Set 15

Question 1

Coined by Eric Drexler, what term is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario known as ecophagy (“eating the environment”)?

Answer 1

Grey goo

Question 2

Often abbreviated as HUAR, what is a semi-tongue-in-cheek organization designed to unify mankind and prepare them for a futuristic cybernetic uprising?

Answer 2

Humans United Against Robots

Question 3

What is the German crocodilian equivalent of the Swedish Crazy Frog?

Answer 3

Schnappi

Question 4

Clarus the Dogcow is an early (and thus poorly pixellated) character that was meant to be a dog but looked more like a cow in early 1980s programmes of which computer manufacturor?

Answer 4

Apple

Question 5

Which search engine has been created to search for terms in reverse?

Answer 5

Elgoog

Question 6

Name the non-profit Christian website that aims to help those who struggle with pornography.

Answer 6

xxxchurch.com

Question 7

Frequently used in the context of “_______ the whip” (a “whip” being a vehicle), what is it called when a person puts a vehicle’s transmission in gear then exits the vehicle while it is still rolling to dance beside it or on the hood or roof?

Answer 7

Ghost-riding

Question 8

The hip-hop subgenre of hyphy originates in which US city?

Answer 8

San Francisco/Bay Area

Question 9

Which fictional game was featured in the British sitcom Green Wing? Its rules are never fully explained, and are designed to be as confusing and as difficult to understand as possible. However, Green Wing fans have attempted to create their own rules and societies. The first such society was created at King’s College London.

Answer 9

Guyball

Question 10

Body Art Ride is a community-driven art event which raises funds for children’s cancer research while promoting healthy sustainable living. It is held annually in the middle of February. Volunteer participants create an ephemeral moving artwork called “The Human Rainbow.” which consists of hundreds of painted cyclists riding in groups to form a rainbow that travels through the city to a beach. Which city?

Answer 10

Sydney

Question 11

What two-word phrase encompasses any cycling not done primarily for fitness, recreation such as cycle touring, or sport such as cycle racing, but simply as a means of transport. It is the most common type of cycling in the world?

Answer 11

Utility cycling

Question 12

In professional wrestling, what wprd means is the portrayal of events within the industry as “real”. That is, the portrayal of professional wrestling as being genuine?

Answer 12

Kayfabe

Question 13

What was a controversial season of television programming that was due to be broadcast in the United Kingdom by Channel 4, expected to consist of a series of three documentary programmes about masturbation. However, plans to broadcast it in March 2007 came under public attack from senior television figures, and the planned broadcasts were pulled amid claims of declining editorial standards and controversy over the channel’s public service broadcasting credentials?

Answer 13

Wank week

Question 14

Mehran Karimi Nasseri is an Iranian refugee who lived where from 8 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment?

Answer 14

Charles de Gaulle Airport

Question 15

Its name referring to the old cliche about Eskimo words for frozen water, what type of cliché and phrasal template was originally defined as “a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different variants? For example, ‘x is the new y’.

Answer 15

Snowclone

Question 16

As well as inventing the artificial horizon still used in planes, Lawrence Burst Sperry made what important contribution to aviation technology before his disappearance over the English Channel in 1923?

Answer 16

Autopilot

Question 17

What word means the transformation of humans into animals?

Answer 17

Therianthropy

Question 18

Mooning the Cog is a tradition in which hikers bare their backsides to the Cog Railway on the highest peak in New Hampshire, which is called what?

Answer 18

Mount Washington

Question 19

Sharing its name with that of a dictator, it is a card game of the shedding family, in which the aim is to get rid of all of the cards in hand without breaking certain unspoken rules. The game forbids its players from explaining the rules, and new players are often told only “the only rule you may be told is this one.” Specifics are discovered through trial and error. Which game?

Answer 19

Mao

Question 20

How is Joseph Pujol better known to posterity?

Answer 20

Le Petomane

Question 21

Sardarji jokes in India make fun of which ethnic group?

Answer 21

Sikhs

Question 22

What is shoefiti?

Answer 22

The practice of throwing shoes whose shoelaces have been tied together so that they hang from overhead wires

Question 23

Dicky Mint, Mick the Marmalizer, Stephen “Titch” Doyle, Little Evan, Hamish McDiddy, Nigel Ponsonby-Smallpiece, Nicky Nugget, Sid Short and Smarty Arty are what?

Answer 23

Some of Ken Dodd’s Diddy Men

Question 24

Which satirical board game was originally conceived back in 2003 by Andy Tompkins and Andrew Sheerin, two friends based in Cambridge, England? The initial inspiration for the game came from the imminent invasion of Iraq.

Answer 24

War on Terror

Question 25

Which collaborative novel created by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing a bad piece of work of unpublishable quality to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it, was accepted, but after the hoax was revealed, the publisher withdrew its offer?

Answer 25

Atlanta Nights

Question 26

The Bookseller/Diagram Prize was originally awarded at the Frankfurt book fair to which book annually?

Answer 26

The one with the oddest title

Question 27

What name is given to the flood plain of the Mississippi River in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois?

Answer 27

American Bottom

Question 28

Iconic for being Duchamp's first "true" readymade, which of his pieces was accidentally thrown out as garbage by his sister?

Answer 28

Bottle Rack

Question 29

La Bougie du Sapeur, first published in 1980 is a humorous French newspaper. What is unusual about it?

Answer 29

Only ever published on February 29

Question 30

What is the name of Ferdinand II of Austria's collection of uncommon objects on display at his castle in Ambras near Innsbruck? It includes a woodcarving of "Death as a Hunter" by Hans Leiberger, goblets, coral collections and artifacts, glass figures, centerpieces, mechanical toys, clocks and various instruments.

Answer 30

Chamber of Art and Curiosities

Question 31

What is the name of Donald Duck's twin sister?

Answer 31

Della

Question 32

According to Don Rosa's timeline, the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an unnamed member of the clan sold stone to the construction crew of Hadrian's wall. It was originally called the Clan MacDuich, but dropped the Gaelic spelling of the name in 1071. Which family?

Answer 32

The (Disney) McDucks

Question 33

Which Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era is considered a national hero of the Philippines, having been executed by the Spanish? (1861-1896)

Answer 33

Jose Rizal

Question 34

Traditionally, in Japan and Korea, if you know you are about to die, what should you do?

Answer 34

Write a death poem

Question 35

Billed as the world's first openly gay doll, it was created in 1977 by former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg and marketed through his company, Gizmo Development. What was it called?

Answer 35

Gay Bob

Question 36

Which reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story?

Answer 36

Henry Darger

Question 37

Cabazon Dinosaurs, also referred to as Claude Bell's Dinosaurs, are enormous, sculptured roadside attractions located in Cabazon and visible to the immediate north of Interstate 10. The site features Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-ton building shaped like a larger-than-life-sized Apatosaurus, and Mr. Rex, a 100-ton Tyrannosaurus rex structure. In which US state?

Answer 37

California

Question 38

Which American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson ran from 1988 to 1999 and featured a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a space station by an evil scientist and forced to watch a selection of bad movies, initially (but not specifically limited to) science fiction B-movies?

Answer 38

Mystery Science Theatre 3000

Question 39

Like a female Irish William McGonagall- she published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, over-written, "purple" circumlocutory writing style is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written?

Answer 39

Amanda McKittrick Ros

Question 40

Whick West Indian-born heir to significantly profitable, sugar-growing slave plantations is numbered among the ranks of famous British eccentrics because of his unusual career as an amateur actor. His self-image included a highly mistaken belief in his own thespian prowess. After professional theatrical producers failed to cast him in significant roles, he used his family fortune to subsidize his own productions in which he was both the producer and the lead actor?

Answer 40

Robert Coates

Question 41

Pioneered by Saussure, what name is given to the science of signs?

Answer 41

Semiotics

Question 42

Gimme Shelter was on which Rolling Stones album?

Answer 42

Let It Bleed

Question 43

What given name is shared by the addressee of Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, Rosalind's companion in As You Like It and Dorothea Brooke's sister in Middlemarch?

Answer 43

Celia

Question 44

What part of New York City gives its name to a Declaration by the eco-sceptical International Conference on Climate Change?

Answer 44

Manhattan

Question 45

An Appeal to Reason- A Cool Look at Global Warming is a book of 2008 by which former Chancellor?

Answer 45

Nigel Lawson

Question 46

What term demotes freely movable joints whose surfaces are covered with a thin cartilaginous sheet and which are lubricated by a fluid in a surrounding capsule?

Answer 46

Synovial

Question 47

In which part of the body would you find a zygapophysial joint?

Answer 47

Vertebrae

Question 48

Joseph L Mankiewicz's 1967 film The Honey Pot was based on which work of Ben Jonson?

Answer 48

Volpone

Question 49

Which Soviet, Elem Klimov-directed film from the mid 1970s was based on the last days of Rasputin?

Answer 49

Agony

Question 50

Which chef worked for George IV and Napoleon and is often called 'the first celebrity chef'?

Answer 50

Marie Antoine Careme

Question 51

Careme is credited with changing service from 'at at once' to 'one course at a time'- an innovation introduced from which country?

Answer 51

Russia

Question 52

Which Melbourne-born artist is famous for hyper-real larger than life silicone sculptures, such as Boy at the Millennium Dome?

Answer 52

Ron Mueck

Question 53

David Copperfield, Emma and the Harry Potter series are all examples of which genre of novel?

Answer 53

Bildungsroman

Question 54

Which proteins are produced by white blood cells and are usually represented in the shape of a Y?

Answer 54

Antibodies

Question 55

The Roman province of Noricum is within the borders of which present-day country?

Answer 55

Austria

Question 56

Bithnyia was a Roman province now in which country?

Answer 56

Turkey

Question 57

Which single by Wings was banned by the BBC for its supposedly suggestive lyrics and drug references? The specific sexual line objected to is the apparent phrase "get you ready for my body gun"; McCartney has said that the correct lyrics are "get you ready for my polygon", an abstract image, and later, "The BBC got some of the words wrong. But I suppose it is a bit of a dirty song if sex is dirty and naughty. I was in a sensuous mood in Spain when I wrote it."

Answer 57

Hi, hi, hi

Question 58

Which Nobel laureate was the author of Lotte in Weimar, in which the elderly Goethe is visited by a character from The Sorrows of Young Werther?

