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The clock of which railway station became a powerful feature in the Noel Coward film Brief Encounter?
Carnforth
Lord Kagan invented which fabric made famous when Harold Wilson would wear these raincoats during his premiership?
Gannex
Gland in human body secretes the hormone responsible for growth?
Pituitary Gland
Official residence of French President
Elysee Palace
Alternative name for wars which include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops’ Wars, the First and Second English Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652)
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Lionesses beat brazil in April 2023 to win the first Womens what extending their unbeaten run to 30 game?
Finalissima
Denise van Outen born which Essex town?
Basildon
What colour is the triangle on South Africa flag?
Black
Which song was sung by character played by Rita Hayworth in 1950s film Pal Joey?
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
A “red biddy” was a mixture of cheap red wine and what?
methylated spirits
Who featured on first uk #1 for Michael andrews in 2003?
Gary Jules (mad world)
Hercules Poirot’s last case?
Curtain
On which golf course is the 8th hole postage stamp?
Troon
What was Sidney Poitier’s first film released in 1950 in which played Dr Luther Brooks?
No Way Out
Henry III first crowned in what cathedral in 1216?
Gloucester
In which town of USA did first Ryder cup take place in 1927?
Worcester
Battle of Antietam took place what year and state?
1862, Maryland, known as Battle of Sharpsburg
John Dunbar, British artist collector and 1960s counterculture was first husband of which person? Peter Asher, of Peter and Gordon, was best man.
Marianne Faithfull
Dukes of Beaufort family name and family house
Somerset is name
Badminton House in Gloucestershire is house
Choppy and tippy are words associated with grading of which drink?
Tea - highest orange pekoe, lowest as Fannings or Dust
2023 European athletics indoor championships held in which city?
Istanbul
Name of Fingal’s dog in Gaelic legend?
Bran
In fawlty towers full name of character played by Connie Booth
Polly Sherman
Canterbury in which river
Stour (or Great Stour)
Whippoorwill is better known as the North American _____? Bird
Nightjar
John Buchan baton title
Baron Tweedsmuir
Born Alexandra, name of former nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry and PA to Charles 1993-99?
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
First days events in a decathlon
100m
Long Jump
Shot Putt
High Jump
400m
Second days events in decathlon
110m hurdles
Discus
Pole vault
Javelin
1500m
Who was only person Mr Ed would talk to?
Wilbur Post
Schick test can be used to test for which disease?
Diphtheria
Tammy Wynette’s real name
Virginia Wynette Pugh
“The Drinking Song” comes from which Verdi opera?
La Traviata
Which country has the international vehicle registration M?
Malta
Name of castle used by I’m a celeb in wales for two seasons?
Gwrych Castle
In which year did Barclays install and ATM and first used by Reg Varney?
1967
Which brand of sports cars are manufactured in Malvern, Worcestershire?
Morgan
Two terms for collective noun for bears?
Sloth and Sleuth
In Greek mythology, what were female followers of Dionysus called?
Maenads
Very young babies can suffer from NEC serious issue stands for what?
Necrotising Enterocolitis
Who was mother of St. John the Baptist?
Elizabeth
Who hosts the tv programme Sort Your Life Out on bbc1?
Stacey Solomon
What’s the scientific name for the armpit?
Axilla
Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll are driving for which F1 team in 2023?
Aston Martin
Shakespeares shortest play
The comedy of errors
Second highest peak above sea level in UK
Ben Macdui
Highest mountain in any British territory or country? Mountain highest peak of eternity range in British Antarctic territory.
Mount Hope
For which king did Handel write water music?
George I / up the Thames in 1717
Title of officer who serves as police chief on board navy ship?
Master at Arms
Which fruit is called die Erdbeere (Earth berry) in German because of where the plant grows?
The strawberry
Name the states that make up New England
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
What were all Joseph grimaldi’s clowns called?
Joey
What name is given to the wild yellow iris?
Flag
Surname of father and son who appeared in Wall Street?
Sheen
How many us universities make up the Ivy League?
8 - Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Pennsylvania
Which former polish prime minister was also a brilliant pianist and composer?
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
What type of plant is a Saguaro
Cactus
In america, what author writer six of the ten best selling books of 2022?
Colleen Hoover
In which dramatic work would you find Captain Cat, Polly Garter and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard?
Under Milk Wood
Who was mother of kaiser Wilhelm II?
Princess Victoria (queen Vic eldest daughter£
On which Med island would you find Calvi and Corte?
Corsica
In which dramatic work would you find characters John Proctor, Abigail Williams and Reverend Hale?
The Crucible
Which city is having a “year of culture” in 2023 before Bradford have theirs in 2025?
Leeds
Which modern day city replaced a settlement that romans called Duroliponte?
Cambridge
Which poet wrote The Lamb, A Poison Tree, London and The Chimney Sweeper?
William Blake
Which is state in 2004 in USA became first to legalise same sex marriage?
Massachusetts
What gilber mad Sullivan opera has the alternative name Bunthornems Bride
Patience
How many teams in Scottish premier league for football?
12
In which former industrial building is The GreT Pottery Throwdowm filmed?
The Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke on Trent
Author of dystopian novel We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jewish philosopher and author who died 1940 in Catalonia by suicide after being told was being sent back to France by the Spanish police (as seen on Transatlantic tv show recent)
Walter Benjamin
American heiress who played an important role helping European Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany in 1940–41, during World War II. Played by Gillian Jacobs in the 2023 Netflix show Transatlantic.
Mary Jayne Gold
Who was the was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970 officially known as Red Army Faction also known as by names of two early leaders?
Baader-Meinhof Group
Eight Bridgerton children (go oldest to youngest A to G)
Anthony, Benedict, Colin, heroine Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, and Hyacinth
Who writes Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Czech sculptor who did “Head of Franz Kafka” in Prague, for 2012 Olympics did “London Booster” a double decker doing hydraulic push ups, Entropa sculpture, 2005 Shark (saddam hussein in formaldehyde).
David Cerny
17th century group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism. Split from levellers and named for attempts to farm on common land. Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard.
Diggers
in which european country were 12 plane spotters arrested for spying in 2001
Greece
Who and what
Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
Home-thoughts from abroad
Robert Browning
How many prongs does a tuning fork have?
2
Name of the syrian brown bear bought, as a young cub, at a railway station in Hamadan, Iran, by Polish II Corps soldiers who had been evacuated from the Soviet Union
Wojtek
Who wrote thrillers on a gold-plated typewriter?
Ian Fleming
Under what name was Margaret Anderson the first black female DJ on Radio 1?
The Ranking Miss P
1980s West London pirate radio station which is credited as Britain’s first black music pirate radio station
Dread Broadcasting Corporation
75% of whose paintings are in a 2023 Amsterdam exhibition?
Vermeer (28 of 37 known paintings)
Which sporting group is overseen by the PGMOL?
Football referees (Professional Game Match Officials Limited)
What varnish is named after its country of origin?
Lacquerware (Japanese)
Which encyclopedia was launched by Microsoft in 1993?
Encarta
What connects Jerez de la Frontera; Sanlúcar de Barrameda; El Puerto de Santa María?
Three points of Spain’s Sherry Triangle
What links: Indus script; Rongorongo (Easter Island); Linear A; Danube script?
Undeciphered scripts
British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire? went into receivership in 1977.
Fairey
Four rivers which flow from Garden of Eden?
Pishon
Gihon
Hiddekel (Tigris)
Perath (Euphrates)
For which 2014 #1 does Sam smith now pay 12.5% royalties to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne for similarity to I Won’t Back Down?
Stay With Me
Which company now owned by Waterstones has since turn of century expanded wings from original central London location and now has stores at Royal Festival Hall, St Pancras and Waterloo railway stations and even since 2011 in Bristol?
Foyles
Name of the public aquarium in Hull which opened in 2002 and is home to 3500 sea creatures including 7 species of shark?
The Deep
Which Scottish football team, currently fighting relegation from League One, has nickname The Bully Wee?
Clyde
This Scottish footballer made 763 league appearances between 1982 and 2005. Beginning with Bradford City, where had two spells, he also played for Everton, rangers, Sheffield United. He played 40 times for Scotland and scored both Everton’s goals in their 1989 3-2 fa cup final defeat by liverpool. Who is he?
Stuart McCall
What is last bridge the crews pass under in the university boat race?
Barnes Bridge
What is the first bridge that oxbridge boat race passes? It starts just after Putney Bridge.
Hammersmith Bridge
How many bridges does Oxbridge boat race pass under?
Two - Hammersmith and Barnes (starts after Putney and finishes just before Chiswick)
Which batsman holds the England record for highest score in a ODI making 180 against Australia in 2018 - and along with Alex Hales, holds record for highest ODI partnership of 256 not out made against Sri Lanka in 2016? Born Durban, SA 1990.
Jason Roy
Who was first batsman to be given out for obstructing the field in T20 history? Known for ODI batting exploits for England.
Jason Roy
This cognac house founded in 1715 is oldest of Big Four cognac houses. It was bought by Seagram in 1987 but has been owned by Pernod-Ricard since 2001 after Seagram was broken up. What is its name?
Martell
This boxer was first South African to ever fight for and win a world heavyweight championship having held the WBA title from 1983 to 1984. He had notable wins against Leon Spinks and Michael Dokes on way to title. Later knocked out in first round at Wembley arena by Frank Bruno in 1986. Who?
Gerrie Coetzee
Which town fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940, as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian town? Netflix 2022 film.
Narvik
delicious Argentinian pizza topped with onion and is often considered a cousin to the Italian Focaccia
Fugazetta
lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990
Hugh Cornwell
a mythical animal of North American folklore described as a rabbit with horns
Jackalope
Who sung “I don’t wanna know”
Mario Winans
Who sings 2004 song Tipsy
J Kwon
Co-writer of River Cafe cook book in 1995 and married to architect
Ruth Rogers
TV game show 3-2-1 in 1980s presented by which presenter?
Ted Rogers
Born Matilda wood in 1870-1922. English music hall singer singer of the boy I love is up in the gallery, my old man (said follow the van), oh mr Porter what shall I do, She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas?
Marie Lloyd
Author of Tarka the Otter
Henry Williamson
Australian 3 time Olympic 100m gold medallist between 1956 to 1964?
Dawn Fraser
British space scieintist and space educator since 2014 has copresented The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Writer of At Home with Braithwaites, Scott & Bailey (Suranne jones and Lesley sharp),last tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack.
Sally Wainwright
Designer of the covid vaccine and an Oxford professor based at Jenner institute, made into barbie.
Sarah Gilbert
Popular contemporary poet with poems including The Orange, Flowers, married to Lachlan Mackinnon. Books: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Serious Concerns, If I Don’t Know, Family Values, Anecdotal Evidence.
Wendy Cope
Which actress played Barbara Parker in Funny Woman in February 2023?
Gemma Arterton
Iranian-British citizen released from Iran on March 16th 2022.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The first female judge in the Supreme Court UK
Baroness Hale
Bill Treacher died aged 92 in 2022, in 1985 he was in first scene of a long running drama serial playing which character?
Arthur Fowler in Eastenders
Robbie Coltrane played who in Cracker name of character 1993-95?
Dr Edward Fitzgerald
George Lansbury leader of Labour Party what years
1932-35
Name of multiple escapee of jail, escaped Durham jail in 1968, played by Roger Daltrey in 1980 film name after his surname.
John McVicar
Third of trilogy starting wolf hall by Hillary mantel
The mirror and the light
Sister of Duggie Brown, who best known as Mrs Casper in Ken Loach’s 1969 Kes, Mrs Petty in Queenie’s Castle and as Ivy Tilsley in Coronation Street?
Lynne Perrie
Who was founder of Topshop and ceo of the Burton group from 1979-91? Owned Dorothy Perkins, evans, principles and Debenhams.
Sir Ralph Halpern
What was Olivia Newton John entry in eurovision in 1974?
Long Live Love
Bernard Cribbins died aged 93 in 2022, playing Albert Perks in The Railway Children, who directed that film? He appeared in CCBB, Two Way Stretch and Camelot.
Lionel Jefferies
Germany’s captain in 1966 World Cup final, he scored one of three goals in 1970 to knock England out of the mexico World Cup.
Uwe Seeler
Lester Piggott tan how many wins at the Derby 1954-83?
9 - Never Say Die (1954), Crepello, St Paddy, Sir Ivor, Nijinsky, Roberto, Empery, The Minstrel, Teenoso (1983)
Which Latin phrase translates as “out of the depths of misery or dejection”?
De Profundis
What is German word normally associated with thin slice of breaded veal?
Schnitzel
Whcih 1993 film stars Clint Eastwood as a secret service agent trying to stop John Malkovich killing US President?
In the Line of Fire
What surname links the family behind a merchant bank, a county championship winning Yorkshire and England cricket captain and an American actress famous for a 1987 bath scene in which appeared dead but bursts unexpectedly from water brandishing a knife?
Close (brothers, Brian, Glenn)
Which unesco world heritage site was opened in 1890, just under 2500m long, stands 110m above high water level that passes under it?
The Forth Railway Bridge
What was name of iconic itv 26 part documentary series narrated by Laurence Olivier?
World at War
Stephen Spielberg first came to prominence with which 1971 made for tv film pitted lone car driver played by Dennis weaver against an anonymous tanker lorry in mojave desert?
Duel
Who won 2023 Masters?
Jon Rahm
What term is used for both a political strategy associated with Bill Clinton and a method in surveying for determining the location of a position by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline by using trigonometry?
Triangulation
committee of all backbench Conservative MPs that meets weekly when the Commons is sitting named after a year?
1922 Committee
GCHQ has appointed a female director for the first time in its 104-year history, she’ll replace Sir Jeremy Fleming. All I want is her name.
Anne KEAST-BUTLER
What name links disgraced former Chairman of Conservative Party, pug faced character in Harry Potter, English talk show host and official royal photographer?
Parkinson (Cecil, Pansy, Michael, Norman)
Which conservative Mp was chairman of Tory party 1981-83, 1997-98? While Sec of State for Trade and Industry forced to resign following former Secretary Sara Keays pregnant with his child?
Cecil Parkinson
Which former England rugby player who played for England in 1991 rugby World Cup final between Jason Leonard and Jeff Probyn was dropped from bbc commentary team for this years six nations?
Brian Moore
Which racecourse in Devon is most westerly racecourse in England?
Newton Abbott
Which one of NASA’s great observatories satellites was launched in 1990 with flawed optical system since corrected by space shuttle missions and expected remain in service until 2030s?
The Hubble Space Telescope
Which book by Simon Brett, illustrated by Tony Ross, chronicles the first year of life in a diary format and was made into a 10 episode bbc series starring Rik Mayall as main character?
How to be a little sod
Whose law is never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake?
Napoleons Law
Which law observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence” above their competence?
Peter Principle
Which law states that companies tend to promote incompetent employees to management to minimize their ability to harm productivity?
Dilbert Principle
Which motor manufacturer which won the first two formul one drivers championship in 1950 (Nino Farina) and 1951 (Juan Fangio) is due to end its involvement with formula one racing at end of this season?
Alfa Romeo
Which former England test batsman died suddenly in 2007 the night that the team he coached, Pakistan, who were 20-1 on to win the game, lost to Ireland in the World Cup in Jamaica?
Bob Woolmer
An onomatopoeic word derived from Latin, which human reaction is described by “cachinnation”?
Laughter
Which is most populous country to drive in the left?
India
What name is given to the stance in boxing where the boxer has left hand and the left foot forward leading with left jabs?
Orthodox (right hand and right foot forward is Southpaw)
Which term derived from baseball has come to mean unconventional, experimental or radical?
Out of left field
What name given to surfers, skateboarders and snowboarders who prefer to stand with their left foot on back of board?
Goofy
Which French dessert thought to have been named a French actress who appeared at the Comedie FrNcaise in 1897 in role of a maid who served pancakes?
Crepes Suzette
Which type of cloth whose name sometimes thought to have derived from French for king known in parts of Europe as Manchester and in Iran as a word which means matchstick?
Corduroy
Which T is the line of lowest elevation within a valley or watercourse? In international law, taken to be middle of primary navigable channel of a waterway defining boundaries. During 2023 boat race, both teams departed from this of the river.
Thalweg
most famous for her television portrayals of Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano (mother of Tony) on The Sopranos
Nancy Marchand
Singer co-wrote Smelly Cat for tv show Friends, sang with UB40 on I Got You Babe and on 1995 number one Love Can Build A Bridge with Cher and Eric Clapton?
Chrissie Hynde
Which British walking organisation was founded in 1935?
Ramblers
Which rugby Union position known in French as “Demi melee”?
Scrum Half
WhT fruit is used to make alcoholic drink Pommeau?
Apple
What piece of clothing can be worn in diamond point, butterfly or batwing styles?
Bow Tie
Which springtime flower known in wales as “cuckoos boots”?
Bluebell
Screeving is a form of art created on what surface?
Pavements
Which large fish in the Ray family can be bought from a fishmongers as “wings” or “nobs”?
Skate
In which month is Anzac Day observed?
April
Lake Volta, largest man made lake in world by surface area and made by Akosombo Dam, is located in which African country?
Ghana
Hermann, Horsfield and Marginated are all types of which pet?
Tortoise
In guitar playing what does term Pulgar mean?
Thumb (Spanish for)
Leader of 1953 British expedition to climb Mount Everest?
John Hunt
State Highway 1, running from Cape Reinga to Stirling Point, is longest road in which country?
New Zealand
Which French detective was introduced in Edgar Allen Poe short story Murders in Rue Morgue?
C Auguste Dupin
Inge de Bruijn was four time Olympic champion in which sport? Won four golds 2000 and 2004 Olympics.
Swimming
Which Spanish painter is most famous for his 1909 en Plein air work Strolling Along the Seashore?
Joaquin Sorolla
What fruit is used to make Mexican fermented drink Tepache?
Pineapple
Which John Ford film starring Henry Fonda was based on Graham greene novel The Power and the Glory?
The Fugitive
In which part of the body are the hypothenar muscles?
Hand (palm)
Which Chilean football club has a badge depicting the head of a 16th century Mapuche chieftain?
Colo-Colo
Which character in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales dreams of an Elf Queen and meets a three headed giant?
Sir Thopas
Which South African mountain range is only region where rooibos tea is grown?
Cederberg
What was unusual about the combatants in the Four Year War 1974-78 in Tanzania?
Chimpanzees (as detailed by Jane Goodall, Gombe Chimpanzee War)
How many dice are used per player in a game of Liar’s Dice?
5
Which itv news journalist wrote the 2021 political thriller The Whistleblower?
Robert Peston
Nick Hornby 2022 non fiction book tells parallels of which two people?
Dickens and Prince
Founded in 1988 which gambling company has HQ in Dublin
Paddy Power
What is maximum engine size for a 17 year old on a light motorcycle in terms of CC’s?
125
How many counties does Suffolk share border with?
Three - Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex
Of 13 historical welsh countries, which coastal county had Caernarfonshire and Cardiganshire as neighbours?
Merionethshire
Which county in Northern Ireland shares borders with County Armagh and County Antrim?
County Down
“Alfie” is nickname of retired welsh rugby international Gareth Thomas, what position did he primarily play?
Full Back
Appearing from its creation 1958-2001, what was The Bunty’s longest running story?
The Four Mary’s
Four March sisters in age order old to young
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Played by Geoffrey Hughes, name of brother in law to hyacinth bucket in 90s tv sitcom?
Onslow
“By a lonely prison wall/ I heard a young girl calling/Michael they are taking you away…” opening lines to what song written in 1979 in style of an Irish folk ballad?
The Fields of Athenry
“pack up all my cards and woes” opening line to which 1920s standard?
Bye bye blackbird
Lady Jane Grey marry in 1553?
Guildford Dudley
The Facebook reaction emoji depicting amazement or extreme surprise is accompanied by which three letter word?
Wow
What Facebook reaction emoji with a four letter name was introduced for covid crisis but has retained ever since?
Care
In very first episode of eastenders who had murdered Reg Cox?
Nick Cotton
“She wanted to be Betty Grable” and “She sings songs for the lost and the lonely” - lines from which 1977 top 10 hit?
Pearls a Singer
What was name of the girl who had a dog named Alistair in a childrens tv programme that ended in 1974?
Crystal Tipps
Title of 1940s film that starred Cary Grant, what three words followed a chemical element, often used as a poison whose atomic number is 33?
And Old Lace
What is more specific scientific name for gullet?
Oesophagus
Hadrons are particles that interact through the strong nuclear force. What name is given to particles that do not interact in this way?
Leptons
Real first name of Rab Butler 1902-82?
Richard
Who was 6’9” actor who played Lurch the butler in the addams family?
Ted Cassidy
Three Men in a Boat names along with Montmorency the dog
J (the author), George and Harris
Jamie Cook, Nick O’Malley and Matt Helders three less famous members of which band?
Arctic Monkeys
Living from 1917-98, who was cartoonist who created the Andy Capp cartoons?
Reg Smythe
In the original 1970s tv series, what was Reggie Perrin’s middle name?
Iolanthe
In Ruth Rendell detective novels, what is name of Reg Wexford’s wife?
Dora
Two states before Hawaii and Alaska to join the USA
New Mexico and Arizona
After a traffic accident in 1972, who had 200 stitches to his face as well as 100 micro stitches inside socket of right eye?
Gordon Banks
First name of Wallace’s love interest in A Close Shave?
Wendolene
“If you hear a clap of thunder / but there is no sign of rain / then you know it must be …” whom or what?
Champion the Wonder Horse
How many feet in a chain?
66
Name the electric car battery start up from Blyth, Northumberland that went into administration on January 27th?
Britishvolt
In recent ads for Compare the Market what is name of wombat who is Aleksandr’s nephew?
Carl
Sudbury, Stowmarket and Beccles towns in which English county?
Suffolk
Earliest known ballads featuring Robin Hood from which century?
15tj
What instrument used to measure humidity of gas or the air?
Hygrometer
Guillemots are members of Alcidae family. How this family of birds more commonly known?
Auks
Kniphofia botanical name for what colourful and distinctively shaped flowers?
Red Hot Poker
What is Scotopic vision?
Being able to see in dark
On what part of body can you find Ebner’s gland and Weber’s glands ?
Tongue
Latin term for upper jawbone?
Maxilla
In 60s film Summer Holiday, the double decker bus is originally destined for the south of France. To which European capital city is destination changed?
Athens
After consumer research in mid 80s what were removed from double decker chocolate bars?
Raisins
In majority of nine dart finishes at 501, how many points altogether are scored in the 20 sectors?
420
In bridge, how many games must be won to win a rubber?
Two
Despite a lack of historical evidence that he ever lived, Little John is reputed to be buried in which Derbyshire village?
Hathersage
What three words precedes Tailors in an alternative name for table skittles played with one ball?
Devil Among the Tailors
In first series Reggie is unhappily employed as a sales executive by which company?
Sunshine Desserts
Darts what name given to act of winning a leg by hitting a single, a double and a treble of same number?
Shanghai
Little women two sequels names
Little Men or Jo’s Boys
Which actress played Ma Joad in 1940 The Grapes of Wrath for which she won best supporting actress and also the bird woman in Mary Poppins 1964?
Jane Darwell
In terms of chart hits, Little Miss Dynamite was most successful female artist of 1960s, what was stage name?
Brenda Lee
In phantom of opera managers receive instruction to leave what number box empty during performance of opera Il Muto?
Five
In 1992, song “Little Miss Can’t be Wrong” reached #23 in uk, which group performed?
Spin Doctors
What sort of foodstuff is Fougasse popular in Provence area?
Bread
Porridge Oats, Honey, whisky, raspberries and double cream are ingredients for what Scottish dessert?
Cranachan
In what year and state was Bonnie and Clyde killed?
1934 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Music hall, in title of old song Yorkshireman Joseph Jaggger said to broken what?
The Bank at Monte Carlo
What song often sung by Huckleberry Hound in cartoon show?
Oh my darling clementine
name of a farmer who is Tess husband in Tess of DUrbervilles?
Angel Clare
Played by Spike Milligan on The Goon Show, who was radio character an intellectually limited teenager who often suffered as result of schemes of arch-villain Hercules Grytpype Thynne?
Eccles
Who is former Home Secretary (1985-89) and former foreign Secretary (1989-95) who 93 in 2023?
Douglas Hurd
1984 he joined Celtic and scored 72 goals in 128 matches, won the Scottish Cup in 1985 and the Scottish league championship in 1986. signed for Nantes in 1987. He returned to Glasgow with Rangers in 1989, becoming the second player to cross the Old Firm divide since World War II (Alfie Conn was first) and the first open Catholic to play for Rangers since World War I.
Mo Johnston
Which group of islands were only US incorporated territory to be occupied by Japanese in WW2
Aleutian Islands
Raquel Welsh’s son Damon married which famous cricketer’s daughter in 1991?
Fred Trueman
Which English king was nicknamed “soft sword”?
King John
Two patrons saints of Italy? Male and female
Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena
Second year college student in USA known as sophomore, what does sophomore translate as from Greek?
Wise Fool
Near which Derbyshire town would you find Solomon’s Temple?
Buxton
Desmond Dekker’s hit Israelites was used to sell what product in an advert where lyrics were misspelt?
Maxell Tapes
More famous as location in raiders of lost ark, what former capital of egypt stood at head of Nile delta?
Tanis
Which actor played Caligula in 1979 film of same name?
Malcolm McDowell
Caligula literally means what?
Little Boots
King Alfred secured a treaty in 880AD with King of Danes - what was his name?
Guthrum
Archaeologists discovered what rare and significant Anglo Saxon artefact at Benty Grange, Monyash, Derbyshire in 1848
Boar Crested Helmet
In Norse mythology how many legs did Odin’s horse Sleipnir have?
