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Swedish Heptathlete winner of Gold in 2004. Only athletes to win three consecutive world titles in Heptathlon.
Carolina Kluft
Guadeloupe born French runner who won 400m Gold at 1992 and 1996 and 200m Gold at 1996 Olympics.
Marie-Jose Perec
100m winner of 1992 and 1996 Golds at Olympics. Also won female 4x100m at 1996.
Gail Devers
Female Slovenian rock climber who won the Combined climbing Gold at 2020 Olympics.
Janja Garnbret
Czech rock climber winner of competitions in lead climbing and bouldering. Born 1993.
Adam Ondra
Top 14 rugby team playing in Paris
Stade Francais
Top 14 rugby club playing in Nanterre (suburb of Paris).
Racing 92
Most wins of Top 14 rugby Union league.
Toulouse
Levante football club play in which Spanish city?
Valencia
Who hosted 1982 World Cup?
Spain
Who hosted 1978 World Cup?
Argentina
Who hosted the 1974 World Cup?
West Germany
Who hosted 1970 World Cup?
Mexico
Who hosted 1962 World Cup?
Chile
Who hosted 1958 World Cup?
Sweden
Who hosted 1954 World Cup?
Switzerland
Who hosted 1950 World Cup?
Brazil
Who hosted 1938 World Cup?
France
Who hosted 1934 World Cup?
Italy
Who won 1934 World Cup?
Italy
Who won 1938 World Cup?
Italy
Who won 1950 World Cup?
Uruguay
Who won 1954 World Cup?
West Germany
Who won 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups?
Brazil
Who won 1974 World Cup?
West Germany
Who won 1978 World Cup as host country?
Argentina
Who won the 1982 World Cup?
Italy
Who won the 1986 World Cup?
Argentina
Who won 1990 World Cup?
West Germany
Who won 1994 and 2002 World Cup?
Brazil
Final of 2022 World Cup will take place in which stadium?
Lusail Iconic Stadium
Head Coach of La Rochelle of Top 14, winner of 2022 European Cup final against Leinster. Irish but born in San Diego.
Ronan O’Gara
IPL cricket team based in Chennai.
Super Kings
IPL cricket team based in New Delhi.
Capitals
IPL cricket team based in Ahmedabad. Stadium named after Narendra Modi.
Gujarat Titans
IPL cricket team based in Kolkata. Plays at Eden Gardens.
Knight Riders
IPL cricket team based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Super Giants
IPL cricket team based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and playing at Wankhede Stadium
Indians
IPL cricket team based in Punjab.
Kings
IPL cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Rajasthan Royals
IPL cricket team based in Karnataka.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
IPL cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium.
Sunrisers
Who won the WBO Heavyweight title from Tommy Morrison in 1993 and lost to Herbie Hide in 1994? Played Sonny Liston in Ali (2001).
Michael Bentt
British heavyweight boxer born in Nigerianwas WBO champion between 1996 and 1997?
Henry Akinwande
BBC womens footballer of year in 2021, which Dutch footballer scores loads for country and arsenal club?
Vivianne Miedema
FIFA Womens Best Player 2021 for Barcelona and Spain.
Alexia Putellas
2021 2nd best womens fifa footballer, Australia captain and plays for Chelsea
Sam Kerr
Right back for Barcelona and England who won 2020 Best FIFA Womens player award while playing for Man City?
Lucy Bronze
Who won 2018 Ballon Dor Feminin playing to Lyon? She is Norwegian.
Ada Hegerberg
Who won 2019 Ballon Dor Feminin? Playing for OL Reign and USA.
Megan Rapinoe
Who won 2022 and 2021 Ballon Dor Feminin playing for Spain and Barcelona?
Alexia Putellas
Who came second in Ballon dor Feminin in 2022, she plays for England and arsenal?
Beth Mead
Who came second in 2019 Ballon Dor Feminin losing to her compatriot and Barcelona teammate Alexia Putellas?
Jennifer Hermoso
Which Hmong American artistic gymnast won the 2020 Olympics all around gold after Simone Biles dropped out? Also silver on Team and bronze on uneven bars
Sunisa Lee
Football team nicknamed cobblers
Northampton town
Who played Raquel Watts in Corrie and then went into Lark Rise to Candlefird, Last tango in Halifax and happy valley
Sarah Lancashire
Who won 2012 all around gymnast gold winner? She was first African American to take gold
Gabby Douglas
Football team nicknamed the Saddlers
Walsall FC
Czech male decathlete was silver at 2000 Olympics then won 2004 gold.
Roman Sebrle
Town in Austrian state of Vorarlberg which hosts a Hypo-Meeting every year for decathletes and heptathletes.
Gotzis
October 2022 which yankees outfielder hit 62nd home run of season and broke American League record held since 1961 by Roger Maris.
Aaron Judge
In September 2022 which Dominican first baseman for St Louis Cardinals became only fourth player in major league history to hit 700 career home runs.
Albert Pujols
Which athletics meeting held in namesake stadium in Oslo hosts the Dream Mile?
Bislett Games
American wrestler is cousin of snoop dogg, first black women to headline a wrestle mania in 2021 alongside Bianca Belair
Sasha Banks
African American wrestler current Raw Womens champion, won 2021 royal rumble female.
Bianca Belair
Longest reigning wwe universal champion, reclaimed wwe championship from Lesnar in April 2022
Roman Reigns
Russian female tennis player never won grand slam, runner up at French open 2008 and Australian open 2009
Dinara safina
Serbian tennis player ranked #1 but no grand slam, she was runner up at us open in 2008
Jelena Jankovic
Home ground of Ipswich town
Portman Road
T20 World Cup final held in which stadium
Melbourne cricket ground (mcg)
Only Latvian to have won a grand slam singles title: 2017 French open
Jelena Ostapenko
European nation only one to fail to score a single try while playing at the rugby Union World Cup only appearance is in 1999
Spain
Which Olympic Games saw brawl between Hungary and Soviet Union called blood in water match
1956 Melbourne
Belgian cyclist tested positive between 1969 and 1973, he won eleven grand tours and all five monuments.
Eddy Merckx
Which Italian cyclist admitted to using amphetamines, nicknamed “champion of champions” he won Giro Ditalia five times and Tour de France twice in 1949 and 1952.
Fausto Coppi
First cycling classic of the year, known as La Primavera, goes from Lombardy to Liguria. Most successful rider is 7 time winner Belgian Eddy Merckx
Milan-San Remo
One of two Cobbled classics, which cycling race is the week before Paris-Roubaix and takes part in Belgium.
Tour of Flanders
The second of the cobbled classics, which cycling race is nicknamed the queen of the classics and “the hell of the north”, it is in North France from the capital to near to Belgian border.
Paris-Roubaix
Known as La Doyenne, the oldest cycling classic, first raced in 1892, held in the Ardennes region of Belgium. Most successful eddy merckx.
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Only Autumn classic, known as “race of the falling leaves”, first held in 1905 as Milano-Milano, climbers classic includes iconic Madonna del Ghisallo.
Giro di Lombardia
Five hardest races of year including Milan-San Remo, Paris-roubaix and tour of flanders known collectively as what?
Monuments
Who was third man on podium during the black power salute at 200m final at 1968 Mexico City Olympics alongside Tommie smith and John Carlos
Peter Norman (Australian won silver)
The number two court of the Us tennis tournament is named after which musician?
Louis Armstrong
Four spectator grandstands at French Open main court named after which four French tennis players nicknamed the four musketeers?
Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste
1926 who first woman to swim across body of English Channel?
Gertrude Ederle
Which brit won 1995 world rally championship?
Colin McRae
Which brit won 2001 world rally championship?
Richard Burns
Which frenchman won 2004-12 world rally championship?
Sebastian Loeb
Which frenchman won 2013-18 and 20-21 world rally championship?
Sebastien Ogier
Which estinian won 2019 world rally championship?
Ott Tanak
Which Finn won 2022 world rally championship
Kalle rovanpera
2022 Giro Ditalia winner
Jai Hindley (Australian)
Vuelta Despana 2022 winner
Remco Evenepoel (Belgian)
Tour de France winner 2022
Jonas Vingegaard
Who won the 2021 and 2020 Tour de France?
Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia)
Who won 2020 Giro Ditalia
Tao Geoghegan Hart
Who won the 2019 Tour de France and 2021 giro Ditalia
Egan Bernal
Who won the 2019-21 Vuelta despana
Primoz Roglic (Slovenian ex ski jumper)
Last Frenchman to win Tour de France
Bernard hinault
Last Spaniard to win Vuelta despana
Alberto Contador
Last Italian to win giro Ditalia
Vincenzo Nibali
Maurice Garin was first winner of which cycling race in 1903?
Tour de France
Luigi Ganna was first winner of which cycling race in 1909?
Giro Ditalia
Whcih Belgian cyclist was first winner of Vuelta despana in 1935?
Gustaaf Deloor
Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi and alfredo binda are joint highest winners of which cycling race with 5 wins?
Giro Ditalia
Who are the four joint most winners of the Tour de France with 4 wins?
Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil, Miguel Indurain
Who has won the most Vuelta despana with 4 wins?
Roberto Heras
Which Brit has been worlds strongest man in both 2021 and 2022?
Tom Stoltman
Tom Stoltman is Britain’s first worlds strongest man since which winner inn2017?
Eddie Hall
Whcih Brit was worlds strongest man in 1983 and 1985
Geoff Capes
Which Brit was worlds strongest man in 1989
Jamie Reeves
Which Brit was worlds strongest man in 1993
Gary Taylor
Which American strongman has won worlds strongest man four times 2011,13,15,16?
Brian Shaw
Which Lithuanian strongman has won worlds strongest man four times 2009,10,12,14
Zydrunas Savickas
Which polish strongman has won the worlds strongest man a record five times 2002,03,05,07,08
Mariusz Pudzianowski
Which Icelandic strongman has won the worlds strongest Man four times in 1984,86,88,90
Jon Pall Sigmarsson
Which Icelandic strongman has won the worlds strongest Man four times in 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996
Magnus ver magnusson
Which American won the first two worlds steongest man in 1977/78
Bruce Wilhelm
Which Brit won the inaugural Grand Prix 500cc MotoGP in 1949?
Leslie Graham
Whcih Brit won the 500CC MotoGP four times 1951, 53,54,55
Geoff duke
Which motorcyclist who also won an F1 championship won the 500cc MotoGP championships four times 1956, 58,59,60
John Surtees
Which Brit won the 500cc MotoGP championship four times 1962-65
Mike Hailwood
Which Italian won 500cc MotoGP championship eight times 1966-72, 75
Giacomo Agostini
Which Brit won the 500gp MotoGP championship twice in 1973/74
Phil Read
Which Brit won the 500cc MotoGP championship twice in 1976 and 1977?
Barry Sheene
Which Australian won the 500cc MotoGP championship five times from 1994-98
Mick Doohan
Which Australian MotoGP won championships in 2007 and 2011
Casey Stoner
Valentino Rossi has how many MotoGP championships at 500cc?
7 (2001-05, 2008-9)
Spanish MotoGP championships 2010,12 and 15
Jorge Lorenzo
Which Spanish MotoGP has six championships 2013-14, 2016-19?
Marc Marquez
2020 500cc MotoGP champion Spanish
Joan Mir
2021 500cc MotoGP champion French
Fabio Quartararo
2022 500cc MotoGP champion Italian for Ducati
Francesco Bagnaia
Ducati 2022 motogp win with Francesco bagnaia first Italian win amongst Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha since 2007 win by which ducati rising Australian?
Casey Stoner
Leslie Graham inaugural 500cc MotoGP championship won riding which three letter bike company?
AJS
Geoff Duke won his first MotoGP championship riding which brand of motorbike? The last British constructor to win the 500cc MotoGP to date - 1951
Norton
Who was the first British GP solo motorcycle world champion since Barry Sheene in 1977 when they won 2015 moto3 world championship?
Danny Kent
Line you can’t cross in curling
Hog Line
Name of hedge fund manager and general wrong’un who brought Wu Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
Martin Shkreli
Who won the 1958 f1 world championship?
Mike Hawthorn
Who won the 1962 and 1968 f1 world championship?
Graham Hill
Who won the 1969, 1971, 1973 F1 championships?
Jackie Stewart
Who won the 1963 and 1965 f1 world championship?
Jim Clark
Who won the 1964 f1 world championship?
John Surtees
Who won the 1976 f1 world championship?
James Hunt
Who won the 1992 f1 world championship?
Nigel Mansell
Who won the 1996 f1 world championship?
Damon Hill
Who won the 2008, 2014-15, 2017-20 f1 season?
Lewis Hamilton
When Lewis Hamilton won his first f1 title he was driving for which team?
McClaren
Who won the 2009 f1 world championship?
Jenson Button
Who won the 2010-13 f1 world championship?
Sebastian Vettel
Who won the 2016 f1 world championship?
Nico rosberg
Who won the 2021 and 2022 f1 world championship?
Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
Who won the 2007 f1 world championship?
Kimi Raikkonen
Who won the 2005-06 f1 world championship?
Fernando Alonso
Who won the 1994-95 and 2000-04 f1 world championship?
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher won his first two titles 1994-95 racing for which team?
Benetton
Who won the 1998-99 f1 world championship?
Mika Hakkinen
Who won the 1997 f1 world championship?
Jacques Villeneuve
Who won the 1985-86, 1989, 1993 f1 world championship?
Alain Prost
Who won the 1988, 1990, 1991 f1 titles?
Ayrton Senna (McClaren)
Who won the 1981, 1983, 1987 f1 world championship?
Nelson Piquet
Who won the 1975, 1977 and 1984 f1 world championship?
Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda won 1975 and 1977 with Ferrari, who was he driving with in 1984?
McClaren
Who won the 1982 f1 world championship?
Keke Rosberg
Who won the 1980 f1 world championship?
Alan Jones (Williams)
Who won the 1979 f1 world championship?
Jody Scheckter (Ferrari)
Who won the 1978 f1 world championship?
Mario Andretti
Who won the 1972 and 1974 f1 world championship?
Emerson Fittipaldi
Who won the 1970 f1 world championship?
Jochen Rindt (Lotus)
Who won the 1967 f1 world championship?
Denny Hulme (NZ)
Who won the 1959-60, 1966 f1 world championship?
Jack Brabham
1961 f1 champion
Phil Hill
Who won the 1951 (second ever), 1954-57 f1 world championship?
Juan Manuel Fangio
Who won the 1952-53 f1 world championship? First two time winner
Alberto Ascari
Who won the inaugural F1 championship in 1950 driving for Alfa Romeo
Giuseppe Farina
Old stadium of Brentford
Griffin Park
Old stadium of Hull City
Boothferry Park
Old stadium of Stoke City
The Victoria ground
Old stadium of Sunderland
Roker Park
Old stadium of MIDDLESBOROUGH
Ayresome Park
Term introduced to describe a crescent-shaped dune by Alexander von Middendorf based on occurrence in Turkestan.
Barchan
Statue of whcih former England cricketer can be found in Canal basin of Skipton?
Fred Trueman
Most northerly horse racing course in Britain
Perth
What athletics event did Holly Bradshaw win a bronze medal for Team GB at Tokyo in 2021?
Pole Vault
2020 Tokyo, Matt Walls won gold in this event, in womens laura Kenny won this in 2012 and 2016 but couldn’t retain
Omnium
1896 battle between Menilek II’s Ethiopia vs Italy.
Adwa
Manager of Qatar at 2022 WC
Felix Sanchez
Manager of Saudi at 2022 WC
Herve Renard
Manager of Senegal at WC 2022
Aliou Cissd
Manager of Tunisia at WC 2022
Jalel Kadri
Manager of Canada at WC
John Herdman
Manager of Argentina
Lionel Scaloni
Manager of brazil at Wc
Tite
Belgium at WC 2022 manager
Roberto Martinez
Manager of Croatia WC 2022
Zlatko Dalic
Manager of Germany WC
Hansi Flick
Manager of Portugal at WC
Fernando Santos
Manager of Wales national team at WC
Robert Page
Middleweight boxer, real name Walker Smith Jr, beaten by Brit boxer Randolph Turpin in 1951
Sugar Ray Robinson
Who was the first goal scorer of the 2022 World Cup tournament mens?
Enner Valencia
Born Shimon Hayut, what was the name of the Israeli conman told about in the Netflix documentary The Tindler Swindler
Simon Leviev
What is the name of the Russian born German con artist and fraudsrer who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper echelons of NY from 2013-17. Netflix made the 2022 miniseries Inventing _____.
Anna Sorokin
Who was the conman who founded a luxury music festival called Fyre, held in Bahamas and cohosted by Ja Rule (Jeffrey Bruce Atkins)
Billy McFarland
Held on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma what was the name of the festival set up by Billy McFarland in 2017?
Fyre
Who was the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried
Who was the CEO of Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. Thencompany owed ftx $10b.
Caroline Ellison
What was the real name of Peter Davison? It is shared by the maiden name of his daughter Georgia.
Moffett
Name of actor in tv War of the Worlds and young Aegon II Targaryen in House of the Dragon. Son of Georgia and David.
Ty Tennant
Whcih British athlete won the 400m gold at 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London silver at same distance, two bronzes
Christine Ohuruogu
Whcih Paralympic wheelchair athlete has won total of six golds at 2008 and 2012 paralympics and eight London marathons at racing
David Weir
Which paralympian has 17 golds in total 28 medals at paralynpians in swimming and cycling, record
Sarah Storey
Whcih paralympian swimmer won 20 medals including 5 golds between 1984 and 1996 for team gb?
Janice Burton
Which paralympian male swimmer has 16 golds out of 18 medals from 1976-1988
Mike Kenny
Which paralympian equestrian has 14 golds for team GB
Lee Pearson
Which paralympian won 10/17 golds between 1964 and 1988 Olympics at athletics, table tennis, swimming and wheelchair fencing?
Carol Bryant
In what month of the year is St Leger traditionally run?
September
Doddie Weir Cup contested between which two countries?
Scotland and Wales
Name of the main prize of Rugby Wirld Cup Sevens, named after the town in Scotland where rugby sevens in 1883.
Melrose Cup
Name of trophy of rugby between England and Ireland
Millennium Trophy
Ireland and Scotland contest what rugby cup?
Centenary Quaich
What countries contest the Auld Alliance Trophy in rugby Union?
Scotland and France
What cup is contested by Wales and Scotland in rugby Union?
Doddie Weir Cup
What cup is contested between Italy and Scotland and named after Italian captain and Scotland scrum coach who died of covid in 2021?
Cuttitta Cup
New Zealand and Australian contest which cup named after which former governor of New Zealand?
Bledisloe Cup
Which two teams contest the Mandela Challenge Plate in rugby union?
Australia and South Africa
The Freedom Cup is contested between whcih two Southern Hemisphere rugby teams?
New Zealand and South Africa
What trophy is contested by Australia and Argentina in rugby Union?
Puma Trophy
To celebrate bicentenaries in 1988 and 1989 respectively the Trophee des Bicentenaires is contested between whcih two countries in rugby Union
Australia and France
Which trophy replaced the Cook Cup as the perpetual trophy to be won between matches of rugby Union between Australia and England. England won the first in 2022.
Ella-Mobbs Trophy
Which trophy is contested between Australia and Scotland, it is named after a Scotsman who was Governor General of Australia too?
Hopetoun Cup
Which trophy was played for between Australia and Ireland and named after the home of Ireland rugby up to demolition in 2007 ready for aviva stadium
Lansdowne Cup
Named after a famous All Blacks captain who was killed in Belgium during WW1, which trophy is played for in rugby matches between New Zealand and France
Dave Gallaher Trophy
Which shield is contested in rugby matches between New Zealand and England? Named after famous New Zealander
Hillary Shield
The cup contested between South Africa and Wales is named after which royal figure?
Prince William Cup
Named after Anthim the Iberian a native of one of the nations who became a big figure in Wallachia, the Antim Cup is contested between which two rugby countries?
Georgia and Romania
A trophy contested between UsA and Romania rugby is named after which general of AEF during WW1, nicknamed Black Jack
John Pershing (Pershing Cup)
The Siam Cup is contested between which two islands in rugby? Made from Siam Ticals at behest of Rama VI
Jersey and Guernsey
No trophy involved but what are rugby matches between England and France nicknamed
Le Crunch
Boca Juniors vowed their colours would be those on the flag of the next ship to enter La Boca harbour, what nation ship arrived?
Sweden (blue and yellow)
River Plate play in which two colours
Red and White
Which Brazilian football team have won the most league titles in their Serie A?
Palmeiras
Which city does Palmeiras football team play in?
São Paulo
Football team Athletico Mineiro play in whcih Brazilian football city
Belo Horizonte (capital of Minas Gerais)
The Brazilian football team Flamengo play in Whcih city?
Rio de Janeiro
Which Rio de Janeiro football team was founded in 1902 by Oscar Cox making it the older of itself vs rivals Flamengo
Fluminense
Which city does the Brazilian football team Internacional play in?
Porto Alegre
The football team Corinthians play in which Brazilian city?
São Paulo
Whcih team has won the most Argentina primera division?
River Plate
Argentine football team Estudiantes play in which city?
La Plata
The Argentine football club Newells OLD boys play in which city?
Rosario
Which Chilean football team are sixth most succcessful in country and shares name with a British team?
Everton
Which uruguayian football team play games at Estadio Belvedere based in Montevideo and have name same as famous British one
Liverpool
Deportivo Wanka play in which country?
Peru
What is the name of the Bolivian team who were first to win league title without conceding a goal living up to their name?
The Strongest
Sharing name with British team, which Argentine premier league side play games at estadio julio grondona and won league in 2012
Arsenal
Stadium is largest on island of a Ireland and the Hq of the Gaelic athletic association, capacity or 82300
Croke Park, Dublin
Variant of Hurling is played by women
Camogie
Vs which country does all-Ireland Gaelic football team compete for the Cormac McAnallen Cup, culmination of biennial international rules series
Australia
In rugby league substitutes are known as what
Interchanges
Embedded into each of the visa pages of a current Uk passport is which Briton
William Shakespeare
Only two women appear on British passport, one is which architect of the Roayl Shakespeare theatre in stratford upon Avon
Elisabeth Scott
Other woman on UK passport other than architect elisabeth Scottnisnwhich computer genius
Ada LovelAce
Also known as lady’s cushion or sea pink, armeria maritima is known as what plant and found on Pre decimalisation threepenny bits?
Thrift
The reverse of the halfpenny depicted which iconic ship? Dubious proceeds from voyages paid off entire government debt.
Golden Hind
Tim Hortons is popular coffee chain in Canada, Tim Horton died at 44 in car crash but before then played which sport professionally.
Ice Hockey
UK Chmapionship in snooker takes place at which location
York Barbican
Which snooker player nicknamed the pistol beat Ding Junhui to win the UK championship in 2022?
Mark Allen
Which country will be in first Rugby Union World Cup in 2023 after winning playoff against Canada
Chile
Who beat UsA to qualify for their second Ruby Union World Cup in 2023 due?
Portugal
Name of golden shoe in French award most goals in Europe top division
Soulier d’Or
Who is only English winner of European golden shoe on 1999-2000
Kevin Phillips
Two welsh winners of European golden shoe, Ian Rush in 1983-84 and which other League of Wales footballer in 1993-4
David Taylor
Whcih Scottish player won European golden shoe in 1991-92 and 1992-93
Ally McCoist
Whcih player has won European golden shoe 2020-21 and 2021-22
Robert Lewandowski
Which Italian won European golden shoe in 2019-20
Ciro Immobile
Liverpool training ground called
Melwood
Chadwell Heath is name of whcih club’s training ground
West Ham
What is the name of Man U training ground
Carrington
What is Chelsea training ground called
Cobham
What is the name of Real Madrid academy comes from “the factory”
La Fabrica
What is the name of Barcelona’s youth academy known from “the farmhouse”
La Masia
Italian for mixed zone, tactic used in Italian football from 70s to 90s, by Luigi Radice and Giovanni Trapattoni (juventus won lots then Italy then Ireland 2012 euros). It’s doing zonal marking while attacking like total football.
Zona mista
Five coAches who have won league titles in four different European countries
Carlo Ancelotti
Ernst Happel (Austrian, feyenoord 1970, Hamburg 1983 European wins)
Giovanni Trapattoni
Jose Mourinho
Tomislav Ilic (Croatian, Yugoslav, Ajax, Anderlecht, Marseille 1991-92)
Three coaches to have won all theee major European club competitions (European cup, uefa cup and uefa cup winners cup)
Udo Lattek (Munich 1974, Monchengladbach UEFA 1979 and Barca)
Jose Mourinho
Giovanni Trappattoni
Ernst Happel has won two European cups which two teams
Feyenoord 1970
Hamburg 1983
Ottmar Hitzfeld has won European cup with two different teams?
Borussia Dortmund 1997
Bayern Munich 2001
What does Borussia mean
It is Latin for Prussia
Carlo Ancelotti European cup wins
Ac Milan 2003, 2007
Real Madrid 2014, 2022
Jose Mourinho European cup wins
Porto 2004
Inter Milan 2010
UEFA Cup; Porto 2003
Europa League: Man U 2017
Europa Conference Lesgue: Roma 2022
Jupp Heynckes has won two European cups
Real Madrid 1998
Bayern Munich 2013
Who has won champions league twice once with Madrid and once with Munich
Late Spanish broadcast Andres Montes said to have popularised whcih term for Spanish football play in commentary against Tunisia 2006 WC
Tika Taka
Italian for door bolt fives what tactical system of football with strong emphasis on defence
Catenaccio
Whcih football technique is named after the Spanish for playing hooky or skipping school, first seen by a Ricardo Infante in game between Estudiantes de La Plata vs Rosario Central in 1948
Rabona
Which style of penalty was first seen in the UEFA Euro 1976 final when Czechoslovakia beat Hermany on penalties in Belgrade
Panenka
Which style of penalty is named after a Czech attacking midfielder best executed in the 1976 euros final?
Panenka
Madagascar football team
Nickname after a species of Zebu
The Barea
Morocco nickname after range and animal
Atlas Lions
Nigeria are super eagles, what are womens football team
Super Falcons
Rwanda known as what nickname football team
The wasps
The Lions of Teranga nickname of what football team?
Senegal - Teranga is Wolof word meaning hospitality
South Africa nickname meaning Boys Boys
Bafana Bafana
Eagles of Carthage are what country football
Tunisia
Zambia team nickname deriving from Copper Bullets
Chipolopolo
The Lions of Khorosan whcih football team
Afghanistan
Druk Eleven are whcih from football team
Bhutan
India football team
Nickname after colour and animal
Blue Tigers
Native name for Gurkhas is Nepal football team nickname
Gorkhali
North Korea football nickname after a mythical horse
Chollima
Name of a Turkmen horse breed, national emblem of Turkmenistan, nickname of national football team
Akhal-Teke
Australian womens football team nickname
Matildas
Name of the blue and red circle used on South Korean flag
Taegeuk - meaning great duality
Which caribbean football team known as Wadadi Boyz after local dance
Antigua and Barbuda
Whcih football team known as Rake and Scrape Boys after local music native to country
Bahamas
Football team known as Gombey Warriors after iconic symbol of the territory full of colour and masquerade/dance
Bermuda
Nickname of Dom Republic team after the name for Hispaniola in Taino
The Quisqueyanos - Quisqueya is name of Hispaniola
Soca Warriors are which country after music genre in country
Trinidad and Tobago
Bula Boys whcih football team after a greeting used in country
Fiji
The Men in Black and Gold are whcuhnnations football team
Vanuatu
Nickname of Argentina from colours
Albiceleste
Brazilian nickname from colours
Verde-Amarela
The Colombian womens team nickname references which tv show
Powerpuff Girls - Las Chicas Superpoderosas
Powerpuff Girls names and colours
Blossom - pink
Bubbles - blue
Buttercup - green
Powerpuff girls appearances were inspired by the art of which artist l, seen in Tim Burtons 2014 film Big Eyes
Margaret Keane
Paraguay football nickname meaning white red
La Albirroja
Peru football nickname after white red
La Blanquirroja
Which football team has a nickname La Remolacha Mecanica meaning The Clockwork Beet
Venezuela
Member of Auden Group, which poet and academic died in 1995. The Australian satirist Barry humphries was his son in law.
Stephen Spender
Barry Humphries’ Melbourne housewife persona
Dame Edna Everage
Barry Humphries’ male, Roman Catholic Sydney’s uncouth persona
Sir Les Patterson
Which papal name was chosen by Jude Law’s character in The young Pope (13th of that name) and by character in Babylon 5 series (15th of name)
Pius
Only two field events not to be part of the Olympic decathlon
Hammer and Triple Jump
Men Decathlon events in order
100m, Long Jump, Shotput, High Jump, 400m.
