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sub-boss of the first Mortal Kombat game. He is a Shokan, a half-human, half-dragon race distinguished by his four arms and enormous size. He became Grand Champion of the Mortal Kombat tournament after defeating the Great Kung Lao, and held the title for the next 500 years as part of evil sorcerer Shang Tsung’s plan to manipulate the tournament in order to achieve Outworld emperor Shao Kahn’s goal of dominance of Earthrealm.
Goro
Introduced in the original 1992 MK game, he is an action movie star with an extensive martial arts background. In the rebooted timeline, he is also the love interest to Special Forces officer Sonya Blade and the father of their daughter Cassie. He is inspired by martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme, particularly Van Damme’s character, Frank Dux, in the 1988 film Bloodsport.
Johnny Cage
first depicted in the Mortal Kombat canon as a Japanese-born American (Australian in later games) who was the leader of the Black Dragon criminal empire and a wanted man in thirty-five countries.
Kano
Depicted as Earthrealm’s greatest warrior and champion, he debuted in the original 1992 MK game as a Shaolin monk with special moves, which were intended to be the easiest for players to perform. The character’s storyline sees him win the eponymous Mortal Kombat tournament in the first and second games, saving Earthrealm.
Liu Kang
Mortal Kombat character based on the Japanese deity Raijin god of thunder, he is depicted as the god of thunder who possesses control over lightning. He debuted in the original 1992 game and has appeared as a playable character in every main installment except Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)
Raiden
Mortal Kombat of the Saurian race, He debuted in the original 1992 game as a hidden opponent, establishing him as the first secret character in fighting game history.
Reptile
A ninja dressed in yellow, his primary weapon is a kunai rope dart, which he uses to harpoon opponents. An undead Japanese warrior principally defined by his quest to avenge the deaths of himself, his family, and his clan; he kills Sub-Zero, the apparent murderer, in-between the original game and Mortal Kombat II (1993), leading to a bitter feud between himself and the new Sub-Zero.
Scorpion
He debuted as the final boss in the original 1992 MK game and has remained one of the franchise’s primary villains. A powerful sorcerer, he is principally defined by his abilities to shapeshift into other characters and to absorb the souls of defeated warriors.
Shang Tsung
She debuted in the original 1992 game as the roster’s sole female fighter, a military officer with the Special Forces. Ends up with Johnny Cage and mother to Cassie.
Sonya Blade
They are depicted as two Chinese brothers who are ninja warriors of the Lin Kuei clan and principally defined by their blue attire and ability to control ice in many forms. Mortal Kombat.
SUb Zero
Introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993) as the leader of a Special Forces unit, he became a mainstay of the series, including as the protagonist of the action-adventure spin-off Mortal Kombat: Special Forces (2000). The character is distinguished by his metal bionic arms.
Jax Briggs
Debuting in Mortal Kombat II (1993), she is a royal from the fictional realm of Edenia. Her primary weapon is a pair of steel fans, which she uses for most of her special attacks. She is also the love interest of Mortal Kombat hero Liu Kang.
Kitana
Depicted as emperor of the fictional realm Outworld, he is one of the franchise’s primary villains. Feared for his immense strength, which he complements with a large hammer, and knowledge of black magic, he seeks conquest of all the realms, including Earth. Main villain of MK 2, MK3 and others.
Shao Kahn
Mortal Kombat: Debuting as an unlockable character in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), he is an amalgam of the souls of deceased warriors and possesses telekinetic abilities.
Ermac
He debuted in Mortal Kombat 3 (1995) as a Native American shaman selected to help defend Earthrealm against invading forces from Outworld.
Nightwolf
Fighting game 1992 made by Midway Games
Mortal Kombat
Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, fighting game debuting in 1994
Tekken
Published by Capcom, fighting game debuted in 1987
Street Fighter
fictional species created for the Final Fantasy franchise by Square Enix (originally Square). A galliform bird commonly having yellow feathers, they were first introduced in Final Fantasy II (1988), and have since featured in some capacity in nearly every Final Fantasy title, usually as a means of transport.
Chocobo
2023 video game: set in the twin continents of Valisthea, currently divided between six nations who hold power through access to magical Crystals and Dominants, humans who act as hosts for each nation’s Eikon. Tensions between the nations escalate as a magical drought dubbed the Blight begins consuming the land. Clive Rosfield, guardian to his younger brother Joshua, witnesses his kingdom destroyed and becomes involved in the growing conflict between Valisthea’s nations and a secret power driving the war.
Final Fantasy XVI
Most recent Need for Speed video game released 2022 which subtitle?
Unbound
Most recent Sonic video game released 2022 which subtitle?
Frontiers
John Madden namesake of video game coached which side to Superbowl XI victory in 1977?
Oakland Raiders
2023 star wars video game name
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
2019 stars wars video game name
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
First Battlefield video game released in 2002 and had which year in title?
1942
2021 Battlefield video game released with which year in title?
2042
Tom Clancy franchise Squad-based first person tactical shooters, based on the novel of the same name, typically taking place in closed urban environments first released 1998
Rainbow Six
Tom Clancy video game francise from 2001 Squad-based first-and third-person tactical shooters. Unlike Rainbow Six, this two word name usually takes place in larger, outdoor environments
Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy franchise video games from 2002-13 action-adventure third-person shooter covert-ops stealth games; lately spawned a line of books written by a series of different authors, all writing under the pseudonym David Michaels
Splinter Cell
2016+ Tom Clancy video game franchise role-playing third-person shooter video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, _______________ is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic; the player, who is an agent of the titular Strategic Homeland organisation.
The Division
Players select one of the available characters, representing Vault Hunters that have traveled to the planet Pandora to try to seek its fabled Vault. Each Vault Hunter has a different skill tree and one or more unique abilities. The small yellow robot Claptrap is the de facto mascot for the franchise.
Borderlands
Byleth Eisner, Corrin, Ike, Marth, Lucina, Robin and Chrom are all on Super Smash Bros but originate from which video game franchise?
Fire Emblem
character in the Mario series of video games. She debuted in the 1989 Game Boy launch game Super Mario Land as the ruler of Sarasaland where she was given the role of damsel in distress for Mario to rescue, presented as Luigi’s love interest.
Princess Daisy
Pit, Palutena and Dark Pit are all characters in Super Smash Bros but originate from which video game franchise?
Kid Icarus
It was released in 1985 for both the arcade VS. System and the Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System console. The characters Popo and Nana, collectively known as the title characters, scale 32 vertically scrolling, ice-covered mountains to recover stolen vegetables from a giant condor.
Ice Climber
Video game: Set in the far future on a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around terrestrial cephalopods known as Inklings and Octolings – based on squids and octopuses respectively – which can transform between humanoid and cephalopod forms at will.
Splatoon
Isabelle and Villager are both playable characters in Super Smash Bros but also originate from which series?
Animal Crossing (Isabelle is a shih-tzu)
character in Bandai Namco’s Tekken fighting game series, first featured as the protagonist in the original 1994 game and later became one of the main antagonists of the series, eventually serving as the main antagonist of Tekken 8. Son of main Zaibatsu CEO.
Kazuya Mishima
character in Capcom’s Street Fighter series, this character is the best friend and rival of Ryu, who has also appeared in all Street Fighter games.
Ken Masters
the antihero of the Kirby series. Introduced to the series as the main antagonist of the game Kirby’s Dream Land (1992), in which he steals Dream Land’s food supply, prompting Kirby to travel to his castle and confront him.
King Dedede
a fictional anthropomorphic crocodile and the main antagonist in Nintendo’s Donkey Kong video game franchise, as well as the archnemesis of Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.. Leader of the Kremlings.
King K.Rool
Little Mac is a fictional boxer and the protagonist in which Nintendo boxing video game?
Punch-Out!
England rugby union coach at Six Nations 2024
Steve Borthwick
France rugby union coach at Six Nations 2024
Fabien Galthie
Ireland rugby union coach at Six Nations 2024
Andy Farrell
Italy rugby union coach at Six Nations 2024
Gonzalo Quesada (Argentina)
Scotland rugby union coach at Six Nations 2024
Gregor Townsend
Wales rugby union coach at Six Nations 2024
Warren Gatland (New Zealand)
England rugby union captain at Six Nations 2024, plays hooker for Saracens
Jamie George
France rugby union captain at Six Nations 2024 plays Number 8 for La Rochelle
Gregory Alldritt
Ireland rugby union captain at Six Nations 2024 plays as flanker for United Rugby Championship club Munster
Peter O’Mahony
Italy rugby union captain at Six Nations 2024 plays as flanker for United Rugby Championship team Benetton
Michele Lamaro
Wales rugby union captain at Six Nations 2024 who plays as lock for Exeter Chiefs
Dafydd Jenkins
Home stadium to Olympique de Marseille, It is the largest club football ground in France, with a capacity of 67,394 spectators. The stadium is also used regularly by the France national rugby union team.
Stade Velodrome
Introduced in Pokemon X and Y and a playable character in Super Smash Bros, which pokemon is the final evolution of froakie and a water/dark pokemon?
Greninja
Introduced in films and then Diamond and Pearl, whcih fighting/steel pokemon is a playable character in Super Smash Bros?
Lucario
Lucas, a young boy with psychic abilities, and Ness are playable characters in Super Smash Bros and originates from which one word video game franchise?
Mother
Capcom mascot created by Akira Kitamura in debut game 1987, a playable character in Super Smash Bros whose original story was an assistant to Dr Light to battle the mad scientist Dr Wily. Has an arm cannon.
Mega Man
Which character from 2017 fighting game Arms is a playable character on Super Smash Bros?
Min Min
1980-81: Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, the product derived its name from it featuring a single game as well as a clock on an LCD screen. Pair is a playable character on Super Smash Bros. Mr ____ & _____.
Mr Game & Watch
The players Mythra, Pyra and Shulk are playable characters on Super Smash Bros and originate from which video game franchise developed by Monolith Soft?
Xenoblade Chronicles
Main protagonist of the Pikmin series who is also a playable character on Super Smash Bros?
Olimar
Simon Belmont and Richter are both playable characters in Super Smash Bros but originate from which video game franchise created by Konami in 1986?
Castlevania
Playable character on Super Smash Bros, also known by his aliases Geoform 187 and The Cunning God of Death, is a fictional supervillain and the main antagonist of the Metroid series. An evil and aggressive draconic extraterrestrial hailing from the planet Zebes, he became Samus Aran’s archnemesis
Ridley
Toy robot accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) who is a playable character on Super Smash Bros
R.O.B.
Current voice of Mario and Luigi, name is a demonym
Kevin Afghani
pink, anthropomorphic dinosaur who wears a red bow on her head, and has a round mouth that can fire eggs as projectiles, first appeared in Super Mario Bros 2, maybe transgender, one of first ever transgender video game character
Birdo
She was created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and first appeared in Donkey Kong (1981) as the damsel in distress, being held captive by Donkey Kong at the top of a large construction site.
Pauline
Yoshi’s helper dog in Super Mario, debuted in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
Poochy
a scientist and inventor. He primarily appears in the Luigi’s Mansion series, in which he invented several objects, such as Luigi’s Poltergust 3000 and Gooigi from Luigi’s Mansion 3.
Professor Elvin Gadd
an elderly Toad character who is Princess Peach’s steward. He is depicted showing concern for the princess’ safety and acts as a prime caretaker for the Toads debuted in Super Mario Sunshine
Toadsworth
pink Toad character who debuted in Mario Kart: Double Dash (2003) as a playable driver
Toadette
a princess character introduced in 2007’s Super Mario Galaxy. As a child who fled into space after her mother’s death, she becomes the adoptive mother of the Lumas — mysterious and friendly star-like creatures that inhabit space in the Mario franchise
Rosalina
rabbit-like creature who steals items from Toad. He was introduced in New Super Mario Bros. U (2012).
Nabbit
a member of the fictional Magikoopa species who is Bowser’s childhood caretaker, and later in life one of his high-ranking minions, the main antagonist of the Yoshi series
Kamek the Magikoopa
character and the main protagonist of Disney and Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts video game series. Introduced in the first Kingdom Hearts game in 2002, they are portrayed as a cheerful teenager who lives on the Destiny Islands and has been best friends with Riku and Kairi since childhood. Super Smash Bros playable character.
Sora
Only Minecraft character that is playable on Super Smash Bros is which character?
Steve
Terry Bogard is a playable character in Super Smash Bros but originates from which video game franchise fighting by SNK?
Fatal Fury
2003 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic character name of which character and Belaya, another female Jedi were also heavily implied to be lovers. This would make her the first known gay character in the Star Wars universe.
Juhani
AFCON 2023 (Jan 2024) hosted in which country?
Ivory Coast
Captain of the Equatorial Guinea football team, all time top scorer, scored five so far in AFCON 2024 as of Feb 3 2024. Plays in third league of Spain, Intercity.
Emilio Nsue
Inspired by Infinity Engine-era games, particularly Planescape: Torment, the 2019 video game was written and designed by a team led by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and features an art style based on oil painting with music by the English band Sea Power.
Disco Elysium
Young son of Kratos in God of War video game franchise
Atreus
Protagonist and son of Hades in the video game Hades
Zagreus
2016 video game a farm life simulation game developed by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone. Players take the role of a character who inherits their deceased grandfather’s dilapidated farm in a namesake place
Stardew Valley
Danish video game company that released Limbo in 2010 and then sequel Inside in 2016
Playdead
After Empress Emily Kaldwin is deposed by the witch Delilah Copperspoon, the player may choose between playing as either Emily or her Royal Protector and father Corvo Attano as they attempt to reclaim the throne.
Dishonored 2
2015 video game follows the player’s character, a Hunter, through the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-era–inspired city of Yharnam, whose inhabitants are afflicted with a disease which transforms the residents, called Yharnamites, into horrific beasts. Attempting to find the source of the plague, the player’s character unravels the city’s mysteries while fighting beasts and cosmic beings.
Bloodborne
players control the eponymous adventurer as he goes on a journey to rescue his partner Shield Knight while fighting the Enchantress and her Order of No Quarter, can attack with titular weapon. Crowdfunded. 2014 Yacht Club Games, known as best ever.
Shovel Knight
Players take on the role of a Guardian, protectors of Earth’s last safe city as they wield a power called Light to protect the City from different alien races. Guardians are tasked with reviving a celestial being called the Traveler, while journeying to different planets to investigate and destroy the alien threats before humanity is completely wiped out. 2014 FPS.
Destiny
The 2013 video game is set in the year 1912 and follows its protagonist, Booker DeWitt, who is sent to the airborne city Columbia to retrieve Elizabeth, a young woman held captive there. Booker and Elizabeth become involved in a class war between the nativist Founders that rule Columbia and the rebel Vox Populi, representing the city’s underclass. Elizabeth possesses the ability to manipulate “Tears” in the space-time continuum, and Booker and Elizabeth discover she is central to Columbia’s dark secrets.
BioShock Infinite
2012 video game The game is set in 1989 Miami, and revolves primarily around an unnamed silent protagonist—dubbed “Jacket” by fans—receiving coded messages on his answering machine instructing him to commit massacres against the local Russian mafia.
Hotline Miami
2012 video game the player controls a robed figure in a vast desert, traveling towards a mountain in the distance. Other players on the same journey can be discovered, and two players can meet and assist each other, but they cannot communicate via speech or text and cannot see each other’s names until after the game’s credits.
Journey
The game takes place on the fictional Rook Islands, a tropical archipelago which can be freely explored by players. After a vacation goes awry, protagonist Jason Brody must save his friends, who have been kidnapped by pirates, and escape from the island and its unhinged inhabitants. 2012 video game.
Far Cry 3
The narrative and tone, inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness and Dashiell Hammett’s novel Red Harvest, focused on the lengths to which people would go to survive through terrible circumstances. FPS in which players take control of a mercenary in an unnamed fictional African nation in the middle of a civil war. 2008 Video Game.
Far Cry 2
Set on a mysterious tropical archipelago, the game follows Jack Carver, a former American special operations forces operative, as he searches for journalist Valerie Constantine, who accompanied him to the islands but went missing after their boat was destroyed by mercenaries. As Jack explores the islands, he begins to discover the horrific genetic experiments being conducted on the local wildlife and must confront the mad scientist behind them. 2004 video game.
Far Cry
2020 video game sequel: Set within a fictionalised representation of a futuristic, dystopian London, the game’s story follows the hacker syndicate DedSec as they seek to clear their names after being framed for a series of terrorist bombings. While searching for the true culprits, DedSec also attempt to liberate London’s citizens from the control of Albion, an oppressive private military company that has turned the city into a surveillance state following the bombings.
Watch Dogs: Legion
2007+ video game franchise The first three games form a trilogy in which the player character, Commander Shepard, attempts to save the Milky Way galaxy from a race of ancient, hibernating machines known as the Reapers.
Mass Effect
Name of Spyro’s dragonfly sidekick in the Spyro the Dragon series.
Sparx
2015 survival horror video game. The game’s story follows an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone in a fictional Middle Eastern city called Harran. It features an enemy-infested, open-world city with a dynamic day–night cycle, in which zombies are slow and clumsy during daytime but become extremely aggressive at night.
Dying Light
2002 video game: a feline humanoid mechanic of the Lombax race, and a diminutive, sentient Zoni “defective” robot
Ratchet & Clank
2021 video game sequel to Ratchet & Clark?
Ratchet & Clark: Rift Apart
2001 video game debut It is primarily developed and published by Capcom. The series centers on the demon hunter Dante and his efforts to thwart various demon invasions of Earth.
Devil May Cry
Set in an alternate history, the game tells the story of a world war between two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations and a cult-like militant organization called the Brotherhood of Nod, led by the mysterious Kane. The groups compete for control of Tiberium, a mysterious substance that slowly spreads across the world.
Command & Conquer
First Total War video game was released in 2000 and set in Japan - name
Shogun
2,803-day reign as WWWF World Heavyweight Champion is the longest in the championship’s history as well as the longest world title reign in WWE history. Italian-American wrestler starting reign in 1963.
Bruno Sammartino
the first non-kayfabe Russian male wrestler to compete in the WWE, and is also the first Russian-born champion in the company’s history. Current NXT Champion as of February 2024.
Ilja Dragunov
Inaugural WWE Universal Champion from 2016 was which Irish wrestler with real name Fergal Devitt
Finn Balor
Undisputed WWE Universal Championship 2022+ defeated Raw’s WWE Champion Brock Lesnar to win the latter’s title and become recognized as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, a recognition he maintains as of February 3, 2024
Roman Reigns
Inaugural World Heavyweight Champion in 2023 and inaugural NXT Champion in 2019. Married to Becky Lynch.
Seth “Freakin” Rollins
Who won first WWE Championship ever in April 11 1963? Eventually beaten by Bruno Sammartino.
Buddy Rogers
Real name Mary Lillian Ellison, which female wrestler stagename for the WWE’s inaugural women’s champion?
The Fabulous Moolah
English professional wrestler known as Saraya Jade Bevis, known as what one word name under WWE?
Paige
OVERWATCH: a genetically engineered gorilla, scientist, and adventurer. He wields a short-range Tesla Cannon that electrocutes enemies at close range, and wears armor that incorporates a Jump Pack, allowing him to make leaps across great distances and damage foes on landing
Winston
OVERWATCH: a super-intelligent hamster mechanic and adventurer who competes in battles piloting a large spherical mech suit with two forms: a quadrupedal form used for firing his Quad Cannons
Wrecking Ball
Known as throwing stars/ninja stars and Japanese for literally: “hand-hidden blade” is a Japanese concealed weapon used by samurai or ninja or in martial arts as a hidden dagger or metsubushi to distract or misdirect
Shuriken
Street Fighter main character, current rival Ken Masters in first game
Ryu
an African-American boxer wearing blue trunks with white trim and a torn white shirt under a blue tank top, as well as red boxing gloves and boxing shoes. In Japan, he is named M. Bison.
