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Question 1

1 Which American actor born in Hawaii on August 1 1979 played Jason Ioane in ‘Baywatch Hawaii’ Ronon Dex in ‘Stargate Atlantis’ Khal Drogo in ‘Game of Thrones’ and Arthur Curry in the film ‘Aquaman’?

Answer 1

1 Jason Momoa

Question 2

2 Which Irishman from Rush Co Dublin captained England to victory in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup?

Answer 2

2 Eoin Morgan

Question 3

3 By what stage name – forename and surname – is the American actor born Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (on August 3 1940) better known?

Answer 3

3 Martin Sheen

Question 4

4 Who won the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open golf championships at Lahinch golf club?

Answer 4

4 Jon Rahm

Question 5

5 And which golfer won the 2019 British Open at Royal Portrush?

Answer 5

5 Shane Lowry

Question 6

6 Which country won the 2019 Netball World Cup at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool?

Answer 6

6 New Zealand (The Silver Ferns)

Question 7

7 Which Soviet actress and film director (7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was in 1961 the first female winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes film festival in the 20th century and the first woman to win a directing prize at any of the major European film festivals for the film ‘Chronicle of Flaming Years’ a war drama about Russian resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941?

Answer 7

7 Yuliya Solntseva

Question 8

8 Alan Napier (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988) who played the butler Alfred in the 1960s ‘Batman’ TV series was a cousin of which British prime minister?

Answer 8

8 Neville Chamberlain

Question 9

9 The artist Jheronimus Van Aken born in the Netherlands around 1450 is better known by what name? He died on 9 August 1516.

Answer 9

9 Hieronymous Bosch

Question 10

10 Rated the greatest Lightweight boxer of all-time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer and known as the Old Master which boxer (November 25 1874 – August 10 1910) became the first African-American World Boxing Champion of the 20th century reigning continuously as World Lightweight Champion from 1902-1908?

Answer 10

10 Joe Gans (born Joseph Gant)

Question 11

11 Which Trinidad-born writer (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories?

Answer 11

11 V. S. Naipaul

Question 12

12 Better known as an actor (August 23 1912 – February 2 1996) who directed or co-directed the movies ‘On The Town’ ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and ‘Hello Dolly!’?

Answer 12

12 Gene Kelly

Question 13

13 Johann Christoph Denner (August 13 1655 – April 26 1707) is generally credited with the invention of which single-reed woodwind instrument around 1700?

Answer 13

13 Clarinet

Question 14

14 ‘August 1914’ is the first in a series of novels collectively known as ‘The Red Wheel’ by which Russian writer who died on 3 August 2008?

Answer 14

14 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Question 15

15 Which English film director and cinematographer (15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was best known for directing the films Performance (1970) Walkabout (1971) Don’t Look Now (1973) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990)?

Answer 15

15 Nicolas Roeg

Question 16

16 Which James Bond movie featured Madonna (born August 16 1958) in a cameo role as Verity a fencing instructor? She also sang the title song.

Answer 16

16 Die Another Day

Question 17

17 Which US novelist (born August 17 1959) wrote ‘The Corrections’ (2001) and ‘Freedom’ (2010)?

Answer 17

17 Jonathan Franzen

Question 18

18 Which Colombian cyclist won the 2019 Tour de France becoming the first Latin American winner of the race?

Answer 18

18 Egan Bernal

Question 19

19 Born 19 August 1883 what was the real first name of fashion designer Coco Chanel?

Answer 19

19 Gabrielle

Question 20

20 ‘Post Office’ (1971) ‘Factotum’ (1975) and ‘Pulp’ (1994) are among the notable works by which German-born American poet novelist and short story writer (August 16 1920 – March 9 1994)?

Answer 20

20 Charles Bukowski

Question 21

21 Which Sicilian novelist and poet (August 20 1901 – June 14 1968) was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature for his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times?

Answer 21

21 Salvatore Quasimodo

Question 22

22 Which English professional snooker player from Bristol (born 20 August 1989) won the 2019 World Snooker Championship for the first time by beating John Higgins 18-9 in the final?

Answer 22

22 Judd Trump

Question 23

23 Which battle (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II? Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids it was the largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.8–2 million killed wounded or captured) battle in the history of warfare.

Answer 23

23 Battle of Stalingrad

Question 24

24 Which Treaty signed on 24 August 1821 established Mexican independence from Spain at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence?

Answer 24

24 Treaty of Córdoba

Question 25

25 'Money' (1984) 'London Fields' (1989) and 'Time's Arrow' (1991) are some of the best-known novels by which British novelist essayist and memoirist (born August 25 1949)?

Answer 25

25 Martin Amis

Question 26

26 Which anti-war film of 1921 features Rudolph Valentino (May 6 1895 – August 23 1926) as an Argentinian libertine who's moved to join the French army in World War I? Its title refers to figures described in the New Testament.

Answer 26

26 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Question 27

27 'Bacchus and Ariadne' (1522–1523) is one of the most famous works by which Italian painter the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school who died on 27 August 1576?

Answer 27

27 Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)

Question 28

28 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' an epistolary novel of 1774 in which a sensitive artist is driven to destruction by his unrequited love for the young Charlotte is by which German writer (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)?

