Set 12 Flashcards
What was the name of Priam’s father in Greek mythology?
Laomedon
Greater than’ in arithmetic, ‘adjacent to’ in graph theory and ‘congruent to’ in geometry are all examples of which mathematical concept, defined as a set of ordered pairs?
Relation
Anthony Hopkins’ film August and Woody Allen’s film September were both inspired by which Chekhov play?
Uncle Vanya
The North American butterfly Danaus Plexippus, which migrates from the northern US and Canada to Mexico every year, has what name?
Monarch butterfly
Which fin do eels lack?
Pelvic fin
The epigraph for the Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock was taken from which other poet?
Dante
Which German-Jewish intellectual (philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, translator, essayist) occasionally associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, wrote famous essays on Charles Baudelaire (1821–67).
His turn to Marxism in the 1930s resulted from the influence of playwright and friend Bertolt Brecht, and he died at Portbou in Catalonia after trying to escape the Nazis?
Walter Benjamin
Which Hugarian philosopher’s 1923 work History and Class Consciousness turned Benjamin on to Marxism?
Gyorgy Lukacs
The US architect Donal McLoughlin designed the emblem on which flag adopted in 1947?
United Nations
Arsene Heitz is credited with the design of which flag?
European Union
Thirteen Munros are on islands, with 12 on the Isle of Skye. Where is the other, Ben More?
Mull
The Mantoux test is used for which disease?
Tuberculosis
King John Albert of Poland, who came to the throne in 1492, was a member of which dynasty?
Jagiellons
In Greek mythology, who was Jason’s father?
King Aeson
In a watch, what kind of escapement invented by Robert Hooke gets its name from its resemblance to a piece of nautical equipment?
Anchor
Which kind of escapement, invented by John Harrison, gets its name from its resemblance to an insect?
Grasshopper
Cartridge, cartography and cartoon all derive from the Latin word for what?
Paper
Protein, fat and carbohydrate are the three whats?
Macronutrients
Amylase in saliva breaks down which of the macronutrients?
Carbohydrate
Which law prevents a process whose sole result is the transfer of heat from a cooler to a hotter body?
The second law of thermodynamics
What is the hypothetically maximally efficient engine operating between two temperatures?
The Carnot heat engine
Which temperature scale is independent of the properties of any physical material?
Kelvin
Siupper at Emmaus by Titian, The Dance by Matisse and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon all have how many figures in them?
Five
Which German composer wrote such roles as Rodelinda and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare for Francesca Cuzzoni, who died in poverty in 1778?
Handel
Which Catholic Poet Laureate was dismissed when he refused to swear allegience to William III?
John Dryden
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks is a carol written by which Poet Laureate?
Nahum Tate
Which Poet Laureate created a fictional detective modelled on W H Auden?
Cecil Day Lewis
Which adjective, used to indicate the number of syllables in a word is autoreflexive- that is, it denotes the number of syllables it contains itself?
Pentasyllabic
In Heart of Darkness, what is the name of the protagonist, who gets a job as a ferry captain and goes to Africa?
Charles Marlow
Whose third book is called Lights Out in Wonderland, about the 2008-2010 recession?
DBC Pierre
Super Sad True Love Story is a tale of Lenny Abramov, the only book loving ‘real human being’ left in an America that is over-sexualised and under-empathised, and where books are dismissed in favour of digital absorption. When he falls for the young and beautiful but damaged Eunice Park, he must convince her that despite not being a HNWI (high new worth individual) he still has something to offer her. Who is the Jewish American author?
Gary Shteyngrt
In the Islamic world, and particularly in Egypt, Ramadan is associated with what in TV scheduling terms?
Soap operas
She isn’t your average singer/songwriter. In fact if you believe everything she says, she’s also a time traveller, who’s DNA has been cloned in order to create a cyborg alter-ego called Cindy Mayweather. Whether or not you do, it is impossible to deny the current buzz around this Kansas born performer. What’s her name?
Janelle Monae
Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies are a British musical duo. Influenced by American blues and English folk, their music is characterized by interweaving guitar picking and vocal harmonies, described byMojomagazine as ‘dark, lustful blues-folk’.The band’s name, which is what, alludes to the summer mist that collects in the hedgerows of Sussex’s narrow country lanes?
Smoke Fairies
Which newcomer plays the lead in Winter’s Bone and is already being tipped for Oscar success?
Jennifer Lawrence
The annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’ is named for which female Australian novelist who sounds like a man?
