Next 7 Flashcards
Which construction did IK Brunel call “my first child, my darling”?
Clifton suspension bridge
What ended on Black Tot Day in 1970?
Navy daily rum ration
What links: Night of the Hunter; One-Eyed Jacks; Harlem Nights; Whip It?
Only film directed by various actors: Charles Laughton; Marlon Brando; Eddie Murphy; Drew Barrymore.
Which three current national capitals have hosted the Winter Olympics?
Oslo, Sarajevo, Beijing
Eliza Davis (partner of Henry Irving) protested to Dickens that which character was a negative stereotype?
Fagin
In US medicine, DSM-5 is the list of what?
Mental Disorders
The Grand Banks lie off which Atlantic island?
Newfoundland
What links: Arcesius; Laertes; Odysseus; Telemachus?
Family line of Greek hero Odysseus: grandfather; father; himself; son.
What links: Rod Steiger; Robert De Niro; Tom Hardy; Stephen Graham?
Played Al Capone on screen: Al Capone; The Untouchables; Capone; Boardwalk Empire
What links Bual; malmsey; sercial; verdelho?
Grapes or types of Madeira wine
Mecca (4th); Shanghai (3rd) Kuala Lumpur (2nd); Dubai (1st)?
Locations of world’s tallest skyscrapers: Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower; Shanghai Tower; Merdeka 118; Burj Khalifa.
Which TV hoax featured the malevolent spirit Pipes?
Ghostwatch
The Yorkshire soothsayer Ursula Sontheil is better known by what name?
Mother Shipton
Egyptian professional squash player. She is a seven time World champion and became the youngest woman to win the Women’s World Championship (2015)
Nour El Sherbini
What links Daniel O’Connell; Simon Bolivar; Alexander II of Russia; Pedro I of Brazil?
All nicknames The Liberator
What links: A Girl in Winter; The Bell Jar; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge?
Novels by poets: Philip Larkin; Sylvia Plath; Rainer Maria Rilke.
What does the educational acronym inset stand for?
In-service Training
Who wrote the original self-help book, published in 1859?
Samuel Smiles
What links: George III’s dukedom; Victoria’s father and fourth daughter; Scotland; João Lavrador?
Gave names to Canadian provinces: New Brunswick; Prince Edward Island and Alberta; Nova Scotia; (Newfoundland and) Labrador.
What links: Abba; ‘NSync; TLC; the White Stripes?
Names based on members names
What links: Renée Zellweger; Albert Finney; Harrison Ford; James Corden?
Played a Jones on film Played a Jones on film: Bridget; Tom; Indiana; Bustopher
Which African empire was founded by Osei Tutu?
Ashanti
Which house was served by Wolferton railway station?
Sandringham
Who appeared heavily pregnant on Top of the Pops in 1988?
Neneh Cherry
Where in the body are the oval and round windows?
Ear
What links World Series, 1919; Ipswich Town vs Sheffield Wednesday, 1962; England vs Pakistan, 2010?
Fixed/partial fixed sporting events
Mexico’s Los Topos are specialists in what type of rescue?
Earthquakes
Which urban theorist wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities?
Jane Jacobs
Vehicles over what age are exempt from an MOT?
40 years old
What links; An Age of Kings; The Hollow Crown; The Wars of the Roses; Chimes at Midnight?
TV, film and stage dramas based on Shakespeare’s history plays.
Atlantic Records founded by which man?
Ahmet Ertegun founded which record label?
Cocreated asylum records in 1971 with Elliot Roberts, namesake records in 1980 and Dreamworks movies in 1994?
David Geffen
the 1957 single “Love Is Strange”, and her solo record “Pillow Talk” in 1973. She later became known for her work as founder and CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records
Sylvia Robinson
What links: Plain; twill; satin; basket; leno?
Weave Patterns
What was the first UK TV programme to give away a £1m prize?
TFI Friday
Jayaben Desai led which 1970s industrial dispute?
Grunwick Strike
Which college awards Fifty-Pound fellowships?
All Souls, Oxford
What links: Dyfed-Powys; North Wales; South Wales; Gwent; heddlu?
Police in Wales, the four regions and the word I. Welsh
What links: Stadtholder William I; John Wayne’s Sean Thornton; Kevin Smith; IDS?
Quiet men: William the Silent; The Quiet Man in the John Ford film; plays Silent Bob in his films; self-styled political “quiet man” Iain Duncan Smith
Egotist’s Club is fictional private club in which characters books?
Lord Peter Wimsey
fictional London gentlemen’s club appearing and referenced in several of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, most notably Moonraker situated on st James street
Blades
It is primarily a club for men and women with intellectual interests, and particularly (but not exclusively) for those who have attained some distinction in science, engineering, literature or the arts. Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday were the first chairman and secretary and 51 Nobel Laureates have been members.
The Athenaeum
What links: Jude the Obscure; Bosnian war; Factory Records; Tristram Shandy; Philip Green?
Inspired Michael Winterbottom films: Jude; Welcome to Sarajevo; 24 Hour Party People; Cock and Bull Story; Greed.
What links: Pet Shop Boys; Art of Noise; Saint Etienne; Gay Dad?
Bands featuring music journalists: Neil Tennant; Paul Morley; Bob Stanley; Cliff Jones
Where in London is the world’s longest single-span roof structure?
Wembley Stadium Arch
Who was the first female caddy to win a golf major?
Fanny Sunesson (with Nick Faldo).
Which celebration can be al-Fitr or al-Adha
Eid
Which writer’s only major prize was the 1974 Somerset Maugham award?
Martin Amis
What might feature a conning tower?
Submarine
Which primate is the loudest land mammal?
Howler monkey
What links: Contained Ten Commandments; Mesoamerican quartz head; Antikythera mechanism?
Inspired title objects in Indiana Jones films: Lost Ark; Crystal Skull; Dial of Destiny
Who might reach a state of Operating Thetan?
Scientologist
Which 1847 novel popularised the northern dialect word “gormless”?
Wuthering Heights
Who is the holder of the only baronetcy created since 1965?
Mark Thatcher
What is the oldest item in the Coronation regalia?
Coronation Spoon
What links the novelists of Tom Jones; Brave New World; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Casino Royale; Temporary Kings?
Old Etonians
What is Europe’s top-selling newspaper?
Bild
Deeds of the 63 Illustrious Men is a key text in what Indian religion?
Jainism
What football first did Hannah Dingley achieve in July?
First woman to manage an English men’s professional team (Forest Green Rovers).
Almost half of euro banknotes are what denomination?
€50
What links; Argos; Black Shuck; Cavall; Garm; Gelert?
Dogs in myth and legend: The Odyssey; East Anglian legend; Arthurian legend; Norse myth; Welsh legend
Australian open female dish name
Daphne Akhurst Memorial cup
French open female trophy name
Suzanne Lenglen Cup
Wimbledon female trophy dish name
Venus Rosewater dish
What links: Charles Dickens; Harold Brighouse; Pierre Boulle; Boris Pasternak; EM Forster?
Sources for David Lean films: Great Expectations/Oliver Twist; Hobson’s Choice; Bridge on the River Kwai; Dr Zhivago; Passage to India
Which prime minister was too tall to be a bus conductor?
John Major
Donatien Alphonse François were the forenames of which libertine?
Marquis de Sade
Which island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Manx shearwaters?
Skomer
The “soixante-huitards” took part in what?
The 1968 protests in France
Who won three Olympic golds riding Valegro?
Charlotte Dujardin
What links: Bunny ear; corn cob; domino; Joseph’s coat; Peruvian old man?
Types of Cactus
What links: London (1966, 1975 and 1991); Johannesburg (2010, 2003 and 1995)?
Hosted (men’s) World Cup final: football, cricket and rugby union.
What links: The Vicar of Wrexhill; The Warden; A Summer in Brittany; The Choir?
Books by various Trollopes: Frances Milton; Anthony (her son); Thomas (his brother); Joanna (distantly related).
Q
Artist Françoise Gilot, who died in 2023, was married to vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk and lover to which Spanish artist?
Pablo Picasso
Which adaptation of Hamlet by James Ijames [eye-mz] won the 2023
X
Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
Fat Ham
Which 2011 video game follows the detective career of World War I veteran Cole Phelps in the title city? “X to doubt is a popular meme from this game, released by Rockstar Games.
LA Noire
All your base are belong to us are what Japanese vidor game quite
Zero Wing
Q Which musical that premiered in 1955 concerns a Washington
Senators fan who enters into a Faustian pact to become their new slugger? Choreographed by Bob Fosse and originally starring Gwen Verdon, songs include Whatever Lola Wants.
Damn Yankees
O In which Willy Russell monologue does the title character talk about her life before and after a holiday to Greece? Pauline Collins starred in the role in a 1989 film adaptation, also featuring Tom Conti. I
Shirley valentine
Q In incel terminology, what name is given to an average young
woman, typically characterised by a nerdy bun and baggy clothing? It is a shortened version of a Hebrew name that means ‘to tie firmly’?
Becky
O Which chemist, who won the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, was also incarcerated at Farm Hall as part of Operation Epsilon? Along with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann, he discovered nuclear fission.
Otto Hahn
Which Cornish liquor exec created baileys and Malibu?
Tom Jago
Q Which Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist, a proponent of the ‘Back to Africa’ movement, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914? He also incorporated the Black Star Line to facilitate trade and migration to Africa.
Marcus Garvey
Q Which Canadian comedian is the creator and star of the HBO docu-comedy The Rehearsal? He was previously known for a Comedy Central series titled [His forename] For You.
Nathan Fielder
Which Spanish-Italian noble family, prominent in the 15-16th centuries, produced two popes: Callixtus III and Alexander VI? I
Borgias
Q Which Australian multinational, the world’s largest mining company, was responsible for the 2015 Bento Rodrigues dam collapse in Brazil? From 2001-17, this company’s three-initial name was followed by Billiton, with whom it was then merged.
BHP
O In incel terminology, what name is given to an unobtainable woman, typically characterised as having long blonde hair and large breasts and being unintelligent and obsessed with makeup? It is a shortened version of a Greek name that means ‘resurrection’ Y
Stacy (short for Anastasia)
Q Which musical that premiered in 1954, concerns Sid, a factory
superintendent who falls in love with Babe, the leader of the union?
