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What was the name of the king of Pontus who fought a series of namesake wars with Rome from 88 to 63 BC? He is known for his method of microdosing on toxic substances to build up immunity to poisoning.
Mithridates VI
With her oil paintings Afternoon Tea and The Lady in White depicting her half-sister Louise Quivoron, which 19th century French painter did Gustave Geffrey label one of the ‘trois grande dames’ of Impressionism? She never formally studied art, but was briefly a student of both Ingres and Gauguin.
Marie Bracquemond
Differing from a Buck’s Fizz only in the proportion of its components, which orange-yellow cocktail named after a flower is made by mixing equal parts of champagne and orange juice?
Mimosa
“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things”. This profound statement is the scholar Waldo Tobler’s ‘first law’ of which academic subject?
Geography
In the winter of 1982, the former schoolteacher Agatha Barbara became the first elected female president of which European island country?
Malta
The winner of the 2002 Best Actress Oscar, which actress played a 911 operator alongside Abigail Breslin in the 2013 psychological thriller film The Call?
Halle Berry
His work includes three piano concertos, five symphonies and a critically acclaimed setting of the Stabat Mater, which Scottish composer’s work ‘Who shall separate us?’ wascommissioned for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II?
Sir James MacMillan
The phrase ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ is inscribed on an imposing gate in which of the books in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy?
Inferno
The dress worn by First Lady Michelle Obama in her official portrait was designed by which American fashion designer? He was the creative director of Celine until 2003 and now runs his own ready-to-wear brand.
Michael Kors (Karl Anderson Jr)
The British scholar David Harvey is a proponent of which school of geography? This school seeks to comment on the state of our environments through analysis of social structures and modes of material production.
Marxist Geography
Associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, The Angel of Death and The Gilded Cage are works by which female English artist of the late 19th century? She was a student of classical mythology, so logically, her other works included Cadmus and Harmonia and Helen of Troy.
Evelyn DE MORGAN [accept Evelyn PICKERING] (her father in law was the logician Augustus De Morgan)
Which actress announced her engagement to Glasgow-born DJ Denis Sulta in January 2024? She is best known for playing Erin Quinn on the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls.
Saoirse-Monica Jackson
In what 2018 video game developed by Lucas Pope does the player perform the duties of an investigator aboard the title ghost ship which reappears off the Devon coast?
The Return of the Obra Dinn
In mathematics, what name is given to a set of elements on which addition and multiplication are defined as commutative groups, and which is distributive according to its namesake axioms? Galois theory.allows for the description of these objects’ ‘extensions’ with relation to groups.
Field
In the 1992 Canadian legal case R v Parks, Kenneth Parks was charged with murdering his in-laws. However, Parks was acquitted by the jury after it found that there was a reasonable doubt that his actions were voluntary, as he was doing what at the time of the murders?
Sleepwalking
Named for an excited utterance of its discoverer John Walker, what is the three-letter nickname given to an ultrahigh energy cosmic ray detected by Utah’s Fly’s Eye observatory in 1991? It was the highest energy cosmic ray ever recorded.
OMG particle
Named for an excited phrase written down by Jerry Ehman, what is the three-letter nickname given to the radio signal detected by Ohio’s Big Ear observatory in 1997? Seeming to come from the direction of the Sagittarius constellation, it was used to support the search for alien life.
Wow! Signal
The fashion line Heaven, which aims to ‘blur the boundaries between genders’, was created by which American fashion designer, who served as creative director at Louis Vuitton until 2004?
Marc Jacobs
His work includes the opera Rites of Passage, which Australian composer attempted to combine the musical traditions of the Australian Aborigines with Western classical music? His orchestral works include Earth Cry, and four works entitled Sun Music.
Peter Sculthorpe
The board game designer Vlaada Chvátil is best known for what board game that won the Spiel des Jahres? In this game, red and blue ‘spymasters’ give one-word clues to their subordinates, who attempt to pick words representing undercover agents
Codenames
What was the name of the Numidian king who fought a namesake war with the Roman Republic from 112 to 106 BC? After his defeat, he was paraded through the streets of Rome at the behest of Gaius Marius.
Jugurtha
Called K’elt’aeni (“celt-ainy”) by the Athabascan Ahtna people, which massive shield volcano in south-eastern Alaska is the namesake of a mountain chain that co-names a national park with the nearby Saint Elias Mountains?
Mount Wrangell
Which Kenyan runner still holds the world record for the men’s 800 metres, setting a time of 1:40.81 in the final at London 2012?
David Rudisha
The albums A Day in the Life and California Dreaming are works by which American jazz guitarist who died in 1968? Because he was concerned about annoying his neighbours, this guitarist developed a technique in which he plucked the guitar strings with the side of his thumb.
Wes Montgomery
The mentor of Thelonious Monk, the albums Zodiac Suite and Free Spirits are by which American jazz pianist who died in 1981? Her conversion to Catholicism inspired the jazz album Black Christ of the Andes.
Mary Lou Williams
Which actor starred alongside Marilyn Monroe in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Her film debut was in the 1943 film The Outlaw.
Jane Russell
What popular pastime would you most likely be doing if you were using equipment such as a grubber or a scarifier?
Gardening
The daughter of a French finance minister, which Romantic era novelist and political theorist hosted the Coppet [coppay] circle, an intellectual and literary salon of Europe’s foremost thinkers, while she was exiled at her father’s Swiss chateau for her opposition to Napoleon Bonaparte?
Germaine de Stael (acc NECKER)
Sometimes considered an early example of feminism in literature, the allegorical work The Book of the City of Ladies was written
by which 14th- and 15th-century writer? French but born in modern-day Italy, she was the court poet to a number of French nobles, including Charles VI [the sixth].
Christine de Pizan
What type of syrup is added to cola to make the non-alcoholic cocktail Roy Rogers?
Grenadine
Buckminster Fuller coined what term, a portmanteau of three words, to describe the principle of gaining the greatest advantage
from minimal energy input? Fuller used this term to describe some of his designs including a house, a car and a world map.
DYMAXION (from
dynamic, maximum and
tension)
Notorious for its difficulty, in which 2010 video game do players control a red-cubed shape character who attempts to rescue his
girlfriend Bandage Girl, from the evil Dr Fetus?
Super Meat Boy
Which former actress and wife of Emperor Justinian I persuaded him and his entourage not to flee Constantinople during the Nika riots, resulting in the successful recapture of the city and the execution of the rioters’ newly proclaimed Emperor Hypatius?
Theodora
Orlando furioso is a continuation of whose unfinished romance Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love, published posthumously in 1495)?
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Disillusioned when the French Revolution did not afford women equal rights, which anti-slavery and women’s rights campaigner and playwright wrote the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen’ in response to the 1789 ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’? She was guillotined for her activism in 1793.
Olympe de Gouges
Middle-distance runner Nijel Amos and sprinters Amantle Montsho and Isaac Makwala have all won World Championship or Olympic medals representing which African nation?
Botswana
The third member of the Twelfth Night love triangle is what male character, the Duke of Illyria, who eventually marries Viola? This
character delivers the famous “If music be the food of love” monologue at the beginning of the play.
Orsino
Notorious for its difficulty, in which 2019 video game do players control a Japanese shinobi called Wolf, who attempts to take revenge on a samurai clan who kidnapped his lord?
SEKIRO: Shadows Die Twice
Buckminster Fuller coined what portmanteau term to describe structures consisting of components under tension that are
contiguous and components under compression that are not? Also known as floating compression, this principle can be used to create sculptures and furniture that appear to defy gravity
Tensegrity
What term refers to the technique of growing plants using water-based nutrient solutions rather than soil?
Hydroponics
What drink is added to lemonade to make the non-alcoholic cocktail the Arnold Palmer?
Iced Tea
Originally recorded by Yvonne Elliman, ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’ is a song from which musical?
Jesus Christ Superstar
What three-word phrase was coined by the biologist Ernst Haeckel to express the now-discredited idea that an embryo develops through stages that resemble the evolution of its ancestors?
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
The Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá founded which organisation within the Catholic Church whose members are mostly lay people who seek to advance Catholic ideals in wider society? It is commonly referred to by its members as ‘the Work’.
Opus Dei
Which French artist received special permission from the police to wear
trousers so that she could visit the slaughterhouses and horse markets
upon which she based her paintings?
Rosa Bonheur
Which artist, who received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2002, won an award for Best Folk Album? It was for a live recording of a performance at the Newport Folk festival featuring her performing with other artists such as Brandi Carlisle and Wynonna Judd.
Joni Mitchell
Which band, which won Best New Artist at the 2023 Brit Awards, won a Grammy for their remix of the Depeche Mode song “Wagging Tongue”?
Wet Leg
The element Francium is named after France, the home country of what
woman who discovered it in 1939? She was a physicist who started her
career as the personal assistant to Marie Curie.
Marguerite Perey
German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband Walter, and Otto Berg, she discovered element 75, rhenium. She was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ida Noddack
Who, alongside Adrian Ramsay, is currently serving as co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales?
Carla Denyer
Female politician who is the co-leader of AfD german farright party
Alice Weidel
The logo of which handbag designer features a symbol from a deck of cards, with which she shared a name?
Kate Spade
Which British designer is known for her whimsical handbag designs that have included those shaped like bingo cards, Frieda Kahlo’s head, a birdcage, and her brand’s logo - a pair of red lips?
Lulu Guinness
Which Irish designer’s bags and other accessories often feature her
trademark leaf and stem print?
Orla Kiely
In “Hiss,” Megan the Stallion savages everyone who uses her name to gain publicity. In the lyrics, she brags that her private parts are so famous that they might become a client of what “Momager”?
Kris Jenner
Which Dame starred opposite Prince in Under the Cherry Moon? It was her first film role, long before she appeared in romcoms or French movies.
Kristen Scott Thomas
Which Dame co-created the television series Upstairs Downstairs and The House of Elliott? She appeared in the Rolling Stones’ “Child of the Moon” music video in 1968, and more recently played Queen Mary in the first season of The Crown.
Eileen Atkins
Which American actor received an honorary Damehood for her work to end gender-based violence in war zones, a topic covered in her directorial debut In The Land of Blood and Honey. She also appeared in the 1997 music video for the Rolling Stones’ song “Anybody Seen My Baby”?
Angelina Jolie
What is the name of the female figure often depicted in statues with an exaggerated set of vulva, thought to represent a fertility or mother goddess? Although found in France and Spain, her name is thought to be derived from an Irish dance.
Sheela Na Gig
In what religion is the mother goddess Ambika worshipped? In Hinduism, Ambika is another name for the goddess Parvati
Jainism
Which indigenous culture worshipped Beiwe, a mother–goddess Sun Deity? To honour her, a white female reindeer would be sacrificed on the winter solstice.
Sami
Which comedian and Taskmaster series 13 winner appeared at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe with a show called Hag? She was scheduled to be a presenter on the Comedy Central series Yesterday, Today and the Day Before but quit, alongside Kemah Bob, due to censorship from producers.
Sophie Duker
Which autistic comedian and Taskmaster series 14 contestant wrote the memoir Strong Female Character, which won the inaugural Nero prize for non-fiction books?
Fern Brady
Which comedian and Taskmaster series 15 winner won a Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year for their 2023 stand-up special Sap? This special also aired on Netflix.
Mae Martin
Since 2023, Karin Hindsbo has been the director of what London museum, part of a larger group that is under the directorship of Maria Balshaw?
Tate Modern
Melanie Keen is the Director of what space in London that features exhibitions on health, medicine and the human experience?
The Wellcome Collection
Actor Antonia de Sancha claimed that which politician wore a Chelsea football shirt during her affair with him? The ensuing uproar led to his resignation as a cabinet minister in the Major government.
David Mellor
The drama series A Very English Scandal focused on the divorce case of which woman? During the hearing, it was alleged that she had more than 80 lovers outside of her marriage, with graphic evidence presented in court.
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
Simone Weil Avenue, near her gravesite in Bybrook Cemetery, is located in what town, through which Eurostar services typically run (but have been temporarily suspended since COVID?)
Ashford
Elizabeth Fry Road is located in what English county town, where the prison reformer was born and married before she moved to London, roughly 100 miles away?
Norwich
In 2000, a ‘walk’ was named after what Oscar-winning actor who grew up in Heworth, York, before attending the Central School of Speech and Drama and joining the Old Vic Company in 1957?
Judi Dench
In Hampstead, there is a blue plaque at the former residence of what pioneer of child psychoanalysis? (Don’t overthink it!)
Anna Freud
We often know that Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify as a doctor, but who was the first woman to qualify as a dentist? She has a blue plaque on Hungerford Road in Holloway.
Lilian Lindsay
The term “third wave” feminism was coined by author Rebecca Walker writing in Ms. Magazine about the testimony of what woman at the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas? She had worked for Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Anita Hill
Part of third wave feminism was the reclamation of terms previously used to demean women. Which author wrote the work Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women? She is perhaps better known for the book Prozac Nation.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Which pop punk band’s 2005 debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out featured several
songs with absurdly long titles, such as The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage, and Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off?
Panic! At The Disco
What is the onomatopoeic name of Tesco’s rapid grocery delivery service?
Whoosh
The 2023 film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and video game Baldur’s Gate 3, both take place in the world of which Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting with a two-word name?
Forgotten Realms
Which Russian composer’s first symphony, first performed in 1918, is called the ‘Classical’?
Prokofiev
Which German mathematician and creator of set theory published his namesake
diagonal argument in 1891, proving that the set of irrational numbers is uncountably infinite?
Georg Cantor
What is the two-word alliterative name of the statutory set of guidelines for people visiting or managing rural areas in England and Wales? It was launched in 2004 as an update of a very similarly named work dating from the 1930s.
The Countryside Code
Which pop punk band’s second album, 2005’s From Under the Cork Tree,
featured the tracks ‘Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We
Wouldn’t Get Sued’ and ‘A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More ‘Touch Me’’?
Fall Out Boy
Which actor wanted to change the colour of his eyes to play against type as ruthless killer Frank in the 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West, but was overruled by the director?
Henry Fonda
What word beginning with ‘H’ is a storage container that dispenses granular
materials through a chute? By extension, it also refers to the loader on top of a paintball gun, used to feed the balls into the barrel.
Hopper
A combination of Arab nationalism and socialism, what is the name of the
ideology espoused by the leaders of Syria since 1963, and those of Iraq from 1968 until 2003?
Ba’athism
The theorem stating that there are infinitely many prime numbers is named after
which Greek mathematician, who set out a proof of the theorem in a work of around 300 BC?
Euclid
What is the alliterative name of Sainsbury’s rapid grocery delivery service?
Chop Chop
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves stars Hugh Grant as the Lord of
which city where much of the film is set? The name of this city precedes ‘Nights’
in the name of a 2002 video game set in the Forgotten Realms, and developed by BioWare.
Neverwinter
In the kinetic theory of gases, which term refers to the average length that a particle
can travel without colliding with another particle?
Mean Free Path
The prolific video game voiceover artist Jennifer Hale is known for her roles as Sarah
Palmer in the Halo Series, the female version of Commander Sheppard in the Mass
Effect series, and as which other character, the protagonist from another series, who
wears the Power Suit and the Zero Suit?
Samus Aran
Which subantarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean is a Norwegian dependency,
but is named after an 18th century French sailor?
Bouvet Island
One of the celebrities on the 2023 series of Strictly Come Dancing, Eddie Kadi hosts
the weekly Afrobeats Chart Show on which BBC national radio station, which specialises in contemporary black and urban music?
Radio 1Xtra
Which actor who played the foreman of the jury in Twelve Angry Men later won
the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 1965 film A Thousand Clowns?
Martin Balsam
Divided into right and left arteries, with further branches including the Circumflex and Left Anterior Descending, what name is given to the arteries that supply oxygenated blood to the heart muscle?
Coronary Arteries
A coup d’etat in July 2023 removed Mohamed Basoum as President of which African country in the Sahel, replacing him with a military junta led by Abdourahame Tchiani?
Niger
The name of which Sophist precedes ‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ in the names of two Socratic dialogues attributed to Plato? In the first he and Socrates discuss beauty, and in the second lying.
Hippias
The Kalmar Union, which united the thrones of Denmark, Sweden and Norway for over a century, began in 1397 under the reign of which queen?
Margaret I
The prolific video game voiceover artist Nolan North is known for his roles as Desmond Miles in the Assassin’s Creed series, Ghost in the Destiny series, and which character, the protagonist from another series, who is often accompanied by Elena Fisher?
Nathan Drake
Which subantarctic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, named after an 18th century French explorer, includes Grand Terre, by far the largest island in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands?
Kerguelen Islands
One of the celebrities on the 2023 series of Strictly Come Dancing, Nikita Kanda
presents the Breakfast Show on which BBC national radio station, whose music
and talk shows target the British audience with cultural origins in the Indian subcontinent?
BBC Asian Network
One of Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century, Bonjour Tristesse is a 1954 novel
by which French author?
Francoise Sagan
In scattering theory, what term denotes the area, transverse to their relative motion, within which two discreet particles must meet to scatter each other? The mean free path is related to this quantity and the number density of particles.
Cross Section
Typically smaller than a mesa, what French-derived name is given to a rock
formation with steep vertical sides and a small flat top narrower than its height? This is also the name of the fifth largest city in Montana.
Butte
The union of the thrones of Poland and Lithuania came about in 1386 when
which Queen of Poland married Jogalla of Lithuania?
Jadwiga/Hedwig
A chemical mixture of a fluid containing solid particles that are not dissolved, and
will eventually settle, is known by what word, that is also a type of bridge?
Suspension
Apart from Hippias, the only other person to have two of Plato’s Socratic dialogues named for them is which general of the Peloponnesian War? In the first of the two, Socrates describes himself as this man’s ‘first lover’, and they discuss war, peace and politics.
Alcibiades
Running for a single series on Channel 5 in 2023, who was the host of the quiz show Puzzling?
Lucy Worsley
The 1792 assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden is the subject of which 1859
Giuseppe Verdi opera, whose climax takes place at the title event?
Un Ballo in Maschera
/ A Masked Ball
In music, the bass clef derives its shape from a stylised form of which letter? Its two dots appear either side of the line representing this note?
F
The 2017 John Lewis Christmas advert featured the monster Moz who lived where?
Under the Bed
Originating as left and right ‘common’ arteries from which external and internal divisions bifurcate, which arteries supply oxygen to the anterior circulation of the brain and other structures in the head?
Carotid Arteries
Which actor who played the bigoted juror number 10 in Twelve Angry Men later
won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 1962 film Sweet Bird of Youth?
Ed Begley
What number juror was Henry Fonda?
8
Which journalist and author, who founded the Daily Mail’s ‘Femail’ column in 1968, wrote both the 1982 bonkbuster novel Lace and the 1975 non-fiction book Superwoman? Her sons Sebastian and Jasper are both successful designers.
Shirley Conran
Which band had their only number one hit in 1991 in a collaboration with Vic Reeves?
The Wonder Stuff
Which ballet position translates roughly as “round of the leg”? It is
when a dancer rests on one leg and makes a circular motion with the
other leg, either on the ground or in the air.
Rond de Jambe
One property that constitutes the Women’s Rights National Historical Park is the building where the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments was signed by 68 women and 32 men in what US city and state?
Seneca Falls, NY
In addition to being part of the horn section for The Blues Brothers band, Tom “Bones” Malone, “Blue” Lou Marini, and Alan “Mr. Fabulous” Rubin, all at one point played for what other band, whose hits include “And When I Die” and “Spinning Wheel”?
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Which actor, a two-time Supporting Actor Oscar winner in the 1970s, has the most Tony nominations of any male actor with eight? He won for 1959’s The Disenchanted and was especially known for his ability to interpret Eugene O’Neill’s works.
Jason ROBARDS Jr
In the Empire Strikes Back, what was the name of the Rebel Alliance base on the ice planet Hoth?
Echo Base
Which plurally named Brazilian soccer team, based in Sao Paulo were relegated in 2007 season after a draw against Gremio? They would return to the top flight in 2009 with Ronaldo as one of their top players. Their club crest includes an anchor and oars, not an elaborately topped column.
Corinthians
What US National Park includes features such as the South Kaibab Trail, the historic lodges of the North and South Rims, and the Phantom Ranch?
Grand Canyon National Park
What was the name of Ulysses S Grant’s beloved warhorse who carried him through the last 2 years of the Civil War? The horse was named after a figure of antiquity.
Cincinnati
Which Japanese dish is a type of omelet made by rolling together several layers of fried beaten egg? It is often served as a breakfast dish.
Tamagoyaki
Peaking at #1, and now 4th all-time behind the Eras, Farewell Yellow Brick Road, and Music of the Spheres tours, what 2017 to 2019 tour by Ed Sheeran grossed more than 776 million dollars?
Divide Tour
Which sci-fi author and his wife Ann published a 2007 short story collection titled The New Weird, highlighting the last two decades’ worth of emerging “weird fiction”? He is perhaps best known for writing the novels Annihilation and Finch.
Jeff Vandermeer
On PAW Patrol, what team member is a cockapoo who covers air rescue for the team and loves doing backflips?
Skye
Which other NBA team that lacks a costumed mascot is one of two, along with the Boston Celtics, to still be in their original city? It has a rivalry with the Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets, their neighbors who also lack a mascot.
New York Knicks
During the Battle of Hoth, what weapon on the planet’s surface does Echo Base commander Carlist Rieekan (yes, that’s his name) fire to disable the Imperial ships’ electronics so that Rebel transports can escape?
Ion Cannon
What beer glass, also known as a Scotch Ale glass, takes its name and shape from a flower known for its sharp prickles on the leaves and stem?
Thistle
What largest city of France’s Nouvelle Aquitaine region has both Port de la Lune, a World Heritage Site, and Place des Quinconces, the largest public square in France?
Bordeaux
A national historic park in Richmond, California, is spread out over former WWII shipyard buildings and highlights the contributions of women to the war effort. It is named after what figure of WWII?
Rosie the Riveter
Which sci-fi author’s 2000 novel Perdido Street Station is generally considered the New Weird movement’s entry into mainstream science fiction? He also wrote the 2007 young adult novel Un Lun Dun.
China Mieville
Keith Haring was just one of many artists during the Reagan Era to promote the phrase “Silence Equals Death” in regards to the government and general public’s ignoring the AIDS crisis. Reclaiming the symbol from Nazi Germany who used it to label LGBT+ people, which symbol (both color and shape, please) was most often used to accompany “Silence Equals Death” posters and art?
Pink Triangle
In musical notation, what is the term for the symbol positioned at the beginning of the staff that indicates what notes are used for the lines and spaces on the staff?
Clef
Which ballet movement comes from the French for “beat”? It is when a dancer does a back and forth motion with an extended leg, and has variants such as fondu, tendu, or frappé.
