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LuWhat structures in the body are made from fibrous connective tissue and connect muscle to bone?

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Tendon

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Concerning a Faustian bargain, The Bottle Imp is a short story by which writer? His most famous work is an 1881-1882 adventure novel that has nothing to do with being sent to Hell.

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Robert Louis STEVENSON

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Thierry Henry, Nicolas Anelka and Kylian Mbappe are amongst the players who attended which elite French youth football centre that is located 50km southwest of Paris?

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Clairefontaine

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What term of German origin is used to describe stunted, wind-sculpted trees often found at high altitudes or in harsh climates?

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Krummholz

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Named for his inarticulate manner, which Dick Tracy villain was depicted on-screen by Dustin Hoffman as one of Big Boy Caprice’s henchmen?

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Mumbles

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John Terry, Sol Campbell and Jermain Defoe are amongst the players who played for which Sunday League youth football club located in the Forest Gate district of London? The club, noted for its high amount of future professional players, was founded in 1961 by Jimmy Tindall.

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Senrab

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What bodily structure is also made from fibrous tissue but, unlike a tendon, attaches bone to bone?

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Ligament

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Also known for her theatre adaptations of Shakespeare’s works, which British film director is known for directing Meryl Streep in both the 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy Mamma Mia! and in the 2011 Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady?

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Phyllida Lloyd

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The Jones Road brand of make-up and beauty products was launched in 2020 by which American makeup artist and entrepreneur who had sold her namesake brand to Estee Lauder in 1995, despite maintaining creative control?

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Bobbi Brown

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Concerning a Faustian bargain, A Modern Mephistopheles is a novel by which writer? Her most famous work, an 1868-1869 coming-of-age novel, has nothing to do with being sent to Hell.

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Louisa May ALCOTT

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Commonly found in krummholz areas, what forestry term describes a tree with a distinctive one-sided growth pattern due to persistent strong winds?

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FLAG Tree (Banner Tree)

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Hastily made the wife of a high courtier to allow her Royal access in 1768, which woman became the official chief mistress of Louis XV following the death four years earlier of his favourite Madame de Pompadour? Banished from Court after Louis XV’s death she was executed for treason in 1793.

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Madame du Barry

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Who plays Queen Charlotte in the 2023 spinoff from Bridgerton of same name?

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India Amarteifio

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Named for his large and unusually square head, which Dick Tracy villain was a contract killer married to the character Stiletta Jones?

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Flattop JONES

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A winner of the 1996 Cannes film festival’s Short Film jury prize for her work Small Deaths, which Scottish film director’s work in the 2000’s and 2010’s included the psychological thrillers Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk about Kevin and You Were never Really Here?

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Lynne Ramsey

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Sheldon Glashow’s 1961 proposal of electroweak interactions was an important early step in the creation of which ‘model’ that combines electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics into a single framework to describe the interactions of subatomic particles?

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Standard Model

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David Koresh was the leader of which apocalyptic cult, of which 82 members died after the 1993 Waco Siege?

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Branch Davidians

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Weekend, Marella, SportMax and Marina Rinaldi are clothing brands of which ready-to-wear Italian fashion house founded in 1951 by Achille Maramotti? It is known for its classic Manuela, Ludmilla and Teddy Bear coats.

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Max Mara

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Alan Shearer, Michael Carrick and Elliott Anderson are amongst the players who played for which Sunday League youth football club located in North Tyneside? The club has produced over 50 future top flight players.

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WALLSEND Boys Club

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Name and regnal number required. A constant rival to his wife Catherine de Medici, Diane of Poitiers, initially a courtier of King Francis I, became the influential official mistress of which French King from 1534 until his death in 1559?

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Henri II

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Named for his extreme wrinkles caused by a skin condition, which Dick Tracy villain was introduced as a Nazi saboteur named Boche?

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Paleface

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What term describes the phenomenon where trees, often found in krummholz zones, are uprooted by strong air movements?

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Windthrow

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Initially recorded by The Four Seasons as the B side of their US number one hit Rag Doll, Silence is Golden became a 1967 UK Number 1 hit for which Dagenham beat group, whose other successes included Here Comes My Baby and Call Me (Number One)?

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The Tremeloes

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On Urban Dictionary which foodstuff describes someone (normally a child) who acts loud to be the centre of attention? An example sentence given is “That kid is such a ______. When Aunt Lori came over for dinner, he spent the entire time talking in a pirate voice and saying “arr”

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Ham

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Founded by Scott Coker, which rival MMA operator pre-dates the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) by eight years? They operated from 1985 to 2013, before being bought by UFC's parent company Zuffa.

Strikeforce

An important precursor to the weak interaction was proposed by Enrico Fermi, who theorised that what form of decay could be explained by four fermions directly interacting with one another? This from of radioactive decay is the expression of the weak interaction in the nucleus.

Beta Decay

Also known as Do, which American cult leader founded the new religious movement 'Heaven's Gate' whose 1997 mass suicide is the largest of its kind to occur in the USA?

Marshall Applewhite

Founded in 1872, which large Japanese beauty conglomerate's prestige brands have include the Sephora kid beauty favourite Drunk Elephant since 2019, alongside NARS, Issey Miyake and Tory Burch?

Shisheido

Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore and Josh Sargent all played youth soccer for which boarding school and elite sporting location? Located in Bradenton, Florida this school has produced numerous professionals in multiple sports.

IMG Academy

What follows American to form the title for the 2007 film which Ruby Dee received her Best Supporting Actress nomination for?

American Gangster

What adjective describes a bone embedded in tendons or muscles? The kneecap is the largest type of this bone in the human body.

Sesamoid Bone

A 2005 Academy Award winner for her short film Wasp, which English film-maker and actor has directed the feature length works Fish Tank and American Honey? Her film Bird, starring Barry Keoghan, premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film festival.

Andrea Arnold

Named for his skills on the piano, which Dick Tracy villain with a partially numeric moniker, was portrayed on-screen by Mandy Patinkin?

88 Keyes/Keys

From the Japanese for "sky" and sharing its name with a character in the Kingdom Hearts video games, OpenAI is also responsible for what text-to-video generation tool?

Sora

Some plant scientists have suggested krummholz could be an example of the negative form of which tropism, directional growth caused by a touch stimulus?

Thigmotropism

Remixed by DJ Tiesto since its first release in 1999 by the electronica duo Delerium, the popular trance track Silence features the voice of which Canadian singer-songwriter known for her 1997 singles Building a Mystery, Adia and Angel from the album Surfacing?

Sarah McLachlan

Which principle states that no two identical fermions can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state?

PAULI EXCLUSION Principle

Which Shinto kami and younger brother to Amaterasu is associated with the ocean as well as storms?

Susanoo

Which Australian motorcyclist won 5 World Championships in a row from 1994 to 1998?

Mick Doohan

Who played Bran Stark in the TV series Game Of Thrones?

Isaac Hampstead WRIGHT

Although currently between the sticks for Arsenal, Aaron Ramsdale has declared himself a fan of which other club? Notable former players with this club include Willie Johnstone and Cyrille Regis

West Bromwich Albion

From the soundtrack of the film "Flashdance", what was Michael Sembello's biggest hit in the UK? It only reached no 43 here but was a number one hit in the US, One word answer

Maniac

Grant Hanley and Teemu Pukki were two of the six players from which club featured in the PFA's Championship team of the year in 2021?

Norwich City

Also the man behind the TV shows Brookside and Hollyoaks, which Scouser created Grange Hill?

Phil Redmond

First name and surname please of the woman who, according to Harry Potter lore, came up with the name of Hogwarts after dreaming of a warty hog that led her to a cliff

Rowena Ravenclaw

What was the first name of the matriarch of TV's Munsters family?

Lily Munster

Which former girlfriend of Prince Andrew appeared in the 1976 erotic film called "Emily"?

Koo Stark

"On the back seat of the car with Joseph and Emily" are lyrics taken from the chorus of which 1987 UK Top Ten hit for Level 42?

Running in the Family

Which US country music band are composed of lead singer Natalie Maines and multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer? They won the 2007 Grammy Album of the Year Award with "Taking the Long Way"

The (Dixie) Chicks

Edwin Vasquez's gold in the 50m pistol at the 1948 London Olympics remains which country's only gold to date?

Peru

Who was the first Jamaican to break the Men's 100m World record in the 2000s? He did so in 2005 in Athens

Asafa Powell

What Sarah, born 1950, went from "Game for a laugh" to being the long term presenter of Radio 2's early morning radio show?

Sarah KENNEDY

The Arsenal defender William Saliba was named in the 2023 EPL team of the year, and indeed he is regarded as one of the best centre backs in the World. From which French club did Arsenal sign Saliba? This club shares its name with a 1990s band

Saint Etienne

Despite coming from the same small island of Guernsey and sharing a surname, the Manchester United women's player, Maya, is not related to which former England international footballer?

Le Tissier

An actor or actress who is playing a part in a very energetic and emotional way is said the be " the BLANK the scenery", what word fills the blank?

Chewing

How was the Scottish actress and dancer Aimi MacDonald always referred to in the comedy programme "At last the 1948 show"? I am sure the music group "Scouting for Girls" would also have referred to her in this way too

The Lovely

In 2020, who became the longest driver on the PGA Tour after gaining 40 pounds in weight? His analytical approach to the sport has led to his nickname "The Scientist"

Bryson Dechambeau

What is the two-word name of the dating show that features people being transformed with prosthetic makeup into animal and mythical creatures? The name might put you in mind of a Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone movie

Sexy Beasts

At the beginning of the B52's 1989 hit "Love Shack", the singer Fred Schneider asks you to hop into what make of car?

Chrysler

The ABC hit "The Look of Love" was taken from what equally romantically named album? This 1982 record went platinum in the UK

The Lexicon of Love

Answer carefully please - what was the name of the 2023 dating show hosted by Davina McCall that follows a group of middle-aged single parents as they head to a romance retreat for a second chance at love?

My Mum, Your Dad

"When love breaks down" was a 1984 hit for which band that included the members Paddy McAloon and Wendy Smith

Prefab Sprout

"Is this love?" was a 1987 hit for which rock band fronted by David Coverdale?

Whitesnake

Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath are young adult novels by which woman, who has been described as Germany's best-selling author for children?

Cornelia Funke

What date is mentioned in the U2 song "Pride (In the name of love)"? This was the date Martin Luther King was shot. Only day and month required

APRIL 4th

Which man supplied the bass guitar parts and produced Robert Palmer's hit "Addicted to love"? This co-founder of Chic died in 1996

Bernard Edwards

What were the first 4 words in the lyrics of the Bon Jovi song "You give love a bad name"? Confusingly these 4 words also name a different track on their self-titled debut album

Shot Through the Heart

The format of which Davina McCall dating show was that she would pick an eligible male or female, and then with their help, approach equally eligible people for a date? It originally ran from 1998 to 2001

Streetmate

3 players from Heart of Midlothian and 1 player each from Celtic, Dundee United and St Mirren all represented what national side at the 2022 football World Cup?

Australia

What singer was just 17 years old when he had a hit with his cover of the song "Nothing's gonna change my love for you" in 1987?

Glenn Medeiros

Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart was married to which film director between 1986 and 2010? She worked on the soundtrack for his movie "Vanilla Sky"

Cameron Crowe

What is the 4-word title of the dating show where a single girl invites a handful of men who are looking for love to move into her home and live with her... all at the same time? Francis Barber narrated this Channel 4 show

Five Guys A Week

Which American comedian was twice married to a woman called Flynn Belaine and also twice married to a woman called Jennifer Lee? This man was involved in numerous controversies including one time he set himself alight and ran down a Los Angeles street

Richard Pryor

Who has Elon Musk been married to on two occasions? In July 2023 this actress became engaged to the former child star Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Talulah Riley

Which famous woman has twice been married to the Poker star Rick Salomon? Lily James played this woman in a 2022 biopic

Pamela Anderson

Including the name of a Shakespearean character, which dating show, hosted by Oti Mabuse, hit our screens during the summer of 2022?

Romeo & Duet

Aerosmith sang about love in what sort of location according to the name of their 1989 hit? The lyrics tell us they were livin' it up as they were goin' down

Love in an Elevator

What was the 3-word name of the 2023 dating show which was the first British dating show to feature exclusively gay men? Dannii Minogue hosted

I Kissed a Boy

In which Joel Dommett-presented dating show does it seem that a number of women are fighting for the love of one man, in reality though some of the women are faking it for a cash prize?

The Love Trap

In which 2020 dating show are 10 adults placed together in a house for four weeks but forbidden from any kissing, sexual contact or self-gratification, with the monetary prize getting reduced any time a rule is broken?

Too Hot to Handle

Containing the word "love" in its title, what was the first single released by Peter Cetera after he left Chicago? It was featured in the film The Karate Kid Part II

The Glory of Love

Marie Osmond from the famous Osmond family has been married to a gentleman called Stephen Lyle Craig on two occasions. What is the only solo hit Marie Osmond has had in the UK?

Paper Roses

Which company produced the Ninjago line of toys?

Lego

Which Parisian nobleman, and writer of explicit and macabre books, died in the Charenton insane asylum in 1814?

Marquis de Sade

At age 25, who was the youngest actress to received four Academy Award acting nominations?

Jennifer Lawrence

After leaving the White House, which U.S. president retired to the Hermitage outside of Nashville?

Andrew Jackson

The 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr takes place during what war?

WW2

What was the subject of the 1922 Fordney-McCumber Act and the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act?

Tariffs

Oratorios by which classical composer include The Creation in 1798 and The Seasons in 1801?

Joseph Haydn

The Lewis Carroll characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee fought over what toy?

Rattle

Biochemists Edward Adelbert Doisy and Henrik Dam won a Nobel Prize in 1943 for their discovery of which vitamin?

K

Who directed the 1970s movies The Boy Friend, The Devils, and Valentino?

Ken Russell

Which album by Paramore produced five singles: “Ignorance,” “Brick by Boring Brick,” “The Only Exception,” “Careful,” and “Playing God”?

Brand New Eyes

Tunagate was a 1985 political scandal in which country, involving large quantities of tuna that had been declared unfit for human consumption but were sold to the public under government orders?

Canada

Which financial technology company was launched by founders Chris Britt and Ryan King on a 2014 episode of The Dr. Phil Show?

Chime

Puerto Williams is the southernmost populated settlement in the world. It is part of which country?

Chile

Died in April 2024, which Italian fashion designer's works often feature animal prints, exotic motifs, and sensual silhouettes, reflecting his daring and flamboyant aesthetic?

Roberto Cavalli

Canonized in 1622 and made Doctor of the Church in 1970, which Carmelite nun wrote the books The Interior Castle, and The Way of Perfection?

Teresa of Avila

The cobla is a traditional music ensemble of what region encompassing France and Spain?

Catalonia

What word is a slang term that originated in African American Vernacular English and refers to being socially and politically aware, especially regarding issues of social justice, racial inequality, and systemic oppression?

Woke

Which celebrity chef has been a judge of the US version of MasterChef since its first season?

Gordon Ramsey

Which US video game publisher developed Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade series?

Epic Games

In music, what do you call the rhythmic technique in music where the emphasis is placed on off-beats or weaker beats within a measure, rather than the typical strong beats?

Syncopation

Which retired figure skater is currently serving as the US Ambassador to Belize?

Michelle Kwan

The US state of Louisiana is named after which European monarch?

Louis XIV

What is the name of the tallest land animal in North America, which is also the world's tallest, largest, and heaviest species of deer?

Moose

According to the website of the British Antique Dealers’ Association, what is the collective name used to describe handmade functional items which are made predominantly from wood?

Treen

Dating from 1603, which title is conferred upon selected applicants demonstrating competence as an expert and leader in their legal field by an independent committee in an annual process called “the competition”?

King's Counsel

Which event will replace equestrianism in the modern pentathlon after the Paris Olympics following difficulties in Tokyo when a German coach punched a horse?

Obstacle Course

The New York Times WordleBot has changed its view on the best opening word to use on the hard setting, which until recently was “TROPE”. Which word has it now settled on, which might mean part of a baseball field, the widest river in the world, or a section of the surface of the earth?

Plate

Which city lies at the mouth of the River Tagus, the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula?

Lisbon

Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, what is the world’s longest running, professional, domestic Twenty20 cricket competition?

Vitality Blast

Which character has lived in a London suburb since 1974, is named after a character in Through the Looking Glass, was named by UNICEF as children's ambassador to the US in 1983, and has a boyfriend named Dear Daniel?

Hello Kitty

Thought to be derived from the uniform of the 10th Regiment of Foot which featured yellow facings, people born in which ceremonial county are known as “Yellowbellies” (yours truly being amongst them)?

Lincolnshire

Which chemical element, the fifth most abundant element by mass on Earth, is a bright yellow, crystalline solid at room temperature?

Sulphur

Which chemical element, the fifth most abundant element by mass on Earth, is a bright yellow, crystalline solid at room temperature?

Marble

Which Bertie got married to Betty to celebrate his 80th birthday in Sheffield in 2009?

Bertie Bassett

Which 8 letter word, defined as “important or exceptionally capable persons”, consists of the same four letters repeated?

HOTSHOTS

Who was the trainer of 1983 victor Corbiere?

Jenny Pitman

Who trained 1978 winner Lucius and 1984 winner Hallo Dandy?

Gordon Richards

How many fences in total are jumped during the Grand National race?

30

And which legendary trainer of Rummy also trained Amberleigh House to success in 2004?

Ginger McCain

Which was the last horse in 2009 to win at odds of 100-1?

Mon Mome

Which game horse led for the entire 1973 race until caught on the line by Red Rum?

Crisp

"What was the name of the horse that ""won"" the National that never was in 1993?"

Esha Ness

Which jockey won consective Nationals in 2014 on Pineau de Re and 2015 on Many Clouds?

Leighton Aspell

Which horse gave Richard Dunwoody his second race win in 1994?

Minnehome

Which was the last grey horse to triumph in the race, doing so in 2012?

Neptune Collonges

The 16th fence on the course was originally a stone wall. What is it more famously known as now?

Water Jump

Which five time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup won the race in 1934?

Golden Miller

Taking control of radio commentary on the 1952 race, who was the colourful chairman of Aintree between 1938 and 1973?

Mirabel Topham

Which horse won the Virtual Grand National held in 2020?

Potters Corner

Which jockey rode a record 21 times in the race between 1997 and 2019 without winning?

Richard Johnson

"Who said, ""how filthy water tasted without the benefits of whisky"" when falling into the brook off his horse Conrad in 1839?"

Martin Becher

Which British open-air museum near the town of Stanley, includes the exhibit areas; 1820s Pockerley, 1900s Town, 1900s Pit Village, 1940s Farm, 1950s Town and the new 1950s Spain’s Field Farm?

Beamish

The late Betty Boothroyd, long time MP for West Bromwich West and the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, was, between 1946 and 1952 a member of which dance troupe, probably most famous for their high-kicking routines?

Tiller Girls

Also the name of a punctuation mark and typically found in Palladian architecture, what name is given to a smaller connecting link building, between two larger building elements?

Hyphen

The name of which art pottery studio, that operated in Cornwall from 1962 to 1983, had an origin that was explained in 2013 by one of its founders Benny Sirota as, "my grandfather escaped from Russia dressed as a woman on a ________ – a sledge with three horses...there were three of us who started the firm – and it just gelled."?

Troika

Court painter to successive English and British monarchs, including Charles II (upon the death of Peter Lely) and George I, which artist pioneered the 'kit-cat' portrait and is best known for his portraits of Isaac Newton and Louis XIV of France?

Godfrey Kneller

Noted for its groundbreaking work in skyscraper design and construction, designing The John Hancock Center, Willis Tower, One World Trade Center, and Burj Khalifa, the architectural firm known as 'SOM' was founded in Chicago in 1936. What three names do the letters 'SOM' refer to?

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Along with Malcolm Sargent, he founded the London Philharmonic and conducted its first performance at the Queen's Hall in 1932. Which impresario once quipped, "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."?

Thomas Beecham

Recently portrayed by Matt Smith in Thomas Ostermeier‘s West End debut production at the Duke of York's Theatre, how is Dr Thomas Stockmann known in the title of an 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen?

An Enemy of the People

What was the title of Samuel Beckett's first published poem? A 100-line work narrated by a grumpy and delirious René Descartes; it begins with "What's that? / An egg?"?

Whoroscope

Traditionally the place where Real Madrid C.F. celebrate their trophy wins, with the captain placing a club flag and scarf on the statue, which Anatolian Mother Goddess is portrayed atop a chariot pulled by two lions in a fountain in central Madrid? This Earth and fertility deity is Phrygia's only known goddess.

Cybele

In 1918 Noel Pemberton Billing MP published an article called "The Cult of the Clitoris" that accused which dancer of being a lesbian associate of German wartime conspirators and of having an affair with Margaret Asquith, the former Prime Minister’s wife, which all led to a high-profile trial? She made her name with her seductive interpretation of the Dance of the Seven Veils, as Oscar Wilde's Salome, for which she made her own revealing costumes.

Maud ALLAN

125 one-inch miniature Moons sculptures by which artist, representing phases of the Moon and people including Mozart, Galileo, Cleopatra and Leonardo, became the first authorised artworks placed on the Moon in February 2024 after hitching a ride on a Space X rocket/lander?

Jeff Koons

Consisting of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, what is the name of this 2007 sculpture, a memento mori by Damien Hirst?

For the Love of God

The 'School of Venice' which included master luthiers who could compete with the famous workshops of Cremona, was founded by which luthier, particularly known for his cellos? Pablo Casals almost exclusively played his 1733 cello, which he dubbed his “oldest friend”, a 1700 cello is on permanent loan to prominent young musician Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Matteo Goffriller

Robert Popper, creator and writer of Channel 4s Friday Night Dinner, also wrote the books; The Timewaster Letters, Return of The Timewaster Letters and The Timewaster Diaries under what name?

Robin Cooper

Which 16th Century Flemish painter of altarpieces and portraits, court painter to Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain, was given the nickname the 'Flemish Raphael' by some of his contemporary artists, who thought him on a par with the Italian master?

Michiel COXIE / Michiel COXCIE the Elder / Michiel van COXCIE / COXIUS

Which Austrian conductor and composer completed Mozart's Requiem in D minor, which was unfinished upon his death in December 1791?

