Set 16 Flashcards
Rangers manager Walter Smith bought this Italian from Perugia for £3.5 million in 1997. He was rewarded with instant success, as he scored 23 goals in his first ten league games. His low-key celebrations were noteworthy - often he felt the need only to exchange a handshake with other players and showed little in the way of facial expressions. He then spent years in the reserve team after an eye injury from playing squash. Who?
Marco Negri
Whereas Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa made a positive mark at Spurs, this 1970s Argentinian import for Birmingham City came and went in 23 games, with little or no footballing consequence. His career in England ended in 1987 after he waded into a home crowd for a punch up?
Alberto Tarantini
Which then Crystal Palace Serbian international held an on-pitch protest agains the bombing of Serbia in 1999?
Sasa Curcic
Some of Brazilian footballer Argelico F*cks’ fame stems from his surname. This has led to a variety of double entendre headlines including one from Eurosport.com titled what?
F*cks Off to Benfica
Meaning the degree of trauma experienced when what is undertaken in confident spirit founders on unforeseen difficulties, what phrase arose after the 1999 Open Golf Championship, when the world’s greatest players failed to play to theoretical par for the distance. Even the winner finished six strokes over par?
The Carnoustie Effect
What three-word term is an English football phrase which has become synonymous with the potential dire consequences for domestic clubs of financial mismanagement?
Doing A Leeds
Which term, now used mainly in another sport, comes from horse racing, where the number one starter starts on the inside by the start sign?
Pole position
What phrase used predominantly within the British media to describe a sudden volte-face in an organisation’s editorial line on a certain issue, which generally involves no acknowledgement of the previous position originates from Kelvin MacKenzie’s time at the The Sun because his preferred description of the role of journalists when it came to public figures was to “stick a ferret up their trousers”?
Reverse ferret
Which chiefly British and Japanese analogy compares the tennis fame of London with the economic success of the United Kingdom’s financial services industries? The point of the analogy is that a national and international institution can be highly successful despite the lack of strong native competition.
The Wimbledon effect
Who was the female equivalent of Eric ‘The Eel’ Moussambani?
Paula ‘The Crawler’ Barila Bolopa
Jeffrey Maier and Steve Bartman are not sports players, but are notorious in sporting history. How?
Both were spectators at baseball games who caught a ball in the stands that could have been caught by a fielder, thereby changing the result of the game
The Steve Bartman Seat is at which team’s ground?
Chicago Cubs
Which legend is commonly cited to explain why the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team has not been to the World Series since 1945?
The Curse of the Billy Goat
What sport was a game traditionally played by students of Yale University, between 1954 and 1982, until being banned by the administration. A revival game was played in 2009?
Bladderball
Which man represented Senegal at the 1984, 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics? He was the first Black African skier to take part in the Olympics.
Lamine Gueye
Tofiri Kibuuka is a blind athlete. He has participated in both the Winter Paralympic Games, in cross-country skiing and in the Summer Paralympic Games, in mid- and long distance running. Active from 1976 to 2000, he won five Paralympic silver medals, and one bronze. He holds the distinction of being the first African to have competed at the Winter Paralympics, and more generally the only athlete from a tropical nation to have done so. What country did he represent, even though he was born in Uganda?
Norway
Which was the first fully tropical nation (Mexico was earliest but is semi tropical, so doesn’t count) to compete at the Winter Olympics, with two skiers at Sapporo 1972?
Phillipines
Mexico made its debut at the Winter Olympics as early as 1928- in which sport?
Bobsleigh
Arturo Kinch is the only competitor from which country in Winter Olympics history?
Costa Rica
At which Winter Olympics did the Jamaicans finish 14th in the four-man bob, ahead of both the USA and Russia?
Lillehammer 1994
Which was the first southern hemisphere country to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, in 1992?
New Zealand
Which old Leicestershire custom takes place in the village of Hallaton each Easter Monday?
Bottle-kicking
Which version of medieval football is played in Scotland, perhaps most notably in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year?
Ba Game
The goal of a player in which game is to grab the carcass of a headless goat or calf and then get it clear of the other players and pitch it across a goal line or into a target circle or vat?
