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Brands from KP Snacks are kit sponsors in the cricket competition The Hundred. Which brand is the 2023 sponsor of Welsh Fire? This potato and corn snack are hollow cylinders and share their name with a toy first popularised in the 1950s.
Hula Hoops
Which former Scottish rugby union player who died in 2022 was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award in 2019 for raising awareness of motor neurone disease through his charitable foundation? The trophy for the annual match between Scotland and Wales is named after him.
Doddie Weir
Which classic of 1990s hood cinema, directed by Ernest Dickerson, stars Omar Epps as Q, a Harlem teenager whose dreams of being a DJ come into conflict with the escalating criminal ambitions of his best friend Bishop, played by Tupac Shakur?
Juice
Which German multimedia conglomerate, via its UK radio division, owns radio
stations such as Absolute, Jazz FM, KISS, Magic, Planet Rock and Scala Radio?
Bauer Radio
The German word for which type of business is Metzgerei?
Butchers
In cribbage, cards of which rank could cause you to score ‘one for his nob’ or ‘two for his heels’?
Jack
Published in 1956 and 1957, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street are the three novels in a trilogy considered a masterpiece by which author?
Naguib Mahfouz
Which Jamaican-born British sociologist, cultural theorist and political activist was a co-founder of the New Left Review and developed theencoding and decoding model of communication?
Stuart Hall
Which classic of 1990s hood cinema, directed by the Hughes Brothers, stars Larenz Tate and Chris Tucker as two of a group of former US Marines who return from Vietnam to the Bronx to be faced with social alienation and economic
desperation, which ultimately drives them to rob an armoured bank truck?
Dead Presidents
1993 American teen drama film directed by the Hughes Brothers in their directorial debut. The film is set in Watts and Crenshaw
neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and follows the life of Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner) and his close friends.
Menace II Society
Dolemite is a 1975 American blaxploitation crime comedy film and is also the name of its principal character, played by which actor?
Rudy Ray Moore
1973 Blaxpoitation film starring Roscoe Orman as the eponymous pimp in New York City, who strives to be number one in the city. As he is trying to do so, a social worker named Cora, is trying to change his ways - as well as those of the women who work for him - for the better.
Willie Dynamite
Which former Labour MP was suspended from the Commons in 2019 after a number of scandals, including one where he was found to have “expressed willingness” to purchase cocaine for male prostitutes?
Keith Vaz
New Street and Moor Street are two train stations in which English city?
Birmingham
Which character gives his name to a work for orchestra and chorus by Hector Berlioz, an overture by Richard Wagner, a symphony by Franz Liszt and an opera by Charles Gounod?
Faust
Which square in central Istanbul, was the centre of 2013 protests, initially against the development of the neighbouring Gezi Park, but widening to include a range of protestors against the authoritarianism of President Erdoğan?
Taksim Square
Widely used in food and drink, the cocoa bean is the fully fermented seed of a plant in which large family with the scientific name Malvaceae [mal-VAY-seeeye], that also includes hollyhock, okra, durian, cotton and hibiscus?
Mallows
Since 2013, Jonathan Anderson has been the creative director of which LVMHowned Spanish luxury fashion house, recently advertised by Maggie Smith? Founded by a German in Madrid in 1846, its iconic handbags include the Puzzle,
the Goya and the Hammock.
Loewe
Another KP Snacks brand that sponsors a team in The Hundred is which prawn cocktail flavoured crisps that fizz on the tongue? It is the kit sponsor for Trent Rockets in 2023.
Skips
The semiotic approach of Stuart Hall’s encoding and decoding model built on the work of which French literary theorist, critic and semiotician, known for his 1957 collection Mythologies and the later essay The Death of the Author?
Roland Barthes
Which word, signifying the reaction of a substance with a particular element, precedes ‘state’ in a more general chemical term meaning the number of valence electrons an atom has gained or lost? This ‘state’ can therefore be negative or positive, making it less ambiguous than the related ‘valency’.
Oxidation State
The quadruple axel is considered the most difficult form of quad jump in figure
skating. By contrast, which quad is considered the easiest, and was first performed by Kurt Browning in 1988, a full decade before the quadruple Salchow became the second quad jump achieved?
Toe Loop
In the card game hearts, points are scored for every heart card and also for which
specific card from a different suit?
Queen of Spades
Published between 1969 and 1971, Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn and The Decay of the Angel are the four novels making up a tetralogy with what name by Mishima?
The Sea of Fertility
Which British media company formed in 2007 owns radio stations such as Capital, Heart, Classic FM, LBC and Radio X?
Global
The German word for which type of business is Tankstelle?
Petrol Station
Obtained from plants, especially conifers and pine trees, which sticky, pitch-like substance is used on the bows of stringed instruments to increase their friction and grip?
Rosin
Which type of bonnet or cap that can be worn as part of highland dress, is essentially a more formal version of the Tam o’Shanter, and takes its name from a Scottish castle close to the village of Crathie?
Balmoral
Robert Vilahamn is the head coach of which Women’s Super League team based
in London?
Tottenham
How many cards are there in a Tarot deck?
78
Running since 2007, which open access train operator runs services on the East
Coast Main Line between Kings Cross and Bradford and Sunderland?
Grand Central
Father Ted surname and actor who plays him
Crilly – Dermot Morgan
In physics, what lowercase letter is usually used to denote an object’s momentum?
p (Leibniz used as “progress”)
In which of the six counties of Northern Ireland are the Mountains of Mourne located?
County Down
Finn Russell, co-captain of Scotland in this year’s men’s Six Nations rugby tournament, plays for which Premiership Rugby team based in the south-west of England?
Bath
Which European capital city was most familiarly known to English speakers for
centuries, until the early 20th, as Pressburg?
Bratislava
Who took over from Yul Brynner in the role of Chris, leader of the Magnificent
Seven, for the third film in the western series, 1969’s Guns of the Magnificent
Seven, only a year or so after winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Cool
Hand Luke?
George Kennedy
Who was the third actor to play the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who, first appearing in the 1970 story Spearhead from Space?
Jon Pertwee
Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker, Davison, Baker, McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker, Gatwa.
Mnemonic:
How to punish bad Daleks before many million earthlings truly see clearly. Why Go?
Which Briton became the youngest ever world champion in her sport at the age of 16 in 2023, winning the snowboard slopestyle title? She was later named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.
Mia Brookes
Having the scientific name Taricha torosa, the California Newt is, despite its name, the most poisonous species of which type of amphibian?
Salamander
Running since 2021, which open access train operator runs services on the East
Coast Main Line between Kings Cross and Edinburgh Waverley?
Lumo
Rehanne Skinner, Robert Vilahmn’s predecessor at Spurs, is now the head coach of which Women’s Super League team based in London?
West Ham
Swedish manager who is head coach of Arsenal Ladies, he was pundit at womens world cup a lot
Jonas Eidevall
Welsh manager of Man City Ladies since 2020
Gareth Taylor
English manager of Liverpool Ladies since 2021?
Matt Beard
English manager of the Manchester United womens team? Shares surname with manager of West Ham United Ladies.
Marc Skinner
What was the name of the aircraft in which Bryan Allen became the first person to
pilot a human-powered aircraft across the English Channel in 1979?
Gossamer Albatross
Who, probably most familiar from roles in spaghetti westerns, sometimes as a
villain, took over as the leader Chris in the fourth and final of the original series of Magnificent Seven films, 1972’s The Magnificent Seven Ride?
Lee Van Cleef
Dafydd (“DAV-ith”) Jenkins, captain of Wales in this year’s men’s Six Nations
rugby tournament, plays for which Premiership Rugby team based in the southwest of England?
Exeter Chiefs
In physics, what uppercase letter is usually used to denote an object’s angular momentum?
L
Isata Kanneh Mason, eldest of the seven musical siblings, plays which musical instrument, also played by her younger siblings Jeneba and Konya?
Pinao
Michael Vaughan, playing for England against India in 2001, was the last player to be dismissed by what method in a test match? This way of getting out has now been incorporated into Obstructing the Field.
Handled the Ball
What was the name of the Australian businessman who created the unsanctioned World Series Cricket between 1977-79 which led to several weakened test match series including the 1977 and 1978-79 Ashes series.
Kerry Packer
Which Australian player scored 170 for Australia in their win over England in the
2022 world cup final?
Alyssa Healy
Which South African fast bowler was nicknamed White Lightning? He was
famously involved in a run out which led to South Africa losing to Australia in the
semi-final of the 1999 world cup?
Allan Donald
It is claimed which West Indies test stadium is named after a slave found guilty of murder?
Sabina Park (Kingston Jamaica)
The English folk rock singer Roy Harper released the single When an Old
Cricketer Leaves The Crease. Which English band took their hats off to him on their third album?
Led Zeppelin
Which former Worcester, Surrey and Somerset keeper became in 2011 the first
male international cricketer to come out as gay?
Steven Davies
For which side was Virat Kohli playing when he set the record for most runs in an
IPL season in 2016? This team has never won the competition.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
What effect can be observed when a spinning sphere curves away from the arc it
would follow if it were not spinning, for example when a cricket bowler swings the
ball? It is named for a German physicist who described the effect in 1852.
Magnus Effect
Which pioneer of women’s cricket captained England from 1966 to 1978? The
English women’s 50-over domestic competition is named after her.
Rachael Heyhoe Flint
Give the christian name of either of the two Marsh brothers who have both represented Australia in T20s, ODIs and Test matches. Both play for Western Australia as did their father and 1987 World Cup winner, Geoff.
Mitchell or Shaun
Which well-known cricket equipment manufacturer, founded in Nottinghamshire
in 1885, uses the initials GM on its products?
Gunne and Moore
A member of the British Blank Panthers, which Trinidad born journalist and broadcaster presented the TV show The Cricket Test? His other TV shows include the current affairs programmes Devil’s Advocate, Black on Black and Bandung File.
Darcus Howe
Which Pakistani fast bowler was nicknamed The Rawalpindi Express? He famously bowled the first officially recorded 100mph+ delivery in world cup history versus England in 2003.
Shoaib Akhtar
The cricket themed group The Duckworth Lewis Method is made up of Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh. Hannon is probably better known as the leader of which Northern Irish group?
The Divine Comedy
Which English player scored 148 not out for England in their loss to Australia in
the 2022 world cup final?
Nat Sciver-Brunt
Give both first names of the two Curran brothers who have both represented England in T20s, ODIs and Test matches. Both play for Surrey
though their father represented Gloucestershire, Northants & Zimbabwe.
Tom and Sam
Which well-known cricket equipment manufacturer, later owned by DunlopSlazenger and now SDL, uses the initials SS on its products?
Stuart Sturridge
Which Trinidadian historian wrote the cricket book Beyond a Boundary? He also
wrote The Black Jacobins.
CLR James
Who was the first woman to score a century in all three formats of international
cricket? She has been captain of the England team since 2016.
Heather Knight
Playing for Canada against Brazil in a 20/20 match in 2023, who was the first transgender person to play official international cricket?
Danielle McGahey
Which actor and comedian co-hosts the podcast Middle Please, Umpire with Mark Wood? He is also known for his roles in Rev and Balamory and as the presenter of the Radio 4’s The News Quiz from 2015 to 2019?
Miles Jupp
For which side was Dwayne Bravo playing when he set the record for most wickets in an IPL season in 2013? They have won the competition five times.
Chennai Super Kings
Which side scored 721 runs in a day against Essex in 1948? It remains the
highest score made in a single day in a first-class match. Bill Brown scored 153.
Australia
What name is shared by: one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the world (originally from Czechoslovakia); the largest city in Equatorial Guinea; and the drums seen in this photo?
Bata
This castle, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, gave its name to which Canadian city?
Calgary
C: persecuted minority who lived in the west of France and northern Spain: the Navarrese Pyrenees, Basque provinces, Béarn, Aragón,Gascony and Brittany. Evidence of the group exists as far back as 1000 AD. Not allowed to market, touch food, loads of bad stuff.
Cagots
We know the country as Brunei, but its official name is Brunei D… What is the second part?
Daressallam
Eight members of parliament of which country asked HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1994, to allow her youngest son Prince Edward to be crowned as their King? Buckingham Palace turned down the frivolous request, saying that is was “a charming idea but a rather unlikely one”.
Edward
Named after the person who built the first one (in 1836), what do we call this device, used among other things to protect people and objects from lightning or electrical discharge in general?
Faraday Cage
In this photo we see a photo of both Coloeus dauuricus and Coloeus monedula, two members of the crow family who do not breed with one another and hence are different species of the same bird. By what name is this species known in English?
Jackdaw
M: a natural object that has been deliberately taken from its original environment and relocated without further modification. Typically moved by human hand,
Manuport
Easy P: What name is given to a specialised field of dentistry, looking in particular at the structures of teeth and the health of gums?
Periodontics
Talking of sharing a name, what is the name of the oldest football team in Argentina, currently in the country’s second division, supposedly founded in 1887? They are known as “El cervezero” (the Brewers) because of the famous beer that is brewed in the same city, and which shares their name.
Quilmes AC
Easy R: In which city of northern Finland would you find Santa Claus Village, said to be the residence of Father Christmas, as well as a town square dedicated to another lovable bearded fellow, Eurovision winner Mr Lordi?
Rovaniemi
On the left-hand side of this 1918 painting by Boris Kustodiev, The Merchant’s Wife at Tea Time, we see a typical Russian water-boiler. Literally meaning “self-brewer” in the Russian language, what is its name?
Samovar
What is the first name of the American mathemetician whose surname is Dudley? His most famous work, Mathematical Cranks, was about pseudomathematics and the ‘cranks’ who create them, which led to Dudley being sued by William Dilworth, one of the so-called ‘cranks’ lampooned in the book.
Underwood
What is the name of a debate that took part in a Spanish city (which the debate is named after), between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda? It was to discuss the treatment of natives in the various countries in the Americas that Spain were colonising. Las Casas argued that they should not be mistreated and instead should be introduced to Christianity without any force, since they were ‘fully capable of reason’. Sepúlveda, on the other hand, argued that the Indians should be enslaved or killed because of their barbaric traditions. In the end, the judges could not choose upon a winning argument, though both Las Casas and Sepúlveda claimed victory.
Vallodolid Debate
Here we see one of the two official flags of Bolivia, which represents the native people of the Andes. Other variants (changing the central diagonal colour) exist for the native Andeans of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina and Colombia. Since it is co-official in Bolivia, is one of only three countries to have a square national flag (the others being Switzerland and the Vatican City). But what is the name for this flag?
Wiphala
Doris Day had two number one hits in the UK, Que Sera, Sera in 1956 and which song from the musical
comedy Calamity Jane in 1954?
Secret Love
Name the army general who was elected three times as President of Argentina and who founded a political
movement that bore his name.
Juan Peron
Which song became Elvis Presley’s first Uk number one in June 1957?
All Shook Up
Which song became The Beatles first number one in may 1963?
From Me to You
Which American soap opera, set in a small New England town, ran from 1964 to 1969 and was a springboard for the careers of Ryan O’Neal and Mia Farrow?
Peyton Place
The New York Jets gridiron team played their home games at which stadium between 1964 and 1983? It famously hosted two sell-out Beatles concerts in 1965 and 1966.
Shea Stadium
Which fearsome ex-convict became heavyweight boxing champion of the World in September 1962 when he defeated the reigning champion, Floyd Patterson, inside one round?
Charles “Sonny” Liston
Featuring the name of an insect in its title, which 1984 novel, whose main character is 16-year-old Frank Cauldhame, was the first published work by Iain Banks?
The Wasp Factory
What is the name of the Starfleet Academy training exercise first depicted in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and in much other Star Trek media since? The exercise is ostensibly a ‘no win’ scenario, but Captain Kirk becomes the first
Academy cadet to defeat it by reprogramming its conditions.
Kobayashi Maru
Which English singer-songwriter has been nominated for the Mercury Prize four times for her albums Alas, I Cannot
Swim, I Speak Because I Can, Once I Was an Eagle and, most recently for her 2020 release, Song for Our Daughter?
Laura Marling
With a name meaning burned liquor, what distilled alcoholic drink is the most popular spirit in Korea? Traditionally coming
from the Andong region, it is typically sold in green glass bottles and has an alcohol content between 12 and 50%.
Soju
Birds in the family Stercorariidae are known as jaegers in North America; by what name are
they known in Britain? These are seabirds known for stealing food from other birds, and species found in Britain include the great, Arctic and Pomarine.
Skuas
Which Belgian-born French philosopher is the author of Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One? She is considered one of the founders of post-structural feminism.
Luce Irigaray
Which anthropologist, a colleague and romantic partner of Margaret Mead, expressed the idea that human cultures are ‘personality writ large’ in her work Patterns of Culture?
Ruth Benedict
What four-word pleasantry links the title of a 2005 hit single and album by Bon Jovi and title of a 2001 hit single by the Stereophonics?
Have a Nice Day
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics America’s Athing Mu won gold in the women’s 800 metres. Which British runner took the silver medal? She also has two World Championship silver medals and is the British record holder at that distance.
Keely Hodgkinson
Which Russian oligarch and critic of Vladimir Putin was found mysteriously hanged at his Berkshire home in 2013? This
person helped fund the political party Unity before going into exile in 2003.
Boris Berezovsky
Which fullback who played rugby union for Scotland from 1986 to 1995 captained the British and Irish Lions on their 1993
tour of New Zealand?
Gavin Hastings
Birds in the family Gaviidae are known as divers in Britain; by what name are they known in North America? Ungainly on land, these large fish-eating waterbirds are known for their distinctive yodel-like calls heard around lakes in the breeding season.
Loons
What is the name of the polygraph-style test used to determine whether a test subject is a replicant in the film Blade Runner?
This name is also that of the machine used to administer the test, and it first appears in the film’s source, Philip K. Dick’s Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Voight-Kampff
Which English singer-songwriter has been nominated for the Mercury Prize three times between 2006 and 2016, for her albums
Fur and Gold, Two Suns, and The Bride?
BAT FOR LASHES (or
Natasha KHAN)
What form of tweed, associated with the British aristocracy, is named after a place in the Outer Hebrides?
Harris Tweed
Which lock forward, who played rugby union for Ireland from 2002 to 2015, captained the British and Irish Lions on their 2009 tour of South Africa?
Paul O’Connell
What two-word name is given to the classification of stars that are plotted in the diagonal band that runs from the top left to the
bottom right of a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram? Most stars belong to this classification, which primarily consists of dwarf stars.
Main Sequence
Which Russian tax advisor died in prison in 2009, around two years after he exposed large-scale corruption by Russian government
officials? He gives his name to legislation in which governments sanction individuals involved in human rights abuses and corruption.
Sergei Magnitsky
Since 2021, which three-time Olympian has set the British records in the women’s 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and half
marathon? She is also a three-time European medallist and a Commonwealth champion.
Eilish MCCOLGAN
Which French philosopher developed the concept of écriture féminine [ECK-ree-ture FEM-in-een] in her essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’? She is considered one of the founders of post-structural feminism.
Hélène CIXOUS
Subtitled Patterns of Japanese Culture, what anthropological work was written by Ruth Benedict in 1946, based on her studies of Japan and its culture during the Second World War?
The CHRYSANTHEMUM
AND THE SWORD
Which English vocalist included the single ‘Little Bit of Love’ on his 2021 album Evening Road? He’s also known for appearing on Calvin Harris’s single ‘By Your Side’.
