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Four members of the Million Dollar Quartet jam session took place at Sun Record studios in Memphis Tennessee in 1956?

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Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley

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Starring Jeremy Renner, The McLusky brothers are still untangling the web of corruption in titular Michigan town in which 2021 tv show?

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Mayor of Kingstown

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Last Catholic monarch of Britain

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James II

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picau ar y maen welsh for which food

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Welsh Cake (also bake stones or pics)

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Set in Lancashire, what itv drama 2019 starred Morven Christie as a detective sergeant family liaison officer. Marsha Thomason took over the leading role from series three as DS Jenn Townsend? Nicknamed Broadchurch North.

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The Bay

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10 mile long Sandbank off Deal in Kent which has caused 2000 shipwrecks?

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Goodwin Sands

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New Oleato Starbucks range contains which controversial ingredient?

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Olive Oil

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Which international delivery service founded in San Francisco in 1969 by
Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, Robert Lynn? Now HQ in Bonn.

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DHL

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Which delivery service founded 1971 in Little Rock Arkansas by Frederick W Smith?

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Fedex

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Judas Priest named after a song by which act

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Bob Dylan

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Boyz II Men named after song by which act

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New Edition

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What links: Strangeways prison; Holborn Bars; Girton College; Eaton Hall

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Designed by Alfred Waterhouse

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Rolling Stones are named after a song by which act

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Muddy Waters

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Name of incident which germany used as excuse to invade Poland 31 august 1939 during ww2?

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Gleiwitz incident

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Johnny Sexton beat whose record for most points scored for Ireland rugby Union on 18th March 2023?

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Ronan O’Gara

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1966 seventh album of Bob Dylan

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Blonde on Blonde

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Which eponymous band had hits with “Fox on the Run” and “The Mighty Quinn”?

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Manfred Mann

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Who was Rolling Stones lead guitarist between Brian Jones and Ronnie Wood?

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Mick Taylor

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Which sixties group had lead guitarists including Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton?

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The Yardbirds

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In which Scottish glen were about 30 members of the MacDonald clan killed by government troops in 1692?

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Glencoe

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Which Russian city was scene of mass shooting of unarmed civilians by soldiers in 1905?

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St Petersburg

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How many victims were shot in St Valentines Day Massacre on the orders of Al CPone?

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7

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A large number of Danes were killed in London and Oxford on a massacre named after which Saint in 1002 on orders of Ethelred II?

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St Brice’s Day Massacre

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Characters Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright in which 19th century novel?

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Return of the Native

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Characters of 1898 novel include Narrator, Artilleryman, Curate?

War of the Worlds

Characters in which 19th century novel include Daughter of Isaac of York, Rebecca and Rowena?

Ivanhoe

Characters of which 19th century novel Archdeacon Grantley and Mrs Proudie?

Barchester Towers

Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Francis Troy book 1874?

Far from Madding Crowd

Rev Edward Casaubon, Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate all characters in which 1871 novel?

Middlemarch

Which novel contains characters Edgar Linton and Nellie Dean?

Wuthering Heights

Which British prime minister had a long term relationship with Frances Stevenson whom he eventually married?

David Lloyd George

Which year did Clinton get impeached following scandal with intern?

1998

Which British prime minister died in 1865 allegedly during an encounter with a maid on a billiard table?

Palmerston

Which singer released a song in 1980 called Love on the Rocks?

Neil Diamond

What womens premier league team does Beth mead play for

Arsenal

First female winner of 1962 SPOTY

Anita Lonsbrough

Which Mediterranean island: Es Cana, Portinatx, Playa Den Bossa?

Ibiza

Which Mediterranean island: st Paul’s Bay, Qawra, Mellieha?

Malta

Which Mediterranean island: Son Bou, Punta Prima, Es Castell?

Menorca

Which welsh resort close to Great Ormes Head?

Llandudno

Which English resort close to Beachy Head?

Eastbourne

Portobello close to which Scottish city?

Edinburgh

Salthill is adjacent to which Irish city on estuary of the River Corrib?

Galway

Which Mediterranean island: Argostoli, Trapezaki, Svoronata?

Kefalonia

Where in Sussex is the modernist De La Warr Pavilion opened in 1935?

Bexhill-on-Sea

Which king had nickname Old Rowley

Charles II

Which British king was known as the First Gentleman of Europe?

George IV

In what year did wearing of front seatbelts become compulsory in UK?

1983

In what year did wearing of rear seatbelts become compulsory in UK?

1991

Front seat belts were compulsory equipment on all new cars registered in the UK from which year?

1968

Which Sri Lankan batsman was twice named Wisden leading cricketer in world for his performances in 2011 and 2014? His selection as a Cricketer of the Year in 2012 meant he is also recognised twice in same edition of Wisden.

Kumar Sangakara

What word follows “water” in name of brown and yellow aquatic insect that uses its powerful oar like hind legs to locomotor across surface of lake, pond or ditch? One species known as backswimmer.

Boatman

Which American national forest, located in south eastern Ohio, is named after a Revolutionary general and founding father nicknamed “Mad Anthony”?

Wayne National Forest

Which academy award nominated composer whose works include the 1968 ballet Jazz Calendar scored several hammer horror films in 1950s and 60s including The Man Who Could Cheat Death and The Witches?

Richard Rodney Bennett

Used in weightlifting what piece of gym equipment is a metal bar typically around 6ft in length with weighted plates attached to either end? It is longer version of the dumbbell and normally used for two handed exercises.

Barbell

What name given to part of a cruciform church that forms wings at right angles to the nave?

Transept

Who awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the existence of the pion, a type of meson?

Hideki Yukawa

Poland’s most prestigious educational institution the Jagiellonian University was named after the dynasty but was founded by which earlier king known as Polish Justinian for his legal code reforms?

Casimir III the Great

What large tapered pole usually made from larch tree is tossed in an event at Scottish Highland games?

Caber

Which Serbian director has won the Palme D’Or twice doing so for films When Father Was Away On Business and Underground?

Emir Kusturica

Located next to O2 in London, which Anthony gormley sculpture is his tallest work and is formed of many 1.5m long steel sections that form the outline of a human body in the centre of the sculpture?

Quantum Cloud

What name is given to the often semicircular recess at eastern end of many churches? This section which developed from the Roman exedra, extends beyond the choir or chancel which contains the altar.

Apse

Which tv series airing from 2010-16 and set in Boston started Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander as the titular duo a police detective and chief medical examiner?

Rizzoli & Isles

Nicknamed the “Horror Queen”, which composer born into a well known artistic and aristocratic family composed the score for several Hammer films in the 1960s including Paranoiac and Never Take Sweets From a Stranger?

Elisabeth Lutyens

What word follows “pond” in the name of a brownish-black aquatic predatory insect that can move across surface of a pond lake or ditch because of water repellent hairs on bottom of feet? This insect also sometimes known as water strider.

Skater

Which American national forest, located north of Charleston, South Carolina, is named after a general of the revolutionary war nicknamed “Swamp Fox”?

Francis MARION National Forest

David guetta teamed up which British group and Galantis Swedish group on 2021 single Heartbreak Anthem?

Little Mix

In 1989 essay, which American civil rights advocate developed the concept of intersectionality to analyse how links between a persons race gender sexual orientation social class and other factors affect discrimination and privilege?

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Which Sri Lankan cricketer was named the MVP at 1996 cricket World Cup and was named one of five Wisden cricketers of years in 1997 despite not playing previous season in England? Nicknamed Master Blaster.

Sanath Jayasuriya

Which Danish director has won Palme D’Or twice for his films Pelle the Conqueror and The Best Intentions?

Bille August

Which public artwork by Anthony Gormley, which has science inspired name, consists of 27 sculptures cast from artists own body? This artwork similar to Gormley’s Another Place on Crosby beach was first installed across prominent buildings in London and has since been displayed in New York and Rio de Janeiro.

Event Horizon

“The state of men without civil society […] is nothing else but a mere war of all against all” is a quotation from 17th century work of political theory by which English philosopher?

Thomas Hobbes

Polish Renaissance or Golden Age considered to have reached peak during reigns of last two kings of Jagiellonian dynasty who share what regnal name?

Sigismund

Named the third best podcast of 2021 by The Guardian, Comfort Eating is a podcast hosted by which English journalist? She began writing The Guardian in 1999 and became their restaurant critic in 2018.

Grace Dent

Otto Lidenbrock is professor who discovers a subterranean world in which novel?

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

What name did pacific territory Pleasant Island adopt upon gaining independence in 1968? This is worlds second least populous country.

Nauru

Mesons can ultimately decay to what type of uncharged fermion with a near zero mass and that typically passes through normal matter undetected? Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of this particle to explain beta decay.

Neutrino

Which singer songwriter whose songs include Love Song, Brave and Once Upon Another Time wrote the Broadway show Waitress?

Sara Bareilles

Discovered by Mary Claire King the BRCA1 gene is resonnsible for hereditary version of which disease?

Breast Cancer

After giving birth to a daughter in 1999 and returning to training only ten days later, which Irish athlete went on to win silver in 5000m at 2000 Sydney Olympics?

Sonia O’Sullivan

Which contemporary American composer wrote a one movement percussion concerto, completed in 2005? Her 2010 Putlizer prize winning violin concerto which includes movements 1726 and fly forward was composed for Hilary Hahn.

Jennifer Higdon

Dorothy Hodgkin is well known for her work with which scientific imaging method? 1964 won Nobel for confirming structure of insulin and B12.

X Ray Crystallography

Two Vietnamese sisters with which surname launched rebellion against Han dynasty in China from 40-43AD?

Trung

Ballet academy in st Petersburg is named after which ballerina? She pioneered standardised ballet education in 20th century with a method also being named after her.

Agrippina Vaganova

Which queen of Arthurian legend was played by Angel coulby in bbc Merlin?

Guinevere

Who played Merlin in bbc show Merlin?

Colin Morgan

Sharing its name with a type of penguin, which region of Antarctica is claimed by France?

Adelie Land

2021 Met Gala, AOC contro as wore white Aurora James gown emblazoned with which three word slogan?

Tax the Rich

Donna Strickland best known for her work with which optoelectronic devices? For her work she won the Nobel prize physics 2018 3rd to do so.

Lasers

Lauren Mayberry is lead singer of which Scottish band? Formed 2011 this group won 2022 best song by NME Award for How Not to Drown from album Screen Violence?

Chvrches

Which enchantress of Arthurian legend was played by Katie McGrath in bbc merlin?

Morgana

Three sisters with which surname opposed Rafael Trujillo in Dominican Republic ? They were assassinated in 1960.

Mirabal

Which woman ruled Habsburg Empire from 1740 until 1780? She funded Englightment style education partly to train enough administrators to meet needs of her absolutist monarchy.

Maria Theresa

Who designed the logo for google which was used between 1999 to 2015?

Ruth Kedar

Which conductor was first woman to conduct at the last night of the proms? She often collaborated with Higdon and spent 15 years with Baltimore symphony orchestra?

Marin Alsop

Anne Frank was born what city and year?

Frankfurt in 1929

Discovered by Mary F Lyon, X-inactivation or Lyonization is responsible for determining which feline coat colour?

Tortoiseshell or Calico

Katie Price in 2001 ran as independent candidate in the Urmston and Stretford ward of which city?

Manchester

Which two women won 2020 Nobel prize chemistry?

Emmanuelle Charpentier Jennifer Doudna

Who sings Goo Goo Muck as heard on Wednesday?

The Cramps

Four stages of infections of zombies on The Last of Us

1) Runners 2) Stalkers 3) Clickers 4) Bloaters

Neapolitan filled pastry filled with custard like mixture and sometimes called lobster tail in USA? Originated from Campania.

Sfogliatella

Musical direction to play a note with sudden strong emphasis.

Sforzando

Who did South African referee send off in Ireland v England March 18th during Ireland winning the six nations grand slam? He hit Riise player Hugo Keenan.

Freddie Steward

NEOM is planned smart city in Saudi Arabia: which planned region will be first major outdoor skiing destination in Arabian peninsula? Cooler there than rest of Neom’s territory.

Trojena

Which Czech theologian and reformer was burnt at stake for Heresy against the doctrines of Catholic Church in 1415?

Jan Hus

Branded Scottish’s biggest festival of light, what festival takes place Nnually in Aberdeen? First in 2014, 115k visited in four days in feb 2023.

Spectra

In board game chess, how many possible moves does each player have available with their first turn?

20

Which jazz composer, born in New Jersey, played piano with two early swing bands before forming his own Kansas based outfit in 1935. Various iterations of band included stats like Lester Young and Freddie Green. Known for “One O’Clock Jump” 1937 jazz standard.

William James “Count” Basie

Name of statue depicting the Buddha Amitabha in Japan, was tallest statue in 1993-2008?

Ushiku Daibutsu

In original series of Star Trek, a uniform of which colour worn to indicate wearer is in medical or science?

Blue

Team based out of Bergamo, Lombardy who play in Serie A with name from Ancient Greece

Atalanta Bergamasca

One of biggest business acquisitions in 2022 saw which Indian food delivery platform acquire the quick commerce company Blinkit for $567 million? This company mainly operates in food delivery and restaurant hosting industry.

Zomato

Born in 1710, which Scottish composer, arranger, cellist, and music publisher, was appointed as Chamber Composer for King George III? He published his chamber works under the Nom de Plume “Dottel Figlio”.

James Oswald

Who won the 1968 academy award for best actor for role of Charly Gordon in 1968 film Charly?

Cliff Robertson

Most common of four main human blood group types?

O

Formerly part of a single book alongside book 16, what is the 15th book in the Old Testament? This book is named for its author, who led a group of Jews returning to Jerusalem and rebuilding the temple after their Babylonian exile.

Ezra

What name of statue depicting the Buddha Vairocana found in China and tallest statue in world 2008-18?

Spring Temple Buddha

Who bought Air India from Indian government in 2022, they actually founded the airline in 1932 but took over by Gov in 1953?

TATA Group

On board game draughts/checkers, how many possible moves does each player have available with their first turn?

Seven

How many checkers does each player have on start of game of draughts/checkers?

12 each making 24 total (24/64 - 6/16)

Best known as leader of own long running orchestra which jazz composer most recorded in history with tunes like Satin Doll, Don’t get Around Much Anymore and Mood Indigo?

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

Least common of four main human blood groups

AB

Which fellow Czech follower of Jan Hus was also burned at the stake of heresy a year after Hus? A depiction of his execution appears in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs published over 200 years later.

Jerome of Prague

Which neom planned region is to be a 8 sided floating industrial complex? Prime Minieter bin Salman expects this complex to be focal point for global trade flows.

Oxagon

15th and 16th books in Old Testament are considered a single book in Jewish canon, what is 16th book in Old Testament? This book chronicles the return of titular cupbearer of the Persian king, and rebuilding of the walls at Jerusalem.

Nehemiah

Born in 1732, which Scottish composers surviving compositions have led to him being reevaluated as one of most important British composers of 18th century as well as leading exponent of Scotland’s music? Best known is Overture to Isaac Bickerstaff’s comic opera The Maid of the Mill.

Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie

Which Italian football team from Veneto ultimately takes name from Greek word for Greece?

Hellas Verona

In original Star Trek, uniform of what colour worn to indicate that wearer is in security or operations?

Red

Seven men to have attempted to assassinate Queen Vic

Edward Oxford John Francis John William Bean William Hamilton Robert Pate Arthur O’Connor Roderick McLean

What year were England beaten by Norway 2-1 provoking the Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana, …, Maggie Thatcher?

1981

In tennis who was John McEnroe’s doubles partner with whom McEnroe won 7 Grand Slam titles?

Peter Fleming

Which series of 24 childrens novels were written by Anthony Buckeridge and document the humorous escapades of a schoolboy at an English prep school?

The Jennings series

Which English, teacher and social reformer campaigned for strong reform of postal system based on uniform Penny post and proposed adhesive stamp on letters?

Rowland Hill

Zabid, hottest city on earth, in which country?

Yemen

Name of rural locality found in Sakha Republic which by average winter temperatures is coldest permanently inhabited settlement on earth?

Oymyakon

John Motson famous photo reporting from 1990 blizzard at which high Wycombe stadium?

Adams Park

English author who published 31 novels including The Life and Loves of a She Devil (tv 1986 with Patricia hodge and Dennis waterman), Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, Wicked Women and The Bulgari Connection.