110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 1500m.
Heptathlon events in order
100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put, 200m
Long Jump, Javelin, 800m
Buzz Aldrin real first name
Edwin
Characters of which Hardy book include Dick Dewy and Fancy Day.
Under the Greenwood Tree
In women testosterone is made in whcih two paired organs
Adrenal glands and Ovaries
Sampdoria Football Team based in whcih city
Genoa
Name of the honour when winning Serie A
Scudetto
Atalanta are from which city in Lombardy
Bergamo
Football team Alaves plays in which city, the capital of Basque Country and of province of Alava
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Espanyol play in which city
Barcelona
Levante play in which city
Valencia
Osasuna play in which city
Pamplona
Rayo Vallecano play in whcih city
Madrid
Real Betis play in whcih city
Seville
Real Sociedad play in which city
San Sebastian
French kings were crowned in which cathedral
Reims Cathedral
German kings were crowned in which cathedral
Aachen
Which football team play at Volkswagen Arena in Germany
VfL Wolfsburg
Whcih football team play at Mercedes-Benz arena in Germany
VfB Stuttgart
Stuttgart capital and largest city of WhT state
Baden-Wurttemberg
Wolfsburg found in which German state
Lower Saxony
VfB in German teams stands for what
Verein fur Bewegungsspiele (Stuttgart) means association for active games
VfL in German team names like BOCHUM AND Wolfsburg standsnfornwhat
Verein fur Leibesubungen means Club for bodily exercise)
Who synthesised mauveine from a coal tar derivative in 1856, start of synthetic dye industry!
William Henry Perkin made what first synthetic dye in 1856?
In 1856 whcih American scientist worked out CO2 trapped heat in atmosphere?
Eunice Foote
What year Mendeleev publish periodic table 9 years after stanislao Cannizzaro proposes international set of atomic weights relative to hydrogen
1869
Dutch scientist who proposed intermolecular forces holding molecules together
Van der Waals
Who discovered electron and what year?
JJ Thomson 1897
Who discovered biochemical processes are driven by enzymes and do not require living cells in 1897?
Edward Buchner
Swiss geologist who in 1840 posits earth experienced an ice age
Louis Agassiz
Name of a curve showing that co2 spikes in May and lowest in September, named after scientist who did research in Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii in 1958
Keeling Curve
Chemical formula of laughing gas or nitrous oxide
N2O
IPCC stands for
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Swiss paint maker Johann Jacob Diesbach MAKES WHICH SYNTHETIC PIGMENT IN 1706
Prussian Blue
Danish microbiologist 1884 discovers gentian violet dye stains certain bacteria species
Hans Christian Gram
1859 Francois-Emmanuel Verguin created a red dye first named fuchsine after fuchsia but then renamed to mark French Sardinian victory over Austrians at which 1859 battle?
Battle of Magenta
Perkin, Graebe, Lieberman and Caro all independently discovered way to synthesise which dye (also known as Turkey red) normally derived from madder plant.
Alizarin
What dye for colour known as “blue gold” was created by a Karl Heumann using anilin after Adolf von Baeyer determined chemical structure in 1865z
Indigo
1775 Carl Wilhelm Scheele invented which vivid pigment which contained arsenic used for wallpapers and toys.
Sheele’s Green
Carl Hausserman in 1891 discovered what has explosive properties after first invented as yellow dye?
TNT Trinitrotoluene
Nobel’s second invention after dynamite was what named for material and wood, was made from mixed nitroglycerine and gun cotton (nitrocellulose). Could be used underwater.
Gelignite
Whose law states The electromotive force around a closed path is equal to the negative of the time rate of change of the magnetic flux enclosed by the path.
Faradays Law
Which Austrian scientist determines the number of molecules in a mole later termed Avogadro’s number
Johann josef Loschmidt
In 1835 who reported metals can be distinguished by emission spectra or their sparks. Also invented the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique)
Charles Wheatstone
Originally observed as dark features (absorption lines) in optical spectrum of sun, set of spectral absorption lines are named after which German scientist born 1787
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Barium makes what colour flame in flame test?
Green
Flame test colour for sodium
Yellow
Strontium flame test colour also used in fireworks for this colour
Red
What colour flame does calcium give in flame test and in fireworks
Orange
WhAt colour flame test for copper and fireworks
Blue
Lithium gives what in flame test and fireworks
Red
Potassium flame test result
Lilac
Caesium gives what two colours in flame test
Blue/violet
What elements can give white in fireworks
Titanium, zirconium, magnesium eg
What is the Centre Parcs in Bedfordshire called
Woburn Forest
Name of Centre Parcs in Wiltshire
Longleat Forest
Name of centre Parcs in Suffolk
Elveden Forest - closest town Thetford which is norfolk
Name of centre Parcs in Nottinghamshire
Sherwood Forest
Name of centre Parcs in Cumbria
Whinfell Forest - closest town is Penrith
Name of centre Parcs in Ireland
Longford Forest, shares name with the county it is in
John Dryden made poet laureate 1668 by Charles II after which famous poem 1667?
Annus Mirabilis
Who succeeded John Dryden as the second poet laureate?
Thomas Shadwell
Who was third poet laureate between 1692 and 1715 known for adaption of King Lear and also libretto for Henry Purcell opera Dido and Aeneas
Nahum Tate
Who was poet laureate between 1730 and 1757 known for colourful memoir Apology for the Life of ____________. Became chief target, head dunce, of Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad.
Colley Cibber
Which alliterative poet became poet laureate in 1757 when Thomas Gray declined the position until 1785?
William Whitehead
Whcih lake poet was poet laureate 1813-1843? Known for “after Blenheim” poem and original version of Goldilocks and Three Bears.
Robert Southey
Who was Poet Laureate between 1843 and 1850?
William Wordsworth
Tennyson was poet laureate between whcih years
1850 and 1892
Whcih poet laureate began in 1896 four years after Tennyson died?
Alfred Austin
Who was poet laureate between 1913-1930. Through his efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame. He developed his own phonetic alphabet for English. Wrote Eros and Psyche: A Narrative Poem in Twelve Measures and did Milton’s Prosody.
Robert Bridges
Who was poet laureate between 1930-67? Wrote childrens novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and “Sea Fever”.
John Masefield
Which John Masefield poem starts: I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky.
Sea Fever
Which John Masefield poem starts: Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in Sunny palestine, with a cargo of ivory, and apes and peacocks, sandalwood, cedar wood and sweet white wine.
Cargoes
Poet Laureate between 1968 and 1972, wrote under pseudonym Nicholas Blake: Nigel Strangeways private detective. Translated Virgil’s Georgics, Aeneid and Eclogues.
Cecil Day-Lewis
Which poet laureate from 1972-84 founding member of Victorian society and defender of architecture; saving st Pancras from destruction. “Slough” poem. Summoned by Bells.
John Betjeman
Ted Hughes poet laureate years of service
1984-1998
Who poet laureate 1999-2009
Andrew Motion
Name of Ted Hughes domestic partner between 1962 and 1969 before she committed suicide
Assia Wevill
Sylvia Plath years of life. Wrote The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, The Bell Jar.
1932 Boston - 1963 London
Effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. Coined by James Kaufman in 2001.
Sylvia Plath
Who was elected Children’s Laureate in 2022? Poetry anthologies Werewolf Club Rules, Overheard in a Tower Block. Wrote children picture book The Girl Who Became a Tree.
Joseph Coelho
Childrens Laureate 2019-22 known for Emily Brown Series, The Treetop Twins and How to train your dragon
Cressida Cowell
2017-19 childrens laureate Charlie and Lola
Lauren Child
2015-17 childrens laureate illustrator
Chris Riddell
Childrens Laureate 2013-15 wrote Noughts and Crosses series: last one Endgame (2021). Co-wrote “Rosa” episode of Doctor Who in 2018.
Malorie Blackman
Mandip Gill character name for Jodie Whitaker’s doctor who
Yasmin Khan
John Bishop’s character name in JodenWhitaker’s doctor who
Dan Lewis
Eccentric businessman best for tunnels under his direction in edge hill area of liverpool, mole of edge hill
Joseph Williamson
Which doctor who villain first appeared in 1966 in the last episode of season four, last regular episode of William hartnell
Cybermen
Portuguese ship which sunk in 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque was returning from Malacca when sunk, features in Dr Who last season
Flor de La Mar
Dr who companion played by Sophie aldred, companion of Sylvester McCoy.
Ace (real name Dorothy)
Who played the Fugitive Doctor in dr who?
Jo Martin
What was Bradley Walsh character name in Dr Who?
Graham O’Brien
Name of actor who played teacher Ian Chesterton opposite William hartnell between 1963-65 then appeared in cameo in 2022 The Power of the Doctor making it 57 years after character first appearance.
William Russell
Whcih Croatian actor played nikola Tesla in doctor who? Also dr luka kovac in ER and Garcia Flynn in Timeless.
Goran Visnjic
2009-11 children’s laureate: writer and illustrator of children books
Anthony Browne
2011-13 childrens laureate Known for work with Axel Scheffler
Julia Donaldson
2007-09 Childrens Laureate poet and activist
Michael Rosen
2005-07 childrens laureate big author
Jacqueline Wilson
2003-05 childrens laureate his original idea based on convo with Ted Hughes
Michael Morpurgo
Second childrens laureate between 2001-03 succeeding Quintin Blake
Anne Fine
The inaugural childrens laureate between 1999 and 2001
Quintin Blake
Dying age 31, who was lead singer of Fairport Convention? Brief singer of Strawbs and Fotheringay. Four solo albums North Star Grassman and the Raven. Did The Battle of Evermore with Robert Plant for Led Zeppelin IV in 1971.
Sandy Denny
Voltaire real name
Francois Marie Arouet born 1694
Voltaire’s magnum opus and subtitle
Candide, ou l’Optimisme
Candide’s mentor in Voltaire’s Candide
Professor Pangloss
Japanese rice ball name
Onigiri
Italian rice ball name
Arancini
Korean rice ball term
Jumeok-bap
Which actress who starred as young Jane in Jane the Virgin and Ellie Alves in second season of You, is playing the titular role of Wednesday Addams in Netflix series Wednesday?
Jenna Ortega
Who playing Morticia and Gomez Addams in Netflix show Wednesday?
Catherine Zeta Jones and Luis Guzman
Australia womens rugby Union team nickname
Wallaroos
Australia womens national rugby league team nickname
Jillaroos
Philip Olivier played Tim O’Leary in Brookside better known by which character name
Tinhead
Name of trophy for Indy 500.
Borg-Warner Trophy
Named after an athletic Bilbao striker nickname Rafael Moreno, name of award given by Marca newspaper to top scorer of La Liga
Pichichi Trophy
American physicist who first in 1934 described the property concerning the breakdown of electrical insulators. Later used by bell labs to make a namesake diode.
Clarence Zener
Name of the trophy given by Marca newspaper to best goals-to-games ratio in La liga
Ricardo Zamora Trophy
Most outstanding pitcher in MLB trophy name
Cy Young award
Outstanding goalkeeper of fifa World Cup trophy
Yashin Award
Highest award given by Geological Society of London named after scientist who discovered palladium and rhodium, observed dark gaps in solar spectrum, invented camera lucida.
Wollaston Medal
Prize named after German born inventor, immigrated to cuba, ambassador to Israel, established namesake foundation, prizes in six fields, agriculture, maths, arts (rotates) then chemistry; physics, medicine.
Wolf Prize
American astronomer born 1906, worked at Harvard for more than 70 years, “dirty snowball” hypothesis and invention of namesake shield: hyper velocity shield used to protect spacecraft from collisions with micrometeoroids.
Fred Whipple
Named after American nasa scientist, scenario proposed that density of objects in Low Earth Orbit due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris so more collisions.
Kessler syndrome
Johnny Warren Medal is awarded to best player in which league?
Australian A-League football
Cricket trophy awarded to winner of Tests between Australia and Sri Lanka, both best bowlers
Warne-Muralitharan Trophy
Sri Lanka only bowler to take 800 test wickets
Muttiah Muralitharan
Wanamaker Trophy is awarded to winner of what golf contest
PGA Championship
State of Origin series is best of three rugby league between which two teams
New South Wales Blues
Queensland Maroons
State of Origin player of series trophy in rugby league between NSW Blues and Queensland Maroons
Wally Lewis Medal
Named after grandfather of a president, the name of the trophy contested by mens amateur teams representing Us and GB Ireland.
Walker Cup
1952 Nobel Medicine awarded to scientist who researched decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin eg.
Selman Waksman
Name of prize presented to UK natural history book named after author of a pictorial guide to the Lakeland fells.
Wainwright Prize
Award to the best left handed pitcher in MLB
Warren Spahn Award
Trophy given to the winners of Major League Lacrosse championship named after fitness businessman who founded league.
Steinfeld Trophy
The championship game of the Canadian football league is known as what?
Grey Cup
Canadian Football League teams in East Division
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Ottawa Redblacks
Toronto Argonauts (most Grey Cup wins)
Canadian Football League teams in West Division
BC Lions - Vancouver
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Elks (1978 Commonwealth)
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Trophy awarded to Canadian player deemed to have the best performance in the Grey Cup game, championship of CFL.
Dick Suderman Trophy
Memorial Award awarded at Oscar’s named after head of production division of MGM.
Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award
Trophy in Rugby League awarded to the annual Challenge Cup Final’s man of the match. Named after a New Zealand born player who was killed in road accident during WW2.
Lance Todd Trophy
Trophy awarded in Rugby League to the man of the match in the Super League Grand Final, named after an Australian rugby league football administrator in UK.
Harry Sunderland Trophy
Harry Sunderland Trophy in 2022 awarded to which St Helen’s player?
Jonny Lomax
2021 Harry Sunderland Trophy awarded to which Fijian St Helens rugby league player.
Kevin Naiqama
Winner of the Lance Todd Trophy in 2022 while playing for Challenge Cup runner ups Huddersfield Giants?
Chris McQueen
What tournament is an international badminton competition among mens teams?
Thomas Cup
Cup awarded to the world womens team championship in badminton
Uber Cup
International badminton mixed team competition contested by Badminton World Federation, Thomas is mens, Uber is womens, this is mixed.
Sudirman Cup
What’s name of trophy awarded by LPGA to the golfer with lowest scoring average for the season?
Vare Trophy
LPGA player of the year and Vare Trophy winner in 2022? New Zealand
Lydia Ko
2006-09 four time lpga award winner Mexican
Lorena Ochoa
1995, 1997-98, 2001-05 Swedish golfer lpga and Vare Trophy winner
Annika Sorenstam
Vezina Trophy is awarded annually to NHL player of whcih position?
Goaltender the best of NHL gets which trophy each year
Sophia Awards are awarded to the best films in which country?
Portugal
Challenge trophy contested by womens professional teams representing the us and Europe golf
Solheim Cup
Trophy for mvp of the Stanley Cup playoffs
Conn Smythe Trophy
Russian American aviation pioneer in both helicopter and fixed wing aircraft
Igor Sikorsky
Born 1907-2014, Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist. Founded large film production companies in Hong Kong and TVB (dominant tv channel in HK). Established namesake prize.
Run Run Shaw
Biennial golf tournament between professional male golfers one team GB/Ireland and other Europe, played when no Ryder Cup, held from 2000-13.
Seve Trophy
Trophy awarded to British national who demonstrates outstanding skill, courage and initiative on land, water, air.
Segrave Trophy
The inaugural recipient of the Segrave Trophy was to whcih Australian? He piloted the first transpacific flight and first between Australia and New zealand.
Charles Kingsford Smith
First female winner of Segrave Trophy in 1932 when she was cited for flight from London to Cape Town in de Havilland Puss Moth.
Amy Johnson
First woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930
Amy Johnson
Winner of Segrave Trophy in 1966, only person to set both land and water speed records in same year (1964). Died during water speed record attempted at Coniston Water.
Donald Campbell
What craft did Donald Campbell die in on Coniston Water in 1967
Bluebird K7
Name of new Zealand racing car designer who founded a team whcih has won 8 world constructor championships and 12 world drivers. He won 3 Indy 500s as well as 24 Le Mans and 12 Hours Sebring.
Bruce McLaren
Annual motorsport endurance race held at a Florida international raceway over 12 hours. Tom Kristensen is Danish record holder of six wins.
12 Hours of Sebring
Sebring race for FIA World Endurance Championships is for how many miles?
1000 miles of sebring
World Endurance Championship race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps called what?
6 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps
World endurance championship race held in Italy?
6 Hours of Monza
What is the course that the 24 hours Le Mans is raced on?
Circuit de la Sarthe
World endurance championship race held in Japan
6 hours of Fuji
World endurance championship race held in Middle East
8 hours of Bahrain
Last five winners of American triple crown:
Secretariat (1973)
Seattle Slew (1977)
Affirmed (1978)
American Pharaoh (2015)
Justify (2018)
First winner of triple crown america was who in 1919
Sir Barton (Omaha was 1935)
Kentucky Derby run at Louisville at Churchill Downs. What’s flower based nickname?
Run for the Roses (first race 1875)
Belmont Stakes are run where?
Elmont, New York
Belmont Stakes flower based nickname
Run for the Carnations - third and final leg of triple crown
Preakness Stakes run at which race course and location?
Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
Preakness Stakes is the middle run of triple crown, KD 1st and BS 3rd, what’s its flowery nickname?
Run for the Black eyed Susans
Who was the northern Irish motorcyclist died in 2000 in Tallinn while leading a 125cc race
Joey Dunlop
Youngest recipient of Segrave trophy in 2018 after crash in 2017 led to double amputation of legs. Still racing and doing tv work.
Billy Monger
Billy Monger nickname off the beano fast character
Billy Whizz
Which company was founded by Eric Broadley in 1958 until 2012? Bromley to Slough to Huntingdon.
Lola Cars
Female pilot first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936? Winner of Segrave same year.
Jean Batten
Brazilian racing driver won Indy 500 four times 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021
Helio Castroneves
Name of American racing driver who won Indy 500 1961, 1964, 1967, 1977z
AJ Foyt
Swedish driver winner of Indy 500 2022
Marcus Ericsson
American race car driver won Indy 500 four times 1979, 1984, 1988, 1991
Rick Mears
American racing driver part of racing dynasty, second to have won 4 Indy 500!1970, 1971, 1978, 1987.
Al Unser
Japanese driver won two time winner of Indy 500 2017 and 2020
Takuma Sato
Training exercise in Star Trek franchise
Kobayashi Maru
Japanese driver and winner of 2021 24 hours of Le Mans
Kamui Kobayashi
How many laps does Indy 500 consist of? The 500 refers to miles.
200 laps - makes each lap 2.5 miles
British racing driver is a three time winner of Indy 500 in 2007, 2010 and 2012 and won 24 hours of Daytona.
Dario Franchitti
British driver who won Indy 500 twice, in 2005 and 2011, co winner of 2006 24 Hours of Daytona. Died in 2011 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Dan Wheldon
British driver winner of Indy 500 1965
Jim Clark
British driver winner 1966 Indy 500
Graham Hill
Italian Briton race car driver was winner of 1916 Indy 500. Nicknamed Dolly.
Dario Resta
Hawksbill Mountain is highest peak in which national park whose main park road is Skyline Drive. Virginia.
Shenandoah National Park
Plane nicknamed the Wooden Wonder. lord beaverbrook, minister of aircraft production, nicknamed it Freeman’s Folly.
De Havilland DH98 Mosquito
Motorcyclist had four 500CC championships, 6 wins at Isle of Man TT 1950s and won Segrave Trophy in 1951.
Geoff Duke
Stirling Moss won 1957 Segrave Trophy for winning three Grand Prix races with which team founded by Tony Vandervell
Vanwall
What was the first vertical and/or short take off and landing jet fighter bomber landed on HMS Ark Royal and led to Bill Bedford winning Segrave Trophy?
Hawker Siddeley Kestrel (led to Hawker Siddeley Harrier)
1980 Segrave Trophy for becoming the first woman to achieve more than 100mph on water on Lake Windermere
Fiona Gore
Who captained the flagship HMS Hermes during the Falklands Islands
Sandy Woodward
Which British driver was the 1988 World Sportscar champion with silk cut jaguar? Won 1988 24 hours Daytona and 1990 24 hours Le mans
Martin Brundle
Whcih British motorcycle racer won the 1994 Superbike Wolrd Championshop and in 1995, 1998 and 1999? Won Segrave Trophy in 1994.
Carl Fogarty
Who directed Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy, Oblivion, Spiderhead
Joseph Kosinski
Which Briton is a six time superbike world champion from 2015-20
Jonathan Rea (driving Kawasaki)
2021 Superbike World Champion, Turkish motorcyclist
Toprak Razgatlioglu
2022 Superbike world champion riding Panigale
Alvaro Bautista
2003 British Superbike world champion
Neil Hodgson
2004 and 2007 Superbike world champion British racer
James Toseland
British racer won 2013 Superbike world champion
Tom Sykes
Colin McRae won 1995 world rally championship with whcih team
Subaru
British racer from Scotland, three time winner of 24 hours Le Mans (1998, 2008, 2013), won the World Endurance Championship in 2013.
Allan McNish
Three time winner of Red Bill Air Race World Championship, 2009, 2010 and 2015.
Paul Bonhomme
British aerobatics pilot winner of 2014 Red Bull Air Race world championship
Nigel Lamb
Current CTO of Red Bull Racing, designed cars for Williams and McLaren winning there then moved to Red Bull Racing in 2006 where won constructor 2022 and drivers 2021 and 2022.
Adrian Newey
Dubai based British rally raid motorcycle rider best known for Dakar Rally whcih he won in 2017 and 2022
Sam Sunderland
What year was the last proper Paris-Dakar rally?
2001
1992 first year Paris Dakar rally didn’t finish in Dakar where did it go to!
Cape Town
Dakar Rally took place in what continent from 2009-2019
South America - mix of countries
Which country has Dakar Rally taking place in since 2020?
Saudi Arabia
What British adventurer in 2014 became first person to compete triathlon of Everest, cycle around world and rowing Atlantic? In 2019 he landed gyrocopter in Basingstoke, circumnavigated globe in 175 days.
James Ketchell
American billionaire who has done seven summits and visited all five deepest points of all five oceans?
Victor Vescovo
The Horizon Deep is in which trench, the second deepest in world after Mariana and deepest in south hemisphere.
Tonga Trench
Name of the third deepest point after Challenger Deep (Mariana) and Horizon Deep (Tonga)
Sirena Deep
Name of the deepest trench in the Atlantic Ocean
Puerto Rico Trench
Name of the Deep containing the Brownson Deep of the Puerto Rico Trench
Milwaukee Deep
What is the trench containing the deepest point of the Southern Ocean?
South Sandwich Trench
Lowest point of the Indian Ocean found in which trench
Sunda Trench (sometimes Java Trench)
Name of the lowest point of the Arctic Ocean in the Fram strait
Molloy Deep
Schneider Cup awarded to winner of race for what
Seaplanes and flying boats
Peace prize named after a soviet nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate in 1975, given by European Parliament.
Sakharov Prize
2022 Abel Prize winner for groundbreaking contributions to topology.
Dennis Sullivan
Prize named after mathematician lived 1802-1829
Abel Prize
Aga Khan Trophy given for what
Ireland’s showjumping Nations Cup competition
Medal awarded by Royal Society of London to sciences of any nationality
Copley Medal
Dutch super cup trophy contested between eredivisie and KNVB cup named after which footballer
Johan Cruyff Shield
Womens amateur teams USA against GB/Ireland in golf is what trophy
Curtis Cup
Which two teams have won most titles for Ligue 1
PSG and Saint-Etienne have 10 each as of 2021-22 season
Which team won Ligue 1 in 2020-21
Lille
Which teams have won top 4 leagues of country the most times?
Premier League - Man U - 13 times
La Liga - Real Madrid - 35 times
Serie A - Juventus - 36 times
Bundesliga - B Munich - 31 times
Russian Premier League most titles
Spartak Moscow
CSKA stands for what
Central Sports Club of the Army
Whcih team won Russian premier league for last four seasons
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Most successful club in J1 league football
Kashima Antlers (Kashima means deer island)
Name portmanteau from Japanese for three and Italian for arrows gives Hiroshima J1 football team
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
J1 football team comes from Japanese for “to do your best”
Gamba Osaka
Football team in J1 league, Wenger, Lineker and Dragan Stojkovic, named after dolphins “Risso’s Dolphin” on top of local castle.
Nagoya Grampus
Most wins Australian and New Zealand A League
Sydney FC (5 - last in 2020)
Australian A League fun team names
Brisbane Roar
Newcastle Jets
Melbourne Victory
Wellington Phoenix
Winner of 2020-21 Serie A
Inter Milan
2021-22 Serie A winner
AC Milan
2020-21 La Liga winner
Athletico Madrid
Who created inspector Wexford
Ruth Rendel
Whose first appearance was From Doon with Death in 1964
Ruth Rendell’s Inspector Wexford
Inspector Wexford first name and who played him in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Reginald “Reg” Wexford and George Baker
Author wrote first novel Blindsighted (2001), 2018 novel Pieces of Her adapted by Netflix, Grant County series, Will Trent series.
Karin Slaughter
Highest building in the EU is now what Warsaw structure since October 2022
Varso Tower is found in which EU capital?
What building did Varso Tower overtake as EU tallest building in 2022, found in Frankfurt
Commerzbank Tower
Three traditional units of length in China.
Bu, Chi, Li
1 Bu = 5/6 Chi
1 Li = 300/360 Bu
Actor who played Captain Peacock in Are you being served? And it’s sequel Grace and Favour. Also Herbert Truly Truelove in Last of Summer Wine
Frank Thornton
British athlete won long jump gold medal at 1964 Summer Olympics, also won the silver pentathlon and bronze at 4x100m at same olympics
Mary Rand
Ginger Rogers real name and Oscar film
Virginia McMath
Kitty Foyle (1941)
Who wrote Defensor Pacis (The Defender of Peace)? Appeared in 1324.
Marsilius of Padua
Four languages of Switzerland
French, German, Italian (Ticino, Graubunden), Romansh (Graubunden)
Term for the Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people
Jerriais
Most successful team in Netball Superleague
Team Bath
Name of Leeds netball superleague team that started in 2021
Leeds Rhinos
Team which plays netball super league from cardiff
Celtic Dragons
London team in Netball Superleague
London Pulse
Loughborough Lightning and Team Bath play in which sport in UK
Netball (superleague)
Severn stars of the Netball Superleague play from whcih city?
Worcester
Saracens Mavericks from netball Superleague are based in whcih town
Hatfield
Team based in Belle vue in netball Superleague
Manchester Thunder
Only Scottish team in netball Superleague, in district of glasgow Dalmarnock
Strathclyde Sirens
Surrey Storm play in netball Superleague from which town
Guildford
Whcih netball team final season in netball Superleague was 2022, name like rugby same city
Wasps Netball from Coventry
Speedway Champions in 2021 are whcih team based in Cambridgeshire
Peterborough Panthers
Speedway premiership second place 2021 are which team based in Manchester
Belle Vue Aces
British Speedway Premiership team based in Suffolk
Ipswich Witches
British speedway premiership team based out of Norfolk
Kings Lynn Stars
British speedway team premiership based from midlands
Wolverhampton Wolves
Speedway premiership team based out of Yorkshire
Sheffield Tigers
Whcih Womens cricket team has won The Hundred in both 2021 and 2022?
Oval Invincibles
Whcih Womens cricket team has been runner up in The Hundred in both 2021 and 2022?
Southern Brave
Which mens cricket team won The Hundred in 2022 against Manchester Originals in the final?
Trent Rockets
Whcih mens cricket team won The Hundred in 2021 against Birmingham Phoenix?
