Next 21 Flashcards
1
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Which 19th century author wrote the novels Redgauntlet and Quentin Durward?
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Walter Scott
2
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What name is given to the Straits of Dover by the French?
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Pas de Calais
3
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What was the former name of the African country Malawi?
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Nyasaland
4
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Who was the producer and director, known as “The King of Comedy”, who founded the
Keystone Studios in 1912?
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Mack Sennett
5
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Who played the part of Nora Batty in The Last of the Summer Wine?
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Kathy Staff
6
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Where was John Bunyon imprisoned when he wrote The Pilgrims Progress?
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Bedford Gaol
7
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Which brid has alternative name Landrail?
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Corncrake
8
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What bird has alternative name Solan Goose?
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Northern Gannet
9
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Which bird has alternative name Mother Carey’s Chicken?
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Storm Petrel
10
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What is the name of the dysfunctional pupil at St. Custards prep school who is the supposed
author of four books about life at the school, beginning with “Down With Skool”?
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Nigel Molesworth
11
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Kenny surname in South Park?
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McCormick
12
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Kyle surname in South Park?
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Broflovski
13
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Stan surname in South Park?
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Marsh
14
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Which was the first battle of the English Civil War in 1642?
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Battle of Edgehill in Warwickshire
15
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What bird is to be found on the Lufthansa logo?
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Crane
16
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Who sang the James Bond theme song Tomorrow Never Dies?
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Sheryl Crow
17
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Garbage sing what James Bond theme song?
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The World is Not Enough
18
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The third book in the Hunger Games trilogy, written by the American author Suzanne Collins?
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Mockingjay (after second is Catching Fire)
19
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Which department in a hospital is primarily concerned with conditions involving the musculo–skeletal system?
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orthopedics
20
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How is Caisson’s Disease better known to us as?
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Decompression Sickness
21
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Gloria Estefan and the … ?
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Miami Sound Machine
22
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John Lennon and the … ?
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Plastic Ono Band
23
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Johnny Kidd and the … ?
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Pirates
24
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Bruce Hornsby and the … ?
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Range
25
Football: Who becamethe first female referee in a men's Premier League game, at the match between Fulham and Burnley on the 23rd of December 2023?
Rebecca Welch
26
Olympics: The gold painted Royal Mail post box outside Macclesfield Library is dedicated to which 2012 London Summer Paralympic gold medallist?
Dame Sarah Storey
27
Name either of the two countries where the Pindus Mountains are found.
Greece (Northern) or Albania (Southern)
28
English stage and screen actress who died aged 89. She was known as the Grand Dame of British Cinema. Her best–known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Ice Cold in Alex (1958) and The Tamarind Seed (1974).
Sylvia Sims
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English film director who died aged 86. He directed the films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes in 1984.
Hugh Hudson
30
Which British car manufacturer was responsible for the models called Husky, Minx and Imp?
Hillman
31
Where did Wallace and Gromit visit in the animated film A Grand Day Out?
moon
32
What is the Queen of Puddings topped with?
meringue
33
Which is the largest seaport in Morocco?
Casablanca
34
Which Midlands city did the pop group The Specials come from?
coventry
35
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of how many stories?
24
36
Name either of the two British athletes who won gold medals at the World Athletics Championships held in Budapest last year.
Gold Katarina Johnson-Thompson Women's heptathlon 20 August
Gold Josh Kerr Men's 1500 metres
37
What note do orchestras tune up to?
A (as every instrument has an A)
38
Who was the first presenter of Family Fortunes?
Bob Monkhouse(from 1980 to 1983) (Max Bygraves then Les Dennis)
39
Former English international netball player. She made her international debut for the English national team in 1999 and during her career has competed at three Netball World Championships, three Commonwealth Games and two World Netball Series. Assistant ref on Gladiators.
Sonia Mkoloma
40
A Lisfranc injury, also known as Lisfranc fracture, is an injury of which part of the body?
the foot in which one or more of the metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus
41
What was Thomas Hardy's last completed novel?
Jude the Obscure
42
With which well–known band did Joe Walsh join in 1975?
The Eagles
43
In football, what is the maximum length of time that a goalkeeper can hold the ball for in open play?
Six seconds
44
Which tax was replaced by VAT in the UK in 1973?
Purchase Tax
45
According to the proverb, what is better than no bread?
Half a loaf
46
In the TV programme 'Allo 'Allo! what is the name of Rene's wife?
Edith Artois
47
Who played Rene Artois in Allo Allo
Gorden Kaye
48
Who played Edith Artois the wife of Rene Artois in Allo Allo?
Carmen Silvera
49
Who played Mr Wilberforce Claybourne Humphries in Are you beign served?
John Inman
50
Who played Mrs Betty Slocombe always mentioning her pussy in Are you being served?
Mollie Sudgen
51
He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour (Are You Being Served? Again!) and as Herbert "Truly" Truelove in TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
Frank Thornton
52
Who played Ted Bovis - The Camp's Entertainment Host, and a former entertainer on Hi De Hi
Paul Shane
53
The ubiquitous phrase "Hi-De-Hi!" itself, said by everyone. When the entertainment staff say it to the campers, the latter respond with what?
"Ho-de-ho!"
54
Who played Gladys Pugh - The Camp's radio announcer and sports organiser. The writers devised her to be the romantic foils for the entertainment managers throughout the series, while being snobbish around the Yellowcoats and Peggy. HI DE HI?
Ruth Madoc
55
Who played Peggy Ollerenshaw - A chalet maid at Maplins, with dreams of becoming a Yellowcoat and achieving stardom on Hi De Hi? As a singer, she scored a UK number-two hit with the song "Starting Together" in 1986.
Su Pollard
56
Who played Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Arthur Digby St John Reynolds, the most senior officer in charge of the concert party and enjoys their shows immensely in It Aint Half Hot Mum? Also Lord Meldrum in You Rang M'Lord?
Donald Hewlett
57
written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army. It was broadcast between 1988 and 1993 on the BBC. The show was set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
You Rang M'Lord?
58
Who played Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn "Shut Up" Williams?
Windsor Davies
59
Gunner "Lofty" Harold Horace Herbert Willy Sugden actor, he is is the diminutive, rotund lead singer of the concert party usually seen in an old-fashioned pith helmet?
Don Estelle
60
The single–word name of which vegetable is the only one to contains all five vowels?
Cauliflower
61
How many tiles in total are used in the Chinese game of Mahjong?
144
62
How many letter tiles are there in Scrabble not including the two blank ones?
98 (100 including the two blank ones)
63
Which group was made up of Billy Connolly, Gerry Rafferty and Tam Harvey?
The Humblebums
64
Who is the female companion of Flash Gordon?
Dale Arden
65
Where in London would you find a statue of Peter Pan, sculpted by George Frampton?
Kensington Gardens
66
In 1983 who became the first American woman in space?
Sally Ride
67
In which British graveyard was Pocahontas buried in 1617?
Gravesend
68
Who has scored the most test points for England in Rugby Union?
Owen Farrell
69
In Greek mythology, which king married his own mother?
Oedipus
70
What was the name of the Ewing family Ranch in Dallas?
South Fork
71
Ponderosa Ranch is owned by Cartwright family in which TV show?
Bonanza
72
How many yards are there in a mile?
1760
73
Which 4 words appeared at the start of the closing credits for the TV programme Dad's Army?
You have been watching
74
What nationality was Goliath, the giant slayed by David in the bible?
Philistine
75
All species of lovebirds are native to which continent?
Africa
76
Adolf von Baeyer was the recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds. He is known for the synthesis of what plant dye?
Indigo
77
How many pairs of chromosomes are present in human cells?
23
78
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the abolition of censorship, which country's tourism authority set up a phone number in 2016 that connects the caller to a random person?
Sweden
79
Alcelaphus buselaphus is a species of large antelope typically found in savannas and wooded grasslands in Africa. Having an elongated forehead and oddly shaped horns, what is its common name?
Hartebeest
80
The Erya is the first surviving dictionary of what Asian language?
Chinese
81
Nicknamed the Galveston Giant, who was the first black world heavyweight boxing champion? He was formally pardoned by former US President Donald Trump for violating the Mann Act.
Jack Johnson
82
In Greek mythology, the goddess Leto is the mother of which twin deities?
Apollo and Artemis
83
who is mother of castor and pollux
Leda
84
Who was the coach of the New England Patriots from 2000 to 2023?
Bill Belichick
85
Who replaced Bill Belichick as New England Patriots coach in 2023?
Jerod Mayo
86
Sharing its name with a thin, rectangular biscuit, what is the four letter acronym for the executive public body which evaluates the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures for the NHS in England and Wales?
Nice
87
Which colour, whose name is derived from the French word for a chestnut, can also mean a type of rocket which generates a loud bang and a bright flash?
Maroon
88
Round 2 is a collection of random general knowledge questions.The pilot episode of which show, which became the most watched TV programme in the world in 2008 and ran for 8 series before coming to an end in 2012, was called “Everybody Lies”?
House
89
Which sport launched the USA’s first world class professional league in 2023 with teams San Francisco Unicorns, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings, Washington Freedom, Mi New York, and Los Angeles Knight Riders?
cricket
90
Which song was written and originally recorded by Welsh rock band Badfinger and subsequently became a UK number 1 for both Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey?
Without You
91
Which 5 letter word could mean a quantity of thread wound to a length upon a reel, a flight of wild fowl, or a Celtic knife or dagger?
Skein
92
Which English close harmony pop vocal trio was formed in 1944, had top 10 hits in the 1950s with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Little Drummer Boy", performed as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, and that year achieved a Guinness World Record as the world's longest surviving vocal group without a change in the original line up?
The Beverley Sisters
93
Which French soup made from cauliflower, potatoes, and veal stock is named for the mistress of Louis XV executed by guillotine during the French Revolution in 1793?
Creme du Barry
94
Which is the only ordinal number which when spelled in English has its letters in alphabetical order?
First
95
When Prince Philip, in a speech to the General Dental Council in 1960, said that he had practiced the science of dontopedalogy for a good many years, what did he mean?
He said it was “the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it”
96
Former police traffic officer, the aptly named Russ Bray, retired from which job after 28 years in January 2024?
World darts referee
97
Which test cricket team became this month the first ever to lose 6 wickets without scoring, but went on to win the match in the shortest ever number of balls?
India who beat South Africa at Newlands
98
Former referee Keith Hackett called it the most aggressive atmosphere he encountered in England. Please name one of the football teams involved in the Old Farm Derby …
Norwich City or Ipswich Town
99
Which song written by Charles Aznavour was covered by Elvis Costello in 1999 for the film Notting Hill?
She
100
Which 19th century American writer, best known for his fiction, had the only bestseller of his lifetime with the non-fiction A Conchologist’s First Book (about mollusc shells), published in 1839?
Edgar Allen Poe
101
Which German, rather better-known for other activities, had his novel Michael published against his wishes in 1929?
Joseph Goebbels
102
Which American mathematical prodigy was recognised in his academic field for papers such the page-turner The Set of Curvilinear Convergence of a Continuous Function Defined in the Interior of a Cube in 1969, but became more widely famous in 1995 for his political manifesto? He committed suicide in prison in 2023.
Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski
(accept 'The Unabomber')
103
After the ratification of a treaty agreed in June 2022, with which country will Denmark have its shortest border?
Canada
(the two have agreed to divide Hans Island, which lies between Greenland and Nunavut, which will give them a border 1.2km long)
104
The Esperança Bridge, a mere 3.2m long, connects which two countries?
Portugal and Spain
105
Pheasant Island, in the Bidasoa river, has, since 1659, spent alternating periods of six months under the governance of two European countries. Which two?
France and Spain
106
In 1987 Norman Mailer directed his only feature film, starring Ryan O'Neal and Isabella Rossellini. What is its title?
Tough Guys Don’t Dance
107
Nicknamed 'the sweater girl', which famous actress’s mob-linked boyfriend Johnny Stompanato was killed by her daughter?
Lana Turner
108
Creme de menthe, creme de cacao and crushed ice;
&
Wade Dooley, Will Greenwood and current England coach Steve Borthwick all started their playing careers at which Lancashire rugby club (full name required)?
Preston Grasshoppers (the cocktail is the grasshopper)
109
White rum, pineapple juice, grenadine and Mascherano liqueur;
&
Born Gladys Smith, this actress was known as America’s Sweetheart during the silent era. She was awarded the second Best Actress Oscar for her role in Coquette and was married three times, on the second occasion to Douglas Fairbanks.
Mary Pickford
110
Gold rum, Galliano liqueur, pineapple juice and lime juice, topped with prosecco;
&
What word can be:
a song by US rock band Heart;
a cybersecurity firm;
and a predatory species of fish, an animated version of which eats all but one of the clownfish eggs at the start of the film Finding Nemo?
Barracuda
111
Eggnog with brandy and rum, served hot;
&
Jasper and Jinx are the middle names of which duo, with whom Gene Kelly dances in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh?
Tom and Jerry
112
Whisky and vermouth;
&
Cattleman and outlaw who had a longstanding feud with the 4th Marquess of Montrose and who was played by Liam Neeson in a 1995 film.
Rob Roy
113
Korean rice dish meaning mxiing cooked rice
Bibimbap
114
Which seminal jazz album was released by Miles Davis in 1957? "Birth and Death"
Birth of the Cool
115
What is the nickname of Schubert’s string quartet no. 14 in D minor, D810? "Birth and Death"
Death and the Maiden
116
In which comic novel of 1759 does a completely blank page indicate that the eponymous hero is waiting to be born?
Tristam Shandy
117
Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature;
&
transgender Tik Tok personality whose association with Bud Light led to a huge fall in sales of the beer and a drop of more than $20 billion in the value of its manufacturer.
Bob Dylan / Dylan Mulvaney
118
1939 film about a school teacher, which was remade in 1969, nominated for best actor Oscars on both occasions but winning only in 1940;
&
play by Arnold Wesker which takes its title from words its lead character saw on a café menu.
Goodbye Mr Chips / Chips With Everything
119
Novel by Julian Barnes which won the Booker Prize in 2011 and was filmed in 2017 starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling;
&
Christmas carol whose chorus is "Gloria, Hosanna in Excelsis".
Sense of an Ending / Ding Dong Merrily on High
120
Name in the UK for the drug called acetaminophen in the USA;
&
former editor of The Independent, now a ubiquitous BBC presenter and interviewer currently appearing, inter alia, on Start the Week and the Today programme.
Paracetamol / Amol Rajan
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British / Pakistani author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007);
&
former president of Afghanistan, after whom Kabul airport is named.
Mohsin Hamid / Hamid Karzai
122
On which private island in the Grenadines was a ten-acre plot given to Princess Margaret as a wedding present in 1960? She visited frequently throughout her life, describing it as "the only place I can relax"?
Mustique
123
Which 1948 John Huston film, starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G Robinson, tells the story of a group trapped by a hurricane in a hotel on the eponymous island?
Key Largo
124
The pure white sands of Whitehaven beach are a popular tourist site on which island of the Great Barrier Reef?
Whitsunday Island
125
Vaitape is the main settlement on which island group of French Polynesia, famed for its luxury resorts?
Bora Bora
126
APPGs are viewed by many merely as a means for politicians to obtain expenses-paid trips to exotic locations (the politicians may express a different opinion). What does APPG stand for?
All-Party Parliamentary Group
127
In which country was the secret state police known as Savak?
Iran
128
Where in the world is Llanito spoken?
Gibraltar
129
Which very well-known Monty Python sketch begins, after (in some versions) a scene-setting voiceover, with the words: “Come in … Trouble at t’mill”?
The Spanish Inquisition
130
How is the New York road officially called The Avenue of the Americas better known?
6th Avenue
131
What was the name of the submersible which sadly imploded in June killing all on board while attempting to explore the wreck of the Titanic?
Titan
132
In the 1966 World Cup held in England, two grounds were picked from the north eastern region, Roker Park being one, name the other?
Ayresome Park (Middlesborough)
133
Who sang the theme tune for the Bond film, The Man With the Golden Gun?
Lulu
134
In which English county would you find Happisburgh, famous for its lighthouse?
Norfolk
135
New coins are being issued in 2024, which small animal will be depicted on the two-pence coin?
Red Squirrel
136
Who sang the theme tune for the Bond film, For Your Eyes Only?
Sheena Easton
137
In which English county would you find Berry Head lighthouse, famous for being one of the shortest stacks, yet still high on a cliff?
Devon
138
In the 1966 World Cup held in England, Wembley and which other ground represented the south eastern region for matches?
White City
139
Which former Casualty Actress won an Oscar for playing Christy Brown's mother in the film, My Left Foot?
Brenda Fricker
140
Which American actress, more known for a famous detective role, will be joining Casualty in an episode due in 2024?
Sharon Gless
141
Set before and during the Second World War this 1992 Channel 4 TV series was based on a 1984 book by Mary Wesley. The title is taken from a stretch of grass between the Cornish house in which the action first takes place, and the sea cliffs on which many significant events take place.
The Camomile Lawn
142
This term has often been used, particularly by people from Caribbean background, to refer to people of Jamaican origin although its meaning changes depending on context. It is derived from Jamaican dialect for 'home'. What is it?
Yardie
143
This admiral commanded British fleets during the American War of Independence and is perhaps best known for defeating the French at the Battle of the Saints in 1782. What was his surname?
Rodney
144
What is the surname of the character 'Brenda' played by Victoria Wood in her award winning comedy series Dinnerladies? It is revealed in the last episode when her estranged mother Petunia (played by Julie Walters) dies and Brenda discovers that the name on her mother's death certificate is the same as her own.
Furlong
145
D
In the 1968 classic Sci-Fi film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, what is the name of the spaceship in which two astronauts journey to find the alien race who planted a mysterious monolith on the Moon?
Discovery
146
TJMC
Name the fictional company that owns Red Dwarf in the iconic BBC sci-fi comedy of the same name.
The Jupiter Mining Corporation
147
TSM
In 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo published a sensational pamphlet in Latin called Sidereus Nuncius announcing his discovery of the four large moons of Jupiter by using the recently invented telescope. How is the pamphlet known in English?
The Starry Messenger
148
Which Conservative MP for the constituency of Selby and Ainsty, resigned on 10th June 2023 causing a bye-election?
Nigel Adams
149
Who refereed the 2023 Rugby World Cup Final between South Africa and New Zealand?
Wayne Barnes
150
Which literary award was given to The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green in 2023?
Gold Dagger
151
Quite recently regaled in song, what indigenous British bird has the Latin name perdix perdix?
Partridge
152
In the car crash that killed Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and the chauffeur Henri Paul in August 1997, Diana's bodyguard was the only occupant of the car to survive. What was his name?
Trevor Rees-Jones
153
The working process of what is, in theory, the most efficient heat engine possible, is known by what name?
Carnot Cycle
154
Which purported biography in 9 volumes began publication in 1759 with the first 2 volumes, but does not even reach the birth of its eponymous subject until volume 3? It is famed for its digressions, double entendres and graphic devices.
Tristram Shandy
(or more properly The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)
155
Name the long running Radio 4 culinary panel show presented by Jay Rayner and currently airing at 10.30 on Saturday mornings.
The Kitchen Cabinet
156
Broadcast in 2019, in which legal drama did Julianne Margulis (pictured) play the title character?
The Good Wife
157
He is probably best known as a presenter of television programmes on biology and medicine and his regular appearances on The One Show. He is an intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diet advocate who has written books promoting the ketogenic diet. Popularised 5:2 diet.
Michael Mosley
158
He performed the world's first fallopian tubal transplant in 1979 but this technology was later superseded by in vitro fertilisation. Presented Walking with Cavemen, and the BAFTA award-winner The Human Body.
Robert Winston
159
Now in its second series which coming-of-age Channel 4 comedy, set in the University of Brent, is a lightly fictionalised account of its writer Jack Rooke’s life?
Big Boys
160
The third volume of his autobiographical trilogy of his early life was entitled May Week Was in June. Who was this poet, journalist, critic, and broadcaster who died in 2019?
Clive James
161
The Tory MP for Gosport and former Cabinet member, Dame Caroline Lancaster (her married name), is the daughter of which well-loved former children’s television presenter and crime documentary broadcaster?
Fred Dinenage
162
Which actress plays Mandy Carter in the surreal comedy series Mandy? BBC 2 have commissioned a third series.
Diane Morgan
163
Little Nellie in 1967 and Wet Nellie in 1977 have what common cinematic origin?
James Bond films
(one was an autogyro in You Only Live Twice, the latter the Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me)
164
The Gold Sovereign as its name suggests features an image of the current sovereign on its obverse side. Since 1817 which person features on the reverse side?
St George
165
Who is the only female artist in UK chart history to have a No 1 single as a solo performer, as part of a duo, a quartet and a quintet? She has written or co-written eleven UK No 1 singles and sung on 14 No 1 singles.