Battement
While Thomas Wyatt was the one who popularized the form in 16th century England, sonnets that are written in iambic pentameter are generally named after whom?
William Shakespeare
What European second city located on Jutland is home to Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer?
Aarhus
What country’s national anthem is sometimes called “Quisqueyanos valientes” after its opening lyrics, which use a colloquial demonym derived from an indigenous term?
Dominican Republic
Alongside Chita Rivera and Audra McDonald (on the musical side), which actress holds the record for most Tony nominations of any female actor with ten? She won the Lead Actress in a Play award five times and is perhaps best remembered on film for her role in 1963’s The Haunting.
Julie Harris
Peaking at #1, and now 5th all-time behind the Eras, Farewell Yellow Brick Road, Music of the Spheres, and Divide tours, what 2009 to 2011 tour by U2 grossed more than 736 million dollars?
360 Degree Tour
On PAW Patrol, what team member is a purple Siberian husky who covers mountain and snow rescue?
Everest
On Paw Patrol, what team member is clumsy but competent 6-year-old Dalmatian who serves as a firefighter and paramedic pup?
Marshall
Which Paw Patrol team member is 6-year-old mixed-breed dog who serves as a recycling and handyman pup?
Rocky
Which Paw Patrol team member is a 5-year-old English Bulldog who serves as a construction pup?
Rubble
Which Paw Patrol team member is a 5-year-old chocolate Labrador who serves as an aquatic rescue pup?
Zuma
a mixed-breed dog type found on several Caribbean islands. Its name comes from a traditional local dish of seasoned rice and pigeon peas; overcooked rice that sticks to the bottom of the cooking pot is commonly mixed with other leftovers and fed to the dogs.
Potcake Dog
Other than the Harvard Crimson, which two other Ivy League universities have nicknames referring to their color? Both are preceded by the word “Big.”
Dartmouth (Green) and Cornell (Red)
Who is generally credited with the establishment of the Penny Post in the UK in 1840?
Rowland Hill
Who was President of Argentina during The Falklands War of 1982?
Leopoldo Galtieri
Where in the body is the macula?
In the eye
2a The common name for the bird Corvus corax, the collective noun for which is an ‘unkindness’.
2b A verb meaning ‘to devour voraciously’.
Raven
In a public information campaign of the 1960s it was stated that bus and taxi drivers changed their routes to avoid him, bets were laid on his performance and that people came from miles around just to watch. But what was Reginald Molehusband trying to do?
Reverse park his car
In which brands ads of the late 70s and early 80s, Leonard Rossiter relentlessly poured Vermouth over the unfortunate Joan Collins?
Cinzano
Who starred in the famous ad for Levi 501s, when he stripped down to his boxers in a launderette?
Nick Kamen
Heineken ads were famous for refreshing the parts other beers cannot reach. In what was probably their most famous ad, set at ‘The School of Street Credibility’, in which Mediterranean tourist destination did the water “not taste like wot it oughta”?
Majorca/Mallorca
In a 1990s advert for Boddingtons, “The Cream of Manchester”, which model (now a presenter) asked in her best northern accent “Do ya want a flake in that luv”?
Mel Sykes
By what two–word nickname is Cameroon’s national football team known?
Indomitable Lions
Which Beatles song, written by Ringo Starr, opens with the line, “I’d like to be under the sea”?
Octopus’s Garden
What name is given to an adjustable spanner with an adjusting screw located in the fixed jaw?
Monkey Wrench
Four African countries have the shilling as their currency. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and which other?
Somalia
Two countries border Hungary to the north: Ukraine, and which other?
Slovakia
What is the first event on Day Two of the Olympic Heptathlon?
Long Jump
100m Hurdles, HJ, SP, 200m > LJ, Jav, 800
100 HS2, LJ 800
What is the first event on Day Two of the Olympic Decathlon?
110m Hurdles
100m, LJ, SP, HJ, 400m > 110m, Disc, PV, Jav, 1500
100LongShotHigh400 > 110 DiscoPole Jav 1500
The football derby in which Italian city is known as the Derby della Mole – named after the Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark in the city?
Turin
Which UK racecourse is sometimes referred to as the Knavesmire, after the area of open ground on which it is situated?
York
During test matches, the Hollies Stand is traditionally the most boisterous area and home to the most vocal home supporters at which English cricket ground?
Edgbaston
What is the first property on a UK monopoly board, alphabetically?
Bond Street
Simon Rattle is currently the principal conductor of which orchestra?
London Symphony Orchestra
In January 2021, which orchestra announced the appointment of Rattle as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2023–2024 season, with an initial contract of five years. His inaugural concert as the orchestra’s chief conductor took place on 21 September 2023, with a performance of Haydn’s The Creation at the Herkulessaal, Munich Residenz.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Described recently as “a pound shop Nigel Farage”, who (as at 11.01am 18 January 2024) is leader of the Reform UK party?
Richard Tice
What does the symbol ‘FB’ represent on an Ordnance Survey map?
Footbridge
What name is given to a young alpaca or llama?
Cria
Which BBC sitcom centred on loudmouthed Linda La Hughes (played by Kathy Burke) and her gay flatmate, actor Tom Farrell (played by James Dreyfus)?
Gimme Gimme Gimme
What is the alternative name for the echidna, an Australian egg–laying mammal?
Spiny Anteater
What Italian cold mousse–like dessert gets its name from the Italian for ‘half cold’?
Semifreddo
Which muppet is the leader of the band called The Electric Mayhem?
Dr Teeth
What name, after the first place in the country to use them, is used in the USA for a wheel clamp?
Denver Boot
By what name are the larvae of crane flies known?
Leatherjackets
In which specific Olympic event did Charlotte Dujardin win two individual gold medals?
Dressage
In Greek mythology, who is or was the father of Icarus?
Daedalus
Which UK city hosts a prestigious international piano competition every three years?
Leeds
Ed McKeever, David Florence and Etienne Stott have all won Olympic medals for Team GB in the 21 st Century in which sport?
Canoeing (acc Kayaking)
For what essential activity does an insect use its spiracles?
Breathing
Which iconic 26–mile mountain trail, walked by thousands of visitors each year, finishes at The Sun Gate?
The Inca Trail
Which boxer appears on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album?
Sonny Liston
Which punk musician wrote an autobiography entitled Anger is an Energy?
John Lydon
Of the 13 United States that share the border with Canada, Alaska has the longest at 1,538 miles. With just 42 miles, which state shares the shortest length of the border?
Pennsylvania
The Nativity series of films are set in a primary school in which Midlands city?
Coventry
‘Operation True Blue’ was the codename for whose death and funeral?
Thatcher
A whole specimen of which fruit is enclosed in a Sussex Pond pudding?
Lemon
What is the first name of Mrs Brown in the TV series Mrs Brown’s Boys?
Agnes
Derek Batey hosted which TV game show for over 40 years?
Mr & Mrs
The world’s oldest commercially produced fruit concentrate is which company’s Lime Juice, still in production today?
Rose’s
Antonio Fargas and Snoop Dogg have both played which character on TV and film?
Huggy Bear
To which Scottish clan did Rob Roy belong?
MacGregor
What type of animal is a krait?
Snakes
The actress Mary Martin, who was the original Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, was the mother of which actor who had a leading role in a 1980s soap opera?
Larry Hagman
Where would you find Rat Rock, Belvedere Castle and the Delacorte Theatre?
Central Park, New York
In 2013, which then Liberal Democrat MP was sent to prison for allowing his then wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding points on his behalf?
Chris Huhne
English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, most notably Mr Barraclough in Porridge and Walter “Foggy” Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine
Brian Wilde
English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour (Are You Being Served? Again!) and as Herbert “Truly” Truelove in TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
Frank Thornton
British actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the British drama series Tenko and as Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine.
Burt Kwouk
2000/2003 comedy: The series starred Rob Brydon as Keith Barret, a naïve taxi driver going through a messy divorce from his wife, who, though he fails to realise it, has had a long-standing affair with her colleague
Marion and Geoff
Scottish interior decorators and television presenters loads of tv shows have also been a couple since 1986 and have been credited for introducing laminate flooring to British households. Known by first names so accepted answer.
Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan
Colin and Justin
British comedian, actress and writer who has made numerous appearances on British and American television. She co-created the sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, on which she plays a supporting role.
Gina Yashere
English impressionist, comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression. As a television actor, he played the lead role in BBC1’s Mayo. He wrote the play Timing (nominated as Best New Comedy at the whatsonstage.com awards) and the book A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. Written and starred in plays by Erik Satie, John Field and GB Shaw.
Alistair McGowan
Irish comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his stand-up career, hosting The ______________ Show (2017–present) and playing Gerry in the sitcom Derry Girls (2018–2022).
Tommy Tiernan
Irish comedian and narrator, known for narrating the MTV reality series Ex on the Beach.
Andrew Maxwell
Big Borther narrator
Marcus Bentley
an Australian-born thrash metal drummer, comedian and actor. He has embraced the title “heavy metal humourist”, as it aligns with his approach to comedy, music and life; Slaughter Lord, He subsequently played drums for thrash metal band Mortal Sin and the black metal band Nazxul.
Steve Hughes
The first, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, was published in 2016. Her second book, Sex Power Money, was published in 2019, which explores (mostly heterosexual) sexual relations, with particular focuses on male sexuality and on sex work. She is the host of a panel show Guessable broadcast on Comedy Central UK from October 2020. On 16 September 2021, it was announced that she would host the eighth series of The Great British Sewing Bee, replacing Joe Lycett.
Sara Pascoe
He uses the signature phrase “what’s happening white people?” at the start of his stand-up routines. Was restaurant owner in Cruella. 2017-18 tour Live Innit and 2022/23: Family-Friendly Comedian (no children).
Paul Chowdhry
English comedian has cerebral palsy, but prefers to describe herself as “wobbly”. She first came to public attention in 1994, when she made her debut on the television series Grange Hill, where she went on to portray the role of Rachel Burns for a total of 55 episodes. Debut play All of Us opened in July 2022. Book WHAT THE ** IS NORMAL?!.
Francesca Martinez
Comedian: She appeared on the ITV reality game show Survivor in 2001, in its first series, placing 6th out of 16 contestants. In 2021, hosted her own teatime TV quiz show, Lightning, on BBC Two.
Zoe Lyons
British stand-up comedian, writer and presenter. He was the first Black British act to be nominated for the “Best Newcomer” award at 2014’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards and his comedy series Sunny D premiered on BBC Three in Spring 2016. Own podcast ___ _________ Questions Everything.
Dane Baptiste
Comedian made his main acting debut as lead character Andy in the BBC Three sitcom Uncle 2014-17, English comedian, actor and rock musician known for his comedic confrontational delivery. Many of his performances begin with him acting calmly and see him gradually getting more and more enraged about what he is talking about.
Nick Helm
Written and performed five stand-up comedy shows: Elliementary (2015), Infidelliety (2016), This Guy (2017–2018), Cravings (2019) — also shown on Netflix as part of Comedians of the World — and Don’t Got This (2019–2021). In 2021, she published her debut book, My Child and Other Mistakes, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Played Sassy in Ted Lasso.
Ellie Taylor
Four presenters of The Great Pottery Throw Down
Sara Cox
Melanie Sykes
Siobhan McSweeney
Ellie Taylor
British potter and ceramic designer, known for his homeware Word Range with retro lettering and punk motifs. In 2015, he debuted as an expert judge alongside Kate Malone on BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down where his readiness to shed tears at the contestants’ work attracted comment.
Keith Brymer Jones
Comedian hosted a documentary series on extremism titled Hate Thy Neighbor in 2016, fourth in series 11 of taskmaster and podcast Spooky Shit won Best Comedy Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in 2022.
Jamali Maddix
English comedian and actor with cerebral palsy. He competed in the seventh series of Britain’s Got Talent at the age of 14, finishing as the runner-up. As an actor, he appeared in two series of the CBBC series Ministry of Curious Stuff and from 2014 to 2018, he starred in the Sky sitcom Trollied. Joining Corrie in 2024.
Jack Carroll
English comedian, born Tokyo 1990, was the youngest ever winner of So You Think You’re Funny in 2009, co-presented the Dave travelogue British as Folk alongside fellow comedians Darren Harriott and Fern Brady in 2021, appear on the fifteenth season of Taskmaster alongside Frankie Boyle, Mae Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Jenny Eclair in 2023.
Ivo Graham
a British-Malaysian stand-up comedian and comedy writer who is a member of the sketch comedy group Daphne, and co-creator of their BBC Radio 4 series, Daphne Sounds Expensive. He currently hosts the comedy podcast ‘BudPod’ with fellow comedian and Footlights alumnus Pierre Novellie.
Phil Wang
Englishc omedian plays Shakespearean actor William Kempe in the sitcom Upstart Crow. starred as the titular character in the pilot episode of The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk in 2018; a full series (5 episodes) aired in 2019. Deryck in Ted Lasso.
Spencer Jones
Which comedian married to Sara Millican since 2013?
Gary Delaney
Which American born Scottish comedian and magician 2022 Edinburgh Fringe show was cancelled after one night because staff members—and, reportedly, audience members–at the Pleasance theatre found the material incredibly offensive? Does loads of magic tricks wrote bloads of books.
Jerry Sadowitz
Narrator of the TV show The Circle, 2024 series of Taskmaster, grew up in and out of care system. Created sitcom Alma’s Not Normal set in Bolton in 2021.
Sophie Willan
British jewellery and silverware designer. He is often called the “King of Bling” for his flamboyant designs for celebrity clientele. Famous daughter.
Theo Fennell
2024 series 17 of Taskmaster, presents radio show on Radio 5 Live with Elis James, had relationship with Sara Pascoe,
John Robins
Hosted by a traffic cone shaped virtual assistant named Lana which Netflix dating game show narrated by Desiree Burch revolves around 10 adults who do tasks but can’t touch each other.
Too Hot to Handle
British actor and comedian. He is known to television audiences for his role as Rudi in the CBeebies show Me Too!. Is blind due to retinitis pigmentosa. Presented a four-part travelogue series, provisionally titled The Wonders of the World I Can’t See. The series aired in June and July 2023. Does Countdown 8/10 cats.
Chris McCausland
Zune was a brand of digital media products and services by which major technology giant from 2006 to 2012?
Microsoft
On 14 February 1556, who was crowned as the third emperor of the Mughal Empire?
Akbar the Great
The first scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords, which British polymath was known for determining the correct value of absolute zero?
Lord Kelvin
The last great Italian artist in the Byzantine style, which painter’s works include the Maesta that was stolen by the French from the church of San Francesco in Pisa in 1813?
Cimabue
International cricketer Rohit Sharma currently plays for what Indian Premier League team?
Mumbai Indians
In February 2024, the Los Angeles Lakers unveiled a 19-foot bronze statue of which basketball player outside the Crypto.com Arena?
Kobe Bryant
Signed in 1842, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty resolved the border issues between Canada’s New Brunswick and which US state?
Maine
Madge Syers was the first woman to win the ladies’ figure skating Olympic title in 1908. She represented which European country?
UK
In operation from October 2021 to March 2022, the Ain Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is the world’s tallest what?
Ferris Wheel
What Netflix series, originally released from 2021 to 2023 and starring Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke, was based on the novel of the same name by Kristin Hannah?
Firefly Lane
Basbousa is a sweet semolina cake that originated in which north African country?
Egypt
Emperor Francis I of Austria was the last emperor (as Francis II) of which European political entity that existed from 800 to 1806?
Holy Roman Empire
Released in 2016, Glory is the most recent album by which US singer? The singles include “Clumsy”, “Private Show” and “Slumber Party”.
Britney Spears
Which captain of the Premier League Champions Manchester United in the 2012-13 season is the only Premier League medal winner whose surname can be spelled in Roman numerals?
vidic
Politics: When Emmanuel Macron and Kier Starmer met in September 2023, the French President gave Sir Kier a pair of cufflinks, but what item of sporting memorabilia did he receive in return?
An Arsenal shirt with MACRON 25 on the back
Sport: Who played all four matches in Wales’ Grand Slam of 1971, as well as all four matches in that year’s winning series for the British Lions in New Zealand, came third in the 1971 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, beaten by winner Princess Anne and runner-up George Best, retired from rugby aged 27 as Wales’ then highest scoring player ever, and was Scott Quinnell’s uncle?
Barry John
Literature: “They seek him here, they seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere” is a line from a play which inspired a novel about which fictional heroic character of the late 18th century? Either the character name, or his floral alias will do.
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney
Comic books: Known as Idéfix in the original French, what is the name of Obelix’ dog in the English translation?
Dogmatix
The Apple TV produced miniseries Masters of the Air follows the 100th Bomb Group flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, accompanied most frequently by P-51 Mustangs as escorts. If B in B-17 stands for Bomber, what does the P in P-51 stand for?
Pursuit
Which Russian-American computer programmer and engineer invented Tetris in 1984, releasing the original version of the game on the Soviet-made Electronika 60 computer?
Alexey Pajitnov
Which person, who co-founded The Tetris Company along with [answer to Q1], secured the rights to release Tetris on gaming consoles after negotiations with the Soviet Union and Nintendo?
Henk Rogers
Which player, who won the inaugural CTWC (Tetris), would go on to win the event a total of seven times? Due to his sudden passing in 2021, the trophy given to the CTWC champion is now named after him.
Jonas Neubauer
In 2023, which 13-year old NES Tetris player became the first person to “beat” the game by causing it to crash after clearing a line at level 157? This player’s feat quickly became a widespread media story across the world, but some of the coverage was less than flattering, particularly a widely rebuked comment from Sky News presenter Jayne Secker.
Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson
TETRIS: The process of instantly landing a piece and locking it in place is known by what term?
Hard Drop
In the Book of Genesis, Lot attempts to spare this city of the plain from destruction by finding 10 good people in it. He fails, and God destroys this city by raining fire from the sky.
Sodom
Passengers who board a plane at this city’s airport (abbreviated SXR) must pass through seven different security checks, eight if they are checking luggage, giving it perhaps the most intense security of any civilian airport in the world. That makes sense, since this city is one of the capitals of the hotly disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Srinagar
This Egyptian city located near the southern tippy-tip of the Sinai Peninsula is a popular tourist resort, especially for Europeans seeking a warm beach vacation.
Sharm el Sheikh
This is the third-largest city in the United Arab Emirates. This city and its namesake emirate follow a stricter brand of Islam than the rest of the UAE, and its very strict anti-alcohol laws (you cannot buy alcohol here even at hotels) is believed to be why it receives far fewer western tourists than Dubai or Abu Dhabi.
Sharjah
This city in Iran’s Fars Province has long been a center of Persian-language poetry and the tombs of many famous poets count among its landmarks. Prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, it was also the center of Iran’s wine industry, but making wine is now illegal in Iran.
Shiraz
This Russian city occupies a strategic position on the Dnieper River and was the site of an 1812 battle between Napoleon and the Russians, as well as the site of a 1941 battle during the early stages of Operation Barbarosa. The famous Katyn Massacre took place near this city in 1940, while in 2010 the President of Poland was killed in an airplane crash in this city.
Smolensk
From AD 1000 until 1527, Kings of Hungary were crowned in which city near Lake Balaton? This city served as capital of Hungary for much of the Middle Ages. If it helps, this city’s long name translates into English as something like “white city with a chair” - referring to the royal castle and throne.
Szekesfehervar
In 1859, this small town in Italy near Lake Garda was the site of one of a battle between Austria and an alliance of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. The French and Piedmontese forces won, leading to Austria losing its possessions in Italy and the unification of Italy into a single kingdom. Notably, all three armies at this battle were directly led by their monarchs: the French army by Napoleon III, the Austrians by Franz Josef, and the Piedmontese by Victor Emmanuel II.
Solferino
This city in what is now southern Iran was the capital of the Elamite Empire. Later, it became an important city of the Achaemenid Persian empire.
Susa
This city in central Romania was historically known as Hermannstadt in German, and prior to World War I the majority of its population was made up of German-speaking Translyvania Saxons, whose ancestors migrated here in medieval times. There are still a few thousand German speakers in this city (one of whom is Klaus Iohannis, the current President of Romania), making it a center of what little is left of Transylvania Saxon culture.
Sibiu
This fifth-largest city in Albania is located in the north of the country, on the border with Montenegro. It is an important cultural center for Gheg Albanians, as opposed to the Tosks who live further south.
Shkoder
This Japanese city is located at the southern and western most point of the island of Honshu. It is the fugu capital of Japan: more pufferfish are harvested here than anywhere else in Japan. This city also lends its name to an 1895 treaty between Japan and China that gave control of Taiwan to Japan and turned Korea into a Japanese client state.
Shimonoseki
Which Scandinavian detective drama series was known in Denmark as Forbrydelsen?
The Killing
Danish actress achieved international recognition for her leading role as fictional Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg in the Danish TV series Borgen, and for her role as Theresa Cullen in the HBO science fiction-Western television series Westworld
Sidse Babett KNUDSEN
British Nordic detective show by Hans Rosenfeldt the creator of The Bridge. Stars Anna Friel as the title character detective. 2016-Present
Marcella
He became widely known for his role as police detective Martin Rohde in the Scandinavian crime drama series The Bridge. He became internationally known for his lead role as drug dealer Frank in Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 directorial debut Pusher. Today he is best known as Konstantin in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s 2018 BBC America spy thriller TV series Killing Eve.
Kim Bodnia
Swedish actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in Dalecarlians, and stars as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron).
Sofia Helin
she achieved international fame as a detective—the cool and distant lead character Inspector Sarah Lund in all three series of The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen)
Sofie Grabol
Which Irish river flows through the town of Drogheda and is said to be named after the Celtic goddess of knowledge, inspiration, fertility, and poetry?
Boyne
Which Japanese piano maker won an Honorary Grand Prize at the 1904 St. Louis World Fair?
Yamaha
Which German disco band released the 1979 album Oceans of Fantasy?
Boney M
What was the one-word title of Aristotle’s book on weather systems, written around 340 B.C.?
Meteorology
Which German beer brand has a logo of a lion with a twisted double tail?
Lowenbrau
The Barcelona nut is a Spanish variety of which nut?
Hazelnut
Which Cagney & Lacey character was played by John Karlen?
Harvey (husband of Mary Beth Lacy)
Which type of tree produces winged fruits known as samaras and is affected by Ophiostoma fungus?
Elm
Which French luxury fashion brand is famous for the Triomphe bag?
Celine
Which French racing driver won the 2023 Formula 2 Championship?
Théo Pourchaire
What word completes the title of Janet Frame’s 1961 novel, Faces in the ___?
Water
Which 1980s action-adventure television series, starring Richard Dean Anderson as an undercover government agent, was rebooted in 2016 with Lucas Till playing the title character?