Southern Brave
1930 World Cup golden boot Uruguay
Guillermo Stabile
1934 World Cup golden boot Czech
Oldrich Nejedly
1938 World Cup golden boot Brazilian
Leonidas
1950 World Cup golden boot Brazilian
Ademir
1954 World Cup Golden Boot Hungarian
Sandor Kocsis
1958 Sweden World Cup golden boot winner Frenchman
Just Fontaine 13 goals
1962 Chile World Cup golden boot 6 players scored four goals: Hungarian, russian, two Brazilians, Yugoslav, Chilean
Florian Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Garrincha, vava, Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez
1966 World Cup golden boot
Eusebio
1970 mexico World Cup golden boot German
Gerd Muller
1974 West Germany World Cup golden boot polish
Grzegorz Lato
1978 Argentina World Cup golden boot Argentinian
Mario Kempes
1982 Spain World Cup golden shoe Italian
Paolo Rossi
1986 Mexico World Cup golden shoe
Gary Lineker
1990 Italy World Cup golden shoe Italian
Salvatore Schillaci
1994 Usa world cup golden shoe joint 6 goals each Russian and Bulgarian
Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov
1998 France world cup golden shoe winner Croatian
Davor Suker
2002 Japan/SK World Cup golden shoe winner Brazilian
Ronaldo
2006 Germany World Cup golden shoe German
Miroslav Klose
2010 South Africa World Cup golden boot German
Thomas Muller
2014 Brazil World Cup golden boot winner
James Rodriguez Colombia
2018 Russia World Cup golden boot winner
Harry Kane
Born Kim Taylor, British tv presenter known for presenting Rough Guide and Reportage in 1990s. Later did Young Gifted and Broke.
Magenta Devine
New Zealand sportswoman who has played cricket for womens team (White Ferns) and field hockey for womens team (Black Sticks Women). She doesn’t wear a helmet. Captain of NZ cricket team.
Sophie Devine
Who played Cookie, sidekick of Roy Rogers in 10 films, alongside John Wayne in Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, How the West Was Won? Was voice of Friar Tuck in Robin Hood.
Andy Devine
John Ford four best director Oscars
The Informer (1935)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Who voices Prince John in Disney’s Robin Hood
Peter Ustinov
Who sang King of the Road, Dang Me, England Swings. Voiced Alan-a-Dale in Disney’s Robin Hood.
Roger Miller
Who voiced Robin Hood in Disney film?
Brian Bedford
Who voiced Sir Hiss in Robin Hood, known for his gap in two front teeth?
Terry-Thomas (born Thomas Stevens)
Who created the vocal persona of Basil Brush basing it on Terry-Thomas
Ivan Owen
Who voiced Baloo in Jungle Book, Thomas O’Malley in Aristocats, Little John in Robin Hood and Patou in Rock-a-Doodle?
Phil Harris
Which Australian band sings I Touch Myself
Divinyls
Which Dutch scientist discovered superconductivity in 1911?
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Which Dutchman liquefied helium for the first time in 1908?
Heike Kamerlingh Onnessl
Who coined the term entropy in 1865?
Rudolf Clausius
Who coined the term enthalpy in 1909 in print but probably said orally before? He won Nobel Prize Physics in 1913.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Symbol for Enthalpy
H
The symbol for entropy
S
What is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it is cooled below the critical temperature? Named after German physicist.
Meissner Effect
Named after American Nobel winner, term for a pair of electrons bound together at low temperature in a certain way. This state is responsible for superconductivity as described in BCS Theory.
Cooper Pair
Second largest city in the Arctic Circle. A lot of large nickel deposits, lots of mining.
Norilsk
Largest city inside the arctic circle, sits on Kola Bay, inlet of Barents Sea. City named for Coast it is on, term for archaic term Russian for Norwegian.
Murmansk
Russian naval officer and arctic explorer: sea named after him, found between Kara Sea to west and East Siberian Sea to east. Lena flows into it.
Laptev
Which sea of Arctic Ocean is named after a river with name from “hummocked ice”? It is between Barents Sea (west) and Laptev Sea (East)
Kara Sea
Which sea is named after a Dutch navigator (1550-1597)?
Barents Sea
Whcih marginal sea of Arctic Ocean which has southern limit of Bering Strait. Beaufort Sea to right and East Siberian Sea to left. Named after the Siberian indigenous people who lived on namesake peninsula.
Chukchi Sea
Marginal sea of Arctic Ocean above Cape Columbia (alert is northernmost continuously inhabited place on earth located on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut) and Greenland. Sea named after secretary of war (son of President).
Lincoln Sea
Sea area bounded by Jutland peninsula to west, and Sweden to the east
Kattegat
Strait running between Jutland peninsula of Denmark and south east coast of Norway
Skaggerak
Narrow region of Gulf of Bothnia separating Bothnian Bay from Bothnian Sea.
Kvarken
Name of the largest of a string of lagoons that stretch along French coast from Rhone river to foothills of Pyrenees and the border to Spain in the languedoc-Roussillon. Considered second largest lake of France
Etang de Thau
Which is the deepest lake located entirely within France? Either largest or second largest in France depending on season. It is southernmost end of Jura Mountains in Savoie department.
Lac du Bourget
Lake southwest of Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique department, largest lake in winter and second after Lac du bourget in summer.
Lac de grand-lieu
Largest lake in Italy, lake shared between Brescia, Verona and Trentino provinces.
Lake Garda
Second largest lake in Italy, shared between Piedmont and Lombardy in Italy and Swiss canton of Ticino. Extends between Locarno and Arona.
Lake Maggiore
Third largest lake in Italy found in Lombardy. Has villa Olmo, villa Serbelloni, villa Carlotta.it is shared like a Y shape which forms the Larian Triangle with Canzo as capital.
Lake Como
Fourth largest lake in Italy. Province of Perugia, region of Umbria, on border of Tuscany. Battle took place 217BC during second Punic war: Hannibal beat Gaius Flaminius.
Lake Trasimeno
Russian-German-Prussian zoologist and explorer known for expedition to extreme north and east of Siberia describing effects of permafrost. Animals include his grasshopper warbler, his cape on Novaya Zemyla, Kodiak Bear (Ursus Arctos ________). Coined term Aufeis for sheet like mass layered ice from successive water flows.
Alexander von Middendorf
What year was the Khaki election so named due to the belief a war had been won
1900 (second boer war) first time Churchill elected.
Which year election was called the coupon election after coined by Herbert Henry Asquith? Letters signed by David Lloyd George Coalition liberals and Bonar Law of Conservatives.
1918
When was VAT first introduced in UK replacing Purchase Tax
1973
First what sold to Alderman Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd by Postmaster General Dr Charles Hill in 1956
Premium Bond
In premium bond selling what does Ernie stand for!
Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment
What were introduced in 2020 and the first qualifications awarded in August 2022? Mentioned by Hammond in 2017 statement.
T Level
Who was president of Plaid Cymru for 36 years 1945-81 and the first Plaid Cymru MP at Westminster. Couldn’t take oath in welsh. Managed to get welsh tv channel.
Gwynfor Evans
Canadian born criminal of Lithuanian descent, Alvin Karpis was nicknamed what?
Creepy
Which criminal with the gangster name Creepy spent most time at Alcatraz serving 26 years
Alvin Karpis
Only four people given Public Enemy #1 by FBI, only one alive, who they?
Alvin Creepy Karpis (alive)
John Dillinger
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd
Lester Joseph Gillis - George “Baby Face” Nelson
Robert Yates invented what in 1955 kitchen appliance
Can Opener
British explorer and geographer disappeared in 1925 in Brazil looking for “Z” lost city: born 1867, film called The Lost City of Z in 2016 directed by James Gray starring Charlie Hunnam.
Percy Fawcett
Film director directed Little Odessa, The Yards, We Own the Night, Two Lovers (based on Dostoyevsky’s 1848 short story White Nights), the immigrant, Ad Astra, Armageddon Time.
James Gray
Harley Davidson founded in 1903 in which city?
Milwaukee
Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst and Miller are four breweries founded in which US city famous for brewing?
Milwaukee
What movement founded 1961 in Belgrade referring to countries not linked to major blocs?
Non Aligned Movement
British agency name indicates original military purpose of mapping Scotland in the wake of Jacobite rebellion in 1745? Scared of invasion by napoleonic wars.
Ordnance Survey
1962: Jean Ames in Britain and Leonard Rivkin in America invented which car passenger safety equipment independently?
Car seats for kids
What was invented in 1959 by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin?
Modern three point seatbelt
Mary Anderson, Robert Douglass and John Apjohn independently patented what car safety devices in 1903?
Windscreen wipers
US architect largest responsible for the “california” style and known most for “Pickfair” mansion belonging to Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks?
Wallace Neff
Which champagne brand founded 1760 by a Francis Delamotte, focused on exporting to foreign markets, displayed coat of arms of Elizabeth II on bottles.
Lanson
Name for the stage where lees must be consolidated for removal, called remuage in French, placed on pupitres hold at 35 degree angle, once every two days champagne bottles shaken and turned.
Riddling
Sparkling wine in Portugal called what? Compare to French champagne and Spanish cava.
Espumante
Charmat method is an alternative to the traditional method of making what?
Sparkling wine
Term for deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast that are carried by The action of “fining”, to bottom of vat of wine after fermentation and again.
Lees
Whose passport named after League of Nations high commissioner for refugees, also a Nobel peace prize winner?
Nansen Passports
Language family including Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu, Shona.
Bantu
Which welsh international rugby player in 2011 became first person for explorers grand slam, seven summits and north and South Pole all in same year
Richard Parks
Largest town in South Lanarkshire, designated scotlands first new town in May 1947.
East Kilbride
Chaplin was acquitted, Jack Johnson and Chuck berry convicted under which us federal law about transporting women over state lines?
Mann Act
African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to arctic over 23 years.
Matthew Henson
Geodesic dome architect
Buckminster Fuller
Donoghue v Stevenson, Mrs Donaghue found what in ginger beer establishing duty of care and negligence law cases?
Paisley Snail or Snail in the Bottle
1962: first commercial hovercraft service on welsh coast from moreton, Merseyside, to which welsh seaside resort?
Rhyl
Town on Potomac in Virginia has us marine corps base and fbi academy
Quantico
Which Irish playwright posthumously funded development of alphabet which 1) at least forty letters, 2) be as phonetic as possible, 3) be distinct from Latin alphabet
George Bernard Shaw (Shavian alphabet)
One of englands first mosques in liverpool in 1889 founded by who? A think tank aimed at challenging Islamic extremism is named after him.
William Henry “Abdullah” Quilliam
Search for Odin in 1990: link tribes from Azerbaijan and azov with migrations to Scandinavia. Known for other voyages.
Thor Heyerdahl
Who was first native American to receive an electoral college vote for President (so with Hillary first two women to receive votes) in 2016?
Faith Spotted Eagle (by Robert Satiacum in Washington)
Which canal connects village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with Sound of Jura, providing route between Clyde and Inner Hebrides?
Crinan Canal
Ancient Roman goddess of war
Bellona
Band singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill (died 2020 covid, married to Catherine Mayer of Womens Equality Party), in which band?
Gang of Four
Who created Derry Girls
Lisa McGee
Star of a series of novels written by Janet Evanovich. She is a spunky combination of Nancy Drew and Dirty Harry, and—although a female bounty hunter—is the opposite of Domino Harvey.
Stephanie Plum
MC Beaton created lackadaisical police constable of the fictional Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh as portrayed by Robert Carlyle?
Hamish Macbeth
Hamish Macbeth first book
Death of a Gossip
Played by Penelope Keith on radio 4 and Ashley Jensen tv series whcih detective was created by MC Beaton?
Agatha Raisin
Agatha Raisin first book by mc Beaton?
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Detective created by Ann Cleeves and played by Brenda Blethyn
Vera Stanhope
Ben Aldridge plays which Ann Cleeves created detective in the TV adaptation The Long Call?
Matthew Venn
Tv show Shetland stars Douglas Henshall as whcih Ann Cleeves created detective?
Jimmy Perez
Which tv detective first appeared in 1999 book The Crow Trap?
Vera Stanhope - Ann Cleeves
The Four Seasons Quartet starting with Raven Black and the Four Elements Quartet are the books on whcih tv show is based
Shetland
name given in western culture to a purportedly huge and magical city in the interior of Africa, on the banks of the Niger River, Niger
Houssa
Name of disease whcih causes copper to accumulate in liver and brain
Wilsons DiSease
Syndrome affects the heart Caused by allergic reaction To drugs and named after Greek doctor
Kounis syndrome
Also known as toxic diffuse goiter, autoimmune disease affecting thyroid named after Irish surgeon - in German it’s named after Basedow so called Morbus Basedow. Rodney Dangerfield, Gail Devers, Marty Feldman, Christina Rosseti.
Graves Disease
Rumoured to have killed Jane Austen, disease long term endocrine disorder inadequate reproduction of steroid hormones cortisol and aldosterone by adrenal glands. Originally called melasma suprarenale by eponymous doctor. jFK had too.
Addison’s disease
Named after Japanese physician, autoimmune disease which thyroid gland is gradually destroyed.
Hashimoto’s Disease/Thyroiditis
Emperor who became first monarch of Empire of Japan in 1867-1912
Emperor Meiji
Emperor of Japan 1912-26 replacing Meiji and before Showa. Give official name and person name.
Emperor Taisho - Yoshihito
Emperor of Japan 1926-89, era name and personal name.
Showa Emperor - Hirohito
Emperor of Japan 1989-2019. 1989 got to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Three children Naruhito, Fumihito, Sayako (princess Nori).
Emperor Heisei - Akihito
Emperor of Japan since 2019. Son of Akihito and Michiko. Has one daughter Aiko, Princess Toshi. Plays viola and interested in water conservation.
Naruhito - will be renamed Reiwa Era later
Who is the heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito even though hasndaughter Aoki? His brother.
Fumihito
French name of Alain-Fournier only novel, in English it’s lost estate or lost domain.
Le Grand Meaulnes
Making an argument using only quantitative observations is the quantitative fallacy and named after which US secretary of defence 1961-68
McNamara fallacy
Which term Latin for little person is first attributed to Paracelsus (1493-1541) is used in a fallacy name using middle man for explanation, so explaining in terms of concept itself without explaining real nature?
Homunculus Fallacy
Boyle’s Law called what in France
Mariotte’s Law
Which law states pressure by given mass is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if temperature and amount of gas is unchanged?
Boyles Law
French scientist named law experimental that describes how gases tend to expand when heated eg when pressure same, temperature and volume will be in direct proportion.
Charle’s Law
Whose law states equal volume of gasses, at same temp and pressure, have same number of molecules.
Avogadro’s Law
Whose law of combining volumes states ratio between volumes of reactant gases and the gaseous products can be expressed in simple whole numbers, born 1778
Gay Lussac’s Law
Which equation named after Swedish scientist proposed it in 1889, is a formula for the temperature dependence of reaction rates?
Arrhenius equation
1920 Nobel chemistry for third law of thermodynamics and namesake equation for chemical thermodynamical relationship that permits calculation of a reduction potential of a reaction.
Nernst equation
Name of 2017 British comedy by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais about fictional namesake King of England played by Charles Edwards
Henry IX
Who played Lord Celebrimbor in Rings of Power, Henry IX in comedy, Michael Gregson in Downton Abbey and Michael Charteris in The Crown?
Charles Edwards
British army officer and courtier of Elizabeth II, longest serving assistant private secretary to sovereign for over 20 years, became private secretary.
Martin Charteris
Name of Private Secretary to the sovereign since September 2022
Clive Alderton has had what role since September 2022
Ben Edlund created which fictional superhero as a newsletter mascot for the New England comics chain.
The Tick
Actor born in Liverpool, voice of Darth Maul in Phantom Menace and Pete in Shaunnfonthe Dead.
Peter Serafinowicz
Name of the outermost edge of the heliosphere
Heliopause
CME significant release of plasma and accompanying magnetic field from suns corona into the heliosphere.
Coronal Mass Ejection
Ruined medieval fortification in town of same name in Shropshire, overlooking river Teme, Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon had honeymoon there in 1501.
Ludlow Castle
Catherine of Aragon died in which Cambridgeshire country house family seat of earls and dukes of Manchester.
KimBolton House
Catherine of Aragon buried in which cathedral?
Peterborough Cathedral
Previously known as Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, what stadium in Qatar takes it name from number of shipping containers used to construct it?
Stadium 974
Which family are a prominent martial arts family originally from Belém, state of Pará, Brazil whose ancestors came from Paisley, Scotland. They are known for creating the self-defense martial arts system of known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Gracie
Brazilian gymnast who won Gold on Vault 2020 Tokyo and Silver in all-round, first Brazilian to medal in gymnastics
Rebeca Andrade
Directed by Terry Gilliam, which dark comedy film with Orwellian overtones was originally going to be called 1984½?
Brazil
Since 2005, which term has replaced Bachelor and Spinster in marriage registers to describe men and women who have never been married?
Single
Used as a poison in breaking bad, which flower was reportedly favourite of Queen Elizabeth II and theme of poem “Floral Tribute” by poet laureate Simon armitage published week after death.
Lily of the valley
Convallaria Majalis woodland flowering plant
Lily of the Valley
Which motto on heraldic badge of prince of wales sits under three ostrich feathers encircled by a gold coronet with a ribbon below with motto?
Ich Dien (I serve in German)
Central Government War Headquarters is 35 acre complex built 120ft underground in event of nuclear conflict or war with Soviet Union. Located in which county?
Corsham, Wiltshire.
Oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Originally obtained from Combe Down and Bathampton Down Minds in Somerset. Honey appearance and is a freestone meaning can be sawn in any direction.
Bath Stone
Pre war film stock made of which inflammable material?
Cellulose Nitrate
Symbol for youth hostel on ordnance survey map?
Pink triangle
What does a + symbol mean on ordnance survey map?
Site of Worship
WhT symbolises battle ground on ordnance survey map?
Crossed Swords
English heritage logo has how many protrusions coming from the red square
12 (3 on each side)
Who narrated In the Night Garden?
Derek Jacobi
15th wedding anniversary is what?
Crystal
“Can’t pay? Won’t pay!”, accidental death of an anarchist, trumpets and raspberries, the open couple, Italian playwright
Dario Fo
Wooden foot used by shoemakers and cordwainers for manufacture and repair of shoe?
Last
Word comes from Hebrew for a rams horn once used as a trumpet?
Jubilee
TV character served in several military campaigns, including the Gordon Relief Expedition to the Sudan, the Boer War and the First World War, though is best known for his voluntary service in World War II and his advice for people to stay calm?
Lance Corporal Jones
Oldest video game in video game hall of game. Released in 1962 and a space combat game written for newly installed DEC PDP-1 at MIT
Spacewar!
1971 video game developed teach school children about realities of 19th century pioneer life. From Independence Missouri to namesake place.
The Oregon Trail
What year was Pong released by Atari?
1972
1976 text based adventure game for PDP 10 mainframe computer, explores cave systems rumoured to be filled with treasure and gold.
Colossal Cave Adventure
Inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure, which 1977 game players explore abandoned great underground empire in search of treasure. PDP-10 text based game.
Zork
Designed by Steve Wozniak and influenced by Pong, later of bricks in top third of screen and goal to destroy them using ball and paddle. Released in Japan by Namco.
Breakout
1986 block breaker arcade game published by Taito, North American by Romstar. Colourful blocks and paddle like craft called Vaus. Expanded on previous 1976 game.
Arkanoid
1978 Taito (Japan) and Midway (overseas) video game.
Space Invaders
In space invaders how many aliens start on the screen at start of game
55 - 5 rows of 11
Japanese sci-fi anime series from 1974-75 which inspired Space Invaders. Name derived from WW2 ship.
Space Battleship Yamato
Port and major ship building city situated on Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Second oldest naval dockyards in Japan and has naval base.
Kure
Truk Naval Base used by Japan in WW2 is situated in current day country?
Micronesia - Chuuk Lagoon
Two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, one the namesake of the class battleship. Both sunk participating in Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
Yamato and Musashi
Japanese military fiction media franchise featuring giant robots or mecha, with the namesake of the series name. The name comes from portmanteau of a certain weapon and another word.
Gundam
Created by Hideaki Anno and owned by Khara, which franchise features apocalyptic mecha action story revolves around efforts of paramilitary NERV to fight hostile beings called Angels using giant humanoids known as the namesake of series.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Mechanical game originating in Japan used as an arcade game and much more frequently for gambling. Name from onomatopoeic sound.
Pachinko
What year PAC-Man Released
1980
1981 fixed shooter arcade game one of first with significant female player base, shoot all segments of namesake arthropod that winds down playing field.
Centipede
Which other creatures appear in the arcade game Centipede and are worth varying points?
Fleas: drop vertically
Spiders: zig-zag pattern
Scorpions: move horizontally
Sequel to 1981 arcade game Centipede
Millipede
Video game designer who codeveloped Super Breakout, codeveloped Asteroids with Lyle Rains, and helped with Centipede, Millipede, the Gauntlet series.
Ed Logg
Term for invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton from green for joint foot?
Arthropod
Arthropod’s jointed limbs and cuticles made of what long chain polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose. It is the second most abundant polysaccharide after cellulose.
Chitin
Primary component of cell walls in fungi, the radula, cephalopod beaks and gladii of molluscs. Second most polysaccharide in nature behind cellulose.
Chitin
Term for the anatomical structure used by molluscs for feeding sometimes compared to a tongue
Radula
Term from Latin for beak for anatomy, in crustaceans toward extension of the carapace in front of eyes, insects name for piercing mouthparts of some, molluscs little beaks.
Rostrum
Octopodiformes is super order of the subclass Coleoidea comprising of octopuses and which creature ?
Vampire Squid
Term for the fluid found in arthropods analogous to blood in vertebrates.
Hemolymph
In 1981 arcade video game Donkey Kong, Mario is trying to rescue which character from clutches of Donkey Kong?
Pauline
1982 arcade game partner of PAC Man
Ms Pac-Man
1982 video game released for IBM PC where player flies a Cessna 182 in Chicago, LA, NYC or Seattle. Video Game Hall of Fame.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0
1984 adventure game for IBM PCjr, designed by Roberta Williams, young knight Sir Graham must save the Kingdom of Daventry to become King.
Kings Quest 1
Educational video game released in 1985, distributed with The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Takes control of role of rookie in fictional ACME Detective Agency, tasked to track down crooks from the VILE organisation. Namesake is leader of VILE.
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
What year was Super Mario Bros released for the NES? Two years after first appearance in arcade game Mario Bros.
1985 (1983 arcade game - first DK appearance 1981)
Name of Princess Peach in 1985 Super Mario Bros game.
Princess Toadstool
Original version of what game was programmed by Wes Cherry and cards designed by Susan Kare? Video game hall of fame.
Solitaire
Name of baseball video game in 1987 that led to John Madden Football being made.
Earl Weaver Baseball
First John Madden Football game released on Apple II in 1988. The first in the 1990 series was on which console?
Sega Genesis
Sega Genesis was how many bits?
16
What Sega video game console succeeded the Genesis in 1994?
Sega Saturn
Sega game console after Saturn, it was the last Sega console.
Dreamcast
Subtitle of Street Fighter II released in 1991 by Capcom, in sequel to 1987 original.
The World Warrior
In Street Fighter II, who was the leader of the Shadaloo organisation who sets up a world fighting tournament to select best fighters?
M Bison
Main protagonist and master of ceremony of Street Fighter Series
Ryu
Ryu’s best friend in street fighter series.
Ken Masters
Street Fighter II introduced which sumo wrestler fictional character?
E Honda
Beast like mutant from Brazil who was raised in the jungle in Street Fighter II?
Blanka
First ever female playable character to appear in fighting game to gain mainstream recognition, character in Street Fivhter II is a chinese Marita artist who works as interpol officer.
Chun-Li
Russian professional wrestler and sambo fighter from Soviet Union on Street Fighter II?
Zangief
Russian martial art with soviet origins, comes from acronym translating to “self defence without weapons”.
Sambo
Fire breathing yoga master from India in Street fighter II?
Dhalsim
American boxer with similarity to Mike Tyson, street fighter 2?
Balrog
Spanish bullfighter who wields a claw and uses ninjutsu in Street Fighter 2.
Vega
A Muay Thai kick-boxer from Thailand and former world warrior champion from original street fighter.
Sagat
Dr Robotnik first name in Sonic the Hedgehog 1991 video game.
Ivo
How many playable characters from original Super Mario Kart in 1992?
8
1992 arcade fighting game developed by Midway?
Mortal Kombat
Game takes place in Earthrealm, tournament held on Shang Tsung’s Island. Goro undefeated at tournament for 500 years.
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: action movie star with an extensive martial arts background.
Johnny Cage
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: leader of the Black Dragon, has a cybernetic eye. Archenemy of Sonya Blade.
Kano
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: debuted as Shaolin monk.
Liu Kang
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: based on Japanese deity Raijin, depicted as god of thunder who possesses control over lightning. Wore hat.
Raiden
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: an undead ninja, primary weapon Kunai spear, fatality is fire breath. Defined by quest to avenge deaths of himself family and clan.
Scorpion
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: solo female fighter, inspired by Cynthia Rothrock, military officer with special forces. Archenemy with Kano.
Sonya Blade
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: warrior from fictional Lin Kuei clan, controls ice in many forms, only fighter to appear in every main installment of series.
Sub-Zero
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: final boss and one of main villains, powerful sorcerer, can shapeshifter and absorb souls of defeated warriors.
Shang Tsung
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: first secret character in fighting game history, hidden opponent in this game. He is a Zaterra Saurian.
Reptile
Mortal Kombat character from 1992: sub-boss Shokan, half human half dragon has four arms and enormous.
Goro
Mortal Kombat 2 character from 1993: leader of special forces unit , metal bionic arms all upper body strength.
Jax Briggs
Staff weapon used in Okinawa, normally 1.8m, used by Jade in Mortal Kombat series.
Bo
Japanese sword characterised by curved single edged blade with circular guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Used by samurai.
Katana
Sarn Park, Magor, Leigh Delamere, Membury and Chieveley are all services on which motorway?
M4
Fleet and Winchester services in which motorway?
M3
Pease Pottage services on which motorway?
M23
Maidstone, Folkestone on which services motorway?
M20
South Mimms, Thurrock, on what motorway
M25
Southernmost motorway service station of M1
London Gateway
What motorway is Birchanger Green services on?
M11
Waterford Gap services are in which county?
Northamptonshire
Which motorway is Toddington, Newport Pagnell, Leicester Forest East, Donington, Trowell, Tibshelf, Woodall, Woolley Edge are services on which motorway?
M1
Exeter, Cullompton, Taunton Deane, Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Gordano, Gloucester, Strensham, Frankley, all services on which motorway?
M5
Warwick, Cherwell Valley, Oxford, Beaconsfield all services on which motorway?
M40
Norton Canes, Stafford, Keele, Sandbach, Knutsford, Charnock Richard, Lancaster (Forton), Burton-in-Kendal, Killington Lake, Tebay, Southwaite, Todhills (most north) all on which motorway?
M6
Commonly known as Harthill Services, the Heart of Scotland services, is on which motorway?
M8
Which british service station operator operates 59 stations cross uk? Currently biggest provider, logo has little yellow line looking like smile.
Moto
Second largest motorway service station operator with 35 stations. Green and white wording on logo.
Welcome Break
21 services operated by whcih company founded 1973? Red and white logo.
Roadchef
What year did Virgil Earp fight against The Cowboys in Tombstone, Arizona?
1881
Erection of hairs due to involuntary contraction of small muscles at base of hair follicles. Comes from Latin for hair.
Piloerection
Official magazine of the Magic Circle
Magic Circular
Within ghost hunting and parapsychology, what does EVP stand for?
Electronic voice phenomenon
Vampire Bats found mostly in which continent?
South America
Nickname of Peak Cavern one of four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire due to sounds it makes after heavy rain.
The Devil’s Arse
Before pumpkins the Irish carved faces into which vegetables!
Turnips
Name of the last person in Scotland to be convicted of Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims. Famous for producing ectoplasm.
Helen Duncan
What kind of make was the Ghostbusters car with the reg ECTO-1
1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance
Which mythical creatures were said to have arithmomania meaning to count things and actions. People scattered rice and salt to keep them counting.
Vampires
Address of the Munsters
1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights
In Cape Town folklore, which Dutch sailor in 18th century challenged the devil to a smoking competition on slopes of Devil’s Peak on Table Mountain.
Jan van Hunks
Most common blood group in world
O+
Universal donor blood type because they can receive any donations
O Negative
Universal recipient blood type
AB+
Born 1900 in Budapest, Hungary. Called The Sun Queen due to work on solar energy technologies. Google doodle December 2022. Worked with creating solar distillation, used sodium sulphate early on. In the 1940s her and architect Eleanor Raymond used solar to heat house for first time.
Maria Telkes
Name of whcih small nocturnal lizard from Malay for the imitation of its cry
Gecko
Glam rock band which covered Spirit in the Sky and got to Number 1. Lead singer Clive Jackson.
Doctor and the Medics
Bal du moulin de La Gallette 1876 painting by which French artist?
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Playing Dr Simon Sparrow who starred in 1954 Doctor in the House and then Doctor at Sea in 1955.
Dirk Bogarde
Who produced the HD DVD in competition with Sony Blu Ray?