Franz Saver Sussmayr

The '22' in the title of Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 was changed from which number by his agent in 1955, to avoid confusion with a contemporary Leon Uris historical novel?

18 (Mila 18)

'Kadongo Kamu' which originated in the mid-1960s, is the oldest mainstream music genre in which country? The phrase "kadongo kamu" translates as "one little guitar".

Uganda

Opening in 1997, 11 years after her death, name either of the two cities, that house the multiple sites that comprise the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum? She owned a home in the smaller of the two from 1929 until 1984.

Santa Fe or Abiquiu

What is the name of the ocean planet that is the ancestral home world of House Atreides in the 1965 Frank Herbert novel Dune?

Caladan

The subject of the 1993 Henning Lohner documentary film The Revenge of the Dead Indians, which composer co-resurrected the New York Mycological Society with other mushroom enthusiasts in 1962?

John Cage

The full name of which low-cost British airline, based at Leeds Bradford Airport, is also its website address?

Jet2.com

What is the name of the farm, now part of the larger museum complex a few miles south of Brussels where the Battle of Waterloo is said to have started? Wellington recorded in dispatches that, "about ten o'clock [Napoleon] commenced a furious attack upon our post at ___________"

Chateau d'HOUGOUMONT

Released on 21 March 2024, what is the 3-word internal codename for 'Android 15', the latest Android operating system? The last 3 names have been; Snowcone, Tiramisu and Upside Down Cake.

Vanilla ice cream

Originating in the early modern era of the Ottoman Empire but later adopted by many modern countries, what is the two-word term for the head of Islamic jurisconsults of a state?

GRAND MUFTI / CHIEF MUFTI / STATE MUFTI / SUPREME MUFTI

Instituted in 1943 and referred to as "the animals' Victoria Cross", the Dickin Medal is awarded by which veterinary charity, founded by Maria Dickin in 1917?

PDSA / PEOPLES DISPENSARY for SICK ANIMALS

Campobasso is the capital of which Italian region? This region split from Abruzzo in 1970, then becoming the newest region in the country.

Molise

Branded a 'troublemaker' by the Chinese Government; pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive Party politician William Lai was elected President of which country in January 2024?

Taiwan

Having worked for the Daily Telegraph for less than a week, which rookie reporter was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century"? While travelling she spotted German troops and equipment massing on the border.

Clare HOLLINGWORTH

Which pioneer of military deception referred to as "the greatest British deceiver of WW2", was instrumental in the founding of three famous units: the British Commandos, the SAS and the US Rangers? He was portrayed by Dominic West in the BBC drama series SAS Rogue Heroes.

Dudley Clarke

The flag of which fraternity was carried to the North Pole by Admiral Robert Peary and to the Moon by astronaut Alan Bean? One of the oldest in the US, it was founded at Yale College in 1844 and counts Presidents; Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Ford and both Bush's as 'brothers'.

Delta Kappa Epsilon

Which ferry operator, one of the largest in the world, was founded in 1962 when its owner acquired the 'Skagen Line', between Gothenburg, Sweden and Frederikshavn, Denmark?

Stena Line

Which Canadian city of c143,000 people is known as 'The Royal City' as founder, Scottish poet John Gait, adapted it from the name of the family that George IV and the Hanoverians were descended from, and it had never been used as a place name before?

Guelph

A "theatrical and hypnotic character", often compared to Rasputin, which influential and reactionary Russian priest and mystic who shared his secular surname with a World Chess Champion, was appointed the Archimandrite of the Saint George or Yuriev Monastery in Novgorod in 1822?

PHOTIUS / Pyotr Nikitich SPASSKY

The first person belonging to the tribal community and second woman after Pratibha Patil to hold the office, who was elected President of India in July 2022?

Droupadi Murmu

With Tijuana at the western end, which Mexican city sits closest to the eastern end of the US/Mexico border, just a few miles from the sea? Along with Brownsville, Texas on the other side of the Rio Grande border it forms the 4th largest metro area on the border at 1.39m people.

Matamoros

Also known as the 'German Customs Union' which trading bloc officially came into being on 1 January 1834 and was the first instance in history in which independent states consummated a full economic union without the simultaneous creation of a political federation or union?

Zollverein

What was the one-word shared name of Alexander the Great's second wife and her Mother, who was the wife of Alexander's great rival Darius III of Persia?

Stateira

'Galdetegia' roughly translates as the English word 'Quiz', from which language?

Basque/Euskara

1992 oil-on-canvas painting made by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano in 1992. It sold at auction in 2004 for £744,500 which was the record at the time for any Scottish painting, and for any painting ever sold in Scotland.

Singing Butler

wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley

The Singing Ringing Tree

Devised, produced, and directed by Ned Sherrin and Jack Duncan, and presented by David Frost, which 1962/3 BBC satire had a name that was often shortened to 'TW3'?/

That Was The Week That Was

The first gay kiss on a children’s TV show happened way back in 1994, on which show, which is currently being developed to be relaunched under a slightly different name?

Byker Grove

According to the opening lyrics of 'Song For Whoever' by The Beautiful South, Paul Heaton loves you, from the bottom of his what?

Pencil Case

Which comedian from the Isle of Thanet, who came to fame when winning Taskmaster and the Comedians' Choice Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for Shame Pig, both in 2018, released the 2023 memoir What's That Lady Doing?: Guilt, Shame, Blame and Other Funny Stories?

Lou Sanders

Later the producer, musician and composer in his eponymous Project (a rock group fronted by Eric Woofson), who worked as an assistant engineer on the Beatles album Abbey Road and engineered the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon?

Alan Parsons

Which late actor played Anatoly Dyatlov, the deputy chief engineer and most culpable party at Chernobyl, in the highly acclaimed HBO series of the same name? For obvious reasons he managed to keep his shirt on for the entire miniseries.

Paul Ritter

Scottish actor and television personality. His role in EastEnders as Trevor Morgan from 2000 to 2002 was described as "Britain's most-hated soap villain". He also played the role of Rick Harper in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City between 2017 and 2018. For his performance as coal miner Andrei Glukhov in the 2019 miniseries Chernobyl he received a BAFTA Scotland Award.

Alexander Ferns

What two words describe Alma Nuthall is the title of the 2021 BAFTA winning sitcom, written by and starring Sophie Willan as an aspiring actress, among other things, in the title role?

Alma's Not Normal

Megachiroptera! After performing the song 'After the Watershed' at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party of 1991, who rugby tackled Philip Schofield on live TV after his reference to his band’s instrument smashing at the end of the performance lacking originality?

Fruitbat/Leslie Carter (Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine)

The alias of Denny Colt, a private investigator and criminologist based in the fictional Central City, which masked crimefighter originally appeared in a series of comics from 1940-1952? He was created by Will Eisner, who would later popularize the term 'graphic novel'.

The Spirit

In Star Wars, dates are given as a number followed by BBY or ABY. The first letters stand for 'Before' and 'After', what does the 'BY' stand for? It resulted in the destruction of the first Death Star.

Battle of Yevin

First four months of the Discworld calendar ONLY CONNECT

Ick Offle February March

Last four months of the Discworld calendar ONLY CONNECT

Spune Sektober Ember December

Sharing his whole name phonetically with a former World Chess Champion, which illustrator, director and animator created the music video for Radiohead's 1997 single Paranoid Android? He used a sitcom character of his called Robin, whose 30 short episodes were broadcast on Channel 4.

Magnus Carlsson

Beating competition from Eminem, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, which record by Arcade Fire was the surprise winner of Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards?

The Suburbs

Which animator is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb (1974–75) and Henry's Cat (1983–95), and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements?

Bob Godfrey

Which British independent record label was launched in 1989 to release rave and dance music, including SL2’s On a Ragga Tip and the Prodigy albums Music for the Jilted Generation and The Fat of the Land? It has since broadened its catalogue with artists such as Adele and Radiohead.

XL Recordings

Held annually since 2005 and attracting around 400,000 people a year, the Tomorrowland dance/EDM music festival is situated which appropriately named town, 15km south of Antwerp?

BOOM

4 Who directed the 1927 film Wings, the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?

William A Wellman

A central figure in the 'riot grrrl' scene - she coined the spelling of "grrrl" - which feminist activist and music critic, a founder member of the band Bikini Kill, is probably the subject of the angsty love songs on Nirvana's album Nevermind, being the most recent ex-girlfriend of Kurt Cobain when recorded?

Tobi Vail

Which popular piece of classical music, composed in 1866, was heard as contestants were led to each of the games in the hit Netflix series, Squid Game?

The Blue Danube

In 2015, Gino d’Acampo added what middle name by deed poll, a place name in the UK, in order to win 64,000 bonus points for his team on Celebrity Juice?

Sheffield

In 2021, which 28-year-old 'environmental magician' was elected as the first woman and the youngest ever President of The Magic Circle, in its 116-year history?

Megan Swann

One of India's highest-paid actresses, she has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014, which British actress has won five Filmfare Awards for Best Actress since 2016, including 2024?

Alia Bhatt

She appeared in a 1966 London production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, opposite Vanessa Redgrave; this led to her being scouted for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. She reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) as Mary and appeared in John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile (1978).

Olivia Hussey

90s dance act Sub Sub, who had a UK number 3 hit in 1993 with Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use), saw their Ancoats, Manchester based studio catch fire and burn down in February 1996. This led the band members to abandon their previous dance-oriented style and start afresh as which band in 1998?

Doves

TILE manual handling risk assessment what does TILE stand for ONLY CONNECT?

Task Individual Load Environment

From the French for 'small oven', which small bite-sized confectionery or savoury appetizers are also known as 'mignardises' in France?

Petit Four

Sharing its name with an item of stationery, what name is given to the part of a hot air balloon that contains the heated air and gives the balloon lift?

Envelope

Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc., the parent company of Steinway & Sons piano manufacturers traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the abbreviation LVB between 1996 and 2013 when it was acquired by Paulson and Co. Rather appropriately, what did the letters LVB stand for?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Which fashion house renamed a 1961 handbag design (originally called the 'Fifties Constance') the 'Jackie bag' after the former first lady of the US, when she was photographed shielding herself from the paparazzi with it in the 1970s?

Gucci

First airing in October 2000, it opened with a 10-year-old boy, Micah Kanters, whispering the phrase to the camera as if he'd discovered a secret. Which car company uses the marketing slogan, 'Zoom Zoom'?

Mazda

In the gender identities and sexual orientations acronym LGBTQIA2S+, which word does the 'S' in '2S' represent? 2S is predominately used by some indigenous North Americans to describe certain people in their communities who fulfil a traditional third-gender ceremonial role in their cultures.

Two-SPIRIT

Also known as a 'hip-knob' what name is given to a distinctive section or ornament at the apex of a roof, canopy, etc. on a building? Examples include straw versions of animals on thatched rooves or in interior design, a decorative trimming which caps the unfinished end of a curtain pole.

Finial

If you ordered 'branzino' in an Italian or North American restaurant, which fish would you be served?

Sea Bass

Named for a showman and politician and also known as the Forer effect, what name is given to the psychological phenomenon where people think that descriptions of their personality are accurate and specific to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people? Examples include astrology and 'psychics'.

Barnum Effect

Which journalist, currently working for BBC News in Washington, D.C. as one of their North America political correspondents, played blind football for England as a schoolboy and has the X or Twitter username @BBCBlindGazza?

Gary O'Donoghue

The biggest manufacturer of pocketknives in the world, established in 1884, which company is the sole supplier of multi-purpose knives to the Swiss army?

Victorinox

Which 18th century British physician wrote A Treatise On Madness in 1758, the first full-length book about treating mental illness, raising the profile of psychiatry as a science in the process?

William BATTY/BATTIE

In medicine, what name is given to the administration of a discrete amount of medication, drug, or other compound within a specific time, generally 1–30 minutes, to raise its concentration in blood to an effective level?

Bolus

In motor racing his highlight was as a co-driver of Aston Martin's winning 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans car, which American racing driver and automotive engineer is perhaps best known for his modified versions of the Mustang and AC Cobra for Ford in the 1960s and early 2000s? His cars featured in the films I Am Legend and Gone In Sixty Seconds, and he himself was played by Matt Damon in Ford v. Ferrari.

Carroll Shelby

At the British Fashion Awards, which US curve model was elected 'Model of the Year 2023′? Discovered by Pat McGrath.

Paloma Elsesser

In finance, what 5-letter word refers to when investors borrow capital in a low interest rate environment and buy assets where interest rates are higher, earning them a positive return?

Carry

Which winery, established by Gaston Hochar in 1930 is located at an altitude of over 3,000 feet in the Bekaa Valle, 15 miles north of Beirut, and enjoys a cult status in the wine industry where it is known as 'the legendary Lafite of Lebanon'?

Chateau MUSAR

'Toy Boy', 'Cheap and Chic' and 'Fresh Couture', which is ironically packaged as a spray cleaning product, are all fragrances produced by which luxury fashion house?

Moschino

Which style of dress originating in Mexico, with a short and embroidered coat, large sombrero and long, tight pants covered with decoration on the sides for men, is based on the clothing of a type of horseman and is often associated with mariachi bands and more general celebration in festivals?

Charro

A sometime colleague of Abraham Maslow, which psychologist with an alliterative name, performed a series of controversial experiments on rhesus monkeys, demonstrating the effects of maternal separation, as well the effects of social isolation?

Harry HARLOW

In 2020, Canadian engineer Shay Shariatzadeh married which big name in the world of sports entertainment, acting and, formerly rapping, whose grandfather was Red Sox, Phillies and White Sox first baseman Tony Lupien?

John CENA

Often credited with introducing the table fork to England, which Elizabethan/Jacobean traveller and writer's description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word 'umbrella' being introduced into English?

Thomas CORYAT

The ultimate 'hype beer', released once a year, the world's first triple IPA beer 'Pliny the Younger', celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2024. Attracting huge queues (8 hours isn't unusual), it is brewed by which Santa Rosa, California based brewery and sold in its two brew pubs?

Russian River

Which chili pepper breeder with a somewhat appropriate surname, claimed his second Guinness World Record in August 2023 when one of his creations - 'Pepper X'- was recognised as the world's hottest chilli pepper? He already held the record for his 'Carolina Reaper'.

Ed Currie

Key architect behind Scottish Parliament buiding, Barcelonia architect

Enric Miralles

Who were main directors of Future Systems who won Stirling Prize for Media Centre at Lords and did Selfridges Building in Birmingham? Czech man and British woman.

Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete

From the Middle French or Latin for 'arched' what type of lens is used in a magnifying glass?

Convex

Which 4-letter term is used for a family of optical phenomena produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere?

Halo

Two of the eight SI base units are named for real people. One is named for a Frenchman (Ampere), which is named for a British scientist?

Kelvin

Which disease is thought to have contaminated the iced milk or cherries which are said to have killed US President Zachary Taylor in 1850? It is caused by bacteria that are curved or comma-shaped rods with a single polar flagellum.

Cholera

Coined by Humphry Davy who first isolated it in 1807, the name of which element comes from the Arabic for 'headache' as in medieval Europe, a compound of it was used as a headache remedy? Its symbol comes an abbreviation of the element's Neo-Latin name, which refers to an Egyptian natural mineral salt.

Sodium

From the Latin for 'wear away', in biology, what eight letter word refers to dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material? It typically hosts communities of microorganisms that colonize and decompose it. When it accumulates on a seabed, it is called 'marine snow'.

Detritus

In particle physics, what two-word name is given to the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces; electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions, (but not gravity), explaining how quarks and leptons make up all known matter?

Standard Model

The southernmost point in Africa, which Cape is the start of the traditional dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?

Cape Agulhas

The location of the largest settlement and capital Tórshavn, and with a name meaning "island of currents", what is the largest of the Faroe Islands?

Streymoy

Featuring an English county in its name, what green cultivar of apple tree was Isaac Newton supposedly sat under, or walking past, when an apple fell in 1665/6? A direct descendant still stands in its place.

Flower of Kent

Turtle shells consist of two parts, the dorsal, more curved part is the carapace, what is the name of the underside, which is usually almost flat?

Plastron

Which woody, Old World perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, is cultivated for salad leaves and used as a coffee substitute and food additive?

Chicory

Built in the 10th Century, the Gavazan Column (Gavazan Siun) at Tatev Monastery in Armenia measured which natural phenomenon, a thousand years before modern instruments for the same purpose were developed?

Earthquakes

At 42 letters, the animal with the longest valid scientific name is an insect, Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyides. Native to Thailand, which order does it belong to?

DIPTERA / FLY

Native to East Africa and named for a German naturalist and explorer, which critically endangered large bird of prey is considered to be the highest-flying bird, with a confirmed sighting of a flight at an altitude of 11,300m (37,000 ft) above sea level?

Ruppell's Vulture

Many different cations can be embedded in this structure, allowing the development of diverse engineered materials, which calcium titanium oxide mineral composed of calcium titanate with the chemical formula CaTiO3 is named for a Russian minerologist?

PEROVSKITE

(Two-word answer required) In quantum physics, which principle states that no two electrons in the same atom can have identical values for all four of their quantum numbers? So, no more than two electrons can occupy the same orbital and two electrons in the same orbital must have opposite spins.

Pauli Exclusion Principle

In some cases causing hurricane-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods, what name is given to a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system? From spanish for straight.

Derecho

Protein half-life can be determined by blocking synthesis in cells with which ribosome inhibitor, a naturally occurring fungicide produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus, and then observing protein levels over time?

Cycloheximide

A commonly used neutron detector consists of tubes filled with which inert gas? This gas also circulates in Generation IV Very-high-temperature gas reactors such as the German AVR?

Helium

Declared extinct in the UK in 2005 until rediscovery at a single site in 2009, which type of orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii) is one of the UK’s rarest plants? It doesn’t use sunlight to produce food, instead relying on a special kind of fungi and can wait more than 30 years between flowerings.

Ghost Orchid

With a name meaning 'Terrible Crocodile', which gigantic alligator lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous and could be 12 metres long and weigh up to 8.5 tonnes, large enough to eat dinosaurs?

Deinosuchus

Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers; flowers in this case almost always refer to those of the cherry or, less frequently, plum trees. "flower viewing" Japanese

Hanami

Doing so in consecutive years, Tadej Pogačar is the only rider in the history of which event to win the race and also win the mountains and young rider classifications in the same year?

Tour de France

Four football teams that call Maracana Stadium home in RdJ

Botafogo Fluminense Flamengo Vasco de Gama

Fastest speed on a gravity powered snow sled, fastest speed in a soapbox, highest speed on a 'Wall of Death', and fastest tractor are all Guinness World Records held by which mechanic, retired motorcycle racer and television presenter, who, despite competing in the Isle of Man TT 14 times, achieving 17 podium finishes, never won a race at the event?

Guy Martin

The last three, and six of the last eight winners of the World Women's Snooker Championships have all represented countries from which continent?

Asia

Which multinational tyre company sponsored the World Golf Championship Invitational from 2006-18? Fed-Ex took over sponsorship of the tournament from 2019 to 2021.

Bridgestone

Which of the three weapons used in fencing is the largest and heaviest? With the entire body a valid target area when competing, it is triangular in cross-section, with a V-shaped groove called a 'fuller'

Epee

Which of the three fencing swords only counts the trunk of body as points scored?

Foil

Which of the three fencing types has the entire body as a scoring zone including legs head etc.

Epee

Which of the three fencing types only scores using upper body from middrift up including head?

Sabre

Which spinner took match figures of 9/128 in his first Test Match, against West Indies in 2011, and match figures of 9/128 in his 100th Test Match, against England in Dharamsala, in 2024?

ravichandran ashwin

After signing an interesting $700m contract with the LA Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani has recently been embroiled in an ongoing betting scandal involving some rather large payments to bookmakers. Nicknamed 'Charlie Hustle', which great of the game was banned from all baseball in 1989 and being voted into the Hall of Fame in 1991 for betting on his own team, the Cincinnati Reds?

Pete Rose

In March 2024 LeBron James became the first NBA player to reach what landmark amount of career regular season points, in a game against the Denver Nuggets?

40,000

With the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron defending the title, the 37th America's Cup will be raced from 12 October 2024 as a first-to-seven-wins match-race series in which Spanish city?

Barcelona

Part of the name of the position he plays for Harlequins and England, and subtitled ‘Confessions of an (un)professional rugby player’, what is the two-word title of Joe Marler’s 2020 autobiography?

Loose Head

What is the name of the 2021 instalment of the Call of Duty video game franchise that shares its name with one of the world's biggest investment management firms, the largest provider of mutual funds?

Vanguard

Which trainer of Grand National winner I Am Maximus won his 100th race at the Cheltenham Festival, becoming the first to do so, when Jasmin de Vaux won the Weatherbys Champion Bumper in 2024?

Willie Mullins

British players Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott in 1999 and Sam Holden in 2011 were the first and last winners of which Channel 4 TV series, that helped popularize poker in the UK in the 2000s and pioneered the use of "hole/pocket cams" that enable the viewer to see the player's cards?

Late Night Poker

At 15 years 336 days, who became the youngest person to play Test cricket for England, male or female, when she played for England against Australia at Hove in 2005? She had only turned up as a net bowler to prepare England's batters for left arm spinner Shelley Nitschke.

Holly Colvin

Which model of Toyota has won the last 5 World Rally Championships, in the more than capable hands of Kalle Rovanperä, Sébastien Ogier and Ott Tänak?

Yaris

After over 30 years in the role, Martin Tyler retired as lead commentator for Sky Sports Football at the end of the 2022/23 Premier League season. Who took over from him, he had previously been the number two commentator to Clive Tyldesley on ITV?

Peter Drury

When beating Hélène Prévost in straight sets in the Women's Singles Olympic Final to claim gold in Paris in 1900, which tennis player from Ealing, London, became the first ever individual female Olympic champion?

Charlotte COOPER

Often called "goal posts", "bedposts", or "snake eyes", what alpha-numeric name is given to this situation in Ten Pin Bowling, that a player has to clear to achieve a spare?

7-10 Split

In 1975 he made it to within 19 seconds of taking Muhammad Ali the distance in a 15 round Heavyweight Championship fight and was the last man to fight Sonny Liston. Which boxer was the inspiration for the Sylvester Stallone character Rocky Balboa?

