Next 27 Flashcards
The Ironclad, the Watcher, the Silent, and the Defect are the four playable characters in which roguelike deck-building video game, released for Windows in 2017 and for consoles two years later, in which the player battles various monsters while climbing up through a building?
Slay the Spire
Which multi-talented sports star – who also competed in golf, field hockey and archery – won the first of her five Wimbledon Singles Championships in 1887 aged just 15?
Lottie Dod
Named to commemorate an event that was first held in 1891 and that now takes place every four years in France, what wheelshaped dessert is made from choux pastry, filled with a praline-flavoured cream and topped with flaked almonds?
Paris-Brest
What nine-letter term is given to the jelly-like mass of amphibian eggs found floating in ponds during the mating season of amphibians?
Frogspawn
Ridden by Paul Townsend and winning at odds of 7/1 [seven to one], which horse won the 2024 Grand National?
I am Maximus
Caused by cerebellar disorders or impaired sensory input to the spinal cord, what term is given to a disorder of balance and coordination that can result in a wide-based or high-stepping gait, poor coordination and falls? This term follows “Friedreich’s” in the name of a genetic condition.
Ataxia
American journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her work on what longform piece about slavery and the early history of the United States? The piece was named in reference to the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony. You may answer with just the year.
The 1619 Project
Which British comedian coined the catchphrase “I don’t really know” while performing impressions of the character Mavis Reilly from Coronation Street, despite the character never having used the phrase herself?
Les Dennis
In architecture, what demonym precedes the word ‘gable’ to describe any gable which is curved and has a pediment at the top?
Dutch
With an estimated population of close to 2.5 million and spanning around 22 square miles in Karachi, what is the most populated slum in the world?
Orangi Town
What game – usually played outdoors, though an indoor version used to be popular in pubs – requires players to throw rings made of metal, rope or rubber over a set distance with the aim of it landing over a spike or pin?
Quoits (coytz)
Derry Girls star Louise Harland plays the title character in which historical fantasy adventure series, which premiered on Disney+ in March 2024?
Renegade Nell
English actor, best known for playing Don Beech in The Bill from 1995 to 2004, Johnny Allen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2005 to 2006, and Captain John Price in the video games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Billy Murray
Which French dessert consists of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone shape and bound together with threads of caramel?
CROQUEMBOUCHE
In which TV gameshow hosted by Michael Barrymore did contestants try to avoid ‘hotspots’ that meant they lost prizes?
Strike It Lucky
A shadowy cabin-dwelling dealer named Leshy acts as gamemaster in which 2021 roguelike deck-building video game whose other memorable characters include an irritable stoat and a stunted wolf, both of which have been turned into cards that are used to play the game?
Inscryption
In 1887, Lottie Dod won the first major tennis event of the year, the Irish Championships. Who did she defeat in the final? This
player had won the first two Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Championships in 1884 and 1885.
Maud Watson
Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan plays Maggie, a thirtysomething with bipolar disorder in which Channel 4 sitcom, which began in March 2024?
Big Mood
Located in Mumbai, what slum community houses more than 1 million people in just under 1 square mile, making it among the
most densely-populated areas in the world?
Dharavi
What game, that was traditionally popular in English pub gardens, requires players to throw a baton or stick at a ball known as a ‘dolly’? This game shares its name with a logical fallacy also called a straw man, and a character from a children’s TV show that ran from 1979 to 1981.
Aunt Sally
Sometimes associated with a syrinx and named after a Viennese pathologist, what name is given to a brain malformation in which the cerebellar tonsils protrude through the foramen magnum into the spinal canal, resulting in the need for decompressive surgery if obstruction occurs?
Chiari Malformation
Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns was written about what period of African American history, where
around six million African Americans moved away from states in the American South?
Great Migration
The catchphrase “I wanna tell you a story” became associated with entertainer Max Bygraves after which impressionist coined
the phrase while doing impressions of him during the 1970s?
Mike Yarwood
In 2019, which Northern Irish golf course returned to the roster of courses for the Open? It will host the competition again in 2025.
Royal Portrush
What savoury porridge dish, popular in east and southeast Asia, is made by boiling rice in water until it completely softens?
Sometimes eaten as a breakfast, it can be topped with a variety of ingredients, such as spring onions, fish or pickled vegetables
Congee
The War of the Spanish Succession confirmed the accession of which King of Spain, the first Spanish monarch from the House of Bourbon? Name and regnal number required.
Philip V
What sweet porridge dish, popular in the Indian subcontinent, is made by boiling rice in milk and sugar? Usually eaten as a
dessert, this dish can be flavoured and topped with a variety of ingredients such as cardamom, saffron, dried nuts and fruit.
Kheer
In 2006, which Irish golf course became the first Irish course to host the Ryder Cup?
K Club (Kildare Club)
Which battle of 991 CE took place in Essex between the English and the Viking invaders? The battle ended in victory for the
Vikings, with the English paying 10,000 Roman pounds of silver to end the conflict.
Battle of MALDON
Located in the Northwest Territories and running for 4,241 kilometres, what is the longest river in Canada?
Mackenzie River
Which songwriter wrote numerous number ones in the 1960s including Gerry and the Pacemakers’ ‘How Do You Do It?’ and ‘I Like It’?
Mitch MURRAY
She was the wife of Joseph and the mother of his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Asenath
Five albums by Police ONLY CONNECT
Outlandos d’Amour
Reggatta de Blanc
Zenyatta Mondatta
Ghost in the Machine
Synchronicity
Which 1972 Pink Floyd album was recorded as the soundtrack for La Vallée, a
French film directed by Barbet Schroeder about a woman on a spiritual voyage of
discovery in the New Guinea bush?
Obscured by Clouds
Often used in laboratory settings where high-purity water is required, and sometimes also known as demineralised water, DI water is water from which charged particles have been removed. What is the DI short for in this context?
Deionised
Death In Paradise lead detective now fifth in 2024 ONLY CONNECT
Ben Miller
Kris Marshall
Ardal O’Hanlon
Ralf Little
Don Gilet
The name of which dairy product is used in baseball as a slang term for a fastball, particularly one that is difficult to hit?
Cheese
The name of which dairy product is used in baseball as a slang term for a
fastball, particularly one that is difficult to hit?
Royal Vauxhall Tavern
The Indian-administered parts of the disputed region of Kashmir consists of two
union territories: Jammu and Kashmir is one, what is the other?
Ladakh
Which novel, by American author Ann Patchett and based on a hostage crisis of
1996-97, won the 2002 Women’s Prize for Fiction, then known as the Orange Prize?
Bel Canto
Last four Womens Prize winners up to 2023 ONLY CONNECT
Hamnet
Piranesi
The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ruth Ozeki)
Demon Copperhead
In 1623, the internal floors of the French Ambassador’s residence in London
collapsed under the weight of those present, killing around 100 people. Which
type of religious service was being held there at the time, giving this event its
name of ‘the Fatal _______’?
Vespers
Which American apparel company, founded in the late 19th century but now a popular streetwear brand, is known for its heavy-duty workwear clothing, often made from heavy denim? Their logo consists of a bright yellow rounded shape, resembling a swirling wave, on a white background.
Carhartt
Which colour precedes ‘stone’ in a term used for the stones used to build Stonehenge, many of which had been transported from Wales?
Blue
What is the largest city of the disputed region of Kashmir, and the capital of the
Indian Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir?
Srinagar
In 2008, which Radio DJ, TV Presenter and car collector bought a 1963 Ferrari
250, that had previously belonged to the actor James Coburn, for 6.4 million
euros, at the time the highest price ever paid at auction for a car?
Chris Evans
Which American slang term for a common starchy vegetable is traditionally used
in baseball to refer to either the ball itself, or to a home run?
Tater
Which 1969 Pink Floyd album was recorded as the soundtrack for the film with
the same single-word name, the directorial debut of Barbet Schroeder, about drug addiction in Ibiza?
More
Partly named for a mathematician and scientist, and with uses including physically erasing stored data, what word denotes the process of reducing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field?
Degaussing
Howard Webb was the third Englishman to referee a FIFA World Cup final,
following William Ling in 1954 and Jack Taylor in which other year? He awarded
the first ever penalty given in a World Cup final.
1974
The Tulip Revolution was a change of power that took place in which Central Asian country in 2005, leading to the resignation of President Askar Akayev, who fled from Bishkek to Kazakhstan, and then on to Russia?
Kyrgyzstan
Which American apparel company, founded in the early 20th century but now a popular streetwear brand, is known for its workwear, including chino-like ‘Work Pants’ and flannel ‘Work shirts’? Prominent tags carry their logo, whose yellow ox
collar is often mistaken for a horseshoe.
Dickies
Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor, is a central character of which novel by
Canadian writer Anne Michaels, which won the 1997 Women’s Prize for Fiction,
then known as the Orange Prize?
Fugitive Pieces
In 1184, Henry VI, the future Holy Roman Emperor, survived the collapse of a room in which he was hosting a large meeting of nobles, where around 60 people died when they fell into the latrine below, many drowning or suffocating in the fumes. This event is known as which Thuringian city’s ‘Latrine Disaster’?
Erfurt
Which retired teacher from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire was one of the biggest stars of the 2nd UK series of the The Traitors, until she was ‘murdered’ in episode 7? In episode 3 she had revealed to the audience that she was actually the mother of fellow contestant Ross. (first or surname accepted)
Diane Carson
Lifestyle business by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
Elizabeth and James
Director of Menance II Society
Hughes Brothers
First song ever featured on TOTP
Dusty Springfield’s I Only Want To Be With You
First act ever to perform on TOTP
I Wanna Be Your Man by Rolling Stones
TOTP running time years
1964 to 2006
Who sponsors London Marathon from 2022 taking over from Virgin Money?
Tata Consultancy Services
Who wrote and performed the 1966 World Cup song for England “World Cup Willie”?
Lonnie Donegan
English rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire. The band found success at home and abroad after teaming up with Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. They have had a number of lineup changes and were still actively touring in 2024. Their most popular hit single, “Living Next Door to Alice”, peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Smokie
Official England squad song for 1970 World Cup
Back Home
Written by Chris Norman and Pete Spencer of Smokie, what was name of official England squad song for 1982 World Cup?
This Time (We’ll Get It Right)
Official song for 1986 England World Cup modified from 1980 Notts Forest 1980 European Cup FInal song?
We’ve Got the Whole World at Our Feet
What year was World in Motion by New Order released for?
1990 World Cup
Official song for 1998 World Cup written by Ian McCulloch and sang by England United (Echo and B, Space, Spice Girls, Simon Fowler)? Overshadowed by Vindaloo and Three Lions 98.
“(How Does it Feel to Be) on Top of the World?”
band from Liverpool, England, who formed in 1992 initially as a trio of Tommy Scott (vocals, bass, guitar), Jamie Murphy (vocals, guitar) and Jamie Island (drums), who was later replaced by Andy Parle. Keyboard player Franny Griffiths joined the line-up a year later, and the band signed to Gut Records in 1995, eventually rising to prominence with hit singles such as “Female of the Species”, “Me and You Versus the World”, “Neighbourhood”, “Avenging Angels” and “The Ballad of Tom Jones”, the latter a duet with Cerys Matthews of Catatonia.
Space
2010 World Cup song for England written by Roland Orzabal and performed by Dizzee Rascal and James Corden
“Shout (Shout for England song)”
English rock band formed in Bailiff Bridge, West Yorkshire, in 1990. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale, and drummer Mike Heaton. Sang 2006 World Cup England song “World at your Feet”.
Embrace
British hip hop duo from London, consisting of Casyo Valentine “_____” Johnson BEM (born 4 February 1990, Gipsy Hill) and Karl Dominic “_____” Wilson BEM (born 3 September 1989, Thornton Heath), the son of Delroy Wilson otherwise known as ‘Jamaica’s first child star’.
Krept and Konan
George Eliot fictional county
Loamshire
Aichi Sendou, the protagonist of the show, is a timid young boy in his third year of junior high school. The one thing that keeps him going is his trading card Blaster Blade from namesake trading card game. Oriignal run 2011-12.
Cardfight!! Vanguard
Group 1 horserace at Sandown Park in July
Eclipse Stakes
England 2022 World Cup base in Qatar
Al Wakrah
Who played Harold Bishop in Neighbours?
Ian Smith
Plays:
Bouncers
1977
Teechers
1984
Happy Families
1985
April in Paris
1993
Up ‘n’ Under
1985
Dracula
1998
John Godber
Myrmecobius fasciatus known as Walpurti - insect eating marsupial
Numbat
Signal Iduna Park or Westfalenstadion which football team’s stadium?
Borussia Dortmund
an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten, after his death reorganised under names of two business partners.
Chatto and Windus
W&N Publishing House short for which two surnames? British publisher of fiction and reference books.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924, by namesake pair? Considered one of the Big Five UK Publishing firms alongside Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers.
Simon & Schuster
1722 to 5 March 1790, is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising.
Flora MacDonald
South African vegetable relish, usually spicy, that is traditionally served with bread, pap, samp, stews, or curries. Originated in the townships of Johannesburg or in the gold mines surrounding Johannesburg, when Mozambican mineworkers leaving their shift cooked tinned produce (tomatoes, beans) with chili to produce a spicy Portuguese-style relish to accompany pap.
Chakalaka
Cape Town’s most famous sandwich: foot-long, soft-white sub stuffed with combinations of meat (polony, masala steak, chicken or calamari), slap tjips (chips), sauce (piri-piri, tomato), cheese, fried eggs and salad
Gatsby
Who sang “Don’t Call Me Baby”?
Madison Avenue
Author, The Making of the English Working Class
EP Thompson
He has worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and is known for his portrayal of Kurt Wallander in the Netflix series Young Wallander, as a lead [Christian] in the series Before We Die and as the lead character, Tom Blixen, in the series Moscow Noir.
Adam Palsson
first saw mainstream recognition as one half of the Mississippi-based hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd, which he formed with his brother Slim Jxmmi, He guest featured on French Montana’s 2017 single “Unforgettable,” which became his first song to reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, his single “Sunflower” (with Post Malone) was released for the accompanying soundtrack to the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
Swae Lee
British historian, television presenter and author of popular history books and novels,[1][2] including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022).
Simon Sebag Montefiore
British curler most famous for skipping the British women’s team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team claimed the gold medal. She has also skipped for the Scotland curling team at both the World and European Championships.
Rhona Martin
Scottish cross-country skier and biathlete. He has represented Great Britain at six Olympic Games in cross-country skiing and biathlon.[1] He is only the seventh athlete from any country to have competed at six Winter Games[2] and is one of fewer than fifty athletes to have competed in at least six Olympic Games. Carried flag at 2002 winter olympics.
Mike Dixon
Last four Summer Olympics flag carriers up to Tokyo 2020 ONLY CONNECT
2008 Mark Foster
2012 Chris Hoy
2016 Andy Murray
2020 Hannah Mills (Sailing) and Moe Sbihi (Rower)
English World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom. Widely considered to be the greatest British skier of all time, he has competed for Great Britain in four Olympics, seven World Championships, and won the Europa Cup. His best World Cup result was a victory in 2022 Kitzbühel slalom, the first victory for any British athlete at that level in Alpine skiing. Carried flag at 2022 Winter Olympics.
Dave Ryding
Order of the Golf Majors ONLY CONNECT
The Masters
US Open
The Open
US PGA
One word name for Dutch Sheepdog, is a breed of dog originating in the Netherlands
Schapendoes
1937 play in music by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the Brechtian allegory of corruption and corporate greed includes a panoply of social figures. It follows the efforts of Larry Foreman to unionize the town’s workers and combat the powerful industrialist Mr. Mister, who controls the town’s factory, press, church, and social organization. The piece is almost entirely sung-through, giving it many operatic qualities, although Blitzstein included popular song styles of the time.
The Cradle Will Rock
eighth studio album by the American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on October 28, 1997, by Warner Bros. Records - consists of four CDs
Zaireeka
fourth studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side.
Sandinista!
Six The Clash Albums ONLY CONNECT
The Clash
Give Em Enough Rope
London Calling
Sandinista!
Combat Rock
Cut the Crap
derives from Sanskrit texts, and is thought to mean “place of tranquility.” From buddhist mythology. Now a festival.
Shambala
Mr. Hockey
Gordie Howe
Ulmus glabra
Wych Elm
This dish is from the Moghul dynasty that started off its life as a type of kebab. This curry takes name from hindi/urdu for Favourite is a rich curry that favours dark meats and starchy veg.
Pasanda
Constellation separated into two parts by Ophiuchus
Serpens (Caput and Cauda)
“Aserejé” band
Las Ketchup
Google 3D modelling software
SketchUp
Playstation and Xbox control buttons from North to West
Green Triangle / Yellow Y
Orange Circle / Red B
Blue X / Green A
Pink Square / Blue X
“Sexual Healing” drum machine
808
Four things wrong week to quit in Airplane by Lloyd Bridges as tower supervisor? ONLY CONNECT
Smoking
Drinking
Amphetamines
Sniffing Glue
an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the 49ers with the final pick in the 2022 NFL draft, becoming that year’s Mr. Irrelevant. Got to Superbowl in 2024.
Brock Purdy
What Coca-Cola is, according to their longtime slogan
The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard 5 Tony Awards ONLY CONNECT
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), Travesties (1976), The Real Thing (1984), The Coast of Utopia (2007), and Leopoldstadt (2023)
baseball jargon for a . 200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility at the Major League level
Mendoza Line
Three letter word for the terrestrial juvenile phase of a newt?
Eft
type of bread typically associated with Provence but found in other regions. Some versions are sculpted or slashed into a pattern resembling a head of wheat, derived from Latin for focus meaning hearth.
