Set 04 Flashcards
Who paid for Pancho Gonzales’ funeral in 1995, when he died almost friendless?
Andre Agassi (his brother-in-law)
Her alternative names include Elissa (Greek) and Elishat (Phoenician). The Phoenician for ‘wanderer’, how was she known to Arab writers?
Dido
What was the name of the boat in which John Cobb lost is life on Loch Ness?
Crusader
Established in 1919 by Alice Warrender, it is one of the UK’s oldest- which £10K literary prize is awarded for the year’s best work of imaginary literature?
Hawthornden
Which Scottish isle features a wide, west-facing bay known as the Bay at the Back of the Ocean?
Iona
The emblem of German, Polish and Austrian troops, which flower do the heroes go in search of in Asterix in Switzerland?
Edelweiss
This German developed a dialectical scheme that emphasised the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis. Who was this?
Hegel
Who was Plato’s older brother and was one of Socrates’ inner circle. He was also the conversant with Socrates in The Republic?
Glaukon
The national fine art museum of Russia in Moscow is named for which merchant, who collected the art?
Tretyakov
Which country’s national symbol is an imaginary half-lion, half-fish?
Singapore
The Tifinagh alphabet, its name possibly meaning ‘Phoenician letters’ is now used in private notes by the women of which nomadic people?
Tuareg
Which city in Egypt is on the site of Thebes?
Luxor
What is on the opposite bank of the Nile from Luxor/Thebes?
Valley of the Kings
In which African country is the drinking of green tea (Atai) as important culturally as in Japan?
Morocco
Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth is a world-renowned brand name of superior quality items of which kind?
Pencils
What is both a Portuguese and Galician form of the biblical name Jacob?
Santiago
He established his business in Alessandria, Italy in 1859 making felt from Belgian rabbit fur. Which famous hat maker shares his name with a classic French gangster movie?
Borsalino
He directed a 3D re-make of the movie Piranha. Which French Jew with a palindromic surname found fame in 2006 with a remake of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes?
Aja
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, V for Vendetta and Watchmen are all the works of which graphic novelist?
Alan Moore
Which Austrian playwright and novelist wrote the filmed The Piano Player and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004?
Jenelik
Which Spanish dance performed by a man and a woman shares its name with a 1975 ZZ Top album and a 1985 film starring Kevin Costner?
Fandango
Which 1933-born French actor of Sicilian descent had his breakthrough role in Godard’s ‘A Bout de Souffle’?
Jean Paul Belmondo
Clausio Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow, which won the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film festival, was the first film from which country to get international recognition?
Peru
Sometimes called the Japanese Walt Disney or the Father of Anime, who interpreted the life of Buddha between 1974 and 1984 in a series of manga books?
Tezuka
Which online project is organising a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages?
Rosetta
Based on a James Michener novel set at the time of the Korean war, for which 1957 film did Miyoshi Umeki win Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first actress of East Asian descent to win an Oscar?
Sayonara
The 2002 sci-fi film Solaris, starring George Clooney, was a remake of a 1972 movie of the same name by which Russian film-maker?
Tarkovsky
He directed Bandit Queen. Then he changed his focus to Western history and directed Elizabeth (1998) and the Four Feathers (2002). Which man?
Kapoor
His verse ‘But where are the snows of yesteryear’ is famous. Which Frenchman is famous for his Ballad of the Hanged, written while in prison?
Villon
Which German philosopher, who held that thought and being are one, died of cholera while Rector of Berlin University?
Hegel
Which US entrepreneur made his fortune through the American Fur Company, which he founded in 1808?
John Jacob Astor
In which city are the HQ of the ICAO?
Montreal
Which American entrepreneur opened the first rail link between NYC and Chicago and built the original Grand Central Station?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Which chief choreographer of the Royal Ballet from the 1930s created the ballets A Month in the Country and The Tales of Beatrix Potter?
Sir Frederick Ashton
Which model railway gauge equates to 1:160 scale?