8
How long is Bayeaux Tapestry in metres?
70 metres
In suit of armour where would you wear a Bevor?
Around the neck
According to legend, what was name of minstrel who found Richard the lionheart when he was held captive at Durnstein Castle?
Blondel
The Whitefriars Company were famous for making what?
Glassware
Chemin de Fer is variation of which card game?
Baccarat
Jazz musician Mose Allison best known for playing which instrument?
Piano
Current leader of Plaid Cymru
Adam Price
Current leader of SNP
Humza Yousaf
Current leader of DUP
Jeffrey Donaldson
Current leader of Ulster Unionist Party?
Douglas Beattie
Who is current leader of Sinn Fein since 2018
Mary Lou McDonald
Who was inaugural leader of Sinn Fein
Arthur Griffith
Current leader of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Naomi Long
Who was inaugural leader of Ulster Unionist Party?
Edward Saunderson
Who is leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party since 2015 in Ni?
Colum Eastwood
Who founded and inaugural leader of SDLP in NI in 1970?
Gerry Fitt
Leader of Welsh Conservatives since 2021?
Andrew RT Davies
Who is current leader of Plaid Cymru in Westminster?
Liz Saville Roberts
SNP Westminster leader since December 2022
Stephen Flynn
secretary Dawn Chambers in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and starring in the 2014 independent film Dear White People, portrayed an adult Monica Rambeau in Wandavision and reprising role in The Marvels (2023)?
Teyonah Parris
Who played Ms Marvel in the tv show and will also be in The Marvels 2023?
Iman Vellani
Who plays Dar-Benn: A Kree warrior who wields an Accuser’s hammer in 2023 The Marvels? Played Joyce Carol Vincent in Dreams of a Life. Also in Fresh Meat, Not Safe for Work.
Zawe Ashton
Creator and actor of Gary: Tank Commander and Howard in Fresh
Meat?
Greg McHugh
Actress plays Alison in Ghosts, Oregon in Fresh Meat, plays Alison in Dead Pixels and Barbara Gilbert in Call the Midwife.
Charlotte Ritchie
Who is Neil Sutherland in The Inbetweeners? Also played Medium Dan in Kate and Koji.
Blake Harrison
Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola about two title characters, cafe owner and an asylum seeker doctor 2020-22
Kate & Koji
Which band chose their name in the hope of finding sponsorship from the Mitchells and Butlers Brewery?
The Moody Blues
Famous for eye patch who was Israeli minister of defence during 1967 six day war?
Moshe Dayan
Sonny Liston defeated who to become world heavyweight champion in 1962?
Floyd Patterson
Who did Elvis Presley sign with in 1953-55 before off to RCA?
Sam Phillips for Sun Records
Which record label took over elvis’ sun records contract as negotiated by Colonel Tom Parker in 1955 for $35k?
RCA Records
RCA Records stands for
Radio Corporation of America
Which racing driver was kidnapped by communist revolutionaries during the 1957 cuban Grand Prix?
Juan Manuel Fangio
The Skylon and the Dome of Discovery were key attractions of which event?
Festival of Britain
In 2002 which uk singer was signed by EMI for world record of £80m?
Robbie Williams
Which driver won four consecutive world rally championships from 1996 to 1999?
Tommi Makinen
Who shot at the queen with six blanks during the 1981 trooping of the colour leading to arrest and prison time?
Marcus Sarjeant
Hot drink of port, sugar, Lemon and spice. Also, a title of monarch in Ethiopia Semitic languages.
Negus
On January 19th 1915 three Norfolk towns suffered britains first aerial bombardment. Name them?
Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Sheringham
Company Holland and Holland are best known for the manufacture of what?
Guns
Who was Annie Walker’s long suffering potman at Rovers return 1976-84?
Fred Gee
Who did Deirdre Barlow marry following a holiday in Morocco?
Samir Rachid
Jack and Vera Duckworth renamed their home 9 Coronation Street to give it a more clerical feel, what did they call it?
The Old Rectory
Robert E Lee middle name
Edward
Scott Engel and Gary Leeds were two thirds of which singing trio?
Walker Brothers
Which singer was married to legendary wolves wanderer footballer Billy Wright?
Joy Beverley
Earl van Dyke, James Jameson and Jack Ashford among others formed the Motown house band, how collectively known?
The Funk Brothers
Which blue Peter presenter played assistant Steven Taylor to William Hartnell?
Peter Purves
Which emmerdale farm regular played assistant Jamie McCrimmon to Patrick Troughton?
Fraser Hines
Which actress played assistant, Mel Bush, to Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy?
Bonnie Langford
What line follows “now is the winter of our discontent”?
Made glorious summer by this son of York
What line follows “to die, to sleep…” in Hamlet?
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay there’s the rub. That makes calamity of so long life.
Lone Ranger rode a horse called Silver, what was Tonto’s horse called?
Scout
Which country is worlds largest producer of platinum?
South Africa
The Jamnapari, Anglo Nubian and Saanen are all breeds of what animal?
Goat
In Oliver Postgate’s animated childrens tv show, Noggin the Nog, who was noggin’s arch enemy?
Nogbad the Bad
Later Foreign Secretary, who served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government?
Ernest Bevin
Which war poet is buried on the Greek island of Skyros?
Rupert Brooke
Which poet wrote epitaphs “Their name liveth for evermore”, “their glory shall not be blotted out” and “a solider of the Great War known unto God” for commonwealth war graves commission?
Rudyard Kipling
Which city’s cathedral at 247ft boasts highest church spire in Yorkshire?
Wakefield
Which east Anglian river rising in Cambridgeshire flows for 47 miles to meet North Sea at Harwich?
River Stour
Name of the mechanism which gives Northern Ireland assembly power to object to changes to EU laws that apply in Northern Ireland?
Stormont Brake
Which female Belarusian tennis player won the 2023 Australian open
Aryna Sabalenka
Which championship team beat Leicester City at King Power Stadium in 5th round of fa cup 2022/23 season?
Blackburn Rovers
Who played Douglas Reynholm, owner of Reynholm Industries, in IT Crowd?
Matt Berry
In what year did wearing crash helmet, whilst riding a motorbike or scooter, become compulsory in the UK?
1973
In 1978, Diego maradona was due to sign for whcih English club until financial difficulties ended the deal?
Sheffield United
Longest river in New Zealand
Waikato
Which snooker player would famously drink six pints of lager before each match later claiming the cost back as tax deductible expense?
Bill Werbeniuk
Comedy script writer Eddie Braben was best known for his work with which act?
Morecambe and Wise
Jerry Dammers, Terry Hall, Pauline Black and Ranking Roger were all performers associated with which musical movement founded in Coventry in late 1970s?
Two Tone
With population of 8000, what is traditional county town of Northumberland?
Alnwick
What became UK’s newest national park when it was established in 2010?
South Downs
UK’s smallest national park in 2005?
New Forest
Who wrote “The Eye of the Needle”?
Ken Follett
Who wrote “The Winds of War”?
Herman Wouk
Who wrote “Shout at the Devil”?
Wilbur Smith
Zambian born author of Courtney series, Ballantyne series and Ancient Egypt, debut novel was “When the Lion Feeds”?
Wilbur Smith
Name shared by brothers: one a Hybrid/electric car pioneer and one wrote Caine Mutiny.
Wouk (Herman and Victor)
Badger State is which US state?
Wisconsin
According to Washington Irving where did rip van winkle sleep and for how long?
Catskill Mountains for 20 years
Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar in 1957 for her role of Eva White in movie “The Three Faces of Eve”? This woman was first person to receive a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
Joanne Woodward
The third version of which video game series may well be up for children/family awards in 2023? As per previous games in series, the player choose to be an “inkling” or “octoling”. Both wield weaponry that uses coloured ink.
Splatoon
Celine Dion announced in December 2022 that she has SPS what does that mean?
Stiff Person Syndrome
Which comedian is soon to join cast of eastenders as Rita, a love interest for Mitch Baker? This keen quizzer presents “Fingers on Buzzers” podcasts alongside Jenny Ryan.
Lucy Porter
What was name of English cricket coach who died under suspicious circumstances just a few hours after his Pakistan team were knocked out of 2007 World Cup at hands of Ireland?
Bob Woolmer
First CSI spin-off was CSI: Miami. Who played Horatio Crane? This actor had career success when he appeared in first blood and then. Long run in nypd blue.
David Caruso
“Save Rock and Roll” and “Mania” were both top 5 uk studio albums for which emo band?
Fall Out Boy
Rare substance “Seastone” appears in which Japanese manga series? These stories follows adventures of Monkey D Luffy a boy whose body gained properties of rubber.
One Piece
“Dear Daniel” is boyfriend of which character who first introduced on vinyl coin purse in 1975?
Hello Kitty
Nicknamed the Velvet Fog, composed music for “the Christmas song” (chestnuts roasting on an open fire) and co-wrote lyrics with Bob Wells. His version of gave yourself a merry little Christmas was on soundtrack of John hughes (wrote and produce) home alone.
Mel Torme
Muff Winwood played guitar in which band who had 1960s number ones including “Somebody Help Me”?
Spencer Davis Group (formed in Birmingham 1963 by title guitarist and brothers Steve and Muff Winwood)
All heard of guitar hero but game released by Holy Wow in September 2022 featured what instrument? Name was _______ Champ.
Trombone
Which American actor and producer was “Gil Grissom” in CSI? Biggest hit was 1986 film Manhunter.
William Petersen
“Pretty odd” and “pray for the wicked” are studio albums from which American emo pop band?
Panic at the disco
Name the characters plays by Paul Keane and Elaine Smith in early years of neighbours. On-off romance was central storyline at this time.
Des and Daphne
Both Jim Clark and Graham Hill won the F1 driver’s championship whilst driving for what team?
Lotus
Which Jim Steinman love song provided Celine Dion with worldwide hit in 1996? Also recorded by meat loaf and Pandora’s box, ALW described as greatest love song ever written.
It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
Which Perrier comedy award nominee was Terry Spraggan, partner of Bianca in eastenders? Earlier in career, bald man had cohosted national lottery red alert with Lulu.
Terry Alderton
Imperial Gold and Celestial Bronze are fictitious minerals appearing in what book series written by Rick Riordan?
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Set in 1532, anime series follows adventures of young Spanish boy called Esteban who joins a voyage to new world in search of lost cities.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
The first Australian to coach the England mens cricket team?
Trevor Baylis
Hello Kitty closely associated with which culture beginning with K? Word translate as cuteness or lovable and prominent aspect of Japanese pop culture.
Kawaii
Which song by Spencer Davis group was used in opening credits of the film Buster? It played over a scene of Buster stealing a suit from the shop window.
Keep on Running
Annie Leibovitz Demi Moore photo naked and pregnant was august 1991 cover of which magazine?
Vanity Fair
Which actress won Best Actress Oscar in 1954 for Georgie Elgin in “The Country Girl”?
Grace Kelly
Celine Dion’s “A New Day” residency in Vegas was highest grossing all time and at what hotel? 3 million attended.
Caesar’s Palace
Which Las Vegas singer is most associated with song “Danke Schoen” as heard in John Hughes movie “ferris buellers day off”?
Wayne Newton
Which actress took role of Dr Avery Ryan in CSI Cyber, fourth series of CSI? Nic CAGE FIRST WIFE
Patricia Arquette
What was name of nosy and interfering character played by Vivean Gray in neighbours between 1986 and 1988?
Mrs Mangel
Which team was John Surtees driving for when won 1964 F1?
Ferrari
Which comedian was Andrew Cotton in Eastenders? This man was “Bulla” on 11 o clock show, and he starred and co-wrote the feature length film Big Fat Gypsy Gangster.
Ricky Grover
What was name of character played by Ian smith in neighbours between 1987-2022?
Harold bishop
Which Brazilian driver gave mclaren f1 team their first Grand Prix win in 1974?
Emerson Fittipaldi
In September 2005, which Zimbabwean was England cricket team coach when won Ashes for first time in 18 years?
Duncan Fletcher
Which band sang “Love Missile F1-11” from John hughes movie Ferris Bueller?
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
An Annie Leibovitz photo was used as cover for which singer’s 1979 live album “Steppin’ Out”? Tracks include “Love and Affection”.
Joan Armatrading
The song “keep on running” hit the charts again in 1996 when it was released by what actor? He played Billy Ray on itv series London Burning (1993-98).
John Alford
Which American singer songwriter died in 2019 regarded as leading figure in Emo Rap? Scored top ten hit with Lucid Dreams and Come & Go.
Juice Wrld
Current northern premier league from Crosby who reached 3rd round of fa cup in 2021?
Marine
What was name of Celine dion husband and manager? On her voice in 80s he mortgage his house and made her a star.
Rene Angelil
Which band sang Pretty in Pink from John Hughes movie of the same name?
The Psychedelic Furs
What role did Anne Haddy play in Neighbours between 1985 and 1997?
Helen Daniels
What is name of fictional mineral being mined for in planet Pandora on Avatar?
Unobtainium
Hello Kitty surname?
White
Which comedian has played role of Tom “Rocky” Cotton since 2021? As a comedian his most well known catchphrase was “it’s a puppet!”?
Brian Conley
In 1999, the actor John Alford was convicted of supplying drugs to which New of the World undercover reporter? Later convicted of perverting course of justice was nicknamed the Fake Sheikh.
Mazher Mahmood
Which Cape Town bron English cricketer who resigned from international cricket due to stress and anxiety, had been head coach of Afghanistan since 2022?
Jonathan Trott
Aqua’s song “turn back time” was #1 in 1998, music video heavily based on scenes from what film same year starring John Hannah and Gwyneth Paltrow?
Sliding Doors
Where was F1 British Grand Prix held in even numbered years between 1963 and 1986? Found West Kingsdown, Kent, now owned by Jonathan Palmer.
Brands Hatch
What lively and somewhat risqué show tune opens act 2 of Oliver!? Sing by Nancy at the Three Cripples tavern.
Oom Pah Pah
Which English actor has catchphrases Ding Dong and Hello? Died in 2022.
Leslie Phillips
1994 revival of Oliver in West End had several child actors including which man whose band had uk number one in 2007 with “Baby’s Coming Back” and “Transylvania”?
Tom Fletcher
Jonathan Ross wife name. Written Stardust, Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men First Class and Kick-Ass.
Jane Goldman
Farah Fawcett left her art to Uni of Texas in Will, found that Andy Warhol painting missing. After legal battle courts decided painting belonged to what man, the father of Fawcett’s only child?
Ryan O’Neal
Screenwriting duo who created popular sitcoms starting from the mid-1960s until the mid-1990s such as Please Sir!, The Good Life, Get Some In!, Ever Decreasing Circles, and Brush Strokes.
Esmonde and Larbey
1958 jidaigeki (period drama) by Akira Kurosawa tells story of two peasants who agree to escort man and woman across enemy lines for gold stars Toshiro Mifune as General Rokurota and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.
The Hidden Fortress
Two part French film by Marcel Carne produced under war conditions in 1943/44/45 in both Vichy France and occupied France. Set in 1830s paris tells story of courtesan (played by Arletty) and four men - a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat.
Children of Paradise
Whcih man was nominated for best supporting actor in Oliver!? Played artful dodger.
Jack Wild
Frank Loesser wrote which Guys and Dolls song taking viewpoint of Sky Masterson who hopes he will win a bet the outcome of which will decide whether or not he is able to save relationship with girl of dreams?
Luck be a lady
Where was F1 British Grand Prix located in 1926? This concrete track located near Weybridge in Surrey is now major motoring and aviation museum.
Brooklands
American composer and lyricist who produced Bat Out of Hell with Meat Loaf, wrote Total Eclipse Of the Heart, Air Supply’s Making Love Out of Notjing at All, Meat Loaf’s I’d do anything for love (but I won’t do that), boy zone’s No Matter What.
Jim steinman
Martha Plimpton, Goonies and raising Hope, part of which famous acting family? Member of this family died Bangkok hotel room.
Carradines
Who was only other British driver other than hamilton to take a pole position in 2021 Grand Prix season? This Belgian-Brit driving for mclaren was born in Bristol.
Lando Norris
Alan lake was third and final husband of which English actress and singer who lived from 1931-84?
Diana Dors
Which 1998 movie starred Jason Schwartzman as Max and Olivia Williams as Rosemary? The movie tells story of a school pupil who falls for his teacher. This film launched career of wes Anderson.
Rushmore
Which comedian and tv presenter’s catchphrase was “ooh! I could crush a grape”? Even released a 1983 single under that name.
Stu Francis
The Manchester band “The Mock Turtles” achieved some chart success in 1991 with “can you dig it”. Lead singer James was elder brother of what man a comedian whose creations include Gareth Cheeseman.
Steve Coogan
Who was only British driver to win a race in 2022 formula one season? Did so at São Paulo Grand Prix while driving for Mercedes’.
George Russell
Andrew Lloyd Webber is probably most associated with Tim rice but who wrote lyrics for Starlight Express (1984)? Man appeared over 200 times in countdown’s Dictionary Corner.
Richard Stilgoe
Which Mexican driver won Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2021? Nicknamed Checo or The Mexican Wunderkind he drove for Red Bull-Honda.
Sergio Perez
Where was F1 British Grand Prix located in odd numbered years between 1955 and 1962?
Aintree
Winning in 1980, last f1 champion from Australia?
Alan Jones
Who starred as title character in 1968 Oliver!? Persistent rumour suggests he is real father of michael Jackson ’s children.
Mark Lester
Laurel and Hardy costar, scotsman James Finlayson, often credited as originator of what catchphrase, now much more commonly associated with a cartoon character?
Doh
Who first used the catchphrase “if its up there I’ll give you the money myself”? This man did not let the death of his comedy partner Dustin Gee hold back his career.
Les Dennis
Driving for Alfa Romeo who became first Chinese man to drive for F1 in 2022?
Zhou Guanyu
Now a knight, which actor was one of Fagin’s pickpocketing gang in original 1960 west end run of Oliver! The musical? His tv credits include The Worst Jobs in History, Walking through History, dreadful sitcom Big Top and narrating the fly in the wall doc Airline.
Tony Robinson
Who played Monica Lewinsky in series American Crime Story: Impeachment?
Beanie Feldstein
1996 Demi moore paid 12.5 million dollars to star in what panned movie?
Striptease
The actor James Mason had a famous daughter in law. Who is she? American singer had early career as part of the band who scored highly with “we got the beat” in U.S. charts of 1982.
Belinda Carlisle
Perfection, Nevada an isolated settlement in high desert east of Sierra Nevada mountains is located of which 1990 movie? Giant prehistoric worms named Snakeoids are hungry for human flesh.
Tremors.
Who played Bela Lugosi in 1994 Ed Wood winning Oscar?
Martin Landau
“Awight” was catchphrase from which tv presenter in 1980s and 1990s?
Michael Barrymore
After Nigella Lawson, Charles Saatchi is now in relationship with which fashion expert who works with susannah Constantine?
Trinny Woodall
Who was most likely to be heard shouting “come on down”! On original uk run of price is right between 1994 and 1998? He had beat Joe brown for the role.
Leslie Crowther
Winning in 1967 who is only f1 world champion from New Zealand?
Denny Hulme
Who would say “you’ll like this, not a lot”? This man achieved international fame through eponymous show whcih tan on bbc from 1979-1994.
Paul Daniels
Who was first premier league player to win titles with two different teams?
Henning Berg - Blackburn and man u
Yellowstone tv show starring Kevin Costner as John Dutton III has two prequels with which two years?
1883
1923
In 1979 which Tory Mp and shadow sec of state for NI was killed car bomb in Westminster car park by ira?
Airey Neave
Disease malaria caused by plasmodium, single called parasitic organism transmitted by which Genus of mosquito?
Anopheles
Lake Powell formed by Glen canyon dam between which two states
Utah and arizona
Which eponymous principle states that “roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes”? Concept first developed by Joseph M Juran after inspired by works of economist for which principle is named.
Pareto Principle
In 1990, which Tory Mp for Eastbourne killed outside his East Sussex home by car bomb planted by Irish nationalists? Earlier in career, worked with Airey Neave to develop policy in NI.
Ian Gow
Named for creator, which London dry gin has been uk leading brand since 19th century? Owned by Diageo it is sold in green in uk but clear in export market.
Gordon’s
Eleanor of Aquitaine’s court not located in Province of Aquitaine itself but instead in which French city? Dukes of Aquitaine’s were also counts of this city the site of a major battle of 100 years war.
Poitiers
Which 20th century German mathematician made important discoveries in field of topology and Algebra and named two theorems of mathematical physics? Also lends name to moon crater.
Emmy Noether
British peer and racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II from 1969. Died on 9/11 watching news from Highclere Castle. Portrayed on The Crown.
Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Porchester, “Porchey”
In which 2022 tv series did Sylvester Stallone make his scripted tv series debut? Co-created by Taylor Sheridan, Stallone stars as a Mafia Capo who is sent to titular Oklahoma City.
Tulsa King
For each of five years prior to The Signalman, the BBC’s a ghost story for Christmas featured programmes based on stories by which medieval scholar and provost of Kings College Cambridge?
MOntague Rhodes James
Whcih Scottish scientist and polymath was elected honorary member of the royal astronomical society alongside Caroline Herschel? She gives her name in moon crater as well as college at Oxford uni and currently features on RBS £10 note.
Mary Somerville
Which tv series cocreated by Taylor Sheridan stars jeremy renner and Dianne wiest as members of a family who control activities in titular Michigan prison town?
Mayor of Kingstown
Schalcken the Painter on bbc in 1979, adaptation of short story by which Irish author?
Sheridan Le Fanu
Which British artist created a poster entitled Love for the London 2012 Olympics? Although this creator sounds like they may be brother and sister it’s actually pseudonym of Reading born Patrick Brill?
Bob and Roberta Smith
Eleanor of Aquitaine, along with Henry II and Richard I, was buried in which French abbey in Loire Valley? It was disestablished as a monastery during French Revolution and served as prison until 1963.
Fontevraud
Which British artist designed a poster for 2012 Olympics entitled Swimming? In 1985 this artist became the second person to win the Turner Prize and he passed away in 2017.
Howard Hodgkin
In 1984, which conservative Mp for Enfield Southgate killed when Irish nationalists bombed grand hotel in Brighton? Subsequent by/election won by Michael Portillo.
Anthony Berry
One of Taylor Sheridan’s best known acting roles prior to transition into screenwriting was in which Kurt Sutter tv series? In this show, Sheridan played Deputy David Hale a police officer in small Californian town who is killed during a drive-by shooting.
Sons of Anarchy
The fictional mineral tiberium, which must be collected as ore and refined, is the main resource in which video game franchise? Instalments in this franchise include Red Alert and Generals.
Command and Conquer
Which eponymous self referential law states that “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take this law into account”? This concept was first developed in a 1979 book by the author.
Hofstadter’s Law
Now owned by Pernod Ricard, which brand of gin dates to 1863 and is fourth best selling in world? With a distillery in Kennington, this brands name reflects London origins.
Beefeater
In 2007, a repeat of the original A Ghost Story for Christmas series was accompanied by The Haunted Airman a film starring Robert Pattinson. Film was adaptation of novel The Haunting of Toby Jugg by which best selling author also known for The Devil Rides Out?
Dennis Wheatley
Law says work expands to fill time available for completion?
Parkinson’s Law
Who starred as private detective John Shaft in 1971’s Shaft one of most iconic blaxploitation movies of era?
Richard Rowntree
In which state of USA is Fort Peck Lake? It was formed by its namesake dam, furthest upstream of major dams on Missouri River.
Montana
Which Irish-British astronomer lends her name to crater on moon and is best known for recording first evidence of cyclical movement of sunspots from poles toward the equator? Elected in 1916.
Annie Scott Dill Maunder
Prior to marriage to Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to Louis VII. Became estranged and annulled on what grounds? Means too closely related.
Consanguinity
Since 1956, the Indian government had prohibited travel within three miles of which island in Bay of Bengal? This island is home to an isolated tribe who are hostile to outsiders, most recently killing an American missionary in 2018.
North Sentinel Island
Which brand of London dry gin, named for founder, is also owned by Diageo and is third best selling in world? Sold in distinctive green bottles it introduced higher ABV brand known as Number Ten in 2000.
Tanqueray
Which malarial treatment discovered by Tu Youyou and her research team in 1972 is extracted from sweet wormwood plant? It has greater efficacy than quinine and it’s discovery wss breakthrough.
Artemisin
In 1882, which liberal MP was stabbed to death by Irish nationalists in Phoenix Park, Dublin? Had been sworn in as chief sec of Ireland he was not target of murder plot.
Lord Frederick Cavendish
In February 2022, which Leicester tigers scrum half surpassed Jason Leonard as most capped player in history of England mens rugby Union team?
Ben Youngs
Name meaning finger pressure, Japanese form of alternative medicine invokes joint manipulation, acupressure and massage?
Shiatsu
In 1980, which Australian became the first non British conductor to conduct Last Night of the Proms?
Charles Mackerras
Located on Mount of Remembrance in Western Jerusalem what is name of Israel’s official memorial to victims of holocaust?
Yad Vashem
Which Netflix comedy series starring Steve Carell and John Malkovich and based on sixth branch of us armed forces, cancelled in 2022?
Space Force
In george Eliot’s Middlemarch, what is occupation of Tertius Lydgate? He shares this profession with Charles Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
Doctor
Copa Libertadores de America is most prestigious competition in South American football. Which Brazilian side based on Rio de Janeiro are current holders and most successful team from that city?
Flamengo
Written as tribute to their late guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, 2000 Miles was a 1983 festive hit for which new wave band?
The Pretenders
Name of fourteen year old who in 1858 had visions in Lourdes
Bernadette Soubirous
At over 4500m high, Ras Dashen is highest point of which African country? It located in Simien Mountains.