Fay Weldon

Pele two clubs in career

Santos and New York Cosmos

David Crosby died aged 81, following departure from The Byrds, with which three artists did he perform with at Woodstock?

Stephen Stills Graham Nash Neil Young

Which Spanish fashion designer born 1934 and dies February 2023 designed costumes for 1968 Barbarella?

Paco Rabanne

Tom Verlaine died January 2023 and was most known as frontman of which New York City rock band whose debut album in 1977 and entitled Marquee Moon?

Television

Gary Rossington died 71 in 2023, guitarist and last surviving member of which Ill fated rock band

Lynrd Skynrd

Daughter of Asclepios who is associated with cleanliness

Hygiaea

Nickname acquired by cricketer Ashley Giles after an infamous spelling mistake on his testimonial merchandise in 2000

King of Spain

Tv detective series starring Lesley Sharp and Suranne Jones in title roles?

Scott and Bailey

14th century allegorical English poem by William Langland where eponymous character is a farm worker?

Piers Plowman

Henry Deutschendorf real name of which singer?

John Denver

Which book of bible between Jeremiah and Ezekiel consists of a series of poems concerning the destruction of Judah, Jerusalem and The Temple by the Babylonians?

Lamentations

Which book of the Bible between Ecclesiastes and Isaiah consists of a number of love poems narrated by a man and a woman?

Song of Solomon

Which childrens story by Oscar Wilde tells of ogre who builds a wall around his garden to stop children playing there?

The Selfish Giant

The commander of the 14th army in Burma during WW2 this much decorated career soldier later became Governor General of Australia and was created a Viscount in 1960. Who was he?

William Viscount Slim

This Canadian actor best known for SNL, the films The Three Amigos, Mars Attacks and The Spiderwicke Chronicles. Who is he?

Martin Short

Architectural term for circular building with a domed roof such as Capitol building in DC and pantheon in rome?

Rotunda

Which US archipelago is connected by the Overseas Highway?

Florida Keys

Name for the “tower of silence” In Zoroastrianism where the dead left on towers for vultures to eat for excarnation?

Dakhma

Charles Warrell created what series of spotters’ guides?

I Spy Books

What links: Boat; head; moon; pea (plus four more)?

Bones in wrists name derivations

Which manifesto was launched in Glasgow in 1838?

The People’s Charter (The Chartists)

What is the last surviving member of the family Phascolarctidae?

Koala

Title 11 of the United States Code relates to what predicament?

Bankruptcy

Which England cricket captain had the initials MCC?

Michael Colin Cowdrey

1903 born in Kiev, wrote in French and most known for posthumous work Suite Francaise? Killed auschwitz in 1942.

Irène Némirovsky

What is the world’s largest trade book fair?

Frankfurt

Marduk was chief god of which city?

Babylon

Which songwriter was musical director for Marlene Dietrich? Las Vegas did show together.

Burt Bacharach

Where is England’s only statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie?

Derby

What links: Labino; Lalique; Lipofsky; Liskova; Littleton?

Glass artists and designers

Who invented bitcoin?

Satoshi Nakamoto

Who invented ethereum?

Vitalik Buterin

Three South American countries that equator goes through?

Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia

In Despicable Me franchise what does AVL stand for

Anti Villain League

In which American city is there a full scale replica of Parthenon from athens Greece?

Nashville, Tennessee

Which Filipino was assassinated at the airport later named after him?

Ninoy Aquino

In the Bible, who lived to the age of 962?

Jared

Which dynasty originated in the second marriage of Catherine of Valois?

Tudor (she married Owen Tudor)

Link: Bob Hayes (100m and wide receiver); Roger Kingdom (110m hurdles and speed coach)?

Olympic Gold and Super Bowl Ring

French professional boxer who has held the IBO female lightweight title since 2019, won 2016 rio gold.

Estelle Mossely

French swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist, won 400m freestyle gold and silver/bronze at 2012 Olympics. She died in the Villa Castelli helicopter collision, at age 25, during the filming of French TV reality show Dropped for the TF1 network.

Camille Muffat

Dutch darts player he has become known for his job with an aubergine company, which has led to him having the nickname 'Aubergenius'.

Dirk van Duijvenbode

Straw hat the national symbol of Lesotho. An image of it appears on the Lesotho flag, and on Lesotho license plates.

Mokorotlo

Born 1912 Pennsylvania, African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights as a homosexual male?

Bayard Rustin

a preserved British steam locomotive completed in 1960. It was the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways

Evening Star

Who wrote Democracy in America

Tocqueville

Which Furniture restorer acts as the foreman of The Repair Shop on tv?

Jay Blades

Which mountain range splits Europe and Asia and goes from Arctic Ocean to Kazakhstan

Urals

Also known as a Peewit or Green Plover, what bird was declared Ireland’s national bird in 1990?

Lapwing

With chemical formula Mg(OH)2, stomach aid used as antacid and laxative discovered by Irish physician James Murray?

Milk of Magnesia

The Mayfly was tbe first aeroplane designed constructed and flown by a woman in 1910, which woman?

Lilian Bland

From what wood are hurling sticks traditionally made out of? Killed by dieback.

Ash

What effect is scattering of light by a medium containing small suspended particles? Unlike Rayleigh scattering which is caused by particles much smaller than wavelength of light, similar sized particles to the wavelength of light are involved. Visible rays of light, the blueish colour of smoke and blue irises are some examples that arise from this effect.

Tyndall Effect

Located on grounds of Birr Castle, who constructed the Leviathan of Parsonstown? A 72 degree reflecting telescope that largest in world 1845-1917.

William Parsons Lord Rosse

In March 2023, which male tennis player ended a record 912 week streak in the top 10 of ATP rankings?

Rafael Nadal

In B52s song love shack, what make of car is big as a whale?

Chrysler

What was first marvel comic to reach issue #700?

Amazing Spider-Man

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford starred in 2023 Broadway revival of what Stephen sondheim musical?

Sweeney Todd

Which billionaire cameo appearance in Iron Man 2?

Musk

The brachialis is a muscle used to move which joint in the body?

Elbow

What two player board games includes pieces called Spies, Flags and Bombers?

Stratego

Tokyo-X is a Japanese breed of what edible animal?

Pig

Which auto company designed and constructed formula one race cars called the W11, W12 and W13?

Mercedes-Benz

“The Best of Times” and “Too Much Time on My Hands” are singles off concept album Paradise Theatre by which rock band?

Styx

What form of basketball is played with four trampolines in front of each net and boards around the edge of the court?

Slamball

What valve on right side of heart allows deoxygenated blood flow though right atrium and right ventricle?

Tricuspid

Which actress played mother of J Lo in 2001 movies Angel Eyes and 2022 movie Shotgun Wedding

Sonia Braga

Burhanuddin Rabbani president of which country while in exile from 1996-2001?

Afghanistan

Which model of SUV manufactured by Hyundai since 2000 named after US state capital?

Santa Fe

Which is by mass the most common element on earth?

Iron

Word connects fictional characters created by Leslie Charteris, liverpool footballer who scored winner in 1965 fa cup final, student newspaper at oldest uni in Scotland?

Saint (Ian St John)

What type of cheese popular with dieters is made by adding cream to curds and whey?

Cottage Cheese

Which type of bird are usually divided into one of four categories: fish, booted, snake and giant forest?

Eagle

Winifred Phillips who enlisted in Womens Royal Army Corps in 1949 while serving in Egypt, and Dorothy Hughes, who joined the British army in 1941 aged 18, were first two women what in 2006?

Chelsea Pensioners

1940 version of pinocchio disney, two main antagonists are what named cat and what named fox?

Cat: Gideon Fox: J Worthington Foulfellow (Honest John)

Modern Pentathlon five sports

Fencing, Swimming, Riding, Shooting, Running

According to recent study, only mammals on earth whcih if you add combined weight would weight more than human beings?

Cows

Which is only motorway in england which does not connect to any other motorway?

M2 in Kent

Which is only motorway in England which only connects to other motorways?

M49 (links the M4 and M5 northwest of Bristol)

What connects Alex Clockwork Orange, Cornelius Fudge in HP, Oddjob in Bond, Captain Peacock, Bradford and Bingley?

Bowler Hat wearers

Which two cathedral cities were part of same country from 1974 to 1998 and connected to Oxford and Paddington by The Cathedrals Express originating in 1957?

Hereford and Worcester

What name based on colour of livery adopted in 1937 is given to daily rail service connects Cape Town and Pretoria?

The Blue Train

The Don Giovanni train originates in Venice and goes via vienna to which European city, where the first opera on the subject of the licentious Don Juan was produced?

Prague

Which railway runs from the National Trust property at Sheffield Park to East Grinstead, stopping at Horsted Keynes and Kingscote? West Sussex

The Bluebell Railway

Which of apostles is patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes?

St Jude

Four capital cities beginning with W in alphabetical order

Warsaw Washington DC Wellington Windhoek

“You deserve a break today” was an advertising slogan for what fast food restaurant chain?

McDonalds

Which comic strip dropped by loads after Scott Adams made racist comments on YouTube in 2023?

Dilbert

What first name was shared by first two wives of Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Sarah

Which female comic strip character battled fascism during WW2 as a member of the junior commandos?

Little Orphan Annie

Johann II was monarch of which country for over 70 years between 1858 and 1929?

Liechtenstein

Which Belgian race driver won the 24 hours of Le Mans six times during 1969-82?

Jacky Ickx

Several pubs claiming to be oldest in England - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, the bell inn, and ye olde salutation inn - all located in which city?

Nottingham

Largest denomination of coin in circulation in Japan?

500 Yen

Which English king held off Danish invasion led by Cnut the Great?

Edmund II

WHat singer was subject of 2022 hot 100 song by Armani White?

Billie Eilish

Michael J Fox married which actress who played his girlfriend on sitcom Family Ties?

Tracy Pollan

Who is English composer of the operas At the Boars Head and The wandering Scholar?

Gustav Holst

Which actress from Kill Bill movies appears in music video for SZA Kill Bill?

Vivica A Fox

Which of Seven Sages of Ancient Greece often credited with pioneer of applying deductive reasoning to geometry and astronomy?

Thales

President of Germany since 2017

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Who has been prime minister of France since 2022

Elisabeth Borne

Which Australian capital once called Palmerston?

Darwin

Name of medieval mosaic floor on Westminster Abbey named after Italian craftsman who created in 13th century?

Cosmati Pavement

Man played by Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda, saved 1200 people during 1994 genocide.

Paul Rusesabagina

Which country’s foreign intelligence agency is known as DGSE?

France

Floorball is an indoor sport similar to which sport?

Hockey

What is both a hat worn by jesters and a paper size?

Foolscap

Israeli commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel, eye patch

Moshe Dayan

Found in estuaries and mangroves of Asia, which family of fish famous for its ability to squirt water from mouth to dislodge insects and spiders from overhanging branches up to 3m above the water?

Archerfish

What P produced by honey bees is a mixture of saliva, beeswax and the buds of trees, used as a cement to repair their nests/hives?

Propolis

With the Latin name Drosera, what is largest genera of carnivorous plants? To attract and catch insects, these plants use tentacles that secrete a sweet-smelling, hydrogel adhesive.

Sundews

B vitamin number for B3

Niacin

Vitamin B5 name

Pantothenic acid

Vitamin B6 name

Pyridoxine

B7 vitamin

Biotin

Vitamin B9 name

Folate

What two legged carnivorous theropod dinosaur living in late Jurassic 155-45 million, has name meaning different lizard as vertebrae unique at time when discovered?

Allosaurus

Beginning with “R”, what fine grained extrusive, igneous rock is chemically equivalent to the grained intrusive rock Granite?

Rhyolite

What name given to hypothetical elementary particle that consists of only one magnetic pole? Despite searches, to date no evidence of them.

Magnetic Monopole

Identified as being one of the first “spiral nebulae” by Lord Rosse in 1850. Which spiral galaxy - messier number 33 - is third largest galaxy in the Local Group after the Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way?

Triangulum Galaxy

Female scientist who first measured abundances of helium and hydrogen in sun in 1925 phd thesis.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Named after German scientist born 1825, otherwise known as conical flask, type of lab flask with flat bottom and cylindrical neck?

Erlenmeyer Flask

Comprising of an ovary, style and a stigma. What is female reproductive part of a flower known as?

Pistil

Residing in the Amazon basin, and with Latin name Paracheirodon innesi. What small (4cm) freshwater fish of the characin family, is one of the world’s most commonly kept aquarium fish due to its striking red and blue colours?

Neon Tetra

Named after German town, what viral hemorrhagic fever affects human and primates? Carried by Egyptian fruit bats recent outbreaks occurred in Equatorial Guinea in February 2023 and Tanzania in March 2023.

Marburg Virus Disease

In which American country would you find the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve? It is the 2nd largest tropical rainforest in the Western Hemisphere after the Amazon rainforest.

Nicaragua

Animal said to be limivorous what does it feed upon?

Mud/Soil

With two species found in southern and east Africa what nocturnal medium sized kangaroo like rodent was discovered to have bioflurozescent fur in 2021? Despite name not a hare.

Springhare

What igneous rock beginning with G, Latin for smooth, is chemically equivalent to Basalt, but has larger crystals due to it being an intrusive rock (cooled slowly underground) as opposed to extrusive (cooled quickly at the surface)?

Gabbro

Which geological period succeeded the Cretaceous period ranging from 66-23 million years ago, has name combining the Greek words for old and birth?

Paleogene

What does CHat GPT stand for? Open AI own the chat bot.

Generative Pre-trained Transformer

Which 1990s Tony Award winning musical includes number “As If We Never Said Goodbye” performed by Norma?

Sunset Boulevard

England were defeated finalists in 2021 womens rugby World Cup final taking place in NZ in 2022. Who did England defeat in semis? Karen Paquin, Alysha Corrigan and Tyson Beukeboom were scorers for this team.

Canada

Which actor played variations of Biff in Back to the Future trilogy?

Thomas F Wilson

In which James Bond film of 1965 did Claudine Auger play Domino and Luciana Paluzzi play Fiona?

Thunderball

Which US city is mentioned in chorus of 1988 Prefab Sprout song “The King of Rock n Roll”? This New Mexican city was birthplace of Jeff Bezos.

Albuquerque

School in Buffy tv show

Sunnydale High

Which Irish author has seen her works such as Tara Road, Circle of Friends and Light a Penny Candle all become international bestsellers?

Maeve Binchy

Which actress played various versions of Lorraine McFly in Back to the Future trilogy?

Lea Thompson

Sharing their name with two American cities, which band are most remembered for the 1967 hit “For Whats Its Worth (stop hey what’s that sound)”?

Buffalo Springfield

First name of actress who plays Denise Fox in Eastenders? Also Kelly MacDonald’s character name in Trainspotting.

Diane (Parish)

Eric Moussambani, nicknamed Eric the Eel, represents which country at the 2000 Olympics? His time in 100m freestyle was slowest by far in Olympic history.

Equatorial Guinea

Which woman set British records of 1500m time in 2021?

Laura Muir

In which 1981 bond film did Lynn-Holly Johnson play Bibi and Carole Bouquet play Melina?

For Your Eyes Only

What name of 2022 Amazon prime tv series where JK Simmons started alongside Sissy Spacek? Played elderly couple who possess an underground chamber which leads to another planet.

Night Sky

Age of only 19, which British woman won silver medal for 800m at 2020 Tokyo Olympics breaking British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995?

Keely Hodgkinson

What distance does Eilish McColgan win gold in at 2022 Birmingham and also silver at 2022 Munich Europeans?

10000m

Saved by the Bell school name ran from 1989-93?

Bayside High School

Who won 2022 Epsom derby? Two word name.

Desert Crown

What was operatic nickname of three gold medal winning swimmer Mary T Meagher?

Madam Butterfly (her preferred stroke)

Which swimmer born 1965, winning of 8 gold medals and other medals, was nicknamed “The Californian Condor”?

Matt Biondi

Which actor was Barry’s dad “Roy Evans” in Eastenders? His long tv careeer included a stint in Z Cars.

Tony Caunter

Which Japanese boxer is included in most current lists of best pound for pound boxers in world? 2022 he defeated Paul butler and nonita Donaire. Current record 24 wins and 0 losses.

