Set 13

Question 1

It refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. It happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl. The lack of eyewitnesses and subsequent investigations into the hikers’ deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. What is this called?

Answer 1

Dyatlov Pass Incident

Question 2

Extreme cases of compulsive hoarders, which brothers were found dead in their home in New York in 1947? The younger brother, Langley, died by falling victim to a booby trap he had set up, causing a mountain of objects, books, and newspapers to fall on him crushing him to death. His blind brother, Homer, who had depended on Langley for care, died of starvation some days later.

Answer 2

Collyer brothers

Question 3

What was the nickname given to a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium that accidentally went critical on two separate instances at the Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. Each incident resulted in the acute radiation poisoning and subsequent deaths of two scientists (Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin)?

Answer 3

Demon core

Question 4

Which man invented CFCs and leaded petrol? In 1940, at the age of 51, he contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. This led him to devise an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. This system was the eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55.

Answer 4

Thomas Midgley

Question 5

In 1944, 74 sailors died when which American submarine accidentally torpedoed itself?

Answer 5

USS Tang

Question 6

Which critic and member of the Algonquin Round Table claimed to be the inspiration for Rex Stoute’s detective Nero Wolfe and died live on air from a heart attack during a radio discussion about Hitler in 1943?

Answer 6

Alexander Woollcott

Question 7

Which British ship, sharing its name with a tropical island, sank itself in the Arctic in WW2 with a faulty torpedo?

Answer 7

HMS Trinidad

Question 8

Which American novelist and short story writer, whose most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio, died when a cocktail stick he had accidentally swallowed in Panama ruptured his colon?

Answer 8

Sherwood Anderson

Question 9

Which Welsh driver was the first man to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record in 1927 at Pendine Sands?

Answer 9

J G Parry Thomas

Question 10

Legendary Jewish strongman Siegmund Breitbart, who died when a nail he was driving through wood with his bare hands as part of an act pierced his leg and caused blood poisoning, was the subject of which 2001 Werner Herzog film?

Answer 10

Invincible

Question 11

Which Swedish author, died of cyanide poisoning while staying at Hotel Hellman in Stockholm, because the hotel staff had failed to clear the room after using hydrogen cyanide against bedbugs?

Answer 11

Dan Andersson

Question 12

It occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and residents claim that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses. This happened in which US city?

Answer 12

Boston

Question 13

Now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, which man is remembered for his accidental death by jumping from the Eiffel Tower in 1912 while testing a wearable parachute of his own design? He had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft.

Answer 13

Franz Reichelt

Question 14

Which vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?

Answer 14

Copperheads

Question 15

He died in 1871 in Lebanon, Ohio, at the age of 50, after accidentally shooting himself with a pistol. He was representing a defendant in a murder case for killing a man in a barroom brawl. He wished to prove the victim had in fact killed himself while trying to draw his pistol from a pocket while rising from a kneeling position and decided to show colleagues how he would demonstrate this to the jury. Grabbing a pistol he believed to be unloaded, he put it in his pocket and enacted the events as he imagined them to have happened, shooting himself dead in the process. Who?

Answer 15

Clement Vallandigham

Question 16

Which traditional pastry is made in various forms in Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Norway, Denmark and Estonia, associated with Lent and especially Shrove Monday or Shrove Tuesday?

Answer 16

Semla

Question 17

Which king of Sweden, died of digestion problems in 1771 after having consumed a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk? He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as “the king who ate himself to death”.

Answer 17

Adolph Frederick

Question 18

Which chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he could not stand the shame of a postponed meal. His body was discovered by an aide, sent to tell him of the arrival of the fish?

Answer 18

Francois Vatel

Question 19

Which Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais into English, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne?

Answer 19

Thomas Urquhart

Question 20

Which Athenian law-maker was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens?

Answer 20

Draco

Question 21

Which 6th century BC wrestler, an associate of Pythagoras, enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece? In addition to his athletic victories, he is credited by the ancient commentator Diodorus Siculus with leading his fellow citizens to military triumph over neighboring Sybaris in 510 BC.

Answer 21

Milo of Croton

Question 22

Also known as ‘the boats’, this was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death. The naked person was firmly fastened within a face-to-face pair of narrow rowing boats (or a hollowed-out tree trunk), with the head, hands and feet protruding. The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the point of developing severe diarrhea, and more honey would be rubbed on his body to attract insects to the exposed appendages. He or she would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun. The defenseless individual’s feces accumulated within the container, attracting more insects, which would eat and breed within his or her exposed and increasingly gangrenous flesh. The feeding would be repeated each day in some cases to prolong the torture, so that dehydration or starvation did not provide him or her with the release of death?

Answer 22

Scaphism

Question 23

Which soldier who accidentally killed Cyrus the Younger was the most famous victim of scaphism?

Answer 23

Mithridates

Question 24

More famous for his contribution to the English language, which Greek general died while fighting an urban battle in Argos when an old woman threw a roof tile at him, stunning him and allowing an Argive soldier to kill him?

Answer 24

Pyrrhus

Question 25

Which Greek stoic philosopher is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs?

Answer 25

Chrysippus

Question 26

Which brother of Judas Maccabeus was killed when an elephant fell on him in battle?

Answer 26

Eleazar Maccabeus

Question 27

Which Bishop of Pergamum was roasted to death in a brazen bull during the persecutions of Emperor Domitian?

Answer 27

St Antipas

Question 28

Which Roman emperor, who shares his name with a herbal remedy, after being defeated in battle and captured by the Persians, was supposedly used as a footstool by the King Shapur I?

Answer 28

Valerian

Question 29

Which prince of the Polans tribe was, according to 9th century legend, eaten alive by mice in a tower in Kruszwica?

Answer 29

Prince Popiel

Question 30

Which Earl of Orkney strapped the head of his defeated foe, Máel Brigte, to his horse's saddle. The teeth of this head grazed against his leg as he rode, causing an infection that killed him?

Answer 30

Sigurd the Mighty

Question 31

Which king of Hungary died when the canopy of his throne collapsed on him?

Answer 31

Bela I

Question 32

Which king of Aragon in 1410 died from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing?

Answer 32

Martin I

Question 33

Sir Arthur Aston, Royalist commander of the garrison during which Civil War event, was beaten to death with his own wooden leg, which the Parliamentarian soldiers thought concealed golden coins?

Answer 33

Siege of Drogheda

Question 34

Which peasants' revolt leader in Hungary was condemned to sit on a red-hot iron throne with a red-hot iron crown on his head and a red-hot sceptre in his hand (mocking at his ambition to be king), by Hungarian landed nobility in Transylvania. While he was still alive, he was set upon and his partially roasted body was eaten by six of his fellow rebels, who had been starved for a week beforehand?

Answer 34

Gyorgy Dozsa

Question 35

Which Scottish botanist fell into a pit trap in Hawaii in 1834 accompanied by a bull. He was gored and possibly crushed?

Answer 35

David Douglas

Question 36

Which homeless man in New York, originally Irish, is most famous for having survived a number of attempts on his life by five acquaintances, who were attempting to commit insurance fraud?

Answer 36

Michael Malloy

Question 37

Which man, nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army, was a Finnish sniper? Using a modified Mosin-Nagant in the Winter War, he has the highest recorded number (505) of confirmed kills in any major war.

Answer 37

Simo Häyhä

Question 38

Comprising half of the Far Eastern Federal District in Russia, it is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world. If it were an independent country, it would be the eighth largest in the world, yet it has a population of only 949,280 inhabitants. What is the name of this Siberian republic?

Answer 38

Sakha

Question 39

What is the capital of Sakha Republic?

Answer 39

Yakutsk

Question 40

Which is the second largest subnational division in the world?

Answer 40

Western Australia

Question 41

Which term used to refer to nine of Russia's 83 federal subjects. The term is supplemental to the oblast-based administrative division of the Russian Federation and could be compared to the English equivalents of march, territory, province, country or region? Russias's second-largest subnational division of Krasnoyarsk is one of them.

Answer 41

Krai

Question 42

Which is the largest Brazilian state?

Answer 42

Amazonas

Question 43

Which is the largest subnational division of China?

Answer 43

Xinjiang

Question 44

What name is given to the northwestern projecting peninsula of Papua New Guinea?

Answer 44

Bird's Head Peninsula

Question 45

Of the 21 most populous subnational entities in the world, 20 are parts of India and China. Which is the only one in neither country?

Answer 45

Punjab, Pakistan

Question 46

What is the world's 22nd most populous sub-national entity, and the most populous in Europe?

Answer 46

England

Question 47

What name is given to the case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire)? Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Answer 47

Dancing Plague of 1518

Question 48

Also known as the "Mystery of the Somerton Man", this is an unsolved case revolving around an unidentified man found dead at 6:30a.m., December 1, 1948 on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. Considered "one of Australia's most profound mysteries" the case has been the subject of intense speculation over the years regarding the identity of the victim, the events leading up to his death and the cause of death. What's its name, taken from a scrap of paper from the Rubaiyat found in his coat pocket?

Answer 48

Taman Shud Case

Question 49

Printer steganography is a type of steganography produced by color printers, including HP, Konica Minolta, Xerox and Epson brand color laser printers, where tiny dots of what colour are added to each page. The dots are barely visible and contain encoded printer serial numbers, as well as date and time stamps?

Answer 49

Yellow

Question 50

Malad City, Idaho, claims to have more people of what ethnicity than anywhere else in the world outside that country?

Answer 50

Welsh

Question 51

What phenomenon occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognised as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original?

Answer 51

Cryptomnesia

Question 52

Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, it involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before?

Answer 52

Jamais Vu

Question 53

Which small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring 0.5 sq mi, is located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait—the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea- what is strange about it is that it is claimed aggressively by both Canada and Denmark?

Answer 53

Hans Island

Question 54

Who was Pol Pot's deputy, known as Brother Number Two?

Answer 54

Nuon Chea

Question 55

Which Greek word for 'going down' is used to describe the epic convention of the hero's trip into the underworld?

Answer 55

Katabasis

Question 56

Which doctrine in Christian theology referenced in the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed states that Jesus Christ "descended into Hell". The lack of explicit scriptural references to Christ's descent to the underworld has given rise to controversy and differing interpretations?

Answer 56

The Harrowing of Hell

Question 57

What name is given to a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds?

Answer 57

Semantic Satiation

Question 58

Which isolated 414-mile long road leads to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Sea Coast in Alaska?

Answer 58

Dalton Highway

Question 59

Which physician, bacteriologist, professor, and member of the French Academy of Medicine who intentionally brought about the collapse of rabbit populations throughout much of Europe and beyond in the 1950s through introducing the myxomatosis virus from Australia?

Answer 59

Paul Felix Armand-Delille

Question 60

The stone spheres are an assortment of over three hundred petrospheres, located on the Diquis Delta and on Isla del Caño. Known locally as Las Bolas, they are also called The Diquis Spheres. These are the best-known stone sculptures of the Isthmo-Colombian area. In which country are these stone spheres?