Tom Grennan
Who portrays Carol Willick, Ross Geller’s first wife, in the TV sitcom Friends? This is with the exception of the character’s debut episode, where she was portrayed by Anita Barone.
Jane Sibbett
Some Living American Women Artists is a collage by which American feminist artist? The central portion is an image based on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.
Mary Beth EDELSON
Which archipelago, administered as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is claimed by Mauritius and its original inhabitants, who were forcibly expelled from the archipelago between 1968 and 1973 by the UK?
Chagos
Currently ranked No.5 in the Women’s Tennis Association rankings, which American player has had a career high of No.3, but never progressed beyond a Grand Slam quarter final? She did, however, reach the 2022 French Open women’s doubles final alongside Coco Gauff.
Jessica PEGULA
Nicknamed “The Comeback Kid”, which American football quarterback spent most of his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers, winning four Super Bowls with them in the 1980s? He is regarded as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Joe Montana
In the film Good Will Hunting, the second blackboard problem Will solves is to give - and prove - which formula in graph theory, named for a British mathematician? It states that “for every positive integer n, the number of trees on n-labelled vertices is n to the power of n-2.
Cayley’s Formula
Which jazz tenor saxophonist released the hard bop album Saxophone Colossus in 1957, widely considered his breakthrough? It includes one of his most recognisable compositions and jazz standards, “St. Thomas”.
Sonny Rollins
Considered by many as the greatest quarterback never to win a Super Bowl, which American footballer spent 17 seasons with the Miami Dolphins? He holds several NFL passing records and was the first quarterback to reach 5,000 passing yards in a season.
Dan Marino
Which jazz trumpeter released the 1964 hard bop album The Sidewinder? The title track is perhaps his bestknown composition.
Lee MORGAN
Which British fashion designer is best known for her slogan T-shirts, and for her extensive lobbying against fast fashion practices such as the use of pesticides in cotton-growing regions and sweatshop operations?
Katharine Hamnett
Which American conceptual artist and collagist is best known for her black-and-white photographs, overlaid with captions in bold white-on-red text? Her work inspired the logo for skateboard and apparel brand, Supreme.
Barbara Kruger
Currently ranked No.9 in the Women’s Tennis Association rankings, which Greek player has had a career high of No.3, reaching the semi-finals of the French and US Opens in 2021? However, she suffered three first-round exits in Grand Slams in 2023.
Maria Sakkari
While Will Hunting doesn’t use this method as proof, which special case of a matrix tree theorem, named after a German physicist, can be used to prove Cayley’s formula?
Gustav Kirchhoff
Lake Sevan is the largest lake in which Eurasian country? Home to a mediaeval monastery, it accounts for 90% of the country’s freshwater fishing catch, and 80% of its crayfish catch.
Armenia
Who portrays Susan Bunch, Carol’s lesbian life partner, in the TV sitcom Friends? She also portrayed Gretchen Schwartz in Breaking Bad.
Jessica Hecht
Who is the Roman goddess of the hearth and home? Her Greek equivalent is Hestia.
Vesta
Two dimensional map projections, such as the Mercator, will always distort as a sphere’s surface cannot be represented on a plane without distortion. An indicatrix named after which French cartographer is the classical way of showing this distortion?
Nicolas Auguste TISSOT
Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and New York Times critic Jon Pareles
all agreed that what artist’s album, SOS deserved the number one spot in their respective Best Albums of 2023 lists?
SZA (Solana Rowe)
Which Chinese poet who lived during the Tang dynasty is known for poems including Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day and Quiet Night Thought.
LI Bai
What is the name given to the strip of northern Africa that serves as a sort of buffer zone between the arid Sahara deserts and the more humid Sudanian savannas? This word was seen in many headlines in 2023 as a string of coups d’etat occurred in this region.
Sahel
What surname is shared by the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, 1947 and 1974? The 1926 winner, hailing from a prominent Boston family, was awarded her prize posthumously.
LOWELL (Amy and Robert)
On a film production set what single word does the sound recorder say to indicate that they are ready? In the days of analog recording this meant that they were not only rolling tape,
but that the machinery was fully functioning.
SPEEED
Named after a Russian explorer whose first name was Yakov, which phantom island in the Arctic off Siberia was the subject of
many searches in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
SANNIKOV Land
Victor Conte was the founder of which San Francisco business, that is now best known for providing banned performing
enhancing drugs to athletes?
BALCO
Who was the official “evangelist” for Apple Computers in the 1980s and since has become an entrepreneurial and marketing
trainer and author of business advice books like The Art of the Start?
Guy Kawasaki
What six-letter “d” word, also known as a portal tomb, refers to an ancient megalithic burial structure with two or more vertical stones and a flat stone on top called a “table”?
DOLMEN
Located on the island of Svalbard, which Norwegian company town is the northernmost functional civilian settlement in the
world? Home to some of the world’s cleanest air, this place goes through week- and month-long periods of polar night and polar light.
Ny-Ålesund
The Man Who Died Twice was a work by which American poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1922, 1925 and 1928?
Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, and Ari Levine wrote songs together under what collective name? They are credited with most of Bruno Mars’s biggest hits and also wrote and produced Cee-Lo Green’s smash hit “Forget You.”
The Smeezingtons
What fermented dairy beverage originating in the Caucasus Mountain region has a light fizziness from natural carbonation from which it gets its nickname “the champagne of milk”?
Kefir
In the days of analog film production, what three letters were written on film reels that were
recorded without a synchronous audio track? Film lore says that it’s an abbreviation of a German-English phrase to mean it is soundless.
MOS Mit Ohne Sound
Which Chinese novelist and poet of the Qing Dynasty is best known for his work Dream of the Red Chamber?
Cao Xueqin
What tech founder of Squidoo and Yoyodyne has become a entrepreneurial inspirational speaker and author of books like Tribes: We Need You To See Us and This is Marketing.
Seth Godin
What six-letter “m” word is often used in place of “standing stone” in France, and also refers to upright stones in Ireland.
Menhir
Who won the Academy Award for Best Director for the films A Place in the Sun and Giant? Also nominated for The More the Merrier, Shane and The Diary of Anne Frank, he joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the Second World War and led a film unit under the command of General
Eisenhower.
George Stevens
Which Australian swimmer, who won gold medals in the women’s 100m freestyle at three consecutive Summer Olympic Games, was given a 10-year ban from competitive swimming for misbehavior at the 1964 Olympics in
Tokyo, which allegedly included drunkenly swimming across a moat to steal
a flag from the Emperor’s palace?
Dawn Fraser
2023 film Jon Voigt winning Razzie Best Actor A doctor and former military officer finds herself in a deadly battle for survival when the Irish mob takes control of the hospital where she works and her son is taken hostage.
Mercy
2023 film winning Megan Fox a Razzie Best Actress. The film is about a pair of serial killers who assemble a team to rob a casino but become hunted by a demon guarding the cash room.
Johnny & Clyde
figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They are architectural grotesques found throughout most of Europe[1][2] on cathedrals, castles, and other buildings.
Sheela na gig
British filmmaker who became known for his 2023 independent horror film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. It was the first theatrical film of his career, as well as the first for his production company, Jagged Edge Productions.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield
In her work Contraband (1969), she removed the use of a canvas altogether and created her work directly on the floor seen in Whitney Museum 2023, American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures… Born 1941 Louisiana.
Lynda Benglis
1905-70 He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters.. In the first works featuring zips, the color fields are variegated, but later the colors are pure and flat. In the first works featuring zips, the color fields are variegated, but later the colors are pure and flat.
Barnett Newman
American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon. When was just 29, she was given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the time she was the youngest artist, and fifth woman to achieve this honor.
Nancy Graves
American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine). Clown tight rope walker, The Clown as the Center of his World.
Louise Nevelson
African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. member of the Washington Color School art movement. Earth Sermon - Beauty, Love and Peace (1971), Pansies in Washington (1969), March on Washington (1964).
Alma Thomas
(not N) Although NASA operated and flew the Space Shuttle Orbiters, which company built them? It was founded by the inventor of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919, rather than the singer of the 1986 hit record Somebody’s Watching Me.
Rockwell International
Which Chinese company with a 3 letter name has overtaken Tesla as the top-selling battery electric vehicle manufacturer in the world?
BYD
Sarah Snook has earned rave reviews for playing 26 characters in what play, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s only novel?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ellis Durand, Carol Kaye, Pino Palladino and Suzi Quatro are all associated with which instrument?
Bass Guitar
What fish in the family Serrasalmidae links Reg Hornsbury, Zoot Alors, Bob Grover and Dick Slexia who collectively had a hit with Tom Hark in 1980, and McFly guitarist and vocalist Danny Jones who won the fifth series of The Masked Singer UK?
Piranha
Flying by Io on this day (5th March) in 1979, what space probe is now the furthest man-made object from Earth?
Voyager 1
Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and released on the 8th of February which 3rd-person shooter has proved so successful that Sony’s servers have struggled to support the number of gamers wanting to play the game? It’s had rave reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay and its references to Starship Troopers. Add an R to get a gritty 1957 British film which had a stellar cast including Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, David McCallum, Sid James and Sean Connery.
Hell Divers 2
Tries for Abbas Miski, Kruise Leeming and Jake Wardle helped which English side beat Penrith Panthers to win the Rugby League World Club Challenge on the 24th of February?
Wigan
What syndrome can occur when a person has elevated levels of cortisol inside the body for a long time? It can be caused by having steroid injections in high doses, a fate that has befallen Amy Schumer. It can also be the surname of an English actor who played Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars and Dr Frankenstein and Professor Van Helsing in loads of Hammer horror movies.
Cushing
Which song, which has occaisionally been sung in Congress in the States, was a hit for the originally ficticious band Steam in 1969? Bananarama covered it in 1983. It’s not Hey Jude but they share a lyric.
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Vendetta Vixens and Halifax Bruising Banditas are UK leagues in which sport, which is more widespread in the US? Played on an oval track, teams score points when their jammer laps an opposing blocker.
Roller Derby
Dying in February 2024, Wayne Kramer was a member of which seminal American rock band who recorded the song Kick Out The Jams? They took there name from a nickname of the city they were based, a variation of which also named a record label founded by Berry Gordy.
MC5
(not M) Which sportsman failed to win £850 pounds but did win a printer when he recently competed on Belgian TV quiz show Blokken? He should be OK though as he should still have some of the £500,000 left he pocketed when winning the world snooker championship in 2023.
Luca Brecel
(not F) With the rhyme scheme ABABBCBCC, what fixed verse form was invented for the epic poem The Faerie Queene? It was named for its inventor and the poem’s author.
Spencerian Stanza
Which popular lullaby was written by Jane Taylor and was first published in 1806 in ‘Rhymes for the Nursery’? A parody version is recited by the Mad Hatter in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Written by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother which poem/song has become known as the ‘Black national anthem’ in the United States?
Lift Every Voice and Sing
In addition to his best-selling ‘The Story of Art’ (1950), which Austrian-born art historian also wrote ‘A Little History of the World’ for children (‘Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser’) (1936) and ‘Art and Illusion’ (1960)?
Ernst Gombrich
Which Spanish architect designed the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh but died before the building-work was completed?
Enric Miralles
Which author and poet wrote ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and the ‘Appeal to womanhood
throughout the world’ (aka the ‘Mother’s Day Proclamation’)?
Julia Ward HOWE
Changing their forename from Marjorie to Marlow c1919 and described by Sothebys as a “pioneering queer British Constructivist artist” which member of the Abstraction-Création group was both influenced by and an influencer of Piet Mondrian?
Marlow MOSS
Which artist who died in June 2023 aged 101 had her artistic career disrupted after she became one of the lovers and muses of Pablo Picasso? He tried unsuccessfully to have her 1964 memoir ‘Life with Picasso’ blocked from being published.
Françoise GILOT
In addition to hosting a dance festival every Spring, which Austrian city on the shore of Lake Constance also holds a performing arts festival each year including performances on a stage floating on the lake?
Bregenz
In Norse mythology what was the collective name of a group of female entities, and in particular the three known as Urdr (‘past’), Verdandi (‘present’) and Skuld {‘future’), who create and control the fates of all beings?
Norns
Known as ‘Tête Carrée’, this sculpture by artist Sacha Sosno actually serves as part of the library
in which French city and is believed to be the first inhabited monumental sculpture in the world?
Nice
Which Liverpool museum comprises the rooms which formed the HQ of a Second World War tactical unit, mainly staffed by WRENs, which devised wargames in order to find methods for tackling the UBoat threat in the Atlantic?
WESTERN APPROACHES (HQ) Museum
Jean Racine wrote a play and Handel composed an oratorio based on the life of which queen consort of Jehoram and later the only queen regnant of Judah, with her story told in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles in the Old Testament?
ATHALIAH
Which composer’s works include her ‘New Nation Rising, a 21st Century Symphony’, choral anthem ‘Psalm to Windrush: for the Brave and Ingenious’ and the opera ‘Sacred Mountain: Incidents in the Life of Queen Nanny of the Maroons’?
Shirley Thompson
Which 18th Century French dancer (1707-1756) reformed the female ballet costume and was the first woman to choreograph ballets in which she appeared?
Marie Salle
In her books ‘Philosophy in a New Key’, ‘Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art’ and ‘Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling’ which US philosopher explored the aesthetic experience derived from art and music?
Susanne LANGER
A museum in Cairo is dedicated to the life and performances of which Egyptian singer (1898-1975) who was known as ‘Kawkab al-Sharq’ (‘Star (or Planet) of the East’).
UMM KULTHUM
A performance of which Daniel Auber opera on 25 August 1830 was a catalyst in sparking an uprising in favour of Belgian independence from the Netherlands?
LA MUETTE DE PORTICI / THE MUTE GIRL OF PORTICI / THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI / MASANIELLO
Which Australian writer and Aboriginal rights activist’s works included ‘The Dawn is at Hand’ (1966) and ‘Stradbroke Dreamtime’ (1972), the latter a mixed collection of stories of her childhood and traditional Aboriginal folktales?
OODGEROO NOONUCCAL / Kathleen RUSKA / Kath WALKER
During the fallout from the Profumo Affair in 1963, which Welsh-born model and friend of Christine Keeler, said “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” when Lord Astor denied sleeping with her in court?
Mandy RICE-DAVIES
A corruption of the French for ‘carriage with benches’ which, usually, open top vehicle became popular in England for sight-seeing and for ‘beanos’/works outings to the beach in the early 1900s?
Charabanc
Who was appointed Director of which UK intelligence, cyber and security agency in April
2023?
Anne Keast-Butler
Phyllis Pearsall claimed to have walked 23,000 streets in order to produce which London street atlas and index in 1936?
London A to Z
Which energy company was formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay by merging Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth and became infamous for being at the centre of an accounting scandal in 2001 when it declare d bankruptcy?
ENRON Corporation
With her ‘scandalous’ behaviour of wearing men’s clothes, swearing and smoking a pipe portrayed in Middleton and Dekker’s 1611 play ‘The Roaring Girl’, what was the nickname of Mary Frith, a notorious London pickpocket?
Moll CUTPURSE
Which pioneer in photography, particularly in motion studies and the inventor of the zoopraxiscope, shot dead his wife’s lover in 1874 but was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide?
Eadweard Muybridge
Which narcissistic arsonist burned down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, in 356 BCE in a quest for his name to be remembered in perpetuity?
Herostratus
Which maîtresse en titre of Louis XIV bore him seven children? She was implicated in the “Affair of the Poisons”, a major murder scandal and was eventually replaced in the King’s affections by her children’s nanny, Madame de Maintenon.
Madame de MONTESPAN
Jean Monnet, Helmut Kohl and Jacques Delors are, to date, the only people to have been conferred with which honorary title by the European Union?
Citizen of Europe
Who led a French expedition to chart the coast of New Holland (aka Australia) between 1800 and 1803 aboard the ship ‘Le Geographe’ in the course of which he met with Matthew Flinders at
Encounter Bay in April 1802?
Nicolas BAUDIN
At possibly as much as 34,000 years old, this, the oldest anatomically modern human skeleton
found in Britain, was discovered in 1823 in which cave on the Gower Peninsula after which the socalled ‘Red Lady’ (actually a man) is partly named?
Paviland/Goat’s Hole
Published in 1831, whose autobiography is the first known slave narrative by a Black woman and helped galvanise the ongoing anti-slavery movement? She was ranked third in a poll of 100 Great Black Britons in 2003.
Mary Prince
Pulled by Locomotion No.1 on the Stockton & Darlington railway on 27 September 1825, what was the name given to the first passenger rail carriage?
Experiment
Which French traveller, writer and Buddhist scholar (1868-1969) was, in 1924, the first European woman to visit the city of Lhasa in Tibet at a time when it was closed to outsiders?
Alexandra David-Néel
Which German city near the Danish border was the final HQ of the German Government and High Command following Hitler’s death and where Admiral Karl Dönitz capitulated to the Allies?
Flensburg
Despite disapproval from the Catholic heirarchy, which Yorkshire-born nun (1585-1645) set up
schools throughout Europe under the auspices of The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose members are also known as the Loreto Sisters?
Mary Ward
Which pioneer in forensic science was known as the “Sherlock Holmes of France” and formulated his “exchange principle”, a theory relating to the transfer of trace evidence between objects, stating that “every contact leaves a trace”
Edmond Locard
In 1916 who became the first woman to be elected to the United States Congress? On 8 December 1941 she was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor
Jeanette Rankin
In 1542, which Spaniard was the first European to navigate the length of the Amazon and then named the river in honour of some female warriors he believed he had encountered en route?
Francisco de ORELLANA
In 1953, which Indian politician and diplomat became the first woman to be elected president of the UN General Assembly?
Vijaya Lakshmi PANDIT
Anneka Rice (1982–88), Annabel Croft (1989) and Suzi Perry (2002–03) were all billed as ‘skyrunners’ on which television game show?
Treasure Hunt
Which musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban ran for a then record 6,137 performances on Broadway from 1975 until 1990?
A Chorus Line
Martin Kemp, Jenny Powell and Simon Mayo are all presenters on which national radio network?
Greatest Hits Radio
Having founded the Religious Films Society in 1933 and later the major British film production and distribution organisation named after him, who might have been disappointed to find his name used rather lewdly in Cockney rhyming slang?
J Arthur RANK
Who was the lead singer with the group 10,000 Maniacs from 1981 to 1994 and released her first solo album ‘Tigerlily’ in 1995?
Natalie Merchant
A spin-off from ‘Star Trek: Discovery’, which series centres on the ‘USS Enterprise’ commanded by Captain Pike in the years prior to the events of the original Star Trek series, with a phrase from the original opening narration providing its (sub)title?
Strange new Worlds
What is the professional name of Cheyenne Davide who is a DJ, model and presenter with her own show on BBC Radio 1Xtra and who was a contestant on ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’ in 2021?
Snoochie Shy
What name is shared by an 1870 novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a song on the 1967 album ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ and a fictional band in the 1998 film ‘Velvet Goldmine’?
Venus in Furs
Who currently presents ‘The Arts Hour’ on BBC World Service and also co-presents ‘Saturday Live’ on BBC Radio 4?
Nikki Bedi
Based on the novella ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan and starring Catherine Clinch as 9-year-old Cait, which 2022 Irish language film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film?
The Quiet Girl
Steve Mould, Matt Parker and Helen Arney are which science-comedy trio who have made appearances on ‘QI’?
