Next 20 Flashcards
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“Teléfono Nuevo,” “Gracias Por Nada,” and “Perro Negro” are among the many singles that were all on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in
October 2023 that feature what artist?
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Bad Bunny
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All American Girl debuted in 1994 and was the first major network sitcom with a majority Asian cast. Who was the Korean American stand-up comedian in the lead role?
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Margaret Cho
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American singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo the Dresden Dolls. Married Neil Gaiman until 2022.
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Amanda Palmer
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Which Oklahoma city (which is not Oklahoma City) frequently labels itself the “Oil Capital of the World”?
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Tulsa
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Dusty Springfield was first performer on Top of the Pops with what song in 1964?
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I Only Want To Be With You
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The Rolling Stones were first band to perform on Top of the Pops with which song?
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“I Wanna Be Your Man”
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In 1966, what early Gay Rights organization staged a “sip-in” to protest the law against serving homosexuals in bars? Julius’, the
Greenwich Village bar where this first happened, now holds a monthly party named in honor of this group.
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Mattachine Society
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On Sesame Street, what is the name of the turquoise furry Muppet from Mexico who became the show’s first bilingual Muppet when she debuted in 1991? She often introduces the Spanish Word of the Day.
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Rosita
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She is perhaps best known for portraying Nancy Bartlett Thomas on the ABC sitcom Roseanne from the fourth season (1991) to the end of the show in 1997. She played Nurse Judy Kubrak in the FX drama series Pose. She is number 96 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. Without You, I’m Nothing, With
You, I’m Not Much Better was a one-woman off-Broadway follow-up to I’m Your Woman?
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Sandra Bernhard
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Coined by Johannes Kepler using Greek roots, what pair of words describe a solar object is at its closest and farthest from the Sun? Two
answers, please.
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PERIHELION, APHELION
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Which Santa Monica-based video game developer created the Black Ops series of games in the Call of Duty franchise for Activision? This
group also ported a few Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games for the DreamCast.
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Treyarch
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Most decorative and scented candles are now made from what petroleum-refining byproduct and type of wax? Occasionally kerosene is known by the same name.
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Paraffin
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While many sports teams wield a home-field advantage when playing their games, NHL teams playing at their home arenas are most
frequently said to wield a home-what advantage?
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Ice
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Who is the guitarist for Black Sabbath who thought he’d never play guitar again after losing two fingers in an accident, but was inspired to
try after learning that famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was able to play without the use of all his fingers?
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Tony Iommi
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The 1987 biopic La Bamba starred Lou Diamond Phillips as Richie Valens and who as his troubled brother Bob? This actor has starred in other films with mostly Latinx casts like My Family and The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca.
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Esai Morales
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Technically a regional dance of the Hwanghae Province, what term for a mask dance drama is now used generally to refer to such performances throughout Korea? This art form is on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage.
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Talchum
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American film director Karyn Kusama directed what 2009 comedyhorror film written by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox as a murderous teenager with a taste for male flesh?
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Jennifer’s Body
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Which legendary NASCAR driver of the 1990s and 2000s is remembered for the rainbow-clad, DuPont-sponsored #24 Chevrolet he drove?
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Jeff Gordon
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Legendary New York club CBGB opened in 1973 with a different intentfrom the punk club it became. What did the letters CBGB stand for?
Only give the answer for these four letters.
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Country Blue Grass Blues
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What is the northernmost mainland province of the Netherlands? It shares its name with its capital and largest city and it’s noted for the
Grote Markt which was partially destroyed during a World War II battle there.
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Groningen
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George Washington Carver is remembered for his agricultural research, in particular developing uses for peanuts. He primarily conducted this research at what prominent HBCU in Alabama, which is also home to the nation’s first research center focused entirely on bioethics?
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Tuskegeee Institute
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The Love Parade is the fictional debut novel of young writer James Leer in what novel by Michael Chabon? The novel is about his
complex relationship with writing professor Grady Tripp.
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Wonder Boys
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Not named because it resembles something you’d see during teatime, in ice hockey, what is the term for the kind of pass that barely leaves the ice but leaving the ground just enough to hover or fly like an alien craft to a teammate’s stick?
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Saucer Pass
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Candles before the 1800s were commonly made from beeswax, or what rendered fat mainly from beef or mutton?
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Tallow
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Which western African nation is home to Île de Gorée, the largest slave-trading hub on the African coast for nearly five centuries? It was one of the first three African places to be named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Senegal
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Who played Bob's girlfriend Rosie in La Bamba? She starred in many other films with Latinx casts, like Tortilla Soup and How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer.
Elizabeth Pena
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Arising during the Ayutthaya Kingdom, what form of masked dance drama accompanied by narrators is a Thai entry on UNESCO's list of
intangible cultural heritage? The traditional form usually includes heroes, heroines, ogres, and monkeys as characters.
Khon
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George Washington Carver encouraged crop rotation with plants such as peanuts and cowpeas to restore what essential chemical element in the soil? Rhizobium bacteria form nodules on the plant roots and produce an enzyme that reduces this element into useful forms.
Nitrogen
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CBGB's full official name included 5 more letters — what were they?
Bonus points in our hearts if you can tell us what the letters stood for.
OMFUG (Other Music for Uplifting
Gourmandizers)
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Which province of the Netherlands, located in the middle of the country, shares its name with its capital and largest city, which is noted for the Oudegracht, the old canal that runs through it?
Utrecht
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Which legendary NASCAR driver of the 1980s and '90s is remembered for the black, Goodwrench-sponsored #3 Chevrolet he
drove?
Dale Earnhardt
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Her specials included Born to be Mild and Naked Beneath My Clothes. Since 2001, she has performed almost exclusively in Las Vegas, selling almost two million tickets and becoming the longest-running solo comedy show in Las Vegas.
Rita Rudner
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On Sesame Street, what is the two-word name of the pink fairy-like Muppet who debuted in 2006 and has a wand that gives her magical powers?
ABBY CADABBY
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What music performance and dance program ran in the US from 1952 to 1989, with Dick Clark hosting from 1956 until the show’s end?
American Bandstand
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What early Lesbian rights organization, named in part for a fictional lover of Sappho, published the magazine The Ladder from 1956 to 1972 which provided a lifeline to lesbian women around the country?
Daughters of Bilitis
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Which Santa Monica-based video game developer created the Modern Warfare series of games in the Call of Duty franchise for Activision? The O.G. members of this studio all worked together on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Infinity Ward
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What is the Arabic word for a crescent moon? Sports fans likely know it best from being found in the name of Neymar's Saudi Pro League
team, which he joined in August 2023 before suffering an ACL tear in October.
Hilal
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What was the surname of Dolley Madison's first husband, a name she retained after his death in 1793? It was also the maiden name of the wife of the 16th president.
Todd
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Ovulation test kits, like Clearblue Easy and First Response, measure the level of what chemical in the body produced by the pituitary gland,
with a structure similar to follicle-stimulating hormone, that signals the ovaries to release an egg?
Luteinizing
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Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound are coastal waterways in what U.S. state?
North Carolina
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The “hard c” or “k” sound in English is known linguistically as a voiceless velar WHAT?
Stop/Plosive
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known for his songs "Sound of da Police", "Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)", and "My Philosophy"
KRS-One / Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone
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Which of the gospels in the Bible describes the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus?
Matthew
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In which Spanish city is the National Museum of Romanticism located?
Madrid
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Which Brontë sister wrote the poem No Coward Soul is Mine?
Emily
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What drink can be made using a burr grinder and a steam wand?
Coffee
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Polynesian method of kneading massage, but with overtones of the indigenous religious beliefs, comes from Hawaiian/Samoan language for "Knead", inspired by the ocean.
Lomilomi
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In 1936, which British monarch became the first to fly an aircraft to his own ascension?
Edward VIII
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In which sport do teams in New Zealand compete for the Ranfurly Shield? Colloquially known as Log o'Wood
Rugby Union
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"Fisherman's daughter" is cockney rhyming slang for which beverage?
Water
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The city of Quibdó, recorded as having the highest amount of rainfall of any city in South America, is in which country?
Colombia
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Which Spanish artist painted the Scottish National Gallery's Old Woman Frying Eggs (1618)?
Diego Velazquez
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Piernik is a traditional gingerbread cake originating from which country?
Poland
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What word links the title of a Britney Spears album with a famous landmark in Bath?
Circus
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Babassu, Jipi-japa, and Raffia are all types of what tree?
Palm
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Korean name for Korean New Year?
Seollal
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In 1918, which member of the Benn political family dynasty organised and carried out the first parachute drop of a secret service agent behind enemy lines?
William Benn
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At the 1960 Olympic Games, Queen Sofia of Spain competed for Greece in which sport?
Sailing
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Which African country is home to Zagazig University?
Egypt
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Serving as Alaska's U.S. representative for 49 years, who, at the time of his death in 2022, was the oldest and longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress?
Don Young
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Which Yorkshire cricketer, nicknamed "Chilly" and best known for helping England defeat Australia at Headingley in 1981, retired to run a fish and chip shop in Cornwall?
Chris Old
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Parookaville, a three-day electronic dance music festival, is held in which country?
Germany
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Which American crime writer created the ex-NFL player turned FBI investigator Amos Decker starting with Memory Man in 2015?
David Baldacci
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Ballinesker Beach and Curracloe Strand, the filming locations for Saving Private Ryan, are in which Irish county?
Wexford
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Chocolate spot is one of the most common fungal diseases of which vegetable?
Broad Bean
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Which Apollo mission was the first crewed flight into space?
Apollo 7
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What name links the winner of the 1975 Derby, an Australian television production company, and a family in The Archers?
Grundy
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Hirohito known by what honorific?
Showa
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Which state's supreme court disqualified former US president Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot for the 2024 presidential election under the Fourteenth Amendment?
Colorado
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Which country's 141 opposition MPs were suspended from its parliament for joining protests relating to a security breach in which two men intruded into the parliament, shouting slogans and spraying coloured gas?
2023
India
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Which Asian country's parliament voted to change its flag in December 2023 by replacing wavy rays with straight rays to "eliminate the ambiguous interpretation of the meaning of the flag image"?
Kyrgyzstan
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The Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas was the first hotel owned by which famous hotelier?
Conrad Hilton
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On December 25, 800, Charlemagne was crowned emperor by which Pope?
Pope Leo III
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American-Ivorian basketball player Mo Bamba currently plays for which NBA team?
Philadelphia 76ers
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Which African country announced its departure from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in December 2023 over a dispute on output quotas?
Angola
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The red-haired Margaret Wade is attracted to which comic book character?
Dennis the Menace
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Which artist painted Washington Crossing the Delaware?
Emanuel Leutze
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Which US state unveiled in December 2023 the design of its proposed state flag following criticism that its current flag was offensive to Native Americans?
Minnesota
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The name of which American skateboarding-focused company is taken from one of New York City's oldest skate crews? The company is currently owned by the Iconix Brand Group.
Zoo York
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Streetwear urban brand founded by Marc. The company's products gained public attention in the late 1990s; they were originally associated with hip-hop and skate culture and moved into mainstream urban culture in the early 2000s. It is most often associated with hip-hop. The style is based on graffiti art. Its brand features a rhino as its logo.
Ecko Unltd
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An archaic two letter interjection of vague meaning, used to project attention to something, which features in verse 2 of “Oh Come All Ye Faithful”
Lo
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2 letter internet expression broadly equivalent to the French “chapeau!”
HT (Hat Tip)
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A three letter acronym originating in the US in the late 19th Century meaning you may need to get on with this round or you’ll run out of time
PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick)
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Which writer of 8 British number 1 singles was cited by Beatles producer George Martin as "the finest songwriter of his generation" but was voted the most overrated guitarist of the century in a Guitar Magazine poll in 1999?
Noel Gallagher
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Which former captain of Hampshire CCC ghost wrote Shane Warne’s autobiography No Spin and succeeded Stephen Fry as President of MCC in October this year?
Mark Nicholas
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Who was President of MCC from 2020-21 the first non-UK born President? Sri Lankan player.
Kumar Sangakkara
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Who held the presidency of Marylebone Cricket Club from 2021 until 2022, first woman to do so? She made her England One Day International debut in 1995 and played her first Test match that winter. She achieved a hat-trick against India in 1999 and captained England from 2000 until her retirement from international cricket in 2006.
Clare Connor
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Which British television host and journalist interviewed all eight British prime ministers from Alec Douglas-Home to David Cameron, and all eight American presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to George W. Bush, and is commemorated by a memorial stone in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey unveiled in March 2014?
David Frost
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Which ship, launched in 2004 and named after the Queen Consort of George V, is the flagship of Cunard’s fleet and the only ocean liner still in service?
Queen Mary 2
90
Which TV personality ended her contract with BBC radio Wales last month after refusing to accept the Corporation’s new social media guidelines?
Carol Vorderman
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Which British athlete, now a presenter on TV including leading Sky’s netball coverage and a regular on A Question of Sport, won a 400m bronze medal behind Cathy Freeman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics?
Katharine Merry
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Which was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly, making its professional premiere at the Haymarket ice rink during the Edinburgh International Festival in 1972, and seeing West End revivals in 2019 and 2021?
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
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Lloyd Webber and Rice first collaboration was The Likes of Us, an Oliver!-inspired musical based on the true story of which director and philanthropist?
Thomas John Barnardo
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Round 3 is more general knowledge Since October, what has been the price of a First Class stamp?
£1.25
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The Green Man, an ancient figure from British folklore, symbolic of spring and rebirth, was the most prominent feature of the artwork for which invitation this year?
Coronation
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Which political protest will celebrate its 250th anniversary on Saturday?
Boston Tea Party
97
How many Kings of the UK have broadcast a Christmas message?
3 – George V, George VI and Charles III
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Whose size 14s were filled this year by a variety of co-hosts including Stephen Mangan, Lauren Laverne, Konnie Huq, Ed Gamble, Alex Brooker and Gyles Brandreth?
Richard Osman's
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Which word used in French cooking for a fowl, classically cooked with oranges, or slow roasted in its own fat, in English means a false or unfounded story, rumour, or claim, often one that is deliberately misleading?
Canard
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Who received a fixed penalty fine from Lancashire police in January this year for taking off his seat belt in a moving car?
Rishi Sunak
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Billie Piper gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at age 15 in what year? There's something about Mary was big at the Box Office in this year. Marc Overmars and Nicolas Anelka scored in the FA Cup Final and Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics
1998
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What Billie Piper song re-entered the UK charts at number 17 in 2007, eight years after it's initial release, thanks to efforts by the BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles? The first verse begins "I've been missing you, I should be kissing you"
Honey to the Bee
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When Billie Piper took on the role of Rose Tyler, which actor was playing Doctor Who? This actor was the Ninth Doctor
Christopher Ecclestone
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Billie Piper married Chris Evans in 2001. Name either of his two other wives.
Carol MCGIFFIN or Natasha SHISHMANIAN
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What was the 3-word title of Billie Piper's second album? This was also the name of a Dire Strait's song which contains the line "Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies"
Walk of Life
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The 1865 Walt Whitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" is one of four he wrote about the death of Abraham Lincoln. Name any of the other three.
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" "Hush'd Be the Camps To-day"
"This Dust was Once the Man"
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Captain and Tennile took "Love will keep us together" to the US number one spot in 1975, but what first name did Tennile go by? This is also the first name of the woman who had a Best Supporting actress Oscar nomination for "The Sixth Sense" and another woman who had a big hit with the song "Breathe Again"
Toni
108
A Captain in the Royal Navy is the equivalent of what rank in the British Army? The current insignia of this rank is two diamond-shaped pips below a crown
Colonel
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Who became the first Swiss act to reach the top 40 of the UK charts when they got to the top ten with "The Captain of her Heart" in 1985?
Double
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In the Cannonball Run, which large actor had the alter ego "Captain Chaos"? In total this man made five movies with Burt Reynolds
Dom Deluise
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DNA evidence has shown that Thomas Jefferson impregnated what woman many times whilst she was a slave at his Monticello estate?
Sally HEMINGS
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Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic and sold into slavery in New Granada, which man later became a London shopkeeper and the first known British African to have voted in Britain?
Ignatius Sancho
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Which British historian, a well known face on TV, attended the University of Liverpool to study the history of slavery? His TV work includes "A house through time" and 2023's "Union"
David Olusoga
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Which American woman escaped from slavery with her infant daughter in 1826, and then went to court to recover her son a couple of years later? She became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
Sojourner TRUTH
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What cells are responsible for gastric acid secretion, which aids in the digestion of food, absorption of minerals, and control of harmful bacteria?
Parietal Cells
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In the cell what word could mean a control mechanism that ensures proper progression, or in more general terms a place along a road where travellers are stopped for inspection?
Checkpoint
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What "T" are the structures within chloroplasts that are the sites of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis? From Greek for sac-like.
THYLAKOIDS
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A major physiological activity that the body undertakes during times of low activity, especially sleep, is restoring which organic molecule commonly known by a 3-letter abbreviation? This molecule is responsible for energy transfer in living cells
ATP - ADENOSINE TRI PHOSPHATE
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What organelle in plant and fungal cells are essentially enclosed compartments which are filled with water containing inorganic and organic molecules including enzymes in solution?
Vacuoles
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In the dictionary, what 9-letter word beginning with "C" is defined as "the organized complex of inorganic and organic substances external to the nuclear membrane of a cell"?
Cytoplasm
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The number of times a normal somatic, differentiated human cell population will divide before cell division stops is the BLANK limit. What word fills the blank? It is named after an American Professor of Anatomy who studied the aging process for more than fifty years.
Hayflick
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Coming from the Latin for "Box", what 7-letter word is the name for waterproof receptacles in buildings used for storing rainwater? A famous example lies near the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
Cistern
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What "H" is the Turkish language word for the Turkey (the bird)?
Hindi (meaning India)
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The Nika Riots of 532 CE took place against the rule of which Byzantine emperor?
Justinian I
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Islamic version of a pulpit
Minbar
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Istanbul is a location in which award-winning science fiction book of 1984? This book is considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre
Neuromancer
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After conquering the city in 1453, Mehmed II made Constantinople the new Ottoman capital, replacing which other city? This city in Thrace is famous for its breaded and deep fried liver.
ADRIANOPLE (acc Edirne or Hadrianopolis)
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What was the name of the journalist and dissident who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018? He was a first cousin of Dodi Fayed
Jamal KHASHOGGI
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Iranian-British dual citizen who was detained in Iran from 3 April 2016 as part of a long running dispute between Britain and Ira
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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Regnal name and number please of the man who was twice Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire in doing so
MEHMED II/ MEHMED THE CONQUEROR
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What two-word term was the title of the effective head of government within the Ottoman Empire? The title of the modern day Prime Minister of Pakistan in Urdu literally translates into this term
Grand Vizier
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Which alliteratively named actress and Broadway star was the mother of Larry Hagman? Amongst other successes she originated the musical role of Maria Von Trapp
Mary Martin
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Who was the mother of Eros in Greek mythology?
Aphrodite
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What child singing star took the song "Mother of Mine" to number 2 in the UK charts in 1971? He shares his surname with the US Senate majority leader between 2007 and 2015
Neil REID
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a Scottish former child singing star, winner of ITV's Opportunity Knocks, and the youngest person to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart
Neil Reid
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What is the shared 4-letter first name of Whistler's mother, and the mother of Elisabeth, James and Lachlan Murdoch?