Balrog
Also known by birth name Jimmy, Street Fighter II in 1991, he was once human, but after a plane-crash in Brazil, he mutated, resulting in his green colouring and his ability to generate electricity.
Blanka
Street Fighter character played by Kylie Minogue in movie
Cammy
professional sumo wrestler and sentō proprietor, Street Fighter II.
E Honda
mask-wearing, claw-wielding fighter from Spain who uses a personal fighting style combining Japanese ninjutsu and Spanish bullfighting, earning him the nickname of “Spanish Ninja”.
Vega
Of Ossetian origin, he is a professional wrestler that fights to prove Russia’s superiority over other nations’ fighters. He was the canon grand champion of Street Fighter IV, being the only character to defeat Seth.
Zangief
He made his first appearance in the 1993’s Super Street Fighter II as one of the four new characters introduced in the game. In the series, he is a Jamaican kickboxer and karateka, as well as a recording artist and breakdancer. He was the only character at the time to be designed by an American.
Dee Jay
She first appeared in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991 and is the first female playable character to appear in a fighting game to gain mainstream recognition. She is an expert martial artist and Interpol officer who restlessly seeks revenge for the death of her father at the hands of the evil M. Bison, leader of the Shadaloo crime syndicate.
Chun-Li
Street Fighter: He sometimes goes by the alias “long-arm” and his fighting ability includes stretching his limbs. In the series, he is a mystical yogi who is loved by his villagers and family alike. He is also a pacifist who goes against his beliefs by entering the World Warrior tournament to raise money for his poor village.
Dhalsim
Name of the fighting bear in the Tekken video game series
Kuma
Name of the fighting kangaroo in the Tekken video game series
Roger
Cold-blooded professional assassin, who made her first appearance in the original 1994 installment. She is one of three playable characters to appear in all main installments of the Tekken series, alongside Paul Phoenix and Yoshimitsu.
Nina Williams
Appeared in every Tekken video game: hot-headed American biker and martial artist who regularly enters the King of Iron Fist fighting tournaments to prove he is “the toughest fighter in the universe” while hoping to use the prize money to pay off his debts, yet he falls short of victory each time due to various circumstances.
Paul Phoenix
Japanese character in Tekken, only one of three to appear in all Tekken games along with Nina Williams and Paul Phoenix. name used by three different characters who appear in the Tekken and Soulcalibur series of fighting games by Namco.
Yoshimitsu
Which Tekken video game character wears a JAGUAR mask?
King
Canadian director who directed Shiva Baby and Bottoms?
Emma Seligman
Wimbledon 2023 winner Czech woman
Marketa Vondrousova
Wimbledon 2022 winner Kazakhstani woman
Elena Rybakina
2021 French Open winner Czech woman
Barbora Krejcikova
American woman who won only grand slam 2020 Australian Open
Sofia Kenin
Canadian woman who won only grand slam 2019 US Open
Bianca Andreescu
Danish woman who won only grand slam 2018 Australian Open
Caroline Wozniacki
2017 US Open female only grand slam
Sloane Stephens
2017 French Open female only grand slam Latvian
Jelena Ostapenko
Italian woman 2015 US Open only grand slam
Flavia Pennetta
2013 Wimbledon French female only grand slam
Marion Bartoli
2011 Australian woman US OPen winner only grand slam
Samantha Stosur
2010 French Open female winner only grand slam Italian
Francesca Schiavone
Russian female player won 2004 US open and 2009 French Open
Svetlana Kuznetsova
2008 French Open female winner only grand slam, now married to Bastian Schweinsteiger
Ana Ivanovic (Serbian)
2004 French Open female winner only grand slam Russian
Anastasia Myskina
Wimbledon 1998 Female was which Czech winning only grand slam
Jana Novotna
1994 Wimbledon female only grand slam for which Spaniard?
Conchita Martinez
1990 US Open female only grand slam for which Argentine?
Gabriela Sabatini
Whose only grand slam victory is 2021 US Open?
Daniil Medvedev
Whose only grand slam victory is 2020 US Open?
Dominic Thiem
Whose only grand slam victory is 2014 US Open?
Marin Cilic
Whose only grand slam victory is 2009 US Open?
Juan Martin Del Potro
Whose only grand slam victory is 2003 US Open?
Andy Roddick
Whose only grand slam victory is 2004 French Open?
Gaston Gaudio
Whose only grand slam victory is 2003 French Open?
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Whose only grand slam victory is 2002 French Open?
Albert Costa
Whose only grand slam victory is 2002 Australian Open?
Thomas Johansson
Russian former number one who won gold at 2000 Sydney, won 1996 French Open and 1999 Australian Open?
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Who won only two grand slams both US Open in 1997 and 1998?
Pat Rafter
Whose only grand slam victory is 1998 Australian Open?
Petr Korda
Whose only grand slam victory is 1998 French Open?
Carlos Moya
Whose only grand slam victory is 1996 Wimbledon?
Richard Krajicek
Whose only grand slam victory is 1995 French Open?
Thomas Muster
Who won only two grand slams both French Opens 1993 and 1994?
Sergi Bruguera
1990 French Open only grand slam victory for which Ecuadorian tennis player?
Andres Gomez
1991 Wimbledon only grand slam victory for which player?
Michael Stich
Soviet agronomist and pseudo-scientist. He was a strong proponent of Lamarckism, and rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed after his surname.
Trofim Lysenko
Most famous work, Progress and Poverty. He inspired his namesake economic philosophy, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. He famously argued that a single tax on land values would create a more productive and just society.
Henry George
Born 1484, a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system. In 1531, his alliance applied an unsuccessful food blockade on the Catholic cantons. The cantons responded with an attack at a moment when Zürich was ill-prepared, and he died on the battlefield.
Huldrych Zwingli
The second caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate. He ruled from April 680 until his death in November 683. His appointment by his father Mu’awiya I was the first hereditary succession to the caliphate in Islamic history. His caliphate was marked by the death of Muhammad’s grandson Husayn ibn Ali and the start of the crisis known as the Second Fitna.
Yazid I (Yazidism)
Created Integral Yoga, wrote The Life Divine and “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”. Born 1872 Calcutta, an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as Vande Mataram.
Sri Aurobindo
leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging. He is considered as “the Father of Salafi jihadism”, the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such as al-Qaeda and ISIL.
Sayyid Qutb
Born Elis 360BC, credited as being the first Greek skeptic philosopher and founder of namesake philosophy.
Pyrrho of Elis
Evil Demon Problem by Descartes first mentioned in what 1641 work.
Meditations on First Philosophy
Brain in a Vat problem first proposed by which American philosopher in 1970s?
Gilbert Harman
The five-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by which philosopher, that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago from nothing, with human memory and all other signs of history included.
Bertrand Russell
This hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old with a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative, which implies that the Earth is only a few thousand years old. Idea named after Philip Henry Gosse’s 1857 book.
Omphalos Hypothesis
What is the philosophical idea that only one’s mind is sure to exist?
Solipsism
Lowest point of Egypt is Qattara Depression, what is the highest point?
Mount Catherine
Cerro El Pital is highest peak of which Central American country?
El Salvador
Pico Basile is the highest peak of which African country?
Equatorial Guinea (it’s on Bioko island)
Emba Soira is the highest point and the Lake Kulul the lowest point of which country?
Eritrea
Suur Munamägi highest point of which country?
Estonia
Emlembe is the highest point of which country?
eSwatini
Located in the Simien Mountians, what is the highest point of Ethiopia, the lowest point is called Danakil Depression?
Ras Dejen (acc Ras Dashen)
Mount Usborne is the highest point of which British Overseas Territory?
Falkland Islands
Slættaratindur is the highest point of which overseas territory?
Faroe Islands (on island of Eysturoy)
Largest and most populated island of the Faroe Islands, with capital Torshavn on it. Name means “island of currents”.
Streymoy
Formerly known as Mt Victoria, Mt Tomanivi is the highest point of which island country?
Fiji (on Viti Levu largest island of Fiji)
Highest point of Finland found on border of Norway and Finland
Halti
Saltwater lagoon that is France’s lowest point
Etang de Lavalduc
Bellevue de l’Inini is the highest point of which French Overseas Department?
French Guiana
Mont Orohena is the highest point of which of France’s Oversea Departments?
French Polynesia (on Tahiti)
Mont Bengoue is the highest point of which country?
Gabon
Georgia’s highest point (country)
Shkhara
Germany’s highest point is the highest point of the Wetterstein Mountains
Zugspitze
Mount Afadjato is the highest point of which country?
Ghana
Gunnbjorn Fjeld is tallest point of which overseas territory?
Greenland
Mount Saint Catherine is the highest point of which Caribbean country?
Grenada
Highest peak of Guadeloupe has what name found on island of Basse-Terre?
La Grande Soufriere (or just Soufriere)
Volcán Tajumulco is highest point of which country?
Guatemala
Highest point of both Ivory Coast and Guinea has what name?
Mont Nimba
Monte Torin is the highest point of which country?
Guinea-Bissau
Name of Guyana’s highest point, found on tri-point of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela
Mount Roraima
Pic la Selle or Morne la Selle is the highest peak of which country?
Haiti
Mawson Peak of Big Ben is highest point of which Australian external territory island?
Heard Island (and McDonald Islands)
Cerro Las Minas is the highest peak of which country?
Honduras
Tai Mo Shan is the highest peak of which city island?
Hong Kong
Hungary’s highest peak?
Kekes
India’s highest peak?
Kangchenjunga
Highest peak of Indonesia found on New Guinea?
Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid
Highest peak of Iran and highest volcano in Asia
Damavand
Highest peak of Iraq, means Black Tent in Kurdish
Cheekha Dar
Area of mud-flats at the estuary of the river Slaney at Wexford Harbour, lowest point of Ireland, 3m below sea level
North Slob
Highest point of Isle of Man
Snaefell
Lake in Akita Prefecture in Honshu which is the lowest natural point of Japan
Hachiro-gata
Highest point of Jersey island?
Les Platons
Jabal Umm ad Dami is the highest point of which country?
Jordan
a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. It is on the China—Kyrgyzstan—Kazakhstan tripoint, east of lake Issyk Kul. the second-highest mountain in the Tian Shan, surpassed only by Jengish Chokusu.
Khan Tengri
on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is the second-highest point of both countries. Mountain is called Lenin Peak but also has alternative name named after Islamic philosopher.
Avicenna Peak
Highest peaks of Batian, Nelion and Point Lenana are on which mountain itself the highest mountain in its country?
Mount Kenya
Tallest mountain on North Korea
Paektu Mountain
Shield volcano on South Korea island of Jeju and therefore highest mountain in South Korea
Hallasan
it is the highest mountain of Kosovo, and also the highest mountain of Serbia according to the view held by the government of Serbia. Exactly on the border of Kosovo and North Macedonia.
Velika Rudoka
Jengish Chokusu highest mountain in which country?
Kyrgyzstan
Phou Bia is highest mountain in which country
Laos
Gaiziņkalns is the highest mountain in which country?
Latvia
Qurnat as Sawda’ is the highest mountain in which country?
Lebanon
Thabana Ntlenyana is highest mountain in which country?
Lesotho
Mount Wuteve is highest mountain in which country?
Liberia
Bikku Bitti is highest mountain in which country?
Libya
Grauspitz is highest mountain of which country?
Liechtenstein
Aukštojas Hill is highest point of which country?
Lithuania
Kneiff is the highest point in which country?
Luxembourg (replaced Buurgplaatz in 1997)
the highest peak of both Albania and North Macedonia and is also one of only two summits in Europe to be the highest point for more than one country
Korab
Maromokotro is highest point of which country?
Madagascar
Mount Mulanje is highest point of which country? Lowest point is the Shire River which is largest in the country.
Malawi
What is both the highest peak of Borneo and the highest point of Malaysia?
Kinabalu
Hombori Tondo or Mount Hombori is highest peak of which country?
Mali
Ta’Dmejrek is highest point of which European country?
Malta
Highest point of Martinique, active volcano
Mount Pelee
Kediet ej Jill is the highest peak of which country?
Mauritania
Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire highest point of which country?
Mauritius
Benara on Mahoré is the highest peak of which French overseas territory?
Mayotte
Mount Nanlaud is the highest peak of which island country?
Micronesia
Bălănești Hill is the highest peak of which country?
Moldova
along Chemin des Révoires on Mont Agel is the highest point of which country?
Monaco
Khüiten Peak is the highest point in the Altais and which country?
Mongolia
Zla Kolata is one of highest peaks of Accursed Mountains on border of two countries, it’s the highest peak of which country?
Montenegro
Chances Peak is a summit of stratovolcano named Soufriere Hills and found on which British Overseas Territory?
Montserrat
Jbel Toubkal is highest point of which country?
Morocco
Monte Binga highest point of which country?
Mozambique
Hkakabo Razi highest point of which country?
Myanmar
Song “Amanda” is by which Australian actor from Home & Away and Neighbours?
Craig McLachlan
Who won Mens Cross-Country Gold at 2020 Olympics, won cyclo-cross world championships too multiple times? Team GB.
Tom Pidcock
On what material is the Mona Lisa painted?
Poplar Wood
A wainwright is a maker and repairer of what?
Wagon (acc Dray/Cart)
Who is the main character and narrator of the adventure novels ‘Kidnapped’ (1886) and
‘Catriona’ (1893)?
David Balfour
Sometimes described as “Yorkshire’s own Land’s End”, what covers 280 acres above high water
and 450 acres of foreshore?
Spurn Head
Who was the Australian Prime Minister from 2010 to 2013?
Julia Gillard
Updated after the 2023 Irish Open, the rankings saw three men named Mark in the top ten. What are their surnames?
Allen, Selby, Williams
“Well, this is just a little Peyton Place / And you’re all [BLANK] Valley hypocrites” and “The day my mama socked it to the [BLANK] Valley PTA”. What word fills the blanks in these lyrics from a 1968 US No.1?
Harper
What is the motto of media company MGM?
Ars Gratia Artis (accept “Art for Art’s
Sake”)
‘Cf’, meaning ‘to compare’, is an abbreviation of what Latin word?
confer or conferatur
In 1977, who got to No.5 in the UK singles charts with ‘Good Morning, Judge’?
10CC
Who was the judge at Donald Trump’s fraud trial in October and November New York?
Arthur Engoron
What medical problem involves inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production
of mucus? Contains TAR in word.
Catarrh
What large, terrestrial birds live mainly on the steppes and in dry, grassland areas, and are
known for their slow, deliberate walking style?
Bustards
LINKS. What links each of the following?
a) Pee-wee Herman, Robin Day, Frank Muir, and Colonel Sanders.
Bow Ties
His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio’s Take It from Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35.
Frank Muir
Which Sec of State for Defence had autobiography “Here Today Gone Tomorrow” from Newsnight when Robin Day used the quote to describe him?
John Nott
In what 1969 film does Paul Newman’s character perform stunts on a bicycle?
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE. SUNDANCE KID
Who played Bluto in the 1980 live-action film ‘Popeye’?
Paul L Smith
Folk. Dave ‘Swarb’ Swarbrick joined which band in 1969? He is credited with assisting them to
produce their seminal album ‘Liege and Lief’ which initiated the British folk-rock movement.
Fairport Convention
How many different people appear on screen in an episode of ‘Blankety Blank’?
11
In a rugby league match, how many players in total would form a scrum?
12 (six each)
In a rugby union match, how many players in total would form a scrum?
16 (8 each)
The ‘Pastry War’ of 1838-39 was also known as the first French intervention in … which country?
Mexico
Jimmy Carter’s wife died in November, aged 96. Give either her first name, or her middle name
by which she was generally known?
(Eleanor) Rosalynn
Who was being tried for living on the earnings of prostitution when Mandy Rice-Davies uttered
her legendary riposte – “Well he would, wouldn’t he?”?
Stephen Ward
The Dunmow Flitch Trials exist to award a flitch of bacon to married couples if they can satisfy
the judge and jury that they have satisfied the criteria. In which English county is this held?
Essex
What infection of the inner ear usually affects your balance as well as your hearing?
Labyrinthitis
Dubbed ‘Britain’s loneliest sheep’, what name was given to the ewe rescued from the bottom of a Scottish cliff in November?
Fiona
Something/someone that leads a trend gets its name from the lead sheep in a flock. What term
is used for both?
Bellwether
Jennifer Gibney, who plays Agnes Brown’s daughter in TV’s ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys’, is married to whom?
Brendan O’Carroll
Which former British Prime Minister was badly injured as an infantry officer during WWI,
suffering pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life?
Harold Macmillan
Whom did England beat to secure third place in the 2023 Rugby World Cup?
Argentina
Which dessert generally has a whole lemon enclosed in the middle?
Sussex Pond Pudding
With which British city do you associate ‘chippy sauce’?
Edinburgh
What name follows ‘So Long’, in the title of a track on Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over
Troubled Water’?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Who was the Australian documentary maker, best known for his film Year Zero, about the Pol
Pot regime in Cambodia, who died on the 30th December 2023?
John Pilger
She appeared in ‘Boon’ and ‘Still Open Al Hours’ but was best known for playing Thelma in
‘Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads’. She passed away on the 1st. What was her stage name?
Brigit Forsyth
MODERN TV SERIES BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. Who were the main subjects of these series?
a) ‘The Reckoning’. (BBC 1 mini-series, 2023.)
Jimmy Savile
MODERN TV SERIES BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. Who were the main subjects of these series?
a) ‘The Long Shadow’. (ITV Seven Parter, 2023.)
Peter Sutcliffe
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the [BLANK] sun.” What word
is missing from Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’?
Maturing
“Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? / Do you remember an Inn?” The opening lines to what
poem?
Tarantella (Hilaire Belloc)
‘I Wouldn’t Leave My Little [BLANK] Hut’ – what is the missing word?
Wooden
In 1967, in which British newspaper did the journalist Murray Sayle break the story that Kim Philby was a Russian spy?
The Sunday Times
The La Corbière Lighthouse is situated at the extreme southwestern point of which Channel island?
Jersey
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, named after the world’s first female fighter pilot, is located in which Turkish city?
Istanbul
Which French luxury watchmaking company was famous for producing the Model A Mystery Clock, designed by Maurice Couet?
Cartier
Jeff Goldblum made his his film debut in which 1974 Michael Winner-directed thriller?
Death Wish
Which play by Anton Chekhov features the title character Ivan Voynitsky?
Uncle Vanya
A giant version of which foodstuff is created each Easter in the French town of Bessières?
Omelette
Between 1923 and 1989, the Wightman Cup was a team competition in which sport?
Tennis
What is the first name of Hyacinth Bucket’s husband in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances?
Richard
Which Egyptian-American author wrote the 2007 bestselling novel Call Me by Your Name?
Andre Aciman
What four-letter word links songs by The Troggs, Cat Stevens, Duran Duran, and Flo Rida?
Wild
(Wild Thing, Wild World, The Wild Boys, Wild Ones)
Which British politician resigned as foreign secretary in 1982, three days after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands?
Peter Carrington
Which Japanese technology company uses an infinity symbol as part of its logo and has the mission statement “Building trust in society through innovation”?
Fujitsu
Which French physicist discovered the radioactive element Francium in 1939?
Marguerite Perey
Which American reggae band had a 1994 hit with Baby I Love Your Way?
Big Mountain
What “M” is a tapered cylindrical tool, also known as a triblet, used by jewellers to shape rings or bracelets?
Mandrel
Which figure of eight racecourse in West Sussex was used as a location for filming the Dick Francis thriller Dead Cert?
Fontwell Park
Which 2014 biographical film about Mother Teresa starred Juliet Stevenson in the title role?
The Letters
In Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, who is the father of the Antipholus twins?
Egeon
Which English chef and founder of the St John restaurant wrote the 1999 cookery book Nose to Tail Eating?
Fergus Henderson
Parkville, South Yarra, and Fishermans Bend are neighbourhoods of which Australian city?