Mel Chisholm
166
Currently one of the most collectable coins is a 50p coin released in 2009. Due to its low mintage it often sells upwards of £150. Which British institution features on it?
Kew Gardens
167
Discovered in 2010 which chemical element is the most recent of the halogens?
Tennessine
168
Which Kenyan holds the record for the men’s marathon, set in Chicago in October 2023?
Kelvin Kiptum
169
Which comic, with the forenames Alfred Hawthorne, would have celebrated his 100th birthday this week if he had not died in 1992?
Benny Hill
170
The old city of Jerusalem is divided into four unequal quarters, the largest being the Muslim quarter followed by the Christian and then the Jewish. Which is the smallest remaining quarter?
Armenian
171
The world’s largest uninhabited island, apart from temporary visitors from NASA who train there due to its similarities with Martian conditions, is in Canada. Over 55,000 square kilometres it shares its name with the forename of a former England test cricketer born in Jamaica in 1963. Can you name the island?
Devon Island
(the cricketer is Devon Malcolm)
172
Where am I?
I am walking through Gamla Stan 'the old town' and pass St Nicholas’s Church where the country’s monarchs are crowned. I reach the Royal Palace, one of the largest in Europe, where Jarl Berger built the original fort in the 13th century and around which the city developed.
Stockholm
173
Which is the only racehorse to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup five times?
Golden Miller
174
Which 1948 adventure film starring John Mills as the eponymous character had music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams? The composer recycled elements of the incidental music into his 1952 Seventh Symphony.
Scott of the Antarctic
175
Surname of a Welsh rugby union player who has recently left the sport to seek his fortune in the USA with the NFL
Louis Rees-Zammit
176
a) An African river described as “great, grey, green and greasy” in the short story The Elephant’s Child;
b) A volcano 5393m high which is the second highest peak in Mexico.
Limpopocatepetl
(Limpopo and Popocatapetl)
177
a) A fictional TV character from an imported US series first seen in 1979 who was always dressed in white, including hat, and who sported a 62 inch waist;
b) Name given to the meat of a sheep that is between one and two years old.
Boss Hogget
(Boss Hogg and Hogget)
178
Which actor played Boss Hogg in original TV show Dukes of Hazzard
Sorrell Booke
179
He is best known for his portrayal of Beauregard "Bo" Duke in the American television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard, Jonathan Kent in the 2001–2011 TV series Smallville, and James "Jim" Cryer on the television series The Haves and the Have Nots, created by Tyler Perry.
John Schneider
180
He had a small role as U.S. Marshal Gil Tatum in Django Unchained (2012) but better known as Luke Duke on original Dukes of Hazzard.
Tom Wopat
181
Actress who played original Daisy Duke in DOH
Catherine Bach
182
Name of bumbling corrupt sheriff in The Dukes of Hazzard?
Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane
183
Who played Huggy Bear on original Starsky and Hutch?
Antonio Fargas
184
a) A piece of floating sea ice too small to be classed as an iceberg;
b) A container for carrying beer equivalent to 64 fluid ounces;
c) Historically a slang term for a four wheeled hansom cab.
Growlers
185
a) In baseball an act by the batter of hitting a ball slowly and a short distance;
b) Small seed-eating birds with stubby conical bills of the genus Embiriza;
c) Surname of a darts player from the North-West known for his resemblance to the cartoon character Peter Griffin.
Bunting
186
What was the title of the series of rather dark school-based books by children’s author Gillian Cross? The eponymous character was memorably portrayed on television 1996-1998 by the late Terrence Hardiman.
The Demon Headmaster
187
Which Manchester-born actress played Grange Hill headmistress Mrs Bridget McClusky for eleven years between 1980 and 1991?
Gwyneth Powell
188
Who was the headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 until his death 1842 aged only 46? He is also portrayed in the novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
Thomas Arnold
189
The Mexican socialite with the improbable name of Genovesa Casanova has strenuously denied an inappropriate romantic liaison with which member of Royalty? (title and forename needed)
Frederick X
190
Nigeria shares land borders with four other nations. Name two.
Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger
191
Give a year in the life of Peter I, known as Peter the Great, Emperor of All Russia.
1672 to 1725
192
Give a year in the life of Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of All Russia.
1530 to 1584
193
In which language is Leonard Bernstein’s choral composition Chichester Psalms sung?
Hebrew
194
Slovenia shares land borders with four other nations. Name two.
Austria, Croatia, Italy and Hungary
195
Madame Butterfly set on which island?
Kyushu
196
an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1854).
Dejima
197
: The current series of the Strictly Come Dancing spin off show, It Takes Two has two presenters. One a
professional dancer and one a former contestant. Name both.
Jeanette MANRARA and Fleur EAST
198
The Traitors has a companion show fronted by Ed Gamble with what name?
The Traitors: Uncloaked
199
Which 1979 song by Fleetwood Mac featured the University of Southern California Marching Band
(Trojans)? It was also the title song of the album which was the follow up to Rumours.
Tusk
200
Who is the only monarch to be born and die at Buckingham Palace?
Edward VII
201
: Which island,10th largest by area in the world, was named after the title held by Francis Egerton,
President of the Royal Geographical Society?
Ellesmere Island
202
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, the 1903 novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin was set in the fictional town of
Riverboro, in which US State? It is the largest state by area in New England.
Maine
203
In 1644 which North-Western town was attacked and captured by Royalist forces under Prince Rupert and James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, leading to a so called massacre of the defenders? In 1651 James Stanley was executed for treason in this town.
Bolton
204
Charlie Higson actor, comedian and author has written a series of novels about young James Bond. In May 2023 he published his first adult James Bond novel, the title of which differs from one of Ian Fleming’s novels by just one word. What is Higson’s title?
ON HIS MAJESTY’s SECRET SERVICE
205
Which additional word changes a John Osborne play of 1956 into an Oasis number one hit of 1996?
Don't
206
Which name was popularised by a novel of 1904, is the name of an English poet who wrote the collection titled Anecdotal Evidence, and is a track on the Beach Boys album All Summer Long?
Wendy
207
Which name features in the title of a song written by Hank Marvin, a song on Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, and a song covered and made a hit by Shakin Stevens?
Marie
208
Which name connects a Spanish queen called the Mad, a song by Kool and the Gang and a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent which was a hit for Scott Walker in 1968?
Joanna
209
from 1945 to 1946 which country experienced the highest rate of inflation ever recorded and in 1946 issued the highest ever denomination banknote - 100 quintillion pengoes?
Hungary
210
On the Abbey Road album sleeve three of the Beatles wear suits designed by which Welsh born tailor and designer? He also created the suit worn by Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Batman.
Tommy Nutter
211
Who was the last British Prime Minister to be educated at Cambridge University?
Stanley Baldwin
212
In which city is the Headquarters of the IMF?
Washington DC
213
Which famous Oscar winning British actor played Heathcliff in the 1939 film version of Wuthering Heights and Mr Darcy in the 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice?
Laurence Olivier
214
Samarinda is the largest city by population on which large island?
Borneo
215
In 2005 which woman was Alan Sugar’s aide in the first series of
The Apprentice?
Margaret Mountford
216
The Magus is a novel by which english author?
John Fowles
217
What is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland?
Slieve Donard
218
Which band had a no 1 hit in 1982 with The Lion Sleeps Tonight?
Tight Fit
219
Whose best known works include the lion sculptures in London’s
Trafalgar Square?
Edwin Landseer
220
Who wrote Strangers and Brothers and Corridors of Power?
CP Snow
221
In which work by Charles Kingsley will you find the main character
Tom, a young chimney sweep?
The Water Babies
222
Which singer’s backing group were Cockney Rebel?
Steve Harley
223
Give a year in the life of Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641
224
What was the motto of the Women’s Social and Political Union set up by the Pankhursts in 1903?
Deeds not Words
225
Vincent Damon Furnier is better known as which singer?
Alice Cooper
226
Which group spent 8 weeks at no1 in 1962 with Wonderful Land?
The Shadows
227
Which town in Cheshire is nicknamed the Silk Town but traditionally was known as the Treacle Town?
Macclesfield
228
What is the home ground of Hearts FC?
Tynecastle Park
229
Bateman’s, Rudyard Kipling’s home, is in which English county?
East Sussex
230
The newest ‘section’ of the Scout movement was introduced in 2021 for four and five year-olds. What is it called?
Squirrels
231
If the Great Fire of London started in Pudding Lane, at which corner
did it finish?
Pye Corner
232
In November 2022, two women who identify as lesbians were elected
to governorships, a first for their respective states. Maura Healey was
one: what state does she represent?
Massachusetts
233
What is the Sanskrit name for the yoga pose also known as Mountain Pose that is the starting point for many modern standing yoga poses?
TADASANA
234
From the Latin for "white", which garment is worn by Christian clergy over the cassock, and is generally the second innermost garment worn
during a service?
Alb
235
What does the AA stand for in "AAH" (Hypothesis) and "AAT" (Theory)"? These are pseudoscientific ideas that postulate human evolution from the idea that a large population of our ancestors branched off away from the rest and settled underwater.
Aquatic Ape
236
The band Looking Glass scored a hit in 1972 about a woman (a "Fine Girl", if you will) with what name? The song was made popular again
through the Guardians of the Galaxy films, and the name is also shared by a noted 90s and 2000s R&B singer.
Brandy
237
Most cases of carpal tunnel syndrome involve pressure on which nerve as it passes through the carpal tunnel? This is also a noun used in some branches of mathematics.
Median nerve
238
Which colorfully named cologne by Dolce & Gabbana has notes of green apple, jasmine, and Sicilian lemon? Its "Summer Vibes" offshoot is woodier and has notes of Bergamot.
Light Blue
239
Ptolemy XII was exiled from Egypt in 58 BCE but returned 3 years later to reclaim the throne, assassinating what eldest daughter of his who
had been ruling in his absence? He would later designate his children Ptolemy the Thirteenth and Cleopatra the Seventh - yes, that Cleopatra - as his successors.
Berenice the Fourth
240
Who voiced and heavily resembles the antagonist Yzma in Disney’s film The Emperor’s New Groove? Once described as “the most
exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles, she is possibly best known for her 1953 recording of “Santa Baby.”
Eartha Kitt
241
What is the name for the maneuver in hockey in which a player hits the puck very fast and hard often resulting in high velocity but low accuracy? It's also the name of a 1977 Paul Newman film.
Slap Shot
242
Because of their many long legs, the Majoidea superfamily of crabs is generally given what name?
Spider Crab
243
Which indicator, abbreviated GPI, takes account of a nation's wellbeing and separates societal progress from economic growth, and has been
suggested to replace or supplement GDP?
Genuine Progress Indicator
244
Which multiple Caldecott Medal winner was known for illustrating books including Once a Mouse, Shadow, and fairy tales including Puss in Boots and Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper?
Marcia Brown
245
What is the name of the pre-Meiji ethnic Japanese people who often worked as butchers, tanners, and executioners? These people were
highly discriminated against and lived as outcasts in ghettos.
Burakumin
246
Which Dan Harmon animated sitcom on FOX is set in mythical ancient Greece and centers on a flawed family of humans, gods, and monsters? Voice actors include Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, and Hannah Waddingham.
Krapopolis
247
Cleopatra (the Seventh as we now know) co-ruled at different times with two of her brothers Ptolemy the Thirteenth and Fourteenth. All
three of them included in their official names what Greek-rooted epithet to indicate filial piety?
Philopator
248
Which Tom Ford cologne exploded in popularity after it was revealed to be a fragrance of choice for Harry Styles? It's named after two of
its primary scent notes.
Tobacco Vanille
249
Gene Ray, the self-proclaimed "wisest man on Earth", created a webpage in 1997 that gained traction in pseudoscientific communities
in which he posited that space and reality as we know it is wrong and that, according to his model, we are experiencing four separate days
simultaneously. What is the two-word name of this geometric model of reality?
Time Cube
250
From the Latin for "over" and "fur", which shortened version of the alb is worn by Christian clergy and is usually knee length with open sleeves?
Surplice
251
In November 2022, Tina Kotek was elected governor of what state, that state's first governor to identify as a lesbian? She replaced Governor Kate Brown who identifies as bisexual.
Oregon
252
What name is given to the Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount? In 1993, its prominent golden arched roof
was refurbished from a donation provided by King Hussein of Jordan.
Dome of the Rock
253
What is the Sanskrit name for the yoga pose also known as Corpse Pose? It is the restorative pose that typically ends a yoga session.
Shivasana
254
Which index, abbreviated HPI and introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006, looks at wellbeing and environmental impact instead of economic progress? It is designed to challenge GDP and the Human Development Index.
Happy Planet Index
255
What unofficial hockey position, also known as a goon, is meant to intimidate the opposition with bullying or violent actions? A 1976 Clint Eastwood film shares this name
Enforcer
256
Which multiple Caldecott Medal winner is known for his illustrations in Make Way for Ducklings in 1941? He also illustrated the Homer Prince and Henry Reed series of novels
Robert McCloskey
257
Because of the males' small claws moving across their much larger claws when eating, the Ocypodidae family of crab is generally given what name?
Fiddler Crabs
258
What is the name of the Korean untouchable caste associated with butchers? They sit below Cheonmin and above Nobi in the Joseon caste system.
Baekjong
259
Which Molyneux sisters animated sitcom on FOX is set in Alaska and centers on a flawed family living in the town of Lone Moose? Voice actors include Nick Offerman, Jenny Slate, and Will Forte.
The Great North
260
What retail company, whose slogans include “We belong to something beautiful,” was founded in Limoges in 1969?
Sephora
261
Which American surfer was crowned World Surf League Champion a record 11 times between 1992 and 2011 and is widely regarded as the greatest professional surfer of all time? He has won the Laureus World Sports Award for Action
Sportsperson of the Year a record four times.
Kelly SLATER
262
Which English composer’s 1891 choral work De Profundis was one of the first works commissioned by the Three Choirs
Festival? His setting of the anthem ‘I was glad’ has been used at coronations since 1902.
Hubert Parry
263
Which English singer presents his Finest Hour every Sunday on BBC Radio 6 Music?
Guy Garvey
264
Which extinct species of human, which lived during the Palaeo·lithic, was first identified in 2010 from fossils found in the
namesake cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains?
DENISOVANs
265
Ranked among the top 20 slogans of all time by Creative Review, “Refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach” was a slogan
used by what European beer brand, although it has not been used since the 1990s?
Heineken
266
In the classic American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, which actor played the role of Tony, an astronaut who marries the
2000-year-old genie of the show’s title? This actor found greater fame with a long-running TV role that began in 1978.
Larry Hagman
267
Which state have Amy Klobuchar [CLOH-buh-shar], Tim Pawlenty [paul-ENT-ee] and Michele Bachmann all represented when unsuccessfully seeking to become their party’s candidate in 21st-century US Presidential elections?
Minnesota
268
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2023, which active volcano in Martinique was the site of the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century in 1902?
Mount Pelee
269
Which American singer presents his Block Party every Saturday on BBC Radio 6 Music?
Huey Morgan
270
In 2003, an extinct species of very small human was identified from bones discovered in Liang Bua cave on which Indonesian island? Although sometimes informally referred to as ‘hobbits’, these humans are more properly named after the island on which they lived until around 50,000 years ago.
Flores
271
Which English composer used poetry by Thomas Traherne in his cantata Dies Natalis [dee-yez nat-AHL-iss], which he conducted
at the Three Choirs Festival in 1946? As well as choral works, this composer is known for his song cycles such as Let Us Garlands
Bring, his Cello Concerto, and compositions for the clarinet
Gerald Finzi
272
In 2021, Nigo [nee-go] was appointed creative director of what French fashion house? This fashion brand takes its name from the given name of its founder, who has the surname Takada.
Kenzo
273
Which state have Tim Ryan, Dennis Kucinich [coo-SIN-itch] and John Kasich [CASE-ick] all represented when unsuccessfully
seeking to become their party’s candidate in 21st-century US Presidential elections?
Ohio
274
Which musical sisters had UK top ten hits in the 1970s with ‘We Are Family’ and ‘Lost in Music’?
Sister Sledge
275
In the classic American sitcom Bewitched, who plays Samantha, a good witch who marries an ordinary mortal man?
Elizabeth Montgomery
276
Which coastal town in Suffolk is the most easterly settlement in the UK?
Lowestoft
277
What is the current name of the paid-subscription service formerly known as Twitter Blue? This name was changed
following Twitter's purchase by Elon Musk.
X Premium
278
Which London-based book publisher is known for its minimalistic covers of white text on a blue background? Half of the Nobel Laureates in Literature since 2015 have had their works published by this company.
Fitzcarraldo Editions
279
Blue cheeses like Roquefort use mould to create their pungent taste. The mould used in Roquefort is P. roqueforti, where the P stands for what genus of fungi? This genus also gives its name to a group of antibiotics, whose name you may give instead.
Penciullium
280
What single letter denotes the brightest stars in the Morgan-Keenan system of stellar classification? These stars are so
bright they are said to burn 'blue-white'
O (OBAFGKM)
281
Dory, from the Finding Nemo series of films, is perhaps the most famous of what kind of fish in the genus Paracanthurus?
Regal Blue Tang
282
Harald Bluetooth, king of the Danes and wireless technology namesake, constructed many edifices across Denmark. Among them were a number of which fortifications, named for their distinctive shape? They are also known as
Trelleborgs, after one such site.
Ring Fortress
283
The 1968 'Blue House Raid' was a failed assassination of which South Korean president? This strongman was assassinated in the Blue House eleven years later.
PARK Chung-Hee
284
Fitzcarraldo Editions also publishes essays, whose covers have blue text on a white background. One essayist they have published is which French author, known for her memoirs and autobiographical works such as Shame and A Woman's Story?
Annie Ernaux
285
Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sits on the board of directors for which microblogging site? After Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, some users may have wondered why this alternative had to hide away for
so long.
BlueSky
286
Joni Mitchell recorded several songs on Blue with which other singer-songwriter, her partner at the time? He is best known for his song “Fire and Rain” and his cover of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend”.
James Taylor
287
Another member of the UK Government's Blue Belt program is which Atlantic Ocean island with a capital at Jamestown?
Saint Helena
288
O-Type stars make up the smallest fraction of what segment of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, used to classify star types?
This segment shows the most common stage of stellar evolution as opposed to dwarves and giants.
Main Sequence
289
Le Creuset's casserole dish is often reported, perhaps erroneously, to be the favourite cooking pot of which American TV chef? Studying at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, she is best known for the show The French Chef.
Julia Child
290
Who is the BArefoot Contessa in American TV cooking?
Ina Garten
291
Blu, from the Rio series of films, is perhaps the most famous of which kind of bird in the genus Cyanopsitta?
Spix's Macaw
292
a Known for its iconic blue dome and facade, the Shah Mosque is located in Isfahan in which modern-day country?
Iran
293
Blue Rev is a 2022 album by which shoegaze-inspired indie band? Their breakthrough single was 2014’s “Archie, Marry Me”, while their 2017 album Antisocialites won the Juno award for Best Alternative Album, a feat they repeated with Blue Rev
Alvvays (pronounced Always)
294
Which American striker also scored 6 goals at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, taking home the silver boot with less assists? She currently plays in the blue colours of San Diego Wave, but is most famous in the UK for her brief cameo at
Tottenham Hotspur and her notorious “tea” celebration.
Alex Morgan
295
Harald Bluetooth also constructed a runestone in Jelling [yelling] dedicated to his parents; his children did not return the favour. Which of his sons revolted and seized the throne from him in the 980s? He would later become the first Danish King of England, overthrowing Aethelred the Unready and founding the house named for his son, Cnut.
Sweyn Forkbeard
296
Bloo is a sentient blue blob, manifested by a young boy called Mac, in which Cartoon Network television series? The name of the series refers to an orphanage that is home to many children’s former pretend-playmates.
Foster's Home for Imaginary
Friends
297
Released in 2022, The Looker was a parody of which widely acclaimed 2016
puzzle video game developed by Jonathan Blow?
The Witness
298
‘Mark and Tim' was a sketch on the early 1990s TV show The Mary Whitehouse Experience that parodied two British singers, usually showing them do nothing but move their heads slowly from side to side. One of its subjects was Tim
Burgess, the lead singer of which group?
The Charlatans
299
Which Anglo-Irish nobleman and MP who died in 1816 left his library and art collection to Cambridge University, along with the bequest to build a namesake museum?
Fitzwilliam
300
Italian food purists insist that there are only two acceptable varieties of true Neapolitan pizza: the Margherita and which other, that is topped only with tomato, olive oil, oregano, and garlic? It has no cheese, and perhaps surprisingly, no seafood.
Marinara
301
Which seven-letter word for a localised grouping precedes 'headache' in the name for a type of headache that occurs in bouts, and involves a piercing unilateral pain usually felt close to one eye, accompanied by restlessness?
