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Matthew Murphy lead singer of which British band?
The Wombats
D-Day landing beach commanded by Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Utah Beach
Standard reference object for 3D rendering, Over a decade later, in 1975, a computer scientist named Martin Newell created a 3D test model known as the ________.
Utah Teapot
Foil to T-Rex in Dinosaur Comics
Utahraptor
Keanu Reeves character in Point Break
Johnny Utah
a sorting algorithm based on the generate and test paradigm. The function successively generates permutations of its input until it finds one that is sorted. It is not considered useful for sorting, but may be used for educational purposes, to contrast it with more efficient algorithms. Portmanteau of another word and sort.
Bogosort
a slight variation of bubble sort. It differs in that instead of repeatedly passing through the list from bottom to top, it passes alternately from bottom to top and then from top to bottom. It can achieve slightly better performance than a standard bubble sort.
Cocktail Shaker Sort
What musical term is used to describe a rapid, fluctuating variation in the volume of a note or a series of notes? It’s often achieved on string instruments by rapidly alternating the pressure of the bow or pick.
Tremolo
Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon are the current race drivers for what Formula One team?
Alpine F1
What do you call the type of rubber boot that is put on over shoes to keep them from getting muddy or wet during bad weather?
Galoshes
Zvartnots International Airport is the main international airport of which country in the Caucasus region?
Armenia (Yerevan)
What do you call the branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers and layering?
Stratigraphy
The French tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of El Cid. First performed in 1636, which of the three great French dramatists wrote this work?
Pierre Corneille
In March 2024, what country became the first country in the world to explicitly codify the right to an abortion in its constitution? Abortion has been legal in this country since 1975.
France
Which Japanese manga artist first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular series Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball?
Akira Toriyama
Which European country became the 32nd member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation after Hungary ratified its accession in March 2024?
Sweden
Genealogy company Ancestry has discovered that Taylor Swift is related to which literary figure, sixth cousins three times removed?
Emily Dickinson
Which still widely available soft drink was originally called “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and marketed as a hangover cure with the slogan “It takes the ouch out of the grouch”; for the first 20 years of its life, it contained Lithium Citrate, a salt which is now widely used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment?
7UP
What is the surname of Elizabeth Kimberly, MBE, the first gymnast from Great Britain to win a
medal at the European Championships, World Championships, and Olympic Games?
Tweddle
The high-level clouds known as cirrus are primarily composed of what?
Ice Crystals
Following the success of ‘Song to a Seagull’, ‘Clouds’ was the second LP/album by whom?
Joni Mitchell
In ‘Oliver Twist’, who is the kindly, middle-aged bachelor who rescues Oliver from Fagin’s
clutches?
Mr Brownlow
Who was criticised for wearing a duffel coat – described as a donkey jacket in the press – to the
Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday 1981?
Michael Foot
What is the name of the Welsh actress who has had leading or major roles in ‘Torchwood’,
‘Keeping Faith’, and ‘Broadchurch’?
Eve Myles
What was the name of the actress who played Annie Walker in ‘Coronation Street’ for 23
years?
Doris Speed
Which Johnnie Walker whisky “is known for its smooth, deep, and complex character, making it
a perfect sipping whisky”?
Black Label
‘Tilly Trotter’ was a 1980s trilogy written by whom?
Catherine Cookson
) Which English Premiership rugby club was founded in 1866 as Hampstead Football Club?
Harlequins
What is the first name of the female protagonist in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’?
Bathsheba
Prior to Alaska and Hawaii being admitted, which was the last of the 48 states to join (1912)?
Arizona
In The Beatles’ ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, what is Maxwell’s surname?
Edison
In around 1412, in which French village was Joan of Arc born?
Domrémy
What term, preceding “carnivore”, describes animals whose diet requires nutrients exclusive to
animal flesh?
Obligate
What word precedes ‘Hearts’ to give the name of a Scottish League 1 soccer team, one of the
league’s most recent members?
Kelty
In chess, a player who wants to adjust a piece on its square without being required to move it
can announce what French word before touching the piece?
J’adoube
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ was one of the songs on the Beatles’ 1967 double A-side single –
name the other.
Penny Lane
On the 16th January , which British and Irish Lion left rugby union to join the NFL International
Player Pathway?
Louis Rees-Zammit
What is the title of the 1998 American romantic fantasy film that is loosely based on the 1934
film ‘Death Takes a Holiday’?
Meet Joe Black
Colin Vearncombe (1962-2016) was known by his stage name Black. What was the title of his
1987 hit that made the Top 10 in at least nine countries?
Wonderful Life
In which decade was the Official Monster Raving Loony Party established in the United
Kingdom by Screaming Lord Sutch?
1982
What is the name of the evil wizard who is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs?
Gargamel
What was the title of Sebastian Faulks’ 1993 war novel and family saga?
Birdsong
Who preceded Andrew Motion as Poet Laureate?
Ted Hughes
a) In 1980, two days before her suicide, who told an interviewer she was a compulsive thief and
had been shoplifting for years?
Lady Isobel Barnett
Born in October, 1906, who won more fights by knockout than any other heavyweight
champion in boxing history?
Primo Carnera
WWE’s Million Dollar Man
Ted DiBiase
son of Eurydemus of Malis. He betrayed his homeland, in hope of receiving some kind of reward from the Persians, by showing the army of Xerxes a path around the allied Greek position at the pass of Thermopylae, which helped them win the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
Ephialtes of Trachis
The Oesterlé–Masser conjecture nickname
ABC Conjecture
1936 Poirot novel adapted to TV starring John Malkovich
ABC Murders
Junior demon in C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters
Wormwood
Reformer and author of Institutes of the Christian Religion
Calvin
Sitcom by the Carells, a veteran detective who prefers to be alone, is assigned a new partner. However, she has to deal with being tailed by a partner and while at it, also investigate bizarre criminal cases, played by Rashida Jones
Angie Tribeca
A Little Night Music is based on which Bergman film?
Smiles of a Summer Night
Diplomat who married into a famous family. the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty. He was the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in the 1972 presidential election.
Sargent Shriver
What graph named after an instrument used when you want to observe the distribution of numeric data, and are especially useful when you want to make a comparison of distributions between multiple groups. The peaks, valleys, and tails of each group’s density curve can be compared to see where groups are similar or different?
Violin plots
The Tree That Owns Itself was a famous tree in which Georgian city in USA?
Athens
Peretz Bernstein stagename, lead singer of Jane’s Addiction and founding Lollapalooza.
Perry Farrell
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said was lead singer of a band and had what stagename?
Poly Styrene
nicknamed “Big Ben”, is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League for 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, retired 2022
Ben Roethlisberger
Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. With 1,779 NHL games played, he is the all-time leader in regular season games played in league history. He passed the record previously held by Gordie Howe in his 1,768th game on April 19, 2021. Retired 2022.
Patrick Marleau
Film director of The Son and The Father?
Florian Zeller
an autobiographical children’s novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series has fruit in the name
On the Banks of Plum Creek
German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including “Strangers in the Night”, “Danke Schoen” and “Moon Over Naples”. Namechecked in Barenaked Ladies One Week.
Bert Kaempfert
French actress and singer. She is best known to English-language audiences for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the BBC One series Death in Paradise (2015–2024).
Josephine Jobert
French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single “T’en va pas”, and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade. ____, her namesake album of 1988, had achieved double-platinum status by 1993.
Elsa (Lunghini)
the queen of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. She reigned alongside her husband Guy of Lusignan, to whom she was unwaveringly attached despite his unpopularity among the barons of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. PLayed by Eva Green in Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott).
Sibylla
British actor, known for his roles as Lee Adama in Battlestar Galactica and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin in the ITV series Law & Order: UK. He also had a supporting role as 2nd Lt. Jack Foley in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, as Lieutenant Archie Kennedy in the Hornblower series and was a regular on the British series Ultimate Force and Peak Practice.
Jamie Bamber
Which cast member of Gone with the Wind died in 2020 at the age of 104?
Olivia de Havilland
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon played star-crossed lovers in what 1939 movie?
Wuthering Heights
What actor played lead roles in the 1935 movies Ruggles of Red Gap, Les Miserables, and Mutiny on the Bounty?
CHarles Laughton
In what 1937 movie did Cary Grant and Constance Bennett become ghosts after a fatal car crash?
Topper
What is soldier Paul Baumer reaching for when he is shot dead by a sniper at the end of the 1930 war movie All Quiet on the Western Front?
Butterfly
Which religious epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille was the top-grossing motion picture for 1932?
The Sign of the Cross
In the 1939 movie Stanley and Livingstone, who played Dr. Livingstone opposite Spencer Tracy as Stanley?
Cedric Hardwicke
Which former Olympic gold medalist starred as the title hero in the 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers?
Buster Crabbe
Which real-life doctor was played by Warner Baxter in the 1936 movie The Prisoner of Shark Island?
Dr Samuel Mudd (helped John Wilkes Booth)
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire danced “Cheek to Cheek” in which RKO musical?
Top Hat
What 1935 adventure movie starring Clark Gable was remade in 2020 with Harrison Ford?
Call of the Wild
What was Marlene Dietrich’s first American movie, and the only one for which she received an Oscar nomination?
Morocco
Which actress won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut in the 1936 movie Anthony Adverse?
Gale SONDERGAARD
What 1936 movie found Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, and Fredric March engaged in WWI trench warfare?
The Road to Glory
Which Romanian tennis player won French Open 1973 and US Open 1972?
Ilie Nastase
Which Newcastle-born singer and Quadrophenia actor had a hit with Seven Days in 1993?
Sting
What colour is used to indicate that a ski run is graded easy or for beginners?
Green
What cardinal direction completes the title of Maggi Hambling’s painting, Wild ___ Sea?
North
The Quinta de Olivos (“the olive estate”) is the official residence of the president of which South American country?
Argentina
Which 1980s hospital drama series starred Denzel Washington as Dr. Philip Chandler?
St Elsewhere
In 2014, which nation’s football team became the first to beat Brazil on their home territory in thirty-nine years, with a 7-1 defeat at Belo Horizonte?
Germany
Which chain of hotels is managed by the Pritzker family?
Hyatt
Which historical character completes the title of the 2024 comedy series starring Noel Fielding, The Completely Made-up Adventures of ___ ___?
Dick Turpin
Which thriller writer produced a second outing for attorney Lacy Stoltz in his 2021 novel The Judge’s List?
John Grisham
Which Spanish town on the Costa del Sol is famous for its Golden Mile that runs from the Pirulí Tower to Puerto Banús?
Marbella
Which actress is the only person to have presented themselves with an Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony?
Norma Shearer
Which fictional detective is introduced in Margery Allingham’s novel The Crime at Black Dudley?
Albert Campion
Which gin and apricot brandy cocktail shares its name with a novel by Toni Morrison and a nickname for Celtic Park?
Paradise
Carlsbergite, first discovered in a meteorite found in Greenland, is a nitride of which metallic element?
Chromium
Who became Holy Roman Emperor following the death of Ferdinand I in 1564?
Maximillian II
McIver, Claisebrook, and Karrakatta are railway stations located in which Australian city?
Perth
In The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, what type of animal was Maugrim?
Wolf
In a recent poll of the Broadcasting Press Guild which British TV series was voted the most influential of the last 50 years?
7 Up
In the episode of Fawlty Towers called Waldorf Salad what is described by an American guest as “a little back road”?
M5
In which year did the following events occur: A Street Car Named Desire starring Marlon Brando opened on Broadway; an extra-terrestrial spacecraft was allegedly found near Roswell, New Mexico; the first Edinburgh International Festival was held?
1947
The first took place in Sevilla in 1481, the last in Mexico in 1850; upwards of 3000 people were executed during these ceremonies. By what name were they known?
Auto-da-fe
Which TV channel broadcast the documentary series The Labour Files detailing alleged abuse and harassment within the Labour Party?
Al Jazeera
What is the name given to the study of heritable traits that happen without changes to the DNA sequence?
Epigenetics
What is the title of Richard Dawkins’ second book, a sequel to The Selfish Gene, that focuses on the effect genes can have on their environment, inside or outside the body of the individual organism?
The Extended Phenotype
What action by Louis XIV in 1685 led to the emigration of many French protestants (Huguenots)? About 50,000 settled in England, establishing communities in Spitalfields, London and elsewhere.
Edict of Fontainebleau (usually referred to as the ‘Revocation of the Edict of Nantes’)
In 2020 a QC was commissioned by the Labour Party NEC to investigate allegations of bullying, racism, sexism and factionalism within the Party. His report, which bears his name, was eventually published in 2022 and a number of its recommendations have still to be implemented. What is the name of this report?
The Forde Report
The ‘Great Green Wall’ is a multinational tree-planting scheme intended to counter increasing desertification in which region of northern Africa?
The Sahel
Maclear’s Beacon is the highest point on which African mountain?
Table Mountain
Which dog puppet first appeared on British TV in 1957?
Sweep (Sooty was 1955)
Frequently cited as the best British film ever made, this 1949 production won only one Oscar, for best black and white cinematography. What was the film?
The Third Man
Which Beatles character “Went out tiger hunting with his mum; in case of accidents he always took his mum”?
Bungalow Bill
What was the main battle tank of the British army from the 1960s to the 1990s? It succeeded the Centurion and was, in turn, succeeded by the Challenger.
Chieftain
How is the American MIM-104 surface to air missile better known?
Patriots
Who won the women’s 800m Gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics? She later married a fellow Olympic medallist and had two sons who played for Manchester City?
Ann Packer
Which politician, the Tory MP for Eastbourne, was killed by an IRA car bomb outside his East Sussex home in 1990?
Ian Gow
Which politician, the then Tory MP for Enfield Southgate, was killed in the 1984
IRA bombing of the Brighton Grand Hotel?
Anthony Berry
Which former The Apprentice winner replaced Claude Littner as Alan Sugar’s aide in 16th and 17th series?
Tim Campbell
Who wrote the comic opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero? It was the first surviving opera written by a woman and her only work to survive.
Francesca Caccini
Which fashion designer did Hubert de Givenchy work for as an apprentice in 1945? This fashion house closed in 1957 after this designer died of leukaemia before relaunching in 1992.
Jacques Fath
Which French courtier did Givenchy work for, alongside Pierre Balmain and Christian Dior? From 1948 he focused on perfumes.
Lucien Lelong
Which Google product is a learning app that uses AI to connect students with educational resources? It shares its name with a philosopher.
Socratic
Which Californian based company is known for its speech to text transcription that uses AI and machine learning? In 2018 they announced a partnership with Zoom.
Otter.ai
Which Belgian-French philosopher is known for her 1974 work Speculum of the Other Woman? Since the 1990s she has focused on gender identity and relationships.
Luce Irigaray
Which Bulgarian philosopher, based in France, has written works including About Chinese Women? She is known for adopting Plato’s idea of chora.
Julia Kristeva
The Toronto Raptors initially planned to revive the Huskies name but didn’t because its logo might resemble that of which NBA team in the Western Conference?
Minnesota Timberwolves
Which 1942 film starring Gary Cooper is a tribute to Lou Gehrig, who died aged 37 a year before the film’s release? It features cameos from teammates Babe Ruth and Bill Dickey
The Pride of the Yankees
In which 1949 Academy Award winning biopic did James Stewart star as the titular baseball player who made a comeback to the minor league, eight years after his leg was amputated in a gun accident?
The Stratton Story
In which 1957 biopic did Anthony Perkins start as baseball player Jimmy Piersall? It was adapted from Piersall’s memoir about his bipolar diagnosis
Fear Strikes Out
Who served as Secretary of State from 1845-1849 under James Polk? He later went on to become president.
James Buchanan
Who served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson? Nicknamed the Great Commoner he won his first election to the US House of Representatives in 1890.
William Jennings Bryan
Who served as Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson? He later served as Jackson’s Vice President.
Martin Van Buren
Which American photographer was the first woman to join Magnum Photos agency in 1951? In 1960 she did a series of portraits of the First Ladies of America.
Eve Arnold
Which American photographer was the first foreign
photographer permitted to take images of the Soviet
industry? Her famous work “World’s Highest Standard of Living” was published in 1937.
Margaret Bourke-White
Sean Paul collaborated with which singer on which 2014 single Dangerous Love, which charted at #3 in the UK Charts?
Fuse ODG
The Assassin’s Creed series took inspiration from the 1938 novel Alamut by Vladmir Bartol and which 1989 video game, created by Jordan Mechner?
Prince of Persia
Which French video game company develops the Assassin’s Creed games? Other game franchises include Far Cry and Just Dance.
Ubisoft
Which game, set alongside Assassin’s Creed III, focuses on the life of French-African assassin Aveline de Grandpré in New Orleans?
Liberation
Which 1831 autobiography gave a graphic account of enslavement from a slave’s point of view? Thomas Pringle edited the book and gave the author refuge.
The History of Mary Prince
Which memoir written by Richard Wright is about his experiences growing up in the United States before moving to Chicago and joining the Communist Party?
Black Boy
Who along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow proposed that all life was made up of cells? He published poems under the pseudonym Ernst.
Matthias Schleiden
Which French biologist was the first to distinguish between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell types? A species of parasite found in the kidneys of cuttlefish was named after him.
Edouard Chatton
Heather Small was in a relationship with which rugby league player? He won the Man of Steel award in 1990 and their son, James, was elected as a Labour councillor in 2022.
Shaun Edwards
1963-2001 popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination
Phoolan Devi
(literally “dandelion”) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first “ramen Western”, a play on the term spaghetti Western.
Tampopo
a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing originating in South Asia. Originally performed at Sufi shrines or dargahs throughout South Asia, it is famous throughout Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and has also gained mainstream popularity and an international audience as of the late 20th century. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan most famous singer example.
Qawwali
Food Product offered in Moroccan, Israeli, and Lebanese sizes
Cous Cous
Barbadian dish made with a spurtle known as a fungie stick - national dishes of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Cou-Cou
Capital of South Moravia
Brno
Capital of France’s Aube region?
Troyes
Eponymous ‘axioms’ used to define natural numbers
Peano
First female US Attorney General
Janet Reno
Swedish actress. She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.
Noomi Rapace
Woman about whom Mick Jagger asked
“Who could hang a name on you?”
Ruby Tuesday
Phases of mitosis (Only Connect)
Pro - Meta - Ana - Telo
Largest city of Borneo
Samarinda
Largest city of New Guinea
Jayapura
the title character’s oppressive boss in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. The character is played by John Barron.
CJ
Russian author of Petersburg
Andrei Bely
a jazz standard composed by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1954. Rollins chose the name as it is an anadrome of African country.
Airegin
Lead singer of Biffy Clyro
Simon Neil
Creator of The Lily, the first US newspaper edited by and for women
Amelia Bloomer
Titular princess in a play by Victorien Sardou
Fedora
d’Urfé: Glazed pottery also known as “greenware”
Celadon
2022 Soft Cell & Pet Shop Boys collaboration
Purple Zone
This plant grows to 12 ft or higher,
Named Musa textilis in Latin,
And Philippine people acquire
Its fibres, sturdier than hemp
To make shawls and other attire
ABACA
the closest living terrestrial relative of the elephants
(rock) hyrax
A unit of transmission speed equal to the number of times a signal changes state per second. It was once commonly used when discussing the speed of communication between two devices.
Baud
Notorious actress
Ingrid Bergman
Swedish slalom skier who won two Olympic golds in 1980
Ingemar Stenmark
Top Gear theme tune
Jessica
Assassin’s Creed game set primarily in Paris
Unity
Four things Addams Family are described as in the theme tune ONLY CONNECT
They’re creepy and they’re kooky
Mysterious and spooky
Two words following Lorem Ipsum ONLY CONNECT
Lorem ipsum dolor sit
Born 1942 Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground
John Cale
Brazil’s smallest state
Sergipe
John Ford’s four Best Director Oscar films
The Informer
The Grapes of Wrath
How Green Was My Valley
The Quiet Man
a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen.
Koto
a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa typically has 21 strings
Kora
C: traditional French candy consisting of a smooth, pale yellow, homogeneous paste of candied fruit and ground almonds topped with a thin layer of royal icing. They have a texture similar to that of marzipan, but with a fruitier, distinctly melon-like flavour
Calisson
His breakout role was as Seth Cohen on the Fox television series The O.C. He has appeared in films including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, In the Land of Women, and Jennifer’s Body.
Adam Brody
American actress and singer. She is known for her starring role as Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, which ran from 2007 to 2012. She has also appeared in films such as Killer Movie, Country Strong, The Roommate, Monte Carlo, The Oranges, The Judge, The Weekend Away, and EXmas.
Leighton Meester
Which British city has a nickname for its people called Janner?
Plymouth
Which British city is a Weegie from?
Glasgow
Dee-dars are from which british city?
Sheffield
Capital of the Caribbean island of Nevis?
Charlestown
Capital of the Caribbean island of Tobago?
Scarborough
Founded by Andrew Cherng and Peggy Cherng, what fast-food chain headquartered in California is the largest Asian-segment restaurant chain in the United States? It offers a variety of American-Chinese dishes, including orange chicken, Beijing beef, and Kung Pao chicken among others.
Panda Express
What do you call the form of magnetism whereby some materials are weakly attracted by an externally applied magnetic field, and form internal, induced magnetic fields in the direction of the applied magnetic field?
Paramagnetism
What do you call the iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue of vertebrates? In humans, it is found in the bloodstream only after muscle injury.
Myoglobin
Which Mexican-American singer was portrayed by Jennifer Lopez in a 1997 film directed by Gregory Nava?
SELENA Quintanilla-Perez
Jacques de Molay was the last grand master of what military order dissolved by Pope Clement V in 1312? He was burned upon a scaffold by Philip IV of France in 1314.
Knights Templar
The Assembly of the Republic is the unicameral legislature of which European Union country?
Portugal
Assassinated by his nephew, who was the king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975? This king led the oil embargo that caused the 1973 oil crisis.
Faisal
American boxer Eddie Eagan is the only person to win a gold medal in different disciplines at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. He won his summer gold in boxing at the 1920 Olympics. Twelve years later, he won his winter gold in what discipline?
Bobsledding
Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men’s Figure Skating (1920, 1924, 1928) as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships (1922, 1924, 1929). He and Eddie Eagan are the only athletes to have won a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Gillis Grafstrom
Which is the tallest mountain range in mainland Australia, known for its skiing as well as for a massive hydroelectricity and irrigation engineering scheme completed in the 1970s?
Snowy Mountains
Here’s one to give comfort to any Welshmen in tonight. Which children’s charity was founded in 1983 after England finished last in the Five Nations table?
Wooden Spoon Society
The Luzon Strait separates the largest island in the Philippines from which island nation?
Taiwan
Which name connects a British graphic artist known as The King of Saucy Postcards, the original name of the title character of Better Call Saul, and an English language university founded in 1821 in Montreal?
McGill (Donald was the cartoonist and Chuck McGill changed his name to Saul Goodman)
In music, a scale is made up of the notes within a key arranged in order, beginning with the root note or tonic. What similar concept is made up of the notes of a single CHORD arranged in order?
Arpeggio
Winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, what was the subtitle of the 2018 Spider-Man film that was the first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise?