Toshiba
Which American company created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system. Founded by McNealy, Khosla, Bechtolsheim, Joy in 1982. Bought by Oracle in 2009 for $7.4bn.
Sun Microsystems
R in RSA algorithm stands for
Rivest
S in RSA algorithm stands for
Shamir
A in RSA algorithm stands for
Adleman
April 30 1970 Nixon publicly announced incursion into whcih Asian country?
Cambodia
Gulf of Tonkin incident year
1964
What was signed in January 1973 which saw all Us troops pulled out of Vietnam
Paris Peace Accords
Phnom Penh fell to Khymer Rouge and Fall of Saigon both in what year marking end of Vietnam war?
1975
Name of Hyacinth Buckets unseen son in Keeping Up appearances?
Sheridan
May 4 1970 shootings at which Ohio University?
Kent State
Which island of Japan is just 26 miles from Russia at closest point?
Hokkaido
Name of islands which are volcanic archipelago currently administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast as part of Russia. Japan claims the four southernmost islands Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, Habomai.
Kuril Islands
Tom Bailey, Joe Leeway and Alannah Currie made up which band!
Thompson Twins
Actress played Dee and Dennis mum in Sunny Phillie, played Beth the wife in Fatal attraction and Harrison fords wifr in Patriot games and Clear and Present Danger?
Anne archer
Who played Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom? Later married director.
Kate Capshaw
The Sorrows of the King 1952 collage by which artist?
Henri Matisse
Family name in the British sitcom Bread
Boswell
Who played Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane’s Bread?
Jean Boht
Name of Freddie Boswell’s mistress in the sitcom Bread
Lilo Lil
2001 book To Hell in a Handcart the only novel of which journalist now known for Daily Mail controversial columns
Richard Littlejohn
Fashion designer known for designing tennis wear, Navratilova wore his creations in 1979 when winning, 1983 Billie Jean King wore his stuff. Designed Chris Evert’s wedding dress when she married John Lloyd in 1979. Banned from Wimbledon for dressing Gussie Moran in 1949 including white lace underwear.
Ted Tinling
Japanese Dean who gives name in relation to namesake protocol a High intensity interval training technique used to coach speed skaters.
Tabata
Which year before 2022 last with three PMs who were they too?
1868 Earl of Derby, Disraeli, Gladstone
Supergroup formed in NYC and London in 1984 by lead singer Robert Palmer , Chic drummer Tony Thompson and Duran Duran John Taylor (bass) and Andy Taylor (guitar).
The Power Station
Which car logo derived from coat of arms of Falkes de Breaute, a mercenary soldier to King John in 13th century?
Vauxhall
Geri Halliwell back of Union Jack dress what?
CND symbol or Peace Symbol
Union Jack dress by Geri was which brand?!
Gucci
David Tran invented which sauce in 1980?
Sriracha Sauce named for town in Thailand
Betina Goldstein, Chaun Legend, famous at what?
Nail Artist
What sauce is “I put that s*** on everything” advertising motto for ?
Franks Red Hot
Dunlop is a Scottish cheese and from Dunlop which is in which Scottish council area of which Kilmarnock is biggest town.
East Ayrshire
Lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls, new wave band from liverpool in 1979.
Mike Score
Which country most successful handball team at summer Olympics? Mens team won three golds 2008, 2012 and 2020.
France
Wife of Augustus who had two sons Tiberius and Drusus. Tiberius later became emperor.
Livia Drusilla
Which band got to #4 in 1998 with “Dance the Night Away”?
Mavericks
Pixie Lott first name
Victoria
The News Agents podcast three hosts
Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, Lewis Goodall
JAFA is a slang term sometimes pejorative for a resident of which city?
Auckland / just another fucking aucklander
Name of the ship that England national team wives and partners are staying on, docked in Doha during World Cup 2022
MSC World Europa
Belvedere Palace and Museum found in which city?
Vienna
Completed in 1871, the Belvedere Castle found in which city?
New York City in Central Park
Who hosted First and Last in 2020 and Unbeatable in 2021? Fired from the one show for texts.
Jason Manford
Only African country with majority religion Hinduism
Mauritius
Stilton Cheese can only be made in which three counties?
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire or Leicestershire
Chocolate bar called penguins are called what in Australia
Tim Tam
Which Swedish company founded by Gustav Erickson in 1891 manufactures heavy vehicles has a griffin logo?
Scania
Italian car company with scorpion logo founded in 1949 Bologna
Abarth
2021 Quizness, host of The Apprentice: You’re Fired!
Tom Allen
Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice host
Jo Brand
Which actor came second in I’m A Celeb 2022 Series 22? Off Hollyoaks where he plays Romeo Nightingale
Owen Warner
First season of Im a Celeb in which year?
2002
First season of Strictly Come Dancing what year?
2004
First season of X Factor was which year?
2004
Britains Got Talent first shown in which year?
2007
Emmerdale first year
1972
Coronation Street first year
1960
Eastenders first year
1985
Hollyoaks first year
1995
Neighbours first year
1985
Home and Away first year
1988
Brookside first year and last year
1982-2003
Anime series with Akira Fudo whose childhood friend Ryo Asuka fight demons lots of demon stuff but then turns out Ryo is Satan himself.
Devilman Crybaby (manga is just Devilman)
Member of Shalamar who won Grammy for Best New Artist in 1988 as a solo. Goddaughter of Jackie Wilson. Younger sister is Midori.
Jody Watley
Who made film debut in 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde as Eugene Grizzard an undertaker?
Gene Wilder
Tarzan of Apes was published what year
1912
Which fictional character has been in books with The Ant Men, The Lion Man, The Leopard Men, last is The Castaways
Tarzan
Fred Astaires sister name? Married Lord Cavendish in 1932nretiring from dancing
Adele
Name of younger sister of Lois Lane in the comic books?
Lucy Lane
Colubriform is an adjective to describe something with the shape of what?
Snake
Mad Men company name
Sterling Cooper & Partners
Suits law firm name
Pearson Hardman
Made film debut in Animal House, played Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Kingdom of the crystal Skull. Costarred in Starman and Scrooged.
Karen Allen
Goalkeeper only one to keep six clean sheets in first six internationals?
Nick Pope
Ronan Farrow, son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, real first name
Satchel
Actor played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, Leland Stottlemeyer in tv show Monk. Shutter Island, Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom.
Ted Levine
Which country applies to join EU in 1987 but rejected on geographical grounds. Later clarified in the Copenhagen criteria.
Morocco
MP for Ilford South sacked by keir Starmer for attending picket line. Partner of Angela Rayner.
Sam Tarry
Kolkata born journalist who was editor of The Independent from 2013 so in power when became online only in 2016.
Amol Rajan
Which fictional football player career over in 1993 when lost his foot in a helicopter crash?
Roy Race (Roy of the Rovers)
What comic did Roy of the Rovers first appear in in 1954?
Tiger
What football team did Roy Race play for in comic strip
Melchester Rovers
St Ninians Isle in Shetland is largest example of what geographic feature in Uk?
Tombolo
Who was the “working girl” in the 1988 film, daughter of Tippi Hedren
Melanie Griffith
Who was Melanie Griffith married to between 1996 and 2015?
Antonio Banderas
Alison and Peter Smithson associated with which architectural style
New Brutalism
Which term coined by Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Goth a modern brick home in Uppsala?
New Brutalism
Habitat 67 in Montreal, Quebec, designed by which Israeli-Canadian architect?
Moshe Safdie
Which performing arts centre designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon?
Barbican Centre
Which theatre was designed by Denys Lasdun?
National Theatre
Designed Coventry Cathedral and the Beehive in New Zealand?
Basil Spence
Style of post Impressionism takes name from French for compartments. Coined by critic Edouard DuJardin. Example: The Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin.
Cloissonism
Name coined by Christian Dotremont for AVANT GARDE movement 1948-51 after initials of members home countries capital cities.
COBRA (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam)
Art movement coined by Juan Gris a posteriori.
Cubism
Cubist building in old town of prague. Designed by Josef Gocar, currently used as Czech museum of cubism.
House of the Black Madonna
Often translated as monochrome painting from Korean, term grouping together artworks exhibited in South Korea in mid 1970s.
Dansaekhwa
Who coined the terms “De Stijl”?
Theo Van Doesburg
Maggie Laubser and Irma Stern are expressionist artists of which nationality?
South Africa
Fauvism was coined by which art critic after the Salon d’Automne in 1905?
Louis Vauxcelles
Louis Vauxcelles coined the term fauvism in 1905, the wider sentence referenced which famous artist: “______ chez Les Fauves”?
Donatello
Credited with first use of term “electronic super highway” and considered founder of video art. Korean American artist.
Nam June Paik
Lithuanian born American artist George Maciunas coined which art movement term includes intermedia, conceptual art and video art.
Fluxus
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is 1913 futurist sculpture was by which Italian sculptor?
Umberto Boccioni
Founder of futurist movement
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian born American artist born 1877 in precisionism and futurism: Battle of Lights Coney Island Mardi Gras famous painting, Brooklyn Bridge
Joseph Stella
American painter developed style of painting known as precisionism, 1883 born. Aucassin and Nicolette, Love Love Love, The Boat ride from Sorrento. Famous: I Saw The Figure 5 In Gold.
Charles Demuth
1992 novel by Apostolos Doxiadis about an unsolved maths problem and reclusive uncle. Cover picture was I Saw the figure 5 in gold by Charles Demuth.
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Russian female artist founding member of Jack of Diamonds, Donkey’s Tail and also invented Rayonism?
Natalia Goncharova
Russian male artist founding member of Jack of Diamonds, Donkey’s Tail and also invented Rayonism? Coined names for them all.
Mikhail Larionov
New Zealand artist known primarily for experimental films and kinetic sculpture.
Len Lye
Who is daddy to Rihanna baby
Asap rocky
She is known for her roles as Corky Sherwood on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and as Hope Shanowski on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith.
Faith Ford
starred in the films Mayhem (2017), The Babysitter (2017) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), Bill and Ted Face The Music
Samara Weaving
Which actress played Emily (2022) playing Emily Brontë, Death on the Nile and Maeve Wiley in Sex education?
Emma Mackey
Augustus second wife mother of Julia
Scribonia
Augustus only biological child born of Scribonia’s womb
Julia
Augustus first wife
Claudia
Augustus third wife married to for long time
Livia
Main commander in the naval war Augustus waged in the 30s BCE against sextus pompey was what lifelong friend of Augustus, who would later marry into his bloodline?
Agrippa
Term for Greek “one that knows or examines” for part of sundial that casts a shadow.
Gnomon
31BC naval battle Augustus won against Antony?
Battle of Actium
48BC battle in Greece that Julius Caesar and mark Antony fought against Pompey . Pompey lost and went to Egypt and got killed.
Battle of Pharsalus
Called King of the Britons by the Annals of Ulster: King of Gwynedd 844-873 and King of Powys 856-873.
Rhodri the Great
Margaret of Scotland was daughter of Alexander III and was married to which Norwegian king? Daughter Margaret Maid of Norway became queen of Scotland.
Eric II
Who was queen of Scotland after Alexander III although never inaugurated so debated status. 1286-90. Death sparked bit of craziness.
Margaret Maid of Norway
After 2 year interregnum, in 1292 which Scottish king was decided on by noblemen and Edward I? Ruled 1292-96.
John Balliol
John Balliol, Nicknamed derisively as what? Abdicated in 1296 and imprisoned Tower of London, no king again until 1306 Robert the Bruce.
Toom Tabard
Who was elected king of England in 1066 by the Witenagemot but never crowned? Born in kingdom of Hungary as father was Edward the Exile (son of Edmund Ironside and out of England due to Cnut?
Edgar Aetheling
King of England 955-959, young when father Edmund I died trying to rescue his seneschal from attack from thief in 946. Uncle Eadred was then king from 946-955 before this guy took over? clashed with Dunstan, future Archbishop of Canterbury, so exiled to Flanders.
Eadwig
Which king of Gwynedd is oft associated with the welsh red dragon though little proof?
Cadwaladr
Which English monarch ascended throne at age of 9 amidst the first barons war?
Henry III
Who was first Stewart King of Scotland?
Robert II
Whose king name means tough knot died suddenly in 1042 at the wedding of his standard bearer Tovi the Proud in Lambeth from a stroke brought on by alcohol excessive?
Harthacnut
Which king fought Henry “Harry Hotspur” Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403?
Henry IV
Which Scottish king was nicknamed Virgo (the Maiden)? King of Scotland 1153-65. Succeeded David I, was before William I.
Malcolm IV
Which Scottish king named after a pope married Sybilla of Normandy, the illegitimate daughter of the English Henry I? King 1107-24 after Edgar and before David I.
Alexander I
Which king of Scotland 1097-1107 was nicknamed Probus (the Valiant)? After Donald III and before Alexander I.
Edgar
Which monarch, regarded by some modern historians as the first King of the English, has a name which literally means “Noble Stone”?
Ethelstan
Which king put down a revolt by the welsh and mercians at Chester in 924? After putting it down he died at Farndon in Cheshire. Succeeded by eldest son Ethelstan. Other sons who reigned were Edmund I and Eadred.
Edward the Elder
First google doodle was in 1998 and depicted what?
Burning Man trip
Oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world as been operating since 1902 (previously known as Will Barker Studios)?
Ealing Studios
What day is Towel Day celebrated?
25 May
Which movement, still active today, began with the formulation of the Rochdale principles in 1844?
Cooperative Movement
Florence and Machine wrote single Patricia as tribute to which Punk Poet Laureate whose best known song is “Because the Night” written with Bruce Springsteen?
Patti Smith
Who wrote song in 1962 “Song to Woody” in tribute to Woody Guthrie?
Bob Dylan
Who wrote “Song for Bob Dylan” in 1971?
David Bowie on Hunky Dory
Who was subject of Roberta Flack’s 1973 single “Killing Me Softly (With His Song)”?
Don McLean
New Zealandish cricket coach of head coach of England test team?
Brendon McCullum
Fastest test century of all time was by which cricket player? In last test outing, in 54 balls which beat Viv Richards record of 56 balls.
Brendon McCullum
Only actor to have starred in a box office number one film across six consecutive decades after voice of King Shark in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad?
Sylvester Stallone
Military operation by India that led to capture of Goa, Daman, Diu and Anjediva Islands? Name comes from victory in Sanskrit.
Operation Vijay
Who holds record for longest goal ever scored in football history? 105 yards for Newport County against Cheltenham Town on January 19 2021. Beats Asmir Begovic 100.5 yard effort.
Tom King
Who designed the layout of Covent Garden, the Queen’s House in Greenwich and The Banqueting House in Whitehall?
Inigo Jones
Who stars as Dr Nikki Alexander on bbc Silent Witness who joined after Amanda Burton left in 2004?
Emilia Fox
Which journalist is chief sport presenter for itv sport replacing Adrian Chiles in 2015? Presenter of BT Sport Score.
Mark Pougatch
Which welsh tv presenter is host of Final Score on BbC1?
Jason Mohammad
Female footballer born Solihull, played Birmingham and Chelsea and is highly capped for England. Birmingham hall of fame. England Hall of Fame 2021.
Karen Carney
Tottenham and Northampton Town 1908-14, British army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Hall of Fame 2021 Football.
Walter Tull
2020 Football Hall of Fame was footballer 1978-93 £1m transfer 1981 Norwich to Nottingham Forest. Killed himself in 1998.
Justin Fashanu
Born in Maripasoula, French Guiana, in 1958. Who played mostly for West Brom and Coventry? One of Three Degrees at West Brom. Hall of fame 2019.
Cyrille Regis
Born in St George’s, Grenada, played as defender mostly for Cambridge and West Brom. Part of three degrees.alongside Regis and Cunningham.
Brendan Batson
First ever British player to sign for Real Madrid. Played under Ron Atkinson at West Brom as part of three degrees (Batson and Regis). Moved to Marseille 1984 too.
Laurie Cunningham
Northern Irish footballer: 406 appearances 1933-53 mostly for Man City.
Peter Doherty
Bobby Charlton played for Manchester United and which other team?
Preston North End
Which welsh player played Leeds 1949-57, Juventus 1957-62 then back Leeds then Rome? Played as forward or centre back.
John Charles
Name of trophy given to Italian Serie a top scorer
Capocannoniere
The capocannoniere for being serie A top scorer is named after which footballer since 2021?
Paolo Rossi Award
Swedish footballer who won Capocannoniere for Serie a top scorer record five times in fifties.
Gunnar Nordahl
Who is current Capocannoniere winner 2021-22 it was his fourth win? One behind record winning 5 Gunnar Nordahl.
Ciro Immobile
Scottish football in Hall of Fame Football played Hearts 1953-59, part of Double winning tottenham side of 1961? Won Derby County league as manager.
Dave Mackay
Hall of Fame Football 594 appearances 1952-70 all for Fulham.
Johnny Haynes
Bobby Moore played for West Ham most of his life, what was his second and only other football team in UK?
Fulham
Billy Wright centre half for which club whole career
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Hall of Fame football, 1941-55 for Blackpool, only footballer to score a hat trick in a fa cup final. 1953 fa cup final Matthews Final. First player to score for England in a World Cup qualifying campaign and also first score in World Cup.
Stan Mortensen
Which womens Preston football team 1917-65 played 833 games? Lily Parr played for them.
Dick, Kerr Ladies
Who was inaugural women footballer to join English Football Hall of Fame in 2002? Played for Dick, Kerr Ladies.
Lily Parr
Who scored England womens national football team first ever goal in first official match in 1972 against Scotland?
Sylvia Gore
Female football who played for arsenal and England. Became most capped ever football for England after Shelton but has since been overtaken.
Rachel Yankey
Most caps for England overall and for England ladies? 2001-2019
Fara Williams
Most caps for England and ladies of England in reverse order
4th: Alex Scott
3rd: Karen Carney
2nd: Jill Scott
1st: Fara Williams
Born in Lagos 1987, sporting director at Aston Villa wfc Jan 2020-June 2021. 102 apps for England and played Chelsea, Juventus now does lot of pundit work.
Eniola Aluko
French footballer joined Real Madrid 2022 from Monaco where he’d moved from Bordeaux.
Aurelien Tchouameni
Province of Roman Empire bounded north and east by Danube, westward with noricum and Italy, southward with dalmatia and Moesia. Current day Western Hungary, Western Slovakia, eastern Austria.
Pannonia
Province of Roman Empire, includes most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia.
Noricum
Province of Roman Empire named after people. Bordered on west by country of Helvetii, east with Noricum, north with Vindelici. Now sits on but of Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Capital of province was Augusta Vindelicorum, present day Augsburg in Germany.
Raetia
Roman general under Augustus who lost three legions when ambushed by Arminius in Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9AD after which he killed himself.
Varus
Chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who best known for commanding alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of Teutoberg Forest in 9AD beating general Varus.
Arminius
Name of Livy’s monumental history of Ancient Rome written between 27 and 9BC. English translation is From the Founding of the City.
Ab urbe condita
Last Pontifex Maximum before Roman Empire (chief high priest of the college of pontiffs). Part of the second triumvirate with Octavian and Mark Antony.
Lepidus
What Heisman trophy winner is the only athlete in history to be an All Star in both professional baseball and football?
Bo Jackson
Born on Christmas Day and nicknamed the Hurricane, which player was golden boot winner T the 1970 World Cup and won with his team?
Jairzinho
Cronartium Ribicola is species of rust fungus that causes blister rust on which type of tree native to China?
White Pine
Fictional character on One Piece manga, Tony Tony Chopper is what type of creature?
Reindeer
1999-2007 animated tv special Christmas main character voiced by Ardal O’Hanlon. Based on work by Robert L May.
Robbie the Reindeer
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was created by which American retailer?
Robert L May
English novelist born 1884, winner of 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. Others: Pastors and Masters, Daughters and Sons, A House and It’s Head.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
2006 short story collection Mothers and Sons by which author
Colm Toibin
Author of Wives and Daughters, Cranford, Mary Barton, Ruth, Lois the Witch.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Author of Fathers and Sons, Mumu, A Sportsman’s Sketches, Ashia.
Ivan Turgenev
Born 1946 Beaumont, Texas. Popular songs Frankenstein and Free Ride. Brother of late blues singer who produced three Grammy award winning albums by muddy waters.
Edgar Winter
Muddy Waters real name
McKinley Morganfield
Howlin’ Wolf real name
Chester Burnett
Lead Belly real name
Huddie William Ledbetter
Derived from corruption of Portuguese for unrefined sugar: type of partially refined to unrefined sugar with strong molasses content and flavour and dark brown in colour.
Muscovado
Word coming from French/Spanish for trash, what is the dry pulpy fibrous material that remains after crushing sugarcane or sorghum stalks to extract their juice? Can be used in biofuel.
Bagasse
World Men’s Amateur Team Championships trophy for amateur golfers is named after who?
Dwight D Eisenhower
World Women’s Amateur Team Championships trophy for amateur golfers is named after who? Equivalent mens is the Eisenhower Trophy.
Espírito Santo Trophy
2021 Pulitzer Bibliography nominee “Red Comet” was by Heather Clark about which poet?
Sylvia Plath
2021 Pulitzer bibliography nominee “The Dead Are Arising” by Les Payne and Tamara Payne is about which person?
Malcolm X
Benjamin Moser wrote Pulitzer Bibliography 2020 winner about who?
Susan Sontag
Robert Caro won two Pulitzers for Bibliography: 2003 about which President “Master of the Senate”?
Lyndon B Johnson
Robert Caro won two Pulitzers for Bibliography: 1975 about which who “The Power Broker”?
Robert Moses
Who won two Pulitzer for Bibliography: 1994 and 2001 both about WEB Du Bois?
David Levering Lewis
Who won two Pulitzer Bibliography in 1993 and 2002? One was Harry S Truman and one was John Adams.
David McCullough
Winner of 2022 Pulitzer Drama, adaptation of Hamlet and is by James Ijames?
Fat Ham
Who wrote the book for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, tv show P-Valley and The Hot Wing King which won the Pulitzer Drama 2021?
Katori Hall
Play by Katori Hall in 2009 fictional depiction of MLK last night on earth in Room 306 of Lorraine Motel on eve of assassination.
The Mountaintop
Who won Pulitzer Drama twice 2009 Ruined and 2017 Sweat?
Lynn Nottage
Dai Station is the station master for which station in Ivor the Engine?
Llaniog
American tennis player who won US Open 1979 and 1981, first one at only 16 and youngest in hall of fame at only 29.
Tracy Austin
Colour changing gemstone first discovered in Ural Mountains is given epithet “emerald by day, ruby by night”
Alexandrite
What is the gemstone version of Olivine?
Peridot
What mineral is the primary component of the Earth’s upper mantle?
Olivine
Which politician, grandfather of Peter Mandelson, became leader of Labour Party after Clement Attlee resigned in 1955?
Herbert Morrison
Which Caribbean island country’s flag features a symbol of a nutmeg?
Grenada
In Japanese mythology, who is the god of rice?
Inari
These albums are by which band?
1) Brutalism
2) Joy as an Act of Resistance
3) Ultra Mono
4) Crawler
Idles
Who is vocalist for Idles?
Joe Talbot
Which moon of Saturn sprays jets of icy water through giant cracks on surface known as “tiger stripes”?
Enceladus
What began at Sabermati on March 12th 1930 and ended 385km away on Dandi on April 5th?
The Salt March
Fred Astaire sings Cheek to Cheek in which musical?
Top Hat (written by Irving Berlin)
Poem by Sylvia Plath: “Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes / Ebon in the hedges, fat”
Blackberries
North east England - nickname for raspberry sauce for ice cream
Monkey’s Blood
North east England - nickname for green sauce for ice cream
Dragon’s Blood
What type of rock comes from when molten rock cools and solidifies?
Igneous Rocks
What type of rock occurs when rocks are subjected to high heat, high pressure , hot mineral-rich fluids?
Metamorphic Rocks
What type of rock formed by accumulation or deposition of mineral particles at Earth’s surface followed by cementation?
Sedimentary Rock
What type of sedimentary rock has name from Italian for gravel?
Breccia
Formerly known as central eastern rainforest reserves, most extensive area of subtropical rainforest in world. 366500 hectares from Newcastle to Brisbane.
Gondwana Rainforests
Nicknamed Dada (elder brother in Bengali), captain of India 2000-2005, nicknamed God of the Off Side
Sourav Ganguly
Cricket nicknamed The Wall, as of January 2022, fourth highest run scorer in Test cricket, record for number of balls taken and minutes at crease for test cricketer.
Rahul Dravid
Italian French singer born in Egypt; has a square named after her in Montmartre, Paris. sang Bambino, Les entrants du Piree, Paroles Paroles. Suicide of partner Luigi Tenco in 1967. Died suicide herself in 1987.
Dalida
Campbell’s Dwarf, Winter White, Chinese and Roborovski are both types of which pet?
Hamster
In Ireland; name for historical subdivisions of a county analogous to hundreds of counties of England.
Barony
Hamlet is Prince of Denmark, what is Fortinbras?
Norwegian Crown Prince
Spanish football team nicknamed Los Vikingos
Real Madrid
Author of Scarlet Pimpernel (Sir Percy Blakeney)
Baroness Orczy
Who wrote Doctor Syn - reverend doctor Christopher syn smuggler hero?
Russell Thorndike
Character created by Lee Falk for namesake comic strip in 1936, comes from fictional country of Bangalla.
The Phantom
How old was Malala Yousafzai when she became youngest Nobel Prize Laureate?
17
Which city is Ellerslie Racecourse in?
Auckland
Which romance novelist wrote Hazard of Hearts and Paradise in Penang?
Barbara Cartland
Second largest lake in Japan after Lake Biwa?
Lake Kasumigaura
Debut album of Rihanna in 2005
Music of the Sun
Singer of Steamy Windows released in 1989 on album Foreign Affair?
Tina Turner
Jamaica netball team nickname su
Sunshine Girls
What are the seeds of Dipteryx Odorata known as? Black and wrinkled and have smooth brown interior. Can be known as Brazilian teak.
Tonka Beans / Tonkin Beans
Borlotti Beans known as what other name referencing a fruit?
Cranberry bean
In tv show Roobarb, what colour is the dog Roobarb?
Green Dog
In the tv show Roobarb, what colour and what is his companion Custard?
Custard is a pink cat
Who plays Marv Murchins in the Home Alone films?
Daniel Stern
Which country’s nuclear power plants are the Forsmark, Oskarshamn and Ringhals plants?
Sweden
Who did Gwen Stefani marry in 2021?
Blake Shelton
Who was Gwen Stefani married to 2002-2016
Gavin Rossdale (Bush)
South African origin Malva Pudding has which fruit in it in jam form?
Apricot
Rotenberg-Uzunov Art Gallery is found in which European capital city?
Bucharest
National martial art of the Philippines
Arnis (Eskrima alternative name or Kali)
Musicians Boney James and Mike Phillips famous for playing which instrument?
Saxophone
Who is the South African comedian and ventriloquist best known for character Chester Missing?
Conrad Koch
Ozzy Osbourne album in 2022?
Patient Number 9
Scottish dish Cullen Skink contains which fish?
Haddock
Vistara and Spicejet airlines are from which country?
India
SD portable memory cards stands for what?
Secure Digital
Former Soviet gymnast between 1956 and 1964 won 14 Olympic medals including nine golds. Holds record for most Olympic golds as gymnast.
Larisa Latynina
Name of the breathing pore or respiratory opening found on side of slug or snail?
Pneumostome
Term for genital opening on slug and other invertebrates.
Gonopore
In 1987, which programmer created VirusScan first commercial antivirus software?
John McAfee
John McAfee died in which country when he suicide in prison cell after authorised extradition to USA?
Spain
Spanish name for Easter island or Rapa Nui
Isla de Pascua
In which sport are the terms “bump”, “ride-off” and “tail-shot” used?
Polo
In Arthurian legend which knight was raised to adulthood by the Lady of the Lake?
Lancelot
Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque by which artist? And of which city?
Winston Churchill of Marrakesh
Thomas Tank Engines by Number 1-8
1 Thomas
2 Edward
3 Henry
4 Gordon
5 James
6 Percy
7 Toby
8 Duck
Colour of #2 Edward in Thomas the tank?
Blue
Colour of #3 Henry in Thomas the tank?
Green
Setting of Thomas the tank engine I
IsLand of Sodor
Colour of #4 Gordon in Thomas the tank
Blue
Colour of #5 James in Thomas the tank?
Red
Colour of #6 Percy in Thomas the tank?
