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The British Museum is Falling Down is a comic novel by which British author about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature who, rather than work on his thesis in the reading room of the British Museum, is distracted time and again from his work and who gets into trouble instead.
David Lodge
The Poorhouse Fair (1959) was the first novel by which American author?
John Updike
Which British space scientist has been a co-presenter on The Sky at Night since
2013? She became the show’s second female presenter after Lucie Green, and
has also presented children’s science programmes, such as Stargazing on CBeebies.
Maggie ADERIN-POCOCK
Also known as a ferry bridge, what type of movable bridge uses a gondola attached to wires or a frame to carry a small segment of roadway across the
span? The only two bridges of this type in the UK are in Newport and Middlesbrough.
Transporter Bridge
What type of movable bridge is characterised by a central span that rotates horizontally on a pivot near its centre? Examples include Glasgow’s Bell’s Bridge and several bridges over the Manchester Ship Canal, including the world’s only
aqueduct version at Barton.
SWING bridge
Ernest Rutherford had studied at Cambridge under which physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the electron, and posited the plum pudding model of the atom that was overturned by Rutherford?
JJ Thomson
The only ground apart from Old Trafford to see two total abandonments, including the most recent in 1998, is the Carisbrook ground in which New Zealand city? It is the southernmost test ground in the world, and Super Rugby’s Highlanders also play in this city.
Dunedin
One might use several urban lifts including the iconic Santa Justa lift to climb from the Baixa [BYE-shuh] de Pombalina neighbourhood to the higher Carmo Square in which European capital city?
Lisbon
Traditionally believed to have lived in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, there is little
evidence of whether he really existed. Which ancient Chinese philosopher is
traditionally considered the author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of Taoism?
Lao Tzu (accept
Laozi)
One might use one of numerous funicular railway systems, seven of which are
presently open, to climb the steep slopes in which Chilean city? It names the large conurbation it forms with Viña del Mar and three other cities
Valparaiso
Bob Dylan’s Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door plays during the death scene of Slim
Pickens’ Sheriff Cullen Baker after he is shot by one of the title characters, played
by Kris Kristofferson, in which Sam Peckinpah film? Dylan had an acting role as Alias
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
James Coburn was Pat Garrett
Kris Kristofferson was Billy the Kid
In 1990, the second test between England and the West Indies was abandoned after sustained torrential rain fell at the Bourda Oval in which nation, the home of players like Colin Croft and Carl Hooper? In 1981, this ground also saw the first cancellation of a test for political reasons, when the government objected to the presence of England’s Robin Jackman.
Guyana
Which master sergeant in the Liberian armed forces seized power in a violent 1980 coup, formally becoming president in 1986 after a fraudulent election? He was overthrown by former ally, Charles Taylor, in the First Liberian Civil War.
Samuel Doe
Which British anthropologist, who was president of Humanists UK from 2019-22, has presented TV documentaries, including the BBC’s Coast and Digging for Britain, and two recent series on Channel 4 eponymously called: Ancient Egypt
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Alice ROBERTS
Which Jamaican reggae singer had a 1994 number three hit with You Don’t Love
Me (No, No, No)? This was the only UK hit for this singer who had returned to
music after a 20-year hiatus in 1992.
Dawn PENN
Which German-born physicist wrote a thesis on J.J. Thomson’s model of the atom after studying with him at the Cavendish Laboratory? This man developed the matrix mechanics formulation of quantum mechanics with his student, Werner
Heisenberg, and was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Born
Rewarded with the title Duke of Albemarle, which English general played a key
role in securing the Restoration of Charles II by leading his army from Scotland to
London? His regiment was immediately reinstated when the New Model Army was disbanded, and subsequently renamed the Coldstream Guards.
George Monck
What type of movable bridge is characterised by a single rigid structure that rotates up and down around two fixed endpoints in a direction parallel to the waterway? The Gateshead Millennium Bridge was the world’s first to be built.
Tilt bridge
Although he is believed to have lived in the 9th century BC, his existence has been disputed. Which legendary lawgiver of Sparta is credited with establishing the military-oriented reform of Spartan society?
Lycurgus
Shoemaking in the City of London traditionally centred on which ward located
south of Cheapside and north of Cannon Street? It contained, and shared a name with, a livery hall for craftsmen who made shoes from new leather.
Cordwainer
Which British science and wildlife presenter presented an eponymous BBC show
about <Her> Coastal Britain in 2021? Formerly on Springwatch and Autumnwatch, she has been a presenter of Animal Park since 2000.</Her>
Kate Humble
Which Russian author wrote the autobiographical trilogy My Childhood, In The World and My Universities? His other works include short stories like Twenty-six Men and a Girl, the novel Mother, and plays such as The Lower Depths.
Maxim Gorky
The term ‘security blanket’ was widely popularised in which comic strip?
Peanuts
Native to Southeast Asia, which carnivoran is the largest member of the Viverrid
or civet family? This only species in the genus Arctictis is sometimes known as the bearcat.
Binturong
Observed during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, which major
Jewish holiday begins with a ritual feast known as the Seder? The festival celebrates the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt.
passover / pesach
Also known as the Day of Atonement, what is the holiest day in Judaism? It takes
place on the 10th day of the month of Tishrei, with observants fasting and confessing their sins.
Yom Kippur
The performance art of Gombey, which involves drumming, dancing and colourful costumes that often feature towering headdresses, is associated with which island in the North Atlantic?
Bermuda
Despite failing to be shortlisted as a candidate city for 2016 and 2020 Olympic and Paralympic hosting duties, what Middle Eastern city’s Khalifa International Stadium has staged the Asian Games, the Pan Arab Games and several major football tournaments since the 1990s?
Doha
Nicholas Trist was the US negotiator who secured considerable land gains at the
end of the Mexican-American War. These gains were enshrined in what treaty of 1848 named for a Mexican town that is now part of Mexico City?
Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
Directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written by Salvador Dalí, which comedy satirising the Catholic church and bourgeois society premiered in Paris in 1930 and had one of its first performances interrupted by the French League of Patriots?
L’Age d’Or
Which German composer, most famous for his Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
and his Scottish Fantasy, was conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic from 1880 to 1883?
Max Bruch
Which long-lived actress won consecutive Oscars in the 1930s for her roles in the
films The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth?
Luise Rainer
An attendee of the first Solvay Conference, which French physicist defined Avogadro’s number and won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium, in which he verified Einstein’s theoretical explanation
of Brownian motion?
Jean Baptiste PERRIN
Which Welsh castle and UNESCO World Heritage Site was named Europe’s
most beautiful castle by Condé Nast Traveller magazine in 2023? It is part of its namesake north coast town’s extensive medieval fortifications.
Conwy
Another city with an Olympic stadium that is yet to make the candidate city shortlist, despite applying for both 2004 and 2008, which city has instead managed to host two Davis Cup finals, the 2024 UEFA Women’s Nations League final and the 1999 World Athletics Championships?
Seville
Which Jewish festival is commemorated with the lighting of a nine-branch candelabrum known as a menorah? Observed during the months of Kislev and Tevet, it marks the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire.
Hanukkah
Which treaty of 1993 was signed by the Rwandan government and the rebel
Rwandan Patriotic Front in an attempt to bring an end to the country’s civil war? It is named for the Tanzanian city in which it was signed.
Arusha Accords
Field Hockey player In 1988, he was a member of the gold medal-winning Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He scored a hat-trick in the semi-final against Australia before Britain defeated West Germany 3–1 in the final, with him scoring once and Imran Sherwani twice.
Sean Kerly
Field hockey player won gold with the Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He played on the left wing, and scored two of the three goals against West Germany in the 1988 final, making a significant contribution to the match.
Imran Sherwani
Centred on the city of Trujillo, the marinera is the national dance of which South
American country? It is a partner dance usually involving handkerchiefs and a box-shaped percussion instrument called a cajón.
Peru
Held in 1969 at a venue in California, which rock concert was marked by extensive crowd violence and four deaths, notably the killing of Meredith Hunter by a Hells Angel during a Rolling Stones set?
ALTAMONT
Dying in August 2023, which composer and conductor collaborated with Paul
McCartney on the Liverpool Oratorio? He wrote music for more than 100 television programmes (notably the landmark ITV series World At War (1973) and BBC’s Pride and Prejudice (1995). Married to Jean Boht (Nellie Boswell in Bread).
Carl Davis
In the 1970s Doctor Who story “The Sea Devils”, The Master is seen watching which children’s television programme? He is heard to remark that the programme depicts what “… seems to be a rather interesting extra-terrestrial lifeform”?
The CLangers
In 2023, Borjana Krišto became the first female Prime Minister of which European country? In 2007, she had become its first female President.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Which actor, also known for his stage performances in Eugene O’Neill
productions, won consecutive Oscars in the 1970s for All The President’s Men and Julia?
Jason Robards
With views of Lake Boyukshur, what city’s Olympic stadium is yet to host the Games after the application fell short for both 2016 and 2020? It did host the first ever European Games in 2015.
Baku
Commemorating the Jewish people being saved from annihilation by the Achaemenid royal vizier Haman, which holiday held during the month of Adar is also known as the Feast of Lots?
Purim
Who is Bertie Wooster’s newt-fancying friend in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse? His drunk prize-giving speech at Market Snodsbury Grammar School is a notable vignette.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Who was the former Arkansas state employee who sued President Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994 and whose case provided the impetus for the lawyer Kenneth Starr to broaden his Whitewater investigation?
Paula Jones
Which actor voices Charles Muntz, an elderly explorer who was a childhood idol
of protagonist Carl Fredricksen, in the film Up? One of his final big-screen roles in a very long career was as the victim Harlan Thrombey in Knives Out.
Christopher Plummer
Which alliteratively named singer-songwriter won the Rising Star Award at the 2022 BRITs? Hailing from Lincolnshire, her 2023 debut album Paint My Bedroom Black reached number 5 in the UK and she has recorded an acoustic version of “Seventeen Going Under” with Sam Fender.
Holly HUMBERSTONE
Hero organisation in Gerry Anderson’s Fireball XL-5
World Space Patrol
Hero organisation in Gerry Anderson’s Stingray
World Aquanaut Security Patrol
Hero organisation in Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds
International Rescue
Hero organisation in Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Spectrum
Which alumnus of UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art was an official war artist in both world wars? His war paintings include Menin Road from the First, and Totes Meer from the Second World War.
Paul Nash
Macau currency
Pataca
A common form of antimicrobial resistance is MRSA. This is caused by bacteria
that have evolved a resistance to which type of antibiotic, what does MRSA stand for?
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Transcendental idealism and the analytic/synthetic distinction are concepts
originating in the work of which German Enlightenment philosopher? This lifelong resident of Königsberg credited David Hume with waking him from his “dogmatic slumber”.
Immanuel Kant
Former Seattle Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson shared the World Series MVP
award with Curt Schilling when they carried which team, based in Phoenix, to its first World Series victory, beating the Yankees in 2001?
Arizona Diamondbacks
What two-word name was given by Immanuel Kant to the supreme principle of practical morality, which he expressed as “act only according to a maxim which you can will should be a universal law”?
Categorical Imperative
The fall of which city on the Mississippi River is considered one of the turning points in the American Civil War? This city had been besieged from May to July 1863, when it was captured by Ulysses S Grant.
Vicksburg
Drafted first overall by the Seattle Mariners in 1993, which shortstop agreed to a
$252 million deal with the Texas Rangers in 2000 that was a record for pro sports? This player was once rumured to be in a relationship with Madonna and is an ex-fiancée of Jennifer Lopez.
Alex Rodriguez
What three-word name, one of them the definite article, is shared by a 1994 UK
Number One single for Tony Di Bart and a soul group who had topped the same chart in 1976?
The Real Thing
High-speed steel alloys, used in saw blades and drill bits, typically contain at least 7% of which element, although during the World Wars molybdenum was often substituted? In its pure form, this element, atomic number 74, has the highest melting point and tensile strength of any metal.
Tungsten
What one word links a 2012 UK Number One single for Little Mix and a band which had topped the same chart in 1977?
Wings
Which baseball Hall of Famer had two stints with the Seattle Mariners, from 1989-99 and 2009-10? This player, the son of an identically-named World Series winner with the Cincinnati Reds, was a 13-time All Star, hit 630 career home runs, and made MLB appearances in four different decades.
Ken Griffey Jr
Which battle of April-May 1863 was a Confederate victory that has been described as Robert E. Lee’s “perfect battle”? It led, however, to the death o ‘Stonewall’ Jackson when he was hit by friendly fire.
Chancellorsville (Virginia)
At which battle of December 1862 did the Union army under Ambrose Burnside make repeated frontal attacks on entrenched Confederate positions, resulting in disastrously heavy losses? Union soldiers cried out the name of this battle as they mowed down Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg six months later.
Fredericksburg (Texas)
The apsar is the currency of which partially recognised breakaway region of
Georgia? It is pegged to the Russian ruble, and Russia occupies this region, along with the other Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Abkhazia
DNA in bacteria can be found not only in the cell nucleus but also in which other structures? These structures often carry genes that confer selective advantage, such as antibiotic resistance
Plasmids
Immanuel Kant’s theory of transcendental idealism is in part a challenge to which philosophical belief, associated with the ancient Greek Academic and Pyrrhonian schools, that questions the very possibility of knowledge? This belief shares its name with a more general term for doubt about something.
Scepticism
Located in Death Valley in California, what is the two-word alliterative name of the salt flats that are the lowest point in North America?
Badwater Basin
Which Slade School alumnus, who was associated with, but not a member of, the Bloomsbury Group, had a long-term relationship with Lytton Strachey? She became known after her death for her portraits, still lifes and landscapes, such as Spanish Landscape with Mountains.
Dora Carrington
Who was the Liberal Prime Minister of Australia from 1996-2007, when he lost the federal election as well as his own seat of Bennelong? He was succeeded as PM by Labour’s Kevin Rudd
John Howard
The 18 surviving plays of which ancient Greek tragedian include Medea, The
Suppliant Women and Iphigenia in Tauris?
Euripides
Language of the Flower Pot Men
Oddle Poddle
What was the name of the pope who, according to later legend, ruled for two years in the mid-ninth century, until being revealed as a woman when she
unexpectedly gave birth?
Pope JOAN
Perhaps the most bizarre in papal history, which event of 897 saw the trial and conviction of Pope Formosus? You may give the name by which this event is usually known, or simply describe what happened.
Cadaver Synod (Formosus was dead)
For the soundtrack of the 2022 biopic Elvis, Doja Cat recorded which song that interpolates a recording of Hound Dog by Shonka Dukureh? The title of this song is the single word commonly used to refer to an American city whose full name contains two words.
Vegas
Which author won the 1973 Booker Prize with The Siege of Krishnapur, set in a fictional Indian town during the 1857 Rebellion? Another book from the same author’s Empire trilogy, Troubles, posthumously won the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010
JG Farrell
Another controversial product of the early medieval papacy was which eighth century forgery, purporting to show the first Christian Roman emperor granting authority over the western empire to the pope? Three-word answer required.
Donation of CONSTANTINE
The Covered Market in which UK city has been in operation since 1774? No
building in this city can be taller than the 12th century Carfax Tower.
Oxford
Which Chelsea goalkeeper, nicknamed ‘the Cat’, saw his international career end
with the disastrous 1970 World Cup quarter-final defeat, when England relinquished a 2-0 half-time lead to lose 3-2 to West Germany?
Peter Bonetti
Andrew Gold’s sole top ten hit in the UK was which song from his 1978 album All
This and Heaven Too? British dance group Undercover also reached the top ten
with a cover of this song in 1992.
Never Let Her Slip Away
Al Pacino stars in the music video for which 2023 rap song by Bad Bunny? The
song is named for a European state, and heavily samples Hier encore by Charles Aznavour.
Monaco
The Tropic of Capricorn also unsurprisingly passes through the Australian electoral district of Capricornia in Queensland and the adjacent Capricorn Coast. The name of which city, the largest in this district, precedes ‘Rocket’ in the nickname of Rod Laver, its most famous son?
Rockhampton
Removed from the official cocktails list in 2020, a Godfather consists of Scotch whisky and which almond-flavoured, Italian liqueur?
Amaretto
Which prolific French artist of the 19th century is best known for his prints and wood-engravings? As well as producing illustrations for editions of the Bible and classic literature, his London: A Pilgrimage (1872) vividly depicted the poverty of contemporary London.
Gustav Dore
In the titles of a series of first-person shooters based on the dystopian novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky, what word precedes 2033, Last Light and Exodus?
Metro
Which city in eastern England boasts one of the oldest and largest permanent
outdoor markets in the country? It moved from Tombland, centre of the AngloSaxon settlement, to its current site adjacent to St. Peter Mancroft church in the 11th century.
Norwich
Who played Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown? She has
also played Joséphine in Ridley Scott’s 2023 film Napoleon, and the White
Widow in the Mission Impossible franchise.
Vaanessa Kirby
The period from about 904-967 is considered the nadir of the papacy. This period
is usually known either as the Saeculum obscurum, or by which word, derived
from the Greek meaning ‘rule by prostitutes’?
Pornocracy
Marked by a monument that functions as a solar calendar, the Tropic of Capricorn passes through the airport of which city in Chile, closely associated with the mining industry? A copper mining multinational on the London stock
exchange is named after this city.
Antofagasta
The St. Nicholas Market, site of the first Berni Inn, can be found on Corn Street in which city in the southwest of England? The M-Shed is a museum located on Prince’s Wharf in this city.
Bristol
Nicknamed ‘the Cat’, which English Snooker player’s only ranking tournament
victory was the 1989 British Open? This member of the Matchroom Mob partnered Steve Davis to win the World Doubles Championship in four of the six
years it was contested.
Tony Meo
What two-word term describes US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell in the title of a 2013 movie directed by Peter Berg? Mark Wahlberg plays the lead role in the movie, which is based on Luttrell’s earlier non-fiction account of the same name.
Lone Survivor
Which British actress and impressionist won Series 12 of Taskmaster in 2021? Her other television work includes an eponymous sketch show that featured a popular impression of ‘Sonia from EastEnders’, and roles as nymphomaniac Julie in House of Fools, and Pippa Middleton in The Windsors
Morgana Robinson
With a name deriving from a Hindi word meaning ‘twenty-five’, which Ancient Indian board game is played with cowrie shells on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross? Sorry! and Ludo are among the Westernised commercial versions of the game
Pachisi
Which Sanskrit royal title precedes Mac in the alliterative name of the Indian alternative to the Big Mac, made with chicken instead of beef?
Maharaja
Elizabeth Allen, a pupil at the Whyteleafe boarding school, is the central
character in The Naughtiest Girl, one of the lesser-known series by which author? She wrote the first four books in the series between 1940 and 1952.
Enid Blyton
What is the most populous settlement in the Irish province of Munster that has not been accorded city status? It is the county town of Clare.
Ennis
Wild Bluebell is a fragrance by which London designer also known for her range of candles?
Jo Malone
Depicting a skull, the 1982 work Untitled was sold at Sotheby’s in 2017 for $110.5 million, at that time the highest price ever paid at auction for artwork by an American. It is by which artist?
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A Mexican wrestler known for his iconic jaguar mask, what name is shared by two characters who, combined, have featured as a playable character in every main instalment of the Tekken fighting game series?
King
Born in Somerset in about 1220 and sometimes known as “Doctor Mirabilis”, which Franciscan friar was a noted philosopher and writer on optics and is credited with being the first European to record the formula for making gunpowder?
Roger Bacon
Which blonde actor, who played Nick Tilsley in Coronation Street and would later
also appear in Hollyoaks, had a Top 5 UK hit in 1999 with “I Breathe Again”?
Adam Rickitt
Comprising four books published between 1939 and 1951, which Enid Blyton series was set in an enchanted wood? The series title is absent from the first book in the series, but appears in the next three.
The Faraway Tree
Located in its namesake county, what is the most populous settlement in the Irish province of Connacht that has not been accorded city status? A statue of W. B. Yeats stands in the town centre.
Sligo
Which Dominican monk and painter of religious subjects in the early Renaissance
is best known for his frescoes and altarpiece in the friary of San Marco in Florence?
Fra Angelico
Elk and wild boar were among the menu choices of which left-handed Canadian at the 2004 US Masters Champions Dinner?
Mike Weir
The first privately funded attempt to land on the moon came in 2019, when SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander crashed into the surface. It was a mission launched by which Middle Eastern nation?
Israel
Which Neighbours actor, who has appeared in the soap on and off since 1985, had a Top 20 UK hit in 1989 with “Don’t It Make You Feel Good”?
Stefan Dennis
Perhaps better known for shoes, which fashion designer created the Blossom fragrance?
Jimmy Choo
Which less-heralded Enid Blyton series, with parallels with Malory Towers, follows the journey of twin heroines Pat and Isabel O’Sullivan at the eponymous boarding school, of which Miss Theobald [TY-bald] is headmistress?
St Clare’s
What is the name of the Irish professional assassin who has featured as a playable character in every main instalment of Tekken? She starred in her own spin-off game Death by Degrees and is known for her rivalry with her sister Anna. First name or surname acceptable.
Nina Williams
Straddling Counties Louth and Meath, what is the most populous urban settlement in the Republic of Ireland not to have been accorded city status?
Drogheda
What name is given to the Japanese sword-wielding ninja and leader of the Manji
clan who has featured as a playable character in every main instalment of Tekken? Other versions of this character have also appeared in the Soulcalibur series.
Yoshimitsu
Which actress, who played the much-married Kathy in Emmerdale, had a Top 20 UK hit with “Just This Side of Love” in 1990?
Malandra Burrows
Which capital city’s main airport is named after Jorge [HOR-hay] Chávez, who died as a result of injuries suffered on landing after achieving the first crossing of the Pennine Alps? The airport is located in the neighbouring port city of Callao.
Lima
Inspired by flowers in his own private garden, Rose Prick is a fragrance by which
American fashion designer?
Tom Ford
While his countryman Trevor Immelman had opted for bobotie three years earlier, which South African selected braai [BRY] as the main course at the 2012 US Masters Champions Dinner?
Charl Schwartzel
Consisting of 15 books written between 1943 and 1961, which lesser-known Enid
Blyton series saw a gang of schoolchildren in the fictitious village of Peterswood solve a mystery almost every school holiday, much to the annoyance of local policeman Theophilus Goon?
The FIVE FIND-OUTERS and Dog
An airport serving which city in Kansas is named after the aviator Amelia
Earhart? This city was the original eastern terminus of a railway also named for Topeka and Santa Fe.
Atchison
Originally depicted with a tall, blonde haircut, what is the name of the American martial artist who has featured as a playable character in every main instalment of Tekken? A regular entrant in the game’s King of Iron Fist tournament, he’s also known for his fights with the bear Kuma. First name or surname acceptable.
Paul Phoenix
Containing the name of a Spanish city, which oil tanker ran aground off the coast
of Brittany in March 1978, resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind to that date?
Amoco Cadiz
Pope Innocent IV appointed which Franciscan friar as the head of the first formal Catholic mission to the Mongol Empire? Written in the 1240s, a report on his trip is titled Ystoria Mongalorum.
GIOVANNI da Pian DEL
CARPINE (CARPINI)
Named for the country’s first prime minister, what is the most populous Urban Area in Northern Ireland not to be accorded city status? It is a ‘new town’ built from the 1960s onwards, although much of what was planned was never built.
Craigavon
The only time a roast dinner has been served at the US Masters Champions Dinner was in 2017. It was chosen by which Yorkshireman who had won the green jacket the year before?
Danny Willett
Which Japanese actor, who appears in Memoirs of a Geisha, Inception and Pokémon Detective Pikachu, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in the 2003 epic period
drama film The Last Samurai?
Ken WATANABE
Harriet Tubman, Simón Bolívar and Mary, Queen of Scots are the subjects of operas by which modern-day Scottish composer?
Thea Musgrave
Awarded by the sports newspaper Marca, what award is given to the season’s top scorer in the Spanish La Liga in men’s football? It is named in honour of a footballer who played for Athletic Bilbao during the 1910s and 1920s.
Trofeo Pichichi
A particular brand by which brewery sponsors the annual Harrogate Crime Writing Festival and the associated award for the best crime novel of the year, which has been presented since 2006?
Theakston’s (Old Peculier)
The neo-Palladian country houses Holkham Hall and Houghton Hall can be found in which English county? They are the respective ancestral homes of the Earls of Leicester and the Marquesses of Cholmondeley [CHUM-lee].
Norfolk
The Potala Palace is a fortress located in which prefecture-level city of Tibet?
Lhasa
What is the brand name for the cricket balls used in Test and First Class cricket in the UK, Ireland and the West Indies? It shares its name with a rank of British nobility.
Duke
Which retired Italian rugby union captain holds the record number of caps in the men’s Six Nations tournament, with 69? He also holds the unenviable world record of having lost more test matches than any other player.
Sergio Parisse
What woman became a crossbench peer after her husband, a former prime minister, died in 1965? She served in the House of Lords as Baroness of Chartwell until her death in 1977.
Clementine Spencer-CHURCHILL
Including reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species in physiological
systems, what two-word term is given to an unstable and highly reactive molecular species with an unpaired electron in an atomic orbital?
Free RADICALS
The subject of a poem by Charles Wolfe, who was the British commander at the Battle of Corunna in January 1809? He was mortally wounded during the battle.
Sir John MOORE
The enzyme superoxide dismutase (or, SOD) breaks down harmful superoxide free radicals into normal molecular oxygen and which chemical compound? Catalase then further protects cells by decomposing this compound into water
and oxygen.
Hydrogen Peroxide
In ethical philosophy, what term is used to describe the theory that a course of action or inaction is right if, and only if, it will, or is intended to, produce a good outcome? The term was introduced by G.E.M. Anscombe in her 1958 article “Modern Moral Philosophy”.
Consequentialism
As a dig at critics who claimed it was too male-focused, Love Machine by Girls Aloud was the first song played on what rebranded radio station in 2015? It was played by Chris Moyles, who still hosts the station’s breakfast show nine years
later.
Radio X
Other than the Higgs Boson, all of the bosons in the Standard Model are “gauge bosons”, meaning they carry one of the fundamental forces. Which particles mediate the strong nuclear interaction?
Gluons
W and Z bosons carry which of the fundamental forces?
Weak Nuclear Interaction
What is the brand name for the cricket balls manufactured in Australia and used for all limited-overs international matches as well as for Test cricket in all other nations apart from England, Ireland, the West Indies and India?