MacGyver
Which saint, from the Spanish village of Caleruega, founded The Order of Preachers in 1215?
Saint Dominic
Which 1968 hit single by Tommy James and The Shondells took its title from the name of an insurance company?
Mony Mony
(from the Mutual of New York company)
Which American Shaker is credited with inventing the circular saw in 1810?
Tabitha Babbitt
Ojotas, traditional sandals made from recycled tyres, are worn primarily by the people of which country?
Peru
a British Pakistani stand-up comedian. He is best known for starring in BBC Three comedy Man Like Mobeen as “Eight” and presenting satirical comedy programme The Tez O’Clock Show on Channel 4.
Tez Ilyas
English comedian, musician, actress and presenter. She hosts the satirical news show Late Night Mash (formerly The Mash Report) after Nish Kumar left. Married to Marcus Brigstocke.
Rachel Parris
Indian born British stand-up comedian and actress. She starred as Mrs. Phelps in the 2022 Netflix adaptation of Matilda the Musical. She was a high flying bonds trader before switching. Also Olivia’s mother in Sex Education. Host of Radio 4 Comedy of the Week podcast.
Sindhu Vee
Comedian: landed a book deal after a series of tweets during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic imagining life with Liverpool F.C. manager Jurgen Klopp went viral online, amassing over 5.6 million views. The idea was expanded into the book Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football’s Most Sensible Heartthrob, released in autumn 2020.
Laura Lexx
Born Korang Abdulla, British-_______ stand up comedian, 2017 edinburgh show was ____ your Enthusiasm. Only known British comedian with this heritage.
Kae Kurd
NYC comedian with Jewish heritage, been in UK shows few times, He has toured three shows since 2014: Millennial (2014–2015), Everything Handed to You (2015–2016), and Just for Us (2018–2020). Radio 4 show _________’s Peer Group. On-off relationship had with katherine ryan.
Alex Edelman
the winner of the eighth series of Taskmaster in 2019, She also appeared as a sidekick on Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable and was a contestant on the sixteenth series of Dancing on Ice. 2022-23 hosted Taskmaster: The People’s Podcast.
Lou Sanders
Born 1993, Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah performs under which stage name? Rapper and visual artist whose only album is 2022 Reason to Smile, EPs include Dear Daisy: Opium and Cashmere Tears. Nominated 2023 Best New Artist at Brits.
Kojey Radical
She is best known for her roles as Edith in the Enola Holmes films, Cynthia in Chewing Gum, Raquel in the E4/Netflix show Crazyhead and Fola in Cheaters. Appeared in S16 of Taskmaster.
Susan Wokoma
Brett Goldstein’s film podcast?
Films to be Buried With
As well as being a comedian, he has presented televisions shows including Celebs on the Farm on 5Star and later MTV and its spin-off Celebs on the Ranch. In 2020, he took over as presenter of Takeshi’s Castle on Comedy Central. He is also the narrator of ITVBe’s Ferne McCann: First Time Mum.
Stephen Bailey
Pakistani-born British actor and comedian who began his career as a YouTuber, 2015 travelled to Pakistan, his country of birth, to film the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan?, In September 2023, Juice was released – a BBC Three surreal comedy series which he starred in, wrote, and co-produced.
Mawaan Rizwan
This American comedian co-hosted Firecrotch & Normcore, a podcast about the TV series Succession, with her husband Geoff Lloyd, 2023 starred in The Burger Files, a spoof true crime podcast written by Joel Morris for the fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s. She returned to the Fringe in 2019 with Enemies Closer, and in 2022 with Hard Feelings.
Sara Barron
an English comedy music act consisting of sisters, Rosie and Nicola Dempsey, In 2018, they were featured in a Nationwide building society television advert, stagenames are from grandmother and her sister.
Flo & Joan
In the 1960s and early 70s which sportsman was dubbed by the Portuguese press ‘the Fifth
Beatle’?
George Best
Which medicinal substance takes its name from the German for “water” and the Greek for
“oil”?
Vaseline
In March 2023 which title was given to King Charles’ youngest brother, Edward?
Duke of Edinburgh
Which Premier League club, following tradition, invites a teenage girl to throw mints to the
crowd before every match?
Everton
What links: Bees, game, goals, lighthouses and zoos?
All have KEEPERS
The Tripitaka (The Three Baskets) is an important work in which religion?
Buddhism
In the BBC’s crime drama series Shetland, Douglas Henshall’s character DI Jimmy Perez has been replaced by DI Ruth Calder, played by who?
Ashley Jensen
Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive what?
Sweating
What medical test is an FBC?
Full Blood Count
Which famous Olympian escaped charges of shoplifting in 2002, having relocated to Atlanta,
Georgia?
Olga Korbut
Who did Ronnie Kray murder in The Blind Beggar pub, Whitechapel Road, London?
George Cornell
Which regular TV personality is reputedly, the most sued man in English legal history?
Ian Hislop
The University Boat Race is staged on the 4.25 miles of the Thames between Putney and where?
Mortlake
Which diminutive actor/comedian who died in 2002, was known as ‘the sex thimble’?
Dudley Moore
According to PM Lord Salisbury, which newspaper was ‘written by office boys for office boys’?
Daily Mail
Which singer is the Dowager Countess of Plauen?
Anni-Frid or Anni-Frid
Lyngstad (from ABBA)
Under the influence of opium, Franklin Blake took which titular object?
The Moonstone
Which company buys around 15% of the UK’s annual potato crop?
McCains
What was once defined as the length of three grains of barley?
Inch
Which 1970s/80s TV programme was regularly visited by the Phantom Flan Flinger?
TISWAS
Discounting the bulldog bat, whose 140 dB call is at a frequency humans can’t detect, what
primate is, to human ears, the loudest land mammal?
Howler Monkey
Fanny Sunesson was a big help to which English sportsman between 1989 and 1999?
Nick Faldo
The television historian and presenter Dan Snow is a great-great-grandson of which PM?
David Lloyd George
Which type of biscuit has a variety known as ‘petticoat tails’?
Shortbread
What is indicated by a flag on an Ordnance Survey map?
Golf Course
Which fruit do the French know as ‘pamplemousse’?
Grapefruit
Which brand of Scotch whisky has a name stemming from the Gaelic for ‘Valley of the Deer’?
Glenfiddich
Who topped chart with ‘Juliet’ in May 1964?
The Four Pennies
Who topped chart ‘When I Need You’ in February 1977?
Leo Sayer
Who did Pip pine for in Great Expectations?
Estella
Who was Charles I’s close confidante and favourite, who was assassinated in 1628 because he had too much influence over the king?
Duke of Buckingham (accept
George Villiers)
In French cuisine what term is used for a mince of mushroom, onions, herbs and black pepper
sautéed in butter?
Duxelles
Who did Norwegian Thorbjorn Berntsen call a ‘Drittsekk’, translated as ‘shitbag’, in 1993?
John Gummer
Who called Margaret Thatcher ‘Petain in petticoats’?
Denis Healey
Who did Michael Foot call ‘a semi-house-trained-polecat’?
Norman Tebbit
Which county is bordered by Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and
Hertfordshire?
Bedfordshire
The highest village in England, Flash, is in which county?
Staffordshire
Which major Italian city is served by Bergamo Airport?
Milan
Which League One English football team are nicknamed The Cod Army?
Fleetwood Town
What type of weapon was an arbalest?
Crossbow
What was the famous surname of Lord Redesdale’s six daughters?
Mitford
What was the name of the school founded by Plato in 387 BC?
Academy
What can be a town in northern France or a tapestry hanging on a wall?
Arras
In 1926, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey began to sell its products under what trade name?
Esso
Name either of the sisters of Mr Godfrey in Dad’s Army.
Dolly or Cissy
The gulf which separates Baja California from the Mexican mainland is known as the Sea of
what or who?
Cortes
Whose 1979 hit ‘Just When I Needed You Most’ was inspired by his youth in Cornwall?
Randy VanWarmer
Randy Crawford sang on which group’s 1979 hit ‘Street Life’?
The Crusaders
In the 1938 film, who played Guy of Gisbourne to Erroll Flynn’s Robin Hood?
Basil Rathbone
In October 2023, which East Midlands football club denied that it was to be sold to Taylor Swift?
Notts County
Which Australian cricketer scored 103 times as many 4s as he did 6s?
Don Bradman
The water in the Roman baths at Bath percolates from which surrounding hills?
Mendips
Countdown presenter Richard Whiteley was given what nickname by viewers of Yorkshire
Television news?
Twice Nightly Whiteley
What was the name of the mongoose in Kipling’s Jungle Book?
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Jack Hargreaves first presented which programme in 1960, now showing again on TalkingPictures TV?
Out of Town
Vincent Price appeared in six films based on the works of which nineteenth century author?
Edgar Allen Poe
Which 1937 film portrays events on the Southern Railway of Northern Ireland?
Oh Mr Porter!
‘New York, New York’ is a song from which musical about three sailors enjoying shore leave in 1945?
On the Town
a cornmeal flatbread, a type of batter bread. An early American staple food, it is prepared on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Jamaica, mentioned on Brown Girl in the Ring by Boney M as to be eaten with fried fish?
Johnny-Cakes
IIn Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ what did we drink in the park?
Sangria
If Brazil are nicknamed ‘Seleção Canarinha’, who are nicknamed ‘Seleção das Quinas’?
Portugal (Team of the
Canaries/Escutcheons, respectively)
‘Little Miss Poker Face’ was the nickname of which tennis player, whose record was only
overtaken by Martina Navratilova?
Helen Wills or Helen Wills Moody
A rhombus may also be known by which medical term?
Lozenge
A rhombus may also be known by which medical term?
Abaya
The Ruggles family lived in which thoroughfare according to Eve Garnett’s 1937 novel?
One End Street
What was the name of the Category 5 hurricane that devastated parts of Florida and Louisiana
in August 1992?
Andrew
Which of his singles took Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) to Number 2 in the charts in 1967, his
highest ever position?
Matthew and Son
Who followed the 1998 album Buena Vista Social Club with Mambo Sinuendo in 2003?
Ry Cooder
What is the predominant form of Islam in Iran, Bahrain and Azerbaijan?
Shiite
‘Belladonna’ is an older name for which alkaloid that was once used to dilate the pupils of the
eyes for cosmetic reasons?
Atropine
‘Divot stamping’ is a half-time activity in which sport?
Polo
The American poet Longfellow popularised which word meaning ‘onward and upward’?
Excelsior
Cole Porter wrote ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ for which musical?
Anything Goes
Which Latin phrase is the opposite of ‘Ceteris Paribus’, meaning ‘all things being equal’?
Mutatis Mutandis
What was the name of Norman Stanley Fletcher’s daughter in ‘Porridge’?
Ingrid
What was the name of Fionn MaCoul’s wolfhound drowned by the Hag of the Waters?
Bran
Regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is the demigod son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and of Sadhbh (daughter of Bodb Dearg), and is the narrator of much of the cycle and composition of the poems are attributed to him.
Oisin
British Airways’ first scheduled flight of Concorde was from London to where?
Bahrain
Which branch of philosophy is the study of being and existence?
Ontology
In Welsh legend what was the name of Llywelyn’s faithful wolfhound?
Gelert
Which car manufacturer is based in Malvern in Worcestershire?
Morgan
The Canadian Maritime provinces have a francophone area known historically as what?
Acadia
Name the fictional school in Goodbye Mr Chips, whose name was later used for a farm in The
Archers.
Brookfield
In which country is Punta de Tarifa, the most southerly point of mainland Europe?
Spain
Which Essex town has a water tower nicknamed Jumbo?
Colchester
Which Yorkshire town has water towers nicknamed Salt and Pepper?
Goole
Buxton and Hereford both stand on a river called what?
Wye
Huddersfield and Watford both stand on a river called what?
Colne
Which college is named in Common People by Pulp?
St Martins
Which university is named in Peter Sarstedt’s Where Do You Go To My Lovely?
Sorbonne
Which Confederate ship was sunk in battle in Cherbourg in 1864?
Alabama
‘An Ordinary Copper’ was its theme music for most of the 21 years which series was broadcast?
Dixon of Dock Green
Who presented Police 5 from 1962 to 1992?
Shaw Taylor
Selfridge-Conway discrete procedure, Simmons’ protocol, and Stromquist moving-knives
procedure can be used to divide what?
Cake
‘Las Vegas’ was the theme to which series presented by Johnny Morris?
Animal Magic
Born 1983, South African stand-up and TV comedian. He is the co-creator and anchor of the late-night satirical news television series Late Nite News with ____________. Hosted Live at the Apollo and appeared.
Loyiso Gola
American actor, writer and comedian. He plays the leading role of Tim in the TV series Jerk, which he also co-wrote. Born in Mexico City 1989. Has cerebral palsy.
Tim Renkov
British comedian of Nigerian descent. In 2010, at the age of 25, he became the youngest black comedian to perform stand-up at the Hammersmith Apollo. Live at Apollo in 2022. In May 2020 appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and got a Golden Buzzer from Alesha Dixon which took him straight to the semi-final.
Nabil Abdulrashid
English stand up comedian, son of Jan Ravens. Has relationship with Jessie Cave and four kids.
Alfie Brown
Which 2022 Tyler Perry film does Brendan O’Carroll turn up in as a crossover with Mrs Browns Boys?
A Madea Homecoming
He is best known for portraying Rory Brown in Mrs Brown’s Boys from 2011 to 2017, and for starring in Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie in 2014. Since 2019, he has played John Bosco Walsh in the RTÉ soap opera Fair City.
Rory Cowan
a Church of England vicar in North Nottinghamshire, a role which she combines with her other roles of journalist, media presenter and reality television star, appeared on Gogglebox
Kate Bottley
Scottish television presenter and Invictus Games medallist. He was injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan in 2011, while serving as a Royal Marine.
JJ Chalmers
Fronted Islam, Women and Me, a BBC One documentary exploring the role of women in the religion. In August, she presented Lost Boys? What’s Going Wrong For Asian Men, which explored issues relating to British Pakistani men. Has presented Our Coast from 2020 with Adrian Chiles.
Mehreen Baig
Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, Tip Haddem in the BBC One comedy Jam & Jerusalem, and Yvonne Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Pauline McLynn
a Scottish entrepreneur, television personality and professional traveller. His blindness is due to the incurable eye condition retinitis pigmentosa. Born to Pakistani parents. Does travel shows. 2020 first blind person on Celeb Masterchef.
Amar Latif
British professional Paralympic table tennis player, ranked world number 1. He is the 2016 Summer Paralympics Games gold medallist and the 2014 World Champion.
Will Bayley
British blind skier who competes at international level for ParalympicsGB in alpine skiing in the slalom, giant slalom Super-G, super combined and Downhill events with a sighted guide, Brett Wild. She was the British flagbearer at Sochi in 2014 – her debut Paralympics - where, at the age of 15, she was the youngest person ever to compete for ParalympicsGB at the Winter Games. 2018 Pyeongchang silver in Downhill and Super G, Bronze in Slalom and also downhill bronze in 2022.
Millie Knight
She is best known for portraying the role of Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2017, when her character was killed off, alongside her on screen character’s sister Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack). In 2024, she would join the cast of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Marie Fielding.
Rita Simons
British TV and Radio Broadcaster who currently presents Sunday Breakfast on Magic FM as well as BBC television programme Escape to the Country, ITV’s Tonight and has her own segment on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch. She is well known for presenting the BBC’s children’s news programme Newsround from July 2006 until November 2011. Said on Pilgramage tv show is Jain.
Sonali Shah
series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian France. Pilgramage followed by the Pilgramage TV show.
Hiberno-Scottish mission
Columba was an Irish prince born in 521 and educated at the Bible school at which early medieval monastery situated on River Boyne in County Meath?
Clonard
an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae), probably written between 697 and 700. Also namesake law, known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Gaelic and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697.
Adomnan
In 634, King Oswald invited which Irish monk and missionary to the Northumbrian court to teach the doctrines of Celtic Christianity. Oswald granted him the island of Lindisfarne for a Bible school. Upon his death in 651, he was succeeded by Finan and then by Colman, both of whom had been educated at Iona.
Aidan
a long-distance footpath from Vienna to Istanbul. It is 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long. The path passes through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, East Macedonia and Thrace in northern Greece, and Turkey. Travelled on the Pilgramage tv show.
Sultans Trail
St Stephens Cathedral found in which European capital city? Not Basicilica.
Vienna (Basilica is Budapest)
He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in France, heralded as the patron saint of the Third Republic, and is patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe. A native of Pannonia (in present-day Hungary), he converted to Christianity at a young age.
Martin of Tours
She is best known for her portrayal of Mindy Chen on the Netflix comedy series Emily in Paris. She originated the role of Gretchen Wieners in the Broadway musical Mean Girls, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical. She also stars in Adele Lim’s directorial debut, Joy Ride, and has had recurring roles in Beef and Only Murders in the Building.
Ashley Park
She received critical acclaim for her dual role as Joy Wang and Jobu Tupaki in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019–2023). In Adele Lim’s debut movie Joy Ride.
Stephanie Hsu
an ancient road and pilgrimage route running from the cathedral city of Canterbury in England, through France and Switzerland, to Rome and then to Apulia, Italy, where there were ports of embarkation for the Holy Land. In medieval times it was an important road and pilgrimage route for those wishing to visit the Holy See and the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul.
Via Francigena
The Archbishop of Canterbury from 990 to 994, An account of his pilgrimage to Rome in 990 survives and is an important source for historians studying Rome during his lifetime.
Sigeric
a long-distance walking route in North Wales, running from near Holywell in the east to Bardsey Island (Welsh: Ynys Enlli) in the west. Featured on Tv show Pilgrimage.
North Wales Pilgrim’s Way
known as the legendary “Island of 20,000 Saints”, is located 1.9 miles (3.1 km) off the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The Welsh name means “The Island in the Currents”. The island is claimed to be the burial site of Merlin.
Bardsey Island
two headlands situated at either end of Llandudno Bay, in Conwy County Borough, Wales
Great and Little Orme
In 1962 the biggest selling single in the UK was recorded by a chap from the West Country and dedicated to his daughter Jenny. What instrument did he play?
Clarinet
(Acker Bilk playing Stranger on the Shore)
Which vehicle is often quoted in English law courts when describing someone who is a reasonably educated, intelligent but nondescript? It is used as a yardstick to determine whether a defendant’s conduct is reasonable?
Clapham omnibus
(as in ‘The Man on the Clapham Omnibus’)
Which New England dish is a traditional method of cooking seafood by steaming the ingredients over layers of seaweed in a pit oven?
Clambake
What is the 3-word name of the main river of Edinburgh that rises in the Pentland hills and flows into the Firth of Forth?
Water of Leith
What was the name of the Catalan architect who designed the much-lauded Scottish Parliament Building who sadly died before its opening?
Enric Miralles
The first recorded association of Valentine’s Day with romantic love is in the Parliament of Fowls by which English author?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Which recording artist of the 1920s, the highest-paid black entertainer of her day, was called the ‘Empress of the Blues’?
Bessie Smith
Recording artists of the 1920s was called the Mother of the Blues?
Ma Rainey
Written in 1992, the fifth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, and the final book released in the author Douglas Adam’s lifetime, is called what?
Mostly Harmless
Directed by Tarsem Singh, produced by Ram Bergman and James D Stern and written by Alex and David Pastor, which film tells the story of a business tycoon and billionaire diagnosed with a terminal illness who manages to save his own life by transferring his consciousness into a new, younger body. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, and Ben Kingsley among others.
Self/Less
Which Scottish bass guitar player was one of the founder members of the power trio Cream? He later played with many different bands – including one named after himself. He died in 2014.
Jack Bruce
The Sniper film series of 10 films to date, features Tom Berenger in 6 of them and Chad Michael Collins as his son in 7 of them. What is the surname that they share?
Beckett
(Master Gunnery Sergeant Tom Beckett and his son Brandon)
Born in 1902 and dying in 1985, who was ranked as the 7th best jockey of the 20th century? He was nicknamed ‘The Head Waiter’ due to his riding style of coming from behind in races? After a 27-year riding career, he became a great trainer in a 36 year career. In rhyming slang his name was widely used to mean a cigarette.
Harry Wragg
With the show LadsLadsLads reflecting on the breakdown of a relationship and its aftermath, which comedian married Australian comic Steen Raskopoulos in 2020?
Sara Pascoe
With stand-up shows based around an Ian Dury and The Blockheads song, finding people sharing his name, and internet search queries that yield a single result, which comedian is well-known for his extensive use of PowerPoint presentations in his shows?
Dave Gorman
Starting his television career in bi-lingual children’s television presenting, before becoming a regular panellist and host of comedy panel shows in the UK, which comedian and former student of mathematics and theoretical physics became a patron of the Stockport Plaza Theatre in 2022?
Dara Ó Briain
Henry VIII’s younger sister, Mary, married which King of France in 1514? (name and regnal number required)
Louis XII
His brother, Joey, plays linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers; Nick played in the 2024 Super Bowl as a defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers. What is their shared surname?
Bosa
Although only half as bright as Sirius, what is the name of the second brightest star in the night sky, also designated Alpha Carinae (pronouncevd ka-RY-nee)? It is too far south to be visible from Britain.
Canopus
Although readily visible from Britain, Sirius lies south of the celestial equator. Designated Alpha Boötis (pronounced Boh-OH-tis), what bright red star is the fourth brightest in the night sky and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere.
Arcturus
What are the names of these 2 gantry cranes that have become symbols of the city of Belfast?
Samson & Goliath
Which New York Yankees outfielder was ‘Rookie of the Year’ in 2017 and hit 62 Home runs in the 2022 season to break the 61-year-old record for this particular feat?
Aaron Judge
Which sinfonia begins Act 3 of the oratorio Solomon by Handel?
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Which national capital city, that Alexander Pushkin took residence in (after being exiled by Alexander I Russia) lies halfway between Istanbul and Minsk?
Chisinau
Which former capital city (noted for it’s historic and beautiful castle) lies almost exactly halfway between the cities of Lviv in Ukraine and Prague in Czech Republic?
Krakow
Oscar winning actress Julianne Moore made her film debut in which psychological thriller of 1992, in which her character dies horribly when a greenhouse is rigged to fall on her? The film takes its title from a poem by William Ross Wallace.
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
The early history of which UK retail chain, founded in 1908, was dramatised on ITV between 2013 and 2016?
Selfridges
What is the two-word collective term, corresponding to the cardinal directions, used by Tolkien for the sub-divsions of The Shire region of Middle Earth?
(Punny clue) This could describe objects from the county town of Angus.
Four Farthings
(Forfar things)
Which composer and songwriter was the first winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1949?
Cole Porter
With the Lion as its school mascot, which of the Ivy League Universities has the greatest number of students? Although it’s home to 30,000 students, its namesake has a lot more residents!