Chuck Wepner

In baseball, which letter written backwards is used on scorecards when a batter strikes out without swinging and just 'looking' at the third strike, rather than a swing and a miss?

K

Played at the inaugural Olympic Esports Week in Singapore in June 2023, with a name that is a play on words of a traditional paper and pencil game in the US, what is the three-word name of the first virtual world championships game for the sport of archery?

Tic Tac Bow

Between the London and Rio games, who became the first gymnast (male or female) to capture every major all-around title in an entire single Olympic cycle, bookending this feat with gold medals for the all-around in both games along with team gold in Rio?

Kohei UCHIMURA

Played on an inflatable court featuring a trampoline on each side of the net, which ballgame, invented by a Belgian in Brazil, combines elements of volleyball, football, and gymnastics with music into a sport?

BOSSABALL

Released in 1984, what was the name of Konami’s follow up arcade/computer game to Track and Field? It featured seven new Olympic events including archery, skeet shooting and weightlifting.

Hyper Sports

Best known for designing and building a particular 23,093cc six-cylinder Maybach aero engined car, which British racing driver died in a crash whilst driving for Mercedes in the 1924 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, at the age of 29?

'Count' Louis ZBOROWSKI

Who is the only man to have played in a Cricket World Cup Final (1996) and to have umpired a Cricket World Cup Final (2015 & 2019)?

Kumar DHARMASENA

Which American Football legend was the winning quarterback in what subsequently became known as 'Superbowl I' in 1967, also winning the MVP award? He repeated the double at Superbowl II in 1968.

Bart STARR

She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club that was made into a movie of the same name. Longlisted Booker 2022 The story of the family of Shakespearean actors best known for their connection to Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth - Booth. 2013: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

Karen Joy Fowler

Author of 2008 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House and 2021 The Haunting of Alma Fielding.

Kate Summerscale

Among the subjects he closely studied was the case of Gef the talking mongoose. British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.

Nandor Fodor

What six-letter prefix precedes “bassoon” to describe a larger version of the bassoon, also sometimes known as the ‘double bassoon’, that curves back on itself and plays an octave lower?

Contra

Clara Schumann's Op. 7 and Amy Beach's Op. 45 are concertos for which instrument, on which both composers were accomplished performers?

Piano

What was the first name of the girl from Lourdes who experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1858? She was canonised by Pope Pius XI in 1933 and her feast day is celebrated in most parts of the world on 16 April.

Bernadette

The name of which major religious figure is missing in the titles of these paintings? The Disrobing of [BLANK] (El Greco; 1577-9), The Yellow [BLANK] (Gauguin; 1889), and Temptations of [BLANK] (Botticelli; 1480-82). Your answer must be the single word that appears in the English title of these paintings.

Christ

Barbara Euphan Todd's Worzel Gummidge was the first story released under which publishing imprint created after Noel Carrington met Allan Lane in the late 1930s?

Puffin

Muslims performing the hajj or umrah pilgrimages to Mecca drink water from which holy well located very close to the Kaaba?

Zamzam

Which artist designed the effigy of King Charles III on the obverse of new British coinage? His notable sculptures include Mary Seacole outside St Thomas' Hospital, John Betjeman at St Pancras station, and Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon Interchange station.

Martin Jennings

In Norse mythology, which gigantic mate of Loki is described in the Prose Edda as the mother of the wolf Fenrir, the serpent Jörmungandr, and of Hel, the ruler of the underworld?

Angrboda

Handbagged, a play examining the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher, was written by which British playwright? Her other works include Silence (1999), Welcome to Thebes (2010), and wonder.land, a 2015 musical penned in collaboration with Damon Albarn.

Moira Buffini

Nhialic, or Deng Dit, is the supreme creator god in which religion? Wearing beaded corsets and fishing with spears are among the traditions of this religion practised by the South Sudanese ethnic group of the same name.

Dinka

Which architectural feature comprises a row of small columns, posts, or banisters topped by a rail? Often found on staircases, balconies, and terraces, they are decorative and help to prevent people falling.

Balustrade

A work entitled Paloma à la Guitare sold at auction for $1.3 million in 2021. It is a 1965 painting of her daughter by which woman, previously a partner and muse of Picasso?

Francoise Gilot

John Steed's female companions in The Avengers ONLY CONNECT

Cathy Gale - Honor Blackman Emma Peel - Diana Rigg Tara King - Linda Thorson Purdey - Joanna Lumley

The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as what name???, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1275 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles south of Dumfries.

Sweetheart Abbey

fictional character, the genial and outspoken host of the Tabard Inn who accompanies the group of pilgrims to Canterbury in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Harry Bailly

Hosted by, and named after, the original presenter of You've Been Framed, which practical joke and hidden camera show ran for a decade on ITV during the 1980s and 1990s?

Beadle's About

The theme tune to the 1980s children's programme Button Moon was written and performed by the actor Sandra Dickinson and her husband. Who was this man, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who?

Peter Davison

Doing so in 1973 for his directing and choreography on Cabaret, Liza with a Z, and Pippin, who remains the only person to have been awarded an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony in the same year?

Bob Fosse

The hugely successful Netflix show Who Killed Sara?, which ran for three series between 2021 and 2022, is a mystery thriller from which Latin American country?

Mexico

Joan Bennett was Emmy-nominated for her starring role in which American gothic soap opera that ran from 1966 to 1971? Set in Collinsport, Maine, it featured vampires, ghosts, zombies, and other supernatural beings.

Dark Shadows

Described by PlanetOut as “…arguably the most romantic lesbian film of all time”, which 1985 Donna Deitch movie tells the story of a divorcee who moves to Reno and falls for a young sculptor?

Desert Hearts

Airing in 2022, which six-part BBC drama series, a spin-off from The A Word, focuses on the lives of a couple with Down Syndrome? It stars Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy in the title roles.

Ralph & Katie

“Say You, Say Me” by Lionel Richie and “Separate Lives”, a duet by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin, both feature on the soundtrack of which 1985 musical drama film starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines? The film also features Helen Mirren, who would go on to marry its director, Taylor Hackford.

White Nights

This British actor is best known for her work with Mike Leigh. In the 2010s, she appeared in his films Mr Turner, in which she starred as Sophia Booth, Turner's landlady and lover, and Peterloo, in which she played Elizabeth Conyngham, the last mistress of King George IV. Who is she?

Marion Bailey

Although now inextricably linked with Only Connect, Victoria Coren (as was) hosted which 2006-7 show that invited the public to help find the origins and first known citations of words and phrases? Its title contained two roughly synonymous words meaning “nonsense”.

Balderdash and Piffle

Fallen Leaves, which won the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, is part of the Proletariat series by which Finnish director?

Aki KAURISMAKI

Name the two actors who have played Kryten in Red Dwarf

David Ross (S2) Robert Llewellyn (S3+)

Finish the mnemonic for sign of cross: spectacles, testicles, ______ and ______ ONLY CONNECT

Wallet and Watch

Name for the Greek predecessor of Naples, middle name of Florence Nightingale older sister Frances Verney.

Parthenope

Running from its namesake bridge to Parnell Street, what is the main thoroughfare in Dublin? It has great historical significance as its General Post Office building is where the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was read in 1916.

O'Connell Street

Whilst at the University of Hull in 2002, Peter Clough proposed a “4 C's” model for measuring mental toughness. Please provide any one of the four qualities in question.

Commitment Confidence Challenge Control

Situated on the banks of the Ob River, which city is the most populous in Siberia and the third-most populous in Russia?

Novosibirsk

El Jem, a city known in classical times as Thysdrus, is home to the ruins of its namesake amphitheatre. In which African country could you find this accomplished example of Roman amphitheatre construction?

Tunisia

Named after two professors then at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, which economic theorem asserts that a company's capital structure has no effect on its market value?

Modigliani-Miller Theorem

What five-letter Russian word is the name given to a biome characterised by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches?

Taiga

Genetic epistemology, also known as the developmental theory of knowledge, is an area of study established by which Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development?

Jean Piaget

Located off the coast of Anglesey, which island is the most northerly point of Wales? Please give either its common alliterative English name or its Welsh name, which is inspired by a legend that a particular saint was shipwrecked there.

MIDDLE MOUSE or YNYS BADRIG

Which Arab historiographer and historian (1332-1406) is considered by some to be the father of sociology, economics, and demography? His best-known work is the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena (“Introduction”).

Ibn Khaldun

Standing nearly 150 metres above the Indus River, which structure in Pakistan is the world's largest fill-type dam?

Tarbela Dam

Stretching to 1,000 feet, the longest bench in the United Kingdom (and one of the longest in the world) can be found on the seafront of which West Sussex resort?

Littlehampton

Edgars Rinkēvičs, who was elected in July 2023, became the first world's first openly gay president of a nation state. He leads which of the Baltic republics?

Latvia

Mitla succeeded Monte Albán as capital of which pre-Columbian civilisation in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca?

Zapotec Civilisation

Richard J. Daley was mayor of which large midwestern US city between 1955 and 1976? His son Richard M. Daley held the same post from 1989 to 2011.

Chicago

In 2018, the US Embassy in London moved from Grosvenor Square to which riverside area in the south-west of the city between Battersea and Vauxhall? A Northern Line underground station with this name opened in 2021.

Nine Elms

Who was the RAF's commanding officer during the 1940 Battle of Britain? His namesake ground-controlled interception system is thought to have been crucial to Britain's success against the attacks of the Luftwaffe.

Hugh DOWDING

The last male member of the House of Luxembourg, who was Holy Roman Emperor between 1433 and 1437? Before acceding to that throne, he had been King of Hungary and Croatia and played a key role in ending the Papal Schism by convoking the Council of Constance.

Sigismund of Luxembourg

Before becoming his country's prime minister, Narendra Modi served as chief minister of which Indian state from 2001 to 2014? His administration was criticised for its management of the 2002 riots in this state, during which over 1,000 people were killed over a three-day period of inter-communal violence between Hindus and Muslims

Gujarat

Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of “cultural [BLANK]” to describe domination or rule maintained through ideological or cultural means. What word fills the blank to name this concept developed from Karl Marx's theory that the dominant ideology of society reflects the beliefs and interests of the ruling class?

Hegemony

Who was the captain of the Hindenburg airship when it caught fire and was destroyed in 1937? He survived and maintained that the disaster was sabotage rather than an accident.

Max Pruss

Which French politician has been the official leader of the far-right National Rally (formerly National Front) party since 2022, having succeeded Marine Le Pen in the role? In 2015, this man was elected to the regional council of Île-de-France at the age of just 20.

Jordan Bardella

Who has been president of Sinn Féin since 2018 and Leader of the Opposition in Ireland since 2020?

Mary Lou McDonald

Who was the first Black woman to reach the North Pole (2007) and also the first to reach the South Pole (2011)? She achieved both feats while in her 70s.

Barbara Hillary

Which athlete created the women's hormonal health platform Jennis, which aims to give “millions of women the hormone intelligence and tools to improve their health and body literacy at every lifestage”?

Jessica Ennis-Hill

In addition to its Food Optimising eating plan, this organisation encourages members to develop their physical activity and make lasting mindset changes for sustainable weight loss success. Which weight loss organisation was founded in Derbyshire in 1969 by Margaret Miles-Bramwell? Its charitable arm, SMILES, has raised over £25,000,000 for good causes since 1997.

Slimming World

Which pseudoscientific alternative medicine system, widely practised in India and Nepal, where it is associated with the god Dhanvantari, has a Sanskrit name that can be roughly translated as “knowledge of longevity”?

Ayurveda

Dua Lipa began a relationship with which British actor in 2024? This Fantastic Beasts actor had previously been the partner of Vanessa Kirby.

Callum Turner

Which American video-sharing social networking service was launched in 2015 by David Leiberman and Sammy Rubin? This platform enjoyed a spike in subscriber numbers in 2020 when its Chinese rival TikTok was banned in India and restricted in the US.

Triller

Champagne is the best-known French sparkling wine but which French word, also beginning with a ‘c’, is applied to most of the country’s other sparkling wines because of the mouthfeel produced by their lower carbon dioxide pressures?

Cremant

Since 2009, actor Salma Hayek has been known by which additional surname, that of her husband, the CEO of Frenchbased multinational corporation Kering?

Pinault

LVMH CEO

Bernard Arnault

Created by Pam and Tony Craske, which Welsh goat's cheese with a salty, lemony flavour was served to Queen Elizabeth II on a 2015 visit to Cardiff? It has also been on the menu for NATO delegates and prime ministers.

Pantysgawn

Which handicraft commonly uses a small shuttle to produce a durable form of lace from a series of knots and loops? This procedure can be used to make doilies and collars, as well as accessories such as earrings and necklaces.

Tatting

Which lace or silk veil or shawl is traditionally worn over the head and shoulders as a head covering by women during church services, particularly in Spain and Latin America?

Mantilla

Used primarily by gamers, which instant messaging and VoIP platform was created by Jason Citron and released in 2015?

Discord

In January 2020, Anick Soni became the first intersex person to appear on the cover of which gay lifestyle magazine? Launched in 1994, the publication has an eight-letter, one-word name.

ATTITUDE

Known for its catchy “doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang” backing vocal, which single, recorded by The Chiffons in late 1962 and released the following year, was the subject of a plagiarism lawsuit filed against George Harrison in 1971, with Bright Tunes Music Corporation claiming that Harrison's “My Sweet Lord” infringed the song's copyright?

He's So Fine

Opposing Force and Blue Shift are expansion packs of which first-person shooter game series developed by Valve?

Half-Life

Partnering lyricist Alain Boublil, which French composer wrote the music for the stage productions of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon? He shares his surname with a 20th-century composer of classical music.

Claude-Michel SCHONBERG

Which singer, whose debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., was released in 1973, is now celebrated in his home state of New Jersey each year on 23 September, his birthday, which has been declared his ‘Day’?

Bruce Springsteen

Barbarians, Rogues, Sorcerers, and Necromancers are among the character classes in which series of dungeoncrawling video games? The games are set in the fictional world of Sanctuary.

Diablo

Now hosted by journalists Justin Webb, Sarah Smith, and Marianna Spring, which weekly BBC podcast discusses news and social and cultural issues from the United States?

Americast

Which French singer of Spanish descent fronted the band Mano Negra in the 1980s and '90s, before enjoying success as a solo artist? His single “Me llaman Calle” won the Latin Grammy award for Best Alternative Song in 2007.

Manu Chao

Its winners in 2023 including actor and author Kelechi Okafor and DJ AAA, which awards ceremony was set up by Ibrahim Kamara and Jide Adetunji to recognise emerging and under-represented creative talent?

Guap Gala

Inspiring the name of a rock band featuring Mark Ellen, Adam Sharples, and a future world leader, which two words appear in mirror-writing on the cover of The Grateful Dead's 1974 album From the Mars Hotel?

Ugly Rumours

One of the best-selling authors of all-time, which manga artist created the Urusei Yatsura and Inuyasha series?

Rumiko Takahashi

Founded by brothers Jack, Phillip, and Ivor Abadi, which Manchester night club was famous for its “all-nighters” in the 1960s, featuring US soul acts such as Junior Walker, Edwin Starr, and Mary Wells? It was one of the first clubs to play the music that would become known as Northern Soul.

The Twisted Wheel

Who is the only female contestant from The Voice UK to have scored a no.1 single in the UK charts? That 2014 song, “Gecko (Overdrive)”, was a collaboration with Oliver Heldens, and she won the Brit Award for Best Dance Act in both 2022 and 2023.

Becky Hill

first two humans, created by the gods Norse mythology

ASK and EMBLA (female)

meaning "She-who-invites" or the "Female-who-invites"), is the creator deity of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess

Izanami (Izanagi is the brother-husband)

the moon kami in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion, moon goddess equivalent to Amaterasu sun

Tsukuyomi

This iconic British design has illuminated the world since the 1930s. Which Car suspension designer designed the Anglepoise lamp in 1931 and his design has remained largely unchanged for over 80 years.

George Carwardine

The younger brother of Amaterasu, goddess of the sun and mythical ancestress of the Japanese imperial line, he is a multifaceted deity with contradictory characteristics (both good and bad), being portrayed in various stories either as a wild, impetuous god associated with the sea and storms, as a heroic figure who killed a monstrous serpent, or as a local deity linked with the harvest and agriculture.

Susanoo

The Met Office defines what weather phenomenon as a combination of strong winds and snow? To be categorised as such, the winds must be 30 mph or more and visibility must drop to below 200 metres.

Blizzard

Used in titrations, what piece of laboratory equipment is a long, graduated glass tube with a stopcock that measures and delivers liquids?

Burette

Its name deriving from its egg-like shape, which part of a plant develops into a seed when fertilised? In conifers, this structure lies on the scales of the cone, while in flowering plants this structure is enclosed by the ovary.

Ovule

Jacques Charles formulated his eponymous gas law and Carl Linnaeus introduced his eponymous system of taxonomy in which century?

18th/1700s

Leukonychia is the appearance of white spots on which parts of the body? The spots can be brought on by trauma, poisoning, or illness.

Nails

The particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti has been Director-General of which major scientific organisation since 2016?

CERN

In chemistry, what adjective describes a substance that can act as both an acid and a base?

Amphoteric

Salmon and catfish are among the fish that have which type of fin named because it was once thought to hold fat? It is found between the dorsal and caudal fins.

Adipose Fin

Which Irish crystallographer used X-ray diffraction to prove that a benzene ring is flat? She was one of the first two women elected Fellows of the Royal Society (alongside Marjory Stephenson).

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale

Which US physiologist coined the terms “fight or flight” and “homeostasis”? For the latter, he expanded on the work of Frenchman Claude Bernard, who several decades earlier had described the stability of an organism's internal environment.

Walter Bradford CANNON

Which flowering tree in the mallow family is the national tree of Jamaica? It derives part of its name from the distinctive and unusual colour of the streaks in its wood after milling and polishing. Two words required.

Blue Mahoe

French and Mexican physicists Louis de Broglie and Ana María Cetto were respectively the first and most recent recipients of which biennial UNESCO award? It recognises exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people.

KALINGA Prize

The Whetstone of Witte was a 1557 publication by which Welsh mathematician? It introduced the new equals sign (=) he had invented.

Robert RECORDE

What is the common name of the finch Spinus spinus, which is often confused with the similar but slightly larger greenfinch? This lively bird is often found close to pine trees as it feeds primarily on their nuts and seeds.

SISKIN

What is the innermost of Saturn's named moons? Found in the Encke Gap of the planet's A-ring, it has a distinctive walnut or ravioli shape.

Pan

The first ever Tour de France stage to finish at the summit of Alpe d'Huez was won in 1952 by which Italian rider? This cyclist won two Tours de France and five Giro d'Italia titles between 1940 and 1953.

Fausto COPPI

In 2014, rugby league's Man of Steel award, presented to the player of the year, was renamed after which St Helen's, Hull and Wakefield Trinity fullback, who had died of cancer the previous year?

Steve PRESCOTT

Won in the last three years by Emblem Road, Panthalassa, and Senor Buscador, the world's richest horse race has a US$20 million purse and takes place on the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in which country?

Saudi Arabia

Inspired by the likes of Uganda's Mary Cholhok, which Midlands team has won two of the last three British Netball Super League titles?

Loughborough Lightning

The rising star of Chinese tennis, which woman lost in the women’s singles final at the 2024 Australian Open to Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka?

ZHENG Qinwen

Dane Viktor Axelsen is currently ranked as the top men's singles player in the world in which sport? He is a two-time World Championship gold medallist and is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the men's singles title at the 2020 Olympics.

BADMINTON

Which ice hockey penalty is partly defined in the NHL's Official 2022-23 Rules as “a punching or slamming motion with or without the glove on the hand, normally directed at the head or face of an opponent”? It is often awarded for pushing or shoving after the whistle has blown and is a more minor offence than fighting.

ROUGHING

In Tokyo in 2021, Welsh para athlete Olivia Breen won bronze in the T38 category of which field event? She won the gold medal in this event at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London.

Long Jump

Which golf club just south of York hosted the inaugural Women's British Open in 1976? It also hosted the Benson and Hedges International Open for men for nearly two decades, with Bernhard Langer notably climbing a tree at the 17th hole to play a shot.

Fulford Golf Course

A statue of which Aboriginal Australian Rules footballer can be found outside Perth Stadium? It depicts him lifting his guernsey and pointing to his skin defiantly after being subjected to racist abuse in a match in 1993.

Nicky WINMAR

Which point guard is the NBA's all-time leader in career triple-doubles? This means he has scored a double-digit number in three of five categories (points, rebounds, assists, blocks, and steals) in a single game more times than anyone else in the competition's history.

Russell Westbrook

Referencing the club’s founding in 1896, the number 96 appears on the crest of a German football team that plays in which city and state capital? They won the DFB-Pokal cup in 1992 but were relegated from the Bundesliga in 2019.

Hannover

His efforts dramatized in the 2005 film The World's Fastest Indian, which New Zealand motorcycle rider set several land speed records on a 1920 Indian Scout at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1960s?

Burt Munro

Found in South and Southeast Asia, and reaching lengths of up to 6.5 metres, and named after the complex, diamond pattern on its skin. Which species of python is the World’s longest snake?

Reticulated Python

Meaning 'whip' in Latin, what name is given to the hair like structures used by some cells, spores and microorganisms for locomotion?

Flagellum

Also called buccal incubation and exhibited by some species of fish and frogs. What name is given to an animal that hatches and rears their young inside within their mouths?

Mouthbreeder

When attached to the seafloor with a stalk they are commonly known as sea lilies. Which echinoderms found in shallow waters and up to depths of 9000 meters gather plankton using feathery appendages known as pinnules? Fossils of them can be found dating to the Ordovician some 480 million years ago.

Crinoids

With an appearance of stalactites and having the consistency of nasal mucus. What name is given to the strands of extremophilic bacteria that hangs from the ceilings and walls of caves?

Snottite

First constructed by Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi. What 3D shape is the first known homogenous object that has only with one stable and one unstable equilibrium point? Placed on a flat surface it wriggles around seemingly with a mind of its own before eventually righting itself.

GOMBOC

Found in petroleum. Which organic chemical compound with the chemical formula C6H6, consists of 6 carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal ring with a carbon atom forming a single bond with each hydrogen atom?

Benzene

Named after a Dutch Physicist who won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physics. What name is given to the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field?

