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TheWestermarck effect is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to beattractedto peers with whom they lived like siblings before the age of six. It is also known as Reverse BLANK BLANK. What two words fill the blanks?
Sexual Imprinting
A couple of years after Einstein won the Nobel prize for discovering the Photoelectric effect which other man also won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”?
Robert Andrews MILLIKAN
Backspinproducing an upwards force that prolongs the flight of a moving ball is an observable example of what effect, named after a German physicist?
Magnus Effect
Named after the leaves of the plants in the genus “Nelumbo”, what effect refers to self-cleaning properties that are a result of ultrahydrophobicity in plants?
The Lotus Effect
During a solar eclipse the rugged topography of the moon allows small dots of sunlight to shine through in some places while not in others. What name is given to this effect?
Baily’s Beads
Which American mathematician and meteorologist who died in 2008 was described as the Father of Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect?
Edward Lorenz
Any molecule with a degenerate electronic ground state will undergo a geometrical distortion that removes its degeneracies. This effect is named after which two scientists, who first discovered it in 1937
The JAHN-TELLER Effect
If the placebo effect is a beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient’s belief in that treatment. What’s the name for the opposite effect, when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have?
Nocebo Effect
What “S” effect is the electromotive force (emf) that develops across two points of an electrically conducting material when there is a temperature difference between them.
Seebeck Effect
In Science what name is given to the effect of the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to the presence of an external electric field?
The STARK Effect
What celestial effect results in the Moon rotating about its axis in about the same time it takes to orbit Earth? Both Phobos and Deimos have the same relationship with Mars. Two word answer
TIDAL LOCKING
What name is given to the effect of splitting a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field (not an external electrical field as in another question in this quiz)? It is named after the Dutch physicist who discovered it in 1896
Zeeman Effect
What name is given to the effect or test where people are asked to name a colour but there is a mismatch between the name of the colour and the ink it is printed in? For example, the word “red” is printed in green ink
STROOP Effect
In Ancient Egyptian wands were made from the Tusks of what animals? Menes, the founder of Egypt’s first dynasty was supposedly killed by one of these animals
Hippopotamus
Which Egyptian Goddess with a 3-letter name was sometimes said to have given birth to the world through parthenogenesis? Her name means mother in the ancient Egyptian language
Mut
Cleopatra identified herself with which Egyptian Goddess, the mother of Horus?
Isis
Which four-letter term in Egyptian mythology refers to the concept of truth, balance, order and harmony and also the name of the goddess that embodied these concepts? Her ideological opposite was Isfet (Egyptian jzft), meaning injustice, chaos, violence or to do evil.
Maat
Who was the Egyptian equivalent of the Greek god Hermes? Usually, this god related to magic is depicted in his human form with the head of a green ibis
Thoth
Ancient Egyptians referred to their own country with what term beginning with “K” and which loosely means “land of black soil?”
KEMET
Which creator God of Egyptian mythology was regarded as the father of the sage Imhotep? He is generally represented in the guise of a man with green skin, holding a sceptre combining three powerful symbols of ancient Egyptian religion
Ptah
The Egyptian Sun God Ra is usually portrayed as what bird? This is probably due to Ra’s links with Horus, who is usually depicted with the face of this bird
Falcon
The discoverer of Francium in 1939, which physicist was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Science?
Marguerite Perey
With a name derived from the Greek for “green shoot” William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy discovered which element independently in 1861? The serial killer Graham Young used salts of this element for his poisonings
Thallium
The name of which element of the periodic table comes from the Greek word for “Smell”? It is the densest naturally occurring element
Osmium
On Earth, Uranium and which other elementare the only elements with no stable or nearly-stable isotopes that still occur naturally in large quantities asprimordial elements? Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste contained this element
Thorium
Please name either of the two elements which were discovered by the German chemist Robert Bunsen?
Caesium and Rubidium
The ores of which element were originally confused with lead ores, leading to this element’s name being based on the ancient Greek for Lead? Most of the world’s production of the element is used in steel alloys
Molybdenum
Stibnite is the principal ore of which element? Rather weirdly, this element was used as a laxative in the Middle Ages
Antimony
Scientists in the west can monitor the presence of which gas in the atmosphere in order to detect nuclear fuel processing in other countries? This has been used to detect clandestine operations in North Korea and Pakistan. This gas was discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers
Krypton
About 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements:oxygen,carbon,hydrogen,nitrogen, calcium, and which other? Let’s keep things light
Phosphorus
In December 1530, which man succeeded his fatherBaburto the throne of Delhi as ruler of the Mughal Empire? At the time of this man’s passing in 1556, the Mughal Empire spanned almost one million square kilometres.
Humayun
Which Emperor of Russia led the country into the Crimean War in 1853?
Nicholas I
Emperor of Russia 1825-55, instrumental in helping to create an independent Greek state, and resumed the Russian conquest of the Caucasus by seizing Iğdır Province and the remainder of modern-day Armenia and Azerbaijan from Qajar Iran during the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828). He ended the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) successfully as well. Later on, however, he led Russia into the Crimean War (1853–1856), with disastrous results.
Nicholas I
Russian emperor 1801-25, In foreign policy, he changed Russia’s position towards France four times between 1804 and 1812 among neutrality, opposition, and alliance. In 1805 he joined Britain in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon, but after suffering massive defeats at the battles of Austerlitz and Friedland, he switched sides and formed an alliance with Napoleon by the Treaty of Tilsit (1807) and joined Napoleon’s Continental System. He fought a small-scale naval war against Britain between 1807 and 1812 as well as a short war against Sweden (1808–09) after Sweden’s refusal to join the Continental System.
Alexander I
1855-81 emperor, most significant reform as emperor was the emancipation of Russia’s serfs in 1861, also notable for his foreign policy, which was mainly pacifist, supportive of the United States, and opposite of Great Britain, sold Alaska to the United States in 1867.
Alexander II
1881-94, During his reign, Russia fought no major wars as well. He therefore came to be known as “The Peacemaker”. ornate arch bridge spanning the Seine in Paris, France named after him.
Alexander III
1827-1907: a Russian jurist and statesman who served as an adviser to three Russian emperors. During the reign of Alexander III of Russia, he was considered the chief spokesman for reactionary positions and the éminence grise of imperial politics.
Konstantin Pobedonostsev
The Nippon Kodo and its predecessors have been involved in making what material for the Japanese Emperors for the last 400 years?
Incense
Askia Muhammad I, also known as Askia the Great, reigned from 1493 to 1528 as the ruler of which Empire, the largest in the history of West Africa?
Songhai Empire
Continuing his grandfather’s and father’s boycott over theenshrinement of convicted war criminals, which man, the reigning Emperor of Japan, has never visitedYasukuni Shrine?
Naruhito
What was the name of the youngest child and only son ofEmperorNicholas II of Russia? Grigory Rasputin was employed to help counter his haemophilia
ALEXEI Nikolaevich
In late January 2024 which former President of South Africa was suspended from the ANC, the party he led from 2007 to 2017?
Jacob Zuma
The School Strikes for Climate campaign is also sometimes referred to as the “FFF”. What does “FFF” stand for in this context? The group were active in Germany in January 2024
Fridays for Future
When his patience ran out with the level of organised crime President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency and then an internal state of war in which country?
Ecuador
On January 1st 2024, it was announced that Ethiopia signed an agreement with Somaliland to utilize which Red Sea port? This city is the capital of the Sahil region of Somaliland and is the main sea port of the country
Berbera
In January 2024 which Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was sentenced to six months in prison for violating Bangladesh’s labour laws? He founded the Grameen Bank in 2006
Muhammad Yunus
The Montreux Convention of 1936 came back into the news in January of this year when two British ships were denied entry into which sea?
Black Sea
In January 2024 the controversial Ram Mandir temple in Uttar Pradesh was inaugurated by Narendra Modi. This is the mythical birthplace of which major Hindu deity?
Lord Rama
At the turn of the year, the Sheikh Zayed Festival broke the world record with an hour long fireworks display. In which country did this take place?
United Arab Emirates
What is the 9-letter name of the tech company founded by Elon Musk which has seemingly successfully implanted a microchip into a human brain for the first time in January 2024?
Neuralink
Launched at Cape Canaveral in January 2024, BLANK Mission One became the first US lunar lander since the Apollo program. What bird name fills the blank?
Peregrine
What was the 4-word name of the world’s largest cruise ship which made its maiden voyage at in Miami, Florida in January 2024?
Icon of the Seas
Early in January 2024 which woman resigned as president of Harvard University following controversial remarks she made during a congressional hearing on antisemitism? In a nutshell she said that calls for the genocide of the Jews would only break Harvard rules dependent on the context
Claudine Gay
Taking place in Alabama, which gas was used in the USA for an execution for the first time in late January 2024?
Nitrogen
Please name any player in the Germany team who won Tennis’ United Cup final in 2024?
Angelique KERBER or Alexander ZVEREV or Laura SIEGEMUND
Which famous explorer, active during the Ming Dynasty, referred to the Indian Ocean as the “Western Ocean”? This man commanded seven expeditionary treasure voyages from 1405 to 1433.
Zheng He
When Charles Darwin paid his own way as a Naturalist on the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, which man was the Captain of the ship?
Robert FITZROY
“A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling”, commonly known asThe Rihla, was the account of the journey of which Mahgrebi explorer? His journeys to South East Asia and China surpassed Marco Polo
Ibn BATTUTA
In 1535 indigenous inhabitants of the present-dayQuebec Cityregion used which word to direct French explorerJacques Cartierto the village ofStadacona?
CANADA/ KANATA/ CANADAS
Iqaluit is the capital and only city of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. From the 1940s to the 1980s it was named after which English privateer and explorer?
Frobisher Bay
What was the name of the Austrian mountaineer who was a member of the team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger? He wrote the book “Seven Years in Tibet” and Brad Pitt played him in the subsequent movie
Heinrich Harrer
Which Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France was the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick? It is believed he was eaten by natives of the island of Guadeloupe
Giovanni da VERRAZZANO
As well as finding Easter Island, the Dutch Explorer Jacob Roggeveen is also believed to be the first European to reach Bora Bora and Maupiti, both of which are islands within which archipelago?
Society Islands
Alongside being the first European to reach Lake Victoria, John Hanning Speke was also an advocate of which hypothesis? This outdated theory put forward that people from the Horn of Africa and Ancient Egyptians were a sub-group of Caucasians
Hamitic Hypothesis
In 1488, which Portuguese explorer became the first European navigator to round thesouthern tipof Africa? His Grandson became the first Governor of Portuguese Angola
Bartolomeu Dias
Robert McClure, the first man to traverse the Northwest Passage, served as First Lieutenant on the HMS Enterprise under which other famous explorer? A deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica is named in this man’s honour
James Clark ROSS
the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia’s first natural historian. among the first English writers to use words such as avocado, barbecue, and chopsticks. In describing the preparation of avocados, he was the first European to describe the making of guacamole, named the breadfruit plant
William DAMPIER
What word completes the name of this 2015 American comedy-drama: “Our Brand is BLANK”? In a series of 1980s adverts for Commercial Union we were implored not to make a drama out of such things
Crisis
Jane Curtin starred alongside Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in “The Heat”. Jane Curtin won Emmy’s for her role in which 1980s sitcom about two divorced mothers who decide to live together in the same home?
Kate & Allie
Sandra Bullock has starred in two Miss Congeniality movies. The subtitle to the second movie was “Armed and BLANK”. What word fills the blank?
Fabulous
Fair fa’ his honest sonsie face, aboon them a’ he taks his place……. Which man directed the Sandra Bullock movie “Crash”?
Paul Haggis
In the 2002 thriller “Murder by Numbers” Sandra Bullock is investigating murders carried out by a character played by Michael Pitt. Pitt went on to star as Jimmy Darmody in which HBO gangster series?
Boardwalk Empire
Back in 1998 when Sandra Bullock voiced Miriam in the “Prince of Egypt”, which actor voiced Moses? This American was once married to the English actress Joanna Whalley
Val Kilmer
In which 1998 American fantasy romantic drama did Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens who were descended from a long line of witches? Two word answer
Practical Magic
Which veteran actor was the main antagonist in the 1994 Sandra Bullock movie “Speed”? This man, who died in 2010, was known for his roles as mentally disturbed outsiders and rebels.
Dennis Hopper
Which American sculptor, known for his work in New Mexico, was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary entitled “Cavedigger”?
Ra Paulette
What French sculptor made Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro? He won a gold medal at the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Sculpture
Paul Landowski
The Victorious Youth, also known as the Getty bronze is associated with which Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC? Along with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era
Lysippos
Which Renaissance sculptor’s “Commentarii” contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist? Among his other works he created the Bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery
Lorenzo Ghiberti
The sculptor Daniel Chester French used casts of his own fingers to achieve the correct look for the hands on which monumental sculpture which unveiled in 1922?
Lincoln Memorial
The Swiss sculptor H.R. Giger was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the titular Alien itself. In the Alien series, what species is the titular alien?
Xenomorph
Korczak Ziolkowski was the Polish-American designer and sculptor of the unfinished memorial to what man who lived from around 1840 to 1877?
Crazy Horse
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s outdoor sculpture named “Cupid’s Span” can be found on the Embarcadero, the Eastern Waterfront of what major US city?
San Francisco
In April 1554 which public square in Florence was home to Michelangelo’s David, Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus, Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes and Benvenuto Cellini’s “Perseus with the Head of Medusa”?
Piazza della Signoria
Which Swiss sculptor is best remembered for his extremely tall and thin figurines? He took his inspiration from people hurrying about in big cities
Alberto GIacometti
Which Constantin Brancusi sculpture with a two-word name symbolizes the concept of infinity and the infinite sacrifice of the Romanian soldiers? In the 1950s, the Romanian communist government planned to demolish it and turn it into scrap metal
Endless Column
The Kneeling One (1911) is one of the most famous works by which German Sculptor? The suffering and misery he saw in World War One are reflected in his late sculpture
Wilhelm LEHMBRUCK
The Thorvaldsen museum in Copenhagen is located next to which palace, the seat of the Danish parliament?
CHRISTIANSBORG palace
Pope Sixtus II was martyred during the persecutions of which Roman Emperor in the year 258? This man was the first Roman emperor to have been taken captive in battle
Valerian
which pope names the sistine chapel
Sixtus IV
Located in modern day Algeria, the Roman city of “Timgad” was founded by which Roman Emperor around 100 CE? This Emperor led the Roman Empire to it’s greatest extent
Trajan
Christianity became thestate religion and other religious practiceswere 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
Although Julius Nepus staked a claim, who is generally considered the last Western Roman emperor? The deposition of this 10-year-old is also sometimes used by historians to mark the transition from antiquity to the medieval period.
ROMULUS AUGUSTUS/ AUGUSTULUS
From 161 to 169, which man’s co-rule alongside Marcus Aurelius marked the first time that the Roman Empire was ruled by more than one emperor simultaneously?
Lucius Verus
The Emperor Diocletian reinstated Leptis Magna as a regional capital and it grew in prosperity until it fell to which Germanic tribe in 439 CE? This tribe also established kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, and some Mediterranean islands in the 5th century
Vandals
Which man won the 312 CE Battle of the Milvian Bridge and thereby started on the path that led him to end the Tetrarchy and become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire?
Constantine I
The “Year of the Five Emperors” began with the murder of which Emperor on New Year’s Eve 192? This man was assassinated by Narcissus and his death marks the end of a Golden Age of prosperity in the Empire
Commodus
An edict named after which Emperor, who ruled from 198 to 217 CE, granted Roman citizenship to all free men throughout the Roman Empire?
Caracalla
What period which lasted from 235 to 284 CE began with began in 235 with the assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander and ended due to the military victories of Aurelian?
THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY/ MILITARY ANARCHY/ IMPERIAL CRISIS
The Roman Emperor Antonius Pius, best known in the UK for his construction of the Antonine Wall, is believed to have died after eating too much of what food?
Cheese
How many years must pass from their first record before an artist can enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
25 years
Which 2-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes before forming The Drifters?
Clyde MCPHATTER
Ronnie Wood has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Rolling Stones and as a member of what other group?
The Faces
Which band featuring Richard Nielsen entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016? One of their biggest hits was “I want you to want me” in 1979
Cheap Trick
Described as “one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry”, which Turkish-American businessman established The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation? He died after striking his head backstage at a Rolling Stones concert
Ahmet Ertegun
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sits on the shore of which Lake?
Lake Erie
Which American singer entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019? Her hits included “What have you done for me lately”, “Escapade” and “Black cat”
Janet Jackson
Which 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee wrote his 1972 global hit “I saw the light” in only 20 minutes? The song has become a favourite for use in film and TV
Todd Rundgren
Which man has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice - once as part of The Yardbirds and once for his solo career? In 2022 Johnny Depp couldn’t attend the verdict of his big libel trial as he was on tour with this guitarist
Jeff BECK
A corner at Silverstone Racecourse is named after which prestigious school? Richard Branson and Simon Pegg are both former pupils
STOWE
What “Z” has been the location of the Dutch F1 Grand Prix since it was revived in 2021?
Zandvoort
In 1994 Ayrton Senna died at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari. This track is usually referred to by what 5-letter name?
Imola
I lived from 1877 to 1955. I was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. By removing materials from a biological cell one by one I found that DNA was the one material needed to pass on characteristics. Who am I?
Oswald Avery
Which Canadian child actor, born 2006, was the star of both “Room” and “Wonder”?
Jacob Tremblay
Six men played Ken or variations of Ken in the 2023 movie “Barbie”. Two of these men were Canadian. One was Ryan Gosling. Who was the other?
Simu Liu
Shawn Barber was a 2015 World Champion in which track and field athletics event? Renaud Lavillenie was a hot competitor in this event at around the same time
Pole Vault
At a total of 21 years and 154 days over three non-consecutive terms, who is Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister?
William Lyon MACKENZIE
The Canadian John Fluevog is best known as a designer of what fashion items? He often engraves messages onto these things
Shoes
Which Canadian comedian voiced the character Gizmo in The Gremlins? He became a judge on America’s Got Talent in 2010
Howie Mandel
Which Canadian science broadcaster is best known as host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries? In 2005 he was ranked as the 5th Greatest Canadian of all time.
David Suzuki
Which Canadian filmmaker produced and directed two projects for HBO: the drama series Big Little Lies (2017) and the thriller miniseries Sharp Objects (2018)?