With choreography by Bob Fosse, it features songs including I’m Not At All in Love and Hey There.
The Pajama Game
9 In 2020, the sacred Aboriginal site of Juukan Gorge was demolished X by which AngloAustralian mining company, named for the Spanish river where its first mine was located? Following a 1962 merger, this company was known until 1997 by a threeword or threerinitial name, with the third being a metal.
Rio Tinto (Zinc)
Q Which Pan-Africanist and civil rights activist founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909? A leader of the Niagara Movement, he was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
O Which television series, created by Linda La Plante, starred Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison? Notable guest stars included David Thewlis and Ralph Fiennes.
Prime Suspect
Which word, from the French for little wing, describes the movable flap on the trailing edge of an aircraft’s wing?
Aileron
A large factory at Broughton in North Wales manufactures wings for the 300 Series of aircraft of which company?
Airbus
At nearly two and a half metres, which bird of prey’s wings have the greatest span of any British bird?
White Tailed Sea Eagle
Spares: In the RAF which rank is immediately superior to a Wing Commander?
Group Captain
Which three letter word, derived from old French, is used in Heraldry to describe a pair of outstretched bird’s wings joined at the base?
Vol
In which short Wallace and Gromit film of 1989 do the duo visit the Moon in a quest for cheese?
A grand day out
What was the nationality of hotel founder César Ritz?
Swiss
Spares: In the game of Monopoly how many houses must a player have on each property
of a complete colour group in order to be able to buy a hotel?
Four
What is the name of the strong, cold wind which blows down the Rhone Valley to the Mediterranean Sea?
Mistral
Prior to playing Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, the actor David Prowse was a familiar face to children in the 1970s in what role?
Green Cross Man
Where is RAF Valley?
Anglesey
Which vegetable has varieties called Long Green and Burpless Tasty Green?
Cucumber
tres: Which writer created the BBC crime drama series Happy Valley?
Sally Wainwright
Which soft mineral, a form of calcium sulphate, is the principal constituent of Plaster of Paris?
Gypsum
Released in 1975, what was the ninth studio album by David Bowie?
Young Americans
The quotation “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’ comes from which book of the Old Testament?
Ecclesiastes
Known as Lady Isabella, the world’s largest working waterwheel stands on a hillside above which Isle of Man village?
Laxey
Which city hosted the Summer Olympic Games of 1912?
Stockholm
In which 1844 novel set in 17th century France does the beautiful and scheming villainess Milady de Winter appear?
The Three Musketeers
Spares: In the 1960’s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., what was the name of the secret
agent played by Robert Vaughan?
Napoleon Solo
In Greek mythology who was Goddess of the Spring and Queen of the Underworld?
Persephone
Which actress played Annie Walker in Coronation Street from 1960 to 1983?
Doris Speed
Which stately home in Cumbria contains the world’s oldest topiary gardens, designed by Monsieur Guillaume Beaumont and established from 1694?
Levens Hall
Who was the leader of the first expedition to cross Africa from east to west?
HM Stanley
With an area of nearly half a million square miles, which is the largest landlocked country in Africa?
Chad
Spares: Is She Really Going Out With Him? (1979) and Steppin’ Out (1983) were both Top
Twenty hits for which English singer-songwriter?
Joe Jackson
Which was the first British colony in Africa to achieve independence (1957)?
Ghana
Which Lake District village is overlooked by Helm Crag, a fell whose distinctive rocky summit provides its alternative name The Lion and the Lamb?
Grasmere
Which Italian word means a conspiracy of silence?
Omerta
pares: Which group had a Number One hit in 1967 with the song Silence is Golden?
Tremeloes
The author Charles Lamb is best known for a series of early 19th century essays written under which pen name?
Elia
Which rapper made a guest appearance on Marvel’s She-Hulk as herself and twerks with the main character in a post credit scene?
Megan Thee Stallion
Which tennis player made her debut in the 1971 US Open Women’s singles and made it all the way to the semi final. She was defeated by the eventual winner Billie Jean King?
Chris Evert
World Champjonships Part of champion quartets who won gold in 1991 and 1997 - 4x400m relay
Roger Black
World championships Another member of 1991 relay squad 4x400m. Famously injured during Barcelona Olympics
Derek Redmond
World championship 4x400m 1991 Away from his relay gold, he was the British 200m record holder until earlier this year
John Regis
World championships 4x400m Another from the ‘91 relay team who went on to present Big Breakfast in the 1990s
Kriss Akabusi
World championships 110m hurdles champion at Stuttgart 1993 and Seville 1999 - broke world record in 1993 triumph
Colin Jackson
World championships On top of Roger Black, three other 4x400m runners who won gold after USA disqualified, two are welsh and won beat the great Michael johnson over 400m in 1998
Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson
World championships Timed her finishes to perfection to become 400m champion at Osaka 2007 and Moscow 2013
Christine Ohuruogu
Word championships Won triple jump gold at Berlin 2009 - had colourful hair
Phillips Idowu
Word championships Welsh star won 400m hurdles in 2011 - struggled with injury in subsequent years
Dai Greene
2017 world championships 4x100m relay team shock victory
CJ Ujah
Adam Gemili
Danny Talbot
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake
World championships 1500m champion at Eugene 2022 - beat Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the final
Jake Wightman
She is best known for voicing Mulan in the animated film Mulan and its sequel and for playing Melinda May in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020) and Fennec Shand in the Star Wars franchise in The Mandalorian (2019–2020), The Bad Batch (2021) and The Book of Boba Fett (2021–2022)
Ming-Na Wen
11 The Rugby League World Cup was held in France in 1972. Great Britain won the tournament under which players captaincy? The first black captain of Britain in any sport.
Clive Sullivan
14 September 8th 1973 saw the first edition of which famous yachting race with competitors setting sail from Portsmouth?
Whitbread Round the World Race
16 Which legendary golfer hit a hole in one at the 8th Hole Postage Stamp in the 1973 Open held at Troon?
Gene Sarazen
19 Urmston defeated Lee to win the first of two consecutive Iroquios Cups in which sport in 1974?
Lacrosse
23 Muhammad Ali suffered a knock down before stopping which boxer in a
World Heayweight title defence in 1975. His nickname was the Bayonne
Bleeder and aspects of his career were highlighted in the Rocky film series?
Chuck Wepner
24 Which FI driver became the first female to score points in the World Drivers
Championship by claiming a 1/2 point at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix?
Leila Lombardi
32 The famous Duel In The Sun Open took place in 1977 between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus at which Scottish links golf course?
Turnberry
33 Scotland suffered humiliation at the 1978 World Cup. Although defeating subsequent finalists Holland, they lost to Peru and drew with which team?
Iran
34 Which darts player who lost in the final of the 1976 News Of The World championship became the first BDO World Darts Champion in 1978?
Leighton Rees
35 At which weight did Barry McGuigan win Commonwealth boxing gold in 1978 at Edmonton?
Bantamweight
36 Which British athlete who would become a World record holder at a longer distance won the Men’s 1500 metres at the 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games? Former world record holder at 5000m.
David Moorcroft
38 Which New Zealand Speedway great won his sixth and final World title in 1979?
Ivan Mauger
2
Never far from controversy what event took place to interrupt coverage of the 1980 World Snooker Championship between Alex Higgins and Cliff
Thorburn which the Canadian edged 18-16?
Iranian Embassy Siege
An oft used sport chestnut, which boxer won the 1980 ABA Heavyweight title?
Frank Bruno
Who became the first British Mens judoka to win a World title when landing gold in the 78kg class at Maastricht in 1981?
Neil Adams
Diamond league final location: annual invitation only track and field meeting at the Letzigrund in Zurich?
Weltklasse
10 In one of the great FI incidents, which driver did Nelson Piquet come to blows with at the 1982 German Grand Prix after a collision whilst leading the race?
Eliseo Salazar (Chilean)
17 One of the stars of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, who was the winner of the Women’s individual all-round Gymnastics gold medal? Also won two silvers and two bronzes.
Mary Lou Retton
19 Torvill and Dean famously skated Bolero to capture gold in the Ice Dance discipline at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics? Which other British couple finished in sixth place?
Karen Barber and Nicky Slater
21 Bob Spalding was a British Formula One World Champion in which sport in 1985?
Powerboat Racing
24 The Black Dog Boozers defeated Bow Street Fudgers to win the World Championship in which past time at Tinsley Green, West Sussex in 1985? k
Marbles
33 Which East German female swimmer totally dominated in the pool at the
1988 Seoul Olympics by scooping an incredible six gold medals?
Kristin Otto
40 It might have been a minor surprise but which future knight was the last
80’s winner of Sports Personality Of The Year in 1989?
Nick Faldo
Scoring his only ever England goal, which player netted against Egypt for a 1-0 win in the group stages of the 1990 World Cup in Italy?
Mark Wright
Auckland hosted the 1990 Commonwealth Games. There were two Queen’s Baton runners; the great Peter Snell was one but which New Zealand eventing legend was the other?
Mark Todd
Roger Black and Kriss Akabusi won mens individual medals for GB at the 1991 World Athletics championships at Tokyo in 1991. Which other male GB athlete won bronze in the 110m hurdles?
Tony Jarrett
10 England’s Robert Fulford won the second of his five world titles at Newport, Rhode Island in which sport in 1992?
Croquet
18
GB bagged two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lilliehammer. Torvill and Dean won the medal for ice Dancing but which short track speed skater took the other medal?
Nicky Gooch
22 Which MLB franchise became the first to win the World Series from three cities, doing so in 1995. They previously won as Boston in 1914 and Milwaukee in 1957?
Atlanta Braves
26 Sri Lanka won the 1996 Cricket World Cup final against Australia at the Gaddafi
Stadium Lahore in 1996. Which player was Man of the Match hitting 107 not out and taking 3-42 in 9 overs?
Aravinda da Silva
27 The GB team won two bronze medals in Cycling at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Chris Boardman for the Men’s Road Time Trial was one but which Italian rider who switched allegiance to GB in 1995 won the other in the Men’s Road Race?
Max Sciandri
34 In perhaps a shock at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, which nation defeated Russia to win the Men’s Ice Hockey gold medal?