Naoya Inoue

Written light and humourous, which best selling Irish novelist has written books including Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married and This Charming Man?

Marian Keyes

Which 1990s Tony award nominated musical includes numbers “let me see his western nose” and “the American dream”?

Miss Saigon

Fans of which American hip hop duo are called The Juggalettes? This horror themed band comprises Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope.

Insane Clown Posse

In Harry Potter world what B was name of Lavender Brown’s rabbit? Also Nikcname of made in Chelsea star whose real first name is Alexandra?

Binky

Michael Phelps Us City based nickname (28 medals, 23 golds)

Baltimore Bullet

Hugh Grant character name in Paddington 2?

Phoenix Buchanan

Which woman is currently British record holder both indoors and outdoors for pole vault?

Holly Bradshaw

Which Irish novelist won goldsmiths award for debut 2013 novel A Girl is a Half Formed Thing”

Eimear McBride

Due to unavailability of Michael J Fox at time which actor began filming as Marty McFly in BTTF before dropped but found success elsewhere particularly as Rocky Dennis in Mask?

Eric Stoltz

Japanese composer member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, won bafta for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and Oscar for The Last Emperor?

Ryuichi Sakamoto

What does initials of non-governmental advisory body ACAS stand for?

Advisory Conciliation Arbitration Service

Which musical artist became the first to have over 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify?

The Weeknd

St Kilda’s only populated island until 1930 when evacuated?

Hirta

What is most northerly point on the UK mainland?

Dunnet Head

What is most westerly point of the uk?

Ardnamurchan Point

Most easterly point of mainland UK?

Lowestoft Ness

Most southerly point of uk mainland?

Lizard Point

Who was on the British throne at the Battle of Culloden?

George II

Deepest Loch in Scotland?

Loch Morar

What is castle which stands on promontory about halfway along Loch Ness?

Urquhart Castle

Scotch whisky have to mature in an oak barrel before it is officially whisky?

3 years

Which poet born in Lancaster wrote the WW1 poem “for the fallen”?

Laurence Binyon

In which city would you find MacArthur Park made famous in the song by Jimmy Webb?

San Francisco

Which Wiltshire town was home to GWR Works from 1843 to 1986?

Swindon

In which country is the Otago region?

New Zealand

Which south hemisphere location is nicknamed the Apple Island?

Tasmania

The Nine Ladies is a stone circle in which county?

Derbyshire

In which county is the legend of the Hounds of Wild Edric set?

Shropshire

In 1925, Quintinshill was site of britains worst rail crash, which Scottish county?

Dumfriesshire

In which county is Nailsea, noted for glass manufacturing from 1788?

Somerset

In what year did Ayatollah Khomeini issue fatwa after Rushdie?

1989

Who was Greek god of marriage?

Hymen

Mother of Oedipus?

Jocasta

Frances highest form of civil medal?

Legion d’Honneur

What charity was originally founded in 1918 as national council for unmarried mother and her child?

Gingerbread

Fictional setting for tv series Z Cars?

Newtown

Musical “Standing at the Sky's Edge” 2023 best musical Olivier by which member of Longpigs and Pulp and named after his seventh solo album?

Richard Hawley

best known for her Obie Award-winning play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975). She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl run away from home.

Ntozake Shange

2021 play by Ryan Calais Cameron, inspired by Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy

2022 play Patriots by Peter Morgan follows which billionaire businessman?

Boris Berezovsky

Based on life of Tammy Faye Messner, musical Tammy Faye 2022 musical had music and lyrics by which two musicians? Book by James Graham.

Music: Elton John Lyrics: Jake Shears

Which doctor who companion Actor won Best Musical Actor in 2023 for role as curly McLain in Oklahoma?

Arthur Darvill

Who was best actor as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar named desire in 2023 Olivier Awards?

Paul Mescal

Who won Best Actress in musical at Olivier awards in 2023 for playing Tammy Faye Messner in Tammy Faye? Won one in 2015 for portrayal of Carole King in Beautiful.

Katie Brayben

Named for the river close to where uprising began, by what name do we know the slave revolt led by Jemmy Cato that took place near Rantowles, South Carolina in 1739?

Stono Rebellion

Which fashion model a guest judge on second series of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK became the first black British model to make Forbes top earning models doing so in 2014 at age of 24

Jourdan Dunn

Ital is word to describe dietary principles of which religion

Rastafarianism

Roger Lloyd Pack and Clive Swift starred as Tom and Roy a pair of suburban pensioners that live together in which bbc comedy that ran for two series from 2009-10?

The Old Guys

One of many cities known as steel city, what is capital of state of Upper Austria and third largest city in Austria?

Linz

Name given to root like structure of a fungus, used to absorb nutrients from its surrounding environment?

Mycelium

Concerning activities of guerilla gardening group working a tract of land acquired by billionaire, Birnam Wood is a 2023 thriller novel written by which author?

Eleanor Catton (of the Luminaries)

Which Stockport born choreographer has served as resident choreographer for the royal ballet since 2006 and first appointee to come from background in contemporary dance? His most notable works include Chroma and three act ballet Woolf Works.

Wayne McGregor

One of many cities known as Steel City, which city is the capital of province of Silesia in southern Poland? It is main city in the largest metropolitan area in Poland, upper Silesia.

Katowice

Dan Clark starred as Don Danbury a socially awkward man who has just moved into his deceased grandmothers house in which bbc comedy 2007-11?

How Not To Live Your Life

In 1831 Nat Turner led a slave insurrection in which county of Virginia? Although suppressed in two days it was deadliest revolt in U.S. history.

Southampton County

Which fashion model, guest judge on RPDR UK was first black British model to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel and was named on Forbes 30 under 30 in 2020?

Leomie Anderson

The Eagles is the nickname of which rugby league team who compete in Betfred Championship? Their win against Wigan in 1998 challenge cup final is among biggest upsets in history of competition.

Sheffield

As well as being term for any depression in a structure in anatomy, what name is given to the small depression in the retina of the eye, containing tightly packed cones, where visual acuity is highest?

Fovea Centralis

The first modern dance ensemble to perform Wayne McGregor’s Chroma was which contemporary dance company named for the African American dancer, activist and choreographer who founded it in New York in 1958?

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

Published in 2019 and 2022, Black Leopard Red Wolf and Moon Witch Spider King are first two books in planned trilogy by which author?

Marlon James (of A Brief History of Seven Killings)

Claude Debussy dedicated his only string quartet to which Belgian violinist?

Eugene Ysaye

What name is given to individual branch like filaments that make up the mycelium of a fungus? They can be identified as generative, skeletal or binding in the fruiting body of a fungus.

Hyphae

In 2010, journalist Peter Riddell produced a ranking of uk prime ministers. Which PM came last? In office only 144 days 1827-28 following death of George Canning.

Frederick John Robinson, Viscount Goderich

Which TikTok feature named for a musical term allows users to appear alongside an existing video while creating content on app?

Duet

What is name given to period of Chinese history between 220 and 280AD? 14th century novel about this period makes up one of four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature?

Three Kingdoms Period (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)

Which video game series features Ryu, Ken and Akuma? First released in 1987, it is highest grossing fighting series of all time.

Street Fighter

Densest moon in solar system is Jupiter’s innermost moon, known for having over 400 active volcanoes?

Io

The Om is most common symbol of what major religion? As a sound, it is commonly used in many rituals in this religion, such as prayers, weddings and meditation.

Hinduism

What strait connects Andaman Sea and South China Sea? Main shipping Lane between Indian and pacific oceans, lies between Malay peninsula and Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Strait of Malacca

Which American pop star and actress released make up line REM beauty in 2021? Named after song that featured on her 2018 album Sweetener.

Ariana Grande

What chess opening sees a player move their king to the space vacated by their pawn in turn 1? Regarded as a joke opening, it’s name suggests that to make such a bad decision the player must be using a certain piece of equipment to smoke cannabis.

Bongcloud Opening

In graph theory, what adjective describes a tree that covers all vertices of a graph? Prim’s and Kruskal’s algorithms can be used to find the minimum kind of these trees, which use the fewest edges possible.

Spanning Tree

Which Hungarian striker, teammate of Ferenc Puskas and member of Mighty Magyars has highest goals per game at mens World Cup of players to play more than one game? Scored 11 goals in five games at 1954 World Cup including two hat tricks.

Sandor Kocsis

The Khanda is the symbol fo what major religion?

Sikhism

Tv show love island what is name of phase of show which boys and girls split into two separate villas then brought back later?

Casa Amor

Which Brit AwRd nominated Bradford based baseline and rap group have had hits “don’t you worry about me”, “450” and “bmw”? Group have also had self titled reality series broadcast on itv2.

Bad Boy Chiller Crew

Chemical element is most electronegative element?

Fluorine

What is name given to period of Chinese history between 475 and 221 BC? The end of the period saw the unification of China and establishment of the Qin dynasty

Warring States Period

Which moon has smoothest surface of any known o heft in solar system? Suggest could be water under surface.

Europa

Which video game series based around king of iron fist tournament features characters such as Jin Kazama, Kazyua Mishima and Paul Phoenix? First in 1994, third best selling fighting game series of all time.

Tekken

Which American pop star and actress released make up brand Rare Beauty in 2019? Shares name with singers third album.

Selena Gomez

In chess’s Sicilian defence, early moves of pawn to G6 and bishop to G7 can be known as accelerated and hyper accelerated versions of a variation named for what sort of creature? Said that black pawns structure resembles a constellation of this creatures tail.

Dragon

In graph theory, what adjective after an Irishman, is given to a cycle that visits every vertex of a graph exactly once before returning to the origin? Finding one of these cycles for a graph with edge weights can be extended into the Travelling Salesman problem:

Hamiltonian Cycle

Which coronation street villain’s victims include Andy Carver and Michael Rodwell? He met his demise in 2018 when he was stabbed by long time nemesis Anna Windass.

Pat Phelan

Henry David Thoreau was major part of which 19th century American philosophical movement? Another author from this movement, Ralph WAldo Emerson, described its belief of finding divine experience in the everyday in the essays “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”.

Transcendentalism

Which TikTok feature allows users to play part of pre existing video before following it with their own material? Name suggests how the two videos are being combined.

Stitch

Crime ridden village where Miss Marple lived.

St Mary Mead

The 1937 comedy film in black and white starring Will Hay, set at the fictitious Irish railway station of Buggleskelly.

Oh Mr Porter

The of Macc LAds 1985 debut album

Beer & Sex & Chips & Gravy

The Pogues second studio album whose title taken from a quote attributed to Winston churchill about naval tradition.

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

Which formula 1 motor racing circuit is named after the Pastis magnate who financed it?

Circuit Paul Ricard

Which cognac brand sponsored and had naming rights to the Grand National between 1992 and 2004?

Martell

Prize and name of the oldest rowing race in the world raced since 1715 on the Thames between Old Swan Tavern and the Swan Inn?

Doggett’s Coat and Badge

The Dramathon Single Malt marathon from the Glenfarclas distillery to the Glenfiddich distillery is run through valley of which river?

Spey

Who are current sponsors of Six Nations as of 2023?

Guinness

Which snooker player was noted for consumption of lager before and after matching following doctors advice to counteract a tremor? Canadian and died at 56 of heart failure.

Bill Werbeniuk

What was name of the field where wine ran through a fountain outside a temporary palace built in 1520 for Henry viii?

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

Which Faversham brewery founded in 1698 claims to be britains oldest brewer?

Shepherd Neame

In 1855, the best wines in which French wine producing region were ranked in importance from first to fifth growths, with chateau Latour being one of those in top premier cru rank?

Bordeaux

Which country in 2004 became first in world to ban smoking in pubs?

Ireland

The drinking habits of which Labour Party politician were supposed to have given rise to the expression “tired and emotional” to describe being under influence of alcohol?

George Brown

Which Notts forest football recently discussed in a podcast his struggles with xeprezzzion and alcohol at final years of old Trafford?

Jesse Lingard

Which England cricketer fell off a pedalo after drowning his sorrows following a first ball duck against NZ in St Lucia in 2007?

Freddie Flintoff

Which drummer, with reputation of smashing kit on stage and destroying hotel rooms in tour, died in September 1978 from overdose of Heminevrin. Drug intended to treaT symptoms of AlcOhio withdrawal?

Keith Moon

The “heads”, “heart” and “tails” are vapours produced when making drinks by what process?

Distillation

Guiness brewing company patented which device to use in beer cans to produce and maintain the head?

Widget

Cascade, Fuggle and Goldings are varieties of what?

Hops grown commercially in uk

From Latin for “same kind”, name given to natural chemicals in alcohol drinks that irritate blood vessels and tisssue in brain and can make hangover worse?

Congeners

Which alcoholic beverage was marketed under the slogan “anytime, anyplace, anywhere”?

Martini

When Lotraine chase asked in Campari advert “were you truly wafted here from paradise” what was her reply?

Nah, Luton Airport

The Bellini cocktail invented by Giuseppe Cipriani, head bartender at Harry’s Bar in which city?

Venice

How many gallons are there in a firkin of beer?

Nine

How many standard 75cl bottles are there in a Methuselah bottle?

Eight

The phrase “I’m only here for the beer” derive from advert campIgn for what drink?

Double Diamond

In which country is the Wachau wine producing region - noted for wines from Gruner Veltliner and Reisling grapes and riparian to the River Danube?

Austria

Which country is home to Sagres beer?

Portugal

What is English counterpart of the welsh CADW?

English Heritage

In tv sitcom Are You Being Served full name of character played by Wendy Richard

Shirley Brahms

Name of milk based sauce used to make lasagne

Bechamel Sauce

In acronym DEFRA what does it stand for

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

What cartoon crime fighter was assisted by a striped cat called Spot?

Hong Kong Phooey

Which Australian singer had a #1 hit in 1960s with I Remember You? (Although born in England he grew up in Australia)

Frank Ifield

In which card game is the expression “one for his nob” used?

Cribbage

Which university the largest in Britain in number of students enrolled awarded first degrees in 1973?

The Open University

Led by a campaign by Patrick Vernon, June 22nd is a celebrated day of which event and first celebrated in 2018 the 70th anniversary of said event?

Windrush Day

Which 1960s show featured title character Dog, Zsazsa the cat and Kiki the frog?

Hector’s House

Two films Glenda Jackson won Best Actress Oscar for?

Women in Love A Touch of Class

Two gulfs separated by Straits of Hormuz

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

The Dutch football team FC Twente play out of which city?

Enschede

The Buxton, Perrier and San Pellegrino mineral water brands are owned by which multinational food and drink conglomerate?

Nestle

Who was Bobby Ewing (son of Miss Ellie) in Dallas and also Mark Harris in 1977 Man from Atlantis?

Patrick Duffy

Who was the creator of Welcome to Sweden, real life brother to famous female comedian? Show cancelled in second season.

Greg Poehler

Who played Miss Ellie Ewing in Dallas? She was Maggie in original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955 and was in Vertigo also in 1958.

Barbara Bel Geddes

From April 2023 price of first class stamp (previously 95p) and second class stamp (previously 68p)

1st: £1.10 2nd: 75p

Character name of Roger Lloyd Pack in Vicar of Dibley

Owen Hewitt

Film actress married John McEnroe in 1986?

Tatum O’Neil

Which is only species of newt, native to Britain, that is (still) a European protected species?

Great Crested Newt

Which cartoon law enforcer dealt with Muskie Muskrat and Vince van Gopher in course of duties?

Deputy Dawg

Name for nfl player picked last player in nfl draft

Mr Irrelevant

Goalkeeper in team gb womens hockye team saved four pens in final 2016 shootout

Maddie Hinch

First name of Major Hot Lips Houlihan in Mash?

Margaret

The Dockers Umbrella was nickname given to a railway in which city?

Liverpool

Leeds United Elland Road has four stands name after who

Don Revie John Charles Norman Hunter Jack Charlton

Which snooker player is known as Wizard of Wishaw

John Higgins

“It’s four o clock and we’re in trouble deep” are lines from which Everly Brothers hit single?

Wake Up Little Susie

In which British city do stagecoach operate the stagecoach super tram tram network?

Sheffield

What documentation was signed on 10th April 1998

Good Friday Agreement

What’s the name of Rishi Sunak’s fox red Labrador?