Jean-Marc Vallee
Which Canadian singer and entertainer billed herself as “the girl who made vaudeville famous”? Her costumes were as extravagant as her personality. In 1910 she appeared on stage in a coat entirely covered in new coins
Eva Tanguay
American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”.[3] His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist “Torches of Freedom”, and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. Uncle was Sigmund Freud.
Edward Bernays
An annual award is given to the Canadian who has made outstanding contributions to the public understanding of science. It is named after the man who promoted worldwide standard time zones. Who was he?
Sandford Fleming
Which Canadian singer blessed us with the lyrical genius of “I really, really, really, really, really, really like you” in 2015?
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Murdoch mysteries TV show has now clocked up over 200 episodes and is still being made. The show is based on the Detective Murdoch novels of which British-Canadian author?
Maureen Jennings
Which Canadian amputee’s attempted run across Canada in 1981 resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy? Over C$800m has been raised in his name
Terry Fox
A member of two Space Shuttle missions, who became the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space?
Chris Hadfield
Which man wanted us to “Rock me gently” in 1974? This Canadian pop singer had written and sung “The Archies” bubblegum pop hit “Sugar, Suger” in the late 60s
Andy Kim
What connects the Canadian man Alvin Karpis with Americans called Charles Floyd and George Nelson?
they were all PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 (the others are Pretty Boy Floyd and George Nelseon)
The Canadian heroine Laura Secord is remembered for her 20 miles walk to warn British forces of an impending American attack during which war?
War of 1812
You’d head to the National Gallery of Scotland if you wished to view “The Rev. Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch”, a famous painting by which man?
Sir Henry Raeburn
You’d head to the Victoria & Albert museum if you wished to see “Lion: A Newfoundland Dog”, a famous painting by which Victorian painter and sculptor?
Edwin Landseer
Described by William Hazlitt as “perhaps the most tender and the most artless” of all Shakespeare’s women, in Cymbeline who is the virtuous wife of the exiled Posthumus?
Imogen
In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which female character is engaged to Theseus, the duke of Athens? A mythical character with the same name arranged a peace treaty to end a war between Athens and the Amazons
Hippolyta
In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, which female character is the daughter of Duke Frederick and niece of the banished Duke Senior? She has a sisterly affection with her cousin Rosalind
Celia
The beauty of which female character in Shakespeare’s Twelth Night attracts Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
Olivia
Which Shakespeare character in The Merchant of Venice is fond of proverbs frequently quoting them? This was considered a sign of wisdom and sharp wit in the Elizabethan era
Portia
Who is the mother of the title character in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus? She encourages him in his military success and urging him to seek political office.
Volumnia
Which member of the Capulet family is Romeo infatuated with at the beginning of “Romeo and Juliet”?
Rosaline
In William Shakespeare’s play “The Winter’s Tale” which character is the daughter of Leontes, King of Sicily, and his wife Hermione?
Perdita
When asked ““When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?” what witty 4-word reply did Ruth Bader Ginsburg give?
WHEN THERE ARE NINE
Which American journalist and feminist gained national attention in the US following the publication of her 1969 article called “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation”?
Gloria Steinem
“zipless fuck” is a major motif that haunts the narratorin which 1973 Erica Jong novel? It became controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality, and figured in the development of second-wave feminism
Fear of Flying
Which famous American women’s rights activist was arrested in 1872 for voting in violation of laws that allowed only men to vote? The Nineteenth Amendment of the US constitution, which prohibited the denial of suffrage because of sex, is colloquially referred to with her name
Susan B Anthony
In the name of her 2003 book, the Marxist Feminist Angela Y. Davis asked if what were now obsolete? The 1862 book titled “The House of the Dead” also discussed such places
Prisons
What two-word term is a subcultural movement, founded in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, that combines feminism, punk music, and politics?
Riot Grrrl
The United Nations “HeForShe” campaign” was kickstarted by which woman’s speech at the UN in 2014? This actress called for men and boys to help in promoting gender equality
Emma Watson
What 7-letter word is used to describe a variety of feminism that seeks to embrace traditional concepts of femininity, including the sexual power of women, alongside traditional feminist ideas? Stiletto feminism is a more radical development of similar ideas
Lipstick Feminism
What psychoanalyst, first name Karen, is credited with founding feminist psychology in response to Freud’s theory of penis envy?
Karen Horney
In 2006, shortly after Betty Friedan’s death, which feminist writer published an article in which she described Friedan as “pompous and egotistic, somewhat demanding and sometimes selfish”? This Australian writer is regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism
Germaine Greer
Which man served as the sixth president of Finland between 1944 and 1946? When the prospect of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II became clear he led peace negotiations with the UK and USSR
Carl Gustaf Emil MANNERHEIM
Which collector of oral poetry is best remembered for creating the Finnish national epic, Kalevala? The Kalevala became an inspiration for The Lord of the Rings
Elias LONNROT
The statement accompanying Marrti Ahtisaari’s Nobel Peace Prize noted that he had played a prominent role in resolving serious and long-lasting conflicts, including ones in Namibia, Kosovo and Aceh. Aceh is an area of which country?
Indonesia
Who is the most successful Finnish woman at the Ski-ing World Cup having won titles in 1986, 1987 and 1988? She’d later represent the National Coaltion party in Finnish politics
Marjo MATIKAINEN-KALLSTROM
Which Finnish Operatic Bass, born in 1978, earned a 2013 Grammy nomination and a 2017 BBC Music Magazine award?
Mika Kares
Marko Hietala and Tuomas Holopainen are both members of which Finnish rock group? In recent years their chart topping albums have included “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” and “Human II Nature”
Nightwish
Which man, the director of Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight, was the husband of Geena Davis in the 1990s?
Renny Harlin
Who is the record goalscorer for the Finnish men’s national football team? This man, born 1990, has played his club football with teams including Celtic and Norwich
Teemu Pukki
Who was the only Finnish driver to win a Grand Prix in 2021? He drove for Mercedes
Valtteri Bottas
French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism. known for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the City Hall), a photograph of a couple kissing on a busy Parisian street.
Robert Doisneau
A LAMP stack is a bundle of four different software technologies that developers use to build websites and web applications, what does LAMP stand for?
the operating system Linux;
the web server, Apache;
the database server, MySQL;
the programming language, PHP.
Who was creator of programming language PHP?
Rasmus Lerdorf
The flag of which British Overseas Territory (the 3rd largest in terms of population) includes a hot pink conch shell? Cockburn town is the capital of this group
Turks and Caicos
After his discovery the MP John Stonehouse attempted to win asylum in which island nation rather than return to the UK? The flag of this country is called the “Four Bands” and is comprised of four horizontal bands of equal width coloured red, blue, yellow and green from top to bottom
Mauritius
In 1983 the Austrian visual artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser created the “Koru Flag”, a proposed second flag for which country? The green portion of this flag represents a curling fern
New Zealand
Crossed swords over akhanjar, a traditional curved dagger, appear in the corner of the national flag of which country? The green of the flag is traditionally associated with the Jabal al-Akdar, or “Green Mountains,” which lie toward the north of the country
Oman
What is the name of the traditional straw hat that is found on the flag of Lesotho? The image also appears on vehicle license plates in Lesotho
Mokorotlo
There are only 3 national flags that differ on their front and reverse sides, can you name any of them? The most populous of these countries objected to their flag being printed on a commemorative World Cup football as they didn’t want the holy creed on the flag to be kicked
SAUDI ARABIA, PARAGUAY or MOLDOVA
The Olympic flag with the five rings was raised for the first time at games held in what city? The 23-year-old Paavo Nurmi won the 10,000 m and 8000 m cross country races
Antwerp
George I of Greece was the longest Greek monarch in modern history, serving from 1863 to 1913. When he was assassinated his coffin was draped with the flag of Greece and which other European country, the land of his birth?
Denmark
The flag of which Asian country consists of three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe in blue being twice the height of the top and bottom red stripes? In the middle is a white disc, the diameter of the disc is 4⁄5 the height of the blue stripe.
Laos
Two cows can be found on the flag of which European Nation? The coat of arms in the centre of this flag partly relates to the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix
Andorra
The flag of which Italian city exactly matches the flag of England? This city was the birthplace of Guglielmo Marconi.
Bologna
Meryl Streep starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the 1995 movie “The Bridges of Madison County”. In which US state will you find the real-life Madison County? This state’s flag is patterned after the flag of France, referencing the fact this state was once part of French Louisiana
Iowa
Flags of the cities of the Hanseatic League were mostly comprised of what two colours?
Red and White
The flag of Brazil features many stars but only one of those stars sits above the white band. This star represents the portion of Brazil that lies north of the Equator, and one state in particular. What is the name of that state? It’s capital is Belem
Para
Which river is represented on the flag of Ecuador? This river names a province of Ecuador and is the most important river in South America that does not flow into the Atlantic Ocean or any of its marginal seas
Guayas
Designed by Mohamed Hamzah and adopted in 1950, the flag of Malaysia is known as the “BLANK of Glory”. What word fills the blank? Bill Murray starred in a 1981 film with this name
Stripes
The flag of which Commonwealth nation includes the image of a Kalashnikov rifle with a bayonet, crossed by a hoe, superimposed on an open book?
Mozambique
Christian and Damien Devaux are considered the founders of which sport? Each match is contested on a 12m fixed squared perimeter known as The Quad where a number of obstacles are placed
World Chase TAG
Named after the founder of a brand of popular five-and-ten-cent stores, what was the tallest building in the world in 1927?
Woolworth Building
the legendary founder and god-king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom, around present-day Liaoning province in Northeast China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.
Dangun
designed some of the world’s most significant architectural and urban projects including several of the tallest buildings in the world: John Hancock Center (1969, second tallest in the world when built), Willis Tower (1973, tallest in the world for over twenty years), One World Trade Center (2014, currently the seventh tallest in the world), and Burj Khalifa (2010, currently the world’s tallest building).
SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
Born in 1469, who was the first guru and the founder of Sikhism?
Guru Nanak
Which Brothers were the founders of a whaling station on Otago Harbour, becoming New Zealand’s most substantial merchant traders in the 1830s? They are remembered via a song which reached number one in the UK in 2021
Weller brothers
Which philosopher was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy?
Aristotle
Konrad Adam and Bernd Lucke were two of the founders of which German political party? They won 94 seats in the 2017 German federal election and became the third-largest party in the country
AFD/ ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY
Which man, regarded as the founder of Egypt’s first dynasty, was supposedly killed by a Hippopotamus?
Menes
Which former head of Columbia Records and founder and President of Arista Records is credited with bringing Whitney Houston to prominence?
Clive Davis
Amanda Seyfried played Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the biotechnology company Theranos, in which 2022 crime drama mini-series?
The DROPOUT
Which German-Finnish internet entrepreneur was the founder of the now-defunct file viewing and sharing site named Megaupload?
Kim Dotcom
In July 2022 the Wall Street Journal accused Elon Musk of conducting an affair with the wife of which founder of Google?
Sergey Brin
The name of which other scientist is referenced alongside Alan Turing in the name of a thesis which states that a function on the natural numbers can be calculated by an effective method if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine? Alongside Turing, this American is considered a founder of Computer Science
Alonzo Church
Which African-American sociologist and historian, a co-founder of NAACP, died in Ghana in 1963 while working on “Encyclopaedia Africana”, his most ambitious work?
WEB DuBois
The members of the music duo LMFAO are the son and grandson of what man, the founder of Motown records?
Berry GORDY
12% of the population of Dominica are part of which Protestant denomination? Ellen G. White was a co-founder of this group who advocate vegetarianism
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Charlotte Corday held Jean-Paul Marat responsible for the September Massacres of 1792 and believed the French revolution was in Jeopardy due to the Jacobins. Corday had sympathies for which other political group, headed by Jacques Pierre Brissot?
Girondins
What was Brigitte Macron’s surname at birth? She was born into a five-generation chocolatier company based in Amiens
Trogneux
An important figure of the Paris commune, Louise Michel is remembered for waving what colour flag at a demonstration in 1883?
the BLACK flag of Anarchism
Jeanne Baret is recognised as the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the Earth. What is the notably unusual aspect of her trip?
She did it DISGUISED AS A MAN
The work of which French architect and designer was in high demand in the 1940s, 50s and 60s? She worked on the League of Nations building for the United Nations in Geneva and designed the interiors and kitchens for the famous Unité d’habitation.
Charlotte PERRIAND
Born in Paris in 1903, which woman, who worked for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, coined the term “Youthquake” and “discovered” the then-unknown Lauren Bacall during World War 2
Diana VREELAND
Born in France in 1965, who is the only female chef in the United States to attain three Michelin stars? In 2021, she joined the creative team on the dark comedy horror film The Menu, serving as a consultant
Dominique Crenn
Which French actress of the late 19th century and early 20th century was dubbed “the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture”? Her work with Alphonse Mucha led to him becoming one of the most sought-after artists of the Art Noveau age
Sarah Bernhardt
Which French ballet dancer was the top-ranking female dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet from 1984 to 1989? Her most notable performances have included those Rudolf Nureyev’s stagings of Swan Lake and Don Quixote.
Sylvie Guillem
Which French woman’s work on Fermat’s Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after? The Academy of Sciences have established a prize in her honour.
Sophie Germain
Which woman was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France? She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason
Jeanne BECU/ Madame DU BARRY
a French noblewoman and the second wife of Louis XIV of France from 1683 until his death in 1715
Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
In 1966 which country downgraded their membership of NATO and withdrew from the NATO Military Command Structure to pursue more independent defence options?
France
A Continuous positive airway pressure machine (generally called a Cee-Pap) may be used to help treat the sleeping disorder known as O.S.A. What does O.S.A stand for in this context?
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Which David Milch TV series of 2004 to 2006 followed events in the titular frontier town in the 1870s? Timothy Olyphant starred
Deadwood
Deadwood is found in which US state?
South Dakota
“Man of the House” and “Scammed by a Kindergartener” are tracks from which 1990 comedy movie?
Home Alone
Who was Paramount Leader of China at the time of the handover of Hong Kong from the British to China in 1997? He had come to power unexpectedly as a compromise candidate following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
Jiang ZEMIN
According to a recent bestselling book by Johnathan Haidt, adolescents are “The BLANK generation”. The book is subtitled “How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness”. What word fills the blank?
Anxious
According to Box Office Mojo.com, which TWO movies grossed over $1 billion in 2023?
Barbie and Super Mario Bros Movie
Regarded by the later Aztec’s as their intellectual and cultural predecessors, which culture were prominent from 950 to 1150 CE?
Toltecs
Found in Veracruz and Tabasco, Mexico, flourished during Mesoamerica’s formative period, dating roughly from as early as 1200 BCE to about 400 BCE?
Olmecs
an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows that their culture originated at least 2,500 years ago. archaeological site at the ancient city of Monte Albán has monumental buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and grave goods, including finely worked gold jewelry. Oaxaca.
Zapotecs
a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, reaching prominence from 950 to 1150 CE
Toltec
culture in the North American Southwest thrived in the Sonoran desert in what is now the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. They were responsible for the construction of a series of irrigation canals that led to the successful establishment of Phoenix, Arizona via the Salt River Project. They also established complex settlements such as Snaketown, which served as an important commercial trading center.
Hohokam
one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Petén.
Tikal
a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region. It is 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the Guatemalan border. It was the seat of what has been dubbed the Kingdom of the Snake or Snake Kingdom. This Snake Kingdom reigned during most of the Classic period.
Calakmul
ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers (25 mi) northeast of modern-day Mexico City.nown today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.
Teotihuacan
The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The city was the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Tlaxcaltec and the Spanish in 1521.
Tenochtitlan
an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BCE, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier. This site is just west of the modern city of Puebla and served as a trading outpost. Its immense pyramid is the largest such structure in the Americas, and the largest pyramid structure by volume in the world, measuring 4.45 million cubic meters.
Cholula
group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. Specifically, the term “______” has been applied at various times from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno, who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
Arawaks
Born in New York to a Sicilian father, which American musician composed the unforgettable theme tune of the TV series “Twin Peaks”?
Angelo Badalamenti
During Robert Oppenheimer’s hearing who was the only member of the scientific community to state that Oppenheimer should not be granted security clearance?
Edward Teller
Which female scientist published her first solo paper on the methodology of X-ray crystallography of insulin in 1935?
Dorothy Hodgkin
The world’s largest gemstone was mined in Bahia, Brazil in 2001. It weighs 381 kg and has been valued at $400m. What kind of gemstone is it?
Emerald
First name Olga, which woman is currently a prima ballerina with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam? Formerly a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, she left Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine
SMIRNOVA
Canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, which man born in 1868 is most likely the richest Saint of all time?
Nicholas II
Which future Roman Emperor led the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70CE?
Titus
In 1997 Diana Hayden became the third woman from which country to win the Miss World title? She later appeared in the reality TV show Bigg Boss
India
“The BLANK Paradox” by Professor Steve Peters has been near the top of the business books bestsellers lists for years now. What 5-letter word fills the blank?
CHIMP
All powered by Oil economies, name any of the three currencies which were listed by Forbes magazine as the strongest in the world in January 2024
KUWAITI DINAR, BAHRAINI DINAR or OMANI RIAL
Which African country has the most World Heritage sites? These sites include the Konso Cultural landscape and the Bale Mountains national park
Ethiopia
Which musical first staged in 1977 has had film adaptations released in 1982, 1999 and 2014?
Annie
Which word meaning a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted, or lacking social skills was first used as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss’s book “If I Ran the Zoo”?
Nerd
An episode of The Sopranos highlights the differences between Italian Americans and Native Italians when the Americans insist on calling their Pasta sauce by what 5-letter word, much to the confusion of the natives?
Gravy
Which newspaper panel series began with a cartoon in the New York Globe in December 1918? Little known facts and small-town American trivia are recurring subjects
RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT (use discretion)
The Ostwald process is a scientific process for making which acid?
Nitric Acid
Which 1853 opera which contains the characters Violetta Valéry and Alfredo Germont is believed to be the most performed opera in history?
La Traviata
Which species of Beetle migrated into the United States from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry?
Boll Weevil
When Fletcher Christian and the other Bounty mutineers reached Pitcairn Island they were accompanied by their consorts. These were women from which other Pacific island?
Tahiti
It is believed that the word “banana” is of West African origin and probably came from which language, the most widely spoken language in Senegal?