Festival of the Spoken Nerd
This image of Conrad Veidt in his starring role in which 1928 film is said to have inspired the
appearance given to The Joker in the Batman comics?
The Man Who Laughs
The names of which two months of the year, sometimes used in an expression about a relationship in which one person is much older than the other, appear in the titles of both a 1989-1994 BBC sitcom starring Anton Rodgers and a 2023 Netflix drama film starring Natalie Portman?
May and December
What is the superhero alter-ego of Dinah Drake (and latrr her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance) who can create ultrasonic vibrations whenever she screams? She is one of the leaders of the Birds of Prey.
Black Canary
Which group was formed by Angus Deayton, Michael Fenton Stevens, and Philip Pope from the radio series ‘Radio Active’ and released a Bee Gees parody single ‘Meaningless Songs (in Very High Voices)’ in 1980?
The Hee Bee Gee Bees
Formed by the Kolacny brothers, which Belgian all-female choir specialises in covering rock and pop songs using classical style arrangements?
Scala
Whose songs ‘After Midnight’ and ‘Cocaine’ were both covered by Eric Clapton, with whom he later collaborated on the 2006 album ‘The Road to Escondido’?
JJ Cale
Which 2003 animated comedy film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet tells the story of Madame Souza’s attempts to rescue her grandson, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by mobsters?
The Triplets of Belleville
Which children’s television series stars Don Warrington as the tall-tale telling title character answering questions from his grandchildren such as ‘Who Invented Words?’ and ‘Why is the Sea Salty?’?
The World According to Grandpa
Which graphic novel of three interwoven modern stories by Gene Luen Yang includes characters suchas The Monkey King from ‘The Journey to the West’ and was adapted for television in 2023 featuring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan?
American Born Chinese
Known as ‘The Queen of Space Opera’, which US sci-fi author was also a screenwriter, known for her work on films such as ‘The Big Sleep’ (1945), ‘Rio Bravo’ (1959), ‘The Long Goodbye’ (1973) and ‘Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back’ (1980)?
Leigh Brackett
“Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, show your shoe, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, that will do!” is part of a song sung by children whilst taking part in what playtime activity?
Skipping
Featuring in adverts for comparethemarket.com since 2022 what is the name of meerkat Aleksandr Orlov’s wombat nephew from Australia?
Carl
What ‘investment vehicle’ is a scheme by which the subscribers to a common fund each receive an annuity during their lifetime, which increases as their number is diminished by death, till the last survivor enjoys the whole income?
Tontine
With its name derived from the Greek for ‘inside’ and ‘tooth’, root canal treatment is the most common procedure in what dental speciality that is concerned with the study and treatment surrounding the dental pulp?
Endodontics
Which chocolate manufacturer, bought by Ferrero in 2015, is named after the surname of the father and son who founded the company in Sheffield and uses the slogan ‘Chocolate Heaven Since 1911’?
Thorntons
What is the name of the parade which has been held annually in Coney Island, New York since 1983 on the closest Saturday to the Summer Solstice?
Mermaid Parade
Which New York based pop culture magazine was founded in 1984 by Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits, and itself hit the headlines in November 2014 with its cover shot of Kim Kardashian on its “break the internet” issue?
Paper
Originally named Coach, which American multinational luxury fashion holding company bought out Capri Holdings in 2023 which itself owned brands such as Versace, Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo?
Tapestry
American shoe designer, philatelist, and founder of the shoe company, owned the British Guiana 1c magenta $9.48m, the inverted Jennies 24 cent and only legal St. Gaudens 1933 double eagle in 2002 for $7.6M.
Stuart Weitzman
As there seems to be little consensus amongst astrologers, either we are currently in the ‘Age of’ what astrological sign or it has ended and we are now living in the ‘Age of Aquarius’?
Pisces
Where in Michigan was the health resort run by John Harvey Kellogg and his brother William Keith which was the subject of T C Boyle’s novel ‘The Road to Wellville’?
Battle Creek
What term is used for these typographical symbols standing in for swearing, appearing in
dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue in cartoons and comics?
Grawlix/Obscenicon
Which American businesswoman is the founder of the shapewear brand Spanx?
Sara Blakely
Which chef and bartender at Foynes Airbase flying boat terminal is credited with serving the first ever Irish Coffees to disembarking passengers in 1943?
Joe Sheridan
The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, who owned and published the ‘Washington Post’
during the period of its investigation of the Watergate scandal? Her 1997 autobiography ‘Personal History’ won the Pulitzer Prize.
Katherine Graham
Which woman is currently ranked #3 in the Major League Eating rankings behind Joey Chestnut and Geoffrey Esper? She has won the women’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest every year since 2014 except 2021.
Miki Sudo
Which Belgian astronomer and statistician in 1832 developed an index of the ratio of a person’s weight to their height which became the basis for the BMI (Body Mass Index) in use today?
Adolphe Quetelet
From a French word originally meaning urchin or waif what term has been applied to a slim, often
boyish, wide-eyed young woman with actresses such as Audrey Hepburn often described as being such?
Gamine
From which Finnish sports equipment company did Adidas purchase its ‘three stripes’ logo in 1952 for the equivalent of €1,600 and two bottles of whiskey?
Karhu
In 1882 which Dutch physician (1854-1929) founded the world’s first birth control clinic in Amsterdam and carried out the first systematic work in contraception?
Aletta Jacobs
Which broad-spectrum herbicide (IUPAC name: N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine), made by Monsanto under the trademark Roundup, has been banned in many countries amid fears it might cause cancer?
Glyphosphate
What breed of large cats, known for their blue eyes, gentle temperament, and affectionate nature, gets
its name for its habit of relaxing completely when picked up and cuddled?
Ragdoll
The counterpart to El Nino, what climate pattern describes the cooling of surface-ocean waters along the tropical west coast of South America? These events sometimes follow El Nino events and disrupt normal weather patterns, leading to intense storms in some places and droughts in others?
La Nina
Visible from western Australia in Apr ‘23, what rare type of solar eclipse appears as a total eclipse at some points on the Earth’s surface, while at other points it appears as an annular eclipse? It occurs when the distance between Earth and Moon is on the borderline between these two types of eclipses.
Hybrid
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a family of about 10,000 chemicals valued for their non-stick and detergent properties that don’t break down in the environment, build up in the body and may be toxic, are commonly known by what two-word term?
Forever Chemicals
Belukha Mountain, that rises that rises along the border of Russia and Kazakhstan, close to the border with China, is the highest point in which mountain range, that is the source of the rivers Irtysh and Ob?
Altai Mountains
The Tree of Ténéré in Niger’s Sahara Desert, that was fabled to be the most isolated tree on Earth until it was knocked over in 1973 by a (probably drunk) truck driver, belonged to which genus of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae, that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world, particularly Australia and Africa?
Acacia
Named the world’s ugliest animal in 2013, the skin of which deep sea fish expands when
brought to the surface?
Blobfish
The PETM was a climate event at the boundary of two geological epochs around 55 million years ago, with a global average temperature rise across the event of 5–8 °C. For what does “PETM” stand?
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Developed by the European Space Agency, what is the name of the space telescope launched in 2023 that will probe the history of the expansion of the universe by creating a map of the large-scale structure of the universe and measuring the redshift of galaxies?
Euclid
Coined by Julian Huxley, what term in ecology is defined as a measurable gradient in a single
characteristic (or biological trait) of a species across its geographical range?
Cline
Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger were awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of which elementary particle? In 2011 scientists conducting the OPERA experiment
observed these particles apparently traveling faster than the speed of light, although a later experiment by the ICARUS experiment contradicted the OPERA result. Two-word answer required.
Muon Neutrino
Born in Germany, who established a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Norway to the Black Sea in the first half of the 19th century? The chain, known as a Geodetic Arc, yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc, and was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2005.
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von STRUVE
Which group 7 transition metal was the last stable element to be discovered? The main use of this element is as a component of high-temperature superalloys which are used in jet engine parts.
Rhenium
Which species of Australian crane (Antigone rubicunda) that is sometimes confused with the sarus crane, is a large grey bird with a featherless red head and grey crown, and is known for its spectacular dance displays by both sexes during breeding season?
Brogla
The first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society were Marjory Stephenson and which Irish scientist and peace campaigner, who was a pioneer in the use of X-rays to study crystals and in 1967 became the first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science?
Kathleen Lonsdale
Which asteroid, with a diameter of 370 metres, set the record for highest rating ever on the Torino scale in 2004 when observations indicated a probability up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth in April 2029? It is now known it will pass approximately 32,000 km from Earth.
Apophis
What is the smallest nontrivial taxicab number, also known as Ramanujan–Hardy number, which is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways?
1729
His career stretching from 1966-1993; who pitched for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers, and has a Major League Baseball (MLB) record 5,714 career strikeouts?
Nolan Ryan
In the sports of badminton and fencing, what colour card is shown by the officials to a player to indicate they have been disqualified? The same colour card is shown in Gaelic football to a player who has been ejected from the field to the sin bin for a period of ten minutes.
Black
In which event was the only world record set at the 2023 World Athletics Championships? Femke Bol fell when approaching the finish line with the Dutch team in the lead, leaving USA to win the gold medal and Great Britain to win the silver medal.
Mixed 4 x 400m Relay
In 2013, Danny “Shiphtur” Le from Canada became the first esports player to receive an American P-1A visa, a category designated for “Internationally Recognized Athletes”. Shiphtur was a professional player in what multiplayer online battle arena game developed and published by Riot Games, that is the most watched video game in the world?
League of Legends
In a dead heat for gold with Penny Oleksiak in the 100m freestyle at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, who became the first African American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming
Simone Manuel
Currently playing in the fourth tier of women’s football in England, which Yorkshire club, that was founded in 1969 and won the FA Women’s Premier League National Division twice and the Women’s FACup six times, was controversially replaced in the top tier by Manchester City in 2014 following a restructure of the Women’s Super League?
Doncaster Rovers Belles
What sport, invented by Mason Gordon in Los Angeles in 1999, is an all-contact form of basketball with four trampolines in front of each basket?
SLAMBALL
Who is this Welsh darts player, the winner of the BDO World Championship in 2008?
Mark Webster
Which Argentinian golfer, who won the 1967 Open Championship, missed out on a playoff for the 1968 Masters by signing an incorrect scorecard?
Roberto de Vincenzo
The name of what tool, used by anglers to kill fish quickly and humanely, comes from the concept of administering the “last rites” to the fish which is about to pass away?
Priest
Which Scottish cyclist won three gold medals at the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow in the Tandem B events along with sighted pilot Matt Rotherham, taking his total of gold medals at the world championships to 19?
Neil Fachie
The American Professional Football Association, the forerunner of the NFL, was founded in a car
dealership in 1920 in which city in Ohio? The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in the city in 1963.
Canton
In February 2023, AJ Ginnis finished as runner-up in a slalom at Chamonix to become the first skier in history from which country to gain a podium position in a World Cup alpine ski race? Two weeks later at the World Championships he won the silver medal in the slalom.
Greece
Which British sportswear company that has a winged logo has entered deals with the Red Bull F1 team, England cricket, and London rugby sides Harlequins and Saracens? The company have been Aston Villa’s official kit sponsor from the start of the 2022-2023 season but in October 2023 they were criticised for their ‘wet look’ shirts that retain sweat.
Castore
Born in Bolton in 1948 and nicknamed “Simply the Best”, which wrestler was British Heavyweight Champion four times, including from 1979 to 1988 when he lost the title to Kendo Nagasaki?
Tony St Clair
Which Belgian road and track cyclist, who was a rival of Beryl Burton, won 13 medals including seven gold medals at world championships between 1959 and 1966?
Yvonne Reynders
Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential Chilean poets of the Spanish language in the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda. He described himself as an “anti-poet,” due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he would exclaim “Me retracto de todo lo dicho” (“I take back everything I said”).
Nicanor Parra
In Irish mythology, which heroic figure and father of Cú Chulainn uses a slingshot to kill the Fomorian Balor at the second Battle of Magh Tuireadh?
Lugh
Jeanne Loriod was an acclaimed performer of what instrument, which she recorded on many
compositions by Olivier Messiaen? This early electronic instrument, which is played using either a keyboard or a ring on a wire, produces sounds similar to a theremin.
Ondes Martenot
Which widely-cited work by Paulo Freire draws on Marxist class analysis and proposes a “problemposing” approach to education, in contrast to the traditional “banking” model?
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
A staged friendship turns into secret romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of the US
President, and British Prince Henry in the bestselling 2019 novel by Casey McQuiston, “Red, White and …” what shade of Blue?
Royal Blue
Which South African playwright penned the play ‘Blood Knot’, in which the white-passing Morris and his brother Zachariah live together in Port Elizabeth? An unnamed prison based on Robben Island forms the setting of this author’s play ‘The Island’.
Athol Fugard
Initially barred from music conservatoires due to disabilities caused by thalidomide, which
German bass-baritone became a prominent opera and lieder singer? He later made a successful shift to jazz, releasing the album ‘The Jazz Album: Watch What Happens’ in 2006.
Thomas Quasthoff
Name the early Indian philosopher, a founding figure in the Mādhyamaka (“Middle Way”) tradition, who focused on the concept of śūnyatā (emptiness) in a text often known by the abbreviated title ‘MMK’.
Nagarjuna
‘Annie John’ (1985) and ‘Lucy’ (1990) are novels by what Antiguan-American author, who has taught at Harvard University since 1992?
Jamaica Kincaid
Name the American dancer and choreographer, a leading figure in modern dance, whose numerous collaborations included ‘Rainforest’ (with an installation by Andy Warhol) and ‘Second Hand’ (with the music of his life partner, John Cage).
Merce Cunningham
Which prolific French engraver received widespread recognition for his prints illustrating major works of literature such as the Vulgate Bible and Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ in the 19th century? He also produced detailed illustrations of poverty in London for the book ‘London: A Pilgrimage’.
Gustave Dore
Which fantasy author wrote the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ series (beginning with ‘Mister Monday’) and the ‘Old Kingdom’ series, including the novels ‘Sabriel’ and ‘Abhorsen’?
Garth Nix
Which 17th-century English poet published the volume ‘Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum’? Beginning with A. L. Rowse, some scholars have attempted to identify her with Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady”.
Aemilia Lanyer
In many Jewish communities, adults wear small boxes with leather straps attached, containing scrolls inscribed with Torah verses during prayers. What is the name of these boxes?
Tefillin
Which Chicago-based philosopher’s books include ‘The Fragility of Goodness’ (1986)? Along with Amartya Sen, she devised the Capabilities Approach to human welfare.
Martha Nussbaum
What 2020s fashion aesthetic comes from french word for “wanton, bird”, lace, victorian, Bridgerton, Barbie?
Coquette Aesthetic
In which Olympic throwing event would competitors use the “glide” technique?
Glide (other is spin)
Which French tennis player was president of the International Tennis Federation between 1977 and 1991?
Philippe Chatrier
Which Graham Greene novel, set in Haiti, was banned by President “Papa Doc” Duvalier?
The Comedians
Which Japanese city is ranked third in the list of cities with the greatest number of Michelin-starred restaurants, after Tokyo and Paris?
Kyoto
The Ray Ellington quartet made regular appearances in the 1950s on which comedy radio programme?
The Goon Show
In which US state is the Grand Teton National Park?
Wyoming
Which European country was Leonid Kuchma president of between 1994 and 2005?
Ukraine
The Maud Island Frog is a small amphibian native to which country?
New Zealand
Which winner of the Paris Prize in architecture went on to design the Chrysler building in New York?
William Van ALen
David Matusa’s sculpture in St Paul’s, Bristol depicts which British playwright and former British Rail employee?
Alfred Fagon
Qurooti, a savoury bread pudding made using condensed yoghurt, is a traditional dish from which country?
Afghanistan
Which novel, published in 1993, is the first in Wilbur Smith’s Egyptian series?
River God
In 2018, which Chinese megacity became the world’s first city to have an all-electric bus fleet?
Shenzhen
Which Australian prime minister is remembered for his “light on the hill” speech that laid out the objectives of the Labor party?
Ben Chifley
Which Ukrainian-born abstract artist pioneered the “drip-painting” technique that influenced the work of Jackson Pollock?
Janet Sobel
What colour completes the title of John Guare’s 1971 play The House of ___ Leaves?
Blue
What was defined by a U.S. law in 1964 as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain”?
Wilderness
Stapleton International Airport was the primary airport for which U.S. city from 1929 to 1995?
Denver
Which metal band fired its lead singer, Paul Di’Anno, in 1981?
Iron Maiden
Which actress led the SAG-AFTRA actor’s union during the 2023 strike that lasted from July to November?
Fran Drescher
The presidential library of Dwight Eisenhower is located in which city in Kansas that was his childhood home?
Abilene
Which movie would be called Dickinson and Sawyer if first names were replaced by last names in its title?
Thelma and Louise
In what 1980 movie thriller is Angie Dickinson slashed to death with a straight razor in an elevator?
Dressed to Kill
Which Welsh world flyweight boxing champion was nicknamed “The Ghost with the Hammer in His Hand” and “The Tylorston Terror”?
Jimmy Wilde
Measuring eight feet tall and more than 16 feet wide, the 1855 painting The Horse Fair is considered the masterpiece of which female artist?
Rosa Bonheur
Winner of the first Grammy Award for Best Song for Social Change for “Baraye”, which Iranian musician was sentenced to four years imprisonment in March 2024? He was also ordered to write music critical of the United States.
Shervin Hajipour
What is the international treaty adopted in 1973 that regulates the international trade in certain species of wild animals and plants to ensure it does not threaten their survival? (A five-letter acronym answer is acceptable)
CITES
Which Danish scientist was best known for his discovery of electromagnetism, which laid the foundation for the later development of electromagnetic theory and its applications in modern technology?
Hans Christian Orsted
Commonly eaten during Japanese New Year celebrations, what do you call the type of Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice? This dish is soaked, steamed, and then pounded into a sticky, elastic dough-like consistency.
Mochi
What is the title of the 2024 documentary film directed by Mati Diop that won the Golden Bear at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival? It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures that were returned to Benin from France.
Dahomey
The flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry during his first visit to Japan is named after which US state?
Mississippi
What is the song being performed by Justin Timberlake with pop singer Janet Jackson during her performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show?
Rock Your Body
PowerShot, IXUS, and EOS are lines of digital cameras produced by which Japanese multinational corporation?
Canon
Which American actor was the first person to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor?
Spencer Tracy
What class of ship is the museum ship HMS Belfast, a name generally given to the largest ships in a naval fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships?
Cruiser
In sweep oar rowing, what name is given to the action of rotating the oar handle 90 degrees as the oar blade is being removed from the water, so that the blade is parallel to the water?
Feathering
What name is generally given to the fourth C key from the left on a standard 88-key piano keyboard?
Middle C
In which sport in the UK do participants wear the following colours: Red, Blue, White, Black, Orange and Black & White Stripes?
Greyhound Racing
The spire of which Wren church on Fleet Street is said, appropriately enough, to have inspired the tiered wedding cake?
St Bride’s
Doop by Doop, which was UK number 1 in 1994 has the equal lowest total number of characters of song title and band amongst UK number 1 singles of 8, together with Desire by which band in 1988?
U2
Who appeared as Maid Marion in Blackadder Back and Forth, played tambourine on the Oasis album Be Here Now, and appeared as herself in Absolutely Fabulous the Movie?
