ROB HANNAH

Question 1

The Via Flaminia was a Roman road that crossed the Apennine Mountains, linking Rome with which city on the Adriatic coast, 10 km east of San Marino?

Answer 1

RIMINI

Question 2

Who was the German nobleman and diplomat who served as Imperial Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice Chancellor under Hitler from 1933 to 1934?

Answer 2

Franz Von PAPEN

Question 3

the penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic. A rival for power with Adolf Hitler, he was murdered by Hitler’s SS during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.

Answer 3

Kurt SCHLEICHER

Question 4

Published in 1933, Why War? was a pamphlet documenting Albert Einstein’s correspondence about peace and war which major thinker?

Answer 4

Sigmund FREUD

Question 5

The American author Frederik Pohl died earlier this month. He is perhaps best-known for which 1977 sci-fi novel telling of the titular alien space station exploited by humans?

Answer 5

GATEWAY

Question 6

Who directed the 1980 film Gods Must be crazy

Answer 6

Jamie UYS

Question 7

Which South African musical, by Mbongeni Ngema, depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, was later adapted into a 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Leleti Khumalo?

Answer 7

Sarafina!

Question 8

a Japanese Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Reggae Album and won Best Global Music Album for his solo album, Sakura, at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in 2023

Answer 8

Masa TAKUMI

Question 9

Which country won their first Fed Cuo/BJK Cup in 2022?

Answer 9

SWITZERLAND

Question 10

In 1555 who was the last Pope to take his baptismal name?

Answer 10

MARSELLUS 11

Question 11

Danish polymath - soma cube, hex game, poems called grooks

Answer 11

PIET HINE

Question 12

Southern terminus Grand Canal China?

Answer 12

HANGZHOU

Question 13

Longest running animated tv series

Answer 13

SAZAE SAN

Question 14

a movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.[1

Answer 14

CONFESSING CHURCH

Question 15

a book by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, considered to be a classic of Christian thought. The original German title is simply Nachfolge (“the act of following”). It is centered on an exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, in which Bonhoeffer spells out what he believes it means to follow Christ.

Answer 15

COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

Question 16

The Clubfoot is one of the best-known works of which Valencia-born Tenebrist painter known as Lo Spagnoletto (or “the Little Spaniard”) by his contemporaries?

Answer 16

Juseppe di Ribera

Question 17

Which French Occasionalist philosopher, who sought to synthesize the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, is probably best-remembered for his two volume work Concerning the Search after Truth (1674-75)?

Answer 17

Nicola MALEBRANCHE

Question 18

Polish former ski jumper, inventor of V-style

Answer 18

Miroslaw GRAF