Wolof
Which British garage music duo scored a 1999 hit with the song “Sweet like chocolate”?
Shanks and Bigfoot
Which city of well over one million inhabitants is one of the top tourist cities in Iran and is known as the city of poets, literature, and flowers? It is home to the famous Eram Garden
Shiraz
17% of the Beef production in the UK comes from which breed of cattle which derives from the native herds of North East Scotland? The meat from this breed can be marketed as superior due to its marbled appearance.
Aberdeen Angus
Three Stephen King novel adaptations were released in cinemas in 2019. They were “It Chapter Two”, “Pet Sematary” and which other?
Doctor Sleep
The novel Robinson Crusoe begins: “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of BLANK”. What German city fills the blank? This Hanseatic city on the River Weser is the 11th largest city of Germany and the second largest city in Northern Germany.
Bremen
In an event generally regarded as the worst massacre of the Thirty Years’ War, which Protestant city was sacked on 20th May 1631 by the army led by Count Tilly?
Magdeburg
What was the “small town in Germany” mentioned in the title of John Le Carre’s 1968 espionage novel? The University at this place counts Karl Marx, Friedrich Niestche and Konrad Adenauer amongst its alumni
Bonn
The car company Porsche have their headquarters in which German city located on the River Neckar?
Stuttgart
Which German city served as the headquarters for the US Army’s V Corps and the Northern Area Command (NACOM) until 1995? It is the only city in the country rated as an “alpha world city”
Frankfurt
Which German city, the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, is the home of the beer known as “Altbier” and the electronic group Kraftwerk?
Dusseldorf
The 1763 Treaty of Hubertusburg brought to an end the Third Silesian war which was fought between Austria, Prussia and which territory of the Holy Roman Empire? Dresden and Leipzig were part of this territory
Saxony
Which Scottish actor, also a star of “Trainspotting” and the drama “Rome”, has played Dr Owen Hunt in Grey’s Anatomy over 300 times?
Kevin McKidd
Which American actress and singer portrayed Dr. Callie Torres in Grey’s Anatomy? They also won a Tony with their portrayal of the original Lady of the Lake in the 2005 Broadway musical Spamalot
Sara Ramirez
Who was Dr Finn Dandridge in 9 episodes of Greys Anatomy? Back in the 1990s he had been Robin in two Batman films
Chris O’Donnell
Grey’s Anatomy was picked up as a mid-season replacement for which show about lawyers in 2005? This comedy drama with a two-word name starred James Spader, William Shatner and Candice Bergen
Boston Legal
Grey’s Anatomy has been going for 20 years now but it is not the longest running medical drama. Which show, which began in 1986 takes that crown? Note - we’re talking about medical drama, not soap operas
Casualty
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, Shauna Duggins was the first woman to win an Emmy for her stunt work. This was achieved on the show called “GLOW”. What does GLOW stand for in this context?
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, the most expensive movie prop ever was Robbie the Robot which cost the equivalent of $1m to make in today’s money. In which 1956 movie did Robbie the Robot appear?
Forbidden Planet
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, which man with the initials K.C. (Kilo Charlie) was the most popular rising star of the last couple of years? He starred as Nick Nelson in “Heartstopper” (only surname required as normal)
Kit Connor
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, James Martin became the First leading actor with down syndrome in an Oscar winning film. What was the name of this movie?
An Irish Goodbye
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, two comedians share the record of most nominations for the best show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with 5 apiece. Name either. One of these comedians got their first nod in 1994, the other in 2012. Both of these men are British
Al Murray and James Acaster
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, two comedians share the record of most nominations for the best show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with 5 apiece. Name either. One of these comedians got their first nod in 1994, the other in 2012. Both of these men are British
No Time To Die
According to the 2024 Guinness world records, two sequels were in contention for the Best Movie Oscar in 2023 - that first time that this happened. Please give the full names of both of these sequel movies
TOP GUN MAVERICK and AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
Which Belgian Catholic priest and Saint is remembered for his ministry of a leper colony in Hawaii between 1873 and 1889?
Father Damien
Which Hawaian resort’s name means “spurting water”? Now a neighbourhood of Honolulu, this place was the first capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1795 to 1796.
Waikiki
The title of the Hawaii-set movie “From Here to Eternity” originates from which man’s 1892 poem “Gentlemen-Rankers”, about soldiers of the British Empire who had “lost [their] way” and were “damned from here to eternity”?
Rudyard Kipling
Which trickster god is credited with bringing the secret of fire to humans in Hawaiian myths, among others? You’re welcome.
Maui
The character of Charlie Chan was loosely based on the Hawaiian detective Chang Apana. Who wrote the Charlie Chan stories?
Earl Derr BIGGERS
Which Hawaiian woman was the first woman of colour and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress? Her surname was also the name of a Mustelid
Patsy Mink
Ku, Lono and which other god are considered the highest of the three major Hawaiian deities? This one is the god of procreation. 4-letter answer
Kane
What alliterative name is given to the week-long cultural festival that takes place annually in Hilo, Hawaii during the week after Easter? It honours King David Kalākaua, the last King of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Merry Monarch
What Hawaiian island was once called the “Pineapple Island” because the Dole company owned most of it? Today 98% of this island is owned by Larry Ellison, co-founder and chairman of Oracle Corporation
Lanai
Which fad game originally played with milk bottle caps possibly originated in Hawaii in the 1920s or 1930s?
Pogs
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
In 2021 the TV show Doogie Howser MD was rebooted with what new title? Peyton Elizabeth Lee played the title character of this show set in Hawaii
Doogie KAMEALOHA md
The JCMT is sited near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. What does JCMT stand for in this context?
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE
On which Hawaiian island will you find the naval base known as Pearl Harbour? This is the third largest but most populated of the islands
Oahu
A large number of people would work together in casting a ti leave lined netfrom the shore and then pulling it back in which which way of fishing invented by the ancient Hawaiians?
Hukilau
Which volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, with the most recent eruption occurring in September 2023 when multiple vents erupted lava for a week?
Kilauea
Dubbed the “Boston Strong Boy” by the press, which American boxer is regarded as the first Heavyweight champion of the gloved boxing era and the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring Rules?
John L Sullivan
Larry Holmes became World Heavyweight Boxing champion when he defeated what man in 1978? This man, who died in 2013, is best remembered for breaking Muhammad Ali’s jaw
Ken Norton
The boxer Félix Savón became a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the World Champion six times in a row, all in the heavyweight division. Which other Cuban three-time Olympic Gold Medalist had been his inspiration?
Teofilo Stevenson
A 2013 fight against which man would’ve been Tyson Fury’s first PPV bout? It was cancelled as the opponent pulled out. Along with Evander Holyfield and Oleksander Usyk this British fighter is the only person to have been an unified Cruiserweight World Champ and then go on to become a Heavyweight World champ
David Haye
What “Jess” did Jack Dempsey defeat when he became World Heavyweight champion in 1919? This man was known for his size rather than his skill, and was nicknamed the “Pottawatomie Giant”
Jess Willard
Max Baer was a huge name in Boxing in the 1930s when he was the World Heavyweight champion. His son, Max Jr, also became pretty famous when he starred as Jethro Bodine in which 1960s sitcom?
The Beverly Hillbillies
Which man, nicknamed “The Ambling Alp”, won more fights by knockout than any other heavyweight champion (IBU, NBA, NYSAC) in boxing history?
Primo Carnera
Passing away in 2022, which man was the referee in the infamous 1997 boxing match between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield?
Mills Lane
Who was referee of Tyson Fury v Oleksandr Usyk in May 2024? Controversially didn’t call KO for Usyk in 9th round. Has been punched in face before in another bout.
Mark Nelson
Who shocked the boxing world in 1990 when he knocked out Mike Tyson, handing him his first ever loss?
James BUSTER DOUGLAS
Since 1956, which city of Southern India has housed theRashtrapati Nilayam, the winter office of thepresident of India? This city on the Deccan plateau is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telanga
Hyderabad
Which Indian city has the second highest number of Bengali speakers in the world after the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka?
Kolkata
Set in the stark landscape of theThar Desert, what is India’s “Blue City”?
Jodhpur
What city in Northern India is the most important centre of Shia Islam in the Subcontinent? It is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
Kochi is a major port city in India sitting on a part of the coastline known by what name? Geographically, this coastline comprises one of the wettest regions of the subcontinent
Malabar COast
What is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat? This city, which lies on the Sabarmati River, is the second-largest producer of cotton in India, due to which it was known as the ‘Manchester of India’
Ahmedabad
What is India’s “Orange City”? It is also called the Tiger Capital of India or the Tiger Gateway of India as many tiger reserves are located in and around this Maharashtra city
Nagpur
The city of Mumbai was ceded to the British East India company from the Portuguese Empire as part of the dowry when which woman married Charles II in 1661?
Catherine of Braganza
Fort St George, the first British fort in India, was located in which city? The Corporation of this city is the oldest in India and the second oldest in the world after London
Chennai
Which Indian city, the capital of the state of Nagaland, was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, so bloody that it has been referred to as the “Stalingrad of the East”?
Kohima
Which Brass instrument was played by the jazz musicians Kid Ory and Jack Teagarden?
Trombone
In concert pitch, to what note are orchestral instruments tuned?
A
With a name taken from the Bantu word for ‘xylophone’, which percussion instrument consists of a set of wooden bars with resonators suspended underneath to amplify the sound?
Marimba
What instrument of the dulcimer family is a trapezoidal box on legs with metal strings stretched across its top and a damping pedal underneath? This instrument beginning with the letter “C” was designed and created by V. Josef Schunda in 1874
Cimbalom
What instrument which looks like a small upright piano, is sometimes called the “bell piano”? One of the best-known works that uses this instrument is Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from The Nutcracker.
Celesta
Which musical instrument consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons usually on both ends, unlike accordion buttons which are on the front?
Concertina
What stringed instrument, used extensively in Western Africa, usually has 21 strings which are plucked? It combines features of the lute and harp.
Kora
The influential jazz soloist Bix Beiderbecke was primarily associated with which brass instrument? It looks similar to a trumpet but has a more compact shape
Cornet
What “C” are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, wooden sticks traditionally made of wood?
Claves
What vessel flute musical instrument has the nickname the “Sweet Potato”? These instruments have been of particular importance in Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures.
Ocarina
The Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency took place in what African country between 1987 and 1994?
Uganda
Involved in a war with the Turkish government since 1984, by what 3-letter acronym are the Kurdistan Worker’s Party usually known by?
PKK
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic control about 20% of the territory of which disputed territory which was occupied by Spain until 1975? This place is the second most sparsely populated country in the world and the most sparsely populated in Africa,
Western Sahara
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation are strongest in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. Chiapas lies on the border with which other nation?
Guatemala
ETA was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018. What 3 colours make up the flag of the Basque country?
Red White and Green
In 1994 which revolutionary group kidnapped the American scientist Thomas Hargrove and held him captive for 11 months? After his release, he wrote a book about his ordeal which inspired the 2000 film Proof of Life starring Meg Ryan
FARC
New Zealand has now had 3 female Prime Ministers. The first was Jenny Shipley, the latest was Jacinda Ardern. Which other woman served between those two?
Helen Clark
In 1921 Agnes Campbell MacPhail became the first woman elected to which country’s House of Commons?
Canada
Golda Meir’s leagacy in Israel has been tainted due to criticism of her leadership during the Yom Kippur War. That war took place mostly in the Sinai Peninsula and in which hilly and elevated area overlooking the Jordan Rift Valley ?
Golan Heights
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland was the first woman in the world to be democratically elected as president of a country. This happened in 1980 but Vigdis had already achieved a first when in 1972 she became the first single woman in Iceland to do what? Former US Representative Marjorie Margolies claims to be one of the first single women to do this on an international scale
Adopt a Child
Mary Robinson’s first television interview as Irish President-elect was on the RTÉ children’s television show The Den hosted by Ray Darcy. Which puppets also appeared alongside Ray Darcy on that show?
Zig and Zag
According to a Forbes list in 2023, which person, born in Brussels in 1958 is the most powerful woman in the World?
Ursula Von Der Leyen
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
The Tempest
What is the missing word in this Shakespeare quote: “There are more things in heaven and earth BLANK, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”? The quote is lifted from Act 1 Scene 5 of Hamlet
Horatio
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
Twelfth Night
“I am one who loved not wisely but too well” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
Othello
“The better part of valor is discretion” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
Henry IV Part 1
“If music be the food of love play on” is a quote from which Shakespeare play? And who says it?
Twelfth Night - Orsino
Once inhabited by the Moriori people, which archipelago was invaded by the Maori in 1835? The Maori invaders almost exterminated the Moriori, and enslaved all the survivors
Chatham Islands
William Kidd and Anne Bonny may feel at home in which archipelago of about 800 islands off the coast of Western Australia near the town of Derby?
Buccaneer Islands
The pipit found on what archipelago is the only songbird found in Antarctica? This place was involved in Operation Paraquet in the 1980s
South Georgia
In September 1704 which Scotsman was left abandoned on Más a Tierra island in the uninhabited Juan Fernández archipelago, 420 miles off the coast of Chile?
Alexander Selkirk
Which North Sea archipelago off the coast of Germany is a noted spot for the study of Seabirds? They were a possession of the UK from 1807 to 1890
Heligoland
Which archipelago provides ideal habitats for dolphins, sea turtles, and larger fish such as manta rays and whale sharks. This archipelago is the most westerly inhabited island group of Japan?
Yaeyama Islands
biggest island in the Portuguese Azores archipelago
Sao Miguel
capital of the azores
Ponta Delgada
Capital of Madeira
Funchal
The Kanak people are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of which Pacific archipelago? This island group is one of the European Union’s Overseas Countries and Territories but is not part of the European Union.
New Caledonia
What is the name of the archipelago in French Polynesia that consists of the two island groups, the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands? Tahiti and Bora Bora are major islands of this group
Society Islands
What name is given to the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile? It traditionally marks the point where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet
Cape Horn
Curanto is a dish made from fish, clams, ribbed mussels, giant barnacles, meats, and potatoes is a traditional dish in which Chilean archipelago?
Chiloé
Crash Bandicoot islands setting name
Wumpa
Captain Arthur Morstan, a convict guard who had served in the Andaman Islands, is a key character in the plot of which of the four Sherlock Holmes novels?
The Sign of Four
The Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean was the location of the 1961 testing of the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. By what two word term is this nuclear bomb usually referred to?
Tsar Bomba
What is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago? Covering an area of 14,546sq miles making it the largest island in Norway and the 36th largest in the world. The name of this island means “Pointed Mountains” in Dutch
Spitsbergen
The Dahlak Archipelago belongs to which country? The pearl fisheries of the archipelago have been famous since Roman times and still produce a substantial number of pearls
Eritrea
The island of Elba, famous for being Napoleon’s prison for a short time, is part of which archipelago?
Tuscan Archipelago
The use of a microscope enabled Marcello Malpighi to discover that insects do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called what?
Tracheae
In The Godfather III Joey Zasa presents Michael Corleone with an Italian of the Year award named after which inventor? This man, who lived between 1808 and 1889, is credited by some sources as inventing the telephone
Antonio Meucci
Which Italian (1626-1697) has been called the “founder of experimental biology” and as the “father of modern parasitology”? He demonstrated that maggots come from the eggs of flies
Francesco Redi
The Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano partially invented what “G”, the device of three concentric rings that allow a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely?
Gimbal
Which Italian scientist’s eponymous law states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules?
Amadeo AVOGADRO
Named after an Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (1736-1813), what name is given to a point in space near two large orbiting bodies where gravitational and centrifugal forces balance up?
Lagrange Point
How would the author and businessman Richard Koch describe the “Pareto Principle”? He’s written at least 3 books using this term in the title
80/20 Principle
Which Italian neurobiologist was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor? On 22 April 2009, she became the first Nobel laureate to reach the age of 100
Rita Levi-Montalcini
“In bed asleep, while they do dream things true”, “O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.” are lines from which Shakespeare tragedy?
Romeo & Juliet
Later an opera by Tchaikovsky, who wrote the 1833 short story “Queen of Spades”?
Alexander Pushkin
Known by a 3-letter name, which South Korean singer is known as the Queen of K-Pop?
BoA
Frequently compared to Princess Diana, which woman was dubbed the Queen of Pop in South Asia in the 1990s? She was also referred to as the “Sweetheart of Pakistan”. She sadly died of lung cancer in London at the age of 35
Nazia Hussain
“Queen of the New Year” was a 1989 top 30 hit for which Scottish band who take their name from a Steely Dan song?
Deacon Blue
The “Queen of Country” pop Shania Twain, was married to which South African record producer between 1993 and 2010?
Mutt Lange
Which actress, probably better known for her lead role in Game of Thrones, was Gorgo, Queen of the Spartans in the movie “300”?
Lena Headey
What is the topping on the dessert called “Queen of Puddings”? It’s also an intrical part of the recipe for Eton Mess
Meringue
Which South African-born British interior designer acted as a TV Dragon between 2013 and 2015? Known for her signature neutral palette and trademark Perfect Neutrals, she is often referred to as the “Queen of Taupe”
Kelly Hoppen
In The Adventure of Priscilla Queen of the Desert movie Hugo Weaving played the character Anthony “Tick” Belrose. Who took that role in the West End run and the first British run of the musical? This man suffered a drug overdose whilst attending Kate Moss’ 21st birthday party at the Viper Room, LA.
Jason Donovan
The German fashion designer Jil Sander was the “Queen of” what? A book with this four-letter word for its title won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Less
Who is the “Queen of Contouring”? This woman founded KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance and the fashion chain “Dash”
Kim Kardashian
Selena Quintanilla, known mononymously as Selena, was considered the queen of what genre of music? This music style combines Mexican Spanish vocals with dance rhythms from Czech and German genres – particularly polka or waltz
Tejano
“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” was the highest charting single in both the UK and the USA for what woman, known as the “Queen of Folk”?
Joan Baez
In the 1970s Chaka Kan, the Queen of Funk, was the lead singer with which group? One word, 5 letters
Rufus
Shoma Uno is a three-time Olympic medalist (2018 silver, 2022 bronze, 2022 team bronze) and a two-time World champion (2022, 2023) in which sport?
Figure Skating
Nicknamed “Supermura”, which Japanese man is considered by some to be the greatest gymnast of all time? All around gold in 2012 and 2016 olympics and team in 2016.
Kohei UCHIMURA
What is the name of the circular ring in Sumo wrestling?
