Next 18 Flashcards
1
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Which pope sentenced Galileo to death?
A
Urban VIII
2
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pope from 1378 to 1389 whose election sparked the Western Schism (1378–1417)
A
Urban VI
3
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Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini called her voice “la voce d’angelo” (“the voice of an angel”), Italian lirico-spinto soprano born 1922 Pesaro. Rivalry with Maria Callas.
A
Renata Tebaldi
4
Q
Which sexist word of Latin origin is used to describe a woman who has
aggressive and controlling tendencies? The term was reclaimed by Carmen Callil
to name a feminist publishing house she founded in 1973.
A
Virago
5
Q
The third performer to win best acting Oscars in successive years was Katharine
Hepburn, winning for 1967 for Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, and sharing the
1968 award for playing Eleanor of Aquitaine in which film, based on a play by
James Goldman?
A
The Lion in Winter
6
Q
Tina Turner’s cover of Let’s Stay Together was produced by British Electric
Foundation, a production company formed by Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh.
With Phil Oakey, they had previously been members of which synth-pop group,
whose biggest hit was Don’t You Want Me?
A
Human League
7
Q
Lead singer of Heaven 17
A
Glenn Gregory
8
Q
One sexist stereotyping for women perceived as aggressively outspoken
describes them as what type of weapon? A similar weapon was carried by Carrie
Nation, a noted American prohibitionist.
A
Battleaxe
9
Q
Which pope excommunicated King
John and called the Fourth Lateran Council?
A
Leo III
10
Q
Which pope became the first pope to be elected
by a papal conclave in 1276?
A
Leo V
11
Q
The first performer to win best acting Oscars in successive years was Luise
Rainer, winning her first for The Great Ziegfeld, and her second for which 1937
film, based on a novel by Pearl Buck?
A
The Good Earth
12
Q
Another type of weak chemical bond arising between molecules is an electrostatic force named after which element? It involves an attraction between an atom of this element covalently bound to a donor group and a lone pair of electrons on an acceptor group?
A
Hydrogen
13
Q
Which country has 23 states including Anzoátegui, Lara, Monagas and Miranda,
all of them heroes of its independence struggle? Another state in this country is
named after its best known independence hero
A
Venezuela
14
Q
The three types of strong chemical bond between atoms are covalent, ionic and
which other? This involves a delocalised cloud of electrons dispersed within a
lattice of cat·ions.
A
Metallic
15
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Which pope began the Avignon Papacy in 1305?
A
Clement V
16
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Which pope refused to allow Henry VIII’s divorce?
A
Clement VII
17
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Which pope commissioned the
Trevi fountain?
A
Clement VII
18
Q
Australia’s run of Cricket World Cup wins ended in 2011 when India beat Sri
Lanka in the final. As well as winning ‘player of the match’ for his innings of 91
not out, which wicket keeper-batsman became the first captain to lift the trophy
on home soil?
A
Mohendra Singh
(M.S.) Dhoni
19
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Which President of the United States was known as ‘Old Rough and Ready’, thanks to his success in the Second Seminole War?
A
Zachary Taylor
20
Q
Who in 2022 equalled Frederick Sanger’s achievement when he won his second
Nobel Chemistry Prize for his work on click chemistry? He had earlier jointly won
in 2001 for his work on certain types of oxidation reaction.
A
Barry Sharpless
21
Q
Which acclaimed 2009 non-fiction book by Dave Cullen detailed the massacre perpetrated at a namesake high school in Colorado in 1999?
A
Columbine
22
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The second performer to win best acting Oscars in successive years was Spencer Tracy, winning his second for 1938’s Boys Town, and his first for which 1937 film, based on a novel by Rudyard Kipling?
A
Captains Courageous
23
Q
The first Cricket World Cup in 1975 also saw the winning captain named ‘player
of the match’. This was which West Indies captain who scored 102 against
Australia?
A
Clive Lloyd
24
Q
Which Spanish operatic soprano became noticed internationally when she
stepped in for a performance of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in
1965? She is perhaps better known for singing Barcelona with Freddie Mercury.
A
Montserrat Caballé
25
Another Olympic demonstration sport chosen due to its popularity in the host nation and neighbouring countries was which 11-a-side winter sport, played on an ice rink and combining elements of football, ice hockey and shinty? It was demonstrated at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
Bandy
26
Another sexist term for a violent or overbearing woman is which word beginning with T, previously the name given by medieval Christians to the god they erroneously believed Muslims worshipped?
Termagant
27
Which country has 19 departments, including Artigas and Lavellaja named after heroes in its independence struggle, and Treinta y Tres named after a group of 33 more patriots?
Uruguay
28
Which pope formed the Holy League that won the battle of Lepanto?
Pius V
29
Which pope officiated at the coronation of Napoleon without actually crowning him?
Pius VII
30
Which pope signed the 1929 Lateran Treaty with Italy?
Pius XI
31
In 2004, Tata acquired the commercial vehicles division of which South Korean car manufacturer, which declared bankruptcy in 1999 and no longer exists? The rest of this group merged into General Motors in 2002 and is now known as GM Korea, with its vehicles being branded Chevrolet.
Daewoo
32
Which Union general in the American Civil War was disastrously defeated at the
battle of Fredericksburg? He lends an adapted form of his name to a form of male
facial hair.
Burnside
33
South Georgia forms a British overseas territory with which chain of uninhabited
volcanic islands? The name was chosen to distinguish them from what is now
called Hawaii.
South Sandwich Islands
34
Crabmeat and rice are the principal ingredients of which Scottish soup? The two words in its name are respectively derived from Scots Gaelic and Scots.
Partan Bree
35
In classical architecture, what word describes the uppermost part of the capital of
each column, on which the horizontal entablature rests? This word is probably
more familiar as the name of a calculating device.
Abacus
36
Going up from the Shaft, Capital and Abacus, give the three parts of an entablature?
Architrave, Frieze and Cornice
37
A popular tsukemono in Japanese cuisine is thinly sliced daikon. Daikon is a
large and mild-flavoured form of which root vegetable of the Brassica family,
often eaten raw in salads in western cuisine?
Radish
38
Carvings of acanthus leaves decorated the capitals of the columns in which of the three orders of classical Greek architecture? It was named for the city that hosted the Isthmian games, and which in modern times became a byword for good sportsmanship.
Corinthian
39
Which media personality first rose to fame as Paris Hilton’s friend and personal assistant on the 2000s series The Simple Life, which also featured Nicole Ritchie? This celebrity made a cameo in the video to Paris Hilton’s 2019 music video Best Friend’s Ass.
Kim Kardashian
40
Which Czech is the javelin world record holder? He broke the hearts of British
athletics fans by twice beating Steve Backley to Olympic gold despite his
relatively diminutive stature.
Jan Zelezny
41
Another popular Japanese tsukemono dish is gari, a thinly sliced and pickled
version of which plant? The powdered root of this plant is used to flavour
puddings and drinks in British cuisine.
Ginger
42
Which Archbishop of Canterbury was appointed to the role by Charles I for the
purpose of carrying out religious reform? His fate mirrored that of his patron,
being arrested by Parliament in 1640 and beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645.
William Laud
43
In which video game, first developed in 1996 by id Software, does the player control an unnamed protagonist who battles the titular enemy? This first-person shooter with music composed by Trent Reznor built upon the technology and
gameplay of its predecessor Doom.
Quake
44
In 2023, which Czech player became the first unseeded woman to win a
Wimbledon singles title? She won silver in the Tokyo Olympics, and is also
known for her collection of tattoos.
Markéta Vondroušová
45
In classical architecture, what word describes the decorated central part of the
triangular pediment located above the entablature? This word, derived from the
Greek for drum, is also a part of the body.
Tympanum
46
Known for hosting The Book of Mormon, which London theatre is located on
Coventry Street?
Prince of Wales
47
Events described in Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis include the naval battles of Lowestoft, the Four Days and St. James’s Day. The last being a victory for Prince Rupert’s English fleet, they were fought as part of which numbered war?
Second Anglo-Dutch War
48
Nicknamed ‘The Dominator’, which Czech goaltender of the 1990s and 2000s was a standout star for the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL before winning two Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings? He is the only goaltender to have won more than one Hart Memorial Trophy.
Dominik Hasek
49
The Netflix documentary The Deepest Breath involves a tragic freedive into the
Blue Hole near Dahab. This feature is on the coast of which North African
country? Known as one of the most dangerous diving spots in the world, the Blue
Hole has averaged 8 fatalities a year since the mid-1990s.
Egypt
50
What adjective, missing its final letter, precedes ‘Hot’ in the name of the spicy
flavour of Monster Munch with a red packet?
Flamin'
51
Another popular Japanese tsukemono dish is generally translated as ‘Japanese plums’, but is actually made from another fruit in the genus Prunus that more resembles an apricot. Give either the short name of this fruit or the name of the sour, salty, pickled dish.
Ume or Umeboshi
52
After the Euro 2022 final, fans sang “Beth Mead’s on fire” to the tune of which
1996 hit by Gala? In this rendition, the line “mind and senses purified” was
replaced with the line “your defence is terrified”.
Freed from Desire
53
The advanced technology industry of which country is nicknamed ‘Silicon Wadi’?
The term refers to the clusters of high-tech firms that span this country’s coastal
plain, and are a reason why it has become known as the world’s ‘start-up nation’.
Israel
54
Known for hosting Wicked, which London theatre is located on Wilton Road?
Apollo Victoria
55
Which Archbishop of Canterbury’s role in helping Richard II introduce his unpopular poll tax led to his beheading during the Peasants’ Revolt? His headless corpse is in Canterbury Cathedral, and his mummified head is kept in the Suffolk town after which he is named.
Simon Sudbury
56
In which video game, first developed in 1996 by NanaOn-Sha, does the player control the titular animated dog, who must use a particular vocal skill to make it through a series of levels? This game spawned the spin-off Um Jammer Lammy.
PaRappa the Rapper
57
Who will replace Edward Enninful as vogue UK editor in 2024?
Chioma Nnadi
58
Which tall and superstitious schoolmaster is the protagonist of Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Ichabod Crane
59
Which general, who became prime minister and First Secretary of the party in 1981, was the last leader of communist Poland? Soon after taking office, he attempted to crush the Solidarity movement by declaring martial law. Preceded Lech Walesa as President.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
60
Which left-handed American golfer won his first Major at the 2023 Open Championship at Hoylake?
Brian Harman
61
The third rail union has the initial TSSA. What four words do these initials stand for?
TRANSPORT
SALARIED
STAFFS
ASSOCIATION
62
Which city was the terminus of the proposed eastern leg
of HS2 abandoned in November 2021?
Leeds
63
Born in Stirling in 1942, which jockey has won the
Epsom Derby on four occasions?
Willie Carson
64
Born in Hawick in 1940, which yachtsman won the Round Britain Race in 1978? Scottish yachtsman and rower. He was the first person to sail single-handed non-stop westwards around the world (1971), on a 59-foot boat called British Steel.
Chay Blyth
65
Born in Shrewsbury in 1958, which golfer won the British Open in 1985?
Sandy Lyle
66
Born in Edinburgh in 1962, which Rugby Union player was capped 61 times for Scotland and had a points total of 667?
Gavin Hastings
67
Which song written and recorded by the band Badfinger was a Number 1 for Harry Nilsson in 1972, also for Mariah Carey?
Without You
68
Eric Clapton’s only U.S. chart topper was in 1973 with a song written by Bob Marley. Name it.
I Shot The Sheriff
69
Randy Newman’s song Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear was a UK hit for which artist in 1967?
Alan Price Set (Alan Price was a founding member of The Animals)
70
Gladys Knight and Marvin Gaye had hits with the song I Heard it through the Grapevine. Who wrote it?
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strongq
71
Who wrote the song Rockin’ All over the World with which Status Quo reached Number 3 in 1977?
John Fogerty (of Creedence Clearwater Revival)
72
I Wanna be Your Man was the first UK chart hit for The Rolling Stones in 1963. Who wrote it?
Lennon and McCartney
73
Jimmy Webb penned the songs Wichita Linesman, Galveston and By the Time I get to Phoenix. Which artist had hit singles with all three songs in the 1960’s?
Glen Campbell
74
Who wrote The Red Queen about Margaret Beaufort?
Philippa Gregory
75
Who designed PORTMEIRION in 1925?
Clough Williams-Ellis
76
What model town/village did Joseph Damer and Lord Milton design in Dorset in 1780?
Milton Abbas
77
Model town designed by Ebenezer Howard 1920 Hertfordshire
Welwyn Garden City (Letchworth was started in 1903 and was the first Garden City)
78
Who was the host of the TV programme Call
My Bluff between 1967 and 1988?
Robert Robinson
79
Who was the first presenter of Call My Bluff 1966-67? Son of another TV personality.
Robin Ray
80
He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In 1939 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of King Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette. Captain on Call My Bluff.
Robert Morley
81
English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's Take It from Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35.
Frank Muir
82
Which group achieved a U.S. Number 1 and a
U.K. Number 5 in 1970 with the song Make It with You?
Bread
83
Who is known as Mary Queen of Shops?
Mary Portas
84
According to Bill Bryson, the word NITWIT comes from the phrase “ik weet niet” in which language?
Dutch
85
On the label of a French beer bottle, two of the listed ingredients are ORGE and HOUBLON. Translate BOTH
ORGE = Barley
Houblon = Hops
86
Cockney Rhyming fill in the blanks: Duchess of ???? means ????
Fife / Wife
87
Astronomy Only Connect Round 2: which word, from the Hawaiian for "immense
skies", would be the fourth in the following sequence? Milky Way -> Local Group ->
Virgo Supercluster -> ?
Laniakea Supercluster
87
Which three-letter prefix from the Greek for 'upon' or 'near', begins different words
with the following meanings: a nickname or byname; a piece of writing at the end of a
book; a fast-spreading disease outbreak?
Epi
88
9 Played by Greg Davies, which Inbetweeners character is a misanthropic teacher who
treats the students under his care with total disdain?
Mr Phil Gilbert
89
What railway bridge crosses the Thames between Southwark Bridge and London
Bridge?
Cannon Street Rail Bridge
90
In a cuneiform tablet from ancient Ur on display at the British Museum, buyer Nanni
communicates his consternation to seller Ea-Nasir at the perceived poor quality of what
commodity? This oldest known written complaint has become an Internet meme
Copper
91
Which American comedian names a sketch comedy show that he has hosted with
Hannibal Buress since 2012? Each episode begins with the host physically destroying
the show's set.
Eric Andre
92
Which forename and surname are shared by the following two British people? One is
a foreign-affairs specialist and Russia expert who served on the US National Security
Council, the other served alongside Nick Timothy as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff
under Theresa May. Both names required.
Fiona Hill
93
What male name precedes "... from Paris" in the stage name of a music producer and
DJ known for his album Sacrebleu, the musical project Cocktail Disco and remixes of
funk and disco songs?
Dimitri
94
How many basketball teams play each in the year in the NBA?
30
95
How many NFL teams play in NFL?
32
96
How many MLB teams play in MLB?
30
96
After the introduction of St Louis City SC into the MLS in 2023 season, how many teams now in the MLS?
29
96
Karpas is the name of a peninsula that extends 80 kilometres into the sea from the
northeast of which country?
Cyprus
96
Name either of the two SI derived units that are measured in joules per kilogram.
Gray or Sievert
96
How many NHL teams play in the NHL?
32
96
Who wrote the novel Billy Liar, the screenplay for Whistle Down the Wind and the comic
play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell?
Keith Waterhouse
97
Alongside Q, which letter does not feature in any of the two-letter state abbreviations
used for the United States?
B
98
Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, I Am the Walrus and All You Need Is Love are
Beatles songs that were released on which double EP (in the UK) and LP (in the US)?
Magical Mystery Tour
99
Which UK children's TV show, created in 2014, has as its protagonist a black
anthropomorphic rabbit who is cared for by Flop and has friends including Pando and
Sula?
Bing
100
British illustrator, cartoonist, and comic book writer best known for the Hilda series of comics for Nobrow Press, and Hilda, the Netflix series based on the comics.
Luke Pearson
101
Cartoon by Ben Bocquelet: The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old namesake character, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend middle school in the fictional city of Elmore, California. Won multiple British Academy Childrens Award for Animation awards.
The Amazing World of Gumball
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She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Fred (1987), Lulu and the Flying Babies (1988), The Chocolate Wedding (1990)
Posy Simmonds
103
Who was the voice of peppa pig between 2007 and 2020?
Harley Bird
104
She is known for her roles in the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), the ITV drama Hollington Drive (2021), and as voice of the titular Peppa Pig (2020–) on Channel 5.
Amelie Bea Smith
105
He is known for his roles as Mick Campbell in House of Anubis and as Rhydian Morris in Wolfblood. In 2021, he appeared in the BBC medical drama series Casualty as Leon Cook.
Bobby Lockwood
106
British children's animated television series based on the semi-autobiographical picture book ___________, All in a Week by Laura Henry-Allain MBE. It is the first animated series to focus on a Black British family. Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa 1986) voices Gran Gran.
Jo Jo & Gran Gran
107
Duggee in Hey Duggee is the leader of what club?
Squirrel Club
108
Betty in Hey Duggee is a talkative and intelligent purple what?
Octopus
109
Norrie in Hey Duggee is a sweet natured and curious brown what?
Mouse
110
Roly in Hey Duggee is an enthusiastic, loud and hyperactive what?
Hippopotamus
111
Tag in Hey Duggee is a gentle clumsy blue what?
Rhinoceros
112
Happy in Hey Duggee is a tall easy, going green what?
Crocodile
113
British animated television series for preschoolers that debuted on CBeebies on 23 January 2017. Characters are representations of numbers which gives show its name.
Numberblocks
114
Surnames of Dick and Dom
Richard Dick MCCOURT
Dominic Dom WOOD
115
Surnames of Sam and Mark from children's tv
Sam NIXON
Mark RHODES
116
Steve Backshall best known for which BBC CBeebies TV franchise about animals? Used to be ______ 60.
Deadly (60)
117
Steve Backshall's TV show Lost Land of the Tiger
was set mostly in which country?
Bhutan
118
Steve Backshall's TV show Lost Land of the Jaguar was set mostly in which country?
Guyana
119
Steve Backshall's TV show Lost Land of the Volcano was set on which island?
New Guinea
120
The studio is best known for its animated feature films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers. Which irish studio based in Kilkenny?
Cartoon Saloon
121
2020 platform game won some kids games awards, is a spinoff of LittleBigPlanet series and follows title character battling the villain Vex voiced by Richard E Grant?
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
122
It originated as a spin-off video game from the Rayman video game series centered on a titular fictional species of mischievous rabbit-like aliens, who speak gibberish and scream wildly whenever they experience an adrenaline rush.
Rabbids
123
Set in the far future on a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around terrestrial cephalopods known as Inklings and Octolings – based on squids and octopuses respectively – which can transform between humanoid and cephalopod forms at will.
Splatoon
124
With Mark Hall, he founded ________ Hall Films in 1976 and produced successful animated children shows including The Wind in the Willows, Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.