Fougasse
Mexican dish or antojito made with namesake bread dipped and fried in a red guajillo pepper sauce. It is traditionally filled with papas con chorizo or with papas only but there are different varieties
Pambazo
Japanese milk bread, also called Hokkaido milk bread, or simply milk bread in English sources, is a soft white bread commonly sold in Asian bakeries, particularly Japanese ones.
Shokupan
Three letter word honey wine, like mead, that is brewed and consumed in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Tej
Name of Venus Fly Trap in 2023 John Lewis Christmas advert
Snapper
Who sang the 2023 John Lewis Christmas advert song Festa?
Andrea Bocelli
Thames Water mascot released in 2023
Otis the Otter
First Direct mascot released in 2023
Skint Skunk
Who were the couple played by Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan for Nescafe GOLD BLEND?
Tony and Sharon
The show’s unkempt Baldy Man character (as played by Gregor Fisher) struggles to pose calmly in a photo booth, and after his height-adjustable seat drops him almost out of the frame, is heard to strike a match. As Fisher’s face reenters the screen, he exhales smoke and smiles as a voiceover reads the slogan “Happiness is a cigar called ______”.
Hamlet
fictional characters created to advertise the Renault Clio in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 1998 played by Estelle Skornik and Max Douchin?
Papa and Nicole
Which country does the dish saganaki come from?
Greece - fried cheese
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
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)
During the Wars of the Roses, the longest siege of any castle in the British Isles occurred between 1461 and 1468 (lasting seven years). Which castle was it?
Harlech Castle
In which year did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, causing widespread damage and loss of life?
1607
As well as Sir Alex Ferguson, which other ex–premier league manager owned a horse that won at this year’s Cheltenham festival?
2024
Harry Redknapp
Who is the current British No.1 women’s tennis player?2024
Katie Boulter
Jimmy Anderson holds the record for the most test wickets by a fast bowler. Which fast bowler is second on the list?
Stuart Broad
A recent World Snooker Tour event in Saudi Arabia featured a significant change to standard snooker rules. What was it?
An extra 20–point golden ball for players who complete a 147, meaning a maximum break of 167 was possible
Who is Team GB’s most successful female Olympian?
Dame Laura Trott (Kenny)
Which classic comedy character was terrified of his Aunt Agatha?
Bertie Wooster
Louis Wain is best known for his paintings of which animal?
Cats
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.
Huron and Michigan
Which is the nearest mainland country to the island of Cyprus?
Turkey
Isoprene, Nitrile and butyl are all types of what substance
Rubber
Which comet collided with Jupiter in July 1994, the first direct observation of a collision in the Solar System?
Shoemaker Levy 9
Buccula is the scientific name for which undesirable feature of the human body?
Double Chin
Of the 88 keys on a standard grand piano, how many are black? There is some leeway.
36
Which salad vegetable is known as arugula in the USA?
Rocket
Which female forename did the magazine Private Eye use to refer to Queen Elizabeth II?
Brenda
Which Test cricketing feat was achieved by Jim Laker in 1956, Anil Kumble in 1999 and Ajaz Patel in 2023?
All ten innings in a match
Which famous Sunday Express cartoonist created the character known as Grandma, a statue of whom can be seen in Ipswich town centre?
Giles
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 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
In a standard car, only under which circumstances is the driver allowed to go without a seatbelt?
When reversing
If a musical note is neither sharp nor flat, what is it?
Natural
Eau–de–nil (literally ‘water of the Nile’) is a shade of which colour?
Green
On 11th October 2000, which South African Test captain was banned for life on match fixing charges?
Hansie Cronje
Named for the legendary Biblical city, Mount Sodom lies alongside which body of water?
Dead Sea
In dyeing, what name is given to a substance used to bind dyes onto fabrics?
Mordant
For the benefit of touch typists, small bumps or ridges called homing bars are found on two keyboard letters. Name either.
F or J
Guernsey, Jersey, and The Isle of Man are neither counties nor countries, and neither part of the UK nor overseas territories. They are classified as what type of administrative division?
Crown Dependency
Although it is broken and never been used, The Tsarsky Kolokol is the world’s biggest example of what?
Bell
Which Danish–American comedian and pianist earned the nickname ‘the Clown Prince of Denmark’ for his blend of music comedy and wit?
Victor Borge
Green room, Sushi Roll and Superman are all terms in which new Summer Olympic sport?
Surfing
In which year did Pakistan gain independence from the UK?
1947
Which modern–day New England state was an independent republic from 1777, before being admitted in to the United States in 1791?
Vermont
Hengist and Horsa were Germanic brothers, said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in which century?
The 5th Century (following the end of Roman rule in 410 AD)
Clementine was the first name of the wife of which UK Prime Minister?
Winston Churchill
Name the coastal village in North Yorkshire, 6 miles south of Whitby, but with absolutely no connection to the legendary character it is supposedly named after.
Robin Hood’s Bay
Name the market town in Bedfordshire on the River Ouzel, 36 miles northwest of London, with a station on the West Coast Main Line that you may have passed through on your way to Watford or London.
Leighton Buzzard
In the UK, we call them spring onions. What are these vegetables known as in the USA?
Scallions
What name is given to the first day of Spring, when the night and day are the same length?
Vernal Equinox
According to the National Farmers Union (NFU), the UK produces 90% of the world’s stock of which Spring flower?
Daffodil
The tulip is a member of what flower family?
Lily
At which stadium, with a record attendance of over 102,000, does the rugby league team Bradford Bulls play home games?
Odsal
Who was the 100 metres sprinter and Olympic champion immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire?
Harold Abrahams
Which 1973 British children’s fantasy–adventure comedy film starred Jim Dale and the biggest dog in the world?
Digby
In what decade was the London Underground Railway, the world’s first underground rail system, opened?
1860s (1863 Metropolitan Line)
Which eye hospital is the oldest and largest centre for ophthalmic treatment, teaching and research in Europe?
Moorfields
Only five restaurants in the UK hold three Michelin stars. The flagship Chelsea restaurant of which famous chef has held three Michelin stars since 2001?
Gordon Ramsay
The West End play The Mousetrap is the world’s longest running show, with over 27,000 performances. In what year did it open?
1952
Which Camden Town based band had their first chart success in 1979 with The Prince?
Madness
Who is the main character in John Braine’s 1957 novel Room at the Top – played in the 1958 film adaptation by Laurence Harvey?
Joe Lampton
0141 is the dialling code for which UK city?
Glasgow
How many records are castaways allowed on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs?
Eight
Although his formal title is the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, what is the nickname of the leader of the Catholic religious order known as the Jesuits?
Black Pope
What is the largest body of fresh water in the UK?
Lough Neagh
Champion Brighttouch Drift the Line Through Dialynne, known to his friends as Viking, was crowned Best in Show at Crufts last month. What breed of dog is Viking?
Australian Sheepdog
How many square metres are there in a hectare?
10,000
How many checkers does each player have at the start of a game of backgammon?
Fifteen
In Arthurian legend, which Knight of the Round Table found the Holy Grail?
Galahad
When did ITV start broadcasting?
1955
Who was Moses’ assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes?
Joshua
Who is the only British–born manager to have won the European Cup and/or Champions League three times?
Bob Paisley
Name any one of the three Native Indian tribes that combined forces to defeat the US Cavalry at the Battle of the Greasy Grass in 1876.
Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne or Arapaho (Greasy Grass is the native name for the Little Big Horn)
When did Sky TV start broadcasting in the UK?
1989
The river Sherbourne runs through which West Midlands city?
Coventry
Of all the US states that have a land border with Canada, which has the shortest border?
Idaho
The 2023 Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon is based on murders amongst which native American tribe?
Osage
What is Christian’s ultimate destination in Pilgrim’s Progress?
Celestial City
Founded in 1964, what is the nickname of the British Parachute Regiment’s parachute display team?
Red Devils
Which Asian country, with a population of over 170 million, is the largest country by population never to have won a medal of any colour at the Olympic Games, either Summer or Winter?
Bangladesh
Which English king founded the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1725? (Name and regnal number required.)
George I
Who is the angry young man in John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger?
Jimmy Porter
Which ancient British road, later adopted by the Romans, ran from Dover to Shropshire and formed the boundary of the Danelaw with Wessex and Mercia?
Watling Street
Introduced in 1948, what type of animal was Biffo – the mascot of the Beano for several decades?
Bear
Beano ostrich from old days name
Big Eggo
Isca Dumnoniorum was a Roman legionary fortress and town on the site of which modern–day English city on the south coast?
Exeter
Rugby union’s Heineken Cup has been won most frequently by teams from which country?
France
Since 1969, the Roman Catholic church has ended Lent on which day of the week?
Thursday (known as either Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday)
In the Jewish faith, what item of clothing is a tallit?
A prayer shawl
How many pieces or men does each player have at the start of a game of draughts?
12
Who was tasked with returned Excalibur to woman in the lake?
Sir Bedivere
What is the nickname of the Royal Military Police?
Redcaps
In which English city, on the river Severn, is King John of England buried?
Worcester
Which Irish abbot and missionary evangelist, credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland, arrived in Iona in AD 563?
St Columba
Who was the lead singer of the New Romantic band Spandau Ballet?
Tony Hadley
Having been on the run for 30 years, Daniela Klette was brought to trial for robbery and attempted murder in March this year. Of which notorious organisation, prominent in the 1970s and 80s, was she a member?
Red Army Faction, RAF or Baader–Meinhof Group
What year was the General Strike in the UK
1926
In which English building is the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in Britain?
York Minster
1999 Scottish winner of The Open golf
Paul Lawrie
2011 Northern Irish winner of The Open golf
Darren Clarke
DI Jack Frost was the lead character in a series of books written by which English author and radio dramatist?
RD Wingfield
According to a saying often attributed to Picasso: “Good artists copy, great artists …” do what?
Steal
Who was beaten by Jannick Sinner in the final of the Australian Open Tennis in 2024?
Daniil Medvedev
Aphrodite was born from the foaming sea after whose testicles were thrown in by his son, Cronus?
Uranus
In which decade were the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (The Proms) founded?
1895
The Venice Cup is a biennial world championship for women, in which activity?
Contract Bridge alongside the Bermuda Bowl (Open), Wuhan Cup (Mixed) and d’Orsi Bowl (Seniors).
Which football club did Harry Redknapp manage in his first managerial role between 1983–1992?
Bournemouth
Which great soprano was nicknamed ‘La Divina’?
Maria Callas
Which record label was formed in 1983 by the NME journalist Paul Morley, the producer Trevor Horn, and his wife Jill Sinclair?
ZTT Records
Which Liverpudlian snooker player won his only world title in 1991, defeating Jimmy White in the final?
John Parrott
Which HBO comedy–drama series shares its name with a rebellion that took place in central China between 1796 and 1804?
The White Lotus
In 1995, Juliette Binoche became the face of which French cosmetics house’s perfume Poême?
Lancome
Which word describes high volumes of unwanted creatures that are caught in fishing methods such as gillnetting?
Bycatch
What is the main river in Baltimore, which flows into Chesapeake Bay
Patapsco
In Music Hall, who was known as the Prime Minister of Mirth?
George Robey
Which singer, in 1915, recorded the first million selling record?
Enrico Caruso
Who led the half–time musical interlude at the 2024 Superbowl (Superbowl LVIII – fifty–eight)?
Usher
There are four surviving original copies of Magna Carta. Two are in the British Library; name the location of one of the others.
Lincoln Castle or Salisbury Cathedral
What new award category is being introduced at the Academy Awards from 2026?
Best Casting
Who recently took over from Roy Hodgson as manager of Crystal Palace?
Oliver Glasner
Who is the current manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers (as of 23 March)?
Gary O’Neil
Currently, how long is the term of office for the President of France?
Five years (changed from seven years following a referendum in 2002)
Which Briton won the San Diego women’s tennis championship last month?
Katie Boulter
What was the title of the Rolling Stones’ first UK Number One hit, in 1964?
It’s All Over Now
Known for its Power Leggings, which women’s activewear brand is named after a song by the Macc Lads?
Sweaty Betty (founded in 1998 by Tamara and Simon Hill–Norton)
Michael Curtiz said, “Bring on the empty horses!” while directing which 1936 film?
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Which politician, whose grandson won the 1950 Nobel prize in literature, was the last Whig prime minister?
Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. The Nobel laureate is Bertrand Russell
Roedean School is located on the outskirts of which English city?
Brighton and Hove
What was the hottest room in an ancient Roman bath?
Caldarium
England’s first International Dark Sky Park opened in 2013, in which county?
Northumberland
Thomas Edison reputedly said “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like … “ what?
Work
Which 19th century engineer devised an internal combustion engine that works without using a sparking plug?
Rudolf Diesel
On which canal system in England would you pass through the Harecastle tunnel?
The Trent & Mersey (at Kidsgrove)
Which famous 19th century engineer, born in Stockport, had an accepted standard for screw threads and a major Manchester street named after him?
Joseph Whitworth
Which Scottish island is separated from the mainland by the Sound of Sleat?
Isle of Skye
In Six Nations rugby, what’s the minimum number of tries that a team must score to get a bonus point?
Four
What surname was taken by all ten of the illegitimate children fathered by William IV with his mistress Dorothea Jordan?
FitzClarence
Which anthem by Felix Mendelssohn features the line: “O for the wings, for the wings of a dove!”?
Hear My Prayer
Livorno is the most important port city in which Italian region?
Tuscany
Which Ulster Unionist MP for South Down, from 1974 to 1987, was a Professor of Greek?
Enoch Powell
Richard Burridge wrote the 1992 book The Grey Horse: The True Story of _______ which racehorse?
Desert Orchid
The Laerdal Tunnel, at 24.51 kilometres the world’s longest road tunnel, is in which country?
Norway
Which element has the lowest density of all metals?
Lithium
Who is the wife of John McEnroe, who duetted on the 1992 song Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough with Don Henley?
Patty Smyth
Which Indian tennis player played an MI6 operative in the Bond film Octopussy?
Vijay Amritraj
Mdina Glass is made in which Mediterranean country?
Malta
Worleys Mendip Hills, Sheppy’s Vintage Reserve and Perry’s Redstreak are types of what?
Cider
The 2010 film Outland, starring Sean Connery, is set on a moon of which planet?
Jupiter (Io)
What was the title of Jia Yinghua’s 1992 biography of Sun Yaoting, who died in 1996?
The Last Eunuch of China
The Eye in the Door (1993) is the middle novel in which historical trilogy by Pat Barker?
The Regeneration trilogy
Who wrote the 1906 narrative poem The Highwayman?
Alfred Noyes
What is the most abundant rare–earth element?
Cerium
The demon Chernobog appears in which tone poem by Modest Mussorgsky?
Night on Bare Mountain
For whose funeral in 1806 is the Times believed to have produced its first ever illustration?
Lord Nelson
Which London born contemporary composer and conductor, who founded the Cambridge singers, is best known for his choral pieces including the Christmas works the Candlelight Carol and All Bells in Paradise, his 1985 Requiem and his 1977
Beatles Concerto?
John Rutter
Name either of the Scottish Premiership football teams that play in the same city as
the club Spartans, who were promoted into the fourth tier in 2023?
Hearts / Heart of
Midlothian or Hibs /
Hibernian
Claiming to be the world’s bestselling chainsaw brand, which company was founded
in 1926 near Stuttgart? It founded a namesake Timbersports Series in 1985.
STIHL
Mark Ashton and Mike Jackson were the original founders, in 1984, of the British
activist group LGSM, whose name stood for ‘Lesbians and Gays Support …’ which
people
Miners
In 1709 in the Shropshire village of Coalbrookdale, which pioneer of the industrial revolution developed an innovative method of iron smelting using coke rather than charcoal? His grandson of the same name built the Ironbridge over the Severn.
Abraham Darby
The Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, built as a temporary replacement for the cathedral damaged in an earthquake, and the Centre Pompidou in Metz were designs of which Japanese architect, who won the Pritzker Prize in 2014?
Shigeru Ban
Which group of bacterial diseases, spread by invertebrates such as lice or fleas, were
historically known as gaol fever due to their ease of spreading in unsanitary prison conditions, and are not to be confused with a different disease spread by Mary Mallon?
Typhus
10 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7LS, is the address of which financial
building, close to St Paul’s Cathedral?
London Stock Exchange
The twin sisters Poppy and Bryony Cleall both represent England in which team sport?
Rugby Union
Which battle of 405 BC saw the destruction of the Athenian fleet and effectively brought the Peloponnesian War to an end?
Aegospotami
The children’s author Eleanor Farjeon also wrote the text of which popular Christian hymn, whose second line describes a blackbird having “spoken, like the first bird”?
Morning Has Broken
Which narrow spit or ‘arrow’ of land runs up the side of the Crimean peninsula,
separating the salty lagoon areas on the East coast of Crimea from the rest of the
Sea of Azov?
Arabat Spit / Arrow of Arabat
Which bacterial disease, often associated with tuberculosis and affecting lymph
nodes of the neck, was historically known as king’s evil, because of the belief that
the touch of a royal could cure sufferers?
Scrofula
Sometimes known as ‘the Father of the English Canal System‘, which engineer
and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution built the Barton Aqueduct over the
Bridgewater Canal in Lancashire in 1761?
James Brindley
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was designed by which Japanese architect, who won the Pritzker Prize in 1987? He also designed the urban and architectural master plan for rebuilding Skopje following an earthquake in 1963.
Kenzo Tange
Founded in 2002 and currently curated by Billy Bragg, which tent at Glastonbury
hosts comedy and political debates as well as music? Its name, referring to its
political leaning, is shared with a British electronic dance music duo.
The Left Field
Which brand of multi-tool, named for the man who founded the company in Oregon in 1983, is primarily known for their portable hand tools, built around a set of pliers with folding knives and other tools inside the handles?