Ethiopia
Which musician plays Vect Nokru in 2022 Obi Wan Kenobi?
Flea
Who played Jolene in The Queens Gambit and Reva Sevander/the Third Sister in Obi Wan Kenobi?
Moses Ingram
Which passerine bird is member of finch family and derives name from fondness for hemp and flax seeds?
Linnet
What type of enthalpy can be stated as strength of the forces between ions in an ionic solid? This type of enthalpy is named for the structured pattern adopted by ions in a solid.
Lattice Enthalpy
Mandalorian real name as per Pedro Pascal
Din Djarin
MPs Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn and Philip Davies all represent constituencies in which modern English county?
West Yorkshire
Which country has won eurovision only once, 1986 with song Jaime Le vie by Sandra Kim?
Belgium
Which Uruguayan club won first two Copa Libertadores competitions in 1960 and 1961 and appeared in ten finals overall? Dominated urugay football alongside Montevideo neighbours Nacional.
Atletico Penarol
Highest peak in Sahara, it is located in Tibesti Mountains, in Chad?
Emi Koussi
Meadow, tree and water are three species of which passerine bird of genus Anthus to be found in Uk?
Pipit
Which Chilean football club based in Santiago are only side from country ever to win the Copa Libertadores doing so in 1991?
Colo-Colo
Which car manufacturer a subsidiary of TATA Motors is holder of three royal warrants? Named after two brands.
Jaguar Land Rover
MPs Damian Green, Greg Clark and Laura Trott all represent constituencies in which modern English county?
Kent
Monaco won eurovision in 1971 with Severine singing which song?
Un Banc, Un Arbre, Un Rue
Which 2022 Disney+ series is direct prequel to movie Rogue One and by extension original Star Wars? Diego Luna stars as titular thief who is converted to cause of rebel alliance.
Andor
Three kingdoms of Korea history 57BC to 668ce?
Goguryeo
Baekje
Silla
MPs Suella Braverman, Maria Miller and Desmond Swayne all represent constituencies in which county?
Hampshire
Which country has won eurovision once doing so in 2007 with song Molitva by Marija Serifovic?
Serbia
Which village in county Mayo was reported site of Marian apparition in summer of 1879? The village is now pilgrimage site attracting over one million visitors per year.
Knock
Which London based gunmaker a holder of three royal warrants was founded in 1814 and manufacturers bespoke shotguns and rifles for royal family?
James Purdey and Sons
Lattice enthalpy cannot be measured directly but can be calculated via the application of which process, named for the two scientists who developed it in 1919?
Born-Haber cycle
Which Argentinian football team based in Buenos Aires still holds record for most Copa Libertadores titles despite not reaching a final since 1984?
Independiente
Charadrius morinellus is which species of wading bird? Member of plover family this birds name is also an antiquated term for stupid or foolish old man.
Dotterel
Who was first person to win Pulitzer Prize for LiterTure twice, for Magnificent Ambersons in 1919 and Alice Adams in 1922?
Booth Tarkington
Which actor player French poet ARTHUR RIMBAUD a stated influence on Bob Dylan in Im Not There? Actor has been bafta nominated five times including tv roles for Richard II in The Hollow Crown and Norman Scott in A Very English Scandal.
Ben Whishaw
Hundred Mile High City was second top 5 single for which British rock band formed in Solihull in 1989? They had earlier reached top five with The Day We Caught the Train.
Ocean Colour Scene
Which US author was second person to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice? Won for A Fable in 1955 and again The Reivers in 1963 year after death.
William Faulkner
Another triple royal warrant holder, which company based on Chancery Lane are robemakers for royal family? Perhaps better known for academic dress for unis and wigs for legal profession.
Ede & Ravenscroft
MPs Andrea Leadsom, Peter Bone and Philip Hollobone are which county’s constituencies?
Northamptonshire
Mount Tahat is highest peak of which African country? It is located in Hoggar Mountains in Sahara.
Algeria
In which 2021 Disney+ series does Pedro Pascal reprise his role as Din Djarin? Temuera Morrison plays title character of this series, bounty hunter who previously appeared in empire strikes back and return of Jedi.
The Book of Boba Fett
2007, which Finnish formula one driver flying Finn won only world title while driving for Ferrari?
Kimi Raikkonen
Similar to curlew, the black-tailed and the bar-tailed are two uk species of which shorebird of genus Limosa?
Godwit
Which village now suburb of Mexico City gives its name to 16th century Marian apparition in which Virgin Mary said to have left image in cloak? Basilica now major catholic pilgrimage site.
Villa de Guadelupe
The Born-Haber cycle is an application of which law that states that the enthalpy change in a chemical reaction is independent of the path by which the chemical change takes place?
Hess’ Law
Which Montserrat born artist became oldest winner of Turner Prize when she won the award in 2022?
Veronica Ryan
In Le Morte d’Arthur, which knight of the round table returns Excalibur to the lady of the lake following arthur death?
Sir Bedivere
Which French architect designed the ARC DU TRIOMPHE IN PARIS BUT DIED IN 1811 before project could be completed?
Jean Chalgrin
Name given to protein shell of a virus that encloses its genetic material?
Capsid
Which Italian brand the oldest continually operated cycling company in world traditionally produces bikes in distinctive turquoise hue called Celeste?
Bianchi
Which British comedy that lasted only one six episode series was tv adaptation of radio On The Hour and featured Chris Morris as newsreader of parody programme. Followed by Brass Eye.
The Day Today
Which king of France who ascended in 1830 forced to abdicate in French Revolution of 1848? Spent remaining years in exile of uk.
Louis Phillippe
Which 1962 drama did kartherine hepburn star alongside Ralph Richardson? Adaptation of Eugene o Neil play they both won Cannes awards for roles as Mary and James Tyrone’s
Long Days Journey Into Night
678m high skyscraper Merdeka 118 located in which city? Worlds second tallest building after Burj Khalifa and 200m taller than other building in city which was once worlds tallest.
Kuala Lumpur
Which British comedy, that lasted only one six episode series starred Rik Mayall as an out of work comedian, Adrian edmonson as minder and nigel planer as sleazy agent?
Filthy, Rich and Catflap
Which franchise selected Joe Burrow as first overall draft pick in 2020 nfl draft? He has been franchise starting QB since then and has lined up alongside Jamarr Chase and Tee Higgins.
Cincinnati Bengals
Which object arrived at Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2 in January 2023?
James Webb Space Telescope
Mexico: what name given to distilled spirits made from agave plant? Tequila made from blue agave is N example of this spirit.
Mezcal
Which highly regarded Rococo artist produced more than 550 paintings during latter decades of Ncien regime, including a Young Girl Reading and The Bolt both in 1770s?
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Which 2002 biographical Michael Winterbottom movie about Factory Records was given the catalogue number FAC401 despite label having gone bankrupt ten years earlier?
24 hour party people
Which franchise selected Trevor Lawrence as first overall draft pick in 2021 nfl draft? Starting QB ever since and lined up alongside Christian Kirk and Jamal Agnew.
Jacksonville Jaguars
In which 1975 western film did Katherine Hepburn star alongside John Wayne? Wayne plays title characyer of this movie a sequel to 1969 True Grit.
Rooster Cogburn
What is the compound word used to describe businesses such as PayPal, Square and RobinHood that utilise modern computing power and internet to facilitate global commerce and transactions?
Fintech
Which 1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy follows a teenage runaway who joins a gang of Indian hunters near the US-Mexican border? His story is punctuated by encounters with the hairless, seven foot tall figure of Judge Holden.
Blood Meridian
Lee Harvey Oswald also shot and seriously injured which governor of Texas who was riding in the presidential limousine when the Kennedy assassination took place?
Governor John Connally
In which Middle Eastern city is the Abram Al Bait complex of Towers also known as The Clock Towers? They form part of endownment of King Abdulaziz and the tallest of them is 601m, 4th tallest building in world?
Mecca
In March 2023 which athlete broke womens indior British record in long jump? Crowned European champion, 7m jump.
Jazmin Sawyers
Which broadcaster and journalist founded Factory Records alongside Alan Erasmus? Upon his death in 2007, his coffin was given the catalogue number FAC501.
Tony Wilson
What name given to the large group of asteroids that orbit Lagrange points L4 and L5 between Jupiter and Sun?
Trojans
What name is given to spirit made by distilling fermented grape juice that is made in chile and especially Peru? A sour made with this as the base spirit in cocktails.
Pisco
The catalogue number FAC511 was given to a poster about a memorial event for which man, manager of joy division and new order? A partner in both factory records and the hacienda, portrayed by paddy Considine in 24 hour party people.
Rob Gretton
Who was emperor of Russia from 1825-55? Helped Austrians crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and later led into Crimean war.
Nicholas I
Which British comedy tv show that lasted one six episode series was created by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness and presented as fictional 1980s horror series with commentary from writer and director?
Garth Merengi’s Darkplace
What term for a hairstyle with central ridge of upright hair? Play on the name of a similar type of cut in which sides of head are shaved.
Fauxhawk
In which 1959 southern gothic mystery did Katherine Hepburn star alongside Montgomery Clift? Movie based on Tennessee Williams play and features Hepburn as aunt of Elizabeth Taylor’s character a young woman being evaluated for a lobotomy.
Suddenly Last Summer
Which 1992 Cormac McCarthy novel comprises the first of his Border Trilogy? Novel follows John Grady Cole who travels into Mexico looking for work and finds romance with ranch owners daughter Alejandra.
All the Pretty Horses
Which franchise selected the 2019 nfl Draft first pick Kyler Murray? This franchises starting QB since then and has lined up alongside DeAndre Hopkins and Zach Ertz.
Arizona Cardinals
Warren Commission also concludes that which Dallas police officer was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald around 45 mins after assassination of John F Kennedy?
JD Tippit
In which 1985 black comedy film did Katherine Hepburn star alongside Nick Nolte? In her final starring film role, Hepburn plays title character an elderly widow who hires Noltes hitman to kill her.
Grace Quigley
In which city is the Ping An International Finance Centre? It was topped out in 2015 and at 599m high is currently worlds fifth highest building.
Shenzhen
In February 2023, which athlete broke Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s British record in high jump? This athlete originally competed in Heptathlon before focusing on high jump.
Morgan Lake
Which master of Rococo painting was inspired by work of Jean-Antoine Watteau and achieved huge popularity for paintings of mythological scenes such as 1740s Triumph of Venus?
Francois Boucher
Which American astronomer gives his name to regions of the asteroid belt where a low density of asteroids is observed? In these regions, orbital resonance with Jupiter causes asteroids to be ejected from belt:
Kirkwood Gaps
Which welsh singer 1996 hit I Love You Always Forever spent 9 weeks at #2 on billboard hot 100 without ever making it to #1?
Donna Lewis
Which franchise selected Baker Mayfield as the first overall draft pick in 2018 nfl draft? He was this franchise’s starting QB until his 2022 trade to Carolina panthers and while at this franchise alongside Nick Chubb and Donovan Peoples-Jones.
Cleveland Browns
Which Pope served from 1846-78, a reign that saw the permanent loss of the Papal States to the kingdom of Italy? He was initially seen as a champion of liberalism but his policies took a sharp change in direction following revolutions of 1848.
Pius IX
Which British comedy tv show that lasted only one six episode series, featured Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson as cabin crew on fictional airline Air Scotia flying out of Prestwick Airport?
The High Life
Kingswear Castle, a Grade I listed fort dating to the end of the 15th century was built to protect the harbour of which town in Devon?
Dartmouth
Which British rock band recorded the 1967 concept album Days of Future Passed?
The Moody Blues
Which French musician and physician is credited with invention of the stethoscope in 1816?
Rene Laennec
Which jockey rode Affirmed to American Triple Crown victory in 1978 the last horse to win until American pharoah in 2015?
Steve Cauthen
The English architect and classicist Michael Ventris was a central figure in the decipherment of which ancient Mycenaean Greek script?
Linear B
Which itv show the second most watched tv drama of 2022 starred Vicky McClure as an army veteran now working as bomb disposal expert for met police?
Trigger Point
Which Indian hockey player scored a reputed 570 international goals by some distance highest of all time? Won three consecutive Olympic gold medals with India between 1928 and 1936.
Dhyan Chand
Which strictly numerical programming language that can be displayed as a series of binary instructions is most basic code through which a programmer may typically deliver instructions to a computer?
Machine Code
Which Trinidadian Marxist historian wrote The Black Jacobins, a history of Haitian Revolution and Beyond a Boundary which combines memoir social commentary and cricket?
CLR James
In video gaming what four letter word is used to describe the reconfiguration of a. Character or weapon to make it less powerful? This action has recently been performed on kv broadside shotgun in call of duty modern warfare 2.
Nerf
Which creator god in Egyptian mythology is father of Shu and Tefnut? Often named interchangeably with sun god Ra.
Atum
What name given to a corporate defence against hostile takeovers in which target company attempts to turn
Tables on prospective buyer by acquiring stock in that company?
PAC Man Defence
In computer programming, what term is used to describe a programming language such as Python or Java that has a significant degree of abstraction from machine code? This type of language may use natural language elements and allows developers to write complex programs with less efforts than writing in machine code.
High-level language
Which Japanese architect won Pritzker prize in 2014? Known for innovative use of cardboard in disaster relief.
Shigeru Ban
Which religious movement of middle ages initially led by John Wycliffe, demanded reform of western Christianity? It was unsurprisingly condemned as heretical by the dominant Catholic Church.
Lollardism
Which bbc series was most watched uk tv drama of 2022? In this show Jamie Dornan starred as a man who wakes up in an outback hospital with no memory of who he is.
The Tourist
Which English academic of the new left movement wrote the 1957 book The Uses of Literacy? His two sons become journalists one in politics and one on tv.
Richard Hoggart
Which designer created a gold bullfighter bolero, was creative director of Hermes 2003-10, fragrances Classique and Le Male?
Jean-Paul Gaultier
With 348 international goals which Pakistani player is highest goal scorer in modern field hockey? A penalty corner expert, this defenders drag flick conversion rate of over 60% marks him out as one of greatest of all time.
Sohail Abbas
Which comedian has been host of bbc radio 4’s The News Quiz since 2020 and also works as statistician on Test Match Special?
Andy Zaltzmann
Whcih Jamaican born Marxist sociologist of New Left succeeded Richard Hoggart as director of the centre for contemporary cultural studies at Birmingham university? First editor in chief of New Left Review and developed the encoding and decoding model of communication.
Stuart Hall
Which religious movement of Middle Ages arose in kingdom of Bohemia and like Lollardism was precursor to Protestant reformation? Movements founder executed Heresy in 1415.
Hussites
What name given to chain of events in 1970 that began when Quebec separatist group the FLQ kidnapped the vice premier of Quebec Pierre Laporte and a British diplomat James Cross?
October Crisis
Also known as Shareholder Rights Plan, what alliterative name given to corporate defence tactic in which shareholders are typically offered shares at a discount should any individuals holding reach a certain point? In 2022, Twitter announced they were implementing this provision in face of takeover bid from Musk.
Poison Pill Defence
With 244 international goals, who is the all time leading goal scorer for Australia’ mens hockey team? Widely regarded as one of best of modern era, man wannthree consecutive medals at Olympics beginning with gold at athens 2004.
Jamie Dwyer
Which bbc drama of 2022 starred Martin FreemN S a police officer working night shifts in liverpool following demotion from inspector? Series went directly up against itv trigger point and was fourth most watched drama in 2022
The Responder
In 2021, who replaced Jane Garvey as a secondary presenter on bbc radio 4’s woman’s hour? A regular face on tv, lead presenter on Countryfile since 2015 too.
Anita Rani
According to Prose Edda, which figure in Norse mythology was formed from venom that dropped from icy rivers of the Elivagar? Ancestor of all jotnar, his body parts were used by Odin, Vili and Ve to create earth and heavens.
Ymir
The Hall-Heroult process is major industrial process for extraction of which element via electrolysis of its oxide mixed with molten cryolite?
Aluminium
In video gaming, what four letter word is used to describe the current optimal strategy to play a game, including the best weapon loadout?
Meta
The Claus Process is the major industrial process for extraction of which element from rAw unrefined natural gas or gaseous by products of other industrial processes?
Sulphur
Designer Daniel Day is better known by which DD name and New York boutique helped introduce high fashion into hip hop in 1980s and 1990s?
Dapper Dan
In 1997, who became first female composer to win Oscar for best musical or comedy score doing so for Emma? Further nominations for Cider House Rules and Chocolat.
Rachel Portman
Name either of twin brother and sister who in Japanese creation myth were seventh and final generation of deities called kami. They begat the Eight great islands of Japan and various gods including Amaterasu.
Izanagi or Izanami
What name is given to a program which translates the entire source code of a high level computer language into machine code? These programs differ from interpreters which translate source code one instruction at a time.
Compiler
With 147 international goals, who is all time leading British goal scorer in mens international field hockey? Active 2006-21 he went to three consecutive Olympic Games with Great Britain but never did better than a fourth place finish at London in 2012.
Ashley Jackson
Which defence against hostile takeovers involves preventing shareholders with a stake of more than 10% from converting securities into voting stock? The name is reference to idea that large investors are retained whilst allowing smaller ones to leave.
Lobster Trap
What three words phrase did Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau use when asked by Tim Ralfe how far he would go in suspension of civil liberties during October crisis? This phrase was repeated by trudeU’s own son Justin during his campaign for leadership of liberal party.
Just Watch Me
With a title similar to that of 1989 Peter greenWY film, which 2022 itv series featured Eddie Marsan as real life figure of John Darwin who faked death while kayaking? Third most watched in uk 2022.
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
Which Christian movement of Languedoc region of France notably asserted that there was a good god and an evil god, a belief that led to adherents being heavily persecuted by Catholic Church? Movements name derives from medieval for pure as they considered themselves good Christian’s.
Catharism
Which statute did Pierre Trudeau invoke in response to October crisis, three days after saying “just watch me”? This act removes right of habeas corpus and 1970 remains the only occasion when it has been invoked during peacetime.
War Measures Act
Which primordial being in Chinese creation myth emerged from cosmic egg to separate yin From yang and with them Earth from sky? As with Ymir, after his death his body parts became parts of the world including his eyes becoming sun and moon.
Pangu
Solvay Process is major industrial process used to produce which inorganic compound from relatively inexpensive precursors of brine and limestone?
Sodium Carbonate
Which German architect and engineer was awarded the 2015 Pritzker Prize shortly before death? Known for membrane like roof of Olympic stadium in Munich.
Frei Otto
Which left wing English academic and literary theorist wrote 1983’s Literary Theory: An Introduction and 2011’s Marx was Right?
Terry Eagleton
In call of duty game series, what four letter word is used to describe a modifier that grants. PlYer additional abilities in online play?
Perk
Could I Leave You, I’m Still Here and Losing My Mind are songs from which Stephen Sondheim musical? 2017 production had Imelda Staunton as former showgirl Sally Plummer.
Follies
What name given to set of Jewish and early Christian religious ideas in which personal spiritual knowledge is seen as taking precedence over orthodox teachings? Deriving name from Greek for “having knowledge” it was condemned as heretical by orthodox Christian figures.
Gnosticism
What two word name is given to last resort defence against hostile takeover that involves deliberately making a company less attractive to a prospective buyer? Named for a military strategy, examples including taking on substantial debt or selling off assets.
Scorched Earth defence
Who wrote score for 1990s movies Tom and Viv and Wilde? She was voted most popular living composer in 2022 classic fm ball of fame with her work The Glorious Garden placing fourth overall. She is composer in residence at classic fm.
Debbie Wiseman
Which low level programming language is a level of abstraction higher than machine code and allows programmers to write human readable programs that correspond very closely to it?
Assembly Language
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, which word of French origin is an oval with a line at one end that indicates the text contained within is a royal name?
Cartouche
What was name of Japanese Akita dog, renowned for loyalty, who waited at Shibuya Station each day for nine years after master death in 1925?
Hachiko
Which city in Illinois was named by Joseph smith after 1839 purchase by Latter Day Saints? Most followers moved to Salt Lake City after smiths death.
Nauvoo
Which composer is known for 1964 composition “In C” and his 1969 LP A Rainbow in Curved Air?
Terry Riley
Which Spanish cyclist has won the most medals in mens world Road race championships? He won two silver medals and four bronzes before becoming world champion himself in 2018?
Alejandro Valverde
Which crime author has died aged 84 in Los Angeles? She served 5 years in prison aged 15 under her birth name Juliet Hulme and was played by Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures, the Peter Jackson film based on her case.
Anne Perry
Rachel Joyce wrote the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012, and also won the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year for what book, made into a 2023 film? Title character played by Jim Broadbent.
The UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
Kenyan sprinter 100m commonwealth 2022 gold champion, 9th fastest man of all time at 9.77 seconds in 2021.
Ferdinand Omanyala
Who played Gianni Versace in 2018 assassination of Guiana Versace: American crime story? Born Venezuela 1977.
Edgar Ramirez
Who played bill Clinton in the 2021 impeachment American crime story? Sarah Paulson played Linda Tripp (who recorded the calls between bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky).
Clive Owen
Crocodile Dundee first name
Michael
The English cultural theorist with the surname Hebdige is the title character of which 1997 book, adapted on Amazon Prime in 2016?
I Love Dick
Ten Percent by Double Exposure was the first commercially available what?
12 inch single
What are listed in a catalogue raisonné?
Artists complete works
Which radical group assembled at St George’s Hill, Surrey in 1649?
Diggers (True Levellers)
Which animal breastfeeds for up to eight years?
Orangutan
Meteorologist James Stagg recommended the date for what event?
D Day Landings
CPIH inflation index stands for
Consumer price index housing
Who was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery?He gained immense power by using his position as Adolf Hitler’s private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.
Martin Bormann
Benin largest city
Cotonou
Name of “hands-off, eyes on” Ford technology signed off for use in April 2023 in the UK?
BlueCruise
Lingala for “one who stops the flow of rivers”, what is a water-dwelling entity that supposedly lives in the Congo River Basin, sometimes described as a living creature, sometimes as a spirit. Those that have allegedly seen the creature describe it as a large quadrupedal herbivore with smooth skin, a long neck and a single tooth, sometimes said to be a horn.
Mokele-mbembe
Info on Grand National 2023 winner
Winner of 2023 Grand National: Corach Rambler
Jockey: Derek Fox (who won with One for Arthur in 2017)
Trainer: Lucinda Russell (trained One for Arthur too and partner of jockey Peter Scudamore)
TEU used in logistics and stands for
Twenty-foot equivalent unit
What is the only municipio or district of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea, and many Romans spend the summer holidays there.
Ostia
his screen acting debut on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995, he portrayed the lead role on the short-lived series Opposite Sex in 2000 before landing his breakthrough role the following year as Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007).
Milo Ventimiglia
Married couple characters and actors in Married with Children
Al Bundy - Ed O Neill
Peg Bundy (nee Wanker) - Katey Sagal
Americans call coriander what,
Cilantro
Americans call rocket food what,
Arugula
Nine Years War dates
1688-97
Largest freshwater lake in China, site of a 1363 battle between the rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang during the Red Turban Rebellion which led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty?
Poyang Lake
The Italian American expression “capiche” means what in translation?
Understand?
French company known for its bus-stop advertising systems, billboards, public bicycle rental systems, and street furniture. It is the largest outdoor advertising corporation in the world.
JCDecaux
In software terms what does DTP stand for?
Desktop Publishing
Type of undead creature from old English for corpse in fantasy fiction mostly.
Lich
Southernmost city in the world found in Tierra Del Fuego Argentina province?
Ushuaia
Part of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the islands were known from 1787 until 2010 as the Queen Charlotte Islands, and colloquially as “the Charlottes”. Now known as what, archipelago of British Columbia
Haida Gwaii
First series of Race Around the World UK finished which country?
Singapore
Second series of Race AROUND THE WORLD UK ENDED IN Ushuaia and started in which city?
Mexico City
Third series of race aRound the world uk from which two cities of Canada
Vancouver to St Johns (capital of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Taking place in the fifth scene of act five of Macbeth in response to the death of Lady Macbeth, what five word title is given to the soliloquy which contains the line “Out, out, brief candle, life’s but a walking shadow”. It gives its name to a Gabrielle Zevin novel of 2022.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow
What piece of machinery is the subject of Robert Frost’s poem about the fragility of life, titled “Out, Out” after the speech? At the beginning of the poem it is said to have “snarled and rattled in the yard and made dust and dropped stove length sticks of wood”.
Buzzsaw
Inspiring the title of a novel set in Mississippi to which a “Compson appendix” was later added by its author, what three words appear towards the end of the speech, completing the quote “it is a tale told by an idiot, full of…” ?
Sound and Fury
Karl Fischer lends his name to a method of what scientific technique? Other methods for this technique used in chemistry labs include complexometric and acid-base.
Titration
Awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Chemistry prize, Walter Kohn pioneered a computational quantum modelling tool called DFT. For what do the letters DF stand for in the theory?
Density Functional
What art movement associated with, Natalia Goncharova, a Russian painter who also instigated the related Rayonist and Knave of Diamonds movements. Her works include Airplane over Train and her abstract portrait of Mikhail Larionov, both made in 1913.
Futurism
What French overseas département is the only one of the four main Comoro Islands not to belong to the country of Comoros?
Mayotte
The words ‘First’ and ‘Second’ can be concatenated with the name of which Athenian orator to form two possibly apocryphal Socratic dialogues? This figure also appears in The Symposium, where he enters inebriated, and compares Socrates to a statue of Silenus.
Alcibiades
Which 2011 indie roguelike by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl has similar dungeon mechanics and appearances to games in The Legend of Zelda franchise? It’s inspired by and named for a Biblical story.
