Season 1 - Week 1 Flashcards
Ireland has won 10 silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games. Of these, two have been won by female athletes. Who won the first of these when she finished second in the 5,000m at the 2000 games in Sydney?
Sonia O’Sullivan
Named after the Malaysian state that makes up its northern border, the Straits of Johor separates that country from which other nation?
Singapore
What does the letter B (as in Bravo) stand for in the electrical industry term USB, a standard that establishes specifications for cables, connections and power supply between computers and peripherals?
Bus
(Universal Serial Bus)
The Many Saints of Newark is a 2021 American crime drama film directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner. It is a prequel to which television series, originally broadcast from 1999-2007?
The Sopranos
Known at the time as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning “the place of beauty”, what is the name of the site in Egypt where the wives of pharaohs were buried in ancient times?
Valley of the Queens
Which politician has served as Vice-Chancellor of Germany since March 2018? He is currently the favoured candidate for Chancellor of Germany of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the party who received the largest share of the votes in the September 2021 Federal elections.
Olaf Scholz
The soundtrack from which 2000 American film written and directed by the Coen brothers is the most recent soundtrack to have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, doing so in 2002?
O Brother, Where Art
Thou?
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of using bows to shoot arrows. What name is given to the craftsperson who makes arrows (though not the arrowhead) for use in archery?
Fletcher
(a maker of arrowheads is
an arrowsmith)
Which veteran British singer was jointly credited with Van Morrison on his 1989 Irish no. 3 hit song Whenever God Shines His Light ? Although Avalon Sunset , the album from which it was taken, was released in June 1989, this song was released as a single in November for the Christmas market.
Cliff Richard
The animated TV series Paw Patrol focuses on a young boy who leads a crew of search and rescue dogs. What is the name of this boy, who must have access to unending tech development funding?
Ryder
Which Australian tennis player won her second Grand Slam singles title in July 2021, when she defeated Karolína Plíšková in the final of Wimbledon?
Ashleigh Barty
In biology, what is the name of the second highest taxonomic rank, just below domain?
Kingdom
The mouflon is a feral animal native to the Caspian region from eastern Turkey to Iran. It is thought to be the ancestor of all modern breeds of which domesticated animal?
Sheep / Ovis /
Ovine(s) - accept any
William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of which drug? In 2021, this antiparasitic drug became a cause célèbre for right-wing figures, especially in the USA, who promoted it as a supposed treatment for COVID-19.
Ivermectin
Influenced by the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, what is the name of the series of children’s detective fiction books published by British-American author Robin Stevens since 2014? The series follows schoolgirl detectives Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells, and the 10th book in the series, Once Upon a Crime, was published in August 2021.
Murder Most Unladylike
Which engineer, born in Castlebar in 1852, invented the world’s first practical guided missile, an eponymous torpedo that was used by throughout the British empire for harbour defences between 1885 and 1906? In 1903 he also patented a gyroscopically-balanced monorail system.
Louis Brennan
The last recorded example of an aurochs dates from 1627, when it was noted as having died in the Jaktorów Forest in Poland. The aurochs is the primary ancestor of which domesticated animal?
Cow / Cattle /
Bovine(s) - accept any
Ireland has won 10 silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games. Of these, two have been won by female athletes. Who won the second of these when she finished second in the Laser Radial sailing class in Rio de Janeiro in 2016?
Annalise Murphy
In which country are the Straits of Mackinac [pronounced Mack-in-aw] located?
USA
(between Michigan’s Upper
and Lower peninsulas)
What does the letter I (as in India) represent in the electrical industry term HDMI, a system used for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data to televisions, monitors and projectors?
Interface
(High-Definition
Multimedia Interface)
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of using bows to shoot arrows. What name is given to the craftsperson who makes bows for use in archery?
Bowyer
In biology, what is the name of the second-lowest taxonomic rank, located above species?
Genus
Before making his big break as a solo artist, which Irish singer-songwriter performed backing vocals on several songs from Van Morrison’s Mercury Award-nominated album Days Like This (1995) including the title track? Indeed, he features prominently in the music video for that song.
Brian Kennedy
Which engineer, born in Crossgar, County Down in 1893, invented the modern aviator ejection seat in 1946? Up to 2013, his name and image appeared on the obverse of the Northern Ireland £100 note issued by Northern Bank.
James Martin
Which song appears four times in the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack? One of these versions, credited to a fictional group called The Soggy Bottom Boys, also won a Grammy Award in 2002, for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.
I am a Man of
Constant Sorrow