Answer 58

Thomas Mann

Question 59

Which US state is known as the Bay State?

Answer 59

Massachussets

Question 60

The name of which grape refers to its pine-cone shape and its grey colour?

Answer 60

Pinot grigio

Question 61

Which Italian wine is a desert wine served with almond biscuits and whose name means Holy Wine?

Answer 61

Vin Santo

Question 62

Which wine from near Venice, named for a town, is the main ingredient of a Bellini cocktail?

Answer 62

Prosecco

Question 63

The phrase 'blinking idiot' occurs in which Shakespeare play?

Answer 63

The Merchant of Venice

Question 64

Born Isadore Soifer, who wrote the music for Unchained Melody and also the scores for Spartacus, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Cleopatra?

Answer 64

Alex North

Question 65

Born in New York, which musician is best known for his musical version of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds?

Answer 65

Jeff Wayne

Question 66

Which football team went bankrupt in 1992, the last professional league team to do so?

Answer 66

Maidstone

Question 67

What does UNCTAD stand for?

Answer 67

UN Conference on Trade and Development

Question 68

What does UNEP stand for?

Answer 68

UN Environment Programme

Question 69

Cerrusite and anglesite are ores of which metal?

Answer 69

Lead

Question 70

What are the two countries that border El Salvador?

Answer 70

Honduras and Guatemala

Question 71

In 1076, Bishop Stigland started the building of which English cathedral, the only mediaeval one visible from sea?

Answer 71

Chichester

Question 72

The speed of what is given by the square root of bulk modulus over density for a given material?

Answer 72

Speed of sound

Question 73

Sea Pictures is the title of which composer's Opus Number 37?

Answer 73

Edward Elgar

Question 74

Where did Tiberius die in AD37?

Answer 74

Capri

Question 75

Which King of Armenia proclaimed the country as Christian in 301AD?

Answer 75

Tiridates III

Question 76

Laamb is the Wolof name for the Senegalese version of which sport, now increasingly popular throughout Africa?

Answer 76

Wrestling

Question 77

What was the original name of Botany Bay?

Answer 77

Stingray Bay

Question 78

Which character is played by Peter Sallis in the Last of the Summer Wine?

Answer 78

Cleggy

Question 79

Which Korean-born American artist, 1932-2006, is considered to be the first ever video artist?

Answer 79

Nam June Paik

Question 80

Which American graphic designer is best known for thousands of movie poster designs? During his 60-year career he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers. Among his most famous film posters are those for Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, and The Sting. He designed (and often photographed) posters for 35 consecutive Clint Eastwood films, from Dirty Harry (1971) to Mystic River (2004).

Answer 80

Bill Gold

Question 81

Which American visual artist and composer based in New York's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramaphone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage, he is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism."- his own use of turntables and records, beginning in the mid-1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument?

Answer 81

Christian Marclay

Question 82

Which monk burned himself to death in Vietnam in 1963, only to find himself on the cover of Killing In The Name Of 29 years later?

Answer 82

Thich Quang Duc

Question 83

Which part of Boston is the nearest equivalent to Harlem in New York?

Answer 83

Roxbury

Question 84

Born and raised in Roxbury, famous jazz performer Roy Haynes plays which instrument?

Answer 84

Drums

Question 85

Which fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii has a name referring to its characteristic open tunings?

Answer 85

Slack key guitar

Question 86

Born 1909, which Grammy Award-winning Canadian centenarian, bass-baritone singer of gospel music and the composer of several hymns and hymn tunes has often been described as "America's Beloved Gospel Singer" and is considered "the first international singing 'star' of the gospel world," as a consequence of his solos on the Billy Graham Crusades. According to the Guinness Book of Records, he holds the world record for singing in person to the most people ever, with an estimated cumulative live audience of 220 million people?

Answer 86

George Beverly Shea

Question 87

Who painted the iconic poster of Barack Obama with the word 'Hope'?

Answer 87

Shepard Fairey

Question 88

A psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place, is named for which writer?

Answer 88

Stendhal syndrome

Question 89

Also called siliceous cotton, what substance is said to be dispersed from UFOs as they fly overhead. It has been described as being like a cobweb or a jelly. It has also been reported at sightings of the Virgin Mary?

Answer 89

Angel hair

Question 90

Also called the ACHOO syndrome, what name is more generally given to an autosomal dominant hereditary trait which causes sneezing, possibly many times consecutively (due to naso-ocular reflex) when suddenly exposed to bright light?

Answer 90

Photic Sneeze Reflex

Question 91

Also known as Big Bill, he was an American race car driver. He is best known for co-founding and managing NASCAR?

Answer 91

Bill France

Question 92

Also known as fetal resorption, what name is given to a fetus in a multi-gestation pregnancy which dies in utero and is then partially or completely reabsorbed by the mother or twin?

Answer 92

Vanishing twin

Question 93

Also known as Hempel's paradox as it was proposed by the German logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a problem where inductive logic violates intuition, which paradox reveals the fundamental problem of induction?

Answer 93

Raven paradox

Question 94

Art Ingels founded which sport?

Answer 94

Go-karting

Question 95

Australian tourist Denis Rohan, seized with Jerusalem syndrome, tried to set fire to which building in 1969?

Answer 95

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Question 96

Between 1942 and 1977, which US park ranger was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them. For this reason, he gained a nickname "Human Lightning Conductor" or "Human Lightning Rod"? He is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71 over an unrequited love?

Answer 96

Roy Sullivan

Question 97

By conducting the first ever clinical trial, he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy. Which Scottish doctor?

Answer 97

James Lind

Question 98

Coined by Irving Langmuir, it is defined as an area of research that simply will not "go away" —long after it is given up on as 'false' by the majority of scientists in the field. He called it "the science of things that aren't so"?

Answer 98

Pathological science

Question 99

Gary Fisher, of California, was a pioneer in which sport?

Answer 99

Mountain biking

Question 100

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was the first man to take an aerial photograph, from a balloon. What was his pseudonym?

Answer 100

Nadar

Question 101

Horace Wilson introduced baseball to which country?

Answer 101

Japan

Question 102

If Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the World Wide Web, who are the twin fathers of the Internet?

Answer 102

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

Question 103

In OOKP surgery, used for people with severe corneal failure, which part of your body can be used to restore sight?

Answer 103

Tooth

Question 104

In southern parts of the USA, the pointed hat called a capuchon is worn on which day?

Answer 104

Mardi Gras

Question 105

In which Cambridge college is Oliver Cromwell's head kept?

Answer 105

Sidney Sussex

Question 106

It was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, its goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.

Answer 106

Ahnenerbe

Question 107

Italo Santelli was an important figure in the development of which modern sport?

Answer 107

Fencing

Question 108

James Richardson Spensley and William Garbutt founded football in which country?

Answer 108

Italy

Question 109

Lakshmi Tatma of India and Rudy Santos of the Phillipines (also called Octoman) both suffer from which rare medical condition?

Answer 109

Parasitic twin

Question 110

Lithotripsy is used in medicine for removing what?

Answer 110

Kidney stones

Question 111

Lluvia de Peces or Rain of Fish is a phenomenon that has been occurring for more than a century on a yearly basis in the Yoro Department of which country?

Answer 111

Honduras

Question 112

Marcian Hoff and Masatoshi Shima are known as the fathers of which important component of a computer?

Answer 112

Microprocessor

Question 113

Martha Wash and Izora Armstead are better known as who?

Answer 113

The Weather Girls

Question 114

Originally the "Study Group for Germanic Antiquity", it was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), which was later transformed by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party)?

Answer 114

Thule Society

Question 115

Philo T Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin, together with a very famous third man, are credited with the invention of what?

Answer 115

Television

Question 116

Popular among pseudoscientists, what is a substance described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race?

Answer 116

Vril

Question 117

Project Cybersyn was an attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973 in which country?. It was essentially a network of telex machines that linked factories with a single computer centre in the capital, which controlled them using principles of cybernetics. The principal architect of the system was British operations research scientist Stafford Beer.

Answer 117

Chile

Question 118

RP FLIP is a US oceanographic research vessel deiberately designed to do what?

Answer 118

Capsize

Question 119

Some Japanese tourists suffer an eponymous 'syndrome' when they visit which European city?

Answer 119

Paris

Question 120

Sometimes referred to as a "Combined road course", it is an oval track racing facility that features a road course in the infield (or outfield), that may or may not be directly linked to the oval circuit. Which portmanteau word?

Answer 120

Roval

Question 121

The 2006 "sweet" seawater incident was a phenomenon during which residents of which city claimed that the water at Mahim Creek, which receives thousands of tonnes of raw sewage and industrial waste every day, had suddenly turned "sweet"? Scientists attributed it to a sudden surge of freshwater into the sea.

Answer 121

Mumbai

Question 122

The bizarre pseudoscientific invention of the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass relied on the supposed telepathic abilities of which animals?

Answer 122

Snails

Question 123

The interstate highway system in the USA is named for which President?

Answer 123

Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 124

What acronym is given in computing to a fake FAQ?

Answer 124

FWAK (False Wisdom and Knowledge)

Question 125

What does GEV stand for, also called wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle, flarecraft, sea skimmer, ekranoplan, SkimMachine, or wing-in-surface-effect ship (WISE)?

Answer 125

Ground Effect Vehicle

Question 126

What is a humorous term referring to the variably-sized body parts ("guts"), fragments, and offal produced when non-player characters or game players are damaged or killed in computer games?

Answer 126

Gibs (short for giblets)

Question 127

What is a medical disorder characterized by uncontrollable bursts of sneezing brought on by fullness of the stomach, and typically observed in sufferers immediately after a large meal?

Answer 127

Snatiation

Question 128

What is a new name for an object or concept to differentiate the original form or version of it from a more recent form or version (e.g. acoustic guitar, World War I, Queen Elizabeth I). The original name is most often augmented with an adjective (rather than being completely displaced) to account for later developments of the object or concept itself?

Answer 128

Retronym

Question 129

What is a phrase constructed purposely such that an acronym can be formed to a specific word. They may be invented with serious or humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology?

Answer 129

Backronyms

Question 130

What is rhinotillexomania?