Leatherman
Which pianist and contemporary composer, whose works include I Giorni [ee JORN-ee], Eden Roc and Le Onde, has written scores for films including This is England?
Ludovico Einaudi
Which American author wrote My Year of Rest and Relaxation about an art history graduate’s prescription-fuelled quest to sleep for a year? Her other works include the film Causeway and her 2015 debut novel Eileen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Ottessa Moshfegh
With a name meaning ‘trench gate’, which isthmus connects the Crimean
Peninsula to the rest of Ukraine to the north, specifically the Kherson oblast, which has been mostly Russian-occupied since 2022?
Isthmus of Perekop
One part white sugar to two parts butter and three parts plain flour is a standard
recipe for what food, traditionally associated with Scotland?
Shortbread
What term, beginning with P, denotes the party in a criminal court case who
attempt to prove the charges brought against the defendant?
Prosecution
Which military and political leader commanded the victorious Spartan forces at
the battle of Aegospotami, and following the Athenian defeat in the war, installed
the Thirty Tyrants to rule Athens?
Lysander
In computing and communications, what six-letter adjective refers to a process of
transmitting data one bit at a time consecutively along a single conductor, as opposed to in parallel?
Serial
20 Dean’s Yard, London, SW1 3PA, is the address of which religious building?
Westminster Abbey
The sisters Kadeen and Sasha Corbin, who both previously represented England, switched allegiance in 2023 to play for Barbados in which team sport?
Netball
What Old English-derived word beginning with H refers to a public meeting in
which rival candidates for an election address potential voters?
Hustings
Which Korean director won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his 2019 film Parasite, which also won Best Picture? He is also known for Snowpiercer.
BONG Joon-Ho
What type of lotion, usually made from a strong alkali, is used in hairstyling by people whose hair is naturally tight or curly, in order to make it easier to straighten the hair? The natural hair movement encourages people of African descent not to use these chemicals.
Relaxer
The bicameral legislature of Spain, composed of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, is sometimes referred to simply as the
Spanish Parliament, but more often known by what two-word name?
CORTES GENERALES
Which 1942 biopic film starred Gary Cooper as the great baseball player Lou Gehrig, who had died from motor neurone
disease a year before the film’s release?
The Pride of the Yankees
Having won seven Paralympic gold medals since her debut in London 2012, which British wheelchair racer holds the world
record in the T34 classification for the 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500 metres?
Hannah Cockcroft
Which Dutch-born American physicist and chemist gives his name to a model he developed in 1912 for estimating the phonon contribution to the specific heat in a solid?
Peter Debye
Which play by Tim Price opened at the National Theatre in March 2024 with Michael Sheen playing the title politician? It is a joint production with the Wales Millennium Centre?
Nye
Which 1942 biopic film starred James Cagney as entertainer George M. Cohan who became known as ‘the Man Who Owned Broadway’?
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Which British Paralympian won two gold medals in athletics in the Rio 2016 Paralympics? She broke the world record in the 500
metre time trial in cycling four days before winning gold on the athletics track in the 400 metres.
Kadeena Cox
Some advocates of the natural hair movement choose to embrace protective hairstyles that minimise damage and allow for growth.
Which protective hairstyle takes its two-word name from the technique of taking a square section of hair and plaiting it from the scalp to the ends?
Box Braiding
The island of Streymoy is the largest and most populous of which island group in the Atlantic?
Faroe Islands
Who was the original bass guitarist with Sonic Youth? She also acted as a vocalist for the band, alongside Thurston Moore
Kim Gordon
Which play written by Jack Thorne concerns a 1964 production of Hamlet that starred Richard Burton and was directed by John
Gielgud? It opened in March 2023 starring Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss (GAIT-iss) and Tuppence Middleton.
The Motive and the Cue
Located in the west-central area of the country, which salt lake is the largest lake in China?
Lake QINGHAI (or
CH’INGHAI)
Treating the nucleus as a drop of incompressible nuclear fluid, the liquid drop model of nuclear physics was first proposed by which
20th-century Soviet-born cosmologist? Along with Edward Teller, this scientist names the selection rule for beta decay.
George Gamow
Stephen King’s short story The Apt Pupil and M. E. Kerr’s young adult novel Gentlehands both revolve around teenagers
discovering that elderly men that they know had what secret past?
Nazis
One of the holiest sites for Shia Muslims, in which city in Iraq is the Imam Ali Shrine, believed to contain the tomb of ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib, the first Shia Imam? The city is also home to the largest cemetery in the world, Wadius-Salaam.
Najaf
Who is Mayor of Paris? She’s the first woman to hold the office, and has served in the role since 2014.
Anne Hidalgo
San Francisco mayor
London Breed
Chicago mayor since April 2023
Brandon Johnson
Los Angeles mayor
Karen Bass
The standardised Air Quality Index (AQI) measures air quality and considers various pollutants, including “PM2.5” and “PM10”. What does the “P” stand for in these abbreviations?
Particulate Matter
Henri Matisse’s 1937 painting “Woman in a BLANK Coat” (or “BLANK Robe and Anemones”) depicts Matisse’s assistant Lydia Delectorskaya in exotic Moroccan clothing of which colour, that replaces the word “blank” here?
Purple
Which Russian pre-school animated comedy TV show was named as the most watched pre-school series in the world for 2023? Its “Recipe for Disaster” episode is the most viewed video on YouTube that is not a music video.
Masha and the Bear
Featured in the V&A Museum’s “Video Games: Design/Play/Disrupt” 2018 exhibition, which Thatgamecompany game,
set in a vast desert, sees players communicate through musical tones? It won several awards at the 2013 BAFTA Video
Games Awards, including Best Game Design.
Journey
Middle class repression erupts whenever Johnny Nice Painter or his wife Katie mentions which colour, sending him
insane, shouting wildly about the despair of mankind? He was played by Charlie Higson from 1994-1997 on the Fast Show.
Black
Also the name of a Stone Roses single, the Guaíra, on the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil, ceased to exist (or didn’t “carry on through it all”) in 1982, and was an example of what type of geographical feature?
Waterfall
Also called eclipse snakes, what is the name of the faint, wavy lines of alternating light and dark patterns that can briefly appear on the ground just before and after a total solar eclipse?
SHADOW BANDS
In perfumery, which French term gives its name to the traditional process of extracting essential oils and perfumes from flowers using odourless animal or vegetable fats?
Enfleurage
Notable for its almost complete lack of dialogue, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1988 award-winning family film follows the journey of what animal as he navigates the wilderness after being orphaned, encountering various challenges and
dangers, and befriending an adult male?
Bear
In his 1957 essay collection ‘Mythologies’, philosopher Roland Barthes calls which French-language travel guide (France’s oldest tourist guide series) an ‘agent of blindness’ because it does not offer travel but only monuments of the past and hides the true culture of the places and people”?
Guide Bleu
Other than chopped tomatoes in a salad, tomato-based salsas, and the ‘technical’ fruit corn-on-the-cob, whatis the only fruit available to buy at KFC in the UK, which comes as part of Kids’ Buckets?
Pineapple
Which dried, hollowed-out fruit also known as a bottle gourd, is used as a resonating chamber for various percussion instruments, including drums in many traditional African and Afro-Caribbean musical cultures? The sitar is a stringed instrument that commonly has one as its resonating chamber.
Calabash
Priest Miguel Hidalgo played a pivotal role in the fight for independence of which Latin American country from Spain in the early 19th century? Revolution came roughly 100 years later in the 1910s.
Mexico
Current holder of world record womens footballer 2024 Zambian bought by Bay FC from Madrid
Racheal Kundananji
Which hypothetical elementary particle has been proposed to solve certain problems in the standard model of particle physics, particularly related to the strong force and the violation of CP symmetry? If they exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of Cold Dark Matter (CDM).
Axions
After enfleurage, the fat becomes saturated with fragrance and is then called which six-letter term, nowadays used more often in connection with hair styling?
Pomade
Which 21-string West African harp-lute, featuring a calabash as its resonating chamber, completes the title of the 2017 song by the musical collective Les Amazones d’Afrique: “I Play the [BLANK]”? The song celebrates the strength and resilience of African women, with profits going to Dennis Mukwege’s Panzi Foundation.
Kora
What was the most common weather condition in the Republicca Democratia Militaria between 1994 and 1997? Poula Fisch presented the weather on the country’s Chanel 9 Neus show, played by the Fast Show’s Caroline Aherne.
Scorchio
Which complex form of mirage, seen in both polar regions and deserts, occurs when layers of air with different temperatures and densities cause light rays to bend and create distorted images of distant objects, often appearing as shimmering, elongated shapes or structures in the sky or on the horizon?
Fata Morgana
In Mythologies, Barthes demonstrates how mythologies are formed to perpetuate ideologies of the ruling class and its media using an example of a front cover from the July 1955 edition of which French-language weekly news magazine, showing a young black soldier in French uniform saluting?
Paris Match
The Prince of Wales pub serves as a meeting place for the Birmingham foundry workers in the 1929 modernist novel “Living”, written by which English writer? His other novels include Party Going, Loving and Doting.
Henry Green
What’s the most subscribed pre-school series on YouTube? Now also a successful Netflix series, the channel, which specialises in 3D animation videos of nursery rhymes, was the target of diss-track by PewDiePie in 2021.
CocoMelon
Who is Mayor of Berlin? In 2023 he became Berlin’s first conservative mayor in 22 years.
Kai Wegner
Who became the next band to be listed as the “loudest band” record holder in 1976, helped by the acoustics at Charlton’s The Valley football stadium? It was one of their late drummer’s last major appearances with the band.
The WHO
Also featuring in the Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition, which FromSoftware game follows the player’s character through the decaying, Gothic city of Yharnam, where a disease turns its inhabitants into monstrous creatures? It won the 2016 BAFTA Video Games Award for Game Design, among many others.
Bloodborne
In DH Lawrence’s 1913 short story “Strike-Pay,” the group of Nottinghamshire men who spend their strike pay on a day out were working in which industry? Workers in this industry were involved in the Tonypandy riots of 1910-11, part of the wider Great Unrest of 1911-1914.
Coalmining
Described as “the heart of the Shia Iran”, in which city is the Imam Reza Shrine – the largest mosque in the world by area? It’s Iran’s second-most populous city.
Mashhad
In Henri Matisse’s 1915 abstract painting of a curtain, in his paintings in 1926 and 1937 of odalisques, and in his 1938 painting, Cat with Red Fish, the titular objects are which colour?
Yellow
Which series of sticker trading cards, originally released in 1985 were designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls popular at the time?
Garbage Pail Kids
Which two-word alliterative term, first used by K. Eric Drexler in Engines of Creation (1986) refers to a hypothetical global catastrophe where self-replicating nanobots consume all matter, turning it into a mass of the namesake colour and consistency?
Grey Goo
What are the three colours of the annual New Orleans Mardi Gras parade, which feature on its flag? They also appear on the flag of Grenada, along with red, white and black.
Green Yellow and Purple
Which American Marxist and feminist co-founded the organisation Critical Resistance, an
organisation working to dismantle the prison-industrial complex? She also wrote 1981’s
Women, Race and Class.
Angela Davis
Forename or surname acceptable. Considered one of the greatest composers in
Renaissance music, which Franco-Flemish composer built upon the works of Johannes
Ockeghem and Guillaume Du Fay to develop expressive polyphony found in works such
as El Grillo (The Cricket)?
JOSQUIN Des Prez
What two-word term describes the “advice animal” Frog in a 2010s image macro meme?
Examples include “Run out of deodorant? Febreze your armpits”, and “Bowls are dirty?
Have a glass of cereal”.
Foul Bachelor Frog
Which English comedian was a joint recipient of the Edinburgh Comedy Award in
2017 for his partially self-titled show, which examined the breakdown of his
relationship with fellow comedian Sara Pascoe?
John Robins
Which New Zealand-Malaysian Scrabble player is widely regarded as the greatest tournament Scrabble player of all time? He has won five English language titles, and has also won the French-language championship, without
being able to speak French.
Nigel Richards
Invented by milliner Caroline Reboux, which hat popular in the 1920s and 30s takes its name from the French word for “bell”?
Cloche Hat
Which chart used to measure eyesight is named after a Dutch ophthalmologist?
These charts consist of rows of letters of gradually smaller sizes.
SNELLEN Chart
A one-word answer is sufficient. Anna Soubry was the leader of which short-lived
centrist political party from June 2019 to December 2019, when all its members
lost their seats at that general election?
Change UK
Which archaeologist; Persianist; and Arabist advocated with T.E. Lawrence for
independent Arab states following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire? She founded the Iraq Museum in order to keep excavation findings from leaving the country.
Gertrude Bell
The 1959 album The Shape of Jazz to Come is the third album by which jazz
saxophonist, a pioneer of free jazz? It is widely regarded as a cornerstone of the free jazz genre.
Ornette Coleman
What two-word term describes the “advice animal” Penguin in a 2010s image macro meme? Examples include “Wished a happy birthday - Replies ‘Thanks, you too!””, and “Waves back at someone - They weren’t waving at you”.
Socially Awkward Penguin
Which battle of March 1896 was the climax of the First Italo-Ethiopian War? The Ethiopian victory arrested further Italian conquests in the Horn of Africa, and secured Ethiopia’s sovereignty until the 1930s.
Battle of Adwa
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Lindsay Jacobellis lost a certain gold after trying to showboat with a method grab on the penultimate jump while racing in which discipline? She fell and had to settle for silver, with Switzerland’s Tanja Frieden taking the gold. A one-word answer is acceptable.
Snowboard Cross
Which American author and feminist focused on the intersection of race;
capitalism; and gender, in works such as 1981’s Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism?
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins)
Josquin’s reputation was eventually overshadowed during the Baroque period by which Italian Renaissance composer? Known for his masses and motets, and development of counterpoint, his most performed works include Missa Papae Marcelli and Missa brevis.
Giovanni Pierluigi da
PALESTRINA
In 1983, Bahija Khalil Ismail became the first female director of the Iraq Museum. She is most notable for studying texts from which Iraqi city, the location of Ashur·bani·pal’s library?
Nineveh
Designed to show off the shape of a cloche hat, what hairstyle, whose two-word name includes that of an English public school, was worn in the 1920s by Josephine Baker, among others?
Eton Crop
Named for a Japanese ophthalmologist, which colour vision test, consisting of a
solid circle of coloured dots, is perhaps the best known of those that measure
red-green colourblindness?
Ishihara Test
Former actor Laurence Fox leads which right-wing populist political party,
launched in 2020? Fox stood in the 2021 London mayoral election on a platform
of “[fighting] against extreme political correctness”.
RECLAIM Party
Never losing a World Championship match, which American mathematician is regarded as the greatest-ever draughts/checkers player? One of the seven games he lost in his career came while he was drunk, and two more came against Chinook, the computer which eventually solved the game.
Marion TINSLEY
Which incredibly loud man, played by Neil Burgess, was the advertising mascot
for Cillit Bang from 2005-2007 and 2013-2016?
Barry Scott
Who was commander in chief of the French forces at the start of World War II until he
was replaced by Maxime Weygand mid-way through the disastrous Battle of France?
Maurice Gamelin
Which board game, which won the 2018 Spiel des Jahres (“Shpeel dess Yahruss”),
has spawned spin-off versions with subtitles including Stained Glass of Sintra,
Summer Pavilion and Queen’s Garden?
Azul
What is the largest lake in the Republic of Ireland? It lies close to Galway on Ireland’s
west coast.
Lough Corrib
dragon who gnaws at a root of the world tree, Yggdrasil
Nidhoggr
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Lizzie Bennet is from which English county?
The settlements of Longbourn and Meryton are also in this county.
Hertfordshire
Which English cricketer and all-rounder was player of the series in the 2005 Ashes
series, won by England, where he picked up two man of the match awards?
Andrew Flintoff
Which “Alliance” of airline companies was founded by American Airlines, British
Airways, Canadian Airlines International, Cathay Pacific and Qantas in 1999? It is currently the third largest airline group by market share.
OneWorld Alliance
Who, since March 2024, has been the Labour leader in the Welsh Senedd and First Minister of Wales? One of his middle names is the
patronymic ap David.
Vaughan Gething
Which 2004 psychological thriller directed by Roger Michell and starring Daniel Craig
and Rhys Ifans is based on a 1997 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan? The
plot concerns the strange relationship between two characters after witnessing a ballooning accident.
Enduring Love
What is the common English name for a chilli pepper frequently used in
Caribbean cooking, which earned its name due to a resemblance to a Tam O’Shanter hat?
Scotch Bonnet Chilli
The trading of agricultural futures on which vegetable has been banned in the
USA since 1958, after Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga successfully cornered the
market for these vegetables in 1955?
Onions
Which country won the gold medal in netball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games,
before hosting the 2019 World Cup, where they finished third?
England
Alex Brummer is the City editor of which UK national daily newspaper?
Daily Mail
2023 Netball Winners World Cup
Australia (beat England in final)
By what name is Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin commonly known?
It is named after the repeating A flat, which is reminiscent of this weather phenomenon.
Raindrop Prelude
The NFL Most Valuable Player 2023 was Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens, but which player won Offensive Player of the Year - a running back with the San Francisco 49ers?
Christian McCaffrey
Which “Alliance” of airline companies was founded by AirCanada, Lufthansa, Thai Airways, United Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines in 1997? It is now the world’s largest airline group by market share.
STAR Alliance
Which 2017 drama directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Saoirse (“SAIRshuh”) Ronan and Billy Howle is based on a 2007 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan? The plot concerns the relationship between two characters after their wedding night.
On Chesil Beach
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy is from which English county?
The settlement of Lambton and the estate of Pemberley are also in this county.
Derbyshire
Which English cricketer and all-rounder was player of the series in the 1981
Ashes series, won by England, where he picked up three man of the match awards?