N Gauge
Which model railway gauge equates to 1:87 scale?
HO Gauge
What’s the nickname of someone from Nova Scotia?
Bluenosers
What was the real surname of the mapmaker Mercator?
Kremer
Which horse, which Kieran Fallon won the 2006 2000 Guineas on, has the name of a US President?
George Washington
Which female painter, an associate of the Bloomsbury set, was portrayed by Emma Thompson in a 1995 film?
Dora Carrington
What was the surname of the man who invented italic type at his Aldine press?
Manutius
According to the King James bible, what turneth away wrath?
A soft answer
According to the King James bible, what maketh a cheerful countenance?
A merry heart
Aquamarine, emerald, heliodor and morganite are all examples of which mineral?
Beryl
Ruby is the red form of corundum. What is the blue form?
Sapphire
Which soprano has a stage name meaning ‘The Bell’ in the native language of her country?
Kiri Te Kanawa
Who is the piano player on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue?
Colin Sell
Which US general commanded the 2003 Iraq invasion?
Tommy Franks
Which town is Monty Panesar from?
Luton
Dubonnet is a pink version of which kind of drink?
Vermouth
Which psychedelic folk rock band, best known for their song Happy Together, were arguably the first to perform at the White House for Nixon’s daughter Tricia?
The Turtles
Which French-Israeli singer-songwriter rose to fame when her hit single New Soul was used in an ad campaign by Apple and become the first Israeli soloist to have a top ten hit in the USA?
Naim
Which 1972-born singer is sometimes known as the Turkish Elvis and is the best-selling non-Russian act in the Russian charts?
Tarkan
This system has been used to describe the method of governance employed by kings of the Saxon dynasty, distinguishing it from the feudalism of the French type. Broadly speaking, it is where the king rules the country through clergy appointed by himself. It is named for the first Holy Roman Emperor. What is it?
Ottonian
Which former President of Serbia (1998-2002) was unexpectedly cleared of war crimes at the Hague in 2009?
Milutinovic
Which US national park is home to c6-c12 Indian cave dwellings, is in the SW of Colorado and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Mesa Verde
What collective name was given to Bessie Mundy, Margaret Lofty and Alice Burnham, the three wives of George Joseph Smith?
The Brides in the Bath
Where does Lord Snooty live?
Bunkerton Castle
Which war hero was nicknamed Old Rough and Ready and later became US President?
Zachary Taylor
In cricket scoring, what symbol is used to represent a no ball, with no additional runs scored?
Dot in a circle
In cricket scoring, what symbol is used to represent a wide, with no additional runs scored?
An ‘X’
In which 1871 book did Darwin posit the evolution of men from apes?
The Descent of Man
Which name was used from 1945 to 1993 for what then became British Forces, Germany?
British Army of the Rhine
In July 2006, which reigning World and Olympic 100m champion failed a drugs test?
Justin Gatlin
Which golf course has holes called, among others, Black Rock, the Monk and Burmah?
Troon
Which golf course has holes called Jockie’s Burn, South America, Spectacles and Barry Burn?
Carnoustie
Which Chancellor resigned in 1958?
Thorneycroft
When Thorneycroft resigned, so did his Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Who?
Enoch Powell
What was Enoch Powell’s real first name?
John
When Aneurin Bevan resigned as Health Secretary in 1951, which President of the Board of Trade also resigned?
Harold Wilson
Who wrote the story on which Psycho was based?
Robert Bloch
In which newspaper is the column Atticus?
Sunday Times
In which newspaper is the column Crossbencher?
Sunday Express
In which country do 100 centimes make a gourd?
Haiti
At the age of 71 in 2006, who became the oldest ever actress to model for the Pirelli calendar?
Sophia Loren
What some of money is called a Commodore (because it’s ‘three times a Lady’)?
£15
What is the most famous work of artist Vladimir Tretchikoff, sometimes called the King of Kitsch?
