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Question 1

Where is the largest unclaimed territory on earth?

Answer 1

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) in Antarctica, it is named after Richard E Byrd, the explorer.

Question 2

What is the Latin expression meaning “nobody’s land” that describes a region of land that is not claimed by any party or claimed, but not officially recognised?

Answer 2

Terra nullius
E.g.
1. Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan),
2. four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and
3. parts of Antarctica, principally Marie Byrd Land.

Question 3

What is the area of uninhabited land along the border between Egypt and Sudan called? Both Egypt and Sudan lays claim to it.

Answer 3

Bir Tawil

Question 4

Alice Ball (1891-1916) was an African American scientist who is known for the discovering the ‘Ball Method’ used in the treatment of what disease in the early 20th century?

Answer 4

Leprosy also known as “Hansen’s Disease”

Question 5

“De humani corporis fabrica libri septem” is a set of books on human anatomy, and the magnum opus of which 16th century physician?

Answer 5

Andreas Vesalius.

The Italian doctor Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564) published them based on studies of cadavers.

Question 6

What is the latin term for a work of art, music, or literature that is regarded as the most important or best work that an artist, composer, or writer has produced.

Answer 6

Magnum opus

Question 7

Defined by Jean Baudrillard as generation by “models of a real without origin or reality”. What term in art is used to describe paintings or sculptures that resemble high definition photographs?

Answer 7

Hyperrealism

Question 8

In 2020, who became the first Polish player to win a grand slam singles title? She’s the youngest winner of the French Open since Monica Sales in 1992.

Answer 8

Iga Świątek

Question 9

Which Croatian player won her only Grand Slam singles, when she beat Martina Hingis, to win the women’s singles title at the French Open in 1997?

Answer 9

Iva Majoli (Ma-yo-li)

Question 10

Winning him the directing award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, which was the film debut of Darrren Aronofsky?

Answer 10

Pi

Question 11

Which independent filmmaker’s work include: Happiness (1996), Palindromes (2004), Weiner Dog (2016)?

Answer 11

Todd Solondz

Question 12

Which MMA promotional company that takes its name from the latin word for warrior, was founded in 2008, by Bjorn Rebney?

Answer 12

Bellator MMA

Question 13

In UFC 199, which UFC hall of famer became the first British fighter to win a UFC championship, remaining the first person from his country to do so?

Answer 13

Michael Bisping

Question 14

Fought in July 1887, in which battle was the Crusaders army under the King of Jerusalem, Guy of Lusignan crushed by the muslim forces of Saladin?

Answer 14

The Battle of Hattin

Question 15

Which city on the Mississippi, surrendered to the forces of Ulysses Grant on 4th July 1863, in what is seen as a turning point in the American Civil War?

Answer 15

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Question 16

The Baltic Sea island, Usedom, is divided between two countries, name them.

Answer 16

Germany and Poland

Question 17

His first was established in 1980 in Los Angeles. Which contemporary art dealer created a series of art galleries across the USA and further afield, bearing his name.

He is not Calouste Gulbenkian, but also has Armenian heritage.

Answer 17

Larry Gagosian

Question 18

Nicknamed, “Mr Five Per Cent”, who was the British-Armenian businessman who was credited with making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development?

Answer 18

Calouste Gulbenkian

Question 19

What is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth?

Answer 19

Sea of Galilee

Question 20

Which art movement began as a literary movement in France, in the 1880s, the term for the movement first came into circulation in 1886, when the poet Jean Moréas published a manifesto in the Parisian newspaper, Le Figaro.

Answer 20

Symbolism -

The manifesto was “Manifesto of Symbolism” as a movement countering Naturalism and Realism in literature, advocating for the primacy of suggestion and nuance over direct description and the explicit representation of reality.

Question 21

Associated with the symbolist movement, which Frenchman wrote the play, Ubu Roi?

Answer 21

Ubu Roi, aka Ubu the King, was written by Alfred Jarry. The story is a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear.

Question 22

Who was tasked to draw up a legal code in the 7th century BCE to prevent issues caused by oral laws being manipulated by aristocrats in Athens. In these written laws, the writer introduced the concepts of intentional and unintentional homicide.

Answer 22

The Draconian constitution, or Draco’s code, was a written law code enforced by Draco in Athens near the end of the 7th century BC.

Question 23

Which king of the Amorite dynasty in Babylon, drew up a code of laws, that at one time was regarded the oldest surviving example of such a legal code.

Answer 23

Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest deciphered writings of length in the world (written c. 1754 BCE), and features a code of law from ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia. The Code consisted of 282 laws, with punishments that varied based on social status (slaves, free men, and property owners).

Question 24

Which pope was exhumed and posthumously tried at the Cadaver Synod of 897 AD?

Answer 24

In 897, the corpse of a pope was exhumed—to be put on trial. Known as the ‘Cadaver Synod,’ the posthumous trial of Pope Formosus resulted from the chaos of the ninth century as factions battled for control of the church.

Question 25

An opponent of the Copernicanism, which pope of the noble Barberini family ruled the papal states from 1623 - 1644?

Answer 25

Pope Urban VIII born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644.

Question 26

Charting her 20-year long career in film, and her role as a UNICEF ambassador - “Unfinished” is the memoir of which Indian actress?

Answer 26

Priyanka Chopra

Question 27

Which Indian actor’s whose daughter-in-law is former Miss World, Aishwarya Rai, was voted the millennium’s greatest actor in 1999.

Answer 27

Amitabh Bachchan

Question 27

Which Latin American author, alluded to symbolism in his work, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”?

Answer 27

“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It originally appeared in Spanish in the Argentine journal Sur in May 1939.

It is written in the form of a review or literary critical piece about Pierre Menard, a fictional eccentric 20th-century French writer and polymath. It begins with a brief introduction and a listing of Menard’s work.

Question 27

Regarded as the greatest MMA fighter of all time, which Japanese fighter is known as the “Gracie Killer” due to victories over four members of that famous UFC family?

Answer 27

Kazushi Sakuraba

Question 28

Starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson from the Beach Boys, what is the best known film of the US independent film director, Monte Hellman?

Answer 28

Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 American road movie directed by Monte Hellman, written by Rudy Wurlitzer and starring songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird.

Question 29

Which popular tourist valley in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg is cut off from the rest of Austria and is accessible only by road via Germany, making it a practical exclave.

Answer 29

Kleinwalsertal, a valley part of Vorarlberg, Austria, that is only accessible from Germany to the north, being separated from the rest of Austria by high mountains traversed by no roads.

Question 30

What mountain range borders Germany and Austria?

Answer 30

Bavarian Alps. Northeastern segment of the Central Alps along the German-Austrian border. The mountains extend east-northeastward for 70 miles (110 km) from the Lechtaler Alps to the bend of the Inn River near Kufstein, Austria.

Question 31

In March 2011, Forbes reported him to be the youngest self-made billionaire, in history. Which founder of Facebook left in 2008 to co-found Asana?

Answer 31

Dustin Moskovitz