Buzkashi
Spanish for ‘duck’, it is a game played on horseback that combines elements from polo and basketball. It is the national game of Argentina. What?
Pato
Which game is played on horseback, where a ball is handled and points are scored by shooting it through a high net (approximately 1.5m×1.5m). The sport is like a combination of polo, rugby, and basketball?
Horseball
What name is given to a cylindrical piece of polyethylene foam, sometimes hollow? They may used by people of all ages while swimming. They are useful when learning to swim, for floating, for rescue reaching, in various forms of water play, and for aquatic exercise.
Pool noodles
LARP is a form of game where the participants physically act out their characters’ actions. The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with each other in character. What does LARP stand for
Live Action Role Playing
The sport began when Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by fictional depictions by French comic book artist and filmmaker Enki Bilal, organized actual bouts.
Chess boxing
Which female competitive eater is called the Black Widow?
Sonya Thomas
Which American football league founded in 1987 by Jim Foster is played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster-paced and higher-scoring game?
Arena Football League
In which sport are contestants sometimes called gurgitators?
Competitive Eating
Which traditional event in Lyme Regis, Dorset has been called the “most fun a person could have with a dead fish”?
Conger cuddling
In the Shurdington cheese-rolling, what kind of cheese is used?
Double Gloucester
In Japanese baseball, the curse of which fictional figure hangs over the Hanshin Tigers baseball team?
Colonel Sanders
The Curse of Billy Penn was invoked to explain why sports teams from which city went on a long losing streak?
Philadelphia
The Curse of Rocky Colavitois a phenomenon that supposedly prevents which baseball team from winning?
Cleveland Indians
Which alleged curse supposedly prevented the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL from finishing in first place?
Curse of Muldoon
The Curse of 1940, also called Dutton’s Curse, was a superstitious explanation for why which NHL team did not win the Stanley Cup from 1940 to 1994?
New York Rangers
The Curse of Biddy Early, who was a witch, appears in which sport?
Hurling
Teressa Bellissimo, the chef/owner of the city’s Anchor Bar, first prepared the now-widespread chicken wings here on October 3, 1964. Which city, which gives its name to the recipe?
Buffalo
In snooker, what phrase refers to the fact that no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship has successfully defended his title since 1977?
The Crucible Curse
The Curse of LaBonte is in which sport?
Curling
There is a jinx associated with appearing on the cover of which US magazine?
Sports Illustrated
What par is the informal competition held before the Masters in golf, which is allegedly cursed because no-one who wins it then wins the Masters?
Par 3
A curse has been invoked as the reason why which city has never claimed a modern major league sports championship in the United States (Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup, and NBA Finals)? It’s the largest city never to have won.
San Diego
The Curse of Norm Smith is associated with which city’s Australian Rules Football Team?
Melbourne
What is the nom de guerre of Peter Michael Howard? He is known for having disrupted numerous sporting events, including cutting a hole in the net that stopped Australia qualifying for the 1998 World Cup as well as the funerals of former INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and racehorse trainer T J Smith, often with bizarre religious claims or gratuitous nudity?
Peter Hore
How was James Jarrett Miller, who ‘dropped in’ to the Holyfield v Bowe fight in Las Vegas in 1993, but committed suicide in 2002, better known?
Fan Man
Which NFL team play at the Ralph Wilson stadium?
Buffalo Bills
Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event that took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979 during which a crate filled with records was blown up on the field at Comiskey Park in which city?
Chicago
At least four American stunt entertainers of the 20th century (Harry Gardiner, George Polley, John Ciampa and George Willig) were given this nickname- what?
The Human Fly
What’s the name of the modern ‘human fly’ (in fact, nicknamed Spiderman) who is French?
Alain Robert
Which national capital is home to a rugby club called The Nondescripts?
Nairobi
The East Africa rugby team represented Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The East Africa cricket team also represented these three countries, and which fourth?
Zambia
What’s the name of the two teams who play the Eton Wall Game on St Andrew’s Day every year?
Collegers and Oppidans
What is the first in the series of Bond as a teenager books by Charlie Higson?
