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The Hindu deity Rama, central character of the Ramayana, is the king of what city? The
festival Diwali marks the day that Rama returned home to this city.
Ayodhya
The Irish composer John Field was the first to use what name for piano compositions
that used a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated accompaniment in the left hand? This style of composition was further developed by Frédéric Chopin, who wrote 21 such
pieces.
Nocturnes
Who wrote the famous sentence, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” in her 1923 poem
‘Sacred Emily’? In 1903, this American author moved to Paris, where she lived out the
remaining 43 years of her life.
Gertrude Stein
The world’s third largest charitable foundation is the Wellcome Trust, which funds medical research. It was founded by Henry Wellcome, who also founded Wellcome Burroughs, one of the predecessors to which British-based multinational pharmaceutical company? This company developed the world’s first malaria vaccine, but has also been fined for promoting the anti-depressant Paroxetine, or Paxil, to teenagers despite trials showing it is ineffective.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
The Saguaro cactus is native to which very hot desert that spreads across parts of
Arizona, California and Mexico?
Sonoran Desert
After becoming a red giant, the Sun will have around 120 million years left before it
becomes what other kind of star? These much smaller stars are formed from the
carbon-oxygen cores remaining once red giants shed their outer layers, and do not
contain fusion reactions.
White Dwarf
Which character is the main antagonist of the Ramayana? A rakshasa and king of Lanka, he is portrayed as a villainous character despite also being a scholar and a devotee of the god Shiva.
Ravana
What Greek-derived term, coined by Frederic Clements, refers to an area with a shared
regional climate as well as the particular biological community that has formed there?
Sitting above ecosystems and below the biosphere in the hierarchy of life, examples of
these regions include tundra, mangroves and tropical rainforests.
Biome
Rama goes to war against Ravana after Ravana kidnaps which character, Rama’s wife?
An avatar of Vishnu and a form of Lakshmi, she was abducted after stepping out of a
protective circle to help a beggar, who was Ravana in disguise.
Sita
Which composer and pianist published three nocturnes under the title Liebesträume
(‘Dreams of Love’)? The Liebesträum No. 3 in A-flat major was based on the poem ‘O
lieb, so lang du lieben kannst’ (‘Love as long as you can’) by Ferdinand Freiligrath and is
among this composer’s most familiar compositions for the piano
Franz Liszt
Divided by the Swartberg mountains into ‘Great’ and ‘Little’ subregions, what is the
name of the large semi-desert region of South Africa that lies immediately to the
north of the Great Escarpment?
Karoo
Which American pharmaceutical company was the first to mass produce insulin, and
also developed the anti-depressant fluoxetine, which it sold under the brand name
Prozac? The founder of this company also established a charitable foundation that was
once the world’s largest and which funds religious and conservative political causes
rather than medical research.
Eli Lilly
The Ramayana is held to have been written by which Hindu poet? In the final chapter of
the Ramayana, Sita takes refuge in this poet’s ashram and gives birth to Lava and
Kusha, who became this poet’s first disciples
Valmiki
The theory of humourism is sometimes compared to the theory of Dosha, which is
central to which system of alternative medicine practiced in India and Nepal? Its name
translates as “the practice of longevity”.
Ayurveda
The astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky suggested that main-sequence stars became neutron
stars through what explosive events? These can be caused either by the reignition of
fusion in a white dwarf, or a massive star’s core undergoing gravitational collapse.
Supernova
Which Persian philosopher and physician based his hugely influential work al-Qānūn fī
al-Ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine) on the theory of humours? He is also the author of Kitāb
al-Shifāʾ (The Book of Healing).
Ibn Sina / Avicenna
Hebo, the god of the Yellow River, drove a chariot pulled by what mythical creatures,
that were symbolically linked to the Emperor of China? Fáfnir and Níðhöggr [NEETHhogr] are examples of these creatures from Norse mythology, and another mortally
wounds the titular character of Beowulf.
Dragon
Cameron largest city by population
Douala
Which Russian composer’s earliest compositions were heavily influenced by Chopin and included several nocturnes such as his D-flat major nocturne for left hand? His later pieces moved away from tonality, and he is known for including his “mystic chord” in works such as the tone poem Prometey (Poema ognya) (Prometheus: The Poem of Fire).
Alexander Scriabin
Selling brands such as Tylenol, Benadryl and Neutrogena, Kenvue was spun off as a
division of which American pharmaceutical company in 2022? One of the founders of
this company also established a charitable foundation that focuses on access to
healthcare for at-risk communities and other health initiatives such as anti-smoking
campaigns
Johnson & Johnson
By some measures, largest city in Ghana, capital city of the Ashanti Region, in southern Ghana?
Kumasi
Known as Pentecost in Ancient Greek, what Hebrew name is given to the Jewish
festival marking both the wheat harvest and the day God gave the Torah to the nation
of Israel? The festival is commonly known in English as the Feast of Weeks.
Shavuot
What is the name of the large gulf on Tunisia’s east coast that runs between Sfax in
the north and the island of Djerba in the south?
Gulf of Gabes
Widely considered Romania’s most important musician, the 1936 opera Œdipe is the
masterpiece of which composer?
George Enescu
Known as ‘the Versailles of the Jungle’, Gbadolite was built south of the Ubangi River
by which military dictator who ruled his country between 1965 and 1997?
Mobutu Sese Seko
Consisting of an almost-blank piece of paper in a gilded frame, which US artist produced the work Erased de Kooning Drawing in 1953? The artist was given a drawing by the titular artist, which he subsequently rubbed out and exhibited.
Robert Rauschenberg
Consisting of a five-carbon sugar molecule, a nitrogenous base, and one phosphate
group, which organic compounds are the basic structural units of DNA and RNA?
Nucleotides
In signal processing, sampling is used to convert a continuous time-signal to a discrete
time-signal. This process can be done reliably down to a limit named after which
Swedish-American engineer?
Harry Nyquist
Shuaib is the central prophet of which ethnic religion that split from Isma’ilism in the
11th century? Unlike other Abrahamic faiths, adherents of this faith believe in
reincarnation.
Druze
The surrealist work L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse, made from a sewing machine wrapped in a blanket and tied up with string, was created by which French artist? An early example of a readymade, the use of a sewing machine was inspired one of Ducasse’s poems, greatly admired by creators like this artist and Marcel Duchamp.
Man Ray
If a signal is digitised at a sample rate below the Nyquist limit, overlapping frequency
components cause a signal distortion known by what name? This effect is typically
avoided in practice with a low-pass filter
ALIASing
Melek Taûs is a central figure in which ethnic religion? He is considered the preeminent figure among seven angels who existed before the creation of the world.
Yazidism
Man Ray took a series of photographs of Marcel Duchamp using what female pseudonym? The name of this pseudonym appears in the title of a readymade sculpture that features a cuttlefish bone in a birdcage
Rrose Selavy
Taking its name from its central sky god, what was the state religion of the Mongol
Empire? It is now a minority religion in Mongolia, but it has undergone a revival in Central Asia following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Tengrism
The theorem which links the signal frequency range and required sample rate to avoid
aliasing is named for Nyquist and which other engineer and computer scientist, known
for his work in information theory?
Claude Shannon
Man Ray took many photographs of which surrealist photographer and poet, who
was also depicted in Picasso’s La Femme qui pleure (The Weeping Woman)?
Dora Maar
The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem proves that aliasing will not occur above the
Nyquist rate by considering the frequency-domain signal. Converting a continuous time
signal to the frequency domain is achieved with which mathematical operation?
Fourier Transform
Sometimes considered an ethnic religion of Korea, which religion developed from the
Donghak movement in the 19th century? This religion incorporates elements from
traditional Korean Shamanism, and its spread can be seen as a response to Western
influence in Korea.
Cheondoism
Man Ray’s muse, which model, performer and artist appears in his famous
photograph Le Violon d’Ingres? She took her stage name from an area of Paris on the
left bank of the Seine.
Alice Prin or Kiki de Montparnasse
Radio 4 show (2003–), the presenter (was Baddiel now Coren Mitchell) and a panel of guests commit “_______” by challenging people’s most deeply held opinions on a subject
Heresy
News Quiz going backwards from Sandi Toksvig (60-88 series) ONLY CONNECT
Barry Norman
Barry Took
Simon Hoggart
Sandi Toksvig
News Quiz going forwards from Miles Jupp (89-99) ONLY CONNECT
Miles Jupp
Multiple Guests
Nish Kumar
Angela Barnes
Andy Zaltzman
a panel game, based on quotations, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was chaired by its deviser, Nigel Rees, and ran from 4 January 1976 to December 2021.
Quote..Unquote..
Radio 4 show (2007–), game in which contestants deliver a mostly untrue speech and panelists must identify true statements chaired by David Mitchell
The Unbelievable Truth
It follows the exploits of the eccentric crew of the single aeroplane owned by “MJN Air” as they are chartered to take all manner of items, people or animals across the world. The show stars Finnemore, Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Cabin Pressure
especially noted for its musical history and traditions, including some of the earliest and most renowned luthiers, such as Giuseppe Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari, Francesco Rugeri, Vincenzo Rugeri, and several members of the Amati family. Situated in Lombardy.
Cremona
A town in the Kebili Governorate in the south of Tunisia, known as the “gateway to the Sahara”. It has been called the “ultimate palm oasis”, because it has over 500,000 palm trees in the area, and it is a major producer of “diglat noor” dates. Episode title on Cabin Pressure.
Douz
Episode on Cabin Pressure, formerly known as Broughton Island until November 1998 is a community located on Broughton Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The island is known for Arctic wildlife (ringed seals, polar bears, bowhead whales, narwhals), bird watching at the Qaqulluit National Wildlife Area (qaqulluit is the Inuktitut word for northern fulmar).
Qikiqtarjuaq
A British radio sitcom written by David Spicer and originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from June 2001 to November 2003. There were three series of six episodes each starring David Tennant as Daniel and Elizabeth Carling as Lucy. Comes from acronym DINKY.
Double Income, No Kids Yet
Half-hour magazine radio programme about psychology and psychiatry, broadcast in weekly episodes on Radio 4 and produced by the BBC’s Science Unit. It is currently presented by Claudia Hammond.
All in the Mind
The Infinite Monkey Cage is a BBC Radio 4 comedy and popular science series. Hosted by physicist Brian Cox and which comedian?
Robin Ince
British radio programme that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on weekdays at 05:58 from Monday to Friday. The original format of an episode is a short programme of 90 seconds, the original series featuring the song or sounds of a British bird, visitor, or bird chorus and a few facts about each bird described by a BBC wildlife presenter.
Tweet of the Day
Moral Maze is a live discussion programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990. Since November 2011, it has also been available as a podcast. Hosted by Michael Buerk and created by Rev Ernie Rea in 1990.
Moral Maze
Who is host of Moral Maze and also narrator of Pineapple Dance Studios when it was on? He was awarded the Golden Nymph award at the Monte Carlo festival for his reports on the famine from Korem in Ethiopia, first broadcast on 23 October 1984. Led to Live Aid. The footage of the famine was shot by Mohamed Amin.
Michael Buerk
a daily scripted slot on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 offering “reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news”, broadcast at around 7:45 each Monday to Saturday morning. Lasting 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
Thought for the Day
Who presented In Our Time since 1998?
Melvyn Bragg
Currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 is a painting by which artist?
Marcel Duchamp
What is the title of the webcomic created by Randall Munroe in 2005? The webcomic’s subject matter varies from statements on life and love to mathematical, programming, and scientific in-jokes.
xkcd
Environmental protesters from which group have thrown pumpkin soup at what Mona Lisa in France in January 2024?
Food Counterattack/Riposte Alimentaire
One of the six types of simple machines, what do you call a wheel that carries a flexible rope, cord, cable, chain, or belt on its rim?
Pulley
What 1930 William Faulkner novel follows the story of the Bundren family in Jefferson, Mississippi?
As I Lay Dying
Which nationalist served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967?
Sukarno
Who was Sukarno’s successor? 1968-98
Suharto
Current Indonesia President since 2014
Joko Widodo
Five new countries to join BRICS after Argentina rejected offer
Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirate
The traditional Thai New Year festival, what holiday has been designated as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in December 2023?
Songkran
Introduced in 1939 and owned by Diageo since 2000, Crown Royal is a blended whisky brand produced in which western hemisphere country?
Canada
The Andrea M. Bronfman Prize for the Arts is an annual design award given to a decorative artist working in ceramics, glass, textiles, or jewellery in which country?
Israel
Richard Hatch was the first winner of what American reality TV series, achieving the feat in 2000?
Survivor
The 1998 Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski was loosely inspired by the work of which detective fiction writer?
Raymond Chandler
A former Salesian priest and a proponent of liberation theology, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was the first democratically-elected president of what country?
Haiti
In particle physics, what do you call a type of subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks bound together by strong interaction?
Meson
Which politician, who previously served as president of South Africa, was suspended from the African National Congress in January 2024 after forming the party uMkhonto we Sizwe the previous year?
Jacob Zuma
Which influential American rock band has more Gold Album than any other US band, and had UK top 10 singles with Crazy Crazy Nights, and God Gave Rock and Roll to You?
Kiss
In which film of 1979 did Samantha Taylor, played by Julie Andrews, throw a surprise 42nd birthday party for her composer boyfriend George Webber, played by Dudley Moore?
10
Which classification was introduced by the British Board of Film Classification in 1982 to provide a classification for works that do not breach UK law, but exceed what the BBFC considers acceptable in the 18 category?
R18 (Restricted 18)
What expression is used in English law to denote gold or silver, money, plate, or bullion which has been which had been certainly or presumably hidden, and is claimed by the Crown?
Treasure Trove
Which actor played Karla opposite Alec Guinness’ George Smiley in the 1979 BBC version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; King Richard in Robin Hood, Men in Tights; and the Captain of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next generation on TV and in the films?
Patrick Stewart
Which Cabinet Minister, who has served in the cabinet since 2010 under Cameron, May, Johnson, and Sunak, has an adoptive surname which means “to stare idly or vacantly”?
Michael Gove
Which animal has the strongest sense of smell, thought to be up to four times as strong as that of a bloodhound, enabling it to detect water up to 12 miles away?
Elephant
Patented in 1912 by George Sperry and first tested in 1913, to what might “George” in an aircraft cockpit refer?
Autopilot
Why is the internet country code top-level domain for Anguilla currently much in demand?
.ai
What is the name of the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha?
Generation Z
How do we know in English what the French call Le Grand Chelem?
The Grand Slam in Six Nations
In which year did Tetley introduce tea bags and sugar rationing come to an end in the UK?
1953
Which French dessert named after an Offenbach opera about the Trojan Wars is made from pears poached in sugar syrup and served with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup?
Poire Belle Helene
First featuring in print in the 1747 recipe book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse, which side dish was the subject of an Oxford Union debate on whether it should be served with chicken, and celebrates its national day on the first Sunday in February?
Yorkshire Pudding
Featuring in works as diverse as Brideshead Revisited, Rebecca, Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill and The Borrowers, as well as in episodes of Are You Being Served and Porridge, which quintessentially English biscuit was invented in Somerset in 1750 and is still produced today?
Bath Oliver
Which French wine from north of Lyon is released on the third Thursday of November each year?
Beaujolais Nouveau
Which is the only square on the standard London Monopoly board to contain all the letters of the word “MONOPOLY”?
Electric Company
In 2012, a plaque was installed at 23 Heddon Street, near Savile Row, where used to be located a furrier called K. West, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of which album, which in 2013, NME ranked 23rd in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (IMHO, 22 places too low)?
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
Calling itself an example of European harmonization, what function is served by the organisation Pan European Game Information?
Age rating recommendations for video games
Angora wool is made from the fur of the Angora rabbit, but what name is given to the lustrous fabric made from the hair of the Angora goat?
Mohair
Which EU candidate country has three presidents representing the three principal racial groups in the country on independence in 1995?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2009 film based on a memoir by Lynn Barber
An Education
The films that he has directed often include musical elements, including the dance films Step Up 2: The Streets (2008) and Step Up 3D (2010), musicals Jem and the Holograms (2015) and In the Heights (2021), and the live concert films Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) and Justin Bieber’s Believe (2013). Crazy Rich Asians director.
Jon M. Chu
She had her first major film role as a poltergeist in Robert Zemeckis’s supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath (2000). She has since appeared in films such as the love interest in Hitch (2005), Transporter 2 (2005), Man About Town (2006), Dead Silence (2007), Gamer (2009), and The Spy Next Door (2010).
Amber Valletta
2010 founded Every Mother Counts, documentary No Woman No Cry, married Edward Burns, what supermodel?
Christy Turlington
Which supermodel is in Uptown Girl by Billy Joel?
Christie Brinkley
Which supermodel now has ruined face?
Linda Evangelista
Russian model and television personality. Shayk received international recognition when she appeared as the first Russian model on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Cristiano Ronald 2010-15, Bradley Cooper 2015-19. Played Megara alongside The Rock in 2014 Hercules. Appeared in Kanye West video “Power”.
Irina Shayk
Surname gave name to debut album in 2020, second album Hold the Girl is 2022, acting debut in John Wick Chapter 4 2023.
Rina Sawayama
Full name of English model born 2002, Her parents are model Kate Moss and magazine editor Jefferson Hack.
Lila Moss
Half sister full name of Kate Moss, 2021 OnlyFans account.
Lottie Moss
Founder of OnlyFans
Tim Stokely
Majority owner and founder of Gymshark
Ben Francis
she co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning Black Mirror episode “San Junipero” (2016), for which she received acclaim. Her other film roles include Beauty and the Beast (2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), played Jennifer Hosten in Misbehaviour (2020), and Summerland (2020). She has also acted in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019), and the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present).
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
South African singer and beauty pageant titleholder who was first runner-up in the Miss World beauty contest in the UK in 1970.
Pearl Jansen
Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first black woman and the first woman from her country to win the title. The whole contest had been controversial even before the result had been announced. Portrayed by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Misbheaviour 2022
Jennifer Hosten
English TV host and founder of Miss World pageant and Come Dancing programme.
Eric Morley
Her first feature film as an actress was a minor role in Pusher (2012), and she has since appeared in films such as Love, Rosie (2013), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), The Bad Batch (2016), Assassination Nation (2018), and Detective Pikachu (2019). Waterhouse portrayed Karen Sirko in the musical drama miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). She released her debut album I Can’t Let Go and the EP Milk Teeth in 2022.
Suki Waterhouse
American model. She has gained prominence as one of few Black curve models to work with longstanding fashion houses. She has walked for Versace, Moschino, Fendi, and others. In 2023, Lee starred in the music video of “Spin Bout U” by rappers Drake and 21 Savage. From Atlanta 1989.
Precious Lee
Supermodel has two children with her former husband, American musician Jack White. She and White were married in 2005 and divorced in 2013. Born in Oldham. Songwriter too.
Karen Elson
American plus-size model born Camden, London 1992. Discovered on Instagram by makeup artist Pat McGrath. In 2019, she made her screen acting debut in the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems.
Paloma Elsesser
Italian model. Ceretti was discovered in 2012 through the Elite Model Look Model contest. Was dating DiCaprio in 2023 as of Feb 2024 still the case.
Vittoria Ceretti
The youngest model to do the The Big Four of fashion of UK, US, France, Italy Vogue was which Czech model
Karolína Kurková
She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world’s first supermodels. She starred alongside Paul Jones in the film Privilege (1967). Helped launch the miniskirt. Other romances included actor Terence Stamp and photographer Terry O’Neill. Karen Gillan played her.
Jean Shrimpton
She signed a million-dollar contract with Fabergé Inc. as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume. She was the granddaughter of famous writer. Her later years were marred by highly publicized episodes of addiction and depression, before her suicide from a drug overdose on July 1, 1996, at the age of 42.
Margaux Hemingway
German model, part of Big 5, died in January 2023
Tatjana Patitz
She is known for her roles in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton as Kathani “Kate”
Sharma/Bridgerton (2022–present) and comedy-drama Sex Education as Olivia Hanan (2019–2023).
Simone Ashley
a South Sudanese-Australian model. She made her fashion week runway debut as an exclusive in the Saint Laurent S/S 17 show and went on to close both their F/W 17 and S/S 18 shows as an exclusive. In 2018, she was chosen as “Model of the Year” by models.com, an honour which was repeated the next year.
Adut Akech
British fashion model, She is the founder of Gurls Talk, a platform that provides resources and a safe space for young women and girls to discuss Mental Health, related to the Earl of Lonsdale. her first Hollywood role as Lia in the 2017 Hollywood adaptation of the Japanese manga Ghost in the Shell. Also Becks in Top Boy.
Adwoa Aboah
Who is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball? Got eyepatch. He appears in the 1965 film adaptation, again as the main antagonist, with Italian actor Adolfo Celi filling the role.
Emilio Largo
In judaism, what word is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations?
Minyan
a sweet bun made of a yeast dough flavoured with dried fruit such as currants, candied peel, and sweet spices. It is made in the city of Bristol, England, and named after a local MP and merchant.
Colston Bun
Who wrote Seven Lamps of Architecture?
John Ruskin
GERD stands for what stomach illness?
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Directed by Bennett Miller, Steve Carrell plays John Du Pont in Foxcatcher and trains brothers Mark and David with which surname?
Schultz
Sean Durkin directed film The Iron Claw about which family?