Chinese Girl
According to Disraeli, ‘there was only one firm that could do it- and that was Rothschilds’. What?
Purchase the Suez Canal
Which character created by Peter Cook was friends with E L Wisty and was the other half of the World Domination League?
Spotty Muldoon
Which sport is based on the Duddingston Rules?
Curling
Which piece of armour consisted of a breastplate and backplate joined together and whose popularity among heavy cavalry resulting in many regiments being named after it?
Cuirass (Cuirassiers)
What nickname was given to the Roman general Scipio after he defeated Hannibal at Zama?
Africanus
What name did Terence Rattigan coin as the epitome of the matinee audience he had to please?
Aunt Edna
Which free will doctrine was named for a monk excommunicated by Innocent I?
Pelagianism
Pelagianism was declared heresy by which body?
Council of Ephesus
What is the name of the Slavic minority group, long settled between the Oder and the Elbe in Eastern Germany?
Wents or Sorbs
What is the common name of the fish of the family Labridae, of which the ballan and cuckoo are found in British waters?
Wrasse
Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the Appalachians, is in which specific chain?
Blue Ridge Mountains
In the fishing industry, what function was carried out by the man known as a ‘huer’?
Lookout/watch
Which Arab capital city vies with Damascus for the title of the world’s oldest and claims to have been founded by Shem?
San’aa
What nickname was originally given to a cheap car in the 1930s but later became the nickname of a deadly German weapon?
Doodlebug
What is removed in a cholecystetomy?
Gall Bladder and stones
In which German Land is Weimar?
Thuringia
In Cole Porter’s 1934 song, what is the name of the lady whose butler conveyed the message that she was unable to attend a lunch as she had been hanged?
Miss Otis
In the TV series Where the Heart is, what is the name of the paper products company central to the stories?
Goddards
Which English town, now represented in the Premiership, had teams from 1890 named County, Town, United, Borough and Athletic?
Wigan
Although its use goes back to Roman times, what term was coined by canal builder James Brindley for clay, sand and gravel with water added mixed in such a way as to become watertight for use in dams?
Puddled clay
Also called Typhon, who in Egyptian mythology is the brother of Osiris who is the embodiment of all elements hostile to mankind?
Seth
Which 1970 John Wayne film was Howard Hawks’ last and carries strong echoes of the classic Rio Bravo?
Rio Lobo
Whose name is given to the series of equations which are the mathematical expressions of the laws of Gauss, Faraday and Ampere?
Maxwell
If 594 x 841 is A1 in paper sizes, what is 707 x 1000?
B1
In July 1933, England, captained by Lt Col Beasley, played the USA, captained by E Culbertonson in Selfridges in which game?
Bridge
Known in the USA as a Bonus Issue, what name is given in the UK for the issue of free shares to subscribers in lieu of a dividend?
Scrip issue
Which 4th century Roman historian coined the phrase Let He who Desires Peace Prepare for War?
Vegetius
The preserved steam railway at Cadeby, Warks was the inspiration for which man’s books?
Rev W Awdry
What name is given to a seaport like Rotterdam or Singapore that acts as centre for transhipment or the ongoing distribution of goods?
Entrepot
On which route was the ferry Princess Victoria on in 1953 when she sank with the loss of 100 lives?
Stranraer to Larne
Fought over in WW2, the Mareth Line was a series of fortifications in which country?
Tunisia
Which of Marlborough’s victories in the War of the Spanish Succession was the heaviest in terms of casualties and was fought to prevent the French from relieving the siege of Mons?
Malplaquet
Which Spanish nationalist composer and pianist whose works include the orchestral suites Espanola and Catalonia and the piano suite Iberia?
Isaac Albeniz
Generations of Scottish schoolchildren learned to fear the Lochgelly. What is it?
Strap
What name is given to the response discovered by Pavlov where a novel stimulus can set off the same reaction as the original stimulus?
Conditioned reflex
What is the real first name of Trinny Woodall?