Miles Franklin
Which postmodern art movement, founded by the artist Takashi Murakami, is influenced by manga and anime? It is in part an allusion to the shallowness of Japanese consumer culture.
Superflat
Which Japanese term, typical of the country, means art or culture devoted to the sexualisation of teenage girls and is derived from a Nabokov character?
Rorikon (from Lolita complex)
Most often used for Japanese manga, what portmanteau word means the (usually illegal) copying of comic books into another language?
Scanlation
Boy and World’s Fastest Indian are successful, arthouse movies from which country?
New Zealand
Which German author of Measuring the World is the biggest selling novelist in the German language since Patrick Süskind’s Perfume was released in 1985. His works are heavily influenced by Latin American magical realism.
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann states that in his work he is trying to move away from the goals of which group of writers that have dominated postwar literature in Germany and are named for the year of their founding?
Group 47
Name the American photographer: famous for his “Kiss”, iconic shots of Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, and Marlon Brando; and also his more political coverage of the racial segregation in the US in the 1950s.
Elliot Erwitt
Who was the A in the famous record label A&M records?
Herb Alpert
Director of World’s Greatest Dad with Robin Williams, Robert Francis Goldthwait usually goes by which forename, which he shares with a member of the felidae family?
Bobcat
Which modern dance company based in New York was founded in 1958 by the eponymous choreographer and dancer and a few of his black male friends? It’s become famous as a pioneer of African American choreography.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Which HBO series, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era, stars Steve Buscemi? The first episode was directed by Martin Scorsese. The show’s theme music is “Straight Up and Down” by The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Boardwalk Empire
Ben Folds teamed up with who to write the album Lonely Avenue?
Ben Folds
Who is the Swedish author behind the hugely successful Let The Right One In?
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Which gay French film director and screenwriter, whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality, is noted for his films 8 femmes (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003)?
Francois Ozon
Which Argentinian-born French filmmaker has directed films featuring the character of a nameless butcher played by Philippe Nahon: Carne, I Stand Alone and (in a cameo) Irréversible?
Gaspar Noe
Both Noe and Ozon are part of which movement in French cinema, so named because of the youthfulness of its directors and the graphic nature of their films?
New French Extremity
Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan is causing controversy. His new sculpture, a middle finger stuck up, stands outside which building?
Milan Stock Exchange
The second most famous Mexican mural artist, which man was commissioned in 1932 to create a mural for the city of LA, titled America Tropical, but his finished piece was eventually whitewashed as the civic authorities found its theme of indigenous struggle too controversial?
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Together with Jose Clemente Orozco and Rivera, Siqueiros was part of which three-word artistic movement?
Mexican Mural Renaissance
Which line ‘protected’ (it didn’t) Hong Kong against Japanese invasion in WW2?
Gin Drinkers Line
What was the name of Inspector Wexford’s sidekick?
Burden
Which Soviet statesman and ideologist became the most prominent intellectual in the Soviet leadership under Joseph Stalin and held considerable sway over political decision making in the Soviet Union and beyond during the post-Stalin era? He was known both as the Soviet “Red Eminence” for his loyalty to hard-line communism and as the Soviet “Grey Eminence” for his behind-the-scenes importance and asceticism.
Mikhail Suslov
Which American crime writer’s mother was murdered when he was 10, in a still unsolved crime that has strongly influenced the author’s world-view and writing?
James Ellroy
Which American guitarist was involved in the Buena Vista Social Club recordings in the 1990s?
Ry Cooder
Tacheles (Yiddish for ‘straight-talking) House is/was a squat, and then an art gallery, in which city?
Berlin
Which best-selling author and forensic anthropologist writes the Temperance Brennan series of thrillers?
Kathy Reichs
Which city is the site of the world’s largest marine sculpture museum? Four hundred life-size figures have been sunk into the ocean floor - visually exciting in their own right, nature may eventually transform them into a brand new coral reef.
Cancun
Since it was painted in 1432, which work by the Van Eyck brothers has been involved in 13 different art crimes, making it the world’s most coveted masterpiece?
The Ghent Altarpiece (Adoration of the Mystic Lamb)
At the beginning of 2010, this Dutch singer was just another session singer, but her debut album Deleted Scenes from The Cutting Room Floor has made her a record breaker - she’s been #1 in Holland’s charts for 28 weeks beating the previous holder - Thriller by Michael Jackson. What’s her name?