Into the Spider Verse
Probably most famous for creating and writing Bagpuss, which English puppeteer also created the BBC childrens’ TV series Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Noggin the Nog?
Oliver Postgate
Which comedian, British but born in Iran, announced in 2021 that she would be performing under her birth name of Shaparak rather than her adopted professional name Shappi?
Shaparak KHORSANDI
Of the players who captained the England men’s cricket team in 20 or more Tests, which player has the lowest win percentage, winning 2 of his 23 Tests? Captaining the side from 1986 to 1988, he also captained the team on the “Rebel Tour” of apartheid South Africa in 1990.
Mike Gatting
Linguist Judy Kegl is best known for her work on the sign language of what Latin American nation, which developed during the 1980s at a school for deaf teenagers?
Nicaragua
What namesake reagent is used in organic chemistry to create carbon-carbon bonds? They are generally made up of an atom of magnesium bound to a halogen and another organic group, often an alkyl, making the common formula R-Mg-X.
Grignard Reagent
Popular as a backing track for videos on TikTok, the 2015 song Makeba is by which French singer-songwriter? Real name Jeanne Galice, her stage name was taken from a world religion.
Jain
The paper Modern Moral Philosophy, written by GEM Anscombe in 1958, introduced what term into philosophy, although the meaning has since changed? In short, the term refers to the position that moral judgement on an action must be based on the results of that action.
Consequentialism
What documentary was directed, produced and written by Penelope Spheeris in 1981? It focuses on the punk scene in Los Angeles, paying particular attention to Black Flag, the Germs and the Circle Jerks.
The DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012 for Life on Mars, which poet served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 until 2019?
Tracy K Smith
This strip about Marie Curie “doing the eye thing again” comes from what webcomic, written and illustrated by Kate Beaton, that commonly focused on topics and people from history?
Hark! A Vagrant
The web series Black History in Two Minutes or So is presented by which American historian and filmmaker, who also presents the PBS series Finding Your Roots?
Henry Louis GATES
The Greek dish chtapodi sti schara is made primarily with what animal’s meat?
Octopus
Pierina Legnani was the first person to be granted what specific title, being honoured in 1894 by ballet master Marius Petipa? Later dancers to hold this honour have included Phyllis Spira and Margot Fonteyn.
Prima Ballerina Assoluta
The video game magazine Edge gives out 10/10 marks very sparingly, with only 24 games given a 10 in their run. What 2022 game is the only one created by a solo designer to receive a 10? Developed by Sam Barlow, it uses a similar style of play as his earlier games Her Story and Telling Lies, giving the player FMV clips from films starring the actress Marissa Marcel and tasking them with discovering the truth behind her disappearance.
Immortality
Author of Annie John, See Now Then, and Mr. Potter
Jamaica Kincaid
Operatic duet partner of Freddie Mercury on “Barcelona”
Montserrat Caballe
Tampa fruity nickname
The Big Guava
New York city with nickname Flour City
Rochester
1832-1887 He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person to serve in the United States Congress.
Joseph Rainey
Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era, he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
Hiram R Revels
American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.
Douglas Wilder
Which poet read out Of History and Hope at Bill Clinton’s 1997 inauguration?
Miller Williams
Who read out poem Praise Song for the Day at the 2009 Obama inauguration?
Elizabeth Alexander
Who read out poem One Today at the 2013 Obama inauguration?
Richard Blanco
Robert Frost read which poem at the inauguration of JFK in 1961?
The Gift Outright
1993 inauguration Maya Angelou read which poem at Bill Clinton’s inauguration?
On the Pulse of the Morning.
This was one of the most important elected offices in the Roman Republic and the first significant position to be held by Julius Caesar (from 64 BCE onwards). What was the title of this office?
Pontifex Maximus
From the same part of the world as Bruce Springsteen, he was the straight man of a radio and film comedy duo who were perhaps best known for their Who’s On First routine. Who was he?
Abbott
Which Glasgow band of the 1980s and 1990s had UK top twenty hits with Real Gone Kid, Fergus Sings The Blues and Dignity?
Deacon Blue
Played on film by Roger Daltrey this convicted one-time armed robber became a journalist published in the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman among others. What was his name?
John McVicar
Which Major League Baseball team plays its home games at Busch Stadium?
St Louis Cardinals
Made in Dymock, Gloucestershire and named after a local variety of pear, what is this famous artisanal cheese called?
Stinking Bishop
He was born in Lewisham in 1961 and is one of only two British reggae artists to have a number one hit on the Billboard charts. The other act was UB40 with whom he briefly performed live as lead singer. Who is he?
Maxi Priest
Which two Greater Manchester boroughs have no border with the City of Manchester?
Bolton and Wigan
Who is the only person to have won an Olympic gold medal and an Oscar?
Kobe Bryant
Who is the only Italian footballer to have won a Premier League winner’s medal as a player?
Mario Balotelli
Only two African cities have underground transport systems.
Algiers and Cairo
Which Herman Wouk novel of 1971 deals with events leading up to and including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941? In 1983, it was made into a TV mini-series with a cast including Robert Mitchum, Ali McGraw and Topol, among many others.
The Winds of War
Who won Putlizer for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny?
Herman Wouk
Which English mathematician and physicist (b.1850, d.1925) gives his name to a layer in within the ionosphere which reflects radio waves, thus enabling beyond-the-horizon telecommunications?
Oliver Heaviside
Who, with 15 Champion Trainer titles is the most successful British National Hunt trainer of all time? Following his retirement in 2006 his son, David, took over his Somerset based stables.
Martin Pipe
In an internal combustion engine, what name is given to the part of a connecting rod that engages with the crankshaft?
Big End
In mathematics which Greek letter is usually used to denote a small change in a quantity?
Delta
Burghley House stands near which Lincolnshire town sometimes described as the best stone town in England? The town shares its name with a famous football stadium.
Stamford
Which Doris Day song was also the title of her 1963 film co-starring James Garner? In 1983 it was a Top Ten hit for Tracey Ullman.
Move over Darling
Which town, roughly half way between Shrewsbury and Hereford, was described by John Betjeman as the loveliest town in England? It has a famous castle and almost 500 listed buildings.
Ludlow
Which French composer (1875 -1937) wrote two completed operas, L’Heure Espagnole and L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with a libretto by Colette?
Maurice Ravel
Which Doris Day song, from the film Calamity Jane, contains the lyrics:
“Now, I shout it from the highest hills, Even told the golden daffodils.”?
Secret Love
rose to widespread recognition when she played Tiffany Valentine in Bride of Chucky (1998), reprising the character in several more instalments of the Child’s Play film series. Since 1999, she has voiced Bonnie Swanson on the Fox animated sitcom Family Guy. Won WSOP bracelet. Played Celia Mae in Monsters Inc.
Jennifer Tilly
Often appearing in a bright red colour, what form of oxidised mercury, the only important ore of the metal, is found in fractures of sedimentary rocks in areas of volcanic activity or near hot springs?
Cinnabar
The dabchick is the alternative name for which water fowl? (Note: a two–word answer is required).
Little Grebe
Cells were first discovered in which material by Robert Hooke in 1665? He observed the hexagonal structures formed by suberin, this material’s main constituent.
Cork
Who is arguably the most famous inhabitant of Scatterbrook Farm?
Worzel Gummidge
Which girl’s name precedes … of Sunnybrook Farm in the title of a 1903 novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin? The early screen adaptation featured Mary Pickford in the title role.
Rebecca
On which farm does the annual Glastonbury Music Festival take place?
Worthy Farm
On which London estate was PC Keith Blakelock murdered during a riot in October 1985?
Broadwater Farm
What kind of train was a 1991 No. 6 hit for Liverpool–based group the Farm?
Groovy
In the best–known number from the 1932 Warner Brothers musical 42nd Street, a group of the cast sing about their intention to shuffle off to which city?
Buffalo
Which Anglo–Saxon king was responsible for the Massacre of St. Brice’s Day, 1002, in which many Danish settlers were murdered?
Ethelred II the Unready
What was the name of the Royal Navy’s new, ultra–modern battleship, launched in 1906, which transformed naval technology and led to a naval arms race with Germany?
HMS Dreadnought
How is the year 1848 in European history generally known?
The Year of Revolutions
A song recorded by Frank Sinatra, which won the Oscar for best original song in 1955, was the theme song to which romantic comedy, set in Rome?
Three Coins in a Fountain
The medieval keep known as Clifford’s Tower is a notable landmark in which city?
York
The most northerly point on the Irish mainland is located in which county?
Donegal (Malin Head)
Slavonia and Istria are two of the four regions of which European country?
Croatia (along with Dalmatia and Croatia)
Into which body of water does the River Volga flow?
The Caspian Sea
What type of businessman is sometimes referred to by the slang term ‘Uncle’ in cockney London?
pawnbroker
Making his Test Match debut in this year’s first Test Match between England and India at Hyderabad, which spin bowler took 7 wickets for 62 runs in India’s second innings, the best return for a debutant since Jim Laker in 1948?
Tom Hartley
Who won the Men’s Singles title at the Australian Open tennis championships this year?
Jannik Sinner
The Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch One Leg Too Few features a one–legged actor trying to persuade a producer to give him a role in a film. What role is he seeking?
Tarzan
In which famous narrative poem would you read the line “as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean”?
(The Rime of) the Ancient Mariner
Who led the 1685 Rebellion against King James II, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor, and was subsequently beheaded?
Duke of Monmouth
Who is MP for mid–Ulster and currently First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly?
Michelle O’Neill
What affectionate name was given to the alligator–snapping turtle discovered in Urswick Tarn, Cumbria, in February?
Fluffy
Elected annually, the Guizer Jarl (yarl) is the leader of a popular winter ceremony, held each January in which part of the United Kingdom?
Shetland – the ceremony is Up Helly Aa. (Accept Lerwick)
What new name was given to the Biblical patriarch Jacob, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, after he wrestled with God?
Israel
The title ‘Most Christian King’ was claimed by the rulers of which country?
France
In which common form of chemical reaction are chemical bonds broken down, mostly by water?
Hydrolysis
Because of the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris, for the first time this year the Tour de France will finish, not in the capital, but in which other French city? It started in Florence.
Nice
In the World Indoor Athletics Championships, held in Glasgow earlier this month, British athlete Molly Caudery, by winning a gold medal, became World Champion in which athletic event?
Pole Vault
The Furry Dance, sometimes called the Floral Dance, is a feature of an annual celebration held in May in which Cornish town?
Helston
Diego Garcia, home to a controversial US military base leased from the UK, belongs to which group of Islands?
Chagos Islands
Which city was the inspiration for the Ewan McColl song Dirty Old Town , later recorded by the Dubliners and the Pogues?
Salford
What Tex–Mex dish, consisting of strips of grilled meat (originally beef) served with peppers and onions on flour or corn tortilla, has a name meaning “little strips”?
Fajitas
Which Welsh Football League club plays its home games outside Wales?
The New Saints (they play in Oswestry, Shropshire)
In Through the Out Door was the final studio album of which English rock band, released the year before the death of their drummer in 1980?
Led Zeppelin
Which Shakespeare play takes place mostly in the Italian city of Padua?
The Taming of the Shrew
The fictional River Am is located in which fictional county?
Borsetshire (in The Archers). The most famous village on the Am is Ambridge
In the story of the House that Jack Built, what was the distinctive feature of the cow?
A crumpled horn
Which southern hemisphere city is scheduled to host the 2032 Summer Olympics?
Brisbane
Who has been the BBC’s Moscow correspondent almost continuously since 2003?
Steve Rosenberg
Which slogan of resistance, later used by the Spanish Communist orator La Pasionaria in the Spanish Civil War, is thought to originate as an expression of French determination to defend Verdun at all costs during World War I? Answers in English, French or Spanish).
They shall not pass
Which controversial political movement was founded in 1897 by the Austrian journalist Theodor Herzl?
Zionism
At the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021, Emily Campbell became the first British woman to win a medal (silver) in which sport?
Weightlifting
According to a Northumbrian song, who has “gone to sea” with “silver buckles on his knee”?
Bobby Shaftoe
The new rule in the NHS whereby all patients, their relatives or carers can have access to review from an independent critical care team if they are not satisfied with the treatment provided, is called what?
Martha’s Rule
Which noted literary figure was played by Anthony Hopkins in the film Shadowlands?
CS Lewis
What name, that of an island in its country of origin, was given to the Japanese macaque (monkey) which went missing in the Scottish Highlands for more than five days in January this year?
Honshu
In which sport do teams compete for the Sheffield Shield?
Cricket – Australia’s inter–state competition
The town of Tenby and the region around St. Bride’s Bay are located in which national park?
Pembrokeshire Coast
Spanish for meatballs
Albondigas
Greek for meatballs
Keftethes
Which Shakespeare play is set mainly in the Forest of Arden?
As You Like It
In the nursery rhyme, when the crooked man who walked a crooked mile found a crooked sixpence on a crooked style, what did he buy?
Crooked Cat
According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, where is the Land of Nod located?
East of Eden
Slieve Donard, the highest peak in Northern Ireland, is located in which mountain range?
Mountains of Mourne
According to the proverb, what features of clothing are not present in shrouds?
Pockets
Which ITV drama series stars Vicky McClure as bomb disposal expert Lana Washington?
Trigger Point
Which veteran English football manager recently ended a brief stint as interim manager of Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen? March 2024
Neil Warnock
In which English city is the National Science and Media Museum?
Bradford
Acqua di Gio perfume by which fashion house?
Giorgio Armani
Shalimar perfume by which fashion house?
Guerlain
Black Opium perfume by which fashion house?
Yves Saint Laurent
Said to be first fad expression in USA, an American slang phrase generally referring to leaving quickly, being forced to leave quickly by someone else, or taking advantage of a propitious opportunity to leave. Popularized during the early 20th century, the exact origin of the phrase is uncertain. Contains a number.
23 Skidoo
Julius Caesar said to have been stabbed how many times?
23
minimum number of people needed so that the probability that two share a birthday is >50%
23
He is best known for composing four of the most-recorded American songs of all time: “Stardust” (lyrics by Mitchell Parish), “Georgia on My Mind” (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), “The Nearness of You” (lyrics by Ned Washington), and “Heart and Soul” (lyrics by Frank Loesser). “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening”, with lyrics by Mercer, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951.
Hoagy Carmichael
Soft inner wool produced by musk oxen
Qiviut
Danio rerio is the scientific name of which fish, often used as a model organism,
in part because of their transparent nature during development making internal
parts easier to study?
Zebrafish
What colour is shared by the fictional vehicle Thunderbird 2 and the Mr Men
character Mr Fussy?
Green
Which Midwestern US State, admitted to the union in 1858, has a name meaning
‘Cloudy River’ in the Siouan language Dakota?
Minnesota
A verbal attack by which Tory MP in 1978 was likened by Dennis Healy to being
“savaged by a dead sheep”?
Geoffrey Howe
Standing at 7ft 1in tall, which Pakistani bowler is the tallest test cricketer of all
time? He played four tests, all in 2013.
Mohammad Irfan
Which Japanese lunar mission touched down in January 2024, but came to rest
on its nose, so its solar panels could not be deployed to face the sun? It did
successfully drop the rovers LEV-1 and Sora-Q, which are functioning correctly.
SLIM / Smart Lander
for Investigating
Moon
What was the subtitle of the eighth Star Trek film, which saw the cast of The Next
Generation travel back in time to Earth in 2063 to facilitate mankind’s earliest
encounter with Vulcans?
First Contact
Until her death in 1572, which queen of Navarre was the acknowledged spiritual
and political leader of the Huguenot movement during the French Wars of Religion?
Jeanne d’Albret/JEANNE III
Between 2012 and 2017, Valentina Monetta represented which country in the
Eurovision Song Contest four times?
San Marino
The title character in which long-running comic strip had an older brother named
Rico, whom he killed in self-defence in a 1977 issue? A later character called Rico, appearing from 2000 on, is a clone of the title character.
Judge Dredd
What is the name of the type of the standardised mats, twice as wide as they are long, used for flooring in traditional Japanese-style rooms?
Tatami
Which theologian and writer of the work The Cost of Discipleship is honoured in
Westminster Abbey’s gallery of 20th century martyrs? He was executed in 1945
after being accused of playing a role in the 20th July plot to assassinate Hitler.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Which sheep achieved fame in 2015 when he was found in Australia after several years wandering wild, and shorn of a record 41.1 kilogram fleece? He was named after a prize-winning sheep in Father Ted.
Chris
What music style originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1970s as a fusion of African and East Indian rhythms with calypso? It was defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the ‘Soul of Calypso’.
Soca
Which Canadian singer-songwriter is known for songs including Southern Man,
Heart of Gold and After the Goldrush?
Neil Young
What was the subtitle of the fourth Star Trek film, which saw the cast of the original TV series return to Earth and travel back in time to 1986?
The Voyage Home
Shortly before her death, Jeanne d’Albret negotiated a peace treaty with the French Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, arranging the marriage of Jeanne’s son Henry, who would become Henry IV, to which daughter of Catherine?
Margaret of Valois
Mainly produced in China and sometimes sold as Sharon fruit or kaki, which
golden fruit is usually only eaten when fully ripened, when it softens to a jelly?
Persimmon
Which Midwestern US State, admitted to the union in 1867, has a name meaning ‘Flattened Water’ in the Siouan language Chiwere?
Nebraska
Standing at just 4ft 9in tall, the shortest test cricketer of all time is which wicketkeeper-batsman who played nine tests, all in 2012? He represented New Zealand, although he was born and raised in South Africa, and has a distinctly Afrikaner name.
Kruger Van Wyk
The lowest-pitched instrument to feature, which instrument comprises a string
quartet along with a viola and two violins?
Cello
In the Netflix TV series Wednesday, Larissa Weems, the shapeshifting principal
of Nevermore Academy, is played by which actress, previously known for playing
Brinne of Tarth in Game of Thrones?
Gwendoline Christie
Also known as Tex-Mex music, what popular music style fuses Mexican and US styles with European influences from German and Czech immigrants? Selena is nicknamed the ‘Queen of…’ this style.
Tejano
Also honoured with a statue in Westminster Abbey’s gallery of 20th century martyrs, which Polish priest was killed at Auschwitz in 1941 after volunteering to take the place of another man, and was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1982?
Maximilian Kolbe
Which word for a type of plant, such as ivy, is also the name of a creature in
Minecraft who is camouflaged green and can sneak up on a player before exploding?
Creeper
Between 1971 and 1981, the group Peter, Sue and Marc represented which country in the Eurovision Song Contest four times, with the songs Les illusions de nos vingt ans, Djambo Djambo, Trödler und Co and Io Senza te?
Switzerland
Which politician served as Irish Taoiseach from 1981 to March 1982, and again from December 1982 to 1987? He joined Margaret Thatcher in signing the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985.
Garret FitzGerald
Which politician served as Irish Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973, and again from 1977 to 1979? He had earlier had a successful sporting career, winning five All-Ireland titles in hurling and one in Gaelic football.
Jack Lynch
Which word, from the Latin for ‘furrow’, is used in anatomy for various grooves, crevices or furrows in the human body, such as the gluteal ____?
Sulcus/Sulci
Which band in 2014 became the first heavy metal group to headline the Glastonbury Music Festival?
Metallica
In the second of his books on the long 19th century, Eric Hobsbawm described the years 1848-1875 as ‘the age of [what]’?
Capital
Eric Hobsbawm first book in trilogy of “the long 19th century” was the age of “what”: Europe 1789-1848? Followed by Capital, Empire and Extremes.
Revolution
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, also known as Interior of an Office of Cotton Buyers in New Orleans and Portraits in an Office (New Orleans), is an oil painting by which artist in 1873?
Edgar Degas
When Leicester beat Chelsea to win the 2021 FA Cup, who scored the only goal of the game?
Youri Tielemans
Located in Gateshead, what is the name of the shopping centre which is the UK’s
second largest by retail area behind Westfield Shepherd’s Bush?
Metrocentre
As well as partnering Jelena Jankovic and Martina Hingis to Grand Slam titles, Jamie Murray has won the US Open mixed doubles twice in 2017 and 2018 partnering which American, a former world number one ranked doubles player?
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Septimus Smith is a major character in which Virginia Woolf novel of 1925? Its titular character appears in six other works by Woolf.
Mrs Dalloway
Which politician, the Tory MP for Eastbourne, was killed by an IRA car bomb outside his East Sussex home in 1990?
Ian Gow
In Australia and New Zealand, Anzac Day is marked on the 25th of which month
each year?
April
Which German scientist, along with Thomas Young, names a theory of trichromatic colour vision? He names the largest German association of research institutions.
Hermann von HELMHOLTZ
Artist Anthony van Dyck was, in 1599, born in which city - then in the Spanish Netherlands - where he spent his early years and completed his apprenticeship?
Antwerp
Which daisy-like flower, native to Central America, is considered an aggressive species in the UK, according to the Royal Horticultural Society and the University of Reading?
Mexican Fleabane
What type of firearm lends its name to the wars fought between Māori tribes in the early 19th century, after they had been armed by Europeans?
Musket Wars
Which British progressive rock band released the 1973 double concept album Tales from Topographic Oceans?
Yes
Which politician, the then Tory MP for Enfield Southgate, was killed in the 1984
IRA bombing of the Brighton Grand Hotel?
Anthony Berry
The Scottish estate of Adverikie was used as the location for the fictional Glenbogle estate for which TV series which aired on BBC from 2000 to 2007 and was loosely based on the Highland Novels series by Compton Mackenzie?
Monarch of the Glen
Jamie Murray has also won two men’s doubles Grand Slams, the US and Australian Opens in 2016, partnering which Brazilian, a former world number two ranked doubles player?
Bruno Soares
Septimus Harding is the protagonist and titular character of which 1855 novel by
Anthony Trollope - the first of a series of six?
The Warden
Which Scottish comedian and former Taskmaster contestant released his first novel Meantime, a crime novel whose Glaswegian protagonist is addicted to drugs and alcohol, in 2022? His stand-up tours have included I Would Happily
Punch Every One of You in the Face and Lap of Shame.
Frankie Boyle
Located just off the M60 in Greater Manchester, what is the name of the shopping centre which is the third largest in the UK by retail area behind Westfield Shepherd’s Bush and the Gateshead Metrocentre?
Trafford Centre
In the third of his books on the long 19th century, Eric Hobsbawm described the years 1875-1914 as ‘the age of [what]’?
EMPIRE
First published in 1956, what is the first and best-known book in Gerald Durrell’s autobiographical Corfu Trilogy?
My Family and Other Animals
Published by Dream Games, which casual tile-matching game sees players swap objects with the aim of assisting a king redecorate his castle, and not to save him from various fates. The latter is the narrative of the aggressive marketing campaign, making it the world’s biggest mobile game by monthly revenue.
Royal Match
The wars fought between the Iroquois and neighbouring tribes in the Great Lakes
region throughout the 17th century are most commonly named for which animal?
Beaver Wars
Which British progressive rock band released the 1974 double concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
Genesis
Which plant native to South west China and its namesake region is considered an aggressive plant in the UK and an invasive species in Australia? Popular in Victorian England it takes one of its alternative names from a bird who enjoyed eating its fruit.
Himalayan Honeysuckle (Pheasant Berry)
Who were the Two Fat Ladies?
Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright
The four official languages of Spain are Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Basque and which other that is mainly spoken in the autonomous community with its capital at Santiago de Compostela?
Galician
Artist Diego Velázquez was, in 1599, born in which Spanish city, where he spent his early years and completed his apprenticeship?
Seville
In New Zealand, Waitangi Day is marked on the 6th of which month each year?
February
Which other actress achieved Europe’s Triple Crown of Best Actress awards with the three awards coming for her roles in Maps to the Stars, The Hours and Far from Heaven.
Julianne Moore
Which French scientist, along with Thomas Young, names an equation that describes capillary pressure difference across static fluids? Known as “The French Newton” he wrote the five-volume work Celestial Mechanics.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Which American astronomer’s work on period-luminosity relations influenced Edwin Hubble’s law on universe expansion? Her work provided the first standard candle to measure distance to other galaxies.
Henrietta Swan LEAVITT
2017 film It stars Robert Pattinson as a small-time criminal who tries to free his developmentally disabled brother, played by Benny Safdie, from police custody, while attempting to avoid his own arrest; Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.
Good Time
2015 folk horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her film debut, alongside Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson.
The Witch
Four letter word: key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used to represent the word for “life” and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself
Ankh
1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s, and tells the story of fictional bisexual pop star Brian Slade, who faked his own death and backingband Venus in Furs.
Velvet Goldmine
Group that took “Blinded by the Light” to #1 in the U.S.
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (oriignally written by Bruce Springsteen)
Which actor plays Joe Goldberg on You?
Penn Badgeley
vegan restaurant in Arès, France owned by chef Claire Vallée and was the first vegan restaurant to receive a Michelin star
ONA
First five winners of The Masked Singer UK and their costumes ONLY CONNECT
Nicola Roberts - Queen Bee
Joss Stone - Sausage
Natalie Imbruglia - Panda
Charlie Simpson - Rhino
Danny Jones - Piranha
Four judges on The Masked Singer UK ONLY CONNECT
Mo Gilligan
Davina McCall
Rita Ora
Jonathan Ross
A founder of the Transcendental Club in 1836 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which Unitarian minister is best known for essays including Nature; The Over-Soul; and Self-Reliance?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
First name required and sufficient. In the British line of succession, which royal ranks immediately before the Princess Royal (Princess Anne), the late Queen Elizabeth II’s second child?
Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor
Along with Luzon and Mindanao, what is one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines? It includes islands such as Panay; Negros; and Cebu.
Visayas (or Visayan Islands)
Scottish singer. He was the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Bay City Rollers during their most successful period in the 1970s. Died 2021.
Les McKeown
In 2021, which English cricketer became the first woman to score an international century in all three formats of the game - Test; ODI; and T20?
Heather Knight
Which British rapper won Best Newcomer at the 2024 MOBO Awards? In August 2023, he was found not guilty of conspiring to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life, following a trial in which prosecutors controversially cited his lyrics to try to demonstrate his guilt.
Tunde
Which comedian’s tours have included the memorably named The Award-Winning Mince Pie; The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst; and The Man With The Flaming Battenberg Tattoo?
Rhod Gilbert
While Yahtzee is the OG “roll and write” game, this style has become very popular in the last couple of years. In which roll and write game are you a real estate developer racing to build a feature? A two-word answer is sufficient.
WELCOME TO… (Your Perfect
Home)
Which Danish-German-American child psychologist devised an eight-stage theory of development, beginning with trust vs mistrust (hope), and ending with integrity vs despair (wisdom)?
Erik Erikson
What is the oldest print publication still in circulation in the UK (and indeed, the world)? This weekly magazine began publication in 1828, and contributors have included Kingsley Amis; John Stuart Mill; and Patrick Cosgrave.
The Spectator
The Félibrige [“FAY-lee-brizh”] literary and cultural association, founded in 1854, sought to preserve which European minority language and culture?
Provencal
What American waterway, completed in 1825 to connect the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, was called Clinton’s Folly?
Erie Canal
Lenny Rush also appeared as Morgan in the 2022 CBBC series Dodger, in which the role of Fagin was played by which actor? This actor won the second of his two BAFTAs for his role as Stephen Baxter in 2003’s The Second Coming.
Christopher Eccleston
The other major benchmark classification for crude oil in international trading is WTI, standing for West
[BLANK] Intermediate. Which oil-rich part of the USA fills in the blank?
Texas
Borneo; Java; Sulawesi; and Sumatra are part of which Asian island group that is split between five nations? A one-word answer is sufficient.
Greater SUNDA Islands
First name required and sufficient. In the British line of succession, which royal ranks immediately before the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Edward), the late Queen Elizabeth II’s fourth child?
Master ERNEST Brooksbank
Which 20th century American composer and conductor, known for Peter Pan, also wrote the choral work Chichester Psalms?
Leonard Bernstein
In which roll and write game are you attempting to map out territory with various features in a fantasy kingdom while avoiding monsters?
Cartographers
Inspired by Erikson’s stages of psychological development, which American theologian similarly identified six stages of faith development, beginning with intuitive-projective, and ending with universalising faith?
James Fowler
What is the oldest print publication still in circulation in the US? This magazine began publication in 1845 as a weekly but moved to monthly in 1921, and contributors have included Marie Curie, Jonas Salk, and Stephen
Hawking.
Scientific American
The DuVernay test for racial diversity was proposed in 2016, after which of her films was controversially
sidelined by Oscars voters in 2015?
Selma
Asser, a Welsh monk, was summoned to Wessex to teach Latin to which Anglo-Saxon king, and became his biographer?
Alfred the Great
Which comedian’s tours have included the memorably named Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999?
James Acaster
Which American rapper, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, shared a Grammy in 2019 for his contribution to Childish Gambino’s “This is America”? In November 2023, a Georgia court controversially ruled that prosecutors could cite his lyrics to try to demonstrate his guilt.
Young Thug
In 2023, which English cricketer became the second woman to score an international century in all three formats? She shares her surname with a former Question of Sport team captain.
Tammy Beaumont
What is the term for the non-enzymatic chemical reaction between an amino acid and a reducing sugar, usually requiring the addition of heat to a liquid?
Pasteurisation
Which musician, a former member of The Longpigs and (briefly) Pulp, wrote the music and lyrics for the
musical Standing At The Sky’s Edge? It debuted at the Crucible Theatre in his home town of Sheffield in 2019, and transferred to the West End this February, following a run at the National Theatre.
Richard Hawley
It has been claimed that which epidemiologist saved more lives in the 20th century than anyone else, on account of his research, alongside Sir Austin Bradford Hill, which proved the link between lung cancer and smoking?
Richard Doll
Which Leeds-born cyclist won the women’s World Road Race Championship in 1960 and 1967, as well as five world titles in the individual pursuit? Her 1967 world record for the 12-hour time trial surpassed the men’s record for two years
Beryl Burton
“She was just a sort of bigoted woman” was the assessment then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown made of which Rochdale woman he had been speaking to during general election campaigning in 2010, in an accidentally-recorded clip that later
made the news?
Gillian Duffy
Murchison Falls and Kibale are National Parks located in which African country?
Uganda
Created in 2012, what YouTube channel is best known for its series of videos entitled Everything Wrong With…, which focus on humorously highlighting errors, plot holes and other flaws in movies?
Cinema Sins
Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg are distilleries located on which Scottish island that is legally recognised as a distinct region for single malt whisky?
Islay
Which 2022 film with a majority female cast starred Viola Davis as a general that trains a group of warriors who protect the African kingdom of Dahomey [da-HOME-ee]?
The Woman King
The Cuban and the Hispaniolan are the two species of which shrew-like insectivorous mammals found only in the Caribbean? Both species are among the small number of venomous mammals.
Solenodon
‘Whispering Bill’ is a nickname given to which country musician who has had hits such as ‘Still’ and ‘Po’ Folks’? He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for the last 62 years, longer than anyone else.
Bill Anderson
Which British triathlete won a silver medal in the men’s event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? He went on to race the anchor leg for the gold medal-winning team the mixed relay alongside Georgia Taylor-Brown, Jess Learmonth and Jonathan Brownlee
Alex Yee
What word beginning with T is used in pottery for the process of shaping a pot on a wheel? It is not to be confused with ‘turning’ and sounds like something you should not do with a pot.
THROWing
Chobe National Park and Nxai Pan National Park are located in which African country? It also shares the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park with a southern neighbour.
Botswana
Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw created what Internet video series for The Escapist from 2006 to 2023? Named for the speed of his narration, the series primarily focused on reviewing video games in a highly critical and acerbic style.
Zero Punctuation
What name do we give in physics to a force that keeps a body moving with a uniform speed along a curved path? It is not to be confused with a similarly named “fictitious force”.
Centripetal Force
“You’re joking. Not another one!” were the words of which woman from Bristol, whose BBC vox pop concerning then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement of the 2017 UK general election went viral? Her surname is not a matter of public record, so her first name is sufficient and required.
Brenda from Bristol
Which French woman won thirteen world championships in cycling between 1985 and 2001 and won the road race at the Atlanta
1996 Olympics? She represented her country in seven Olympic Games between 1984 and 2008.
Jeannie Longo
Introduced to the UK in 1987, what brand of dietary supplements originally launched just providing diet shakes, in chocolate, strawberry or vanilla flavours? Big Narstie was appointed as an ambassador for this brand in 2023.
SlimFast
Which battle of 216 BC resulted in the total defeat of Roman Republic forces by the Carthaginians, with Carthaginian commander Hannibal using a double-envelopment tactic to practically annihilate the Roman army? This battle followed earlier Carthiginian victories at Trebia and Lake Trasimene.
Battle of CANNAE
Don’t Touch Me’ was a Grammy Award-winning hit in the 1960s for which country musician, nicknamed the ‘Miss Country Soul’? She has appeared over 5,000 times at the Grand Ole Opry, more than anyone else.
Jeannie Seely
Along with solenodons, which rodents are the only surviving terrestrial mammals native to the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola? They are medium sized tree-dwelling rodents resembling guinea pigs, but sometimes with long tails.
HUTIA
St George’s Channel connects the Irish Sea with which other sea, which lies to the south of Ireland and to the west of Cornwall and Brittany?
Celtic Sea
Which 2022 film with a majority female cast starred Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Frances McDormand and told of the sexual assaults that happened at Manitoba Colony, an isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia?
Women Talking
Which Dutch footballer, who moved from Celtic to Hull in 2009, has a famously long surname that arose in the 17th century from the marriage of two notable families?
Jan VENNEGOOR OF
HESSELINK
Which soccer player, along with Michelle Akers, was one of two women named by Pele in his 2004 FIFA 100 list of Greatest Living Footballers? She played for Washington Freedom between 2001 and
2003, and she won two women’s world cups and two Olympic Gold medals in her nearly two decades on the US Women’s National Team
until her retirement in 2004.
Mia Hamm
Though she later became more famous for directing comedies, whose first big film was a 1981 documentary about the LA punk scene called The Decline of Western Civilization?
Penelope Spheeris
Composer Tobias Picker adapted what 1973 book that mostly takes place in a medical facility into a 2022 opera? His husband, Aryeh Lev Stollman, who wrote the libretto, is both a writer and neurologist like the author of the original book.
Awakenings (by Oliver Sacks)
Which region in the south of Italy makes up the toe of the boot of the peninsula? Catanzaro is the capital of this region.
Calabria
What Greek mathematician and astronomer, who died in 190 BCE, is best known for work on conic sections, including developing definitions of parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse, which are still used today? There is a lunar crater named for this person.
Apollonius of Perga
What common horror movie trope, most often found in slasher movies, refers to the sole female character who survives the confrontation with the villain during a movie’s climax?
Final Girl
Jamie Lee Curtis main character name in Halloween, she is saved by Sam Loomis played by Donald Pleasance?
Laurie Strode
Caitlin Clark She is the NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer and is regarded as one of the greatest players in women’s college basketball history. Played for which college team?
Iowa Hawkeyes
What is the term for the decorative moulding placed at the top of interior walls that can add a stately, regal elegance to any room?
Crown Moulding
Ernest Thayer first published what baseball poem under his pen name “Phin” in the San Francisco Examiner in 1888? Let it be a lesson to you about hubris and overconfidence.
Casey at the Bat
What fitness trend, that gained popularity due to social media influencer Lauren Giraldo, involves a 5 time a week treadmill workout with a specific % incline, miles per hour, and time spent on machine? Your answer should be three separate numbers in specific order.
“12-3-30” workout
Which actor has received 5 Emmy nominations for his guest roles for dramas including The Outer Limits, Brothers and Sisters and Masters of Sex? He played Frank Baker in The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Beau Bridges
What man became U.S. Speaker of the House on January 7th , 2023, following 15 rounds of voting, but was later ousted the following October?
Kevin McCarthy
What mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, who notably died in Alexandria in 415 CE, was a revered teacher and respected mathematical expert, editing and commenting on many mathematical concepts, including penning a treatise on Apollonius’ work on conic sections?
Hypatia
What fitness trend that gained popularity due to rumors it is used by Harry Styles, is a type of Pilates that incorporates the use of a specific type of machine?
Reformer
What term refers to actresses, often the final girls, who have had prominent, notable, and very audible, appearances or recurring roles in horror movies? This term was used as the title of a Ryan Murphy series in the mid-2010s.
Scream Queens
Penelope Spheeris’s follow-up to Decline of Western Civilization was a fictionalized view of the kids who came into the city and fueled LA’s punk scene. What was the name of the movie which later inspired a Pet Shop Boys song?
Suburbia
Composer Tobias Picker adapted what 1992 Stephen King book, a murder mystery set in a small Maine town, into a 2013 opera? Mezzosoprano Patricia Racette starred in the original production as the title character.
Dolores Claiborne
What British author is best known for her series of books featuring police commander Adam Dalgliesh, the fourth of which, Shroud for A Nightingale, was a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America best novel award in 1971?
PD James
Which actor has received 5 Emmy nominations for his guest roles for dramas including ER, Six Feet Under and Succession? He portrayed Prince Philip in The Queen.
James Cromwell
What Tennessee-born IndyCar driver won the 2023 Indianapolis 500? He was the 2017 and 2019 IndyCar Series Champion, and currently races in Car #2 for Team Penske.
Josef Newgarden
What name is given to a rare form of germ cell tumor, usually comprised of different kinds of tissue like muscle, hair, or teeth? These kinds of tumors are usually benign but can become malignant in rare cases.
Teratoma
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, What Moves the Dead, and Nettle & Bone are among the award-winning fantasy novels penned by Ursula Vernon under what avian pseudonym?
T. Kingfisher
What traditional gospel song became closely associated with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s? Pete Seeger, who is credited with changing the central verb to the version most people are familiar with, released a 1963 live album with this title.
We Shall Overcome
Born in 1936, what Kenyan author and playwright is often mentioned on the shortlist for the literature Nobel? His first novels including 1964’s Weep Not, Child, were in English, but since 1970 he writes primarily in his native Gikuyu.
NGUGI Wa Thiong’o
The first novel by beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary featured and was named after what boy, a friend of her more famous characters Ramona and Beezus Quimby? First name acceptable
Henry Huggins
What Colombian-American fashion journalist and author, the current editor-in-chief of Elle USA, has been a judge on all 20 seasons of ProjectRunway?
Nina Garcia
The Official Scrabble Players’ Dictionary added more than 500 new words in 2022 including several valuable Z words. What word for a Middle Eastern spice blend worth 15 points would let you dump 3 A’s at once?
Zaatar
Especially popular with Ming and Qing dynasty empresses, a fengguan is a tall crown covered in jewels usually with two long hanging tassels off the sides. After what creature is this crown named?
Phoenix
What French author of Afro-Caribbean descent, popular for his adventures and romances, snapped back at a racist critic in 1843, saying “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
Alexandre Dumas
The 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man starred Russell Crowe as what real life boxer whose improbable win for the World Heavyweight title in 1935 led to his nickname and the name of the movie?
James J Braddock
What hip-hop dance, that became popular in the 1980’s, derived its name from a long-running doll brand?
Cabbage Patch
What 2016 Scripps Spelling Bee co-winning word describes an exercise therapy developed in the 20th century by a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer that seeks to integrate mind and body wellness through guided movements?
Feldenkrais (Method)
“Stay thirsty my friends” has been used as a slogan for what beer brand, whose name essentially describes its logo?
Dos Equis
Stretching 4,645 mi, the Trans-Canada Highway, the longest road in Canada, spans from Victoria and Haida Gwaii, British Columbia to what provincial capital its eastern terminus?
St Johns, Newfoundland
What electronic musical synthesizer, shaped like an eighth note, has been used to create “interesting” cover songs on various YouTube and TikTok channels?
Otamatone
What American designer, the chief creative officer for his namesake fashion, accessory, footwear, and fragrance brand, is known for sporting all-black attire and was a main judge of Project Runway from Seasons 1 to 10?
Michael Kors
Another new Z word added to the Scrabble dictionary is what portmanteau for a low carb, grain free pasta? It’s worth 16 points.
Zoodle
The wives of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs wore crowns in the shape of what animal to represent the protection of the goddess Nekhbet? It is also the symbol of Upper Egypt while the cobra represents lower Egypt.
Vulture
“It’s Beer. Hooray, Beer!” has been used as a slogan for what beer brand, whose name essentially describes its logo?
Red Stripe
Name the adorable animal with a two-word name that is native to South and Southeast Asia whose big eyes and languid gait have helped gain it extra attention for its threatened populations? That, and its toxic armpit sweat glands.
Slow Loris
After winning the Best Musical or Comedy Score Oscar for Emma, what composer has gone on to score other critically acclaimed films including The Cider House Rules and Chocolat?
Rachel Portman
What 20th century American singer and activist lived primarily in France, but stayed active in the US civil rights movement? At the March on Washington in 1963, she said “I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens… but I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. And when I get mad, you know that I open my big mouth.”
Josephine Baker
What hip-hop dance, that became popular due to a hit single in the early 1990’s, derives its name from a long-running candy brand?
Tootsie Roll
What 2016 Scripps Spelling Bee co-winning word describes the second half of a pair of concepts developed by sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in the early 20th century? This word describes modern society ruled by rationality, as opposed to a traditional one based on family.
Gesselschaft (other is Gameinschaft which is family ties and community)
WHAT object, more often used in comedic entertainment, has become a popular, though, unorthodox instrument; streamers TwoSetViolin has used it to cover classical tunes such as Pachelbel’s Canon and “Fur Elise”?
Rubber Chicken
With differences including ball size and field dimensions, what team sport based on another game has been contested in women’s tournaments at the Olympics on and off since 1996? It was back at the 2020 Games, in part because of its popularity in Japan who did indeed win gold.
Softball
The mature fruits of what genus of the squash family can be dried out and its fibrous structure used for exfoliation, usually during a shower? The genus is also the common name under which these long, natural fiber sponges are marketed.
Luffa (Loofah)
Stretching 3,365 mi, US Route 20, the longest road in the United States, spans from Newport, Oregon, to what city, its eastern terminus?
Boston, Massachusetts
Which early 20th century comedian’s best-known catchphrase was “Take my wife… please.”?
Henny Youngman
1940’s Stranger in the Third Floor, starring Peter Lorre, is generally regarded as the first film to truly be a part of which subgenre of film?
Film Noir
What is the first name of the member of the Kardashian-Jenner family who owns
the alcohol brand 818 Tequila, and was criticised for appropriating Mexican culture in advertising it on Instagram?
Kendall Jenner
What is the two-word rhyming title of the book by David Walliams about a boy named Frank, whose father is thrown into prison for driving the getaway car in a bank robbery?
Bad Dad
Several countries had royal families belonging to the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Just as the British branch changed their name to Windsor, the branch ruling which other country in 1920, under king Albert I, changed their name to that
of the country, and still reign today?
Belgium
Which Bruce Lee film culminates with him ascending a pagoda, taking on martial arts experts with different styles on each floor, with his final opponent being played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
The Game of Death
The Mark of the Year is an award given in which sport where the best catches are known as ‘spectacular marks’, or ‘speckys’?
Australian Rules Football (accept
Aussie Rules)
The most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction, L’Homme au droigt, is a work by which Swiss sculptor?
Alberto Giacometti
Succeeding Baroness Hale in 2020, who is the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, whose notable judgements include declaring the Home Office’s Rwanda scheme unlawful?
Robert Reed / Baron
Reed of Allermuir
Which two-word term, originally popularised in the 17th century, describes the basic philosophical principle of treating others as you would have them treat you?
Golden Rule
Which addition reaction, named for an American chemist, creates a carboncarbon bond between a donor enolate or other nucleophile, and an acceptor that is usually an alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl?
Michael reaction
Which Bruce Lee film culminates with him fighting in the Colosseum in Rome against a character played by Chuck Norris?
The Way of the Dragon
A tacky outer layer known as a pellicle is formed on meat or fish by air drying and allows the flavours and colour produced by what preservative culinary process to better adhere to its surface?
Smoking
Simon Reynolds’s 2005 history of post-punk, Start Again, took its title from the
lyrics of which 1983 hit by Orange Juice?
Rip It Up
The obstetrician and palaeontologist Gideon Mantell discovered the first fossil teeth in 1822, and reconstructed the skeleton of which dinosaur, famously mistaking its thumb spike for a horn, so misplacing it on top of the head?
Iguanodon
Milton Keynes is the most populous settlement in which one of the home counties?
Buckinghamshire
What is the two-word alliterative title of the book by David Walliams about Miss Root, a medical professional who takes teeth left for the tooth fairy and replaces them with various sinister or disgusting things?
Demon Dentist
Which river of Lower Saxony, passing through the city of Bremen and with its mouth at Bremerhaven, is the longest river entirely in Germany?
Weser
What is the first name of the member of the Kardashian-Jenner family who owns Good American, a denim brand promoting body inclusivity?
Khloe Kardashian
The characters Kimberly, Bela, Leighton and Whitney are the titular female students in which US TV series, first broadcast in 2021 and created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble?
The Sex Lives of College Girls
The first time in chart history that the top three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 were all country songs was in August 2023. With his cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, Luke Combs was one of the three artists - name either of the other two, whose songs were Last Night and Try That in a Small Town?
Morgan Wallen or Jason Aldean
What word denotes a logical deduction that uses two true premises to imply a conclusion, with a classic example being “All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal”?
Syllogism
Another method of carbon-carbon bond formation, allowing the preparation of an alkene by reacting an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide [illid], is which reaction named for a German organic chemist and 1979 Nobel prize winner?
Wittig reaction
Succeeding Baron Burnett in September 2023, who was appointed as the first ever Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales?
Sue Carr / Baroness
Carr of Walton-onthe-Hill
In 2019, Lauren Laverne succeeded Shaun Keaveny as the host of the breakfast show on which BBC digital radio station?
Radio 6
Which alliteratively named clothing company, founded in Nottinghamshire in 1919
and primarily known for their tights and stockings, for many years had a parrot as
their logo, since replaced by their initials?
Pretty Polly
The Cic Fada [Kick Fodd-a] is an annual competition for players of which sport, to
see who can score from the greatest distance?
Gaelic Football
The 1980s BBC children’s TV comedy drama Jossy’s Giants centred around a team playing which sport?