Melbourne
For which 1976 film was Laurence Olivier Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of Dr Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal with a penchant for dentistry?
Marathon Man
1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. Stallone is John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer who has a reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work.
Demolition Man
During filming of which film did Laurence Olivier apparently say to Dustin Hoffman, “have you ever tried acting?”?
Marathon Man
What 3 properties on a Monopoly board are yellow? 1 point for each, all 3 needed for a pass.
Leicester Square, Coventry Street, Piccadilly
He appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places (1983), A Private Function (1984) and Defence of the Realm (1986), and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mr. Emerson in A Room with a View (1985). He is also known for his performances in Alfie (1966), A Doll’s House (1973), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Maurice (1987), September (1987), and Noises Off (1992). He portrayed Marcus Brody in the Steven Spielberg and George Lucas films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
Denholm Elliot
She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.
Virginia McKenna
The borders of which two counƟes pass through the summit
of the MaƩerhorn? One point for one, three for both, both
for a pass.
Switzerland and Italy
Angola three borderign countries
DRC, Namibia, Zambia
Which former CoronaƟon Street actress and MP is the directly elected mayor of West Yorkshire?
Tracy Brabin
On 1st April last year Cumbria’s two-Ɵer local authoriƟes were
reorganised into two unitary authoriƟes. Name either.
CUMBERLAND or
WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS
Who did Ronnie O’Sullivan beat in the final of the 2024 Masters Snooker tournament earlier this month?
Ali Carter
The guitarist Denny Laine died in December 2023. Which band
did he found in 1964 with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder?
Moody Blues
What is the name of the house on the east side of Coniston Water bought by John Ruskin in 1871 and now museum to his memory?
Brantwood
Born 1170 Austria, a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs (“Sprüche”) in Middle High German. He has been described as the greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundred or so love-songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of Minnesang, the medieval German love lyric, and his innovations breathed new life into the tradition of courtly love.
Walther von der Vogelweide
a Latin word deriving from the Ancient Greek meaning “the praise of a person or thing.” Oirignally was song of chorus held at Panhellenic Games in honour of victor.
Encomium
abusive, reproachful, or venomous language used to express blame or censure; or, a form of rude expression or discourse intended to offend or hurt; vituperation, or deeply seated ill will, vitriol. from Latin adjective means ‘scolding.’
Invective
1668-1733: French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as _______ le Grand (“_________ the Great”) to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented ___________ family.
Francois Couperin
Fifth son of Bach, called the Buckeburg Bach
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Eighteenth son of Bach called the London Bach
Johann Christian Bach
Fifth child and second son of Bach called the “Berlin Bach”, later the “Hamburg Bach”
Carl Philipp Emanuel
What is the name of Neville LongboƩom’s toad in the ‘Harry PoƩer’ books?
Trevor
What is the largest species of toad on Earth?
Cane Toad
What is the name of Kermit’s nephew in the ‘The Muppet Show?’
Robin
What 1984 single was released by Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus?
We All Stand Together
What is the name of the frog that has translucent skin so that you can see its internal organs, bones, and muscles?
Glassfrog
1A What is the most poisonous species of frog on Earth?
Golden Poison Frog
Who portrayed Bruce Wayne in the streaming series Titans?
Iain Glen
Dick Grayson in Titans, Henry Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Brenton Thwaites
He is known for starring as Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017) and James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present).
Paul Wesley
Who played Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army The Lost Episodes? Known for Joshamee Gibbs in Pirates films.
Kevin McNally
he was cast as pompous management consultant David Marsden in the ITV comedy drama Cold Feet, which ran for five series from 1998 to 2003 and again for four further series from 2016 to 2020. Also Toast of London. Also Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army The Lost Episodes.
Robert Bathurst
He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, This Morning with Richard Not Judy, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam. Also Lance Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army The Lost Episodes.
Kevin Eldon
British comedy show, initially a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993 and then a BBC2 television series in 1995. It was written by and starred the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. Three word name: Simon Quinlank, Rod Hull and Peter characters.
Fist of Fun
a BBC comedy television programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. Two series were broadcast in 1998 and 1999 on BBC Two. The name was a satirical reference to ITV’s This Morning. The Curious Orange, Histor’s Eye.
This Morning With Richard Not Judy
Alan Partridge was a spin-off character from which spoof radio show?
On The Hour
On The Hour was later transferred to the TV as which show?
The Day Today
1998-2002 British television sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan - The title of the show is derived from the song run during the credits which was recorded by Max Greger and his Orchestra. The series starred the actors Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, and Simon Pegg in both series one and two.
“Big Train”
comedic parody of British science television shows, devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and narrated in the first series by Nigel Lambert. The first series of eight 10-minute shorts was shown in 2002. Pay homage to early 1980s educational films and school programmes such as ITV’s “Experiment” series and BBC’s “For Schools and Colleges”.
Look Around You
British satirical television series parodying current affairs news programming. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created and presented by Chris Morris. David Amess made to ask about cake drug in Parliament.
Brass Eye
British experimental black comedy sketch show, created, co-written, produced and directed by Chris Morris. It was broadcast on Channel 4 between 23 March and 27 April 2000. Many of the sketches re-used the original radio soundtracks with the actors lip-synching their lines, an unusual technique which added to the programme’s unsettling atmosphere.
Jam
British sketch comedy show that was originally broadcast between 1999 and 2003 on Channel 4. The main performers on the show were Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips.
Smack the Pony
She co-created, wrote and performed in the double-Emmy-award-winning Smack the Pony. She frequently collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in The Day Today, Brass Eye and Alan Partridge, and has also appeared in Toast of London and Two Doors Down.
Doon Mackichan
Scottish television sitcom, produced by BBC Studios. It was created by Simon Carlyle and Gregor Sharp, and stars Arabella Weir, Alex Norton, Doon Mackichan, Jonathan Watson and Elaine C. Smith as neighbours in a suburban street in Scotland.
Two Doors Down
Notorious for its dark humour, the show follows narcissistic sociopath Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis) alongside her moronic personal assistant Linda (Ruth Jones). Jill learns that her husband Terry (Kevin Eldon) has cancer. She uses this to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole (Rebecca Front), who suffers from MS, and her husband Don (Angus Deayton), a doctor and the man with whom Jill becomes increasingly obsessed.
Nighty Night
The film follows the story of Nobody (Terence Hill), who attempts to get his idol Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) to take on the Wild Bunch gang of outlaws. 1973 film was directed by Tonino Valerii and based on an idea by Sergio Leone.
My Name Is Nobody
British Channel 4 television sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, directed by Morris and starring Nicholas Burns as title character.
Nathan Barley
As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy. During the 2000s he was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside comedy partner Noel Fielding.
Julian Barratt
2005 tv show French-British adult animated series and sitcom, billed by its producers as “Father Ted meets South Park”. The series was internationally controversial, and was not screened by BBC Three, the channel which commissioned it. drawings depict the life of Father Nicholas, who lives in a Vatican City parody.
Popetown
a British television science fiction sitcom broadcast by BBC Two in 2006 and 2007. Set in 2151 and 2152, it follows the crew of HMS Camden Lock as they stumble through their heroic mission to protect British interests in a changing galaxy.
Hyperdrive
British sitcom starring Steve Coogan as main character: The show is set in Stevenage and depicts middle-class suburban life. A former roadie with anger issues who now owns a pest control business
Saxondale
It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments.
Lead Balloon
He reached prominence playing Brian Johnson in CITV’s My Parents Are Aliens (episodes of which he also wrote) and Michael, the café owner in Jack Dee’s BBC sitcom Lead Balloon. Between 2012 and 2020, he played John in five series of the critically acclaimed romantic drama series Last Tango in Halifax.
Tony Gardner
British stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street (1961–1971); Jean in the sitcom dinnerladies (1998–2000); and her role as Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020) for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award
Anne Reid
British zombie horror miniseries written and created by Charlie Brooker and directed by Yann Demange. The show takes place primarily on the set of a fictional series of the real television show Big Brother. The five episodes, aired over five consecutive nights, chronicle a zombie outbreak that strands the housemates and production staff inside the Big Brother House, which quickly becomes a shelter from the undead.
Dead Set
It is set in the fictitious Kirke University and follows the lives of the staff, in particular the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe.
Campus
British black comedy produced by Sky and written by Julia Davis, 2012-15. Set in the 1830s, this black comedy centres on Helene, a woman who is washed ashore after her ship is wrecked off the English coast.
Hunderby
She is best known for her role as Becky in the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her and playing Renee Zellweger’s best friend Miranda in Bridget Jones’s Baby, for which she was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Actress Award. She also had roles in the British comedy TV series Bad Education and The Wrong Mans.
Sarah Solemani
He is the voice of Poetry Pete in the children’s televisions series Sarah & Duck. Rose to prominence originating the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. Joined the Miloš Forman 1984 film adaptation, this time portraying Emanuel Schikaneder.
Simon Callow
He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien.
Emanuel Schikaneder
Who played Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983)?
Christopher Lloyd
British comedian, impressionist, writer and actress played Mrs Jenkins in 2020 The Witches? Had namesake show, also The Agency.
Morgana Robinson
She appeared in the Channel 4 comedy sketch show Absolutely, and wrote, produced, and appeared in the British ensemble film The Announcement. She voices Mummy Pig, Madame Gazelle and Dr Hamster in the children’s series Peppa Pig. Married to David Baddield since 2017.
Morwenna Banks
He portrayed Barry Welsh, presenter of the HTV Wales series Barry Welsh Is Coming. He has also had major roles in Naked Video, Absolutely, Fireman Sam, Shaun the Sheep, and Jeff Global’s Global Probe, and is the narrator of the children’s television show Peppa Pig.
John Sparkes
She is known for her roles in the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), the ITV drama Hollington Drive (2021), and as voice of the titular Peppa Pig (2020–) on Channel 5.
Amelia Bea Smith
He portrayed Alan Ashburn in the ITV television drama Fat Friends, Bernard Green in the BBC One comedy-drama Common as Muck, Mr. Bumble in the BBC series Dickensian, and is the voice of Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig. Dad of Freya _____, singer of “Lost Without You” and self titled album with song “Castles”.
Richard Ridings
British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the namesake private detectives
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables, First Officer Douglas Richardson in the award-winning radio series Cabin Pressure, and DCI Fred Thursday in the TV series Endeavour. Narrator of Sarah & Duck.
Roger Allam
Who voices Scarf Lady on Sarah & Duck? three-time SAG Award winner in the Best Cast in a Drama Series category for her role as Beryl Patmore in the ITV and PBS drama TV series Downton Abbey. Voice of Professor Matilda Weasley in Hogwarts Legacy.
Lesley Nicol
who voices headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black in hogwarts legacy
simon pegg
Gold original comedy (Charles Edwards), King of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth, is having a mid-life crisis, unhappy with his life and wanting to do more. 2017
Henry IX
Gold original comedy British television sitcom created by Joe Wilkinson and David Earl. Set on the Isle of Wight, it stars Wilkinson as Simon and Diane Morgan as his girlfriend Donna. The show begins with Simon and Donna returning to Simon’s home to visit his family for his fortieth birthday.
The Cockfields
Gold original comedy adapted from radio pilot Antiquity: The show stars well-known comic actors Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman as the eponymous siblings and antiques shop owners Rupert and Beverley
Bull
The series revolves around magistrate Marley Wise (Sarah Alexander) who is able to see and talk with a trio of ghosts comprising her husband (John Hannah), her lover (Nicholas Burns), and the local vicar (Jo Joyner). Gold original comedy.
Marley’s Ghosts
British television sitcom set in the Nottinghamshire town of Newark-on-Trent, England. The series aired on Gold on 28 March 2022, and revolves around the life of a recently divorced woman, her son and her ex-husband. starring Morgana Robinson and Matthew Horne
Newark, Newark
a British sitcom made for Channel 4 by JAX Media and Universal International Studios, starring Simon Bird, Kate O’Flynn, Amy James-Kelly, Harry Connor and Morgana Robinson. A coming-of-age sitcom about a Manchester family who are part of a puritanical Christian sect.
Everyone Else Burns
storytelling television series aimed at adults and inspired by the popular children’s series Jackanory. It is broadcast on the UKTV channel Dave.
Crackanory
three-part British television drama based on the best-selling 2011 P. D. James novel of the same name. Her murder mystery was based on the style and characters of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.
Death Comes to Pemberley
British sitcom set around the life of Danny Baker. It began airing on 3 September 2015. The sitcom stars Laurie Kynaston as Danny Baker, Peter Kay, and actress Lucy Speed as Danny Baker’s parents.
Cradle to Grave
English former child actress, best known for playing young Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Played Emma Kennedy in The Kennedys.
Lucy Hutchinson
Emil and the Detectives (German: Emil und die Detektive) is a 1929 novel set mainly in Berlin by which German writer?
Erich Kastner
Colonel K (voiced by Stephen Fry) is what type of creature (not a Walrus) who serves as Danger Mouse and Penfold’s boss. His beard and moustache is a sentient lifeform and now and then detaches itself from his face.
chinchilla
Danger Mouse’s main nemesis
Baron Silas von Greenback
In Danger Mouse: Greenback’s pet fluffy white caterpillar, whose intelligence and duplicity is often underestimated.
Nero
British television sitcom shown on Channel 4. It is set in the office of the children’s services department of fictional Elm Heath Council. Written by and starring Jo Brand and Morwenna Banks.
Damned
The programme stars Taylor, Adelayo Adedayo, Samson Kayo and Kadiff Kirwan as the members of an unsuccessful all-black South London jazz quartet who time-travel to the 1920s, and later the 1950s, visiting the Jazz Age and post-war cool jazz period while experiencing culture clashes as they manoeuvre in the unfamiliar eras.
Timewasters
British historical fiction television series based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories series of novels. A feature-length sequel that concluded the series story, titled Seven Kings Must Die, premiered on 14 April 2023 on Netflix. Alexander Dreymon plays Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
The Last Kingdom
British historical drama television series adapted by Andrew Davies from an unfinished manuscript by Jane Austen and starring Rose Williams, Crystal Clarke, Theo James, and Ben Lloyd-Hughes. Set during the Regency era, the plot follows a young and naive heroine as she navigates the new seaside resort.
Sanditon
It was written by Andrew Davies and was inspired by his experiences as a lecturer at the University of Warwick, and it has been interpreted as a commentary on contemporary trends in education. Stephen Daker (Peter Davison), joining a university medical centre staffed by an ill-assorted group of doctors.
A Very Peculiar Practice
British-American period television crime drama created by Rachael New, starring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin as the title characters, two Victorian era detectives. Debuted on Alibi on 2020, season four premiered 2024.
Miss Scarlet and The Duke
American fantasy streaming television series developed by Eric Heisserer for Netflix. It is based on the written works of Leigh Bardugo, and set in the Grishaverse, which consists namesake trilogy and Six of Crows duology.
Shadow and Bone
a thriller television series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, with Idris Elba starring in the lead role. It premiered on 28 June 2023 on Apple TV+. In January 2024, the series was renewed for a second season. Sam, a talented business negotiator, must use his skills to broker a peaceful end to a hijacking of a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London.
Hijack
Scottish black comedy crime drama television series, based on the BBC Radio 4 drama _____ Stranded. Nicola Walker title role, talks about Norway alot due to ancestry. Found on Alibi original programming.
Annika
Alibi original based on idea by Val McDermid: Show focuses on three female forensic professionals, Emma Hedges, Sarah Gordon and Kathy Torrance, working together at the fictitious Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy (SIFA) in Dundee, Scotland, as they uncover the truth of a murder case and bring a killer to justice.
Traces
Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. Did 1973 The Ascent of Man.
Jacob Bronowski
UKTV network channel that deals with science and nature documentaries
Eden
British railway historian, TV presenter, geographer and travel editor. He is known for his presenting and writing work, primarily on rail transport and architecture. He also works as a travel editor for transport website Trainline. The Architecture the Railways Built, Secrets of the London Underground.
Tim Dunn
a British television programme that was first broadcast on Dave and hosted by comedian Alan Davies. In each episode Davies holds an unscripted roundtable discussion with four guests.
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
TV show on Dave with Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont
Meet the Richardsons
British comedy game show broadcast on Dave. Pairs of comedians compete in survival-themed tasks for badges awarded by the host David Mitchell. The show was widely compared upon release to Taskmaster, a Dave original programme where comedians were set tasks to complete as individuals, which had moved to Channel 4 in 2020.
Outsiders
Which four letter word for the central character or protagonist in a story, play or film is a New York term for an Italian style sandwich known elsewhere as a submarine?
Hero
Which multinational company can trace its origins to antiques seller Marcus Samuel who in 1833 decided to try selling oriental seashells as well, capitalising on their popularity in the interior design industry?
Shell
Which formerly common unit of measurement, generally defined in England as three miles, is thought to have originally represented the distance a man could walk in an hour?
League
Which is the only discipline in modern fencing where a touch can be scored using the edge of the blade as well as the point?
Sabre
Listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world, to the nearest 100 years, how long ago was the Forbidden City in Beijing constructed?
600 (1406 to 1420)
Which term derived from the firepower of artillery is used in baseball as a term for the pitcher and catcher considered as a single unit, and the effectiveness of the combination? The same word can also mean an unlawful attack or a combination of simple instruments.
Battery
Which 5 letter word meaning an instance of figurative or metaphorical language is, according to the New York Times WordleBot, the best starting guess for Wordle on its hard setting?
TROPE
Geoff Dyer’s 2018 book “Broadsword Calling Danny Boy”, which describes Clint Eastwood as “not just squinting but squinting in German” is a scene-by-scene analysis of which 1968 film?
WHERE EAGLES DARE
Which driver became the youngest person to compete in Formula One at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix, when he was aged 17 years, 166 days, before he had passed his road driving test?
Max Verstappen
Which was Timothy Dalton’s second and last Bond film, the first one not to not use the title of an Ian Fleming story?
Licence to Kill
Sharing its name with a Bond film and a line of computers from HP, what is the name of the first electric car manufactured by Rolls Royce?
Spectre
Which birds are the subject of the Mafia hypothesis?
Cuckoo
The theme tune Strange Game for Slow Horses starring Gary Oldman, Kristen Scott-Thomas and Jonathan Pryce was written and performed by which singer songwriter born in 1943 and knighted in 2003?
Mick Jagger
The most significant official change of clocks for any international land frontier is 3.5 hours on the border between Afghanistan and which other country?
China
Which three letter word could be a computer key, Coca Cola’s first diet drink discontinued in 2020, a fast march or a pejorative term for a Cambridge student?
Tab
Owned by the Royal Caribbean Group, what is the largest cruise ship in the world? It is due to set sail from Miami on its maiden voyage.
Icon of the Seas
a character in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. He is the Prince of Verona. He holds authority over the Montague and Capulet households.
Escalus
Which Chinese-born US filmmaker is best known for writing and directing the films Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019)?
Lulu Wang (Barry Jenkins is partner)
Which comedian will return to host the Monday night episodes of The Daily Show through the 2024 US presidential election?
Jon Stewart
The former location of the Babri Masjid mosque, the Ram Mandir was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2024. This Hindu temple is located at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi, believed to be the birthplace of which Hindu god?
Rama
Coined by Orator F. Cook in 1906, what do you call the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species?
Speciation
What do you call the phenomenon that sees the emission of electrons when electromagnetic radiation, such as light, hits a material?
Photoelectric Effect
Born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, which New Zealand opera singer attracted attention by portraying the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in 1971?
Kiri Te Kanawa
Charles Jewtraw won the first gold medal at the first Winter Olympics in 1924. He competed in which sport?
Speed Skating
Founded by Tadashi Yanai, Fast Retailing is the parent company of what Japanese casual wear designer?
Uniqlo
What do you call the metabolic pathway that converts glucose into pyruvate and occurs in the liquid part of cells in most organisms?