Von Erich (Zac Efron playing Kevin)
a Japanese former professional footballer and holds the record for most goals scored by an Asian in Serie A. He is also known as the first Asian player to be nominated for the Ballon d’Or. Roma, Palma, Fiorentina, ended career with loan to Bolton.
Hidetoshi Nakata
A 1971 song by The Doors which, in its second verse, references the hitch-hiker killer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook
Riders on the Storm
Featuring in the first verse of the John Masefield poem Cargoes, in which it carries “Sandalwood, Cedarwood and sweet wine wine”, which ancient warship was rowed by oarsmen arranged in groups of five?
Quinquereme
1) A film director and avant garde musician who released the album Big Science in 1982
2)The Northern Irish designer of a sell-out fibreglass pigeon clutchbag, also Loewe creative director.
Laurie and Jonathan ANDERSON
A Canadian rock band fronted by Geddy Lee
Rush
Which endorheic salt lake in Iran, at its greatest extent in 1995 the largest lake in the Middle East, had shrunk to 10% of its former size in 2017 due to drought, damming and groundwater pumping? (picture). Whilst it was subsequently replenished, it is now shrinking again.
Urmia
Subtitled Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir, which 1994 confessional book by the late author and journalist Elizabeth Wurtzel was adapted into a 2001 film starring Christina Ricci? Its two word title contains a brand name for the SSRI anti-depressant Fluoxetine.
Prozac Nation
an Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. He was born on the Greek island of Lefkada
Lafcadio Hearn
What links
1) A 1903 spy fiction novel by Irish Nationalist Erskine Childers, concerning German preparations for a seaborne invasion of England
2) A late actor and star of A Room with a View and Arachnophobia who disappeared hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains of California in 2023?
Sands (The Riddle of the Sands and Julian Sands)
The birthplace of composer Arvo Part and decathlete Erki Nool, which Baltic state is bordered to the East by Lake Peipus?
Estonia
Which 19th century physician scientist made the groundbreaking discovery that maternal mortality from puerperal fever in Vienna General Hospital could be reduced from 18% to 2% by hand hygiene measures? Stephen Brown’s 2020 play about this doctor premiered at the Bristol Old Vic, starring Mark Rylance.
SEMMELWEIS (Ignaz)
An official court painter of Philip II of Spain and protege of Michelangelo, which Italian Renaissance painter and her four sisters were encouraged in their artistic talents by their father? This painter depicted her sisters in the 1555 work The Game of Chess.
Anguissola (Sofonisba)
A 1941 Agatha Christie novel in which Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of actress Arlena Marshall in Devon
Evil Under the Sun
Inadvisably free of protective gear whilst dissecting, and known also for accurate, vivid descriptions of migraine, what is the name of the Dutch Surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam teaching acolytes in Rembrandt’s 1632 work of art?
Tulp (Nicolaes)
An Ethiopian city in the Tigray region was the first capital of which namesake African Empire between 150 BCE and 960 CE, although its capital city later became Kubar after 800 CE ?
Aksum
Which French “Space Age” fashion designer founded a fashion house in 1965, producing futuristic minidresses before changing tack to 1970’s “Soft Look” diaphanous peasant dresses? He was infuriated by a disastrous, nipple-tasselled collaboration with Lindsay Lohan in 2010.
Emanuel Ungaro
Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the “bubble dress” in 1954.
Pierre Cardin
What name links
1) An American choreographer mentored by Balanchine, known for the musicals On the Town and West Side Story and his ballet to Chopin, Dances at a Gathering
2) A bestselling novelist of the Carpetbaggers. described as a writer of “Transatlantic Tripe” by Basil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers?
ROBBINS (Jerome and Harold)
large stratovolcano in the department of San Marcos in western Guatemala. It is the highest mountain in Central America at 4,203 metres
Volcan Tajumulco
Which Constructivist Hungarian painter known for his photomontages coined the term Neues Sehen (New Vision), and together with his wife Lucia, also on the Bauhaus teaching faculty, documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus?
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
What words link
1) A Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica
2) the nickname of the 66kg slippery former NFL Wide receiver Gerald McNeil of the Cleveland Browns and Houston Oilers
Ice Cube
What animal links
1) Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker, whose collaborative musical group has released the albums Lonerism, Currents and The Slow Rush
2) A medium sized antelope, the only extant member of the genus Aepyceros?
Impala (Tame Impala is musical group)
Made from the red algae genus Pyropia what name is given to dried, edible seaweed sheets used to wrap sushi or onigiri (rice balls)?
Nori
A “Drunk” but allegedly “clean” cosmetics brand, alarmingly coveted by TikTok-watching teens concerned about ageing
Drunk Elephant
What two words link
1) A Southeastern coastal Brazilian state with its capital at Vitoria and its largest city at Serra and
2) The current Nottingham Forest Manager, recruited from the Saudi top flight soccer club Al-Ittihad in 2023, formerly a manager of Wolves and Tottenham Hotspur?
Espirito Santo
Important for assistance in breathing, bending and rotating, what name is given to diagonally arranged “External” and “Internal” abdominal muscles of the trunk which define the shape of the waist and frame the “six-pack” of the rectus abdominis muscles?
Obliques
Imparting notes of peach, apricot and honeysuckle to produce rich, spicy white wines, which grape variety is the only permitted grape for the French wine Condrieu in the Rhone Valley?
Viognier
a 2022 city building survival video game where players control a space station after Earth’s destruction, shares name with greek mythology charactrer
Ixion
Which Russian avant-garde artist invented Rayonism and was a founding member of the Knave of Diamonds art movement with her partner Mikhail Larionov? Her 1913 work Cyclist is considered an archetypal work of Futurism (Picture)
Natalia GONCHAROVA
What four letter word links
1) A striking parallel-banded form of the mineral Chalcedony similar to Agate and
2) A meltwater “river” in Antarctica
Onyx
Barely surviving the An Lushan rebellion and, at one point, sentenced to death before reprieve, which hard-living Tang dynasty poet (701-762) wrote Quiet Night Thought and Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day?
Li Bai
What name links
1)The choreographer of geometrically pleasing dance routines in The Gold Diggers of 1933 and 42nd street
2) An 18th century philosopher and bishop of Cloyne in Ireland
3)The place for which element 97 is named and
4) A 1940 song about birdsong in a Mayfair square ?
Berkeley (Busby, George, Berkelium and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square)
Found in the Hepatitis B virus and Retroviruses, what enzyme generates complementary DNA from RNA, violating the “Central Dogma” of the flow of genetic information, namely, “DNA makes RNA makes Protein”?
Reverse transcriptase
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour and filmed in California, which black and white 2014 Persian language film features a Chador-clad skateboarding vigilante vampire who preys upon violent men?
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film’s title is a univerbation.
Amarcord
Which British-italian explorer and prolific travel writer wrote an account of three dangerous treks into the western Iranian wilderness in her 1934 first work, The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels?
Freya Stark
What Southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan with its capital at Naha is known for its subtropical climate and the world’s largest colony of rare blue coral near Ishigaki island? Its devastation in WW2 is the subject of a graphic history book collection by manga artist Susumu Higa.
Okinawa
Establishing a cosmopolitan court of intellectuals, which Sicilian King crowned in Palermo in 1130 enlarged his Kingdom by capturing Tripoli in 1146 and part of Northeastern Algeria in 1148? These territories were lost by his son William the Bad, who succeeded him in 1154.
Roger (II or the Great)
Involving over 2000 singers and actors, which Bavarian municipality is known for its once a decade production of a Passion Play that was first performed in 1634?
Oberammergau
Which Italian tennis player became the first Italian woman ever to win a Grand Slam singles title when she won the 2010 French Open?
Francesca Schiavone
Which French lawyer proclaimed the third French Republic in 1870 after Napoleon III’s defeat at the battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian war and became one of the first members of the Government of National Defense?
Leon Gambetta
Which film director won the Queer Palm and the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes film festival in 2019 for her film Portrait of a Lady on Fire?
Celine Sciamma
Which Scottish clan which gave its name to a Highland regiment - the last to wear kilts on active service?
Cameron
Which glamorous Polish-born actress was best known for her work in the Hammer Horror films
and Where Eagles Dare?
Ingrid Pitt
Coming to the attention of the West during the Boxer Rebellion, what type of elite Chinese
soldier was so named because they were grouped according to different coloured flags?
Bannerman
What was the full name of the former England test cricketer, primarily a pace bowler, who was
a sufferer of Klippel Feil syndrome?
gladstone small
What name was given to an official assigned the task of managing a royal household?
Chamberlain
In Great Expectations, when Pip first encounters the escaped convict Magwitch, he is asked to
acquire brandy, food, and what sort of tool for him?
File
To whom was Martin Chuzzelwit apprenticed as an architect?
Seth Pecksniff
Which was the first London football club to join the Football League?
Woolwich ARSENAL
Founded in 1879, which is the oldest professional football club in London?
Fulham FC
Costive means what medically?
Constipation
What is another name for act of micturition?
Urination
Which player holds the runner up record, for most Grand Slam singles finals lost – 16 in total?
Chris Evert
Who was the last actor to portray James Bond smoking on screen?
Piers Bronsnan Die Another Day
Lake Toma, in Switzerland, is regarded as the source of which river?
Rhine
At 297 square miles, which is Britain’s largest forest?
Galloway Forest (Kielder Forest biggest in England)
How many countries does the equator pass through?
13
How many countries does the prime meridian pass through?
8
Which 1960’s television show featured a talking palomino, who could only be understood by his
owner, Wilbur Post?
Mr Ed
In Discworld, name of Death’s horse?
Binky
First shown in the U.K. in 1968, which children’s television show, with a theme tune sung by
Jackie Lee, centred on the breeding of Lipizzaners?
The White Horses
In the Beatle’s song, ‘Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite’, what was the name of the waltzing horse,
in a production ‘that is second to none’?
Henry
Which model of Ford motorcar became so notorious for catching fire, following even a minor collision, that over 1.5 million of them had to be recalled?
Pinto
During his state visit to Ireland, how did Joe Biden unfortunately refer to the New Zealand
Rugby Team?
Black and Tans
What term is given to the maximum stress that a material can bear before breaking when it is
allowed to be stretched or pulled?
Tensile Strength
What name is given to the electrolytic process for producing oxide coatings, often coloured,
usually on aluminium and its alloys?
Anodising
What name is given to the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic
loading?
Fatigue
Abolished in 1859, although still celebrated as a folk tradition in some counties, how was the
public holiday of May 29th better known?
Oak Apple Day or Royal Apple Day
prompt on “Restoration Day”
Used as piles to support buildings in Venice, due to its durability when submerged underwater,
what is the most commonly found tree in the United Kingdom?
Alder
Founded in Paris, in 1837, as a manufacturer of saddles and equestrian equipment, what is the
world’s oldest fashion house?
Hermes
What was the name of the company best known for their porcelain figures of wildlife, farmyard
animals, horses and, later, Beatrix Potter characters?
Beswick
Based in County Fermanagh, what is the name of company best known for their use of super
fine Parian ware, and the recurring use of a shamrock motif?
Belleek
What is the name of the company best known for their Blue Italian and Willow Pattern designs?
Spode
Which boastful, but essentially cowardly soldier, appears in three of Shakespeare’s plays - Henry
IV, The Merrie Wives of Windsor and Henry V?
Ancient PISTOL
What short-lived stretch of motorway, between South Mimms and Potters Bar, was later
incorporated into the M25?
M16
Which British fibreglass bodied sports car was made from 1964 to 1986?
Reliant Scimitar
Which British matinee idol and author later found acclaim in European and art-house films,
including The Damned, The Night Porter and The Servant.
Dirk Bogarde
Which portly American TV detective was played by William Conrad?
Frank Cannon
In terms of electricity generation capacity, what is the name of Britain’s largest power station?
Drax, Yorkshire
Which inventor opened Britain’s first power station in 1882, at Holborn Viaduct?
Thomas Edison
Czechoslovakian gymnast Marie Provaznikova was the first athlete to defect from a Communist
country – at which Olympics did this take place?
London 1948
During the Indian Mutiny 1857, which town became infamous following the discovery of murdered women and children thrown in a well?
Cawnpore
Rapper Post Malone paid $2million in July 2023 for a Lord of the Rings trading card belonging to
which game franchise?
Magic: The Gathering
Died 2008, best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson
Gary Gygax
Who is the Japanese neuroscientist that helped develop, and starred in, the Nintendo Brain Age
and Brain Training games?
Dr Kawashima
Which town is home to the deepest, natural harbour in Britain?
Falmouth
Stretching over 1.3 miles in length, where would you find Britain’s longest pier?
Southend-on-Sea
What was the name given, by the press, to the illicit parties held by former premier Silvio
Berlusconi?
Bunga Bunga
In which city would you find the Lingotto building, famous for its rooftop racetrack?
Turin (car factory)
Which song, a reaction to the 1993 Warrington bombing, was adopted by Ireland fans during
the 2023 Rugby World Cup?
Zombie (The Cranberries)
In 2023, Monster Energy Drink released two signature flavours in honour of their sponsored
motor racing champions – name either drink or driver.
Lewis Hamilton or LH44
Valentino Rossi or VR46
As worn by Sherlock Holmes, what is the name given to an overcoat with an integral half cape?
Ulster
Popularised by Edward VII, what is the name given to a tweed outer garment, single breasted,
with box pleats front and back, and, commonly, worn with a half belt?
Norfolk Jacket
Popularised by Edward VIII, what is the name given to a style of knitwear, made of stranded
knitting, featuring repeated patterns with multiple colours?
Fair Isle
In 2001, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries joined with part of the Department of
Environment, Transport and Regions to form DEFRA. What does DEFRA stand for?
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
What was the name of the historic Staffordshire pub that mysteriously caught fire in August
2023, and later demolished, after being sold to developers?
The Crooked House
In 2023, Hartwig Fischer stepped down as the director of which organisation, following the
discovery of a series of thefts during his tenure?
British Museum
Best known for his portrayals of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, who did actor Michael
Sheard portray in the BBC series Grange Hill?
Mr Bronson
Big Ted, Little Ted, Humpty and Jemima were four of the toys who regularly appeared on
Playschool – what was the name of the fifth, a plastic doll?
Hamble (replaced by Poppy in 1980s)
Which actor provided the narration for the Mr Benn cartoons?
Ray Brooks
Who created Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Mr Benn and Not Now Bernard?
David McKee
Best known now as the title of a Bob Dylan LP, who, with 42 kills alleged, and 17 kills confirmed,
was considered the deadliest outlaw of the Wild West?
John Wesley Hardin (Harding in Dylan album)
King Harold may have died from an arrow to the face – but which English king, when Prince of
Wales, was struck in the face by an arrow, but survived?
Henry V
Better known for his lockdown duets, with wife Toyah Wilcox, what is the name of the musician
who founded the rock band King Crimson?
Robert Fripp
The Queens district of New York was named to honour Catherine of Braganza who was the
queen consort of which English king?
Charles II
Marie de’ Medici, Henry IV of France parents and Charles I the wife of which queen consort of England?
Henrietta Maria of France
Rising to 1222 feet above sea level, which is Britain’s highest motorway?
M62 (Saddleworth Moor)
Which native of Taff’s Well, wrote the novel The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain. The location of the fictional Ffynnon Garw above the writer’s home village suggests that it is the Garth and the mound on which the trigonometrical point stands is a Bronze Age burial mound
Christopher Monger
Name of Scottish Premiership team that is derived from old name of Perth their home city?
St Johnstone
Italian motto Fatti maschi, parole femine meaning Strong Deeds, Gentle Words is which state’s motto?
Maryland
Maine state motto Latin for I Lead
Dirigo
Which state mottos is L’etoile du Nord or french for The star of the North?
Minnesota
Whih state’s motto is Spanish “Oro y plata” meaning Gold and Silver?
Montana
Which US state motto is Equality before the law? Not Wyoming’s Equal Rights?
Nebraska
Which US State motto is Live Free or Die?
New Hampshire
Which US state motto is All For Our Country?
Nevada
New york State motto meaning Ever Upward in Latin?
Excelsior
Rhode Island one word state motto english word?
Hope
Texas one word state motto english word
Friendship
Utah one word state motto english word
Industry
Virginia three word state motto, latin, john wilkes booth said it after capping lincoln?
Sic semper tyrannis
Wisconsin one word english state motto
Forward
Groby, Oadby, Bushby, Thurnby and Glen Parva are suburbs of which city in the
English midlands?
Leicester
2014 was a bad year for UK vel·ologists, as the paper items they collected were
phased out in favour of electronic record-keeping. What items do vel·ologists
collect?
Vehicle Tax Discs
Monkey and Granny are the two dummies most frequently used by which British ventriloquist? She is also known for using moving face masks on audience members.
Nina Conti (daughter of Tom Conti and ____ Wilson)
Which author completed the works The Monkey Grammarian and Eastern Slope
while serving as Mexico’s Ambassador to India? One of his most famous works is
the nine-part essay The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Octavio Paz
What was the surname of the Thai-born conjoined American twins with the
forenames Chang and Eng, who gave rise to the term ‘Siamese twins’?
Bunker
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, which ‘wild man’ serves as the companion of the title character on their journey into the Cedar Forest to slay Humbaba?
Enkidu
Matt Bianco (band fronted by Mark Reilly) was verbally abused during a call-in segment on which 1980s British children’s show whose hosts included Sarah Greene and Mike Read?
Saturday Superstore
British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War, best man at Theodore Roosevelt’s 2nd wedding, wrote poem “I Vow to Thee, My Country”.
Cecil Spring Rice
Which derivative of benzene is also known as carbolic acid and has the chemical formula C6H5OH? First extracted from coal tar, it is used in the production of Bakelite and nylon.
Phenol
Which musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, the story of a teenage girl with a rare disease which causes premature ageing, won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Musical?
Kimberly Akimbo
In heraldry what word describes the position of a figure, often a lion, that is depicted in profile standing erect with forepaws raised such as on the banner of Owain Glyndŵr?
Rampant
Thomas Burberry invented which durable, compactly woven twill fabric as a
breathable, waterproof material that became widely used in trench coats and by explorers?
Gabardine
Which active volcano is the highest mountain on the island of Java?
Semeru
A modern means of deploying software to production systems is a CI/CD pipeline. If both Cs stand for ‘continuous’ and the D ‘deployment’ (or ‘delivery’), what does the I stand for?
Integration
Which music genre with an unconventionally spelled name emerged in California
in the 1990s, pioneered by bands like Korn and Papa Roach?
Nu Metal
Devon Malcolm’s 9 for 57 against South Africa in 1994 is fondly remembered by cricket fans. This devastating spell of bowling was prompted by a bouncer delivered to Malcolm by which player? This fast bowler was the last man standing
at the end of the South African innings.
Fanie de Villiers
Which conservative economist is known for books including A Conflict of Visions,
Knowledge and Decisions and Affirmative Action Around The World? A prominent black Conservative, he declined posts in the Reagan administration.
Thomas Sowell
Full Swing, a 1990s BBC Saturday teatime game show based on golf, was presented by which Liverpudlian comic? His daughter currently appears on Radio 2 on Saturday teatime.
Jimmy Tarbuck
Which English architect of the Georgian and Regency eras designed Buckingham Palace? His other works include Marble Arch and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
John Nash
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, which Mesopotamian sun god helps the heroes in their battle with Humbaba and convinces Enkidu to turn his curse upon Shamhat into a blessing?
Shamash
One of Sandi Toksvig’s earliest television roles was playing the character Ethel on which Saturday morning children’s programme shown on ITV in the 1980s?
No. 73
Which aromatic hydrocarbon is a derivative of benzene with chemical formula C7H8? It is used in paint thinners, solvents and industrial feedstock.
Toluene
Marion Tinsley is considered the greatest ever player of which board game? He
lost seven matches of this game in the last forty five years of his life, two of those to a computer.
Draughts or Chequers
What is the surname of Welsh twins with forenames June and Jennifer who only
communicated with each other and were institutionalised in Broadmoor Hospital?
Their story was told in the 2022 biographical film The Silent Twins.
Gibbons
Ockbrook, Elvaston, Mickleover, Borrowash and Breadsall are suburbs of which
English city in the English midlands?
Derby
Walter, Peanut and Achmed the Dead Terrorist are dummies used by which
American ventriloquist? Despite his controversial material, he has at times been
the top-grossing stand-up act in America.
Jeff Dunham
Which writer, the son of a Mexican diplomat, published his first novel Where the
Air is Clear in 1958? His 1985 novel The Old Gringo, about the disappearance of
Ambrose Bierce, became the first US best seller written by a Mexican author.
Carlos Fuentes
Which socialist philosopher and activist is known for books including The Future of the Race, Democracy Matters and Race Matters? This African American intellectual is seeking to run in the 2024 Presidential election.
Cornel West
IAC is an acronym used in software development to describe the use of code to control software deployment and configuration rather than manual processes. If AC stands for ‘As Code’ what word is represented by the I?
Infrastructure
The new Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Emma Little-Pengelly, is a
member of which political party? Former First Ministers Ian Paisley
was leader of this party.
DUP
Strong fielding from his England team mates aided Devon Malcolm’s 9 for 57 at the
Oval in 1994. Which Worcestershire wicketkeeper caught 3 off Malcolm’s bowling?
One of his victims shared the same surname.
Steve Rhodes (he
caught Jonty Rhodes)
In heraldry what word describes the position of a figure, often a lion, that is depicted
with one forepaw raised and all others on the ground such as that on the Welsh flag?