Kookaburra
David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” was the opening track played on which radio station upon launch in 2019? It has enjoyed a huge increase in audience figures since April 2023 and is now the UK’s most-listened-to commercial radio station.
Greatest Hits Radio
At which July 1812 battle in western Spain was Wellington said to have beaten
40,000 Frenchmen in 40 minutes? The defeated French were commanded by Marshal Marmont.
Salamanca
Which Italian rugby player, primarily a flanker, played in five men’s Rugby World Cups between 1999 and 2015? He was selected at scrum half for a Six Nations match against England in 2009 but was replaced at the interval, having been blamed for England’s three tries. His younger brother, Mirco, did score a consolation try in the second half.
Mauro Bergamasco
Featuring at number 14 in the Guardian’s list of the best TV of 2023, what Australian comedy was written by and starred Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall as two people brought together after the titular dog was injured in a car accident?
Colin from Accounts
Which French chef and writer’s 1846 recipe for Lyonnaise potatoes calls for chopped parsley and lemon juice? Head chef of the Reform Club in London, he opened a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Potato Famine and invented a namesake stove for military use during the Crimean War.
Alexis Soyer
Located on a hilltop, the Mehrangarh Fort is a fort covering 1,200 acres in which northwest Indian city?
Jodhpur
Often contrasted with consequentialism and virtue ethics, what name is given to the theory that the morality of an action depends on whether the action itself is right or wrong based on a set of rules rather than the consequences of that action? It is sometimes referred to as duty-based ethics
Deontology
Who was the inaugural winner of the Theakston’s Old Peculier prize for his book Lazybones? He was also the first writer to win the award twice, with both recognised novels featuring his detective Tom Thorne.
Mark Billingham
The copper/zinc form of superoxide dismutase is a commonly mutated gene in familial forms of motor neurone disease. One of the early signs of this disease are spontaneous, involuntary movements known by which word beginning with ‘F’, the scientific name for a muscle twitch?
Fasciculations
In cricket, batters often use the GM brand of bats named after the founders of the company that manufactures them. What two names does GM stand for?
Gunn and Moore
Part of the virtue ethics of Aristotle, what two-word term describes the desirable
middle ground between two extremes? For example, courage would be the preferred character trait over recklessness or cowardice.
Golden Mean
Which author became the second double winner of the Theakston’s Old Peculier prize, when she won in successive years for The End of the Wasp Season and Gods and Beasts? Both winning books feature her Glasgow detective Alex Morrow.
Denise Mina
Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir, she has also written for comic books, including 13 issues of Hellblazer.
Denise Mina
Which Italian prop forward who died in 2021 gives his name to the trophy awarded to the winners of the Six Nations match between Italy and Scotland? His twin brother, Marcello, is Italy’s record try scorer, with 26.
Massimo CUTTITTA
“Swimming Horses” was the lead single off which 1984 album by Siouxsie and the Banshees that shares its name with a wild animal?
Hyaena
The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model boson of what type, meaning that it has a value of 0 for spin? This term is also used more generally for a quantity that has magnitude but not direction.
Scalar Boson
Featuring at number 5 in the Guardian’s list of the best TV of 2023, what murder mystery series was created by Rian Johnson and stars Natasha Lyonne as a casino worker on the run who has an unerring ability to detect when someone is lying?
Poker Face
With fauna including lions, elephants and African wild dogs, Hwange [“WANghee”, also spell out] National Park is in which African country? The lion Cecil was shot and killed by dentist Walter Palmer in 2015 just outside the National Park.
Zimbabwe
An influence on Elizabeth David, which French chef, writer and restaurateur’s 1930 recipe for Lyonnaise potatoes adds the onions raw into the pan with the potatoes? He opened a namesake London restaurant in 1927 and was an early TV chef on shows such as Cook’s Night Out.
Marcel BOULESTIN
Constructed by Richard Fletcher on the orders of Wellington, the series of forts and other structures built to defend Lisbon during the Peninsular War were known as the “Lines of” which town to the north of the Portuguese capital?
Torres Vedras
With fauna including black and white rhinos and mountain zebra, Etosha National Park is located in the Etosha Pan in the north of which African country?
Namibia
Which 2015 album by Disclosure shares its name with a type of wild animal? It includes the song “Omen”, with vocals by Sam Smith.
Caracal
What branch of ethics is concerned with how ethical principles can be used specifically in real-world domains? Bioethics, environmental ethics and business ethics are sub-branches of this area?
Applied Ethics
Currently Bishop of Gloucester, who became the first female Anglican bishop to sit in the House of Lords when she was ennobled as a Lord Spiritual in 2015?
Rachel TREWEEK
The first track played on which radio station was “Burn Baby Burn” by Ash in 2002? Eight years later, there was a high-profile campaign to save the station when there was talk of it being closed down.
BBC Radio “6 MUSIC”
Around 10-15% of patients with motor neurone disease also develop a particular type of dementia with the initialism FTD and characterised by apathy, disinhibited behaviour, loss of empathy and personality change. Referring to the brain structures affected, for what does the “FT” in the initialism FTD stand, if D denotes dementia?
Frontotemporal
2 Virat Kohli is most associated with what three-letter brand of cricket bat? Other leading players to have used this make of bat over the years include Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh.
MRF
Because news had not yet reached the warring armies, which battle of April 1814
was fought four days after Napoleon’s surrender formally ended the Peninsula war?
Battle of TOULOUSE
Which Argentine-born fly-half is Italy’s all-time leading points scorer in men’s
rugby union, with 983 points amassed between 1991 and 2003?
Diego DOMINGUEZ
With a park landscaped by Humphrey Repton, Attingham Park is a Classical-style country house in which English county? It was home to the Berwick family until the mid-20th century.
SHROPSHIRE
The Channel 5 soap Family Affairs, which ran between 1997 and 2005, was set
in which fictional suburb of London?
CHARNHAM
What was the name of the first Queen regnant of the Netherlands? She was on
the throne between 1890 and 1948.
Wilhelmina
Developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack, what is the name of the 2024 roguelike deck-building video game themed around poker? It has earned stellar reviews and generated more than $1m in gross revenue within eight hours
of release.
BALATRO
Which Italian publishing house was responsible for the Gialli [Jee-AL-ee] series of detective and crime novels, so named for their yellow covers? Since the early 1990s, it has been controlled by the Berlusconi holding company Fininvest.
Mondadori
Alofi is the capital of which island known as the ‘Rock of Polynesia’?
Niue (territory of New Zealand)
Cyrano de Bergerac and Pillow Talk are among the films of the 1950s directed by which man? His grandson is an actor and director who founded the online collaborative media platform HitRecord.
Michael Gordon
He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Hispanic actor and the first Puerto Rican-born to win an Academy Award. Married Rosemary Clooney.
Jose Ferrer
Name the four credited actors and character names of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 film directed by Mike Nichols.
Martha: Elizabeth Taylor
George: Richard Burton
Nick: George Segal
Honey: Sandy Dennis
Project FF, or Fat Fucker, was a CIA operation that resulted in the overthrow of
which King of Egypt in a military coup in 1952?
Farouk I
Which woman was the subject of two portraits by Gustav Klimt, the first also
known as The Woman in Gold? She may also be the model for The Kiss and Judith and the Head of Holofernes by the same artist.
Adele Bloch-Bauer
Which is the simplest and only a·chiral protein·ogenic amino acid, with its side
chain being a single hydrogen atom? Its name derives from the Greek for ‘sweet
tasting’.
Glycine
Another emotional moment shown on the BBC’s Tokyo Olympics montage was which rower being reunited with her daughter and two sons at the airport? Although she finished fourth in Tokyo, she and partner Heather Stanning won gold in the coxless pairs in both 2012 and 2016.
Helen Glover
The Time is Now, which featured as the intro to Sky’s Super Sunday from 2005-9,
was a 2000 hit for which Irish-English electronic pop duo, which also had UK top
10 hits with Sing It Back and Familiar Feeling?
Moloko
Known for wearing a pink bow-tie, Frank Muir appeared as a team captain on which TV game show, in which players tried to identify the real definition of obscure words?
Call My Bluff
What two-word name is given to the faint, inert stars formed after the explosion and collapse of a red giant? Sirius B is the closest known example of this type of star, which our Sun will one day become.
White Dwarf
One of the four female Doctors of the Church in Roman Catholicism, which German Benedictine abbess and polymath of the 12th century was known particularly for her musical compositions? Forename sufficient.
Hildegard of Bingen
Matt Berry played Douglas, who took over as boss of Reynholm Industries from his father at the start of the second series of The IT Crowd. Which satirist had played the previous boss, Denholm Reynholm?
Chris Morris
The 1951 Time Man of the Year, who was prime minister of Iran from 1951-53? He nationalised the Iranian oil industry, before being overthrown by a US and UK backed coup d’état.
Mohammad MOSSADEGH
Which amino acid has an imid·azole side chain and is a precursor to a vital inflammatory agent in human immune responses? Reflecting that, its name partly derives from the Greek for ‘tissue’.
Histadine
Which woman, an artist and author herself, was a frequent sitter for the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood, and was depicted as the title figure in John Everett
Millais’ Ophelia?
Elizabeth Siddall
Written at the same time as Claude Debussy’s opera, which Austrian-born composer wrote a symphonic poem titled Pelleas und Melisande? It is a tonal work by this composer, primarily associated with atonality and the twelve-tone technique.
Arnold Schoenberg
The 14th July Revolution was a 1958 military coup in Iraq that resulted in the
death of which king, marking the end of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq? Regnal
number not required.
Faisal II
Who was the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army who seized power in
Pakistan in a military coup in 1958? Two word name required.
Muhammad AYUB KHAN
Two of the original 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in Ecuador. One is the city of Quito; lying 1,200 kilometres to the west, which is the other, where you could visit Santa Cruz and Isabela?
Galapagos
Another moment captured in the BBC’s Tokyo Olympics montage was an interview with which distraught athlete, whose 200 metres was wrecked by injury? This man was the first British athlete, and first athlete of Middle Eastern descent, to break both 10 seconds for the 100 metres and 20 seconds in the 200.
Adam Gemili
Which woman, herself an artist, sat for Édouard Manet for paintings including The Railway, Le Dejeuner Sur l’herbe, and Olympia?
Victorine Meurent
Which amino acid was named after the silvery-white appearance of its nitrate
crystals? Its side chain is a guanidino group, and like lysine it is positively charged.
Arginine
With the subtitle Shadows Die Twice, what 2019 action-adventure video game, developed by FromSoftware, is set in the early 17th century during Japan’s Sengoku period? Like many FromSoftware games, it was praised for its high difficulty level.
SEKIRO: Shadows Die Twice
Which tree completes the Biblical quotation “each man under his own vine and
<what>”? This tree, a member of the Moraceae family that denotes peace and
prosperity, was used by Theodore Herzl in his depiction of a future Jewish homeland.
</what>
Fig tree / Ficus carica
Based on his own earlier incidental music to a staging of Maeterlinck’s play, which French composer wrote Pélleas and Mélissande, a popular instrumental suite that contains a Sicilliene and Fileuse among its four movements?
Gabriel Faure
What 2017 action RPG video game, developed by Team Ninja, was inspired by the Englishman William Adams, who became a samurai in Japan during the Sengoku period? It too was praised for its difficulty level, and a sequel was released in 2020.
Nioh
One of the four female Doctors of the Church in Roman Catholicism, which 19th century French nun is often known as ‘the Little Flower of Jesus’? Pope Pius X called this woman, who died aged just 24, “the greatest saint of modern times”. Forename and place required.
St Therese of Lisieux
Frank Muir voiced many TV adverts in the 1970s for which chocolate bar, with a tag-line stating that “everyone’s a <this> case”?</this>
Fruit and Nut
The side chain of which amino acid, with a name deriving from the Greek for ‘bladder’, is a thiol group? This and meth·ionine are the only proteinogenic amino acids to contain sulphur, while a non-standard analogue of this amino acid instead contains selenium.
Cysteine
Cimarron, winner of the Best Picture Oscar for 1931, and Giant, the film for which James Dean received his last Oscar nomination, were based on novels by which Michigan-born author, better known for Show Boat, the novel on which Jerome
Kern’s musical was based?
Edna FERBER
Another moment featured in the BBC’s Tokyo Olympic montage was the viral footage of which British swimmer’s friends and family roaring him to victory in the 200 metre freestyle? This swimmer pipped countryman Duncan Scott to the gold
medal in the event.
Tom DEAN
The period between the French revolutions of 1830 and 1848 is known as the ‘July monarchy’. Nicknamed ‘the Citizen King’, who was on the throne throughout that time? Napoleon III was France’s only subsequent monarch.
Louis Philippe I
Which Norwegian singer won the BBC’s Sound of 2018 poll? Her two studio albums to date – Sucker Punch and How to Let Go – have both reached the top five of the UK albums chart.
Sigrid
What name is given to the niche in the wall of a Mosque that indicates the ‘Qiblah’, or direction of Mecca?
Mihrab
Which port in Ireland was known as Kingstown from 1821-1921?
Dun Laoghaire [dunleery]
In October 2023, which San Francisco 49ers running back tied Lenny Moore’s
record for most consecutive games with a touchdown, at 17? He started his
career with the Carolina Panthers, who traded him to San Francisco in 2022.
Christian MCCAFFREY
In the structure of Vitamin B12, cobalt is found at the centre of a corrin ring
surrounded by four coordinated bonds of which other element?
Nitrogen
As well as being a book by Oliver Sacks, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat is an opera by which English composer and pianist? He is perhaps best known for his film scores, particularly that for Jane Campion’s The Piano.
Michael Nyman
The most prestigious prize for Australian fiction is known as the Miles Franklin Award. Which word completes the titles of these two novels by Franklin: My Brilliant [Blank] and My [Blank] Goes Bung?
Career
Discovered by John Livingood and Glenn Seaborg, which isotope of cobalt is used as the primary source of radiation in radiotherapy because of its ability to emit gamma rays at a high intensity?
Cobalt 60
Atomic bomb uranium isotope
Uranium-235
Atomic bomb plutonium isotope
Plutonium-239
Smoke detector americium isotope
Americium-241
Reflecting the fact that they were chosen for good looks as well as sporting ability, what two-word name did the promoters David Dixon and Lamar Hunt give to the inaugural group of players whom they signed to launch the World Championship Tennis tour for male players in 1968?
Handsome Eight
In 1948, which Fife town became the second in Scotland to be designated a new town? It now serves as Fife’s administrative capital. Meaning ‘valley’, the first part of its name was added to avoid confusion with an existing town in Moray.
Glenrothes
Named for an 18th- and 19th-century French mathematician, what name is given to a
prime number ‘p’ if 2p+1 is also prime?
Sophie Germain
Who did Edward Enninful succeed as Editor at British Vogue? She was in post
between 1992 and 2017, making her the longest-serving Editor in the publication’s
history. She drew criticism for perceived glamourising of anorexic models.
Alexandra Shulman
Vogue UK editor after Edward Enninful
Chioma Nnadi
Among the artists at the Women in Revolt! exhibition is which Zanzibar-born Turner
Prize winner whose work Naming the Money presented 100 life-sized cutouts of
enslaved people?
Lubaina Himid
Which wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings was the NFL Offensive Player of the
Year in 2022, with 1,809 receiving yards? In 2020, he had set the NFL record for
most receiving yards by a rookie, with 1,400.
Justin Jefferson
Which German began his excavations at the modern-day Turkish site of Hisarlik,
thought to be the location of Troy, in 1870? The digging of his namesake trench
destroyed a large part of the site.
Heinrich Schliemann
In 1973, 81 men, including 12 of the 16 seeds, boycotted Wimbledon in protest at the
suspension of which Yugoslav, a member of the Handsome Eight?
Niki Pilic
Another actor to walk the Prada Villains Runway in 2012 was which man, whose
villainous screen roles include Luca Changretta in Peaky Blinders and Leveque in Ghosted?
Adrien Brody
Which writer from Western Australia has won the Miles Franklin Award a joint-record four
times, including in 1992 for Cloudstreet? He has twice been shortlisted for the Booker
Prize, for The Riders and for Dirt Music
Tim WINTON
Justin Jefferson’s rookie receiving yards record in 2020 was broken the following season
by which wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, who registered 1,455 yards and 13 touchdowns?
Ja’Marr Chase
In 1966, which coastal town in North Ayrshire became Scotland’s fifth new town? Four
years later, Nicola Sturgeon was born there, and it is thought that Mary, Queen of Scots
once stayed at the town’s Seagate Castle.
Irvine
Excavations of Tell es-Sultan in Palestine, the site of ancient Jericho, were led by which
British archaeologist in the 1950s? She had previously accompanied Tessa and Mortimer
Wheeler on their excavations of the Roman settlement of Verulamium near present-day
St Albans.
Kathleen Kenyon
Meaning ‘saviour’, what was the epithet of Ptolemy I, the founder of the Ptolemaic
Kingdom in 305 BCE?
Soter
Among the artists at the Women in Revolt! exhibition is which photocollagist, who
designed the cover artwork of “Orgasm Addict” by the Buzzcocks? She was lead singer
of the post-punk band Ludus.
Linder Sterling
In 1852, which Russian mathematician proved a conjecture by Joseph Bertrand that for
any number n, greater than 1, there is at least one prime number greater than n but less than 2n?
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Among the artists at the Women in Revolt! exhibition is which Punjabi Liverpudlian who
lit up the Tate in 2020 with her work remembering a brave new world? She is a mixed
media artist also known for her giant glittery ice cream sculpture Eat Me Now.
Chila Kumari Singh BURMAN
Requiem was a 1976 breakthrough success at the Three Choirs Festival for which Ivor
Novello-winning English composer? In addition to scoring Monty Python’s Life of Brian,
he is known for his work for television, which included the theme music to the 1979
production of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and 1981’s Brideshead Revisited.
Geoffrey Burgon
Cobaltite, one of the primary ores of cobalt, also contains sulphur and which other
element that results in the toxic fumes given off when the ore is smelted?
Arsenic
Which Miami Dolphins wide receiver, nicknamed “Cheetah” for his incredible speed, led
the NFL in receiving yards in the 2023 regular season, with 1,799? This man was traded
to the Dolphins in 2022, after winning a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2019.
Tyreek Hill
The other four-time recipient of the Miles Franklin Award is which Brisbane-born author?
Her wins began in 1962 with The Well Dressed Explorer and ended in 2000 with Drylands.
Thea Astley
The 2012 Prada Villains Runway also featured which actor, whose villainous cinema
roles include Bobby Peru in Wild at Heart and the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s SpiderMan trilogy?
Willem Dafoe
The River Almond passes through which of Scotland’s new towns, the fourth to be
designated? It is located in West Lothian around 15 miles west of Edinburgh.
Livingston
What Frenchman and fellow member of the Handsome Eight partnered Niki Pilić to
victory in the men’s doubles at the 1970 US Open? They defeated the Australian pairing
of Roy Emerson and Rod Laver in the final.
Pierre Barthes
Closely associated with the concept of Marxist archaeology, the Australian-born archaeologist V. Gordon Childe led the excavation of which British neolithic site between 1928 and 1930?
Skara Brae
Which English composer’s 1963 Kaddish Requiem was written in memory of the Jews who had died during the Holocaust? His TV work included the theme tunes to The Great War documentary series and the BBC’s adaptation of I, Claudius.
Wilfred Josephs
In 1874, which Polish mathematician published three results concerning the density
of prime numbers? These results are referred to as his three theorems.
Franz Mertens
Between 2012 and 2015, the Indian-born British businessman Anshu Jain was chief
executive of which multinational financial services company? Its distinctive twin tower headquarters can be found in a major European financial centre.
Deutsche Bank
What South African member of the Handsome Eight, a Wimbledon semi-finalist and
US Open runner-up in 1965, went on to become president of the ATP and, for four decades, a tennis commentator on ESPN in the United States?
Cliff Drysdale
Which novelist, who spent her adult life between Italy and the United States, won
both the Miles Franklin Award and the US National Book Award for Fiction in 2004, for The Great Fire? Like her previous two novels, The Bay of Noon and The Transit of Venus, it is a love story that opens in the aftermath of World War II.
Shirley Hazzard
The songs “Lemonade” and “Spotlight” appear on The State vs. Radric Davis, the sixth studio album by an Atlanta-based rapper with which stage name?
Gucci Mane
Cobalt was discovered in the 1730s by which Swedish chemist? He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times.
Georg Brandt
In April 2024, aged 111, which supercentenarian from Southport became the oldest
living man in the world?
John Tinniswood
Which sociologist and life peer was the main influence on the political approach
adopted by Tony Blair known as the Third Way? He was director of the London School of Economics between 1996 and 2003.
Anthony Giddens
What name is given to a garment, usually for women, that features a strap running
from the front of the garment around the back of the neck? The upper back and
shoulders are uncovered.
Halterneck
The Beatles are credited as The Beat Brothers alongside which rock and roll singer
on the original 1961 release of the track “My Bonnie”?
Tony Sheridan
The Rewa and Sigatoka rivers can be found on the largest island of which South
Pacific island nation?
Fiji
The Yannme’e [yan-may-eh] are an insectoid species in which video game franchise, where they make up part of The Covenant, a hegemonic alliance of alien races that wages a galactic holy war against humanity?
Halo
Will Beckett and Huw Gott founded which award-winning high-end steakhouse chain in 2006, opening the first branch on Commercial Street in Shoreditch?
Hawksmoor
British cinema’s new wave lasted from about 1959-63. One of its last films was John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar, starring Tom Courtenay in the title role. It was based on which writer’s novel of the same name?
Keith Waterhouse
The Zerg, a species of insectoid aliens with a hive mind social structure, are the primary antagonists in which video game franchise?
StarCraft
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, who died in 2023, is best known for his history of the French village of Montaillou in the early 14th century. Considered a precursor to microhistory, it is largely based on the records of the Inquisition trying to suppress which Christian dualist sect, who had been the target of a crusade in the previous century.
Cathars / Albigensians
Giuseppe Mascoli founded which Neapolitan sourdough pizza chain, which opened its first restaurant in Brixton Market in 2008?
Franco Manca
Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors draws heavily on Menaechmi, a play by which Roman writer of comedies? Along with Terence, this author of Miles Gloriosus is one of the most acclaimed Latin playwrights.
Plautus
Inspired by the Irani cafés popular in 1960s Mumbai, and known for its breakfast
naans and home meal kits, which chain of Indian restaurants opened its first branch in Covent Garden in 2010?
Dishoom
The second son of Hamilcar Barca, who commanded the Cathaginian army in Spain after his brother Hannibal left for Italy? He invaded Italy himself in 207 BC, but his army was soondestroyed at the Battle of Metaurus, and he was killed.
Hasdrubal Barca
What is the name of the top-level administrative divisions in the country where examples of them include Navarra and La Rioja [ree-o-ha]? You should give a two-word answer in either English or the country’s national language.
Autonomous Community
Hungary’s Aladár Gerevich is regarded as one of the greatest competitors in
which sport? He won seven Olympic gold medals in team and individual events
between 1932 and ’60.
Fencing
Due to its Gothic character, Kensal Green features in several films, including
which 1973 horror comedy? Starring Vincent Price, it sees a deranged actor murders critics in appropriately Shakespearean fashion.
Theatre of Blood
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died when “he got an ice-pick that made his
ears burn” according to the opening lines of which song by the Stranglers? The
singer also muses about the fate of “the great Elmyra and Sancho Panza”.
No More Heroes
In which sport is Hungarian-born Viktor Barna regarded as one of the greatest
players? He won a record 41 world championship medals between 1929 and ’54.
Table Tennis
Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world. His activities garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (1969), and a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (1974).
Elmyr de Hory
What word beginning with C, and probably derived from the Italian for ‘scaffolding’, refers to a bier or raised platform, often movable, used to support a coffin or body during a funeral or memorial ceremony? The Anglican chapel at Kensal Green has a hydraulic one that lowers coffins into its catacombs.
Catafalque
1 Existing on a construct known as The Citadel, the Keepers are a benign insectoid race found in which video game franchise? The rachni [rack-nye] and the Collectors are other, more aggressive, insectoid races in this franchise.
Mass Effect
Which Carthaginian noblewoman was married in turn to the Numidian kings Syphax and Masinissa? She is remembered for poisoning herself to avoid being degraded in a Roman triumph ordered by Scipio Africanus.
Sophonisba
Who wrote the play A Taste of Honey, adapted into a British new wave film,
directed by Tony Richardson, and starring Dora Bryan and Robert Stephens?
Shelagh Delaney
Another animal named after a woman is which species of mouse lemur, the smallest primate in the world with a body length of under 10 centimetres? The creature was named after a Madagascan primatologist.
Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur
Comprising the novels Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work, which
British author and literature professor wrote the Campus Trilogy?
David Lodge
Which of the Ivy League universities is the only one to be named for the municipality in which it is located?
Princeton
Born in Venice in 1707, which Italian playwright and librettist, probably best remembered for his farces, was inspired by Plautus’s Menaechmi to write The Venetian Twins? The Servant of Two Masters other famous one.
Carlo Goldoni
Which medium-sized falcon, belonging to the hobby group, breeds on islands in
the Mediterranean and was named after a local ruler and national heroine of Sardinia?
Eleonora’s Falcon
What is the name of the most common type of top-level administrative divisions in
the country where examples of them include Sverdlovsk and Rostov? This name derives from an Old East Slavic word meaning ‘power’.
Oblast
The Danish bakery chain Lagkagehuset [lau-kay-hoo-set] trades under what name in the UK, where it opened its first outlet on Haymarket in 2016?
Ole & Steen
The Indian historian Ranajit Guha also died in 2023. With works such as Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, he pioneered the study of postcolonial societies from the perspective of the underclasses. What word beginning with S precedes Studies in the name of this approach?
Subaltern
The first British new wave film was Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top, starring Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton, and based on which writer’s novel of the same name?
John Braine
Also known as Eliksni, The Fallen are an insectoid alien race who are nomadic
pirates that scavenge planets including the Earth in which online-only video game franchise?
Destiny
The Old Town of Lijiang, the Chengjiang Fossil Site, and the Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai are all UNESCO World Heritage sites in which province of Southwest China? It is known for producing Pu’er tea, and its capital is Kunming.
Yunnan
Which Swiss neoclassical painter (1741-1807), who painted portraits and historical scenes, was, along with Mary Moser, one of two women among the founding members of the Royal Academy?
