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Which construction did IK Brunel call “my first child, my darling”?

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Clifton suspension bridge

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What ended on Black Tot Day in 1970?

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Navy daily rum ration

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What links: Night of the Hunter; One-Eyed Jacks; Harlem Nights; Whip It?

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Only film directed by various actors: Charles Laughton; Marlon Brando; Eddie Murphy; Drew Barrymore.

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Which three current national capitals have hosted the Winter Olympics?

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Oslo, Sarajevo, Beijing

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Eliza Davis (partner of Henry Irving) protested to Dickens that which character was a negative stereotype?

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Fagin

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In US medicine, DSM-5 is the list of what?

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Mental Disorders

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The Grand Banks lie off which Atlantic island?

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Newfoundland

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What links: Arcesius; Laertes; Odysseus; Telemachus?

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Family line of Greek hero Odysseus: grandfather; father; himself; son.

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What links: Rod Steiger; Robert De Niro; Tom Hardy; Stephen Graham?

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Played Al Capone on screen: Al Capone; The Untouchables; Capone; Boardwalk Empire

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What links Bual; malmsey; sercial; verdelho?

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Grapes or types of Madeira wine

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Mecca (4th); Shanghai (3rd) Kuala Lumpur (2nd); Dubai (1st)?

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Locations of world’s tallest skyscrapers: Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower; Shanghai Tower; Merdeka 118; Burj Khalifa.

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Which TV hoax featured the malevolent spirit Pipes?

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Ghostwatch

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The Yorkshire soothsayer Ursula Sontheil is better known by what name?

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Mother Shipton

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Egyptian professional squash player. She is a seven time World champion and became the youngest woman to win the Women’s World Championship (2015)

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Nour El Sherbini

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What links Daniel O’Connell; Simon Bolivar; Alexander II of Russia; Pedro I of Brazil?

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All nicknames The Liberator

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What links: A Girl in Winter; The Bell Jar; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge?

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Novels by poets: Philip Larkin; Sylvia Plath; Rainer Maria Rilke.

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What does the educational acronym inset stand for?

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In-service Training

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Who wrote the original self-help book, published in 1859?

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Samuel Smiles

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What links: George III’s dukedom; Victoria’s father and fourth daughter; Scotland; João Lavrador?

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Gave names to Canadian provinces: New Brunswick; Prince Edward Island and Alberta; Nova Scotia; (Newfoundland and) Labrador.

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What links: Abba; ‘NSync; TLC; the White Stripes?

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Names based on members names

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What links: Renée Zellweger; Albert Finney; Harrison Ford; James Corden?

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Played a Jones on film Played a Jones on film: Bridget; Tom; Indiana; Bustopher

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Which African empire was founded by Osei Tutu?

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Ashanti

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Which house was served by Wolferton railway station?

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Sandringham

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Who appeared heavily pregnant on Top of the Pops in 1988?

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Neneh Cherry

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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)

32 Which pacific archipelago belonging to New Zealand share their name with a Kent town? In 1835 Maori from the North Island of New Zealand invaded the islands and nearly exterminated the Moriori, enslaving the survivors?

Chatham Islands

35 In 1843 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland. This event has came to be associated with what ten letter word meaning a radical change to an existing market or industry?

The Disruption

37 In Greek mythology Chrysomallos was a winged version of what common animal?

Sheep/Ram

38 In Greek Mythology, who killed Paris? He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War.

Philoctetes

41 The Kuril Island chain runs from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Pacific ocean from what sea beginning with the letter "O"?

Sea of Okhotsk

42 Which ancient Greek astronomer is credited with having compiled the first known star catalogue? He is considered the greatest ancient astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity

Hipparchus

44 The Greek hero Heracles was killed by the Tunic of BLANK. What word, the name of a famous Centaur, fills the blank?

Nessus

45 Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Robinson Cruse, was born and raised in which county of Scotland? The so-called "East Neuk" of this couty contains the small picturesque towns of Anstruther, Pittenweem and Crail

Fife

47 What word is used in astrophysics to denote the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting object, most commonly a star? Measured in joules per second, or watts, the Stefan-Boltzmann equation is used to calculate this value for a black body.

Luminosity

48 The Chonos Archipelago is a series of low, mountainous, elongated islands with deep bays lying off the coast of what country? Robert Fitzroy helped map these islands

Chile

The subject of an HBO original documentary, who was the first Black model to appear on the cover of both Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue?

Donyale Luna

Which PUD was a Trinidadian-born British filmmaker, photographer, painter and writer. He was the first black British filmmaker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure, in 1976?

Sir Horace OVE

Who was the first person to renounce a hereditary peerage?

Tony Benn

Which country introduced a solidarity tax in 1991?

Germany

What does the Dutch sport of fierljeppen involve?

Pole vaulting over canals

Which group lived at No Fixed Abode, Cricklewood?

The Goodies

Which island is separated from the UK mainland by the Minch?

Lewis and Harris

In 1973, which film won eight Oscars, but not Best Picture?

Cabaret

What links: HMS Devastation; three-masted ship; kitchen utensils; white swan?

Images on matchboxes: England’s Glory; Ship; Cook’s; Swan Vestas.

Instrumental number one single uk “eye level” by which band?

Simon Park Orchestra

What links: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Story titles based on character’s dying words: Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) – first two; Agatha Christie.

What links: George Harrison’s and Sadiq Khan’s fathers; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mother?

Bus drivers

The King’s Guide to the Sands assists with crossing what?

Morecambe Bay

Where do the presidential guard wear a fustanella?

Greece (kilt like garment)

What links: Peggy Guggenheim; Igor Stravinsky; Sergei Diaghilev; Ezra Pound?

Non Italians buried in Venice

What links: Wales (60th); Northern Ireland (76th); England (113th); Scotland (334th)?

Days into year of the patron Saint day

Who wrote revolutionary road

Richard Yates

What links: Henri IV of France; James II & VII; John Newman; Evelyn Waugh; Graham Greene?

All converted to Catholicism

Ethiopian women’s marathon r World record. BreKrr in September 2023 in Berlin

Tigist Assefa

What are the elements of the triangle of combustion?

Fuel, heat and oxygen

What links Victoria Woodhull, 1872; Belva Lockwood, 1884 and 1888; Margaret Chase Smith, 1964?

First women to run for presidency of USA

What links Met Sultan al-Kamil; tamed a wolf; preached to birds; received stigmata on La Verna?

Incidents from life of St Francis of Assisi

What links Mr Jaggers and Sydney Carton; Jonathan Harker; Atticus Finch; Mark Darcy?

Fictional lawyers

Which saint’s head is on display in Siena?

St Catherine of Siena

Which fast food company sponsored egg experiments in space?

Kfc

Which Jacobite heroine hosted Boswell and Johnson on Skye?

Flora MacDonald

What is the largest lake wholly within Switzerland?

Lake Neuchatel

What links Because the Night; Blinded by the Light; Fire; Pink Cadillac?

Bruce Springsteen songs recorded by other artists: Patti Smith; Manfred Mann’s Earth Band; Pointer Sisters; Natalie Cole.

What links Brief Encounter; The Seven Year Itch; Shine?

Films prominently featuring Rachmaninov piano concertos

Who wrote Mog the forgetful cat

Judith Kerr

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft has grabbed soil samples from which “most dangerous rock in the Solar System”?

Bennu

Which Arsenal defender became the first England women's footballer to address the United Nations in September 2023?

Leah Williamson

Which Indian born American executive became President of the World Bank Group in June 2023?

Ajay Banga

Author who won 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Tinkers and shortlisted for 2023 Booker Prize for This Other Eden.

Paul Harding

What paradox name comes from Greek for heap?

Sorites (sand on a heap)

Which paradox states that it is possible to decompose a solid sphere into a finite number of pieces and reassemble them into two solid spheres of the same size and volume as the original one?

Banach-Tarski Paradox

Who directed Waiting for Godot during the siege of Sarajevo?

Susan Sontag

Whose railway timetables were first published in 1839?

George Bradshaw

Which of the UN’s principal organs is not based in New York?

International Court of Justice

In Greek myth, who partnered annually with the Gargareans?

Amazons

Which English cathedral has a 16th-century cat door?

Exeter

Sobrino de Botín in Madrid claims to be the world’s oldest what?

Restaurant

What links Sheryl Crow; Bryan Ferry; Mark Knopfler; Brian May; Sting?

Musicians who were once teachers

What links: Barbary; Capilet; Curtal; Dobbin; Galathe; Surrey?

Named horses in Shakespeare plays

2023 team europe won third consecutive solheim cup under captaincy of which norgergian female golfer?

Suzann Pettersen

Who is the only person to have presented both Blue Peter and Radio 4's PM programme?

Valerie Singleton

Who or what is Fats, the foul-mouthed character voiced by Anthony Hopkins in the psychological horror drama film Magic directed by Richard Attenborough and also starring Ann-Margret?

Ventriloquist Dummy

Which type of Sandpiper has, according to the New Scientist, 3 different types of male to only one female and is named after a physical characteristic which it shares with an item of clothing worn by bishops in the Church of Denmark and Anglican choir boys?

Ruff

Which expression connects the CB radio call sign of the leading driver in CW McCall's Convoy, a fake rifle used in military training in the US, a nickname for the One Bamboo tiles in Mahjong, or a slang name for a wheeled excavator?

Rubber Duck

12 Jeff Goldblum's character in The Fly who, ironically, suffers from severe motion sickness, takes his surname from which former Formula 1 driver, now best known for his grid walks on Sky's Formula 1 coverage?

Martin Brundle

34 What name is given to a condition marked by heightened aggression and unpredictable behaviour in animals such as elephants or camels, usually occurring annually in association with a surge in testosterone level?

Must

Which German brand associated with products such as tanning oils, shaving creams, shampoo, facial cleanser, and toners, was introduced in 1911? The brand came into controversy in 1991 when it published a world map which omitted Israel

Nivea

Which fruity singer gave us "Container", the theme tune to the drama "The Affair"?

Fiona Apple

12 In the Bible, "Lapidation" is an alternative name for what? It is mentioned numerous times in the Torah but never in the canonical text of the Quran

Stoning death

13 Much of the growth of Venice was a result of the city's willingness to facilitate slave trade in the second half of the eighth century. Used during those days, 'schiavo' was a word from a Venetian dialect which was used by a person to indicate that he was a slave. It literally meant 'I am your slave.' Into what has this custom/ word morphed into?

Ciao

16 The Scottish enlightenment figure William Cullen is remembered for inventing the basis for which modern household appliance? In one of his famous demonstrations he used a pump to create a partial vacuum over a container of diethyl ether

Refrigerator

19 The man who murdered South Africa's former first lady is set to be released on parole at the end of August 2023. What was the first name of this lady, the wife of FW De Klerk?

Marike

22 Sugarloaf mountain, Rio, featured in which James Bond movie of 1979? They are seen in the famous scene Bond fights Jaws on a cable car

Moonraker

3 Zhou Guanyu became the first Chinese Fi driver in 2022. What team did he race for?

Alfa Romeo

26 Which American stand-up comedian and actress won awards as long ago as 1999 for her work as a writer on the Chris Rock show? In films she is know for her roles in Monster-in-law and Bad Moms. She co-hosted the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony alongside Regina Hall and Amy Schumer

Wanda Sykes

27 Stromness in Orkney was a recruitment hotspot for which trading company who specialised in furs? This business, founded in 1670, became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, and now owns and operates retail stores across the country

Hudson Bay Company

29 Warsaw rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when which King decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Krakow? A religious zealot, he imposed Roman Catholicism across the vast realm, and his crusades against neighbouring states marked Poland's largest territorial expansion. Regal number not required

Sigismund III Vasa

31 What is the shared first name of Brendan o'Carroll's character "Mrs Brown", the founder of the Girl Guides and Mrs Mckenzie, Kim Woodburn's partner on "How clean is your house?"

Agnes

37 Rabati Castle (also known as Akhaltsikhe Castle) has been captured over the centuries by armies led by the Mongols, the Ottomans, and the Russians. It is one of the main attractions of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region along with Vardzia. In which country will you find Rabati Castle?

Georgia

38 The 2019 sports-comedy drama "Fighting with my family" looked at the career of which female wrestler?

Paige (Saraya-Jade Bevis)

39 Which Greek God lent his name to a stock market bubble in which the price of Australian mining shares soared in late 1969, then crashed in early 1970? It was triggered by the discovery of the early indications of a promising nickel deposit in September 1969.

Poseidon Bubble

42 It may have been the period of "Back to Basics" for John Major but the sleaze allegations kept rolling in. Which Secretary of State for Heritage resigned following revelations about his affair with actress Antonia de Sancha? Supposedly he conducted extra-marital relations in a Chelsea shirt

David Mellor

43 Which scientific term can be described as the development of a new individual from a single, unfertilised reproductive cell, often an egg?

Parthenogenesis

44 Which man said good night to Jim Bob and Mary Ellen when he won the 2001 BDO Darts Championship?

John Boy Walton

45 The Opisthenar Area can be found in which part of the human body?

Back of the hand

47 It is believed that the Saudi Crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman has been invited to the UK. The trip, not yet confirmed, would be his first since the murder of which Saudi Arabian journalist in Istanbul in 2018?

Jamal Kashoggi

49 Paul Hardcastle's huge number one hit "19" was inspired by the electro music of which American DJ, real name Lance Taylor, a pioneer of hip hop and breakbeat DJ-ing?

Afrika Bambaataa

The Altair Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (1975) was the first product sold by which computer technology company?

Microsoft

10 At the 1964 Olympics, Ann Packer set a world record of 2 minutes 1.1 seconds in which running distance?

800m

12 Belene Island, the largest island in Bulgaria, lies on which river?

Danube

16 Which Indoor fitness program was created by the South African cyclist Johnny G?

Spinning

19 Which member of The Beatles released the 2018 solo album Egypt Station?

Paul McCartney

26 The athletes Yuriy Sedykh and Anita Wlodarczyk are famous names in which throwing event?

Hammer

28 Which celebrity model sat for the artist George Romney more than 100 times between 1782 and 1786?

Emma Hamilton

29 In which European country would you find the Sint-Annarei Canal?

Belgium

30 Which Alf Prosen character is known as the "teaspoon lady" in the original Norwegian titles of the children's books?

Mrs Pepperpot

39 Which British prime minister's government ended the Royal Navy's practice of issuing a daily tot of rum to sailors?

Harold Wilson

40 Which British author wrote the 2023 novel Shot with Crimson, the latest book featuring crime writer Josephine Tey and Detective Inspector Archie Penrose?

Nicola Upson

41 Which Brassica vegetable is used to make a Saxe-Coburg soup?

Brussels Sprouts

42 What are the characters Grug, Eep, Ugga, and Thunk collectively known as in the title of a 2013 film?

The Croogs

43 What surname links the sculptor of Woman and Fish and London Pride, a unit for measuring ozone concentration, and a former Labour Health Secretary?

Dobson

44 The Story Bridge, connecting Kangaroo Point to Fortitude Valley, is in which Australian city?

Brisbane

45 Which traditional folk dance, originally performed by Zaporizhian Cossacks, derives its name from the Ukrainian word for "leap"?

Hopak

48 Which Jazz composer had a 1956 hit single with Experiments with Mice?

Johnny Dankworth

What does PaT testing stand for?

Portable appliance testing

50 In the classic version of Guess Who?, how many characters are there on each game board?

24

By what first name was Arthur Conan Doyle's eldest son usually known by? His death sparked the famous novelist's interest in spiritualism. This was also the first name of the man who wrote "Lucky Jim" and "The Old Devils"

Kingsley

12 A study by which American website found that films which pass the Bechdel Test tend to have a higher return on investment? Nate Silver created this opinion poll analysis site which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college

Five Thirty Eight (538)

15 Which British colonial official wrote The History of Java in 1817, describing the history of the island from ancient times? He had been heavily involved in the capture of the island from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars.

Stamford Raffles

18 What two-word name is a character archetype in fiction, usually a young woman, who is often portrayed as inexplicably competent across all domains, gifted with unique talents or powers, and generally lacking character flaws?

Mary Sue

20 The vacuum magnetic permeability, also known as the magnetic constant, is the magnetic permeability in a classical vacuum. How is this physical constant conventionally written?

Mu Nought

22 The largest megalithic stone circle in the world can be found at what site in Wiltshire, England?

Avebury

23 In 1883 a fire at the uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killed 71 people. A performer at the venue called Charles Edward Stratton managed to escape unharmed. Under what name is Charles Edward Stratton better known?

General Tom Thumb

24 Born in 1869, which French artist's most famous works include "Woman with a hat", "The Joy of Life" and "L'Atelier Rouge"?