SilverFin
The Eton Wall Game is one of the two codes of football at Eton- which is the other?
Eton Field Game
Which three-word phrase is a little-known way to score points in American football left over from rugby. It was last used successfully in the pro game in 1976?
Fair Catch Kick
What was the name of the ‘mock’ mascot created by Australians disaffected at the commercialisation of the Olympic mascot industry in 2000?
Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat
Played in Friesland, the sport involves a long pole and a body of water. The pole is between 8 and 13 m long and has a flat round plate at the bottom to prevent it from sinking into the muddy river or canal bottom. A jump consists of a sprint to the pole (polsstok), jumping and grabbing it, then climbing to the top of the pole while trying to control its forward and lateral movements over a body of water, and finishing by landing on a sand bed opposite to the starting point. What’s it called?
Fierljeppen (lit. Far-leaping)
Sepak takraw, popular in Malaysia, is like a cross between football and which other sport?
Volleyball
What does the sport of goose pulling involve?
Pulling the head off a live goose on horseback
Fuchsprellen was a popular sport in mediaeval Germany. How is it normally translated into English?
Fox tossing
Eddie Gaedel is famous in American baseball history for what reason?
He had dwarfism
Which sport was invented by bookmakers in Britain when many horse races were cancelled as a result of foot-and-mouth in 2001?
Hamster racing
In which town is the Henley-on-Todd regatta held?
Alice Springs
Which game is staged every two years in the Italian city of Marostica near Venice?
Human chess
His Serene Highness Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg is an Alpine skier, photographer, businessman, and pop singer known as Andy Himalaya and Royal Disaster. He competed for which country at the Winter Olympics?
Mexico
At the Ithaca, NY, farmer’s market, which type of vegetables are curled in an International _______ Curling Championship?
Rutabaga
A sport in some parts of Africa, small, hard pellets of dung from which animal are spat, with the farthest distance reached being the winner?
Kudu
Which veterinary surgeon from Melbourne, Australia performed a hoax during the 1956 Summer Olympics where he pretended to be running with the Olympic Flame- but it was actually a silver chair leg and a burning pair of underpants in a plum pudding can?
Barry Larkin
What is an informal term used in baseball for the threshold of incompetent hitting that is said to occur at .200 and below?
Mendoza line
Which boxing organisation based in Puerto Rico was founded as a breakaway organisation from the WBA in 1988?
WBO
Which sport, popular in the 1960s in the Pacific Northwest, involves a diver grappling with a certain cephalopod in shallow water and dragging it to the surface?
Octopus wrestling
They were a traveling team in the NFL from LaRue, OH. The team was named after the local dog kennels. It was a novelty team put together by the kennels’ owner, Walter Lingo, for marketing purposes. All of the players were Native American, with Jim Thorpe as its leading player. With a population well under a thousand people, LaRue is the smallest town ever to have been the home of an NFL franchise, or probably any professional team in any league in the United States.
Oorang Indians
The PFL is a Toronto-based semi-professional sports league centered around what?
Pillow fighting
The result of a practical joke by future MP Humphry Berkeley, who was the nonexistent headmaster of the also nonexistent Selhurst School (“near Petworth, Sussex”) who wrote many bizarre letters to public figures in 1948?
H. Rochester Sneath
Which main astronaut character in 2001; A Space Odyssey was played by Gary Lockwood, whose daughter Samantha is also an actress and yoga practitioner?
Dr Frank Poole
Which American army surgeon who was one of the largest contributors of quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary was held in a lunatic asylum at the time? His biography by Simon Winchester is called the Surgeon of Crowthorne.
William C Minor
The activity began in the late 1970s in Sweden. It was popularized in the United Kingdom following an appearance on the TV show That’s Life!. There are more than fifty show jumping clubs throughout Scandinavia. This is show jumping for which animal?
Rabbits
What French term is used for small forewings on som fighter aircraft, as opposed to tailplanes on civilian airliners?
Canard
One of the world’s least successful football teams, they are nicknamed ‘The Bad Lions’. From which island are they?
Sark
The World Championships of which sport started in Congham, Norfolk in the 1960s after founder Tom Elwes witnessed the event in France? It is traditionally started with the words Ready, Steady, Slow?