Passant
The first patented waterproof textile was developed by John Emary, the founder of
which luxury clothing manufacturer? This company supplied officers’ coats in the
Crimean War, and has a Latin-derived name reflecting its use of waterproof material.
Aquascutum
Known for an eruption that caused ‘the year without a summer’ Mount Tambora is an
active volcano on which island, located between Lombok and Flores?
Sumbawa
With music and lyrics by Richard Hawley, which musical about life on a Sheffield
council estate won the 2023 Olivier Award for Best New Musical?
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Organisms which can be described as ‘helico·phagous’ include what kind of mollusc
in their diet? Examples meeting this description include hedgehogs, song thrushes, and a species of kite whose common name is derived from its diet.
Snails
Debut album of The Last Dinner Party released on 2nd February 2024
Prelude to Ecstasy
The Last Dinner Party debut single in April 2023 which was Top 25 hit
Nothing Matters
British girl group from London, consisting of members Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma, and Renée Downer won BBC Sound of 2023
FLO
He released his debut mixtape titled Send Them to Coventry on 13 November 2020. In January 2020, he released his debut single “Frontline”, which was the most-played track of 2020 on BBC Radio 1Xtra. Performed it on Jimmy Fallon’s The TOnight Show. BBC Sound of 2021 winner.
Pa Salieu
South Korean DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer based in Berlin, Germany. Highest entry in UK charts is “(It Goes Like) Nanana” at #5. BBC Sound of 2024 third place.
Peggy Gou
English neo soul singer She has released one studio album: Messy (2023) and five EPs. In 2021, she was named the breakthrough artist of the year by Amazon Music and, in 2023, she was selected as BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year. Came second in BBC sound of 2024.
Olivia Dean
British-American three-piece band consisting of Jacob Lusk, Ryan Hope and Ari Balouzian. The band formed after meeting in Los Angeles in 2016. They were nominated for BBC Radio 1’s Sound of… for 2023 (fifth).
Gabriels
What medical speciality whose name derives from Latin for ‘midwife’ is the field of
study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period?
Obstetrics
What is the stage name of Jason Richard Hunter, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan?
Less high-profile than colleagues RZA, Method Man, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard, he is the second most featured member on their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) with verses on “C.R.E.A.M.” and “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’”.
Inspectah Deck
Tudum is the onomatopoeic name of the audio clip that accompanies which streaming service’s logo in the opening credits of its shows? It is also the name of a companion website that goes behind-the-scenes of its productions.
Tudum
Founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy in 2015, what online instant
messaging and Voice over IP social platform has attracted controversy for its role in
enabling groups such as Unite the Right to organise pseudonymously?
Discord
In physics, what is the name of a field theory in which the Lagrangian does not change under local transformations? The Yang–Mills theory is a notable example.
Gauge Theory
French street artist Xavier Prou, an early practitioner of stencil graffiti, has a pen
name that refers to what urban dwellers, frequent subjects of his work?
Rats (his art name is
Blek le Rat)
What was the nickname of Eddie Merckx, the Belgian cyclist of the 1960s and 1970s
who won the Tour de France five times?
The Cannibal
First proposed by Håkon Wium Lie in 1994, what cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web is used to specify the presentation and look-and-feel of a web page? Using this technology gives designers more control than using just HTML.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only athlete to win Olympic medals in the same year at both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Which discipline did she compete in at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary?
Speed Skating
What Swedish company that makes medium format cameras is perhaps best known for being the camera supplier to the Apollo mission? The Blue Marble photograph of Earth was shot with one and eleven of them remain on the moon
today. You can buy an entry level model X2 for a mere $8,100.
Hasselblad
A common component of fertilisers and explosives, what is the name for the
polyatomic ion with the formula NO3-?
Nitrate
What is the Arabic name for the Gospels of Jesus? It is mentioned in the Hadiths and is considered one of the four Islamic holy books.
Injil
From the Ancient Greek for “law” or “district”, which territorial division of ancient Egypt during the Old and Middle Kingdoms had local district governors who levied taxes and administered justice?
Nome
John Logie Baird is regarded in the UK as the inventor of television. In America
who is regarded as the inventor of the television, having been the first person to demonstrate an all-electronic version of one in 1928?
Philo Farnsworth
Which businesswoman and co-founder of Lastminute.com, was ennobled in 2013
as Baroness of Soho? In 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University.
Martha LANE FOX
Which American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader was an important leader in the free jazz movement and is best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill?
Carla Bley
Set in the fictional “Poets Estate” in South London and first airing in 1982, which BBC
series created by David Nobbs follows the titular character as he navigates the complexities of middle management at Sunshine Desserts, marital dissatisfaction, and unfulfilled dreams?
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Invented by Brendan Eich in 1995, what cornerstone technology of the World Wide
Web is used to embed dynamic functionality on client-side devices, enabling web pages with interactivity beyond the capability of HTML.
JavaScript (JS)
Which Hollywood leading man, star of Idiot’s Delight and Strange Cargo among others, and arguably the most famous actor of his era, put his career on hold to serve in the 8th Air Force in World War 2, flying five combat missions in a B-17 over Germany?
Clark Gable
What Bristol roundabout and urban space has a name recalling a grim medieval
pastime and has a contemporary connotation with financial markets?
The Bearpit
French street artist Clet Abraham uses vinyl stickers to deface what very common urban objects? Visitors to Florence, where he is based, will see many examples of his work.
Street Signs
Founded in 2017 by Chris Best, Jairaj Sethi, and Hamish McKenzie, what online newsletter publication platform has attracted controversy for enabling white nationalist and Nazi groups to publish hate speech?
Substack
What is the stage name of Jamel Irief (born Elgin Turner), the last member to join the Wu-Tang Clan? Less high-profile than colleagues RZA, Method Man, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard, he is noted for his closing verse on “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’”.
Masta Killa
Deep Note is the name of the audio clip that accompanies which cinematic audio technology company’s logo, consisting of a three-letter initialism, in certain high-end cinemas? It made its debut at the LA premier of The Return of the Jedi.
THX
Which American jazz composer and pianist, a collaborator with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and mentor to Thelonious Monk had the childhood nickname “The Little Piano Girl”?
Mary Lou Williams
The Inca Empire was divided into four regional quarters which met at Cusco and were given what name? This name is found following “Tawantin” in another name for the Empire.
Suyu
In Italian cuisine, what is the name for a mixture of diced onions, carrots, and celery, cooked in fat for a long time without colouring or browning. It is the flavour base for a wide variety of dishes.
Soffrito
Thomas Edison is regarded in the US as the inventor of the microphone. In reality its inventor was which London-based German engineer? A fifteen-year legal battle over its patent ensued.
Emile Berliner
Which businesswoman, who stepped down as CEO of BenevolentAI in 2023, was ennobled in 2014 as Baroness of Maida Vale? She founded the WeProtect initiative aimed at combatting online child abuse.
Joanna Shields
Widely used in industrial applications, what is the name for the polyatomic ion
with the formula SO4^2-?
Sulphate
What is the Arabic name for the Psalms of David? Another of the four Islamic
holy books, its name derives from the Arabic for “book” or “inscription”.
Zabur
Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only athlete to win Olympic medals in the
same year at both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Which discipline did she compete in at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul?
Track CYCLING
What German company that makes rangefinder cameras is perhaps best known for being used to shoot Alberto Korda’s Portrait of Che Guevara and Nick Ut’s The Napalm Girl? You can buy an entry level model Q2 for a mere $5,800.
Leica
Which Spanish sailor, a lookout for Christopher Colombus, is believed to be the
first European from the Age of Exploration to see the Americas?
Rodrigo de Triana
Tied with Kevin de Bruyne, which striker holds the record for number of assists in
a single season in the Premier League, with 20?
Thierry Henry
Subsequently adapted into a critically panned Hollywood film, which 1991 novel by Ira Levin centred on a property developer who built an apartment block in New York City with a state-of-the-art surveillance system, with the
purpose of spying on his tenants?
Sliver
Le Voyeur is the most critically acclaimed novel by which French author, the key figure of the ‘New Novel’ movement, who went on to achieve fame as a scriptwriter of films in the French New Wave?
Alain ROBBE-GRILLET
Lablabi is a soup often sold by street vendors all day, but most popular in the mornings. With principal ingredients of chick peas, harissa
and olive oil, it originates in which North African country?
Tunisia
John’s Gospel differs substantially in theology, style and events recounted
from the other three Gospels, which are similar to each other in all those areas. What term is used to refer to those three collectively?
Synoptic Gospels
Which Spanish female forename is also the word for pigeon, and (more probably the intention) dove? It was made famous in the UK in a 1970s single by a Dutch artist.
Paloma
Which legendary Australian cricketer was nicknamed Pigeon throughout
his career, a reference to his extremely thin legs as a youngster?
Glenn McGrath
Black Wednesday, when sterling was forced to withdraw from the Exchange Rate Mechanism, following a failed government attempt to prop
up its value, occurred in September 1992, and discredited the chancellorship of which politician?
Norman Lamont
Which Welsh goalkeeper of the 1980s and 90s, considered by some to be his country’s greatest ever player, supplemented his early-career income with shifts on Llandudno council’s bin lorries? This provided great amusement to opposition fans, who loved to mock his occasionally dishevelled appearance?
Neville Southall
Running from 1994-97 and with an ensemble cast featuring Edward Woodward, Roy Hudd and Tim Healy, which BBC comedy drama centred on a crew of binmen? In the first series they are fearing for their jobs amid a council privatisation plan, in the second they have all been made redundant and are exploring other careers, with hilarious consequences.
Common as Muck
Who is the current Crown Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds? A co-author of Tory headbanger manifesto Britannia Unchained, he resigned his seat in January 2024 in protest at the government’s decision to open a new
round of offshore petroleum licensing, having earlier been Minister of State for Net Zero?
Chris Skidmore
Which thought problem in epistemology stems from a rejection of any certainty in knowledge, because any belief must have support, and that
support must itself be justified, and so on. Alternative names credit a Pyrrhonist philosopher or a fictional character.
Regress Argument (Agrippa’s or Munchhausen’s trilemma)
Which school of epistemology focuses on the role of experience in acquiring knowledge, and is particularly associated with successive
generations of British philosophers, including Locke, Hume, Mill and Russell?
Empiricism
The wall between the left and right sides of the heart is given which name,
perhaps more familiar from another body part?
Septum
The heart’s main electrical impulse is generated in which oval-shaped region of special cardiac muscle in the back wall of the right atrium?
Sinoatrial Node
Also known as the bicuspid valve, what is the more common name of the valve between the two chambers on the left of the heart, after its supposed resemblance to a certain form of status-denoting headgear?
Mitral Valve
Frank Bruno challenged for versions of the World Heavyweight Championship four times. He lost to Mike Tyson in 1989, but in the first of
these fights in 1986, he lost to which American fighter, being comfortably ahead on points but exhausted when stopped in Round 11?
Tim Witherspoon
After the aforementioned loss against Tyson and another failure against Lennox Lewis, Bruno eventually won a world title in September 1995,
defeating which US fighter for the WBC title? It would be his penultimate fight, with his first defence resulting in another battering by Tyson and enforced retirement.
Oliver McCall
In which of London’s parks was the 2011 incident whereby Fenton the dog
disturbed the four-legged inhabitants, much to the exasperation of his
owner, captured on camera?
Richmond Park
Which of London’s parks, giving its name to a nearby Tube station, is
home to a flock of peafowl, who can usually be found hanging out in its Kyoto Garden?
Holland Park
In every land/I saw, wherever light illumineth/Beauty and anguish walking
hand in hand/The downward slope to death is a cheery excerpt from A Dream of Fair Women, a Chaucer-inspired work by which 19th century
Poet Laureate?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
While the British anti-apartheid movement (and the students of Wadham College) chose The Special AKA’s Free Nelson Mandela as their anthem, in South Africa and worldwide, the song Bring Him Back Home, with its lyric ‘I want to see him hand in hand with Winnie Mandela’, gained similar status following its release by which legendary musician in 1987?
Hugh Masekala
What name is given to the apparent force on an object in rotation, pushing it away from the axis around which the rotation is occurring?
Centrifugal
A familiar face on TV from the mid-20th century almost until his death in 2020, who was the voice of the original Vorsprung Durch Technik TV ad
campaign for Audi? While he had many lead roles (including in a BBC comedy that ran for nine series over 13 years), many remember him for single-episode cameos in two of the top five in Britain’s Best Sitcom.
Geoffrey Palmer
Having eschewed Formula 1 for decades, claiming that the benefits to road car production were ‘limited and distant’, Audi has had a change of heart since the advent of hybrid power units. Which current down-grid team will race under the Audi brand from 2026?
Sauber
Audi dominated the World Rally Championship in its relatively brief period competing (1980-87), largely owing to its four-wheel drive system. The
cars using it, and more recently the system itself, bore what name?
Quattro
Which author, whose novels have been translated into more than 50
languages, including English, wrote What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, a 2007 collection of essays about his experience as a longdistance runner?
Haruki Murakami
It remains the fastest marathon time recorded by a sitting MP, and is believed to be the fastest by a parliamentarian anywhere in the world:
which man finished the London Marathon in 2 hours 32 minutes in 1985, giving up running immediately thereafter, and politics not long after that? He has since been a columnist and presenter.
Matthew Parris
Stuart Murdoch completed his hometown marathon in Glasgow in 2 hours 50 minutes, aged just 18 in 1986. A prolonged struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome followed, and part of his recovery was the formation of which twee/art-pop band, who released their first album Tigermilk in 1996 and remain active today?
Belle and Sebastian
literally “commerce paper” in English, what is a German-language business newspaper founded 1946?
Handelsblatt
a long, narrow canoe made from a single tree trunk, especially in Central America and the Caribbean. P
Pirogue
traditional dish from the Scottish Borders. The main ingredients are potato, cabbage and onion. Similar to Irish colcannon and English bubble and squeak
Rumbledethumps
P: Swedish dish related to kroppkakor or meat-filled dumplings
Pitepalt
Which herb is generally used to flavour the tomato–based sauce on a Marinara pizza?
Oregano
UHT is a food processing technology for liquids. What does the H stand for in UHT?
Ultra HEAT Treatment
In which decade was Guinness first brewed St James Gate, Dublin?
1750s (1759, now brewed in over 50 countries)
How is the herb arugula better known in the UK?
Rocket
The eye’s ability to adjust its focus to see objects clearly at different distances is called what?
Accommodation
Opened in September 2023, in which town is Ferrari’s Grand Prix design centre based?
Maranello
Five players have scored goals in four different World Cup Finals tournaments. One of them is Pelé; name one of the other four.
Uwe Seeler (West Germany), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), or Miroslav Klose (Germany)
How many laps must be completed to win a Speedway race?
Four
Which former England goalkeeper came out of retirement in 2023 to join Wrexham at the request of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney?
Ben Foster
Where is Napoleon buried?
Hôtel des Invalides
Where is Princess Diana buried?
Althorp, Northamptonshire
Where is William Wordsworth buried?
St Oswald’s church, Grasmere
Where is Bonnie Prince Charles buried?
St Peters Basilica, Vatican City
What was the name of the pleasure boat that sank in the River Thames in 1989 after a collision with the dredger Bowbelle and caused the death of 51 people?
The Marchioness
Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose sank in the Solent in 1545. In which year was she finally brought to the surface?
1982
What was the name of James Onedin’s first ship in The Onedin Line?
Charlotte Rhodes
In the film Jaws, what was the name of the boat that Quint used to hunt for the shark?
Orca
From which river did the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine draw its cooling water?
Pripyat
Torness is the name of a nuclear power facility sited approximately 30 miles east of Edinburgh. In which Scottish county is Torness?
East Lothian
In 2011, a tsunami overwhelmed the cooling systems for a nuclear power station in Japan. What was the name of that facility?
Fukushima
There are two operational nuclear power stations located less than 5 miles south of Morecambe, UK. Name either of them.
Heysham 1 or Heysham 2
There are currently two nuclear power stations at Sizewell on the English coast, and a third is being planned). In which English county is Sizewell?
Suffolk
Which librettist won 8 Tony Awards and 2 Academy Awards, and collaborated with Jerome Kern on the musical Show Boat?
Oscar Hammerstein II (accept Hammerstein)
Which Canadian jazz pianist won eight Grammy awards and was referred to by Duke Ellington as ‘the Maharaja of the keyboard’? He died in 2007.
Oscar Petersen
Who was proclaimed Roman Emperor in York in 306 AD and became the first Christian Emperor?
Constantine the Great
Which English monarch was said have had Calais written on their heart?
Mary I – accept Mary Tudor (after the loss of Calais, England’s last possession in France)
What was the name of the build–up of coalition forces from August 1990 to January 1991 following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait?
Operation Desert Shield (Desert Storm was Jan - Feb 1991)
Where was the first permanent English settlement on the mainland of what is now the USA?
Jamestown in Virginia
Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in what is now the contiguous United States.
St Augustine, Florida
Simnel cake was traditionally eaten during, and associated with, which religious period?
Lent
Dyce is the major international airport that serves which city?
Aberdeen
What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the World?Which folk–punk singer songwriter was born on Christmas day 1958 and died in December last year?
Damascus
Which folk–punk singer songwriter was born on Christmas day 1958 and died in December last year?
Shane MacGowan
On which small Scottish Island is the UK’s first Space Port being built?
Unst
There are how many congressman in the House of Representatives?
435 (with 100 in Senate so 535 altogether)
How is the organisation officially known as Ansar Allah, whose name translates as Supporters of God or Party of God, better known?
Houthi Movement
In Hinduism and Buddhism, what term refers to having things in harmony with order, custom, and moral duties?
Dharma
By what performing name is the musician and singer Annie Clark better known?
St Vincent
As of 24 January 2024, who is the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport?
Lucy Frazer
Which is the only university in England with its own railway station?
Birmingham
SAGE is the Scientific Advisory Group for what?
Emergencies
Which member of the British royal family competed at Wimbledon in 1926?
Prince Albert (King George VI who competed in doubles)
Whose second symphony is known as the Little Russian?
Tchaikovsky
Who succeeded David Lloyd George as UK Prime Minister in 1922?
Andrew Bonar Law
TV gardener Joe Swift is the son of which female novelist and biographer, born 1939 in Sheffield?
Margaret Drabble
Which shipping line owned RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1915 off the southern coast of Ireland?
Cunard
Which novel, written by Christopher Isherwood, was the basis of the 1972 film Cabaret?
Goodbye to Berlin
Which geological process takes place when an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate and slides beneath it?
Subduction (is the motion, this is called convergent plates - divergent is when they move away and transform is when they slide by side by side)
Which world–famous tenor, born in Barcelona in 1946 and best known for roles in the operas of Verdi and Puccini, was diagnosed with leukaemia in the 1980s but recovered and continued performing?
Jose Carreras (Placido Domingo was 1941 Madrid)
Of which Southern Rock band was Lowell George the lead vocalist and guitarist?
Little Feat
The ‘Cruyff turn’ is an evasive dribbling move used in football, named after Dutch player Johan Cruyff and used in his only World Cup appearance – in which year?
1974
Smoking in enclosed spaces was banned in England from July 1st in which year?
2007
Currently, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially classifies five celestial bodies in our solar system as dwarf planets: Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea and which other?
Ceres
Two Native American leaders led their warriors against Custer’s troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Sitting Bull was one; who was the other?
Crazy Horse
How old (in years) was Queen Elizabeth II when she was crowned in 1953?
27
Who wrote the 1963 novel The Girls of Slender Means?
Muriel Spark
What was the name of the cruise ship in the film Carry On Cruising?
SS Happy Wanderer
At the Cannes Film Festival, what is the name of the award given for the best canine performance in films that year?
Palm Dog Award
British film director and screenwriter. She made her directorial and screenwriting feature film debut in 2007 with Unrelated followed by Archipelago (2010), Exhibition (2013), The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir Part II (2021), and The Eternal Daughter (2022).
Joanna Hogg
Iranian and French actress. She is known for her performances in M for Mother (2006), Body of Lies (2008), About Elly (2009), The Patience Stone (2012), Paterson (2016), Girls of the Sun (2018), Extraction (2020) and its sequel Extraction 2 (2023), and Invasion (2021–present).
Golshifteh Farahani
trained Parson Russell Terrier famous for his roles in Water for Elephants and The Artist, won the Palm Dog for the Artist at Cannes.
Uggie
variant of the robe or tunic. Originating in Asia, it has been worn by a number of cultures around the world for thousands of years.
Kaftan
What type of firearm is mentioned in the title of a 1979 hit for The Jam?
(Eton) Rifles
Which geological term denotes an arch-like fold of rocks where the oldest beds of rock are found towards the centre of the fold? This landform contrasts with a syncline, where the youngest rocks are found at the centre
Anticline
Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner, in what is now which US State, where the Kid had earlier taken part in the conflict known as the Lincoln County War?
New Mexico
The now defunct Boddington’s Brewery was founded in which large northern city
in 1778?
Manchester
Which one of the eight classic schools of magic in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons specialises in death and the undead? This term more generally refers to the practice of black magic to communicate with the dead.
Necromancy
Which of eight classic schools of magic in D&D: This school is focused on protective spells, as well as spells which cancel or interfere with other spells, magical effects or supernatural abilities.?