Football
What is the name of the elongated, sucking mouthpart of insects such as butterflies, that is typically tubular and flexible?
Proboscis
With a name meaning ‘white reggae’, which album by the Police contained their number one hits Message in a Bottle and Walking on the Moon?
Regatta De Blanc
Which German physicist and chemist (1896-1978) was the first to mention the idea of nuclear fission, and was co-discoverer of the chemical element Rhenium? She was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but never won.
Ida Noddack
Which English king was killed in a brawl in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire in 946
AD at the age of 25?
Edmund I
An underwear advert for which fashion house, featuring FKA Twigs, was banned in January 2024 by the Advertising Standards Agency for objectifying women? The ASA was subsequently accused of double standards for not censoring the equivalent male advert.
Calvin Klein
Which traditional Scottish pudding is made with flour; breadcrumbs; dried fruit
such as currants and raisins; suet; sugar; and spices, with some milk to bind it?
The name of this dessert has also been used as a nickname for the logo of the
Scottish National Party.
Clootie Dumpling
Which arts venue, located at Lewis Cubitt Square in King’s Cross, opened in February 2023, and is home to the show The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks?
Lightroom
Which concert hall in Sloan Terrace, Chelsea is home to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra?
Cadogan Hall
In 2017, Melissa Rauch - best known as Bernadette on The Big Bang Theory -
voiced which cartoon villain, who was originally voiced by Arleen Sorkin in 1992’s
Batman: The Animated Series?
Harley Quinn
Which ball game created in 1989 by Jeff Knurek, inspired primarily by concepts from volleyball, is played between two teams, usually with two players each, where players line up around a small trampoline-like net with teams alternately hitting the ball back to the net?
Spikeball
What variety of braised pork, available as a burrito filling in Chipotle restaurants, has a name derived from the Spanish for ‘little meats’?
Carnitas
What town, now the capital of the Indian state of Nagaland, gives its name to a major
WWII battle of 1944? It is sometimes referred to as the “Stalingrad of the East”.
Kohima
What type of inelastic light scattering is named after an Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery?
Raman Scattering
Which arts venue, located on Oxford Street, opened in 2022 to provide visitors with an immersive experience that explores the power of the mind?
Twist Museum
Which traditional Welsh bread, with an alliterative name, is flavoured with tea; spices; and dried fruits like raisins, currants and candied peel?
Bara brith
Which American geneticist (1861-1912) discovered sex chromosomes, but was not acknowledged by the Nobel committee or by the scientific community in general, with most of the credit going to her doctoral advisor Thomas Morgan Hunt, and geneticist Edmund Beecher Wilson?
Nettie Stevens
Name and appellation required. Which English king was murdered at Corfe Castle in 978 AD at the age of 16?
Edward the Martyr
What variety of braised beef, available as a burrito filling in Chipotle restaurants, has a name ultimately derived from the Arawak language? Its name is very similar to that of a popular way of cooking meat outdoors
Barbecoa
Which ball game was created in Switzerland by Hermann Brandt in the 1970s, containing elements of handball, volleyball and squash? The onomatopoeic name of the game is derived from the sound the ball makes when rebounding off a frame on the court.
Tchoukball
Which autonomous region in the north west is the largest province-level subdivision of China? Its capital is at Ürümqi.
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Belgian conservationist. She founded Lola ya bonobo in 1994, which is a bonobo sanctuary, just south of Kinshasa, at Mont Ngafula, in the Lukaya Valley, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Claudine Andre
Which concert hall in west London, opened in 1901 as Bechstein Hall, hosts a weekly concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3?
Wigmore Hall
Which of TV’s current Gladiators shares their name with a British art retailer remembered for their 1976 “Tennis Girl” poster?
Athena
Named after a Dutch town, and having a larger Jewish population than Jerusalem, which is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York?
Brooklyn
Which nickname is shared by French rock climber Alain Robert, Manchester City footballer Julian Alvarez and former British Darts Organisation World Champion Mark Webster?
Spider
Which brand of pen is traditionally used for signing legislation at the White House, although it was abandoned by former President Trump in favour of a Sharpie?
Cross
Which unusual animal behaviour is shared by Malagasy fat-tailed dwarf lemurs, African lungfish, Helix land snails, ladybirds, the Northern Australian tropical freshwater crab and the North American desert tortoise?
They all aestivate, similar to hibernation, although taking place in the summer
Which band had a number 1 hit in 1975 with “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)”?
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
Name of Donald Duck’s dog
Bolivar
The name of which Greek nymph separates a tract of alluvial land formed at the mouth of a river, from a modern dance, consisting chiefly of alternating measures of long and short steps, which always features in each series of Strictly Come Dancing?
Echo
The subsolar point on a planet is the point where the Sun’s rays strike the planet exactly perpendicular to its surface, which at each equinox falls on the equator. Where would the subsolar point fall at the northern hemisphere Summer Solstice?
Tropic of Cancer
Which former Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII was burned at the stake on the orders of Mary Tudor in Oxford on 21 March 1556?
Thomas Cranmer
Lumpia from Indonesia, popiah from Taiwan, harumaki from Japan and chai yor from Cambodia are all examples of what type of food?
Spring Roll
After making an appearance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which 1930s cartoon character is scheduled to star in a Broadway musical from January 2025?
Betty Boop
Which element makes up about 65% of the mass of the human body?
Oxygen
Which actress played Lynette Scavo in the comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives?
Felicity Huffman
Which Spanish conquistador was known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico and Florida in the early 1500s?
Juan Ponce de Leon
What do you call the major element of a narrative that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved?
Conflict
What was the name of the horse that was planned to be made a consul by the Roman emperor Caligula?
Incitatus
What is the name of the incumbent defence minister of Indonesia who won the country’s presidential election held in February 2024?
Prabowo Subianto
Which US cyclist won the 2023 Vuelta a España?
Sepp Kuss
What do you call the main body of an aircraft that holds crew, passengers, or cargo?
Fuselage
In the game of curling, how many stones does each team get?
8
Which sitcom star won a Tony Award in 1961 for the musical Bye Bye Birdie?
Dick Van Dyke
What oil derived from the leaves and stems from a cousin of lemongrass is used to ward off mosquitoes?
Citronella
Which writer’s publication of D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study in 1932 led to her lifelong friendship with author Henry Miller? Much of her work, including the collections of erotica Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously amid renewed critical interest in her life and work.
Anais Nin
The government of which Native America tribe maintains the Four Corners Monument?
Navajo
Which Russian ruler was named Prince of Novgorod in 1236 and Grand Prince of Vladimir in 1252?
Alexander NEVSKY
Which Korean singer became the first member of BTS to enter the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist in 2019 when his single “Chicken Noodle Soup,” featuring singer Becky G, debuted at number 81?
J-Hope
Which essayist addressed the subject of karma in his 1841 essay “Compensation”?
Ralph Waldo EMERSON
Which of Dennis Potter’s plays for BBC Television was about a group of seven–year–old children playing in the woods, all of whom were played by adults?
Blue Remembered Hills
To which debonair actor did Mae West actually say the line “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” in the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong?
Cary Grant
Which African country was formerly known as French Sudan?
Mali
Which German officer was known as the Butcher of Lyon?
Klaus Barbie
Who is commemorated by a blue plaque in the ticket office of Mornington Crescent tube station? Co-founder of Private Eye.
William (Willie) RUSHTON
From which language do we get the word ‘safari’?
Swahili
Who was the Italian Prime Minister murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978?
Aldo Moro
Which famous actor and author played the killer of PC George Dixon in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp?
Dirk Bogarde
Which opera by Richard Strauss is named after a character from the Bible?
Salome
Which eminent British colonial administrator also founded London Zoo, in Regent’s Park, just before his death in 1825?
Sir Stamford Raffles
Which was the first British ship to be sunk during the Falklands War?
HMS Sheffield
From which language do we get the word ‘yoga’?
Sanskrit
Which product’s advertising campaign featured an arrangement by the Jacques Loussier Trio of Bach’s Air on the G String?
Hamlet (cigars)
Who said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”?
Lord Acton
In which English County would you find Sandown Park and Brooklands?
Surrey
Who, in 1712, produced the first workable steam engine, which was improved fifty years later by James Watt?
Thomas Newcomen
Which online delivery service was founded in London in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski?
Deliveroo
Who was the lead singer of the group Van Halen when they had a hit with the song Jump?
David Lee Roth
What is Mock Turtle soup made from?
Calf’s Head
Who is the Chef Patron of Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire?
Raymond Blanc
In Wuthering Heights, what is Cathy’s surname (before she marries Edgar Linton)?
Earnshaw
In the Bible, who said “Am I my brother’s keeper?”?
Cain
Which US actress, the star of Hitchcock’s 1943 film Lifeboat, described herself as “pure as the driven slush”?
Tallulah Bankhead
Which Canadian–born US economist coined the phrase “the affluent society”?
JK Galbraith
During World War II, which ‘club’ was composed of the patients of pioneering surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe?
The Guinea Pig Club (they were treated for severe burns by plastic surgery, which was only at an experimental stage at that time)
During World War II, which ‘club’ was composed of people whose lives had been saved by the Irvin parachute?
The Caterpillar Club
Name either of the two men who became the first Britons to climb Everest in 1976.
Doug Scott and Dougal Haston
Which music–hall singer sang I’m One of the Ruins that Cromwell Knocked About a Bit and Oh, Mr Porter?
Marie Lloyd
Which American blacksmith invented the steel plough in 1837, after tiring of repairing cast iron ploughs?
John Deere
Which cartoonist created The Gambols, who appeared in the Daily Express from 1951 to 1994?
Barry Appleby
Peter Howitt directed the films Sliding Doors and Johnny English, but as an actor, in which popular British sitcom had he previously played a starring role?
Bread (he was Joey Boswell)
Which motor manufacturer now owns Rolls–Royce Motor Cars?
BMW
What was the name of Joe Brown’s backing group?
The Bruvvers
Whose autobiography, published in 1954, was entitled My Left Foot?
Christy Brown
Who had a hit record in 1965 with the words from Ecclesiastes Chapter 3?
The Byrds (“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven”. The song was Turn! Turn! Turn! – written by Pete Seeger.
Grammatically, to what part of speech do the words ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ belong?
Articles
Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Premium Bonds in 1956?
Harold Macmillan
Which breed of horse, dating back to 1580, is traditionally ridden at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna?
Lipizzaner
Which French mariner sailed from his home town of St Malo in Brittany to explore the Gulf of St Lawrence in 1534?
Jacques Cartier
From 1965 to 1972, the photographer David Bailey was married to which French actress?
Catherine Deneuve
Which substance, found in many fruits, makes jam ‘set’?
Pectin
Name either of the two 1986 French films directed by Claude Berri that were based on a two–part novel by Marcel Pagnol, and whose plot centres on a subterranean spring in Provence.
Jean de Florette or Manon des Sources
Which American film actor played himself in the 1955 war film biography To Hell and Back? He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as the most highly decorated soldier in U.S. history.
Audie Murphy
For which county team did Dr W.G. Grace play cricket?
Gloucestershire
Calamine, used to treat stings and burns, is a carbonate of which element?
Zinc
What type of creature is a colobus?
Monkey
Which long–lived US comedian was born Nathan Birnbaum?
George Burns
By what name is the fragrant, white–flowering garden shrub Philadelphus commonly known?
Mock Orange
In chess, what is defined as “the sacrifice of a piece in the early stages of a game, for the sake of a later advantage”?
Gambit
British actor best remembered for playing footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.
Gareth Hunt
In the Punch and Judy puppet theatre, what was the name of Mr Punch’s dog?
Toby
In which religion are the dead left on towers known as a dakhma, or Towers of Silence?
Zoroastrianism
How many members in the US Electoral College?
538
Which car manufacturer was founded by an Italian in a German town which is now in France?
Bugatti
Name the comedian who finished his TV shows with the phrase ‘and may your god go with you’,
Dave Allen
Who created the characters the Rev Nat West and
Theophilus P Wildebeest?
Lenny Henry
Prince William supports which football team?
Aston Villa
Who was Prime Minister during Battle of Trafalgar?
William Pitt the Younger
Who was Prime Minister during The Indian Mutiny?
1857 - Lord Palmerston
The abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire - year and Prime Minister in that year?
1833 Slavery Abolition Act - Earl Grey (1830-34)
Who was PM during decimalisation?
Ted Heath - 1970-74
Which band released the single ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll’ in 1977?
Ian Dury & the Blockheads
In which Iraqi city was Saddam Hussein born? T
Tikrit
What are Glenfaba, Michael, Ayre, Garff, Middle,
and Rushen?
The Sheadings of Isle of Man
For which group did Dave Swarbrick and Richard
Thompson play?
Fairport Convention
Who played Inspector Robbie Lewis in Inspector Morse and then in Lewis?
Kevin Whately
Musical direction indicating a note should be played with a sudden strong emphasis
Sforzando
ONLY CONNECT Transformers 7 films up to 2023
Transformers
Revenge of the Fallen
Dark of the Moon
Age of Extinction
The Last Knight
Bumblebee
Rise of the Beasts
Transformers villain - prodigiously large robot whose scale reaches planetary proportions, and he is also able to transform into a giant planet.
Unicron
He is the cruel and tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, a faction of sentient, war-mongering robotic lifeforms that seeks to conquer their home planet of Cybertron and the rest of the known universe.
Megatron
Six stages of infection in The Last of Us ONLY CONNECT
Runners
Stalkers
Clickers
Bloaters
The Rat King
Death
N.K. Jemisin NK stands for?
Nora Keita
Mount Whitney is in which California national park?
Sequoia National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is in which US state?
North Dakota
Which country does the dish saganaki come from?
Greece - cheese starter
Which bread is named after shortening the Latin phrase ‘strength of man’?
Hovis
In cookery, what name is given to the process of cooling and heating chocolate to give it a glossy finish?
Tempering
Primary site of His Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde – headquarters of the British nuclear Trident submarine fleet.
Faslane
The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.
Fatalism
Catchphrase of Jimmy Krankie.
Fandabidozi
What was the nationality of the last protagonist to be killed at the end of World War I, one minute before the 11.00 am armistice to cease further fighting?
American (Henry Gunther)
The penal settlement at Botany Bay was founded 18 years after Captain Cook’s exploration of the east coast of Australia. Who was sitting on the British throne at this time?
George III - arrived Botany Bay in 1770
Operation Gomorrah, in 1943, involved 791 British bombers on the first Bomber Command night carpet bombing raid, on which German city?
Hamburg
As of April 2024, Who is the current British No.1 women’s tennis player?
Katie Boulter
Which country is hosting the Euro 24 football tournament this summer?
Germany
Which classic comedy character was terrified of his Aunt Agatha?
Bertie Wooster
Louis Wain is best known for his paintings of which animal?
Cats
Who is the more famous uncle of Eastenders actress Rita Simons?
Alan Sugar
Which bully from Tom Brown’s Schooldays became the main character in a series of novels by George Macdonald Fraser?
Sir Harry Flashman
New Albion was the name of the area of America claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England in 1579, in which state is it now located?
California
Name either of the two bodies of water that are separated by the Straits of Mackinac.
Michigan and Huron
When written in English which is the only European country to contain one of the four main compass points in its name?
North Macedonia
Which is the nearest mainland country to the island of Cyprus?
Turkey
Whose law states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressure of the individual component gases?
Dalton’s Law
Best Song oscar Secret Love – 1953 what film?
Calamity Jane
Best Song oscar I Just Called to Say I Love You – 1984 what film?
The Woman in Red
In Britain, which colour of cat’s eyes mark the left–hand edge of motorways?
Red
Of the 88 keys on a standard grand piano, how many are black? There is some leeway.
36
Which constellation in the northern sky is distinctively shaped like a ‘W’?
Cassiopeia
Which female forename did the magazine Private Eye use to refer to Queen Elizabeth II?
Brenda
Which male forename is used for King Charles III in Private Eye?
Brian
Which famous Sunday Express cartoonist created the character known as Grandma, a statue of whom can be seen in Ipswich town centre?
Giles
Which Beatles song was their first UK No. 1 on which neither John Lennon nor Paul McCartney sang lead vocals?
Yellow Submarine (Ringo sang)
RoSPA is The Royal Society for the Prevention of what?
Accidents
What six letter word names the Mafia’s code of silence about criminal activity and a refusal to give evidence to the police?
Omerta
What is Twelfth Night better known as in the Christian church?
Epiphany
Which American actress and pin–up girl said of her own legs, “I became a star for two reasons, and I’m standing on them”?
Betty Grable
What is the longest species of worm ever found on earth? An example was washed up in St Andrews in Scotland that was around 55 metres in length! It shares its name with a fabric item.
Bootlace Worm
Which Danish–American comedian and pianist earned the nickname ‘the Clown Prince of Denmark’ for his blend of music comedy and wit?
Victor Borge
For the benefit of touch typists, small bumps or ridges called homing bars are found on two keyboard letters. Name either.
F and J
In dyeing, what name is given to a substance used to bind dyes onto fabrics?
Mordant
On 11th October 2000, which South African Test captain was banned for life on match fixing charges?
Hansie Cronje
English commentator, cricket player and coach. died suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team’s unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Shortly afterwards, Jamaican police announced that they were opening a murder investigation
Bob Woolmer
Which Pacific island nation was originally called The Friendly Islands by Captain James Cook after the congenial reception he received in 1773?
Tonga
The musical numbers Rich Mans Frug and Big Spender appear in which 1969 musical, directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse?
Sweet Charity
Which screenwriter’s ashes were flown into space in 1992, in the first known space burial?
Gene Roddenberry
Which Victorian reformer is commemorated in the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus?
Lord Shaftesbury
If a musical note is neither sharp nor flat, what is it?
Natural
Concerning an incestuous relationship and its tragic fallout, which John Ford 1630’s Jacobean tragedy was Peter Greenaway’s inspiration for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover (1989)? A similarly named song inspired by the play appears on David Bowie’s final studio album Blackstar.
Tis a Pity She’s A Whore
A Green Bay Packers Quarterback (pictured), the Most Valuable Player in 2011, 2014, 2020 annd 2021
Aaron Rodgers
Which Portuguese poet and philosopher (1888-1935) published his work using multiple imaginary personae? Whilst Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis were often used, The Book of Disquiet was published posthumously in 1982 as Bernardo Soares.
Fernando Pessoa
A: The dominant grape variety grown in the Rias Baixas DO of Spain and the Minho region of Portugal, which small, thick-skinned white wine grape is used to produce aromatic varietal wines with peach, apricot and floral aromas?
Albarino
Which American Jazz Guitarist, leader of an eponymous group from 1977-2010, has won 20 Grammy awards? His albums include Song X with Ornette Coleman, Offramp and Still Life Talking.
Pat Metheny
What surname links: 1) The most Internationally capped Australian Sydney Swifts netball player, winning the World Championships on 3 occasions.
2) An American fashion house which fired Marc Jacobs for his legendary (and controversial) Spring/Summer-1993 Grunge collection.
Ellis (Liz and Perry)
Which 1983 all-round world gymnastics champion from the Soviet union gives her name to a family of vaults, whose twisting variants include The Biles, The Khorkina, The Podkopayeva and the Cheng?
Yurchenko (Natalia)
Frontman of Fine Young Cannibals
Roland Gift
Which French Criminology pioneer (1877-1966), known as “the Sherlock Holmes of France”, formulated an eponymous “Exchange Principle”, a fundamental tenet of Forensic Science, that “every contact leaves a trace”?
Edmond Locard
President of Uganda since 1986
Yoweri Musaveni
Which Russian-born German Expressionist artist (1860-1938) founded the Brotherhood of St Luke in her “pink salon” in 1897, and was later a founder member of the Blue Rider group? Her works include portraits of her partner Alexej Jawlensky and the dancer Alexander Sakharoff (pictured).
Marianne von Werefkin
Sired by Sadlers Wells and foaled in 1992, which Irish throughbred racehorse won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham three times from 1998 to 2000? Starts with I.
Istabraq
Which Jamaican Cricket star, a master of the T20 format, is nicknamed “Universe Boss”? He is one of only four players (two from the West Indies) to have scored a triple century twice in Test Cricket, in 2005 and 2010 ?
Chris Gayle
Which large Adriatic peninsula lies between the Gulf of Trieste and the Kvarner Gulf and is shared between Croatia, Slovenia and Italy?
Istria
Ismail I was the founder and first ruler of which Shi-ite Iranian Empire which lasted from 1501 until 1736?
Safavid
Occurring as a result of brain or inner ear lesions, what medical term is given to flickering, repetitive movements of the eyes? The direction and amplitude of this phenomenon may allow the localisation of the source.
Nystagmus
Rich in Art Nouveau architecture, which European capital was the birthplace of the ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the film director Sergei Eisenstein and the 2017 French Open Womens singles winner Jelena Ostapenko?
Riga
Which late feminist, sex educator and former model (pictured) authored her 1974 eponymous ____ Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, challenging established wisdom from the work of Masters and Johnson on the genesis of female orgasms?
Hite
A subcategory of oxylipins important in inflammatory responses, what name is given to a family of 20 carbon atom signalling molecules, including prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, synthesized by oxidation of arachidonic acid and other polyunsaturated fatty acids?
Eicosanoids
A satire of Bolshevism, the 1925 novella Heart of a Dog, in which a stray dog is implanted with the heart and testicles of a dead alcoholic thief, was written by which medically-qualified Russian author, who also wrote A Young Doctor’s Notebook?
Mikhail Bulgakov
What name is given to the compound C6H5NH2 (pictured) which is the basis of a family of dyes, first discovered by accident in the 19th century by William Henry Perkin, when he synthesized mauveine?
Aniline
What term links
1) A group of Austronesian languages of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
2)The son of Heloise and Abelard
3) An instrument (pictured) regarded as a precursor to a sextant, used as a star chart and physical model of heavenly bodies?
Astrolabe
Which small, lysine-rich eukaryotic proteins, named for the fact that they are widely expressed, are used to tag other cellular proteins, targeting them for disposal and degradation, in a mechanism discovered by Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, who won the 2004 Nobel prize in Chemistry for their work?
Ubiquitin
Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his and Africa’s first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot. Won 1964 marathon too. Died aged 41.
Abebe Bikila
Which Russian dramatist wrote the 1892 short story Ward No. 6?
Anton Chekhov
Which 2009 Vin Diesel action film was described by the Observer critic as “Not Point Break so much as Point Less”?
Fast & Furious
“Bula!” is the most common greeting in which South Pacific country?
Fiji
What type of foodstuff is carnaroli?
Rice
Jesse Carmichael is best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for which American pop rock band?
Maroon 5
Which biblical character has been played on screen by Belinda Bauer, Kierston Wareing, Elizabeth Hurley, and Hedy Lamarr?
Delilah
Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909) was the last short story published by which American writer?
Mark Twain
Which member of The Corrs plays the ukulele and the tin whistle?
Andrea
What would a meteorologist use a pyranometer to measure?
Solar Irradiance
Which 1952 spy film stars James Mason as the Albanian secret agent Ulysses Diello?
Five Fingers
What name links a jazz singer who won a Grammy for the album Secrets are the Best Stories and the middle child in The Sound of Music?