Green
Iconic pattern originally crafted in 1952 by chief designer Miroslav Havel who named it after gothic architecture of namesake castle for Waterford Crystal
Lismore Pattern
Scottish sculptor of 2007 sculpture of Bobby Moore outside Wembley, statue of Terence Cuneo at Waterloo, Raoul Wallenberg Monument, Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square, Equestrian statue of Elizabeth II in Windsor Great Park.
Philip Jackson
Who sculpted Paternoster, Dorset Martyrs Memorial, Blind Beggar and His Dog, Walking Madonna, Horse and Rider?
Elisabeth Frink
French Rugby League Cup is championship trophy for knockout competition of rugby league in France and is named after which person?
Lord Derby (whose father donated Stanley Cup in USA)
Named after an artist’s famous sculpture, what film awards are given out by Accademia Del Cinema Italiano annual Italian awards?
David di Donatello Awards
Japanese literary award presented each year to unpublished mystery novels by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955? Similar to Edgar Allen Poe Awards. Named after a Japanese author and critic born Taro Hirai.
Edogawa Rampo Prize
Name of trophy won three times by NZ 1987, 2011 and 2015, South Africa 1995, 2007 and 2019, twice by Australia 1991 and 1999 and once by England 2003.
Webb Ellis Cup
The European basketball league EuroLeague has been won the most time by which team, a record ten titles?
Real Madrid
Current champion of EuroLeague basketball league in 2022 is which Istanbul basketball team?-
Anadolu Efes
Basketball EuroLeague team Cazoo Baskonia is based out of which basque city?
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Crvena Zvezda mts is professional basketball team in EuroLeague who play in which European city?
Belgrade
Partizan Mozzart Bet is professional basketball team in EuroLeague who play in which European city?
Belgrade
Zalgaris is professional basketball team in EuroLeague who play in which European city?
Kaunas, Lithuania
Annual basketball award given to top scorer of the EuroLeague over season. Named after a late American basketball player who won of biggest scorers in EuroLeague history.
Alphonso Ford Trophy
British International Trophy for Motorboats named after which British newspaper and publishing magnate owner of Daily Mail and Daily Mirror back in the day
Harmsworth Cup (Viscount Northcliffe)
Who is the eldest child of Rainier III and Grace Kelly? Oldest sibling of Albert II and Princess Stephanie.
Caroline of Monaco
Grace Chatto, Jack and Luke Patterson, which band from Cambridge?
Clean Bandit
Porchettiamo is a roast pork porchetta festival annual in which Italian region?
Umbria
Which future Nobel laureate was elected leader of Labour Party following the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald in 1914?
Arthur Henderson
Which African country has the web domain .dz
Algeria (dz is from Dzayer local name for Algeria)
George Stiles composer collaborated mostly with which lyricist?
Anthony Drewe (Stiles and Drewe)
Which Stiles and Drewe musical in 2000 won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical? Commissioned by watermill Theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire.
Honk!
Who directed Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), Hunt for Red October (1990)? Last Action Hero, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Basic. went to jail for some perjury and lying to FBI.&9
John McTiernan
Jackie Stewart F1 championship wins
1969, 1971 and 1973
Who won 1969 Grand National?
Highland Wedding
Who wrote novel Gorky Park?
Martin Cruz Smith
Who’s the detective in the novel Gorky Park?
Arkady Renko
Which Flemish painter born 1684 best known for sporting and topographical subjects? Painting of Queen Anne in the House of Lords, Foxhunting in Wooded Country, Battle of Glenshiel
Peter Tillemans
The Man o’War Cup originally the Kenilworth Gold Cup commemorates the winners of the Travers Stakes held at which New York racecourse?
Saratoga
Who was first winner of American Triple Crown in 1919?
Sir Barton
Who was first trainer to win American triple crown more than once training both Gallant Fox ((1930) and Omaha (1935)?
Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons
Who was second trainer to win the American Triple Crown more than once training both American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018)?
Bob Baffert
Only jockey to win two American Triple Crown on both Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948)?
Eddie Arcaro
1941 film featured the only actor to win an acting Oscar in a Hitchcock film. What film and what actor?
Suspicion - Joan Fontaine
Rafaello Bettini hats are made from which material?
Straw Hats
Culinary sauce prepared with veloute/fish veloute/fish stock, cream, butter and egg yolk. May be served with seafood dishes.
Normande sauce
Chris Collingwood was lead singer of which band?
Fountains of Wayne
Who directed Die Another Day 2002, also Along Came A Spider 2001 and Once Were Warriors 1994?
Lee Tamahori
Song performed by Chris Cornell for Casino Royale 2006?
You Know My Name
Song by Jack White and Alicia Keys for 2008 Quantum of Solace?
Another Way to Die
Song by Sam Smith for 2015 Spectre?
Writings on the Wall
Members of the band Everything but the Girl?
Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt
Which biblical figure as per local legend was born in village of Fortingall in Scotland?
Pontius Pilate
Largest castle in wales and 2nd in uk
Caerphilly
WDT valve is used to alleviate hydrocephalus, what does the D stand for in the acronym?
Dahl
Architecture what G is the edge formed by the intersection of two vaults??
Groin
Italian Scottish solo violinist was bbc Young musician of the year in 2004 at 16. First album was SYzmanowski: Violin Concerto #1. Festival director of Edinburgh International Festival since October 2022.
Nicola Benedetti
Polish composer and pianist born 1882 member of modernist Young Poland movement. Influenced by folk music of Gorale people. Famous opera King Roger about Roger II of Sicily.
Karol Szymanowski
What machine used to resurface ice rinks?
Zamboni
Video game franchise by PopCap Games follows David Crazy Dave Blazing as they use living things to defend against a namesake invasion led by Dr Edgar Zomboss.
Plants vs Zombies
Renowned monastic institution recognised as birthplace of Chan Buddhism and namesake Kung Fu. At foot of Wuru Peak of the Songshan mountain range.
Shaolin Monastery
Which English comedian who acted as a schoolmaster and film Oh Mr Porter (1937) was a keen astronomer. Discovered a Great White Spot on Saturn. Gave flying lessons to Amy Johnson.
Will Hay
Astronaut who in 1972 was on last crewed mission to moon and as Cernan and Schmitt went to moon, he and five mice orbited moon a record 75 times. Holds record for most time in lunar orbit.
Ronald Evans
What were the first animals sent into space aboard V2 rocket in February 1947?
Fruit flies
Name of rhesus monkey who was first mammal in space in June 1949 on board a V2?
Albert II
First dogs sent into space in 1951? Not orbit who was Laika in 1957.
Tsygan (Gypsy) and Dezik
Names of two monkeys who became first monkeys to survive space flight after 1959 flight?
Miss Able (rhesus monkey) and Miss Baker (squirrel monkey)
In 1959, Marfusha was the first of what animal to go into space?
Rabbit
Two chimpanzees who went to space one Jan 1961 and Nov 1961
Ham and Enos
Name of the first and only cat who have been sent to space and done by French in 1963
Felicette
Most abundant copper ore mineral is what C
Chalcopyrite
In material physics what quantity describes stiffness of a material up until it’s elastic limit, and is equal to the longitudinal stress divided by the strain that can be applied to it?
Youngs Modulus
In elasticity, Youngs Modulus is symbolised by what capitalised Letter?
E
Also known as pikeperch, species of Ray finned fish from family Percidae
Zander
Spinning device invented by James Hargreaves?
Spinning Jenny
Spinning machine invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779?
Spinning Mule
Mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide known as what after a living creature?
Piranha solution
Chemical formula for hydrogen peroxide
H2O2
Term for finely porous glass through whcih gas or liquid may pass. Made by sintering together glass particles into a solid but porous body.
Fritted Glass
Lepton discovered in cosmic rays by Carl D Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in 1936
Muon
How many lobes does a pair of lungs in human body comprise of?
5 - three in right and two in left
Generic term for any flying repitikes existing from Mesozoic to Cretaceous
Pterosaur (winged lizard)
Who was assassinated on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1898?
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Who assassinated Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898
Luigi Lucheni
The Tauredumun Event was a 563AD tsunami on which body of water?
Lake Geneva (caused by landslide)
Who spent final days in US, Panama then Egypt dying in 1980 age of 60?
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Who worked as a gardener in botanical garden after return home from Russia?
Puyi
Whose heir was killed in colonial war in South Africa?
Napoleon III (son Louis killed in Zululand South Africa 1879)
Who spent four years in bath in the 1930/ famous world leader?
Haile Sellassie
Which international arts centre and gallery in Bristol takes its name from a 15th century masterpiece?
Arnolfini
Whose characters include Sid Snot, Captain Kremmen, Marcel Wave, Angry of Mayfair?
Kenny Everett
Which singer songwriter got name by wearing yellow and black jumper in yourh?
Sting
Secretary of State for BEIS stands for what
Business, energy and Industrial Strategy
Secretary of State for EFRA stands for what
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sec state for DCMS stands for
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Blarney Castle is in which Irish county?
County Cork
Lift, fetch, cross drive and shedding are terms used in which competitive activity?
Sheepdog Events
Jentacular means what
Relating to breakfast
Cooked by Angus MacPhail and adopted by Hitchcock, object, device or event that is necessary to plot and motivation of characters but unimportant in itself.
MacGuffin
How did Lieutenant General Frederick brown describe the WW2 operation market garden?
A bridge too far
Treaty signed on 6 February 1840 by UK and New Zealand natives, named after place in Bay of Islands where signed
Treaty of Waitangi
What is the little child mentioned in Puff the Magic Dragon?
Little Jackie Piper
Alternative name for Rock Paper Scissors named after a French nobleman and General born 1725
Rochambo
British city known as the home of the mole wrench?
Newport
English city calls itself the home of football?
Sheffield
Which poet inspired the title character of Kingsley Amis’ Lucky Jim?
Philip Larkin
Surname of Kingsley Amis’ Lucky Jim?
Jim Dixon
Which company uses slogan “Believe in Better”
Sky
Which motorway crosses Firth of Forth over the Queensberry Crossing?
M90
Which colourful nickname is shared by Wigan warriors and Gloucester Rugby?
Cherry and Whites
Government owned rail franchise became primary operator of East Coast Main Line in June 2018?
London North Eastern Railway (LNER)
What literary term is an ironic understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (I shan’t be sorry, that’s not a bad idea). From Greek for plain/meagre.
Litotes
Which rivers estuary is known as the Carrick Roads
River Fal
Rivers Ness, Spey and Findhorn flow into whcih Firth, the largest in Scotland?
The Moray Firth
The terminus of a narrow gauge railway, which is the only coastal village in the Lake District National Park?
Ravenglass
Which founder member of SDP autobiography was Fourth Among Equals?
Bill Rodgers
Which British comedian autobiography call Me Moir?
Vic Reeves - real name James Moir
Known as Red Ellen, which MP accompanied men on the Jarrow March in 1936?
Ellen Wilkinson
Director won Oscar for Midnight Cowboy, nominated for Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday. Did Billy Liar; Far from the Madding Crowd too.
John Schlesinger
Books Miss LonelyHearts and The Day of the Locust by which author?
Nathaniel West
German born British scientist best known for The Great Egg Race, credited with invention of gel pad electrodes used in ECGs. Interviewed by Ali G and on After Dark with Buzz Aldrin.
Heinz Wolff
Who played villain Egghead in 1960s Batman show?
Vincent Price
Notre Dame on which paris island?
Ile de La Cite
Located in High Gosforth Park, home to race nicknamed the Pitmens Derby, which English racecourse encloses 12 holes of a golf course?
Newcastle
Which Scottish racecourse encloses a nine hole golf course of the same name that staged the open championship between 1874 and 1889?
Musselburgh
Home to the Irish gold cup and Irish champion hurdle whcih racecourse 8km south of Dublin encloses a 18 hole golf course?
Leopardstown
Fairyhouse horse racing racecourse is in which county?
County Meath
Which item originally known as Schweizer Offiziersmesser?
Swiss army knife
Which company makes the official Swiss Army knife?
Victorinox
Dying in May 2022 who was nicknamed the Long Fellow?
Lester Piggott
Which ww2 aircraft nicknamed the wooden wonder?
De Havilland mosquito
Which supermarket claims to “make good things happen”
Morrisons
Name of song subtitled “excerpt from a teenage opera” by Keith West and Mark Wirtz got to #2 in 1967
Grocer Jack
Directed by Lewis Gilbert which 1966 film does Michael Cain break the fourth wall by addressing audience?
Alfie
Which 1963 begins with Jimmy Durante’s character literally and metaphorically kicking the bucket shortly after revealing where he buried a fortune
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Which chancellor of exchequer left note to successor Jim Callaghan “good luck old cock im afraid there’s no money - good luck!”?
Reginald Maudling
1960 synthetic what was used in the building of first functioning laser?
Ruby
Whose second and final novel Beautiful Losers published in 1966 before career as songwriter singer?
Leonard Cohen
At 1968 Grenoble Olympics, who won Men’s Slalom, Giant Slalom, and downhill for a clean sweep in the alpine skiing events?
Jean-Claude Killy
In 1967 which golfer became first pro to make more than $1 million in career earnings?
Arnold Palmer
Nicknamed Monsieur Chrono for ability in time trials who became first to win five tour de Frances in 1964?
Jacques Anquetil
In landmark decision of 1962, the USSC ruled that which African American student was entitled to enrol at the previously segregated university of Mississippi?
James Meredith
Which Chief Justice of uSSC chaired the presidential commission into JFK shooting
Warren Commission
Which candidate for American independent party gained 13.5% of popular vote in 1968 pres election?
George Wallace
British tv show staring Gerald Harper in title role, named after archaic form of diamond. Had a Mini Cooper S with numberllatr AA 1000.
Adam Adamant Lives!
Which panel show were contestants required to recognise piece of music classical played on soundless dummy keyboard by presenter Joseph Cooper?
Face the Music
Which comedian had two years off tv in 1961 when someone fixed truck bookcase before sketch and he smashed into it fracturing skull?
Charlie Drake
English comedian and actor known for catchphrase “hello my darlings”?
Charlie Drake
Name of the black terrier seen on Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone fishing?
Ted
Sally Rooney 2021 book about Alice Kelleher and Eileen Lydon. Title comes from Friedrich Schiller poem set to music by Franz Schubert in 1819.
Beautiful World, Where Are You?
Richard Osman book September 2021? Sequel to The Thursday Murder Club.
The Man Who Died Twice
Richard Osman September 2022 book sequel to The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice.
The Bullet That Missed
Who performed in Legends slot at Glastonbury 2022?
Diana Ross
Legends slot at Glasto in 2019
Kylie Minogue
Legends Slot at 2017 Glasto
Barry Gibb
Sprig of what herb traditionally worn by Australians on Anzac Day?
Rosemary
Title character of Shakespeare play murdered by Sir Pierce of Exton?
Richard II
Tv show starring who as Professor Jasper Tempest in Professor T from 2021?
Ben Miller
Tv crime series Wire in the Blood and Karen Pirie are both set on novels by which author?
Val McDermid
Who plays Karen Pirie in new adaptation 2022 of val McDermid books?
Lauren Lyle
Main character of Wire in the Blood mcdermid books and played by robson green in tv shows?
Dr Tony Hill
Native variety of which woodland wild flower is threatened by cross breeding with Spanish variety that has escaped from gardens?
Bluebell
Which pungent smelling wild flower is also known as ramsons, cow leek, bear leek or buckram?
Wild Garlic
Which common grassland wild flower of genus Primula was traditionally strewn along bridal paths at weddings?
Primrose
Crime is the attempt to influence a juror corruptly to give verdict in favour of one side, can be money, persuasions, promises.
Embracery
A written declaration made under oath before a person authorised to administer oath?
Affidavit
Surname of Craig and Jamie first pair of twins to play test cricket for England?
Overton
Product sold at London’s Columbia road marketV
Flower
Famous market in Barcelona off La Rambla not far from Liceu Barcelona opera house
La Boqueria
Which city’s old market square is second largest public square in England after Trafalgar Square?
Nottingham
In which castle in Isle of Wight was Charles I imprisoned before trial and execution?
Carisbrooke Castle
Which castle did Sir William Montagu enter through secret tunnel to capture Isabella of France and lover Roger Mortimer to end their regency of Edward II?
Nottingham Castle
Celebrated in familiar song, which welsh castle did a small Lancastrian garrison resist a seven year siege by much larger yorkist army?
Harlech (Men of Harlech)
Ethyl Cyanoacrylate widely used for which purpose?
Superglues
Three stars make up Orion belt are
Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka
What film did Hopkins play Hitler
The Bunker
Which character did Graham Fellowes play and attempt to get Eurovision Song Contest with song “Pigeons in Flight”?
John Shuttleworth
Which song did Graham Fellows release to get to #4 in 1978 “I’ve been going out with a girl her name is Julie”?
Jilted John
Five towns with cathedrals in Uk
Blackburn
Brecon
Enniskillen
Oban
Rochester
Setting of BBC’s Gardener’s World since 2011, Herefordshire garden of Monty Don?
Longmeadow
Will Kirk, Steve and Susie Fletcher are all form which tv show?
The Repair Shop
Harry Potter newspaper name
Daily Prophet
The river lethe waters have which property?
Forgetfulness
Which river described as “great grey-green, greasy” by Kipling?
Limpopo
River is China’s Sorrow
Yellow river Huang He
Composer won 1991 Oscar for dances with wolves
John Barry
Where is the largest ever bell cast in British isles?
Great Paul in St Paul’s Cathedral
Largest harmonically tuned bell in world, cast in bronze bell metal. It was casted in Netherlands so not cast in uk.
Olympic Bell
Heaviest bell in the world is Petersglocke or Dicker Pitter found in which cathedral?
Cologne
Song “And I will Kiss” written by who of Underworld for the isles of wonder opening ceremony of 2012 Olympics.
Rick Smith
2012 song “And I will Kiss” by Rick Smith and the inscription on Olympic Bell of “be not afeared, the isle is full of noises” are both from which Shakespearean characters speeches?
Caliban from Tempest
Where is the Mount of Venus?
Hand - the portion of palm at base of thumb
Sequel of Anthony hope Prisoner of Zenda
Rupert of Hentzau
Sequel of Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy 1980
Restaurant at the end of the universe
Third of hitchhikers books
Life, the universe and everything
Fourth book in hitchhikers series
So Long, and thanks for all the fish
Fifth book of hitchhikers series
Mostly Harmless
Which Wimbledon defending mens champion knocked out second round and said “I haven’t lost a war, no one got killed, I just lost a tennis match”?
Boris Becker
Who said “the harder I practice, the luckier I get”? Golfer may be myth
Gary Player
Which commentator said “for those of you watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green”?
Ted Lowe
Which commentator said that Fred Davis was “getting on a bit and is having trouble getting his leg over”?
Ted Lowe
What year said to be best world snooker championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor?
1985
In an AC electrical circuit what parameter is indicated by the capital letter Z?
Impedance
Albums Tea for the Tillerman and “Teaser and the Firecat” by who!
Cat Stevens
Mayfair club fictional location in stories of Pg Wodehouse named after male bees who does not work and live off labours of others.
Drones Club
Common name of blue flowered garden plant that has botanical name Nepeta?
Catmint
Samson and Goliath are cranes situated in which city?
Belfast
Arthurian legend what was the name for be lady of the lake?
Viviane or Nimue
Lady of the Lake raised which of Arthur’s men after his fathers death
Lancelot
Whose symphony #4 was called the tragic symphony
Franz Schubert
Which order of monks known as the White Friars?
The Carmelites
Which order of monks are nicknamed Black Friars due to cloaks wore over tunics?
Dominican Order
Cistercians were founded by which Saint hence their alternative name ?
St Bernard of Clairvaux (Bernardines)
Which order of monks nicknamed White Monks in reference to colour of cowl?
Cistercians
Which order of monks sometimes called Black Monks due to colour of habits?
Benedictines
Which order of monks said to have been founded by Berthold of Calabria who founded it at namesake Israel mountain?
Carmelites
Which order of monks can be called Greyfriars because of habit colour?
Franciscans
Which order of monks founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084? Named after mountains in French prealps.
Carthusians
Which English composer wrote The Three Elizabeths suite?
Eric Coates
Term for the officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over Feast of Fools?
Lord of Misrule
Which county teams plays at Lords?
Middlesex
Which county team plays at the Oval?
Surrey
Who is the son of the mikado name in G&S opera?
Nanki-Poo
Who is lord high executioner of titipu?
KO-KO
Who is the Lord High Everything Else in The Mikado?
Pooh-Bah
Second part of the House of cards trilogy written by Michael Dobbs
To Play The King
Third part of Michael Dobbs’ House of Cards trilogy?
The Final Cut
Main character of the Secret Garden
Mary Lennox
Famous ww2 song composed by Walter Kent in 1942 to lyrics by Nat Burton.
(There’ll be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
American artist known as The First Lady of Radio known for renditions of God Bless America (Irving Berlin) and When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. Name: The Songbird of the South.
Kate Smith
A bear called George featured in ads for which drinks brand?
Hofmeister Lager
Which British newspaper originally ran the Rupert the Bear strip?
Daily Express
Poem and poet starts: Quinquereme of Ninevah from distant Ophir, rowing home to heaven in sunny Palestine, with a cargo of ivory and apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedar wood and sweet white wine.
John Masefield’s Cargoes
Captain Hook’s ship in Peter Pan?
Jolly Roger
Who shared friendships with ginger and merry legs in literature?!@/
Black Beauty
Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace both HQ in which capital city?/‘s
Amsterdam
In which English village might you climb The Heights of Abraham?
Matlock Bath
Only female character in Treasure Island?
Jim’s mother
Who wrote novel Beau Geste about three English brothers who enlist separately in French foreign legion?
PC Wren
American city known as The Big Easy?
New Orleans
Which dickens character always waiting for “something will turn up”
Mr Wilkins Micawber
Which Derbyshire stately pile, home of the Manners family, has been owned for over 900 years by them?
Haddon Hall
In The archers the name of the farm where David and Ruth archer reside?
Brookfield Farm
Which dickens novel features Dotheboys Hall
Nicholas Nickleby
Where might you find “something nasty in the woodshed”?
Stella Gibbon’s Cold Comfort Farm (1933)
Mobile app “fastest way to share a moment”?
Snapchat
Which movie has tagline “the first casualty of war is innocence”
Platoon
Which bacterium is the main agent in making of most yoghurt and cheese?
Lactobacillus
Which of the halogen elements has the lowest atomic number?(@9
Fluorine
Which of the halogen elements is heaviest
Tennessinr
Batemans in East Sussex was the residence of which author?
Rudyard Kipling
Term for a denser collection of housing especially in slum area also used for breeding colony of penguins?4
Rookery
Who composed music for the popular ww1 song Keep the Home Fires Burning?
Ivor Novello with words by Lena Ford
Largest lake in surface area confined to only one country?
Lake Michigan
Deepest lake of the Lake District?
Wastwater
Pink Fir Apple what type of vegetable?
Potato
Viola Tricolor also known as heartsease, Johnny Jump Up?
Wild Pansy
Who solved riddle of the sphinx in green mythology l
Oedipus
In homers odyssey who was wife of Agamemnon?
Clytemnestra
In Egyptian myth, who was goddess of moon and magic and witchcraft?
Isis
In Egyptian mythology, whose brother and husband was Osiris, and son with him was Horus?
Isis
Egyptian god of fertility, agriculture, afterlife, dead, resurrection. Green skinned. Wearing atef crown. Killed by brother Set. Returned to life by wife Isis.
Osiris
Egyptian god of the Earth
Geb
Egyptian goddess of sky( stars, cosmos and mothers?
Nut
Which port were the French fleet scuttled in 1942 to stop going into German hands?597@9’
Toulon
1940 attach by British on neutral French ships at namesake base near Oran, French Algeria. Wanted to stop them getting into hands of Germans.
Attack on Mers-el-Kebir
From which port did the Spanish Armada sail from in 1588?
Lisbon
Who commanded the Spanish Armada in 1588
Duke of Medina Sidonia
Which grape predominates in the red wines of French region of Saint-Emilion?
Merlot
Which grape predominates I’m a champagne described as Blanc de Blancs?
Chardonnay
2021 Suez Canal blocked by which ship?
Ever Given
Ever Given was a 20,000 TEU container ship? What does TEU stand for in this context?
Twenty foot Equivalent Unit
September 2022 which ship a Singaporean oil tanker has been refloated after a breakdown in suez cAnal?
Affinity V
Which polymath scammed the French lottery in 1730?
Voltaire
Dutch monarchs are buried in what city’s Nieuwe Kerk?
Delft
Which philosopher won the Booker prize?
Iris Murdoch
Bixby is which company’s virtual assistant?
Samsung
Cortana is virtual assistant for which company?
Microsoft
Actress from line of duty and motherland
Anna Maxwell Martin
Cete is an obsolete word for a group of which animal?
Badger
Act of low bowing or prostration to God facing the qiblah in Islam
Sujud or Sajdah
Term from Arabic for direction towards Mecca used by Muslims for Salah.
Qiblah
Which well known political movement takes its name from Pashto for students or seekers?
Taliban
2022 action RPG by FromSoftware directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and world holding by George RR Martin
Elden Ring
1961 portrait of Duke of Wellington stolen from National Gallery, painting by whom?
Francisco de Goya
What does UNICEF stand for
United Nations Children’s Fund (used to be Emergency Fund)
Baseball team led by Bruce Bochy to 3 Baseball World Series championships in 2010s?
San Francisco Giants
The Markt is the market square in which city; largest and capital city of West Flanders?
Bruges
Generally speaking what type of stock used to make French onion?
Beef Stock
4 letter name of walrus spotted in Hampshire and now Scarborough in January 2022.
Thor
In 1965 Dr Zhivago which actress portrayed Dr Zhivago’s wife?
Geraldine Chaplin (not Julie Christie who played Lara)
Name of butch Cassidy and sun dance kid gang?
Wild Bunch
American tennis player got to semi finals of US Open 2022, 4r of Wimbledon 2022, son of Sierra Leonean immigrants
Frances Tiafoe
What year: metro newspaper founded, footballer Mason Mount born and death of Ernie wise and dusty Springfield
1999
Oti Mabuse new show in April 2022 combining singing and dating?
Romeo & Duet
What Christmas Carol originally Ukrainian folk song begins Hark how the bells sweet silver bells all seem to say throw cares away
Carol of the Bells
UK tv show The Traitors was filed at which stunning Scottish castle in highlands?
Ardross Castle
Chad is largest African landlocked country by area. What is smallest landlocked?
Eswatini
Main ore of tin
Cassiterite
Stage name of British singer Rachel Agatha Keen, in 2023 she reached number 1 in uk with song “Escapism”?
RAYE
Which Pennsylvanian city recognised as stating point of Lewis and Clark exhibition? City was founded by a Scotsman.
Pittsburgh
Name of Doha stadium seen during 2022 World Cup named after number of containers which made up it’s construction.
974 (also Qatar’s dialling code)
Archaeological sites of Cyrene, Leptis Magna and Sabratha are endangered unesco sites in which country?
Libya
What company are taking over national lottery from February 2024?
Allwyn
Which animal only Surviving member of rhynchocephalia has third eye on top of head? New Zealand
Tuatara
Written by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, the first fighting fantasy game book was called What
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
What three word slogan of original Pinkerton detective agency? Usually shown below an all seeing eye logo.
We Never Sleep
In 1977, Ohio State University telescope detected a strong narrowband signal the signal appeared to come from direction of constellation Sagittarius and bore expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin, this signal is known by what three letter name?
Wow! Signal
Which motoring and cycling retailed founded by Frederick Rushbrooke in Birmingham in 1892
Halfords
Michael Winslow as Jones and David Graf as Tackleberry were cast members of which 1984 comedy hit?
Police Academy
Name of first film starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood which also gave inspiration for name of 80s British pop rock band.
Fine Young Cannibals
Dee C Lee See the Day song in 1995, she had before been member of which group with Paul Weller?
The Style Council
Which actor connects West Wing, The Handmaids Tale and movie Get Out?
Bradley Whitford
Recent work by a data scientist indicated whcih Radiohead song. As the saddest song in their catalogue?
True Love Waits
All Together Now is most streamed song by which band led by Peter Hooton?
The Farm
DK publishing house now part of Random House stands for what
Dorling Kindersley
In peanuts comic, which character surrounded by permanent cloud of dust?
Pig-Pen
Whcih Frenchman claims to be founder of freerunning
Sebastien Foucan
Whcih actress played psychiatrist Dr Jennifer Melfi in the Sopranos?
Lorraine Bracco
First name of Sylvester Stallone astrologer mother
JAckie
Name of the one shot Stephen Graham movie of 2021 about London restaurant? Sequel series of bbc has been confirmed.