Columbia
Cardinal Richelieu studied at which academic institute, named after the French nobleman (and chaplain of Louis IX) who founded it in the year that Simon De Montfort returned from exile in Gascony?
The Sorbonne
The University of San Marco in Lima, Peru is the oldest University in South America, and was founded in 1552 by which person, a direct first cousin of Queen Mary I of England who would come to the throne the following year?
Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
A live turtle usually found in Florida and the southern states was found in The Lake District last week. Named for part of its diet (although it mainly eats fish), of what ‘snapping turtle’ species was the ironically named ‘Fluffy’?
Alligator (Snapping Turtle)
What fruit is used to make the Maltese red coloured sweet liquor known as Bajtra?
Prickly Pear
Which rock guitarist was born William George Perks in Lewisham in 1936?
Bill Wyman
Which biscuit company was founded in Leith in 1813 and was taken over by United Biscuits in 1960? The company was known for selling its wares in decorative biscuit tins one of which was sold at auction for over £15,000 in 2007.
Crawfords
Which Royal hunting lodge later to become a royal residence is located roughly 35 miles to the south-east of Paris? It has been the Royal Palace for French monarchs from Louis 7th to Napoleon 3rd.
Fontainebleau
Which country singer who died in 2020 had a hit with New Edition in 1969 with Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town and had more than 120 hit singles in all?
Kenny Rogers
Which publication offering predictions of world and sporting events, first published in this country by a physician and astrologer in 1697, is still published annually?
Old Moore’s Almanack
Which French Duchy, centred on Bourges, was created as a source of revenue for junior members of the French royal family? The style Duke was later granted by several Bourbon monarchs for their grandsons.
Duchy of Berry
Who, along with Sarah Dallin, is the only constant member of Bananarama, both having been a part of the group since 1979?
Keren Woodward
What type of product uses CMA (calcium magnesium acetate) as a more environmentally friendy alternative to sodium chloride and calcium chloride?
De-icer
What is the term for the killing of a god?
Deicide
The German NATO phonetic alphabet is almost the same in Austria and Germany. However there are two different words for ‘K’ (Kilo). One shares its name with at least 4 early mediaeval German kings and the christian name of one post-war Chancellor. The other is the German word for ‘merchant’. Name both.
Konrad and Kaufmann
There are also two different German and Austrian NATO phonetic words for ‘S’ (Sierra). One is a Wagnerian hero; the other is the Biblical son of Hannah and Elkanah. Name both.
Siegfried and Samuel
Which composer’s music was orchestrated by Respighi and used in the ballet La Boutique Fantasque? The same composer’s music was used by Britten in his Soirée Musicale.
Rossini
Widely publicised in the British press which Asian country’s football association sacked Jürgen Klinsmann after the side was knocked out of the Asian cup semi-finals by Jordan?
South Korea
Which left-leaning book publisher was founded in 1927 and specialised in the publication of high-quality literature, non-fiction, and popular fiction? The founder pioneered the Left Book Club which offered members a monthly book choice.
(Victor) Gollancz
BookTok: a fantasy novel by author Olivie Blake. It is the first of a trilogy and follows six powerful young magic users who have the chance to join the secretive Alexandrian Society. The novel was originally self-published via Kindle in early 2020 before it was acquired by Tor Books after a seven-way auction.
The Atlas Six
a series by American author Sarah J. Maas, which follows the journey of Feyre Archeron after she is brought into the faerie lands of Prythian. Named after first in series.
A Court of Thorn and Roses
a high fantasy novel series by American author Sarah J. Maas, beginning with the entry of the same name, released in August 2012. The story follows the journey of Celaena Sardothien, a teenage assassin in a corrupt kingdom with a tyrannical ruler, the King of Adarlan. As the tale progresses, Celaena forms unexpected bonds and uncovers a conspiracy amidst her adventures.
Throne of Glass
Sci-fi fantasy book released January 2024 by Sarah Maas, part of the Crescent City series, Bryce Quinlan finds herself in another world.
House of Flame and Shadow
American author. She is best known for the Empyrean fantasy book series consisting of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame.
Rebecca Yarros
Ice Planet Barbarians is a series of science fantasy romance/erotica novels by which author? Start of a long series of Barbarian themed titles.
Ruby Dixon
Name of 2022 sequel to It Ends with Us 2016 novel by Colleen Hoover.
It Starts with Us
an American writer. She is known for the 2013 novel Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which was nominated for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. She is the creator of the supernatural teen drama series First Kill, based on her short story of the same name originally published in the 2020 anthology Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite.
V E Schwab
A fantasy novel by the American author V. E. Schwab. It was published by Tor Books on October 6, 2020. The story follows a young French woman in 1714 who makes a bargain with the Dark that makes her immortal, but curses her to be forgotten by everyone she meets. It was widely praised and nominated for the 2021 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
She is best known for the young adult fantasy series, Lightlark, and the middle-grade fantasy series, Emblem Island.
Alex Aster
a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published September 14, 2021 by Berkley Books. Originally published online in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a Star Wars fan fiction work about the “Reylo” ship between Rey and Kylo Ren, the novel follows a Ph.D. candidate and a professor at Stanford University who pretend to be in a relationship.
The Love Hypothesis
an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.
Ottessa Moshfegh
historical fiction novel by American author Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Atria Books in 2017. The novel tells the story of the fictional Old Hollywood star title character, who, at age 79, gives a final interview to an unknown journalist, Monique Grant.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Name of Leigh Bardugo’s universe containing trilogies such as Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows duology, King of Scars duology.
The Grishaverse
a young adult novel written by American author Adam Silvera and published on September 5, 2017, by HarperTeen. It is Silvera’s third novel and focuses on two teenage boys, Mateo and Rufus, who discover that they only have one day left to live.
They Both Die at the End
Author of BookTok includes These Violent Delights series, Foul Lady Fortune series, Flesh and False Gods series.
Chloe Gong
a 2014 psychological horror young-adult novel by E. Lockhart. focuses on the theme of consequences of one’s mistakes. It is centered on the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family, the four “Liars” (Cadence, Johnny, Gat and Mirren) re-emerge two years later to prompt Cadence to remember the incident.
We Were Liars
What salad dressing is a mixture of mayonnaise, garlic, sour cream, anchovies, chives, and scallions? The most accepted theory regarding its origins points to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1923, when the hotel’s executive chef Philip Roemer wanted something to pay tribute to actor George Arliss and his hit play.
Green goddess dressing
literally “Japanese-style dressing”, is a vinaigrette-type salad dressing based on tosazu (a kind of Japanese vinegar), popular in Japan. Consists of a mixture of Japanese soy sauce, rice vinegar, mirin, and vegetable oil.
Wafu
a salad dressing based on mayonnaise, to which red chili sauce, minced green onions, and minced green chili peppers have been added. It is commonly used as a dressing for salads featuring seafood, such as a crab (Crab _____) or Shrimp (Shrimp _______). Original salad made with Dungeness crab.
Louis dressing
Metacarcinus magister, makes up one of the most important seafood industries in the range it inhabits along the west coast of North America, grows up to 20cm, name comes from namesake spit in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington state.
Dungeness Crab
Coming from Ancient Greek for “to take off or strip off”, the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates, such as crabs when they moult their hard shells and become teneral.
Ecdysis
the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development, the stage in which the insect attains maturity. It follows the final ecdysis of the immature instars.
Imago
From Latin for “form, likeness”, what term is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached?
Instar
The crown of thorns placed on the head of Christ during his crucifixion was kept in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris until 2019 when it was rescued from a fire and moved to which location?
Louvre
Who starred as King Arthur in the 2005 Broadway debut and 2006 West End debut of the musical Spamalot?
Tim Curry
John Grimes is the protagonist in 1930s Harlem in which debut novel by author James Baldwin?
Go Tell It On The Mountain
In the game of chess, which pieces begin at squares c1, f1, c8, and f8?
Bishops
While attending the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which American bought the exhibit’s machinery used for German chocolate production?
Milton Hershey
Adjacent to the Clayborn Temple, the I AM A MAN Plaza is where sanitation workers gathered in which city during their pivotal 1968 strike in protest of working conditions?
Memphis
By what name is a baby guinea pig called?
Pup
Which guitarist for Guns N’ Roses 2000-04 played a custom-built Jackson KFC KV2 Custom V electric guitar?
Buckethead
In a nursery rhyme, Little Johnny Flynn put pussy in the well. Who pulled her out?
Little Tommy Stout
Who was the only cast member of the 1958 film The Fly to appear in the 1959 sequel The Return of the Fly?
Vincent Price
Which pagan emperor came into power in Rome in 361, after his cousin, Constantius II died suddenly, on his way to battle, and died two years later when he took a spear to the stomach?
Julius
He began to compose operettas in 1894, producing several successes, including The Serenade (1897) and The Fortune Teller (1898). Some of the operettas that he wrote after the turn of the 20th century were even more successful: Babes in Toyland (1903), Mlle. Modiste (1905), The Red Mill (1906), Naughty Marietta (1910), Sweethearts (1913) and Eileen (1917)…
Victor Herbert
What is the name of the three-headed dragon that battled Godzilla?
King Ghidorah
What jazz fusion group founded in 1972 by pianist Chick Corea featured Stanley Clarke on bass?
RETURN TO FOREVER
What composition by John Philip Sousa is the official march of the U.S. Marine Corps?
SEMPER FIDELIS
In a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, what milkmaid cannot decide between her suitors Bunthorne or Gosvenor?
PATIENCE
What crepe material is named after an early 20th century French dressmaker with the surname de la Plante?
Georgette
What meat is used in the Rajasthani spicy curry dish laal maas?
Mutton
Peter Fleming won 52 career doubles titles with which male tennis partner?
John McEnroe
Which female singer was the duet partner of Zach Bryan on the 2023 country hit “I Remember Everything”?
Kacey Musgraves
Although its population has shrunk from 466,000 in 1989 to 270,000 in 2021, what is still the most populous city north of the Arctic Circle?
Murmansk
What “Z” word is used for a Japanese meditation hall?
Zendo
Which city has been the home of Pearly Kings and Queens since the 19th century?
London
Which Wizard of Oz character shares their name with a 1985 album by John Cougar Mellencamp?
Scarecrow
The annual Boloencierro of Mataelpino, where participants try to outrun a giant polystyrene ball, takes place in which country?
Spain
What bird completes the title of the 2018 Jennifer Lawrence film, Red ___?
Sparrow
According to a song title by Craig David, what should the DJ do “when the crowd say Bo Selecta”?
Rewind
Which river is joined by the river Arve in Geneva before crossing into France?
Rhone
Princess Eléonore, who was born in 2008, is currently fourth in line to the throne of which country?
Belgium
In which Italian city would you find the Ambrosiana Museum and Library?
Milan
Which Danish beer brand comes in Green, Red, White, and Gold varieties?
Tuborg
Which 1980s Australian soap followed the lives of the Hamiltons of Sydney and the Palmers of Melbourne?
Sons and Daughters
Which ship took Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton to Antarctica in 1901?
RRS Discovery
Which Balkan country, famous for cultivating the Damask Rose, produces 70% of the world’s rose oil?
Bulgaria
Which Irish sport is the subject of Eimear Ryan’s memoir The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport?
Camogie
Which Roy Orbison song begins with the lines “A candy-coloured clown they call the Sandman, Tiptoes to my room every night”?
In Dreams
What is the name given to the syndrome where the heart suddenly returns to normal activity after an individual has been pronounced dead?
Lazarus Syndrome
Which international film festival hands out Teddy Awards?
Berlin International Film Festival (LGBT films)
What was the name of Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth plane that she flew from England to Australia in 1930?
Jason I
What pet can come in Fancy, Dumbo, and Rex varieties?
Rat
Which duo had a 1997 hit album titled Postcards From Heaven?
Lighthouse Family
In a game of singles lawn bowls, how many bowls does each player deliver per end?
4
In Greek mythology, which nymph was transformed by Zeus into a bear and was set among the stars as Ursa Major as she was about to be killed by her son?
Callisto
named after an Italian physician, Banti’s syndrome is characterised by the congestive enlargement of what organ that acts as a blood filter?
Spleen
Kreuzberg is known for its large percentage of immigrants. It is a district of which European capital city?
Berlin
Created in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare, which Yahoo! Inc-owned global online newspaper focuses on high-tech and startup companies? It is also known for its annual Disrupt technology conference.
TechCrunch
From the Ancient Greek for “love” or “affection”, what term, also known as familial love, refers to natural or instinctual affection?
Storge
Richard Hendricks, played by Thomas Middleditch, is the founder and CEO of Pied Piper in what HBO comedy TV series that aired from 2014 to 2019?
Silicon Valley
Also known as ebullition and a type of vaporisation, what do you call the phase transition from liquid to gas?
Boiling
Disfellowshipping is the equivalent of excommunication in which Christian denomination? People who have been disfellowshipped may be reinstated if they are considered repentant by the denomination’s judicial committee.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
In the US version of House of Cards, Frank Underwood served as a member of the House of Representatives representing which state’s 5th district?
South Carolina
Which European country’s head of government is reportedly placed on the Russian Interior Ministry’s register of wanted people in February 2024 due to this country’s removal of Soviet war memorials?
Estonia
In the 2016 referendum, Gibraltar polled the highest remain vote at 95.9%, but which town, home to a semi-pro football club known as The Pilgrims, had the highest leave vote at 75.6%?
Boston
Which landlocked English county borders Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands County, Worcestershire, and Shropshire?
Staffordshire
Which family-owned business was founded in Windermere in the 1950s selling farming accessories and freezer bags and now has 70 shops up and down the country?
Lakeland
Which Italian word meaning little rags might mean a soft cheese from Apulia, a soup to which beaten eggs have been added, or an ice cream with melted chocolate beaten into it?
Stracciatella
Featuring in the title of a UK number 1 for The Rolling Stones, which two-word phrase, originally meaning what might politely be called a bordello, can be used for a bar where a certain type of country music is played, the music itself, or the type of piano on which the music is played?
Honky Tonk
The name of which soup is derived from Provencal words meaning to boil and to simmer?
Bouillabaisse
In which film made in 2000 based on a book by Nick Hornby does Bruce Springsteen make a cameo appearance?
High Fidelity
Which is the only member of NATO with no standing army?
Iceland
Which composer’s score for Emma was a new entry in the 2023 Classic FM Hall
of Fame? She also composed film soundtracks for Chocolat and The Cider House Rules.
Rachel Portman
One might travel by narrowboat from Shardlow in Derbyshire to Middlewich via a northern English canal named after which two rivers?
Trent and Mersey
Which fly-half is the leading points scorer for Wales in rugby union Internationals?
He amassed over 1000 points between 1990 and 2003.
Neil Jenkins
Which 1961 film starred Dirk Bogarde as a barrister who is blackmailed regarding an affair with a younger man? It is considered the first British film to offer a sympathetic portrayal of homosexuality, which was illegal at the time.
Victim
Which politician served as Leader of Plaid Cymru from 2012–18, between the
spells of Ieuan Wyn Jones and Adam Price in that role? She was the first woman to lead her party.
Leanne Wood
In English land law, what general term is given to rights that one person has over another’s land, for example rights of way, rights of light, or rights to use service conduits that run through the other’s land?
Easement
Which Nigerian-American economist has served as Director General of the World
Trade Organisation since 2021?
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
What Greek-derived term refers to increasing muscle mass by increasing the size
of the muscle cells? Training with this aim typically involves more repetitions at a
lower level of intensity than strength training.
Muscle Hypertrophy
Which Nigerian footballer was the only African nominee in the 2023 Ballon d’Or Feminin? She plays for Barcelona and has won African Women’s Footballer of the Year five times.
Asisat Oshoala
In what industrial process is electrolysis applied to brine yielding equivalent amounts
of chlorine and sodium hydroxide as well as hydrogen? The Castner-Kellner process
is a specific implementation of this method.
Chloralkali Process
In April 2023, which Baltimore Ravens quarterback signed a five-year contract worth
$260 million, making him the highest-paid player in the NFL?
Lamar Jackson
Which tree, which produces edible nuts and reddish fruits, contains catechols in its oil
that cause allergic phyto·dermatitis in many of the people engaged in harvesting it?
Cashews
In 2023 the American Dialect Society chose which word, coined by writer Cory Doctorow, as their Word of the Year? It refers to the decreasing quality over time of online platforms like Amazon or Google, and is a more vulgar synonym of the concept of ‘platform decay’.
Enshittification
Named for an affluent neighbourhood of Lagos, Jeremy Chan is head chef at which restaurant that is located on The Strand? It has two Michelin stars, and featured in Restaurant magazine’s 2023 list of top 50 world restaurants.
Ikoyi
What term, derived from the Greek for “more” and “measure”, refers to exercises
that involve short, intense bursts of activity that target fast-twitch muscle fibres in
the lower body? This helps athletes develop explosive power and speed.
Plyometrics
In English land law, a lease of property may be distinguished from what type of interest in land, which grants someone personal authority to act on another’s land without granting any possessory interest in the land?
Licence
Two Irish players have scored over 1000 points in rugby union Internationals. They are Johnny Sexton and which fly-half who scored 1083 points between 2000 and ‘13?
Ronan O’Gara
Which 1961 film starred Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Maclaine as teachers
accused of being in a lesbian relationship? It is based on a Lillian Hellman play.
The Children’s Hour
Which Australian-born politician led the Green Party of England and Wales from
2012–16, when she was replaced by Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley?
Natalie Bennett
One might travel by narrowboat from Bath to Newbury via a southern English
canal named after which two rivers?
Kennet and Avon
Which river’s sources are the Marico and Crocodile rivers? It forms South Africa’s
border with Botswana and Zimbabwe before flowing through Mozambique. It names
a province of South Africa and is the second-largest river to flow into the Indian
Ocean after the Zambezi.
Limpopo
In 2016 the American Dialect Society chose which two word phrase, referring to a catastrophically bad situation such as that arising from that year’s Presidential Election, as their Word of the Year? It derives from a review of a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which described the film as “stinky but insignificant”.
Dumpster Fire
Isaac McHale is head chef at which restaurant that serves modern British food and is
located in Shoreditch Town Hall? It has two Michelin stars, and featured in Restaurant magazine’s 2023 list of top 50 world restaurants.
The Clove Club
In April 2023, which Philadelphia Eagles quarterback signed a five-year contract
worth $255 million making him (for ten days) the highest-paid player in the NFL?
Jalen Hurts
Which invasive plant species that resembles oversized cow parsley has a sap
containing furano·coumarin which causes phyto·photo·dermatitis resulting in
blistering if it makes contact with the skin and sunlight? Two-word answer required.
Giant Hogweed
Named for a chemist, which process, developed in the 1860s, efficiently produces sodium carbonate from salt and limestone by using ammonia in a reaction cycle?
Solvay Process
Not to be confused with the Primate of Ireland, a title held by the Archbishop of
Dublin, the Primate of All Ireland is a title used by both the Roman Catholic and
Church of Ireland Archbishops of which city?
Armagh
Which Jamaican footballer was the highest placed nominee from North America in
the 2023 Ballon d’Or Feminin? She moved to Manchester City from Bordeaux in
2021.
Khadija Shaw
Pule cheese, supposedly the world’s most expensive cheese, is made in Serbia using 40% goat’s milk and 60% the milk of which other animal, not normally associated with cheesemaking?
Donkey
Sharing its name with a town in Kent, what is the most populous US city that sits
on Lake Ontario?
Rochester
Taking place in March in California, which tennis tournament is the best-attended outside the four Grand Slams? It forms part of the “Sunshine Double” with the Miami Open.
Indian Wells
Sometimes called “soft hail” or “snow pellets”, which form of frozen water is formed
when supercooled droplets crystallise onto a falling snowflake in a process called “riming”?
Graupel (or Hominy
Snow)
Used in hip-hop songs such as Straight Outta Compton, which widely-sampled fourbar drum break originates from a 1969 track by American soul group The Winstons?
Amen Break
Founded by Ken Griffin, which hedge fund’s name is also a 7-letter word meaning the
most fortified part of a town or city, such as the Acropolis of athens?
Citadel
Which Essex church, the last to be disbanded during the dissolution of the
monasteries, is said to house the grave of Harold Godwinson in its churchyard?
Waltham Abbey
The oldest known manuscript of the Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, was discovered at
which oldest continually-inhabited monastery in the world, located in the Sinai desert?
Saint Catherine’s Monastery
Which freshwater bay in the Netherlands was formed when the Zuiderzee was closed
off from the North Sea by the Afsluitdijk? It is separated from the Markermeer by the Houtribdijk.
IJsselmeer (Eye-sell-meer)
Usually known by a five-letter mononym, which Barcelona and Spain midfielder won the 2021 Kopa Trophy for the best football player under 21? He was sidelined from August to November 2023 with a hamstring injury.
Pedri
Which daughter of Susana Higuchi became First Lady of Peru after her father stripped Susana of the title in 1994 for accusing him of kidnapping and torture during his campaign against the Shining Path guerillas?
KEIKO SOFIA Fujimori
Jugemu is one of the most popularly performed works in what form of Japanese spoken entertainment? This form of entertainment features a single storyteller and is
traditionally performed in yose theatres.
Rakugo
Which Levantine dish is a baked flatbread topped with minced meat, vegetables
and herbs? Kim Kardashian was criticised by Turkish internet users for referring
to it as “Armenian pizza”.
Lahmacun
Who performed the David Hare-written monologue Beat the Devil about Hare’s
experience contracting COVID-19? This actor and Hare had previously collaborated on a 2008 movie directed by Stephen Daldry and based on a book by Bernhard Schlink.
Ralph Fiennes
Currently the largest cruise ship afloat, Icon of the Seas was built in which former
capital of Finland, located at the mouth of the River Aura?
Turku
In which author’s novel Falling Man does Keith Neudecker return to his estranged wife Lianne after surviving the 9/11 attacks? This author also chose a picture of the World Trade Center as the cover of his 1997 novel Underworld.
Don DeLillo
Which Downing Street Chief of Staff under Gordon Brown went on to serve for six
years as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, until he was controversially removed from the position by Liz Truss in September 2022?
Tom Scholar
What is the shared surname of the sisters Hanna and Elvira who made up half
the gold medal-winning Swedish biathlon relay team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing?
Oberg
Chun Hyang Ga is one of the most popular works in what genre of Korean musical storytelling whose performances feature a singer and a drummer?
Pansori
Also found at Saint Catherine’s Monastery was a notable palimpsest containing a translation of the gospels into which language? The Peshitta is the standard version of the Bible in this language, which appears along with Chinese on the Xi’an stele.
SYRIAC (or Syrian Aramaic)
Which youngest province of the Netherlands was established in 1986 by the
administrative merger of two namesake polders in the IJsselmeer with Nordoostpolder?