Henri Matisse

25 Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, the Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures is what country's largest indigenous cultural gathering?

Australia

26 Which magazine did the publisher Henry Luce buy ownership of in 1936? He greatly re-made the publication which became the first all-photographic American news magazine, and it dominated the market for several decades, with a circulation of more than 13.5 million copies a week

Time

28 What was the alliterative name of the dining club set up by Sir Richard Burton in 1863? It's official symbol was a mace carved to look like an African head gnawing on a human thighbone

The Cannibal Club

35 In 1965 who became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds? He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the Moon although the project was cancelled.

Alexei Leonov

37 Gaetano Bresci, born in 1869, was an Italian anarchist who assassinated which King of Italy in 1900? Name and regal number please of this King who had taken part in the Italian Wars of Independence as a commander of the Royal Sardinian Army

Umberto I

38 Becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, the Brooklyn Bridge spans what river?

East

41 The first rugby sevens tournament in the world was played at what Scottish rugby club in 1883? Craig Chalmers and Doddie Weir were notable former players for this Borders team

Melrose

42 The Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin was born in 1869 and lived until 1916. On the night of his assassination the conspirators intiailly tried to kill him with tea and cakes which had been laced with which poision?

Cyanide

43 Born in 1869 the architect Edwin Lutyens did many works in Ireland before his more famous stint in India. One of his works was to build a home for which man, the chairman of the White Star Line at the time of the Titanic disaster?

J Bruce Ismay

45 When Deborah Meaden appeared on Desert Island discs her book selection was "A History of the World in 100 Objects " by which man?

Neil MacGregor

49 Akin to the Bechdel Test, the Josephs Test is a set of criteria looking at the representation or misrepresentation of which demographic in movies? The origin of this test is from when the B'nai Brith group objected to a Canadian drama episode

Orthodox Jews

50 Born in 1869, Neville Chamberlain served as Chancellor and in other roles before becoming PM. As Chancellor he supported a policy where the import tax on goods from the colonies was less than other countries. What was the two-word name given to this policy, originally put forward by Neville's father Joseph Chamberlain in the early 19005?

Imperial Preference

52 Located 12 miles south of Dublin, the coastal town of Bray is in which Irish county?

Wicklow

19 If you're one of the people responsible for programming targets into Russian or Chinese strategic nuclear missiles, you are doubtlessly familiar with this port city in the Tidewater region of the US state of Virginia. It is the largest naval base in the world and four of America's nine aircraft carriers are based out of here. The nearby town of Newport News is also home to one of America's most important naval shipyards, where half of all US submarines are built. This city is named for a ceremonial county in the East Anglia region of England.

Norfolk

24 The largest city in Siberia is which metropolis of 1.6 million people located on the ob River? Its name refers to the fact that it was only founded in 1893.

Novosibirsk

29 Toyota is headquartered in the suburbs of which Japanese city, the fourth most populous city in Japan? It is the largest city of the Chübu region and is the capital of Aichi Prefecture. It's one of the stops on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Kyoto.

Nagoya

32 The nunchaku - or "nunchucks" in English - is a weapon that is traditionally used in martial arts on the Japanese island of Okinawa. If you would like to be trained in Okinawan kobudo and learn to use nunchucks, a good first step might be to board a flight to which city, the capital of Okinawa?

Naha

33 The Maison carree (pictured) is an incredibly well-preserved Roman temple located in which city of 148,000 in southern France? Remarkably, this city also has an exceptionally well preserved Roman arena that is still used today. This has earned this city the nickname of "the Rome of France. If the Maison carree reminds you of Washington DC, that is because future US President Thomas Jefferson visited this city in 1785 and was inspired by its classical architecture.

Nimes

34 This city in northern Serbia is the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina and the second most populous city in Serbia. It is located across the river from the famous Petrovaradin fortress, which for many years kept this part of Europe safe from Turkish attack.

Novi Sad

35 This port city in northern Norway - located on the Ofotfjord - has the good fortune to be close to the iron ore mines of northern Sweden AND be ice-free all year round. As a result, Great Britain and Nazi Germany fought multiple battles for control of this city in the early stages of World War II. The British captured this city in 1940 but decided to withdraw shortly thereafter - allowing Germany to ship Swedish iron ore to Germany during the winter.

Narvik

36 This French city in Occitania, located just north of the border with Spain, was an important port on the Mediterranean Sea in Roman times. Today, due to the buildup of silt over time, it is several kilometers inland. However, visitors to this historic city can still visit old Roman warehouses that once stored goods awaiting Roman cargo ships.

Narbonne

37 With a population of 53,000, this historic fortress town is the third-largest city in Estonia. It is located on Estonia's border with Russia and nearly 90% of this city's population is made up of ethnic Russians. This causes all sorts of political headaches for the Estonian government.

Narva

38 Over the last decade, the Crested Gecko (pictured) has become one of the most popular pet lizards in the world, due largely to how easy it is to care for. If you would like to visit Crested Geckos in their native habitat, you will need to go to the French island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. And the easiest way to get there is to fly into which city, the capital of New Caledonia?

Noumea

39 This city of 94,000 in Azerbaijan is the capital of a namesake autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan that is bordered by Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. Heydar Aliyev, the legendary 20th century leader of Azerbaijan, was from here.

Nakhchivan

Nicknames of the presenters of Amazon’s The Grand Tour?

Captain Slow, Jezza and The Hamster

The Henry Classification System developed in the 19th Century for analysing fingerprints identifies three basic fingerprint patterns: which?

Loops, whorls and arches

According to Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable, which term for a hairpiece in Cockney Rhyming Slang is probably in more common use than the laxative from which it is derived?

Syrup (of figs)

6 Whereas most female deer are known as "does", what is the name for a female red deer?

Hind

Named after a 15th Century Portuguese explorer and forming the largest part by land area of Canada's easternmost province where most of the population live on the island of Newfoundland, what is the name of the territory which borders Quebec and is home to roughly one person for every 5 square miles?

Labrador

Which 4 letter word is sometimes used as a nickname for the Atlantic Ocean, is a brand of face cream invented in New York in 1846 and is also the nickname of the stadium of the Anaheim Ducks ice hockey team founded as The Mighty Ducks by Disney?

Pond

9 Tommy Dewar of whisky fame holds the record for the longest stay at the Savoy Hotel (26 years) and was an MP for East London, he is also known for his aphorisms and in saying that "minds are like (something), they only function when they are open", he compared the mind to which Item?

Parachutes

12 What kind of animal was Timothy who at about 10 years old was the ship's mascot of HMS Queen during the bombardment of Sebastopol in the Crimean War in 1854 and then retired to Powderham Castle in Devon in 1892? After being discovered to be female, she died in 2004, making her the UK's oldest known resident.

Tortoise

13 Looking forward to the Rugby World Cup in France, what would be added to a Croque Monsieur to make a Croque Provençal?

Tomato

16 Elton John as a session musician played the piano on which Hollies song first recorded in 1969 when it got to number 3, and later went to number 1 in 1988 after featuring in an advert for Miller Lite?

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

18 Which FA Cup medal winner with Everton, who spent three months in jail for an on field head butt, has scored more goals in the Premier League than any other Scot, but also shares the record for red cards alongside Patrick Vieira and Richard Dunne?

Duncan Ferguson

19 What do Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Lord Peter Wimsey, William Hartnell's Dr Who and Squealer in Animal Farm have in common?

All wore monocles

22 Which two word expression connects Kim Philby, a fielding position in cricket, Peter Mandelson, Orson Wells, or an ice hockey player who joins a fight already in progress?

Third Man

24 Which classic rock song was inspired by Eric Clapton's infatuation with Patti Boyd in the late 1960s, while she was still married to George Harrison?

Layla

28 Which word, which might also mean inappropriately friendly, was used for a spirit, often taking the form of an animal, which was believed to obey and assist a witch?

Familiar

Greek lemon juice and egg yolk soup. Broth heated until they thicken start with A

Avgolemono

"Elouise" was the last top ten hit to date for which British punk band fronted by Dave Vanian? Their earlier hits included "Grimly Fiendish".

The Damned

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, which actor was Billy Crash in Django Unchained and Chris Mannix in the Hateful Eight? On TV he's appeared in the Danny McBride comedies "Vice Principals" and "The Righteous Gemstones"

Walton Goggins

New superman in 2025 new film played by who vS new Lois lane by Rachel brosnahan

David Corenswet

7 "Please Louise, pull me up off my knees" and "Ooh wee, Marie, Shake it, shake it for me" are lyrics from which song which led to Kenny Loggins receiving an Academy Award nomination in 1985?

Footloose

When the comedian Robert Webb was on Desert Island Discs his book selection was called "Cultural Amnesia". Who wrote the book "cultural Amnesia'? In the 1990s this man launched the career of Margarita Prakatan

Clive James

What was the maiden name of Louise Redknapp, the former member of the girl group "Eternal", who went on to have a string of solo top ten hits including "Naked"?

Nurding

12 The song "Living in America", made famous by James Brown was actually co-written by which other man? This former member of the Edgar Winter Group had solo hits with the songs "instant Replay" and "Relight my fire". He died in 1994

Dan Hartman

15 Vinnie Jones started his football career at which Semi-professional team in London? Many years later an internet meme would show a supporter of this team called "Raider"

Wealdstone

16 Which actress, the daughter of And McDowell, played "Pussycat" in "Once upon a time in America"? she also played the title role in the Netflix drama miniseries Maid (2021)

Margaret Qualley

17 Surname "Brown", which British- Jamaican singer was the frontman of the group "Hot Chocolate", who scored an impressive 14 UK top ten hits

Errol Brown

20 First name Katie, which Leicester woman became the UK's number one female Tennis player in June 2023?

Katie Boulter

21 Will Smith's autobiography was the Desert Island Discs book selection for which woman, the only professional dancer to have won Stricty Come Dancing two years running? Her partners were Kevin Fletcher and Bill Bailey

Oti Mabuse

22 There are only two female characters in the original 1977 Star Wars movie. One is Princess Leia, the other is Luke Skywalker's aunt. What is the name of that character? It is a 4-letter word beginning with "B"

Beru

23 First name Liam, which British professional tennis player shocked World no 4 Casper Ruud when he defeated him in the early rounds of Wimbledon in 2023?

Liam Broady

24 In August 2023 the UK Works and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride suggested that British people over 50 looking for work should start doing what part-time job, that is currently mostly occupied by young people?

Deliver takeaways

25 Born in Minsk in 1989, at the 2012 Australian Open, who became the first person from Belarus, man or woman, to win a Tennis Grand Prix?

Victoria Azarenka

26 Featuring an artist with the surname "Brown", which group's 1968 song "Fire" sold over a million copies, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart and Canada, and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100?

The crazy world of Arthur brown

27 Louise Brown, always referred to in the British press as the "First test tube baby" was born in which town of Greater Manchester? The football team in this town hold the unwanted record of being the first ever former Premier League club to lose their Football League status

Oldham

28 Which of Vinnie Jones' former Wimbledon managers signed jones for Sheffield United? This man led Wimbledon up through the divisions in the 19805

Dave Bassett

29 The daughter of Joe Brown, what was the first name of the woman who took the song 'Stop!" into the UK top 5 in 1989

Sam Brown

32 Vinnie Jones appeared as himself in the 1993 programme "Sean's Show". Which "Sean", sadly now deceased, played a fictionalised version of himself?

Sean Hughes

33 SprinkleofGlitter was the original online pseudonym used by which English beauty, motherhood and lifestyle Youtuber, first name Louise?

Louise Pentland

35 Quentin Tarantino directed a double episode in season 5 of the hit show "csi". Which man, also an Executive Producer of the show, played Dr Gil Grissom in 199 episodes of CSI?

William Petersen

39 Shane Scully is a fictional character who has appeared in eleven detective stories by which novelist and television producer? An ident at the end of this man's shows would see him toss a sheet from a typewriter. Shows include the Rockford files, the a team, 21 jump street and the commish.

Stephen Cannell

40 The "Mako Mori test" asks whether a female character has a narrative arc that is not about supporting a man's story. It takes its name from the only significant female character of which 2013 Guillermo Del Toro monster film? This title of this movie contains the name of an ocean

Pacific Rim

41 The "Brahma Logo" was associated with which professional wrestler? This man married Lauren Hashian, the daughter of Boston drummer Sib Hashian, in 2019

Dwayne the rock johnson

42 Surname "Brown", which American singer scored UK top ten hits in 1989 with "Every little step" and "On our own"?

Bobby Brown

44 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

45 Surname "Brown", which rock musician and his backing band "The Bruvvers" reached number 2 in the UK charts in 1962 with the song "A Lay-About's Lament"?

Joe Brown

Prue leith mp son name

Danny Kruger

50 Surname "Brown" what was the first name of the singer who had a hit in 1984 with the song "Somebody's elses guy"? She'd return to the UK top ten as the lead singer of Incognito on their 1991 hit "Always there"

Jocelyn Brown

53 What was the name of the 2007 crime thriller movie starring Vinnie Jones and Derek Jacobi? This was also the name of a Nick Kershaw hit song which begins "Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground"

The Riddle

55 Vinnie Jones turned up in the seventh series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2010. Which woman, the notorious "Hollywood Madam", also appeared in that series? She once stated that she made her first million dollars after only four months in the business

Heidi Fleiss

“Singers F.C." were formed in 1883. About 15 years later they'd move to Highfield Road and change their name to what? Their only period in the top flight of English football would last 34 consecutive years between 1967 and 2001

Coventry City

Which American golfer was centre of a cap scandal at 2023 Ryder cup and questioned why there was no money to play?

Patrick Cantlay

Broadcast since 1998, which BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, invites three academics to discuss a different historical, cultural or scientific topic?

In our time

Best known for designing the wedding dress worn by Jacqueline Bouvier when she married John F. Kennedy, who is considered the first African American woman to become a noted fashion designer?

Ann Lowe

Which British electronic act had a 1988 UK number five single with the song 'Superfly Guy?

S’Express

The "Splash Brothers" is a collective nickname that honours the three-point shooting ability of a pair of teammates who have played together for the Golden State Warriors since 2011. Steph Curry is one of these players; name the other.

Klay Thompson

The acronyms MH and NH, short for "mint hinged" and "never hinged", are terms used in what pastime?

Philately

Captured at the Battle of Sedan in 1871, which French ruler died in Chislehurst, Kent in 1873 after his flight to England? His tomb is at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough along with those of his wife Eugénie and their son.

Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon)

Written by Sarah Phelps and starring Paul Bettany and Clare Foy, which 2021 historical miniseries dramatised the messy divorce of Ian and Margaret Campbell, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll? It was a follow-up to a similarly, but not identically, titled series about the Jeremy Thorpe case.

A very British scandal

What name is given in phonetics to a consonant sound made by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together? The 'P in 'fine and the 'th' in 'thing' are examples in English.

Fricative

Which former captain of the England men's cricket team played his entire domestic first-class career for Essex, representing the county in matches from a period spanning 1973 to 1997?

Graham Gooch

What Arabic-derived name is given to an alchemical apparatus that consists of two vessels connected by a tube and is used for the distillation of liquids?

Alembic

At the age of 30, which former assistant to Boris Johnson became the youngest ever recipient of a life peerage after she was named in Johnson's resignation honours list in July 2023?

Charlotte Owen

In the stamp collecting acronym OG, the O stands for "original" and the G refers to what feature of a stamp?

Gum

Which British electronic music act had a 1988 UK number two single with the song 'Beat Dis'?

Bomb the Bass

The "Splash Brothers" nickname is an homage to the "Bash Brothers", the nickname given to a pair of teammates who played together for the Oakland Athletics from 1986 to 1992. One of these players was José Canseco; name the other, who, in 1998, set a record for home runs hit in a single season.

Mark McGwire

Broadcast since 1990, which BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by Michael Buerk, invites witnesses to discuss ethical issues raised by recent news stories?

Moral Maze

Which Taiwanese-Canadian fashion designer is perhaps best-known for designing the dresses worn by Michelle Obama at the (2009 and 2013 inauguration balls?

Jason Wu

The 1741 novel Shamela was written by which English author, as a direct parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela? Along with his rival Richardson, this author is seen as developing the English novel.

Henry Fielding

Which former captain of the England men's cricket team played his entire domestic first class career for Essex, representing the county in matches from a period spanning 1987 to 2004?

Nasser Hussain

First used by alchemists, what piece of laboratory glassware with a French-derived name is a flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation? It has largely been made obsolete in laboratories by the Liebig condenser.

Retort

Which consonants - subsets of fricatives - are of higher amplitude and pitch, and are made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth? The 'z' in 'zip' and the 'sh' in 'ship' are examples in English.