ANNA (Anna McNeil Whistler and Anna Torv)
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What was the shared surname of the mother and daughter country music duo who had the first names Wynonna and Naomi? They are one of the most successful country music duos ever, having won five Grammys
The Judds
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In Greek mythology, which woman, the wife of King Priam of Troy, had 19 children, many of whom feature prominently in Homer's Iliad? These children include Paris, Hector and Cassandra
Hecuba
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Which actress, who played Cassandra's mother in Only Fools and Horses, is the real life mother of Benedict Cumberbatch?
Wanda Ventham
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Which vestal virgins is the legendary mother of Romulus and Remus? According to Livy's account of the legend, she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa
Rhea Silvia
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The Swiss city of Geneva is situated near the point where which river leaves Lake Geneva? This river eventually meets the sea near Marseilles
Rhone
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Which city in the German-speaking part of the country is home to Switzerland's oldest University?
Basel
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According to Tripadvisor, the number one museum in Switzerland is actually dedicated to which man, born in Walworth, South London?
Charlie Chaplin
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Kofi Annan died in which Swiss city in 2018? Albert Einstein worked out his theory of relativity whilst working here
Bern
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The Matterhorn overlooks which Swiss town in the canton of Valais? It is the most southernly place in the German speaking part of Switzerland
Zermatt
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Located in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland, which village beginning with the letter "M" and with 6 letters was the first place to host the Apline Ski-ing World championships back in 1931?
Murren
146
In the early 1990s Roy Hodgson managed the Swiss football team called Xamax. In which town do Xamax play? This French speaking town is a centre of the Swiss watch industry and was also the site of the secret first meeting between Balzac and the married woman who later became his wife, Eveline Hanska
Neuchatel
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The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 reduced tensions between the US and Great Britain in regard to the plans to build a transcontinental canal through which Central American country?
Nicaragua
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Hester Prynne is the main protagonist in which novel of 1850, decribed by D.H. Lawrence as a "perfect work of the American imagination"?
The Scarlet Letter
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The credit corporation called American Express was founded by what two men? Their surnames live on in the name of another American banking company
Henry WELLS and William FARGO
150
What name was given to the 1850 to 1864 war between the Qing Dynasty and the Hakka-led Heavenly Kingdom? With 20 to 30 million dead, it is regarded as one of the bloodiest wars of all time
Taiping Rebellion
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What 3-letter name was given to the Iranian religious leader born Ali Muhammed who was killed by firing squad in 1850? His place within the Bahai faith is similar to that of John the Baptist within Christianity
Bab
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Which man became President of the United States in 1850? He failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852 but gained the endorsement of the Know Nothing Party four years later.
Millard Fillmore
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What name has been given to the diplomatic episode of 1850 when Greeks rioted after being asked not to burn an effigy of Judas Iscariot at the time of a visit from James de Rothschild?
the DON PACIFICO affair
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"And then we saw the daughter of the dinosaur" and "The Giantess (Guardian of the Egg)" are famous works by which British-born surrealist painter and novelist?
Leonora CARRINGTON
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The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, the Parliament House in Valetta, Malta and the New York Times building in New York are all the creations of which architect?
Renzo Piano
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The works of which British science fiction writer include "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" and the Helliconia Trilogy? Supertoys was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).
Brian Aldiss
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"Young peasant having her coffee" and "Boulevard Montmartre" are all famous works by which Impressionist who lived from 1830 to 1903?
Camille Pisarro
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"Self portrait with 7 fingers" and "Bella with white collar" are two of the most famous works by which man, born in what is now Belarus in 1887?
Marc Chagall
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One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is which man's painting "Christina's World"? His first name is Andrew.
Andrew Wyeth
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"Rum and Guitar", "Man with a Guitar" and "Still life with Grapes and Clarinet" are all famous paintings by which French man born 1882?
Georges Braque
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What author received Critics Choice and Writers Guild of America nominations for his screenplay for The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
Stephen Chbosky
162
Natalie Imbruglia had a Billboard chart topper with "Torn" in 1997, but that was actually a cover. What band released the first Englishlanguage version of the song two years earlier in 1995?
Ednaswap
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In the original version of Risk, the Oceania continent consists of four territories, Eastern and Western Australia, New Guinea, and what
large archipelagic country with over 17,000 islands?
Indonesia
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Visual Artist Before and After, first and last names required: The first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney with her rainbow colored abstract works meets the American realist who painted The Gross Clinic.
Alma Thomas Eakins
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Due to longtime erosion, what natural arch, located in the Maltese archipelago, completely collapsed in 2017?
Azure Window
166
A 1986 Keith Haring mural in East Harlem depicting bodies and skeletons piled against a blood red background bears what rhyming
anti-drug message?
Crack is Wack
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In 1979's The Amityville Horror, what is the last name of the family, headed by George and Kathy, that was tormented by the supernatural
forces in their house?
Lutz
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The third edition of what video game franchise has expansion packs titled The WarChiefs and The Asian Dynasties?
Age of Empires
169
One man who probably thought about the Roman Empire several times per week was what Germanic chieftain of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in 410 CE, the first foreign power to seize the city in 800 years?
Alaric
170
What rustic, hand shaped bread style, with a thick, crispy crust, is historically and etymologically linked to French bakeries, and is also easy to make by home bakers in a Dutch oven?
Boule
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Eminem's 2010 album Recovery and Rihanna's 2010 album Loud featured versions of what collaboration whose chorus begins "Just
gonna stand there and watch me burn"?
Love the Way You Lie
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"His wings are clipped and / his feet are tied / so he opens his throat to sing." These are lines from what Maya Angelou poem that echoes the
title of her memoir, but is only two words long?
Caged Bird
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Who was the first press secretary of the Clinton Administration, serving as the inspiration for The West Wing character C. J. Cregg?
Dee Dee Myers
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A precursor to modern lace, the 16th century Italian technique punto a groppo created geometric patterns without a bobbin; this technique was related to WHAT better known technique that had possible beginnings in 13th century Arabic cultures?
Macrame
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In the original version of Risk, the South America continent consists of four territories, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, and what?
Argentina
176
While "In the Hall of the Mountain King" may be the best-known movement of the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg, what sort of titular "Mood" is suggested by its also well-known first movement?
Morning Mood
177
What is the name of the traditional type of French bread that is shaped into a oblong, oval loaf, with a size and shape in between boule and the longer baguette?
Batard
178
The second edition of what video game franchise has expansion packs titled Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void?
Starcraft
179
What eventual Cronkite award winner and member of the Television Hall of Fame served as LBJ's press secretary from 1965 to 1967?
Bill Moyers
180
John Herschel, son of William, gave what nickname to the first-everdiscovered planetary nebula because of its bulged ends?
Dumbbell Nebula
181
What Nikki Giovanni poem is titled with the first and last name of a real civil rights figure who "who could not stand that death. / And in not
being able to stand it. / She sat back down"?
Rosa Parks
182
Born with first name Yolande in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1943, One of the world's most well-known African-American poets.
Nikki Giovanni
183
In macrame, one of the basic knots is the reef knot, also know by what name?
Square Knot
184
One man who probably thought about the Roman Empire several times per week was what Germanic leader who deposed Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, traditionally marking the end of the western Roman Empire?
Odoacer
185
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts had a Billboard chart topper with "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" in 1984, but that was actually a cover. What band first recorded that song, back in the summer of 75?
The Arrows
186
Keith Haring's 1989 poster created for the AIDS/HIV justice group ACT UP depicts three figures covering their eyes, ears, mouths. Two frequent slogans of ACT UP protests are emblazoned across the top and bottom. Name either.
IGNORANCE=FEAR or
SILENCE=DEATH
187
Due to longtime erosion, what natural arch, located in the Galapagos
archipelago, completely collapsed in 2021?
DARWIN'S Arch
188
What type of citrus, native to East Asia, is a commonly used in Japanese and Korean cuisine and is an ingredient in kosho, a spicy pepper sauce, can be used in ponzu sauce, and is added as flavoring to teas, liquor drinks, like sours, and various sweets?
Yuzu
189
What is the last name of the housekeeper in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca who is rather obsessed with the last Mrs. DeWinter?
Danvers
190
Martin Goodman started the company Timely Publications in 1939. Now owned by a media conglomerate, what is that company’s current name?
Marvel Comics
191
Francoise Bornet was one half of the young couple seen in The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, taken in 1950 by which French photographer?
Robert Doisneau
192
Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has made a surprise appearance in an ITV drama about the Post Office IT scandal.
He plays himself questioning which then-Post Office chief executive in ITV in Mr Bates vs The Post Office.
Paula Vennells
193
Tetris is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by which Soviet software engineer?
Alexey Pajitnov
194
Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur of partial Indo descent. He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (later called Blue Planet Software) and The Tetris Company, which licenses the Tetris trademark.
Henk Rogers
195
How many different tetriminos are there if counting different shapes regardless of reflection/rotation whatever?
7 (5 free shapes but two of them are inverted pairs)
196
The phrase 'through a glass darkly' can be found in a book of the Bible named after which people?
Corinthians
197
In 1978 Nancy Spungen was found dead in which infamous New York Hotel?
Chelsea (Hotel)
198
In Greek mythology, Hippomenes was the husband of which swift-footed Greek heroine?
Atalanta
199
Foxbase Alpha (1991) was the debut album of which British indie band?
Saint Etienne
200
Which American rock musician wrote and performed the 1989 sleeper hit Wicked Game, popularised by the David Lynch film Wild at Heart in 1990?
Chris Isaak
201
What links 1) the command module pilot of Apollo 16, who died in October 2023 2) the current bench coach of the Toronto Blue Jays and former New York Yankee nicknamed "Donnie Baseball"?
MATTINGLY (Ken and Don)
202
Concerning the rituals of a Russian peasant wedding, the 1923 ballet Les Noces was choreographed by which dancer and Protégé of the Ballets Russes who worked closely with her older brother? She is also renowned for her Poulenc-accompanied work, Les Biches.
Bronislava Nijinska
203
What Greek island links 1) a genetic disease characterised by a right ventricular cardiomyopathy, distinctive woolly hair and palmoplantar skin lesions 2) a Greek Island 3) a classical record label founded by Klaus Heymann in 1987?
Naxos
204
What name links 1)The winner of the 2004 women's French Open tennis championship 2) a 3 time winner between 2008 and 2013 of the BDO Women's World Darts Championship and 3) The impostor Anna Anderson?
Anastasia (Myskina (Tennis) and Dobromyslova (Darts) and impersonator of assassinated Grand Duchess of Russia)
205
Professional darts player. She is a three-time Women's World Professional Darts Champion of the British Darts Organisation (BDO). Russian darts and nicknamed From Russia with Love.
Anastasia Dobromyslova
206
In Medicine, the abbreviation "PR" stands for what route of examination or drug administration?
Rectum
207
Founded in 1908 and based in the Ivrea commune of Turin, which typewriter manufacturer now produces personal computers, printers, photocopiers and tablets?
Olivetti
208
Made up of thin layers of striated and smooth muscle, the cremaster muscles raise and lower what paired organs to regulate their temperature? They retract these organs as a reflex action to touch, cold or anxiety.
Testes
209
Located in current day Southern Benin and Western Nigeria, which major Yoruba empire founded around 1300 CE by Oranyan controlled the slave trade in the area between the Volta and Niger rivers before its fall in the 19th century?
Oyo
210
Working on fruit flies and zebrafish, which German developmental biologist shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 with Edward B Lewis and Eric Weischaus for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development?
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
211
Consisting of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides, what name is given to the 5th century BCE trilogy of plays by Aeschylus covering events from the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, her death at the hands of her son and the trial and pursuit of the latter by the Furies?
Oresteia
212
The Mezzotint, an intaglio printmaking process, was said by John Evelyn in 1662 to have been developed by which German-English Royalist Cavalry Commander in the English Civil War? He was the grandson of James VI of Scotland/James I of England and son of Frederick V of the Palatinate.
Rupert of the Rhine
213
What connects 1) a French president who fell out of a train window in 1920, resigning on the grounds of ill health the same year 2) Forensic Anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan
Deschanel (Paul, Emily and Zoe)
214
The longest moon orbit in the solar system is that of Neso, with an orbital period of 26.67 years. It is a satellite of which planet?
Neptune
215
What word connects 1) paired structures of the brainstem adjacent to the medullary pyramids, with roles in auditory processing and motor learning 2) Cerignola, Picholine, and Manzanilla 3) A character played by Anna Karen in a UK sitcom and 4) The UK 1996 No.1 single You're Not Alone
Olive
216
What links 1) A survival horror videogame franchise with instalments The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, Rebirth and The Bunker 2) a 2014 Peter Carey Novel 3) Retrograde, Anterograde and Transient Global?
Amnesia
217
The hypothalamic KNDy neurons produce the neuropeptides Kisspeptin, Dynorphin and the "B" form of which neuropeptide demonstrated to induce hot flushes when injected into healthy women? Its receptor is the target for the inhibitory drug Veoza (Fezolinetant), a newly MHRA-approved drug to treat menopausal hot flushes.
Neurokinin
218
What common name is given to bulky, large-mouthed fish of the order Perciformes which make up the Epinephelinae subfamily of the Serranidae family? The largest example is the Atlantic Goliath at almost two and a half metres long.
Grouper
219
Named after the number of tracks on it and containing the singles We Are All Made of Stars and Extreme Ways, what was the title of Moby's sixth studio album released in 2002?
18
220
South Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in the United States. Among her plays are Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4. Her directorial film debut Past Lives was released at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Celine Song
221
Term for female divers in the South Korean province of Jeju, whose livelihood consists of harvesting a variety of mollusks, seaweed, and other sea life from the ocean. Korean for diver.
Haenyeo
222
She had supporting roles in the Netflix comedy-drama series Russian Doll (2019–present) and the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2021–present). She gained prominence for her starring role in the romantic drama film Past Lives (2023), for which she received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Greta Lee
223
a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous namesake Middle School.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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the only undrafted player to be named NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP, and the only undrafted quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. He was also the first quarterback to win a Super Bowl during his first season as the primary starter. Zachary Levi played him in 2021 film American Underdog.
Kurt Warner
225
former American football linebacker who played his entire 17-year career for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year and led the Ravens' record-setting defense, which established a 16-game single-season record for the fewest points allowed (165) and the fewest rushing yards allowed (970), to victory in Super Bowl XXXV. He also became the second linebacker to win the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award. Won 2 superbowl.
Ray Lewis
226
In the board game Clue(do), which character’s starting place is between the Study and Library?
Professor Plum
227
Which North American mammal has the most teeth?
Opossum
228
Which country music group, composed of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood, shortened its name in June 2020 during the George Floyd protests?
Lady Antebellum (now Lady A)
229
What Swedish magazine is owned by investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the Lisbeth Salander novels by Stieg Larsson?
Millenium
230
What historic Nashville venue was the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974?
Ryman Auditorium
231
The state songs of Maryland and Iowa both use the same melody as what German Christmas carol?
O Tannenbaum
232
Which small constellation shares its name with the second chamber in the alimentary canal of a ruminant animal?
Reticulum (Rumen > Reticulum > Omasum > Abomasum)
233
On the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, what organization did Capt. Scarlet work for?
Spectrum
234
What director of The Imitation Game was the first Norwegian nominated for a Best Director Oscar?
Morten Tyldum
235
He is best known in his native Norway for directing the thriller film Headhunters (2011), based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing the historical drama The Imitation Game (2014), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the science fiction drama Passengers (2016).
Morten Tyldum
236
What chemical element with atomic number 49 got its name from the blue line in its spectrum?
Indium
237
Wide receiver Stefon Diggs caught a touchdown pass from which Vikings quarterback in a 2018 playoff game-winning final play nicknamed the “Minneapolis Miracle”?
Case Keenum
238
Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley appeared with Elvis Presley in the movie Girl Happy and which other movie?
Harum Scarum
239
What nickname was shared by one of Sgt. Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos and the sheepdog sidekick of Touche Turtle?
Dum Dum
240
What American rock band recorded the platinum-selling albums Grave Dancers Union in 1992 and Let Your Dim Light Shine in 1995?
Soul Asylum
241
Cyclosporiasis is a disease caused by the infection of a parasite that affects which specific part of the body?
Jejunum
242
Which anatomical structure works as a trapdoor to close off the shell of some sea, freshwater, and land snails?
Operculum
243
Which product was invented in 1921 by Robert Fergusson, a sea captain, after he noticed that fish oil spilled on rusty metal decks stopped corrosion from spreading?
Rust-oleum
244
Radical feminist Valerie Solanas was the author of a 1967 manifesto that suggested the creation of an organization, known by which acronym, dedicated to eliminating the male sex?
SCUM
245
What thick band of nerve fibers connects the two hemispheres of the brain?
Corpus Callosum
246
Which type of currency got its name from a shortening from the Massachusett or Narragansett word meaning “white strings of shell beads”?
Wampum
247
Oskar Matzerath is the unreliable narrator of what 1959 novel by Gunter Grass?
The Tin Drum
248
Hermann Hesse book: Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of which main character, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish.
Joseph Knecht
249
What was the name of the ousted Supreme Chancellor played by Terence Stamp in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace?
Finis Valorum
250
Which director of 1987's Fatal Attraction directed the 2022 erotic thriller Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas? It is his first film since Unfaithful in 2002.
Adrian Lyne
251
What single word is found in the meteorological phrases for the bright light that occurs when a transformer explodes or a power line is snapped during a storm but perhaps more well known in the phrase for when a liquid rapidly dips below its freezing point?
FLASH (power flash, flash
freezing)
252
What artistic technique uses the drawing of closely spaced fine lines to create shading, with the density and spacing of lines creating variations from light to dark?
Hatching
253
What Saturday morning 1980s cartoon was created as an excuse for Mattel, partnering with Hallmark, to sell a lot of dolls of Starlite, Twink, the seven Color Kids, as well as the titular heroine?
Rainbow Brite
254
In 1973, 1983, and 2005, Ringo Starr, Def Leppard, and Nickelback, respectively, all had hit songs with what title?
Photograph
255
Franklin Resources, a global investment firm, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under what 3-letter symbol in homage to its namesake?
BEN
256
By what name is the Persian new year best known? It lands on the spring equinox and is celebrated throughout Central, Western, and South Asia as well as being a major holiday for the Persian diaspora worldwide.
Nowruz
257
Which Yale psychologist is remembered for his experiments about obedience and control, particularly a noted experiment instructing subjects to shock other humans?
Stanley Milgram
258
What writer and producer on The Office later created the sitcom Superstore that ran for six seasons, starring America Ferrera and Ben Feldman as employees at Cloud 9?
Justin Spitzer
259
What spring Jewish pilgrimage festival, with a date directly linked to Passover, has several biblical names including Feast of Weeks, Feast of Reaping, and Day of First Fruits?
Shavuot
260
Fat Bear Week is an annual event where the public is invited to vote on their favorite bulked up bears before they go into hibernation. These bears gain most of their weight from Brooks River in which National Park?
Katmai
261
What is the French-derived name for a bra without straps or underwires, also known as a tube bra, meant to wear under strapless tops and dresses?
Bandeau
262
The TV sitcom Cheers featured a "will-they-won't-they" pairing between Sam Malone and what graduate student turned waitress, who departed to finish her novel at the end of season 5? (First name acceptable.)