Caro Emerald
What is the oldest and best-known Dutch music award, named for a famous American?
Edison
Which 2010 film, touted as the Slumdog Millionaire of Africa, is about is about three Rwandan children who embark on a journey across seven African countries to attend the opening ceremony of the football World Cup in Johannesburg?
Africa United
In 2010, which was the first country to ban a (copycat) exhibition along the lines of Gunther von Hagens’ Bodyworlds?
France
Who directed An American Werewolf in London and Coming to America?
John Landis
Which Anglo-Pakistani feamle singer became much hyped in Britain in the second half of 2010?
Rumer
In 1970, trumpeter and sonic experimenter Miles Davis recorded the album that brought to public attention a new genre of jazz: jazz rock. It was heavy and noisy and created using the capabilities of the recording studio as a fundamnetal addition to the creative process. What was it called?
Bitches Brew
What is the name of the world’s largest rubbish dump, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro?
Jardim Gramacho
The first Portuguese Olympic marathon runner, at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in Stockholm, he was the first athlete to die during an Olympic event, after collapsing at the 29 kilometer mark of the marathon. The cause of death was thought to be severe dehydration; later it was discovered he covered large portions of his body with wax to prevent sunburns, but eventually the wax impermeability restricted the athlete’s natural perspiration. What was his name?
Francisco Lazaro
Which sufi rock band from Lahore was formed in 1990 by guitarist and songwriter Salman Ahmad, keyboardist Nusrat Hussain and vocalist Ali Azmat? They are Pakistan’s most successful band; Q magazine regarded them as “One of the biggest bands in the world” whereas The New York Times called them “the U2 of Pakistan”? Since their inception, the group has released a collective total of seventeen albums, selling 30 million units.
Junoon
What is the name of the Arab Muslim medieval town located about 5 kilometers from Córdoba, Spain? Its ruins were excavated starting from the 1910s. Only about 10 percent of the 112 sites have been excavated. It was built by caliph Abd ar-Rahman III of Córdoba and is the largest known city built from scratch in Western Europe.
Medina Azahara
Which photographer is best known for his iconic shots of rock and roll legends such as Queen, David Bowie, Syd Barrett, and Lou Reed? Often referred to as The Man Who Shot the Seventies, most of the memorable images of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust were shot by him in his capacity as the official Bowie photographer.
Mick Rock
The subject of the biography “A Tall story”, what is the name of one of France’s most charismatic and intriguing literary figures? Born in Vilnius, he managed to win the supposedly once-in-a-lifetime Prix Goncourt twice, once under his name and once under the name of a fictitious author Emily Ajar. He was married to Jean Seberg and committed suicide himself after she did.
Romain Gary
Which British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper was born in London in 1978 to a Barbadian father, who is a playwright, and British-Jamaican mother, who is an actress? He shares his forename with an African town.
Soweto Kinch
What is the name of the 2010 documentary following the fortunes of the Afghan cricket team?
Out of the Ashes
Which Nobel laureate’s memoirs are called The Box? The controversial volume one of his memoir was called ‘Peeling the Onion’, in which he revealed he had been a member of the elite Nazi fighting force, the Waffen SS.
Gunter Grass
Thanks to a new constitution, which country is now called the Plurinational State of……?
Bolivia
Oscar-winning director, Fernando Trueba, and Spain’s most successful designer, Javier Mariscal, have created an animated love story set in the 1940s and 50s, in which a gifted songwriter and beautiful singer chase their dreams - and each other - from Havana to New York to Las Vegas. What’s the name of this ‘adult animation’?
Chico and Rita
Which man became President of Kazakhstan at independence in 1991 and as of 2010 is still in the job?
Nursultan Nazarbayev
She became famous fifty years after her death when people started reading her book about the Nazi occupation of France, Suite Francaise. The book was never finished as she was deported to Auschwitz in 1942 where she died of typhoid. It was published posthumously in 2004 and became an international bestseller. What was her name?
Irene Nemirovsky
Which Jewish Polish writer, Jonathan Safran Foer’s favourite, wrote The Street of Crocodiles and was executed by a Nazi in his hometown of Drohobycz in 1942?
Bruno Schultz
Published in 2010, Mary Ann in Autmn is the most recent in which acclaimed cycle of novels?
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Born in Lebanon, now living in Paris, which trumpeter has developed a distinctive, unique sound. He plays a specially adapted quarter tone trumpet that his father invented so that he could use the instrument to play Arabic scales and classical Arab music?