Abjuration
Which of the eight classic schools of magic in D&D: This school is focused on instantaneous transportation, creating manifestations of creatures, energy or objects, and object creation
Conjuration
Which one of the eight classic schools of magic in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons specialises in the power of prophecy to acquire
information? This term, more generally referring to predicting the future via occult processes, is also the name of a subject at Hogwarts.
Divination
Which of the eight classic schools of magic in D&D: This school is focused on affecting “the minds of others” including “influencing or controlling their behavior”.?
Enchantment
Which of the eight classic schools of magic in D&D: This school pertains to “creating matter and energy, called up out of nothing […] The classic spells magic missile and burning hands, both of which call up destructive energy with which to attack enemies?
Evocation
Which of the eight classic schools of magic in D&D: This school “involves the ability to change the appearance of something, by creating a phantasm”.?
Illusion
Which of the eight classic schools of magic in D&D: This school focuses on the ability to change matter. Spells in this school alter the properties of their targets?
Transmutation
When Australia lost the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup final to England, which scrum half was captaining the Australian team?
George Gregan
Lifford is the county town and Letterkenny the most populous town of which county of the Republic of Ireland, on the border with Northern Ireland?
Donegal
In French theatres and opera houses, a claque is a group of people paid to do what?
Applaud/Clap
In the structure of DNA, which one of the four nucleobases bonds with cytosine to
form base pairs?
Guanine
Replacing Kamal Ahmed in 2019, who is the current economics editor for BBC News, and is a presenter on Newsnight?
Faisal Islam
Cryptocurrencies whose value is pegged, or tied, to that of another currency, commodity, or financial instrument, are known by what term, in contrast to the high volatility of most cryptocurrencies?
Stablecoin
Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart became famous in the mid-1970s for housing most of the leadership of which Marxist-Leninist guerilla movement? The two members for whom this group is sometimes named both died there in disputed circumstances.
Red Army Faction /
Baader-Meinhof
Group
Telling the story of classics teacher Andrew Crocker-Harris’ last day at a boy’s
public school, what word completes the title of the Terence Rattigan play: The
Browning…?
Version
The souffleur, literally meaning ‘breather’, is the French name for the person in an opera house or theatre performing what job?
Prompter
Name either of the two players who scored for Australia during the 2003 Rugby
Union World Cup final against England: either the Fijian-born winger who made a
try six minutes into the game, or the inside centre who kicked four penalties?
Lote Tuqiri or Elton Flatley
Dundalk is the county town and Drogheda the most populous town of which county, the smallest of the Republic of Ireland, which lies on the East coast directly below the border with Northern Ireland?
Louth
Now owned by the Carlsberg Group, Tetley’s Brewery was founded in a suburb of
which large northern city in 1822?
Leeds
Which geological term denotes a sheet of rock formed by magma intruding into a crack that cuts through or across other rock layers? This is in contrast to a sill, which is formed by magma flowing into a gap between existing planes, and therefore lies parallel to them.
Dike
Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid for a $500 bounty that had been placed on him by which governor of New Mexico Territory, who is better known as the author of a bestselling book later adapted to film?
Lew Wallace (Ben Hur)
An ICO is a crowdfunding event to raise money for a new cryptocurrency asset.
What do the letters ICO stand for?
Initial Coin Offering
Stiff person syndrome is associated with other co-existent autoimmune disorders including type I diabetes, pernicious anaemia and which disorder of irregular skin pigmentation that results in white macules where melanocytes have been lost from the epidermis?
Vitiligo
Who is the current BBC News culture and media editor? She replaced Will Gompertz in charge of Culture in 2021, and Amol Rajan in charge of Media in 2023, and has been a stand-in presenter of Newsnight.
Katie Razzall
The Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, connected by the Avenue of the Dead, are prominent features of which pre-Colombian Mesoamerican city and archaeological site around 25 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City? It predates the nearby Tenochtitlan by over 1000 years.
Teotihuacan
Which branch of linguistics is the study of how words and morphemes combine to
form phrases and sentences?
Syntax
What first name links prominent keyboard players in the bands Yes, Pink Floyd, and The
Carpenters? It is also the first name of the lead singer of The Verve.
Richard
English musician who co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He played keyboards and sang, appearing on almost every Pink Floyd album and performing on all their tours.
Richard Wright
His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom’s Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945).
Richard Wright
Bangor was made a city in 2022, which Irish county is it in?
County Down
It is the island of Ireland’s oldest surviving city founded by Vikings founded in 914AD
Waterford
Which city was made a city in 2002, The city lies on the border between County Antrim and County Down, Northern Ireland’s two most populated counties?
Lisburn
Largest town in the Republic of Ireland, located in County Louth with its southern environs located in County Meath
Drogheda
Dundalk county town of which county?
Louth
County town and largest settlement in County Meath.
Navan
County town and largest settlement in County Clare. Largest town in Munster.
Ennis
Granted city status in 2002, it is Northern Ireland’s fifth-largest city, standing on the Clanrye river in countries Down and Armagh
Newry
County town of County Kildare
Naas
County town and largest settlement in County Kerry.
Tralee
County town and largest settlement in County Laois.
Portlaoise
County town of County Westmeath.
Mullingar
County town and largest settlement in County Tyrone.
Omagh
County town and Largest settlement in County Tipperary
Clonmel
County town and largest settlement in County Offaly
Tullamore
County town and largest settlement in County Fermanagh
Enniskillen
County town and largest settlement in County Mayo
Castlebar
One of only three Premier League players whose father was in a 1966 World Cup squad,
which French forward of Armenian descent scored 20 league goals for Bolton Wanderers
between 2002 and 2004?
Youri Djorkaeff
Who was the running mate of Bob Dole in his unsuccessful 1996 US presidential election
tilt?
Jack Kemp
Who was Al Gore’s running mate in unsuccessful 2000 US presidential election race? Connecticut Senator.
Joe Lieberman
Which US senator from North Carolina was John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 unsuccessful race against GW Bush?
John Edwards
Which US Senator from Texas was Michael Dukakis’s running mate in 1988 presidential race in loss to G HW Bush?
Lloyd Bentsen
Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 presidential race against Reagan?
Geraldine Ferraro
Jimmy Carter vice president? US Senator from Minnesota.
Walter Mondale
Who was George McGovern’s running mate in hte 1972 presidential race loss against Nixon? Was Thomas Eagleton but quit race due to mental health issues coming public.
Sargent Shriver
Who was the running mate of the unscucessful Democrat Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 Presidential Race? This running mate was the Sec of State for Jimmy Carter.
Edmund Muskie
Who did LBJ beat in the 1964 Presidential Election?
Barry Goldwater
Who was Richard Nixon’s running mate in the 1960 unsuccessful Presidential Race against JFK?
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
1952 and 1956 Presidential Election: who lost to Dwight D Eisenhower?
Adlai Stevenson II
FDR Four Electoral Victories against which politicians?
1932: Herbert Hoover
1936: Alf Landon
1940: Wendell Willkie
1944: Thomas Dewey
Which actress played Steve Guttenberg’s love interest in the original Police Academy
film? She was later much more famous for playing an unapologetically sexually confident
character in a TV show that ran from 1998-2004, before 2008 and 2010 films.
Kim Cattrell
As part of the 2023 structural changes in English local government, which county council
merged with districts including Hambleton and Ryedale to form a new local authority
North Yorkshire
British physicist Joseph Larmor achieved what status, once called “the greatest
intellectual achievement attainable in Britain”, when in 1880 he was the top mathematics
undergraduate at the University of Cambridge?
Senior Wrangler
Who was on the English throne at the end of the Hundred Years War? (Name and regnal
number required.)
Henry VI
Which artist, now recognised as a major American painter of the 20th century, worked as
a junior high school teacher for 35 years before concentrating on her painting postretirement? She is often considered a member of the Washington Color School art movement.
Alma Thomas
Which popular website uses the top-level domain of Belgium for its short URLs?
Youtu.be
Which English river, formed by the confluence of two other rivers at Stockport,
gives its name to a region despite being a modest 69 miles in length?
Mersey
Which Ancient Greek school of philosophy was founded by Antisthenes, a follower of Socrates, although it was popularised by one of his successors, a controversial immigrant to fourth-century Athens from Sinope?
Cynicism
Oxford Dictionaries went for multiple pandemic-linked Words of the Year for 2020. Which one rhymes with the surname of one of Oliver Cromwell’s spymasters, who has a Blue Plaque on Chancey Lane and is a recurring character in both Susanna Gregory’s Thomas Chaloner and SG Maclean’s The Seeker historical novel series?
Furlough (John Thurloe)
The Bakerloo line takes its name from a portmanteau of its original termini: Baker
Street and Waterloo. Following this convention, which London Underground line
might be known as the Bristow Line?
Victoria
Which single-named British female artist took Sunshine On A Rainy Day to a high
of No 4 on the UK singles chart in 1991?
Zoe
As part of the 2023 structural changes in English local government, which county
council merged with districts including Sedgemoor and Mendip to form a new
unitary local authority?
Somerset
One of the few non-culinary words in English to derive directly from Polish, what
word beginning with “I” describes a highly educated class of society, often
possessing cultural or political influence?
INtelligentsia
Which actress played Steve Guttenberg’s love interest in Police Academy 4? She
was later much more famous for playing an unapologetically sexually confident
character in a 1992 film, a role she reprised in a 2006 sequel.
Sharon Stone
Who was the running mate of Michael Dukakis in his unsuccessful 1988 US presidential election tilt?
Lloyd Bentsen
As well as rotational motions, ships have three “translational” degrees of freedom. These are the sway, the surge and which other, defined as linear vertical, or up/down, motion? It is perhaps aptly named if it brings on a bout of seasickness.
Heave
Which single-named British female artist took Sunshine After The Rain to a high
of No 4 on the UK singles chart in 1995?
Berri
Oxford Dictionaries went for multiple pandemic-linked Words of the Year for
2020. Which one rhymes with the main antagonist of a 1991 film sequel, but only
after he has been transformed by an ooze canister into a mutated version. The
post-transformation character is portrayed by wrestler Kevin Nash?
Superspreader (Supershredder)
The Bakerloo line takes its name from a portmanteau of its original termini: Baker
Street and Waterloo. Following this convention, which London Underground line
might be known as the Stanford Line?
Jubilee
Which British river, formed by the confluence of two other rivers just northwest of
Hexham, gives its name to a region despite being a modest 73 miles in length?
Tyne
What surname is shared by Sergei Snr, a Ukrainian footballer who played internationally for the USSR, son Sergei Jnr, a former Scottish under-21 international footballer, and daughter Elena, a former UK tennis #1?
Baltacha
With A Little Help From My Friends has been one half of a double A-side UK number #1 twice, but not for The Beatles. Which Scottish band topped the charts with it in 1988, in conjunction with Billy Bragg’s version of She’s Leaving Home?
Wet Wet Wet
The URL shortening site bit.ly uses the top-level domain of which county?
Libya
What adjective is more often used than the official name of conterminous United
States to describe the ‘Lower 48’ states and District of Columbia? It shares its first four letters with the official name.
Contiguous
Which 1998 historical novel centred on the Crimean War won the Booker Prize’s
‘Best of Beryl’ award, competed for in 2006 by the five novels nominated for the Booker by Beryl Bainbridge, none of which had won?
Master Georgie
Are You Being Served actor: Mr Wilberforce Claybourne Humphries: a camp-acting sales assistant in gents’ clothing
John Inman
1991-99: The Porters are a working-class family who live in Chiswick, London who at first seem normal enough. Bill is the sensible, level-headed mother who does the cooking and housework whilst working for a bakery with her highly sexed best friend Rona. Ben is the father, who is often just as immature as the children.
2point4 children
Who played Bill Porter on 2point 4 Children?
Belinda Lang
Who played Ben Porter on 2point4 Children?
Gary Olsen
Stphen Fry’s Blackadder characters both have same surname, what?
Melchett
Both Hugh laurie’s characters in Blackadder had what name?
George
Brian Blessed plays which King in Blackadder season 1?
Richard IV
Which comedian played Richard III in Blackadder?
Peter Cook
He achieved prominence when he took the title role in the ITV television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–1957). In 1963, he became part of the original lead cast of BBC1’s Doctor Who, playing the role of schoolteacher Ian Chesterton opposite William Hartnell from the show’s first episode until 1965.
William Russell (Enoch)
He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Iago in Othello (1965).[1] In 1983, he was directed by Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass in the erotic classic The Key, with Stefania Sandrelli. Witchsmeller Pursuivant in Blackadder season one.
Frank Finlay
He worked regularly as a voice actor, and was known for many years as “The Man in Black”, the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear. In 1946, he appeared, uncredited, as the character Stephen Lynn in the romantic film drama Brief Encounter;
Valentine Dyall
Comedy double act primarily from the 1980s consisting of Mark Arden and Stephen Frost. As well as appearances on Saturday Live, The Young Ones and The Black Adder, they also became familiar to TV viewers in the UK by appearing in a series of Carling Black Label lager adverts.
The Oblivion Boys
English actress, best known for her role as “Nursie” in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm’s domineering Mother, Mrs Stoneway in all seven series of the ITV comedy Watching [1] between 1987 and 1993.
Patsy Byrne
Who played Walter Raleigh in season 2 of Blackadder? He portrayed Arthur Dent, protagonist of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on radio in 1978 and again on television in 1981. He also appeared in the film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) in a cameo role. He also played the role of Donald Shellhammer in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), appeared in Brideshead Revisited as Lord Brideshead, and as King George V in the film Downton Abbey.
Simon Jones
He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30-year period. His roles included Harris in Porridge (1977), Frankie in the Bud Spencer comedy Charleston (1978), SD agent Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the Bishop of Bath and Wells in Blackadder II (1986).
Ronald Lacey
Who was Rik Mayall’s character name in Blackadder Season 1?
Mad Gerald
Who was Rik Mayall’s character name in Blackadder Season 2?
Lord Flashheart
Who played Duke of Wellington in Season 3 of Blackadder?
Stephen Fry
Who plays the Red baron in Season 4 of blackadder?
Adrian Edmondson
who played Douglas Haig in Season 4 of Blackadder?
Geoffrey Palmer
English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. His television appearances included Dalziel and Pascoe (as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel), The Manageress and Sleepers. Also Oliver Cromwell in a Blackadder special.
Warren Clarke
Eddie Hitler’s middle name in BOttom?
Elizabeth
BBC sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast in 1987. The series featured former The Young Ones co-stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as its three titular characters
Filthy Rich & Catflap
What are the stages of The Last of Us infection?
Runners
Stalkers
Clickers
Shamblers
Bloaters
Rat King
British situation comedy starring Lenny Henry as Gareth Blackstock at Le Chateau Anglais that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 28 January 1993 to 30 December 1996 on the BBC
Chef!
Who created show Citizen Khan? Set in Sparkhill, South Brum described as capital of British Pakistan.
Adil Ray
Mr Khan from Citizen Khan had already appeared on which BBC2 comedy series, a sping off itself of Radio 4 show Down the Line? Stars Rhys Thomas as eponymous title character.
Bellamy’s People
best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, and creator of Channel 4’s sitcom Friday Night Dinner. He also wrote the books The Timewaster Letters, Return of The Timewaster Letters and The Timewaster Diaries under the pseudonym Robin Cooper. Responsible for Tangerinegate hoax on Gordon Brown.
Robert Popper
Dad’s Army setting?
Walmington-on-Sea
On Dad’s Army, who had several catchphrases, including “Don’t panic!” (while panicking himself), “They don’t like it up ‘em!”, “Permission to speak, sir?”, “Handy-hock!” and his tales about the “Fuzzy-Wuzzies”?
Lance Corporal Jack Jones (Clive Dunn)
On Dad’s Army, whose catchphrase was who regularly asked, “Do you think that’s wise, sir?”
Sergeant Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier)
Dad’s Army catchphrase is His catchphrase is “We’re doomed. Doomed!”
Private James Frazer (John Laurie)
Which character says “Don’t tell him, Pike” in Dad’s Army?
Captain George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe)
Taking title from music hall song and plot loosely based on the Arnold Ridley play The Ghost Train, which 1937 film starring Will Hay does he play a station master?
Oh Mr Porter
Who stars as barber Desmond Ambrose in the Peckham setting sitcom Desmond’s? On C4 1989-94.
Norman Beaton
When Norman Beaton died in 1994, what was the name of the spin-off show with title character played by Ram John Holder?
Porkpie
She is known for her roles as Twinkle in dinnerladies, a sitcom on BBC One (1998–2000), as Veronica Ball in Shameless, the comedy drama from Channel 4 (2004–2007), Martha Costello in the BBC One legal drama Silk (2011–2014), and Grace Middleton in the BBC One drama series The Village (2013–2014). Played Myra Hindley in See No Evil too.
Maxine Peake
known for her roles as Anita in dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013. From 2013 to 2014, she appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk show Loose Women. She took over the role of Ray in the West End production of Everybody’s Taking About Jamie in 2019 and also reprised the role for the movie adaptation.
Shobna Gulati
1984-89 sitcom Richard Briers plays Martin Bryce, an obsessive, middle-aged man at the centre of his local suburban community in Mole Valley, Surrey
Ever Decreasing Circles
Who played Ann Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles opposite Richard Briers as Martin Bryce?
Penelope Wilton
He is known for his television roles, including Hogarth in Big Breadwinner Hog, the future George IV of the United Kingdom in Prince Regent (1979); smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in the sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89); and Hugh “Shrimpie” MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire, in Downton Abbey (2012–15). Paul in After Life 2020-22.
Peter Egan
who created popular sitcoms starting from the mid-1960s until the mid-1990s such as Please Sir!, The Good Life, Get Some In!, Ever Decreasing Circles, and Brush Strokes.
Esmonde and Larbey
In Fawlty Towers episode Communication Problems who plays The arrival of the “guest from hell” — Mrs. Richards, a rather deaf, domineering and bad-tempered woman — interferes with Basil’s attempts to prevent the money he won on a racehorse from being discovered by Sybil, who disapproves of gambling.
Joan Sanderson
Who played Polly Sherman in Fawlty TOwers?
Connie Booth
Who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers?
Andrew Sachs
Who played Major Gowen in Fawlty Towers?
Ballard Berkeley
BBC2 sitcom 1995-98: three childhood friends from Herne Bay in Kent: laddish agoraphobe Matthew Malone (Ben Chaplin in the first series and Neil Stuke in the second and third), man-eater Amanda “Mandy” Wilkins (Samantha Janus) and wimpish Martin Henson (Matthew Cottle). Move to London.
Game On
best known for his song “Streets of London” (1969), which has been covered by over two hundred artists around the world.
Ralph McTell
a police procedural television series set in Northern Ireland that premiered on BBC One on 21 February 2021, James Nesbit as DCI Tom Brannick - Jed Mercurio joint producer.
Bloodlands
English actor and voice-over narrator. He is known for his roles as Vince Tyler in the Channel 4 television series Queer as Folk and as Luke Strong in Coronation Street. The Real Hustle and Rich House Poor House voiceovers.
Craig Kelly
Who is narrator of The Repair Shop?
Bill Paterson
Who will once again return to narrate Race Against the World on BBC?
John Hannah
Who narrated Twenty Twelve and W1A?
David Tennant
Who narrated Meerkat Manor for Animal Planet in the UK?
Bill Nighy
Which actress narrating everything from Catherine Tate’s popular BBC sketch comedy to Channel 4’s The Supervet to editions of BBC Four’s Timeshift to BBC One’s one-off doc Fox Wars?
Rebecca Front
Who voiced The Clangers from 2015 replacing Oliver Postgate on original?
Michael Palin
Brother-in-law of Reggie Perrin, voice of “Vorsprung durch Technik” in Audi ads, narrator of BBC’s Grumpy Old Men.
Geoffrey Palmer
ONLY CONNECT
Four narrators of “Who Do You Think You Are?” since 2004?
David Morrisey
Mark Strong
Cherie Lunghi
Phil Davis
British doctors, television presenters and identical twin brothers. They are best known for presenting the children’s series Operation Ouch!
Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Dr. Chris van Tulleken
American drama television series starring Bryan Cranston, adapted from the Israeli TV series Kvodo (Hebrew: כבודו). Two seasons starting 2020-2023.
Your Honor
Who plays Gwen West, Stacey’s Mum in Gavin and Stacey?
Melanie Walters
Welsh film and television actor, best known for portraying Dave Coaches in Gavin & Stacey. He has appeared in both English-language and Welsh-language films, television and stage productions. He played Reg Cattermole in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and as the voice of Drippy in Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.
Steffan Rhodri
an accomplished theatre actor and has twice won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; he won in 2011 for his role in the Terence Rattigan play After the Dance and in 2020 for his performance in Tom Stoppard’s play Leopoldstadt. Played Pete Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey, husband of Dawn.
Adrian Scarborough
Who played Doris O’Neill in Gavin & Stacey?
Margaret John
Who played Cath Smith, (Neil) Smithy and Rudi’s single mother in Gavin & Stacey?
Pam Ferris
Who plays Deano in Gavin & Stacey? He is best known as a member of the Them There collective in which he wrote and starred in shows including Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts. He was also the co-creator, writer and star of the comedy-drama The Wrong Mans.
Mathew Baynton
Polish-born British Holocaust survivor, Olympian and champion weightlifter. He was one of two Jewish athletes known to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust, along with Alfred Nakache, a French champion swimmer and water polo player.