The Binding of Isaac
In which influential 2008 hybrid platform-roguelike does the player explore tunnels and caves by controlling an unnamed adventurer?
Spelunky
Prominent in the work of Wes Anderson, which sans-serif typeface was designed by Paul Renner in 1927 for a contribution to the New Frankfurt project, and rooted in Bauhaus principles?
Futura
Born in 1945, which American conceptual artist used Futura in several of her magazine covers, such as Your Body is a Battleground and I Shop Therefore I Am?
Barbara Kruger
Which painter inserted themselves painting on a canvas next to a standing nude and dog in the large 1855 painting The Painter’s Studio?
Gustave Courbet
To the right of the painting is which Symbolist poet and coiner of the term ‘modernity’, a friend of Courbet’s? His most famous poetry collection features the poems “The Albatross” and “Spleen and Ideal”
Charles Baudelaire
Which parliamentarian and philosopher features near Baudelaire in the painting? In his most famous work of 1840, he answered the title question of the essay with the famous quote “property is theft!”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Which B vitamin is essential to all animals as a precursor to coenzyme A?
Pantothenic Acid
What B vitamin is often taken as a supplement by pregnant women? It is also often added to various types of flour.
Folate
Changing a letter in the name of the setting of Generation Five of pokemon yields what statistical method, developed by Ronald Fisher and used to determine the statistical significance of difference in means?
ANOVA
Changing a letter in the name of the setting of Generation Six yields what mythological creature, created to protect Europa on Crete and slain by Medea?
Talos
Fluid running through veins of greek gods like blood
Ichor
The earliest known form of Chinese writing was found on what objects dated from the Shang dynasty? These objects were often made from ox scapulae and were used for divination in ancient China.
Oracle Bones
The king Lycaon, who was turned into a wolf by Zeus for serving him the remains of his son Nyctimus, ruled which kingdom in the highlands of the Peloponnese? Its name appears in the name of a mid 17th century painting by Nicolas Poussin.
Arcadia
Which daughter of Pandion was transformed into a nightingale by the gods after her tongue was cut out by the Thracian king Tereus, who forced himself upon her? She appears in the second section of The Waste Land where she shouts “Jug, jug” with her “inviolable voice”.
Philomela
American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), The Band’s Visit (2017), and Tootsie (2019).
David Yazbek
Developed by Alonzo Church, what formal system of logic is named for a Greek letter? It can be used to simulate a Turing machine.
Lambda calculus
What other type of calculus is sometimes known as Ricci calculus? It is a certain extension of another type of calculus often used over Euclidean spaces.
Tensor Calculus
In the 1970s, which musician adopted the Sanskrit name Turiya·Sangita·nanda? She is one of the few renowned jazz harpists which she played on albums including Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy.
Alice Coltrane
Along with Joe Henderson, the 1970 Coltrane album Ptah, the El Daoud featured which tenor saxophonist? He was an influential part of the spiritual jazz scene and died in September 2022.
Pharoah sanders
Often labelled a “genocide of the subaltern”, the 1804 Haitian Genocide saw a massacre of European settlers in Haiti, and prominently featured which resident of Port-au-Prince, who horrified Jean-Jacques Dessalines with his brutality? His surname has been adopted as a term for the undead in Haitian Vodou tradition.
Jean Zombi
In a section of the Haitian Revolution labelled the ‘War of Knives’, Toussaint L’Ouverture defeated which other military leader, who controlled the south of Saint-Domingue? After his defeat, this leader returned to Haiti twice more, declaring himself President of the State of the South in 1810.
André Rigaud
Which two concepts are equated in the Ode on a Grecian Urn following the lines “when old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain in midst of other woe, that ours a friend to man, to whom thou say’st”?
Truth and Beauty
Thought to have been inspired by Keats, which American poet wrote the poem that begins “I died for Beauty but was scarce/ adjusted in the tomb when one who died for truth was lain in an adjoining room?
Emily Dickinson
Which exponent of New Criticism said of the lines of poetry by Keats that “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty has precisely the same status, and the same justification as Shakespeare’s ‘Ripeness is All’? He is best known for the book The Well-wrought urn: Studies in the structure of poetry.
Cleanth Brooks
Finally at number 10, Fringilla coelebs, with a red underbelly, grey head, black wings and a red and green back. A bird of the same type named for stripes of gold on their wings made number 7
Chaffinch
Secondly, at number 3, Sturnus vulgaris, noted for flocking behaviour and fast and direct flights, described as “smaller than blackbirds, with a short tail, pointed head, triangular wings”
Starling
Located on the Cap Diamant, the Chateau Frontenac hotel is located in which city’s ‘Old’ section, which is divided into ‘Haute-Ville’ and ‘Basse-Ville’ sections? Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, it is the second largest city by population located on the Saint Lawrence River.
Quebec City
Released in January 2023, 12 was the final studio album by which pioneer of electronic music? He was a founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and wrote the song “Forbidden Colours” for the soundtrack to a film he also played Captain Yonoi in, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The book of which of the twelve minor prophets is read by Jews in the afternoon of Yom Kippur? Its protagonist first attempts to go to Tarshish before inspiring the repentance of the inhabitants of Nineveh.
Jonah
What letter of the Latin alphabet links: the single letter abbreviation of the amino acid with an indole side chain, the shape of the constellation named after the mother of Andromeda, and the SI derived unit of power?
W - tryptophan, Cassiopeia and Watt
Ecbatan, Persia, Sicily, Crete, Spain and Africa appear in a poem of 1930 titled for which 17th century English poet? Born in 1621, he wrote of how the Mind “[annihilates] all that’s made / to a green thought in a green shade” in his poem ‘The Garden’, and penned A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland .
Andrew Marvell (the other poem is ‘You, Andrew Marvell’ by Archibald MacLeish)
The Wonders of the East is a text found in which book, named after a 16th century antiquarian? The same book features a poem about the beheading of Holofernes as well as an epic poem featuring the characters Hrothgar, Wiglaf, and Beowulf.
Nowell Codex
Named for a 19th-century Czech anatomist, Purkinje cells are found in which part of the brain? Holding more than half of the neurons in the human body, it sits behind the brain stem and at the back of the cerebrum.
Cerebellum
Purkinje fibres found where?
Heart
Also appearing as an actor in the play The Mother, the playwright Margarete Steffin was a long-term collaborator of which playwright? She was recognised as a collaborator on The Horatians and the Curatians, and was credited as aiding on the writing of the plays the Life of Galileo and The Good Person of Szechwan.
Berthold Brecht
Of the SI unit prefixes, give two of the the three described by the following clues: the only SI prefix to have more than one letter abbreviation, the only one to be known by a greek letter, or the one with the shortest name
Deca, Micro and Exa
Its name partially popularised by Sir Walter Scott, the Battles of Ancrum Moor and Pinkie Cleugh were part of what 16th century conflict between England and the Auld Alliance? The conflict was named in reference to Henry VIII’s plan to force the marriage of his son, Edward to the future Mary, Queen of Scots.
War of the Rough Wooing
Formal operational, concrete operational, preoperational, and sensorimotor are the four main developmental stages in the theory of cognitive development of which psychologist?
Jean Piaget
William Blake, Paul Robeson and Albert Einstein are among famous people depicted in sculptures by which British artist? His best known works include Jacob Wrestling the Angel and the tomb of Oscar Wilde.
Jacob Epstein
Now known as Gqeberha [KUH-bear-hah], what is the former name of the Eastern Cape city through which the Baakens River flows? The city was founded in the 1800s by Rufane Donkin who named it after his late wife.
Port Elizabeth
The characters of Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Guglielmo in Cosi fan Tutte and Sarastro in the Magic Flute all were written for which voice type? Unusually, Mozart’s Figaro is of this voice type, to contrast with the Count’s higher baritone.
Bass
“Marty’s movies aren’t violent until I cut them.” Known for her work on films such as Bringing Out the Dead and The King of Comedy, these are the words of which film editor who has won three Best Film Editing Oscars for her work on Martin Scorsese films?
Thelma Schoonmaker
Which Canadian author recalled, “It was the year my brother died” in her prose poem Merry Christmas from Hegel? The author of the poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, she is perhaps better known for a verse drama concerning Heracles and Geryon and her translations of the lyric poet Sappho, entitled If Not, Winter.
Anne Carson
2021 Netherlands “birth of a new age” by Jeangu Macrooy was first time which language (Suriname creole language) was heard at Eurovision?
Sranan Tongo
Which device was inspired by observations of Brocken Spectres at the observatory on Ben Nevis in the 1890s? Also utilised by Patrick Blackett in his work, their inventor Charles Wilson shared the 1927 Nobel prize quote “for the method of making paths of electrically charged particles visible”.
Cloud Chamber
In 1973, the Pine Ridge reservation was occupied by members of the American Indian Movement in which US state? 83 years earlier, the same reservation in this state saw the brutal massacre of 300 Teton Sioux at Wounded Knee.
South Dakota
The name of what sort of fictional creature begins all of the following words: the servant of Heracles who hands him a poisoned tunic, a 29 hour opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Staffordshire city where Samuel Johnson was born, a composite organism of algae and cyanobacteria often used to extract a pH indicator, and an online chess site, a competitor of chess.com?
Lichas, Licht, Lichfield, Lichen, Lichess
The Northern Echo based in what town
Darlington
Goddess of dawn in Roman mythology
Aurora
cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection heard on X factor or old spice adverts
Carmina Burana
Q: What is the name of Count Dracula’s servant and familiar in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel ‘Dracula’?
Renfield
Snooker Plus was invented by Joe Davis with two extra snooker balls what colour and worth
Orange 8
Purple 10
Which actor plays the title role in the TV drama, The Hunt For Raoul Moat?
Matt STOKOE
Chris de Burgh born in what country?
Argentina
a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was one of the first 12 locations in the world to be designated as such in 1978, an island off coast of Dakar known for links to Atlantic slave trade.
Ile de Goree
Which European country joined nato in April 2023?
Finland
Which martial art is “gentle way”
Judo
Who is the only Englishman mentioned in Dante’s The Divine Comedy?
Venerable Bede
Finnish composer chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and opening night conductor at Proms 2023
Dalia Stasevska
Hungarian composer born 1926, debut opera in 2018 Samuel Beckett adaptation Endgame
Gyorgy Kurtag
What three word term was used by Spacex to their rocket blowing up on 20th April 2023?
rapid, unscheduled disassembly
New Justice Secretary in April 2023 after Dom Raab resigned coz of bullying
Alex Chalk
Voice actress of Babe, Dexter in Dexters Lab, original Chuckie Finster in Rugrats and Gosalyn Mallard in Darkwing Duck.
Christine Cavanaugh
Original Chuckie from rugrats was Christine Cavanaugh who voiced Babe in film, from 2002 which voice actress has voiced him?
Nancy Cartwright
Russian American animator who has done Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, and Primal.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Metallica fourth album #1 in 2023
72 Seasons
The fen raft and the Cardinal are UK’s largest types of what creature?
Spider
Which war credited with popularising cigarette smoking in Britain?
Crimean War
Ducati, Maserati and Lamborghini all founded in which city?
Bologna
What are Duke of Perth, Dashing White Sergeant, Gay Gordons and Monymusk?
Scottish country dances
French photographer born 1801 claimed to have invented photography before Daguerre in France and Talbot in England. First photography public exhibition in 1839.
Hippolyte Bayard
Who became first woman to hit nine dart finish in PDC history in round 1 victory on Winmau ChLlenve tour event against Marco Verhofstad
Fallon Sherrock
Which Sondhiem musical is Richard Linklater filming over 20 years?
Merrily We Roll Along
What medical test is a FBC?
Full Blood Count
Which 1992 novel is a key text of the “dark academia” trend?
Donna Tart’s The Secret History
In France what are placed within guillemets?
Quotations
What did St Columba supposedly encounter around AD565?
Loch Ness Monster
Linda Womack from Womack & Womack is daughter of which singer?
Sam Cooke
Womack and Womack first names?
Cecil and Linda
Dog called what is Mr Edward Rochester dog in Jane Eyre
Pilot
Dog called crab owned by who in what Shakespeare play
Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona
Spanish for “ravine” or “gulch”, one of the most famous tourist attractions in Acapulco, Mexico. Divers entertain tourists by jumping off either of two ledges on the cliff, one that is 40 feet (12 m) high and the top one which is 80 feet (24 m) high?
La Quebrada
Chairman of Conservative Party from February 2023
Greg Hands
Which four languages can Charles IiI speak?
English French German welsh
Which dog has blue black tongue uniquely?
Chow Chow
Who has been president of Uganda since 1986
Yoweri Museveni
Barry Humphries father in law, father of his fourth wife and wife at death Elizabeth.
Stephen Spender
Who are the only two cyclists to win all three Ardennes Classics (Fleche Wallonne, Amstel Gold and Liege-Bastogne-Liege) in the same season? Both were this century.
Philip Gilbert and Davide Rebellin
April 2023 meteor shower Lyrids have which parent comet?
Comet Thatcher
Kenyan male runner who won London marathon 2023 in second fastest time ever just 16 seconds outside eliud kipchoge world record
Kelvin Kiptum
Which Dutch Olympic track champion (won 5k and 10k at Tokyo) won the female London marathon 2023?
Sifan Hassan
Swiss wheelchair racer won London marathon 2023 for fifth time and third consecutive
Marcel Hug
Landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution
Obergefell v Hodges
Prime Minister of Thailand 2001-06 bought Man City in 2007 and sold in 2008.
Thaksin (Shinawatra)
What vitamin B is known as Folate?
B9
In physics what name given to stationary points on a standing wave with zero amplitude? Botany, same word is an area on a stem where buds are formed? Geometry, point where two lines or edges meet?
Node
Used as an alternative to Easter bunny in Australia, chocolate versions of what small big eared desert dwelling marsupial are eaten instead? This is to raise awareness for the conservation of the greater species of this marsupial which is endangered. Lesser species went extinct in 1950s.
Bilby
In geology what name given to flat sheet like igneous intrusion that runs between layers of older sedimentary rocks?
Sill
Also called Urania, what colourful and edible sounding Y is a solid form of mixed uranium oxide extracted and processed from uranium ore?
Yellowcake
Sharing its name with a type of shelled gastropod. What family of fish were discovered to be deepest swimming fish recorded at a depth of 8330 metres off the coast of Japan in April 2023?
Snailfish
In chemistry, what is name of highly reactive atom, molecule or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electrons? The first of these was discovered in 1900 by Moses Gomberg.
Radical
In cooking, what is name of reaction in which reducing sugars present in carbohydrate rich foods react with amino acids to produce acrylamide? Reaction gives browned foods it’s distinctive taste. Also occurs when bodies are preserved in peat bogs.
Maillard Reaction
With species including the African, the Eurasian, the Madagascan. What crested orange black and white bird is national bird of Israel?
Hoopoe
In quantum physics what three word term is lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical system can have?
Zero Point Energy
Native to Japan and colloquially known as snow monkeys. What is most northerly living primate after humans?
Japanese Macaque
Unlike malleability which deals with how much a material can be compressed. What property of a material relates to how much it can be stretched? Gold platinum silver can be pulled into thin wires.
Ductility
Used in Chinese medicine, what genus of parasitic fungi, with a Latin/Greek name meaning club headed, has spores that attach itself to specific insects eventually turning them into zombies? Post apocalyptic show The Last Of Us features this fungi.
Cordyceps
In geology what name is given to flat sheet like igneous intrusions that runs perpendicular through layers of older sedimentary rocks?
Dike
Beginning with T, what name given to gravel sized pieces of natural glass produced from earth material that has melted and ejected by meteorite impacts?
Tektites
Used in titration, which pH indicator (3.1-4.4) turns red when exposed to acidic substance and yellow when exposed to basic substance?
Methyl Orange
With a call that can reach 125 decibels which passerine South American bird produces the loudest recorded sound produced by a bird? Males of species have wattles.
White Bellbird
On opposite end of mass scale from Ultramassive Black Holes, what hypothetical black holes with abbrev PBH could have been formed soon after Big Bang?
Primordial Black Holes
In linear algebra what operator of a matrix switches the rows and columns to produce another matrix whose values are flipped along its diagonal?
Transpose
In human body, which of major lobes of brain is largest? Responsible for speech, memory( motor tasks, judgement and creativity?
Frontal Lobe
Named after 19th century German botanist, what zoological principle states that populations and species of warm blooded animals tend to have larger body masses in colder environments?
Bergmann’s Rule
With a name meaning “two measures of teeth” which sailed stem mammal was one of apex predator of early Permian (295-272mya) it was a pelycosaur that existed 40 million years before the first dinosaurs.
Dimetrodon
Name of Colombian goalkeeper who did the scorpion kick thing
René Higuita
Dutch American football coach who won mls coach of year in inaugural season 1996 leading Tampa bay mutiny. Went on to manage American Samoa in the film shown by Taika Waititi Next Goal Wins.
Thomas Rongen
The Iris trophy is now awarded to winners of what?
Booker Prize
What former country was known as the “three-letter state”?
East Germany (DDR)
Which sports commentator had the car number plate PUT 3?
PETER ALLISS was the BBC’s Voice of Golf for almost 60 years
Which global writing system uses 63 different characters?
Braille
After Brazil, what is the world’s biggest coffee producer?
Vietnam
Madonna of the Pomegranate creator
Sandro Botticelli
What links Wishing-Chair; Faraway Tree; Mr Galliano’s Circus; Naughtiest Girl?
Enid Blyton Book Series
TerminTor franchise company name
Cyberdyne Systems
InGen & Biosyn from what film franchise
Jurassic park
Company name from Blade Runner
Tyrell
Alien films Corporation name
Weyland-Yutani
What links Box; cascade; columns; fountain; Mills’ mess; shower?
Juggling Variations
Visage lead singer
Steve Strange
Tkatchev, Tsukahara and Arabian are elements in which sport?
Gymnastics
What animal completes Cat Stevens debut single in 1966? I love my ____
Dog
Which king of Iolcus sent Jason on quest for Golden Fleece?
Pelias
What type of hat worn by Paul Cezanne in his last known self portrait (1898)?
Beret
Who sang Baby Shark
Pinkfong
Edward Abel Smith married to Kate Winslet was known as what name for a while
Ned Rocknroll
At the present time what is the closest planet to earth?
Mercury
What French word refers to meat that has been cooked and preserved in its own fat?
Confit
Which thickening agent used in cooking is obtained from the tubers of tropical plants?
Arrowroot
Lily Briscoe takes ten years to complete a painting in which novel by Virginia Woolf?
To the Lighthouse
The Japanese sport of Yukigassen involves two teams of seven players throwing what at each other?
Snowballs
Which king of Spain died in the monastery of El Escorial in 1598?
Philip II
A skulk is the collective noun for which mammals?
Foxes
What part of the body shares it’s name with a Scottish river and the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
Shin
Which French surrealist Artist has an epitaph that reads “besides it’s always others who die”?
Marcel Duchamp
The 2014 film Ex Machina is loosely based on which Shakespeare play?
The Tempest
Appearance of which doctor who villains based on Munch’s the scream?
The Silence
Which Japanese island is known for its 88 temple pilgrimage trail?
Shikoku
What word completes title of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope is the thing with ______”?
Feathers
Which British politician led the shortest second term as prime minister with only 22 days?
Duke of Wellington
Which principal dancer with American ballet theatre starred in 2018 Disney film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as ballerina princess?
Misty Copeland
Which Caribbean snack food is made by deep frying split pea dough balls?
Pholourie
What board game subject of 2002 book What Colour is the Wind? By independent columnist Chris Bray?
Backgammon
Lesser known for operetta TIQ: the Indian question settled at last, which composer wrote music for Canadian national anthem?
Calixa Lavallee
Created in 1781 by French painter Philip James de Loutherberg, the Eidophusikon was a miniature what?
Theatre
What links the papal name of Alessandro de Medici, 1969 song by 5th Dimension and Nikki Diamond’s alter ego on gladiators?
Signs of Zodiac (Leo XI, Aquarius and Scorpio)
Which nfl team made super bowl appearances between 1971 and 1984 and none since 1984
Miami dolphins
The Non Volley Zone or NVZ in pickleball is nicknamed after which room of the house?
Kitchen
What 6 letter word May refer to a British military policeman or a railroad Porter?
Redcap
What British pop singer of 1950s and 1960s was nicknamed the Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice?
Alma Cogan
Which passenger of the mayflower married Priscilla Mullen, he was the cooper on the ship looking after barrels?
John Alden
Who is employer of Benny southstreet and nicely nicely Johnson in guys and dolls musical?
Nathan Detroit
What 1968 song was only top 40 US hit for Iron Butterfly?
In-a-gadda-da-vida
What alpine folk costume consists of blouse covered by a close fitting bodice featuring a low neckline, wide high waisted skirt and an apron?
Dirndl
Which musical star fathered children Tara and Alexander with actress Joan Collins?
Anthony Newley
What 1990 song by Don Henley shares its title with 1948 novel by Grahame Greene
The Heart of the Matter
Term for petty criminal is also a Asian crocodile
Mugger
What TV game show hosted by Arlene Francis shares title with Bruce Willis film
Blind Date
Which marvel comics character can be weakened by exposure to ethyl chloride?
Spider Man
In The Silver chair by cs lewis principal character Puddleglum is member of which fictional species?
Marsh-Wiggle
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a wound for a wound from which bible book?
Exodus
HQ of International Atomic Energy Agency is a un office in which city?
Vienna
Credit for which dessert shared by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding the owner and chef of former hungry monk restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex?
Banoffee Pie
Little Walter, Toots Thielemans and Larry Adler notable players of which instrument?
Harmonica
Which bbc tv sitcom which was broadcast on bbc1 from 1979 to 1987 was largely a reworking of Happy Ever After? It was set in Purley, London?
Terry and June
Norwegian Wood (this bird has flown), Nowhere Man, Michelle, all songs on which 1965 Beatles album?
Rubber Soul
What is six letter name of week long Jewish holiday where observers build and live in wooden booths?
Sukkot
Which East Sussex town coincides with point where Greenwich meridian crosses the English south coast?
Peacehaven
Which Scottish professional boxer who became undisputed world lightweight champion in 1971, died in April 2023?
Ken Buchanan
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever is first line of which Keats poem dedicated to Thomas Chatterton? Poem about shepherd beloved of moon goddess Selene.
Endymion
What battle took place on 29 March 1461 during war of roses in North Yorkshire and dubious distinction of projqbkyblargest and bloodiest battle in English soil?
Towton
Playing for athletico Madrid since 2014 which nationality is Jan Oblak?
Slovenian
Their habit of wedging a large food item in a crevice and then hacking at it with strong bills gives which small passerine bird (sitta europaea) its English name?
Nuthatch
Dean Kamen American engineer best known for invention of which form of two wheeled transport?
Segway
Which 1959 British satirical comedy film stars Peter sellers in three roles: Duchess Gloriana XII, Count Rupert Mountjoy Prime Minister and Tully Bascomb Military Leader?
The Mouse That Roared
Which architectural term beginning with P is triangular area above the entablature? Athena’s birth and her contest with Poseidon are shown on these features in the Parthenon.
Pediment
Which north Oxfordshire market town was once home to Western Europe’s largest cattle market and now boasts the worlds largest coffee processing facility owned by Jacobs Douwe Egberts?
Banbury
In contract bridge, which bidding call increases penalties if opponents fail to make their contract but also increases the bonuses if they make it?
Double
Which expresssjon for an imaginary social currency may be derived from group originally called Rosebuds who were renamed for a mythological Scottish elf an early loyalty scheme, or US military slang for a sycophant?
Brownie Points
Recorded at Pontarddulais Rugby club in 1975, the album We All Had Doctors Papers, the only comedy album to have topped the uk album chart is by which welsh comedian?
Max Boyce
Which song from Evita by Madonna won best song oscwr?
You Must Love Me
Which word in business usage for amount of goods produced and disposed of by a manufacturer in given period might also be used by pastry chef or rugby commentator?
Turnover
Which pseudonym for the spectators gossip columnists taken from name of a highly intelligent Machiavellian schemer in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy?
Steerpike
Belize born British composer born 1958 controversially reworked Jerusalem for last night of the proms in 2020 lockdown event fusing blues and African music?
Errollyn Wallen
Known as cape Kennedy from 1963, which name, third oldest European name for a region of American dating from early 16th century and meaning Reed bed in Spanish was restored in 1973?
Cape Canaveral
How can you take a three syllable word meaning repulsive and change the last letter to turn it into two syllable word with no vowel sounds which means secret place where you can’t be found?
Hideous to Hideout
In famous Peter cook and Dudley moore sketch what is shortcoming of Mr Spiggott who is auditioning for role of Tarzan?
Only one leg
Dennis menace dog gnasher what breed?
Wire haired Abyssinian tripe hound
The famous bbc panorama spaghetti hoax in 1957 showed spaghetti being grown from trees in which country?
Switzerland
What connects iain banks first published novel, the character Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy, team founded in 1867 at eton and Middlesex tavern in primrose hill and a comic play by Aristophanes first performed in 422 bc?
Wasps
Which English cartoonists name became used during ww1 as a description of a complex and implausible contrivance based on illustrations of whimsically elaborate machines which in turn became an inspiration for creations of Wallace and from it?
William Heath Robinson
American version of the British William Heath Robinson
Rube Goldberg
Jane Birkin 1969 song which was then the biggest selling uk single for completely foreign language record
Je t’aime… moi non plus
Three books the Laurie Lee trilogy?
Cider with Rosie
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
A moment of war
2016 study showed which song to be most commonly named ear worm, even more than 2ndnplace kylie can’t get you out of my head?