Kate Moss
Which character’s first name is not revealed in 35 short stories or until the penultimate of 11 novels (published in 1971), with his employer saying “It had never occurred to me before that he had a first name”?
Reginald Jeeves
Which author’s narrative history Stalingrad was the first winner in 1999 of the annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize?
Anthony Beevor
Also used for a style of cooking and of music from Louisiana, what name is used in linguistics for a language that has developed from the mixing of two or more parent languages, typically arising as the result of contact between the language of a European colonizer and that of a local population?
Creole
Which term for a self-important or temperamental person comes from the name of the leading female singer in an opera company?
Prima Donna
The name of which fish of the flounder family is derived from old English words for holy and flatfish owing to its popularity with Catholics?
Halibut
What would we call the once familiar domestic phenomenon known as war of the ants in German, ant football in Hungarian, salt and pepper in Italian, sandstorm in Japanese and rain in Argentinian Spanish?
Snow or Static on an analog TV
Which female television presenter qualified for a pilot’s licence in August 2013 and embarked on her first solo flight on live television on an episode of ‘This Morning’ the following year?
Carol Vorderman
Which Scottish actor voices Arthur Claus, the clumsy but well-meaning son of Santa Claus in the 2011 Aardman-animated film “Arthur Christmas”?
James McAvoy
By what informal name is the unflattering medical condition “Subperichondrial Hematoma” more commonly known?
Caulflower Ear
In which West African country did Goodluck Jonathan served as the country’s President between 2010 and 2015?
Nigeria
First recorded in the early 1980s by the Valentine Brothers, in 1985 which song provided Simply Red with their first UK top 20 hit?
Money’s Too Tight to Mention
Which electrical store that was founded by George Hollingbery in Hull in 1933 and latterly was owned by the Kingfisher Group ceased trading in 2012 after falling into administration?
Comet
The M60 motorway is the orbital motorway that serves which major English city?
Manchester
“Lady Bird” was the nickname of the wife of which 20th Century post-war US President?
Lyndon B Johnson
In medicine, what name is given to a surgical appliance, typically a padded belt, that is worn to support a hernia?
Truss
In the 1960s, Who completed a famous trio with Mary and Mungo?
Midge
What were the first four words spoken to confirm the landing of the Lunar Module on the Moon in 1969?
Houston, Tranquillity Base Here
[followed by “The Eagle Has Landed”]
Which Welsh river flows through Merthyr Tydfil and Pontypridd and goes under the M4?
River Taff
At which stadium do Kilmarnock play their home games?
Rugby Park
Which is the most abundant protein in the human body?
Collagen
Cillian Murphy Peaky Blinders character name
Tommy Shelby
What is the common two-word name of Pinus longaeva, which known to have a lifespan of
over 4000 years?
Bristlecone Pear
Which plant family does the pear belong to?
Rose
Which type of British warship, used in the 20th century as escort ships, had a name derived
from the old Spanish term for a galley?
Frigate
What is the smallest class of vessel to be classed as a rated warship?
Corvette
Who preceded Alex Salmond as First minister of Scotland until 2007?
Jack McConnell
Who is the heroine of the book True Grit by Charles Portis?
Mattie Ross
Which famous building was destroyed when Roman troops set fire to an Egyptian fleet and
the blaze spread ashore?
Library of Alexandria
Which boxer became world heavyweight champion in the early 1990s after knocking out
Mike Tyson in the ring? His first ever loss.
James Buster Douglas
The books ‘Harlequin’, ‘Vagabond’ and ‘Heretic’ comprise a trilogy of books featuring an
English archer fighting in the Hundred Years War, written by which author?
Bernard Cornwell
What word is used to describe fields or land left unseeded in order to rest the ground?
Fallow
Which is the UK’s most northerly motorway?
M90
Which ennobled author wrote three volumes of his prison diary entitled Hell, Purgatory and Heaven?
Jeffrey Archer
Whose fictional comic diary is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice?
Bridget Jones Diary
Which politician’s diaries chronicled life inside (Baroness) Margaret Thatcher’s government?
Alan Clark
Who is the oldest Golfer to win a major tournament?
Phil Mickelson (2021 PGA tournament aged 50)
Who is the oldest player to play for the England men’s football team?
Stanley Matthews
Who is the youngest player to win a tennis grand slam tournament?
Martina Hingis
What’s the name of the main telescope at Jodrell Bank?
Lovell Telescope
Fuggle, Citra and East Kent Golding’s are all types of what?
Hops
Name of Chuck Yeager’s plane breaking sound barrier
Bell X-1 called Glamorous Glennis
The triple point of water, when it can be in all three phases, is what temperature?
0.01 degrees celsius
In UK elections, what is the term used to describe the period between the time an election is announced and the date the election is held?
Purdah
What’s the name of the Republic of Ireland’s lower house of parliamentary representation?
Dáil Éireann (doyl air–en). Accept Dáil
What name is given to a car door hinged at the roof rather than the side, as seen on the De Lorean in the film Back to the Future?
Gullwing door
1976 film about a US coast to coast race, which inspired The Cannonball Run
The Gumball Rally
What’s the profession of someone with the letters RIBA after their name?
Architects
What’s the most northerly point of mainland Great Britain?
Dunnet Head
What’s the name of the human–controlled underground city in the Matrix films?
Zion
Which British airport was originally known as Abbotsinch?
Glasgow
What is the lower house of the Russian Parliament called?
Duma
an American singer and songwriter. He is the son of rapper Lauryn Hill and singer Rohan. He received breakthrough success with his debut single “Praise Jah in the Moonlight”
YG Marley
He was the guitarist for the Stone Roses, a rock band in which he formed a songwriting partnership with lead singer Ian Brown. After leaving the Stone Roses he went on to found The Seahorses and has since released two solo albums. Just hit number 1 album in March 2024 with collab with Liam Gallagher.
John Squire
The 1964 comedy film A Shot in the Dark featured which fictional inspector?
Inspector Clouseau
What type of creature is a gelada?
Monkey
Which Dickens novel is partially set in the Marshalsea prison for debtors?
Little Dorrit
Which Roman road linked London and Wroxeter in the Welsh Borders?
Watling Street
In the Bible, what was the name of Isaac’s wife, the mother of twins Jacob and Esau
Rebecca
Due to overuse and global warming, which lake no longer forms the north–eastern border of Nigeria?
Lake Chad
In which country is the Alqueva Dam?
Portugal
Which Shipping Forecast area off Northern Ireland is east of Rockall?
Malin
What name is given to water that collects in the bottom of a boat?
Bilge
What name is given to the public gallery in the House of Commons?
The Strangers Gallery
Edward Enninful replacement at UK Vogue
Chioma Nnadi
Head of WTO since 2021
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Who played Cleo in Carry On Cleo?
Amanda Barrie
What’s the name of the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police?
New Scotland Yard
With what do you start an ice hockey match?
Face Off
Syncopy Inc. is a film production company founded and operated by which British–American filmmaker?
Christopher Nolan
What’s the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order?
Forty
Who won Best Adapted Screenplay for AMerican Fiction based on book by Percival Everett?
Cord Jefferson
Who wrote the book The Zone of Interest that was Jonathan Glazer oscar nominated film?
Martin Amis
Also known for his collaborations with director Christopher Nolan, having shot Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023) who won Best Cinematography for Oppenheimer in 2024 Oscars?
Hoyte van Hoytema
American cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with director Darren Aronofsky on the films Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), Black Swan (2010), Noah (2014), and Mother! (2017). He has received three Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominations for his work on Black Swan (2010), A Star Is Born (2018), and Maestro (2023).
Matthew Libatique
Which actress played Philippa Moorcroft in Dinnerladies and Miss Babs in Acorn
Antiques, and Mrs Quickly, the main villain in Nanny McPhee?
Celia Imrie
Which effect, named after the 19th century German physicist who investigated it,
describes the force that deflects a rotating object moving through a fluid? It
explains the effect of spin in several ball sports.
Magnus Effect
In modern music, which mode, named for an ancient Greek tribe, is the diatonic
scale also known as the major scale?
Ionian
Which sea, an arm of the Mediterranean, separates the coasts of Greece andTurkey?
Aegean
What does the ACE stand for in ACE Inhibitors for high blood pressure?
Angiotensin-converting-enzyme
Which author and journalist served as editor of The Jewish Chronicle between
2008 and 2021? He famously once hid an acrostic criticising owner Richard
Desmond in a piece written for the Express, costing him his next job at the Times.
Stephen Pollard
Along with co-host Andy Dawson, which British comedian hosts the footballrelated sketch podcast Athletico Mince?
Bob Mortimer
In video game slang, the name of which type of food is used as a verb meaning
to beat part of all of a game by using something seen as a cheap trick, or
exploiting a design flaw?
Cheese
The South American trade bloc MERCOSUR, is headquartered in which city, the
southernmost capital of its member countries?
Montevideo
Which 18th century philosopher designed a circular prison where a central guard
could observe all the prisoners at once, who could not tell when they were being
watched?
Jeremy Bentham
What name is given to the handicraft which involves cutting out pictures and
gluing them to an object and coating the pictures and the object with varnish?
The word is derived from the middle French for ‘to cut out’.
Decoupage
The nerve disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is one suggested explanation
for why Pennsylvania woman Anna Olsen is seen crawling through a field in
which Andrew Wyeth painting?
Christina’s World
Taking over from Stephen Pollard at the end of 2021, who is the current editor of
The Jewish Chronicle? Author of 2023’s Israelphobia, he was widely criticised for
comments seen as Islamophobic made on Question Time in October 2023.
Jake WALLIS SIMONS
Which word precedes ‘particle’ to get an alliterative term in physics for an idealised object that has zero dimension and so takes up no space? For simplification, elementary particles are often treated as these things.
Point Particle
Which electronic music duo released the album Decksandrumsandrockandroll in
1998, which included a remix of the instrumental theme to On Her Majesty’s
Secret Service and the Shirley Bassey collaboration History Repeating?
Propellerheads
In modern music, which mode, named for an ancient Greek tribe, is the diatonic
scale corresponding to a piano keyboard’s white notes from D to D?
Dorian
Which actress played Mrs Featherstone in Open All Hours, Diana Trent in
Waiting for God and Dr Beatrice Mason in Tenko?
Stephanie Cole
Which brand of lager, brewed in the UK by Coors, has a name formed by
removing the final letter of the major Spanish city it claims association with?
Madri
In video game slang, which word, that is a prefix in many other contexts, is used as a noun meaning the most effective strategy or choice of characters and items possible for a certain game?
Meta
The present-day Turkish city of Selçuk is close to the site of which ancient city,
the location of a Temple of Artemis considered one of the Seven Wonders of the
World?
Ephesus
From the Greek for ‘leaving out a letter’, which form of constrained writing
involves avoiding the use of a certain letter or letters? The Georges Perec novel
A Void, which does not use the letter E, is a famous example.
Lipogram
Who starred as Nora Moon in the critically acclaimed 2023 film Past Lives?
Greta Lee
“X implies Y, and X is true. Therefore Y is true.” This is a rule of logical inference usually known by which two-word Latin phrase meaning ‘method of putting’?
Modus ponens
Previously a hit for Thin Lizzy, Whiskey in the Jar was a hit single from the 1998
album Garage Inc. by which American heavy metal band?
Metallica
Which language has the third highest number of native speakers in India, behind
only Hindi and Bengali?
Marathi
Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver hosts a current affairs show on
which US cable TV channel?
HBO
The 1971 Courts Act introduced which single permanent criminal court of first
instance in England and Wales?
Crown Court
What adjective derived from the Greek for ‘both’ is applied to a chemical compound to denote that it reacts with both acids and bases?
Amphoteric
Nicknamed ‘Raging Bull’, which former tight prop played all seven of England’s
games en route to winning the 2003 men’s Rugby World Cup, and captained the
side for the 2007 tournament?
Phil Vickery
In January 2023, Borjana Krišto [bor-yana krish-to] became the first female head
of government of which European country?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Burke and Wills expedition set out in 1860 – with 26 imported camels among
their number – from which city’s Royal Park?
Melbourne
Bunny and twins Charles and Camilla are among the university students caught
up in rituals and murder in which debut novel by Donna Tartt?
The Secret History
The Drysdale is a New Zealand breed of which domesticated animal?
Sheep
Originally a piano work suggestive of Andalusian flamenco, but today often
performed on classical guitar, Asturias (Leyenda) is an 1892 work by which
composer, a virtuoso pianist?
Isaac Albeniz
Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe and Recuerdos de la Alhambra. Gran Vals nokia tune.
Francisco Tárrega
“Chinese parsley’ is an old-fashioned name for which herb, commonly used in
Mexican cuisine?
Coriander
“X implies Y, and Y is false. Therefore X is false.” This is a rule of logical
inference usually known by which two-word Latin phrase meaning ‘method of
taking’?
Modus Tollens
Taking its name from a lyric in Whiskey in the Jar, Molly’s Chambers was a hit
single from the 2003 debut album Youth and Young Manhood by which American
rock band?
Kings of Leon
Which of the British Isles has the third largest population, behind only Great
Britain and the island of Ireland?
Portsea Island
In September 2023, Evika Siliņa [EV-ik-a SIL-in-ya] became the first female head
of government of which European country?
Latvia
Which physicist is the subject of the following clerihew?
<REDACTED>
Is who you should thank
For discovering quanta
If you really wanta
</REDACTED>
Planck
Prior to working for Smash Hits, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys was
production editor for the now-defunct UK branch of which comics publisher?
Captain Britain Weekly was created during his tenure.
Marvel
With nicknames including ‘The Raging Potato’, which Irish hooker won the
inaugural World Rugby Men’s Fifteens Player of the Year award in 2001?
Keith Wood
At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Marileidy Paulino [marry-lay-eedy
pow-LEEN-o] won the women’s 400 metres gold, the sole medal at the
championships for which North American country?
Dominican Republic
Which actor in Toy Story and its sequels is an Obie-winning playwright? The
sexual explicitness of his 1977 play A Thought in Three Parts prompted the Met’s
vice squad to investigate its London debut.
Wallace Shawn
Which periodic courts held around England and Wales heard the most serious
cases until they were replaced by the Crown Court? The name for these courts is
derived from the old French for ‘sittings.’
Assizes
What noun derived from the German for ‘hermaphrodite’ denotes a molecule with
equal numbers of positively and negatively charged functional groups?
Zwitterion
Which Filipino make-up artist and YouTuber was the first openly gay man to
appear on the cover of Playboy?
Bretman Rock
Which French author of the novels Jacques the Fatalist and The Indiscreet Jewels is
best remembered for co-editing the 18th-century reference work The Encyclopédie?
Denis Diderot
In 2002, which horse won the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and the Breeders’ Cup Turf?
Trained by Aiden O’Brien, it was ridden by Johnny Murtaugh at the Derby, and
Michael Kinane at the Irish Derby and Breeders’ Cup.
High Chaparral
Which American jazz singer and occasional actor released the album Devil’s Got
Your Tongue in 1992? She also provided vocals for several albums by her husband
Max Roach.
Abbey Lincoln
In which year of the late 20th century was 19 October known as Black Monday after
huge drops in global stock markets? In the UK, events may have been exacerbated
by the closure of the Stock Exchange the previous Friday because of this year’s
Great Storm.
1987
Which third-century philosopher, who was born in Roman Egypt, is considered to be
the founder of Neoplatonism?
Plotinus
Which Italian invented the piano around the year 1700?
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bruce Edwards, Angelo Argea, Fanny Sunesson and Mike ‘Fluff’ Cowan are all
members of the Hall of Fame for those who perform what specific sporting role?
Golf caddy
What word precedes ‘Grammar’ in the name of the theory, usually credited to Noam
Chomsky, that there is an innate biological component to the human language
faculty, which means that humans will always develop languages with certain
features in common?
Universal
In 2014, which doubles specialist became the first Chinese player to be ranked world
No. 1 in any tennis discipline? In 2021 she underwent an apparent forced
disappearance after accusing a retired Chinese Vice Premier of rape.
PENG Shuai
Adam Moran is the UK #1 ranked competitive eater. What is the three-word hairrelated name of his YouTube channel that features videos of Moran travelling the
world taking on eating challenges?
BeardMeetsFood
What German national dish consists of a meat, usually beef, that is marinated for
about a week in a wine or vinegar mixture, browned on the stovetop, slow cooked
for a number of hours, and served in a sauce made from the marinade?
Sauerbraten
What German national dish consists of a meat, usually beef, that is marinated for
about a week in a wine or vinegar mixture, browned on the stovetop, slow cooked
for a number of hours, and served in a sauce made from the marinade?
Brute Force
Which political and military leader was de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his
death? He commanded his forces to victory over the Umayyad Caliphate at the
Battle of Tours.
Charles Martel
(accept Charles the
Hammer)
What is the capital and largest city of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland?
Hargeisa
The blue wildebeest can outrun a hyena aged one day. Animals like this are
known as precocial. What corresponding term from the Latin for ‘to nurse’ refers
to animals such as humans that are slow to develop?
Altricial
Which Italian family are credited with inventing the violin? Father Andrea invented
it, but it was perfected by his son Nicola, with later craftsmen like Stradivarius
honing the design further.
Amati
Ignacio Beristáin, Cus D’Amato, Emanuel Steward and Eddie Futch are members
of a particular sports Hall of Fame for their excellence in performing what specific
role?
Boxing Trainer
Which 22-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested by Iran’s ‘morality police’ in
September 2022 for not wearing a hijab and died in custody three days later due
to apparent police brutality? Her death ignited large protests across Iran.
Mahsa Amini
Porphyry compiled the writings of Plotinus into which volume whose name is the
plural of a term used in Egyptian mythology?
Enneads
Which 2023 Netflix series, starring Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, looks
at the origin of the Opioid crisis? Based on the reporting that developed into
Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Empire of Pain, it also stars Taylor Kitsch and Uzo Aduba.
Painkiller
In 2000, which horse won the Derby, the Irish Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de
Triomphe? Trained by John Oxx, it was ridden by Johnny Murtaugh at all three
races.
Sinndar
Open the Door was the signature song of which American jazz singer, known for
her recordings with Ray Bryant and Carmen McRae? She also recorded Baby It’s
Cold Outside with Ray Charles.
Betty Carter
Pigeons detect magnetic fields. Butterflies can see ultraviolet light. What word did
Jakob von Uexküll introduce that refers to the world as it is experienced by a
particular organism?
Umwelt
The names of many towns in the north and east of England feature which twoletter suffix, which is derived from the Norse term for a farmstead or village?
-by
Administered by Morocco, what is the largest city and de jure capital of the
disputed territory of Western Sahara?
Laayoune
Which Florentine goldsmith and sculptor is best known for his bronze doors on
Florence Baptistry? He also taught Donatello and Filippo Brunelleschi.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
What DG was Michelangelo’s mentor and teacher?
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Which artist was Da Vinci’s mentor and teacher?
Andrea del Verrocchio
Born 1446, most famous pupil was Raphael
Pietro Perugino
What is the three-word hair-related name of the channel of British YouTuber
Benjamin Rich? The videos feature Rich travelling, often to dangerous places,
with a particular focus post-Soviet states.
Bald and Bankrupt
What German cake is cooked on a rotating spit with each layer allowed to brown
before a new layer of batter is poured? This gives it an appearance similar to that
of tree rings, and it is popular as a wedding gift in Japan because of its ring
shape.
Baumkuchen
What three-word term, often used in military contexts, refers to a class of
algorithms which breaks down a problem into two or more problems of a related
type, repeating that process until the problems become simple enough to be
solved? While these make effective use of time they can be difficult to devise.
