Set 14

Question 1

The Ron Goodwin theme for the 1966 film The Trap is used by the BBC during coverage of which sporting event?

Answer 1

The London Marathon

Question 2

Released in the USA as ‘Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At’, it was the most succesful film in French cinemas ever until the release of Titanic, and is still phenomenally popular whenever it’s shown on television. Which 1966 war comedy with Terry-Thomas?

Answer 2

La Grande Vadrouille

Question 3

In biochemistry and pharmacology, what name is given to a substance that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose?

Answer 3

Ligand

Question 4

The biting louse whose Latin name is famously a tribute to Gary Larson is a parasite feeding only on which animals?

Answer 4

Owls

Question 5

What was the name of Fletcher Christian’s son?

Answer 5

Thursday October Christian

Question 6

There is a genus of mudskipper named for which musician, who also has a jellyfish and a spider named for him?

Answer 6

Frank Zappa

Question 7

Preseucoila imallshookupis, named for Elvis and a song of his, is a species of what insect?

Answer 7

Gall wasp

Question 8

He was a publisher and co-founder of Random House. Who was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What’s My Line?

Answer 8

Bennett Cerf

Question 9

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 was a name given as a protest against the country’s strict naming laws by parents in 1991 in which country?

Answer 9

Sweden

Question 10

In paleontology, what phrase refers to a fossil such as a dinosaur tooth that was washed out of sediments and re-deposited in rocks and/or sediments millions of years younger?

Answer 10

Zombie taxon

Question 11

What genus of tropical American weevil often found in association with palms is a snouted beetle and the last word in many English-language dictionaries?

Answer 11

Zyzzyva

Question 12

Who did the scores for the films Double Indemnity, Lust for Life, Ben Hur and El Cid?

Answer 12

Miklos Rozsa

Question 13

He directed Gérard Depardieu in three films, including Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan), for which he won the Palme d’Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival?

Answer 13

Maurice Pialat

Question 14

Who directed classics such as Reach For The Sky and Alfie as well as three of the biggest Bond films ever: You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker?

Answer 14

Lewis Gilbert

Question 15

He was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten. He won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one originally given to a front writer, and one awarded to Robert Rich, his pseudonym. Which man is most noted for his anti-war film Johnny Got His Gun?

Answer 15

Dalton Trumbo

Question 16

Who composed the music for The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961)?

Answer 16

Malcolm Arnold

Question 17

Which lorry driver’s son from Stepney plays Inspector Lestrade in the 2000s Sherlock Holmes films?

Answer 17

Eddie Marsan

Question 18

Which French film actress and dancer appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003 and is best known for the musical films An American in Paris (1951), Lili (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), and Gigi (1958)?

Answer 18

Leslie Caron

Question 19

On which island was Whisky Galore set?

Answer 19

Barra

Question 20

What’s the medical term for having an additional breast?

Answer 20

Accessory breast

Question 21

What’s the medical term for a third nipple?

Answer 21

Supernumary nipple

Question 22

In Hindu mythology, which goddess was born with three breasts?

Answer 22

Meenakshi

Question 23

White dog dung, mixed with honey and used as a treatment for throat and skin problems, is called what?

Answer 23

Album graecum

Question 24

Also known as anarchic hand or Dr. Strangelove syndrome, what name is given to a neurological disorder in which one of the hands of people who have it appear to take on a mind of its own?

Answer 24

Alien Hand Syndrome

Question 25

A species of blind cave beetle found only in five humid caves in Slovenia is named for which rather inappropriate man?

Answer 25

Hitler

Question 26

What is the discipline that explores acoustic phenomena encoded in ancient artifacts. For instance, theoretically a pot or vase could be "read" like a gramophone record or phonograph cylinder for messages from the past

Answer 26

Archaeoacoustics

Question 27

His important works include research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. For this some call him the "Father of Acoustics". He also did pioneering work in the study of meteorites, and therefore is regarded by some as the "Father of Meteoritics" as well. Which German physicist?

Answer 27

Ernst Chladni

Question 28

It is a fictional psychoactive substance which is supposedly extracted from banana peels. A hoax recipe for its "extraction" from banana peel was originally published in the Berkeley Barb in March 1967. It became more widely known when the method was reproduced in The Anarchist Cookbook in 1970. Donovan wrote the song Mellow Yellow about it?

Answer 28

Bananadine

Question 29

Which man, who shares his name with a film star, wrote The Anarchist Cookbook?

Answer 29

William Powell

Question 30

Ota Benga, a pygmy from the Belgian Congo, was tragically and controversially exhibited at which US zoo in 1906?

Answer 30

Bronx

Question 31

Which person, whose name simply means 'man', is believed to have been the last Native American in Northern California to have lived most of his life completely outside the European American culture?

Answer 31

Ishi

Question 32

Abraham Ulrikab, who — along with his family — was to become a zoo exhibit in Europe in 1880 as an attraction at the Hamburg, Germany public zoo, was from which ethnic group?

Answer 32

Inuit

Question 33

Which African woman was exhibited in Europe in the c19 under the name 'The Hottentot Venus'?

Answer 33

Sarah Baartman

Question 34

Often referred to in science fiction and fantasy circles as a tongue-in-cheek shorthand for extreme horror or evil, which H P Lovecraft character is often cited for the extreme descriptions given of its hideous appearance, its gargantuan size, and the abject terror that it evokes?

Answer 34

Cthulhu

Question 35

This paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height.

Answer 35

Buttered Cat Paradox

Question 36

Name this rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion, and is often of a paranoid nature with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise?

Answer 36

Fregoli Delusion

Question 37

Medial epicondylitis is better known as what?

Answer 37

Golfer's Elbow

Question 38

Very similar to phossy jaw, which other condition is the gradual decay of the jaw through dangerous chemicals at work?

Answer 38

Radium jaw

Question 39

What is the common name for an exostosis or abnormal bone growth within the ear canal? It is similar to but not the same as swimmer's ear.

Answer 39

Surfer's ear

Question 40

Which famous hoax was published in the British Medical Journal as a real condition in 1974?

Answer 40

Cello scrotum

Question 41

What is a condition that causes patients with visual loss to have complex visual hallucinations, first described in 1760 and first introduced into English-speaking psychiatry in 1982?

Answer 41

Charles Bonnet Syndrome

Question 42

Similarly, what name is given to auditory hallucinations among those with progressive deafness?

Answer 42

Musical ear syndrome

Question 43

Its most common variant is white, but what can also be called pink, brown, blue, violet, grey, orange, green and black?

Answer 43

Noise

Question 44

What is black noise?

Answer 44

Silence

Question 45

Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming, he has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms.

Answer 45

Donald Knuth

Question 46

What two word phrase has been given to the colour of the universe by scientists at Johns Hopkins University?

Answer 46

Cosmic latte

Question 47

If you have Cotard delusion, you believe you are what?

Answer 47

Dead or decaying

Question 48

One of the first major outbreaks of dancing mania in mediaeval Europe was in which German city in 1374?

Answer 48

Aachen

Question 49

Which five-word phrase consists of the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla. Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the human nose and surrounding area, it is possible (although very rare) for retrograde infections from this area to spread to the brain?

Answer 49

Danger Triangle of the Face

Question 50

On 24 March 1975, Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching an episode of which programme? His widow later sent that programme a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments of life so pleasant.

Answer 50

The Goodies

Question 51

In 1989, a Danish audiologist, Ole Bentzen, died laughing while watching which comedy film?

Answer 51

A Fish Called Wanda

Question 52

Which disease is also called 'laughing sickness'?

Answer 52

Kuru

Question 53

What name is given to an exaggerated expression of humour which is unwarranted by external events. It may be uncontrollable laughter which may be recognised as inappropriate by the person involved. It is associated with abnormal mental states and may be symptomatic of drug use, particularly cannabis use, or mental illness, such as mania or schizophrenia?

Answer 53

Paradoxical laughter

Question 54

Knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific names for the two kinds of what?

Answer 54

Tickling

Question 55

Therefore, what is knismolagnia?

Answer 55

Sexual gratification from being tickled

Question 56

Which Australian spin bowler, who Don Bradman called the greatest, was nicknamed Tiger and shared his full name with a US conservative commentator?

Answer 56

Bill O'Reilly

Question 57

What process, common in bicycle riding, means the brain is focused so intently on an observed object that awareness of other obstacles or hazards can diminish? Also, in an avoidance scenario, the observer can become so fixated on the target that they will forget to take the necessary action to avoid it, thus colliding with the object.

Answer 57

Target fixation

Question 58

What Gary Larson-derived, originally humorous name is given an arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of particular dinosaurs, of which Stegosaurus stenops is the most familiar?

Answer 58

Thagomiser

Question 59

Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by which science fiction author and first described in a spoof scientific paper titled "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" in 1948?

Answer 59

Isaac Asimov

Question 60

Writer Norman Mailer was passionate about it. Author and humorist Paul Davidson claims that his grandfather Bernard Davidson invented it in the 1940s. American copywriter Julian Koenig claimed to have invented it in 1936 as a boy at Camp Greylock. Which 'sport'?

Answer 60

Thumb wrestling

Question 61

If you have lethologica, you temporarily do what?

Answer 61

Forget words, phrases or names

Question 62

Which woman tricked doctors in c18 England into believing she had given birth to rabbits?

Answer 62

Mary Toft

Question 63

Who became the first Portuguese man to win a Nobel prize when he was awarded one in 1949 for developing the lobotomy?

Answer 63

Antonio Egas Moniz

Question 64

Which reckless doctor became infamous in the US for his icepick lobotomies, which he performed 'on the road' even though he had no surgical training?

Answer 64

Walter Freeman

Question 65

Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) is a rare metabolic disorder that causes a defect in the normal production of the enzyme Flavin containing monooxygenase 3. It is colloquially known as what?