DIANE Chambers (played by Shelley Long)
263
A fish so nice, they named it twice. What is the scientific binomial name for the bogue, a small fish native to the eastern Atlantic?
Boops Boops
264
Based in Mexico City, what Liga MX team has the most championships, with 13 titles, in the premier Mexican football league?
Club America
265
What political cartoonist depicted Cecil Rhodes standing astride across Africa in 1892, creating one of the most recognizable images of the imperialist scramble for Africa?
Edward Linley SAMBOURNE
266
Which commentator was dismissed by Fox News in April 2023? His eponymous Tonight show ran from 2016 to 2023; since his departure he has hosted a show on Twitter/X.
Tucker Carlson
267
In Wiccan practice, what is the name of the black handled knife used in ceremonial rituals, like casting circles or divination? Its use was
codified and popularized by Gerald Gardner, a leading Wiccan practitioner of the 20th century.
Athame
268
What "L" word is given to the term for how light interacts with the surface of a rock, crystal, or mineral?
Luster
269
What women's rights advocate, also mother and namesake to a multi–Academy Award-winning actress, was the president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association in the 1910s, and in the 1920s, served on the board of directors of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League?
Katherine Hepburn
270
A bra that has cups that lift the breasts straight up has what architectural name? Note that a push-up bra pushes both up and together and a shelf bra generally lacks cups.
Balconette or Balcony
271
What national park consists of its namesake island, the fourth largest lake island in the world, as well as hundreds of smaller surrounding islands? It is also known for the unique single predator-single prey relationship between the resident wolves and moose?
Isle Royale National Park
272
In Liga MX, what city has two teams that were seeded 2nd and 3rd behind Club America in the 2023 Apertura tournament? Their nicknames are Los Rayados and Los Tigres.
Monterrey
273
Don Lemon was dismissed by what news channel in April 2023? He had been host of his eponymous Tonight show between 2014 and 2022 before becoming co-host of This Morning.
CNN
274
Be mature, children, as you tell me the name of which word, beginning with a "C", that describes a mineral or crystal's tendency to break or split along definite structural planes?
Cleavage
275
What political cartoonist was credited with coining the term "McCarthyism" in a 1950 cartoon?
Herbert Block
276
In Wiccan practice what is the word, from the Middle English meaning advice, that describes the basic tenet of core practice? A typical one is "An ye harm none, do what ye wilt."
Rede
277
Which Justin Spitzer sitcom was cancelled after two seasons? It follows employees at Payne Motors and stars Ana Gasteyer as a CEO who knows very little about the industry.
American Auto
278
What spring feast holiday celebrated by several branches of Christianity occurs at a similar time to Shavuot? It has a name stemming from the Greek term for Shavuot.
Pentecost
279
What 1980s cartoon was created as an excuse for Kenner Toys, partnering with American Greetings, to sell a lot of dolls of Apple Dumplin', Plum Puddin', the villainous Peculiar Purple Pie Man, as well as the titular heroine?
Strawberry Shortcake
280
What artistic technique, distinct from pointillism, uses the drawing and placement of dots to create shading, with the density and spacing of
dots creating variations from light to dark?
Stippling
281
The Avis Budget Group uses what very fitting 3-letter NASDAQ stock symbol?
CAR
282
In 1973, 1980, and 1981, Styx, Kenny Rogers, and The Commodores, respectively, all had hit songs with what title?
Lady
283
Which director's last American film, Hollow Man, was released in 2000? Since then he has worked primarily in Europe, releasing films such as Black Book and Benedetta.
Paul Verhoeven
284
Meteorologically speaking, what single word is found in the phrases regarding a ground-level fog-like cloud made of tiny ice crystals but perhaps more well known as a small, briefly-lived, mostly-nonthreatening whirlwind as what type of "devil" (though some regional
dialects use the word "dirt" in this phrase instead)?
Dust
285
What symbolically important seat of power was located in the Diwan-IKhas of the Red Fort of Delhi under the Mughals?
Peacock Throne
286
sometimes translated as the Rose Garden Palace from Persian language, was built in the 16th century, renovated in the 18th century and finally rebuilt in 1865. It is the former official royal Qajar complex in Tehran.
Golestan Palace
287
A light shade of what color is known as “Twin Bed” because its hexadecimal code is BEDBED?
Blue
288
A parody of Zorro, what onomatopoeic alter ego of Quick Draw McGraw was likely to smash an acoustic guitar over the heads of his foes?
El Kabong
289
The temple in Hanoi erected in 1076 and known as the Van Mieu or Temple of Literature. It was dedicated by the emperor Ly Thanh Tong to what famed individual of circa 500 BCE, locally known as Khong Giao?
KONGZI / KONG FUZI /
CONFUCIUS
290
A set of murals by Diego Rivera sometimes subtitled "Man and Machine" are in the namesake city's Institute of Art and called by what two-word title?
Detroit Industry
291
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games featured 3 X 3 (or 3-on-3), a variation on basketball? The US team took home gold for the women's event
but which European team won gold on the men's side?
Latvia
292
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to hold federal office in the United States, was elected to the House of Representatives from what state in
1916?
Montana
293
"If it weren't for me, you would never have amounted to very much" is one of many similar statements in which Alanis Morissette single of 2002, whose chorus asks us to "flash forward to a few years later"?
Hands Clean
294
What NHL head coach has won the most Stanley Cups? He led the Canadiens, Penguins, and Red Wings to 9 collective championships from 1973 to 2002?
Scotty Bowman
295
Though not spelled the same, the band Aerosmith is pretty much named after a novel about a doctor and scientist from Winnemac by what eminent American novelist?
Sinclair Lewis
296
Water bottles and fishing nets are among the recycled materials used by what leggings and activewear company headquartered in Seattle? Perhaps ironically given its name, it was founded by husband-and-wife duo Quang and Ellie Dinh.
Girlfriend Collective
297
For her portrayal of Oracene Price in the sports drama King Richard (2021), she was nominated for an Academy Award. Played Isabel Wilkerson in the 2023 film Origin directed by Ava DuVernay. Also in Blitz Bazawule's musical The Color Purple 2023.
Aunjanue Ellis
298
In 2018, he made his debut as a film director debut with The Burial of Kojo, 2020 musical The Colour Purple directed by him. Ghanaian director.
Blitz the Ambassador (Blitz Bazawule)
299
2022 biographical sports drama film directed by Akin Omotoso, from a script written by Arash Amel. Based on the true story of three young Nigerian-Greek brothers, Giannis, Thanasis and Kostas Antetokounmpo, who emigrate to the United States and rise to fame and success within the National Basketball Association.
Rise
300
Henry Kissinger was controversially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for the Paris Peace Accords along with what statesman and politician?
Le Duc THO [Lay-Duhk-Toh]
301
The world's leading producer of uranium is what country, whose mines include the Inkai Project and the Kharasan mine?
Kazakhstan
302
What straightforward collective name was given to Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love? They were a staple of 30 years' worth of Stax Records, appearing on songs such as "Let's Stay Together" and "Suspicious Minds."
The Memphis Horns
303
After the blockbuster success of the original "Genus" edition, Trivial Pursuit released three specialty editions in 1983 including what edition
focused on a particular age group?
Baby Boomer
304
The intersection of 9th and Passyunk is home to Pat's and Geno's, rival restaurants who serve what geographically named foodstuff?
Philly Cheesesteak
305
What phrase, also used for an undesirable bodily function, refers to a form of graffiti between a basic "tag" and a more formal "piece” in complexity? These are often the writer's name in bubble letters.
Throw Up/Throwie
306
Billy Joel's "My Life" served as the theme to what 1980s sitcom featuring ad men played by Peter Scolari and another actor at least 1,000 percent more famous than Peter Scolari?
Bosom Buddies
307
What membrane-bound, short hair-like structures, from the Latin for
eyelash, can act as a "cellular antenna" sensing chemicals, temperature, and touch, as well as can move substances along the outer surface of the cell?
Cilia
308
With "Las," what term beginning with P refers to a nine-day interval representing the months of Mary's pregnancy, celebrated especially in Mexico and Central America, including processionals of actors traveling to houses?
Las Posadas
309
In the early 2010s, widespread protests about what proposed oil pipeline resulted in back-and-forth permit delays and approvals by
presidential administrations, resulting in the current abandonment of the proposed line?
Keystone XL
310
Breaking Through is a memoir by what scientist, who co-won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Drew Weissman for their work on mRNA which laid the foundation for the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19?
Katalin Kariko
311
What sport that's popular throughout Southeast Asia plays like a cross between soccer and volleyball and is sometimes known as "kick volleyball"? Though it is not yet part of the Olympics, it is an official sport of the Asian games which is overseen by the IOC.
Sepak Takraw
312
Appropriately, what peninsula breaks off from Europe and sails around the Atlantic in The Stone Raft by Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago?
Iberian
313
Aerosmith's third album Toys in the Attic shares its title with a semiautobiographical play by what eminent American playwright? Her other works include The Children's Hour.
Lillian Hellman
314
Scotty Bowman's final Red Wings team was packed with Hall of Famers in search of a ring. What unorthodox Czech goaltender won
his first Stanley Cup with that squad? Nicknamed The Dominator.
Dominik HAŠEK
315
The saying "bottom of the ninth" originates from which sport?
Baseball (from the nine innings)
316
What British Columbia–based clothing company whose website includes "shop now to plant" and "Our Forest" buttons specifically engages in reforestation projects for every item bought?
Tentree
317
The M62 is an English motorway connecting Hull to what northwestern city?
Liverpool
318
Which Ice Cube's track was an aggressive diss track about NWA of which he was formerly a member?
No Vaseline
319
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games featured events in Kata and Kumite for what sport?
Karate
320
A parody of every superhero ever, what alter ego of Doug Funnie in Doug wears his underwear outside his pants and a belt around his head, somewhat inexplicably?
Quailman
321
The lyrics to "Hands Clean" contain the title of what 2002 entirely self-produced and self-written Alanis Morissette album? It finished the question "What part of our history's reinvented and..."?
Under Rug Swept
322
The Quan Thanh Temple in Hanoi is dedicated to Tran Vu, known in China as Xuan Wu. He is venerated in what ancient Chinese religious tradition whose well-known texts include the Zhuangzi among others?
Taoism
323
The fresco Man at the Crossroads was painted by Diego Rivera and removed because it featured some positive depictions of labor activism, and a picture of Lenin inserted once some folks objected. What New York skyscraper's lobby did it decorate until 1934? The old or current name are acceptable.
RCA Building / 30 Rock
324
A Shih Tzu named Rocket won the Toy group at the 2015 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. What publishing heiress once abducted by—and then sympathetic to—the SLA is that dog's owner?
Patty Hearst
325
Nellie Ross, the first woman to be elected governor of a state in the United States, took office in January 1925 as the governor of what state?
Wyoming
326
Christmas Eve is typically known by what compound word in Spanish? Mexican traditions include midnight mass and tamales.
Nochebuena
327
In 2023, what European capital voted to close its city-center cruise port due to environmental and crowding reasons? The port is currently a walkable couple of kilometers from the Grachtengordel district.
Amsterdam
328
One of Jose Saramago's most famous novels is The Gospel According to what figure, central to all Gospels?
Jesus Christ
329
In 2016 and 2017, protests centered on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation opposed the construction of what pipeline intended to transport crude oil from the Bakken formation? It has been in operation since April 2017.
Dakota Access
330
What is the traditional Filipino dance performed with dancers jumping rhythmically and athletically between long bamboo poles? This has recently gained in popularity in the US through school programs and competitions.
Tinikling
331
The Code Breaker is a biography of what scientist, who co-won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for the development of the gene editing method CRISPR?
Jennifer Doudna
332
Australia and what African country are the leading southernhemisphere producers of uranium? The Rossing and Trekkopje
deposits are major sources.
Namibia
333
What membrane-bound, long thread-like structures, from the Latin for whip, provides motility to a variety of cell types?
Flagella
334
Another specialty version of Trivial Pursuit released in 1983 was focused on movies and film and was called what?
Silver Screen
335
Traditionally graduates of a school now combined with the Helen Keller Institute, what long-standing gospel group with rotating members received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009?
Blind Boys of Alabama
336
Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" served as the theme to what 1990s sitcom featuring Shadoe Stevens and Meshach Taylor as friends of
Harry Anderson's title character, a Miami journalist?
Dave's World
337
Intricate and complex graffiti pieces - especially those difficult to read because the letters are so stylized as to be unfamiliar to those not in
the know - are referred to by as what type of "style"? It is named in reference specifically to Tracy 168's graffiti crew of the 1970s and also
names a character voiced by Elizabeth Banks in some 2010s animated films.
WILDstyle
338
In the movie Office Space, the waitress Joanna is criticized for wearing too few buttons and other paraphernalia, called “pieces of” what?
Flair
339
What name is given to the two 6th
-century monumental statues – a UNESCO World
Heritage Site - that were carved into the namesake valley in central Afghanistan that
served as a holy site for Buddhists on the Silk Road? The statues were controversially
destroyed in 2001 after the Taliban government declared that they were idols.
Buddhas of Bamiyan
340
Traders called kāpmon from which ethnic group prospered in part due to the unusual
absence of feudalism or serfdom, which is often referred to as this group's namesake
"freedom"? In historical linguistics, this group's language is the closest relative of Old
English in the Germanic family.
Frisians
341
In computing, ‘garbage collection’ is a method of automatically managing which
resource?
Memory
342
Sometimes known as ‘locations’ or lokasies in Afrikaans, what English word is more
commonly used for the racially segregated settlements and urban areas, commonly
found at the edges of cities, in Apartheid-era South Africa? Reserved for non-white
citizens, they should not be confused with the territories known as Bantustans.
Townships
343
Which family of cysteine proteases are central to initiating and carrying out apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death? A cascade of these enzymes results in the breakdown of cytoskeletal proteins and the inhibition of enzymes involved in DNA repair.
Caspase
344
Which shrine in Tokyo, constructed in 1869, is both a cemetery for military personnel and a site of ceremonies honouring ancestors? After World War II, it became controversial as the dead commemorated here include convicted war criminals.
Yasukuni
345
Like Hamburg, which German trading city on the Weser River is still officially known as a "Free Hanseatic City" because of its critical importance in the Hanseatic League? A church official from this city named Adam wrote the oldest record of Viking voyages to North America.
Bremen
346
What large body of water forms the western border of the northern parts of Quebec?
This body of water also borders the provences of Ontario and Manitoba, as well as the
territory of Nunavut.
Hudson's Bay
347
What township was the site of a 1960 massacre, in which the South African Police opened fire on a crowd protesting the racist "pass laws"? Nelson Mandela was detained during the state of emergency declared by the government after this event and the wave of riots and strikes that followed from the black community.
Sharpeville Massacre
348
‘The Trolley Problem’ was given its name by which American moral philosopher who is
also well-known for her 1971 paper 'A Defence of Abortion'?
Judith Jarvis Thomson
349
Which Ancient Egyptian creator god, who was to be fused with the Sun god Ra, became the official god of the pharaohs during the Eighteenth Dynasty? The city of Thebes was particularly rich in temples to this god.
Amun
350
In which 1987 American novel is a patchwork quilt used as a symbolic thread to
connect the novel's fragmented narrative? The quilt was begun by Baby Suggs and
reworked and finished by Sethe and the title character.
Beloved
351
Matthew Rhys plays Perry Mason in reboot, written by which author?
Erle Stanley Gardner
352
Shelter is the first novel of which spin-off series by Harlan Coben named after the nephew of the main series?
Mickey Bolitar (nephew of Myron Bolitar)
353
The widespread criticism from the international community following the Sharpeville massacre was used by which politician - then the South African Prime Minister - to continue pushing for South Africa to become a republic? He is sometimes known as the "architect of Apartheid" for his work creating the various Apartheid policies.
Hendrik Verwoerd
354
QUESTION ONE
A type of error that garbage collection can help to avoid involves “dangling” types of
what specific object? These objects are memory addresses used to access data.
Pointer
355
QUESTION TWO
Caspase 9 is activated by the release of which specific haem-containing protein from the inner membrane of the mitochondria? This protein has an important function in the electron transport chain.
Cytochrome C
356
The 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames tells the story of a young woman who begins work in the titular department store, in which the owner gathers up a huge collection of textiles to intoxicate the senses of his customers. Sensuous descriptions of silks and woollens aim to also intoxicate the reader in this novel, the eleventh book in which author's Rougon-Macquart series?
Emile Zola
357
Who wrote novel The United States of Banana? Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011).
Giannini Braschi
358
Late medieval maritime trade law was governed by the Llibre del Consolat de Mar (Book of the Consulate of the Sea), a text originating in what kingdom? This kingdom dominated trade in the Western Mediterranean after its conquest of Mallorca in the 13th century.
Aragon
359
In 'A Defence of Abortion', Judith Jarvis Thomson creates a thought experiment that asks the reader to imagine waking up connected to another person, who happens to be famous, in such a way that that person would die if he were to be disconnected. The famous person in this thought experiment is referred to by what name after the field in which he is said to have achieved his fame?
Violinist
360
QUESTION ONE
Who is the namesake of the river which runs from the Great Lakes, through southern
Quebec, toward the Atlantic Ocean? This man, also the namesake of a gulf which feeds
between the river and the Atlantic Ocean, is the patron saint of librarians, comedians,
and miners, among others.
St Lawrence
361
Which Australian moral philosopher responded to Thomson's 'A Defence of Abortion' by arguing that utilitarian calculus implies that we are morally obliged to stay connected to the violinist? This man is best-known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, in which he argues the case for vegetarianism.
Peter Singer
362
Which politician and general of the Golden Age of Athens, who led the city into the Peloponnesian War, ordered the construction of the Parthenon?
Pericles
363
Which 11-century Khmer temple sparked off a border dispute between Cambodia and
Thailand in 2008, after the latter protested Cambodia's attempt to register the temple
as a UNESCO World Heritage Site without its agreement? In 2011, the International
Court of Justice awarded the promontory of the temple to Cambodia, while the 2008
listing as a World Heritage Site remains.
Preah Vihear
364
Which Hindu king of the gods, often depicted on his white elephant mount, Airavata, killed the evil Vritra using a thunderbolt weapon known as the Vajra?
Indra
365
Apoptosis may also be initiated by the Fas signal pathway. The signal molecule in that
pathway, the Fas ligand, is expressed on natural killer cells and which other form of
lymphocyte, which target cancer cells and cells infected by viruses or bacteria? These
cells are marked by the presence of the glycoprotein CD8 on their surface.
Cytotoxic T
366
When pointers do not correspond to a valid location in memory, for example due to dangling pointers, what type of fault may occur? Its name refers to the divisions enforced by memory protection.
Segmentation Fault
367
One implementation technique for garbage collection “counts” what specific abstract
datatype? Similar to a pointer, this datatype enables a program to access data in
memory.
Reference
368
Following the Permian, which was the first period of the Mesozoic Era?
Triassic
369
An important set of annual trade fairs were held in which historical region of France under the auspices of counts who ruled from the city of Troyes? Among the products traded there was Brie cheese, named after a city within this historical region.
Champagne
370
Verwoerd's assassination in September 1966 led to John Vorster, who also supported Apartheid, becoming Prime Minister of South Africa. Vorster had previously been the Minister of Justice who oversaw what trial, in which members of the ANC, including Nelson Mandela, were tried and sentenced to life imprisonment? The trial was named after a suburb of Johannesburg where the defendants were arrested.