Answer 130

Obsessive nose picking

Question 131

What is the female equivalent of priapism?

Answer 131

Clitorism

Question 132

What is the name of the wood pulp and ice composite that is extremely resistant to damage?

Answer 132

Pykrete

Question 133

What is unusual about Indian tea estate worker Chandre Oram?

Answer 133

He has a long tail

Question 134

What name did Nazi Germany give to the part of Antarctica they claimed, which is now part of Norwegian territory?

Answer 134

New Swabia

Question 135

What name is given to a 550 ton military Russian ekranoplan used on a certain lake?

Answer 135

Caspian Sea Monster

Question 136

What name is given to a series of organic molecules whose structural formulae appear human?

Answer 136

Nanoputian

Question 137

What name is given to an extremely rare intestinal condition in humans resulting from eating hair (trichophagia)?

Answer 137

Rapunzel syndrome

Question 138

What name is given to the medical study of lightning casualties and their treatment?

Answer 138

Keraunomedicine

Question 139

What name is given to the purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device, secret weapon, first described by Polish journalist Igor Witkowski, it was later popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook as well as by conspiracy theory writers such as Joseph P. Farrell. Farrell and others associate it with Nazi occultism and antigravity or free energy research?

Answer 139

The Bell

Question 140

What name is given to the speculation and thought experiment whereby someone who ends their own life might survive in another universe?

Answer 140

Quantum suicide

Question 141

What name is given to the whole category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep?

Answer 141

Parasomnia

Question 142

What name was a political incident in which the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Soviet Union of supplying T-2 mycotoxin to the Communist states in Vietnam and Laos for use in counterinsurgency warfare?

Answer 142

Yellow Rain

Question 143

What name was given to an early atomic model in which electrons were positioned at the eight corners of a cube in a non-polar atom or molecule?

Answer 143

Cubical atom

Question 144

What name was given to Pyke's secret project?

Answer 144

Project Habbakuk

Question 145

What name was given to the mysterious rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries?

Answer 145

Ghost rockets

Question 146

What nickname is given to Steve Jobs' trademark keynote speeches?

Answer 146

Stevenote

Question 147

What three word term was coined by Burrell Smith at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Mac project?

Answer 147

Reality distortion field

Question 148

Which American ballet dancer and figure skater is regarded as the father of modern figure skating?

Answer 148

Jackson Haines

Question 149

Which American multinational clothing company is named after artist Kenny Howard. It is known primarily by its eponymous logo?

Answer 149

Von Dutch

Question 150

Which American-Bangladeshi structural engineer pioneered tubular steel construction and co-designed the John Hancock Centre and Willis Tower?

Answer 150

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Question 151

Which Canadian blogger did the One Red Paperclip trading game?

Answer 151

Kyle McDonald

Question 152

Which clockmaker and inventor shares his name with a modern Premiership football manager and worked with Thomas Tompion?

Answer 152

George Graham

Question 153

Which Dutch scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording including popular digital media such as Compact Disc, DVD and Blu-Ray Disc? He has been a prolific and influential engineer, who holds more than 1100 US and international patents. The impact of his work on consumer electronics is so large that it is virtually impossible to enjoy digital audio or video that does not reflect his work.

Answer 153

Kees Immink

Question 154

Which example of pathological science refers to a form of water which appeared to have a much higher boiling point and much lower freezing point than normal water; many articles were published on the subject, and research was done around the world with mixed results. Eventually it was determined that many of its properties could be explained by biological contamination.

Answer 154

Polywater

Question 155

Which founding father of modern aerodynamics was the first to identify the four aerodynamic forces of flight— weight, lift, drag, and thrust?

Answer 155

George Cayley

Question 156

Which gelatinous substance, according to folklore, is deposited on the earth during meteor showers. It is described as a translucent or grayish white gelatin which tends to evaporate shortly after having fallen. Reports of the compound date back to the 14th century and continue to the present?

Answer 156

Star jelly

Question 157

Which important word in cosmology, meaning all possible states of reality, was coined by Henry James' brother William James?

Answer 157

Multiverse

Question 158

Which man is known as the father of the laser?

Answer 158

Charles Hard Townes

Question 159

Which man suggested the plan to create a British aircraft carrier in WW2 out of wood pulp and ice?

Answer 159

Geoffrey Pyke

Question 160

Which nonstandard unit of length was created as part of an MIT fraternity prank? It is named after a man who lay on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts), and was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the bridge?

Answer 160

Smoot

Question 161

Which noted Canadian dentist and patriot is referred to as the "father of modern lacrosse" for his work establishing the first set of playing rules for the game?

Answer 161

William George Beers

Question 162

Which paradox goes as follows: Consider an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle. Suppose a chord of the circle is chosen at random. What is the probability that the chord is longer than a side of the triangle?

Answer 162

Bertrand Paradox

Question 163

Which pseudoscience is one step beyond metaphysics and is a word coined by Alfred Jarry?

Answer 163

Pataphysics

Question 164

Which radio pioneer obtained the first Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to operate an FM station in Alpine, New Jersey at approximately 50 megahertz (1939)?

Answer 164

Edwin H Armstrong

Question 165

Which religious organization, often seen as a "parody religion" founded by "Bob Dobbs", that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, UFOs, and popular culture was originally based in Dallas, Texas?

Answer 165

Church of the SubGenius

Question 166

Which son of a famous potter was an early experimenter in photography with Humphrey Davy?

Answer 166

Thomas Wedgwood

Question 167

Which spoof paper appeared in the June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist and referred in fact to Americans themselves?

Answer 167

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (American backwards)

Question 168

Which truck, built by Bob Chandler in 1979, is regarded as the original monster truck?

Answer 168

Bigfoot

Question 169

Which UFO religion was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon? It has been described as "the largest UFO religion in the world"?

Answer 169

Raelism

Question 170

Which very rare disorder makes it impossible to move the face or eyes?

Answer 170

Moebius Syndrome

Question 171

Who is known as the Father of Route 66?

Answer 171

Cyrus Stevens Avery

Question 172

Who is the Japanese moon goddess and nickname of the Japanese Selene moon exploration programme?

Answer 172

Kaguya

Question 173

Who recently died and was the inventor of the instant noodle?

Answer 173

Momofuku Ando

Question 174

Who should share the credit for the invention of the telephone?

Answer 174

Antonio Meucci

Question 175

Who was the man who popularised jogging, but died of a heart attack aged 54 in 1984 after a run in Vermont, leading many to question the health benefits?

Answer 175

Jim Fixx

Question 176

Who wrote the first ever computer programme, for Charles Babbage?

Answer 176

Ada Lovelace

Question 177

William Phelps Eno was a pioneer in which important field?

Answer 177

Road safety (invented the stop sign, the pedestrian crosswalk, the traffic circle, the one-way street, the taxi stand, and pedestrian safety islands)

Question 178

What is a theological view held by many in Christianity and other world religions that men and women have different but complementary roles and responsibilities in marriage, family life, religious leadership, and elsewhere?

Answer 178

Complementarianism

Question 179

What is notable about the 1939 novel Gadsby: Champion of Youth by Ernest Vincent Wright?

Answer 179

Does not use the letter E

Question 180

In Gavle, Sweden, a giant what is constructed out of straw every Christmas time and then burnt down?

Answer 180

Goat

Question 181

In terms of American comic books, how are the late 1930s to the early 1950s and the period from 1956 to 1970 known?

Answer 181

Golden age and silver age

Question 182

When was the Bronze age of comic books?

Answer 182

1970 to 1985

Question 183

What followed the Bronze age and has lasted to the present day?

Answer 183

Modern age of comic books

Question 184

What was a conflict between rival systems of teaching Latin in early c16 England? The two main antagonists were schoolmasters William Horman and Robert Whittington, and involved Latin primers called Vulgaria.

Answer 184

Grammarian's War

Question 185

What is John Buckley's main contribution to Oxford?

Answer 185

The Headington Shark

Question 186

The Magic Carpet Ride is the official name of a 16-foot (4.9 m) high bronze statue of a surfer in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, that has been nicknamed what by local residents?

Answer 186

The Cardiff Kook

Question 187

Which non-existent book was a literary hoax that began as a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur Jean Shepherd. Shepherd was highly annoyed at the way that the bestseller lists were being compiled in the mid-1950s. These lists were determined not only from sales figures but were also derived from the number of requests for new and upcoming books at bookstores?

Answer 187

I, Libertine

Question 188

Shakespearean actor Norman Lumsden, who died aged 95 from shingles, is most famous for playing what role?

Answer 188

J R Hartley

Question 189

Aka "The Shifter", she is an open source, public domain character. She was specifically created to be as such, when her creators could not find any other truly open source, public domain characters.She can be inserted into the continuity of any existing or new work, such as various comics or webcomics. She was originally created by Canadian comic book artist Steven Wintle, who uses the internet alias Moriarty?

Answer 189

Jenny Everywhere

Question 190

Which household items were kept out on the pavement for many days after Hurricane Katrina due to the difficulty of disposing of them and ended up covered with folk art?

Answer 190

Refrigerators

Question 191

What is the name of the group of anonymous knitters who began the "knit graffiti" movement in Houston, Texas in 2005. They wrap public architecture – e.g. lampposts, parking meters, telephone poles, and signage – with knitted or crocheted material. It has been called "knit graffiti" and "yarnbombing"?

Answer 191

Knitta

Question 192

What is the name of the 50-foot mechanical spider designed and operated by French performance art company La Machine? It was showcased in Liverpool, England, as part of the 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations, travelling around the city between 3-7 September. In 2009, it was on display in Yokohama as part of the 150th anniversary of its port opening.

Answer 192

La Princesse

Question 193

Which science fiction author published a book of 100 dirty limericks called Lecherous Limericks in 1975?

Answer 193

Isaac Asimov

Question 194

Casino magnate Steve Wynn is famous for putting his elbow through which Picasso, which he was planning to sell for a record $139 million? It's now worth only $85 million.

Answer 194

Le Reve

Question 195

The Legacy Project, created by Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada, and depicting the control tower and runways at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Orange County, California, is notable for what reason?

Answer 195

World's largest (seamless) photograph

Question 196

Of the at least nine novels with subtitle 'Virtue Rewarded', which is the most famous?