Answer 60

Costa Rica

Question 61

What name is given to a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers can step on or off at any floor they like, and it gets its name from a resemblance to the Rosary used in Catholicism?

Answer 61

Paternoster

Question 62

What name is given to a sculpture consisting of a large granite ball supported by a very thin film of water. Water flows beneath a very heavy, perfectly spherical rock from a spherical concave base with exactly the same curvature. It can weigh thousands of pounds, but because the thin film of water lubricates it, the ball spins?

Answer 62

Kugel Ball

Question 63

What connects Alice Herz, Roger LaPorte and Norman Morrison in 1965, Florence Beaumont in 1967 and George Winne in 1970?

Answer 63

Americans who burnt themselves to death in protest at the Vietnam war

Question 64

What name is given to a custom-made ocean-going self-propelled semi-submersible vessel built by drug traffickers to smuggle drugs. They are especially known to be used by Colombian drug cartel members to export cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, which is often then transported overland to the United States?

Answer 64

Narco submarines

Question 65

Which feral child who apparently lived his entire childhood naked and alone in the woods before being found wandering the woods near Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance, France, in 1797 was captured, but soon escaped, after being displayed in the town? He was the subject of Truffaut's 1969 film The Wild Child.

Answer 65

Victor of Aveyron

Question 66

Which mentally handicapped Hanoverian of unknown parentage was found in 1725 living wild in the woods near Hamelin? Living off the forest's flora, he walked on all fours, behaved like an animal and could not be taught to speak. Later he was taken to England where he was exhibited, then cared for by a farmer's family, and is buried in Northchurch, Hertfordshire.

Answer 66

Peter the Wild Boy

Question 67

Which king ordered that Romulus and Remus should be killed, althugh his servant left them by the Tiber instead?

Answer 67

Amulius

Question 68

Which King of Scotland carried out the famous language deprivation experiment?

Answer 68

James IV

Question 69

What objects link Yantlet Creek, Kent; Chalkwell Avenue, Southend-on-Sea; Staines Museum; and Lower Upnor, Kent?

Answer 69

London Stones

Question 70

Generally regarded as one of the poorest and most dangerous areas of the Western Hemisphere and one of the biggest slums in the Northern Hemisphere, what is the poorest section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti?

Answer 70

Cite Soleil

Question 71

What two-word phrase describes a notice that is carried by the military, usually aircraft personnel, that displays messages aimed at the civilians that ask them to help the servicemember in case they are shot down?

Answer 71

Blood Chit

Question 72

The first known blood chit was a letter signed by George Washington carried by which French balloonist, who spoke on English, on his American visit?

Answer 72

Jean-Pierre Blanchard

Question 73

Why were the blood chits carried by WWI British airmen in India and Mesopotamia called 'goolie chits'?

Answer 73

Because there were rumours that downed pilots were castrated and then used as domestic servants

Question 74

What was the popular name of the 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force in 1941-1942. The pilots were United States Army (USAAF), Navy (USN), and Marine Corps (USMC) personnel, recruited under Presidential sanction?

Answer 74

Flying Tigers

Question 75

Which Texan man, who sounds like a woman, was the commander of the Flying Tigers?

Answer 75

Claire Lee Chennault

Question 76

What name is given to the paintings of women, animals, graffiti or other symbols on the forward part of planes? A modern example is the 'Virgin Girl' on Virgin Atlantic aircraft.

Answer 76

Nose art

Question 77

Confusingly, the Flying Tigers were famous for an animal's face on their planes- but not a tiger- rather what?

Answer 77

A shark

Question 78

Name the densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon that was originally a Chinese military fort. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by Triads and had high rates of prostitution, gambling, and drug use but was demolished in the 1990s and replaced by a park.

Answer 78

Kowloon Walled City

Question 79

Called The Manhattan of the Desert or the oldest skyscaper city in the world, it owes its fame to its distinct architecture, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The houses are all made out of mud brick but about 500 of them are tower houses, which rise 5 to 11 stories high with each floor having one or two apartments. This building technique was implemented in order to protect residents from Bedouin attacks. What Yemeni city?

Answer 79

Shibam

Question 80

In October 1937, Dominican President Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands with Haiti. The violence resulted in the killing of about 25,000 Haitian civilians over a span of approximately five days. This would later become known as what, from the shibboleth that Trujillo had his soldiers apply to determine whether or not those living on the border were native Dominicans who spoke Spanish fluently?

Answer 80

The Parsley Massacre

Question 81

Which term, coined by Theodore Roosevelt, is the term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries?

Answer 81

Dollar diplomacy

Question 82

What is the most common term for events which occurred on the night of April 8, 1956, when Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, a junior drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, marched his assigned platoon into a swampy tidal creek? The incident resulted in the deaths of six United States Marine Corps recruits. McKeon was found guilty of possession and use of alcoholic beverage.

Answer 82

Ribbon Creek Incident

Question 83

Which African American World War II veteran's 1946 beating and maiming, hours after being discharged from the United States Army, sparked national outrage and galvanized the civil rights movement in the United States? Still in uniform, Woodard was left completely and permanently blind after a run-in with police.

Answer 83

Isaac Woodard

Question 84

What name was given to nine black teenaged boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident deal with racism and a basic American right: the right to a fair trial. The case includes a frameup, all-white jury, rushed trials, an attempted lynching, angry mob, and miscarriage of justice and influenced To Kill A Mockingbird?

Answer 84

Scottsboro Boys

Question 85

Which African-American boy who at 14 years old was murdered in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman. He was tortured, then shot through the head?

Answer 85

Emmett Till

Question 86

What two-word phrase describes an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience or venue/space. It has the auspice of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with the Viennese Actionists, the Dada movement and Neo-Dadaists. It has also been made much use of by the Stuckists?

Answer 86

Art intervention

Question 87

Robert Brown claims to be the child of which royal couple?

Answer 87

Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend

Question 88

Cassie Chadwick pretended to be which famous man's daughter?

Answer 88

Andrew Carnegie

Question 89

This writer claimed to have been a lama in Tibet before spending the second part of his life in the body of a British man. Cyril Henry Hoskin (8 April 1910 – 25 January 1981) described himself as the "host" of which Tibetan man?

Answer 89

Lobsong Rampa

Question 90

David Hampton, who died of AIDS in 2003, claimed to be the son of which Hollywood star?

Answer 90

Sidney Poitier

Question 91

James Addison Reavis (1843-1914), the self-styled Baron of __________, was an impostor on a grand scale who claimed to own much of which US state in the late 19th century?

Answer 91

Arizona

Question 92

Christopher Rocancourt, (b. July 16, 1967 in Honfleur, France) is an impostor, confidence man and gentleman thief who scammed affluent people by masquerading as a French member of which family?

Answer 92

Rockefeller

Question 93

What was the real name of Princess Caraboo, who fooled Almondsbury?

Answer 93

Mary Baker

Question 94

He claimed to be the first Formosan to visit Europe. For some years he convinced many in Britain, but was later revealed to be an impostor.

Answer 94

George Psalmanazar

Question 95

Who was the Swiss referee in the 1966 World Cup Final?

Answer 95

Gottfried Dienst

Question 96

What was the surname of the bizarre man who created the character of Josey Wales? He lived the first half of his life as a violent white supremacist with forenames Asa Earl and the second half of his life as a man deeply interested in Native AMerican culture and claiming to be himself a Native American- forename Forrest?

Answer 96

Carter

Question 97

In literary awards, what does the acronym ABBY stand for?

Answer 97

American Booksellers Book of the Year

Question 98

This Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author, starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, wrote a series of books that describe his alleged training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. His 12 books have sold more than 8 million copies in 17 languages. The books and their author, who rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for many years?

Answer 98

Carlos Castaneda

Question 99

Which American actor was recognized for portraying American Indians in Hollywood films. Near the end of his life, his Italian ancestry was made public (he was actually born Espera Oscar de Corti). In 1995 he was honored by the American Indian community for his portrayals. What was his professional name?

Answer 99

Iron Eyes Cody

Question 100

Similar to Iron Eyes Cody, which man was born Sylvester Clark Long, was an African-American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes, claiming to be Native American?

Answer 100

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

Question 101

Archibald Stansfeld Belaney was born in September 1888, near Hastings, England. Yet another man claiming to be Native American, he took what name?

Answer 101

Grey Owl

Question 102

Serial impostor Frederic Bourdin has been nicknamed what by the French press?

Answer 102

The Chameleon

Question 103

Known as "the Great Impostor", he masqueraded as many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens. He was the subject of a movie, The Great Impostor, in which he was played by Tony Curtis, and became friends with Steve McQueen. During his "careers," he was, among other things, a ship's doctor, a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher?

Answer 103

Ferdinand Waldo Demara

Question 104

Stanisława Walasiewiczówna was, famously, a hermaphrodite athlete, exposed only through her death in a shooting. Under what name did she win gold in the 100m at Los Angeles 1932?

Answer 104

Stella Walsh

Question 105

Which Englishwoman wore male dress and became a sailor during the Napoleonic wars?

Answer 105

Mary Ann Talbot

Question 106

Which English reporter secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during the First World War and then write about the experience? She died alone and forgotten in Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in 1964.

Answer 106

Dorothy Lawrence

Question 107

Which English rogue, vagabond and impostor, who claimed to be King of the Beggars was the son of the rector of Bickleigh, Devon?

Answer 107

Bampfylde Moore Carew

Question 108

Alan Conway, a London travel agent born Eddie Jablowsky, impersonated which film director during the early 1990s?

Answer 108

Stanley Kubrick

Question 109

Anoushirvan D. Fahkran, a 27-year-old Iranian porn actor, legally changed his name to pose as the 14 year old nephew of which film director?

Answer 109

Stephen Spielberg

Question 110

Which American journalist and author, much of whose writing was about racial equality, is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959. He wrote about this experience in his 1961 book Black Like Me?

Answer 110

John Howard Griffin

Question 111

Arnaud du Tilh was at the centre of which famous case of imposture?

Answer 111

Martin Guerre

Question 112

Which 1993 Hollywood film was an adaptation of the Martin Guerre story?

Answer 112

Sommersby

Question 113

Graham Tumber, despite looking nothing at all like him, impersonated which rock frontman for a year, duping Dover council into providing free hospitality and transport services after promising to appear at a charity concert in the town?

Answer 113

Francis Rossi

Question 114

What disorder is where a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor?

Answer 114

Capgras delusion

Question 115

Meyrick Edward Clifton James was used by the British army as whose double?

Answer 115

Montgomery

Question 116

Rashid' and felix Dadaev were doubles for which man?

Answer 116

Joseph Stalin

Question 117

An urban legend holds that in WW", Churchill's speeches on the radio were dubbed by which actor and voice artist?

Answer 117

Norman Shelley

Question 118

Which American novelist wrote several novels, a book of children's stories and two devotional books? She shunned publicity and wrote her first book anonymously, causing the opposite of the desired effect in that several impostors claimed to be the author, resulting in a literary furore, and more attention than the real author ever foresaw.