Snail racing
With a nut on the end of your line, American college students have started fishing which land animal for sport?
Squirrels
What is unusual about ice hockey player Taro Tsujimoto who was drafted by the National Hockey League’s Buffalo Sabres 183rd overall in the 11th round of the 1974 NHL Entry Draft?
He didn’t exist- he was created to protest at the slow speed of the drafting process
It is a popular Christmas season promotion at many minor and junior hockey arenas throughout North America. Fans are encouraged to bring them to the game, and to throw them onto the ice when the home team scores its first goal. They are then gathered up to be donated as Christmas presents to hospitals and charities. What objects?
Teddy bears
In the sport of turkey bowling, associated in America with Thanksgiving, a turkey is bowled at 10 pins. What are the pins?
Fizzy drinks bottles
What is the name of the competitive animal sport played in Flemish Belgium in which male chaffinches are made to compete for the highest number of bird calls in an hour?
Vinkensport
In which sport do five “idiots” tie themselves to a (sometimes modified) grocery store shopping cart and run through the streets of a major metropolitan area? The race usually features people in costumes and themed floats. The races are fun competitions where sabotage such as tripping competitors, throwing marbles or large obstacles in their paths, and the spreading of misinformation such as false route information are common and rewarded.
Idiotarod
What name is given to the sport that is an organized contest of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art and is popular on the West Coast of the USA?
Kinetic Sculpture Race
Inspired by a bet in the German TV show Wetten, dass..?, what kitchen utensils have been modified into bobsleds?
Woks
Zoobomb is a mad weekly downhill cycle race in which West Coast city?
Portland
Which manned North American rail transport vehicle was once coupled at the end of nearly every freight train, but their use has declined and they are seldom seen now, except on local and smaller railroads?
Caboose
Which sporting term for ‘wooden spoon’ gets its name from something hanging from a caboose?
Lanterne rouge
Literally Drunken Fist, which concept in traditional Chinese martial arts is a category of techniques, forms and fighting philosophy that appear to imitate a drunkard’s movements? It is considered to be among the most difficult wushu styles to learn due to the need for powerful joints and fingers.
Zui Quan
Which two-word collective term was coined in early lumberjack folklore to describe a variety of mythical beasts that were said ‘to inhabit’ the frontier wilderness of Anglo-America?
Fearsome Critters
What half-avian, half-human class of creatures (translated as “heavenly dogs”) are found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature? They are one of the best known yōkai (monster-spirits) and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami.
Tengu
Which half-man, half-snake founded Athens?
Cecrops
The leader and most powerful of the Koopa turtle race, who is the main antagonist in the Mario series?
Bowser
The forerunner of Hecate, the Egyptian goddess Heqet appeared in the form of which animal?
Frog
Which Egyptian god was the personification of eternity and had a name meaning ‘endlessness’?
Huh
The most commonly eaten potato around the world was originally indigenous to which Chilean archipelago?
Chiloe
In Orkney folklore, who are sorcerous shapeshifters of the sea, the dark mysterious race from Finfolkaheem who wade, swim or sometimes row upon the Orkney shores in the spring and summer months, searching for human captives?
Finfolk
Alternatively known as Mermaid Syndrome, it is a very rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together, giving them the appearance of a mermaid’s tail?
Sirenomelia
Which character in the DC Comics universe is King of Atlantis?
Aquaman
Kosik is an allegendly talking elephant in a theme park in which country?
South Korea
The Patterson-Gimlin film purports to show evidence of what?
Bigfoot
A wooden box located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California state border is the world’s only what?
Bigfoot trap
In Asian myth, which ox flings burning dung at its enemies from its rear and horn?
Bonnacon
Which two-word concept posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times?
Eternal return
What word beginning with c means any theory concerning the coming into existence or origin of the universe, or about how reality came to be?
Cosmogony
Which mathematician is famous for his incompleteness theorems?
Gödel
Which ritual to avoid rabies was formerly practiced in a village in southeastern Bulgaria until halted by activists, including the UK Green Party?