Bad Romance Lady Gaga
Wind instrument traditionally made of clay or ceramic
Ocarina
This is going to hurt and the night shift before Christmas books by
Adam Kay
Power station on situated on the River Ouse between Selby and Goole
Drax Power Station
Trefoil, NVee and Innokin are brands associated with whcih product
Vaping
Who is mother of Sienna Mapelli Mozzi?
Princess Beatrice
Who played Jim Taggart until dying in 1994?
Mark McManus
Who was the first darts player outside the uk to win a worlds dart championship and was from which country?
John Part from Canada
Their biggest hit was a 1973 uk #6 called All Because Of You, which band did Brian Johnson provide lead singles for before he joined AC/DC?
Geordie
Pele played a prisoner of war from which country in Escape to Victory as brazil never entered ww2?
Trinidad and Tobago
Which tv character is an expert in martial art of venusian aikado?
Doctor Who
What are the three points of the Bermuda Triangle?
Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida
Taking its name from a 1971 book where this kind of identity theft is depicted. What name is given to the fraud where someone obtains the birth certificate of a somebody who died in early childhood and then used it to obtain a false passport in the child’s name?
Day of the Jackal fraud
1994 song Far Away In America was an unlikely collaboration between German national football team and which band? Their only uk number one single came in 1978 about establishments founded in 1884 by Sir George Williams.
Village People
Who sang Free Nelson Mandela?
The Specials
Who sang John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan
Who sang Boadicea (1987)?
Enya
Who sang Alexander Graham Bell 1971?
Sweet
Who sang Jackie Wilson Says 1982?
Dexys Midnight Runners
Who sang Here Comes Napoleon 1999?
Hepburn
Who sang Jack the Ripper (1963)?
Screaming Lord Sutch
Who sang Don Quixote (1985)?
Nik Kershaw
Who sang Mulder and Scully (1998)?
Catatonia
Who sang Electric Barbarella (1997)?
Duran Duran
Who sang Buck Rogers (2001)?
Feeder
Who sang Venus (1969)?
Shocking Blue
In 657 AD, St Hilda became first abbess of what religious building found in North Yorkshire?
Whitby Abbey
Which actresses film roles include Kathryn Railly in 12 Monkeys, Cody Zamora in Bad Girls and Cora Monroe in Last of the Mohicans?
Madeline Stowe
What links: Club, Vale, Stowe, Chapel, Becketts, Maggotts, Copse, Woodcote, Luffield, Brooklands, Farm and Abbey?
Corners at Silverstone
Who was mother of Pegasus?
Medusa
Patriarch of the Pollitt family in Cat on hot tin roof called what?
Big Daddy
What occupation has been carried out by Billy Mitchell in eastenders, monsieur Alfonse in Allo Allo and Private Frazer in Dads Army?
Undertaker
Which horse and hockey won 1981 Grand National?
Aldaniti and Bob Champion
Trainer of 1983 grand national Corbiere
Jenny Pitman
Who trained 1978 winner Lucius and 1984 winner Hallo Dandy in grand national?
Gordon Richards
Red Rum third win grand national in 1977 which jockey rode him?
Tommy Stack
Trainer of Red Rum also trained amberleigh House in 2004?
Ginger McCain
Last horse to win grand national at odds of 100-1, did in 2009?
Mon Mome
Dick Francis rode which horse in the 1956 grand national?
Devon Loch
Name of the horse that won the grand national that never was in 1993?
Esha Ness
Which game horse led the entire 1973 grand national race until caught on the line by Red Rum?
Crisp
Which jockey won consecutive grand nationals in 2014 on Pineau de Re and 2015 on Many Clouds?
Leighton Aspell
Which was last grey horse to triumph in grand national doing so in 2012?
Neptune Collonges
Which five time winner of Cheltenham gold cup won grand national in 1935?
Golden Miller
16th fence in grand national named what?
The Water Jump
Taking control of radio commentary on 1952 race, who was colourful chairman of Aintree from 1938-73?
Mirabel Topham
Which horse won the virtual grand national in 2020?
Potters Corner
Which jockey rode a record 21 times in grand national
Between 1997-2019 without winning?
Richard Johnson
Who said “how filthy water tasted without the benefits of whisky” when falling into the Brook off his horse Conrad in 1839?
Martin Becher
Which jockey aged 48 was oldest to win the race when steering Grittar to victory in 1982?
Dick Saunders
At just 17, who was youngest jockey to win the race on board Battleship in 1938?
Bruce Hobbs
Which jockey scored most grand national wins with five victories between 1856 to 1870?
George Stevens
Which flowering plant forms a spherical seed head known as a clock?
Dandelion
Brecon Beacons name in welsh
Bannau Brycheiniog
Tamari is a gluten free soy sauce originating from which country?
Japan
Captcha stands for ?
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Pata Negra meat comes from which animal?
Pig
Which neighbours character is the father of David Bishop?
Harold
In which organ of the human body is the limbic system located?
Brain
The city of Uruguaiana on the banks of Uruguay river is located in which country?
Brazil
In 1301, Prince Edward, son of Edward II, became first holder of which official title?
Prince of Wales
About which kings death did Sir John Betjeman write lines “spirit of well shot woodcock, partridge, snipe, flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky”?
George V
Which singer had hit with The Man Who Sold the World in 1974?
Lulu
The restaurant chains Red Rooster and Grill’d originated in which country?
Australia
Surface is Italian open tennis tournament played on?
Clay
Tom Brangwen and Lydia Lensky are characters in which DH Lawrence Novel?
The Rainbow
Two Brangwen sisters names in women in love?
Gudrun and Ursula
The Grevin Museum in Paris is famous for its collection of 200 examples of what?
Waxwork models
Mai’a is Hawaiian word for which Polynesian introduced fruit?
Banana
Battle of Hill 282 and Battle of Heartbreak Ridge were conflicts during which war?
Korean War
Who invented Python in 1991?
Guido Van Rossum
In a two player game of cribbage, how many cards are initially dealt to each player?
Six
Which rapper released 2022 album Twelve Carat Toothache?
Post Malone
The deel, worn by the Bayad people, is the traditional costume of which Asian country?
Mongolia
In dressage, what term is used for cadenced trot whilst remaining on the same spot?
Piaffe
Which English author wrote the darkly comic satirical novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil?
Fay Weldon
Which American art museum situated in a building in meatpacking district of New York was designed by Renzo Piano?
Whitney Museum of American Art
French director who won his first Oscar for film The Artist?
Michel Hazanavicius
Ascending to throne in 1627, and reigning for 57 years, who was second prince of Liechtenstein?
Karl Eusebius
Vardetangen in Austrheim is westernmost point of mainland of which European country?
Norway
Which celebrity chef runs The Lympstone Manor Hotel in Devon?
Michael Caines
In which English city did William Herschel make his first observation of the planet Uranus in 1781?
Bath
Lead singer of Tangerine Dream?
Edgar Froese
Frontman of the Lemonheads?
Evan Dando
Band formed by Shaun Ryder and Bez in 1993 after happy Mondays disintegration.
Black Grape
The word rickshaw originally derived from which language for man strength vehicle?
Japanese
In which Channel 5 fly on the wall documentary series has Alex Polizzi performed the titular role since shows fourth series in 2008?
Hotel Inspector
In 1791, which famous American submitted a report to House of Representatives proposing that the US adopt the dollar as its national currency?
Alexander Hamilton
Capital city of Virginia?
Richmond
Which long running contributor to a tv panel show was married to Caroline Quentin between 1990-98?
Paul Merton
“The skies it ain’t blue, huh, the grass it ain’t green” are lines in the first verse to which song that features in the film and stage musical “me and my girl”?
The Lambeth Walk
The river Tamar flows through which English city?
Plymouth
What personal grooming brand that was first introduced by Proctor and Gamble in 1961 and accounts Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Katy Perry as ambassadors shares name with title of 1920 short story by F Scott Fitzgerald?
Head and Shoulders
What foodstuff is found on French food menu as haricot rouge?
Kidney Bean
A knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour which is exactly how many kilometres per hour?
1.852
1967 book sequel by Dodie Smith for 101 Dalmatians?
The Starlight Barking
1845 sequel to three musketeers by Alexander dumas
20 Years After
Name of the town in county of Denbighshire in north wales birthplace of Ian rush which was awarded city status of Queen Elizabeth II diamond jubilee celebrations in 2012, making smallest city by population in UK?
St Asaph
What measurement of beer is equivalent to one quarter of a barrel or to nine imperial gallons?
Firkin
Portrayed by Sheryl Lee, what is name of high school student whose death is catalyst for the events of the cult us drama series Twin Peaks?
Laura Palmer
What name is given to science and study of mechanical timekeeping devices including clocks and watches?
Horology
Name of first hole of Augusta National?
Tea Olive
Which British comedian played the part of Professor Simon Peach in the 1969 film “The Italian Job”?
Benny Hill
The song “tomorrow never knows” is final track on side two on which studio album by The Beatles?
Revolver
Which 1979 British film features Toyah Wilcox playing part of Monkey, Timothy Spall playing part of Harry the Projectionist and Ray Winstone playing Kevin Herriot?
Quadrophenia
Taking its name from French word for “attach”, what is name of the type of ornamental needlework that involves sewing pieces of fabric onto larger pieces in order to form a picture or pattern?
Appliqué
Word used to refer to group of five offspring given birth by one mother at same time?
Quintuplets
Which Brazilian racing driver won the F1 championship three times during the 1980s?
Nelson Piquet
Sharing name with former deputy leader of Labour Party, which US golfer won his fifth and final open championship golf title at Royal Birkdale in 1983?
Tom Watson
What was title of unofficial James Bond film that was released in 1983 in which Sean Connery reprised the role of bond 12 years after he had last played it?
Never Say Never Again
Who was last reigning monarch of England to die in France?
Henry V
Romano, Toscano, Sardo are variations of which hard italian sheep milk cheese? With a name derived from the Italian for ovine, cheese often preferred to more expensive parmigiano-reggiano when finishing pasta dishes.
Pecorino
Whcih South African golfer won US open in both 2001 and 2004? Nickname the Goose, he was inducted into the world golf hall of fame in 2019.
Retief Goosen
Whcih firm Spanish sheep milk cheese has name taken from region and breed of sheep from which it originated? It’s PDO status dictates that it must be within designated areas of the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Toledo.
Manchego
Series of adverts narrated by Matt berry and featuring serene male bovine called money calm bull feature in current tv ads for which uk prime comparison website?
Moneysupermarket.com
Airing between 1967 and 1972, which British spy tv series does Edward Woodward play the title character? A secret agent he works for a state service named The Section who use torture and extrajudicial killings as routine part of job.
Callan
Which 1966 song by the Monkees was first released by group; written from point of view of man phoning woman he loves and urging her to take a train and meet him at titular destination? Confirm drafted into Vietnam war.
Last Train to Clarksville
Which k-drama released in 2022 was group of students trapped in their high school amid a zombie virus outbreak starting Yoon Chan-Young as Lee-Cheong-San?
All of us are dead
Four names of Hungry Hippos
Lizzie, Henry, Homer, Harry
Which British 400m athlete broke down in tears after injuring his hamstring in 400m semi final at 1992 Olympics in Barcelona? In front of standing ovation, his father helped him round the track to complete the race, becoming enduring image of games.
Derek Redmond
Which Sardinian sheep milk cheese outlawed since 1962 has maggots in it?
Casu Martzu
Paul Newman stars as the ice hockey player coach reggie Dunlop in which 1973 sports comedy? Dunlop promotes ultra violent style of play within minor league hockey team leading then to champs.
Slap Shot
“It pays to be _____” is the often used slogan of which uk prime comparison website whose name fills in the blank? Robot named Brian and wild haired mascot named Clara are among ad campaigns used by website.
Confused.com
Which long running comic strip published weekly in DC Thomson newspaper Sunday post features young character with spiky hair often found sitting on upturned bucket? Lives in town of Auchenshoogle along with Fat Bob, Wee Eck, Soupy Soutar?
Oor Wullie
Comprising four series of 1960s, which British spy tv series did Patrick McGoohan play globetrotting agent John Drake? Similar to James bond but cancelled after he left to be in The Prisoner.
Danger Man
Patrick McGoohan character name in The Prisoner
Number Six
Banned by us pga tour in 1948 over dispute about playing commitments and almost no us based tournaments after, which South African golfer won 4 British opens 1949-57, nicknamed Old Baggy Pants due to trademark knickerbockers.
Bobby Locke
Which 1969 song by Crosby Stills and Nash tells of sights and sounds that Graham nash encountered during train journey in Morocco few years earlier? First song released.
Marrakesh Express
Kim Soo-hyun portrays Moon Gang-tae an orphaned caregiver at a psychiatric hospital in which Korean Romcom nerflix 2020?
It’s okay not to be okay
Captain Mainwaring actor
Arthur Lowe
Tetley Tea folk names?
Gaffer, Sydney, Maurice, Clarence, Gordon Tina and Archie
Which handheld game console with alliterative name was released by Sega in 1990 sharing much of hardware with master system? Second best selling 4th gen console, short battery life and lack of support led to cut sales.
Game Gear
Whcih stadium opened in 1925 and renovated 1995 hosted scotlands home matches at 2023 six national! Namesake area of edinburgh.
Murrayfield Stadium
“Sad _____” is a meme viral in 2010 pap picture of namesake actor eating sandwich on park bench.
Keanu Reeves
Which English model rise to prominence through collabs with photographer David Bailey having met at photoshoot for Kellogg a cornflakes? Dubbed worlds first supermodel and prominent 1960s played by Karen Gillan in bbc television film We’ll Take Manhattan.
Jean Shrimpton
In summer Olympics, which nation is by far most successful in sport of archery? In 21st century they have won 19 out of 25 gold medals.
South Korea
Which handheld game console was released by Atari in 1989 and was first handheld game console with colour liquid crystal display? The third best selling 4th generation console, it was succeeded by Atari Jaguar in 1993.
Lynx
Which American actor plays villain colonel William Stuart in 1990 die hard 2: die harder? In the same year he also played the role of senator Vernon Trent the main antagonist in Hard to Kill.
William Sadler
Another suggestion for Eurovision winning song is “maybe a battle horn of some kind?” A reference from love love peace peace about song Wild Dances by Ruslana that won contest in 2004 for which country?
Ukraine
Motown Records HQ and recording studio situated at 2648 west grand boulevard in Detroit known by which nickname? Since 1985 it’s Motown museum.
Hitsville USA
Which German model and aristocrat prominent in 1960s portrays herself in 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow Up? Dubbed first German supermodel, her father was executed for the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
Veruschka (von Lehndorff)
In summer Olympics which nation is most successful in sport of water polo? From 1928-80 the country won a medal in each games, as well as winning 3 consecutive gold medals between 2000 and 2008?
Hungary
Sue Pollard is serenaded by 3 dancing donkeys singing “oo makes a lovely cuppa, no other tea will do, oo makes a lovely cuppa, that’s why it’s our favourite brew” in advert for which British tea brand?
Typhoo
Which handheld game console was released by NEC Home Electronics in 1990, under the code name Game Tank? Featuring tv tuner and backlit colour LCD screen it’s comparatively high price point contributed to poor sales.
Turboexpress
Which American actor plays villain Thomas gabriel, leader of group of cyber terrorists, in 2007 die hard 4.0? Other roles Agent 47 in Hitman and US marshall Raylan givens in 2010 tv series Justified.
Timothy Olyphant
Which stadium opened in 2010 and build on former Lansdowne Road stadium in Dublin hosted Ireland’s six nations games in 2023?
Aviva Stadium
Also withdrawing from season 3 of the e jump through injury, actress who played Chrissie Williams on Holby city 2001-13? Broke her arm and claimed cost her a place on Broadchurch the next year.
Tina Hobley
Motown originally called Tamla records based on song Tammy that was popularised through 1957 Ron com Tammy and the bachelor in which title role played by which actress? Song nominated for best original song Oscar.
Debbie Reynolds
Originally released and copyrighted by creator Sam Smith as tshirt design on Lonely Dinosaur which internet meme involves illustration of pensive dinosaur accompanied by text detailing quirky paradoxes or questioning nature of reality?
Philosoraptor
Dubbed the first black supermodel, which American model was discovered by English photographer David McCabe in Detroit in 1963? Appeared on uk vogue in 1966 as well as several short films by Andy Warhol’s before dying of overdose in 1979.
Donyale Luna
Developed by the 17th century reverend William oughtred what mechanical device allows rapid multiplication and division of logarithms and exponentials?
Slide Rule
On a circuit diagram what charge storing device is represented by two parallel lines of equal lengths?
Capacitor
Whose inverse square law can be used to determine the force between two static charged particles? The force can be attractive or repulsive depending whether charges are like or opposite.
Coulomb’s Law
Mostly found in Northern Territory, name given to free roaming feral horses or Australia some of which descendants of those first brought by European settlers?
Brumby
In chemistry what name is given to electron in the outer shell of an atom than can form a chemical bond?
Valence electron
What name of spacex super heavy lift vehicle which underwent a rapid unscheduled disassembly after launch on 20th April 2023?
Starship
What fabric or yarn produced from angora goat? South Africa accounts for 60% of worlds total production.
Mohair
Although are exceptions, which ecogeographical rule states that warm blooded animals adapted to colder climates have shorter appendages limbs and ears?
Allen’s Law
What diverse group of mammals endemic to Madagascar reveal striking examples of convergent evolution with some resembling hedgehogs, shrews rats and mice? Also have cloacas unlike vast majority of mammals.
Tenrec
Sometimes called fossil lightning, what f is name given to tubes and clumps of fused silica produced when lightning strikes sand clay or other silica rich soils?
Fulgurites
Also known as third eye what name given to photoreceptive organ found on top of heads of most lizards frogs and salamanders and some fish? Connected to pineal glands used to regulate circadian rhythms and body temperature.
Parietal Eye
Which jockey, former boyfriend of Zara Phillips, has most rides at grand national without winning with 21?
Richard Johnson
Which man was British champion jump jockey in 2020/21? Son of gold medal winning Olympian.
Harry Skelton
What jockey was British champion flat jockey a record 26 times? His first title came in 1915 and last 1953.
Gordon Richards
Characyer played by Robert Mitchum and Robert de Niro in the 1962 and 1991 cape fear?
Max Cady
Which bands greatest hits albums called Time Flies has spent more than 400 weeks in uk charts? Tracks include songbird and Hindu times.
Oasis
Early 2023, revealed that a jet arriving at Heathrow from what country has been carrying uranium? Haitham bin Tariq is ruler of this country.
Oman
Which member of 1945 Labour government had given his surname to nickname of WW2 conscripts who were diverted to working in Britain’s coal mines?
Ernest Bevin (Bevin’s Boys)
Which British flat racing jockey nickname the choirboy rode Shergar to victory in 1981 Derby? Riding accident in Hing king left him coma for four days.
Walter Swinburn
Which Irish guitarist sometimes dubbed “the best guitarist you’ve never heard of”? This man formed band “taste” in 1960s and died in 1995 following liver transplant complications.
Rory Gallagher
Home to keele university in Staffordshire?
Newcastle under Lyme
Which Irishman was British champion flat racing jockey 6 times between 1997 and 2003? His controversial career saw him sacked by trainer Henry Cecil when it was revealed he had an affair with Cecil’s wife.
Kieran Fallon
Which East Lothian town beginning with N lies 20 miles east of edinburgh is most famous for golf courses?
North Berwick
Which blues guitarist did Jeff Beck replace in the Yardbirds? This man would later be admitted into rock and roll hall of fame three times, only person to achieve this.
Eric Clapton
Who received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor Oscar for 2013 film Captain Phillips?
Barkhad Abdi
Which British flat racing jockey set record for winners ridden by a female in 2019? She shared a surname with the character played by Gene Hackman in The French Connection.
Hollie Doyle
Presence of what element, 45, and member of platinum group is what makes thefts of catalytic converters attractive to thieves?
Rhodium
Whose “best of” album titled Legacy spent more than 300 weeks on uk albums chart after 2016 release? Tracks included Oh You Pretty Things and Boys Keep Swinging.
David Bowie
1997 titanic film begins with finding jewel or trying to at least what is name of the jewel?
The Heart of the Ocean
In 1933 Agatha Christie wrote hercules poirot sotry “Lord ______ Dies”. What word same as London road going from Marble Arch to out of London?
Edgeware
Which town beginning with N is considered part of Milton Keynes but separated by the M1?! Service station named after it was second in the uk, this town also original home of Aston Martin car manufacturers.
Newport Pagnell
Which town beginning with N lies 8 miles southwest of bristol, near M5 and on edge of North Somerset levels? Adge Cutler, frontman of the Wurzels, buried here.
Nailsea
The 1962 movie “Billy Budd” launched career of which actor? This man was in high profile relationships with Jean Shrimpton and Julie Christie and was a famous subject of the photographer David Bailey.
Terence Stamp
Which politician later hailed for his successful organisation of festival of Britain, lost the 1935 Labour leadership election to clement Attlee?
Herbert Morrison
Which alliteratively named English music producer and record label owner talked Jeff beck into recording Hi Ho Silver Lining? Also acted as judge in tv talent show New Faces.
Mickie Most
In 1947, aged 31, who became youngest British cabinet minister of 20th century?
Harold Wilson
Which town beginning with N, seven miles East of Swansea is birthplace of operatic singer Katherine Jenkins?
Neath
Mount Everest tallest mountain above sea level. What Hawaii mountain tallest from base?
Mauna Kea
Which British computer game programmer created Football Manager?
Kevin Toms
Ernest Bevin helped save British money and lives by convincing USA to give support to anti communists forces in which countey’s civil war 1946-49? Communists suffered due to Tito-Stalin split.
Greece
Which duo’s 1972 greatest hits albums include songs “I am a rock” and “bookends”?
Simon and Garfunkel
Which town beginning with N that lies 3 miles SW of Crewe has one of highest concentrations of listed buildings in the country? Joseph Priestley, the co-discoverer of Oxygen lived here.
Nantwich
Which member of 1945 Labour government had been ambassador to USSR during ww2 and then chancellor 1947-50? Churchill once said of him “there but for grace of god goes god”.
Stafford Cripps
What was name of Johnny depps rock supergroup band? The two word name of this band contains an area of Los Angeles.
Hollywood Vampires
What was train time mentioned in title of Miss Marple book of 1957?
4.50 from Paddington
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird invented which superhero comic group?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
In which district of London was clement Attlee born? Traditionally where oxbridge boat race starts.
Putney
Post war reforms known as The Welfare State weee based on 1942 report written by which liberal economist?
William Beveridge
“Dead Man’s _____” was a Hercule Poirot story of 1956. MacCaig has one of these in Oban and Becford has one in Wiltshire.
Folly
What English actress wife to Steven Seagal between 1987 and 1996? Most famous role is Lisa in Weird Science but also in The Woman in Red with Gene Wilder and Hard to Kill with SS himself.
Kelly LeBrock
Name of fictional high school appearing in The Breakfast Club and Weird Science?
Shermer High School
Which Kevin was in news in January 2023 after leading the republic party to small majority in us house he still needed 15 ballots to win speakership?
Kevin McCarthy
Who succeeded Clement Attlee as leader of Labour Party in 1955?
Hugh Gaitskell
The mountain dwelling animal Pika lives on Mount Everest, close relative to which animal found in uk?
Rabbit
Which Devon town starting with N is most westerly racecourse in UK?
Newton Abbott
Which man created and performed as early 80s comedy character Kevin Turvey?
Rik Mayall
In which group did Cody Powell drummer replace Carl Palmer meaning initials Of band didn’t have to change
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Which northern Irishman was British champion jump jockey for 2019/20 season? Shares his surname with Shirley, author of Dogger and the Alfie series of childrens picture books.
Brian Hughes
“Sparkling _____” was Agatha Christie story featured Colonel Race, a substance of what type missing containing a carbon nitrogen triple bond?
Cyanide
Christie wrote set of Poirot short stories called “murder in the _____”, what type of property fits blank? Houses built in rows with accommodation above a garage. These houses are usually in desirable areas as they weee once stables behind large city houses l.
Mews
Which jockey born in Stirling in 1942 was British champion 5 times and a captain on Question of Sport in 1980s?
Willie Carson
Which 8 time British champion jump jockey rode 221 winners in one season is now top trainer with partner Lucinda Russell? Man son Tom also a successful jockey.
Peter Scudamore
Which town beginning with N boasts the tallest church in Nottinghamshire?
Newark
What was name of Kevin Whately’s character in Auf Wiedersehen Pet?
Nev
Which man a founding member of Aerosmith is also in Johnny Depp’s Hollywood Vampires?
Joe Perry
On which conceptual album of 1978 would you encounter “the journalist”, “the artillery man” and “Beth”?
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds
First name of clement attlees wife?
Violet
What was name of 2000 musical rhythm game released for Sega Dreamcast that came with controllers shaped like a pair of maracas?
Samba de Amigo
Not found in original stage version of the musical Evita which song was added when it was adapted into a 1996 film musical? It opens with the question “where do we go from here?”?
You Must Love Me
One of only three chefs with a star on Hollywood walk of fame was which American chef who became first to do so in 2015? He owns several burger franchises that bear his forename and has won four daytime Emmy WoRds for his work on food network channel since 1995.
Bobby Flay
Playing in the eastern conference of the WNBA, basketball team known as “Liberty” are based in which city most populated in its state?
New York
Which ghost story by MR James that takes name from Robert burns poem, tells story of young Cambridge professor who finds an ancient bronze instrument after which he plays it he is pursued by terrible apparition?
Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad
Largest business merger of all time was in 2000 when the German industrial conglomerate Mannesmann was purchased by which British multinational telecommunications company for £112 billion? The EU approved merger in 2000 after his company agreed to sell its orange brand.
Vodafone
Which Hungarian pianist and composer, big hands, wrote set of three solo piano works known as Liebestraume?