Kurt (Elling and von Trapp)
Which Ayn Rand novel features the evil cult leader Ellsworth Toohey?
The Fountainhead
Which ITV drama series featured DS Aiden Healy as the title character’s right hand man? Played by Kenny Doughty.
Vera
In which town, known to locals as “Sunset City”, is the Cathedral Isle of Man located?
Peel
Obizzo II, who was made perpetual Lord of Ferrara in 1264, was a member of which Italian dynasty?
House of Este
Which American photographer has created the cover art for Taylor Swift’s last eight albums?
Beth Garrabrant
Which three-word term, symbolised by a lofty flowering plant, describes a social phenomenon where people are criticised or resented as a result of their success?
Tall Poppy Syndrome
What name links a thick Turkish stew, a body of water in the Philippines, and a Star Trek character?
Sulu
(Sulu köfte, Sulu Sea, Mr. Sulu)
Which actor, who was memorably stabbed to death with a broken bottle by Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday, has left a long running drama series after 38 years in the same role? (actor’s name needed not the character)
Derek Thompson
Product empire American Riviera Orchard was launched on 14th March selling cookbooks, tableware, butters and jams. Who by?
Meghan Markle
Who wrote the 1748 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure?
John Cleland
On a cricket field, which position is located between the slips and point?
Gully
Invented in its modern form by Robert Whitehead and named after a genus of fish, what can be classified as straight-running, autonomous homer or wire-guided?
Torpedo
Which South African pace bowler dominated the number one spot in the ICC Test rankings between 2008 and 2014 and was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2013?
Dale Steyn
What is the title of the 1986 American war drama film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, based on a real-life incident from the Korean War?
Heartbreak Ridge
Which Radio 4 comedy star, notorious for his malapropisms features in his own touring production of ‘The Sound of Mucus’? Written and played by Steve Delaney.
Count Arthur Strong
This singer of Jilted John later became a Radio 4 character who plays his compositions on his Yamaha portable keyboard. Name the character played by Graham Fellows.
John Shuttleworth
Name of Nick Cave song which was theme song of Peaky Blinders?
Red Right Hand
Rated the best British trained racehorse of the 20th century this colt won 17 of his 18 races in the early 1970’s including the 2000 Guineas in 1971. He was named after the hero of a series of historical stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. What was that name?
Brigadier Gerard
Which goalkeeper won three league championships and four FA cup winners medals before ending his career on a low by playing for Manchester City in the 2003/04 season?
David Seaman
Which song is Olly Alexander taking to the Eurovision Song contest in May?
Dizzy
What is the surname shared by an actress who appeared in 24 Carry On films (the most of any actress) between 1958 and 1978, and the longest-serving cast member in the TV reality series The Only Way Is Essex between 2011 and 2021?
Sims
(Joan & Chloe)
This British sprinter won gold in the 200m at the 1989 World Indoor Championships and in the 4x400m relay at the 1991 World Championships. He also won silver in the 4x100m relay at the 1988 Olympics and in the 200m at the 1993 World Championships. His British 200m record set in 1994 lasted nearly 30 years until it was beaten last year. Who is he?
John Regis
A real conversation between an American national icon and a songwriter who had referenced him in his hit 1960s song a few years before went like this:
NATIONAL ICON: “What I don’t understand is why you ask where I’ve gone. I just did a Mister Coffee commercial. I’m a spokesman for the Bowery Savings Bank and I haven’t gone anywhere!”
SONGWRITER: “I didn’t mean the lines literally. I thought of you as an American hero and that genuine heroes are in short supply.”
To which 1960s hit song does this conversation refer?
Mrs Robinson
(the subsequent conversation was between Paul Simon and Joe DiMaggio)
Of the 10 Regional Mayors in England, only 2 are Conservative. One is the West Midland’s Andy Street. Who is the other, Mayor of Tees Valley?
Ben Houchen
This English musician was firstly part of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown in the 1960s before leaving with a fellow defector to form Atomic Rooster. In 1970 he became part of a 3-piece supergroup until they disbanded in 1979, and then again when they reformed in 1992, until a final disbandment in 1998. In between, and since 1998, he formed the band Asia. Who is he?
Carl Palmer
Keith Emerson was a keyboardist of supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer, what was his previous group known most for instrumental arrangement of Bernstein’s America?
The Nice
Greg Lake was the guitarist and bassist of supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer, what was his previous group known best for 21st Century Schizoid Man?
King Crimson
Which band’s albums include In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, Islands, Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, Red, Discipline, Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair, The Power to Believe? Their first album is their most known and has their name in the full title.
King Crimson
An electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. As the key is released, the tape is retracted by a spring to its initial position. King Crimson used alot, Manfred Mann’s Semi Detached Suburban Mr James and Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever.
Mellotron
Electric organ invented by Laurens ______ and John M Hanert in 1935. Until 1975, ______ organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier to drive a speaker cabinet.
Hammond Organs
What kind of speaker: a combined amplifier and loudspeaker that projects the signal from an electric or electronic instrument and modifies the sound by rotating a baffle chamber (“drum”) in front of the loudspeakers? Created to be used with Hammond Organs.
Leslie speaker
Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners. Under the Vox brand name, they also manufacture guitar amplifiers and electric guitars. Partners with Yamaha. Acquired Vox in 1992. Founded by Tsutomu Kato and Tadashi Osanai in 1962.
KORG
Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on 18 April 1972. Manufactured numerous instruments that have had lasting impacts on music, such as the Juno-106 synthesizer, TB-303 bass synthesizer, and TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines.
Roland
Swedish manufacturer of virtual analog synthesizers, virtual electromechanical pianos and stage pianos, founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1983 by Hans Nordelius and Mikael Carlsson. Since 1995, _____’s keyboards have been branded Nord.
Clavia
Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Mother Earth’s Plantasia (1976). He also co-wrote several hit songs, including “Our Day Will Come”, a hit for Ruby & the Romantics. His incidental music used to soundtrack Apollo 11 moon landings.
Mort Garson
Carl Palmer drummer of Emerson, Lake and Palmer was member of which band beforehand known most for singles Tomorrow Night and Devil’s Answer?
Atomic Rooster
Juliet Capulet’s nurse in Romeo and Juliet,
&
A genus of medicinal herbs the candied root of which is used as a culinary decoration.
Angelica
A courtier to Leontes who delivers the oracle from Delphos in The Winter’s Tale,
&
Singer who is best remembered for his signature hit songs Runaround Sue and The Wanderer.
Dion
An attendant on Katherine, in Henry VIII,
&
A comic opera a.k.a. Bunthorne’s Bride featuring the characters Colonel Calverley and Major Murgatroy.
Patience
Easyjet founder surname
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Pritzker Award winner in 2008, designed Louvre Abu Dhabi
Jean Nouvel
If ever you wanted to visit a London prison, you could jump on the Victoria line, head south and get off at what southern terminus? The prison named after this area of Lambeth has housed figures like Oswald Mosley, Roger Casement and briefly, the Kray twins.
Brixton
In 2004, Pele compiled a list of the 125 greatest living footballers, which included two German goalkeepers - Oliver Kahn and which other player? He played more than 500 games for Bayern Munich and won the 1974 World Cup with West Germany.
Sepp Maier
Which Japanese dish consists of a savoury pancake made of wheat flour? This dish can
include cabbage, meat and seafood and can be topped with mayonnaise, pickled ginger
and bonito flakes.
okonomiyaki
Professional wrestler Mick Foley had three major personas during his career. Which
persona, the first Foley played during his time in the WWF, was originally portrayed as a
psychotic loner who wore a leather facemask and used the Mandible Claw as a finishing
move?
Mankind
Talkin and Malham are British examples of what sort of lake, created by glaciers through
a process where the ice erodes the rock of a mountainside?
Tarn
Released in 1995, which Britpop band’s self-titled debut album was the fastest-selling
debut since Oasis’ Definitely Maybe the previous year? The band was fronted by Justine
Frischmann, who had previously been part of Suede.
Elastica
What is the name of a combination of electric and magnetic force on a point charge due
to electromagnetic fields? It is named after a Dutch physicist who won the Nobel Prize in
1902 with Pieter Zeeman.
Lorentz Force
What three-digit number is used to refer to the work culture of modern China? It references the start time, the end time and the number of days many workers are pressured into working, and protests have been ongoing since 2019.
996
Which Scottish athlete is the current holder of the British women’s records in the
1000m and 1500m? In 2023, she set the British women’s record in the mile, with
a time that ranks 7th in athletics history.
Laura Muir
Deriving from old French meaning “to speak the truth”, what two-word term is
used in law for the process of questioning prospective jurors to confirm they will
be suitable to sit on a jury for a given trial?
Voir Dire
Which American philosopher is known as the “father of pragmatism”? His father,
a mathematician, is known for criterion for outliers.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Glacial erosion is also responsible for the creation of what formation, normally
presenting as a narrow rocky ridge between two valleys? British examples of this
formation include Crib Goch in Snowdonia and the Carn Mor Dearg on Ben Nevis.
Arete
Arctic Monkeys debut album called 2003
Whatever People Say
I Am, That’s What I’m
Not
An earlier persona used by Mick Foley, which character was depicted as an
outlaw brawler? Coincidentally, this character’s name was also a nickname for
American politician John Nance Garner.
Cactus Jack
Until his death, Yevgeny Prigozhin had been the leader of what private military
company, widely seen as a proxy arm of the Russian military?
Wagner Group
Which Japanese dish consists of round batter dough balls containing pieces of
octopus and spring onion? This street food dish can be served with mayonnaise,
pickled ginger and bonito flakes.
Takoyaki
If visiting Brixton prison wasn’t enough, you could always get on the DLR, head to
its terminus at Woolwich Arsenal and visit what other prison? A category A
prison, it has been the unwilling home of Jonathan Aitken, Ronnie Biggs and
Charles Bronson among others.
Belmarsh
Common in contract law, what two-word French term refers to a clause in a contract that frees both parties from their legal obligation in the event of extraordinary circumstances, such as the outbreak of war or a worldwide pandemic?
Force majeure
Which Venezuelan fashion designer designed outfits for multiple First Ladies, including Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump?
Carolina Herrera
Known as “tang ping”, what is the translation of the Chinese slang term used to
mean a rejection of societal pressures to overwork? It has been compared to the
Great Resignation movement that has been occurring in the West since 2020.
Lying Flat
William Walton’s Crown Imperial was played at the coronation of Elizabeth II, but he also composed what march specifically for the event? Like Crown Imperial, the title refers to elements of the Crown Jewels.
Orb and Sceptre
What three-word term describes devices with sensors, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over communication networks?
Internet of Things
The first supersonic jet fighter of the RAF, which is also the name of a weather phenomenon.
Lightning
Which word is the name of a membrane in the human eardrum, and of a semi-circular (or sometimes triangular) decorative wall surface over the entrance to a church?
Tympanum
What word can be used to describe decorative
brickwork – often of different colours in a diamond pattern - or something associated with an American baby?
Diaper
You would find one of these in a roof structure, or maybe on someone who had suffered a hernia
Truss
If the women’s 400 metres hurdle height is 2 feet 6 inches, how high is the men’s hurdle for the same distance event?
3 feet
The weights for shot put and hammer are same, it’s 16lbs (or 7.26kg) for men, how much for women?
4kg (or 8.8lbs)
Hammer throw athletics stands in a circle of what diameter?
7 feet
What is the weights of a discus for men and women?
Men 2kg and Women 1kg
What is the weights of a javelin for men and women?
Men 800g and Women 600g
in which athletics throwing event is the women’s world record further than the men’s?
Discus
German track and field athlete. She represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic Games in discus throw. Holds world record for discus at 76.80m.
Gabriele Reinsch
American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games.1956-1968.
Al Oerter
Which German holds world record for mens discus at 74.08m broken in 1986 and holds longest held record in mens track and field? Won Gold in 1988.
Jurgen Schult
Retired male discus thrower from Lithuania who won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Lithuania, the nation’s first gold.
Romas Ubartas
In the 1560s this prolific English composer of church and instrumental music was organist of Lincoln Cathedral. He shares his surname with a 1960s folk-influenced American rock band. What was his surname?
William Byrd
Of which much larger water body is James Bay a part?
Hudson Bay
With 34 million inhabitants, which city is the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?
Jakarta
In which North West England library would you find the desk where Karl Marx and Friederich Engels worked together in 1845?
Chetham’s Library Manchester
Which castle in Northumberland does William
Shakespeare describe as a ‘worm-eaten hold of ragged stone’ in his Henry IV?
Warkworth
Which architect, engineer, and Member of Parliament was also a respected gardener, known for cultivating the Cavendish banana?
Joseph Paxton
The distillery on Bow Street in Dublin is named after which brand of Irish whiskey, made there until 1971? This whiskey is one of the typical ingredients in an Irish slammer.
Jameson
Who portrayed the white supremacist prisoner Vernon Schillinger in the HBO prison drama Oz? His many accolades include a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as sadistic music teacher Terence Fletcher in the
2014 film Whiplash.
JK Jonathan Kimble Simmons
Which bowler is England’s all-time leading wicket taking spinner in test matches? In a career that spanned 1966-‘82, this Kent legend took 297 wickets at an average of 25.83.
Derek Underwood
Ten third-tier clubs have made it to the semi-finals of the FA Cup. Which Buckinghamshire side, now in League One, did so in the 2000-01 season? Their cup run is best remembered for the last-minute quarter-final winner
scored by Roy Essandoh, a player who joined the club after spotting an advert on Ceefax.
WYCOMBE Wanderers
The flagship café of the coffee house Bewley’s has operated since 1927 from which street in Dublin? Along with Henry Street, this is considered the major shopping street in the city centre.
Grafton Street
An early dramatic role for Adam Sandler was as the socially isolated Barry
Egan in which 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson romantic comedy? His co-stars include Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Punch-Drunk Love
Who were the most recent third-tier side to reach the semi-final of the FA Cup, doing so in the 2013-14 season? Now in the Premier League, this Yorkshire club also reached the semi-final last season while still in the Championship.
Sheffield United
In the 1975-76 season, which third-tier side reached the FA Cup semi-final?
They currently play in the Premier League, and have reached the final twice, losing to Manchester United in both 1990 and 2016.
Crystal Palace
When Jim Laker took his 19 wickets for 90 runs, which spin bowling teammate of his took the other England wicket in the match? This person is the only cricketer to score 10,000 first class runs without a century.
Tony LOCK
Field of Dreams star Kevin Costner also starred in which 1988 baseball drama, in which he plays a veteran catcher preparing a rookie, played by Tim Robbins, to play in the Major League?
BULL DURHAM
Named after one of the historic entrances to the city, what is the official name of the brewery that Arthur Guinness founded in Dublin in 1759 to brew his namesake stout? The Guinness Storehouse tourist attraction is attached to this building.
St James’s Gate Brewery
Which division of Nestlé, acquired by it in 2001, makes Felix cat food and Baker’s dog food, and has red and white chequered branding? Its name precedes ‘One’ in a brand of premium dry cat and dog food.
Purina
From 2015 to 2018, which EastEnders actor, who played Max Branning, took back-to-back titles in Heat’s Weird Crush of the Year poll? His partnership with Janette Manrara on Strictly Come Dancing may have contributed towards his victories
Jake WOOD
A form of high intensity interval training, which exercise regimen involves repetitions of 20 seconds of ultra-intense exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest, and is named after a Japanese scientist?
Tabata
One of the world’s most popular freeware, open-source games is OpenTTD, a remake of the Deluxe edition of which 1995 game, in which players compete to connect cities and industries with networks of trains, trucks, planes and boats?
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Which England spinner dismissed Don Bradman for a duck in Bradman’s last ever innings during the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes? Bradman needed only four runs to retire with a test average of 100.
Eric Hollies
Between 2004 and ’05, Julia Davis played the sociopath Jill in which BBC Three black comedy, which co-starred Angus Deayton and Rebecca Front?
Nighty Night
Atora is the UK’s number one brand of which animal product, used to make
traditional British dishes such as jam roly-poly, spotted dick, or steak and kidney pudding?
Suet
NBA legend Hakeem Olajuwon won two titles with which franchise in the
1990s? Either city or franchise name is acceptable.
Houston Rockets
Which comedian received scathing reviews for his monologue at the start of
the 2024 Golden Globes in January?
Jo KOY
When Luton Town were promoted to the Premier League in 2023, which Democratic Republic of Congo international became the first player to represent the same club at every level between non-league and the top flight?
Pelly RUDDOCK MPANZU
Which Hitchin-born golfer’s best finish in a major tournament was second at the 2008 Open? This player is known for his flamboyant dress sense and impressive Ryder Cup record, having played on five winning European teams since 2004.
Ian Poulter
Which Worksop-born golfer has finished in the top three in all four Majors,
but never won any? This veteran of ten Ryder Cups ended Tiger Woods’ fiveyear run as world number one in 2010.
Lee Westwood
What is the name of the tanuki, or raccoon dog, who runs the village store in
the Animal Crossing series? His store begins as a humble shop, known as this
character’s Cranny, but is gradually upgraded during the game.
Tom Nook
Laurence Olivier narrated which 26-part ITV documentary series on the
Second World War, which was first broadcast in 1973?
The World at War
A player may spend what in-game currency at Nook’s Cranny in Animal
Crossing? He will sell you a house for 19,800 of these currency units, which the player needs to pay back by doing chores for him.
Bell
The academic Jacob Bronowski presented what 13-part BBC documentary series on the history of science, originally broadcast in 1973?
The Ascent of Man
Which Hemel Hempstead-born golfer spent more than 50 weeks as world number one from 2011 to ‘12? Along with Lee Westwood, he is the only world number one never to win a Major, and captained the Europe team at the 2023 Ryder Cup.
Luke Donald
First drawn in March 2019, what is the name of the game operated by the National Lottery that offers a prize of £10,000 a month for 30 years to the winner?
Set for Life
Topping the festive chart in 1955, what song by Dickie Valentine was the first UK Christmas number one to feature the word ‘Christmas’ in the title?
Christmas Alphabet
In the Animal Crossing series, what species of bird are the siblings Orville and Wilbur? Introduced in New Horizons, they work for the game’s airline which, perhaps unpromisingly, bears the same name as their species.
Dodo
Australian art critic Robert Hughes presented which eight-part BBC documentary series on the development of modern art, first broadcast in
1980?
The Shock of the New
Enjoy and Budget: Affordable, Delicious Food both appear in Amazon’s top 20
bestsellers of 2023. The books are written by Kate and Kay Allinson, who are
better known by what three-word name that was the title of their original 2016 blog?
Pinch of Nom
Which song by Emile Ford and The Checkmates topped the festive chart in
1959, making it the last number one of the 1950s? It was the first UK number
one to be produced by Joe Meek, and went on to be a number 5 hit for Shakin’ Stevens in 1987.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO MAKE
THOSE EYES AT ME FOR
Which Cheltenham-born golfer was runner up at the 2020 PGA Championship, and has top-10 finishes in all four Majors – though he is yet to
win one? As an amateur, he beat Tiger Woods’s college championship scoring record, and got four victories and no defeats in the 1999 Walker Cup.
Paul Casey
Also known as sea fennel, which plant, commonly grown in river estuaries, is
combined with sea-salt in the Fresh variety of Source shower gel? This plant has a characteristically salty taste when eaten.
Samphire
Which then-retired jockey, who won the Derby nine times, was sentenced to
three years in prison, serving one year, after being convicted of tax fraud in 1987? The conviction saw this jockey stripped of his OBE.
Lester Piggott
Released in 2004, what was the subtitle of the first game in Capcom’s Red
Dead series of western-themed adventure games? It was followed by games
subtitled Redemption and Redemption 2.
Revolver
What name is given to the practice of gay men visiting public places looking for sexual partners? This may occur in a broader range of places than
cottaging, which occurs in public toilets. A 1980 William Friedkin thriller about a serial killer targeting gay men shares this name.
Cruising
Which Polish-born BBC weather presenter was caught flipping the middle
finger to fellow presenters when the camera unexpectedly panned to him in
a 2006 live broadcast?
Tomasz Schafernaker
Typically featuring as a rich, upper-class widow, who played the comic foil to the Marx Brothers? Groucho described her as “practically the fifth” of these brothers.
Margaret Dumont
Three separate John Lennon singles topped the UK chart in the weeks following his death in December 1980: Imagine, Woman and which other track, taken from the album Double Fantasy?
(Just Like) Starting Over
Adele, Alicia Keys and Sting are among the stars to have recorded sessions for what NPR series, among the most popular music shows on YouTube? It takes its name from a specific piece of furniture in the NPR offices - though during the pandemic, artists including BTS performed their sets for this series ‘at home’.
TINY DESK concerts
Originally founded in 1861 in New York by brothers Benjamin and Lyman,
which New York department store has been the sister store to Macy’s since 1930? This store is known worldwide for its ‘Little Brown Bag’.
Bloomingdale’s
In 2006, News of the World photographers alleged that George Michael had
been caught cruising on what area of hilly grassland in north London? This area has been dubbed ‘the cruising capital of the world’.
Hampstead Heath
Which Actress is probably best remembered for her work with Monty Python, often being described as its seventh member?
She appeared in more episodes than anybody but the six core members, who
included John Cleese and Eric Idle.
Carol Cleveland
Which Jimi Hendrix song became, in November 1970, his only posthumous UK number one? This was the final track on the album Electric Ladyland under a name which was slightly changed when released as a single; we will
accept either name.
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) acc.VOODOO CHILD
Which NBA player was the league’s highest-scoring player between 2010 and
‘12 and in 2014 while at the Oklahoma City Thunder? He transferred from the
Brooklyn Nets to Phoenix Suns in 2023.
Kevin Durant
Disbanding in 1999, which British game developer had most of their success working on 8- and 16-bit consoles? Among their most famous games is the Cannon Fodder series and a pair of football games named [studio name] Soccer and [studio name] World of Soccer.
SENSIBLE studios
Shakira’s 2023 diss track about her ex, Gerard Pique, was recorded as part of
which Argentinian producer’s Music Sessions series? His collaborations with
artists including Quevedo, Nathy Peluso and L-Gante have each been viewed
more than 300 million times on YouTube.
Bizzarap
Jonathan Wolf co-founded which company with Tim Spector and George Hadjigeorgiou, and hosts its Science and Nutrition podcast? Its app uses data gathered from home testing kits to analyse users’ gut microbiomes and offer advice on what they should eat.
Zoe
In April 1959, which Buddy Holly song became the first-ever posthumous number one on the UK singles chart? Paul Anka wrote this song for Holly, and donated his royalties for the track, the title of which he described as having a
“tragic irony”, to Holly’s wife.
It Doesn’t Matter Any More
In January 2024, Michelle Obama was a guest on On Purpose, a mental health podcast hosted by which British-Indian author? His bestselling self-help books include 8 Rules of Love and Think Like a Monk.
Jay Shetty
Who is the British co-founder of Calm.com in 2012 and also the Million Dollar Homepage in 2005?
Alex Tew
Hampstead Heath is not the only location in London known for cruising.
Which large park in south London, with an alliterative name, is a well-known cruising spot? Politician Ron Davies stood down in 1998 after a ‘moment of madness’ led to him being mugged by a man he had met in this location.