Glycolysis
Which chilli of the habanero family is commonly used in West African and Carribean cuisine? It has a rating of 100,000–350,000 Scoville units
Scotch Bonnet
Beginning with m, what plant resin adds chewiness to Turkish Dondurma ice cream?
Mastic
The leaves of which plant, often likened to vanilla, is used to flavour rice and desserts across South East Asia? Called the vanilla of south east asia.
Pandan
Dangmyeon noodles, used in Korean Japchae are made from what root vegetable?
Sweet Potato
The Catalan word for what animal fat gives its name to the Mallorcan Ensaimada pastry?
Lard
Empanadas are often listed on menus as al horno or frito. What does al horno mean?
Baked
Beginning with C, what can be either a vegetable or the Caribbean stew made from the vegetable. In an episode of Death in Paradise, DCI Neville Parker beat the reigning champion in a contest for this dish by adding a few drops of Worcestershire sauce.
Callaloo
What small, custard pastry originating in Bordeaux is traditionally baked in a copper mould and flavoured with rum or vanilla?
Canele
Ramune is a type of carbonated drink from which country? It is one of the few drinks still sold in a Codd-neck bottle characterised by a marble stopper.
Japan
Elote is a Mexican street food made by grilling which crop and topping it with mayo, cheese, chilli and lime?
Corn
Fufu is a pounded meal from West Africa made with cassava which has to be prepared carefully to remove which toxic substance?
Cyanide
Which unleavened flatbread is traditionally consumed during Passover?
Matzo
What middle-eastern spice mix containing sumac, sesame seeds, oregano and other herbs is spread onto pide to make manakish?
Za’atar
Native to Africa, the pulp of which fruit with a sweet and sour flavour is used in chutney, curries, and mexican sweets?
Tamarind
What Indonesian food is made by fermenting whole soy beans with a starter culture, producing a mycelium that binds the beans together.
Tempeh
Beginning with B, what is the Hindi name for Aegle Marmelos, known as Bengal Quince or Wood Apple in English? This tree is sacred to Hindus and hot tea made from its fruit is served as a soothing refreshment after a Thai Massage.
Bael
A dessert made from thin threads of egg yolk, known as Angel Hair in English was introduced to Japan, Thailand and Kerala by people of which seafaring nation?
Portugal
Khachapuri cheese bread is the national dish of which country of the Caucasus?
Georgia
Besan flour is made from which high-protein legume, common in Indian cuisine?
Chickpea
Used in the preparation of drinks, what type of kitchen implement is the Japanese Chasen and South American Molinillo?
Whisk
What is the literal translation of aguadiente, a distilled alcohol consumed on the Iberian Peninsula?
Firewater
With their round form symbolic of the sun, which pancakes are traditionally consumed during the Russian celebration of Maslenitsa?
Blini
What shaved-ice dessert popular in Puerto Rico gets its name from the Spanish for pyramid and water?
Piragua
What South American tea, first consumed by the Guaraní people of Paraguay is sipped through a metal bombilla straw from a hollowed out gourd?
Yerba Mate
What Middle-Eastern biscuits, made of semolina dough filled with nuts or dates form part of the Eid, Easter and Purim festivities but are eaten all year round?
Maamoul
Raki is twice distilled alcohol spirit from Turkey of which fruit?
Grape
Banchan are vegetable side dishes accompanying the main meal in which cuisine?
Korean
What red culinary vegetable of the nightshade family is the main ingredient of the dip Muhamarra?
Capsicum/ Red Peppers
Meaning little tube, what is the Italian pastry is made from deep-fried dough and typically filled with ricotta?
Cannoli
He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for Doctor Who from its revival in 2005 until 2017. In 2023, he was announced to be returning to the series. Did The Goblin Song in December 2023, went to #12 in UK charts.
Murray Gold
Namibia highest point is on the Brandberg Mountain, it’s highest point is named what German origin word?
Konigstein
Command Ridge is the highest point of which Pacific country?
Nauru
Netherlands highest point is Mount Scenery on which island?
Saba
Mont Panié is the highest point of which French special collectivity?
New Caledonia
Maori name for New Zealand’s highest mountain?
Aoraki
Mogotón is the highest point of which country?
Nicaragua
Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès is the highest point of which country?
Niger
Chappal Waddi is the highest point of which country?
Nigeria
Mount Bates is the highest point of which Australian tetrritory found between New Zealand and New Caledonia?
Norfolk Island
Mount Agrihan on Agrihanis the highest point of which unincorporated territory of the United States?
Northern Mariana Islands
Galdhøpiggen is the highest peak of Scandinavia, Nrothern Eruope and which country?
Norway
Jabal Shams is the highest peak of which country? Name comes from first place to see sunrise.
Oman
Pakistan highest point?
K2
Largest island of Palau, the highest point of Mount Ngerchelchuus can be found on this island?
Babeldaob
Mount Nabi Yunis is the highest point of which country?
Palestine
Tallest peak Volcán Barú is in which country?
Panama
Papua New Guinea highest peak?
Mount Wilhelm
Cerro Peró is the highest point of which country?
Paraguay
Highest point of Peru
Huascarán
Highest point of Philippines, found on Mindanao
Mount Apo
Pawala Valley Ridge is the highest point of which British Overseas Territory?
Pitcairn Islands (Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, Oeno Islands)
Northwestern peak of Rysy is the highest point of which country?
Poland
Portugal’s highest peak which also names the island of the Azores that it is found?
Mt Pico
Cerro de Punta is the highest point of which American territory?
Puerto Rico
Qurayn Abu al Bawl is the highest point of which country?
Qatar
Piton des Neiges is the highest point of which French territory?
Reunion
Moldoveanu is the highest peak of which country?
Romania
Highest Mountain of Russia, highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains
Mount Elbrus
Which country highest point is Mount Karisimbi and lowest point is still 950m above sea level?
Rwanda
Morne du Vitet is highest peak of which French territory found in Caribbean?
Saint Barthelemy
Queen Mary’s Peak is highest peak of which British Overseas Territory?
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (it is on Tristan da Cunha)
Mount Liamuiga is the highest point of which Caribbean country?
St Kitts and Nevis
Mount Gimie is the highest point of which Caribbean country?
St Lucia
Pic Paradis is the highest peak of which French territory in the Cartibbean island?
Saint Martin
Morne de la Grande Montagne is the highest point of which French territory found in Atlantic Ocean?
St Pierre and Miquelon
La Soufrière is an active volcano and highest point of which Caribbean country?
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Mauga Silisili on Savai’i is the highest point of which country?
Samoa
Largest island of Samoa
Savai’i
Babeldaob largest island of what country?
Palau
Monte Titano is the highest point of which country?
San Marino
Jabal Sawda (official) or Jabal Farwa’ (most recent survey) highest point of which country?
Saudi Arabia
Midzor is highest point of which country?
Serbia
Largest island of Seychelles?
Mahe
Mount Bintumani highest peak of which country?
Sierra Leone
Bukit Timah Hill highest natural point of which country?
Singapore
Gerlachovský štít is highest peak of which country?
Slovakia
Slovenia largest peak
Triglav
Slovakia highest peak
Gerlachovsky stit
Mount Popomanaseu is highest peak of which country?
Solomon Islands
Mount Shimbiris is the highest peak of which country?
Somalia
Name of highest peak of South Africa, it is on border of Lesotho but Lestoho’s highet peak is Thabana Ntlenyana.
Mafadi
Name of highest peak of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, it is highest peak of any territory under sovereignty of UK.
Mount Paget
Kinyeti is highest peak of which country?
South Sudan
a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. Composed of islands, islets, cays, and more than 100 reefs, sometimes grouped in submerged old atolls, the archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia, and southern Vietnam. Named after the 19th-century British whaling captain
Spratly Islands
also referred to as the eleven-dash line by Taiwan, is a set of line segments on various maps that accompanied the claims of the People’s Republic of China (PRC, “mainland China”) and the Republic of China (ROC, “Taiwan”) in the South China Sea - controversy by Barbie film
Nine Dash Line
a strategy by which the government of China uses small provocations, none of which would constitute a casus belli by itself, but cumulatively produce a much larger action or result in China’s favor which would have been difficult or unlawful to perform all at once - food origins
Salami Slicing
a geopolitical hypothesis proposed by United States political researchers in 2004, jewellery origins. The term refers to the network of Chinese military and commercial facilities and relationships along its sea lines of communication, which extend from the Chinese mainland to Port Sudan in the Horn of Africa.
String of Pearls
Strait connecting Andaman Sea with Singapore Strait and the SOuth China Sea. Between Sumatra and Malay Peninsula.
Malacca Strait
a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.
Bab-el-Mandeb (Gate of Grief)
a militarily swarming and overwhelming tactic used by the People’s Liberation Army Navy to seize control of islands. It is done by surrounding and wrapping the island in successive layers of Chinese naval ships, China Coast Guard ships, and fishing boats and cut off the island from outside support.
Cabbage (wrapping) tactics
Pidurutalagala or Mount Pedro in English is highest peak of which country?
Sri Lanka
Deriba Caldera is the highest peak of which country?
Sudan
Juliana Top highest point of which country?
Suriname
Its name is Dutch for “Bear Mountain”, and comes from the polar bears seen there by Dutch whalers in the early 17th century, highest point of Norwegian island of Jan Mayen.
Beerenberg
Kebnekaise is highest peak of which country?
Sweden
Highest peak of Monte Rosa which is highest mountain in Switzerland?
Dufourspitze
Mount Hermon or Jabal el-Sheikh is the highest point of which country? It is the highest permanently manned UN position in the world, known as “Hermon Hotel”.
Syria (on border of Syria and Lebanon)
Taiwan’s highest peak
Yu Shan (Jade Mountain)
Ismoil Somoni Peak
is named after a ruler of the Samanid dynasty, and is highest peak of which country?
Tajikistan
the highest peak in the Pamir Mountains, and also the highest mountain wholly within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. With an elevation of 7,649 metres (25,095 ft).
Kongur Tagh
Doi Inthanon is the highest peak in which country?
Thailand
Mount Ramelau highest point of which country?
Timor Leste
Mont Agou is highest peak of which country?
Togo
El Cerro del Aripo is the highest peak of which country Caribbean?
Trinidad and Tobago
Jebel ech Chambi is the highest point of which country?
Tunisia
Aýrybaba/Ayrybobo is highest mountain of which country?
Turkmenistan
Hgihest peak of both DRC and UGanda
Mt Stanley
Hoverla is th ehighest peak of which country?
Ukraine
Jabal Al Jais is the highest point of which country
United Arab Emirates
Cerro Catedral is the highest peak of which country?
Uruguay
Mount Adelung (Adelunga Toghi) (4,301 m)
Mount Beshtor (Beshtar) (4,299 m)
Khazret Sultan (4,643 m), formerly Peak of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party have all at different times been highest points of which country?
Uzbekistan
What is the largest island of Vanuatu?
Espiritu Santo
Mount Tabwemasana is the highest point of which country?
Vanuata
What is the highest pooint of Venezuela?
Pico Bolivar
Highest point of Vietnam?
Fansipan
What is the largest and most populated island of British Virgin Islands?
Tortola
Mount Sage is the hgiihest point of which Overseas British Territory?
British Virgin Islands
What is the largest island of the US Virgin Islands?
St Croix
Containing the capital Charlotte Amalie, the most populous of the US Virgin Islands?
St Thomas
Mont Puke is the highest point of which French overseas collective?
Wallis and Futuna
Jabal An-Nabi Shu’ayb is the highest peak of which nation?
Yemen
Mafinga Central is the highest point of the Mafinga Hills and is highest pooint of which country?
Zambia
Mount Nyangani is the highest point of which country?
Zimbabwe
Who is the Homeland Security secretary of the United States? He is facing impeachment charges from House Republicans for his handling of the migrant crisis.
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS
Review: What one-word nickname is given to the Sudanese warlord who currently leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces? He is gaining more standing in the international community, despite committing genocidal acts in Darfur.
Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo is better known as HEMEDTI
What is the name of Japan’s lunar lander? After it successfully touched down on January 20th, Japan became the fifth country to land a craft on the moon.
Japan’s lunar lander is called SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon)
Last August, India became the fourth country to land on the Moon with the what mission?
Chandrayaan-3
As the United States contends with a migration crisis, a surprising number of people are coming from countries other than central America. Migrants from what two Asian countries and one European country make up a good portion of these illegal crossings?
RUSSIA, CHINA, and INDIA
A rare bit of science news! What name has been given to a newly discovered magnetism that is being defined as a type of antiferromagneticism? Feb 2024
ALTERMAGNETISM
A debate is brewing in Germany as to whether the government should ban what far-right anti-immigrant party?
ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY or AfD
Whohas been leader of CDU in Germany since January 2022?
Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz
What is the name of the Chinese fast-food chain that claims to be the creator of the Chinese hamburger? It has rivaled the dominance of McDonald’s and KFC in the country.
TASTIEN
Aron D’Souza founded which contest with first to take place in December 2024, Peter Thiel invested in January 2024
Enhanced Games
What ruling party of India, led by Narendra Modi, seems close to fulfilling three of its core, decades-old promises, including a controversial civil-law code? Full name needed.
Bharatiya Janata Party
What is the name of Liz Cheney’s book published in December 2023, subtitled “A Memoir and a Warning”, which has topped the New York Times best-seller list?
OATH AND HONOR: A MEMOIR AND A WARNING
This year, Lunar New Year falls on Saturday, Febuary 10th. It’s the year of what zodiac animal?
It’s the YEAR OF THE DRAGON! Wood Dragon specifically
Sirius is brightest star in night sky, what constellation
Canis Major
From 1871 to 1885, it was 0. From 1886 to 1891, it was 1. From 1891 to 1894, 2. From 1894 to 1970, 3. From 1971 to 1991, 4. From 1992 onwards, 5. What is it?
Points for a try in Rugby Union
Starting on January 2nd 1928, it is now the longest-running programme on British radio. Over the years it has been broadcast from London, Bristol, Bedford, back in London, Emmanuel Church in Didsbury, and now MediaCityUK. What is this series called?
The Daily Service
Scottish Poet Laureate fourth took role in 2021
Kathleen Jamie
List the four surnames of Scottish Poet Laureates?
Morgan, Lochhead, Kay, Jamie
Curent National Poet of Wales taking role in 2022
Hanan Issa
Which country’s capital is nicknamed ‘The City of White Marble’, banned black cars because they are bad luck, and, although not technically banned, doesn’t allow women drivers?
Turkmenistan
From the mid 70’s to the mid 90’s, if the vocalist was Joey, the lead guitarist was Johnny, and the bass guitarist was Dee Dee, who was the drummer?
TOMMY (Ramones)
Born to a poor peasant family, he was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army in WW1. In WW2, he organized the defence of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. He helped plan the Battle of Kursk, and he took part in the Battle of Berlin. Who accepted the German surrender on May 8th 1945?
Georgy Zhukov
Mount Rushmore sculptor
Borglum
Francis Bacon created more than 45 paintings in the 1950s and early 1960s, often known as the Screaming Popes. They were based on which artist’s Portrait of Innocent X from around 1650?
Diego Velazquez
He spent his time in the office managing the logistics of the mass deportation of Jews to the extermination camps. Which unremarkable bureaucrat was described as the ‘banality of evil’?
Otto Adolf Eichmann
In the late 60’s and the 70’s, Percy was the vocalist, Led Wallet was the lead guitarist, and Jonesy was the bass guitarist and keyboardist. What was the nickname of the drummer?
Bonzo
(John Bonham of Led Zeppelin)
Which medical tool was developed by Sanctorius in 1612?
Thermometer
What is the state bird of Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas?
Mockingbird
The model and actress Rachel Hunter was married to Rod Stewart from 1990 to 2006. In which country was she born?
New Zealand
In a 1786 article, who did the writer Henry Mackenzie describe as “this Heaven-taught ploughman”?
Robert Burns
From 2010 until 2021, the Formula 1 Driver’s Titles were all won by Lewis Hamilton or Sebastian Vettel, with just one exception. Who won in 2016?
Nico Rosberg
(Hamilton’s team mate at Mercedes)
It was first broadcast by the BBC Home Service on April 9th 1947, from the Broadoak Hotel, Ashton-under-Lyne. The first panellists were Bill Sowerbutts, Fred Loads, Tom Clark and Dr E.W. Sansome. Still broadcast on BBC radio, what is this series called?
Gardener’s Question Time
Established in 1863, which is the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran?
Bahai Faith
In total, how many times were Peter O’Toole and Glenn Close nominated for Oscars, without ever winning?
16 (8 each)
Judging by some of his book titles, which author has an appreciation of Dire Straits (Love Over Scotland and Espresso Tales), Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Seven), John Irving (The World According to Bertie), and Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Scones)?
Alexander McCall Smith
Released in September 2021, this is Tony Bennett’s sixty-first and final studio album, and Lady Gaga’s seventh. Consisting of renditions of various jazz standards by Cole Porter, what is this album called?
Love for Sale
Which former US politician and Nobel laureate said:
“Corrupt politicians make the other 10% look bad.”?
Henry Kissinger
Which physicist’s name links a crater on the far side of the moon, a mountain range on Venus, a gap within the ‘C’ Ring of Saturn, and an asteroid numbered 12760?
James Clerk Maxwell
Which acronym is used by oncologists to describe the condition of a person with cancer who has been successfully treated and is in complete remission? It is also a derogatory term in Scotland for a hooligan, lout or petty criminal.
NED (No Evidence of Disease)
The third son of the Grand Sharif of Mecca was born in 1883. Between 1916 and 1918, he led the Northern Army against the Ottomans in what would become western Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Who was the first King of Iraq, ruling from 1921 to 1933?
Faisal I
He has been described as “Terry Wogan’s heir apparent as Britain’s favourite Irishman”. In 2015, he interviewed Stephen Hawking for BBC One. He currently hosts Blockbusters on Comedy Central. Who is he? (the first name is required for the theme)
Dara Ó Briain
In 1925, who was chronologically the second Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
George Bernard Shaw
The Tank Museum is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps. With almost 300 vehicles from 26 countries, it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. It includes a British First World War Mark I, the world’s oldest surviving combat tank. About 12 miles west of Poole, where is this museum?
Bovington
The archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley is best known for his excavations at Ur between 1922 and 1934. Earlier between 1912 and 1914, he excavated a Hittite city on the Turkish/Syrian border. He and his assistant apparently worked for British Naval Intelligence, monitoring the building of Germany’s Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. What was the city called?
Carchemish
In orbital mechanics, a type of spaceflight flyby that saves propellant by using the gravity of a planet to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, is called a gravity assist, or a swing-by. What other term is more generally used to describe this manoeuvre?
A gravitational slingshot
Which typographical symbol is used in printed matter in the following ways:
as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.
beside a person’s name to indicate that the person is deceased
beside a date to indicate that it is a person’s death date?
Dagger Symbol or Obelus
The initial melody is called ‘the leader.’ The imitative melody, played in a different voice by ‘the follower,’ must be an exact replication of the leader’s rhythms and intervals - or a transformation thereof. In music, what term describes this contrapuntal compositional technique?
Canon (Fugue is different apparently)
In the early 1950s, this Midlands-based motorcycle producer was the world’s largest, with a quarter of the global market. However the management failed to appreciate the importance of the resurgent Japanese motorcycle industry. Effectively bankrupt, which company became defunct in 1972?
BSA or Birmingham Small Arms
With a fibreglass body, a steel box-section chassis, and Ford engines, what name was used for the series of British sports cars models manufactured by Reliant from 1964 to 1986? Over the 22 years, it evolved from a coupé (GT), into a sports estate (GTE), and a convertible version (GTC).
Reliant Scimitar
Born 1937. For 10 years he was economics editor for The Times, and in the early 70s the presenter of the LWT programme Weekend World. In 1977, his father -in-law became Prime Minister. He was only 40 years old, was not a diplomat, and had never held any public office. Whose appointment as Ambassador to the United States caused some controversy and accusations of nepotism?