Cluster
302
Which French model and actress with a single-word stage name played Simone in the 1963 film The Pink Panther and Renée in the 1965 film What's New Pussycat?
Capucine
303
With a Norse-derived name meaning 'water island', what is the westernmost permanently inhabited island in Scotland? Found near the southern end of the Western Isles, it is connected by causeway to the larger island of Barra.
Vatersay
304
In which 2022 epic historical film did Nicole Kidman play Alexander Skarsgård's
mother?
The Northman
305
A Silk Road entry point to China at the western end of the Han Dynasty Great
Wall, the Yumen Pass is also known as the ____ Gate, where the blank is which
ornamental good that many caravans passed through carrying?
Jade
306
Which branch of anthropology involves the in-depth study of a particular cultural
group? It is not to be confused with the closely related field of ethnology, which
compares different cultural groups.
Ethnography
307
What three-letter word precedes
electrophoresis’ in the name of the molecular
biological technique that won Arne Tiselius a 1948 Nobel prize? This technique separates DNA and RNA molecules based on their size and charge
Gel
308
Although pancetta or other meats are often substituted, Italian food purists insist that a true spaghetti carbonara must be made with what specific cured meat, made from pork jowls or cheek?
Guanciale
309
The other subject of The Mary Whitehouse Experience's 'Mark and Tim' sketches
was Mark Gardener, who was one of two vocalist-guitarists in which shoegaze
band, alongside Andy Bell?
Ride
310
Which musical is based on the 1967 film of the same name with Julie Andrews
in the title role, and tells the story of a small-town girl who comes to New York
City in the 1920s, with a plan to marry for money instead of love?
Thoroughly Modern Millie
311
In office from 1948 to 1953, and again from 1955 to 1963, who was Israel's first
Prime Minister?
David Ben-Gurion
312
Which widely acclaimed 2014 puzzle video game, developed by Croteam, was
partly named after a Greek mythological automaton, and had a recent sequel
released in November 2023?
The Talos Principle
313
Andrew Hodges wrote a bestselling 1983 biography of which mathematician, that
later became the basis for a 2014 film?
Alan Turing
314
A precursor to the Southern Silk Road, the Ancient ____ Horse Road connected
China to Tibet, with the blank being which commodity, grown in China and from
the Tang dynasty onwards, often traded in return for Tibetan ponies?
Tea
315
In anthropology, field research is often divided into two types: an insider’s perspective, called ‘emic’ [ee-mick], and an outsider’s approach, known by what corresponding four-letter word? Both terms originated in linguistics, with ‘emic’
coming from ‘phonemic’ [foe-nee-mick] and this from the ending of a similar word.
Etic
316
Team Alinghi, who won the 2003 and 2007 America's Cup, represented which
landlocked nation?
Switzerland
317
Which goddess is shown with a mirror in paintings by Velázquez, Titian, Veronese and Rubens which all feature her namesake effect, whereby she appears to be looking at herself, although her reflection is shown from the
viewer’s perspective, and would not be seen from her angle?
Venus Effect
318
William Whewell also coined which word for the assumption that the same natural
processes that operate in present-day scientific observations have always applied? In geology, this theory is the opposite of catastrophism and is also known as gradualism.
Uniformitarianism
319
Which French comic actor with a single-word stage name played the title role in the 1950s and '60s Don Camillo series of French-Italian films? He also appeared with Bob Hope in Paris Holiday and with David Niven in Around the World in Eighty Days.
Fernandel
320
Which Scottish island, also close to Barra and a little southwest of Vatersay, was
inhabited from the Iron Age until it was abandoned in 1912, and is known for its
namesake Boat Song, a folk song about sailors “Sailing homeward, to ____”?
Mingulay
321
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar are often cited as examples of which genre of novel known by a French name and based on real people and events, but with changed names and details to give a façade of fiction?
Roman a clef
322
In which US city did Kelvin Kiptum set a new world record for the men's marathon
in 2023, with a time of two hours and 35 seconds?
Chicago
323
Which seven-letter word for a pulling force precedes 'headache' in the name of
the most commonly occurring type of headache, usually felt as a band-like pain
across the whole head?
Tension
324
Usually muttering the words "What Doooing", a boxer dog called Moose appeared in the adverts for which credit checking website?
Clearscore
325
What title is shared by a 1936 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Sylvia Sidney, amongst others, and a hit single by the Beastie Boys?
Sabotage
326
Before Wiley and DJ Target topped the chart as members of Roll Deep, they had a 2002
hit with Champagne Dance as part of which other grime collective? According to their
name, they might also have been responsible for rigging the cost of topping up a mobile
phone, if using a tariff introduced in the 1990s.
Pay As U Go Cartel
327
Published in 1683, Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises On The Whole Art Of Printing
was regarded as the bible of the printing trade. Fittingly, it contains the first known
instance of what common English word, familiar from Christianity, being used to refer to a
trade union branch concerned with printing or journalism?
Chapel
328
Which tactic in chess involves attacking an opponent’s piece such that it cannot move
without exposing a more valuable piece behind it to capture?
Pin
329
Nicknamed the Magpies, which Australian rules football club won the 2023 AFL Grand
Final, beating the Brisbane Lions?
Collingwood
330
Most actors to play the Doctor in Doctor Who have a numerical designation, but who
played the incarnation referred to not by a number, but instead as ‘the War Doctor’? He
first appeared in the episode The Name of The Doctor
John Hurt
331
Gerhilde, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Ortlinde, Rossweise, Schwertleite, Siegrune, and
Waltraute are sisters of the title-character of which work by Richard Wagner, usually
performed as the second part of a longer operatic cycle?
Die Walküre / The
Valkyrie
332
The Hindu Kush formed the southern and eastern borders of which historic region of
Central Asia? This was a province of the Persian empire before it was conquered by
Alexander the Great, who then married its princess, Roxana.
Bactria
333
In which 2011 comedy-drama film with an ensemble cast does the late Tom
Wilkinson play a retired judge searching for his long-lost lover in Jaipur, while staying
at the titular hotel alongside Judi Dench and Maggie Smith?
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
334
Used for the early parts of the London Underground network, on sub-surface lines,
what method of forming a tunnel involves excavating to the required depth from
ground level, roofing over, and then backfilling?
Cut and Cover
335
Usually under one metre long, which small species of shark lives in tidal pools and is able to survive oxygen depletion by selectively shutting down nonessential neural functions and ‘walking’ between pools with its fins? It shares its name with a shoulder ornament on a ceremonial jacket.
Epaulette Shark
336
In Doctor Who, who played the incarnation of the Doctor referred to not by a
number, but instead as ‘the Fugitive Doctor’?
Jo Martin
337
Nicknamed the Cats, which Australian rules football club won the 2022 AFL
Grand Final, beating the Sydney Swans?
Geelong
338
Which tactic in chess involves attacking an opponent’s high-value piece such that
it is forced to move out of the way to allow the capture of a weaker piece behind
it? It is sometimes regarded as the opposite of a pin.
Skewer
339
Released on the same day in 2020, Everything Sucks and Everything Is Beautiful are albums by which non-binary New York rapper, born Destiny Frasquieri? According to their stage-name, they might stand to inherit a company that, in the
1990s, became the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones.
Princess Nokia
340
Mechanick Exercises On The Whole Art Of Printing also contains the first known
instance of what common English word, also familiar from Christianity, being
used to refer to a printer’s apprentice, tasked with mixing ink and handling trays
of metal type?
Printer's DEVIL
341
In 1870, James Henry Greathead improved upon what tunnel-boring device, used to prevent cave-ins during deep-level excavation, which was used in the construction of the City and South London Railway? The earlier design had been used in construction of the tunnel from Wapping to Rotherhithe.
Tunnelling Shield
342
Gram staining is a technique in which discipline of biology, also known as microscopic anatomy, which studies tissues in relation to their specialised functions?
Histology
343
retired track and field athlete LONG JUMP who competed for the United Kingdom and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals (1996 and 2000).
Fiona May
344
The historic region of Bactria was located south of which river, which gives its name
to a collection of 180 gold and silver artefacts from the Achæmenid [ah-KEE-mun-id]
Empire, nearly all of which are now housed in the British Museum?
Oxus / Amu Darya
345
Charles Thomson co-founded the Stuckism movement with which man, an ex-lover
of Tracey Emin, who has worked across multiple visual art forms, writing, as well as
playing in bands such as Thee Headcoats?
Billy Childish
346
Although mostly grown as vegetables, the less-edible older specimens of which
genus of plants, whose name derives from the Arabic for ‘fibrous’, are used in the
bathroom as coarse, exfoliating scrubbing-sponges?
Luffa
347
Sixtus Beckmesser, Kunz Vogelgesang, Konrad Nachtigall, Balthasar Zorn, and
Ulrich Eisslinger are among the title-characters of which work by Richard Wagner —
the longest single opera to be regularly performed?
The Master Singers of Nuremberg
348
Private Eye companion podcast
Page 94
349
Podcast true crime stories with the hosts’ Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala characteristic humour, rapport and witty commentary.
Red Handed
350
Who presents High Performance Podcast alongside Jake Humphries?
Professor Damian Hughes
351
Podcast Hosts Zeze Millz and David “Sideman” Whitely cover everything about the UK’s Black music industry
+44 Podcast
352
Relationships podcast by hosts Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy?
The Therapy Crouch
353
Podcast: For anyone with a confession to make – author and journalist Candice Brathwaite and actress Coco Sarel are ready to hear it.
Closet Confessions
354
Podcast Step behind the closed doors of British politics with George Osborne and Ed Balls
Political Currency
355
Who presents Radio SHow and Podcast THis American Life?
Ira Glass
356
Jimmy Fallon the punching bag for the rest of the crew—and for the remainder of the limited series’ run. The resulting conversation between him and Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver PODCAST
Strike Force Five
357
Which ex boyband member presents podcast The Last Soviet? a podcast about Sergei Kirkakev, the Russian cosmonaut who was stranded in space for a year following the collapse of the USSR.
Lance Bass
358
PODCAST Comedian Nish Kumar and journalist Coco Khan have turned the dumpster fire that is British politics into a podcast.
Pod Save the UK
359
PODCAST Simon Parkin is one of very few journalists capable of writing about gaming with the depth, wit and intelligence (unfortunately) usually reserved for art and cinema.
My Perfect Console
360
British podcaster, author, and life coach. He is also a co-founder of Sama Tea. Podcast is ON PURPOSE. Book Think Like a Monk. Book 8 Rules of Love.
Jay Shetty
361
Due to John Cass's links to slavery, the City, University of London, School of Business was changed from CASS to which name after a mathematician in 2021?
Bayes Business School (after Thomas Bayes)
362
Oxford University Business School is named after which Saudi-Canadian financier?
Wafic Said
363
Cambridge University Business School is named after which English business and political figure?
Judge
364
Name of the Business School of the University of Pennsylvania?
Wharton School
365
Business School of MIT named after which person?
Sloan School of Management
366
Tuck School of Business is the business school of which Ivy League university?
Dartmouth College
367
Johnson School for grad and Dyson School for undergrad are the business schools of which Ivy League university?
Cornell University
368
Very funny people Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael (plus a roster of very funny special guests) love movies. PODCAST
How Did This Get Made?
369
Which ‘King of Clay’ beat Michael Chang to triumph at the 1995 Men’s French
Open?
Thomas Muster
370
Martin Lewis Perl and Frederick Reines won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995
for their discoveries regarding what class of elemental particles that can be
charged or neutral?
Leptons
371
In the “Pioneers of Communication” stamp set, which knighted British inventor
appeared on the 19p and 25p stamps? He is noted for introducing the Uniform
Penny Post system under Queen Victoria.
Rowland Hill
372
Which Radio 1 presenter and MTV Europe VJ guest presented Top of the Pops
in May 1995? In 1998 she notably failed to turn up to their Radio 1 job after a
night of clubbing, and in 2005 appeared on Celebrity Big Brother.
Lisa L'Anson
373
Which explosive sounding single was a number one hit for The Outhere Brothers
in 1995?
Boom Boom Boom
374
Which bespectacled presenter fronted the game show, Raise the Roof, where
contestants could win a house worth £100,000? An urban myth suggests they
played the sax on Baker Street.
Bob Holness
375
Which indie album, released by the Boo Radleys, hit number one on the charts?
Wake Up!
376
In October 1995, which US opera house unveiled a new system for translating
the words of onstage operas? The first was Verdi's Otello, starring Placido
Domingo.
Supertitles at the Met
377
The Beltane Fire, a choreographic poem for orchestra was performed for the
first time at Symphony Hall in Boston in 1995. It was conducted by which
Englishman, who also composed it?
Peter Maxwell Davies
378
Which much decorated actress received an Olivier nomination for the role of
Yvonne in Les Parents terribles. Married to Denis Lawson, she continued to work
in theatre after losing an eye in 2003?
Shiela Gish
379
Which actor and R&B singer guest-presented Top of the Pops in June 1995? She
recorded the song Sweetness and later went on to be a panellist for Loose
Women.
Michelle Gayle
380
Which coming-of-age drama, screened at the 1995 Cannes Film festival and
directed by Harmony Korine, featured the film debut of Chloe Sevigny?
Kids
381
Who defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario to win the women's singles tennis title at
the 1995 Australian Open?
Mary Pierce
382
Drummer Alan “Reni” Wren left which band in 1995? Their hits include Made of
Stone and Sally Cinnamon.
Stone Roses
383
Which Non-Proliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely and without conditions
by 170 countries in May 1995?
nuclear
384
Which indie album, released by Supergrass, debuted at number one on the
charts?
I Should Coco
385
In 1995, which electrical goods retailer and former sponsors of the Football League Cup
closed its 311 stores, resulting in the loss of more than 3,000 jobs?
Rumbelows
386
Castlerigg, Swinside and Long Meg are examples of what?
Stone Circles
387
Where is the gypsy horse fair, held in early June of each year?
Appleby (in Cumbria)
388
What is the affectionate name given to the Ravenglass and Esksdale Railway?
La'al Ratty
389
Name the 3 other teams in England’s group in the 2022 Qatar World Cup
Wales, USA, Iran
390
Name the 3 other teams in England’s group in UEFA’s Euro 2024 compe77on
Serbia, Denmark, Slovenia
391
In which 10cc song do they compare death to “a cold lasagne suspended in deep
freeze”?
Life is a Minestrone
392
In which US loca7on does Tina Turner tell us that “salt pork and molasses is all you get in
jail”?
Nutbush City Limits
393
Which band had a UK top ten hit with “I Want Candy” in 1982?
Bow Wow Wow
394
Which US singer had a UK number 2 hit in 1968 (and again in 1975) with a song called
“Honey”?
Bobby Goldsboro
395
Which US detective series always opened with a phone showing the number 555-2368
and an answer message chasing the lead character for money?
The Rockford Files
396
Which Saturday morning children’s programme had the phone number 01811 8055?
Multicoloured Swap Shop
397
36-24-36 is the phone number of the person who does ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ in
the song of the same name by which band?
AC/DC
398
6323003, or six three, two three, double O three in the lyrics, is the number of the phone box, now a museum in Meols (pronounced. Mells) on the Wirral, in the song Red Box White Lights. The song was performed by, and the museum is dedicated to, which 1980s electronic band?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
399
Under the German purity laws of 1516 only 4 ingredients can be used in making beer.
Name any three.
WATER, YEAST, MALT (ACCEPT BARLEY) & HOPS
400
Altbier, a copper-coloured beer, is mainly brewed in which Rhineland city?
Dusseldorf
401
Which jockey featured in the nomina7ons for the 2023 Sports Personality of the Year?
Frankie Dettori
402
Which cricketer featured in the nomina7ons for the 2023 Sports Personality of the Year?
Stuart Broad
403
Which former Manchester City, Bolton and Derby footballer died in 2023, aged 79?
Francis Lee
404
Which Derbyshire born aristocrat and gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots persuaded the
Cavendish family to settle at Chatsworth, and built the Tudor mansion which was
eventually rebuilt into the current house?
Bess of Hardwick
405
Traditionally associated with southwest England, what specific dairy product is prepared
by heating cow’s milk with steam and then cooling in shallow dishes, collecting the fatty
content that rises to the surface?
CLotted Cream
406
Edd Kimber was the first, and Matty Edgell the most recent, winner of which UK reality TV
show?
The Great British Bake Off
407
Which Austrian businessman and conman was the CEO of the fraudulent company
Wirecard and has been on the run since 2020? In 2023 he was revealed as a Russian
spy and is now believed to be in Russia.
Jan Marselak
408
Which one time member of the “Bromley Contingent” (a name applied to a group of early
Sex Pistols fans in 1975) wrote and performed several Top 10 UK singles, including
Spellbound and Hong Kong Garden?
Siouxsie Sioux (accept Susan Ballion)
409
Who sang the theme song for unofficial bond film Never Say Never Again?
Lani Hall
410
Who performed the theme song for the 1967 unofficial bond film Casino Royale? Was written by Bacharach and David.
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (sung by Mike Redway)
411
Which author, in collaboration with Eric Crozier, wrote the libretto to Benjamin Britten’s
opera Billy Budd?
EM Forster
412
Which philosopher and student of Wittgenstein introduced the term ‘Consequentialism’
into the language of analytic philosophy in her 1958 article Modern Moral Philosophy?
Elizabeth Anscombe
413
The role of First Lord of the Treasury is conventionally held by which member of the UK's Cabinet?
Prime Minister
414
Which cigarette brand has the best-selling cigarette type found in the UK? This brand is
commonly initialised to L&B.
Lambert and Butler
415
What is the name given to the informal table that consists of each constituent college of
the University of Oxford’s academic ranking for the prior year?
Norrington
416
For every year from 2009 to 2018, the top selling new car in the UK was the Ford
Fiesta. This has stopped production and been replaced by what model, the top
selling new car in the UK in 2023?
Ford Puma
417
Which river, the longest and second largest tributary of the Ganges and the largest
tributary entirely in India, flows through New Delhi and Agra before meeting the
Ganges at the Triveni Sangam at Prayagraj? At this confluence it is larger than the
Ganges itself.
Yamuna
418
Which actor and comedy writer who died in 2023 was the only female regular cast
member on the radio show I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again? She also appeared in the
first episode of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and spoke the first line of dialogue on
Emmerdale?
Jo Kendall
419
In particle physics, what type of mesons are formed from first generation – i.e. up and
down – quarks and antiquarks and no others, and are the lightest known hadrons?
Pi Mesons
420
Parasite and All Quiet on the Western Front are the two most recent foreignlanguage films to win four Academy Awards. Which 1982 Swedish period drama focusing on two titular siblings was the first to do so?
Fanny and Alexander
421
unorthodox starring roles in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970) and Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971). He also had supporting roles in films such as M*A*S*H (1970), Electric Dreams (1984), Heat (1995), Dogma (1999), Coyote Ugly (2000) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
Bud Cort
422
Her later work included performances in Rosemary's Baby (1968), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), Where's Poppa? (1970),
Maude in Harold and Maude (1971), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), Any Which Way You Can (1980), and My Bodyguard (1980). Won BSA for ROsemary's Baby.
Ruth Gordon
423
Blinding Lights and Save Your Tears are singles by The Weeknd which came from
which album, released in March 2020?
After Hours
424
What family of flowering plants, that flower only once in their lifetime, are marked by
long still leaves and showy flowers? Found chiefly in the Americas, examples are
pineapples and Spanish moss.
Bromeliads
425
The monarchy of which nation became the first to adopt absolute primogeniture in
place of male primogeniture in the order of succession, doing so in 1980? Crown Princess Victoria now next in line.
Sweden
426
In Greek mythology, who is the brother of Electra, whom she waits for to avenge the
murder of their father, Agamemnon, by killing their mother, Clytemnestra? Which he
does
Orestes
427
In 1995, which tennis player shouted at hecklers in the crowd at Wimbledon and then
quit the match in fury at the code violations he received from the chair umpire? The
resulting ban from Wimbledon 1996 made him the first and, so far only, player to be
banned from a future ATP tournament for on court behaviour.
Jeff Tarango
428
Which wine estate in Dorking, Surrey has the largest vineyard in England?
Representing more than 10% of plantings in the UK, in 2010 its Chalk Ridge Rosé
won the IWC International Gold award, the world's biggest and most influential wine
competition.
Denbies
429
Each Electronic Arts (non-sports) Game up to 2016 featured a jingle that would
say ‘EA Games’ followed by what two-word phrase?
Challenge Everything
430
What is the name given to the informal table that consists of each constituent
college of the University of Cambridge’s academic ranking for the prior year?
Tomkins
431
The role of Lord Privy Seal is conventionally held by one of two Cabinet
members, one who sits in the House of Lords and the other in the House of
Commons. Name either.
Leader of the House
of Lords OR Leader
of the House of
Commons
432
Which senior car industry executive with joint French, Lebanese and Brazilian
citizenship was imprisoned in Japan in 2018 for financial irregularities? He
skipped bail and fled the country in 2019 and has since been resident in Beirut?