Clapham Common
Becoming a meme in December 2023, which BBC News presenter accidentally gave the middle finger to viewers just before reading a headline about Boris Johnson?
Maryam Moshiri
Which department store was founded in 1867 in Washington DC by brothers with the forenames Andrew and Isadore? This chain references its flagship New York location in its name, but a one-word answer is sufficient.
Saks Fifth Avenue
Which Sheffield-born boxer retired in 2022 after defeating Amir Khan? This former welterweight world champion suffered defeats in his career to Gennady Golovkin, Errol Spence and Terence Crawford.
Ezekiel “Kell” Brook
Named after the German immigrant who founded the company in Baltimore
in 1862, which store claims to be the US’s oldest toy retailer? Now based in New York’s Rockefeller Center, it is the location of the giant piano seen in the film Big.
FAO Schwartz
Which spicy sauce from Hong Kong, usually containing chilli, dried scallop,
dried ham, dried shrimp and garlic, takes its name from a Western liquor, despite not containing any of the drink in its recipe?
XO
Which American neuroscientist’s eponymous Lab has been one of the world’s most popular podcasts since it was launched in 2021? A professor of neurobiology at Stanford University, this man has been praised for making scientific topics accessible for general audiences, but criticised for his endorsement of dietary supplements.
Andrew HUBERMAN
In 2021, children’s entertainers the Wiggles went viral with a cover of Tame
Impala’s Elephant, which they originally recorded for which Australian radio
station’s Like a Version series of sessions? The track went on to top this
alternative music station’s Hottest 100 list of the year’s best songs.
TRIPLE J
Which NBA player, who currently plays for the LA Clippers, was the league’s highest scorer from 2018 to ‘20? He has played for teams including Brooklyn Nets and Houston Rockets.
James HARDEN
In September 1977, which Elvis Presley song became his first posthumous UK number one? This song leapt from number 42 to number four after Presley’s death, and went on to become his 17th chart-topper, seven years after The Wonder of You.
Way Down
Tara Strong’s first voice role was in which 1987 animated series? This was a
spin-off from a popular line of animal toys developed by Japanese company Epoch, set in its namesake village in Great Nature.
Sylvanian Families
While many Best Makeup Oscar winners have been fantasy or horror films,
which emotional 1985 Peter Bogdanovich drama bucked that trend? Eric Stoltz played Rocky Dennis, a boy with cranio-diaphyseal dysplasia, whose mother Florence is played by Cher.
Mask
Which BBC Breakfast sports presenter fell in a swimming pool after failing to
look where he was going when interviewing England Commonwealth Games
swimmers in 2018? The following year, he competed in Strictly Come Dancing.
Mike Bushell
In 2021, which album became the first to be re-recorded and released by Taylor Swift? Originally released in 2008, its songs include Love Story and You Belong With Me.
Fearless
Which Arthur C. Clarke Award- and Hugo Award-winning author is the creator of The Children of Time series of science-fiction books? He shares his surname with a famous classical composer.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
What was the punning name of a secret agent fish who starred in two 1990s platform games developed by Millennium Interactive? Subtitles of games in this series included Underwater Agent and Operation Robocod.
James Pond
A sorcerer who has taken the form of a green ball, what was the short name of the character who had to do battle with the evil Zark in a platform game developed by Sensible Software? This name precedes ball in the name of the original title in this series and kid in the name of the 1992 sequel.
Wiz
Which 1972 Blaxploitation film, directed by Gordon Banks, is well known for its soundtrack written and produced by Curtis Mayfield? It stars Ron O’Neal as Youngblood Priest, a cocaine dealer trying to quit the business.
Super Fly
What was the name of the anthropomorphic amphibian who tries to rescue
his princess girlfriend in a 1993 platform game developed by Team 17? An HD version of this game was released in 2013, but discontinued in 2016 after poor sales.
Superfrog
Who plays obnoxious restaurant manager Richie in The Bear? He came to prominence as Marnie’s husband Desi on Girls, and in 2022 starred as rebel Arvel Skeen in Andor.
Ebon MOSS-BACHRACH
Which Dire Straits single from Brothers In Arms was the highest charting single from the album in the UK, reaching number two? It was released with a video of sports bloopers, and has the opening line, “Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies…”?
`Walk of Life
Which Italian fashion house produces Luminous Silk, a multi-award-winning foundation that claims to give instantly glowing skin?
Giorgio Armani
What was the fourteenth film in the DC Extended Universe? Its title character battles against Victoria Kord and her One Man Army Corps with the help of an armoured exoskeleton provided by an ancient alien artefact.
Blue Beetle
Which 1973 Blaxploitation film starred Tamara Dobson as a karate chopping government agent and supermodel? Shelley Winters stars as her nemesis, the head of an underworld drug business.
Cleopatra Jones
The national airline of Romania is usually referred to by what five-letter acronym? Founded in 1954, this airline is part of the SkyTeam group of international airlines, alongside such carriers as Delta and Virgin Atlantic.
TAROM
Which anthropomorphic ninja had to battle through seven lands in a 1992 platform game developed by Gremlin Graphics? One innovation in this game was sponsorship by Chupa Chups, whose logo appeared prominently throughout.
Zool
Just four days before the 1994 BDO World Championship began, the rebel darts players kicked off their own breakaway World Darts Championship at which venue in Purfleet? It would go on to host the PDC World Darts
Championship until 2007.
CIRCUS Tavern
Which French cosmetics brand, founded in 1935, produces Teint Idole, a cult foundation that claims to seamlessly cover imperfections?
Lancome
Which trophy is presented at the Ballon d’Or ceremony to the best worldwide player under 21? Named after a French footballer who won 1958’s Ballon d’Or while playing for Real Madrid, it differs from UEFA’s Golden Boy, which can only be awarded to European players.
KOPA Trophy
Spartan Strike was a 2015 instalment in which video game series?
Halo
What Taylor Sheridan series stars DavidOyelowo as the first African American Deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi River? Its cast also features Donald Sutherland and Dennis Quaid.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
1838 enslaved Manservant, runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, Railroad Agent and Deputy U.S. Marshal. He spoke and understood the Five Civilized Tribal languages including Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek. One of the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River mostly working in the deadly Indian Territory. Played by David Oyelowo in 2023 TV show.
Bass Reeves
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which Team GB athlete won bronze in the women’s pole vault? She is the current UK record holder for the event.
Holly BRADSHAW
Which sketch comedy show began on BBC Radio 1 in 1989, before transferring to BBC Two in 1991? It starred Rob Newman, David Baddiel, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Many of the Discworld novels centre around Sam Vimes, Captain and later Commander of the City Watch of which city? Vimes goes on to become both nobility and the richest man in this city, two facts he detests.
Ankh Morpork
Working with Jim Abrahams, and commonly abbreviating their names to ZAZ,
what was the surname of the brothers with forenames David and Jerry who directed and wrote the films Airplane! and The Naked Gun?
Zucker
Widely considered to be one of the most powerful magical figures on the Discworld, Equal Rites marked the debut of which of the Witches of Lancre? By Wyrd Sisters, she has formed a group - not a coven - with Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick.
Esme “Granny” Weatherwax
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, which Team GB athlete won bronze in the women’s hammer throw? She is the current British record holder for this event.
Sophie Hitchon
Which ambient comedy show created by Chris Morris was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 between 1997 and ‘99? The cast included Kevin Eldon, Julia Davis and Mark Heap, and it later transferred to Channel 4 for a single series. You may give either name it used.
Blue Jam
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which Team GB athlete won bronze in the women’s javelin throw? She is the current British record holder for the event.
Goldie Sayers
Point of Impact and Takedown are both titles in which series of racing video games that were developed by Criterion Games? This series was known for its ‘crash’ mode, and has a name referring to the practice of keeping a vehicle stationary while spinning its wheels.
Burnout
Which comedy show, starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, began on BBC Radio 1 in 1993 before transferring to television in 1995? It also featured Kevin Eldon playing Simon Quinlank and Rod Hull, two characters he would later reprise in Lee and Herring’s This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Fist of Fun
Rosetta, in 1999, and L’Enfant, in 2005, were films directed, written and produced by what Belgian brothers with the forenames Jean-Pierre and Luc, who won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for both films?
Dardenne
Which singer recorded the original version of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina from Evita, which went to number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1976? She turned down the chance to star in the stage musical, with the title role instead going to Elaine Paige.
Julie Covington
Widely considered to be among the least powerful magical figures on the Discworld, the wizard Rincewind is among the characters associated with what higher education establishment, located in Ankh-Morpork? Among its staff are archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully and the Librarian, who is an orangutan.
Unseen University
Which comedian starred in multiple BBC Radio 1 series as the characters Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League against Tedium? The latter character was also featured in this man’s 2001 BBC Two series Attention Scum!
Simon Munnery
In 2016, Laura Marling teamed up with Mike Lindsay of the folktronica band Tunng to form what supergroup? Their self-titled debut album was released in 2018 and was followed in 2021 by Animal.
Lump
Although not the top-billed stars, Hannah and Her Sisters revolves around characters played by three actresses - Barbara Hershey, Mia Farrow and which other performer, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Holly? She would later win the award a second time for her part in Bullets Over Broadway.
Dianne Wiest
Although she never won an Olympic medal, which Team GB athlete won silver in the women’s long jump at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing? She is the current British record holder for the event.
Shara Proctor
A relatively late introduction to the Discworld, what is the name of the conman and trickster who first appears in Going Postal? After being caught and apparently executed for his previous life of crime, he is later put in charge of Ankh-Morpork’s post office, banking and railway systems.
Moist Von Lipwig
In 2021, Ed Sheeran featured on which Nigerian singer’s remix of the song Peru, which peaked at no.2 in the UK Singles Chart?
Fireboy DML
Which Norwegian footballer was the first recipient of the Ballon d’Or Feminin in 2018? A striker for Lyon, she is currently the all-time highest goal scorer in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
Ada Hegerberg
Which Zambian footballer became most expensive woman footballer when signing for Bay FC from Madrid CFF in 2024 for £685k? First Zambian for NWSL and first to score.
Racheal Kundananji
WHich Zambian female footballer signed for Oraldno Pride in 2024 from Shanghai for $740k? In 2020, she became the first woman footballer in Olympic history to score back-to-back hat tricks and the first to score two hat tricks in one tournament. In 2020, she was the top scorer in the Chinese Women’s Super League.
Barbra Banda
In the Star Wars films, Chewbacca comes from which planet?
Kashyyyk
First published in 2003, what name is given to the software in the Apple iWork series which is the equivalent of Microsoft’s PowerPoint?
Keynote
Which band’s three UK top ten hits were Beat The Clock, Amateur Hour and This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us?
Sparks
Which former rock star and eccentric wannabe politician appeared as himself in the very first episode of the TV show The New Statesman, finishing second in the election which saw Alan B’Stard elected to Parliament?
Screaming Lord SUTCH
Music venues in which British city include the Tramshed, St David’s Hall, Clwb
[CLOOB] Ifor Bach and the Principality Stadium?
Cardiff
Which Trent Rockets all-rounder was named Player of the Series during the 2022 season of the Hundred? Part of England’s 2017 Women’s World Cupwinning squad, she was the first English cricketer to take a hat-trick in a
Twenty20 International game, doing so against New Zealand in 2013.
Nat SCIVER-Brunt
Founded in London in 2003, which electronic music duo comprises Saul Milton and Will Kennard? Their albums have included More Than Alot, No More Idols, Brand New Machine, London Bars and Tribe.
Chase and Status
Which brewery makes ESB, London Pride and Chiswick Bitter, which between them have won the Supreme title at CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain awards five times? In 2019, this brewery, long headquartered in Chiswick in London, was acquired by the Japanese company Asahi.
Fuller’s Brewery
After some box office failures from 1936 onwards, Greta Garbo rebooted her
movie career in 1939 with her role as the titular Russian envoy in which Ernst Lubitsch comedy, for which she won her third and final Academy Award nomination?
Ninotchka
Who led the Oval Invincibles to victory in the first two seasons of the Hundred, and was named Player of the Series in 2021? She captained South Africa’s women’s team in all formats between 2016 and ’21, and was the first South African bowler to take 100 wickets in women’s one-day internationals.
Dane Van Niekerk
Which actor, who portrayed Miles in This Life, went on to play Admiral James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise?
Jack Davenport
2023 was a successful year for Chase and Status, who had two top 10 hits in the UK. The first of these, Disconnect, featured which prolific British dance vocalist, who was first discovered on The Voice?
Becky Hill
Music venues in which British city include Sidney and Matilda, the Octagon,
the Leadmill and the Utilita Arena?
Sheffield
What Super Mario enemy is a large black projectile with angry eyes and
clenched fists who flies towards the player? This character has a two-word alliterative name.
Bullet Bill
Which brewery from Keighley, West Yorkshire, makes Landlord, a record four-time CAMRA Supreme Champion Beer of Britain? Their Boltmaker beer has also won the award.
Timothy Taylor
The first top 10 hit for Chase & Status was back in 2009, when the song End Credits hit the charts. Which rapper and actor provided the vocals for this song?
Plan B (Ben Drew)
Which South African cricketer was named the Hundred’s Player of the Series for the 2023 season, despite her Oval Invincibles finishing fifth? She was the first South African to record a hat-trick in a Twenty20 International game, playing against Bangladesh and doing so six weeks before Nat Sciver-Brunt.
Marizanne Kapp
Greta Garbo’s second Academy Award nomination came for playing the opera star Rita Cavallini in which 1930 Clarence Brown movie? In this film, an elderly bishop tells the tale of how he fell in love with Garbo’s racy character during his youth, before breaking off the affair.
Romance
Music venues in which British city include the Fleece, Thekla and the Beacon, which changed its name in 2020?
Bristol
ONLY CONNECT Thunderbirds by vehicle colour and pilot
1 Grey - Scott
2 Green - Virgil
3 Red - Alan
4 Yellow - Gordon
ONLY CONNECT first four trains and colour in Thomas the Tank
1 Blue Thomas
2 Blue Edward
3 Green Henry
4 Blue Gordon
British pop/folk singer-songwriter. She achieved chart success with the singles “Twist in My Sobriety” and “Good Tradition” from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart.
Tanita Tikaram
Which actor, who played Ferdy in This Life, went on to play Qadim Shah in EastEnders and Detective Inspector Victor Aziz in the DC Universe’s TV series Pennyworth? This man’s sister is a singer who had several chart hits in the late 1980s.
Ramon Tikaram
What is the two-syllable name of the Super Mario enemy with a wind-up key
and fuse? It explodes after a set time period, or when thrown.
Bob-omb
Which brewery from Newport, Wales, makes Cwtch [kootch], winner of CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain title in 2015? This craft brewery, founded just three years earlier, is known for its colourfully designed cans.
Tiny Rebel
Steve Claridge and strike partner Dion Dublin played a key role in which side reaching the second-tier play-offs for the first and only time in their history in 1992? The team’s then manager, John Beck, was notorious for his long-ball tactics, including allegedly leaving the grass to grow long in the corners of their Abbey Stadium pitch.
Cambridge United
Certified platinum in the UK and featuring lyrics by Liam Bailey, the biggest chart hit for Chase & Status shared its two-word name with what 1960s supergroup?
Blind Faith
Which English cricketer’s tally of 295 runs was the highest during the 2023 Hundred season, though she missed out on the Player of the Series title? The previous month, she was named the player of the Twenty20 International Ashes series, top-scoring for England as they beat Australia 2-1.
Danni Wyatt
Which actor, who played Kira in This Life, went on to portray Tina Carter, sister of Shirley Carter, in EastEnders from 2013 to ’21?
Luisa Bradshaw-White
Created by American Horror Story and American Crime Story showrunner Ryan Murphy, the 2024 season of which anthology series focused on Truman Capote’s betrayal of the New York socialites he had befriended? Its first series in 2017 was based on the making of the 1962 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Feud
Markus Villig is the founder of which Estonian ride-hailing and car sharing app, which now operates in over 500 cities in 45 countries and has emerged as a rival of Uber?
Bolt
Which Mozambican athlete won the 800 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, as well as three World Championship golds in the same event between 1993 and 2003? More recently, she has coached Caster Semenya.
Maria Mutola
According to the Weezer song, if the singer “looks just like Buddy Holly”, the listener is which actress, who fronted her namesake Show between 1970 and ‘77?
Mary Tyler Moore
Which American crooner of the 1950s enjoyed a couple of late-career big hits in the UK in 1973 with the tracks And I Love You So and For the Good Times?
Perry Como
The many children of which man include Techno Mechanicus, Saxon, Nevada, and Exa Dark Siderael?
Elon Musk
What adjective precedes ‘strategy’ in the genre of video games that focus on strategy at a high level? Rather than a player individually controlling soldiers or small units, this genre involves directing mass military actions and resource management of a nation.
Grand Strategy
Eminem released the diss track Killshot in 2018, targeting which other rapper? This performer had earlier attacked Eminem in Rap Devil, but have subsequently found new success in pop-punk, leading Eminem fans to suggest Killshot destroyed this man’s rap career.
Machine Gun Kelly
Broadcast in the small hours of Sunday mornings on ITV between 1988 and ‘92, which TV show featured Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan visiting nightclubs around the UK, chatting to clubbers and spinning the latest dance hits?
The Hit Man and Her
What generalised trademark has come to mean any fine, laser-cut grater? In a stick shape (as opposed to the traditional box grater) they are used especially for hard cheeses, garlic, or for zesting fruit.
Microplane
Voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, what is the forename of the 15-year-old girl who is the main protagonist of the 2021 Disney movie Encanto? In the film, she is the only member of her family who does not possess a magical gift.
MIRABEL (Madrigal)
One of the UK’s bestselling mascaras is Lash Sensational by which make-up brand, which moved to New York in 1996 and now includes that city’s name in its branding? Its other well-known products include the Fit Me Foundation and the Superstay Matte Ink liquid lipstick.
Maybelline New York
Which British heptathlete missed the 2014 athletics season due to her pregnancy? Her return to competition saw her take her third world title in 2015 and an Olympic silver in 2016.
Jessica ENNIS-HIll
Released in 2000, which grand strategy game, with a Latin name, begins in the mid-15th century, and allows players to control one of more than 500 different nations, from massive powers like France and England to singleprovince states?
Europa Universalis
Voiced by Ariana DeBose, what 17-year-old girl is the main protagonist of the 2023 Disney film Wish? In the film, she uses a star to help her retrieve the wishes of the people of the Kingdom of Rosas from the evil King Magnifico.
Asha
Known as the Magpies, which Melbourne-based sports team have played a record 45 AFL grand finals and are the reigning champions in the sport? This Aussie rules club is the best attended team across all sports in Australia.
Collingwood
In Grease, who plays Rizzo, the leader of the Pink Ladies? Her later roles include First Lady Abigail Bartlet in The West Wing.
Stockard Channing
Born in 2023, Techno Mechanicus Musk has a name which was taken from
what tabletop game? Launched in 1983, it was created by Games Workshop, and a single word name is sufficient.
WARHAMMER 40K
Usually referred to by a one-word nickname, who was the exuberant host of the show Dance Energy, part of BBC’s DEF II strand, which showcased several of the biggest dance and hip-hop artists of the early 90s? Originally making his name as a photographer in London’s hip-hop scene in the late 80s, he also featured in several reality TV shows in the early 2000s.
NORMSKI
BADGal and They’re Real! are mascaras by which American beauty brand, best known for their eyebrow products and brow bars that can be found in department stores across the UK?
Benefit
The third instalment in which grand strategy series was released in 2020? Unusually, this game put greater focus on a player’s individual character, allowing for RPG-like customisation, but still allowed the freedom to do things like convert to a nudist religion or replace the Pope with a horse.
Crusader Kings
High Impact is the bestselling mascara of which American cosmetic and skincare manufacturer, created by Estee Lauder’s daughter-in-law Evelyn?
Clinique
Broadcast on Channel 4 between 1995 and ’96, which late-night music show featured Mark Radcliffe and Jo Whiley introducing live performances from a plainly decorated studio? An infamous episode of this show featured Iggy Pop performing in a pair of see-through trousers.
The White Room
What name is given to a deep conical sieve of very fine mesh, used for straining sauces? It gets its name not because of the sort of cuisine it is used in, but due to its resemblance to a kind of hat.
Chinois
Rugby league great Billy Slater spent his whole career with which Melbourne club? This team were stripped of their 2007 and ‘09 NRL titles after being found guilty of salary cap breaches.
Melbourne Storm
Eurotrash host Antoine de Caunes made his British TV debut as the host of which music show, shown as part of the DEF II strand from 1988 to ’92? Originally broadcast in France, it featured de Caunes introducing interviews and videos while standing in front of a screen bearing the show’s name.
Rapido
Which energy drink brand was created by Coca-Cola in 2006 and is nowadays owned by Monster? Its cans are twice the size of Red Bull, with the brand name in Gothic writing on a reddish background.
Relentless
Voiced by Aimee Carrero, which Disney princess gives her name to the 2016 television movie BLANK and the Secret of Avalor? The character also gives her name to a television series set in Avalor
Elena
Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings were developed by which Stockholmbased video game developer and publisher, which specialises in the grand strategy genre? Its other titles include Hearts of Iron, set in the years before World War II, and Stellaris, which applies the genre to science fiction.
Paradox Interactive
Which Melbourne-based soccer club have won four titles in the A-League
era, the second most of any team? Between 2005 and ’16, Archie Thompson
scored 90 goals for this side.
Melbourne Victory
In July 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot in the foot by which other rapper? Megan released the diss track Shots Fired in November that year, mocking this rapper for wanting attention from her.
Tory Lanez
Combining a demonym and a body part, what alternative name is given to a
citrus fruit squeezer, particularly the brightly coloured ones used in bartending?
Mexican Elbow
Which Saracens hooker is the current captain of the England men’s rugby union team?
Jamie George
Which 2007 Masterchef winner founded the Wahaca chain of Mexican restaurants?
Thomasina Miers
Which comedian is the current host of the rebooted series of Never Mind The
Buzzcocks?
Greg Davies
Sporting the number 7, which British rider won two consecutive 500cc World Championships with Suzuki in 1976 and ’77, and remains the last Brit to hold the title?
Barry Sheene
Fictional Better-known name of Thackery Earwicket
March Hare
known for her television appearances: portraying Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly, Maddie Magellan in Jonathan Creek, Kate Salinger in Kiss Me Kate and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.
Caroline Quentin
Who created Calvin and Hobbes?
Bill Watterson
Draper James is a clothing line launched by which actress in 2015?
Reese Witherspoon
Actor who was President of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003
Charlton Heston
Alternative name for pieces of armour also known as jambeaux
Greaves
Airline that merged with United in 2010
Continental
play written by Peter Ustinov (nominated for Best Play and Best Actor Tonys). He also adapted it into a movie written by, directed by, and starring him, Sandra Dee, and John Gavin. The plot is loosely based on shakespeare play, and is a comic spoof of the Cold War set at the United Nations, where the daughter and son of the U.S. and Soviet ambassadors fall in love with one another.