Flevoland
Founded by Ray Dalio, which largest hedge fund by assets under management should not be confused with a popular British ceramicist whose first name is Emma?
Bridgewater
Which abbey in east London was founded by St Erkenwald for his sister Saint Ethelburga? It is often regarded as one of the most important centres of literary culture for women in Medieval Britain, and Thomas Becket’s sister was made its
abbess as reparation for the murder of her brother.
Barking Abbey
What word follows “rain” in the name of an effect where places such as the Atacama desert, which have a mountain range between them and a water source, are protected from rain?
Shadow
Taking place in March at the Sawgrass development in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Florida, which men’s golf tournament is sometimes called the “Fifth Major”?
The Players Championship
What form of frozen water is snow that has partially melted, refrozen and
compacted? Often found at the top of a glacier, it can be further compacted to form firn.
Neve
A 1973 version of which song by the Incredible Bongo Band has been called “Hip Hop’s National Anthem”, as its long percussion break has been sampled on so many tracks? A version of this song by The Shadows topped the UK singles chart in 1960.
Apache
What is the shared surname of the Norwegian brothers Tarjei [TAR-YE] and
Johannes Thingnes who finished first and second in the 10 km sprint at the 2023
biathlon world championships?
Bo
Which soprano was nicknamed “The Swedish nightingale”?
Jenny Lind
The largest cruise ship afloat until 2023, Wonder of the Seas was built in which town at the mouth of the Loire River, whose Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard also built the SS Normandie?
St Nazaire
In which author’s novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close does Oskar Schell find
a mysterious key after his father is killed in the 9/11 attacks?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Which small thin bone found in the medial plane of the human skull separates the left and right nasal cavities?
Vomer
Which Central European empire was dissolved by Francis II of the House of Hapsburg in 1806 following the defeat of Austria by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz?
Holy Roman Empire
Which Georgian dish, also popular in Armenia, is a leavened bread whose centre
is filled with cheese and eggs?
Khachapuri
The Baháʼí World Centre and the Shrine of the Báb are among the sacred sites located in Haifa on which mountain in Israel?
Mount Carmel
Alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos belong to which family of the order Artiodactyla?
Animals in this family produce unusual antibodies which lack a light chain.
Camelids
Who is the US Olympic men’s basketball team’s all-time leader in points? Like Kevin Durant, he has three gold medals, but unlike Durant he also took a bronze medal in 2004.
Carmelo Anthony
He is best known to international audiences for his roles as Ryuji Takayama in Ring (1998), Seibei Iguchi in The Twilight Samurai (2002), Ujio in The Last Samurai (2003), Kenji in Rush Hour 3 (2007), and Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion in Mortal Kombat (2021). Now Lord Yoshii Toranaga in Shogun (Tokugawa Ieyasu fictionalised).
Hiroyuki Sanada
Who played the title character Dr James Kildare in Kildare? He subsequently appeared in several miniseries, such as Shōgun (1980) as original John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis in new one) and The Thorn Birds (1983) and was the first to play Jason Bourne in the 1988 television film The Bourne Identity.
Richard Chamberlain
American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967). He also had the title roles in three other series: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; O’Hara, U.S. Treasury and Harry O.
David Janssen
His career breakthrough came with leading roles as Rollin Hand in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977). Won an Oscar for a 1994 film.
Martin Landau
Actress who plays Laura Holt, a private investigator who starts her own business alongside Pierce Brosnan in Remington Steele? Father was Efrem Jr Golden Globe nominated.
Stephanie Zimbalist
American actor who portrayed Jim Phelps in the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 and in its revival from 1988 to 1990. His elder brother was actor James Arness (known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke). He also played airline pilot Captain Clarence Oveur in the 1980 comedy film Airplane! and its 1982 sequel Airplane II: The Sequel.
Peter Graves
Kojak played by Telly Savalas (real name Aristotelis) has which real name?
Lt. Theo
Who played Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu? Nominated for Golden Globe.
David Carradine
Who played John-Boy Walton in The Waltons? Nominated for Golden Globe.
Richard Thomas
He was best known for starring in the 1967 film In Cold Blood, playing the title role in the late 1970s television series Baretta, and playing the Mystery Man in the 1997 film Lost Highway.
Robert Blake
Recreating the role of Mitch in the 1951 film of Streetcar, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 1972 to 1977, he portrayed the leading role of Lt. Mike Stone in the primetime television crime drama The Streets of San Francisco. Nominated for BSA for On the Waterfront too.
Karl Malden
best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. He is also widely known for his role as Tom Zarek in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
Richard Hatch
Which actor played Blake Carrington on Dynasty for years and won two Golden Globes and nominated loads more?
John Forsythe
Which actor who was in Prison Break was Golden Globe nominated for playing Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer?
Stacy Keach
He is best known for playing police captain Frank Furillo in the television drama series Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) for which he received a Golden Globe Award from five nominations, and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from five nominations.
Daniel Travanti
Don Johnson’s character in Miami Vice for which he won a Golden Globe?
Sonny Crockett
1979-93: A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives of four married couples living on a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle.
Knots Landing
He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record “The Impossible Dream”, the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and, as such, was one of the quartet who sang “And This Is My Beloved”. Won Golden Globe in 1987 for A Year in the Life.
Richard Kiley
He is best known for his roles as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans , a role he reprised in 2007’s Santa Monica Studio video game God of War II, and as Michael Kuzak in the legal drama series L.A. Law, for which he received three Golden Globe nominations. For his recurring role as Jim Cutler on the AMC drama series Mad Men.
Harry Hamlin
He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker (for which he won four Emmy Awards), the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker’s Place (1979–1983). He later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William “Bill” Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You.
Carroll O’Connor
He is known for his portrayal of Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure, a role that garnered him three Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, and later for his role as FBI agent Don Eppes on Numb3rs.
Rob Morrow
He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–1998, 2000). He is also known for his roles as Richard “Fitz” Fitzpatrick in the show Call Me Fitz (2010–2013) and for his role as Matt Shade in the Canadian series Private Eyes (2016–2021).
Jason Priestley
Who won 1993 Golden Globe for playing John Kelly in NYPD Blue?
David Caruso (later played Horatio Caine in CSI Miami)
He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s–1990s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s–2000s police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing, and for appearing in Switch (1991), My Family (1995), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), and In the Heights (2021). Bail Organa in Star Wars franchise.
Jimmy Smits
Who played Mark Greene in ER, Golden Globe winner? He has appeared in various films and television series, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Top Gun, Zodiac, Gotcha!, Miracle Mile, Revenge of the Nerds, Planes, Northern Exposure and Designated Survivor.
Anthony Edwards
American legal drama television series created by David E. Kelley centering on partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show ran for eight seasons on ABC, from March 4, 1997, to May 16, 2004. It won an Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Outstanding Drama Series, and spawned the spin-off series Boston Legal, which ran for five more seasons (from 2004 to 2008). Dylan McDermott won GG playing Bobby Donnell in 1998.
The Practice
Andre Braugher first nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 in what American medical drama where he plays Ben ______?
Gideon’s Crossing
Who was nominated Golden Globe in 2001, starring as Pittsburgh corporate attorney Nick Fallin, with Dabney Coleman as his father and boss in The Guardian?
Simon Baker
Michael Chiklis played which character winning a Golden Globe it is The Shield?
Vic Mackey
For his starring role as Jack Malone on the American television crime drama series Without a Trace (2002–09), he received a Golden Globe Award in 2004 and a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Simon Moon on the television sitcom Frasier (2000–04).
Anthony LaPaglia
an American pimp and entertainment entrepreneur who ran the Gem Theater, a notorious brothel, in Deadwood, South Dakota, for 22 years during the late 19th century. Played by Ian McShane as he won golden globe Deadwood in 2004.
Al Swearengen
Denis Leary played Tommy Gavin in which series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters? 2004-11
Rescue Me
Which son of a former Australian PM was nominated for GG for Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck?
Julian McMahon
Who played Alan Shore in Boston Legal nominated for GG in 2004?
James Spader
The series stars Kelsey Grammer as Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, a degenerative neurological disorder. 2011-12 - Grammer won GG Best Actor 2011.
Boss
Jeremy Irons played which Pope and nominated for GG in 2011 for The Borgias?
Pope Alexander VI
Liev Schrieber nominated for GG five years runnings for which American crime drama television series created by Ann Biderman for Showtime. The twelve-episode first season premiered on June 30, 2013.
Ray Donovan
James Spader played Raymond “Red” Reddington over eight seasons and nominated GG twice 2013/14 for what series?
The Blacklist
Billy Bob Thornton won GG in 2016 for which legal drama playing Billy McBride?
Goliath
he rose to prominence upon winning a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role as track and field sprinter Jesse Owens in the 2016 film Race, In 2018, he starred in Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed drama film If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name. Also that year, he portrayed Walter Cruz in the Amazon series Homecoming, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nominatio
Stephan James
Billy Porter’s character name in Pose, nominated for GG in 2018, 2019, 2021?
Pray Tell
Korean actor nominated for GG for Squid Game in 2021?
Lee Jung-jae
Who was nominated for golden globe in 2022 for Cassian Andor in Andor?
Diego Luna
Katherine “Kate” Wyler The Diplomat
Felicity Porter Felicity (won GG)
Elizabeth Jennings The Americans
Which actress?
Keri Russell
American crime drama television series created by Tom McCarthy for ABC, starring Hilary Swank as a journalist seeking a fresh start in Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska Daily
She gained wide recognition for her role as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, 2020 played Shirley Chisholm in the Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, for which she won a Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, nominated GG in 2021 for In Treatment.
Uzo Aduba
Who was GG nominated in 2021 for Diane Lockhart in The Good Fight?
Christine Baranski
Irish actress and model. She is best known for her starring role as Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander (2014–present). Her performance in Belfast (2021) earned her nominations for the Golden Globe and British Academy Film Awards.
Caitriona Balfe
She had her breakthrough starring as Hannah Baker in the Netflix television series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2018), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. She then appeared in the films Love, Simon (2018) and Knives Out (2019), and headlined the dark comedy Spontaneous (2020) and the Netflix series Cursed (2020).
Katherine Langford
2017-19 features a large ensemble cast including James Franco playing twins and Maggie Gyllenhaal as an ambitious former prostitute who works to become an adult filmmaker. It tells the story of the Golden Age of Porn.
The Deuce
starring role as Carol Hathaway in the NBC medical drama series ER (1994–2009), In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the CBS legal drama series The Good Wife (2009–2016), currently stars as Laura Peterson in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2021–present).
Julianna Margulies
She is known for her role as Piper Chapman on the Netflix original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019).
Taylor Schilling
GG nominated for Orphan Black and also done She Hulk since?
Tatiana Maslany
What name is given to a bathroom with 2 doors
and is usually accessible from 2 bedrooms?
Jack and Jack Bathroom
What interior design style shows a worn, lived in
look?
Shabby Chic
What name originally a trade name, is given to
an embossed, patterned wallpaper intended to
be painted?
Anaglypta
What is the common name of the Teflon tape
used to wrap around pipe threads to prevent
leaks from joints?
PTFE
Where in the house would you find the
midfeathers?
Chimney (where
the flues join)
In which British county is Warkworth Castle?
Northumberland
What is the current name of the spherical arena
in Stockholm previously known as the Ericcson
Globe and Globe Arena? It was renamed after
a Swedish DJ?
Avicii Globe
What is the current name of the culture centre
situated in Gateshead previously called The
Sage
The Glasshouse
What is the name of the statue comprising 180
spikes which was situated outside the Etihad
Stadium?
B of the Bang
A diamond trade centre located in DREAM City, Surat, Gujarat, India, designed by the architecture firm Morphogenesis. It is the world’s largest diamond trading hub with a floor space of 660,000 square metres (7,100,000 sq ft), as well as the world’s largest office building, ahead of The Pentagon.
Surat Diamond Bourse
What is the most westerly part of the British
Mainland?
Ardnamurchan Point
In which city would you find Pulteney Bridge?
Bath
Where would you find the Callanish stones?
Isle of Lewis
What was the name of the Christmas song
recorded by Johnny Mathis, Boney M, Sarah
Brightman and Susan Boyle amongst others?
When a Child is Born
Which Dutch band recorded the 1971 progressive rock album ‘Song of the Marching Children’?
Earth and Fire
In which year did Blue Peter first air on TV?
1958
In the The Karate Kid films, which character is
played by Ralph Macchio?
Daniel LaRusso
How many milk teeth does a child typically have?
20
What do the letters EMI stand for in this company now owned by Warner Music?
Electric and Musical Industries
Which international restaurant chain founded in
London in 1971 covers its walls with rock and roll memorabilia?
Hard Rock Cafe
Which company manufactures the Forester and
Outbeck cars?
Subaru
In which town would you find the ‘Bank of Dave’?
Burnley
Other than Mallard, the only existing LNER A4 Pacific steam locomotive named after a bird. The
male’s low pitched call can be heard over RSPB Leighton Moss in May & June.
Bittern
Bourbon is an American whisky made using newly fermented corn. If the process started with previously fermented corn, what is the name of the drink produced?
Sour Mash
The Patagonian toothfish was rebranded to a more well known, more marketable name. What is it?
Chilean Seabass
Known for his tough guy/gangster roles, who won the 1943 Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the musical “Yankee Doodle Dandy”?
James Cagney
Black Beauty had two horse companions during his time at Birtwick Park – one who helped him pull a carriage and a small pony belonging to his master’s children. What were their names?
Ginger and Merrylegs
The British wrestler, Peter Thornley, was known by which name professionally? Active mid-1970s and the turn of the 1980s – 1990s.
Kendo Nagasaki
Which studio album by The Beatles featured Taxman, Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby?
Revolver
First used by opponents of US President Andrew Jackson, what term was used for Harold Wilson’s inner circle of advisors in the 1960s?
Kitchen Cabinet
What building, funded by a celebrated philanthropist, is found at 881, 7th Avenue, New York?
Carnegie Hall
Where did the Embrace the Base event take place in December 1982?
Greenham Common
Norwegian ship used by Amundsen on his South Pole expedition
Fram
Surname of a fictional bus inspector at Luxton & District Traction Company;
a favourite food fish in Spain, known there as merluza.
Blake and Hake (Stephen Lewis as Cyril “Blakey” Blake)
original surname of actress Diana Dors
Fluck
In which of the Five Towns do Port Vale play home games?
Burslem
In which of the Five Towns would you find a statue of Stanley Matthews?
Hanley
Six Towns of Stoke-on Trent ONLY CONNECT
Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton
In South America the Equator crosses Ecuador, Brazil and which other country?
Colombia
In Africa the Equator crosses Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Somalia and which other country?
Uganda
Which Irish county, with the county seat at Ennis, is the birthplace of jockey Kieren Fallon?
Clare
Alan Bennett, Barry Cryer and Chris Moyles were all born in which city?
Leeds
Which pianist, born in Bristol, had 20 UK hits including two number ones between 1957 and 1963?
Russ Conway
Which actor, unafraid of typecasting, played Sergeant Major Bloomer in Carry on England?
Windsor Davies
Run ON: Composer, born Lowestoft 1913;
& UK punk band whose biggest hit was Swords of a Thousand Men in 1981.
Britten;
Tenpole Tudor
Run ON: Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf;
& no. 1 hit for Love Affair in 1968.
Prokofiev;
Everlasting Love
Composer, born Halle in 1685, died London 1759;
& US singer of 1961 no. 1 hit Runaway.
Handel;
Del Shannon
What is the name of the congenital neurodegenerative disease from which Woody Guthrie suffered?
Huntington’s disease
(or Huntington’s chorea)
Under what alternative name did Ruth Rendell publish fourteen novels?
Barbara Vine
Which warship was torpedoed by a Fairey Swordfish in May 1941?
Bismarck
Which warship was torpedoed by U81 in November 1941?
HMS Ark Royal
Which author and broadcaster wrote Unreliable Memoirs and May Week was in June?
Clive James
Which author and broadcaster wrote The Cumbrian Trilogy and The Maid of Buttermere?
Melvyn Bragg
Favourite wife of Jacob in the Bible and mother of Joseph and Benjamin?
Rachel
Russian city on the Kama river, close to the Urals and former home of Boris Pasternak and Sergei Diaghilev?
Perm
Which director ties with John Ford for the most films on the US National Film Registry? The 11 films registered include The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo.
Howard Hawks
What was the nickname of heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano?
Brockton Bomber/Blockbuster
Dizzy Blonde, Old Tom, Unicorn and Trooper are all beers by which North–West brewery?
Robinsons
A mixture of lemonade and iced tea is an Arnold Palmer. Spike it with vodka and it becomes a drink named after what golfer who won PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 1991?
John Daly
Founded by the former owner of Tyrells Crisps, which is the only potato vodka producer in England?
Chase Distillery
What’s the boiling point of water on the Kelvin scale of temperature?
373.2K
For what is the farad (symbol F) the SI unit?
Capacitance
Give a year in the reign of Louis XIV of France.
1643-1715
Name the West Indian bowler who recently took seven wickets during West Indies’ recent Test match victory against Australia. If was the first time West Indies had won a Test in Australia since 1997.
Shamar Joseph
Washington, D.C. is a territory and not a state, nor is it part of any U.S. state. It is surrounded by Virginia and which other state?
Maryland
Laurel Canyon, home to numerous singer–songwriters in the late 1960s, is in which state?
California
The Great Dividing Range of mountains are situated in which country?
Australia
Which English singer–songwriter released their album Leap in July 2022? Their other hits include Hold Back the River and Let it Go.
James Bay
Which American lawman, who died on the 29th of February 1908, is most famous for having killed Billy the Kid?
Pat Garrett
Which folk singer was “Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards” in the 1988 album Workers Playtime?
Billy Bragg
Pete Brady, Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable presented the first episode of which TV show in 1968?
Magpie
Which flower is known as the Lent lily?
Daffodil
In the Shipping Forecast, Fitzroy was previously known by what name?
Finisterre
Give the name of any one of the three January 2024 storms. They begin with the letters H, I and J.
Henk, Isha and Jocelyn
During the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the nationalist rebels was based in which public building?
Post Office
What name is given to carvings on bone or ivory, typically done by whalers?
Scrimshaw
The 2017 film Rebel in the Rye is a bio–pic of which American author?
JD Salinger
Mumps is a former railway station in which English town?
Oldham
Which Yorkshire town is home to both John Smith’s and Samuel Smith’s and Molson Coors breweries?
Tadcaster
Who is currently the UK’s Secretary of State for Defence as of March 2024?
Grant Shapps
Whose albums include Kaya and Uprising?
Bob Marley
Whose albums include Foxtrot and Trespass?
Genesis
Which gland is affected by Addison’s disease?
Adrenal Gland
Which Monarch founded Eton College? (Name and regnal number required.)
Henry VI
Joanna of Navarre was married to which British Monarch? (Name and regnal number required.)
Henry IV
For which county cricket team did Dr. W. G. Grace play between 1870 and 1899?
Gloucestershire
In which Wiltshire town or city are the headquarters of the UK Space Agency?
Swindon
Born in Macclesfield, who is Britain’s most decorated Winter Paralympian? British alpine skier, visually impaired having only 5% vision and formerly skied with guide Jennifer Kehoe until 2021. They competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang in March 2018 where they took four medals, including a gold in the slalom, 2 more medals in 2022.
Menna Fitzpatrick
Name either of the two UK constituencies that recently held by-elections on February 15th 2024? Both saw Labour gain seats from the Conservatives, with the winning candidates being Damien Egan and Gen Kitchen.
Kingswood or Wellingborough
Which type of amide covalent chemical bond connects the consecutive amino
acids making up a protein?
Peptide Bond
Set in 2022, the world record for which track and field event currently stands at 12.12 seconds?
Women’s 100 metre
Hurdles
Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran and also the summit of which range?
Alborz
The Senussi tribes of Libya and Sudan are considered to be among the strongest adherents of which esoteric aspect of Islam, often described as ‘Islamic mysticism’?
Sufism
In 1757 British Admiral John Byng was executed for failing to do his utmost when he failed to prevent which island falling to the French Navy?
Minorca
The stage act of which actor and comedian included a nervous character called
Alf Ippititimus, whose catchphrase “phwaay!” was accompanied by apparent muscular tics?
Jack Douglas
The blues guitarist who originally recorded the blues standard Born Under a Bad
Sign was born Albert Nelson, but was better known under what stage surname?
Albert King
What type of traditional bread from the north-east of England is a flat, round loaf
whose name comes from a dialect word meaning ‘bounce’, because its high
density gives the impression that it might bounce if dropped?
Stottie
Which hugely successful debut album, released in 1987, spawned its final original hit single two years later with the song Nightrain?
Appetite for Destruction
The upcoming BBC3 reality TV series Paddy & Molly: Show No Mersey follows the competitive and personal lives of Paddy Pimblett and which other Merseyside UFC fighter, nicknamed ‘Meatball’, who competes in the women’s strawweight division?
McCann
Mount Whitney is the highest peak in the contiguous United States and also the
summit of which range?
Sierra Nevada
When a peptide bond is formed to join two amino acids together, a molecule of which other substance is released? It is formed from two atoms released from the carboxyl group of one acid together with a single atom released from the amino group of the other.
Water
Set in 2023, the world record for which track and field event currently stands at 7 minutes 52.11 seconds?
Men’s 3000 Metre
Steeplechase
Which popular memoir, published in 1959, starts with the lines: “I was set down from the carrier’s cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.”?
Cider with Rosie
Glasgow cathedral is named for which saint, who reputedly founded the city in
the 6th century and is its patron saint?
Mungo
The ‘Three Kings of the Blues Guitar’ were B.B.King, Albert King and another
guitarist with the same surname who first recorded the instrumental blues
standard Hide Away. What was his first name?
Freddie King
What traditional type of bread roll from the north-east of Scotland, sometimes also known as a rowie or Aberdeen roll, is named in reference to an ingredient that contributes to their flaky texture and high fat content?
Buttery
In England and Wales, a jury at a criminal trial normally consists of 12 members but if a juror dies or is discharged, the case can continue with fewer, so long as what minimum number of jurors remain?
9
Whose stage act often featured catchphrases including “She knows, y’know!”,and
saw her accompanied by a silent companion named Big Cynthia?
\Hylda Baker
Of the 24 SI prefixes used to express multiples or fractions of units, which prefix is unique in that its symbol consists of two letters rather than one? It represents 10 times a regular unit.
Deca
The 18th century architect and town planner James Craig is mainly known for
his work in which British city?
Edinburgh
The execution of Admiral John Byng was satirised in which 1759 novel, where it is explained that the British find it necessary to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others?
Candide
Mandarin is by some distance the most widely spoken language of which major language family? Among its some 400 other members are Burmese, Kuki-Chin and usually the various Karenic languages spoken in Myanmar and Thailand.