Dog spinning
Which hallucinogenic concoction was said to be used by witches in mediavel Europe, to help guide their brooms through the air on the Sabbath?
Flying Ointment
Gerald Gardner was instrumental in promoting what after the repeal of anti-witchcraft laws in England in the 1950s?
Wicca
Which family was haunted by Gef the talking mongoose on the Isle of Man and were the only ones who ever saw him?
Irving
GORG, was an action originally scheduled for 22 December 2006 to coincide with the end of solstice. The idea was for participants throughout the world to enjoy themselves during this one day while thinking about peace in order to emit positive energy to Earth. What does GORG stand for?
Global Orgasm
Which German youth claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell? His claims, and his subsequent death by stabbing, sparked much debate and controversy?
Kaspar Hauser
Which German sculptor did the Liver Birds in Liverpool?
Carl Bernard Bartels
Which 1972 western starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack was based on the story of a frontiersman called ‘liver-eating’ due to stories of his unusual cannibalistic tendencies?
Jeremiah Johnson
Which term was coined by the late ethnobotanist, writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the apparent entities that are often reported by individuals using tryptamine based psychedelic drugs, especially DMT?
Machine elves
It is described as bright red with a wide body that is 2 to 5 feet long and lives in the Gobi Desert. It can spew forth acid that, on contact, will turn anything it touches yellow and corroded (and which would kill a human), as well as being able to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge. Which cryptid?
Mongolian Death Worm
In 2003, David Hart claimed to have found what preserved in a jar of formaldehyde in his garage in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire? The hoax was a publicity stunt to publicise a forthcoming book.
Pickled dragon
Which popular bilingual proverb concerns the historic friendship between two Eastern European peoples?
Pole and Hungarian Cousins Be
A bat-winged monster called the Popobawa is said to sodomize people during election campaigns on which island?
Zanzibar
In cryptozoology, ufology, and outdoor photography, what phenomenon (sometimes known as “skyfish” or “solar entities”) are elongated artifacts produced by cameras that inadvertently capture several of a flying insect’s wingbeats? Videos of such objects moving quickly through the air were claimed by some to be alien life forms or UFOs, but subsequent experiments showed that they appear in film because of an optical illusion.
Rods
Which folkloric creatures are adapted to living on hillsides by having legs on one side of their body shorter than the legs on the opposite side (trapping the beast in an endless circular, uphill path)?
Sidehill gougers
Knitters use this term to describe a situation in which a knitter gives a hand-knit item to a significant other, who quickly breaks up with the knitter?
Sweater curse
Which creature from Japanese folklore is best known for its huge testicles but is also the Japanese word for the raccoon dog?
Tanuki
According to the Japanese, these “artifact spirits” originate from items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and aware? Any object of this age, from swords to toys, can become one?
Tsukumogami
In this folk legend from the Balkans, watermelons or any kind of pumpkin kept more than ten days or after Christmas will become what?
A vampire
Which CIA project attempted to use cats in spy missions? A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail.
The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound in Washington, D.C. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately.
Acoustic Kitty
The Duplessis Orphans were the victims of a scheme in which several thousand orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of which province and confined to psychiatric institutions?
Quebec
What was an apparently innocuous piece of congressional legislation that became the subject of outrageous but widely believed conspiracy theories in 1956?
Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act
Simon Burgess, former Managing Director of British Insurance, said “Of course, the burden of proof lies with the claimant. Let’s face it – insurance is so tedious that if I can enlighten my dreary life with a bit of humour every now and again, I will.” He was referring to insurance against what?
Alien abduction
Operation Snow White and Operation Freak Out were both designed to discredit the percieved enemies of what?
Scientology
In which EU capital city is the world’s only vegetable orchestra based?
Vienna
What ‘effect’ occurs when people devote sufficient time and attention to an activity that it begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after a video game?
Tetris Effect
Which all-female rock group formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1968 by the Wiggin family on the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin? The band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music but Kurt Cobain and also Frank Zappa liked them- the latter called them “better than the Beatles”?
The Shaggs
Which Star Trek cast member is responsible for the song The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?
Leonard Nimoy
P D Q Bach used which awful-sounding hybrid of the trombone and the bassoon?