Romanoff and Juliet
Band (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) were named for a line in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons. The protagonist in the play has to decide whether to spend money trying to fix faulty parts, or let them be put into planes. He sends them on to be put into the aircraft, and people die from decision.
twenty one pilots
ONLY CONNECT last four plagues of Egypt
Hail
Locusts
Darkness
Death of firstborn son
Endorphin portmanteau for
Endogenous Morphine
Botox portmanteau for
Botulinum toxin
How many stars on Cape Verde and Dominica flags?
10
How many stars on Uzbekistan flag?
12
Japanese creature said to have the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the ears of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger
Baku
from Arthurian legend, has the head and neck of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, and the feet of a hart. The creature appeared in the TV show Merlin although there it was, for some reason, depicted as a cross only between a serpent and a leopard (just in case anyone mentions this).
The Questing Beast
Ireland’s 4 Grand Slam winning rugby union captains ONLY CONNECT
Karl Mullen 1948
Brian O’Driscoll 2009
Rory Best 2018
Johnny Sexton 2023
French professional rugby union player who plays as a fullback for Top 14 club Toulouse and the France national team, considered to be one of the best fullbacks and place-kickers in the world. Top point scorer at 2023 and 2024 Six Nations.
Thomas Ramos
Joint top try scorer at 2024 try scorer. rugby player who plays as a wing for Edinburgh Rugby in the United Rugby Championship. Born in South Africa, he now represents the Scotland rugby union team after qualifying on residency grounds.
Duhan van der Merwe
Of Samoan descent, professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for United Rugby Championship club Connacht. Born in New Zealand, he represents Ireland at international level after qualifying on residency grounds. Nominated for player of the tournament at six nations 2024.
Bundee Aki
Pet Shops BOys 4 UK Number Ones ONLY CONNECT
West End Girls
It’s a Sin
Always on my Mind
Heart
Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians. Wrote song “I will remember you”. Sang Randy Newman song When She Loved Me for Toy Story 2.
Sarah McLachlan
In heraldry, an allocamelus had body of camel and head of what other animal?
Donkey
in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit (daemon). In myth, was a beautiful queen of ANcient Libya who had affair with Zeus. Keats poem.
Lamia
mythical ghost-like monster, equivalent to the bogeyman, found in Spain and Portugal. Those beliefs have also spread in many Hispanophone and Lusophone countries. It can also be considered an Iberian version of a bugbear as it is a commonly used figure of speech representing an irrational or exaggerated fear.
Coco (male) or Cuca (female)
the fish avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Often described as the first of Vishnu’s ten primary avatars
Matsya
scarab-faced god in ancient Egyptian religion who represents the rising or morning sun. By extension, he can also represent creation and the renewal of life.
Khepri
second avatar of the Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu, name means tortoise as is half tortoise
Kurma
in West Virginian folklore, is a humanoid creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area from November 15, 1966, to December 15, 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register, dated November 16, 1966, titled “Couples See Man-Sized Bird … Creature … Something”.
Mothman
type of mythical dragon with two legs, two wings, and often a pointed tail which is said to be a venomous stinger
Wyvern
In ancient Egyptian goddess with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest “man-eating” animals known to ancient Egyptians. In ancient Egyptian religion, They played an important role during the funerary ritual, the Judgment of the Dead.
Ammit
magical horse-like creature in Islamic tradition that served as the mount of the Islamic prophet Muhammad during his Isra and Mi’raj journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and up through the heavens and back by night.
Buraq
Mythical creature from Brazilian mythology. Its legend is very common, especially in the states of Maranhão, Amazonas, and Pará. It is believed to have arisen among the indigenous people of the northern region of Brazil. Name means broken wolf. Humanoid with anteater/tapir head.
Capelobo
a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon, wyvern, or serpent-like creature with a rooster’s head
Cockatrice
both a “legendary faceless being” in Chinese mythology and the “primordial and central chaos” in Chinese cosmogony, comparable with the world egg.
Hundun
A Pamola - A creature from Abenaki mythology with a human body, the head of a moose, with the wings and feet of an eagle that protects Maine’s tallest mountain which is what?
Mount Katahdin
Fictitious heraldic creature has the head of a fox, forelegs like an eagle’s talons, the chest of a greyhound, the body of a lion, and the hindquarters and tail of a wolf. It is occasionally portrayed with wings..
Enfield
divine bovine-goddess described in Hinduism as the mother of all cows. She is a miraculous cow of plenty who provides her owner whatever they desire and is often portrayed as the mother of other cattle. In iconography, she is generally depicted as a white cow with a female head and breasts, the wings of a bird, and the tail of a peafowl or as a white cow containing various deities within her body.
Kamadhenu
A Japanese Chimera with the head of a monkey, the legs of a tiger, the body of a Japanese raccoon dog, and the front half of a snake for a tail.
Nue
A Chinese creature with the head and scales of a dragon, the antlers of a deer, the hooves of an ox, and the tail of a lion.
Qilin
The hippopotamus-headed Egyptian Goddess.
Taweret
T: A French dragon with the head of a lion, six short legs similar to that of bear legs, the body of an ox, the shell of a turtle, and a scorpion stinger-tipped tail.
Tarasque
N: A Hindu creature with the head of a rooster, the neck of a peacock, the back of a bull, a snake-headed tail, three legs of an elephant, tiger and deer or horse with the fourth limb being a human hand holding a lotus.
Navagunjara
A sea creature from Russian folklore with the head of a maiden and the body of a striped beast, having a dragon tail with a snake’s mouth and elephant legs with the same snake mouths.
M
Meduza
K: A Japanese Chimera with the head of a rat, the ears of a rabbit, the horns of an ox, the comb of a rooster, the beard of a sheep, the neck of a Japanese dragon, the mane of a horse, the back of a wild boar, the shoulders and belly of a South China tiger, the arms of a monkey, the hindquarters of a dog, and the tail of a snake. Combines all of the zodiac creatures.
Kotobuki
F: reigns over all birds - A Chinese creature with the head of a golden pheasant, the body of a mandarin duck, the tail of a peacock, the legs of a crane, the mouth of a parrot and the wings of a swallow.
Fenghuang
Name of the NWSL team based in Los Angeles
Angel City
Name of the NWSL team based in San Fran area, stadium is in San Jose
Bay FC
Name of the NWSL team based in Bridgeview, Illinois
Chicago Red Stars
Name of the NWSL team based in Houston, Texas, male affiliate team is the Houston Dynamo
Houston Dash
NWSL team based in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Current
NWSL team based in Harrison, New Jersey. They were known as Sky Blue FC from 2008-20.
NJ/NY Gotham
NWSL team based in Cary, North Carolina
North Carolina Courage
NWSL team based in Orlando, Florida
Orlando Pride
NWSL team based in Portland, Oregon
Portland Thorns FC
NWSL team based in Louisville, Kentucky
Racing Louisville FC
NWSL team based in Seattle, Washington
Seattle Reign FC
NWSL team based in San Diego, California
San Diego Wave
NWSL team based in Sandy, Utah, affiliate male team is the Real Salt Lake.
Utah Royals
NWSL team based in Washington DC
Washington Spirit
Born in Guadeloupe, this francophone author works included 1984’s Segu and 1986’s I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem. In 2018, she won the New Academy Prize in Literature, an award set up in place of the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was engulfed in scandal. She was awarded France’s Legion of Honour in 2004, and was twice nominated for the International Booker Prize - first for her entire body of work in 2015, then in 2023 for her final novel, The Gospel According to the New World.
Maryse Conde
April 2024 auctions: other notable items sold at the auction included a pink silk dress belonging to Monroe, which sold for the highest sum of $325,000 by which Italian designer? He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors. LVMH got 60% in 2000.
Emilio PUCCI
composed the main themes and incidental music for UK comedy programmes including Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, The Thin Blue Line, The Vicar of Dibley, The Catherine Tate Show, 2point4 Children, Words and Pictures and QI
Howard Goodall
American composer for television and movies and musician whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and The Addams Family
Vic Mizzy
Ross Bagdasarian, known under name David Seville, and songs Witch Doctor and another song best known for creating which group?
Alvin and the Chipmunks (other song being The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)
American composer known best for A Fifth of Beethoven from SNF and also did composing for Family Guy, American Dad, Cleveland Show and Ted franchise.
Walter Murphy
composed the theme tunes for many well-known British sitcoms and gameshows of the 1970s and the 1980s, including Yes Minister, Are You Being Served?, I Didn’t Know You Cared and Last of the Summer Wine. Theme tunes often included elements designed to fit the programmes, such as a cash till in Are You Being Served?, rises and falls in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and the Big Ben chimes for Yes Minister.
Ronnie Hazlehurst
He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Medicine Man, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, and The Mummy. Won OScar for OMEN
Jerry Goldsmith
His work includes the scores of the television series Battlestar Galactica (2004), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Outlander, The Walking Dead, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Serpent Queen, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Halo, the video games Call of Duty: Vanguard, God of War and God of War Ragnarök, and the film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Bear McCreary
he earned recognition as the frontman for the rock bands Target, Cobra, and Survivor from 1984 to 1989, performing the songs “Burning Heart” from the film Rocky IV, “The Moment of Truth” from The Karate Kid, along with other top-20 Survivor hits “I Can’t Hold Back”, “High On You”, “The Search Is Over” and “Is This Love”. performed the theme song “I’m Always Here” for the 1990s TV series Baywatch.
Jimi Jamison
British singer, known for performing the improvised, wordless vocals on the song “The Great Gig in the Sky” on Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. She sang the theme of the 1977 film OCE in the same style, and also covered the Dolly Parton single “Love Is Like a Butterfly” for the opening titles of the BBC TV series Butterflies, which ran for four series between 1978 and 1983.
Clare Torry
best known for his film scores, including Rocky (and four of its sequels), The Karate Kid (and all of its sequels), For Your Eyes Only, Dynasty (and its sequel The Colbys), and The Right Stuff, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for “Gonna Fly Now” from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only.
Bill Conti
a genre of music defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the “Soul of Calypso”, which has influences of African and East Indian rhythms
Soca
He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Steptoe and Son and Tales of the Unexpected.
Ron Grainer
French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Oscar for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film Love Story. The soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film’s theme, “Where Do I Begin”, was a hit single for Andy Williams.
Francis Lai
He portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley on the American television Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin on the American television science-fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers on the American television action series The Fall Guy (1981–1986).
Lee Majors
GOT and House of the Dragon composer. He has scored films such as Clash of the Titans, Pacific Rim, Warcraft, A Wrinkle in Time, Iron Man and Eternals, television series including Prison Break, Person of Interest, Jack Ryan, and Westworld, and video games such as Medal of Honor, Gears of War 4, and Gears 5.
Ramin Djawadi
Theme tune for Gogglebox called Perfect World is by which irish band?
Kodaline
American singer-songwriter, best known as the founder, guitarist and frontman of the American rock band Goo Goo Dolls
John Rzeznik
Composer of Grange Hill Theme Tune called Chicken Man and also the Countdown theme tune.
Alan Hawkshaw
Composer of the X-Files theme music?
Mark Snow
Song written by Queen for Highlander the Series and film
Princes of the Universe
The Hills 2006-10 TV show was spin-off from which earlier tv show?
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
His best-known work is interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of Ennio Morricone’s main theme from the 1966 film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He composed the score for the 1969 Western Charro!, which starred Elvis Presley.
Hugo Montenegro
Gone Up In Flames by Morning Runner theme song to which comedy?
The Inbetweeners
American science-fiction television series created by Larry Cohen that aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1967 to 1968. Roy Thinnes stars as David Vincent, who after stumbling across evidence of an in-progress invasion of aliens from outer space—the aliens disguising themselves as humans and gradually infiltrating human institutions—tries to thwart the invasion despite the disbelief of officials and the general public, and the undermining of his efforts by the aliens.
The Invaders
Monty Python theme song
Sousa’s Liberty Bell March
as well as with his film scores for television and film including “Miami Vice Theme” and “Crockett’s Theme”, from the 1980s television program Miami Vice. He has continued to work as both a musical performer and producer.
Jan Hammer
The Vicar of Dibley theme tune is an adaptation of which number psalm by Howard Goodall?
Psalm 23
Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Although known in the classical world primarily for his ballet scores, his most widely known music was the iconic guitar theme for The Twilight Zone American television series.
Marius Constant
He is best known for his acclaimed collaborations with director David Lynch, notably the scores for Blue Velvet (1986), the Twin Peaks television series, The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001). Died December 2022.
Angelo Badalamenti
Top Gear theme tune Jessica is by which American band?
The Allman Brothers Band
American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973 by guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson, lead vocalist Robin Zander and drummer Bun E. Carlos. I Want You to Want Me and Surrender are top songs.
Cheap Trick
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original Star Trek series.
Alexander Courage
(Woke Up This Morning”) - Alabama 3 theme song for which tv show?
The Sopranos
It is the largest British Army garrison in the world, with a population of around 13,000 in 2017 and covering over 2,400 acres (about 10 km2). Shares name with Reeves and Mortimer 2004 sitcom.
CATTERICK Garrison
best known compositions include the themes from Mission: Impossible and Mannix, as well as the scores to Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), THX 1138 (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and the Rush Hour trilogy (1998–2007). Schifrin is also noted for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry series of films.
Lalo Schifrin
Terrahawks team names only connect
Dr TIGER Ninestein
Mary Falconer
Kate Kestrel
Lieutenant Hawkeye
Lieutenant Hiro
American actor, predominantly based in the UK. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler.
Ed Bishop
First name of British former actress, fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who competed at Miss World 1967 where she placed 2nd runner-up. She is of Indo-Guyanese descent, and is married to English actor Michael Caine.
SHAKIRA Baksh
SOOTY the Show characters Only Connect
Sooty - yellow bear
Sweep - grey dog
Soo - black and white panda
Butch - brown dog
Ramsbottom - brown snake
Little Cousin SCAMPI - white bear
He is best known for the screen adaptation of his 1978 novel Walter, and was the first presenter of the UK TV programme Rainbow.
David Cook
Presenter of Rainbow from 1973 to 1992
Geoffrey Hayes
British actor most noted for his voice work. He was best known for playing Zippy and George in Rainbow, and for voicing the Daleks and the Cybermen in Doctor Who.
Roy Skelton
RAINBOW characters
Zippy - orange
George - pink hippo
Bungle - brown bear
Sunshine and Moony
Carla Lane selected series ONLY CONNECT
The Liver Birds
Bless This House
Butterflies
The Last Song
Solo
Leaving
The Mistress
Bread
Luv
English actress, most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane’s sitcom Bread, one of several actors to remain with the show for its entire seven series tenure from 1986 to 1991.
Jean Boht
Name of the Boswell daughter in Bread played by both Gilly Coman and Melanie Hill
Aveline
Name of Irish mistress of Freddie Boswell in Bread, played by Eileen Pollock
Lilo Lil
Which TV writer was born Romana Barrack?
Carla Lane
Four main members of the Banana Splits, names, animals and instruments
Fleegle - dog - guitar
Bingo - ape - drums
Drooper - lion - bass
Snorky - elephant - keyboard
Brains assistant in Thunderbirds
Tin-Tin
fictional criminal and terrorist and the recurring villain of the 1960s puppet television series Thunderbirds and its adaptations. He is the primary antagonist of the International Rescue organisation, founded by Jeff Tracy.
The Hood
Thunderbirds sons in age order ONLY CONNECT
Scott (Scott Carpenter - second to orbit Earth - 1 Blue and Silver)
Virgil (Virgil Grissom - 2 Green)
John (John Glenn - 3 Red)
Gordon (Gordon Cooper - 4 Yellow)
Alan (Alan Shepard - 5 Grey and Gold)
Fireball XL5 commanded by who? ONLY CONNECT
Colonel Steve Zodiac
Crew include Dr Venus and Robert the Robot, Matic, Zoonie the Lazoon, Wilbur ZERO, Lieutenant Ninety
WASP in Stingray stands for what?
World Aquanaut Security Patrol
Captain of the flagship Stingray is who? ONLY CONNECT
Captain Troy Tempest
Other crew: Lieutenant Sheldon “Phones”, Sam Shore, Atlanta Shore, baddy is King Titan, slave called Marina a mute mermaid
British television programme, the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television. Set late 19th century fictional Kansas title town with Tex Tucker as sheriff voiced by Nicholas Parsons.
FOUR FEATHER FALLS
1960-62 Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill tv show a multi-environment craft invented by Professor Rudolph Popkiss and Doctor Horatio Beaker, and piloted by Mike Mercury.
Supercar
English actor, best known for playing Paul Temple in the BBC television series of the same name and for voicing Captain Scarlet in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
Francis Matthews
Names of Captain Scarlet agents with rank and colour ONLY CONNECT
Captain Blue
Colonel White
Lieutenant Green
Captain Black
Captain Ochre
Captain Magenta
Captain Grey
Doctor Fawn
Five Angels in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ONLY CONNECT
Destiny
Symphony
Rhapsody
Melody
Harmony
Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived at the back of a barn on the fictional Berrydown Farm.
Pingwings
In Firmin and Postgate’s Pogles’ Wood, the four main characters are Mr and Mrs Pogle, their adopted son and a squirrel like creature. Name of son?
Pippin
In Firmin and Postgate’s Pogles’ Wood, the four main characters are Mr and Mrs Pogle, their adopted son and a squirrel like creature. Name of squirrel like creature?
Tog
In 1959 he was asked to help Oliver Postgate by writing a bassoon theme for Ivor the Engine. He went on to compose the highly evocative music to the Smallfilms productions of Noggin the Nog, The Seal of Neptune, Pogles’ Wood, Pingwings and Clangers.
Vernon Elliott
Noggin the Nog characters ONLY CONNECT
Knut the King
Grunhilda the Queen
Uncle Nogbad the Bad
Nooka of the Nooks
Thor Nogson
Olaf the Lofty
Graculus - big green bird
Grolliffe - ice dragon
Ivor the Engine ONLY CONNECT
Ivor - green train for Merioneth and Llantisilly
Jones the Steam - driver
Dai Station
Owen the Signal
Evans the Song
Mrs Porty
Mr Dinwiddy
Bani Moukerjee
Charlie Banger
Idris the Dragon
Alice the Elephant
Bluebell the Donkey
Morgan the Roundabout
Words preceding the word Clangers characters ONLY CONNECT
Granny
Major
Mother
Small
Tiny
Bagpuss intro: the most ____, the most ______, the most ______, saggy old cloth cat in the whole, wide world
The Most Important, The Most Beautiful, The Most Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World
Rag doll in Bagpuss name
Madeleine
Toad in Bagpuss name
Gabriel
Original four Firemen in Fireman Sam
Sam, Elvis, Steele, Trevor
Fireman Sam fire truck name
Jupiter
firefighter in Pontypandy who was the only female firefighter (firewoman) from 1990 to 2015
Penny Morris
chief fire officer of the Pontypandy Fire Service
Horatio Boyce
original character from the series. She is an Italian citizen living in Wales and runs Bella’s Café, a pizzeria in Pontypandy
Bella Lasagne
SuperTed main villain
Texas Pete
SuperTed characters ONLY CONNECT
SuperTed
Spotty
Blotch
Mother Nature
Texas Pete
Skeleton
Bulk
Captain Pugwash’s first name
Horatio
Cut Throat Jake’s ship in Captain Pugwash
The Flying Dustman
Captain Pugwash’s arch nemesis
Cut Throat Jake
Captain Pugwash characters ONLY CONNECT
Captain Pugwash
Master Mate
Barnabas
Willy
Tom the Cabin Boy
Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate who appears in a series of British children’s comic strips, books and television shows created by which cartoonist?
John Ryan
Which pair created The Woodentops, Andy Pandy and The Flower Pot Men?
Freda LINGSTROM and Maria BIRD
1955 childrens tv show main characters are the members of a family living on a farm, Daddy, Mummy, Jenny, Willy, Baby and Spotty Dog?
The Woodentops
Rag doll in Andy Pandy name
Looby Loo
He created and wrote some of the most repeated children’s television programmes ever seen in Britain. Camberwick Green, Trumpton, and Chigley, collectively known as the Trumptonshire Trilogy, were all made by the company he founded.
Gordon Murray
Mary, Mungo and Midge, what is Mungo?
Dog
Mary, Mungo and Midge, what is Midge?
Mouse
Rag, Tag and Bobtail, what is Rag?
Hedgehog
Rag, Tag and Bobtail, what is Tag?
Mouse
Rag, Tag and Bobtail, what is Bobtail?
Rabbit
British animated cartoon series created by Peter Maddocks 1986-87 about an anthromorphic aeroplane?
Jimbo and the Jet Set
The adventures of a family of Loch Ness Monsters and the MacTout family, particularly siblings Elspeth and Angus. The ‘Nessies’ could be called from the loch by the two children by means of their “thistle whistles”.
The Family-Ness
What is the family name of the family in The Family-Ness opposite the family of Loch Ness Monsters?
MacTout
1989 British children’s television series that tells the adventures of a very intellectual and well-meaning (but occasionally mischievous) schoolgirl from London who loves to draw, and her escapades accompanied by her best friend, Dennis. Voiced by Su Pollard.
Penny Crayon
Which painter painted The Skating Minister, The Yellow Boy (Walter Ross) and The Drummond Children?
Henry Raeburn
It is acknowledged as one of Thomas Lawrence’s masterpieces and, a sign of the image’s enduring popularity, it was the first painting to be reproduced on a British postage stamp in 1967.
The Red Boy (Charles William Lambton)
1764 rococo painting by Joshua Reynolds was which colour boy? The _______ Boy
The Brown Boy
Actress who played Clara Oswald in Doctor Who
Jenna Coleman
Who were the four presenters of Question of Sport ONLY CONNECT?
David Vine
David Coleman
Sue Barker
Paddy McGuinness
Scout Association Male Order ONLY CONNECT
Squirrels
Beavers
Cubs
Scouts
Explorers
Scout Association Female Order ONLY CONNECT
Rainbow
Brownie
Girl Guides
Ranger Guides
Jonas Brothers in ascending age ONLY CONNECT
Frankie
Nick
Joe
Kevin
Current Strictly Dancing Judge Line Up 2024 ONLY CONNECT
Craig Revel Horwood
Motsi Mabuse
Shirley Ballas
Anton Du Beke
cast-fiberglass sculpture of a namesake animal located at Denver International Airport (DEN). Colored bright blue, with illuminated glowing red eyes, it is notable both for its striking appearance and for having killed its sculptor, Luis Jiménez, when a section of it fell on him at his studio.
Blue Mustang
American businessman and engineer, best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company. Died in the Titan disaster in June 2023.
Stockton Rush
De Niro’s wife in
Meet the Parents
Blythe Danner
Inventor of the clarinet
Johann Christoph Denner
Pioneer party stranded in the Sierra Nevadas
Donner Party
UAE astronauts are called what?
Najmanaut
Indian astronauts are called what?
Vyomanaut (or Gaga)
Valentina Tereshkova was on which spaceflight?
Vostok 6
Alan Shepard became the first American and second person in space on 5 May 1961, on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight aboard which spacecraft?
Freedom 7
The first American to orbit the Earth was John Glenn, aboard which spacecraft on 20 February 1962?