Sir Peter Jay
Died 1994. He was described as “possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin”. His compositions, of which he was a notable conductor, included his four symphonies, the Variations on a Theme by Paganini, the Concerto for Orchestra, and his Cello Concerto. Who was he?
Witold Lutosławski
Died 1871. In Braunschweig, Germany, he started making guitars and zithers, and then graduated to pianos. He emigrated to New York in 1850 with five of his sons. In the early 1850s, the family worked for other piano companies until they could establish their own production company. Who was he?
Steinway
Died 2000. In his first World of Magic TV special in 1975, he successfully performed Houdini’s water torture illusion. His last TV special was World of Magic VII in 1982. In 1992, as a Natural Law Party candidate in the UK general election, he contested the Blackpool South constituency, finishing 4th of 4, with 173 votes. In 1993, as a Natural Law Party of Canada candidate, he ran for the Toronto riding of Rosedale, finishing 6th of 10. Who was this Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist, and politician?
Doug Henning
Which groundbreaking 1980s dramedy was set in the ‘Blue Moon’ detective agency where the bickering pair of Maddie
Hayes and David Addison solved cases?
Moonlighting
Mason Margiela’s Replica collection of perfumes is designed to replicate personal memories through scent. The perfume When the Rain Stops is designed to mimic which city? This city is home to some alleged remains of Saint Valentine, the Patron Saint of lovers, which rest in Whitefriar Street Church.
Dublin
In mathematics, what name is given to the selection of a number of items from a larger set, without replacement, where the order of selection is important?
Permutation
In the sport of curling, what is the livestock-related name of the line behind which a player must release a stone?
Hog
A fundamental concept in sociolinguistics, a speech community describes a group of people who share a distinct and mutually accepted variation of a language. Not to be confused with a term describing languages that have become similar due to geographical proximity, what is a speech community also known as?
Sprechbund
International show jumper Rupert Campbell-Black features in the Rutshire Chronicles series of novels written by which author?
Jilly Cooper
Fortunately, (for some) ‘Dry January’ is over. For those who still want to be virtuous and holy there are many low and alcohol-free beers to choose from. Founded in 2018 but seeing significant growth in 2023, which alcohol-free beer brand comes in blue cans with its name written vertically in white capital letters (the bottles have a similar label design)?
Lucky Saint
In the Tour de France, a flag hangs above the track to indicate that the riders have 1km until the end and their pain will still be over. This flag is known as the WHAT rouge?
Flamme Rouge
Simple Object Access Protocol or SOAP was a common specification used in early web services. What language, which shares many features with a language used in web site development, was used to serialise data in SOAP?
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Which English neo soul singer was nominated for the 2023 Mercury Prize for her album Messy? In the same year she was selected as BBC Music Introducing ‘Artist of the Year’
Olivia Dean
Which early evening BBC1 TV programme is co-hosted by a rotation of Alex Jones, Jermaine Jenas, Roman Kemp and Lauren Laverne?
The One Show
The Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh legend, is split into four main branches. The first of these is Pwyll (PU-ill) , Prince of Dyfed (DOVE-ed), and centres on which female character who marries Pwyll and is framed for her son’s murder?
Rhiannon
Hyderabad is the state capital of which Indian state located on the Deccan plateau?
Telangana
Parkrunners who enjoy a spot of tourism and variety might look to target their NENDY. If the letters NE stand for Nearest Event, what does NDY stand for?
Not Done Yet
Which BBC3 comedy stars real life sisters Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson? The Guardian described it as “an extreme comedy about debt, death, sex and shaving your legs”
Such Brave Girls
Chinese pirate leader active in the South China Sea from 1801 to 1810. Born as Shi Yang in 1775 to humble origins, she married a pirate named _______ at age 26 in 1801.
Zheng Yi Sao
an English “Gentleman Pirate” who attacked Spanish and other shipping. He was repeatedly imprisoned, and pardoned by highly placed friends, during his approximately eight-year piratical career, from about 1552 to 1560. His portrait painted by a fellow prisoner, Gerlach Flicke, resides today in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Henry Strangways
translates to “Japanese pirates”, were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 16th century. The _____ were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea.
Wokou
Born 1300 France, a French/Breton noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by King Philip VI of France. She crossed the English Channel targeting French ships and often slaughtering their crew. It was her practice to leave at least one sailor alive to carry her message of vengeance.
Jeanne de Clisson (Lioness of Brittany)
Nicknamed Black Bart, Welsh pirate when measured by vessels captured, most successful of Golden Age of Piracy. Own piracy code and early skull and crossbones. Died off coast of Gabon 1722.
Bartholomew Roberts
He is best known as the wealthiest pirate in recorded history, and one of the faces of the Golden Age of Piracy. Called “Black Sam” in Cape Cod folklore because he eschewed the fashionable powdered wig in favor of tying back his long black hair with a simple band. Nickname Prince of Pirates. Died 28 sunk in the Whydah Gally.
Samuel Bellamy
He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. Captain Blood: His Odyssey) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). Several of his novels have been made into films, both silent and talking.
Rafael Sabatini
Silver: Return to Treasure Island is book by which ex Poet Laureate?
Andrew Motion
a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the action of 2 March 1808, his ship was captured by the British. In 1809 he sailed to Iceland, declared the country independent from Denmark–Norway and pronounced himself its ruler. He intended to found a new republic, following the examples of the United States and the French First Republic.
Jorgen Jorgensen
an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum.
William Jackson Hooker
a Dutch pirate of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin, operating in the Caribbean. The total haul of his raid on the Spanish is estimated to be about 1 billion USD in today’s value.
Moses Cohen Henriques
an 18th-century pirate best known for being second in command to Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard.
Israel Hands, also known as Basilica Hands
English explorer, pirate,privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia’s first natural historian, first to use word avocado, barbeque and chopsticks, describe how to make guacemole, named breadfruit.
William Dampier
Rackham was active towards the end (1718–1720) of the “Golden Age of Piracy”. He is most remembered for having two female crew members: Mary Read and his lover, Anne Bonny. Killed in 1720 Jamaica.
Calico Jack
a French-born Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his overseas voyage he blockaded the port of Manila, Philippines. In Hawaii, he recovered an Argentine privateer which had been seized by mutineers. He also met the local ruler, King Kamehameha I. His forces occupied Monterey, California, then a Spanish colony, raised the Argentine flag and held the town for six days.
Hippolyte Bouchard
Barbadian-born pirate and military officer, known as the Gentleman Pirate for the reason that he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Main character in tv show Our Flag Means Death.
Stede Bonnet
an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy, born lesbos, his naval victories secured Ottoman dominance over the Mediterranean during the mid-16th century. He led an embassy to France in the same year, conquered Tunis in 1534, achieved a decisive victory over the Holy League at Preveza in 1538.
Hayreddin Barbarossa
Eighth volume of TinTin contains a royal figure in the title
King Ottakar’s Sceptre
Fifth volume of TinTin: Continuing where the plot of the previous story, Cigars of the Pharaoh, left off, the story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are invited to China in the midst of the 1931 Japanese invasion, where he reveals the machinations of Japanese spies and uncovers a drug-smuggling ring.
The Blue Lotus
nicknamed the “Milanese Nightingale” (French: le Rossignol milanais), is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. She is an opera singer who frequently pops up in adventure after adventure.
Bianca Castafiore
12th volume of Tintin with a fictional pirate’s name in title, first apperance of Professor Calculus
Red Rackham’s Treasure
Ninth volume of Tintin with animal in title, first appearance of Captain Haddock
The Crab with the Golden Claws
Tintin dog called Snowy in English, what is it in French?
Milou
Tintin character Professor Calculus in english, what in Frnech?
Professeur Tryphon Tournesol
Thomson and Thompson detectives names in English, what in oriignal French by Herge?
Dupont et Dupond
Babar the Elephant author
Jean de Brunhoff
Babar’s wife in the tales by Jean de Brunhoff has what name? She is his cousin.
Celeste
Modern web services may still use XML or HTML to serialise data but which data interchange format, defined by ECMA404 standard is more commonly used (particularly in RESTful services)?
JavaScript Object Notation or
JSON
Another option you are at liberty to try for ‘Dry January’ and beyond is which alcohol-free beer from a Spanish brewery
with roots in Alsace? It comes in a blue can with its name written in white and black.
Free Damm
Which south London singer, DJ, rapper, songwriter and record label co-founder was nominated for the 2023 Mercury
Prize for her album Nymph? She has gained attention from the likes of Rihanna who has used her tracks on Fenty Beauty
commercials and fashion shows.
Shygirl (accept Blane Muise)
Following his retreat from Russia, Napoleon fought against European allies in the War of the 6th Coalition. This culminated in which battle of 1813, fought in Saxony and also known as the Battle of Nations? The bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, it resulted in a French defeat and Napoleon’s abdication.
Leipzig
Which BBC3 comedy stars real life brothers Mawaan and Nabhaan Rizwan? The Guardian described it as “a raucous, eyepopping millennial queer comedy”.
Juice
The second branch of the Mabinogion is named after which female character, the daughter of Llyr (LLeer)? The story revolves around her marriage to the Irish king Matholwch (Math-OLL-ooch) and the war that ensues from his mistreatment of her.
Branwen
Which 1990s dramedy was set in the fictional, remote, Alaskan town of Cicely. It featured ‘fish out of water’ doctor JoelFleischman as the town’s general practitioner.
Northern Exposure
Mason Margiela’s Replica collection of perfumes is designed to replicate personal memories through scent. The perfume Under the Lemon Trees is designed to mimic which city? This city is home to the remains of Saint Rosalia, the Patron Saint of this city, which rest within a grotto on Mount Pellegrino.
Palermo
The number of combinations when selecting r items from a set of n items can be calculated by dividing a function of n by a function of (n-r) (n minus r). What is the name of the function that is applied to both n and (n-r)?
Factorial
Which saxophonist, won a Pulitzer prize in 2007 for his album Sound Grammar. It was the first time a recording won the music Pulitzer, and a first for purely improvised music
Ornette Coleman
Gino, an Italian-American former gangster, and his daughter Lucky are central characters in a series of novels written by
which author? The novels cover much of the 20th century and are set in the world of organised crime
Jackie Collins
In January 2024 Hilda Heine became the President of what island country in Oceania? She was the first individual from
this country to earn a doctoral degree.
Marshall Islands
A fundamental concept in sociolinguistics, a language area can describe an area where a language is spoken with different dialectal varieties. Not to be confused with a term describing a group of people who share a distinct and mutually accepted variation of a language, what is a language area also known as?
Sprachraum
Which enormous, filter-feeding ray can reach up to 7m in width? They have no barb on their tail and tiny teeth that are more like velcro. These gentle giants are found in tropical and sub-tropical waters and their name is Spanish and
Portuguese for blanket or cloak.
Manta Ray
Can I Have My Ball Back? was the name of a 2022 memoir, which focused on his cancer diagnosis and treatment, his
mortality and masculinity, was published by which comedian?
Richard herring
Castelfranco, Chioggia, Puntarelle and Treviso Tardivo are all types of what edible perennial herb, known for its bitter and slightly spicy taste?
Chicory
The Colorado Avalanche relocated to Denver in 1995, moving from what province-named city where they were known as the Nordiques?
The Nordiques were this city’s only Big 4 sports franchise in the modern era.
Quebec City
What is the name of a memorial arch, south of Ouidah, Benin, made of concrete and bronze that is dedicated to victims of the transatlantic
slave trade?
The Door of No Return
Produced by the Heide Company since 1920, what common movie theater candy is a chewy gumdrop named after a fruit in the genus
Ziziphus even though it contains none of that fruit?
JUJUBES or JUJYFRUIT
Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is sometimes teasingly called the concerto for what percussion instrument, which is heavily used in it?
This instrument also has a literal concerto by Mike Hannickel.
Triangle
In 2001, Chandra Levy was murdered in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. Headlines and the police themselves focused on her
possible affair with what California congressman, who was never
identified as a suspect?
Gary Condit
Celebrated on January 25th—the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns—a Burns Night Supper features haggis, of course, but might
start with what soup, a chowder with smoked haddock and potatoes? The name comes from a Northeastern Scottish town and a local word
for soup.
Cullen Skink
In 2012, author Sarah J. Maas released the fantasy debut novel “Throne of WHAT”, that shares its name with the eight-book series it
spawned, featuring teenage assassin Celaena Sardothien?
Glass
In math, it’s a proven proposition used as a step in a larger proof. In linguistics, it’s the term for the citation or dictionary definition form of a word. What name is shared by these two things?
Lemma
Which player, who later admitted to juicing, became, in 1988, the first person to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a single season?
That said, he’ll always be remembered for an embarrassing moment as a Ranger in 1993 when Carlos Martinez hit a home run that
wouldn’t have gone over the fence had it not first bounced off this player’s head.
Jose Canseco
The first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, Sofya Kovalevskaya, worked significantly on “PDE”s. What three words do
“PDE” stand for in calculus?
Partial Differential Equations
What is the appropriately legalistic name of the creator and host of the true crime podcast Criminal and the love-centric This Is Love?
Phoebe Judge
Haitian-American architect Rodney Leon designed the United Nations Slavery Memorial which has what official name? It is organized on the themes of “Acknowledge the Tragedy,” “Consider the Legacy,” and “Lest We Forget.”
Ark of Return
The opening adagio movement of what Hector Berlioz work, inspired by a Byron poem, contains a significant triangle part?
Harold en Italie
Who directed the classic 1971 Blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song? His son later directed, while playing him, a 2003
film about the making of the movie called Badasssss!
Melvin Van Peebles
To round out your Burns Supper, you might serve what dessert that looks a bit like a haggis: a suet and fruit steamed pudding wrapped in
a cloth from which it gets its name?
Clootie Dumpling
In 2015, author Sarah J. Maas released the romantasy novel A Court of Thorns and WHAT, that shares its name with the five-book series it
spawned, featuring teenage Feyre Archeron and her involvement in the faerie lands of Prythian?
Roses
Donna Rice, now a conservative anti-pornography advocate, has literally never been confirmed to have had a fateful 1987 affair with what candidate in the Democratic primary?
Gary Hart
What term is given to both the stalk that connects a leaf to its stem and, when it comes to insects, the narrow waist some ants, bees, and wasps have?
Petiole
Both the French and British commanding officers famously met their end at the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Name either.
Louis Joseph de MONTCALM
James WOLFE
What is the oddly mythological-sounding name of the creator and host of the podcast “99% Invisible” which investigates the design of everyday objects?
Roman Mars
Euler, Lagrange, and Kovalevskaya all have what sort of theoretical rotating object named for them, because they created theoretical
examples that can be integrated? These are examples of a simple type of rotating object under the influence of gravity.
Top
Which American skater was referred to as the “Quad King” and was the first to land a quadruple salchow jump in competition? He won bronze in men’s singles at the 2002 Olympics,
Tim Goebel
Colorado was on the short end of the relocation stick when, in 1982, their NHL team moved to New Jersey to become the Devils. Before
that relocation, the team had what name, the same name as another professional Denver-based team that uses sticks to hit small round
objects for sport.
Colorado Rockies
Which river forms the world’s largest delta with the Ganges in Bangladesh? It is prone to disastrous flooding in the spring when the Himalayan snow melts.
Brahmaputra (or Tsangpo or Jamuna)
What 1994 Studio Ghibli animated film tells the story of a group of magical raccoon dogs who fight back against human developers trying
to take their land by utilizing their magical, shape-shifting scrotal sacs?
Pom Poko
What goalie for the US Women’s National Team played every minute of the 1999 World Cup and made a save against China in the famous final shootout?
Brianna Scurry
Joseph Simmons is better known by what rap moniker, which made up half of the name of his well-known duo?
Reverend Run (of Run DMC)
For canvas, it’s 39 yards; for other materials it can be 40 or 100 yards.
What unit for measuring amounts of 2-dimensional material is this?
Bolt
Used similarly to za’atar, what is the name of the condiment, popular in Egypt and the Middle East, that consists of crushed
hazelnuts seasoned with herbs and spices?
DUQQA
region that includes the majority of the west coast of Saudi Arabia, covering the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Taif and Baljurashi. It is thus known as the “Western Province”.
Hejaz
Pablo Iglesias Turrión was the leader of which populist left-wing Spanish political party from its formation in 2014 until 2021? It formed part of the Sumar [soo-MAR] electoral platform in 2022, but split from that group the following year.
Podemos
The first woman to be elected to the Académie Française was which Franco-Belgian author whose works, such as her 1951 novel Memoirs of Hadrian, often centred around gay relationships?
Marguerite Yourcenar
Basalt is an example of what type of igneous rock, that contains high quantities of magnesium and iron and is defined as having
silica content between 45 and 55%?
Mafic Rock
Taking its name from a foodstuff, which magazine aimed at teenage girls used the tagline “Britain’s number 1 girls’ mag” after it
overtook Just Seventeen in 1994? It attracted controversy in 2004 for its sponsorship deal with Durex
Sugar
Santiago Abascal is the president of which far-right Spanish political party that was founded in 2013 and has a short, Latinderived name? This party is currently the third largest in the Spanish parliament
VOX
Alberto Núñez Feijóo is the leader of which party in Spain which has most seats in most parts of politics?
People’s Party
Pedro Sánchez is Prime Minister of Spain and leader of which party in Spain?
Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)
Prime Minister of Portugal and He was elected Secretary-General of the Socialist Party in 2014, a post he held until early 2024.
Antonio Costa
Pedro Nuno Santos became leader of which party in Portugal in January 2024 replacing Prime Minister Antonio Costa? highest number of seats in Assembly.
Socialist Party
a national conservative, right-wing populist political party in Portugal formed in 2019 by André Ventura. It is characterized as being between the right-wing and far-right of the political spectrum. Means enough in portuguese.
Chega
Elly Schlein is the party leader of which Italian party which is second behind Brothers of Italy in Italian Parliament?
Democratic Party
Giuseppe Conte leader of which Italian party? Populism and Green Politics.
Five Star Movement
Matteo Salvini leader of which Italian party which dropped the word Nord from its name?
Lega
Who is the leader of the French majority party Renaissance?
Stephane Sejourne
Who replaced Marine Le Pen as leader of the National Rally in France? Current leader as of Feb 2024.
Jordan Bardella
Eric Ciotti is the leader of which French political party which has the most Senators in the upper parliament
The Republicans
As of February 2024, who is leader of Fianna Fail?
Micheal Martin
As of February 2024, who is leader of Sinn Fein in IReland?
Mary Lou McDonald
As of February 2024, who is leader of Fine Gael?
Leo Varadkar
Who is the leader of the Moderate Party in Sweden and also Prime Minister of Sweden since 2022?
Ulf Kristersson
Who is leader of the Social Democrats in Denmark and also Prime Minister of Denmark since 2019?
Mette Frederiksen
Leader of Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway since 2021 replacing Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg?
Jonas Gahr Store
Leader of National Coalition Party and Prime Minsiter of Finland since 2023
Petteri Orpo
Largest political party in the Ukrainian parliament, Zelensky is a member, named after TV show he appeared in as a PM.
Servant of the People
Greek politician who has been prime minister of Greece since June 2023 and before from July 2019 to May 2023. He is president of the New Democracy party since 2016.
Kryiakos Mitsotakis
Erdogan is leader of which right-wing party in Turkey? Either English translation worded name or Turkish initialism name.
AK PARTY or Justice and Development Party
Since June 2023, who has been PM of ROmania? Also leader of the Social Democratic Patry.
Marcel Ciolacu
Duda is President of Poland and Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland since Decemeber 2023, what party Tusk leader of?
Civic Platform
Viktor Orban leader of which party in Hungary?
Fidesz
Succeeding Sophie Wilmes in 2020, who is PM of Belgium? Member of Open FLemish Liberals and Democrats.