Dohyo
Best known for winning the English Premier League with Leicester, which man is the highest scorer in the E.P.L.? To date he has won 119 caps for the Japanese national side
Shinji Okazaki
Raised by his Japanese father, which short track speed skater is the most decorated American at the Winter Olympics with two gold, two silver and four bronze medals?
Apolo OHNO
The Japanese woman Mikuru Suzuki is a former world champion in which sport?
Darts
A version of High Intensity Interval Training is named after which Japanese Doctor? His work initially involved Olympic Speedskaters
Dr Izumi TABATA
What Japanese word describes a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone?
Kata
Name either of the Japanese players who have been ranked within the top 5 male Tennis players in the world.
Kei NISHIKORI or Jiro SATO
Which Japanese boxer is included in most current lists of the best pound for pound boxers in the World? In 2022 he defeated Paul Butler and Nonita Donaire. His current record is 24 wins 0 losses
Naoya INOUE
There are 64 squares on a standard chess board, how many squares are there on a Shogi (Japanese Chess) board?
81 (9x9)
Which professional football club based in the Japanese city of Saitama won the Asian Champion’s League football tournament in 2007, 2017 and 2022?
URAWA RED DIAMONDS
With 9 Gold medals in total, what was the most successful sport for Japan at the 2020 Olympics?
Judo
After the 2023 season, the Japanese Baseball star Shohei Ohtani signed the largest contract in professional sports history. Which club did he sign for?
LA Dodgers
Which British-Japanese female, born 2008, won the 2023 Park Skateboarding World Championships (Women)?
Sky Brown
Which track, owned by Honda, has been the location of the F1 Japanese Grand Prix since 1987?
Suzuka
Competing in the Equestrian events at the 2020 Olympics, which woman has the second highest number of Olympic medals of any German?
Isabell Werth (Bella Rose)
Only one other American woman has won more Olympic medals than Katie Ledecky in the pool. Who is this woman? Her last Olympic games were in 2004. All relay but 8 gold medals.
Jenny Thompson
Initials V.V. which Italian fencer, competing at the Olympics between 1996 and 2012, is Italy’s greatest ever female Olympian in terms of total medal haul?
Valentina Vezzali
The Russian woman Svetlana Romashina won a stunning 7 Gold Medals between 2008 and 2020. In what event did she compete in?
Synchronised Swimming
Which Norwegian Cross-Country skier has won more Winter Olympics medals than anyone else?
Marit Bjorgen
The two New Zealanders who appear on the list of the biggest Olympic medals winners ever are Lisa Carrington and Ian Ferguson. They both competed in what event?
Canoeing
Which Belarussian gymnast was the most successful athlete at the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning 6 of the 8 events he took part in?
Vitaly Scherbo
Name either person who has won 4 or more gold medals in Olympic tennis
Venus or Serena WILLIAMS
Both competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Germans Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl have both clocked up 6 gold medals in what event?
Luge
In Islam, who was Muhammad’s third and youngest wife? Her name is often prefixed by the title “Mother of the Believers”
Aisha
What was the name of the only one of Muhammad’s daughters to outlive him? She married Ali, the first Shia Imam.
Fatima
In Islam, what name is given to the prophet Muhammad’s journey from Mecca to Medina in 622?
Hejira
In Islam, the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has specific dates according to the Islamic lunar calendar. What “H” is a pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of the year?
Umrah
Muhammad claimed he was descended from Abraham via which biblical character, Abraham’s first son? This child was born after Sarah, offered her handmaiden, Hagar, to Abraham
Ishmael
To escape persecution from polytheists, Muhammad and his wife fled Mecca to which other place, then known as Yathrib?
Medina
What “S”, meaning “the companions”, is the name given to the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime?
Sahaba
Which famous building is traditionally regarded as the location where Mohammed made his ascent to heaven?
Dome of the Rock
Found in early biographies of Muhammad, what name is usually used to describe this short section of text: “These are the high flying ones / whose intercession is to be hoped for”?
The SATANIC VERSES
Made with sugar, cream and the fruit of what is known locally as the Elephant Tree, which South African liqueur was launched in September 1989?
Amarula
Commonly consumed “neat” as a cordial or a digestif, which French liqueur is made from a blend of Cognac brandy, distilled essence of bitter orange, and sugar? Two word answer
Grand Marnier
What Japanese liqueur is made by macerating sugar and plums in alcohol? Famous brands of include Choya, Takara Shuzo and Matsuyuki
Umeshu
Which yellow-coloured liqueur is the second-most popular liqueur in Italy after Campari?
Limoncello
Native to South America,which mammalof the raccoon family was described as new in 2013? It became the first new carnivoran mammal described in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years
Olinguito
With golden fur and small ears, what is the largest mammal endemic to Mauritius? Its binomial name is Pteropus niger
the Mauritian FLYING FOX bat
Which English evolutionary biologist’s principle is that males of a species can produces millions of sperm with little effort whereas females produce a relatively small amount of eggs, therefore females are the limiting factor of reproductive success?
Bateman’s Principle
Which small omnivorous species of marten are fairly numerous on Sakhalin island? Their fur has been a highly valued item in the fur trade since the Middle Ages. The English King Henry 8th once declared that only Viscounts or higher could wear this fur
Sable
One of the few animals to be found on either side of the Wallace line, which mammals are the only entirely carnivorous extant primates? These animals have huge eyes and are generally found in forested areas of Borneo
Tarsiers
With a a reddish-brown or grey coat, and with a distinctive snout, what is the smallest species of bat and arguably the world’s smallest mammal?
KITTI’S HOG-NOSED (acc BUMBLEBEE bat)
What animal became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936?
Tasmanian Devil
Resembling very large shrews and with a name derived from the Greek for “grooved tooth”, the Cuban and the Hispaniolan are the only two living species of which insectivorous mammals?
Solenodon
One of the smallest in the class Mammalia, the Hyaenidae family contains only four extant species - the spotted hyena, striped hyena, brown hyena and which animal with the binomial name Proteles cristata?
Aardwolf
The orderPilosa, native to the Americas, comprises Sloths and what other animals? Extant species of this animal include the “Giant” and “Silky”
Anteaters
Which mammal native to the Arctic has a name derived from the strong odour emitted by males during the seasonal rut?
Muskox
The mountain dwelling animal known as the Pika lives on Mount Everest. The Pika is a close relative of which animal, commonly found in the UK?
Rabbits
What word has been blanked in this blurb for George R. R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones”: In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of BLANK, sinister forces are massing”?
Winterfell
Which 1996 memoir begins “Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”?
Angela’s Ashes
John Grisham’s book “The Runaway Jury” is set in which Mississippi city? In World War 2, the US Air Force had a major training base here
Biloxi
What word fills the blank in the name of Robin Sharma’s self help book series: “The Monk who sold his BLANK”?
Ferrari
In the Mid 1990s Diane Gabaldon continued what book series with titles including “Voyager” and “Drums of Autumn”?
Outlander
The 1996 book “Undaunted Courage” tells the story of which man, who had been chosen by Thomas Jefferson to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies?
Captain Meriwether LEWIS
An anthology of which woman’s “Sex and the City” newspaper columns was first published in 1996?
Candace BUSHNELL
In 1859 the German archaeologist Constantin Von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century Greek bible, at what monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt?
St Catherines
“The Railway Children” by E. Nesbit was first published in 1905. Please give the first name of any of the three “railway children” in that movie
ROBERTA/ BOBBIE or PETER or PHYLLIS
In the 1630s the colony of Maryland was named after the consort of King Charles I. What was her name?
Henrietta Maria
In March 1990 Twelve paintings and a Shang dynasty vase, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, were stolen from which Boston museum?
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
In 1909 Robert Milikan performed his famous oil drop experiment at what university? This university would later be involved in another famous physics experiment conducted under the stands of its football stadium.
University of Chicago
The first McDonald’s in Mainland China opened in 1990 in which city? This mega city on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary lies just over the border from Hong Kong
Shenzhen
Dying in 1909, Mary McKillop was the first person from which country to be recognised as a Saint?
Australia
1909 saw the arrest of an American woman in Newcastle called Carrie Nation. An extremely radical member of a political movement of the time, she had been arrested for trying to destroy what, with a hatchet? No doubt she’d have been happy with political happenings in 1920
Pub
The year 1990 saw the unification of which country, when the former Arab Republic joined together with the People’s Democratic Republic?
Yemen
Which man’s Labor government were re-elected at the 1990 General Elections in Australia? This man declared “Advance Australia Fair” as the country’s national anthem
Bob Hawke
What is the smallest of the four Galilean moons discovered in 1610? Its white-beige surface is striated by light tan cracks and streaks
Europe
Which French Explorer became the first unofficial Governor of New France in Canada in the 1610s? He was the first European to describe the Great Lakes
Samuel de Champlain
In 1859 a “Simoon” hit Santa Barbara. It was the only ever Simoon recorded in North America. What is a Simoon?
a very hot WIND that causes heat stroke. More usual in the Sahara
What nickname was given to the English parliament running from April to June 1614? The nickname is based on the parliament’s failure to pass any bills
Addled Parliament (1614)
the first Parliament of England of the reign of King Charles I, sitting only from June until August 1625. It gained its name because it transacted no significant business
Useless Parliament (1625)
the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride commanded soldiers to purge the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those members hostile to the Grandees’ intention to try King Charles I for high treason.
Rump Parliament
1653 parliament: came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector. It was an assembly entirely nominated by Oliver Cromwell and the Army’s Council of Officers. It acquired its name from the nominee for the City of London.
Barebone’s Parliament
also known as the First Exclusion Parliament, was a short-lived English Parliament which assembled on 6 March 1679 (or 1678, Old Style) during the reign of Charles II of England, the third parliament of the King’s reign. It is named after a namesake Act, which it enacted in May 1679.
Habeas Corpus Parliament
Which comparatively safe and effective anesthetic was first synthesised in 1905 by the German chemist Alfred Einhorn? This drug also appeared in the name of a 1996 hit for The Eels
Novocain
In an event generally regarded as the worst massacre of the Thirty Years’ War, which Protestant city, with a name beginning with the letter “M”, was sacked on 20th May 1631 by the army led by Count Tilly?
Magdeburg
Which Nova Scotian man, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray? His surname may put you in mind of Grace Brothers Department store
Joshua Slocum
Big Ben first rang in 1859. The bell was cast at which foundry? At the time of its closing it was the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain
WHITECHAPEL bell foundry
In the 1610s, King James granted which English Poet and Dramatist an annual pension of 100 marks, making him the de facto poet laureate? He popularised the comedy of humours and is best known for his satirical plays
Ben Jonson
Chinese name for Death by a 1000 cuts
Lingchi
In 1990 which photographer’s “The Perfect Moment” show of nude and homoerotic photographs opened in Cincinatti amongst protests about indecency?
Robert Mapplethorpe
Mr Bean launched in 1990. Later revealed in a movie, what is Mr Bean’s first name? This name, beginning with “R”, is also the name of the girl being searched for in The Wicker Man
Rowan
Which man was inaugurated as the 27th President of the United States in 1909?
William Howard TAFT
The first ground was broken for the construction of the Suez canal in 1859. What city is the northern terminus of the canal?
Port Said
Which Flemish artist, who worked during his career for the Spanish Habsburgs as a diplomat, was knighted by King Charles I in 1630?
Peter Paul Rubens
In 1905 the Norwegian Parliament declared the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, giving Norway full independence. What is the 8-letter name of the Norwegian parliament?
STORTING
Which famous man was in charge of the ship “Gjoa” when it found the long-sought “Northwest Passage” between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in 1905?
Roald Amundsen
In 1630 the Italian astronomers Niccolò Zucchi and Daniello Bartoli become the first scienists to observe the belts on which planet?
Jupiter
In the 1610s the English astronomer Thomas Harriot became the first person on Earth to observe what through a telescope? Galileo noted his observations of these things a few years later
Sunspots
In June 1633 Charles I was crowned King of Scots at which cathedral?
St Giles Cathedral (Edinburgh)
In 1909 which city, originally called Ahuzat Bayit, was founded by the Jewish community, on the outskirts of Jaffa?
Tel Aviv
In August 1859 Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in the United States, near Titusville in which state? Coal mining was also a major industry in this state in the 19th and 20th centuries
Pennsylvania
Sharing his name with another great historical figure, which man was the Chancellor of the Exchequer under James I/VI between 1606 and 1614?
Julius Caesar
Who created Arsene Lupin?
Maurice Leblanc
Based on the video game series of the same name, the 1994 Street Fighter movie included the last role for which Puerto Rican actor? His other film roles included “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and “Presumed Innocent”
Raul Julia
On September 9, 1936, which studio filed a legal injunction against Bette Davis which forbade her from appearing in film productions without their consent? The founders of this studio had emigrated to the US from Poland in the late 1800s
Warner Brothers
Katherine Hepburn had a long time between winning acting Oscars, but at the time of writing which man has had the longest break between acting nominations? He was first nominated for Ordinary People in 1980 but then had to wait for The Fabelmans in 2022 for his next one
Judd Hirsch
Which actor and director has praised Christopher Nolan’s approach to large-scale filmmaking “unique in modern cinema”? Nolan obviously admires this man has he has casted him in Dunkirk, Tenet and Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Katharine Hepburn was the maid of honour when which woman married Laurence Olivier in August 1940? Their married broke down in 1960 amidst her mental health problems
Vivien Leigh
Harmon Nelson divorced Bette Davis in 1938 after discovering that she had been having an affair with what man? Supposedly, in his later years this man ordered for a cheeseburger to be placed in a certain tree every day, just in case he happened to be climbing the tree and be peckish
Howard Hughes
The last line of which 1942 Bette Davis movie is “Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.”?
Now Voyager
The name of what animals fills the blank in the 1987 movie “The BLANK of August”, which was one of the last movies for both Bette Davis and Lilian Gish?
Whales
The Christopher Nolan movie “Memento” was about a man who had a special kind of amnesia where the brain loses the ability to create new memories. What word, beginning with “A” describes this form of Amnesia?
Anterograde Amnesia
Which American gossip columnist wrote of the movie “In the forest”: “If Bette had deliberately set out to wreck her career, she could not have picked a more appropriate vehicle.”? This acid-penned woman had a long running feud with fellow gossip columnist Louella Parsons.
Hedda HOPPER
What was the middle name and nickname of Bette Davis’ first husband Harmon Nelson? She claimed that this led to the naming of something sought after across Hollywood
Oscar
Referred to frequently in Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar, what is the missing word in this Dylan Thomas verse: “Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and BLANK at close of day.” The missing word has four letters
Rave
The song “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling” is used repeatedly throughout which 1952 Western movie whose cast included Lloyd Bridges and Grace Kelly?
High Noon
What collective name was given to the divorcees Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton in the title of a hit movie of 1996?
The First Wives Club
Which actor starred opposite Helen Hunt in the 1996 movie “Twister”? It is often said that he is the only actor to be killed by a Predator, Terminator and Xenomorph
Bill Paxton
Katherine Hepburn won her last Oscar for the 1981 movie “On Golden Pond”. Who played her daughter in that film? This woman was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the same movie
Jane Fonda
“Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” was a big hit movie in 1994, but what was the subtitle of the 1995 sequel? 3-word answer
When Nature Calls
Katherine Hepburn was nomianted for Best Actress at the 1963 Oscars for her part in the film adaptation of which Eugene O’Neil play? This autobiographical play, first performed in 1956, is considered O’Neil’s magnum opus
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Which David Lean film, one of his less ambitious and epic, is based on the play The Time of the Cuckoo? Living is easy in this film which sees Katharine Hepburn play a spinster taking a solo trip to Venice
Summertime
In which 1995 movie, inspired by Pygmalion, did Woody Allen’s character search for his genius adopted son’s biological mother, ultimately finding that she is a dim-witted prostitute played by Mira Sorvino? Two word answer
Mighty Aphrodite
The movie subgenre called “Pyscho-biddy” is sometimes also referred to as BLANKsploitation. What 3-letter word would fill the blank here? The Bette Davis movie “Whatever happened to Baby Jane” is often put into this category
Hag
In which epic 1990s Western movie did Brad Pitt and Aidian Quinn play competing brothers in early 20th century Montana? Anthony Hopkins played their father
Legends of the Fall
“A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends” - this is a summary of which 1950 Bette Davis movie with a 3-word title?
All About Eve
Heidi Klum shares the record for the Most Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. What show do those awards pertain to? Two word answer
Project Runway
Which cop show holds the record for the Most Primetime Emmy nominations for a Drama Series for its first season? This show, which starred Dennis Franz, ran from 1993 to 2005
NYPD Blue
Which actress who died in 2022 holds the record for the Most Primetime Emmy nominations for an individual without a win? Her last movie role was in Knives Out: Glass Onion
Angela Lansbury
Name either of the networks that share the record for the Most Primetime Emmy wins for a network in a single year.
CBS or NETFLIX
Saturday Night Live has won more Primetime Emmy awards than any other programme. Which Canadian-American man created that show?
Lorne Michaels
Called the “King of Sitcoms”, he has created/co-created and produced several sitcoms including Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and Mom.
Chuck Lorre
Matt Damon played Scott Thorson in which 2013 drama which shares the record for the Most Primetime Emmy wins for a Television Movie?
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
Telling the story of a massive fight between Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton, which Game of Thrones episode shares the record for the Most Primetime Emmy wins for a single episode of any series?
The Battle of the Bastards
Which television series about an American president holds the record for the Most Primetime Emmy wins for a Limited Series? Paul Giamatti starred
John Adams
Who created the puppy character “Spot the Dog”? This English man lived from 1927 to 2014
Eric Hill
In the original 1920 book “The story of Doctor Dolittle” what is the name of the Doctor’s dog? In colloquial English this 3-letter word might mean to give someone annoyance or trouble
Jip
Give me your answer do to this one - the death of which dog leads the title character to seek retribution in the John Wick movies? Bellis perennis is not an acceptable answer
Daisy
What was the name of the Chihuahua “accessory dog” often seen with Paris Hilton on the reality show “The Simple Life”? Julia Roberts has played a character with this name on screen
Tinkerbell
Which cartoonist, known for his wacky characters who broke the fourth wall, created Droopy the Dog? This man was also crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
Tex Avery
Fred Gipson created which dog character in a 1956 children’s book? Walt Disney released a popular film adaptation a year later
Old Yeller
What scruffy brown dog of indeterminate breed was the resident pianist on the sketch comedy television series The Muppet Show?