Czech Republic
35 Mozambique only won one gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala
Lumpur. Which famous athlete was victorious? Also won 800m gold at Sydney 2000 and world champs 1993 Stuttgart, 2001 Edmonton and 2003 Paris.
Maria Mutola
36 Who were the lowest ranked team at then 74th in the world to qualify for the 1998
Football World Cup in France. When they qualified in 1994 they were ranked 11th in the World?
Nigeria
Swedish table tennis player referred to as Mozart of Table Tennis. Known as evergreen tree I. China. Only person to win an Olympic gold in table tennis and not be from an Asian country 1992 Barca.
Jan-Ove Waldner
Who was Writer Barbie: Kimberly woodruff in straight outta Compton, storm in the newer xmen (apocalypse, dark Phoenix) tick tick boom?
Alexandra Shipp
Who played Doctor Barbie: Gittel in Transparent, first openly transgender woman signed to IMG models?
Hari Nef
Who played lawyer barbie: Rae Earl in My Mad Fat Diary, in Dumbo 2019 remake, 2021 the electrical life of Louis wain?
Sharon Rooney
Who played Judge Barbie:
Ana Cruz Kayne
Who played journalist barbie: Lila Pitt’s in The umbrella academy, dr Megan sharma in doctors ?
Ritu Arya
Who was Diplomat Barbie? Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton?
Nicola Coughlan
Who was teen talk barbie? Amy wine house in upcoming Back to Black, Industry tv show and Cobra tv show?
Marisa Abela
Who is Proust Barbie: Young Beatrix potter in Miss Potter, countess andrenyi in murder on orient express, bohemian rhapsody Mary Austin?
Lucy Boynton
Who is Basketball Ken: Marcus summer in embers and Karim Washington on The OA, Malcolm x in one night in Miami?
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Who is Stereotypical Ken: Olivier fish on one life to live, younger bro of marvel star?
Scott Evans
Who has been credited with coining term platty joobs? Stath Let’s Flats, Ghists, Man Like Nobeen, taskmaster 2023
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
Mitchell Starc wife
Alyssa Healy
Mitchell Starc brother Brandon Starc won 2018 gold and 2022 silver commonwealths at which sport?
High Jump
Kibera is largest urban slum in Africa, what city is this?
Nairobi
1977 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name, attack on superbowl blimp.
Black Sunday
1500m bronze medalist at Tokyo and gold at 2023 Budapest world championships
Josh Kerr
Located in Jamaica’s Cornwall County, which parish shares its name with a historic county in north-west England spanning the southern Lake District and the northern Dales?
WestMoreland
ind 2
In the 2023 Women’s football World Cup, holders USA were eliminated on penalties by which European country?
Swdden
In July 2023, which award-winning BBC journalist and News at Six newsreader, died aged 67?
George Alagiah
The UK’s longest monorail is located in Staffordshire at which theme park and resort complex?
Alton Towers
Which northern English county has won the most cricket County Championships, the most recent in 2015?
Yorkshire
Located in Jamaica’s Cornwall County, which parish shares its name with the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony?
Hannover
With 1980s hits including You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You, which Liverpudlian singer was the UK’s representative at the 1993 Eurovision?
Sonia
Which Czech player won the ladies’ singles tennis title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships?
Marketa Vondrousova
in August 2023, which Canadian province cancelled its plans to bid to host the
2030 Commonwealth Games?
Augusta
The cuneiform bones are found in which part of the human body?
Foot
Dennis Waterman co-starred but did not sing the theme tune on which ITV police drama which ran between 1975 and 1978?
The Sweeney
What is the national plant of Ireland? Its name derives from the Irish Gaelic for little clover.
Shamrock
Who was first president of Namibia serving from 1990 to 2005?
Sam Nujoma
219C is the code of the colour closest to Barbie Pink in which colour matching system named for an American company? It releases an annual colour of the year, which in 2023 was Vivo Magenta.
Pantone
Located at Lagrange Point Li, the Deep Space Climate Observatory is a satellite that studies what phenomenon, a stream of charged particles from the corona of the sun?
Solar Wind
3 No one remembers the first ball of an Ashes series, right? Which England bowler’s first ball at the Gabba in the 2006 series was so wide that it was caught at second slip by Andrew Flintoff?
Steve Harmison
3B
What is the usual English name for the national anthem of Wales, entitled Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau [hair-n wool-add ver n-had-eye] in Welsh?
Land of my Fathers
1A Which Channel 4 sitcom was written by Caitlin and Caroline Moran, and was loosely based on their own upbringing on a council estate in Wolverhampton? If follows the lives of single mother Della and her six children?
Raised by Wolves
2022 Natalie Haynes book about Medusa
Stone Blind
Oedipus and Jocasta’s four children?
Antigone and Ismene
Eteocles and Polynices
The home of the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, Blackheath Halls and The Albany in Deptford, what borough was named London Borough of Culture for 2022?
Lewisham
Russian writer born 1814, most known for prose A Hero of our Time, poem Death of the Poet, named poet of the Caucasus?
Mikhail Lermontov
Who wrote Fathers and Sons?
Ivan Turgenev
What name is given to the joint between the cannon bone and pastern in a horse?
Whilst it resembles a human ankle in appearance, it is actually closer to the ball of a human foot.
Fetlock
1B What is the usual English name for the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland, entitled Amhrán na bhFiann [oh-rawn nah vee-on] in Gaelic?
The Soldier’s Song
12B In Scottish criminal law, three verdicts can be given. If two of these are Guilty and Not Guilty, which is the third, which is not found in English courtrooms?
Not Proven
4B Portishead beat which fellow Bristol trip hop artist to win the 1995 Mercury Music
Prize? Following his departure from Massive Attack, his nominated debut album, Maxinquaye, featured tracks including Overcome.
Tricky (Adrian Thaws)
4003 is the code of the colour closest to Barbie Pink in which colour management system from Germany known by a three-letter acronym?
RAL
No one remembers the first ball of an Ashes series, right? Which England batter hit the very first ball of the series for four at the 2023 test match at Edgbaston?
Zak Crawley
Round 7
1A
What musical instrument of Spanish music is a directly struck concussive idiophone, usually played in pairs? They are made of a pair of concave wooden shells joined by a string, usually held in the hand and often feature in flamenco music.
Castanets
Outbreaks of dancing are not confined to Eurovision parties. In what modern day German city in 1374, did an outbreak of dancing mania occur? It was the imperial capital of Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire.
Aachen
Another good example of a grammelot is the language spoken by the title character of which stop motion animated children’s TV series by Aardman Animations about the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm, including the dog Bitzer and the lamb Timmy?
Shaun the sheep
The home of the Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls and its namesake Clocktower complex including the David Lean Cinema, what borough is London Borough of Culture for 2023?
Croydon
ЗА
Which Channel 4 sitcom was written by Caroline Moran, Lucy Beaumont and Anne-Marie O’Connor, and is set in Beaumont’s home town of Hull? It follows the lives of three friends, Toni, Paula and Rana.
Hullraisers
What city in the Central Region of Portugal is home to the country’s oldest university, which was founded in 1290? This is reflected in the name of the city’s main football team, Académica.
Coimbra
Which is the only letter of the alphabet that begins the name of just one London
Underground station? The station in question is on the Metropolitan line.
I (Ickenham)
Since arriving in the UK from Alaska and Canada, which variety of spruce tree now makes up about half of British commercial tree plantations?
Sitka
nd 1
The cathedral in which English city has had the tallest spire in the country since 1561, when Old St. Paul’s collapsed?
Salisbury
On a standard drum kit, what is the name of the large drum that sits on the floor, produces a note of low thudding sound, and is usually struck using a foot pedal?
Bass Drum
Which A road, also known as the London-Holyhead trunk road, generally follows the historic route of the Roman road, Watling Street?
A5
Which polymath and noted eugenicist helped formulate the concept of correlation, invented the regression line, and coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” in the late nineteenth-century?
Francis Galton
[Which German philosopher, critic and essayist declared in his work Theses on the Philosophy of History that “There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism”? They also wrote The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Walter Benjamin
und 3
Which right handed Indian opening batsman did Shane Warne have caught at deep cover to take his first Test wicket at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1992? He coached in the Indian national team from 2017-2021 and is now a commentator.
Ravi Shastri
Which American post-hardcore band, formed by lan MacKaye, released their debut album Repeater in 1990, and are known for songs such as Waiting Room, Blueprint and Suggestion?
Fugazi
In programming, if the ‘L’ stands for Language’, what does the ‘Q’ stand for in the acronym SQL?
Structured Query Language
Which twentieth-century British Marxist historian, who died in 2012, helped formulate the concept of “the long nineteenth-century” and wrote the The Age of. tetralogy charting the rise of capitalism and nationalism from the Industrial Revolution onwards.
Eric Hobsbawm
Which British comedian and actor played Dobby in sitcom Peep Show, Ally in Man Down and most recently Nat in the TV show Damned, set in a fictional children’s services department?
Isy Suttie
Which British actor played Keaty in the film The Beach, Johnson in Peep Show,
“Holy” Wayne in The Leftovers, and most recently, Commander Neil Newsome in the submarine based drama, Vigil?
Paterson Joseph
Which twentieth-century British Marxist historian, who died in 1993, studied the radical movements of the Industrial Revolution, most famously in his book The Making of The English Working Class?
EP Thompson
Which left-handed English opening batsman did Shane Warne bowl to take his 700th Test wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2006? He became the English Cricket Boards Director of Cricket in 2015, before stepping down and starting a charity named after his late wife, Ruth.
Andrew Strauss
Which American post-hardcore band, formed by Bob Mould, Grant Hart and Greg Norton, released their debut album Everything Falls Apart in 1983, and are known for songs such as The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill, New Day Rising and Sorry Somehow?
Husker Du
Who wrote the novel The Book of Evidence in 1989, loosely based on the murders committed by Malcom McArthur, which shocked Ireland in the early-1980s. They also won the Booker Prize in 2005 for their novel The Sea.
John Banville
Which rugby club, who play in the English Premiership, were at the centre of the Bloodgate controversy in 2009, when medical staff gave player Tom Williams a fake blood capsule so they could replace him with a blood substitute?
Harlequins
anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945
Horst Wessel Lied
Highest peak of New York and highest point of Adirondack Mountains
Mount Marcy
Where does the Dutch Grand Prix take place?