Sibilants

Which French ruler, who fled France in 1848, died two years later at Claremont in Surrey? He was initially buried at the St Charles Borromeo Chapel in Weybridge before his remains were re-interred at the Chapelle Royal de Dreux in France.

Louis Philippe I

Which small rodent native to the Andes has the densest fur of any land mammal? They are endangered in the wild due to their popularity in the fur trade, although are widespread in captivity.

Chinchilla

Sarah Phelps recently wrote which four-part BBC drama starring Timothy Spall and Sheila Hancock that tells the story of the real-life murders of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin?

The Sixth Commandment

Which 80-year-old conductor has withdrawn from the BBC Proms after he punched the bass soloist, Will Thomas, at a concert in France last week?

John Eliot Gardiner

Hang Son Doong is noted for being the world's largest natural cave passage by volume and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What Southeast Asian country is it located in?

Vietnam

16 The song "Like Crazy" by which BTS member is the highest by a South Korean male solo artist to debut on the UK Singles

Jimin

Which Polish vodka brand was an official partner of the James Bond film Spectre? Its ads have included a global campaign starring Bond girl Stephanie Sigman and a 2022 Taika Waititi-directed one starring Daniel Craig.

Belvedere Vodka

What 1997 Wong-kar Wai film is ranked third on the BF's list of the Best LGBTQ+ Films? Awarded the Best Director prize at Cannes, the film follows the tumultuous romance between two young men from Hong Kong as they travel through Argentina.

Happy Together

The current monarch of Spain belongs to a branch of what royal house, which ruled over France from 1589 until the First republic

Bourbon

What large aquatic birds have a common name derived from the Latin words for "raven" and "sea"? Found in the same family as shags, they bear little in common with corvids besides their black plumage.

Cormorants

What Dominican designer rose to prominence for dressing Jacqueline Kennedy? He also designed Hilary Clinton's 1997 swearing-in ensemble, Laura Bush's second inaugural gown, and presidential daughter Jenna Bush Hager's wedding dress.

Oscar de La Renta

4b King of Wishful Thinking' and 'We Close Our Eyes' were some of the biggest hits by which British pop duo, who were active in 80s and 90s?

Go West

A 2017 single by Frank Ocean is named after which French luxury fashion house? In the song, Ocean sings, "I see on both sides like" this brand, referencing the mirrored letters in its iconic monogram.

Chanel

Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion directed what mystery series that aired on BBC Two in 2013 and 2017? Elizabeth Moss played the lead role in the first series, while Gwendoline Christie played the lead in the second.

Top of the Lake

What 12th-century Rhineland nun and mystic was the fourth woman to be named a Doctor of the Church? She was a pioneer in such varied fields as music, natural history, medicine, and literature.

Hildegard von Bingen

Ikulu is the official presidential residence of what African country? It is located in a city that served as the national capital

Tanzania

Coming in at #6 on the The BFl's list of the Best LGBTQ+ Films is what 2004 movie directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Luh-PEE-chaht-pohng WEE-ruh-set-uh-koon]? Awarded the Jury Prize at Cannes, the film depicts the romance between a soldier and a young villager in rural Thailand.

Tropical Malady

Deer Cave and Good Luck Cave (Gua Nasib) are both large attractions in Gunung Mulu National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in which Southeast Asian country which comprises 13 states?

Malaysia

What is the signature drink of the Dukes Bar in London, a place frequented by lan Fleming? It was ordered by James Bond in Casino Royale and is named after his great love, played by Eva Green in the 2006 film version.

Vesper Martini

) The song "Flower" by which member of Blackpink is the highest by a South Korean female solo artist to debut on the UK

Jisoo

What medium-sized seabirds have a common name derived from the diminutive form of a certain biblical figure's name? Contrary to their name, these birds cannot walk on water.

Petrels

What Venezuelan fashion designer counts American First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, and Melania Trump among her clients? She also designed presidential daughter Caroline Kennedy's wedding dress.

Carolina Herrera

What is the name of the hard working diminutive race of builders on the Apple+ TV show Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Doozers

Which power ballad by the American band Boston was their only single to be number one on the Billboard Hot 100? Released in 1986, it is the first name of a woman.

Amanda

What is the first name of the oldest living land animal in the world? He is a Seychelles giant tortoise living on St. Helena and approximately 191 years of age.

Jonathan

20 Begins with K: The second largest city in Ukraine is which largely Russian-speaking city that is located just 19 miles / 30 kilometers away from the border with Russia? Ahead of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it was widely expected that this city would fall to Russia within hours of the invasion and that its population may even welcome the Russians as liberators. Instead, the inhabitants put up stiff resistance and Russia was forced to abandon its efforts to capture this city after only two months. It now appears to be in no danger whatsoever of being taken by Russia.

Kharkiv

23 Begins with K: This city in southern Ukraine - the capital of a namesake oblast - is found on the north bank of the Dnieper river, just a small distance upstream from where it enters the Black Sea. After capturing this city early in the war, Russia formally annexed it in September 2022, only to see this city liberated by Ukranian forces just two weeks later. This city was flooded in 2023 when Russia destroyed the nearby Kakhovka Dam.

Kherson

24 Begins with K: With a population of 2.73 million, this port city is the largest and dominant city of southern Taiwan. This city's former mayor, Han Kuo-yu, lost the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election.

Kaohsiung

26 Begins with K: This notorious slum, an enclave of the People's Republic of China within Hong Kong, was once the most densely populated and crowded place Earth. All residents were forcibly evicted in 1991 and 1992 and the slum was demolished in 1993.

Kowloon Walled City

28 Begins with K: Located about halfway between Moscow and Yekaterinberg, this Russian city on a bend in the Volga River is the capital of the autonomous Republic of Tatarstan. Ivan the Terrible conquered it from the Mongols in 1552.

Kazan

30 Begins with K: In May 2023, the parliament that meets in this African capital city passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which prescribes life imprisonment for homosexuality and the death penalty for aggravated homosexuality. In August of 2023 it was announced that at least one man has been arrested and charged with aggravated homosexuality.

Kampala

32 Begins with K: This city in Iraq was the site of an important AD 680 battle between the Sunni Umayyad Caliphate and Shiite loyalists led by Husayn and Al-Abbas, the grandsons of Ali. The Umayyad forces won and Husan and Al-Abbas were killed. Shi'a Muslims mourn this defeat each year on the Tenth of Muharram - in many places in the Shiite world, they do this by ritually flogging themselves in public. Today, the giant mosqes where Husayn and his brother are buried are important pilgrimage sites for Shi'a Muslims and important targets for Sunni terrorist organizations who have set off many bombs in this city.

Karbala

33 Begins with K: This city in Henan Province was the capital of China during the Northern Song Dynasty, which lasted from AD 960-1127. Curiously, for many centuries this city was home to a population of thousands of Jews, who are believed to have moved there from Persia during Northern Song times. By the 19th century most of these Jews had assimilated into Chinese society.

Kaifeng

Marija Gimbutas came up with which K hypothesis of indo Europeans origins, grew up and went school in Kaunas Lithuania?

Kurgan hypothesis

36 Begins with K: Located in central Vietnam, this obscure provincial capital with 13,000 inhabitants was catapulted to fame in 1978 when the Australian rock band Cold Chisel released a hit song named for it. The song - about an Australian Vietnam War veteran - remains iconic within Australia. During the Vietnam War, this city was home to an American military base.

Khe Sanh

37 Begins with K: in 1819, the leaders of the German Confederation met in this historic Bohemian spa town (now part of the Czech Republic) to issue a set of repressive decrees that greatly increased censorship of both universities and newspapers across Germany. These decrees, named for this city, were championed by Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich with the goal of repressing radical groups and nationalists. Happily for you, both the German name and the Czech name of this resort town begin with K so you may give either. Traditionally, the German name of this city was spelled with a "c" in English.

Karlsbad

39 Begins with Q: This large city in western Guatemala is named for the small, colorful bird that is an important national symbol of Guatemala.

Quetzaltenango

41 Begins with K: Last week, the McDougall Creek wildfire burned a significant amount of land near which Canadian city in the province of British Columbia? This city is located on Okanagan Lake and is 20th largest city in Canada

Kelowna

42 Begins with K: Lunik IX, an infamous slum whose inhabitants are largely Gypsy/Roma people, is located in which city, the second-largest city in Slovakia?

Kosice

43 Begins with K: This city in eastern Turkey is located near the (completely closed) border between Turkey and Armenia. Its ancient Armenian cathedral (pictured here) was converted into a Mosque in 1993 following tensions from the first Nagorno-Karabkh War.

Kars

44 Begins with K: EC-KAC, the most dominant and successful ice hockey club in all of Austria, is from which Austrian city, the capital of Carinthia?

Klagenfurt

45 Begins with K: This historic fortified city in Montenegro is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Found on a namesake bay, it has become a popular tourist destination in the 21st centüry, especially as a port for cruise ships to stop in.

Kotor

32 This inland city located on the Irrawady River is the second most populous city in Burma/Myanmar, trailing only Yangon.

Mandalay

41 It is widely believed that the ultimate objective of Ukraine's current counteroffensive is to capture this Russian-occupied city on the Black Sea, which fell to Russian forces in May 2022 after a three-month siege in which Ukrainian forces made a last stand in the city's iron works. If Ukraine can liberate this city, it will cut the land bridge from Russia to the Crimean peninsula and likely make Russia's continued occupation of Crimea untenable.

Mariupol

44 In December 1944, members of the Waffen-Ss murdered 84 captured American soldiers in which small Belgian city of 12,000 people? This event has become known as this city's alliterative namesake massacre.

Malmedy

50 Located in modern-day Pakistan, this was one of the major cities of the Harappan or Indus Valley Civilization. This city's ruins preserve a remarkable plumbing and water supply system that included 700 wells and a complex drainage system - unrivaled at the time by any other city in the world.

Mohenjo-daro

Which New York congresswoman was the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination? Her campaign slogan was "Unbought and unbossed"

Shirley Chisholm

Which major star of the time starred as a female gunfighter in the 1995 movie "The Quick and the Dead"? Halle Berry played a character with the same name in The Flintstones movie

Sharon Stone

Ralf Rangnick had a short period in charge of Manchester United in the early 2020s, but during his long managerial career can you name any club he has managed which has a number as part of their usual name? There are five to chose from

REUTLINGEN 05, SCHALKE 04, ULM 1846, HANNOVER 96 or 1899 HOFFENHEIM

What name is shared by a sitcom character played by Frankie Howerd in "Up Pompeii" and a nickname given to a sitcom character played by Ralf Little in the Royle Family?

Lurcio

Achieving chart success at a young age, Stevie Winwood was the 17 year old lead singer of which band when they scored a number one hit in 1965 with the song "Somebody help me"?

Spencer Davis Group

What sport appeared in the name of the 1995 crime drama film based on the autobiography of Jim Carroll with the same name? Leonardo di Caprio starred as a promising young sportsman who develops an addiction to heroin

The Basketball Diaries

An autobiography entitled "My Posse Don't Do Homework" was the base material for which 1995 movie starring Michelle Pfeifer? The soundtrack included the hit song "Gangsta's Paradise. Two word answer

Dangerous Minds

What was the name of Danny Boyle's movie directorial debut? The plot involved three flatmates who bury a mysterious new tenant who left behind a large sum of money

Shallow Grave

What was the two-word name of the 1995 John Singleton satire movie with an ensemble cast including Tyra Banks and Lawrence Fishburne? The film revolves around the experiences of three incoming freshmen at Columbus University

Higher Learning

10 - What alliteratively named woman was the female lead in the 1995 movie "Get Shorty"? A big hitter in the 1990s, she also appeared in two Lethal Weapon movies, in the Line of Fire, Outbreak and The Thomas Crown Affair

Rene Russo

The Dutch snack called Bitterballen are usually served alongside what condiment for dipping? Historically, the town of Tewksbury was associated with this product

Mustard

14 Achieving chart success at a young age, which woman was "Walking back to happiness" in 1961 when she was only 14 year old? In later years she toured extensively with the British jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton and his band.

Helen Shapiro

15 The early career of Kate Bush got a bump up when which famous guitarist from Pink Floyd helped her with her demo tape?

Dave Gilmour

17 Please give any of the first names of the 3 brothers who comprised the group "Hanson". The lead singer of the group shares his first name with the woman who had an 80s hit with "Tell it to my heart"

Taylor, Zac and Isaac

Original presenter of tv show “would I lie to you?”? Victor meldrew’s neighbour Patrick trench un one foot in grave

Angus deayton

19 Whilst filming the 1995 movie "Hackers", Angelina Jolie met and married which British actor, with him becoming her first husband? He was the Grandson of the man who played "M" in the first eleven James Bond films

Johnny Lee Miller

21 Well known for its cheese market, in which city in the province of North Holland are the local football team known as A.Z.?

Alkmaar

22 Who played Carol Brady, the matriarch character in the 1995 Brady Bunch movie? Earlier in her career she won five Emmy's for her portrayal of Diane Chambers in Cheers

Shelley Long

48 Sanjeev Bhaskar was the star of which sitcom which aired in the 2000s? The premise of the show was that Bhaskar's family were supporting his dream of being a TV presenter by building a studio in their house and garden

The Kumars at No 42

45 Funnyman David O'Doherty first toured Ireland as the support act for which other Irish comedian? This alliteratively-named man is better known today for playing Gerry, the put-upon Dad, in Derry Girls

Tommy Tiernan

44 Mills and Boon might well have been interested in Taylor Swift's first UK top ten hit. What was it's two-word name? Swift was only 19 years old when it charted

Love Story

43 Billie Eilish's debut studio album was called "When We All BLANK BLANK, Where Do We Go?" What two words fills the blanks? Jimmy Kimmel, Winston Churchill and Harriet Tubman are all famous people who couldn't help doing this thing

Fall asleep

42 Bert, Ralph, Cedric and a large sheepdog called Schaeffer were characters in which Canadian cartoon show which ran from 1985 to 1992? Lessons featured in the series mainly focused on environmentalism.

The Raccoons

IT. Crowd star Katherine Parkinson is married to the English actor Harry Peacock. What is Harry Peacock's most famous role - the archenemy of Steven Toast in the shows "Toast of London" and "Toast of Tinseltown"?

Ray Bloody Purchase

40 Which famous woman joined Rob Beckett as the host of the reality music TV show "All together now" in 2018? This woman worked as a nightclub dancer in Majorca before becoming a glamour model in Turkey. Later in life this woman lodged with George Michael

Geri Halliwell

35 Which Swedish actor played a pyschpathic assassin opposite Keanu Reeves in the 1995 cyberpunk movie "Johnny Mnemonic"? This man made his film debut in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, and dated co-star Grace Jones afterwards

Dolph Lundgren

34 Amanda Abbington played Dr Watson's wife in the TV show "Sherlock" What is the first name of Dr Watson's wife in both that show and the original short stories?

Mary

33 In 2021 it was announced that Sara Pascoe would host the eighth series of which reality show, replacing joe Lycett? The judges on this show include Patrick Grant and Esme Young

The great British sewing bee

Hosted by Ellie Taylor and. Siobhan McSweeney with Keith brymer jones and Kate Malone as judges, tv show debuted 2015

The Great Pottery throw down

32 Following on from a part he played in "I'm Alan Partridge" in 2002, the actor Stephen Mangan has said that he gets what 3-letter name shouted at him almost every single day?

Dan!

31 Which company's brewery moved to its current site in Enschede, Netherlands, after its original site was damaged by fireworks in 2000? ₽ Bottles of this beer usually have a flip-top cap, eliminating the need for an opener

Grolsch

30 What is the first name of Johan Cruyff's son who played 9 times for the Netherlands national team and 9 times for the Catalan national team?

Jordi Cruyff

28 Ralf Schumacher and Damon Hill were the drivers when which F1 team had their first every victory at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix? This team were based at Silverstone, UK but raced with an Irish licence

Jordan

26 Winona Ryder starred in the 1995 movie called "How to make an American BLANK". What word fills the blank? Such a thing might be called a "Doona" in Australian English

Quilt

25 The German comedian Henning When originally came to the UK to work in the marketing department of which football club? This team are nicknamed The Chairboys and play at Adams Park

Wycombe Wanderers

24 The enthusiastic cycling fan Ralf Hutter formed which band with Florian Schneider in 1969?

Kraftwerk

23 Which deadpan Welsh comedian who won the Perrier Award in 2005 became the permanent host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks for a perioc in 2014? He shares his surname with Dame Sarah, the scientist who c developed the Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine

Rhod Gilbert

Mount Dena is the highest peak in which mountain range that roughly covers Iran's western border as well as spanning parts of Turkey and Iraq?