Brian Cosgrave
125
He was known for his work in BBC television programmes for children from 1964 onward, most notably Play School, and in later years, Dappledown Farm.
Brian Cant
126
Ovis aries is the scientific name for which farm animal?
Sheep
127
A common carder is what type of animal?
(Bumble) BEE
128
Which canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, running
through Southern France? Its name is the French word for 12 noon.
Canal du Midi
129
Which formal grants issued by a monarch to organisations are the oldest form of
incorporation in the UK? Different to a royal warrant, the keyword here is included in
the name of institutes of accountants and surveyors.
Royal Charter
130
Which role, currently occupied by Pedro Serrano and previously by Joao Vale de Almeida, was created on 1st February 2020?
European Union Ambassador to
the UK
131
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will become mo re
well-known later this decade. Why are they notable?
Astronauts on upcoming NASA Moon mission
132
The Philosophy Badge episode of the children's TV show Hey Duggee received praise
for its explanation of which concept of moral philosophy formulated by Immanuel
Kant? Known by a two-word name, its original formulation reads "Act only according to
that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal
law."
Categorical Imperative
133
Iran's Special Forces branch known as the Quds Force, and an annual pro -Palestinian
event named Quds day, are named for which city's Arabic name?
Jerusalem (Al-Quds in Arabic)
134
In what London building is the church of St Peter ad Vincula, burial place of Anne
Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas More?
Tower of London
135
Church of St Peter ad Vincula in the tower of london for what does the latin Ad Vincula mean?
In Chains
136
Which Argentine/French musical group, formed in 1999, have released the albums
La Revancha del Tango (2001), Lunático (2006) and Tango 3.0 (2010)? The first word
of their two-word name is an anagram of ‘Tango’.
Gotan Project
137
The Teachings of Don Juan, A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan were books by
which author that explored shamanism practised by the Yaqui people of Mexico?
Carlos Castaneda
138
Described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter's unofficial Poet Laureate, which
British poet with an alliterative name wrote Refugees, a poem which conveys the
opposite message when read backwards?
Brian Bilston
139
What was the title of the Ukrainian political satire comedy TV series created,
produced and starred in by future President Volodymyr Zelenskyy?
Servant of the People
140
Which rugby union club lost in the final of the European Rugby Champions Cup in
2021, then went on to win the trophy in both 2022 and 2023?
La Rochelle
141
What word follows ‘rat’ in the name of a collection of rats whose tails are intertwined
and bound together in some way? A discovery of a live instance in Estonia in 2021 is
considered proof that this is a natural, albeit extremely rare, phenomenon.
Rat King
142
If you travelled north in a straight line from Kampala, the capital of Uganda, which
country would you reach next?
South Sudan
143
If you click on the first link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, then repeat the
process for subsequent articles, ignoring any links you have already clicked, 97%+ of
the time this process will lead to which article?
Philosophy
144
Which group of islands, part of Taiwan and with a population of 127,000, are located
116 miles west of Taiwan and just six miles from the coast of China? Unsurprisingly
they are considered rather vulnerable to a potential Chinese invasion.
Kinmen
145
Chankonabe, eaten by sumo wrestlers to gain weight, is what general sort of food?
Stew/Soup
146
Which American was the designer of the first computer-driven word processor? She
also built one of the first airline reservations systems and the first computerized
banking system.
Evelyn Berezin
147
Shipping containers known as TUEs stand for what?
twenty-foot equivalent unit
148
Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Botha, Gustav Klimt, Edmond Rostand, Hubert Parry and
Donald Trump's grandfather Frederick all died of what disease?
Spanish Flu
149
Which notorious Oxford University dining club, whose members have included
George Osborne, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, are known for destroying the
interiors of restaurants and then paying for the damage?
Bullingdon Club
150
In chemistry, what word is defined as a group of two or more atoms held together by
chemical bonds? Compounds are formed by combining these with each other or
atoms.
Molecule
151
BYD, SAIC, Geely and XPENG are large Chinese companies that produce what,
precisely?
Electric Vehicle
152
After the USA which country has the second largest armed forces in NATO?
Turkey
153
Virgo prudentissima is a six-voice motet (SSAATB), dedicated to the Virgin Mary and composed by which Dutch composer in 1507? His best known work may be the song "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen".
Heinrich Issac
153
1450–1455 composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish, wrote the motet Ave Maria ... Virgo serena, and the popular chansons Adieu mes amours and Que vous ma dame. He served Pope Innocent VIII and Pope Alexander VI in Rome, Louis XII in France, and Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara.
Josquin des Prez
154
Lettuce, artichoke, absinthe, chamomile and tarragon are all members of which
family of plants?
Daisy
155
Give any one year in the period of lawlessness and anarchy within Russia known as
the Time of Troubles, which began with the death of Fyodor I and ended with the
accession of Michael I.
1598-1613
156
Which Antiguan cricketer generally batted at number three for the legendary West
Indies teams of the 1970s and ’80s? Retiring as the West Indies' leading test run
scorer of all time, he also represented Somerset and Glamorgan in County Cricket.
Isaac Viv Richards
157
How many picoseconds are in a gigasecond?
10^21
158
9 Which Italian Baroque composer, who died aged 26, produced words including La
serva padrona, L'Olimpiade and Stabat Mater?
Giovanni Pergolesi
159
What was the two-word name of the second Dalai Lama? He shares his first name
with the first Dalai Lama (whose second name was Drupa) and his second name with
the current Dalai Lama (whose first name was Tenzin).
Gedun Gyatso
160
Which Emilia-Romagna resort city on the Adriatic coast is ten kilometres from San
Marino? The most commonly used public transport route to San Marino is by taking a
bus from this city of 150,000 residents.
Rimini
161
Which governing body of the Italian-American mafia was founded by Lucky Luciano
in 1931? Its ruling committee consists of the bosses of the Five Families of New York
City, as well as the bosses of the Chicago Outfit.
The Commission
162
Who was the first man to record a sub-63 score for a round in a golf major when he
shot 62 at the 2017 Open?
Branden Grace
163
Grace Chatto is a singer with which group, who have had four UK number 1 singles
and two music videos with over 1 billion views on YouTube?
Clean Bandit
164
Which Chinese poet, who alongside Du Fu was one of the most prominent figures in
the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry during the Tang era, was known for Walking from
Drunkenness on a Spring Day, and was said to have died from drowning after trying to
embrace the reflection of the moon in the Yangtze River? Both names required.
Li Bai OR Li Bo OR Taiba
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The expression "Three Wonders" denotes which Tang Dynasty poet's poetry alongside Pei Min's swordplay, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy? "Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day"(Chinese: 春日醉起言志), "The Hard Road to Shu"(Chinese: 蜀道难), "Bring in the Wine"(Chinese: 将进酒), and "Quiet Night Thought"(Chinese: 静夜思).
Li Bai
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The expression "Three Wonders" denotes which Chinese military general's swordplay alongside Li Bai's poetry, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy? He also was said to be a great archer and was said to have killed thirty one tigers in a single day.
Pei Min
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The expression "three wonders" was decreed by Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty to mean Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's swordplay and which Chinese calligrapher and poet's calligraphy? Known as one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup. Legend has it that whenever he was drunk, he would use his hair as brush to perform his art, and upon his waking up, he would be amazed by the quality of those works but failed to produce them again in his sober state.
Zhang Xu
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The term is used in a poem by Du Fu, as well as in the biography of Li Bai in the New Book of Tang, term used for the group of eight Tang dynasty scholars who are known for their love of alcoholic beverages.
Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
169
Which archbasilica church, which lies within the city of Rome but outside of Vatican
City proper, is the cathedral church of the diocese of Rome and serves as the seat of
the Pope? As a property of the Holy See it enjoys extraterritorial status from Italy.
Saint John Lateran
170
A Roman centurion or gladiator is the symbol of which global financial services
company, appearing on its credit cards and traveller’s cheques?
American Express
171
Which shallow gulf lies between Sri Lanka and India? An inlet of the Indian Ocean, it is separated from Palk Bay by Adam’s Bridge.
Gulf of Mannar
172
In men’s cricket, which team played its first test match in 1982, becoming the first
new test nation since Pakistan, 30 years earlier?
Sri Lanka
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Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 1952?
Pakistan
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Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 1992?
Zimbabwe
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Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 2000?
Bangladesh
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In which year did Ireland and Afghanistan gain Test status?
2018
177
Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 1889 becoming the third team after England and Australia?
South Africa
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Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 1928 becoming the fourth team?
West Indies
179
Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 1930 becoming fifth test team?
New Zealand
180
Which mens cricket team gained Test status in 1932 becoming sixth test team?
India
181
Which supercontinent, named for its remnants in South Africa and Australia, is
posited to have been the world’s first, having formed over three billion years ago?
Vaalbara
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From Greek for "strength", what word given to an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere consisting of Earth's two topmost layers: crust and uppermost mantle? First proposed by Leopold Kober in 1921, shortened by Hans Stille. Kaapvaal in South Africa and Pilbara in W.Australia give name to Vaalbara continent.
Craton
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Name given to someone who has learned every word of the Koran?
Hafiz
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The first Khalifah, successor to the leadership of the Muslim community after death of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Abu Bakr
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The Opener. Surah 1 of the Qu'ran. Recited at least 17 times daily during the five times of salah. Also known as "the essence" of the Qu'ran.
al-Fatihah
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House or abode of Islam, sometimes used to refer to lands ruled by Islamic Shari'ah.
Dar-ul-Islam
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Abraham (PBUH), a prophet of Allah to whom the scrolls were given.
Ibrahim
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Partition or Barrier the divide between life on Earth and the life after in Islam. This barrier cannot be crossed except by death and judgment.
Barzakh
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A non-muslim living freely under protection of an Islamic state.
Dhimmi
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In Islam, paradise, the reward for those who are judged to be good.
Jannah
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In Islam, successor, inheritor, custodian or vice regent.
Khalifah
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In Islam, the place of prostration, alternative name for the mosque.
Masjid
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In Islam, rebellious, proud, the devil.
Shaytan
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In Islam, walking seven times around the Ka'bah in the worship of All'ah. Also a part of Hajj and Umrah.
Tawaf
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What is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Ḥajj, which has specific dates according to the Islamic lunar calendar?
Umrah
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What U word is commonly used to mean the collective community of Islamic people?
Ummah
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What is the Islamic term for the name for the Arabic phrase ʾAllāhu ʾakbarᵘ. It is a common Arabic expression, used in various contexts by Muslims and Arabs around the world: in formal Salah?
Takbir
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From Arabic for "association", what is Islamic term for regarding anything as being equal or partner to Allah. It is forbidden in Islam.
Shirk
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Islamic term for Direction which Muslims face when performing salah – towards the Ka’bah
(see Mihrab).
Qiblah
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Islamic term for Niche or alcove in a mosque wall, indicating the Qiblah – the direction of
Makkah, towards which all Muslims face
to perform salah.
Mihrab
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The stand from which the Imam delivers the khutbah or speech in the mosque or praying
ground.
Minbar
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From Arabic for "one fifth": the required religious obligation of any Muslims to pay 20% of their acquired wealth from certain sources toward specified causes. It is treated differently in Shia and Sunni Islam.
Khums
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First wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and mother of Fatima
Khadija
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Islamic term for being created by Allah from fire, are real creatures that form a world other than that of mankind, capable of causing physical and mental harm to human beings..
Jinn
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In Islam, Salah is done five times throughout the day, what is the Islamic term for the dawn prayer?
Fajr
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In Islam, Salah is done five times throughout the day, what is the Islamic term for the early afternoon prayer?
Dhuhr/Zuhr
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In Islam, Salah is done five times throughout the day, what is the Islamic term for the late afternoon prayer?
Asr
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In Islam, Salah is done five times throughout the day, what is the Islamic term for the Sunset prayer?
Maghrib
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In Islam, Salah is done five times throughout the day, what is the Islamic term for the night prayer?
Isha'a
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Islamic term for the Islamic call to public prayer (salah) in a mosque recited by a muezzin at prescribed times of the day?
Adhan
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Which Jewish term for a prayer is used for a song by Maurice Ravel in his Two Hebrew Songs and also a Symphony No 3 by Bernstein?
Kaddish
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Which Jewish declaration gives its name to a composition for cello and orchestra written by Max Bruch?
Kol Nidre
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One of the wives of Muhammad and the daughter of Abu Bakr
Aisha
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Arabic term for "the Hereafter". In Islamic eschatology, on the Day of Last Judgment, the natural or temporal world will come to an end, the dead will be resurrected from their graves, and go here.
Akhirah
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The Rashidun, are the first four caliphs (lit.: 'successors') who led the Muslim community following the death of Muhammad: who were they in order?
Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali
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After his appointment as the caliph, Ali transferred his capital from Medina to which city in 170km south of Baghdad, the Muslim garrison city in the present-day Iraq?
Kufa
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Who was the first Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate ruling from 661 to 680? Succeeded Hasan ibn Ali as Caliph (who was the son of Ali and Fatima). Succeeded by his son Yazid I.
Mu'awiya I
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Name of the 657CE battle between fourth Rashidun caliph Ali and rebellious governor of Syria Muawiya, battle named after its location on the banks of the Euphrates
Battle of Siffin
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Which battle took place in 656CE/36AH outside of Basra, Iraq and fought between fourth caliph Ali and rebel army of Aisha (Muhammad's third and youngest wife), Talha and Zubayr.
Battle of the Camel
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Term for the first civil war in the Islamic community. It led to the overthrow of the Rashidun Caliphate and the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate
Fitna
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who was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 744 until his death in 750? The Abbasid revolution or Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment overthrew and Abbasid Caliphate ruled until 1517.
Marwan II
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What is name of the fresco found on the wall of Qasr Amra, a desert castle of the Umayyad Caliphate located in modern-day Jordan. It depicts six rulers standing in two rows of three. Four of the six have inscriptions in Arabic and Greek identifying them as the Byzantine emperor, King Roderic of Spain, the Sasanian emperor, and the King of Aksum.
Painting of the Six Kings
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Term for a verse of the Quran that is a subsection of each Surah.
Ayah
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Islamic term for Saying; report; account. The sayings of
the Prophet Muhammad
Hadith
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Wife of prophet Ibrahim and mother of Isma'il?
Hajar
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What are the two hills found at the Grand Mosque of Kaaba at Mecca?
Safa and Marwah
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Islamic term for obligatory duty according to divine law eg offering salah five times a day
Fard
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Name of place near Mecca where Muhammad went for solitude and worship, there he received the first revelation of Quran
Hira
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What is islamic term for hell, the punishment for those judged to be evil?
Jahannam
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Sanskrit for "mindfulness of breathing" referring to inhalation and exhalation of breath, quintessential form of Buddhist meditation.
Anapanasarti
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B: fully ordained female in Buddhist monasticism
Bhikshuni
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a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous as it is the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have attained Enlightenment (Pali: bodhi) under what became known as the Bodhi Tree.
Bodh Gaya
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Town in Uttar Pradesh, one of big four Buddhist pilgrimage sites as said to be where Buddha attained parinirvana?
Kushinagar
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Place in Uttar Pradesh, 10km NE of Varanasi near Ganges and Varuna confluence, where in 528BC at 35 years old Gautama Buddha taught his first sermon after attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya. Where first Buddhist "Sangha" came into existence as result of enlightenment of first five disciples.
Sarnath
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Term in Buddhism refers to someone who has made a resolution to become a Buddha and has also received a confirmation or prediction from a living Buddha that this will be so.
Bodhisattva
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Four letter term is a Sanskrit and Pali word that connotes the virtue of generosity, charity or giving of alms, in Indian religions and philosophies.
Dana
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Tibetan term meaning a Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sādhanā that may be understood as a conflation of a fortification, a vihara and a university associated with Tibetan Buddhism and thus common in historical Tibetan regions
Gompa
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Meaning birth story, what Buddhist term is a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form?
Jataka
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M: buddhist term a dharmic concept of joy, particularly an especially sympathetic or vicarious joy—the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being.
Mudita
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Sanskrit means "heaps, aggregates, collections, groupings". In Buddhism, it refers to the five aggregates of clinging, the five material and mental factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging.
Skandha
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In Buddhism, what are rupa, vedana, samjna, sanskara and vijnana collectively known as?
Skandha
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Pali/Sanskrit word meaning "wandering", word meaning the cycle of death and rebirth experienced in Buddhism only broken by reaching Nirvana?
Samsara
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Term from Sanskrit "three jewels", in Buddhism it comprises the Buddha, the dharma (doctrine, or teaching), and the sangha (the monastic order, or community).
Triratna
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a distinctive and significant aspect of Tibetan Buddhism, embodying the concept of enlightened beings taking corporeal forms to continue the lineage of specific teachings
Tulku
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Sanskrit or Pali for Triple Basket, the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures: Vinaya Piṭaka ("Discipline Basket"), dealing with rules or discipline of the sangha,
Sutta Piṭaka (Sutra/Sayings Basket), discourses and sermons of Buddha, some religious poetry; the largest basket and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, treatises that elaborate Buddhist doctrines, particularly about mind; also called the "systematic philosophy" basket?
Tipitaka
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a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist namesake Canon or Tipiṭaka as well as the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism
Pali
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Mahayana is which language for Greater Vehicle? Said to be this branch of Buddhism's language in contrast to Theravada language Pali.
Sanskrit
248
a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding", Zen Buddhism refers to deep experience of Kensho.
Satori
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What term in Buddhism: the nature of reality regarded as a universal truth taught by the Buddha; the teaching of Buddhism?
Dharma
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Literally meaning beggar, an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism has what term?
Bhikshu
251
What sweet substance, with a seven-letter name, is made by boiling nuts in
sugar and then grinding the mixture? It is often used as a filling for chocolates.
Praline
252
What title is shared by a 2022 single by Rihanna, from the soundtrack to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and a 1999 Geri Halliwell single?
Lift Me Up
253
Which Netflix horror fantasy series, which debuted last year, stars Tom Sturridge
in the titular role, the personification of dreams and nightmares?
The Sandman
254
Which US city is “my kind of town” according to the lyrics of a song recorded a
number of times by Frank Sinatra?
Chicago
255
In which EU Member State is the low-cost airline Smartwings based?
Czechia
256
Which castle, 50 kilometres north of Inverness, is the main filming location for the
BBC reality TV series The Traitors?
Ardross Castle
257
Which of the ten current Netball Superleague sides is the only one based in
Wales? Their best season came in 2013, when they finished runners-up.
Celtic Dragons
258
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which character marries Prospero’s daughter
Miranda?
Ferdinand
259
What three-letter word for part of the body follows ‘Moose’ in the name of a city
on the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan?
Jaw
260
Which Liverpudlian singer represented the UK in the 1993 Eurovision Song
Contest, finishing runner-up with her song Better the Devil You Know?
Sonia (Evans)
261
Which MSP for Edinburgh Eastern finished third in this year’s SNP leadership
contest? She was the first SNP minister to resign to vote against government
policy, over gender recognition reform.