Ian Botham
What is the largest lake in Wales? Its level was raised by Thomas Telford to
provide water for the Ellesmere Canal
Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid)
Who was French prime minister during the Battle of France, succeeding Daladier and being replaced after France’s defeat by Petain?
Paul Reynaud
The NFL Most Valuable Player 2023 was Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore
Ravens, but which player won Rookie of the Year, the quarterback of the Houston Texans?
CJ Stroud
Anna Isaac is the City editor of which UK national daily newspaper?
The Guardian
ER=EPR is a name given to the conjecture that quantum entanglement is effected by wormholes, as entangled particles are sometimes known as EPRpairs. The E and the R in EPR stand for Einstein and Rosen respectively; for which Russian-American physicist does the P stand for?
Boris PODOLSKY
By what name is Étude Op. 10, No. 12 by Frédéric Chopin commonly known? It
was inspired by the 1831 Russian attack on Warsaw during the November Uprising.
Revolutionary Etude
Prior to being banned, onion futures were primarily traded on which exchange, still the world’s largest options and futures exchange? Siegel and Kosuga managed to amass 98% of the supply of onions in and around the US city after which this exchange is named.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
What is the common English name for a chilli pepper frequently used in Thai cuisine, which may have earned its name due to early cultivars’ resemblance to a part of an animal’s body? These peppers are now typically long and thin.
Bird’s Eye Chilli
What is the name of the system of laws based on customs and court decisions made by judges rather than Acts of Parliament and which forms the basis of the legal system in England and Wales?
Common Law
American transgender actress, best known as a Warhol superstar.[2][3] She starred in Andy Warhol’s films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the Velvet Underground.
Candy Darling
English actress who became one of the first sex symbols of British television through her role as Elsie Tanner, an original cast member of Coronation Street, a role which she portrayed from its first episode in 1960 until she quit the role in 1984.
Pat Phoenix
English actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom Man About the House (1973–1976) and its spin-off George and Mildred (1976–1979).
Yootha Joyce
Which actress played Lynette Scavo in the comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives?
Felicity Huffman
Created by Sean Akins and Jason DeMarco, what name is given to the American late-night television programming block owned by Cartoon Network that broadcasts Japanese anime and American action animation?
Toonami
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
Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.
Hernando de Soto
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
A leader of the Harlem Renaissance, which author wrote the novel Not Without Laughter and the short story collection The Ways of White Folks?
Langston Hughes
Which US cyclist won the 2023 Vuelta a España?
Sepp Kuss
Which Roald Dahl book features Trunky the Elephant and Humpy-Rumpy the hippopotamus?
The Enormous Crocodile
Who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for playing Mary Queen of Scots in a 1971 biopic? She had previously been nominated for a role as Isadora Duncan.
Vanessa Redgrave
Who is the villain in the ballet The Nutcracker?
The Mouse King
Baddy baron in Swan Lake
Baron Von Rothbart
The title character of which ballet by Igor Stravinsky is a puppet?
Petrushka
xCharacterised by a high forecastle and stern, what type of large sailing ship was favoured by the Spanish and Portuguese from the 15th to 18th centuries?
Galleon
Pirates and sailors often used a short sword with a curved blade, because of the cramped conditions for fighting on deck – what was this commonly called?
Cutlass
Which 1966 Beach Boys hit single is based on a Nassau sea shanty, which is believed to be about an earlier ship that wrecked because of the crew’s wild behaviour?
Sloop John B
Pirates were fond of collecting Spanish silver dollars – how were these coins popularly known?
Pieces of Eight
Worth 32 Spanish Reals (pronounced like Real Madrid), which gold coin was much desired by pirates?
Doubloon
Which of the Shetland Islands gives its name to the body of water that separates the Shetlands from the Orkneys? It is also the name of a Shipping Forecast area.
Fair Isle
Giving its name to the Shipping Forecast Area to the south of Fair Isle, what is the name of the Firth on which the town of Dingwall is situated?
Cromarty Firth
The ruins of what castle overlook Loch Ness?
Urquhart Castle
Which Loch is Scotland’s third largest and is famous for being the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles?
Loch Morar
Nouméa is the capital and largest city of which French territory in the South Pacific?
New Caledonia
What city, that is not in Scotland, takes its name from the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh?
Dunedin
In what Scottish council area is St Andrews University?
Fife
In what Scottish council area is Gordonstoun School?
Moray
What BB is a song by the Ramones that features the chant “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!”?
Blitzrieg Bop
What BB is a 1979 top 10 hit for The Ruts, in which the title is followed in the lyrics by “with anxiety”
Babylon’s Burning
What BB is a traditional Welsh spiced tea bread whose name translates from Welsh as ‘speckled bread’?
Bara Brith
What BB were devices used during World War 2 to protect ground targets against airborne attack?
Barrage Balloons
What BB is a large village in Lancashire, in which violence broke out in 1943 after American military commanders tried to racially segregate pubs in the village?
Bamber Bridge
Which alliteratively named leader of the Easter Rising read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the General Post Office?
Patrick Pearse
Which Irish politician was the first head of government of the Irish Free State, serving as the President of its Executive Council from 1922 until his replacement by Eamon de Valera in 1932?
WT Cosgrave
Which World War I battle do Germans call the Battle of the Skagarrak?
Battle of Jutland
Which battle of September 1914 has been called “the most important battle in world history”, because its outcome prevented the Germans from capturing Paris within weeks of the start of the war?
First Battle of the Marne
Which admiral led the US Navy forces at the Battle of Midway and nowadays has a class of nuclear–powered aircraft carriers named for him?
Chester W Nimitz
What highly flammable substance, also known as ethyne, has the chemical formula C2H2 (C two H two)?
Acetylene
What toxic and flammable substance, also known as methanal, has the chemical formula CH2O (C H two O)?
Formaldehyde
Where in the body would you find cementum?
Teeth
In the context of space travel, what does the V stand for in the acronym EVA?
Extra VEHICULAR Activity
What was the name of the rocket that launched the James Webb Space Telescope on 25 December 2021 (number not required)?
Ariane V
What informal term is used in the military to describe anti–aircraft gunfire?
Ack-Ack
What old–fashioned term for bingo derives from the word traditionally shouted by a winner?
Housey-Housey
Which Formula One circuit has hosted the most Grands Prix?
Monza
Which runner won three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, including winning his first ever marathon?
Emil Zátopek
In Formula One, who is currently (as of 13 April 2024), Max Verstappen’s team–mate at Red Bull Racing?
Sergio Pérez
What do Americans call a toll road?
Turnpike
Which novel by Elizabeth Gaskell was inspired by the town of Knutsford?
Cranford
Turku and Oulu are cities in what country?
Finland
What do we call the object that Americans call a ‘Denver boot’?
Wheel clamp
The whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead in South Carolina in March 2024, worked for what company?
Boeing
Who is, to date, the longest–serving presenter of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, having presented the show between 1981 and 2000?
Hugh Scully
Blue John, which is unique to Derbyshire, is a type of what mineral?
Fluorite
In what Gloucestershire village did Sir Peter Markham Scott establish the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust?
Slimbridge
Who was the first female NASA astronaut?
Sally Ride
What was the name of the first teacher to fly in space, who died in the Challenger disaster in 1986?
Christa McAuliffe
Which late entertainer wrote the autobiography entitled At My Mother’s Knee… and other low joints?
Paul O’Grady
How many times in total did Jimmy White lose in the final of the World Snooker Championship (no leeway)?
Six
Where did the English Grand National take place during the First World War?
Gatwick
Which English Football League team shares its nickname with that of Luton Town?
Stockport County (The Hatters)
The title character of which Charles Dickens novel is the owner of a shipping firm?
Dombey and Son
Which football team – who played in the Championship in the 2013–14 season but are currently in the National League South – are nicknamed The Glovers?
Yeovil Town
What business did Al Capone have on his business cards?
Furniture Dealer
What job title is given to the chief electrician in a film studio?
Gaffer
What Italian name is derived from the Hebrew name John?
Giovanni
What make of car did Colombo drive?
Peugeot (specifically, a 403 convertible)
What is the name of Doctor Doolittle’s parrot?
Polynesia
A Parliamentary Affair is the title of the first novel by which former MP?
Edwina Currie
What is the international vehicle registration mark for Holland?
NL
Who has hosted the BBC comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? since 2009?
Rob Brydon
The berries from what species of small shrub are essential in making Cumberland Sauce?
Redcurrants
By what name was the Shipping Forecast area now known as Fitzroy formerly known?
Finisterre
‘Jail Fever’ is an old name for what disease?
Typhus
What name is shared by the Irish county that is the smallest in terms of area, and a market town in Lincolnshire?
Louth
Outside which town’s railway station is there a statue of Harold Wilson?
Huddersfield
In which London railway station is there a statue of Sir John Betjeman?
St Pancras
Who is the current (as of 13 April 2024) coach of the England women’s rugby union team (the ‘Red Roses’)?
John Mitchell
Current England womens head coach cricket
Jon Lewis
How many players are on the field for each team at the start of a game of Australian Rules Football (no leeway)?
18 players
What is the total points value of a converted try in rugby league (no leeway)?
6 points (4+2)
What is the total points value of a converted try in rugby union (no leeway)?
7 points (5+2)
What word, derived from the Latin for ‘wool’ and ‘oil’, is another name for wool fat?
Lanolin
The titles of two Charles Dickens novels begin with the letter B – one is Bleak House, what is the other?
Barnaby Rudge
Which North Sea oil rig was the scene of a disaster in 1988?
Piper Alpha
Which literary schoolteacher taught at Brookfield School?
Mr Chipping
The name of what herb is derived from the Greek for ‘joy of the mountain’?
Oregano
What product was advertised with the slogan “gives a meal man appeal”?
Oxo
For which James Bond film was the song Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang written?
Thunderball
What is the name of the places of worship used by Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Kingdom Halls
Who is the current (as of 13 April 2024) captain of the England women’s rugby union team? She replaced Sarah Hunter in this role.
Marlie Packer
What hallmark is used by Birmingham Assay Office?
Anchor
In which UK city (then a town) did Marconi open the world’s first purpose–built radio factory?
Chelmsford
Which song by Lady Gaga features the line “After he’s been hooked, I’ll play the one that’s on his heart”?
Poker Face
What is the main emergency phone number in Australia (i.e. their equivalent of 999)?
000
What’s the name of the tourism–oriented passenger train service that operates between the northern and southern coasts of Australia, through the cities of Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin?
The Ghan
In the human brain, what is the occipital lobe primarily responsible for?
Vision
Which American national park shares its name with a Terrence Malick film and a Bruce Springsteen song?
Badlands (South Dakota)
Rachel Reeves, the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been an MP in which English city since 2010?
MP for Leeds West
Which English cathedral city stands on the River Stour?
Canterbury
In Latin, what is the plural of the word opus?
Opera
Which country won tennis’s Davis Cup in 2023?
Italy
There are three horse racing courses in Wales. Bangor–on–Dee is one of them, name Both two.
Chepstow or Ffos Las
Sharing its name with a famous Noel Coward song, what is the flagship beer of Fuller’s Brewery?
London Pride
Which TV comedy panel show made use of the catchphrases “Iranu” and “Uvavu”?
Shooting Stars
The Clash had their only UK Number 1 single in 1991 after Levi’s jeans used the song in an advert. What was the song?
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Which reality TV show is currently hosted by Siobhan McSweeney, with Keith Brymer–Jones and Richard Miller as judges
The Great Pottery Throw Down
Give a year in the life of French statesman Cardinal Richelieu.
1585 to 1642
Belfast stands on the banks of which river?
Lagan
Which French phrase is commonly used in English to mean small ornamental objects, less valuable than antiques?
Bric a Brac
What flying creatures belong to the order Chiroptera?
Bats
“My word is my bond” is the motto of which organisation?
London Stock Exchange
The blackbird is a member of which family of bird?
Thrush
Which French phrase is commonly used in English to mean a feeling of solidarity among members of a group, or morale?
Esprit de Corps
Which lover of Lord Byron described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”?
Lady Caroline Lamb
Roger Moore’s character, The Saint, was created by which author?
Leslie Charteris
Comedian Chris Sievey, who died in 2010, was best known for creating which character, an aspiring singer–songwriter from Timperley, South Manchester?
Frank Sidebottom
Taylor Swift fans have been flocking to a London pub that gets a namecheck on her new album. What is the pub called?
The Black Dog
Which 1984 Madonna hit single starts with the line, “I made it through the wilderness … “?
Like a Virgin
“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey … “ is the narrator’s opening line to which 1975 cult film?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
In which county would you find Corfe Castle, Milton Abbey, and the Cerne Giant?
Dorset
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end” is a line in which book of the Bible?
Revelation
Who was the first President of Cyprus, after it gained independence in 1960?
MAKARIOS
Which author is regarded as the second most translated author in the World since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare? This writer has been called the “Father of Science Fiction”?
Jules Verne
Which Geologist, born 1726, often referred to as the father of modern geology, advanced the idea that the physical world’s remote history can be inferred from evidence in present-day rocks? He was one of the earliest proponents of what in the 1830s became known as uniformitarianism
James Hutton
Who was the “Father of the American Cartoon”? Amongst other achievements he created the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party
Thomas Nast
Which alliteratively named German, born 1832, has been dubbed “the father of Experimental Psychology”? A survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked his reputation as first for “all-time eminence”, Freud was a distant third.
Wilhelm Wundt
Which Roman General is regarded as the father of Guerilla Warfare? The senate of Rome turned to this man after Rome’s defeat at the Battle of Cannae
Fabius Maximus
What man has been nicknamed “The Father of Electromagnetism” for his equations that unify electricity and magnetism in electromagnetic theory? His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics.
James Clerk Maxwell
Who was the first man to run the 100m in under 10 seconds? He did it on the evening of June 20th, 1968, at a meeting now known the “Night of Speed”
Jim Hines
Which American athlete is the only male in the history of the Olympics to win gold in both the 100 metres and the 110 metre hurdles, making him the “World’s Fastest Man” in 1948 and the “World’s Fastest Hurdler” in 1952?
Harrison Dillard
From the time when fully automatic timing became the rule in 1977, who is the only Canadian to have held an unrescinded 100m Men’s World record? This man broke the record at Atlanta 96 and held it for almost 3 years, with 9.84s
Donovan Bailey
On 29 May 2016, which Kittitian former World Champion improved his personal record by running 9.93 +1.9 at the age of 40?
Kim Collins
Which American man took Gold in the 100m at the 2022 World Athletics Championship with a time of 9.86 seconds? This man is one of only 3 men along with Michael Norman and Wayde van Niekerk to go sub-10 seconds in 100 m, sub-20 seconds in 200 m and sub-44 seconds in 400 m.
Fred Kerley
Who was the first Jamaican to break the Men’s 100m World record in the 2000s? He did so in 2005 in Athens. This man’s personal best of 9.72s is currently fourth on the all-time list of men’s 100-metre athletes
Asafa Powell
Which Trinidadian former track and field athlete holds the Commonwealth Games record in the mens 100m? After retiring from his track career, this man became a Senator in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament?
Ato Boldon
Which man, nicknamed “Midnight Express”, was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the “world’s fastest human” after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics?
Eddie Tolan
Seven women have achieved the 100 metres and 200 metres ‘Double’ at the same Olympic Games. Which East German achieved this feat at the 1972 Munich Olympics? She is also the first woman to run 100m in under 11 seconds
Renate Stecher
Only two athletes have ever been able to sweep both the 100m and 200m in consecutive Olympic Games. Usain Bolt is the only man but who is the only woman?
Elaine Thompson-Herah
Ben Johnson was disqualified from the 1988 Seoul Olympics after what steroid was found in his urine sample? This 10-letter word begins with “S”
Stanozolol
A rising star in the sprint world, Leslie Tebogo took Silver in the 100m and Bronze in the 200m at the 2023 World Athletics championships. Which country does Leslie Tebogo represent?
Botswana
Which US Sprinter became, in 1999, the first athlete to run under 9.80seconds? This man was the cover athlete for the multi-platform video game “International Track & Field 2000”
Maurice Greene
Who has held the Women’s 100m sprint world record since 1988?
Florence Griffiths-Joyner
Who became only the second woman in history to defend an Olympic 100 m title, when she took gold at both the 1992 and 1996 Olympics?
Gail Devers
Pavel becomes upset with his brother’s philosophy of Nihilism in what Ivan Turgenev novel of 1862?
Fathers and Sons
One of Dickens’s greatvillains, Seth Pecksniff, appears in which novel, first published as part of a serial in 1843? This book is regarded as Dickens’ last picaresque novels
Martin Chuzzlewit
Telling the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family, which Frenchman wrote the 1846 novel “Cousin Bette”?
Honore Balzac
The Angel Falls, Venezuela are considered the tallest in the World at 979m. What waterfalls are ranked second? They can be found in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa and are 948m in height
Tugela Falls
Played by Stanley Baker in the 1964 movie, who was the senior British officer at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift?
John Chard
What Zulu word of 4 letters means war or combat in the Zulu language? In English it usually refers to a Zulu regiment?
Impi
Which man, born 1928, a member of the Zulu Royal family, was the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party up to 2019?
Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha BUTHELEZI
Give any year in the Zulu Wars of Conquest, when Shaku led the Zulus in a great expansion of their empire
1818 to 1828
Which city, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal, is often informally abbreviated to PMB?
Pietermaritzburg
1884 saw the death of which Zulu King? He had been commander in chief of the Kingdom at the time of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
Cetschwayo
Which American DJ and Rapper, real name Lance Taylor, has helped spread hip hop culture throughout the world through the culture-oriented Universal Zulu Nation group?