Franz Liszt
What name given to eighteenth century job undertaken by a parishioner whose sole task was to watch the congregation during the services and to wake up anyone who had fallen asleep with a long straight pole?
Sluggard Waker
In which 2023 film starring Rory Kinnear as a working class Burnley man who sets up a community money lending service does a character awkwardly sing the REM song Losing My Religion at karaoke night?
Bank of Dave
Second largest business merger of all time in 2000 when American mass media and entertainment company Time Warner purchased by which American web portal and online service provider for $182 billion? Yahoo bought this company in 2021.
AOL
Which ghost story by MR James named after a monochrome printing technique tells story of an Oxford University professor who receives a very disturbing engraving that changes every time he looks at it?
The Mezzotint
The second chef to be awarded a star on Hollywood walk of fame which celebrity Austrian American chef and restauranteur in 2017? 1981 publication “modern French cooking for American kitchen” he opened restaurant Spago On Sunset Strip.
Wolfgang Puck
Not found in original stage version of The Sound of Music, which song was added when it was adapted into a 1965 musical? It opens with question “what will this day be like”.
I have confidence
In 2021, what American band raised $2 million from their album “when you see yourself” this money was raised by selling the album in form of NFTs?
Kings of Leon
What was name of 2003 musical rhythm game released for Nintendo GameCube that came with a controller shaped like bongos?
Donkey Konga
What name was given to profession that lasted well into the industrial revolution whose job it was to rouse sleeping people with long stick tapped on bedroom window so they could get to work on time?
Knocker Upper
Holly Bleasdale, nee Bradshaw, is holder of British record of which athletics event?
Pole Vault
Cuban-American jazz trumpeter defected from cuba in 1977, subject of film For Love or Country where played by Andy Garcia.
Arturo Sandoval
Which all-rounder, the only player with both 400 test wickets and over 5000 runs captained india to win their first cricket World Cup in 1983 - beating the West Indies in the final?
Kapil Dev
Commonly known as “flying lemur”, despite not flying and not being a lemur, six letter word for this animal close relative to primates is known to use a large membrane of skin between its limbs to glide between trees in Southeast Asia?
Colugo
1987 Grammy Award winning country album Trio was first of two collab albums between Dolly Parton and which two other country artists?
Emmylou Harris
Linda Ronstadt
Which Panamanian island in Lake Gatun which partially share its name with a US state was formed after the Chagres River was dammed in 1913? It is now a nature reserve that is one of most well studied areas of tropical rainforest worldwide.
Barro Colorado Island
Which actress became first deaf actress to win academy award for her role in Children of a Lesser God? Also was youngest ever winner of best actress.
Marlee Matlin
Which play by Tom Stoppard which won the 1993 Olivier award for best new play is set in two different timelines at the idyllic country house of Sidley Park and explores concepts like entropy and second law of thermodynamics?
Arcadia
Which 16th century Japanese daimyo during the Sengoku period was noted by historians as the “first unifier of Japan”? This man was head of namesake Oda clan, and conquered most of Honshu before his forced suicide in 1582.
Oda Nobunaga
Which baroque composer wrote a popular Treatise on Harmony in 1722? His operas Hippolyte et Aricie and Castor et Pollux were promoted as examples of French opera in the “Querelle des Bouffons” a dispute over operatic styles.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
One of largest buildings in world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts s found at Yale University and named what B?
Beinecke Library
Which British fashion designer, initially financed by cilla black, transformed the fortunes of Savile Row tailoring with his suit redesigns in the 1960s? He dressed three of Beatles on cover of Abbey Road and created Jokers suit for 1989 Batman movie.
Tommy Nutter
What was the name of the Roman emperor who co-authored the 313 CE Edict of Milan with Constantine the Great? The two emperors would eventually become rivals, with Constantine eventually landing a decisive victory at the Battle of Chrysopolis.
The one-word name by which this emperor is known also appears in the full name of another prominent Roman.
Licinius
New chess world champion April 30th 2023 after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi
Ding Liren
Helene Darroze is current head chef of the restaurant at which hotel in Mayfair, London? In 2021, restaurant got three stars.
The Connaught
In sociology what word describes the feeling of disorientation when one’s social norms governing everyday life suddenly change? People suffering from this often feel no purpose until new social order is established. Emile Durkheim.
Anomie
Which member of Tridevi is goddess of fortune and wealth? She is sometimes depicted as partner of Vishnu.
Lakshmi (VL)
Which member of Tridevi is partner of Hindu god Shiva the Destroyer?
Parvati (SP)
Which member of Tridevi is wife of Brahma?
Saraswati (BS)
Who director of The Father (2020) and The Son (2022 - Hugh Jackman)?
Florian Zeller
In game of thrones series which castle is seat of House Tyrell? It is known for its golden roses and acts as the capital of the fertile and wealthy region called the Reach.
Highgarden
Commonly played in casinos, what card game involves both player and banker trying to score as close to 9 as possible? In this game the value of a hand is the unit digits of combined value meaning 4 and 9 hand would be 3 rather than 13.
Baccarat (Punto Banco/Chemin de Fer)
In chemistry, which functional group contains an oxygen atom covalently bonded to a hydrogen atom? This group is bonded to a saturated carbon atom in alcohols.
Hydroxyl Group
What is name of role that is third most senior prosecutor in England and Wales after Attorney-General and Solicitor-General? Recent occupants of this position include Alison Saunders and Keir Starmer.
Director of Public Prosecutions
Who is current Director of Public Prosecutions following Keir Starmer and aLISON Saunders ?
Max Hill
The Card Players is a series of five paintings by which French post-impressionist artist?
Paul Cezanne
Which French referee became first woman to preside over a mens fifa World Cup match when Costa Rica played germany in 2022 in final round of Group E games?
Stephanie Frappart
Which independent republic politician served as the MP for Mid Ulster from 1969-74? Rejected Irish Republican abstentionism, she swore the Oath of Allegiance and took her seat, and at time was youngest woman ever to do so.
Bernadette Devlin
Situated off the east coast of England, foulness island is part of which county?
Essex
In game of thrones, what castle is ancestral home of House Greyjoy? Located on namesake island in Iron Islands, castle surrounded by water and considered impregnable to attack.
Pyke
Who directed Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Closer, Charlie Wilson’s War? Won EGOT.
Mike Nichols
Before Helene Darroze became head chef of Connaught Hotel, the position was held by which English chef, a protégée of Gordon Ramsay? She was awarded one Michelin star while there in 2004 and currently holds one star for Murano.
Angela Hartnett
What compound German word was coined by the Romantic writer Jean Paul to describe a pessimistic view of life characterised by an acute awareness of the world’s ills?
Weltschmerz
Which conservative Home Secretary and former chancellor was slapped across face by Bernadette Devlin when he incorrectly claimed that the parachute regiment had fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday, an event at which Devlin had been present?
Reginald Maudling
Which English music producer who first reached #1 with “Video Killed the Radio Star” as frontman of Buggles, later produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s three number one hits as well as “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” by LeAnn Rimes?
Trevor Horn
Now retired, which English referee was first woman to be chosen as an assistant referee in mens English football league in 1994, going on to officiate in the Premier League between 1997 and 2005?
Wendy Toms
Which species of penguin gets its common name from a fine continuous band of black feathers that extends from one side of the head to the other across each cheek and beneath the beak?
Chinstrap Penguin
Aldehydes are terminal examples of which functional group that consists of a carbon atom double bonded to an oxygen atom?
Carbonyl
Which Cameroonian-American singer is currently at #4 on uk singles chart with her song “People”? The song describes her mental illness and features refrain “I’ve been drinking more alcohol for the last five days… did you check on me?”.
Libianca
A friendship bridge crosses the River Narva from Russia to which European country?
Estonia
Invented in Uruguay in 1939 and described as the most recent card game to have achieved worldwide status as a classic. Which game in the rummy family played by two partnerships with two standard deck of cards and involves trying to make melds of seven cards?
Canasta
Which tv presenter is the host of the Totally Football Show podcast? He was presenter of Channel 4’s Football Italia from 1992-2006.
James Richardson
Lying in Saint Elias mountains, which is highest mountain in Canada?
Mount Logan
Including lyrics “but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before”, which song from My Fair Lady is sung by Freddy Eynsford-Hill to express his love for Eliza after seeing her at Ascot?
On the Street Where You Live
Before leaving to create The Totally Football Show, James Richardson was a host of the Guardian’s football weekly podcast. Football Weekly is now hosted by which radio and tv presenter, alongside journalist Barry Glendenning? He presented Soccer AM from 2008-15 and has a weekly show with Glendenning on Talksport.
Max Rushden
Which American computer scientist is the author of The Art of Computer Programming? He began work on this in 1962 and is yet to complete it.
Donald Knuth
Which German composer wrote the 1846 oratorio Elijah? It premiered in Birmingham Town Hall.
Felix Mendelssohn
What is principal romanisation system for Mandarin Chinese designed by Zhou Youguang?
Hanyu Pinyin
In eukaryotic cell nuclei, what seven letter name given to highly basic protein complexes consisting of eight subunits around which DNA spools itself to form nucleosomes?
Histone
Reverting to her real name of Angela White following conversion to Christianity, which model and socialite revealed in March that she had dissolved her lip fillers and reversed her buttock enhancement?
Blac Chyna
Ignatius J Reilly an unemployed 30 year old with distaste for world around him, is protagonist of which novel posthumously published in 1980, 11 years after death of John Kennedy Toole? Name from a Jonathan swift work.
A confederacy of dunces
Which British comedian popular from 1930-60s; had nickname Cheeky Chappie? He was known for his bright, outlandish suits and his innuendo heavy material that often saw him fall foul of censors.
Max Miller
Four Asian Tigers: which economies?
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea
In cooking, which hyphenated French term describes method of using a pan of water into which another container is placed? Melting chocolate in this way prevents burning and splitting of cocoa butter and cocoa solids.
Bain-Marie
Widely considered one of best linebackers of all time, Ray Lewis spent his whole professional career at which nfl team?
Baltimore Ravens
Based on a 2006 Elena Ferrante novel, what was the 2021 film debut directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal?
The Lost Daughter
Dayanand Saraswati founded which Indian Hindu reform movement in 1870s? The movement promotes values and practices based on the belief in the infallible authority of the Vedas.
Arya Samaj
The cities of Ulm, Mannheim and Stuttgart are all in which German federal state?
Baden-Wurttemberg
Which Soviet woman holds record for most Olympic gold medals for a gymnast winning 14 medals between 1956 and 1964?
Larisa Latynina
Among the best known male singers to adopt the ye-ye style was which French musician who co-wrote the lyrics to the song “comme d’habitude” which would later be turned into My Way by Paul Anka? Man died in 1977 trying to fix a light fitting while in the bath electrocuted.
Claude Francois
Morven Christie plays DS Lisa Armstrong in which itv police drama series that began in 2019 and set in Morecambe on Lancashire coast?
The Bay
Nicknamed the Mobs Accountant, which polish born American gangster was one of founders of the National Crime Syndicate, a conglomerate that linked a variety of organised crime groups from 1929 onwards?
Meyer Lansky
Considered one of the best receivers of all time, Larry Fitzgerald spent his whole professional career at which NFL team?
Arizona Cardinals
What name is given to the characters taken from Chinese script that are, along with hiragana and katakana, one of the components of the Japanese writing system?
Kanji
DNA is wrapped around histones to form nucleosomes, which are fundamental subunit of what tightly packed nucleoprotein complex within a chromosome? This word prefixed with either eu or hetero depending on whether genes within it are expressed or silent.
Chromatin
Which American rapper is father of Blac Chyna first child after pair dated 2011/12? Later had contro relationship with 16 year old Kylie Jenner
Tyga
Which Australian swimmer and singer dated Kylie Jenner in 2011, later Gigi Hadid and Miley Cyrus and now Emma McKeon? Is a singer and a commonwealth games 2022 singer for Australia.
Cody Simpson
The highest rates tripadvisor rating for which town in Cornwall used to be. 70m Perspex tunnel? Sainsbury and car park.
Bude
Alfred the Great appears in a 2018 game subtitled Thrones of Britannia part of which major series of historical real time strategy games by Creative Assembly? Series two word title followed Rome Medieval and Empire in early games and featured on tv show Time Commanders.
Total War
What is name for type of energy an object holds due to its position relative to another object? Subtypes of this form of energy include gravitational and elastic.
Potential Energy
What was debut novel of Thomas Pynchon? Published in 1963.
V.
As part of many recurring gags on family guy, which late country singer is often seen singing songs such as “hello darlin” and “Linda on my mind”!-5 end of awkward punch lines?
Conway Twitty
Which wicket keeper and batsman captained india to their second and most recent cricket world cup in 2011 - beating Kumar Sangakkara’s Sri Lanka in the final?
MS Dhoni
Named after its resemblance to the tam o’shanter headwear, which very hot chilli pepper, with a similar scoville rating to the habanero, is heavily featured in caribbean dishes?
Scotch Bonnet
“The Record” is the debut studio album by American indie supergroup Boygenius which consists of which three singers?
Phoebe Bridgers
Julien Baker
Lucy Dacus
Also known as the Babakoto, which large singing species of lemur, similar to the sifaka, is the only mammal other than humans known to use rhythm?
Indri
The Querelle des Bouffons operatic dispute arose over a performance of which composers intermezzo La Serva Padrona, which pioneered the Italian style of opera buffa. This composer generally nicknamed for his birthplace near Ancona also wrote a famous Stabat Mater.
Pergolesi
Which Ghanaian British fashion designer is partially credited for the late 20th century revival of Savile Row tailoring? Film work includes costumes for Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Black Panther.
Ozwald Boateng
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between King and Riggs was played in which stadium in southern USA? Nicknamed eighth wonder of the world and first major sports venue to install a namesake type of artificial playing surface.
Houston Astrodome
Whcih Australian island and unesco world heritage site named after a former British admiral of the fleet has been the site of many scientific expeditions? Have been attempts to eradicate its recently introduced rat population which decimated a namesake stick insect.
Lord Howe Island
After Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which daimyo was noted by historians as the “last United of Japan”? This man was foundr of the namesake Tokugawa shogunate, which lasted from 1603 until the Meiji restoration in 1868.
Tokugawa IEYASU
What instrument was Glenn Miller most known for playing
Trombone
Bandleader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1966-74, Buddy DeFranco played most instrument most famously?
Clarinet
Due to friendship with Meyer Lansky bringing the mafia and Jewish mob together, which Italian gangster was also influential in the development of the national crime syndicate? He was eventually brought down by Thomas Dewey on charges of prostitution and eventually deported.
Charles Lucky Luciano
Which Japanese man is known for being first gymnast to win every major all-around title in an Olympic cycle doing so twice by winning six World Championship and two Olympic all-around golds from 2009-16?
Kohei Uchimura
Which French ye-ye singer is perhaps best known for her 1962 hit Tous Les garçons et Les filles which topped French singles charts for 15 weeks?
Francoise Hardy
The tv show Grace starting a John Simm in title role and set in Brighton is based on books by which author?
Peter James
Who played lead role of Leda Caruso in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter earning her a second best actress Oscar nomination?
Olivia Colman
Reform Judaism is a major denomination of the religion that focuses less on the strict observance of Jewish law. What is the Hebrew name of the collective body of Jewish laws which are derived from written and oral Torah?
Halakha
The Bristol bus boycott received public support from which political at the time the MP for Bristol South?
Tony Benn
What is name of the title character of f Scott fitzgerlabdunfinished last novel The Last Tycoon?
Monroe Stahr
Which Dutch former long track speed skater is the only athlete to win an individual gold medal at five successive Olympic Games? She has a total of 13 Olympic medals won between 2006 and 2022.
Ireen Wust
Which Dutchman is only person to have won nine World Allround Speed Skating Championships? He also has a total of nine Olympic medals won between 2006-22.
Sven Kramer
Which 20th century Spanish born philosopher wrote Scepticism and Animal Faith? Also known for the aphorism “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
George Santayana
Lying on the Arctic circle, what is largest lake entirely in Canada?
Great Bear Lake
Who is the the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. Is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Steve Ballmer
Who is the heir to the fortune of reliance industries? Indian billionaire is current 13th richest in world.
Mukesh Ambani
The archaeological site, L’Anse aux Meadows, is a Norse settlement dating to 1000 years ago and located on which Canadian island?
Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador
Book called Jade City and first in Green Bone Saga is by which sci-fi author?
Fonda Lee
Sci fi author won 2015 Hugo award for Three Body Problem. Also wrote Deaths End.
Cixin Liu
What is the Gaelic name for their May Day celebration on 1 May?
Beltane
What word was coined by Donald Watson in 1944?
Vegan
Brass band from South Yorkshire appeared in film Brassed Off
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Who directed the 1966 Italian Algerian war film called The Battle of Algiers? It won the Golden Lion at Venice. Also did The Wide Blue Road and Kapo.
Gillo Pontecorvo
Which Jean Luc Godard film released in 1963 was about Algerian war starring Michel Subor as Bruno Forestier and Anna Karina as Veronica Dreyer.
Le petit soldat
Who directed The Day of the Jackal (1973), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), A Man for All Seasons and Julia?
Fred Zinnerman
Which French philosopher born 1925 wrote Anti-Oedipus (1972), A Thousand Plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia (1980), Difference and Repetition (1968)
Gilles Deleuze
The two primary sulfur containing amino acids in mammals?
Methionine
Cysteine
Name for largest group of baleen whales including blue whales, fin whales, comes from Norwegian Norse for red.
Rorqual
Which pope excommunicated King John
Innocent III
Which pope excommunicated Henry VIII in 1538?
Paul III
Who excommunicated Martin Luther in 1521?
Leo X
Who excommunicated Elizabeth I issuing the bull Regnans in Excelsis in 1570?
Pius V
What Irish dairy brand used worldwide had several ads with Irish and French people sharing food including the cliffhanger “hey dad who’s taking the horse to France”?
Kerrygold
Which Scottish man known as “voice of rugby” was the commentator for PlayStation game “Jonah Lomu Rugby”?
Bill McLaren
Which female Scottish crime author is known for among other works her Karen Pirie series of novels!
Val McDermid
Lake Kwania and Lake Kyoga make up the largest lake in which East African country?
Uganda
At the 2023 Grammy awards which Canadian singer and pianist who also holds Italian citizenship won the award for best traditional pop album with his album “Higher”?
Michael Buble
Which Irish playwright born 1928 known for plays such as Sive, The Chastitute, The Field? Latter of these made into film starring Richard Harris and Brenda Fricker.
John B Keane
Which young adult Netflix tv series about two teenage boys and a psychic girl fighting deadly spirits plaguing London is based on books written by Jonathan Stroud?
Lockwood & Co
What is the name of the major showcase event in professional bodybuilding? Somewhat controversially, the womens bodybuilding division was removed from this event Fter 2015 and onlt restored in 2020. Ronnie Coleman won event eight times.
The Olympia
Which form of therapy was pioneered by Fritz Perls and his wife Laura (although she never got full credit)? While the German word which gives this therapy it’s name no direct English translation( can be loosely translated as whole or form as the therapy centres around the clients awareness of environment.
Gestalt
In January 2023, the royal mail released a set of postage stamps celebrating the work and global succcess of which British band who were formed in London in 1975?
Iron Maiden
Affable Yorkshireman, Danny Malin is behind which YouTube channel, where he goes to fast food restaurants and parks a folding table and chair outside?
Rate my Takeaway
Copenhagen largest city in Denmark, Aarhus on Jutland peninsula is second largest, which city the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen is third largest?
Odense
Which major drinks company owns drink brands like Amstel, John Smiths, Murphy’s Irish Stout and Strongbow Cider?
Heineken
Which Irish playwright is famous for plays such as Philadelphia Here I Come, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa? The latter of these was made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Michael Gambon.
Brian Friel
Which Netflix tv series tells story of Alina Starkov, an orphan and cartographer as she discovers she has special gifts? Based on series of books by Leigh Bardugo.
Shadow and Bone
IED stands for what?
Improvised explosive device
Which Madrid art museum originally private collection of a German Hungarian art collector from whom it takes its name? Part of golden triangle along with Prado and Reina Sofia museums.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Greg Jenner hosts which comedy/history podcast also aired on radio 4? Discusses topics with 1 historian and 1 comedian.
You’re Dead To Me
The Hu, a Hunnu Rock band, had 2019 album The Gereg reach the top 200 on us billboard albums, are from which Asian country?
Mongolia
Ranked #2 on Rolling Stones 2015 list of 50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, At Fillmore East is a 1971 release by which American southern rock band? Includes a popular extended version of their own song Whipping Post.
The Allman Brothers Band
Which indigenous people live on floating islands made from totora reeds on Lake Titicaca in South America? These islands are a popular attraction, islands sell handcrafts to tourists.
Uru People
Currently interim head coach of Leicester tigers, which former rugby Union player is the all-time leader in premiership rugby appearances with 322? A scrum half, he played for Sale, Saracens, and Leicester between 2002-22, also played 33 times for England.
Richard Wigglesworth
Ranked #13 on Rolling Stone’s 2015 list of 50 greatest live albums of all time, “At Budokan” is a 1978 release by which American pop rock band? It includes a popular faster version of their own song I Want You to Want Me and a cover of Fats Domino’s Ain’t That A Shame.
Cheap Trick
One of several nba stars in space jam, which former basketball player has nickname “round mound of rebound”? Never won a nba championship but won regular season mvp while playing for Phoenix Suns in 1993.
Charles Barkley
Currently playing for Leicester tigers, which rugby Union player is all time leading try scorer in premiership rugby with 98? A wing and full back, he has also played for Northampton, Saracens, Sale, Harlequins and Worcester since 2007, he has earned 44 caps and 20 tries with England.
Chris Ashton
Which art museum in Copenhagen Denmark, was originally the private collection of Carl Jacobsen? The museum partly takes its name from multinational brewery of which Jacobsen was the CEO; it houses works such as The Absinthe Drinker by Manet and Little Dancer of Fourteen Years by Degas.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Russell Kane hosts which comedy/history podcast which has also aired as a show on bbc radio 4? In each episode he discusses and evaluates the personal and moral legacy of a different historical figure with three guest comedians.
Evil Genius
Which Swedish heavy metal band, known for theatrically anti-Christian image and stage costumes that obscure identities, earned their first uk top 40 single in 2022 thanks to viral TikTok video? Mary on a Cross reached 28 after soundtracking a clip featuring stranger things scenes.
Ghost
Who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France in 1757? This man stabbed the king as he was entering his carriage in Paris; he was subsequently publicly executed in the Place de Greve by being pulled apart by horses.
Robert-Francois Damiens
Which playwright from Germany wrote play Marat/Sade, The Investigation and a novel The Aesthetics of Resistance?
Peter Weiss
Which island on lake titicaca on South America is known for the handwoven textiles and clothing made by its inhabitants? Knitting is performed by men, and spinning and weaving are performed by women; these customs are popular with tourists and recognised as part of Peru’s Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.
Taquile
Collapsing in 1991 owing $20 billion, which international bank founded in Pakistan, was forced into bankruptcy when its illegal practices were scrutinised by US regulators following an attempted takeover of a US bank?
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
In cardiac conduction system, what specialised conducting fibres create synchronised contractions of the heart’s ventricles, and are essential for maintaining a consistent heart rhythm?
Purkinje fibres
Which cricketer holds the English record for most centuries in womens ODI with nine? In 1997 she scored 173 not out against Ireland which remains an English record and she was named a Wisden cricket of year in 2014.
Charlotte Edwards
Making many of worlds most expensive spirits, Buffalo Trace is a distillery specialising in what type of whiskey?
Bourbon Whiskey
Symphony No 96 the fourth of Haydn’s London symphonies is also known by what name due to a chandelier falling from the concert hall ceiling narrowly missing the audience?
Miracle
Played by Chris Barrie, what was name of the hologram who was among the central characters in sitcom Red Dwarf?
Arnold Judas Rimmer
Though he also won Olympic gold on floor exercise, max Whitlock most associated with which gymnastics apparatus? One of events only competed by men, Whitlock won back to back golds 2016/20.
Pommel Horse
Walmart own 72% of which Indian e-commerce site that competes with Amazon subsidiary Snapdeal? Like Amazon it began as a book retailer, and has name intended to suggest a shopping trolley.
Flipkart
Two English women are tied with eight centuries in ODI internationals, Tammy Beaumont and which retired player? This cricketer was first woman to be named one of Wisden’s cricket of the year in 2009 after being named player of the series at both that years World Cup and world twenty20.
Claire Taylor
In 2010, trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted of abuse of confidence and illegal access to computers following 2008 trading loss incurred by which bank who employed him?
Societe Generale
Derived from words meaning three quarters in Italian, what name is used for role in football given to playmaker who plays between midfield and strikers?
Trequartista
Although she is world champion on floor; Beth tweddle is most associated with which gymnastics apparatus? Competed in only by women, tweddle won bronze in 2012 but also has two world champs gold medals in same event.
Uneven Bars
Symphony No 100, eighth of Haydn’s London symphonies also known by what nickname, derived from fanfares in the movement?
Military
In early 1967, which welsh actor and comedian reached #2 in uk with recording of This is my Song a few weeks after petula Clark reached number one with her version of the song?
Harry Secombe
Before losing to Ireland at six nations 2023, England suffered their worst defeat in any six nations tournament and their worst defeat playing at Twickenham when they lost 53-10 to which other national team?
France
Which MSP for the glasgow region is current leader of the Scottish Labour Party?
Anas Sarwar
Whcih American golfer, former world number one who won four world titles between 2017-19, became first person to win two events on LIV Golf Tour when he won in Orlando in April 2023? Dustin Johnson won the whole thing.
Brooks Koepka
Which film horror director made seven horror filmed based on Edgar Allen Poe between 1960-64 for American international pictures, six of whom starred Vincent price?