Zagros Mountains

Named after the man who founded it in 1770, which Stoke-On-Trent based pottery manufacturer is noted for the introduction of underglaze blue printing on earthenware in the 1780s, and its iconic blue-and-white "Blue Italian" range of tableware?

Spode

Which Renaissance goldsmith and sculptor, who created the bronze equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni that stands in Venice, taught many apprentices at his Florentine workshop, including Leonardo da Vinci?

Andrea Del Verrocchio

Which world heavyweight boxing champion, famous for a 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries dubbed "the Fight of the Century", was nicknamed the "Galveston Giant" after his birthplace in Texas?

Jack Johnson

Which celebrity gardener and broadcaster has written the memoirs Trowel and Error and Nobbut a Lad: A Yorkshire Childhood as well the novels Mr Gandy's Grand Tour and The Scarlet Nightingale?

Alan Titchmarsh

Which patter song from Stephen Sondheim's Company is known for its extreme speed, including a section where the performer must sing 68 words in 11 seconds? It is sung by a panicking Amy.

Getting Married Today

Following a siege in September 1649, around 2,000 people were massacred in which Irish town by troops largely composed of veterans from the New Model Army under the command of Oliver Cromwell?

Drogheda

Which Serbian athlete won the gold medal in the women's long jump at this year's World Athletics Championships in Budapest?

Ivana Vuleta

Elder Millennial and Confirmed Kills are among Netflix specials recorded by which American comedian, who also had a namesake sketch show on Netflix in 2020? She won the sixth season of the NBC show Last Comic Standing in 2008.

Iliza Shlesinger

Which world heavyweight boxing champion, famous for his fights against Gene Tunney, including the 1927 Battle of the Long Count, was nicknamed the "Manassa Mauler", after his birthplace in Colorado?

Jack Dempsey

What name is given to a checked cotton textile with a pattern of small, coloured squares, typically contrasted with white? It is associated with summer dresses, tablecloths and the clothing brand Ben Sherman?

Gingham

Which Renaissance painter, a pupil of Verrocchio, was famous for works such as An Old Man and his Grandson? He is also known for teaching apprentices, such as Michelangelo, at his Florentine workshop.

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Associated with iconic cottage blue stoneware, which manufacturer of upmarket tableware takes its name from a Derbyshire village where it was founded by William Drury-Lowe in 1809?

Denby Pottery Company

Demirkazik Peak is the highest point in which mountain range in Turkey that runs parallel to the Mediterranean from Lake Egirdir to the upper reaches of the Euphrates river?

Taurus Mountains

Which athlete from Burkina Faso won the gold medal in the men's triple jump at this year's World Athletics Championships?

Hugues Fabrice Zango

Quarter-Life Crisis and Look At You are Netflix comedy specials starring which American comedian? Raised in a devout Christian family, she competed on the ninth season of Last Comic Standing in 2015, making it to the final ten.

Taylor Tomlinson

Who was Cromwell's son-in-law who, in 1650, was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and assumed command of the New Model Army in Ireland? He is remembered for the savagery he employed in attempting to complete Cromwell's conquest of the island.

Henry Ireton

Originating in Ireland, what name is given to a form of traditional bread made with buttermilk and leavened with a bicarbonate compound?

Soda Bread

Dee Snider was the lead singer and songwriter for which heavy metal and glam metal band whose biggest hits came from their 1984 album Stay Hungry?

Twisted sister

Who became the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting when she gained a silver behind Li Wer Tokyo in 2021?

Emily Campbell

In evolutionary biology, what name is given to the form of speciation where two populations diverge genetically after they have been separated geographically? It was formerly known as the dumbbell model.

Allopatric Speciation

Which late Malian guitarist produced a 1994 collaborative album Talking Timbuktu with the American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder?

Ali Farka Toure

After his surrender to Fulton County, Donald Trump listed his height and weight at 6 foot 3 and 215 pounds. This is almost identical to which Baltimore Ravens quarterback, who, in 2019, was the second person to win the NFL MVP unanimously?

Lamar Jackson

Which film and television producer, the BBC's only female drama producer at the time, oversaw the first two series and parts of the third from the original run of Doctor Who?

Verity Lambert

Ray-Ban, Oakley and LensCrafter are among the eyewear brands owned by what Italian conglomerate, who create sunglasses frames for luxury brands including Prada and Chanel?

Luxottica

The French city of Montélimar is best known for its production of which confectionery product?

Nougat

What is the name of the time-travelling alien who acts as the mascot of, and appears on the logo of, Reddit?

Snoo

Which Jamaican-American writer, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, wrote the poem 'If We Must Die' in response to the series of racist attacks in 1919 that became known as the 'Red Summer? As well as his poetry collections Songs of Jamaica and Harlem Shadows he is known for his novel Romance in Marseille.

Claude McKay

In office twice between 1916 and 1930, who was the first democratically elected President of Argentina? He was known a the Father of the Poor' due to his social reforms, and he was deposed in a 1930 coup d'état by José Félix Uriburu.

Hipolito Yrigoyen

Which film and television producer was, alongside Donald Wilson and C. J. Webber, largely responsible for the early Development of the original run of Doctor Who, in his capacity as the BBC's Head of Drama? In the 2007 Doctor Who episode *Human Nature', the characters of Verity and Sydney are named after Verity Lambert and this man, respectively

Sydney Newman

2a The Niederegger shop in the German city of Lübeck is perhaps the world's best-known producer of which confectionery product?

Marzipan

Appointed by Theresa May in 2016, which then MP for Runnymede and Weybridge did Sajid David succeed as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2019?

Philip Hammond

Which English-born author of Irish descent wrote 'the Empire trilogy? Of that trilogy, The Siege of Krishnapur won the 1973 Booker Prize, and Troubles won the 2010 'Lost Booker' for works published in 1970.

JG Farrell

Another athlete with a similar body type to Donald Trump is which Cincinnati Bengals quarterback? The first overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft, he led the Bengals to an appearance in the Super Bowl in 2022, having ended the longest active drought in US sports.

Joe Burrow

In evolutionary biology, what term describes a series of interconnected populations, each of which can successfully breed with its neighbours, apart from two end forms that cannot and therefore may be considered separate species? The gulls in the genus Larus are often cited as an example of this phenomenon, although they may form a more complicated species complex.

Ring Species

Gaining widespread recognition in the 1980s and '90s from his appearances on daytime TV shows such as Good Morning Britain and This Morning, which astrologer was fired out of a cannon on Strictly Come Dancing and has appeared on Celebrity MasterChef?

Russell Grant

In office twice between 1945 and 1964, who has been dubbed the 'Father of Venezuelan Democracy' due to organising that country's first free elections? His doctrine of refusing to recognise leaders who seized power by force led to clashes with Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.

Romulo Betancourt

The racist violence across the United States in 1919 was dubbed the Red Summer by which author and civil rights leader? A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for his novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the spiritual Lift Every Voice and Sing?

James Weldon Johnson

Which American tennis player beat Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Steff Graf to win gold in the women's singles at the 1992 Summer Olympics at the age of only 16? It was another nine years before she won her first grand slam title.

Jennifer Capriati

Which 1700s laws forced Black women in Louisiana to wear head wraps because their elaborate hairstyles were considered a threat to societal order? Named after headscarf name.

Tignon Law

Cricket ground known as Gabba

Brisbane

21 If you are suffering from Torticollis, what body part is hurting?

Neck

Despacito was worldwide hit in 2017 what was surname of singer who made famous

Fonsi

Country called Hayastan in own country

James Callaghan become prime minister in what year

1976

Which country uses country code top level domain name .bs

Bahamas

Pump up the Jam was 1989 hit for which Belgian musical group

Technotronic

The pixies hail from which US city,

Boston

Otto Butschli was first scientist to recognise what structures?

Chromosomes

What legume is called a garbanzo in Spanish

Garbanzo

What is real name of actress politician and singer known as Cicciolina? Married to Jeff Koons.

Ilona Staller

45 What term is given to the style of Ashkenazi Jewish folk music that literally means "musical instruments" in Yiddish?

Klezmer

Capital of republic of somaliland

Hargeisa

48 Which professor of mathematics published a hoax in an academic journal in 1996 called "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"?

Alan Sokal

50 What actor plays entrepreneur Henk Rogers in the recent Apple TV+ biopic about the history of the game "Tetris"?

Taron Egerton

What does Sonny Hooper, played by Burt Reynolds, do for a living in the 1978 Burt Reynolds movie Hooper?

Stuntman

What term is used in the restaurant trade for the meat of the squat lobster?

Langostino

What color are the suits worn by the guards on the Korean TV series Squid Game?

Pink

9 Which country's flag has the motto Paz y Justicia written on the reverse?

Paraguay

10 Which fashion designer launched his first collection in 1947 in lines called Corolle and Huit, later called the New Look?

Christian Dior

11 What nickname is shared by cyclist Mathieu van der Poel and Baseball Hall-of-Famer Honus Wagner?

Flying Dutchman

14 NBA players Tristan Thompson, Rich Fox, and Andrew Wiggins were all born in which country?

Canada

18 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" was a 1993 hit song for which band?

Spin Doctors

19 The 2023 Stephen King novel Holly features Holly Gibney, a character introduced in which earlier King novel?

Mr Mercedes

20 Which enzyme produced in the pancreas and in saliva catalyzes the hydrolysis of starch into sugar?

Amylase

21 Which word can refer to a block of data transmitted across a network or a mailboat?

Packet

23 What gambling strategy involves doubling up on losing bets and reducing winning bets by half?

Martingale System

24 Which name was shared by six sultans of the Ottoman Empire, including the final two?

Mehmed

25 Which woman in Greek tragedies had siblings named Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene?

Antigone

What connects the home stadiums of the Boston Celtics NBA team, the Northampton Saints rugby team, and the New York Rangers ice hockey team?

Gardens (TD, Franklins, Madison Square)

In a game of dominoes, what term is used to describe a situation where no player is able to play and there are no dominoes left in the boneyard?

Block or Blocked Game

According to Goscinny and Uderzo in Asterix in Britain, which ingredient did Asterix use to make a magic potion so they could fight the Romans, with herbs he obtained from Getafix?

Tea

15 Undergraduates are required to live within 6 miles of, and no buildings may be constructed higher than, carfax Tower, in the centre of which English city?

Oxford

16 Which television personality is behind Goalhanger Podcasts, responsible for The Rest is Politics etcetera?

Gary Lineker

18 Which town in Greater Manchester is home to the only former Premier League football club to have been relegated from the Football League?

Oldham

19 British men's fashion designer Michael Fish is best known for creating which appropriately named item of neckwear in 1966?

Kipper Tie

20 The first of kind in the world, and running weekly since 1961, what is the target audience for the Radio 4 programme In Touch?

Blind

22 “No Answer”, the 1971 debut studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra was called what in uk

The Electric light orchestra

Smilla’s sense of snow by Peter Hoeg rleelased as what in uk

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

New podcast by George osbourne and Ed balls

Political Currency

35 Which occupational name connects Paul Rendall, former England tighthead who died earlier this year from motor neurone disease, cricketer Robin Smith, the seventh book of the Old Testament, a 1995 action film starring Sylvester Stallone in the title role?

Judge

39 Which future England captain and Times cricket correspondent had the nickname FEC in his early days at Lancashire? Except that FEC didn't stand for Future England Captain, for the Manchester Grammar School and Cambridge graduate, the E stood for Educated - and the rest you can probably guess

Mike Atherton

40 Which fictional dog, whose story was first written by English author Eric Knight in 1939 but originated in Lyme Regis in 1915, is the only fictional dog to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

Lassie

2023 Nobel medicine female winner Hungarian for mRNA vaccines

Katalin Kariko

2023 physics Nobel for Atto seconds - female French Swedish

Anne L’Huillier

2023 Nobel lit Norwegian

Jon Fosse

New vogue uk editor in 2023

Fashion journalist and podcaster Chioma Nnadi

2023 Nobel peace prize to which Iranian woman

Narges Mohammadi

Ed Sheeran number one album second of 2023 after subtract

Autumn Variations

Lead singer of Bon Iver?

Justin Vernon

Founding member of The National and collaborator on folklore and evermore and also coproduced ed Sheeran 2023 Autumn Variations

Aaron Dessner

Drake 2023 album

For all the dogs

Combatants in the sport of buhurt dress as what?

Medieval Knights

What record of life aspirations was popularised by a Jack Nicholson film?

Bucket List

Who revealed the Qur’an to Muhammad?

Jibril

Chinese art forger in 2014 got done in New York for modern forgeries including Rothko

Pei-Shen Qian

Dutch forger sold painting to Goring in Nazi Germany

Han van Meegeren

34 Begins with P: This wealthy suburb of San Francisco is best known as the location of America's prestigious Stanford University.

PalO alto

35 Begins with P: During Spanish colonial times, this city in what is now Bolivia was home to the richest silver mine ever discovered. Native laborers were forced to use Mercury to extract the silver from this mine (with disastrous consequences for their health) and then haul loads of silver down from this 13,000 foot / 4,000 meter high city so it could be loaded onto galleons heading for Asia.

Potosi

37 Begins with P: This Romanian city, about an hour north of Bucharest, is a major oil refining center. During World War II, it provided the Axis Powers with a third of their oil. The Allies made several unsuccessful efforts to bomb the oil refineries here, including the disastrous Operation Tidal Wave.

Ploiesti

42 Begins with O: The British general Herbert Kitchener became a Lord following his victory over Madhist rebels in the 1898 battle that took place in which suburb of Khartoum? The White Nile Bridge and the Victory Bridge connect this suburb to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum today.

Omdurman

45 Begins with O: This city in Inner Mongolia (which is part of the People's Republic of China) is home to a district called Kangbashi New Area. in the early 2000s, the Chinese government invested heavily in creating a new, modern city center in Kangbashi, complete with futuristic architecture, wide boulevards, and state-of-the-art infrastructure. However, despite the impressive development, many of the buildings remained vacant, leading to Kangbashi being dubbed a "ghost city.

Ordos

52 Begins with O: The largest city in Belgium that actually borders the ocean is which North Sea port city of 71,000 people? It is the 21st largest city in Belgium overall.

Ostend

53 Begins with P: This capital city of the Azores archipelago is home to C.D. Santa Clara, the only club from the Azores to ever compete in Portugal's Primeira Liga. They were just relegated to the second division in 2023, ending a streak of five consecutive seasons in the Primeira Liga.

Ponta Delgada

54 Begins with P: The Ampera Bridge is a major landmark of which Indonesian city, the second-largest city on the island of Sumatra and the capital of South Sumatra?

Palembang

Largest city in Sumatra

Medan

57 Begins with O: The scenic lake pictured here - which straddles the border between North Macedonia and Albania - lends its name to which eight-largest city in North Macedonia?

Ohrid

58 Begins with P: Janis Joplin was born in which heavily polluted, industrial suburb of Houston in the US state of Texas, one of the great oil refining centers of the United States? A 2022 news article said of this city "browmish-gray smog covers the sky and the smell of chemicals burns the noses and throats of residents". It shares its name with the English name of a once-important port city on the Liaodong Peninsula in China that was owned by Russia and Japan (in that order) and is today called Lushunkou, a neighborhood of Dalian.

Port Arthur

59 Begins with O: Just like the heir to the English throne is traditionally given the title Prince of Wales, the heir to the Spanish throne is traditionally made the Prince of Asturias - Asturias being a region and automonous commune of Spain. And which historic city of 220,000 people serves as the capital of Asturias?

Oviedo

60 Begins with O: Today, this historic German city of 168,000 people is part of the state of Lower Saxony. However, historically, this city was considered part of the region of Westphalia. Indeed, one of the two treaties making up the Peace of Westphalia was negotiated in this city.

Osnabruck

Which recently retired racehorse was foiled in its bid to win a record equalling 4th Ascot Gold Cup in 2022? Frankie Dettori's ride on the horse was widely criticised including by the trainer John Gosden resulting in both the jockey and trainer having a temporary "sabbatical".

Stradivarius

With artists including Phyllis Dillon and Alton Ellis, which Jamaican style of music had a short but influential heyday from around 1966 to 1968, forming a transition stage from the frantic pace of Ska to the rebellious spiritual movement of Reggae? It shares its name with an anthropomorphic rhinoceros antagonist in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Rocksteady

What was the original one-word name of the online retailer we now know as Amazon? The name references the 'magical' quality of buying online at the time.

Cadabra

In HBO's Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, the young Prince Aemond Targaryen loses an eye in an altercation with one of his nephews. What is the full name of the nephew in question?