Ash Regan
262
What title is shared by a 2022 single by Lady Gaga, from the soundtrack to Top
Gun: Maverick, and a 2015 Jess Glynne single?
Hold My Hand
263
Which Netflix mystery thriller series, which debuted last year, stars Naomi Watts
and Bobby Cannavale as a couple who, having moved into a new home in New
Jersey, are harassed by the titular character?
The Watcher
264
Which term can be used for Buddhism a being who has reached a state of perfection and enlightenment?
arhat (Sanskrit) or arahant (Pali)
265
In the human skeleton, which bone, also called the calf bone, makes up the lower
leg with the tibia?
Fibula
266
What Arabic word meaning ‘garden’ describes an inner courtyard, and is used in
Morocco for a traditional guesthouse? It is a homophone of the name of a city in
Saudi Arabia.
Riad
267
What sweet substance, with a seven-letter name, is made by whipping cream
and chocolate together? It is often used as a frosting or filling for cakes.
Ganache
268
Which early supercontinent, named for the Russian for ‘motherland’, is posited to
have formed one billion years ago, preceding Pannotia?
Rodinia
269
Which shallow gulf lies between Trinidad and Venezuela? It is linked to the
Caribbean by the Dragon’s Mouth to the north and Serpent’s Mouth to the south.
Gulf of Paria
270
87-day siege of namesake city in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous, mixed community of Croats, Serbs and other ethnic groups.
Battle of Vukovar
271
Name of insurrection which started on August 17, 1990, in areas of the Republic of Croatia which were populated significantly by ethnic Serbs. A full year of tension, including minor skirmishes and sabotage, passed before these events would escalate into the Croatian War of Independence. Name comes from what was used as blockades.
Log Revolution
272
Croatian politician and historian who became the first president of Croatia, from 1990 until his death. He served following the country's independence from Yugoslavia.
Franjo Tudman
273
Serbian and Yugoslav politician who was the president of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000.
Slobodan Milošević
274
Bosnian Serb politician who was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He was the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War between 1992-96.
Radovan Karadžić
275
Bosnian Serb former military officer and convicted war criminal who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. Deemed by the ICTY to be responsible for both the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre
Ratko Mladić
276
Which of the ten Netball Superleague sides is the only one based in Scotland?
They joined the league in 2017, finishing sixth – a result they have yet to better.
Strathclyde Sirens
277
What netball superleague team are based in Hatfield, Herts?
Saracens Mavericks
278
What netball superleague team are based in Worcester?
Severn Stars
279
In astronomy, stars are commonly classified using the letters O, B, A, F, G, K and
M on which system, named for the two American astronomers who developed it?
You may give their names of the two initials by which the system is known.
Morgan-Keenan System
280
In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which character marries Shylock’s daughter Jessica?
Lorenzo
281
Highest point of Cuba called what?
Pico Turquino
282
In which EU Member State is the airline Sky Express based?
Greece
283
Which US city is “my kind of lady” according to the title of Frank Sinatra’s final
solo studio album, and a single from it?
Los Angeles
284
Give the first name of any one of the three contestants who jointly won the first
series of the BBC series The Traitors.
Aaron, Hannah or Meryl
285
In 1923, Frenchmen André Lagache and René Léonard won the inaugural
staging of which motorsport event?
24 Hours of Le Mans
286
Which BBC sitcom featured Paul O’Grady as Ray Temple, the manager of a
Liverpool bingo hall?
Eyes Down
287
In the Chinese zodiac, January 2023 saw the beginning of the year of which
animal?
Rabbit
288
chinese zodiac 2024 is year of the what?
Dragon
289
SATs in terms of exams are acronyms for ?
Standard Assessment Tests
290
In a competition remembered for the attack on Nancy Kerrigan orchestrated by
Tonya Harding's then-husband, which Ukrainian athlete won the ladies' singles
figure skating title at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Oksana Baiul
291
Which American Nobel Prize-winning economist gives his name to a proposed tax on all spot conversions from one currency into another, with the proposal later being broadened to include taxes on all forms of short-term trading?
James Tobin
292
Supposedly named after a Hungarian peasant who spread the grape throughout France, which red wine grape - one of the six grapes allowed in the making of Bordeaux wine - has been described as a softer version of merlot with hints of blackberry?
Malbec
293
Which of the five Ks of Sikhism is a small, curved sword, usually a knife or
dagger?
Kirpan
294
Which English playwright wrote the 1893 melodrama The Second Mrs
Tanqueray?
Arthur Wing PINERO
295
Which Astronomer Royal (1765-1811) was the first person to scientifically
measure the mass of the Earth, in the so-called Schiehallion experiment?
Nevil Maskelyne
296
Which team in the Scottish Premiership play their home games at Pittodrie?
Aberdeen
297
The third-largest of the 88 modern constellations, which constellation that is
depicted on the Alaskan flag is primarily known from the group of its main seven
stars, a grouping colloquially known as the Plough or the Big Dipper?
Ursa Major
298
Galia and Charentais are varieties of which fruit?
Melon
299
Formed in 1979 near Liverpool, which new wave band had singles in the early
1980s such as Wishful Thinking, Christian, and Working with Fire and Steel?
China Crisis
300
A Labour MP for Smethwick and then Leyton, who served briefly as Foreign Secretary from late 1964 to early 1965, during which time he most unusually was not an MP at all?
Patrick GORDON WALKER
301
Which 2005 opera by John Adams focuses on how the leading figures at Los
Alamos dealt with the stress and anxiety of preparing for the Trinity atomic bomb
test?
Doctor Atomic
302
Sometimes called heat of transformation, what six-letter word refers to energy
released or absorbed by a body or thermodynamic system? The term was
introduced by Joseph Black in 1762.
Latent
303
Which racecourse in County Kildare is home to Ireland’s five most important flat
races, known as the Classics?
The Curragh
304
From the Latin for ‘stone’, what name is given to an artist who forms gemstones
and minerals into decorative items?
Lapidary
305
Medjool and Deglet Nour are varieties of which fruit?
Date
306
Aimed at the generation of people born between 1946 and ‘64, which commercial radio station, first aired in 2021, counts David Hamilton and Jenny Hanley among its regular presenters?
Boom Radio
307
Name either of the two countries that contested the so-called Pastry War of 1838-9.
France/Mexico
308
Which English playwright wrote the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt?
Brandon Thomas
309
Which Astronomer Royal (1835-1881) calculated the mean density of the Earth and established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian?
George Biddell Airy
310
Name of Ad Agency in Mad Men
Sterling Cooper
311
Name of Boston law firm in Ally McBeal?
Cage and Fish
312
In a race remembered for the collision of Zola Budd and Mary Decker, which
Romanian athlete won the gold medal in the women's 3000m at the 1984
Summer Olympics?
Maricica Puica
313
What everyday word is given in chemistry to any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group is bound to a saturated carbon atom?
Alcohol
314
Originally developed by Midway Games, which fighting game series has had instalments such as Deadly Alliance, Deception, and Shaolin Monks?
Mortal Kombat
315
What name is given to the small magnification device used by a lapidary or
jeweller to see details more closely?
Loupe
316
What is the name of the luxury vehicle division of South Korean automobile
manufacturer Hyundai?
Genesis
317
A Labour MP for South Gloucestershire and then Great Grimsby, who served briefly as Foreign Secretary from mid-1976 until his death in 1977 aged just 58?
Anthony Crosland
318
Which 2013 opera by Philip Glass reimagines Walt Disney in his later years as a
power-hungry racist?
The Perfect American
319
With a symbol consisting of capital C and lower-case P, what eight-letter word refers to the amount of heat energy that must be added to one unit of mass of a substance to cause an increase of one unit of temperature?
Specific
320
Formed in 1979 in Colchester, which new wave band had singles in the early
1980s such as I Melt with You, Someone's Calling, and Hands Across the Sea?
Modern English
321
Found in South America, what is the heaviest known snake species? Your
answer needs more than one word.
Green Anaconda
322
Cochise and Geronimo both led bands of which much larger Native American
tribal group?
Apache
323
The Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, occurs on the
first day of which month of the Islamic calendar, which follows the month of
Ramadan?
Shawwal
324
Which French dancer, actress and singer, said to have had the largest breast implants in the world, became famous in the UK through regular appearances on the Channel 4 show Eurotrash? She died of an overdose in 2000.
Lolo Ferrari
325
Which Thai dish, a hot and sour soup using prawns as its main ingredient with
flavourings including lemongrass and galangal, was voted the world’s eighth best
dish in a 2018 poll by CNN? Your answer should consist of three words.
Tom Yum Kung
326
Which Welsh snooker player, nicknamed The Welsh Dragon, has never won the World Championship but lost two finals, to his countryman Mark Williams in 2000 and
to Shaun Murphy in 2005?
Matthew Stevens
327
If you arrange a four-digit number’s digits in ascending and descending order, subtract the smaller number from the bigger and repeat, you eventually end up with the number 6174. This was discovered by which Indian mathematician, not Srinivasa Ramanujan, with 6174 being described as his constant?
DR Kaprekar
328
What type of number in a given number base is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits when written in that base? Defined by DR Kaprekar, Indian mathematician, who named it after Sanskrit for joy-giver.
Harshad Number
329
Name of the medical procedure that improves blood circulation in a baby born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) named after American pediatric cardiac surgeon?
Norwood Procedure
330
Which MP for Southend West from 1935-’50 is perhaps better known for his three volumes of diaries, published in expurgated form in the 1960s and in full form, having been edited by Simon Heffer, this decade? He was also the husband of Honor Guinness.
Henry "Chips" Channon
331
Surname of the two MPs for Southend West before David Amess who was killed as an MP?
Channon
332
In which Australian state are the cities of Gold Coast, Townsville and Cairns, all ranked among Australia’s twenty most populous urban areas?
Queensland
333
Which Dutch multinational which runs over 13,000 of its convenience stores globally,
has a name which is a shortened form of an acronym of a Dutch phrase meaning
“through united co-operation everyone profits”?
SPAR
334
Which Australian film director’s films have included 2014’s The Babadook and 2018’s The Nightingale? In 2022 she directed The Murmuring, an episode on the Netflix horror anthology Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
Jennifer Kent
335
Which British manufacturer won the inaugural World Constructors’ Championship in
1958? Between them Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks won seven of that season’s
eleven races for this team.
Vanwall
336
These organs consist of the filament and anther, and collectively form the androecium.
Stamen
337
Which Italian revolutionary founded the Young Italy society in the early 1830s and
championed his country’s Risorgimento movement for unification? He lived in London
for much of the last 40 years of his life.
Giuseppe Mazzini
338
Which lake located on the border of Ontario, Manitoba and Minnesota is the largest US lake outside the Great Lakes? The Northwest Angle to its north is the only part of the contiguous US states above the 49th parallel and can only be reached by land from the US by crossing Canada.
Lake of the Woods
339
Which American soul singer’s 1968 single The Snake rose to prominence in the UK due to exposure on the Northern Soul scene, becoming a minor UK hit in 1975? This man also had a US Billboard chart-topper with Show and Tell.
Al Wilson
340
In which Australian state are the cities of Central Coast, Newcastle and Wollongong, all ranked among Australia’s twenty most populous urban areas?
New South Wales
341
Which multinational founded in the Netherlands, which runs about 1,600 of its clothing stores globally, has a name which refers to the initials of its founding brothers, whose surname was Brennink-meijer? It withdrew from the British
market, where it had over 100 stores, in 2001.
C&A
342
Which MP for Leicester West from 1935-’45 is perhaps better known for his three
volumes of diaries and letters, edited for publication by his son Nigel in the
1960s? He was also the husband of Vita Sackville-West.
Harold Nicolson
343
Which Cuban novelty singer became famous in the UK through regular appearances on Clive James’ television show, after he saw her singing on Manhattan cable TV during a trip to New York? She died in 2020 aged 89.
Margarita Pracatan
344
Which Malay dish, a spicy-sour broth using mackerel as its main ingredient with
flavourings including mint and tamarind, was voted the world’s seventh best dish
in a 2018 poll by CNN? Your answer should consist of at least two words.
Penang Laksa
345
In a UK electrical plug, what colour is the neutral wire?
Blue
346
Which English snooker player, nicknamed The Captain, has never won the
World Championship but lost two finals to Ronnie O’Sullivan, in 2008 and 2012?
Ali Carter
347
The Muslim festival of Eid al-Adhr, which marks Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice
his son Ismail, occurs on the tenth day of which twelfth and final month of the
Islamic calendar, which is also the month in which the Hajj takes place?
Dhul Hijjah
348
Which Hungarian revolutionary led the struggle for Hungarian independence from
Austria, leading the country briefly between 1848 and ’49? He lived in London for
much of the last 40 years of his life and became friendly with Giuseppe Mazzini.
Lajos Kossuth
349
Which lake located in Minnesota is the headwater of the Mississippi river?
Despite sounding as if it may be of Native American origin, its name in fact
comes from a portion of the Latin words meaning ‘true head’
Lake Itasca
350
Which American singer’s 1966 single Out on the Floor rose to prominence in the
UK due to exposure on the Northern Soul scene, becoming a minor UK hit in
1975? Drift Away and The ‘In’ Crowd were other hits for this man.
Dobie Gray
351
What name is given to the female reproductive organ of a flower? These organs
consist of the ovary, style and stigma and collectively form the gynoecium.
Pistil
352
Which British manufacturer won the second and third World Constructors’ Championships in 1959 and ’60? Their two drivers in the latter of those seasons, Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren, both went on to found namesake Formula One teams.
Cooper
353
Which modern-day musical instrument developed from the medieval instrument
the shawm?
Oboe
354
Another organisation forming part of the ‘Tufton Street mafia’ is which neoliberal
economics think tank co-founded by Madsen Pirie in 1977, and not to be
confused with the Institute of Economic Affairs?
Adam Smith Institute
355
Which British naturalist and author wrote the book Born Free about raising the
lion cub Elsa? In 1980 she was murdered in Kenya, with a casual labourer she
had employed being convicted of the crime.
Joy Adamson
356
Which American film director’s films have included 2005’s Lords of Dogtown and
2008’s Twilight? In 2022 she directed Dreams in the Witch House, an episode on
the Netflix horror anthology Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
Catherine Hardwicke
357
In which series of sandbox video games developed by Maxis does the player
control the titular virtual people, directing their moods and satisfying their desires? March 2023 saw the release of the thirteenth expansion pack for its fourth version, subtitled Growing Together.
The Sims
358
Which Dutch automotive firm was founded by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot in 2021 and is the world’s fifth largest car maker? Its brands include Alfa Romeo, Citroen and Vauxhall.
Stellantis
359
What is the name of the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge?
Epistemology
360
Sometimes called cogs, the toothed wheels around which the chain of a bicycle
moves are also known by what word beginning with S? Distinct from gears which
mesh together directly, components called this are also used to transmit motion
via a chain or track in several other types of machine.
Sprocket
361
Who was king of France at the time of its defeat at the battle of Blenheim, during the War of the Spanish Succession?
Louis XIV
362
Named after a type of nymph from Greek mythology, which moon of Neptune, its
third largest, has the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the Solar System?
Nereid
363
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” is the first line of which
American patriotic song written by Julia Ward Howe? This tune, based on the
earlier soldier’s song John Brown’s Body, is sometimes known as Glory Glory,
Hallelujah.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
364
A record six former world champion drivers took part in the 2012 Formula 1
season. The reigning champion, Sebastian Vettel drove with non-champion Mark
Webber for which team, who won four consecutive drivers’ titles from 2010-13?
Red Bull Racing
365
Which of Italy’s 20 administrative regions is the largest in area? This place was a
kingdom in its own right from 1130-1816.
Sicily
366
What name is given to the gearing system used to shift the chain from one
sprocket to another on a bicycle?
Derailleur
367
Who was on the British throne when the French defeated Great Britain and her
allies at the battle of Fontenoy, during the War of the Austrian Succession?
George II
367
Years of War of Austrian Succession
1740-48
368
Years of war of spanish succession
1701-1714
369
Calling himself the “smut peddler who cares”, which founder of Hustler magazine
came seventh in the 2003 California recall election? He was played by Woody
Harrelson in a 1996 Miloš Forman film titled The People vs. [this man].
Larry Flynt
370
Fronted by Louise Wener, which Britpop band had the 1995 track Sale of the Century as their joint-highest-charting single? Other hits by this band include Inbetweener and Statuesque.
Sleeper
371
Russell T. Davies wrote which 2018 three-part serial, directed by Stephen Frears,
which dramatised the Jeremy Thorpe scandal? Hugh Grant played Thorpe and
Ben Whishaw was his lover Norman Scott.
A Very English Scandal
372
Also called a cogset, what name is given to the set of sprockets attached to the
rear wheel of a bicycle? The size of this component is normally listed in terms of
the largest and smallest sprockets, such as ‘11-32t’, and this word also names a
defunct audio recording medium.
Cassette
373
The battle of Bouvines [boo-veen], a decisive victory for Philip II of France over
the Emperor Otto IV and his English allies, ended all hope of a restoration of the
Angevin Empire. Who was king of England at the time?
King John (1214)
374
Which 1896 march by John Philip Sousa is, by a 1987 Act of Congress, the National March of the USA? The British football chant Here We Go is sung to part of the tune of this song.
Stars and Stripes Forever
375
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher finished his F1 career in the
2012 season, which was the third of his unsuccessful comeback with which team,
driving alongside Nico Rosberg? This team would later win seven successive drivers’ championships, including Rosberg’s 2016 title.
Mercedes
376
Which of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities is the largest in area? Its name
combines those of two former Iberian kingdoms.
Castile y Leon
377
Which of France’s 18 administrative regions is the largest in area? This region shares part of its name with both a short-lived Carolingian kingdom, and with the smaller region that merged with Limousin and Poitou-Charentes to form this region in 2016
Nouvelle Aquitaine/New Aquitaine
378
Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics of which American patriotic song which
uses the same tune as God Save the King? The first line of this tune describes
the USA as “sweet land of liberty”.
My Country Tis of Thee
379
The guide wheel used to keep tension on the chain as a bicycle’s gears are
changed, usually holding it in a roughly S-shaped pattern, has what name? This
two-word term (including ‘wheel’) can also refer to the small, adjustable wheel at
the front of a trailer used for manual steering.
Jockey Wheel
380
Which moon of Uranus, the smallest of its five major ones, has one of the most extreme and varied topographies in the Solar System, including the tallest known cliff, Verona Rupes? This moon is named after a Shakespearian heroine.
Miranda
381
Name of moon of trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Orcus, named after the winged Etruscan psychopomp who guides the souls of the dead to the underworld
Vanth
382
Which planet is regarded as the anti-Pluto, a major consideration of choosing its name as the Roman/Etruscan equivalent of the Roman/Greek god Pluto? Moon is called Vanth.
Orcus
383
Charon, moon of Pluto, discovered by who in 1978?
James Christy
384
Which dwarf planet has two known moons, Hiʻiaka and Namaka, named after Hawaiian goddesses?