Answer 65

Fish odour syndrome

Question 66

In Christianity, thirteen is not always bad, particularly in the Old Testament. For example, what famous list is given in Exodus?

Answer 66

Thirteen Attributes of (God's) Mercy

Question 67

What name is given to the fear of the number four, common in East Asia?

Answer 67

Tetraphobia

Question 68

Which number is considered unlucky in Italy, because in Roman numerals it can be a euphemism for "I am dead."?

Answer 68

17 (VIXI)

Question 69

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of what?

Answer 69

Friday 13th

Question 70

Every even integer greater than 2 is a number that can be expressed as the sum of two primes is which famous supposition in maths?

Answer 70

Goldbach's conjecture

Question 71

What name is given to a simple method of visualizing the prime numbers that reveals the apparent tendency of certain quadratic polynomials to generate unusually large numbers of primes? It was discovered by the titular mathematician in 1963, while he was doodling during the presentation of a “long and very boring paper” at a scientific meeting.

Answer 71

Ulam spiral

Question 72

Which term, very similar in meaning to 'uncanny valley' was coined by Isaac Asimov to describe the fear people may have of human-like robots?

Answer 72

Frankenstein complex

Question 73

What Greek-derived name means 'anything that resembles a woman', and is applied to female robots, in a similar way to the Austin Powers term 'fembot'?

Answer 73

Gynoid

Question 74

Also known as Pili trianguli et canaliculi, Spun-glass hair, and Cheveux incoiffables, what is a rare structural anomaly of the hair with a variable degree of effect? It was discovered in the 1970s. It becomes apparent from as little as 3 months to up to 12 years.

Answer 74

Uncombable Hair Syndrome

Question 75

What word now means immovable or certain but historically meant 'diamond-like'?

Answer 75

Adamant

Question 76

What colloquial rhyming nickname is given to Nasa research planes flying parabolas to simulate zero-gravity?

Answer 76

Vomit comet

Question 77

What is NASA's official name for the 'Vomit comet'?

Answer 77

Weightless Wonder

Question 78

On objects orbiting the Earth, e.g. the ISS, zero gravity does not occur due to the Earth's pull. Instead, what name is given to the phenomenon that is experienced?

Answer 78

Microgravity

Question 79

This phenomenon is obtained when moving an element from one set to another set raises the average values of both sets. It is based on the following quote, attributed to the titular comedian: When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states?

Answer 79

Will Rogers phenomenon

Question 80

What is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging, particularly plastic blister packs and clamshells? Consumers suffer thousands of injuries per year, such as cut fingers and sprained wrists, from tools used to open packages and from the packaging itself.

Answer 80

Wrap rage

Question 81

It is the symbolic person shown on traffic lights at pedestrian crossings in the former East Germany. It is a beloved symbol, enjoying the privileged status of being one of the few features of communism to have survived the end of the Iron Curtain with his popularity unscathed. What's he called?

Answer 81

Ampelmaennchen

Question 82

Charles Osmond Frederick, who worked at the British Railways technical centre in Derby, patented a nuclear driven space vehicle. The patent was based on work performed by Frederick, which originally was directed towards a lifting platform and finally culminated in a nuclear fusion powered passenger craft for interplanetary travel. How is this device known?

Answer 82

British Rail flying saucer

Question 83

Which automaton in the form of a certain bird, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739, appeared to have the ability to eat kernels of grain, and to metabolize and defecate them? While the automaton did not actually have the ability to do this - the food was collected in one inner container, and the pre-stored feces was 'produced' from a second, so that no actual digestion took place - Vaucanson hoped that a truly digesting automaton could one day be designed.

Answer 83

Digesting Duck

Question 84

What name was given to the cartel of, among others, Osram, Philips and General Electric from December 23, 1924 until 1939 that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs? It reduced competition in the light bulb industry for almost twenty years, and has been accused of preventing technological advances that would have produced longer-lasting light bulbs.

Answer 84

Phoebus cartel

Question 85

What device was famously used by aviation and rail corporations to test the strength of aircraft and train windscreens?

Answer 85

Chicken guns

Question 86

What name is given to a device that uses pulsing rhythmic sound and/or flashing light to alter the brainwave frequency of the user? They are said to induce deep states of relaxation, concentration, and in some cases altered states of consciousness that have been compared to those obtained from meditation and shamanic exploration.

Answer 86

Mind machine

Question 87

In Sherlock Holmes, which street urchin is the head of the Baker Street Irregulars?

Answer 87

Wiggins

Question 88

Which real life brothers played the Fabulous Baker Boys in the famous 1989 film?

Answer 88

Jeff and Beau Bridges

Question 89

In parapsychology, what does EVP stand for? It is the phenomenon where ghostly voices and sounds are said to be recordable on tape.

Answer 89

Electronic voice phenomenon

Question 90

Which welder and automobile muffler repair shop owner, outraged over the outcome of a planning dispute, armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, a former judge's home, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado? The rampage ended when the bulldozer became immobilized. After a standoff with law enforcement agencies, he killed himself with a handgun.

Answer 90

Marvin Heemeyer

Question 91

Shawn Nelson stole a tank and went on a rampage before being shot dead by police in which US city in 1995?

Answer 91

San Diego

Question 92

Which wantaway slave posted himself, successfully, from Virginia to Pennsylvania?

Answer 92

Henry Box Brown

Question 93

What is a combination knife and fork called?

Answer 93

Knork

Question 94

What name is given to a utensil that combines a knife, spoon and fork in one?

Answer 94

Sporf

Question 95

The penis gourd or penis sheath is a phallocrypt or phallocarp traditionally worn by native male inhabitants of some (mainly highland) ethnic groups in New Guinea to cover their genitals. What is its common native name?

Answer 95

Koteka

Question 96

Who was the Irish-born chief shipbuilder of the Titanic, who perished in the disaster?

Answer 96

Thomas Andrews

Question 97

Li Shi was chief advisor to the Chin Emperor in China and devised which method of execution, by which means he was eventually killed himself in 208BC?

Answer 97

The Five Pains

Question 98

Russian inventor Valerian Abakovsky is remembered as the inventor of, and one of the first men to die in, which form of transport in which an aircraft engine was added to a train?

Answer 98

Aerowagon

Question 99

What was the name of the early form of guillotine used in Scotland?

Answer 99

Scottish Maiden

Question 100

Perillos of Athens (circa 550 BC), according to legend, was the first to be roasted in which method of execution he made for Phalaris of Sicily for executing criminals?

Answer 100

Brazen Bull

Question 101

It was found in 1972 beneath the site of a planned bank branch a and may be the largest example of fossilised human faeces ever found. Analysis of the nine-inch (23 cm) long stool has indicated that its producer subsisted largely on meat and bread whilst the presence of several hundred parasitic eggs suggests he or she was riddled with intestinal worms. What is the name of this coprolite?

Answer 101

Lloyds Bank coprolite

Question 102

What name is given to small pointed tags, usually made of fluorescent yellow plastic, which are fixed to the lug nuts of the wheels of large vehicles. The tag rotates with the nut, and if the nut becomes loose, the point of the tag shifts noticeably out of alignment with the other tags?

Answer 102

Loose Wheel Nut Indicators

Question 103

It is widely regarded as one of the most complex geared mechanisms of the ancient Chinese civilization. According to legends it was supposedly invented by the mythical Yellow Emperor, yet the first valid historical version was created by Ma Jun. It is a two-wheeled vehicle upon which is a pointing figure connected to the wheels by means of differential gearing. Through careful selection of wheel size, track and gear ratios, the figure atop the vehicle will always point in the same direction, hence acting as a non-magnetic compass vehicle?

Answer 103

South-pointing chariot

Question 104

The Great Giana Sisters was a computer game that had to withdrawn almost as soon as it went on sale due to very close similarities with which other game?

Answer 104

Super Mario Bros

Question 105

Which term is used in East Asian internet culture for video games and websites that are so-bad-they're-good, and generally an appreciation of camp, kitsch computing?

Answer 105

Kuso

Question 106

Also a popular pastime in northern England, in video gaming what term is frequently applied to video games or other software produced by consumers to target proprietary hardware platforms not typically user-programmable or that use proprietary storage methods?

Answer 106

Homebrew

Question 107

When launched, the screen only contains a glowing red gem, and an icon that when pressed, displays the following mantra in large text: I am rich I deserv [sic] it I am good, healthy & successful. Costing $999, and calles simply 'I am rich', this outrageous rip-off was one of the world's first whats?

Answer 107

Apps

Question 108

In economics, what are defined as a group of commodities for which people's preference for buying them increases as a direct function of their price, as greater price confers greater status, instead of decreasing according to the law of demand? Examples are Rolls-Royces and that app above.

Answer 108

Veblen goods

Question 109

What is the name of the iPhone app that makes a farting sound if the phone is moved?

Answer 109

iFart mobile

Question 110

If you use a video to blog rather than writing, what does that make you?

Answer 110

A vlogger

Question 111

The Publius enigma, a still-unsolved puzzle posed on the web, is associated with which Pink Floyd album?

Answer 111

Division Bell

Question 112

Which term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes, based on the idea that instantaneous global communication is not a recent invention, but rather developed in the mid-19th century, and that the changes wrought by the telegraph outweigh the world wide web?

Answer 112

Victorian Internet

Question 113

Launched in 2004, this video game was condemned by the late Senator Edward Kennedy, the late President Kennedy's brother, as "...despicable."; and by Senator Joseph Lieberman who "was sickened by the game". You play Lee Harvey Oswald and have to shoot the President. What's it called?

Answer 113

JFK: Reloaded

Question 114

What is the name given to a standard test image originally cropped from the centerfold of November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine? It was a picture of a Swedish model, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker. The image is probably the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications.