Carlos Ghosn
433
Which one time member of the “Bromley Contingent” enjoyed Top 10 success in
the United States with the albums Whiplash Smile and Rebel Yell?
Billy Idol (accept
William Broad)
434
What Soviet spacecraft has been in continuous use since the 1960s and is the main craft used to take people to and from space stations? The 3rd Soviet crewed spaceflight programme after Vostok and Voskhod, it was the only way to
reach the international space station throughout most of the 2010s.
Soyuz
435
Which granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick and cousin to James I and VI was named by Elizabeth I as 2nd in line to the throne after her cousin James I and VI? The Main Plot allegedly aimed to put her on the throne, and her clandestine
marriage and subsequent escape from house arrest led to her imprisonment and death in the tower (both names required)
Arabella Stuart
436
Which novel by Thomas Hardy is set on Egdon Heath and features the
characters Clym Yeobright, Eustacia Vye and Diggory Venn?
Return of the Native
437
In Greek mythology, who is the brother of Antigone, whom she tries to bury in
defiance of the orders of her uncle, Creon?
Polynices
438
In 2004, which then Indiana Pacers player received the longest ever suspension
for an on-court incident in NBA history for his role in the so-called malice at the
palace? He also received a year’s probation for jumping into the crowd to grab
and punch opposing fans.
Ron Artest (accept
Metta SandifordArtest or Metta World
Peace)
439
Which vineyard in Tenterden in Kent is the largest producer of English wine, with
almost 1,000 acres under vine? It predominantly produces sparkling wines, and
its Rosé Brut won a Platinum Award at the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards.
Chapel Down
440
God’s Plan and Nice For What are singles by Drake which came from which
album, released in June 2018?
Scorpion
441
Which 17th century Italian scientist gives his name both to a large order of
flowering plants, that includes violets, willows and coca, as well as eponymous
parts of the human excretory system called “pyramids” and “corpuscles”?
Marcello Malpighi
442
In particle physics, what type of meson, that exists as four types, is distinguished
by a 'strangeness' quantum number and is a combination of up/down quarks or
antiquarks with strange quarks or antiquarks?
Kaon / K Meson
443
The last movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 saw the first ever use of which specific wind instrument in a symphony, the largest and lowest pitched regularly used in a symphony orchestra?
Contrabassoon
(accept the double
bassoon, but do not
accept or prompt on
‘bassoon’)
444
Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in which US city?
LA
445
While being only the 5th best-selling car in the UK in 2023, what was the bestselling car in Europe and, indeed the world, last year?
TESLA Model Y
446
Also sometimes referred to as the Ganges, or Ganga, which river is the
westernmost distributary of the Ganges due to an artificial channel linking the two
rivers in West Bengal and flows through Kolkata?
Hooghly
447
Joe Kendall started alongside Nigel Rees and others in which radio sketch show
that billed itself as A Correspondence Course in Dynamic Living? It has been
repeated numerous times since its original 1976-80 run.
The Burkiss Way
448
Two people have won a REGOT (including a razzie). One is Alan Menken. Who
is the other?
Liza Minnelli
449
Known as 'The Welsh Potting Machine', which Welsh snooker player won his third
World Championship in 2018, a full 15 years after his last victory in the event?
Mark Williams
450
Which brand of shampoo is advertised through a TV campaign with the tagline "I
Don't"?
Head and Shoulders
451
Who was the only English member of the mainly Scottish team of comedians who starred in the TV sketch series Absolutely? In more recent years, she has voiced many characters, including Mummy Pig, in Peppa Pig.
Morwenna Banks
452
The 2023 drama film North Star was the directorial debut of which actress, known for
films including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Gosford Park?
Kristin Scott Thomas
453
Of the original 12 founding members of the English Football League, three are
currently in the Premier League. Which of these moved to its current ground from
Dudley Road in 1889?
Wolverhampton Wanderers
454
What smooth, buttery and expensive honey from the Southeastern United States
is made from the nectar of the tree of the same name, which also names a city in
Mississippi? A song and album by Van Morrison were named for this honey.
Tupelo Honey
455
Of the sixteen so-called Decade Volcanoes whose proximity to large population
centres makes them worthy of particular attention, only one is located in Africa. This
is Mount Nyiragongo, near the city of Goma in which country?
DRC
456
The type of knitting stitch formed by alternating rows of knit stitches and purl
stitches is named for what item of clothing?
Stocking stitch
457
Which Roman general and politician is best known as the commander
responsible for losing three legions when they were ambushed by Germanic
tribes at the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest in 9AD?
Varus
458
The victorious alliance of Germanic tribes at the battle of Teutoberg Forest was
led by which chieftain of the Cherusci, whose Roman military education had
given him the knowledge of their tactics used to set up and execute the ambush?
Arminius
459
When the cartoon series was first shown in the UK, which word replaced 'Ninja' in
the title of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Hero
460
Who was sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes?
Chares of Lindos
461
The fixation of which type of gas from the atmosphere is a process essential to
life and is performed naturally in soil by microorganisms called diazotrophs?
Nitrogen
462
What does the letter R stand for in 'QR', the type of two-dimensional barcode
invented in 1995?
Quick RESPONSE
463
The only one of the Decade Volcanoes in South America, Galeras is located near
the city of Pasto in which country’s Nariño [na-REEN-yo] department?
Colombia
464
Only Decade Volcano found in Russia and in the Kamchatka Peninsula?
Avachinsky-Koryaksky
465
Only Decade Volcano in Mexico has what name and takes name from state found in?
Volcán de Colima
466
Only Decade Volcano found in Hawaii? Dangerous to city of Hilo.
Mauna Loa
467
Decade Volcano Romans once believed the god Vulcan had a workshop here and the eruptions were due to anger at his wife, Venus. Dangerous to city of Catania.
Etna
468
Only Decade Volcano found in Indonesia, it is the most active volcano found in the country found on Java.
Mount Merapi
469
Only Decade Volcano found on continental USA, dangerous to Seattle and other places.
Mt Rainier
470
Decade Volcano found in Japan, most active volcano found in Japan. Found on island of Kyushu, the same as the other of Japan's Decade Volcanos, Mount Unzen.
Sakurajima
471
Decade Volcano found in Guatemala only other one in Central America other than Mexico's Volcan de Colima.
Santa Maria
472
Decade Volcano found in Greece
Santorini Caldera
473
Large caldera filled by namesake lake in Philippines and designated a Decade Volcano. 50km from Manila.
Taal Volcano
474
Decade Volcano found on Papua New Guinea
Ulawun
475
Based on an autobiography by an assistant to Hunter S. Thompson, the 2023 film
Gonzo Girl is the directorial debut of which actress whose credits include the
films True Romance and Lost Highway, and the TV series Medium?
Patricia Arquette
476
Of the original 12 founding members of the English Football League, three are
currently in the Premier League. Which of these moved to its current ground from
Calder Vale in 1883?
Burnley
477
Now owned by the National Trust, what is the name of the estate in Devon which
was purchased by Agatha Christie and her second husband in 1938, where they
both lived for the remainder of their lives?
Greenway
478
Which Booker Prize winning author of The Finkler Question, whose works often
revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters, wrote a 2016 modern
retelling of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice entitled Shylock is My Name?
Howard Jacobson
479
Who was the only Welsh member of the mainly Scottish team of comedians who
starred in the TV sketch series Absolutely? In more recent years, he has voiced
many characters, including the narrator, in Peppa Pig.
John Sparkes
480
Known as 'The Thunder from Down Under', which Australian snooker player and
2010 World Champion is the only non-UK player to have won the triple crown of
World Championships, UK Championship and the Masters?
Neil Robertson
481
Following their recapture after escapes from Wandsworth, both Daniel Khalife
and Ronnie Biggs were held in which category A prison in southeast London?
HMP Belmarsh
482
Known as one of the pioneers of string theory, which American theoretical
physicist has written the popular science books The Cosmic Landscape, The
Black Hole War and The Theoretical Minimum?
Leonard Susskind
483
B The name of which item of traditional academic headwear derives from its
resemblance in shape to a tool used by brickmasons and plasterers?
Mortarboard
484
What does the letter P stand for in 'UPC', the name of the barcode standard used
for retail items worldwide since the 1970s?
Universal PRODUCT Code
485
Which French musician, composer and conductor, who died in 1979, had largely
given up composing to concentrate on teaching following the early death of her sister and fellow composer in 1918? Her many students included Daniel Barenboim, Philip Glass and Quincy Jones.
Nadia Boulanger
486
First made by Parker Brothers in 1964, Qubic was a three-dimensional version
of which game, using a 4x4x4 cube instead of a 3x3 square?
Tic Tac Toe
487
The type of knitting stitch formed by alternating between knit and purl stitches
within each row is known by what name? Because it creates good elasticity, this
stitch is often used for cuffs and sweater hems.
Ribbing
488
The Englischer Garten, meaning 'English garden', is a large public park in the
centre of which German city?
Munich
489
Sharing their name with a mode of transport, which German techno act achieved
considerable success in the late 1990s, and had UK hits including a techno cover
of Supertramp’s The Logical Song in 2001?
Scooter
490
Which athlete won the 2017 World Strongest Man contest, after which he
immediately retired from the sport, stating he needed to lose weight to protect his
health?
Eddie Hall
491
Electron orbitals and their corresponding blocks in the periodic table are represented by the letters s, p, d and f. These originally represented words used to categorise spectral lines in a now-obsolete system, such as the d for ‘diffuse’.
What word was the s short for?
Sharp
492
Which form of assistance for those who cannot afford representation in court is provided in England and Wales by the LAA, an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice?
Legal Aid
493
Born to a Russian aristocratic family with Italian ancestry, which fashion designer was married to the actress Gene Tierney, and was nicknamed the White House Secretary of Style due to designing several iconic outfits for Jackie Kennedy?
Oleg Cassini
494
The redwing, the blackbird, the fieldfare and the ring ouzel are all birds found in Britain that belong to which family of passerine birds?
Thrushes
495
In Greek Mythology, the anemone flower is said to have sprouted from the combined tears of Aphrodite and the spilled blood of which person, her lover, who had been killed by a boar?
Adonis
496
At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which Team GB competitor took gold in the women's BMX racing, relegating Mariana Pajón, the Colombian two-time Olympic champion, to silver?
Bethany Shriever
497
Which Republican succeeded Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the US House of Representatives in January 2023, but was removed in October after his own party filed a motion to vacate the speakership?
Kevin McCarthy
498
The French word navigateur denotes what type of computer application or program? Despite the name, it has nothing to do with satellite navigation.
Browser
499
What two-word English name denotes the type of low-profile hut, covered in
blankets or animal furs, and used in various Native American cultures for a
purification ceremony?
Sweat Lodge
500
A French prince landed at Thanet with an army and was proclaimed king of England in 1216 by rebel barons, but was never crowned, and was eventually defeated by the forces of Henry III. He later became which king of France?
Louis VIII/Louis the Lion
501
Which Italian fashion designer, born to one of the oldest noble families of Florence, and associated with multicoloured geometric prints, created the first one-piece ski suit? In the 1960s, Marilyn Monroe became a fan and was buried in
one of his dresses.
Emilio Pucci
502
The brambling, the crossbill, the twite and the linnet are all birds found in Britain that belong to which family of passerine birds?
Finches
503
Which English reggae and lovers’ rock singer is known for the incredibly high note she sang in her 1979 hit single Silly Games?
Janet Kay
504
A conditional fee agreement is a way of affording a solicitor in cases such as personal injury, where legal aid is usually not available. This type of arrangement is popularly known and advertised by what four-word phrase?
No Win No Fee
505
Appearing from the first ever episode of Eastenders up to 1992, what breed was
the dog Roly, who was gifted to Sharon Watts by her father Den?
Poodle
506
In the original meanings of the letters s, p, d and f, used for electron orbitals and their corresponding blocks in the periodic table, the f represented ‘fundamental’. What word was the p short for?
Principal
507
Ponta Delgada is the executive capital of which Atlantic island group and autonomous region of Portugal?
Azores
508
Stephanie Allen is the real name of which rapper from Birmingham, whose hits include Hurtin' Me, featuring French Montana, and Boasty, with Wiley and Sean Paul?
Stefflon Don
509
What was the name of Louis VIII’s wife, a granddaughter of Henry II and Eleanor
of Aquitaine, who was known as ‘____ of Castile’? In 1217 she assembled a fleet to reinforce Louis in England, which was defeated off the coast of Sandwich, and for much of her later life, she acted as Queen Regent for their son Louis IX
Blanche of Castile
510
The French word téléchargement denotes which internet-related process?
Despite the name, it has nothing to do with charging a device.
Downloading or Uploading
511
What two-word English term denotes the rite of passage, undertaken in various Native American cultures by males entering adulthood, that involves fasting alone for days at a sacred site in an attempt to have a spiritual experience or dream?
Vision Quest
512
Which actor sang a joint-record five of the songs on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest Songs in movies, including I Got Rhythm and Singin' in the Rain?
Gene Kelly
513
Because Ken Bruce took the Popmaster format with him, it was replaced in the 10:30am slot on Vernon Kay's BBC Radio 2 show by which new pop quiz with an alliterative name?
Ten to the Top
514
In Greek Mythology, which flower did Apollo grow from the spilled blood of his
lover of the same name, who had been killed by a stray discus?
Hyacinth
515
At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which Team GB rider took gold in the inaugural BMX freestyle event, in the process becoming the first woman in history to land a 360 backflip in competition?
Charlotte Worthington
516
Which word beginning with B denotes a French eatery usually considered more
formal than a bistro, but still less formal than a fine dining restaurant?
Brasserie
517
British car company founded by Graham Nearn in 1973 and bought by Lotus Cars in 2011. Named after namesake Surrey town. Current model ______ 7 is direct evolution of Lotus Seven by Colin Chapman.
Caterham Cars
518
British luxury car brand established in 1906, which has been owned by Aston Martin since 1947. Named the company after the Shawnee settlement in modern-day Springfield, Ohio, the town of founder's birth (Wilbur Gunn).
Lagonda
519
British sports car manufacturer founded by Brian ______ in 1954 in Cambridge, England, which became known for its involvement in motorsport. Logo is yellow and green with three swords on it. Known for their Knobbly car. Britain's fastest SUV in 2020 the ______ Stealth.
Lister Cars
520
Four letter name (archaic name for a mule) recreational vehicle manufactured by Chery Automobile in China since 2013 and assembled by a variety of companies in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and others. The design, by British industrial designer Michael Young, evokes the classic Mini ____ built from 1964 until 1993.
MOKE
521
British car maker founded in 1910 in Malvern Link by Henry Frederick Stanley _______. Cars are unusual in that wood has been used in their construction for a century, and is still used in the 21st century for framing the body shell. Latest are Plus Six, Plus Four, Super 3.
Morgan
522
British bus manufacturing company based in Larbert, Scotland. The largest bus and coach manufacturer in the United Kingdom with a 50% market share in 2019.
Alexander Dennis
523
UK-based bin lorry manufacturer owned by Terberg Environmental? Models eCollect, Elite+, Phoenix 2, Elite 1.
DENNIS Eagle
524
Which German brand owns Mini and Rolls-Royce?
BMW
525
Which Chinese state-owned Automobile company owns British company MG?
SAIC
526
Bentley owned by which German brand?
Volkswagen (who also own Audi)
527
Off the back of the Mini, small economy car that was made by the Rootes Group and its successor Chrysler Europe from 1963 until 1976. Revealed on 3 May 1963, after much advance publicity, it was the first British mass-produced car with the engine block and cylinder head cast in aluminium.
Hillman Imp
528
an economy car produced by British marque Morris Motors between 1948 and 1971 designed by Alec Issigonis?
Morris Minor
529
Ford car launched in 1962 with Italian Olympics name origins
Ford Cortina
530
First Japanese car to be sold in Britain in 1964 name came from Italian for "partner"?
Daihatsu Compagno
531
What name did Nissan sell its cars in the UK as until it phased out the name in 1986?
Datsun
532
Defunct British motor car company known for their Dolomite, Vitesse, Herald and Spitfire cars?
Triumph
533
Russian car brand which joined up with Dacia 2021/22
Lada
534
In 1995 Ford entered the people carrier market with which model which ran until April 2023 with no successor as of 2024?
Galaxy
535
Dutch sports car marque The company's motto is "Nulla tenaci invia est via", Latin for "For the tenacious, no road is impassable".The marque's logo displays an aircraft propeller superimposed over a spoked wheel. 2010 they bought SAAB from General Motors.
Spyker Cars
536
Jaguar Land Rover plant up at Merseyside
Halewood Plant
537
SAIC now lease which old MG factory massive in district of Birmingham what plant?
Longbridge Plant
538
Known for its model the Atom, which car company is based in Crewkerne, Somerset?
Ariel
539
Which VW Group owned car company based in Crewe plant has models including Azure and Mulsanne?
Bentley Motors
540
Renault model commercial van also sold as Nissan Primastar, Mitsubishi Express, Fiat Talento.
Trafic
541
Bus manufacturer with models including Alero, Solo, Versa, Tempo, Esteem, Spectra, Olympus and Visionaire?
Optare
542
Bus manufacturer with models including Panther, Paragon, Profile, Primo, Pronto, Beaver, Cheetah and Centro?
Plaxton
543
What is the shared surname of Chris and Rosie, a married couple who host the parenting and relationships podcast Shagged, Married, Annoyed?
Ramsay
544
Popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the dulcian was a precursor
to what modern orchestral instrument of the woodwind family?
Bassoon
545
What was the name of the telegram that was published in July 1870 to incite France to declare war on Prussia?
Ems Telegram
546
Only two countries in the world have non-decimal currencies. What is the primary
currency unit of Mauritania, equal to five khoums?
Ouguiya
547
After leaving office in 1829, who later became the only former US President to be
elected to the House of Representatives?
John Quincy Adams
548
With the first names George Edward, usually abbreviated as G.E., which English philosopher coined the meta-ethical term 'naturalism' and led a revolt against idealism? Alongside Bertrand Russell he was one of the central figures in the development of analytic philosophy.
GE Moore
549
What stage in the process of making red wine involves soaking grape skins, seeds and stems in the juice during fermentation, in order to extract tannins, colour and other phenols from the solids?
Maceration
550
A semiconductor nanocrystal, in which electrons, holes, or excitons are confined to a region comparable in size to their wavelength, is often known by the abbreviation QD. If the Q stands for Quantum, what short word is represented by
the letter D?
Dot
551
Who managed Swansea City from 2012 to 2014, making him the only Dane apart from Thomas Frank to have managed a team in the Premier League? With 37 goals from 104 caps for Denmark, he is considered one of the greatest ever Danish footballers.
Michael Laudrup
552
Invented in the early nineteenth century, the ophicleide [OFF-ih-klyde] was a
forerunner to what modern orchestral instrument of the brass family?
Tuba
553
Shawm is the older ancestor of which modern day instrument?
Oboe
554
Sackbut is the early predecessor of which modern day instrument?
Trombone
555
Tabor is a type of which instrument? Arabic for this instrument.
Drum
556
With the first names Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret, usually abbreviated as G.E.M.,
which analytic philosopher coined the ethical term 'consequentialism' and led a
revival of virtue ethics? She was a student of Wittgenstein and, like G.E. Moore,
is buried in Cambridge's Ascension Burial Ground.
Gertrude Elizabeth
Margaret Anscombe
557
What song by Dua Lipa, also taken from the soundtrack of the Barbie movie,
replaced What Was I Made For? at the top of the UK charts in August 2023?
Dance the Night
558
With a surface area of 370 square kilometres, what is the largest lake located entirely within Italy?
Lake Garda
559
In chemistry what name is given to two or more compounds with the same formulas but a different arrangement of atoms in the molecule and different properties?
Isomers
560
What is the primary currency unit of Madagascar? It is nominally divided into five
iraimbilanja [i-ram-bi-LAN-za], though in practice these are no longer used as
they are worth less than one-hundredth of a penny.
Ariary
561
Australia also lost the Davis Cup final in 2022. Which country beat them on that occasion, represented by Denis Shapovalov and Félix Auger-Aliassime?
Canada
562
What term is used for the lowest stone in an arch at the point where the curve
begins?
Springer
563
The title character of which Wagner opera is a mysterious knight later revealed to
be the son of Parsifal?
Lohengrin
564
Hannah Waddingham also appeared in the 2023 Christmas ad for what drink
brand, which claims to sell two bottles a second in December? In the advert, she
conducts a choir who break from rehearsals for a “choctail”.
Baileys
565
Which Macedonian fashion designer created Bjork's swan dress, which she wore
at the 2001 Oscars ceremony?
Marjan Pejoski
566
A joy to the juvenile-minded everywhere, which London Underground station is
the northern terminus of the Piccadilly line?