Answer 118

Miriam Coles Harris

Question 119

Which early 20th century American impostor and entertainer presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore, Maryland? Despite an impoverished start in life and a lack of education, and a series of scandalous arrests related to homosexual activities, mainly involving underage individuals, he maintained a long and colorful career posing as an African "savage", during which he delivered lectures to many institutions and conducted public debates.

Answer 119

Bata LoBagola

Question 120

Which country was stripped of their intellectual disability basketball gold medals shortly after the 2000 ParalympicGames closed after a member of the victorious team and an undercover journalist, revealed that most of his colleagues had not undergone medical tests to ensure that they had a disability?

Answer 120

Spain

Question 121

Who is the first person in history to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents; the Adventurers' Grand Slam?

Answer 121

David Hempleman-Adams

Question 122

What is the northernmost point of Canada and the world's most northerly land outside Greenland?

Answer 122

Cape Columbia

Question 123

The short story 'In the Penal Colony' describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification. How has this device come to be known?

Answer 123

The Kafka Machine

Question 124

Who is the closest South Korean equivalent of David Hempleman-Adams?

Answer 124

Park Young-Seok

Question 125

The 1917 Camp Logan Riot, a mutiny by 156 black soldiers of the Third Battalion of the all-black Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, took place in which US city? It lasted one night, and resulted in the deaths of four black soldiers and sixteen civilians. The rioters were tried at three courts-martial. Nineteen were executed, and forty-one were given life sentences.

Answer 125

Houston

Question 126

Which graffito started appearing soon in multiple locations after a 1941 unsolved murder? The graffiti was last sprayed onto the side of Wychbury obelisk in Hagley on 18 August 1999, in white paint.

Answer 126

Who put Bella In The Wych Elm?

Question 127

Which Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of steam, said to have actually flown some 200 metres?

Answer 127

Archytas

Question 128

Which Brazilian priest, an experimenter with early airship designs, in 1709 demonstrated a small airship model before the Portuguese court, but never succeeded with a full-scale model?

Answer 128

Bartolomeu de Gusmao

Question 129

Name either of the ways Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier made aviation history?

Answer 129

First manned balloon flight and first death in an aviation accident

Question 130

Which English inventor was responsible for the first heavier than air powered flight, accomplished by an unmanned steam powered monoplane of 10-foot (3.0 m) wingspan. In 1868, he flew a powered monoplane model a few dozen feet at an exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London?

Answer 130

John Stringfellow

Question 131

Which Portuguese pilot, canopy maker and Cuban resident who, carried away with the ever increasing popularity of aerostatic aircraft, disappeared while attempting an aerostatic flight from Havana's "Plaza de Marte" (currently Parque de la Fraternidad) on June, 1856?

Answer 131

Matias Perez

Question 132

Which pioneer British glider/plane builder and pilot, a protege of Lilienthal, was killed in 1899 when his fourth glider crashed shortly before the intended public test of his powered triplane. Cranfield University built a replica of the triplane in 2003 from drawings in Philip Jarrett's book "Another Icarus"?

Answer 132

Percy Pilcher

Question 133

Which aviation pioneer immigrated from Germany to the U.S., where he designed and built early flying machines and engines to power them. In August 1901 a newspaper reported that he made a powered controlled flight in Connecticut—two years before the Wright brothers flew?

Answer 133

Gustave Whitehead

Question 134

Which three-word military phrase refers to the tactic of bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy units in sequence, rather than engaging the bulk of the enemy force all at once. This exposes one's own units to a small risk, yet allows for the eventual destruction of an entire enemy force?

Answer 134

Defeat in detail

Question 135

Also known as a Balbo, what two-word phrase was an air fighting tactic proposed during the Battle of Britain by 12 Group commander Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Bader. In essence, the tactic involved meeting incoming Luftwaffe bombing raids in strength with a wing-sized formation of three to five squadrons?

Answer 135

Big Wing

Question 136

In biology, RHP is the ability of an animal to win an all-out fight if one were to take place. What does it stand for?

Answer 136

Resource holding potential

Question 137

Also known as the Good Thief or the Penitent Thief, which companion of Christ on the cross is seen as a saint by some Christians?

Answer 137

St Dismas

Question 138

In biblical commentary, but not in the Bible itself, who are named Asher, Zebulun, Justus, Nicodemus, Joseph, Barshabba, and Jose?

Answer 138

The nativity shepherds

Question 139

Traditionally, in a circus, a knifethrower performs with which named assistant?

Answer 139

Target girl

Question 140

Born near Shrewsbury, supposedly in 1483, which English supercentenarian allegedly lived for 152 years?

Answer 140

Old' Tom Parr

Question 141

Which Idaho US Army experimental nuclear power reactor underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators? The direct cause was the improper withdrawal of the main control rod from the poorly-designed reactor core. The event is the only known fatal reactor accident in the United States.

Answer 141

SL-1

Question 142

In which city was the Brazilian radiation contamination accident which happened when old hospital equipment was reused?

Answer 142

Goiania

Question 143

Which nuclear power plant in France suffered a partial core meltdown in 1980?

Answer 143

Saint-Laurent

Question 144

The Chalk River accident was the worst nuclear accident at a power station in which country?

Answer 144

Canada

Question 145

In the INES scale used by the UN, what does INES stand for?

Answer 145

International Nuclear Event Scale

Question 146

The INES scale goes from 0 to 7 (most serious). What number was Chernobyl, the world's worst ever nuclear accident?

Answer 146

Seven

Question 147

On the INES scale, what number was Three Mile Island?

Answer 147

Five

Question 148

Aerophilately specialises in stamps on airmail. What name is given to the study of stamps on letters delivered by rocket?

Answer 148

Astrophilately

Question 149

The MOBA has two branches- one in Dedham, MA and another in Somerville, MA. What does MOBA stand for?

Answer 149

Museum of Bad Art

Question 150

Also called a Fuller map, what name is givn to a projection of a world map onto the surface of a polyhedron, which can then be unfolded to a net in many different ways and flattened to form a two-dimensional map which retains most of the relative proportional integrity of the globe map? The name is common to many Buckminster Fuller inventions.

Answer 150

Dymaxion map

Question 151

Dubbed the "killer rabbit" attack by the media, it involved a swamp rabbit that caught press imagination after swimming toward the then-U.S. President's fishing boat. Which U.S. president?

Answer 151

Jimmy Carter

Question 152

n the early 1930s, American engineer Walter Christie experimented with them. Later, the Royal Air Force tested the Baynes Bat. Both were trying to create what unusual concept in war machinery?

Answer 152

Flying tanks

Question 153

What name is given to the sea forts off SE England? Sealand is on one of them.

Answer 153

Maunsell forts

Question 154

In American sport, what are bleachers?

Answer 154

Steeply tiered rows of spectator seating

Question 155

Mud from a secret location on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River is sold by a company named for Lena Blackburne. What is it used for?

Answer 155

Rubbing baseballs

Question 156

Which giant reservoir is sometimes called 'the eye of Quebec'?

Answer 156

Manicouagan

Question 157

What name is given to a logical fallacy in which information that has no relationship is interpreted or manipulated until it appears to have meaning? The 'Bible Code' and prophecies of Nostradamus are examples. The name comes from a joke about an American who fires some shots at the side of a barn, then paints a target centered on the biggest cluster of hits?

Answer 157

Texan Sharpshooter Fallacy

Question 158

Wich crater on Mars is often known as the "happy face crater" because the illusion of a smiley is created by a semicircular mountain range and two smaller craters within the main crater. The formation was first photographed by Viking Orbiter 1?

Answer 158

Galle

Question 159

It is a bronze disk of around 30 cm diameter, with a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. These are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars (including a cluster interpreted as the Pleiades). Associatively dated to c. 1600 BC, it has been associated with the Bronze Age Unetice culture. The disk is unlike any known artistic style from the period, and had initially been suspected of being a forgery, but is now widely accepted as authentic?

Answer 159

Nebra Sky Disk

Question 160

What name is given to the forged, supposedly ancient artifacts that were supposed to prove that people of an ancient Near Eastern culture had lived in the USA, 'found' in 1890 by James Scotford?

Answer 160

Michigan Relics

Question 161

Also known as Drutakarma Dasa, he is an American Hindu creationist whose work argues that modern humans have lived on the earth for billions of years. His antievolutionist book Forbidden Archeology has attracted attention from Hindu creationists and paranormalists, but has been labeled as pseudoscience by representatives of the mainstream archaelogical and paleoanthropologist community?

Answer 161

Michael Cremo

Question 162

Chinese lunar orbiting spacecraft are named for which Chinese goddess of the moon?

Answer 162

Chang'e

Question 163

The Japanese see a rabbit on the moon with a pot of mochi. So do the Koreans, but with the Korean equivalent of mochi, which is what?

Answer 163

Tteok

Question 164

Which circular motif appears in sacred sites from the Middle and Far East to the churches of south west England (where it is often referred to as the "Tinners’ Rabbits)?

Answer 164

Three hares

Question 165

From the Latin meaning "likeness, similarity", it is first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, and used to describe a representation of another thing, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god; by the late 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original?

Answer 165

Simulacrum

Question 166

Which alleged paranormal phenomenon in a private house in Spain started in 1971 when residents claimed to see images of faces appear in the concrete floor of the house. Such images have continuously formed and disappeared on the floor of the home since that time?

Answer 166

Belmez Faces

Question 167

Named for a distinctively-shaped rock formation, in which sub-national entity would you find Sleeping Giant Provincial Park?

Answer 167

Ontario

Question 168

Pedra da Galinha Choca (Broody Hen's Stone) is the name given to one of the most famous monoliths in the city of Quixadá, taking its name from its curious shape. It is located 5 km from the city center. It really does look exactly like a giant stone chicken. In which country?

Answer 168

Brazil

Question 169

What two-word phrase refers to the tendency to erroneously perceive small samples from random distributions as having significant "streaks" or "clusters", caused by a human tendency to underpredict the amount of variability likely to appear in a small sample of random or semi-random data due to chance?

Answer 169

Clustering Illusion

Question 170

Which former chapel in Spain is home to the Mare Nostrum Computer?

Answer 170

Barcelona Supercomputing Centre

Question 171

Name both non-existent Ohio towns that were inserted into the 1978–1979 official state of Michigan map. The names refer to the slogan of University of Michigan fans and a reference to their archrivals from Ohio State University (OSU)?

Answer 171

Goblu and Beatosu

Question 172

What name is given to a deliberate mistake in a street map in order to trap copyright violators?

Answer 172

Trap street

Question 173

What name is given to a street on a street map that does not exist (e.g. it has not yet been built)?

Answer 173

Paper street

Question 174

It was a "phantom" settlement that appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth but does not actually exist. Its supposed location was just off the A59 road within the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England, which in reality is nothing more than empty fields. What was its name?

Answer 174

Argleton

Question 175

Trap streets, mountweazels and nihilartikels are all types of which phenomenon?

Answer 175

Fictitious Entries

Question 176

What is unusual about Jakob Maria Mierscheid, a member of the German Bundestag?