Angelica Kauffman
Which organophosphorus compound, created in Germany in the 1930s, is an extremely toxic liquid that in gaseous form acts as a potent nerve agent? In 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo sect released an impure form of this substance in the Tokyo Metro, causing 12 deaths.
Sarin
Which AC Milan central defender, who never won the Ballon d’Or, finished third in 1994 behind Hristo Stoichkov and Roberto Baggio? This player, known as ‘Il Capitano’ in Italy, held the record for most appearances in Serie A prior to Gianluigi Buffon breaking his record in 2020.
Paolo Maldini
word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with this Canaanite god, which are heavily implied to be child sacrifice. Often protrayed bull-headed idol.
Moloch
historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 BCE). Flaubert’s principal source was Book I of the Histories, written by the Greek historian Polybius.
Salammbo
Boris Johnson recentish daughter name
Romy Iris Charlotte (Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was the son born in office)
Before Tony Blair’s Leo was born who was last PM to have a baby at the No.10 while PM?
John Russell
former Romanian artistic gymnast. During his senior gymnastics career he won 31 medals at Olympic Games at World and European Championships. The handspring double front somersault with ½ turn is named after him in the Code of Points. Best was Silver at 2004 Athens Floor but won loads at world champs.
Marian Dragulescu
Sinamay, a fabric made from the stalks of the abaca tree, is typically used to make what wearable items?
Hats
Which winter sport is performed in the supine position at speeds of up to 80 mph?
Luge
In which sensory organ of the body can you find the lingual serous glands of von Ebner?
Tongue
Which English DJ had a hit in 2018 with Just Got Paid?
Sigala
Which patron saint wrote in his autobiography, Confessions, “I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers”?
St Patrick
Which month completes the title of the 1980 Stevie Wonder song Hotter Than ___?
July
In Glasgow in 2023, Emma Finucane became a world champion in which sport?
Cycling
According to a Spanish tradition on New Year’s Eve, how many grapes are eaten to bring good luck for the coming year?
12
Which orange-red food colouring is made using the seeds of the achiote tree?
Annatto
Which landlocked country earned a bronze medal in the women’s beach volleyball competition at the 2020 Olympics?
Switzerland
What does the “C” stand for in the international organisation OECD?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Which characters arc in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” reflects the novel’s themes of resilience, solidarity and the quest for dignity?
Tom JOAD
Whose 1891 mathematical proof showed that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers? His work on infinity raised religious and philosophical questions about the nature of the infinite and its relationship to God
Georg CANTOR
At one point during the Sensation Exhibition of Young British Artists, a large painting of which woman (who died in 2002) had to be placed behind perspex after being pelted with eggs?
Myra HINDLEY
What collective name could be given to Frank Wudekind’s plays “Earth Spirit” (1895) and “Pandora’s Box” (1904)? Neither of these plays were set in Dennistoun, Glasgow
The LULU plays
Which Hungarian man, known for his work in probability theory, is known for the quote “a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems”?
Alfred RENYI
What species of Old World Monkeys are shown in the series of paintings known as “The Upper Room” by Chris Ofili? It is native to South, Central, and Southeast Asia and has the widest geographic range of all non-human primates. Two word answer
RHESUS MACAQUE
“Woman with a hat” (1905) is one of Matisse’s most famous works.His wife was the woman in the title. What was her first name? Her parents were part of the Humbert financial scandal
AMELIE
Well known to women in the Indian sub-continent, what are Jhumkas?
Earrings
Which composer who gained fame at the Hapsburg court introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria? His greatest works include the opera “Alceste”
Christoph Gluck
Which German engineer, architect and archaeologist is credited with the discovery of the Pergamon Altar?
Carl Humann
Containing the same word three times in its title, what is the national anthem of Vanuatu?
Yumi Yumi Yumi
Which opera, left unfinished at the time of its composer’s death in 1924, was named after a Mongolian princess?
Turandot
Which cathedral in Krakow traditionally served as the coronation site for Polish monarchs?
Wawel Cathedral
Of which set of experiments conducted in 1887 did Albert Einstein say “If the (REDACTED) experiment had not brought us into serious embarrassment, no one would have regarded the relativity theory as a halfway redemption”?
Michelson-Morley Experiment
What was the name of The Verve’s magnum opus album which spawned 4 hit singles?
Urban Hymns
What is the collective name for the three small islands of Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia?
Pelagie Islands
Regularly appearing on any list of the greatest German writers of all time, which man gave us the 1959 novel “Billiards at half past nine”? It examined themes of guilt and responsibility across 3 generations. Nobel Lit 1972.
Heinrich Boll
What is the actual first name of the American actress Stormy Daniels? The inventor of Kevlar had the same first name
Stephanie (Kwolek was Kevlar inventor)
Soon after the success of Sun Yat Sen’s 1911 revolution in China he quickly resigned as President of the newly formed republic in favour of what man? His death in 1916 plunged China into a period of warlordism
Yuan SHIKAI
Which American folk and blues singer, noted for his strong vocals, gave possibly the first recording of the phrase “Stay woke” on the 1938 recording of his “Scottsboro Boys” track?
Leadbelly
The modern form of Maxwell’s Equations in their most common formulation is credited to which English self-taught mathematician? His discovery of a reflective layer in the Earth’s atmosphere contributed to the development of radio technology
Oliver Heaviside
What 1764 work by Horace Walpole is regarded as the first ever Gothic novel?
Castle of Otranto
Please name all three species of Snake which are native to Britain
Adder, Grass, Smooth
The Bishop and Clerk Islets off which island mark the southernmost point of Australia (excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory)? This island is home to the entire royal penguin population during their annual nesting season
Macquarie Island
Which English actress who died in 1991 starred in Ken Loach’s “Cathy come home” and “Poor cow”?
Carol White
Which botched raid or invasion of late 1895 saw Cecil Rhodes replaced as the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony? The raid was intended to provoke an uprising by British workers in the Transvaal but it failed
The JAMESON raid
What food is mentioned in the common name of the popular hymn tune written by John Hughes in 1907? David Gates fronted a popular 1970s band which also were named after this food
BREAD of Heaven
The compilation album “Now That’s What I Call Music 1” was a huge success in 1983. That album contained the tracks “Only for love” by a solo singer and “Big Apple” by the band that singer fronted. Name either the solo star or his band
LIMAHL or KAJAGOOGOO
Which ancient Italic people scored a decisive victory over the Romans at the 321 BC Battle of Caudine Forks? Their defeat at the Battle of the Colline Gate in 82 BC led to their assimilation by the Romans and their eventual disappearance
Samnites
Which man, who has written various books on the subject of “Mind Mapping”, was one of the main organisers of the Mind Sports Olympiad tournament held in London in 1997?
Tony BUZAN
Which city, now part of France, was the birthplace of James I of Aragon (the Conqueror)? Rabelais and Nostradamus studied at the University in this city which is now the 3rd biggest on France’s Mediterranean coast
MONTPELIER
Which concept used in the analysis of magnetic circuits represents the opposition to magnetic flux, and depends on the geometry and composition of an object? This concept in a magnetic circuit is analagous to resistance in an electric circuit
Reluctance
From the 14th century onwards, the French tax known as the Gabelle was limited to which product?
Salt
The Frenchman René Belloq, played by Paul Freeman, is the main antagonist in which blockbuster adventure movie of 1981?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
In coordination chemistry, what name is given to an ion or molecule with a functional group that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex?
LIGAND
Which man cited in Bjørge Lillelien’s famous “Your boys took a hell of a beating” football commentary was actually born in Ontario in 1879 to a Scottish Presbyterian minister?
Lord BEAVERBROOK/ Max AITKEN
Playing home to one of the country’s most iconic lighthouses, what is Australia’s most eatern point?
Cape Byron
Sharing its name with a famed Indian ruined city, what was the title of the Magritte work which shows dozens of equally spaced men in overcoats and bowler hats seemingly floating?
Golconda
Most US state flags contain the colours red and blue, but what is the only US state that has a field of green? This state ranks second only to California in wine production
Washington
Who was the first officer on the RMS Titanic? He was in charge of the bridge at the time of the collision with the iceberg
William MURDOCH
Greystones, Arklow and Bray are towns in which Irish county?
County WICKLOW
Which cooper became the last leader of the Fifth Monarchy Men in the 17th century? His eponymous coup of 1661 came to nothing
Thomas VENNER
Which man’s famous work known as “The Birthday” depicts a scene from the Bible and features an embracing couple floating above a village?
Marc CHAGALL
What was the one-word name of the the fictional white supremacist and neo-fascist political party ruling the United Kingdom in Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta comic book/graphic novel series?
Norsefire
The musical duo “Two Tons of Fun” later became The Weather Girls, but they started off as backing singers for which star of the Disco Era?
SYLVESTER
What was the name of the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan during the 2021 United States withdrawal from the war in that country? His surname is very similar to that of the actress who starred in the Ken Russell movies The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and The Rainbow (1989).
Chris DONAHUE (Amanda DONOHOE)
Which Italian city provides the setting for Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew ?
Padua
Romeo visits what city in Romeo and Juliet so is the second city after Verona in the play?
Mantua
The Danish linguist Otto Jespersen coined which three-word term, which gives some explanation as to why many words in English differ in pronunciation from their spelling?
Great Vowel Shift
Which Holy Roman Emperor was painted on horseback by Titian following his victory at the 1547 Battle of Muhlberg?
Charles V
How was the city of Podgorica known between 1946 and 1992?
Titograd
What area of London gained notoriety for a series of poisionings which occurred in the 19th century? Julian Symons published a fictionalised account of the happenings in 1976
Blackheath
El Tigre island, the southernmost volcano of Honduras, lies within which Gulf?
Gulf of Fonseca
In Greek mythology which pair of lovers were drowned at sea and turned into birds after angering Zeus with their hubris?
Alcyone and Ceyx
In September 1814, after British forces burnt the White House during the War of 1812, which building served as the residence of United States president James Madison and first lady Dolley Madison? Like the White House, the Irishman James Hoban was also involved in the construction of this building
The Octagon House
In genetics, what word describes a functioning unit of DNA containing a cluster of genes under the control of a single promoter? For a long time these things were thought to exist solely in prokaryotes
Operons
Which Scottish investor, known for his work in physical optics, coined the term Kaleidoscope?
David BREWSTER
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK and the second tallest building in Europe outside of Russia. Who are the 95% owners of it? They also own the Hamad International airport amongst other things
State of QATAR
“The King Playing with the Queen”, “Petrified city” and “The Great Forest Keeper” are three of the most famous works by which German sculptor who lived from 1891 to 1976?
Max Ernst
What cape is situated at the Southern tip of Greenland? It marks the boundary between the Denmark Strait to the east and the Labrador Sea to the west
Cape Farewell
In Science, what word describes a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule?
Allelle
Which Austrian-British psychoanalyst suggested that pre-verbal existential anxiety in infancy catalysed the formation of the unconscious? Alexander McCall Smith makes extensive use of this woman’s theories in his 44 Scotland Street series.
Melanie Klein
Peter Cooper, James Baird Weaver and Benjamin Butler all represented which political party in the US Presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s? The party opposed a return to a bullion-based economy
The GREENBACK Party
Shimla served as the capital of British India from 1864 to 1939. In which modern day Indian state will you find the city of Shimla?
HIMACHAL PRADESH
Which Australian author burst onto the scene with her debut novel “Puberty Blues” in 1978? Her 2007 book “How to kill your husband” was made into an opera
Kathy LETTE
In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, how does Puck describe the six who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe? They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens
Rude Mechanicals
Which man produced the 1959 epic movie “Ben Hur”? His other hits as a producer included “Quo Vadis” and “Mogambo”
Sam Zimbalist
Taking a look at three of the most famous females to leave a mark on Chinese history, what was Jung Chang’s bestseller published in 2019?
BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER
What is the largest Norwegian settlement that lies within the Arctic Circle? The Nobel Prize winner Daniel Carleton Gajdusek died here
Tromso
Complete this poem by Wallace Steven: “If her horny feet protrude, they come, To show how cold she is, and dumb., Let the lamp affix its beam. The only emperor is the……….”?
Emperor of Ice Cream
Janet Philip, the school secretary at the LSE between 1920 and 1939, was the wife of which economist? She took a key role in producing and promoting his most famous work, which was published in 1942
William BEVERIDGE
“The Burial at Thebes” was a play by Seamus Heaney based on which fifth century BC tragedy?
ANTIGONE
Which city in the Shandong province of China was the birthplace of Confucius? The location of 3 UNESCO world heritage sites, it is now known by a 4-letter name
Qufu
What name is given to the natural phenomenon that occurs sporadically on the shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama where many species of crab and shrimp swarm in shallow coastal areas? It is said that local people can fill the back of a pick up truck a foot deep with crabs at these events
JUBILEE
A 1933 referendum saw 68% of voters in which Australian state vote in favour of seccession? The federal government rejected the idea
Western Australia
Following the establishment of the Empire of Japan, what War saw the Tokugawa loyalists fight on until their final defeat at the Battle of Hakodate in 1869? This war is sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War
BOSHIN war
What was the name of the aspiring actress who filed a paternity suit against Charlie Chaplin in the early 1940s? Blood tests indicated that Chaplin was not the father but he still lost the case and had to pay child support for many years
Joan BARRY
Which Roman General was the father of Agrippina the Younger? He was the nephew and heir apparent of Tiberius. He died in Antioch in AD 19
Germanicus
What hyphenated hypothesis is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ worldview or cognition, and thus individuals’ languages determine or influence their perceptions of the world? The name is a misnomer as the two men mentioned never co-authored any works and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
In Islamic architecture, what name is given to a type of projecting window enclosed by latticework on the upper floor of a building? They were originally designed to allow women to peer out onto the street whilst remaining invisible
mashrabiya
There are 39 place settings on Judy Chicago’s famous artwork “The Dinner Party”. Which of these women served as the regent of Mantua during the absence of her husband Francesco II Gonzaga and during the minority of her son Federico. Diplomat Niccolò da Correggio hailed her as “The First Lady of the world”
Isabella D’Este
Mostly consisting of low, flat coral atolls, the majority of the Caroline Islands form part of what nation?
Micronesia
Which American writer wrote the essay collection called “Men explain things to me”, the origin of the term “Mansplaining”?
Rebecca SOLNIT
In calculus, what food related name is given to the theorem regarding the limit of a function that is trapped between two other functions? It was formulated in modern terms by Carl Friedrich Gauss.
The SANDWICH theorem
Which Scottish publishing house, probably best known for pubishing “Life of Pi”, share their name with the stretch of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile from the end of the High Street down to Holyrood Abbey?
Canongate
Britain recognised the French Republic in which treaty of 1802? The treaty was named after the city which is the capital of the Somme department
Amiens
Away from the guillotine executions at Paris, which city on the River Loire was noted for drowning those suspected of Royalist sympathies during the Terror? 300 to 400 people were drowned at each of 7 to 11 events
Nantes
What name was given to the committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet of France during the Reign of Terror?
the COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
During the French Revolution which group campaigned for the end of the monarchy, but then resisted the spiraling momentum of the Revolution? This caused a conflict with the more radical Montagnards
Girondins
Which young woman murdered the French Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at his some in July 1793?
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday herself was executed in July 1793. As per the usual procedure her decapitated head was held up to show the crowd. What rather more unusual thing happened next?
Her FACE WAS SLAPPED by the executioner. Something he got in trouble for
The English author Thomas Paine started out as a supporter of the French Revolution however his objection to the beheading of Louis XVI led to a period in French Jail. Which future American President, an ambassador to France at the time, had to secure Paine’s release?
James Monroe
Which woman, the last chief mistress of Louis XV? She was executed on the suspicion of helping aristocrats flee the revolution
Madame du Barry
Times Square New York is formed by the junction of Broadway and two other streets. Please name either of those other streets.
SEVENTH AVENUE and FORTY SECOND STREET
What was the name of the German aviator who illegally flew into the USSR and landed a light aircraft near Moscow in 1987? His action helped end the Cold War as it allowed Gorbachev to dismiss officials who were against his reforms
Matthias RUST
Which Italian man, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture, is responsible for collonades around St Peter’s Square, Rome?
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Formally known as Plaza de la Constitución, what is the common name of the main square in Mexico city? It has been a gathering place for Mexicans since Aztec times
ZOCALO
What is the name of the sports shop which has been located at 25 Regent Street on Picadilly Circus since 1925?
LILLYWHITES
What is the name of the central square of Athens, which lies in front of the Greek Parliament? It has been the site of many political events over time
SYNTAGMA Square
Glynn Williams was the Sculptor of which British Prime Minister’s statue in Parliament Square, London?
David Lloyd George
In 1919, which square in the United Kingdom was occupied by tanks, with the local Police believing a Bolshevik Revolution was about to begin?
George Square
In which comic book did Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster’s creation “Superman” first appear in June 1938?
Action Comics
“Oh, Superman, where are you now, When everything’s gone wrong somehow? The men of steel, the men of power, Are losing control by the hour”. These are lyrics from which Genesis hit of 1986?
Land of Confusion
Klark Kent is a pseudonym used by which American drummer? As well as being part of an extremely successful US/ American trio of the late 70s/ early 80s he also provided the music for the movie “Wall Street”
Stewart Copeland
In the Black Lace novelty song “Superman”, what instruction always comes immediately before “Superman”?
Wave Your Hands
Which man, born 1965, starred alongside Charlie Sheen in both the movie “Hot Shots” and the TV series “Two and a half men”? He was also Lex Luthor’s nephew in Superman IV
Jon Cryer
In Superman media, what is the name of Lois Lane’s younger sister?
Lucy
In the Godfather part 2 Michael and Fredo Corleone attend a sex show with an act called “Superman”. This all takes place in the run up to the tumultuous events on New Year’s Eve 1958 in which country?
Cuba
“Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit” and the unfinished Double Exposure are among the prose works of which poet?
Sylvia Plath
“Is Superman ______?” (11) won the Diagram Prize for oddest book title in 2021. What word fills the blank? This would certainly be the case for someone who had taken part in the Brit milah ceremony
Circumcised
Max Verstappen gets all the headlines but who is his Red Bull-Honda driving partner in the 2024 F1 season?
Sergio Perez
Racing for Haas, who is the only German F1 driver in the 2024 season? Back in 2015 he won the 24 hours Le Mans race at his first attempt
Nico Hulkenberg
Which Australian/ Italian F1 driver is nicknamed “The Honey Badger”?
Daniel Ricciardo
All teams in the 2024 F1 Season compete on tyres provided by which company?
Pirelli
In 2024 the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix takes place at what course?
Imola
Which Australian man, born 2001, is the youngest driver in the 2024 F1 season? He drives for McLaren
Oscar Piastri
What two-word French term means a secure area at a motor racing circuit where the cars are kept at some times during a race meeting?
Parc Ferme
What name was given to the Public Inquiry which began in 2011 and which looked into the conduct of the British press and in particular into the News of the World phone hacking scandal?
Leveson Inquiry
Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry was set up to investigate a Northern Ireland political scandal which brought down the Government for a long period. By what rhyming name was this scandal ofter referred to?
Cash for Ash
Hugh Pennington, a Professor of Biology at the University of Aberdeen, has twice headed up inquiries into outbreaks of which rod-shaped coliform bacteria? An outbreak in Lanarkshire in 1996 killed 21 people
E-Coli
In 2013, the Home Office announced it was to hold an independent inquiry into the axe murder of which Private Investigator in a pub car park in London in 1987?
Daniel Morgan
What was the name of the British public inquiry which looked into the Iraq War? The head of the inquiry shared his surname with a former rugby player who played for Bath and England
CHILCOT Inquiry
Which green Italian condiment is made of chopped parsley, lemon zest, and garlic? It is often served with ossobuco alla milanese?
GREMOLATA
Typically served as a dip, which Egyptian condiment is a mixture of herbs, nuts (usually hazelnut), and spices?
DUQQA
What 5-letter word was the name of a fermented fish sauce that was used as a condiment in the cuisines of Phoenicia, ancient Greece, Rome,Carthage and later Byzantium?
GARUM
What savoury paste with a salty and slightly fishy taste was created in 1828 by an Englishman named John Osborn?
GENTLEMEN’S RELISH
Which condiment, popular throughout Yugoslavia since the end of the Second World War, is made principally from sweet bell peppers and eggplants?
AJVAR
What was the two word name of the silent movie which included the scene where Harold Lloyd seems to dangle dangerously from the arms of a clock?
Safety Last
Which swashbuckling silent movie actor hosted the first Oscars ceremony? Many years later it was revealed his son was the “Headless Man” in the Duchess of Argylle divorce case
Douglas FAIRBANKS
What hairstyle was popularised by the silent film star Louise Brooks?
The BOB
Actually Canadian, who was known as “America’s Sweetheart” during the silent film era?
Mary Pickford
Which silent film star, a mentor to the likes of Charlie Chaplin, saw his career falter when he was tried for the murder of a woman named Virginia Rappe? Although acquitted, his behaviour was regarded as an example of Hollywood’s poor morals
Fatty/Roscoe Arbuckle
In which silent movie of 1921 did Rudolph Valentino play a character called Ahmen Ben Hassan?
The SHEIK
While performing in the 1916 Follies, which nineteen-year-old silent film actress met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, and became his mistress?
Marion DAVIES
For a short period between 1973 and 1975 Henry Kissinger was one of the only people to hold which two high-level positions in the US giovernment at the same time? Both required
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER and SECRETARY OF STATE
Which American author is famous as the biographer of Henry Kissinger, Elon Musk and, possibly most famously, Steve Jobs?
Walter ISAACSON
Henry Kissinger was originally favourable of the idea when which country wished to start their own nuclear programme in the early 1970s? Emilio Medici was the leader of this country at the time
Brazil
Lord Byron is mentioned alongside Sir Walter Scott in which 1817 novel, the last by Jane Austen?
Persuasion
Which woman, the spouse of a man who would later become British Prime Minister, had an affair with Lord Byron and became the first to call him “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know”?
Lady Caroline LAMB
Also the name of one of Byron’s most famous works, what was the name of the boat Percy Bysshe Shelley was sailing on when he drowned?
The DON JUAN
What was the name of Lord Byron’s sister who some people think he was incestuous with? This is also the name of the New England city which is the 3rd least populous state capital in the United States
Augusta
Much admired by Lord Byron, which Frenchman wrote the controversial 1791 novel “Justine”?
Marquis de Sade
In 1809 Lord Byron visited Albania in order to meet which man? Although a subject of the Ottoman Empire, this man ruled his territory with a very high degree of automony
ALI PASHA
Since 2006, the actress Amanda Peet has been married to which man? He was the co-creator of the Game of Thrones TV series alongside his collaborator D. B. Weiss
David BENIOFF
Including the name of a German city, what is the name of the musical duo formed by Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione?
Dresden Dolls
What is the first name of the character played by Amanda Seyfried in the musical movie “Mamma Mia”? This is also the first name of the Duchess of Edinburgh
Sophie
Eventually declared a wrongful conviction, Amanda Knox originally served 4 years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in which city?
PERUGIA
Which actress, first name Amanda, was Martin Freeman’s partner between 2000 and 2016? She quit the 2023 series of Strictly Come Dancing under controversial circumstances
Amanda ABBINGTON
Which woman, first name Amanda, was a co-presenter on “The Word” in the 1990s? In the same decade she was married to John Taylor of Duran Duran
Amanda DE CADANET
Which British business executive, first name Amanda, helped a Saudi consortium take over Newcastle United in October 2021?
Amanda STAVELEY
In Star Trek, which woman, first name Amanda, is the mother of Mr Spock?
Amanda GRAYSON
“Amanda Woodward “ from the popular 1990s TV series “Melrose Place”, is one of the most iconic characters from the show. Which actress played her? She was previously Sammy Jo Carrington in Dynasty
Heather LOCKLEAR
In the TV show called “Scarecrow and Mrs. King,” who played the suburban housewife Amanda King? Her biggest role was most probably as Sabrina in the late 1970s run of Charlie’s Angels
Kate JACKSON
Which German writer won the 2024 International Booker Prize for the translation of her 2021 novel Kairos?
Jenny ERPENBECK
What is the name of the horse that won the 2024 Preakness Stakes?
Seize the Grey
What is the name of the teenage Italian website designer who is set to become the first canonised millennial in the Roman Catholic Church? He documented Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions in a website he created before he died from leukemia.
Carlo ACUTIS
The phylum Ctenophora comprises the largest animals to swim with the help of cilia. They are commonly known by what name?
Comb Jellies
The Ems Ukaz was a secret decree issued in 1876 banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print except for reprinting old documents. It was issued by which Russian emperor?
Alexander II of Russia
Vaned and down are the two basic types of what epidermal growths on birds and some dinosaurs?
Feathers
In ancient Roman architecture, what do you call a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town’s forum?
Basilica
Families in Uvalde, Texas sued against which video game developer in May 2024 for promoting the DDM4 V7 gun through the game Call of Duty?
Activision Blizzard
What Japanese system of close combat was used to develop many modern martial arts such as judo, aikido, and sambo among others?
Jujutsu
German chemist Hermann Kolbe was the first to apply what term in a chemical context through his artificial gathering of acetic acid from carbon disulfide?
Synthesis
The Tower of Blue Horses and Blue Horse I were some of the notable works of which German painter who co-founded Der Blaue Reiter?
Franz Marc (killed at verdun)
The Narva flows into which two European countries?
Estonia and Russia
Menma is a condiment made from lacto-fermented bamboo shoots. A common topping for noodle soups, this condiment is originated from which Asian country?
Japan
In May 2024, Argentinian President Javier Milei labelled marketing expert Begoña Gómez corrupt, sparking a diplomatic crisis. Gómez is the wife of the prime minister of which country?
Spain
Actor Glen Powell portrayed which real-life astronaut in the 2016 film Hidden Figures?
John Glenn
Christine Baranski portrayed Diane Lockhart in what legal-political TV drama series from 2009 to 2016?
The Good Wife (spin off The Good Fight started in 2017)
English broadcaster, journalist and author. He has presented several national television series in the UK including Channel 4’s late-night entertainment show The Word and six series of ITV1 moral issues talk show It’s My Life.
Terry Christian
spacecraft developed and operated by China to support its crewed spaceflight program, China Manned Space Program. Its design resembles the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but it is larger in size. The first launch was on 19 November 1999 and the first crewed launch was on 15 October 2003.