Boiling Point
Whcih film gave odd pairing of Estelle Getty and Sylvester Stallone 1992
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot
In 2016 which American swimmer generated contro when claims him and three swimmers had been pulled over and robbed by armed men while in rio brazil?
Ryan Lochte
2020 Stephen Graham starred in an itv drama concerning the murderer Jeremy Bamber. What was the three word name of that mini series?
White House Farm
What actor was merciless T-1000 in Terminator 2?
Robert Patrick
Which Scott won plaudits for playing tough. John Connor Young in terminator 2 judgement day
Edward Furlong
What was first name of Sylvester Stallone singing brother ,he reached top ten with song “far from over”, lifter from soundtrack of Saturday night fever sequel staying alive
Frank Stallone
Scottish actor played Tommy in trainspotting and then played Owen hart in greys anatomy?
Kevin McKidd
Rebus author
Ian rankin
First book of Ian rankin’s John rebus
Knots and Crosses
Ancient term for tennis which major Walter wingfield borrowed for recreation he patented in 1874?
Sphairistike
In which British true crime drama does Stephen Graham play a man who infiltrates a neo nazi group? The name of this show is also a phrase which means a person who turns up without an appointment
The Walk-In
Who was Sylvester Stallone wife between 1985 and 1987
Brigitte Nielsen
Which actor played Christopher Moltisanti in almost every episode of the sopranos?
Michael Imperioli
Joel Quenneville is the second coach on the list of all time NHL wins. He had his greatest successes when leading which chicago based team to three stanley cup titles?
Chicago Blackhawks
American actor best known for role as Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in The Sopranos? Appeared in some Woody Allen.
Tony Sirico
Known for role as lucchese family caporegime paulie cicero in Goodfellas and Phil Cerrreta in Law and Order. Was Juliet’s father in Romeo + juliet, garlin dad in the goldbergs
Paul sorvino
Who was Romy in Romy and Michele’s high school reunion?
Mira Sorvino
Which actor and singer was Silvio Dante in the sopranos as well as member of Bruce Springsteen E Street Band?
Steven Van Zandt
Highest record temperature in uk recorded in 19th ajuly 2022 in conigsby Lincolnshire, what was it?
40.3 degrees celsius
Lou Bega lyrics I like …. Four women
Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita
A little bit of ____ in my life
A little bit of _____ by my side
Next six girls too
Only Connect
Monica
Erica
Rita’s all I need
Tina’s what I see
Sandra in the sun
Mary all night long
Jessica here I am
You makes me your man
The final episode of the bbc the Royale family was broadcast on Christmas Day 2012 and entitled what? “_____’s old ring”
Barbara’s Old Ring
Knife consisting of one or more curved blades with a handle on each end and rock back and forth chopping ingredients below.
Mezzaluna
One of this year’s viral hits was spawned from 7-yo Tariq describing what as a big lump with knobs that has the juice?
Corn
Adoration of the Magi is an unfished painting by da Vinci I. Whci location named for accommodation of the offices of florentine magistrates hence name
Uffizi
Ten eleven twelve in German
Zehn, Elf, Zwolf
Who became first woman to train a grand national winner when corbiere won race in 1983? She’s repeat with Royal Athlete in 1995.
Jenny Pitman
Where did Cleopatra first meet mark Anthony? Same place was birthplace of Paul the apostle.
Tarsus
In shakespeare Julius Caesar who has a lean and hungry look?
Cassius
Which controversial American businessman managed the Beatles and Rolling Stones at same time for period? Tax authorities did him and jailed in 1980.
Allen Klein
Titled merchant banker who was longtime financial mNager of the Rolling Stones?
Prince Rupert Loewenstein
Abraham instructed by God to sacrifice which son?
Isaac
Jerusalem based Islamic shrine in old city said to be oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture. Foundation Stone said to be place god. Rated world and Adam. Where Abraham sacrificed Isaac.
Dome of the Rock
First game 1999, first twelve instalments of these video games take place in WW2, story of first three games created by Steven Spielberg.
Medal of Honour
In which building did James Garfield get assassinated by Charles Guiteau 1881 ?
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station
Who was prime minister of Britain at time of bAttle of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift?
January 1879 - Disraeli’s second term
Which man was highest paid music hall act of 1880: and 1890s? Portrayed by Douglas Booth in 2016 horror film “the limehouse golem”?
Dan Leno
Author born 1857 Wakefield: The Nether World 1889, New Grub Street 1891, The Odd Women 1893?
George Gissing
British tv host and founder of Miss World Pageant and Come Dancing tv programme.
Eric Morley
Officially known as third class on the titanic, what level of cruise ship travel was generally referred to by a word beginning with s?
Steerage
Which Roman satirist, coined a rare bird, as a black swan
Juvenal
Hera was goddess of marriage in Greece, who aS Roman goddess of marriage
Juno
Graham Fagg and Philippe Cozette met where in 1st December 1990?
Meeting of French and British sections of channel tunnel
Lapidation alternative name for what? Mentioned numerous times in Torah but never in Quran.
Stoning death
Wrestling, bad guy is a heel, what two words describe good guy?
Baby Face
Shakespeare and Company is a well known English language bookstore founded by George Whitman in 1951 in what city?
Paris
John Harmon heir to estate if marries Bella Wilfer, premise of which dickens novel
Our Mutual Friend
The Opisthenar area can be found in which part of the human body?
Back of the hand
In 1990s long running ad campaign for Brooke bonds tea had slogan I could with a ___, which single letter fills the blank?
D
In Arthurian legend, what was two word name of Lancelot’s CASTLE?
Joyous Gard
Barbara Gordon alter ego
Bat girl
Who was supposed to play Batgirl before film cancelled by DC
Leslie Grace
2019 film “Fighting with my Family” looked at careeer of which female wrestler?
Paige (Saraya-Jade Bevis)
President of Turkey since 2014
Recep Erdogan
Lincoln Memorial in DC surrounded by peristyle of fluted Doric columns one for each state of Union at time of Lincoln’s death, how many?
36
Percy Fawcett explorer 2016 film about hiis Brazilian lost city?
Lost City of Z
Name of manic street preachers rhythm guitarist who disappeared in 1995? His car found at Severn Bridge service station.
Richey Edwards
John Bercow wife name
Sally Bercow
21 books by which author about forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan
Kathy Reichs
Who plays Temperance “Bones” Brennan in tv show based on Kathy Reichs?
Emily Deschanel
The building of colliseum in rome was began by which man who ruled from 69-79AD?
Vespasian
Latin phrase meaning money does not stink attributed to Vespasian talking about urine tax
Pecunia non olet
Which Tsar of Russia died during the course of the Crimean war?
Nicholas I (1825-55)
Other official language of Kiribati other than English?
Gilbertese
Which former bbc economics editor has distinction of ex girlfriend of both Ed balls and Ed Miliband?
Stefanie Flanders
Comedy partnership full names please, revues At the Drop of a Hat, At the Drop of Another Hat. Both went to Westminster School and Christ Church Oxford.
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann
1848 Karl Marx started a new newspaper in Cologne, name?
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Air Force of which European country used swastika from 1918-2017?
Finland
Year of Battle of Culloden
1746
1685 battle last and decisive engagement between kingdom of England and duke of Monmouth rebellion.
Battle of Sedgemoor
Battle of Sedgemoor fought in which year and county
1685 Somerset
General-Secretary of UNISON since January 2021
Christina McAnea
Who has been Gen Sec of Unite since August 2021
Sharon Graham
Gen Sec of GMB since 2021
Gary Smith
What does GMB trade Union letters stand for
General, Municipal, Boilermakers’
What will be the new national capital of Indonesia from 2024v
Nusantara
Only double landlocked county in Ireland
Laois
What is Ganges called in Bangladesh
Padma
2021, which mountain becomes the final 8000er to be summoned in winter ?
K2
Oldest continually surviving tropical rainforest in the world, found in Queensland, Australia?
Daintree
Highest volcano in South America
Ojos del Salado
Highest volcano in Europe
Elbrus
Highest volcano of North America
Pico de Orizaba
Highest volcano in Asia
Damavand in Iran
Highest volcano found in Oceania
Mount Giluwe
Highest volcano in Antarctica
Mount Sidley
In what county is Woodhouse Colliery, site of first new coal mine in UK in 30 years
Cumbria
What country join Schengen Area on 1 January 2023
Croatia
Rock and Chips tv show played Del Boy
James Buckley
Stridling Edge, Faith and Heathen are some of best selling beers produced by which brewery based in leeds
Northern Monk
Steatorrhea is presence of excessive amounts of what substance in the faeces?
Fat
2023 US mint will honour which dancer the first Native American to hold rank of prime ballerina? 1960 first American to perform at bolshoi theatre?
Maria Tallchief
Which prophetess is only female judge mentioned in the Bible?
Deborah
Southernmost station on London Underground, terminus of northern line
Morden
Released in 2022 containing single “one up”, no more leaks is latest EP of which British rapper?
Central Cee
Which Welshman defeated Barney van Barneveld to win 1995 BDO World Darts Championship? Known for fiery and eccentric personality , 2015 career detailed from test for cocaine.
Richie Burnett
Containing a structure known as TATA box, what name is given to DNA sequence upstream of a gene where transcription factors and RNA Polymerase bind?
Promoter Sequence
Films Bhaji on the Beach, Bend it like Beckham, bride and predudice director
Gurinder Chadha
US mint produced coin honouring which Native American first woman to be elected as principal chief of Cherokee nation?
Wilma Mankiller
2004 Marilyn Manson did cover of Depeche Mode song, covered also by Johnny Cash in 2002
Personal Jesus
Cwtch and Clwb Tropica two best selling beeers of which welsh brewery founded in 2012
Tiny Rebel
Steatorrhoa symptom of disease in which organ which along with bile duct releases it’s secretions through the ampulla of Vater into the duodenum?
PAncreas
Name of which famous aria from Verdi’s Rigoletto can be translated into English as “women are fickle”
La Donna e Mobile
Which actress played Del Boy mum Joan Trotter in Rock and Chips
Kellie Bright
Released in December 2022, Take Me Home is latest EP from which English singer songwriter? Received songwriting nomination at 2022 brits for central Cee “obsessed with you” sampled her “just for me”
PinkPantheress
Who is author of The Boys from Brazil, The Stepford Wives, Rosemary’s Baby and play Deathtrap?
Ira Levin
Tube station, along with Amersham, is one of metropolitan line’s two Buckinghamshire terminus - is northernmost and westernmost station in London Underground system?
Chesham
WhT is the easternmost station on London Underground network? On district line.
Upminster
Forming backbone of fat molecules, what organic compound containing three carbon atoms and three hydroxyl groups, is esterified to long chain fatty acids?
Glycerol
Which German state borders Poland and Czechia? Capital Dresden and largest city Leipzig.
Saxony
Which feminist activist was main author of Declaration of Sentiments, presented at her Seneca Falls Convention in 1848? Later wrote The Woman’s Bible.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Filmmaker directed Man of Steel in 2013. 2004 remake of George Romero’s Dawn of Dead.
Zack Snyder
Which Japanese fashion designer died 2022? Survivor of Hiroshima, designed black turtleneck is notably worn by Steve Jobs.
Issey Miyake
Which final fantasy VII character is childhood friend of Cloud Strife? Member of avalanche group and owner of bar in Midgar.
TIFA Lockhart
Czech composer did The Bartered Bride and symphonic poem Ma Vlast.
Bedrich Smetana
Which soviet physicist developed a theory of second order phase transitions, including superfluid transition? He won 1962 physics nobel for developing an overall theory of superfluidity.
Lev Landau
Greece final monarch deposed in 1967
Constantine II
British author and screenwriter best known for writing Prime Suspect (HM as DCI Jane Tennison), she wrote tv show Widows.
Lynda La Plante
Which book of Bible tells story of Hebrew woman in Persia who stops genocide of people? In Judaism, read aloud during festival of Purim.
Esther
People of which European country traditionally throw cinnamon at unmarried 25 year olds in Valentines Day? The tradition originates from travelling spice salesmen or Pepper Dudes remaining bachelors.
Denmark
Which naval battle of 100 Years War was fought on 24 June 1340? Under command of Edward III who was shot in thigh, England lost only two ships to FranceDS 190.
Battle of Sluys (l’Ecluse)
Including the singles Take my Breath and Sacrifice, which album by the Weeknd was released in 2022 as fifth album? Title refers to a Purgatory broadcast voiced by Jim Carrey.
Dawn FM
French virologist who received Nobel Medicine in 2008 for discovering HIV?
Francoise Barre Sinoussi
Which Ian Kennedy Martin itv series adapted into 2012 film with Ray Winstone and Plan B? Two members of Flying Squad working against armed robbery.
The Sweeney
Which battle of 100 Years War took place on 26 August 1346? Edward III longvowmen routed Philip VI French crossbowmen at his battle, where John the blind was killed?
Battle of Crecy
Which singer who died in 2022 formed a country music duo with her eldest daughter Wynonna in 1980? She wrote “love can build a bridge” which was covered as comic relief single in 1995.
Naomi Judd
Which book of Bible tells story of Moabite woman who accepts Israelites as her own people? It is read aloud during Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Ruth
Which European country celebrates the single women aged 25 on 25th November, in honour of St Catherine’s Day? Traditionally the women send postcards to one another and wear yellow and green hats.
France
Which Rembrandt painting depicting an event from gospel of mark stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 1990? Rembrandt’s only seascape.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Who directed The Batman 2022 and directed Cloverfield before?
Matt Reeves
Which activist published The Revolution, a womens rights newspaper, with E C Stanton in 1868? 1881 they both published first volume of History of Woman Suffrage.
Susan B Anthony
Which historical region of Germany contains Dortmund and bielefeld and borders Netherlands , along with Lippe it forms a German state with another region centred on Düsseldorf.
Westphalia
Which final fantasy VII character is last surviving Cetera or “ancient”? She asks cloud to be her bodyguard, causing a rivalry with Tifa.
Aerith Gainsborough
Which Czech composer opera Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen?
Leos Janacek
Which French fashion designer died in 2022? His fashion house produced Angel range of fragrances and he designed black dress worn by Demi Moore in Indecent Proposal.
Thierry Mugler
Romania last king
Michael I
Which soviet physicist names a theory of Type 1 superconductors with Lev Landau? He shared the 2003 Nobel prize physics with abrikosov and Leggett for his work on superconductors and superfluids.
Vitaly Ginzburg
Which short river which shares its name with a channel island, forms part of the western edge of the border of England and Scotland?
River Sark
What name given to feral horses that roam Australia? Lend their name to super rugby team based in Canberra.
Brumby
Which 1987 caryl churchill play mostly written in rhyming couplets centres on British stock market?
Serious Money
Real name of Green Arrow, played by Stephen Amell on tv
Oliver queen
A Taste of Honey 1858 play by who
Shelagh Delaney
Rap duo Black Star members
Mos Def and Talib Kweli
Nobel Peace Prize 2021 won by Dmitry Muratov and which Filipino journalist who founded Rappler?
Maria Ressa
Ukraine born photographer born 1899 known first black and white street photography in New York City? Arthur Fellig born.
Weegee
Game taking place in kingdom of Lordran where players assume role of cursed undead character who begins a pilgrimage to discover the fate of their kind.
Dark Souls
RPG in 2006 by Bethesda series and set in Cyrodiil can be completed in under three minutes using glitch that involves a staircase of paintbrushes?
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Snake named after Afrikaans for “tree snake”?
Boomslang
In chaucers Canterbury tales who tells tale of Palamon and Arcite, two men in love with same woman?
Knight
Some like it hot tony Curtis character name
Joe/Josephine saxophone player
Some like it hot Jack Lemmon character
Jerry/Daphne double bass player
Marilyn Monroe character some like it hot
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk a ukulele player
Jhumpa Lahiri Putlizer prize winning novel?
Interpreter of Maladies
English Footballer played for AC Milan in 1980s, later used as art collective name based in Italy?
Luther Blissett
In 1980s Flash Gordon, film shows quarterback, in comics as practitioner of which sport? Greatest player is Adolfo Cambiaso.
Polo
Word recognised by 18% of men and 55% of women, word meaning “a pleated, fluted, or gathered strip of fabric used for trimming”?
Ruche
Eau Rouge is a corner at whcih formula one circuit? 2021, this circuit held shortest ever Grand Prix due to torrential downpour.
Circuit de SPA-Francorchamps
An alternative name for trench fever includes surnames of Heinrich Werner and which Swiss cardiologist? A bundle of cardiac muscle fibres connecting the atrioventricular node to the ventricles is also named for this man.
Bundle of HIS
Nicknamed 00-147 which recently retired snooker player reached final of 1995 world championship, only to lose to Stephen hendry?
Nigel Bond
Which African island nation takes name from polo’s misspelling of Mogadishu in Somalia the port over 2000km away Marco Polo confused it with?
Madagascar
Heaven Can Wait QB Joe Pendleton (Beatty), was which sport in original play and earlier adaptation in Here Comes Mr Jordan? Women only started sport at Olympics in 2012, men since 1904 other than 1912 S Sweden nan sport
Boxing
13% of men and 64% of women recognise which word meaning “a short section attached to the waistline of a blouse, jacket or dress”?
Peplum
Which actor who died in 1993 becomes a definition of the Salt, a tributary of the Gila, if the word “in” is inserted between forename and surname?
River Phoenix
American baseball player Gary Thomasson had bad spell playing whcih country in 1980s? Artist from this country named an art form after thomasson fefined as architectural relics still maintained but no longer purposeful. Abe Sada: truncated telegraph pole named after woman who murdered her lover and severed his genitalia.
Japan
In Chaucer’s Canterbury takes who tells tale of Arveragus and Aurelius two men fall in love same woman?
The Franklin
Who lost 2004 presidential race against George w bush?
John Kerry
Sting pain index is named after which entomologist? Rates relative pain caused by different Hymenoptera stings. Fella got Ig Nobel in 2015.
Schmidt
Paraponera Clavata is which insect given maximum 4 on Schmidt sting pain and ritual of brazil tribe to put glove on filled iwith these insects?
Bullet Ant
Speedrunners can complete whuchbgame in under six minutes? 2022 RPG by From Software set in the lands between.
Elden Ring
Who won Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 alongside Denis Mukwege? Got kidnapped by isis for three months.
Nadia Murad
Sky Arts Urban Myths: which bewigged character featured when he arrived at home of Grace jones and Jean Paul goude when they were in midst of home invasion?
Andy Warhol
Created by Chuck Lorre, Michael Douglas as titular acting coach and Alan Arkin as agent? Netflix drama finished in 2021.
The Kominsky Method
Nicknamed Licence to Thrill which snooker player reached semis of 2020 world championship only to lose to Kyren Wilson?
Anthony McGill
An alternative name for glycogen storage disease type VI includes the four letter surname of which Belgian biochemist?
Henri-Gery Hers
Which Scottish indie rock band founded by Stuart Adamson takes name from talking heads song which opens with lyrics “I see the shapes, I remember the maps, I see the shoreline, I see the whitecaps”?
Big Country
Zeno of Elea was put into mortar and pounded to death and described by Aristotle as inventor of what form of reasoning?
Dialectic Reasoning
Acqua Minerale is corner at which Formula One circuit? 1994 a race at this circuit killed Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger.
Imola
Imola racecourse is in which Italian region?
Emilia Romagna
First name of Emeli Sande?
Adele
Number photograph made famous by Rosalind Franklin
Photograph 51
Name of protagonist of 1989 film Heathers
Veronica Sawyer
A prison now known as HMP Rochester was formerly known by what name? In 1902 this prison was converted into a juvenile detention centre leading to its name becoming generic term for prison for young offenders.
Borstal Prison
Which actress was granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright? She appeared as Eve Harrington in All About Eve 1950. Played Zelda the Great and Olga Queen of Cossacks on tv Batman. Ended up playing Margo Channing (Bette Davis in 1950 AAE) in musical adaptation Applause (of AAE).
Anne Baxter
Title of Putlizer prize winning “biography of cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, title taken from a 19th century description of cancer and then the king of terrors.
The Emperor of All Maladies
The name of which genus of flowering plants is also the name of a character who was accidentally killed by his lover Apollo?
Hyacinth
Name of whcih genus of animals also name of monstrous character who was killed by Apollo? Name found in title of British comedy series.
Python
Which island, third largest in Caribbean, also forename of Antiguan-American author of novels Annie John and The Autobiography of my Mother?
Jamaica Kincaid
Which island in caribbean is also middle name of American author of poems Renascence and The Ballad of the Harp Weaver? Middle name chosen not of island but in honour of a hospital where poets uncles life saved and where Dylan Thomas would late die
St Vincent (Edna St Vincent Millay)
German Artist born Dresden 1932, surname anagram of type biscuit but with A swapped for R
Gerhard Richter
German Artist born Dresden in 1840 with surname anagram of fried rice.
Caspar David Friedrich
RE Foster is only england test cricket captain to have attained what other sporting achievement! Cuthbert Ottaway first to do it 1872 and two men have done it 90 times each.
England captain football
JWHT Douglas is only england test captain to have attained what other sporting achievement? Buster Crabbe and Benjamin Spock both done it too.2
Won gold Olympic medal
Which man convinced Stephen sondheim to accept offer to write lyrics to west side story? Only Oscar winner to be named Oscar.)
Hammerstein II
Which man wrote the screenplay of 2021 film West Side Story! Author of Angels in America is one of few men named Tony to have won tony.
Tony Kushner
Which man wrote the screenplay of 2021 film West Side Story! Author of Angels in America is one of few men named Tony to have won tony.
Tony Kushner
A class of cruise ships includes ship involved in notorious 2012 incident. All start with what word. Favolosa, Fascinosa, etc.
Costa (costa concordia being referred to)
Which series of action adventure video games created by Hideki Kamiya (also did Devil May Cry), features title character a witch who fights using her hair? Primary settings are Paradiso and Purgatorio.
Bayonetta
True crime podcast by Lucy Worsley?
Lady Killers
Home to US navy base since WW2 what is southernmost and largest island of Marshall Islands?
Kwajalein Island
1994 Ed wood film chronicles the filmmaker making 1957 cult movie?
Plan 9 from Outer Space
American itinerant portrait painter from 1788-1865. Known for folk art, children in red although only 10% are this. Well known Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog.
Ammi Phillips
Name of Niels Bohr Nobel winning son?
Aage Bohr
Current longest standing world record in Womens athletics was set in 1983 in the 800m with time of 1:53:28. Who Czech athlete set it?
Jarmila Kratochvilova
Chania Lighthouse found in which European island
Crete
Which English nurse and pacifist is famous for writing about their experiences ww1 in work Testament of Youth in 1933?
Vera Brittain
Who performs lead vocal on 1995 massive attack “protection”? One half of everything but the girl.
Tracey Thorn
Which farm simulation game created by Yasuhiro Wada was first released in Japan in 1996 and follows Young character who inherits grandfathers farm? It has included instalments called “more friends of mineral town”, “a wonderful life” and “back to nature”?
Harvest Moon
Jade Emperor decreed years on Chinese zodiac, set a race, what animal won the race and is first in zodiac?
Rat
Reached surface in November 1963, name of volcanic island located in Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off south coast of Iceland? Southernmost point.
Surtsey
2004 debut studio album by Arcade Fire?
Funeral
Chinese-Canadian man Changpeng Zhao is the founder and CEO of which cryptocurrency exchange, largest in world at some point?
Binance
Longest standing world record in mens athletic is discus thrower in 1986 with 74.08m, which German athlete?
Jurgen Schult
Which Canadian folk artist is known for her paintings of landscapes, animals and flowers that offer a nostalgic and optimistic vision of Nova Scotia life?
Maud Lewis
Whcih animal during zodiac race hungry so ate and fell asleep? Last in zodiac.
Pig
Who performs lead vocals on 1998 Massive Attack song “Teardrop”? She is best known for lead vocalist of pop band “Cocteau Twins”.
Elizabeth Fraser
Which farm simulation game developed by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone? Created game to address shortcomings of Harvest Moon franchise. Released in 2016.
Stardew Valley
Whcih English county only one to feature a person on it?
Nottinghamshire - silhouette of Robin Hood
Which true crime podcast presented by Rachel Fairborn and Kiri Pritchard McLean talks about shared passion of serial killer? Name similar to 2001 debut album of Sum 41
All Killa No Filla
Largest and most developed island of Micronesia is called what? Palikir found on this island.
Pohnpei
Crystallophone musical instrument that produces sound when what inorganic solid material either struck or rubbed?
Glass
Who was best man for Jean Reno? President of France 2007-12.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Sahle-Work Zewde President of whcih country since 2018?
Ethiopia
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss founded which cryptocurrency exchange? Ninth largest in world.
Gemini
Emerging in a cornfield of local farmer in 1943, what name of volcano in Mexican state of Michoacan? Now dormant and tourist attraction.
Paricutin
Which bird called Thomas Gierdet in Germany, Ruddock and the Ploughman’s Bird?
Robin
What flight and airline disappeared 8th March 2014 when flying to Beijing Capital International?
MH370 by Malaysia Airlines
Antitussives are medicines designed to suppress what?
Coughing
In 1982, the philosopher Frank Jackson proposed which thought experiment, titled for a hypothetical scientist who lives in a black and white world? The experiment asks whether she would gain new knowledge by experiencing colours first hand rather than merely hearing descriptions of them.
Mary’s Room
Born 1904 New Jersey, One O Clock Jump among best known compositions by which jazz pianist with real forenames William James?
Count Basie
Which river, longest entirely in Wales, forms much of border between counties of Ceredigion and Powys? It rises in Cambrian mountains and ultimately empties into Carmarthen Bay near Pendine Sands.
Towy river (or Afon Tywi)
DRS technology added to test cricket in 2008? Acronym for
Decision Review System
Most commonly cited example of which physical effect named after physicist who first described it in 1948 involves a pair of parallel metal plates which experience an attractive or repulsive force between them despite being uncharged?
Casimir Effect
Which actor who rose to fame playing Michelle in Tv show Derry Girls appeared as Rose in Chanelnel 4’a 2022 prison comedy Series Screw?
Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
Name of Chinese foreign policy programme by Xi Jinping in 2013 as new Silk Road?
Belt and Road Initiative
Between 1982-2005 August Wilson cycle of ten plays is named after which US city?
Pittsburgh
Which Hungarian politician, who held post of chairman of council of ministers between 1953 and 1955, became a figurehead of the 1956 Hungarian revolution against soviet control? He was arrested in soviet invasion of Hungary and executed two years later.
Imre Nagy
2000 Olympics Sydney, which Dutch swimmer set new world records in 50m, 100m freestyles and 100m butterfly on way to winning three golds? Retained 50m freestyle in Athens.
Inge de Bruijn
Which American beauty and nail are company produces popular Hard as Nails and Mend-a-Nail manicure products? Company’s two word name is that of actor, dance and businesswoman who founded brand in NY in 1946?
Sally Hansen
The three colours trilogy was Blue first in 1993 was by which polish filmmaker?
Krzysztof Kieslowski
French band with brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier, Christian Andreu and Jean-Michel Labadie.
Gojira
Despite being named after a district on the Isle of Dogs, north of river Thames, which championship team plays its home game in Bermondsey?
Millwall FC
Queen Victoria was carrier of which hereditary bleeding disorder responsible for death of her song Leopold?
Haemophilia (Christmas disease£
Which character from Australian soap Home and Away and known for catchphrases “you flaming galah!” Is portrayed by Ray Meagher (Marr) is the only remaining cast member from 1988?
Alf Stewart
Which company, HQ Helsinki, known for its classic orange handled multi purpose scissors first manufactured in 1967? The company is named after village university Finland where founded in 1649
Fiskars
What name given to layer of rainforest which lies above canopy, consisting only of uppermost portions of the tallest trees?
Emergent Layer
Name of economic initiative announced by G7 in 2021 to compete with China Belt and Road Initiative. Same three word phrase used by Biden in 2020 presidential campaign.
Build Back Better
Which 1985 play, part of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, follows the story of Troy Maxson, binman who refuses to allow his son to pursue a career in American football having himself been prevented from playing MLB due to his race?
Fences
Polaroid founded by who in 1937? Sued Eastman’s Kodak when introduced range of instant camera.
Edwin Land
Which Swiss beauty and nailcare company produces the popular “scientifique” nail hardener? The company’s name is derived from that of Madeline van Landeghem, who founded it in 1958?
Mavala
1993 film Blue where solid blue colour filling screen throughout was final feature film directed by who?