Cockfosters
567
Which Latin term is the principle of nationality law that confers citizenship on the
basis of the nationality of one or both parents?
Jus Sanguinis
568
Which composer of works such as Ruslan and Lyudmila; A Life for the Tsar; and The Patriotic Song is regarded as the wellspring of Russian classical music, helping establish a national musical identity? He greatly influenced the group of composers known as The Five, who helped solidify this identity.
Mikhail Glinka
569
Which Indian-American businessman is the current CEO of Microsoft?
Satya Nadella
570
Which actress was the voice of Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons? After she
passed away in 2013, Bart's usual chalkboard gag read "We'll really miss you,
Mrs K".
Marcia Wallace
571
One of the core ideas behind third wave feminism, which black feminist scholar
coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989?
Kimberle Crenshaw
572
Which Belgian driver finished second to Jochen Rindt in the 1970 F1 World Drivers' Championship? He had also finished second in 1969, the year in which he recorded the first of his six 24 Hours of Le Mans wins
Jacky Ickx
573
The German cities of Trier and Koblenz both lie on which river, which also names
a wine region in the country?
Mosel
574
Which Russian composer led The Five, whose other members were César Cui;
Modest Mussorgsky; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; and Alexander Borodin?
Mily Barakirev
575
Which station is one of the two northern terminuses of the Northern line,
alongside Edgware? It is the punchline to the joke "What is Amy Winehouse's
favourite Tube station?", in reference to her tall and elaborate hair.
High Barnet
576
Contrasting with jus sanguinis, which Latin term refers to the right to citizenship of a country by virtue of being born in its territory?
Jus Soli
577
Which Argentine fashion designer created Lady Gaga's meat dress, which was styled by Nicola Formi·chetti? Gaga wore this dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
Franc Fernandez
578
Which actor voiced various recurring characters, including Troy McClure and
Lionel Hutz, on The Simpsons? Billy West modelled Fry from Futurama on his
voice, as a tribute after his death.
Phil Hartman
579
Which Beninese-French singer-songwriter has won five Grammys, including the 2020 and 2022 Awards for Best Global Music Album? She performed at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and in 2021 was included on the Time 100 list.
Angelique Kidjo
580
One of its five pillars, by what name is the act of prayer known in Islam? Either
the Arabic or Persian term is acceptable.
Salat
581
In darts, the PDC World Championship trophy is named after which man, though
he never played darts professionally? The trophy was renamed after he passed
away from bowel cancer in 2012.
Sid Waddell
582
Which Indian-American businessman is the current CEO of Alphabet Inc, and its
subsidiary, Google?
Sundar Pichai
583
In September 2020, which Danish footballer, currently at Bayern Munich, became
the world's most expensive female footballer after transferring from VfL Wolfsburg
to Chelsea? This record was broken by Keira Walsh's move from Manchester
City to Barcelona in September 2022.
Pernille Harder
584
Tallest peak of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia is also highest peak of Cambodia, what word relating to senses follows Phnom _____ in its name?
Aural
585
a bight off the west-central African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea, alternative name for Bight of Biafra.
Bight of Bonny
586
Pico do Fogo is the highest point of which island country?
Cape Verde
587
The Bluff is the highest point of which British Overseas Territory?
Cayman Islands
588
Mont Ngaoui is highest point of which country?
Central African Republic
589
Emi Koussi is the highest point of which country?
Chad
590
Highest volcano in world and also the highest peak in Chile?
Ojos del Salado
591
Name of lake that is the lowest point of China?
Ayding Lake
592
The only French territory in the North Pacific, name from English pirate and privateer?
Clipperton Island
593
Colombia has two highest peaks some say Simon Bolivar Pico is the second highest making which other one higher also named after someone?
Pico Cristobal Colon
594
Mount Karthala is highest peak of which island country?
Comoros
595
Highest peak of Mount Stanley and therefore highest peak of DRC?
DRC
596
Mont Nabemba is the highest peak of which country?
Republic of Congo
597
Largest and most populous islands of the New Zealand territory Cook Islands
Rarotonga
598
Cerro Chirripó is the highest peak of which country?
Costa Rica
599
Dinara is the highest peak of which country?
Croatia
600
Mont Nimba is the highest peak of two neighbouring African countries, which two?
Cote D'Ivoire and Guinea
601
Pico Turquino is highest peak of which country?
Cuba
602
Christoffelberg is highest peak of which Dutch territory?
Curacao
603
Snezka is highest peak of which country?
Czech Republic
604
Møllehøj is highest peak of which country?
Denmark
605
What is the name of the highest point of Djibouti? It is found on the tri-point of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
Mousa Ali
606
Morne Diablotins is the highest point of which island country?
Dominica
607
Pico Duarte is the highest point of which island country?
Dominican Republic
608
In a 1967 paper, Gerald Feinberg coined the name of which theorised subatomic
particles that are believed to move faster than the speed of light and which could,
potentially, be used to send signals into the past?
tachyons
609
Externalities are a general example of unintended consequences in economics. Which
economist gives his name to a type of tax that attempts to correct negative externalities, or ameliorate their effects, by being applied to economic activities that generate those negative externalities? The Soft Drinks Industry Levy introduced in the UK in 2018, which increased tax on sugary soft drinks, is a recent example. You may also answer with the adjective, derived from this man’s surname, given to such taxes.
Arthur PIGOU or PIGOUVIAN
610
Published in the United States under the title Survival in Auschwitz, the memoir Se
questo è un uomo (If This Is a Man) details the time which author spent as an anti-fascist
partisan and then as a prisoner in Auschwitz?
Primo Levi
611
Which city began incorporating its suburbs and adding streetcars during the 1890s
during the mayoral tenure of "Handsome" Karl Lueger? Around the same time, the
Looshaus inspired the design of many new buildings here.
Vienna
612
What name is given to the minibus-like share-taxi that became the most popular form
of public transport in the Philippines after World War II? They are often brightly
decorated and have a portmanteau name made up of two other forms of transport.
Jeepney
613
“Voller Apfel, Birne und Banane, Stachelbeere … Alles dieses spricht Tod und Leben in den Mund” ("Plump apple, smooth banana, melon, peach, gooseberry...how all this affluence speaks life and death into the mouth"). This quote is taken from the thirteenth of a collection of 55 sonnets written by which poet?
Rainer Maria Rilke
614
The Ancient Egyptian fertility goddess Heqet is typically depicted with the head of
which cold-blooded creature?
Frog
615
After his arrest in 1942, which Austrian psychiatrist spent time in Auschwitz,
Theresienstadt, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps? In 1946, he completed his
book …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen (Man's Search for Meaning), discussing his
experiences in the camps and applying his methods of psychotherapy.
Viktor Frankl
616
In A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg writes, "Aisles full of husbands! Wives in
the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! — and you, [BLANK], what were you doing down by the watermelons?" The blank is filled by which poet and playwright who compared ripening grapefruits to the wounds of Christ in his Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads)?
Federico Garcia Lorca
617
What name, from the Sanskrit for 'solid object' or 'embodiment', is given to a devotional image or statue of a Hindu deity, which is itself considered sacred once consecrated? These images can express anger and fear (ugra) or peace and love (saumya).
Murthi
618
What repeated name* is given to the bicycle and motorcycle taxis used widely across
East Africa, particularly Uganda and Kenya?
*in English it is typically written as two words of four letters each but in many
languages it is more common to be a single word of eight letters.
Boda Boda or Piki Piki
619
In 1985, Alan Chodos proposed that which nearly massless uncharged particle may be
tachyonic in nature? In 2011, the OPERA experiment observed this particle travelling
faster than the speed of light although the result was later shown to be mistaken.
Neutrino
620
The Laffer curve illustrates an unintended consequence in taxation, where an increase
in tax rate above a certain level will cause overall tax revenue to decrease. Although
named after him, Arthur Laffer acknowledged he did not invent the concept and cited
the Muqaddimah, a book written in the 14th century by which Arabic scholar?
Ibn Khaldun
621
With a name meaning ‘two rows’ in Thai, what sort of share-taxi is often adapted from
a pickup truck or similar? Although most popular in Thailand, they are also used in
neighbouring countries.
Songthaew
622
White table sugar is a refined form of what disaccharide, which is refined from sugar
beet and sugar cane?
Sucrose
623
The fairgrounds of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago were known by
what nickname, since they emulated an ideal urban design envisioned by architect
Daniel Burnham? This nickname partly titles a history of that exposition by Erik Larson.
The White City
624
Which Texas city lends its name to a paradox introduced by Jerry Harvey in 1974 that arises from groupthink? Harvey describes a scenario in which one member of a family suggests they take a trip to the namesake city and the other three members agree, only for all four of them to later admit that they agreed only because the other members of the family seemed enthusiastic.
Abilene
625
Written after the death of three of his children, which 1877 composition by Antonín
Dvořák is a setting of a 13th-century Latin hymn that depicts the sorrow of Mary at
Jesus’ crucifixion? This work’s final movement, Quando corpus morietur, uses themes
from the first movement reworked to express hope and reconciliation rather than pain
and sorrow.
Stabat Mater
626
The primary murti dedicated to Shiva in a Hindu temple is which phallic symbol?
Lingam or Linga
627
A paradox encountered when the existence of tachyons is assumed concerns the fact
that, like any charged particle, they must always lose energy via which form of electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle exceeds the local speed of light in a medium?
Cherenkov Radiation
628
Another Late Jurassic sauropod known from the Morrison Formation is which longnecked dinosaur, with a name meaning 'deceptive lizard', that was stockier than the contemporaneous diplodocus and sported a single claw on each foreleg and three on
each hindleg? For many years, researchers believed brontosaurus to be synonymous
with this dinosaur until a 2015 paper appeared to show otherwise.
Apatosaurus
629
In Hindu temples, the lingam is often found with which feminine counterpart, the
symbol of the goddess Shakti?
Pindika/Yoni
630
Which German physicist theorised faster-than-light particles in 1904, calling them
'meta-particles'? This man famously served as doctoral supervisor to seven different
Nobel Prize winners and co-names an early approach to quantum physics along with
Niels Bohr.
Arnold Sommerfeld
631
The semi-autobiographical novel Sorstalanság (Fatelessness), which follows Hungarian
teenager György Köves through his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, is one of the
several works by which Hungarian author to deal with the Holocaust? Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
Imre Kertesz
632
Which English economist gives his name to a paradox in which the increased efficiency
with which a resource is used leads to an increase of the use of that resource because
falling costs fuel increased demand? The paradox was first posed in this man's 1865
book The Coal Question, in which he observed that English consumption of coal rose
after the introduction of James Watt's steam engine despite the engine being much
more efficient than earlier designs.
William Stanley Jevons
633
the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 to his assassination in 1993, Before that, he served as the Prime minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February 1978 to 2 January 1989, Assassinated in 1993 by members of Tamil Tigers.
Ranasinghe Premadasa
634
Affiliated to the Abbey Theatre, the Abbey School of Ballet was established by which
Irish-born British dancer who provided choreography for several of Yeats' plays? This
woman danced with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and founded the Royal Ballet.
Ninette de Valois
635
One of many goddesses associated with fertility in Ancient Egypt, Hathor was commonly depicted with the horns of which animal (and sometimes depicted entirely in the form of this animal)?
Cow or Cattle
636
What Sanskrit word is given to the ceremonial worship of a deity in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism? Incense is often burned for murti during this type of ritual which may be performed simply in the home or more elaborately at a temple
Puja
637
Symphony of [BLANK] is a 1930 work by Igor Stravinsky that was commissioned to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Stravinsky insisted
on a choral symphony format using the text "Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius"
("Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary"). Which word fills the blank in the
name of the composition?
Psalms
638
With a name derived from the Russian for ‘routed taxi’, which vans are used as sharetaxis in former Soviet countries? They typically follow set routes and only depart when full.
marshrutka
639
One dinosaur of the Early Jurassic that was inaccurately portrayed in Jurassic Park is
this theropod that had neither the ability to expand a neck frill nor to spit venom.
Which dinosaur, with a name meaning 'two-crested lizard', did, however, sport a pair
of longitudinal, arched crests on its skull and, unusually for a carnivore, lacked forwardfacing eyes, meaning it was incapable of binocular vision?
Dilophosaurus
640
Built as a planned city in the 1890s, Belo Horizonte is now the capital of what Brazilian
state? From the 1890s through 1920s, this state provided the "milk" in the "coffee with
milk" political alliance, with the "coffee" coming from neighbouring São Paulo state.
Minas Gerais
641
Which Nobel Prize-winning German-born poet escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to Sweden in 1940? One of her best-known works, Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel), begins with the title character’s parents being deported to an extermination camp.
Nelly Sachs
642
Its title possibly a reference to the number of years that supposedly separated the creation of the Earth from the biblical Exodus from Egypt, which Roberto Bolaño novel, published posthumously in 2004, features the mysterious author Benno von Archimboldi and the fictional Mexican city of Santa Teresa?
2666
643
In 1913, the Franco-German Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer founded his
world-renowned namesake hospital in the city of Lambaréné in which African country?
Gabon
644
The two primary divisions of the carotenoid group of organic pigments are the carotenes, which give autumn leaves an orange colour, and which group of pigments that give autumnal leaves their yellowish colour? Lutein is among the best-known examples of this group
Xanthophylls
645
Which Japanese educator and philosopher, born into an impoverished samurai family in 1835, went on the found Keio University and today appears on the 10,000-Japanese yen banknote? Among his best-known works is Gakumon no Susume (An Encouragement of Learning) which collected 17 essays explaining his philosophy of
education.
Fukuzawa
646
Which four-letter graffiti tag, typically followed by a copyright symbol, was developed
by Jean-Michel Basquiat in collaboration with Al Diaz?
SAMO
647
The Pōmare Dynasty ruled which Pacific Island from 1788 to 1880 when the kingdom
was ceded to France?
Tahiti
648
Beginning in August 1942, the bloodiest battle of World War II took place in which
Russian city? Regarded as a turning point on the Eastern Front and known as an
example of urban warfare, the battle ended with the surrender of Friedrich Paulus to
Marshall Zhukov.
Stalingrad (accept Volgograd, Tsaritsyn)
649
The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is an opera house and performing arts centre that is
one of many large-scale projects that which architect has designed in his home city of
Valencia?
Santiago Calatrava
650
Divided between Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, which economically important valley in Central Asia owes its fertility to the Naryn and Kara Darya rivers which join near the Uzbekistani city of Namangan?
Fergana Valley
651
What concept in biology did Ernst Mayr define as a group of organisms that can successfully interbreed and produce fertile offspring? There are at least 26 different definitions of this concept which Darwin described as “entirely arbitrary and vague”.
Species
652
Mutsamudu is the largest town and capital of which autonomous island of the
Comoros? This island and Mohéli were part of a short-lived breakaway republic.
Anjouan or Ndzwani
653
Which Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author’s novel, El Señor Presidente, likely
inspired by former President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, was described by Gerald Martin
as “the first real dictator novel”?
Miguel Angel Asturias
654
Eighteenth-century French astronomer Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille named 14 constellations in the southern sky during his work in Mauritius, often after tools. What
Greek word did Lacaille give to the constellation that represents an air pump? The word ‘Pneumatica’ has been dropped from the name of the constellation.
Antlia
655
One of the signature arias of Joan Sutherland, ‘Il Dolce Suono’ is known as the ‘mad scene’ in which opera, performed by the title character after she stabs her husband Arturo?
Lucia di Lammermoor (by Gaetano Donizetti)
656
Which sky deity is the supreme god of Zoroastrianism? He is regarded as the source of
asha, the cosmic principle of truth, order, and righteousness.
Ahura Mazda
657
Which operatic character sings the aria ‘Liebestod’ over the body of her dead lover
and just before her own death? This was a signature role of the soprano Kirsten
Flagstad.
Isolde
658
The Naryn and Kara Darya rivers meet at the northern edge of the Fergana Valley to
form which river that then flows north into what remains of the northern part of the
Aral Sea? This river was known as the Jaxartes in ancient times, and it was here that
Alexander the Great defeated the Saka at the Battle of Jaxartes.
Syr Darya
659
Stanislavski directed the premiere of Na dne (The Lower Depths), in which he played the
card cheat Satin. Set in a boarding house and considered a masterwork of social
realism Na dne (The Lower Depths) is a work by which Russian playwright and novelist?
Maxim Gorky (accept Alexei Maximovich Peshkov)
660
Concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of reality, which major branch of
philosophy gives its name to the title of one of Aristotle’s major works? Not to be confused with its sub-branch, ontology, this word completes the English title of Kant’s work Groundwork of the [BLANK] of Morals*.
Metaphysics
661
The Syr Darya river rises in which mountain range that effectively forms the northern
border of the Fergana Valley? Jengish Chokusu is the highest peak in this range.
Tian Shan
662
By what Latin name do we know the Lacaille constellation in the southern sky that
represents a chisel? The second word in this constellation’s name, ‘Sculptorium’, is no
longer used.
Caelum
663
Taking place in the autumn of 1942, the Allies earned a major victory in the Western
Desert campaign at which town in northern Egypt, when forces led by British general
Bernard Montgomery defeated German troops commanded by Erwin Rommel, and
ended the Axis threat to the Suez Canal?
El Alamein
664
In Zoroastrianism, which chaotic malevolent entity is often regarded as the adversary
of Ahura Mazda? He is associated with the concept of druj or deceit.
Ahriman or Angra Mainyu
665
The Casa da Música is a music venue in Porto designed by which architect, a former
teacher and employer of Zaha Hadid? This founder of the architectural firm OMA is also
known for the De Rotterdam building in his home city.
Rem Koolhas
666
Considered a signature of Maria Callas, in what soprano aria does the opera’s title character plead to the moon goddess “scatter on earth that peace / that you make reign in heaven”*?
‘Casta Diva’ (from Norma by Vincenzo Bellini)
667
Ernst Mayr’s work on allopatric speciation and the biological species concept was a key
contribution to what formulation in evolutionary biology that reconciled Darwinian
natural selection with Mendelian inheritance? Also known as Neo-Darwinism, this
evolutionary theory takes its name from a book by Julian Huxley.
Modern Synthesis
668
The tallest inhabited building in Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie is a concert hall and
residential building designed by which Swiss architecture firm, also known for their
work on the Beijing National Stadium and the National Library of Israel?
Herzog & de Meuron
669
One dictator novel based on a real-life tyrant is which man’s 2000 novel La Fiesta del
Chivo (The Feast of the Goat), which tells of the assassination of Dominican dictator
Rafael Trujillo?
Mario Vargas Llosa
670
Written in a similarly named language, what is the name of the primary collection of
religious texts of Zoroastrianism? One text within this collection, the Vendidad, is a
guide against evil spirits.
Avesta
671
The largest city in the Fergana Valley is which city in Kyrgyzstan, the country’s second
largest and traditional “capital of the south”? This ancient city, thought to be more
than 3,000 years old, was a major market on the Silk Road.
Osh
672
Many of the policies of the Cultural Revolution were reversed in the period known as
Boluan Fanzheng (‘Setting Things Right’) that occurred after which politician became
the de facto leader of China? This man, who had earlier been a target of the Cultural
Revolution, oversaw the reform of China's economy between 1978 and 1989.
Deng Xiaoping
673
Which island has been an autonomous territory of Mauritius since 2002? It is the third
largest of the Mascarene islands after La Réunion and Mauritius.
Rodrigues
674
What Latin name did Lacaille give to the constellation in the southern sky that
represents a mariner’s compass? The second word in this constellation’s name,
‘Nautica’, is no longer used.
Pyxis
675
The Vendidad describes how the demon Nasu, who is the manifestation of decay,
infests bodies after death. It is therefore believed burying the dead is thought to defile
the earth and so Zoroastrianism has typically encouraged disposing of the dead in
what structures, where bodies can be consumed by carrion-eating birds?
Towers of SIlence or Dakhma
676
1954’s Brown v. Board of Education that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing
racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. Oliver Brown, whose
daughter had been refused enrolment at the local school, was represented in court by
which man? Then the NAACP chief counsel, this man would later become the Supreme
Court’s first African American justice.
Thurgood Marshall
677
Stanislavski named his theatre company the Moscow Art Theatre on the suggestion of
Anton Chekhov after a production by his previous company, the Moscow Public Accessible Theatre, was shut down by censors. That production saw Stanislavski play Ripafratta in La locandiera (The Mistress of the Inn) a work by which 18th-century Italian playwright?
Carlo Goldoni
678
What is the Latin name for the constellation in the southern sky that Lacaille named
for a different type of compass, the kind used by draftsmen to draw round lines?
Circinus
679
A signature tune of Jessye Norman, ‘When I am laid in earth’ is an aria from which
opera? It is traditionally played at London’s Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
Dido and Aeneas
680
One of the occasions in which Mayr’s biological species concept breaks down is with
what sort of species complex in which two species comprise of a series of
interbreeding populations in a looped distribution pattern, but where two end
populations cannot interbreed?