Answer 114

Lenna

Question 115

Which early computer created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips to model the national economic processes of the United Kingdom used fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy? Its name may have been suggested by an association of money and ENIAC, an early electronic digital computer.

Answer 115

MONIAC

Question 116

The problem of creating which self-powering means of transport that can balance itself in three dimensions, is a well-known problem in robotics and control theory?

Answer 116

Unicycle

Question 117

Mark V Shaney is a fake Usenet user whose postings were generated by using text generated by which random technique, which sounds like Mark V Shaney?

Answer 117

Markov Chain

Question 118

Which adage, which began as the caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner published by The New Yorker in 1993 featuring two dogs? As of 2000, the panel was the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker, and Steiner has earned over US$50,000 from its reprinting.

Answer 118

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog

Question 119

Which website, launched in 2004, satirizes both encyclopedic topics and current events, especially those related to or relevant to internet culture? It is also associated with the internet subculture Anonymous. The site's "elaborate trolling culture", chronicling of internet trolling, use of content with shock value, and criticism of other internet communities have all gained media coverage and commentary.

Answer 119

Encyclopaedia Dramatica

Question 120

What does NSFW stand for on the Internet?

Answer 120

Not Safe For Work

Question 121

What was the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he made numerous incorrect predictions about events in the near future, starting from 2004? He described a drastically changed future in which the United States had broken into five smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.

Answer 121

John Titor

Question 122

Thanks to a widely circulated internet hoax photograph, how is the 25 year old Hungarian man named Péter Guzli better known?

Answer 122

The Tourist of Death

Question 123

The Trojan Room coffee pot was the subject of which technological innovation? The innovation was to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room.

Answer 123

First webcam (1991)

Question 124

What name was given to an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type?

Answer 124

Printer's devil

Question 125

Who was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of a scribe?

Answer 125

Titivillus

Question 126

Which Canadian computer programmer coined the terms 'Hello, world', WYSIWYG and Unix?

Answer 126

Brian Kernighan

Question 127

What is the 3D computer graphics equivalent of a 'hello world' programme?

Answer 127

Utah Teapot

Question 128

As per the Atari New Mexico dumping incident, what is widely considered the worst video game of all time?

Answer 128

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Question 129

The second best selling video game franchise of all time behind Super Mario, what series was created by Satoshi Tajiri?

Answer 129

Pokemon

Question 130

Who created Tetris?

Answer 130

Alexei Pajitnov

Question 131

Hironobu Sakaguchi created which best-selling franchise of computer games?

Answer 131

Final fantasy

Question 132

Which former American football player, a former head coach with the Oakland Raiders and commentator is the face and name of the world's most successful American football video game?

Answer 132

John Madden

Question 133

Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima created which famous character?

Answer 133

Sonic the Hedgehog

Question 134

As well as Super Mario, what is the second-best selling franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto?

Answer 134

The Legend of Zelda

Question 135

The Collyer brothers created which successful computer games series?

Answer 135

Championship/Football Manager

Question 136

Which film, often called the worst ever made, was Bela Lugosi's final appearance?

Answer 136

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Question 137

This 1987 film by Rick Sloane, widely considered to be a blatant rip-off capitalizing on the popularity of the 1984 film Gremlins, is on the IMDb's Bottom 100 list, and at its lowest rating, it repeatedly made number two, second only to Gigli.

Answer 137

Hobgoblins

Question 138

Battlefield Earth was so bad because it included so many of them. What term is used for a cinematic tactic often used to portray the psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed by tilting the camera off to the side so that the shot is composed with the horizon at an angle?

Answer 138

Dutch angle

Question 139

Which was the terrible film for which Halle Berry turned up in person at the Golden Razzies award?

Answer 139

Catwoman

Question 140

This 1982 war movie, directed by Terence Young and starring Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, was meant to be a depiction of the Korean War. Producer Mitsuharu Ishii was a senior member of the Japanese branch of the Unification Church, whose leader, Sun Myung Moon, claimed he had the film made to show MacArthur's spirituality and connection to God and the Japanese people. The movie ran theatrically in the United States for only a few weeks and lost millions.

Answer 140

Inchon

Question 141

Which 1996 comedy that stars professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal as the title character, a genie, is often called one of the worst ever?

Answer 141

Kazaam

Question 142

Sandra Bullock won a Golden Raspberry for which 2009 film the day before she was awarded the Oscar for The Blind Side?

Answer 142

All About Steve

Question 143

What was the name of the sequel to Highlander, often considered as among the worst films ever made?

Answer 143

The Quickening

Question 144

Which terrible disco song, sharing its name with one by Dizzee Rascal, was released in 1980 by newsreader Reginald Bosanquet?

Answer 144

Dance With Me

Question 145

Which tasteless 2004 American reality television program broadcast on Fox was considered one of the worst programmes ever? Women were given "extreme makeovers" that included several forms of plastic surgery. Each contestant was assigned a panel of specialists — a coach, therapist, trainer, cosmetic surgeons and a dentist — who together designed an individually tailored program for her. Both the first and second seasons debuted in 2004. A third season was tipped to happen, but the show was cancelled in early 2005 after continued ratings drops.

Answer 145

The Swan

Question 146

The show centres on fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. The show's plot is centred on Hitler's inability to get along with his neighbours. A caption at the beginning of the episode presented the series as a 'lost' sitcom from the 50s, recently re-discovered. Which 'worst ever' British sitcom?

Answer 146

Heil Honey I'm Home

Question 147

They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. What?

Answer 147

Wingdings

Question 148

One edition of Wingdings caused controversy, because a skull and crossbones, Jewish star and thumbs up appeared in that order when typing what?

Answer 148

NYC

Question 149

Likened to a secret handshake among comedians, and named by Johnny Carson as his favourite joke ever, it is an exceptionally transgressive dirty joke that has been told by numerous stand-up comedians since the vaudeville era. Throughout its long history, it has evolved from a clichéd staple of vaudevillian humor into a postmodern anti-joke. WHat's the name of this joke?

Answer 149

The Aristocrats

Question 150

Which comedy sketch show broadcast on Radio 4 revolves around a website broadcast on radio, intended to be a parody of Wikipedia?

Answer 150

Bigipedia

Question 151

George P. Burdell is a fictitious student officially enrolled at which American university in 1927 as a practical joke? Since then, he has received several degrees, served in the military, got married, and served on Mad magazine's Board of Directors, among other accomplishments. Burdell at one point even led the online poll for Time's 2001 Person of the Year award.

Answer 151

Georgia Tech

Question 152

The Bus Uncle is one of the most famous You Tube clips within and filmed in which city?

Answer 152

Hong Kong

Question 153

Which term often used in reference to computer role-playing games refers to the use of a character's inventory in the game, which can often contain more items (or items of too large a size) than is physically possible for the character to carry without any visible means to hold or transport them?

Answer 153

Magic satchel

Question 154

Which unlikely character is a perennial parody of R. E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian that has appeared in film, television, comics, and fan fiction?

Answer 154

Conan the Librarian

Question 155

Which type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea is drawn from popular fiction in Japan? Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies.

Answer 155

Cosplay

Question 156

Spides and millies are the words for 'chav' where?

Answer 156

Northern Ireland

Question 157

A Croydon facelift hairstyle can cause which genuine medical complaint?

Answer 157

Traction alopecia

Question 158

Who played Napoleon in Abel Gance's classic film?

Answer 158

Albert Dieudonné

Question 159

Who directed the first cinema adaptation of War and Peace in 1956, with Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Herbert Lom as Napoleon?

Answer 159

King Vidor

Question 160

Literally "budding", as with a plant, which Japanese slang word originally referred to a strong interest in a particular type or style of character in video games, anime or manga, but now, roughly, means 'phwooar'?

Answer 160

Moe

Question 161

Which slang term for an apocryphal and potentially lethal sexual practice supposedly performed during anal sex based on a rabbit punch?

Answer 161

Donkey punch

Question 162

Which fictitious Australian marsupial is commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above?

Answer 162

Drop bears

Question 163

A mythical animal of North American folklore, what is described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns or deer antlers and sometimes a pheasant's tail (and often hind legs)? It is possible that they were inspired by sightings of rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus, which causes the growth of horn- and antler-like tumors in various places on the rabbit's head and body.

Answer 163

Jackalope

Question 164

What name is given to the ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail?

Answer 164

Ouroborus

Question 165

What is the origin of the word 'sniper'?

Answer 165

Snipe are very difficult to shoot, so only the best marksmen could get one

Question 166

In US culture, a juggalo is a fan of which band?

Answer 166

Insane Clown Posse

Question 167

Often abbreviated IE, they are a comedic performance art group based in New York City, formed in 2001 by Charlie Todd. Their slogan is "We Cause Scenes." and some of their events have become huge You Tube and comedy hits. Credited with inspiring the Flash Mob movement, what is the name of this group?

Answer 167

Improv Everywhere

Question 168

The world's first eco-porn organization, this Norwegian group, despite similar aims, have had trouble getting Friends of the Earth to work with them, so they are working direct with indigenous tribes in Latin America. What does FFF stand for?

Answer 168

F*ck for Forest

Question 169

A phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized more widely than would have occurred otherwise is named for which American entertainer, following a 2003 incident in which her attempts to suppress photographs of her residence generated further publicity?

Answer 169

The Streisand Effect

Question 170

What is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government?

Answer 170

Blowback

Question 171

What name is given to the psychological process whereby an individual's deliberate attempts to suppress or avoid certain thoughts render those thoughts more persistent?

Answer 171

Ironic processing

Question 172

Which man, who died in 2010, was often cast as characters much older than he really was because of premature baldness? For example, he played Caractacus Potts' father in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, even though he was 6 months younger than Dick Van Dyke!

Answer 172

Lionel Jeffries

Question 173

Which 2010 British film was inspired by an episode of The Reunion on Radio 4?