Nova

“Concrete Bob” was nickname of man whose construction company built the Glenfinnan Viaduct. What was his surname?

McAlpine

Intended for children 18 months to 5 years, what is junior version of Lego called?

Duplo

In 1957, who became first black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon?

Althea Gibson

Who is patron saint of craftsmen including carpenters

St Joseph

As of January 2023, Minette Batters was president of which Union?

National farmers Union

Aslef Union stands for

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

Fulmoth Kearney was born in Moneygall, in what is now County Offaly. He emigrated from Ireland to US in 1850 and was ancestor of which now former President?

Barack Obama

What is the order of an individual medley in swimming (not medley relay)?

Butterfly Backstroke Breaststroke Freestyle

What is the order of swimming strokes for a MEDLEY RELAY (not individual relay)?

Backstroke Breaststroke Butterfly Freestyle

Which Hungarian swimmer has three golds: 100m backstroke, 200m medley and 400m medley all won at Rio 2016? Also got 200m backstroke silver at Rio.

Katinka Hosszu

American swimmer with six golds across four Olympics, four relays, holds records for relays, controversial garage robbery claims in Rio.

Ryan Lochte

Mike Brewer and Edd China presented thirteen series of which tv programme between 2003 and 2017?

Wheeler Dealers

German word for cheers or good health?

Prost

Danish word for cheers or good health?

Skol

What 23-year-old jazz singer was named Best New Artist at the 2023 Grammy Awards, becoming only the second jazz musician to win the award?

Samara Joy

In solid state physics, what six letter word denotes a quantum of vibrational energy in a Crystal lattice? In 2019, researchers isolated individual examples of these quantised sound waves for first time.

Phonon

The 4X Subgenre of strategy video games coined for Master of Orion but also for civilisation, colonisation etc. stands for what four ex words?

Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate

Who was responsible for the Piltdown Man hoax in Sussex 1912?

Charles Dawson

Which songwriter, more successful as part of another band, provided uncredited vocals to chemical brothers 1999 hit Let Forever Be?

Noel Gallagher

What general name is given to a conductor used to make contact with non metallic part of a circuit? These are often divided into positively charged anodes and negatively charged cathodes and in context of batteries are also called Terminals.

Electrode

In Greek mythology which mortal woman agreed to get married only if possible husband beat her in foot race?

Atalanta

In uk general elections, what word precedes officer in the name of the official responsible for overseeing the electoral process in one or more constituencies and announcing the result following the count?

Returning

Which British playwright and screenwriters last play was first staged in 1977 the same year as death and was titled Cause Celebre or A Woman of Principle?

Terence Rattigan

Cancer campaigner Deborah James was known by what alliterative epithet referencing cancer and was her social media handle and name of charity fund she established?

Bowelbabe

Official authority responsible for lighthouses in England, wales and Channel Islands?

Trinity House

Which then Roma footballer won the World Cup with Italy in 2006, was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, in Greater Manchester, where a triple statue commemorates him along with the borough’s other World Cup winners Geoff Hurst and Jimmy Armfield?

Simone Perrotta

Which French word meaning “skimming” used in English for a type of stroking technique in massage with hands sliding over the skin that is often used at the beginning and end of massage session?

Effleurage

Executive order issued by Lincoln in 1863 which declared all persons held as slaves in rebellious states as “are, and henceforward shall be free”, was officially called Proclamation 95 but is better known by what name?

Emancipation Proclamation

Which mortal woman in Greek mythology was imprisoned by father King Acrisius, where later impregnated by Zeus in form of shower of gold?

Danae

Name of series of hoax photographs taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths and publicised by Conan Doyle’s The Coming of the Fairies?

The Cottingley Fairies

Which songwriter, more successful as part of other band( provided vocals for X-Press 2 hit Lazy in 2002?

David Byrne

The tripoint where countries China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan all meet is Kurumdy mountain, a peak in which central Asian range, stretching from the Hindu Kush in south to Tien Shan in the north?

Pamir Mountains

The philanthropist and humanities advocate Rosalind P Walter (1924-2020) was original subject of a 1942 song that coined which nickname?

Rosie the Riveter

In solid state physics, the phonon structure of a crystal determines what physical, extensive property for that object? This property has a two word name and is measured in Joules per Kelvin.

Heat Capacity/Thermal Capacity

The 2014 video game Sid Meier’s Civilisation: Beyond Earth sees players move from Earth to found colonies on extraterrestrial planets, and is a spiritual successor to which earlier Civilisation spin-off, released in 1999 and named for a certain star system.

Alpha Centauri

Replacing the rye whisky in a Manhattan (rye whisky, sweet vermouth and bitters) with scotch whisky results in which other cocktail?

Rob Roy

Which then Juventus midfielder who won World Cup with Italy 2006, was born and grew up in Argentina moving to Italy only in 2000 and quAlifying for them via an Italian grandfather?

Mauro Camoranesi

Which French word meaning “kneading” is used in English for kneading technique in massage that compresses and releases skin and muscle either by direct pressure or picking up and squeezing and has deeper effect than effleurage?

Petrissage

What was name of bbc radio 5 live podcast launched in 2018 and hosted by Deborah James, with fellow cancer patients Rachael Bland and Lauren Mahon?

You Me and the Big C

Which self funding public body is responsible for maintaining and supervising navigation on the Tideway section of the river Thames?

Port of London Authority

The mens 100m world record held by Bolt since 2008, who held before him

Asafa Powell

Which British playwright and screenwriters last play was staged 2001, same year as death and titled “the thing in the wheel chair”? The same year he published autobiography “So what did you expect”.

Anthony Shaffer

After Scafell Pike and Scafell, which Lake District mountain third highest in England?

Hellvellyn

What name is given to hot, ductile upper layer of the earth’s mantle, below the lithosphere?

Asthenosphere

Nicknamed "Double Dynamite", "The Sultans of Sweat", and "The Dynamic Duo" for their gritty, gospel-infused performances, cover of Soul Man.

Sam Moore and Dave Prater

The US space agency Nasa has named the four astronauts who will take humanity back to the Moon, after a 50-year gap. Who will become the first woman astronaut ever assigned to a lunar mission?

Christina KOCH

The US space agency Nasa has named the four astronauts who will take humanity back to the Moon, after a 50-year gap. Who will be the first black astronaut on one?

Victor GLOVER

The killing of Russian military blogger is being investigated as a "high-profile murder", authorities have said?blew up in statue bomb April 2023

Vladlen TATARSKY

Lead singer of Visage known for Fade to Grey

Steve Strange

a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment.

Koan

Which band recorded the track Ready or Not Here I Come, whose title and chorus was covered on the Fugees 1996 hit Ready or Not? Released in uk in 1971, it followed “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time”.

The Delfonics

Who was Vice President of Sinn Fein from 1923-27? A chief medical officer for Irish citizen army she was first female doctor at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital.

Kathleen Lynn

Which Italian botanist classified plants by seeds and fruits in his 1583 work De plantis libri XVI. His work influenced the work of John Ray.

Andrea Cesalpino

What year was eBay founded, originally called Auction Web? Same year San Franciscan man called Craig started a list of events for friends via email, and Java 1.0 with its “Write Once Run Anywhere” functionality is introduced by Sun Microsystems?

1995

Which London cultural space closed its doors to public in December 2022 after 45 years? The space will reopen in 2026 at a new site in Smithfield’s.

Museum of London

Which third person action adventure sequel developed by Santa Monica Studio was released in 2022? It has 12 noms at 2023 Game Year awards.

God of War Ragnarok

2022 sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn from 2017 set in post apocalyptic us.

Horizon Forbidden West

2022 action adventure game developed by isometricorp won debut game award at 2023 BAFTAs. Control an anthormorphic fox.

Tunic

Which 2022 roguelike shoot ‘em up video game, with a main villain called Bisconte Draculo, won Best Game and Best Game Design at 2023 Video Game BAFTAs?

Vampire Survivors

Who was the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666

Nicholas Lanier

Ru Paul Charles host of RPDR made first mainstream appearance in which Atlanta based band music video in 1989? Winner of mtv best group video in 1990.

The B-52’s (Love Shack)

Which volcano was formed following a 1912 eruption? Located on Alaska peninsula it was largest eruption of the 20th century.

Novarupta

Which polish investigator wrote a 1942 report for the polish government in exile about situation in occupied Poland? Included info about Holocaust which was unknown to West at this point.

Jan Karski

What is name of 2012 doc film which follows two Cape Town fans on their quests to find 1970s American musician sixto rodriguez? It won the 2013 Oscar for best doc.

Searching for Sugar Man

Which Grace jones album released in 1981? The cover art is a painted photograph of her, bare chested in an Armani man’s suit, designed by her then partner artist and graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude.

Nightclubbing

Which figure in war of roses as consort of Henry VI? Shakespeare later described her “she Wolf” with a tigers heart wrapped in a woman’s hide”.

Margaret of Anjou

Which school of art and literature includes Ted Joans, Bob Kaufman and Aime and Suzanne Cesaire? Takes title from a term used by Amira Baraka about writings of Henry Dumas.

Afro Surrealism

What was name of barbie doll that was a suntanned and straight haired surfer girl? Released in 1971 this was the first in the new open eyed, smiling faced Barbie dolls.

Malibu Barbie

Which Swedish former LPGA golfer who has 90 tournament wins, including ten majors, was elected president of internaitonal golf federation in 2020? Only player to date to score under 60 on LPGA tour in 2001 she is known as Ms 59.

Annika Sorenstam

Who was first uk prime minister from Conservative party to form a government in two non sequential terms? Serving as PM from 1834-1835 and 1841-46.

Sir Robert Peel

Name of california luxury hotel used as setting for 1990 Pretty Woman and featured in Entourage? Built in 1928 the hotel was bought by Four Seasons in 1992.

The Beverly Wilshire

Which nation one of two debutants at 2018 World Cup in Russia after topping qualifying? Came bottom of group Drew Argentina, lost to Croatia and nigeria.

Iceland

Which French fashion designer replaced Yves Saint Laurent as Chief Designer at the House of Dior in 1960? He left Dior in 1989 to work for Norman Hartnell.

Marc Bohan

What was name of RuPaul’s first single on rap label Tommy Boy, from his debut album of same name in 1993? It led to RuPaul being first drag queen signed up as face of MaC Cosmetics.

Supermodel (You Better Work!)

Volcano eruption in 1991 was 20th century second biggest eruption? On Luzon volcanic arc.

Mount Pinatubo

Which polish military officer wrote 1943 report about auschswitz Concentration Camp? First comprehensive record to be obtained by the Allies.

Witold Pilecki

In what year did Netflix launch? Steve Jobs return to Apple as CEO and Deep Blue beat Kasparov.

1997

Which London cultural space will open its doors to public for first time since closed in March 2020? Galleries will be opened with exhibitions on Paul Photographs and David Hockney Still Life.

National Portrait Gallery

Who was Vice President of Sinn Fein from 1927-33? Known for endorsement of IRA violence she supported Sean Russell’s leadership in WW2 and his S Plan bombing campaign.

Mary MacSwiney

Which book series written by LJ Smith centres of student who finds herself in love triangle with brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore?

The Vampire Diaries

Which Swiss botanist classified thousands of plants in 1623 work Pinax theatri botanici? Carl Linnaeus named a genus of flowering shrubs in the Fabaceae family after this man and his brother.

Gaspard Bauhin

A highland terrier feature in logo of which American fashion brand? Founded 1997 and known for tracksuits worn by celebs like Madonna and Paris Hilton.

Juicy Couture

Which artist released Boadicea in 1987 whose melody sampled in Fugees ReDy or Not in 1996? It was later rereleased as The Celts in 1992 following their number one album Shepherd Moons.

Enya

Which Italian fashion designer replaced Marc Bohan at House of Dior in 1989? Known as architect of fashion he was replaced by John Galliano in 1996.

Gianfranco Ferre

Name of Japanese luxury hotel open since 1995 used as setting for lost in translation? West side of Shinjuku shopping district, first western luxury hotel in Japan.

Park Hyatt

Name of French countess and writer who published two fairy tale collections in 17th century? Coined the term Fairy Tales by calling her 1697 collection the name.

Marie Catherine d’Aulnoy

Which animal when in a group has collective name “an Aurora of”?

Polar bears

Which literary movement first developed in 1980s Martinique is used to describe the cultural and linguistic landscape of the French Caribbean? It is associated with La negritude movement of the 1930s.

Creolite

what was name of barbie doll with rapunzel style hair that came with brushes and styling gel accessories? Released in 1992 it is most popular selling barbie to date.

Totally Hair Barbie

Which Australian former LPGA golfer with 41 tournament wins, is only Super Grand Slam winner in LPGA history? Won all five events during career from first in 1999 and seventh in 2006, she is Golf’s Tigress?

Karrie Webb

Name of 2013 documentary winner of 2014 Oscar for best doc by Morgan Neville that focused on backing singers for most iconic performers ever?

20 Feet from Stardom

Which Grace Jones album released in 1985? Cover art is montage of Jones in impossibly graceful arabesque singing into a Mike.

Island Life

Longest river in Australia including its tributaries? It was named after British Secretary of State for war by British explorer captain Charles Sturt.

Murray

Which woman was cause between Earl of Warwick and King Edward IV falling out during war of roses after Warwick embarrassed by edward’s choice of bride?

Elizabeth Woodville

Which Japanese designer founded Comme Des Garçon in 1969?

Rei Kawakubo

Which Chilean goalkeeper plays for Lyon in Division 1 Feminine? She won worlds best goalie in 2021 but lost to Mary Earps in 2023

Christiane Endler

Which author is known for Fortunes of War? Written between 1960!-!; 1980 they were based on her experiences during world war 2?

Olivia Manning

What style of shoe takes name from long pointed toe? It was popular in 1950s with rock and roll fans z

Winklepickers

What nationality is McLaren driver Oscar Piastri? He is making his F1 debut in 2023 season after serving as Alpine reserve previous.

Australian

Used in distillation process, a whisky making still made from which metal?

Copper

What is name for a whisky that is made from mixture of malt and grain whiskies? Bells and Famous Grouse are examples of this type of whisky.

Blended

Which island in Inner Hebrides names a style of whisky? Whiskies in this region are characterised by their peat smoke aroma.

Islay

Which green mohawked hand puppet had enemy called Wilson the Butler? He appeared on CBBC The Broom Cupboard alongside Andy Crane and Andi Peters.

Edd the Duck

Alongside Jack Bernhardt, who is cohost of Taskmaster: The People’s Podcast? She is a comedian and winner of series 8 of the uk version of the show.

Lou Sanders

Podcast hosted by Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes? Features top achievers from variety of disciplines.

High Performance Podcast

Name of large red gemstone set in front of imperial state crown? Named after son of Edward III.

Black Prince’s Ruby

Which 12th century item is one of oldest surviving objects in British Crown Jewels? Used to anoint monarch with holy oil/

Coronation Spoon

What was the stage name of Beastie Boys Adam Yauch? Died 2012 from cancer.

MCA

Which cricketer announced her retirement in April 2022? In 2018 she became first woman to appear on Wisden Circietss Almanack

Anya Shrubsole

Who was captain of England womens rugby team during 2022 World Cup? Plays for Loughborough lightning and named rugby Union writers personality of the year.

Sarah Hunter

Which Egyptian deity was god of Moon? Depicted with head of falcon, he has featured on tv series Moon Knight/

Khonsu

Which London uni was Rosalind Franklin working for when member of her team took Photo 51? Others include Desmond Tutu, Virginia Woolf, petter Higgs.

KCL

Which king provided Kings College London it’s charter

George IV

Which king founded Kings College Cambridge?

Henry VI in 1441 after he also founded Eton

Which memoir by Barack Obama did Prince Harry’s spare overtake as fastest selling nonfiction book in January 2023

A Promised Land

Spareribs are cut from bottom of the rib cage - what is the name of the cut from the opposite side of the ribcage? Name comes from they are smaller than spare.

Baby Back Ribs

Which actress played Lady Jane Grey in a 1986 film directed by Trevor Nunn? She has previously been Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With A View.

Helena Bonham-Carter

What material is finished by French polishing?

Wood

Which organ of body can experience horripilation?

Skin (hairs on end)

What greek dish is mashed potato’s mixed with garlic to make traditional dip?