Sino-Tibetan
A source of inspiration for QLL’s own bonus point mechanics, in rugby union’s Six
Nations tournament how many tries must a team score, regardless of the outcome, to
be awarded a bonus point in the league table?
Four
Since 1977, the house at 1002 [one-oh-oh-two] 22nd Street in Santa Monica, California has been the home of which architect? A bungalow built originally in the 1920s, he wrapped the exterior in materials such as chain-link fencing and metal, in the curved deconstructivist style for which he became known.
Frank Gehry
Which British psychologist, who is considered the founder of attachment theory, carried out pioneering work with maternally deprived children after the Second World War? This was a major influence on his Attachment and Loss trilogy, published between 1969 and 1980.
John Bowlby
First premiered in 1915 and sometimes known as Vespers, which composer’s AllNight Vigil is an a capella choral work based on the Russian Orthodox ceremony of the same name? Other choral work by this composer includes the choral symphony The Bells.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Which French performer has won two César Awards for Best Actress, the first in
1980 for The Last Metro and the second in 1992 for Indochine? Other films in which
she has had prominent roles include The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Belle de Jour.
Catherine Deneuve
Players assume the role of an inmate and must break out of prisons of increasing
difficulty in what 2015 strategy video game developed by Mouldy Toof Studios?
The Escapists
A member of the West Coast Get Down collective, which saxophonist performed on
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly around the same time that they also released the triple album The Epic in 2015? This musician shares a surname with a jazz vocalist of the 1950s.
Kamasi Washington
Winning an award at the 2024 Emmys for the portrayal, who plays Richie Jerimovich,
usually known as ‘Cousin’, in the Disney+ series The Bear? His other television roles
include David Lieberman in The Punisher and Desi Harperin in Girls.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Which German artist spent part of his First World War service designing camouflage to
hide artillery from aerial observation? A co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter who was killed at
the Battle of Verdun in 1916, he is known for his paintings depicting large colourful
animals including Blue Horse I and The Dream.
Franz Marc
Which bassist and vocalist who came to prominence as a member of crossover
thrash group Suicidal Tendencies performed on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly in between releasing solo albums that include 2018’s It Is What It Is? This musician takes their mononymous stage name from a 1980s cartoon series.
Thundercat
Which French performer has won two César Awards for Best Actress, the first in 1995 for La Céremonie and the second in 2017 for Elle? Other films in which she has had prominent roles include The Piano Teacher and Story of Women.
Isabelle Huppert
Set in the same universe as The Escapists, players assume the role of a desert
island castaway in what 2020 sandbox video game developed by Team17?
The Survivalists
Which American political activist, along with her collaborator Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
founded the anti-slavery Women’s Loyal National League and the National Woman
Suffrage Association? The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees
votes for women, is often named after her.
Susan B Anthony
Located on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut and completed in 1949, The Glass House is a notable work of which Pritzker Prize-winning American modernist architect? Now a museum, it was created to be the architect’s own residence, and was used in this capacity until their death in 2005.
Philip Johnson
Which American-born Canadian psychologist, a one-time colleague of Bowlby, devised the Strange Situation experiment in which she observed the reactions of a child as its primary caregiver repeatedly left and re-entered a room? It is the origin of the taxonomy of secure, avoidant and resistant attachment styles.
Mary Ainsworth
Prior to the setting by Rachmaninov, the text for the All-Night Vigil had been set to music in 1882 by which Russian composer, whose other non-operatic vocal works include the choral masterpiece Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and the song None But The Lonely Heart?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Which three-letter word used by motor racing teams to indicate that their driver should enter the pit is also the name of a manoeuvre where multiple police cars will attempt to surround a suspect’s car in order to stop it?
Box
More generous than the analogous QLL rule, in the Six Nations rugby tournament a bonus point is awarded to the losing team if the margin of defeat is by what number of points or fewer?
Seven
In James Joyce’s Ulysses what is the name of the theatrical impresario who is the manager of Molly Bloom’s upcoming concert? The two are having an affair and the knowledge of this is a source of frustration to Leopold Bloom throughout the day.
Blazes Boylan
In 1984 Wendy’s introduced what iconic catchphrase, related to
burgers from other fast food restaurants?
Where’s the Beef?
Vivre sa vie, Bande à part, and Pierrot
le Fou are among the collaborations between French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard and which director to whom he was married during the first half of the ’60s? Her name is similar to a
noted figure of tragic 19th century liiterature.
Anna Karina
Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars together make up what superduo, which won the 2022 Grammy for Record and Song of the Year for
“Leave The Door Open”?
Silk Sonic
A circadian rhythm refers to a process that repeats once every roughly 24 hours; what type of rhythm has a longer period, that is, less than
one cycle per day?
Infradian Rhythm
What beer is so named due to the accolades it recieved at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair?
Pabst Blue Ribbon
What Sinitic language group has over 80 million native speakers, making it the 3rd most spoken language in China after Mandarin and Yue (Cantonese)? Most speakers live on China’s central east coast - the term Shanghainese refers to a specific dialect of this language
group.
Wu
What band, notably most successful in the swing revival of the 90s, hit
it big on the soundtrack to the film Swingers with songs like “You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three Tonight” and “Go Daddy-O”?
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Little House on the Prairie was the third book in the series of the same name by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What was the name of the second book which focused on the childhood of Almanzo Wilder, Laura’s future husband, in upstate New York?
Farmer Boy
In the UK, what vegetable is referred to as rocket?
Arugula
What job was held by TV characters like Latka Gravas, Cooter Davenport, David Puddy, and Goober Pyle?
Mechanic
Born in 2023, what name did Rihanna and A$AP Rocky give to their second son, with the name in part due to Rocky’s love of flowers? Two
names required.
Riot Rose
What romance book publishing company originally founded in Winnipeg became an industry powerhouse in the 70s and 80s, some years selling 10% of all paperbacks in North America? Their original logo is a diamond with a commedia dell’arte character.
Harlequin
Name either of the American chemists who performed a notable 1952 experiment on abiogenesis, demonstrating that organic compounds such as amino acids could be created from inorganic materials.
Stanley MILLER or Harold UREY
Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics for what 1961 Broadway musical, which won seven Tonys, that depicts the meteoric rise of a
window washer to chairman of the board? Eight words are required.
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
What classic board game’s most recent edition includes newly named locations Lollipop Lane, Ice Cream Peaks, and Chocolate Falls?
Candy Land
New Zealander Rachel Smythe created what web comic that’s a modern re-telling of the story of Persephone and Hades? As of January 2024, the comic has 6.5 million subscribers, making it the most popular on Webtoon.
Lore Olympus
Which French director helped kickstart the careers of both Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, both of whom he married? He directed Bardot’s breakout in …And God Created Woman and directed Barbarella which shot Fonda’s star higher than ever before.
Roger Vadim
Brewed by Molson Coors, what beer, originally called Bellyside Wit, allegedly got its name after a fan commented on the relative rarity of finding a beer that good?
Blue Moon
A rhythm with a period of 24 hours that is not necessarily environmentally determined, like circadian rhythms are, is given what general term also used for some animal behavior?
Diurnal Rhythm
Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics for what 1950 Broadway musical that is based on stories by Damon Runyon?
Guys and Dolls
Riot Rose’s older brother, born in 2022, was given what first name as a tribute to the rapper, actor, filmmaker, film composer, and record
producer whose real name is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs?
RZA
An anonymous Middle English verse romance in 812 lines, dating from the mid or late 14th century. Modern scholars often classify it as a “Matter of England” romance, because it deals entirely with pre-Conquest English settings and characters. The poem survives in only one manuscript, the early 15th-century Gonville and Caius MS 175. Middlename of Rihanna’s first child.
Athelston
What pair of American physicists performed an experiment in 1887 that famously had a null result, casting doubt on the contemporary
theory of light waves propagaing through a luminiferous aether? Note: name both.
Michelson and Morley
1922 experiment experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized - named after two scientists
Stern-Gerlach experiment
What is the title of the sixth book in the Little House on the Prairie series that focuses on a period of extreme weather in the Dakota Territories? Laura meets Almanzo who risks his life to deliver wheat to her community.
The Long Winter
What job was held by such TV characters as Jack Tripper, Elzar, Artie Bucco, and Carmen Berzatto?
Chef
What Sinitic language group with about 70 million native speakers, making it the 4th most spoken language in China, is based around southeast China with most of its speakers living in Fujian province?
Min
What era immediately after the Civil War was an effort to reintegrate the confederacy into the Union, but ultimately failed in fully enforcing civil rights laws and constitutional amendments aimed at protecting the rights of the newly freed slaves residing in the South?
Reconstruction
What 1983 body horror film starring Debbie Harry and James Woods was David Cronenberg’s first Hollywood picture?
Videodrome
Greek roots meaning “again” and “direction” create what English word about words? The term in Greek is actually “karkinos” (literally “crablike”).
Palindrome
The painter Joseph Stella is perhaps best known for his Precisionist paintings of which landmark in New York City, one of which is subtitled ‘Variation on an Old Theme’?
Brooklyn Bridge
Two films hold the record for César wins, with 10; Cyrano de Bergerac, and what 1980 Francois Truffaut film, set in Nazi-controlled France? Catherine Deneuve won her first of two Best Actress Césars for this film.
The Last Metro
What was the nickname of the heavyweight boxer James Douglas who was the undisputed world champion for eight months in 1990?
Buster
What modern portmanteau term describes a torrential infant bowel movement of huge volume and of such a consistency
that it cannot be contained by a nappy?
Poonami
Founding her own label bearing her double-barrelled name in 2014, which British-Jamaican fashion designer has described her ethos as “a distinct notion of cultural luxury that infuses European heritage with an Afro Atlantic spirit”? Her fashion collaborations include Adidas Originals and her 2020 take on Dior’s New Look.
Grace WALES BONNER
Grace Slick was the lead singer of which rock band who released the 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow? Please answer with the name this band used at the time.
Jefferson Airplane
Which Ukrainian-born Soviet athlete who later represented Slovakia set a world record of 7.52 metres in the women’s long jump in 1988, which remains unbeaten?
Galina Chistyakova
Which Roman arch was constructed on the orders of Domitian to commemorate his brother’s capture of Jerusalem in 70
CE?
Arch of Titus
Which Danish computer scientist developed the C++ [c plus plus] programming language that first appeared as an extension of C in 1985?
Bjarne Stroustrup
Previously a Mackintosh brand prior to its takeover by Nestlé, which light brown-coloured confectionery bar manufactured
from sweetened condensed milk, butter and sugar was discontinued in 2023?
Caramac
Which Bulgarian athlete set a world record of 2.09 metres in the women’s high jump in 1987, which still stands today?
Stefka
KOSTADINOVA
Which Italian fashion designer has been the creative director of Dior since 2016 and invited Grace Wales Bonner to reinterpret
Dior’s New Look? She is known for including feminist messages in her collections, and made headlines with her T-shirts bearing the
slogan ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ in 2017.
Maria Grazia Chiuri
What was the nickname of American heavyweight boxer James Smith, who held the WBA world title between 1986 and 1987?
Bonecrusher
What modern portmanteau parenting term is used to describe a rebellious and strong-willed three-year-old?
Threenager
By what name is the skyscraper at 40 West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan referred to in the title of a 1927 Precisionist painting
by Georgia O’Keefe, a prominent example of her series inspired by New York City?
RADIATOR Building
Catherine Deneuve won her second César Award for which 1992 film directed by Régis Wargnier [ray-jiss varn-yay]? This film
concerns a French woman in colonial Vietnam and her adopted Vietnamese daughter.
Indochine
‘Little Things’ and a cover of East 17’s ‘Stay Another Day’ were recent hits for which British singer-songwriter? She was first discovered at the age of fifteen after her version of Labrinth’s ‘Earthquake’ was uploaded to YouTube.
Jorja Smith
Which Dutch computer programmer was the creator of the Python programming language, which first appeared in 1991?
Guido van Rossum
The 1988 postmodern novel Foucault’s Pendulum, which features a protagonist who may or may not have become an enemy of a
centuries-old secret society, is a work by which author?
Umberto Eco
What word is used to describe a chemical that decreases the surface tension of a liquid?
Surfactant
Which ensemble group released a cover of The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ in 1987? The featured artists included Paul McCartney, Mark Knopfler, and Kate Bush? It was to raise money for a disaster that happened in March of that year.
Ferry Aid
The winter version of which ultramarathon is held in January or February each year and traverses the 268 miles from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland, following the Pennine Way? Jack Evans smashed Jasmin Paris’s course record in 2024 by more than ten hours.
The SPINE race
Sited on what was once a river bed, the Jardin Del Turia is an 8.5 km long park in the centre of which European non-capital city?
Valencia
Which Guardian columnist was awarded the gold award for Rising Star in the 2023 British Podcast Awards? She presents the newspaper’s popular culture podcast, and previously hosted Channel 4 programme How Not To Be Racist.
Chante Joseph
What was the name of the prostitute that slept with Jeffrey Archer and testified at his libel case in 1987? She died in a car crash a few weeks before Archer was found guilty of perjury in 2001.
Monica Coghlan
Which Surrey and England cricketer took six wickets in the second innings of his debut test against Pakistan in 2022? He has only played one more test since.
Will Jacks
A glow stick lights up as a result of which process, which leads to light emission as a result of a chemical reaction?
Chemiluminescence
Who was considered the originator of opera, producing works such as La Dafne and Euridice?
Jacopo Peri
Which German historian advocated the use of verifiable primary sources and is thought by some to be the father of modern historical study? In 1831 he founded the world’s first historical journal, Historisch-Politische Zeitschrift.
Leopold von RANKE
The 335 km long Mahaweli Ganga is the longest river in which country?
Sri Lanka
What four word term for a stock character type refers to a quirky young woman that serves as the romantic love interest for the male protagonist? The term was coined after a review of Kirsten Dunst’s character in the 2005 film Elizabethtown.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Which ensemble group released a cover of The Hollies’ ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ in 2012? Vocalists included Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson, and Gerry Marsden and it was to raise money for the victims of a disaster of 1989.
Justice Collective
Chemiluminescence is an example of what type of reaction? In this reaction there is a net release of free energy, leading to a negative free energy change.
Exergonic Reaction
Which ultramarathon is held in spring of each year in Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee? The race consists of five off-trail loops and has only been completed by 21 runners since it began in 1986.
The BARKLEY marathons
Who was the mistress of Conservative MP David Mellor who sold her kiss and tell story in 1992?
Antonia de Sanches
The Listeners Choice Award at the 2023 British Podcast Awards went to which podcast hosted by Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala? It was the third year in a row that the award had been won by the podcast.
Redhanded
Which French historical movement, led by Lucien Febrve and Marc Bloch, uses a study of long-term social history, rather than looking at political themes?
The ANNALES school
Letná Park is found in the centre of which European capital city?
Prague
The 2018 Spiel Des Jahres Award for the best board game went to which strategy game, named for the Spanish for blue? When playing this game, you will gain points by placing tiles to decorate a palace.
Azul
Which other England cricketer made his debut in the same match as Will Jacks? Although he appears often in England’s limited overs sides he has not played another test since, he plays his county cricket for Lancashire and has spent his winter playing franchise T20 cricket in South Africa and the UAE.
Liam Livingstone
On the Super Furry Animals track ‘Receptacle for the Respectable’, which music legend is credited with eating celery?
Paul McCartney
After petitions from Isabella and Ferdinand, the Spanish Inquisition was initiated following the promulgation of the papal bull Exigit sincerae devotionis affectus by which Pope? The Sistine Chapel was constructed under the papacy of this man, who was a noted patron of the arts. Papal name and number required.
Sixtus IV
L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) and Les États et Empires du Soleil (The States and Empires of the Sun) are two 17th-century sci-fi novels, the former of which is credited by Arthur C. Clarke with the first description of rocket-powered spaceflight. Who was the author of these works?
Cyrano de Bergerac
Who is the director of the documentaries Tokyo-Ga, which is about the film maker Yasujirō Ozu, and Lightning Over Water, which follows the director Nicholas Ray shortly before his death? As well as his documentaries about cultural figures, he is also known for a trilogy of road movies that began with Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities).
Wim Wenders
Leonard Bernstein conducted the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s TurangalîlaSymphonie, filling in for which conductor and double bassist, who commissioned it but was unwell? This long-time conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra also premiered works such as Arthur Honegger’s Pacific 2-3-1 and Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety.
Serge Koussevitsky
The SI base units are maintained and realised by being based on experiments and physical constants. The SI unit of electric potential, the volt, is realised using a superconducting device named after which Welsh physicist and Nobel Laureate?
Brian Josephson
QUESTION THREE Bangar is the capital of which exclave of Brunei, the country’s easternmost district, that is separated from the rest of the country by Malaysia’s Limbang District?
Temburong District
A motif of a thunder god battling a serpent appears in many disparate mythologies,
such as in Vedic myth, where Indra battles against which serpent, who holds up all the
world’s waters with 99 fortresses?
Vritra
Demonstrating her interests in mysticism, science, and music, Creación de las aves
(Creation of the Birds) is a work by which Spanish-born surrealist artist? She spent the
last part of her career in Mexico where she met with other expatriate surrealists like the poet André Breton and the photographer Kati Horna.
Remedios Varo
Named after a German biochemist and a Canadian physician, which model of enzyme
kinetics relates the reaction rate to Vmax [vee*max] times the substrate concentration?
Michaelis-Menten Kinetics
What name is given to the root-like, vegetative body of a fungus? It consists of a network of fine white filaments.
Mycelium
Its name deriving ultimately from a Shona term meaning ‘conqueror’, which kingdom arose in the 15th century as a successor to Great Zimbabwe and developed a trading
arrangement with Portuguese colonists before disintegrating in the mid-18th century
after years of civil war? Spreading into Mozambique, its chief seaport, Sofala, gave it
access to Indian Ocean trade routes which allowed it to trade ivory and its large
reserves of gold.
Mutapa
What was the surname of Ginette, a pianist and student of Arthur Honegger, who was a soloist at the premiere of the Turangalîla-Symphonie playing an instrument invented by her brother?
Ginette MARTENOT
Which Dominican friar was the first Grand Inquisitor? Due to the widespread brutality
of the Inquisition under his rule and his advocacy of burning at the stake for heresy, he
is today associated with cruelty and zealotry.
Tomas de Torquemada
Fungal mycelia are composed of a mass of branching threadlike filaments that have
what name?
Hypha
Occasionally referred to as the ‘Tree of Life’, and now a popular tourist attraction, what more common name, after the town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in which it is to be found, is given to the Montezuma cypress that has
the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world.
Árbol del Tule
Which doubly-eponymous plot can be used to graphically represent the Michaelis–
Menten equation by plotting the reciprocal of the reaction velocity against the
reciprocal of substrate concentration?
Lineweaver-Burk Plot
Another early sci-fi novel is which short work by Francis Bacon that is set on the mythical island Bensalem, whose intellectual centre is a scientific institution called Saloman’s House?
New Atlantis
Which Brazilian photographer is the subject of Wim Wenders’ documentary The Salt of
the Earth? It documents both his time as a photojournalist in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia,
and his landscape photos that he used in environmental campaigning in Brazil.
Sebastião Salgado
Bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey, which exclave of Azerbaijan – which shares its
name with its capital and largest city – is the country’s only autonomous republic?
Nakhchivan
The Michaelis–Menten equation is mathematically equivalent to what model that
explains the equilibrium of adsorption? This model is named after the American chemist who proposed the 18-electron rule.
Langmuir Isotherm Adsorption Model
The 2018 Brazilian presidential election saw the favourite, Lula, and incumbent president, Michel Temer, both ineligible to run as they had been convicted following Operation Car Wash. This led to which politician, then the mayor of São Paulo, earning the Workers’ Party nomination and eventually losing to Jair Bolsonaro? He is now the Minister of Finance in Lula’s administration.
Fernando Haddad
QUESTION THREE
In Slavic mythology, the motif of a thunder god battling a serpent shows up as Perun’s
yearly struggle against which god, who is often depicted in serpentine form and who
continually attempts to steal Perun’s children and cattle?
VELES or VOLOS
Kiss of the Spider Woman by which Argentine author?
Manuel Puig
He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages. While finishing his Ph.D. he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there. This part of his thinking was developed by his student Benjamin Lee Whorf into the principle of linguistic relativity.
Edward Sapir
American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics. He made significant contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics, the description of Austronesian languages, and description of languages of the Algonquian family.
Leonard Bloomfield
In 2011, Wim Wenders directed a 3D-documentary about which German dancer and
choreographer who developed neo-expressionist dance styles as the director of
Tanztheater Wuppertal? She died shortly before filming the documentary, which
intersperses archive footage and interviews around four dance pieces.
Pina Bausch
Heretics were executed by burning at the stake during events given what Portuguese/Spanish name? Intended as a form of penance for both the accused and observers, these events would typically involve a full Catholic Mass before the accused had their judgements revealed and sentences carried out.
Auto-da-fe
Which island, off the coast of Tanzania’s Lindi Region, was home to a namesake city
and sultanate that gained control over Sofala in the 1180s? Founded in the 10th century,
according to legend, by a Persian prince, this sultanate controlled much of the Swahili
Coast at its height in the 15th century.
Kilwa
Leonora Carrington’s El mundo magico de los Mayas (The Magical World of the Mayas),
was a foray into muralism, which dominated the Mexican art scene at the time. The
‘tres grandes’ of muralism were Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siquieros, and which
painter of The Epic of American Civilization?
Jose Clemente OROZCO
The Tree of Life is also a common nickname given to a 400-year-old ghaf tree that
stands in a barren area of desert in which country? As the only large tree for many
miles, it has become a tourist attraction visited by tens of thousands of people a year.
Bahrain
Featuring a witch, a demon, and a 14-year-old Icelandic boy, and depicting a journey to
the Moon, which novel, written in Latin by Johannes Kepler, was considered the first
science-fiction novel by both Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan?
Somnium (accept The Dream)
QUESTION TWO
Which exclave of Oman is a governorate on the Strait of Hormuz separated from the
rest of the country by the United Arab Emirates? This exclave has an exclave of its own,
called Madha, inside which lies the Emirati enclave of Nahwa.
Musandam Governorate
Named after the region of the south-central Sahara Desert in which it is to be found,
which solitary acacia tree in northeast Niger was such a tourist attraction that it was shown on maps at a scale of 1:4,000,000 until it was knocked down by a truck driver in 1973?
Tree of TENERE
Another early sci-fi work from the Age of Enlightenment is which 1752 novella by Voltaire in which the titular giant from a planet orbiting Sirius befriends a much smaller Saturnian (he’s only about 2 kilometres tall)? With his companion, the title character briefly visits Earth, where he eats a mountain or two and concludes the planet is lifeless because all its lifeforms are too small for him to see.