Answer 173

Made in Dagenham

Question 174

Which British jazz dance band was one of the most successful bands of the 1950s? Its eponymous leader played bass saxophone, an unusual instrument then as now. His friend Harry Davis, tall, elegant and good-looking, acted as compère and conductor?

Answer 174

Oscar Rabin Band

Question 175

Who won Best Actor at Cannes in 1962 for his role as Geoffrey opposite Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey?

Answer 175

Murray Melvin

Question 176

Which actor, who died in mysterious circumstances in Leicestershire in 1997, played the lead role of teacher Jeremy Brown in 'racist' ITV sitcom Mind Your Language?

Answer 176

Barry Evans

Question 177

Which awards are given at the discretion of the Academy in the November before the main Oscar ceremony?

Answer 177

Governors Awards

Question 178

Which British expert on the silent movie era was given a Governors Award in November 2010?

Answer 178

Kevin Brownlow

Question 179

What name was given to the 1972 film that was a Magic Roundabout spin-off?

Answer 179

Dougal and the Blue Cat

Question 180

Who directed Cloverfield and 2010's Let Me In?

Answer 180

Matt Reeves

Question 181

Which Broadstairs-born film composer did the scores for Far From the Madding Crowd, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Four Weddings and a Funeral?

Answer 181

Richard Rodney Bennett

Question 182

Which 1971 British biopic about Nicholas II of Russia and his wife won two Oscars?

Answer 182

Nicholas and Alexandra

Question 183

Which northeastern region of India, capital Imphal, is fighting for independence?

Answer 183

Manipur

Question 184

In South Korea, professional computer gamers can now earn hundreds of thousands of dollars playing to packed audiences. What name is given to them?

Answer 184

E-athletes

Question 185

The USA leads the world in terms of number of Christian missionaries working overseas. Which country is second?

Answer 185

South Korea

Question 186

The boy band UTN1, (Unknown to No one) come from which country?

Answer 186

Iraq

Question 187

The Gilgel Gibe III dam is under construction on the Omo River in which country? Once complete, it will be Africa's largest hydroelectric project.

Answer 187

Ethiopia

Question 188

Which Indiana town has been called 'The Most Studied Town in the USA' as it was used as 'Middletown' in a number of c20 studies trying to gauge mainstream Amerian attitudes?

Answer 188

Muncie

Question 189

Which brand of Protestantism more usually associated with North American has been making inroads into Latin America over the last 20-30 years as a right-wing answer to 'left-wing' Catholic liberation theology?

Answer 189

Pentecostalism

Question 190

Which Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer once transplanted a dog's head to create a two-headed dog and was called 'my teacher' by Chritian Barnaard?

Answer 190

Vladimir Demikhov

Question 191

What is Natasha Demkina's claim to fame?

Answer 191

She has 'x-ray eyes'

Question 192

What is dihydrogen monoxide, the subject of a famous chemical hoax?

Answer 192

Water

Question 193

Which German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher was one of the founders of modern logic, and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics. As a philosopher, he is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, for his writings on the philosophy of language and mathematics. Although he was mainly ignored by the intellectual world when he published his writings, it was Giuseppe Peano and later Bertrand Russell who helped introduce his work to later generations of logicians and philosophers?

Answer 193

Gottlob Frege

Question 194

What name is given to sagittally symmetrical indentations sometimes visible on the human lower back, just superior to the gluteal cleft?

Answer 194

Dimples of Venus

Question 195

What loan word from German is the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness?

Answer 195

Eigengrau

Question 196

Which solitary wasp of the family Ampulicidae is known for its unusual reproductive behavior, which involves stinging a cockroach and using it as a host for its larvae?

Answer 196

Emerald Cockroach Wasp

Question 197

Glyptapanteles is a genus of wasp notable for inducing which animal to serve as its bodyguard?

Answer 197

A caterpillar

Question 198

If an animal is brightly coloured because it is poisonous or dangerous, it is called what?

Answer 198

Aposematism

Question 199

Batesian mimicry is where a harmless organism imitates a harmful one. What sort of mimicry is it where two harmful organisms look similar to one another?

Answer 199

Mullerian mimicry

Question 200

What name is given to the condition that causes someone falling asleep occasionally to experience a tremendously loud noise as originating from within his or her own head, usually described as the sound of an explosion, roar, gunshot, loud voices or screams, a ringing noise, or the sound of electrical arcing (buzzing)?

Answer 200

Exploding Head Syndrome

Question 201

What activity involves a person sitting on the balls of their feet? It is common worldwide, but briefly became an American fad in the late 1950s.

Answer 201

Hunkering

Question 202

What is a popular fiction regarding the eating of various objects that have fallen to the floor or ground? The origin of the rule is unknown. The substance of the rule is that if food falls on the ground, it may be safely eaten as long as it is picked up within that timeframe.

Answer 202

Five Second Rule

Question 203

In pseudoscience, Shamballa is the capital of Agartha where?

Answer 203

In the centre of the earth

Question 204

The antonym of eugenics, what can be defined as the study of factors producing the accumulation and perpetuation of defective or disadvantageous genes and traits in offspring of a particular population or species?

Answer 204

Dysgenics

Question 205

What type of delusion is it in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger or famous person, is in love with him or her?

Answer 205

Erotomania

Question 206

Paramnesia is the medical term for which event?

Answer 206

Déjà vu

Question 207

Presque vu is what?

Answer 207

Tip of the tongue

Question 208

In robotics, this theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.

Answer 208

Uncanny valley

Question 209

Name the country or airline. On 23 July 1983, a Boeing 767-200 jet ran out of fuel at 26,000 feet (7,920 m) altitude, about halfway through its flight The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, thereby gaining the plane's nickname of the Gimli Glider.

Answer 209

Canada (Air Canada)

Question 210

Also called the "Radioactive Boy Scout", he is an American man known for having attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17. A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, he conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. While not successful in creating a nuclear reactor, Hahn attracted the attention of local police who found radioactive materials in the trunk of his car?

Answer 210

David Hahn

Question 211

The hamster zona-free ovum test (HZFO test), or hamster test is a method for diagnosing what?

Answer 211

Male infertility

Question 212

The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954 near the town of Sylacauga, Alabama. Why is it also called the Hodges meteorite?

Answer 212

Part of it hit Ann Hodges- the only documented case of a human being hit by a meteorite

Question 213

Literally "gay gas", it is a fictitious poisonous chemical substance that is supposedly an odorless and invisible gas at room temperature. It originates in a story and a conspiracy theory apparently created by a single Finnish man, and is often the subject of running gags on Finnish Usenet newsgroups?

Answer 213

Homokaasu

Question 214

Bremelanotide is the only known synthetic what?

Answer 214

Aphrodisiac

Question 215

David Tilly Matthews, who believed he was being persecuted by a gang of criminals operating an 'air loom' was the first documented case of what?

Answer 215

Paranoid schizophrenia

Question 216

With its name derived from a technique used in a 1940s film, what is a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim with the intent of making them doubt their own memory and perception?

Answer 216

Gaslighting

Question 217

Which woman, the wife of the Attorney-General in the Nixon administration alleged that White House officials were engaged in illegal activities, but her claims were attributed to mental illness. Ultimately, however, the relevant facts of the Watergate scandal vindicated her- and now her name is used for psychiatric misdiagnosis where clinicians mistakenly think a patient is delusional?

Answer 217

Martha Mitchell

Question 218

During the Soviet-Finnish war, Time magazine wrote the following: The Finns have something they call ______. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win. The Finns translate it as "the Finnish spirit". What is this concept?

Answer 218

Sisu

Question 219

Conspiracy theorists and other pseudoscientists believe at contrails are really what?

Answer 219

Chemtrails

Question 220

In Freudian psychoanalysis it refers to an unconscious fear of penile loss originating during the phallic stage of sexual development and lasting a lifetime?

Answer 220

Castration Anxiety

Question 221

Julia Pastrana, Stephen Bibrowski, Petrus Gonzales, Fedor Jeftichew, Jesus Aceves and Annie Jones were all noted examples from history of individuals suffering from which disease?

Answer 221

Hypertrichosis

Question 222

Where in the world would you pay for most goods and services with an Octopus smart card?

Answer 222

Hong Kong

Question 223

Which composer wrote the first ever English opera?

Answer 223

Matthew Locke

Question 224

The village of Killary on the Dingle peninsula was created for which 1970 David Lean film?

Answer 224

Ryan's Daughter

Question 225

What name was given to the formerly closed Cabinet 55 of the British Museum, which housed erotic artifacts?

Answer 225

The Secretum

Question 226

What was the name of the museum in Naples for the erotic art found in Pompeii?

Answer 226

Secret Museum

Question 227

Which sex-themed theme park can be found on Jeju Island in South Korea?

Answer 227

Love Land

Question 228

Another Love Land in China was not permitted- it would have been in which city?

Answer 228

Chongqing

Question 229

What was the name of Emma Thompson's father who narrated the Magic Roundabout?

Answer 229

Eric

Question 230

Which is the smallest island shared between two nations in the world?

Answer 230

Market (Sweden/Finland)

Question 231

What name is given to the small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size, containing artworks by six prominent artists from the late 1960s. This wafer was supposedly covertly attached to a leg of the Intrepid landing module, and subsequently left on the moon during Apollo 12 and considered the first Space Art object?

Answer 231

The Moon Museum

Question 232

Which man, the first African-American astronaut, was killed in a plane crash aged 32 before he could go into space?

Answer 232

Robert Lawrence

Question 233

What is unusual about Mill Ends Park in Portland,Oregon?

Answer 233

Smallest in the world (2 foot in diameter)

Question 234

What name is given to a 8.5 cm (slightly over 3") aluminum sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit which commemorates astronauts who died in the advancement of space exploration? It is currently at Hadley Rille on the Moon, having been placed there by the crew of Apollo 15 on August 1, 1971.