Answer 176

He does not exist

Question 177

Zzxjoanw was the last entry in Rupert Hughes’ Music Lovers’ Encyclopedia of 1903, and subsequent editions down to the 1950s. It was a deliberately fictitious entry, and was claimed to be a Maori what?

Answer 177

Drum

Question 178

Guglielmo Baldini and Dag Henrik Ersum-Hellerup are both fictitious entries in the 1980 edition of which reference work?

Answer 178

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Question 179

In lexicography, what is the NOAD?

Answer 179

New Oxford American Dictionary

Question 180

An example of a copyright trap that became an actual landmark in New York state is which town? In the 1930s, General Drafting Company founder Otto G. Lindberg and an assistant, Ernest Alpers, assigned a scramble of their initials to a dirt-road intersection in the Catskill Mountains north of Roscoe. Later, it appeared on a Rand McNally map, but it turned out that they had gotten the name from the county administration. Someone had built a general store at the intersection on the map and had given the name to it because the name was on the Esso maps?

Answer 180

Agloe

Question 181

Frank Worth, in his bestselling 'Trivia Encyclopedia', made up the fact that Colombo's first name was what to catch out copyright fraudsters? It fooled the makers of Trivial Pursuit, who repeated the incorrect fact.

Answer 181

Phillip

Question 182

In fact, was is Colombo's first name?

Answer 182

Frank

Question 183

What two-word phrase means a method for exposing an information leak, which involves giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspects and seeing which version gets leaked? The term was coined by Tom Clancy in his novel Patriot Games, though Clancy did not invent the technique.

Answer 183

Canary Trap

Question 184

In computer terminology, what name is given to a trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems? Generally it consists of a computer, data, or a network site that appears to be part of a network, but is actually isolated and monitored, and which seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers.

Answer 184

Honeypot

Question 185

Which two-word phrase is a tactic used by many consumer social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It involves re-figuring logos, fashion statements, and product images to challenge the idea of "what's cool," along with assumptions about the personal freedoms of consumption?

Answer 185

Culture jamming

Question 186

It's an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, web page or video game. The term was coined—according to Warren Robinett—by Atari after they were pointed to the secret message left by Robinett in the game Adventure. It shares its name with a seasonal treat?

Answer 186

Easter Egg

Question 187

Endless, Nameless was a famous hidden track, as it was one of the very first to appear. It was on which well-known CD?

Answer 187

Nevermind by Nirvana

Question 188

It is a prime example of a film which is both about falsification (art forgery and the journalism surrounding art forgery) as well as having falsified moments within the film. The movie follows the exploits of a famous art forger, his biographer Clifford Irving, and the subsequent fake autobiography of Howard Hughes that Irving tries to publish. Which Orson Welles documentary?

Answer 188

F for Fake

Question 189

Which novel purports to be assembled from the notes of a deceased "Monsieur le docteur Ralph", likely due to the fact that the novel pokes fun at most of the powers of Europe at the time?

Answer 189

Candide

Question 190

The Salamander Letter was a forgery created by Mark Hoffman in the 1980s concerning the early days of which religion?

Answer 190

Mormonism

Question 191

Which manuscript, likely intended as a "hoax to fool some nationalist Frisians and orthodox Christians", first came to public awareness in the 1860s? A public controversy was revived in the context of 1930s Nazi occultism, and the book is still occasionally brought up in esotericism and "Atlantis" literature.

Answer 191

Oera Linda book

Question 192

Which handwritten book thought to have been written in the 15th or 16th century comprises about 240 vellum pages, most with illustrations? The author, script, and language remain unknown: for these reasons it has been described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript". Generally presumed to be some kind of ciphertext, it has defied all decipherment attempts, becoming a historical cryptology cause célèbre.

Answer 192

Voynich manuscript

Question 193

Which book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing?

Answer 193

Codex Seraphinianus

Question 194

Who won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec?

Answer 194

Gilbert Adair

Question 195

What is "the content-free encyclopedia"? It is a website that parodies Wikipedia. Founded in 2005 as an originally English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 75 languages. The English version has over 25,000 pages of content.

Answer 195

Uncyclopedia

Question 196

A running gag and meme among German Internet users, especially in the German Usenet, which is generally considered a satirical story rather than a hoax or an urban legend, concerns the 'non-existence' of which German city?

Answer 196

Bielefeld

Question 197

Which southernmost province of Aragon's remote and mountainous location and low population has led to relative isolation within Spain. A campaign group with the slogan "_____ existe" was founded in 1999 to press for greater recognition and investment in the town and the province. Due in part to the campaign, transport connections are being greatly improved with the construction of a motorway. However, it remains the only provincial capital in Spain without a direct railway link to the capital, Madrid.

Answer 197

Teruel

Question 198

Which small (795 sq mi) area along the border between Egypt and Sudan is claimed by neither country, and therefore is one of the very few places on earth unclaimed by any state?

Answer 198

Bir Tawil

Question 199

By contrast, which much larger triangle of land east of Bir Tawil is claimed by both Egypt and Sudan, but is currently administered by Egypt?

Answer 199

Hala'ib triangle

Question 200

Bir Tawil is an example of which Latin legal term?

Answer 200

Terra nullius

Question 201

In geography and fluvial geomorphology, which German lone word signifies the deepest continuous line along a valley or watercourse, and is often used in international boundaries?

Answer 201

Thalweg

Question 202

What is s the nickname given to the South Fork of the Chicago River's South Branch, which runs entirely within the city of Chicago, Illinois? Gases rising up from the riverbed from the decomposition of blood and entrails dumped into the river by the local stockyards in the early 20th century give the creek its name. It was brought to notoriety by Upton Sinclair in his exposé on the American meat packing industry entitled The Jungle.

Answer 202

Bubbly Creek

Question 203

Which road had its name changed at the request of local residents in Conisbrough in 2009 to Archers Way?

Answer 203

Butt Hole Road

Question 204

Which flower used to be a symbol of forgetfulness but came to mean the opposite in the c20?

Answer 204

Poppy

Question 205

The Kipling phrase 'Lest We Forget' is from which poem?

Answer 205

Recessional

Question 206

The World Social Forum met for the first time in which South American country in 2001?

Answer 206

Brazil

Question 207

Who was responsible for 'Self Portrait with Uncombed Hair' and 'Self-Portrait Facing Death' in 1972?

Answer 207

Picasso

Question 208

What was the painting equivalent of the Poet Laureate, which died with Queen Victoria?

Answer 208

Principal Painter in Ordinary

Question 209

Which Flemish painter became the first Principal Painter in Ordinary?

Answer 209

Van Dyck

Question 210

Which c18 painter in England was born near Plymouth and painted Sarah Siddons?

Answer 210

Joshua Reynolds

Question 211

The genus name of the Australian lizard the Thorny Devil is the same as which rebel angel in Paradise Lost?

Answer 211

Moloch

Question 212

Which famous writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947?

Answer 212

Andre Gide

Question 213

Which famous writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948?

Answer 213

T S Eliot

Question 214

Which famous writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949?

Answer 214

William Faulkner

Question 215

Name all three modern-day countries occupying the site of Thrace.

Answer 215

Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey

Question 216

Ruthenia extends across which two present day countries?

Answer 216

Slovakia and Ukraine

Question 217

The Treaty of Perth (1266) ended conflict between Norway and Scotland over which island groups?

Answer 217

Hebrides and Isle of Man

Question 218

Physics, Poetics and On The Soul are works by which 384 BC-born philosopher?

Answer 218

Aristotle

Question 219

Aristotle founded which branch of philosophy in his Organon?

Answer 219

Logic

Question 220

The Laughing Song appears in which operetta?

Answer 220

Die Fledermaus

Question 221

The Soldier's Chorus appears in which opera?

Answer 221

Faust

Question 222

In economics, which theorem states that economic efficiency will be achieved as long as property rights are fully allocated?

Answer 222

Coes Theorem

Question 223

In economics, the MM theorem refers to which two economists?

Answer 223

Modigliani and Miller

Question 224

Kenneth Arrow is best known for which economic theorem?

Answer 224

Impossibility theorem

Question 225

Which other composer spend two years editing, correcting and ameding the notes left by Mussorgsky at his death in 1881?

Answer 225

Rimsky-Korsakov

Question 226

Who detected the famous 'Wow' signal using the Big Ear telescope at Ohio State University in 1977?

Answer 226

JERRY EHMAN

Question 227

When Jocelyn Bell (who famously was not awarded a Nobel prize for it) discovered the first pulsar at Cambridge in 1967, it was dubbed LGM-1. What did LGM stand for?

Answer 227

LITTLE GREEN MEN

Question 228

A series of prank calls to which bar in Jersey City run by ex-boxer Louis 'Red' Deutsch was the basis for many of the jokes about Moe in the Simpsons?

Answer 228

TUBE BAR

Question 229

Which hole dug by the Russians in the frozen north has become the lowest artificially created point on earth, at 40,000 feet?

Answer 229

KOLA SUPERDEEP BOREHOLE

Question 230

What is the name of the northernmost point of permanent land on earth, off the northern tip of Greenland and named for a social network at the Copenhagen Museum of Mineralogy?

Answer 230

COFFEE CLUB ISLAND

Question 231

Tangula Station in China is notable for what reason?

Answer 231

HIGHEST RAILWAY STATION IN THE WORLD

Question 232

At 16,732, which settlement in Peru servicing a gold mine is the world's highest city?

Answer 232

La Rinconada

Question 233

Which is the world's highest glacier, shared between Everest and Lhotse?

Answer 233

Khumbu

Question 234

The North American Pole of Inaccessibility is in which US State?

Answer 234

South Dakota

Question 235

What is another name for the Eurasian Point Of Inaccessibility?

Answer 235

Point Nocean

Question 236

What is the other name for the Pacific Point of Inaccessibility?

Answer 236

Point Nemo

Question 237

What is the most remote city in the world with a population over 1 million?

Answer 237

Auckland

Question 238

What is the most remote city in the world with a population over 500,000?

Answer 238

Honolulu

Question 239

What is important geographically about Appleby Parva in Leicestershire?

Answer 239

Population centre of Great Britain

Question 240

Which was the Year Without A Summer due to the eruption of Tambora the year before?

Answer 240

1816

Question 241

In 1816, the weather was so bad on holiday that Mary Shelley and friends stayed indoors to create scary stories, with Mary writing Frankenstein. What story did her friend Polidori write?

Answer 241

The Vampyre

Question 242

He is known as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his discovery of nitrogen as an essential plant nutrient, and his formulation of the Law of the Minimum which described the effect of individual nutrients on crops. He then founded the company that trademarked Oxo. What was the name of this German chemist of the c19?

Answer 242

Justus von Liebig

Question 243

What name is given to the hoax perpetraited by the eponymous physics professor at New York University who sent a computer-generated essay of gibberish to Social Text magazine to see if they would publish it and they did?

Answer 243

Sokal Affair

Question 244

What is anthrodermic bibliopegy?

Answer 244

Binding of books with human skin (common for mediaeval anatomy texts)

Question 245

Which famous inventor died in mysterious circumstances on the boat Dresden between Antwerp and London in September 1913?