Zeeman Effect

MIKE FLANAGAN ADAPTATIONS: Horror director Mike Flanagan's Netflix success continued in 2023, with his loose adaptation of which Edgar Allen Poe work? His version chronicles the rise and subsequent demise of a pharmaceutical CEO and his family.

The Fall of the House of Usher

GOLF COURSES: Xander Schauffele won his first major at the 2024 US PGA Championship over the weekend at which golf course? Designed by Jack Nicklaus, this course hosted the 2008 Ryder Cup and 2024 was its fourth time hosting the PGA Championship. In Louisville, Kentucky.

Valhalla

STOIC PHILOSOPHERS: Which ancient Greek philosopher is considered to be the founder of Stoicism? Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, this born was born in Cyprus in 334 BC.

Zeno of Citium

HISTORICAL LIBRARIES: Which city in Anatolia, Turkiye, housed one of the most important libraries of the ancient world which was built in c. 200BCE by Eumenes II? First excavated in 1885, work began to restore the city in the 1950s and the city is mentioned as one of the Seven Churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation.

Pergamum

GOLF COURSES: The 2023 Solheim Cup was hosted at Finca Cortesin in which European country? Europe, captained by Suzann Pettersen, retained the cup following a 14-14 draw.

Spain

FRENCH ELECTRONIC ACTS: Which French DJ had hits with Turn Down for What (ft. Lil Jon) and Lean on (ft. MØ and Major Lazer)? This man has toured with Skrillex and his most recent noteworth hit was Taki Taki with Selena Gomez and Cardi B.

DJ Snake

WORKS OF JUNJI ITO: Often considered to be Junji Ito's magnum opus, which manga series published in the late 90s has a cosmic horror basis where a town and its inhabitants become consumed by spirals? An anime version of this tale is expected to be released later this year.

Uzumaki

MIKE FLANAGAN ADAPTATIONS: As well as adapting Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan also adapted which other Stephen King story in 2017? The story follows a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to the bed and her subsequent struggle with sanity.

Gerald's Game

BOOKS WITH TITLES FROM POETRY: Which Southern Gothic William Faulkner novel takes its name from William Marris' 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey? This is a stream of consciousness novel which uses 15 different narrators and focuses on the death and aftermath of Addie Bundren.

As I Lay Dying

ENGLISH ARTISTS: Which English Pre-Raphaelite artist is best known for his Manchester Murals and painting Work? This man was a close friend of William Morris and was a founding partner of his original design company.

Ford Madox Brown

FEMALE VIDEO GAME PROTAGONISTS: What 2018 platform video game sees the player play as Madeline, a girl with anxiety and depression who is climbing the titular mountain? Receiving universal critical acclaim, this was developed by the indie studio Maddy Makes Games.

Celeste

HISTORICAL LIBRARIES: What four word alternate name is given to the Grand Library of Baghdad, a major Abbasid public intellectual centre? Founded in the 8th century, it was destroyed in 1258 during the Mongol Siege of Baghdad.

The House of Wisdom

GOLF COURSES: The 2024 Ryder Cup will be held at which golf course in New York state for the first time? A famously difficult course, it previously hosted the 2002 and 2009 US Opens and the 2019 PGA Championship.

BETHPAGE Black Course

FRENCH ELECTRONIC ACTS: Which French synthpop act have released 9 studio albums, including the Grammy-nominated Hurry Up, We're Dreaming? This group's breakout success was the 2011 track Midnight City, which featured prominently in the BBC's coverage of London 2012.

M83

Straying away from his usual horror, what animal fills the blank in Junji Ito's series Junji Ito's [BLANK] Diary: Yon & Mu? A semi-autobiographical manga, it follows a manga artist learning to live with his fiancee's pets, who are Norwegian Forest varieties of this animal.

Cat

MIKE FLANAGAN ADAPTATIONS: Which 2021 Netflix series by Mike Flanagan stars Hamish Linklater as an enigmatic new priest, arriving at a remote island community which triggers a series of supernatural events? The title of each episode is a book of the Bible.

Midnight Mass

STOIC PHILOSOPHERS: Which man (c.135 - c. 51 BCE) "of Rhodes" was considered one of the greatest stoic philosophers of his era, and was a key figure in speading stoicism throughout the Roman world? Trained under Panaetius, this man was a contemporary of Pompey and Cicero and was a polymath, making key progress in astronomical understanding of the time.

Posidonius

BOOKS WITH TITLES FROM POETRY: Which Evelyn Waugh novel of 1934 takes its title from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland? Set primarily in Brazil, the novel follows an English country squire held prisoner in the jungle by a maniac.

A Handful of Dust

When Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced his retirement from football in 2023, he was playing for which Serie A team?

AC Milan

Which self-help writer authored the books The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016) and Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope (2019)?

Mark Manson

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart demanded a portrait of her removed from the National Gallery of Australia. Which award-winning Indigenous artist created this portrait?

Vincent Namatjira

In chemistry, what do you call the technique that uses direct current to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction?

Electrolysis

Which actress, known for her performances in the films Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002), won the Miss World title in 1994?

Aishwarya Rai

From the Latin meaning "to colour with a red lead", what do you call a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript?

Miniature

Famously featured in Frida Kahlo's paintings, Xoloitzcuintle is one of several breeds of what?

Dog

Which actress portrayed Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in the TV series Downton Abbey?

Maggie Smith

Which boy band released the album Dublin to Detroit in 2014?

Boyzone

Which country is set to host the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup?

Brazil

The Two Horse patch can be found on the back of the jeans produced by which clothing company?

Levi's

The Wind Cave National Park is the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world. It is located in which US state?

South Dakota

What berry is a cross between the European raspberry, European blackberry, American dewberry, and loganberry?

Boysenberry

Originating from Scotland the tayberry is a cross between which two berries?

Blackberry and Raspberry

American, a hybrid of the North American blackberry and the European raspberry

Loganberry

France declared a state of emergency in which of its overseas collectivities in May 2024 due to anti-French riots?

New Caledonia

What name was given to the set of domestic programs launched by US President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965, which addressed issues on civil rights, education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation?

Great Society

What do you call a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions?

Nuclear reactor

Which name derived from a Latin word for a wandering shepherd is used for communities without fixed habitation and describes a residential area of New York centred on the Madison Square North Historic District?

Nomad

Which style of high jump technique was used by US world record holder William Byrd-Page in 1887, before it was superseded by the eastern cut-off, then the western roll, the straddle and finally the Fosbury flop?

Scissor

Which television boxing commentator featured in advertisements for HP Sauce with Frank Bruno in the 1990s?

Harry Carpenter

Which company was founded by the Lacroix family in Angouleme in France, supplied Napoleon’s army, then took a name based on their product’s principal ingredient, and was eventually sold to Imperial Tobacco in 1997 for £185m

Rizla

Which word for a castrated male pig might also mean a carrying device or a grave mound?

Barrow

In 2010, the BBC failed to obtain a High Court injunction to prevent the publishing of a book entitled The Man in The White Suit, an autobiography by Ben Collins who had played which part on television?

The Stig on Top Gear

Life on Mars set in which city?

Manchester

Which Savoy Opera has the subtitle The Lass That Loved a Sailor

HMS Pinafore

Which word might mean a bird that occurs only rarely in a particular region, outside its normal area of distribution or migration; or in musical notation, a symbol that indicates an alteration of a given pitch?

Accidental

Which notoriously philandering French President (known to his chauffeur as “Mr 20 minutes, including shower”) narrowly avoided being killed on the runway in that accident, and was awarded an Ignobel Prize for Peace in 1996 for celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with a nuclear testing programme in the Pacific?

Jacques Chirac

What is used by about 4,000 people each day to get from the tea clipper Cutty Sark to Island Gardens, a park on the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs?

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

Halle Berry played which part in the 1994 film The Flintstones, written for an eponymous actress, who declined the part owing to scheduling conflicts which resulted in her receiving not one but two Razzies at that time, for The Specialist and Intersection?

Sharon Stone

Lagavulin is from which Scottish island?

Islay

Which English actor played Captain Brown in the BBC series Cranford but is best known for his role as Mr Carson in the ITV historical series Downton Abbey?

Jim Carter

Which English actress played Lady Mae in the ITV drama series Mr Selfridge but is best known for her role as Becky McDonald in Coronation Street?

Katherine Kelly

Born in Salford in 1903, which author is best remembered for his novel, Love on the Dole, published in 1933?

Walter Greenwood

Who played Christine Cagney opposite Tyne Daly's Mary Beth Lacey?

Sharon Gless

Which American actress is best known for her role as insurance investigator Catherine Banning in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair? She returned to the screen as Frigga, the mother of the titular hero, in the superhero film Thor (2011), a role she reprised in Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Rene Russo

'A kettle' is a collective noun to describe which birds in flight?

Vultures

Which purple aromatic plant takes its name from the Latin for 'I wash'?

Lavender

In 1978 which Dutch player became the first substitute to score in a World Cup Final?

Dick Nanninga

In 2022 which country won The Davis Cup for the first time in their history?

Canada

Which letter is doubled in the names of a sitcom starring Ronnie Corbett and a highly-successful captain of Real Madrid who later played for Bolton?

R (Sorry and Hierro)

Which letter is doubled in the name of the killer of Ranuccio Tommassoni in 1606 and a No.3 hit for Madness in 1980?

G (Caravaggio and Baggy Trousers)

Which German anatomist developed the method known as ‘plastination’?

Gunther von Hagens

Who was Mayor of Palm Springs from 1988-1992 and, amongst other accomplishments appeared with his second wife in a 1972 episode of Scooby Doo?

Sonny Bono

Which minimalist composer provided music for the 1993 film The Piano as well as many Peter Greenaway films? He lives in West London and supports QPR.

Michael Nyman

Which city, known as 'Gasteiz' in Basque and is the home of Deportivo Alaves football club?

Vitoria

What does the shipping line P & O stand for?

Peninsular and Oriental

Who was the father of Henry IV?

John of Gaunt

What was the name of the horse whose head turned up in bed in the Godfather?

Khartoum

In what year was the battle of Crecy fought?

1346

Where did William Bligh and crew make landfall after a 47 day voyage in an open boat following the mutiny on board HMS Bounty?

Timor

Who played the Headmistress in the film The Belles of St Trinians?

Alistair Sim as Miss Fritton

Common name of Dracaena trifasciata.

Mother-in-Law's Tongue

Relative Round: ITV sitcom, featuring Patrick Cargill, which ran from 1968 to 1973.

Father, Dear Father

Paul Simon song, whose opening lines are: “No, I would not give you false hope / On this strange and mournful day”.

Mother and Child Reunion

Which of his relatives is Paddington Bear prone to quoting?

Aunt Lucy

Pierre Kartner was a Dutch musician and songwriter, most famous in the late 1970s for hit records with puppets. How was he better known?

Father Abraham (and the Smurfs)

Which European capital city was previously known as Pressburg?

Bratislava

Ljubljana old name

Laibach

Which English Football League club is nicknamed The Tractor Boys?

Ipswich Town

The last words of which 20th century Latin American revolutionary, assassinated in 1923, are said to have been: “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something”?

Pancho Villa

The last words of which king assassinated in 1900, are said to have been: "These are the risks of the trade"?

Umberto I

What is the American slang term, derived from the game of Pool, used to describe the situation of a complete loser?

Behind the Eight Ball

On 10 December 1941 two British battleships were sunk by Japanese aircraft near Singapore. One was HMS Prince of Wales. What was the name of the other?

HMS Repulse

Which North Yorkshire town on the River Ouse is best known for its 11th century Benedictine abbey?

Selby

What is the family name of the Earls of Lucan, whose most (in)famous member disappeared in 1974?

Bingham

Which man was known as the 'Voice of horse racing' until his retirement in 1997? He commentated on all three of Red Rum’s Grand National wins.

Peter O'Sullevan

A currently popular set of business principles, supposedly to be considered when investing in a company, is known by the abbreviation ESG. What does ESG stand for?

Environmental, Social and Governance

From around 1890 to 1914, French audiences. including initially those at the Moulin Rouge, were entertained (it was easier in those days) by Joseph Pujol, a flatulist. What was his stage name, also the name of a character in the film Blazing Saddles?

Le Petomane

Which fictional character claimed, amongst other tales, to have shot a stag with cherry stones instead of a bullet (having run out of ammunition) and a year or two later to have encountered the same animal which by then had “a cherry tree quite ten feet high growing between his antlers”?

Baron von MUNCHAUSEN

Who created Baron von MUNCHAUSEN?

Rudolph Erich Raspe

Garter Principal, Norroy and Ulster, Clarenceaux and Lord Lyon are the four what?

Kings of Arms

What shrub, whose dried and ground berries form an astringent spice, is the palindrome of the surname of a 20th century French philosopher and author?

Sumac

An American social climber, who was a Conservative MP in the UK and died in 1958, is best known for his extensive and outspoken diaries which some think well-written but according to one reviewer showed him to be “a snob, a bigot, vain, self-deceived, entranced by the trivial, a bore and a boor both”. His first name was Henry; what were his nickname and surname?

Chips Channon

Who took the photograph, entitled Afghan girl?

Steve McCurry

Name of Katy Perry's dog appears in some videos and TV?

Nugget

Which 20th century composer wrote a set of 24 preludes and fugues for the pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva?

Dmitri Shostakovich

Who wrote Concerto for Orchestra, first performed in 1943?

Bela Bartok

Which composer’s most popular – and very well-known – work is a 15-minute ballet score consisting of a repeated short theme which is passed between instruments of the orchestra, gradually increasing in volume but with no other development?

Bolero

Whose rondo for piano in G is nicknamed 'Rage over a Lost Penny'?

Beethoven

Peter Schickele, who died this year, wrote a biography of which fictional son of J S Bach, composer of, amongst other silly works, The Short-Tempered Clavier, preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys except for the really hard ones?

PDQ Bach

What is the name of the air force base in California that was the site for all space shuttle landings until 1991?

Edwards Air Force Base

What was the name of the orbiter used in the last Space Shuttle mission, in July 2011?

Atlantis

Name either of the astronauts who performed the first American tethered and untethered spacewalks, in 1965 and 1984 respectively.

Ed White (tethered) or Bruce McCandless (untethered)

What is the title of the poem which begins: “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”?

Ode to a Nightingale (Keats)

What is the title of the poem which begins: “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table”?

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (Eliot)

Who, in Hamlet, advises his son: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”? Give both speaker and son name.

Polonius to Laertes

Who, in Romeo and Juliet, says: “A plague o’ both your houses”?

Mercutio

What is the first line of the poem which ends: “So long as men can breathe and eyes can see / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”?

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"

What is the first line of the poem by Betjeman which ends (the last word rhymes with 'stones'!): “Beg pardon, I’m soiling the doilies / With afternoon tea-cakes and scones”?

"Phone for the fish knives, Norman" (How to get on in Society)

Complete the quotation (6 words): “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all / Ye know on earth …”

"And all ye need to know" (Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn)

Who wrote: “Oh the little more, and how much it is! / And the little less, and what worlds away!”

Browning (By the Fireside)

Which singer and pianist was ‘The most popular black, female recording artist of the 1950s’?

Dinah Washington

Who played George Cowley (Head of CI5) in The Professionals?

Gordon Jackson

Which UK politician was recently outed has having had an affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies more than 50 years ago?

Harold Wilson

Which snooker player, nicknamed 'The Captain', has played two World Championship finals, in 2008 and 2012, losing both to Ronnie O’Sullivan?

Ali Carter

Which snooker player, nicknamed 'The Shoe', has played two World Championship finals, in 1986 and 1987, winning the first one?

Joe Johnson

Which footballer’s autobiography was titled Playing Sober: My Story, My Life?

Tony Adams

Which soap opera was the first thing shown on Channel 5?

Family Affairs

Who, in 1986, was the first England player sent off during a World Cup match?

Ray Wilkins

Who, in 1985, was the first player sent off in an FA Cup final?

Kevin Moran

Which town, 24 miles south-east of York, boasts both a Minster and a flat racecourse?

Beverley

Which Italian daily newspaper (founded 1876) has a name which translates as the 'Evening Courier'?

Corriere della Sera

Which Australian opening batsman retired in January this year with over 8,000 test runs to his name?

David WARNER

Which company was founded in 1884 by a man from what is now Belarus and a man from what is still Skipton?

Marks and Spencer

Whose first watercolour, A View of the Archbishop’s Palace, Lambeth, was accepted into the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1790?

JMW Turner

Under what name did Edith Pargeter write the Brother Cadfael novels from 1977 to1994 (both names required)?

Ellis Peters

Who became the first captain to forfeit a test match after a ball-tampering accusation during the England versus Pakistan match at The Oval in 2006?

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Which journalist and writer became, in 1978, the first female presenter of the Today programme on Radio 4?

Libby Purves

Which artist was described by David Bowie as "William Blake as a woman, written by Mike Leigh"?

Tracy Emin

Previously serving as treasurer in Bob Hawke’s government who was Australian Prime Minister from 1991-96?

Paul Keating

Los Colchoneros is the nickname of which Spanish football club? Meaning the mattress makers.

Athletico Madrid

Los Milionarios is the nickname of which Argentine football club?

River Plate

The 1999 Michael Mann film The Insider, starring Russell Crowe, is focused on which industry?

Tobacco

Who became the youngest French Open champion in 1990, winning the competition at the age of 16?

Monica Seles

Whose best known novel is Fear of Flying, published in 1973?

Erica Jong

Which American actress married Orson Welles in 1943, divorcing in 1947? She was married a total of five times.

Rita Hayworth

The high court judge Bernard Caulfied was referring to whom when he said the following in 1987: “Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she have, without the strain of this trial, radiance?”

Mary Archer

Who was nominated for three Golden Raspberries and a Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Barb Wire in 1997?

Pamela Anderson

Musician and group member William Perks changed his name to what?

Bill Wyman

Who has written six novels (1992-98) featuring clinical psychologist Kate Brannigan?

Val McDermidd

Who has written nine novels since 2010 featuring MI5 operative Jackson Lamb?

Mick Herron

Who was the first Briton to attain EGOT status? He won an Emmy in 1991 at the age of 87, making him the oldest to achieve the status, having won it for his role in the TV drama Summer’s Lease.

John Gielgud

Which film of the 2020s is the first film to win best picture, best director and three acting prizes?

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Who was awarded a Booker Prize posthumously in 2010, more than 30 years after his death and for a book published 40 years earlier?

JG Farrell

Which novel of 1886 begins with a lawyer named Utterson being told about a sinister-looking man who trampled a young girl after accidentally bumping into her and being forced to pay her family £100 to avoid a scandal?

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Born in Chester, which conductor founded the BBC Symphony Orchestra? After retiring from the BBC in 1950, he became chief conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Adrian Boult

Apteryx australis is the scientific name for the common kiwi. What is the English translation of its genus name?

Without Wing

With the maiden name Fairfax, which scientist was elected in 1835 as one of the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society along with Caroline Herschel?

Mary Somerville

Who became the first footballer to have twice scored the opening goal in a Premiership season? He scored for Arsenal in the first match of the 2020/21 season, having previously scored on his debut for the same team in 2017?

Alexandre Lacazette

The Russian island of Big Diomede and the US island of Little Diomede are 2.4 miles apart in the Bering Strait and are separated by the International Date Line. By what nicknames are they known?

Tomorrow Island (Big) and Yesterday Island (Little)

What is the common name of the bird Mimus polyglottus? It is the state bird of a number of states of the USA.

Mockingbird

Grace Bumbry was the first black opera singer to appear at which festival when she played the role of Venus in 1961?

Bayreuth (in Tannhauser)

Three film remakes have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar after the original won the category. They are All Quiet On The Western Front (1930/2022), West Side Story (1961/2021), and which other in 1935/1962?

Mutiny on the Bounty

Which actress wrote the 1926 play Sex under the pseudonym Jane Mast? She starred in the Broadway production under her own name and was subsequently sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity.

Mae West

On his third and fatal expedition on HMS Resolution, whom did James Cook appoint as its sailing master, in which capacity he was instrumental in navigating the expedition back to England?

William Bligh

Commonly used on utility bills, which unit of energy is equal to 3.6 megajoules?

Kilowatt-Hour

Who represented the UK in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin? As a catholic, the person in question received death threats from the IRA who regarded them as a traitor for appearing for the UK.

Clodagh Rodgers

Who has been the CEO of News UK since 2015? In 2000 the person in question became the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World.

Rebekah Brooks

In numismatics, what 6-letter term is used for the principal inscription on a coin? In HTML the same term represents a caption for the

element

Legend

Which American cultural critic coined the term 'Monkey Trial' for the Scopes Trial? He wrote The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States.

HL Mencken

What is the common name for J S Bach’s 1741 composition BWV 988 that consists of an aria plus 30 pieces for a two-manual harpsichord?

Goldberg Variations

British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a four-time nominee, In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood's play Mahler's Conversion. During his 2017 "Commonwealth Tour", Prince Charles referred to him as favourite actor.

Sir Antony Sher

First appearance The Missing Millionaire (20 December 1893) Created by Harry Blyth (as Hal Meredeth) fictional character, a detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893

Sexton Blake

American television, film and Broadway actor, director and producer. He starred as Steve McGarrett in the CBS television program Hawaii Five-O, which ran from 1968 to 1980.

Jack Lord

On which British island would you find Parys Mountain?

Anglesey

Which battle during the Crimean War earned the name 'The Soldier's Battle' due to the role of troops fighting mostly on their own initiative due to the foggy conditions?

Inkerman

What 6-letter word is the program at the core of a computer's operating system that facilitates interactions between hardware and software components?

Kernel

What is the operating name for the charity Young Lives vs Cancer that was formed in 2005?

CLIC Sargent

Which husband-and-wife duo had UK hits in the 1970s with Love Will Keep Us Together and Do That to Me One More Time?

Captain & Tennile

Who holds the record for the most appearances for Liverpool FC?

Ian Callaghan

In response to the line: “Sir, you are no gentleman!”, which film character replied: “And, you, Miss, are no lady”?

Rhett Butler

What collective name was given to a group of structures built during the Victorian period that were the most costly and extensive system of fixed defences undertaken in Britain in peacetime? Named after a prime minister, those around Portsmouth were ridiculed because they faced inland.