Rowlf
What was the name of Sylvester Stallone’s dog who appeared in the movie Rocky? He was named after a ferocious Chicago Bears Linebacker
Butkus
What is the name of the dog who is the central character of Jack London’s novel “The Call of the Wild”? Gil Gerard’s most famous TV role also had this nickname
Buck
Zeus and Apollo were the two Doberman dogs living on Robin Masters’ estate with Higgins in which 1980s TV show?
Magnum PI
Also the name of the chief harpooner in “Moby Dick”, what is the name of the Pomeranian dog owned by Dana Scully in The X-Files?
Queequeg
In “The Sign of Four” what is the name of the dog used by Sherlock Holmes to follow scent trails? Dr Watson describes it as a “ugly long haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher”
Toby
What was the name of the ranch purchased by the US government as the location chosen for the construction of a laboratory for research into an atomic bomb?
Los Alamos
Which Hungarian born physicist made patent applications for the electron microscope, the linear accelerator and the cyclotron? in late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert Einstein’s signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
Leo Szilard
On August 6th 1945, what was the time in Hiroshima when the first nuclear bomb was released? It is referenced in the OMD song “Enola Gay”
8.15am
Which isotope of Uranium was used in the Little Boy gun-type atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
Uranium-235
Which physicist did Oppenheimer work with in Zurich on quantum mechanics and the continuous spectrum? In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, this Austrian man received the Nobel Prize in Physics
Wolfgang Pauli
Which German scientist was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the creation of quantum mechanics”? Following WW2 he was appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute
Werner Heisenberg
Oppenheimer’s interest in Hindu thought is speculated to have started from his earlier association with which man? This man fled to Sweden in 1943 when he learned he was about to be arrested by the Nazis
Niels Bohr
In the autumn of 1928, Oppenheimer visited Paul Ehrenfest’s institute at which University in the Netherlands, where he impressed by giving lectures in Dutch, despite having little experience with the language?
University of Leiden
Which American theoretical physicist born 1904 made contributions to the theory of neutron stars and black holes before eventually being credited as the father of the atomic bomb?
J Robert Oppenheimer (Julius)
Inthe Diving Bell and the Butterfly, former Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, describes his experience ofWhat medical condition,in which all voluntary muscles are paralyzed except those which control blinking and vertical eye movements?
LOCKED-IN SYNDROME
Which part of the body is affected by the condition called torticollis ?
Neck
The actor Peter Mayhew and the singer Joey Ramone were both sufferers of which syndrome? This genetic disorder is caused by a mutation in FBN1, one of the genes that make fibrillin, which results in abnormal connective tissue
Marfan Syndrome
The burning sensation known as Heartburn is the major sysmptom of “GERD”. What does GERD stand for in this context?
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
The French senate is located inside which palace in Paris? It shares its name with another country
Luxembourg Palace
The confusion between the Greenwich and the Paris meridians is one of the plot elements ofthe 1943bookRed Rackham’s Treasure featuring which fictional reporter?
Tin Tin
Also the name of a nearby bridge, what was the name of the Paris tunnel where Princess Diana sadly died in 1997?
Pont de l’Alma
Which Paris museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large “Water Lillies” murals by Claude Monet? Napoleon III had this place built in 1852 to store citrus trees
Musee de L’ORANGERIE
What was the name of Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookshop where the novel “Ulysses” was published in 1922? A new bookshop located on the West Bank adopted the name in the 1950s
SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY
Until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871, which Palace on the right bank of the Seine acted as the usual Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon III?
TUILERIES Palace
What band were playing at the Bataclan Theatre during the Paris terror attacks of 2015? They were founded by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme
The EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
What is the largest public square in Paris? It was the location of the public execution of King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Maximilien Robespierre
Place de la Concorde
With a population of over 250,000 people, which new town located about 25km from the capital is home to Disneyland Paris?
Marne-la-Vallee
Which racecourse, located about 12km from the centre of Paris, is the home to the prestigiuous L’Arc De Triomphe race? Over 50% of French Group One races take place here
Longchamp
In which Paris building, or more correctly complex of buildings, will you find the tomb of Napoleon?
Les Invalides
Located in the7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne, what is the name of the official residence of the Prime Minister of France?
HOTEL MATIGNON
Boris Gudonov, which premiered in 1874, is the only completed opera by which Russian composer?
Modest Mussorgsky
Which operatic soprano singer made her professional debut as a last minute replacement as Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème at Basel Opera in 1956? She returned to Barcelona in 1962 where debuted at the Liceu, singing the title role in Strauss’s Arabella.
Montserrat Caballe
The symphonic cycle “Ma Vlast” and the opera “The Bartered Bride” are works of which Czech composer?
Bedrich Smetana
What was the name of Greta Thunberg’s opera singing mother who represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009?
Malena Ernman
Turiddu’, ‘Santuzza’, and ‘Mama Lucia’ are characters in which opera? It features in the final part of The Godfather Part III as a key element of the film’s climax
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Which South African, regarded as one of the greatest Golfers of all time, won The Open four times between 1949 and 1957?
Bobby Locke
Which golfer from Jersey, a member of the Great Triumvirate with John Henry Taylor and James Braid, won The Open Championship a record six times?
Harry Vardon
Which American Golfer, dubbed “the father of Amateur Golf, won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews?
Francis Ouimet
Ben Hogan said she had the best swing he had ever seen,man or woman,. Which American golfer (1935-2020), the winner of 91 career events including 13 majors, was he referring to?
Mickey Wright
Billy Casper, Francis Ouimet and Chick Evans were 3 of the earliest inductees in the Hall of Fame of which sport?
Golf
Which “father of Professional Golf” has a tally of 11 professional majors, third behind Jack Nicklaus (18) and Tiger Woods (15)?
Walter Hagen
Which American golfer, who peaked in the 1920s, was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete at a national and international level? A lawyer by profession, he founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club, and co-founded the Masters Tournament.
Bobby Jones
Which American, of Norwegian heritage, is the only person to win individual Olympic meadals in throwing, jumping and running events? While her nickname refers to her legendary prowess with a baseball bat, she was probably most famous as a boxing celebrity in the 1940s and 1950s
Mildred “Babe” DIDRICKSON
The daughter ofAmramandJochebed, who was the older sister ofMosesandAaron? The Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel
Miriam
Ethiopian Jews claim descent from the which one of the twelve tribes of Israel? In the Biblical census of the Book of Numbers, this tribe is portrayed as the second largest Israelite tribe (after Judah)
Daniel
Which French beauty products retailer and brand, founded in Limoges in 1969, has a name derived from the wife of Moses?
Sephora
Traditionally, what was the name of the two bronze pillars on the porch of Solomon’s temple?
Jachin and Boaz
A 1795 painting by William Blake is titled “Naomi entreating Ruth and BLANK to return to the land of Moab”. Which biblical character with a 5-letter name fills the blank?
Orpah
The rape of which woman is told inGenesischapter 34? In 19th-century America, her 5-letter name became a generic name for an enslaved African woman
Dinah
The earliest example of Hebrew poetry is perhaps “The song of BLANK”. What name fills the blank? This refers to the only female judge mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Deborah
The Book of Job addresses the subject of “Theodicy” through the experiences of its eponymous protagonist. What is Theodicy?
The question of why GOD PERMITS EVIL
In the Old Testament, Naboth was executed by Jezebel in order that which man, her husband, could take control of his vineyard? This King of Israel was widely criticized for causing “moral decline” in Israel, according to the Yahwists.
Ahab
Noah, Methuselah and Enoch were all descended from Adam and Eve via which of their children in the creation myth?
Seth
According to legend, after the marriage of Esther and Ahaseurus, his grand vizier, Haman, was offended by which man (Esther’s cousin and guardian), who refused to prostrate himself?
Mordecai
In the Christian Old Testament what term is used to describe these books: Book of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi?
The Minor Prophets
The spiritual song “Dem Bones” is based on a verse from which book of the Bible?
Ezekiel
What “J” is the ancient biblical port city known for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus?
JOPPA (now Jaffa)
According to the Bible, which prophet was carried up to heaven in a whirlwind whilst manning a chariot? As he is lifted up his mantle falls to the ground and is picked up by Elisha.
Elijah
The phrase eat, drink and be merry originates in which book of the Old Testament? The phrases “nothing new under the sun” and “a time to be born and a time to die” also originate from this book
ECCLESIASTES
The lyrics of the 1974 David Bowie song “Diamond Dogs” go “In the year of the Scavenger, the season of the BLANK”. What 5-letter word fills the blank?
Bitch
Which English journalist, who started off writing about Punk music for the NME, was Julie Burchill’s husband from 1979 to 1984?
Tony Parsons
Leicester man Dave Bartram was the lead singer with which Rock and Roll band from 1973 to 2011? Their top ten hits include “You got what it takes”
SHOWADDYWADDY
What was the 4-word name of the 2018 Channel 4 sitcom which followed a British punk rock band consisting entirely of Muslim women?
We Are Lady Parts
Which band with a one word name reached number one in the album charts with “Ultra Mono” in 2020? Hailing from Bristol, they are led by Joe Talbot
Idles
What word fills the blanks in the lyrics of the 1944 Oscar winning song “Swinging on a star” - would you like to swing on a star, carry BLANK home in a jar?
Moonbeams
The Oscar winning song “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” is from which now controversial Disney movie?
Song of the South
What card game was “the only game in town” according to a the lyrics of a 1974 Andy Williams hit, which was written by Neil Sedaka?
Solitaire
Which American singer asked “what becomes of the broken hearted” according to the name of his hit which reached the UK top ten in both 1966 and 1974?
Jimmy Ruffin
Wolf Alice lead singer name
Ellie Rowsell
Kraftwerk’s sound moved from Krautrock to Electronic with the release of their 4th album in 1974. What was the transport-related name of that album? 8-letter answer
Autobahn
The American all-female rock band “The Go-Go’s” were formed in Los Angeles in 1978. Which of their members had their biggest solo success when the song “Rush Hour” charted highly in the UK and USA in 1988?
Jane Weidlin
Which English Indie rock band with a one word name had a great time of it in 2016 and 2017 when they were nominees for the BBC “Sound of” award, the Mercury Music Prize and the Best Breakthrough Act at the Brits? In 2022 this Stockport band had a number one album with “Ribbon around the bomb”
Blossoms
Which British indie pop band with a one word name reached number 2 in the UK in 2018 with their song “Happier”? It was recorded alongside the American DJ Marshmello
Bastille
What two words comes next in this John Cooper Clarke poem: “Bloody days are bloody long, Bloody gets you bloody down, It’s BLANK BLANK”?
EVIDENTLY CHICKENTOWN
The 2009 Ken Loach movie “Looking for Eric” was about a football fanatic who hallucinated conversations with Eric Cantona. It starred Steve Evets, who was a member of which Post-Punk band in the early 2000s?
The Fall
“The King of Rock and Roll”, “When love breaks down” and “Cars and Girls” were all hits for which band who formed in 1978?
Prefab Sprout
Formed in 1978 by brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon and joined by vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Wendy Smith in 1982, they released their debut album Swoon to critical acclaim in 1984.
Prefab Sprout
Which band, who feature Lol Tolhurst on percussion, were formed Crawley, West Sussex, in 1978?
The Cure
“I took my baby on a Saturday bang” is the first line in which Michael Jackson number one hit of 1991?
Black or White
Which Scottish post-Rock band with a one word name reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart in February 2021 with their tenth album “As the Love Continues”?
Mogwai
The country artist Morgan Wallen scored a US number one in 2023 with the song “Last Night”. This was the first country song by a solo male to top the US Hot 100 since which man topped the charts with “I love a rainy night” in 1980?
Eddie Rabbitt
According to the lyrics of an Oscar nominated song from Judy Garland, “Clang, clang, clang went the” what?
Trolley
Who directed Michael Jackson’s Thriller video?
John Landis
“True Love” was an Academy Award nominated song by Cole Porter that featured in which film whose cast included Grace Kelly?
High Society
Which Michael Jackson hit includes the line “Showin’ how funky and strong is your fight, It doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right”?
Beat It
Music star Neneh Cherry and TV presenter Andi Oliver have both been members of which Bristol Post-Punk band who once appeared as the musical act on the Young Ones?
Rip, Rig + Panic
Dollar were a pop vocal duo from the United Kingdom, consisting of David Van Day and which Canadian-born singer?
Thereza Bazar
Which English post-punk band led by Matt Johnson had UK top 40 hits including Heartland (1986), The Beat(en) Generation (1989), Love is stronger than death (1993) and I saw the light (1995)?
The The
The English visual artist Jamie Reid is best remembered for creating which record cover, which was been lauded as “the single most iconic image of the punk era.”?
God Save the Queen
In November 1974 which man made his last stage appearance when he took to the stage alongside Elton John for 3 songs at the Madison Square Gardens?
John Lennon
What was the UK Christmas number one in 1974? It begins “Try to imagine a house that’s not a home”
LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS
The British folk band Fiddler’s Dram formed in 1978, and they gained their highest chart position in 1979 with what song? The words in the brackets of the title of this song were “(Didn’t we have a lovely time)”
Day Trip to Bangor
British folk music singer-songwriter who was brought up in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. She has been a member of bands in the 1970s such as Oyster Ceilidh Band, Fiddler’s Dram, and The Albion Band. She released a solo album, Surface, in 1985, the same year that she appeared as a guest vocalist on the Fairport Convention album Gladys’ Leap.
Cathy Lesurf
“Your butt is mine, gonna tell you right.” is a line from which Michael Jackson song? Martin Scorcese directed the accompanying video
Bad
What 4 letter word is the name of a Post-Punk band from Leningrad who released 90 songs in the 1980s headed by Viktor Tsoi? It is a homonym of a Bingo-like game played in Las Vegas casinos
Kino
Following John Lydon’s departure from the Sex Pistols in January 1978, he sought a more experimental “anti-rock” project. Which band did he form?
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD/ PIL
A compilation of which American group’s songs was the biggest selling album in the UK in 1974? Lesser known songs on the album include “It’s going to take some time”, “Sing” and “Hurting each other”
The Carpenters
Eric Clapton once said the first note of which 1974 song had more soul than anything he had ever heard? Radiohead would later be sued for using the chord progression and melody of this song for their hit “Creep”
The Air That I Breathe
Which English alternative band with a one word name reached the UK top ten with the songs “There goes the fear” and “Black and white town”? Twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams feature in their lineup
Doves
English rock singer, who was one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Hollies. He achieved international hit singles with the group and is credited as co-writer on several of their best-known songs, including “On a Carousel”, “Carrie Anne”, “Jennifer Eccles” and “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”. He retired from performing in 1999, but returned to the music industry in 2019.
Allan Clarke
According to the title of the 1942 Oscar nominated song from the film “Orchestra Wives”, “I’ve got a girl in” which Michigan city?
Kalamazoo
Which American rock band with a one word name released the song “Home” from the Barbie soundtrack in 2023?
Haim
The first Knebworth Festival was held in July 1974. Which band were the headliners? Their biggest hit in the USA was “Ramblin’ Man” but in the UK they are better known for “Jessica”
The ALLMAN BROTHERS
The line “Oops there goes another rubber tree plant” is repeated in which Oscar winning song of 1959?
High Hopes
The 1950 Oscar nominated song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” was taken from which movie?
Cinderella
The Mercury Music Prize nominated album “Dogrel” was from which Dublin post-punk band?
Fontaines DC
Johnathan Davis, also known as JD or J Devil, is the lead singer of which American nu metal band whose biggest UK hit to date was “Here to Stay” in 2002?
Korn
Cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal’s lower level, the line “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses……” comes from which poem by Emma Lazarus?
The New Collosus
What is the two-word name of the 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York railway on the west side of Manhattan?
High Line
Julian Fellowes is the creator and screenwriter on what HBO drama series set in the booming New York of the 1880s? The cast includes Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski
The Gilded Age
In which borough of New York City do the New York Yankees play their home games?
The Bronx
Kansas City Chiefs stadium name NFL
Arrowhead Stadium
Which office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in Manhattan is famous for housing music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular American songs were written?
Brill Building
Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were the co-owners of which famous nightclub between 1977 and 1980? The building, which had previously been owned by CBS, was located on on 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City
Studio 54
Gerard Kenny scored a minor hit with “New York, New York (___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___)”. The song grew in popularity over time and was later covered by Shirley Bassey. What six words fill the blanks?
So Good They Named It Twice
Who was the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland until it was passed to the English in 1664? His name lives on in a cigarette brand
Peter Stuyvesant
The real life setting for which painting is said to have been at Mulry Square which is the intersection of Seventh Avenue South, Greenwich Avenue and West 11th Street, New York?
Nighthawks by Hopper
Which fresco by Diego Rivera was originally due to be the centrepiece in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City, but was plastered over and destroyed before it was finished?
MAN AT THE CROSSROADS
The American physician Sara Josephine Baker began her career in healthcare when she was offered an opportunity to help lower the mortality rate in which Manhattan neighbourhood? It was considered the worst slum in New York at the turn of the century, with as many as 4,500 people dying every week.
Hell’s Kitchen
Sylvester Stallone portrays the sheriff of a small New Jersey town who comes into conflict with the corrupt New York City police in which neo-noir movie of 1997?
Cop Land
The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in May 1883 was attended by what man, the US President of the time? Earlier in his life this man had been a lawyer and had helped the desegregation of New York trams
Chester A Arthur
Which Italian sculptor is best known for his Charging Bull statue, which is currently located on Broadway, New York? The English sculptor Henry Moore nicknamed him “the young Michelangelo”
Arturo Di Modica
Fearless Girl is a bronze sculpture by which sculptor, on Broad Street across from the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The statue was installed on March 7, 2017, in anticipation of International Women’s Day the following day. It depicts a 4-foot high (1.2 m) girl promoting female empowerment.
Kristen Visbal
In 1988, the author Kathleen Burnett accused which man of plagiarising a story she had written, and including it in his short-story collection “A Twist in the Tale”?
Jeffrey Archer
Who featured in yearly lists of bestselling books in the late 1980s with the novels “Texas”, “Alaska” and “Caribbean”? This man had won his first Pulitzer prize for fiction back in 1948
James A Michener
Which author was nominated for the Pulitzer prize for fiction for “The Accidental Tourist” and won it for “Breathing Lessons”?