Circuit Zandvoort
Known as the “Godmother of Soul” which singer who won Grammys for her albums Burnin’ and Live! One Night Only, owns a ‘Good Life’ food business which made over $200 million in sales in 2022?
Patti LaBelle
Men’s 800 Metres bronze medal winner at 2023 world championships, British
Ben Pattison
Lead singer of Foals
Yannis Philippakis
song by American country-folk singer Oliver Anthony that was released in August 2023, got to #1 on billboard hot 100 making Anthony the first artist to debut atop the chart without any prior chart history in any form
Rich Men North of Richmond
What team won 2023 men’s The Hundred in cricket? Their first win.
Oval Invincibles
What team won 2023 women’s The Hundred in cricket? Their first win.
Southern Brave
Spanish kids tv show a four-year-old boy, interacting with his friends Elly, Pato, Nina, Fred the Octopus, Loula and Sleepy Bird.
Pocoyo
Which 1978 British mystery film directed by John Guillermin based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel of the same name won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design?
Death on the Nile
Sister to an Olympic gold 2008 400m medallist, British athlete who won bronze at 2022 world championships in 4x400m and silver at 400m commonwealth.
Victoria Ohuruogu
American hurdler who won silver at 110m hurdles at 2020 Tokyo (best by Hansle Parchment), won three world championships 110m 2019, 2022 Eugene and 2023 Budapest.
Grant Holloway
We’ve asked about this person before, but I’m bumping it to celebrate her 112 and a halfth birthday next month: which former first lady of Costa Rica is currently the 44th oldest living person in the world?
Marita Camacho Quiros
Which Grand Vizier of Morocco (effectively its PM at the time, 1908-55) once GBoR listed as having lived until 112, although modern scholarship considers 103 his more accurate age?
Muhammad El-Muqri
Which aristocratic Irish woman was the oldest U.K. citizen of all time for 42 years from her death in 1928? An illustrator by background, she was the last living person to have met Sir Walter Scott.
Katherine Plunkett
Who are currently the only three teams to have appeared at a single Rugby World Cup? And how will the same question be relevant but with a different answer in a few weeks’ time (August 2023)?
Cote Divoire, Portugal (about to play second), Spain, Chile (being added)
An r was added to the name of which soft drink in the U.K. in 2001?
Appletize
Which actress is the daughter of the man who set up the Mangrove restaurant, famous for role in Notting Hill and immortalised on film by Steve McQueen.
Lenora Critchlow
Which place in England, with a population of more than 250,000, is named in I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)?
Havering
Where on a horse would you attach a ‘snaffle or a ‘Kimblewick? I
Mouth - it’s a bit
Whcih Winnie the Pooh character lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech tree?
Piglet
Director of Chicago, Mary Poppins Returns and Memoirs of a Geisha?
Rob Marshall
Which Argentine Italian Artist founded the spatialism art movement in 1947?
Lucio Fontana
Which South African golfer won women’s 2022 open?
Ashleigh Ann Buhai
Mount Rinjani is an active volcano on which Indonesian island?
Lombok
What year was in a 1969 song with Exordium and Terminus?
In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans
What war forms the backdrop of biography Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse?
Boer War
Whcih british Nigerian actress played Terry in I May Destroy You?
Weruche Opia
AirBaltic is flag carrying airline for which europe carrier?
Latvia
Damien Hurst’s artwork Eternity which sold for $4.7 million in 2007, is composed of thousands of examples of what insects?
Butterflies
In Swedish cuisine what vegetable is used to make artsoppa soup?
Pea
Aquarius was the name of the lunar module in which nasa moon mission?
Apollo 13
Which Spanish football club has won the most (31) Copa Del Rey titles?
Barcelona
Which Shakespeare play is an anagram of Uncool Sari?
Coriolanus
2023 supernatural horror film starring Javier Botet as dracula?
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Which actor played Tristana Medeiros in REC franchise, title character in Mama, Slender Man in the 2018 film and vampire dracula in last voyage of the demeter?
Javier Botet
American composer, son of Oscar winning composer, did scores for The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty and Green Mile? finding Nemo, 1917, James bonds. Ties for most Oscar nominations without a win with Alex North.
Thomas Newman
American composer not won oscwr in 15 nominations; a streetcar named desire, viva Zapata, Spartacus, Cleopatra, who’s afraid of Virginia woolf. Wrote the music for unchained melody.
Alex North
The battle of valmy (1792) was a decisive battle leading to abolition of monarchy in which country?
France
Which celeb chef wrote the 2016 cookbook The Weekend Baker?
Paul Hollywood
Prime minister of Spain since June 2018
Pedro Sanchez
Which video game features episodes named Minty Meadow and Jelly Jungle?
Candy Crush Saga
Which cooking technique shares its name with a jump in ballet?
Sauté
St Leonard’s, St Mary’s and United are colleges of which British university?
St Andrews
On which part of the body would you find N austin bar piercing?
Nose
Dave Bayley is lead singlet with which English indie rock band?
Glass Animals
In which sport do teams compete for the quilter cup?
Rugby Union
What name links first female pilot to fly across English Channel, character played by mia goth in 2020 film Emma and Mp for Camberwell and peckham(
Harriet (Quimby, Smith and Harman)
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) was directorial debut of which Italian film maker?
Sergio Leone
Amen, Awa, Kita and Ox are members from which Eurovision winning band?
Lordi
Which S Club 7 song samples Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane in F Sharp minor?
Natural
Blues and gospels singer, most notable recordings include “Samson and Delilah” and “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”, was blind which gave alternative name Blind ____ _______
Reverend Gary Davis
Ralph McTell most famous song inspired by Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Streets of London
Radiohead band name comes from a song by which band?
Talking Heads (album True Stories)
Blowin in the wind by Bob Dylan inspired by which book of bible
Ezekiel
Turn! turn! Turn! Song written by Pete Seeger and recorded famously by The Byrds is based on which book of bible?
Book of Ecclesiastes
Frontman and leader of The Byrds
Roger McGuinn
Which little mix single samples Pavane by Gabriel Faure
Little Me
Which green day song has the same chords as Pachelbel Canon in D
Basket Case
Theme song for the Inbetweeners which song and band
Gone up in flames - morning runner
What is the name of the title character of the 2023 Star Wars franchise played by Rosario Dawson?
Ahsoka Tano
Danish pharma company whose main product is drug semaglutide: treats diabetes under brand name Ozempic and obesity under brand name Wegovy?
Novo Nordisk
What is assessed by the Martindale rub test?
Upholstery fabric (durability)
Which woman founded the Second Order of Saint Francis?
Saint Clare of Assisi
Which director has made more money from wine than his films?
Francis Ford Coppola
The only blue plaque in Barking celebrates which footballer?
Bobby Moore
What links: Grain crops; mayflies; octopus; salmon; squid; spiders?
Semelparous (reproduce only once, in certain species)
What links: Dick Powell; Humphrey Bogart; Elliott Gould; Robert Mitchum?
Played Philip Marlowe on screen
Elton John first number one in uk single
Don’t go breaking my heart
Elton John first solo number one single 1990
Sacrifice
Which member of blackpink is from Thailand?
Lisa
Which member of blackpink was born in New Zealand?
Rose
RAAC concrete in news September 2022: what Stan d for
Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete
Ridley Scott first feature film The Duellists was based on a story by this author to whom Scott’s film Alien also pays tributes?
Joseph Conrad
Which 2023 song by singer-songwriter Sam Ryder which featured on season 3 episode 11 of Ted Lasso has been nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award for an Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics?
Fought & Lost
Which Dutch athlete was seconds away from gold in the women’s 10,000m at the
2023 World Athletics Championship, falling over shortly before the finish line?
She won gold in both the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics.
Sifan Hassan
What encryption technique that cannot be cracked requires a plaintext message to be accompanied by a single-use pre-shared key equal or larger to the size of the message being sent? It is sometimes known by the initialism OTP.
One Time Pad
What birds of the genus Aptery are the only birds with nostrils at the end of their beaks? They use this to locate insects and worms underground, without seeing or feeling them.
Kiwis
Morris Chang founded which Asian semiconductor manufacturing and design company in 1987? They produce more than 90% of the world’s most advanced computer chips (i.e semiconductors with nodes less than 10 nanometres).
TSMC
Charlotte Bronte is believed to have died from what pregnancy complication, characterised by severe nausea, vomiting and weight loss? It is more serious than morning sickness, and is often known by a two-letter initialism.
Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG)
The M1 motorway runs for 193 miles, between London and what major city?
Leeds
Which 1940 film stars James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan as employees who hate each other, not realising they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters?
The Shop Around the Corner
The “slicing” of what processed foodstuff can be used metaphorically to describe the practice of using a series of many small actions to produce a much larger action that would be difficult to perform all at once?
Salami Slicing
What two-word term is used in espionage for a location used to secretly pass items between two individuals without them having to meet directly, often involving concealed hiding spots?
Dead Drop
Which Kenyan runner, who set world records in the women’s 1500m and 5000m in the same week this June, won both those events ahead of Sifan Hassan at the
2023 World Athletics Championship?
Faith Kipyegon
Discussed in Freakonomics, an attention-grabbing 2001 paper by Steve Levitt and John Donohue concluded that a sharp drop in American crime rate starting from 1995 was largely a consequence of what occurrence, more than twenty years’ prior?
Legalisation of Abortion
What 1944 film stars Humphrey Bogart as a fisherman in Vichy-controlled Martinique, who falls for a young American wanderer played by Lauren Bacall?
To have and have not
The A1 road runs for 410 miles, between London and what major city?
Edinburgh
Which Dutch company is the only company worldwide that produces extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, required to produce the most advanced semiconductor chips? It is Europe’s most valuable tech company, and like TSMC, is known by a four-letter initialism.
ASML
The tube map colour for the Thameslink line, as well as for the Underground line with a terminus in Barking, both correspond to the colour of what category in the classic version of Trivial Pursuit?
Entertainment (they’re pink (H&C line))
QLLer Samanth Subramanian’s book A Dominant Character is a biography of which British-Indian scientist, who introduced the primordial soup theory of abiogenesis, and deduced that sickle-cell disease confers some immunity to malaria?
