathematician, also known for a different discovery which he famously carved
on a bridge in 1843?
Willliam Rowan
Hamilton
Art was a 1994 play by which French playwright and actress, also known for her
2006 play God of Carnage? Both were originally written in French but translated
to English for successful West End runs.
Yasmina Reza
Apart from Zola, what is the only other word beginning with Z to appear in the title
of a Best Picture Oscar winning film? The film is a 1930s biopic of a theatrical
impresario.
Ziegfeld
Which chemical element, with the atomic number 103 and named after the
inventor of the cyclotron, is considered a member of the d-block and transition
metals, but is sometimes presented on periodic tables as the 15th and last of the
actinides?
Lawrencium
Because of its shape, which style of close-fitting hat, invented in 1908 by the
milliner Caroline Reboux and particularly popular in the 1920s, takes its name
from the French word for ‘bell’?
Cloche
To distinguish him from the son of Zebedee, who was a more prominent apostle
of the same name, which one of the 12 apostles is sometimes referred to in the
Bible as the son of Alphaeus?
James
In which Indian state are the Barabar Hill caves, the oldest surviving rock-cut
caves in India, and the Ma·ha·bod·hi Temple, the Buddhist pilgrimage site that
marks the place where Buddha attained enlightenment?
Bihar
Which other type of profession completes the title of the second expansion to the
game of Carcassonne, released in 2003: Traders and _____?
Builders
The Thin Blue Line, about the wrongful conviction of Randall Adams for
murdering a police officer, and The Fog of War, a portrait of former US Defence
Secretary Robert McNamara, are among the acclaimed documentaries of which
film director?
Errol Morris
What is the name and regnal number of the current king of Spain, who has
reigned since his father’s abdication in 2014?
Felipe VI
Named after the agreement that founded the New York Stock Exchange,
Buttonwood is a regular finance column in which weekly British publication, that
refers to itself as a newspaper despite being printed in magazine format?
The Economist
The name of which variety of Strongbow cider has been pejoratively applied to a
certain demographic subculture on Twitter, that has been called the male
equivalent of Fiat 500 Twitter, and similarly mocked as ‘basic’?
Dark Fruits
Which tenor jazz saxophonist and occasional clarinettist, nicknamed ‘Pres’, came
to prominence as a member of Count Basie’s orchestra and released records
including The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio and It Don’t Mean a
Thing?
Lester Young
What was the first name of the cleric and historian usually given the epithet ‘…of
Wales’ in English, or ‘Cambrensis’ in Latin, who wrote his Journey through Wales
and Description of Wales in the 1190s?
Gerald
Currently playing in EFL League One, which Yorkshire football team have only
played one season in the English Premier League - the 1997-98 season, when
they were managed by Danny Wilson?
Barnsley
Which area of the shipping forecast takes its name from an islet off the south
coast of Ireland?
Fastnet
Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 1994 for a picture
showing a starving Sudanese child with what type of bird?
Hooded Vulture
Which then Surrey and England cricketer holds the record for most wickets taken by
an individual in a single test match? He took a total of 19 wickets over two innings in
the fourth test against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956.
Jim Laker
During the Anarchy, at which battle of 1141 named for a cathedral city was king
Stephen captured, imprisoned and effectively deposed for several months, while
Matilda briefly ruled until the rout of Winchester later that year?
Lincoln
What is the eight-letter name of the parent company of the brands Cadburys, Oreo,
Toblerone, Belvita and Nabisco? They are the successor company to Kraft Foods,
founded in 1923, but passed the name Kraft to another company, spun-off in 2012.
Mondelez
The name of which comedy club in Greenwich, founded by Malcolm Hardee in 1991,
is not just a reference to a well-known phrase, but also to the name of the street it is
located on?
Up the Creek
Charles de Rudio in 1858, Clément Duval in 1901 and René Belbenoît in 1930 were
among the famous escapees from which notorious French penal colony just off the
coast of French Guiana?
Devils Island
Which 1573 born Dutch Golden Age artist signed his works with a monogram
consisting of a letter B inside an A? He is one of the earliest known artists to
specialise in still life paintings of flowers, which he often depicted against a black
background.
Ambrosius Bosschaert
Makhachkala is the capital city of which Russian republic on the coast of the Caspian
Sea, bordering Chechnya and Georgia to the West and Azerbaijan to the South?
Dagestan
In ballet, what name, a French corruption of the Italian verb “to weave”, is given
to a jump where the dancer’s feet cross rapidly in front and behind each other a
number of times in the air whilst beating the calves together?
Entrechat
In beta minus decay, one of the first forms of radioactivity discovered, which
type of subatomic particle is emitted along with an antineutrino?
Electrons
Which member of the 2023 World Cup-winning Spanish football team scored the
only goal and was named player of the match in the final?
Olga Carmona
Cuckoos are an example of what type of parasite, that lays its eggs in the nests
of other birds, who then raise the young as their own?
Brood Parasite
Which three words precede “Dog” in the title of the 1966 single that was the first
ever top 40 hit for Cat Stevens?
I Love My
Which women’s gymnastics apparatus consists of two bars at heights of 250 and
170 centimetres? We will accept either of its two names.
Asymmetric/Uneven Bars
Possibly the best documented woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age was
which alliteratively named, 1644-born artist who specialised in floral still lifes in a
long career until her death in 1750?
Rachel Ruysch
Magas is the capital of which Russian republic in the North Caucasus, bordering
Chechnya to the East, Georgia to the South and North Ossetia-Alania to the
West?
Ingushetia
Which US TV series about an amateur detective received 12 consecutive
nominations for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama
Series between 1985-96? The star of this series still holds the record for the most
ever nominations, though she never actually won it.
Murder She Wrote