Answer 196

Pamela

Question 197

Of the at least five works with the subtitle 'constancy rewarded', which is the most famous, an opera?

Answer 197

Beethoven's Fidelio

Question 198

Anonymous employees of the newspaper would visit seaside resorts. The newspaper would print details of the town, a description of the appearance of that day's plant, and a particular pass phrase. Anyone carrying a copy of the newspaper could challenge the day's plant with the appropriate phrase, and receive the sum of five pounds. What was the name of the plant?

Answer 198

Lobby Lud

Question 199

Which newspaper created Lobby Lud, naming him because their phone number in London was Lobby, Ludgate?

Answer 199

Westminster Gazette

Question 200

Coined by Spike Lee, what name is given to the supporting, sometimes mystical stock character in fiction who, by use of special insight or powers, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble?

Answer 200

Magical Negro

Question 201

What name is given to one of the popular stereotypes of African Americans, which focuses on their alleged sexual prowess and large genitalia?

Answer 201

Mandingo Theory

Question 202

Where is the flagship McDonalds store, also called Rock n Roll McDonalds?

Answer 202

Chicago

Question 203

The McDonalds in Sedona, Arizona, is the only one in the world not to have golden arches- instead, what colour are they?

Answer 203

Turquoise

Question 204

Which cartoon chef was the embodiment of McDonalds before Ronald McDonald?

Answer 204

Speedee

Question 205

What is the name of the McDonald's coffee shops originally launched in Australia?

Answer 205

McCafe

Question 206

The Alberger process is used to manufacture which foodstuff?

Answer 206

Salt

Question 207

What is the claim to fame of Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin?

Answer 207

Eats nothing but Big Macs

Question 208

What was the name of the book that was a literary hoax perpetrated by a number of prominent journalists in 1969? The project was conceived by Mike McGrady of Newsday, who assembled twenty-four journalists to write a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar.

Answer 208

Naked Came The Stranger

Question 209

Which essay by philosopher Harry Frankfurt was originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, but then was republished as a separate volume in 2005 and became a nonfiction bestseller, spending twenty-seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?

Answer 209

On Bullsh1t

Question 210

Which Professor of Management Science has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template which is filled with data from database and internet searches? At Amazon.com, he is listed as the author of 107,000 books that his program created and overall he claims to have produced 200,000 different titles.

Answer 210

Phillip Parker

Question 211

The phenomenon consists of anonymous people placing homemade dog sculptures, typically made of wood (or sometimes plastic, metal or textile) in traffic circles. Occurrences were reported all over Sweden, and the phenomenon also spread to other countries?

Answer 211

Roundabout Dogs

Question 212

What is the name of the carving of a codfish that hangs in the House of Representatives chamber of the Massachusetts State House in Boston?

Answer 212

Sacred Cod of Massachusetts

Question 213

Zabibah and The King, The Fortified Castle, Men and the City and Begone, Demons are novels published anonymously by whom?

Answer 213

Saddam Hussein

Question 214

Which term that refers to the excessive adulation of William Shakespeare was coined by George Bernard Shaw?

Answer 214

Bardolatry

Question 215

Literally "dual form", what is the Japanese word for androgyny or hermaphrodite? Until 1644, the appeal of sexually ambiguous characters portrayed by onnagata actors was a popular element in Japanese drama, and there is a flourishing anime and manga genre featuring such characters in Japan today.

Answer 215

Futanari

Question 216

Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) is a 233-page French novel, written in 2004 by a French doctor of letters, Michel Dansel, under the pen name Michel Thaler. Why is it notable?

Answer 216

Contains no verbs

Question 217

Literally 'sky-ear' in Japanese, what is the term for homophonic translation of song lyrics, that is, interpreting lyrics in one language as similar-sounding lyrics in another language?

Answer 217

Soramimi

Question 218

What is the name for the practice of taking lyrics of foreign songs, "mishearing" them into English, and producing a flash video to go along with it?

Answer 218

Animutation

Question 219

What is the common title of a Chumbawamba album released in 2008 whose full title contains 865 characters, and holds the record for the longest album title?

Answer 219

The Boy Bands Have Won

Question 220

Which spirit medium from Balham claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her? (1916-2001)

Answer 220

Rosemary Brown

Question 221

What was the name of the unreleased album by Green Day that would have been the follow-up to 2000's Warning? In the summer of 2003, the album was nearly finished when the master recordings of 20 tracks were stolen from the studio. Instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to start from scratch, leading to the creation of American Idiot.

Answer 221

Cigarettes and Valentines

Question 222

Which Finnish composer holds a world record for number of symphonies written, with 239 and counting?

Answer 222

Leif Segerstam

Question 223

What was the spoof country band that U2 dressed up as to support themselves on the Joshua Tree tour?

Answer 223

The Dalton Brothers

Question 224

Due to a legal dispute, which album by Dangermouse and Sparklehorse was released as a blank CD in 2010?

Answer 224

Dark Night of the Soul

Question 225

Which experimental musical instrument uses brain waves (measured in the same way as an EEG) to generate or modulate sounds?

Answer 225

Electroencephalophone

Question 226

Originating in Colombia, what name is given to a guitar made from a modified gun, used as a peace symbol? The name is a portmanteau of the Spanish words for shotgun) and guitar. However, the term is, at present, a misnomer, since all to date have been fashioned out of rifles, not shotguns.

Answer 226

Escopetarra

Question 227

In which US city is the 24 Hour Church of Elvis, possibly an artistic joke rather than a bona fide religious institution?

Answer 227

Portland

Question 228

Who wrote the Helicopter String Quartet?

Answer 228

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Question 229

The Shape of Tomorrow by Westinghouse (1958), Diesel Dazzle by General Motors (1966), Go Fly A Kite by General Electric (1966), The Bathrooms Are Coming by American Standard (1969)and Got To Investigate Silicones by General Electric (1973) are all examples of which bizarre musical tradition?

Answer 229

Industrial musicals

Question 230

What is the name of this outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas? Since 1978, he has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical information. He often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music.

Answer 230

Jandek

Question 231

The popular 1970 children's song 'I have seen a true negro man', intended to promote racial equality but with now hilariously un-PC lyrics, was released in and is still learned by children in which country?

Answer 231

Denmark

Question 232

What is the name of the small yellow Japanese robot designed to help children interact socially that achieved popularity with the March 2007 YouTube release of a video in which the robot was depicted dancing to the song "I Turn My Camera On" by the band Spoon?

Answer 232

Keepon

Question 233

Which composer composed, for his family and friends 'Lick me in the arse' and 'Lick me in the arse fine well and clean'?

Answer 233

Mozart

Question 234

What is a pejorative name for the apparent competition to digitally master and release recordings with higher real and perceived levels of loudness?

Answer 234

Loudness War

Question 235

Which 1974 album by Lou Reed consists of 64 minutes of almost unlistenable audio feedback?

Answer 235

Metal Machine Music

Question 236

What name is given to the little-known art of playing music by squeezing air through the hands. Because the sound produced has a distinctly flatulent tone, such music is usually presented as a form of musical comedy or parody?

Answer 236

Manualism

Question 237

Invented in the Soho coffee bars of the 1950s where it was too crowded to dance, it is a dance particularly associated with rock and roll and rhythm and blues music of the 1950s. It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body, following and/or imitating the percussion instruments. It resembles a highly elaborate version of Pat-a-cake. Hand moves include thigh slapping, cross-wrist slapping, fist pounding, hand clapping, and hitch hike moves?

Answer 237

Hand jiving

Question 238

Eric Bloom is the lead singer of which band?

Answer 238

Blue Oyster Cult

Question 239

What is the name of the band made up of four British MPs, including Pete Wishart, formerly keyboardist with Runrig?

Answer 239

MP4

Question 240

What name is given to any musical instrument which creates sound primarily by way of the instrument's vibrating, without the use of strings or membranes?

Answer 240

Idiophone

Question 241

Which idiphone is claimed to be the least favourite instrument of Ronnie Wood, The Hollies and The Screaming Trees?

Answer 241

Musical saw

Question 242

A Musikalisches Würfelspiel is a randomly generated piece of c18 music played by what means?

Answer 242

Throwing dice

Question 243

What phrase was the name that the Soviet government of Mikhail Gorbachev used jokingly to describe its policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact nations to determine their own internal affairs?

Answer 243

The Sinatra Doctrine

Question 244

George Clinton founded the P-Funk band Funkadelic and which other, which is effectively the same band?

Answer 244

Parliament

Question 245

Which was the world's biggest ever grossing tour?

Answer 245

The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang tour

Question 246

Which is the world's second highest ever grossing tour (2009-11)?

Answer 246

U2's 360 degrees tour

Question 247

Who did the high-grossing Black Ice world tour?

Answer 247

AC/DC

Question 248

Who did the high-grossing Sticky and Sweet world tour?

Answer 248

Madonna

Question 249

Who did the high-grossing Taking Chances world tour?

Answer 249

Celine Dion

Question 250

Who did the high-grossing Living Proof farewell world tour?

Answer 250

Cher

Question 251

The Magic Tour and the Rising Tour are two of the highest-grossing tours ever- both by which artist?

Answer 251

Bruce Springsteen

Question 252

Stemming from Madison, Wisconsin band The Gomers, which unusual Beatles tribute group are known for their 2006 video Hard Day's Night Of The Living Dead?

Answer 252

The Zombeatles

Question 253

In Disney cartoons, what is the equivalent of the Acme corporation in Warner Brothers?

Answer 253

Ajax

Question 254

Released in 1998, it was regarded as one of the worst films of all time, and scooped five awards (including Worst Picture) at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards. The film's creation set off a chain of events which would lead the Directors Guild of America to officially discontinue the directorial credit in 2000. Its plot (about a director attempting to disown a movie) eventually described the film's own production; director Arthur Hiller requested that his name be removed after witnessing the final cut of the film by the studio.

Answer 254

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

Question 255

Which science fiction television programme, broadcast on ITV in 1977, was a fictional hoax, an heir to Orson Welles' radio production of The War of the Worlds?

Answer 255

Alternative 3

Question 256

Which Canadian author's best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, and the Jacob Two-Two children's stories?