JBS Haldane
What two words complete this joke from a 2008 episode of Have I Got News For You, hosted by Brian Blessed: “The polls continue to slide for Prime Minister Brown. Some say he’s dead and buried, but I say the opposite. I say…
.”?
Gordon’s Alive
Isabelle Huppert [hoo-pair] plays a French coffee plantation owner in an unidentified African country in the 2009 film White Material, by which director? In the 2022 Sight and Sound greatest films poll, she made the top ten with the film
Beau Travail.
Claire Denis
Designed by Zaha Hadid for Expo 2008, the Bridge Pavilion spans the river Ebro in which European city?
Zaragoza
Colcannon is mashed potato with what?
Cabbage
Five letter name for Irish food with mashed potato’s and scallions?
Champ
Irish potato pancakes
Boxty
In poker, what four-letter word is used by players to signal that they are matching the previous bet, and not raising it?
Call
From the Latin for ‘stone’, what name is given to the art of shaping gems; minerals; or stones into decorative obiects?
Lapidary
Telling the story of a shell-shocked army captain from the point of view of his cousin Jenny, the 1918 Modernist novel The Return of the Soldier is the work of which English author?
Rebecca West (Cicely Fairfield)
In winning Crosby in a 1981 by-election, Shirley Williams became the first person to win a House of Commons election for which political party?
SDP (social Democratic Party)
One person who denied Serena Williams a record equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title was which German player, who defeated Williams in the 2018
Wimbledon final?
Angelique Kerber
Which Asian country is divided into 36 administrative regions, 28 of which are called States, with the remainder known as Union Territories?
India
In Hulu drama series Bear, Jeremy Allen White play which character, a fine-dining chef who returns home to take over the run-down restaurant that he inherits from his dead brother?
Carmen Berzatto
In winning Belfast East in the 2010 general election, Naomi Long became the first person to win a House of Commons election for which political party?
Alliance Party
From an old French word meaning ‘to inlay’ or ‘to speckle’, what name is given to the art of applying veneers of material, such as wood or metal, to an object, to create a decorative design?
Marquetry
Designed by Zaha Hadid and opened in 2016, the Port Authority Building is located by the river Scheldt in which European city?
Antwerp
Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung play a gay couple from Hong Kong with a turbulent relationship who travel to Argentina in the 1997 film Happy Together, the work of which director? He also made the 2022 Sight and Sound top ten, with the film In the Mood for Love.
Wong Kar-Wai
Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren created which super-strong nine-year-old girl with red pigtails and freckles, who goes on adventures with her best friends, a monkey and a horse?
Pippi Longstocking
Although a live performance is easier with more people because of the need for them to play multiple instruments, Music for 18 Musicians is a 1976 work by which American minimalist composer?
Steve Reich
The name of what taxonomic rank is also used in mathematics for the maximum number of cuts that can be carried out on a surface without disconnecting it? It can be understood as the number of ‘holes’ or ‘handles’ of a surface.
Genus
Composed entirely of samples, the 1996 album Endtroducing was the debut release of which American electronic musician, whose real name is Joshua Davis?
DJ Shadow
Another person to deny Serena Williams a 24th Grand Slam singles title was which Romanian player, who defeated Williams in the 2019 Wimbledon final?
Simona Halep
Desert Island Disco is a regular feature of the weekday breakfast show hosted by Lauren Laverne on which BBC radio station, which focuses on current and classic alternative music, and whose other presenters include Mary Anne Hobbs and Steve Lamacq?
Bbc 6 Music
Who was first president of Guinea from 1958 to 1984?
Ahmed Sekou Toure
a London-based Irish socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune. His December 1966 death in a car crash was an inspiration for the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life”. Suki Potier died in a car crash in 1981 in Portugal. She survived a car crash in 1966 which killed this fella. Who was driving that car?
Tara Browne
What word, also the title of a novel by American author James Michener, is the Japanese for ‘goodbye”?
Sayonara
[Name either of the films, both with a one-word title, for which Bette Davis won the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1930s.
Dangerous or Jezebel
John Erskine, who led the Jacobite uprising of 1715 and went into exile after its failure, was better known as the earl of where?
Earl of Mar
Which Asian capital, with an estimated population of just 130,000, lies at 2,350 metres above sea level, making it the highest national capital in Asia?
Thimphu
Which county cricket side, based in the south of England, won the last of its seven county championships in 1978? Of the sides to have won the title more than twice, theirs is the longest current dry spell.
Kent
0 ‘22?
Which George Ezra single, with a one-word name, was UK Number One on this day five years ago? It followed his top 5 hits Budapest and Paradise, and remains his only UK Number One single.
Shotgun
John Graham, who led the Jacobite uprising of 1689 and died in battle during it, was better known as the viscount of where?
Viscount of Dundee
Name either of the films, both with a two-word title, for which Spencer Tracy won the Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1930s.
Boys Town or Captains Courageous
Guyana City is not, as its name suggests, in Guyana. It is instead in which larger country to the west of Guyana?
Venezuela
According to the titles of songs, what were the Everly Brothers and a-ha doing in the rain, Alcazar doing at the discotheque and Elvis Pressley doing in the chapel?
Crying
What word, also the title of an album by American jazz musician Hank Jones, is the Japanese for ‘thank you’?
Arigato
Elizabeth Bishop’s A Miracle for Breakfast is an example of which fixed verse form, comprising six six-line stanzas and a three-line stanza?
Sestina
Which broad layer of the Sun, in which photons are absorbed and released by ions, lies between its core and the outer transition and convective zones?
Radiative Zone
Which Ellie Goulding single, with a one-word name, was UK Number One on this day ten years ago? It was her first UK Number One single, and she has had further chart-toppers with River and Miracle.
Burn
Worlds largest species of monkey?
Mandrill
Scottish actor John Hannah narrates which popular BBC show in which teams of two travel as quickly as possible between places, without using air transport?
Race Across the World
Which county cricket side, based in the Midlands, won the last of its five county championships in 1989? Of the sides to have won the title more than twice, theirs is the second-longest current dry spell..
Worcestershire
Which Latin American country, today a republic, was ruled by the emperors Augustin I and Maximilian I for two periods in the 19th century?
Mexico
4
Potato pancakes called latkes are traditionally prepared during the celebration of which Jewish holiday?
Hanukkah
5
Which winner of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2017 accidentally broke her trophy in half, although many thought the action was her effort to share the award with Beyonce?
Adele
What dominant distance runner of the 1920s won 12 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and set 22 world records?
Paavo Nurmi
10 The music video for which Taylor Swift song ends with Swift and Selena Gomez hitting each other in the face?
Bad Blood
11 Which country is divided by the Attila Line, also known as the Green Line?
Cyprus
12 Who was the bass player for The Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993?
Bill Wyman
14 What is the most populous city in the state of North Carolina?
Charlotte
15 What was the last creature eaten by The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly?
Horse
17 Which British Formula One racer, who won the 1965 Indianapolis 500, was killed in a driving accident in West Germany?
Jim Clark
21 Established in the 1991-92 season, which NHL team made its first appearance in the Stanley Cup finals in 2016?
San Jose Sharks
22 In his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, who divided his philosophical system into three main parts - Science of Logic, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Spirit?
George Hegel
23 What spread made with cucumbers and cream cheese shares its name with a
Catholic religious order?
Benedictine
25 In the Flash Gordon comic strip, who was the leader of the Hawkmen on the planet
Prince Vultan
World Athletics Championship: Who won a record 14 medals for a male athlete, including 11 golds?
Usain Bolt
World Athletics Championship: Which athlete with 20 holds the record for winning the most medals in the history of the Championships?
Allison Felix
Where was the first full events championships held in 1983? World Athletics Championship:
Helsinki
Which legend won first ever men’s 100m title at world championships in 1983?
Carl Lewis
World Athletics Championship: prior to Jake Wightman who was last British male to win the 1500m
Steve Cram
Which American hurdler won the men’s 110m at WAC 1983/87/91
Greg Foster
Still the World Record for the event, who set a height of 2.09 metres to win the 1987 Women’s High Jump?
Stefka Kostadinova
13 Which athlete won his fifth consecutive title in the Men’s Hammer Throw at
Eugene in 2022?
Pawel Fajdek
14 Who won the Women’s 100 metre and 200 metre sprint double at the 1991 championships?
Katrin Krabbe
15 Which throwing great won five golds and a bronze in the Mens Discus between 1991 and 2001? Won 1996 gold too Olympics.
Lars Riedel
16 Who was the surprise winner of the 2003 Men’s 100 metre final? World championships and St Kitts and Nevis
Kim Collins
2004 gold heptaholon, Swedish athlete won three world hept titles and broke 7000 point barrier at 2003 wac?
Carolina Kluft
22 Which future politician known as The Chairman Of The Boards won the
5000 metre title in 1983?
Eamonn Coghlan
23 Who hurled their way to three Women’s javelin World titles between 2007 and 2017. She is the current World Record holder?
Barbora Spotakova
24 Who won the Women’s 800 metres title in 1993, 2001 and 2003. She also medalled in 1997 and 1999? Mozambique
Maria Mutola
26 Who ran the anchor leg when Great Britain won the Men’s 4x400 metre relay title in 1991?
Kriss Akabusi
27 Who set a World Record of 9045 points when winning the Men’s Decathlon title in 2015?
Ashton Eaton
32 Hugues Fabrice Zango won a bronze in the 2019 Men’s Triple Jump. It is the only medal so far won by which nation?
Burkina Faso
33 Which winner of the Men’s 400 metre hurdles in 2015 died three years later in a road accident in Kenya aged 28?
Nicholas Bett
39 What was the name of the hedgehog that was the mascot for the 2017
London world athletics championships?
Hero
What portmanteau term could be used to describe an attractive but vacuous man? The first use of the term dates back to 1988.
Himbo
8
What German mathematician was director of the astronomical observatory in Göttingen for nearly half a century from 1807 until his death? He was instrumental to the discovery of the dwarf planet Ceres and his “method of least squares” is still used in all sciences to reduce measurement error
Carl Gauss
9
Which American tv series won a whopping 38 Teen Choice awards?