Ben Helfgott
Australian concert pianist whose life inspired the Academy Award-winning film Shine, in which he was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor and Alex Rafalowicz.
David Helfgott
Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian folk music group the Seekers in 1962.
Judith Durham
Number 6 on Pitchfork’s list of all-time best movie soundtracks, what 1989 film’s soundtrack includes a score by jazz musician Bill Lee and tracks from Public Enemy, Take 6, and Rubén Blades?
Do the Right Thing
What statistical term is used to define the rate or frequency with which new cases of a disease occur in a specified period?
Incidence Rate
Which of the ancient Seven Hills of Rome, not as well known as Palatine, is currently home to the Trevi Fountain and one of the official residences of the President of Italy?
Quirinal Hill
What Greek term describes an Athenian assembly in which all adult male citizens could convene to discuss and vote on significant matters, such as war, foreign policy, legislation, and the evaluation of public officials’ actions? The term survives into Latin and English most
commonly as an adjective referencing religious organization.
Ecclesia
The Good Place main character names played by:
William Jackson Harper
Manny Jacinto
Kristen Bell
Jameela Jamil
Ted Danson
D’Arcy Carden
Chidi
Jason
Eleanor Shellstrop
Tahani
Michael
Janet
What archipelago and autonomous community has a population of over 2 million, making it the most populated archipelago of Macaronesia?
Canary Islands
Capital of the Azores
Ponta Delgada
In what 1989 stop-motion animated film do Wallace and his canine companion Gromit run out of cheese?
A Grand Day Out
In his miracle year of 1905, one of Einstein’s papers developed the principle for the relationship between what two properties of a body? This principle would ultimately lead to the atomic age?
Mass and Energy
What Greek term describes a council of randomly chosen citizens responsible for setting the agenda of the ekklesia and then implementing its decisions? The word survives in modern Greek today in the name of its Parliament.
Boule
Which online virtual world was established in 2003 by Linden Lab and has seen its fair share of controversies over the years, mostly regarding people’s avatars having sex, a lack of regulation, and DMCA takedowns for rights violations?
Second Life
What two-time president of Venezuela survived a car bomb assassination attempt in 1960 due to his opposition to Rafael Trujillo? This, combined with the Mirabal assassinations, led to Trujillo’s eventual downfall and assassination in 1961.
Romulo Betancourt
When examining the association between an exposure and disease occurrence, what statistical term, abbreviated RR, can be calculated by the probability of the disease in the exposed group divided by the probability of the disease in the unexposed group?
Relative Risk (or Risk Ratio apparently)
In his 1888 painting, The Lady of Shalott, currently at the Tate Britain, what artist added three candles, with two blown out, to the boat of the titular figure, signifying her impending death?
John William Waterhouse
BTS sings “And you make my world light up inside” in their 2021 song
“My Universe” that clocked in at number one. This was a collaboration with what British band?
Coldplay
The stop-motion animated series Shaun the Sheep spun off from the Wallace and Gromit franchise after what 1995 film, which ends with Shaun eating all of Wallace’s cheese?
A Close Shave
Which of the ancient Seven Hills of Rome, still not as well known as Palatine, was the ancient site of the Temple of Jupiter and roman
Tablularium and is currently home to the Piazza del Campidoglio, designed by Michelangelo, and several museums?
Capitoline Hill
In response to different types of touch as well as orgasm, what neuropeptide hormone is released? Known as the “love” hormone, this hormone plays a role social bonding.
Oxytocin
Born in 1941, who is known as the Soul Queen of New Orleans, for her hit R&B and soul singles, many written by New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint? Her songs include “It’s Raining,” “Ruler of My Heart,” and “Time is on My Side.”
Irma Thomas
At a skatepark, what is the name for the circular metal pipe across the lip of transitioned ramps (such as halfpipes)? As a gerund, it’s an important term in grief counseling.
Coping
Osteo.chondro.dysplasia causes the distinctive down-bent ears of what domestic cat breed?
Scottish Fold
The Obama and Biden administrations have only had one Secretary of Agriculture between them. What former Iowa governor and very unsuccessful 2008 presidential candidate is it?
Tom Vilsack
He holds the record as the longest-serving United States Cabinet member. Three presidents he served as Sec of Agriculture, fellow Iowan Tom Vilsack is Sec of Agri under Obama and Biden so follows slightly in his mantle.
James “Tama Jim” Wilson
Rihanna repeatedly sings the line “But it’s over now” in which 2008 hit
single? This was her second single to reach the top of the UK charts, after
Umbrella had done so the previous year.
Take a Bow
The Saint’s real name as played by Roger Moore and written by Leslie Charteris
Simon Templar
Which 1985 film features a climactic chase sequence where Jackie Chan slides down a string of fairy lights from the top floor of a shopping centre before crashing through a glass floor onto a marquee? In this film and its sequels, Chan plays a Hong Kong cop trying to clear his name.
Police Story
Founded in 1770, which British personal care products company has two Royal Warrants and became associated with ‘swinging London’ when it employed Twiggy as its spokesmodel? In 1913, it adopted Francis Wheatley’s
painting Flowersellers as its logo.
Yardley of London
Which character, a well-regarded London gentleman who supports himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries, featured in a set of novels and stories written from 1899 to 1909 by E.W. Hornung?
Arthur J Raffles
Which South American team, nicknamed Los Cóndores, made their first Rugby World Cup appearance in 2023 but lost all their pool matches, including a 71-0 defeat to England?
Chile
Which character, an action-oriented detective assisted by the orphan Tinker, was first created in 1893 by Harry Blyth, writing under the pen name Hal Meredeth, to fill the gap after the apparent death of Sherlock Holmes? He
featured in hundreds of stories and strips from then until 1978.
Sexton Blake
In 2016, Mariah Carey was briefly engaged to James, the son of which late Australian media tycoon? This one-time business rival of Rupert Murdoch is best remembered for founding World Series Cricket in the 1970s.
Kerry Packer
Another member of boyband supergroup Upper Street was Dane Bowers, previously a member of which R&B-influenced boy band whose biggest UK hit was the 1998 number one Freak Me?
Another Level
In 2006, American lawyer Jack Thompson sent a cease-and-desist letter to Midway Games demanding they stop selling the latest instalment in which series of fighting games? Playable characters in this series of games include Sonya Blade, Scorpion and Sub-Zero.
Mortal Kombat
What is the oldest English retailer of fragrances and toiletries? Founded by an immigrant from Menorca who acquired premises on Jermyn Street, in 2018 it created a bespoke unisex fragrance for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Floris of London
The lyric “Don’t it mean I love you” finishes many verses in which 2010 track by Rihanna? This Spanish-titled song just missed out on the top 10 in the UK charts, despite being a popular club hit.
Te Amo
Jackie Chan was almost killed when he fell from a tree while making which 1986 film, where he plays a treasure hunter who must battle an order of Satanic monks while searching for a legendary outfit from the Crusades?
Armour of God
Which French scrumhalf, regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation, fractured his jaw in a group stage game against Namibia? He has been named player of the tournament three times at the Six Nations.
Antoine Dupont
In which 2009 track does Rihanna twice sing the line “So just pull the trigger”? It has been theorised that this critically acclaimed but dark song was written in response to her relationship with Chris Brown.
Russian Roulette
Which character, a First World War veteran who becomes a gentleman adventurer, featured in a set of novels and stories written from 1920 to ‘37 by H.C. McNeile, writing under the pen name of ‘Sapper’?
Bulldog DRUMMOND
From 1997 to ‘98 Mariah Carey, dated which New York Yankees shortstop?
Considered one of the greatest players in baseball history, he won five World
Series with the team between 1995 and 2014.
Derek Jeter
Airing between 2011 and 2016, which ITV crime drama starred Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp as the titular detective duo investigating major incidents - usually murders - in Manchester?
Scott and Bailey
Another member of boyband supergroup Upper Street was Jimmy Constable, previously a member of which boy band, whose only UK number one was 1999’s A Little Bit More?
911
Another series of Rockstar games campaigned against by Jack Thompson was which violent 2003 stealth game and its 2007 sequel? In the first game, set in Carcer City, players control James Earl Cash, while in the sequel, set in the
city of Cottonmouth, players control Daniel Lamb.
Manhunt
Originally founded in 1799, which British perfume house relaunched in 2013
after a hiatus? Its logo features a chained bear and a building on the corner of Burlington Gardens and Old Bond Street, which was built for this company in 1926.
Atkinson’s of London
In which 1984 film do Jackie Chan and Biao Yuen play two food truck workers who team up with a private detective, played by Sammo Hung, to protect a pickpocket from a vicious gang? It features one of Chan’s most famous fight
scenes, in which he faces off with a henchman played by legendary kickboxer Benny Urquidez.
Wheels on Meals
Which New Zealand-born centre, who plays his club rugby at Connacht [CONnought], was Ireland’s top try scorer at the 2023 Rugby World Cup? He scored five in total, including one in their quarter-final loss to his country of birth.
Bundee Aki
First airing in 2015, which ITV crime drama starred Nicola Walker as Cassie Stuart and Sanjeev Bhaskar as Sunny Khan, two detectives reopening unsolved cases in London? Walker left the show after its fourth season, and
was replaced by Sinead Keenan.
Unforgotten
Dallas “jumped the shark” when it was revealed at the start of season 10 that the previous season had all been a dream. Which character was then found taking a shower, having previously been declared dead? Forename and
surname required.
Bobby Ewing
Who played the title character in the 1999 film Cookie’s Fortune? She also appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and won an Oscar for her role in Hud. Among her famous relatives is her granddaughter, Sophie Dahl.
Patricia Neal
Who played Uncle Albert in OFAH?
Buster Merryfield
Who played the character of Grandad in the classic sitcom Only Fools and Horses?
Lennard Pearce
KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell are among brands owned by which US multinational company, listed on the Fortune 1000? It began life in 1997 under the name Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.
YUM! Brands inc.
Which author has railed against the perception of her novels as twee, middle-England romances that led to their labelling as ‘Aga sagas’? Her bestknown titles include A Village Affair, and she is a distant relative of a Victorian writer whose surname she shares.
Joanna Trollope
The current champions of the women’s basketball league the WNBA are the team based in Las Vegas. What is this team’s nickname?
Aces
In the Carla Lane sitcom Bread, what was the name of the only daughter of Nelly and Freddie Boswell? She was played by Gilly Coman and later Melanie Hill.
Aveline
Which American fashion journalist was the first African American creative director at Vogue and worked there as editor-atlarge from 1998 to 2013? He is known for advocating the careers of designers such as LaQuan Smith and Jason Wu, and was made the face of UGG in 2021, a year before his death.
Andre Leon Talley
Which English civil engineer designed the third Eddystone lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, which was greatly influential on lighthouse design and an important step in the development of modern concrete?
John Smeaton
An alternative to ‘lamina’, what word is commonly used to describe the flattened part of a plant leaf, distinct from the stalk or
petiole?
Blade
The cover of which 1996 album by Super Furry Animals features images of notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks (Mr Nice) in various disguises?
Fuzzy Logic
Which Liberian American fashion designer’s eponymous label created a sought-after shopping bag nicknamed the ‘Bushwick
Birkin’, which features his TC logo? In 2021, he launched a collaboration with UGG. First name or surname acceptable.
Telfar Clemens
The 2002 song ‘What a Waster’ was the debut single released by which band fronted by Pete Doherty and Carl Barât?
Libertines
The Las Vegas Aces have won the last two WNBA finals. The 2021 champions were the team based in Chicago, who have whatnickname?
Sky
Played by Wendy Craig, what was the name of the matriarch of the Parkinson family in the Carla Lane sitcom Butterflies?
Ria
The British Museum is home to a decorated column base and a number of reliefs and casts from which city that was the ceremonial
capital of Achaemenid [a-KEY-men-id] Persia? This city was looted and burned by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.
Persepolis
Which epic poem written in Old French concerns a Frankish military leader at the Battle of the Roncevaux Pass during the reign of
Charlemagne? Three-word answer required.
Song of Roland
The cover of which 1995 album by Black Grape features a colourful image of infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal?
It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah
Which British conspiracy theorist, known for believing the Royal Family are lizards, was banned from Twitter in 2020 but has
since returned? In 1991 he claimed to be a “Son of the Godhead” while appearing on Wogan.
David Icke
What word is commonly used to describe the points on a plant stem where the leaves attach? It is not to be confused with the petiole, which is the stalk attaching the blade to the stem
Node
Jacques Lacan’s mentor G. G. de Clérambault gives his name to a syndrome in which a person suffers the delusion that someone of higher social status is in love with them. By what 10-letter Greek-derived term is de Clérembault’s syndrome more commonly known?
Erotomania
‘Crazy Crazy Nightss’ and ‘God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You’ were the only two UK top 5 hits for which American rock band?
Kiss
Which Ancient Roman festival, also known as dies Februatus, was celebrated from the 13 to 15 of February and may be the precursor to Saint Valentine’s Day?
Lupercalia
Which classic ZX Spectrum game was based on the arcade game Track and Field? It traded on the popularity of the title athlete off the back of his two Olympic gold medals.
Daley Thompson’s Decathlon
Another potential part of a succulent Chinese meal is which type of dish, most usually comprising a collection of small portions including dumplings, rice balls and meat, among others? The two-word name for this dish roughly translates to “touch the heart” in Cantonese.
Dim Sum
Which 2019 A24 film, directed by Robert Eggers, stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two men trapped in the titular structure by a wild storm?
The Lighthouse
Another part of a succulent Chinese meal might be which Cantonese roast pork dish, whose name roughly translates as “fork roasted”? It can be eaten with rice or noodles, or used as a filling in baozi, a steamed stuffed bun.
Char Siu/Sui
Daley Thompson’s Decathlon formed part of a four-game compilation of ZX Spectrum games released in November 1985 by The Hit Squad. What was the name of the compilation, which suggested that all its component games had
already sold well in the nascent video games market?
They Sold A Million
Which leading American football coach led the University of Michigan to the 2023 college national title, before leaving to become coach of the Los Angeles Chargers? While coaching the 49ers, this man faced a Ravens team coached by his brother John at Super Bowl XLVII [47]. Surname is sufficient.
Jim Harbaugh
Distributed by A24 in the US, which 2014 sci-fi thriller stars Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb, a programmer who has been chosen to participate in an experiment to test the intelligence of Ava, a humanoid robot?
Ex Machina
Gorelick is the real surname of which smooth jazz saxophonist, who was born
in Seattle, Washington in 1956? Duotones, released in 1986, was this man’s
breakthrough album.
Kenny G
Played by Sophie Aldred, Dorothy McShane was a companion of the Seventh Doctor on Doctor Who, regularly appearing between 1987 and ‘89 and reappearing in the 2022 special The Power of the Doctor. Nickname?
Ace
The 1998 number two hit Music Sounds Better With You was the only single released by which French house trio?
Stardust
Clive James often commented on the handsomeness of which Austrian Formula 1 driver, whom he described as having “bedroom eyes”? Never a world champion, he won 10 of the 210 Grand Prix in which he competed
between 1985 and 1997 for teams including Benetton, Ferrari and McLaren.
Gerhard Berger
Which man left his role as Seattle Seahawks head coach at the end of the 2023 NFL regular season? This legendary coach won the 2014 Super Bowl with the franchise, having earlier taken USC to the national college football title.
Pete Carroll
The 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Humor book was an autobiography of which comic actor? Best known for his TV roles, this actor has also played principal Arthur Himbry in Scream and Coach Klein in The Waterboy.
Henry Winkler
In Life of Brian, members of the People’s Front of Judea harangue members of rival organisations such as the Judean People’s Front with cries of what word?
Splitters
Which military themed game was also included in the compilation They Sold A Million? It consisted of several levels portraying an amphibious assault, in which the player controlled ships and tanks, with the goal of taking out a large gun emplacement.
Beach Head
Comedian Bo Burnham wrote and directed which 2018 A24-produced film starring Elsie Fisher as a high-school student and vlogger who struggles with anxiety and gaining social acceptance?
Eighth Grade
The regulation outdoor game of which sport is usually played on grass by two
teams of seven people? This self-officiated game’s aim is to pass an object to
their team in the opposing end zone.
ULTIMATE Frisbee
Formed in Olympia, Washington, which all-female punk rock band are considered a pioneer in the riot grrrl genre, with albums including Pussy Whipped and Reject All American? This band’s singer, Kathleen Hanna, came up with the name for Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Bikini Kill
Which Sichuan dish, where chicken is stir-fried with peanuts, peppers and vegetables, may also form part of a succulent Chinese meal? Its name derives from a phrase meaning “palace guardian”, the title of the Qing dynasty official said to have invented it.
Kung Pao Chicken
In Doctor Who, which of the Doctor’s companions was also a Time Lord, being played by two different actors? Mary Tamm played this character from 1978-9 but, after she decided to leave the role, this character regenerated, and was then played by Lalla Ward.
Romana
Another title included in the compilation They Sold a Million was which puzzle game, in which the player navigated a pith-helmeted swordsman through a 2D maze of 256 screens to search for four pieces of an amulet, which would allow them to bypass the guardian and exit the maze?
Sabre Wulf
Which legendary coach left his role as the University of Alabama head coach at the end of the 2023 college American football season? He won six national titles during his time at the school.
Nick Saban
The 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for the so called ‘romantasy’ genre was which Rebecca Yarros best-seller, about dragon rider Violet Sorrengail?
Fourth Wing
Which Scotsman managed Birmingham City to League Cup glory in 2010? This person also started for the Aberdeen team that won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1983.
Alex McLeish
We’ll Live and Die in These Towns was the 2007 debut album of which Coventry-based indie band?
The Enemy
Known as ‘The Cobra’, which Nottingham-born world champion boxer ended his career with two victories over George Groves?
Carl Froch
Which American music and dance programme was hosted by Dick Clark from 1958 until ’89?
American Bandstand
Which Russian figure skater won the gold medal in the women’s individual event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics? She was considered a surprise winner, as compatriot and favourite Kamila Valieva stumbled several times during her free skate, and also failed a doping test.
Anna Shcherbakova
First name or surname acceptable. The 2013 Rear of the Year award went to two professional dancers who competed on seasons 4-10 of Strictly Come Dancing between 2006 and 2012. Who was the female winner?
Flavia Cacace
She is known for her role as Mercedes McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, which she has appeared in since 2006, won Rear of the Year in 2016
Jennifer Metcalfe
He is known in the United Kingdom for his role as Calvin Valentine in the soap opera Hollyoaks. In 2009, he finished second in the BBC reality competition Strictly Come Dancing. From 2014 to 2016, He appeared in The CW’s post-apocalyptic drama The 100 as Lincoln. He starred in the Starz television series American Gods for three seasons.
Ricky Whittle
Who played Nick Cotton in Eastenders?
John Altman
Known for her portrayal of Lindsey Corkhill on Channel 4’s Brookside (1991–2003), she also played Roxie Hart in Chicago (West End, 2001–2002) and starred in touring productions of Guys and Dolls (2006), Tell Me on a Sunday (2011), Legally Blonde (2011), and Educating Rita (2012). She was a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women between 2003 and 2005. She has portrayed Cassie Plummer on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2023.
Claire Sweeney
British television crime drama series created by Paul Matthew Thompson and Mike Benson, set on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. It follows a retired detective-turned cabaret singer solving murders on board. It stars Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley.
The Good Ship Murder
English actress, known for her roles as Iris Moss in the BBC drama Lilies (2007), Eva Price on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from (2011–2018) and Karen Norris in the BBC sitcom Scarborough (2019). Cakegate in 2023.
Catherine Tyldesley
She is known for her portrayal of Leanne Battersby in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, between 1997 and 2000, and from 2004 onwards.
Jane Danson
Brothers Fred and Richard of Right Said Fred have what surname?
Fairbrass
English former pop singer and model. She became known in the mid-1980s for her underage relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, who is 33 years her senior.
Mandy Smith
UK top 10 single “Sugar Me”, and became the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song (in 1972 in Belgium, Spain and The Netherlands). She represented the UK in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest, scoring another chart-topping hit in Switzerland and had a successful career as a two-time Ivor Novello Award-winning composer.
Lynsey de Paul
American singer, bass guitarist, songwriter and actor. In the 1970s, she scored a string of singles that found success in Europe and Australia, with both “Can the Can” (1973) and “Devil Gate Drive” (1974) reaching #1 in several countries.
Suzi Quattro
In the board game Diplomacy, the Austria-Hungary player starts with armies in Budapest and Vienna, and a naval fleet in which city on the Adriatic coast?
Trieste
Which act had a UK number 1 in 1978 with “Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs”?
Brian and Michael
Which writer won the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for the novel How to be Both?
Ali Smith
What is the first name of the character played by Claire Skinner in the sitcom Outnumbered? In the show, her husband is played by Hugh Dennis.
Sue (Hugh Dennis plays Pete, the kids are Jake, Karen and Ben)
Which Queen of the Netherlands abdicated the throne on 30th April 2013? At the time of her abdication, she was the oldest reigning monarch in the country’s history
Beatrix
First name or surname acceptable. The 2013 Rear of the Year award went to two professional dancers who competed on seasons 4-10 of Strictly Come Dancing between 2006 and 2012. Who was the male winner?
Vincent Simone
Which Russian figure skater won the silver medal in the women’s individual event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics? She is the first female skater to land the quad Lutz; quad flip; and quad toe loop jumps in competition.