Ibrahim Maalouf
It’s being hailed as one of the most powerful dramas of the year, won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and is the French entry to the Oscars. Based on a true story, it’s about a group of French Cistercian monks who live in harmony with the largely Muslim population of Algeria until their faith is tested in a most terrifying way. What’s its name?
Of Gods and Men
Which Trinidadiad hip-hop artist was born Onika Tanya Maraj?
Nicki Minaj
Called the Olympics of the contemporary art world, which art festival takes place ever year in two venues- the Swiss city where it started and in Miami Beach?
Art Basel
Which composer and band leader is nicknamed ‘Hansi’?
James Last
Which famous Scottish photographer is famous for many images throughout his 40 year career, none more so than the famous photoshoot of Alfred Hitchcock with a goose?
Albert Watson
Whose production company/agency is called Dene Jesmond Enterprises?
Bryan Ferry
What was the shared surname of novellist father Ernest-Aime and son Georges, a comic French playwright of the Belle Époque remembered for his many lively farces, including A Flea In Her Ear?
Feydeau
Which Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to play both soprano and mezzo roles, and is sometimes considered a soprano with a low tessitura. Her coloratura skill has earned her the title the Queen of Agility?
Cecilia Bartoli
Name both Clint Eastwood-directed films about the US experience in the war against Japan?
Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
Flame is a rock musical based on the songs of which band?
Slade
Who directed Women in Love and Tommy?
Ken Russell
Which grandson of Emeric Pressburger directed State of Play, Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland?
Kevin MacDonald
Which American prodigy from New Orleans, who died aged 47 when he got into a cold bath on a hot day, was the best chess player in the world (despite his youth) from 1857 to 1863?
Paul Morphy
In chess, which Prague-born man first described how to avoid weaknesses in one’s own position and how to create and exploit such weaknesses in the opponent’s position? His scientific approach and positional understanding revolutionized the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
When Stienitz became the world’s first chess champion, who did he defeat for that honour?
Johannes Zukertort
Steinitz was world chess champion until losing to which much younger German mathematician?
Emmanuel Lasker
What is notable about Lasker’s tenure as World Chess Champion?
Longest ever (27 years)
Who defeated Lasker finally after 27 years in 1921?
Jose Capablanca
Which Russian-Frenchman died as World Chess Champion, having briefly lost his title to Max Euwe of the Netherlands?
Alexander Alekhine
Between the world wars, chess was revolutionised by which school of thought, its proponents including Nimzowitsch and Reti, who advocated controlling the center of the board with distant pieces rather than with pawns, inviting opponents to occupy the center with pawns which become objects of attack?
Hypermodernism
Who was the first ever women’s World Chess Champion?
Vera Menchik
The winner of the 1948 World Chess Championship initiated the period of Soviet dominance after WW2. What was his name?
Mikhail Botvinnik
Which brillant Latvian chess player, nicknamed The Magician from Riga, was very briefly World Champion from 1960-61 but died of kidney problems aged just 55?
Mikhail Tal
Who was the first Armenian to become World Chess Champion, 1963-1969?
Tigran Petrosian
How is the 1972 Chess championship between Spassky and Fischer known?
The Match of the Century
Which London company, who also make table tennis bats, tiddlywinks and boardgames, became famous when Bobby Fischer insisted on their board and pieces being used in the Match of the Century?
Jaques of London
Who got the World Chess Championship by default after Fischer refused to defend his title?
Anatoly Karpov
Who was World Chess Champion 2000-2007?
Vladimir Kramnik
A Game At Chesse is a comic satirical play of 1624 by which man?
Thomas Middleton
The Royal Game (Or Chess Story; Schachnovelle in the original German) is a novella by which Austrian author first published in 1942, after his death by suicide? Driven to mental anguish as the result of total isolation by the National Socialists, Dr B maintains his sanity only through the theft of a book of master games which he plays endlessly, voraciously learning each one until he becomes consumed by chess.
Stefan Zweig
In which country did Zweig commit suicide after fleeing from Nazi Germany?
Brazil
In Harry Potter, what is played with pieces and a board like real chess, except that the pieces are animated and they literally destroy each other if they land on an opponent’s square?
Wizard’s chess
Bobby Fischer belonged at the height of his chess powers to the evangelical Worldwide Church of God, founded by which family, the youngest of whom, Garner Ted, was rocked by allegations of adultery and gambling?