Shenzhou
ROBOT WARS EXAMPLE CHAMPIONS ONLY CONNECT
Roadblock
Panic Attack
Chaos 2
Razer
Tornado
Typhoon 2
Apollo
Carbide
Eruption
Canadian indie pop duo formed in 1998 in Calgary, Alberta. The band is led by identical twin sisters surname Quin. Their most recent album, Crybaby, was released on October 21, 2022. Their memoir, High School, was released on September 24, 2019, and in the fall of 2022, the TV series based on the memoir was released on Amazon Freevee.
Tegan and Sara
Which philosopher (980-1037) of the Islamic Golden Age used the “floating man” or “flying
man” argument to prove the existence of the soul?
Avicenna / Ibn Sina
Gertrude Stein said that this Spanish-born artist was the only one who made Picasso feel
threatened and one of his important works is a 1912 Cubist portrait of Picasso. This artist
(1887-1927), born José Victoriano González-Pérez, moved to France at age 19 and adopted
what French-inspired name by which he is best known?
Juan Gris
Set in Ruritania, Rupert of Hentzau is the sequel of which novel?
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
This artwork was begun in 1993 but will only be completed in the year 3183. Started by
Manfred Laber, it can be visited in Wemding, Germany and consists of a number of 6.5
tonne concrete blocks. Every 10 years another block is added, until there are 120 of them.
What is the name of this work of art?
Time Pyramid
Son of Parvati and Shiva and brother of Ganesha, which Hindu god of war is often depicted
riding a peacock and is especially revered in Tamil Nadu, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Singapore?
KARTIKEYA
Tropical Modernism is a term applied to a style of architecture that arose in the 20thcentury in post-colonial Africa and Asia. Among the architects closely associated with this style is Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003), who trained in London but did most of his major projects in which South Asian country, including the Seema Malaka temple (1978) and the New Parliament Building (1982)?
Sri Lanka
What Swahili word meaning “familyhood” did Tanganyikan (and future Tanzanian
president) and noted political philosopher Julius K. Nyerere describe as “the basis of African
Socialism” in a 1962 text? The same word, defined as “cooperative economics”, is one of the
seven principles of the holiday of Kwanzaa.
Ujamaa
During Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, in the Shi’a Muslim community it
is customary to stage theatrical plays commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali
(Imam Husayn) in the 7th century CE. What is the name for these plays of mourning that
UNESCO lists as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Iran?
Ta’ziyeh
A beloved painter of the Australian landscape, Kevin Charles Hart (1928-2006) from Broken
Hill, New South Wales, is best known by what three-letter nickname that is said to refer to
his ingenuity and inventiveness?
PRO Hart
Tenjōname (The Ceiling Licker), shown here in a 1781 illustration by Toriyama Sekien, is one of the hundreds of spirits and demons found throughout Japanese mythology. Sometimes called Mononoke, Bakemono, Mamono, or Ayakashi, these “strange” and “suspicious” spirits are most often known collectively by what five-letter name?
Yokai
At the 2024 Venice Biennale, the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition was awarded to four Māori artists: Bridget Reweti, Erena Arapere-Baker, Sarah Hudson, and Terri Te Tau. By what name are they known when they collaborate as a group on large-scale installations?
Mataaho Collective
Shinto priest, philanthropist, student and teacher of Noh theatre, composer and
conductor of opera, author, visual artist, founder of the Japan-based International
Foundation for Arts and Culture and the Japanese Blind Golf Association, and the namesake
sponsor of an annual opera festival held at Sydney Harbour. What is the name of this man
(b. 1951)?
Haruhisa HANDA
Based on a thesis project he completed at McGill University in 1961, which IsraeliCanadian architect designed Habitat 67, a futuristic housing project that has become an architectural icon in the city of Montreal?
Moshe Safdie
An important artifact in the permanent collection of the Museum Ulm in Germany,
which 12-inch-tall (31 cm) part animal/part human figure carved from the tusk of a
mammoth was reconstructed from fragments found in a cave in Germany and is said to be
between 35,000 and 41,000 years old?
Lion Man
The Wynwood Art District, home to galleries, museums, and numerous street
artists, can be found in which US city?
Miami
What name, literally meaning “wind wall”, is given to Japanese folding screens,
made of paper or silk, that often show decorations or calligraphy that are used to separate
rooms in Japanese houses?
Byobu
Some people use tiny brushes to create art, but this American uses bulldozers.
What is the name of this American proponent of Land Art known for his mile long artwork
‘City’ and for the ‘Double Negative’ (1969)?
Michael Heizer
Through the use of handwritten tables of numbers and large groups of individual works in small frames, which German conceptual artist (1941-2009) was known for her mathematically inspired installations that visualise time in various contexts–such as her ‘Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983’ (Cultural History 1880–1983) (shown here) as well as 1970s
works ‘Ein Jahrhundert’ (A Century) and ‘Bismarckzeit’ (Bismarck era)?
Hanne DARBOVEN
Its fourth series premiered on Netflix in March 2024; which South African teen crime drama, set in Cape Town, follows Puleng, a high school student who suspects she has found her sister who was abducted as a baby?
Blood & Water
In 2010, which Romanian DJ and musician became the first of his country to feature in the
US Billboard Hot 100 and even topped the charts of the Dance Airplay with his hit ‘Stereo
Love’ in collaboration with Moldovan-Romanian singer Vika Jigulina?
Edward Maya
Serenay Sarikaya stars as Leyla Taylan, a lawyer who takes over the divorce case of the
famous third wife of entrepreneur Cem Murathan, in which Turkish TV series that is in the
Top 10 in 63 countries on Netflix (as of May 2024)?
Thank You Next
Performance of a 1961 orchestral tone poem composed by Jón Leifs (1899-1968) involves a
22-person percussion section, four sets of rocks hit with hammers, heavy metal chains, anvils, steel plates, sirens, and several dozen cannon shots to replicate the eruption of which volcano in southern Iceland?
Hekla
A collaboration with NPR that is broadcast on over 600 radio stations around the world and
as a free podcast, which three letters precede ‘Radio Hour’ in the name of the hour-long
weekly shows that each explore a theme through three to four related “talks”, plus interviewes and additional content hosted by Manoush Zomorodi since 2019?
TED
‘The Dice Man’ is a novel from 1971 by Luke Rhinehart in which the main character makes
all his decisions by rolling a dice, leading him to commit serious crimes. In 1984, a song based on this novel reached the top 10 in many hit parades. What is the title of this son gthat contains the lines, ‘The dice decide my fate, (…), In these trembling hands, My faith tells me to react, I don’t care, Maybe it’s unkind that I should change, A feeling that we share’?
Such a Shame (Talk Talk)
Which hard rock band from Los Angeles, with a rhyming name, formed by Randy Rhoads in
1973, one of the first Glam Metal bands, were especially known for their Slade cover ‘Cum
On Feel the Noize’?
Quiet Riot
What is the name of the drumming pattern that follows this left/right hand pattern: LRLL
RLRR LRLL RLRR?
paradiddle
Stu Phillips is a name you might not be familiar with, but he is a prolific musician who is
particularly associated with which TV producer, writing scores for his series including,
‘Knight Rider’, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’, and ‘Battlestar Galactica’?
Glen A Larson
It’s said that the construction of Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, was funded by rubber
company owners who wanted to lure Enrico Caruso to perform there. Although it’s not clear
whether Caruso ever graced its stage, Teatro Amazonas opened on 7 January 1897, with a
performance of which opera by Ponchielli about a Genoese nobleman in love with a singer?
La Gioconda
What is the one-word stage name of the South Korean singer with real name Kim Yoon-ho,
previously member of The Koxx, who topped many charts with his tropical housedance
track ‘Way Back Home’ in 2018? He shares his name with a character from the Wallace &
Gromit universe.
Shaun
In his native language his name is written ⴱⵓⵎⴱⵉⵏⵓ, but under what seven-letter name does this songwriter and guitarist from Niger, of Touareg descent, record albums like ‘Nomad’ that went to number one on the iTunes World Chart in 2013 and about whom the documentary ‘Agadez the Music and the Rebellion’ was made?
Bombino
Although the band stopped playing in 1999, they later acquired an international cult following largely because of internet discussion boards. Their album ‘Long Season’ is highly regarded as well as their live album ‘98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare’. Initially fronted by singer Shinji Sato which dub band is now regarded as an important part of the Japanese
rock canon?
Fishmans
‘Music Sounds Better With You’ (1998) was the biggest international hit for which French
house trio with vocalist Benjamin Diamond, DJ Alan Braxa and producer Thomas Bangalter?
The group shares its name with a single from 1927 from American musician Hoagy Carmichael.
Stardust
Ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as the 33rd best rock singer of all time, which
Argentinian musician (1959-2014), once vocalist of Soda Stereo, who was influenced by The
Beatles and The Police, is considered one of the most influential artists of Latin Rock?
Tributes after his death were played by Shakira, Roxette, Coldplay, U2 and many others
Gustavo Cerati
Born in Vietnam and spending her first months in an orphanage, who is this
actress? She starred in the TV series ‘High School Lover’ (2017), and ‘Boo, Bitch’ (2022), as
well as playing Jubilee in the X-Men universe?
Lana Condor
Created by German graphic designer Joerg Zuber, which virtual influencer was signed to Warner Bros in 2023, and became the first-ever digital popstar, launching her first single ‘Dominoes’ in the same year?
Noonoouri
In which science fiction drama-comedy series from 2021, Alan Tudyk plays the role
of an alien who after crashing his ship takes the form of Doctor Harry Vanderspeigle, and
learns the human ways, while trying to reconstruct a device to end all human life?
Resident Alien
Name of Wombat who is Alexandr Orlov’s Australian cousin in Compare the Meerkat?
Carl
The Opera ‘Calandro’ - by composer Giovanni Alberto Ristori - became the first Italian opera
performed in Russia when it was used for the musical festivities celebrating the coronation
of which Empress who ruled from 1730 to 1740? (First name is sufficient)
Anna
In 1862, the deadliest one-day battle in US military history occurred; in which US State was
the American Civil War Battle of Antietam (aka Battle of Sharpsburg) fought?
Maryland
Which US politician, best known for being the Senate leader for the Republican Party since
2007, a position in which he was successful in blocking many initiatives by Democratic
presidents including stalling the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland,
has announced his retirement from the Senate with effect from November 2024?
Addison “Mitch” McConnell
2 Which German admiral and head of military intelligence (Abwehr) was initially a supporter
of Adolf Hitler but turned against him around the the start of World War II, and started
committing acts of resistance and finally, after his arrest in 1944, was hanged in Flossenbürg
concentration camp in 1945?
Wilhelm Canaris
What double-barrelled surname was shared by brothers Miquel and Gaspar, Portuguese
explorers who both disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic at the turn of the 16th
century, Miguel while in search of his missing younger brother?
Corte-Real
The “Diaspora Jiosy Gasy” is a name linked to the belief or hypothesis that a significant
portion of the population of which African nation are descendants of a “lost tribe” of Israel?
Madagascar
The ‘Tabula Rogeriana’ atlas was commissioned by the Norman king of Sicily Roger II in
1138. It was a world map (northern hemisphere) in 70 parts made by which Arab
geographer who gave his atlas the snappy title ‘Kitāb Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq’
(“The Excursion of One Who is Eager to Traverse the Regions of the World”)?
Abū Abdallāh Muhammad ibn Muhammad AL-IDRISI
Formerly known as Ezochi, meaning land of “the Ezo” (“the barbarian”) which island -
colonised from the 16th-century onward - was only fully incorporated into the Japanese
state in 1869?
Hokkaido
The 18th-century saw the ‘Russian bear’ first having an influence over the North American
continent. On which island did Grigorii Shelikhov establish the first permanent Russian
outpost in Alaska, at Three Saints Bay, in 1784?
Kodiak Island
Following the fall of the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) and the
proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, which King of Spain was forced out
and lived the rest of his life in exile? Name and regnal number required.
Alfonso XIII
In February 2016, on the seabed off the coast of Italy, 47 ingots (weighing a total of 60kg)
were discovered that dated from the 6th century BC. They were an alloy of copper and zinc
(i.e. brass), an alloy which Plato, among others, associated with the ‘lost civilisation’ of
Atlantis. From the Greek for “mountain copper”, what name did Plato give to this once
highly valued metal that resembled gold?
Orichalcum
What name, after their (Cape Colony) South African-born leader Frederick (aka ‘Fritz’), is
given to the Nazi spy ring that had 33 members and which operated in the US until they
were arrested and tried in 1941? They were caught thanks to double-agent William Sebold.
Duquesne Spy Ring
Following the Belovezha Accords that effectively ended the USSR, which protocols were
agreed on 21 December 1991, formally establishing the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS)? The protocols, agreed by all former Soviet States except Georgia, Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia, are named after the city where they were signed.
Alma-ata Protocols
Marking the ‘Batepá Massacre’ of 3 February 1953 when hundreds of indigenous creoles
(“forros”), after refusing to do forced labour on cocoa plantations, were labelled ‘Communist
conspirators’ and murdered by Portuguese colonials. In which African country, an island
archipelago, is 3 February an annual federal observance called ‘Martyrs Day’?
Sao Tome & Principe
Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia (Türkiye/Turkey), its
megalithic structures feature distinctively decorated limestone T-shaped pillars - erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic age between 9,600 and 8,200 BCE - and may
represent the earliest known examples of monumental architecture. Translating as “Belly
Hill”, what is the name of this UNESCO World Heritage site?
Gobekli Tepe
She famously led a “Land March” in 1975 and is today remembered as ‘Te Whaea o
Te Motu’ (“The Mother of the Nation”). What was the name of this iconic Māori leader
(1895 - 1994)?
(Dame) Whina COOPER | born Hōhepine (Josephine) TE WAKE
What novel from 1930 about the chief of an airline in South America is next to ‘Le Petit
Prince’ (‘The Little Prince’) the most famous work of French writer Antoine de SaintExupéry?
Vol de Nuit / Night Flight
Due to be published in 2025, ‘The City’ is is intended to be a take on Dante’s ‘Divine
Comedy’ with a magical realism and sci-fi twist. With multiple points of view and
interlocking stories, this book will be structured in a similar way to the author’s 2013 novel
‘The Son’. ‘The City’ is the third novel by which US author, whose other two novels have
been adapted for television?
Philipp Meyer (American Rust and The Son)
A high school teacher decides to teach his students about autocracy and they soon begin
forming their own frighteningly fascist community in which 2008 German film directed by Dennis Gansel and inspired by a real teaching experiment done at a California high school in
the 1960s?
Die Welle/The Wave
Which story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1835, tells the tale of a Ukrainian Cossack
warrior (the title character) and his sons? Notable for its unflattering portrayals of Jewish
people and Polish people, a revised version of the story was released in 1842 making its
focus less Ukrainian and more Russian.
Taras Bulba
Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, which film–part
documentary, part fiction–directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, tells the
story of the repatriation of 26 stolen artefacts from France to a certain African nation? (The
former name of that nation is the title of the film.)
Dahomey
The 1884 novel ‘Á Rebours’ (in English ‘Against the Grain’ or ‘Against Nature’) is the bestknown work by which French author (1848-1907) whose explorations of the nature of
decadence had a strong influence on Oscar Wilde’s ‘A Picture of Dorian Gray’?
Joris-Karl Huysmans
“In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her
ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into
view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful ________”. Predating ‘Dracula’ by some
25 years, this is which novella by Victorian Irish writer of gothic tales J. Sheridan Le Fanu?
Carmilla
The Turkish film ‘Kuru Otlar Üstüne’ (‘About Dry Grasses’) premiered in 2023 at the Cannes
Film Festival where its star Merve Dizdar received the Best Actress award. It is the latest
movie by which Turkish director whose earlier film ‘Kis Uykusu’ (‘Winter Sleep’) won the
Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2014?
Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
Australian novelist Peter Carey won the 2001 Booker Prize (his second) for ‘The True History
of…’ what gang, which, despite its basis in fact, is a work of fiction?
The KELLY Gang
Taking its name from a certain three-wheeled vehicle, which New York-based “Buddhist
Review” that published its first issue in 1991 was created to present Buddhist perspectives
to a Western readership?
Tricycle
A graphic novel series written by British writer Si Spencer (1961-2021) and drawn by four
different artists involves detectives in 1890, 1940, 2014, and 2050 each investigating the
murder of the same man. What is the title of this series, first published in 2015 and
adapted for television by Netflix in 2023?
Bodies
Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize for his novel ‘Skugga-Baldur’ (‘The Blue
Fox’) the Icelandic author of ‘Moonstone’ and ‘CoDex 1962’–and sometime lyricist for Björk-
-publishes his works using what four-letter pen name?
Sjon
Francophone Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou won the 2006 Prix Renaudot for his surreal
novel about a Congolese village boy and his spiritual animal double. That novel’s title is
‘Mémoire de…’ or ‘Memoirs of…’ what animal?
Porcupine
Asked to name his Top 10 favourite books, Danish chef and restauranteur René Redzepi
included which novel by Karen Blixen that he says “makes you think about the impact
religion has had on the enjoyment of things, particularly food”? The story about a French
refugee living in a strict religious Danish community in the 19th-century was adapted for an Oscar-winning film in 1987.
Babette’s Feast
When Italian writer Grazia Deledda was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926, the
committee statement said “her idealistically inspired writings…picture the life on her native
island and with depth and sympathy”. To which island does this statement refer?
Sardinia
Who is this twin sister of Donald Duck, the mother of his nephews Huey, Dewey,
and Louie?
Della Duck
The first poetry published by an Aboriginal Australian poet is ‘We Are Going’, a 1964
work by which poet and political activist (1920-1993)? [NOTE: Your answer may be the
Aboriginal name by which she is best known today or the European name under which the
work was originally published.]
OODGEROO NOONUCCAL / Kath WALKER [Acc: OODGEROO]
Her YouTube reputedly changed the world of online video, reaching more than 11
million subscribers who watched her clumsily make cupcakes or eat hot peppers. Now at
age 23, she focusses on her ‘Anything Goes’ podcast, her coffee brand, and being a brand
ambassador for Louis Vuitton and other designers. (“[Coffee business] takes up 40% of my working time. Podcast is another 40%. And then the rest I spend on photo shoots.”). What is
her name?
Emma Chamberlain
[image] Which Greek actress (1929-2022) who was acclaimed for her roles in productions of
ancient Greek tragedies such as the 1961 film ‘Antigone’ and a 1980 stage performance of
‘The Bacchae’ (shown here) also starred in Hollywood movies such as ‘The Guns of
Navarone’ (1961), ‘Zorba the Greek’ (1964), and ‘Z’ (1969)?
Irene Papas
Derived from the sounds of its first six letters, what name was coined in the 19thcentury for the Runic alphabet used by Germanic people of Northern Europe beginning
around the year 100 AD?
FUTHARK
The Cuban-American journalist and TV personality shown here spent 10 years as
Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish-language edition of ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine before
producing and hosting a TV talk show that aired on Univision from 1989 to 2010. Her
surname is Saralegui, but most people know her by her first name. What is that name?
Cristina
Often described as a ‘walking sim’, which 2017 video game, developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive, centres on the title teenager who returns to her ancestral home to discover more about the mysterious deaths that befell members of her family?
What Remains of Edith Finch?
Named for a German mathematician born in 1853, what system of symbols is commonly used to represent the symmetry elements and operations in crystallography?
SCHOENFLIES Notation
Common amongst the working classes, which Vietnamese dish has a named that references the broken rice grains from which it is made? Grilled Pork Ribs and chopped scallions are used in this dish.
Com Tam
Another game described as a ‘walking sim’ is which 2016 video game, developed by Campo Santo, and published in collaboration with Panic, that follows a man named Henry, who has taken a job as a lookout in Shoshone National Forest, where he investigates a series of mysterious occurrences?
Firewatch
In Schoenflies notation, a molecule belonging to the C₁ point group has no symmetry elements except for 360 degree rotation. What does the C stand for in this context?
Cyclic
In contrast to Com Tam, which dish with origins in the Vietnamese royal court, consists of rice noodle, sliced beef and occasionally pork knuckles? This dish includes the name of a central Vietnamese city within it.
BUN BO HUE
Among the first games to be described as a ‘walking sim’ was which 2013 video game, developed and published by The Fullbright Company, which centres on a young woman named Katie Greenbriar who visits her family’s new home in Oregon only to find it deserted? This game received much praise, and an equal amount of online trolling, as a result of its LGBT themes.
GONE HOME
Prior to Snow’s work, it was widely held that cholera was caused by particles in the air. What name was given to this now superseded theory that held that many diseases, such as cholera and chlamydia, were caused by a noxious form of “bad air”?
Miasma
In Schoenflies notation, C is used to indicate proper rotation axes, while S is used to indicate improper rotation axes. What does the S stand for in this context?
Spiegel
Seeing a surge in popularity when Barack Obama ate them with Anthony Bourdain, which dish of grilled pork patties, served with herbs, salad and minced pork in a bowl of fish based broth is a speciality of the Old Quarter of Hanoi?
BUN CHA
The 2012 video game, Dear Esther, is often considered the first modern ‘walking sim’. The game was developed and published by The Chinese Room, who followed it up in 2015 with which spiritual successor, set in small English village whose inhabitants have all mysteriously disappeared?
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Forename Required, In the Hunger Games books/films - who is the compassionate cousin of Coriolanus Snow? She shares her name with an Asian river.
Tigris Snow
The flag of which British Overseas Territory features three dolphins on a shield along with the Union Jack, on a background of dark blue?
Anguilla
In 1957, the Pistons NBA moved to Detroit, from which location - it is the second most populous city of Indiana after Indianapolis?
Fort Wayne
(First Name required) In the first Hunger Games book/film - who is the head ‘gamemaker’ who is forced to commit suicide after letting Katniss and Peeta win? He shares his name with Roman philosopher.
Seneca Crane
Often coming in a range of different colours, including purple, which sticky rice is a common cheap breakfast item across Vietnam?
Xoi
In Schoenflies notation, letters are also used to refer to figures with certain symmetries. What does the letter D stand for in the context of notation such as Dₙ?
Dihedral
Perhaps of interest to quizzers, Mastermind Specialism is a song from which British band’s 2024 debut album This Could Be Texas?
English Teacher
Mark McCrindle is often credited with coining what term to describe the generation after Gen Z?
Generation ALPHA
Kylie Jenner’s Oscar de la Renta dress at the 2024 Met Gala was created to represent the statues in which English author’s dystopian short story The Gardens of Time?
JG BALLARD
Comedians Maisie Adam and Suzi Ruffell host which punningly-titled podcast about Women’s Super League football?
Big Kick Energy
Venerated as a folk saint in 13th century France, what type of animal was Saint Guinefort?
Dog
Which man is the current captain of the England Twenty Twenty cricket team?
Jos Buttler
coach of england odi team
Matthew Mott
Gus and Ben, a pair of hitmen, spend the duration of what one-room play in a basement waiting for detailing of their next assignment? At the play’s conclusion, Ben receives instructions from the title device that imply his job is to murder Gus.
The Dumb Waiter (Harold Pinter)
What word preceded Britney Spears name in a 2021 Samantha Stark documentary film, that brought widespread attention to the conservatorship that Jamie Spears held over Britney from 2008 to 2021?
Framing
Two couples - Alan and Annette, and Michael and Veronica - meet to discuss Alan’s son Ferdinand attacking Veronica’s son Bruno, only for the two couples to descend into pointless bickering - this is a summary of what one-room play by Yasmina Reza?
God of Carnage
David Croft also had a fruitful working relationship with what other screenwriter and actor, with whom he created Are You Being Served and ‘Allo ‘Allo?
Jeremy LLOYD
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum was among the many sitcoms written by David Croft and which other scriptwriter? Other shows the pair worked to create were Hi-de-Hi! And Dad’s Army.
Jimmy PERRY
First performed in 1995, what Sarah Kane play is set in a single, expensive hotel room? Journalist Ian brings a young woman named Cate back to the room, before an unnamed soldier arrived and the room itself is hit by a mortar strike, revealing the hotel is in a city in the midst of war.
Carnage
Which Iranian born American model was married to Britney Spears from 2022 to 2023? They divorced in 2023 citing irreconcilable differences.
Sam ASGHARI
In Greek mythology, which nymph promised Odysseus immortality if he would stay with her, but Odysseus preferred to return home after 7 years as her captive?
Calypso
Whose seven-volume book entitled “Birds of Australia” was the first comprehensive survey of the birds of Australia and included descriptions of 681 species?
John GOULD
Showing amazing longevity in Politics, which man served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and then again from 2011 to 2019?
Jerry BROWN
France-Albert Rene, known as “The Boss”, was the longest-serving President of which country? The curret President of this country is Wavel Ramkalawan
Seychelles
Following on from his win in a competition in 1964, the Australian man Stuart Devlin was best known for designing what? Bruce Rushin is also a noted designer of such things
COINS (Bruce Rushin designed the British £2 coin in 1997)
Which horrific event of March 1960 was photographed by a man named Ian Berry, who initially thought the police were firing blanks?
Sharpeville Massacre
Which figure from the second half of the 19th century was the most infamous leader of the political organisation known as Tammany Hall in New York? At the height of his influence he was the third largest landowner in the city
BOSS TWEED
“Sweet Dreams”, “Single Ladies” and “Halo” were all tracks from which Beyonce double album of 2008?
I am Sasha Fierce
What was the name of the Inn a few miles south of Brussels where Wellington and Von Blucher met after the Battle of Waterloo? In Prussia the Battle was named after this place
La Belle Alliance
With prize money of $20m AUD in 2023, which horse race ran at Randwick in Sydney is regarded as the richest horse race on turf?
The EVEREST
The canonical fines herbes of French haute cuisine comprise finely chopped parsley, chives, tarragon, and which other? ONLY CONNECT
Chervil
In the Ostwald process, the Platinum gauze used as a catalyst is usually alloyed with which silvery-white corrosion resistant transition metal in order to increase its strength?
Rhodium
US based economists of which school argued that macroeconomics had to be dynamic and based on how individuals and institutions make decisions under uncertainty? Many of those in this school were based in Universities near the Great Lakes
The FRESHWATER school
John Stuart, the 18th Century British Prime Minister attended which Dutch University? This is the second oldest University in that country after Ledien
Groningen
Which French King met with Henry VIII of England at the summit known as “The Field of the Cloth of Gold”?
Francis I
What is the only Non-European country to be a member of CERN research centre? They were admitted in 2013
Israel
Revealed at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, what was the name of Porsche’s first series production electric car?