Answer 245

Rudolph Diesel

Question 246

Which mistress of King Charles VII of France died of what was originally thought to be dysentery, but scientists have now concluded that she died from being poisoned by mercury. The culprit remains unknown?

Answer 246

Agnes Sorel

Question 247

A series of still unsolved murders in and around Hammersmith that was indirectly used as the basis for Hitchcock's Frenzy are called the ________ murders?

Answer 247

Jack the Stripper

Question 248

In criminology, which two word phrase refers to a scene of a crime or an accident that has not yet been solved to the full and is not the subject of a recent criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, retained material evidence, as well as fresh activities of the suspect?

Answer 248

Cold case

Question 249

What was the name of the first cow to fly in an airplane, doing so on 18 February 1930, as part of the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. On the same trip, which covered 72 miles from Bismarck, Missouri, to St. Louis, she also became the first cow milked in flight?

Answer 249

Elm Farm Ollie

Question 250

Which pattern of symbols found on a number of banknote designs worldwide since about 1996 is added to help software detect the presence of a banknote in a digital image? It is so named because it resembles a certain pattern of stars.

Answer 250

EURion constellation

Question 251

What is the name of the meteorite not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia? It has been uncovered but, because of its large mass, has never been moved from where it fell. The main mass is estimated at over 60 tons, and it is the largest known meteorite (as a single piece) and the most massive naturally-occurring piece of iron known at the Earth's surface.

Answer 251

Hoba meteorite

Question 252

It is a phenomenon which affected Washington State communities in April, 1954; it is considered an example of a mass delusion. It was characterized by widespread observation of previously unnoticed windshield holes, pits and dings, leading residents to believe that a common causative agent was at work. It was originally thought to be the work of vandals but the rate of pitting was so great that residents began to attribute it to everything from sand flea eggs to nuclear bomb testing?

Answer 252

Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic

Question 253

They are associated with extremely energetic explosions in distant galaxies. They are the most luminous electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe. They can last from milliseconds to several minutes, although a typical one lasts a few seconds. What are these astronomical events?

Answer 253

Gamma Ray Bursts

Question 254

What name is given to the large, nineteenth-century partners' desk often chosen by presidents of the United States for use in the White House Oval Office as the Oval Office desk? It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the timbers of the British Arctic Exploration ship from which it takes its name.

Answer 254

Resolute Desk

Question 255

The American Computer Museum is located in which Montana town?

Answer 255

Bozeman

Question 256

These artifacts came to wider attention in 1940 when Wilhelm König, director of the National Museum of Iraq, published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects. This interpretation continues to be considered as at least a hypothetical possibility. If correct, the artifacts would predate Alessandro Volta's 1800 invention of the electrochemical cell by more than a millennium?

Answer 256

Baghdad Battery

Question 257

What name is given to the small humanoid and animal figurines made during the late Jōmon period (14,000 - 400 BCE) of prehistoric Japan? Most of the humanoid figurines have the breasts, small waists, and wide hips of females and are considered by many to be representative of goddesses.

Answer 257

Dogu

Question 258

Which bird-shaped artifact made of sycamore wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb, has been dated to approximately 200 BCE, and is now housed in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo? It has been taken by silly people as evidence that the Egyptians knew how to build aircraft.

Answer 258

Saqqara Bird

Question 259

Which famous piece of Mayan art was interpreted by Erich von Daniken as being the man at the controls of a spaceship?

Answer 259

Pacal's sarcophagus lid

Question 260

Three stone reliefs (one single and a double representation) in the Hathor temple at the eponymous Temple complex located in Egypt. The view of Egyptologists is that the relief is a mythological depiction of a djed pillar and a lotus flower, spawning a snake within, representing aspects of Egyptian mythology. Pseudoscientists think it is a lightbulb. So it is called what?

Answer 260

Dendera Light

Question 261

Which metal artifact supposedly demonstrates more advanced metallurgy than was available in 1st millenium India?

Answer 261

Iron Pillar of Delhi

Question 262

Also known as The Salzburg Cube, it is a small cuboid mass of iron that was found buried in Tertiary lignite in Austria, in 1885.People are stupid about it, and it was originally identified as being of meteoric origin, a suggestion later ruled out by analysis. It seems most likely that it is a piece of cast iron used as ballast in mining machinery.

Answer 262

Wolfsegg Iron

Question 263

When which skeleton was unearthed in a mine in Utah in 1971, did creationists argue that it 'proved' that Man had co-habited with dinosaurs? In fact the skeletons were only hundreds of years old.

Answer 263

Moab Man (also called Malachite Man)

Question 264

What name was given to a 1920s spark plug found encased in a supposedly 500,000 year old rock? In fact, it was just a spark plug that had been buried. It was found in 1961 in California.

Answer 264

Coso artifact

Question 265

What is the name popularly given to an unusual sponge photographed on the sea floor by an Antarctic oceanographic research ship of the same name in 1964? It looked a bit like an antenna, so people were stupid about it.

Answer 265

Eltanin antenna

Question 266

Which small objects, often spherical to disc-shaped, have been collected by miners and rockhounds from 3-billion-year-old pyrophyllite deposits near Ottosdal, South Africa, and are also the subject of people being stupid about them?

Answer 266

Klerksdorp Sphere

Question 267

In the USA, what is a rockhound?

Answer 267

Amateur geologist

Question 268

Also known as Louis XV's roll-top secretary, what name is usually given to the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was started under Louis XV and finished under Louis XVI of France. It is the most lavishly decorated desk ever made?

Answer 268

Bureau du Roi

Question 269

Chitmahal is an extremely complicated system of exclaves along the border between which two countries?

Answer 269

India and Bangladesh

Question 270

Baarle-Hertog is an exclave of which country, with a notoriously complicated, ragged border?

Answer 270

Belgium

Question 271

What is Phoenician for 'Protect the King'?

Answer 271

Balthazar

Question 272

Which geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat in the south east corner of Alberta, when viewed from the air, bears a strong resemblance to a human head wearing a full native American headdress, facing directly westward. Because of additional man-made structure, it also appears to be wearing earphones?

Answer 272

Badlands Guardian

Question 273

Which psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant? Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.

Answer 273

Pareidolia

Question 274

Also referred to as the Goddard coin, it is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre (1067–1093 AD). The State Museum describes it as "the only pre-Columbian Norse artifact generally regarded as genuine found within the United States'. Others think it may be a hoax. How is this artifact known?

Answer 274

Maine Penny

Question 275

They are several thousand small ceramic figurines allegedly found in July 1944 in Mexico, by Waldemar Julsrud. The figurines are said by some to resemble dinosaurs and are sometimes cited as anachronisms. Some young-Earth creationists have adduced the existence of figurines as credible evidence for the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans, in an attempt to cast doubt on scientific dating methods and potentially offer support for a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Answer 275

Acambaro Figures

Question 276

Purported to have been made by 15th century descendents of Lief Ericson's colony, but now generally believed to be a modern-day hoax, what name is given to the stone with runes on it 'found' in Minnesota in the c19?

Answer 276

Kensington Runestone

Question 277

hich series of features found on and near an eponymous mountain, about 40 km southwest of the city of Delingha, in China are interesting in that they may be natural but look man-made, and there is a 'pyramid' nearby?

Answer 277

Baigong Pipes

Question 278

Kaolin is a hydrous silicate of which metal?

Answer 278

Aluminium

Question 279

Who wrote a novel about the French Revolution called A Place of Greater Safety?

Answer 279

Hilary Mantel

Question 280

Who wrote a history of the French Revolution, called Citizens?

Answer 280

Simon Schama

Question 281

Which tissue composed of cells lines the cavities and surfaces of structures throughout the body?

Answer 281

Epithelium

Question 282

Epithelium lies on top of connective tissue, but the two are seperated by what?

Answer 282

Basement membrane

Question 283

What name is given to a plant that grows upon another plant (such as a tree) non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object (such as a building or a telegraph wire), deriving its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it?

Answer 283

Epiphyte

Question 284

Used in Glasgow and other hospitals in the region in the 1860s, which chemical was introduced by Joseph Lister as an antiseptic?

Answer 284

Carbolic acid

Question 285

Which man was able to pursue his interests in aviation and film thanks to the fortune accrued by the rotary drilling bit invented by his father?

Answer 285

Howard Hughes

Question 286

Which novelist and daughter of a former Labour cabinet member wrote One of Us and Public Lives?

Answer 286

Melissa Benn

Question 287

Tony Benn was related to which British actress, who died in 1972?

Answer 287

Margaret Rutherford

Question 288

What cooking ingredient is called pol kiri in Sri Lanka, santan in Malaysia and gatti or katti in Thailand?

Answer 288

Coconut milk

Question 289

Milk of magnesia is a solution of which compound?

Answer 289

Magnesium hydroxide

Question 290

What is OAS, whose headquarters are in Washington DC?

Answer 290

Organisation of American States

Question 291

The golf course at which UN military camp in South Korea near the DMZ has been called 'the most dangerous course in golf' as some of its holes are surrounded on three sides by landmines?

Answer 291

Camp Bonifas

Question 292

The Cardrona Bra Fence was a controversial tourist attraction in which country, where passers-by started to add bras to a rural fence, with the fence eventually growing into a famous tourists attraction with hundreds of individual bras?

Answer 292

New Zealand

Question 293

Which autonomous region within Czechoslovakia from late 1938 to March 15, 1939 declared itself an independent Ukrainian republic on March 15, 1939, but its independence lasted for only 24 hours?

Answer 293

Carpatho-Ukraine

Question 294

Andy Warhol was descended from which stateless ethnic group?

Answer 294

Rusyns

Question 295

Which town in Pennsylvania is now the state's least populated due to a mine fire that has been raging beneath it since 1962, rendering it unsafe for habitation?

Answer 295

Centralia

Question 296

The oldest known coal fire, which has burned naturally for 6,000 years, is located at Burning Mountain in which subnational entity?

Answer 296

New South Wales

Question 297

Colletto Fava is a 5,000 feet (1,500 m) high hill in the northern Piedmont region of Italy. In 2005, Members of the Viennese art group Gelitin finished erecting a massive what on the side of the mountain? The final piece is 200 feet (about 60 meters) in length and 20 feet (6 meters) high on its sides. The group not only expect people to observe the art work, but also for hikers to climb it and relax on the top.

Answer 297

Pink rabbit

Question 298

Also known as Street Patterns or The Grid, which area in southwestern Palm Bay, Florida is largely undeveloped area of some 200 miles of paved roads and culs-de-sac? General Development Corporation began development of the area in the 1980s, but went bankrupt in 1991: afterwards, few residents ever moved in, and the streets fell into serious disrepair by the early-2000s.

Answer 298

The Compound

Question 299

Which abandoned shopping mall in the blighted community of Harvey, IL, has remained open but derelict for longer than it was in business? It was most famously used in the filming of The Blues Brothers?

Answer 299

Dixie Square Mall

Question 300

Ebenezer Place is the shortest street in the world at 2.06 metres and is in which Scottish town?