Lucerys Velaryon

Which 1978 Alan Ayckbourne play follows Richard and Anthea, a perfect and happily married couple who inadvertently worsen the lives of the couples they have befriended over the course of 12 years?

Joking Apart

Which dessert, or 'tarte' of French origin, named after the sisters who created it unintentionally, comprises pastry and fruit (typically apples) that has been caramelised in butter and sugar before baking? THe concept of this 'upside-down' dessert had been mentioned by the famed Antonin Careme earlier in the 19th century.

Tarte Tatin

Name and regal number required. Who was the last emperor of Mexico? He was from the European house of Habsburg-Lorraine and was deposed and executed in 1867

Maximilian I

Which actress has a beauty brand called Florence by Mills? The brand is named for her grandmother and her own

Millie Bobby Brown

Millie Bobby Brown 2023 book

Nineteen Steps

Which composer's "Symphony of Psalms" broke from traditional symphonic structures, using a mixed chorus and unique orchestration?

Igor Stravinsky

In Greek Mythology, which Phoenician princess was said to have been abducted by Zeus in the form of a Bull? Titian and Paolo Veronese were two notable artists who painted works depicting the scene.

Europa

За What is the name of Dana Scully's dog in The X Files? He shares his name with a harpooner in Moby Dick.

Queequeg

Named Time Magazine Woman of the Year 1977, which American disability rights activist sued the City of New York for denying her a teaching licence (deeming her 'a fire hazard')? She led the '504' sit-ins in 1977 (the longest sit-in at a federal building) and in 2010 became the first Special Advisor on International Disability Rights for the U.S. State Department, appointed by President Obama.

Judith Heumann

Which 1975 book by Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend has a central thesis that states science should become an anarchic enterprise? His most famous work; in it, he argued that there are no universally valid methodological rules for scientific inquiry, giving rise to the idea of 'epistemological anarchy'.

Against Method

la What is the name of the Hill family's dog in King Of The Hill? She shares her name with a 20th century first lady of the USA

Lady Bird

Which of the African big 5 game animals is often considered the most dangerous to encounter, despite being herbivorous? Unlike other bovines such as the Yak or the Sanga Cattle, it has never been domesticated - probably due to its propensity to attack humans.

Buffalo

Against Method was published at the behest of which Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, born in 1922? He introduced the concept of the "research programme" and his namesake award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science.

Imre Lakatos

Which Dutch Darts player nicknamed "Barney has won the BDO World Darts Championships 4 times leaving him second only to Eric Bristow in titles won? He also won the 2007 PDC World Darts Championships.

Raymond Van Barneveld

Which breakfast cereal was accidentally created at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1894 by William Kellogg? It is now one of the best-known cereals in the world, and is sometimes used as a substitute for breadcrumbs in cooking?

Cornflakes

Which 1969 Alan Ayckbourne play is a farce following the consequences of an adulterous affair between a married man and his boss's wife and their attempts to cover their tracks by roping in a third couple to be their alibi.

How the other half loves

At 5,489m on the Yukon and Alaska border, which mountain is both the USA and Canada's second highest? Its name is given to the range where you will also find the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan.

Mount Saint Elias

a Which famous racehorse trained by Aidan O'Brien won a record four Ascot Gold Cups consecutively between 2006 and 2009

Yeats

What was the original one-word name of the search engine we now know as Google? The name referenced the principal Google indexing method.

Backrub

Another prominent tool in the field of gene editing are ZFNs. What does the Z in ZFNs stand for?

Zinc Finger Nucleases

Pioneered by artists including Dexter Gordon and Charlie Christian in the 1940s, which subgenre of jazz music is characterised by a fast tempo and complex chord progression? It shares its name with an anthropomorphic warthog antagonist in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Bebop

Igor Stravinsky composed a ballet that famously uses polyrhythms, irregular metres, and controversial choreography. Which ballet is this?

The Rite of Spring

a Which singer has a beauty brand called Good Dye Young? It takes its name from the artist's penchant for bright hair

Hayley Williams

Portrayed by Florence Pugh in Christopher Nolan's 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer, which American Psychiatrist was known for her romantic relationship with the film's title character?

Jean Tatlock

Which state of the USA has had the official nickname 'The Volunteer State' since 1812?

Tennessee

Whose new book Walk Yourself Happy was released earlier this month? 2023

Julia Bradbury

Which EFL football league team plays their home games at The Globe Arena?

Morecambe

Which author created the character Inspector George Gently?

Alan Hunter

Give a year in the life of scientist Robert Boyle.

1627-1691

Strelitzia is a genus of house plants more commonly known by what name?

Bird of Paradise Plant

In which year did Greenwich Mean Time become the standard time across Great Britain?

1880

Whose new book Who Am I? was release earlier this month? August 2023

Danny Cipriani

Give a year in the life of scientist Joseph Priestley.

1733-1804

Spathiphyllium is a genus of house plant commonly known by what name?

Peace Lily

Whcih year was speaking clock first introduced in uk

1936

Which efl football team play home games at the new lawn?

Forest Green Rovers

White lion pubs take name from emblem of whcih king?

Edward IV

White boar pubs take name from emblem of which king?

Richard III

In April this year who became the first person to score 100 tries in the Gallagher Premiership?

Chris Ashton

In which year was the Turner prize first awarded?

1984

In which decade did Catherine the Great become the first Empress of Russia?

1762 1760s

A sophomore is a second year student in college. The word comes from two Greek words: 'sophos' and 'moros'. What do these two words mean?

Wise and foolish

1962 who was first woman to be named sportsview personality of the year?

Anita Lonsborough

On what body of water was John Cobb killed while trying to break the World Water Speed record in 1952?

Loch Ness

The first four Olympic gold medals in ice hockey were won by Canada. Which country beat them in the 1936 Olympics to end that run?

Great Britain

The title of the recently published autobiography of former City goalkeeper Alex Williams. The title is particularly poignant given that Alex played for City and was the first top Division black goalkeeper in the English game.

You saw me standing alone

1965 music track of 11 minutes 21 seconds duration which starts with the lyrics: "They're selling postcards of the hanging / They're painting the passports brown".

Desolation Row

Patrick Grant, May Martin and Esme Young have appeared regularly in this. TGBSB

The Great British Sewing Bee

The name given to a high point on the A83 between Campbeltown and Loch Lomond at the head of Glen Croe in the Arrochar Aips.

Rest and Be Thankful

The nickname given to City star Phil Foden at 17 which likened him to a renowned Barcelona TSI

The Stockport Iniesta

Scottish constituency represented by David Steel between 1965 and 1983. RSAP

Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles

Story involving Englishwoman Jean Paget who becomes romantically involved with a former prisoner of war (John Harman) and moves to be with him in a small outback community on the other side of the world. ATLA

A town like Alice By nevil Shute

Song written and performed by Flanders and Swann to bemoan the passing of hundreds of local railway stations and branch lines in the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. ST

Slow Train

WLLITDB The first lines of Walt Whitman's poem mourning the loss of Abraham Lincoln.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d

With a chemical formula of (Fe,M)WO4 which tungsten ore mineral has many uses including the manufacture of electric filaments and armour-piercing ammunition?

Wolframite (wolf moon January)

Which Beatles song recalls John Lennon's childhood memories of playing in a Liverpool garden, and was recorded using a Mellotron to make flute sounds and an Indian swarmandal, as well as including a cello and brass backing?

Strawberry Fields Forever (strawberry moon june)

What was the name of the ITV comedy drama first broadcast in 1985 and set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War starring Maggie Steed and Kenneth Cranham? It was written by Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran.

Shine on Harvey Moon

Who was British Minister of Aircraft Production during World War 2?

Max Aitken Lord Beaverbrook (beaver moon November)

Which famous Post Office engineer designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages during World War 2?

Tommy Flowers

11 What specific type of catapult uses a counterweight to create the force necessary to fling an object from a sling at the end of a pole?

Trebuchet

11 What specific type of catapult uses a counterweight to create the force necessary to fling an object from a sling at the end of a pole?

Trebuchet

13 Which novelist wrote the children's Olivia Grace series and the young adult Princess Diaries series?

Meg Cabot

14 What movie about a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas was the first collaboration of director Howard Hawks and star John Wayne?

Red River

15 Which billionaire constructed his own airport at Marina Del Rey, California after moving his tool company to the Ballona Wetlands in 1940?

Howard Hughes

17 Donald Trump refused to attend the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Nine Elms in London when it moved from what posh square?

Grosvenor Square

18 Which little girl rescues her friend, Kai, from the clutches of the Snow Queen in a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen?

Gerda

21 of which flowers did Shakespeare write they "Come before the swallow dares and take / The winds of March with beauty"?

Daffodils

22 Movies in which horror franchise have been subtitled Urban Harvest, Fields of Terror, and Isaac's Return?

Children of the Corn

23 In 2016, Jan Böhmermann, a German comedian, was arrested after reading a satirical poem on live TV that described which world leader as a zoophile and pedophile?

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

25 Adopted in 1985, what black bird is the official bird of the Canada's Yukon Territory?

Raven

Isle of Axholme is in which county?

Lincolnshire

Isle of Ely is in which county?

Cambridgeshire

Isle of Thanet is in which county?

Kent

Which former controller of BBC2 and then BBC1, who grew up in Didsbury, became the presenter of the arts show Imagine?

Alan Yentob

The French dessert, crepes Suzettes, are traditionally topped with a dash of which liqueur?

Grand Marnier

Late actor Leslie Phillips had two notable catchphrases he used whenever he could weave them into his script. One was a languid and sexy "Hello" - what was the other?

Ding Dong

Robert Browning's poem A Toccata of Galuppi's is based on the work of 18th century Italian composer, Baldassare Galippi. In the poem Browning refers to "Shylock's Bridge". How is this structure better known?

The Rialto

Oney, dooey, tray, quarter, chinker, say, setter, otter, nobber and daiture are the words for the numbers one to nine in this language.

Polari

The Borghese Gallery and Museum is located in which Italian city?

Rome

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, walch of Dorothy's companions was played by Jack Haley?

The Tin Man (Bolger was scarecrow)

7 Which chemical element is an anagram of 'I Must Soap?

Potassium

Which sport is the subject of Ben Ryan's autobiography Sevens Heaven?

Rugby Union (Sevens) he coached Fiji to gold at Olympics

10 In which Alfred Hitchcock film did Kim Novak play the double role of Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton?

Vertigo

12 Which French football dub plays against Olympique de Marseille in the "Le Classique" fixture?

PSG

18 Which Indian TV chef played the role of Pushpa Ferreira in Eastenders?

Madhur Jaffrey

19 Which U.S. president wrote the 1962 bestseller Six Crises?

Richard Nixon

26 in race walking, how many red cards must a competitor receive to result in disqualification?

Three

27 The Greek heroin smuggler Aristotle Kristatos is the main villain in which James Bond fillm?

For your eyes only

28 Which composer wrote in his autobiography "I was born at Leipzig on the 22nd of May 1813, in a room on the second floor of the 'Red and White Lion™?

Richard Wagner

29 In the home, what would you typically attach to a sconce?

Lighting

34 In which constellation can you find the Teapot asterism?

Sagittarius

35 Which Tony award-winning musical features the songs The Land of Lola and The History of Wrong Guys?

Kinky Boots

39 Meyer, Lisbon, and Eureka are varieties of which frult?

Lemon

40 Which British pop group had a 1986 UK top ten hit with Breakout?

Swing out sister

41 The most widely grown variety of wheat in the UK shares its name with which James Bond fillm?

Skyfall

42 In 1984, which American athlete became the first woman to run the 100 metres in under 11 seconds at the Olympic Games?

Evelyn Ashford

43 What six-letter word has been a song title for Geri Halliwell, Years & Years, U2, and Calvin Harris?

Desire

44 Which city In Finland is home to the Moomin Museum and is known as the sauna capital of the world?

Tampere

45 Which Dutch novellst wrote the Inspector DeKok crime fiction series of books?

AC Baantjer

46 What liquld substance killed eight people in the London Flood of 1814?

Beer

47 Which American clothing brand, famous for its 3-zip Marilyn jeans, was founded in 1981 by Paul and Maurice Marciano?

Guess

48 Which Imperial unit of measurement is equal to 16 pints or a quarter of a bushel?

Peck

50 What colour balls are used for day-night test cricket matches?

Pink

What is the name of the British 2023 Mercury Prize winning jazz ensemble whose members are drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison?

Ezra Collective

Released in 2006 and containing the single When You Were Young', what was the title of the Killers' second studio album?

Sam’s Town

Part of the Rhenish [REN-ish] Massif, which range of low mountains occupies parts of western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg?

Eifel

Who is the current President of Taiwan? In 2021, she became the first patient to receive Taiwan's Medigen COVID-19 vaccine in order to assuage doubts that it had been rushed.

Tsai Ing-Wen

My Night at Maud's, The Green Ray, and Claire's Knee, are films directed by which French New Wave film-maker and editor of Cahiers du cinéma?

Eric Rohmer

Pernod (pern-ok] and Ricard (ree-car] are brands of which anise-flavoured French apéritif?

Pastis

First appearing in Street Fighter II, what Chinese fighter is the only playable female character in the game? Kristin Kreuk [kroo-k]played this character in a 2009 film about her backstory and origins.

Chun Li

Located in a namesake town near Madrid, which palace and monastery complex built between 1563 and 1584 on the orders of Philip IT historically served as a residence of the King of Spain and is the largest Renaissance building in the world? It has a name meaning "slagheap".

El Escorial

Which highly-controversial American minimalist artist produced the work Equivalent VIII (eight], which consists of 120 firebricks and is now housed in the Tate Modern?

Carl Andre

A basic amino acid at neutral pH, which is the only amino acid to carry a guanidino [GUAN-id-EEN-o] side chain?

Arginine

In Norse mythology, the warriors who die in combat who don't enter Valhalla are chosen to reside in Fólkvangr, a meadow ruled over by which goddess of love and beauty? Some scholars believe this goddess to have the same origin as Frigg.

Freyja

Blenheim Bouquet, Endymion and Quercus are fragrances by which British perfume house named for its Cornish barber founder, who was perfumer to Queen Victoria?

Penhaligon’s

Who is the current President of Tanzania? In 2021, she was the first person vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of Tanzania's vaccine programme, following the COVID-sceptic policies of her predecessor John Magufuli.

Samia Suhulu Hassan

Éric Rohmer wrote Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films with which other French New Wave director, whose film Le Beau Serge was inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt? This filmmaker is also known for collaborating with Stéphane Audran (oh-dron on films such as The Unfaithful Wife, and with Isabelle Huppert, [oop-air] on films such as La Cérémonie.

Claude Chabrol

Brocken, also known as Blocksberg, is the highest peak in which range of low mountains that extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia?

Harz

За Released in 2007 and containing the single 'No Cars Go', what was the title of Arcade Fire's second studio album?

Neon Bible

Which author won The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award in 2000 for the work Affinity? She is also known for the novels Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

Sarah Waters

Sharing its name with a button on a computer keyboard, what name is given to an arm of an experiment that does not receive the intervention that the experiment is designed to test?

Control

Lester Young and the Modern Jazz quartet were among exponents of which form of jazz that developed from bebop in the early (1950s? The name of this genre follows "birth of the" in the title of an album by Miles Davis.

Cool Jazz

A basic amino acid at neutral pH, which amino acid carries an imidazole ring in its side chain?

Histidine

Which English fighter made her Street Fighter debut in Super Street Fighter IL, where she was the only female character among the four added to the game? In the 1994 Street Fighter movie, this character was incongruously played by the Australian Kylie Minogue.

Cammy White

Edward the Martyr and Athelred the Unready were the sons of which English King, who ruled from 959 until 975 and is known as "the Peaceful" or "Peacemaker"?

Edgar

Jonathan Pryce replaced which actor as Prince Philip in The Crown, who had himself replaced Matt Smith? This actor also played Edmure Tulley in Game of Thrones and both Frank and Black Jack Randall in Outlander.

Tobias Menzies

Considered as a predecessor to modern gin, which Dutch spirit, also flavoured with juniper, is distilled from malt in a pot sill and comes in two varieties: old and young?

Jenever

1 What Latin word links a type of cumulonimbus cloud with a flat top, and a bone in the middle ear also known as the anvil?

Incus

According to Scientology, what is the name of the ruler of the Galactic Confederacy who brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them with hydrogen bombs?

Xenu

London Victoria tube station is served by three lines on the London Underground. The Victoria Line is one, what are the other two?

District and Circle

Enjoying a surge in popularity in recent years, in the popular Sussex pub game 'Toad in the Hole', totalling a prime number, how many points does each player or team start with at the beginning of the game?