Alexandra Trusova
Not one of the five Great Lakes, what is the largest lake wholly in Canada?
Great Bear Lake
What is the first name of the character played by Abigail Cruttenden in the sitcom Not Going Out? In the show, her husband is played by Hugh Dennis.
Anna (Hugh Dennis plays Toby)
She is best known for appearing as Lucy Adams in the long-running BBC television sitcom Not Going Out since 2007, and as Martha Lloyd in the BBC1 crime drama Death in Paradise between 2016 and 2017, a role she reprised in the spin-off Beyond Paradise in 2023.
Sally Bretton
Between 1981 and 1991, she played Deborah Bergerac in the BBC television detective series Bergerac. Since 2007, she has appeared in the sitcom Not Going Out as Wendy Adams, the mother of Tim (Tim Vine) and Lucy (Sally Bretton).
Deborah Grant
Part of a famous comedy double act which comedian went on to have acting roles in various sitcoms and dramas including Last of the Summer Wine, Heartbeat and Not Going Out as Lee’s feckless father Frank before dying in 2020?
Bobby Ball
she went on to play opposite Sean Bean as his character Richard Sharpe’s wife Jane in several episodes of the TV series Sharpe. She has since become known for her roles in sitcoms, which include Kate Weedon in the ITV comedy series Benidorm (2007–2009), and Anna in the BBC sitcom Not Going Out (2014–present).
Abigail Cruttenden
Which act had a UK number 1 in 1982 with the song “Save Your Love”?
Renee and Renato
Which Pennsylvania-based woman was acquitted of the murder of her parents with an axe, although a children’s nursery rhyme would suggest otherwise?
Lizzie Borden
In the board game Diplomacy, the French player starts with armies in Paris and Marseille, and a naval fleet in which city in Western Brittany?
Brest
In which coastal town could you visit the British Lawnmower Museum?
Southport
In which Sussex town is waitress Betty Barnard killed in the Agatha Christie novel The ABC Murders?
Bexhill-on-Sea
Later made into a film starring Henry Fonda, who wrote the jury room drama 12 Angry Men, originally made as a television play in 1954?
Reginald Rose
Which actress played Miss Tibbs in the sitcom Fawlty Towers alongside Renee Roberts as Miss Gatsby?
Gilly Flower
Which man served as MP for Smethwick for only one day in 1945? He was killed in a car accident the day after his election, making him the shortest-serving MP in the post-WWII era
Alfred Dobbs
In 1955 who had the Christmas Number 1 with the song ‘Christmas Alphabet’?
Dickie Valentine
Which foodstuff was the nickname of Labon Benjamin, a West Indies fan who for 12 years entertained cricket fans at Antigua Recreation Ground?
Gravy
Sir Carmichael Clarke is killed in his home in which area near Torbay, Devon, in Christie’s the ABC Murders?
Churston
ABC Murder’s fourth victim is killed in which place following Andover, Bexhill and Churston? The victim is George Earlsfield which doesn’t fit previous pattern of letters.
Doncaster
Who played Tom Good in The Good Life by Esmonde and Larbey?
Richard Briers
Character played by Penelope Keith in The Good Life?
Margo Leadbetter
Character played by Paul Eddington in The Good Life? Known for playing Jim Hacker in Yes Minister.
Jerry Leadbetter
What is the goat’s name in The Good Life?
GeraldineWhat
What is the cockerel’s name in The Good Life?
Lenin
Name of the two pigs in The Good Life?
Pinky and Perky
Penelope Keith’s character in To The Manor Born?
Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton
Peter Bowles’ character in To The Manor Born?
Richard DeVere
characters devised by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe for their comedy and musical act: elderly, intellectual female musicians; in these personae, the male Logan and Fyffe played and sang songs to comic effect
Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket
What is the name of the Butler played by John Rudling on To The Manor Born?
Brabinger
In 2007 Christmas special of To The Manor Born, who played Adam fforbes-Hamilton, Audrey’s nephew-by-marriage and godson?
Alexander Armstrong
Name of Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton’s beagle in To The Manor Born?
Bertie
What is the name of Boycie (John Challis) and Marlene (Sue Holderness) son in the spin-off The Green Green Grass?
Tyler
Who played Cliff Cooper in a 2007 episode of The Green Green Grass? Better known for playing Norm Peterson on Cheers (1982-93).
George Wendt
English actor who portrayed Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations (1983–1998) of P. D. James’s detective novels, and Neil Burnside in the spy drama The Sandbaggers (1979–1980).
Roy Marsden
a British actor best known for his roles as Mike The Cool Person in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in the BBC comedy series Bottom, Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and as Edina Monsoon’s ex-husband Marshall Turtle in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
Christopher Ryan
A benefit-dependent, lower-class couple on Harry Enfield & Chums playing by Enfield and Kathy Burke? Kids called Frogmella, Spudulika and Canoe.
Wayne and Waynetta
two veteran DJs for the fictional radio station “Fab FM” (BBC Radio 1 in all but name), whose on-air rapport consists almost entirely of insipid observations, corny jokes, and gratuitous references to their charity work (which they pronounce as “charidee”) HARRY ENFIELD & CHUMS TV SHOW
Smashie and Nicey
What song does Nicey play at end of each Dave Nice and Mike Smash (Smashie and Nicey) sketch on Harry Enfield & Chums.
“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
An upper-class twit (Enfield) who is usually being ripped off by one of his “jolly nice” chums from his prep or public school days. He is an exaggerated version of “posh” yet pleasant and stupid people that Enfield knew. He is a fictional Old Ardinian (an alumnus of Ardingly College).
Tim Nice-but-Dim
Which Henry Enfield & Chums characters appeared in a series of 1996 British Hula Hoops advertisements that explained that if a consumer found a square Hula Hoop in a packet, he or she would win a prize, with Frank stubbornly and aggressively maintaining that “Hula Hoops are round, they’ll stay round, and they’ll be around forever!”.?
Self-Righteous Brothers (Frank and George Doberman)
Fictional holiday camp that Hi-de-Hi takes place in?
Maplins in Essex
Setting of Maplins in Essex fictional town in Hi-de-Hi!
Crimpton-on-Sea
Paul Shane plays which character in Hi-de-Hi!: The Camp’s Entertainment Host, and a former entertainer?
Ted Bovis
Ruth Madoc plays which character in Hi-de-Hi!: The Camp’s radio announcer and sports organiser
Gladys Pugh
Su Pollard plays which character in Hi-de-Hi!: A chalet maid at Maplins, with dreams of becoming a Yellowcoat and achieving stardom
Peggy Ollerenshaw
Pilot 1980 of Hi-de-Hi!: In 1959, Jeffrey Fairbrother, a professor at Cambridge University’s of which department, has grown tired of academic life and decided to apply as the new entertainment manager for Maplin’s Essex holiday camp
Archaeology
Kilroy was here is a meme that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti by US soldiers. What was the UK equivalent?
Chad
The plot revolves around two retired neighbours, Phil (Cleese) and Edith (Steadman), who live in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. They are both widowed and planning to start a new life together in Gozo. Those plans are scuppered when Edith’s 49-year-old son Roger (Watkins), moves back into his mother’s house after walking out on his wife and their two teenage children. 2018-19
Hold the Sunset
best known for his film roles as Angus MacLeod in Highlander, Campbell in Braveheart and as Father Christmas in the adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He portrayed Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
James Cosmo
He is also the original voice of Gaz and Simon “Ghost” Riley in the Call of Duty video game series (2007–present). Played Dan Sullivan in Eastenders 1999-2001. Played Pat Tate in the Rise of the Footsoldier. Villain, A Violent Man, Muscle, Avengement.
Craig Fairbrass
She is best known for playing Lynn Benfield, the long-suffering assistant of Alan Partridge. Her performance in Bridget Jones’s Diary as Perpetua, Bridget’s unpleasant colleague. Mrs Mainwaring in the 2016 Dad’s Army film.
Felicity Montagu
Among his television appearances are as the Caretaker on Trapped!, Richard in Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and as Michael the Geordie in the Alan Partridge programs and films. He also voices Captain Barnacles in the Octonauts franchise, the twins in the Shaun the Sheep films, and Aleksandr Orlov and Sergei the meerkats in the comparethemarket.com adverts.
Simon Greenall
British children’s television series, based on the namesake book series by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. It stars Nick James as the 12-year-old dyslexic schoolboy.
Hank Zipzer
Keeping Up Appearances written and created by who?
Roy Clarke (same as Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours, Still Open All Hours)
English ceramic company founded 1815, originally Vauxhall London then Lambeth then Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Latercomer compared to others.
Royal Doulton
the oldest or second oldest remaining English porcelain manufacturer, based in namesake city, England (disputed by Royal Worcester, who claim 1751 as their year of establishment). The company, particularly known for its high-quality bone china, having produced tableware and ornamental items since approximately 1750. Founder William Duesbury
Royal Crown Derby
Prior to 1751, John Wall, a physician, and William Davis, an apothecary, attempted to develop a method of making porcelain that could then be used to boost prosperity and employment in namesake city. believed to be the oldest or second oldest remaining English porcelain brand still in existence today, although this is disputed by Royal Crown Derby.
Royal Worcester
English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 especially associated with the “dry-bodied” (unglazed) stoneware Jasperware in contrasting colours, and in particular that in “namesake blue” and white
Wedgwood
Finnish group company founded in 1649, oldest business in Finland, namesake company best known for orange-handled scissors. Its key brands today include ____, Iittala, Royal Copenhagen, Royal Daulton, Wedgwood and Waterford.
Fiskars
English brand of pottery and homewares produced by the company of the same name, which is based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Founded in 1770 by namesake potter. He is often credited with the establishment of blue underglaze transfer printing in Staffordshire in 1781–84, 1816 Blue Italian range. around 1790, the formula for fine bone china that was generally adopted by the industry.
Spode
Clive Swift’s character in Keeping Up Appearances?
Richard Bucket
“The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral” is a ghost story by which British writer?
Montague Rhodes James
Ghost story by MR James about the namesake monochrome print: Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum (implied to be Oxford), receives a _________ from an art dealer. The very disturbing engraving changes each time Mr. Williams and the colleagues he enlists look at it.
The Mezzotint
Name of the ghost story by MR James: At just over 2,000 words, it is the shortest of his stories and was the last he wrote, about title portrait picture.
A Vignette
Name of Hyacinth and Richard’s unseen son on Keeping Up Appearances?
Sheridan
She portrayed Edna Hawkins (“Mrs H”) on Shelley (1979–1982), Jane Travers in Clarence (1988), and Miss Lucinda Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine (2003–2010). She portrayed the frequently put-upon neighbour Elizabeth “Liz” Warden in Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995).
Josephine Tewson
He became familiar to a wider audience as the well-meaning but confused Dr. Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 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). Married to Virginia McKenna.
Denholm Elliott
Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small, Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter film series and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. Aside from acting, he was an acknowledged expert on the medieval English longbow and wrote two books on the subject.
Robert Hardy
He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in the sitcom Citizen Smith, Tom Hedden in Straw Dogs, Winston the Ogre in Time Bandits, Tom Franklin in Chancer and Mr. Stevens, Sr. in The Remains of the Day. His final role was as Maester Aemon in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2015).
Peter Vaughan
She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen. Married to Peter Vaughan 1952-66. Joyce Cooper in Hot Fuzz.
Billie Whitelaw
1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. The plot revolves around Jen and Kira, two Gelflings on a quest to restore balance to the world of Thra and overthrow the evil, ruling Skeksis by restoring a powerful broken item.
The Dark Crystal
Labyrinth 1986 muscial fantasty film written by which member of Monty Python?
Terry Jones
1997 American biographical comedy-drama family film written and directed by Caroline Thompson. It starred Rene Russo as Mrs. Gertrude “Trudy” Lintz and Robbie Coltrane as her husband. About gorillas and inspired by real life Massa and Gargantua.
Buddy
She made her film debut in the 1989 comedy Major League, Lethal Weapon 3 and 4, She returned to the screen as Frigga, the mother of the titular hero, in the superhero film Thor (2011), a role she reprised in Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Rene Russo
2017 American legal drama film written and directed by Dan Gilroy. The film stars Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell and follows the life of a civil rights advocate and defense lawyer (Washington) who finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a personal crisis and the necessity for extreme action.
Roman J Israel Esq
2000 comedy film directed by Steve Barron and starring Imelda Staunton and Pete Postlethwaite. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a namesake animal and how his family copes with the startling change.
Rat
She played Octavia of the Julii in Rome (2005–2007), Stacey Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul (2015–2022), and was the voice of the artificial intelligence entity F.R.I.D.A.Y. in various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. collaborated with Martin McDonagh in the plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (2009), as well as the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022 - OSCAR).
Kerry Condon
Director of: The videos for “Take On Me” and “Billie Jean” have each garnered over 1 billion views on YouTube. Barron also directed several films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Coneheads (1993), and The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), Rat.
Steve Barron
Five Children and It, what are the children’s names? ONLY CONNECT
Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and The Lamb
What is the direct sequel to Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit? Precursor to The Story of the Amulet.
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Three of the Railway Children names?
Roberta, Peter, Phyllis
What is the surname of the three Railway Children Roberta, Peter and Phyllis?
Waterbury
It is a Netflix produced prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal that explores the world of Thra created for the original film. It follows the story of three Gelflings: Rian, Deet, and Brea, as they journey together on a quest to unite the Gelfling clans to rise against the tyrannical Skeksis and save their planet Thra from a destructive blight known as the Darkening. What is subtitle?
The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance
he directed the second of the Transporter films (2002–2015), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Now You See Me (2013), and the tenth Fast & Furious installment, Fast X (2023). He also directed the streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019).
Louis Leterrier
English actress, television presenter and singer, best known for her role in The Bill as Samantha Nixon. Between 2009 and 2014, she was a regular panellist on ITV chat show series Loose Women. she voiced Kira in the Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal in original 1982 film.
Lisa Maxwell
Who played Daphne Moon in Frasier?
Jane Leeves
Who played Niles Crane?
David Hyde Pierce
Who played Roz Doyle, Frasier’s producer in Frasier?
Peri Gilpin
Who played Martin Crane in Frasier?
John Mahoney
Best known for portraying Marshall Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke for 20 years in USA?
James Arness
Long running character played by Richard BELZER first in homicide then in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit? Also crossed over in an episode in both The X-Files and The Wire, 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt, mentioned in Luther.
John Munch
fictional character and the main protagonist of the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by Mariska Hargitay
Captain Olivia Benson
Name of Frasier and Lilith Sternin’s child in Frasier?
Frederick Gaylord Crane
Who played Lilith Sternin in Frasier?
Bebe Neuwirth
My Hero actor in final season replacing Ardal O’Hanlon?
James Dreyfus
Kevin Bacon wife
Kyra Sedgwick
Who played Betty Spencer in SMDHE?
Michele Dotrice
He came to wider attention from 1967 in the title role of the British television spy drama Callan, earning him the 1970 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. starred as Police Sergeant Neil Howie in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man, and in the title role of the 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant. From 1985 to 1989, starred as ex-secret agent and private investigator Robert McCall in the American television series The Equalizer.
Edward Woodward
heavy-duty surgical instrument with a sharp-edged, scoop-shaped tip, used for gouging out bone. What is is a French word meaning rodent or ‘gnawer’?
Rongeur
a surgical instrument designed for scraping or debriding biological tissue or debris in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure. From the french for to clean
Curette
Which handheld surgical tool has types including: Weitlander, Army-Navy, Richardson, Richardson-Eastmann, Ribbon?
Retractor
Which handheld surgical tool may be curved or straight and comes in these variations: Iris, Metzenbaum’s, Mayo, Tenotomy?
Scissors
From latin for mirror, which surgical device is a medical tool for investigating body orifices, with a form dependent on the orifice for which it is designed?
Speculum
a forging process in which the dimensions of an item are altered using dies into which the item is forced, comes from the Old French term meaning “decorative groove” or “ornamental moulding”
Swaging
From greek for “borer, auger”, surgical tool used to drill into human skull, exposing brain or releasing blood pressure from injury?
Trephine (Trephining or Trepanning)
a medical or veterinary device used in minimally invasive surgery. This tool is typically made up of an awl (which may be metal or plastic with a pointed or tapered tip), a cannula (essentially a rigid hollow tube) and often a seal. Comes from French for three-quarters or three-sides. designed for placement through the chest and abdominal walls. First used by Thomas Corneille in a dictionary.
Trocar
a medical device for neurological use. The wheel was designed to test nerve reactions (sensitivity) as it rolled systematically across the skin. Named after Russian-American doctor said wrongly to have invented it.
Wartenberg Wheel
The Athenaeum Portrait is an unfinished portrait by Gilbert Stuart of which person?
George Washington
It was featured in the 1955 film Pete Kelly’s Blues, where it was sung by Peggy Lee.
English-language popular nursery rhyme and a children’s song of American origin.
I Can Sing A Rainbow
Red, Yellow, Pink, Green, Purple, Orange, Blue
Namesake of the Folk Song Index, first name Steve
ROUD Folk Song Index
popular folk song and nursery rhyme composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne. Arne had composed the song for a 1777 production of The Beggar’s Opera in London. Tune is same as The Grand Old Duke of York.
A-Hunting We Will Go
English folk song and nursery rhyme from the 17th century, lyric “dilly dilly” said every line. In 1948 by Burl Ives “So Dear To My Heart”, Sammy Kate, Dinah Shore and Vera Lynn all versions. Benjamin Britten wrote it into his 1954 opera The Turn of The Screw, where it is sung by the two children, Miles and Flora.
Lavender’s Blue
Singer had six year romance with Burt Reynolds 20 years here junior, played golf well. US number ones “I’ll Walk Alone”, The Gypsy, The Anniversary Song, Buttons and Bows. Had TV and radio deals too.
Dinah Shore
the 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. takes place in the seaside district of a fictional city still recovering from a revolution which occurred decades prior to the game’s start. Players take the role of an amnesiac detective who has been tasked with solving a murder mystery. 2019
Disco Elysium
This Scottish author was briefly a princess, having married into a minor branch of the Grimaldi family at the age of 17. They divorced their husband after discovering anarcho-communism. 2020 debut book LOTE main character Mathilda Adamarola.
Shola von Reinhold
The character of Cedric Hampton in the novel Love in a Cold Climate is based on this socialite known as a “bright young things”. The character of Miles Malpractice in the novel Vile Bodies is based on him. Great niece Stella is a supermodel. Had affair with Siegfried Sassoon for long time.
Stephen Tennant
2021 biographical romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.
Benediction
Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall, In 2019, she appeared as Princess Mary in the film Downton Abbey. Since 2020, she has appeared as Eliza Scarlet, the series lead, in the Victorian era crime drama, Miss Scarlet and The Duke.
Kate Phillips
This black owned published firm was founded in December 2011 in London by Valerie Brandes after she left Profile Books, with the purpose of promoting inclusivity and diversity in publishing? Name comes from a genus of flowering plants that gives nickname to Pretoria.
Jacaranda Books
Name of nursery rhyme with supposed origin: King Arthur as leader of the Wild Hunt
Arthur O’Bower
a fifteenth-century astronomical clock in what English cathedral is said to be origin of nursery rhyme “Hickory Dickory Dock”? It displays the hour of the day, the day of the lunar month and the phase of the moon. The modern clock mechanism was installed in 1885 by Gillett & Bland of Croydon, and restored in 1910.
Exeter Cathedral
What’s first line of this nursery rhyme? “Come blow your horn. The sheep’s in the meadow, The cow’s in the corn. Where is the boy, Who looks after the sheep? He’s under the haystack, Fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I, For if I do, He’ll sure to cry.”
Little Boy Blue
Argued that Little Boy Blue was about which man, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father’s livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion?
Thomas Wolsey
King of Norway between Sweyn Forkbeard and Cnut the Great, 1015-28? Was confirmed as a Saint in 1164 by Alexander III.
Saint Olaf II
The fair lady in London Bridge is Falling Down said to have been which first wife of Henry I who between 1110 and 1118 was responsible for series of bridges carried London-Colchester road across river Lea and side streams?
Matilda of Scotland (Second wife was Adeliza of Louvain, buried Reading Abbey)
Henry II father and mother names
Geoffrey Plantegenet, Count of Anjou
Matilda of England
The My Fair Lady referred to London Bridge is falling down could be which consort to Henry III who had custody of bridge revenues between 1269 and 1281 and was attached by eggs and stones on London Bridge?
Eleanor of Province
the debut studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1985 on LP by Noise Records. It is the only album featuring Kai Hansen as lead vocalist until 2021’s Helloween, although he would continue to act as guitarist on the two following albums.
Walls of Jericho
German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of another power metal band Helloween, which he was a part of from 1983 to 1989 and rejoined in 2016.
Kai Hansen
English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip. Placed the crown on her head at coronation. Played by Mark Gatiss in Wolf Hall.
Stephen Gardiner
The Fifth Queen is trilogy of historical novels by which English novelist comprising The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907), and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908). It presents a highly fictionalised account of Katharine Howard’s arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death.
Ford Madox Ford
English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and later Scotland, and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. His mission was to prevent the marriage of Queen Mary and Darnley. He went to Stirling Castle on 15 May 1565 where ceremonies were being held to grant Darnley and his followers new titles. At first, he was refused entry to the castle, then Mary agreed to speak with him. The marriage went ahead in Edinburgh on 16 July.