Answer 256

Mordecai Richler

Question 257

If you have CC after your name, you are a member of what?

Answer 257

The Order of Canada

Question 258

Which script is allegedly cursed as it has (so far) taken 20 years to make it into a film and people who read it and were enthusiastic about playing the lead role of an Eskimo in New York died shortly afterwards, including John Belushi, John Candy and Chris Farley?

Answer 258

Atuk

Question 259

What links the programmes Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos and Turn On (in the USA)?

Answer 259

Both cancelled halfway through their first (and only) episode

Question 260

In science fiction, a BDO is any mysterious item (usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there, such as what was found in the pit in Quatermass and the Pit. What does BDO stand for?

Answer 260

Big Dumb Object

Question 261

Which fake working title was used to hide the 1982 production of Return of the Jedi, the third installment of the Star Wars film series, to avoid paparazzi attention?

Answer 261

Blue Harvest

Question 262

Which novel by Dashiell Hammett's plot has been used for several movies including Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing?

Answer 262

Red Harvest

Question 263

What name is given to a manmade object at least 1000 kilometres in length- and therefore only speculative with today's technology?

Answer 263

Megastructure

Question 264

What name is given to a hypothetical form of archaeology concerned with the physical remains of past (but not necessarily extinct) alien cultures?

Answer 264

Xenoarchaeology

Question 265

Which Swedish mockumentary from 2002 claims that the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden didn't really take place, but was staged as a television and radio event between American and Swedish Television, the CIA and FIFA as part of a Cold War strategy?

Answer 265

Conspiracy 58

Question 266

Which 155-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant is considered to be the longest film ever released? Composed over 32 years from 1978 until 2010, it consists of a series of over 2328 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time.

Answer 266

Cinematon

Question 267

What name is given to an unfinished and unreleased 1972 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis? It was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi camp.

Answer 267

The Day The Clown Cried

Question 268

What was the name of Andy Warhol's long film of the Empire State Building?

Answer 268

Empire

Question 269

In the list of longest films ever, if Cinematon is at number one and The Cure for Insomnia at number three, what's at number two?

Answer 269

Matrioshka

Question 270

Which unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994 was created solely to secure copyright to the property? The producers never intended it for release although the director, actors, and other participants were not informed of this fact.

Answer 270

The Fantastic Four

Question 271

Which literary figure, a professor at Harvard and one of the so-called Fireside Poets, introduced antiseptic treatment for women during childbirth into the USA?

Answer 271

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 272

In art, what name is given to the brown, spotted appearance that prints take on after water damage?

Answer 272

Foxing

Question 273

Louis IV and Louis V were kings of France in which century?

Answer 273

10th

Question 274

In which decade did East and West Germany join the United Nations?

Answer 274

1970s

Question 275

The Best Friend of Charleston, built 1831, was the first example of what to be built in the USA?

Answer 275

Locomotive

Question 276

Quickbeam, whitty, wiggern and whittern are all dialect names for which species of tree?

Answer 276

Rowan

Question 277

Samanthe and Niso are moons of which planet discovered in the 2000s?

Answer 277

Neptune

Question 278

Which 2005 Russian mockumentary was about a 1930s Soviet landing on the Moon?

Answer 278

First on the Moon

Question 279

What was the name of the periodical founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and others?

Answer 279

Le Revue Moderne

Question 280

Which 1978 sci-fi thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade?

Answer 280

Capricorn One

Question 281

Tout ça (ne nous rendra pas la Belgique) was a hoax perpetrated by the French speaking Belgian public TV station RTBF in December 2006- claiming what?

Answer 281

That the Flemish had seceded

Question 282

What is a stock sound effect that is used frequently in Disney cartoons and films. It is the cry Goofy makes when falling or being launched into the air, which could be transcribed as "yaaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!!" It was originally recorded by yodeller Hannès Schroll for the 1941 short The Art of Skiing.

Answer 282

The Goofy Holler

Question 283

Which golfer? He was raised in poverty in a shack on the outskirts of Dallas. He won the U.S. Open, the Canadian Open and the British Open in 1971. In 1975 he was struck by lightning, leading to permanent disability, but still won the US PGA aged 44 in 1984?

Answer 283

Lee Trevino

Question 284

In an ancient book, where would you find the explicit?

Answer 284

Last words of a text

Question 285

Who is the new version of Jorkins/Mycroft on Brain of Britain?

Answer 285

Lord Factoid

Question 286

Where did the Bauhaus move after Weimar?

Answer 286

Dessau

Question 287

Which London-based organisation that, according to its own motto, is creating global understanding, was created by Evelyn Wrench on 1918?

Answer 287

The English Speaking Union

Question 288

What does SPQR stand for?

Answer 288

Senatus Populusque Romanus

Question 289

The French and German terms literally translating as 'white coal' mean what?

Answer 289

Hydroelectric power

Question 290

Which physicist, whose name is an SI unit, worked with Gauss on the first electromagnetic telegraph?

Answer 290

Wilhelm Weber

Question 291

What is one-twentieth of a Troy ounce?

Answer 291

A pennyweight

Question 292

If an organism is poiklothermic, what does that mean?

Answer 292

It is cold-blooded

Question 293

What was the first programme ever shown on BBC2?

Answer 293

Playschool

Question 294

English composer Geoffrey Bergen died in 2010. His Nunc Dimittis was used as the theme of which programme in the 1970s?

Answer 294

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Question 295

What did paleontologists announce in 2008 that they had found in the old city of Zhucheng in Shandong province?

Answer 295

World's largest collection of dinosaur remains

Question 296

What was Jack London's real name?

Answer 296

John Griffith Cheney

Question 297

Which c19 Italian physicist used an early seismometer consisting of mercury-filled tubes to measure earthquakes?

Answer 297

Luigi Palmieri

Question 298

Who called Andy Warhol a genius with the IQ of a moron?

Answer 298

Gore Vidal

Question 299

What is the name of the particle without charge emitted by a radioactive nucleus during beta decay?

Answer 299

Neutrino

Question 300

What was the name of Leni Riefenstahl's film of the 1936 Olympics?

Answer 300

Olympia

Question 301

Which highway maintenance worker from Huntington, New York has been quoted in more than 100 articles and television broadcasts as a member of the public? He has been quoted or photographed at least 16 separate times by the Associated Press, 14 times by Newsday, 13 times by the New York Daily News, and 12 times by the New York Post. His strategy is to appear at a likely news event and offer short statements to reporters. Although he always gives his real name, he has admitted to making things up to get into the paper.

Answer 301

Greg Packer

Question 302

An allusion to a scene early in the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where Jones is hit by the blast of a nuclear weapon while hiding inside a lead-lined refrigerator in a desperate attempt at survival, what is the film equivalent of Jumping The Shark?

Answer 302

Nuking the Fridge

Question 303

Lee Kin-yan is a Hong Kong actor who frequently makes comic cameo appearances in Stephen Chow's films, always as a cross-dressing man doing what?

Answer 303

Picking his nose

Question 304

Dating from the 1960s, which collection of stock footage is the longest British film in the world and the fourth-longest ever?

Answer 304

The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World

Question 305

Harold Warren was a fertilizer salesman from El Paso, Texas who produced the film as a result of a bet. He also starred in it, alongside El Paso theater actors Tom Neyman and John Reynolds. It was an independent production by a crew that had little or no background or experience in filmmaking and a very limited budget at their disposal. Widely known as the worst film ever made, what's it called?

Answer 305

Manos: The Hands of Fate

Question 306

A broadcast interruption through the Hannington transmitter of the IBA in the United Kingdom at 5:10 PM on 26 November 1977 claimed to be from an extraterrestrial being. It over-rode the signal of which ITV region?

Answer 306

Southern

Question 307

The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident was a television signal hijacking in November 22, 1987. The intruder was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Neither the hijacker nor the accomplices have ever been found or identified. In which city?

Answer 307

Chicago

Question 308

Which very 1970s series of seven animated educational shorts featuring songs about meters, liters, Celsius, and grams failed to convince American children to switch to metric?

Answer 308

The Metric Marvels

Question 309

In the USA, what links power per unit length of a nuclear reactor fuel rod, the heat rate from a power plant, federal automobile exhaust emission standards, caffeine in beverages and running load limits specified in Boeing airplane flight manuals?

Answer 309

All measured in metric hybrids (e.g. milligrams per ounce)

Question 310

What is a slang term defined as a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can foreseeably win? The term is most often used in lieu of 'stalemate' when the confrontational situation is exceptionally dangerous for all parties involved.

Answer 310

Mexican standoff

Question 311

Which phrase implies chaos and general disorder, and that no real decision can be reached during sessions. The origin is that any single member of this body during the 17th and 18th century had an absolute veto, so that complete consensus—which could be attained only with great difficulty—was required for every issue?

Answer 311

Polish parliament

Question 312

Which unofficial guideline was said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown?

Answer 312

The Mull of Kintyre test

Question 313

Which North Korean feature film produced in 1985 is a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series? It was produced by South Korean director Shin Sang-ok, who had been kidnapped in 1978.

Answer 313

Pulgasari

Question 314

Which short-lived American cable television channel was created in 1997 by retired advertising executive Dan FitzSimons, who came up with the idea when he was watching the O.J. Simpson murder case during the daytime and kept flipping through the channels during lulls in the trial only to see nothing was on but game shows, soaps, and reruns. FitzSimons said he thought "Something else is necessary"?

Answer 314

The Puppy Channel

Question 315

Which is the earliest surviving motion picture, created by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and lasting two seconds?

Answer 315

Roundhay Garden Scene

Question 316

Which is the only Bond film in which his vodka martini is offered stirred, not shaken (Bond, ever the gentleman and not wanting to cause his polite host embarrassment brushes it off, telling his host it's perfect)?

Answer 316

You Only Live Twice

Question 317

In the 2006 version of Casino Royale, what is Bond's reaction when he is asked if he wants his vodka martini shaken or stirred?

Answer 317

Do I look like I give a damn?

Question 318

What is the real name of a shaken vodka martini?

Answer 318

A Bradford

Question 319

What was used once for the 1960 film Scent of Mystery and never again?

Answer 319

Smell-o-vision

Question 320

Which computer peripheral device developed by DigiScents in 2001 was designed to emit a smell when a user visited a web site or opened an email. It was named one of the "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" by PC World Magazine?