Skordalia

Which novel by Nick hornby shares title with song by Barbra Streisand?

Funny Girl

How many players are there on a Ryder Cup team?

12

Which fruit from the mulberry family has varieties called Black Mission and Brown Turkey?

Fig

Whcih publishing company uses fire and water logo?

Harper Collins

In which sport can you be awarded a penalty stroke for a foul in shooting circle?

Hockey

What small savoury appetiser takes name from Russian for pancakes?

Blini

Type of potato pancake or fritter in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine traditionally prepared for Hanukkah?

Latkes

Zinder is second largest city in which African country?

Niger

Which luxury department store began in New York in 1861 as ladies Notions Shop selling hoop skirts?

Bloomingdale’s

Which Australian city is home to Cazalys Stadium and the Esplanade Lagoon?

Cairns

Which former assistant to Anna wintour at vogue magazine wrote 2003 bestseller Devil Wears Prada

Lauren Weisberger

Which “mother sauce” of French cuisine can be used to make an Allemande or Supreme sauce?

Veloute

In which sport would you perform a Harrison Hoist?

Netball - lifts a defender like rugby

Montpelier, Cappadocian and Pere David’s are all types of which tree?

Maple

Name of 1979 debut album by The Cure?

Three Imaginary Boys

The Man from Uncle what does Uncle stand for?

United Network Command for Law and Enforcement

Which Iranian Artist born 1937 is most famous for bronze sculptures depicting word heech, Persian word meaning nothing?

Parviz Tanavoli

Marketed by Proctor and Gamble, which is the highest selling detergent brand in the world?

Tide

Vegetable nickname for former HQ of Mayor of London on south bank?

Onion

Nickname for supporters of Dundee United thought to be as so much sand in 1963 cold weather on pitch?

The Arabs

Which Olympic weight lifting movement ends with the barbell held in the front rack position across the deltoids, without resting fully on the clavicles?

Clean

Only Connect - top four molecules in galaxy by abundance

4) Hydroxyl Radical (OH) 3) Water (H2O) 2) Carbon Monoxide (CO) 1) Hydrogen (H2)

The Royal International Horse Show, the official horse show of the British Horse Society is held during July each year at which jumping course in West Sussex?

Hickstead

Which pub game is played on a table with no side or corner pockets but with nine holes in the playing surface and uses eight balls in all, seven white and one red?

Bar Billiards

Arctic Monkeys track “I Wanna Be Yours” now streamed on Spotify over 1 billion times Mking which poet who wrote words quite popular indeed?

John Cooper Clarke

Which expression was used by Louis XV in context of passage of Halley’s Comet in 1759 and taken subsequently to foresee French Revolution and has since been adopted to the motto of 617 Squadron RAF?

Apres Moi Le Deluge

Which word used internationally as an extremely urgent distress signal in voice procedure radio communications is derived from French?

Mayday (from m’aidez)

Which word we use to mean sleight of hand is meaningless in French where the equivalent is “un tour de passé-passé”?

Legerdemain

Three native British lizards are…

Common Lizard, Sand Lizard and Slow Worm

As of April 2023, of two countries admitted to full membership of the ICC in 2018, which currently has highest win ratio of any test playing country in history?

Afghanistan (50% more than Australia’s 47.5%, Ireland is other added in 2018)

Silverstone circuit straddles which two counties?

Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire

Which company was founded in 1903 in England and now HQ in Israel and acquired by PepsiCo in August 2018 for US$3.2 billion?

Sodastream

Derived from an Arabic word meaning Lampstand, what name is given to a tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques generally used to project the Muslim call to prayer?

Minaret

Cast of 2023 Velma tv show. There’s no scooby doo.

Velma Dinkley: Mindy Kaling Fred Jones: Glenn Howerton Norville Rogers: Sam Richardson Daphne Blake: Constance Wu

The Who’s first top 10 single, 1965 reached #8?

I can’t explain

Before he was elected US president, Woodrow Wilson served as governor of which US state?

New Jersey

Gordon Moore creator of Moore’s “] was cofounder of which company

Intel

WhT slang term used to describe circus workers who erect the big top tent?

Roustabouts

What actor was acquitted of 2001 shooting deTH of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley?

Robert Blake

Herman TARNOWER who was shot and killed by his lover Jean Harris in 1980 was creator of what diet?

Scarsdale Diet

Who passed Wayne Gretzky in 2023 for most 40 goal seasons in NHL history with his 13th? Russian and plays for Washington Capitals.

Alex Ovechkin

Which protein typically used in making Thai soup Tom Yam Kung?

Prawns

What owner of Atlanta Braves managed his team for single day in 1977?

Ted Turner

What 1931 gangster movie starred Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke and James Cagney?

Public Enemy

The practice of Fika, a work break with bev and snack similar to coffee break, is social institution in which country?

Sweden

The word “cornicione” is the term for the outer crusty edge of which Italian dish?

Pizza

Cowboy hats are described as being how many gallons?

Ten Gallon Hat

Which English sauce traditionally served with cold meats, is made from redcurrant jelly, red wine and orange zest?

Cumberland Sauce

When the Old Age Pensions Act was introduced in uk in 1908 what was the retirement age set at?

70

In which Costa region of Spain is seaside resort of Benidorm located?

Costa Blanca

Dorothea Brooke of Tipton Grange is main character in which George Eliot novel?

Middlemarch

If a diamond weighed one gram how many carats would it be?

5

Which ancient Egyptian board game features squares called House of Rebirth and House of Happiness?

Senet

Which German wine region stretches from Luxembourg border to city of Koblenz?

Mosel Valley

Which album by Gorillaz got to number one in 2023, first in 17 years?

Cracker Island

Lana Del Ray number one album in 2023

Did you know that there’s a tunnel under

2023 album by Depeche Mode, currently consisting of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore as Andy Fletcher died in 2022.

Memento Mori

Whcih novel by Robert Louis Stevenson features title character, Princess seraphina and Baron Gondremark?

Prince Otto

Patrick Mouratoglou is current coach for which two time grand slam winning tennis player?

Simona Halep

Which French rococo Artist was first painter to king Louis XV between 1765-70?

Francois Boucher

The absolute scale of temperature using degrees of the same size as Fahrenheit scale is named after which Scottish engineer?

Macquorn Rankine

Who played Delihah to Victor Mature’s Samson in 1949 Samson and Delilah?

Hedy Lamarr

Which British garden bird used to be known as the sheep stare?

Starling

England suffered their heaviest ever defeat at Twickenham to France this Saturday (2023)? But who was England captain in previous record defeat to South Africa in 2008?

Steve Borthwick (who managed England in 2023)

Which product was first introduced in laminated foil vacuum pouches in Germany in late 1960s, becoming first single serving fruit juice containers sold in the US and now over 7b sold each year in world?

Capri Sun

What we’re allowed into the Chelsea flower show for just one year to mark the centenary in 2013?

Garden Gnomes

Which is only ordinal number which when speller in English has all its letters in alphabetical order?

First

Which line roughly follows the 180 degrees line of longitude?

International Date Line

The Garrison Gunners and the WoolpAck Wanderers play each other 18 times a season, being the only two members of the smallest football league in the world located on what archipelago?

Scilly Isles

Breaking a 34 year record and cementing her status as greatest alpine skier of modern era, which American skier achieved her 87th World Cup victory after winning slalom in alpine ski World Cup in March 2023?

Mikaela Shiffrin

What word precedes song or March in popular name for aria “votre toast, je peux vous Le rendre” which is sung by Escamillo and the chorus in Carmen? This word refers to Escamillo’s profession.

Toreador

The process of seed germination in plants is triggered by what class of plant hormone which is also involved in the development of flowers?

Gibberellins

The first Asian actor to be nominated for an Oscar for film The dark Angel in 1935, which actor hid her Sri Lankan heritage during lifetime claiming born in Tasmania?

Merle Oberon

Which international netball team nicknamed Proteas?

South Africa

Which of main kingdoms that made up Heptarchy located in modern day counties of Suffolk and Norfolk?

East Anglia

What name given to cushioning fluid in many joints of human body? Main role reduce friction between cartilage of joints during movement.

Synovial Fluid

What is name of salted and fermented herring traditional to Swedish cuisine? Eaten after third Thursday in august usually outside due to strong smell.

Surstromming

Which mountain the highest point in Syria, is worlds highest permanently manned UN position? The mountain helps form a buffer zone between Israel and Syria.

Mount Hermon

Title of what 1968 Miles Davis album name of historical queen?

Nefertiti

Occuring on New Year’s Day 1984, Good Morning Mr Orwell was an art installation that linked a New York TV station to the Centre Pompidou in Paris via satellite. Work by which Korean born American artist?

Nam June Paik

Which man who served as president of Tanzania from 1964-1985

Julius Nyerere

What surname shared by brothers Thom and Max both former Scottish international rugby players! Thom gained more off pitch notoriety due to romantic involvement with Kelly Brook and Nicole Sherzinger.

Evans

Between 1939-45, Merle Oberon was married to which Hungarian born British filmmaker known for The Pricate Life of Henry VIII and producing the third man and the thief of Baghdad? First film director to be knighted and gives name to bafta for outstanding British film.

Alexander Korda

What plant hormone is responsible for controlling plants growth by inhibiting seed germination as well as causing leaves to fall off?

Abscisic Acid

Although name suggests they sell only a certain type of animal produce by what name are small conveniences stores, similar to corner shops known in Australia? Their early development was encouraged by the Temperance Society as an alternative to pubs.

Milk Bar

“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (love is a rebellious bird) is entrance aria of Carmen in Carmen is popularly known by what single word name? Title comes from a dance.

Habanera

Whose record of 86 World Cup wins set in 1989 did Mikaela Shiffrin break? He is regarded as greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time winning both events at 1980 lake placid Olympics?

Ingemar Stenmark

One contributor to Nam June Pail’s Good Morning Mr Orwell is which German conceptual artist whose works include the 1970 installation Felt Suit? In one of his best known works I Like America and America Likes Me artist went to new York and spent three days wrapped in felt living in room with live coyote?

Joseph Beuys

West Coast Main Line runs from Glasgow Central through Birmingham down to which station in London?

Euston

Country’s first Governor General after independence in 1947 who is considered father of nation of Pakistan?

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

What surname is shared by brothers Jonny and Richie both Scottish international rugby players? Jonny currently plays for Exeter chiefs and while former British lion Richie now plays for glasgow warriors.

Gray

The title of which 1971 miles Davis album is named of an African American sportsman active in early 20th century?

Jack Johnson

Which dish originating in Norway and also eaten in Sweden and Finland, consisting of white fish that has been dried and cured in lye? Rehydrated to create a gelatinous texture before eating and forms part of Christmas feasts.

Lutefisk

Which glacier the longest in the Karakoram range is the worlds highest battlefield? Pakistan and India have maintained a permanent military presence in the region since 1984.

Siachen Glacier

Which actor, Oscar winner forn2014 boyhood l, played Dr Avery Ryan in tv spin off series CSI: Cyber?

Patricia Arquette

Name given to red spicy mutton or beef sausage originating in North African and become popular in France in 20th century?

Merguez

First part of Chien-Shiung Wu’s phd in 1940 focused on phenomenon in which charged particles slow down after passing through the electric and magnetic fields of a nucleus, resulting in conversion of kinetic energy to electromagnetic radiation. German term meaning deceleration radiation?

Bremsstrahlung

With name similar to British newspaper columnist, which 13th century Benedictine monk wrote the Chronica Majora while at St Albans Abbey?

Matthew Paris

According to Halifax survey, what Devon seaside town is priciest seaside town in UK in 2022 overtaking Sandbanks in Dorset which was 2021 winner?

Salcombe

According to Halifax survey, what Dorset seaside town is priciest seaside town in UK in 2021 but overtaken by Devon’s Salcombe in 2022?

Sandbanks

Which composers third symphony completed in 1896 and consisting of six movements is often considered longest symphony in standard repertoire with performances around 100 mins?

Gustav Mahler

Mike Dixon is only three time British Olympic flag bearer doing so at the 1994, 1998 and 2002 winter games. He had competed in cross country skiing at his first games but switched to which related sport for rest of career?

Biathlon

Known for store consultants white lab coats, which beauty brand was developed by Evelyn, daughter in law of Estee Lauder in 1968? Iconic products include Take the Day Off cleansing balm, Dramatically Different moisturising lotion and Moisture Surge hydrator?

Clinique

Chain Polymers was a 1968 exhibition by which post minimalist sculptor born in Germany in 1936 but emigrating to America at a young age who was known for pioneering use of materials such as fibreglass, latex, wires and textiles?

Eva Hesse

Which fictional Wild West town is home to Dandy comic character Desperate Dan?

Cactusville

Which South African band, whose style blends traditional folk music with blues, jazz, rock were featured on Shakira song waka waka theme for 2010 World Cup?

Freshlyground

What name meaning navel is given to marble monument now held in museum at Delphi that according to ancient greek myth marked centre of the earth?

Omphalos

Popular brand of frozen pizzas with cinema inspired name was founded in Ireland in 1993?

Goodfellas

Which reaction, named after the French chemist who won the 1912 Nobel prize it’s discovery, is a method of carbon-carbon bond formation that takes place when an alkyl group is added to a carbonyl group, using an eponymous reagent in transition state?

Grignard reaction

Which week long JEWISH festival is also known as Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Booths or Festival of Ingathering in reference to its celebration of the end of harvest? It begins on 15th day of Hebrew month Tishrei which can vary from late September to late October in Gregorian calendar.

Sukkot

The Karpas peninsula, a 44 mile long tapering finger pointing to Northeast forms one end of which large Mediterranean island?

Cyprus

In Australian rules football, a goal, scored by kicking the ball between the two central of four posts is worth how many points?

Six

Also known as oracle of Delphi, what was title of high priestess of the temple of Apollo at Delphi? The adjectival form of this name also used to refer to Delphi in other contexts or to the form of Apollo worshipped there.

Pythia

In 1984 Desperate Dan replaced which other character as the cover star of the Dandy comic?

Korky the Cat

Which word means loveable is used to denote the culture of cuteness that is a prominent aesthetic in much of Japanese popular culture?

Kawaii

Which Claudia, a popular Brazilian singer and tv personality, is a judge on Brazilian The Voice, and was featured along with J Lo on Pitbull song We are One (Ola Ola), theme for 2014 FIFA World Cup?

Claudia Leitte

Developed at a namesake beauty institute in Paris in 1954, which French cosmetics company markets the popular facial products Double Serum and Beauty Flash Balm and fragrance Eau Dynamisante?

Clarins

Edward I ordered the construction of which castle on Anglesey in 1295? Now only non mainland part of world heritage site “castles and town walls of king Edward in Gwynedd”?

Beaumaris

Which modernist sculptor born in california 1926 to Japanese immigrant parents, was known for her work on hanging wire sculptures as well as her fountains in public spaces, such as Aurora on San Fran waterfront?

Ruth Asawa

Which composers first symphony completed in 1917 and nicknamed the “Classical” is among the shortest in the standard repertoire with performances averaging around 16 minutes?

Sergei Prokofiev

Mollie Phillips was first female flag bearer for any country at an Olympic Games. She represented Britain in which sport at 1932 winter games in womens singles and later won a European bronze in the pairs?

Figure Skating

The northern end of which large Mediterranean island is its namesake Cap, a 25 mile long finger shaped peninsula, pointing directly north, and featuring fishing villages such as Macinaggio along its rugged coast?

Corsica

Subdivided into the Pleistocene, Holocene and Anthropocene epochs, what name is given to most recent, and current, period of the Cenozoic era?

Quaternary

In Australian Rules Football, what name is given to single point score achieved by kicking the ball between one of the central posts and the outer post?

Behind

Possibly in reference to his administration being nicknamed Camelot, which US President’s secret service code name was Lancer?

JF Kennedy

In 1975 italian language film Seven Beauties, concerning a Sicilian man sent to German concentration camp, earned which Italian screenwriter, who died in 2021, the first ever female best director Oscar nomination?

Lina Wertmuller

Chinese artist born 1864 whose Twelve Landscape Screens became first painting by Chinese artist to sell over $100m. Taught himself to paint sparked by the Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden.