Palmerston Forts

terraced stand at Manchester City's Maine Road ground in Manchester, England. Originally the Popular Side when the stadium opened in 1923, its name was changed in 1956 when the club built a roof over it Unofficial name of new stadium east stand. Fanzine is King of the ______.

Kippax

Name the Texan who was the automotive genius behind the AC Cobra.

Carroll Shelby

Who was the producer of the MGM 1939-1955 Tom and Jerry cartoons - winner of 7 Academy Awards?

Fred Quimby

In which novel did Jess Oakroyd feature as an odd job man?

The Good Companions by JB Priestley

Name the school in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times.

Gradgrind's

Which William Gibson book won the 1984 Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Science Fiction Novel?

Neuromancer

The Carnegie Medal for Childrens literary illustration was previously known by what title?

Kate Greenaway Award

Which school did Jane Eyre attend?

Lowood School

In France the Town Hall in small towns and villages is commonly referred to as La Mairie. What do the French call this building in larger towns and cities?

HOTEL de Ville

What three-word slogan, hashtag and logo was adopted first in France and then throughout the western world in 2015 to express support for freedom of speech and resistance to armed threats?

Je Suis Charlie

Which award-winning 1924 English novel with a foreign setting derives its title from a Walt Whitman poem in his Leaves of Grass collection?

A Passage to India

The Killing Moon was a UK Top 10 single hit in 1984 for which English rock band? The chords of the song were based on Bowie's Space Oddity played backwards.

Echo and the Bunnymen

St George was a multi-award-winning 1996 TV advert for which product? It showed Ray Gardner, a company spokesman stripping down to his purple underpants and marching to a boxing ring on the white cliffs of Dover to do battle with Sebastian, a French exchange student who had been mildly critical of the taste of the British product in question. This satirical parody of the British bulldog spirit seemed amusing at the time ........ exactly 20 years before Brexit happened for real.

Blackcurrant Tango

EH This fictional area of Wessex was the setting for most of Thomas Hardy's novels. In 1927 Gustav Holst, a Hardy admirer, composed a tone poem dedicated to Hardy with this name. What is it?

Egdon Heath

TG In Emily Bronte's 1848 novel Wuthering Heights, this was the name of a neighbouring property the owner of which, Edgar Linton, eventually marries Cathy Earnshaw, the heroine of the novel. What was it called?

Thrushcross Grange

TRLOP Discovered in 1823 by William Buckland in a limestone cave of this name on the Gower Peninsula this is actually a partial male skeleton dyed in red ochre and is thought to have been buried there 33,000 years ago. It has retained the name given to it at the time. What is it called?

The Red ‘Lady’ of Paviland

T The popular 1960s television series Dr Finlay's Casebook, based on a novel by A J Cronin, was set in which fictional Scottish town?

Tannochbrae

P This Worcestershire market town on the River Avon holds an annual Plum Festival to celebrate its long association with the growing of this fruit, many varieties of which are named after the town. Where is it?

Pershore

His biggest hit was In the Midnight Hour which he co-wrote. What was his name?

Wilson Pickett

This 1967 album, which includes the tracks Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love, is considered one of the best albums ever recorded. Its title arose from a malapropism uttered by the band’s roadie. What is the malapropism?

Disraeli Gears (cream)

Which literary character is described thus: "Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was"?

Major Major (Catch 22)

In the early 1970s John Lennon had an affair that he described as "My lost weekend". The “lost weekend” lasted more than 18 months. Who was the music executive with whom he had the affair?

May Pang

What is the name of the area on the south bank of the River Liffey, which is the centre of Dublin’s nightlife?

Temple Bar

Which British children’s publishing imprint began in 1940 with a series of picture book stories and grew to become one of the largest publishers of children’s books in the English-speaking world?

Puffin

The United States Naval Academy, equivalent to Britain’s Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, is based in which city?

Annapolis

Which Hollywood Golden Era film studio, defunct since 1959, released nine Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals, and, King Kong, Citizen Kane, and It’s a Wonderful Life?

RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum)

The 2024 US Presidential election will feature the same two main party candidates as in 2020. This last happened 68 years ago. Who were the two candidates on that occasion? (first names are required)

Dwight D Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson

A dish consisting of marinated fish, meat or vegetables cooked or pickled in an acidic sauce (usually with vinegar) and flavoured with paprika, citrus, and other spices is known by what name? E

Escabeche

Which actor played Fagin in the 1968 film Oliver! a role for which he was Oscar-nominated?

Ron Moody

Which theatre owner, entrepreneur and actor was the first to play the title role in Hamlet?

Richard Burbage

With a name that reflects its original purpose as part of the brewing industry, which arts complex hosts the Aldeburgh Festival?

Snape Maltings

What surname was shared by Abby, a doctor, played by Maura Tierney in ER, and Diane, a lawyer, played by Christine Baranski in The Good Wife and its spinoff, The Good Fight?

Lockhart

In the 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis what noise did the trolley bus make?

Clang Clang Clang

In 2018, The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies was sold for £15,000 to a British ex-pat in Normandy. This TV prop from the sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo was supposedly painted by which fictional artist?

van Clomp

One of the most important medieval castles in the world is in Syria. First inhabited in the 11th century by Kurdish troops, Tancred, Prince of Galilee took control in 1110. Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, gave it to the Knights Hospitaller in 1142. Which castle was finally reconquered by the Muslims in 1271?

Krak des Chevaliers

Written by the Australian writer Peter Carey and short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, which novel is narrated by liar, and small-time confidence trickster, Herbert Badgery?

Illywhacker

a deep-yellow pigment derived from a species of tree that primarily grows in Cambodia. Popular in east Asian watercolor works, it has been used across a number of media dating back to the 8th century. Latin word for Cambodia.

Gamboge

Yiddish author won NObel in 1978

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great Yorkshire Show held in which town each year?

Harrogate

British Landrace breed of which animal?

Pig

Keswick stands on shores of which body of water in Lake District?

Derwentwater

2024 Tour de France will finish in which city?

Nice

Named after park in Nottinghamshire, what is largest breed of English spaniel?

Clumber Spaniel

Lowest female singing voice?

Contralto

Main Toyota factory in the UK is near which Midlands city?

Derby

Acid once known as Spirits of Salt is now known by what name?

Hydrochloric Acid (also called muriatic acid)

The East of England Show is held every July on its permanent showground in which city?

Peterborough

The Belted Galloway is a breed of which animal?

Cattle

In Coronation Street, what is Gemma Winter-Brown's full first name?

Gemini

Who has played Chesney Brown in Corrie since 2003?

Sam Aston

Whose official residence is called The Lodge in the suburb of Deakin?

Australian PM

In the 1950s, the Beverly Sisters recorded the song Sisters originally written by Irving Berlin for which film musical?

White Christmas

Which film won Palme d'Or 2024?

Anora

Who directed Palme d'Or 2024 winner Anora? Other films include Red Rocket, Tangerine, The Florida Project.

Sean Baker

Whose previous films prior to award winning 2023 film include Two Ships, Age of Panic, In Bed with Victoria and Sibyl?

Justine Triet

Later this year, six overground lines are to be given name, what will be name of line from liv Street to Enfield town through areas known for importance to textile trade?

Weaver

Name of Aladdin's mother in pantomines

Widow Twankey

What is name of natural pigment used among other things to add orange or reddish colour to some cheeses?

Annatto

Named after small town in Northumberland, which terrier looks a bit like a sheep with its pale grey thick but not wiry coat?

Bedlington Terrier

Which member of the Saxophone family has the highest range?

Soprano

In January 2024, a jury found Donald Trump liable for defamation against which writer and ordered him to pay $83m to her?

E Jean Carroll

Which group has been firing missiles and drones at ships passing through Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in show of support for Palestine?

Houthis

Name the three actresses who played Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown

Claire Foy Olivia Colman Imelda Staunton

Clarice Cliff was head of creative department of whcih pottery company?

Newport Pottery

CS Lewis inspiration for Narnia was Rostrevor, a town in which Northern Ireland county?

Down

Cecil Frances Alexander, the writer of hymns All Things Bright And Beautiful and Once In Royal David's City, wrote many of her works while living in Strabane, a town in which Northern Ireland county?

Tyrone

Largest lake in Republic of Ireland itself, 2nd biggest on Ireland after Lough Neagh

Lough Corrib

Which Northern Ireland band's album 1977 references two of the band members' birth years, as well as the release of the first Star Wars film?

Ash

Which Northern Ireland band's album Songs For Polar Bears references their former name, Polarbear? Based on the name with which the band later found fame, you can perhaps see their train of thought.

Snow Patrol

Which actor's early films included My Left Foot, The Crying Game, and Hear My Song, which he co-wrote? He was born in 1958 in Enniskillen, meaning he definitely did not come up the Lagan in a bubble.

Adrian Dunbar

Which actor's early roles included Crown Court and Harry's Game? He was born in 1959 in Enniskillen, but his best-known character comes from Belfast, so he does.

Charles Lawson (Jim McDonald)

Who was the first French President to have been born in the 20th Century?

Georges Pompidou (born 5 July 1911 - De Gaulle was born 1890)

Iquique, where there was no rainfall for 14 years, and Bahia Felix, which has an average of 325 rainy days each year, are both in which country?

Chile

Red Fox, The Glory Boys and Harry’s Game are all thrillers written by which author, originally an ITN reporter?

Gerald Seymour

Which Minister for Europe in John Major’s government, is said to be the inspiration for Francis Urquart in TV’s House of Cards?

Tristan Garel Jones

Which sitcom that ran for 9 series broke new ground in 2004, when it invited the viewers to vote by text as to whether one of the main characters should be allowed to live?

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Who conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in 1931 at the first ever recording made at Abbey Road studios?

Edward Elgar

Dutch actor. He is known for playing the Giant/Fireman in the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017), the occasional guest role of Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1992), and the household butler Lurch in the 1990s Addams Family films. He also appeared in the films Gerald's Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019).

Carel Struycken

1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King, opinionated 65-year-old widow living on the tiny Maine community of Little Tall Island, is suspected of murdering her wealthy, elderly employer, Vera Donovan

Dolores Claiborne

Which Rolling Stones song includes these lyrics: “Dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl / Watch out strange cat people / BLANK on the prowl”?

Little Red Rooster

Which UK football club plays at Stark’s Park?

Raith Rovers (Kirkcaldy)

Who wrote both a famous quartet and quintet of novels, the first in each set being Justine and Monsieur? (full name please)

Lawrence Durrell

From 1833 to 1877 the most hardened British criminals exiled to Australia went to which Tasmanian penal colony?

Port Arthur

It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the 'Monuments' or classics of the European calendar and nicknamed The Hell of the North.

Paris-Roubaix Cycle Race

the first major Classic of the year, its Italian name is La Primavera (the spring), because it is held in late March, or "La Classicissima".

Milan-San Remo

La Doyenne, the oldest Classic, is the last of the Ardennes classics and usually the last of the spring races.

Liege-Bastogne-Liege

the Autumn Classic or the Race of the Falling Leaves, is held in October or late September. Initially organized as Milano–Milano in 1905

Giro di Lombardia

the Ronde van Vlaanderen in Dutch, the first of the Cobbled classics, is raced every first Sunday of April. It was first held in 1913, making it the youngest of the five Monuments.

Tour of Flanders

formerly called Neet and Immac, is a Canadian brand of chemical depilatory products manufactured by the British-Dutch company Reckitt Benckiser. Changed name to what?

Veet

In 2023, Which artist won the first ever Grammy award for best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media, for her work on Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök?

Stephanie Economou

In NBA and WNBA basketball games, how much time is put on the shot clock when a team takes possession of the ball? The rule was conceived on the basis of allowing around 120 shots per game.

24 seconds

Which Hungarian grape, whose name might sound appropriate for the manufacture of alcohol, is the principal variety used to produce the botrytised dessert wine, Tokay? It is also grown in Austria, where it is known as Mosler.

Furmint

Which writer for the TV series Poirot also wrote One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek? His episodes can be distinguished by their humour, such as, The Lost Mine which has Poirot playing Monopoly.

David Renwick

Which island near Amsterdam is the largest in the world to have been reclaimed from the sea?

Flevopolder

Which early modern historian and joint chief curator in Historic Royal Palaces has written several books on the monarchy of England, including The Private Lives of the Tudors, Crown and Sceptre and in 2023 Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth the First?

Tracy Borman

Which novel, first published in 2000, is a modern retelling of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo? Its protagonist's name, Ned Maddstone, is an anagram of Edmond Dantes.

The Stars' Tennis Balls is a psychological thriller novel by Stephen Fry

Arran and Jura are among the islands situated in which shipping forecast zone? Although the islands are in Scotland, the shipping forecast tower is located in the Republic of Ireland

Malin

In the Mesopotamian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, which wild man and companion of Gilgamesh travels with him to the Cedar Forest and helps to defeat the demon Humbaba?

Enkidu

In 1858 a Bradford manufacturer accidentally mixed arsenic into what food product? This caused at least 20 deaths and led to various regulations including the 1868 Pharmacy Act.

Humbugs

Which NFL player won their first Defensive Player of the Year award in 2024? He was drafted first overall in 2017 by his current team, the Cleveland Browns.

Myles GARRETT

Dream Games developed which mobile game that has several online adverts featuring a King in need of help?

Royal Match

2012 free-to-play mobile strategy video game developed and published by Finnish game developer Supercell. the player is a chief of a village.

Clash of Clans

a virtual world which, by the definition by Richard Bartle, "continues to exist and develop internally even when there are no people interacting with it" - two word term

Persistent World

a multiplayer real-time virtual world early versions were called MUDs, what does MUD stand for?

Multi-User Dungeon

a subgenre of action role-playing games known for high levels of difficulty and emphasis on environmental storytelling, typically in a dark fantasy setting, term taken from series by FromSoftware.

Soulslike

style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character. Term based on 1980 game for Unix-based computers.

Roguelike

The Skyliners Doo-wop song 'Since I Don't Have You' was covered by which band on their album The Spaghetti Incident?

Guns 'n Roses

First published in 1956, which classic Science Fiction novel by Alfred Bester is in part a futuristic retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo? Either its current title, or the title it was first published under, are acceptable answers.

The Stars My Destination or Tiger! Tiger!

In 1919, over 20 people died during the "Boston [Blank] Disaster" caused by the failure of a storage tank that held over 2.3 million gallons of what liquid? Many US laws and regulations were changed as a direct result, including requirements for oversight by a licensed architect and civil engineer.

Molasses

The voice of Chief Wiggum in The Simpsons is an impersonation of which actor? Famous for various "tough-guy" roles, This man named several members of the Hollywood Ten, including Trumbo, when giving evidence before The HouseCommittee on Un-American Activities.

Edward G. Robinson

What flood defence barrier, built across the artificial mouth of the Rhine to protect Rotterdam, is one of the largest mobile permanent structures in the world? It deployed automatically for the first time ever in December 2023.

The Maeslantkering (Or Maeslant Barrier)

Stephanie Economou was not the first person to win a Grammy thanks to gaming music. in 2011, who won a Grammy Award for Baba Yetu, a Swahili version of the Lord's Prayer used in Civilisation 4?

Christopher Tin

Which NFL player won their first Offensive Player of the Year award in 2024? He was drafted eighth overall in 2017 by his former team, the Carolina Panthers.

Christian MCCAFFREY

Metacore developed which mobile game that has several online adverts featuring a grandmother being taken to prison?

Merge Mansions

Which Spanish grape, also known as PX, is used to make its namesake variety of sweet sherry? This grape is also used in Australia to make botrytised dessert wines.

Pedro Ximenez

In Netball, for how long is a single player permitted to keep possession before a “held ball” foul is called?

3 seconds

The Little Antony Doo-wop song 'Tears on My Pillow' was covered by which artist for the 1989 film The Delinquents?

Kylie Minogue

Although it was first used by Edward Lorenz, which science historian's book Chaos: making a new science popularised the term "butterfly effect"? This man also co-founded The Pipeline, one of the world's first Internet Service Providers to feature a graphical user interface.

James Gleick

Which early modern historian who has worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces has written several books including The Voices of Nimes, the modern Ladybird expert book on Witchcraft and 1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII? She also presents the podcast Not Just The Tudors

Suzannah Lipscomb

In the Mesopotamian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, the story of King Ut-Napishtim of Shuruppak bears a striking similarity to that of which biblical character?

Noah

In John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, Alice is drawn wearing what sleeveless garment that takes its name from the position of its fastening?

Pinafore

Which British sports manufacturer, who also makes netballs, has been the official supplier of balls for rugby union world cups since 1995?

Gilbert

Bell metal, an alloy used in making bells, is 22% tin and 78% what other metal?

Copper

Radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire was constructed in the mid 1950s and is named after which man?

Bernard LovellWhich

British motorcyle company launched its original Thunderbird in 1949?

Triumph

Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois both queens of which king?

Richard II

132 mile footpath in Mid-Wales from Knighton to Welshpool named after which Welsh leader?

Glendwyr's Way

10 Commandments are in which two books of Old Testament?

Exodus and DeuteronomyName of the light

What is the name of light, two wheeled vehicle used in sport of harness racing?

Sulky

Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone in which 1986 film starring Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons?

The Mission

Pacific island nation which is world's smallest Republic?

Nauru

Which city , famous as scene of fierce WW2 fighting, is capital of Netherlands largest province Gelderland?

Arnhem

"Dear me, I must be turning into a God" are reported last words of which Roman emperor?

Vespasian

Which composer of 9 symphonies and died in 1958 also composed opera Hugh the Drover and the one movement work Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis?

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Holder of which political office in the USA lives at Gracie Mansion?

New York MayorU

US aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was sunk at which 1942 battle?

Midway

Soft solder an alloy used to join together metal surfaces is usually made of which two elements?

Lead and Tin

Barons War Battle of Evesham 1265 took place in which modern day county?

Worcestershire

Which Earldom of a Scottish place was bestowed on Prince William when he married Katherine Middleton in April 2011?

Strathearn

When Prince William married he was given the baroncy of which Northern Ireland place?

Carrickfergus

Only two 20th century prime ministers not to marry or be a bachelor?

Ted Heath and Arthur Balfour

Which veteran DJ is regular presenter of the Radio 2 show "Sounds of the 70s"?

Johnny Walker

Adjective used describe bodies such as Baltic Sea which due to volume of fresh water flowing into them is not as saline as the open ocean?

Brackish

The 2023 ITV series "THe Long Shadow" was dramatisation of crimes of which individual?

Peter Sutcliffe

Which Oxfordshire bitter now seen often in pubs is not in fact named after a bird but for a poorly painted MG used by brewery staff?

Old Speckled Hen

Loretta Lynn sister who reached #5 in UK in 1977 with Dont It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?

Crystal Gayle

March 2024, which country became 32nd member of NATO?

Sweden

Kathy CLugston, Christine Walkden and Bunny GUinness are regular contributors to which Radio 4 show weekly?

Gardeners Question Time

Brothers Neil and Tim Finn are members of which group who had 5 UK Top 20 singles in the 1980s?

Crowded House

Who is Emma Hayes replacement at Chelsea Womens after she leaves to go to USA? Replacement was Lyon boss and former French captain and won CHampions League with Lyon in 2022.

Sonia Bompastor

What name is given to the flag of one country flown by a ship owned by a citizen of another country in order to avoid taxes or help registration?

Flag of COnvenience

Which BBC sitcom set in The Grapes pub in Stockport, first shown in 2003, featured John Henshaw as landlord Ken and Mark Benton as the dim but likeable Eddie?

Early Doors

Samson Agonistes', 'On his blindness' and 'On his dead wife' were works by which English poet?

John Milton

Graham Coxon and Dave Rowntree were 2 of the less well known members of which group who had 2 UK number ones in the 1990s?

Blur

Voyager 1 and 2 plus 2 craft from which other U.S. space programme are the only 4 craft to leave our Solar System?

Pioneer (10+11)

The flag of which European island, not a country in its own right, is white with a red cross and 4 Saracen's heads?

Sardinia

Which island off Donegal shares the anglicised version of its name with a political term derived from the Gaelic for outlaw or robber?

Tory Island

Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler were 2 of the less well known members of which group who had 4 UK number ones in the 1980s?

The Jam

Distinguished by their often blue, white or pink upright flower spikes, which herbaceous plant in the pea family derives it's name from the Latin for wolf?

Lupin

Earraig Adnair, meaning 'lonely rock' is the Irish name of which landmark situated about 8 miles of the coast of County Cork?

Fastnet

In grammar what name is given to a word such as 'at', 'in' or 'on' placed in front of a noun or pronoun to show it's relationahip to another part of the sentence?

Preposition

Operation Cycle, which took place the week after the Dunkirk evacuation, was an attempt to rescue soldiers from which French port?

Le Havre

In grammar the words 'for', 'and', 'nor', 'but', 'or', 'yet' and 'so' are the seven most commonly used forms of which part of speech used to join together sentences?

Conjunctions

At the 2024 Paris Olympics in which event will men compete for the first time, the event was introduced in 1984 and has included, solo, duet and team competitions?

Artistic swimming (accept synchronised swimming)

The first series of which BBC sitcom, which began in 2006, featured Tim Vine as the main character's best friend and Miranda Hart as the accident prone cleaner Barbara?

Not Going Out

In the French Army an individual in training to become a commissioned officer is known as an Aspirant, what is the British Army equivalent?

Cadet

The logo of which shops, found in most British towns and cities, is made up of a yellow, red rimmed, circle, inside a large blue square with the company name in blue and red lettering?

Lidl

The Pearl of Great Price' and 'Doctrines and Covenants' are sacred texts of which Christian religious group?

Mormonism

The Allied operation in October 1944 to rescue troops trapped after the Battle of Arnhem was given the name of which mythical creature?

Operation PEGASUS

The nine muses of Greek mythology had springs on Mount Helicon but lived on which other mountain?

Parnassus

John Harmon, Lizzie Hexham and Bradley Headstone are characters in which 1865 novel?

Our Mutual Friend

Which English artist painted, 'Mrs Siddons as the tragic muse', and , 'Miss Bowles with her dog?

Joshua Reynolds

With 4 title wins between 2011 and 2017 who is the most successful rugby league coach in the history of the Super League?

Brian McDermott

Jazz musicians Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman and Artie Shaw all played which instrument?

Clarinet

Held in August each year the Green Man Music Festival takes place within the boundaries of which UK National Park?