Armstrong
What two-word phrase can be defined as ‘the art of creating chess problems’?
Chess composition
What name is given to someone who sets such problems?
Chess composer
As of 2010, who is the reigning woman’s chess champion?
Alexandra Kosteniuk
The world’s highest rated female player prefers to play with men. What is her name?
Judit Polgar
The Corus tournament in chess is held in which country?
Netherlands
Usually played at the end of February, which Spanish chess tournament has been described as the Wimbledon of Chess?
Linares
What is the name of the chess tournament held in Monte Carlo that combines blindfold and speed chess and is named after the founder’s daughter?
Amber
The Sparkassen is one of the four annual chess ‘majors’ and is held in which German city?
Dortmund
Dortmund, Corus and Linares are three of the four annual chess majors. Which is the fourth, held in and named for an EU capital city?
Sofia
Which country won gold at the 2010 Chess Olympiad?
Ukraine
In chess, what is the WCSC?
World Chess Solving Championship
In chess, what is the ranking below a Grandmaster?
International Master
How many ranking points do you have to reach to be considered a chess grandmaster?
2500
Who was the first ever female grandmaster in chess, born in Zugdidi, Georgia, in 1941?
Nona Gaprindashvili
Which Hungarian born chess player gives his name to the calculation of ranking points used for FIDE competitions?
Arpad Elo
What is a chess engine?
A computer programme for playing chess
10 to the power of 120 is the game-tree complexity of chess, and is a number known as what, after the first man to calculate it?
Shannon number
Which Spanish machine was the first ever chess-playing ‘computer’ and was built in 1912 by Leonardo Torres y Quevedo?
El Ajedrecista
The Turk, Mephisto and Ajeeb were all purported to be examples of what in chess?
Automatons (in fact, pseudo-automatons)
What was the name of the controversy in the 2006 World Chess Championship match between Kramnik and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria?
Bathroom controversy
What name is given to unorthodox chess pieces used in some variants of chess but not in FIDE tournaments? They include the archbishop, chancellor, grasshopper and knightrider.
Fairy pieces
If the Chinese version of chess is xiangqi, what is the Japanese version?
Shogi
If the Chinese version of chess is xiangqi, what is the Korean version?
Janggi
Which chess variant invented by former World Champion Bobby Fischer? It uses the same board and pieces as standard chess but the starting position of the main pieces is chosen at random and takes its name from the number of possible starting positions.
Chess960
Who wrote Fast Food Nation?
Eric Schlosser
Which famous person was born as Karoline Blamauer to working class Roman Catholic parents in Vienna?
Lotte Lenya
The Venetian painter Giacobo and his sons Gentile and Giovanni shared what surname?
Bellini
Which other famous artist was Giacobo Bellini’s son in law?
Andrea Mantegna
What name is given to the glow that some substances display after exposure to radiation?
Phosphorescence
Who directed Whistle Down The Wind and The Stepford Wives and is married to Nanette Newman?
Bryan Forbes
Ramiform means what shape?
Branch-shaped
Bryan Forbes has two daughters. One is Emma Forbes- the other one is Sarah, who is married to which famous actor?
John Standing
Which Persian king conquered Lydia in Asia Minor under Croesus?
Cyrus the Great
In the Bible, who was Methuselah’s father?
Enoch
Which 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy tells the story of an upper class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. The storyline has been commented upon as a modern take on Mark Twain’s classic 19th century novel The Prince and the Pauper?
Trading Places
A hero of Tarantino’s, which man was invited to be executive producer of Reservoir Dogs but is most famous for directing the existentialist early 1970s road movie Two-Lane Blacktop?
Monte Hellmann
In architecture, what Greek term describes the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes. Its best-known use is in certain orders of Classical columns that curve slightly as their diameter is decreased from the bottom upwards?
Entasis
What weas the nickname of Graeme Obree’s bike on which he twice broke the world hour record in the early 1990s and which was made from bits of old washing machines?
Flying Scotsman
Which British film production company, based at Shepperton, produced films similar to those of Hammer, including the Doctor Who films, Dr Terror’s House of Horrors and Tales From the Crypt?
Amicus
Respighi’s The Birds Prelude was used as the theme for which TV programme hosted by Max Robertson and with Arthur Negus as the resident expert?
Going for a Song
The flower Rafflesia was first discovered on which island of modern Indonesia?
Sumatra
The second American film of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) starred which two Britons in the leading roles?