Africa Bambaataa
How was the river referred to in the name of the 1838 battle between Voortrekkers and the Zulus? Two Zulu princes competing with Prince Mpande for the Zulu throne died
The Battle of Blood River
Featuring a Zulu priest named Stephen Kumalo, which man wrote the 1948 novel “Cry the beloved country”?
Alan Paton
“isiZulu” the language of the Zulu people is a member of which language family? The languages in this family are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, and throughout Central, Southern, Eastern, and Southeast Africa.
Bantu
Set during the Anglo-Zulu War, which Rhodesian writer’s debut novel was “When the Lion Feeds” in 1964?
Wilbur Smith
Which God insists to Zeus that Odysseus and his crew must be punished after crewmen had hunted his sacred cattle on the island of Thrinacia?
Helios
Which Goddess of good counsel is the first wife of Zeus in Greek mythology? Zeus swallows her whole when she is about to give birth to their daughter Athena.
Metis
In Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion, who is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus?
Mnemosyne
Which Greek God of the Theatre was the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Semele? He was also the God of Religious Ecstasy.
Dionysus
Who was the mother of Perseus in Greek mythology?
Danae
In November 2023, which Brazilian football team won their first Copa Libertadores title after defeating Argentine side Boca Juniors 2–1 after extra time in the final? This Rio team play their home games at the Maracana
Fluminense
Who were the only team that defending champions USA managed to defeat at the 2023 Women’s Football World Cup? They are nicknamed the Golden Star Women Warriors
Vietnam
At the Florence Diamond League meeting in June 2023, which Kenyan woman broke Genzebe Dibaba’s world record of 3:50.07, running 3:49.11 and becoming the first woman ever to break 3:50 for the 1500m?
Faith Kipyegon
In 2023 the Saudi Arabian investment fund bought four of the country’s largest football teams and immediately began offering big contracts to world stars. Name any of these four teams.
AL AHLI or AL ITTIHAD or AL HILAL or AL NASSR
Dropping only one set in the whole tournament, which Belarussian won the Australian Open women’s single title in early 2023? It was her first major win
Aryna Sabalenka
In 2023 which Kenyan destroyed Eliud Kipchoge’s world record by achieving an astonishing 2:00:35 to win the Chicago Marathon?
Kelvin Kiptum
Considered one of the all-time best, in what event did the Serbian athlete Ivana Vuleta win gold at the 2023 Athletics Championships? Unbelievably, she’s also the Serbian indoor record holder in the 60m and the Pentathlon
Long Jump
Unlike at the 2020 Olympics, Gianmarco Tamberi didn’t need to share his gold medla when he won what event at the 2023 World Athletics championships in Budapest?
Pole Vault
Which 7ft 4in Frenchman became the joint tallest active player in the NBA when he was drafted for the San Antonio Spurs in 2023?
Wembanyama
Which US Golfer from Florida, a multiple major winner, led the 2023 US Masters going into the final round but lost out to Jon Rahm? He’d win the 2023 US PGA championship at the Oak Hill country club about one month later
Brooks Koepka
Name either member of the Scandinavian duo who recorded a 9&7 triumph over Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka at 2023’s Ryder Cup
Viktor HOVLAND (Norway) & Ludvig ABERG (Sweden)
Which man captained Australia in the men’s 2023 Ashes series? He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers ever to play cricket
Pat Cummins
Who was sacked as manager of the German men’s national football team in 2023? Julian Nagelsmann was his permanent replacement
Hansi Flick
At the age of 26, which Jamaican sprinter won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year in 2023? Only Florence Griffith-Joyner and Elaine Thompson-Herah have ran faster 100m times than her
Shelly-Ann FRASER-PRYCE
What country have won the Speedway World Cup on its last three occasions (2016, 2017 and 2023)? They defeated Great Britain, Denmark and Australia in the final
Poland
Good morning to this “La Masia” success story - which Barcelona player won the best player Golden Ball at the 2023 Women’s Football world cup?
Aitana Bonmati
Which national team defeated Serbia in the final of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup? It was their first appearance in the World Cup final.
Germany
In 2023, which NBA side, led byNikola Jokić, reached their firstNBA Finalsand defeated theMiami Heatto capture the franchise’s first NBA championship?
Denver Nuggets
In early November 2023, which baseball team defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the World Series in five games, capturing their first Major League Baseball championship in their 63-year existence?
Texas Rangers
Early 2023 saw the Denmark men’s team take the World championship in which sport? This sport sees two teams of 7 players compete on a court of 40m x 20m for 2 30-minute periods
Handball
In 2023 who backed up her debut marathon win in London by also winning the Chicago marathon? She is the only athlete in Olympic history to win medals across a middle-distance event and both long-distance races in a single Games
Sifan Hassan
Which left-hander, nickknamed The Butcher, won the 2023 Open Golf Championship at Hoylake?
Brian Harman
Playing in the city with the port ranked as second largest in Europe, which side won the Belgian Pro League football championship in 2023? They won their first title in 66 years after pipping Genk
Royal Antwerp
Which woman was nominated at the recent BAFTA ceremony for her role as “Felicia Montealegre”? This English actress did not win
Carey Mulligan
Killers of the Flower Moon had a poor night at the BAFTAs. That movie is set in which US state?
Oklahoma
The American businessman and inventor William Post died in February 2024. What pastry brand did this man invent? Associated with breakfast time, these nutritionally-questionable pastries were once the subject of jokes about how their contents were hotter than the Sun
Pop Tarts
The American country music singer Toby Keith died in February 2024. His chart-topping debut single was “Should’ve Been a BLANK”. What word fills the blank?
Cowboy
Described by J.P.R. Williams as “Without doubt, the greatest player I played with”, which star Welsh fly half died in February 2024?
Barry John
As well as being a star in Rocky movies and in Predator, the actor Carl Weathers also played a season in the NFL for which team? John Madden was his coach at the time. Please answer with the team name as it then was
Oakland Raiders
The American animator Mark Gustafson sadly died in February 2024. He is best known for co-directing which 2022 movie? It won Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn one! Which man, the co-host of Bullseye along with Jim Bowen, sadly died in March 2024?
Tony Green
The first non-human artist to be given her own art exhibition died in March 2024. This South African sow held the record for most expensive artwork by an animal ever sold. What was its punny name?
Pigcasso
Which female singer won the most awards at the 2024 Grammy’s? Previously a member of “Sloppy Jane”, this singer’s album “Punisher” received critical acclaim
Phoebe Bridger
Which American singer-songwriter, who had her breakthrough with the song “On my Mama”, won 3 categories at the 2024 Grammy’s? Perhaps her ancestor was the man who painted “The Magpie”, “Woman with a parasol” and “Rouen Cathedral at Sunset”
Victoria Monet
The AFI have put together a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. Who was Barbra Streisand’s leading man in the 1973 movie “The Way We Were”? This man received Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show.
Robert Redford
In the 1939 William Wyler version of Wuthering Heights, when Merle Oberon was Cathy, which thespian was Heathcliff? The National Theatre’s largest auditorium is named in this man’s honour
Laurence Olivier
Who was the leading man opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1968 movie “Funny Girl”? This man’s name at birth was Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub
Omar Sharif
Michael Ondaatje wrote the novel on which the film was based, but which man wrote the screenplay and directed the 1996 epic romantic war drama movie “The English Patient”?
Anthony Minghella
What was the one-word name of the 1955 American romantic drama film starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair? Knowledge of this movie became a key part of the Twenty-One quiz show scandal
Marty
When Steve Martin was the Cyrano de Bergerac equivalent character in the 1987 movie “Roxanne”, which actress played the title character? This woman has been married to the singer Neil Young since 2018
Daryl Hannah
What type of wild sheep appeared on the logo of the now defunct Cyprus Air?
Mouflon
Which still operating US airline were founded as Huff Daland Dusters in 1925? Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport is this airline’s busiest in terms of passenger numbers and departures
Delta
Airline Alliances ONLY CONNECT Top 4
Star Alliance
SkyTeam
Oneworld
Value Alliance/U-Fly Alliance
Which airline, based out of Keflavik International Airport, was an Icelandic ultra low-cost carrier operating between 2012 and 2019?
Wow Air
Through the mid-20th century, the “Big Four” domestic airlines wereAmerican,Eastern, United and which other? This airline’s flight centre at JFK Airport was designed by Eero Saarinen
TWA
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, what is the name of the World’s largest low-fare airline? They have become known for colorful boarding announcements and crews who sometimes burst out in son
SOUTHWEST Airlines
Which airline was formed by the merger of Swedish airline Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik, Norway’s Det Norske Luftfartselskap and Det Danske Luftfartselskab of Denmark?
SAS (Scandinavian Airline Service)
Up until it suspended operations in 2022 which colourful company was a Romanian low-cost airline headquartered in Bucharest with its hub at Henri Coandă International Airport?
Blue Air
QANTAS stands for?
QUEENSLAND AND NORTHERN TERRITORY AERIAL SERVICES
The Oneworld Global airline alliance has its headquarters in which US city? The Modern Art Museum here was designed by Tadao Ando and the Stockyards District is a historic landmark
Fort Worth
What was the flight number of the Malaysian Airlines flight which disappeared in March 2014?
MH370
Which airline, considered one of the safest in the world, have a “pualani” (heavenly flower) as their logo?
Hawaiian Airlines
SABENA was the national airline of what country between the years of 1923 and 2001?
Belgium
During the start of the2014 Winter Olympics, a man attempted to hijack a flight by which airline as it went fromKharkiv, Ukraine, toIstanbul, Turkey? The name of this company is sometimes stylised as “Flypgs”
Pegasus
First name “Giovanni”, which actor starred in the year 2000 movies “Boiler Room” and “Gone in 60 seconds”?
Giovanni Ribisi
Which American comedian and Producer starred in the 2000 movie “What planet are you from”? He starred as himself in a 1980s sitcom which frequently broke the 4th wall, and he then created “The Larry Sanders” show
Garry Shandling
Now considered a cult classic, what year 2000 film stars Johnny Depp as a dealer of rare books who is tasked with authenticating a 17th-century book that purportedly contains a magical secret for summoning the Devil?
The Ninth Gate
In the 2000 movie U-571, American sailors board a German submarine for what purpose?
Steal ENIGMA MACHINE
Who played Fred Flintstone in “The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas”?
Mark Addy
What real-life American political and social activist was played by Vincent D’Onofrio in “Steal this movie” (2000) and by Sacha Baron Cohen in “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (2020)?
Abbie Hoffmann
Who co-wrote the year 2000 movie “Best in Show” with Christopher Guest? This man played Noah Silverstein in various American Pie movies
Eugene Levy
Which movie comes next in Lars Von Trier’s “Golden Heart” trilogy: Breaking the Waves, The Idiots? Bjork starred
Dancer in the Dark
What group in society were the target of the serial killer in the year 2000 slasher movie “Cherry Falls”?
Virgins
It was rumoured at the time that an affair between Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe on the set of which 2000 movie led to the end of Ryan’s marriage with Dennis Quaid?
Proof of Life
Previously better known as a TV actress, who lit up the silver screen in the 2000 movie “The House of Mirth”? The director Terence Davies cast her because of her resemblance to the women in John Singer Sargent paintings
Gillian Anderson
What name is given to the fast-breaking meal eaten by Muslims at sunset during Ramadan?
Iftar
Halal, a term from Arabic which translates to “lawful”, is applied to meats and other foods that conform to Islamic dietary laws. What is the contrasting term, meaning “forbidden”?
Haram
What is the third pillar of Islam, which is a form of almsgiving that requires Muslims to give 2.5% of their qualifying wealth each year to help Muslims who need it?
Zakat
Inn the Islamic world, what name is given to a long garment, usually black, that covers the face, worn by some Muslim women as a part of an interpretation of hijab?
Niqab
In the Muslim religion, what’s the name of the crier who proclaims the hours of prayer from a minaret?
Muezzin
What historical term is used for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection? The word literally translates to “protected person”
Dimmi
Beginning with the letter “S”, what early-morning meal is eaten by Muslims before fasting during daylight hours in Ramadan?
Suhoor
In Islamic architecture, which specific niche or decorative panel in a mosque indicates the direction of Mecca, which Muslims face during prayers?
Mihrab (Qibla is the direction)
In Islam, the Hajj has specific dates according to the Islamic lunar calendar. What name is given to a Mecca pilgrimage that can be undertaken at any time of the year?
Umrah
Which character in the original Star Trek TV series is named after a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines?
Hikaru Sulu
Which major city, which lies between Shanghai and Ningbo, was the host of the 2023 Asian games?
Huangzhou
What capital city was the birthplace of Osama Bin Laden?
Riyadh
The 2013 alpha-level design document put forward by Elon Musk’s company Hyperloop suggested a route between which two US cities? At the moment someone travelling between these places would take Interstate 5 for most of the journey
LA and San Fran
How many people could be seated in each row of a Concorde jet?
4
Located on the Australian external territory of Heard Island, what is the highest mountain in the southern Indian Ocean? The answer is two words, three letters each. This answer is also the nickname of a former Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback
Big Ben
Proxima Centauri has a mass of about 12.5% of our sun and a density of about 33x our sun. That makes it what kind of star?
Red Dwarf
Qaboos bin Said was the ruler of which country for almost 50 years until his death in 2020?
Oman
What was the original strict character limit of tweets on the social media platform Twitter?
140
What entertainment venue and theatre can be found at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, in the Midtown Manhattan neighbourhood of New York City?
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
The flag of which unitary authority within the British Isles is a white cross over an orange and blue background, with five stars in the upper-right canton? The orange represents sunsets and the blue represents the sea.
Scilly Isles
The Mormon Trail is a 1300 mile route that stretches from which small city in Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah?
Nauvoo
The town of Churchill is Canada’s most northerly port. It’s nicknamed the “Polar Bear Capital of the World” for playing host to polar bears on their way to the adjacent Hudson Bay. In which Canadian province will you find this town?
Manitoba
According to later Zoroastrian legend (Denkardand theBook of Arda Viraf), many sacred texts were lost whenAlexander the Great’s troops invadedwhich city, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire?
Persepolis
Located on the Thermaic Gulf, which city of over one million inhabitants is named after the sister of Alexander the Great?
Thessaloniki
The Battle of Arbela, also known as the Battle of Gaugamela, saw Alexander the Great victorious over King Darius III, and therefore effectively ending what Empire?
Achaemenid Empire
AfterAlexander the Greatconquered the Achaemenid Empire, which group resisted his incursions into Central Asia? Closely related to the Scythians, this group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples historically inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin
The SAKA
Alexander was overwhelmed with grief when which man died suddenly at Ecbatana around age thirty-two? It is said that Alexander’s relationship with this man was similar to Achilles and Patroclus
Hephaestion
At the time of his death, Alexander the Great’s body was placed in a sarcophagus which had been filled with what substance?
Honey
TheVictorious Youth, also known asthe Getty bronze is associated with which Greek sculptor, the personal sculptor of Alexander the Great for a period?
Lysippos
What was the name of the leader of the Pauravas at the Battle of Hydaspes? He had gained the respect of Alexander and was therefore made a Governor of the province, a “Satrap”
Porus
Which city in the south of the country is the second largest city in Afghanistan and is named after Alexander the Great?
Kandahar
A local prophecy told that whoever could unfasten the Gordian Knot would become the Ruler of Asia. Alexander the Great did just that in 333 BC. The location of the city of Gordion is now a UNESCO site lying a few dozen miles outside of which national capital?
Ankara
Who was the fourth wife of Philip II and the mother of Alexander the Great? She was extremely influential in Alexander’s life and was recognized as de facto leader of Macedon during Alexander’s conquests
Olympias
What “D” were the rival generals, families, and friends of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BC? The wars amongst these successors marks the beginning of the Hellenistic period
Diadochi
The Antigonid Dynasty came to power following which battle of 306 BC? It occurred near the East coast of Cyprus and saw a decisive Antigonid victory
Salamis
Which man accompanied Alexander the Great during his Asiatic expedition and served as his historian and publicist? During his life he authored several works on Greek history and a biography of Alexander
Callisthenes of Olynthus
Eventually falling to Alexander the Great, which land was the centre of Iranian resistance against the Macedonian invaders after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in the 4th century BC?
Bactria
What was the original name of the City of Alexandria before it was renamed by Alexander the Great?
Rhakotis
What 6-letter word beginning with “P” is the Greek word for longing or yearning? The word often comes up in biographies of Alexander the Great in regards to his longing to conquer foreign countries
Pothos
Which officer of the Macedonian army saved Alexander’s life at the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC and was killed by him in a drunken quarrel six years later? He carries the epithet “The Black”
Cleitus
After defeating theGreek city-statesofAthensandThebesat theBattle of Chaeroneain 338 BC, Philip II led the effort to establish afederationof Greek states known as theLeague of BLANK. What word fills the blank?
Corinth
What is the nickname of the Women’s N.B.A team in Las Vegas? These things were “high” in a 1976 war film starring Malcolm McDowell
Aces
Vestal Virgins who violated the oath of celibacy were sentenced to vivisepulture. What is vivisepulture?
Buried Alive
Who was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Emperor Augustus Caesar? She was rumoured to have been responsible for the deaths of a number of Augustus’ relatives, including his grandson Agrippa Postumus. Augustus eventually adopted her son Tiberius as his heir.
Livia
Which woman was Roman empress from 49 to 54 AD, the fourth wife and niece of Emperor Claudius, and the mother of Nero? Her father, Germanicus, was the nephew and heir apparent of the second emperor, Tiberius.
Agrippina the Younger
Which woman was the 3rd or 4th wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination?
Calpurnia
Who was the first Roman non-mythological woman to appear on Roman coins? She is most famous for her activities during her marriage to Mark Anthony and her involvement in the Perusine War of 41–40 BC
Fulvia
A subgenre of Sword-and-sandals movies were called “porno peplum” They were devoted to Roman emperors, especially to Caligula and which woman, the wife of Claudius?