Answer 28

28 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 29

29 Which Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller starred Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) as Alicia Huberman opposite Cary Grant and Claude Rains?

Answer 29

29 Notorious

Question 30

30 The Cairo Trilogy comprising 'Palace Walk' 'Palace of Desire' and 'Sugar Street' are among the notable works of which Egyptian writer (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) who was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind?

Answer 30

30 Naguib Mahfouz

Question 31

31 Tiffany is the middle name of which American actor and Hollywood star born in Philadelphia on August 31 1949?

Answer 31

31 Richard Gere

Question 32

32 Which poet wrote that the English winter ended in July 'to recommence in August'?

Answer 32

32 Lord Byron (in 'Don Juan')

Question 33

33 What is the title of the 2016 Second World War film drama starring Irish actors Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy about the mission to assassinate SS general Reinhard Heydrich the architect behind the Final Solution?

Answer 33

33 Anthropoid

Question 34

34 Which Italian city has been chosen along with Cortina d’Ampezzo to host the 2026 Winter Olympics?

Answer 34

34 Milan

Question 35

35 What is the name of the horse race run every summer around the Piazza del Campo in Siena?

Answer 35

35 Palio di Siena (known locally simply as Il Palio)

Question 36

36 Who released the 1986 best-selling album 'August'? It is the artiste's biggest-selling album to date.

Answer 36

36 Eric Clapton

Question 37

37 Which Scottish golfer won the first Irish Open golf championships held at Portmarnock in 1927?

Answer 37

37 George Duncan

Question 38

38 Mus musculus is the scientific name for the house mouse. Which creature has the scientific name Balaenoptera musculus?

Answer 38

38 Blue whale

Question 39

39 Which English-born American director of film and television (born August 25 1939) is best known for the films 'Saturday Night Fever' (1977) 'Dracula' (1979) 'Blue Thunder' (1983) 'WarGames' (1983) 'Short Circuit' (1986) and 'Stakeout' (1987)?

Answer 39

39 John Badham

Question 40

40 Who is RTE's London Correspondent?

Answer 40

40 Sean Whelan

Question 41

41 Created by Johnny Speight what was the name of the politically-incorrect character played by Warren Mitchell in 'Till Death Us Do Part' and 'In Sickness and In Health'?

Answer 41

41 Alf Garnett

Question 42

42 Which creature has the scientific name Vanessa atalanta?

Answer 42

42 Red admiral butterfly

Question 43

43 Which is the most northerly of the five boroughs of New York City?

Answer 43

43 The Bronx

Question 44

44 Which branch of metaphysics is the philosophical study of being? More broadly it studies concepts that directly relate to being in particular becoming existence reality as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

Answer 44

44 Ontology

Question 45

45 Who made the Jewel Voice Broadcast at 12 noon on August 15 1945?

Answer 45

45 Emperor Hirohito

Question 46

46 Who played Bobby Riggs in the 2017 film 'Battle of the Sexes'?

Answer 46

46 Steve Carell

Question 47

47 In which US state is the 229-square-mile (590 km2) Zion National Park featuring Zion Canyon which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to 2640 ft (800 m) deep?

Answer 47

47 Utah

Question 48

48 What name is given to the Islamic call to worship recited by the muezzin at prescribed times of the day?

Answer 48

48 Adhan (also written as adhaan athan or azaan)

Question 49

49 For which 2001 film did 'Downton Abbey' creator Julian Fellowes (born 17 August 1949) win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay?

Answer 49

49 Gosford Park

Question 50

50 Which Belgian-born German politician is set to succeed Jean Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission on November 1 2019?

Answer 50

50 Ursula von der Leyen

Question 51

51 Ranidaphobia is the specific fear of what?

Answer 51

51 Frogs

Question 52

52 Nicknamed the 'White Mouse' what was the name of the New Zealand born Allied secret agent (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011) who operated in France during World War II?

Answer 52

52 Nancy Wake

Question 53

53 Which Romanian-born German novelist poet essayist (born 17 August 1953) was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature who with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose depicts the landscape of the dispossessed?

Answer 53

53 Herta Müller

Question 54

54 Which American composer (August 25 1918 – October 14 1990) composed the Oscar-nominated score for the 1954 film 'On the Waterfront'?

Answer 54

54 Leonard Bernstein

Question 55

55 Up to and including 2019 who is the only female jockey to win the Galway Plate aboard Bold Flyer in 1989? 

Answer 55

55 Sarah Collen

Question 56

56 Which Irish venue will host the 2026 Ryder Cup?

Answer 56

56 Adare Manor

Question 57

57 Which golfer (born 27 August 1957) won the US Masters in 1985 and 1993 and in 1986 he became the sport's first official number one ranked player? He also won the Irish Open three times in 1984 1987 and 1994.

Answer 57

57 Bernhard Langer

Question 58

58 Which American actor and voice artist (born August 1 1958) is best known for portraying Bobby Baccalieri on 'The Sopranos' and DA Detective Anthony Abetemarco on 'Blue Bloods'?