Rivonia Trial
371
Haydn also helped develop a musical structure consisting of an exposition, development, and recapitulation. This structure, commonly used in the first movement of symphonies and string quartets, takes its name from what form of composition for a solo instrument?
Sonata
372
Cytotoxic T cells can also induce the caspase cascade by releasing granzymes and perforin into the target cell. Granzymes belong to a class of proteases named after which amino acid with a hydroxy-methyl sidechain? Trypsin, chymotrypsin, and thrombin also belong to that group of proteases.
Serine
373
A dispute over which 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh first started in
1858 and came to a head in December 1992 when Hindu nationalist groups demolished
the site? In 2019, the Indian Supreme Court handed down a historic verdict, awarding
the disputed site to a trust to build a temple for Lord Rama, while an alternative plot of
land was offered to the Sunnis to construct a mosque.
Babri Masjid
374
What name is given to a chemical compound that has the same molecular formula as
another but has different chemical or physical properties because its atoms are
arranged in a different structure? One example is glucose and fructose.
Isomer
375
What given name and surname is shared by the influential Peruvian economist who
introduced the idea of 'dead capital', and a Spanish conquistador regarded as the first
European to cross the Mississippi River? Please give a full name as your answer.
Hernando de Soto
376
Which region of South America takes its name from a legendary race of bigfooted
giants? The crew of the Magellan expedition claimed to have seen such people in 1520.
Patagonia
377
Literally meaning ‘to be pure’, what term of Arabic origin is used in Sikhism to refer to
the collective body of all baptized members of the religion?
Khalsa
378
Earth's Creation is a painting by which artist from the Aboriginal Utopia community in
Australia's Northern Territory?
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
379
The unfortunate central character of which 20th century novella dies after an apple thrown by his father becomes lodged in his back and festers there?
The Metamorphosis or Die Verwandlung
380
The first verse of the Italian national anthem (Il Canto degli Italiani) mentions the
helmet of which Roman general, who was victorious at the Battle of Zama?
Scipio
381
Which military officer led the 1952 Egyptian revolution with Muhammad Naguib and
went on to serve as president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
382
Which large lake – that lies to the north of Lake Tanganyika on the border of Rwanda
and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – contains 65 cubic kilometres of methane
and 256 cubic kilometres of carbon dioxide which could erupt during a volcanic or
seismic event?
Lake Kivu
383
South African singer and musician who was the founder and musical director of the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Joseph Shabalala
384
Dating from around 1400, the Khitrovo Gospels contains eight pages of miniatures, including an angel attributed to which Russian artist, who is known for his icons and frescoes for the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow and Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir?
Andrei Rublev
385
In organic chemistry, which chemical reaction occurs between two alkene compounds
known as a diene and dienophile, and produces a six-membered ring? Named after 1950 Chemistry Nobel duo.
Diels-Alder Reaction
386
Many of the twenty-four official languages of the European Union have their own
unique characters not shared by any of the other official languages. The alphabet of
which official language of the EU uses Ț [T-comma] as its 25th letter? Ț represents a
voiceless alveolar affricate.
Romanian
387
Which lake on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
gives its name to the western branch of the East African rift valley? After exiting Lake
Victoria, the White Nile flows through Lake Kyoga and this lake.
Lake Albert
388
Which French puppet character was developed by Laurent Mourguet in the early 19th
century? The name of this puppet follows ‘grand’ to give the name of a Parisian theatre
that has become synonymous with graphic naturalistic depictions of horror, violence
and gore.
Guignol
389
The Diels–Alder reaction belongs to which general class of reaction? These reactions
can be notated using square brackets to indicate the number of electrons involved in the formation of a product, with Diels–Alder being described as [4+2].
Cycloaddition
390
What is the most populous province in China and the second most populous national
subdivision in the world? It is the site of the Pearl River delta and the cities of Shenzhen
and Dongguan.
Guangdong
391
The Cisterns of Tawila form a rain storage system that protects the city of Aden, Yemen from periodic flooding. The earliest tanks may have been built by which pre-Islamic kingdom? This kingdom conquered the Sabaeans in around 280 CE to control most of the Yemeni highlands until its defeat to the Aksumites in 525 CE.
HIMYARite Kingdom
392
So named because performances can last several hours, the ‘long song’ is a singing
tradition in the culture of which Asian country? Other important features of this country’s music a type of fiddle called the morin khuur.
Mongolia
393
As a stereoselective reaction, the Diels–Alder reaction will typically preferentially generate products based on what transition state? This preference is known as the Alder (BLANK) rule.
Endo Transition State
394
Some scholars believe that Hildegaard von Bingen illustrated which manuscript, in
which she described 26 religious visions she had experienced, although it is more likely
that she supervised the illustration?
Scivias
395
One of the world’s oldest dams still in use, the Kallanai dam crosses the Kaveri River in Tamil Nadu. It was built on the orders of Karikala, an early king of which dynasty? This Tamil dynasty ruled much of southern India and established a maritime empire that was at its most powerful in the 9th century CE.
Chola Dynasty
396
Ź [Z with acute], or ziet, is the unique 31st letter in which official language of the European Union? Ź represents the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative. Ź also appears in Romanised Montenegrin, which is not (yet) an official language of the EU.
Polish
397
The Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II was inspired by the works of Voltaire, Diderot and
Rousseau and is often considered one of the three great monarchs of the Enlightenment along with Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. He was the son of which empress, the only woman to rule the Habsburg dominions in her own right?
Maria Theresa
398
Typically depicting dramatic scenes from Hindu epics, wayang is a form of shadow puppet theatre that originated on which island? Wayang is often accompanied by a gamelan orchestra, or by a duo called gender wayang in nearby Bali.
Java
399
Mount Kinabalu is home to the largest species of which group of carnivorous plants, the only plants known to have caught mammalian prey? Other species in this group are found from Madagascar to New Caledonia, and their common name is also used for unrelated North American species in the genus Sarracenia.
pitcher plants (or Nepenthes, Nepenthaceae; accept pitfall traps)
400
Which major city appears in the title of a 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin that centres on a
convicted murderer named Franz Biberkopf? In most languages, the title of Hans
Fallada’s novel Jeder stirbt für sich allein (Every Man Dies Alone*) contains this city.
Berlin (Berlin Alexanderplatz)
401
Õ [O with tilde] is the unique 27th letter of the alphabet in which official language of
the European Union? This character, which represents an unrounded back vowel, also
appears in Portuguese, but is not considered a standalone letter in that language.
Estonian
402
Which lake – part of the Kenyan Rift Valley on the border between Kenya and Ethiopia
– is the world’s largest permanent desert lake and the largest salt lake in Africa? Its
Central Island is an active volcano, and it is home to the world’s largest population of
Nile crocodiles.
Lake Turkana
403
The largest irrigation canals in pre-contact North America were built between the Salt and Gila rivers by which culture? This culture was centred in modern-day Arizona from the 1st to 15th centuries CE, and some of their canal systems have been rebuilt to supply the city of Phoenix
Hohokam
404
Triumphzug (Triumphal Procession) is a series of woodblock prints honouring Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I that is sometimes considered an illuminated manuscript,
although it was intended to be displayed as a 54-metre-long frieze in the great halls of the Empire. It includes work by several artists, including what painter of Alexanderschlacht (The Battle of Alexander at Issus)?
Albrecht Altdorfer
405
so-polyphony is a type of unaccompanied multipart singing traditional to which
European country? Folk music of the Ghegs in the north of this country often focuses
on national heroes such as Skanderbeg.
Albania
406
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is a famous book of hours in the International
Gothic style. What was the surname of the three brothers who created it?
Limbourg Brothers
407
Among the official languages of the European Union, the grapheme Ř [R with caron] is
unique to which language, of which it is the 28th letter? It denotes a raised alveolar
non-sonorant trill.
Czech
408
In the Diels–Alder reaction, two pi-electrons of each reactant are combined to form two of which type of covalent bond?
Sigma Bond
409
Bunraku is a form of Japanese puppetry closely related to what form of theatre, which developed from the traditions of bunraku and noh? The playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon, who is known for writing in this genre, also helped to popularise bunraku.
Kabuki
410
Which lake in the Gregory Rift in northern Tanzania is the only breeding site of lesser
flamingos? Carbonate rich lava has fed this lake, resulting in its waters becoming a caustic, alkaline brine.
Natron
411
Naming and Necessity is a book consisting of the transcript of three lectures by which
American philosopher?
Saul Kripke
412
Which French mathematician introduced the theory of schemes in his work Éléments de géométrie algébrique (Elements of Algebraic Geometry), which was published between 1960 and 1967 and laid the foundation for modern algebraic geometry?
Alexandre Grothendieck
413
QUESTION THREE
In the rainy season, what lake# can cover around 10% of the land area of
Cambodia in Southeast Asia?
Tonlé Sap
414
Which composer wrote 39 operas between the ages of 18 and 37, before retiring from
the genre and not composing another in the remaining 40 years of his life? However,
he did write choral works such as the Petite Messe Solennelle.
Gioacchino Rossini
415
The figure of Liberty in Eugène Delacroix’s Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the
People) is also imterpreted as which figure, the national personification of France since
the Revolution?
Marianne
416
In plant and animal cells, what large membrane-bound organelle contains all the organism's genetic material organised into chromosomes?
Nucleus
417
In mathematics, what term is used to describe a complex function that is differentiable in a neighbourhood at every point in a complex domain? An important result in complex analysis is that this type of function is a complex analytic function and vice versa.
Holomorphic Function
418
Around 60% of the Earth's crust is made of minerals in what general group of rockforming aluminium tectosilicates? The most common types of this mineral are the plagioclase, or sodium-calcium, and the alkali, or potassium-sodium.
Feldspar
419
Particularly influential in the development of French drama, the 19 BCE poem Ars
Poetica contains advice to writers on the construction of poetry. Containing phrases
that have passed into wider usage, such as in media res and ab ovo, the poem was
written by which Roman author?
Horace
420
Prior to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Japan had been in a period of economic stagnation since a real estate bubble collapsed in 1991. That period of stagnation is known by what name, even though many argue that the period persisted well past 2001?
Lost Decade
421
Agrippina Vaganova was an influential ballet teacher whose pupils include Marina Semyonova and Galina Ulanova. She developed techniques that she had learned under which dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue who served as the Ballet Master of the Imperial Ballet from 1871 until 1903 and who choreographed works such as Don Quixote and La Bayadère?
Marius Petipa
422
For a holomorphic function, what name is given to a non-removable singularity at which the function is not defined? It is equivalent to a zero of the inverse of the holomorphic function and it is typically denoted with a letter z subscript 0 (z0).
Pole
423
The formation of what type of triangular landform due to the deposition of sediments
by the Paraná River appears in the name of a National Park in Argentina’s Mesopotamia region?
Delta (or Predelta)
424
In Plato's Republic talks of which historic King of Lydia's invisibility ring?
Gyges
425
The boundary between the crust and the mantle of the Earth is named after which Croatian scientist, considered a pioneer of seismology? The boundary is officially known as this man's eponymous discontinuity but is commonly referred to by just the first four letters of his surname, which you may also give as your answer.
Andrija Mohorovičić or Moho
426
Ars Poetica in French is Art Poétique, the title of a poem that begins "De la musique
avant tout chose" (“from music before all else”) by what French poet associated with
the decadent and symbolist movements, whose poem ‘Clair de lune’ inspired music by
Debussy and others?
Paul Verlaine
427
Existing periodically until 1492, the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula first conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate in 711 CE gives its name to one of modern Spain's autonomous communities. Give EITHER the Arabic name for this historical region OR the modern autonomous community with a name derived from it.
Andalusia
428
For a Laurent series expansion of a holomorphic function about a pole, the constant
coefficient of the expansion term is given what name? Denoted by "Res", a theorem
named after this specific type of complex number is a method for evaluating a line
integral over a closed curve, such as to integrate around a pole.
Residue
429
Belonging to the Chadic branch of the Afroasiatic family, which language is the most widely spoken in Niger? It is also one of the three national languages of Nigeria, along with Yoruba and Igbo [ee-bo] and has speakers from the Ivory Coast to Chad.
Hausa
430
Enrico Cecchetti developed a namesake method of ballet training which he used to instruct pupils such as Anna Pavlova and George Balanchine. As a dancer, Cecchetti had starred as the evil Carabosse in Marius Petipa's famous choreography of which Tchaikovsky ballet?
Sleeping Beauty
431
The Royal Academy of Dance's method drew together French, Italian, Danish, and Russian techniques of its founders. The Russian founder was Tamara Karsavina, who was the first ballerina to perform the famous pas de deux from which ballet that was loosely based on a work by Lord Byron and uses music from Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, and Léo Delibes among others?
Le Corsaire
432
The Moho discontinuity typically lies within the lithosphere, except under mid-ocean ridges, where it forms the boundary between the lithosphere and what mechanically weak region of the Earth’s upper mantle? Although still made from solid rock, the extreme pressure and heat means the rocks here flow in a similar manner to liquids.
Asthenosphere
433
What is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea and the official language of the northernmost region of Ethiopia? Like Amharic, this is a Semitic language that uses the Ge'ez script and it should not be confused with a similarly named language spoken primarily in western Eritrea and eastern Sudan.
Tigrinya
434
At which battle of October 732 CE was Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, governor of alAndalus, killed in combat? His Umayyad army withdrew from Gaul following this defeat to the Frankish and Aquitanian forces and historians credit this battle with preventing the further spread of the Caliphate across Western Europe.
Battle of Tours or Battle of Poitiers or Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs
435
Alexei Ivanovich is the title character of which 1867 Fyodor Dostoevsky novella?
The Gambler
436
Said to have reigned from around 660 BCE to 585 BCE, which mythical founder of Japan is held to have been the country’s first Emperor in both the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki?
Jimmu
437
Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, various Toltec and Chichimeca city-states, including
Xoloc and Tlacopan, appeared around this lake. Now a completely dry basin, what was
the name of this former natural lake within the Valley of Mexico?
Lake Texcoco
438
Nicknamed the ‘Raphael of flowers’ he was an official court artist of Marie Antoinette, official artist of Empress Josephine, and personal tutor to Marie-Louise of Austria. Which Belgian painter is known for his watercolours of roses, lilies, and other flowers at Malmaison?
Pierre-Joseph Redoute
439
Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, and Samar are the major islands of which archipelago, one of the three major regions of the Philippines along with Luzon and Mindanao?
Visayas/Visayan Islands
440
Which Austrian psychologist and founder of the school of individual psychology is best
known for his pioneering work developing the inferiority complex?
Alfred Adler
441
The asthenosphere is composed mainly of what igneous rock, which itself consists
mostly of olivine and pyroxene? The name of this rock is taken from a yellow-green
gemstone, a variety of olivine, to whose name the letters ‘ite’ are added to give the
name of this rock.
Peridotite
442
Who was the Duke and Prince of the Franks who, along with his Aquitanian counterpart, Odo the Great, led the Christian forces to victory over the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Tours? This man's son, Pepin, became the first king of the
Carolingian dynasty and his grandson, Charlemagne, was declared Emperor by Pope
Leo III in 800 CE.
Charles Martel
443
Named after a type of directed, closed curve in the complex plane, which general mathematical method is used for evaluating integrals along a general path in a complex plane? This technique can be used to integrate around a pole using Cauchy’s integral theorem.
Contour Integration
444
"I too, dislike it" is how this American modernist began her poem ‘Poetry’. She wrote essays and reviews, and edited Dial literary magazine, and often wrote nature-inspired poems like ‘The Pangolin’ and ‘An Octopus’. Which poet?
Marianne Moore
445
Used by over 80% of the population, what is the most widely spoken language of Zimbabwe? Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore, and Karanga are dialects of this Bantu language, which also has speakers in Mozambique and Botswana.
Shona
446
The 1997 Asian financial crisis caused severe economic instability in Indonesia, leading
to riots that prompted the resignation of which long-serving dictator? This leader also
ordered Indonesia's occupation of East Timor.
Suharto (do not accept or prompt on Sukarno)
447
In Republic, Plato likens the governance of a city-state to the command of what sort of object? Plato argues that an ideal city-state can only be ruled properly by a philosopher-king, just as this object can be commanded only by a relevantly qualified person.
Ship
448
The absurdist play Chēzhàn (Bus Stop) and the novel Língshān (Soul Mountain) are among the best-known works of which Chinese Nobel Prize-winning author? Now a French citizen, he is also noted for translating Beckett and Ionesco from French into his native Chinese.
GAO Xingjian
449
The Australian Securities Exchange, the country's main stock exchange company, is based in which city?
Sydney
450
In criminology, what theory suggests that individuals mainly develop criminal behaviour due to a gap between society’s expectations and their own ability to meet them? This theory was formulated by Robert K. Merton, who developed an earlier idea by Émile Durkheim.
General Strain Theory (anomie theory)
451
The French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne is perhaps best known for
popularising which specific genre of non-fiction, with Montaigne’s collected works
typically being published under the name of this genre? In 2016, the website Book Riot
published its list of the ‘100 Must-Read’ collections of this genre and, alongside
Montaigne’s collected works, they selected two works by David Foster Wallace:
Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
Essays
452
Allegedly living to 110 years old, Allauddin Khan was an Indian musician and teacher whose pupils included Ravi Shankar and V. G. Jog. He and his son Ali Akbar Khan (pictured) both played which stringed instrument, one of the main melodic instruments in Hindustani classical music with the sitar? This instrument has a smoothfretless fingerboard to allow for meend or slides.
Sarod
453
2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, loosely based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis. the film centers on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife as they strive to build a dream life next to the concentration camp It stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller in the lead roles.
The Zone of Interest
454
2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the film follows a frustrated novelist-professor who jokingly writes an outlandishly stereotypical "black" book out of spite, only for the book to be published and receive widespread fame and acclaim.
American Fiction
455
2023 American drama film directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, it stars Natalie Portman as an actress who travels to meet and study the life of the controversial woman (Julianne Moore) she is set to play in a film—a woman infamous for the 23-year-long relationship with her husband (Charles Melton) which began when he was 13 years old.
May December
456
2022 Japanese animated film. The film follows 17-year-old high school girl ______ Iwato and young stranger Souta Munakata, who team up to prevent a series of disasters across Japan by sealing doors from the colossal, supernatural worm that causes earthquakes after being released. It was inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Suzume
457
He directed the 2007 horror film The Orphanage, the 2012 drama film The Impossible, and the 2016 fantasy drama film A Monster Calls. In 2018, he directed the science fiction adventure film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth installment of the Jurassic Park film series. His most recent film is Society of the Snow. First two episodes of the Rings of Power.
J A Bayona
458
2023 survival thriller film directed by J. A. Bayona, centered around the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster
Society of the Snow
459
2023 British romantic fantasy film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. It is the second feature adaptation of the novel, after the Japanese film The Discarnates (1988). The film stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy.
All of Us Strangers
460
Who plays Priscilla Presley in 2023 Priscilla by Sofia Coppola?
Cailee Spaeny
461
2023 American black comedy fantasy film written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli. Cage plays Paul Matthews, a mild-mannered biology professor who begins appearing in the dreams of others.
Dream Scenario
462
2023 Finnish-German romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. It is Kaurismäki's 20th full-length film and a continuation of his Proletariat series, which was originally planned as a trilogy and already includes Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988), and The Match Factory Girl (1990).
