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LuWhat structures in the body are made from fibrous connective tissue and connect muscle to bone?
Tendon
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.
Robert Louis STEVENSON
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?
Clairefontaine
What term of German origin is used to describe stunted, wind-sculpted trees often found at high altitudes or in harsh climates?
Krummholz
Named for his inarticulate manner, which Dick Tracy villain was depicted on-screen by Dustin Hoffman as one of Big Boy Caprice’s henchmen?
Mumbles
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.
Senrab
What bodily structure is also made from fibrous tissue but, unlike a tendon, attaches bone to bone?
Ligament
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?
Phyllida Lloyd
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?
Bobbi Brown
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.
Louisa May ALCOTT
Commonly found in krummholz areas, what forestry term describes a tree with a distinctive one-sided growth pattern due to persistent strong winds?
FLAG Tree (Banner Tree)
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.
Madame du Barry
Who plays Queen Charlotte in the 2023 spinoff from Bridgerton of same name?
India Amarteifio
Named for his large and unusually square head, which Dick Tracy villain was a contract killer married to the character Stiletta Jones?
Flattop JONES
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?
Lynne Ramsey
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?
Standard Model
David Koresh was the leader of which apocalyptic cult, of which 82 members died after the 1993 Waco Siege?
Branch Davidians
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.
Max Mara
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.
WALLSEND Boys Club
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?
Henri II
Named for his extreme wrinkles caused by a skin condition, which Dick Tracy villain was introduced as a Nazi saboteur named Boche?
Paleface
What term describes the phenomenon where trees, often found in krummholz zones, are uprooted by strong air movements?
Windthrow
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)?
The Tremeloes
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”
Ham
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 Fck (2016) and Everything Is Fcked: 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