Answer 300

Wick

Question 301

The second shortest street in the world is Elgin Street in which Lancashire town famed for the Britannia Coconut Dancers on Easter Saturday?

Answer 301

Bacup

Question 302

Which New Zealand-born humourist author and rugby writer was responsible for a number of well-known urban legends, including the widespread belief that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper and that the brassiere was invented by Otto Titzling?

Answer 302

Wallace Reyburn

Question 303

What is the name of the Moscow park outside the Krymsky Val building shared by the modern art division of Tretyakov Gallery and Central House of Artists?

Answer 303

Fallen Statue Park

Question 304

Similarly, Memento Park is outside which EU capital city and shows statues and symbols associated with the country's period of Communism?

Answer 304

Budapest

Question 305

Grutas Park in Lithuania also has statues from the former Soviet era and is organised on 'theme park' lines, giving it which other 'semi-official' name?

Answer 305

Stalin's World

Question 306

Which man, born 1836 in Drôme, France, died 1924 was a French postman who spent thirty-three years of his life building Le Palais Idéal (the "Ideal Palace") in Hauterives. It is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture?

Answer 306

Ferdinand Cheval

Question 307

Which term was coined by critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut?

Answer 307

Outsider art

Question 308

One of Hundertwasser's largest building is the Green Citadel (which is pink) in which German city?

Answer 308

Magdeburg

Question 309

Which Indian self-taught artist is famous for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a eighteen acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh, India?

Answer 309

Nek Chand

Question 310

Mejorada del Campo is a Spanish village not far from Madrid that is notable solely because of which building that is being built by former monk Justo Gallego Martinez without planning permission or architect's plans?

Answer 310

Cathedral

Question 311

Bishop Castle, named after the family that built it, is a self-built and very Gaudiesque towered house in the San Isabel National Forest of which state?

Answer 311

Colorado

Question 312

Which museum in Vienna was designed by Hundertwasser?

Answer 312

KunstHausWien

Question 313

Which large underwater volcano located 40 km off the southern coast of Sicily, of which Ferdinandea is a part, is around 400 meters high, with a base 30 km long and 25 km wide? While the volcano's top is now 7 meters below sea level, it was once visible above the water. In 1831 it broke the surface and almost caused a major international incident when several countries tried to claim ownership of it. It disappeared into the water again five months later.

Answer 313

Empedocles

Question 314

Charles-François Ribart was an 18th century French architect who proposed a giant building in the shape of what where the Arc de Triomphe now stands?

Answer 314

Elephant

Question 315

Also known as populuxe or Doo-Wop, what name is given to the form of modern architecture influenced by car culture and the Space and Atomic Ages? Originating in Southern California during the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s, the types of buildings that were most frequently designed in this style were motels, coffee houses and bowling alleys. The Space Needle in Seattle is a famous example.

Answer 315

Googie

Question 316

A loosely related set of large structures or sculptures, there are estimated to be over 150 such objects around the country, the first being the Big Scotsman in Medindie, Adelaide, which was built in 1963?

Answer 316

Big Things of Australia

Question 317

What name is given to a painted Ukrainian easter egg, a national symbol of the country?

Answer 317

Pysanka

Question 318

What is the name of the mural of a grinning man in Asbury Park, NJ, which has been featured in movies, TV shows such as The Sopranos, Weird NJ magazine, and a famous photo of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band early in their career?

Answer 318

Tillie

Question 319

Due to an architectural oversight, a building at the Coronado Naval Base in California has what shape when seen from the air?

Answer 319

Swastika

Question 320

The famous 'forest swastika' discovered in the 1990s in what had been East Germany was made of which trees?

Answer 320

Larches

Question 321

Free Stamp is an outdoor sculpture located in Willard Park in which US city?. Created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, it has been called the "world's largest rubber stamp".The dimensions of the sculpture are 28 ft 10 in by 26 ft by 49 ft and it depicts a rubber stamp with the word "FREE" in its stamping area.

Answer 321

Cleveland, OH

Question 322

It is a 16-story office building in Japan. It is notable because a highway passes through the building. In which city is the Gate Tower Building?

Answer 322

Osaka

Question 323

What name is given to the gravity hill in Ayrshire, Scotland where cars appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction?

Answer 323

Electric Brae

Question 324

Which archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres within the town of Salem, New Hampshire is a tourist attraction, with particular appeal to believers in New Age systems?

Answer 324

America's Stonehenge

Question 325

What is the name of a distorted room used to create an optical illusion. Probably influenced by the writings of Hermann Helmholtz, it was invented by an eponymous American ophthalmologist 1934, and constructed in the following year? It is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal.

Answer 325

Ames Room

Question 326

What two-word phrase means a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera?

Answer 326

Forced Perspective

Question 327

What name is given to a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a very slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope?

Answer 327

Gravity Hill

Question 328

Which satirical or pejorative neologism was applied to Wellington, New Zealand, by right-wingers in the 2000s?

Answer 328

Helengrad

Question 329

What was the former name of the Cross Café restaurant in Navi Mumbai, India?

Answer 329

Hitler's Cross

Question 330

What was a small, unrecognized, constitutional republic along the section of the US-Canada border that divides Quebec from New Hampshire? It existed from July 9, 1832 to 1835. Named for a small watercourse, it had an organized elected government and constitution, and served about three hundred citizens.

Answer 330

Republic of Indian Stream

Question 331

What was the name of the nuclear reactor installed by the Ministry of Defence at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London? It was operational at the site from 1962 to 1996. It was one of very few reactors operating within a major population centre – and undoubtedly the only one installed in a 17th century building?

Answer 331

JASON

Question 332

Jerimoth Hill is the name of the highest natural point in which U.S. state? It was once the least accessible U.S. highpoint (with Mt McKinley in second place) because a property owner, Henry Richardson, prevented visitors from accessing the highpoint?

Answer 332

Rhode Island

Question 333

What is the name of the Jewish bit of Siberia established by Stalin? It is only 10% Jewish now.

Answer 333

Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Question 334

In which English county is Nasty?

Answer 334

Hertfordshire

Question 335

In which US state is Nameless?

Answer 335

Tennessee

Question 336

What is the byname of William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27, 1939), an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation ancestry and the author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U.S. travel writing including Blue Highways?

Answer 336

William Least-Heat Moon

Question 337

In which English county is No Place?

Answer 337

Durham

Question 338

A small town in Quebec, which is the only place in the world with two exclamation marks in its name?

Answer 338

St Louis du Ha! Ha!

Question 339

Shagnasty Island can be found in which island group?

Answer 339

South Orkney Islands

Question 340

What name has been given to the problem that occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared by an obscene word?

Answer 340

Scunthorpe Problem

Question 341

What is the last name alphabetically in California and indeed the whole US, it having been specifically devised for that purpose?

Answer 341

Zzyzx

Question 342

If the International Space Station is the world's most expensive single object, what is the second-most expensive?

Answer 342

Itaipu Dam

Question 343

When it is complete in 2011, what will be the world's third most expensive object?

Answer 343

Three Gorges Dam

Question 344

Name all three Palm Islands in Dubai.

Answer 344

Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira (which is the largest and not yet built)

Question 345

Where in France is an experimental nuclear fusion reactor being built?

Answer 345

Cadarache

Question 346

Which giant casino built in Singapore in 2010 and is one of the world's most expensive buildings?

Answer 346

Marina Bay Sands

Question 347

South east of St John's Newfoundland, which is the world's largest oil platform?

Answer 347

Hibernia

Question 348

Alcochete is a new airport under construction in which capital city?

Answer 348

Lisbon

Question 349

In Denmark, what name is given to the straits and the bridge spanning it that seperates Zealand from Funen and Jutland?

Answer 349

Great Belt

Question 350

The Venetian casino in Las Vegas has a sister Venetian resort that is the world's fifth-largest building and the largest single hotel building in Asia. In which Asian city is this?

Answer 350

Macau

Question 351

Currently, two very tall buildings called the Shanghai Tower are proposed. One is in Shanghai. In which city is the other?

Answer 351

Liverpool

Question 352

Desalination plants are sometimes SWRO plants. What does this stand for?

Answer 352

Sea Water Reverse Osmosis

Question 353

Also called Battleship Island, which island near Nagasaki was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island's most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall- it is now derelict but was once the world's most densely populated location?

Answer 353

Hashima

Question 354

In which city will the world's tallest hotel open in 2011- the Abraj Al-Bait Towers?

Answer 354

Mecca

Question 355

The sister ship of Oasis of the Seas, which is now the world's largest passenger cruise liner, but only by 5 centimetres?

Answer 355

Allure of the Seas

Question 356

Which 2007 film was the world's most expensive ever made?

Answer 356

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Question 357

Which 2010 film was the world's second most expensive ever and the world's most expensive animated film?

Answer 357

Tangled

Question 358

The animated film Tangled is based on which fairytale?

Answer 358

Rapunzel

Question 359

Which American man sold the two most expensive paintings ever- Jackson Pollock's No. 5 and Woman III by Wilhelm de Kooning?

Answer 359

David Geffen

Question 360

Which American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation? His indictment is the subject of the 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, a film by Robert Redford and Michael Apted.

Answer 360

Leonard Peltier

Question 361

Which was the most expensive music video ever?

Answer 361

Scream by Michael and Janet Jackson

Question 362

Which was the second most expensive music video ever, with the artist also holding third and fourth positions on the list?

Answer 362

Madonna- Die Another Day

Question 363

The artwork 99 Cent II Diptychon from 2001 is a two part photograph made by Andreas Gursky probably in 1999, as the work is sometimes called "99 cent.1999". The work depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods resulting in a colorful work and is digitally altered to reduce perspective. Why is it notable in quiz terms?

Answer 363

World's most expensive photograph

Question 364

Which non-photographer took the world's third most expensive photograph?

Answer 364

Dmitri Medvedev

Question 365

Which American photographer and modern art promoter was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form? He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

Answer 365

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 366

Rupert Murdoch's divorce from his wife was the most expensive in history, at $1.7 billion. Which woman did he divorce?

Answer 366

Anna Torv

Question 367

What is Rupert Murdoch's real first name?

Answer 367

Keith

Question 368

In 1984, a group of people who were living a traditional hunter-gatherer life were tracked down in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. For the first time they encountered people from European-Australian society. They are believed to be the last uncontacted tribe in Australia. WHat's the tribe name?

Answer 368

Pintupi

Question 369

In paleontology, what does LUCA stand for, something that lived about 3.8 billion years ago?

Answer 369

Last Universal Common Ancestor

Question 370

A HeLa cell (also Hela or hela cell) is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is one of the oldest and most commonly used human cell lines. The line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken from which woman, who died in 1951?

Answer 370

Henrietta Lacks

Question 371

It is the tallest building ever fully envisioned, meaning that the designs for construction have been completed. The idea was initially created and developed by Peter Neville. Its proposed 4 km height, 6 km wide sea-base, and 800 floor capacity could accommodate five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants.It was designed for Tokyo, Japan by the Taisei Corporation in 1995. What's it called?