Fallen Leaves
463
American actress and television writer. She has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear since 2022, for which she won a Golden Globe Award.
Ayo Edebiri
464
American adult animated coming-of-age sitcom created by Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett for Netflix. The series centers on students based on Kroll and Goldberg's upbringing in suburban New York, with Kroll voicing his fictionalized younger self.
Big Mouth
465
American reality hoax sitcom television series created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, about a fake jury trial. It stars Ronald Gladden as a juror who is unaware of the hoax. James Marsden co-stars alongside an ensemble cast.
Jury Duty
466
American historical romance political thriller television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon. Starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, it centers on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s.
Fellow Travelers
467
American comedy-drama television series created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel and Brett Goldstein. The series stars Segel as a grieving therapist who decides to become drastically more involved in his patients' lives. Harrison Ford stars.
Shrinking
468
American Western television miniseries created by Chad Feehan, David Oyelowo stars as the title character A federal peace officer of the "Indian Territory" based in Fort Smith, Arkansas, who captured over 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
469
American satirical political drama television miniseries. The series stars Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domhnall Gleeson, Kiernan Shipka, and Lena Headey and it premiered on HBO on May 1, 2023.
White House Plumbers
470
According to Jewish religious tradition, the Torah contains 613 commandments that
are also known by what Hebrew name? These are split into negatives, of which there
are 365, and positives, of which there are 248.
mitzvah (or mitzvot, the plural)
471
Which Canadian author is one of three people to have short stories mentioned
specifically in their Nobel Prize citation, along with Gabriel García Márquez and Paul
von Heyse? Her short story collections include Dance of the Happy Shades, The Moons of
Jupiter, and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
Alice Munro
472
A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas. He was awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Paul Heyse
473
Milton Obote was the second prime minister of which African country?
Uganda
474
The atomic nucleus was discovered in an experiment in which a beam of alpha particles
was scattered by a thin metal foil. This experiment was performed by two students of
Ernest Rutherford: Ernest Marsden and which other? This man also names a sensing
instrument along with Walther Müller
Hans Geiger
475
Author and explorer Dan Buettner coined the term Blue Zone to refer to five areas
with very high life expectancies. One of the Blue Zones is Okinawa, the
largest of which Islands?
the Ryukyu Islands
476
In criminology, what theory suggests that individuals mainly develop criminal
behaviour because others identify them or people like them as criminals, prompting
them to behave in accordance? Howard Becker promoted this theory in his book
Outsiders.
labelling theory or social reaction theory
477
What was the name given to child chimney sweeps in the 19th and early 20th centuries
in Italy and Switzerland who were employed in which job? Small slim boys were
favoured for this work as it involves negotiating very narrow spaces, and children
employed in this work would shout “___________!” upon completing their task to
prove they had reached the highest point.
Spazzacamini
478
Allauddin Khan studied in Ranpur under Wazir Khan, who played which stringed
instrument, the ancestor of the sitar? One form of this instrument is named after the
goddess Saraswati, and another, the rudra, was played by Asad Ali Khan (pictured).
Veena
479
The 613 mitzvot are widely discussed in the body of Jewish religious law known by what name? In Jewish theology, this term is sometimes compared with aggadah, the body of philosophical, mystical and critical texts.
Halakha
480
Forming part of the Ring of Fire, which peninsula in Russia’s far east is the site of 160 volcanoes, including Koryaksky and Avachinsky, which are listed together as a Decade Volcano?
Kamchatka
481
Allauddin Khan’s disciple Pannalal Ghosh is credited with popularising what kind of
flute as a concert instrument in Hindustani classical music? This bamboo flute is related
to the venu, which is used in Carnatic music in south India.
Bansuri
482
Which 19th-century author is often regarded as the greatest French short story writer
for his works such as ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘La Parure’ (‘The Necklace’) and ‘Le Horla’ (‘The
Horla’)?
Guy de Maupassant
483
What physical feature has been lost in at least 20 different groups of lizards, including
Anguidae and the Amphisbaenians? Losing these features may enable lizards to move
underground or through water more easily.
Legs
484
In criminology, what theory suggests that individuals mainly develop criminal
behaviour by observing others do the same? This theory was formulated in psychology
by Albert Bandura, who illustrated it with the ‘Bobo Doll’ experiment, and advanced by
Julian Rotter.
Social Learning theory
485
Roman baths were typically built around three rooms: the frigidarium, which contained
a cold plunge bath; the caldarium, which was heated by a hypocaust and included a hot
plunge bath; and what third room, kept at a medium heat to ensure a bather’s
transition between temperatures was steady rather than sudden?
Tepidarium
486
Certain bacteria in the dental plaque metabolise sugars and produce an acid that causes tooth enamel and dentine to demineralise. What is the medical name for this condition, also called progressive tooth decay or cavities?
Caries
487
What feature has arisen independently in different groups of marsupials including
American opossums, Australasian possums and koalas? This feature is also present in
apes and Old World monkeys and helps with climbing and precision grips.
Opposable Thumbs
488
In criminology, what theory suggests that individuals develop criminal behaviour
because their expected utility from crime is positive? This theory with a two-word
name assumes subjects are ‘Homo economicus’ and was applied to crime by economist
Gary Becker
Rational Choice Theory
489
Hotzaah, or moving objects between private and public domains, is prohibited on the Sabbath; what name is used for a ritual enclosure created within the halakha to allow for hotzaah? This is accomplished by designating a larger area containing both private and public domains as a single private domain.
Eruv
490
Developing from the Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture in the late 15th century,
what style of architecture is named after the ruling royal house at the time of its
growth in England?
Tudor
491
Allauddin Khan’s daughter Annapurna Devi is regarded as one of the great performers
of which instrument, also known as the bass sitar? Devi rarely performed in the last 60
years of her life, instead focussing on teaching pupils such as the sitar virtuoso Nikhil
Bannerjee.
Surbahar
492
In which quantum phenomenon does a particle travel through a classically forbidden
potential energy barrier? George Gamow [gam-off] used this process to explain the
mechanism of alpha decay.
Quantum Tunnelling
493
In Islam, what is the name for the ritual practice of cleaning oneself? It comprises four
mandatory acts: washing the face, the arms, the head and the feet in that order.
Wudu
494
What name is used for a pocket of pus built up under the skin? Normally caused by
bacterial infections, in the mouth they often occur due to infections in the pulp of a
broken tooth.
Abscess
495
prominent British surgeon, and an expert in anatomy. He was renowned for his surgical treatment of appendicitis, and is credited with saving the life of King Edward VII in 1902. He is also widely known for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, dubbed the "Elephant Man" for his severe deformities.
Frederick Treves
496
What word is used in Jewish law for a document that enables a couple to divorce? The
halakha does not mandate that the wife consent to the divorce, although Ashkenazi
tradition states husbands may not divorce their wives non-consensually.
get (or gittin, the plural)
497
Which mountain in China’s Sichuan province is the world’s third highest outside the
Himalaya-Karakorum range, behind Tirich Mir and Konghur Tagh?
Mount Gongga
498
Celebrating the love of Krishna and Radha and the arrival of Spring, what Hindu festival is known as the ‘Festival of Colours’?
Holi
499
Which Icelandic author and politician is the author of the Heimskringla and is believed
to have compiled the Prose Edda in around 1220? First or last name acceptable.
Snorri Sturluson
500
Which Swiss music educator developed eurhythmics, an experimental form of musical
pedagogy based on movement?
DALCROZE
501
Which K’iche’ human rights activist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work
promoting the rights of Indigenous peoples during the Guatemalan Civil War?
Rigoberta Menchu
502
What electrical device stores charge for a short period of time and often consists of
two parallel plates?
Capacitor
503
The small village of Gazala is best known for the World War II battle between Axis forces led by Erwin Rommel and the Allies led by Neil Ritchie. It is located in which African country?
Libya
504
One of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, which saint is mainly known for his legendary voyage to find the "Isle of the Blessed"? His feast day is celebrated on 16 May.
Brendan of Clonfert
505
Isolated independently by chemists Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jérôme Balard, what chemical element with atomic number 35 is also used as an additive in gasoline containing anti-engine knocking agents?
Bromine
506
The 1919 Black Sox Scandal involved eight members of the Chicago White Sox accused of losing the 1919 World Series against which MLB team on purpose in exchange for money?
Cincinnati Reds
507
Which actress portrayed Emma Woodhouse in the BBC series Emma (2009), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination?
Romola Garai
508
English rower who won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics alongside Bert Bushnell in the double sculls. He and his father Charles are the only father and son in Olympic history to have both won gold medals in rowing.
Dickie Burnell
509
The Bells of Zlonice is the subtitle of the first symphony composed by which Czech composer?
Antonin Dvorak
510
Icthyophaga vocifer is the national bird of Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Feeding mainly on fish, what is this eagle's common name?
African FIsh Eagle
511
What is the general name for thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells made up of DNA?
Chromosomes
512
Which US boxer was the unified welterweight champion between 2017 and 2023?
Errol Spence Jr
513
Who beat unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr in July 2023, it was his first loss ever?
Terence Crawford
514
British former professional boxer born Sheffield who competed from 2004 to 2022. He held the IBF welterweight title from 2014 to 2017, and challenged once for a unified middleweight world title in 2016. Lost Terence Crawford in Nov 2020 welterweight.
Kell Brook
515
Who Cuban boxer beat Amir Khan in 2004 Lightweight final to win Gold? Also won Gold in 2000 Syndye in same weight.
Mario Kindelán
516
Who beat Roy Jones Jr. at 1988 Seoul Olympics and ended up winning gold?
Park Si-hun
517
Team GB boxer won Gold at 1956 Melbourne flyweight?
Terence Spinks
518
British flyweight boxer who won Gold at 2020 Tokyo Olympics beating Carlo Paalam of Philippines in final?
Galal Yafai
519
British boxer and oldest man to ever win a boxing gold at the age of 37 years old in 1908 Olympics?
Richard Gunn
520
Scottish lightweight who won Gold in 1956 Melbourne and bronze in 1960 Rome, in 1956 won the Val Barker Trophy for best boxing style?
Dick McTaggart
521
Which famous boxer won Lightweight gold in 1992 Barcelona Olympics?
Oscar De La Hoya
522
Southpaw Irish Olympic welterweight gold medal at 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics?
Michael Carruth
523
Russian double gold welterweight champion in 1996 and 2000 Olympics?
Oleg Saitov
524
British welterweight boxer won Silver in 2012 Olympics?
Fred Evans
525
British welterweight boxer won Silver in 2020 Olympics?
Pat McCormack
526
British boxer double gold medal winner at Middleweight dvision in 1920 Antwerp and 1924 Paris?
Harry Mallin
527
British boxer of irish descent who won gold middleweight division at 1968 Mexico City?
Chris Finnegan
528
Famous American boxer won 1976 Montreal gold at middleweight?
Michael Spinks
529
2008 Beijing middleweight gold British boxer?
James DeGale
530
Famous American boxer won gold at heavyweight 1964 Tokyo?
Joe Frazier
531
Famous American boxer won gold at heavyweight 1968 Mexico City?
George ForemanC
532
Cuban boxer who won triple gold heavyweight 1972/1976/1980?
Teofilo Stevenson
533
Cuban boxer who won triple gold heavyweight 1992/1996/2000?
Felix Savon
534
Winner of 2012 Heavyweight Gold beating Italian Clemente Russo in final?
Oleksandr Usyk
535
Which Super Heavyweight Italian boxer won gold at 2008 Beijing and was beaten by Anthony Joshua in 2012 London final to get Silver?
Roberto Cammarelle
536
Which French Super Heavyweight boxer beat British Joe Joyce in 2016 Rio final?
Tony Yoka
537
Which Uzbek Super Heavyweight boxer won Gold in 2020 Tokyo?
Bakhodir Jalolov
538
Which Bulgaria female boxer won womens flyweight at 2020 Tokyo after two wins from Nciola Adams in years before?
Stoyka Krasteva
539
Which famous female boxer won 2012 London gold at lightweight division?
Katie Taylor
540
Which Irish female boxer won gold at lightweight in 2020 Olympics?
Kellie Harrington
541
Which American female boxer won Golds in Middleweight at 2012 and 2016 Olympics?
Claressa Shields
542
Which British female boxer won gold in 2020 Middleweight Olympics?
Lauren Price
543
The Yan'an faction was a group of communists in the North Korean government in World War II that was sympathetic with which other Asian country?
China
544
Vice President Kamala Harris broke the record for the most number of tie-breaking votes cast in the Senate in 2023. She broke the record of which another vice president, the first one to resign from the post?
John C. Calhoun
545
Who were two vice presidents to resign from the position?
John C Calhoun (JQA/AJ)
Spiro Agnew (RN)
546
What Brazilian football club was defeated by Manchester City to win their first FIFA Club World Cup title in December 2023?
Fluminense
547
The Battle of Poltava (1709) in modern day Ukraine was the decisive and largest battle of what 18th-century European conflict?
Great Northern War
548
In Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo was lucky to survive what real-life battle with a serious wound to his leg?
Battle of Waterloo
549
The pipiltin were the noble social class in which Mesoamerican civilisation?
Aztecs
550
Believed to have been created as a derivative of the sidecar, what cocktail consists of white rum, cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice?
Between the Sheets
551
Found as a milky fluid that is present in 10% of angiosperms, what term refers to an emulsion of polymer microparticles that coagulates on exposure to air?
Latex
552
What are the last two words of the song “Rockin’ Robin”?
Tweet Tweet
553
‘Owd yer tight’ was a warning cry to the passengers of which East Midlands city by its bus
conductors?
Nottingham
554
What did a Roman put on his gate to say ‘Beware of the dog’?
Cave Canem
555
What avian term is also used to refer to headteachers and judges?
Beak
556
Which army, later police officer, invented snooker in 1875?
Neville Chamberlain
557
Not a PM, who broke the 4-minute record for the 1500 metres in 1908?
Harold Wilson
558
Which Prime Minister shared his name with a big band leader?
Ted Heath
559
The Battle of Passchendaele was fought in which country in 1917?
Belgium
560
The Battle of Blenheim was fought in which modern day country in 1704?
Germany
561
The Battle of Kasserine Pass was fought in which modern day country in 1943?
Tunisia
562
RAILWAYS: The Hollies would not record which Graham Nash song, resulting in him offering it to his new group with Messrs Crosby and Stills?
Marrakesh Express
563
The Ghan crosses Australia from Darwin in the north to which southern destination?
Adelaide
564
Another version of his name suggests that Robin Hood came from which forested area located
near modern-day Sheffield, which adjoined Sherwood Forest?
Loxley
565
Meaning ‘place of the oak tree’, what was the Roman name of the settlement that would later
become Derby?
Derventio
566
Hypocapnia or acapnia, caused by hyperventilation, leads to a reduction of what in the blood?
CO2
567
Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part became which character in All in The Family?
Archie Bunker
568
In 1928 Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee invented which detective?
Ellery Queen
569
In which city is A4400 Inner Ring Road, alternatively called the Queensway?
Birmingham
570
Which country was known as the Bessarabia Governorate from 1812 to 1917, and was where
Tony Hawks went to play tennis?
Moldova
571
Inspector Maigret’s first case involved a man from which Baltic country?
Latvia
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (1931)
572
The capital of which country is named after the man who resisted an Ottoman siege in 1565?
Malta
573
In 1982, which group were ‘on a hippie trail, head full of zombie’?
Men at Work
574
Who had a hit with ‘Frankenstein’ in 1973?
Edgar Winter Group
575
‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ was a 1979 single from which post-punk band?
Bauhaus
576
The last time an oldest son succeeded an oldest son as monarch of the United Kingdom?
1820 (George III and IV)
577
Which variety of apple was first grown at Southwell in Nottinghamshire?
Bramley
578
Which character in Dad’s Army shares his name with a mushroom that comes in varieties called
Field and Wood?
Mr. Blewitt
579
which county in the north-east has England’s shortest coast?
County Durham
580
Liz Truss served the shortest Prime Ministership of the twenty-first century. Who was her
twentieth-century equivalent?
Andrew Bonar Law
581
Of the five French republics since the overthrow of the monarchy, which had lasted the shortest
when it ended in 1852?
Second Republic
582
Which half of a double act, whose real name was Edward McGinnis, was one of the first to die in
April 2020?
Eddie Large
583
Which Derbyshire-born star of radio and TV also died of Covid in April 2020?
Tim Brooke-Taylor
584
Which half of a double act, who appeared later in Last of the Summer Wine, died in October
2020?
Bobby Ball (with Tommy Cannon)
585
In which city did Emil Zatopek win three Olympic Gold medals?
1952 Helsinki
586
In which city did Mary Rand win gold, silver and bronze medals?
Tokyo
587
The Hairy Bikers are Si King and Dave… ‘who’?
Myers
588
Who founded the Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, Yorkshire in 1991?
Paul Theakston
589
Who is the older sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco?
Caroline
590
He is the son of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene, and twin brother of Princess Gabriella. Next in line to monarchy of Monaco.
Jacques
591
Eldest daughter of King Philippe, heir to Belgian throne.
Elisabeth
592
Surname of Bhutan monarchy.
WANGCHUCK
593
Eldest child of King Frederik X, heir of danish throne since January 2024.
Christian
594
Eldest son of Prince Hans-Adam II, heir apparent to throne of Liechtenstein
Alois
595
Eldest son of Grand Duke Henri, heir apparent of crown of Luxembourg
Guillaume
596
Eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander, heir to Dutch throne
Catharina-Amalia
597
Only son of King Harald V, heir to the Norwegian throne?
Haakon
598
Eldest daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf, heir to Swedish throne?
Victoria
599
King of Lesotho
King Mswati III
600
Who is younger brother of Naruhito and currently the heir presumptive?
Fumihito
601
the current reigning dynasty of the Kingdom of Thailand. The head of the house is the king, who is head of state. The family has ruled Thailand since the founding of the Rattanakosin Era and the city of Bangkok in 1782; following the end of Taksin Thonburi's reign, when the capital of Siam shifted to Bangkok.
Chakri Dynasty
602
How many teams in the 2022-23 Scottish Premiership had “Saint” in their name?
Two
St. Johnstone and St. Mirren
603
Who lead the Romans against the Caledonians at the Battle of Mons Graupius in 83CE?
Agricola
604
The Germanic leader Arminius organized a series of ambushes on a column of three Roman legions headed by which Roman general at Teutoburg Forest?
Publius Quinctilius Varus
605
The Armada set sail from which European capital?
Lisbon
606
The plan was to land the Spanish Armada in England near which town later celebrated by Chas and Dave?
Margate
607
Replicants are subjected to what double named test in 1982 Blade Runner?
Voight-Kampff
608
Car designer Emil Jellinek’s desire to honour his daughter resulted in what?
Mercedes
609
What was the consequence: On Thursday 6th May 1954, Raymond Barkway fired a shot from a Smith and Wesson revolver.
Roger Bannister ran a sub-Four
Minute Mile
610
Lichfield and which other English cathedral have three spires?
Truro (St Mary's in Edinburgh)
611
A noun which modifies another noun, such as “Davy Jones” in “Davy Jones’ locker”, is called
what?
Genitive
612
Which single by Steeleye Span helps remember the name of the third Sunday in Advent?
Gaudete
613
Which of the US states with a four-letter name was also the title of a protest song by Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young?
Ohio
614
Complete the title of Cliff Richards’ second film, ‘Expresso …’.