Messalina
Poppaea Sabina was the wife of Nero but also the wife of which other Roman Emperor? This man was the second emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors.
Otho
According to Roman legend, the rape and subsequent suicide of which woman precipitated a rebellion that overthrew the Roman monarchy and led to the transition of Rome from a kingdom to a republic?
Lucretia
In Plutarch’s Parallel lives he portrays which woman, the first wife of Cicero, as a controlling and oppressive spouse?
Terentia
Played by Lindsey Duncan in the TV series “Rome”, which woman was the mother of Brutus and Caesar’s mistress turned bitter enemy?
Servilia
Cumbre Vieja is an active volcano on which of the Canary Islands? This beautiful island has an area of 708 square kilometres making it the fifth largest of the eight main Canary Islands.
La Palma
Derived from Javanese, what word refers to a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water?
Lahar
What name is given to a a vent in the surface of the Earth or other rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids?
Fumarole
Back in 1991 an eruption of Mount Pinatubo, ejected more particulate into the stratosphere than any eruption since Krakatoa in 1883. On which island would you find Mount Pinatubo?
Luzon
highest mountain in Borneo and Malaysia
Mount Kinabalu
Mount NyiragongoandNyamuragira are two active volcanones located in which Conogolese national park? In 1979, the National Park was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its protection of rare mountain gorilla habitat
Virunga
Volcano and Dante’s Peak were “twin” disaster movies of 1997. Volcano starred Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche whereas Dante’s Peak starred Pierce Brosnan and which woman? She had starred in the short film T2-3D a year earlier
Linda Hamilton
The Volcano called Mt Sidley in Antarctica was named after Mabelle Sidley. She was the daughter of the man who invented Malted Milk. Who was that man? His name lives on to this day in a brand name
William Horlick
What name is given to the type of volcano with a low profile, formed by the eruption of highly fluid lava which flows farther than that of a stratovolcano? Mauna Loa on Hawaii is a good example
Shield Volcano
Six scientists were killed in 1993 taking measurements at the volcano called “Galeras”. Galeras is the most active volcano in which South American country?
Columbia
Which Italian volcano is almost constantly active, leading to its nickname as “The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean”?
Stromboli
The Sapas Mons Shield Volcano can be found on what planet of our solar system?
Venus
In Maori mythology, what is the name of Rangi and Papa’s unborn child who is the god of earthquakes and volcanoes?
Ruaumoko
The2023–2024 Sundhnúkur eruptionsare an ongoing series ofvolcanic eruptionsin thewhich peninsula of south west Iceland?
Reykjanes
Found in Iceland, British Columbia and Eastern Russia, what 4-letter name is given to a flat-topped, steep-sided volcano formed when lava erupts through a thick glacier or ice sheet?
Tuya
First name please of the current head designer of the Prada luxury fashion brand. 7-letter answer
Miuccia
Sienna Miller was the cover model on the Winter 2024 cover of Vogue. In the 2008 movied “The Edge of Love” she played the wife of which real life person?
Dylan Thomas
Which American singer and songwriter was a Vogue cover model in 2023? In the late 1990s her debut album placed her at the forefront of the neo soul movement and she earned the nickname “Queen of Neo Soul” from music critics
Erykah Badu
Initials L.W., first name and surname please of the woman widely regarded as China’s first supermodel? She was the first Chinese model to be featured on the front cover rather than foldout
Liu Wen
Which alliteratively named South Sudanese/ Australian model was chosen as “Model of the Year” by models.com in 2018? She won again in 2019
Adut Akech
Which American actress appeared on the 2021 issue of Vogue? It is said that the Joshua Kaddison hit “Jessie” was written in honour of this woman, his girlfriend at the time
Sarah Jessica Parker
Which American model, the daughter of Cindy Crawford, appeared on the cover of Vogue twice in 2021?
Kaia Gerber
Florence Pugh appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine in January 2023. What character did Pugh play in “Oppenheimer”? This American psychiatrist was a member of the Communist Party USA before it was banned
Jean Tatlock
Which alliterative Italian term describes an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea? The peaks reach their maximum in the Venetian lagoon?
Acqua Alta
Who was the last Doge of the Republic of Venice? He abdicated in 1797 when Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers entered the city.
Ludovico Manin
“Doge” as in the head of state of Venice and the Italian “duce”, are all descended from what 3-letter Latin word meaning “spiritual leader” or “military commander”?
Dux
If you enter the Grand Canal in Venice from the south, which is the first bridge you pass under? An internet subculture which focuses on some fashions of the 1930s alongside gothic architecture is called Dark BLANK, with the blank also being the name of this bridge.
Accademia
Which 16th century Venetian painter was nicknamed “Il Furioso” due to the speed of his work?
Tintoretto
Numerous cities including Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Venice and Mantua combined as what “League” in 1167 in order to thwart attempts by the Holy Roman Emperor to extend his influence over Italy?
Lombard League
What “V” is the Italian word for landscape, and is given to the views of Venice painted by Canaletto? An archetypal example of this style of landscape is Johannes Vermeer’s View of Delft.
Veduta
What fashion designer, the inventor of the ‘bubble dress’, was born near Venice in 1954? Known for his avant-garde style and Space Age designs, he died in 2020
Pierre Cardin
The first Doge of Venice, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, is remembered for repelling attacks from which Islamic Caliphate, the second Caliphate estabished after the death of Muhammad?
Umayyad Caliphate
The debasement of the Byzantine hyperpyra led the Venetians to develop which Gold coin? It was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century
Ducat
Considered to give primacy to colour over line, the tradition of the Venetian school contrasted with which other styleprevalent in the rest of Italy? This other style exaggerated proportion, balance, and ideal beauty, with Parmigianino’s “Madonna with the Long Neck” being a good example
Mannerism
Director of Challengers
Luca Guadagnino
The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded what explorer of the city ofVenice, so he named the region in its honour? This Italian participated in Age of Discovery voyages forst for Spain and then for Portugal
Amerigo Vespucci
Who was the second president to wed while in office, and remains the only president to marry in the White House? He was born in New Jersey in 1837
Grover Cleveland
Who was the first US President to be born in a hospital? This occurred in 1924
Jimmy Carter
Which man suffered the indignation of being the incumbent on the only time in U.S. history that an elected president who was an active candidate for reelection was not nominated by his political party for a second term? This man was born in New Hampshire in 1804
Franklin Pierce
Having attended Harvard Business School and graduating in 1975, who is the only U.S. president to have earned an MBA?
George W Bush
Woodrow Wilson was one of only two U.S. presidents to be a citizen of the Confederate States of America. Who was the other? This man served as the US president in the 1840s
John Tyler
In 1835 who became the only president to pay off the national debt?
Andrew Jackson
Byron Howardwon the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2017 forZootopia. Voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, what is the name of the rabbit character who is the main Protagonist in that movie?
Judy Hopps
Born in 1941, what co-founder of Studio Ghibli, has a record equalling 4 nominations in the Best Animated Feature Oscar category?
Hayao Miyazaki
Nominated for theBest Animated Feature Filmat the Oscars ceremony in 2017, the movie “My life as a BLANK” was also selected as the Swiss entry for Best Foreign Film that year. What food fills the blank?
Courgette
Which 2021 Danish adult animated movie found itself Oscar nominated in the Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary and Best International film categories? It followed the story of a man who escapes Afghanistan and heads to Denmark
Flee
“An BLANK Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” was nominated in the Best Animated Short category at the 95th Oscars ceremony. The name of what bird fills the blank? Expresso is a this kind of animal in Nintendo’s Donkey Kong franchise
Ostrich
The Best Animated Short Film winner “Munro” by Gene Deitch, had been shown in cinemas in the USA in 1961 as a short before which film, which itself was nominated for 5 Oscars? This movie is about a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer while attempting to marry for money
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
The actress Anya Taylor-Joy was born in which American city? This city was also the birthplace of the actress Eva Mendes and the politician Marco Rubio
Miami
Anya Taylor-Joy found success through the lead role in the acclaimed 2015 horror film The Witch. What man wrote and directed that movie?
Robert Eggers
First name “Beth”, what was the surname of the character played by Anya Taylor-Joy in the Netflix miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit”?
Harmon
Anya Taylor-Joy was Princess Peach in the 2023 Super Mario movie. In the world of Super Mario what is the name of the Kingdom ruled by Princess Peach?
The Mushroom Kingdom
In 2019 Anya Taylor-Joy lent her voice to a movie based on which range of toys? The signature toy from this German company is 7.5cm human figure with a smiling face.
Playmobil
Anya Taylor-Joy starred in the TV version of which Jessie Burton novel? The book is set in Amsterdam in 1686 and was inspired by a display at the Rijksmuseum.
The Miniaturist
Anya Taylor-Joy married a man named Malcom McRae in 2022. In 2023 he appeared in which musical drama television miniseries based on a Taylor Jenkins-Reid novel of the same name?
Daisy Jones & The Six
Anya Taylor-Joy was “discovered” while running errands for the crew of Downton Abbey and reciting a Séamus Heaney as she did so. Which Heaney poem was this? This poem begins “Between my finger and my thumb, The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
Digging
“Betrayed by Rita Hayworth” and “Heartbreak Tango” were early works by Manuel Puig but which of his novels was made into a movie in 1985 and then a Broadway musical in 1993?
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio won the first Formula One championship whilst driving for what team? Zhou Guanyu drove for this team in 2023
Alfa Romeo
Billie Eilish third album 2024
Hit Me Hard and Soft
Dua Lipa #1 2024 album
Radical Optimism
The Valdes Peninsula in Argentina is a good place to spot an animal called a “Pichi”. The Pichi is a dwarf or pygmy variety of what mammal? They are thought to be the only type of this animal which hibernates
Armadillo
Who are the only Argentinian club side that have won at least one title in every decade? They wear Blue and Yellow and play at La Bombonera, Buenos Aires
Boca Juniors
Which Argentinian movie won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Oscars? The film focused on the relationship between two judiciaries and their investigation into a 1970s murder case
The Secret in their Eyes
What “Z” is the regional term for the foehn wind that often occurs on the eastern slope of the Andes?
Zonda
At the time of writing, who is the last ever Argentinian to win a Formula One Grand Prix? He finished second in the Driver’s championship three times between 1975 and 1980
Carlos Reutemann
Which Portuguese-Brazilian singer achieved global fame following her appearance in the 1940 Hollywood movie “Down Argentine Way”? Her exotic clothing and Lusophone accent became her trademark
Carmen Miranda
What is the name of theArgentine architectwho died in July 2019 at the age of 92, famous for having designed some of the world’s tallest buildings? Some of his most notable contributions include the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the World Financial Center in New York City.
Cesar Pelli
Alfredo Di Stéfano managed which club to the La Liga title and to European Cup Winners cup glory during a couple different stints? This team have a bat symbol on their crest
Valencia
What is the second-most populous city in Argentina after Buenos Aires, with about 1.6 million urban inhabitants? Ossie Ardilles was born here
Cordoba
Who is the only Argentinian woman to win a Tennis singles Grand Slam? This woman was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s
Gabriela Sabatini
Who spoiled the party for Roger Federer in 2004 when he won the French Open? Federer took the other 3 majors that year. This man defeated fellow Argentinian Guillermo Coria in the final of that event
Gaston Gaudio
Also the name of a children’s game, what was the most acclaimed novel by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar? It won the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 1967
Hopscotch
What thick stew made from squash, corn, beans, and potato or pumpkin is considered the national dish of many South American countries, including Northwest Argentina?
Locro
Which man, born to an Italian father in Buenos Aires in 1770, created the flag of Argentina and is regarded as a father of the country?
Manuel Belgrano
The only player in the Argentina 2022 World Cup squad who actually played his club football in Argentina at the time was the goalie Franco Armani. What side did he play for? This team play in Beunos Aires and have won the Argentinian Championship a record 38 times
River Plate
What is the largest city in the central Argentina province of Santa Fe? It is located 300km northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Parana River
Rosario
Meaning “Little Pump” in Spanish, what is the name of the metal straw used for the drink mate?
Bombilla
Played on horseback and combining elements frompoloandbasketball, what is the national sport of Argentina?
Pato
By what first name was María Estela Martínez generally known? She took over the presidency of Argentina following the death of her husband, Juan Peron, in 1974
Isabel
The Argentine-Italian painter Lucio Fontana was the founder of which art movement? In 1947 he proposed to synthesize colour, sound, space, movement, and time into a new type of art.
Spatialism
If a cave in south western Egypt near the border with Libya is the “Cave of the Swimmers” and Lascaux in France is home to the “Cave of the Bulls”, then how would you refer to the famous cave complex in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina?
Cave of the Hands
Which Argentinian author, born 1899, once said “Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition; since I was born they have not been granting it to me”?
Jorge Luis Borges
Which Argentinian resort town for skiing is the main hub in the world for tourists and expeditions heading to Antarctica?
Ushuaia
What term in art refers to paint that has been applied so thickly that often the brush strokes remain visible?
Impasto
What village near the Forest of Fontainebleu lends its name a school of naturalistic French painting, led by Jean-Baptisite-Camille Corot?
Barbizon
The sculptor Vera Mukhina became a leading figure in what art style, the official style in the USSR between 1932 and 1988?
Socialist Realism
The 1850 painting called “Dante And Virgil” by William-Adolphe Bouguereau is a great example of what art style? Other works in this style, which coincided with the age of Enlightenment, include “A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery” by Joseph Wright of Derby and “Oath of the Horatii” by Jacques-Louis David. 1 word, 13 letters
Neoclassicism
The Trevi fountain in Rome is considered a classic example of what architectural and painting style that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s?
Baroque
What 18th century European art style also known as Late Baroque uses even more over-the top ornamentation including shells and animals? “The Swing” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard is a great example of this style
Rococo
Which early 20th century art style depicted the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people? Views of New York city were a common theme in this art style whose contributors included Edward Hopper. Two word answer
American Realism
If we don’t include Russia, which European country has sent the most people into space?
Germany
Who remains the only professional scientist to have flown beyond low Earth orbit and to have visited the Moon? This Apollo 17 astronaut is also the most recent living person to have walked on the lunar surface. He’s currently 88 years old
Harrison Schmitt
A member of two Space Shuttle missions, who became the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space?
Chris Hadfield
Who is the only person to have flown to the Moon twice without landing? This man, now aged 95, co-authored the 1994 book “Lost Moon”, on which the 1995 film “Apollo 13” was based
Jim Lovell
Michael Collins orbited the moon alone whilst Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed. Which man had done the same job on Apollo 10 whist Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Lunar Module to within 15km of the lunar surface
John Young
Although manyspecieshavebeen to space, only 9 different species beyond humans have landed on theMoon. 8 of these species, including Silkworms and Cotton, were taken there by which January 2019 Chinese mission - humanity’s first soft landing on the far side of the Moon
Chang’e 4
Which hadronic subatomic particle consists of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually one of each, bound together by strong interactions? Hideki Yukawa predicted its existence and approximate mass as the carrier of the nuclear force holding atomic nuclei together, in 1934.
Meson
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of proof that which subatomic particle has mass?
Neutrino
Carl Anderson gained the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for the discovery of which subatomic particle? It is the antimatter counterpart of an electron
Positron
Which scientific principle states that in the ground state of an atom, electrons fill subshells of the lowest available energy, then they fill subshells of higher energy?
AUFBAU principle
Which Greek philosopher was the first to put forward an “atomic theory” of nature? His name meant “chosen of the peopl”
Democritus
What does 2 Up quarks and 1 Down quark make?
Proton
Graz is the capital of which Austrian state?
Styria
“Ver Sacrum” was the official magazine of which Austrian art movement formed in 1897?
Vienna Secession
What is the most remarkable attribute of Mozart’s symphony no. 40 and symphony no. 25 when compared to the rest of his works?
Only two extant MINOR KEY symphonies
Which Austrian Skier of the 1970s won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal?
Annemarie MOSER-PROLL
Lying on the Danube, which city is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in country? Adolf Hitler was born and raised near here
Linz
At which battle of 1850 did Napoleon’s army drive the Austrians out of Italy?
MARENGO
Which Austrian psychotherapist founded the school of Individual Psychology and coined the term “Inferiority Complex”?
Alfred Adler
What battle of September 1788 is best remembered nowadays as it was possible up to 10,000 Austrian soldiers died in a “friendly fire” incident?
Battle of Karánsebes
Which Austrian-American has been described as “the founder of modern management”? He invented the concept known as “management by objectives”
Peter Drucker
What “H” is the official residence of the Austrian head of State? The area of this palace has been the documented seat of government of Austria since the 13th century
HOFBURG Palace
Tyrolean Speck is a ham with what distinctive flavour?
Juniper
A main objective of Austria’s in the Seven Year War was to regain what region of Central Europe which they had previously lost to Prussia? Today this region is mostly part of Poland. The largest city of the region is Wrocław.
Silesia
Unlike bosons, no two identical fermions can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. This is because fermions obey the ‘exclusion principle’ named after which Austrian physicist?
PAULI exclusion principle (Wolfgang PAULI)
Which mathematician and friend of Einstein is known for his “Ontological Proof” of God’s existence first circulated in 1970?
Kurt Godel
Which Austrian physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of Cosmic Rays? He made his discoveries by taking hot air balloon flights, at great risk to his life
Victor Hess
In November 2022 climate protestors threw a black oily liquid onto which Klimt painting’s protective glass, protesting “oil and gas drilling … a death sentence to society”?