Anne Tyler
The Larry McMurtry novel “Lonesome Dove” follows a group of men driving cattle from Texas to which other US state?
Montana
Still a top seller to this day, who wrote the 1988 children’s book “Guess how much I love you”?
Sam McBratney
The 1987 book “Anne Frank Remembered” was written by which woman, a worker for Otto Frank, who helped the family during their time in hiding? First name or surname accepted
Miep Gies
Which man released his first collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips in 1987?
Bill Watterson
What did “B” stand for in the second of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series of Detective stories?
Burglar
“Oranges are not the only fruit” by Jeanette Winterson has been included on both GCSE and A-Level reading lists for education in England and Wales for many years now. Which British psychotherapist and writer was Winterson’s wife in the 2010s?
Susan Orbach
British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. She was married to the author Jeanette Winterson.
Susie Orbach
Played by Tom Cruise in the movie, what is the name of the immortal vampire and antihero of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles book series?
Lestat de Lioncourt
Later made into a 1990s movie, what Pat Conroy novel of 1986 revolved around traumatic events that affected former football player Tom Wingo’s relationship with his immediate family?
The Prince of Tides
What fictional town in Maine was the setting for Stephen King’s “It”?
Derry
Revolving around three generations of the Shandong family between the twenties and the seventies, which 1987 Chinese-language book by Mo Yan was subtitles “A novel of China”?
Red Sorghum
Which Swiss poet, initials C.S., was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 “in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring”?
Carl SPITTELER
Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was the President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010?
Oscar Arias
Who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Wangarĩ Maathai
In October 2023, which woman, while in prison, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran”?
Narges Mohammadi
Charles Dawes won the Nobel Peace Prize on the back of his “Dawes Plan”. That plan set up a staggered schedule for Germany’s war reparations, provided for a large loan to Germany and ended the French occupation of what area?
Ruhr
The Irish politician Sean MacBride won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974. In 1961, McBride was a co-founder of which organisation, which itself won the Nobel Peace prize in 1977?
Amnesty International
Which man, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in the 1920s, also served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic?
Aristide Briand
The Northern Irish politicians David Trimble and John Hume won the Nobel Peace Prize on the back of what is known as “the Good Friday Agreement”. Which US Senator was the chairman of the all party talks which led to that agreement?
George Mitchell
The Canadian Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. Pearson suffered two consecutive defeats by which Progressive Conservative Prime Minister in 1958 and 1962?
John Diefenbaker
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad is part of what religious group indigenous to Kurdistan? This group believe that God created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven Holy Angels
Yazidis
Vilakazi Street in Soweto has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Can you name them both?
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu
The Yemeni activist and Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman is the leader of the group “Women Journalists Without BLANK”. What word fills the blank? The Australian singer Tina Arena was in these things according to her 1994 chart hit
Chains
What organisation was given the only Nobel peace prize awarded during World War I?
the International RED CROSS
Please name either of the two Irish women who won the Nobel peace prize in 1976. Together they founded what later became known as the Community of Peace People
Mairead CORRIGAN (acc MCGUIRE) and Betty WILLIAMS
Norman Borlaug, the Nobel laureate of “Green Revolution” fame, developed his disease resistant wheat varieties whilst he was an Agricultural Researcher at the CIMMYT in which country?
Mexico
Which Israeli politician won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Anwar Sadat in 1979? Earlier in his life he had been declared a terrorist by the British Government and had been denied an entry visa between 1953 and 1955
Menachem Begin
Austen Chamberlain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after negotiating which 1925 pact, aimed at securing peace between France and Germany?
Locarno Treaty
Which Vietnamese diplomat was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Henry Kissinger?
Le Duc Tho
Considered a “young” desert at only around 8000 years old, which desert covers large parts of West Texas as well as the northern states of Mexico?
Chihuahua desert
Located on the Arabian sea in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, what is the largest deepwater sea port in the World? The port is considered to be a link between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Maritime Silk Road projects
Gwadar
Home to three national Tiger reserves, and known for its birdlife, what is Indian’s largest state by area?
Rajasthan
What is the capital city of Northern Cape, the largest subdivision of South Africa?
Kimberley
The Agadez region of which country is the largest subdivision of any state in Africa? The region is dominated by the Sahara desert, and includes the vast Ténéré portion of that desert, as well as dune seas such as the Erg of Bilma
Niger
Sakha, Russia, is the largest geographical subdivision of any country in the world. What is Sakha’s capital? Founded by Cossacks in 1632, this place is regarded as the largest city located in the continuous permafrost
YAKUTSK
MLK National History Park is in which US state?
Atlanta, Georgia
The idea of reintroducing Wolves into the Yellowstone National Park was first raised in 1966 as a means of managing the population of what other animal?
Elk
Rondane national park , founded in 1962, contains 10 peaks of over 2000m in height, glacial kettle holes, Musk Ox, Wolveriens and Lynxes. It was the first national park established in which country?
Norway
American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on The WB/UPN supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004); FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, a homicide investigator, on the Fox television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017); and United States Navy SEAL Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes in the CBS/Paramount+ military drama series SEAL Team (2017–present).
David Boreanaz
At the Mana Pools National Park when the floodplain turns into a broad expanse of lakes after each rainy season, the lakes gradually dry up and recede and the region attracts many large animals in search of water. This all occurs on the floodplain of what river?
Zambezi
The Tijuca National Park, which claims to be the world’s largest urban forest, is located around the edges of which Major city? The word Tijuca comes from the Tupi language
Rio de Janeiro
Which National Park was South Africa’s first, having been founded in 1926? It is believed that the park has more species of large mammals than any other African game reserve
Kruger National Park
Which subrange of the Appalachian Mountains rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border is the most visited national park in the United States? The highest peak in this range is Clingmans Dome
Great Smoky Mountains
Some of the best-preservedAncestral Puebloanarchaeological sites in the United States can be found in the Mesa Verde National Park in which state?
Colorado
Deer are abundant (alongside the Egyptian Mongoose and Lynx) at the Donana National Park in which country?
Spain
The Tajik National Park was expanded in 2001 to include parts of which mountain range. Since Victorian times, they have been known as the “Roof of the World”, presumably a translation from Persian
Pamir Mountains
At almost 8000 sq miles, the largest French national park is actually located in which overseas department? The park is home to red-faced spider monkey, margays and capybaras
French Guyana
Until 2021, the Kakadu national park in Northern Territory, Australia, was home to the most productive mine in the world for what? The largest mine for this thing can now be found in Saskatchewan, Canada
Uranium
The Big Bend national park in Texas is named after the big bend in what river? Two acceptable answers
Rio Grande/Rio Bravo
Which country is home to the densest elephant population in the world? The best place to spot them is atChobe National Park, where they mass at the river front
Botswana
Known for itskarstsinkholes, what is the name of the largest national park in Canada by area? The park was established in 1922 to protect the world’s largest herd of a certain free-roaming animal
Wood Buffalo National Park
Which Congolese national park’s central sector encompasses about two thirds of Lake Edward up to the international border with Uganda in the east?
Virunga
What national park, one of the oldest and largest in Croatia, is known for its tufa lakes connected by waterfalls? The park is located near the national motorway route between Zagreb and Split
Plitvice Lakes
First name Annemarie, which Austrian Skier of the 1970s won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal?
Annemarie MOSER-PROLL
Bobsleigh was not part of the 1960 Winter Olympics held at what location? The organising committee wanted to save money. I’m looking for a two-word answer
Squaw Valley
Which Botswana athlete won the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships in the 100m and followed it up with a bronze medal in the 200m 5 days later?
Letsile Tebogo
Quarterback Peyton Manning was the MVP when which side won the Super Bowl in 2007?
Indianapolis Colts
Which English runner, first name Calli, went second on the UK all-time marathon list after running 2:22:11 on her debut over 26.2 miles near New York in 2023?
Calli Thackeray
Rod Stewart’s son Liam is a professional player of which sport?
Ice Hockey
Which Dutch Speed Skater is also the only athlete to win an individual gold medal in five consecutive Olympics, Summer or Winter?
Ireen Wust
Which Greater Manchester side won Rugby League’s 2023 Challenge Cup, their first win of this trophy since 1971?
Leigh Leopards
Sir Stanley Matthews son, also called Stanley Matthews was a schoolboy champion in which sport?
Tennis
Bruce Springsteen’s daughter Jennifer is an Olympic-level competitor in which sport?
Show Jumping
In 2023 who backed up her debut marathon win in London by also winning the Chicago marathon? She did so with a scintillating record time for a European
Sifan Hassan
Ray Lewis became the second linebacker to win the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award when he did so in 2000. Ray Lewis spent his entire career with which NFL side?
Baltimore Ravens
Norway leads the all-time Olympic Games medal table for the Winter Olympic Games, but if you were to include medals from now defunct states, which country would be top?
Germany
The Quarterback Terry Bradshaw won the Super Bowl MVP award in 1978 and 1979 when he was with which team?
Pittsburgh Steelers
George Weah may be the President of Liberia, but which country does his son Timothy Weah represent at international level?
USA
In 2009 the Quarterback Drew Brees delivered which franchise’s first Super Bowl title earning himself the game’s MVP award in the process?
New Orleans Saints
Which left-hander, nicknamed The Butcher, won the 2023 Open Golf Championship at Hoylake?
Brian Harman
In 2023 which British artistic gymnast, first name Jake, became the first Brit to win World Gold on the Vault?
Jake Jarman
Desmond Howard was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XXXI after returning a kickoff for a 99-yard touchdown, the longest return in Super Bowl history at the time. With which team did Howard achieve this feat?
Green Bay Packers
Which TV presenter, now deceased, was the father-in-law of the Gold medal winning heptathlete Denise Lewis?
Tom O’Connor
Which Aberdeen-born Paracyclist took 3 Gold Medals at the 2023 World Cycling Championships in Glasgow? His wife Lora is also a world champion
Neil FACHIE
The American football player James Laurinaitis is the son of a former pro wrestler who had the ring name “Animal”. What tag team was “Animal” a member of alongside another wrestler called “Hawk”?
The LEGION OF DOOM (accept the Road Warriors)
Which young Englishman from Wolverhampton won the Boy’s singles championship at Wimbledon in 2023? He shares his surname with a pair of Rowing brothers who were World Champions in the 1990s
Harry Searle
“Raw Air” is an annual torunament featuring which Winter Olympics event?
Ski Jump
All rounder Chris Woakes was named man of the tournament for the 2023 Ashes. As a proud Birmingham man he represents Warwickshire in County Cricket, was on the books of Walsall United in football, and played for which team in the 2022 Hundred Cricket Tournament?
Birmingham Phoenix
Von Miller, MVP of Super Bowl 50 with the Denver Broncos, is the most recent defensive player to win the award. What position did Von Miller play?
Linebacker
With a total of 15 medals, which Norwegian Cross Country skier has won more medals than any other athlete in Winter Olympics history?
Marit Bjorgen
Although the 2026 Winter Olympics will be shared between Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, the closing ceremony will be held in which fair city, lying roughly halfway between the two?
Verona
In the book and TV show “The Terror”, the sailors on HMS Terror and terrorised by a creature called the Tuunbaq. The Tuunbaq was made up for the book, but in the story it was created by which actual Inuit Goddess, known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea
Sedna
In American and Canadian folklore, what was the name of the Blue Ox companion of Paul Bunyan?
Babe
Anansi the trickster spider is a character from the folklore of which people, who primarily live today in Ghana? Four letter answer
Akan People
The Manticore is a mythical beast from Persian culture with the head of a human, the body of a lion and the tail of what animal?
Scorpion
Featuring in Homeric poems, which legendary creatures are half-human and half-bird? Ovid described them as human-vultures
Harpies
TheOgopogois alake monstersaid to inhabitOkanagan Lakein which province of Canada? It is Canada’s third-most populous province.
British Columbia
Which mythical monster is said to inhabit the swamps and billabongs of Australia? This name is usually translated by Aboriginal Australians today as “devil” or “evil spirit
Bunyip
Often described as a large quadrupedalherbivorewith smooth skin, a long neck and a single tooth, the what is said to inhabit the Congo?
Mokele-mbembe
Comprised of two surnames, what is the name of the 1967 film footage which seems to show a Bigfoot creature walking through a Norther Californian forest?
PATERSON-GIMLIN film
river that runs through the town of Bilbao, Spain into the Cantabrian Sea, Guggenheim Bilbao is on the banks of this.
Nervion
“Lucy in the Field with Flowers”, “Sunday on the Pot with George” and “Bone-Juggling Dog in Hula Skirt” are all highlights (or should it be lowlights) of which museum located in Boston, Massachusetts?
Museum of BAD ART
Located in Philadelphia, what museum is America’s most famous museum of medical oddities? It is home to part of Albert Einstein’s brain
Mutter Museum
The serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was known as the Cannibal or Monster of which US city? This city is home to the Harley-Davidson museum
Milwaukee
Now located in the British Museum, The Bronze Head from Ife, is one of eighteen copper alloy sculptures that were unearthed in 1938 at Ife in what country? This was the religious and former royal centre of the Yoruba people
Nigeria
A section of the Vatican museum is dedicated to sculpture from which civilisation which reached it’s territorial peak around 750BC? These people inhabited Tuscany, the Po Valley and Campania
Etruscans
Considered a Polish national treasure, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” is now housed at the Czartoryski Museum in which Polish city?
Krakow
The British Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has amassed the biggest collection of Victoria Cross medals, with over one tenth of all those ever awarded. Since 2010 this collection can be view in which museum located in South London?
Imperial War Museum
Who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2023? His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Oxfordshire and the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach. As far as I am aware he was not a member of his namesake Circus family
David CHIPPERFIELD
Trip advisor tells us that the 3rd most popular “museum” in Australia is located at which historic site on the island of Tasmania? The settlement started as a timber station in 1830, but it is best known for being a penal colony.
Port Arthur
In the 1930s, Nazi Germany encouraged German and Austrian Jews to emigrate, but most countries closed their borders to them. One exception was which major world city located on the Huang Pu river? This city welcomed 20,000 Jews, more than any other city. The former Ohel Moshe synagogue is now a museum to the Jewish Refugees
Shanghai
Found within a tenement block, 14 Henrietta Street is a museum in which European capital city? The house has been restored to show the original Georgian period through to its final incarnation as a tenement.
Dublin
The exhibits at Melbourne Museum include the mounted hide of which thoroughbred racehorse? The name of this inter-war period Melbourne Cup winner comes from the Thai word for lightning
Phar Lap
The website for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence also encompasses which historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766? This large green area is a real open-air museum with statues of various styles
Boboli Gardens
Located in Chicago and named after a supermarket magnate, which natural history museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition?
Field Museum
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art is thought to be the largest museum in the whole of Africa. You will find it in which city? The only nuclear power station on the entire continent is located only 30km away
Cape Town
Which German, a resident of Munich, became in 1901 the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics?
Wilhelm Rontgen
Making his debut at the Munich games in 1972, who was the first official mascot of the Summer Olympics?
Waldi the Dachshund
Adolf Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in what prison following the failure of his 1923 Munich Putsch/ Beer Hall Putsch?
Landsberg Prison
What is the German word for dark? This six letter word is also the name of a dark lager brewed in Munich and popular throughout Bavaria
Dunkel
What was the name of the non-violent resistance group active in Munich during WW2? Members included Hans and Sophie Scholl
The White Rose
Running from 1974 until 1998 and starring Horst Tappert, which German TV show followed a Detective and his assistant solving crimes in Munich?
Derrick
Which American Poet and Novelist wrote “The Munich Mannequins”, famous for its first line “Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children”?
Sylvia Plath
ECM, an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969, are best known for music in which genre?
Jazz
The Munich Agreement led to which man’s resignation as President of Czechoslovakian in 1938? He’d go on to lead the Czech government in exile during WW2
Edvard Benes
Until being overtaken by Christiano Ronaldo, which Iranian, whose career included a spell with Bayern Munich, held the world international goalscoring record with 109 goals?
Ali DAEI
Elected “World Coach of the Year” twice and one of only six managers to win the European Cup/UEFA Champions League with two clubs, which German man managed Bayern Munich between 1998 and 2004?
Ottmar Hitzfeld
What two-word derogatory term did the Nazis use to describe a 1937 exhibition of modern art in Munich, containing works they thought of as un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature?
Degenerate Art
Made from minced veal and pork back bacon, and flavoured with parsley, lemon, mace, onions, ginger and cardamom, which Munich speciality sausage should be eaten before Noon according to tradition?
Weisswurst
Stasi files opened after 1989 indicated that the bombing of the Radio Free Europe HQ in Munich in 1981 was carried out by a group under the direction of which man? This Venezuelan was ultimately captured in Sudan
Ilich RAMIREZ SANCHEZ/ CARLOS THE JACKAL
Giorgio Moroder’s career really took off when he movied to Munich in the late 1960s. What was the name of his electronic theme to the movie “Midnight Express”? Quizzers will instantly recognise this name in a different context
The Chase
In 2006 NASA announced that which moon of Saturn had its own ring system? This marked the first discovery of rings around a moon. It is the fifth major moon going outward from the planet
Rhea
What Houston-based company made history in February 2024 by becoming the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon? Two word answer
Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus robot
The Earth’s Moon has a very tenuous atmosphere mainly composed of which noble gas?
Argon
Discovered in 2017 and named after the Greek goddess of the full moon, Pandia is a moon of which planet?
Jupiter
Two objects in our Solar System are larger than Mercury but smaller than Mars. Name both
Ganymede and Titan
Which of the moons of our solar system has an equatorial ridge, with peaks about 12 miles high, giving it the appearance of a walnut?
Iapetus
Which sixth-largest moon of Saturn, discovered by William Herschel in 1789, is believed to have an underground ocean beneath its icy surface and is considered as one of the prime candidates for extraterrestrial life in our solar system?
Enceladus
What school of painting, whose name derives from the Hindi for “mountain”, was practiced in sub-Himalayan India through the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? The 18th-century artist Nainsukh is among the most famous practitioners of the style.
Pahari Painting
Which Chinese company is the second biggest ridesharing and vehicle-for-hire company in the world after Uber?
Didi
It manufactures passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), collectively known as new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China. It also produces electric buses and trucks. Best selling car brand in China in 2023?
BYD
The brothers Lincoln and Booth, abandoned by their parents as teenagers, are the central characters of what 2001 play by Suzan-Lori Parks? Parks won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work, making her the first African-American woman so honoured.