31

Released in 2017 and developed by the Japanese software company Capcom, 'Biohazard' was the seventh instalment in what first-person shooter video game franchise series available on both the Xbox and Sony Playstation?

Resident Evil

10 In which sport do the United States compete against a Rest of the World team excluding Europe biennially in the Presidents Cup?

Golf

22 Of all the countries in the world where Arabic is recorded as an official language, which country has the highest number of recorded speakers of Arabic?

Egypt

30 First appearing on the big screen in 1984, Judge Reinhold plays the part of Billy Rosewood in what trilogy of action comedy films?

Beverly Hills Cop

36 Which British singer who was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2004 while still a teenager played the part of Anne of Cleves in the period drama "The Tudors"?

Joss Stone

45 In 2009, UNESCO awarded joint cultural heritage status to which two countries in recognition of their role in the creation of the tango dance?

Argentina and Uruguay

49 Released in the summer of 1985 and featuring on the soundtrack to the film 'Desperately Seeking Susan', what was the title of Madonna's first UK number one single?

Into the Groove

58 Named for its founder who established the business in 1858, what brewery that originated in Keighley in West Yorkshire is best known for its popular 'Landlord' cask ale?

Timothy Taylor

Stretch of whcih road between Nottingham and derby was renamed in 2005 after Brian Clough

A52

Taking its title from one of the siger's nicknames, what is the title of the 1988 top ten UK hit single by U2 that is a homage to the jazz singer, Billie Holiday?

Angel of Harlem

74 "all the world's a stage and all thi men and women merely players" are the opening lines to a monologue delivered by the character Jaques in the second act of which William Shakespeare comedy?

As you like it

77 What breed of small toy dog with a dense white coat that was originally bred in the Canary Islands derives its name from the French for "curly haired dog"?

Bichon Frise

80 Which British charity whose headquarters are in Horsham in West Sussex was co-founded in 1824 by the philanthropist and slavery abolitionist, William Wilberforce?

RSPCA

81 in 2017, which member of the British Royal Family took over as the royal patron of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home after Queen Elizabeth II retired from the role?

Queen Camilla

83 Broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live since 1994, what regular feature of the long-running Saturday afternoon programme "Sports Report" was discontinued without prior warning in August 2022?

Classified Football Results

84 First broadcast on the BBC Sounds app during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 before later being broadcast on Radio 4, which documentary maker hosted the popular radio and podcast series "Grounded"?

Louis Theroux

86 In 1994, which of the UK's national daily newspapers became the first newspaper in the country to make content from its print newspaper available online?

Daily Telegrapy

Spider-Man newspapers he works at

Daily Bugle

94 Sometimes alternatively named 'Chrysolite', what is the name of the green silicate mineral that is regarded as a traditional birthstone for the month of August?

Peridot

One of foundational books of Hinduism, seated gurus giving esoteric knowledge from the words for “sitting down near”.

The Upanisads

Said to be greatest writer of classical Sanskrit lived in Madhya Pradesh, best known is The Loom of Time set of books, 5th century BC

Kalidasa

legendary sanskrit poet who is celebrated as the traditional author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text itself

Valmiki

4th century BCE author said to be pupil of Tzu Ssu, Confucius grandson, one of the four great books of Chinese history

Mencius

Legendary founder of Taoism and author of Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

Ecumenical feast celebrates body and soul of Jesus heading up

Ascension

What athens of the south city In USA has a replica full scale of Parthenon from Athens?

Nashville

Tina turner sang Al green cover of Let’s Stay Together with which sheffield band?

Heaven 17

Only float through McDonald’s in world is in which appropriately named city?

Hamburg on the Elbe

Who wrote Works and Days, a pessimistic view of the five ages of man, and Theogeny?

Hesiod

One of nine lyric poets who composed “The Odes” and victory songs for Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian Games. This poet’s horse was spared by Alexander the Great in 335BC.

Pindar

Greek dramatist who wrote The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides) and The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, Prometheus Bound. Fought at the battle of marathon. Killed by flying tortoise due to bald head.

Aeschylus

Ancient Greek playerigtt it first to introduce third character to stage, first use of painted scenery, did Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) and Electra, Women of attaches, Ajax, Philoctetes.

Sophocles

Reclusive Ancient Greek playwright written plays by a cave by the sea, left athens at end of life and attacked by pack of molossian hounds and died. Wrote Alcestis, Iphigenia in Tauris/Aulis, Medea, Alcestis, Children of Heracles. Hecabe, Trojan Women.

Euripides

Plato work with Aristophanes and Socrates as characters, seven men at a drinking party hosted by Agathon expound on nature of love.

The Symposium

Green philosopher of The Nichomachean Ethics, The Metaphysics, De Anima (on the soul) and The Politics

Aristotle

Known as Father of History, Ancient Greek historian who wrote The Histories

Herodotus

Greek historian who took part in peloponnesian war, wrote history of the peloponnesian war

Thucydides

Contemporary of Plato and fellow student of Socrates, exiled from athens and involved in failed campaign of Cyrus the younger to claim Persian throne from Artaxerxes II in The Persian Expedition “thalatta, thalatta” and the ten thousand.

Xenophon

Athenian playwright of Greek new comedy only one play survives called Dyskalos or Old Cantankerous discovered on Egyptian papyrus in 1958

Menander

Founded the garden in athens and wrote The Art of Happiness, died of kidney stones in warm bath with wine in hand

Epicurus

Who wrote The Argonautica the only full account of Jason and argonauts quest for Golden Fleece

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek politician 200bc who wrote The Rise of the Roman Empire, account of all sorts and Hannibal’s transalpine campaign and family of scipio Africanus who beat Hannibal in 201bc

Polybius

Roman playwright stage names Maccius (buffoon) and known name meaning flat footed. The pOt of gold, the prisoners, the brothers menaechmus, the swaggering soldier, pseudolus.

Plautus

Slave from Carthage who became Roman playwright such as The Girl from Andros, The Self Tormentor, The Eunuch, Phormio, The Mother in Law, The Brothers

Terence

Roman poet who wrote The Nature of Things or Nature of the Universe

Lucretius

Roman figure who wrote In Defence of the Republic, Murder Trials, On Government and other works.

Cicero

Roman politician who was appointed governor of Numidia (Algeria) and wrote Catiline’s War and The Jugurthine War Histories.

Sallust

Roman poet erotic and poignant dedicated to Lesbia

Catullus

Virgil work about pastoral poetry about country life, allusions to contemporary politics.

The Eclogues

Roman poet known for his odes, epodes, satires. 65bc-8bc.

Horace

Roman historian who wrote Early History of Rome “books from the foundation of the city” Ab Urbe Condita Libri. Also rome and Italy, the war with Hannibal.

Livy

Roman poet born surname Naso, married three times before 30?m, wrote Heroides, erotic poems (the amores, the art of love, on facial treatment for ladies). Fasti. Also most famous work.

Ovid

Nero’s stylist who devoted life to pleasure and wrote Satyricon

Petronius

Roman rebel leader and then historian wrote The Jewish War, born 37 ad

Josephus

Roman poet born in Spain, famous for Epigrams, wrote 1560.

Martial

Roman historian wrote Agricola and Germania and The Histories. 56-120ad, also The Annals

Tacitus

Who wrote The Twelve Caesars?

Suetonius

Roman poet famous for his Sixteen Satires

Juvenal

Roman/Greek author who wrote Rise and Fall of Athens, On Sparta, age of Alexander, the rise of rome, fall of Roman republic, rome in crisis. 46-120ad.

Plutarch

Taught by philosopher Epictetus and became known as second Xenophon, born in Turkey and became governor of cappadocia by Hadrian. Wrote The Campaigns of Alexander.

Arrian

Roman/Greek statesman who wrote in Greek only surviving work is History of Rome in 24 books, five books are named The Civil Wars. 96-165ad

Appian

Who wrote The Roman History, born 163-235ad, chronicled over a thousand years from Aeneas in time to 229ad?

Cassius Dio

Compiled by his student Porphyry, who wrote The Enneads between 253-70ad.

Plotinus

Private secretary to belisarius, the general to Justinian, wrote The Secret History

Procopius

Polymath child prodigy who became chief minister of Byzantine Empire under Michael VII Doukas 1018-1096, wrote Fourteen Byzantine Rulers.

Michael Psellus

260-340ad, known as father of ecclesiastical history, wrote the history of the church from Christ to Constantine.

Eusebius

Who wrote 480-524ad The Consolation of Philosophy?

Boethius

Which military officer played a key role in the Niger coup in 2023? He announced himself as leader of the Junta that took power from president Mohamed Bazoum.

Abdourahamane Tchiani

What was the name of the American remake of Steptoe and Son? It starred Redd Fox and Demond Wilson in the title

Sanford and Son

Which 2002 film, based on a book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, is about three Aboriginal girls who escape from a settlement to return to their families? Peter Gabriel produced the soundtrack

Rabbit Proof Fence

Which poet won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967 for her collection Live or Die? In 1971 she wrote Transformations, a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales

Anne Sexton

What legal term describes court cases where the public and press are not allowed to observe the procedure or process

In Camera

What name is given to the first milk produced by mammary glands of humans? It contains antibodies and other bio-actives to stimulate the baby's immune system.

Colostrum

Which game, first played as a parlour game in Victorian England, has a name which possibly derives from rhyming slang for an unlicensed public house? Bomb, boondock, scrunge and squop are terms used in this game.

Tiddlywinks

Which type of mouth piercing is a pair of piercings placed right next to each other on either side of the lower lip near the corner of the mouth? It differs from a snake bite piercing which is placed symmetrically below the lower lip.

Spider bite

Which athlete lost his 1994 200m British record to Zharnel Hughes in 2023? Along with Elliot Bunny, Linford Christie and Mike McFarlane, he was part of the 1988 Olympic silver medal winning 4x100m [4 by 100 metre] relay team.

John Regis

Which 2020 Ariana Grande song featured Doja Cat on a remixed version? The lyrics feature several double entendres.

34+35

What is the condition where two or more digits on the hands or feet are fused together? In humans it is commonly referred to as webbed fingers or toes.

Syndactyly

What is the name of the informal or summer version of a kimono? Traditionally indigo and white in colour, they are similar to nemaki, which have short sleeves.

Yukata

Which Japanese style of trouser was adapted from a Chinese style worn in Imperial Courts of the Sui and Tang dynasty? They are worn over a style of kimono named for these trousers.

Hakama

Who is the resident pianist of The Muppet Show? He originally appeared in adverts for Purina Dog Chow in 1962

Rowlf

What is the name of the condition where there are fewer than five digits on the hand, not due to amputation? It is often incorrectly called hypodactyly

Oligodactyly

Which athlete lost his 1997 400m British record to Matthew Hudson-Smith in 2022? Along with Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson and Roger Black he was part of the 1996 Olympic silver medal winning 4x400m [4 by 400 metre] relay team.

Iwan Thomas

Which 2010 film is based on the 1994 book Empty Cradles by social worker Margaret Humphreys? It stars Emily Watson as Humphreys who reunited families of deported English children sent to Australia and Canada

Oranges and Sunshine

Which author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for The Wild Iris? In 2020 she won the Nobel Prize for Literature and served as US Poet Laureate between 2004-2005.

Louise Gluck

What surname is shared by the British father and son who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their work on X-ray crystallography?

Bragg

Which South Asian country's UNESCO World Heritage Sites include the Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi? The monastery and nearby city of Seri Bahlol date from the Kushan period.

Pakistan

What was the name of the American remake of in Sickness and in Health? It starred Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker.

All in the family

Which American photographer, who often explores the LGBT subculture, produced the photographic collection The Ballad of Sexual Dependency in 1986?'

Nancy Nan Goldin

Which military officer is serving as President of Gabon following the removal of power from Ali Bongo in 2023? A relation of the Bongo family, he has promised fair and free elections at some point.

Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema

Which river flows through Tibet, india, and Bangladesh? It merges with the Ganges in the Ganges Delta.

Brahmaputra

What name is given to the disc used to shoot a wink in the game Tiddlywinks?

Squidger

Which type of mouth piercing is a pair of piercings placed symmetrically above the upper lip? They can also be referred to as Madonna-Monroe piercings.

Angel Bite

1 Which American author wrote the novels The Road Through the Wall and We Have Always Lived in the Castle?

Shirley Jackson

What was the first name of Alf Garnett's long suffering wife in Til Death Do Us Part? She was played by Dandy Nichols

Else (Una Stubbs was daughter Rita)

Which King of France, who appears in Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers, was born on 27th September 1601? Name and regnal number; please, and a near miss won't do

Louis XIII

2. On 10th September 1897, a London taxi driver became the first motorist to be arrested and charged with which offence?

Driving under influence of alcohol

4. Which medical procedure was first performed on 25th September 1818, by James Blundell?

First human to human blood transfusion

5. Which building in London came into official use in its current role on 22nd September 1755?

10 Downing Street

Which well-known piece of British music had its premier on 28th September 1745?

National Anthem God Save the King

8. Which British military hero was born on 29th September 1758?

Horatio Nelson

1. Which American action movie star won European Karate championships in 1980 and 1981 before his breakthrough role in Rocky IV?

Dolph Lundgren

7. Which BBC presenter competed in the World Triathlon Championships in Chicago in 2015?

Louise Minchin

Which triathlon runner won best screenplay adapted Oscar for all quiet on the western front?

Lesley Paterson

Which Hawaiian-born actor, a professional wrestler and weightlifter, won a silver medal in the London Olympics in 1948 before a famous role as a movie villain? Give name or character

Harold Sakata / Oddjob

Sp3 Which American actress set multiple swimming records in her late teens but was denied the chance to compete in the Olympic games because of their cancellation in 1940?

Esther Williams

traditional Japanese footwear resembling flip-flops wooden elevated base

Geta

Latin term for placeholder text used in publishing industry

Lorem ipsum

Aristotle siD what was the seat of intelligence

Heart

First man on vogue in 1992

Richard Gere

What motorcar company released the spider model

Alfa Romeo

How long is a snooker table in feet

12 feet

Paul Rodgers toured as vocalist for which legendary British band in mid 2000s

Queen

Crayola changed crayon colour peach from what name

Flesh

What trees grow in the land owl and pussycat go to in poem?

Bong

What are hiragana, katakana, and kanji?

Japanese writing styles

According to Billy Connolly, an intellectual is someone who can listen to Rossini's William Tell Overture without ... doing what?

The Lone Ranger

Independent arizona senator held seat from 2019

Kyrsten Sinema

Independent senator who sits in Maine not Bernie sanders from Vermont

Angus King

A beautiful fairy in Charles Kingsleys' The Water Babies was called Mrs DoAs YouWouldBeDoneBy. What was the name of her sadistic and ugly sister?

Mrs BeDoneByAsYouDid

02 In 1935 which American magazine, still in print, headlined a story about the unpopularity in rural areas of films about rural areas with the words "Stix Nix Hick Pix"?

Variety

What diagram, named after French mathematician, is a graphical representation of complex numbers in the complex plane?

Argand Diagram

Which Monmouthshire-born politician and sometime President of the European Commission was dubbed King John XV by the French due to his grandiose tastes and the fact that his name sounded like the French for that title?

Roy Jenkins

3. What is the English translation of the long-running Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm?

People of the valley

Dating from the 14th century, what is the name of the traditional Welsh soup made with either beef or lamb, leeks, potatoes, carrots and swedes and recognized as one of the country's national dishes?

Cawl

2 What is the name of the 7-mile stretch of beach on the shore of Carmarthen Bay between Laugharne and Tenby, where five land-speed records were set between 1924 and 1927?

Pendine Sands

Who wrote symphonies named The Year 1905 and Babi Yar?

Shostakovich

2. Who wrote symphonies named The Four Temperaments and Inextinguishable?

Nielsen

What name is shared by a work for violin and piano by Beethoven (opus 47, as if you care) and a novel by Tolstoy?

Kreutzer Sonata

J S Bach's collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues were published as two volumes with what title?

The Well Tempered Clavier

Who wrote the opera La Voix Humaine, a one-act work for solo soprano who talks to her lover on the telephone?

Poulenc

The opening section of which oratorio by Haydn is entitled Representation of Chaos?

The Creation

Which style of tle was created in the 1960s by the fashion designer Michael Fish?

Kipper Tie

Titfer is Cockney rhyming slang for which article of clothing?