Death and Life
The Haidbauer incident, which took place in 1926, was am event where an 11-year old schoolboy was reportedly knocked unconscious by which Austrian philosopher?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What was the 4-word first electric telegram sent by Samuel Morse from Washington to Baltimore in 1844? It was a phrase from the Bible Book of Numbers
What Hath God Wrought
What is the surname of the brothers John and Jim who coached opposing teams at Super Bowl XVII in 2013? John and the Baltimore Ravens beat Jim and the San Francisco 49ers.
Harbaugh
Founded by a man called Kevin Plank, which American sportswear company are headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland?
Under Armour
Which Quarterback starred when the heavy underdog New York Jets defeated the NFL’s Baltimore Colts in Superbowl III?
Joe Namath
Which deep-voiced actor, who died at the age of 60 in March 2023, famously played the role of Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels in The Wire?
Lance Reddick
The Wire isn’t the only Baltimore-based police series. Which 1990s police procedural show chronicled the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department? It ran for seven seasons and had a cast including Richard Belzer and Yaphet Kotto
Homicide Life on the Street
Said by a character named Senator Ruth Martin, “Take this thing back to Baltimore” is a memorable line from which award-winning movie of 1991?
Silence of the Lambs
The Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the failed British bombardment of which Fort? Close by at this time Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Fort McHenry
Tom Clancy, author of many notable books such as The Hunt for Red October, and Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, both attended a Baltimore University named after which religious figure who was born in Spain in 1491 and who founded a religious order?
ST IGNATIUS/ IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Doing so in 1982, who were the first band to win the Best Newcomer award at the Brits? In the same year they charted with the song “Mirror Man”
Human League
Real name Alison Moira Clarkson, which singer won the 1991 Best British Newcomer award at the Brits? She came to fame when she joined with the Beatmasters on the song “Hey DJ/I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing)”
Betty Boo
Dua Lipa won the Best Newcomer Brit award in 2018. In which 2024 thriller movie does Dua Lipa play “Lagrange”?
Argylle
Which Best Newcomer Brit award nominees rose to fame after their single “King” (2014), topped the UK Singles Chart and entered the top ten hit in thirteen other regions?
Years & Years
Gorillaz were nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 2001 Brits. Gorillaz were formed by Damon Albarn and which other man? This man was also the co-creator of the comic strip “Tank Girl”
Jamie Hewlett
Which Britpop band who were nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 1997 Brits share their name with an antiquated term for human flesh, eaten by cannibals?
Longpigs
What was the only UK top ten hit for Beverly Craven, the winner of the Best Newcomer award at the 1992 Brit Awards?
Promise Me
Song “Twist In My Sobriety” is by which artist?
Tanita Tikaram
1984 is often said to be the best music year ever. Who won the Best Newcomer at the Brits that year? This man’s last UK top ten hit was “Senza una donna” in 1991
Paul Young
In the game of Codenames, the 25 word cards laid out represent Red Agents, Blue Agents or what else? The dictionary might describe this two-word phrase as “a person who is close to or sees an event or situation, but is not responsible for it “
Innocent Bystanders
Created by Allan B. Calhamer and set in the run up to World War One, which board game was supposedly a favourite of Henry Kissinger’s?
Diplomacy
Which future Marvel actor appeared on the cover of the 1999 version of the Milton Bradly game “Mystery Date”? In 2022, he was named the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine and he went against type when playing a baddie in the movie “Knives Out”
Chris Evans
Pop Up Pirates, Screwball Scramble and Zoids are all toys made by which Japanese toy company known by a 4-letter name?
TOMY
Which board game, now owned by Hasbro, has been marketed as “The game for your whole brain”?
Cranium
In the 2021 strategic board game “Ark Nova”, the players attempt to build what kind of facility? The story of Benjamin Mee buying one of these things was made into a movie
Zoo
7 Wonders is a dedicated deck card game that features ancient civilizations. A poem by which ancient Greek poet of the second half of the 2nd century BC gives one of the earliest known lists of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
ANTIPATER OF SIDON
The French actress Sarah Bernhardt was a great fan of which two-player abstract strategy board game which has a name meaning “Jump” in Italian?
Salta
What game, played on a 10x10 grid with each player controlling 40 pieces, is based on an earlier French game called L’Attaque (“The Attack”)?
Stratego
The object of which Mesoamerican board game was to move six game pieces to the end of a board composed of specially-marked squares? It was reported by the conquistadors that Moctezuma Xocoyotzin often enjoyed watching his nobles play the game at court.
Patolli
What 4-letter word describes a family of board games from Northern Europe which are characterised by the players having an uneven number of pieces?
Tafl
“Hellas and Elysium”, “Venus Next” and “Colonies” are all expansion packs of which successful 2016 board game?
Terraforming Mars
The Disney Villainous board game franchise is published by which German company? This company is named after a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany
Ravensberger
Burt Bacharach composed the theme song for what 1958 science fiction film? It featured Steve McQueen in his first starring role
The Blob
The name of which 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and James Stewart was also the title of a Bacharach and David song which charted for Gene Pitney?
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Which 1963 hit song song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David begins “Dearest, darling, I had to write to say that I won’t be home anymore”?
TWENTY FOUR HOURS FROM TULSA
As well as thinkin’ and prayin’ what else was Dusty Springfield doing according to the name of her 1964 hit written by Bacharach and David?
Wishin’ and Hopin’
Generally speaking, what activity is being carried out by Butch Cassidy in the scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which is accompanied by the song “Raindrops keep falling on my head”?
Bicycling/Bike Tracks
Who was Burt Bacharach married to for most of the 1980s? This woman’s most successful record was most probably the song “You’re moving out today”
Carole BAYER SAGER
What 5 words appeared in brackets in the name of Burt Bacharach’s oscar winning song “Arthur’s Theme”?
Best That You Can Do
Noted for her impassioned speech during the 532 Nika Riots, which woman, with a name beginning with “T” was the wife of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great? She is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the Oriental Orthodox Chruch.
Theodora
Which battle with a river in its title was fought between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate in 636 CE? The result of the battle was a complete Muslim victory that ended Byzantine rule in Syria.
Battle of YARMUCK/ Battle of the YARMUCK river
the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad
Rashidun Caliphate
Before becoming the King of Norway Harald Hardrada had spent some time as chief of which elite unit within the Byzantine Army? This group served as the personal bodyguards of the Emperor
Varangian Guard
Rooms in the Palace of the Byzantine emperors where members of the royal family were born were known as what? These rooms were decorated with Porphyry
Purple Chambers
The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I restored Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the empire after more than half a century of rule by which people?
Ostrogoths
The 1389 Battle of Kosovo, fought between the army of a Serbian prince and invading Ottomans, took place 3 miles northwest of which modern city?
Pristina
Which Hellenistic Greek city was founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC? The city served as the capital of the Seleucid Empire and later as regional capital to both the Roman and Byzantine Empire.
Antioch
Alp Arslan was the Sultan of which Empire when they defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071? This victory ushered in the Turkmen settlement of Anatolia
Seljuks
Pope Urban II is remembered for convening which synod of 1095, which ignited the series of Christian conquests known as the Crusades?
Council of CLERMONT
Which decade saw the siege and fall of Constantinople to Mehmed II, the last pitched battle of the 100 years War and the printing of the Gutenberg Bible?
1450s
Christianity became the state religion and other religious practices were proscribed during the reign of which Emperor? He was the last emperor to rule the entire Roman Empire before its administration was permanently split between the West and East.
Theodosius
Located in Cantabria, Spain, which cave complex is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring drawings of contemporary local fauna and human hands?
Altamira
Thailand’s Phi Phi islands are home to the “Viking Cave” where edible versions of what thing are harvested? These things are made of edible saliva and have been part of Chinese culture for hundreds of years
Birds Nests
Between 1946 and 1956 the “Dead Sea Scrolls” were discovered in which cave system located near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank?
Qumran caves
What is the name of the cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia which gave its name to a subspecies of archaic humans that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic ages?
Denisova
Which Horror writer’s 1918 short story “The Beast in the Cave” is set in the Mammoth Cave Complex? This man’s most prominent publisher was “Weird Tales” magazine
HP Lovecraft
Which American sculptor, known for his work in New Mexico, was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary entitled “Cavedigger”?
Ra Paulette
In Greek mythology which river flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness?
Lethe
Located in the New Valley Governate of South West Egypt, caves at the Gilf Kebir plateau near the Libyan border are famous for their cave art showing people doing what activity?
Swimming
In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, The Well of Souls is a cave located under the Foundation Stone, within which building?
The Dome of the Rock
At the end of which Shakespeare play does the title character denounce all of mankind and isolates himself in a cave in the wilderness?
Timon of Athens
The natural Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan had beeen expanded by the CIA to help hide which militant group during their 1980s war against the Soviet Union?
Mujahideen
The roles of Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American film star in Hollywood, are often put into two pigeon holes. Either the demure “Butterfly” or what other? This stereotype describes East Asian women as strong, deceitful, domineering, mysterious, and often sexually alluring. Two word answer
Dragon Lady
Kachin State in the north of which modern day country has been a source of Amber for use in China for almost 2000 years? In this country you will find the mountain called Hkakabo Razi, which is regarded as the southern tip of the Himalayas
Myanmar
Though he does not drink coffee,what musician and Seattle native hit it big by investing in Starbucks in the 1980s? Interestingly, this man’s instrumental hit “Going Home” is widely played in China at the end of the business day.
Kenny G
In a major defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russian General Anatoly Stessel surrendered which port, located on mainland China, to the Japanese? It was named after a British Royal Navy Lieutenant who surveyed the harbour in 1860
Port Arthur
A proposed tunnel connecting Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula with Yantai on the Shandong Peninsula in China will go under what strait? This strait takes its name from a marginal sea on the east coast of Mainland China
Bohai Strait
The Chinese inventor Yuan Longping was known in that country as “The Father of Hybrid BLANK”. What four letter word fills the blank? His work was inspired by the negative experience in China between 1959 and 1961
Rice
Born in Hunan province in 1812, the Chinese statesman and military leader of the late Qing dynasty named Zuo Zongtang is commemorated by which culinary dish? This sweet and spicy dish is popular in North America
General Tso’s Chicken
The X Fold is the flagship device of which Chinese smartphone manufacturer? This company sponsor the Basketball player Steph Curry in China and have sponsored the Indian Premier league Cricket too
Vivo
What traditional Chinese holiday occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar (around late May/ June in the Gregorian calendar)? This is a folk festival integrating worship of gods and ancestors, praying for good luck and warding off evil spirits, celebrating, entertainment and eating.
Dragon Boat Festival
Lasting 789 years from 1046 BC to 256 BC, which Chinese royal dynasty lasted longer than any other? This period of Chinese history produced what many consider the zenith of Chinese bronzeware making
Zhou dynasty
What name is given to the period in the history of the Republic of China from 1916 to 1928? It began upon the death of Yuan Shikai, the de facto dictator of China after the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty
Warlord Era
Thecapture of Beijingby the forces of what short-lived Dynasty in April 1644 marked the end of theMing?
Shun Dynasty
The 1046 BC battle of Muye saw the rebel Zhou state take on and defeat which ruling dynasty of China? King Wen of Zhou, sometimes considered the first epic hero of Chinese history lived during this period
Shang
eight-year civil war (from 755 to 763 AD) during the mid-point of Tang dynasty? The aim of the rebellion was to displace this dynasty and replace them with the Great Yan
An Lushan
What name was given to the Hongwu Emperor’s forces that conquered China proper, ending the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty around 1368 CE? This two word term contains a colour
Red Turban Rebellion
Yellow Turban Rebellion took place during which dynasty of China?
HAN
Going by a three letter name, who were the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography? According to legend they were founded by Yu the Great
Xia
The first writer to record the myth of which creation figure in Chinese mythology was thought to beXu Zhengduring theThree Kingdomsperiod?
Pangu
What is the nameof the Chinese concept first used in the Zhou dynasty that justified the rule of the King or Emperor of China on a divine basis?
Mandate of Heaven
Which Hakka Chinese revolutionary was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-19th century? His Taiping rebels captured the city of Nanjing in March 1853 and declared it the Heavenly Capital of the kingdom
Hong Xiuquan
TheGreat Anti-Buddhist Persecution(841–845), which greatly impacted and weakened the Buddhist institutions in China, was carried out under which Tang emperor?
Emperor Wuzong
Give any year in the Taiping rebellion, a massive civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1850-1864
Through to modern times, the Chinese equivalent of the English idiom “speak of the Devil” is “speak of BLANK BLANK and BLANK BLANK arrives”. The name of which statesman and warlord who rose to power towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty fills the blanks?
Cao Cao
Turkey is home to 2 to 3 million people of which Ethnic group, who fled there following a war with Russia which began in 1763? Their homeland had been in the North Caucasus
Circassians
The Turkish city of Gaziantep is famous for its orchards which produce which seed which is widely consumed as a food? It is a member of the cashew family
Pistachio
The climax of which of Dan Brown’s books takes place at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul? This thriller with a one word title was published in 2013
Inferno
In 1810 Lord Byron supposedly swam the Hellespont, but what is that body of water known as today?
Dardanelles
Turkish prisons got a bad rep in the 1978 movie “Midnight Express”. Who directed that film? He also directed “The Commitments” in 1991
Alan Parker
The world’s oldest known megaliths can be found at what Neolithic archaeological site in the South Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey? It was designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018
Gobekli Tepe
Mount Dena is the highest point of which mountain range, which stretches from South Eastern Turkey to the Straits of Hormuz?
ZAGROS Mountains
What “G” is a traditional design of a two-masted or three-masted wooden sailing vessel from the southwestern coast of Turkey, particularly built in the coastal towns of Bodrum and Marmaris? 5-letter answer
Gulet
The Last Supper is a mural, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci on the wall of a refectory in the Convent at the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. This is a convent of which religious order?
Dominican
Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” was commissioned as part of a plan of renovations to the church and its convent by Leonardo’s patron the Duke of Milan. The Duke of Milan at that time was a member of which famous Italian family? In Thomas Harris’s books Hannibal Lecter is a descendant of this House
Sforza
The Last Supper mural represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, as it is told in which book of the New Testament?
John
An interpretation of The Last Supper was made in salt at the famous Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland. This salt mine lies just outside of which Polish city?
Krakow
The layout of The Last Supper is closely resembled in which 1951 movie, where Peter preaches in front of a large Christian crowd? In this movie Peter Ustinov was Emperor Nero
Quo Vadis
The Art dealer Alexander Iolas commissioned which man to produce a series of paintings based on The Last Supper which were first exhibited in Milan in January 1987? The series would be this artist’s last before his death in the same year
Andy Warhol
The season seven finale of The X-Files, “Requiem” was Mulder’s last episode as a series regular. It features a scene in Mulder and Scully’s boss’ office with the characters lined up in homage to the Last Supper. What was the name of Mulder and Scully’s boss? He was played by Mitch Pileggi
Walter SKINNER
One theory about the Last Supper is that the figure on Jesus’ left is actually Mary Magdalene. This theory was popularised in which 1982 book written by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh?
The HOLY BLOOD AND THE HOLY GRAIL (accept HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL)
Which period of disorder began in London in early June 1780? This started as a protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics
Gordon Riots
The name of Benedict Arnold is now synomynous with Treachery, but prior to his defection to the British in 1780 he had been the Commander of which military post located on the Hudson River?
West Point
In 1780 in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II led an uprising of Aymara and Quechua peoples alongside peasants of of mixed European and indigenous non-European ancestry. What 7-letter word was used to describe such people?
Mestizo
In April 1781 which future U.S. President was slashed by a British officer’s sword at his home near Waxhaw, North Carolina, after refusing to clean the officer’s boots? The event that left physical and psychological scars
Andrew Jackson
What is the westernmost city in the Florida panhandle? It was surrendered by the British to Spanish forces in 1781?
Pensacola
Which region of the south of the country forms the “toe of the boot” of Italy, so to speak? Catanzaro is the region’s capital. The area suffered a series of devastating earthquakes in the 1780s
Calabria
An eruption at Mount Asama in 1783 led to the deaths of 20,000 people. Mount Asama remains the most active volcano in which country?
Japan
Which woman played Marion Ravenwood, a spirited, tough bar owner and Indiana Jones’ former love in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Karen Allen
Which veteran actress played Wendy Darling in the 1991 movie “Hook”? This woman is still appearing in movies at the age of 89
Maggie Smith
Which British actress was “Agatha Lively”, described as the most “talented” of the three precogs, in the Spielberg movie “Minority Report”? In February 2024, she was awarded the Fellowship of BAFTA at the British Academy Film Awards
Samantha Morton
First and second name please of the actress (the daughter of Bono) who appeared in the Steven Spielberg movie “Bridge of Spies”.
Eve Hewson
Which actress played as Queen Elizabeth II in the 2016 BFG movie? In recent years she’s also played Isobel Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey and the recurring role of Harriet Jones in Doctor Who
Penelope Wilton
English actor. He is best known for starring in the romantic films Purple Hearts (2022), Red, White & Royal Blue (2023), The Idea of You (2024), and the comedy Bottoms (2023).
Nicholas Galitzine
What was the theme at this year’s Met Gala, which saw a large number of celebrities parading about in pastels and florals?
THE GARDEN OF TIME
The revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People stars what “Succession” actor in the lead role?
JEREMY STRONG
What actress, who has won two Oscars, three Emmys, and one Tony, plays a ferocious matriarch in Mother Play?
Jessica Lange
What novel by Jayne Anne Phillips won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
NIGHT WATCH
In the Philippines, what two families, who hold the presidential and vice presidential seats, are openly feuding with each other?
MARCOS VS DUTERTES
What ancient Persian king and founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire has become a symbol of modern dissidents in Iran?
Cyrus the Great
Seventeen-year old Gukesh D (Dommaraju Gukesh) from India is the youngest person to compete for what title?