Topdog/Underdog
What psychological phenomenon, a type of apophenia, commonly entails a person seeing a face within an inanimate object, such as the example of the cheese grater pictured here?
Pareidolia
16-year-old Afro-French girl Marieme, who adopts the name “Vic”; painter and teacher Marianne; and Nelly, whose grandmother has just passed away, are central characters of films from which director?
Celine Sciamma
Which capital city is the most populous in South America? Its population of just over 10 million was, as of a 2023 census, home to 30% of the country’s population.
Lima
What term, taken from a 1981 song by the punk band Minor Threat, refers to a lifestyle where adherents do not drink, smoke or use recreational drugs? It is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation “sXe”.
Straight Edge
Which cricket franchise, part of the Hundred competition, won the first two finals of the women’s seasons in 2021 and 2022 and the 2023 final of the men’s season? The franchise nickname alone is acceptable.
Oval Invincibles
In her essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists, Linda Nochlin devotes the final section to the career of which French artist, particularly famous for her paintings of animals such as 1849’s Ploughing in the Nivernais?
Rosa Bonheur
Which Caribbean nation’s Internet top-level domain code is unofficially used by some German businesses, due to the two-letter code for that nation being an abbreviation of a German word for a shareholder corporation?
Antigua and Barbuda
According to some Jewish sources, the wearing of what items, knotted or braided tassels commonly worn at the four corners of the tallit, symbolise the 613 commandments of the Torah?
Tzitzit
The Botez sisters Andrea and Alexandra are popular streamers who participate in what pastime?
Chess
While largely unrecognised during her lifetime, Alice Ball created a namesake method of treating what infectious disease? Ball’s method was used until the late 1940s but was not credited to her until years after her death in 1916.
Leprosy
In March 2023, Mikaela Shiffrin won her 87th Alpine Ski World Cup race, breaking the record of 86 wins originally held by which Swedish skiier?
Ingemar Stenmark
What fashion term is used to describe skirts and dresses which are fitted at the hips and taper out towards the hem? The term comes from the perceived resemblance of one of these garments to the shape of a capital letter
A-Line
Mack Sennett created what fictional and farcical group of policemen for a number of slapstick comedies produced by Sennett’s production company, after which the policemen were named? The group’s name has since been used as shorthand to describe any collection of flustered and incompetent people.
Keystone Kops
After the conductor, the concertmaster is considered the most important member of an orchestra and customarily plays what instrument?
Violin
What process of cell division involves DNA replicating to form two copies of each chromosome within a cell, before the nuclear membrane is broken down and the cell divides into two identical child cells?
Mitosis
What form of government revolves around priests ruling in the name of one or more deities? Modern examples of this type of government include Vatican City, Afghanistan and arguably North Korea.
Theocracy
What term is used in many card games to denote a card or a suit of cards which outrank the rest of the deck? In bridge, the highest bid made by a player determines which suit becomes this.
Trump
Which country has the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (holding on average 1.5% of all the world’s listed companies, worth about US$300,000 per citizen) and is known as The Land of the Midnight Sun?
Norwaty
Which 7 letter word can mean either “an item of information accepted or presented as a fact, although not true; a simulated or imagined fact”, but has come in recent usage to mean “a brief or trivial piece of information”?
Factoid
Only flag not to use red, white or blue?
Jamaica
How can you get from the second name of the band who had a UK number 1 single with Billy Don’t be a Hero, to a campaigner who grumbled abut Kier Starmer this week, by inserting the name of a bird?
(Paper) Lace and (Doreen) Lawrence
Which song, co-written with Bruce Springsteen, appears on the Patti Smith Group album Easter released in 1978 and became the band’s breakthrough single reaching No. 5 in the UK?
Because the Night
Who became the oldest player to score a try for England when he scored against Italy at the age of 36 in 2015?
Nick Easter
Which type of plant is a symbol of the Resurrection as Christian tradition holds that some of them were found growing in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus went to pray the night before His crucifixion?
LILY
Back to general knowledge from here on. Which adverb meaning “wittily, humorously, or flippantly” contains all 5 vowels and y (used as a vowel) in alphabetical order?
Facetiously
In the British imperial weights system, which unit of weight consists of 8 stone?
Hundredweight (it is 112 lbs)
On the town hall of which English town is the clock “Telling the time, steadily, sensibly; never too quickly, never too slowly”?
Trumpton
If your doctor writes that you need an FBC, what does he mean?
Full Blood Count
In the only official change since World War 1, which symbol was added to morse code on 24 May 2004, (the 160th anniversary of the first public Morse telegraph transmission)?
@
Ruled from 1042 to 1066, which king of England was the last king of the House of Wessex?
Edward the Confessor
King of Norway from 1046 to 1066. Additionally, he unsuccessfully claimed both the Danish throne until 1064 and the English throne in 1066. Died in Stamford Bridge.
Harald Hardrada
Which actor portrayed Ol’ Mister Johnson in the 2023 film The Color Purple?
Louis Gossett Jr
In 2021, this former NFL player became the first active player in the league to publicly come out as gay and to play in a game. Played for the Las Vegas Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, what is his name?
Carl Nassib
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to make contact with what island in April 1722?
Easter Island
What Rembrandt painting was exhibited in 2021 at the Rijksmuseum with the trimmed-off sections recreated using artificial intelligence?
The Night Watch
Which university removed the binding of human skin from the 19th-century book Des destinées de l’ame by Arsène Houssaye in March 2024?
Harvard University
What is the name of the former tax inspector who is set to succeed Macky Sall as president of Senegal in April 2024?
Bassirou Diomaye Faye
What is the name of the Belgian-British aviator who became the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world and the first person to complete a circumnavigation in a microlight aircraft after a five-month journey from August 2021 to January 2022?
Zara Rutherford
In Hinduism, who is the god of erotic love, desire, pleasure, and beauty?
Kama (Rati is female counterpart)
Founded in 1929, the Baloncesto Superior Nacional is the first-tier-level men’s league in Puerto Rico in which sport?
Basketball
How many workers are sitting on a steel beam in the 1932 photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper?
11
Lunch atop a Skyscaprer photo showing 11 workers sat having lunch is during construction of which New York building?
RCA Building/30 Rockefeller Building
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected as a member of the House of Representatives representing what US state?
Montana
In 2001, which country became the first in the world to make same-sex marriage legal?
Netherlands
Podokesaurus holyokensis was named the official state dinosaur of which US state?
Massachusetts
Founded in 1883 by Charles Neuhaus, what producer of Belgian chocolate was acquired by Mondelez International in 2012?
Cote d’Or
Celebrated as a rite of passage, what celebration is held in Mexico for a girl’s 15th birthday, to mark her transition from childhood?
QUINCEANERA
Who was Prime Minister of the UK on Decimal Day, February 15th 1971, when the country switched from pre-decimal currency to the current system?
Ted Heath
What genre of board game was created by Rob Daviau, after musing on why the characters of Cluedo are always invited back to the house? The genre is characterised by mechanics which lead to the game board and world permanently changing between sessions, and began with a version of Risk whose title features this genre in its name.
Legacy
Which social media website was bought by Yahoo in 2013 for $1.1 billion, and later sold by Yahoo by $3 million? A major part in the site’s collapse was the decision to ban explicit and pornographic content, which caused traffic to the site to drop by more than 30% within a year.
Tumblr
The soap opera Home and Away is set in what fictional Australian town?
Summer Bay
Already touted as one of the greatest players in college basketball history, all-everything phenom Caitlin Clark played for the university named after which US state? The team’s nickname, the Hawkeyes, is also used for people from this state.
Iowa
Named after its creator, what style of hot yoga is distinguished by its setting - commonly held in brightly-lit studios with mirrored walls, so students can adjust their own poses - and the elements of the class - a set of 26 poses executed in the same order each time?
Bikram Yoga
Heitor Villa-Lobos’ first piece in his Bachianas Brasileiras series was dedicated to which cellist, born in Spain to a Puerto Rican mother? A classical music festival named for him is held annually in San Juan.
Pablo Casals
“Rise up and defend us. Acknowledge us, oh God, before the whole world. Give us also the right to our existence!” This is a quote from what 1928 novel, which follows the life of upper-class lesbian Stephen Gordon? It was deemed obscene in the UK and banned until 1949 on the grounds of defending unnatural practices between women.
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
With which musician did Ry Cooder record the 1993 album Talking Timbuktu? Despite being born into a caste of Malian society that was prohibited to play music, this man ignored the taboo and developed into a pioneer of the “desert blues” style of African music.
Ali Farka TOURE
Following from his 2011 book Sapiens, what book by Yuval Noah Harari is subtitled A Brief History of Tomorrow? While it also addresses human history, it goes on to discuss humankind’s technological accomplishments and asks questions about the future of the species.
Homo Deus
Which American philosopher posed the “violinist argument” in her 1971 paper A Defense of Abortion? The argument asks the reader to imagine that without their consent, they have had their circulatory system connected to that of a famous violin player whose kidneys have failed, and the reader has been told they must remain there for nine monts - in doing so, asking the reader to consider the question of bodily autonomy.
Judith Jarvis THOMSON
Despite being obviously a better fit for the job, Isabel Iglesias-Reina is passed over as president of the title football club in the first episode of what Mexican TV series? Her half-brother Chava Iglesias gets the nod and proves himself to be less than capable.
Club de Cuervos
What Maori word is used in New Zealand for white New Zealanders who have no Polynesian ancestry, most commonly those of European descent?
Pakeha
The two-stringed box-like bowed instrument known as the horsehead fiddle, considered a symbol of the Mongol people, is more properly known by what Mongolian name?
morin khuur
What Japanese word refers to coin-operated vending machines that dispense toys from a random selection? The same term is used in video games for games which employ the same mechanic, where players will spend either in-game or real-world money to buy a random item.
Gachapon
In his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Friere described and criticised what model of education, where teachers treated students as containers to be filled with knowledge rather than encouraging critical thinking or instilling a desire to seek out knowledge?
Banking Model
Mounted on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from 2020 to 2022, the sculpture The End was the work of which artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2022?
Heather PHILLIPSON
A YouTube video titled When “Asian” is a Difficulty Mode by comedian Steven He is the origin of what two-word meme? In the video, He’s character hurls down his shoe and shouts these two words in outrage at the absurd difficulty of the video game he’s playing.
Emotional Damage
SPORT: How high in metres above the water is the fixed platform of the high dive at the Olympic Games?
10m
CARTOONS: What is the name in the English version of Tintin for the absent-minded and half-deaf professor of physics who in the original Belgian is known as Professeur Tryphon Tournesol?
Professor Cuthbert Calculus
FOOTBALL: Which former Liverpool footballer and pundit managed Glasgow Celtic and Tranmere Rovers as well as the Jamaican national team?
John Barnes
TECHNOLOGY: According to an April Fool style internet hoax of 2014, Apple’s iOS8 update contained a feature called Wave which enabled an iPhone to be charged wirelessly by placing it … where?
In a microwave
AVIATION: Originally derived from a World War II identification friend or foe system code-named “Parrot”, in aviation, which onomatopoeic 6 letter word is used for a four-digit transponder code assigned by air traffic controllers to identify an aircraft?
Squawk
HISTORY: After the battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings in Scapa Flow in 1939 by a German U‑Boat, Churchill ordered the construction of permanent barriers which were officially opened on 12 May 1945, four days after Victory in Europe Day, but still serve as road connections known as the Churchill Barriers between the islands of which archipelago?
The Orkneys
MUSIC: Which song, a UK number 1 in 1999 and again as a cover version in 2001, was initially selected as the theme song of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, but this plan was scrapped due to the possibility of people associating the song with a recent scandal?
Mambo No 5
The Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival is annually held in which major East Asian city?
Hong Kong
This 1953 American period mystery-horror film directed by Andre de Toth was the first 3D film with stereophonic sound to be presented in a regular theater. What was its title?
House of Wax
Golfer Patty Berg was the first president of what sports organization?
LPGA
What British fashion and lifestyle magazine was first issued in 1901 by The Sphere publisher Clement Shorter?
Tatler
Published in 2023, Birnam Wood is the latest novel written by which Booker Prize-winning author?
Eleanor Catton
What term refers to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted or were forced to convert to Christianity during the 15th and 16th centuries, but continued to practise Judaism in secrecy?
Marrano
Businesswoman Sam Mostyn will succeed David Hurley as the next Governor General of which Commonwealth country?
Australia
What term refers to the process in which metabolic waste is eliminated from an organism?
Excretion
The SBU is the main internal security agency of which European country?
Ukraine
Which photographer created the 1985 slide show exhibition The Ballad of Sexual Dependency?
Nan Goldin
Which New York City-born fashion designer is nicknamed “The Queen of Seventh Avenue”?
Donna Karen
Which American conglomerate, founded in 1892, ceased to exist in April 2024 after its aerospace, healthcare, and energy businesses became separate companies?
General Electric
Released in 2009, what American Internet service is used by athletes for tracking physical exercise that incorporates social network features such as posting pictures or videos?
Strava
What name is given to the military alliance of Lutheran princes within the Holy Roman Empire which was created in 1531 for religious motives after the start of the Reformation? Its name was taken from a Town in modern-day Thuringia.
Schmalkaldic League
What is the name given to the currency that replaced the Zimbabwean dollar in April 2024?
Zimbabwe Gold
Following his abdication in April 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to which island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Elba
Founded in 1982 by Dave Gold, what price-point retailer chain in the US is set to close all its stores by June 2024 due to financial difficulties? This chain initially offered all products for less than a dollar or less.
99 cent only stores
Bartholomew I, who became Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in November 1991, is the head of what Christian church?
Eastern Orthodox Church
People with more time than sense have determined that the best strategy in Monopoly is to buy properties in what two colour groups, which sit either side of the Free Parking space?
Orange and Red
Reflecting their shared dominance of their generations, Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos is sometimes known by what nickname, which she shares with Belgian rider Eddy Merckx?
The Cannibal
What word precedes “fasting” in the name for a dietary plan where followers only eat during a specific period of the day and fast for the remainder? A common pattern is 16/8, involving 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours in which you can eat.
Intermittent
What singer and Internet personality was roundly criticised this week for commenting that with her new single Karma, she wanted to create a new genre of music named “gay pop”? In response, gay pop veterans Tegan and Sara posted a TikTok featuring them standing silently next to the video of this singer’s comments.
Jojo Siwa
Traditionally filled with prune jam or poppy seed paste, what triangle-shaped pastries are eaten during the Jewish holiday of Purim?
HAMANTASHen
What creator deity is known by names including Kanmare, among the Pitapita people in Queensland; Yurlunggur, by the Murngin of the Northern Territory; and Wanamangura, among the Thalanyji?
Rainbow Serpent
Cast both as traitor for working with conquistadors in their destruction of the Aztec Empire, and as the mother of a new race of Mexican people, which Nahua woman was enslaved and taken as a consort by Hernan Cortes? She later bore his child, Martin, who is considered the first mestizo.
La Malinche
Clare Mendonça, a journalist and later editor of The Times of India, was the original namesake of what annual awards, which honour Hindi-language cinema in India?
The Filmfare Awards
Afrika Bambataa’s 1982 song Planet Rock was based on a sample from what song by Kraftwerk?
Trans Europe Express
Which artist was the subject of the 2007 and 2008 exhibitions Aller Anfang ist DADA (Every Beginning is DADA)? Part of the first Dada Exhibition in 1920, this artist and her lover Raoul Hausmann were early pioneers of photomontage as an art style.
Hannah Hoch
What board game, pictured here, appears in ancient Egyptian artworks from as early as 2600 BCE?
Senet
The album Mañana Será Bonito won the Grammy for Best Musica Urbana Album, and Album of the Year at the Latin Grammys, for which Colombian singer?
Karol G
20-something Jessie has a one-night stand on New Year’s Eve with Tom, only discovering the following morning Tom is a world-famous actor - this is the premise of what comedy TV series, created and co-written by and starring Rose Matafeo as Jessie?
Starstruck
Cob County, an American town with a deep love for corn, is the setting of what musical, which debuted in Salt Lake City in 2022 and is scheduled to begin a West End run next year?
Shucked
Which Russian woman was the first female composer to be the subject of the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival, in 2003? Her concerto Offertorium was written after a chance encounter with violinist Gidon Kremer, when both shared a cab ride.
Sofia GUBAIDULINA
The Persian poet Ferdowsi is best known for writing what work, considered a national epic of Iran and many surrounding nations? Made up from more than 50,000 two-line couplets it is almost certainly the longest epic work written by a single author.
Shahnameh
“A billionaire gives you a vial of poison, which will make you sick but not kill you, and says that he will give you a million dollars immediately if you intend to drink the toxin the following day, regardless of whether you follow through on the intention or not.” This is a short version of the toxin puzzle thought experiment named for and devised by what philosopher?
Gregory S Kavka (based on Newcomb’s one million dollars one)
a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This is the shortest period of a reasonably bright comet; the faint main-belt comet 311P/PanSTARRS has a period of 3.2 years.) It is 2P/______ where 1P/ is Halley’s Comet.
Encke’s Comet
Sharing his surname with a town in Lanarkshire, Scotland, which artist produced the first of many paintings in his “Elegies to the Spanish Republic” series in 1948?
Robert Motherwell
What 5-letter word beginning with “N” (for November) is used to describe the events that occurred in Israel in 1948 when thousands of Arabs were massacred and/ or expelled from their villages?
Nakba
What University is Mrs Robinson’s daughter Elaine attending in the movie “The Graduate”? It was established in 1868 and is California’s first land-grant university
Berkeley
In 1922, the USS Langley was commissioned as America’s first what?
Aircraft Carrier
Emily Lamb was the sister of Lord Melbourne and the wife of which other 19th century British Prime Minister? In 1855 this man became the oldest person in British political history to be appointed Prime Minister for the first time.
Lord PALMERSTON/ Henry John TEMPLE
How many schools currently make up the American collegiate athletic group known as “The Ivy League”?
Eight
Which man left office as Prime Minister of South Africa in 1948? He was the only person to sign the peace treaties ending both the First and Second World Wars.
Jan SMUTS
Whats does JPEG stand for, as in a JPEG file?
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Nobel prize winners John Boyd Orr and Alexander Fleming both attended the same secondary school and even though only a year separated them in age, they did not know each other. This was the academy in which Scottish town, the largest town in Ayrshire by population?
Kilmarnock
Which Welsh abbey was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131?