Alexander De Croo
Head of Austrian People’s Party, who has been Chancellor of Austria since December 2021?
Karl Nehammer
VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE: It tells the story of Veronika, a 24-year-old Slovenian who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. This book is partly based on which author’s experience in various mental institutions
Paulo Coelho
Sula, Jazz and Paradise are novels by which author?
Toni Morrison
Who wrote Wise Blood, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and The Violent Bear It Away?
Flannery O’Connor
Who wrote “My Antonia” and “O Pioneers”?
Willa Cather
Who wrote “Nine Stories” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction”?
JD Salinger
Who wrote “Peace Breaks Out” and “A Separate Peace”?
John Knowles
Who wrote “The House on Mango Street”? Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.
Sandra Cisneros
Who wrote Swiss Family RObinson?
Johann David Wyss
Who wrote “The Things They Carried”? about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.
Tim O’Brien
Who wrote Night (1956) and Day (1961)? Won Nobel in 1986.
Elie Wiesel
Who wrote “The Women’s Room”? Main character, Mira, was married and divorced, and then attended Harvard where she obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature.
Marilyn French
Born 1850 St Louis, Missouri. Wrote The Awakening (1899)? Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
Kate Chopin
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” written by which author? Pseudonym Linda Brent, Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver.
Harriet Jacobs
Along with a dog named Tock and the Humbug, Milo goes on a quest to the Castle in the Air seeking the kingdom’s two exiled princesses, named Rhyme and Reason. The Phantom Tollbooth written by which author?
Norton Juster
Who wrote Ham on Rye? Written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski during his early years.
Charles Bukowski
Who wrote Vagina Monologues?
Eve Ensler
Who wrote Running with Scissors (The book tells the story of his bizarre childhood life after his mother, a chain-smoking aspiring poet, sent him to live with her psychiatrist)? Also did “Dry,” “Magical Thinking,” “Possible Side Effects” and “A Wolf at the Table.
Augusten Burroughs
Who wrote “The Secret Life of Bees”? Tells the story of a 14-year-old white girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.
Sue Monk Kidd
Who wrote Moby Dick, Benito Cereno, Typee, Omoo and Billy Budd?
Herman Melville
Who wrote The House of the Seven Gables?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote “We Were The Mulvaneys”? The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the latter part of the 20th century.
Joyce Carol Oates
Who wrote “The Help”?
Kathryn Stockett
Who wrote Pigs in Heaven, The Bean Trees and Prodigal Summer?
Barbara Kingsolver
Who wrote “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”?
Robert M Pirsig
Who wrote “Tao Te Ching”?
Lao-Tzu
Who wrote “Freedom” and “The Corrections”?
Jonathan Franzen
Who wrote The World According To Garp?
John IrvingW
Who wrote The Trumpet of the Swan?
EB White
The largest and deepest lake in Germany, which shares its shores with Austria and Switzerland, lies in the very south of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Lake Constance
Who wrote “The Giver”? The novel is the first in a loose quartet of novels known as The Giver Quartet, with three subsequent books set in the same universe: Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012).
Lois Lowry
Canadian actor: he starred as Jack Newsome in Room (2015), as August Pullman, a child with Treacher Collins syndrome, in the drama Wonder (2017); Max in the film Good Boys (2019); a cameo role in Doctor Sleep (2019), the title character of the Pixar film Luca (2021) and Flounder in the 2023 live-action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
Jacob Tremblay
Who starred as as Queen Selina, Eric’s adoptive mother in The Little Mermaid (2023)? Won Laurence Award for as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Won Olivier for her performance as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Noma Dumezweni
Who wrote “Water for Elephants”? Circus, The story is told through a series of memories by Jacob Jankowski, a man living in a nursing home who can’t remember if he’s 90 or 93-years-old.
Sara Gruen
Who wrote “Hatchet”? 1986 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel. Other novels in the series include The River (1991), Brian’s Winter (1996), Brian’s Return (1999) and Brian’s Hunt (2003).
Gary Paulsen
Who wrote The Outsiders?
SE Hinton
Who wrote “The Westing Game”? Wealthy businessman Sam Westing dies. At the reading of his will, it is revealed that his named heirs are all tenants at the adjacent Sunset Towers apartment building. The will states that one of his heirs took Westing’s life. The will is structured like a puzzle, with the 16 heirs paired off and challenged to find the solution. The pair that solves the mystery of his death will inherit Westing’s entire $200,000,000 fortune and control of his company.
Ellen Raskin (won 1979 Newbery Medal for TWG and 1975 for Figgs & Phantoms)
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.
Madeleine L’Engle
Who wrote “Cold Sassy Tree”? Set in the U.S. state of Georgia in the fictional town of Cold Sassy (based on the real city of Harmony Grove, now Commerce) in 1906, it follows the life of a 14-year-old boy named Will Tweedy.
Olive Ann Burns
Which author wrote “Room”, “Learned by Heart”, “The Pull of the Stars”, “Haven” and “Slammerkin”?
Emma Donoghue
Who wrote “The Hate U Give”?
Angie Thomas
Who wrote “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed”?
Paulo Freire
Written by anonymous source, 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism.
Go Ask Alice
Who wrote “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller”? His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972).
Italo Calvino
Who wrote Evelina? In 1786–1790 she held the post of “Keeper of the Robes” to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III’s queen. Also wrote Cecilia (1782).
Frances Burney
Who wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho?
Ann Radcliffe
Who wrote Little Fires Everywhere? In 2022, Our Missing Hearts. 2014 Everything I Never Told You.
Celeste Ng
Who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?
JD Vance
Who wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals? Various food chains that end in human food: industrial food, organic food, and food we forage ourselves; from the source to a final meal, and in the process writes a critique of the American method of eating.
Michael Pollan
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by which author? Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools is a book written by which author in 1991 that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races? It is based on his observations of various classrooms in the public school systems of East St. Louis, Chicago, New York City, Camden, Cincinnati, and Washington D.C.
Jonathan Kozol
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is a 2001 book by which American journalist? Also Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).
Eric Schlosser
Who played Pablo Escobar in Narcos?
Wagner Moura
Who wrote Dead Man Walking which was adapted into the film?
Helen Prejean
Who wrote “Cry the Beloved Country”? Born 1903 South Africa, also did Too Late the Phalarope and the narrative poem The Wasteland.
Alan Paton
Who wrote “Between the World and Me”? He has published three non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Novel is The Water Dancer. Black Panther and Captain America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Who wrote “Bel Canto”? Won Orange Prize for Fiction. Based on the Japanese embassy hostage crisis (also called the Lima Crisis) of 1996–1997 in Lima, Peru, the novel follows the relationships among a group of young terrorists and their hostages, who are mostly high-profile executives and politicians, over several months.
Ann Patchett
Who wrote “A Man Called Ove”? Swedish author A grumpy, 59-year-old widower who has recently been forced to retire. Made into a 2022 movie called A Man Called Otto.
Fredrik Backman
He is best known for directing the feature films Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, World War Z, and Christopher Robin, and has directed numerous television commercials as well.
Marc Forster
Who wrote The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
John Boyne
Who wrote The Book Thief?
Markus Zusak
Who wrote The Tale of Genji?
Murasaki Shikibu
Who wrote Memoirs of a Geisha? The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the story of Nitta Sayuri and the many trials she faces on the path to becoming and working as a geisha in Kyoto, Japan, before, during and after World War II.
Arthur Golden
Who wrote “Man’s Search for Meaning”? Chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person’s life through one of three ways.
Viktor Frankl
From Greek for “meaning”, what was developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl and is based on the premise that the primary motivational force of an individual is to find a meaning in life?
Logotherapy
Who wrote Pachinko? Also author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires (2007).
Min Jin Lee
Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. He is best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism. His work on the “Cornell Paper”, which disputed the official story of Indonesia’s 30 September Movement and the subsequent anti-Communist purges of 1965–1966, led to his expulsion from that country.
Benedict Anderson
Who wrote “Crank”? It is based loosely on the real life addictions of the author’s daughter to crystal meth.
Ellen Hopkins
Who wrote Prizzi’s Honour? It is the first of four novels featuring the Prizzis, a powerful family of Mafiosi in New York City. In all four novels the protagonist is a top member of the family named Charlie Partanna.
Richard Condon
1985 American black comedy crime film directed by John Huston, starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner as two highly skilled mob assassins who, after falling in love, are hired to kill each other
Prizzi’s Honour
Who wrote “House of Leaves”? is followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters. The novel is written as a work of epistolary fiction and metafiction focusing on a fictional documentary film titled the Navidson Record, presented as a story within a story discussed in a handwritten monograph recovered by the primary narrator, Johnny Truant.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Who wrote “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”? Published in 1994 and follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the death of a male prostitute. Subtitled A Savannah Story. Made into 1997 Clint Eastwood film.
John Berendt
Who wrote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
Rebecca Skloot
Who wrote Bridge to Terabithia?
Katherine Paterson
Who wrote The Devil in the White City? Set in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States.
Erik Larson
Who wrote The Art of Racing in the Rain? Book narrated by a dog named Enzo.
Garth Stein
Who wrote the memoir Marley & Me?
John Grogan
Who wrote the book “Netherland”? It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.
Joseph O’Neill
Who wrote The Pale King?
David Foster Wallace
Who wrote the book “Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry”?
Mildred D Taylor
Who wrote Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH?
Robert C O’Brien
Who wrote 1943 book “Johnny Tremain” is a promising but prideful 14-year-old apprentice at the Boston silversmith shop of elderly Ephraim Lapham?
Esther Forbes
Who wrote “My Side of the Mountain”? including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor-winning My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
The Shadow of the Wind is written by which author? The novel opens in the 1940s with the protagonist, Daniel, a boy whose father owns a bookshop in Barcelona. One day, his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten books—a secret labyrinthine library that houses rare and banned books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
1961 children’s novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhounds for hunting. It’s a work of autobiographical fiction based on Rawls’ own childhood in the Ozarks.
Where the Red Ferns Grow
Who wrote “A Lesson Before Dying”? The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana in 1946. Also did 1971 novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Ernest J Gaines
Who wrote “The Last Lecture”? Extension of lecture “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. A professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Randy Pausch
Who wrote Pippi Longstocking?
Astrid Lindgren
Who wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Joan Lindsay
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood author?
Rebecca Wells
The Red Tent author? Book is from point of view of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah.
Anita Diamant
Who wrote The Round House book? American author of novels, poetry, and children’s books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people. Won 2021 Pulitzer for Fiction for The Night Watchman.
Louise Erdrich
Who wrote the novel The Valley of the Dolls?
Jacqueline Susann
Who wrote Eat Pray Love?
Elizabeth Gilbert
Who wrote Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine?
Gail Honeyman
The first story of Interpreter of Maladies, “A Temporary Matter,” is why the collection won. The other stories are merely good enough. Who wrote it?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Who wrote Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Sister Outsider?
Audre Lorde
Who wrote “At Swim-Two-Birds”, “The Third Policeman”, “An Beal Bocht”?
Flann O’Brien
Flowers for Algernon is a short story by which American author, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media.
Daniel Keyes
Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by which author? It is the first book in the Dollanganger series, and was followed by Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Christopher’s Diary: Secret Brother.
V. C. Andrews
The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a 2003 novel and Tuesdays with Morrie, originally titled to have this followed by, “An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson”, is a 1997 memoir both books by which author?
Mitch Alborn
Bridges of Madison County book by which author?
Robert James Waller
A Fine Balance is the second novel by which author in 1995? Set in “an unidentified city” in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency, the book focuses on four characters from varied backgrounds – Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji, and the young student Maneck Kohlah – who come together and develop a bond.
Rohinton Mistry
The Horse Whisperer is a 1995 novel by which English author?
Nicholas Evans
Harry Silver is a successful television producer about to turn 30. He is happily married, has a four-year-old son and drives a convertible sports car. Then he spends the night with a colleague from work and his life falls apart; Man and Boy novel by which author?
Tony Parsons (Journalist and AUthor)
Set in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, it tells the story of an English boy, who through the course of the story, acquires the name of Peekay. The Power of One is book which South African author?
Bryce Courtenay
The story focuses upon a young girl, Andy, caught between her warring parents’ bitter divorce, and the determination Andy has to get her parents back together. The Suitcase Kid book by which author?
Jacqueline Wilson
It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked “Who are you?” in a letter from an unknown philosopher. Sophie’s World book by which Norwegian author?
Jostein Gaarder
They Used to Play on Grass is a 1972 novel by which former English footballer and jointly with Scottish author Gordon Williams?
Terry Venables
The first four Alex Rider novels by Anthony Horowitz (Only Connect)
Stormbreaker
Point Blanc
Skeleton Key
Eagle Strike
The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by which author, published in 1978, which tells the story of an English officer during the British Raj? Ashton Pelham-Martyn (Ash/Ashok) main character.
M. M. Kaye
Sunset Song is a 1932 novel by which Scottish writer? It is considered one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. It is the first part of the trilogy A Scots Quair.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
It tells the story of the talented eunuch slave named Taita, his life in Egypt, the flight of Taita along with the Egyptian populace from the Hyksos invasion, and their eventual return. The novel can be grouped together with Wilbur Smith’s other books (The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, The Quest, Desert God and Pharaoh) on Ancient Egypt.
River God
Initially set around the time of the Second World War, it focuses on nurse Claire Beauchamp, who travels through time to 18th-century Scotland, where she finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser. It is the first novel in the Outlander series, which is set to comprise ten books, nine of which have already been published. Outlander published as what book title in the UK?
Cross Stitch
American author, known for the Outlander series of novels
Diane Gabaldon
The Silver Sword is a children’s novel written by which author and published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape in 1956 and then by Puffin Books in 1960.
Ian Serraillier
Aubrey-Maturin series starts with 1969 Master and Commander by which author?
Patrick O’Brian
The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox, a girl from a working-class English family living in York. The museum of the title is York Castle Museum. “Behind the Scenes at the Museum” is whcih British novelist’s debut novel, published in 1995
Kate Atkinson
She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories. TV adaptation stars Jason Isaacs as Brodie.
Kate Atkinson
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is a 1999 young adult novel by which English author? The book is the first of ten books in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series.
Louise Rennison
The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive species of plant starts killing people.
John Wyndham
Beginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyō “Toranaga” (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu).. Shogun by which author?
James Clavell
James Clavell’s literary debut set in POW camp in Singapore based on his experiences? 1962
King Rat
1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium War.
Tai-Pan
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by which British author? It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war.
Nicholas Monsarrat
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Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
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Montell Douglas
Name of the sequel to Kane & Abel that Jeffrey Archer released in 1982 with Florentyna Rosnovski taking over the lead character.
The Prodigal Daughter
Katherine is a 1954 historical novel by which American author? It tells the story of the historically important, 14th-century love affair in England between the eponymous Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of King Edward III.
Anya Seton
The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by which American author about prehistoric times? It is the first book in the Earth’s Children book series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans.
Jean M. Auel
Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer? It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and of the wider Riftwar Cycle. Magician was originally published in 1982. The book is set in a Dungeons & Dragons–style fantasy world called Midkemia
Raymond E. Feist
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under what pen name?
Robert Tressell
The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
oil painting by the French artist Antoine Watteau. It is also known as the Satyr and the Sleeping Nymph and was probably painted between 1714 and 1719. Shows daughter of river god Asopus and seduction by a god in the form of a satyr.
Jupiter and Antiope
The Magus (1965) is a postmodern novel by which British author, telling the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate who is teaching English on a small Greek island. Urfe becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which become increasingly dark and serious.
John Fowles
Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissa (1982), and A Maggot (1985). Most famous is TFLW.
John Fowles (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
Name of the title character of The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Sarah Woodruff
series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton, Jo, Bessie and Fanny (edited to Joe, Beth and Frannie in revised editions), Dick joins latter.
The Faraway Tree
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 novel by which Australian author? Set primarily on Drogheda—a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland—the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best-selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide.
Coleen McCullough
The Shell Seekers is a 1987 novel by which British author?
Rosamunde Pilcher
Goodnight Mister Tom is a children’s novel by which English author? published by Kestrel in 1981.
Michelle Magorian
Oskar Matzerath is the main character of which 1959 book novel?
The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass wrote the Danzig Trilogy starting with The Tin Drum, what was book 2 and 3?
2) Cat and Mouse
3) Dog Years
The story is narrated by John Wheelwright, a former citizen of New Hampshire who has become a voluntary expatriate from the United States, having settled in Toronto and taken on Canadian citizenship. John Irving novel with title character best friend of John WHeelwright.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover an understanding of Stephen’s experience of the war. Book by Sebastian Faulks.
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks completes his loose trilogy of books about France with this story of the adventures of a young Scotswoman (title character) who becomes an agent of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) assigned to work with the French Resistance in Vichy France, during World War II.
Charlotte Gray
Sebastian Faulks second novel, A wet and dark winter night sees young and beautiful Anne Louvert arrive in Janvilliers from Paris to take up a lowly position at the title namesake village inn
The Girl at the Lion d’Or
The Princess Diaries is a series of epistolary young adult novels written by which author?
Meg Cabot
The Pursuit of Love is a novel by which author, first published in 1945. It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class English family in the interwar period focusing on the romantic life of Linda Radlett, as narrated by her cousin, Fanny Logan.
Nancy Mitford (sequels are Love in a Cold Climate, Don’t Tell Alfred)
best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s. In sequels, the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London, travels to America and attempts to find war-work during the Phoney War.
E M Delafield
The Moviegoer tells the story of Jack “Binx” Bolling, a young stock-broker in postwar New Orleans. Debut novel by which author?
Walker Percy
The Heat of the Day revolves around the relationship between Stella Rodney and her lover Robert Kelway, with the interfering presence of Harrison in the tense years following the Blitz in London. Novel by which female author?
Elizabeth Bowen
Notable works The Last September (1929)
The House in Paris (1936)
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1949)
Eva Trout (1968)
Elizabeth Bowen
The story spans a period of twenty years in the middle of the twentieth century. It centres on Michael Moran, patriarch of the Moran family and a former IRA member who was an officer and guerrilla fighter in the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War in the 1920s. “Amongst Women” is by which Irish author?
John McGahern
Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following the Second World War. This author’s 2016 memoir was called Country Girl. Other books: Girl with Green Eyes, Girls in their Married Bliss, August is a Wicked Month, House of Splendid Isolation.
Edna O’Brien
I, Lucifer is a 2002 novel by which author, told from the point of view of the eponymous fallen angel, who has taken on a human body formerly belonging to a struggling writer, Declan Gunn.
Glen Duncan
Lanark: A Life in Four Books is the debut novel by which Scottish writer?
Alasdair Gray
a 1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity, month in title
Light in August
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by which American writer? It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette. Main character Clyde Griffiths.
Theodore Dreiser
Darkness at Noon is which author’s best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create?
Arthur Koestler
The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by which American author set in Hollywood, California? The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett.
Nathanael West
Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934, is the first novel by which American writer (1905–1970). It concerns the self-destruction of the fictional character Julian English, a wealthy car dealer who was once a member of the social elite of Gibbsville
John O’Hara
He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. Wrote Pal Joey (later Rodgers and Hart).
John O’Hara
Novel and author: The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty.”
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
He is best known for his portrayal of Willie Stark in the film All the King’s Men (1949), which earned him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Broderick Crawford
Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of which American writer, who had previously published poetry
James Dickey
Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II?
Marge Piercy
The Varieties of Religious Experience. The lectures concerned the psychological study of individual private religious experiences and mysticism, and used a range of examples to identify commonalities in religious experiences across traditions. By which Harvard psychologist and philosopher?
William James
Who wrote 1901 book Up from Slavery?
Booker T Washington
an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov first edition 1951
Speak, Memory
Epic of Gilgamesh in what language?