Qi Baishi

Which Jewish festival is also known as feast of weeks in reference to its position seven weeks after Passover and celebrates the wheat harvest? It occurs on sixth day of Hebrew month of Sivan May fall May-June.

Shavuot

Currently holding WBC, IBF, WBA, WBO and Ring titles, which American boxer is undisputed world champion in mens lightweight division?

Devin Haney

Which reaction, named after the pair of German chemists who shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for its discovery, is a method of carbon-carbon bond formation that takes place between diene and conjugated alkene, resulting in ring structure?

Diels-Alder reaction

2009 Omar Al-Bashir, president of which African country, became the worlds first sitting head of state to have an arrest warrant issued by International Criminal Court? He was indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for actions in Darfur region.

Sudan

First broadcast in 2018, which bbc series stars Jo Joyner and Mark Benton as titular private investigating duo?

Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators

Which 1980s supergroup was originally made up of John Wetton from King Crimson, Steve Howe from Yes, ELP’s Carl Palmer and Geoff Downes of the Buggles?

Asia

Two teams with record most super bowl wins with six apiece?

New England Patriots Pittsburgh Steelers

First broadcast in 2020 which itv detective series set in Bath stars Tara Gouveia and Jason Watkins as titular pair of police officers?

McDonald & Dodds

From Greek for “beyond looks”, name given to phenomenon of seeing meaningful patterns such as faces or objects where there are none, a famous example being “man in the moon”?

Pareidolia

What alliterative two word term is often used for a traditional or spiritual healer in Native American or First Nations peoples? Despite his name it is a role often filled by women.

Medicine Man

Named after city in West Bengal, which corridor is narrow stretch of land connecting the eight states of northeast India to the rest of the country? Also known as the chickens neck, it is just 12 miles wide at narrowest point passing between Bangladesh and Nepal.

Siliguri Corridor

Which footballer won inaugural fifa world player of the year award in 1991 and remains only German to have won it?

Lothar Matthaus

Fruity name if Parisian food inspector character accompanied by bloodhound Pommes Frites, created by Michael Bond in a series of detective comedies from 1983?

Monsieur Pamplemousse

Ken Murphy succeeded Dave Lewis in 2020 as CEO of what company? Criticised in Summer 2022 for taking home £4.7m pay during cost of living crisis.

Tesco

Which city was devastated on 19 February 1942 in first and deadliest of all WW2 Japan air raids on Australia?

Darwin

With its peach and pear aromas, what V is only permitted grape variety for the French white wines of the Condrieu Appellation in the Rhone Valley?

Viognier

Which London borough is designated the 2023 London borough of culture and includes districts of Addington, Selhurst and Thornton Heath?

Croydon

Who was only British PM to serve during the reigns of both George I and George II?

Robert Walpole

In its standard form, which bidding convention, one of most widely used in contract bridge, involves making an artificial bid of Four No Trumps to ask your partner how many aces they hold?

Blackwood

Sometimes also known as buffalo gnats or Turkey gnats, what is usual common name for the Simuliidae family of biting insects? Among other nuisances these biting insects related to midges and mosquitos are responsible for spreading river blindness via a parasitic worm.

Blackfly

Two word phrase featured in Christian liturgy, means lamb of god in Latin?

Agnus Dei

What is name of gymnastic troupe from ashford in Surrey originally 7 girls 6 boys, that won the fourth series of BGT in 2010 and who performed at the closing ceremony of 2012 London Olympics?

Spelbound

Name from Greek for water and pipe, branch of engineering involves use of pressurised liquids?

Hydraulics

SATB initialism for singing voice types, what stands for?

Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

Simon Roberts succeeded Mike Coupe as CEO of what company in 2020? Criticised in 2022 for taking home £3.8m pay.

Sainsburys

Having recovered from Japanese air raids in 1942, Darwin had to be largely rebuilt once again after it was hit by what type of natural disaster in Christmas Day 1974? Also in 1897 and 1937.

Cyclone

What T is an Argentinian grape variety with three subvarieties Riojano, Sanjuanino and Mendocino, each named for their province of origin, and known for producing aromatic white wines with distinctive peach and apricot aromas?

Torrontes

What was rhyming name of Guinea pig character introduced by Michael Bond from 1971 who would relate far fetched stories to her animal friends?

Olga da Polga

Plants of genus Gossypium are source of which natural fibre consisting of almost pure cellulose? Denim and Terry cloth are among the many fabrics made from this common material.

Cotton

Alliterative named American public service provides essential health services and reproductive care to millions of women.

Planned Parenthood

Which footballer won second FIFA world player of the year award in 1992 and remains only Dutch player to have won it?

Marco Van Basten

Which small polish city gives its name to the Gap/Corridor that makes up the 60 miles long land border between Poland and Lithuania? This area is strategically important because it also separates the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to the northwest from Belarus to southeast.

Suwalki Gap

Name of Hungarian shadow theatre group who came to prominence performing at Hungarian Olympic Oath ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics before winning the seventh series of BGT in 2013?

Attraction

Greek for breath or wind, which branch of engineering involves pressurised gases?

Pneumatics

Capital of the wartorn Tigray province in Ethiopia

Mekelle

Which two word phrase found in Christian liturgy means Lord have mercy in biblical Greek?

Kyrie Eleison

In its standard form, which bidding convention, one of most widely used in contract bridge, involves making an artificial bid of Two Clubs after a No Trump opening to ask your partner if they hold a four or five card major suit?

Stayman

Which blackfly, with the binomial simulium posticatum, and is named after a market town in Dorset, as local populations of the insect have been known to cause public health problems in area?

Blandford Fly

Which London borough was the 2022 London Borough of Culture, and includes the districts of Bellingham, Hither Green and Sydenham?

Lewisham

Which singer sang theme song for Fame or Flashdance?

Irene Cara

What forename shared by wife of Martin Bryce in sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles and the Irish mother played by Philippa Dunne in sitcom Motherland?

Anne

Seymour Skinner’s mother name

Agnes Skinner

Which 2020 film broadcast on bbc focuses on 1971 trial of nine black activists in London? Part of Small Axe anthology, named after restaurant where police raids took place.

Mangrove

Eddie James under name Cyclops, sets the cryptic crosswords for which fortnightly publication?

Private Eye

Who was said to have been elected King of Rome after death of Romulus, serving in the role for around 43 years? He instigated many of Rome’s most important religious and political institutions such as Roman calendars and Vestal Virgins.

Numa Pompilius

In which 1709 battle of war of the Spanish succession did grand Alliance forces under the Duke of Marlborough win a narrow victory over French? Battle fought in France was last of Marlborough’s four great victories of that decade.

Malplaquet

Marlborough’s four great victories of 1700s

1704: Blenheim 1706: Ramillies 1708: Oudenarde 1709: Malplaquet

What was the janitor alter ego of Hong Kong Phooey?

Penrod “Penry” Pooch

Which American is only pool player to have won WPA world championship in 9-ball pool on three occasions doing so in 1988, 90 and 91? Along with Johnny Archer he holds record for most Mosconi Cup wins at nine.

Earl Strickland

Romanian rower who along with Steve Redgrave has won Olympic gold medals at five different games?

Elisabeta Lipa

Which creole, based on Bantu Kongo language, is used as lingua franca in much of RC and DRC and officially recognised alongside Lingala and French in both countries?

Kituba

Although they preceded special relativity, which set of linear transformations convert coordinates from one inertial frame to another moving at some relative velocity? Named by Henri Poincare for the physicist who first derived them alongside Josephe Larmor in late 19th century.

Lorentz Transformations

Which American folk musician gives their name to a finger style guitar picking technique used in American folk and country music? This style sees melody played on lower strings, while rhythm strumming continues on higher strings, and has been credited with turning guitar into lead instrument.

Maybelle Carter

Which German chemist gives his name to a condensation reaction in which two esters form a beta-keto ester and an alcohol in the presence of a strong base?

Rainer Ludwig Claisen

In social sciences, what name is given to overarching theory that elements of human culture can only be understood by their relationship to a broader system? Claude Levi-Strauss is associated with the school of anthropology which looks at mankind in this way.

Structuralism

Which English town gives name to agreement between UK and EU reached in February 2023 about movement of goods between single market and the uk in light of Northern Ireland protocol?

Windsor

In the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire series, the vicar Mark Robarts is resident of the titular parsonage at which village?

Framley

What 2017 board game is cooperative fantasy themed, campaign based tactical skirmish game, whose 2022 sequel Frosthaven is most backed board game in history of crowd funding site Kickstarter?

Gloomhaven

In 1996, which Filipino pool player beat Earl Strickland in Color of Money challenge match, winning $100k? He was first player to win WPA World Championships in different pool disciplines and earned nickname Magician due to highly creative shots.

Efren Reyes

What song do Manchester United walk onto the pitch to in football?

This Is The One by Stone Roses

Watford and Everton both come into pitch in football to which tv show theme song?

Z Cars

Which football team’s walk on music is Liquidator by the Harry J Allstars

Chelsea

Which football club blare out Glad All Over by the Dave Clark Five when walk into pitch and also when score?

Crystal Palace

Which football club enter pitch to song Going Home by Mark Knopfler

Newcastle

In computing, the clock generator is a circuit that produces an oscillating signal for component synchronisation and forms part of which integral component?

Motherboard

In computing, the arithmetic logic unit or ALU is a circuit that forms part of which integral component?

Central Processing Unit

In which 1708 battle of war of Spanish succession did grand alliance forces under the duke of Marlborough rout French forces who withdrew from field? Fought near the Belgian city of the same name, this was third of Marlborough’s four great victories of decade.

Oudenarde

In 1970s animated show The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Penelope’s guardian Sylvester Sneekly is actually main antagonist of the show, under the guise of which alter-ego?

The Hooded Claw

Name given to horseshoe shaped pool that has been formed by meander of river?

Oxbow Lake

1990, Tim Smit and John Willis rediscovered which gardens in ancestral home of Tremayne family near Mevagissey, Cornwall?

Lost Gardens of Heligan

Who preceded Tarquinius Superbus as penultimate King of Rome serving for around 44 years? Expanded the city to include Quirinal, Viminal and Esquiline hills and some claim did first coinage for city. Son in law Tarquinius said to never have been forgiven for overseeing his assassination.

Servius Tullius

Which 2020 film, broadcast on bbc, focuses on meeting of two people at reggae house party in 1980? Part of small axe anthology, it is named after a style of romantic reggae music.

Lovers Rock

Two unnamed setters using name Anus set cryptic crossword for which monthly adult mag?

Viz

What forename and surname links French centre back who moved from Leicester to Chelsea in 2022 for 70m with French rugby Union player who won 48 caps for his country between 2012-19 while playing for Clermont Auvergne?

Wesley Fofana

Which English novelist and poet wrote 1881 poem The Lark Ascending?

George Meredith

Another relief presenter on itv’s this morning is which woman who won final series of big brother when it was shown onC4? Also runner up on 2022 series of Cooking with the Stars.

Josie Gibson

What 2016 board game is set in an alternate history version of 1920s Europe where players combat factions that produce resources, develop infrastructure and engage in combat and control territories? Title name of agricultural tool.

Scythe

Which Italian chemist gives his name to disproportionation reaction in which two non-enolizable aldehydes form a carboxylic acid and an alcohol?

Stanislao Cannizzaro

In anthropology, what name is given to overarching theory that society is a complex society whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability? The word “structural” May sometimes precede the name of this theory associated with Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski.

Functionalism

In the fifth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, Mary Dale is the resident of the titular Small House at which estate?

Allington

Famous book by Robert Nozick three words in title as libertarian response to John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice?

Anarchy, State and Utopia

Leonard du Caprio okay which character in wolf of wall street?

Jordan Belfort

Which American banjo player gives their name to three fingered picking technique characteristic of bluegrass music? Member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys before forming a duo with guitarist Lester Flatt.

Earl Scruggs

Which austronesian-based creole language served as lingua franca in Papua New Guinea until largely supplanted by Tok Pisin and English?

Hiri Motu

The Lorentz transformations preserve the space time interval between any two events in which specific four dimensional manifold? It is named for the mathematician that fully developed the concept after following on from Poincare’s earlier paper that introduced time as an imaginary fourth space time coordinate.

Minkowski spacetime

In which English county is Moortown, the first uk course to host Ryder Cup in 1929?

West Yorkshire

Roadrunners are in which family of birds?

Cuckoos

Matsuyama is most populous city in which japan’s four main islands?

Shikoku

Who won first series of Cooking with the Stars on itv in 2021?

Harry Judd

Who was winner of Cooking with the Stars season 2 in 2022?

Dr Ranj Singh

Who played nasty Nick cotton in Eastenders? Shares name with composer born 1949 who arranged song Always Look on bright side of life in life of Brian.

John Altman

Karate originated in which Japanese island?

Okinawa

Zaffre, Savoy and Midnight all shades what colour?

Blue

Which poet wrote poems Yarrow Unvisited, Yarrow Visited and Yarrow Revisited?

William Wordsworth

Which cereal bran has a mascot who wears cravat and a wide awake hat?

Quaker’s Oats

UK 2023 eurovision entry and song

Mae Muller: I Wrote a Song

Which soup took its name from Italian for “to serve”?

Minestrone

Director of the world of Apu films

Satyajit Ray

Creator of citizen khan

Adil Ray

What vegetable is “smacked” to create popular Chinese dish?

Cucumber

Which British author wrote the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare? Published 1956.

Hammond Innes

Which Taylor Swift album features the songs Anti Hero and Lavender Haze

Midnights

A friagem wind comes from which direction?

South (used in Brazil)

Who was Greek god of the south wind?

Notus

Roman mythology south wind god named what? Also used for south wind now.

Auster

Word used for stormy southwest wind in Hawaii

Kona

Four letter wind used in the alps, dry relatively warm downslope wind occurs in lees of mountain range(

Fohn

Greek god of north wind

Boreas

Greek god of east wind

Eurus

Greek god of west wind?

Zephyrus

Historian author who wrote All Souls Trilogy consisting of A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life?

Deborah Harkness

Ellas McDaniel real name of which guitarist

Bo Diddley

1916 thriller Greenmantle was sequel to which adventure novel?

The 39 Steps

Which marine animals have a mouth apparatus known as Aristotles Lantern?

Sea Urchins

Babeldaob is largest island of which pacific country?

Palau

Garbanzo beans known more commonly as…

Chickpeas

Which party game known in Germany as Trip to Jerusalem?

Musical Chairs

Cerys Matthews lead singer of which 1990s band, whose hit singles included Mulder and Scully?

Catatonia

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, what creature smoked a hookah?

Caterpillar

Slide Mountain in New York state is highest peak of which mountain range?,

Catskills

Pope for duration of WW2

Pius XII

What did churchill describe as the end of the beginning in November 1942 speech?

Victory at El Alamein

Windhover alt name for what bird of prey

Kestrel

Most north westerly point in mainland Britain

Cape Wrath

What Anglo Saxon word features in several southern English place names describes an intermittent stream flowing from a spring?

Bourne

The Mourne mountains are one of two notable mountain ranges in Northern Ireland whats the others

The Sperrin mountains

Who became BBC’s first permanent female national newsreader in 1975?

Angela Rippon

Which American actrsss nicknamed the First Lady of American theatre became first woman to win an EGOT in 1977

Helen Hayes

How is Miss Mary Shepard described in title of an alan Bennett screenplay?

The Lady in the Van

In The Liver Birds, Polly James played Beryl, who played Sandra?

Nerys Hughes

Whose hit albums have included Glass Houses and 52nd Street?

Billy Joel

How are the 1973 Alan Ayckbourn plays Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden collectively known?

The Norman Conquests

Happy Together and Eleanore were hit singles for which American band?

The Turtles

According to title of 1863 adventure novel by Jules Verne where did central characters spending five weeks?

In a balloon

Jimmy White had six world final defeats, four by Stephen Hendry. Who were other two defeats by? Two people.

Steve Davis John Parrott

Spanish F1 driver first ever race win at 2022 British Grand Prix

Carlos Sainz Jr

What age must horse be to be entered into grand national?

7

What’s length in metres of lap of a standard Olympic velodrome

250m

Cricketer known as Burnley Express?

Jimmy Anderson

Ice hockey is Canada official winter sport; what is offficial summer one?