Ring Species
681
Many of the best-known dictator novels, including those by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, have their genesis in an unrealised 1967 project launched by which author that aimed at collecting a series of biographies depicting Latin American dictators? This man’s best-known works include La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz).
Carlos Fuentes
682
Zanzibar is an autonomous region of Tanzania. It consists of the island of Unguja, also colloquially known as Zanzibar, and which other island with its capital at Chake-Chake? This island shares its name with a town in Mozambique that lies across the Mozambique Channel from the Comoros.
Pemba
683
Which politician gives her name to the act that legalised abortion in France? She
served as Health Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and was President of the
European Parliament from 1979 to 1982.
Simone Veil
684
Derived from Brahmi, which script is officially used for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit in
India? It is also used as the official script for Nepali.
Devanāgarī
685
Which centre-right Japanese daily newspaper is credited as having the highest
circulation of any newspaper in the world? It has a name meaning “reading by selling”
Yomiuri Shimbun
686
British writer, mostly of adventure fiction, who is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal.
PC Wren
687
In which single athletic event did heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson hold the British record between 2016 and 2023?
High Jump
688
British track and field athlete and former American football defensive tackle for 49ers. He is the British record holder in the discus event. He became the first ever British athlete to win a medal in Discus at a European Championships during Munich 2022. He has also played rugby union.
Lawrence Okoye
689
Who is the British record holder for female 110m hurdles? Has a bronze commonwealth medal.
Cindy Sember
690
400m hurdles British female record hurdle?
Sally Gunnell
691
Pole Vault 26 June 2021 British record holder?
Holly Bradshaw
692
British former long jumper born in Anguilla. She is the national record holder of both Anguilla and Great Britain. On 28 August 2015 at the World Championships in Beijing she became the first British, female, long-jumper to jump over 7 metres (7.07).
Shara Proctor
693
Female triple jump British record holder, set in 13 September 1997?
Ashia Hansen
694
British female shot put record holder 14 August 1988
Judy Oakes
695
British female discuss record holder 26 April 1981
Meg Ritchie
696
British female hammer throw record holder 15 August 2016
Sophie Hitchon
697
British female javelin record holder 14 July 2012
Goldie Sayers
698
Steve Smith and Robbie Grabarz are joint british record holders for which athletics event?
High Jump
699
British mens pole vault British record holder 4 September 2020
Harry Coppell
700
Hammer throw British record holder 8 April 2018
Nick Miller
701
A "Q Grader" is a professional taster of which drink?
Coffee
702
Possessing nearly 2,000 olfactory receptor genes, which African animal has the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom?
Elephant
703
Which Australian city is home to the GWS Giants football club?
Sydney
704
Which salad vegetable is known in Spanish as pepino?
Cucumber
705
Which James Bond novel was the sequel to From Russia With Love?
Dr No
706
Medically speaking, what does the "K" in KFC stand for?
Knee Flexion Contracture
707
The Carretera Juan de Garay is the main road crossing from Argentina into which South American country?
Paraguay
708
On what date is New Year celebrated in the Welsh village of Cwm Gwaun?
13th January
709
The fashion and beauty magazine Ginza, named after the capital's high-end shopping district, is published in which country?
Japan
710
Which country is home to Seddon Park cricket ground?
Hamilton, New Zealand
711
In which eastern German city is the annual Bachfest held?
Leipzig
712
Which alcoholic spirit is added to vermouth and pineapple juice to make a Yaka Hula Hickey Dula cocktail?
Rum
713
Which Dublin castle was the venue for David and Victoria Beckam's wedding in 1999?
Luttrellstown Castle
714
On a Thai restaurant menu, what seafood is the main ingredient in Pu Nim Tod?
Crab
715
What "G" is a mixture of chalk, binder, and pigment, used as a primer to prepare canvases for acrylic paints?
Gesso
716
Which astronaut was the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission?
Fred Haise
717
In which year did all of the following take place: Frankel won the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, Kim Clijsters won the Australian Open tennis tournament, and Wayne Rooney scored a goal against Barcelona in the Champions League final?
2011
718
Juliette Jackson is the lead singer of which English indie rock band?
THe Big Moon
719
Which Shakespeare character has been played on screen by Orson Welles, Anthony Quayle, Richard Griffiths, and Simon Russell Beale?
Falstaff
720
Symonds Yat rock is a popular tourist destination overlooking which British river?
Wye
721
What was the code name for the Dunkirk evacuations in 1940?
Dynamo
722
What year was the Festival of Britain?
1951
723
Born this day in 1916, which politician was assassinated by an IRA bomb in 1979?
Airey Neave
724
Which former Liverpool FC player and manager, was born in County Durham on this day in 1919?
23rd January
Bob Paisley
725
Which European country became the first to ban aerosol sprays on this day in 1978, because of the damage they cause to the ozone layer?
Sweden
726
How Zambia was known between 1911 and 1964.
Northern Rhodesia
727
Town in Scotland, designated the country's first new town in 1947, and now the largest town in South Lanarkshire.
East Kilbride
728
American general, formerly Supreme Allied Commander Europe, before serving in the Nixon and Ford administrations and finally as Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.
Alexander Haig
729
Welsh–born rugby league legend: record try scorer for Wigan, and capped 31 times for Great Britain.
Billy Boston
730
County cricket club whose home ground is New Road.
Worcestershire
731
Forename of the woman who made history in 1977, when she was the first woman to ride in the Grand National, on her horse Barony Fort.
Charlotte Brew
732
Geraldine Rees the first woman to finish the Grand National riding which horse to eighth place?
Cheers
733
On Minella Times, who was the first female winner of grand national jockey?
Rachael Blackmore
734
Which dance, popularised in the 1930s by Fred & Ginger, is characterised by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor?
Foxtrot
735
Which dance originating in Para, Brazil, became internationally popular in the 1980s? The name of the dance means 'strong slap' or 'hit' in Portuguese.
Lambada
736
A ballroom style imported from Cuba in the 1920s that became a popular cabaret dance during prohibition.
Rumba
737
Beginning as a folk dance in the 17th century; by the time it was introduced in England in the 19th century it was the first dance where a man held a woman close to his body.
Waltz
738
A South American dance, developed in the 19th century, characterized by very close bodily contact whilst keeping the feet grounded, rather than rising and falling on the toes like other ballroom styles.
Tango
739
Which Prime Minister did Anthony Andrews play in the 2010 film The King's Speech?
Stanley Baldwin
740
Who wrote the poem The Lark Ascending, which inspired the musical work composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams?
George Meredith
741
Whose vision of a Utopian society was set out in the book News from Nowhere?
William Morris
742
Material created by Wallace Carothers at DuPont in 1930s
Nylon
743
Material created by Joseph Shivers in 1959 at DuPont?
Lycra
744
Name any of the acknowledged occupations of William Shakespeare's father.
Glove maker, tanner, or wool dealer
745
In Alice in Wonderland, which character sings of "Soup of the evening, beautiful soup"?
Mock Turtle
746
Where is the habitat of littoral creatures?
Beach or shoreline (precisely, between the High and Low Tide lines)
747
How long in feet is a badminton court?
44 feet (by 20 feet wide)
748
Who was the last king to be crowned in Scotland?
Charles II
749
In which Mediterranean country is the Bekaa Valley wine region?
Lebanon
750
In which year did actor James Dean die in a car crash?
1955
751
By what common name is acetyl–salicylic acid known?
Aspirin
752
How long in feet is a full–sized snooker table?
12 feet
753
What was the name of Junior Walker's backing band?
The AllStars
754
Which was the first English football club to achieve the League and FA Cup double?
Preston 1889
755
Which British duke's stately home is at Stratford Saye?
Wellington (Hampshire found in)
756
What is the highest mountain on the Isle of Man?
Snaefell
757
What was the name of the eponymous ranch, owned by Big John Cannon, in a TV programme shown on BBC2 in the 1960s and 70s?
The High Chapparral
758
Which Canadian city used to be called Bytown?
Ottawa
759
Who created the famous Willow Pattern ware?
Thomas Minton
760
Where in Pilgrim's Progress are all forms of worldly pleasure sold?
Vanity Fair
761
Which actor is playing the opera singer Maria Callas in the new biopic Maria?
Angelina Jolie
762
In which river did the Pied Piper drown the rats of Hamelin?
Weser
763
Who is the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police?
Mark Rowley
764
Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?
James Joyce
765
In electronics, what name is given to a component that allows current to flow primarily in one direction but not in the reverse direction?
Diode
766
Name either of the famous Apollo ast 2023 ronauts who died towards the end of last year.
Frank Borman (Apollo 8) and Ken Mattingly (Apollo 13)
767
Who created the detective August C. Dupin?
Edgar Allen Poe
768
Which football team was the first in the 20th century to win the FA Cup in successive years?
Newcastle United
769
Small white spots known as Koplik's spots, forming in the mouth, are an early symptom of which highly contagious viral disease?
Measles
770
Which ancient city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Ninevah
771
Which metal impurity gives ruby its red colour and emerald its green colour?
Chromium
772
Which UK city's airport is located at Lulsgate Bottom?
Bristol
773
Tarom is the national airline of which European country?
Romania
774
Who became the first officially professional cricketer to captain England, in 1952?
Sir Len Hutton
775
At what battle did Miltiades lead the heavily–outnumbered Athenians to victory?
Marathon in 490
776
What do astronomers call a powerful and luminous exploding star?
Supernova
777
Blyth is the largest town in which English county?
Northumberland
778
Who directed the films Bugsy Malone and Midnight Express?
Alan Parker
779
How many fluid ounces make up an American pint?
16
780
Which Australian created World Series Cricket in the 1970s?
Kerry Packer
781
Ice Hockey how many on a team on ice same time?
6
782
In which city was Adrian Mole living when his first diary was published? He was 13¾.
Leicester
783
What French name is given to clear meat soup or broth?
Consomme
784
For which instrument did the composer Charles–Marie Widor (vee–dor) write his best–known works?
Organ
785
In 1930 which French footballer scored the first goal in a FIFA World Cup finals in a
game against Mexico? He was the only member of France’s 1930 squad to see Les
Bleus win the trophy in 1998.
Lucien Laurent
786
Which club night was opened by Leigh Bowery in 1985? Though it closed in 1987 its name lives on in a musical with lyrics by Boy George celebrating the New Romantic scene of the era.
Taboo
787
Gilbert's, the long-footed and the long-nosed are extant species of which genus of Australian marsupial, the broad-faced species of which became extinct in the late 19th century?
Potoroo
788
Which English artist painted many pictures of wide-eyed cats engaged in human
leisure pursuits, including golf, snooker and bridge? He was played by Benedict
Cumberbatch in a 2021 film about his life.
Louis Wain (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain)
789
In what film starring Benedic Cumberbatch in 2021 had Nick Cave star as HG Wells?
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
790
What is the name of the covered walkway that connects a church with its monastery?
Cloister
791
Which former tax partner at law firm Clifford Chance founded the independent
investigative firm Tax Policy Associates? His investigation into Nadhim Zahawi’s tax
affairs led to the latter’s resignation as Chancellor and won Investigation of the Year
at the 2023 British Journalism Awards.
Dan Neidle
792
Which mostly 1990s Australian children’s comedy drama series followed the often
supernatural adventures of a family living in a lighthouse on the Victoria coast? The
family’s surname appeared in the title of the programme.
Round the Twist
793
Which Australian racing driver competed in his debut season in Formula 1 in 2023
driving for McLaren alongside Lando Norris? He earned two podiums and a sprint
race victory.
Oscar Piastri
794
A common notation in quantum mechanics is bra-ket notation, which is also known
by what other name, after the English physicist that introduced it?
Dirac Equation
795
Which active stratovolcano, the second highest in its country, can be seen from
Mexico City on a clear day? It has a Nahuatl name meaning ‘smoking mountain’.
Popocatepetl
796
Which percussion manufacturer celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2023 having
been founded in Constantinople in the 17th century? It is most famous for its
cymbals which feature on many rock drumkits.
Zildjian
797
The term ‘Afro-Surrealism’ was coined by which controversial New Jersey poet to describe the works of Henry Dumas? He is known for his play Dutchman, in which a white woman stabs a black man on the New York subway.
Amiri Baraka
798
Who played grandad in the unaired 2012 US remake of Only Fools and Horses?
His other roles include Jim in Taxi and Doc Brown in the Back to the Future
Trilogy.
Christoper Lloyd
799
Which former Governor of Arkansas dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for President and endorsed Nikki Haley after his poor performance in the Iowa Caucus?
Asa Hutchinson
800
Founded in Ipswich in 1855, what is the UK’s largest mail order seed and plant
company? They are best known for their catalogues, but also sell through garden
centres and online.
Thompson and Morgan
801
What Cantonese slang term which is variously translated as ‘ghostly man’, ‘devil
man’ or ‘foreign devil’ refers to Westerners and particularly white people?
Gweilo
802
Another mathematical term named for Dirac is a function which has a value of zero for every real input except for at zero, where it normalises to one. This function is named for Dirac and which Greek letter?
Delta
803
Which 57-year-old tenor from Salford won the Classic Brit Awards Album of the Year in 2001 and 2002 despite much critical disdain? This man survived two brain tumours in the 2000s and has appeared on I'm a Celebrity
Russell Watson
804
What is the name of an inner courtyard, either open air or skylight covered, that
was a common feature in Roman buildings?
Atrium
805
Which English lawyer with the firm Preiskel & Co. formerly blogged on legal matters under the pseudonym ‘Jack of Kent’ and has written on legal matters for the New Statesman and nowadays The Financial Times? He blogged regularly on constitutional law during the Brexit period, and gave evidence to the Leveson
inquiry in 2012.
David Allen Green
806
Which mostly 1980s Australian soap opera was set in a small hospital in the small town of Wandin Valley and became known for is animal stars such as ‘Fatso the Wombat’?
A Country Practice
807
Oscar Piastri was the first driver to earn a podium in his rookie season since
which Canadian driver did so in 2017?
Lance Stroll
808
Which London club night is credited with launching the New Romantic movement
and was hosted by Steve Strange? The ‘Kids’ who attended these nights featured
in the musical Taboo.
Blitz
809
The Tasmanian, Brown’s and Dusky are extant species of which genus of Australian marsupial with the scientific name Thylogale? These are among the smallest members of the Macropod family, which also includes kangaroos,
wallabies and quokkas.
Pademelon
810
Which midfielder played for Argentina in the 1930 FIFA World Cup final and Italy
in 1934’s making him the only player to represent different teams in World Cup
finals?
Luis Monti
811
Who is the only five time winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress? One of her victories came for In the Mood for Love.
Maggie Cheung
812
Which gardener and broadcaster runs a mail order business specialising in cutting plants from Perch Hill in Sussex? She has also written about restoring Vita Sackville-West’s gardens at Sissinghurst with her husband Adam Nicholson.
Sarah Raven
813
Probably deriving from the name of a supernatural being in Māori mythology, what term refers to non-Māori New Zealanders, particularly those primarily of European descent?
Pakeha
814
Galvanisation involves coating steel with which element to prevent corrosion?
Zinc
815
Which Martiniquan essayist became one of the pioneers of Afro-Surrealism through her encounters with André Breton? She co-founded the journal Tropiques with her husband, who included surrealist elements in his Notebook of
a Return to My Native Land.
Suzanne Cesaire
816
Which tech billionaire and current Governor of North Dakota dropped out of the Race for the Republican nomination for President in December, endorsing Donald Trump?
Doug Burgum
817
In 1917 the French cargo ship Mont-Blanc, laden with explosives, caught fire and
exploded in the harbour of which Atlantic Canadian port? It remains the largest
non-nuclear human-made explosion.
Halifax
818
Who played the title role in the 2007 US remake of Vicar of Dibley, which did not make it beyond pilot? Her other roles include Rebecca in Cheers and Mollie in the Look Who’s Talking trilogy.
Kirstie Alley
819
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, which guitar manufacturing company is perhaps best known for the ‘StingRay’ bass guitar, featuring an elliptical scratch plate?
Music Man
820
Which figure from Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War was the child of Laërtes and Anticlea, the King and Queen of Ithaca?
Odysseus
821
In the BBC television adaptation of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, Alison Steadman’s character Beverly wants to play for her guests the song Forever and Ever, a hit for which Greek singer who she says ‘doesn’t sound fat.’?
Demis Roussos
822
In 2023 five rainbow plaques were installed across London to commemorate LGBTQ history and culture. The plaque on the Greenwich Tavern pub celebrates which 1996 Hettie MacDonald film about a love affair between two teenage boys from a Thamesmead council estate?
Beautiful Thing
823
What is the charge of an up quark? Give your answer as a signed fraction of the
charge of a proton.
Positive Two-Thirds
824
In 2023 the Irish designer Seàn Kirr replaced Sarah Burton as the Creative Director of which fashion house?
Alexander McQueen
825
One of the longest standing world records in athletics, which East German woman ran the 400m in 47.6 seconds in October 1985?
Marita Koch
826
Although there is no standard list of ingredients, what name is given to the various forms of spice mixes used in north African cuisine, a name which translates from the Arabic as ‘head of the shop’?
Ras el Hanout
827
The pairs of sisters Betty and Mary Weiss, and Mary Ann and Marge Ganser, made up which girl group of the 1960s who released singles including Give Him a Great Big Kiss and I Can Never Go Home Anymore?
The Shangri-Las
828
Which church on the corner of King William Street and Lombard Street in the City
of London is described by T. S. Eliot in The Wasteland as the one which ‘kept the
hours with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.’?
Saint Mary Woolnoth
829
Which British historian with the initials E. H. published a 14-volume history of the
Soviet Union between 1917 and 1929, but is perhaps best known for his 1961
book What is History??
Edward Hallett Ted CARR
830
In computer science, which European nationality names a ‘notation’ in which an operator precedes all its operands? This notation is used in the programming language Lisp.
Polish
831
What is the German translation of the French word chien?
Hund
832
Alpha-tocopherol is the most common form of which vitamin when used in supplementation, other forms of which include several types of compounds called tocotrienols?
Vitamin E
833
In which book of the Christian Old Testament does the titular figure lead a large
group of Jews who had been held captive in Babylon back to Jerusalem?
Ezra
834
The English referee Arthur Ellis sent off two players in a foul-tempered match at the 1954 FIFA World Cup between Brazil and Hungary in a game that was later dubbed ‘the battle of’ which capital city in which it was played?
Berne
835
Hallelujah Junction is a piece for two pianos by which American Composer, who
also wrote the opera Doctor Atomic and the September 11th memorial piece On
the Transmigration of Souls, which won him the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music?
John Adams
836
What word beginning with R initially referred to people, often but not exclusively Jews, who were denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union? It has come to be used for a person who voluntarily eschews something, often as a
protest.
Refuseniks
837
The first Wood Badge scouting leadership course took place in 1919 at which
campsite located in a portion of Epping Forest in Waltham Abbey? Considered a
key site in the history of scouting, Robert Baden-Powell was made Baron of this
place in 1929.
Gilwell
838
Which Austrian-born art historian with the initials E. H. published the best-selling
1950 work The Story of Art and also wrote the children’s book A Little History of the World, which was originally published in German in 1935 but only appeared in English in 2005?
Ernst Hans GOMBRICH
839
Located on the Grand Canal, which links the river Shannon to Dublin, and home to a famous distillery that produces a namesake Dew whiskey, what is the county town of the Irish county Offaly?
Tullamore
840
A convention in programming in which the name of a variable or function shows its intention and kind is the namesake ‘notation’ of which European nationality? When the name also indicates type, the notation is known as ‘Systems [this nationality]’, to distinguish it from the dialect ‘Apps [this nationality]’.
Hungarian
841
The pairs of brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, and Scott and Bryan Devendorf, are members of which American rock band? Fronted by Matt Berninger, their albums include Boxer released in 2007, Trouble Will Find Me from 2013 and
Laugh Track from 2023.
The National
842
Which church on Lower Thames Street in the City of London is described by T. S. Eliot in The Wasteland as holding ‘inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.’?
Saint Magnus the Martyr
843
The rainbow plaque on the building in Ladbroke Grove which now houses the Museum of Brands commemorates which hospice that opened in 1988? At the time it was the world’s largest centre for people living with HIV and itpioneered a patient-centred approach for HIV care.
London Lighthouse
844
What is the charge of a down quark? Give your answer as a signed fraction of the
charge of a proton.
Negative 1/3
845
One of the longest standing world records in athletics, which East German woman threw a discus 76.8 metres in July 1988?
Gabriele Reinsch
846
Which figure from Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War was the child of Atreus and Aerope, the King and Queen of Mycenae?