Derek Jarman
While serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia which slovak politician used the slogan “socialism with a human face” to describe his attempts to liberalise the Czechoslovak government during league spring in 1968? Reforms were suppressed by Warsaw Pact invasion of czechoslovakia and forced to resign in 1969?
Alexander DUBCEK
Four letter name for Indian bison, largest species of wild cattle?
Gaur
At 2000 Sydney Olympics which Dutch swimmer set new world records in both 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle on way to winning gold in both events. Retained 100m freestyle four years later.
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Which character from Neighbours known for his villainous streak and underhand dealings is portrayed by Stefan Dennis the shows only remaining original cast member? One of this characters more memorable storyline culminated in him having legs amputated.
Paul Robinson
Name conventionally given to layer of rainforest which lies between canopy and forest floor? Only 5% of sunlight of canopy so leaves massive.
Understorey
Heavy metal band Volbeat are from which European nation?
Denmark
Football club named after London borough of Merton has been based in that area since 2020 having played for first 18 years in neighbouring Kingston upon Thames?
AFC Wimbledon
River flows through Newport, Abergavenny? Roses on black mountain and ultimate empties into Severn
River Usk
DRS adjustable rear wing that was first added to formul one cars in 2011 to increase top speeed and promote overtaking? What does drs stand for?
Drag Reduction System
Which physical effect named after the physicist who discovered it in 1821 results in generation of a voltage between two parts of an electrically conducting material which are at diffident temperatures? Along with Peltier effect and the Thomson Effect, this effect considered to form part of the broader thermodynamic effect.
Seebeck Effect
Warnicks and Bols are leading manufacturers of which Dutch beverage made from eggs sugar and brandy?
Advocaat
1987 paper entitled Knowing Ones Own Mind, Donald Davidson proposed a thought experiment known by what name? A hypothetical person killed by lightning strike but an exact replica of them formed from a nearby tree.
Swampman
Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden are characters in what novel by Ayn Rand?
Atlas Shrugged
Which American basketball player referred to nickname Dr J, won the NBA championship with Philadelphia 76ers in 1983?
Julius Erving
Collection of early Christian texts, dated to 4th century CE and sometimes referred to as Gnostic Gospels are more usually named after which Egyptian town, where they were discovered in 1945?
Nag Hammadi
Name of narrow strip of Afghanistan that extends to Chinese border separating Tajikistan and Pakistan administered Kashmir?
Wakhan Corridor
Swedish food brand known for crispy pancakes and scandal where horse meat in lasagne? Sponsored Grimsby 1979-84
Findus
Which principle, used in determining electron configuration of atoms of ions, states that electrons will fill sub shells of lowest available energy first? The word comes from a German phrase meaning “building up”.
Aufbau Principle
In finance, what name given to derivative where two parties agree to exchange cash flows from one asset for cash flows from another! Typically night involve fixed and floating interest rates or currencies.
Swaps
2001 USA Patriot Act stands for
Uniting and Strenghtening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Which US writer nominated for 2021 Booker prize in 2021 for her book No One Is Talking About This? Also wrote 2017 memoir Priestdaddy.
Patricia Lockwood
Which bridge when opened carried the A90 across its namesake body of water? It now carries the A9000 while nearby Queensferry Crossing now carries upgraded M90.
Forth Road Bridge
An isochoric process is one that occurs at constant values of which property?
Volume - Boyles law relates pressure of gas to this property
Which 2017 film directed by Feras Fayyad, follows search and rescue missions of white helmets during Syrian civil war? It was nominated for best documentary feature at 90th academy awards.
Last Men in Aleppo
Which Italian born football agent died in 2022 and repped Erling Haaland and Paul Pogba
Mino Raiola
Document signed by 100 delegates at the Seneca falls convention in New York 1848
Declaration of Sentiments
Inspired by Breton legend that tells of a mysterious building in the sea off the coast of the island of Ys, which composer wrote the 1910 piano prelude The Sunken Cathedral?
Claude Debussy
Name of Indonesia sweet soy sauce darker and more viscous consistency than normal soy. Used in nasi goreng and Mie goreng.
Ketjap Manis
Ninox is a genus of what bird! Many of the species within this genus is called boobooks.
Owls
Fought in 1937-38 in namesake city in Aragon, which battle of regarded as military turning point of Spanish civil war? Franco’s nationalists eventually retook city from Republicans.
Battle of Teruel
In finance, what name given to a derivative that gives one party the right but not obligation to buy or sell an asset to another party? Calls and outs are the two principal types of this derivative.
Option
2020 CARES act in America stood for what
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act
Which Turkish British writer was nominated for the 2019 Booker prize for her novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world? She also wrote the 2011 memoir Black Milk.
Elif Shafak
Which rule, named for the German physicist that formulated it, is used to predict the ground state of an atom with open electronic shells based on the state spin multiplicity?
Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity
Which British producer and distributor of frozen, fresh and chilled seafood leads birdseye as Britains largest supplier of fish? Using slogan “make fish the dish of the day”, this company sponsored Grimsby Town until 2021-22 season.
Youngs Seafood
Ice hockey, while player penalty off field, the team with numerical advantage is said to be on what?
Power Play
A grook is a form of short aphoristic poem or rhyming aphorism created by which Danish poet, designer, inventor and scientist who wrote over 10,000 of them published in 20 volumes?
Piet Hein
Also known as the Chickens Neck, what is the name of the narrow strip of land in India that separates the seven states of northwest India from rest of country? Also name of west bengal’s third largest city which sits within it.
Siliguri Corridor
Fought in February 1937 on namesake river near Madrid, in which battle of Spanish Civil War did Franco’s nationalists fail to dislodge Republican lines who were assisted by international Brigades
Battle of Jarama
Rachmaninov’s 1908 tone poem Thr Isle of the Dead inspired by 1880 painting by which Swiss symbolist painter?
Arnold Bocklin
Name of Indonesian chilli sauce or paste made with chilli peppers and other ingredients which may include shrimp paste, garlic, ginger and shallot? Features in ikan goreng and ayam goreng.
Sambal
All owls are members of which order of birds which takes its name for Latin for owl forms?
Strigiformes
Which 2019 Feras Fayyad film, companion piece to Last Men in Aleppo, follows a physician and his work in a makeshift hospital during Syrian civil war? It was nominated for best documentary feature at 92nd academy awards.
The Cave
Which 29 year old Italian football journalist releases transfer news to 11m Twitter followers with “here we go!”? First to report Haaland’s move and announced Raiola’s death.
Fabrizio Romano
Severn Bridge carries which motorway now having originally carried M4?
M48
Name of bridge that now carries M4 over the Severn? Nearby to the Severn bridge that originally had M4 before switch.
Prince of Wales Bridge
What name for a type of raincoat or anarak comes from French word for cowl, hood or balaclava? This word also used for name of French far right organisation that committed acts of violence in the 1930s and 1940s.
Cagoule
Buddhism two major branches.
One means the way of the elders:
One means the great vehicle
Theravada: the way of the elders
Mahayana: the great vehicle
Two major sects of Jainism. One is sky clad and one is white clad.
Digambara: sky clad
Svetambara: white clad
Four major traditions of Hinduism
Vaishnavism
Shaivism
Shaktism
Smartism
Mo Farah revealed what was his birth name in July 2022?
Hussein Abdi Kahin
Gap between Saturn A and B rings known as what division after astronomer?,
Cassini Division
Highest mountain of mAdagascar
Maromokotro
Longest river in Madagascar
Mangoky
Cristina Ronaldo new Saudi team
Al Nassr
Expression in Us law refers to insight or expertise provided by someone who is not a party to case in question? Latin indicates friend of the court
Amicus Curiae
What Japanese range of woodland animals won Toy of the Year three consecutive year in late 1980s? Latin for trees
Sylvanian Families
Measured in cubic metres per kilogramme, which two word intrinsic property of a substance is the reciprocal of density?
Specific Volume
In emily bronte’s wuthering heights, what is the name of Catherine Earnshaw’s husband, who fuels great jealousy in his love rival Heathcliff?
Edgar Linton
What is name of titular nun in Puccini opera that first performed in 1918 as second of triple bill of one act productions? She has been sent to a convent as punishment for giving birth to illegitimate child.
Suor Angelica
The Irish province of Munster has six counties: Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford and which other? Most southerly In republic and shares its name with a Derbyshire and England cricketer from 1990s and 2000s.
Cork
Who was the de facto paramount leader of China from 1978 until 1989? Known as “the architect”, introduced market reforms which formed the economic basis of modern China.;”
Deng Xiaoping
Initially given his break by Swiss born Robert Piguet, which French designer opened fashion house in 1946? Death 11 years later Yves Saint Laurent took over as chief designer of the house.,£
Christian Dior
Retired Jamaican sprinter who set 100m world record twice between 2005 and 2008. Only gold medal is 2016 4x100m relay.
Asafa Powell
Two golds 2012 and 2016 4x100m relay Olympics by which Jamaican sprinter who got two silvers 100m and 200m 2012 too? Holds 100m and 200m world records. Joint second fastest 100m ever with 9.69seconds joint with Tyson Gay.
Yohan Blake “Beast”
The MP3 digital audio coding format was developed in early 1990s primarily by which German research association that focuses on applied science?;4
Fraunhofer Society
Sam Rayburn longest serving holder of which political officer in news at start of 2023? Other holders Henry Clay and Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House (of Representatives)
Portraying members of the 2nd company returning home after WW1, which 1937 movie regarded as being a sequel to Oscar winning 1930’film All Quiet on western front
The Road Back
Whcih Australian tennis player oldest to have won a grand slam singles cl tournament in open era? 37 years and 62 days old when he beat Malcolm Anderson to win 1972 Australian Open.
Ken Rosewall
In which years did Rod Laver win grand slam?
1962 and 1969
Three historic counties of Jamaica
Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey
Ratio of liquid’s mass per unit volume with respect to water used to be known as specific gravity, but is now commonly referred to by which two word term?
Relative Density
Highest mountain on Sri Lanka
Pidurutalagala
Longest river on Sri Lanka
Mahaweli
Which American singer and guitarist only artist to be inducted twice in the same year into Rock and Roll HoF? Happened when two bands went in 1997, biggest solo hit “Love the One You’re With”.
Stephen Stills (bands Crosby, Stills and Nash and Buffalo Springfield)
Bing Crosby character in 1944 Going My Way and 1945 The Bells of St Mary’s?
Father Chuck O’Malley
Under supervision of Steve Wilhite, which American online service provider was responsible for developing the GIF image format? One of big 3 info services along with Prodigy and AOL.
CompuServe
Albertine Simonet is girlfriend of narrator of multi volume novel from first half of 20th century?
In Search of Lost Time
Concerning an order of nuns executed during Robespierre’s Reign of Terror the 1956 opera dialogues of the carmelites was by which French composer?
Francis Poulenc
Whcih English cricketer holds record for most test runs scored in single match, across two innings? Record of 456 against India in 1990.
Graham Gooxh
Irish province of Connacht has five counties: Galway, Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo and what?
Sligo
What is key distance in majority of F1 races that it must exceed distance wise? Only exception is Monaco.
305km
Written by Lee Child and Andrew Child, name of the latest Jack Reacher book 2022
No Plan B
Monaco F1 race has how many laps, the most to finish the race but is over shortest distance (260km - under required 305km elsewhere but special as so much slower)
78 laps
British Grand Prix at silver stone how many laps to finish?
52 laps
With a lap distance of 7.004km m, which Grand Prix has shortest amount of laps with 44?
Belgian Grand Prix
Brazilian F1 course also known as Interlagos
Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (São Paulo)
Japanese Grand Prix venue
Suzuka
Miami Grand Prix around which stadium which is home field for Miami Dolphins
Hard Rock Stadium
The Bounty originally built at Blaydes Yard in which uk port city?
Hull
Policeman detective in The Mousetrap played in original play by Richard Attenborough
Detective Sergeant Trotter
Maggie Hart in first series of True Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Source Code. Julie Meade in Mission Impossible and then all sequels. Echoes playing twins 2022:
Michelle Monaghan
Debut singer Candy, studio album So Real, 2022 album In Real Life. Voices Rapunzel in Tangled.
Mandy Moore
What former province of DRC that existed as a breakaway state from 1960 to 1963 names a subspecies of southern African lion?
Katanga
Turkish football manager who got them to euro 2008
Fatih Terim
Which comedian was voted off first on Strixtly in first series in 2004? Dead now
Jason Wood
Largest lake of Sweden and EU and third overall after Ladoga and Onega.
Vanern
Largest lake in Finland
Saimaa
Born 1689, writer and poet, pioneer who managed to get smallpox inoculation back to Britain after return from Turkey?
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Leading portrait painter born 1646, court painter from Charles II to George I, major works The Chinese Convert, four portraits of Isaac Newton, 40 kit-cat portraits of Kit-Cat Club, and ten “beauties” of William III.
Godfrey Kneller
Cofounders of the Spectator in 1711
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
Name of Portuguese steak sandwich
Prego
Azeitao cheese and super bock beer most likely found in which European capita?
Lisbon
Terminus of Bus Route 1 in London
Canada Water to Tottenham Court Road
The first twisted skyscraper in world The Telekom Tower found in which Asian city?
Kuala Lumpur
The tallest building in Europe, name of the twisted skyscraper in Saint Petersburg named after neighbourhood of city?
Lakhta Center
Turning Torso neo-futurist residential skyscraper built in Malmo, Sweden in 2005 designed by which Spanish architect? Also olympics sports complex of athens, Milwaukee Art Museum.
Santiago Calatrava
Which indie rock band did Bowie perform last performance of Life on Mars, in 2013 did backing vocals on their album reflektor.
Arcade Fire
British photographer known as The Man Who Shot the Seventies, shot most of the memorable Ziggy Stardust photos as Bowies photographer.
Mick Rock
Which song by Bowie was written when he commissioned to write English lyrics for Comme d’Habitude )Claude Francois), ended up going Paul Anka lyrics and so Nowie rewrites into this as parody?
Life on Mars?
What Yorkshire folk group described as the most famous family in English folk group released all albums on Topic Records?
The Watersons
What still active folk singer born in New York City was wife of Ewan MacColl and inspiration for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Peggy Seeger
Oldest independent record company in the world?
Topic Records
Art museum by namesake couple in 1921 located in Washington DC. Contains Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, El greco’s The Repentant St Peter and some more.
Phillips Collection
French painter and illustrator born 1836 Nantes, moved to London in 1871, friend and mentor to Edgar Degas, painted Bible scenes.
James Tissot
Which word for Italian from undertaking used to describe person who organises and often finances concerts, plays and operas?
Impresarios
Surname of north Antrim motorcycling Dynasty containing 26 time Isle of Man tt winner joey, his late brother Robert, Roberts two sons Michael and late William.;
Dunlop
Hungarian born British-Australian boxer who fought Muhammad Ali twice, once in 1973 and once in 1975 (in Kuala Lumpur).
Joe Bugner
Which side has won the All Ireland Mens Senior Football Championship the most times in Gaelic football, winning the Sam Maguire Cup by winning final at Croke Park? Last final win was 2022.
Kerry (38)
Which side has won the All Ireland Mens Senior Football Championship the second most times in Gaelic football, winning the Sam Maguire Cup by winning final at Croke Park? Last final win was 2020. Second only to Kerry.
Dublin
Elektra Complex developed by Carl Jung, who was father of Elektra?
Agamemnon
Oedipus Complex, who was the mother of Oedipus?
Jocasta
Oedipus Complex, who was father killed by Oedipus?
Laius
What is common nickname of shrub Philadelphus?
Mock Orange
Born Dennis Pratt in 1908, died in Chorlton in 1999: “one of the stately homos of England”. Memoir: The Naked Civil Servant.
Quintin Crisp
Whose name became a byword for treachery in Ancient Rome after a 63 BCE conspiracy to overthrow a Republic was uncovered by Cicero?
Catiline (Catalinarian Conspiracy)
86-35BC, Roman historian and politician from plebeian family, earliest known Latin language Roman historian with surviving works in his name of which Conspiracy of Cataline, The Jugurthine War (named after Jugurtha of Numidia) and the Histories?
Sallust
Which 1704 battle was fought by the Danube between Hochstadt and Munster?
Blenheim (War of the Spanish Succession)
What is the southernmost state of Heptarchy?
Wessex
Zen was the name of the central computer of which fictional spacecraft?
Liberator (Blake’s Seven)
Name of AI of the UNSC and companion of Master Chief in Halo, also inspiration for Microsoft real life personal assistant in W10.
Cortana
GLADOS AI used at Aperture Science Enrichment Centre in which valve games?
Portal
GLADOS from Portal games stands for what
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System
Which stratovolcano overlooks Quito?
Pichincha
Martin Clunes character in Men Behaving Badly?
Gary Strang
Estimated to have a uk population of 100k, which small deer was introduced to britian from China in the late 19th century and is considered an invasive species?
MuntjAc
In 2020, which Cuban former principal dancer of Royal Baller took up his current position as artistic director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet?
Carlos Acosta
Philip Glass composed score for the 1982 experimental film directed by Godfrey Reggio? Subtitled life out of balance, film was first and best known of trilogy of art films by Reggio.
Koyaanisqatsi
Rita Hayworth plays title role and Glenn Ford stars as Johnny Farrell in which 1946 film noir directed by Charles Vidor? Anita Ellis dubbed all of Hayworth’s songs in this film.
Gilda
Rayman’s dimwitted frog sidekick called what?
Globox
2003 album Meteora by which band?
Linkin Park
In 2003, what Dutchman became first person from outside the UK to referee the final of world snooker championship? It was the first of six occasions on which he would referee the world final.
Jan Verhaas
Nicknamed the mad, which queen of castille and Aragon until her death in 1555? Her husband, Philip the husband, became first Habsburg monarch in Spain through his marriage to this woman who imprisoned after his death in account of alleged insanity?&9
Joanna the Mad
Ad campaign by Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp used by which fashion brand’s perfume range?
Dior
November 2022, new prefixes, which R is 10^27
Ronna
November 2022, new prefixes, which R is 10^-27
Ronto
Third and final of Philip glass portrait series after Einstein on beach and satyagraha?
Akhenaten
Lana Turner stars as Cora Smith and John Garfield as Frank Chambers in which 1946 film noir directed by Tay Garnett? The film is one of several films noir that was based on novel by James M Cain.
Postman Always Rings Twice
Property of moving body is mass multiplied by velocity?
Momentum
2017, which English conductor took up current position of music director of London symphony orchestra. He was music director of Birmingham symphony orchestra 1980-98.
Simon Rattle
2017, which English conductor took up current position of music director of London symphony orchestra. He was music director of Birmingham symphony orchestra 1980-98.
Simon Rattle
2017, which English conductor took up current position of music director of London symphony orchestra. He was music director of Birmingham symphony orchestra 1980-98.
Simon Rattle
Sean Evans is host of what YouTube series where guests eat a platter of increasingly spicy chicken wings.
Hot Ones
Sean Evans is host of what YouTube series where guests eat a platter of increasingly spicy chicken wings.
Hot Ones
Which semi aquatic mustelid, considered invasive in UK, was introduced for farming purposes in Britain from America in 1929 and considered responsible for decline of many native vole and bird populations?
American Mink (Neogale Vison)
The site of a monastery and accessible by cable car, Montserrat is a mountain and tourist attraction hat overlooks which Latin American capital city?
Bogota
Which actor played richie in 90s sitcom Bottom? Also starred as Alan B’Stard MP in New Statesman and played Lord Flashheart in Blackadder.
Rik Mayall
Which American singer biggest hit 1987 I think we’re alone now
Tiffany Darwish
Which son of Joanna the Mad and Philip the Handsome became king of Spain in 1516 and holy Roman emperor 1519, held both until series of abdications in 1554-56
Charles V
2016, who became the first summer gold medalist to compete in 24 hours of Le Mans? Scottish cyclist won six Olympic gold medals between 2004 and 2012
Chris Hoy
Ad campaigns by Emma Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal used by which Italian fashion designer brand to market perfumes?
Prada
November 2022, new prefixes, which Q is 10^30
Quetta
November 2022, new prefixes, which Q is 10^-30
Quecto
All the Right Reasons and Silver Side Up were albums released by which rock band?
Nickel back
Maitre D of First Dates? Host of million pound menu.
Fred Sireix (Seer-yeks)
2009 who became first woman to referee final of world snooker championship? Do again in 2012.
Michaela Tabb
Which American actor starred alongside Streep as Nigel Kipling in The Devil Wears Prada and Paul Child in Julie and Julia
Stanley Tucci
In 2000, who beat Garry Kasparov to win his first world chess championship?
Vladimir Kramnik
Which actor who played Lester Freamon on the Wire, sang backing vocals on Joan Armatrading’s Love and Affection and Heatwave’s Boogie Nights?
Clarke Peters
Only known moon of dwarf planet Eris?
Dysnomia
Which traditional dish from Northumberland consists of dried legumes that are boiled often with joint of ham or bacon and then blended?
Pease Pudding
Which city is the capital of Indian states of Punjab and Haryana? Built in 1950s and designed Le Corbusier.
Chandigarh
Which author 1819 short story The Vampyre is considered the first modern vampire story?
John William Polidori
Capital of Indian state Andhra Pradesh lying on banks of river Krishna.
Amaravati
Between 2014-17, which city fourth most populous in India served as capital of two states: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh?
Hyderabad
Whcih 19th century irish author wrote the lesbian vampire thriller Carmilla and the locked room mystery Uncle Silas?
Sheridan Le Fanu
Surname of brothers Giuseppe who played for Internazionale for 18 years and Franco who played for Milan for 20 years?
Baresi
Who was youngest four star general in US army during ww2? Led fifth army when capture rome in June 1944.heavily criticised for ignoring Harold Alexander orders of not taking Rome as not strategically important.
Mark W Clark
German defensive line during WW2 named after a site of major battle from Second Punic war in 217BC?
Trasimene Line
Which film on Netflix 2022 stars Lindsey Lohan as heiress who suffers amnesia after skiing accident?
Falling For Christmas
Rarest naturally occuring element in earths crust?
Astatine
What number would you be left on in game of darts if you were stuck in the madhouse? Only one method of checking out from this position.
Double One
Which village in south Devon area of outstanding natural beauty gives name to a long beach which despite name is made of shingle? In 1944, this beach was site of a disastrous practice exercise for the d-day landings.
Slapton Sands
General nik named old blood and guts
George S Patton
General nicknamed vinegar Joe
Joseph Stillwell
General nicknamed the butcher of the Somme
Douglas Haig
Which writer created detectives Dalziel and Pascoe?
Reginald Hill
Which was only group to have a hit (top 40) single in uk every year of the 1970s?
Hot Chocolate
Hot Chocolate only number one song in uk
So You Win Again
Which group spent more weeks on the uk singles chart than anybody else in 1980s (suspect question can’t validate)
UB40
Which is largest part of the human brain?
Cerebrum
In which organ of human body are the limbic cells located?
Brain
How did Dervla Murphy travel from Ireland to India?
By bike (1965 book full tilt)
Macarena by
Los Del Rio
Which institute awards the Nobel Medicine or Physiology
Karolinska Institute
Nobel economics has what bank in official award name
Sveriges Riksbank Prize
Who wrote Generation X, classic novel about the generation born from 1960 to 1978?
Douglas Coupland
1962 book by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson
Generation X
Lead singer of Generation X
Billy Idol
Which sporting venue has these features: Swilcan Bridge; Grannie Clark’s Wynd; Elysian Fields; Valley of Sin?
Old Course, St Andrews
Dz is internet code for which country and it is from what word the local name for country?
Algeria - from Dzayer
Julian Kaye title character of which film?
American Gigalo
Name of title character in American Gangster
Frank Lucas
Which Eurostar destination is named from the French for “island”?
Lille
What is covered by a cloth called the kiswa?
Kaaba in Mecca
Which musician wrote Orlam, a verse novel in Dorset dialect?
PJ Harvey
What ubiquitous items are made by De La Rue?
Banknotes
Which ship was renamed Panteleimon in 1905?
Battleship Potemkin
Who was first Deputy PM 1995-97
Michael Heseltine
Italian ring shaped cake said to be named after Spanish pastry chef, considered symbol of the Marche region.
Ciambella
Ring cake cooked in namesake tray, UsA origins H David Dalquist inspired by European cake Gugelhupf.
Bundt
Cake etymologically meaning head jump, ring cake of German Alsace origins, inspired Bundt cake.
Gugelhupf
Yeast risen ring cake named after a French lawyer and food writer working in the early 19th century
Savarin
American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Chief conductor of Vienna Radio Symphony Orch and Ravinia Festival.
Marin Alsop
What paper known as the Grey Lady?
New York Times
Which Nina Simone song was a tribute to the writer Lorraine Hansberry?
To Be Young Gifted and Black
Which eighth-century dynasty ruled territory from the Pyrenees to Punjab?
Umayyad Caliphate
On Mumsnet, what does AIBU stand for?
Am I Being Unreasonable?
Which art critic provoked a protest letter with 35 signatories in 1994?
Brian Sewell
Brazilian educator famous for Pedagogy of the Oppressed? Born 1921, Recife (Pernambuco).
Paolo Freire
Hedgehog name in watership down. It comes from the lapine for hedgehog.
Yona
Little Grey Rabbit book series writer and illustrator
Two people
Writer: Alison Uttley
Illustrator: Margaret Tempest
Alison Uttley book about imprisoned Mary queen of Scots and little 20th century girl goes back in time to see her.
A Traveller in Time
Which team came third in World Cup 2022 beating Morocco?
Croatia
Who came third at World Cup 2018?
Belgium
Types of what: Open-face; full hunter; half hunter; double hunter?
Pocket Watch
Which poet’s 2012 poem “what must be said” about a potential Israeli nuclear attack on Iran led to him being declared persona non grata by Israel?
Gunter Grass
Which 2016 work by Sayaka Murata became an international bestseller when translated into English in 2018 it won the 2016 Akutagawa Prize for best Japanese novel?
Convenience Store Woman
Japanese author father of Japanese short story with Japan premier literary award named after him. Died in 35 suicide of overdose of Barbital.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Japanese author 1925-1970: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask, The Sound of Waves, Spring Snow. Died seppuku during coup.
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author Nobel literature 1968: snow country; the old capital, the house of the sleeping beauties, Thousand cranes.
Yasunari Kawabata
Siddharta Mukherjee 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general non fiction subtitles “A Biography of Cancer” (also done Gene: An Intimate History)?
The Emperor of All Maladies
Who wrote the Gossip Girls books?
Cecily von Ziegesar
James Patterson and Bill Clinton two novels names
The President is Missing 2018
The President’s Daughter 2021
Dolly Parton and James Patterson book title 2022
Run, Rose, Run
My Own Genie, Pinky’s Crackpot Circus, and Mr Meecher the Uncool Teacher were strips introduced in which comic which ceased publication in 2012?
The Dandy finished printing in which year?
Which English spoken word performer and poet is known for their albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos and 2017’novel the bricks that built the houses?
Kae Tempest
Drop Dead Beautiful, Poor Little Bitch Girl, and Goddess of Vengeance are 21st century novels in which series by Jackie Collins named after the surname of the protagonists family that started with 1981’s Chances?
Santangelo novels
Calico Joe is a 2012 novel about baseball by which US author known for his love of the sport and his massive success in a different literary genre?
John Grisham
2017 memoir of Hillary Rodham Clinton
What Happened
Which novel was adapted into a 2013 Lasse Hallstrom film starring Josh Duhamel and Cobie Smulders?
Safe Haven
Cheech and Chong full names
Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong
What is most populous city of Europe?
Istanbul
First presented in 2017 by new literary project to recognise mid career writers of fiction; this award also known as Simpson family literary prize, is named after the profilic author of black water, them, and blonde a biography of Marilyn Monroe?
Joyce Carol Oates
Which chick lit author does McCabe Sisters series, single novels are Sally, Chloe, Polly, Love Rules, Pillow Talk.
Freya North
Which French/US author won the Prix Goncourt in 2006 for his novel “The Kindly Ones”?
Jonathan Littell
They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky by Benson and Alephonsion Deng with Judy A. Bernstein, and What is the What by Valentino Achak Deng and Dave Eggers tell story of the lost boys child soldiers from which African country?
Sudan
In hunger games what is name of fiction country that is setting
Panem
Katniss is from which district of Panem
12
Pafko at the wall, 2001 novella by Don De Lillo is named after Andy Pafko, a player of which US sport? Novella subtitles the shot heard around the world.
Baseball
Famous nepo-spouse Adrian Chiles is partnered to who?