Roger Corman
Which actress played Mamie Till in 2022 biopic Till and didn’t get Oscar nominated?
Danielle Deadwyler
What is Turkish delight called in Turkey?
Lokum
Which German physiologist won first Nobel prize medicine for work on serum therapy and application against diphtheria?
Emil von Behring
Which British wheelchair racer holds Paralympic world records for womens 100/200/400/800/1500? Won golds at London rio and Tokyo.
Hannah Cockcroft
Lower jawbone term
Mandible
One of the “Antwerp Six” fashion designers who graduated in 1980/81, Belgian designer Ann Verhelst’s fashion house known by her first name and what Dutch surname?
Demeulemeester
Which American scientist gives his name to a thermodynamic quantity, symbolised G, that is used to measure the maximum amount of work done in a thermodynamic system when the temperature and pressure are kept constant?
Josiah Willard Gibbs
First airing in 2019, title of doc series produced by Netflix and formula one? Praised for high level of insight.
Formula One: Drive to Survive
Kate Rusby, Femi Kuti and Bombay Bicycle Club 2023 headliners for which festival founded in 1982 and held in Charlton park in Wiltshire since 2007?
WOMAD (world of music arts and dance)
What term describes the phenomenon of employees attending work despite illnesses or feeling that they need to be visibly at work beyond their allotted hours irrespective of productivity?
Presenteeism
Which former Everton midfielder, who made 40 appearances for Ireland 1997-08 is currently head coach of England U21s?
Lee Carsley
A critic of Comte’s positivism, which English philosopher and sociologist coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” in his 1864 work Principles of Biology after reading Darwin’s On the Origin of Species?
Herbert Spencer
Elisabeth Borne only second woman to serve S French PM, who was first under Mitterrand 1991-92
Edith Cresson
The Bartered Bride by which composer
Bedrich Smetana
Which British wheelchair racer a multiple gold medalist at Beijing and London has won mens wheelchair race at London marathon and great north run on eight occasions?
David Weir
Emil von Behring is believed to have cheated which of his colleagues out of recognition and financial reward for their work on diphtheria? This man got won Nobel in 1908 in contributions to immunology developed Salvarsan the first effective treatment for syphilis.
Paul Ehrlich
Another black woman overlooked at the 2023 Oscar’s was which director of The Woman King? Also did The Old Guard (2020), The Secret Life of Bees (written by Sue Monk Kidd). Debut Love & Basketball.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
What name given in feudal Japan to a wandering samurai without a lord or master?
Ronin
What sits in Suffolk is location of two nuclear power stations one of which has been commissioned?
Sizewell
Hinckley Point Power Stations are in what county?
Somerset
“A novel without a hero” is subtitle of what nineteenth century novel?
Vanity Fair
An alternative to resigning, what two word term is given to workers fulfilling no more than their assigned duties and becoming less invested in their job by refusing to take on extra responsibility or perform non-mandatory tasks?
Quiet Quitting
Which Scottish midfielder, Notts forest and Everton player, is current head coach of Scotland mens under 21 squad?
Scot Gemmill
Who is manager of Scotland national team mens
Steve Clarke
Who is north Ireland mens football coach
Michael O’Neill
Who is Ireland football team national mens coach?
Stephen Kenny
Who is manager of German national team
Hansi Flick
After Guillaume Apollinaire died, two rival groups published works entitled surrealist manifesto within fornightnint in 1924. One Yvan Goll led group, who led the other who published a second surrealist manifesto in 1929?
Andre Breton
Ann Verhelst, aka Demeulemeester, began her career as a freelance pattern maker for which Belgian fashion designer who went onto found his French fashion “maison” in 1988?
Martin Margiela
The Scottish Borders council are covers area of four historical Scottish councils: Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire and which other, which borders both Cumbria and northumberland?
Roxburghshire
Which song written by Van Morrison is listed twice in Rolling Stones most recent list of 500 greatest songs of all time? The two versions are the 1964 original by Them and the 1975 Adaptation by Patti Smith?
Gloria
The Dumfries and Galloway council area covers the area of three historic Scottish scounciks: Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and which other, the site of scotlands southernmost point?
Wigtownshire
Which electronic voting hardware company has accepted a $787 million settlement against fox?
Dominion Voting Systems
Who played captain Kathryn janeway in Star Trek voyager?
Kate Mulgrew
The disappearance of children from fictional town of Winden leads to the uncovering of a deeper conspiracy in which German mystery thriller available on Netflix?
Dark
Which thoroughfare in east end gives its name to clashes between met police, Oswald Bosley’s BUF and anti fascist demonstrators in 1936, known as this streets battle?
Cable Street
The Pasig is a river which flows through which Asian capital city, that is also home to the walled area of intramuros?
Manila
In which battle of 216BCE fought in modern Apulia did the carthaginians under Hannibal surround and destroy a larger Roman army led by consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro? It has been called Romes greatest defeat.
Cannae
What is modern name of the city, now capital of Tajikistan, that was known as Stalingrad between 1929 and 61?
Dushanbe
Capital of Turkmenistan?
Ashgabat
Which black comedy directed by Andrew Bergman continued the general theme of Golden Raspberry Worst Pictures when it won in 1996? Demi Moore again features in this film playing the former FBI secretary Erin Grant who has to resort to becoming a showgirl in Miami to afford cost of a legal appeal to gain custody of her daughter.
Striptease
The Iskar is a river that flows through which European capital city, that is also home to the amphitheatre of Serdica?
Sofia
Which band with number in name had number one in 1964 with the song Glad All Over
Dave Clark Five
Name of British tennis star born in Ukraine who died aged 30’in 2014 of cancer? Moved to uk when father moved to play for Ipswich town in 1988.
Elena Baltacha
The Mesurado is a river that flows through which African capital city, that is also home to the John F Kennedy Medical Centre?
Monrovia
Which band with a number in its name had a number one in 1961 with the track You’re Driving Me Crazy?
Temperance Seven
Which royal physician administered morphine and heroin to George V to make sure he made morning news?
Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson
In which battle of 218BC fought near modern Piacenza did Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces heavily defeat a Roman army under Tiberius semoronius longus? It was first major battle of second Punic war.
Trebia
Osiris isis and Seth offspring of which earth god and his wife sky goddess Nut
Geb
Which hormone promotes the retention of water by the kidneys by increasing the concentration of urine if someone is thirsty? Sometimes referred to as anti diuretic hormone, it can be nicknamed the thirst hormone.
Vasopressin
Commander Shepard is main protagonist of which video game franchise against the Reapers in 1, the Collectors in 2, fourth instalment is called Andromeda.
Mass Effect
The Mapocho is a river that flows which South American capital city, that is also home to the Palacio de La moneda
Santiago
1993 sa which Uli Edel thriller starring Madonna as woman accused of killing her loce in sex game and William dafoe as lawyer charged with defending her?
Body of Evidence
Often served lukewarm as an appetiser, which Sicilian dish consists of chopped aubergine fried with onions, celery, olives and capers in tomato sauce?
Caponata
On which island, a British crown dependency was Heather Watson who won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2016 partnering Henri Kontinen born?
Guernsey
Hugo Duminil-Copin won a 2022 fields medal for applying percolation theory to what physical phenomena, of which condensation and sublimation are examples? A descriptive answer acceptable.
Phase Transitions
Modern name of Bulgarian city known simply as Stalin in 1949-56? Third largest city in the country and the largest on its Black Sea coast.
Varna
Ville Virtanen portrays a high functioning autistic detective in southern Karelia in which Finnish crime drama available on Netflix?
Bordertown
The Spanish musician Carlos Nunez is a virtuoso on the gaita, a traditional instrument from Galicia which is similar to what instrument?
Bagpipes
Later a leader of his party, which liberal MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles introduced the abortion act 1967 as a private members bill?
David Steel
In which 2004 film by Mike Leigh does Imelda Staunton play the title character a woman in 1950s London who performs backstreet abortions?
Vera Drake
The electric shock sensation caused by striking the so called Funny Bone is caused by striking which nerve which is trapped between bone and the skin at that point? This nerve is the largest in the body which is unprotected by muscle or bone.
Ulnar Nerve
Which African nation voted against march 2022 un resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Totalitarian ruler Isaias Afwerki has led them since independence.
Eritrea
Which Philadelphia 76ers’ player born in Cameroon has been named the NBA’s most valuable player for the 2022-23 season?
Joel EMBIID
In which opera by Richard Wagner does the title character arrive on a boat drawn by a swan, before defeating Telramund in combat and marrying Elsa von Brabant? This opera contains the Bridal Chorus, often played at weddings.
Lohengrin
Named after its inventor an architect from York, what type of two wheeled horse drawn carriage was immensely popular as a means conveying people around 19th century London?
Hansom Cab
What mountain is seventh highest in world and highest mountain entirely in one nation? It’s Nepalese.
Dhaulagiri
1955 Ingmar Bergman film is used for musical A Little Night Music
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Scottish football club queen of the south play in which town in southern Scotland twinned with Galloway in the name of its council area?
Dumfries
In which opera by Richard Wagner does the title character shoot down a sacred wild swan before finding redemption in defeating Klingsor to win back the Holy Spear for the Knights of the Grail? Like Lohengrin, Wagner based this work, his last, on the epic poetry of wolfram von eschenbach.
Parsifal
Which autumn month of the French revolutionary calendar, running from around 22 October to 22 November, had a name deriving from the French for mist?
Brumaire
Which retailer of meal kits delivered to subscribers was founded in 2012 by Timo Boldt and James Carter?
Gousto
Which meal kit company, the largest provider in the USA was founded in 2011 in berlin Germany?
Hello Fresh
What name is given to the functional group consisting of a nitrogen atom bonded to a combination of alkyl groups and hydrogen atoms? These fishy smelling compounds are substituted versions of the molecule produced by the Haber process and thus have a similar name.
Amines
A later pseudo-isometric game was which 1997 action/adventure role playing video game developed and released by blizzard, which sees the player battle through levels set in the town of Tristram before entering Hell to confront the titular villain? Later versions used 3D engines and fourth edition will be published in June 2023.
Diablo
The letters O A B C and R are used to describe examples of what layers within soil, consisting respectively of organic material, surface soil, subsoil, substratum layers and bedrock?
Horizons
Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to which French king but fell apart during second crusade as accused of affair with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers?
Louis VII
The third most subscribed YouTube channel is which American YouTube channel which specialises in 3D animation videos of nursery rhymes and children’s songs for a preschool audience?
Cocomelon
Which winter month of French revolutionary calendar running from around 21 December to 20 January had a name deriving from French for snowy?
Nivose
Leslie Nielsen had also played Frank Drebin in which sitcom from which naked gun movies were a spin off?
Police Squad!
Named after a son of Helios who attempted to drive chariot of sun in Greek mythology, what type of four wheeled horse-drawn carriage is notable for its very light body and extravagantly large wheels?
Phaeton
The Scottish football club St Johnstone play in which conurbation in mid scotland( which regained city status at 2012 diamond jubilee and is twinned with Kinross in name of its council area?
Perth
As a result of Vasily Dokuchaev’s influence, many Russian terms are part of the vocabulary of soil science today: one example is which term for the greyish-white soil typical of coniferous forest regions?
Podsol
Diplo joined forces with whcih producer to form the act Silk City which reached top 5 with electricity a track featuring Dua Lipa?
Mark Ronson
Nanga Parbat is the highest mountain entirely in which country?
Pakistan
The reaction of carboxylic acids and alcohols produces what functional group, where a carbon atoms forms a double bond and a single bond in two different oxygen atoms? Compounds within this functional group are often sweet smelling.
Esters
Tales of the Sword Coast and Shadows of Amn are titles in which series of games based on Dungeons and Dragons universe, the first of which published in 1998? This series featured a pseudo-isometric perspective generated by BioWare’s infinity engine and the series was rebooted in 2012 with enhanced graphics.
Baldur’s Gate
Which uk unicorn business is a fitness apparel and accessories brand founded in 2012 by Ben Francis and Lewis Morgan?
Gym Shark
What name given to functional group consisting of a carbon-oxygen double bond or carbonyl connected by single bonds to hydrogen and a third substituent? That third substituent is also hydrogen in a pungent compound in this group used to store animal specimens.
Aldehydes
A recent game with a pseudo-isometric perspective is which 2019 title published by ZA/UM in which player takes role of amnesiac detective Harry Du Bois solving a murder in a seaside city district? Designed by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz, the game features music by band Sea Power.
Disco Elysium
One running gag on police squad involves guest star killed before end of opening credits. In opening episode which Canadian actor thrown from speeding car with knife in chest? This man played Ben Cartwright in Bonanza and Commander Adama in original version of Battlestar Galactica.
Lorne Greene
What mountain sits on border of China and Bhutan and is worlds highest unclimbed mountain?
Gangkhar Puensum
Jitchu Drake is highest mountain entirely in which country?
Bhutan
In which opera by Richard Wagner does title character outrage the audience at the Wartburg Song Contest with a composition dedicated to Venus before being exiled by the Landgrave of Thuringia?
Tannhauser
As well as pedology, the other main branch of soil science is which discipline, concerned specifically with the Influence of soils on other living things?
Edaphology
The Scottish football club Raith Rovers play in which town in fife, which was twinned with Cowdenbeath in the name of formed prime minister Gordon brown constituency from 2005-15?
Kirkcaldy
Named after German city where it was first produced, what type of four wheeled horse drawn carriage with a roof that can be let down is still used by the royals and other public figures on ceremonial occasions?
Landau
Which spring month of French revolutionary calendar running from around 20 May to 19 June, had a name deriving from French for meadow?
Prairial
Which form of Hackney carriage took its name from a Parisian hotel outside which such carriages could be hired in the 17th century? It’s name of the saint who became patron saint of taxi drivers.(8/
Fiacre
Pik Ismail Somoni is the highest mountain entirely in which country? It is the highest point outside of Nepal, India China, Bhutan and Pakistan and was under the name Communist Peak the highest point in former Soviet Union?
Tajikistan
Which functional group, like aldehydes, contains a carbonyl attached to two hydrocarbon groups? The simplest example of these molecules is used as nail polish remover, and can be smelt on the breath in a complication of diabetes.
Ketones
Subtitled Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street in which 1989 book did Michael Lewis recount his experiences as a Wall Street bond trader in the late 1980s? Never adapted into a film, this book is named after a gambling game popular with traders at the time.
Liars Poker
Pewdiepie overtaken in 2019 as most subscribed YouTube channel by which Hindi language channel and remains most subscribed? Founded by Gulshan Kumar.
T-Series
Which uk founded unicorn business is a digital first health service provider which combines an AI powered platform with virtual clinical operations for patients, and was founded by Ali Parsa in 2013? It’s share price has however fallen significantly after a 2021 listing on New York stock exchange.
Babylon Health
Which Anglo Saxon claimant to the English throne commanded an English fleet which supported first crusade? Elected king of England in 1066 at a meeting of the witan after death of Harold godwinson but never drowned after Norman’s conquered London and William I crowned instead.
Edgar Aetheling or Edgar II
Which summer month of French Rev calendar running from 19 June to 19 July had a name deriving from French for harvest?
Messidor
The Scottish club St Mirren play in which administrative centre of Renfrewshire the largest town in Scotland not to have city status?
Paisley
The final episode of Police Squad! Began with guest star being thrown out of car with dagger; which actor who had played titular detective in series of Cannon in previous decade?
William Conrad
In which opera by Richard Wagner does the title character seize power in fourteenth century rome before surviving one assassination attempt being excommunicated and finally burned alive by a mob!
Rienzi
Which British Roman road linked present day Dover to present day Wroxeter?
Watling Street
Buffalo Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row( which two teams lost two in a row, one was Super Bowl 8 and 9, one was super bowl 21 and 22?
Minnesota Vikings
Denver Broncos
An account of her rustic childhood in a family of Mormon survivalists, during which she taught herself mathematics with such success that she went on to complete a PhD in intellectual history, Educated is a 2018 memoir by which author?
Tara Westover
Hookes Law might also be expressed as the relationship between stress - the force acting on a unit area of a material - and what other concept, the relative deformation produced by stress? This relationship will be proportional at low values of stress when a material is not permanently deformed.
Strain
Alan Bennett’s performed with Peter cook; Dudley moore and Jonathan killer in which comedy stage revue which debuted at 1960 edinburgh festival and credited with kickstart in 1960s satire boom?
Beyond the Fringr
Exemplified by a mass oscillating On a Spring, the most basic form of oscillation described by Hooke’s Law where the force responsible for motion is always directed towards the equilibrium position and proportional to the distance from it, is often known as SHM. If M stands for motion, what does the SH stand for?
Simple Harmonic
Which economist who won 2001 Nobel for economics has criticised Donald Trump focus on reducing the us trade deficit with mexico and china? Main work include “globalisation and its discontents”.
Joseph Stiglitz
Who did pioneer bebop pioneer tune A Night in Tunisia?
John Birks Dizzy Gillespie
The nickname the Flying Finn has also been applied to competitors in winter sports and somewhat appropriately to Janne Ahonen and Matti Nykanen, who competed in which winter sport?
Ski jumping
Modern day views on trade surpluses contrast with earlier economic school of thought which advocated maximising exports and minimising imports, for example with high tariffs? Louis XIV first minister of state Jean Baptiste Colbert associated with this school.
Mercantilism
Charlie Parker wrote the contrafacts Marmaduke and Throckmorton the Plumber over Honeysuckle Rose( a song composed by which jazz pianist whose innovations in Harlem stride style laid much of the basis for modern jazz piano?
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller
Which term means describing a block of text replicated and posted repeatedly on forums often for spamming and or irritating other users?
Copypasta
Another Asian American nomineee at this years 2023 Oscar’s was which actress born in Thailand to Vietnamese parents for her role as Liz in The Whale? Her tv roles include Linh in Treme and Lady Trieu in Watchmen before playing Audrey Temple in Homecoming.
Hong Chau
Alan Bennett’s first west end play was which 1968 play which looked back at 20th century British history through framing device of a play being shown to parents at a fictional British public school?
Forty Years On
A condition that if satisfied means a country’s balance of trade will improve when it’s currency depreciates is named after Abba Lerner and which other English economist known for 1890 textbook Principles of Economics is regarded as father of microeconomics.
Alfred Marshall
Since 2021, Najla Bouden has served as prime minister of which North African country, first woman in this Arab nation?
Tunisia
As well as Hooke’s Law, a real world mass oscillating on a spring is subject to forces described by what seven letter adjective? These forces such as air resistance remove energy from the system causing it to gradually stop oscillating and come to rest.
Damping
The theme for 2019 met gala was named Camp: Notes on Fashion, as a reference to essays Notes on Camp by which American writer?
Susan Sontag
In Māori mythology; what was name of the first man? Also part of old name for Inca god Viracocha and used as part of name for famous sailing vessel.
Tiki
Which tv and radio producer satirist and newspaper columnist died December 2022 aged 65? Renowned for pranks including hiring actor Arthur Mullard to interview philosopher AJ Ayer.
Victor Lewis-Smith
Which New Zealand writer created met police detective inspector roderick Alleyn?
Ngaio Marsh
Whcih Tory chancellor died in office after month in role in 1970? Former professional bridge player earlier been editor of spectator and coined word stagflation.
Ian Macleod
Forename of father of Sebastián Korda, Nelly Korda etc
Petr
Which Tory chancellor of exchequer replaced iain Macleod in 1970 and served for just under four years? He introduced value added tax while in the role but his 1972 budget triggered his namesake economic boom which culminated in 1976 sterling crisis.
Antony Barber
Which Italian leather goods fashion house launched a compact handbag known as the baguette bag in 1997? Bag famously stolen from Carrie Bradshaw in sex and the city.
Fendi
Jackie Woodburne holds record for most appearances in neighbours having played which twice married teacher over 3500 times before the shows 2022 cancellation?
Susan Kennedy
Whcih Italian sculptor did Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and Fountain of the Four Rivers?
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
First test between England and Pakistan in 2023 saw host of records broken including four scoring centuries on first day. Which kent batsman scored his century in just 86 balls, fastest ever 100 by an English test opener?
Zak Crawley
What is forename of Dutch formula one driver Max Verstappen? Has more than 100 F1 races and got two podiums.
Jos
Which writer from New Zealand suffered mental illness for much of life and about to be lobotomised when her short story The Lagoon became great success? Her other works include the novel Faces in the Water and the memoir An Angel at my Table.
Janet Frame
Another legendary rock album released on 24 September 1991, was which album with tracks like Give It Away and Under the Bridge?
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
What name is shared by a modern day African country and an unrelated empire which existed between third and thirteen centuries AD? At its greatest extent this empire occupied land now in present day Mali and Mauritania.
Ghana
Bush baby alternative name for which nocturnal primate closely related to lorises?
Galagos
Another legendary album released in 1991, which album includes tracks Alive and Jeremy?
Ten (by Pearl Jam)
Which British brand founded by Lowell Harder in 1998 known for colourful London leather handbags which all featured its distinctive Scottie dog logo? Harder reinstated this logo after she rejoined the company in 2012.
Radley
Sphalerite common ore of
Zinc
Which Tory chancellor sacked by Harold MacMillan in 1962 making him highest profile casualty of night of the long knives? He would later serve as speaker from 1971-76.
Selwyn Lloyd
In third test against Pakistan in December 2022 which Leicestershire all rounder broke Brian close record to become youngest male cricketer from England to play test cricket?
Rehan Ahmed
What is forename of father of French rugby player Romain Ntamack? Playing his club career at Toulouse, he became first man to lift Heineken Cup and also won 46 caps for France.
Emile
Context of AI the acronym ANN used for a structure inspired by biology that is modelled by a weighted directed graph. What does ANN stand for?
Artificial Neural Network
Das Lied von der Erde translating as The Song of the Earth, is a song cycle for two voices and orchestra by which bohemian born Austrian composer?
Gustav Mahler
In antiquity, Sparta was known as what name after a eponymous king of Sparta?
Lacedaemon
What were for example Aglaope, Leucosia, Parthenope, Ligeia in Greek mythology?
Sirens
Marx brother who never spoken
Harpo
Premier league club founded as St Domingo FC in 1878
Everton
Single by the group heart which opens with line “I hear the ticking of the clock”
Alone
Word that precedes Lyn in the name of Skeletor’s henchwoman in He Man?
Evil-Lyn
Fear of palindromes phobia
Aibohphobia
First British governor of Bengal presidency
Robert Clive
Debut single of fleur east
Sax
Device consisting of two reflecting glass plates employed for measuring small differences in wavelength of light using the interference it produces.
Etalon
Argentine tennis player who won four grand slams in 1970s (notnwimbledon6
Guillermo Vilas
Brazilian tennis player who won French open three times 1997/2000/2001?
Gustavo Kuerten
Boolean operator with only one variable that has value one when variable is zero and vice versa.
Not
What peak is the Hollywood sign located on?
Mount Lee
Which London street market takes its name from a British victory of 1739 during war of Jenkins war and features in Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks?
Portobello Road
What get eaten after being invited for a walk by walrus and carpenter in a nonsense poem recited by tweedledee and tweedledum in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass?
Oysters
What was first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy in 1903, the year after he first appeared in print making him the first licensed character
Peter rabbit
Which British winner of an Oscar for best actor was married to UMa Thurman during 1990s?
Gary Oldman
Which term for rows and columns on a chessboard also means the ordinary members of an organisation such as political party as opposed to leaders?
Rank and File
Which book and author has chapters The Witching Hour, The Snatch and Journey to Dream Country? 1982 and made into live action disney by Steven Spielberg.
Roald Dahl’s The BFG
What is unique about number 8,549,176,320?
It contains each digit in alphabetical order
Valencia 2008-12, Barcelona 1969-75, Porto 1958-60 and Monte Carlo (1950+) have in common with Melbourne and Singapore
Street circuits in F1
What name connects Plastic Pig in Ab Fab, a cowardly knight played by Eric idle, the sparrows victim in a nursery rhyme which parodies the death of William rufus in the new forest, and the nickname of rugby league team Hull Kingston Rovers?
Robin
In chess, what is the minimum number of moves a pawn must make to become a queen?
5
Where in body May you find a cyst called Corpus Luteum?
Ovary
Who rode 2023 grand national winner Corach Rambler?
Derek Fox
Who directed twelve angry men, dog day afternoon, network and the verdict?
Sidney Lumet
With its largest settlement at Port Ellen, which southernmost island of the inner Hebrides produces a notable whisky named after its capital Bowmore?
Islay
Mount Takatsuma and the confluence of the Chikuma River are close to which Japanese prefectural capital in central Chubu region? Hosted 1988 Winter Olympics.
Nagano
Beating Chanel No 5 to scent of the century in 2000 the perfume Joy was a 1929 product created for a fashion house named for which fashion couturier?
Patou
Which British author and playwright wrote 1935 story National Velvet made into successful 1944 film with Elizabeth Taylor?
Enid Bagnold
Whcih French GP devised a low carbohydrate high protein diet with four phases: Attack, Cruise, Consolidation and Stabilisation? Diet fashionable when duchess of Cambridge used it and when Jennifer Lopez and model Giselle were said to have used it after pregnancy.
Pierre Dukan
Used as anaesthetics, what term given to compound in which oxygen atom is bound to two alkyl or aromatic groups?
Ether
Moving to London after Franco Prussian war in 1871, whcih French painter of high society shared his Anne with Swiss watch manufacturer with slogan “innovator by tradition”? Angelina Jolie has worn its T-touch watches in tomb raider films.
James Tissot
Consisting of a single sentence, broken up into sub clauses and using phrase “the fact that” over 19,000 times: Ducks, Newburyport was a 2019 stream of consciousness novel that earned a Booker ori4 nomination for which author?