Agamemnon
847
In the original stage production of Abigail’s Party, Beverly wants to play for her guests a cover of the Doors song Light My Fire by which Puerto Rican singer and guitarist who she says ‘doesn’t sound blind.’?
Jose Feliciano
848
What is the three character alphanumeric designation of the London cycleway that, when fully completed, will link Waterloo to Deptford? This is also the abbreviated name of the isotope used in radiocarbon dating.
C14
849
The Goalhanger produced history podcast Empire is co-presented by the historian William Dalrymple and which journalist? The two co-authored a 2017 book about the Koh-i-Noor diamond, and she is the current host of BBC Radio 4’s Any Answers?.
Anita Anand
850
What is most spoken language and official language of Papua new Guinea, it is a creole?
Tok Pisin
851
What word beginning with E initially meant to be outstanding in a good way, but began in the late 16th century to take on the opposite meaning of being conspicuously or exceptionally bad? The Spanish and Italian cognates retain the
positive sense.
Egregious
852
Opened in 1929, which campsite located just outside Orpington was the second such place after Gilwell Park to offer scouting training, before being opened to scouting groups in 1933? Charles Darwin spent the last years of his life in the nearby town of the same name
Downe Camp
853
The English referee Ken Aston sent off two players in a foul-tempered match at the 1962
FIFA World Cup between the host nation and Italy in a game that was later dubbed ‘the
battle of’ which capital city in which it was played?
Santiago
854
What short word meaning ‘superb’ precedes ‘and Tate’ in the title of a chain of opticians?
This is the first three letters of the name of a material commonly used in the manufacture
of glasses frames.
Ace
855
What name did Thorsten Veblen give to the group in society whom he claimed practised
conspicuous consumption, a group in which he placed the likes of John D. Rockefeller
and Andrew Carnegie? This term appears in the title of Veblen’s best known work, an
1899 critical study on the pursuit of wealth.
Leisure Class
856
In which book of the Christian Old Testament does the titular figure predict the destruction
of Judah because of the evil of its inhabitants?
Zephaniah
857
Who starred as Laurel Gray opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1950 film noir In a Lonely Place? She was played by Annette Bening in the 2017 biopic Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.
Gloria Grahame
858
Now housed in the Louvre, who painted the series of twenty-four paintings known as the The Marie de' Medici Cycle?
Peter Paul Rubens
859
What was the name of the first great ape launched into space? This chimpanzee flew a suborbital flight as part of NASA's Project Mercury.
Ham
860
the first monkey, first primate, and first mammal in space on 14 June 1949, in a U.S.-launched V-2
Albert II
861
1951, six years earlier than Laika going into orbit on Sputnik 2, two dogs went into space (not orbit), one of their names?
Tsygan and Dezik
862
A rhesus monkey and a squirrel monkey, names of the first monkeys to survive spaceflight after their 1959 flight
Miss Able (Rhesus) and Miss Baker (Squirrel)
863
stray Parisian cat who is the only cat to have been launched into space. She was launched on 18 October 1963 as part of the French space program
Felicette
864
The first animals in deep space, the first to circle the Moon, were launched on Zond 5 on 14 September 1968 by Soviets, what type of animals?
Tortoises
865
The group of elements helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon is better known by what name?
Nobel Gases
866
Which Indian actor portrayed Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2007 to 2019?
Kunal Nayyar
867
Which US personal care company manufactures the ColorStay line of lipsticks and other cosmetics?
Revlon
868
In the Arthurian legend, which knight returned the sword Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
Sir Bedivere
869
Which country's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed in Earth's satellite in January 2024?
Japan
870
Dennis Ritchie was best known for creating what programming language?
C
871
What is the name of the fictional Swedish detective created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo in a series of novels from 1965 to 1975?
Martin Beck
872
Which sports magazine laid off a majority of its staff after its publishing licence was revoked by the Authentic Brands Group in January 2024?
Sports Illustrated
873
The Nares Strait is a waterway separating Canada's Ellesmere Island from which large island?
Greenland
874
Which buffoonish stock character of 17th Century Italian comedy has transitioned into a modern-day sad clown, through representations by Sarah Bernhardt, Charlie Chaplin, David Bowie in Ashes to Ashes, Elton John and Harry Styles?
Pierrot
875
Which of the four competitive swimming strokes has the highest peak velocity?
Butterfly
876
What is the four letter name of the Alphabet subsidiary which is trialling drone delivery systems in Dallas, Dublin and Canberra and is seeking regulatory approval in the UK?
Wing
877
What name was given to the remnant of the Long Parliament when in 1648, all MPs who might have supported the restoration of King Charles I were excluded by regiments of the New Model Army?
Rump
878
Which name connects the most easterly of New Zealand’s 10 principal wine regions, and a legendary romantic rival to Robin Hood for Maid Marian?
Gisborne
879
Which 1983 Christmas comedy is set in the offices of Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers in Philadelphia?
Trading Places
880
Which is the only novel to have a British football team named after it?
Walter Scott’s Heart of Midlothian
881
Who wrote the novel Enigma about Bletchley Park, on which Tom Stoppard’s screenplay for the 2001 film is based?
Robert Harris
882
Which Simon and Garfunkel single from Bridge Over Troubled Water had its origins in a late-night party, in which the duo and friends began banging on a piano bench, recorded the sound with a tape recorder, and later matched the loop with a guitar line? In 1996, it was covered by Suggs and became a top 10 single.
Cecilia
883
Where were David Bowie and Mick Jagger dancing in support of Live Aid in 1985?
In The Street
884
The Italian name for the same musical instrument (hurdy gurdy) is also the name of which liqueur traditionally served with three coffee beans representing health, happiness and prosperity?
Sambuca
885
A short-lived building which housed from construction in 1830 to demolition in 1845 a police station and later a pub, and was topped from 1835 until 1842 by an 11-foot statue of George IV, has given its name to which part of London?
Kings Cross
886
Blur: The Best Of
album has artowkr by which pop artist?
Julian Opie
887
. What candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party has been elected the new president of Taiwan?
William LAI CHING-TE
888
Ethiopia seems to be getting its hotly desired port on the Red Sea. It has negotiated a deal with what breakaway state, which is not recognized by either the United Nations nor the African Union?
SOMALILAND (in Berbera)
889
Name any two of the five new countries that have joined BRICS.
SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, IRAN, and ETHIOPIA
890
What Chinese automaker became the biggest seller of electric vehicles in 2023, surpassing Tesla?
BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, has been backed by Warren Buffet since 2008. While Tesla is known for the Model S, some of BYD's best-selling models include the Qin Plus, Seagull, and Song Plus NEV.
891
the leader of South Korea’s Democratic Party, was stabbed in the neck in Busan, 2024, name
LEE JAE-MYUNG
892
The Israel-Hamas war has expanded its theater of operations to Lebanon, where Israel is entangled in a conflict with what Iran-backed militia force?
HIZBULLAH
893
Speaking of Iran, the country has opened three fronts of attack in the last month. Name any two of the three countries in which Iran has conducted recent airstrikes. Jan 2024
IRAQ, SYRIA, and PAKISTAN
894
What country has formally accused Israel of genocide? The International Court of Justice will hold preliminary hearings on the case. January 2024
South Africa
895
Since the 1948 Convention on genocide, there have only been four genocide charges brought forth to the ICJ: last one in January 2024
Bosnia and Herzegovina against Yugoslavia in 1993
Gambia against Myanmar in 2019
A 2022 case alleging genocide against Russia in Ukraine
South Africa against Israel in 2024
896
What is the southernmost city in Gaza, which is now more densely populated than New York City?
Rafah
897
January 2024 Azali Assoumani, who came to power in 1999 in a coup, won election to a fourth five-year term, in an election his opponents decried as foul.
Comoros
898
Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading opposition figure, has been moved to what notorious penal colony near the Arctic circle?
POLAR WOLF penal colony
899
Despite internal disorder amongst the ranks of the Conservative Party, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has managed to get what piece of controversial immigration legislation through Parliament?
SAFETY OF RWANDA BILL
900
Africa's tech revolution is based out of Kenya - what nickname has been given to East Africa's burgeoning tech industry?
Silicon Savannah
901
What president of Ecuador has declared an "internal armed conflict" and state of emergency in his country after a major outbreak in gang warfare? January 2024
Daniel Noboa
902
Proxy tussles continue. What small archipelagic nation in South Asia has requested India withdraw its troops from the country by March? Newly elected president Mohamed Muizzu has been sidling up to China instead.
Maldives
903
What form of poetry is extremely popular in Francophone Africa, becoming an avenue for women to express their frustration with the patriarchy?
SLAM POETRY
904
The travails of the passengers of what nine month long cruise has become a viral subject on Tik Tok?
Royal Caribbean's ULTIMATE WORLD CRUISE
905
Deaf Indigenous actress Alaqua Cox plays what titular Marvel character in a Disney+ spin-off series?
ECHO (aka Maya Lopez) in a new Disney+ spin-off series of the same name. Cox first debuted as Echo in the Marvel series "Hawkeye,"
906
"Blossoms Shanghai" is a hit television show in China directed by what legendary director of Hong Kong cinema?
WONG KAR WAI, and it is the third in a trilogy following In the Mood for Love and 2046.
907
2024 Name the Emmy awards winners for:
Best Drama Series
Best Comedy Series
Best Limited Series
Best Drama Series went to “SUCCESSION.”
Best Comedy Series went to “THE BEAR.”
Best Limited Series went to “BEEF.”
908
The Albion Rooms, a hotel described by the Guardian as a "gentrified flophouse", was opened by the Libertines in 2020 in which English seaside town?
Margate
909
Alexandra Palace, in North London, is used as a location for the "Victory Square" scenes in which mid-80s movie, an adaptation of a late-40s
novel?
1984
910
A badly-coached ice hockey team practice, filmed at Ally Pally ice rink,
features in which black comedy film of 2017?
The Death of Stalin
911
Peter Whitehead's 1967 documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love In London centres on an Ally Pally concert by which psychedelic band, later to become prog megastars?
Pink Floyd
912
Which of the five boroughs of New York gave us hip-hop Golden Age acts Run-DMC and Salt 'n' Pepa? It's mentioned in the former group's single Christmas in Hollis.
Queens
913
Chelsea Women's Super League defender Jorja Fox shares her name with the actor who played Sara Sidle in which long-running TV series set in Nevada?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
914
What name is shared by three men: an ex-defender for Liverpool and Everton who briefly managed Stockport County, and a father and son, both noted Australian Rules players? The Dad was nicknamed "God" and holds the goal-kicking record for Geelong
Gary Ablett
915
The character who eventually became Wednesday Addams first appeared
in 1944 in a cartoon in which publication?
New Yorker
916
In geocentric models, retrograde motion is explained by each planet circling a point, called the deferent, that in turn circles the Earth. What
word is used for the circular path around the deferent?
Epicycle
917
Simeon of Aleppo, a noted early Christian ascetic, was given what epithet after spending 37 years atop a stone pillar? The word derives from the Greek for pillar or slab.
Stylites
918
Mahavira, whose ascetic practices are described in the Kalpa Sutra, was an important figure in the history of which religion, with some four million adherents?
Jainism
919
Asceticism is practised in which mystical tradition within Sunni Islam, whose name is thought to derive from an Arabic word for "wool" because of the simple rustic garments worn by some adherents?
Sufism
920
The Greek explorer Pytheas claimed to have found, in around 325 BCE,
what land, the most northerly to be mentioned in classical histories? It
possibly corresponds to Shetland or the South coast of Norway.
Thule
921
In 1960s London, the Kray twins' manor was the East End. Which rival crime family, also known as the Torture Gang, held sway in South London?
Richardson
922
Former Richardson gang member "Mad" Frankie Fraser appeared in 1997 on which satirical TV show, where he was misled into believing that Noel Edmonds had killed Clive Anderson?
Brass Eye
923
The ancestral seat of the Percy family is the castle of which Northumberland town?
Alnwick (ANNick)
924
The London residence of the Earls, and now the Dukes, of Northumberland is Syon House, in which London borough?
Hounslow
925
Which activist and playwright, a titled member of Galway's Protestant gentry, first learned the Irish language from her childhood nanny, and later
led campaigns for its revival?
Isabella Augusta,
Lady Gregory
926
Which Dewsbury–born rugby league commentator was famous for sayings including "It's an up–and–under" and "He's goin' for an early bath"?
Eddie Waring
927
Which football commentator said "Some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over" during the 1966 World Cup Final?
Kenneth Wolstenholme
928
Which BBC cricket commentator, who was born in Macclesfield, once famously said to Brian Johnston that Ian Botham had failed to "get his leg over"?
Jonathan Agnew
929
The 2002 autobiography of which Formula One commentator was entitled "Unless I'm very much mistaken"?
Murray Walker
930
Which Cheshire–born sports presenter and commentator was renowned for his gaffes, such that a sports bloopers column in Private Eye was named for him?
David Coleman
931
Who provided BBC commentary for the Grand National between 1947 and 1997, as well as owning racehorses including Be Friendly and Attivo?
Peter O'Sullevan
932
Which snooker commentator once infamously said "for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"? His nickname will suffice.
Whispering Ted Lowe
933
According to the Big Butterfly Count, which large butterfly was spotted the most during summer 2023?
Red Admiral
934
What colour follows 'common', 'large', 'holly' and 'Adonis' in the names of British butterflies?
Blue
935
What alternative name for the 'small white' butterfly derives from the tendency of its caterpillars to eat the leaves of a member of the Brassica family of plants?
Cabbage White
936
Which butterfly, found only in the Norfolk Broads, is Britain's largest butterfly?
Swallowtail
937
In 1900, Keir Hardie became one of the first two British Labour MPs. Who was the other?
Richard Bell
938
In which battle of 1757 did Robert Clive lead the British East India company to a decisive victory?
Battle of Plassey
939
In 1983, who drove Thrust 2 at up to 650 miles per hour to break the land speed record at Black Rock Desert, Nevada? Andy Green set a new record at the same site fourteen years later.
Richard Noble
940
Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme and Sara Jane Moore both attempted to assassinate which US president?
Gerald Ford
941
Sodium and potassium are two of the elements in Group I of the periodic table, also known as the "alkali metals". Name any of the other elements in this group.
Lithium, rubidium, caesium, or francium
942
Middle name DeForest; American actor and cultural icon, 1899–1957
Humphrey Bogart
943
Walt Disney middle name
Elias
944
Middle names John Huffam; English author, 1812–1870
Charles Dickens
945
What name is shared by the second–longest river in Ireland and a port town in Cumbria?
Barrow
946
Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in California and in all of the contiguous US, is part of which mountain range?
Sierra Nevada
947
The city of Derry (or Londonderry) stands on which river?
Foyle
948
How are the Irish islands of Inishmore, Inishmaan and Inisheer collectively known?
The Aran Islands
949
What is the name of the double–headed peninsula on which the Scottish towns of Stranraer and Drummore are located?
The Rhinns of Galloway
950
Which actor and TV presenter played Pop Larkin in the 2021 series The Larkins?
Bradley Walsh
951
In Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, what highly dangerous creature did the Snark turn out to be?
Boojum
952
Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol were founding members of which folk group?
Fairport Convention
953
What name did the Goodies give to their martial art in which they used black puddings as weapons?
Ecky Thump
954
What county is The Archers set in?
Borsetshire
955
The catchphrase "Let's be careful out there" is associated with what 1980s American TV series?
Hill Street Blues
956
On which racecourse is there a sharp, left–hand bend called Tattenham Corner?
Epsom
957
For which fictional football team did Roy of the Rovers play?
Melchester Rovers
958
Pool cues are typically made of maple wood. What wood are snooker cues usually made of?
Ash
959
At which racecourse is the King George VI chase run, usually on Boxing Day?
Kempton Park, Surrey
960
What deep blue coloured pigment was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder?
Ultramarine
961
Which sea area, located between the Shetland Islands and Norway, is the first to be named during the Shipping Forecast?
Viking
962
What's the longest river that empties into the Caspian Sea?
Volga
963
How is the Greek island of Kerkyra (Ker–key–ra) known in English?
Corfu
964
Parotitis is the medical name for what illness?
Mumps
965
Name either of the bodies of water that are linked by the Welland Ship Canal.
Lake Erie or Lake Ontario
966
Where would you be most likely to find a muselet (mooz–lay)?
On a bottle (it's a wire cage that fits over a cork)
967
Who was the last male winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award?
Lewis Hamilton (in 2020. The last three winners were Emma Raducanu, Beth Mead and Mary Earps)
968
In Open All Hours, which character drove a white Morris Minor (first name only is acceptable)?
Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
969
The name of which Beano character, a boy who could run very fast, was also the nickname of rugby union player Jason Robinson?
Billy Whizz
970
In what North Wales town does the International Eisteddfod take place each July?
Llangollen
971
The word 'marmalade' derives from the Portuguese word for what fruit, which is similar in appearance to a pear?
Quince
972
By what nickname was the Last of the Summer Wine character played by Brian Wilde known?
Foggy (Walter 'Foggy' Dewhurst)
973
The name of which school of Buddhism derives originally from a Sanskrit word meaning 'meditation' or 'contemplation'?
Zen
974
What singer was nicknamed Little Miss Dynaminte?
Brenda Lee
975
According to the traditional rhyme, what is Monday's child?
Fair of Face
976
The name of what alcoholic spirit comes from the Dutch for 'burnt wine'?
Brandy
977
In bingo, what number is traditionally associated with the nickname 'the Brighton line'?
59 (it originates from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest)
978
Which shipping forecast area in the North Sea is named for its depth, as measured in fathoms?
Forties
979
One of several theories for the origin of the name of which British teacake is that it is derived from the French for 'sun and moon'?
Sally Lunn bun
980
TV adverts for which mobile phone network operator feature 'Mat from Macclesfield'?
Lebara
981
Prior to Shohei Ohtani's $700 million signing in 2023, who held the record for the biggest Major League Baseball contract? He played
alongside Ohtani for the Los Angeles Angels, and since his debut in 2011, has never won a postseason game.
Mike Trout
982
Which animal mostly bright green in color did LL Cool J's character
keep as a pet in the waterlogged film Deep Blue Sea? It does not meet
a happy end,
Parrot
983
Who is the feminist conceptual artist known for her large format textbased public art including an LED sign in Times Square reading
"ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE"?
Jenny Holzer
984
The 2024 Grammys announced the debut of the African Music Performance category. Which Nigerian artist, who is nominated for this
new award, previously won a Grammy for Twice as Tall in 2020?
Burna Boy
985
What is the Japanese name for the lucky cat figurine often seen in the front of restaurants and other businesses? The literal translation is
"beckoning cat."
Maneki Neko
986
Which 90s alternative rock band released their debut album American Thighs, featuring their popular single “Seether,” in 1994? Fronted by Nina Gordon and Louise Post, the original lineup also released the 2015 album Ghost Notes.
Veruca Salt
987
Kalawao County in the state of Hawaii is just 12 square miles making it the smallest in area of any US county. This peninsula became its own county because it had been a quarantined colony for sufferers of Hansen's Disease on what island?
Moloka'i
988
What sport, a variant of bocce and one of two Paralympic sports that does not have an Olympic equivalent, sees players throw or bowl balls to land as close as possible to the target ball? It is played by players with cerebral palsy or other neurological conditions.
Boccia
989
What 1950 Ray Bradbury sci-fi short story depicts a family living in a high-tech "Happylife Home"? In the story, the children spend all their time in a virtual reality room which they turn into the titular specific kind of environment which turns dangerously real by the end of the story.
The Veldt
990
Michelle Yeoh became an international star when she appeared in the third Police Story film with Jackie Chan. What was the subtitle of this film (and the film’s title when released in the U.S.)? She later appeared in a spin-off sequel to this film in 1993 whose title simply added the
number 2.
Supercop
991
Which U.S. city's mayors have included Sharon Pratt Kelly, Muriel
Bowser, and Marion Barry?
Washington DC
992
What is the largest football stadium, by capacity, in the USA? Named after the state it is in and university it is part of, it is home to the
Wolverines who recently won the College Football Playoff National Championship.
MICHIGAN Stadium (accept The
BIG HOUSE)
993
Which singer's 1978 song “What You Won't Do For Love” did Tupac sample in his posthumously released “Do For Love”? When this singer
passed away in 2023, people were still shocked to learn he was white.
Bobby CALDWELL
994
In December 2023 which golfer, the first Spaniard to win the US Open,
announced he was joining LIV Golf? He was accused of hypocrisy
after previously declaring his loyalty to the PGA.
Jon Rahm
995
In Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, what command can join the contents of multiple cells into a longer string in one cell?
CONCAT or CONCATENATE
996
Which Tunisian fashion designer is known for his hooded dress, notably worn by Grace Jones in the Bond film A View To A Kill?
AzzedineAlaia
997
Since January 2022, which woman has been serving as the head of both state and government in Honduras?