Akkadian
thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020, The principal characters in the saga are the friends _____ Þorgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnar Hámundarson, a formidable warrior. Gunnar’s wife, Hallgerðr langbrók, instigates a feud.
Njals Saga
1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting _____, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.
Pere Goriot
The “Beckett” Trilogy or just The Trilogy by Samuel Beckett are made up of which three novels?
Molly
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Journey to the End of the Night follows adventures of Ferdinand Bardamu and by which author?
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765–1780. The first French edition was published posthumously in 1796, The main subject of the book is the relationship between the valet _____ who is title character and his master, who is never named
Jacques the Fatalist
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 novel by who: The story concerns a murderer, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison. When his friend murders the prostitute on whom Biberkopf has been relying as an anchor.
Alfred Doblin
A fictional town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted revolution, orchestrated by master conspirator Pyotr Verkhovensky. The mysterious aristocratic figure of Nikolai Stavrogin. Which Dostoevsky novel?
Demons
Narrated by Quintin Compson, details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in western Virginia who moves to Mississippi. Which William Faukner novel?
Absalom, Absalom!
The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man named Frédéric Moreau at the time of the French Revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire. Which 1869 novel by Gustave Flaubert?
Sentimental Education
The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as what two word name?) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon
Gypsy Ballads
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is a 1956 novel by which Brazilian author? Portuguese name was Grande Sertao: Veredas.
João Guimarães Rosa
The novel’s first-person protagonist, an unnamed vagrant with intellectual leanings, probably in his late twenties, wanders the streets of Norway’s capital, Kristiania. Hunger was a book by which 1920 Nobel Lit winning author?
Knut Hamsun
a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of which title character (the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata) told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as best of Kālidāsa’s works
Śhakuntalā
Shingo Ogata, a 62-year-old businessman living in Kamakura and working in Tokyo, is close to retirement. He is experiencing temporary lapses of memory, recalling strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and hearing sounds, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep. The Sound of the Mountain is by which Japanese Nobel Lit winner?
Yasunari Kawabata
Greek author His fame spread in the English-speaking world due to cinematic adaptations of Zorba the Greek (1964) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
Nikos Kazantzakis
a novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935. It deals with the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 20th century, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving on isolated crofts in an inhospitable landscape.
Independent People
Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of the most important figures in the literature of the world. Known most for his CANTI collection of poems.
Giacomo Leopardi
“Diary of a Madman”, also translated as “A Madman’s Diary” (Chinese: 狂人日記; pinyin: Kuángrén Rìjì) is a short story by which Chinese writer in 1918? Same story name as Nikolai Gogol.
Lu Xun
The story recreates the interlinked history of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), allegorised against the setting of an imaginary 19th century Cairene alley. CHILDREN OF GEBELAWI by which author?
Naguib Mahfouz
History: A Novel is a novel by which Italian author, generally regarded as her most famous and controversial work. Published in 1974, it narrates the story of a partly Jewish woman, Ida Ramundo, and her two sons Antonio (nicknamed “Ninnarieddu”, “Ninnuzzu” or “Nino”) and Giuseppe (“Useppe”) in Rome
Elsa Morante
The Man Without Qualities is unfinished novel by which Austrian writer?
Robert Musil
The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author (1888-1935), who introduced it as a “factless autobiography.”?
Fernando Pessoa
Pedro Páramo is a novel by which Mexican writer, first published in 1955. The novel tells the story of Juan Preciado, a man who promises his mother on her deathbed to meet Preciado’s father for the first time in the town of Comala only to come across a literal ghost town
Juan Rulfo
an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi, a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines, spiritual text teaches Sufis how to be truly in love with God
Masnavi
Persian for “The Orchard”, book of poetry by the poet Saadi completed in 1257CE. Considered one of two main works of Saadi.
Bustan
Season of Migration to the North 1966 novel by which Sudanese author?
Tayeb Salih
The main character is Zeno Cosini, and the book is the fictional character’s memoirs that he keeps because his psychoanalyst recommended to do so in order to overcome his illness. ZENO’S CONSCIENCE is by which Italian author?
Italo Svevo
1886 novel by Leo Tolstoy, Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina is the unsympahtetic wife of the title character?
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Who is the traditional author of the Ramayana?
Valmiki
Who is the traditional author of the Mahabharata?
Vyasa
1928-2008 a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan’s literature. Works: Jamila, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men’s movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990).
Robert Bly
French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–85).
Maryse Conde
Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language. Books: Sleepwalking Land, The Last Flight of the Flamingo, Confession of the Lioness.
Mia Couto
English novelist with works: Continent, Signals of Distress, Quarantine, Being Dead, Harvest.
Jim Crace
Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994. Works: Krik Krak, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker.
Edwidge Danticat
Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. Works: Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, Far from Medina;
Assia Djebar
Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life. Most famous: Kelidar, Missing Soluch.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
His debut short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges in 1999. His second collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, finalist of Pulitzer.
Nathan Englander
Somalian author, first novel was From a Crooked Rib (1970)
Sweet and Sour Milk (1979)
Maps (1986)
Gifts (1993)
Secrets (1998)
Nuruddin Farah
New Zealand author her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table (1990), directed by Jane Campion, novels include Owls Do Cry, The Carpathians.
Janet Frame
Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987).
Carlos Fuentes
He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021).
Aleksandr Hemon
American novelist and young-adult and children’s writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name
Alice Hoffman
Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona, died in 2015 living in exile in Norway.
Chenjerai Hove
Born Bulawayo 1964, died in Toronto 2005 from AIDS. Her first published book was a collection of short stories, Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals (1992), which was followed by five novels: Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002).
Yvonne Vera
1952 book The Palm-Wine Drunkard by which Nigerian author who did lots of Yoruba folk tales
Amos Tutuola
The Hills Were Joyful Together was 1953 novel In Jamaica during the Second World War, Surjue is persuaded to take part in a robbery and is imprisoned. By which author?
Roger Mais
Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for In the Castle of My Skin, his 1953 debut novel. The book’s title comes from a couplet in Derek Walcott’s early work Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949): “You in the castle of your skin / I the swineherd.”
George Lamming
1955 book My Bones and My Flute was the work of which Guyanian author who ended up commiting suicide by setting himself on fire in insanity?
Edgar Mittelholzer
a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or “nation language”, for narrative as well as dialogue.
Sam Selvon
The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) is a novel by which English author?
Hanif Kureishi
American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley wrote 1959 historical novel Pickett’s Charge (final attack at Gettysburg) and the 1949 sci-fi novel Earth Abides?
George R Stewart
The Martian Chronicles are by which author?
Ray Bradbury
1951 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space
The Puppet Masters
The Guide is a 1958 novel by which Indian author? Like most of his works, the events of this novel take place in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India.
RK Narayan
Guyanese-British author who wrote To Sir With Love?
ER Braithwaite
a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester, which was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953, science fiction police procedural set in a future where telepathy is common
The Demolished Man
1953 sci-fi novel by Arthur C Clarke: The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
Childhood’s End
Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) is a novel written by which Welsh writer? It is set in Bethesda, Wales around the years 1915–1920, in the midst of the North Wales quarrying areas.
Caradog Prichard
Sunlight on a Broken Column is a novel by which author, which was published in 1961. The novel, mainly set in Lucknow, is an autobiographical account by a fictional character called Laila, who is a 15-year-old orphaned daughter of a rich Muslim family of Taluqdars.
Attia Hosain
Le Procès-Verbal (English title: The Interrogation) is the debut novel of which French/Mauritian Nobel laureate writer, about a troubled man named Adam Pollo. Won 2008 NP.
J. M. G. Le Clézio
The Girls of Slender Means is a 1963 novel by which author? The book centres on ‘The May of Teck Club’, a fictional institution said to have been established by Princess May of Teck during the First World War.
Muriel Spark
The novel weaves together several stories set during the state of emergency in Kenya’s struggle for independence (1952–59), focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret. A GRAIN OF WHEAT is 1967 historical novel by which Kenyan novelist?
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
a Ghanaian writer best known for his novels including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Two Thousand Seasons (1973) and The Healers (1978).
Ayi Kwei Armah
When Rain Clouds Gather is the first novel by which South African-Motswana author? Makehaya escapes Apartheid South Africa into Botswana. Author born in S.Africa but considered Botswana’s most influential writer.
Bessie Head
The novel is a tragedy of alienation, centred on the racism experienced by an elderly Brahmin, Srinivas, who has lived in London for decades.
THE NOWHERE MAN is by which Indian author? 1972.Also wrote Nectar in a Sieve (1954), Possession: a Novel (1963).
Kamala Markandaya
The Crow Eaters is a 1978 comic novel by which Pakistani author about a Parsi family?
Bapsi Sidhwa
Which South African author wrote the 1980 book Tsotsi which was adapted in a 2005 film by Gavin Hood? Also did play ““Master Harold”…and the boys”.
Athol Fugard
Clear Light of Day is a novel published in 1980 by which Indian novelist and three-time Booker Prize finalist?
Anita Desai
Beka Lamb is the 1982 debut novel from which Belizean writer? Others: In Times Like These, The Festival of San Joaquin and Time and the River.
Zee Edgell
The Bone People is by which New Zealand author? Won Booker Prize in 1985, the first debut novel to do so. Set on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the novel focuses on three characters, all of whom are isolated in different ways: a reclusive artist, a mute child, and the child’s foster father.
Keri Hulme
As well as a spice mix, duqqa is also an alternative name for which sweet, dark-coloured paste made of nuts and fruits, which is
eaten at the beginning of the Jewish festival of Passover?
Charoset
The largest island on a lake is Manitoulin [MAN-uh-TOO-lin] Island, which is found in which lake? Manitoulin separates North Channel and Georgian Bay from the rest of this lake, which is connected to Lake Michigan by Straits of Mackinac?
Huron
With a total of 24 Grand Slam singles titles, which Australian tennis player won three Wimbledon titles and eleven Australian
Open titles between 1960 and 1973?
Margaret Court
In 2021, which Chinese snooker player became the youngest winner of the Masters since Ronnie O’Sullivan? He is currently serving a five-year ban for match-fixing
Yan Bingtao
Another example of a mafic rock; what rock is effectively the intrusive form of basalt? Created by magma cooling slowly, large parts
of the Earth’s lower oceanic crust are made of this rock.
Gabbro
Circulating between 1988 and 2013, the one-word title of which British fashion magazine aimed at young women completes the
publication’s tagline “Smart girls get…”?
More!
In 1960, Bombay State was split into Gujarat and which other Indian state, which has its capital and largest city at Mumbai?
Maharashtra
Marguerite Yourcenar’s 1981 book, subtitled A Vision of the Void, was a biography of which writer whose own troubled relationship with his sexuality was explored in his 1949 novel Confessions of a Mask?
Yukio Mishima
Which Welsh rugby union winger announced in January that he has joined the NFL’s international player pathway, eyeing up a
wide receiver role?
Louis Rees-Zammit
During the Thirty Years War, Austria and Spain were ruled by which royal house? This house, known for its inbreeding, held the
throne of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 until 1740.
Habsburg
Which 19th-century English illustrator and author received his first illustrating commision for an edition of Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory?
Aubrey Beardsley
Despite being the very final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft and earning himself the derogatory nickname “Mr Irrelevant”, which
quarterback will be leading the San Francisco 49ers at Superbowl LVIII [58] on Sunday?
Brock Purdy
Her number one singles included “One Promise Too Late”, “The Last One to Know” and the Grammy Award-winning “Whoever’s in New England”. Dubbed “the Queen of Country”, who sang national anthem at SuperBowl LVIII in 2024
Reba McEntire
Summer Lightning and other stories is a 1986 collection of short stories by which Jamaican writer?
Olive Senior
The Whale Rider is a 1987 novel by which New Zealand author? Adapted into 2002 film Whale Rider by Niki Caro (who also did Mulan and The Mother).
Witi Ihimaera
The creator of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, cited which author’s 1961 novel Revolutionary Road, which depicts the collapsing marriage of Frank and April Wheeler in the Connecticut suburbs, as a major influence on the show?
Richard Yates
Which actress, known for her roles in the sitcoms The King of Queens and Kevin
Can Wait, is a vocal critic of the Church of Scientology, which she left in 2013,
and wrote the memoir Troublemaker about her time in it?
Leah Remini
Which 1971 film in the ‘Carry on’ series is based around the bathroom ceramics factory W.C. Boggs and Son, whose namesake proprietor is played by Kenneth Williams?
Carry on at Your Inconvenience
Published in 1948 in the Bell System Technical Journal, which American mathematician’s A Mathematical Theory of Communication led to him being dubbed ‘the father of information theory’?
Claude Shannon
Pump up the Jam reached number two in the UK singles charts in 1989 for which Belgian electronic music project?
Technotronic
Which alkali metal, discovered in 1860 by Bunsen and Kirchhoff using flame
spectroscopy, is the least electronegative element, and is used in the SI definition
of the second?
Caesium
In the sport of rowing, which everyday kitchen item denotes the end of an oar that enters the water? This word is still in common use even though modern, ‘cleaver’ style blades, with an asymmetric, somewhat rectangular shape, have largely replaced the older, more rounded style it originally referred to.
Spoon
The works of the architect Jože Plečnik, including the Triple Bridge, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in which European capital city?
Ljubljana
Better known as a TV journalist and political interviewer, who had stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Hereford constituency in the 1959 general election, where he finished second behind the Conservative David Gibson-Watt? His puppet on Spitting Image was often seen interviewing Margaret Thatcher.
Robin Day
Which French Baroque composer succeeded Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera, and was also a harpsichordist and leading theorist? His operas included Hippolyte et Aricie, Zoroastre and Castor et Pollux.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
As a graduate student, Claude Shannon wrote his Masters thesis on switching circuits whose designs were based on algebraic concepts named after which English mathematician and logician, who wrote the 1854 work The Laws of Thought?
George Boole
Don Schlitz co-wrote which 1988 country hit for Keith Whitley, about the power of unspoken emotions? It is perhaps better known from the 1999 hit cover version by Ronan Keating featured on the Notting Hill soundtrack.
When You Say Nothing At All
Another author cited as a major influence on Mad Men was which American writer, known as ‘the Chekhov of the suburbs’, whose many short stories written for The New Yorker include The Swimmer and The Five-Forty-Eight?
John Cheever
How many electors are there in US senate?
538
Jason Beghe is another actor and critic of the Church of Scientology since he left it in 2007. Since 2014 he has been best known for playing the lead role of Sergeant Hank Voight in which US police procedural TV series?
Chicago PD
Which journalist, broadcaster and campaigner against miscarriages of justice had stood as a Liberal candidate in Rochdale in both the 1958 by-election and 1959 general election, finishing second behind Labour’s Jack McCann on both
occasions? He appeared as himself in several episodes of Yes Minister.
Ludovic Kennedy
Since 2020, Awkwafina has starred as the title character, a fictionalised version of herself, in which sitcom, set in a New York borough?
Nora from Queens
In rowing, what word, which has a more familiar meaning in various other sports, refers to the part of a stroke at which the blade enters the water? Rowers conceptualise this as grabbing hold of the water.
Catch
This is common for new rowers and something that should be expected from novice athletes at some point in their early days. It is when the oar gets stuck in the water and can disrupt the flow of the boat and/or cause the oar handle to go over the rower’s head.
Catching Crabs
To turn the oar so that its blade is parallel with the water (opposite of square)
Feather
To turn the oar so that its blade is perpendicular to the water (opposite of feather)
Square
There are four parts of the rowing stroke, what are they? ONLY CONNECT
Catch, Drive, Release, Recovery
Which 1984 TV Film set in Sheffield depicts the aftereffects of nuclear war? Though the city survives the initial blasts, the effects of a nuclear winter cause famine, leading to a complete breakdown of society.
Threads
On a British keyboard layout, pressing shift and 2 types in speech marks, but what does the same key combination produce on an American QWERTY keyboard?
@ At sign
Which Yorkshire-born scientist was one of the earliest pioneers of aeronautical engineering? His advances include the discovery of the four forces that act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle, as well as the design of the cambered wing essential to modern flight.
George Cayley
Aeronautics term for the asymmetry between the two acting surfaces of an airfoil, with the top surface of a wing (or correspondingly the front surface of a propeller blade) commonly being more convex. Benefits identified by George Cayley.
Camber
The Đurđevića Tara bridge, a concrete arch bridge spanning the Tara River Canyon, is in the Durmitor National Park, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in which European country?
Montenegro
Words including candid, Candida and candidate are all derived from a Latin word
for which colour?
White
Pump up the Volume reached number one in the UK singles chart in 1987 for which British house act?
MARRS
What is the point value of a penalty kick in rugby union, and a field goal in American football?
Three
Rhoda, Phyllis, and Lou Grant were all spin-offs of what 1970s sitcom following the title female comedian and character as a producer at a TV station in Minneapolis?
Mary Tyler Moore Show
In Peep Show, which electronic music duo do Super Hans and Jeremy believe are “widely regarded to have nicked our sound”? Their debut album Exit Planet Dust was released in 1995.
Chemical Brothers
Bleeding canker is a disease that primarily affects what species of tree?
Horse Chestnut
What two-word term, one of which is a word used in geometry, is used to describe a method of cheating in poker wherein a player will declare a play different to what they actually play in order to gain an unfair advantage through gauging their opponent’s reaction?
Angle Shooting
In the 2016 music video for Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood, which singer and actress plays rival “Arsyn”, who pushes Taylor Swift out of a window? The previous year she had released the album Revival.
Selena Gomez
Which British pioneer of land art and walking art trampled down grass to create A Line Made by Walking? the only artist to have been short-listed four times for the Turner Prize.
Richard Long
Which 1985 TV series centres on the British nuclear industry, following policeman
Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) as he investigates the death of his daughter, Emma (Joanne Whalley)? Though the nuclear apocalypse is averted, the ending suggests an impending eradication of
human life through global warming.
Edge of Darkness
On a British keyboard layout, pressing shift and 3 types in a pound sign, but what does the same key combination produce on an American QWERTY keyboard?
Hashtag
Which German scientist is sometimes referred to as the father of aviation due to his repeated successful flights with a glider? Ultimately however he died in an unsuccessful flight in 1896, when he fell while trying to regain control of his glider during flight.
Otto Lillienthal
What two-word term, one of which is a word used in geometry, is used to describe a method of cheating in many card games in which a player will use irregularities on the borders of cards to know their value before they are flipped
over? Phil Ivey was successfully sued by Crockford’s for engaging in this method
while playing baccarat in 2017.
Edge Sorting
Laverne & Shirley, Mork and Mindy, and Joanie Loves Chachi were all spin-offs of what 1970s and 80s sitcom? One derided episode of this sitcom saw a typically cool character jumping over a shark, coining a phrase for when a show
becomes visibly worse in the process.
Happy Days
Published 1923, The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer?
Kahlil Gibran
In Peep Show, which solo artist did Jeremy and Super Hans think they had the number of but it turned out to be “not a very funny joke”? Her debut album Alright, Still was released in 2006.
Lily Allen
Which French expression is commonly used in English to describe an
indescribable or unknown quality to something?
Je Ne Sais Quoi
What is the point value of a conversion in rugby union, and a safety in American football?
2
The Spartacist Uprising was put down in part by what group of right-wing paramilitaries primarily made up of World War I veterans? Please give the most common German name for the group.
Freikorps
Destiny, Symphony, Rhapsody, Melody and Harmony make up which all-female fighter pilot squadron in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons?
Angel Flight
In a 1993 song, country artist Alan Jackson claimed that he “learned how to swim
and I learned who I was, a lot about livin’ and a little ‘bout love” at which Georgia river?
Chattahoochee
Who wrote “Dream of the Red Chamber”?
Cao Xueqin
American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality. She built upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey and was the author of namesake report.
Shere Hite
Who wrote The Ginger Man in 1955 in Paris was by which American-Irish novelist?