Divide and Conquer
Name either of the two end points of the Coast-to-Coast path, designated as a
new National Trail in 2022. One is in Cumbria and the other in North Yorkshire.
St Bees or Robin
Hood’s Bay
2001’s Blindsighted was the first book in the Grant County series of novels by
which American crime writer, who also wrote the Will Trent novels?
Karin Slaughter
Which podcast, presented by Grace Dent, interviews celebrities about the food
that they eat when no one is looking?
Comfort Eating
Extracts of which perennial plant in the Hypericaceae family has been used as a
traditional antidepressant since at least 1st Century CE?
St Johns Wort
Which appropriately named national park is the northernmost in the United States?
Gates of the Arctic
Winning in 2010, which film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul is the only
Thai film to have won the Palme D’Or
Uncle Boonmee Who
Can Recall His Past
Lives
Which book controversially won the 1994 Booker Prize, with even a member of
the judging panel (Rabbi Julia Neuberger) saying “frankly it’s crap”?
How Late It Was,
How Late (james kelman)
Which type of combination dress from the Punjab is a national costume across
South Asia?
Shalwar Kameez
Which English folk-song collector founded the English Folk Dance Society, and
gave his name to the current headquarters of English Folk Dance and Song
Society?
Cecil Sharp
One of the most influential books ever written about cricket, what is the name of
the book by C L R James about the sport’s political and social impact in the West
Indies?
Beyond a Boundary
What is the name of the Chinese soup-filled dumpling, particularly associated
with Shanghai, that is traditionally eaten for breakfast?
xiaolongbao
Which character is the protagonist for the majority of the game Red Dead
Redemption 2?
Arthur Morgan
Which pioneer of palaeontology, and Anglican priest, wrote the first account of a
fossil dinosaur, a Megalosaurus?
William Buckland
What was the one word title of the exhibition put on by students of Goldsmiths in
1988, featuring the work of Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas among others that
was the start of the Young British Artists movement?
Freeze
Which book controversially won the 1984 Booker Prize, with even its author
suggesting that J.G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun should have won instead?
Hotel Du Lac (by
Anita Brookner)
Which of the United States national parks is the only one south of the Equator?
American Samoa
Winning in 2007, which film directed by Cristian Mungiu is the only Romanian film
to win the Palme D’Or
4 months 3 weeks 2 days
Extracts of which herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family is used as an
alternative treatment to cold and flu, but may also induce nausea and other
stomach upsets?
Echinacea
Which noble led a Lollard uprising that took his name, and provided inspiration for
the Shakespearean character of Falstaff?
John Oldcastle
With a high point of just 5 metres, which Pacific island nation has the lowest high
point of any in the world?
Tuvalu
Which podcast, hosted by writer Caroline O’Donoghue, aims to reclaim the pop
culture people (particularly women) love, but that society makes them feel
ashamed of? It had a very successful spin off series about Sex and the City, cohosted by Dolly Alderton?
Sentimental Garbage
Which character is the protagonist of the game Red Dead Redemption, and the
epilogue of Red Dead Redemption 2?
John Marston
Which Anglican priest coined the term palaeontology?
William Whewell
What was the one word title of the exhibition of contemporary art owned by
Charles Saatchi, which included many pieces by members of the Young British
Artists, that was put on by the Royal Academy in 1997?
Sensation
What is the name of the traditional Georgian dumpling, which contains the juices
of the meat that makes up the filling?
Khinkali
Which American folk-song collector is credited with discovering artists including
Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly?
Alan Lomax
Which British actress plays the role of Emma Morley in the 2024 Netflix series
adaptation of One Day?
Ambika Mod
He is known for his roles in the second season of the HBO satirical series The White Lotus (2022) and in the Netflix romantic drama series One Day (2024) as Dexter.
Leo Woodall
He played the male lead role of Ben Campbell in 21 (2008), Gavin Kossef in Crossing Over (2009), The Way Back (2010), and co-starred in the epic science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012), Dexter in One Day film 2011.
One Day
One of the main subjects of James’s book is which all-rounder of the 1920s and
‘30? He took the West Indies’ first ever wicket in test cricket, and in later life was
influential in the passing of the Race Relations Act and was the first ever black
man to sit in the House of Lords?
Learie Constantine
Professor Woland is the protagonist of which 20th century Russian novel?
The Master and Margarita
Which ancient site in modern-day Pakistan is one of the world’s oldest cities, and
the largest settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization?
Mohenjo-daro
What is the name of the traditional head-dress worn by men, which is a part of
national costume across the Middle East?
Keffiyeh
What is the name of the National Lottery’s Voice of the Balls? He is also
the announcer on Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars.
Alan Dedicoat
Which castle on the Ghanaian coast is the oldest European building in
existence south of the Sahara? It is recognised as a UNESCO World
Heritage Site due to its importance in the Atlantic slave trade.
Elmina ( also accept
St. George’s Castle /
Fort St. Jorge)
Which spicy stew, which is also known in Ghana as “Kokoo ne beans”,
takes its extremely colourful name from the palm oil used to make it?
Red Red
What is the name of the phenomenon where a superconductive magnet stops working due to part of the coil entering a resistive state? This problem affected a large section of the Large Hadron Collider in 2008, and can also affect MRI scanners.
Quenching
It has been speculated that the LHC’s experiments might produce
microscopic black holes. What theoretical process is expected to cause
any such objects to decay over a very short timescale?
Hawking Radiation
In 2022, which regular guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show became the first
Muslim from either of the major parties to be nominated for the US
Senate?
Dr Mehmet Oz
In the 2020 film The Invisible Man who plays the sociopathic inventor
Adrian Griffin? His other roles include Luke Cain in 2018’s The Haunting of
Hill House.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
What is the name of the hairpin bend at the Brands Hatch racing circuit? It
comes between the Paddock Hill bend and the Graham Hill bend.
Druids Hill
Which sharp bend on the Epsom Downs racecourse shares its name with
the nearby Southern Rail station?
Tattenham Corner
Harmful algal blooms typically consist of cyanobacteria, dinoflagellates
and which specific group of microalgae? Characterised by their silica cell
walls, these organisms constitute nearly half of the biomass of Earth’s oceans.
Diatoms
Algal blooms are often induced by what process, where water becomes
progressively enriched by an anomalous supply of fertilising minerals such
as Nitrogen and Phosphorus?
Eutrophication
In the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, which
actress and comedian provided the voice of Dr Olivia Octavius?
Kathryn Hahn
Which German commander at Passchendaele also played a leading role
in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch? In a 2017 film, this man was instead
defeated by Wonder Woman.
Erich Ludendorff
Which cartoon animal created by Alex Graham has appeared in the Daily
Mail since 1963?
Fred Bassett
Who became the Daily Mail’s Editor in 2021? Fans of Wikipedia might find
his name ironic, as it no longer allows the paper to be cited as a reliable
news source.
Ted Verity
Which Daily Mail columnist and TV reviewer’s article about the death of
Stephen Gately in 2009 set a record for the most complaints made to the
Press Complaints Commission?
Jan Moir
Who set the slowest ever Olympic time for the men’s 100m freestyle at the
2000 Sydney games? He still won his heat after both his opponents false
started, and later became Equatorial Guinea’s national swimming coach.
Eric Moussambani
Malonga (accept
Eric the Eel)
Representing Thailand, who finished 50 seconds behind the other finishers in the Women’s Olympic Giant Slalom at the 2014 Winter
Games? She was subsequently given a four-year ban from competitive skiing for race fixing.
Vanessa-Mae
(Accept Vanessa
Vanakorn)
At the 2023 European team athletics championships in Poland, Belgian
athlete Jolien Boumkwo finished the 100 metres hurdles 19 seconds behind the other competitors. Which event had she competed in the previous day?
Shot Put
One of the world’s most famous artists during his lifetime, Who painted the 1867 work The Death of Caesar? As with his subsequent work The Execution of Marshal Ney, the painting depicts the immediate aftermath of a death.
Jean-Leon Gerome
Which Californian rock band recorded Journey of the Sorcerer, HitchHikers’ theme tune? It is a track on their 1975 album One of These Nights.
The Eagles
Which country’s national anthem, a 19th-century nationalist poem whose
title means Hymn to Liberty, is the world’s longest?
Greece
The Star-Spangled Banner’s lyrics come from a poem about the British
Army’s bombardment of which fort in Maryland?
Fort McHenry
Which American actress, nicknamed ‘the Blonde bombshell’ and sharing the ‘platinum blonde’ moniker, had a surname synonymous with a new town in Essex?
Jean Harlow
Who was the Unity Party MP, then the youngest woman to be elected an MP, for the Westminster constituency of Mid–Ulster between 1969 and 1974?
Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey
large three-day riot that took place from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholic/Irish nationalist residents of the namesake Derry suburb.
Battle of the Bogside
In what foreign city, now the capital of a country, was former British professional tennis player Elena Baltacha born?
Kiev
Florence Court, the National Trust property named after the grandmother of the 1st Earl of Enniskillen, is in which Northern Irish county?
County Fermanagh
Which city’s International Airport includes the words ‘Mother Teresa’ in its full name?
Tirana
Which cookery writer was responsible for books entitled How to Cook: Book 1, How to Cook: Book 2 and How to Cook: Book 3?
Delia Smith
Which screenwriter is best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series?
Lynda La Plante
Who wrote and performed lead vocals on the song Everywhere from the 1987 album Tango in the Night?
Christine McVie
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel, née Angela Dorothea Kasner, studied Physics at Karl Marx University, was awarded a Doctorate in Quantum Chemistry, and became a research scientist. In which German city is Karl Marx University?
Leipzig
What does a Tegestologist collect?
Beermats or coasters
Annie and Clarabel are noted for being pulled and pushed about by which children’s hero?
Thomas the Tank Engine
By what professional stage name is the English actor born David John White in Edmonton in 1940, better known?
David Jason
Which Paralympian, now a Baroness, is the chair of Sport Wales, the national organisation responsible for developing and promoting sport and physical activity in Wales?
Baroness (Tanni) Grey–Thompson
Which Italian pop singer had a 1987 hit entitled Boys (Summertime Love), popular with lads as the video showed her dancing in a swimming pool in a white bikini that occasionally slipped down to reveal her nipples?
Sabrina Salerno (accept Sabrina)
Which ceramic artist and designer was born in Meir Street, Tunstall in 1899, started work gilding pottery when she was thirteen, moved to the A. J. Wilkinson Pottery in 1916, and eventually married the owner?
Clarice Cliff
Who played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service?
Telly Savalas
Whose book Married Love had its publication financed by Humprey Verdon Roe, co–founder of aircraft manufacturer Avro, and later her second husband?
Marie Stopes
The Irish county which was known as King’s COunty is now known as what name?
Offaly
In 1556, Queen Mary I of England and Ireland created Queen’s County in Ireland. What has this county been called since 1922?
Laois (pronounced Leesh)
What’s the name of sculptor Antonio Canova’s statue of the mythical three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, in a semi–circle with their arms entwined?
Three Graces
Karren Brady, Baroness Brady CBE, is current vice–chair of West Ham United F.C. Of which football club was she managing director from 1985 to 2009?
Birmingham City FC
In which children’s television series did Madame Zsazsa live with Hector?
Hector’s House
Which actress starred alongside John Wayne in five films, including Rio Grande in 1950 and The Wings of Eagles in 1957?
Maureen O’Hara
What was the stage name of the ballerina born Margaret Evelyn Hookham, grand–daughter of North Staffordshire Railway Company Locomotive Superintendent John Hookham?
Margot Fonteyn
Who was kissed by Luis Rubiales in a non–consensual way?
Jenni Hermoso
In which Canton of Switzerland is Johanna Spyri’s book about a Swiss orphan called Heidi set?
Graubunden
Ebony Rainford–Brent commentates and summarises for Sky Sports and the BBC on which sport?
Cricket
Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson–Wright appeared together in 24 episodes of which television cookery programme in the 1990s?
Two Fat Ladies
In which mountain range might you find a Maiden, a Monk and an Ogre?
In the Alps (they are the mountain peaks known respectively as the Jungfrau, the Mönch and the Eiger)
Which former amateur jockey wrote an autobiography called My Animals and Other Family?
Clare Balding
Who, except when she is broody, provides green soup for the Clangers?
The Soup Dragon
In classic French cuisine, ‘fines herbes’ is a mix of chervil, tarragon, chives and which other herb?
Parsley
The Via Francigena (fran–chee–jane–ah) runs from the southern portico of Canterbury cathedral to which city?
Rome
Which retired singer was born Sandra Ann Goodrich in 1947?
Sandie Shaw
In what 1970s US TV crime series did Susan Saint James star alongside Rock Hudson?
McMillan and Wife
In the musical film The Sound of Music, what was the name of the oldest of the von Trapp children?
Liesl
Which 1980s Channel 4 music show was presented by Paula Yates (among others)?
The Tube
Men and women were given electoral equality by the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise Act) of which year?
1928
Name either of the towns to the north and south of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge in England?
Dartford or Thurrock
Which Italian–born British actress, radio announcer and multilingual television celebrity (best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest four times) died on the 20 th of March 2018?
Katie Boyle
The Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie suffers from what sensory deprivation?
Deafness
A citadel is the name often given to the premises where members of which church and charity assemble?
Salvation Army
In the Hebrew Bible, who was the father of King David?
Jesse
The investiture controversy, or the conflict over whether secular rulers or the Pope had the authority to appoint bishops to office, was resolved at the Diet of concordat of Worms between Holy Roman Emperor Henry the Fifth and the second Pope of which name?
Callixtus II (Henry IV and Gregory VII were earlier and started it)
Starring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish, which 2017 film follows four friends who visit New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival?
Girls Trip
What player hit his prime in two sports, playing 14 seasons in the NFL for multiple teams including the 49ers, Cowboys, and the Ravens and playing 9 seasons in MLB for the Braves and the Yankees, among other teams?
Deion Sanders
The arcade cabinet of what video game, first released by Atari in 1985,
had bicycle handlebars for controllers?
Paperboy
Gum arabic is derived from what tree? In the classical world, its hardened sap was used along with its leaves for birth control purposes, and the tree shares its name with a Greek social fraternity that does not use Greek letters in its name.
Gum Arabic
What member of China’s so-called Fifth Generation of film directors won a Golden Bear at Berlin for his 1988 directorial debut Red Sorghum and a BAFTA in 1991 for Raise the Red Lantern? His English language film The Great Wall starring Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal received less acclaim.
ZHANG Yimou
Which titular character from an opera by Richard Wagner has a celebrated chord named after him? One of its most celebrated aspects is its interpretability and its move away from tonal harmonies.
Tristan
Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Andrea Martin were among the original cast members of what sketch comedy series that
premiered in 1976?
SCTV (Second City TV)
What is the name for creme patisserie lightened with Italian meringue named after a 19th century French baker? It sometimes shows up on
The Great British Baking Show where the hosts cannot help but make jokes about the name.
Chiboust (shee-boost) cream
Which genetic disorder caused by a mutation on gene FBN1 is characterized by being tall, thin with long arms, legs, fingers, and toes? It is speculated that Sergei Rachmaninoff, Abraham Lincoln, and Osama Bin Laden may have had the condition.
Marfan Syndrome
What stand-up comedian said on Conan O’Brien in 2014: “I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me and were just like, ‘You know what? We’re sick of this. Let’s kill her.’”
Tig Notaro
In photography, what term indicates how sensitive a camera’s image sensor is to light? Acronym or full term acceptable.
ISO/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION for
STANDARDIZATION
A synagogue in Worms, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the oldest existing synagogue in Germany, is named for a medieval French rabbi born Shlomo Yitzchaki, who is most often known by what acronym? He is one of the most significant commenters on the Tanakh and Talmud.
Rashi
Which Australian electronic duo recorded the 2008 song “Walking on a Dream” which later became vastly more popular after appearing in a commercial for the Honda Civic?
Empire of the Sun
Ali Wong was nominated for an Emmy as the voice of one of the titular characters for what animated Netflix series created by Lisa Hanawalt and co-starring Tiffany Haddish?
Tuca & Bertie
Look at me—I’m the captain now. What US-flagged cargo ship partially named for a US state was captured by Somali pirates in 2009, the first seizure of a US ship by pirates since the 19th century?
Maersk Alabama
Which genetic disorder, named for the two physicians who identified it, is characterized by loose joints, stretchy skin, and joint pain?
Notable cases include Jameela Jamil, Halsey, and Sia.
EHLERS-DANLOS Syndrome
What is the name of the pastry for which creme chiboust was first created, a cream puff cake named for the patron saint of bakers?
Saint Honore
What player knew two sports very well, playing 4 seasons in the NFL for the Raiders and playing 8 seasons in MLB for Royals, White Sox, and Angels?
Bo Jackson
What member of China’s so-called Fifth Generation of film directors has received international acclaim, including a Palme d’Or for Farewell My Concubine? His 2002 English language debut, Killing Me Softly starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, received less acclaim.
CHEN Kaige
2021 Chinese war film co-directed and co-produced by Chen Kaige, It was commissioned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party as part of the Party’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The film depicts the story of the North Korea-allied Chinese People’s Volunteer Army, forcing U.S. forces to withdraw in a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War.
The Battle of Lake Changjin
Daucus carota, also known as wild carrot, also has what regnal name? It had been used for birth control purposes in the ancient world and still is advocated for this use in herbal medicine today.
Queen Anne’s Lace
In addition to an apocryphal etymology about certain companions, what “Fighting” Union general is most remembered for his loss at
Chancellorsville?
Joseph Hooker
Which video game in the Tony Hawk series released in 2009 across multiple platforms used a skateboard controller?
Tony Hawk: RIDE
Which card game takes its name from the Spanish for “basket”? It is usually played using two decks of cards.
Canasta
What gingerbread cake, associated with the north of England and traditionally eaten on Guy Fawkes night, is usually made using oatmeal and black treacle?
Yorkshire PARKIN
Which American boxer won gold medals in the women’s middleweight division at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics and is currently the undisputed light-middleweight champion?
Claressa Shields
What follows the word ‘Lady’ in the stage name of the singer-songwriter Pip Brown, whose best-known songs include ‘My Delirium’ and ‘Paris Is Burning’?
Hawke
Which international bakery and coffee chain went into administration in the UK in 2023 closing all but its St Pancras International branch? This chain was founded in Brussels in 1990 and its shops typically feature long, wooden, communal tables.
Le Pain Quotidien
Opening on Broadway in 1928, which play by Sophie Treadwell was inspired by the real-life case of convicted murderer Ruth Snyder, who had become infamous for the mid-execution photograph of her that was printed in multiple newspapers?
Machinal
Ben Nevis is located in which mountain range? This range is one of the three major ranges in Scotland, along with the Western Highlands and the Southern Uplands, and its sub-ranges include the Cairngorms and the Trossachs
Grampian
In UK law, what legal rule is used to define insanity for the purpose of a criminal defence? The rule was created in 1843 after the acquittal of its namesake, who committed murder believing his target was the Prime Minister Robert Peel.
MCNAUGHTON rule
What is the title of the Australian Netflix drama series that premiered in January 2024 which follows 13-year-old Eli Bell, who finds himself immersed in the Brisbane underworld in an attempt to save his mother from danger?