Answer 234

Fallen Astronaut

Question 235

It was a tiny Belgian-Prussian condominium that existed from 1816 to 1920 between present-day Belgium and Germany. It is now the Belgian city of Kelmis. Today, it is especially of interest to Esperantists because of initiatives to found an Esperanto-speaking state on the territory in the early 20th century?

Answer 235

Neutral Moresnet

Question 236

Anne Desclos wrote the erotic classic The Story of O under what pen-name?

Answer 236

Pauline Reage

Question 237

The Smallest House in Great Britain is Quay House in which Welsh town?

Answer 237

Conwy

Question 238

Which English town has a lamp-post called Reality Checkpoint?

Answer 238

Cambridge

Question 239

Chamizal and Rio Rico are both very rare examples of what?

Answer 239

US ceding land to another country post-1959

Question 240

The Country Club Dispute over state boundaries was between which states in the USA?

Answer 240

Texas and New Mexico

Question 241

What's the name of the bizarre unfinished giant hotel in Pyongyang?

Answer 241

Ryugyong

Question 242

In 2009, which Dubai building became the world's tallest hotel?

Answer 242

Rose Tower

Question 243

A Nice Cup of Tea is an essay by which British writer, first published in the Evening Standard newspaper of January 12, 1946? It is a straight-faced discussion about the craft of making a cup of tea, including the line: "Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden."

Answer 243

George Orwell

Question 244

Also known as the "Anesthetic Prowler" or the "Phantom Anesthetist" what was the name given to the person or people believed to be responsible for a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in Botetourt County, Virginia, during the early 1930s, and in Illinois, during the mid-1940s?

Answer 244

Mad Gasser of Mattoon

Question 245

As of 2010, the UK returns how many MEPs?

Answer 245

72

Question 246

But in which direction was she sailing at the time is a phrase associated with which politician?

Answer 246

Tam Dalyell (on the Belgrano)

Question 247

What name is given to a taxon which has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of presumed extinction, but is not actually a descendant of the original taxon, instead having developed a similar morphology through convergent evolution?

Answer 247

Elvis taxon

Question 248

Covered smut, false loose smut and loose smut are all fungal diseases of which cereal crop?

Answer 248

Barley

Question 249

D.N.P.P stands for what in the Catholic church?

Answer 249

The Pope (Dominus Nostra Papa Pontifex)

Question 250

Deportivo Wanka is a football club in which country?

Answer 250

Peru

Question 251

Descended from those made by the Vennacha family of Naples, which variety of lute has pairs of strings?

Answer 251

Mandolin

Question 252

Detective Jimmy McNulty, played by Dominic West, appears in which US crime series?

Answer 252

The Wire

Question 253

Director Alan Parker and which producer were the successful team behind Bugsy Malone and Midnight Express?

Answer 253

David Puttnam

Question 254

Fictional telephone numbers in TV programmes and books in America usually start with which three numbers?

Answer 254

555

Question 255

Goldenpalace.com paid to have what new species of animal named for it?

Answer 255

Monkey

Question 256

How many lions on the coat of arms of the city of York?

Answer 256

Five

Question 257

How, in a celebrated case of 1952, was housewife Virginia Tye linked to Bridie Murphy?

Answer 257

Claimed to have been Murphy in a previous life under hypnosis

Question 258

In 1908, who was the last British PM to lead a purely Liberal cabinet?

Answer 258

Asquith

Question 259

In Australia, what is a poddy-dodger?

Answer 259

Cattle theft

Question 260

In botany, what name is given to a variety of plants whose leaves are oriented north-south to avoid the strongest midday sunlight?

Answer 260

Compass plants

Question 261

In Finnish mythology, it was a magical artifact of indeterminate type constructed by Ilmarinen that brought good fortune to its holder. When it was stolen, it is said that Ilmarinen's homeland fell upon hard times and sent an expedition to retrieve it, but in the ensuing battle it was smashed and lost at sea?

Answer 261

Sampo

Question 262

In paleontology, what name is given to a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later?

Answer 262

Lazarus taxon

Question 263

In which city is the Sam Kee Building, known as the narrowest commercial premises in the world?

Answer 263

Vancouver

Question 264

In which country did a virus featured in the popular TV soap opera Strawberries with Sugar lead many schoolchildren in 2006 to report similar symptoms, in a case of mass hysteria?

Answer 264

Portugal

Question 265

In which country was the UN peace-keeping mission called UNIFIL?

Answer 265

Lebanon

Question 266

In which Indian state are bizarre names like Adolf Lu Hitler Marak and Stalin L Nangmin common?

Answer 266

Meghalaya

Question 267

In which UK city is the Citizen's Theatre?

Answer 267

Glasgow

Question 268

ISO 3103 is the standard for doing what?

Answer 268

Brewing a cup of tea

Question 269

It is a supposed group sex event featured in an urban legend spread since the early 2000s. A variant of the standard sex party urban myth, the stories claim that at these events, allegedly increasingly popular among adolescents, females wearing various shades of lipstick take turns fellating males in sequence, leaving multiple colors on their penises.

Answer 269

Rainbow party

Question 270

It states that "any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'". Which law?

Answer 270

Betteridge's Law of Headlines

Question 271

It was a scientifically inaccurate false document and possible hoax that was passed on in an urban legend-like fashion as a pamphlet. The leaflet listed a number of safe food additives with their E numbers as alleged carcinogens. The leaflet caused mass panic in Europe in the late 1970s and 1980s. One of the entries on the list was citric acid.

Answer 271

Villejuif leaflet

Question 272

Lacewood is the timber of which tree?

Answer 272

Plane

Question 273

Mahalik says 'I've found their weakness- they are powerless without heads' in the third installment in which series of spoof horror films?

Answer 273

Scary Movie 3

Question 274

MWWS is a vernacular term for the alleged disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, newspaper and magazine reporting of a misfortune involving a young, attractive, white, middle-class woman,compared with cases concerning a male, or females of other ethnicities or economic classes. What does it stand for?

Answer 274

Missing White Woman Syndrome

Question 275

Myron Bolitar is the leading character in crime novels by which American writer?

Answer 275

Harlan Coben

Question 276

Nicholas Barbon, who helped rebuilt London in brick after the Great Fire, was the son of which famous man?

Answer 276

Praise God Barebones

Question 277

Night-scented is a kind of which garden flower that opens at night?

Answer 277

Stock

Question 278

Reverend Robert Shields (1918–2007)was a former Minister and high school English teacher who lived in Dayton, Washington, most noted for what?

Answer 278

Writing a very long diary (37.5 million words)

Question 279

Russonorsk was used in which trade carried out between the people of Northwest Russia and the people along the coast of Northern Norway, as far south as Bodø. The trade went on from 1740 and until the Russian revolution in 1917?

Answer 279

Pomor Trade

Question 280

Sean Loftus was an Irish politician who changed his name to reflect the geographical locations of his interests- how was he known by the time of his 2010 death?

Answer 280

Sean Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus

Question 281

Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy was a famous quote by whom to who in the 1988 US presidential election?

Answer 281

Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle

Question 282

Shuttlecock is a treacherous corner on which famous sports course?

Answer 282

The Cresta Run

Question 283

SRA was a widespread moral panic in the USA and the rest of the world in the 1980s and stands for what, which there is very little evidence ever happened?

Answer 283

Satanic Ritual Abuse

Question 284

The Anal language is spoken in India and which other country?

Answer 284

Burma

Question 285

The Anus language is spoken in which country?

Answer 285

Indonesia

Question 286

The first winner of the Ig Nobel prize, which sperm bank allegedly only accepted donations from Nobel-prize winners?

Answer 286

Repository for Germinal Choice

Question 287

The male young of gorillas are called what, if the adults are silverbacks?

Answer 287

Blackbacks

Question 288

The New York Times reporter Jennifer Lee had which unusual middle name?

Answer 288

8

Question 289

The Setaceous Hebrew Character is what kind of animal?

Answer 289

Moth

Question 290

The Seventh Dragoon Guards and the North Staffordshire Regiment are linked by which colour in their nicknames?

Answer 290

Black (Black Horse and Black Knots)

Question 291

The unpronounceable Mannanafnanefnd is the equivalent of the Academie Francaise for which language?

Answer 291

Icelandic

Question 292

They come in a variety of colors, and dozens can be worn on each arm. They have been popular in waves throughout the Western world and elsewhere since the 1980s. One style of these wristbands, known as "awareness bracelets", carry debossed messages demonstrating the wearer's support of a cause or charitable organization?

Answer 292

Gel bracelet

Question 293

They were active from 1649 to 1661 during the Interregnum, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century. They took their name from a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that four ancient monarchies (Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman) would precede Christ's return. They also referred to the year 1666 and its relationship to the biblical Number of the Beast indicating the end of earthly rule by carnal human beings?

Answer 293

Fifth Monarchy Men

Question 294

Thinking about the immortality of the crab is an idiom for daydreaming in which language?

Answer 294

Spanish

Question 295

This "stunt word" seems to have been coined some time in the early 1980s. It later appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and the New York Times in 1998 and is a pejorative term for a large new house which is judged as pretentious, tasteless, or badly designed for its neighbourhood?

Answer 295

McMansion

Question 296

Violet Gibson tried to assassinate who in 1926?

Answer 296

Mussolini

Question 297

What colloquial name is given in North America to a brief wintry spell before an Indian summer?

Answer 297

Squaw winter

Question 298

What is a semibreve called in the USA?

Answer 298

Whole note

Question 299

What is an alleged (and hoax) hallucinogenic recreational drug composed of noxious gas formed from fermented sewage. In the mid to late 1990s, several reports stated that it was being used by Zambian street children?

Answer 299

Jenkem

Question 300

What is RAS syndrome?

Answer 300

Redundant Acronym Syndrome

Question 301

What is the name of the Observer gossip columnist, based on a Thackeray character?