Running between 2010 and 2017, and set in the fictional town of Rosewood, the plot follows five best friends whose secrets are consistently threatened by the anonymous “A”
Pretty Little Liars
10 Frank Rijkard scored the winner when AC Milan defeated Benfica in the
1990 European Cup final. Which man was in charge of Benfica that day?
He’d later take charge of sides including the Mexico national team, the Ivory Coast national team and be Director of Football at Notts County
Sven-Goren Erikkson
11 The Krak des Chevaliers, Margat, Rhodes, and Valetta are among the castles and cities built or refortified by what group? They were one of the smallest groups to have colonized parts of the Americas, briefly acquiring four Caribbean islands in the mid-17th century, which they turned over to France in the 1660s.
Knights Hospitaller
16 Christopher John Lewis (1964 -1997) made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981. He planned later attempts. at assassinating other British royal family members and was kept away from them by the authorities. In which country did that 1981 assassination attempt take place?
New Zealand
17 The-Hong Kong singer Shirley Kwan is an influential person in which genre of Pop music associated with China? The boy group “Mirror” are current big stars in this style. I’m looking for an 8-letter answer
Cantopop
18 A crash near the municipality of Bodio means that the world’s longest railway tunnel is going to be closed to passenger traffic for months.
Opened in 2016, in which country will you find the world’s longest railway tunnel?
Switzerland (Gotthard Tunnel)
20 The Titanic was the first ship to include what sort of sporting area? This sport was extremely fashionable amongst bright young things at the time, and the Titanic had a professional on hand to play and coach. Perhaps if she had been around then Heather Mckay would have had a game
Squash
22 What “s” is a chickpea flour pancake native to Nice, Menton and Monaco which is best served hot with lashings of olive oil and a generous grind of black pepper? The name of this pancake sounds like a 1970s musical style which tried to revise traditional calypso music
Socca
23 The Ezana stone of Axum has helped historians in a similar manner to the Rosetta stone. Inscriptions on the Ezana stone are written in Sabaean, ancient Greek and what other language, the main liturgical language of the Ethiopian orthodox church?
Ge’ez
27 November 1904 saw a revolt in Rio ostensibly regarding what subject?
1885 saw a riot in Montreal for the same reason and they have been much in the news in recent years
Vaccines
28 Which newspaper, thought to be the largest selling English language newspaper in the world, has its headquarters in Mumbai?
Times of India
29 In astronomy, what “n” refers to the small irregularity in the slow, toplike wobbling of a spinning heavenly body such as the Earth? This superimposed small oscillation in the axis of rotation is usually due to the gravitational forces of other nearby bodies
Nutation
31 Which Brazilian city is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country’s north? In August 2023 President Lula Da Silva hosted a conference in this city to discuss the protection of the Amazon rainforest
Belem
32 If Gibraltar sits under the Rock of Gibraltar, the northern “Pillar of Hercules”, then which Spanish city sits under jebel Musa, the southern
“Pillar of Hercules”? Bordered by Morocco, this city is home to over 80,000 people
Ceuta
33 Which current-day author is at the forefront of Modern Day Stoicism through his books “The Ego is the Enemy”, “The Daily Stoic” and “The Obstacle is the Way”?
Ryan Holiday
34 What is the name of the strait that separates the Orkney Islands from
Caithness on the Scottish mainland?
Pentland Firth
35 The Sambadrome plays a key part in the Rio Carnival each year, but what sport did it host at the 2016 Olympics? Ku Bon Chan won the Men’s Gold and Chang Hye-jin won the Women’s Gold
Archery
40 A terrible disaster occurred during the festivities of the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia when up to 500,000 gathered on the promise of free beer, pretzels and souvenirs. This tragedy has became known by the name of the field in which it occurred. What is the name of that field?
Khodynka
41 In the movie “The unbearable weight of massive talent” the characters played by Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal bond over their shared love of which 2017 movie? This movie sees Brendan Gleeson and Tom Davis play the hard prisoners Knuckles and Spoon
Paddington 2
42 A former Teen Choice award winner, which Australian singer and former
Youtuber reached the top ten of the US charts with his album “TRXVE” in 2014? in 2023 he entered the UK top 40 with the song “Rush”
Troye Sivan
45 What street name is included in the title of the 2021 drama which followed the lives of characters played by Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke from their teens into their 40s? It was based on a novel of the same name by
Kristin Hannah
Firefly Lane
46 How was the Actor, Dancer and TV presenter born Henry Ogus much better known? A running joke on the radio show “I’m sorry l’haven’t a clue” usually involved him in some double entendre
Lionel Blair
47 The name of what sausage, typically U-shaped, often made of ground pork and beef, well seasoned, and sometimes garlic forward, comes directly from the Polish for “sausage” (and is, in fact, frequently used as a synonym for “Polish sausage”)?
Kielbasa
48 The Northern Irish darts player Brendan Dolan has a better than expected record at the World Grand Prix darts tournament. What format change makes the World Grand Prix different from almost all other PDC events?
Must start on a double
an Irish-Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West
Lafcadio Hearn
Nicolas Cage has already bought himself a 9-foot high pyramid tomb in an “above-ground” cemetery in which US city?
New Orleans
The highest road tunnel in the world when it was completed in 1964, in which country is the Salang Tunnel located? It connects its provinces of Parwan and Baghlan.
Afghanistan
What straits separate the Gulf of Aguaba from the Red sea?
Blockades of Israeli shipping from these straits and the Suez Canal
have led to wars in 1956 and 1967
Straits of Tiran
Which British band, formed at Glasgow University, had 1980s hits with the songs “Perfect Skin” and “Lost Weekend”?
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
10 Which heritage clothes brand based in Leicester celebrated their
250th anniversary in 2005? Perhaps best known for their mens underwear, the company name is a reference to a 16th century
English statesman
Wolsey
Which British born woman coached the United States women’s national team from 2014 to 2019 leading them to two FIFA Women’s World Cups in 2015 and 2019 and since 2021 has been the President of the San Diego Wave FC?
Jill Ellis
11
The Nestle Plaza is the tallest building in the UAE which isn’t in either Dubai or Abu Dhabi. In which city will you find the Nestle Plaza?
Sharjah
13 What was the 3-word subtitle of the 1990s Gremlins sequel movie?
The New Batch
15 In August 2023 it came to light that Sotheby’s auction house was being sued after they were accused of misleadingly promoting a sale of what Non-Fungible tokens? This collection of 101 images of cartoon monkeys were sold to an anonymous buyer for over £24 million
Bored Ape Yacht Club
16 What short handy phrase in Chemistry is easily remebered by the acronym OIL RIG?
Oxidation is Loss, Reduction is Gain of electrons
17
In what city will you find the Obel Tower, the tallest building on the island of Ireland? It is located near the Queen Elizabeth Bridge
Belfast
18 The Palais de la Cour de Justice is one of the tallest buildings in what country?
Luxembourg
20 The Teen Choice Awards were an annual awards show that aired on the Fox television network between 1999 and 2019. The awards honoured the year’s biggest achievements in music, film, sports, television, fashion and social media. What was the shape of the award given to winners? Stephanie Gilmore, Tyler Wright or Carissa Moore would no doubt appreciate this
Surfboard
21 In History, the phrase: “All Boys Should Come Home Please” is a mnemonic for remembering what?
Henry eighth wife’s
22 What type of Macaw is Blu in the 2011 animated movie “Rio”? Now extinct in the wild, this type of Macaw was named after a German naturalist who collected a specimen in 1819
Spix’s Macaw
24 What exactly was an F1-11 according to the title of Sigue Sigue
Sputnik’s 1986 debut hit?
Love Missile
25 Proposed by Benjamin Franklin, a 1754 plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies in what is now the USA, was named after which city in New York? Today this city’s urban area has a population of 1.1 million and has suburbs including Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs.
Albany
Malaysia and Singapore strait name
Johor Strait
31 What straits separate mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego to the south? It is named after the explorer who first traversed it in
1520
Strait of Magellan
33 Nicolas Cage won a libel action against which actress who said he had stolen a chihuahua dog? This woman became widely known in the USA after starring in the erotic thriller “Body Heat” in 1981
Kathleen Turner
36 Home to the ancient fort krown as the Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles, Tripoli is the second largest city of which country? It also has the second highest concentration of Mamluk architecture after Cairo.
Lebanon
37 Which Malian music star has been appointed special adviser to the head of Mali’s military junta? The 73-year-old year old musician - referred to as the Golden Voice of Africa - has been a supporter of the junta
Salif Keita
40 Which legislative Act that helped earn Rudy Giuliani a reputation as a “mob buster” is now being used against him and Donald Trump in America’s courts? It was enacted as Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 and signed into law by US President Richard Nixon. I’m looking for a 4-letter acronym
Rico Act
Rico act signed 1970 USA stand for what
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act
43 “Four Seasons in one day” was a memorable 1992 hit for the band
Crowded House. What was the surname of the brothers who wrote that song?
Neil and Tim Finn
45 A major diplomatic blunder of 1908 by Kaiser Wilhelm II saw his comments printed in which British newspaper? In those comments he implied, among other things, that the Germans cared nothing for the British; that the French and Russians had attempted to incite Germany to intervene in the Second Boer War; and that the German naval buildup was targeted against the Japanese, not Britain’
Daily Telegraph
46 Constructed in concrete, what is the name of the distinctive church which dominates the skyline of Reykjavik?
Hallgrimskirkja
Second lanrgest city in guayana lying in Demerara river and primarily a bauxitr mining location
Linden
50 in what coastal city will you find 2 of the 6 tallest buildings in
Spain? in terms of permanent population this place is only the 5th most populous in Alicante
Benidorm
In Science, the phrase: “Pregnant Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak” is a mnemonic for remembering what?
Geological Periods
Who was the only Black player in the South African rugby team at the 1995 World cup final? This winger sadly died of a heart attack in 2019
Chester Williams
Bbbc economics editor dubious distinction of being g ex gf of Ed balls and Ed Miliband
Stefanie Flanders
The Austrian-American psychologist Leo Kanner has been credited as the first to identify which neurodevelopmental condition? He had written about “an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness”
Autism
What was Tina Turner’s last UK top 40 hit of the 1980s? Described as “delightfully risque” and as one of her sexiest hits? The song begins “ was thinking about parking the other night, we was out on the back road”. Two word answer
Steamy Windows
Nic Cage son with third wife Alice Kim name
Kal-El
11
The plot of the play La hija de Rappaccini (1956) centres around a young Italian student who wanders about Professor Rappaccini’s beautiful gardens where he spies the professor’s daughter Beatrice. He is horrified to discover the poisonous nature of the garden’s beauty. Which Mexican, better known as a poet, wrote this play?