Boy Swallows Universe
The song ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ appeared on which Bob Dylan album, named after the major road that passed through Dylan’s childhood home of Duluth [duh-LOOTH], Minnesota?
Highway 61 Revisited
Conn Syndrome and phaeochromocytoma are causes of high blood pressure due to tumours
primarily occurring in which structures that secrete aldosterone and norepinephrine?
Adrenal Glands
In the 2010 Disney movie Tangled, what is the name of Rapunzel’s pet chameleon?
Pascal
Opening in the West End in 1928, which play by R. C. Sherriff was inspired by his experiences in the British trenches during World War I?
Journey’s End
Cuillin, a mountain range containing several Munro peaks, including the notorious Inaccessible Pinnacle, is located on which Scottish island? This island is the largest and most populous of the Inner Hebrides, and its capital is Portree.
Skye
Lying above the asthenosphere, what term is given to the outermost shell of Earth consisting of the crust and the topmost portion of the upper mantle?
Lithosphere
What follows the word ‘Lady’ in the name of an electronic music act, fronted by Helen Marnie, whose best-known songs include ‘Seventeen’ and ‘Destroy Everything You Touch’?
Tron
What online retailer of furniture and home accessories went into administration in 2022? It was later bought by Next who did not retain any of its staff resulting in the loss of around 500 jobs.
MADE.com
Which British boxer won a gold medal in the women’s middleweight division at the 2012 World Championships? She currently holds five of the six titles in the super-Middleweight division but lost to Claressa Shields in 2022 when fighting to become undisputed middleweight champion.
Savannah MARSHALL
3am, named for its previous print columnists The 3am Girls, is the celebrity and showbiz page on the website of which British tabloid newspaper?
Daily MIRROR
What is the name of the Italian Master Assassin who serves as the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed II [two] and its direct sequels, Brotherhood and Revelations? These three games are now often bundled together as a collection named after him.
Ezio
In the 2016 Disney movie Moana, what is the name of the title character’s pet rooster?
Hei-Hei
Which French tennis player won the only grand slam of her career when she beat Sabine Lisicki to win the 2013 Wimbledon singles title? She unexpectedly retired from tennis just one month later.
Marion Bartoli
Named after a town in the Midlands, what name is used in UK law for a standard of unreasonableness on the part of a public authority? In a later caseLord Diplock phrased the rule thus: “So outrageous in its defiance of logic or accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it.”
Wednesbury unreasonableness
Reprising the role he played in the 2005 film The Magician, Scott Ryan played Ray Shoesmith, a hitman in the Sydney underworld who juggles his criminal career with his family commitments, in which Australian black comedy series, available on Disney+ in the UK?
Mr Inbetween
Which Romanian operatic soprano, best known for her roles in Tosca and La Traviata, would regularly perform alongside her husband, the French tenor Roberto Alagna, before their divorce in 2013?
Angela Gheorghiu
Which show is known as Crufts for cats? Organised by the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy, this event has taken place since 1976 and is held at the NAEC in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
SUPREME Cat Show
Which theorem in Vector Calculus states that the line integral of a vector field over a loop is equal to the surface integral of its curl over the enclosed surface? This theorem has applications in Helmholtz’s Theorems and Maxwell’s equations
STOKES Theorem
What American state (or river, if you were to be pedantic) has etymological roots from the Algonquin language with a word that means “beside the long tidal river”?
Connecticut
What notable spooky comedy fiction podcast, which released its first episode in 2012, focuses on a namesake town’s news bulletin radio show, and is described by its creator Joseph Fink as existing in a universe where “all conspiracy theories are real”? It has a large fanbase on the website Tumblr.
Welcome to Night Vale
In computing, SQL is what type of language? The Q in SQL represents this.
Query (Structured query language)
What 1896 battle was climatic in Italy’s war with Ethiopia? A decisive defeat for Italy, this thwarted the Italian campaign to expand its empire in the Horn of Africa and is celebrated as a public holiday in Ethiopia.
Battle of ADWA
A landmark piece of text for what is derogatively known as the Heresy of the Free Spirit, the early-14th century work The Mirror of Free Souls focuses on the concept of Divine Love. It was only found out in the mid-20th century to have been written by which Christian mystic? For this, she was burned at the stake for the crime of heresy.
Marguerite PORETE
There are only three 3* (three star) Michelin restaurants outside of London in the UK. Which restaurant, located in the picturesque village of Cartmel in the Lake District, is renowned for its innovative approach to modern British cuisine and is helmed by chef Simon Rogan?
L’ENCLUME
Which darts player, nicknamed “The Bullet”, won his first PDC major title when he defeated Nathan Aspinall 11-1 in the final of the 2024 Masters?
Stephen BUNTING
Who was the baritone singer for the American gospel supergroup The Masters V (pronounced 5)? A pioneer in popularising Southern Gospel music, singing for his brothers quartet as well as the Masters V earned him a Grammy nomination for a record 28 consecutive years.
James BLACKWOOD
Idris Elba reprised his eponymous television role as John Luther in a 2023 film with what subtitle? The film version also co-starred Andy Serkis as the villainous David Robey and was released on the Netflix platform.
The Fallen Sun
“Though it hurts to go away, it’s impossible to stay // But there’s one thing I must say before I go // I love you (I love you), you know” are the opening lyrics to which 1976 UK Eurovision winning song by Brotherhood of Man?
Save Your Kisses For Me
552 CE (but maybe 553) saw the Ostrogoths defeated by the Byzantine Empire at what battle? It took place in the Campania region of Italy at a mountain named for its notable quality of goat milk.
Battle of MONS LACTARIUS
Millbank Penitentiary was among the works of which famed British architect? His other works include designing the layout of the British Museum, and he was at the forefront of the Greek Revival architectural style.
Robert SMIRKE
Situated in Bray, Berkshire, which 3 star Michelin Restaurant was founded by the Roux brothers, Michel and Albert?
The WATERSIDE INN
Which player won the 2024 Darts UK Open last week? Nicknamed The Dreammaker, his last and only major win came in 2020 when he won the World Matchplay.
Dimitri VAN DEN BERGH
Who was the bass singer of The Masters V? A former member of the Blackwood Brothers, he is best remembered for his role in the Stamps Quartet who were Elvis Presley’s live backing band from 1971 until Elvis’ death. He held the Guinness World Record for lowest bass note for 18 years.
JD Sumner
A two dimensional special case of Stokes’ Theorem, which theorem relates a line integral around a simple closed curve C to a double integral over the plane region D bounded by C? This theorem can be used to solve two-dimensional flow integrals, stating that the sum of fluid outflowing from a volume is equal to the total outflow summed about an enclosing area.
Green’s Theorem
Which other discontinued team sport that was in the 1908 Olympics was also won by Britons including Patteson Nickalls? This sport was contested in only five games between 1900 and 1936, and gold was only won by Great Britain, Argentina and
another ‘mixed team’.
Polo
“Now / Later / Soon” and “Send in the Clowns” are two of the songs that appear in which 1973 Stephen Sondheim musical? The title of the musical is a direct English translation of Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 for strings.
A Little Night Music
Which of Justinian I’s great generals took charge at the Battle of Mons Lactarius? A Romanized Armenian, he was instrumental in the Roman reconquest of the west and the Gothic Wars.
NARSES
Tim McInnerny and Lara Pulver reprised their Spooks television roles as Sir Oliver Mace and Erin Watts respectively in a 2015 thriller film with what subtitle? Kit Harington also co-starred in this as the new character Will Holloway.
The Greater Good
Who was the King of Italy during the first Ethiopian campaign that culminated in the Battle of Adwa? Ruling from 1878 until his assassination in 1900, this campaign made him deeply unpopular with the public.
Umberto I
Champagnes that are described as being sweet, medium-dry or medium-sweet are all often described with what three-letter designation?
SEC
Debatably penned by the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart, another 13th/14th landmark work within the Heresy of the Free Spirit has what name? It consists of a dialogue between an eponymous woman talking to an unnamed Confessor about finding the shortest way to find God.
Sister Catherine Treatise
What notable spooky horror fiction podcast, which released its first episode in 2016, focuses on a namesake institute in London which gathers paranormal statements from the general public? Its creator, Jonathan Sims, is also the name of the fictional narrator within the story. It has a large fanbase on the website Tumblr.
The MAGNUS ARCHIVES
What Canadian province (or city name, if you were to be pedantic) has etymological roots from the Algonquin language with a word that means “the place where waters narrow”?
Quebec
Which fittingly-named church was constructed, as penance, on the site where William I fought Harold
Godwinson in 1066?
Battle Abbey
A founding member of the United Irishmen and early fighter for Irish republicanism, which
revolutionary figure was captured by the British after the Battle of Tory Island and died shortly before his scheduled execution in November 1798?
Wolfe Tone
In March 1817, what demonstration in Manchester was violently broken up before it could march to
London to protest the state of the Lancashire textile industry? It was led by Samuel Drummond and
John Bagguley
BLANKETEERs or Blanket March
Ultimately deriving from Arabic, what Spanish-language term refers to a neighbourhood within a city? In the USA, this term is often used to refer to inner-city areas populated by Spanish-speaking
immigrant families, such as East Harlem in New York City.
Barrio
Which 3rd-century queen successfully annexed Egypt and broke away from Rome to form the
Palmyrene Empire in Syria? She was captured and exiled to Rome by Emperor Aurelian in 272 CE.
Zenobia
Name the lakeside Austrian town which gave its name to the main archaeological culture of the Late
Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Western and Central Europe (i.e. 12th-6th centuries BC). The culture in question partly overlaps with the Urnfield culture, and was followed by the La Tène culture.
HALSTATT
Which Italian Jesuit missionary was the first European to enter the Forbidden City (in 1601)? He also helped create a major world map in Chinese characters.
Matteo Ricci
Who was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people? Per tradition, he could
not reveal his name (as no other Yahi survived to introduce him), so we know him only by a word
meaning “man”.
Ishi
Which Old Iranian language, sharing a written script with Pahlavi, was used to write the primary collection of Zoroastrian sacred texts?J
Avestan
Which sociologist emphasised the importance of walkable neighbourhoods and argued that
large-scale urban renewal projects neglect city dwellers’ needs in the 1961 book ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’?
Jane Jacobs
Which state in northeast India, the home of the Meitei ethnic group, is credited with introducing Europeans to the sport of polo (legendarily invented by the Meitei deity Marjing)?
Manipur
Give the surname of the noble family, including a father and son both called Hugh, who rose to power
as advisers to Edward II. Their unpopularity sparked a baronial rebellion in the early 1320s.
Despenser
Frequently targeted by the Aztecs in the Flower Wars, which city-state allied with the Spanish invaders and subsequently experienced a relatively privileged position among the indigenous peoples of Spanish-ruled Mexico?
Tlaxcala
Which Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine, among other contributions to the fight against Spain, was
called “the liberator of the liberator” for saving Bolívar from an assassination attempt in 1828?
Manuela SÁENZ
In many stories, Lady Godiva’s legendary ride through Coventry was a response to the oppressive
taxation supposedly imposed by her husband, the Earl of Mercia. What was his name?
LEOFRIC
Which monarch ruled the Netherlands from 1890 until her 1948 abdication? She is frequently seen asa symbol of the Dutch resistance during World War Two, having delivered many radio broadcasts to the nation while leading the government in exile from London.
Wilhelmina
Forming in 1967, which rock band took their two-word Latin-sounding name from the official
pedigree name given by a breeder to a blue Burmese cat?
Procol Harum
Who has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “MacArthur Park”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Worst That Could Happen”, “Galveston” and “All I Know”. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21.
Jimmy Webb
The 1988 Christmas special “Dates” saw the first appearance of which actor as Raquel in the sitcom ‘Only Fools and Horses’?
Tessa Peake-Jones
Often inspired by the Fenland landscape, which artist designed the iconic art for many of Pink
Floyd’s albums, including ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and the two large metal heads on ‘The
Division Bell’?
Storm Thorgerson
Playing Tony Hutchinson since the first episode in 1995, what actor is the longest-serving cast
member in Hollyoaks?
Nick Pickard
What two-word title is shared by a 2003 song from Evanescence’s studio album ‘Fallen’, and a
famously bad yet enduringly popular fanfiction based in the Harry Potter universe and narrated by
“Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way”?
MY IMMORTAL
The fourth season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ saw Danny Beard take the crown, just ahead of which
runner-up? This non-binary drag performer has also completed a PhD studying the ethnography of
queer cruising spots in Manchester.
CHEDDAR GORGEOUS
Which actor, a daughter of Jayne Mansfield, had a breakthrough role playing Olivia Benson
in ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’?
Mariska Hargitay
After separating with her co-host Sofia Franklyn in 2020, who hosts the weekly
comedy/advice podcast ‘Call Her Daddy’?
Alexandra Cooper
What Disney character struggles between his desire for Esmeralda and his wish to drive the
Romani people out of Paris in the song “Hellfire”?
Frollo
Which jazz album opens with the ‘Acknowledgement’ section, in which Jimmy Garrison’s bass underpins John Coltrane chanting the album’s spiritual and devotional title?
A Love Supreme
Which Somali-American actor had his breakthrough playing the pirate Abduwali Muse in the film ‘Captain Phillips’ (2013) with no prior acting experience, having responded to an open casting call?
Barkhad Abdi
Name the Canadian singer, born in Iran, who played the Phantom opposite Sierra Boggess in the
25th anniversary performance of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ and originated that role in the sequel
‘Love Never Dies’.
Ramin Karimloo
What 1994 film, which opens with a Zhu family dinner, is the only Ang Lee film wholly shot in his
native Taiwan?
Eat Drink Man Woman
As of 2021, it is the world’s largest rum brand, Philippines
Tanduay
Which psychologist posited a cognitive maximum (approximately 150) to the number of stable
social relationships one person can maintain - his namesake number?
Robin Dunbar
Often appearing in his trademark robes and kaftans, who wrote the memoir ‘The Chiffon Trenches’ and championed diversity in the fashion industry during his stints as creative director (1988-95) and editor-at-large (1998-2013) at ‘Vogue’?
Andre Leon Talley
The Google search engine webpage rotates 360 degrees if told to ‘Do a…’ what? Two word answer
required.
Barrel Roll
Radio adverts with the tagline “Oooh, she’s cheap” encouraged listeners to dial 118 212 for a
directory enquiries number associated with what name?
Maureen
Sleeksters, H-Boxes, and The Velvetiser (TM) are all products sold by what upmarket UK-based
confectionery chain?
Hotel Chocolat
Founded by Sarah Tremellen and Hannah Griffiths and now headquartered in Leamington Spa,
which UK-wide retailer specialises in bras, swimwear and lingerie in D cup and above?
Bravissimo
Per the 2023 edition of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a list produced annually by William Reed, which city contained two restaurants in the top 10, including Virgilio Martínez’s and Pía León’s topranked restaurant Central?
Lima
A pride flag with yellow, white, purple, and black horizontal stripes (from top to bottom) was
designed by Kye Rowan in 2014 to represent people with what gender identity?
Non-Binary
Which sexuality flag was designed by Michael Page in 1998 and is purple central stripe with pink on top and blue on bottom?
Bisexual
The _________ Pride Flag was created in 2014 by Cameron Whimsy with green being chosen as opposite of red, also white grey and black involved.
Aromanticism
Which sexuality pride flag is four horizontal bands going downwards Black, Grey, White and Purple?
Asexual
Founded by Linda Wells and now edited by Jessica Cruel, which beauty magazine includes
‘The Melanin Edit’, a section dedicated to Black beauty?
Allure
Name the honey wine, similar to mead, which is widely brewed (using honey, water, and the
medicinal plant “gesho”) and consumed in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Tej
What basic units within striated muscle are responsible for muscular contraction? They are composed of thick filaments containing myosin and thin filaments containing actin, which bind to form cross-bridges.
Sarcomere
Often made to welcome Lakshmi during Diwali, what art form uses various coloured powders,
flower petals, and stones to create patterns on the floor or on tabletops?
Rangoli
According to a company slogan and advertising campaign, what brand do you “never actually own”
and “merely look after […] for the next generation”?
Patek Philippe
Name the fashion designer who pioneered American sportswear and used easily available
materials, such as denim and calico, to create popular “ready-to-wear” clothing during WW2-era
shortages. Her versatile “Popover Dress” was designed to be worn to clean the house and to a
cocktail party.
Claire McCardell
Drawing on the fact that the human visual system tries to find consistent ways to view objects,
what optical illusion uses a wire-frame 2D drawing of a cube which can be perceived as having
multiple different orientations?
The Necker Cube
Sometimes associated with qi, what universal life force was posited by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich? The FDA obtained an injunction forbidding the shipment of “accumulators” which (Reich claimed) used this energy to help cancer patients.
Orgone
Building on the work of his predecessor Marie-Antoine Carême, which 19th-century French chef
codified the recipes for the five mother sauces and published the enduringly influential book ‘Le
Guide Culinaire’?
Auguste Escoffier
Margaret Miles-Bramwell founded, and remains the chairman of, which organisation
headquartered at Alfreton in Derbyshire?
Slimming World
The black-necked, the (extinct) Colombian, and the great crested are all varieties of what aquatic
diving birds?
Grebe
In an electronic circuit, what components restrict the flow of current to one direction only (usually
by using semiconductors)?
Diode
In classical mechanics, what quantity is the time derivative of work (i.e. the rate at which work is
done, with respect to time)?
Power
In mathematics, what unproven conjecture states that every even natural number greater than 2
is the sum of two prime numbers?
Goldbach Conjecture
What field of physical chemistry studies the movements of molecules within chemical reactions by using lasers to view reactions on extremely short timescales? Ahmed Zewail won a Nobel Prize for
pioneering this field.
Femtochemistry
Which American scientist developed the theory of symbiosis in evolution, arguing that many
organelles found in eukaryotic cells are descended from independent bacterial species? This
scientist’s works include ‘Symbiosis in Cell Evolution’ (1981).
Lynn Margulis
What green and leaf-like parts of the flower protect the flower within its bud, then
provide support for the petals in bloom?
Sepal
Which mathematician’s work was denounced by Poincaré as “an outrage against common
sense”? This mathematician’s namesake function (pictured) showed, in 1872, that it is possible for
a continuous function to be differentiable nowhere.
Karl WEIERSTRASS
In quantum mechanics, what term refers to a collective excitation in a lattice of atoms or
molecules? This term is often imagined as a quantised sound wave (whereas photons are
quantised light waves).
Phonons
In the Hall-Héroult process, aluminium oxide is dissolved in molten cryolite before being
electrolyzed to produce pure aluminium. What industrial process is previously used to refine
bauxite (aluminium ore) and obtain aluminium oxide in the first place?
Bayer Process
Objects with very strong gravity are able to deflect light, which enables us to see much further into
space than would otherwise be possible. This effect is known by what two-word term?
Gravitational Lensing
Which neurotransmitter is stored by mast cells and basophils and plays a key role in anaphylaxis
and allergic reactions?
Histamine
A Physics Nobel Laureate in 1988 for research on neutrinos, which scientist co-wrote, with Dick Teresi, the 1993 popular science book ‘The God Particle’?
Leon Lederman
The International Space Station is located approximately 410km above the Earth’s surface,
meaning that it orbits within what layer of the atmosphere? This layer also contains the Kármán
line, which notionally denotes the edge of space.
Thermosphere
In material science, what property is defined as the ratio of tensile stress to tensile strain?
Young’s Modulus
What family of ungulates, found in the forests of South and Southeast Asia, are the world’s
smallest hoofed mammals?