Haumea
385
Name of a dwarf planet, a cubewano (QB1-o), named after Tongva creator deity. In 2023, astronomers announced the discovery of two rings orbiting it outside its Roche limit, which defies theoretical expectations that these rings should not be stable.
Quaoar
386
Name of only known moon of dwarf planet Quaoar, in the Tongva mythology, this is the son of the creator deity Quaoar and is the god of the sky.
Weywot
387
Dwarf planet named after a Chinese water god responsible for chaos, floods and the tilt of the Earth
Gonggong
388
only known moon of the scattered-disc likely dwarf planet 225088 Gonggong, a nine-headed venomous snake monster in Chinese mythology that attended the water god Gonggong as his chief minister
Xiangliu
389
Name of binary main-belt asteroid whose name is taken from Ethiopian word for the Lucy fossil
Dinkinesh
390
Large planetoid in the Kuiper Belt named after the female Roman divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean, consort of Neptune. HAs known moon called Actaea
Salacia
391
Trans-Neptunian planetoid named after the queen of the Valar, creator of the stars, one of the most powerful servants of almighty Eru Ilúvatar in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional mythology? One known moon is handmaiden of the namesake queen, Ilmare.
Varda
392
Binary asteroid named after Mohegan legend, a giant who lived in the coastal areas of New England. Asteroid's companion is called Squannit, the wife of giant.
Moshup
393
Which French painter, known for such works as The Pink Dress and Family Reunion, played a key role in the formative years of the Impressionist movement, but was killed at the battle of Beaune-la-Rolande in 1870?
Frédéric Bazille
394
Who was the king of France whose much larger army was defeated by Henry V’s
English at the battle of Agincourt?
Charles VI or Charles the Mad
395
Because it is covered in clean ice, which sixth-largest moon of Saturn is one of
the most reflective bodies in the Solar System? It is named for the giant who
fought Athena and was buried under Mount Etna
Enceladus
396
Which hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson, and set to music by his
brother, is often seen as the Black national anthem of the USA, with its profile
rising sharply since the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd?
Lift Every Voice and
Sing
397
Fronted by John Power, which Britpop band had the 1996 track Flying as their highest-charting single? Other hits by this band include Sandstorm and Guiding Star.
Cast
398
Which leader of the FLN quickly seized power from Ben·youcef Ben·khedda
following Algerian independence, and was elected as Algeria’s first president in
1963? He was then ousted by Houari Boumédiène in 1965.
Ahmed Ben Bella
399
Which Greek-born author, who placed fifth in the 2003 California recall election,
co-founded an eponymous progressive news website in 2005, and is the founder
and CEO of behaviour technology company Thrive Global?
Ariana Huffington
400
Which tributary is the headwater of the Yenisey and joins it near Strelka? Lake
Baikal drains into this river which then flows around 2000 kilometres northwest.
Angara
401
Trademarked by Bandai, what onomatopoeic word refers to Japanese vending machines that usually distribute capsule toys?
Gashapon
402
Also the narrator of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, what theatre professional is generally responsible for all aspects of the smooth execution of a production?
Stage Manager
403
What simple arithmetic expression represents the complex "Bruckner rhythm" used frequently by composer Anton Bruckner?
2+3
404
In computer programming, what does the acronym "NaN" (one syllable, "nan") stand for?
Not a Number
405
What 4th Dynasty Pharaoh and father of Khufu was responsible for the construction of at least the Bent, Red, and Meidum Pyramids, representing important developments in construction that would lead to the
Pyramids of Giza?
Sneferu
406
In the Mandaean faith, which early New Testament figure is considered the greatest and final prophet?
St John the Baptist
407
Lempira, a national hero of Honduras and namesake of its currency, was a warrior of what Central American Indigenous group whose name means "people of the jaguar"?
Lenca
408
By what common first name, borne by a Chicago grunge rocker, a London punk rocker, and a Long Island-raised singersongwriter, does Ikea’s ubiquitous bookcase line go? Your author has several in his garage, not holding books.
Billy
409
Richard Nixon modelled his Vice Presidential "Checkers" speech after which presidential pet who featured in a namesake speech given eight years prior, to the day?
Fala
410
What 15-year-old online collaborative writing project is based on a fictional organisation that catalogues and contains
mysterious "anomalies"? Its first entry concerned a statue that killed people if no one was looking at it.
SCP Foundation
411
What is Mexico's largest movie theatre chain, also the 4th largest in the world? Its name can be loosely translated as
"movie city."
Cinepolis
412
Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of Phish are known to perform routines using what apparatus, particularly during
renditions of YEM ("why-ee-em"), short for "You Enjoy Myself"?
Trampolining
413
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on CRISPR. What kilodalton protein uses CRISPR to cleave specific strands of DNA?
Cas9
414
In what video game series that debuted in 2006 for the Nintendo DS are you expected to follow the instructions of the titular familial chef?
Cooking Mama
415
Pange lingua, Libera me, and Tantum ergo are three of the 40 or so of what works composed by Bruckner? They are mainly vocal and originated in the High Medieval period.
Motets
416
What term refers to Bandai-produced build-them-yourself mecha kits? The name is an abbreviated portmanteau (in
English) of Bandai's popular mecha sci-fi franchise and the material of the kits themselves.
Gunpla
417
The acronym NaN is often seen in what type of computer calculation, frequently used to represent non-integer numbers?
Floating Point
418
In a baking-themed stage in what non-culinary Playstation video game must you follow the directions of Cheap Cheap the Cooking Chicken to "crack, crack, crack the egg into the bowl"?
Parappa the Rapper
419
Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips often wades into (or on top of?) the crowd in a conveyance affectionately referred to by
what two-word "pet" name?
Hamster Ball
420
Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on paleogenetics and the Neandertal
genome. Earlier in his career, his lab conducted research on what gene, known as the "language gene", which is only slightly
different in Neanderthals from that in Homo sapiens?
FOX-P-2
421
Traditionally, all Sikh women bear the name "Kaur." While sometimes translated as "lioness" as a counterpart to Singh,
what does "kaur" literally mean in English?
Princess
422
Between 2012 and 2018, which Chinese conglomerate owned a majority stake in AMC, the world's largest theatre
chain? In Chinese, their name roughly means "all things are achievable;" in English, it's recognizable from the MCU.
WANDA Group
423
A recurring anomaly in the SCP universe is a mind-bending play titled "The Hanged King's Tragedy." That play is inspired
by what story collection by Robert W. Chambers, itself named for a play that recurs as a motif?
The King In Yellow
424
Who led the Indigenous resistance against colonisation in Australia's Bathurst War? You may give either his Indigenous
name or the sobriquet given to him by British settlers.
WINDRADYNE or SATURDAY
425
Foreign Sec between Oct and Dec 1809 and Sec of War and Colonies 1812-27 who gave his name to capital of Gambia before it was changed to current name?
Earl Bathurst
426
There are five generally recognized extant populations of the mainland Asian tiger, all named for geographic regions. Name any one of these populations.
BENGAL tiger, SIBERIAN or
AMUR tiger, SOUTH CHINA tiger,
INDOCHINESE tiger, MALAYAN tiger.
427
The Mandaean religion is also sometimes known as Sabianism, deriving from a mysterious group described in the Quran
as belonging to "ahl al-kitab," a group also including Jews, Christians, and sometimes Zoroastrians. In Arabic, "ahl alkitab" means "the people of" what?
People of the BOOK
428
What 4th Dynasty Pharaoh and son of Khufu emulated his father in building the second-largest pyramid at Giza, three
metres shorter than the Great Pyramid but seemingly taller because of its higher base?
Khafre
429
Founded by Werner Erhard in 1971, what New Age organisation, labelled a cult by some, was marketed with a conjugation of "être" or "essere"?
Est
430
In archaeology, what is the study of stone tools and stoneworking called?
Lithics
431
American archaeologist. An early practitioner of underwater archaeology, he co-directed the first expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya in 1960 and founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1972.
George Bass
432
The name of what large muscle means "the broadest of the back" in Latin?
LATs or LATISSIMUS DORSI
433
Who is the protagonist, as well as the best friend of Jake the Dog, in the cartoon Adventure Time?
Finn the Human
434
Which footballer who played for most of his career at Tottenham Hotspur as a defensive midfielder, is famous as being the first player to be sent off for the England national team, and scored the only international goal of his career in the 3-2 defeat to West Germany in the 1970 World Cup quarter finals?
Alan Mullery
435
What is the name given to the cells in the brain and nervous system which are non-neuronal and create no electrical impulses? They make up more than a half of the volume of neural tissue in the human body.
Glia Cells
436
Name either of the two Indian cities which function as the capitals of the state of Himachal Pradesh, which is India's northernmost undisputed state.
Shimla or Dharamshala
437
Which American boxer, who competed in multiple different weight categories, knocked out Ricky Hatton in the 10th round of a Welterweight world title fight at the MGM Grand in 2007? He also defeated MMA champion Conor McGregor in a 2017 boxing match.
Floyd Mayweather
438
In English law, the case of Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932 was key in establishing when someone has a duty of care over another. The case arose when May Donoghue fell ill after drinking ginger beer. What creature was in the bottle that caused her to fall ill?
Snail
439
There are six legal deposit libraries in the UK, to which everything published in the UK must be sent. One of these is located in Oxford, what is its name?
Bodleian Library
440
In winemaking what is the name given to the freshly crushed fruit juice containing the skin, seeds and stem of the fruit? The solid portion of this is called pomace
Must
441
Karl Lagerfeld was a creative director for which Italian fashion house from 1965 until his death in 2019? This fashion house originally specialised in fur and leather goods, and has been part of LVMH since 2001.
Fendi
442
Which German metalsmith and photographer studied at the Bauhaus, becoming the only woman to get a degree from, and later become assistant director of, its metal workshop? In 2007, one of her teapots sold at auction for $361,000, at the time a record for Bauhaus products.
Marianne Brandt
443
What is the highest grossing Indian film of 2023? Directed by Atlee, and starring Shah Rukh Khan, the film follows a prison warden who, at the beginning of the film, hijacks a train in order to use the ransom to pay off the debts of impoverished farmers.
Jawan
444
Called prana in Sanskrit, what short name is given to the life-force said to pervade the chakras in Chinese medicine and
philosophy?
Xi (pronounced Chi)
445
Which Argentinian footballer was sent off in the quarter final of the 1966 world cup against England for dissent? He was
so angry at the decision he sat on the queen's red carpet and refused to leave the pitch.
Antonio Rattin
446
Named after their resemblance to star shapes, what is the name given to the most numerous types of glial cells? One of their main functions is to control biochemical processes including the regulation of the blood-brain barrier.
Astrocytes
447
Two rivers longest solely in Wales. different according to source.
Usk (Newport) and Towy (Carmarthen, Llandeilo)
448
Which non-original member of the band The Byrds went on to front the band The Flying Burrito Brothers alongside Byrds
bassist Chris Hillman, and was a pioneer of country rock? He later died of a morphine overdose, and his corpse was
stolen during a dispute over the inheritance of his estate.
Gram Parsons
449
In which city, located in modern-day Italy, was the ecumenical council that was convened by Pope Paul III in 1545, that met in response to the Reformation? It sought to clarify and confirm Catholic theology in opposition to Protestantism, and was the last ecumenical council before the First Vatican Council in the 19th Century
Trent
450
Which two-digit number follows the words Talking Heads: in the title of Talking Heads' debut album? The number references its year of release which was the same year as the release of the only studio album released by the Sex
Pistols.
77
451
What word denotes a genre of YouTube videos where people unpack newly bought products for the viewer? The videos often include a detailed description and demonstration of the product.
Unboxing
452
What is the second-highest grossing Indian film of 2023, and the highest before Jawan was released? Directed by Siddarth Anand and also starring Shah Rukh Khan, this is the fourth film in the YRF Spy Universe, and follows the titular character, an agent for India's Research and Analysis Wing.
Pathaan
453
Which German textile artist helped develop the Bauhaus's weaving workshop? She was appointed a "master" of the workshop, the only woman to hold this title at the Bauhaus.
Gunta Stolzl
454
In beer and whisky brewing, what is the name given to the liquid extracted from the mashing process? This liquid contains the sugars that will be fermented by the yeast to create alcohol.
Wort
455
In English contract law, the case of Carlill in 1892 was key in establishing when claims made in an advert constitute an offer that can be accepted to form a contract. The case arose when a company claimed that their namesake product was a “ball” that would prevent influenza, offering readers £100 if it did not. What substance was in this ball?
Carbolic Acid
456
The titles of two books written about business and referencing a specific academic institution, one by Philip Delves Broughton and the other by Mark McCormack, differ by only one word. Subsequently, it has been facetiously claimed online that these two books constitute the entirety of human knowledge. Name either
book.
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School / What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
457
Which Taylor Swift song is currently number 1 on the UK singles charts? One of the "from the vault" tracks, it is the last track on the standard edition of her latest album, 1989 (Taylor's Version).
Is It Over Now? (Taylor's
Version) (From The Vault)
458
Which five-letter bird noise is also the name of the UK’s most prominent food brand
for budgies?
Trill
459
Changing the first letter of a mountain range provides the name of which Chinese
company, the country’s most popular provider of spoken-word audio with around
100 million users?
Ximalaya
460
French Sebastiens had an even better 2007 in motorsport, with a fourth
consecutive title for which driver in America’s ChampCar series? He has also had
top ten finishes in F1, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.
Sebastien Bourdais
461
Which male sculptor is erroneously included in the Dinner Party a symbolic history of women by the artist Judy Chicago?
Kresilas
462
Sydney is a city in New South Wales. Which Italian city can succeed Sydney to
make the author of the steampunk comic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and
Babbage?
Sydney PADUA
463
What was the four-letter name of the cartoon aardvark created by actor Will Ryan
in 1993? Adding the surname ‘Shropshire’ would give you a country singer best
known for his novelty song ‘Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer’.
Elmo
464
Beginning with T, which five-letter word can mean to twine? When following Liz it
makes a Labour MP who was Shadow Minister for Scotland until September 2023.
Liz Twist
465
Which horse won the 2016 King George VI Chase at Kempton Park? Its name also sounds like a most unfortunate naked gardening mishap.
Thistlecrack
466
Which Shakespeare villain, whose name begins with I-A, is seemingly motivated by the sheer joy of being an arsehole to fool Posthumus that his wife, the daughter of Cymbeline, has been unfaithful?
Iachimo
467
In the 2016 film The Jungle Book, what sort of animal was King Louie? Allied with orangutans, this extinct genus of giant ape was thought to be
nearly twice the weight of a gorilla.
Gigantopithecus
468
How many times does the word ‘Pigs’ appear in the name of a stoner metal band formed in Newcastle and fronted by Matthew Baty?
Seven (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs)
469
Stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, drapery, columns and straws are the six
most common types of what geological formation by mineral deposits? It
probably won’t help that the seventh letter of this ten-letter S-word is ‘t’.
Speleothem
470
According to the title of a Channel 5 series, which two people go ‘Motorhoming’? One is a long-standing team captain on
Have I Got News For You, while the other is his comedian wife.
Paul Merton and Suki Webster
471
What full name is shared by the US Representative for Wyoming from 2017
to 2023, and the English noblewoman who was the great-grandmother of Catherine Howard, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour?
Elizabeth Cheney
472
In Norse mythology, who or what was Gleipnir? It was made from six things, including the sound of a cat’s footfall.
The wolf Fenrir’s bindings
or chains
473
In the context of many basketball scoreboards, for what do the letters TOL stand?
Time Outs Left
474
How are Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip and Bets better known in a series of 15 books by Enid Blyton? Fatty’s Scottish terrier Buster sometimes gets title billing too.
The Five Find-Outers
475
Which French Academic painter, hugely popular in his lifetime but despised by the Impressionists, has famous works including The Birth of Venus and Le Printemps, also known as The Return Of Spring? His surname is 10 letters long and begins B-O.
William Adolphe Bouguereau
476
American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1837. Ended up marrying William Adolphe Bouguereau.
Elizabeth Jane Gardner
477
Which composer was responsible for the 1892 opera Iolanta? He also created operas named The Guardsman and The Enchantress.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
478
A county in northern California, and a lake between Lake Huron and Lake
Erie, are among the places to be named after which Assisi-based saint?
St Clare/Clair
479
Which 11-letter word of four syllables describes a person, typically a child, who causes trouble? The name once again combines a form of music with a foodstuff.
Rapscallion
480
Rhyming with a Disney film title character, what F is a dwarf variety of fennel?
Finocchio
481
The 27-metre-high statue Cristo Rei, situated at the top of Cape Fatucama, is a major tourist attraction in which Lusophone city, the largest in its country?
Dili (East Timor)
482
According to a Pentrich Brewing Company beer inspired by a quote from The Simpsons, which colour, which is not also a fruit, is a fruit?
Purple
483
What is the near exclusive diet of Lobodon carcinophaga, commonly known as the crabeater seal?
Krill
484
Complete the title of a 2018 film starring Sam Elliott reminiscing about his life as a double murderer, with at least one of the victims deserving it: “The Man Who Killed”…
Hitler and then the Bigfoot
485
Alternatively called a whitlow, what name can be given to a painful abscess
on the tip of the finger? It is also an alternative name for a criminal.
Felon
486
Chaika was the call sign for which human on their space flight aboard Vostok 6 in 1963?
Valentina Tereshkova
487
What is the name of the clade of long-necked dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus,
Diplodocus, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus? This group includes the largest animals to
have ever lived on land
Sauropods
488
In the human body, the Achilles tendon connects the calcaneus or heel bone to the
plantaris, the gastrocnemius and which powerful muscle in the back part of the lower leg?
The three together make up the calf.
Soleus
489
Which US city, whose name ends in the word ‘port’, sits on the Pequonnock River and is
the largest city in Connecticut by population? Situated 40 miles from The Bronx it is part
of the New York metropolitan area and is home to the first-ever Subway sandwich shop,
which opened in 1965.
Bridgeport
490
Her surname begins with ‘H’. Which goalkeeper saved four penalties in the shootout after
the 3-3 draw against Netherlands in the 2016 Olympics Women’s Field Hockey final,
winning Team GB the gold medal?
Maddie Hinch
491
Receiving acclaim for the 2009 compilation Rifts, as well as the influential vaporwave
release Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1, what is the stage name of Daniel Lopatin, who
composed scores for the films Good Time (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019)?
Oneohtrix Point Never /
OPN
492
Inspired by a stunning 117 not out from number 8 batsman and Player of the Match Harry Swindells, captain Lewis Hill lifted the 2023 Metro Bank One Day Cup for which Midlands county at the final at Trent Bridge in September?
Leicestershire
493
Beginning with the letter ‘T’, which Italian cheese, named for the Alpine valley in Lombardy where it has been made for centuries, is a semisoft, washed-rind cheese with a thin crust and a strong aroma, but is mild in taste with a fruity tang?
Taleggio
494
Her surname begins with ‘H’. With the score tied at 51-51, who scored a last second penalty shot against Australia in the 2018 Commonwealth Games Netball final, winning the England Roses the gold medal?