TAYCAN
In “The Critique of Pure Reason” Immanuel Kant sought to determine the limits and scope of which branch of philosophy? Aristotle wrote one of the foundational texts of this discipline
Metaphysics
Which novel of 1927 explores the duality of human nature and the existential crisis of its protagonist, Harry Haller, as he navigates his inner conflict between his human side and his wild instincts?
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Which man, in his book “The End of History and the Last Man” (1992), argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and the free-market capitalism of the West may signal the end point of humanity’s social evolution?
Francis FUKUYAMA
Taken from her debut album, whose song “Sweet about me” was believed to be the most played track in the UK in 2009?
Gabriella CLIMI
The Kanmon Strait separates Honshu from which other major island of Japan?
Kyushu
strait between honshu and hokkaido
Tsugaru
Published in 2001 “If BLANK Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor” was the actor Bruce Campbell’s autobiography. Which word, referring to Campbell’s anatomy, fills the blank?
Chins
In the imperial system, how many chains make a furlong?
Ten
The Four Freedoms put forward in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 speech were Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear and Freedom from what else? ONLY CONNECT
Want
Known as the Vulgate, whose late 4th century translation of the Bible into Latin progressively became the accepted official version of the Bible in the Western Church?
Saint Jerome
The movies “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity” could both be slotted into which cinematic genre with a two-word alliterative name?
Found Footage
Essential for managing the sails, and typically shaped like an anvil or a letter “T”, what name is given to a fitting or a device on a ship that is used for securing ropes?
Cleat
What is the shared first name of Queen Victoria’s youngest son and the brother of Atticus Ross, who collaborates with him on many TV and film scores?
Leopold
The Sunburst flag is most closely associated with Nationalist groups in which country?
Ireland
“A man cannot step in the same river twice” is a saying attributed to which Ancient Greece philosopher?
HERACLITUS
There are 118 known elements now, but how many featured in Tom Lehrer’s 1959 “Elements song”? I’ll allow one either way
102
Largest of the Florida Keys
Key LARGO
Eventually defeated by the colonial militia, whose 1816 revolt was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history?
Bussa
What is the name of the escaped prisoner who serves as a red herring subplot in the Sherlock Holmes story “The Hound of the Baskervilles”?
Selden
Which sulfide mineral is the most important source for the metalloid antimony?
Stibnite
Elvis Presley won a Grammy Award in 1967 for his performance of which hymn, often found near the top of lists of the favourite hymn in the UK? His version began “Oh Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder”
How Great Thou Art
What name is given to the two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint, form the sides and roof of the neurocranium?
Parietals bones
What is the only state in the USA not to have a bicarmel legislature? The unusual replica of Stonehenge known as Carhenge can be found in this state
Nebraska
Used from antiquity until the 19th century, the pigment Vermillion was sourced from what red mineral?
Cinnabar
Conan the Barbarian was created when Robert E. Howard rewrote a story about what earlier, more introspective character?
KULL of Atlantis
Which Battle of 1859 is regarded as the last major battle in world history where all the armies were under the personal command of their monarchs?
Solferino
Which decade saw the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence, Perkin Warbeck making his claim to be the son of King Henry VII of England and Leonardo Da Vinci producing the first designs for a helicopter?
1490s
On February 27th 2015 which man’s last words were “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP “?
Leonard Nimoy
In the 1970s, which notable figure introduced Theresa May (nee Brazier) to her future husband Philip May?
Benazhir Bhutto
Martin Luther asserted that Pope’s were not infallible. For this Johann Eck said that Luther was just a new version of which reformer and heretic who had been burned at the stake in 1415?
Jan Hus
The staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. The short staff is entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings.
Caduceus
In Figure Skating, what spin is a spin on one leg while the free leg is extended backwards, parallel to the ice, and the upper body is bent forward? It’s basically an adaptation of the arabesque ballet pose in ice
The CAMEL spin
man named David Thompson died in office in 2010 whilst he was the Prime Minister of which country?
Barbados
At the time of writing Michelle Obama has written three published books. Name any of them? Subtitles not required
AMERICAN GROWN, BECOMING or THE LIGHT WE CARRY
What was the Operational name of the World War 2 Nazi plan to bring down the British economy by dropping counterfeit notes across the country?
BERNHARD
Sometimes also known as Post-Glacial rebound, what name is given to the process where land masses rise after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets?
ISOSTACY
What was the name of the 2017 Young Adult novel written by Angie Thomas in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant? It was made into a 2018 movie starring Regina King and Anthony Mackie amongst others
The Hate U Give
In Ancient Egyptian mythology, who was the God of the Earth? This figure was also regarded as the Father of Snakes and it was believed his laughter created earthquakes
Geb
Particularly popular in Haredi Judaism, what name is given to the ceremony of the first haircut? It usually occurs when a boy turns three year old
upsherin
Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, which American engineering company has developed a series of dynamic highly mobile robots, including one known as “BigDog”? Two word answer
Boston Dynamics
Alternatively known as the “Grog Mutiny”, how do we know the riot that took place at West Point around Christmas 1826? It was caused after a large amount of Whisky had been smuggled into the barracks for a Christmas party
Eggnog Mutiny
Paris St Germain football fans sing their song “City of Light” to the tune of which other song written by Roy Williamson in the 1960s?
Flower of Scotland
The song “Conquest of Paradise” was a hit across the world in 1992 for which man? It was lifted from the soundtrack of the movie 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
VANGELIS
What is Germany’s southwestern- and southernmost city with a population exceeding 100,000? The old town in the place is unique for its system of runnels called Bächle that run on the side and sometimes in the middle of almost all streets
Freiburg
Based in Kings Cross, London, the artificial intelligence research laboratory of Google is known by which 8-letter word?
DEEPMIND
Name and regnal number please of the King of Norway at time of his country’s invasion by the Nazis in 1940. He refused to abdicate during his exile in Britain
Haakon VII
Don’t Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and The Witches (1990) were all works by which English film director?
Nicolas ROEG
Seen often during the 2022 FIFA World Cup, what was the name of the football stadium located on the Doha waterfront which was constructed of multi-coloured shipping containers?
Stadium 974
Preceding the Edict of Milan by two years, what was the name of the first edict legalizing Christianity? It was named after the settlement which became Sofia
Edict of SERDICA
Which alliteratively named American atmospheric chemist, was the first to propose the CFC free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole?
Susan SOLOMON
The words “Papaya”, “Hammock”, “Manatee” and “Hurricane” are all derived from words in which language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America? It is one of the most geographically widespread language families in all of the Americas
ARAWAKan
Believed to be the first time that their expansion was permanently stopped, which battle of 1260 CE saw the Egyptian Mamluks defeat the Mongols?
Ayn Jalut
In coordination chemistry, what word refers to the number of donor groups in a given ligand that bind to the central metal atom in a coordination complex?
DENTICITY
Whose 1940 novel “Darkness at Noon” was ranked 8th on Modern Languages list of the top 100 english language novels of the 20th century?
Arthur KOESTLER
Who was the fourth and final wife of the Roman Emperor Caligula? She was assassinated alongside her husband in AD41
MILONIA (Caesonia)
With a name meaning “large amount of noodles”, what Valencian dish is similar to Paella, but with noodles instead of Rice? The pasta is sauteed in stock rather than boiled
Fideua
What word describes the ten primary avatars of Vishnu? The word itself means “Ten Incarnations”
DASHAVATARA
Docu “Ten Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel” is for which TV sitcom?
Friday Night Dinner
Which veteran British rock musician had #1 album with Fat Pop in May 2021?
Paul Weller
What, in West Yorkshire, is the UK’s tallest freestanding structure?
Emley Moor transmitting station (Arqiva Tower).
In Inuit religion, Nanook is the master of which animals?
Polar Bears
Which English queen grew up in Wulfhall?
Jane Seymour
Route Irish was a notorious journey in which city?
Baghdad (airport to Green Zone).
The Synod of Whitby in AD664 decided how to calculate what?
Date of Easter
Simpsons character killed off in April 2024
Larry” Dalrymple
What links: Thirteen-year brood XIX and seventeen-year XIII in 2024?
Emergence of periodical cicadas in the US.
What links: Delon; Hopper; Damon; Malkovich; Scott?
Played Tom Ripley
Purple Noon; The American Friend; The Talented Mr Ripley; Ripley’s Game; Ripley Netflix series.
An administrative error caused which town to lose its city status in 1998?
Rochester
Which cetacean has the largest mouth of any animal?
Bowhead Whale
Whose official residence is Bishopthorpe Palace?
Archbishop of York
Whose official residence is The Old Deanery?
Bishop of London
Which Bishop of Durham retired in February 2024?
Paul Butler
Jon Harvey regularly contests elections under what name?
Count Binface
The Squarial was used to receive whose TV programmes?
The BSB british satellite broadcasting
Which eye condition is named from the Greek for blue-green?
Glaucoma
What links: Asterix; Charles Dickens; Lenin; Dolly Parton; Harry Potter?
Theme parks/attractions named after them: France; Chatham; Cuba; Tennessee; Watford.
What links: Appalachian; Border; Cotswold; Molly; Rapper Sword; Stave?
Types of Morris Dancing
Female director who co-directed Captain Marvel?
Anna Boden
Female director who co-directed Frozen and Frozen 2?
Jennifer Lee (with Chris Buck)
American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has directed the feature films Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). For the film Monster, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Patty Jenkins
Slow in Welsh
Araf
England’s most capped footballer
Fara Williams
Which Football club in the East Midlands was formed following the merger of two teams in 1992, won promotion to the Football League in 2001 and reached the third tier before being relegated to the Conference in 2006 and folding in 2011?
Rushden and Diamonds
Which multinational company has its UK HQ near Gatwick Airport and manufacturing facilities in Halifax, Wisbech, Buxton and York?
Nestle
In which Liverpool street was the original Cavern Club?
Mathew Street
The mineral Blue John is only found near which town in the Peak District?
Castleton
For the last eleven years of his life, Rudolf Hess was the only prisoner left in Spandau Prison after two other prisoners were released in 1966. Name
either of those prisoners.
ALBERT SPEER or BALDUR VON SCHIRACH
What was the forename of Captain Boycott, the land agent in Ireland whose ostracism led to the coining of the word Boycott?
Charles
The northernmost point of the 48 contiguous states of the USA, and the only bit above the 49th Parallel, is actually an exclave surrounded by Canadian territory, and is part of which US state?
Minnesota
In May 2024, which became the third US state, after South Carolina and Georgia, to introduce a 6 week limit on abortions, in some ways equivalent to a complete ban?
Florida
Which card game is supposed to be so named because a hand of the ace of spades and either the Jack of Clubs or Jack of Spades received a bonus from the banker?
Blackjack
The BBC Police series Blue Lights is set in and around which city?
Belfast
The main character in which George Bernard Shaw play is a member of the Salvation Army?
Major Barbara
In England in 1939, Australia and New Zealand until 1978-79 and in South Africa till 1957-58, how many balls were bowled in an over in Test Cricket?
Eight
Future members of the Goodies and Monty Python both featured in which BBC Radio comedy show of the 1960s?
I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again
Now the capital city of an independent country, one of the former Yugoslavian Republics, which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1963?
Skopje
Which Football club in Yorkshire was founded in 1879 and eventually gained Football League status in 1987 before losing it again twelve years later, folding name, and is now in National League North.
Scarborough FC
Now demolished, which stadium was built for the 1991 Youth Olympics in
Sheffield?
Don Valley
Which multinational company has its international HQ in London and manufacturing facilities in Gloucester, Norwich and Trafford Park?
Unilever
Which freshwater fish is traditionally eaten throughout much of Central Europe as the main course of the Christmas Eve dinner?
Carp
Sting’s song Englishman In New York is about which eccentric English gay icon?
Quentin Crisp
In the UK, the mineral Jet is only found near which coastal town?
Whitby
In the cricket competition known as The Hundred, bowlers do not bowl six ball overs, instead bowl either five or ten balls in succession. A series of five balls is known by what name?
A Set
Lofthouse’s, the makers of Fisherman’s Friend, were founded in 1865 by James Lofthouse in which Lancashire town?
Fleetwood
Libya was a colony of which European country between 1912 and the end
of the Second World War
Italy
What word do Americans use for what we would call a handbag?
Purse
Future members of Monty Python appeared with David Jason and the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band on which 1960s TV comedy show?
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Mentioned in a song by Dire Straits, in which seaside resort is there a
permanent funfair called the Spanish City?
Whitley Bay
Tiraspol is the capital of which partially-recognised state on the border between Moldova and Ukraine?
Transnistria
Ranked within Pitchfork’s top 10 albums of the 1980s, Disintegration was a 1989 album by which English band?
The Cure
Voiced by Carrie Fisher, what was the name of Peter Griffin’s boss at the Pawtucket Brewery in the animated show Family Guy? This character died after going swimming less than 20 minutes after she had eaten. First name only required.
Angela
Making the top 10 1980s albums from Pitchfork, which band had album Daydream Nation?
Sonic Youth
Concerning the lives of four generations of the Trueba [true-EH-ba] family, The House of the Spirits is a 1982 novel by which Chilean author?
Isabel ALLENDE
Which French word did the sociologist Émile Durkheim popularise for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behaviour has become ineffective?
Anomie
Acclaimed as one of the best video games of 2023, in which game do players control a novelist, who has to escape an alternate dimension by writing a horror story involving an FBI agent named Saga Anderson?
ALAN WAKE 2
Which influential basketball player, who was the first overall pick in the 2008 WNBA draft, recently retired from the sport after winning championships with the Los Angeles Sparks, Chicago Sky and Las Vegas Aces, and will continue her
career as a broadcaster?
Candace Parker
Literally meaning “strange beast”, what Japanese word is used for the name of a genre of science fiction film involving giant monsters and may also refer to the monsters themselves?
Kaiju
What name of Cantonese origin is given to the fruit of the Citrus japonica tree that resembles a small orange, and is often eaten whole?
Kumquat
Acclaimed as one of the best games of 2023, in which video game do players control a protagonist who has a music player embedded in his chest as he fights an evil corporation?
Hi-Fi Rush
Which German physicist coined the term ‘black body radiation’ in 1860? This resulted in his namesake law of thermal radiation.
Gustav Kirchhoff
Ranked within Pitchfork’s top 10 albums of the 1980s, Remain in Light was a 1980 album by which American band?
Talking Heads
Until he is killed after being struck with a baseball, who is the owner and bartender of The Drunken Clam in the animated show Family Guy? First name only required.
Horace
Stepanakert is the capital of which partially-recognised state within the territory of Azerbaijan?
NAGORNO-KARABAKH
(or ARTSAKH)
Closely resembling a sudachi or clementine but instead with a thicker yellow skin, which aromatic citrus fruit of East Asian origin is thought to be a hybrid of the mandarin orange and the ichang papeda?
Yuzu
Which basketball trailblazer, who was the first woman to be hired as an assistant coach in the NBA after joining the San Antonio Spurs’ staff in 2014, has coached the Las Vegas Aces to back-to-back WNBA titles in 2022 and 2023?
Becky Hammon
Which streaming platform, film production and film distribution company with a four-letter name, typically associated with world and independent cinema, has recently distributed films including Aftersun and Priscilla in the UK?
MUBI
Which 790-kilometre river forms much of the border between China and North Korea?
YALU
Which puzzle range from company Jumbo games involves assembling a jigsaw that does not resemble the picture on the box, instead requiring puzzlers to imagine a scene from another perspective or at another time?
WASGIJ
Pop Group Hear’Say were formed on the TV show Pop Stars and had a UK number 1 in 2001 with ‘Pure and Simple’. What was the name of their second single which also reached number one in 2001?
The Way To Your Love
Paid in Full 1980s album who?
Eric B & Rakim
the second and final studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, released on 18 July 1980 by Factory Records, two months after Ian Curtis suicide
Closer
the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979, by Factory Records, cover designed by Peter Saville using data plot of signals from a pulsar
Unknown Pleasures
the second studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989, by Capitol Records
Paul’s Boutique
Debut album of The Beastie Boys
Licensed to Ill
the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981.[3] It was accompanied by four singles, including a double A-side UK no. 1 featuring “Computer Love”.
Computer World
German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969. On 12 May 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Ralf Hutter
the second studio album by the English rock band New Order, released on 2 May 1983 by Factory Records. The album features more electronic tracks than their 1981 debut Movement, with heavier use of synthesisers. The cover is a reproduction of the painting A Basket of Roses by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, which is part of the National Gallery’s permanent collection in London designed by Peter Saville.
Power, Corruption & Lies
Criminal Minded is the debut studio album by which hip-hop group, released on March 3, 1987 by B-Boy Records? It is considered a highly influential hip hop album and one of the first in the gangsta rap genre.
Boogie Down Productions
the debut studio album by the American hip hop group De La Soul, released on February 6, 1989, by Tommy Boy Records.
Three Feet High and Rising
the debut studio album by American performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. It was the first of a seven-album deal Anderson signed with Warner Bros. Records. Had song O Superman.
Big Science
Spirit of Eden is the fourth studio album by which English band, released in 1988 on Parlophone Records. The songs were written by singer Mark Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene and the album was compiled from a lengthy recording process at London’s Wessex Studios between 1987 and 1988.
Talk Talk
Treasure is the third studio album by which Scottish alternative rock band, released on 12 November 1984 by 4AD. vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bass guitarist Simon Raymonde. Name originates from old name for a Simple Minds song.
Cocteau Twins
English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Notable musicians who have performed in band include Lemmy, Ginger Baker, Robert Calvert, Nik Turner and Huw Lloyd-Langton, but the band are most closely associated with their singer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Brock, who founded the band and is the only remaining original member. best known for the song “Silver Machine”, which became a number-three UK hit single in 1972, and they had further chart singles with “Urban Guerrilla” (another top 40 hit) and “Shot Down in the Night”
Hawkwind
Finnish rock band formed in 1979. They were the first Finnish band to chart in the UK and they were also popular in Japan. By 1984, the band was considered to be on the verge of an international breakthrough when they released their first major label album for CBS and headed for their first US tour. The tour was however cut short when their drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley died in a drunk driving incident with Vince Neil behind the wheel in December 1984.
Hanoi Rocks
English electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The group consists of Scottish lead singer Helen Marnie (lead vocals, synthesizers), Mira Aroyo (vocals, synthesizers), and Daniel Hunt (synthesizers, guitar, vocals). Name taken from Roxy Music song.
Ladytron
David Byron was the original lead singer of which English rock band formed in 1969? Their current lineup consists of guitarist Mick Box, keyboardist Phil Lanzon, lead vocalist Bernie Shaw, drummer Russell Gilbrook.their best-known songs include “Gypsy”, “Easy Livin’”, “The Wizard”, “Sweet Lorraine”, and “Stealin’. Named for literary character.
Uriah Heep
American glam metal band formed in 1983 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The most successful incarnation of the band consists of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bret Michaels, drummer Rikki Rockett, lead guitarist C.C. DeVille, and bassist Bobby Dall.
Poison
German music band formed in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing, and drummer Gustav Schäfer. band released their first German-language album, Schrei in 2005, In 2007, the band released their second German-language album, Zimmer 483, and their first English-language album, Scream.
Tokio Hotel
Band takes name from a line in the book Prisoners of Pain by American psychologist Arthur Janov. Much of the band’s early material is influenced by Janov’s writings
Tears for Fears
Reign in Blood is the third studio album by which American thrash metal band, released on October 7, 1986? Lead singer Tom Araya.
Slayer
debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies 1988
Surfer Rosa
Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid, who are the two founders and only consistent members of the band since its formation. Psychocandy is the debut studio album.
Jesus and Mary Chain
the debut album by Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, released on 5 October 1987 by Ensign and Chrysalis Records.
The Lion and the Cobra
an Irish-English alternative rock band formed in Dublin in 1983 and consisting since 1987 of founding members Kevin Shields (vocals, guitar, sampler) and Colm Ó Cíosóig (drums, sampler), with Bilinda Butcher (vocals, guitar) and Debbie Googe (bass). Often cited as a pioneering act in the shoegaze genre. albums Isn’t Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) .
My Bloody Valentine
American punk rock band formed in Saint Paul, in 1979. The band’s continuous members were guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart. They first gained notability as a hardcore punk band, and later crossed over into alternative rock. The band issued their debut studio album Everything Falls Apart on Reflex Records in 1983 and subsequently released three LPs and an EP on the independent label SST Records, including the critically acclaimed Zen Arcade in 1984.
Husker Du
My Bloody Valentine 1991 album voted #1 90s album by Pitchfork
Loveless
1993 debut studio album, Exile in Guyville, was released to acclaim; it has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. She followed this with her second album, Whip-Smart (1994), which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and Whitechocolatespaceegg (1998).
Liz Phair
Homogenic was the third studio album of which singer? Released in 1997.
Bjork
Who released the album The Velvet Rope in 1997?
Janet Jackson
Who released album Live Through This (1994)?
Hole
Who released album The Low End Theory (1991)?
A Tribe Called Quest
Who released album One in a Million (1996)?
AALIYAH Haughton
Who released album Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)?
Cocteau Twins
Who released their second album When the Pawn… (1999)?
Fiona Apple
First came Tigermilk, a quietly profound debut recorded as a school project. If You’re Feeling Sinister arrived a few months later (1996 album).
Belle and Sebastian
Black on Both Sides, his 1999 solo debut, was the Brooklyn rapper’s attempt to blend his thoughts on racism, dwindling resources, and all kinds of love to create a fluid and biting portrait of Black America on the edge of a new millenium.
Mos Def
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) released by which band with founder and singer Jeff Mangum?
Neutral Milk Hotel
British record label owned by Beggars Group. It was founded in London under the name Axis Records by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980 as an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records. such as Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Modern English, Dead Can Dance, Clan of Xymox, Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Watts-Russell’s own musical project This Mortal Coil. Pump Up The Volume by MARRS.
4AD
Hugh Town is the largest settlement on which British series of islands?
Scilly Isles
Largest and most populous island of the Isles of Scilly?
St Mary’s
Three down and out young men look for the meaning of life in a jukebox musical based on the music of which pop-punk band? In one scene set to this band’s song Holiday, one of the characters enlists in the US army before losing his leg in Iraq.
Green Day
Pete Davidson gets around a bit, between December of 2022 and September 2023, he courted which film and television actress, known for her roles in the drama series Generation and the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies?
Chase Sui WONDERS
Which New Zealand rugby player won Women’s Sevens Player of the Decade in 2020? The first female player to score 250 tries in the Sevens Series, she was also part of the gold medal team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Portia Woodman
English sports coach who is best known for coaching the Fiji sevens team to a gold medal in sevens rugby at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is currently Performance Director at EPL association football club Brentford.
Ben Ryan
Named for a Native American people and also the game being played in the advertisement, which British public information film depicts a group of children who die in a series of accidents while playing on a farm? The film warned against dangerous activities like swimming in slurry pits and drinking random chemicals.
APACHES
Which word was tacked on the end of ‘Nemesis’ when it reopened at Alton Towers earlier this year after a period of closure and re-theming in the surrounding area? The new name reflected the re-theming of the area.
Reborn
Based on a 1985 Larry Kramer play of the same name, Mark Ruffalo, Alfred Molina and Jim Parsons starred in which Emmy-winning 2014 television film which depicted the rise of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York?
The Normal Heart
Commedia dell’arte has four stock character types. Which character type, which has a name reminiscent of ‘silly’, includes servants and clowns including the Harlequin character?
Zanni (pronounced Zany)
Commedia dell’arte has four stock character types, which is self-styled captains, braggarts (Scaramuccia); can also be La Signora if a female?
Il Capitano
Commedia dell’arte has four stock character types, which young upper class lovers; who would have names such as Flavio and Isabella?
Innamorati
Commedia dell’arte has four stock character types, which is wealthy old men, masters; characters such as Pantalone and Il Dottore?
Vecchi
Commedia dell’arte has four stock character types: which is servants, clowns; characters such as Arlecchino (also known as Harlequin), Brighella, Scapino, Pulcinella and Pedrolino?
Zanni
New Zealand sheep shearer, who has won the New Zealand Golden Shears contest a record 16 times
David Fagan
In astrology, what sign of the zodiac rules the head?
Aries
Found among Western states such as Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado, which Native American group has a name which comes from the phrase ‘High Growing Grasses’? Sacagawea was a member of this tribe.
Shoshone
One of the nephews of the Hunnic ruler Rugila, which brother of Attila the Hun ruled jointly with him until his death in the year 445 CE? It is unknown how he died, though it is widely suspected that Attila - perhaps unsurprisingly - had him murdered.
BLEDA
It’s celebrity lothario Pete Davidson again. After breaking up with Chase Sui Wonders, Davidson began a relationship with which actress and model, known for her role in the sci-fi series Outer Banks and the murder mystery Glass Onion? At time of writing, they are still together.
Madelyn Cline
Described as a ‘rock ballet’, a series of characters enlist and serve in the Vietnam War in a jukebox musical set to the music of which soft-rock singer? In one scene, set to the song Goodnight Saigon, one character describes his traumatic memories of the conflict.
Billy Joel
Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire took which European city during a siege in the 15th century?
Constantinople
Awarded Women’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year in 2023, which New Zealand rugby player was part of the Kiwi Ferns and Newcastle Knights before joining the Blues for the Super Rugby Aupiki
season?
KATELYN VAHA’AKOLO
Donna Strickland, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, is known for her work in which
technique? In this process, ultrashort lasers are stretched out, and then compressed again, and different colour components of the light travel different distances.
CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION
Donald Pleasance voiced Death in which British public information film that warned children against
playing near open riverbanks or ponds? Pleasance, as the Grim Reaper, remarks in this film that ‘Only a fool would ignore’ a No Swimming sign.
LONELY WATER
Which Netflix true crime documentary series, debuting in 2015, follows the story of Steven Avery, a man exonerated 18 years after being convicted of the attempted murder of one person but then arrested and convicted a year after his release for the killing of another person, a photographer for Auto Trader magazine? The title questions how a person may be driven to kill someone
Making a Murderer
In chess notation, which letter is used to represent one piece taking another? It is the current name of a social media platform.
X
Another commedia dell’arte stock character type is which stock character type, a blustering and bragging older man? The name of this character type is similar to a military rank.
Il CAPITANO
The regent of Russia in the mid-late 17th century, which Russian noblewoman was the sister of Peter I and Ivan V who did most of the ruling and administration until her political downfall in 1689? First name is sufficient.