Answer 301

Pendennis

Question 302

What kind of animal is named after Bill Gates and Paul Allen?

Answer 302

Flower fly

Question 303

What name is given is a building constructed or modified to irritate neighbors or other parties? They often serve as obstructions, blocking out light or access to neighboring buildings, or as flamboyant symbols of defiance.

Answer 303

Spite Houses

Question 304

What name is given to deliberate damage of the male or female genitals?

Answer 304

Infibulation

Question 305

What name is given to messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American capitals. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered?

Answer 305

Toynbee Tiles

Question 306

What name is given to suburban houses where the garage is closer to the street than any other part of the building?

Answer 306

Snout house

Question 307

What name is given to words that can refer to objects or people whose names are either temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which it is being discussed. "Whatchamacallit" (for objects) and "Whatshisname" or "Whatshername" (for men and women, respectively) are defining examples?

Answer 307

Placeholder names

Question 308

What name was given to the supposed attacker in an incident of mass hysteria that occurred in a Yorkshire town in November 1938 following a series of reported attacks on local people, mostly women? In fact, he was non-existant.

Answer 308

The Halifax Slasher

Question 309

What nickname was given to two sexual attackers in London and the nearby village of Hackney in the c17? Both would attack women walking alone and beat them on the buttocks.

Answer 309

Whipping Tom

Question 310

What paraphilia and form of sadomasochism in which one finds sexual gratification through penetration of another person, most commonly by stabbing or cutting the body with sharp objects?

Answer 310

Piquerism

Question 311

What three-word term coined by George Gerbner describes a phenomenon whereby violence-related content of mass media makes viewers believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is?

Answer 311

Mean World Syndrome

Question 312

What was a dual-source pidgin language in the Arctic combining elements of Russian and Norwegian, created by Russian traders and Norwegian fishermen from northern Norway and the Russian Kola peninsula?

Answer 312

Russonorsk

Question 313

What was the former name of the Bloody Tower at the Tower of London?

Answer 313

Garden Tower

Question 314

What's the new name for the Sears Tower?

Answer 314

Willis Tower

Question 315

Which American author, whose fictional works deal with ethical issues, wrote Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1992?

Answer 315

Jodi Picault

Question 316

Which American player won the first of six Wimbledon women's titles in 1966?

Answer 316

Billie Jean King

Question 317

Which artist's work Exposure was transported from Scotland to Lelystad in the Netherlands in 2010?

Answer 317

Anthony Gormley

Question 318

Which biomedical term is used to describe sexual arousal to objects, situations, or individuals that are not part of normative stimulation and that may cause distress or serious problems?

Answer 318

Paraphilia

Question 319

Which comedian is associated with the word 'sniglet'- meaning a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't?

Answer 319

Rich Hall

Question 320

Which Commonwealth country used to be called Santiago, and was captured for the British by William Penn Snr and Robert Venables?

Answer 320

Jamaica

Question 321

Which composer's works are given Deutsch numbers?

Answer 321

Schubert

Question 322

Which culture-specific syndrome in East Asian countries describes an individual overcome with the belief that his/her external genital—or, in female, nipple—are retracting or shrinking, with fear of that the organ will disappear?

Answer 322

Koro

Question 323

Which dance popular in Europe in the c18 takes its name from the French for 'small'?

Answer 323

Minuet

Question 324

Which device in a petrol engine vapourises the petrol and mixes it with air?

Answer 324

Carburettor

Question 325

Which French phrase is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another?

Answer 325

Folie a Deux

Question 326

Which Greek philosopher, born in Sicily, came up with the cosmogenic theory?

Answer 326

Empedocles

Question 327

Which island nation is divided into Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse and has the capital of Bodoni?

Answer 327

San Serriffe

Question 328

Which Latin maxim, meaning "we do not know and will not know", stood for a position on the limits of scientific knowledge, in the thought of the nineteenth century. It was given credibility by Emil du Bois-Reymond, a German physiologist?

Answer 328

Ignoramus et ignorabimus

Question 329

Which marsupial shares many of the characteristics of human fingerprints?

Answer 329

Koala

Question 330

Which monster was reported roaming New Delhi in 2001 in a probable case of mass hysteria?

Answer 330

Monkey man

Question 331

Which pair of Jewish American economists won the Nobel Prize and are noted for their concepts of the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic?

Answer 331

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman

Question 332

Which shoe designer was born in Tenerife to a Spanish mother and Czech father in 1942?

Answer 332

Manolo Blahnik

Question 333

Which small Catholic chapel in the Czech republic is festooned with the bones and skulls of thousands of people?

Answer 333

Sedlec Ossuary

Question 334

Which strikingly modern downtown shopping centre has radically divided opinion in Melbourne, Australia?

Answer 334

Federation Square

Question 335

Which subatomic particle gets its name from the Greek for bulky?

Answer 335

Hadron

Question 336

Who composed the opera L'Enfant and Les Sortileges to a libretto provided by Colette?

Answer 336

Ravel

Question 337

Who described himself as the Gromyko of the Labour Party?

Answer 337

Dennis Healey

Question 338

Who is currently (2010) the Chief Justice of the USA?

Answer 338

John Roberts

Question 339

Who was found in a handbag in the Importance of Being Earnest?

Answer 339

Jack Worthing

Question 340

Who was the first Englishman to conduct at the Beyreuth festival, in 1977?

Answer 340

Colin Davis

Question 341

Whoonga is a dangerous illegal drug currently doing the rounds in which country?

Answer 341

South Africa

Question 342

Wildlife in Suburbia, a humorous dialogue between Edna and Sandy Stone, was an early work by which comedian?

Answer 342

Barry Humphries

Question 343

The pseudoscientific concept of 'water memory' has been used in an attempt to explain what process?

Answer 343

Homeopathy

Question 344

Cecil Jacobson, a US fertility doctor, is infamous for what reason?

Answer 344

Using his own sperm to fertilise women without their consent

Question 345

Which Harvard professor, probably the most senior academic to investigate the alien abduction phenomenon, was killed by a drunk driver in Totteridge, North London, in 2004?

Answer 345

John Mack

Question 346

What's the name of the coffee whose beans have been through a civet?

Answer 346

Luak coffee

Question 347

During a dispute over the conduct of British soldiers on Bloody Sunday, which Independent Socialist MP punched the Conservative Party Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, and was banned from politics for 6 months?

Answer 347

Bernadette Devlin

Question 348

Sanford Wallace and Oleg Nikolaenko both came to notoriety (seperately) in the late 1990s due to their involvement in what commercial activity?

Answer 348

Sending spam

Question 349

Which interesting figure has been variously described as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer, but is best known as a recurring figure in the stories of several strands of occultism – particularly those connected to Theosophy and the White Eagle Lodge, where he is also referred to as the Master Rakoczi or the Master R and as one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, is credited with near god-like powers and longevity?

Answer 349

The Count of St Germain

Question 350

What is the unique achievement of Andre Geim of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands?

Answer 350

Only man ever to win an IgNobel (levitating frogs with magnets) and real Nobel prize (graphene)

Question 351

John Richards, a retired sub-editor of Boston, Lincs, founded which organisation in 2001?

Answer 351

Apostrophe Protection Society

Question 352

John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, filed what with the Australian Patent Office in 2001?

Answer 352

The wheel

Question 353

Which farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India, founded Mritak Sangh or the Association of the Dead in Uttar Pradesh, India. He fought Indian government bureaucracy for 18 years to prove that he is alive?

Answer 353

Lal Bihari

Question 354

Daisuke Inoue is a Japanese businessman best known as the inventor of what?

Answer 354

Karaoke

Question 355

Which brand of alarm clock outfitted with wheels, allowing it to hide itself in order to force the owner awake in an attempt to find it? Invented for an industrial design class by Gauri Nanda, it won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics.

Answer 355

Clocky

Question 356

What name is given to replacement prosthetic testicles for dogs?

Answer 356

Neuticles

Question 357

Which experiment in viscosity at the University of Queensland started in 1927 and is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest-running experiment?

Answer 357

Pitch drop experiment

Question 358

Which clock in the foyer of the Department of Physics in the University of Otago, NZ, apparently never needs to be wound- it is driven by changes in temperature? It started running in 1864.

Answer 358

Beverly Clock

Question 359

Which experiment was set up in 1840 and has rung almost continuously ever since? It is located in the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford, England. It runs through two dry pile batteries.

Answer 359

Oxford Electric Bell

Question 360

What's the name of the device that emits a high-pitched noise audible only to teenagers to prevent loitering?

Answer 360

Mosquito

Question 361

What is Polish for 'drivng license'?

Answer 361

Prawo Jazdy

Question 362

What name is given to the powerful anticoagulant in the saliva of vampire bats which is now being used in heart disease medicine?

Answer 362

Draculin

Question 363

What name is given to the posited body that struck the Earth to produce the Moon?

Answer 363

Theia

Question 364

Although it is not, which object discovered in 1986 in a similar rotation pattern to Earth was named for an ancient Irish race and has sometimes been called 'Earth's Second Moon'?

Answer 364

Cruithne

Question 365

Neith was incorrectly thought by Cassini to be what?

Answer 365

A moon of Venus

Question 366

Which hypothetical hard-to-see red dwarf star or brown dwarf may orbit the Sun at a distance of about 50,000 to 100,000 AU (about 1-2 light-years), somewhat beyond the Oort cloud? This star was originally postulated to exist as part of a hypothesis to explain a perceived cycle of mass extinctions in the geological record, which seem to occur once every 27 million years or so.

Answer 366

Nemesis

Question 367

What unit of measurement is called a 'metric inch'?

Answer 367

25mm

Question 368

What is one million astronomical units?

Answer 368

Siriometer

Question 369

Board foot, hoppus foot and stere are all measurements for what?