Micromegas
In Norse mythology, the motif of a thunder god battling a serpent shows up as Thor’s
battle with the Midgard Serpent (Jörmungandr). In one story, which giant forestalls that battle by
cutting Thor’s fishing line after the Midgard Serpent bit the other end?
Hymir
The Kilwa Sultanate wrested control of Sofala from which other sultanate, named after the major city in which it was based, that had long kept the existence of the port secret from its Kilwan rivals? Reportedly founded by Fakhr al-Din in the 10th century, this sultanate was visited by Ibn Battuta who described it as a massive metropolis famed for its high-quality fabric that it exported to Egypt.
Sultanate of Mogadishu
Who was the piano soloist at the premiere of the Turangalîla Symphonie who went on to record the work alongside her sister Jeanne on Ondes-Martenot? This virtuoso was Messiaen’s second wife, and the dedicatee of his famously challenging piano work Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus.
Yvonne Loriod
Which German sculptor and painter is the subject of Wim Wenders’ most recent
documentary, which is subtitled Das Rauschen der Zeit (The Rush of Time)? This artist
has used materials such as lead, straw, ashes, and burnt clothing in works such as
Margarethe and Shulamith that reference Paul Celan’s post-Holocaust poetry, the Black Forest, and Nazi architecture.
Anselm Kiefer
Following the Inquisition’s establishment, Ferdinand and Isabella issued which declaration, ordering all practising Jews into exile from Castile and Aragon? Also known as the Edict of Expulsion, it was intended to ensure that the converso population of Spain were not subject to influence from remaining Jewish people.
Alhambra Decree
Brazil wasn’t the only country affected by Operation Car Wash. Which Peruvian politician resigned as the nation’s President in March 2018, after being accused of covering up illegal payments, and is currently under house arrest?
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK)
The cryogenic radiometer relates incident optical power to the primary electrical
standard with reference to the peak sensitivity wavelength of the human eye. It is used
to define which of the SI base units, the unit of luminous intensity?
Candela
Vasco da Gama and Zheng He both visited Mogadishu after the city and its sultanate
had been absorbed into which other sultanate, a southern Somali empire that stretched into eastern Ethiopia? Ruled by the hereditary Garen dynasty, this empire dominated the trade in the northern Indian Ocean until its gradual disintegration beginning towards the end of the 17th century.
Ajuran Sultanate
Almost entirely destroyed in a heavy storm in May 2023, the Cotton Tree was an enormous kapok that had served as a historical symbol of which African capital city since the late 18th century? The tree was so well-known that the address of the nearby National Museum in this city was for many years simply, “Cotton Tree, [THIS CITY]”.
Freetown
Another surrealist who spent time in Mexico was which Cuban painter, who drew on Afro Cuban culture and religion in works like The Jungle? He also collaborated with André Breton on the poem Fata Morgana.
Wilfredo Lam
Another equation in the same mathematical form as the Michaelis–Menten equation is
which model for the growth of microorganisms that is named after one of the codiscoverers of the lac operon?
Monod Equation
Less than thirty kilometres from the city of Como, which comune is an exclave of the
Italian region of Lombardy that is surrounded by the Swiss canton of Ticino? In a 1798
referendum, it was the only town in Ticino that chose not to join the Swiss Confederation and so has remained part of Lombardy ever since.
Campione d’Italia
Which Peruvian politician committed suicide in April 2019, after Operation Car Wash
implicated him in the taking of bribes? President of his nation from 2006 to 2011, he
was accused of receiving kickbacks during his post-Presidential career.
Alan Garcia
In Anatolian mythology, the motif of a thunder god battling a serpent shows up as which thunder god battling the serpent Illuyanka? You may give any of the names of this god used by the Hittites, the Luwians, or the Hurrians.
Tarhunz or Tarhunt or Tarhunna or Teshub
Olivier Messiaen’s pupils also include which French sisters, who recorded his Visions de
l’Amen as a piano duo? They are also associated with the work of other contemporary
composers such as Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, and Luciano Berio.
Katia and Marielle Labeque
Berlin-born engineer Hans Peter Jost (1921–2016) was known as the ‘Father’ of which
scientific field, that can be described as the study of friction, lubrication, and wear?
Tribology
Rejecting creolité and négritude as inadequate, which writer from Guadeloupe
addressed U.S. racial history in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem? This author also
responded to Wuthering Heights with Windward Heights (La migration des coeurs) and
followed a Malian royal family through the slave trade in two novels named after the
region of Segou.
Maryse Conde
a literary movement first developed in the 1980s by the Martinican writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. They published Eloge de la ______ (In Praise of _________) in 1989 as a response to the perceived inadequacies of the négritude movement.
Creolite
Known for its unique buffalo curd – called doi – Bhola Island is both the largest and
most populous island of which Asian country?
Bangladesh
Which art movement, intended to synthesize colour, sound, space, movement, and
time into a new type of art, was founded by Lucio Fontana in Milan in 1947, one year
after he published the Manifesto blanco in Buenos Aires?
Spatialism
QUESTION THREE
Growing to nearly 2 metres at the shoulders and over 4 meters in length, which extinct
genus that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene is the largest of all known
marsupials and is the only marsupial known to make seasonal migrations?
Diprotodon
The ballet Le Rendezvous Manqué was a 1958 work by which Frenchwoman, better
known as a writer, whose penname is taken from a character in Proust’s À la recherche
du temps perdu?
Francoise Sagan
The second-oldest subterranean urban rail line in the world (after the London Underground), is the Tünel, a short underground funicular railway connecting just two stations beneath which major city?
Istanbul
Supposedly transferring authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman
Empire to the Pope, which forged document, which was used by various Popes to
buttress and justify their authority, was proven a fake by Lorenzo Valla in 1440?
Donation of Constantine
Which UK Group 1 horse race, held at Sandown in July, is named after an undefeated stallion of the 1760s? Bookmakers Coral have sponsored this race since 1976.
Eclipse Stakes
Bob Dylan’s self-titled debut studio album included two original compositions, one of which was an ode to which of Dylan’s musical heroes?
This man’s most famous works include the 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads.
Woody Guthrie
Cooked teppanyaki style, which Japanese dish is functionally a pancake made
with savoury ingredients and traditionally including cabbage? A variation of
this dish, monjayaki, uses liquid ingredients in the preparation instead.
OKONOMIYAKI
Starting out on MTV’s Geordie Shore, which woman also appeared on Ex on the Beach ahead of being crowned Queen of the Jungle on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here in 2015?
Vicky Pattison
On the album The Times They Are a-Changin, Bob Dylan tells the real-life story of the murder of which African-American barmaid in a track titled The Lonesome Death of (this person)? Dylan was outraged that Billy Zantzinger, a wealthy white man, served just six months in jail for the crime.
Hattie Carroll
Which 2012 UK number one single was Swedish House Mafia’s final release before a nine-year hiatus? The video to the song was filmed at the group’s final UK concert at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes.
Don’t you worry child
Eaten as part of breakfast in Japan and served as sushi elsewhere, which
Japanese dish is similar to an omelette, made from layers of beaten fried egg?
Tamagoyaki
Which American filmmaker with the forename Todd has only directed three films but has received Academy Award nominations for screenplay writing for each one: 2001’s In the Bedroom, 2006’s Little Children, and 2022’s Tár,
for which he was also nominated as Best Director?
Todd Field
Which American filmmaker with the forename Todd is known for black comedies such as Happiness (1998), Palindromes (2004) and Life During Wartime (2009)? He also directed 2001’s Storytelling, whose soundtrack was the Belle and Sebastian album of the same name.
Todd Solondz
Which game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise sees players choose to play as Alexios or Kassandra, Greek mercenaries who are descendants of Leonidas I of Sparta?
Odyssey
Bob Dylan’s eighth studio album was named for which 19th century Texan outlaw? In its title track, Dylan sings about how the person in question “was a friend to the poor” and “was never known to hurt an honest man”. You may give his real surname or Dylan’s slightly misspelled version.
John Wesley Hardin
Held in July at Newmarket, which one-mile UK group 1 race is named after a southwestern English town which features in the noble title of owner and breeder Evelyn Boscawen?
Falmouth Stakes
Swedish House Mafia had a UK top 10 hit in 2010 with which song that featured Tinie Tempah? This song mentions the name of two places in its title.
Miami 2 Ibiza
Which Japanese snack food is made from balls of batter wrapped around a filling traditionally made from onion, pickled ginger and diced octopus?
Takoyaki
Held as part of York’s Ebor festival, which group one sprint race is one of the few group one races run over the minimum five furlongs? It is named after the suburb of York where the city’s racecourse can be found.
Nunthorpe Stakes
The first ever Just Eat advertisements in the UK in 2009 were narrated by which English actor, who died in 2022? While latterly better known as an actor, this man also enjoyed three novelty hits in 1962.
Bernard Cribbins
Which British fashion designer launched her long-awaited eponymous line in 2023? She had previously been creative director at Céline and Chloe, where she replaced Stella McCartney
Phoebe Philo
Despite an injury-ravaged career, which Argentine tennis player managed to win the 2009 US Open, defeating Roger Federer in five sets in the final? At the 2016 Rio Olympics, he beat both Djokovic and Nadal on the way to
winning a silver medal in the men’s singles.
Juan Martin Del POTRO
Which The Only Way Is Essex star’s other reality TV credits include Celebrity Big Brother, Celebs Go Dating and Celebs on the Farm? She also won The X Factor: Celebrity in 2019.
Megan McKenna
Who directed The Sound of Music, winning the Best Director Academy Award? His other films include the 1961 screen adaptation of West Side Story, as well as The Andromeda Strain and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Robert Wise
What two words fill in the blanks in the title of the multi-episode Two Ronnies sketch written by Spike Milligan: The Phantom [BLANK BLANK] of Old London Town? In it, a madman stalks the capital, confronting his victims by performing the titular act.
Raspberry Blower
Which Assassin’s Creed game, set in Victorian London, allows players to play
as twins Jacob and Evie Frye? An expansion saw an older Evie hunt down Jack the Ripper.
Syndicate
The T-Cross and Passat are models of car made by which manufacturer?
VW
Swansea is described as a “pretty shitty city” in which 1997 film starring Rhys Ifans and his real-life brother, Llyr?
Twin Town
Which German toy and games company is Europe’s market leader for jigsaw
puzzle manufacturing?
Ravensburger
Which Colombian goalkeeper scored 41 goals in his club career, mostly from free kicks and penalties? This inventor of the ‘scorpion kick’ save missed the 1994 FIFA World Cup after being imprisoned for his involvement in a kidnapping.
Higuita
Which 1994 UK number one single is one of the earliest popular examples of the musical genre electro-swing? You can answer with either the fourletter song title or the name of its Dutch performers, both of which are the same
Doop
Which now defunct UK DIY chain was advertised with the slogan ‘The Big One’, perhaps appropriately given its geographical name? In 1995, it was acquired by Sainsbury’s, who closed many of its outlets and converted the rest to Homebase.
Texas
Also the final film appearance of her partner, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Christina Drayton in which 1967 Stanley Kramer film, which also starred
Sidney Poitier?
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Which electro-swing hit by Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP was a UK number one hit in 2010? It samples a Neapolitan song of the 1950s, has been used in several film soundtracks, and was played during gymnast Gabby Douglas’s gold medal winning Olympic floor routine.
We No Speak Americano
In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which of Willy Wonka’s rival confectioners tries to steal Wonka’s recipes, resulting in the secretive closure of the Wonka factory? Paterson Joseph memorably played this character in 2023’s Wonka. Surname required and sufficient.
Arthur Slugworth
Who was chosen by Madonna to produce her second album Like a Virgin in 1984? This musician and producer was a founding member of Chic with Bernard Edwards.
Nile Rodgers
Which electro-swing artist’s debut album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor entered the charts at number one in her native Netherlands and stayed there for a record 27 weeks? It featured the songs That Man, Back It Up and A Night Like This.
Caro Emerald
Which Mexican goalkeeper scored 34 goals in his club career, both from set pieces but also during spells when he was replaced with a substitute goalkeeper and deployed upfront? Known for his colourful jerseys, he played for his nation in the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cups.
Jorge CAMPOS
Which monkey-like creatures appeared in several Roald Dahl books such as The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits? In the latter book, they are subject to cruel treatment at the hands of Mr and Mrs Twit.
Muggle-wumps
The Queenie or Manx Queenie is a name given to the larger variety of which shellfish, commonly found in the waters around the Isle of Man? Due to their meaty texture, they are usually fried in a very hot pan.
Scallop
Based on a novel by Michel Faber, which 2013 Jonathan Glazer film stars Scarlett Johansson as a mysterious, fur-coat wearing character who drives a van around the roads of Scotland, luring men to a grisly demise?
Under the Skin
Which 1989 Madonna album was dedicated to her late mother? Pepsi cancelled a sponsorship deal following the controversial music video for the album’s title track.
Like a Prayer
Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn and scampi are among the many alternative names for the crustacean known in French cuisine by what name, deriving from Latin and meaning ‘Locust-Crustacean’?
Langoustine
Which electro-swing duo represented the UK in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song Still In Love With You? The song finished with five points on the night, and barely grazed the UK singles charts.
Electro Velvet
Thought to be the last greenseer in Westeros, what Game of Thrones character lives in a cave north of The Wall and regularly appears in the dreams of Bran Stark? When this character is killed, Bran is trained to take on
the role they performed.
Three Eyed Raven
Which Brazilian goalkeeper scored 103 goals in his club career, in which he played more than 1000 games for Sao Paulo? A specialist penalty taker, he was only capped 17 times for his country, being kept out of the team by players like Marcos and Dida.
Rogerio Ceni
What is the name of the wealthy landowner in the Roald Dahl book Danny,
The Champion of the World? Danny’s father’s attempts to poach pheasants
from his land are central to the story. Surname required and sufficient.
Victor Hazell
With a name derived from Spanish, what is the most common name of the shellfish known as ‘Ormers’ in the Channel Islands? They are prized both as a foodstuff and for their pearlescent inner shell.
Abalone
Which 2004 Jonathan Glazer film stars Nicole Kidman as a widow looking to
make a new start with her fiancé, played by Danny Huston - until a mysterious ten-year-old boy enters their lives, claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband?
Birth
Which other now defunct UK DIY chain was also taken over by Focus DIY in 2000? This chain’s two-word name was typically seen in blocky capital letters on its branding, and it ran subsidiary brands like the bargain-basement NoFrills DIY and Bay6 (basics).
Great Mills
Which Madonna album, released in 1986, was dedicated to her then husband Sean Penn? Singles from this album include Live to Tell and Papa Don’t Preach.
True Blue
What is the name of the mysterious small non-human race in Game of Thrones who serve the Three-Eyed Raven and dwell in his cave? These creatures, thought to have been among the first to set foot on Westeros, are killed alongside the Three-Eyed Raven during an attack on the cave.
Children of the Forest
An adaptation of Philip Barry’s 1939 play, Katharine Hepburn starred alongside Cary Grant and James Stewart in which 1940 George Cukor film? For her performance as Tracy Samantha Lord, Hepburn received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination.
The Philadelphia Story
Which yellow feline was the star of a British animated series which ran from 1983 to ’93? It was created by and voiced by Bob Godfrey, who had earlier created Roobarb.
Henry’s Cat
At My Mother’s Knee, The Devil Rides Out and Open the Cage, Murphy are among the volumes of autobiography written by which Birkenhead-born comedian and TV presenter, who died in March 2023 aged 67?
Paul O’Grady
Which Welsh woman is the only British cyclist to have ever won the Olympic
road race title, doing so in Beijing in 2008?
Nicole Cooke
Originally formed in 1984, which British indie band reached the top 40 of the UK album chart for the first time in 2018 with No One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin’ Hedge Cut?
Half Man Half Biscuit
Selling products inspired by country life, which clothing brand was purchased by Next in 2022 after it went into administration? 19 of its 123 stores shut immediately with others following since.
Joules
Which Mexican comedian won Best Newcomer at the 2022 Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her show GRL/LATNX/DEF?
Lara Ricote
best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), appeared in the films Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Non-Stop (2014), and The Gentlemen (2019).
Michelle Dockery
The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and her newest protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne). GG nominations for Glenn Close.
Damages
starred as Tami Taylor on the NBC/DirecTV drama series Friday Night Lights from 2006 to 2011. In 2011, she starred as Vivien Harmon in the first season of FX horror-drama series American Horror Story. starred as country singer Rayna Jaymes in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville from 2012 to 2018.
Connie Britton
American actress best known for the lead role as homicide detective Sarah Linden in the AMC crime drama series The Killing, for which she earned nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the Golden Globes, and the Primetime Emmys.
Mireille Enos
American drama television series created by Mike Kelley and starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp, which debuted on September 21, 2011, on ABC. The plot is inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
Revenge
Who played Brenda Leigh Johnson in The Closer? 6 Golden Globe nominations in a row including one win.
Kyra Sedgwick
Which actor played lead role in Coyote Ugly and GG nominated for role in Covert Affairs on TV?
Piper Perabo
WHo won 2010 GG for Best Actress for Gemma Teller Morrow in Sons of Anarchy?
Katey Sagal
GG nominated actress playing main of Saving Grace: The plot focuses on Grace Hanadarko, a heavy drinking and promiscuous Oklahoma City detective. In the series opener, Grace meets up with her “last-chance” angel when, after a night of drinking, she runs down and kills a pedestrian with her Porsche.
Holly Hunter
Who got two GG nominations for playing Allison Dubois in Medium 2006 and 2007?
Patricia Arquette
Who won 2005 GG for playing President Mackenzie Allen in Commander in Chief?
Geena Davis
She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under (2001–2005), for which she won a Golden Globe. She is also known for playing the older version of Moira O’Hara in season one of the television anthology series American Horror Story. Subsequently portrayed The Angel of Death, Myrtle Snow, Gloria Mott, Mama Polk, Bebe Babbitt, and Belle Noir on seven further seasons of the show: Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, Roanoke, Cult, Apocalypse, and Double Feature, respectively. Played Joker’s mum in Joker film.
Frances Conroy
Playing the role of Siobhan Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan’s Hope from 1982 to 1986. She is best known for her role as Catherine Willows in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–13) and the subsequent TV movie Immortality (2015). She reprised the role in season 2 of the sequel CSI: Vegas, which premiered on September 29, 2022.
Marg Helgenberger
She had a role opposite Julia Roberts in the American romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), followed by her portrayal of Hilary du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Portrayed massage therapist Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nomination in 2002.
Rachel Griffiths
American science fiction drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on October 3, 2000. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, it stars Jessica Alba in her breakthrough role. Set in 2019, the series chronicles the life of Max Guevara (Alba), a runaway genetically enhanced supersoldier.
Dark Angel
Which actress had three consecutive GG nominations for playing Amy Gray in Judging Amy?
Amy Brenneman
Which actress had three consecutive GG nominations and one win for playing Lily Manning in Once and Again?
Sela Ward
Northern Irish actress played Monica the angel in the CBS television series Touched by an Angel. She also played the leading role of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Emmy award-winning NBC mini-series A Woman Named Jackie.Married to Mark Burnett since 2007.
Roma Downey
British television producer and author who is the former Chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group. He created The Apprentice, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? and Shark Tank, and produced the reality shows Survivor, The Voice, Beat Shazam, and Generation Gap.
Mark Burnett
Films directed by who?
The Wedding Planner (2001)A Walk to Remember (2002)Bringing Down the House (2003)The Pacifier (2005)Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)Hairspray (2007)Bedtime Stories (2008)Rock of Ages (2012)What Men Want (2019)Disenchanted (2022)
Adam Shankman
Jane Seymour plays Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, what is her first name?
Michaela
1994-95 tv show Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, it follows the emotional travails of several teenagers in the social circle of main character Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes who won GG for Best Actress. Launched Jared Leto and Wilson Cruz.
My So-Called Life
British club DJ, producer and remixer. He has appeared on reality shows like Celebrity Come Dine with Me and Celebrity Big Brother. He is well known for appearing on stage heavily intoxicated at the 2000 BRIT Awards. Friends suggested that he had entered a musical contest and had won Best Musician of the Year, when in fact he had not even been nominated for the award. This resulted in a confrontation with award presenters Ronnie Wood and Thora Birch.
Brandon Block
American actress best known for her roles as Maggie O’Connell in the television series Northern Exposure, as Jessie Deighan in the feature film Cliffhanger, and as Katie McCoy in Friday Night Lights. She is an author, public speaker and founder and co-chair of Constituting America 2010.
Janine Turner
What 90s cop show is primarily about the working relationship between Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman (Marlee Matlin), a prosecutor very sensitive to the rights of the accused, and hard-charging, gruff Detective Dicky Cobb (Mark Harmon), an old-fashioned cop with a “bust-the-perps” attitude.
Reasonable Doubts
Grandfather was an author, She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe-nominated breakout role in Lipstick (1976), and she received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979). GG nom for Civil Wars on TV.
Mariel Hemingway
Won GG for BActress for Lilly Harper on I’ll Fly Away in 1991, first black actress to play Juliet on Broadway.
Regina Taylor
Known for her television roles as Laurie Partridge on the sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974, and as Grace Van Owen on the drama series L.A. Law from 1986 to 1992. A three-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series for L.A. Law in 1988.
Susan Dey
She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards. Played Caroline Reynolds President in Prison Break.
Patricia Wettig
Joan Collins first name character in Dynasty
ALEXIS Carrington
Known for her television roles as Sabrina Duncan in the series Charlie’s Angels (1976–1979) and Amanda King in the series Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1987). Her film roles include Making Love (1982) and Loverboy (1989).
Kate Jackson
Born in Japan, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera series Dallas.
Victoria Principal
December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the California wine industry set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley, located northeast of San Francisco and modeled after the real Napa Valley. Jane Wyman stars as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the namesake Winery. Winning GG for BA.
Falcon Crest
She was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas. She also starred as Maggie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. Her notable films included I Remember Mama (1948) and Vertigo (1958).
Barbara Bel Geddes
In the 1960s she played Audra Barkley, the daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck) in the Western television series The Big Valley (1965–1969). She is best known for portraying Krystle Carrington in the 1980s ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989.
Linda Evans
best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife of Larry Hagman’s character J.R. Ewing on the CBS television drama series Dallas
Linda Gray
Mrs. Columbo, a spin-off TV series starring which actress as the title character, aired in 1979 and was canceled after only thirteen episodes
Kate Mulgrew
best known for her leading role in the American science fiction television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), in which she portrayed character Jaime Sommers. She first played the role on the series The Six Million Dollar Man. She appeared in Grey’s Anatomy as Alex Karev’s mother, Helen Karev, over the course of two seasons.