Octavio Paz
12 Which philosopher’s birth was supposedly hastened by news of the approaching
Spanish Armada? He is best known for his 1651 book in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.
Thomas Hobbes
14 In the autumn of 1928, Oppenheimer visited Paul Ehrenfest’s institute at which University in the Netherlands, where he impressed by giving lectures in Dutch, despite having little experience with the language?
University of Leiden
18 What piece of kitchen equipment lends its name to the agreement between the British royal family and the Press that William and Harry would be allowed to carry out their academic studies in peace, in exchange for the occasional photograph?
Pressure Cooker agreement
19 A destination for Jet 2 airline, which city is the thrid largest in Cyprus after Nicosia and Limassol? This place is built on the ruins of ancient Citium, which was the birthplace of Stoic philosopher Zeno
Larnaca
22 In the Diving Bell and the Butterfly, former Elle magazine editor Jean -Dominique Baby, describes his experience of What medical condition, in which all voluntary muscles are paralyzed except those which control blinking and vertical eye movements?
Locked In Syndrome
24 In 1905 at Basel in Switzerland, the International Zionist Conference delegates voted to reject the British officer of land in which country for a Jewish homeland? The plan had been put forward by Joseph Chamberlain
Uganda
30 Until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871, which Palace on the right bank of the Seine acted as the usual Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon III?
Tuileries Palace
32 What is the term in basketball for a missed shot that clanks off the rim hard? A band with this name recorded the 1976 hit “Dazz”, and this word is also found in the title of a hit song about not needing no education.
Brick
34 Who is the oldest woman to ever receive a Teen Choice Award? This popular actress, who died aged 99, won two Emmy’s in the 1970s for her work on the Mary Tyler Moore Show
Betty White
42 How was the character Robert McCall better known in a TV detective drama which ran from 1985 to 1989? In this show William Zabka played McCall’s son
Scott
The Equalizer
45 Who hosted “Sitting on a Fortune” on ITV in 2021? This man acted as Best Man at
Willie Thorne’s wedding in 1985
Gary Lineker
Two elements named after person living at time
Seaborgium and Oganesson
48 As the tide turned in the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi troops set fire to Kuwaiti oil wells as they retreated. Which US fire fighting expert did the US send in to help resolve the conflagration? This Texan had also helped to put out the Piper Alpha fire a couple of vears before.
Red Adair
50 Which astronomer predicted that carbon dioxide is a major component of the atmosphere of Mars, discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus and a moon of Neptune? Most notably, this man gave his name to a circumstellar disc in the outer solar system extending from the orbit of Neptune
Kuiper Belt
Novella by Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 biting satire of Bolshevism at height of new economic policy and satire on eugenics
Heart of a Dog
1952 experiment simulated conditions thought to be at start of atmosphere of early, prebiotic Earth, used water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen and electric arc.
Miller-Urey Experiment
Painting called The Murder by which artist shows two people r or using demons of someone fuelled by childhood friendship with future novelist Emile Zola
Paul Cezanne
1958 experiment which supported Watson and crick hypothesis that dna replication was semi conservative nu two American geneticist
Meselson-Stahl Experiment
1947 book Dialectic of Enlightenment written by which two Frankfurt School philosophisers
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W Adorno
German Jewish philosopher died in Portbou Spain in 1940: arcades project; theses on the philosophy of history. Killed self as couldn’t get out of Spain
Walter Benjamin
Anne Hyde was which King’s first wife?
James II
James I wife
Anne of Denmark
French physicist said to be discovery of photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of the solar cell in 1839, has famous son
Edmond Becquerel
What are the four canonical fine herbes of French cooking
Parsley - petroselinum crispum
Tarragon - artemisia Dracunculus
Chervil - anthriscus cerefolium
Chives - allium schoenoprasum
Subgenre of indie and alt rock charactered by obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, name comes from starring down to feet during live performances from heavy use of effect pedals.
Shoegaze
Irish English Shoegaze band with Kevin shields main vocalist, colm o ciosoig, bilinda butcher, Debbie googe.
My bloody Valentine
Series of changes in pronunciation of English language that took place primarily between 1400-1700. Coined by Otto Jespersen.
Great vowel shift
Waterway between London and midland stretched 137 miles through Slough, Aylesbury, Northampton.
Grand Union Canal
Average distance over which a moving particle (atom, molecule or photon) travels before substantially changing its direction or energy typically as result of collisions
Mean free path
Organic compound containing a functional group with structure central carbon atom connected by double bond to oxygen, a single bond to hydrogen and another single bond to a third substituent R-CH=O
Aldehyde
Christchurch is antipodesn with which Galician city?
A Coruna
English fashion designer from Shrewsbury dresses Princess Beatrice, Zara tindall, Akshata Murthy, CarrieJohnson.
Claire Mischevani
What are groups of vertebrae north to south
Cervical 7
Thoracic 12
Lumbar 5
Sacrum
Coccyx
Japanese theatre and art form where they wear masks
Noh
Japanese art form involving puppets founded in Osaka in 17th century?
Bunraku
Japanese traditional theatre form with make up as opposed to masks
Kabuki
Term taken its name from an allegory, what is a condition of a computer system particularly distributed computing systems where components may fail and there is imperfect info on whether a component has failed
Byzantine generals problems
In computing which thought experiment meant to illustrate the pitfalls and design challenges of attempting to coordinate an action by communicating over an unreliable link, only able to communicate by sending messenger through enemy lines
Two Generals Problem
Indigenous people in Andes and altiplano regions of South America, living in Argentina, Bolivia chile and Peru. Famous is Evo Morales.
Aymara People
Plant family alternatively known as gourd family has three letters BIT in the word
Cucurbits
A small extrachromosomal dna molecule within a cell that is physically separated from chromosomal dna and can replicate independently, term introduced by molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg
Plasmid
Organism that thrives at relatively high term pets turned between 41 and 122 degrees Celsius
Thermophile
Celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head symbolising intelligence, a bulls body symbol strength and wings an eagle to symbolise freedom.
Lamassu
British businesswoman born 1733 Exeter known for manufacturing neoclassical statues, garden ornaments and architectural decorations made of Lithodipyra or her namesake stone for over 50 years
Eleanor Coade
What was the pseudonym used by American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane whose 1890 book was subtitled Around the World in Seventy-two Days?
Nellie Bly
Welsh cake meaning Mottled Bread
Bara Brith
Which Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito shows a utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to an unconscious co-worker?
The Kiss of Life
English sea captain, shipbuilder and merchant best known for inventing namesake quadrant and serving the shah of Iran, Nader Shah
John Elton
Jackie brown film based on which book by which author
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Biafra was predominated inhabited by which ethnic group?
Igbo
1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier set in Cornwall during reign of Charles II between love affair of French pirate and English lady
Frenchman’s Creek
Type of delivery by an off spin bowler in cricket, spins opposite direction to an off break, means second one or other one in Urdu
Doosra
Type of cricket delivery bowled by right arm leg spin bowler which turns it the other way, colloquially known as a Bosie after Bernard Bosanquet
Googly
Name of cricket delivery meaning third one in Urdu made by Saqlain Mushtaq and jalebi also used as it’s a sweet in Indian subcontinent. It’s supposed to deceive batter by looking like it’s going to spin loads but it doesn’t turn at all.
Teesra
Who played Candyman in Nia DaCosta’s 2021 version?
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
American supernatural horror slasher film series based on short story The Forbidden from collection Books of Blood by Clive Barker
Candyman
Teacher in Ancient Greece in fifth and fourth centuries BC specialised in one or more subject areas and taught arete, virtue or excellence.
Sophist
Name of founder of Harry’s Bar in Venice opened in 1931, said to be inventor of both Bellini cocktail and raw beef dish carpaccio.
Giuseppe Cipriani
Acronym for SCOBY used in fermentation and production of kombucha.
Symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast
Alliterative alternative name for the resource curse in economics about failure of many resource rich countries to fully benefit from their natural resource wealth and for gov’s in these countries to respond effectively to public welfare needs.
Paradox of Plenty
Apparent paradox named after American economist in rent-seeking that rent seekers wanting political favours can bribe politicians at a cost much lower than the value of the favour to the rent seeker.
Tullock Paradox
Benazhir Bhutto party alliterative
Pakistan People’s Party
Hungarian origin word for member of class of light cavalry originating in Central Europe during 15th and 16th centuries
Hussar
The word coach has etymology in Hungarian town whcih one?
Kocs
First commercial home video game console designed by small team led by Ralph Baer and completed in 1972
Magnavox Odyssey
Who plays Jessica Jones in tv show
Krysten Ritter
Who plays Luke cage in marvel tv show
Mike Colter
What 3-word phrase is an expression that can be used to describe
Western musical groups who achieve success in a certain Asian country but not necessarily in other parts of the world? The expression is commonly used ironically to mean successful in a limited, potentially comical, oddly specific, or possibly unverifiable way.
Big in Japan
Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders at Rorke’s Drift, but this is not actually the highest number awarded to fighters at a single battle. That record goes to British soldiers at a Crimean War battle of the 5th November 1854. What was that battle?
Inkerman
12 Taught to him by his Aunt Lucy, when Paddington Bear gets annoyed by someone he often gives them one of his
What two
words fill the blanks?
Hard stares
17
Which Brazilian architect is best remembered for his design of the civic buildings of Brasilia and his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York?
Oscar Niemeyer
18 Sounding almost South American, what is the name of the region of Cameroon, bordering Nigeria, who are seeking independence? This has been referred to as the Anglophone crisis, as the separatists believe that the Cameroon government favour French speakers. The answers begins with “A”
Ambazonia
19 What was the name of the small highly-maneuverable sailing ships developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean? It was in such ships that Christopher Columbus set out on his expedition in 1492
Caravel
20 On what weekly podcast show hosted by Dax Shepherd and Monica
Padman did Prince Harry attribute his mental health issues to the ineffective parenting style of previous generations? Two word answer
Armchair Expert
21 Not published until 35 years after the artist’s death, what is the common name of the series of 82 prints created by Francisco Goya between 1810 and 1820? They depict scenes understood to be intended as a protest against the violence exacted by Napoleonic forces against the Spanish people.