Answer 371

The X-Seed 4000

Question 372

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" is a misquotation attributed to which man?

Answer 372

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 373

Which NFL venue came to be known as the Frozen Tundra after the Dallas Cowboys had to play a game there in 1967 at -25 degrees C?

Answer 373

Lambeau Field

Question 374

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" is a memorable and widely-quoted (or misquoted) line from cinematic history. From which film?

Answer 374

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Question 375

It is a badminton variant without a net. It was invented by Berliner Bill Brandes, who wanted to create an outdoor variant of badminton. Indeed, in classical badminton, the shuttlecock is too light and the wind can disturb the play?

Answer 375

Speed Badminton

Question 376

It is a pop-culture neologism referring to the merging of Christian and Jewish holidays as celebrated in interfaith households where one parent may be of Christian heritage and another parent of Jewish heritage. What is it?

Answer 376

Chrismukkah

Question 377

In Sweden, what was Dagen H?

Answer 377

The day the country switched to driving on the right

Question 378

In general, to have what, it is necessary (but not sufficient) for one to have both appeared in a film and co-authored an academic paper?

Answer 378

An Erdos-Bacon number

Question 379

If you classify numbers by their prime factorisation, there are frugal numbers, equidigital numbers and which third category?

Answer 379

Extravagant numbers

Question 380

What two word phrase means a way of calculating the day of the week of a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar since the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years?

Answer 380

Doomsday Rule

Question 381

What is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23? It was created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a screenwriter for the TV show Seinfeld, as part of a comical storyline on the show. Since then, it has become popular beyond Seinfeld.

Answer 381

Festivus

Question 382

What number is unimaginably larger than other well-known large numbers such as a googol, googolplex, and even larger than Skewes' number and Moser's number? Indeed, the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies at least one Planck volume.

Answer 382

Graham's Number

Question 383

Which European country changed to driving on the right in 1968?

Answer 383

Iceland

Question 384

Which European country changed to driving on the right in 1939?

Answer 384

Czechoslovakia

Question 385

Which part of Japan switched to driving on the left in 1978?

Answer 385

Okinawa

Question 386

Birmingham City Council attracted criticism in 1998 and 1999 when it replaced a number of religious festivals with what secular event?

Answer 386

Winterval

Question 387

In 1897, which state of the USA attempted to legislate the value of Pi?

Answer 387

Indiana

Question 388

Which analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell is intended to refute the idea that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of religions. It is still referred to in discussions concerning the existence of God?

Answer 388

Russell's Teapot

Question 389

In mathematics, what name is given to the sequence of integers beginning as follows: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221, 1113213211, ..?

Answer 389

Look-and-say sequence

Question 390

What is the name of the phenomenon where twice a year, the sun sets directly down certain grid streets in New York City?

Answer 390

Manhattanhenge

Question 391

Which hypothesis developed by Heribert Illig in 1991 proposes that there has been a systematic effort to make it appear that periods of history, specifically that of Europe during Early Middle Ages (AD 614–911) exist, when they do not? Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence

Answer 391

Phantom Time Hypothesis

Question 392

If Pi day is held on March 14th (3.14), what date is Pi Approximation Day?

Answer 392

22 July (22/7)

Question 393

Which woman was also known as the Greenwich Time Lady? She was a businesswoman from London, who with her mother Maria Elizabeth, and her father John Henry, sold people the time. This was done by setting a watch to Greenwich Mean Time, as shown by the Greenwich clock, and then selling people the time by letting them look at their watch.

Answer 393

Ruth Bellville

Question 394

The last one was March 3, 2009 and the next will be April 4th, 2016. What?

Answer 394

Square Root Days

Question 395

The time and date are derived from Avogadro's number, which is approximately 6.02×1023. What, therefore, is celebrated by scientists on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM?

Answer 395

Mole Day

Question 396

What is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams?

Answer 396

Towel Day

Question 397

What is the name of the thirteenth month, necessary for some computer programmes?

Answer 397

Undecimber

Question 398

1260, 1395, 1435, 1530, 1827 are the first five of which series of numbers that mathematicians say have 'fangs'?

Answer 398

Vampire numbers

Question 399

Also known as Unix Millennium Bug, this 'new version' of the problem may cause some computer software to fail in which year?

Answer 399

2038

Question 400

The problem happens partly because in computers, UNIX time started on 1 January of which year?

Answer 400

1970

Question 401

Brian Eno is the most famous member of which private organization that aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking. It hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years, and so uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem (e.g. by writing 02010 rather than 2010)?

Answer 401

The Long Now Foundation

Question 402

It does not exist in the widely used Gregorian calendar or in its predecessor, the Julian calendar. But it does exist in astronomical year numbering, as well as in all Buddhist and Hindu calendars. What?

Answer 402

Year Zero

Question 403

What is the proper name of the Mayan calendar that ends in 2012?

Answer 403

The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

Question 404

What year did the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar start?

Answer 404

3114 BC

Question 405

n Formula One, when a defending world champion does not compete in the following season, the number 1 is not assigned to any driver, but one driver of the world champion team will carry which number?

Answer 405

Zero

Question 406

The Antiqua-Fraktur dispute was a disagreement over what in c19 Germany?

Answer 406

Typefaces

Question 407

What is Arcaicam Esperantom?

Answer 407

An invented 'old' Esperanto

Question 408

Michael Haneke remade which of his films shot-by-shot for Hollywood, starring Naomi Watts?

Answer 408

Funny Games

Question 409

Anthony Asquith was the great-uncle of which present-day actress?

Answer 409

Helena Bonham Carter

Question 410

Casey Affleck stars in which film, directed by his brother Ben. The thriller was put on hold for British release because of concerns that the film’s story-line had parallels with the Madeleine McCann case?

Answer 410

Gone Baby Gone

Question 411

When Steve McQueen saw it, he was so impressed that he hired its director, Peter Yates, to direct his next movie Bullitt, whose car chase has passed into legend. Which classic British car-chase film?

Answer 411

Robbery

Question 412

Jonathan Coe borrowed the title and the plot of which 1961 farce as inspiration for a best-selling novel?

Answer 412

What A Carve-Up

Question 413

Which 1957 Hindi film written and directed by Mehboob Khan, starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raj Kumar, is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film Aurat?

Answer 413

Mother India

Question 414

Which1983 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg, is the story of a Klondike prospector, Jack McCann (played by Gene Hackman) who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy (Theresa Russell) and his son-in-law (Rutger Hauer) are scheming to take his wealth and his soul?

Answer 414

Eureka

Question 415

Who directed Get Carter?

Answer 415

Mike Hodges

Question 416

Pasolini dedicated which film to Pope John XXIII, because the then Pope was indirectly responsible for its creation? The story is that Pasolini was trapped in an enormous traffic jam in Florence due to a papal visit to the city. In frustration, Pasolini had checked into a hotel room where he picked up a copy of the New Testament from the bedside table and read through this book. What he discovered in those pages so startled him that he determined to make a film using no text but the actual words from it?

Answer 416

The Gospel According To St Matthew

Question 417

Alfonso Cuaron is best known for directing which Mexican film and which Harry Potter film?

Answer 417

Y Tu Mama Tambien and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Question 418

Which 1975 period film by Stanley Kubrick was loosely based on an 1844 Thackeray novel? It recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer, particularly his rise and fall in English society. Ryan O'Neal stars as the title character.

Answer 418

Barry Lyndon

Question 419

The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den is a ludic Chinese poem consisting of 92 characters of varying tones, of what sound?

Answer 419

Shi

Question 420

In linguistics, what name is given to an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease"?

Answer 420

Eggcorn

Question 421

Originating in the Brer Rabbit stories, in modern usage, it refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact. The only way to solve such a situation is by separation. Used to describe a person it is considered a racist slur?

Answer 421

Tar Baby

Question 422

Cryptophasia and idioglossia are terms used to describe language used by which group of people?

Answer 422

Twins

Question 423

What game is an element of the African American oral tradition in which two competitors, usually males, go head-to-head in a competition of often good-natured insults. They take turns "cracking," "snapping," "ribbing" or insulting on—one another, their adversary's mother or other family member until one of them has no comeback?

Answer 423

The Dozens

Question 424

What is a lyrically improvised form of calypso and is most notably practised in Trinidad and Tobago. It consists of a performer improvising in song or in rhythmic speech on a given theme before an audience who themselves take turns to perform?

Answer 424

Extempo

Question 425

It refers to unusual English originating in East Asian countries, and includes Chinglish, Japlish and Konglish.

Answer 425

Engrish

Question 426

Its first gratuitous use appears to have been either by Blue Oyster Cult or by Black Sabbath, both in 1970. Blue Oyster Cult's website states it was added by guitarist and keyboardist Allen Lanier, but rock critic Richard Meltzer claims to have suggested it to their producer and manager Sandy Pearlman just after Pearlman came up with the name?

Answer 426

Metal umlaut

Question 427

The name of which band comes from a board game meaning 'Do You Remember'?

Answer 427

Husker Du

Question 428

Which pasta sauce has an Italian-sounding name but is not even sold in Italy?

Answer 428

Dolmio

Question 429

The electrical retailer Dixons adopted which Japanese-sounding brand name for consumer electronics?

Answer 429

Matsui

Question 430

Which British outdoor equipment company converted the name of its first premises (Mountain Centre) roughly into German to market its own products, as European outdoor brands were widely regarded as being of high quality?

Answer 430

Berghaus

Question 431

The company Bic changed its name from what to prevent it from being mispronounced in English speaking countries?

Answer 431

Bich

Question 432

What was the tongue-in-cheek name given to the conflict over what to call Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Communist government?

Answer 432

Hyphen war

Question 433

It is a fundamental part of the history and lore of Zen Buddhism. It consists of a story, dialogue, question, or statement, the meaning of which cannot be understood by rational thinking but may be accessible through intuition. One widely known example is "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?"

Answer 433

Koan

Question 434

What is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet, or also a word used by online gamers and hackers to mean 'accoplished' as it comes from the word 'elite'?

Answer 434

Leet

Question 435

What is a pop culture phenomenon in the Philippines. According to the Urban Dictionary it is a person "who has managed to subvert the English language to the point of incomprehensibility."?

Answer 435

Jejemon

Question 436

Words in which no letter is used more than once are called what?

Answer 436

Isograms

Question 437

What name is given to a word that contains all letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. Examples include masculine (male), observe (see) and inflammable (flammable)?

Answer 437

Kangaroo Word

Question 438

What name is given to a word that contains a single occurrence of one letter, two of another letter, three of the next, etc. The longest examples have four occurrences of the most common letter. Common examples are banana, papaya, sleeveless, deadheaded and sereneness?

Answer 438

Pyramid Word

Question 439

In the context of the English language, what phrase refers to a pair or grouping of words that is used together as an idiomatic expression or collocation, usually conjoined by the words and or or. The order of elements cannot be reversed. The expression take it or leave it is an example?