Answer 320

iSmell

Question 321

On TV, what does SORAS, suffered by some young characters in serials, stand for?

Answer 321

Soap Opera Rapid Ageing Syndrome

Question 322

What two-word phrase means the deliberate alteration of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction? They may be carried out for a variety of reasons, such as to accommodate sequels or further derivative works in the same series, to reintroduce popular characters, to resolve chronological issues, to reboot a familiar series for modern audiences, or to simplify an excessively complex continuity structure.

Answer 322

Retroactive continuity

Question 323

Who voiced Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure but was shot dead by his wife?

Answer 323

Phil Hartman

Question 324

What name is given to the device whereby animation or comic characters don't age?

Answer 324

Floating timeline

Question 325

Which film was presented in documentary-style with Woody Allen playing a fictional criminal, Virgil Starkwell, whose crime exploits are "explored" throughout the film?

Answer 325

Take The Money and Run

Question 326

In which Woody Allen film does he play a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he's near?

Answer 326

Zelig

Question 327

Lieutenant Templeton Arthur Peck is the real name of which A-Team character?

Answer 327

Face

Question 328

Who played Face in the A-team and also Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica?

Answer 328

Dirk Benedict

Question 329

What is the full name of the giant confectionary monster in Ghostbusters?

Answer 329

The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man

Question 330

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" is a famous quote from which 1948 film?

Answer 330

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Question 331

It features Taylor Mead, and consists entirely of a shot of Mead's buttocks. Who made the film Temple Mead's Ass?

Answer 331

Andy Warhol

Question 332

Which children's program, broadcast since 2007 on the Palestinian Hamas-affiliated television station, is highly controversial as it contains antisemitism, Islamic extremism, anti-Americanism, and other anti-Western themes?

Answer 332

Tomorrow's Pioneers

Question 333

What is the name given to an organization for children operated by a communist party?

Answer 333

Pioneer movement

Question 334

What is an advertising term originally used in American television commercials to refer to an episode of a situation comedy or television drama that deals with a serious or controversial social issue? The usage of the term peaked in the 1990s.

Answer 334

Very Special Episode

Question 335

Which sub-genre of U.S. television media was created in the 1990s and began in 1991 with a kiss on L.A. Law episode "He's a Crowd" between C.J. Lamb and Abby Perkins?

Answer 335

Lesbian Kiss Episode

Question 336

The whole of St Elsewhere existed only in the mind (and the snowdome) of which autistic boy?

Answer 336

Tommy Westphall

Question 337

What is a literary concept derived from the works of science fiction writer Philip José Farmer who suggested that the (real) meteorite which fell in Yorkshire in 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good or evil deeds. The progeny of these travellers were purported to have been the real-life originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few hundred years, such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Lord Peter Wimsey?

Answer 337

Wold Newton family

Question 338

Steven Wiebe is an algebra teacher at Finn Hill Junior High in Kirkland, Washington. A competitive gamer, Wiebe was the first person to achieve over a million points in which arcade game, and was the subject of a documentary showing him doing so?

Answer 338

Donkey Kong

Question 339

Which Fox reality television program was hosted by soap opera actress Finola Hughes? The first of six planned episodes aired in January 2005 to low ratings and a torrent of hostile press attention, prompting Fox to shelve the remaining shows indefinitely. An adult who had been put up for adoption as an infant was placed in a room with 25 men, one of whom was their biological father. If the contestant could correctly pick out who was their father, the contestant would win $100,000. If they chose incorrectly, the person that they incorrectly selected would get the $100,000, although the contestant would still be reunited with his or her father.

Answer 339

Who's Your Daddy?

Question 340

Which American comedian and actor was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, a situation-comedy television series? His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961), and as Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit movie series?

Answer 340

Jackie Gleason

Question 341

The 'You are now entering Brooklyn' sign at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge have what phrase popularised by Jackie Gleason, a Brooklyn native, on them?

Answer 341

How Sweet It Is

Question 342

Which weekly NBC television news/interview program is the longest-running television show in American broadcasting history, having made its television debut on November 6, 1947?

Answer 342

Meet The Press

Question 343

It is a frequently-used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. It is often used when someone is pierced with an arrow, falls to his death from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion. The sound is named for character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character is shot with an arrow.

Answer 343

The Wilhelm Scream

Question 344

The most uses of the f-word in a film is in a documentary simply titled 'F-ck', with 824. Which (ordinary) 1999 film about a serial killer is next?

Answer 344

Summer of Sam

Question 345

Which film is in third place on the 'f*ck' list, and the highest British one?

Answer 345

Nil By Mouth

Question 346

Which Fox show, where people compete against animals, was going to be shown by Granada in 2003 but was cancelled due to protests by animal rights groups?

Answer 346

Man Versus Beast

Question 347

Products associated with the genus Aerodramus are used in which luxury food item?

Answer 347

Bird's nest soup

Question 348

What name is given to a psychological condition suffered by human-raised llamas and alpacas that can cause them to exhibit dangerously aggressive behavior toward humans?

Answer 348

Berserk Llama Syndrome

Question 349

In India, what is the name of the product sold in government-licensed shops for smoking or eating made of cannabis buds?

Answer 349

Bhang

Question 350

What is the name of the crimson food colouring produced by cochineal?

Answer 350

Carmine

Question 351

Which traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese is notable for being riddled with live insect larvae, those of cheese mites?

Answer 351

Casu marzu

Question 352

Which recreational game, during which some people have choked to death, involves the placement of increasing number of marshmallows or similar items into one's own mouth and stating a phrase that is intended to be difficult to utter with the filled mouth?

Answer 352

Chubby bunny

Question 353

What name is given to the marketing battle between Coke and Pepsi?

Answer 353

Cola wars

Question 354

Which unappetising-sounding name is given to sweet pastries filled with currants or raisins in Britain? In Scotland the formal name is fruit slice or fruit squares. In Northern Ireland the formal term is currant squares. In the North East of England they are called fly cakes.

Answer 354

Flies graveyard

Question 355

The town of Skuon is a centre for the delicacy of fried tarantula- in which country is it?

Answer 355

Cambodia

Question 356

Which energy drink, now no longer available, was very similar to Red Bull but specifically marketed to the gay community?

Answer 356

Gay Fuel

Question 357

Which ordinary fruit juice interacts badly with many prescription drugs?

Answer 357

Grapefruit

Question 358

What is the name of a cross between a grapefruit and an orange?

Answer 358

Pomelo

Question 359

Why is grapefruit called pamplemousse in French?

Answer 359

From the Tamil for 'pompous melon'

Question 360

What unusual nickname did Hungarians give to dense fruit jam, that was eaten by troops and civilians during World War II? It was made from mixed fruits such as plum and sold in brick shaped blocks held in a piece of paper rather than in a jar.

Answer 360

Hitler Bacon

Question 361

Which traditional Hungarian fruit brandy is most often made from various kinds of fruit; the most common varieties are made from plums, pears, apricot, or peaches. It may also be made from apples, cherries, mulberries, or quince?

Answer 361

Palinka

Question 362

What is the USA equivalent of the deep fried Mars Bar?

Answer 362

Deep fried twinkie

Question 363

What is the Romanian version of palinka or slivovitz?

Answer 363

Tuica

Question 364

Name the non-existent spoof product, supposedly a soy-based food product designed to resemble human flesh in taste and texture? The creators claimed that Milla Jovovich coined the term after hearing about the product's development while on the Eurostar from London to Paris.

Answer 364

Hufu

Question 365

Which compound Spanish neologism meaning "child-buyers," was coined by Victor Hugo and refers to various groups in folklore who were said to change the physical appearance of human beings by manipulating growing children, in a similar way to the horticultural method of bonsai – that is, deliberate mutilation?

Answer 365

Comprachicos

Question 366

Which elaborate hoax site began in January 2001, news of which spread primarily by means of e-mail forwarding? The site purported to sell human meat, and even offered tips and recipes on preparing meals

Answer 366

Manbeef.com

Question 367

Which satirical website purportedly contained instructions on how to grow a kitten in a jar, so as to mold the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grew? Outraged groups got angry, even though it was a hoax?

Answer 367

Kitten bonsai

Question 368

A famous speech successfully both attacking and defending booze gives its name to a kind of political speech where the orator sits on the fence or is all things to all people. What's its name?

Answer 368

If by whisky

Question 369

What name is given to the practice of following a diet which excludes all meat except kangaroo on environmental, ecological, health and humanitarian grounds?

Answer 369

Kangatarianism

Question 370

A memorial in the shape of a cheese mite was erected in the German village of Würchwitz to celebrate the renaissance of the production of which cheese, the German equivalent of casu marzu? The rear side of the memorial is hollow and is regularly stocked with small bits of the cheese for passersby and tourists to try.

Answer 370

Milbenkase

Question 371

Which fruit in the gourd family is also known as christophene, vegetable pear, mirliton, choko, starprecianté, or citrayota?

Answer 371

Chayote

Question 372

What is the name of Ronald McDonald's dog?

Answer 372

Sundae

Question 373

Which Latin American literary movement, whose name is a pun, breaks from the dominant Magical Realism mode of narration, and counters it with strong ideologic associations with the cultural narrative-language(s) of the mass communications media, and with the modernity of urban living; the experience of town versus country?

Answer 373

McOndo

Question 374

What is the name of the unique bathroom-themed restaurant chain with several locations located in Hong Kong and Taiwan?

Answer 374

Modern Toilet

Question 375

What Italian-derived phrase means an exploitation documentary film, sometimes resembling a pseudo-documentary, usually depicting sensational topics, scenes, and situations. Common traits include emphasis on taboo subjects such as death and sex, portrayals of foreign cultures that have received accusations of racism and staged sequences presented as genuine documentary footage?

Answer 375

Mondo film

Question 376

Which brand of cola is unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable?

Answer 376

OpenCola

Question 377

The alcoholic equivalent of OpenCola is Free Beer, from which European country?

Answer 377

Denmark

Question 378

How is Fergus Drennan better known on UK TV?

Answer 378

The Roadkill Chef

Question 379

What is the Filipino name for meat taken from an animal that has died of disease? It is illegally sold on the black market.