Xiomara Castro
998
Which 90s alternative rock band released their debut album Aurora Glory Alice, featuring their popular single “Here & Now,” in 1993 and 1994 on different labels? Formed in Boston, they were fronted by Kay Hanley and released an EP, Back to Nebraska, in 2016.
Letters to Cleo
999
Which fashion brand was launched by Max Azria, a Tunisian-born American designer, in 1989? Its name derives from a French phrase that translates as "good style, good class."
BCBG Max Azria
1000
Which American golfer, who won the US Open in 2017 and 2018 and the PGA Championship in 2018 and 2019, joined LIV Golf in 2022?
He had previously accused other golfers of "selling out" by joining the LIV Golf tour.
Brooks Koepka
1001
The late Andre Braugher first received widespread acclaim for his performance as Detective Frank Pembleton on which NBC show subtitled "Life on the Street"?
Homicide
1002
Which 1983 film, with a single standalone letter as part of its title, starring and directed by Jackie Chan sees him fighting off pirates who are destroying Hong Kong Marine Police ships in the late 19th century?
Project A
1003
What is the Japanese name for the round-headed good luck doll meant to depict the founder of Zen Buddhism? The rolling shape is
meant to symbolize resilience.
Daruma
1004
Who is the feminist conceptual artist known for her photographs with bold overlaid text, usually in starkly contrasting colors? One of her best-known works has the words "Your body is a battleground" over a negative image of a woman's face.
Barbara Kruger
1005
Which band, fronted by Larry Blackmon, has been extensively sampled by Tupac in songs including “I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto” and “All About U”? Will Smith and Mariah Carey have also sampled their songs.
Cameo
1006
In Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, what command searches down a column for a given criteria, then retrieves requested data from a corresponding row?
VLOOKUP
1007
On January 15th, 2024, who assumed the Guatemalan presidency after defeating former First Lady Sandra Torres in the general election?
Bernardo Arevalo
1008
Which sport, exclusive to the Paralympic Games, is played by visually impaired/blindfolded athletes in teams of three? They follow the sound of the bells and cannot kick the ball
Goalball
1009
In the 1954 Ray Bradbury sci-fi short "All Summer in a Day," schoolchildren who have known nothing but darkness and rain their whole lives prepare for one day of summer weather while conspiring to make one unpopular girl miss it. Where does the story take place?
Venus
1010
Prior to Ohtani's and Yoshinobu Yamamoto's signing with the Dodgers in 2023 which New York Yankees player held the record for the largest pitching contract in Major League Baseball? He previously played college ball for UCLA before being drafted first overall by the Pirates in 2011, and he won the American League Cy Young Award in 2023.
Gerrit Cole
1011
Saving important characters from the main antagonist during the film, what kind of animals were Cindy and Sandy in the waterpark-set film Jaws 3?
Dolphins
1012
Sadalsuud and Sadalmelik are two supergiants in a constellation with what Latin name? In Greek myth, the constellation formed when Zeus
brought Ganymede to the heavens to act as a water bearer to the gods.
Aquarius
1013
Postulated as one possible real location for Homer's sirens in the Odyssey is the Strait of Messina, a very narrow passage where Sicily's
Punta del Faro nearly reaches Punta Pezzo in what region, the toe of Italy's boot?
Calabria
1014
Which Atlanta-born Nigerian singer, nominated for African Music Performance at the 2024 Grammys, has received three nominations at the 2024 Grammys, including for his fourth album Timeless?
Davido
1015
Widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of the rebel American Basketball Association, what San Antonio Spurs legend was nicknamed “Iceman”?
George Gervin
1016
Widely considered one of the most famous 20th-century pianists, what Canadian well known for his Bach interpretation, and was known for eccentric habits such as humming while he played?
Glenn Gould
1017
What browser-based geography game using Google Street View was launched by Anton Wallen in 2013?
Geoguessr
1018
Taking place in May 1274 BCE, which battle saw Egyptian forces led by Ramesses II fight the Hittite Empire led by Muwatalli II on the banks of the Orontes River?
Battle of KADESH
1019
What is the name of the young boy who leads the crew of search-and-rescue dogs in the children’s TV series, PAW Patrol?
Ryder
1020
Which feminist writer and critic is the author of the 1990 work Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson? She initially lauded Madonna as “the future of feminism” but later condemned her for her image and lifestyle choices.
Camille Paglia
1021
Which NBA team lost 28 games in a row between October 30th and December 30th 2023, tying for the longest losing streak in
league history? Although also bottom of their conference, the San Antonio Spurs only lost 18 consecutive games
Detroit Pistons
1022
After Westfield London, the second-largest shopping centre in the UK by area is the Metrocentre, which is located in which
town in northeast England?
Gateshead
1023
Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut as Edie Doyle in the 1954 film On the Waterfront? Her other roles include Eve Kendall in North by Northwest and Dunreath Henry in That Certain Feeling.
Eva Marie Saint
1024
Who was James Monroe VP between 1817 and 1825?
James Monroe
1025
By what stage name is musician Deidra Roper better known? She became famous as part of the hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa, for whom she was the DJ until being fired in 2019.
DJ Spinderella
1026
Which Uruguayan-born architect who died in 2023, designed the skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street, London nicknamed ‘the Walkie-Talkie’?
Rafael Vinoly
1027
At 621 metres above sea level, which hill is the highest point in Dartmoor, Devon and southern England?
High Willhays
1028
Which mustelid, the UK population of which is largely found in the north, is easily identifiable by a pale yellow ‘bib’ that is found on its chin and throat? They have semi-retractable claws that enable them to climb trees.
Pine Marten
1029
Patented by Bayer in 1985, imidacloprid was the first commercially used example of which class of neuroactive insecticides? In 2023, the UK lifted a ban on these insecticides and allowed them to be used on sugar beet.
Neonicotinoids
1030
Who was Oscar nominated for Best Actress for her role as Karen Holmes in the 1953 film From Here to Eternity? Her many other roles include Miss Madrigal in The Chalk Garden and Sarah Miles in The End of the Affair.
Deborah Kerr
1031
Benjamin Harrison VP between 1889-93
Levi P Morton
1032
By what stage name is musician Norman Rogers better known? He became famous as part of Public Enemy, for whom he was the
DJ and turntablist until departing in 1998.
Terminator X
1033
Which NFL team lost all 16 games they played in the 2017 season? They were the second team to go 0-16 in a regular season, after
the Detroit Lions in 2008.
Cleveland Browns
1034
In her book Vamps and Tramps, Camille Paglia [PAL-ee-uh] criticised which radical feminist as ‘the girl with the eternal cold’? This thinker was best known for campaigning against pornography alongside Catharine A. MacKinnon and her 1974 book Woman Hating?
Andrea Dworkin
1035
Perhaps in order to prepare for the Battle of Kadesh, Muwatalli II moved the Hittite capital to Tarhuntassa from which other city in modern-day Turkey that was the capital of the Hittite Empire for most of its history?
Hattusa
1036
Xuli, Kyan, Lars, Foz and Tala form what titular group from a children’s TV series? They regularly do battle with Grandmaster Glitch.
Go Jetters
1037
Voiced by Tommie Earl Jenkins, an anthropomorphic unicorn who is the leader and mentor of the Go Jet Academy, he is a funky disco-grooving unicorn
Ubercorn
1038
What is the name of the broad-spectrum systemic herbicide that was first used under the trade name Roundup? It is the most
common herbicide used in agriculture in the United States and kills plants by preventing them from making certain proteins.
Glyphosate
1039
In the Peanut Butter Jelly Time meme, after the voice has introduced its theme it intones “peanut butter jelly, peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly with…” what piece of sporting equipment?
A Baseball Bat
1040
Which Argentine-born architect who died in 2019 designed the interlinked pair of skyscrapers known as the Petronas Towers in
Kuala Lumpur?
Cesar Pelli
1041
At 519 metres, which hill is the highest point in Exmoor and Somerset? It is also the highest point in southern England outside
Dartmoor.
Dunkery Beacon
1042
Which mustelid found in Great Britain is thought to be the sole ancestor of the ferret? It is easily identifiable by a dark brown ‘mask’ on its face and by a foul-smelling liquid used to mark territory.
Polecat
1043
Colombian footballer who went from Levante to Chelsea in 2024 to become most expensive female football transfer for £426k breaking record for Kiera Walsh set in 2022
Mayra Ramirez
1044
Fourth most expensive all time female transfer, most expensive australian woman who went from Hammarby to Arsenal in 2023 for £301k
Kyra Cooney-Cross
1045
Captain of US Soccer Team currently, American female footballer most expensive American footballer when went from Portland Thorns to Lyon in 2023 for £258k
Lindsey Horan
1046
The first KFC franchise store opened up in which US state?
Salt Lake City, Utah
1047
Felix Klieser was born without arms, yet made his BBC Proms debut in 2023 playing Mozart's 4th concerto for which brass instrument, on which he uses his left toes to operate the valves?
French Horn
1048
While the French-language shipping forecast usually refers to the same place names as in the UK forecast, some differ.
"Antifer" is known in English as which region, named for an English island?
Wight
1049
Shipping Forecast english name for the area called Casquets by the French?
Portland
1050
a French island at the southwestern end of the English Channel which marks the westernmost point of metropolitan France. It belongs to Brittany and in medieval times, Léon. The French word for this island is the French name for the shipping forecast Plymouth in Britain.
Ushant (Ouessant is French name)
1051
a group of rocks eight miles (13 km) northwest of Alderney in the Channel Islands; they are administered by the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The rocks are part of an underwater sandstone ridge. They give their name for the shipping area the French have for what we call Portland.
Casquets
1052
What is the Dutch KNMI and Norwegian counterpart name for what the English call the Forties shipping forecast name? is an area in the Scottish sector of the North Sea, between Scotland and Norway, about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Aberdeen.
Fladen Ground
1053
Western end of namesake peninsula in Lochaber, and Scottish gaelic meaning "the headland of the hill of the great sea") is a peninsula in Highland, Scotland where the namesake Lighthouse is situated.
Ardnamurchan Point
1054
a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, north-west of the town of Llandudno. Referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, its English name derives from the Old Norse word for sea serpent.
Great Orme
1055
Which two words follow "specific" in defining the amount of energy required to change the state of one kilogram of a substance?
Latent Heat
1056
Which German composer wrote the original soundtracks for Ammonite and Summerland, and won an Academy Award
for Best Original Score in 2022 for All Quiet on the Western Front?
Volker Bertelmann
1057
American film director and producer. He is known for directing the films Swingers (1996), Go (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and American Made (2017).
Doug Liman
1058
SNPs ["snips"] can be used to detect susceptibility to disease in molecular genetic epidemiology. If the S and N stand for
"Single Nucleotide", for what does the P stand?
Polymorphism
1059
Which German psychoanalyst is credited with founding feminist psychology, in response to Sigmund Freud's theory of
penis envy? She is notable for developing a theory of ten neurotic needs
Karen Horney
1060
Which controversial YouTube beauty blogger and make up artist has had many feuds with public personalities such as Tati Westbrook; Kat Von D; and Shane Dawson? Their namesake cosmetics brand includes pallettes such as Blood Sugar and Blood Money.
Jeffree Starr
1061
Which two words follow "specific" in defining the amount of thermal energy needed to increase the temperature of one kilogram of a substance by one degree Celsius?
Heat Capacity
1062
Which wicket keeper, now the captain of the men's limited overs England sides, completed the run out that ensured that England won the Cricket World Cup in 2019?
Jos Buttler
1063
Élisabeth Borne was the second female Prime Minister of France. The first was which Socialist Party leader, who served from 1991 to 1992?
Edith Cresson
1064
Which Austrian-British psychoanalyst, who specialised in childhood analysis, was the primary figure in the development
of object relations theory? She also coined the term "reparation" in 1921.
Melanie Klein
1065
Franchise location name or nickname acceptable. Bruce Bochy's World Series win with the Rangers was his fourth: with which team did he win his first three rings, in 2010, 2012, and 2014? Their 2010 success was their first in 56 years, with Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey integral to their victories.
San Francisco Giants
1066
Which American chess grandmaster won the 2023 World Bullet Chess Championship, defeating Magnus Carlsen? He is
also a popular chess streamer.
Hikaru Nakamura
1067
With 203 caps, Gemma Fay is Scotland's most capped international footballer. What position did she play in?
Goalkeeper
1068
COP29, the 29th meeting of the United Nations to discuss the effects of climate change, will take place in what city? Asian capital.
Baku
1069
Foxboro Hot Tubs and the Network are both spin-off bands or side projects formed in
the 2000s by the members of which band, that was first founded when they were
teenagers in California in 1987?
Greenday
1070
Which type of passive electronic component stores energy in an electric field by
accumulating charges on two surfaces close to, but insulated from, each other? This
is different from a battery, which stores the energy chemically.
Capacitor
1071
The prestigious University of Notre Dame is located in Notre Dame, a suburb to the
north of which city in Indiana?
South Bend
1072
Which company, formed in 1967 by the privatisation of a nationalised industry, in
1999 merged with a Dutch company to form the Corus Group, before later being acquired by Tata?
British Steel
1073
Which type of supernatural being precedes ‘Bar’ in the name of the UK’s leading
brand of disposable vapes, manufactured by the Chinese company iMiracle
Shenzen, who in 2023 announced they would drop dessert and soft drink flavours
after criticism of marketing to children?
Elf
1074
In 2021 when it became a republic, which woman became the first President of
Barbados? She had previously served as its final Governor-General, the representative of the monarchy.
Sandra Mason
1075
Which character in the Mortal Kombat series of video games is a God of Thunder
and during fights can shoot lightning at his opponents? He is usually depicted in a
white and blue outfit with a conical hat.
Raiden
1076
The four walls of the Stanza della Segnatura [SAY-nya-TOO-ra] in the Papal
Palace in Rome are adorned with frescoes by which High Renaissance artist?
Rafael
1077
Which 2017 horror comedy film sees its protagonist stuck in a time loop until she
figures out who is trying to kill her?
Happy Death Day
1078
Which alliteratively-named Australian tennis player won her only Grand Slam
singles title at the 2011 US Open, beating Serena Williams in the final?
Samantha Stosur
1079
Which open space in Dallas was John F. Kennedy’s motorcade travelling through
when he was fatally shot in November 1963?
Dealey Plaza
1080
Which girl’s name follows ‘Lost’ in the name of the sister brand of Elf Bar? Their vapes have a shorter and thicker shape than Elf Bar's, but are similarly colourful.
Mary
1081
Although the President is the new head of state of Barbados, the head of government remains the Prime Minister. Elected in 2018, who is the current Prime Minister and first ever woman to hold the office?
Mia Mottley
1082
The prestigious Duke University is located in which city in North Carolina?
Durham
1083
Box Car Racer and +44 are both spin-off bands or side projects formed in the 2000s by the members of which band, that was first founded when they were teenagers in California in 1992?
Blink 182
1084
Which animal features in the name of a hairstyle where the hair is split down the
middle and braided into one plait on each side of the head?
Pig(tails)
1085
The building now known as the Dallas County Administration Building went by
what other name in 1963, when its sixth floor was the vantage point from which
Lee Harvey Oswald shot at John F. Kennedy?
Book Depository
1086
Which character in the Mortal Kombat series of video games is the only character
to appear in every main instalment in the series, is depicted as a ninja who wears
a black and blue outfit and can shoot ice-based attacks?
Sub-Zero
1087
The interior of the Scrovegni [scro-VAYN-yee] Chapel in Padua is almost entirely covered in frescoes by which Early Renaissance artist?
Giotto
1088
Marie-Adélaïde, from 1912 to 1919, and Charlotte, from 1919 to 1964, are the
only two women to have reigned as Grand Duchess of which small European country?
Luxembourg
1089
Which conservationist and founder of the Born Free foundation was made a
dame in 2023?
Virginia McKenna
1090
Writer and broadcaster Danny Robins presents which podcast series investigating paranormal occurrences? It transferred to television, first appearing on BBC2 in the autumn of 2023.
Uncanny
1091
The Satires are a set of 16 poems written by which Roman poet, active in the first
and second century A.D.? The tenth satire contains this author’s assertion that
Roman society was kept in order by the provision of bread and circuses.
Juvenal
1092
Imagine you’re a guest at a children’s party. Music is playing, and you know that when that music stops you’ve got to sit down on the floor as quickly as possible because if you’re the last to sit down, you’re out. What game are you playing?
Musical Bumps
1093
Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber is not just famous for musicals. He part produced a
number one version of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini in 1990
performed by Timmy Mallett – under what artist name was this single released?
Bombalurina
1094
In July 2024, which north African nation will host the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, the second consecutive time this country has hosted the tournament? Its national team were also runners-up in 2022 and it will host the next men’s tournament in 2025.
Morocco
1095
It was announced in early 2024 that online music publication Pitchfork would be
merging with which men’s lifestyle magazine?
GQ
1096
Believed to be one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in British history, the false fraud claims made against Sub Postmasters were caused by faults in which piece of accounting software, rolled out to Post Offices in the late 1990s?
Horizon
1097
Resident in Charlwood, Surrey in the 1980s, which British Motorcycle racer held
the 500cc World Championship for two years in 1976 and 1977? A crash at Daytona in 1975 left him with a substantial amount of metalwork in his legs.
Barry Sheene
1098
Which chain of travel agents, once the largest in the UK, were rebranded as
Thomson in 2004? A long running series of humorous adverts for this company
were based around the phrase “get away”.
Lunn Poly
1099
Perhaps originating from a colloquialism, ‘Yinzer’ is a term for the inhabitants of
which eastern US city and its environs?
Pittsburgh
1100
It would probably be unwise to try to eat any part of one, but what specific organ
of the polar bear is toxic to humans due to its high concentration of vitamin A?
Liver
1101
The Seven Sisters is a chalk cliff formation in East Sussex a little to the west of
which chalk headland, separated from it by Birling Gap?
Beachy Head
1102
Nicknamed “Banyana Banyana” or “The Girls”, which national team won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, defeating Morocco 2-1 in the final? The men’s team from this nation last won the AFCON in 2013.
South Africa
1103
Which play, written by Danny Robins and concerning a supernatural occurrence
premiered in the West End in 2021 and is now touring the UK? It has attracted
big names to its rotating cast including Laura Whitmore and Cheryl Cole.
2:22 A Ghost Story
1104
Another successful pop hit for Andrew Lloyd Webber was a dance version of the in-game music for the video game Tetris. Under what artist name was this number 6 hit released in 1992?
Dr Spin
1105
When Thomas Cook went into liquidation in 2019, which family run travel agency
based in Sunderland bought their entire retail portfolio?
Hays Travel
1106
Eels can only be eaten if cooked, and never appear raw when served as sushi.
What, specifically, is toxic to humans in raw eel? Consumption of this substance
can cause muscles to cramp including those in the heart.
Blood
1107
Born in Charlwood in 1999, which British racing driver had both legs amputated after a crash at Donnington Park in 2017 during a Formula 4 championship race? He is now a co-presenter of Channel 4’s F1 coverage, providing analysis.
Billy Monger
1108
Omeprazole is used to treat acid reflux and heartburn as well as stomach ulcers.
It is a type of drug called a PPI. If the I is “Inhibitor”, what does the PP stand for?
Proton Pump
1109
Which wrestler and actor appeared in a 2021 video promoting the film Fast and Furious 9 singing into an ice cream cone in Mandarin? His pronunciation of the Mandarin word for ice cream, bing qi-lin [bing chi-lin] inspired a meme in late 2022.
John Cena
1110
Which composer and record producer composed Theme One, the piece of music
which opened and closed Radio 1 in its early years?
George Martin
1111
Who created the literary character Montalbano?
A Camilleri
1112
In 1962 which British businessman recruited by MI6 was arrested and imprisoned in Russia? British engineer and businessman recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He acted as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky. Struggling with deteriorating health, he was released in 1964 in exchange for the Soviet spy Konon Molody.
Greville Wynne
1113
What was the name of the double agent who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 and
fled to the Soviet Union?
George Blake
1114
In which year was construction of the Berlin wall started?
1961
1115
What musical instrument was used for the theme tune of the 1949 film “The Third Man”?
Zither (played by Anton Karas)
1116
In which English county are the Clee Hills?
Shropshire
1117
Which fish is known as the ”poor man’s lobster”?
Monkfish
1118
Which labour MP for Grimsby changed his name to Haddock in an unusual bid to persuade
people to eat more fish?
Austin Mitchell
1119
"Fish” was the lead singer on the first single released by neo- prog rock band Marillion. What
was the name of the single?
Kayleigh
1120
What instrument did classically trained Julian Bream predominantly play?
Classical Guitar
1121
Who was the leader of the Catuvellauni tribe taken to Rome in 51AD?
Caractacus
1122
Eric Morecambe was for many years a director of which current premier league club?
Luton
1123
Stage name of rapper born Matthew Hauri in Minnesota in 1996?
Yung Gravy