Brecon Beacons

Which African country with 9 has the most borders with other African nations?

DRC

The first rendezvous by 2 craft in space, which took place in December 1965, was between craft from which U.S. space programme?

Gemini (6+7)

Artists John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and Alfred Munnings were all born in which English county?

Suffolk

Hawley Griffin, Jenny Hall and Dr Arthur Kemp are characters in which 1897 novel?

The Invisible Man

A scaled back version of a much larger International airshow which began in 1963, the Festival of Flight takes place in June each year at which former RAF base near Bromley in Kent?

Biggin Hill

John Nelson Darby founded which Christian movement in the 19th century, despite their name the first groups were formed in Dublin?

Plymouth Brethren

How many teams in 2024 F1 season?

10

Which word from French for "dawn song" is a morning love song comparing to an evening song serenade?

Aubade

Algernon Montgomery Lacey known as Algy is the cousin of which fictional pilot and adventurerer?

Biggles

Captian Cook made first voyage of discovery in HMS Endeavour, which ship did he use in his second and third voyages?

HMS Resolution

Milwaukee lies on which of the Great Lakes?

Michigan

Buffalo and Detroit are both on which of the Great Lakes?

Erie

Which Nobel Prize did Robert Edwards win in 2010?

Physiology or Medicine

Term used for a herbivore that specialises in eating leaves?

Folivore

Who played teacher Mr Sugden in Ken Loach's film Kes?

Brian Glover

What is name of Janet and Peter's pet dog in the Secret Seven series?

Scamper

In Macbeth, Duncan has two sons: Malcolm and which younger?

Donalbain

The name of which dinosaur means "egg seizer"?

Oviraptor

German general. Sometimes referred to as the Saviour of Paris, he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the Royal Saxon Army during World War I. Remembered for his role as the last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, when he allegedly disobeyed Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy the city, and instead surrendered it to Free French forces when they entered the city on 25 August.

Dietrich VON CHOLTITZ

Honest is a drama crime film released in 2000. The film was the directorial debut of ex-Eurythmics member Dave Stewart and starred Peter Facinelli and three members of which British band?

All Saints (Melanie Blatt and Nicole/Natalie Appleton)

Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written and produced by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring which band?

The Monkees

Daughters of Paula Yates ONLY CONNECT

Tiger Lily Pixie Peaches Fifi

Homebase was founded by which major UK retailer in 1979, although they sold it in 2006?

Sainsburys

The telephone area code 028 covers which part of the UK?

Northern Ireland

The Gaelic and Celtic festival of Beltane is marked on which date?

1st May

Gaelic festival celebrated on 1st November?

Samhain

Which Gaelic festival sometimes called St Brigid's Day is held on 1st February?

Imbolc

a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Traditionally it is held on 1 August, or about halfway between the summer solstice and autumn equinox.

Lughnasa

one of Ireland's oldest fairs. It takes place annually from 10–12 August in Killorglin, County Kerry. Every year a group of people go up into the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountain range and catch a wild goat. The goat is brought back to the town and made the "King of _____".

Puck Fair

County town of County Offaly in Ireland, has annual agricultural and livestock show in August each year.

Tullamore

Which snooker player is nicknamed The Wizard of Wishaw?

John Higgins

Which great American vocalist had two sisters called Erma and Carolyn, who were also well known singers?

Aretha Franklin

Which actress has had leading roles on TV in both Line of Duty and Trigger Point?

Vicky McClure

Which of the six Mitford sisters married Sir Oswald Mosley?

Diana

Which name is given to the areas of Ireland where the Irish language is the predominant vernacular?

Gaeltacht

Smeg company was founded in which country in 1948?

Italy

The Gatun Lake is an artificial lake created in order to provide water for locks of which canal?

Panama Canal

In 1986 which city became the first to host Commonwealth Games for second time?

Edinburgh

Only two countries on the continental mainland of America (North and South) drive on the left. One is the former British colony of Guyana. Which is the other, which was never a British colony?

Suriname

Which major UK retailer owned the Dobbies Garden Centre chain between 2007 and 2016?

Tesco

Which famous battle took place at Westonzoyland near Bridgwater?

Sedgemoor

The Aga cooker was first produced in 1922 in which country?

Sweden

To the nearest day, how long does it take the moon to rotate on its axis?

27

Alcyone is the brightest star in which star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters or Messier 45?

Pleiades

Which alcoholic drink is added to a Screwdriver to make it a Harvey Wallbanger?

Galliano

Ramsay MacDonald became PM for first time in this year?

1924

Whcih company owns fifteen British racecourses including Aintree, Cheltenham and Haydock Park?

Jockey Club

2021 autobiography "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat" is by which Dundee born actor?

Brian Cox

First name of actor brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave?

Corin

Which former England captain is father of Middlesex cricketer Josh de Caires?

Michael Atherton

Mary, Queen Consort of Denmark, since January 2024 was born in which country?

Australia

Which men's athletics event at 2020 olympics was won with distance of 68.9m?

Discus

How is Sir Thomas Hicks born in 1936 known professionally?

Tommy Steele

Which European nationality precedes Buhund, Elkhound and Lundehund to make dog breeds?

Norwegian

Who was MP for Leeds South from 1945 unitl death in 1963? He had been Party Leader since 1955 too.

Hugh Gaitskell

Pepsi and Shirley's real first names?

Helen "Pepsi" DeMacque Shirlie Holliman

Who was MP for Leeds South East then Leeds East from 1952 until 1992 serving as C of Exchequer for just over five of those years?

Denis Healey

Who is head coach of Leigh Leopards RLFC for whom his son Lachlan plays?

Adrian Lam

Which Crown body, regulated by Acts of Parliament, owns The Oval Cricket Ground?

Duchy of Cornwall

The Princess Diarist is a 2016 memoir by which American actress based on diaries of her time starring in a 1977 film?

Carrie Fisher

On this day in 1937 which unit of military personnel from the German air force and army arrived in Spain to assist Franco's forces?

Condor Legion

By what first name was the actress sister of John and Lionel Barrymore known?

Ethel

Who plays Professor Jasper Tempest in the current ITV drama series Professor T?

Ben Miller

The trigeminal nerve, or fifth cranial nerve, has three branches: the ophthalmic nerve, the mandibular nerve and which other nerve?

Maxillary

According to 1790s painting by Henry Raeburn what is Reverend Robert Walker doing on Duddingston Loch?

Skating

An Old English sheepdog named Digby featured in adverts for which product?

Dulux Paint

Borstal original prison name county

Rochester, Kent

NRS Social Class Surveys what does NRS stand for

National Readership Survey

Malcolm McMahon is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of which British city?

Liverpool

Which glam rock band of the 1970’s had hits with, ‘Fox on the run’, ‘Love is like oxygen’ and ‘Teenage rampage’?

The Sweet

Which 1958 play, later made into a well received 1961 film, is the most famous work by the Salford born playwright Sheila Delaney?

A Taste of Honey

Which short comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan includes the characters, Learned Judge, Plaintiff and Usher?

Trial by Jury

Castlerigg Stone Circle and Lanercost Priory are sites administered by English Heritage in which English county?

Cumbria

Popular from the 17th to 19th centuries, what item worn on the body was a peruke?

Wig

What was the first, and most successful, novel by the Salford born novelist and playwright Walter Greenwood?

Love on the Dole

Which short piece of music by Aaron Copland was adapted into an album track and single by the progressive rock band Emerson Lake and Palmer?

Fanfare for the Common Man

Of the 59 racecourses run by the British Horseracing Authority which is the only one to be found in County Durham?

Sedgefield

Which plant of the genus nepeta, has downy leaves, purple spotted white flowers and a pungent smell attractive to certain animals?

Catmint

What name was given to the framework of hoops, or hooped petticoat, used in the 15th to 17th centuries to extend the skirts of a dress?

Farthingale

Of the 59 racecourses run by the British Horseracing Authority which is the only one to be found in the Welsh county of Gwent?

Chepstow

Which short river, only 74 kilometres long, runs through the Russian city of St Petersburg?

Neva

Which actress who appeared in 3 early Carry On films is best known for playing Bond girl Jill Masterson in the film Goldfinger?

Shirley Eaton

Who was the last English woman to win the Australian Open Tennis Championships, doing so in 1972?

Virginia Wade

Everton midfielder Amadou Onana, although born in Senegal, plays International football for which country?

Belgium

‘Are you sitting comfortably’ was the catchphrase of Julia Lang on which BBC radio show which ran from 1950 to 1982?

Listen with Mother

What 1st name is shared by the King’s of Scotland murdered in 1437 and 1488 and a man famously assassinated in 1881?

James (James1st, James 3rd andJamesGarfield)

In the Bible the shortest verse, ‘Jesus wept’, found in the Gospel of John, is part of the description of which of Jesus’s miracles?

Raising of Lazarus

Which social media service used for sharing ideas on creative topics such as fashion, recipes and design was founded by Ben Silbermann in 2009?

Pinterest

Which space programme, aimed at sending craft to orbit or fly-by planets, included No 2 which orbited Venus in 1962 and No 4 which flew by Mars in 1964?

Mariner

Jesus’s next miracle after raising Lazarus was to restore the sight of which man on the Sabbath by bathing his eyes in the pool at Siloam?

Bartimaeus

‘I’m rather worried about Jim’ was a sometimes repeated phrase said by the main character in which BBC radio programme which ran from1948 to 1969?

Mrs Dale's Diary

Which man who died in April 2024 took the most test match wickets for England by a spin bowler with 297?

Derek Underwood

Which astronaut was the Commander of the Apollo 12 Moon landing as well as Skylab 2, the first manned mission to the Skylab space station?

Pete Conrad

What animal completes the name of the Grumman F4F, the American carrier based fighter much used in the Pacific against the Japanese?

Wildcat

Which glam rock band of the 1970’s had hits with, ‘Juke box jive’, ‘I can do it’ and ‘Tonight’?

The Rubettes

Originally released in 1964 what is The Beatles biggest selling single in the UK, selling about 2 million copies?

She Loves You

Which fast growing species of cypress is renowned for causing disputes between neighbours as properties can be quickly overshadowed?

Leylandii

any food product derived of wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt or its derivative. During Passover there is a Biblical obligation to get rid of this type of food. Jewish tradition.

Chametz

New UK cities in 2022

Milton Keynes Wrexham - Wales Colchester Southend-on-Sea Dunfermline - Scotland Doncaster Bangor - NI Stanley - Falkland Islands Douglas - Isle of Man

1014 battle near Dublin, Brian Boru died. It pitted an army led by Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, against a Norse-Irish alliance comprising the forces of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, King of Dublin; Máel Mórda mac Murchada, King of Leinster; and a Viking army from abroad led by Sigurd of Orkney and Brodir of Mann.

Clontarf

Who died at Battle of Flodden? 1513

James IV

The Atkinson is a museum, art gallery and theatre complex in which coastal town in the North West?

Southport

Which football club moved stadiums in 2006 with the new stadium being about 400 yards from the old one?

Arsenal

H2SO4 is sulphuric acid, but which acid has the formula H2SO3?

Sulphurous Acid

2007 saw a failed uprising called the Saffron Revolution in which country?

Myanmar

the German word for sparkling wine

SEKT

The news channel Al-Jazeera is funded by the Government of which country, where it is based?

Qatar

In which British city did the first branch of Boots open?

Nottingham

What is the name of the former Chief Executive of the SNP and husband of Nicola Sturgeon, who was arrested for embezzlement in April 2024?

Peter Morrell

Which British publishing firm was founded as a general publisher in 1908 by two friends, before moving in the 1930s towards escapist fiction aimed at women?

Mills & Boon

Which football club moved stadiums in 2017 with the new stadium being about 350 yards from the old one?

Tottenham Hotspur

At Live Aid at Wembley in 1985, which singer's set included Come Back and Stay, That's the Way Love Is and Every Time You Go Away?

Paul Young

What is forename of King Charles's only male first cousin on his mother's side?

David

Names of Princess Margaret children

Lady Sarah Chatto David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon

Princess Margaret husband name 1960-78

Antony Armstrong-Jones

Which vegetable is the main ingredient of the Dutch national dish stamppot?

Potatoes

What term is used to describe French sparkling wines which are made in the same way as Champagne but not within the Champagne designated region?

Cremant

The 26 bones in each foot can be divided up in several ways. One way is to divide them into forefoot, midfoot and hindfoot. The five midfoot bones are the navicular and cuboid and three others collectively known as what?

Cuneiforms

Two European countries have flags of blue and white. One is Greece, what is the other?

Finland

In which Mediterranean city will the sailing events at the 2024 Olympics take place?

Marseille

an oceanic bay located in Southeast Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro. On its western shore lie the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Duque de Caxias, and on its eastern shore are the cities of Niterói and São Gonçalo.

Guanabara Bay

In which British city did the first branch of Marks and Spencer open?

Leeds

Nicknamed Deadly, which cricketer, who took over 3000 wickets in senior cricket, died in April 2024?

Derek Underwood

Which Zambian born politician, raised in Monmouthshire and Dorset, became Leader of the Welsh Labour Party and First Minister of Wales in March 2024?

Vaughan Gething

In which German city did Johannes Gutenberg set up the first printing press with movable type in the 15th century?

Mainz

With 40km of ski runs, which is the largest ski resort in Scotland?

Glenshee

a puppet duck which appeared on the CBBC interstitial programme The Broom Cupboard alongside presenters Andy Crane and Andi Peters

Edd the Duck

Horse race winning distances from neck to closest

Neck Head Short Head Nose Photo Finish

Characters in the book I Captured the Castle with surname MORTMAIN - Only Connect

James Topaz Rose Cassandra Thomas

1998 film A California skateboarder (Christian Slater) solves and avenges the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.

Gleaming the Cube

French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel Story of O.

Anne Desclos

In Australian Rules Football, typically a tall and athletic player who contests at centre bounces and stoppages (such as boundary throw-ins and ball-ups). They are often key to coaching strategy and winning centre clearances which result in the most goal kicking opportunities (inside 50s).

Ruckman/Ruck

In Australian Rules Football, a player who lurks around centre bounces and stoppages to receive the ball from a ruck rover and complete a clearance. This position are typically the smallest player on the ground.

Rover

Following the Siege of Chartres in 911, which Viking leader became Count of Rouen and was the first ruler of Normandy?

Rollo

Rollo's successor as Duke of Normandy

William Longsword

Which cathedral city, a World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain, is the reputed burial place of James the Great, one of the apostles of Jesus?

SANTIAGO de Compostela

With a name meaning ‘blue cow’, what is the largest antelope of Asia? It is found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent and is characterised by a sloping back and deep neck.

Nilgai

What is the surname of the actor who starred as the title character of the American sitcom Cybill? The character took her first name from this actor but had the surname Sheridan.

Shepherd

The Accidental Tourist, a finalist in the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is a novel by which American novelist? Her 2015 work, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Anne TYLER

Lucy Burns and which other American suffragist learned militant protest tactics in Britain before returning to the United States and founding the National Women’s Party? Along with Crystal Eastman, she wrote the Equal Rights Amendment.

Alice PAUL

What name is given to the part of the stamen in the flower that produces pollen? It plays a crucial role in the male part of the reproductive system of a flower.

Anther

In 1937, the Countess Lata Brandisová became the first and so far only woman jockey to win the famous steeplechase held annually since 1874 in which town in the Czech Republic?

PARDUBICE

Most recently won by Dan Bewley, It is the oldest motorcycle speedway race in Europe and is considered prestigious. Held in Czech city also known for famous steeplechase.

Golden Helmet of Pardubice

Polish motorcycle speedway rider, a four-time World Champion (2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023), three-time World Team Champion (2016, 2017, 2023).

Bartosz Zmarzlik

Three time Speedway world champion and British - won in 2013/15/18

Tai Woffinden

Which American-born documentary maker is known for series driven by in-depth interviews with political figures, such as The Death of Yugoslavia, Endgame in Ireland and, most recently, Putin vs the West?

Norma Percy

Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989–1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000. Became the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes.

Slobodan Milosevic

a Bosnian Serb politician who was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He was the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War in 1992-96.

Radovan Karadžić

Commonly known as ‘the Magnificent’, who was the longest reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire? He reigned from 1520 until his death in 1566. Regnal number not required.

Suleiman I

Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist was beaten to the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Lonesome Dove, a western that follows the relationship between Texas rangers as they move their cattle to Montana, written by which American novelist?

Larry MCMURTRY

Also known as the heel bone, what is the largest of the tarsal bones in the foot?

Calcaneus

In tennis, lob shots are often countered by which type of volley shot that is struck above the hitter’s head with a serve-like motion and often played with great force?

Smash

What is the surname of the comedian who starred as the title character of the American sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond? The character took his first name from this comedian but had the surname Barone [ba-ROHN].

Ramono

Author behind Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging? Called Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series.

Louise Rennison

Also known as the Asian unicorn, what is the name of the forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos that is believed to be one of the world’s least photographed mammals?

Saola

What was the given name of the Count of Anjou who became Duke of Normandy in 1144? He was the father of Henry II of England and the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty.

Geoffrey

Several places claim to have relics of Jude the Apostle, including Toulouse and which other French city, whose cathedral was the site of the coronations of the Kings of France?

Reims

Which English documentary maker, who began as a political reporter on Panorama, is known for his in-depth documentaries about Westminster politics including The Making of the Iron Lady, How to be Prime Minister and Inside the Commons?

Michael Cockerell

What name is given to the tip of a carpel in the flower which receives pollen? It plays a crucial role in the female part of the reproductive system of a flower.

Stigma

Which British woman competed in the 1977 Grand Pardubice [par-DOO-bitz-uh] Steeplechase? Earlier that year she had become the first woman to ride in the Grand National.

Charlotte Brew

When Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, which Italian team did they defeat in the final? This team won Serie A in 2024 with several games to spare.

Inter Milan

Which British suffragist was one of the first Western women to teach martial arts? She is best remembered for giving jiu jitsu training to the Bodyguard Unit of the Women’s Social and Political Union

Edith Garrud

Which professional poker player, born in Ontario to Romanian parents, is (as of May 8th 2024) ranked 7th on the all-time earnings list according to the website PokerNews, and has the nickname 'Kid Poker'?

Daniel NEGREANU

a gambler and professional poker player. He was the first winner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, at the time a cash game event in which he was awarded the title by the vote of his peers in 1970. He also twice won the current tournament format of the WSOP Main Event in 1971 and 1974. He was one of the charter inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979.

Johnny Moss

Born 1883 in Crete, commonly known as Nick the Greek, was a Greek professional gambler and high roller. Toured Einstein around Vegas "Little Al from Princeton" and Feynman met him too.

Nick Dandolos

American professional poker player who has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title, and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables. Nicknamed Tiger Woods of Poker and No Home Jerome.

Phil Ivey

Dead man's hand in poker is what four cards

2 aces and 2 eights

English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to _____" came into language. In the World Poker Hall of Fame. Born 1672. "the father of whist".

Edmond HOYLE

Founder of the Horseshoe Casino and World Series of Poker, did first exhibition match between Johnny Moss and Nick Dandolos.

Benny Binion

American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, widely regarded to have been the greatest gin player of all time and one of the best Texas hold 'em players. one of two people in poker history to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times. He is the only person to win Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker three times, the world's second most prestigious poker title of its time.

Stu Ungar

Poker player known as the Poker Brat. Won WSOP Main Event at age of 24 in 1989.

Phil Hellmuth

an Ecuadorian professional poker player of Danish descent and the first South American Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker. Won in 2001.

Carlos Mortensen

Formerly, British poker player was a minor figure in the Hull underworld,. He went on to become a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner, and a mainstay of televised poker. At the poker table, he wore orange-tinted prescription sunglasses, a sharp suit (or leather jacket) and gold knuckleduster rings reading "Devil" and "Fish", which he made himself. 2017 hall of fame poker.

David Devilfish Ulliott

American poker player who won the Main Event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP).[3] His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person to become a world champion after qualifying at an online poker site.[4] This has been referred to in the press as the "_________ effect".

Chris Moneymaker

Thomas Preston was a poker player with what nickname? He set up the Super Bowl of Poker and won the 1972 World Series of Poker.

Amarillo Slim

a poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. At the time, he became the youngest player ever to win the event.[1] He was subsequently surpassed by Joe Cada in 2009.

Peter Eastgate

A theory in organic chemistry, named after which German chemist, is defined as a chain contraction method for aldoses, such as the conversion of glucose to arabinose?

Alfred WOHL

In September 2006, which single for The Killers became their highest-ever UK chart hit, reaching #2, just ahead of their songs 'Human' and 'Somebody Told Me', both of which only reached #3?

When You Were Young

One of 24 drinks added to the list of IBA official cocktails in 2020, which New Era Drink is made with bourbon, amaro, aperol, and lemon juice? It shares its name with a UK #8 hit from January 1973.

Paper Plane

One of the less well-known pieces on London Philharmonic Orchestra's '50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music' is 'Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ', by which Italian composer, born in 1910?

Remo Giazotto

Which Croatian-Canadian businessman, known for his presence on every series of the ABC series 'The Shark Tank' in the USA, founded the company BRAK Systems in 1990?

Robert Hervajec

Which man held the role of Poet Laureate from January 1896 until June 1913? One of his most famous and revered works is 'The Garden That I Love', which he wrote in 1894.

Alfred Austin

Which five-letter adjective precedes 'Blood' in the name of a podcast series on iHeartRadio, hosted by Dana Schwartz, which explores the lesser-known stories of royal families throughout the past?

Nobel

In Greek mythology, which figure is the bringer of cold winter airs from the North, roughly opposite to Notus (the representation of the South wind)?

Boreas

A landmark Supreme Court case of 1986 concerning the exclusion of black men from being able to sit on a jury, violating the 14th Amendment, was designated as Batson vs which Southeastern state?

Kentucky

Notable as the place where Martin Luther studied from 1501 to 1505 in order to become a monk, which city is the capital and most populous city in the German federated state of Thuringia?

Erfurt

In Greek mythology, which figure is the bringer of light spring airs from the West, roughly opposite to Eurus (the representation of the East wind)?

Zephyrus

A landmark Supreme Court case of 1996 concerning the exclusion of women from educational opportunity, violating the 14th Amendment, was designated as United States vs which state?