Helen Housby
495
After composing the score for Uncut Gems in 2019, Daniel Lopatin then wrote and produced songs, including Scared to Live and Until I Bleed Out on a 2020 album for which singer?
The Weeknd
496
Which US city, whose name ends in the word ‘port’, sits on the Red River and is the third largest city in Louisiana behind New Orleans and Baton Rouge? At one time a national centre for the oil industry it was home to the headquarters of Standard Oil and the United Gas Corporation.
Shreveport
497
In the human body, the hip bone is made up of three parts; the ilium, the ischium
and which other?
Pubis
498
What is the name of the clade of hollow-boned, three-toed dinosaurs that
included such species as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor?
Theropods
499
In accounting, what term describes the amount of money that would remain if a
business sold all its assets and paid off all its debts? This word is also the name
of a trade union for the performing arts and entertainment.
Equity
500
Beginning with the letter ‘P’, which aged, stretched curd cheese originates from
near Mount Vesuvius where it is still produced in pear, sausage, or cone shapes
4 to 6 inches long? It comes in plain and smoked varieties and is now mainly
produced in Cremona and the Po valley.
Provolone
501
American Paralympic swimmer. Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming (S12, SB12, and SM12 disability categories). She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals (41 gold, 9 silver, and 5 bronze).
Trischa Zorn
502
Born Tatiana Kirillova in Bratsk, Russia. Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winning 29 medals (16 of them gold).
Jessica Long
503
Which Strictly Come Dancing contestant received 8 points for his cha cha cha in the first episode of the 2004 series – a score that remains the lowest in the show’s history? This motoring journalist was a presenter on Top Gear between 1991 and 2001, where he specialised in offering advice on used cars.
Quentin Willson
504
Which British sailor is 4th on the list of people that have the largest area of planet
Earth named for them? The sea that is named for him borders Queen Maud Land.
James Weddell
505
Which German sculptor created Hahn/Cock, a giant blue cockerel that occupied the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square between 2013 and 2015?
Katharina Fritsch
506
The 2009 fourth plinth artwork by Gormley where members of public had one hour each up there had what name?
One & Other
507
The 2015-16 Fourth Plinth artwork Gift Horse of a skeletal riderless horse inspired by Adam Smith and George Stubbs was by which German born artist?
Hans Haacke
508
Which British artist did "Really Good" fourth plinth project of an elongated thumbs up?
David Shrigley
509
Which Iraqi-American artist did "The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist" on fourth plinth? A recreation of a sculpture of a lamassu (a winged bull and protective deity) that stood at the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh from 700 B.C. It was destroyed in 2015 by Isis, along with other artefacts in the Mosul Museum.
Michael Rakowitz
510
Which Malawi born artist provided the "Antelope" sculpture on fourth plinth 2022-24? Sculpture that restages a 1914 photograph of Baptist preacher and pan-Africanist John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley.
Samson Kambalu
511
Which Mexican artist is scheduled to provide "850 Improntas" to fourth plinth from 2024? Casts of the faces of 850 trans people from London and around the world. The "life masks" will be arranged around the plinth in the form of a tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations.
Teresa Margolles
512
Which Baptist pastor, educator and revolutionary who trained as a minister in the United States, returning to Nyasaland in 1901 is shown in Samson Kambalu's Antelope sculpture on fourth plinth? He was an early figure in the resistance to colonialism in Nyasaland (Malawi). 15 January celebrated as this man's day in Malawi.
John Chilembwe
513
Which East Sussex gallery with a colourful exterior mural by Lothar Gotz is hosting the 2023 Turner Prize for its centenary?
Towner Eastbourne
514
2022 Turner Prize won by Veronica Ryan was hosted by which Tate museum?
Tate Liverpool
515
2021 Turner Prize exhibition was at which Coventry gallery?
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
516
2017 Turner Prize exhibition was at which Hull gallery?
Ferens Art Gallery
517
2015 Turner Prize exhibition was held at which Glasgow art centre? First time hosted in Scotland. Assemble won it.
Tramway
518
Which 2023 Turner Prize nominated artist is a sculptor and installation, video artist. ‘No Medals, No Ribbons’ at Modern Art Oxford and ‘Enclosures’ at Camden Art Centre, London. Would be the first trans winner.
Jesse Darling
519
Which large-scale contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in the third most populous city of UAE?
Sharjah Biennial
520
Inspired by 53 from Sean Dickson and 4 for 24 from player of the match Matt
Henry, captain Lewis Gregory lifted the 2023 Vitality Blast trophy for which county
at finals day at Edgbaston in July?
Somerset
521
Not sharing its title with the film it featured in, You Know My Name by Chris Cornell was the theme song for which 2006 James Bond film?
Casino Royale
522
The 2023 Netflix drama Painkiller focused on the birth of the opioid crisis, with
emphasis on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, who manufactured which
potent, highly addictive (and still available) drug?
OxyContin
523
How many discs does each player have at the start of a game of Connect 4?
21
524
Which cocktail is a mixture of gin and dry vermouth, garnished with a pickled onion?
Gibson
525
Who died in Eccles on 15th September 1830, following an accident in Newton-le-Willows a few hours earlier?
William Huskisson
526
Who was NASA’s first Administrator when founded in 1958?
T Keith Glennan
527
Who was second NASA administrator during 1961-68
James Webb
528
Who was third NASA administrator during 1969-1970 during which humans landed on moon
Thomas O Paine
529
Who was a Senator for Florida between 2001 and 2019 and became NASA Administrator in May 2021? In January 1986, he became the second sitting member of U.S. Congress to fly in space, after Senator Jake Garn, when he served as a payload specialist on mission STS-61-C aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Bill Nelson
530
Which Utah Senator became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D (April 12–19, 1985)?
Jake Garn
531
Former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He was the first African American to head the agency on a permanent basis after nominated by Obama.
Charles Bolden
532
Which Austrian composer’s 4th Symphony was nicknamed the Romantic Symphony?
Anton Bruckner
533
Which 1983 television drama by Alan Bennett portrays the meeting in Moscow between the actress Coral Browne and the spy Guy Burgess?
An Englishman Abroad
534
Which Greek king was leader of the expedition to Troy? He sacrificed his daughter before setting off and was murdered by his wife after returning.
Agamemnon
535
Name of Agamemnon's daughter he sacrificed before heading off to Troy?
Iphigenia
536
Bordeaux is the capital of which French administrative region?
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
537
Zaragoza is the capital of which Spanish Autonomous Community?
Aragon
538
The 1981 Best Supporting Actor was won for the portrayal of a character called Hobson in which film?
Arthur (John Gielgud)
539
What is the English translation of 'Cosa Nostra'?
Our Thing
540
The Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy, had amongst its members a future President of The United States and the longest serving Director of the CIA who had been sacked by Kennedy in 1962 following The Bay of Pigs fiasco. Name both.
Gerald Ford and Allen Dulles
541
Allen Dulles was Director of CIA when 1953 Iranian coup d'etat deposed which democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in favour of Shah Pahlavi?
Mohammad Mosaddegh
542
Allen Dulles was Director of CIA when 1954 Guatemalan coup d'etat deposed which democratically elected President in favour of military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas?
Jacobo Árbenz
543
Who is the President-Elect of Guatemala due to take office on 14 January 2024? He is the son of Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945.
Bernardo Arevalo
544
An act passed by the United States Congress in 1919 was used to prosecute numerous figures involved in organised crime, including Al Capone who was charged with over 5,000 breaches. The act was nicknamed after the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee who managed the legislation through Congress. How was this act known?
Volstead Act
545
A historic meeting between the United States Mafia and the Cosa Nostra (of Sicily) was held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana in December 1946. Who provided the entertainment at this meeting which became known as the Havana Conference?
Frank Sinatra
546
In which 1984 film does Robert De Niro play a character called Noodles?
Once Upon a Time in America
547
This stretch of water is 17 miles long and is situated 12 miles west of Fort William. At its Northern end is the Glenfinnan monument. What is its name?
Loch Shiel
548
Which Cole Porter song contains the following lyric:
“When you’re near there’s such an air of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it”?
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
549
Which poem begins with the lines:
"On either side the river lie, long fields of barley and of rye, that clothe the wold and meet the sky; and thro’ the field the road runs by to many-tower’d Camelot”?
It came second in the BBC’s 1996 poll of The Nation’s Favourite Poems.
The Lady of Shalott
550
First lines of the poem "The Listeners":
"‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;". Who wrote the poem?
Walter de la Mare
551
Who wrote poem He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven?
WB Yeats
552
Who wrote poem Fern Hill?
Dylan Thomas
553
Who wrote poem Leisure?
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare
William Henry Davies
554
"The Highwayman", set in 18th-century rural England, tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord's daughter. Betrayed to the authorities by Tim, a jealous ostler, the highwayman escapes ambush when Bess sacrifices her life to warn him. Who wrote it?
Alfred Noyes
555
Which poet wrote "Adlestrop"?
Edward Thomas
556
Edward Thomas' "Adlestrop" poem ends with two counties being mentioned, which two:
Farther and farther, all the birds Of ______ and _______?
Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire
557
The poem "Warning" was by which poet? Begins "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me".
Jenny Joseph
558
The poem "Abou Ben Adhem" concerns a pious Middle Eastern sheikh who finds the 'love of God' to have blessed him. The poem has been praised for its non-stereotypical depiction of an Arab. Which poet wrote it?
Leigh Hunt
559
Born 1778 English essayist, drama and literary critic who wrote works Characters of Shakespear's Plays, Table-Talk and The Spirit of the Age?
William Hazlitt
560
most popular poems are "Jenny kiss'd Me", "Abou Ben Adhem" (1834) and "A Night-Rain in Summer", co-founded The Examiner, was in Italy when Peter Bysshe Shelley when died and at beach funeral. Inspired Harold Skimpole character in Bleak House.
Leigh Hunt
561
Which French artist's most famous work is The Funeral of Shelley found at Walker Art Gallery showing Edward Trelawny, Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron at beach funeral?
Louis Édouard Fournier
562
Born 1621 in Champagne region, French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
Jean de La Fontaine
563
Which poet wrote the "Naming of Parts": Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing.
Henry Reed
564
Originally titled "By the Century's Deathbed", it was first published on 29 December 1900 in The Graphic. The poem The Darkling Thrush was written by which poet/author born 1840?
Thomas Hardy
565
Which poet wrote "Please Mrs Butler"? Also did childrens book The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters with wife Janet.
Allan Ahlberg
566
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;" which war poet wrote these openings words to poem High Flight (An Airman's Ecstasy)? He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.
John Gillespie Magee
567
"Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues," opening words to poem "The Glory of the Garden" by which British poet?
Rudyard Kipling
568
Which poet wrote Bloody Men: Bloody men are like bloody buses—
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope
569
Which British poet's 1986 work was called Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis? Married to Lachlan MacKinnon since 2013. Wrote poetry work Anecdotal Evidence and wrote The Orange.
Wendy Cope
570
Nigel Molesworth is a fictional character, the supposed author of a series of books about life in an English prep school named St Custard's, illustrated by Ronald Searle but written by which author?
Geoffrey Willans
571
Which poet wrote Emmonsail's Heath In Winter? Also did "The Lament of Swordy Well", Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, born in Helpston, Northamptonshire in 1793. Commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". He wrote in Northamptonshire dialect, introducing local words to the literary canon such as "pooty" (snail), "lady-cow" (ladybird), "crizzle" (to crisp) and "throstle" (song thrush).
John Clare
572
TS Eliot poem with Italian title meaning "Woman who weeps", the final poem of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
La Figlia Che Piange
573
"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo." is found in which TS Eliot poem multiple times?
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
574
I remember, I remember,. The house where I was born,. The little window where the sun. Came peeping in at morn;: the open lines of I Remmember, I Remember by which poet?
Thomas Hood
575
"A snake came to my water-trough. On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,. To drink there." begins the poem "snake" by which poet?
DH Lawrence
576
light poem by the English Georgian poet Rupert Brooke, written while in Berlin in 1912. Named after location in Cambridgeshire.
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
577
Here among long-discarded cassocks,
Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks,
Here where the vicar never looks
I nibble through old service books.
So begins "Diary of a Church Mouse" by which poet laureate?
John Betjeman
578
"Prayer Before Birth" and "Snow" are poems by which Irish poet?
Louis MacNiece
579
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.
GK Chesterton wrote which poem describing an animal with these words?
The Donkey
580
The Thought Fox is a poem by which poet laureate?
Ted Hughes
581
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.
Love (III) by which poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England associated with metaphysical poets and living 1593-1633? Spent end of life at rural parish of Fugglestone St Peter, just outside Salisbury and has niche at Salisbury Cathedral.
George Herbert
582
"The Hound of Heaven" is a 182-line poem written by which English poet (1859–1907). The poem became famous and was the source of much of his posthumous reputation (addict and homeless).
Francis Thompson
583
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance, first line of the poem reads: "Come live with me and be my love". By which poet?
Christopher Marlowe
584
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his name, then vanished; he became infatuated with her, and remains devoted to finding her again. Who wrote?
WB Yeats
585
From troubles of the world
I turn to ducks,
Beautiful comical things
Sleeping or curled
These words start 1919 poem "Ducks" by which poet?
FW Harvey
586
Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death
Which Liverpool poet known for Poetry Please wrote this poem?
Roger McGough
587
I wonder will I speak to the girl
sitting opposite me on this train.
I wonder will my mouth open and say,
'Are you going all the way
to Newcastle?' or 'Can I get you a coffee?'
Or will it simply go 'aaaaah'
as if it had a mind of its own?
These words begin "Toilet" by which poet?
Hugo Williams
588
Which English seaside town has the UK’s longest promenade?
New Brighton
589
This musical opened on Broadway in 1964 and became the first musical to have over 3000 performances. The music was by Jerry Bock and the lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The 1971 film version was directed by Norman Jewison. What is it called?
Fiddler on the Roof
590
Musical with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock, shared Tony with The Sound of Music and won Pulitzer for Drama and about the namesake New York mayor?
Fiorello!
591
American playwright and screenwriter. Her play English about Iranian people taking English exam in Tehran won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023.
Sanaz Toossi
592
2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama play set in Memphis, Tennessee, written by Katori Hall? Katori Hall also did P-Valley TV show, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical book, The Mountaintop play.
The Hot Wing King
593
She has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat. She was the first (and remains the only) woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times. Also wrote book to MJ the Musical.
Lynn Nottage
594
Which is the largest city in a UEFA member country never to have staged a Champions League match?
Ankara
595
What is the SI unit of electrical conductance?
Siemens
596
Which writer stated that his epitaph should be “I told you so you damned fools”?
hg wells
597
The former pupils of which educational institution include Sir Christopher Wren, A A Milne, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tony Benn, Shane McGowan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Louis Theroux?
Westminster School
598
Who was the first presenter of the TV series Top Gear (from 1977 to 1979)?
Angela RIppon
599
Which literary character has been played on film by amongst others Orson Welles, George C Scott, William Hurt and Michael Fassbender?
Edward Rochester
600
Who has played Jane Eyre and Alice in WOnderland?
Mia Wasikowska
601
Which Football League club was formed in 1883 as Singers FC and adopted its current name in 1896?
Coventry
602
Coronation Street character played by Doris Speed
Annie Walker
603
Military historian and former editor of the Daily Telegraph who shares his surname with the sidekick of a famous fictional detective
Max Hastings
604
Main character of John Osborne's The Entertainer played by Laurence Olivier in the original West End production.
Archie Rice
605
The Curve Theatre found in which British city?
Leicester
606
Main protagonist of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter
607
British opera featuring the characters Ellen Orford and Auntie
Peter Grimes
608
St Pauli is a german football team based in which city?
Hamburg
609
Actress famous for being the Lamb’s Navy Rum Girl in the sixties and seventies - she also appeared in several Hammer Horror films
Caroline Munro
610
Sportsmen such as Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins and Jurgen Klopp have all benefitted from the use of TUEs. What does TUE stand for?
Therapeutic Use Exemption
611
On the Saturday closest to October 13th pilgrims walk barefoot to touch whose tomb in Westminster Abbey?
Edward the Confessor
612
Danish retired politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, married to Stephen Kinnock
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
613
Ten male cricketers have scored more than 3,000 test runs and taken more than 300 test wickets. Two of the ten have been knighted. Name them.
Ian Botham and Richard Hadlee
614
Mackem is the name for the dialect of Sunderland and Wearside. What is the name of the dialect of the former mining areas in County Durham and to the north of Newcastle which draws heavily on mining jargon?
Pitmatic
615
Which Daphne du Maurier novel of 1941 shares its title with an inlet off the Helston estuary in south Cornwall?
Frenchman’s Creek
616
What word links a Scotch whisky distilling company, a British/Swazi actor and a monetary award?
Grant
617
What word links a former Welsh county, a US state capital and an American actor who appeared in From Here to Eternity (1953) and Judgement at Nuremburg (1961)?
Montgomery (Montgomery Clift)
618
Jack Whitehall, Anthony Blunt, John Betjeman, both Middleton sisters and Samantha Cameron were all educated at which Wiltshire ‘public’ school?
Marlborough College
619
What song was first recorded by Richard Harris in 1968 and became a multi-million selling hit for Donna Summer ten years later?
MacArthur Park
620
Zizia aurea, a flowering member of the carrot family, is more commonly known as Golden….
Alexanders
621
Which comedian grew up in Solihull and is married to fellow comedian Bridget Christie?
Stewart Lee
622
field marshal who commanded the British army on the Western Front between August 1914, when World War I began, and December 17, 1915, when he resigned under pressure and was succeeded by Gen. (afterward Field Marshal) Douglas Haig.
John French
623
During the Second World War he led the Fourteenth Army, the so-called "forgotten army" in the Burma campaign. From 1953 to 1959 he was Governor-General of Australia.
Viscount Slim
624
Author of the The Flashman Papers about Harry Flashman
George MacDonald Fraser
625
a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology, most applicable for dating minerals and rocks more than 100,000 years old unlike Carbon 14 dating only really good up to 50k years... Named after two elements
Potassium-Argon Dating
626
PPNB is a stone age culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to c. 10,800 – c. 8,500 years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC.[1] It was typed by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon during her archaeological excavations at Jericho in the West Bank. What does PPNB stand for in this context?
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
627
Which culture existed in the present-day southeastern European nations of Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine during the Neolithic Age and Copper Age, from approximately 5500 to 2750 BC, left behind thousands of settlement ruins containing a wealth of archaeological artifacts attesting to their cultural and technological characteristics? Initials CT.
Cucuteni-Trypillia
628
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump found in which Canadian province?
Alberta
629
Originally called Age of the Reindeer, which later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe date from around 17,000 to 12,000 years ago. It is named after the namesake type site, a rock shelter located in the Vézère valley, commune of Tursac, in France's Dordogne department.
Magdalenian (site called La Madeleine)
630
an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. Archaeologically last Euro culture considered unified, known for Venus figurines and named after first site found in the southwestern French department of Dordogne.