Nicholas Throckmorton
What battle took place on 10 September 1547 on the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh, Scotland? The last pitched battle between Scotland and England before the Union of the Crowns, it was part of the conflict known as the Rough Wooing and is considered to have been the first modern battle in the British Isles.
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
limited and unsuccessful uprising in England in early 1554 led by four men. The rebellion arose out of concern over Queen Mary I’s determination to marry a foreigner, Philip II of Spain, and to return England to the Catholic Church and papal authority.
Wyatt’s Rebellion
revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land. It began at Wymondham on 8 July 1549 with a group of rebels destroying fences that had been put up by wealthy landowners including of namesake yeoman?
Kett’s Rebellion
rebellion of January 1537 was an armed rebellion by English Catholics in Cumberland and Westmorland against King Henry VIII of England and the English Parliament, led by namesake nobleman who was eventually hanged?
Bigod’s Rebellion
an English lawyer who became a leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising against the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 in 1536. He was executed for treason against King Henry VIII on 12 July 1537.
Robert Aske
Also known as Tyrone’s Rebellion, the tudor uprising the 9 years war took place between which two years?
1593-1603
a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon in 1549 after publication of namesake book? In response, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset sent John Russell to suppress the revolt, with the rebels being defeated and its leaders executed two months after the beginning of hostilities.
The Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising
Catholic plot in 1571 to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. Named after an international banker who was able to travel between Brussels, Rome and Madrid to gather support without attracting too much suspicion.
Ridolfi Plot
one of a series of attempts by English Roman Catholics to depose Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots, then held under house arrest in England. The alleged objective was to facilitate a Spanish invasion of England, assassinate Elizabeth, and put Mary on the English throne, named after key conspirator who was cousin of Liz’s lady in waiting Bess.
Throckmorton Plot (after Sir Francis Throckmorton)
a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne. It led to Mary’s execution, a result of a letter sent by Mary (who had been imprisoned for 19 years since 1568 in England at the behest of Elizabeth) in which she consented to the assassination of Elizabeth. Named after a young recusant, was recruited by Ballard, a Jesuit priest who hoped to rescue the Scottish queen.
Babington Plot
the first armed uprising against King Henry VII after he won the crown at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, named after the two nobleman and occured Easter 1486 in Yorkshire?
Stafford and Lovell rebellion
1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York. The royal party went from Westminster to Newmarket to see horse races and were expected to make the return journey on 1 April 1683
Rye House Plot
Which nursery rhyme character William King mentions two possibilities: the “Prince that Built Colchester” and a 12th-century cloth merchant from Reading named Cole-brook?
Old King Cole
Continue the One for Sorrow nursery rhyme to seven - ONLY CONNECT
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told.
a court dwarf of the English queen Henrietta Maria of France. He was famous as the “Queen’s dwarf” and “Lord Minimus” and was considered one of the “wonders of the age” because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness. He fought with the Royalists in the English Civil War and fled with the Queen to France but was expelled from her court when he killed a man in a duel. He was captured by Barbary pirates and spent 25 years enslaved in North Africa before being ransomed back to England.
Jeffrey Hudson
Who killed renowned architect Stanford White in front of loads of witnesses in 1906 in MSG for affair with his wife Evelyn Nesbit?
Harry Kendall THAW
1844-1915 anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality
Anthony Comstock
Italian Baroque composer, cellist, singer and teacher, one of a family of string players and composers. Born 1670, said to be first appearance in print of Tweedledee and Tweedledum along with Handel by John Byrom.
Giovanni Bononcini
The most common modern version is:
Tinker, Tailor,
give the next six things.
Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Sailor,
Rich Man, Poor Man,
Beggar Man, Thief.
The Game and Playe of the Chesse and Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye are books by which author? Said to be among first printed.
William Caxton
his autobiography Life Is a Four Letter Word, song The Cruel Sea, Three Corvettes, all works by which author?
Nicholas Monsarrat
It is the earliest song sung using computer speech synthesis by the IBM 704 in 1961, a feat that was referenced in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Daisy Bell
“Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)” is a song written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre said to be inspired by which of Edward VII’s mistresses?
Daisy Greville
Classical music term: “a musical composition usually in 6/8 time that resembles a lullaby” comes from French for lullaby?
Berceuse
group of portrait paintings Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles in 1888 and 1889 of Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle, Joseph was a postman.
The Roulin Family
a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army serving between 1830 and 1962 and linked to French North Africa; as well as some units of other countries modelled upon them, name given to three Van Gogh portraits
Zouaves
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Sophie’s Choice inspired film and opera and memoir Darkness Visible are by which author?
William Styron
British composer. Among his works are the operas The Rising of the Moon (1970) and Sophie’s Choice (2002).
Nicholas Maw
Five letter S word The meaning “sod, turf” developed from the notion of the “skin” of the earth
Sward
open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa. It is conventionally divided by altitude into three sections. It’s a Ray Bradbury short story. From dutch for field.
Veldt
a feminine dress which originated in German-speaking areas of the Alps. It is traditionally worn by women and girls in Austria, Bavaria (south-eastern Germany), Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Alpine regions of Italy (South Tyrol).
Dirndl
a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah
Driedel
He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). He received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion. His other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019).
Roy Andersson
French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, advertising film director and event designer took iconic Kim K champagne shot for Paper magazine? Dated muses Farida Khelfa and Grace Jones. Design of the 14 July parade on the Champ Elysées, 1989 celebrating the Bicentennial of the French Revolution. 1983 book Jungle Fever.
Jean-Paul Goude
French artist and fashion photographer known for his highly stylized and provocative images. While serving in the military in Dakar for a year from 1948, he was given a training of photography in the Air Force of France. He went back to Paris in 1950 where he encountered with Man Ray and became his trainee.
Guy Bourdin
Rye Lane is a 2023 British romantic comedy film directed by which director?
Raine Allen-Miller
British actor. He began his career in the West End. He is known for his roles in the BBC Two and HBO series Industry (2020–) and the film Rye Lane (2023) as Dom. He also played the lead character Luke Fitzwilliam in the BBC’s 2023 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy.
David Jonsson
She is known for her work in theatre, earning an Off West End Award nomination, and her roles in the BBC Three Doctor Who spin-off Class (2016) and the film Rye Lane (2023) as Yas.
Vivian Oparah
2023 British black comedy film written and directed by Adam Sigal and starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver and Christopher Lloyd and featuring the voice of Neil Gaiman. It is based on the legend of Gef the talking mongoose, a story given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s.
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix from Italian for rubble
Breccia
compact microcrystalline quartz. It was originally the name for chert found in chalk or marly limestone formations formed by a replacement of calcium carbonate with silica.
Flint
variety of chert formed as primary deposits, found in or in connection with magmatic formations which owes its red color to hematite inclusions. an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony. Comes from old french for “spotted or speckled stone”.
Jasper
a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while moganite is monoclinic. Its standard chemical structure (based on the chemical structure of quartz) is SiO2 (silicon dioxide). Named after Turkish town. Mentioned in Book of Revelation as a hapax legomenon.
Chalcedony
the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors. These are primarily formed within volcanic and metamorphic rocks. The ornamental use of this mineral was common in Ancient Greece, in assorted jewelry and in the seal stones of Greek warriors. The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the Dirillo River in Sicily.
Agate
parallel-banded variety of chalcedony, an oxide mineral, similar to Agate but whereas Agate has curved bands, this has parallel bands. Name comes from Latin meaning claw or fingernail.
Onyx
small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition, such as a pyrite nodule in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale, from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock.
Nodule
C: hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of Silicon Dioxide. Typically composed of the petrified remains of siliceous ooze, the biogenic sediment that covers large areas of the deep ocean floor.
Chert
Name the doubly-eponymous scale used for measuring grain size by the diameter of individual grains, can divide most unconsolidated sediment into either gravel, sand or mud (silt or clay).
Udden-Wentworth Scale
Name of cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth’s movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after the Serbian geophysicist and astronomer who hypothesized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession combined to result in cyclical variations in the intra-annual and latitudinal distribution of solar radiation at the Earth’s surface.
Milankovitch Cycles
one of three basic types of flow lava: basaltic lava characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinker, hawaiian for “stony rough lava”, introduced by Clarence Dutton.
A’a
What term for type of flow lava from Hawaiian meaning “smooth, unbroken lava” is basaltic lava that has a smooth, billowy, undulating, or ropy surface. These surface features are due to the movement of very fluid lava under a congealing surface crust. The Hawaiian word was introduced as a technical term in geology by Clarence Dutton.
Pahoehoe
the lava structure typically formed when lava emerges from an underwater volcanic vent or subglacial volcano or a lava flow enters the ocean. The viscous lava gains a solid crust on contact with the water, and this crust cracks and oozes additional large blobs giving it a lookalike name
Pillow Lava
What type of lava flows are typical of andesitic lavas from stratovolcanoes behaving in a similar manner to ʻaʻā flows but their more viscous nature causes the surface to be covered in smooth-sided angular fragments of solidified lava instead of clinkers?
BLOCK lava flows
From Greek word for ash: fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism. If airborne it becomes pyroclast.
Tephra
type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock, rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered, Rapa Nui used it to make most of the moai statues.
Tuff
An archaeological site in La Libertad Department, El Salvador, featuring a pre-Columbian Maya farming village. The ancient Maya site is located in the Zapotitán Valley, 36 kilometers northwest of San Salvador, El Salvador. It is often referred to as the “Pompeii of the Americas”, in comparison to the famed Ancient Roman ruins. It was rapidly buried by the ashfall of an eruption of the Loma Caldera around AD 600.
Joya de CEREN
Portmanteau word for acid rain and air pollution arising from steam explosions and large plume clouds containing extremely acidic condensate (mainly hydrochloric acid), which occur when molten lava flows enter cold oceans
Laze
Portmanteau word for form of air pollution that results when sulfur dioxide and other gases and particles emitted by an erupting volcano react with oxygen and moisture in the presence of sunlight.
Vog
a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group, first shown by HESSEL in 1826. Major constituent mineral in Earth’s crust and moon, most common and abundant mineral group in Earth’s crust. Name comes from Ancient Greek for oblique fracture.
Plagioclase
A modifier describing igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz, in contrast to mafic rocks which are richer in magnesium and iron. Most common of this type is granite.
Felsic
In mineralogy and materials science, what is the tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes? These planes of relative weakness are a result of the regular locations of atoms and ions in the crystal, which create smooth repeating surfaces that are visible both in the microscope and to the naked eye.
Cleavage
a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules named after scientist
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
an important tectosilicate mineral which forms igneous rock. The name is from the Ancient Greek for “straight fracture”, because its two cleavage planes are at right angles to each other.
Orthoclase
the most common sedimentary rock, 70% of this rock type in the crust. fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Tendency to split into thin layers called laminae, property is called fissility.
Shale
variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes
Tufa
a geological formation by mineral deposits that accumulate over time in natural caves: the six most common types of this term: flowstone, columns, drapery, stalagmites, stalactites and straws
Speleothem
The measure of relative clarity of a liquid. It is an optical characteristic of water and is a measurement of the amount of light that is scattered by material in the water when a light is shined through the water sample. The higher the intensity of scattered light, the higher the __________.
Turbidity
common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks, common in the ancient crust of continental shields. Borrowed from German for spark as it glitters.
Gneiss
fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism. It is the finest-grained foliated metamorphic rock
Slate
an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child’s hair, cutting food, and sometimes even trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo.
Ulu
generic term encompassing the many kinds of sharp tools utilized in pre- and post-colonial eras of the Central Andes region, , agricultural tools, warrior or hunting secondary weapons, sacrificial knives, barber implements, pendants, or medical tools.
Tumi
a knife consisting of one or more curved blades with a handle on each end, which is rocked back and forth chopping the ingredients below with each movement
Mezzaluna
Shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration. From German to strike.
Knapping
a body of intrusive rock with a dome-shaped upper surface and a level base, fed by a conduit from below. This forms forms when magma (molten rock) rising through the Earth’s crust begins to spread out horizontally, prying apart the host rock strata. Greek for “pond stone”.
Laccolith
large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than 100 km2 (40 sq mi) in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in Earth’s crust. Erosion then makes it shown. Examples Half Dome in Yosemite.
Batholith
an igneous intrusion that has a surface exposure of less than 100 square kilometres (40 sq mi), differing from batholiths only in being smaller. A boss is a small example of this term.
Stock
a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock. It doesn’t cut across preexisting rock beds.
Sill
a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body. These can be either magmatic or sedimentary in origin. Magmatic _____ form when magma flows into a crack then solidifies as a sheet intrusion, either cutting across layers of rock or through a contiguous mass of rock.
Dikes
the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks. It is generally glassy or fine-grained (aphanitic) in texture, but may be porphyritic, containing larger mineral crystals (phenocrysts) in an otherwise fine-grained groundmass, extrusive equivalent of granite. From greek “stream of lava” and “rock”.
Rhyolite
Quartz-bearing sandstone can be changed into what metamortphic rock through metamorphism, usually related to tectonic compression within orogenic belts
quartzite
Two major classification schemes, the Folk and Dunham, are used for identifying the types of which rocks?
Sedimentary (specifically Carbonates)
Finish the Just So Story: How the Whale Got His…
Throat
Finish the Just So Story: How the RHinocero Got His…
Skin
Finish the Just So Story: what two animals turned into the first Armadillo?
Hedgehog and Tortoise
Finish the Just So Story: The Butterfly That _______
Stamped
Which director directed Batman Forever and Batman & Robin?
Joel Schmacher
The niece of Alfred Pennyworth who, after losing her parents, joins the superhero duo. Alicia Silverstone plays character and superhero (give both) in Batman & Robin
Barbara Wilson/Batgirl
He is known for his roles in the Hammer horror films from 1958, with his first role as Sir Arthur Holmwood in Dracula, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth from 1989 to 1997 in the four Batman films directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. He appeared in three more Burton films: Sleepy Hollow, voicing Elder Gutknecht in Corpse Bride and the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland. Played the Toy Maker in original 1966 Dr Who. 1956 Best Actor BAFTA.
Michael Gough
character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), and the deranged Clarence “Doc” Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971). Dr Loomis in Halloween and four sequels. President of USA in Escape from new York.
Donald Pleasence
British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC’s 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon’s novels.
He became the first person to win the Pipe Smoker of the Year award.
Rupert Davies
English actor and comedian, best remembered for playing rag-and-bone man Harold Steptoe alongside Wilfrid Brambell in the long-running BBC television sitcom Steptoe and Son (1962–1965, 1970–1974).
Harry H Corbett
In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1965–75), created by Johnny Speight, which won him a Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967. He reprised the role in the television sequels Till Death… (ATV, 1981) and In Sickness and in Health (BBC, 1985–92), and in the films Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and The Alf Garnett Saga (1972). Won Oliviers for Miller’s DOAS and THe Price.
Warren Mitchell
From 1976 to 1983, he starred in the title role in Quincy, M.E., for which he earned four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Jack Klugman
Edward Woodward won 1970 BAFTA for role as which title secret service agent dealing with UK threats?
Callan
fictional protagonist of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel War and Peace, played by Anthony Hopkins as he won Best Actor BAFTA in 1973
Pierre Bezukhov
Who played Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant 1975 made-for-tv film and An Englishman in New York 2009 film?
John Hurt
English actor. He twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor; for Crown Matrimonial in 1975 and for Professional Foul and The Country Party in 1978. He also starred in the ITV series Manhunt (1970) and the BBC series Telford’s Change (1979).
Peter Barkworth
the role that made him a household name as an actor, Horace Rumpole, whom he played in the British television series Rumpole of the Bailey. He also portrayed Carl Bugenhagen in the first and second instalments of The Omen series and Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner.
His notable roles include Clang in Help! (1965), Thomas Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Tom Ryan in Ryan’s Daughter (1970).
Leo McKern
Who played Guy Burgess in the 1983 drama film An Englishman Abroad? Won a Best Actor BAFTA.
Alan Bates
Who wrote autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father?
John Mortimer
Who won 1985 BAFTA for main role in Edge of Darkness?
Bob Peck
a series of mutinies in September 1917 by British Army and British Imperial soldiers at a training camp in the coastal Pas-de-Calais port in Northern France during World War I?
Etaples mutiny
1986 BBC television drama series starring Paul McGann about the Étaples mutiny in 1917 during the First World War? Won BAFTA, played real life figure Percy Toplis who was dodgy guy and ended up shot in gunfight with police.
The Monocled Mutineer
a novel written by Tom Sharpe adapted for TV, first published in 1974. A satirical look at Cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform, tells the story of Skullion (played by David Jason), the Head Porter namesake college, a fictional college of Cambridge University? Has sequel called Grantchester Grind.
Porterhouse Blue
1982 novel by British Labour politician Chris Mullin. The novel has twice been adapted for television; in 1988 it won BAFTA for Ray McAnally.
A Very British Coup
1988 BBC Drama starring Colin Firth: The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount ___________, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side.
Tumbledown
He portrayed the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC’s House of Cards (1990–1995) television trilogy, as well as the British spy Bill Haydon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). Other notable screen work included a portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in two films (The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles).
Ian Richardson
Alan Bleasdale show its protagonists are Michael Murray (played by Robert Lindsay who won a BAFTA), the hard-left Labour leader of a city council in the North of England, and Jim Nelson (played by Michael Palin), the headmaster of a special school.
G.B.H.
1991 British made-for-television drama film directed by Nigel Finch. It was adapted for television by Sean Mathias, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by David Leavitt. Brian Cox nominated for BAFTA for portraying Owen who is struggling with sexuality.
The Long Language of Cranes
a British Government diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice Admiral of the Falkland Islands (and concurrently High Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory) between 1980 and September 1985. Portrayed by Ian Richardson in An Ungentlemanly Act.
Rex Hunt
best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama Foyle’s War, which comprised eight series between 2002 and 2015. He also played the role of Bill Tanner in two James Bond films opposite Pierce Brosnan, and that of John Farrow in BBC Four’s comedy series Brian Pern.
Michael Kitchen
a novel by Angela Lambert, first published in 1992, and later adapted for television by Andrew Davies for the BBC. The book’s plot concerns two retired men who are thrown together following the deaths of their wives in the same hospital. Both have served in the armed forces, one, Reggie Conyngham-Jervis, being a former officer, the other, Roy Southgate, an ex-NCO. Tom Courtenay won BAFTA, Albert Finney nominated.
A Rather English Marriage
Which actor won three consecutive BAFTA Best Actors playing Squire Hamley in Wives and Daughters 2000, John Harrison in Longitude in 2001 and Perfect Strangers in 2002?
Michael Gambon
Who won BAFTA for playing Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm in 2003?
Albert Finney
an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old, later BAFTA nominated adaptation with Jim Broadbent.
Daisy Ashford
Rhys Ifan won Best Actor BAFTA for playing who in tv show Not Only But Always in 2005?
Peter Cook
Who won 2006 BAFTA best actor for playing Dr David Kelly in The Government Inspector?
Mark Rylance
He is best known for his roles as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983) and as John Jarndyce in the television miniseries Bleak House (2005), the latter of which earned him BAFTA Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Denis Lawson
Jim Broadbent won 2007 BAFTA for Longford for portraying which Labour peer who fought to have Myra Hindley (Sam Morton) to be paroled (Ian Brady is Andy Serkis).
Frank Pakenham
2008 BAFTA Best Actor went to who for role in Boy A playing Jack Burridge / Eric Wilson.
Andrew Garfield
British photography student, a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. On 11 April 2003, he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sniper, Taysir Hayb. Stephen Dillane won Best Actor BAFTA in 2009 for playing his dad in The Shooting of ____________.
Thomas Hurndall
Tony Hancock had affair with which woman as shown in Hancock & _____ played by Ken Stott
Joan Le Mesurier
Who played Winston Churchill in Into the Storm nominated for Actor BAFTA in 2010?
Brendan Gleeson
Who played Fred West and won Best Actor BAFTA in 2012?
Dominic West
Vinnie O’Neill in the Sky Max series Brassic, which he also co-created, Marcus in Hollyoaks, Eli Dingle in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jamie Armstrong in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, Woody in the film This Is England (2006) and its subsequent spin-off series, and Rudy Wade in E4’s Misfits.
Joseph Gilgun
Who won BAFTA for Richard II in The Hollow Crown in 2013?
Ben Whishaw
Toby Jones nominated for The Girl 2012 TV role he playing Alfred Hitchcock and Sienna Miller played which title actress?
Tippi Hedren
English actor. He played Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People (2002), Micheletto Corella in The Borgias (2011–2013), Fifield in Prometheus (2012), Solomon Lane in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Philip in Possum (2018), William Gascoigne in The King (2019) and Henry Peter Teague / Peter Morley in The Stranger (2022).
Best Actor BAFTA in Southcliffe in
Sean Harris
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies gave which actor a BAFTA in 2015 for playing the title character falsely accused of murder?
Jason Watkins
In the 1990s who, now an honorary graduate of Keele University, was appointed as Stoke City Football Club’s kit-man by its manager Lou Macari? Played by Toby Jones in 2014 tv film Marvellous.
Neil Baldwin
English actor, best known for his role as Shaun Fields in the film This Is England (2006), a role he reprises in the This Is England TV series This Is England ‘86 (2010), This Is England ‘88 (2011) and This Is England ‘90 (2015).