2024 FIDE Candidates tournament, which will make him the youngest person to compete for the title of WORLD CHESS CHAMPION
In a case of real-life “Succession,” Delphine, Antoine, Alexandre, Frederic, and Jean are the children poised to inherit what luxury empire, a purported “family business”?
Bernard Arnault is the richest man in the world and his luxury empire, LVMH
Ecuador has continued to defend its raid on the Mexican Embassy in order to detain what former vice president?
JORGE GLAS
What viral mosquito-borne disease has made a resurgence in Latin America, particularly Brazil?
Dengue Fever
Marcos Galperin is the richest man in Argentina, and the CEO of what major e-commerce site in Latin America?
MERCADO LIBRE
José Raúl Mulino, a last-minute candidate, was elected president of what Central American country?
PANAMA
And now, to return things back to North America — Brian Hernandez Jr. won what race over the weekend atop Mystik Dan?
Brian Hernandez Jr.
What African country has demanded the end of MONUSCO, a UN peacekeeping mission that has maintained a presence in the country since 1999?
Democratic Republic of Congo
What two-word phrase refers to women who believe in taking very conventional homemaking roles within a marriage?
TRAD WIFE
Wikipedia lists 58 places which claim the nickname “Steel City”. Which of these, located in Pennsylvania, USA, is also nicknamed “Christmas City”?
Bethlehem
Named after an English inventor who patented it in 1856, what name was given to the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron?
Bessemer Process
Which land artwork inNew Mexico by sculptorWalter De Maria consists of 400stainless steelpoles arranged in a rectangular gridarray?
The Lightning Field
What Mariupol Steelworks, beginning with “A”, was the site of a notable battle and siege during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Azovstal
In 1865, based on the Siemens process, which French Industrial engineer implemented the process which bears his name for producing steel in a hearth by remelting scrap steel with the addition of cast iron for the dilution of impurities?
Pierre-Emile Martin
Who invented the first successful steel plough in 1837? His namesake company is now one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world
John Deere
What is the tallest freestanding Steel structure in the world? It is the primary television and radio broadcast site for the Kantō region
Tokyo Skytree
Also referred to as theBattle of theMonitorandMerrimackor theBattle of Ironclads, what was the first naval battle between ironclad warships? The battle was fought over two days, March 8 and 9, 1862. The battle name might lead you to believe it took place inland
Battle of Hampton Roads
Wootz Steel, which was exported globally, was a pioneering steel alloy developed in the south of what country in the mid-1st millennium BC?
India
In 1978, as part of the Chinese government’sreform and opening, Chineseparamount leaderDeng Xiaopingsought to develop large-scale steel production in China. Part of the plan was for a huge steel production facility to be built near which port city? Today, Baowu, the world’s largest steel producer, has its HQ in this city
Shanghai
The Eads road and railway bridge in St Louis pioneered the large-scale use of steel as a structural material. What river does this bridge cross?
Mississippi
What name is given to any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce steel?
Open Hearth
Which man built the first steam locomotive known to have hauled a load over a distance at Pen-y-darren in 1804? This Cornish mining engineer later worked in Peru and Costa Rica.
Richard Trevithick
Given it’s shape, what is the alternative name of the Bow Tie Nebula? It is the coolest natural place currently known in the Universe
Boomerang Nebula
Which constellation represents the sea monster from which Perseus rescued Andromeda? This area of the sky contains other water-related constellations: Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus.
Cetus
In 1838 Friedrich Bessel made the first successful measurement of the distance to a star other than the Sun. What constellation was that star located in? This constellation is one of the most recognisable, and it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross
Cygnus
Algol, a star linked with ominous legends because of itsvariability, is part of which constellation named after a Greek hero?
Perseus
Which Zodiacal constellation contains the Sombrero Galaxy? It is the second-largest constellation in the sky (after Hydra) and the largest constellation in the zodiac.
Virgo
The Anzac Test is the name for an annual match between Australia and New Zealand in which sport?
Rugby League
Which man, real name Arthur Coimbra, was Brazil’s top scorer at the 1982 FIFA World Cup?
Zico
After Norway, which country came second in the 2022 Winter Olympics medal table?
Germany
The Canadian man Phil Wizard is one of the favourites to win Gold at which event that will be introduced at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
Breaking
Which Horseracing trainer who died back in 2013 was Champion Trainer ten times? His Derby winners included Commander in Chief in 1993 and Oath in 1999
Henry Cecil
The football award presented to the best performing player worldwide under the age of 21 is named after which French player, part of the legendary Real Madrid team of the 1950s?
KOPA trophy
What is the maximum number of points you can win on the Radio quiz game “Popmaster”?
39
The upcoming heavyweight boxing match between professional boxer Jake Paul and former undisputed heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson will take place in which country?
USA (Texas)
Which man was the star of the Yugoslavia team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the current manager of the Serbian national team?
Dragan Stojkovic
By what 5-letter name was the Serbian warlord and gangster Željko Ražnatović better known during the 1990s Yugoslave Wars?
Arkan
Who has served as the Prime Minister of Serbia since 2017? She is the first woman and first openly lesbian person to hold the office until March 2024 she left.
Ana Brnabic
What 1389 battle resulted in the deaths of Serbian prince Lazar and Ottoman sultan Murad I, the collapse of Serbia and the complete encirclement of the Byzantine Empire by Turkish armies?
Battle of Kosovo
Which Serbian geophysicist gave his name to the cycles of the Earth’s climate which are due to changes in the planet’s movement?
Milutin MILANKOVIC
the boundary between the crust and the mantle of Earth. It is defined by the distinct change in velocity of seismic waves as they pass through changing densities of rock. Named after Croatian seisomologist.
Mohorovičić discontinuity
Monica Seles was born in which city, the second largest in Serbia?
Novi Sad (home of Exit)
Today most of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb population lives in Republika Srpska. What is the largest city and administrative centre of that entity?
Banja Luka
Referred to as the “European Sahara” or the “Old Continent’s oldest desert”, what is the name of the 300km2 area of sandy terrain in Vojvodina province, Serbia?
Deliblato Sands
What gorge on the River Danube forms part of the border between Serbia and Romania?
Iron Gates
Accoridng to a convention signed in 1932, which sea lies between the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania? This sea is renowned for being shallow and difficult to navigate
Kattegat
The Mackenzie River, the longest in Canada, flows into which marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean? The sea is named after an Irish hydrographer
Beaufort Sea
What marginal sea of the South Pacific ocean lies between Australia and New Caledonia? It was the location of a major sea battle of May 1942
Coral Sea
Which God of Water sits in the central part of the Trevi fountain, surrounded by the statues of Abundance, Salubrity, tritons and hippocamps?
Oceanus
Which major city of Oceania lies on the Hauraki Gulf? The singer Daniel Bedingfield was born here
Auckland
What sea is the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa?
Alboran Sea
The Olympic peninsula in the Western portion of Washington State lies across what body of water from the city of Seattle? This estuary was named after a Huguenot explorer
Puget Sound
Containing the island of Ithaca, what sea, really an elongated bay, is the primary outflow of the Adriatic?
The IONIAN Sea
Arthur Saint-Léon was the Maître de Ballet of St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet from 1859 until 1869 and is famous for creating the choreography of which ballet? This ballet is about a mechanical doll
Coppelia
Sounding like a book of the Bible, what was Alvin Ailey’s choreographic masterpiece?
Revelations
Which Frenchman, the creator of ballet shoes, became the first choreographer who brought a ballerina posing on the pointe (via his “flying machine”)?
Charles Didelot
Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams played a famous dancer and her equally famous choreographer husband in which biographical mini-series of 2019? This show received a huge 17 nominations at the prime-time Emmys
Fosse/Verdon
Which man has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography more than anyone else? First name Frank, he got his first professional break when he danced in Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” video in 1986.
Frank Gatson
Choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, “Broken Wings” (2016) is a one-act ballet about which female artist?
Frida Kahlo
What woman, first name Gillian, choreographed two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history: Cats and The Phantom of the Opera? She’d also become the first non-royal woman to have a West End theatre named after her.
Gillian LYNNE
What choreographer, first name Kenny, choreographed the films St. Elmo’s Fire, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Dirty Dancing? He shares his surname with the actress who played “Young Jane” in the TV series “Jane the Virgin”
Kenny ORTEGA
Which choreographer, first name Sean, joined Usher during his Super Bowl LVIII halftime show? He has created the choreography for many music videos, including Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby”
Sean BANKHEAD
Which choreographer’s movement style is widely regarded as the first codified modern dance technique? This woman, who lived from 1894 to 1991, was the first dancer to perform at the White House
Martha GRAHAM
Which Scottish ballet dancer and choreographer, born 1962, has been described as “British dance’s true iconoclast”? He was a 1980s prodigy at the London Ballet school
Michael Clark
The choreographer Onna White received an honorary award at the 1968 Oscars. This came hot on the heels of his rapturous success with which movie? In this movie, Jack Wild sings whilst a street crowd, market workers, policemen and chimney sweep boys dance
Oliver!
Which American film director and musical choreographer (1895 to 1976) is best remembered for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns?
Busby BERKELEY
Choreographed by Michael Kidd, the Barn Dance scene in which 1954 movie is regarded as one of the best movie dance scenes ever?
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Which person has received more Best Choreography nominations at the Tony’s than any other? Her big break as a choreographer came in 1987 with the Off-Broadway revival of Flora the Red Menace
Susan STROMAN
In which city beginning with the letter “G” could you try “Johnny Jump Up” Cider, check out the Hall of the Red Earl or eat your fill at the annual Oyster Festival?
Galway
In which city beginning with the letter “D” could you wander along the riverbank to see the Lalbagh Fort or the Pink Palace? You’ll find it hard to get a drink here as alcohol is very restricted
Dhaka
In which city beginning with the letter “D” could you observe the competition at the Meydan Racecourse?
Dubai
In which city beginning with the letter “F” would you go to if you wished to see the Annual Festival of World Sacred Music? Parts of The Last Temptation of Christ were filmed here
Fez
In which city beginning with the letter “H” could you watch singers performing at the Plaza de la Catedral or have an ice cream at the famous Coppelia Ice Cream parlour?
Havana
In which city beginning with the letter “H” could you browse the stalls of the Salamanca market before taking a climb up Mount Wellington or viewing the boats at Battery Point?
Hobart
In which city beginning with the letter “D” coud you take a tour of the Kimbagoni Community centre or go swimming at the Kim beach?
Dar Es Salaam
The highest in Europe at the time of their construction, the Red Road was a housing complex for 5000 people in which European city?
Glasgow
What British monthly magazine is devoted to reporting on weird happenings? It’s tagline is “The World of Strange Phenomena” and it takes its name from an American researcher
Fortean Times
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) can be found in which public space in Rome? It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian
Piazza Navona
Which German-Australian photographer gave us the “Big Nudes” series and the “Naked and Depressed” portfolio? It comprises portraits and interviews collected on the streets
Helmut Newton
“Rrose Sélavy” (sounds like “Eros C’est La Vie”) was a pseudonym, or perhaps even a drag name, for which French artist?
Marcel Duchamp
The Alqueva Dam is the largest dam and artificial lake in Western Europe. It impounds which river, that forms a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border?
Guadiana
The Chinese government’s first big overseas Dam project was the Merowe Dam in which country? The Bayuda Desert is found in this country
Sudan
What six-letter word is the Chinese name for the upper stretches of the Yangtse river? The Baihetan Dam and the Xiluodu Dam, two of the world’s highest concrete arch dams, can be found here
Jinsha River
The Kebar Dam, constructed by the Mongolians in 1300 CE, is possibly the oldest surviving arch dam in the World. It is located near which Iranian regional capital with a three-letter name? The shrine of Fatimeh Masumeh, the sister of Imam Reza, is located in this city
Qom
In 1982, more than 400 indigenous people of the Maya Achi tribe were shockingly massacred to make way for the World Bank’sChixoy Damin what country?
Guatemala
Constructed between 1968 and 1973 with help from the Soviet Union, which dam on the Euphrates is the largest in Syria? Its construction led to the creation of Lake Assad, Syria’s largest water reservoir.
Tabqa Dam
What “K” was a dam on the Dnieper River in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, completed in 1956 and destroyed in 2023 by Russian forces?
Kakhovka Dam
In office from 1988 to 1998, which Chinese Premier commissioned the Three Gorges Dam?
Li Peng
Originally built to be used as a bridge and a dam, Si-o-se-pol, or the Allahverdi Khan Bridge spans what river, the largest river of the Iranian Plateau in central Iran?
ZAYANDERUD or ZAYANDHERUD
TheOwen Falls Dam (now renamed to the Nalubaale Dam)is on theWhite Nilenear the city ofJinja in which African country? Mount Stanley is the highest peak in this nation
Uganda
The building of which Dam, beginning with the letter “A”, led to the creation of Ghana’s Lake Volta, the largest lake by surface area in the world?
Akosombo Dam
The Itaipu Dam is the third largest hydroelectric power station in the world and the largest in South America. Lying on the border between Brazil and Paraguay, it dams what river?
Parana
Which David Bowie song begins “It’s a God-awful small affair, To the girl with the mousy hair”?
Life on Mars
Located in the US State of Washington on the Columbia River, the hydro-electric power station on what dam is the largest power station in the United States by nameplate capacity at 6,809 MW? It was constructed between 1933 and 1942
Grand Coulee Dam
“Put on your red shoes and dance the blues” and “Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight” are classic lines from which David Bowie song?
Let’s Dance
What did the papers want to know according to the lyrics of David Bowie’s Space Oddity?
Whose SHIRTS you wear
Which David Bowie hit of 1972 begins “Didn’t know what time it was, the lights were low, I leaned back on my radio”?
Starman
The name of which David Bowie hit has been blanked in these lyrics: “Strange fascinations fascinate me, Ah, BLANK are taking, The pace I’m goin’ through”?
Changes
The name of what toy has been blanked out in these lyrics from David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes”: They got a message from the BLANK, I’m happy, hope you’re happy too”?
Action Man
Which two words, also the name of a classic computer game, have been blanked out from these lyrics, found early in David Bowie’s song “Modern Love”: “I catch the BLANK but that don’t change a thing”?
Paper Boy
In which David Bowie hit of 1977 would you hear the lyrics “Blue blue ‘lectric blue, that’s the colour of my room”?
Sound and Vision
“Hey man, my schooldays insane, Hey man, my work’s down the drain” is a rhyming couplet from which David Bowie hit?
Suffragette City
In the 3rd verse of Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie sings “Ziggy played for time, Jiving us that we were BLANK”. What word fills the Blank?
Voodoo
Grace Kelly was a fan of what particular breed of Dog? Cary Grant gave her one called Oliver as a wedding present. Lady Gaga, Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand are also fans
Poodles
The name of which dog breed is derived from the Welsh words for “dwarf” and “dog”?
Corgi
Which breed of dog, named after a German city, are sometimes referred to as the “grey ghost” of the dog world because of its ghostly coat and eye colour?
Weimaraner
If an Alsatian is a “German” Shepherd dog, then what could a Tervuren be called?
Belgian Shepherd
The name of which breed of small dogs references the city where you would find the Jokhang Temple the Drepung Monastery and Norbulingka palace?
Lhasa Apso
What breed of dog was Belle in the book and subsequent cartoon “Belle and Sebastien”? In France they are called Patou
GREAT PYRENEES/ PYRENEAN MOUNTAIN dog
Which dog breed, with a name derived from the French word for “low”, were originally bred for the hunting of hares?
Basset Hound
In the 1963 movie “The Birds” Alfred Hitchcock is walking what dog breed during his cameo? Hitchcok was a fan of these terriers named after a Welsh stately home, as were many other members of the Hollywood elite
Sealyham Terriers
How are Black and White Newfoundland dogs referred to? This is the name of an animal painter and sculptor who died in 1873
Landseer
Destroyed by an earthquake and accompanying tsunami in 1692, what was the two word name of the Jamaican town which was once the largest in the Caribbean? It was also the setting for the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series
Port Royal
In which Gulf of the Mediterranean Sea would you find the island of Ischia? This densely populated island of around 62000 people was the victim of an 1883 earthquake which saw 3000 deaths and 80% of the homes on the island destroyed
Gulf of Naples
An estimated 14 million people were affected when the biggest Earthquake of 2023 occurred in February. It happened near the border of which two countries? Both countries needed
Turkey and Syria
Covered up by the USSR central government of the time, a 1948 earthquake is estimated to have killed around 10% of the population of which Soviet Republic in 1948?
Turkmenistan
Which Chilean city was the most affected by the 1960 Earthquake which is the most powerful ever recorded?
Valdivia
Who are the primal couple in the mythology of the Maori people? In legend their unborn child is the God of earthquakes and volcanoes
RANGI and PAPA
A 1948 earthquake led to almost every brick building collapsing in which Soviet Republic capital city?
Ashgabat
Which of the 12 Olympians of Greek mythology was said to be the creator of all Earthquakes?
Poseidon
One of the reasons that the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake was so devastating was because residents of the area lived in artificial caves dug out of what silt-like sediment?
Loess
What “S” is a sequence of Earthquakes striking in a specific area within a short period?
Swarm
In Norse mythology, earthquakes were caused when the deity Sigyn failed to stop poison dripping onto what God’s face?
Loki
Sikh headgear in lieu of the full Sikh turban. It is worn by young Sikh boys to cover a small topknot called joora.
Patka
Euros 2024 venue stadium name in berlin
Olympiastadion
Euros 2024 venue stadium name in Gelsenkirchen
Arena AufSchalke
Euros 2024 venue stadium name in Hamburg
Volksparkstadion
Capital of German state of Hesse and second populous in state to Frankfurt
Wiesbaden
Satirical conspiracy theory that claims this German city does not exist
Bielefeld