Answer 369

Timber

Question 370

What do nuclear physicists call 10 nanoseconds?

Answer 370

A shake

Question 371

The FFF system is a set of units that uses impractical measurements not seriously deemed suitable for scientific or engineering use, more or less as a joke. What does FFF stand for?

Answer 371

Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight

Question 372

What is NASA's unit of measure for symptoms resulting from space adaptation syndrome, the response of the human body to weightlessness in space? It is named after a US Senator who became exceptionally spacesick during an orbital flight in 1985?

Answer 372

Garn

Question 373

In computing, you sometimes hear of the measurement FLOPS, which is an acronym for what?

Answer 373

Floating point Operations Per Second

Question 374

The dol is a unit of measurement for what?

Answer 374

Pain

Question 375

In which field of science is the Erlang used as a unit?

Answer 375

Telephony

Question 376

What name is given to the smoke produced by malfunctioning electronic circuits, a running in-joke that started among electrical engineers and technicians before it was more recently adopted by computer programmers? The actual origin is the black plastic epoxy material that is used to package most common semiconductor devices such as transistors and integrated circuits.

Answer 376

Magic smoke

Question 377

In medicine, what is defined as the medical removal of a patient's dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue?

Answer 377

Debridement

Question 378

The male Dyak Fruit Bat from Borneo is unique in the natural world for doing what?

Answer 378

Producing milk

Question 379

What name is given to a substance that promotes lactation in humans and other animals?

Answer 379

Galactagogue

Question 380

What name is given to (very rare examples of) misformed foetuses that have, on occasion, been found growing in parts of the body other than the womb- even in male babies, where it seems to be an undeveloped twin?

Answer 380

Foetus in fetu

Question 381

Which other fish of the Syngnathidae family as well as seahorses exhibit pregnant males?

Answer 381

Pipefish and sea dragons

Question 382

MSUD is a condition that gets its name from the distinctive sweet odor of affected infants' urine?

Answer 382

Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Question 383

Lina Medina of Peru is the youngest known mother in medical history and gave birth in 1938 at what age?

Answer 383

Five

Question 384

Which legendary medicinal substance created by steeping a human cadaver in honey is mentioned only in Chinese sources, most significantly the Bencao Gangmu of the 16th-century Chinese pharmacologist Li Shizhen?

Answer 384

Mellified Man

Question 385

What name is given to a thick, sticky tar-like substance with a colour ranging from white to dark brown (the latter is more common), sometimes found in Caucasus mountains, Altai mountains and Tibet mountains and used medicinally?

Answer 385

Mumijo

Question 386

What was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, using U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects? The published evidence indicates that the project involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse?

Answer 386

MKULTRA

Question 387

The snapshot taken by astronauts on December 7, 1972, is likely one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. The image is one of the few to show a fully illuminated Earth, as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image. What is it called?

Answer 387

Blue Marble

Question 388

What was the name of Andree's ill-fated balloon on his polar expedition?

Answer 388

Svea

Question 389

Which spider wasp, which hunts tarantulas as food for its larvae, is ranked as second worst on the Schmidt sting pain index after the bullet ant?

Answer 389

Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Question 390

What is the competing sting pain index with the Schmidt?

Answer 390

Starr sting pain scale

Question 391

What name is given to the color usually used in the United States for traffic cones, stanchions, barrels, and other construction zone marking devices, and also the livery of EasyJet?

Answer 391

Safety Orange

Question 392

Which Ivy League university is famous for its eponymous shade of orange?

Answer 392

Princeton

Question 393

In Islam, what name in English is usually given to Al-Khidr, a Qur’anic figure who met and traveled with Moses?

Answer 393

The Green One

Question 394

Who was an influential writer and teacher in the fields of spiritual, occult, esoteric healing, astrological, Christian and other religious themes? She was born as Alice LaTrobe Bateman, in Manchester, England but moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.

Answer 394

Alice Bailey

Question 395

A conference convened by Frank Cyr met for seven days. Paint experts from DuPont and Pittsburgh Paints participated. Dr. Cyr's conference, funded by a $5,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, was also a landmark event inasmuch as it included transportation officials from each of the then 48 states, as well as specialists from school-bus manufacturing and paint companies. The color was adopted as Federal Standard No. 595a, Color 13432. What?

Answer 395

School Bus Yellow

Question 396

Which American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer is widely known as "The Father of Video Games", and is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry?

Answer 396

Ralph Baer

Question 397

Who was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism?

Answer 397

Matthew Brady

Question 398

Which German American bank robber is widely considered one of the most brilliant and efficient bank robbers to have ever lived, and has been described as "the father of modern bank robbery"? His techniques have been studied and imitated by other bank robbers across the country, including the infamous John Dillinger.

Answer 398

Herman Lann

Question 399

Which Italian mobster born in Sicily is considered the father of modern organized crime in America for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first commission?

Answer 399

Salvatore 'Lucky' Luciano

Question 400

Who is considered the Father of Oil Painting?

Answer 400

Jan van Eyck

Question 401

Which historian, exegete and polemicist is one of the more renowned Church Fathers, writing Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, thus becoming known as the "Father of Church History"?

Answer 401

Eusebius of Caesarea

Question 402

Which North African polymath (1331-1406) — an astronomer, economist, historian, Islamic jurist, Islamic lawyer, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, hafiz, mathematician, military strategist, nutritionist, philosopher, social scientist and statesman—was born in present-day Tunisia? He is considered a forerunner of several social scientific disciplines centuries before they were founded in the West.

Answer 402

Ibn Khaldun

Question 403

Who did William Faulkner call The Father of American Literature?

Answer 403

Mark Twain

Question 404

Mickael Agricola translated the Bible and various other Christian texts into which language?

Answer 404

Finnish

Question 405

What name is given to a professional position within a theatre company that deals mainly with research and development of plays?

Answer 405

Dramaturge

Question 406

Which German playwright and philosopher (1729-1781) is widely considered to be the first dramaturge?

Answer 406

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Question 407

Which famous ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian shares his name with a popular Italian snack?

Answer 407

Panini

Question 408

Which Jewish lexicographer was the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era?

Answer 408

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Question 409

From which opera is Nessun Dorma?

Answer 409

Turandot

Question 410

Who is known as the Father of Urdu, and was the driving force behind its use as the national language of Pakistan?

Answer 410

Maulvi Abdul Haq

Question 411

Dr Kurt Haertel was called the Father of which kind of Law in Europe?

Answer 411

Patent

Question 412

Which man, who worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic laid the foundations for international law with Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, based on natural law? He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.

Answer 412

Hugo Grotius

Question 413

Jonas Chickering was an important pionerr in the manufacture of which instrument in the USA?

Answer 413

Piano

Question 414

Bill Monroe helped found which style of music, which was named after his band, the __________ Boys?

Answer 414

Bluegrass

Question 415

Who is generally considered the Father of modern Chicago blues?

Answer 415

Muddy Waters

Question 416

Which man was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"?

Answer 416

Jimmie Rodgers

Question 417

He is known as "the father of black gospel music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom?

Answer 417

Thomas A Dorsey

Question 418

If a statue is called Apollo Citharede, what is Apollo holding?

Answer 418

Lyre

Question 419

Which man, regarded as the founder of Greek classical music, is reputed to have died choking on a fig that was thrown in appreciation by an audience member?

Answer 419

Terpander

Question 420

How is reggae star Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert better known?

Answer 420

Toots

Question 421

Which Beijing-based Korean Chinese singer-songwriter, trumpeter and guitarist is considered to be a pioneer in Chinese rock music and one of the first Chinese artists to write rock songs? For this distinction he is often labeled "The Father of Chinese Rock"?

Answer 421

Cui Jian

Question 422

Which American psychologist established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. He also conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment?

Answer 422

John B Watson

Question 423

Which man has been described as the "father of faith missions". He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq, and later in southern India. His ideas influenced a circle of friends who became leaders in the Plymouth Brethren?

Answer 423

Anthony Norris Groves

Question 424

Which scholar and poet (1304- 1374) was one of the earliest Renaissance men and therefore was called the father of humanism?

Answer 424

Petrarch

Question 425

Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī was known in the West by what name? Called the Father of Islamic Logic, (c. 872 – 951), he was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist?

Answer 425

Alpharabius

Question 426

Which German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle was shot by Johann Nelbock, an ex-student, in 1936 due to his percieved Jewish connections (he wasn't Jewish)?

Answer 426

Moritz Schlick

Question 427

Which philosopher is sometimes called the father of liberalism?

Answer 427

Baruch Spinoza

Question 428

John Scotus Erigena, Lanfranc of Canterbury, Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard all vie posthumously for which title?

Answer 428

Father of Scholasticism

Question 429

Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Rushd, an Andalusian Muslim polymath, was born in Córdoba and died in Marrakech. By what name is he more commonly known? He has been described by some as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe.

Answer 429

Averroes

Question 430

In which modern city was Theodore Herzl born?

Answer 430

Budapest

Question 431

The Dicta Boelcke is a list of fundamental maneuvers in which field, formulated by and named for the man often called the 'father of the field'?

Answer 431

Aerial combat

Question 432

Which Jewish Hungarian physicist conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb?

Answer 432

Leo Szilard

Question 433

Which kind of court-martial is held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action? The term is said to originate from the use of the titular object as an improvised writing table.

Answer 433

Drumhead court-martial

Question 434

Sometimes called the father of blitzkrieg, which man was a pioneer in the development of tanks and mechanization in the Wehrmacht? During WW2, he was Chief of the General Staff in the last year.

Answer 434

Heinz Guderian

Question 435

Which four-star admiral in the United States Navy directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of Naval Reactors? He was known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", and was born of Jewish stock in Poland.