Chevrotains/Larger Malay Mouse-Deer
With a Māori-derived name meaning “peaks on the back”, what reptiles endemic to New Zealand
are the only living representatives of the order Rhynchocephalia?
Tuatara
What five-letter term describes minerals or igneous rocks that are rich in magnesium and iron?
They contain a lower percentage of silica than felsic rocks.
Mafic
Which rugby union club (whose prominent try-scorers have included Topsy Ojo) finished fifth in
the 2022-23 Premiership, but were unable to compete in 2023-24 due to financial difficulties?
London Irish
In which sport did Türkiye’s Mete Gazoz take men’s individual gold in the 2023 World
Championships? The men’s team event was won by South Korea, who currently lead this sport’s alltime World Championship medal table.
Archery
In chess, what is the term for a position in which a game is declared drawn, because one side has
no legal moves, even though they are not in check?
Stalemate
In 2015, which Australian jockey became the first woman to achieve winning Melbourne Cup (on the
horse Prince of Penzance)?
Michelle Payne
Name the so-called “Flying Housewife”, a Dutch athlete who secured four gold medals in track events at the 1948 Olympic Games.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Which footballer earned over 170 caps for England from 2001-19, making her England’s mostcapped ever? She retired after spending four seasons at Reading, having previously played for
Arsenal, Liverpool, and Everton.
Fara Williams
The player can explore many bunkers, and negotiate between factions like the New California
Republic and the militaristic Caesar’s Legion, in the New Vegas instalment of what video game
series?
Fallout: New Vegas
The Super League netball team based in Hatfield has played under a variety of names, including
Galleria, Hertfordshire, benecos, and (currently) Saracens. What part of their name has remained
constant?
Mavericks
In 2019, which MLB team was heavily sanctioned for using a video camera system to steal signs
from opponents in 2017 and 2018, leading to the firing of their manager AJ Hinch and executive
Jeff Luhnow?
Houston Astros
Name either of the two NBA teams involved in the “Malice at the Palace”, an infamous brawl
involving players and fans in November 2004. The fight prompted many to scrutinise the treatment
of the majority-black league by its majority-white fan and media base.
Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons
What nickname is usually given to the 1927 rematch which saw Gene Tunney win by unanimous decision against Jack Dempsey? The nickname refers to the moments after Tunney was floored in round 7, and has nothing to do with a type of calendar that might be measured in bʼakʼtun
LONG COUNT Fight (or Battle of the LONG COUNT)
With 84 international competitive titles, including 4 World’s Strongest Man wins, which Lithuanian
powerlifter is often considered the greatest strength athlete of all time?
Žydrūnas Savickas
2023 Worlds Strongest Man which Canadian?
Mitchell Hooper
2020 Worlds Strongest Man which Ukrainian? Came third in 2022 and 2023.
Oleksii Novikov
Which Ukraine-based esports organisation fields players including Oleksandr Kostyliev (AKA
s1mple), who is considered one of the best ‘Counter-Strike’ players of all time? Their name is a
two-word Latin phrase.
NATUS VINCERE
With a total of 55 medals across seven Games, which swimmer is the most successful
athlete in the history of the Paralympics?
Trischa Zorn
Which prestigious bridge tournament has most recently been won twice in a row by
Switzerland? Its most recent editions were held in Morocco and Italy: not since 2000 has it taken
place on its namesake island.
Bermuda Bowl
The long-anticipated game ‘Silksong’, which focuses on the character Hornet, will be the
sequel to what 2017 platformer game, in which the player explores the remnants of the once glorious kingdom of Hallownest, populated by bugs?
HOLLOW KNIGHT
Reintroduced in 2020 and cancelled due to flooding in 2023, which Grand Prix is held at the Imola Circuit (which previously hosted the San Marino Grand Prix)?
Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
In 2022, snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott became what country’s first Winter Olympic gold
medallist? Nico Porteous, a freestyle skier from the same country, added another gold 13 days
later.
New Zealand
Defeating Florida over a best-of-three final, which college’s Tigers won the 2023 NCAA Division 1 baseball tournament (culminating in the Men’s College World Series) to claim their seventh national title?
LSU Louisiana State University
Name the draughts/checkers player who never lost a world championship match (holding the title
1955-8 and 1975-91), competed prominently against the computer programme Chinook, and is
widely considered the greatest draughts player of all time
Marion Tinsley
Name the ski resort in Andorra which contains the iconic Avet slope. It hosted the World Cup finals
in 2019, where Mikaela Shiffrin cemented her dominant overall victory by winning the Slalom and
Giant Slalom.
Soldeu (or Grandvalira)
An unexpected return from retirement in 2023 led to a last-16 appearance at the US Open for
which tennis player, whose only Grand Slam title was won at the Australian Open in 2018?
Caroline WOZNIACKI
In 2014, who defeated Sonya Thomas to win her first of what would be seven consecutive titles at
Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest?
Miki Sudo
His best known work was the opera The Immortal Hour. His Bethlehem (1915), based on the Coventry Nativity Play and notable for its choral arrangements of traditional Christmas carols, also became very popular with choral societies worldwide. English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. He was also an influential communist activist within the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
Rutland Boughton
Hamlet’s uncle
Claudius
1944 play by Albert Camus, roman origins
Caligula
Konami cheat code famous sequence
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
Spanish for zero
Cero
German for zero
Null
Japanese for zero
Rei
Name of Cycle period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year, named after Athenian 5th century BC who judged the cycle to be 6940 days.
Metonic Cycle
Irish psychiatrist and a presenter of radio and television programmes. He was the presenter of the radio series In the Psychiatrist’s Chair, an interview and discussion show, which aired on BBC Radio 4.
Anthony Clare
Four names in Mad Men company
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with his works tending towards the witty and whimsical. Typical for his new style of painting is Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912) and his 1914 work Abstract Speed + Sound (Velocità astratta + rumore).
Giacomo Balla
titular protagonist of Nickelodeon’s animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen, the last surviving airbender
Aang
the only player to have been sent off in two different World Cups, once against Brazil in 1994 and against Chile in 1998. He also holds the record as youngest player ever to be sent off in a World Cup, aged 17.
Rigobert Song
the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Peru against Romania in a 1930 match officiated by Alberto Warnken.
Plácido Galindo
Azerbaijan’s second city
Ganja
O: an alphabet that appears on monumental inscriptions dating from the 4th to the 6th century AD, and in manuscripts dating from the 6th to the 9th century. It was used mainly to write Primitive and Old Irish, and also to write Old Welsh, Pictish and Latin.
Ogham
Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Palermo to Naples. Namesake equation and fermions.
Ettore Majorana
Little Fires Everywhere author
Celeste Ng
2021 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is his second novel and the sequel to his debut novel The Sympathizer
The Committed
previously known as the Dutch Barge Dog, as it was frequently seen on barges traveling the canals and rivers of the Netherlands. The Keeshond was the symbol of the Patriot faction in the Netherlands during political unrest in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. Won crufts in 1957.
Keeshond
Fish of the family Osmeridae
Smelt
Silent scorer in
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
Samantha
prophet in the Hebrew Bible. His actions are described in the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. Mentioned in first line of Zadok the Priest as anointed King Solomon with ZtP.
Nathan the Prophet
C in John C Reilly stands for
Christopher
A Muslim claiming descent from Muhammad
Sayyid
Won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. She teaches a course at UCLA called “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic”, which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.
Tananarive Due
Frank Sinatra says in “That’s Life”: I’ve been _____ what four things?
a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet
two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987. Players are represented by opposing black and white marbles on a hexagonal board with the objective of pushing six of the opponent’s marbles off the edge of the board. 61 circular spaces in a hexagon.
Abalone
an abstract strategy board game played with marbles on a perforated hexagonal board with 80 spaces. The object of the game is to arrange five marbles in a row. Invented by Rob Nelson, the former Portland Mavericks left-handed pitcher and creator of Big League Chew bubblegum. Has previously been called Bollox.
Boku
Manuscript takes its name from Abbey of Kells in which county of Ireland?
County Meath
an illuminated manuscript dated to c. 700 that consists of text from the four Gospels gospel books, written in an Irish adaption of Vulgate Latin, and illustrated in the Insular script style. Origin and dating up for debate but created near to namesake village in County Offaly.
Book of Durrow
Players compete by spelling English words from cards in hands of increasing size, each card worth various points. The game combines aspects of Scrabble and gin rummy.
Quiddler
an abstract strategy board game designed by Michael Kiesling and released by Plan B Games in 2017. Based on Portuguese tiles. players collect sets of similarly colored tiles which they place on their player board. When a row is filled, one of the tiles is moved into a square pattern on the right side of the player board.
Azul
a guessing game where one person or team thinks of a famous person and reveals the initial letter of their name, and then answers yes–no questions to allow other players to guess the identity. It requires the players to have a good knowledge of biographical details of famous people. Named after famous artist.
Botticelli
Stage name of the frontman of Pixies
Black Francis
an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., developed the talking cure (cathartic method) which was used as the basis of psychoanalysis as developed by his protégé Sigmund Freud.
Josef Breuer
protagonist Oedipa Maas which 1966 novel
The Crying of Lot 49
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of which American city? It is best known for its role in the War of 1812
Baltimore
one-off fictional rock persona created as a movie character for Garth Brooks to explore musical styles far removed from his success as a country singer.
Chris Gaines
Exhibits include the huge anchor from USS Hartford, Admiral David Farragut’s flagship on which he gave his world-famous command, “Damn the torpedoes – full speed ahead!”, historic fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States. Established in 1821, it is best known for its role in a battle during the American Civil War.
Fort Gaines (Battle of Mobile Bay)
Second most populous city in Indiana. built in 1794 by US Army under direction of namesake war general, last of forts built near the Miami village of Kekionga.
Fort Wayne
Withnail & I - name of the I
Marwood
Seven modes in music are
Ionian (C), Dorian (D), Phrygian (E), Lydian (F), Mixolydian (G), Aeolian (A) and Locrian (B)
Teenagers, Helena, I Don’t Love You and Famous Last Words are singles by which American band?
My Chemical Romance
What sporting effect named after a Scottish golf course is defined as “that degree of mental and psychic shock experienced on collision with reality by those whose expectations are founded on false assumptions.”?
Carnoustie Effect
the production of a potential difference across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current, what effect named after American scientist in 1879?
Hall Effect
a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners - named after a US President
Coolidge Effect
American teen comedy drama television series created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, inspired by and set in the same world as the 2018 film Love, Simon. The series premiered on June 17, 2020, on Hulu and ended on June 15, 2022, with 28 episodes over three seasons. It is produced by 20th Television, with Aptaker and Berger serving as showrunners. MIchael Cimino title character.
Love, Victor
Coningsby novel by which author? Title character first name is Henry.
Benjamin Disraeli
Parkin’s Pincer, Porskoff Ploy, Wronski Feint and Bludger Backbeat are all manouevres in which sport?
Quidditch
Qudditch has offiically changed name to what?
Quadball
Who was the first Tory prime minister?
John Stuart, Earl of Bute
Stratego is played on a board with how many squares?
100 (10x10)
Tuesday is named after which Norse god who sacrifices his hand to the monstrous wolf Fenrir during the events of Ragnarök.
Tyr
Talladega Superspeedway is in which US state?
Alabama
made NASCAR history by winning the first-ever Winston Million, a million-dollar bonus to any driver that could win three out of the four crown jewel races of NASCAR in a single season: The Daytona 500 at Daytona, the Winston 500 at Talladega, the World 600 at Charlotte, and the Southern 500 at Darlington. Nickname Million Dollar Bill. Put his name to video game NASCAR Challenge in 1990..
Bill Elliott
Shut Up and Jam! is a basketball video game originally developed and published by Accolade for the Sega Genesis on North America in 1993 and later in Europe in April 1994. Video game first sold with which basketball player’s surname preceding the game?
Charles Barkley
Mike Tyson made video game debut with which 1987 video game by NES?
Punch Out!!
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from present-day which city? It is actually situated in Illinois however unlike the city.
St Louis
The pueblos are one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. This has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Found in New Mexico.
Taos
American merchant and a member of the wealthy Chouteau fur-trading family of Saint Louis, Missouri, gave his first name to the capital city of South Dakota.
Pierre CHOUTEAU Jr
Which capital city US state was named originally Crabtown, became famous in gold discovery, renamed itself after a town in Minnesota and eventually lost first word of that name?
Helena (Montana)
Vega, Balrog, E.Honda, M.Bison are characters in which video game?
Street Fighter
Nickname of William Grant Still first symphony?
Afro-American
Theresa “Tree” Gelbman is main character and dies 17 time in which horror film and its sequel?
Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U
The mother of King Minos
Europa
Mortal turned into a heifer by Zeus
Io
Nymph set among the stars as Ursa Major, bear
Callisto
an old demonstrator model hired by the Jetson family from U-Rent a Maid
Rosie
LZBT HBRR TTBRWN NGNDR RLG H
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh
Trump coup
Double squeeze
Crossruff
Finesse are all techniques in which game?
Contact Bridge
The only man to win two FIFA World Cups as coach
Vittorio Pozzo (Italy in 1934 and 1938)
French word for ‘tarragon’
Estragon
Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966.
Kwame Nkrumah
2021-24 Chinese Zodiac ONLY CONNECT
Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon
American band formed in Ruston, Louisiana, by musician Jeff Mangum
Neutral Milk Hotel
British easy listening band fronted by Mike Flowers. The title “MFP” parodies the budget record label Music for Pleasure, also known as MFP, which produced a series of “Hot Hits” cover version albums in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Mike Flowers Pops
UAE old name
Trucial States
1995 American science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson
Congo
Rhetorical shift in a sonnet, italian for turn
Volta
Jet corporation formerly known as Swiss American Aircraft Corporation
Learjet
The author of
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
Edward Lear
Decision rule in game theory giving lowest loss in worst case scenario
Minimax
Pair of sticks as a percussion instrument
Claves
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by which Nobel Prize winner
Peter Handke
the only animal character in the Garfield series without a recurring voice bubble, as he is portrayed as a “normal” house dog
Odie
Mood INdigo by which jazz bandleader
Duke Ellington
Highest point of Colorado
Mount Elbert
Our Man Flint is a 1966 American spy-fi comedy film that parodies the James Bond film series. Who plays title character Derek Flint?
James Coburn
1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote both the story and the theme song. The live action film employs cartoon-style slapstick heavily, including sound effects, which enhances the film’s signature surreal humor.
Hudson Hawk
an American author best known for his 1983 short story “Cyberpunk” which led to the widespread use of the term for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, Headcrash, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US.
Bruce Bethke
‘Art’ is a French-language play by which playwright that premiered in 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Yasmina Reza
Dutch-born British businessman who jointly helped create the Lost Gardens of Heligan, and the Eden Project in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Tim Smit
an American musician known as Captain from the pop musical duo Captain & Tennille with his then-wife, Toni Tennille. Died in 2019.
Daryl Dragon
a staff weapon used in Okinawa used by Donatello the Purple in TMNT
Bo
Japanese for hairpin, melee weapon used for stabbing, striking and disarming opponents. The basic form of the weapon is that of a pointed metal prong with two shorter metal side prongs (yoku) projecting from the handle (tsuka). Used by Raphael in TMNT.
Sai
American cookbook author, best known for The Joy of Cooking, one of the world’s most widely read cookbooks. 1931
Irma Rombauer
Argyll in BArgyll in Bute, is Scotland’s longest freshwater loch, at around 25 miles long.ute, is Scotland’s longest freshwater loch, at around 25 miles long.
Awe
American rock band fronted by Rob Thomas. Famous for song 3am.
Matchbox Twenty
Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin
A perennial grass sometimes called meadow cat’s tail
Timothy
He is primarily known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You (2018–present).
Penn Badgley
Garrulus glandarius
Jay
Gimlet cocktail is spirit with which fruit juice?
Lime
WHat Links: Great Loretta Lynn
Good Nik Kershaw
Nice Beach Boys
Loverly Eliza Doolittle
Wouldn’t It Be ________
stage-name of the rapper Bryan Christopher Williams
Birdman
African American female mayor of LA since 2022 December
Karen Bass
First four Carry On films in reverse order
Constable, teacher, nurse, sergeant
Mayor of Chicago since 2023 replacing Lori Lightfoot
Brandon Johnson
Star of the Nikita
TV series
Maggie Q
Mother of Zeus
Rhea
Fruit whose most common cultivar is the Hayward
Kiwi
First four Star Trek films
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek The Search for Spock
Star Trek The Voyage Home
an Austrian pop-rock group formed in 1973 in Graz. They remained active until 2021, when they retired. The band is mainly known for its 1985 single release, “Live Is Life”, which reached the Top 10 in several European countries.
Opus
Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and served as dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945.
Ante Pavelic
Communards lead singer after Bronski Beat
Jimmy Somerville
Andy Bell lead singer of which band
Erasure
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by which American writer
William Styron
The castle was built by Saxons in 1377 who were given the privilege by Louis I of Hungary. It is a national monument and landmark in Transylvania. The fortress is on the Transylvanian side of the historical border with Wallachia, on road DN73.
Bran Castle
a giant and king of Britain in Welsh mythology. He appears in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi: ___ the Blessed
Bran
Scottish singer and actress whose hits include “I Know Him So Well”, “Answer Me” and “January February”.
Barbara Dickson
Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid, who are the two founders and only consistent members of the band since its formation.
Jesus & Mary Chain
Moon of Saturn with a retrograde orbit
Phoebe
Biblical wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin
Rachel
A person who makes and/or sells candles
Chandler
Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs better known as?
The Wizard of Oz
pair of spectacles with a handle, used to hold them in place, rather than fitting over the ears or nose. Name from French for to take a sidelong look at.
Lorgnette
Liberty
Atari
Eye
Ko
All terms in which game?
Go
Any bird of the subfamily Accipitrinae
Hawk
R: Yellow-eyed freshwater fish similar to the roach
Rudd
English journalist dubbed The First Lady of Fleet Street for her regular opinion column in the Daily Express. She was also, along with Lynda Lee-Potter, a model for the Glenda Slagg column in the satirical magazine Private Eye.
Jean Rook
Doonesbury creator
Gary Trudeau
Daryl Hannah’s character in Splash
Madison
unseen mother of Kerry in This Country. Her voice is provided by Daisy May Cooper, who also plays Kerry.
Sue Mucklowe
the (mostly) unseen mother of Howard in The Big Bang Theory. Parts of her were sometimes glimpsed as part of the running joke, but viewers never saw her face.
Debbie Wolowitz
the fourth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Centered on time travelling 20th century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser - contains a season
Drums of Autumn
4 under par in golf called a _____
Condor
An albatross is how many under par?
3
Niles unseen wifes first name in Frasier?
Maris
Sharing name with African country, Soft pliable form of leather, once used to bind books
Morocco
The Empress of Soul
Gladys Knight
Actress who played Tippi Hedren in The Girl
Sienna Miller
Four word song by French duo Daft Punk, released in October 2001 as the fourth single from their second studio album Discovery -ONLY CONNECT
Harder Better Faster Stronger
New four word Olympic motto
“Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”
City in which Constantine was proclaimed emperor
York
England bowler who scored 99 not out v. New Zealand in 1999
Alex Tudor
The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by which Norwegian journalist?
Asne Seierstad
American alternative rock singer-songwriter. She joined the band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and was lead vocalist and primary lyricist for the group. She remained with the group for their first seven albums before leaving to begin her solo career in 1993.