Thomas Turgoose
In 2017, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in Murdered by My Father. He was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role on Channel 4’s Utopia. He is a two-time nominee for Outstanding Supporting Performance at the Children’s and Family Emmy Awards for his role in Sweet Tooth.
Adeel Akhtar
Robbie Coltrane nominated Best Actor BAFTA in 2017: It stars Robbie Coltrane as Paul Finchley, a once successful comedian of the 1980s and early 1990s, now hosting a television quiz show. He is accused of raping several young women in the early 1990s. Julie Walters plays his wife Marie and Andrea Riseborough plays his daughter Dee.
National Treasure
2018 Sean Bean BAFTA for Jimmy McGovern show: The series focuses on Michael Kerrigan (Sean Bean), the priest of a Roman Catholic parish in a northern English city, who despite suffering from his own troubles stemming from a traumatic childhood, tries to guide several of his most vulnerable parishioners through the trials and tribulations of everyday life..
Broken
He was best known for his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1985, nominated again for 2018 King Charles III.
Tim Pigott-Smith
He was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for his performance in the Channel 4 drama Born to Kill (2017). He also starred in the BBC series Noughts + Crosses (2020–2022) and Wreck (2022), and the Sky Max series A Town Called Malice (2023).
Jack Rowan
2018 five-part drama miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. The show is based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St Aubyn. BC won BAFTA in 2019.
Patrick Melrose
He is known for his roles in the BBC Three film Killed by My Debt (2018 - BAFTA nominated), as Andre Anderson in the Amazon Prime Video series Gen V (2023-), and as Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020).
Chance Perdomo
British crime drama television series which premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2019, and was released internationally on Netflix on 10 January 2020. Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira - BAFTA nominated), a Tokyo detective, travels to London in search of his brother, Yuto (Yōsuke Kubozuka), who was previously assumed to be dead.
Giri/Haji
2020 show The series is set in Iraq in 2003, shortly after the ousting of Saddam Hussein. It centres on a former policeman, Muhsin al-Khafaji (Waleed Zuaiter - nominated BAFTA), as he tries to find his missing daughter, Sawsan (Leem Lubany).
Baghdad Central
Inspired by real events, what 2021 tv show tells the story of mild-mannered Susan Edwards (Olivia Colman) and her husband (David Thewlis BAFTA nom) and how they came to kill Susan’s parents and bury them in the back garden of their Mansfield home, in a crime that remained undiscovered for over a decade.
Landscapers
2021 British drama television film about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, written by Jack Thorne and directed by Marc Munden. It follows Sarah (Jodie Comer), a young health care assistant who starts working at a care home in Liverpool, where she cares for Tony (Stephen Graham) who has early onset Alzheimers
Help
Who plays Adam Kay in This Is Going To Hurt winning a BAFTA in 2023 for best actor?
Ben Whishaw
Black Bird is an American true crime drama miniseries developed by Dennis Lehane, based on the 2010 autobiographical novel In with the Devil: a Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Jimmy Keene who was played by which actor in 2023 BAFTA nominated?
Taron Egerton
Gary Oldmna’s character in Slow Horses written by Mick Herron books: the head of Slough House who is slovenly and rude, but has a sharp and devious mind, and retains his abilities as an experienced intelligence officer
Jackson Lamb
British police drama series set in Liverpool, written by former Merseyside Police officer Tony Schumacher. Chris Carson by Martin Freeman is a police officer in a fictional constabulary covering Liverpool, who has been demoted from his position as an inspector and undertakes a series of night shifts in the city centre.
The Responder
He gained prominence through his role as Sam Uley in the Twilight films (2009–2012). For his performance in the BBC and Amazon Prime series The English (2022), he was nominated for a British Academy Television Award.
Chaske Spencer
English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Not in Front of the Children, …And Mother Makes Three, …And Mother Makes Five and Ria Parkinson in Butterflies. She played the role of Matron in the TV series The Royal (2003–2011).
Wendy Craig
His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. The Stars Look Down, set in the North East of England, is another of his best-selling novels inspired by his work among miners. Both novels have been filmed, as have Hatter’s Castle, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years.
AJ Cronin
In 1956 she married the playwright Harold Pinter and performed in many of his plays (before Fraser second wife). Achieved considerable success from the 1950s to the 1970s, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 1964. For her role in the film Alfie (1966), she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
Vivien Merchant
Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga (1967) I, Claudius (Antonia, his mother1976), and George Lucas’s Young Indiana Jones (1992–1993). She won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC serial The First Churchills, and the 1990 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage, opposite Maggie Smith.
Margaret Tyzack
She is best known for her role as Margaret Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000). She twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, for The Six Wives of Henry VIII in 1971 (Catherine of Aragon) and in 1976 for Edward the Seventh.
Annette Crosbie
In the 2004 Booker Prize–winning novel The Line of Beauty, written by Alan Hollinghurst, two of the main characters attempt to get financing for a film production of the story, 1896/97 novel by Henry James. This novel traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a namesake country house.
The Spoils of Poynton
1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England.
84, Charing Cross Road
The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and covers the rise of a fictional shipping company named after owner captain James. BBC 1971-80. Peter Gilmore plays the captain and Anne played by Anne Stallybrass.
The Onedin Line
For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). Including winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC Play for Today, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1973).
Celia Johnson
She won Golden Globe Awards for the TV film The Blue Knight (1973), and for playing the title role in the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974). For the latter role, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Days of Wine and Roses (1962).
Lee Remick
South Riding is a novel by which author. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1936.
Winifred Holtby
She has performed the title roles in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and is also particularly known for her performance as Livia in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius. Married to Peter O Toole 1959-79.
Sian Phillips
trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. Each of the plays depicts the same six characters over the same weekend in a different part of a house. Table Manners is set in the dining room, Living Together in the living room, and Round and Round the Garden in the garden.
The Norman Conquests
Film London Town, Genevieve, won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in the musical-comedy film Les Girls (1957). Rex Harrison had affair with her, she got myeloid leukaemia and she died at 32.
Kay Kendall
British socialite, stage actress and producer, nickname the Jersey _____, relationships with Edward VII, Lord Shrewsbury, Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Lillie Langtry
English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000), and Cranford (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. Her film appearances include Krull (1983), Dune (1984), The Debt Collector (1999), and The Libertine (2004).
Francesca Annis
Who won 1984 Oscar for Mrs Moore in A Passage to India (BSA), BAFTA in1981 for Cream in my Coffee and 1985 for The Jewel in the Crown (Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet).
Peggy Ashcroft
She starred opposite Bob Hoskins in the 1978 BBC drama Pennies From Heaven, before going on to win the 1980 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain) and Malice Aforethought, and the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for A Doll’s House. Her film appearances include Chariots of Fire (1981), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) and The Shooting Party (1985).
Cheryl Campbell
She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Killing of Sister George, the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for Born in the Gardens, and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Smiley’s People.
Beryl Reid
She was famously Paul McCartney’s girlfriend from 1963 to 1968 and married to Gerald Scarfe for 30 years too.
Jane Asher
He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. His other work includes graphics for rock group Pink Floyd, particularly on their 1979 album The Wall, its 1982 film adaptation, and tour (1980–81). He was the production designer on the Disney animated feature Hercules (1997). Scarfe also provided the opening titles for Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.
Gerald Scarfe
She is known on-screen for playing Phyllida Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), Jemima Shore in Jemima Shore Investigates (1983), Penny in Miranda (2009–2015) and Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small (2021–present).
Patricia Hodge
Born 1906, English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks. BAFTA nom in 1987 for The Murder at the Vicarage.
Joan Hickson
She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac. Married 1958-62 to Jeremy Brett (he played the smitten Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 Warner Bros. production of My Fair Lady). also well-known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972) as a barmaid who becomes involved with a suspected killer.
Anna Massey
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Separate Tables (1958). Her performance as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1938) earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. BAFTA nom in 1987 for role in Vita Sackville-West adaptation “All Passion Spent”.
Wendy Hiller
1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning’s cycle of novels. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson met filming the TV series and married in real life. ET won BAFTA Best Actress.
Fortunes of War
Character played by Jean Alexander in Corrie, got 1988 BAFTA nom for role
Hilda Ogden
A three-time winner of the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, she won for Talking Heads: A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (1989), Talking Heads: Waiting for the Telegram (1999) and Lost for Words (2000). She was also awarded a BAFTA Special Award in 1994. Her film credits included The Love Match (1955), The Entertainer (1960), A Kind of Loving (1962) and The Nightcomers (1971).
Thora Hird
She is best known for her comedy role as Hyacinth Bucket in the popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995).
Being nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Bennett’s Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters (1988). She also starred as Hetty Wainthropp in the British television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1990, 1996–1998).
Patricia Routledge
She was also nominated for the 1998 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Chairs. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1990 television serial Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and from 2004 to 2009, she starred as the Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, in the ITV series Marple.
Geraldine McEwan
She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards. She played Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Married Iain Glen 1993-2004.
Susannah Harker
English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and her childhood roles of Sue in Worzel Gummidge and the character Marmalade Atkins.
Charlotte Coleman
Who won three consecutive BAFTA Best Actress 1992-94 for same role?
Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect
Who nominated for bafta best actress for playing QEII in Alan Bennett penned A Question of Attribution?
Prunella Scales
Daughter of Rosemary Harris who won BAFTA For Elizabeth Bennett in 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice. Won Tonys and Oliviers for Tom Stoppard’s The COast of Utopia and The Real Thing?
Jennifer Ehle
2002 trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage, written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in pre-revolution Russia between 1833 and 1866.
The Coast of Utopia
a play by Tom Stoppard that was first performed in 1982. The play focuses on the relationship between Henry and Annie, an actress and member of a group fighting to free Brodie, a Scottish soldier imprisoned for burning a memorial wreath during a protest.
The Real Thing
play by Tom Stoppard which was first performed in 1972. It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy by likening it to a less-than-skilful competitive gymnastics display. It is set in an alternative reality in which some British astronauts have landed on the Moon and “Radical Liberals” (read pragmatists and relativists) have taken over the British government (the play seems to suggest that pragmatists and relativists would be immoral since Archie says that murder is not wrong, merely “antisocial”).
Jumpers
1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zürich at that time.
Travesties
British television film written by comedian Victoria Wood. The story follows sisters a cook, and a successful actress in the United States, after they are reunited on a television programme after spending 27 years apart. It stars Wood and her frequent comedy partner Julie Walters in the title roles
Pat and Margaret
Irish-British actress. She is known for her roles in the film Gosford Park (2001) and the Harry Potter film series as Lily Potter (2001–2011). Her other roles have included Daphne (2007), My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Grace of Monaco (2014). In 1995, She was nominated for a BAFTA Award for playing Jane Penhaligon in the television series Cracker.
Geraldine Somerville
She won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Our Friends in the North (1996), and earned subsequent nominations for The Lost Prince (2003) and The Street (2007). She also starred on television in The Forsyte Saga (2002) and as Caterina Sforza in The Borgias (2011). Her film appearances include Notting Hill (1999), Phantom Thread (2017), and My Policeman (2022).
Gina McKee
her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997–2004) and her title role in the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress.
Recurring role of River Song in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2008–2015), Mrs. Bennet in the ITV period-drama fantasy Lost in Austen (2008), Dinah Lance in The CW’s superhero fiction drama series Arrow (2013–2016), and Sarah Bishop in A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022).
Alex Kingston
She later starred as Vicky Smith on the BBC drama series Angels (1982–1983), and achieved fame with her portrayal of Sharon Theodopolopodous on the long-running sitcom Birds of a Feather (1988–1999, 2014–2017), for which she won a British Comedy Award and was nominated on three occasions for a National Television Award. In 1997, she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her role in the BBC miniseries The Sculptress.
Pauline Quirke
Tracey Stubbs in Birds of a Feather and her appearances as a weekly panellist on the ITV series Loose Women (2012–2018, 2020–present).
Linda Robson
Scottish television presenter and journalist. She was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show Loose Women from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5’s daily morning show The Wright Stuff from 2007 until 2012. She hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland weekdays from 9 am to 12 noon.
Kaye Adams
She is known for her roles as Maureen Holdsworth in Coronation Street (1993–1997, 2006), Virginia Raven in Crossroads (2001–2003), Lesley Meredith in Emmerdale (2004–2006) and Joyce Temple-Savage in Benidorm (2012–2018).
Loose Women 2003-17.
Sherrie Hewson
She is known for her role as Kathy Beale on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as well as appearing as Jackie Pascoe on ITV’s Footballers’ Wives (2002–2006) and Sgt. Nikki Wright in ITV’s The Bill (2006–2008). She has also appeared in film during her early career, has presented on ITV’s Loose Women and appeared as a celebrity contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2008.
Gillian Taylforth
English actress, known for her role as Liz McDonald in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Flo Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Also Loose WOmen.
Beverly Callard
English singer and actress, known as a member of girl group Eternal. In 2018, she began portraying the role of Martine Deveraux in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, a role she played until 2022. She is also part of the Loose Women panel.
Kelle Bryan
She was a weather presenter for GMTV from 1997 to 2008, and a co-presenter on ITV’s daytime chat show Loose Women from 2007 to 2020. Launched her own website, This Girl Is On Fire with husband Nick Feeney. Born out of the response of her best-selling book, Confessions of a Menopausal Woman.
Andrea McLean
She was a contestant on the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up. In 2012, she competed in the first series of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. 2012 to 2017, She co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show, and in 2015, she presented the ITV series Guess This House. From 2015 to 2020, she was a regular panelist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.
Saira Khan
British comedy-drama series set in a multicultural academy school of the same name. The series is filmed in Halifax, West Yorkshire and it began broadcasting on Channel 4 on 7 June 2017.
Ackley Bridge
She is best known for portraying the role of Eileen Grimshaw on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she has played since 2000. Four episodes on dinnerladies as Glenda
Sue Cleaver
David Copperfield’s great-aunt on his father’s side, and has an unfavourable view of men and boys, having been ill-used and abandoned by a worthless husband earlier in life. She appears in the novel’s first chapter, where she demonstrates her uncommon personality and her dislike of boys when she storms out of the house after hearing that David’s mother has had a son.
Betsey Trotwood
Julie Walters won three BAFTA best actresses on the bounce in 2002-04, name one of productions
My Beautiful Son
Murder
The Canterbury Tales
Married to John Thaw 1973-2002, She won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her role in Cabaret (2007) and was nominated at the Laurence Olivier Awards five other times for her work in Annie (1978), Sweeney Todd (1980), The Winter’s Tale (1982), Prin (1989) and Sister Act (2010).
Sheila Hancock
Bob & Rose was the inspiration for Jules & Mimi, the fictional British television show featured in Sex and the City, 2001 tv show, who played title characters?
Alan Davies and Lesley Sharp
The Lost Prince is a British television drama about the life of which prince – youngest child of Britain’s King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919
Prince John
Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic, for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 2005. Marinca is also known for her performance in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, earning several awards for her performance
Anamaria Marinca
the original Welsh language version — is a Welsh noir police procedural series broadcast on S4C in Welsh. The main character, DCI Tom Mathias, is played by Richard Harrington. 2013-16.
Hinterland
She has had television roles in The Crown (playing Wallis Simpson), in May 33rd (2004) for which she was nominated for a BAFTA, and in The Missing (2016), Kiri (2016), His Dark Materials (2019–2022) and The Capture (2019–2021). Played Paula Vennells in Mr Bates vs the Post Office.
Lia Williams
Bleak House 2006 tv show who won BAFTA for playing Esther Summerson? Also won for N in Poppy Shakespeare.
Anna Maxwell Martin
2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Written by and starring English actress and comedian Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, during the Second World War.
Housewife, 49
Who nominated 2010 BAFTA for playing Winnie Mandela in Mrs Mandela?
Sophie Okonedo
2009 British mock musical documentary film written and directed by Shane Meadows. It follows the fictional character of musician, played by Paddy Considine, a roadie working for Arctic Monkeys, and young rapper playing himself.
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee
2002 British romantic comedy film directed by Shane Meadows, and co-written with Paul Fraser. The film stars Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson, Shirley Henderson and Andrew Shim. It is set in Nottingham, in the East Midlands region of England.
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
It marked the screen debut of Vicky McClure and Considine, the latter of whom went on to star in Meadows’ 2004 film, Dead Man’s Shoes. 1999 British teen comedy-drama film directed by Shane Meadows, who also co-wrote the film with Paul Fraser. The film was mainly shot in Calverton, Nottinghamshire between 5 September and 17 October 1998.
A Room for Romeo Brass
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall played Christopher and Sylvia ________ in 2012/13 adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End.
Tietjens
English actress and model. She won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014).[1] Her other television credits include Flowers (2016), Broadchurch (2017), the Black Mirror episode “Hang the DJ” (2017), and Krypton (2018).
Georgina Campbell
2019 bbc It stars Glenda Jackson as Maud, an elderly woman living with dementia who struggles to piece together a double mystery. won BAFTA BA.
Elizabeth is Missing
Maxine Peake nominated BAFTA for Anne for playing which Hillsborough campaigner?
Anne Williams
BAFTA nominated (2024) English filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the films Weekend (2011), 45 Years (2015), Lean on Pete (2017), and All of Us Strangers (2023). He also wrote and produced the HBO series Looking (2014–2015) and its film sequel Looking: The Movie (2016), as well as the BBC Two limited series The North Water (2021).
Andrew Haigh
2023 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty. Pub landlord TJ Ballantyne, living in a previously thriving mining community in County Durham, struggles to hold onto his pub and keep it as the one remaining public space where people can meet in the town. Meanwhile, tensions rise when Syrian refugees are placed there.
The Old Oak
2022 Ugandan-British-American documentary film written and directed by Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo. It chronicles the presidential campaign of a popular Ugandian singer against long-ruling regime leader Yoweri Museveni.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
She gained prominence through her role as Tee Taylor in Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012) and The Dumping Ground (2013–2018). Her films include Persuasion (2022) and How to Have Sex (2023). For the latter, she won a British Independent Film Award, the BAFTA Rising Star Award and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress.
Mia McKenna-Bruce
Which carpal bone comes from Greek for boat kind?
Scaphoid
Which carpal bone comes from Greek for crescent-shaped?
Lunate
Which carpal bone comes from Greek for three-cornered?
Triquetral
Which carpal bone comes from Greek for pea?
Pisiform
Which carpal bone comes from having a head?
Capitate
Which carpal bone comes from “hooked”?
Hamate
Which cranial nerve and number comes from etymology of “eye mover”?
Oculomotor (III)
Which cranial nerve comes from the Greek for “pulley”? Moves solely the superior oblique muscle of the eye.
Trochlear (IV)
Which cranial nerve comes from Greek for “threefold”? Responsible for sensation in the face and motor functions such as biting and chewing.
Trigeminal (V)
Which cranial nerve comes from Greek for “to lead away, carry off, take or bring away”? It controls the movement of the lateral rectus muscle, one of the extraocular muscles responsible for outward gaze.
Abducens (VI)
a cranial nerve that transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain? Latin for “entrance/forecourt shell”.
Vestibulocochlear
12th cranial nerve?
Hypoglossal
small bone found in the feet of most mammals, comes from latin for little ship?
Navicular
one of the oldest breeds of draft horse, and originates from the namesake area in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. They are heavy-boned with thick legs and are used for draft work.
Ardennes
What is an opening or enclosed gap within the dense connective tissue (bones and deep fasciae) of extant and extinct amniote animals, typically to allow passage of nerves, arteries, veins or other soft tissue structures (e.g. muscle tendon) from one body compartment to another? From latin for “bore a hole”.
Foramen
From latin to split: type of hole in bone which houses nerves etc.?
Fissure
From latin for “ditch”, what is the name of the depression or hollow usually in a bone, such as the hypophyseal?
Fossa
Who wrote the initial book of The Boss Baby?
Marla Frazee
Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl is about which sister of Anne?
Mary
Philippa Gregory’s The Constant Princess is about which Queen Consort?
Catherine of Aragon
Philippa Gregory’s The Other Queen is story of which woman?
Mary Queen of Scots
Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen tells story of which queen consort?
Elizabeth Woodville , queen of Edward IV
Philippa Gregory’s The Red Queen tells story of which woman?
Margaret beaufort
Philippa Gregory’s The Lady of the Rivers is narrated by which woman, mother of Elizabeth Woodville and covers story of Henry VI?
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Philippa Gregory’s The Kingmaker’s Daughter is about which queen consort?
Anne Neville
Philippa Gregory’s The White Princess tells story of which queen consort?
Elizabeth of York (daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville) and mother of Henry VIII
Philippa Gregory’s The Taming of the Queen was predominately about which Queen Consort?
Kateryn Parr
Which Tudor was wife of King Louis XII and therefore queen consort of France?
Mary Tudor
Margaret Tudor was queen consort of Scotland 1503-13 as married to which King?
James IV
Who played Johannes Vermeer in Girl with a Pearl Earring?
Colin Firth
an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco’s “Berenger Cycle”, preceded by The Killer (1958) and Rhinocéros (1959), and followed by A Stroll in the Air (1963). Berenger the First is title character.
Exit the King
British actor born in India. He was best known for playing Chief Guard Barnes who processes (and strip-searches) Alex in A Clockwork Orange, Cyril Blamire in Last of the Summer Wine (1973–75), and Rangi Ram in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1974–77).
Michael Bates
Standing nearly 2,000m tall, what is the name of the massive shield volcano that lies in the centre of South Korea’s largest island, Jeju?
Hallasan