Lacrosse

What CC main component of eggshells and active ingredient in agricultural lime?

Calcium Carbonate

What SS invented in around 1813 in Sheffield lab by Harry Brearley?

Stainless Steel

Common name for a bat of order Pteropus also known as fruit bat?

Flying Fox

As of March 2023, who is us sec of defence? First African American to serve in this position.

Lloyd Austin

Last pitched battle to be fought on British soil

Culloden (1746)

Home of an otter

Holt

Drey is best for which animal

Squirrel

Anchovy is a member of which family of fish?

Herring

The word safari comes from what language meaning journey?

Swahili

The Iron Chicken appeared in which childrens tv show?

The Clangers

Who was first presenter of They Think It’s All Over?

Nick Hancock (captains were Gary Lineker and David Gower)

What type of stone is used to produce stone washed denim?

Pumice

“The power to surprise” was an advertising slogan used by which car manufacturer?

Kia

Five boxers to beat Ali

Joe Frazier Ken Norton Leon Spinks Larry Holmes Trevor Berbick

Name of inter nation sport event for injured sick or wounded service personnel set up by Prince Harry in 2014

Invictus Games

First series of sitcom Auf Wiedersehen Pet was set in which German city?

Düsseldorf

Which Scottish paralympian became 42nd blue Peter host in March 2023

Abby Cook (wheelchair racer)

“Tested by dummies, driven by the intelligent” slogan of whcih car maker?

Volvo

Morcilla Spanish word for what food item?

Blood sausage/black pudding

Liam Gallagher band formed after oasis

Beady Eye

Where in human body would you find the Haversian canals?

In the bones

U2 March 2023 number one aobujmname

Songs of Surrender

In gambling, double carpet indicates what odds

33-1

The former Royal Yacht Britannia is on permanent display in which uk city?

Edinburgh

QWERTY keyboard what number key does the asterisk share?

8

In wacky races who operated Bulletproof Bomb?

The Ant Hill Mob

Which former athlete nowadays a tv pundit, was nicknamed Jarrow Arrow

Steve Cram

Pearl Harbour on what Hawaiian island?

Oahu

Which venue in Sussex is commonly called the home of British showjumping?

Hickstead

Which Us state is traditionally holds the first presidential primary?

New Hampshire

JD Salinger initial stand for

Jerome David

In Spain Bombero name for what civil organisation

Fire Brigade

Who was first Prime Minister to use chequers?

David Lloyd George

The Womens Institute was founded in which commonwealth country?

Canada

As of March 2023, Edward Fitzalan-Howard is the Duke of where?

Norfolk

Name of dog in Punch and Judy show?

Toby

Simple Suppers was a tv programme presented by which chef?

Nigel Slater

“Such is life” are said to have been the last words of which outlaw( prior to execution in November 1880?

Ned Kelly

Daisy collection of perfumes is by which American fashion designer?

Marc Jacobs

What D is a substance used in industry to induce or sustain a state of dryness?

Dessicant

What spirit is combined with ale to make a Dogs Nose cocktail?

Gin

Composed by saxophonist Paul Desmond and originally recorded in 1959 what is biggest selling jazz single ever?

Take five

Nicknamed Old Joe, the world tallest freestanding clock tower is in which English city?

Birmingham (named after Joseph chamberlain)

Blancmange reached #22 with The Day Before You Came in 1984, but who wrote and released the original recording in 1982?

ABBA or Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus

Johnny Cash unlikely version of Personal Jesus in 2002, but who originally wrote and recorded song in 1990?

Depeche Mode

Roy Orbison hit I Drove All Night in 1987, who #6 in 1989?

Cyndi Lauper

The Beat had a hit with Can’t Get Used to Losing You in 1981 but whose recording popularised the song in 1963?

Andy Williams

Soft Cell had #1 in 1981 with Tainted Love but who recorded original in 1964

Gloria Jones

Which Star Wars characyer seemingly dies at end of return of the Jedi (ep 6) but turns out to be alive in The Rise of Skywalker (ep 9)?

Emperor Palpatine

Creator of tube map

Harry Beck

Which western folk ballad focuses on daughter of a miner forty miner who drowns?

Oh my darling clementine

Who was appointed commander of Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force that led D Day invasion?

Dwight D Eisenhower

Which journalist and writer of biographies including those of Mary Wollstonecraft and Samuel Pepys is married to Michael Frayn?

Claire Tomalin

Which well known penal reformer and champion of unpopular causes was Leader of the House of Lords from 1964-68?

Frank Pakenham, Lord Longford

Which non fiction work published in 1933 originally to be called the Scullion was the authors first full length book? The author died in 1950 at the age of 46.

Down and Out in Paris and London

By what name is tree of Quercus Suber commonly known?

Cork

Which matinee idol who died in 1958 starred in Mark of Zorro, the Black Swan and Jesse James amongst other films?

Tyrone Power

Who chaired the Manchester Arena Bombing Inquiry?

Sir John Saunders

Who is the former triathlete, who was a screenwriter for the most recent film version of All Quiet On the Western Front?

Lesley Paterson

In April 2018 Chittagong became what name in Bangladesh?

Chattogram

Bill Tidy who died on 11th March created which cartoon strip that was parody of a Nobel laureates series of books?

The Fosdyke Saga

Margaret Lake, who died on 9th March, had owned horses named Astrodonna, Astroangel, Astronova, Astrocharm. Better known name?

Mystic Meg

What name does Ganges become in Bangladesh?

Padma

Who recently broke the British womens indoor record for long jump with 7.00m?

Jazmin Sawyers

Who is the Director General of MI5 who apologised for his organisations failings as reported by Manchester arena bombing inquiry?

Ken McCallum

Chief of MI6 the uk secret intelligence service as of March 2023?

Richard Moore

For which rugby club does Jonny Sexton play? It has won the European rugby champions cup 4 times the last time being in 2017-18 season.

Leinster

What is name of actor, comedian, screenwriter and tv director who appears regularly on The News Quiz and is writer of comedy programme Old Harry’s Game?

Andy Hamilton

Which football league team plays in largest city in England which has a league club and has never hosted top flight football?

Plymouth Argyle

What is principal town on the island of Bute?

Rothesay

Which is the last professional boxer to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world?

Lennox Lewis

What was the name of the Scottish musical star whose theme song was I Belong To Glasgow?

Will Fyffe

Which confectionary was first made by Alexander ferguson in 19th century and consists of sugar, water, cream of tartar, colourings and flavourings?

Edinburgh Rock

GG name of piano genius especially associated with interpretations of JS Bach. Studio engineers were frequently unable to remove sound of his humming from recordings.

Glenn Gould

Bird with Latin name “circus cyaneus” regular winter visitor to the UK

Hen Harrier

NN city on the Volga for a while known as Gorky

Nizhny Novgorod

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey’s characters names in the Last of Us

Joel and Ellie

Married American couple Derek and Susan gives surnames to TTB, the most commercially successful currently active blues band in world, won Grammy in 2012.

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Where’s Wally creator?

Martin Handford

YY are flowers of the Cananga tree, widely used in the perfume industry.

Ylang-Ylang

What was the name of the film critic who contributed to the Sunday times for 50 years and who was regular panellist on radio programme My Word?

Dilys Powell

What is name of play by Peter Schaffer whose plot concerns a tour guide of a country house who has disagreements with an official of the house? Okay written as a vehicle for Dame Maggie Smith.

Lettice and Lovage

What is name of play by JB Priestley which tells the story of an affluent Yorkshire family between 1919 and 1937?

Time and the Conways

Who won best supporting actor Oscar for her role as Minnie Castevet in Polanski’s RosemRy’s Baby?

Ruth Gordon

Three German city states

Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen

Who coined the phrase “What the Dickens”?

Shakespeare

The line “Elementary My Dear Watson” first recorded in Psmith Journalist (1915) by which author?

PG Wodehouse

Who was the last formula 1 driver to die as a result of injuries sustained during a Grand Prix? The fateful incident occurred when this Frenchman’s car slid into back of stationary tractor crane in Japan in 2014.

Jules Bianchi

Whose work include the play Wild Duck?

Henrik Ibsen

“The Golden Calf an Animal with Golden Horns” is the work of which artist?

Damien Hirst

Which ground hosted the first Ashes test in England in 1884?

Old Trafford

Which male tennis player recorded the fastest ever serve in tournament competition until Andy Roddick superseded it in 2004? His only grand slam win was the Australian open in 1977 and he lost the 1979 Wimbledon final to Bjorn Borg.

Roscoe Tanner

Which author and historian a curator at historic royal palaces, presented a three part bbc series entitled british history’s biggest fibs?

Lucy Worsley

Which town is the setting for the Frost novels of RD Wingfield?

Denton

Which 33 mile long road is the oldest north south main thoroughfare in NYC?

Broadway

Born in California to parents who immigrated from Hong Kong, which American figure skater won five gold medals at world championships 1996-2004? Randomly she is us ambassador to Belize at this time.

Michelle Kwan

Which pharaoh of ancient Egypt 18th dynasty famous for launching a trade expedition to the land of Punt and building mortuary temple at Deir El-Bahari?

Hatshepsut

Female pharoah last ruler of the 12th dynasty?

Sobekneferu

Name of the “miracle worker” who was blind tutor to Helen Keller?

Anne Sullivan

Who played Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker? Winning best supporting actress.

Patty Duke

Who is the famous actress mother of Sean Astin?

Patty Duke

Which Japanese woman of the Heian Era is best known for writing Tale of Genji?

Murasaki Shikibu

Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by which group in 1974?

Symbionese Liberation Army

The term “consequentialism” was coined by which British analytical philosopher and virtue ethicist in her essay Modern Moral Philosophy to describe the central error of certain moral theories propounded by Mill and Sidgwick?

GEM Anscombe

Around AD270, which queen of Palmyra briefly conquered much of Eastern Roman Empire including Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt?

Zenobia

Voters in Estonia March 2023 re-elected which female prime minister?

Kaja Kallas

Which woman recently announced that she would challenge donald trump for 2024 nomination for President? Former governor of South Carolina served as ambassador for UN under trump.

Nikki Haley

Born in U.S. to Greek parents, which bel canto soprano was one of leading opera singers of the mid 20th century?

Maria Callas

Probably most famous person ever executed by immurement (sealed in wall), which woman from Hungary nicknamed Blood Countess for murder young girls and bath in blood?

Elizabeth Bathory

Nicknamed the First Lady of the west end, which English actress debuted in 2001 My Fair Lady, original Meat in We Will Rock You then went on to Elphaba in Wicked, Nancy in Oliver and grizabella in Cats?

Kerry Ellis

Which three time Olivier winner played Lola Griffin in Holby City and Grace OBrien in Dr Who, originated roles of Killer Queen in We Will Rock You and Oda Mae Brown in Ghost the Musical?

Sharon D Clarke

Which female actress was cast as the dr who first black Doctor?

Jo Martin

Who originated Hermione Granger in West End and Broadway debuts of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? also won Olivier for Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun.

Noma Dumezweni

In December 2022 which woman became president of Peru following impeachment of predecessor Pedro Castillo, who had attempted to dissolve Congress? She is viewed as legitimate by vast swathes of Peruvians.

Dina Boluarte

Who is the female cofounder of HTC and microchip maker VIA? Daughter of founder of Formosa Plastics Group.

Cher Wang

Argentine classical concert pianist, at young age won international Chopin piano competition 1965 and won three Grammys?

Martha Argerich

Christian religious sect known as the Shakers, famous for furniture making, practice of shaking during religious practice and vow of celibacy that led to extinction were founded by which Manchester born English mystic? Left for america in 1774.

Ann Lee

The 1988 essay “can the subaltern speak” is best known work of which Indian literary theorist and post colonial thinker? Also known for translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s De La grammatologie.

Gayatri Spivak

This Lithuanian anthropologist known for her “Kurgan Hypothesis” which posited Proto-Indo-European language was spoken on the Pontic Steppe rather than in Anatolia. Her hypothesis is largely accepted today by linguists and archaeologists.

Marija Gimbutas

1977’s “This Sex Which Is Not One” and 1974’s “Speculum of the Other Woman” are books by which Belgian feminist critical theorist who has PhDs in both linguists and philosophy?

Luce Irigaray

From 1861-1908, China was de facto ruled by which member of the Qing Dynasty? She supported the Self Strengthening Movement and launched the reforms of the Tongzhi Restoration.

Empress Dowager Cixi

Since her debut in 2000 film “Refugee” which woman has become the richest and most successful Bollywood actress of all time? She has won multiple awards for the lead female role in 2008’s Jab We Met. Full name as sister is slightly less successful actress.

Kareena Kapoor

Who wrote the music for 1944 film Henry V starring Laurence Olivier?

William Walton

Commonly seen on signs, what does welsh word Croeso mean?

Welcome

Craig Ogden is an Australian classically trained instrumentalist in what instrument?

Guitar

Llyn is welsh word for what geographical feature?

Lake

As of 2023, who is Australia’s current cricket test captain?

Pat Cummins

Grieg and Schumann both have how many piano concertos?

One

Tyson Fury holds which world heavyweight organisation belt with Olejsandr Usyk holding other three?

WBC

Song contains lyric: “there was a checkpoint Charlie he didn’t crack a smile but it’s no laughing matter when you’ve been on murder mile”

Oliver’s Army by Elvis Costello

The Black and Red Cuillin mountain ranges are to be found on which island?

Skye

Bessemer process used to make what

Steel

Metatarsals are in what part of body?

Foot (metacarpals are hand)

Who commandeered Royal Navy ships at battle of Jutland?

Admiral Jellicoe

In bridge, a Yarborough is a hand containing no card higher than what value?

Nine

What river forms most of the border between Devon and Cornwall?

Tamar

Largest Mediterranean island by area?

Sicily

In many billions of years, the sun will swell to become a red giant, before finally ending its days as what sort of star?

White Dwarf

In treasure island who is captain of Hispaniola?

Captain Alexander Smollett

Battle of Mount Tumbledown was conflict in which war?

The Falklands War

2022 test series England vs Pakistan, held in Pakistan, who scored most runs for either team?

Harry Brook

Famed for porcelain, the town of Meissen is in which modern day country?

Germany - near Dresden

If you swim due West from malta what country do you land in?

Tunisia

Beta radiation involves emission of which particle from an atom

Electron (or positron)

Three islands of the Mascarene Islands?

Mauritius, Reunion and Rodrigues

Who keeps goal for Aston Villa and Argentina

Emiliano Martinez

Which Roman emperor invaded Britain in ad 43?

Claudius

At Lords Cricket Ground what is name for end opposite Nursery End?

Pavilion End

Life dates of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

1881-1938

Jack and Jill, Jack goes to bed with which two items to mend his head?

Vinegar and brown paper

USA Republican Party symbol

Elephant

Garter, stocking, rib and cable are types of what

Knitting stitch

Name Andy Murray’s grand slams

2012 us open 2013 Wimbledon 2016 wimbledon

Cnut years as king of England

1016-35

Which brand of ball made by British cricket balls, is used in test matches in England?

Dukes

Who has been leader of House of Commons and president of privy council since September 2022?

Penny Mourdant

In physics what law says a body remains at rest or in motion at constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force?

First law of motion newton

Which airline uses the IATA flight code FR

Ryanair

Which Merseyside band had hits with The Killing Moon and The Cutter?

Echo and the Bunnymen

Name of the location near Newquay where Cosmic Girl Boeing 747 tried to take a satellite to space from the UK?

Spaceport Cornwall

Klondike or Yukon Gold Rush years

1896-99

What are the four hills of the Four Hills Tournament for ski jumping?

Oberstdorf (germany) Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck (cap of Tyrol) Bischofshofen (Austria)

In which opera does Mario Cavaradossi sing the aria “And the stars were shining”?

Tosca

Spotify founder

Daniel Ek

Who commanded the British paratroopers on the ground at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944 as part of operation market garden?

Major General Roy Urquhart

A3 goes from London to which uk city (67 miles)

Portsmouth

Which sport do Manchester thunder play?

Netball

Born 1879 which composer and musicologist best known for folk songs from auvergne region, Chants d’Auvergne?

Joseph Canteloube

German for mountain crevice, what is the crevasse that separates a glacier from the mountain head wall most commonly known?

Bergschrund

Situated on border of Italy and Switzerland what is highest peak in Switzerland? Include highest summit too?