Bongo
615
The name of which river might be a Rolls-Royce aero-engine or an affair, or diplomatic incident,
of the American Civil War?
Trent
616
Rather than tartan kilts, Scottish lowland regiments wear tartan what?
Trews
617
In 1974, the county borough of Newport was merged with the Monmouthshire to create which Welsh county?
Gwent
618
Budgerigars are native to which continent?
Australasia (accept Australia)
619
What are male honey bees called?
Drones (females are workers)
620
What did Rudyard Kipling call his collection of children's animal fables in which he tells various far–fetched tales of how certain animals got their distinctive characteristics? e.g. How the Leopard got its spots.
Just So Stories
621
The Coast to Coast path, covered in a guidebook by Alfred Wainwright, covers 197 miles from Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire to where in Cumbria?
St Bees Head
622
About 40,000 people per year make the trek from Lukla to Everest Base Camp, which is on a Glacier below an ice fall with the same name as the glacier. What is that name?
Khumbu
623
Which path covers 96 miles from Glasgow to Fort William?
The West Highland Way
624
The finish of the annual Fastnet Race has recently been moved from Plymouth to Cherbourg, but from which yachting hotbed has it always started?
Cowes
625
The Hadrian's Wall Path covers 84 miles, from Wallsend in Tyne & Wear, to where in Cumbria?
Bowness on Solway
626
Required for heavy water, the isotope of hydrogen with one electron, one proton and one neutron is commonly called what?
Deuterium
627
Which transuranic element, with atomic number 96 and first discovered during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, was named after a Nobel prize–winning husband and wife scientific team (using the same naming principles as those adopted for gadolinium)?
Curium
628
What is the heaviest element that can be generated by fusion in the ordinary life of a star? When the core is made up of this element, fusion will stop.
Iron
629
Isotopes of the same element have different numbers of which type of sub–atomic particle?
Neutrons
630
A large flat cart, usually horse drawn and often delivering beer is known as a what?
Dray
631
What would you call a class of heavily armed cavalry, who have their origin as infantrymen but at some point were given horses in order to facilitate their faster travel?
Dragoons
632
Which international German footballer has played his club football for Schalke, Wolfsburg, Paris Saint–Germain, Benfica and currently Al Ahli?
Julian Draxler
633
Who created the TV program A Black Lady Sketch Show?
Robin Thede
634
Kumail Nanjiani plays whcih founder of Chippendales in Welcome to Chippendales TV show?
Somen "Steve" Banerjee
635
Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain play which country music power couple in George & Tammy?
George Jones and Tammy Wynette
636
American drama streaming television miniseries created by Taffy Brodesser-Akner based on her 2019 novel of the same name.
Fleishman Is in Trouble
637
Dominique Fishback played lead in which Amazon TV show 2023 An obsessed, Houston-based fan goes to increasingly violent lengths for her favourite R&B singer.
Swarm
638
American comedy drama television miniseries that premiered on Hulu on April 7, 2023. It is based on the 2012 book of the same name by Cheryl Strayed. The show centers on Clare, a writer who reluctantly becomes a popular advice columnist during a period of turmoil in her life played by Kathryn Hahn.
Tiny Beautiful Things
639
Actor had his breakout performance as the title character in Clint Eastwood's drama film Richard Jewell. He starred as murderer Larry Hall in the 2022 miniseries Black Bird, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Paul Walter Hauser
640
What year 17th July: King Edward the Elder dies to be succeeded by his son Æthelstan, the first King of all England.
924
641
What year ending in 24: Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his chief minister. Frans Hals paints The Laughing Cavalier.
1624
642
Year ending 24: Following the end of the Civil Wars of the Tetrachy in the Roman Empire, Constantine I founds Constantinople – making it the capital of the Roman Empire six years later.
324
643
What city do all these play in: Rabbitohs, Roosters, Swans and Sixers?
Sydney
644
What city do all these play in: Broncos, Lions, Reds and Heat?
Brisbane
645
What city do all these play in: Saints, Brave, Hawks and Vipers?
Southampton
646
What DAH means you're so poor that you can't afford to have your shoes repaired?
Down at heel
647
Name any of the storms for Autumn 2023 named by the UK Met Office, whose names began with A, B or C?
Agnes, Babet or Ciaran
648
After the producers were turned down by Sergei Rachmaninoff, which piano piece was written by Richard Addinsell for the film Dangerous Moonlight, and has long outlasted the film?
Warsaw Concerto
649
What is the largest land animal native to the UK?
Red Deer
650
What's the most northerly point of both Queensland and mainland Australia?
Cape York
651
With just 1 win (over Newcastle Utd) and accumulating a total of only 11 points in the 2007–08 season, which club were the first premier league club to be mathematically relegated in March?
Derby County
652
Which female singing voice falls between soprano and alto or contralto?
Mezzo-soprano
653
Pre–history in England covers all the time up to which event in AD 43?
Roman Invasion
654
Which breed of horse is associated with the Spanish Riding School in Vienna?
Lipizzaner
655
What links Henry Cooper, Barry Sheene, Kevin Keegan, Vinnie Jones, David Hemery, Harvey Smith, Franz Beckenbauer, Paul Gascoigne and even Joe Namath?
At some point or other they all advertised or endorsed Brut aftershave.
656
In 1980, which NFL star (New York Jets) starred in an infamous ad which depicted him having a “Brut Day,” in which everything went his way?
Joe Namath
657
As the crow flies, which capital city is farthest from London?
Wellington
658
How many semitones are there in an octave?
12
659
Complete the saying: "If the Ash comes out before the Oak we are in for a soak, if the Oak comes out before Ash ... "
We are in for a splash
660
Whose body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey in 1661, more than two years after his death, to be 'executed' for treason?
Oliver Cromwell
661
Which bird of prey is most abundant in the United Kingdom?
Buzzard
662
Right–handed in everyday life, but playing left handed, who is the current Open Golf Champion?
Brian Harman
663
Who was the last King of the Plantagenet line?
Richard III
664
Who wrote the Campus Trilogy of novels, satirising academic life?
David Lodge
665
The vertices of the Bermuda triangle are Bermuda, San Juan in Puerto Rico, and where else?
Miami
666
Haleon is a new consumer health company, with brands including Centrum and Sensodyne. It was demerged or spun off from which healthcare and pharmaceutical giant in 2022?
GlaxoSmithKline (accept GSK)
667
Who has been the UK's only female Deputy Prime Minister, to date?
Therese Coffey
668
Newton and babies both have uses for items with this name but which item of
nursery furniture is described as 'oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots'?
Cradle
669
Wrecking Ball was a character found in which multiplayer first-person shooter
game by Blizzard Entertainment.
Overwatch
670
Which state has their official bird as the scissor-tailed flycatcher? The 20th largest state was officially founded when it joined the union on 7th of November, 1907.
Oklahoma
671
Official name for the nicknamed Bridge of Spies across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam.
Glienicke Bridge
672
Jam has which naturally occurring substance that causes the fruit to thicken when it is cooked?
Pectin
673
Which famous feminist and author of My Life on the Road is known as the leader
of the second wave of feminism? She talked Leonardo DiCaprio out of playing
Patrick Bateman and years later married the father of Christian Bale.
Gloria Steinem
674
Journey to the Center of the Earth was a 2008 adventure film starring Brendan
Fraser, of Mummy fame, and which late night American talk show host who was
the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-host between 2006
to 2013?
Seth Meyers
675
Proving that circuses are deadly for many reason- what bird is the villainous
Cleopatra turned in to at the end of Todd Browning's Freaks?
Duck
676
Also known as 'spice', what is the official name for the psychedelic drug found in
Frank Herbert's Dune?
Melange
677
Seed distribution by wind is called what?
Anemochory
678
Musically, NWOBHM stands for what?
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
679
Stefan Rhodi and Phillip Glenister star in what 2023 crime drama surrounding the case of the Welsh killer called the “Saturday Night Strangler”
Steeltown Murders
680
Which English inventor was the man behind the first patented and inexpensive
way to get steel from pig iron?
Henry Bessemer
681
Even though this American heavy metal band shares a name with a UK no.1
album by Deep Purple, lead singer Robb Flynn states the band's name came
about because he "thought it sounded cool". One of their most popular hits is Is
Anybody Out There?
Machine Head
682
Boxer George Dixon is widely credited for developing which boxing technique?
Muhammad Ali famously performed a routine in this style on ABC's Wide World of
Sports
Shadowboxing
683
Which metal with the chemical number 79 has a name from the Latin that means
"shiny dawn".
Gold
684
Which mollusc was so popular in 19th Century New York that the shells were
used to pave Pearl Street?
Oyster
685
Seed distribution by animals is called what?
Zoochory
686
What moth that was endemic to Hawaii and is considered extinct shares its name
with how you may feel if you don't know the answer to this question?
Confused Moth
687
Also on the DLR line, what station is between Mudchute and Cutty Sark? Even
though it shares a name with an arena found in New York, this DLR station was
never the home to New York Nets in the early 1970s.
Island Garden
688
In a boxing match, three people stand in the boxer's corner of a ring- the trainer,
assistant and which medic who specialises in keeping the boxer's face and eyes
free of any blood, swelling or any other kinds of immediate impairments that
could stop the match?
Cutman
689
The painting Assumption of the Virgin was painted by which 15th century Italian
artist known for his depiction of Leda and the Swan?
Antonio da Correggio
690
Just as violent as Steeltown Murders, what Dennis Kelly Sci-Fi drama ran for 2
series on Channel 4? Jessica Hyde and Wilson Wilson are considered two of its
standout characters.
Utopia
691
Which American feminist described as 'a seminal influence on second-wave
feminism' was the author of 1970's Sexual Politics. She was also known for her
sculpture and held a retrospective at the University of Maryland called 'Sculptor:
The First 38 Years?
Kate Millett
692
Even though they don't have to 'apologise' and they can often be found "counting
stars", this US Pop-Rock band from Colorado are still going strong. They were
most recently heard 'not being worried' on Top Gun: Maverick's soundtrack
OneRepublic
693
A magical music box is the much-coveted item by Lord Lucien in the opening
chapter in the sequel to which video game franchise that was created by Peter
Molyneux?
Fable
694
Tusk, a 2014 body horror film, stars Hayley Joel Osment and Justin Longbut
which Clerks star is the writer and director of it?
Kevin Smith
695
Now renamed Quest, which social deduction game is set in the court of King
Arthur?
Avalon
696
Highest point Noshakh and Amu Darya lowest point of which country?
Afghanistan
697
Highest peak of Albania?
Korab
698
Mount Tahat highest point and Chott Melrhir lowest point of which country?
Algeria
699
Coma Pedrosa highest point and Gran Valira lowest point of which country?
Andorra
700
Mount Moco highest point of which country?
Angola
701
Crocus Hill highest point of which British Overseas Territory?
Anguilla
702
Highest mountain of Antarctica?
Mount Vinson
703
Boggy Peak renamed Mount Obama from 2009 to 2016 is highest mountain on which Caribbean island?
Antigua
704
Highest point of Lesser Caucasus and Armenia?
Mount Aragats
705
Mount Jamanota is highest point of which Dutch constituent country?
Aruba
706
Austria highest mountain?
Grossglockner
707
Mount Bazardüzü highest mountain of which country?
Azerbaijan
708
Also has the nation's highest point, Mount Alvernia (formerly known as Como Hill). It rises to 63 metres (207 ft) and is topped by a monastery called The Hermitage. This assembly of buildings was erected by the Franciscan "Brother Jerome" (John Hawes).
Cat Island
709
Hill called Mountain of Smoke is the highest point of which Middle Eastern country?
Bahrain
710
Saka Haphong is highest point of which country?
Bangladesh
711
Mount Hillaby is highest point of which country?
Barbados
712
Dzyarzhynskaya Hara is highest point in which European country?
Belarus
713
Highest point of Belgium?
Signal de Botrange
714
Highest point of Belize? Named after surname.
Doyle's Delight
715
Mont Sokbaro is highest point of which country?
Benin
716
Mount Heha is highest point of which country?
Burundi
717
Mount Tenakourou is highest point of which country?
Burkina Faso
718
Musala is highest point of which European country?
Bulgaria
719
Bukit PAGON is highest point of which Asian country?
Brunei
720
Olavtoppen highest point of which overseasa Norwegian territory?
Bouvet Island
721
Highest mountain of Brazil?
Pico da Neblina
722
Otse Hill is highest point of which African country?
Botswana
723
Maglic is highest point of which European country?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
724
Sajama is hgihest peak of which country?
Bolivia
725
Highest mountain of Bhutan and highest unclimbed mountain in world?
Gangkhar Puensum
726
2,060 km2 (795.4 sq mi) area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country?
Bir Tawil
727
South African high jumper. He is one of only ten athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, David Storl and Faith Kipyegon) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
Jacques Freitag
728
retired Australian discus thrower who in 2009 became the youngest ever female world champion in the event.[3] She is the current national and Oceanian record holder. Won 2009 World Championships, win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
Dani Stevens
729
Nantes, Angers and Tours all lie on which French river?
Loire
730
Which month of the year is named after an ancient Roman ritual of purification?
February
731
Who has won more Olympic medals and golds than any other able–bodied British athlete (as opposed to Paralympic athletes)?
Sir Jason Kenny
732
Which football team, currently playing in the English Football League Championship, played its home games at Filbert Street up until 2002?
Leicester City
733
Which player and captain lifted the 50–Over cricket world cup trophy following his side's triumph in India in 2023, and was left standing by himself for about 30 seconds in what has been dubbed the "most awkward presentation of all time"?
Pat Cummins
734
What was the first major land battle of the American civil war?
The first battle of Bull Run (accept Manassas)
735
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which Pharaoh?
Khufu
736
Which British actress, whose film credits include Peter's Friends, Vera Drake and Shakespeare in Love, celebrates her 68th birthday today?
Imelda Staunton
737
Which country has the Internet domain code CH?
Switzerland
738
Which vegetable is the basis of the Sicilian appetizer caponata?
Aubergine
739
American skiing brothers who were slalom kings in the early 80's?
Mahre
740
Scottish rugby union players whose nephew now plays for the national team?
Hastings
741
Rugby league brothers who were Wigan and Bradford stars at the back end of the 90's?
Paul
742
Man Utd footballers who were in the 12 man team for the 1979 FA Cup final against Arsenal?
Greenhoff
743
Australian cricket brothers notorius for an underarm bowling incident in the early 80's?
Chappell
744
Belgian athletic brothers who have had success at recent European championships?
Borlee
745
Thai boxing brothers who won world titles at lower weights in the 80's?
Galaxy
746
Croatian brother and sister skiers with 10 Olympic gold and silver medals between them?
Kostelic
747
Dutch footballing brothers who played in the 1978 World Cup final vs Argentina?
Van der Kerkhoff
748
Bulgarian sisters who were prominent in the 80's and 90's and all reached a grand slam quarter final? Tennis
Maleeva
749
Brother and sister skiers from Liechtenstein who won multiple medals at the Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympics?
Wenzel
750
One of the oldest and most famous unsolved problems in number theory is named after which mathematician, and states that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes?
Goldbach's Conjecture
751
Set at the 2016 Rio Olympics, which athlete holds the British women's record in the hammer throw, with 74.54m, which secured her the bronze medal?
Sophie Hitchon
752
Probably emerging in BCE 1500 and lasting until 1 BCE, which culture, found in the southern Kaduna state of Nigeria, were notable for their terracotta sculptures, which were first discovered in the village that names this
culture?
Nok Culture
753
Which American author wrote the young adult fantasy novel Eragon, the first in his Inheritance Cycle? He was 15 when he started writing it.
Christopher Paolini
754
Which actress portrays Terri Coverley, the Director of Communications at the fictional Department for Social Affairs and Citizenship - or "DoSAC" - in the BBC political satire The Thick of It?
Joanna Scanlan
755
Which jazz fusion bassist was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981, and is the only electric bassist in the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame? His best-known composition, "Portrait of Tracy", demonstrates his characteristic innovative use of harmonics.
Jaco Pastorius
756
The 90s football podcast Quickly Kevin, Will He Score? is hosted by Chris Scull; Michael Marden; and which Devon-born comedian and television presenter? He also co-hosts Channel 4's The Last Leg.
Josh Widdecombe
757
Whose eponymous "Internet law" states that the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post a wrong answer? This refers to the tendency of people to correct something, rather than answer a question in the first instance.
Cunningham's Law
758
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and "Walk Tall" are two of the best-known compositions by which Austrian jazz fusion keyboardist, one of the founders of Weather Report?
Joe Zawinul
759
The superhero Juan Sheet is the mascot of which British kitchen roll brand? His catchphrase is "Juan Sheet does [this brand name]".
Plenty
760
Which ancient north African kingdom was centred on the Nile Valley in what is now Sudan and Egypt, in the region of Nubia? Its first capital was the city-state of Kerma.
Kingdom of Kush / Kushite
761
Which athlete holds the British women's record in the javelin, since its 1999 redesign, with a throw of 66.17m, set in 2012? At Beijing 2008, she originally finished fourth, but had this upgraded to bronze in 2016 after the
original third-placed athlete was found guilty of doping.
Goldie Sayers
762
One of the Millennium Prize problems, which doubly-eponymous conjecture describes the set of rational solutions to equations defining an elliptic curve? As of 2023, only special cases have been proven.
Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer
conjecture
763
As of 2013, the cadence for a rugby union scrum has consisted of three words. Please give any one of these three words.
"Crouch, bind, set"
764
Dubbed the Great Comet of 1996, which comet was discovered by, and named after, an amateur Japanese astronomer?
Comet Hyakutake
765
The third largest department store chain in the world by sales, and largest in Europe, is which Spanish chain named after a small tailor’s shop that was itself so-named as it practised the English style of dressmaking?
El Corte Ingles
766
Which red-skinned, seven-tongued deity is the god of fire in Hinduism?
Agni
767
Which English novelist completed Dorothy L. Sayers’ novel Thrones, Dominations and went on to write a series of authorised continuation novels featuring Sayers’ characters Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane? She was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1994 for her mediaeval philosophical novel Knowledge of Angels, and she died in 2020.
Jill PATON WALSH
(accept Gillian HERBERT,
Gillian BLISS, or Baroness
HEMINGFORD)
768
Playing opposite Tyne Daley as Mary Beth Lacey, which actress portrayed the character Christine Cagney in the TV show Cagney & Lacey for the majority of the series’ run?
Sharon Gless
769
The hat is named after a play by Victorien Sardou because Sarah Bernhardt wore one while starring in the play’s initial run.
Fedora
770
Which Northern Irish darts player, regarded as one of the best young talents in the sport, suffered a shock second round exit in
the recent PDC World Darts Championship to Berry van Peer?
Josh Rock
771
What word follows silver-washed, heath and Glanville to give the name of three butterfly species found in Britain? This word is
derived from the Latin for ‘dice-box’ and refers to their chequered markings
Fritillary
772
Which crime novelist has written a series of Hercule Poirot continuation novels with the blessing of the Agatha Christie estate,
including The Monogram Murders, Closed Casket and The Mystery of Three Quarters? She is also known for her crime thrillers
featuring the characters Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse
Sophie Hannah
773
Which American inventor and engineer co-founded the Western Electric Company and developed a prototype for a telephone in
1876? Some people have alleged that Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea of liquid transmitters from this man.