Sophia
Taking its title from Randy Shilts’ non-fiction book of the same name, Lily Tomlin, Matthew Modine and Ian McKellen starred in which Emmy-winning TV movie of 1993 that detailed the effects of AIDS in San Francisco?
And The Band Played On
In King Lear, what is the name of Lear’s eldest daughter?
Goneril
Complete the television advert to sell a particular box of chocolates: ‘And all because the Lady loves [BLANK BLANK]
Milk Tray
German death metal band named after The principal antagonist in Tolkien’s Silmarillion
Morgoth
While Dave Mustaine was traveling back to his home in the Bay Area on a bus after getting kicked out of his former band, Metallica, he would write lyrics on the back of a handbill to pass the time leading to the name of his new band being what?
Megadeth
Danish for “moonlight”, invented at random when Italian-Danish founding member Victoria De Angelis was asked by her fellow bandmembers to toss out some Danish words
Maneskin
Led by Mark KING, English jazz-funk band formed on the Isle of Wight in 1979. They had a number of UK and worldwide hits during the 1980s and 1990s.
Their highest-charting single in the UK was “Lessons in Love”, which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, upon its release in 1986.
Level 42
English poet and songwriter. He is best known as a co-founder and former lyricist of King Crimson. Their debut album In the Court of the Crimson King is considered one of the first and most influential progressive rock albums ever released. Born 1943.
Peter Sinfield
American rock band formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986. The band’s lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld. The band is known for its three Top 10 singles: “Hold My Hand” (1994), “Let Her Cry” (1994), and “Only Wanna Be with You” (1995).
HOOTIE and the BLOWFISH
Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen name means “horror” in Sindarin one of Tolkien’s constructed languages.
Gorgoroth
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), known professionally as what two word stage name, is an American singer, spoken word artist and political activist. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys.
Jello Biafra
American heavy metal band formed in late 1971 in Ventura, CA: Named after the “Pass of the Spider” in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Cirith Ungol
Carrie Preston plays an attorney turned eccentric detective in what CBS spinoff of both “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” that debuted in February 2024?
Elsbeth
What 2010s dance move, featuring one hand held in the air while your hips sway from side to side, derives its name from a character on the
1990s sitcom “Martin”?
NAE NAE
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, who won the silver medal in the allaround event in women’s artistic gymnastics, behind America’s Sunisa Lee? With nine career World Championship medals, she is the most decorated Brazilian gymnast in history
Rebeca ANDRADE
What is the last name of Cheryl and Reggie, the only sister/brother pair in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame?
Miller
Which large orchestral percussion instrument consists of a membrane stretched over a bowl usually made of copper? The drummer uses a pedal to change the tension on its membrane, creating different pitches.
Timpani/Kettledrum
What labor activist, born Mary G. Harris around 1837, was labeled “the most dangerous woman in America” for her ability to organize and
unionize workers and their families?
MOTHER Jones
Considering it to be her signature song, what vocalist released the 1963 feminist anthem “You Don’t Own Me” at age seventeen?
Lesley Gore
Consistently alternating some number of knits and purls in subsequent rows or rounds while knitting will result in a pattern of vertical lines that creates stretchiness in areas like cuffs or collars. What is this pattern called?
Ribbing
What 19th-century economist gives his name to the paradox where increased efficiency in resource usage can lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource? So more fuel-efficient cars lead to a higher demand for travel, leading to higher total gasoline usage.
William Stanley JEVONS
What lieutenant colonel co-commanded the forces at the Battle of the Alamo, leading the regular Texian army while Colonel Bowie (BOO-ee) led the volunteers?
William Barret TRAVIS
In this composer’s 1964 minimalist work “In C,” a pianist plays eighthnote Cs as metronome-like pulses. Around 35 performers play a first
measure in unison and then any of 53 phrases in any order as many times as they desire. Performances can take hours.
Terry RILEY
What state is the only one to have an official state crustacean, the blue crab?
MARYLAND
The Eclipse Series is a line of DVD box sets under the Criterion Collection that celebrates lost or forgotten films. The documentaries of which French director such as “Vive le Tour” and “Humain, Trop Humain” (U-MAN, tro U-MAN) are featured in Series 2? His bestknown documentary, “The Silent World,” was codirected with its star, Jacques Cousteau.
Louis MALLE
In “Charlotte’s Web,” what phrase is the first message that Charlotte
weaves as part of her plan to save Wilbur?
SOME PIG
Knitting every row of a flat project or alternating knit and purl rounds when knitting in the round creates what simple pattern with horizontal ridges, frequently used for scarves and blankets?
GARTER STITCH
Lesley Gore’s song “Judy’s Turn to Cry” is a sequel to which highest-charting song of hers? The singer now gets her revenge on Judy, who had previously embarrassed her.
IT’S MY PARTY
What is the last name of the basketball siblings Candace and Anthony? She recently retired as a two-time WNBA MVP and he was a Cavaliers shooting guard and is the current GM of the Orlando Magic.
PARKER
What second president of the Republic of Texas failed to get international recognition for an independent Texas? He did choose the location of the capital and made progress toward his goal of “total extinction or total expulsion” of Indigenous residents of the territory.
Mirabeau Buonaparte LAMAR
Space.com ranked what image with a three-word title as the best taken by the Hubble Space Telescope? It depicts finger-like projections in the Eagle Nebula where stars were being formed.
PILLARS OF CREATION
In “Charlotte’s Web,” when Charlotte needs new words for Wilbur, she enlists the help of what rat, who finds her the word “radiant” in a detergent ad?
TEMPLETON
A common breakfast omelet with ham, onions, and bell peppers is named for what U.S. city?
Denver Omelet
Debuting in February 2024, “The Ones Who Live” is the sixth spin-off series of what TV show?
THE WALKING DEAD
In 1995, after a good showing in the previous presidential election, Ross Perot founded what centrist political party, hoping to change the two-party norm? Its 2020 presidential candidate Rocky de la Fuente got only 0.06% of the popular vote.
REFORM Party
Criterion’s Eclipse Series # 14 features the films of which Italian director set during the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras, including “The Age of the Medici” and “Cartesius”? He depicted more recent history in “Rome, Open City.”
Roberto ROSSELLINI
What early 2010s dance move, featuring your shoulders shimmying while your hands move alternately through your hair, was taught to everyone by Cali Swag District’s debut single?
Teach Me How to DOUGIE
What state is the only one to have an official state flavor, maple?
VERMONT
What national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago creates differing pitches based on the size of the ovals pounded into its metal surface?
STEELDRUM
A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World along with Mother Jones, what man ran for president as a Socialist five times? During his last run, he was in prison for sedition after encouraging resistance to the World War I draft.
Eugene Victor DEBS
The economic paradox of value, or why diamonds cost more than water despite the necessity of water for life, can be explained by marginalism. This economic theory was developed by William Jevons and also separately by what 19th-century French economist, who gives his name to a law on economic equilibrium?
Leon WALRAS
Florence by Mills, a vegan and cruelty-free makeup brand, was launched by what celebrity in 2019?
Millie Bobby BROWN
What American author’s Grishaverse books were adapted by Netflix as “Shadow and Bone”? Her newer “Ninth House” and “Hell Bent” offer a dark magical version of Yale’s secret societies like Skull and Bones.
Leigh BARDUGO
What needlework technique is named for a palace museum in Florence where chairs display a flame motif? This embroidery is done with vertical stitches in multiple colors to create geometric patterns, and quilters also use the term.
BARGELLO
What Italian corporation is the world’s largest pasta producer? Its Italian-flag logo and patriotic tagline got it sued for misrepresentation because its U.S. pasta is made domestically.
BARILLA
Wayang from Indonesia and Sbek Thom (si-BECK Tom) from Cambodia are traditional art forms that use what specific performance technique for storytelling? Wayang can be accompanied by music from a gamelan orchestra.
Shadow Puppets
What music festival was first held in the Empire Polo Club in 1999? The event takes its name from the valley around Indio, where the Polo Club is based.
Coachella
According to a producer tag spoken by Future and made famous by “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1” by Kanye West, “If Young [WHAT WORD] don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you”? It is the first word in the producer’s two-word alias.
METRO Boomin (Leland Wayne)
“Autumn Leaves” and “Fly Me to the Moon” are jazz standards that use a chord progression based on what construct, which cyclically separates the twelve standard pitches by a specific interval?
Circle of Fifths
The Fort Peck, Crow, and Blackfeet Reservations are lands held by federally recognized tribes within what U.S. state?
Montana
A plaza in Lower Manhattan exhibits abstract steel sculptures by what artist, such as “Shadows and Flags”? She often spray-painted found objects and wooden pieces to create large wall sculptures like “Sky Cathedral.”
Louise NEVELSON
After playing final girl Nancy in the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” who started working behind the camera as make-up effects coordinator on movies like “Dawn of the Dead” and “The Cabin in the Woods”?
Heather LANGENKAMP
Meat Loaf performed what 1977 song in response to Elvis’s “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”? Now don’t be sad, because….
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
In regression analysis, what term from the Greek for “unequal scatter” refers to situations where the variance of the residuals is unequal over
a range of measured values? When running a regression, the presence of this property results in an unequal scatter of the residuals,
which implies that the population used may have unequal variance and may therefore invalidate the results of the analysis.
HETEROSCEDASTICITY
In the polyamorous community, what word is used for the partner of one’s partner? Like “polyamory,” the neologism is a blend of Greek and Latin roots.
Metamour
The Zelda and Mario video game franchises were originally created by what Japanese game designer?
Shigeru MIYAMOTO
“C’est moi (say mwa), c’est moi, I’m forced to admit” declared what knight and lover of Guinevere in the Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot,” when he asked himself where in the world is there in the world a man so extraordinaire to be a Knight of the Round Table?
Sir LANCELOT
What seven-word line is repeated twice after the lines “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep” to conclude “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost?
And miles to go before I sleep
The Rosebud, Crow Creek, and Pine Ridge Reservations are lands held by federally recognized tribes within what U.S. state?
South Dakota
Another live animal mascot is Thunder, a horse who shares the mascot job with costumed mascot named Miles in honor of the city nickname for which NFL team?
Denver Broncos
Which actor played final girl Jess in 1974’s “Black Christmas” six years after her most famous Shakesperean role? She would go on to play Mother Teresa and voice an older Talia al Ghul in the DC Animated Universe.
Olivia Hussey
What artist’s monochromatic “Group of Four Trees” is a short walk away from Louise Nevelson Plaza? This Frenchman coined the term “art brut” to refer to works made by untrained artists.
Jean DEBUFFET
The compositions “Countdown” and “Giant Steps” utilize what jazz musician’s namesake “changes,” in which successive chords differ by major thirds?
John COLTRANE
In the polyamorous community, what word is used for the joy or pleasure a person feels about their partner’s happiness with someone else? It is often contrasted with jealousy.
Compersion
Red seal ships stopped sailing after the Tokugawa Shogunate adopted an isolationist foreign policy that heavily limited external trade. Translating as “locked country”, what is this policy called?
SAKOKU
A later book by Charles W. Mills critiques the magnum opus of John Rawls for not mentioning Native Americans anywhere in its 560 pages? This book, “A Theory of [WHAT WORD],” was the basis for a musical co-written by current IDF spokesperson Eylon Levy.
JUSTICE
The Metal Gear franchise of video games was created by what Japanese game designer? Due to the popularity of the genre thanks to this series, he is often referred to as the father of stealth games.
Hideo KOJIMA
“NOT WITH A BANG BUT A
WHIMPER” is the end of the closing stanza of which TS Eliot poem?
The Hollow Men
The Bobo clown doll experiments were a classic example of testing what theory that posits new behaviors are acquired by observing, imitating, and modeling others’ behavior?
SOCIAL LEARNING Theory
Bamboo poles are used in the Filipino Tinikling and the Indian Cheraw, which are both forms of what general art form? Tinikling is often accompanied by music from a string ensemble called a rondalla.
Dance
What openly gay actor and playwright who won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play for “Torch Song Trilogy” also won Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in the original Broadway run of “Hairspray”?
Harvey Fierstein
The first Billboard #1 to feature the “If young Metro don’t trust you…” producer tag was what lead single off the 2017 album “Culture”? The tag can be faintly heard before its opening line “Rain drop, drop top.”
BAD AND BOUJEE (Migos)
What Native American language is widely spoken in Bolivia and Peru, where it shares official status along with Spanish and Quechua (KESH-wah)? It is Evo (AY-vo) Morales’s first language.
AYMARA
Danny Aiello recorded the response song “Papa Wants the Best for You” in 1986 shortly after appearing in the video for what song?
Papa Don’t Preach
What is the shared surname of English-born “Mother Ann,” who founded the Shakers, and Jarena, who was born free in New Jersey and became the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal church? In 1836, Jarena became the first African American woman to publish an autobiography.
LEE
In probability theory and statistics, what term from the Greek for “curved” refers to the measure of the “tailedness” of the probability
distribution of a real-valued random variable? A positive excess value of this means that the shape of the distribution has a “fatter tail” and a negative excess value of this means that it has a “thinner tail.”
KURTOSIS
Emily Wilson used the phrase “Tell me about a complicated man” to begin her 2018 translation of what Homeric epic poem? Its main character eventually returns home from the Trojan War to find his wife Penelope in Ithaca.
The Odyssey
Tui T. Sutherland is the writer of what series of children’s fantasy novels and graphic novels about dragons?
WINGS OF FIRE
In 1682, what woman published a widely sold account of her capture by and eventual ransom from Massachusetts Native Americans during
King Philip’s War?
Mary Rowlandson (also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God) is a 1682 memoir written by Mary (White) Rowlandson
Take a benzene molecule and replace a single hydrogen with a hydroxy group. You now have what six-letter compound?
PHENOL
What is the Swedish term, originally meaning “according to law”, that approximately means that just the right amount is enough? It’s often
used to describe satisfaction without gorging or hoarding, but also can be used to discourage strong personalities or exuberance.
LAGOM
In which fighting video game series would you find the siblings and archrivals Nina and Anna Williams? The first game was released by Namco in 1994 and in 2005 Nina starred in the spinoff game “Death by Degrees.”
TEKKEN
Ali Shaheed Muhammad was a founding member of which hip hop group from Queens? They released their debut album “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm” in 1990. Jay Dee or J Dilla joined Muhammad and Q-Tip, another Muslim member of this group, to create the music production collective The Ummah.
A Tribe Called Quest
One of the only people to receive a Golden Raspberry award in person, Sandra Bullock received the 2010 Worst Actress for which film attempting to be a romantic comedy? She won the Best Actress Oscar for “The Blind Side” that same year.
All About Steve
What is the common name of the animal that is the only member of the genus Ornithorhynchus? Its unusual appearance puzzled 18thcentury European naturalists so that some thought it was a hoax.
Duck BIlled Platypus
What Sanrio character, an apathetic and eternally tired egg yolk, is the subject of a 2022 Netflix series subtitled “An Eggcellent Adventure”? Its name comes from parts of the Japanese words for “lazy” and “egg.”
Gudetama
Which U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality? The controversial ruling led to segregation laws in the U.S. Southern states reemerging in the postReconstruction era.
Plessy v Ferguson
Divided into a “Before” and “After” section, which novel was John Green’s first? Miles is a teenager at boarding school trying to make sense of the universe while falling for the title girl whose death separates the two sections. She shares her name with a state.
Looking for Alaska
Which mountain is the highest peak in the Appalachian Mountain range? Cherokees named this mountain Attakulla. In English, it is named after a man who fell to his death at a nearby waterfall also named after him.
Mount Mitchell
With Jonathon Brown, what psychology professor at UCLA published the paper “Illusion and Well-Being,” one of the most cited papers in psychology? She is known for her research into popular illusions wherein people tend to view negative situations with optimism as a coping mechanism.
Shelley E Taylor
On November 5, 2020, the day when Georgia flipped in Joe Biden’s favor, Tumblr users were also excited when Supernatural seemingly confirmed a popular gay “ship” between Dean Winchester and what angel portrayed by Misha Collins? This character brought Dean back from Hell at the start of Season 4.
Castiel
Countee Cullen and Claude McKay are 20th-century poets associated
with what New York-based literary and cultural movement?
Harlem Renaissance
A breakout star of the 2024 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, which center led Oregon State to the Elite Eight before transferring to Oklahoma in the offseason? Her brothers Rocky and Rowdy play football at Florida International.
Raegan BEERS
Written by Dan Erickson, which 2022 series centers around a dystopian tech company known as Lumon? The series stars Britt Lower as a new employee of the Macrodata Refinement division who has no memory of who she is or how she got to Lumon.
SEVERANCE
One of the statues that was toppled in the wake of the death of George Floyd was the statue of George Washington by the artist Pompeo Coppini that was located in which American city? Sometimes called “the whitest big city in America,” it is the largest city in a state that banned Black residents from staying more than three years when it incorporated as a territory in 1848.
Portland, Oregon
David Garrick’s “The Country Girl” is a heavily bowdlerized version of what Restoration playwright’s “The Country Wife”?
William WYCHERLEY
Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Raphael Saadiq created supergroup Lucy Pearl with Dawn Robinson. She was a founding member of which R&B group of “Funky Divas” from Oakland who had hits like “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” and “Free Your Mind”?
EN VOGUE
One of the only people to receive a Golden Raspberry award in person, Alan Menken received the 1992 Worst Original Song for “High Times, Hard Times” from which kicky film? He won the Best Original Song Oscar for “A Whole New World” that same year.
NEWSIES
Which U.S. Supreme Court ruling held that laws banning interracial marriage violated Equal Protection? The decision ended all racebased restriction on marriage.
LOVING v Virginia
Another John Green novel has recently been made into a movie released on Max. In it, Aza is a teenager who learns to address her health-focused OCD while falling for a boy whose father is a missing billionaire. What phrase about infinite regress based on a misunderstanding of Hindu cosmology gives the work its title?
Turtles All the Way Down
Slide Mountain is the highest peak of what mountain range in the eastern U.S., a subrange of the Appalachians? Naturalist John Burroughs wrote about climbing Slide Mountain, located in the town of Shandaken
The CATSKILLS
What anthropomorphic red panda created by Sanrio vents her workplace frustrations by singing heavy metal karaoke in an animated Netflix series? Either the character’s name or the show’s title is acceptable.
AGGRETSUKO
Shelley E. Taylor worked with what other psychologist on the oftcited book “Social Cognition”? She developed ambivalent sexism
theory and provided testimony in the gender discrimination Supreme Court case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.
Susan FISKE
Which mononymous singer represented Alaska in NBC’s American Song Contest? She is best known for the songs “You Were Meant for Me” and “Foolish Games.”
JEWEL
In 1982, two countries in West Africa formed a loose confederation that lasted until 1989. The confederation was partly rooted in the Négritude philosophy of Léopold Senghor (sen-GORE), first president of Senegal. What country joined Senegal in this confederation?
GAMBIA
On September 8, 2022, the day Queen Elizabeth II passed away, nearly 250,000 Twitter users voted in the final of a poll crowning the best “Tumblr sexyman.” What character from the video game Undertale, the shorter and lazier of two skeleton brothers, triumphed over Mob Psycho 100’s Reigen Arataka?
SANS the Skeleton
What woman, the wife of a South Carolina senator, wrote a diary that described upper-class Confederate society during the American Civil War? An annotated version of her diary won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Mary Boykin CHESNUT
Take a benzene molecule and replace a single hydrogen with a methyl group. You now have what seven-letter compound?
TOLUENE
Coined by the Scandinavian writer Aksel Sandemose, what is the “law” from his fictional town that is similar to Tall Poppy Syndrome,
where a social group encourages conformity so you do not think that you are better than your peers?
Law of JANTE
The siblings Sophitia and Cassandra are characters in which weapon-based fighting game series? The first game was named for the cursed sword at the heart of its story, but subsequent games and the series itself carry the name of its benevolent counterpart.
SOULCALIBUR
What eldest brother of the acting Hemsworths hasn’t reached the stardom of his younger brothers but did appear in Neighbors and Westworld? First name required.
LUKE Hemsworth
What pseudonym was used by the poet and performance artist born Samuel Rosenstock in Romania who was one of the founders of the dada movement?
Tristan TZARA
psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, Productive Thinking, and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology. Born 1880 Prague.
Max Wertheimer
Born 1893 Berlin: German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. He coined the term “Gestalt therapy” to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura, in the 1940s and 1950s. Books: Ego, Hunger and Aggression, In and Out the Garbage Pail, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim.
Fritz Perls
American psychologist and one of the pioneers in the use of play therapy. She wrote the book Dibs in Search of Self. She was also the author of Play Therapy, published in 1947. Identified eight core principles of CCPT (child-centered play therapy).
Virginia Axline
Born 1923, Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence.
Alice Miller
English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. best known for his ideas on the true self and false self, the “good enough” parent, and borrowed from his second wife, Clare, arguably his chief professional collaborator, the notion of the transitional object. He wrote several books, including Playing and Reality.
Donald Winnicott
Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts. She was in succession the patient, then student, then colleague of Carl Gustav Jung, with whom she had an intimate relationship during 1908–1910, as is documented in their correspondence from the time and her diaries. She also met, corresponded, and had a collegial relationship with Sigmund Freud. She worked with and psychoanalysed Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. Killed in holocaust in 1942.
Sabina Spielrein
Which psychologist wrote The Fear of Freedom, Man for Himself and The Art of Loving and had well documented affair with Karen Horney in 1930s?
Erich Fromm
He was the most prolific author in the “ring” besides Freud himself, extending psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, creativity and The Double (“Doppelgänger”).Born 1884 Vieinna, book The Myth of the Birth of the Hero published in 1909. 1924 The Trauma of Birth.
Otto Rank
German word meaning ‘existence’. It is a fundamental concept in the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Heidegger uses the expression ____ to refer to the experience of being that is particular to human beings. Noun used by Kant for existence of any entity.
Dasein
German word meaning worldview is often wrongly attributed to Wilhelm von Humboldt, the founder of German ethnolinguistics.
Weltanschauung
Wangfujing Street is the most famous shopping street in which Chinese city?
Beijing
Cassandre Beaugrand, Vincent Luis, and Delphine Pelletier have all represented France in which multi-event sport?
Triathlon
In 1917, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Cornwallis was sunk by a German U-boat in which sea?
Mediterranean
Which Tina Turner song begins with the lines “When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll”?
River Deep Mountain High
Named after a bomber pilot during the Abyssinian War, Mario Mameli Airport is located on which Italian island?
Sardinia
Which Lakes poet wrote Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg (1835)?
William Wordsworth
Which French wine region is located in the areas surrounding the Gironde valley and the Dordogne and Garonne rivers?
Bordeaux
What season completes the title of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story ___ Dreams?
Winter
The jazz composer Harry South was famous for writing the theme tune to which 1970s police drama television series?
The Sweeney
The city of Livingstone is located in which African country?
Zambia
Which novel by Daphne du Maurier begins with the line “On December the third, the wind changed overnight, and it was winter”?
The Birds
Which horse was ridden by Walter Swinburn to victory in the 1981 Derby?
Shergar
Tolstojan, Calorian, and Mansurian are geological time periods on which planet?
Mercury
Which Italian artist painted the Venus of Urbino for the Duke of Urbino in 1538?
Titian
The Torres Islands are the northernmost island group of which South Pacific country?
Vanuatu
Which TV detective works under DSU Martin Schenck in London’s Serious and Serial Crime Unit?
Luther
The world’s northernmost vineyard, Lerkekåsa, is in which country?
Norway
What colour is the painted line that marks the route for runners of the London Marathon?
Blue
Which 14th-century Moroccan traveller wrote an account of his voyages in a book called the Rihla?
Ibn Battuta
Beatrice Gesso is the title character of which Oscar Wilde play?
The Duchess of Padua
In which Asian country can you get 100 poishas for every taka?
Bangladesh
Which area of South London completes the title of Nicholas Wright’s play about Van Gogh’s early life, Vincent in ___?
Brixton
Which country’s Women’s America’s Cup team is captained by Isabella Bertold?
Canada
Which was the first building to have more than 100 floors?
Empire State Building
Which presenter of BBC’s The Sky at Night programme produced a catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae and galaxies called the Caldwell catalogue?
Patrick Moore
What kind of radiation, named by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, consists of two protons and two neutrons bound together? It lacks 2 electrons which would make it a Helium atom.
Alpha Radiation
With the latin name Arctium lappa and seen below. Which weed’s roots can be eaten as vegetable or can be fermented with the roots of the dandelion to produce a beverage?
Burdock
Of the photoreceptive cells found in the retina of the Human eye, which found at the retina’s edges aid in peripheral vision are almost entirely responsible for night vision?
Rod Cells
Traditionally the main ingredient of mothballs. Which organic compound with the formula C10H8 has a structure of a fused pair of benzene rings?
Naphthalene
Discovered in 1934 still not well understood. What name is given to the emission of light produced from a gas bubble that is forced to collapse via sound. In nature Pistol and Mantis shrimps can create this phenomena by snapping their claws.
Sonoluminescence
From German for “braking radiation”, name for electromagnetic radiation produced by deceleration of a charged particle when deflected by another charged particle?
Bremsstrahlung
Introduced in 1930, the passenger train service Deccan Queen connects which two Indian cities?
Mumbai and Pune
Which fashion icon designed 250 custom shoes for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour?
Christian Louboutin
What is the title of the essay by Henry David Thoreau that articulates his arguments for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state?
Civil Disobedience
Which American artist has been transforming the inner cone of the Roden Crater into a massive naked-eye observatory?
James TURRELL
The Triumph of Achilles is an award-winning poetry collection by which Nobel laureate?
Louise Gluck
In 1411, Charles VI of France granted a monopoly for the ripening of what cheese to the people of a commune in the region of Occitania?
Roquefort
Which two African countries, both gained independence from France, became members of the Commonwealth of Nations in 2022?
Gabon and Togo
What do you call the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons and nuclei?
Nucleosynthesis
Inaugurated in 1967 and held every two years in France, what is the largest international exhibition for land and air-land defence and security?
Eurosatory
American racing driver, He won the 2023 and 2024 Indianapolis 500, and the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona, becoming the 16th driver to win both an Indy 500 and a 24 Hours of Daytona, as well as the first driver since Helio Castroneves to win the Indianapolis 500 two years in a row…
Josef Newgarden
Which British driver won Indy 500 in 2007, 2010 and 2012?