Monte Rosa of which highest summit is Dufourspitze

Average distance between Earth and moon?

238,855 miles / 384,400 kilometres

The Phil Silvers Show was originally set in which fictional army base?

Fort Baxter (Roseville, Texas)

Althorp House is in which English County?

Northamptonshire

Born South Africa, plays wing for Edinburg rugby and Scotland national rugby Union, scored two tries vs England in six nations 2023

Duhan Van der Merwe

Whose albums include Blood on the Tracks and Blonde on Blonde?

Bob Dylan

What rate of VAT applies to uk domestic energy?

5%

Whose albums include Astral Weeks and Beautiful Vision

Van Morrison

Bourbon, Gallica and Rugosa are types of what?

Roses

Name of Sarah Lancashire character in Happy Valley

Catherine Cawood

How many clubs is a golfer allowed to carry?

14

Which year did Maggie thatcher die

2013

Highest peak of the Aleutian range, Mt Redoubt is in which American state?

Alaska

Which US state is known as the North Star State?

Minnesota

Which team won first cricket county championship in 1864

Surrey

In rowing, what is the rower that sits closest to the Cox known as?

Stroke

How many bones in total in hands and feet?

106 (27 each hand and 26 each foot)

In which town in Bavaria is a passion play performed every ten years as an act of thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague?

Oberammergau

Which singer and songwriter wrote My Way for Frank Sinatra?

Paul Anka

January 2023 saw the closure of which Amazon charity donation service set up in 2013?

Amazon Smile

Who captained West Indies team that won first cricket World Cup in 1975?

Clive Lloyd

The Shakespeare North Playhouse opened in 2022 in which city

Liverpool (acc Prescott)

The red backed and great grey shrike birds impale their prey on thorns. What nickname!

Butcher bird

In Lake District what lake closest to Keswick?

Derwentwater

First Polaroid camera known as model 95 went on sale in which decade of the 20th century?

1940s (1948)

Which was englands first Garden City?

Letchworth

If an animal is “laniferous” it means what?

Wool bearing

Decus et Tutamen found around rim of first uk decimal pound coin, meaning what?

An ornament and a safeguard (or Glory and Defence)

MLB baseball bases are how far away from each other?

90 feet or 30 yards (3 feet in a yard)

Football goals regulation dimensions

24 foot crossbar and 8 foot high

In criminal slang, what was speciality of a PeterMan?

Safe breaker

In human body what organ produces bile?

Liver

What was standard rate of VAT when first introduced in 1973?

10% (reduced to 8% in 1974)

Who wrote poem “The Soldier” which begins “if I should die think only this of me”?

Rupert Brooke

Who was Ernie’s nemesis in the Benny Hill song fastest milkman in the West?

Two Ton Ted (from Teddington)

In old imperial measurement, what was length of a chain?

22 yards/66 feet

Last name of richmal Crompton’s Just William?

William Brown

The driving instructor and Walter Raleigh are famous comedy monologues by which American entertainer?

Bob Newhart

Who wrote Seabiscuit novel? And Unbroken?

Laura Hillenbrand

Jamaican form of tangelo: Seville orange, grapefruit and tangerine?

Ugli Fruit

Grapefruit and Tangerine hybrid

Tangelo

Largest citrus fruit and principal ancestor of the grapefruit.

Pomelo

David Niven 1975 sequel to 1971 book The Moon’s a Balloon?

Bring On The Empty Horses

The large village of Lambourn known for horse racing training is in which county?

Berkshire

First Red Nose Day year

1988

What was first charity single for Comic Relief in 1986?

Livin’ Doll by Cliff Richard and Young Ones

Similar to a latte is a galao, a coffee drink that originated in this country.

Portugal

Aromatics, like garlic & fennel, are key to this Middle Eastern rice dish with a 5-letter name.

Pilaf

Grown in Spain, Marcona is a variety of this nut.

Almond

Fava bean commonly known as what

Broad bean

Garbanzo beans commonly go by this name as well.

Chickpeas

Koumiss is a fermented drink made from mare’s milk; this similar fermented milk also starts with a “K”

Kefir

In 1993 Lynn Redgrave premiered her 1-woman show “Shakespeare for My Father,” dedicated to this man.

Michael Redgrave

An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have “banished death from my heart, with your sweet song.”

The Nightingale (Hans Christian Andersen)

How old does president of USA have to be minimum

35

How old to be a us senator age minimum?

30

The last royal yacht of the UK, it was retired in 1997 & is now a tourist attraction in Edinburgh.

Britannia

The first English child born in the Americas, she disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colonists.

Virginia Dare

FDR’s first inaugural address introduced this policy of treating Latin American nations with respect.

Good Neighbour Policy

Who sang Cats in the Cradle folk rock song from 1974

Harry Chapin

The first close-up images sent back to Earth from another planet were from a Russian probe on this planet in 1975.

Venera from Venus

This Zodiac constellation has only one bright star, Hamal–Arabic for “sheep.”

Aries

Also a term for a part of speech, it’s when the Earth, a heavenly body like Venus, & the Sun are all nearly in a straight line.

Conjunction

This Kafka guy awakes to find he has an armor-plated back, a domelike brown belly & numerous legs.

Gregor Samsa

From the Latin for “boundary,” it’s the technical name for the stone crosspieces atop Stonehenge’s pillars.

Lintel

Because it took the life of Portugal’s king Carlos I and his heir apparent, a February 1908 assassination is known as the “Lisbon” this.

Regicide

His Spoon River Anthology was considered scandalous, which helped make it a bestseller.

Edgar Lee Masters

George Langelaan wrote the Playboy magazine short story that inspired this film in which Seth Brundle transforms.

The Fly

Recently damaged in the civil war, this city had been its nation’s business capital & was once the end of the Silk Road.

Aleppo

On Feb. 1, 1960 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this N.C. city in protest over segregation.

Greensboro

This largest species of salmon, Oregon’s state fish, shares its name with an Indian tribe & may grow to 3 feet.

Chinook

In the firefighting acronym P.A.S.S., pull the pin, aim at the fire’s base, squeeze the lever, then do this until the fire is out.

Sweep

To give the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing, artists create a mesh-like pattern of lines in a technique called this.

Crosshatching

Name given to the five elected magistrates who shared power with the king in governance of ancient Sparta?

Ephor

Which reality tv show has had hosts including Joe Lycett and Sara Pascoe and experts Patrick Grant and Esme Young?

The Great British Sewing Bee

Which theorem in physics states that every continuous symmetry under which the lagrangian is invariant in form is associated with a conservation law?

Noether’s Law

Closely associated with pop art movement, which American artist is best known for his iconic 1964 image LOVE?

Robert Indiana

In a South Korean tv series first broadcast in 2022 and distributed in the uk by Netflix, what is name of autistic title character who uses savant like abilities to achieve success as an attorney at a major Seoul law firm?

Extradorinaiy Attorney Woo

Born with name John Rackham in 1682 in Bristol, better known name for pirate who had affair with Anne Bonny and named after clothes.

Calico Jack

Who wrote the 1987 On Stranger Tides which the fourth instalment of Pirates of Caribbean was based on?

Tim Powers

Real life pirate known as the Gentleman Pirate portrayed by Rhys Darby in our Flag means Death and also in Pirates of Caribbean On Stranger Tides

Stede Bonnet

Which greek city is one of three European capitals of culture for 2023? Among this city’s claims to fame is being the birthplace of the playwright Aeschylus and being site of rituals held by the cult of the goddesses Persephone and Demeter known as this city’s mysteries?

Elefsina

Englands oldest gin distillery, G&J distillers are known for brands such as Greenall’s and whcih popular spiced gin brand flavoured with Asian spices? Brand sbottlles feature brightly coloured elephants.

Opihr

Who play soldier Kyle Reese in 1984 film Terminator?

Michael Biehn

Name of King Arthur wife

Guinevere

Which boxer from Hartlepool was first British woman to win an amateur world title when she took the middleweight title in 2012? Between 2020 and 22 she was WBO middleweight world champion.

Savannah Marshall

Which ambient and experimental musician and a former rock keyboard player composed the soundtrack to Peter Jackson’s 2009 film adaptation of Lovely Bones?

Brian Eno

In a Franco-Belgian tv series first broadcast in 2019 and distributed in uk by channel 4, what is name of autistic title character who uses savant like abilities to help police investigate series of paris murders.

Astrid Nielsen (Astrid: Murder in Paris)

Which Irish pirate met with queen Elizabeth I in 1593 to request clemency and favour as englands power in Ireland grew? Elizabeth agreed to release of pirates son and allowed her to continue her career and enjoy their livelihoods.

Grace O’Malley

In 1978, former lead singer of deep purple, David Coverdale, went on to found which rock band that also has a colour in its name? Their biggest uk hit singles were “is this love?0 and a released version of Here I Go Again?

Whitesnake

Only exclusively freshwater seal endemic to which body of water which gives its it name? Animal sometimes known as the nerpa.

Lake Baikal

What name was given to mandatory Spartan education system which trained male youths in the art of war? Participants were divided into three groups according to age: the paides, the paidiskoi, and the hebontes.

Agoge

Which reality tv series featured Sara Cox and Siobhan McSweeney among hosts and Keith Brymer-Jones and Sue Pryke among its expert judges, focuses on what activity?

The Great Pottery Throw Down

Which theorem in physics shows that no theory that satisfies the conditions imposed can reproduce the probabilistic predictions of quantum mechanics under all circumstances? John Clauses and Stuart Freedman performed first experiments to test this theorem in 1972.

Bells Theorem

In France what two letters designate type of corporation equivalent to British plc?

SA

In Germany what two letters designate type of corporation equivalent to British plc?

AG

Which French electro pop duo known for chill out tracks such as La femme d’Argent and Cherry Blossum Girl composed soundtrack to Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides

Air

Which American boxer lost the only fight of her amateur career to savannah Marshall in 2012 world championships? This double Olympic champion defeated Marshall in a unification bout in September 2022. She is only boxer in history male or female to hold all four major world titles simultaneously in two weight classes.

Claressa Shields

Sometimes described as an outro in pop music, what four letter musical term from Italian for tail, is used to describe a passage that ends a piece of classical music?

Coda

Which Hungarian city is one of three European capitals of culture for 2023? City known as city of queens as traditionally where queens of Hungary crowned.

Veszprem

Founded in 2005 by a descendant of Thomas Greenall, which popular uk gin brand sells raspberry gin in red bottle, blood orange gin in orange bottle and rhubarb and ginger gin in purple bottle?

Whitley Neil

Which Italian formula one constructor which has been competing under this name since 2020 season, earned their only race win with Pierre Gasly at 2020 Italian Grand Prix

Scuderia Alpha Tauri

Which elementary particle acts as exchange particle for the strong force between quarks?

Gluon

Airing from 2012-23, what was name of Inspector Morse prequel series starring Shaun Evans as a young Morse and Roger Allam as his superior?

Endeavour

What is name of composite subatomic particle made up of two or more quarks held together by strong force? Baryons and mesons are two main groups of these particles.

Hadron

Pierre Gasly how races for which French F1 team competing under this name since 2021 and took only race win at 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix with Esteban Ocon.

Alpine

Esteban Ocon what nationality F1 driver

French

The Italian nobleman Fabrice Del dongo is main character in which novel first published in French in 1839?

The Charterhouse of Parma

What name given to embryonic leaf in seed bearing plants, which are first to appear from germinating seed? A major way of classifying flowering plants is based on whether they have one or two of these leaves.

Cotyledon

Art Tatum plays which instrument

Piano

Art Blakey plays which instrument

Drums

Which battle of 202BC fought in modern Tunisia did a Roman army under Scipio Africanus defeat a Carthaginian army led by Hannibal ending the second Punic war?

Zama

Record label founded by Jim Stewart, Estelle Axton in 1957 as Satellite records originally based in Memphis

Stax Records

Who wrote the creator of the fictional character Arsène Lupin, a French gentleman-thief turned detective

Maurice Leblanc

In Egyptian mythology which husband of isis and father of Horus was worshipped as a god of fertility and as king of underworld?

Osiris

Which fortified wine shares it name with town in sicily from which it originates? Dry variants may be used to make pasta sauces, while it’s sweet variant is best known for its use in the dessert zabaglione.

Marsala

the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948, and again from 1956 to 1970

Władysław Gomułka

Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years from 1956. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia.

János Kádár

Which Bridgerton actress controversy in 2023 when referring to coronation balcony as “terribly white”?

Adjoa Andoh

In thermodynamics, what adjective is used to refer to amount of heat that is required to increase one unit of mass by one unit of temperature? The SI unit for this quantity is joule per kelvin per kg.

Specific Heat

Dark bio pigment melanin found in skin hair and scales is produced as an end product in the metabolism of which amino acid?

Tyrosine

In Japanese mythology; the Japanese archipelago is said to have been created by which twin deities with very similar names who are father and mother of Amaterasu?

Izanagi and Izanami

Chinese revolutionary Qiu Jin established societies that campaigned to end which practice, aiming to produce the golden lotus?

Foot Binding

Ragas are used in both genres of Indian classical music: Hindustani classical music, which is practised in the north of the country and which other genre found in south?

Carnatic

The reforms instituted by Lycurgus are said to have subjugated these people. What name is given to state owned slaves who served the citizens of Sparta?

Helots

One of most cited books in social sciences, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is work incorporating philosophy of education and critical theory by which Brazilian educator?

Paulo Freire

Which bright red carotenoid pigment is found in tomatoes and other red fruits and vegetables such as carrots, watermelons, and papayas? Derives from Latin name for tomato:

Lycopene

1602 epic poem La Hermosura de Angelica was written as a loose sequel to Orlando Furioso by which prolific author of the Spanish golden age, best known for plays such as Fuenteovejuna and The Dog in the Manger?

Lope de Vega

Lycurgus also credited with developing which hugely demanding, militaristic training regimen which was mandated for almost all Spartan males between ages of 7 and 29? This Greek word derives from verb to lead.

Agoge

Several passages in Orlando furioso inspired three of the tales in Contes et nouvelles en vers by which 17th century French author best known for collected fables, of Aesop and Horace:

Jean de La Fontaine

Ragas are used in which form of Sufi devotional music? This form of music is typically performed by a small group of singer, percussionist and harmonium.

Qawwali

What word from Greek for “impassable” describes a thermodynamic process in which there is no heat transfer into or out of the system?

Adiabatic

A group of posthumously published notes written by Karl Marx is titled “Theses on….” Which 19th century German philosopher and anthropologist known for his critique on Christianity entitled The Essence of Christianity?

Ludwig Feuerbach

In April 2009, a panel of Peruvian Supreme Court sentenced which former national leader to 25 years in prison?

Alberto Fujimori

Twin brothers Taiwo and Kehinde together form a single Orisha called Ibeji in belief system of which west African people? Mostly live in nigeria.

Yoruba

The Spartan constitution developed by Lycurgus mandated that there be two Spartan kings who would share power with five elected officials by what title are these elected rulers of Sparta known?

Ephors

Which is the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music and qawwali? It consists of two small drums played with complex combinations of finger and palm strikes to produce wide variety of sounds.

Tabla

What name was given to the class of Viking warriors who according to Norse lore, were known for fighting with a hysterical wild eyed fury? These troops are said to have worn bear or wolf pelts instead of mail; and their frenzied state may have been aided by hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Berserker

The young lovers Masetto and Zerlina have their wedding disrupted by the title character of which Mozart opera; who also disguises himself as his servant Leporello; in order to seduce maid of woman he abandoned, Donna Elvira.

Don Giovanni

What name is given to soil that contains almost equal amounts of silt and sand and slightly less clay? Soils of this type are used in atrikcutre and horticulture because they retain nutrients better than Sandy soils and allow better drainage than silts or clays.

Loam

Velvet fog singer who co-wrote The Christmas Song

Mel Torme

In horse racing what is name of sharp left hand final bend on Epsom derby race course?

Tattenham Corner

Which spice consists of the unopened dried flower buds of a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family?

Cloves

Which decimal coin was only in circulation from 1971-31 December 1984 when ceased to be legal tender?

Halfpenny

Which former director general of finance was recalled to post in 1788 and agreed tbe estates general should be summoned for first time in over 170 years?

Jacques Necker