Gravettian
631
a process by which an artifact, often made of bone, stone, or metal is attached to a handle or strap. This makes the artifact more useful by allowing it to be launched by a bow (arrow), thrown by hand (spear), or used with more effective leverage (axe).
Hafting
632
a widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory. These early tools were simple, usually made with one or a few flakes chipped off with another stone. These tools were used during the Lower Paleolithic period, 2.9 million years ago up until at least 1.7 million years ago (Ma), by ancient Hominins (early humans) across much of Africa including namesake gorge.
Oldowan
633
an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis, named after type site found in Northern France. Transitioned from this into Mousterian around 160k ago.
Acheulean
634
an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. Named after type site, three superimposed rock shelters in the Dordogne region of France. Main following period is Aurignacian of Homo Sapiens.
Mousterian
635
period of technological microlith development marked by the creation and use of small stone blades, which are produced by chipping silica-rich stones like chert, quartz, or obsidian. Blades are a specialized type of lithic flake that are at least twice as long as they are wide.
Microblading
636
space used by Puebloans for rites and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, this word means a large room that is circular and underground, and used for spiritual ceremonies.
Kiva
637
an archaeological site located in namesake Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline, South Africa. The cave contains Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits currently dated at between c. 100,000 and 70,000 years Before Present (BP), and a Late Stone Age sequence dated at between 2000 and 300 years BP.
Blombos Cave
638
a rock shelter in a sandstone cliff in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is an important Middle Stone Age site occupied, with some gaps, from 77000 years ago to 38000 years ago.
Sibudu Save
639
a rock shelter under an overhanging cliff situated near Tursac, in the Dordogne département of the Aquitaine région of southwestern France. It represents the type site of the Magdalenian culture of the Upper Paleolithic. The Bison Licking Insect Bite, a 20,000 year old carving (15,000 BP according to the National Museum of Prehistory) of exceptional artistic quality, was excavated at the site.
Abri de la Madeleine
640
an Aurignacian (Upper Paleolithic) site, located in a rock shelter at Les Eyzies, a hamlet in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, southwestern France. Most notably, it is the site of the discovery of anatomically modern human remains, namesake first early humans from 28k years ago.
Cro-Magnon
641
an Anglo-Irish geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first (in 1864) to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of Homo sapiens, but of a distinct species: Homo neanderthalensis.
William King
642
three word term for a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
Wattle and Daub
643
an unusual ancient monument complex that includes the three aligned henges that give the site its name. They are located on a raised plateau above the River Ure near the namesake village in North Yorkshire, England.
Thornborough Henges
644
an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray ______. It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology) and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic.
Sweet Track
645
Born 1717, German art historian and archaeologist, he was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. He was homosexual, and open homoeroticism formed his writings on aesthetics. In 1752, he mentioned the "lust" which could be experienced with the "divine monarch" (i.e. Frederick the Great) in Potsdam in a similar way as in "Athens and Sparta". In 1768, at the age of 50, he was murdered by a fellow guest at his hotel, for reasons that remain unclear.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
646
American explorer, writer, and diplomat born 1805. He was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad.
John Lloyd Stephens
647
Born 1827, English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist, He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the namesake Museum at the University of Oxford
Augustus Pitt Rivers
648
He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele.
Flinders Petrie
649
Which application included in the Google Drive service is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats?
Sheets
650
Which English pop singer songwriter has been shortlisted twice for the Mercury Prize, for her albums Devotion in 2012 and That! Feels Good! in 2023? Her second album Glasshouse included the single ‘Say You Love Me’.
Jessie Ware
651
What is the name of the series of spectral lines of hydrogen that fall within the visible spectrum? Named after a Swiss mathematician, it was the first spectral series associated with hydrogen to be discovered and corresponds with the n=2 state, in contrast to the Lyman series.
Balmer Series
652
Magic Cream, the Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder and the Pillow Talk shade are among the best-selling products of which beauty brand, founded in 2013?
Charlotte Tilbury
653
Regarded as one of the best young talents in world football, which 18-year-old French striker is currently Harry Kane’s backup at Bayern Munich, whom he joined from Rennes [ren] in 2022?
Mathys Tel
654
What small spherical bodies consisting of two subunits are the site of protein synthesis within the living cell? They assemble amino acids in an order specified by mRNA.
Ribosomes
655
Coined by sociologist Robert K. Merton, working from earlier research, what term describes a situation where a person
makes a prediction for the future that then comes true because of that person’s belief?
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
656
Which formula, named after its Swedish developer, can be used to calculate the wavelengths of spectral lines of various elements and contains a namesake constant approximately equal to 13.6 electron volts? It is a generalisation of the Balmer formula.
Rydberg Formula
657
Typically consisting of two ‘legs’ connected by a hinge, what tool is used in technical drawing to create circles and arcs?
Compass
658
At 893 metres high, what is the tallest mountain in the Pennines range, and also the highest point in England not in the Lake District?
Cross Fell
659
‘Omphalos’ is a 2019 short story in which an archaeologist learns that, while the universe is only a few thousand years old, Earth
appears not to be at the centre of the divine plan. It was written by which American science fiction author, whose novella ‘Story of
Your Life’ was adapted into the 2016 film Arrival?
Ted Chiang
660
Which French nobleman was chosen by Napoleon III to carry out an extensive programme of public works and renovation in Paris between 1853 and 1870?
Baron Haussmann
661
With around 325 million speakers, what language family is the fifth-most spoken worldwide? Among the over 1,200 languages
within this family are Tagalog and Malagasy.
Austronesian
662
Invented in 1935 and taking its founder’s name, which brand of electric organ was popularised by the jazz musician Jimmy Smith
in the 1950s? It went on to be widely adopted by progressive rock bands, and is used in Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman, No Cry’.
Hammond Organ
663
Coined by sociologist Robert K. Merton, what two-word term can be used to describe a person who provides an example to be
followed through their success, behaviour and personality?
Role Model
664
What is the title of the computer-animated comedy about a group of animals that live together in a New York apartment building
that was the sixth-highest grossing film worldwide in 2016? Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet and Jenny Slate are among the voice cast,=.
The Secret Life of Pets
665
Hoola bronzer and They're Real! mascara are products by which beauty brand founded in San Francisco? This brand also offers eyebrow wax and tints in major department stores and at their brow bars.
Benefit Cosmetics
666
Regarded as one of the best young talents in world football, which 16-year-old winger has been a regular in the Barcelona first team
this year and recently signed a new contract with a 1 billion euro buyout clause?
Lamine Yamal
667
Which cell organelle has two main subunits, rough and smooth, which are distinguished by the presence or absence of ribosomes?
This organelle’s main functions are transport and protein folding.
ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM
668
In Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, had a fondness for what sort of sweets, which were first mass
produced by Bassett’s?
Jelly Babies
669
Which mobile app, founded in Denmark, links customers to restaurants and shops that have surplus food in order to reduce
food waste? It has been suggested that it is used alongside the app OLIO, which helps communities connect to reduce food
waste.
Too Good To Go
670
Which music entrepreneur and MBE founded the online platform SB.TV, which helped launch careers of artists including Stormzy, Emeli Sandé, and Ed Sheeran? Sheeran released a 64-bar freestyle rap ‘F64’ in tribute to him following his death at the age of 31 in 2022.
Jamal Edwards
671
Which small cathedral city in northern England is situated on the River Skell near its confluence with the Ure?
Ripon
672
Which comedian has become known for her series of satirical Twitter videos in which she plays a Conservative MP? The videos
feature her being “interviewed”, mixing her replies with real footage of questions from reporters and TV presenters.
Rosie Holt
673
Which non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug is the primary active ingredient in the painkiller brand Nurofen?
Ibuprofen
674
In 1983, Bananarama co-wrote and recorded which song that was re-worked the following year by the Bluebells? The Bluebells’
version became a 1993 UK number one single after its use in a Volkswagen TV advert.
Young at Heart
675
Located in the High Tatras range in Slovakia, what is the tallest peak in the Carpathian mountains? Your answer may be
the informal shortened name of this mountain.
GERLACHovský štít
676
Which King of Macedonia, the founder of the League of Corinth, was the father of Alexander the Great? Regnal name only required.
Philip II
677
Which American theatre director, known for directing Hamilton, is scheduled to direct the 2025 live-action remake of the Disney film Moana? Married to Michelle Williams - met on set of Fosse/Verdon
Thomas Kail
678
Which religious wars of 1639 and 1640, fought between Scottish Covenanters and the armies of Charles I, were the first conflicts in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms?
Bishops Wars
679
Which English writer converted to Catholicism and reconverted to Protestantism while in Lausanne, Switzerland? He went on
to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward GIBBON
680
What is the common name of the opiate that constitutes the ‘plus’ in the painkiller brand Nurofen Plus? It is also sold alongside
paracetamol in co-codamol.
Codeine
681
What is the highest peak in the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria and the whole Balkan peninsula?
MUSALA
682
What is the English name of the small cathedral city in northern Wales situated on the River Elwy?
St Asaph
683
Which rapper and singer, awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020, is known for her Queen’s Speech series of freestyles? She
worked with Jamal Edwards on SB.TV, and twice performed a 64-bar freestyle rap for the channel’s ‘F64’ segment.
Lady Leshurr (Melesha O'Garro)
684
Set on the twin continents of Valisthea, which video game series launched its most-recent instalment in 2023, featuring the
protagonist Clive Rosfield, first-born son of Rosaria’s ruling family?
Final Fantasy
685
The inciting incident of the Bishops’ Wars was a 1637 riot in Edinburgh, precipitated by which possibly apocryphal woman throwing a stool at the head of the Dean of St. Giles Cathedral as he attempted to read from the Church of Scotland’s revised version of the Book of Common Prayer?
Jenny Geddes
686
Which German performance artist collaborated with his wife Marina Abramović on many works, including Rest Energy, in which
he pointed an arrow at Abramović's heart?
ULAY (Uwe Laysiepen)
687
Which American actor, who starred in the NBC series Rise has confirmed she will not reprise her role voicing the title character in
the 2025 remake of Moana?
Aulii Cravalho
688
At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, British athlete Matt Hudson-Smith won a silver medal in which event? Roger Black
also won silver in this event 32 years earlier.
400m
689
Which avant-garde Polish composer’s works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, a 1961 composition for 52 stringed instruments? Other works by this composer have been adapted for soundtracks of films including The Exorcist and The Shining.
Krzysztof
PENDERECKI
690
Complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.
Henryk Gorecki
691
Born 1924, Venice, composed Il Canto Sospeso, Intolleranza, Como una ola de fuerza y luz, started at the Darmstadt School in early 1950s.
Luigi Nono
692
Born 1925, France: pieces considered landmarks of twentieth-century music, such as Le Marteau sans maître, Pli selon pli and Répons.
Pierre Boulez
693
Born in Italy 1925, Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza). Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958), based on Cathy Berberian reading from James Joyce's Ulysses.
Luciano Berio
694
Born 1923 Transylvania, Romania, known as Hungarian-Austrian composer: his breakthrough came with orchestral works such as Atmosphères, for which he used a technique he later dubbed micropolyphony. After writing his "anti-anti-opera" Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti shifted away from chromaticism and towards polyrhythm for his later works.
Gyorgy Ligeti
695
Born 1926, Hungarian composer born in Romania, wrote 55 minute song cycle Kafka-Fragments, his piano piece "Flowers We Are, Mere Flowers", from the eighth volume of Játékok ("Games"), consists of just seven notes. First opera, Fin de partie, based on Samuel Beckett's Endgame, was premiered at La Scala on 15 November 2018
Gyorgy Kurtag
696
Born Gutersloh, 1926, which German composer left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality? He produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. At the 1968 Hamburg premiere of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of Medusa), the placing of a red flag on the stage sparked a riot and the arrest of several people, including the librettist. Opera 1983 The English Cat, and 1990 Das verratene Meer after Yukio Mishima's novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.
Hans Werner Henze
697
Which British rapper was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2019 for his album Nothing Great About Britain? He
appeared on the 2020 Gorillaz song ‘Momentary Bliss’ alongside the band Slaves.
Slowthai
698
Which British rapper was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2016 for his album Made In the Manor? He appeared on the
2010 Gorillaz song ‘White Flag’ alongside fellow rapper Bashy.
Kano
699
Pericles’ Funeral Oration is recorded in the History of the Peloponnesian War, written by which fellow Athenian? He is sometimes
referred to as the father of scientific history.
Thucydides
700
What was the name of the actress and Native American rights campaigner who declined an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando at the 1973 Academy Awards?
Sacheen Littlefeather
701
Located in Mumbai, what is India’s largest private sector bank? Known by a four-letter initialism, it is the world’s fifth
largest banking company by revenue.
HDFC Bank (accept
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
FINANCE CORPORATION
702
Chinese holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries provide insurance, banking, asset management, financial, healthcare services is second big financial services business in world by revenue - name literally means "safe and well", based in Shenzhen
Ping An Insurance Group
703
American holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms founded in 1928 by AP Giannini is largest financial services company in world by revenue.
Transamerica Corporation
704
Located in Beijing, what is China’s largest banking company? Often referred to by a four-letter initialism, it is the world’s third largest bank by revenue and largest by total assets.
ICBC (INDUSTRIAL
AND COMMERCIAL
BANK OF CHINA)
705
What German company is largest financial services company by revenue from Germany?
Allianz
706
Dutch company one of highest revenue financial services companies in Europe?
ING
707
Highest French financial services company by revenue?
AXA
708
French international banking group and the world's largest cooperative financial institution sometimes called La Banque Verte
Credit Agricole
709
Italian insurance company based in Trieste. As of 2022, it is the largest insurance company in Italy and ranks among the world’s largest insurance companies by net premiums and assets.
Generali Group
710
Highest revenue UK financial services company
HSBC
711
Dutch company in insurance and pensions, asset management headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, name comes from an initialism formed in a 1983 merger.
Aegon
712
In March 2023, which bank bought Credit Suisse for $3.25 billion to prevent its collapse?
UBS
713
Named for a contraction of Russian for savings bank, name of the biggest bank in Russia
Sberbank
714
What two word term is used for the world's largest multi-national investment banks, serving mostly large corporations, institutional investors and governments. It comes from the way investment banks are listed on the "tombstone", or public notification of a financial transaction, where the largest advisors on investment banking operations (mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, or debt issuance) are listed first.
Bulge Bracket
715
What coffee drink is made by topping a shot of espresso with an equal amount of steamed milk? Distinct from a macchiato,
where foamed milk is used, this drink’s Iberian origin is evident in its name, which comes from a Spanish word meaning ‘cut’
Cortado
716
Which artist created the World Trade Center Tapestry with Josep Royo, which was destroyed by the collapse of the twin towers in 2001?
Joan Miro
717
From around 700 CE until its fall in around 1150 CE, the city of Tula was the capital of which Mesoamerican culture?
Toltecs
718
Which city gave its name to the personal union that existed between 1397 and 1523 that united the kingdoms of Denmark,
Sweden and Norway under a single monarch?
Kalmar
719
What coffee drink is usually referred to by an Italian word meaning “shortened”, as it is a shorter and more concentrated espresso,
extracted with a finer grind and prepared with half the water? This drink is known in French as café serré [seh-ray], meaning “strong
coffee”.
Ristretto
720
Which city in the Midwestern United States lends its name to a style of pizza that has a thin, cracker-textured crust that is
made without yeast, and is usually topped with processed Provel cheese?
St Louis
721
Joel Embiid was the second African player to win the NBA MVP award after which Nigerian center who took the award in
1994 while playing for the Houston Rockets? First name acceptable.
HAKEEM OLAJUWON
722
Which Hanna-Barbera cartoon character that appeared in The Yogi Bear Show was a pink puma known for his catchphrase
“heavens to Murgatroyd”? Not to be confused with the pink panther, his voice was based on the comedian Bert Lahr.
Snagglepuss
723
Which Habsburg monarch held both the Holy Roman Empire and Spanish Empire in a personal union between 1519 and 1556,
leading to his dominions being dubbed ‘the Empire on which the Sun never sets’? Please give his title as Holy Roman Emperor.
Charles V
724
Which Algerian-born French philosopher wrote the 1969 work For Marx, noting distinctions in the philosophy of Karl Marx at
different stages of his career? This philosopher killed his wife in 1980 but was declared unfit for trial due to insanity.
Louis Althusser
725
The ancient city of Monte Albán was at the centre of which Mesoamerican civilization from around 700 BCE to 1500 CE?
Zapotec
726
La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of which mesoamerican civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco but also in Veracruz state.
Olmecs
727
In Friends, Phoebe becomes the surrogate mother for her brother Frank, Jr., who is played by which actor? He has also had leading
roles in the sitcom Dads and the drama series Sneaky Pete.
Giovanni Ribisi
728
At the London Olympics, the Italian Valentina Vezzali won her sixth career Olympic gold medal. In which sport did she compete?
Fencing
729
Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote his first symphonic film score for which 1935 swashbuckling pirate film starring Olivia de
Havilland and Errol Flynn and directed by Michael Curtiz?
Captain Blood
730
Max Steiner’s first score for Warner Brothers was for which 1936 historical action adventure film, a loose retelling of a 19th
century military engagement? It starred Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn and was directed by Michael Curtiz.
The CHARGE OF
THE LIGHT
BRIGADE
731
What French word beginning with G is used to describe a paint made from pigments bound in water-soluble gum, similar to
watercolour but with the addition of a white pigment in order to make it opaque?
Gouache
732
What Italian word beginning with G is used to describe a white paint containing chalk or gypsum that is used to prime a canvas or
other surface for painting?
Gesso
733
Which island of the Outer Hebrides lies between North Uist and South Uist and is connected to both via road causeways?
Benbecula
734
With a name taken from the Arabic for ‘seasoning’, which Levantine salad typically consists of parsley, bulgur wheat and
chopped tomatoes seasoned with onion, lemon juice and salt?
Tabbouleh
735
Coined by Ingo Findenegg, what is the term to describe lakes which have layers of water that do not mix with each other?
Meromictic
736
Which country is immediately north of Lithuania along its Baltic coastline?
Latvia
737
Wicker Kittens is a documentary film about which hobby? The film was named so due to the frequency of seeing depictions of kittens in wicker baskets while indulging in this hobby, whose World Championships have taken place in Spain since 2019 (with a break due to the pandemic).
Jigsaw Puzzles
738
Which language is the official language of the greatest number of EU nations? Four countries have this language as an official language at the national level.
(Austria, Belgium,
Germany, Luxembourg)
739
In which TV news satire, the first to be fronted by Chris Morris, would you find the characters Collaterlie Sisters and Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan?
The Day Today
740
The Day Today by Iannucci and Chris Morris was a TV adaptation of which radio show?
On the Hour
741
What four letter word means a point that is no longer of significance in US law, and a point that is still open to
debate in British law?
Moot
742
British television sitcom that was first shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of "GlobeLink News", a fictional TV news company. Created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin.
Drop the Dead Donkey
743
Marcus in Chancer (1990), Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–1999), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2013) and Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–2016).