The Disasters of War
22 Which Hapsburg ruler was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Bologna in
1530? His personal union of the European and American territories was the first collection of realms labelled “the empire on which the sun never sets” Name and regnal number please
Charles V
27 In which country of the World would you find Hibernians FC? They were originally called Constitutionals FC, named after a Pro- British Constitutional Party in the country. In 1930, after some political upheaval, Catholics were told not to vote for the party. The football club changed its name a year later to Hibernians.
Malta
32 Fitzroy Somerset, st Lord Raglan, became commander of the British troops sent to the Crimea in 1854. Earlier in his life he had been a junor officer in which war of 1807 to 1814? This war started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807
The Peninsular War
33 Thailand’s Phi Phi islands are home to the “Viking Cave” where edible versions of what thing are harvested? These things are made of edible saliva and have been part of Chinese culture for hundreds of years
Birds nest
In Science the mnemonic NICER DRUMS can be used to remember what?
Organ systems of human body
37 Vinfast are a Vietnamese company who are doing rather well at the moment. They’ve just been valued at $86b and their owner is now the fifth richest man in Asia. What is made by vinfast?
Cars
40 Which city of 60,000 people in the Tigray region of Ethiopia was once the centre of an empire which ruled over a significant region from 400 BC until the 10th century? Its treasures are a World Heritage site and until the recent civil war it was a tourist destination
Axum
41 The Indispensable Strait is a major navigation route through which Pacific islands nation?
Solomon Islands
42 In the 1970s the conductor and composer Herbert Chappell wrote “size Ten Shuffle” for the BBC’s adaptation of Lord Peter Wimsey. The music was reused in 1976 for the theme tune to which stop-motion animation children’s show? In this show, the main character himself is a puppet in a three-dimensional environment, whilst other characters are paper cutouts
Paddington Bear
What is the name of the TikTok group that consists of a father and his two sons, known for creating dance routines in new-build estates?
The Famileigh
Which mediaeval land tax was a major cause of grievance that contributed to the outbreak of the English Civil War?
King Charles I’s attempts to raise this tax from 1634 onwards was a source of discontent for many in England’s coastal regions.
Ship Money
Currently found at number 86 on the IMDB list of the top 250 movies of all time, the 2018 film Capernaum follows Zain El Hajj, a 12 year old living in the slum of which Middle Eastern city? It is the highest grossing Arabic film of all time.
Beirut
Which Japanese word means leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up with other unread books?
Tsundoku
A terra nullius is a region of land unclaimed by any sovereign nation. Which territory on Africa, on the border of Egypt and Sudan, is almost certainly the only area on Earth that is habitable, but claimed by no recognised government?
Bir Tawil
Who won 2023 The Open in golf?
Brian Harman
Which American won the US Open 2023 golf?
Wyndham Clark
Who won Tour de France 2023
Jonas Vingegard
Allie Brosh was the writer and artist for what webcomic and blog, which started in 2009 but has been inactive since 2021? The comic covered a wide range of material, including Brosh’s mental health, pet peeves, and stories from her childhood.
Hyperbole and a Half
While undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge, David Braben and Ian Bell developed which classic space trading game that was first published in 1984 for the BBC Micro?
Elite
(Franchise name required.) Which Major League Baseball team were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series and of accepting payoffs from gangster Arnold Rothstein? ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson was among the eight men permanently banned from baseball for their part in the plot.
Chicago White Sox
Running since February 2003, Ryan North is the writer for what ‘constrained’ webcomic, which uses the same six panels in every single strip and only changes the dialogue? The strip includes three characters and, in the third panel, shows one of them stepping on a house and a car.
Dinosaur Comics
When teenager Matthew Smith was given a ZX Spectrum in 1983, he went on to create which successful video game in just eight weeks? Its title character travels through a series of treacherous caverns, attempting to collect all the flashing keys before he runs out of oxygen.
Manic Miner
Matthew Smith followed the success of Manic Miner with which 1984 sequel? In this game, the main character tries to clean up his exotic and hazardous mansion after a party before he goes to bed.
Jet Set Willy
In October 2000, which former South African captain was banned from cricket for life for his role in fixing matches? He was killed in a private plane accident two years later.
Hansie Cronje
Created and written by Russell T. Davies, which 2021 Channel 4 drama was set in 1980s London in the midst of the HIV/AIDS crisis? The cast for this show, named after a Pet Shop Boys hit, included Lydia West, Neil Patrick Harris and Olly Alexander.
It’s a Sin
The winner of multiple awards, Kate Beaton was the author and artist for what webcomic, which spoofed famous characters from history and literature? Among the many memes to come from this strip is one of Edgar Allan Poe reading a letter, then holding it closer and squinting at it.
Hark! A Vagrant
Notable for the stick limbs and oversized, normally bald, heads of its characters, which webcomic was started in 2005 by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson and Dave McElfatrick? The comic’s humour is often extremely dark, surreal and violent; however, once a year, the strip drops all humour for what they call Depressing Comic Week.
Cyanide and Happiness
Stalin was said to be a huge fan of 1932’s Tarzan the Ape Man. This was the first film in which Johnny Weissmuller played Tarzan and which Irish actress played Jane?
Maureen O’Sullivan
Which German born American theoretical physicist won Nobel prize in physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus? During WW2 she worked for the Manhattan project on isotope separation and at Los Alamos Nat Lab on thermonuclear weapons
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Which American serial killer, who murdered at least 33 men from circa 1972-1978, requested 12 fried shrimp; a KFC bucket; fries; and a pound of strawberries for his last meal? He became known as the Killer Clown due to his performances as a clown prior to his discovery.
John Wayne Gacy
Which Japanese word refers to the dappled light, created by space between the canopy and branches of trees, that allows sunlight to gently filter through?
Komorebi
Grace Darling rescued the Forfarshire on which set of islands, located off the coast of Northumberland?
Farne Islands
Currently found at number 109 on the IMDB list of the top 250 movies of all time, the 2010 Canadian drama film Incendies concerns Canadian twins who travel to Lebanon to uncover their mother’s hidden past amidst the Lebanese Civil War. It was directed by which highly successful Canadian director?
Denis Villeneuve
What is the planned capital city to replace Juba as capital of South Sudan?
Ramciel
Which decommissioned, coal-powered power station on London’s South Bank also used Nori bricks in its construction?
Battersea Power Station
Which American serial killer and sex worker, who murdered even of her clients, requested a cup of black coffee for her last meal? She was portrayed by Charlize Theron in the 2003 film Monster.
Aileen Wuornos
Inspiring the 1951 musical The King and I, Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 semi-fictionalised biographical novel by which American writer?
Margaret Landon
What is the name of the musical family group, located in Faversham, that consists of parents and their four children producing satirical musical parodies on YouTube?
The Marsh Family
Which area of Antarctica - named for the wife of the American naval officer who explored the region in the early 20th century - is the largest area of terra nullius on Earth?
Marie Byrd Land
Twinned with Le Havre, which southern English port city is depicted in the LS Lowry work The Floating Bridge?
Southampton
Which land tax, last enforced in 1162, was raised to pay tribute or protection money to Viking raiders to save a land being ravaged? Prominent from the ninth to the eleventh century, it was used both to buy off attackers, and pay defensive mercenaries.
Danegeld
In which 1928 silent film does Buster Keaton, playing a paddle steamer captain’s long lost son, conceal tools in a comically oversized loaf of bread to help his father escape from prison?
Steamboat Bill Jr
What is the longest vein in the human body?
Great Saphenous Vein
Which Chinese military strategist and writer served as chancellor and later regent of Shu Han state during the Three Kingdoms period? His name is synonymous with wisdom and strategy in Chinese culture.
Zhuge Liang
Which ship first launched in April 1953, is now a major tourist attraction berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland?
Royal Yacht Britannia
In 1929 Max Planck was awarded what medal, the most prestigious award conferred by the Royal Society? In 1976, Dorothy Hodgkin became the first female recipient
Copley Medal
What is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago? Covering an area of 14,546q miles, it is the largest island in Norway and the 36th largest in the world. The name of this island means
“Pointed Mountains” in Dutch
Spitsbergen
6
In Greek legend, what pair of lovers lived on opposite sides of the Hellespont?
He would swim every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her. She lights a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.
Hero and Leander
8
Which creature of Greek mythology beginning with the letter “H”, has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish?
Hippocamp
12 Which 1797 battle, the most significant action between British and Dutch forces during the French Revolutionary Wars, resulted in a complete victory for the British, who captured eleven Dutch ships without losing any of their own?
The largest park in Dundee is named after this victory
Battle of Camperdown
14 What 4-words were contained in the first electric telegram sent by Samuel
Morse from Washington to Baltimore in 1844? It was a phrase from the Bible Book of Numbers
What hath god wrougut
16 What is the name of the archipelago in French Polynesia that consists of the two island groups, the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands? Tahiti and Bora Bora are major islands of this group
Society Islands
17 Meaning rim city or border city, what name is given to the conurbation of Central-West Netherlands containing Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Den Haag? This arc-shaped area contains around half of the total population of the country
Randstad
20 Which other sovereign country is named after a province in the Netherlands?
New Zealand
22 What name is usually given to the 1846 party of American settlers who became stranded in the snow-covered Sierra Nevada in California and resorted to cannibalism to survive? Historians have described the episode as one of the most fascinating tragedies in California history and in the entire record of American westward migration
The Donner Party
24 The River Meuse separates which provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands which share the same name? Seven letter answer
Limburg
25 The Dahlak Archipelago belongs to which country? The pearl fisheries of the archipelago have been famous since Roman times and still produce a substantial number of pearls
Eritrea
26 The first photograph of a black hole was taken by the E.H.T. What does EHT stand for in this context?
Event Horizon Telescope
28 The pipit found on what archipelago is the only songbird of Antarctica? This place was involved in Operation Paraquet in the 1980s
South Georgia
30 In which country did the 1840s Matale rebellion against British rule take place?
This followed the loss of land by the peasants to foreign-owned coffee plantations
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