Trevor Howard and Richard Harris
What name is given to the mangrove forest, the world’s largest, covering the deltas of the Ganges? It’s a UNESCO world heritage site.
The Sundarbans
Which controversial Dirk Bogarde film was the first to mention the word ‘homosexual’ but paved the way towards decriminalisation of gay activity?
Victim
Which Elvis Presley film was set in New Orleans and was directed by Michael Curtiz?
King Creole
Who was Elvis’ co-star in Viva Las Vegas, with whom Elvis also had a steamy relationship off-screen?
Ann-Margret
Which writer coined the phrase ‘radical chic’ in 1970, describing the tendency of well-off members of society to mingle with socialists and revolutionaries?
Tom Wolfe
Which British animal is Cetorhynus Maximus?
Basking Shark
Which soluble protein was discovered in the 1950s by Alec Isaacs and Jean Lindeman? It inhibits the growth of attacking viruses and is therefore a crucial part of immunity?
Interferon
What was the name of Hannibal’s brother?
Hasdrual
Which Brazilian won the 1972 and 1974 GPs?
Emerson Fittipaldi
Which two countries fought the Queen Anne’s War in the early c18?
England and France
In 2010, which poet’s ‘last letter’ to another was published for the first time?
Ted Hughes (to Sylvia Plath)
In medicine, Nagel’s rule provides an estimate of timescale in relation to which natural process?
Childbirth
Nagyagite, calavarite and silbarite are all minor ores of which precious element?
Gold
The actor Robert Baddeley left a bequest so that actors could enjoy cake and ale every tweflth night at which London theatre?
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Where in London did Napoleon III die?
Chislehurst
As opposed to plankton, which are drifting animals, which classification of marine animals means those that swim by their own efforts?
Nekton
What is the governing body of world pigeon racing, in Brussels?
FCI (Federation Colombophile International)
Which sword did Beowulf use?
Hrunting
Pellucida is a subterranean continent at the Earth’s core in novels by which Chicago-born writer?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
David Warren, a scientist working in Melbourne, developed which major contribution to aviation in the 1950s?
Black box recorder
The Birkland-Eyde process results in the production of which acid?
Nitric
He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, The Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character?
Edgar Wallace
His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment (1983), Dostoyevsky’s famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki. He gained worldwide notice with his movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America. His style relies on low-key acting and simple cinematic storytelling to get his message(s) across. Which Finnish director?
Aki Kaurismaki
Who directed The Untouchables and Ratatouille?
Brad Bird
Who directed Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Creepshow?
George A Romero
Who killed the man who killed Jesse James?
Edward O’Kelley
Who directed the unconventional Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There?
Todd Haynes
Which American film editor was Michael Powell’s last wife and has worked with Martin Scorsese for over thirty-five years? She has edited all of Scorsese’s films since Raging Bull. She has received six Academy Award nominations for best editing, and has won three times (for Raging Bull, The Aviator, and The Departed).
Thelma Schoonmaker
Which Winchester-born actor, who played Ben Carrington in Dynasty, coincidentally died in 2010 only six days after John Forsythe, who had played his brother Blake?
Christopher Cazenove
Which film actor’s maternal great-grandfather was Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott? He played Doctor Parnassus in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus?
Christopher Plummer
Who directed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Charlie Wilson’s War and Closer?
Mike Nichols
The undulating outer shell of the 118 foot tall Henderson Waves footbridge is striking, and the inside is shaped into benches where tourists can sit and gaze at nature or the nearby skyline. In which city is this striking bridge located?
Singapore
Europe’s tallest lift bridge, with 282 foot pylons, crosses the Seine and is named for which French writer?
Gustave Flaubert
At 22 miles long, it’s the world’s longest ocean-crossing bridge. What is this Chinese bridge’s name?
Hangzhou Bay Bridge
Leonardo Da Vinci sketched plans for this bridge in 1502, but it wasn’t until 500 years later that the design was brought to life by Norwegian artist Vebjørn Sand. The pedestrian bridge opened in 2001 and crosses the E18 highway.In which city?
Istanbul
In which European capital is the new Python Bridge?
Amsterdam
Evergreen Point Bridge in Washington State between Seattle to Medina is unique in being the world’s longest of what type of bridge?
Floating
The Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge, a mammoth, x-shaped, cable-stayed construction, was completed in 2008 over the Pinheiros River. The peak of its pylon is 452 feet high, while the bridge’s total length is just shy of a mile.In which city?
Sao Paulo