Virginia

Notable as the site of a 1631 massacre by the Imperial Army and the forces of the Catholic League, which city is the capital and most populous city in the German federated state of Saxony-Anhalt?

Magdeburg

Taking its name from the Greek for 'more' and 'measure', which form of exercise is defined as the art of using intense bursts of activity in order to develop explosive quickness?

Plyometrics

In April 2008, which single for The Kooks became their highest-ever UK chart hit, reaching #3, just ahead of their songs 'Naïve' and 'She Moves In Her Own Way', which only reached #5 and #7 respectively?

Always Where I Need To Be

A theory in organic chemistry, named after which two German chemists, is defined as the substitution reaction of a glycosyl halide with an alcohol to produce a glycoside?

Koenigs-Knorr reaction

One of 24 drinks added to the list of IBA official cocktails in 2020, which Contemporary Classic is made with various rums, fruit juices, and syrups? It shares its name with a UK #14 hit from October 1994.

Zombie

Which single letter denotes the water-soluble vitamin that is an essential nutrient for animals and is involved in the repair of tissue, the formation of collagen, and the production of neurotransmitters?

C

Which ten-letter adjective precedes 'History' in the name of a podcast series on iHeartRadio, hosted by Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown, which explores strange and remarkable stories throughout the past?

Ridiculous

One theory for the origin of which phrase - loosely meaning "to ignore the true facts" - is attributed to Admiral Nelson disregarding the orders given to him during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801?

Turn a Blind Eye

Which man held the role of Poet Laureate from July 1913 until April 1930? One of his most famous and revered works is 'The Testament of Beauty', which he wrote in 1929.

Robert Bridges

One of the less well-known pieces on London Philharmonic Orchestra's '50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music' is 'Concerto Grosso No. 8 in G minor', by which Italian composer, born in 1653?

Arcangelo Corelli

Which Canadian businessman, known for his presence on every series of the ABC series 'The Shark Tank' in the USA, co-founded the company SoftKey Software Products in 1986?

Kevin O'Leary

According to the "badly explained plots" subpage of the official London Theatre website, which play is described with the words "guests get cosy in a snowed-in B&B"?

The Mousetrap

The two-word name of which cocktail appears in the titles of UK top 40 hits for Teresa Brewer in 1956, Charles Aznavour in 1973, Billie Jo Spears in 1976, Queen in 1977 and Daniel O'Donnell in 1993?

Old Fashioned

GOOD DOGS ALWAYS EAT is mnemonic for remembering the strings of which instrument from lowest to highest, thickest to thinnest, G D A E?

Violin

Mnemonic for the space notes in the bass clef, has animal in it

ALL COWS EAT GRASS

Mnemonic for remembering the guitar tuning starting and ending with Eddie

Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour derives from the popular mnemonic used by music students to remember the notes on the lines of what musical notation?

the treble clef

A whaler and polar expedition ship. The ship is best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition.

Terra Nova

Italian word for 'lodge') is an outdoor corridor or gallery with a fully covered roof and an outer wall that is open to the elements.

Loggia

In organic chemistry, what class of compounds contain a characteristic functional group that contains a central carbonyl group bonded to two other carbon atoms? The simplest example of these compounds is acetone.

Ketones

The Beatles were a support act on a tour of England in 1963 where the headliner was which singer, who had already had UK number ones with ‘You Don't Know’ and ‘Walking Back to Happiness’, both recorded when she was fourteen?

Helen Shapiro

Which British brand of washing powder was advertised in the 1990s with the ‘Doorstep Challenge’, in which celebrities such as Danny Baker and Shane Richie would knock on doors to check how white their washing was?

Daz

The House of Windsor is descended from Sophia of Hanover, who was born as a princess of which German royal house and Bavarian dynasty? Louis IV [the fourth] and Charles VII [the seventh] were the only Holy Roman Emperors from this house.

House of WITTELSBACH

Which French soft cheese, washed with brine and pomace brandy, was described as the ‘king of all cheeses’ by famous gastronome Brillat-Savarin? It is known for its very strong aroma, and it is often claimed that it is banned on French public transport.

EPOISSES de Bourgogne

Besides ‘Fairytale of New York’, recorded with the Pogues, Kirsty MacColl’s biggest hit was a cover of which Billy Bragg song? The chorus includes the lyrics “I don't want to change the world/I’m not looking for…” followed by the song’s three-word title.

A New England

Each human cell contains close to 2 metres of DNA, which is reduced down to less than 0.1 millimetres by being wound around what basic cellular protein? DNA wound around these proteins create nucleosomes, which are then used to package DNA into a cell nucleus.

Histones

Which French neoclassical sculptor is best known for his portrait busts of famous figures of the Enlightenment, such as Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Franklin, and Washington?

Jean-Antoine Houdon

What is the stage name of the stand-up comedian from West Bromwich whose real name is Christopher Collins? He is famous for hosting the TV shows Fantasy Football League and Room 101, and appeared on the first series of Taskmaster on Dave.

Frank SKINNER

Also the home of the Liverpool women’s team, Prenton Park is the home ground of which League Two side?

Tranmere Rovers

What children’s game is referenced in the title of a song from Skepta’s debut album, Greatest Hits? On the track, Skepta rhymes the title with “my little eye”.

I Spy

Which fashion designer, who was born in Venezuela in 1939, is most famous for dressing American First Ladies including Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump? She launched her namesake fashion house in 1981.

Carolina Herrera

Considered a founder of cognitive science, which American psychologist postulated in his highly-cited 1956 work that the average number of objects a human can hold in short term memory is “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two”?

George Armitage MILLER

Who was the only tennis player to defeat Bjӧrn Borg at the French Open, a feat he achieved twice? Prior to Jannik Sinner, he was the most recent Italian man to win a tennis grand slam singles title.

Adriano PANATTA

Which semi-soft cow’s cheese from the French Jura Mountains has a distinctive black layer across the middle, which developed when cheesemakers making Comté would put ash on cheese left overnight?

Morbier

Which cover of a song by Ewan MacColl, father of Kirsty, is among the Pogues’ most famous songs after ‘Fairytale of New York’? The song’s chorus consists of its three-word title, a reference to MacColl’s birthplace, Salford

Dirty Old Town

In December 1962, the Beatles were the opening act for which singer’s performances at the Star-Club in Hamburg? Her big hits included ‘I Want to Be Wanted’ and ‘All Alone am I’, as well as a Christmas classic that was released in 1958 and topped the Billboard Charts in 2023.

Brenda Lee

Jennifer Tilley and Diane Wiest were both nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category in the 1995 Academy Awards, with Wiest taking the prize, for which 1994 black comedy directed by Woody Allen?

Bullets Over Broadway

In organic chemistry, what class of compounds differs from ketones by having the carbonyl group attached at the end of the carbon chain? The simplest of these has the formula CH2O and the systematic name methanal.

Aldehydes

Which Italian tennis player is the all-time leader for wins in the Davis Cup? His grand slam career saw him win back-to-back French Open titles in 1959 and 1960?

Nicola Pietrangeli

What children’s game is referenced in the title of the lead single from Stormzy’s most recent album, This Is What I Mean? On the track, Stormzy confesses “you know where to find me, babe”.

Hide and Seek

Which Dominican-born fashion designer gained international attention with a peach dress worn by Jackie Kennedy, and is also known for dressing Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton? As well as his namesake fashion label, he is known for his tenure at Balmain, and he died in 2014.

Oscar de la Renta

British psychologist Alan Baddeley expanded the model of short-term memory to a three-component model including the central executive, the phonological loop, and the visuo-spatial sketchpad. With a name coined by George Miller, this is known as what type of memory?

Working Memory

Two countries in Central America also contain the colour purple on their national flag, appearing in a rainbow on the coat of arms. Both bordering Honduras: one is El Salvador, what is the other?

Nicaragua

Also the home of the Aston Villa women’s team, the Bescot Stadium is the home ground of which League Two side?

Walsall FC

The next stage of DNA packaging sees nucleosomes bound together to form what substance? This substance most commonly comes in two types - eu-[blank], which makes up more than 90% of the human genome, and hetero-[blank], which is much more tightly packed.

Chromatin

Who was crowned the 2023–24 NBA MVP? Despite winning the award he was unable to help his team repeat the NBA championship win of 2023 after they were beaten 4-3 by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Nikola JOKIĆ

Which Conservative MP has returned to government despite having had all four of his limbs removed following a bout of sepsis in 2023?

Craig Mackinlay

2009-15 CBBC show The show involves short sketches that play for 30 seconds to a minute starring household items and food, virtually all of which have googly eyes stuck on, hence the show's title.

OOglies

First artificial satellite

Sputnik in 1957

a dangerous creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark". In "Jabberwocky," the only detail given about the bird is that the protagonist should "beware" it. In The Hunting of the Snark, however, the creature is described in much greater depth.

Jubjub bird

a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and a long neck with a fretted fingerboard. It has steel strings and is played with a plectrum producing a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but pitched lower.

Bouzouki

Currently there are three breweries in the town: The Tower Brewery (Coors, formerly Bass), John Smith's and Samuel Smith's Old Brewery, which is the oldest brewery in Yorkshire and only remaining independent brewery in this North yorksire town

Tadcaster

Colour blood does Spock have?

Green

Four Sherlock Holmes novels ONLY CONNECT

A Study in Scarlet The Sign of the Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear

0113-0118 telephone numbers ONLY CONNECT

0113: Leeds 0114: Sheffield 0115: Nottingham 0116: Leicester 0117: Bristol 0118: Reading

0121-0161 telephone numbers ONLY CONNECT

0121: Birmingham 0131: Edinburgh 0141: Glasgow 0151: Liverpool 0161: Manchester

a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inward sloping sides, constructed out of mudbricks or limestone.

Mastaba

English character actor. He worked regularly as a voice actor, and was known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear.

Valentine Dyall

Henry Bolingbroke is which King?

Henry IV

Chichester’s round the world yacht

Gipsy Moth IV

Who has partnered Roger Allam in BBC Radio 4 comedy Conversations from a Long Marriage since 2018?

Joanna Lumley

Premiered in 2001, "The Play What I Wrote" is a comedy written as a celebration of which duo?

Morecambe and Wise

Previous to I Am Maximus, what was other horse trained by Willie Mullins to win Grand National?

Hedgehunter

Who has owned three Grand National winners: Don't Push It, Minella Times and I Am Maximus?

JP McManus

Soltan sun care products are sold by which retailer?

Boots

1588 the Spanish Armada set sail from which port?

Lisbon

Canada highest mountain Mount Logan is found in which territory?

Yukon

Men's all-round event at Olympics comprises of which six events? ONLY CONNECT

floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar

Womens all-round event at Olympics comprises of which four events? ONLY CONNECT

Vault Uneven Bars Balance Beam Floor Exercise

In sailing, what word refers to width of a vessel at its widest point?

Beam

Later the name of a Stephen King time travel book, on what date did the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy take place? Either the English or American dating convention is fine

11.22.63/ 22nd November 1963

The Darts commentator Tony Green, the actor Reece Shearsmith and the adventurer Amy Johnson were all born in which British city beginning with the letter "K"?

Kingston upon Hull

Which city in the West Bank was described as the "oldest fortified city in the world" when it became a UNESCO world heritage site in 2023?

Jericho

Examples of which Pop Artists work include DIE, HUG, ERR? His "EAT" sign at the 1964 World's Fair had to be turned off as visitors believed it to mark a restaurant

Robert Indiana

JFK was still breathing when he arrived at which Dallas hospital about 8 minutes after his shooting? Lee Harvey Oswald would be pronounced dead in the same hospital a few days later

Parkland

The first written record of a Billiard table was recorded in a 1470 inventory of the goods of which French King? This man was nicknamed "The Cunning" or "The Universal Spider"

Louis XI

First appearing in the episode of "Trust Doesn't Rust", what was the name of the KITT's main antagonist in Knight Rider? Its name was also a four letter acronym

KARR

Who was the king of Sparta, husband of Helen, known for his role in the Trojan War?

Menelaus

Paul Hickson, a sub-editor at the Sun in the year 2000, provided which notable Newspaper headline based on a Sherman Brothers song?

Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious

Which city beginning with the letter "K" is the 8th most populous in Japan? This city is home to the "Frontale" football team, one of the most prominent sides in the Japanese top league

Kawasaki

Which American artist born 1874 is best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress, including her self-portrait of 1923, which is her most widely reproduced work? She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued tonal palette keyed to the color gray.

Romaine Brooks

What was the name of the Texas Governer who was shot alongside JFK on the 22nd November 1963? He would survive and live for another 30 years.

John Connally

Writers Lou Shaw and Tony Lawrence received an Edgar Award in 1978 for a TV episode called "The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone" in which mystery drama about a Medical Examiner?

Quincy

William Daniels was the voice of KITT in Knight Rider. Daniels was simultaneously starring in which TV medical drama and therefore requested not to be credited for his role in Knight Rider?

St Elsewhere

In Greek mythology who was the mother of Achilles? She tried to make Achilles invincible by dipping him in the River Styx

Thetis

What city beginning with the letter "K" was the capital of British India until 1911 when it was shifted to New Delhi?

Kolkata

Also to be found on the tenative list of UNESCO sites, what two word name is usually given to the largest expanse of Blanket Bog in Europe? Found in Caithness and Sutherland, this is a 1500 sq mile area of peatland and wetland

Flow Country

What is the name of the 2024 action thriller starring Jason Statham? Sherlock Holmes could be described in this manner after he retired from Baker Street to Sussex Downs

The Beekeeper

Kew Gardens claims that their gallery based around paintings by which prolific Victorian artist is "the only permanent solo exhibition by a female artist in Britain"?

Marianne North

"The Billiard Table" is a 1945 painting by which man? This Frenchman's cubist works were often thought to be indistinguishable from those of his great friend Picasso

Georges Braque

In Homer's Illiad what was the name of the elite soldiers led by Achilles?

Myrmidons

In the Illiad, who was the devoted wife of Hector? Her son Astyanax was killed by being thrown from the city walls

Andromache

Hector and Andromache's son name who died being thrown over city walls

Astyanax

Taken from the soundtrack of Mary Poppins, what was the only Sherman Brothers song to win an Oscar? The song contains the line "Good luck will rub off when I shakes 'ands with you"

Chim Chim Cheree

The Nuragic monuments of which Mediterranean island are currently on the tentative UNESCO list? Some of the most interesting Nuragic sites can be found near the village of Buramini

Sardinia

What is the two word subtitle of the 2024 edition to the Ghostbusters movie franchise? It could be argued that Clarence Birdseye also built such a thing

Frozen Empire

Eric Satie became obsessed with with which painter, writing impassioned notes about "her whole being, lovely eyes, gentle hands, and tiny feet"? Her most notable works include "The Blue Room" (La Chambre bleue), painted in 1923.

Suzanne Valadon

In 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the USSR. He met his future wife Marina in what city, now the 11th most populous city in Europe?

Minsk

The fictional pool hustler character Minnesota Fats was created by which American novelist? His other character creations include Beth Harmon

Walter Tevis

Heather Thomas was "Jody" the leading lady in the 1980s TV show "The Fall Guy". Which British actress is "Jody" the leading lady in the 2024 movie "The Fall Guy"?

Emily Blunt

In Greek mythology who was the wise and aged king of Troy, who was killed by Neoptolemus (Achilles' son) during the fall of Troy?

King PRIAM

The Sherman Brothers wrote the song "Let's Get Together" for the movie "The Parent Trap". Which actress took it into the US Top Ten and achieved over a million sales worldwide?

Hayley Mills

Jessie Buckley stars in which 2024 movie about a Poison Pen active in the English town of Littlehampton? 3-word title

Wicked Little Letters

What was the name of the New Orleans District Attorney who investigated the JFK assassination and attempted to prosecute the businessman Clay Shaw? This man's book "On the trail of the Assassins" was the basis for the movie JFK.

Jim Garrison

Efren Reyes is widely regarded as the best Pool player of all time. What nation does Reyes represent in international competition?

Philippines

In stories of the Trojan War, who was the wise and elderly king of Pylo known for his wisdom and good counsel?

Nestor

Which city in Northern Iraq, beginning with the letter "K", is known for its ancient Citadel and has been described as “the Jerusalem of Kurdistan”?

Kirkuk

What "T" is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image?

Tenebrism

With an oddly fitting wig and painted-on eyebrows, which pilot is often found in Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories? He was played by Joe Pesci in the 1992 JFK movie

David FERRIE

What was the rhyming name of the 2016 British comedy-drama television film about professional snooker during the 1970s through the 1980s? John Sessions was Ted Lowe and Kevin Bishop was Barry Hearn

The RACK PACK

Props and sets from Battlestar Galactica were reused to make which other Sci Fi show? Gil Gerard played the title character and Mel Blanc voiced the robot "Twiki"

BUCK ROGERS in the 25th Century

The odd Sherman Brothers song found its way into the pop charts. Some even reached the top echelons. Which one of these songs begins with the lines: "You come on like a dream, Peaches and cream, Lips like strawberry wine"?

You're Sixteen

What city beginning with the letter "K" is home to Orangi, one of the World's largest slums?

Karachi

Mahershala Ali turns 50 in 2024. What was the name of the recent movie he starred in alongside Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke? In the film people are fleeing New York following a breakdown in communication systems. 4-word answer

Leave the World Behind

Robbie Williams turns 50 in 2024. At the moment you can hear his voice on TV on adverts for which pet food brand?

Felix

Most notably located along the Silk Road, what "C" were roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey? Many in Iran have been inscribed as UNESCO world heritage sites

Caravanserai

An artist referred to as the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade went by the pseudonym "Tom of", what country?

Finland

Given name and surname please of the man who had unsuccessfully ran the Bay of Pigs Invasion and been consequently sacked by President Kennedy? In a strange turn of events he'd become a member of the Warren Commission investigating the murder years later. American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence, and its longest serving director to date.

Allen Dulles

Simon MacCorkindale uses his ability to shape-shift into any beast to help solve crimes in which short-lived American TV series of 1983? One word answer

Manimal

Which of his close companions disguised himself as Achilles in order to lead the Mymidons in battle against Troy? He would be killed by Hector in the process

Patroclus

What Chinese city, beginning with the letter "K", is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province? This city, which is known as "the City of Eternal Spring" can be found near the Stone Forest Karst landscape

Kunming

On September 16th, 2023, the Carbet Mountain and the volcanoes and forests of Mount Pelée were inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List. On what island will you find these places?

Martinique

The Modernist architecture of which city, the second largest in Lithuania, has been inscribed as a UNESCO world heritage site?

Kaunas

"Back to Black" is the 2024 biopic about the life of Amy Winehouse. In that movie Eddie Marsan plays Amy Winehouse's dad. By what first name is that man known as?

Mitch

According to the lyrics of Chas and Dave's song "Snooker Loopy", which Snooker player has "Got loadsa dappa suits" and is "London bred and he keeps his head"?

Tony Meo

In Battlestar Galactica what was the name of the sentient robots whose primary goal is the extermination of the human race?

Cylons

Played by Rose Byrne in the movie "Troy", what was the name of the Princess who was the Priestess of the Trojan Temple of Apollo? She was Hector and Paris' cousin

Briseis

Which South African city (two word name - first word begins with "K") is home to Oliver Tambo International Airport? The name of this place will put you in mind of a sporting venue at Sunbury, on the edge of Greater London

Kempton Park

What is the name of the German actress who starred in the movie "Run, Lola, Run"? This woman's biggest Hollywood credits are starring in two of the Bourne movies

Franka Potente

Which Italian city appears twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List: once for its Botanical Garden, the most ancient of the world, and once for the 14th-century frescoes, situated in different buildings of the city centre – an example is the Scrovegni Chapel painted by Giotto ?

Padua

Which character played by Robert Carlyle stops playing pool and declares "no way would I poison my body with all that shite" in the 1996 movie "Trainspotting"?

Begbie

Who was the queen of Troy and mother of Hector and Paris? Some myths say she was rescued from Troy by her former lover the god Apollo

Hecuba - wife of Priam

Which American actor provided some vocals for the Sherman Brothers song "Everybody wants to be a cat"? Elsewhere he was the Chef in The Shining and provided the voice of Hong Kong Phooey

Scatman Crothers

What city beginning with the letter "K" is the second-largest city in Ghana and is known for its traditional Ashanti culture?

Kumasi

Which British actor played Millie Bobby Brown's father in the 2024 movie "Damsel" and Kaya Scodelario's father in the 2024 crime series "The Gentlemen"?

Ray Winstone

"The Boulevard Montmartre at Night" (1897) and "The Red Roofs, Corner of a Village, Winter" (1877) are two of the most famous works by which Danish-French painter?

Camille Pissaro

The name of which predominantly French art movement was first used by art critic Roger Fry in 1906? Paul Cezanne was known as the Father of this movement

Post-Impressionism

What was the occupation of Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald? A couple of guys in the 1970s called Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager had the same job

Nightclub Owners

Billiards features in which short story from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes? In this story Holmes uses a wax dummy and clever deception to recover a stolen diamond from a cunning thief.

The Adventure of the MAZARIN STONE

Knight Rider, Quincy, Alias Smith and Jones, The Fall Guy and Battlestar Galactica were all created by which American TV producer?

Glen Larson

First name Frank, who was the British archaeologist who began exploratory excavations on the mound at Hisarlik (the site of the ancient city of Troy), seven years before the arrival of Heinrich Schliemann?

Frank CALVERT

Built around a medieval castle, the city known as Karak, Kerak or Al-Karak is a settlement of over 30,000 people in which country? The Ain Ghazal statues discovered in this country are some of the earliest large-scale representations of the human form ever discovered

Jordan

Tim Henman turns 50 in 2024. He was the first British man to reach the singles semifinals of Wimbledon since which other gentleman did it in the 1970s?

Roger Taylor

The Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats became an UNESCO site in 2021. They are famous for being the home to many Crab species, including which one where, in the males, the major claw is much larger than the minor claw? The males often use their major claw in a waving display

Fiddler Crabs

Much derided for its lack of accuracy, what was the name of the Italian rifle found on the 6th floor of the Dallas school book depository soon after the assassination of JFK? Presumably it was dumped there by Lee Harvey Oswald

Italian Carcano

The AC/DC song "You Shook Me All Night Long" was the first to feature which man on vocals?