Answer 439

Siamese Twins

Question 440

For many years, set had the longest entry in the OED, but it has now been overtaken by what?

Answer 440

Make

Question 441

The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex was an English language translation of which Georges Perec work using only e's for vowels?

Answer 441

Les Revenentes

Question 442

Which Latin phrase denotes a style of writing without spaces or other marks between words, such as in Japanese or Chinese?

Answer 442

Scriptio continua

Question 443

What is Greek for 'something said only once'?

Answer 443

Hapax legomenon

Question 444

What loan-word from Japanese is the happenstance of incorrect, unreadable characters shown when computer software fails to render text correctly according to its associated character encoding?

Answer 444

Mojibake

Question 445

What is the term for strong obscene profanity in Russian and other Slavic language communities. Its use is censored in the media and its use in public constitutes a form of disorderly conduct, punishable under article 20.1.1 of the Offences Code of Russia?

Answer 445

Mat

Question 446

What is the name of "The Journal The World Swears By,"? It is a scholarly journal dedicated to the study of offensive and negatively-valued words and expressions. Its main areas of interest are the origin, etymology, meaning, use, and influence of vulgar, obscene, aggressive, abusive, and blasphemous language.

Answer 446

Maledicta

Question 447

What name is given to a disk of fired clay from a Minoan palace on Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age. It is covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols. Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture, remain disputed, making it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology?

Answer 447

Phaistos Disc

Question 448

In 2009, The Rum Diary was the comeback film after 17 years away by which Withnail and I director?

Answer 448

Bruce Robinson

Question 449

Which French film director? Born in Paris to a Jewish family of Algerian origin, he started his career with reportage - one of the first to film daily life in the U.S.S.R., the camera hidden under his coat as he made his personal journey. La Femme Spectacle (1963), following prostitutes, women shopping, going for nose-jobs, was censored for its misogynist tendency. Un Homme et Une Femme changed his fortunes?

Answer 449

Claude Lelouch

Question 450

Which Danish drama/action movie from 2008, directed and co-written by Ole Christian Madsen is based on fact, about two Danish Resistance fighters in 1943 and '44?

Answer 450

Flame and Citron

Question 451

Initially, she modelled in glamour photographs for magazines, including Reveille and Titbits. Her first appearance in a film was as an extra in Simon and Laura (1955). She was chosen by Laurence Olivier to play the prime female role in The Entertainer, 1960. The same year she appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney) in the influential British New Wave film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?

Answer 451

Shirley Anne Field

Question 452

Which Polish film director is noted for his films in the 1970s, oten featuring British actors and/or set in Britain, including Deep End, The Adventures of Gerard, King, Queen, Knave and The Shout?

Answer 452

Jerzy Skolimowski

Question 453

Born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, he later adopted a pseudonym during World War II as a tribute to his favorite American author. He became well known for his tragic, minimalist film noirs, such as Le Samouraï (1967) and Le Cercle rouge (1969), starring major, charismatic actors like Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura. His directorial style was influenced by American cinema and fetishized accessories like weapons, clothes and especially hats?

Answer 453

Jean-Pierre Melville

Question 454

Which writer and director of British prison escape thriller The Escapist (2008), is set to direct Rise of the Apes, a prequel to Planet of the Apes, in 2010?

Answer 454

Rupert Wyatt

Question 455

What was a plan to cultivate tracts of what is now Tanzania with peanuts? It was a project of the British Labour government of Clement Attlee. It was abandoned in 1951 at considerable cost to the taxpayers when it did not become profitable.

Answer 455

Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme

Question 456

Who played Kirk to Zach Quinto's Spock in the 2009 Star Trek film?

Answer 456

Chris Pine

Question 457

Originally titled One Plus One by the film director, it is a 1968 musical documentary film shot mostly in color by director Jean-Luc Godard?

Answer 457

Sympathy for the Devil

Question 458

Sounds Like Teen Spirit, described by its director as a 'Popumentary', is a 2008 documentary following the lives of the participants in which event?

Answer 458

Junior Eurovision

Question 459

Which American underground experimental filmmaker has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle"? His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and he was one of America's first openly gay filmmakers.

Answer 459

Kenneth Anger

Question 460

Which film star links Wild At Heart, The Last Temptation of Christ and Antichrist?

Answer 460

Willem Defoe

Question 461

Which French actress spent more than half of her time on screen topless in the 2003 Francois Ozon film Swimming Pool?

Answer 461

Ludivine Sagnier

Question 462

Who directed Looking for Eric?

Answer 462

Ken Loach

Question 463

Which English director was responsible for Dangerous Liaisons?

Answer 463

Stephen Frears

Question 464

In private life, he was a close friend and drinking companion of another Welsh actor, Richard Burton. Notable among his early roles was Henry Tudor in Richard III (1955) and Achilles in Helen of Troy (1956). He is best known for his role as John Chard VC in Zulu. He was ennobled by Harold Wilson in the Lavender List but did not live to pick up his knighthood, dying aged 48 of lung cancer.

Answer 464

Stanley Baker

Question 465

Who directed Quadrophenia and also directed The Family, the earliest reality TV show?

Answer 465

Franc Roddam

Question 466

Known as one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom, along with Cy Grant, this Bermuda-born actor had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner and The Andromeda Breakthrough.

Answer 466

Earl Cameron

Question 467

Earl Cameron's 1951 film debut, its plot concerned the crew of the merchant ship Dunbar. The crew are given shore leave, and soon become involved in smuggling and petty crime. Unusually for the time, it tackled themes of racism, as one of the ship's crew was a Jamaican?

Answer 467

Pool of London

Question 468

Which American screenwriter and film director has received more recognition for his screenplays for others, especially Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. He is often called one of the best screenwriters never to be nominated for an Academy Award?

Answer 468

Paul Schrader

Question 469

Daniel Day Lewis is famously Arthur Miller's son-in-law- but what's the full name of his novelist, director and painter wife?

Answer 469

Rebecca Miller

Question 470

Who directed the 2009 film Moon, starring Sam Rockwell?

Answer 470

Duncan Jones (Zowie Bowie)

Question 471

Which Stones album features Angie and is the follow-up to Exile on Main Street?

Answer 471

Goat's Head Soup

Question 472

Which father of Toby Jones was also an actor, starring in The Elephant Man and Far from the Madding Crowd?

Answer 472

Freddie Jones

Question 473

The love scene between which London-born actress and John Mills was dropped from Ice Cold in Alex as it was considered too strong for 1958?

Answer 473

Sylvia Sims

Question 474

Almodovar partially remade which of his earlier films in 2009's Broken Embraces?

Answer 474

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Question 475

Which British cinematographer enjoyed a long career in the British film industry. His many films as director of photography include The Italian Job, Never Say Never Again, the first three Indiana Jones films, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt? He has been nominated for an Academy Award on three occasions.

Answer 475

Douglas Slocombe

Question 476

Which German-born Irish actor is probably best known to international audiences for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds?

Answer 476

Michael Fassbender

Question 477

Which unusually named 1967 play by English playwright Peter Nichols was first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland before transferring to London's West End theatres in 1968, and then becoming a film?

Answer 477

A Day In the Death of Joe Egg

Question 478

La Baie des Anges, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune (The slightly pregnant man) were alll French New Wave films directed by which man?

Answer 478

Jacques Demy

Question 479

Which elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, who starred alongside her in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, died in a car crash aged 25 while filming Billion Dollar Brain?

Answer 479

Francoise Dorleac

Question 480

Who created the French version of Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin?

Answer 480

Maurice Leblanc

Question 481

He was a British film director and grandson of a Poet Laureate whose promising career was cut short when he was killed in a plane crash in 1941 aged 28. He gained experience as an assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock in several of his British films during the 1930s?

Answer 481

Pen Tennyson

Question 482

Shane Meadows introduced the world to Paddy Considine in which film?

Answer 482

A Room for Romeo Brass

Question 483

Which Romanian director won acclaim and a Palme d'Or for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days?

Answer 483

Cristian Mungiu

Question 484

Which Israeli director wrote and directed Paranormal Activity?

Answer 484

Oren Peli

Question 485

Which Portuguese film director is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by the socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way that makes them resemble documentaries?

Answer 485

Pedro Costa

Question 486

Born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer, she is a Danish film actress who has spent most of her working life in France. She is known as a muse of the director, Jean-Luc Godard, including in The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961) and Vivre sa vie (1962)?

Answer 486

Anna Karina

Question 487

Born Marina Ann Hantzis in 1988, she is an American pornographic actress who, unusually, was selected by Stephen Soderbergh to star in the mainstream film The Girlfriend Experience in 2009?

Answer 487

Sasha Grey

Question 488

Which London-born author is famous for A Coffin for Dimitrios, which was made into a film in 1944, and The Light of Day (1962), filmed in 1964 as Topkapi?

Answer 488

Eric Ambler

Question 489

Which Patrick Hamilton play, performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941, was filmed twice in four years- the British version in 1940, then the Hollywood version in 1944, directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman and eighteen-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut?

Answer 489

Gaslight

Question 490

Which production designer transformed North Wales into China for the Inn of the Sixth Happiness?

Answer 490

John Box

Question 491

Which film star was born in Karachi with the forenames Georgette Lizette?

Answer 491

Googie Withers

Question 492

Which English actress, a daughter of a National Theatre director, links The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and The Town?

Answer 492

Rebecca Hall

Question 493

Who directed Let The Right One In?

Answer 493

Tomas Alfredson

Question 494

Who directed Ealing comedies including The Blue Lamp, but also directed Victim with Dirk Bogarde and Pool of London? He was killed in a car crash on the A40 in 1971 near where the main character of his film The Man Who Haunted Himself also crashed?

Answer 494

Basil Dearden

Question 495

Who directed Fish Tank, and discovered Katie Jarvis while she was having an argument on a train platform with her boyfriend?

Answer 495

Andrea Arnold

Question 496

Which English actor, director and screenwriter is best known for playing Wyman Norris in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Mickey Smith in Doctor Who, becoming one of the first black actors to appear in it? He appeared in and wrote the screenplay for Kidulthood and wrote, directed and starred in the sequel, Adulthood.

Answer 496

Noel Clarke

Question 497

He was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer known for his distinctive technical style, developed since the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work. He was well known for his drinking. In fact, he and his fellow screenwriter Kogo Noda used to measure the progression of their scripts by how many bottles of sake they had drunk?

Answer 497

Yasujiro Ozu

Question 498

Which Plymouth-born film composer wrote, among many others, the opening theme from Battle of Britain and the scores for Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Frenzy (for which he replaced Henry Mancini) and the themes from the Miss Marple films of the 1960s'?

Answer 498

Ron Goodwin

Question 499

Originally titled Luftwaffe March, the opening theme from Battle of Britain by Ron Goodwin was retitled what, at the request of military bands, for which it has become a staple?

Answer 499

Aces High

Question 500

Murder, She Said (1961), Murder at the Gallop (1963), Murder Most Foul (1963) and Murder Ahoy (1964) were all Miss Marple films in which who played Miss Marple?

Answer 500

Margaret Rutherford