Stephen Tompkinson
744
Which actress began her career in the BBC series Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–1996) and Ballykissangel (1996–1998), the latter of which won her a National Television Award. This was followed by further BBC roles in Hearts and Bones (2000–2001), 55 Degrees North (2004–2005), True Dare Kiss (2007), Material Girl and The Silence (both 2010).
Dervla Kirwan
745
Arizona does not observe daylight saving time. Which Native American region is the exception to this?
NAvajo Nation
746
What brand of convenience food was advertised in the 1970s by a family of metallic Martians?
Smash
747
Taken from their 2006 album Oh No, what song by the American band OK Go became famous partly because of its memorable music video, which featured the band dancing on treadmills?
Here It Goes Again
748
In which humorous science fiction novel would you first encounter Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triplebreasted whore of Eroticon Six?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy
749
Several cities have introduced LTNs in recent years, with the aim of improving health and reducing crime.Stands for?
Low Traffic Neighbourhood
750
Which South Korean reality competition series, subtitled 100, was added to Netflix in January 2023? It involves male and female competitors from various body-focused professions, and has the stated goal of finding the
"ideal body".
Physical: 100
751
In Irish mythology, which goddess of war, whose name translates as “phantom queen”, often turns into the form of a crow? This goddess was also one of the most prominent allies of the main character in the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
Morrigan
752
Taken from their 2002 self-titled debut album, what was the debut single and highest-charting UK single to date for the band OK Go?
Get Over It
753
In the video game Portal 2, which character, voiced by Stephen Merchant, is a fictional artificial intelligence, developed to restrain GLaDOS?
Wheatley
754
What drink was advertised in the 1970s by mysterious thieves called Humphreys, who were only visible by their red striped straw?
Milk
755
This year, the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship had 22 unique jigsaws for the contestants. Which jigsaw brand has sponsored the championship since its inception, and provided all these jigsaws?
Ravensburger
756
The K-pop single “Feel My Rhythm” by Red Velvet samples the Air from Suite No. 3 in D Major by which
German Baroque composer?
Bach
757
Also found in the Iron Druid Chronicles, which Irish goddess of poetry; healing; the forge; and domesticated animals is the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres?
Brigid
758
Subtitled Survive the Island, which South Korean reality competition series, added to Netflix in June 2023, involves 24 women from professions such as the police; fire brigade; and similar, competing in “capture the flag” type challenges on a remote island?
Siren
759
In which Yorkshire city would you find the Truck Theatre?
Hull
760
In which 1983 science fiction black comedy film does Steve Martin play a neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, who falls for Anne Uumellmahaye?
The Man With Two Brains
761
What is the name of the Barnes & Noble e-reader brand?
Nook
762
Which Native American reservation in Arizona, surrounded by the Navajo Nation, does not observe DST? This nation has an ongoing land dispute with the Navajo Nation: therefore, driving Route 264 from Tuba City while
DST is in place involves six time zone changes in 100 miles.
Hopi Reservation
763
Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady bought a stake in which English Football League team in 2023?
Birmingham
764
“The Red Door” is a subtitle of the latest film in what horror movie franchise, telling the story of the Lambert family?
Insidious
765
“The Devil Made Me Do It” is a subtitle of a movie in what horror movie franchise, telling the story of the Warren family?
The Conjuring
766
Which author writes crime novels under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh? He won the Booker Prize for The Sense of An Ending.
Julian Barnes
767
Debuting in 2017, which German-language Netflix sci-fi series follows the story of a child’s disappearance, which evolves into a time travel plot?
Dark
768
Debuting in 2022, which multilingual German-made Netflix sci-fi series follows a group of immigrants from various countries on a steamship?
1899
769
South Sudan first president name
Salva KIIR MAYARDIT
770
Horny Baby by Dust Devil was used as the opening theme for Bargain Hunt until 2009, after four years at helm David Dickinson stepped down and who presented it between 2003 and 2016?
Tim Wonnacott
771
12-year-old Douglas Spaulding spends his summer in Green Town, Illinois in which Ray Bradbury 1957 novel?
Dandelion Wine
772
The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, this quest tale based on Yoruba folktales is written in a modified English or Pidgin English. In it, a man follows his brewer into the land of the dead (Dead's Town), encountering many spirits and adventures. Author and book title.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
773
Name of the first collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was named after the second book of Amos Tutuola.
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
774
What was the informal name for a wine competition organized in Paris on 24 May 1976 by Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant and his colleague, Patricia Gallagher, in which French judges carried out two blind tasting comparisons: one of top-quality Chardonnays and another of red wines (Bordeaux wines from France and Cabernet Sauvignon wines from Napa, California)?
The Judgement of Paris
775
First member of the royal family to be convicted of a criminal offence (done in 2002). Nominated by Kenneth Kaunda for the Nobel Peace Prize. Attempted kidnap by Ian Ball, James Beaton the bodyguard getting shot.
Princess Anne
776
What city is the setting for the James Joyce short story “The Dead”?
Dublin
777
What was the first snack item sold under the Hostess brand name in 1919?
Hostess CupCake
778
The 2023 John Grisham novel The Exchange, featuring attorney Mitch McDeere, is a sequel to which novel?
The Firm
779
Which country proclaimed “The Emergency” during World War II, declaring its neutrality, but had its capital city bombed by the Luftwaffe in May 1941, killing 28 people?
Ireland
780
What actor was formerly the father-in-law of tennis star John McEnroe?
Ryan O'Neal
781
Which American League team won three consecutive World Series in the 1970s?
Oakland A's
782
Who was the commander of NASA's Gemini 7 mission in 1965 and Apollo 8 mission in 1968?
Frank Borman
783
Who was thWhich Canadian Football League team won consecutive Grey Cup championships in 2009 and 2010?
e first black performer to win Song of the Year at the Country Music Awards in 2023?
Tracy Chapman (due to Luke Combs covering it)
784
Which Canadian Football League team won consecutive Grey Cup championships in 2009 and 2010?
Montreal Alouettes
785
Name of the CFL team that play in Hamilton, Ontario, at the Tim Hortons Field
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
786
Name of the CFL team that play in Montreal, Quebec, at the Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
Montreal Alouettes
787
Name of thew CFL team that play at the TD Place Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario
Ottawa Redblacks
788
Name of the CFL team that play at the BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario
Toronto Argonauts
789
Name of the CFL team that play at the BC Place in Vancouver, BC
BC Lions
790
Name of the CFL team that play in Calgary ALberta at the McMahon Stadium
Calgary Stampeders
791
Name of the CFL team that play in Edmonton, Alberta, at the Commonwealth Stadium
Edmonton Elks
792
Name of the CFL team that play in Regina, Saskatchewan at the Mosaic Stadium
Saskatchewan Roughriders
793
Name of the CFL team that play in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the IG Field
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
794
What age was James Dean when he died?
24
795
What age was River Phoenix when he died?
23
796
Robert Harris's first book, "A Higher Form of Killing" (1982) was written alongside which fellow BBC journalist? This man's own solo writings include "The English: A Portrait of a People"
Jeremy Paxman
797
Robert Harris' book "Good and Faithful Servant" (1990), was a study of which gammon-faced man, Margaret Thatcher's chief press secretary throughout her time as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Bernard Ingham
798
The Australian Darren Hayes was the lead singer with which duo, who reached the top 5 of the UK charts with the song "To the moon and back" in 1996?
Savage Garden
799
The Streisand Effect takes its name from the unintended consequences of Barbra Streisand's attempts to suppress an aerial photograph of her home in which Californian beach city, which lies about 30 miles west of Downtown LA?
Malibu
800
Beginning with "Z", what is the 4-letter name of the robotic villain action figure who is Buzz Lightyear's archenemy?
Zurg
801
Robert Harris' thriller "The Ghost", had a thinly-veiled Tony Blair-like character at it's centre. Roman Polanski later adapted the novel as the movie "The Ghost Writer". Which actor played the Blair-esque former PM in that 2010 movie?
Piers Brosnan
802
In which epic 1990s Western movie did Brad Pitt and Aidian Quinn play competing brothers in early 20th century Montana? Anthony Hopkins played their father
Legends of the Fall
803
American filmmaker. He has worked primarily in the comedy drama and epic historical film genres, including About Last Night, Glory, Legends of the Fall, Blood Diamond, Defiance and The Last Samurai. He is also the co-creator of the television series thirtysomething and Once and Again.
Edward Zwick
804
In September 2005 which Zimbabwean was the England Cricket team coach when they won The Ashes for the first time in 18 years?
Duncan Fletcher
805
Robert Harris' novel "Conclave" is set in the Vatican at the time of an election for a new pope. In the Sistine Chapel, what is the name of the work by Michelangelo which covers the entire wall behind the altar?
The Last Judgement
806
Based on the video game series of the same name, the 1994 Street Fighter movie included the last role for which Puerto Rican actor? His other film roles included "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Presumed Innocent"
Raul Julia
807
Which actor gained prominence for his role as Gomez Addams in two film adaptations of The Addams Family? He received Golden Globe Award nominations for Tempest (1982), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), and Moon Over Parador (1988).
Raul Julia
808
Rodrigues Island and Saint Brandon, also known as the Cargados Carajos Shoals owned by which island country?
Mauritius
809
"Make a Joyful Noise" was composed by which composer for king charles coronation?
Andrew Lloyd Webber
810
What ballet term is a classical ballet position where the working leg is lifted in the air to the front (devant), side (a la seconde) or to the back (derrière). The leg in the air is bent in a 90-degree angle and most often turned out so that the knee is higher than the foot.
Attitude
811
Which Physics law states that the volume of an ideal gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature at constant pressure
Charles Law
812
Maya Angelou and which aristocrat sing 'Right, Said Fred' on an album, were good friends who had previously appeared on stage together for “One Joyous Evening of Warmth and Spirit” in 1990?
Jessica Mitford
813
Sauel Pepys buried which type of cheese in garden during great fire of london?
Parmesan
814
Which composer composed ‘Brighter Visions Shine Afar’ for King Charles coronation?
Judith Weir
815
Royal harpist Alis Huws performed a new arrangement of a Welsh folk song ‘Tros y Garreg’ (‘Crossing the Stone’) set by which composer at King Charles III coronation? it was commissioned by the then Prince of Wales over two decades ago.
Sir Karl Jenkins
816
Which decade did Dennis the Menace first appear in the Beano comic?
1950s
817
Grade I listed country house near Abergele in Conwy, North Wales and was the home to I'm A Celebrity during its UK stint?
Gwrych Castle
818
Which year did David Cameron become Tory leader, Raf Nadal win first French Open and Charles and Camilla get married?
2005
819
She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who
Delia Derbyshire
820
a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in a parish in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England? Told to move during WW2 and never moved back.
Tyneham
821
The doomsday clock's original setting in 1947 was what exact time?
Seven Minutes to Midnight
822
From January 2023 the Doomsday clock is at what time, the record closest its ever been?
90 seconds to midnight
823
Name of the South African soprano who sang Sarah Class' "Sacred Fire" composition at the coronation of King Charles III.
Pretty Yende
824
Which Scottish composer composed King Charles III Coronation March for the coronation? A longtime collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, he is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor,
Patrick Doyle
825
Welsh composer who composed Coronation Kyrie for CIII coronation, first Welsh language performance at a coronation: his motet Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011, composed the song "Wherever You Are", which became the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart.
Paul Mealor
826
Which British-American composer composed a new Agnus Dei for CIII coronation? Also did an opera for Heart of Darkness, a Mata Hari ballet.
Tarik O'Regan
827
What WHO found in Iran is location of ruins of Gate of All Nations, the Hall of a Hundred Columns and the Palace?
Persepolis
828
What two word term was coined in 1845 by John L O'Sullivan unofficial doctrine characterised America's attitude toward territorial expansion in 19th century?
Manifest Destiny
829
What name of the protests in Wales when workers dressed in womens clothes attacked tollgates? 1838-44.
Rebecca Riots
830
Which boxer sang "Knock on Wood" with ____ and the Knockouts?
Joe Frazier
831
In 2023, which country became 31st to join NATO?
Finland
832
From Greek for melody, what term is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession?
Melisma
833
The Quarterback Terry Bradshaw won the Super Bowl MVP award in 1978 and 1979 when he was with which team?
Pittsburgh Steelers
834
ZZ Top only ever had two top ten hits in the UK. One in 1983 and one in 1992. Name either.
"GIMME ALL YOUR LOVIN" or "VIVA LAS VEGAS"
835
Who is the author Robert Harris' famous brother-in-law? Amongst this man's many successes was an Academy Award nomination for the movie Brooklyn
Nick Hornby
836
Author - He has received two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for An Education (2009), and Brooklyn (2015).
Nick Hornby
837
In an event generally regarded as the worst massacre of the Thirty Years' War, which Protestant city, with a name beginning with the letter "M", was sacked on 20th May 1631 by the army led by Count Tilly?
Magdeburg
838
What alternative name is used for The Flemish Region, the primarily Dutch-speaking area which covers the northern part of Belgium which is one of the most densely populated regions of Europe with around 1,300 people per square mile?
Flanders
839
What was the name of the second oldest radio station in the world after the BBC, launched in Colombo in 1925?
Radio Ceylon
840
What is the name of the world's first mass-market translucent soap, first produced in a factory off Oxford Street in London in 1807, which sponsored a one volume British almanac from the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 until it ceased publication in 2017?.
Pears (Cyclopedia)
841
Which author, born in Poole and whose career as an intelligence officer included both MI5 and MI6, had his last novel Silverview published posthumously in 2021?
John La Carre
842
Which is the oldest football club in Wales, whose ground has hosted more Welsh international matches than any other?
Wrexham
843
What connects an envelope which would fit a sheet of A4 folded once, a mid-sized crossover SUV sold by Citroen in the UK since 2022, the opening move of the Sicilian Defence and an electrically powered tricycle launched in 1987?
C5
844
Who is now the last surviving player from the 1966 World Cup Final winning team, who also made one first class appearance for Essex County Cricket Club?
Geoff Hurst
845
Featured in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop, which is the only card game legally playable in licensed pubs and clubs in England without requiring local authority permission?
Cribbage
846
In an example of literary consonance, in Douglas Adam’s novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which pub does Ford Prefect order “Six pints of bitter, and quickly please, the world’s about to end”?
The Horse and Groom
847
In which fictional seaside town in Sussex might the members of the Home Guard have met for a pint in the Feathers, the Black Lion, The Dog and Partridge or the Six Bells?
Walmington on Sea
848
The Crab and Lobster in Portwenn and the notoriously unhygienic Crown in south London are two of the on-screen locations associated with which British actor awarded the OBE in 2015?
Martin Clunes
849
The King’s Arms in Askrigg and The Devonshire in Grassington have been used as the location for the Drovers Arms in the screen versions of which franchise which began in 1970 with a book titled “If Only They Could Talk”?
All Creatures Great and Small
850
If Twelfth Night is 5, Christmas Eve is 2 and the anniversary of D Day is 1, what is St Valentine’s Day?
7 (5/1, 24/12, 6/6 and 14/2)
851
Which breed of dog was the wolfhound of the Russian aristocracy and has a name derived from an archaic Russian adjective that means fast or swift?
Borzoi
852
Liz Truss real first name
Mary
853
What type of tree was the 150-year-old Robin Hood Tree illegally felled in September this year next to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland?
Sycamore
854
Which US state is bordered by Missouri on the north, Tennessee and Mississippi on the east, Louisiana on the south, and Texas and Oklahoma on the west?
Arkansas
855
The fourth phase of mitosis, what is the name of the stage of cell division in which separated chromatids move toward the opposite poles of the spindle apparatus?
Anaphase
856
Which singer, the winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, was put by Russia's internal affairs ministry on its wanted list on unspecified charges in November 2023?
Jamala
857
Which team defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to win the Grey Cup in November 2023?
Montreal Alouettes
858
Which US video game developer created League of Legends and Valorant?
Riot Games
859
Introduced to anthropology during and after World War II, what name is given to a millenarian belief system found primarily among indigenous Melanesians in which a group of people imitate the behaviours, rituals, and symbols associated with technologically advanced societies in the hope of attracting similar benefits?
Cargo Cult
860
Made from fermented grape juice, what name is given to the wine produced in Peru and Chile developed as an alternative to orujo?
Pisco
861
Which US actor played the TV characters Lucas Scott (One Tree Hill), Charlie Todd (Dawson's Creek), and Tristin DuGray (Gilmore Girls)?
Chad Michael Murray
862
Named after a US chemist, what do you call the diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule, as well as the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule?
Lewis Structures
863
Malligyong-1 is the first spy satellite launched by which country?
North Korea
864
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage HQ restaurant is located in which south west English county?
Devon
865
The national dish of Cuba, Ropa Vieja, is made by slow-cooking which meat?
Beef
866
Which Greek god of prophecy, music and the arts gives their name to a theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London?
Apollo
867
Which member of The Beatles released the 1975 solo album Shaved Fish?
John Lennon
868
Jean Castex served as prime minister under which French president?
Macron
869
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Quadlings live in the South country, and the Winkies live where?
West Country
870
A certain fictional land has Gillikin Country in the north, Quadling Country in the south, Winkie Country in the west and which country in the East?
Munchkin
871
Which borough of New York is the setting for the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows?
Staten Island
872
In showjumping, how many penalty points are incurred for knocking down an obstacle or refusing at an obstacle?
4
873
For almost two decades, Mary T. Meagher held the world records for 100 m and 200 m in which swimming stroke?
Butterfly (called Madame Butterfly)
874
What, is studied ... by a stigmeologist? (!)
Punctuation
875
Which Ealing comedy film is set on the Scottish islands of Great and Little Todday?
Whisky Galore!
876
Which chemical element can go before mirror, switch, and prize?
Mercury
877
Toompea Castle is home to which European country's parliament?
Estonia
878
What architectural feature is known in Scots as a "lum" and in Cornish as a "chymbla"?
Chimney
879
The Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA) is the governing body for which sport?
Rowing
880
What sweet product takes its name from the former bakery in Jew's Row near Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens in London?
Chelsea Buns
881
At a height of 63 m, Mount Alvernia is the highest point of which country of the West Indies?
Bahamas (on Cat Island
882
Which king of Belgium was the father of Clémentine, Princess Napoleon?
Leopold II
883
Which Danish badminton player won five European men's singles Championships between 1998 and 2010?
Peter Høege Gade
884
Danish badminton player who is the current number one ranked men's singles player in the world. He is a two-time World Champion and reigning Olympic Champion, having won at the 2020 Olympics.
Viktor Axelsen
885
Which Charles Dickens novel features the eccentric barber and landlord Paul Sweedlepipe?
Martin Chuzzlewit
886
Which Mexican snack is named after the Spanish word for a small boat?
Chalupa
887
How many "Clouds of Joy" were in the 1930s jazz orchestra directed by bandleader Andy Kirk?
12
888
Which medieval monk invented the 36-character Armenian alphabet after an angel revealed the letters to him in a dream?
Mesrop Mashtots
889
What sport is the subject of Dominique Moceanu's memoir Off Balance?