Hat

10 The Toco Toucan is native to which continent?

South America

11 Which American golfer is the CEO of the TGR Design golf course design company?

Tiger Woods

14 What four-letter word links songs by Rose Royce, Lee Marvin, and Boy Meets Girl?

Star

16 Which TV cook first appeared on screen in 1955 on the BBC show Kitchen Magic?

Fanny Cradock

18 The sunflower is the national flower of which European country?

Ukraine

23 Charles Hale and Ida Arnold are characters from which Graham Greene

Brighton Rock

Blur 2023 ninth studio album?

The ballad of Darren

26 Which French river flows through Arles, Avignon, and Lyon?

Rhone

27 Which Spanish artist is the subject of Laura Cummings' biography The Vanishing Man?

Diego Velazquez

30 Which Japanese detective, created by the novelist J.P. Marquand, was portrayed in eight films by Peter Lorre?

Mr Moto

32 Which Indie-rock duo is composed of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers?

Wet Leg

Who became third left handed to win British Open in golf in 2023 after Bob Charles in 1963 and Phil Mickelson in 2013?

Brian Harman

2003 masters winner canadian and left handed

Mike Weir

Left handed who won masters twice 2012 and 2014

Gerry “Bubba” Watson

36 In Rome, the 'Gattare are the guardians of an estimated 120,000 what?

Stray Cats

38 In which month do Swedes celebrate Cinnamon Bun Day?

October

39 The art museum located at Hertford House in London is named after which British baronet?

Sir Richard Wallace

40 Honouring the founder of the Indian space program, what was the name of the lander which successfully touched down on the Moon's south pole last week in august 2023?

Vikram

41 The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, existing from 1561 to 1795, was part of which modern-day country?

Latvia

43 Hot Pink was a 2019 album by which American rapper?

Doja Cat

45 In which year did all of the following take place: Alun Wyn Jones played his first senior rugby game for Wales, Justine Henin-Hardenne won her third French Open tennis title, and Graham Poll showed three yellow cards to Josip Simunic in a World Cup game?

2006

46 Which American psychologist wrote the 1994 book The Myth of Repressed Memory?

Elizabeth Loftus

47 Which African country is home to the Qemant people?

Ethiopia

48 Which American filmmaker directed the 1963 comedy mystery film Charade?

Stanley Donen

50 Which Australian prime minister was known as the 'Silver Bodgie' because of his grey coiffured hair?

Bob Hawke

1. Two Major League baseball teams are located in Texas. Name both.

Texas Rangers and Houston Astros

Two Major League baseball teams are located in Missouri. Name both.

St Louis Cardinals Kansas City Royals

Whcih Scottish league football team ceased to exist in 1967 when liquidated?

Third Lanark

Which now defunct Manchester football team was prevented from joining the Football League 1931 by the joint efforts of Manchester United and Manchester City?

Manchester Central

Which football league club plays at crown ground known currently as Wham Stadium for sponsorship?

Accrington Stanley

Whose football club home ground currently known as the Toughsheet Stadium?

Bolton Wanderers

The entire period of Mexican History from 1876 to 1911 is named after which man, the de facto dictator for most of this period? He rose to the rank of general, leading republican troops against the French-backed rule of Maximilian |

Porfirio Diaz

3 A meme shows Nicolas Cage bedecked in traditional robes and a hat whilst on a visit to which country? Captions usually involve urging people to consider their life choices. This is the world's 9th largest country and also one of the least densely populated

Kazakhstan

5 What was the name of the Belarusian sprinter who accused the authorities of forcing her to compete in certain events at the 2020 Olympics? She was taken to Tokyo's Haneda Airport against her will, where she refused to board a flight back to Belarus. She was eventually given police protection and granted a humanitarian visa by Poland.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya

During his 1992 US Presidential campaign Ross Perot asked American's to listen for a "giant BLANK sound" as American jobs headed to Mexico. What word fills the blank?

Sucking

When the fountains were added to Trafalgar Square the earth which was removed was used to help level which of London's Royal Parks? This park lies immediately north of Buckingham Palace and its forecourt

Green Park

10 Which German-born British painter founded the Fitzroy Street Group in 19077 His life has been of particular interest to Stephen Knight and Patricia Cornwell

Walter Sickert

14 Which indigenous people inhabited three quarters of all of Brazil's coast when the Portuguese first arrived there? Many of these people are now merged with the Guarani people. 4-letter answer

Tupi

15 Frederick Barbarossa was formerly the Duke of what historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany? In the Middle Ages, this term indicated a larger area than it does today, covering all the lands stretching from the Vosges Mountains in the west to the Lech river in the east, parts of Switzerland and parts of Austria

Swabia

19 What Straits separate Ellesmere Island and Greenland? Its name derives from a British naval officer. It has a nearly permanent current from the north, powered by the Beaufort Gyre, making it harder to traverse for ships coming from the south.

Nares Strait

22 Sakha, Russia, is the largest geographical subdivision of any country in the world. What is Sakha's capital? Founded by Cossacks in 1632, this place is regarded as the largest city located in the continuous permafrost

Yakutsk

23 In professional wrestling common parlance, a "Baby Face" is the good guy character. What 4-letter word refers to the bad guy?

Heel

24 Advertising on Google or Amazon is usually done via a "ppc" model. In this acronym what does the "c" stand for?

Click

25 The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC is surrounded by a peristyle of fluted Doric columns - one for each state of the Union at the time of Abraham Lincoln's death. How many columns are there?

36

26 After Kyoto, which Spanish city has the most Michelin starred restaurants per capita in the World? According to The World's 50 Best Restaurants ranking in 2013, two of the world's top ten best restaurants were in here. The city is located in the Basque country, just a few miles from the French border

San Sebastián

27 Whose 1973 debut cooking book was "An Invitation to Indian Cooking"?

Maddhur Jaffrey

29 1929 saw which great Ape described as its own species for the first time? This endangered species of the Congo Basin is one of the two making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee)

Bonobo

30 With an estimated capacity of 35,000, the Amphitheatre of El jem is an extremely impressive Roman ampitheatre and a UNESCO world heritage site. it was constructed by the local proconsul Gordian, who became emperor as Gordian II. In which modern day country will you find the ampitheatre of El Jem?

Tunisia

which island nation rather than return to the UK? The flag of this country is called the "Four Bands" and is comprised of four horizontal bands of equal width coloured red, blue, yellow and green from top to bottom

Mauritius

36 Reviewing the period in the run-up to the 1997 UK General Election, Roy Jenkins likened Tony Blair's strategy to what priceless object? Blair was being extremely cautious and was avoiding getting deeply involved in any controversial situations

Ming Vase Strategy

37 Sharing her name with a Marillion song, what was the name of the character plaved by Sian Gibson in Peter Kay's "Car Share"?

Kayleigh

43 Eddie Irvine won four Grand Priz in the 1999 season and came second in the Driver's championship. Which man, driving for McLaren, was the overall winner that year? It was his second and last F1 championship title

Mika Hakkinen

44 What "R" is the rite-of-passage undertaken by adolescents in the Amish community? It usually begins around the age of 16 and lasts until the youth is either baptised or leaves the Amish. The word loosely translates from "jumping around" in some German dialects

Rumspringa

46 Owned by the Rausing family and headquartered in Lund, Sweden, which company's development of aseptic packaging technology allowed substantial improvements in the cold supply chain and revolutionised sales of dairy, cheese, ice cream and prepared foods?

Tetra Pak

48 Which month of the year is named after the Greek Goddess mother of Hermes?

May (Maia)

Who played Harold bishop on neighbours for years?

Ian Smith

Which American president pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office?

Jimmy Carter

4. Who hosted the most recent revival of Blankety Blank, in 2021?

Bradley Walsh

Which Jaguar XJ8-driving TV character was often to be seen drinking 'VAT's and smoking panatellas in the Winchester Club?

Arthur Daley

The statue of Richard the Lionheart outside the Houses of Parliament is made of what material?

Bronze

To what was someone (perhaps Lord Chestertield althougn the quotation is valousy dufouled, referring when he said "the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the price absurd"?

Sexual Intercourse

3. Which member of the US congress from arizona was injured in a mass shooting in 2011, returned to work later that year but retired in January 2012, leading the satirical magazine The Onion to comment" guess being shot in the head is a lot worse than we all thought"?

Gabrielle Giffords

The Norman French sentence "Le Roy le veult" was recently heard in the Palace of Westminster for the first time in more than 70 years (replacing "La Reyne le veult"). What does it signify?

Monarch given royal assent to a bill

The Norman French phrase 'autrefois [pronounced owe-truh-foyz] acquit', could be used as an absolute defence to a criminal charge in England until 2005. How is the rule it invokes commonly known in English?

Double Jeopardy

7. The first chorus of a popular music hall song from the 1890s began: "Oh it really is a werry pretty garden / And Chingford to the Eastward could be seen / Wiv a ladder and some glasses / You could see the 'Ackney Marshes." What is next line which is also title of song?

If it wasn’t for the ouses in between

Another popular music hall song was Waiting at the Church. It was covered by, among others, Julie Andrews and Miss Piggy, and a snatch was famously sung by Jim Callahan at the TUC conference in 1978. The chorus contained the lines: "All at once he sent me round a note. / Here's the very note, / And this is what he wrote: / "Can't get away to marry you today." What were next line five words?

My wife won’t let me

5 Beginning with 'H', what name is given to the volcanically active regions on the Earth's surface produced by mantle plumes with anomalously high temperatures? A These have produced volcanic island chains such as Hawaii and the Canary Islands and one can be found underneath Yellowstone.

Hotspots

9 Found only in the Ethiopian highlands, which baboon like, grass eating Old World monkey feature a prominent hourglass shaped patch of skin on their chests? In males this patch is bright red.

Gelada (or bleeding heart monkey)

11 Which nation became the 5th nuclear power on the 16 October 1964, when it detonated its 'Project 596 Uranium bomb at the Lop Nur test site?

China

12 Growing up to 18 cm in height, which passerine bird with a robust bill for eating seeds and fruit kernels is the UK's largest Finch?

Hawfinch

Closest relative being the African otter Shrew, what Madagascar mammal is only mammal known to do stridulation from certain body parts?

Streaked Tenrec

17 Found in Chile and parts of Argentina and also called the Guiña. What is the smallest Feline found in South America?

Kodkod

19 Named after the Sotho word for star. Which extinct hominin species from the Middle Pleistocene was discovered in 2013, in the Rising Star Cave system, South Africa?

Homo Naledi

Popular name for salmon with scientific name Oncorhynchus keta, also known as dog salmon as used to feed dogs. Word used comes from chinook word for spotted/marked.

Chum Salmon

Which controversial online index of digital content, entertainment media and software was founded in Sweden in 2003? In April 2009, the website's founders were found guilty in Sweden for assisting in copyright infringement

The Pirate Bay

What was the name of the last full length movie directed by Alfred Hitchock during his lifetime? The 1976 movie starred Karen Black and Bruce Dern

Family Plot

In the 2006 version of The Wicker Man, Nicolas Cage is the cop sent to a distant island to find a missing child. Who played the same role in the 1973 original?

Edward Woodward

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is the first and only boxer in history to become undisputed champion at super middleweight. Canelo is the nickname given to people in the Spanish-speaking world with red hair. What does the word "Canelo" actually mean though? A fast food chain specialises in selling "rolls" of this item

Cinnamon

"A Vietnam recruit finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict." This is a description of which war movie directed by Oliver Stone and released in 1986?

Platoon

10 Al Martino played Johnny Fontaine in all 3 Godfather movies. In the Godfather 3, Michael Corleone quips that they should have got which real-life singer in place of Johnny Fontaine for his foundation's event? This singer died in 2023

Tony Bennett

13 In Geography, the phrase: "Boring, Average Politics Can Become Very Corrupt. People Everywhere Get Used Sometimes" is a mnemonic for remembering what?

South American countries

16 What 3-word term is used to describe a period of social turmoil and political violence in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism?

Years of Lead

18 The TV show "You" stars which man as the serial killer "joe Goldberg"? This man received six Teen Choice award nominations for his role as Dan Humphrey in "Gossip Girl"

Penn Badgeley

Who is the only boxer in history, fernale or male, to hold all four major world titles in boxing--WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO-simultaneously, in two weight classes. She was born in which Michigan city? From 2014 to 2019, this city faced a public health emergency due to lead contamination in parts of the local water supply

Clarissa Shields

21 What series of World War iI video games developed by Muse Software features William "Bj' Blazkowicz and his fight against the Axis powers? The 1980s editions were pioneers in the First Person Shooter genre

Wolfenstein

25 The work of the Spanish inquisition meant that nudes are actually extremely rare in 17th century Spanish art. What painting is the only surviving female nude by Diego Velasquez? it was badly damaged in 1914

Rokeby Venus

27 Men named Adam Richman and Guy Fieri are most associated with what type of TV shows?

Food / Restaurants

28 Now Hungary's second largest city, which place was the capital of the country during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848? This city, which begins with the letter "D" is located on the Great Hungarian Plain, 137 miles east of Budapest

Debrecen

29 Which man was the highest paid music hall act of the 18805 and 1890s? He was portrayed by Douglas Booth in the 2016 horror film "The Limehouse Golem"

Dan Leno

32 Found in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu, what is the second most populous city in Japan? Both Isuzu and Nissan have their headquarters here

Yokohama

in 1994? 34 In Science, the phrase "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics" is a mnemonic for remembering what?

Digits of Pi

35 Built by Italian Prisoners of War during World War 2, Orkney's highly ornate Italian Chapel can be found inside what type of military building? It is said that these half-cylinder buildings could be built by 6 men in 4 hours. Their British name or American name is acceptable.

Nissen Hut (UK) and Quonset Hut (USA)

38 Alan Shephard was the first American in Space, the 5th man to walk on the moon and the oldest person to walk on the moon. He is a sufferer of which disease, an inner-ear ailment that caused episodes of extreme dizziness and nausea? This dieases was first identified by a French doctor in the early 1800s

Menieres Disease

Protein malnutrition named The name is derived from the Ga language of coastal Ghana, translated as "the sickness the baby gets when the new baby comes" or "the disease of the deposed child", and reflecting the development of the condition in an older child who has been weaned from the breast when a younger sibling comes.

Kwashiorkor

From Greek for withering severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency. It can occur in anyone with severe malnutrition but usually occurs in children. Body weight is reduced to less than 62% of the normal (expected) body weight for the age.

Marasmus

39 Which radio DJ took his "Confessions" show to TV between 1995 and 1998?

Simon Mayo

41 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) was one of the first big Hollywood movies to be filmed on location outside of the USA. In which Mexican state did most of the filming take place? The capital city of this state of Northern Mexico is named after the first President of the country, Guadalupe Victoria

Durango

42 Once regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world, which Italian graduated from being a model with Cartier and Dior to appearing in films such as "The Passion of the Christ" and "Spectre"? In the early 2000s she was married to the French actor Vincent Cassel

Monica Belluci

carty 43 Known for it's large Water Buffalo population, what "m" is the large river island found at the mouth of the Amazon river in the Para state of Brazil? With a land area of 15,500 sq miles it is comparable in size to Switzerland.

Marajo

44 Released in 2019 by Kojima Productions, which video game features Courier Sam Porter Bridges (voiced by Norman Reedus) as a courier delivering supplies and connecting communities in Knot cities in a post-apocalyptic USA? in this game, invisible Beached Things (BTs) consume the dead after causing explosions and unleash rain called Timefall that ages whatever it hits.

Death Stranding

48 At some point in their career, scientists will get to a point where their current level of success is influenced more by things (and publications) they did in the past, and less by things and publications done at the moment. Also the name of a book of the bible, what is the name given to this effect?

Matthew effect

50 Bobby Fischer did not show up for the opening ceremony of his match against Bors Spassky in Reykjavik. One of the many factors that eventually persuaded him to play was an encouraging phone call from what US politician? His opening sentence is usually cited as "This is the worst chess player in the world calling the best chess player in the world"

Henry Kissinger

South Africa crater second-oldest known impact structure on Earth, after Yarrabubba, arguably biggest

Vredefort Crater

Oldest known impact crater on earth found in Western Australia

Yarrabubba Impact Structure

2023 World gymnastic championships all round individual winner which Japanese male who also won all-around and horizontal bar golds at Tokyo Olympics? Mr Infinite Stamina

Daiki Hashimoto

2023 World gymnastic championships male floor gold which Israeli who also won Tokyo gold at floor?

Artem Dolgopyat

2023 World gymnastic championships which Irish male gymnast won pommel horse gold to go with his 2022 pommel horse worlds gold?

Rhys McClenaghan

2023 World gymnastic championships chinese male gymnast won gold in rings to go with gold medal at Tokyo Olympics also?

Liu Yang

2023 World gymnastic championships female Brazilian gymnast won gold on vault to go with 2020 Tokyo vault gold

Rebecca Andrade

Which French word came eventually to mean an extravagant style of art characterized by curving lines, gilt and gold? It originally meant "of an irregular shape" and was used mostly to refer to pearls.