Sarah Jane
Which strip of land designed to give access to the Baltic cut off East Prussia from the rest of Germany from 1919 to 1945?
Polish Corridor
In a pun on the French-speaking part of Switzerland, what name is given to the hilly country east of Le Havre?
La Suisse Normande
The highest railway summit in the South of England lies on which preserved steam line?
Watercress line
In Cheshire and Lancashire, what name is given to a lagoon formed when a depression formed by mining subsidence becomes permanently flooded?
Flash
Often sung to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers and the title of a play by William Douglas Home, which phrase has been facetiously referred to as ‘every Welshman’s claim to fame’?
Lloyd George knew my father
In which game are the handicaps called bisques and run from 26 to -2 for world-class players?
Croquet
Which Hungarian-born mathematician and scientist oversaw the creation of the early computer MANIAC-1 at Princeton from 1940-52?
Johann von Neumann
Arniston Bay wine comes from where?
South Africa
Which c17 French mathematician invented an auxiliary scale which improved the accuracy of linear and angular measurements and was named after him?
Vernier
Who scripted Foyle’s War on TV and wrote the children’s book The Falcon’s Malteser?
Anthony Horowitz
Which London hotel celebrated its centenary in 2006?
The Ritz
Probably the most famous contestant to take part in the BBC series Superstars, Brian Jacks was also successful in which sport?
Judo
As well as Tommy Stack, who else rode Red Rum to victory in the Grand National?
Brian Fletcher
The American Kelly Slater is a world champion in which sport?
Surfing
Which female Australian squash player was so dominant, no-one could beat her between 1962 and 1980?
Heather McKay
Which sport has provided the most BBC Sports personalities of the year?
Athletics
Which US athlete won the 110m hurdles gold medal in both 1984 and 1988?
Roger Kingdom
Which batsman averaged over 100 runs in first class cricket in 2006?
Mark Ramprakash
Which Irishman won the Tour De France in 1987?
Stephen Roche
Which British flyweight world boxing champion was born in Tunisia in 1956?
Charlie Magri
Who in 1897 were the first ever winners of the Rugby League Challenge Cup?
Batley
Until its closure in 1970, which was London’s only horse-racing venue?
The Frying Pan in Alexandra Park
Not 147. What is the real highest possible break in the game of snooker?
155
Who was the first ever World Darts Champion?
Leighton Rees
On which island were Curtly Ambrose, Viv Richards and Andy Roberts all born?
Antigua
Whose ghost is said to haunt Newmarket racecourse?
Fred Archer
Which Frenchman was the first ever Rugby Union international to win 100 caps?
Phillippe Sella
At one time it had the largest capacity in the world (250,000). In which city is the Strahov Stadium?
Prague
Which man, who became manager of non-league Bromley in 2006, famously bankrupted himself and Crystal Palace in 1999?
Mark Goldberg
Who was the first non-Briton to score 100 Premier League goals?
Dwight Yorke
Who beat Bob Beamon’s long jump record at last in 1991?
Mike Powell
Which British driver ended with the most ever F1 victories, with 31?
Nigel Mansell
Who captained Europe to Ryder Cup success in 1985, 1987 and 1989?
Tony Jacklin
In sport, how is the man born Ferdinand Louis Alcindor better known?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Which of the Davies brothers won the World Snooker Championship on the first 15 occasions it was held?
Joe
Who was the first England player to play in 100 Test matches?
Colin Cowdray
Formed in 1862, which is the oldest still extant Football League club?
Notts County
Who, in 2000, became the first ever left-handed world snooker champion?
Mark Williams
Which American won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17?
Michael Chang
What was Tom Finney’s previous occupation, taken up in his nickname- ‘The Preston _______’?
Plumber
Which great England spin bowler, who took 297 test wickets, was nicknamed Deadly?
Derek Underwood
Which are the four sports that you can win by moving backwards?
High jump, Backstroke, Rowing, Tug of war
As well as Somerset and Durham, Botham played for which other county?