Lindsay Wagner
He is known for his role as James Dempsey in the British drama series Dempsey and Makepeace (1985–1986). His theatre credits include the original Broadway production of Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969), and playing Jerry Springer in the West End production of Jerry Springer: The Opera (2003–2004).
Michael Brandon
She is known for her portrayals of Sgt. Harriet Makepeace in the British police drama Dempsey and Makepeace, Glenda Mitchell in EastEnders, DCI Grace Barraclough in Emmerdale, Fiona Brake in Night and Day, and Soolin in Blake’s 7. In 2022, she joined the cast of Hollyoaks as Norma Crow.
Glynis Barber
Recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. Received renewed notice with appearances as Blind Al in the superhero films Deadpool (2016), its 2018 sequel and the upcoming 2024 third film, as well as a recurring role as Leah Walker on the Fox musical drama series, Empire (2016–2020) and for the comedy-drama film American Fiction (2023).
Leslie Uggams
starred as Sergeant “Pepper” Anderson in the NBC crime series Police Woman, for which she received the Golden Globe, Rio Bravo with John Wayne and Dean Martin, married to Burt Bacharach 1965-81.
Angie Dickinson
receiving a Golden Globe nomination for playing Dana Lambert in the CBS drama series Mission: Impossible (1970–71). In 1978, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series for the NBC miniseries Harold Robbins’ 79 Park Avenue. nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Norma Cassidy in Victor/Victoria.
Lesley Ann Warren
She co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–75), for which she won the 1975 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Rose Buck. She later reprised the role in the BBC’s revival of the series (2010–2012).
Jean Marsh
notably as Betty Jones, the title character’s secretary and daughter-in-law in the 1970s crime drama Barnaby Jones starring Buddy Ebsen. The role earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations in 1975 and 1976, and an Emmy Award nomination in 1977. She is also known for her portrayal of Catwoman, replacing Julie Newmar in the film version of Batman (1966).
Lee Meriweather
He played Dick Grayson’s Robin, the sidekick of Batman (played by Adam West), in the television series Batman (1966–1968), its theatrical feature film, the Saturday morning animated series The New Adventures of Batman (1977).
Burt Ward
known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. Three of the wins were for The Waltons (1973, 1974, 1976), while the other was for Nurse (1982).
Michael Learned
playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963) (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress). She also featured as the matriarch in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it inspired, The Waltons.
Patricia Neal
she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes in the crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970. Married musician Quincy Jones and began a 15-year hiatus from acting, during which she raised her two children, Kidada and Rashida Jones. She returned to acting in 1988, performing in many TV roles, including Norma Jennings in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.
Peggy Lipton
American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress “Miss Kitty Russell” on the western television series Gunsmoke. Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity.
Amanda Blake
She portrayed the good witch Samantha Stephens on the popular television series Bewitched, which earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations.
Elizabeth Montgomery
She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954). 1959 nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Porgy and Bess. Halle Berry played her in 1999 biopic.
Dorothy Dandridge
portrayal of the title role in the 1974 television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman won her two Emmy Awards, played Binta in Roots 1977, nominated for Oscar 1972 Sounder, nominated for Emmys for How to Get Away with Murder.
Cicely Tyson
1975 original choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” is by which writer? She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl run away from home.
Ntozake Shange
Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.
Loretta Devine
American actress who starred as Jeannie in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970 opposite Larry Hagman). Her other roles included Roslyn Pierce opposite Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960), Lieutenant jg Cathy Connors in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), and a single widowed mother, Stella Johnson, in the film Harper Valley PTA (1978).
Barbara Eden
Portrayed Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker (1962), a role she had originated on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Sean Astin’s mother.
Patty Duke
She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round and reprised the role in the 1961 film version. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman (1966–1967). Her other stage credits include Ziegfeld Follies in 1956, Lola in Damn Yankees! in 1961, and Irma in Irma la Douce in 1965 in regional productions.
Julie Newmar
American actress known for her ground-breaking roles in the science-fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and the television action-drama series Honey West (1965–1966). Also in Blackboard Jungle.
Anne Francis
He is best known for starring in The Addams Family (1964–1966), as patriarch Gomez Addams, reprising the role in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977) and the animated series The Addams Family (1992–1993). Married to Patty Duke at some point.
John Astin
Who played Morticia Adams in the original The Addams Family 1964-66?
Carolyn Jones
He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction works such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and he played Lurch on The Addams Family in the mid-1960s. He also narrated The Incredible Hulk TV series and voiced The Hulk in the show’s first 2 seasons.
Ted Cassidy
She is well known for her portrayal of Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra’s fantasy holiday film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fred Zinnemann’s war drama film From Here to Eternity (1953). Won the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963 for namesake show. Played Ellie Ewing in 1984-85 season of Dallas replacing Barbara Bel Geddes for only a season.
Donna Reed
Who won Emmy for outstanding voiceover for role of Connie the Hormone Monstress in TV show Big Mouth in 2020 and 2021 and 2023?
Maya Rudolph
It stars Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong as two birds toucan and song thrush animated show
Tuca & Bertie
Bluey’s sister who is a red heeler?
Bingo
Bluey’s dad who is an archaeologist?
Bandit
Bluey’s mum who works as airport security?
Chilli
Who hosts Survivor in the USA won first foru Emmys for presenting a reality competition?
Jeff Probst
best known as the former co-newscaster for the ITV Evening News, alongside Mary Nightingale, and the former co-newscaster of the ITV News at Ten, alongside Julie Etchingham. He also presented the ITV documentary series Real Crime from 2008 until 2011. From 24 September 2018, he has presented The News Hour and Sky News at 6 as part of schedule changes on Sky News. Presented first season of Survivor UK.
Mark Austin
English cricket commentator and former cricketer and broadcaster. He played for Hampshire from 1978 to to 1995, captaining them from 1985 to his retirement. On the 1 October 2023, he Succeeded Stephen Fry as president of Marylebone Cricket Club. Presented second season of UK Survivor.
Mark Nicholas
She is known as the host of the Netflix comedic reality bake-off series Nailed It! (2018–present - cake replicating show), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Nicole Byer
best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune, a position he has held since 1981
Pat Sajak
Five presenters of Wheel fo Fortune UK please, with last being most recent
Nicky Campbell, Bradley Walsh, John Leslie, Paul Hendy, Graham Norton
American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, most famous for his role as Joe Friday in the Dragnet franchise, which he created. He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited.
Jack Webb
His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western Bonanza and Commander Adama in the original science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980.
Lorne Greene
TV host from america also created the game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune through his own production companies
Merv Griffin
American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship’s captain Merrill Stubing on ABC’s The Love Boat.
Gavin MacLeod
American actor, known for playing the role of Captain “Trapper” John McIntyre in the CBS television series MAS*H and as Dr. Charley Michaels on House Calls (1979–1982).
Wayne Rogers
American actor and singer. He played Benson DuBois in the ABC television series Soap and its spin-off, Benson. He also voiced the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, and played Isaac Jaffe in Aaron Sorkin’s dramedy Sports Night. He was the first African-American actor to portray the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Robert Guillaume
Three’s Company is an American television sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. It is based on which British sitcom?
Man About The House
American actor. He was known for his roles as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family (1973–1975; 1978) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985), Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen (1986–1991), and B. P. Richfield on the ABC series Dinosaurs.
Sherman Hemsley
best known for playing Dr. Jason Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains on ABC.
Alan Thicke
He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the sitcom Coach (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), Deputy Ward Wilson in the 1980 film Stir Crazy, Steve Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist, Burt Nickerson in All The Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson, Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989)
Craig T Nelson
Malcolm in the Middle family surname
Wilkerson
He is known for starring as Thranduil the Elvenking in The Hobbit trilogy and as Joe MacMillan in the period drama television series Halt and Catch Fire. He has also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ronan the Accuser, a role he first played in Guardians of the Galaxy and reprised in Captain Marvel. He earned a 2008 Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Ned in the comedy-drama Pushing Daisies. Since 2021, he stars as the galactic emperor Brother Day in the television series Foundation, based on the stories of Isaac Asimov.
Lee Pace
In 1971, Anders Svedlund became the first person to row across which ocean?
Indian Ocean
The orange-coloured Rio Tinto river, which gives its name to a major mining company, flows through which country?
Spain
Which German prisoner-of-war camp was Giles Romilly, the nephew of Winston Churchill, sent to in 1940?
Colditz Castle
Which UK national park contains the historic buildings of Tissington Hall and Peveril Castle?
peak distrixr
Which sport is played by the clubs Belfast Star and Tralee Warriors?
bsktbll
Which type of tree gives its name to the title of a Sylvia Plath poem beginning “I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root”?
elm
The character Riddick, played by Vin Diesel, first appeared in which film released in 2000?
pitch black
Izalco volcano, known as the “lighthouse of the Pacific” is located in which Central American country?
nicaragua
Which British indie band released the 2013 album Bad Blood?
bastille
In Tune, presented by Katie Derham, is an afternoon show on which BBC radio station?
radio 3
Which Nobel laureate was a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences from 1957 until 1973?
Sir Joseph Rotblat
Brian Deane scored the first ever goal in the Premier League in 1992, but who was the goalkeeper he got the ball past to achieve this?
Peter Schmeichel
The guitarist Glenn Tipton is a member of which heavy metal band from Birmingham?
Judas Priest
Unveiled in 2023, IBM’s first universal quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits is named after which scavenging bird?
Condor
Which Italian filmmaker directed The Passenger, Zabriskie Point, and Blow-Up?
Michelangelo Antonioni
How many locks form the system on the Caledonian Canal known as Neptune’s Staircase?
Eight
Evelyn Waugh’s first book, published in 1928, was a biography of which pre-Raphaelite artist?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Which Australian wine region, located near Adelaide, shares its name with an 1811 battle during the Peninsular War?
Barossa
From 2004 to 2014, the NBA team Charlotte Hornets plays under what name?
Charlotte Bobcats
Which European country’s parliament voted to legalise cannabis for limited recreational use in February 2024, becoming the third country in Europe to remove cannabis from the official list of banned substances? However, limits were placed as to the amount of cannabis people can possess.
Germany
The reddish sky in Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream is based on Munch’s memory of the effects of the eruption of which volcano?
Krakatoa
Founded in the 18th century, what St. Petersburg-based ballet company was formerly named the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Kirov Ballet?
Mariinsky Ballet
The Isthmus of Chignecto is the narrow piece of land connecting which peninsula with North America?
Nova Scotia
Taking its name from what claims to be the best-selling cookie in the world, what was the name of the three-girl singing group in the 1976 movie, A Star Is Born, where Barbra Streisand’s character Esther Hoffman is the white central member between black actresses Venetta Fields and Clydie King?
The Oreos
Which Italian sauce is traditionally served with Osso Bucco and is made of chopped parsley, lemon zest, and garlic?
Gremolata
Which unit of length was originally defined as the distance corresponding to one sixtieth of a degree of latitude at the equator?
Nautical mile
Referring to London, who said “I will not leave unless the King does. And the King will not leave under any circumstances whatsoever”?
The Queen Mother
The only comedy album to top the album charts, We All Had Doctors’ Papers was recorded live at Pontarddulais Rugby Club in Swansea in 1975 by which Welsh comedian and singer?
Max Boyce
What connects: the two most recent winners of BBC Sports Personality of the Year; the founder of Emmanuel Cambridge who was Queen Elizabeth I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer; a tributary of The Thames which flows through Witney; the clerk of Handforth Parish Council in Dec 2020; a 2015 film which was the first film to be shot in the Houses of Parliament; and a luxury department store in London famous for its floral fabrics?
Lioness(es), (Sir Walter) Mildmay, Windrush, (Jackie) Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty – the new virtue signalling names for the six London Overground lines.
Kenny Loggins wrote and performed Playing With The Boys and also sang Danger Zone for which film soundtrack of 1986?
Top Gun
a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974).
Shirley Jones
her work on television beginning in the 1970s as Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1972) and Maude (1972–1978) and later in the 1980s and 1990s as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls (1985–1992).
Bea Arthur
She is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and its spinoff Rhoda (1974–1978). For her work on Mary Tyler Moore, she thrice received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and later received the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Rhoda.
Valerie Harper
Phyllis Lindstrom is a fictional character portrayed by which actress on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Phyllis?
Cloris Leachman
particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage, including in the musicals Mack and Mabel (1974), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Song and Dance (1985), Into the Woods (1987), The Goodbye Girl (1993), Annie Get Your Gun (1999), Gypsy (2003), A Little Night Music (2010), Follies (2011), and Hello, Dolly! (2018). Actress Pennies from Heaven Golden Globe.
Bernadette Peters
best known for her role as Louise “Weezy” Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she became the second African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award after Gail Fisher and the first African-American actress to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Isabel Sanford
She is best known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal.
Penny Marshall
She is best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the television sitcoms Happy Days (1975–1979), and Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982). She also appeared in American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), Mr. Ricco (1975), and More American Graffiti (1979).
Cindy Williams
best known for her portrayal of Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on MAS*H, for which she won two Emmy Awards.
Loretta Swit
She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008).
Candice Bergen
She is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill (1997–2010), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. also known for her roles in the comedy-drama series Californication (2007–2014) and Louie (2010–2015), the latter of which she additionally wrote and produced alongside Louis C.K. starred as Sam Fox on the acclaimed FX comedy-drama series Better Things, which she also co-created, wrote, produced, and directed.
Pamela Adlon
She is best known for playing Bridgette Bird on the Showtime series SMILF, based on the 2015 short film of the same title, which she wrote, directed and starred in. She is also known for playing Mary Jo Cacciatore on the 2010–2011 Spike TV series Blue Mountain State, and her recurring role as Shayla Nico in the first season of the USA Network television series Mr. Robot.
Frankie Shaw
She voiced the titular character of the Netflix animated action-adventure series Carmen Sandiego (2019–21) and starred and executive produced the Disney+ comedy-drama series Diary of a Future President (2020–21). She is known for her leading role as Jane Villanueva in The CW satirical romantic dramedy series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019).
Gina Rodriguez
Nurse Jackie Peyton on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–2015). She also portrayed Diane Whittlesey in HBO’s prison drama Oz (1997–2000). Most famous role 1999-2007.
Edie Falco
Between 2001 and 2006, she recurred as Amy Gardner in the NBC television series The West Wing, She received both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Harper Pitt in the acclaimed HBO television miniseries Angels in America in 2003. large success as Nancy Botwin, the lead character in the television series Weeds, which ran from 2005 to 2012.
Mary Louise Parker
She is best known for her role as Lois on the Fox television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), which earned her three Golden Globe nominations and seven Primetime Emmy nominations.
Jane Kaczmarek
she was best known for her starring role as Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as Mona Robinson on Who’s the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach (1995–1997) and Lois Whelan (the mother of Debra Barone) on Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2004).
Katherine Helmond
She gained further critical acclaim for her role as Captain Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in a television adaptation, winning both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award. appeared as the beleaguered Mrs. Peacock in the mystery-comedy Clue (1985). She also starred opposite Peter Falk in two Neil Simon-penned murder mystery spoofs: Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978).
Eileen Brennan
best known for her work in the musical-drama television series Fame (1982–1987), where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant, and served as the series’ principal choreographer. For this role in 1983 she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. 2011 began playing Dr. Catherine Avery in the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. She is the younger sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashad.
Debbie Allen
American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show. It aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993. The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically black college in Virginia.
A Different World
best known for her portrayal of Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (1985–92), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She reprised the role for appearances on Empty Nest (1993–95), The Golden Palace (1992–93), Blossom (1990–95), and Nurses (1991–94).
Estelle Getty
played Madeline Hayes on the detective comedy-drama Moonlighting (1985–1989) opposite Bruce Willis, for which she won two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical TV Series out of three such nominations
Cybill Shepherd
American actress and comedian best known for her roles on television sitcoms, including Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–78), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama’s Family (1983–84), and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (1985–92), and its spin-off series The Golden Palace (1992–93).
Rue McClanahan
She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979) and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982).
Candice Bergen
American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian. She is best known for playing the title role in the ABC comedy series Grace Under Fire (1993–1998), for which she received two Golden Globe Awards nominations.
Brett Butler
currently serving as the national president of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). She is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999)
Fran Drescher
She continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli’s Endless Love (1981). TV show called Suddenly Susan 1996-2000.
Brooke Shields
She is best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress
Jenna Elfman
He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Bäumer in the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and for playing Dr. Kildare in nine films.[1] He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Johnny Belinda (1948).
Lew Ayres
He is known for his roles in the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian as Tim O’Hara, in the ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie’s Father as Tom Corbett, in the NBC crime drama series The Magician as stage Illusionist Anthony Blake, and the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk as Dr. David Banner.
Bill Bixby
He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall, and is best known for his role as patriarch Mike Brady, opposite Florence Henderson’s role as Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974.
Robert Reed
In 1982, for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and became the first black actor to win in this category.
Lou Gossett Jr.
He is best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots and for portraying James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times.
John Amos
best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and in Bones, as Seeley Booth’s grandfather.
Ralph Waite
He is best known for starring as Armond in the first season of the HBO dark comedy series The White Lotus (2021) for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He gained further recognition for his role Nick De Noia in the Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales (2022), and Frank in the episode “Long, Long Time” of the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023).
Murray Bartlett
He is known for his roles as West in the dance drama The Next Step (2013–2019), as Seven Carter in the American drama film The Hate U Give (2018), as Charlie in All the Bright Places (2020), and as Henry Burrell in The Last of Us.
Lamar Johnson
Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place (1968–1969), high school student Leroy “Preach” Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film Cooley High, math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom A Different World (1988–1993), and Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire.
Glynn Turman
portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003), William Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2014), Mad Sweeney on the Starz series American Gods (2017–2020), and as George “Pornstache” Mendez on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017). He stars as Master Chief in the Paramount+ live-action series Halo (2022–present).
Pablo Schreiber
Known for his recurring roles in television series such as The Big C, Fargo, and The Good Wife. He received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles in The West Wing in 2001, Huff in 2005 and 2006, and Nip/Tuck in 2008. He portrayed George Steinbrenner in the series The Bronx Is Burning (2007). He is also known for his recurring role as Uncle Jimmy in the Hulu series The Bear (2022–present).
Oliver Platt
his best-known acting roles include the title character ( voice of ) of the 1960s animated Jonny Quest TV series, Eric “Otter” Stratton in the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon’s Animal House, and the recurring role of Vice President John Hoynes in the 2000s NBC drama The West Wing, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
Tim Matheson
represented such celebrity clients as Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, and Jim Bakker. Major legal victories have included two successful appeals that overturned convictions, first for Harry Reems in 1976, then in 1984 for Claus von Bülow, who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. In 1995, he served as the appellate adviser on the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, part of the legal “Dream Team”, alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey.
Alan Dershowitz
best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost (2006–2010) and as Harold Finch in the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016). Other prominent roles include Zep Hindle in the horror film Saw (2004) and the recurring role of Cayden James on Arrow (2017–2018). He currently stars as Dr. Leland Townsend in the Paramount+ thriller series Evil (2019–present).
Michael Emerson
He was known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and 1982 film musical Annie, Richard Gilmore in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), and a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on The History Channel and in such PBS productions as Nova.
Edward Hermann
Known as a character actor, he played Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and the comical monster in Mel Brooks’ film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Peter Boyle
Her breakthrough role was in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1977 to 1983, where she played the role of Karen Wolek; for this role, she won two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1980 and 1981. In 2024, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Poker Face.
Judith Light
He is best known for playing Richard Splett in the HBO political comedy series Veep (2012–19), co-creating and co-starring in Detroiters (2017–18) alongside Tim Robinson, and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019–present), Aniq Adjaye in the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty (2022–23), and Norville “Shaggy” Rogers in the Max series Velma (2023–present). In 2022 and 2023, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Edwin Akufo in Ted Lasso, winning the 2023 award in this category.
Sam Richardson
His other notable performances include Corey Howard in That ’80s Show (2002), Cliff Gilbert on Fox’s The Mindy Project (2012–2017), Don Chumph on the first season of FX’s Fargo (2014) and Jack Griffin, the lead role on NBC’s A.P. Bio (2018–2021). He also voices Fred Jones in the HBO Max series Velma (2023–present). He received acclaim for his portrayal of Jim Balsillie in the film BlackBerry (2023).
Glenn Howerton
TV She gained national attention for her performance as Jackie Harris on the sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018) and its spinoff The Conners (2018–present), won Emmy for guest in Hacks. In film, best known for her performance as Marion McPherson in Greta Gerwig’s comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017). From 1995, she has voiced Mrs. Davis, the mother of Andy, in the Toy Story franchise, and voiced Sarah Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002).
Laurie Metcalf
American actress best known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC’s The Office, Trudy Monk on USA Network’s Monk, and Tammy Cashman on Amazon Prime Video’s Transparent, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Melora Hardin
American actress best known for portraying Rosalita in The Goonies, and Yolanda Saldívar in the film Selena. She acted in numerous films and television shows. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives and received critical acclaim for her role in Chuck & Buck. Emmy nomination for Juanita Solis on Desp Housewives.
Lupe Ontiveros
1998-2004: Set in the New York City borough of the Bronx, the show starred Ted Danson as title character, a misanthropic doctor who operates a small practice and is constantly annoyed by his patients, co-workers, and friends, and practically everything and everybody else in his world.
John Becker
Who is only the second actress, after Betty White, to win all three comedy Emmy nominations - comedy lead, supporting, and guest categories? Guest as Lana Gardner and on Frasier, Comedy lead as Deborah Vance on Hacks.
Jean Smart
She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC’s The Practice (1998–2003) and she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15). Partner with Sarah Paulson from 2015. Legally Blonde, George of the Jungle and The Truman Show.
Holland Taylor
She received three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a British Academy Film Award. She is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
Diane Ladd
Originated many roles in musicals, including Lola in Damn Yankees, the title character in Sweet Charity, and Roxie Hart in Chicago. Her second husband was director-choreographer Bob Fosse.
Gwen Verdon
He made his film debut as Jesus Christ in the musical Godspell (1973). In Titanic, Legally Blonde. best known as Jack Bristow in the ABC series Alias (2001 to 2006) for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy Award. originated roles in the Broadway productions of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1979, Noises Off in 1983, Lend Me a Tenor in 1989, Arcadia in 1995 and Art in 1998.
Victor Garber
A recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and six Primetime Emmy Awards, he was best known for his role as Ed Norton on the sitcom The Honeymooners (1955–1956). Harry Coombes in 1974 film Harry and Tonto.
Art Carney
Which Northern Irish fashion designer is known for his eponymous label, the originator of a fibreglass pigeon handbag that became a sell-out after it was seen carried by Sarah Jessica Parker?
Jonathan Anderson