Friendship 7
the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, who flew to space in 1978 on a Soyuz-U rocket
Vladimir Remek
forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the government’s policies on deforestation, protesters in the 1970s engaged in tree hugging, wrapping their arms around trees so that they could not be felled. Sunderlal Bahuguna was a leader.
Chipko
dual-fired coal and oil power station on the Hoo Peninsula at Medway in Kent, South East England
Kingsnorth Power Station
major opencast coaling operation to the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It was the last major opencast mine in the UK, and it shut down in November 2023 with restoration planned to start in 2024
Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme
Large biomass power station near namesake village, North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing petroleum coke. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity for coal that was retired in 2021. Its name comes from the nearby village
Drax Power Station
British environmental activist, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion,[2][3] cooperative federation organisation Radical Routes,[4] the political party Burning Pink,[5] and Just Stop Oil.
Roger Hallam
Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and Indigenous peoples. He was assassinated by a rancher on 22 December 1988.
Chico Mendes
American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949)
Aldo Leopold
1955 number 1 hit with ‘Softly, Softly’
Ruby Murray
Decathlon Events ONLY CONNECT
100m
LONG Jump
SHOT Put
HIGH Jump
400m
110m Hurdles
DISCUS
POLE
JAVELIN
1500m
Heptathlon Events ONLY CONNECT
100m Hurdles
HIGH Jump
SHOT Put
200m
LONG Jump
JAVELIN
800m
Only group to appear on both the 1984 and 1989 versions of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Bananarama
Major branch of Buddhism along with Theravada and Vajrayana
Mahayana
a 1939 novel by Nathanael West adapted to film in 1975 starring Donald Sutherland as Homer Simpson
The Day of the Locust
2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games decathlon winner - from Grenada
Lindon Victor
Francis I Pope first names real
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
best known for playing Freddy Threepwood in the TV series Blandings and the villainous George Warleggan in Poldark
Jack Farthing
Giant flightless cricket endemic to New Zealand
Weta
Elevated wooden footwear originating in Japan
Geta
Who wrote Diary of a Nobody (1892)?
George and Weedon Grossmith
Who wrote Diary of a Madman (1835)?
Nikolai Gogol
Order of male voices ONLY CONNECT
Bass, Tenor, Alto, Soprano
Mission Impossible films and directions
III JJ Abrams
Ghost Protocol Brad Bird
Rogue Nation Christopher McQuarrie
Dead Reckoning Christopher McQuarrie
Who directed 1st 4 Mission Impossible films?
Brian de Palma
John Woo
JJ Abrams
Brad Bird
Batsman who have hit six sixes in an over ONLY CONNECT
Sir Garfield Sobers
Ravi Shastri
Herschelle Gibbs
Yuvraj Singh
Ross Whitely
Hazratullah Zazai
Leo Carter
Kieron Pollard
Thisara Perera
Who was the bowler for Glamorgan when Garfield Sobers was first to score six for six for Nottinghamshire?
Malcolm Nash
Artiifical sweeteners ONLY CONNECT
Sucralose (Splenda)
Stevia (Truvia)
Saccharin (Hermesetas, Sweetex)
Aspartame (Canderel)
Talk Like a Pirate Day
19th September
First four Radiohead albums ONLY CONNECT
Pablo Honey
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Coldplay Albums ONLY CONNECT
Parachutes
A Rush of Blood to the Head
X&Y
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Mylo Xyloto
Ghost Stories
A Head Full of Dreams
Everyday Life
Music of the Spheres
Arctic Monkeys albums ONLY CONNECT
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Humbug
Suck It and See
AM
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
The Car
Beatles albums ONLY CONNECT
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night
Beatles for sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The White Album
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
Pink Floyd ONLY CONNECT
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
A Saucerful of Secrets
Ummagumma
Atom Heart Mother
Meddle
Obscured by Clouds
The Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
The Final Cut
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The Division Bell
The Endless River (2014)
Led Zeppelin artwork for first four albums ONLY CONNECT
I: Hindenburg blowing into flames
II: Photo of Flying Circus led by Red Baron
III: Random art with aviation theme
IV: Man with bunch of sticks piled on back
Led Zeppelin’s last four albums after Led Zepellin I-IV ONLY CONNECT
Houses of the Holy
Physical Graffiti
Presence
In Through the Out Door (1979)
Last four Rolling Stones albums ONLY CONNECT
Bridges to Babylon (1997)
A Bigger Bang (2005)
Blue & Lonesome (2016)
Hackney Diamonds (2023)
The Bear characters ONLY CONNECT
Sydney
Carmy
Sugar
Richie
Cicero
Angel
Sweeps
Marcus
Uruguayan politician, former revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jose Mujica
German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including “Strangers in the Night”, “Danke Schoen” and “Moon Over Naples”.
Bert Kaempfert
Four rivers in the Garden of Eden (in the order mentioned in the Bible)
Euphrates
Tigris
Gihon
Pishon
Yellowstone and spin-offs and main character ONLY CONNECT
Yellowstone - John Dutton III - K Costner
1883 - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
1923 - Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford
Lawmen Bass Reeves - David Oyelowo`
Largest city on each Great Lake USA ONLY CONNECT
Superior - Thunder Bay
Huron - Sarnia
Michigan - Chicago
Erie - Cleveland
Ontario - Toronto
Basque in its own language
Euskara
What is Japanese in its own language?
Nihongo
Who plays Jay in the Silent Bob and Jay franchise?
Jason Mewes
Blackburn’s Premier League winning goalkeeper
Tim Flowers
Four Great British Sewing Bee presenters in order
Claudia Winkleman
Joe Lycett
Sara Pascoe
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
Composer of the score for The Last Temptation of Christ
Peter Gabriel
Argentine liberator
___ de San Martin
Jose
Dora the Explorer’s cousin
Diego
Metropolitan architecture firm founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975
OMA
Mexican states bordering the US east to west ONLY CONNECT
Coahuila
Chihuahua
Sonora
Baja California
Longest time between Oscar nominations for playing the same role ONLY CONNECT
Peter O’Toole (4 years - Becket/Lion in Winter)
Cate Blanchett (9 years - Elizabeth & sequel)
Paul Newman (25 years - TH and TCOM)
Sly Stallone (39 years - Rocky and Creed)
Which county of USA Its county seat is Houston, the most populous city in Texas and fourth-most populous city in the United States?
Harris County
Chicago county of USA? Second most populous.
Cook County
Peruvian-born vocalist, composer, producer, actress and model. She won a Guinness World Record for the Greatest Range of Musical Value in 1956. Name means how beautiful in Quechua. SIngle “Virgin of the Sun God”.
Yma Sumac
Mexican singer known as ‘The Prince of Song’
Jose Jose
Chinese chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. He is the highest-rated Chinese chess player in history and also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion.
Ding Liren
Bangladeshi currency
Taka
Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008)[1] and the live-action/animated film The Congress.
Ari Folman
First to win Nobel posthumously: Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy.
Erik Karlfeldt
American actress and talk show host. She is known for playing Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer, Dr. Tara Lewis in Criminal Minds, Mother Nature in the final two The Santa Clause films, and voicing Lana Kane in Archer. Charlie Wheeler in Friends.
Aisha Tyler
Stoic exiled under Claudius but returned to tutor Nero
Seneca
Samoa equivalent to Haka
Manu Siva Tau
Tonga equivalent to Haka
Sipi Tau
Fiji equivalent to Haka
Cibi
Ios, Andros, Kea, Mykonos, Paros, Milos, Santorini, Naxos make up which Greek island group?
Cyclades
2010 Laurent Binet novel that won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman
HHhH
Riddler real name
Edward Nigma
Who wrote How to be an Anti-Racist?
Ibram X. Kendi
Leyton Orient stadium
Brisbane Road
Dagenham & Redbridge stadium
Victoria Road
Last four Countdown Presenters
Jeff Stelling
Nick Hewer
Anne Robinson
Colin Murray
Supermarket clothing brands ONLY CONNECT
Mania (Aldimania), Nutmeg (Morrisons), F&F (Tesco), George (ASDA), Tu (Sainsburys)
Au Hasard Balthasar star and second wife of Jean-Luc Godard
Anne Wiazemsky
Four actresses to play Princess Margaret in the Crown ONLY CONNECT
Beau Gadsdon
Vanessa Kirby
Helena Bonham Carter
Lesley Manville
Four actresses (two strictly for the young one) for Queen Elizabeth in The Crown ONLY CONNECT
Verity Russell/Viola Prettyjohn
Claire Foy
Olivia Colman
Imelda Staunton
Four actors for Prince Philip in The Crown ONLY CONNECT
Finn Elliot
Matt Smith
Tobias Menzies
Jonathan Pryce
On television, she has starred in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor (2016–2017). She portrayed Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma in season 5 of the Netflix historical series The Crown. She currently portrays Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey in Halo.
Natascha McElhone
Master Chief alternative name in Halo including a number
John-117
He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003, 2008), William Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2014), Mad Sweeney on the Starz series American Gods (2017–2020), and as George “Pornstache” Mendez on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017), Master Chief in Halo
Pablo Schreiber
What treaty ended First Sino-Japanese War?
Treaty of Shimonoseki
What treaty ended First Punic War?
The Treaty of Lutatius
the immortal retort of Captain John Paul Jones to a request to surrender as he and his crew engaged in a desperate in 1779
I have not yet begun to fight!
Belgian national anthem name
La Brabançonne
First four of A Series of Unfortunate Events ONLY CONNECT
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room
The Wide Window
The Miserable Mill
Scottish sailor, who was the first officer on the RMS Titanic. He was the officer in charge on the bridge when the ship collided with an iceberg, and was one of the more than 1,500 people who died when the ship sank.
William Murdoch
The Once and Future King by TH White oriignally what four books ONLY CONNECT
The Sword in the Stone
The Queen of Air and Darkness
The Ill-Made Knight
The Candle in the Wind
Meaning of s, p, d, f orbitals ONLY CONNECT
Sharp
Principal
Diffuse
Fundamental
Flann O’Brien novel whose narrator is unnamed and whose title character is named Fox
The Third Policeman
Collection of Naguib Mahfouz stories about Cairo’s Gamaliya district
The Quarter
Clash song sampled by MIA Paper Planes
Straight to Hell
flock of seagulls lead singer
Mike Score
Talk Talk lead singer
Mark Hollis
Female gymnast artistic gymnastic four event order
Vault
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
Floor
Male gymnast artistic gymnastic six event order
Floor
Pommel Horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel Bars
Horizontal Bar
Hindu god, associated with the sky, oceans, and water. In the Vedic scriptures, he is paired with the god Mitra and is the lord of Ṛta
Varuna
in Norse mythology, the god of the wind and of the sea and its riches. His aid was invoked in seafaring and in hunting, and he was considered the god of “wealth-bestowal,” or prosperity. He was the father of Freyr and Freyja by his own sister.
Njord
Alexis Colby played by Joan Collins in Dynasty has four husbands ONLY CONNECT
Blake Carrington
Cecil Colby
Dex Dexter
Sean Rowan
Who was Duke of Monmouth’s mother, Charles II dad?
Lucy Walter
Death of Winston Churchill
1965
Ricky Gervais Stand Up Shows ONLY CONNECT
Animals
Politics
Fame
Science
Humanity
SuperNature
Armageddon
In February 1797 — the year of the Spithead and Nore mutinies — Captain Hugh Pigot took command of which ship? Pigot was a cruel officer who meted out severe and arbitrary punishments to his crew. This treatment of the crew led to the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history in September 1797 which saw Pigot and most of the officers killed.
Hermione
an Afghan hound, the first dog clone. The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only two produced pups.
Snuppy
Brian Blessed character name in Z Cars
Fancy Smith
On 3 June 1844, the last two confirmed specimens were killed on which island, off the coast of Iceland, ending the last known breeding attempt
Eldey
Blondie’s record label 1978-82
Chrysalis
Britain’s first internet bank
Egg
Continuous track on a tank - insect
Caterpillar
English clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat. Stranger on the Shore.
Acker Bilk
1824 born one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. He was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the “King of the skies”.
Eugene Boudin
Led singer and guitarist of Supergrass
Gaz Coombes
Last four Blur albums up to 2023 album
13
Think Tank
The Magic Whip
The Ballad of Darren
Last four Rolling Stones albums up to 2023 album
Bridges to Babylon
A Bigger Bang
Blue & Lonesome
Hackney Diamonds
Sam Smith four music albums up to 2023 album
In the Lonely Hour
The Thrill of It All
Love Goes
Gloria
Last four Radio 1 presenters morning show ONLY CONNECT
Sara Cox
Chris Moyles
Nick Grimshaw
Greg James
First four Radio 1 presenters morning show ONLY CONNECT
Tony Blackburn
Noel Edmonds
Dave Lee Travis
Mike Read
Last four Radio 2 presenters morning show ONLY CONNECT
Brian Hayes
Terry Wogan
Chris Evans
Zoe Ball
English artist from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who produces landscape installations using ceramic flowers - did the poppy thing at Tower of London
Paul Cummins
Antoine Court’s Protestant followers
Church of the Desert
virus is an RNA virus in the genus Alphavirus. This disease was named after the namesake forst in the northern Victoria region of Australia, where it was first isolated in 1974. It is passed to vertebrate hosts almost exclusively by mosquitoes, the first case in humans being documented in 1986.
Barmah Forest Virus
Most points for England Rugby Union ONLY CONNECT 2024
Owen Farrell
Jonny Wilkinson
George Ford
Paul Grayson
Most wickets for England Test ONLY CONNECT men
James Anderson 700
Stuart Broad 604
Ian Botham 383
Bob Willis 325
Gates of Old Jerusalem ONLY CONNECT
Damascus Gate; Herod’s Gate; Lions’ Gate; Golden Gate; Dung Gate; Zion Gate; and Jaffa Gate
At about 1,500 square miles, A23a is the world’s largest what?
Iceberg
Which sugar doesn’t come from plants?
Lactose
Who, in 1954, was the first black woman to have a UK No 1 single?
Winifred Atwell (Let’s Have Another Party)
What is the only dwarf planet within Neptune’s orbit?
Ceres
Which 1819 novel cemented the modern legend of Robin Hood?
Ivanhoe
In AI computing, what is an LLM?
Large Language Model
What links: Ceiling Painting; My Mommy is Beautiful; Sky TV; Wish Tree?
Artworks by Yoko Ono
Whose Hours was the first major album to debut as digital download?
David Bowie (1999)
Which play did Janet Suzman controversially direct in Johannesburg in 1987?
Othello
Ogham script was used to write which language
Irish (and Pictish)
In official secrets, what is the NCND principle?
Neither confirm nor deny
Which film told the story of SOE agent Violette Szabo?
Carve Her Name With Pride
What links: 1377; 1379; 1381; 1989 (Scotland); 1990 (England & Wales)?
Poll Tax imposed
What links: Tutti Frutti; The Locomotion; Shout Out to My Ex; Introvert?
Songs by Little artists: L Richard; L Eva; L Mix; L Simz
What links: Aldridge; Carter; Grundy; Horrobin; Pargetter?
Families in The Archers
What links: Jessica Drew, Gwen Stacy and Mattie Franklin; Brenda Hale?
Spider-Woman: in Marvel comics; Spider Woman (judge’s autobiography)
English Anglican bishop who sits in the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual. Since June 2015, she has served as Bishop of Gloucester, the first female diocesan bishop in the Church of England.
Rachel Treweek
French F1 driver who died in 2015 first since Senna to die from F1 crash and none since.
Jules Bianchi
Record producer who wrote and produced The Tornados’ ‘Telstar’
Joe Meek
Last private resident in what is now 10 Downing Street
Mr Chicken
American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musicion. Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous.
Lester Bangs
Country code for
South Africa
Za
Order of the The Rest Is and the hosts
History: Tom Holland and Sandbrook
Politics: Campbell & Stewart
Footballer: Lineker, Shearer & Richards
Money: McGovern & Peston
Entertainment: Osman & Hyde
German Chancellor at the turn of the Millennium
Shroeder
1979 Masters winner who made racist remarks during Tiger Woods’ 1997 Masters
Frank Urban
“Fuzzy” Zoeller
Who wrote The Giving Tree?
Shel Silverstein
In Willa Cather’s My Antonia, what is Antonia’s surname?
Shimerda
American U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release of government information to the media[7] after she leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
Reality Winner
American fashion model, actress and television personality. She is best known as the winner of the first cycle of America’s Next Top Model in 2003.
Adrianne Curry
American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as “seminal”, helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West.
Ram Dass
Four People who are the L.B.s in “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”
The lyrics are “Mountains sit in a line / Leonard Bernstein! / Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs / Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom”
The Great Gig in the Sky” is the fifth track[nb 1] on The Dark Side of the Moon, a 1973 album by English rock band Pink Floyd. The song features music by keyboard player Richard Wright and improvised, wordless vocals by which session singer? Also covered Love is like a BUtterfly for tv show Butterflies.
Clare Torry
Type of punch named after a Filipino single-edged knife similar to the machete
Bolo Punch
French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed the French Third Republic in 1870 and played a prominent role in its early government.
Leon Gambetta
Vince Clarke’s bands with top 40 songs
Depeche Mode
Yazoo
The Assembly
Erasure
inner wool of the muskox. In Inuinnaqtun the same word can be used to refer any down such as the down feathers of birds.
Qiviut
His political treatise Defensor pacis (The Defender of Peace), an attempt to refute papal claims to a “plenitude of power” in affairs of both church and state, is seen by some scholars as the most revolutionary political treatise written in the later Middle Ages Born 1270.
Marsilius of Padua
The Mitford baroncey is what?
Baron Redesdale
originated the lead roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1949 and Hello, Dolly! in 1964, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the latter. She revived both roles several times throughout her career, playing Dolly on Broadway for the final time in 1995. She was nominated for her first Tony Award in 1956 for The Vamp, followed by a nomination in 1961 for Show Girl. She received her fourth Tony Award nomination for the musical Lorelei in 1974.
Carol Channing
a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930. It was one of the most influential critical works of the 20th century and was a key foundation work in the formation of the New Criticism school
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Who narrated Trumpton?
Brian Cant
Trumpton firemen ONLY CONNECT
Captain Flack
Fireman Pugh x 2
Barney McGrew
Cuthbert
Dibble
Grubb
the owner of Winkstead Hall, a peer of the realm, and driver of the steam locomotive Bessie; he appears in every episode (Butler Mr Brackett).
Lord Belborough
Thomas the Tank’s two carriages names
Annie and Clarabel
Thomas the Tank numbers and colours main ONLY CONNECT
Thomas 01 Blue
Edward 02 Blue
Henry 03 Green
Gordon 04 Blue
James 05 Red
Percy 06 Green
Toby 07 Brown
Duck 08 Green
Donald 09 Black
Douglas 10 Black
Emily 12 Emerald
Nia 18 Orange
Rebecca 22 Yellow
contributions to children’s television include the design of the ship logo used by Blue Peter and the show’s badges, and the animated character of Morph, who appeared beside him on his programmes following his introduction in the 1970s.
Tony Hart
an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba beliefs and traditions, with some Roman Catholic elements added. The religion is also known as La Regla Lucumi and the Rule of Osha. Grew out of slave trade in Cuba, means way of the saints.
Santeria
Cosey Fanni Tutti and Genesis P-Orridge formed which controversial industrial band and performance art group in Hull, releasing their debut album The Second Annual Report in 1977?
Throbbing Gristle
Which British feminist writer is the author of the 1988 work The Sexual Contract, which argues that women cannot reform the patriarchy that oppresses them but that it must be broken down and society built afresh?
Carole Pateman
What is the nickname of the Hundred cricket side with the place name London? Their women’s side is captained by Heather
Knight.
London Spirit
Which interior designer is the head judge on the BBC One reality competition show Interior Design Masters? She previously
appeared as a guest judge on the show’s former incarnation, The Great Interior Design Challenge.
Michelle OGUNDEHIN
Which genus of bacteria contains the causative agent of cholera? They give their name to a group of curved-rod or commashaped bacteria.
Vibrio
The Persian language is also known as Farsi; by what other name is the variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan commonly known? It is one of Afghanistan’s two official languages along with Pashto.
Dari Persian
Which think tank was set up in 2002 by a group including Francis Maude, Nick Boles and Michael Gove? It is considered one of the most influential think tanks on the right in the UK.
Policy Exchange
Which town hosts Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix?
Monza
What name, after the pseudonym taken by its compiler, Jonathan Crowther, is given to the particularly tough cryptic crossword
that has appeared in The Observer since 1972?
Azed
Which man managed Accrington Stanley from 1999 to 2012 and 2014 to 2024, two of the longest reigns in recent English football?
John Coleman
Which phylum of bacteria have a distinctive helix-coil shape and contains the genera Borrelia and Treponema, which cause Lyme disease and syphilis respectively?
Spirochaete
What is the nickname of the Hundred cricket side with the place name Manchester? Their women’s side is captained by Sophie
Ecclestone.
Manchester Originals
Which interior designer, who was a primary judge on The Great Interior Design Challenge and still occasionally appears as a guest
judge on Interior Design Masters, was also a Dragon on Dragons’ Den from 2013 to 2015?
Kelly Hoppen
With 15-year-old Neneh Cherry on backing vocals, Cut was the acclaimed debut album of which experimental punk and post
punk band whose line-ups have included Ari Up, Palmolive, Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt?
The Slits
Alongside various combinations of carbon, hydrogen and/or oxygen, what chemical element is common to thiols?
Sulphur
Continuing the theme of The Sexual Contract, which Jamaican philosopher wrote the 1997 work The Racial Contract, which argues that the social contract has created a society that encourages the exploitation of people of colour for the benefit of the capitalist system?
Charles W Mills
Who portrayed D’Artagnan’s romantic interest Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers? Her other
roles include an iconic turn as Loana in One Million Years B.C.
Raquel Welch
Which man has managed Harrogate Town since 2009, the longest current reign in English league football?
Simon Weaver
Jonathan Crowther’s predecessor at The Observer was the compiler Derrick Somerset Macnutt, who died in 1971 and who used
which pseudonym? This pseudonym is now used adjectively to denote clues that follow the strict clueing conventions favoured by Macnutt.
Ximenes
With around 30 million speakers, which language is the third most-spoken first language in Pakistan after Punjabi and Pashto? It is
spoken in a namesake province in Pakistan’s southeast, although has been largely replaced by Urdu in that province’s capital of
Karachi.
Sindhi
Which neoconservative transatlantic foreign policy think tank based in the UK is headed by Alan Mendoza? It is named for a
former US Senator who twice ran for president in the 1970s.
Henry Jackson Society
Spelled as one word, Georgetown is the capital of Guyana. Spelled as two words, George Town is the capital of which other member of the Caribbean Community, a British overseas territory located between Jamaica and Cuba?
Cayman Islands
Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton were part of gold medal winning teams for Team GB at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic games
in which sailing class?
Yngling
Don Basilio and Don Curzio are both Mozart tenor roles that feature in what Mozart opera, whose plot includes the wedding
of Susanna and the title character?
The Marriage of Figaro
What drink is added to whiskey to make a Whiskey Mac cocktail?
Ginger Wine
The namesake of a plot against Queen Elizabeth I, which English gentleman was hanged, drawn and quartered after the plot was uncovered by Sir Francis Walsingham in 1586?
Anthony Babington