Worcestershire
Which footballer retired aged 41 in 1986, with his final appearance coming in the World Cup against Brazil?
Pat Jennings
Which sportsmen are banned from having beards?
Jockeys
In which sport do teams compete for the McCarthy Cup?
Hurling
Which cricketer was nicknamed Junior due to his relationship to his brother?
Mark Waugh
What was Steve Waugh’s nickname?
Tugga
Mize Hazelwood, Andy Mapple and Liz Hobbs have all been British champions at which sport?
Waterskiing
How many Majors did Nick Faldo win?
Six
He won three British opens and three of what else?
US Masters
Which British boxer was once implicated in the attempted murder of Frank Warren?
Terry Marsh
Who was both the youngest and the oldest post-war Test cricketer for England?
Brian Close
Which team won the 1986 FA Cup final without an Englishman in the side?
Liverpool
Which was the other London football venue in the World Cup 1966 as well as Wembley?
White City
Which American, who died in 2002, won both the Olympic 100m title and the Superbowl?
Bob Hayes
In what year did Helsinki stage the inaugural World Athletics Championships?
1983
Which England cricket captain was twice dismissed for 99 runs?
Mike Atherton
In the Discworld novels, Mustrum Ridcully holds which title, as Discworld’s most senior wizard at the Unseen University?
Arch-Chancellor
In Discworld, what title is held by Lord Vetinari, the dictator of Ankh-Morpork?
Patrician
What part did Gordon Jackson play in the Professionals?
George Cowley
Which Canadian supermodel was briefly the girlfriend of Fabien Barthez?
Linda Evangelista
Which Agatha Christie novel takes its name from a line in The Lady of Shallott by Tennyson?
The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side
Which supermodel was briefly married to Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres?
Eva Herzigova
Who was the first ever American winner of Wimbledon?
Bill Tilden
In Ken Follett’s spy thriller The Key to Rebecca, who or what is Rebecca?
The Daphne Du Maurier novel
Which Chancellor coined the advice ‘When in a hole, stop digging’?
Denis Healey
Who was the director of the 2005 Gothic fantasy film The Brothers Grimm?
Terry Gilliam
What nickname is sometimes given to the last Sunday before Advent because it was the day Christmas puddings were traditionally prepared?
Stir-Up Sunday
In bridge, what word means mistakenly discarding or trumping when you hold a card of the suit led?
Revoking
How many centimetres in an inch to the nearest 100th of a centimetre?
2.54
In bridge, what name is given to the holding of just one card in a suit?
Singleton
In music, the treble clef is alternatively known by the name of which note, which it indicates on the stave?
G
The first and second Battles of Manassas are also known by the name of which stream?
Bull Run
In music, the bass clef is known by the name of which note, which it indicates on the stave?
F
In American planes like the P51 Mustang, what does the P stand for?
Pursuit
There’ll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover was a double A side that got to Number 1 in the 1990s- what was the other song?
Unchained Melody
In the DC3 aircraft, the D stood for Douglas. What did the C stand for?
Commercial
What is the more familiar trade name of lucite, or polymethyl methacrylate?
Perspex
Nuticulus atque Auriculus is the Latin translation of which children’s book?
Noddy and Big Ears
Which jazz clarinettist, who also played the saxophone, had his first great success with his 1939 recording of ‘Woodchopper’s Ball’?
Woody Herman
The fan club Six of One is interested in what?
The Prisoner
Which BBC Sunday night programme, edited and sometimes presented by Huw Wheldon, ran from 1958 to 1965 and was Britain’s first arts magazine programme?
Monitor
Which ITV Saturday night programme was presented by Jack Good and ran from 1958 to 1959, being the first ever show dedicated to rock and roll?
Oh Boy!
Which character in Animal Farm represents Stalin?
Napoleon
As well as sphalerite, which is the other main ore of zinc?
Smithsonite
Which was the last Bond film for which Shirley Bassey sang the theme tune?
Moonraker