Dario Franchitti
Which British driver won Indy 500 in 2005 and 2011?
Dan Wheldon
What do you call the branch of medicine that focuses on diagnosing and managing disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs?
Rheumatology
Which South American country’s legislature approved a resolution banning bullfights within its territory in 2024?
Colombia
Which team won their third Indian Premier League title after defeating the Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2024?
Kolkata Knight Riders
In geology, what term refers to the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite?
Crust
Intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was apprehended in 1985 for spying for and providing top-secret US classified information to which country?
ISRAEL
The last imperial forum to be constructed in ancient Rome carries the name of which Roman emperor?
Trajan
Which Dorset born guitarist was a founder member of King Crimson and had a solo hit in 1975 with the single “I Believe in Father Christmas” which reached number two in the UK?
Greg Lake
What is the name of the Instagram video effect launched in 2015 which stitches together a burst of photos into a mini video that plays forwards and backwards?
Boomerang
Which five letter word might mean that an animal is robust, a narrow stretch of water between the mainland and an island, a characteristic style of popular music, or to use a line to ascertain the depth of the sea?
Sound
First used in combat in Vietnam in the 1970s, what four letter acronym is used to describe military parachuting which enables elite airborne units to jump undetected from an altitude of 30,000ft or higher, then freefall until deploying the chute at around 3,000ft?
HALO (High Altitude, Low Opening)
In snooker or pool, often known in the US as “English”, what term is generally used here for spin put on a cue ball by hitting it to the left or right of centre?
Side
Which is the first stroke swum in the 200-metre individual medley swimming race at The Olympics?
butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle
Broadly analogous to rugby sevens or T20 cricket, how many players play on each team in the shortened version of netball launched in 2008 under the name FastNet?
5 (Fast5)
In England, what is the minimum age at which you may volunteer to become a blood donor?
17
Although the Cycling Proficiency Scheme still exists in Northern Ireland, in England it was superseded in 2007 by the National Standard for Cycle Training, generally branded under which name?
Bikeability
In 1986, which franchise sandwich chain which now has about 700 outlets was founded at 75B Victoria Street, London, using branding purchased from the liquidator of a business of the same name at 58 Hampstead High Street?
Pret a Manger
An Italian fashion house founded in 1978 by Renzo Rosso, notable for denim, a spin-off brand called Black Gold and a line of fragrances called Loverdose
Diesel
Named after a French Minister of war, which French “line” of concrete fortifications was circumvented by invading German forces in 1940, when they routed their invasion through a weak point in Ardennes? (3)
Maginot Line
Which Italian composer’s best known Opera is the 1896 work Andrea Chenier, based on the life of a French poet who is spied on and executed during the French Revolution?
Giordano (Umberto)
Which eight year Chinese civil war from 755-763 CE was named after a rogue military chief of the Taiyuan commandery, who attempted to overthrow the Imperial Government with his rogue Yan dynasty? (2)
An Lushan Rebellion
______ ____/White Flower No.1 is a 1936 Georgia O’Keeffe oil painting sold to Walmart heiress Alice Walton for $44 405 000 in 2014. Sometimes known as Datura, devil’s trumpet or thornapple, what poisonous flowering plant (pictured) fills the blanks?
Jimson Weed
First described in 1672 by English physician Thomas Willis, which autoimmune Neurological condition is caused by neuromuscular junction blockage by autoantibodies to acetylcholine receptors? Typical features are double vision, head drop, muscle weakness and potentially fatal weakness of respiratory and swallowing muscles. (2)
myasthenia gravis
Choreographed initially for Stuttgart ballet but performed worldwide, which 1965 John Cranko ballet is based on a novel serialised from 1825-1832 by Alexander Pushkin, featuring a duel in which the title character kills his friend Lensky? (2)
Onegin
Which alkaloid-producing fungi of the genus Claviceps have been both a troublesome and hallucinogenic contaminant of cereal crops such as rye and the source of obstetric medicine used to augment uterine contraction and treat post-partum haemorrhage?
Ergot
Which Belarusian tennis player won the Australian Open women’s tennis championship twice, beating Maria Sharapova in 2012 and Li Na in 2013?
Victoria Azarenka
Name of YouTUber who was in London Mayoral campaign and also up for 11 constituencies in the 2024 General Election
Niko Omilana
Which Italian ballet master (1850-28) developed a strict ballet training method based on the Elementary, Theoretical and Practical treatise on the Art of the Dance by Carlo Blasis? His students Ninette de Valois, Marie Rambert, George Balanchine and Serge Lifar have perpetuated this rigorous method internationally.
Cecchetti (Enrico)
What surname links
a) The world record holder for the Women’s 100m Hurdles between 2016 and 2022, until her record was broken by the Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan
b) The 1996 Men’s Triple Jump Olympic champion, also the 1991 World Champion?
Harrison (Kendra and Kenny)
Founded in 1890, which Uddingston-based Scottish confectionery company is the producer of chocolate-coated soft meringue and biscuit “Teacakes” and caramel wafers?
Tunnocks
Birr Castle, the home of the largest telescope in the world from 1845-1914, is located in which Irish county of the Eastern and Midland region with its county town at Tullamore?
Offaly
Stronger than an Eau de Cologne which has two to four percent fragrance notes, what name is given to a fragrance strength which has five to fifteen percent of fragrance notes?
Eau de Toilette
The first and only woman so far to hold this position, and representing the Verkhovna Rada party, which co-leader of the Orange Revolution served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005 and then from 2007-2010?
Tymoshenko (Yulia)
Premiering in Los Angeles in August 1973 one month after Bruce Lee’s death, which classic martial arts film represented his final completed film appearance? (2)
Enter the Dragon
Formerly of the Carolina Panthers, which Quarterback was named the NFL most valuable player (MVP) and Offensive Player of the Year in 2015?
Cameron Newton
Which proponent of dairy-based beverages launched her music career with her debut album Kaleidoscope in 1998 and her culinary career with a range of sauces called Feast at the 2013 Beverly Hills Food and Wine festival? From 2006-2010 she trained as a saucier and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu.
KELIS Rogers
Which American physicist gives his name to a “series” of discrete Hydrogen spectrum lines corresponding to the emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Ultraviolet range when electrons revert to their lowest energy level?
Lyman
Which Lazio commune in the Alban Hills 12 miles south east of Rome gives its name to an Italian white wine, the DOC allowing a minimum of 70% Malvasia grapes and a maximum of 30% Trebbiano or Greco, with less than 10%-15% of other white wine grapes?
Frascati
With its rugged coastline and mountainous terrain, which autonomous community of Northwestern Spain has its capital at Oviedo but its largest city at Gijon? The name is part of the substantive title of the heir apparent to the Spanish Crown.
Asturias
Designed to steady an aircraft as it banks, which feature of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing was the subject of a fierce legal dispute between The Wright Brothers, who patented their design in 1906, and Glenn Curtiss?
Aileron
With a name meaning “giraffe-necked” in Somali, which long necked, succulent-loving antelopes with scent glands in their knees and hooves make a buzzing sound when alarmed and whistle when annoyed?
Gerenuk
Which borrowed German word is used to describe a substitute used for a given product, usually of an inferior or synthetic quality?
Ersatz
Which actress and Cotton Club singer was the first African-American film star to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her 1954 film Carmen Jones and also the first African American woman to appear on the cover of Life magazine the same year? She died in 1965, aged 42.
Dorothy Dandridge
Which modified apocrine glands of the ear, together with sebaceous glands that produce sweat, are responsible for the production of ear wax?
ceruminous glands
Of Norwegian descent, which graphic designer and video director founded Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell in 1968, creating the classic album artwork for The Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon, amongst many other iconic record sleeve designs?
Storm THORGERSON
Which 1970’s Philadelphia soul group had R&B hits with Stop, Look and Listen, You Are Everything, Break Up to Make Up and You Make Me Feel Brand New?
(The) Stylistics
Fought in the Pacific theatre, which decisive WW2 naval battle of October 23rd-26th 1944 was the first in which the Japanese forces employed Kamikaze pilots? It ultimately crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet,allowing US invasion of the Philippines.
Leyte Gulf
Which husband-and-wife psychologists (Hans and Sybil) developed an eponymous Personality Questionnaire in 1964, with the dimensions of Psychoticism, Extraversion and Neuroticism, whilst working at the Institute of Psychiatry in London?
Eysenck (Hans and Sybil)
Which American feminist poet’s works include the collection Diving into the Wreck (1973), for which she won a share (with Allen Ginsberg) of the 1974 National Book Award, choosing also to share it with Alice Walker and Audre Lorde and accepting it on behalf of women “whose voices have gone and still go unheard in a patriarchal world”?
Adrienne RICH
Which European river runs through Aranjuez and Toledo in Spain and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon?
Tagus
river of the north and northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain. It rises in Cantabria and flows 930 kilometres (580 mi), almost entirely in an east-southeast direction. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea, forming a delta in the Terres de l’Ebre region, in southern Catalonia. In the Iberian peninsula, it ranks second in length after the Tagus and second in discharge volume, and drainage basin, after the Douro. Longest river entirely in Spain.
Ebro
One of the seven Sages of Ancient Greece, which pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and scientist (624 BCE-546 BCE) believed that in its most fundamental form, all matter is water?
THales of Miletus
Which French “mother sauce” listed by Auguste Escoffier is prepared from a light stock, such as chicken or fish, thickened with a blond roux?
Veloute
Which Nottingham-based underwear and hosiery company, a division of Courtauld’s, produced the irridescent “Glossies” underwear range in the 1970’s and the Wonderbra , advertised in a notorious “Hello Boys” campaign fronted by Eva Herzigova?
Gossard
Which Danish city, the third largest in the country, is served by Hans Christian Andersen airport?
Odense
The second longest serving United States Attorney General between 1993 and 2001 was which woman appointed by Bill Clinton, the first woman to hold the role?
Janet RENO
Which Hungarian-American biochemist wrote an autobiography published in 2023 titled Breaking Through: My Life In Science, detailing her long struggle for scientific recognition of pioneering work on stable synthetic messenger RNA , culminating in a COVID vaccine and a Nobel Prize in Physiology?
Katalin KARIKO
What name is given to a component in an electrical circuit for which a large change in resistance is caused by a small change in temperature, acting as a temperature-sensing element? Negative temperature co-efficient (NTC) and Positive Temperature Coeffficent (PTC) types exist.
Thermistor
What links
a) a three wheeled car model (pictured) made by the now-defunct British car manufacturer Reliant, which superseded the Robin in 1982.
b) the oldest bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, built between 1588 and 1591.
RIALTO
Which French jeweller and luxury glassmaker began making decorative perfume bottles for Coty in Paris in 1907?
LALIQUE
Created by Masashi Kishimoto in 1999, which best-selling Manga series features a young Konohagakure “Team 7” Ninja warrior who hosts a powerful Nine-tailed fox, Kurama, within his body?
NARUTO
Making Drake the first male artist to have three US Billboard top 100 singles debuting in the top three, which song named for a social media influencer and hip hop dancer sparked a Tik Tok dance craze in April 2020?
TOOSIE SLIDE
Named after the sister ( who was also the wife) of the Titan Oceanus, which prehistoric ocean of the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic era was the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and Eurasian Inland seas such as the Black and Caspian Seas?
Tethys Ocean
Who in ancient greek mythology was the wife of Nereus?
Doris
Scooping eight Tony awards in 2007, the musical Spring Awakening was based on an 1891 play written by which German playwright? His representation of the tragic consequences of adolescent sexual experimentation set against the strict mores of the time led to his play being banned or censored?
Frank Wedekind
At the age of 22 years and 15 days, which right arm fast bowler known for his high speed reverse swing became Pakistan’s youngest ever Test cricket captain against Zimbabwe in December 1993?
Waqar YOUNIS
Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary film Paris is Burning chronicled the Latino and African American gay and transgender ballroom scene, where participants performed competitively in which then-nascent dance form, based on exaggerated poses of photoshoot models, with elements judged including catwalks, duckwalks, floor work, spins, dips and hands?
Vogueing
Originally called “The Iveys” after a street in Swansea, Wales. Once the band was signed to Apple Records by The Beatles the band took the opportunity to change their name to a name inspired by the working title of The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends”..
Bad Finger
Band Belle & Sebastian name from French children’s book by which author?
Cecile Aubry
English punk rock band that singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto formed in Bolton in 1976. The group released their biggest hit “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” in 1978.
Buzzcocks
The Japanese weapon, the fukiya, was what type of weapon, typically used by a ninja?
Blow Gun or Blow Pipe
Based on the Russian song “Dorogoi Dlinnoyu”, Those Were The Days was a single that spent six weeks at number one in the UK charts in 1968 for which Welsh female solo artist? This singer would also go on to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970.
Mary HOPKIN
The 2023 movie, A Tribe Called Judah, was produced and directed by its star, Funke Akindele. Akindele is a member of which West African ethnic group, which boasts over 50 million people?
Yoruba
Which Swedish author of Gosta Berling’s saga, published in 1891, was the first female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, doing so in 1909?
Selma Lagerlof
Which fishing based video game was released in 2023 by developers Black Salt Games and published by Team 17? The game features the playable character called the Fisherman, sailing to a coastal town of Great Marrow on a distant archipelago, encountering increasingly Lovecraftian creatures the further out he goes.
Dredge
In internet slang, what is the four-letter term, frequently used by beauty influencers, for lower-priced alternatives to a popular but more expensive brand?
Dupe
What is the name of the festival in Iran, celebrated as the Iranian or Persian New Year, which celebrates the first day of the solar year?
NOWRUZ
Meeting his end in Henry V, which Shakespearean character is famous for his bulbous nose? He was a member of Falstaff’s entourage and regularly appeared with his friends Pistol and Nym.
Bardolph
Which archaeological site in Turkey, whose name means “pot-belly hill”, was excavated by Klaus Schmidt between 1996 and 2014? It is the site of the world’s oldest known megaliths.
Göbekli Tepe
The site was first excavated by James Mellaart in 1958. He later led a team which further excavated there for four seasons between 1961 and 1965. a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC and flourished around 7000 BC.
Catalhoyuk
thickened glandular and non-segmented section of the body wall near the head in earthworms and leeches that secretes a viscid sac in which eggs are stored. It is located near the anterior end of the body, between the fourteenth and seventeenth segments. From latin for “packsaddle”.
Clitellum
Which French man discovered the element Iodine, although Gay-Lussac gave it its name 2 years later?
Bernard Courtois
Which East Coast basketball team featured the 2nd tallest player ever and the smallest ever player in the NBA playing together at the same time? These being Gheorge Muresan and Muggsy Bogues, playing in the 1987-88 season. City and Franchise names are both required but you can give the name that this team was known as in the 1987-88 season or their current name which they have used since 1997.
Washington Bullets (acc Wizards)
Which French man discovered the element Fluorine, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery but died shortly after receiving it?
Henri Moissan
Stephen King named his fictional Maine town Castle Rock after the island mountain fort in which 1954 novel, which has no female characters? The novel was adapted into a 1963 film starring James Aubrey
Lord of the Flies
Based on the Russian folk song “Stenka Razin”, The Carnival Is Over was a single that spent three weeks at number one in the UK chart in 1965 for which Australian based group with the lead singer Judith Durham?
Judith Durham
Nowruz marks the first day of the New Year in Iran using which Solar Calendar?
HIJRI
Which English actor played Bardolph in Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 movie adaptation of Henry V? His other Shakespearian roles include Polonius in the 1996 film Hamlet and Leonato in the 1993 film Much Ado about Nothing.
Richard Briers
Largest town and capital on island of Barbuda
Codrington
nevis has which capital and largest town on island
Charlestown
Capital and largest city on Tobago island?
Scarborough
Which French author of The Possession (2002) and The Years (2008) was the most recent female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning the award in 2022?
Annie Ernaux
Naming and Necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by whcih philosopher in 1970?
Saul Kripke
The tepoztli - as typically used by the Aztecs, was what type of weapon?
Axe
Which 2024 Disney series , whose title translates from the Yoruba language as “the future”, is set in a futuristic reimagining of Lagos?
Iwaju
A pneumostome is an opening or breathing pore on which common garden creature, sometimes these creatures are said to have four noses due to the long protrusions on their heads?
Slug or Snail
Which fishing based video game was released by Mintrocket in 2023? The game features the titular character who goes deep sea fishing by day and uses his catch for the sushi restaurant he manages at night.
Dave the Diver
Aldi’s Hotel Collection ‘No. 3 Pomegranate’ is a Dupe of which British perfume company’s scent? Aldi’s scented candles are also dupes from this same company.
Jo Malone
First published in 1991, which underground science book was available to its readers for instructions on making illicit drugs, psychedelics in particular? Its authors, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, particularly experimented with phen-ethyl-amines, as referenced in its six-letter acronymic title.
PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved)
Jackie Stewart won the 1973 Formula One championship driving for which team?
Tyrell
The popular internet meme “All your base are belong to us” is from which 1991 video game?
Zero Wing
The song “Old And Wise” released in 1982 by the Alan Parsons Project featured which vocalist - former lead singer of The Zombies?
Colin Blunstone
Which town in South Wales was formed by the merger of the villages of Baglan, Margam, and Aberafan?
Port Talbot
Alphonso and Ataulfo are varieties of which fruit?
Mangoes
The rebellion of Han Zhuo, a 20-year semi-mythological interregnum of the _______ Dynasty, in which Han Zhuo murdered ________ and installed himself as ruler until his defeat by Shao Kang and the restoration of the ______. What Dynasty is missing here?
Xia
The Rebellion of the Three Guards (late 11th century BC), three uncles of King Cheng of _____, and the Compatriots Rebellion (842BC) uprising against King Li creating the Gonghe Regency took place during which Chinese dynasty?
Zhou
The Dazexiang (also known as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising) and Liu Bang’s insurrection were rebellions during which Chinese dynasty with Liu Bang becoming the emperor of the following dynasty?
Qin Dynasty
The Rebellion of the Seven States or Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 七国之乱; traditional Chinese: 七國之亂, 154 BC) was a revolt by members of which dynasty’s imperial family against attempts to centralize the government under Emperor Jing?
Han
The Yellow Turban Rebellion or Yellow Scarves Rebellion in AD 184 was against which dynasty and which emperor?
Ling
The Yellow Turban Rebellion was peasant rebellion acting as the opening event in which historical novel by Luo Guanzhong?
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Who was the Chinese military general and rebel who was leader of Yellow Turban Rebellion against Emperor Ling of Eastern Han?
Zhang Jue
Which AD184 religious rebellion instigated by Zhang Lu, the grandson of the Taoist leader Zhang Daoling. The name of the rebellion derives from a number and a foodstuff?
The Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson have had 2 hits working together, The Girl Is Mine was the first, what was the second?
Say Say Say
Elton John released an album of collaborations in 2021 that reached the top of the UK album charts, what was it called?
The Lockdown Sessions
After Sting and Craig David have had different songs both called Seven Days, they then duetted on a song that used Sting’s Shape Of My Heart as its backing track. Can you name it?
Rise and Fall
The Ellalink is a subsea optical cable linking Europe with which other continent?
South America
Which indoor fitness activity is associated with the companies MyWhoosh and Zwift?
Cycling
Which Enid Blyton character is best friends with Tessie Bear and Bumpy Dog?
Noddy
Which entrepreneur bought the patent for James Murray Spangler’s vacuum cleaner in 1908?
William Hoover
The Moseley Slabs, the Gebiss, and Hörnli Ridge are areas of which mountain on the Swiss-Italian border?
Matterhorn
The Beethoven-Haus Museum, the house where the composer was born, is in which German city?
Bonn
Which 1968 horror film is set in The Bramford apartment building in New York City?
Rosemary’s Baby
Which country’s parliament is known as the eduskunta?
Finland
Which organ of the body contains Kupffer cells?
Liver
Which 1986 fantasy film features Sir Didymus, the guardian of the bridge at the Bog of Eternal Stench?
Labyrinth
Which three-Michelin-starred restaurant, located on the eighth-floor of Copenhagen’s National Football Stadium, shares its name with a herbaceous perennial plant?
Geranium
How many people are depicted in Gustave Caillebotte’s painting The Floor Scrapers?
Three
Which English rock duo are composed of frontman Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher?
Royal Blood
Which Italian luxury fashion brand is known for its brightly-coloured zigzag patterned knitwear?
Missoni
How many full octaves are there on a standard 88-key piano?
Seven
Which city on the Costa de la Luz is home to Spain’s oldest football club?
Huelva
Which Irish poet wrote the collection Flower of Youth: Poems in Wartime (1915)?
Katharine Tynan
The Henneke body conditioning score is a scientific method used to evaluate the health of which animals?
Horse
Which pungent Indian spice, also known as hing, is rumoured to be a secret ingredient in Worcestershire sauce?
Asafoetida
Which painting by Wassily Kandinsky shares its name with the branch of ecology studied by Henry Chandler Cowles, and an HBO television series?
Succession
Which Australia-born England Rugby Union forward was arrested in Majorca in April
this year, following an alleged confrontation at a nightclub?
Billy Vunipola
What is the name of the Dutch Eurovision act who was disqualified from this year’s
final? 2024
Joost Klein
Give a year in the life of artist Albrecht Durer.
1471-1528
The 2017 Edinburgh Comedy Award was jointly won by Hannah Gadsby and which
British comedian, whose show discussed the breakdown of his relationship with fellow
stand-up Sara Pascoe?
John Robins
Name of a large black cloth containing 670 kilograms of silk thread, and is used
to cover the Kaaba in Islam
Kiswah
Niche in a mosque indicating the qibla
Mihrab
What is the southern terminus of the Northern Line?
Morden
What British appliance manufacturer, particularly noted for its cordless vacuum
cleaners and gardening equipment, owns the naming rights to Brentford FC’s
stadium?
Gtech
Which gaseous element was isolated by physician, botanist and chemist Daniel
Rutherford, in 1772?
Nitrogen
Which 3 words are shared by the name of a 1960 speech given by Harold Macmillan
in South Africa and a 1991 smash hit for the Scorpions?
Wind of Change
Singaporean / Chinese actor Gong Li made her screen debut in which 1987 film?
Red Sorghum
The M62 motorway connects Liverpool and Manchester to which city, in the East
Riding of Yorkshire?
Kingston upon HULL
8 What is the smallest species of deer found in the UK?
Muntjac
3 In 2022, which English spin bowler became the ICC’s number 1 ranked bowler in both
women’s international T20s and women’s ODIs?
Sophie Ecclestone
Which New Zealand-born author is best known for her debut novel The Tattooist of
Auschwitz, which was adapted into a miniseries starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie
Lynskey in 2024?
Heather Morris
In 2023, 18-year-old Toby Roberts became the first British man to qualify for the Olympics in which sport?
Climbing
What is the county town of Pembrokeshire?
Haverfordwest
Which rock band from Manchester played a legendary gig at Spike Island in Widnes
in 1990?
The Stone Roses
Making History and Translations are plays by which Irish playwright who died in
2015?
Brian Friel
Name the year: the Tour de France started in Leeds, Scotland held an independence
referendum and voted ‘no’, and Philip Seymour Hoffman died.
2014
After an illness in 1776, the American Quaker Jemima Wilkinson claimed to have
been “reborn” as a genderless being. What three-word title did they adopt while
preaching free will and emancipation to their followers?
Public Universal Friend
What is the nationality of the DJ Sigala? He has had 8 top 10 singles in the UK,
including Good Times and Came Here for Love.
British/English
Described by John Betjeman as “probably the loveliest town in England”, which
market town is home to the only racecourse in Shropshire?
Ludlow
Widely considered to be a national dish, which Polish stew consists of chopped meat
cooked with sauerkraut, fresh cabbage and spices?
Bigos
What is the only London Underground station to also serve as a stop on South
London’s Tramlink network?
Wimbledon
Followers of which religion consider the Shikharji trail in Jharkhand one of the holiest sites?
Jainism
What is the shared surname of the actor who plays the titular detective in the 2024 TV
series Rebus, and the Scottish author of the novels upon which the series is based?
Rankin
What kind of amphibian is the character Kikker, created by Dutch children’s author,
Max Velthuijs?
Frog
Which female athlete triumphed in the 1960 Rome Olympics in the 100m and 200m?
Wilma Rudolph
What word is both a Woody Allen film from 1973 and a female-led British rock band of
the 90s best known for singles Inbetweener and Sale of The Century?
Sleeper
Two members of the Irish girl group B*Witched, Edele and Keavy, are the sisters of
which member of Boyzone?
Shane Lynch
Which first name follows Deliciously in the name of a brand that offers vegan recipes,
products and wellness tips?
Ella
An important figure in the Industrial Revolution, which English machinist and engineer
invented the flying shuttle, a key step towards automating weaving?
John Kay
2 The Bob Graham Round is a fell running challenge located in which British National
Park?
Lake District
What was the double-barrelled surname of screenwriting brothers Troy and Ian, who
between them created the TV series Z Cars, Juliet Bravo, The Sweeney and Edge of Darkness?
Kennedy Martin
A contestant in the 2019 series of Strictly Come Dancing, Will Bayley won a
Paralympic gold medal at Rio 2016 in which sport?
Table Tennis
Kenyan runner Kelvin Kiptum set the men’s marathon record in which US city in
2023?
Chicago
What part of the body is affected by the condition Stargardt disease?
Eyes
Jimmi Clay and Bear Sylvester are regular characters in what BBC soap opera,
whose final episodes are due to air in 2024?
Doctors
Edgars Rinkēvičs has served as the 11th President of which country since July 2023,
when he became the first openly gay head of state of an EU country?
Latvia
In Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, who is the youngest of the five Bennet sisters?
Lydia
Stop Making Sense was a 1984 concert film directed by Jonathan Demme that
features a live performance by which American rock band?
Talking Heads
What is the name of the epic 12-minute psychedelic rock song released by US band,
The Doors, in 1967?
The End
In which racquet sport is the world women’s team championships, won most often by China between 1956 and 2024, called the Uber Cup and the men’s equivalent (won most often by Indonesia) called the Thomas Cup?
Badminton
Which 3 letter acronym might be applied to a statistic which measures a basketball player’s effectiveness in recovering the ball after a missed shot at the basket, a type of video game in which players control a character who undertakes quests, or a shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon?
RPG (rebounds per game, role playing game, rocket propelled grenade)
Which brand of instant coffee now manufactured by Kraft Heinz uses the slogan “Good to the last drop” and was named in 1892 after a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee which hosted the first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan in April 1867?