Answer 379

Double-dead meat

Question 380

What is the name of live octopus tentacles consumed in Korean cuisine?

Answer 380

Sannakji

Question 381

What is the main system for romanisation of Korean, named for the Americans who devised it?

Answer 381

McCune-Reischauer

Question 382

Drunken shrimp in Chinese food and odori ebi in Japanese food are prawns sharing which characteristic?

Answer 382

Alive when eaten

Question 383

Which fictional food product served as a running joke in Babylon 5? It is made from worm-like creatures of the same name and is generally regarded as the most delicious food in the galaxy.

Answer 383

Spoo

Question 384

Which northern Swedish dish consisting of fermented Baltic herring is sold in cans, which often bulge during shipping and storage, due to the continued fermentation. When opened, the contents release a strong and sometimes overwhelming odour, which explains why the dish is often eaten outdoors?

Answer 384

Surstromming

Question 385

What is the Japanese equivalent of surstromming?

Answer 385

Kusaya

Question 386

Which competitive eater is nicknamed Jaws?

Answer 386

Joey Chestnutt

Question 387

Which Japanese competitive eater took Major League Eating by storm in the 2000s?

Answer 387

Takeru Kobayashi

Question 388

Which c18 French showman and soldier was noted for his unusual eating habits? Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents were unable to provide for him, and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan; he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and whole apples. He once ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing.

Answer 388

Tarrare

Question 389

Strangely similar to Tarrare and alive around the same time, which Polish soldier couldn't stop eating?

Answer 389

Charles Domery

Question 390

In Australia, what name is given to the practice of drinking a hot beverage through a Tim Tam? Penguin biscuits available in the United Kingdom may also be used.

Answer 390

Tim Tam Slam

Question 391

In which Valencian town is the Tomatina festival held, where people throw tomatoes at one another?

Answer 391

Bunyol

Question 392

What name is given to a cat with unusually short forelegs or unusually long hind legs that resembles a squirrel? It is an example of a cat body type genetic mutation.

Answer 392

Squitten

Question 393

Hemingway cats, so called as they inhabit Hemingway's house on Key West, are notable for what?

Answer 393

Having extra toes (polydactyly)

Question 394

Which Sheffield United goalkeeper was the original target of the Who Ate All The Pies chant, with Micky Quinn later taking on the mantle in the 1990s?

Answer 394

William 'Fatty' Foulke

Question 395

Meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit, what was the name of the tortoise owned by Clive of India that only died in 2006 aged 255?

Answer 395

Adwaita

Question 396

One of Strelka's pups, Pushinka, was given as a present to Caroline Kennedy by Nikita Khruschev in 1961. What was unusual about Strelka?

Answer 396

First animal to go into space and come back alive

Question 397

What phrase means is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made will provide insight into the workings of other organisms?

Answer 397

Model organism

Question 398

What name is given in biology (e.g. some gastropods) to deliberate amputation of the penis?

Answer 398

Apophallation

Question 399

"Britain's biggest and best-loved" common carp died of reproductive complications in 2009. Caught 63 times in 15 years, what was her name?

Answer 399

Benson

Question 400

What was the name of Benson's companion who disappeared in a flood of the River Nene in 1998?

Answer 400

Hedges

Question 401

Sharing his name with a c21 movie star, who was rat-catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the middle of the nineteenth century?

Answer 401

Jack Black

Question 402

AEDC Ballistic Range S-3 is a single stage air gun owned by the United States Air Force and operated by Aerospace Testing Alliance. How is it more commonly known?

Answer 402

Chicken gun

Question 403

Which is by far the most edited article in Wikipedia's history?

Answer 403

George W Bush

Question 404

Which illegal means of fishing using dynamite, which destroys coral reefs, is unfortunately still prevalent in many parts of South East Asia?

Answer 404

Blast fishing

Question 405

Eunice aphroditois is an aquatic predatoryworm dwelling at the ocean floor at depths of approximately 10 metres (33 ft) to 40 metres (130 ft). This organism buries its long body into an ocean bed composed of gravel, mud or corals, where it waits patiently for outside stimulus. Armed with sharp teeth, it is known to attack with such speeds that its prey is sometimes sliced in half. Therefore, what is its name?

Answer 405

Bobbit worm

Question 406

Which game is set up by marking out a grid of rectangles on an enclosed land area, such as a paddock or farm field. This is usually done by chalking lines. The grid cells are then numbered or otherwise identified in some way, and chances are sold on each cell. A cow (or other livestock animal) is then let loose within the enclosure. Where the first "cowflop" (defecation) lands determines the winner?

Answer 406

Bovine bingo

Question 407

Who took over as leader of the Monster Raving Loony party after the death of Screaming Lord Sutch?

Answer 407

Howling Laud Hope

Question 408

What was the name of Howling Lord Hope's feline co-leader until his death in a car accident in 2002?

Answer 408

Cat Mandu

Question 409

Which legendary goatsucking cryptid is rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas? It is associated more recently with sightings of an allegedly unknown animal in Puerto Rico (where these sightings were first reported), Mexico, and the United States.

Answer 409

Chupacabras

Question 410

According to its namer, if you have the MacDonald triad in childhood, you are more likely to do what in adulthood?

Answer 410

Commit murder

Question 411

Which American serial killer active during the late 1950s was known in the media as "The Lonely Hearts Killer"?

Answer 411

Harvey Glatman

Question 412

Who was known as the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer?

Answer 412

Dennis Rader

Question 413

Which Internet meme that became popular through the imageboard 4chan was incorrectly described by police as a mascot among pedophiles, and cosplay participants dressed as the character were accused of being pedophiles?

Answer 413

Pedobear

Question 414

Which annual tongue-in-cheek honour recognized by noted skeptic James Randi seek to expose parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds that Randi has noted over the previous year?

Answer 414

Pigasus award

Question 415

What name is given to the mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to read messages sealed inside envelopes by clairvoyance? Although it is accomplished by a simple trick, the effect can give the impression of mind reading.

Answer 415

Billet reading

Question 416

João Teixeira de Faria (born June 24, 1942), is a medium and according to himself, a psychic surgeon in Brazil. He is based in Abadiânia, a small town in the state of Goiás, southwest of Brasília. By what name is he famous?

Answer 416

John of God

Question 417

What is the unofficial title of the official resident cat of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 10 Downing Street?

Answer 417

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

Question 418

The cat with the longest tenure at Downing Street was called what? He served under Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.

Answer 418

Wilberforce

Question 419

What was the name of FDR's famous Scotch terrier?

Answer 419

Fala

Question 420

Which President's image was damaged because of his pets? He was photographed picking his two Beagle dogs named Him and Her up by their ears. Much of the public was outraged and animal lovers spoke out against it

Answer 420

Lyndon B Johnson

Question 421

Billy the pygmy hippopotamus was given as a present to which US president?

Answer 421

Calvin Coolidge

Question 422

What was the name of Churchill's Downing Street cat?

Answer 422

Nelson

Question 423

Spirobranchus giganteus are small, tube-building polychaete worms belonging to the family Serpulidae. Thanks to their shape, how are they commonly known?

Answer 423

Christmas tree worms

Question 424

Which preventative vetinary device for cattle, designed to settle in the rumen, reduces cases of hardward disease bought about by the cow accidentally consuming tramp iron?

Answer 424

Cow magnet

Question 425

In medicine, what orignally Persian word beginning with B is a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system (usually the stomach)? It can also mean the solid dregs or lees of a solution.

Answer 425

Bezoar

Question 426

Also known as the black stone, what name is given to animal bones, which are widely used as a treatment for snake bite in Africa, South America and Asia?

Answer 426

Snake stones

Question 427

Which famous case in the common law of England stands for the distinction between warranties and mere affirmations and announced the rule of caveat emptor (buyer beware)?

Answer 427

Chandelor v Lopus

Question 428

A mass depopulation of which animal has been observed since the beginning of the 21st century in cities and towns in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus?

Answer 428

Cockroaches

Question 429

Snake Alley is a two-block long night market in Wanhua district, the oldest part of the city. It is noted for its restaurants which serve bizarre "delicacies" including snake blood and meat, turtle blood and meat and deer penis wine. Which world city?

Answer 429

Taipei

Question 430

What is an old English word for penis? The word is used today to signify the penis of a non-human animal, particularly for meat.

Answer 430

Pizzle

Question 431

Russian researchers have partnered with American marketeers to distribute and sell what kind of fox as a domestic pet? Through selective breeding, it has become more dog-like.

Answer 431

Silver fox

Question 432

Also called juvenilization, what name is given to the retention, by adults in a species, of traits previously seen only in juveniles?

Answer 432

Neoteny

Question 433

What name is given to the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin. The term was proposed to describe the defensive mechanism of the carpenter ant?

Answer 433

Autothysis

Question 434

Over one thousand of which animals animals exploded in the Altona area of Hamburg in 2005, for as yet unexplained reasons?

Answer 434

Toads

Question 435

Dramatic declines in populations of which group of animals, including population crashes and mass localized extinctions, have been noted since the 1980s from locations all over the world? These declines are perceived as one of the most critical threats to global biodiversity, and are 211 times faster than the background extinction rate.

Answer 435

Amphibians

Question 436

What name is given to the widespread, ongoing extinction of species during the present epoch (since around 10,000 BC)?

Answer 436

Holocene extinction

Question 437

What name is given to a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to suggest a complete impossibility. e.g. I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one of his cheek (Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2)?

Answer 437

Adynaton

Question 438

George was what kind of animal, owned briefly by a restaurant in New York City? Captured in December 2008, he was released back into the wild in January 2009. George weighed 20 pounds (9.1 kg), and had an estimated age of 140 years.

Answer 438

Lobster

Question 439

Bluey (June 7, 1910 – November 14, 1939) was a dog owned by Les and Esma Hall of Rochester, Victoria, which lived 29 years, 5 months and 7 days and is listed as the oldest ever dog by the Guinness Book of Records. What breed of dog was he, also called a blue heeler?

Answer 439

Australian Cattle Dog

Question 440

Which bulldog serves as the mascot of Yale University's athletic teams?

Answer 440

Handsome Dan

Question 441

What name was given to a six-limbed octopus found by British marine scientists in 2008 off North Wales?