Elisha Gray
774
Which round on the TV show Richard Osman’s House of Games requires contestants to guess in which specific year certain events
from history occurred?
I’M TERRIBLE AT
DATING
775
The main department store in many cities of the former Soviet Union, which Russian department store chain’s name is a threeletter acronym standing for the Russian for ‘Main Universal Store’? The flagship store of this chain is located in the Upper Trading
Rows facing Moscow’s Red Square.
GUM (or GLAVNYY
UNIVERSALNYY
MAGAZIN)
776
Separated by the Atlantic Ocean by only a narrow corridor of sand dunes, Lake Retba is a pink lake located near the capital city of
which African country?
Senegal
777
Which Dutch darts player, regarded as one of the best young talents in the sport, suffered a shock first round exit in the recent
PDC World Darts Championship to Man-Lok Leung?
Gian van Veen
778
What word follows white-letter, green and purple to give the name of three butterfly species found in Britain? This compound word
refers either to the thin line on their underwing or the short thread-like projections that extend from the hindwing
Hairstreak
779
The collections Genesis, The Other America and Workers are works by which Brazilian photographer? He is perhaps best known
for his images of the Serra Pelada gold mine.
Sebastião SALGADO
780
What word precedes ‘Magna’ and ‘Parva’ to give the name of two North African colonies founded by the Phoenicians which later
became major cities in the Carthaginian Empire?
Leptis
781
Which actress portrayed Christine Cagney in the original TV movie version of Cagney & Lacey, but was unable to join the series
because the producers of M*A*S*H* refused to release her from her contract playing Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan?
Loretta Swit
782
Labneh is a Levantine mezze made by straining what foodstuff?
Yoghurt
783
What name links 1) a struggling, murderous and rather repetitive writer-caretaker in the Overlook hotel in a 1977 horror novel
2) A Scottish golfer and non-playing captain of the European Ryder Cup team in 2002?
Torrance (Jack and Sam)
784
A savant private detective played by Cynthia Erivo in a 2020 TV series based on a Stephen King novel, The Outsider
Holly Gibney
785
An 1842 ballet by Danish ballet-master August Bournonville, alternatively titled The Fisherman and his Bride?
Napoli
786
Which tragic Greek mythological heroine has been 1) reimagined as a socially disadvantaged young woman in the Cardiff area of Splott in a monologue play by Gary Owen,
2) featured in operas by Wayne Shorter and Christoph Gluck from source material "In Tauris" and "In Aulis" by Euripides?
Iphigenia
787
sparsely populated area around the border between Lithuania and Poland, and centres on the shortest path between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast on the Polish side of the border. Named after the Polish town
Suwalki Gap
788
Currently playing his Rugby at Sharks in Durban, which South African Lock , twice a member of the Rugby World Cup-winning squad in 2019 and 2023, stands at Six feet eight and a half inches tall and is the third most capped Springbok of all time?
Eben Etzebeth
789
Representing the former East Germany before representing the unified German team, which athlete is the only woman to have won two Summer Olympic Gold Medals for Long Jump, in 1992 in Barcelona and 2000 in Sydney?
Heike Drechsler
790
Which town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire gives its name to a battle fought in 1263 CE, between the forces of Alexander III and King Haakon IV of Norway, shortly before the latter's death in Orkney?
Largs
791
Which French poet and writer walked a pet lobster called Thibault around Paris on a blue silk ribbon?
Gérard de Nerval
792
Which woman, leader of the Awami League, became the 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 2009 and won a 5th term in January 2023 after the opposition boycotted the vote? She is currently the world's longest serving female head of government.
Hasina
793
Titan (Amorphophallus titanum) and Dead Horse (Helicodiceros muscivorus) varieties of which plant family give off a pungent smell of rotting corpses, which serve to attract flies for pollination?
Arum Lily
794
Gosta Berling's Saga was the 1891 first novel of which Nobel prize winning Swedish author, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909?
Selma Lagerlof
795
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674-1696, which Polish military commander led the Holy League to victory over the Ottomans at the 1683 Battle of Vienna?
Sobieski (John III)
796
What three letters connect 1) An abbreviation for an aromatic amino acid with a phenolic side chain
2) a war god in Norse mythology, whose hand is bitten off by the wolf Fenrir and from whom the name of Tuesday is derived?
Tyr
797
What connects 1) A 2003 Margaret Atwood post-apocalyptic novel, the first of the MaddAddam trilogy
2) a genus of four large antelope species, the Arabian, Scimitar, East African and Gemsbok (pictured)?
Oryx
798
What links 1) A fuel that supersedes the DeLorean's nuclear reactor in the Back to the Future movie
2) "_____ Panda", a slang term for a foraging raccoon, as featured in a 2023 video game
3) An entity that "takes itself out every single time" according to Taylor Swift's 2023 Time magazine interview, describing her laissez faire philosophy for dealing with adversaries?
Trash
799
Changsha is the largest city and state capital of which landlocked Chinese province? It is known for its dry and spicy cuisine, using chilli peppers, shallots and garlic.
Hunan
800
With many line-ups, which German Progressive Rock band founded by Frank Bornemann in 1969 based their name on a futuristic race of humans in HG Wells' book The Time Machine? The band's albums include Ocean, Ocean 2:The Answer, and Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes.
Eloy
801
Giving make-up tutorials and beauty tips, which You Tube channel was set up in 2010 by an American Muslim entrepreneur (pictured) and make-up artist? Its namesake cosmetics range includes #fauxfilter foundation, Power Bullet matte lipstick and Resting Boss Face Setting Spray
Huda Beauty
802
Which late American essayist and poet (pictured), a recipient of a 2020 Nobel Prize, wrote the poetry collections The Triumph of Achilles, Ararat, The Wild Iris and Faithful and Virtuous Night?
Louise Gluck
803
Also known as Operation Chromite, which Battle of September 1950, an amphibious invasion launched during the Korean war, allowed the UN recapture of Seoul from the North Korean KPA two weeks later?
Inchon
804
village just north of the de facto border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War was signed.
Panmunjom
805
massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II. Caldecott drew book about the great ___ himself.
Panjandrum
806
Which South American country's currency was the Sucre between 1884 and 2000, when it was replaced by the US dollar? The Valdivia culture was predominant in what has become this country's Santa Elena province between 3500 BCE and 1500 BCE. German DJ Sash! was also a fan of this country in 1997
Ecuador
807
Which landlocked central Asian country contains the Fann Mountains in its Sukhd province, with their highest peak at Chimtarga?
Tajikistan
808
Which protein marker of heart muscle damage is measured in a blood sample in the case of a suspected myocardial infarction (heart attack)? It normally prevents actin binding to myosin in the relaxed muscle, until its configuration change in the calcium-bound state permits muscle contraction.
Troponin
809
Thought to have been written shortly after the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE and before the Babylonian capture of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, which is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets in the Bible?
Habakkuk
810
With the entire body a target area, which is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of Fencing?
Epee
811
What large, lobular non-cancerous growths of muscle and connective tissue grow within the muscular wall, outside or within the lining of the uterus, causing pelvic pain, heavy periods, infertility and complications in pregnancy?
Fibroids
812
First isolated from human faeces in 1885 by a German-Austrian paediatrician, which bacterium can cause a potentially fatal illness through its 0157:H7 serotype? Shiga-toxin producing strains in contaminated foodstuffs cause abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea and potential renal failure requiring dialysis.
Escherichia Coli
813
What links 1) A Norwegian Black metal band, originally called Eczema, whose 1993 debut album was Dark Medieval Times
2) A 1969 Federico Fellini film based on.........
3) A first century CE work by Petronius, featuring a dispute between Encolpius and Ascyltos over a slave called Giton and a very extravagant dinner party at the estate of Trimalchio?
Satyricon
814
An American nurse and midwife, who supposedly fell foul of the Comstock Act in 1912 by advocating women's rights to birth control and dispensing contraceptive advice in the New York Call daily newspaper
Margaret Sanger
815
A Swiss luxury watchmaking company founded by Louis Brandt in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1903. Its Speedmaster model landed on the moon (on Buzz Aldrin's right wrist) in 1969
Omega
816
What was the most recent horse to win the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 2018?
Justify
817
Who was the trainer of Nijinsky who did UK triple crown in 1970?
Vincent O'Brien
818
Who was the first horse to win English Triple Crown in 1853 ridden by Frank Butler?
West Australian
819
Who was the first horse to win American Triple Crown doing so in 1919?
Sir Barton
820
Centred in present-day Morocco and founding Marrakesh as the capital of its empire in 1070, which imperial Berber Muslim dynasty fell to the Almohads in 1147?
Almoravid
821
Which Italian thin-skinned, small-fruited red wine grape variety native to Piedmont is used to make Barolo wine? Its name derives from a Piedmontese word for "fog", reflecting the weather during its October harvest.
Nebbiolo
822
What 10 letter word 1) In medicine, describes the triangular pubic hair configuration over the genitals
2) in architecture, describes a metal plate surrounding a lock cylinder or keyhole in a door (pictured)
3) in heraldry, describes a shield displaying a coat of arms?
Escutcheon
823
What four words link 1)The first line from a Herman Hupfeld song sung by Sam (Dooley Wilson) in the 1942 movie Casablanca
2) a podcast written and narrated by Karina Longworth, detailing the history of 20th Century film?
You must remember this
824
With the nickname World, and regarded as one of the greatest wide receivers of all time, which NFL player (pictured) won three Superbowls in 1989, 1990 and 1995 with the San Francisco 49ers? He was the 1989 Superbowl MVP.
Jerry Rice
825
What name links 1) An ultimately fatal genetic syndrome resulting in multiple developmental abnormalities and caused by trisomy of human Chromosome 18
2) an actor who played Dr Mark Greene in ER and "Goose" in Top Gun
3) A Wisden Cricketer of the year in 2014 who captained the England Women's Cricket team to victory in the 2009 World Cup?
Edwards (John, Anthony and Charlotte)
826
What links 1) an organ affected by Takotsubo syndrome?
2) A William Boyd novel subtitled The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart?
Heart (Any Human Heart is the novel)
827
What 6 letter word describes the non-protein encoding regions of DNA between the protein-coding "exon" regions of the genome? They are spliced out of RNA transcripts to form mature messenger RNA (mRNA).
Intron
828
What five letter word links 1) Jane, Cammie and Kate, members of a short-lived San Francisco a capella feminist rap band who released the album Ovary Action in 1988, including the songs You Suck, Sperm Brain and Sue Your Friends
2) Urs Leopold, Paul Nurse and Yoshinori Ohsumi's study organism
3) Candida albicans and Saccharomyces Cerevisiae?
Yeast (Jane, Cammie and Kate were the Yeastie Girlz. Much eukaryotic cell cycle research has been done on the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
829
Known for his pioneering explorations of visual perspective, which artist (1397-1475) created the three-painting work The Battle of San Romano? His St George and the Dragon (shown) is in London's National Gallery
Uccello (Paulo)
830
2)The owner of a saggy old pink and white BBC TV cloth cat
3)The author of the poem Success is Counted Sweetest and Because I could not stop for Death?
WHAT NAME LINKS
Emily (Firmin and Dickinson)
831
an encounter battle fought in Thessaly in 197 BC between the Roman army, led by Titus Quinctius Flamininus, and the Antigonid dynasty of Macedon, led by Philip V, during the Second Macedonian War. It was a decisive Roman victory and marked the end of the conflict.
Battle of Cynoscephalae
832
God of war, politics, farming and fishing in Hawaiian mythology
Ku
833
A subject of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and a painter of several nudes, such as The Abandoned Doll, which model and artist (pictured) was taught print-making and etching by Degas and was the mother of the artist Maurice Utrillo?
Valadon (Suzanne)
834
Which German arms manufacturer patented the Pistole Parabellum, a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi automatic pistol first adopted as a service weapon by the Swiss Military in 1900?
Luger
835
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, which 2001 sports drama film set during the British Raj tells the story of Indian villagers challenged to win a cricket match, with no prior experience of the game, to waive a punitive land tax?
Lagaan
836
Elba's largest town?
Portoferraio
837
Deriving its name from the Greek word for "last", what branch of theology concerns itself with the end of human history and/or the World?
Eschatology
838
Founded in Manchester in 1893, which British brand is known for selling-shredded suet in distinctive red, yellow and blue
packaging? It also sells vegetable suet in red, yellow and green packaging.
Atora
839
During the Second Barons’ War, King Henry III was captured by Simon de Montfort at what battle of 1264, fought close to
the Sussex town of the same name?
Lewes
840
Human herpesvirus 8 is a virus associated with which sarcoma of the skin and mouth characterised by painless, purple, flat
or raised lesions? Named after the 19th-century Hungarian doctor who described it, it became an AIDS-defining illness in the 20th century.
Kaposi's Sarcoma
841
In the original board game Pandemic, which of the six roles is able to move any pawn with the owner’s permission and
move another player’s pawn as their own with the owner’s agreement?
Dispatcher
842
Which postal district in Dublin is Ireland’s most expensive postcode, as well as being the home of RTÉ, the Aviva Stadium and a number of foreign embassies? Culturally and politically it is associated with the supposed values of the
aspirational Irish upper middle class
Dublin 4 (D4)
843
The 1892 painting Brig Mercury Attacked by Two Turkish Ships was a work by which Russian painter who is regarded as one of
the greatest masters of marine art?
Ivan Aivazovsky
844
Which 1993 movie, the directorial debut of the Hughes Brothers, follows the lives of teenager Caine Lawson and his friend ODog in the brutal gang lifestyle of South Los Angeles? The movie also features Jada Pinkett and the rapper MC Eiht in their first film roles.
Menace II Society
845
A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out was the 2005 debut album of which American band, one of the so-called ‘Holy Trinity of Emo’? The
album contained the singles ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ and ‘It’s Better if You Do’.
Panic! At the Disco
846
Along with Kaposi’s Sarcoma, AIDS-defining illnesses include which parasitic protozoan disease, which can cause fatal necrotic
brain abscesses? Spread from undercooked meat and cat faeces, it can also be a hazard in pregnancy.
Toxoplasmosis
847
1265 Battle of Evesham wyere Simon de Montfort was killed and Second Barons War ended was in which county?
Worcestershire
848
Which city in the East Midlands hosts a tennis tournament in June in the lead-up to Wimbledon? The event was discontinued in
2009 when Eastbourne was added to the men’s tour, but it relaunched in 2011.
Nottingham
849
Which hills in Somerset are located near Bristol and Bath, at the opposite end of the county to the Quantocks, and include the popular tourist attractions of Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole?
Mendips
850
Founded in Newcastle in 1875, which brand of flour launched a recipe book in 1923 with the launch of their self-raising flour? It
has sold over 38 million copies, making it among the best-selling cookery books of all time.
Be-Ro
851
In which 2014 video game does the player take the role of the titular mammal, named Pilgor, to perform tricks, butt things, and lick various objects? A 2022 sequel placed greater emphasis on wreaking as much havoc as possible.
Goat Simulator
852
Which 1993 film, the second directed by John Singleton, starred Janet Jackson as the title character, a hairdresser mourning the loss
of her boyfriend in a gangland shooting in south central Los Angeles? The film also starred Tupac Shakur and Regina King.
Poetic Justice
853
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast and Wreck of the Ancon are maritime paintings by which 19th-century German-American landscape painter, best-known for painting his depictions of glowing light?
Albert Bierstadt
854
Since 2010, how many points have been awarded for finishing second in a Formula One race?
18
855
The Dirty War in Argentina was one part of a larger campaign conducted across South America known by what name? Many
nations suppressed resistance to their right-wing governments, often aided by the United States and the CIA.
Operation Condor
856
In the original version of the board game Pandemic, which of the six roles can give any city card to another player in the same city
during the “share knowledge” action?
Researcher
857
Which area within Dublin 4 is synonymous with a livestock fair held annually from the 13th to the 19th centuries with a reputation for mass drunken brawls? A stadium also synonymous with this area was the home of Leinster Rugby until 2007 and has been the home of the Ireland Women’s rugby team since 2016
Donnybrook
858
Which semiconductor device, used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power, superseded vacuum tubes in electronic equipment? The name of this device precedes the word ‘radio’ in the name of a type of portable radio popular in the 1960s and ’70s.
Transistor
859
Along with Lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon, which lake that lies on the border of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, is one of three known to undergo limnic eruptions where carbon dioxide is released into the local area?
Kivu
860
What is the surname of the female MMA star who is due to star alongside Paddy Pimblett in the reality series Paddy & Molly: Show No Mersey?
McCann
861
Which British heavyweight Boxer had an eventful 2023, controversially losing to Oleksander Uysk in August before
defeating Jarrell Miller in December?
Daniel Dubois
862
Regarded as one of the most successful Afrobeat songs of all time, the song "Calm Down" spent a good chunk of 2023 in
the UK top 10 and was by which Nigerian rapper & singer?
Rema
863
Writing and performing in his stand-up show 'Modern Life is Goodish' between 2013-2017, which comedian has appeared on various panel shows such as 'Have I got news for you', 'QI' and 'Taskmaster' as well as boasting earlier writing credits for 'The Mrs Merton Show' and 'The Fast Show'?
Dave Gorman
864
Sean Millis went viral on Tik Tok with his song "Waiting On a Miracle" due to his resemblance to which football player? This Danish striker has been struggling for Manchester United this season but finally scored his first premier league goal, in a 3-2 victory over Aston Villa, after a series of videos by Sean wishing him the best.
Rasmus Hojland
865
Who was the Romanian military officer and marshal who led the country during most of World War II, forming an alliance with Nazi Germany and becoming known for his role in the Holocaust in Romania, before being tried and executed for war crimes in 1946?
Ion Antonescu
866
The Amapiano song "Water", which has elements of R&B and Afrobeats, reached the top 10 in the UK in 2023 and is by
which South African singer?
Tyla
867
One of the men Margaret Mead studied under at Barnard College, was which individual often labelled as the “Father of American Anthropology”? This man's most famous work was perhaps the 1911 work “The Mind of Primitive Man” which describes the gift giving ceremony of Potlatch.
Franz Boas
868
Which British Boxer, who had defeated Daniel Dubois earlier in his career, had a hard time of things in 2023? Entering the year 15-0, this Olympian was defeated twice by Zhilei Zhang in April and September.
Joe Joyce
869
Founded by Saeju Jeong and Artem Petakov in 2008, which brand's mission is to 'help people everywhere lead healthier lives, fueled by a powerful combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching'? This subscription based app tracks a user's food intake and exercise habits and has a strong emphasis on behaviour change and mental wellness to achieve long lasting health benefits for users.
NOOM
870
What is the real name of the Youtube megastar, rapper and boxer KSI? He is known for his involvement with the Youtube group The Sidemen as well as losing a boxing match to Tommy Fury last year. You may answer with his first name, his surname or his nickname
Olajide Olatunji (JJ)
871
A powerhouse of Olympic Equestrian, which German holds the record for the most medals won by any Equestrian athlete?
She has competed in six Olympic games and gained 7 gold medals, her most recent being 2020.
Isabelle Werth
872
What folk dance consists of a choreographed rhythmic dance where participants wear bell pads on their shins or shoes, usually wielding sticks or handkerchiefs as part of their routine? Dancers will often wear white clothing and waistcoats, although there is some variation across counties and regions.
Morris Dancing
873
What was the name of the Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator, known for his leadership of the Rexist Party before World War II? He enlisted in the German army during the war and after the war he fled to Spain and became a prominent neo-Nazi figure, whilst denying the Holocaust.