Maxwell House
Which is the only country in the world apart from the USA whose official name according to the United Nations contains the words “United” and “States”?
Mexico (official name United Mexican States)
In the context of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, what does NCND stand for?
Neither confirm nor deny
The second of six periods of the Palaeozoic Era, what geologic period marked the appearance of almost every phylum of marine invertebrates and the rise of fish?
Ordovician
After his stint with AS Roma, Jose Mourinho will become the new coach of what Turkish football club?
Fenerbache
What name is given to the prehistoric and ancient Chinese cauldrons that were used for cooking, storage, and ritual offerings?
Ding
Which actor portrayed Brigadier General James Gavin in the 1977 epic war film A Bridge Too Far?
Ryan O’Neil
Panaji is the capital of which Indian state, the country’s smallest state by area?
Goa
Named after a moon goddess, what is the name of the Chinese lunar mission that landed on the far side of the moon in June 2024?
Chang’e 6
What is the title of the Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe that centres on a miner and his daughter and follows the lives and loves of the people in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California?
Paint Your Wagon
What is the name of the lady who acts as Dante’s guide in the narrative poem Paradiso?
Beatrice
In June 2024, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the first human to spend how many days in outer space?
1000
In The Simpsons, how many cats named Snowball became pets of the titular family?
5
In 2024, Disfrutar was ranked the world’s best restaurant by Restaurant magazine. It is located in which European city?
Barcelona
Which country will allow recruits from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada in a bid to beef up its armed forces in the face of growing regional threats?
Australia
Which man, who died in 2019, is the only person to win the Formula One World
Championship driving for both Ferrari and McLaren?
Niki Lauda
Eos asked Zeus to grant immortality to which of her lovers, but neglected to ask for eternal youth? He lived forever but shrivelled to a husk.
Tithonus
Gunter Grass’ novels The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are collectively
known by what name?
Danzig Trilogy
How do you write 33 in ternary (base-3)?
1020
Also managing four clubs in the English Premier League, who was the Galatasaray
manager for the 95/96 season? Hint: if you add a letter in the middle of his surname you
get a word for one of the five basic tastes.
Graeme Souness
Adriene Mishler is the most subscribed YouTuber teacher of what?
Yoga
What newspaper was founded by Val McCalla in 1982 and covers matters of interest to
the UK’s African-Caribbean community? It was published every Thursday until 2019,
when it became monthly.
The Voice
With a scientific name meaning ‘petty king’, what’s the smallest European bird?
Goldcrest (regulus regulus)
On this day in 632 AD Yazdegerd III ascended to the throne and eventually ended up
being the last ruler of what empire?
Sasanian (accept Sassanid,
Second Persian or NeoPersian but not simply
Persian)
What 2019 British film was shot in black-and-white using a vintage hand-cranked Bolex
camera and tells the story of Martin, a traditional Cornish fisherman struggling to make
a living?
Bait
The Limbic system is located in which organ of the human body?
Brain
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is a formula associated with what object invented by trumpeter
John Shore in 1711 and still in use today? As well as its original, and best known (if
niche) use, it has been utilised (with debated efficiency) by orthopaedic surgeons to
assess injuries where a bone fracture is suspected.
Tuning Fork
Silver, Cardinal, X-Ray and Neon are species of what small tropical fish, commonly
found in home aquariums?
Tetras
Belle Époque playwright Georges Feydeau is prominently associated with what specific
genre?
Farce
In lbs give the weight of the Olympic barbell used in either the women’s or men’s
events? The latter is the same weight as most barbells found in U.K gyms.
33 lbs or 45 lbs
Although he actually said “Eisen und Blut” in his speech, the Blut und Eisen speech was
given by which person, becoming symbolic of their Machtpolitik?
Otto Von Bismarck
Before the widespread adoption of spectrometry, prospectors used to smell and taste crude oil to determine the concentration of which element? Today crude with less 0.5%
of this element is designated as sweet, with the rest classified as sour.
Sulphur
The left hand of St Teresa was returned after the death of which person in 1975, who is
rumoured to have slept with the relic by his bedside since 1937?
Franco
There are two islands where St Patrick’s Day is a public holiday. One is Ireland. What is
the other? In 1768 the slave Cudjoe led a rebellion on this day, knowing plantation
owners would be drinking heavily.
Montserrat
Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and released in 2015, which highly successful
top-down shooter has been compared to Starship Troopers, both being a satire
featuring a war against a race of insectoids.
Helldivers
The Mapocho river runs through which capital city?
Santiago
American political advisor who has served as the White House press secretary since May 13, 2022. She is the first black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve in the position. Born Fort-de-France, Martinique.
Karine Jean-Pierre
American politician serving since 2023 as the 47th governor of Arkansas, Press Secretary to White House from July 2017-19.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Milan Kundera once described 1947’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” as “the greatest memorial ever dedicated to the Holocaust.” This cantata was composed by which Jewish composer who emigrated as the Nazis who considered his music “degenerate” rose to power?
Arnold Schoenberg
Though he had been leading the state as an SSR since 1989, in 1991 Islam Karimov became the first ever president of which newly independent country? He held this position until his death in 2016.
Uzbekistan
What type of enzyme, a class of endonuclease, creates “blunt” and “sticky” ends when cleaving DNA strands? The fragments created by
these enzymes can then be used in genetic recombination.
RESTRICTION enzymes
What Western Conference NBA franchise holds the dubious record for the most losses, with over 3200 and counting?
Sacramento Kings
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of “Music from The OC: Mix 1”, an album that introduced 2000s-era indie bands to a more mainstream audience. The last song on the album is the show’s theme song, “California”. Although a remix by Mates of State was used in an episode set in an alternate universe, the standard versions were performed by what band featuring Jason Schwartzman on drums?
Phantom Planet
In Homer’s “Odyssey”, Odysseus uses what herb with milk-white flowers as an antidote against Circe’s drugs that have transformed his men into pigs? It features prominently in Madeline Miler’s “Circe” retelling and has been identified with several real-world plants, possibly the common snowdrop.
MOLY
The cryptolect Pajubá is spoken by the LGBT
community and those who follow the Candomblé (can-dom-BLAY) and
Umbanda (um-BON-da) religious traditions in what country?
Brazil
Chuck Jones claimed that he and the artists followed nine rules while
creating the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote cartoons. What line is the
lone exception to the no-dialogue rule? According to another rule, the
Road Runner may say this to harm Coyote.
BEEP BEEP or MEEP MEEP
What 2003 children’s book written by Kate DiCamillo features a
young mouse inspired by tales of knights and princesses? The book
was adapted into a 2008 animated film of the same name
TALE OF DESPEREAUX
Closely associated with Richard Wagner (VOG-ner), what term refers
to a recurring short musical theme that accompanies the reappearance
of a person, idea, or situation?
Leitmotif
Which conservative American website, founded in 1995, was the first to break the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal? It is named after its founder, whose first assistant was Andrew Breitbart.
Drudge Report
The 88’s song “How Good It Can Be” was featured on the album
“Music from the OC: Mix 1”. Another song of theirs, “At Least It Was
Here”, was used as the theme song of what other TV show?
Community
What possibly fictional potion is mentioned in Homer’s “Odyssey”
as being used to cause forgetfulness? It also appears in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” as the narrator begs for this to forget his lost Lenore.
Nepenthe
Partly motivated by a lack of pay, tercios serving what king of Spain
sacked Antwerp in 1576? Riches from the first Manila galleons could
not stop this king from defaulting on his father Charles V’s debts four separate times.
Philip II
In what form of immersive roleplay entertainment can players use
costumes and props to physically portray their characters, sometimes
inspired by tabletop gaming such as Dungeons and Dragons?Acronym or full term acceptable.
LARPing or LIVE ACTION role
play/playing
Though he’d been leading the state as an SSR since 1985, in 1990,
Saparmurat Niyazov became the first ever president of which newly independent country? He held this position until his death in 2006.
Turkmenistan
What type of enzyme creates phosphodiester
bonds to join the sticky ends of DNA fragments, playing an important role in DNA replication and genetic recombination?
LIGASE
According to urban legend, what game appeared in Portland arcades for around a month in 1981, causing strange behavior in those who
played it? The first season of “Loki” depicted a cabinet for this game as an object pruned out of history, and Llamasoft produced an actual
game version in 2016.
Polybius
A pink Cadillac is the top reward for consultants in what multilevel marketing company?
Mary Kay
A video game released in May 2024 from Double Dagger Studios follows what sort of small animal’s adventure in the Big City?
Little Kitty, Big City
dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word is said to come from a variant of the Portuguese for to boil. It is said that the sound of the ___ will make listeners and dancers feel as if they are boiling on the ground.
Frevo
On the second Sunday in October, Pará celebrates the largest religious event in Brazil: the procession of the _____ of _______. UNESCO Intangible Heritage list.
Cirio de Nazare
UNESCO Intangible Heritage list: an interactive play celebrated in Brazil. It originated in the 18th century. It is a form of social criticism. Lower-class Brazilians mock and criticize those of higher social status through a comedic folklore story told in song and dance. Though not as well known internationally as Carnival and other Brazilian festivals, it is older and deeply rooted in the culture of Brazil.
Bumba Meu Boi
American actor who made his film debut in Reckless (1984). He has starred in over 80 feature films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), The Mission (1986), Stakeout (1987), Avalon (1990), Benny & Joon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Wild Child (2008) and Unknown (2011).
Aidan Quinn
Going by modern day borders, the 2008 Edward Zwick war movie “Defiance” was set in which country? This country borders Poland and is home to Polesia, one of the largest forested areas in Europe.
Belarus
Which 2010 Edward Zwick rom-com movie tells the story of a medicine peddler in 1990s Pittsburgh who starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from an illness that leads to Parkinson’s disease? It starred Anne Hathaway
Love and Other Drugs
He made his film debut with the comedy About Last Night (1986), followed by Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), and Defiance (2008). His later films include Love & Other Drugs (2010), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Shakespeare in Love (1998) as a producer.
Edward Zwick
The 2014 Edward Zwick movie “Pawn Sacrifice” culminates with Bobby Fischer’s 1972 World Chess championship match against which Russian grandmaster?
Boris Spassky
Aside from the movies, Edward Zwick has had some TV successes too. He wrote an episode of which TV drama which starred Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere as country music stars?
Nashville
Edward Zwick was the creator of which successful TV show which first aired in 1987? The series focused on a group of baby boomers who live in Philadelphia, and how they handle the lifestyle that dominated American culture during the 1980s? The answer contains a number
Thirtysomething
First name Arnold, which South African actor starred opposite Leonardo di Caprio in the 2006 Edward Zwick movie “Blood Diamond”? His best known role is most probably as Imhotep in the Mummy series of movies
Arnold VOSLOO
Who are undoubtedly the most famous footballing brothers to hail from Ashington, Northumberland?
Jack and Bobby CHARLTON
Eli Manning won two Super Bowls in 2008 and 2012?
New York Giants
Two word name required: who won 2016 Super Bowl 50 with Denver Broncos making him the first starting quarterback to win the Super Bowl for more than one franchise having won 2007 with Indianapolis Colts?
Peyton Manning
What is the surname of the brothers John and Jim who coached opposing teams at Super Bowl XVII in 2013? John and the Baltimore Ravens beat Jim and the San Francisco 49ers.
HARBAUGH
Aaron, the brother of the fantastic American girl group “The Pointer Sisters” was a top competitor in the 1960s in what sport? He played for the Houston Colt 45s as they were then known
Baseball
Between 1970 and 1983 the Australian men’s test cricket team were captained on numerous occasions by brothers with which surname?
Greg and Ian CHAPPELL
Ellie Downie was the first gymnast to win a major all-around title for Great Britain. What’s the first name of her sister who won a Commonwealth Gold on the uneven bars?
Becky DOWNIE
Ruby Walsh is one of the greatest jump jockeys of the last 50 years. His sister is no slouch either. She’s won at Cheltenham and finished third in the Grand National. What is her first name?
Katie
Competing in a number of Olympic games, the sisters Tracy and Cheryl Haworth were well known names in what sport?
Weightlifting
Barry and Derek Ferguson were two succesful footballing brothers for Rangers in the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. What is the first name of Derek Ferguson’s son who was named the Serie A midfielder of the year for the 2023–24 season due to his performances for high-flying Bologna
Lewis FERGUSON
Which pair of brothers, both born in Australia, made their England Cricket debuts in the 1997 Ashes series? One died at age 24 in car crash.
Adam and Ben HOLLIOAKE
Let me take you down, cause I’m going to ask you this question. Gemma Arterton was born in 1986. What was the name of the Bond Girl character she played in Quantum of Solace?
Strawberry Fields
Charlotte Church was born in Cardiff in 1986. In 1999 she sang at Rupert Murdoch’s wedding to which woman?
Wendi Deng
The American author known for her fantasy books “Throne of Glass” and “A Court of Thorns and Roses” was born in 1986. What’s her name?
Sarah J Maas
Which comedian, born in 1986, co-hosts the “Off Menu” podcast with James Acaster?
Ed Gamble
Daisy May Cooper, the star of the sitcom “This Country”, is the second cousin of which actor, a co-creator of Ghosts, who appears as the romantic poet named Thomas Thorne in that show?
Matthew Baynton
In Norse mythology, it is said that Ymir, the original giant born out of the primeval void, gave birth to a male and female out of which part of his body?
Armpits
In Norse mythology, what “B” is the mother of Odin?
Bestla
What B is father of Odin?
Borr
In Norse mythology, Freyja’s chariot was pulled by what sort of animals?
Cats
In the epic tales of the Norse gods, which land of Giants is ruled by the giant king Thrym?
Jotunheim
During the War of the Roses what colour rose was used as the heraldic emblem of the House of York?
White
In the run up to the Wars of the Roses, the mental instability of which King revived Richard, Duke of York’s interest in a claim to the throne?
Henry VI
The modern term Wars of the Roses came into common use in the early 19th century following the publication of the 1829 novel “Anne of Geierstein” by which man?
Sir Walter Scott
Which War of the Roses battle of 1471 saw a decisive victory for Edward IV’s forces, and was was followed by 14 years of Yorkist rule over England?
Battle of Barnet
First name Philippa, who was the woman who is mainly credited with the discovery of Richard III’s remains beneath a Leicester car park?
Philippa Langley
The Battle of Mortimer’s Cross in 1461 was a major battle in the War of the Roses. What meteorological phenomenon before the battle was spun by the Yorkist commander, later Edward IV of England, as a good luck omen to convince his frightened troops?
Parhelion (sun dogs)
In 1464, Edward IV was the first king of England since the Norman Conquest to marry one of his subjects. Who was that woman?
Elizabeth Woodville
Which Northumberland castle, previously thought to be impregnable, was captured thanks to bombards in 1464?
Bamburgh Castle
The Wars of the Roses concluded in 1487, with Henry VII’s defeat of the remaining Yorkist opposition at which battle? Henry’s victory was crushing at this encounter, which took place in Nottinghamshire
Stoke Field
Name the mathematician from this short bio: “English theoretical physicist and mathematician, born 1902, who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was a Nobel Prize in Physics recipient in 1933”
Paul Dirac
Name the mathematician from this short bio: “French mathematician and physicist known for his work in topology and the theory of dynamical systems. His eponymous conjecture has became one of the famous unsolved problems in maths”
Henri Poincare
Name the mathematician from this short bio: “Persian mathematician and astronomer, the “father of algebra”, known for introducing Hindu-Arabic numerals to the Western world.”
Al-Khwarizmi
Name the mathematician from this short bio: “This German mathematician (1777 to 1855) made fundamental contributions to algebra, number theory, and statistics. He has been referred to as the “Prince of Mathematicians”
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Taken from the album “Postcards from Heaven”, which British pop duo achieved their highest ranking chart hit with the single “High” in 1998? Their other biggest hit was “Lifted” a few years earlier
Lighthouse Family
Leo Sayer probably had the best known version of the song called “When I need you” in the UK, but what actor took it into the top ten in 1998? This man is probably still best known for playing Jambo Bolton in Hollyoaks
Will Mellor
The 1998 Aqua hit named “Turn Back Time” was lifted from the soundtrack of which hit movie from that year?
Sliding Doors
The cast of which TV show recorded the song “Everlasting Love” for the Children in Need charity single in 1998? A man named Derek Thompson would no doubt have been involved
Casualty
For which 1998 top ten single did Celine Dion team up with the Bee Gees? The chorus contains the lines “I make my journey through eternity, I keep the memory of you and me”. One word answer
Immortality
Around 1998 the song “No matter what” provided a massive hit for Boyzone and it was also a Meat Loaf B-side around the same time. Which man joined Andrew Lloyd Webber to write that song?
Jim Steinman
Which doubtfully named band gave us “God is a DJ” in 1998?
Faithless
“You Don’t Care About Us” and “Pure Morning” in 1998 were the last top ten hits to date for which alternative rock band? They had become famous a year earlier with the song “Nancy Boy”
Placebo
Which private company’s “Starliner” capsule took NASA astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in June 2024?
Boeing
an elderly/multi-generational women’s choir called Bistritsa Babi, a traditional barefoot fire-walking ritual with ecstatic dance called Anastenaria, the tradition of carpet-making in Chiprovtsi are all UNESCO Intangible Heritage in which country?
Bulgaria
a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa.
Balafon
a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. It was proclaimed Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, widely considered the national music of Cape Verde, as is Fado in Portugal, rumba in Cuba, merenge in DR etc. Best known singer is Cesaria Evora.
MORNA
Sbek Thom and Sbek Toch are both which specific type of theatre and found in Cambodia?
Shadow theatre
an ancient Cambodian battlefield martial art. It is one of the oldest fighting systems existing in the world and is recognised as intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO. Literally means “art of pounding the lion”.
Bokator
What subgenre of Dutch hardcore electronic music saw its peak of popularity in the 1990s due to the Thunderdome concept? The name is ultimately derived from the Hebrew for ‘friend’ through the Amsterdam ‘Bargoen’ slang.
Gabber
What genre of party or board game by-and-large consists of an uninformed ‘good’ majority attempting to puzzle out and oust an informed ‘evil’ minority? Examples of this genre of game include Blood on the Clock Tower and Secret Hitler. Your answer should be two words.
Social Deduction
Alexey Gerasimov created what 2023 online sensation by using the Source filmmaker to depict video-game character
models singing a mashup of Bulgarian singer Biser King’s ‘Dom Dom Yes Yes’ and Timbaland’s ‘Give It to Me’?
Skibidi Toilet
Who won the WWE 2024 King of the Ring tournament in Jeddah, and thus will face Damien Priest at Summerslam in 2024? This Austrian wrestler has been making waves as he recently came off of the longest Intercontinental Title reign in WWE history at 666 days.
Gunther
What 1901 Antonín Dvořák opera is based on a fairy tale about a water sprite who falls in love with a human prince? Against her royal father’s wishes, the title character gives up the power of speech to become human.
RUSALKA
President Coin was played by what actress in The Hunger Games franchise of films? In her career so far, she
has received five Academy Award nominations for acting and has won one Academy Award.
Julianne MOORE
What was the only new city in Wales created in the Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours in 2022?
Wrexham
What was the name of the last king of the Kingdom of Gwynedd [GWI-neth], who ruled for over thirty years from 1137 to 1170?
OWAIN ap Gruffudd [griff-ith]
“Behold! A man!” This is a phrase attributed to Diogenes of Sinope, an Ancient Greek philosopher from what school of thought? He uttered it when presenting a plucked chicken in response to his mentor Plato suggesting that the definition of a man is a ‘featherless biped’.
Cynicism
Tok Pisin is a creole language based on what European language? It is spoken predominantly in Papua New Guinea, thus earning the secondary name of New Guinea Pidgin.
English
Which comic actor, known for being part of an iconic British comedy programme, played the eponymous Alan Smithee in the 1997 film An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn? Ironically, the director Arthur Hiller discredited himself from the work, thus making itself an Alan Smithee film.
Eric IDLE
The Kingdom of Gwynedd [GWI-neth] was one of the last vestiges of the Roman Empire in Great Britain. As a result, it was known as what name in Latin?
Venedotia / Norwallia
Who won the WWE 2024 Queen of the Ring tournament in Jeddah, and thus will face Bayley at Summerslam in 2024? This Australian-American “irresistible force” of a wrestler made her return to WWE in 2023 where some critics have lauded her improvement both in the ring and in her promos.
Nia JAX
Named for a legendary Greek figure, what lunar lander was the first privately owned spacecraft to land on the Moon? Touching down in February 2024, it became the first American spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the moon in over 50 years.
Odysseus (Intuitive Machines)
Boggs, the right-hand man to President Coin, was played by whom in The Hunger Games film franchise? So far in his career he has twice received Academy Award nominations for acting, winning the award on both occasions
Mahershala ALI
What 1918 Béla Bartók opera is based on a French fairy tale about a woman who comes to live with a monstrous suitor in his castle? He forbids her from entering a certain part of the castle and reacts poorly when she disobeys.
Duke BLUEBEARD’S Castle
Another decisive battle in Scottish history did not go so well. The Jacobite Rebellion ultimately fell due to the results of which battle of 1746?
Culloden
Gabber music (as well as some other hardcore electronic subgenres) is particularly associated with what form of high-energy dance that focuses on the heels of the feet? The term stems from a Dutch homophone meaning either heels or the act of chopping.
HAKKEN
A Twitch streamer named Roberto’s online alias is the etymological root of what slang term used by Generation Alpha to mean to steal a friend’s food as a form of levy?
Fanum Tax
The progenitor of social deduction party games was created in the 1980s by Dmitry Davidoff. What is this game called? There are two acceptable answers, one which is criminal in its namesake and the other based more in fantasy
Mafia or Werewolf
Longshoreman Eddie Carbone, who is obsessed with his wife’s niece, is the main protagonist of which play by Arthur Miller? Premiering on Broadway in 1955, the play won the Tony Award for Best Revival in both 1997 and 2015.
A View from the Bridge
World Mining Trust and Throgmorton Trust are two of the four entries on the FTSE 250 Index that are owned and
managed by what multinational investment company, the world’s largest asset manager?
Blackrock
The fifth card in the Major Arcana in most traditional tarot decks is sometimes called ‘The Teacher of Wisdom’ but is better known by what name? This card typically depicts a man with a raised right hand, and two fingers pointing towards heaven
The Hierophant
Which sports venue in Auckland plays host to the majority of the All Blacks home games, with the men’s side being undefeated in 48 rugby union tests there since 1994?
EDEN PARK
In an electrical circuit, which quantity is the opposition to an alternating current? For a direct current, or DC, circuit, this quantity is equal to the resistance.
Impedance
What adjective describes a society where a person’s lineage is traced through their mother’s side? Such societies often place women in positions of power or higher social standing.
Matrilineal
Name either of the best friends who have appeared on Gogglebox from their caravan park in Hull continuously since the fourth series? First names are sufficient.
Jenny and Lee
Who duetted with Tony Bennett on his 2011 Duets IIalbum singing ‘The Girl I Love’, a version of Gershwin’s ‘The Man I Love’? Her solo singles include ‘All I Wanna Do’ and ‘Soak up the Sun’.
Sheryl CROW
Featuring his signature “zips”, the painting Vir Heroicus Sublimis is a work by which American abstract expressionist artist, one of the pioneers of the Color Field movement?
Barnett Newman
An attempt in 1634 by Charles I to extend which tax to inland counties is seen as one of the major grievances that led to the English Civil War? The refusal of John Hampden to pay this tax made him a national figure
SHIP money
Stepan Petrichenko led the rebel forces during which 1921 insurrection against the Bolshevik government that is named for the
Russian port city where it occurred?
KRONSTADT rebellion
Launched around the same time as Per Una, what was the name of Marks & Spencer’s casual menswear range that had the
subranges Heritage, Luxury and Golf, and was Britain’s largest men’s casual brand?
Blue Harbour
Contrasted with polygyny, what name is given to the type of polygamy where a woman takes two or more husbands at the same
time? This system is more likely to occur in harsh environments, and it is practised in several Himalayan societies.
Polyandry
Following on from the success of The Battersea Poltergeist, Danny Robins went on to write and present which Radio 4 programme and podcast, currently in its fourth season, that investigates paranormal phenomena?
Uncanny
While DC resistance has magnitude only, the impedance in an AC circuit also has what other quantity, which describes its cyclic
position at any instant in time?
Phase
The 2007 book God Is Not Great was written by which British-born writer and journalist, another of the other “Four
Horsemen” of New Atheism, who died in 2011?
Christopher Hitchens
What is the name of the annual two or three match series contested between New Zealand and Australia’s rugby union teams,
with two matches counting towards the Rugby Championship? New Zealand have won this trophy 21 times in succession.
Bledisloe Cup
Which 1956 play by Eugene O’Neill takes place over the course of a single night at the Tyrone family’s home? The play won
Tony Awards for Best Play in 1957 and for Best Revival in 2003
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Investment trusts dedicated to India and Japan and the European Discovery are among the six entries on the FTSE 250 Index managed by what American finance company, which is also the largest bank in the world by market cap?
JP Morgan
The twelfth Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks is often contrasted with the Hierophant as the central figure is
interpreted as pointing towards Hell. Sometimes said to be a depiction of the Norse god Odin, this is which card that typically depicts a genre of Italian art known as pittura infamante?
The HANGED MAN
Who was the commander-in-chief of the Russian Army who attempted a military coup against the Russian Provisional Government led by Aleksandr Kerensky in September 1917?
Lavr KORNILOV
Winner of the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Nordic Act in 2004, which rock band had a hit in the early 2000s with ‘Hate to
Say I Told You So’?
The HIVES
Which comedian, who works with Rob McElhenney on the show Mythic Quest and is a member of the Penny Dreadfuls, has been
the Executive Director of Wrexham Football club since 2021?
Humphrey KER
The 1952 painting Mountains and the Sea is the best-known work of which American abstract expressionist artist, one of the
pioneers of the Color Field movement?
Helen FRANKENTHALER
Beginning as an agricultural levy, what was the name of the unpopular French tax on salt that was established in the 14th century and lasted until 1946? One of the major grievances leading to the French Revolution, this tax was repealed in 1790 before being reinstated in 1806.
GABELLE
Name either of the married couple who have appeared on Gogglebox from their thatched cottage in Wiltshire continuously since
the fourth series? First names are sufficient.
Giles or Mary