Answer 58

58 Steve Schirripa

Question 59

59 Which Norwegian writer (August 4 1859 – February 19 1952) was awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature for his monumental work Growth of the Soil?

Answer 59

59 Knut Hamsun

Question 60

60 The Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson is credited with the discovery of which element in 1817 while studying the ore petalite also known as castorite?

Answer 60

60 Lithium

Question 61

61 Who was the last winner of the men's singles championships at Wimbledon who was not named Federer Djokovic Nadal or Murray?

Answer 61

61 Lleyton Hewitt (2002)

Question 62

62 The Four Pests Campaign was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats flies mosquitoes and which other creatures?

Answer 62

62 Sparrows

Question 63

63 Which 2019 British comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha was inspired by the life of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and his love of songs by Bruce Springsteen?

Answer 63

63 Blinded by the Light

Question 64

64 Which botanist invented the system of binomial nomenclature the system of using two Latin names to describe plants and animals?

Answer 64

64 Carl Linnaeus

Question 65

65 Which renowned architect (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965) prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India and contributed specific designs for several buildings there?

Answer 65

65 Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Question 66

66 For her performance in which 2001 film did Halle Berry (born August 14 1966) win the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress? As of 2019 she is the only woman of African-American descent to have won the award.

Answer 66

66 Monster's Ball

Question 67

67 By what name is Shuhada Davitt very much better known to music fans?

Answer 67

67 Sinead O'Connor

Question 68

68 Which American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent the subject of a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel died from a heroin overdose at the age of 27 on August 12 1988?

Answer 68

68 Jean-Michel Basquiat

Question 69

69 Which Scottish actress (born August 11 1969) plays the title role in the Sky comedy mystery drama series 'Agatha Raisin'?

Answer 69

69 Ashley Jensen

Question 70

70 John Keats dedicated his poem 'Endymion' to which poet who committed suicide aged 17 on 23 August 1770?

Answer 70

70 Thomas Chatterton

Question 71

71 Which band took their name from Carolina bluesmen with the surnames Anderson and Council?

Answer 71

71 Pink Floyd

Question 72

72 'Selma' (2014) '13th' (2016) and 'A Wrinkle in Time' (2018) are notable works by which female film director born in Long Beach California on August 24 1972?

Answer 72

72 Ava DuVernay

Question 73

73 'Made in Japan' is a double live album by which English rock band recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972? It was originally released in December 1972 with a US release in April 1973 and became a commercial and critical success.

Answer 73

73 Deep Purple

Question 74

74 Which Italian-born actress (born August 20 1974) has been nominated for six Oscars most recently at the 91st Academy Awards (ceremony 2019) though has yet to win an Oscar?

Answer 74

74 Amy Adams

Question 75

75 Assassinated on August 15 1975 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was which country’s founding leader?

Answer 75

75 Bangladesh

Question 76

76 'Magnificent Obsession' is a 1929 novel by which American minister and author (August 27 1877 – February 13 1951) who did not write his first novel until he was 50? It was one of four of his books that were eventually made into blockbuster motion pictures the other three being 'The Robe' 'White Banners' and 'The Big Fisherman'.

Answer 76

76 Lloyd C. Douglas

Question 77

77 Which former U-2 spy plane pilot died aged 47 in a helicopter crash as a reporter in Los Angeles on August 1 1977?

Answer 77

77 Gary Powers

Question 78

78 E-1027 is a modernist villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France; it is the most famous work by which Enniscorthy born architect (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) and furniture designer and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture?

Answer 78

78 Eileen Gray

Question 79

79 Dallas Brett and Kane are characters from which 1979 film?

Answer 79

79 Alien

Question 80

80 Part of the Puerto Rico Trench and with a maximum depth of at least 27493 feet (8380 m) what is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 80

80 Milwaukee Deep

Question 81

81 At which two courses did Padraig Harrington (born August 31 1971) win consecutive British Opens?

Answer 81

81 Carnoustie (2007) & Royal Birkdale (2008)

Question 82

82 Regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s for which two films did Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31 1897 – April 14 1975) win the Academy Award for Best Actor?

Answer 82

82 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) & The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Question 83

83 Which couple won the 2019 edition of 'Love Island'?

Answer 83

83 Greg O'Shea & Amber Gill

Question 84

84 Which two US presidents had the first name Thomas?

Answer 84

84 Thomas Jefferson & Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Question 85

85 Which two US states have a coastline on Chesapeake Bay? 

Answer 85

85 Virginia & Maryland

Question 86

86 Who are the two Scuderia Toro Rosso team drivers in the 2019 FIA Formula One World Championship?

Answer 86

86 Daniil Kvyat & Alexander Albon

Question 87

87 In 1887 which were the first two cities to be linked by telephone?

Answer 87

87 Paris & Brussels

Question 88

88 Equatorial Guinea is bordered by which two African countries?

Answer 88

88 Cameroon & Gabon

Question 89

89 Which two Roman towns were destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in August 79AD?

Answer 89

89 Pompeii & Herculaneum

Question 90

90 Robert De Niro (born August 17 1943) directed which two films?

Answer 90

90 A Bronx Tale (1993) & The Good Shepherd (2006)