JP Donleavy
How the Steel Was Tempered or The Making of a Hero, is a socialist realist novel written by which Russian author (1904–1936)?
Nikolai Ostrovsky
a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel’s title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution
Paul et Virginie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by which author?
Stephen Covey
Virgin Soil Upturned and And Quiet Flows The Don both books by which Russian novelist? Winner of 1965 Lit NP.
Mikhail Sholokhov
Soviet and Russian author of children’s books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems. Wrote “Uncle Styopa” which sold 21m copies in Russia.
Sergey Mikhalkov
1970 novel Love Story was by which author?
Erich Segal
Japanese books such as Moonlight Shadow, Kitchen, Goodbye Tsugumi, Asleep, N.P., Lizard and Amrita by Japanese author?
Banana Yoshimoto
an American writer of children’s books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called “the laureate of the nursery” for her achievements.
Margaret Wise Brown
The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) author
Michael Ende
His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God’s Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim.
Erskine Caldwell
1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs).
Life After Life
1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious. Set in New England in the time periods before and after World War II, the novel tells the story of three women who are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy town. Movies and TV.
Peyton Place
Me Before You and sequel After You are books by which author?
JoJo Moyes
2022 book The Queen: Her Life, Meghan 2018, Wallis 2018, Anglina Jolie, Tom Cruise. Books by which journalist and writer?
Andrew Morton
British scientist and physician known for 1972 manual The Joy of Sex?
Alex Comfort
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is self-help book by which author?
Mark Manson
Perry Mason book franchise by which author?
Erle Stanley Gardner
The Baby-sitters Club franchise author
Ann Martin
Clifford the Big Red Dog, girl is Emily Elizabeth, by which author?
Norman Bridwell
The latter three of these works are the fourth, fifth and sixth instalments respectively in the Millennium series originated by Stieg Larsson. known as the author of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice.
David Lagercrantz
Last word of the seven books of the Millenium franchise started by Stieg Larsson, David Lagercrantz and then one by Karin Smirnoff
Tattoo
Fire
Nest
Web
Eye
Twice
Talons
Dutch book Miffy is by which author and artist?
Dick Bruna
Japanese superhero picture book follows the adventures of a superhero with a red bean paste filled pastry for a head, who protects the world from an evil anthropomorphic germ named Baikinman.
Anpanman
Captain Underpants is by which cartoonist?
Dav Pilkey
Four books in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr
Inheritance
Ramona Quimby created by which character?
Beverly Cleary
Dietician best known for the South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatston
The Southern Vampire Mysteries also known as Trueblood or the Sookie Stackhouse novels by which author?
Charlaine Harris
Sci fi series Dragonriders of Pern by which author?
Anne McCaffrey
Der Regenbogenfisch (Rainbow Fish) by which author and drawer?
Marcus Pfister
In 2016, hundreds of birdwatchers flocked to just outside Hull to catch a rare glimpse of the
Siberian variety of what bird species? This genus are small, passerine birds, commonly found in
mountainous regions of Asia and Europe, with the Siberian variety being closely related to the
Japanese variety.
Accentors
The Super League Man of Steel Award was renamed in 2014 after which former player? This
fullback spent half his career playing for Hull FC before tragically dying of cancer in 2014.
Steve Prescott
The Humber Estuary is formed by the confluence of two major rivers. One is which river, the sixthlongest in the UK which runs through the city of York?
Ouse
Which FTSE 100 company was founded in 1840 in Hull by its namesake founder, and has
subsequently merged with multiple other brands including a well-known German company? Owning brands including Dettol, Durex and Gaviscon, this company is now headquartered in Slough but retains major manufacturing operations in Hull.
RECKITT Benckiser
Hull is formally twinned with seven cities outside the UK. One of those is which European Capital,
that sits on the river Bîc, a tributary of the Dniester?
Chisinau
What animal name completes the title of the [BLANK] eel, which can be seen in the Deep
Aquarium in Hull? Found in the North Atlantic, despite being named an eel, it is in fact the
only species in the genus Anarrichthys and in rare instances can inflict painful bites on
humans.
Wolf Eel
Which man, the lead singer of the Fine Young Cannibals, spent most of his formative years in Hull? He was lead vocalist on five Top 10 hits, most notably She Drives Me Crazy, but his start in music came as the lead singer of Hull ska band Akrylykz?
Roland Gift
Which knighted, Hull-born actress was well-known for playing Beattie in BT adverts in
1987? Starring in films including Educating Rita and The Pianist, she has had a distinguished TV career, currently starring in Celebrity Gogglebox and playing Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street.
Dame Maureen Lipman
John Deighton of Hull, better known as “Gassy Jack”, founded the district of Gastown, the
foundation of which modern day Canadian city? Other areas of this city include HastingsSunrise and Kitsilano.
Vancouver
Following capture of the nearby town of Beverley by royalist forces, which parliamentarian leader retreated to Hull in 1642 leading to the unsuccessful Second Siege of Hull? This man led Parliamentarian forces at several key battles, most notably the Battle of Naseby.
Sir Thomas Fairfax
Hull is formally twinned with seven cities outside the UK. One of those is which US state
capital, through which the river Neuse runs and is the seat of Wake County?
Raleigh
Which architect designed The Deep aquarium, one of the most iconic buildings in Hull? Designed to resemble the prow of a ship in homage to Hull’s extensive fishing and
shipping history, this man also designed the MI6 building in London and redesigned Charing Cross Station in the 1980s.
Terry Farrell
Named after its founder and his relative, which FTSE 100 company founded in Hull in
1856 is one of the world’s biggest medical device manufacturers? Dr Deepak Nath is the
current CEO and its logo is its name in a signature orange font.
Smith and Nephew
In 2017, hundreds of birdwatchers gathered just outside Hull to spot a flock of which bird
that took nest in a tree in an Aldi car park? This genus of small, passerine birds has red
tips on some wing feathers, giving them their common name
Waxwing
Which former rugby league player was the first black man to captain Great Britain at any
sport? He captained Great Britain to victory in the 1972 Rugby League World Cup and
made over 200 appearances for both Hull KR and Hull FC, before tragically dying of
cancer in 1985. The section of the A63 running through Hull is named in his honour.
Clive Sullivan
The Second Siege of Hull to capture Fairfax and his army was led by which Royalist?
This man, who had previously served as an MP, was appointed Royalist Captain General
in the North and financed must of his own war effort. After leading a crushing defeat for
the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor, this man exiled in Europe, became a
playwright in his later years.
William Cavendish /
Earl of Newcastle
Born in Hull, which comedienne and actress has had roles in recent sitcoms Man Down
and Damned? She is perhaps best known for playing Dobby in the TV series Peep Show.
Isy Suttie
John Fearn of Hull was the first recorded European to sight which modern day pacific
island nation? At the time he named this island “Pleasant Island” due to its attractive
appearance and has been commemorated on both a stamp and a coin of this country
Nauru
Which Hull-born man was the lead guitarist of David Bowie’s backing band, the Spiders
from Mars? This man also produced Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side and produced
and arranged John Cougar Mellencamp’s most successful single Jack & Diane..
Mick Ronson
Which knighted, Hull-born actor won a Golden Globe for best actor for his role in the 1983
film The Dresser? He also nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Doctor
Zhivago, and recent film roles include Dad’s Army and The Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peel Pie Society.
Sir Tom Courtenay
What animal completes the title of the [BLANK] shark, which can be seen in The Deep
aquarium in Hull? This shark hails from the Indo-Pacific region and is often found in coral
reefs. This shark is an endangered species and is completely approachable by humans,
making them popular attractions for tourist divers.
Zebra Shark
Giving her name to a secondary school in Hull near to where she was born, which author
is best known for her novel South Riding, published just after her death in 1936? A
famous journalist who wrote extensively on feminism and campaigned for black worker’s
rights in South Africa, her other novels include Anderby World and The Crowded Street.
Winifred Holtby
Which English musical duo founded in Hull and named after a shop in the city received
worldwide acclaim for their album Walking Wounded? They had top 3 hits with the songs
Missing and I Don’t Want to Talk About It in the 1990s.
Everything but the Girl
In electrodynamics, the electric scalar potential and magnetic vector potential are combined into which relativistic function?
electromagnetic four potential
Who is the lover of Majnun in the title of a 12th century Arabic narrative poem that forms the third part of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa? Fuzuli wrote an influential Azerbaijani version of the poem in 1536.
Layla or Leyli
According to the Icelandic sagas, which Norse explorer was the first European to set
foot on continental America? It is thought he reached what is now Canada in around
1000 CE, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John
Cabot.
Leif Erikson
The Neo-Babylonian Empire - or Second Babylonian Empire - was founded by
Nabopolassar in 626 BCE and reached its zenith under his son, Nebuchadnezzar II. The
dynasty from which its rulers came (and sometimes the empire itself) is also known by
what name after the small Semitic-speaking country in southeastern Mesopotamia
from which Nabopolassar is commonly thought to have hailed?
CHALDEAn
This empire reached its zenith under Kanishka the Great in the early-to-mid 2nd century
CE and was founded by Kanishka’s great-grandfather, Kujula Kadphises, who had
united the Yuezhi in Bactria. This is which empire that, at its height, encompassed much of what is now Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northern India, as far south as Varanasi?
Kushan Empire
Which word, from the Greek for ‘father figure’, is given as a title to the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church? The current Ecumenical [BLANK] is Bartholomew I.
Patriarch
Which mathematical operator is the analogue of the Laplace operator in Minkowski space? It is sometimes represented by a box symbol, giving it the alternative name of box operator.
D’Alembert Operator
As well as writing Leyli ve Mecnun (Leyli and Majnun) in Azerbaijani, Fezuli is also well
known for writing many examples of which type of short love poem that consists of a
series of rhyming couplets that contain a refrain word called a radif?
Ghazal
The Ruhr area is the most populous urban area in Germany. Its four main cities are Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, and which other, the largest? This city lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers and was a centre of the German coal and steel industries, but has become a hub for IT, medical science, robotics, and logistics in recent years.
Dortmund
Chinese sculpture and installation artist Yin Xiuchen has created two major series of
works using clothes and what sort of containers? “Portable City” works display the clothes in the shapes of buildings, while in “Fashion Terrorism” they are formed into weapons and other items not allowed on aeroplanes.
Suitcases
Which gauge condition sets the d’Alembertian of the electromagnetic four-potential to zero? This condition allows the derivation of the electromagnetic field tensor, an object that can express Maxwell’s equations in a single line.
Lorenz Gauge
The flautist Antonio Arcaño wrote a song that gave its name to what genre of music
and dance that went on to be popularised by Tito Puente and Pérez Prado? The name
of this genre is shouted by the orchestra in one of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic
Dances from West Side Story, a piece that became a signature of the Simón Bolívar
Symphony Orchestra.
Mambo
The Lorenz gauge also allows the explicit calculation of the electric scalar and magnetic vector potentials in the case of time-varying charge or current distributions. These time-dependent fields are known by what name?
Retarded Potentials
The most populous urban area in Poland – ahead of Kraków and Warsaw – is the Upper
Silesian metropolitan area, which is centred around which city in the southwest of the
country? This city grew from a small village to a major industrial centre in the 19th century after the discovery of coalfields nearby.
Katowice
Like the Paraguay river, this North American river has a name that, when used in conjunction with the word ‘river’, means ‘great river river’. Which river forms the northern borders of West Virginia and Kentucky and the southern borders of Indiana, Illinois, and its namesake state? This river joins the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
Ohio
Another Sufi writer of ghazals is which 13th century Persian poet who is perhaps best
known for the six-volume work Masnavi-ye-Ma’navi (The Spiritual Couplets), also
commonly referred to simply as the Masnavi?
Rumi
This mythical person is revered both as a cultural hero and as a symbol of the unity and
continuity of Han Chinese civilization. Shiji (The Records of the Grand Historian), compiled by Sima Qian in the first century BCE, begins during the rule of which figure who is said to have unified tribes along a certain river valley nearly 5,000 years ago?
Yellow Emperor
While Jesus Christ is held to be the founder of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of Constantinople is considered the successor to which of Jesus’s apostles? This apostle was martyred in 60 CE, crucified on a saltire, or X-shaped cross.
Saint Andrew
With its origins in Afro-Cuban drumming traditions, what genre of music gives its name
to a slow ballroom dance that became popular in the United States during the prohibition era and was the first of the three Cuban dance crazes in the early twentieth century (along with the mambo and the cha-cha-cha)? George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture was originally titled after this genre of music.
Rumba
Randstad, meaning ‘ring city’, is a major conurbation in the Netherlands. Its four major
centres are Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague, and which other city, the fourth largest city in the country? The most important Dutch city during the Middle Ages, it is home to the country’s largest university and railway station, owing to its central position.
Utrecht
In which modern-day country were between 24,000 and 65,000 Herero people killed in the first decade of the 20th century after they rose in rebellion against German colonial rule at the Battle of Waterberg?
Namibia
The ideal rocket equation, that states the maximum change in velocity is equal to the
effective exhaust velocity times the natural log of the mass ratio, is better known by what name after the Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory who published it in a work of 1903?
Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation
Operational since November 1966, the world’s first tidal power station was opened near Saint-Malo on the estuary of which French river?
Rance
“Huntsmen’s Chorus” is a famous overture from which opera in three acts by Carl
Maria von Weber to a libretto by Friedrich Kind that is considered by many to be the
earliest important German Romantic opera?
Der Freischütz or The Marksman or The Freeshooter
In May 2007, which American photographer, known for organizing large-scale nude shoots, set a world record when around 18,000 people posed for him in Mexico City’s famous Zócalo square?
Spencer Tunick
Which Indian writer published the 2017 novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness twenty
years after her hugely successful debut?
Arundhati Roy
Found in two discrete populations in open woodland and grassland in Central and Western Africa, the largest of all antelopes is the larger of the two species of which spiral-horned antelope?
Eland
Named after a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty, the Step Pyramid of Djoser is thought to
have been designed by which scholar and architect? Initially a high priest of Ra, and
one of Djoser’s chancellors, he became one of very few non-royal ancient Egyptians to
be deified.
Imhotep
What is the title of the major work by Kierkegaard to which the Binding of Isaac is
central? The title is taken from a line in Philippians 2:12, which says to “continue to work
out your salvation with [BLANK]*.”
Fear and Trembling
A and B are the supposed authors of the two volumes of which major work by
Kierkegaard which was allegedly collected and edited by the equally fictional Victor
Eremita? This book has a title derived from the work’s examination of the distinction
between the aesthetic and ethical views of life.
Either/Or
The Step Pyramid of Djoser stands in which village that served as a vast necropolis for
the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis? Many of the oldest Egyptian ruins are found
here.
Saqqara/Sakkara
While in the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish traditions, the shofar is made from the
horn of a domestic ram, the Yemeni shofar is made from the horn of which antelope?
This antelope from Eastern and Southern Africa is known for its long, spiral-shaped
horns that can reach impressive lengths.
Kudu
Another site at Saqqara is the tomb of the sculptor Thutmose. Thutmose is believed to
be the sculptor of the Bust of Nefertiti, which was discovered in his workshop in which
site, built as the capital of the Eighteenth Dynasty on the orders of Akhenaten?
Amarna
Constantin Constantius was the supposed author of which book by Kierkegaard, with
a single word title, that discusses the narrator’s relationship with a patient known only as Young Man? This book influenced the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze who incorporated its title into the title of his own magnum opus, Différence et [BLANK] (Difference and [BLANK])*.
Repetition
Saqqara is also home to the Serapeum, which served as the ancient Egyptian burial
place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. The bulls were seen as incarnations
of which creator god, and patron of craftsmen, who came to be regarded as the father
of Imhotep?
Ptah
Epic poem by Derek Walcott in 1990, seven books, 64 chapters
Omeros
Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Makar of Scotland 2016-21.
Jackie Kay
the debut poetry collection by the Scottish poet Jackie Kay 1991 poems are autobiographical and relate Kay’s adoption from three different perspectives, from that of her own, her mother’s and her birth mother
The Adoption Papers
It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Australia, over a period of twenty years. CLOUDSTREET by which Australian author who also did Dirt Music, Breath, Shallows, Blueback.
Tim Winton
annual literary prize awarded to “a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases”, named after author who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901).
Miles Franklin Award
The Stone Diaries (1993) won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1993 Governor General’s Award, the only book to have ever received both awards. Won the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction for her 1997 novel Larry’s Party.
Carol Shields
Canadian novelist: Novels
Ablutions: Notes for a Novel (2009)
The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Undermajordomo Minor (2015)
French Exit (2018)
The Librarianist (2023)
Patrick deWitt
The novel follows the story of Yusuf, a boy born in the fictional town of Kawa in Tanzania at the turn of the 20th century. PARADISE is written by which author 1994?
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Indian-Canadian author behind “A Fine Balance”?
Rohinton Mistry
Alford George, son of a poor farm labourer on Trinidad, does not speak until the age of six, and grows up as an outsider; later he becomes a teacher and then a politician, and dreams of leaving his homeland for Great Britain. SALT is a book by which Trinidadian author? Other works: The Dragon Can’t Dance, The Wine of Astonishment.
Earl Lovelace
It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws” prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India. This is which Booker Prize winning novel?
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
In the novel an old man sits up all night in Calcutta writing for his dead older sister’s newborn child, who is sleeping in the next room and will be taken the next day by adoptive parents. Which 1999 novel by Raj Kamal Jha?
The Blue Bedspread
The Secret River is a 2005 historical novel by which Australian author about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what might have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people. ALso won 2001 Orange Prize for The Idea of Perfection.
Kate Grenville
A Golden Age is the first novel of which Bangladesh-born writer? It tells the story of the Bangladesh War of Liberation through the eyes of one family.
Tahmima Anam
The story follows Lilith, a young woman born into slavery, who challenges the boundaries of what is expected of her. Lilith experiences more troubles when a group of female slaves planning a revolt, ask her to join in their plans. 2009 Marlon James book.
The Book of Night Women
The Memory of Love is a 2010 novel by which Scottish-Sierra Leone author about the experiences of three men in Sierra Leone? She is the author of a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest (2002), and four novels: Ancestor Stones (2006), The Hired Man (2013) and Happiness (2018).
Aminatta Forna
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew is a 2010 novel by which author? Using cricket as a device to write about Sri Lankan society, the book tells the story of an alcoholic journalist’s quest to track down a missing cricketer of the 1980s.
Shehan Karunatilaka
Our Lady of the Nile (French: Notre-Dame du Nil) is a French-language novel by which Rwanda-born French writer? The story is about life at a Catholic boarding secondary school in Nyambinombe District, Rwanda, circa 1980, prior to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Scholastique Mukasonga
Behold the Dreamers is a 2016 debut novel by which Cameroonian-American author? The novel details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial crisis: an immigrant family from Cameroon, the Jonga family, and their wealthy employers, the Edwards family.
Imbolo Mbue
The Bone Readers is a 2016 novel by which Grenadan British author, the second in his “Camaho Quartet”. In 2017, it won the inaugural Jhalak Prize.
Jacob Ross
How We Disappeared: A Novel is a 2019 historical fiction novel by which Singaporean author, written in English? Singapore, the year 2000: a twelve-year-old boy hears a mumbled confession from his grandmother, which leads him to her history of sexual slavery during the Japanese occupation of Singapore - about “comfort women” who would work in brothels.
Jing-Jing Lee
The Night Tiger: A Novel is a 2019 novel by which Malaysian author, written in English? Ji Lin given missing finger, Houseboy Ren needs to find master’s finger, unexplained deaths blamed on harimau jadian (tiger man).
Yangsze Choo
A Passage North is a 2021 novel written by which Sri Lankan author? The novel is set in Sri Lanka following the end of the Civil War, follows Krishan, a young man working for a non-government organisation (NGO) in contemporary Colombo who makes a journey to the north of Sri Lanka. Debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage was published in 2016.
Anuk Arudpragasam