Leon Degrelle
874
Spoofing the name of a popular children’s TV series that ran for over 30 years, which Dave exclusive featured comedians
such as Jack Dee, Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves, Johnny Mitchell and David Mitchell amongst many others narrating stories?
Crackanory
875
Which Spanish surrealist painter went to France to flee the Spanish Civil War only to flee again come World War II? She eventually settled
in Mexico City for the remainder of her life where she died of an unexpected heart attack in 1963?
Remedios Varo
876
She is known for being the first Mexican woman to have her artwork exhibited in the United States. Born 1902 Jalisco.
Maria Izquierdo
877
All That Glitters, a 1977 sitcom that spoofed the soap opera format and was a twist on social norms where women were the breadwinners and men stayed at home to raise children, was created and produced by what TV producer?
Norman Lear
878
After winning gold in the pole vault, Polish athlete Władysław Kozakiewicz performed what action -- raising one fist in defiance while slapping that arm's bicep with the other hand -- in front of a hostile Soviet crowd in what year's Olympics?
bras d'honneur
879
The Hope Diamond, a 45.52 carat blue-hued gemstone, is one of the best-known diamonds mined from what region in southeast India? The
region was named after the Sultanate that ruled the area in the 16th century, and the active mines closed by mid-1800s.
Golconda
880
What Hall of Fame player spent all 21 years of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, notably winning the National League MVP, the NLCS MVP, and the World Series MVP all in the same 1979 season?
Willie Stargell
881
What name is given to explicit memory or knowledge that is intentionally recalled? Made up of semantic and episodic memory, it is
dependent on the processes of acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval.
Declarative
882
What Spanish word is used to describe authoritarian Spanish or Hispanic American leaders who wield political and military power? Generalissimo Francisco Franco formally used this title when in office.
Caudillo
883
What gaming genre gains its name from a 1980 procedurally generated dungeon crawler in which players seek the Amulet of Yendor? (Note: name the genre, not the game.)
Roguelike
884
What type of autochory involves the stem of the plant crawling along the ground to deposit its seed as far as possible from the base of the plant, without the help of any external vector?
Blastochory
885
What "Empress of the Blues" was hired into Moses Stokes's traveling vaudeville troupe after starting her career busking on the streets of
Chattanooga? "Downhearted Blues" became her first hit record in 1923.
Bessie Smith
886
Which state was represented by John B. Clark and John W. Reid, who were expelled from the House of Representatives in 1861 for
supporting the Confederate rebellion? In 1838, Clark was ordered by this state’s governor Lillian Boggs to carry out the Mormon Extermination Order.
Missouri
887
In Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," we learn in the final line that good fences make what?
Good Neighbours
888
Which "B" word is an adjective generally heard in the context of seawater and means "slightly salty"? Differentiating it from "briny", it
also used in other contexts to mean "unpleasant or distasteful."
Brackish
889
What is the name of the figurine that is added to Nativity scenes in Catalonia, furtively pooping off to the side? A centuries-old tradition, placing this figure is interpreted to bring good luck for the upcoming
year.
Caganer
890
Beethoven's famous Kreutzer Sonata, officially known as Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, was originally dedicated to what Poland-born violin
virtuoso of African or Afro-Caribbean descent who spent much of his life in London?
George Bridgetower
891
If you're fencing with an opponent and only their torso is a valid target, what weapon are you using?
Foil
892
Which type of phishing, where people are deceived into revealing sensitive information, targets potential victims using personalized emails to convince someone the scam is legitimate?
Spear
893
Which Mexico City-based surrealist painter is as remembered for her art as she is for being a crucial figure in the women's liberation movement in 1970s Mexico? Her remains were interred at the Panteón Inglés in Mexico City in 2011 after her death at age 94.
Leonora Carrington
894
"Always on Time" and "Mesmerize" were both hits for Ja Rule and what possibly-most-iconic collaborator? Her own song "Foolish" and "What’s Luv” with Fat Joe were once in the top two spots on Billboard, making her the first woman artist to achieve that feat
Ashanti
895
Which type of phishing uses spear phishing techniques to focus on very high-profile senior executives? It shares its name with an industry that has been nearly banned worldwide.
Whaling
896
Parts of Catalonia and southern France have a Christmas tradition of a decorated log known as what? Children beat the log with sticks
while singing, to encourage it to poop out candy and small presents.
Tio de Nadal
897
What type of non-declarative or implicit memory gives its name to the performance of tasks without conscious awareness of previous memories and learning? Muscle memory is a form of this.
Procedural
898
Since 2002, brothers Tarn and Zach Adams have developed what roguelike construction/management dwarf simulation game, renowned for its difficulty, its catastrophic colony collapses, and its community motto "Losing is fun!"?
Dwarf Fortress
899
Which "E" word is the term for a kinda-sorta river delta that links a river or rivers to a coastal body but, notably, with a lot of brackish
water at that junction?
Estuary
900
Moses Stokes's traveling troupe included what "Mother of the Blues" who had a big record with "Bo-Weavil Blues" in 1923?
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
901
Two roads diverged in a what color wood in the opening line of Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?
Yellow
902
Which authoritarian title, meaning "leader" in Romanian and cognate with the Italian "duce" [DOO-chay], was officially used by dictator Ion
Antonescu, and occasionally used to refer to Carol II and Nicolae Ceaușescu [chow-SHESK-oo]?
Conducator
903
What type of autochory involves the seed dispersing itself through crawling by means of trichomes, awns, or changes in humidity, without use of an external vector?
Herpochory
904
Professor and podcast host Brené Brown boils down people's base needs to two things, being seen or being accepted, in her TEDTalk
and book "The Power of" what 13-letter quality?
Vulnerability
905
What Guadeloupe-born conductor of the Paris Opera starting in 1776 was also a violin virtuoso and the first classical composer of African
descent to attain widespread European acclaim?
Joseph BOLOGNE, Chevalier de
SAINT-GEORGEs
906
Under what title was Mad Max 2 released in the United States? The title is a description of Max Rockatansky’s character.
The Road Warrior
907
The caption “name a more BLANK, I’ll wait” originally accompanied a photo of Kendall and Kylie Jenner. What two-word phrase frequently
memed in this way fills in the blank?
Iconic Duo
908
“The GI’s home away from home” was a phrase frequently used to describe what usually-initialized charitable organization that provides
entertainment to Armed Forces members? It was founded in 1941.
United Service Organisations (USO)
909
In which winter sport was Corinne Suter a world and Olympic champion?
Alpine Skiing
910
In the 1960s Gerry Anderson television series, which number Thunderbird is the green heavy transporter piloted by Virgil Tracy?
Two
911
Between 1995 and 2003, Fernando Henrique Cardoso served as president of which South American country?
Brazil
912
Ommetaphobia is the fear of which facial feature?
Eyes
913
What word completes the title of John Le Carré's 1986 espionage novel A Perfect ___?
Spy
914
Which Japanese artist produced the series of woodblock prints titled One Hundred Famous Views of Edo?
Hiroshige
915
Which body of water, between the West Antarctic Peninsula and the Amundsen Sea, is named after a Russian explorer?
Bellingshausen Sea
916
Although only reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon, which female Russian tennis player won the most grass-court matches on the WTA tour in 2023?
Ekaterina Alexandrova
917
Which Welsh bard wrote a collection of poems about the Gododdin, a sixth-century kingdom of south-east Scotland?
Aneirin
918
In 1542, which Spanish soldier became the first European to sail down the Amazon River?
Francisco de Orellana
919
Which R&B singer duetted with Enrique Iglesias on the 2009 hit Takin' Back My Love?
Ciara
920
Which American manufacturer of vinyl toys and collectible bobbleheads is best known for its
Pop! line of collectibles? These depict characters from pop culture with large square heads.
Funko
921
Which French sex worker had a relationship with the future Edward VIII at the end of the First
World War? In 1923 she was acquitted of murder after killing her Egyptian husband at the
Savoy Hotel earlier in the year.
Marguerite Alibert
922
ACE inhibitors are a class of medication used to treat high blood pressure. In the acronym
ACE, the letters CE stand for ‘converting enzyme’; for what does the letter A stand? This is the
name of a hormone that stimulates the release of aldosterone from the adrenal cortex.
Angiotensin
923
Which Spanish Renaissance composer’s Tenebrae Responsories are a set of 18 a cappella motets written in 1585 for the Responsories of Holy Week? This composer studied under Palestrina in Rome and may be best remembered for his requiem mass Officium Defunctorum.
Tomas Luis de Victoria
924
Chromosomal crossover is one of the final stages of what process of meiosis where genetic material is exchanged between homologous chromosomes, leading to offspring with mixtures of traits different from either parent?
Recombination
925
Who won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award in 2017? He has recently returned after a 12-game suspension for infractions such as knocking out a teammate, striking multiple opponents in the face, putting one in a headlock
and stomping on the chest of another.
Draymond Green
926
Roughly equivalent to the Western terms ‘geek’ or ‘nerd’, which Japanese word describes people with consuming interests in topics like manga, anime, video games and computers?
Otaku
927
Which presenter hosts the BBC 1Xtra weekday breakfast show? She previously hosted the weekend breakfast show before replacing Dotty in 2020.
Nadia Jae
928
First used in English in the early 18th century, the abbreviation n.b. is often put
before giving an important note or instruction. What Latin term does n.b. stand
for?
Nota Bene
929
Angiotensin and aldosterone form part of a hormone system sometimes known by the
initialism RAAS alongside what other hormone, which represented by the letter R? This
hormone is secreted by the juxtaglomerular cells in response to falling blood pressure or
blood-sodium levels.
Renin
930
Which Italian composer of the Late Renaissance and early Baroque periods set all 27 of
the Holy Week responsories in his Tenebrae Responsoria? This composer developed a
unique highly chromatic style but is just as well remembered as a murderer.
Carlo Gesualdo
931
In 1929, the future Edward VIII left Freda Dudley Ward for which woman, the aunt of
Gloria Vanderbilt, who, like Dudley Ward, was married (and who introduced him to Wallis
Simpson)?
Thelma Furness
932
Which lead guitarist and vocalist with The Band enjoyed a UK top 20 solo success in
1988 with Somewhere Down the Crazy River? He died in August 2023.
Robbie Robertson
933
Which Japanese manufacturer of toys, collectibles and scale models first rose to
prominence with its Astro Boy action figure, and went on to develop the Tamagotchi,
Digimon and Power Rangers action figures? In 2005, it merged with the video game
producer Namco.
Bandai
934
Which Dutch technology company is the third largest in the EU by market
capitalisation? It is the world’s sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet photolithography
machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced computer chips.
ASML Holding
935
Which scholar was Belisarius's secretary? Much of our knowledge of Rome in the 6th
century comes from his books the History of the Wars, The Buildings, and The Secret
History.
Procopius
936
Which presenter hosts the BBC 1Xtra mid-morning show on Saturdays? He also
presents The Squad on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Nick Bright
937
Roughly equivalent to Western terms like ‘loner’ or ‘recluse’, which Japanese word describes people who have made a complete withdrawal from society? This word also refers to the condition itself, which is estimated that half a million Japanese young people have.
Hikikomori
938
What name is given to a nucleic acid sequence in DNA that can move around to different positions within the genome of a single cell, potentially causing mutations and altering the cell’s genetic identity and genome size?
A transposable element (accept TE, transposon, or jumping gene)
939
Which US writer has been accused of going easy on the title subject of his 2023
biography Elon Musk? Previous works by this man have focused on Einstein and
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
940
a Ukrainian politician, and businessman. He served as a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Digital Transformation from 2019 to March 2023. On 21 March 2023 his duties and title was expanded to Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology – Minister for Digital Transformation. As of 2024, 32 years old.
Mykhailo Federov
941
Who won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award in 2004? He served short suspensions for fighting, destroying a TV camera and asking for a month off to promote an R&B album, and an 86-game suspension for punching a fan in an
incident known as the Malice at the Palace.
Metta Sandiford-Artest or Metta World Peace
942
In which Cumbrian town is the Derwent Pencil Museum located?
Keswick
943
Which is Britain’s smallest native carnivore?
Weasel –Mustela nivalis
944
How many years of marriage are celebrated by a Crystal wedding?
15
945
What is the largest British member of the crow family?
Raven
946
Which former Liverpool footballer was affectionately known as “The Anfield Iron” by his
teammates and supporters alike?
Tommy Smith
947
Who was the ironmaster & engineer who was commissioned to make & build the World’s first
iron bridge over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in 1758?
Abraham Darby
948
The old music hall songs, Boiled Beef & Carrots, I’m Henery the Eighth (I Am) & Any Old Iron,
were written and performed by which Cockney comedian and singer?
Harry Champion
949
Which Moroccan port was twice destroyed by earthquakes in 1731 and 1960 and rebuilt on
both occasions in different locations?
Agadir
950
Who is the drummer who was the only member to play on every one of Pink Floyd’s albums?
Nick Mason
951
Who is the TV weatherman and presenter who raised more than £2.5 million for Children in
Need when he played a 24 hour “Drumathon” with 50 other drummers in 2021?
Owain Wyn Evans
952
Faces drummer Kenney Jones replaced which legendary drummer, following his death in 1978?
Keith Moon (The Who)
953
SI unit Magnetic Flux Density.
Tesla (Weber is magnetic flux)
954
Which recently deceased actor was the voice of the now extinct British Telecom bird “Busby”?
Bernard Cribbins
955
Which product was advertised in a series of 1970’s commercials which featured Leonard
Rossiter and Joan Collins?
Cinzano
956
Which officer is responsible for maintaining order in the Commons part of the parliamentary
estate, and is the macebearer at ceremonial occasions?
Sergeant at Arms
957
If a country was governed by a “stratocracy”, By whom would be ruled?
Military or Army
958
Which Greek leader’s idea of a wooden horse ultimately led to the fall of the city of Troy?
Odysseus
959
A town in Kent which has England’s second oldest cathedral and the fourth largest city of New York state located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario.
Rochester
960
“The Flying Scotsman” was the nickname of which Olympic cyclist of the 1990’s?
Graeme Obree
961
Which athletics sprinter, who won four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympic Games was
known as “The Flying Housewife”?
Fanny Blankers-Koen
962
Germany’s Deutschmark was replaced by the Euro in 2002. What was East Germany’s unit of
currency between 1948 & 1990 as opposed to the West German Deutschmark?
Ostmark
963
Which supergroup trio formed in London in 1970 by former members of The Nice, King Crimson and Atomic Rooster respectively?
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
964
What are the bands of Emerson, Lake and Palmer?
Keith Emerson (keyboards) of The Nice, Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitar, producer) of King Crimson, and Carl Palmer (drums, percussion) of Atomic Rooster.
965
original members of crosby stills nash and young
David Crosby was a founding member of the Byrds, Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter in Buffalo Springfield (which also featured Neil Young), and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, singer and songwriter with The Hollies.
966
In the former ITV series Doc Martin, what is the title character’s surname?
Ellingham
967
What was the name of the doctor serving aboard the Hispaniola in Stevenson’s “Treasure
Island”?
Dr Livesey
968
“Doctor Who and the Daleks”, and “Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD”, were two feature length Doctor Who films shot in 1965 & 1966 respectively. Which actor starred as the Doctor?
Peter Cushing
969
Who is credited with leading the first expedition to reach the geographical North Pole in 1909?
Robert Peary
970
A leader of the successful Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1962, he also reached the North Pole accompanied by Neil Armstrong in 1985. Who was he?
Edmund Hillary
971
What was the name of the Trojan queen during Troy’s conflict with Greece?
Hecuba (married to Priam)
972
The British Troy weight system has been used for precious metals & gems since the 15thcentury. It only has four units. The Troy ounce & Troy pound are two. Name either of the others.
The Grain or the Pennyweight
973
In the 1960’s animated series Stingray, Captain Troy Tempest and his navigator “Bones”
recruited a young mute woman from under the sea as their third crew member. Name her.
Marina
974
Which musician was known as “The Man with the Golden Trumpet”?
Eddie Calvert
975
What name is given to the residence of an otter?
Holt or Couch
976
Which group had a UK Top 40 hit in 1972 with the song “I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll
Band” taken from their album Seventh Sojourn?
The Moody Blues
977
Which strait connects the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea and divides the city of Istanbul en
route?
Bosphorus
978
Which English author, one of the “Angry Young Men” of the1950’s, wrote many novels including
Room at the Top, Life at the Top and The Crying Game?
John Braine
979
Douglas Trendle, a singer with a two-tone band whose best-known releases were arguably “Lip
Up Fatty” and” My Girl Lollipop”, is better known by what name?
Buster Bloodvessel (Bad Manners)
980
What name is given to a structure usually made of wood or stone, projecting perpendicularly
from coastlines into the sea to prevent beach erosion caused by longshore drift?
Groyne
981
Bristol’s oldest and largest railway station was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and
opened in1840. What is its name?
Temple Meads
982
Name the Gloucestershire village near which Sir Peter Scott established his Wildlife and
Wetlands Trust in 1946.
Slimbridge
983
Scotland has many lochs, but which body of water near Stirling is often cited as the being the
only one referred to as a lake in its name?
Lake of Menteith
984
Which popular item of dress was launched in the mid 1960’s by a British fashion designer called
Michael Fish?
Kipper Tie
985
What is the name of the lace or silk garment worn over the head and shoulders of women in
Spain and several other Spanish-speaking countries?
Mantilla
986
What is the name the long loose cloak or coat, used as a distinctive garment by Jewish men in
the Middle Ages? In The Merchant of Venice, one such garment is worn by Shylock.
Gaberdine
987
Which specific competition saw the introduction of referees red and yellow cards in association
football?
1970 Mexico World Cup
988
Pentacles, cups and wands are three of the four suits in a pack of Tarot cards. What is the
fourth suit?
Swords
989
Which title did Anthony Wedgwood Benn renounce upon becoming a Member of Parliament?
(2nd) Viscount Stansgate
990
Which country has a single chamber parliament called “The Riksdag”?
Sweden
991
What pejorative term is applied in the USA to illegal immigrants who cross the Rio Grande fromMexico?
Wetbacks
992
The Snowdonia National Park changed its name in November 2022 to which Welsh name?
Eryri is Snowdonia (Yr Wyddfa in Snowdon)
993
Which American actor played the lead role in the television series MacGyver (1985–1992) and also starred as Jack O'Neill in Stargate SG-1 From 1997 to 2005?
Richard Dean Anderson
994
Deputy First Minister of NI from 2024. Lagan Valley. Michelle O’Neill was deputy back in 2020-22 but now first minister.
Emma Little-Pengelly
995
British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks.
Peter Robinson
996
His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He then starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018).
Ezekiel Sims in Madame web.
Tahar Rahim
997
Also known as Battle of Jhelum, or First Battle of Jhelum, was fought between Alexander the Great and Porus in May of 326 BC, named after Punjab river in Pakistan, Bucephalus said to be killed there.
Battle of the Hydaspes
998
Ex-general Prabowo Subianto is set to be the next president of what populous archipelagic nation?
Indonesia
999
Google renamed its AI chatbot from Bard to which astrological sign?
Gemini
1000
What party of Imran Khan won the most parliamentary seats in elections in Pakistan, an electoral upset that stunned the powerful generals who run the country?
PAKISTAN TEHREEK-E-INSAF (PTI)