Gymnastics
890
In the year up to March 2023, the British Government sold approximately 4,000 items
costing £53.50 whose name begins with B. What item?
Black and White TV Licence
891
What was the first name of the TV spy Callan?
David
892
A romp is one of the collective nouns for which animals?
Otters
893
Churchills first dog was bulldog with what name?
Dodo
894
Churchill's dog Rufus was which breed?
Poodle
895
What was the first name of the TV spy Steed?
John
896
Who played John Steed in The Avengers? He also appeared in Oasis's music video for "Don't Look Back in Anger" (1996). He and Avengers co-star Honor Blackman had a UK Top 10 hit in 1990 when their 1964 song "Kinky Boots" received renewed interest from being played on BBC Radio One.
Patrick Macnee
897
Which country in 1966 did not leave NATO, but forced the withdrawal of all its military bases and NATO headquarters from its soil?
France
898
Which two boroughs of New York are connected by the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge?
Brooklyn, Staten Island
899
Which abbey built by Cistercian monks over 700 years ago later became the home of Sir
Francis Drake?
Buckland Abbey
900
Which castle was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn?
Hever Castle
901
) The Crown Ground, or because of current sponsorship, the Wham Stadium. whcih efl team?
Accrington Stanley
902
Rodney Parade. Which EFL team play here?
Newport County
903
Home Park. What EFL team play here?
Plymouth Argyle
904
Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean. From which Shakespeare Play?
Richard III
905
Present Laughter by Noël Coward. Title from which Shakespeare Play?
Twelfth Night
906
Moore and Prater. WHich pair of music artists had these surnames?
Sam and Dave
907
Mel and Kim had which shared surname?
Appleby
908
Gantry, floating, crawler and tower are types of what machinery?
Cranes
909
In the lyrics of the song “Running Bear” what is the name of his sweetheart?
Little White Dove
910
Which branch of the British military was disbanded in 1993 when it was absorbed into
another service as could join navy?
Wrens (accept Women's Royal
Naval Service or WRNS
911
Which normal human process is known scientifically as deglutition?
Swallowing
912
Which is the easternmost city in England?
Norwich
913
A third of which English city, with a population of over half a million, lies within the
boundaries of a National Park?
Sheffield
914
Four of the cities in the Top 10 most populated cities in England all start with each letter of
the alphabet?
L (Liverpool, Leeds, Leicester, London)
915
In which sport would Edinburgh Monarchs compete against the Glasgow Tigers?
Speedway
916
Referencing the conservationist and primatologist Madame Berthe in its full name, what is the smallest primate?
Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur
917
Which Bond girl played Staff Nurse Denton in Carry on Nurse?
Shirley Eaton
918
Which film about nuns working in the Himalayas was briefly banned by the Catholic Church
because of sexual content?
Black Narcissus
919
Although there is scant evidence of any active volcanos, what planet of the Solar System,
discounting Earth, has more volcanic features than any of the other planets?
Venus
920
Following the declassification of Pluto, which is the second smallest planet in the Solar
System?
Mars
921
In 2017, the Olympic sport of synchronised swimming was officially renamed. What is it now
called?
Artistic Swimming
922
What was the name of d'Artagnan’s servant?
Planchet
923
Which English monarch had to put down a revolt known as the Rising of the North, which
was led by peers seeking to reestablish the Catholic Church?
Elizabeth I
924
In 1778, a naval crew with allegiance to which country initiated an assault on the port of
Whitehaven in Cumbria?
USA
925
Who was the host of The South Bank Show throughout its run?
Melvyn Bragg
926
Where is the National Museum of Horse Racing?
Newmarket
927
Which ball sport, as well as golf, was introduced to the Summer Olympics in 2016?
Rugby Sevens
928
WHo wrote memoir Bring on the Empty Horses
David Niven
929
In Japan, a Ryokan is a traditional what?
Hotel or Inn
930
Name either of Tokyo’s two international airports?
Haneda or Narita
931
Where London’s longest surviving cocktail bar, the American Bar, be found?
The Savoy
932
Where London’s longest surviving cocktail bar, the American Bar, be found?
Harry's Bar
933
Which English racecourse is furthest West?
Newton Abbot
934
Which horse won the 1993 race known as “The Grand National that never was”?
Esha Ness
935
Which batsman scored a record 33 Test centuries for England?
Alistair Cook
936
In Naval terms what name is given to the rope attached to the bow of a small boat or
dinghy?
Painter
937
Which actor, a fighter pilot in WWII, played one of Matt Dillon’s deputies on TV and the title
role in McCloud?
Dennis Weaver
938
Which Archbishop crowned Queen Elizabeth II?
Geoffrey Fisher
939
Which tourist attraction in the UK has a resident witch earning £50,000 per annum?
Wookey Hole
940
Which religion, introduced to the public in 1954, draws upon ancient pagan beliefs and was
once referred to as Witchcraft or The Craft?
Wicca
941
Who in The Beano was the strongman’s daughter?
Pansy Potter
942
Who wrote the BBC TV plays “Blue Remembered Hills” and “Brimstone and Treacle”?
Dennis Potter
943
VP for Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.
Walter Mondale
944
In which country did Daniel Peter create the first commercial milk chocolate recipe?
Switzerland
945
Which British company invented the first chocolate bar?
Fry & Sons
946
One of the world’s largest producers of chocolate bars, which family-owned company was founded in 1911, and is now based in Virginia?
Mars
947
Which product was "Worth Waiting For"?
Guinness
948
Which Sumerian hero from Mesopotamian mythology fought the monster known as the Bull
of Heaven?
Gilgamesh
949
Who escaped from the colossal giant Benandonne by donning the clothes of his baby and hiding in its crib?
Finn McCool
950
In the TV series who was the pilot and captain of Stingray?
Troy Tempest
951
Which group wrote the song “Something in the Air” and took it to the top of the UK singles
charts for three weeks in 1969?
Thunderclap Newman
952
Between 1989 and 2021 who became the longest serving presenter of Channel 4 news?
Jon Snow
953
Who at the beginning of a major book of 1872 fires his valet for presenting his shaving water
at the wrong temperature, and hurriedly appoints a new one to join him on his travels?
Phileas Fogg
954
Which cooking term means to slowly pour a thin liquid mixture over food?
Drizzle
955
In which city did Duncan Goodhew win his Olympic Gold Medal?
1980 Moscow
956
What is the shortest event in Olympic Swimming?
50m Freestyle
957
What is the name of the cricket ground in Kingston in Jamaica?
Sabina Park
958
Which playwright is buried at his former holiday home “Firefly”, in Jamaica?
Noel Coward
959
Who wrote: The Good Life, and Ever Decreasing Circles?
Esmonde and Larbey
960
Who wrote: Porridge, and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Clement and La Frenais
961
Who wrote Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours, and Keeping Up Appearances?
Roy Clarke
962
New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, also known the Sookie Stackhouse series of books — which served as the source material for the popular HBO series True Blood
Charlaine Harris
963
Google's new AI model launched in December 2023 inside the Bard chatbot named what?
Gemini
964
This model was discovered on Instagram by makeup artist Pat McGrath. In 2019, she made her screen acting debut in the Safdie brothers' Uncut Gems. Won Model of the Year at British Fashion Awards.
Paloma Elsesser
965
A medieval tower in the Italian city of Bologna that leans by as much as its famous counterpart in Pisa was sealed off over fears it may collapse. What is the tower’s name? The other, the Asinelli, is about twice the height and also leans, though not so dramatically, and is usually open for tourists to climb.
Garisenda
966
As part of Spotify Wrapped, what Vermont city has been the talk of the Internet as a major "Sound Town”?
Burlington
967
advice and comedy podcast created by Sofia Franklyn and Alexandra Cooper in 2018. The podcast was formerly owned and distributed by Barstool Sports until June 2021, when it was announced that Cooper had signed an exclusive deal with Spotify worth $60 million.
Call Her Daddy
968
Self-styled as "El Presidente", who is the founder and owner of sports and popular culture company Barstool Sports.
David Portnoy
969
What neuroscience podcast from the Stanford School of Medicine is the world's third-most streamed podcast by namesake neuroscientist?
HUBERMAN LAB
970
Podcast Armchair Expert by who?
Dax Shepard
971
#10 podcast in world "Anything Goes With ..." by which podcaster?
Emma Chamberlain
972
Iron Lung is an upcoming American science fiction horror film written, directed, produced by, and starring which podcastler in his feature directorial debut? The movie is an adaptation of the 2022 video game of the same name by David Szymanski. Podcast called Distractable.
Mark Fischbach (known online as Markiplier)
973
What Tik Tok trend involves interviewing people and celebrities using a small audio recording device?
Tiny Mic
974
In the genre of mental health slang, what abbreviated phrase refers to someone having a major mental health crisis?
MENTY B
975
Who was the television anchor who, alongside Patrick Moore and James Burke, presented the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and first moon landing in 1969? (forename and surname required)
Cliff Michelmore
976
The late Robbie Coltrane played the giant and Hogwarts’ caretaker, Rubeus Hagrid, in the Harry Potter film series but which England rugby union international played his body and stunt double in every film? He played lock forward for Northampton Saints, Bedford Blues and England, gaining 31 England and 3 Lions cap.
Martin Bayfield
977
Which city, the tenth largest in England, is situated on the River Sherbourne?
Coventry
978
Which English scientist, an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist who lived from 1731 to 1810, is credited with having discovered hydrogen in 1776?
Henry Cavendish
979
This film, a Mexican-American neo-Western starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega and featuring Kris Kristofferson amongst others, was made by Sam Peckinpah in 1974. The plot involves a search for the man who has impregnated a powerful Mexican crime lord’s daughter. It is regularly referenced in the ‘Film Club’ round of the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, usually by Graeme Garden, with one or more words changed to fit that week’s theme of comedy film titles. What is the film’s name?
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
980
Which show provided television debuts to the impressionists and comedians Hugh Dennis, Steve Coogan, John Culshaw, Harry Enfield and John Thomson?
Spitting Image
981
Which city in New Zealand is the principal city of the Otago region and is the second largest on the South Island?
Dunedin
982
What is the formal job title of Letitia James' job?
Attorney General of New York
983
Which constituency was allegedly called "a shit hole" by the Home Secretary James Cleverly in 2023?
Stockton North
984
985
In what capacity did Penny Mordaunt carry the Sword of State?
Lord President of the Privy Council
986
What title did Anthony Armstrong-Jones take in 1961 after marrying Princess Margaret?
Earl of Snowdon
987
The head of the Howard family is the senior, non-Royal, peer of the realm in the UK. As Earl Marshall he organizes state occasions such as the late Queen’s Funeral and King Charles III’s Coronation. How is he better known?
Duke of Norfolk
988
989
In the 1997 film LA Confidential Kim Basinger won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a prostitute. She plays a look-a-like of which 1940s femme fatale actress famed for her peek-a-boo hairstyle?
Veronica Lake
990
Which radio serial drama (soap opera) ran for 21 years on the BBC Light Programme and Radio 2 from 1948 to 1969? The titular character’s much parodied catch phrase was: “I’m rather worried about Jim…”.
Mrs Dale's Diary
991
Located on the Ooka River, Japan’s 2nd largest city by population
Yokohama
992
993
Latin phrase meaning 'what was to be shown'
'quod erat demonstrandum'
994
Painter whose Manchester Murals can be in the Town Hall.
Ford Madox Brown
995
1983 hit song written by David Bowie and Nile Rogers that begins:
“I know when to go out,
Know when to stay in,
Get things done.”
Modern Love
996
The last of the 1960’s trilogy of films featuring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer
Billion Dollar Brain
997
Michael Caine second of the 1960s Harry Palmer films name?
Funeral in Berlin
998
Bowler nicknamed 'White Lightning' who, in 2000, became the first South African to take 300 test wickets;
Allan Donald
999
Politician who became Scotland’s first First Minister in 1999.
Donald Dewar
1000
Name of the 'Railway Cat' in T S Eliot’s Book of Practical Cats
Skimbleshanks
1001
British garage duo whose main chart hit was Sweet Like Chocolate in 1999.
Shanks & Bigfoot
1002
Budget British high-street homeware and fashion retailer founded in Preston in 1985 and now based in Knowsley;
Matalan
1003
French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house whose brands include La Vie Est Belle, Poeme and Tresor.
Lancome
1004
1967 film featuring Frankie Howerd as Francis Bigger, Kenneth Williams as Kenneth Tinkle, Jim Dale as Jim Kilmore and Hattie Jacques as Lavinia, the Matron;
Carry On Doctor
1005
Before David Cameron, who was the last former Prime Minister to re-enter the Cabinet?
Alec Douglas-Home
1006
Who am I? I died in September this year aged 90. I starred in over 100 episodes of a popular BBC secret agent television series between 1964 and 1968.
David McCallum
1007
Who am I? I died in September this year aged 82. I appeared in six Harry Potter films but am perhaps best known for playing a psoriasis-riddled crime writer hallucinating in his hospital bed in a 1986 TV drama series.
Michael Gambon
1008
Which cocktail, also the name of a type of apple, contains the following ingredients: gin, grenadine and egg white?
Pink Lady
1009
The current Desert Island Discs presenter, Lauren Laverne, began her career in which Brit pop band in the 1990s?
Kenickie
1010
In the Beano, who is the nominal leader of the Bash Street Kids?
Danny
1011
Grease Link: Which American car was in production from 1955 to 2005, began life as a two-seat convertible and has been offered since as a four- and five-seat hard top and convertible before reverting to a two-seat model at the end of its life? From 1955 to 2005 over 4.4 million were sold.
Ford Thunderbird (T-Bird)
1012
What name connects:
Company moving out of Stockport town centre to the suburbs in 2025,
Newest Cambridge college (1977),
Hollywood actor of more than 100 films over a 50-year career but whose only Academy award was a posthumous honorary one in 1973?
Robinson
(Robinson’s Brewery,
Robinson College,
Edward G Robinson)
1013
What name connects:
Pop/rock singer, born 1945,
Late DJ, in the first intake of Radio 1 DJs & host of the children’s TV show Crackerjack (1973-79),
Actor who played George Bailey in a celebrated Hollywood fantasy.
Stewart
(Rod, Ed, James)
1014
Here are lyrics to a song. Name both the song and the artist (or band).
I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham
Up the junction
by Squeeze
1015
Here are the lyrics to a song. Name both the song and the artist (or band):
"Hey little sister, what have you done? Hey little sister, who's the only one?"
White Wedding by Billy Idol
1016
2024 will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of which composer who (amongst other things) wrote the theme music for the BBC’s television coverage of the 1990 Football World Cup?
Giacomo Puccini
1017
In November 1964, the actress Jane Rossington spoke the first lines in the first episode of a celebrated TV series. She also spoke the final lines of the final episode 24 years later. What was that programme?
Crossroads
1018
On July 4th 2024, an actress, the oldest surviving Oscar winner (for On the Waterfront in 1954) will celebrate her 100th birthday; she also starred as the femme fatale Eve Kendall in North By Northwest. Who is she?
Eva Marie Saint
1019
In cricket, who were the winners of this year's County Championship 2023?
Surrey
1020
Who is currently manager of the Wales men's football team?
Rob Page
1021
The record winning time for which sporting event is 16 minutes 19 seconds, set in 1998?
The University Boat Race (won by Cambridge)
1022
In snooker, how many successful pots are required for a maximum break?
36
1023
In rugby league, who were the winners of this year's Super League Grand Final?
Wigan Warriors
1024
High Society (1956) was a remake of which earlier non–musical film, for which James Stewart won the Oscar for best Actor?
The Philadelphia Story
1025
Which song did Ingrid Bergmann ask Dooley Wilson to play in a 1942 classic?
As Time Goes By
1026
Which actor was buried with a whistle given to him by his fourth wife?
Humphrey Bogart (Lauren Bacall)
1027
What was the theme song to High Noon?
The Ballad of High Noon
1028
In which European city are the headquarters of UNESCO, the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation?
Paris
1029
Dowsing rods, traditionally used to detect water underground, are most commonly made from twigs cut from which tree?
Hazel
1030
A carminative can be used to relieve what human discomfort?
Flatulence
1031
What does the P stand for in a PSA test?
Prostate(–Specific Antigen)
1032
Name the process in which metal is heated and cooled in order to make it more malleable. It involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperature for an appropriate amount of time and then cooling.
Annealing
1033
Process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, lead and zinc.
Smelting
1034
process of heat treating, which is used to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys, usually performed after hardening, to reduce some of the excess hardness, and is done by heating the metal to some temperature below the critical point for a certain period of time, then allowing it to cool in still air.
Tempering
1035
the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, gas, oil, polymer, air, or other fluids to obtain certain material properties. A type of heat treating, this process prevents undesired low-temperature processes, such as phase transformations, from occurring
Quenching
1036
What was drawn up in 1787, adopted in 1789 and has seven articles and twenty –six amendments?
The constitution of the United States of America
1037
Which country declared itself an Islamic republic on 1 April 1979?
Iran
1038
What hoisting or lifting apparatus, used in construction or dockyard work, gets its name from a London hangman?
The Derrick (Elizabethan executioner)
1039
Which world figure publicly renounced his divinity in 1946?
Hirohito
1040
Charles Edward Stuart is remembered nowadays as Bonnie Prince Charlie. But by what name was he commonly to his political opponents in his own time?
The Young Pretender
1041
Name one of the three counties in the ancient province of Ulster which lie in the Republic of Ireland.
Cavan, Donegal or Monaghan
1042
Which UK city has two cathedrals, both dedicated to St Patrick?
Armagh
1043
Convectional, relief and cyclonic are types of what?
Rainfall
1044
Which river flows through Congleton?
The Dane
1045
Name one of the two legendary giants that are the traditional guardians of the City of London, and whose wicker effigies lead the procession of the Lord Mayor's Show.
Gog or Magog
1046
Beaujolais from Burgundy region is made from mostly what kind of grapes?
Gamay
1047
Which dry white wine from the western end of the Loire Valley, said to go particularly well with seafood, is made from the Melon de Bourgogne grape?
Muscadet
1048
On a Spanish menu, what are mejillones?
Mussels
1049
What word means poetry that is silly or badly written?
Doggerel
1050
1051
Actresses who portray Priscilla Presley in elvis and Priscilla biopics
Elvis: Olivia DeJonge
Priscilla: Cailee Spaeny
1052
Latkes traditionally prepared to celebrate which Jewish holiday?
Hanukkah
1053
large river island formed from the bisection of the Araguaia River, in southwestern Tocantins, Brazil. By some accounts the largest river island in world.
Bananal Island
1054
large river island located in Assam, India. It is formed by the Brahmaputra River to the south and east, the Subansiri River to the west, by some accounts largest river island in the world.
Majuli
1055
Jodie Foster is in series 4 of True Detsctive with which subtitle?
Night Country
1056
What Amazon show starring Nicole Kidman and created by Lulu Wang is set in Hong Kong during the 2014 Umbrella Movement?
EXPATS
1057
What monster-taming video game developed by Pocket Pair is being described as "Pokemon with guns"?
PALWORLD