Natalie Merchant
2012 play a comedy play written by Christopher Durang. The story revolves around the relationships of three middle-aged single siblings, two of whom live together, and takes place during a visit by the third, Masha, who supports them. - inspired by Anton Chekhov
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Italian wife of Rajiv Gandhi who died in 1991 and now President of Indian National Congress
Sonia Gandhi
“Number 7” in Umbrella Academy is Viktor in TV but what in original comics?
Vanya
The four largest US islands
Prince of Wales
Puerto Rico
Kodiak
Hawaii
Zoe Saldana and Nichelle Nichols have both played which Star Trek character
Nyota Uhura
Scott Charles Bigelow was an American professional wrestler has what nickname?
Bam Bam
1945 American film, the eleventh of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle: The _____ in ______
The Woman in Green
Jennet Humfrye is the name of the which titular character in a book?
The Woman in Black
Anne Catherick is which title character in a book?
The Woman in White
Who director did Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey? The first in the Twisted Childhood Universe.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Born 1798 Belarus, Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature.
Adam Mickiewicz
Born 1970, Buffalo, American-Canadian singer-songwriter. On February 9, 2024, she made her Broadway debut in Hadestown as Persephone, reprising the role she played in the concept album of the same name.
Ani DiFranco
the only private residence in the US to have been owned by two unrelated Presidents; William Henry Harrison had owned the estate as a young man and sold it in 1793. Tyler, who served as Harrison’s VP bought the estate 49 years after Harrison had sold it. Named after place in UK.
Sherwood Forest Plantation
Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kristy Swanson
Lady Bird Johnson’s real first name
Claudia
The original four members of The Baby-Sitters Club
Stacey, Kristy, Claudia, Mary Ann
A dark elf from Dungeons & Dragons
Drow
a Sicilian dish consisting of chopped fried eggplant/aubergine and other vegetables, seasoned with olive oil, tomato sauce, celery, olives, and capers, in an agrodolce sauce - sicilian name origins, some say from sailor’s taverns
Caponata
He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series Heroes (2006–2010); Spock in the film Star Trek (2009) and its sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016);
Zachary Quinto
Poem and Poet of: I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Eurovision winning Maneskin band name means what in Danish?
Moonlight
Chiron and Demetrius are Tamora’s wicked sons baked in a pie in which Shakespeare play?
Titus Andronicus
The cluster of sprockets on your rear wheel is known as a what?
Cassette
the smith who created the Three Rings of Power: Nenya, Vilya, and Narya, that were fashioned into the One Ring by Sauron
Celebrimbor
Brand name of Alprazolam
Xanax
New world monkey of subfamily Callicebinae
Titi
Offical name for the sword of the Kendo playing Kendoka
Shinai
Four letter word training armour used primarily in the Japanese martial art of kendo
Bogu
desert in Southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east
Taklamakan Desert
First official men’s number 1 ranked golfer in 1986
Bernhard Langer
Israeli-American tech entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of geosocial networking and dating apps Grindr and Blendr.
Joel Simkhai
He rose to prominence in the early 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose before launching a successful solo career, scoring a hit in 1984 with “I Can’t Drive 55”. He enjoyed further commercial success when he replaced David Lee Roth as the lead vocalist of Van Halen in 1985, but left in 1996. He returned to the band from 2003 to 2005.
Sammy Hagar
1301 picardy philosopher, developed concept of impetus, first step towards modern concept of inertia, name most remembered for his ass thought experiment.
Jean Buridan
1929 Reims philosopher: Among his most well-known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.
Jean Baudrillard
Game played with 64 pieces on 64 squares
Othello
Happiness-inducing cigar brand
Hamlet
a South Sudanese-British model and designer who began her fashion career at the age of 18 in 1995. She has been hailed for her influence on the perception of beauty in the fashion industry. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in South Sudan, but fled to Britain in 1991 to escape the civil war in Sudan. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC’s 100 Women
Alek WEK
a South Sudanese-Australian model. She made her fashion week runway debut as an exclusive in the Saint Laurent S/S 17 show and went on to close both their F/W 17 and S/S 18 shows as an exclusive. In 2018, she was chosen as “Model of the Year” by models.com, an honour which was repeated the next year
Adut Akech
Final four games in Squid Game
Tug of War, Marbles, Crossing a Glass Bridge, Squid Game
Who was the Prime Minister in power at time of George III death and George IV ascension?
Lord Liverpool
Who was the Prime Minister in power at time of the George IV/William IV transition?
Duke of Wellington
an English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering, who described himself as a “backstreet mechanic”, famous when made repairs to Bolton Town Hall.
Fred Dibnah
Town whose namesake “incident” is also called the War of the Stray Dog 1925
Petrich
Name of the compound in soil which causes petrichor to smell that way when it mixes with rainfall.
geosmin
An unseen card which, if drawn, is expected to win a poker hand
Out
who is samsung virtual assistant
Bixby
Who is Huawei virtual assistant?
Celia
1995 American crime film directed by Gary Fleder and written by Scott Rosenberg. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Andy García, Christopher Lloyd, Treat Williams, Steve Buscemi. The film’s title comes from a Warren Zevon song of the same name, recorded on his 1991 album Mr. Bad Example, which he allowed under the condition that the song be played during the end credits.
Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead
1987 American comedy film written and directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Mark Johnson, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, and Barbara Hershey.[1] It is the second of Levinson’s tetralogy of films set in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, along with Diner (1982), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999).
Tin Men
Stot is a baby what?
Ox
deity of the underworld who served as the punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and, later, Roman mythology
Orcus
name of the creator deity of the Tongva people of southern California and Weywot is his son - dwarf planet named
Quaoar
He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan’s New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993)[3] and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Romanian singer. Born in Constanța, she made her worldwide breakthrough with the 2010 single “Mr. Saxobeat”, which was written and produced by Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi.
Alexandra Stan
Pioneering demon-fighting FPS series first released in 1993
Doom
Albatross in Sonic the Hedgehog racing games
Storm
American singer known for Blue Hotel, Blue Spanish Sky, Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing on top of his most famous song Wicked Game
Chris Isaak
Grace Kelly’s final film
High Society
Order of Bridgerton Series in terms of who it follows
S1 Daphne
S2 Anthony
S3 Benedict
S4 Colin
Tunisian agricultural worker, living in France, who, in 1977, become the last person to be executed by guillotine
Hamida Djandoubi
Won his first and only Grand Tour at the 2012 Giro d’Italia, the first Grand Tour win by a Canadian. Other major wins include two stages at the Vuelta a España, the first such stage wins by a Canadian.
Ryder Hesjedal
Nicknamed The Chicken from Tølløse, danish cyclist, His most notable victories include four stages of the Tour de France (shared Danish record), one stage of the Vuelta a España and a win on the Italian classic Giro dell’Emilia in 2002. He also won the best climber classification in the 2005 and 2006 Tour de France. Known most for so much drug taking.
Michael Rasmussen
Rock band who had a 1996 hit with Place Your Hands
Reef
Russia’s most popular social media site
VK
French city at the confluence of the Moselle and Seille
Metz
a fictional character in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill. She is played by Tanya Roberts. Fictional state geologist.
Stacey Sutton
mock chat show which featured real-life celebrities getting outrageous faux-naïf questions from Aherne in her persona
Mrs Merton
Librettist of Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Gary Cooper’s Marshal in High Noon
Will Kane
Glenn Thomas Jacobs most known moniker
Kane
Archenemy of Captain Pugwash
Cutthroat Jake
He is known for his roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap – for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards – and as Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise.
Scott Bakula
She also starred in several horror films, including The Wicker Man (1973), and appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Swedish, Her high-profile social life, her 1964 marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart attracted considerable press attention.
Britt Ekland
Man who broke Roger Bannister’s mile world record, Australian runner who broke Roger Bannister’s mile world record in Finland just 46-days after Bannister had run the famous 4-minute mile.
John Landy
Who become fifth person to win 2 nobel prizes in 2022 in Nobel Chemistry?
Barry Sharpless
a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite, sometimes found floating on the Black Sea and is rather suggestive of sea foam
Meerschaum
literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in “a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering” - german loan word
Weltschmerz
Which English king of mercia died of a bee sting?
Aethelwulf
BBC Radio 1 presenter between 1967 and 2004
John Peel
Guile
Ken
Ryu
Blanka characters which video game?
Street Fighter
Figure in the Robin Hood legend. According to the stories, he was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin’s band of outlaws, the “Merry Men”. Rooster in cartoon.
Alan-a-Dale
Iranian and American actress, her performance in House of Sand and Fog (2003) brought her several film critics’ awards and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In television, she is best known for her roles as Dina Araz in the fourth season of 24 and as Chrisjen Avasarala on The Expanse (2015–2022). Won Emmy for House of Saddam.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Iron Butterfly drummer who died in 2021
Ron Bushy
Capital of the Confederate States during the US Civil War
Richmond
Young salmon, older than a fry but younger than a smolt
Parr
Whio played Mike Biggs on Mike & Molly opposite Melissa McCarthy as Molly?
Billy Gardell
British religious sister and art historian who became known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Died 2018.
Wendy Beckett (Sister)
Irish sports-drama film starring Daniel Day-Lewis
The Boxer
Patron saint of music
Cecilia
1993 film remake of The Incredible Journey
Homeward Bound
German team known for Kult following, play in brown and based in Hamburg
St Pauli
Bruisewort is alternative name for which flower?
Daisy
Piss-in-Bed is alternative name for which flower?
Piss-in-Bed
Marie Fredriksson lead singer of which band?
Roxette
Lee Brilleaux lead singer of which band?
Dr Feelgood
Liz Fraser lead singer of which band named after a Simple Minds song?
Cocteau Twins
Ricky Ross lead singer of which band?
Deacon Blue
Donald Fagen lead singer of which band?
Steely Dan
Pugsley’s pet octopus in the original The Addams Family series
Aristotle
Forward at either end of the front row of a scrum
Prop
Old English letter,
Ð or ð
Eth
Chief god in the Slavic pantheon
Peru
DiConcetto & Cruz surnames of which musical duo?
Daphne and Celeste
Table tennis game winning total
11
Badminton game winning total
21
Squash game winning total
11
Which Arthurian character was played by Richard Gere in the film First Knight?
Sir Lancelot
Which Belgian fashion brand, famous for its crinkled nylon bags, is named after the English novelist who wrote the Just So Stories?
Kipling
Which French impessionist artist married the model Aline Charigot in 1890?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
In Greek mythology, which king of Cyprus married an ivory sculpture after it was brought to life by Aphrodite?
Pygmalion
Arendelle Castle, inspired by the real-life Akershus Fortress in Oslo, appears in which Disney animated franchise?
Frozen
Which Italian football club play home games at the Stadio Friuli?
Udinese (in Udine in Fruili Venezia Giulia)
Which British independent record label uses a butterfly as part of its logo?
CHrysalis
Which king of England was on the throne at the start of the First Barons’ War?
King John
Which British jewellery company created the Raindance platinum diamond ring, showcased in the V&A museum?
Boodles
Gail Devers is a two-time Olympic champion in which running distance?
100m
Which Dr Who actor made his final appearance in the serial titled Planet of the Spiders?
Jon Pertwee
Which Haruki Murakami novel begins with the line “I was 37 then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through the dense cloud cover on approach to Hamburg airport”?
Norwegian Wood
What bird completes the title of the 1966 Manfred Mann song, Pretty ___?
Flamingo
Which mountain in Toyama prefecture is one of Japan’s three holy mountains, along with Mount Fuji and Mount Haku?
Mount Tate
Which country’s Good Food Guide awards Chef Hat Awards to the best restaurants each January?
Australia
Which 1956 film stars Marilyn Monroe as Chérie, a singer at the Blue Dragon Café?
Bus Stop
What is the real name of the performer known as Fish, lead singer of Marillion from 1981 to 1988?
Derek Dick
Name the novelist and comedy scriptwriter, best known for the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, who died in 2015.
David Nobbs
Could It Be Magic, written by Barry Manilow, was a pop hit for Take That in 1992, but which classical composer’s Prelude Opus 28 number 20 inspired the melody?
Chopin
Which English poet, whose work was unpublished in his lifetime, became a Jesuit priest in 1870 and died in Dublin in 1889?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What is the surname of the sisters Gudrun and Ursula who appear in two D H Lawrence novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love?
Brangwen
Which Jamaican-born academic, who was Professor of Sociology at the Open University and died in 2014, shared his name with a disgraced TV presenter?
Stuart Hall
By what name is the 20th century musician whose first names were Leon Bismark better known?
Bix Beiderbecke
Which American actor, who died in 1940, appeared in 291 films and was regarded as Hollywood’s first Western star?
Tom Mix
Which six-letter word for a clothing item is named after a community founded in 1886 by Pierre Lorillard IV and thought to be adapted from the Algonquin language?
Tuxedo
Name the London-born film maker and screenwriter, a pioneer of feminist cinema, who directed 12 feature films including Rattle of a Simple Man in 1964. Her screenplay for The Seventh Veil (co-written with husband Sydney) won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Muriel Box
Actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for the 1953 film Stalag 17, though arguably his greatest performance was as outlaw leader Pike Bishop in the classic 1969 western The Wild Bunch.
William Holden
American actress who was one of MGM’s biggest stars during the 1940s and 1950s. Her most famous role was probably in the 1946 classic The Postman Always Rings Twice. She was subject to intense media scrutiny due to a long running affair with Los Angeles mobster Johnny Stompanato.
Lana Turner
The lesser half of a famous musical duo, this musician was extremely influential in the development of the whole Rock and Roll genre. His piano work on the seminal 1951 record Rocket 88 was a big influence on Little Richard.
Ike Turner
American soul singer who had several hit singles in his own right in the 1970s and who wrote and provided vocals on the Grammy-winning Grover Washington Junior song Just the Two of Us.
Bill Withers
English actress who had an extremely lengthy career in theatre, cinema and television spanning some nine decades. She is probably best remembered for her role as Prison Governor Faye Boswell in the ITV series Within these Walls which ran from 1974 to 1978.
Googie Withers
Former Manchester City manager whose greatest achievement was probably guiding Aston Villa to the Football League title in 1981.
Ron Saunders
Which 1969 British film directed by Michael Winner told the unlikely tale of a Prisoner of War’s escape from Germany accompanied by a female Asian Elephant named Lucy? It starred Oliver Reed in the title role.
Hannibal Brooks
Which US singer, songwriter, actor and composer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002? Amongst his most critically regarded works are the albums Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971). Late in his career he achieved a UK number one single singing a racy ditty from a popular TV series; he later resigned from the show in controversial circumstances.
Isaac Hayes
Which band fronted by a young Steve Winwood, reached the top of the UK charts for the second time in March 1966 with the single Somebody Help Me?
The Spencer Davis Group
Which English actress born Daisy Sander in Fulham in 1907, played the long suffering Else Garnett (wife of Alf) in the classic BBC sitcom Till Death Do Us Part?
Dandy Nicholls
Brian Eno’s track Another Green World is the theme tune to which BBC TV series?
Arena
According to Brian Johnston, which England player “Couldn’t quite get his leg over”? He was commentating on the game between England and West Indies in August 1991. This commentary resulted in one of the most famous gaffs and giggles in Test Match Special.
Ian Botham
Art critic Brian Sewell described which twentieth century British artist’s work thus:
“… allowing his paintbrush to crawl into a woman’s crotch with the insistence of a caterpillar into a cabbage heart”.
Lucien Freud
Manchester-born actor and writer Brian Trueman wrote and voiced many Cosgrove Hall productions, including Danger Mouse, Count Dukula and Budgie the Little Helicopter. Who wrote the book Budgie the Little Helicopter, on which the TV show is based?
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
In which battle of 1014 did Irish King Brian Boru die?
Battle of Clontarf
Belgium born musician Brian Molko is lead singer with which band?
Placebo
A 1973 crime-drama, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title-role, confronting corruption in the New York Police Department.
Serpico
1984 film sequel to 1982 Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Complete sequence: Louis (18); Charles (10); Philip (6); …?
Henry (4)
What comes next: John (23); Gregory & Benedict (16); Clement (14); Innocent and Leo (13); …?
Pius (12)
Cbarles Dickens book characters includes Mr Vholes Inspector Bucket, John Jarndyce, Ada Clare, Miss Flite, Allan Woodcourt, Mademoiselle Hortense, Mrs Jellyby, Jo, Mr Snagsby, Harold Skimpole, and many, many others?
Bleak House
What is missing from the following list:
______________, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Child?
My Brilliant Friend
(The first of the Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante)
Whose first novel A Parliamentary Affair based on their life in Westminster received this one-star review from the Independent: “ANYONE who supposes that her amazing first novel is the usual sort of kill-an-hour-on-the-beach codswallop had better think again; it is much, much worse than that.”?
Edwina Currie
It is a well-known quiz trope that the first goal scored in the Premier League was by Brian Deane of Sheffield United. But which Arsenal player was the last player to score in Division One? A 90-minute effort in his side’s 3-1 win against Southampton, making him the League’s leading goal scorer for that season.
Ian Wright
Which English poem opens with the lines:
“Of man’s first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree…”?
Paradise Lost
Which 1980s event opened with the words:
“…Don’t go to the pub tonight…”?
Live Aid
a legendary creature in French communities linked to traditional concepts of the werewolf and etymological derived from similar
Rougarou
A short trip from Dundee which castle was the former home of the late Queen Mother.
Glamis Castle
Situated on the Esplanade whose statue stands outside Stirling Castle.
Robert the Bruce
Whilst remaining the home of the Hornyold-Strickland family, which Castle in the Lake
District national park is managed by the National Trust.
Sizergh Castle
Westmorland and Furness - Windermere pale ale and Mosaic pale ale - which brewery?
Hawkshead Brewery
Who was the first Plantagenet king?
Henry II
Agath Christie’s Miss Marple lives in which village.
St Mary Mead
a Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962.
Tamara Press
What is the longest river entirely within Russia.
Lena (11th in the world)
Which Russian Tsar was assassinated in !881
Alexander II
Which group had a Number 2 hit in 1966 with the song Stop, Stop, Stop ?
Hollies
Part of a horse’s foot between the fetlock and hoof
Pastern
Two others winner of Grand National starting with Red other than Red Rum, who?
Red Marauder or Red Alligator
1969 debut album of King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
Known for its literary festival and second-hand bookshops, the town of Hay-on-Wye
is in which Welsh county?
Powys
Considered to be the first notable engagement of the English Civil War, the Battle of
Edge Hill in Warwickshire took place in which year?
1642
Which shipbuilding firm on the River Clyde built many famous liners including the
Lusitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and QE2?
John Brown
In which Lake District valley would you find the 2,000 ton boulder known as the
Bowder Stone, one of the National Park’s most famous features?
Borrowdale
With a blackish plumage and a white band around its neck, the Ring Ouzel belongs
to which family of birds?
Thrush
Largely uncelebrated for many years after World War II, Britain’s so-called
‘Forgotten Army’ fought a brutal and gruelling campaign in which country?
Burma/Myanmar
In which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, subtitled The Merryman and His Maid,is Sergeant Meryll an important character?
THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
St Luke is the patron saint of which profession?
Physicians or Doctors (or Artists)
Emerging from its pupa in late Spring, the Maybug turns into a large flying beetle
also known by what ten letter name?
Cockchafer
Chemist who invented the pH scale
Soren Sorensen