Baroque

Derived from the Italian word for a cave what 9-letter word has the following dictionary definition: "Odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd;

Grotesque

Originally meaning nothing more than a chambermaid in a Turkish seraglio what word was spiced up by western usage to at first describe a harem concubine and eventually to refer to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem?

Odalisque

From the Spanish word for a rogue or rascal, what word is given to a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero, usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society?

Picaresque

What is the surname of the footballer who won a Champions League medal with Manchester United before returning to his native Catalonia the following season and becoming one of only four players to have won the Champions League two years in a row with different clubs?

Gerard Pique

Which island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies was the birthplace of Josephine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte?

Martinique

A Sp2 Which small private island in the nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has built up a reputation since the 1960s of being an exclusive sanctuary for royalty, rock stars, celebrities and heads of industry to relax in anonymity?

Mustique

1. "Nothing to be done is the first line of which iconic 20th century stage play?

Waiting for Godot

What name was given to Europe's first revolutionary socialist government? In its brief 72 days of existence in 1871 it managed to put in place a minimum wage, separate church and state and establish equal pay for men and women.

The Paris Commune

Name any three of the five rising stars of the Tory party who in 2012 put their heads together and, pausing only to berate the British worker for being feckless and idle, bequeathed unto a grateful nation their book Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity.

Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore, Liz Truss

Starting at 11am in November 1980 and running for far too many years which Radio 1 DJ read out a sentimental story sent in by a listener over the theme to Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet? It ended with a record chosen by the heart-broken correspondent.

Simon Bates (feature was called Our Tune)

Which former Radio Merseyside presenter became a female DJ at Radio 1 in 1982 having been recommended by Paul Gambaccini? She proved very popular but made the mistake of having a baby in 1987 and was promptly replaced by a male presenter. She died aged 66 on Christmas Day 2021.

Janice Long

Which garment, forming for many years an integral part of women's wardrobes, takes its name from a French word meaning 'little body'?

Corset

What word originally meant 'little witch' in the Provencal language? It came to mean any human, animal or object thought to bring good luck, or anything used to represent a group with a public identity.

Mascot

The little known Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is generally considered to be the shortest war in history. How long did it last?

38 minutes

Which aptly named Football League in the British Isles used to consist of 4 teams before the 1950s but is now only contested by the Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners?

The Isles of Scilly Football League

Wildfires near which Canadian city of over 20,000 people led to emergency evacuations in August 2023? It is the capital, largest community and only city in the Northwest Territories

Yellowknife

Who played Nicole in Renault Clio ads 1991-98?

Estelle Skornik

Who played Papa in 1991-98 Renault Clio ads opposite Estelle Skornik as Nicole?

Max Douchin

5 In 1604 the rugged coast of Maine was explored by which noted French navigator? An important figure in the history of Canada, he gives his name to a freshwater lake which lies on the border of New York state and Quebec

Samuel de Champlain

6 Which English 20th century philosopher became an influence on the Conservative Party via his works including "On Being Conservative" (1956) and "Rationalism in Politics" (1962)? The political journalist partner of politician Richard Tice is from the same family

Michael Oakeshott

Composed of Gabbro and Grandiorite what is the name of the large natural monolith near Abuja which is a national symbol of Nigeria?

Zuma Rock

Which Japanese martial art originally developed by Morihei Ueshiba?

Aikido

Justine Lindsay, the NFL’s first openly transgender cheerleader, performs with TopCats, the cheerleading squad of which team?

Carolina Panthers

Which stereotypical accent is based on a Robert Newton film role?

Long John Silver pirate accent

Which structure used to supply Nîmes with water?

Pont du Gard aqueduct

The European “snake in the tunnel” was an agreement on what?

Currency Exchange

Severn is the largest class of boat in whose fleet?

RNLI

Britains oldest church

St Martins in Canterbury

Britain’s oldest synagogue

Bevis Marks, Aldgate

Britain’s oldest mosque

Shah Jahan, Woking

What links: Alcuin; Guy Fawkes; WH Auden; Judi Dench; Kate Atkinson?

People from York

known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories

Kate Atkinson

What links: Kefir; kombucha; kvass; kumis; root beer; tepache?

Fermented non alcoholic drinks

a fermented dairy product traditionally made from mare milk or donkey milk. The drink remains important to the peoples of the Central Asian steppes, of Turkic and Mongol origin: Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Kalmyks, Kyrgyz, Mongols, and Yakuts.

Kumis

Mexican fermented drink a fermented beverage made from the peel and the rind of pineapples, and is sweetened either with piloncillo or brown sugar, seasoned with powdered cinnamon, and served cold

Tepache

What links: Guy Mollet; Anthony Eden; David Ben-Gurion; Gamal Abdel Nasser?

Leaders of countries during Suez Crisis

Last country to join opec 2018

Republic of Congo

Who played Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls?

Lacey Chabert

Who is president of Palestine and has been since 2005

Mahmoud Abbas

President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, is chairman of which party?

Fatah

current Palestinian leader of the organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, having taken over from Ismail Haniyeh in February 2017

Yahya Sinwar

It registered an average of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units, and the Carolina Reaper averaged 1,641,183. Guinness World Records in 2023 crowned what pepper as the hottest chili pepper in the world, dethroning the Carolina Reaper after 10 years?:

Pepper X

It was Fat Bear Week last week in America. This contest involves a knock-out votes to find the best plump bear in which Alaskan National Park and Preserve?

KATMAI

Which bear has the best all-time winning record winning Fat Bear of the Year four times, the last being in 2021? They share their name with a Sex Education character.

Otis

Emma Grede will be a guest dragon in the next series of Dragon’s Den along with Gary Neville. Emma Grede is the co-founder alongside Kim Kardashian of which shapewear clothing company?

SKIMS

Emma Grede will be a guest dragon in the next series of Dragon’s Den along with Gary Neville. Emma Grede is the co-founder alongside Khloe Kardashian of which “female power” clothing company?

GOOD AMERICAN

theoretical scenario in which Earth's orbit is overpopulated with objects and debris, preventing the use of satellites in certain sections of Earth's orbit

Kessler Syndrome

Which chancellor of Oxford Brookes University released his debut novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho in 2022 and is an accomplished actor who has also starred in films including “The Beach”, “Aeon Flux” and the tv series “Neverwhere”?

Paterson Joseph

American attorney and jurist who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986

Warren Burger

American attorney and jurist who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986

Warren Burger

Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, food name

Felix Frankfurter

Ulrich Dausien founded which German outdoors brand in 1981 featuring a paw print in their logo?

Jack Wolfskin

agina in Hotel Rwanda (2004) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. She continued acting in films such as Æon Flux (2005), Martian Child (2007), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Skin (2008), Christopher Robin (2018), Wild Rose (2018), and Death on the Nile (2022).

Sophie Okonedo

Brazilian film director and visual artist. Most known for his film The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão. 2023 film Firebrand focuses on Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry viii.

Karim Ainouz

Which stage actress played Blanche du Bois in 2022 west end A Streetcar named Desire and Eliza Doolittle in the 2023 Old Vic run of My Fair Lady? Also played young queen Mary in 2023 film Firebrand.

Patsy Ferran

Which actress played Stella Kowalski in 2022-23 run of A Streetcar Named Desire? Won Laurence Olivier award for that. also played Amina in We Are Lady Parts and was in Killing Eve and Black Mirror.

Anjana Vasan

American author, activist, and civil rights leader and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death

Coretta Scott King

Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Ashtal, who has served as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland and in 2016 became the first woman to hold the post of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations was born in which commonwealth island nation?

Dominica

Grand moff tarkin actor Star Wars

Peter Cushing

French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward and is the current technical advisor of French Ligue 1 side Marseille. Considered to be one of the best centre-forwards of his generation, he won the Ballon d'Or in 1991

Jean-Pierre Papin

Which right fielder and designated hitter who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1954 to 1976 with a career total of 755 home runs was nicknamed "Hammer" ?

Hank Aaron

Which actress played Fleur Delacouer in Harry Potter films?

Clémence Poésy

Stephen Joseph Theatre found in which northern town?

Scarborough

Teddy Pendergrass found fame as the lead singer of which band?

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes

American songwriting and production team credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as Philly sound) of the 1970s with their won record label Philadelphia International?

Gamble and Huff

American political and business leader. An activist in the Civil Rights Movement and lawyer, he was also a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X. He was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977

Percy Sutton

West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician

Griot

an epic poem of the Malinke people that tells the story of the hero Sundiata Keita (died 1255), the founder of the Mali Empire

Sunjata

a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone, common in Mandinka ethnic group.

Balafon

He was an artist, a mathematician, a poet, a priest, a philosopher, a cryptographer and an athlete: he could ride wild horses and leap over a man's head. He was a close friend of the sculptor Donatello and the architect Brunelleschi, and he designed several churches including San Francesco at Rimini and the façade of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Famous book On Painting.

Leon Battista Alberti

book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named ______ across the Islamic world as far as India and China

The travels of sir John Mandeville

1511 work by Desiderius Erasmus with title character and companions such as self love, flattery, pleasure and lust.

Praise of Folly

Machiavelli’s The Discourses are a commentary on which historian’s first ten books of his work on the Roman Republic.

Livy

Which Augsburg born artist works are found in danse macabre inspired work The Dance of Death?

Hans Holbein

Who wrote 1528 The Obedience of a Christian Man? Translated New Testament into English, fled to Worms, burned in 1536.

William Tyndale

Who wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier. It was very influential in 16th-century European court circles.

Baldesar Castiglione

Which Spaniard later to become a Dominican priest protecting native Americans left Spain aged 18 with Columbus? He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.

Bartolome de Las Casas

Who was the first person to use the term rinascita, 'Renaissance'? He was a painter, an architect and a friend of Michelangelo (128). Born in Arezzo, he worked for most of his life in Florence, painting the walls of the Palazzo Vecchio and designing the loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi. In 1571, he was knighted by Pope Pius V.

Giorgio Vasari

Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel.

Lazarillo de Tormes

Puerto Rican poet, novelist and dramatist. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011).

Giannina Braschi

Whose only novel was 1604 The Swindler? This baroque author’s main rival was Luis de Gongora. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo.

Francisco de Quevedo

Which baroque author was main rival of Francisco de Quevedo? The Generation of ‘27 took their name from tricentennial of this authors death. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo.

Luis de Gongora

Chilean author died 2003 in Barcelona, the most important of which are the novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), the novella Nocturno de Chile (By Night in Chile), and, posthumously, the novel 2666.

Roberto Bolano

Argentine, naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator best known for Hopscotch and Blow-Up (made into Michelangelo Antonioni film).

Julio Cortazar

Member of French royal family who came close to marrying Henry VIII. Who wrote The Heptameron in 1558 similar to Bocaccio’s Decameron but set in Pyrenees.

Marguerite de Navarre

Florentine sculptor who wrote a famous autobiography talking about Rome and Fontainebleau 1558-63.

Benvenuto Cellini

Killers of the Flower Moon:is Martin Scorsese 2023 film based on 2017 non fiction work by who?

David Grann

lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist. Flowers of the Killer Moon was eleventh and final collaboration with Martin Scorsese, died before release.

Robbie Robertson

long, narrow extension of Namibia, running about 280 miles (450 km) from the northeast corner of the main block of the country eastward to the Zambezi River, named after chancellor of German empire 1890-94

Caprivi Strip

Narrow corridor joining Afghanistan and China

Wakhan Corridor

unofficial term for the modern border between Germany and Poland, named after two rivers

Oder-Neisse line

Preached in 1631, Death’s Duel was whose last sermon?

John Donne

Which diarist was born on 2 April 1967?

Adrian Mole

Who became the first professional female player registered in England when she signed with Fulham Ladies in 2000? She made her England debut at age 17 and went on to earn 5 Women’s Premier League Championships, 2 Women’s Super League Championships, 11 FA Women’s Cups, 7 Women’s Premier League Cups and 1 UEFA Women’s Cup.

Rachel Yankey

2022 polish film EO about donkey by which polish director?

Jerzy Skolimowski

Skolimowski’s 2022 film EO is inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film called what also about donkey?

Au Hasard Balthazar

Prunus Spinosa, what tree produces sloes?

Blackthorn

1814: George builds his first steam locomotive, called what, at Killingworth Colliery, near Newcastle upon Tyne

the Blucher

Prussian field Marshall He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Gebhard von Blucher

British historian, author, and television presenter. She is a professor of public engagement with history at the University of Reading. Appeared on The Wheel. She wrote and presented the documentary The Grandfather of Self-Help, about Samuel Smiles, for Radio 4.

Kate Williams

Liz Truss walked on to which piece of music at the 2022 Tory Party Conference?

Moving On Up by M People

a British comedy-drama television series created by Guz Khan and Andy Milligan. Set in Small Heath, Birmingham, the series follows the life of the title character as he spends time with his friends Nate and Eight and, in the absence of parents, raises his much younger sister, Aqsa, while trying to escape his past of crime.

Man like Mobeen

His TV appearances include Man Like Mobeen and stand up appearances in Live at the Apollo.

Guz Khan

Gillian McKeith tv show 2004-06 famous

You are what you eat

Gok Wan famous show 2006-10

How to look good naked

What not to wear 2001 launched presented by which pair originally

Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine

a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, born 1741 known as English, one of two female founding members of Royal Academy in 1768.

Angelica Kauffman

one of two female founding members of Royal Academy in 1768, female artist had portrait drawn by George Romney, patron was Queen Charlotte and drew flowers, born London 1744

Mary Moser

In 2006, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.[2] In 2017, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; she reprised the role for the show's original Broadway run and, in 2018, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Noma Dumezweni

What wine is mentioned in the book of the silence of the lambs compared to chianti mentioned in the film quote

Amarone

communication tool with speech, signs, and symbols to enable people with disabilities or learning disabilities to communicate, derived from the names of three members of the original teaching team at Botleys Park Hospital.

Makaton

Which Trinidad born sportsman and author of Cricket in the Sun (1947) became a member of the House of Lords in 1969?

Learie Constantine

South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the South Africa national team and Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby, scored 4 penalties in 2023 World Cup final beating New Zealand, was overall top scorer at 2019 World Cup too.

Handre Pollard

Princess of Asturias reaches 18 yo in October 2023, what is her first name?

Leonor

the residence and working offices of the reigning monarch of Spain (King Felipe VI), although the official residence of the Spanish royal family is the Royal Palace of Madrid

Zarzuela Palace

Winning coaches of South Africa At their four rugby Union World Cup wins

1995: Kitch Christie 2007: Jake White 2019: Rassie Erasmus 2023: Jacques Nienaber

Who captained South Africa to 2007 World Cup glory rugby Union?

John Smit

Who is the founder and owner of the Arsenal football team youtube fan channel AFTV? He produced the Channel 4 ‘Real Football Fan Show’ and narrated the 2020 ITV documentary “Under Their Skin,” about racism in football, and the experiences of black football supporters in the UK.

Robbie Lyle

English YouTuber and radio presenter, best known for his videos and livestreams on the Manchester United-based fan channel, The United Stand.

Mark Goldbridge

Miniminter, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123, and W2S are lesser known members of which YouTube group?

Sidemen

English YouTuber and actor. In 2012, he began posting videos on the YouTube channel ThatcherJoe, currently at over 7 million subscribers. In 2018, he was a finalist on the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, and in 2019, he portrayed Ogie Anhorn in the West End production of Waitress. He is the younger brother of fellow YouTuber Zoe Sugg.

Joe Sugg (younger brother of Zoella)

Which station which was opened in 1852 by the Great Northern Railway is a square on the British Monopoly board and according to folklore is the site of Boudica's final battle?

Kings Cross

American activist and advocate for gun control. In 2018, they survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, and, in response, co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD.

X González

Post code of Houses of Parliaments

SW1A 0AA

Buckingham Palace postcode

SW1A 1AA

10 Downing Street post code

SW1A 2AA

Lead singer of Heart

Ann Wilson

Argentina new President November 2023 election

Javier Milei

Ecuador president elect who will replace Guillermo lasso on November 25 2023

Daniel Noboa

Which team won the 2023 cricket World Cup?

Australia

Which batter hit 136 on the World Cup cricket final 2023 when Australia beat India by six wickets

Travis Head

Which Indian bowler got the most wickets at the cricket World Cup with 24 including 7 for 57 runs against New Zealand?

Mohammed Shami

Most runs with 765 and best player of series at the 2023 cricket World Cup?

Virat Kholi