Brian Johnson

In the Ballad of Barry and Freda, Victoria Wood requests to be beaten on the bottom with which magazine?

The Woman's Weekly

Which British women's magazine founded in 1995 shares its two word name with a TV show that was broadcast from 1973 to 1994 and a song recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1966?

That's Life

What common seafood of Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines is a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell?

Balut

What is the most disgusting element of the Japanese rice snacks called "Jibachi Senbei"? It is said that the digusting part tastes like burnt raisins, but with a bitter, acidic taste….... And wings

Wasps

Anthony Bourdain described eating the anus of what animal as the worst meal of his life? These animals come in Common or Desert varieties

Warthog

What word comes next in the Skye Boat Song: "Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, onwards the sailors"?

Cry

First name Arthur, which rising star of the Tennis world won his first ATP Tour singles title in Lyon in 2023? His surname has four letters

Fils

What "C" is a dish from Andalucia generally consisting of fried pork belly or fried pork rinds?

Chicharron

Featured in the book are which American punk rock band formed in Saint Paul, in 1979? Initials "H.D." they had a number one indie album in the UK with Flip Your Wig The band's continuous members were guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart.

Husker Du

How are the football team who were founded in 1899 as Headington United now known?

Oxford United

Which American post-hardcore band, featured in the book "Our Band Could Be Your Life", share their name with a US slang word for fake or counterfeit? The band consisted of guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally, and drummer Brendan Canty.

Fugazi

First five Mersenne Prime numbers ONLY CONNECT

3, 7, 31, 127, 8191, ...

Contrasted with precocial, what word is used to describe animal species such as humans whose young are underdeveloped at birth and need a great amount of parental care for a long duration to reach maturity?

Altricial

The highest peak in the Cambrian Mountains, and therefore in Mid Wales, which peak is the source of the River Severn? Its name is thought to translate from the Welsh for ‘five peaks’.

Plynlimon

Which 1987 UK top ten hit by Labi Siffre was inspired by a television documentary on apartheid South Africa featuring police shooting at black civilians?

‘(Something Inside) SO STRONG’

Which British athlete won the Olympic gold medal for the 800 metres in 1964, at the Tokyo Games, setting a world record in doing so? At the end of the Games, she announced her retirement from athletics, aged just 22.

Anne Packer

Which Ohio Senator is the author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy? He is considered to be among the frontrunners to be selected as Donald Trump’s running mate.

JD Vance

Although unnamed in the Gospels, Christian tradition gives what name to the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance after the crucifixion?

Longinus

Nigeria was suspended from the commonwealth following the execution of which environmental campaigner and advocate for the rights of the Ogoni people in 1995?

Ken SARO-WIWA

Which 2003 avant-garde film, written and directed by Lars von Trier, was narrated by John Hurt and featured Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall among an ensemble cast?

Dogville

Described by The Sun as Salt Bae’s rival, which Turkish chef is the ninth most followed person on TikTok? He owns the Hatay Civilizations Table chain of restaurants and in 2022 opened a separate restaurant in London with Cristiano Ronaldo

CZN Burak

Mexican youtuber and tiktoker, In 2016, she began her YouTube career and she is currently the seventh most-followed user on TikTok.

Kimberly Loaiza

American singer and social media personality known for her videos on TikTok. She is the elder sister of Charli D'Amelio.

Dixie D'Amelio

American singer, dancer, actress, and media personality. From 2015 to 2016, she appeared as a dancer on two seasons of the reality television show Dance Moms alongside her mother, Jessalynn. Under Nickelodeon, she released several children's songs and her own feature film, The J Team, in 2021. The music video to her song "Boomerang" has been viewed over 1 billion times. 2024 single Karma.

JoJo Siwa

British philosopher worked in the fields of philosophy and sociology. Her writings include The Melancholy Science, Hegel Contra Sociology, Dialectic of Nihilism, Mourning Becomes the Law, and Paradiso, among others. Died ovarian cancer at 48.

Gillian Rose

English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London (UCL). 1987: There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, 1993: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.

Paul Gilroy

South African-Canadian art historian and international analyst who won 2020 Holberg Prize in feminist theory, feminism, art history, gender studies.

Griselda Pollock

a Cameroonian historian, political theorist, and public intellectual who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory. 2019: Necropolitics. 2022: The Earthly Community. Won Holberg Prize in 2024.

Achille Mbembe

Pulitizer Prize Fiction 2024 winner and author

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

German writer and opera director. She has won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days[2] and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos.

Jenny Erpenbeck

German actor and singer. Having acted in a number of German language productions, he is best known internationally as part of the main cast of the Netflix television thriller series Babylon Berlin (2017–present) and as Rudolf Höss in the 2023 drama The Zone of Interest.

Christian Friedel

trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. It consists of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth.

Zyklon B

A growing tourist attraction, what 1,300-kilometre highway that starts in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and extends into China is one of the highest paved roads in the world? Named for the geographical feature that it passes through, the road extends along the scenic Naltar Valley and provides access to the mountaineering hubs of Gilgit and Skardu.

Karakoram Highway

Which American band, fronted by Roky Erickson, was the first to describe themselves and their music using the term ‘psychedelic rock’? Their 1966 debut self-titled album and their sophomore release, Easter Everywhere, are regarded as classics of the era.

The 13th Floor Elevators

Often crossed when climbing to the summit of Pen-y-Fan [pen uh van] and considered to be its twin, which peak is the second highest in South Wales? Its name translates into English as ‘black horn’

Corn Du

Who is the current Governor of South Dakota? She was considered among the favourites to be selected as Donald Trump’s Its title being a reference to the country’s largest city, which 1988 UK top ten hit by Eddy Grant was banned by the National

Kristi NOEM

Its title being a reference to the country’s largest city, which 1988 UK top ten hit by Eddy Grant was banned by the National Party government in South Africa for its anti-apartheid lyrics?

‘GIMME HOPE JO’ANNA’

In ecology, having large numbers of offspring with a low chance of survival is known as r-selection; what letter, representing carrying capacity, is used for organisms that have fewer offspring and greater levels of parental investment? Organisms following this reproductive strategy tend to be altricial.

K-selection

What is the name of the Soviet spaceflight programme that succeeded the Vostok and Voskhod programmes and was originally part of a moon-landing project? The programme has continued to the present day and still operates its namesake rockets and capsules under the auspices of the Russian Roscosmos corporation.

Soyuz

Which Mexican internet personality is currently the seventh most followed person on TikTok? In 2021, she was involved in a scandal after a number of vloggers leaked videos about affairs her partner Juan de Dios Pantoja had had with other women.

Kimberly Loaiza

Providing easy access to many of the country’s tourist attractions, what name is given to the 1,322-kilometre road that circles the entire island of Iceland?

ROUTE 1 (or RING ROAD, ÞJÓÐVEGUR 1 or HRINGVEGUR

Which American psychedelic band formed in 1966 was fronted by singer and guitarist Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence? Their eponymous debut album, featuring songs such as ‘Hey Grandma’ and ‘Mr Blues’, is regularly rated among the best debut albums of all time.

Moby Grape

Moses the Dog from von Trier’s film Dogville shared the 2003 Palm Dog Award with Bruno, an animated canine in which 2003 French comedy film, written and directed by Sylvain Chomet [show-meh], which tells of a woman who attempts to rescue her grandson, a Tour de France cyclist, from gangsters who have kidnapped him.

The Belleville Rendezvous (or The Triplets of Belleville)

Several world leaders boycotted the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo due to the human rights abuses carried out by the government led by which man? This man was the President of Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2015, and its Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022 during the presidency of his brother Gotabaya.

Mahinda RAJAPAKSA

the official mascot of the 2022 FIFA World Cup,which was held in Qatar. The name means "super-skilled player" in Arabic, and is a representation of the popular men's headdress keffiyeh, used in many parts of the Arab world.

La'eeb

2018 mascot world cup was a russian wolf

Zabivaka

2014 mascot world cup was a brazilian three banded armadillo

Fuleco

2010 mascot world cup was a south african leopard

Zakumi

What is the mascot of the Euros 2024 in Germany?

Albart the Teddy Bear

Chinese zodiac in order ONLY CONNECT

Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Goat Monkey Rooster Dog Pig

British wheelchair tennis player. Following a motorbike accident which left him paraplegic, he uses a wheelchair. He took up tennis and following a further spinal complication in 2000, he began competing in the quad division. He is nicknamed The Quadfather. competed for Great Britain at the Summer Paralympics when tennis made its first appearance at Athens 2004. He won the gold medal in the singles, and defended it at Beijing, as well as adding a bronze medal in the doubles. He competed in his third Paralympics in 2012 in London, where he was also the flagbearer for Great Britain at the opening ceremony.

Peter Norfolk

an English botanist, television presenter, author and environmental campaigner.He was regularly parodied by impersonators such as Lenny Henry on Tiswas with a "gwapple me gwapenuts" catchphrase. 1933-2019. The work that brought him to public prominence was his environmental consultancy on the Torrey Canyon oil spill in 1967, about which he wrote a paper in the leading scientific journal, Nature. Went against climate change being manmade towarss end.

David Bellamy

British video game developer and former publisher based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts and managed under EA Sports division. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in October 1986, This is one of the oldest British game studios, and in 2005 was named the best independent video game developer by magazine Develop.

Codemasters

a series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC. The machine was the focus of a number of educational BBC TV programmes on computer literacy, starting with The Computer Programme in 1982.

BBC Micro

first personal home computer built by Amstrad in 1984. It was one of the bestselling and best produced microcomputers, with more than 2 million units sold in Europe.

Amstrad CPC 464

an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort.while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. Cofounder of Zilog

Federico Faggin

Which Codemasters character, generally associated with the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC, becomes stranded on Treasure Island in one game, becomes Spellbound in another and tries to gather edible items including burgers and pizzas in Fast Food? He is himself an edible item.

Dizzy the Egg

Which ginger cat, a Northern Irish internet celebrity, has been recognised in the Scottish parliament? His housemate and owner Ellen Murray is a Twitch streamer, international human rights professional and trans rights activist.

Bilbo

The sport of orienteering originated in which European Country, as a training tool for the Nation's military?

Sweden

Originally running from 1965-1968 and rebooted in 2018, which sci-fi TV show takes place in the year 1997 and involves a family and stowaway and their efforts to survive on a series of different planets? The family has a robot helper often simply called Robot.

Lost in Space

Riddick Bowe was a boxing great who only lost one fight as a professional against Evander Holyfield, but is also remembered for losing his last fight as an amateur, when he was stopped in the 1988 Olympic final by which other boxing great?

Lennox Lewis

Which 2022 Australian A24 film focuses on 17 year old Mia as she and her friends experiment with an embalmed hand that seems to grant the power to channel spirits through anyone that holds the hand and speaks the titular phrase?

Talk to Me

Usually known by a nickname and close in age to the Finch children, who is the childhood friend of Scout and Jem in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'? He spends his summers at his aunt’s house, next door to the Finches. You may answer with his nickname or surname.

Dill Harris

Which actor received a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for his acting debut in The Crying Game in 1992? He was the first Black British actor to receive a nomination, as well as the first 'out' Black actor to receive one.

Jaye Davidson

Which Yoga pose involves standing or sitting with the arms shaped like an L, extending from the sides of the body with hands raised head-height, palms facing forward. It is named after a plant widespread across the Americas?

Cactus

Which four words did the Roman Orator Cato the Elder end many of his speeches with, with the event finally happening in 146 BCE

Carthage Must Be Destroyed

Sometimes coinciding with the Christian holiday of Christmas, what is the name of the Jewish festival that does not have a fixed date but takes place over 8 consecutive days and nights between late November and late December?

Hanukkah

What bay, which became a major city of the Americas, was discovered by the Portuguese and named because of the day it was discovered, on the 1st January 1502?

Rio de Janeiro

Which British comic for girls debuted in 1958 and ran until 2001? Known by a girls’ name and usually featuring an illustration or photo of the titular blonde girl on the cover, its longest running story was The Four Marys, about four teenage girls with the same given name who attended the same boarding school.

BUNTY

The road hole at St Andrews is considered one of the hardest on the Open Championship Rota, but what number hole is it?

17th

First released by Thelma Houston, the song released by Diana Ross in 1975 as ‘Theme from Mahogany’ had which original title, that poses a question?

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO?

Which Roman General finally defeated Hannibal at the battle of Zama in 202 BCE? Part of his two-word name reflects this achievement.

SCIPIO AFRICANUS

Which woman's name is a song title shared by a 1977 Kenny Rogers UK number 1, and a 1957 song cowritten and recorded by Little Richard, later covered by The Hollies?

Lucille

Which Yoga pose involves standing or sitting with the arms shaped like an L, extending from the sides of the body with hands either raised up head-height or down, level with the navel. It is named after an item widespread across farms?

Scarecrow

With a name that looks like it has one vowel too few, what is the second largest City in the Czech Republic?

Brno

Which Sega character, primarily associated with the Master System, travels to Miracle World in one game, an Enchanted Castle and Shinobi World in others? His boss battles include a game of Janken, or Rock Paper Scissors.

Alex KIDD

Which ginger internet celebrity cat came to public attention after a Reddit user posted asking for advice on how to stop their co-worker putting margarine on one of their office cats in an attempt to get it to groom itself? The cat in question now uses social media to post about workers’ rights and unions and shares a name with an item of summer clothing.

Jorts

Critically endangered, which South American venomous pit viper, now only found in Ilha da Queimada Grande (nicknamed Snake Island), is partially named for the colouring of its back and underbelly? A two-word answer is required.

Golden Lancehead

The sport of orienteering uses which two colours on a control or checkpoint? A control is usually square shaped and divided diagonally into two triangles.

Orange and White

Running from 1979 until 1981, which sci-fi TV series starred Gil Gerard as the title character, a captain who commands a spacecraft in the year 2491? The captain has a robot helper called Twiki (Twee-kee) who begins to mimic the captain’s sense of humour as the series continues.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

What is the name of the character Atticus Finch unsuccessfully defends in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'’s central trial? A Black man, this character was accused of attacking Mayella Ewell after being invited to her house to ‘bust up a chiffarobe’. You may answer with either his first name or last name

Tom Robinson

Which 2013 British-American A24 film focuses on the title character conducting a series of phone calls with work and family during a long drive. Tom Hardy plays the driver of the car and the only character we see onscreen for the duration of the film.

Locke

The smallest County boundary in England is 19m long. It lies between Northamptonshire and which other English County?

Lincolnshire

Often playing harder than its par 3 status, which hole at Augusta National is nicknamed Golden Bell and is part of the legendary Amen Corner?

12th - 11/12/13th are Amen Corner

Which British comic for girls debuted in 1967 and ran until 1991, when it merged with the comic Judy and changed its name? Prior to the change, it was known by a single girl’s name and usually featured an illustration or photo of the titular dark-haired girl on the cover, sometimes accompanied by her dog Patch.

Mandy

Which Northern Irish environmental campaigner was the youngest ever person to be shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing, going on to win the prize at the age of 14? The winning book, 'Diary of a Young Naturalist' was published in 2020.

Dara MCANULTY

British poet, critic and playwright. Prizes he has won include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only four poets (the others being Ted Hughes, John Burnside and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (The Drowned Book).

Sean O'Brien

Scottish writer. He was one of only four poets (the others being Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (Black Cat Bone). In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize.

John Burnside

American poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays. Her book of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric, won the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection.

Claudia Rankine

a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, and a member of the extended ______ family that has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. Naipaul, a cousin of ________'s, and Neil Bissoondath). Win the Forward Prize for best poetry collection, with Measures of Expatriation in 2016.

Vahni Capildeo

Jamaican poet, writer and academic. His second collection of poems, Self-Portrait as Othello, won the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection. First collection of poems, Thinking with Trees.

Jason Allen-Paisant

Daughter of Jude Kelly (Founder of the Women of the World Festival (WOW)), awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2020 for The Air Year. She was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the Polari Prize in 2022. The T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Ted Hughes Award in 2017 for In these Days of Prohibition. She was one of the five official poets for the London Olympics 2012. Her poem ‘"The Fun Palace", which celebrates the life and work of Joan Littlewood, is now erected on the Olympic Site outside the main stadium.

Caroline Bird

His best known compositions include "It Must Be Love", which reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart in 1971 (and was later covered by the band Madness), "Crying Laughing Loving Lying", and "(Something Inside) So Strong"—an anti-apartheid song inspired by a television documentary in which white soldiers in South Africa were filmed shooting at black civilians in the street—which hit number 4 on the UK chart.

Labi SIFFRE

a Northern Irish former athlete and athletics administrator. She is best known as the 1972 Olympic champion in the pentathlon, for which she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

Mary Peters

band from Bangor, County Down. The band formed in 2007 and is composed of three members: Alex Trimble (vocals, rhythm guitar, beats, synths), Sam Halliday (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Kevin Baird (bass, synths, backing vocals). Debut album Tourist History, second album Beacon. Main singer Alex Trimble sang Caliban's Dream at 2012 opening written by Rick Smith of Underworld.

Two Door Cinema Club

English poet. Her collections have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2014 and 2019. Vertigo and Ghost (2019) won the Forward Prize for Poetry for Best Collection. The poem "Androgeus" was shortlisted for The 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. It comes from a long mythic sequence retelling the minotaur myth, which tries to reinstate Pasiphaë, the minotaur’s mother, at the centre of the story. This is included in her latest collection, Ephemeron (2022).

Fiona Benson

poet, writer and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota.They are queer, non-binary and HIV-positive. They are the author of the poetry collections [insert] Boy and Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, both of which have received multiple awards. Won 2018 Foward Prize. Their most recent poetry collection Homie was published on January 21, 2020.

Danez Smith

Northern Irish poet. In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection Parallax and in 2017 she won the Forward Prize for Poetry for her sixth collection On Balance.

Sinead Morrissey

Chicago’s Maxwell Street Polish [POE-lish] is a sandwich comprising a length of kielbasa topped with onions and mustard and served in a bun. What generic English term describes kielbasa and similar meat products?

Sausage

The most widely used form of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is known as AHSCT. In these procedures, stem cells from the patients themselves are used, as suggested by the fact that the ‘A’ stands for which word?

Autologous

Four Asian countries have produced one, and only one, male Premier League footballer. London-born former Cardiff City goalkeeper Neil Etheridge is the only person to have represented which of these countries? Its national team is nicknamed the Azkals and they were the last team managed by SvenGöran Eriksson.

Philippines

Which Antarctic Gateway City in New Zealand serves as the seat of the country's Canterbury region? It sits on the River Avon, known in Maori as the Ōtākaro.

Christchurch

Which major branch of mathematics has a ‘functional’ subfield which studies vector spaces with extra structure? The ‘real’ subfield of this area evolved from calculus and studies topics such as the convergence of real-valued sequences.

Analysis

Which Georgia Republican was the first (and, to date, only) Speaker of the House to be named Time magazine’s Person of the Year? He received the accolade in 1995, the year in which he became Speaker.

Newt Gingrich

Usually sold in spiral form and commonly cooked on a barbecue, which sausage of South African origin has a name derived from the Afrikaans words for ‘farmer’ and ‘sausage’?

Boerewors

Former Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi is the only Premier League player to have represented which Asian nation? He is the nation in question's thirdmost-capped player behind Ahmed Mubarak and Fawsi Bashir.

Oman

Losing two thirds of his right middle finger in a wood-chopping accident at the age of four, which lead guitarist and vocalist of The Grateful Dead took musical inspiration from Django Reinhardt?

Jerry Garcia

Former Fulham defender Zesh Rehman is the only Premier League footballer to play for which national side? Despite being a large country, it has never qualified for either the World Cup or the Asian Cup.

Pakistan

Phoenix, Mesa [MAY-sa] and which other are the only three cities in Arizona among the 50 largest cities in the United States by population?

Tucson

Along with Hikaru Nakamura, which other American Grandmaster has qualified for the 2024 Candidates Tournament? He came third in the 2023 Chess World Cup and lost the 2018 World Championship to Carlsen.

fabiano caruana

Also known as modern algebra and used primarily in the field of education, what name is given to the subfield of algebra that studies algebraic structures such as groups, rings and lattices? Please note, we are not looking for ‘universal’ algebra.

Abstract Algebra

In which TV series, a spin off and sequel, did Christine Baranski star as Diane Lockhart, who joins a Chicago law firm after a financial scam affects her savings? Remember we are looking for the spin-off, not the original show.

The Good Fight

Which Tennessee Democrat, Speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839, was the first (and, to date, only) Speaker to also serve as US President? The MexicanAmerican War took place during his time in the White House.

James K Polk

Which of the Antarctic Gateway Cities, historically known as "Sandy Point" in English, is the capital of Chile's southernmost region?

Punta Arenas

What is the title of the Gavin Maxwell book that describes his life in a remote house in coastal Scotland, where he kept several wild otters as pets?

Ring of Bright Water

Which Southeast Asian country is represented by Spanish-born former Swansea City defender Jordi Amat? He is the only player from this nation to have appeared in the Premier League.

Indonesia

Potential complications of HSCTs include which syndrome characterised by organ inflammation? It occurs when transplanted blood cells start to attack others already in the body; a four-letter acronym is sufficient.

Graft versus host disease (accept ‘GvHD’)

In which Julian Fellowes drama series, set in 1880s New York City, does Christine Baranski appear as the socialite Agnes van Rhijn? She appears opposite the likes of Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector.

The Gilded Age

Bakersfield and Fresno are two of the 50 largest cities in the United States by population that can be found in which State?

California

Three Indians have qualified for the 2024 Candidates Tournament. Two are Vidit Gujrathi and Gukesh D; which 18 year old is the other? He became an International Master aged 10 and a Grandmaster aged 12, and he and his sister Vaishali are the first brother-sister pair in history to achieve Grandmaster status.

Rameshbabu PRAGGNANANDHAA

Baryons and leptons together make up what fundamental or elementary class of subatomic particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle?

Fermions (boson does not obey)

Trois morceaux en forme de poire (Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear) is a 1903 suite for piano four hands by which French composer?

Erik Satie

Dame Edna’s birthplace

Wagga Wagga

Where do Schalke-04 play their home games in Bundesliga?

Gelsenkirchen

Which mark presents itv coverage of euros 2024?

Mark Pougatch