Answer 435

Hyman G Rickover

Question 436

Which man is called the father of the Soviet Atomic Bomb, and first proposed the idea of the tokomak nuclear fusion reactor but is more famous for his later peace activism?

Answer 436

Andei Sakharov

Question 437

Which Polish soldier, nobleman, and politician has been called "the father of American cavalry"?

Answer 437

Casimir Pulaski

Question 438

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam was the 'father of the nation' and the first post-independence PM of which country?

Answer 438

Mauritius

Question 439

What was the name of Namibia's first President and the 'Father of the Nation'?

Answer 439

Sam Nujoma

Question 440

Sir Michael Somare has been the major figure in the post-independence politics of which country?

Answer 440

Papua New Guinea

Question 441

Sir John 'Daddy' Compton is the Father of which nation?

Answer 441

St Lucia

Question 442

Who was the first post-independence PM of Sri Lanka?

Answer 442

Don Stephen Senanayake

Question 443

Who is the national hero of Uruguay?

Answer 443

José Gervasio Artigas

Question 444

Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada and the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation? His tenure in office spanned 18 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments. He was the major proponent of a national railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, completed in 1885, linking Canada from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 444

Sir John Macdonald

Question 445

Which male leader of the Easter Rising in Ireland had the middle name Mary?

Answer 445

Joseph Plunkett

Question 446

Who is regarded as the "Father of Federation" in Australia? During the late 19th century, he was the strongest proponent for a federation of Australian territories. Unfortunately he died before Australia federated, and never got to see his plan come to fruition.

Answer 446

Sir Henry Parkes

Question 447

Which English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, is considered the "founder of entomology"?

Answer 447

William Kirby

Question 448

Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (1705 – 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father" of which field of biology?

Answer 448

Ichthyology

Question 449

Which Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens is known as the "father of lichenology"?

Answer 449

Erik Acharius

Question 450

Which Spanish histologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate? His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today

Answer 450

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Question 451

Which famous man gave zinc its name?

Answer 451

Paracelsus

Question 452

Who is considered the Father of Virology?

Answer 452

Martinus Beijerinck

Question 453

Which Croatian is famous for his atomic theory and made many important contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position? In 1753 he also discovered the absence of atmosphere on the Moon?

Answer 453

Roger Joseph Boscovich

Question 454

Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān is known as the Father of Chemistry and is usually known by what name?

Answer 454

Geber

Question 455

What is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space?

Answer 455

Geodesy

Question 456

Basil the Great (330-379), who was bishop of Caesarea; Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa (c.330-395), who was bishop of Nyssa; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389), who became Patriarch of Constantinople. Collectively, they are known as what?

Answer 456

Cappadocian Fathers

Question 457

Which group of hermits, ascetics, and monks lived mainly in the Scetes Desert of Egypt beginning around the third century CE? The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in 270–271 CE.

Answer 457

Desert Fathers

Question 458

In Catholicism, this name is given to a saint from whose writings the whole Church is held to have derived great advantage and to whom "eminent learning" and "great sanctity" have been attributed by a proclamation of a pope or of an ecumenical council. This honour is given rarely, only posthumously, and only after canonization.

Answer 458

Doctor of the Church

Question 459

What name is given to the study of the Church Fathers?

Answer 459

Patristics

Question 460

The earliest Church Fathers, (within two generations of the disciples of Christ) are usually called what? Important ones include Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna.

Answer 460

Apostolic fathers

Question 461

Which German scholar and scientist is known as "the father of mineralogy"? He was born at Glauchau in Saxony, and his real name was Georg Pawer- but he's known by the Latin version of this.

Answer 461

Georgius Agricola

Question 462

Which American is both the father of meteorology and of modern oceanography?

Answer 462

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Question 463

Which branch of geology studies rock layers and layering?

Answer 463

Stratigraphy

Question 464

Which man was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. He is sometimes referred to as the Father of Indian Medicine?

Answer 464

Charaka

Question 465

Pierre Fauchard (1678 – 1761) was a significant French physician in which field?

Answer 465

Dentistry

Question 466

Which German medical doctor is known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology"? In 1879, he founded one of the first formal laboratories for psychological research at the University of Leipzig.

Answer 466

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 467

Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī (865 – 925) was a Persian physician, alchemist and chemist, philosopher, and scholar. He is recognised as a polymath, and biographies, based on his writings, describe him as "perhaps the greatest clinician of all times.". What is the Latinised version of his name by which he is known in the West?

Answer 467

Rhazes

Question 468

Which ancient Indian surgeon described over 300 surgical procedures and 120 surgical instruments and classifies human surgery in 8 categories? He lived, taught and practiced his art on the banks of the Ganges in the area that corresponds to the present day city of Benares in North India. Because of his seminal and numerous contributions to the science and art of surgery he is also known by the title "Father of Surgery."

Answer 468

Sushurata

Question 469

Abū Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham is known as the founder of optics, Born in Basra, he is known by which Westernised name?

Answer 469

Alhazen

Question 470

Which Transylvania-born German-Hungarian physicist and engineer is known as one of the three independent 'fathers of' rocketry along Goddard and Tsiolkovsky?

Answer 470

Hermann Oberth

Question 471

Algorismi and Diophantus are considered the joint fathers of which field of science?

Answer 471

Algebra

Question 472

Who is recognised as the father of computer science alongside Alan Turing?

Answer 472

George Boole

Question 473

Which Greek astrologer, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period is considered the founder of trigonometry?

Answer 473

Hipparchus

Question 474

Which man is regarded as the originator of cybernetics?

Answer 474

Norbert Wiener

Question 475

Which Persian-American-Azeri man (born 1921 in Baku) invented fuzzy logic?

Answer 475

Lotfi Zadeh

Question 476

Often known as Alberonius in Latin, which Muslim polymath was born in 973 in Uzbekistan and is known as the father of anthropology and of Indology?

Answer 476

Abu Rayhan Biruni

Question 477

Which Irish-French economist (born 1680) was the author of Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered to be the "cradle of political economy"? Although little information exists on his life, it is known that he became a successful banker and merchant at an early age.

Answer 477

Richard Cantillon

Question 478

Carl Menger founded which school of economics, influential in the late c19 and early c20?

Answer 478

Austrian School

Question 479

In economics, MPT is a theory of investment which attempts to maximize expected return for a given amount of risk, or equivalently minimize risk for a given level of expected return, by carefully choosing the proportions of various assets. What does it stand for?

Answer 479

Modern Portfolio Theory

Question 480

Who is known as the father of modern science?

Answer 480

Galileo Galilei

Question 481

Steve Ross was the CEO of Tiem Warner and the founder of which football team, leading him to become known as the Father of American Soccer?

Answer 481

New York Cosmos

Question 482

Who is known as the father of football in England?

Answer 482

Ebenezer Cobb Morley

Question 483

Charles William Miller was the founder of football in which country?

Answer 483

Brazil

Question 484

Scot Alexander Breithaupt was an important person in the founding of which sport?

Answer 484

BMX

Question 485

Which Prussian man, born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller in 1867, was the first modern bodybuilder?

Answer 485

Eugen Sandow

Question 486

Which man was an English bare-knuckle boxer. He is universally recognized the first English bare-knuckle boxing champion, reigning from 1719 to 1730 or 1734? He was born in Thame in Oxfordshire and fought his early prize fights there.

Answer 486

James Figg

Question 487

Eddie Hill, Don Garlits and Wally Parks are the men who founded which motor sport?

Answer 487

Drag racing

Question 488

What word refers to a driving technique and to a motorsport where the driver intentionally over steers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels through turns, while maintaining vehicle control and a high exit speed?

Answer 488

Drifting

Question 489

The c19 Tempest Prognosticator was a barometer that warned of approaching storms by the activity of what kind of excited animal within the device?

Answer 489

Leeches

Question 490

Which famous American psychology attempted to develop a pigeon-guided missile in WW2?

Answer 490

B F Skinner

Question 491

The Whizzinator was a device sold in the USA to get around what?

Answer 491

Urine testing for drugs

Question 492

Literally "horse-slaying sword" or "horse-chopping saber" what is the name of the especially large type of Japanese sword, the historical use of which is disputed?

Answer 492

Zanbato

Question 493

What term refers to text spoken or written using a mixture of languages, sometimes including bilingual puns, particularly when the languages are used in the same context (as opposed to different segments of a text being in different languages)?

Answer 493

Macaronic Language

Question 494

In which Sega game did the 'All Your Bases Are Belong To Us' appear?

Answer 494

Zero Wing

Question 495

The Atari video game burial of 1983 was an infamous event in video gaming history, in which Atari dumped thousands of video game cartridges, allegedly including a large number of copies of its video game adaptation E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, into a landfill. It was one of the consequences, and has become an icon, of the North American video game crash of 1983. In which state did the dumping take place?

Answer 495

New Mexico

Question 496

Which event that took place on April 26, 2010, was devised by Jennifer McCreight, a senior in the Purdue University College of Science, in response to news reports that Iranian cleric Kazem Seddiqi had blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes?

Answer 496

Boobquake

Question 497

The purpose of what feature of a video game is to make it appear to superiors and coworkers that an employee is doing his or her job, when they are actually playing games or using the Internet for non work-related tasks?

Answer 497

Boss Key

Question 498

Which cellular automaton was devised by and named for the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970? The "game" is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input.

Answer 498

Conway's Game of Life

Question 499

Which website offers online images and videos of women trying to free their cars from a variety of obstacles? The Germany-based site centers around a pedal pumping related fetish combined with somewhat of a damsel in distress factor that may either intrigue or excite its viewers.

Answer 499

Carstuckgirls.com

Question 500

What name is given to a scenario in which an artificial intelligence (either a single supercomputer, a computer network, or sometimes a "race" of intelligent machines) decide that humans are a threat or are oppressors and try to destroy or to enslave them, potentially leading to Machine rule?

Answer 500

Cybernetic revolt