Tintern Abbey
Who wrote the 1857 novel “Tom Brown’s School Days”?
THomas Hughes
Who led the Austrian troops at the 1848 Battle of Custoza? His victory was honoured with a Johann Strauss march
Field Marshall RADETZSKY
Which bearded English comedian was Postman Pat in Afterlife? He has appeared in over 70 episodes of “8 out 10 Cats does Countdown” as Rachel Riley’s assistant
Joe Wilkinson
The television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) was loosely based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder who was born on this day in 1867. Who played her father, Charles Ingalls, in that TV show? American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza, Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven
Michael Landon
Later appearing as Toby Mulberry Smith in Last of the Summer Wine, which actor is best known for being Mr Lucas in Are your being served?
Trevor Bannister
Allan Simonsen is the only Dane to win the Ballon D’Or trophy. He won it in 1977 whilst playing for what club? In the 70s this team won the Bundesliga five times, the UEFA Cup twice and reached a European Cup final
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Which Tik Tok trend involves people putting bows on different objects, pastel colours and lots of clothes with materials like lace and chiffon? The Oxford Dictionary defines this 8-letter word as “a woman who flirts”.
Coquette
Originally called the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy, in what decade did the Isle of Man TT races begin?
The 1900s (1907)
The Man of Steel award is for the rugby league footballer of the year. Who is the only man to have won this award three times? This Wigan and Leeds legend was nicknamed “The Black Pearl”
Ellery HANLEY
Austrian-born film director Billy Wilder’s headstone reads “I’m a writer but then BLANK BLANK”. What two words, a quote from one of Wilder’s most famous movies, fills the blanks?
Nobody’s Perfect
In the Thomas the Tank Engine TV shows, what was the predominant colour of “Toby”?
Brown
Peter Egan popped up in Afterlife. Alongside fellow Afterlife star Penelope Wilton he had appeared in which 1980s sitcom about a suburban middle-class couple?
Ever Decreasing Circles
Mandeep Dhillon was Sandy in Afterlife. In recent years she also appeared in which TV show loosely based on the books of Alan Hunter, where Martin Shaw plays a 1960s cop in the North East of England. 3-word answer
INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY
Since 2013 the PDC Darts World Championship trophy has been called the Sid Waddell trophy. Which TV show featuring sports like Darts, Arm Wrestling and shove ha’penny did Sid Waddell create for ITV?
The Indoor League
Toby Young’s admission to taking and selling drugs in the toilets led to his membership being cancelled at which private member’s club in Dean Street, Soho? The club has a large collection of contemporary art curated by Nicki Carter
The GROUCHO Club
Also the name of an island, what was the 6-letter name of the Japanese Monkey who escaped from his Zoo and roamed the Scottish Highlands recently?
2024
Honshu
Born in London to Irish parents, which regular Ricky Gervais collaborator was Jo in the Channel 4 sitcom Man Down from 2013 to 2017 and then Roxy in Afterlife?
Roisin Conaty
The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal, is awarded to the fairest and best player in what sport?
AUSTRALIAN RULES football
From 1925 to 1929 RJ Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire, designed Seaplanes to compete for which trophy?
Schneider Trophy
In Rugby League, what is the name of the trophy given to the Challenge Cup final man of the match? It is named after a New Zealand-born player and administrator who was killed in a road accident during the Second World War
Lance Todd Trophy
Doing so on the 11th July 2021, who was the last manager to hold the Henri Delaunay trophy aloft?
Roberto Mancini
The trophy awarded to the winner of the Women’s Singles championships at the French Open Tennis is named after what person? This woman won Wimbledon six times and the first two French Open championships in 1925 and 1926
Suzanne Lenglen
The award presented by France Football to the best performing player worldwide under the age of 21 is named after which late French footballer who won the Ballon D’Or in 1958?
The Kopa Trophy
What “H” is a brand of marmalades, jams and jellies, originally from the UK, which is manufactured at Histon, Cambridgeshire?
Hartley’s
Up until 2004 which toilet roll brand used the advertising slogan “Soft, Strong and very very Long”?
Andrex
Which manufacturer of pies, puddings, pastries and sausage rolls is based in Baxenden, near Accrington in Lancashire? In June 2007, they signed a two year club record shirt sponsorship deal with local team Burnley F.C.
Hollands
Usually sold in a green tin or jar, and sometimes marked “Hot in 60 seconds”, which brand says that it is “proud to be the nation’s no. 1 hot dog”? 3 words (2, 4, 3)
Ye Olde Oak
Which honey brand, seen in most UK supermarkets, is also the honey supplier to Kellogg’s for use in their cereals? 5-letter answer
Rowse
According to their 1980s and 1990s TV ad campaigns, everyday is a Fry-day when you fry with what cooking oil brand?
Crisp n’dry
Which brand make the Super Noodles To Go, a cup noodle product which competes with Pot Noodles in the UK? This company also launched Cup-A-Soups in the 1970s
Batchelor’s
Which company, founded in 1841 to sell coffee in Canada, became the world’s largest producer of herbs, spices, and seasonings in the 1980s? Their name suggests that the founder had German ancestry
Schwarz
Music answer smash. First part: British singer who had a top ten hit with “You might need somebody” in 1997. Second part: British band who had a top ten hit with “Too good to be forgotten” in 1986
SHOLA AMAZULU (Shola Ama/ Amazulu)
Music answer smash. First part: American avant garde singer who gave us the Eighties number 2 “O Superman”. Second part: 1972 UK number 1 for Chicory Tip
LAURIE ANDERSON OF MY FATHER (Laurie Anderson/ Son of my father)
Music answer smash. First part: UK vocalist who had a number one with “Sleeping Satellite”. Second part: Singer whose first solo number one single was “Fight for this love” in 2009
TASMIN ARCHERYL (Cole/ Tweedy/ just Cheryl)
Music answer smash. First part: US group who had top ten hits with “People everyday” and “Mr Wendal”. Second part: Australian group who wanted to live it up in 1987
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTAL AS ANYTHING (arrested development/ mental as anything)
Music answer smash. First part: American jazz artist who brought “Hello Dolly” to the UK charts in 1964. Second part: 1980 hit by Saxon which says “Stop get out, we are the…..”
LOUIS ARMSTRONG ARM OF THE LAW (Louis Armstrong/ Strong arm of the law)
Music answer smash. First part: Scottish vocalist who sang the theme tune to Taggart and dueted with Rod Stewart and B.A. Robertson at different times. Second part: UK Group who sang “Sign of the times” in 1983
MAGGIE BELLE STARS (Maggie Bell/ Belle Stars)
Music answer smash. First part: UK close harmony group comprised of Joy, Teddie and Babs. Second part: UK rock band who teamed up with Israeli singer Ofra Haza for the 1992 hit “Temple of Love”
BEVERLY SISTERS OF MERCY (Beverly Sisters/ Sisters of Mercy)
Music answer smash. First part: UK female vocalist who had two UK 1960s number ones including “Anyone who had a heart”. Second part: US male vocal group who gave us the 1996 hit “No Diggity”
CILLA BLACKSTREET (Cilla Black/ Blackstreet)
Music answer smash. First part: English indie band who reached number 2 with the song “Slight Return in the Mid 90s”. Second part: Australian singer best known for her breakout single “Dance Monkey”
Bluetones and I
Music answer smash. First part: US R&B group who gave us the number 1 hit “End of the Road”. Secod part: Puerto Rico boy band that launched the career of Ricky Martin
BOYZ II MENUDO (Boyz II Men/ Menudo)
Music answer smash. First part: 1990s female vocalist who gave us “Don’t be a stranger” and “The Perfect year”. Second part: Rock band whose first number one was “It’s all over now”
DINA CARROLLING STONES (Dina Carroll/ Rolling Stones)
The extremely heavy and expensive defences constructed at Singapore prior to World War 2 led Winston Churchill to describe Singapore as the “BLANK of the East”. The name of which other British overseas territory fills the blank?
Gibraltar
It was recently announced that Cough syrups containing codeine linctus will no longer be sold in chemists in the UK. What two word name containing a colour has been given to a mixture of Codeine cough syrup with a soft drink?
Purple Drank
Which Singaporean-born British violinist represented Thailand at the 2014 Winter Olympics?
VANESSA-MAE Nicholson
A judge in Haiti has charged the widow of which murdered President in connection with his assassination in July 2021?
Jovonel MOISE
Who appeared alongside Nick Hewer and Alan Sugar on the first five series of “The Apprentice”?
Margaret Mountford
In 2015, Singapore hosted the first meeting between the political leaders of Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. Xi Jinping represented the Chinese communist party, who represented Taiwan?
MA Ying-Jeou
Julian Assange was unable to attend a recent hearing due to ill health. Assange has been confined in which London prison since April 2019?
Belmarsh
Andreas Brehme, who scored the winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, recently passed away. Who was West Germany’s captain on that day?
Lothar Matthaus
According to the 2020 census, at 48.3% what language is the most commonly spoken at home in Singapore?
English
Which Eastern city did Ukranian forces surrender to Russia in February 2024? The city was within the claimed boundaries of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic
Avdiivka
Singapore was one of the five original members of the political and economic union known as ASEAN. Name any 2 of the other four
Any two from INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES, LAOS
Isaias Afwerki has served as the first and only President of which African country since 1993?
Eritrea
Which well-known face from British TV was born in Singapore in 1964? She started off as a Researcher on Panorama in 1989 and is married to the media executive Nigel Sharrocks
Fiona Bruce
Which state of Malaysia, located on the south of the Malay Peninsula, shares a maritime border with Singapore?
Johor
In which comedy drama show did Nicholas Lyndhurst play Freddie “the Frog” Robdal?
Rock & Chips
The Times described the “original recipe” for a Singapore Sling as a mixture of two measures of gin with one of BLANK BLANK and one each of orange, pineapple, and lime juice. The name of what drink, comprised of two words, fills the blanks?
Cherry Brandy
What was the two-word name of Nick Kershaw’s debut studio album? It received a nomination for Best British Album at the Brit Awards 1985 and achieved platinum sales. Two word answer
Human Racing
Thomas Sankara served as first President of which African country from 1983 to 1987?
Burkina Faso
David Dacko served as first President of which African country from 1960 to 1966? The constitution outlines him as being the “Founding Father.”
Central African Republic
Which supermarket chain, nicknamed “The Waitrose of the North”, recently announced it was closing its store in the leafy Hale Barns area, and is set to be replaced by ASDA?
Booths
Kaya toast is a dish consisting of two slices of toast with butter and kaya sweet jam that is commonly served alongside coffee and soft-boiled eggs. In Singapore, the kaya toast is commonly consumed for breakfast. Which tropical fruit is Kaya jam made from
Coconut Jam
Which man, the Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990, is widely recognised as the founding father of the modern Singaporean state?
Lee Kwan Yew
Malay is the official language of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and which other sovereign state?
Brunei
In 2022 Mercedes were fined £22,000 because Lewis Hamilton wore what during the Singapore Grand Prix?
Nose Stud
Dr. Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma served as the first President of which country from 1990 to 2005?
Namibia
Harry Kane was named in the 2023 Engligh Premier League team of the year. During his time at Spurs Harry Kane overtook which man to become their all time top scorer?
Jimmy Greaves
Name of berlin venue of 2024 euros football
Olympiastadion
German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and winger for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. Nicknamed “Bambi” for his dribbling ability, he is considered to be a promising talent.
Jamal Musiala
Sometimes called DOB, what is the first lesbian rights group in the United States which was founded in San Francisco in 1955?
Daughters of Bilitis
Sometimes called DOB, what is the first lesbian rights group in the United States which was founded in San Francisco in 1955?
Daughters of Bilitis
The Justice Department is suing what company for creating a monopoly in ticket-selling for concerts and other entertainment events?
Livenation (who merged with Ticketmaster 2010)
What Penske driver in IndyCar won his second consecutive Indianapolis 500, the first person to win back-to-back titles in 22 years? 2024
Josef Newgarden
What Ferrari driver in Formula One won the Monaco Grand Prix, the first Monegasque driver to win the principality’s race in 92 years? 2024
Charles LeClerc
What man has been inaugurated as the president of Taiwan? June 2024
LAI CHING-TE, or WILLIAM LAI
President Luis Abinader won his re-election bid in what Caribbean country in a landslide? June 2024
Dominican Republic
An American flag flown in what manner has become a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” movement?
Upside Down
Israel has taken full operational control of what corridor, which shares a similar name with an East Coast US city? After seizing this strip of land, Israel now controls Gaza’s entire land border.
Philadelphi Corridor
A protracted conflict within the Philippines with what autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao is currently in its wind-down phase?
BANGSAMORO AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO (BARMM)
While the Minnesota Timberwolves have been eliminated in the NBA play-offs, Minnesota has won the Walter Cup in the inaugural season of what other professional sports league? June 2024
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE
What Greek word means “the right or critical moment”? It is the title of the German book that has won the 2024 International Booker Prize.
KAIROS by Jenny Erpenbeck
With Greta Gerwig’s competition jury awarding the Palme d’or to Sean Baker’s raucous comedy Anora, what independent film studio has now represented a record five straight winners of the festival’s top prize, starting with Parasite in 2019?
NEON (Parasite, Titane, Triangle of Sadness, Anatomy of a Fall, Anora)
Who directed 2024 Palme D’Or winner Anora?
Sean Baker
2024 American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Set in an imagined modern America following a devastating disaster, the film features an ensemble cast, including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel.
Megalopolis
What “trans cartel musical” won the Best Actress Award for all four of its female cast members: Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón, who is trans, Mexican actress Adriana Paz, and American stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña? 2024 Cannes.
Emilia Perez
Iranian independent filmmaker who lives in exile in Europe. He is known for several award-winning films, including The Twilight (2002), Iron Island (2005), Goodbye (2011), Manuscripts Don’t Burn (2013), A Man of Integrity (2017) and There Is No Evil (2020). For the latter, he won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival. 2024 film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. 8 years sentence in Iran so fled to Germany.
Mohammad Rasoulof
The Screenplay Award went to Coralie Fargeat’s body horror film The Substance. It stars what American actress as an aging Hollywood star who takes an illicit de-aging drug, with sickening results?
Demi Moore (Margaret Qualley plays younger)
Which 2024 film by Ali Abbassi depicts the relationship in the 1980s between aspiring real estate mogul Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, and Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong?
The Apprentice
She won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her film A Night of Knowing Nothing. In 2017, her film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film that was selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her film All We Imagine as Light.
Payal Kapadia
Norwegian filmmaker. His film Armand won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
2024 absurdist black comedy anthology film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay he co-wrote with Efthimis Filippou. The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau. described as a “triptych fable,” consists of three distinct but loosely connected stories.
Kinds of Kindness
American actress born Thailand. She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including one for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter.
Hong Chau
Mauritanian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Turner in the Netflix horror series Archive 81 (2022) and voicing Wade Ripple in the Pixar animated film Elemental (2023).
Mamoudou Athie
She made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present).[2] Since then, she has had roles in Belle (2022), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), Cuckoo (2024), and Kinds of Kindness (2024).
Hunter Schafer
In Pixar’s Inside Out (2015), audiences met Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Name any one of the new emotions that will be introduced in Inside Out 2.
ANXIETY, ENVY, ENNUI, and EMBARRASSMENT
What nepo baby will be making her directorial debut with the horror movie The Watchers?
ISHANA NIGHT SHYAMALAN
What English artist has released her sixth studio album, Brat, led by the single “360”?
Charli XCX
Here’s a new term! What two-word phrase, popularized on TikTok, describes a lesbian who is performatively masc and often posts thirst traps on social media? The phrase comes from something they would say to a theoretical femme on the other side of the camera.
HEY MAMAS
What start-up company, headed by Elon Musk, is redacted from the chart below?
XAI
U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup public-benefit company, founded in 2021 by people including Daniela and Dario AMODEI former members of OpenAI. Large language model name is Claude (vs OpenAI ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini).
Anthropic
French company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) products. Founded in April 2023 by former employees of Meta Platforms and Google DeepMind, Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample. Named after a wind.
Mistral AI
French-American company incorporated under the Delaware General Corporation Law[1] and based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Named after an emoji.
Hugging Face
2024 What musical won the Tony Award for Best Musical?
The Outsiders
2024 Which play won the Tony Award for Best Play?
Stereophonic
To Lam has been sworn in as the new president of what Asian nation?
Vietnam
- In the lead-up to the elections mentioned in Q1, what country was transfixed by a reality show called “The Conclave,” which was described as “The Bachelor” but for politics?
2024
Belgium
What Surgeon General of the United States has suggested that social media platforms ought to have warning labels?
VIVEK H. MURTHY
- What Spanish restaurant has won the title of The World’s Best Restaurant 2024?
DISFRUTAR (owners met each other at El Bulli)
Last year’s winner was CENTRAL in Lima, Peru, and the 2022 winner was GERANIUM in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz continued their parallel ascendancies as generational talents on the women’s and men’s tours by each winning the 2024 French Open, Swiatek’s fifth major title and Alcaraz’s third. Which of the four Grand Slam events remains the only one neither of them has won?
Australian Open
What emerging Swiss sportswear company, known primarily for its running shoes, has made inroads into top-flight tennis, first with a partnership with Roger Federer and more recently by outfitting young stars like Swiatek and Ben Shelton?
ON
What is the name of the tier of men’s tournaments just below the ATP Tour, primarily populated by players ranked roughly 80th to 300th? This oft-overlooked part of the professional sport gained an improbable spotlight this year.
Challengers
What two former U.S. Open champions played each other for just the second time in their careers at a small grass court tournament in the Netherlands this month? These two women seemed bound to form a scintillating rivalry after playing a thrilling quarterfinal at the 2019 China Open, but have both had long absences from the tour in years since.
Bianca Andrescu (Canada) and Naomi Osaka (Japan)
What 2021 Wimbledon finalist, plagued by injuries in recent seasons, has become perhaps the closest thing men’s tennis has ever had to Anna Kournikova, far more visible for his modeling work for brands like BOSS in recent years than for his tennis?
Matteo BERRETTINI
- What mobile game, abbreviated DnF, was launched by Chinese company Tencent, and has become a massive hit worldwide?
Dungeon & Fighter
What up-and-coming country artist has come to mainstream attention with the hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”?
SHABOOZEY
Queer slang: What verb, meaning to have taken or seized something abruptly, is a slang term used in the gay community to refer to someone who looks fierce or fantastic?
SNATCHED