Tromboon
What is a traditional Newfoundland musical instrument fashioned out of household and tool shed items, typically a mop handle with bottle caps, tin cans, small bells and other noise makers. The instrument is played with a drum stick and has a distinctive sound?
Ugly stick
What is a close equivalent of the ugly stick in UK folk music?
Monkey stick
You Suffer by which British grindcore band is the shortest song ever, at 1.36 seconds?
Napalm Death
Which five-word phrase was first used by Mr Justice Foster in 1978 as an informal rejection of a claim that a trader has made a misrepresentation damaging another trader’s goodwill, an important principle in passing off law? The case related to whether it was possible to distinguish between the Morning Star and the Daily Star.
A moron in a hurry
Angie Sanclemente Valencia is a former Colombian beauty queen and lingerie model now believed to be what?
A drugs baroness
What was the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Catholic Pope Formosus, held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January of 897? Before the proceedings the body of Formosus was exhumed and, according to some sources, seated on a throne while his successor, Pope Stephen (VI) VII read the charges against him (of which Formosus was found guilty)?
The cadaver synod
Which philosophy invented by John Lennon and Yoko Ono involved literally wearing a bag over one’s entire body. According to John and Yoko, by living in a bag, a person could not be judged by others on the basis of skin color, gender, hair length, attire, age, or any other such attributes?
Bagism
Which British interest group campaigns in support of beards and opposes discrimination against those who wear them. It was founded in 1995 by socialist historian Keith Flett who continues to organise and represent the organisation?
Beard Liberation Front
Which tongue-in-cheek economic indicator, maintained by the U.S. bank PNC Financial Services, tracks the cost of the items in the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas”?
Christmas Price Index
Which informal index of economic health created by The Economist counts how many stories in the Washington Post and the New York Times using the namesake word in a quarter?
The Recession Index
Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions, or B.U.G.A. U.P. is a subvertising artistic movement that detourns or modifies with graffiti billboard advertising that promotes something they deem unhealthy, usually cigarettes. In which city did they start their activity?
Sydney
Which loosely connected group of West Coast activists called the BBB for short are famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco mayors Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom, anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, economist Milton Friedman, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and conservative journalist William F. Buckley?
Biotic Baking Brigade
Nino Rota’s theme to Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film Romeo and Juliet is familiar to millions in what broadcasting context?
Our Tune with Simon Bates on Radio 1
Sometimes referred to as the “Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch”, “The Burglar Bunch”, or the “Hollywood Hills Burglars”, which group, mostly comprising teenagers based in and around Calabasas, California, burgled the homes of several celebrities over a period believed to have been from around October 2008 through August 2009. In total, their activities resulted in the theft of about $3 million in cash and belongings, most of it from Paris Hilton, whom they robbed several times?
The Bling Ring
By tradition, what do Canadian finance ministers wear on Budget Day?
New shoes
Nix v. Hedden was a case in which the United States Supreme Court addressed whether what was what?
A tomato was a fruit or vegetable
Which gay gun rights organization in the United States and Canada has mottos including “Pick on someone your own caliber” and “Armed gays don’t get bashed.”?
Pink Pistols
The PPPP was a kind of Polish equivalent of the Monster Raving Loony Party, but with a serious message- to switch to lower-alcohol drinks and not vodka. In English, what does PPPP stand for?
Polish Beer Lover’s Party
What is or was it prohibited to do on Delos and in Longyearbyen?
Die
What are the names of the large circular stones used on Yap for money?
Rai stones
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, the text of which was famously laced with profanities against Mehmed, was an actual historical document written in1676. Who painted the scene of the Cossacks gleefully writing it?
Ilya Repin
Name all three Chiltern Hundreds that an MP can resign to?
Stoke, Desborough and Burnham
In which English county is the similar Manor of Northstead?
Yorkshire
We promise to keep none of our promises was the name of which eccentric political party in Canada that was led by Cornelius the First and shared its name with an animal?
Rhinoceros Party
Educated at Sherborne School, which man first became well known for performing topical calypsos on television satire shows such as That Was The Week That Was. He appeared in the Carry On film, Carry On Cruising (1962). He also provided the voice of central character “Old Fred” in The Beatles’ animated film Yellow Submarine?