Answer 441

Henry the Hexapus

Question 442

Ichthyoallyeinotoxism is a phenomenon where what occurs after people eat (certain kinds of) fish?

Answer 442

Hallucinations

Question 443

Which famous Asian elephant served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and later relocated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang forces? He lived out most of his life in the Taipei Zoo and unquestionably was the most popular and famous animal in Taiwan.

Answer 443

Lin Wang

Question 444

What was the name of the old (female) tortoise at Powderham Castle who died in 2004 and was the UK's oldest ever resident?

Answer 444

Timothy

Question 445

What is the name for a division of war elephants?

Answer 445

Elephantry

Question 446

What is a periodic condition in bull elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior, accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones - testosterone levels can be as much as 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times?

Answer 446

Musth

Question 447

Which cavalry sport of ancient origin has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target or a series of small ground targets?

Answer 447

Tent pegging

Question 448

Roy and Silo in Central Park zoo were notable for what reason?

Answer 448

Gay couple of penguins

Question 449

T.S. Eliot describes them as common black-and-white cats whose daytime nature is peaceful, pleasant and restful — but who possess an active love of nightlife. Their patriarch is Old Deuteronomy. Which cats?

Answer 449

Jellicle cats

Question 450

What was the name of the Old Gumbie Cat in T.S. Eliot's book of cats?

Answer 450

Jennyanydots

Question 451

What was the name of the Cat About Town in T.S. Eliot's book of cats?

Answer 451

Bustopher Jones

Question 452

What hard, long, sharp, calcareous or chitinous object created by some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship, before actual mating takes place, and are fired into the partner?

Answer 452

Love darts

Question 453

They are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures close to absolute zero, temperatures as high as 304 °F, 1,000 times more radiation than other animals, and almost a decade without water. In September 2007, tardigrades were taken into low Earth orbit on the FOTON-M3 mission and for 10 days were exposed to the vacuum of space. After they were returned to Earth, it was discovered that many of them survived and laid eggs that hatched normally. Called scientifically tardigrades, how ar ethey more commonly known?

Answer 453

Water bears

Question 454

What was the name of the a five ton Asian elephant who killed her keeper, so was publicly hanged in Tennessee in 1916?

Answer 454

Mary

Question 455

Which Wyandotte chicken lived for 18 months after his head had been mostly cut off? Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird was taken by his owner to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish its authenticity.

Answer 455

Mike The Headless Chicken

Question 456

What was an unidentified creature that allegedly washed ashore, dead, on a beach in a town on Long Island in July 2008? The consensus now is that it was a raccoon.

Answer 456

The Montauk Monster

Question 457

Uguisu no fun refers to the excrement produced by the Japanese bush warbler. The droppings have been used in facials since ancient Japanese times. What is the literal meaning of this phrase?

Answer 457

Nightingale faeces

Question 458

Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav lives in Edinburgh. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. What is unusual about him?

Answer 458

He is a penguin

Question 459

Billy the goat (real name William Windsor) is the mascot of which regiment in the British army?

Answer 459

Welsh regiment

Question 460

Pure white Angora cats with odd blue and amber eyes are considered a national treasure in which country?

Answer 460

Turkey

Question 461

What was the name of Muhammed's odd-eyed cat?

Answer 461

Muezza

Question 462

What is the name of the layer of tissue in the eye of many vertebrate animals that lies immediately behind or sometimes within the retina. It reflects visible light back through the retina- cats and dogs have it, as can be seen at night?

Answer 462

Tapetum lucidum

Question 463

NASA's Wallops Island launch site is in which US state?

Answer 463

Virginia

Question 464

Which bizarre NASA space programme was called OFO?

Answer 464

Orbiting Frog Otolith

Question 465

Which cat living in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Rhode Island became famous in the 2000s for his ability to predict the death of residents?

Answer 465

Oscar

Question 466

The first was a hippopotamus rescued from the tsunami. The second was a tortoise in a national park, where the hippopotamus was moved. They became the subject of much media attention after forming a unique bond of cross-species friendship. What were their respective names?

Answer 466

Owen and Mzee

Question 467

Which internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato was a fictitious endangered species of cephalopod? It was given the Latin name "Octopus paxarbolis". It was purported to be able to live both on land and in water, and was said to live in the Olympic National Forest and nearby rivers, spawning in water where their eggs are laid. Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch. It is among a number of sites commonly used in Internet literacy classes in schools.

Answer 467

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Question 468

Which unusual mating behavior is engaged in by certain species of flatworm, such as Pseudobiceros hancockanus?

Answer 468

Penis fencing

Question 469

What name is given to the phenomenon in biology when individual animals appear well outside their normal range?

Answer 469

Vagrancy

Question 470

In Dublin it became widely believed that reclusive 18th-century philanthropist Griselda Steevens had kept herself hidden from view for this reason. In late 1814 and early 1815, rumour swept London that one was living in Marylebone. Her existence was widely reported as fact, and numerous alleged portraits of her were published. Today, the legend is almost forgotten. What?

Answer 470

Pig-faced women

Question 471

Who was Freyr's golden boar, created by the dwarves Brokk and Sindri as part of a challenge. His shining fur is said to fill the sky, trees, and sea with light?

Answer 471

Gullinbursti

Question 472

Which phenomenon is said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, excrement or simply knotted? The phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany, where the majority of instances have been reported. Historically, there are various superstitions surrounding them, and they were often seen as an extremely bad omen, particularly associated with plagues.

Answer 472

Rat Kings

Question 473

Which capital city's coat of arms shows two ravens on a ship as a reference to the ship that carried the remains of St Vincent?

Answer 473

Lisbon

Question 474

Which humpback whale swam mistakenly twice into the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and 1990?

Answer 474

Humphrey

Question 475

What is unusual about the c13 French Saint Guinefort?

Answer 475

He was a greyhound

Question 476

In paleontology, what does SSF stand for?

Answer 476

Small shelly fauna (or fossils)

Question 477

Which nocturnal, flightless, insectivorous passerine in New Zealand was long thought as the only known species to be entirely wiped out by a single living being, namely the lighthouse keeper's cat?

Answer 477

Stephens Island Wren

Question 478

In which city are stray dogs reported to use the subway system to get around?

Answer 478

Moscow

Question 479

What is unusual about Tama-san, the station master of Kishi station in Wakayama prefecture, Japan?

Answer 479

She is a cat

Question 480

What were the names given to the Tamworth Two, pigs saved from slaughter and then rescued by the Daily Mail, which paid for their care?

Answer 480

Butch and Sundance

Question 481

L'Arbre du Ténéré was a solitary acacia that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth — the only one within more than 120 miles. However, it was knocked down in 1973 by a drunken truck driver. In which country was it?

Answer 481

Niger

Question 482

Which unusual tree found in the Canary Islands is the symbol of Tenerife?

Answer 482

Dragon Tree

Question 483

The second largest tree in the world, what tree in King's Canyon, CA did Calvin Coolidge proclaim the nation's Christmas Tree and Eisenhower dedicate as a national shrine, the only living object that is?

Answer 483

General Grant Tree

Question 484

Which English elm is the oldest tree in Manhattan?

Answer 484

Hangman's Elm

Question 485

Which important world institution was founded as a result of the Buttonwood Agreement, made under the Buttonwood Tree?

Answer 485

New York Stock Exchange

Question 486

It is a giant karri tree in its namesake National Park of Western Australia. At 72 metres in height, it is the world's tallest fire-lookout tree. What's it called?

Answer 486

The Gloucester Tree

Question 487

Which insectivorous pitcher plant species is endemic to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah? It is most famous for the giant urn-shaped traps it produces, capable of holding 3.5 litres of water and in excess of 2.5 litres of digestive fluid. The plant is known to occasionally trap vertebrates and even small mammals.

Answer 487

Nepenthes Rajah

Question 488

In the Holy Roman Empire, what name was given to the lime tree at the centre of each settlement where the town or village court was held?

Answer 488

Gerichtslinde

Question 489

What is the holy tree of the Basque region, much fought over? Its name means simply 'Tree of Guernica'

Answer 489

Gernikako Arbola

Question 490

What name is given to a wildland firefighter who parachutes into a remote area to combat wildfires?

Answer 490

Smokejumper

Question 491

What name is given to hundreds of trees in American parks grown from seeds taken into lunar orbit by Stuart Roosa during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971?

Answer 491

Moon trees

Question 492

Which cactus is known, more politely, in German as Frauenglueck?

Answer 492

Penis plant

Question 493

There are four theme parks at Disneyworld in Orlando. The original was the Magic Kingdom, joined by the Epcot centre later. Which are the other two?

Answer 493

Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom

Question 494

The Tree That Owns Itself is a landmark in which Southern city in the USA?

Answer 494

Athens, GA

Question 495

What name was given to a legendary plant of central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit? The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all the plants were gone, both the plant and sheep died.

Answer 495

Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

Question 496

What is the new Haka of the All Blacks, controversial due to its 'throat slitting' gesture, that will replace Ka Mate on special occasions?

Answer 496

Kapa O Pango

Question 497

On the night of the Super 14 final on 27 May 2006, former All Black captain Tana Umaga allegedly struck Hurricanes team mate Chris Masoe over the head with what object, leading to much hilarity and parody in the press?

Answer 497

A handbag

Question 498

What was the name of the man who played for Southampton under Graeme Souness after claiming to be George Weah's cousin?

Answer 498

Ali Dia

Question 499

Signed for £1.8m by Frank Clark for Nottingham Forest in 1995, this 6'3" Italian was known as 'the Big Brush', and was a picture of disinterest. Earning a then-enormous £30,000 a month, his laid-back control, finishing and approach play soon had management and supporters worried. Who?

Answer 499

Andrea Silenzi

Question 500

Harry Redknapp wasn't always the streetwise London gaffer he is today. The arrival of which Dutch player nicknamed 'Mad' from Sparta Rotterdam in July 1995 was just one of a number of misjudged West Ham imports. Coming on as a substitute against Manchester United in only his second appearance for the club, he was almost immediately red carded for 'a sickening horror tackle' (The Sun) on Gary Neville. He promptly disappeared, discovered several weeks later hiding in a mobile home in a Dutch caravan park?

Answer 500

Marco Boogers