Lucy Ellmann
Notably first described by Christ church alumnus Thomas Willis in 1672, who described the characteristic deterioration in muscular strength over course of the day, which disease of the neuromuscular junction is caused in many cases by autoantibodies to acetylcholine receptors?
Myasthenia Gravis
Known for his pen and ink fantasy illustrations in story books such as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, which artist came to public attention in 1905 through his colour plates drawn for Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle story in 1905?
Arthur Rackham
Riga sits at the mouth of which river?
Daugava
In ballet, what term is given to position in which leg lifted off the ground is bent at 90 degrees at the knee and turned out from the hip, such that the knee is higher than the foot? One passes through this position, from passé to full extension, when doing a developee.
Attitude
Which Indian American film maker directed 2001 golden lion award winning comedy drama film Monsoon Wedding? She also directed the 1988 film Salaam Bombay!
Mira Nair
Which Dominican friar was first grand inquisitor of tribunal of holy office aka Spanish Inquisition? He is main antagonist of the 2009 video game Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery.
Tomas Torquemada
Which highly successful 2023 action role playing game launched by avalanche software takes place in 1800s, a century prior to events in Harry Potter books?
Hogwarts Legacy
Yitty is a range of shape wear marketed by Kate Hudson’s Fabletics. Cocreated by which singer?
Lizzo
A pioneering chemist in dye synthesis through diazotisation of aromatic amines, which German chemist gives his name to a test to detect nitrite ions in solution? Used in forensics for many years to detect traces of Nitroglycerin, flawed interpretation of this test contributed to wrongful conviction of Birmingham six.
Johann Griess
Which neurologist became first Portuguese national to win Nobel prize in 1949 for ethically questionable dangerous procedure known as a lobotomy?
Antonio Egas Moniz
With a single letter code R, which amino acid with a basic side chain contains a guanidino functional group?
Arginine
What Greek island links a disease characterised by woolly hair; skin lesions on palms and soles of feet and cardiomyopathy, the location where Ariadne was abandoned by theseus and a classical music record label?
Naxos
What Greek island links a disease characterised by woolly hair; skin lesions on palms and soles of feet and cardiomyopathy, the location where Ariadne was abandoned by theseus and a classical music record label?
Naxos
Which famous diarist and gardener rented his deptford house, sayes court, to Peter the Great in 1698 only to have its paintings used for target practice and the garden hedges ruined by wheelbarrow races?
John Evelyn
A senior wrangler in mathematics at Cambridge in 1880, which physicist born in County Antrim gives his name to precession of an objects magnetic moment about an external magnetic field?
Joseph Larmor
What dessert pastry takes name from polish for grandmother?
Babka
Ordinal name for the commoners who turned into a revolutionary National Assembly in 1789 France?
The third estate
Now extinct, which earliest horse was a dog sized ancestor that lived in North American 50m years ago?
Eohippus
Also called turnip cabbage, this member of the mustard family has a thick stem eaten like a vegetable?
Kohlrabi
Which word containing “oh” is the intermolecular force that holds together a liquid or solid?
Cohesion
This leading seaport and industial centre is found on western shore of Tokyo bay?
Yokohama
This man credited as the first to reach the North Pole proved that Greenland is an island?
Robert Peary
What colour is hat worn by Papa Smurf?
Red
What brand of golden coloured liqueur was owned by Mackinnon family for 100 years?
Drambuie
Which pro golfer suffered spine injuries as a result of being struck by lightning at 1975 western open?
Lee Trevino
What New York socialite millionairess served prison time for tax fraud was nicknamed the Queen of Mean?
Leona Helmsley
Ghost Stories, A Head Full of DreMs and Everyday Life are albums by which band?
Coldplay
The 1981 Philip Norman book Shout! Is a biography of which musical group?
The Beatles
Which British tv series airing between 1957 and 1967 was set at Oxbridge General Hopsital?
Emergency Ward 10
What seaside resort in Morocco was target of a devastating earthquake in 1960?
Agadir
Which raft built by Thor Heyerdahl completed voyage from Safi, Morocco; to Barbados in 1970?
Ra II
What cave dwelling amphibian was named after a Greek water god?
Proteus
What five letter word can be a surgical appliance, a bundle of hay or an architectural structure?
Truss
St Kilda Beach is a popular location in which Australian city?
Melbourne
In which European city can you cross the river Dahme to visit the Kopenick Palace museum of decorative arts?
Berlin
Which disease caused by food poisoning is named after latin word for sausage?
Botulism
Which old English coin shares its name with a type of cereal grain?
Groat
Lyre, Dulce and A-Frame are all types of which artists accessory?
Easel
Shrewsbury sauce is typically used as an accompaniment to which meat?
Lamb
The islands of Nendo and Savo are part of which South Pacific country?
Solomon Islands
Bridies are traditional meat pies originating from which Scottish town?
Forfar
In a standard deck of cards, which suit’s king is holding an axe?
Diamonds
Surname of Che Guevara’ dad
Ernesto Lynch
Marketed as a dialogue between Lady Gaga and Pierpaolo Piccioli, Voce Viva is a fragrance by which Italian fashion house?
Valentino
How many African countries border Mediterranean Sea?
Five
What “h” is a herb in the mint family that is used as an ingredient in the liqueur chartreuse?
Hyssop
Which Belgian surrealist was branded a heretic by Cardinal Roncalli, the future pope John xxiii, for his painting Crucifixion?
Paul Delvaux (born 1897 vs Magritte 1898)
Which Greek coin denomination was replaced by the drachma in 1832?
Phoenix
In which book of the Bible were the walls of Jericho brought down by the sound of trumpets?
Joshua
Merv Mcintosh and Barrie Robran are legends inducted into whcih sports hall of fame?
Australian Rules
The Miraflores PAlace is the official residence of the president of which South American country?
Venezuela
Which type of sleeve is named after a military caste originally composed of slaves from Turkey?
Mameluke
WhY surname shared by military leader who led British to set fire to White House during war of 1812, britains first Nobel laureate and an English Antarctic explorer?
Ross (Robert, Ronald and James Clark)
1923 Hat Law forbade wearing of fez in what newly independent republic?
Turkey
Which language did heraclius, Roman emperors of eastern empire, introduce as official language of Byzantine empire?
Greek
What year saw the nationalisation of the British railways?
1948
What was the biblical name of riots that took place in wales between 1839 and 1842?
Rebecca Riots
In 1877 Thomas Edison recited which nursery rhyme when recording human voice for first time?
Mary had a little lamb
Having first come to his attention at 14, Clara Petacci’s long term relationship with whom was brought to an abrupt end?
Mussolini
Which aristocrat, having denied any affair, prompted Mandy Rice Davies to say “well he would wouldn’t he”?
Lord Astor
Stephanie Gregory Clifford was born name of which stage name better known for political scandal?
Stormy Daniels
Lily Langtry mistress of which king?
Edward VII
In 1980s which politician was lover of Sara Keays with whom she bore a love child?
Cecil Parkinson
Located in Western Australia and south Australia, what is Australia’s largest desert?
Great Victoria desert
Lyrics song and artist: “they would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they’ll listen now”?
Don Maclean - Vincent
“When I was six years old I broke my leg, I was running from my brother and his friends”, lyrics and song artist?
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill
The biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts?
Physiology
In which year was FA Cup Final first televised?
1938
On which cricket ground was first FA Cup Final played in 1872
The Oval
Croquet ball colours 2 vs 2
Blue and Black vs Red and Yellow
Sarah Hunter captains the England team in which sport?
Rugby Union
The current bbc series SAS: Rogue Warriors is based on a book by which times journalist?
Ben MacIntyre
In 1823, English surgeon Thomas Wakeley founded which magazine, still published weekly?
The Lancet
Lindum is Roman name for which city?
Lincoln
Which cheese is named after a river valley in canton of Berne where it originated?
Emmental
Private Eye first published
1961
Ordnance Survey released 1:25,000 Explorer Series but what is the name used for the 1:50,000 series?
Landranger
Which ifnronation service was started by bbc in 1974?
Ceefax
What is a ginnel?
A narrow alleyway often between buildings
Who wrote Revolting Rhymes?
Roald Dahl
Who wrote the childrens book The Happy Prince?
Oscar Wilde
Glen Urquhart plAid is a woollen fabric with small and large checks. It became more commonly known as Prince of Wales check after it was popularised by whom?
Edward VII
Who is current director general of bbc since 2020
Tim Davie
Principality of Sealand lies six miles off the coast of which English county?
Suffolk
What is name of object placed either side of aeroplane wheel to stop it rolling?
Chock
Born in 1952, by what name was punk band frontman John Mellor better known?
Joe Strummer
In which greater Manchester borough did a British midland airways plane clash in June 1967 killing 72 people?
Stockport
Which physical quantity can be measured in kilogram metres per second?
Momentum
Which fictional cricketer and gentleman thief is the anti hero in stories by EW Hornung?
AJ Raffles
What is real name of Bez from Happt Mondays?
Mark Berry
The first sitting of the legal year, which begins in October, is named after which quarter day that falls on 29th September?
Michaelmas
Founded by Bruno Maurico de Zabala what is southernmost capital city in the Americas?
Montevideo
Name either of states that formed terminal points of Pony Express?
Missouri and California
Worst single loss in British maritime history with over 4000 lives lost, while evacuating troops from France, was a ship named after which English county?9/
Lancashire (accept HMS Lancastria)
“East is east and west is west and never the Twain shall meet” is a line from a poem by which British author/poet?
Rudyard Kipling (The Ballad of East and West)
What is first name of the oldest of Bennett sisters in Pride and Prejudice? During the novel she marries Mr Darcy’s friend Mr Bingley.
Jane
The charity oxfam was founded in 1942 to highlight the problems caused by Nazi occupation of which country?
Greece
Guiness book of records first published year?
1955
In architecture, what name is given to a main beam resting across the top of columns or moulded frame around a window or door?
Architrave
Which Sunday, nearest to 30th November, marks the start of the ecclesiastical year?
Advent Sunday
The largest British ship ever lost at sea sank on 9 September 1980 during a typhoon south of Japan. Named after which English county?
Derbyshire
Bonnie and Clyde surnames
Parker and Barrow
Which womenswear retail chain founded in glasgow in 1993 by Tarak Ramzan shares name with popular pastime?
Quiz
Which oriental supervillain was subject of series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer beginning shortly before world war 1 and continuing for another forty years?
Dr Fu Manchu
Off coast of which English county is the kingdom of Piel Island?
Cumbria
In which northern seaside town can you visit the British lawnmower museum?
Southport
What name is given to large molecule composed of many repeated subunits?
Polymer
Name given to method of massage that relieves tension through application of finger pressure especially to the feet?
Reflexology
Who was bbc first director general
Lord Reith
The former strictly judge Arlene Phillips formed which dance troupe?
Hot Gossip
Which oil pressed from bean of plant Ricinus Communis is well known laxative?
Castor Oil
What is title to a candidate for sainthood whose cause has not yet reached the beatification stage but who heroic virtue has been declared by the pope?
Venerable
Which term originally referring to ticket for re admission to baseball game postponed by bad weather has come to mean out something on hold?
Take a rain check
Who began publishing an annual naval review in 1898 followed by one for aircraft in 1909?
Frederick Jane
The city Glevum was the Roman name for what English town?
Gloucester
Which team won the county championship in seven successive seasons in 1950s?
Surrey
Which English track cyclist won gold medal at 1km time trail at Sydney 2000 and a silver in team spring?
Jason Queally
Name the controversial novel by Compton Mackenzie published 1914 and widely praised by Orwell Betjeman and many others.
Sinister Street
What Roman road ran from London to York via Lincoln?
Ermine Street
Who wrote an Oratorio called The Creation?
Haydn
What nationality is pianist Martha Argerich?
Argentinian
Which British violinist was named bbc young musician of year at age of 16?
Nicola Benedetti
Which trumpeter introduced Radio 2’s best of jazz for forty years?
Humphrey Lyttleton
Which singer/songwriter and West Ham supporter is known as Bard of Barking?
Billy Bragg
Atalanta fc is based in which city?
Bergamo
Who were two judges on The Piano tv show?
Lang Lang and Mika
Old copper nose king
Henry VIII
Widely known as sailor king?
William IV
Who narrated Trumpton tv series of stories?
Brian Cant
Who wrote Mr Benn stories?
Dave McKee
Which childrens programme is broadcast every day at 6am on channel five?
Milkshake!
Who narrates In the Night Garden?
Derek Jacobi
Blue Peter first broadcast?
1958
Film 1960 where Jack Lemmon played CC Baxter
The Apartment
1954 Humphrey Bogart played Captain Queeg
The Caine Mutiny
1956 film John Wayne plays Ethan edwards
The Searchers
Which is only English medieval cathedral to feature a detached bell tower?
Chichester
In which county is Framlingham Castle?
Suffolk
Reed, Marsh and Wood are all type of which bird?
Warblers
Meadow, Tree and Rock are all which type of bird? Genus anthus.
Pippits
What was RAF’s first jet fighter in service?
Gloster Meteor
Which river runs through the city of Hereford?
Wye
Canada’s largest island?
Baffin Island
Who was first woman to fly a fixed wing aircraft across the English Channel?
Harriet Quimby
Which river flows through city of Norwich?
Wensum
Which stretch of water separates Caithness and Orkney?
Pentland Firth
Which national trail has eastern end at Chipping Campden?
Cotswold Way
Which is most southerly of the Shetland Isles?
Fair Isle
Who wrote Ragged Trousered Philanthropists?
Robert Tressell
Who wrote book Brown on Resolution?
CS Forester
Which British band had a track called Mr Churchill Says in 1969 album?
The Kinks
Which actor won emmy for his portrayal of churchill in the 2002 miniseries: The Gathering Storm?
Albert Finney
What was number of Pan Am flight that crashed over Lockerbie in December 1988v
PA103
Name of Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared in March 2014?
MA370
King of Wessex between 802 and 839
Egbert
Famous Hungarian born food critic of 50s and 60s author of restaurant and hotel guides.
Egon Ronay
Town in Cumbria close to the Sellafield nuclear facility.
Egremont
Majority shareholder of Fenway group owners of Liverpool FC
John W Henry
Which multiple flat race champion trainer said Frankel was best horse he’d ever had and the best he’d ever seen?£3’
Henry Cecil
Uttoxeter in which county?
Staffordshire
Wroxeter village in which county?
Shropshire
Area of liverpool containing x that had serious riots in early 1980s?
Toxteth
Village in West Yorkshire close to leeds, shares name with cricket equipment manufacturer and a stand at Maine Road?
Kippax
Catchphrase “you’re nicked” is from which tv show?
The Sweeney
Catchphrase “who loves you baby” from which tv show?
Kojak
Which German footballer was known as Der Bomber?
Gerd Muller
Which English cricketer was known as the Cat!
Phil Tufnell
Which Scottish golfer was known as Mrs Doubtfire?
Colin Montgomerie
Which Irish rugby Union hooker was known as Uncle Fester?
Keith Wood
During ww2 which structure was called HMS Leigh?
Southend Pier
Which former PM once edited The Church Times!
Ted Heath
British conservative politician nicknamed Onyerbike and referred to by Michael foot as a semi-house trained polecat.
Norman Tebbitt
British theatre director, artistic director for royal Shakespeare company, the royal national theatre and currently the theatre royL haymarket?54
Trevor Nunn
One of Catherine Cookson’s heroines, her life set out in a trilogy covering early life, when she’s wed and when’s she widowed.
Tilly Trotter
Sunderland primary rivers
Wear
Lincoln main river
Witham
Derry main river
Foyle
Stirling main river
Forth
Leicester main river
Soar
Pro golfer, born 1991 in southport, plays on pga tour and European tour, he has won six times on European tour.59
Tommy Fleetwood
The registered charity Marie curie has which flower on logo?;
Daffoil
Established in 1924 and still going strong, producing squeezable and spreadable cheeses such as Original, Light, n’Ham, n’Prawn etc?
Primula
British comic strip characyer from the beano. Daughter of strong man and has dark spiky hair and wears a short sleeved collared dress?
Pansy Potter
Emily Williamson has blue plaque in Lancaster as was born in 1855 there and helped found which charity?
RSPB
Also in 2017 Dunkirk and 2018 Black Mirror Bandersnatch, which actor played Pip in the 2023 Great Exprvtstions bbc expectation?
Fionn Whitehead
Which actor played Miss Havisham’s in the 2023 Great Exprvtstions bbc expectation?
Olivia Colman
In the uk, what bird can be ringed, little ringed, grey or gold
Plover
What word means to expose to the wind or to current of air so that lighter particles are separated or blown away? Can be grain and chaff.
Winnowing
Built in Dundee in 1901 for Antarctic research and currently docked there. She was last traditional wooden three masted ship to be built in the uk and carried Scott and Shackleton on their first journey to the Antarctic.
Discovery
First issued in 1858, it is the authoritative directory of Anglican clergy and churches in uk and Ireland contains details of various Benefices, churches and biographies of clergy members?
Crockford’s Clerical Directory
Walthamstow Central and Brixton are end terminals of which London Underground line??
Victoria
Stanmore and Stratford are end terminals of which London Underground line?
Jubilee
Boxer nicknamed the British Bulldog and the Blackpool Rock. Held the British and commonwealth heavyweight rifle from 1958 to 1959 and Koed by Ali in 1966.
Brian London
1951 Ealing comedy involving a plot to steal gold bullion from an area of London. Started Alec Guiness, stanley Holloway and Sid James
Lavender Hill Mob
Years of Virginia Woolf life1
1882-1941
Which 1985 Japanese comedy by Juzo Itami, with 100% on rotten tomatos, was described as first ramen western? Follows titular noodle shop owner who is taught how to cook the perfect dish by two truck drivers.
Tampopo
Which greater Manchester football club were relegated from league two at end of 2021-22 season making them the first former premier league team to be relegated from the English football league?
Oldham Athletic
Atlantic island groups of Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde collect too very known by which name?
Macaronesia
The Maiden in the Tower is only completed opera by which composer?
Jean Sibelius
Often highly ranked in times rich list, which Uzbek oligarch sold shares in Arsenal to Stan Kroenke for £550m in 2018?
Alisher Usmanov
Which boutique cinema chain with 26 locations across UK, 13 of them in London, began in Oxford in 1989? Largest site is seven screen central location in Piccadilly’s Trocadero.
Picturehouse Cinemas
Which player is australias all time leading international rugby Union points scorer? His 911 points between 1984 and 1995 include eight kicked in Australia’s 12-6 victory over England in 1991 World Cup final.
Michael Lynagh
Named for small road the passes over motorway nearby, service station on southern stet h of M25 opened in 1993 on Kent surrey border?
Clacket Lane
The expressed regions of a gene that unlike introns will form part of the final mature messenger RNA produced by that gene are known by what term coined by biochemist Walter gilbert in 1978
Exons
Remarkably, Mary of Teck was the first English born queen consist since which wife of Henry VIII?
Catherine Parr
Genoveva is only competed opera by which composer?4
Robert Schumann
Under WTO and GATT rules member countries give each other MFN status which stands for?
Most Favoured Nation
Not to be confused with Juvenal’s which 1st century Roman author wrote his own Satires?
Horace
Not to be confused with Ovid’s, which 2nd century Roman author most famous work is bawdy novel Metamorphes The Golden Ass?
Apuleius
Which 2011 documentary film by David Gelb follows the obsessive Japanese e chef of title who runs ten seat restaurant in Tokyo subway station? Predecessor of Gelb’s long running Netflix food series Chefs Table.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Which greater Manchester football club won the national league in 2021-22 season to gain promotion back to league 2? Although never too flight team they had been in second tier as recently as 2002.
Stockport County
The Indian Ocean islands East of Madagascar comprising Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues and several smaller islets are collectively known as which islands?
Mascarene Islands
What term is used for process by which introns are removed from precursor messenger RNA and the remaining exons joined together to produce mature messenger RNA?
RNA Splicing
Nino Rota’s Love Theme from Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet became strongly associated with which long running radio segment a feature of Simon bates’ show on radio 1 from 1979-93, and later revived during his stints on various other stations?
Our Tune
Which player is South Africa’s all time international rugby Union points scorer? His 893 points between 1997 and 2008 all include 15 kicked in South Africa’s 15-6 victory over England in the 2007 World Cup final. He also had most caps at time of retiring.
Percy Montgomery
Often ranked highly in times rich list, which Odessa born businessman has had nee building at Tate Modern and a school of government at Oxford uni named after him?@
Leonard Blavatnik
Founded in Mayfair in 1934, which boutique cinema chain has 17 locations in UK nine in London? Largest site is six screen building in Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury?
Curzon Cinemas
Gazella Bilkis is scientific name of whcih gazelle extinct since 1950s? Accept two names, one county and one biblical.
Yemen Gazelle or Queen of Sheba’s Gazelle
Post Mortem, Predator and Body of Evidence are all novels by which American crime author?
Patricia Cornwell
Which fishing village between Scarborough and Whitby is eastern terminus of wainwrights coast to coast walk?
Robin Hoods Bay (western is St Bees Head)
From 1974-97, Rutland was part of which county?
Leicestershire
Which canal connects Lake Erie and Ontario, bypassing Niagara Falls?
Welland Canal
Strait gives its name to bridge linking Copenhagen to Malmo?
The Oresund
Fourth largest and most southerly of Balearic Islands
Formentera
Who founded Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1560?
John Knox
Which British admiral was executed in 1757 as neglect of duty causing Voltaire to say British shooting an admiral every now and then to encourage the others?
John Byng
Name given to act of Parliament passed in 1701 that disqualified Roman Catholics or anyone married to one from succeeding to the British throne?
Act of Settlement
Aired on Channel 4’s launch night in 1982? In the comic strip presents… film series, where did five go mad?
Dorset
Which German singer had 1983 hit with 99 red balloons)
Nena
What is SI unit of electrical charge?
Coulomb
Which unit, used to measure the optical power of a lens, is equal to reciprocal of the focal length in metres?
Dioptre
1 horsepower equal to how many watts?
746
Which country shares name with title character played in 1976 film by Clint Eastwood who also directed?
Wales (Outlaw Josey Wales)
Which country I has highest population density in the EU?
Netherlands
Which country did Shakespeare describe as a precious stone set in the silver sea?
England
Wales last made fifa World Cup in 1958, which country hosted that year?
Sweden
In 2022 T20 world cup final which English bowler took three wickets for twelve runs in his four overs?
Sam Curran
Name two events added to womens pentathlont o make the Heptathlon (for 1984 Olympics) and are last to take place in each competition.
Javelin or 800 metres
Who collaborated with Paul McCartney in writing songs such as Back on my feet, Veronica and My Brave Face?
Elvis costello
Two word phrase used to refer to mafia
Cosa Nostra
Actress born in 1927 who often portrayed Queen due to her resemblance to monarch?
Jeannette Charles
What letter said to be repeated in Morse Code by opening notes of Beethovens Fifth Symphony?
V
Which vegestsble is known in Indian cooking as Palak?
Spinach
Which major European car manufacturer has a badge that represents a spinning propellor?
BMW
Initials DOC or DOCG are quality assurance labels for wines from which country?
Italy
Which song from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album was used by Bill Clinton for his presidential campaign and by David Cameron at conservative party conferences?
Don’t Stop (thinking about tomorrow)
What word means a scent secreted by human or other animal which acts like a hormone on others!
Pheromone
Previously part of Lancashire which peninsula now separated from Lancashire by Morecambe Bay?
Furness
Which novel first published in 1928 has first words “ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically”?
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Samson Kambalu’s sculpture on fourth plinth from September 2022 known after which animal)
Antelope
Which 110 mile long path skirting the north York moors takes its name from historic area which also gave its name to former non-metropolitan county?
The Cleveland Way
In draughts how many moves available to first player?
Seven
Featured in famous ad initially in 1966, what’s popular name for tune from second movement of Bach’s Suite No 3 in D?
Air on a G String
In brewing, what name is given to process of steeping the malt in water and heating for one or two hours?
Mashing
In which English national park would you find ancient clapper bridge known as Tarr Steps)
Exmoor
What was birth surname of tennis player Billie Jean King?’o
Moffatt
In Roman mythology what was name of slave who removed a thorn from paw of lion ?
Androcles
Which private school in edinburgh was attended by Tony Blair and James Bond?
Fettes College
In which sport are games started and restarted after a goal with a centre pass?
Netball
Who invented spinning mule in 1779 a hybrid of Hargreaves spinning Jenny, Arkwright’s frame?
Samuel Crompton
Which city, capital of Galicia in Spain, is destination of famous route of pilgrimage?
Santiago de Compostela
What year did Princess Margaret and queen mother die?
2002
In American football; what name given to a period of play that ends with a player or ball being on ground or out of play?
Down
In the card games Bridge and whist what is a chicane?/
Hand with no trumps
Which fashion designer was born in 1943 at Ebbw Vale and was once married to pop singer Sandie Shaw?
Jeff Banks
Originally a brand, what name is given to small motorised bicycle used to set the pace in cycling events such as the Keirin?
The Derny
Who reputedly commanded the first Viking ships to reach America around 1000ad?
Leif Erikson
French term for bad step used in English for social gaffe
Faux pas
Which former member of The Damned had a no 1 hit in 1982 with Happy Talk?
Captain Sensible
Who was famous step grandmother of Princess Diana
Barbara Cartland
In the uk Highway Code what is described as first rule of the road
Keep to the left
What are English racing’s Autumn Double both held at Newmarket since 1839?
The Cambridgeshire Handicap
The Cesarewitch Handicap
What term literally meaning wind water describes the Chinese practice of using energy forces to harmonise individuals with their environment!
Feng Shui
Which English king died after falling from horse called Sorrel?
William III
Which publishing house publishes the Harry Potter Books?
Bloomsbury