Lance Percival
In which Katheryn Bigelow film do bank robbers use masks of US presidents?
Point Break
What three word phrase means an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits by making male characters deliberately unflattering?
Small penis rule
Which leftist German psychiatric patients’ group active in 1970/71, fighting against medicine and doctors as enemies of the “patients’ class”, saw capitalism as the reason for illness and practicing illness as a weapon against capitalist society?
Socialist Patient’s Collective
What is Hungarian-born La Cicciolina’s real name?
Ilona Staller
Stambovsky v. Ackley was a famous case in which it was determined that what applied legally to a house in Nyack, NY?
That it was haunted
Keron Thomas was most famous for posing as what in New York in 1993?
A subway train driver
The Swastika Laundry was a laundry service whose electric vans cheerfully displayed the notorious symbol around which city until the 1960s?
Dublin
Which perennial candidate for election in Canada, according to the Guinness Book of Records, holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost? As of March 2010 he has contested 73 elections and lost 72.
John C. Turmel
VHEMT (pronounced “vehement”), is a movement which calls for what? (i.e. spell out its initials)
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
What is the name of a short work by dystopian English author J.G. Ballard, first published as a pamphlet by the Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton, in 1968? It is written in the style of a scientific paper and catalogues an apocryphal series of bizarre experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan, who was then the Governor of California and candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
Why I Want to F*ck Ronald Reagan
Who founded Postcard Records in Glasgow in the early 1980s?
Alan Horne
Abeguwo is a goddess of which mythology who resides in the sky, and when she feels the urge to urinate, does so onto the Earth in the form of rain?
Melanesian
Axinomancy is a way of foretelling the future by using what?
An axe
What is a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones or stones?
Cleromancy
Catoptromancy is divination using what?
Mirror
What name is given to divination using mice?
Myomancy
Cromniomancy is divination using what?
Onions
What is a technique of divination using molten metal. Typically molten lead or tin is dropped into water?
Molybdomancy
Libanomancy is divination using what?
Incense smoke
What is a type of divination by means of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like?
Rhabdomancy
Which phrase refers to a fête in Rome, and particularly to a prostitute-laden supper held in the Papal Palace by Don Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI on October 30, 1501, that marked a nadir for Catholicism?
Banquet of Chestnuts
Robert John Burck is an American street performer whose pitch is on New York City’s Times Square. He wears only cowboy boots, a hat, and briefs, with a guitar strategically placed to give the illusion of nudity. What’s his name?
The Naked Cowboy
Which form of dishonor could be passed by the Roman Senate posthumously upon traitors or others who brought discredit to the Roman State, with their faces erased from pictures, statues destroyed, etc?
Damnatio Memoriae
What was the Nazi name for Christmas?
Julfest
What was the name of the Nazis’ fight to get the churches in Germany on the side of Nazism?
Kirchenkampf
The Nazis gave to charity. Which drive, its slogan “none shall starve nor freeze”, ran from 1933-1945 during the months of October through March, and was designed to provide food, clothing, coal, and other items to less fortunate Germans during the inclement months?
Winterhilfswerk
What was the name of the Rector of Stiffkey?
Harold Davidson
Which pejorative expression has been used since at least 2001 in Wicca (and in Neopaganism generally) to refer to adherents of the religion who are thought to be superficial or faddish? They are considered to dislike darker elements and emphasise goodness, light, eclecticism and elements taken from the New Age movement, or follow it as a fad.
Fluffy Bunny
In atheism, if the FSM is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, what is the IPU?
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Which Chinese General is most notable for his act of self-castration as a display of loyalty to his emperor?
Gang Bing
In China, what are a modern form of joss paper printed to resemble modern bank notes? They are not an official currency or legal tender anywhere in the world but are intended to be burnt in Chinese ancestor veneration.
Hell bank notes
In Christian iconography, what name is given to Christ’s foreskin?
Holy prepuce
Which religion does not discriminate against homosexuals as it is, unusually, not fertility based?
Haitian Voodoo