Katherine Viner
Pandora, Wicked!, Jump!, Mount! Are in which series of Jilly Cooper named for fictional county in which set starting with 1986 Riders?
Rutshire Chronicles
Dangerous Dan, Mahira of the Match and Stevie Star are strips introduced in 21st century in which comic?
The Beano
Seabiscuit and Unbroken both written by which author?
Laura Hillenbrand
First in a trilogy of YA romance novels by Jenny Han, which book was adapted into a film of same name in 2018? The follow ups ps I still love you, and always and forever, Lara Jean have also been adapted by Netflix
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Author of Tom Thorne crime novels
Mark Billingham
Which frenchnauthor won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for his novel The Map and the Territory?
Michel Houellebecq
Author of plays including ENRON and A Very Expensive Poison? Tv includes secret diary of a call girl and I Hate Suzie with Billie Piper.
Lucy Prebble
Card game by Kazuki Takahashi with spin offs duel monsters, Zexel, arc-v and in 2022 Go-Rush!!
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Second most populous county in USA contains chicago?
Cook County
Which county of USA is third most populous and contains Houston?
Harris County
Which county fourth most populous in USA contains Phoenix
Maricopa County
German for “living space” is associated with nazis and their desire for territory they deemed necessary for existence and economic self sufficiency?
Lebensraum
1997-2001 creative director of Chloe, designed wedding reception dress worn by Meghan Markle. Was appointed team GB’s creative director for 2012 Olympics by adidas.
Stella McCartney
Spanish luxury fashion brand founded 1846 and owned by LVMH. Spanish leather craftsman founded with Hessian origin founder. queen Victoria Eugenie (wife of Alfonso XIIi) loved it.
Loewe
Which Spanish queen consort was born in Balmoral in 1887 and married Alfonso XIII in 1906. Died 1969.
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
Who is Felipe VI’s heir presumptive?
Leonor
Italian company founded 1924 by namesake. Considered largest cashmere manufacturer and worlds leading artisan company processing luxury fibres. Owned by LVMH.
Loro Piana
French luxury fashion founded 1970 by Japanese designer ___ Takada and owned by LVMH. My Family character named after him ____ Harper. Founder died 2020 from covid complications.&
Kenzo
1945 founded by ____ Vipiana French luxury brand, owned by LVMH. 2018+ Hedi Slimane creative director. Michael Kors was Womens creative director in 1997-2004. Phoebe Philo was CD from 2008-18.
Celine
French luxury brand founded 1969 by Dominique Mandonnaud with name meaning beauty in Greek and Greek spelling of Zipporah wife of Moses. SZA (Solana Imani Rowe) accused of racial profiling in 2019.
Sephora
British luxury yacht manufacturer owned by LVMH and based in Plymouth. Have used dazzle camouflage to stop competitors see ships.
Princess Yachts
Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1860 by namesake Edouard _____ in St Imier. Mid 1960s worked with Breitling and Hamilton to introduce an automatic chronograph. Company formed full name in 1985 when merged with company founded by Ron Dennis. Motto: don’t crack under pressure.5-(
Tag Heuer
Which watch company current lines include Formula One, Aquaracer, Link, Carrera, Monaco, Connected, Autavia and Heritage.
Tag Heuer
Swiss watchmaker founded in 1884 by Leon ______ in St Imier. Usually marketed to diving or aviation. Worn on Mercury mission by Scott Carpenter in 1962 space flight. 1965 Thunderball, Bond uses a Top Time model with a Geiger counter. Jerry seinfeld wore a Navitimer or Chronomat in nearly every episode of Seinfeld.
Breitling
Swiss manufacturer of watches founded in Lancaster Pennsylvania in 1892. Christopher Nolan used prop watches in TENET. Wears a Jazzmaster Seaview Chronograph.
Hamilton
Japanese maker of watches introduced one of first quartz watches (Astron), founded by Kintaro Hattori in 1881. Released Spring Drive, in 2014 gave Djokovic a 5 limited edition before Australian open. Brands Credor, Prospex, Velatura and Grand _____.
Seiko
Founded 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Neuchatel, Swiss watchmaker one of oldest; “in house movements” concept. LVMH owned. Collections: Defy, Chronomaster, Elite, Pilot. Mahatma Gandhi owned a pocket watch by this company.
Zenith
What are the parts called in a subtraction?’
Minuend - Subtrahend = Difference
Two parts of a division making the quotient
Dividend / Divisor
What is the term for the number under the root sign in mathematics?
Radicand
What is the term for the number under the root sign in mathematics?
Radicand
What is the term for the number under the root sign in mathematics?
Radicand
What is the term for the number under the root sign in mathematics?
Radicand
Name of the Blood Brothers in the musical
Eddie Lyon’s and Mickey Johnstone
Which bishop of Durham was held by Henry I in Tower of London in 1100 becoming not only first person ever to be imprisoned there but also the first to escape from it?
Ranulf Flambard
Special effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975? Did Star Wars, Indiana Jones, pirates.
Industrial Light and Magic
Which Asian coffee made from coffee berries eaten and defecated by palm civet?
Kopi Luwak
Ivan Osiier been at 1908 and 1948 in London Olympics, which sport? Danish
Fencing
Account of month of safari by Ernest Hemingway with wife Pauline in 1933
Green Hills of Africa
One of best known models of enzymes kinetics is named for Leonor Michaelis and which Canadian physician? Namesake saturation curve is graph of substrate concentration against reaction rate.
Maud Menten
The love of hopeless causes, which spawned biggest hit single Here Comes The War was a 1993 album by which group named after a military force founded in 1645?
New Model Army
Named for English conservative politician and French diplomat which agreement of 1916 created namesake line dividing Ottoman Empire between French and British.
Sykes-Picot
Named for English conservative politician and French diplomat which agreement of 1916 created namesake line dividing Ottoman Empire between French and British.
Sykes-Picot
Achill Island, largest island off West Coast of Ireland, lies off the Corraun Peninsula of which Irish county?
Mayo
MC Tyrone Mark Lindo tv series won the 2021 bafta for best comedy series better known which name?
Big Narstie
Zuhair Hassan, won two BAFTAs for which tv show he makes on Dave?
Big Zuu’s Big Eats
At Tokyo Games in 2021, which swimmer became the first British Olympian ever to win four medals at a single games, with one gold and three silver?
Duncan Scott
At Tokyo Games in 2021, which swimmer became the first British Olympian ever to win four medals at a single games, with one gold and three silver?
Duncan Scott
Norwegian Magnus Konow also competed at both 1908 and 1948 London Olympics, which sport?
Sailing
Norwegian Magnus Konow also competed at both 1908 and 1948 London Olympics, which sport?
Sailing
Two word Italian term for beautiful signing is used to evoke a singing tradition or style associated with Italian opera of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
Bel Canto
Which special effects company was founded in 1993 by Peter Jackson and named after a very large insect native to New Zealand? Done LOTR Hobbit and Avatar.
Weta FX
Sardinian cheese contains maggots?
Casu Marzu
Miss Mona Stangley is owner of which establishment in the title of musical whose Broadway debut 1978
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Shot by firing squad on 15th august 1941, which German spy became last ever person to be executed at Tower of London?
Josef Jakobs
Which Scottish physicist and inventor with a double barrelled alliterative surname, is best known for developing the first practical radar system for detecting aircraft and was knighted in 1942?
Robert Watson-Watt
Which Scottish physicist and inventor with a double barrelled alliterative surname, is best known for developing the first practical radar system for detecting aircraft and was knighted in 1942?
Robert Watson-Watt
Which Scottish physicist and inventor with a double barrelled alliterative surname, is best known for developing the first practical radar system for detecting aircraft and was knighted in 1942?
Robert Watson-Watt
Launched in 1977, which range of Lego, once called expert builder, is aimed at older children and uses beams, gears, pins and axles to make complex constructions involving motors and pneumatics?
Lego Technic
Which comedian is cohost of Big Narstie Show and also has his won channel 4 show The Lateish Show, which won the 2022 bafta for best comedy series?
Mo Gilligan
The most medals won by an individual at Tokyo Olympics in 2021 were four gold and three bronze of which Australian swimmer who won both 50m and 100m freestyles? Her total of seven medals equalled the all time womens record for a single games.
Emma McKeon
The most medals won by an individual at Tokyo Olympics in 2021 were four gold and three bronze of which Australian swimmer who won both 50m and 100m freestyles? Her total of seven medals equalled the all time womens record for a single games.
Emma McKeon
The most medals won by an individual at Tokyo Olympics in 2021 were four gold and three bronze of which Australian swimmer who won both 50m and 100m freestyles? Her total of seven medals equalled the all time womens record for a single games.
Emma McKeon
Which Greek capital letter is used in maths to indicate a product?
Pi
Valentia Island, the terminus of first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, lies off the Iveragh Peninsula of which county on the West coast of Ireland?
Kerry
Which English writer traveller and archaeologist spent most of her life in Middle East participated in conferences to partition the Ottoman Empire and in particular sketching the line that became the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
Gertrude Bell
Which English writer traveller and archaeologist spent most of her life in Middle East participated in conferences to partition the Ottoman Empire and in particular sketching the line that became the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
Gertrude Bell
A linear plot used in enzymes kinetics is named for Hans Lineweaver and which American biochemist? Also known as the double reciprocal plot because it’s formed by taking the reciprocal of both sides of the Michaelis-Menten equation.
Dean BURK
A linear plot used in enzymes kinetics is named for Hans Lineweaver and which American biochemist? Also known as the double reciprocal plot because it’s formed by taking the reciprocal of both sides of the Michaelis-Menten equation.
Dean BURK
2000 romantic drama by the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai named 5th best ever in latest Sight & Sound poll?
In the Mood for Love
Which 1952 film was directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly?
Singin’ in the Rain
Film directed by Claire Denis set in Djibouti where the protagonists are soldiers in the French foreign legion? Loosely based on Herman Melville’s 1888 novella Billy Budd.
Beau Travail
Film directed by Claire Denis set in Djibouti where the protagonists are soldiers in the French foreign legion? Loosely based on Herman Melville’s 1888 novella Billy Budd.
Beau Travail
Which French director directed Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008) and Beau Travail (1999)?
Claire Denis
Who directed 2000 Hong Kong film In the Mood for Love about a man and a woman whose spouses have an affair together?
Wong Kar Wai
Who directed Tokyo Story?
Yasujiro Ozu
1990 Iranian docufiction Close-Up was written directed and edited by which filmmaker?
Abbas Kiarostami
1966 Swedish psychological drama by Ingmar Bergman starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann revolving around young nurse called Alma and her well known actress patient Elisabet Vogler.
Persona
Chantal Akerman film which won the 2022 Sight and Sound critics poll
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 bruxelles
1936 novel by John Steinbeck about Californian fruit pickers attempts to form a labour union?
In Dubious Battle
1903 play by George Bernard Shaw written in response to calls for a play based on Don Juan.
Man and Superman
Described by Philip Pullman as the best thriller I’ve ever read, which 1994 novel by Lionel Davidson takes place largely in the Russian Far East and the Bering Strait?
Kolymsky Heights
Which Japanese corporation has produced and published video game franchises including metal gear, silent hill and pro evolution soccer?
Konami
Who played original and new Lando Calrissian
Billy Dee Williams
Donald Glover
If Shakespeare characters out in alphabetical order, first would be Aaron the Moor who appears in which Shakespeare play?
Titus Andronicus
If characters in a Shakespeare plays put in alphabetical order last would be Young Seyward who is the son of the Earl of Northumberland in which play?
Macbeth
Name of the Roman military camp in province of Pannonia located on site of modern day Vienna
Vindobona
Roman auxiliary fort just south of hadrians wall near Hexham beginning with V
Vindolanda
Sherlock Holmes was killed off in the Final Problem. But what story brought him back to life 1903
The Adventure of the Empty House
2020 olympics( britains Kate French and Joe Choong won golds in which discipline?
Modern Pentathlon
What first name precedes “Mouse Lemur” in the name of the worlds smallest primate? Name of the Malagasy primatologist who discovered itZ
Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur
Mary Goodnight, played by Britt Ekland, appeared in which 1974 bond film?
The Man with the Golden gun
Also known as Neo Persian Empire, which empire ruled most of modern day Iran from 3rd century CE until fell to Muslims in 7th century?
Sasanian Empire or Sassanid empire
President of Indonesia since 2014
Joko Widodo
Common name of the regiment of British army which is nicknamed the Tin Bellies and is second most senior of the army?
Blues and Royals
Three German states border France. Name.
Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden Wurttembergl
Which German states border Netherlands?
Lower Saxony, North-Rhine Westphalia
Only German state bordering Luxembourg
Rhineland-Palatinate
Two German states border CZechia
Bavaria and Saxony
Three German states border Poland, what?
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Brandenburg
Saxony
What is the symbol for Enthalpy?
H
What is the symbol for Entropy? Units?
S - units joules per Kelvin
Born 1865 and Sorceror’s Apprentice, Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Variations Interlude and Finale Ona theme by Rameau.
Paul Dukas
French romantic composer born modern day Belgium 1822-1890. Le Chasseur Maudit, Symphony in D minor, Symphonic Variations, Panis Angelicus.
Cesar Franck
Born 1862, married to Jelka a German painter; A Mass of Life, A Village Romeo and Juliet (based on Gottfried Keller work), went blind but completed some late stuff with aid of AMANUENSIS, Eric Fenby.
Frederick Delius
Born 1862, Prelude a L’apres-midi d’un faune, nocturnes, images, la mer, Le martyre de Saint Sebastien.
Claude Debussy
In which English county is village of Old Warden aerodrome home to the Shuttleworth collection of aircraft which includes the world’s oldest airworthy plane?
Bedfordshire
In ballet what five letter term the French for pricked or sting describes a step where dancer moves sharply on the pointe or toes of the opposite foot.
Pique
Coming from Greek for sword, name for the most distal/lowest edge of the sternum?
Xiphoid Process
The trapezium shaped most superior part of the sternum is the upper bit with a name from the Latin for haft/handle.
Manubrium
Which Scandinavian spirit distilled from carraway or dill seeds has named derived from Latin for water of life
Aquavit
By what name was the comedian born David Tynan O’Mahony in Dublin in 1936 better known?
Dave Allen
Who served as president of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in the Smolensk air disaster?
Lech Kaczynski
Pradal Serey is a combat sport which originates in which Asian country?
Cambodia
In 2022 which Montserrat born sculptor was turner prize winner, made uk first permanent public artwork to honour windrush generation( placed giant sculpture of caribbean fruits (Custard apple, breadfruit, soursop) on street in Hackney. She is oldest to win turner prize.
Veronica Ryan
The Tins and Tinned Fruit are among nicknames for which regime of the British army, the most senior?
The Life Guards
What firm name precedes the “hog nosed bat” in name of the worlds smallest mammal? Name of Thai zoologist who discovered it
Kitti’s Hog Nosed Bat
Holly Goodhead, played by Lois Chiles, appears in which 1979 film?
Moonraker
Which empire ruled most of modern day Iran from 250BCE until third century CE notably defeating Rome at the 53BCE battle of Carrhae?
Parthian Empire (also known as Arsacid Empire)
Lethwei is a full contact sport from which Asian country found in alternative name of sport _____ boxing.’
Myanmar (Burmese Boxing)
By what name is the comedian born James Mulgrew in County Tyrone better known as ?
Jimmy Cricket
Who served as prime minister of Poland and led polish government in exile from 1939 until his death in a place crash off Gibraltar in 1943?
General Wladyslaw Sikorski
Character created by author Walt Morey and introduced in 1965 childrens novel and made into tv show in 1967 with the title animal
Gentle Ben
Which clear colourless fruit brandy often flavoured with pear or raspberry has a name from the French for water of life?
Eau de Vie
Which Cambridgeshire village lends name to the aerodrome that houses a branch of the imperial war museum which is britains largest aviation museum?
Duxford
Where is Pro Football Hall of fame
Canton, Ohio
Naismith Memorial Basketbalk Hall of Fame location
Springfield Massachusetts
What year did Black Hole of Calcutta at Fort William happen reportedly 123 prisoners died but maybe just 18?
1756
Beatles lyrics “A Day in the Life”, how many holes in BlCkburn?
4000
Who wrote 1958 play Roots? Alongside first of trilogy and third of trilogy “I’m Talking About Jerusalem”. What is the first play?
Arnold Wesker - Chicken Soup with Barley is first part
1970 film starring Shirley MacLaine as namesake nun and Clint Eastwood as Hogan and set during French intervention in Mexico 1861-67.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Leader of young person classification of Tour De France wears what colour jersey?
White
Tour de France leader of Mountains classification colour
White with Red Polka Dots
Colour of the Points Classification winner at Tour de France introduced as incentive for sprinters in 1953 to Fritz Schar first time.
Green
Giro d’Italia jerseys colours
General:
Points:
Mountains:
Young:
General: Pink
Points: Purple
Mountains: Blue
Young: White
Vuelta d’Espana jerseys colours
General:
Points:
Mountains:
Combination/Young:
General: Red
Points: Green
Mountains: Blue Polka Dots
Combination/Young: White
Most Vuelta a Espana Victories, Spanish cyclist 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005
Roberto Heras
Which European capital did Giro d’Italia start at in 2022?
Budapest
Which Dutch city did the Vuelta a Espana start at during 2022?
Utrecht
2023 Tour de France starts at which Spanish city
Bilbao
2024 Tour de France will start at which Italian city?
Florence
In twelfth night, what was name of Sir Toby Belch’s foolish drunken friend?
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Shreveport is the third largest city, in terms of population, in which US state that lies in Gulf of Mexico?
Louisiana
Most populous city on New Guinea, it’s capital of Papua, Indonesia?
Jayapura
Most populous city on Borneo
Samarinda
What is the only city in Hertfordshire?
St Albans
Anzac day date and stands for
April 25th - Australia and New Zealand Army Corps
Organic compound CHCl3 otherwise known as Trichloromethane.
Chloroform
What organic compound with formula (C2H5)2O was formerly used as anaesthetic, until non flammable drugs available?
Ether
Name of late actor who played Cornelius Fudge in Harry Potter films, numerous things of Winston Churchill and Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small.
Robert Hardy
Mark Twain Tonight! One man show devised by who? Played him for decades from 1954 until well into his 70s.
Hal Holbrook
Hercules mother name in Greek/Roman mythology
Alcmene
Alcmene husband and stepfather of Hercules/Heracles in Roman lore
Amphitryon
Principal river in Leicestershire, and is tributary of River Trent.
River Soar
Latin name for Burden
Onus
1969-2005 film franchise with Herbie the VW Beetle number of side of car?
53
Rugby Union what number shirt is traditionally worn by outside centre?
13
Rugby League scoring system
Try: 4 points
Free Kick after Try: 2 points
Penalty: 2 points
Field/Drop Goals: 1 point
Rugby Union points system
Try: 5 points
Conversion: 2 points
Penalty: 3 points
Drop-Goal: 3 points
NFL points scoring
Touchdown: 6 points
Field Goal: 3 points
Safety: 2 points
Try Plays: Extra Point for Field Goal and extra 2 for further touchdown
Nepalese PM 2008-09, 2016-17 and again since December 2022?
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Created in 1953, what was name of RoSPA’s red squirrel that helps teach children about road safety until 1990s?
Tufty Fluffytail
American company uses for tracking physical exercise used cycling and running, gave option to not show start and end of runs for safety. Give kudos to other runners.
Strava
Largest source code host as of November 2021, internet hosting service and subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. Mascot is octocat with five octopus like arms.
GitHub
British freelance graphic designer most famous for designing original bird logo for Twitter and Octocat logo for GitHub
Simon Oxley
A star that has burned up all its hydrogen is called what?
White Dwarf
In title of underground paper “ IT” what did initials represent?
International Times
According to NhS a human pregnancy usually lasts for how many weeks
40 weeks
First official Paralympic girls took place in Europe in what year?
1960 Rome
Why did Plus Fours trousers get called that?
Tight around knee and then four inches to length down the legs
Pocketed belt for holding either individual bullets or belts of ammunition. Pancho Villa famously wears. Chewbacca, Bebop and Rocksteady, Rick OConnell in The Mummy.
Bandolier
Form of long gun appeared in ottoman and Europe in 15th century. Derived from Dutch word meaning Hook Gun, was first firearm equipped with a trigger.
Arquebus
Draza Mihailovic led which Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerilla force in Axis occupied Yugoslavia.
Chetniks
Feminine dress originating in German speaking areas of the Alps
Dirndl
Which number shares a key with the Ampersand symbol on a QWERTY Keyboard?
7
Which punctuation symbols are above 1234567890 on qwerty keyboard?
! “ £ $ % ^ & * ( )
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Which ship canal bypasses the Niagara Falls?
Welland Canal
Grating sound or sensation when bone rubs on bone or bone on cartilage, from Latin for rattle
Crepitus
Which of the Lionesses got New Years honours?
OBE: Leah Williamson
MBE: Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead, Ellen White
Coach: Sarina Wiegman
American secretary died on Chappaquiddick Island (Massachusetts) via car crash with Ted Kennedy.
Mary Jo Kopechne
Name of the captain mentioned in the first verse of Whiskey in a Jar by The Dubliners?
Captain Farrell
Bellows Mender full name Midsummer Nights Dream. He plays female role of Thisbe in Pyramus and Thisbe.
Francis Flute
Tinkerer full name Midsummer Nights Dream. He plays role of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.
Tom Snout
Midsummer Nights Dream mechanical character who writes the Pyramus and Thisbe play, name derived from strengthening blocks form outer corners of stone in building.
Peter Quince
Joiner from Athens who plays lion in Pyramus and Thisbe in Midsummer Nights Dream
Snug
Full name of Weaver in Midsummer Nights Dream
Nick Bottom
Type of hat worn by Toby Jugs
Tricorn
Which city of wales become a city most recently doing so in 2022
Wrexham
How many pairs of ribs in the human body?
12 pairs = 24 ribs
How many true ribs are there compared to false ribs?
7 pairs of true and 5 pairs of false
Spine is made up of how vertebrae?
33
How many cervical vertebrae are there?
7
How many thoracic vertebrae in human body?
12
How many Lumbar vertebrae are there?
5
How many vertebrae fused together to make sacrum?
5
How many vertebrae fused together to make coccyx?
4
Spine out in order five parts North to South
Cervical
ThorAcic
Lumbar
Sacrum
Coccyx
How many more white keys are there than black keys?
16 more (52 white keys and 36 black keys)
In 1981, which midlands soccer team became the first in England to have an all seater stadium
Coventry City
“With the necessary changes having been made” is translation of which two word Latin phrase?
Mutatis Mutandis
Four word tagline on adverts for Bounty?
The Taste of Paradise
Who is main bounty Hunter in the Star Wars films?
Boba Fett
A verb form which functions as a noun, English ending ing but used as noun. From Latin for “do”.
Gerund
Barry Cryer was host which tv comedy panel game show that ran from 1969 to 1974
Jokers Wild
M is for Malice by which author and stars which detective
Sue Grafton - Kinsey Millhone
Name of fool or jester in As You Like It?
Touchstone
Miss World 2003, daughter of Chris de Burgh. Namesake of song “For Rosanna” on 1986 album.
Rosanna Davison
Lady Madonna lyrics Mondays Child has done what?
Learned to tie his bootlace
Port Vale FC based in which British city?
Stoke-on-Trent
Today Newspaper 1986-95 founded by which businessman
Eddy Shah
What word sung three times at end of Nessun Dorma?
Vincero
Surname of George 1625-84 who build famous street in London
Downing
Which Caribbean island underwent two revolutions in 1967 and 1969 that eventually succeeded in their rather unusual goal of reestablishing British rule?
Anguilla
Traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremony, what name given to hand raised pots produced by technique in which glazed ware is placed straight into hot kiln then rapidly cooled in air so subjected to extreme stress creating unique effects in glaze?
Raku Ware
Welsh rock band formed in Swansea active from 1960s to 1980s, Pete Ham on vocals, Mike Gibbins (drums), named themselves after working title for Beatles “with a little help from my friends”. Hits; come and get it, No matter what, day after day and baby blue.
Badfinger
Florida estate did Marjorie Post bequest to National Park but given back and sold to most famous occupant?
Mar-A-Lago
Irish rugby Union referee, did the 2007 World Cup final, 2011 rugby World Cup semi final controversial call to send off Sam Warburton in 19th minute for pick up tackle?
Alain Rolland
Which prolific Cardiff born author became first woman to win Booker Prize doing so in 1970 for fifth book The Elected Member?
Bernice Rubens
Who is oldest player to have won World Snooker Championsjip doing so at 45y203d?
Ray Reardon
Second densest element and most corrosion resistant material? High abundance at clay level of Cretaceous-Paleogene boundaries given rise to impact of meteorite for dinosaurs.
Iridium
Which city in Baden-Wurttemberg hosts Federal Constitutional Court and Federal Court of Justice and is therefore the de facto judicial capital of Germany?
Karlsruhe
Following debut album green eyed soul, which singer songwriter was most successful German female pop vocalist in 2000s, shared name with female protagonist of a major movie franchise in 1984 and tv spin off.:-4/)
Sarah Connor
Which Roman name for a city of antiquity immediately precedes line “Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss” in well known quotation from Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus?
Ilium
Basques call this city Donostia, what do Spaniards call it?
San Sebastián
Which physician and author wrote 1970s bestseller The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to LovemKing?
Alex Comfort
Who was driving force behind soviet Sputnik and Vostok projects? Early death in 1966 halted soviet plans to put man on moon ahead of Americans.
Sergei Korolev
What wrote the article on guerilla Warfare in 14th edition of encyclopaedia Britannica published in 1929?
TE Lawrence
The Painter on the Road to Tarascon major work by which artist that is thought to have burned when a museum in Magdeburg bombed by allies?
Vincent van Gogh
Who declared “what a stupid I Am?” After he missed a playoff for 1968 masters after signing an incorrect scorecard?
Roberto de Vincenzo
Which is only film to have won both Oscar and razzie? 1987 film won Best Actor and Worst Supporting Actress.
Wall Street
Designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1930s and conceived as being capable of flight only three prototypes built of whcih three wheeled car?
Dymaxion
Named after the French term for a type of silk textile, which patterns are created when sheets with alternating opaque and transparent rulings are superimposed? Typically seen in net curtains.
Moire
Tracing its roots to a textile manufacturing company established in 1839 in Rhode Island which major US conglomerate is led by Warren Buffet?
Berkshire Hathaway
Contraction of three Swedish players who played for AC Milan in 1950s separated by hyphens. They also led Sweden to Olympic gold at 1948 London. The middle player remains third highest scorer in Serie A history.
Gre-No-Li
Gren, Nordahl, Liedholm
Moniker given to the five homegrown Real Madrid players who were core of the domination in 1980s. Name comes from the leading player’s bird related nickname.
La Quinta del Buitre (Vulture’s Cohort from Emilio Butragueno’s nickname)
Which English football manager boss of Besiktas 1987-94 won three successive titles. Managed Nagoya Grampus Eight for a year then back to Bursapor and then Trabzonspor.
Gordon Milne
Confectionary nickname used by Scottish media to describe Celtic reserve team of late 1960s. Eventually replaced some of the Lisbon Lions that won Euro Cup in 1967.
Quality Street Gang
Media pejorative used to describe high profile liverpool footballers in mid-late 1990s typically Jamie redknapp, David James, Steve mcnanmana, robbie Fowler etc.
Spice Boys
Forward line of the victorious Us Womens national soccer team at 1991 World Cup womens. Michelle Akers, Carin Jennings-Gabarra and April Heinrichs nicknamed what?
Triple Edged Sword
Who were the Holy Trinity or United Trinity which managed to get Man U the European cup 1968?
George Best, Denis Law, Bobby Charlton
Which of the French four musketeers tennis players didn’t win a singles grand slam but did well on doubles and now gives name to mens doublrs trophy at French open
Jacques Brugnon
Which of the French four musketeers tennis players won the most singles Mens French Opens with four? Won three others for seven single GS overall.
Henri Cochet
Which of French tennis four musketeers was imprisoned in Itter Castle during the latter years of World War II and subsequently fought in the Battle for Castle Itter
Jean Borotra
Which of French tennis four musketeers was only one to win a singles Australian open doing so in 1928?
Jean Borotra
Wife of Babar and who capital of the land is named after? By Jean de Brunhoff
Celeste (Celesteville)
Park Chan Wook 2022 movie nominated for best picture at BAFTAs?
Decision to Leave
Who was nominated at BAFTAs 2023 for best director for The Woman King? Directorial debut was Love & Basketball. Also did The Old Guard in 2020 based on Greg Rucka’s comic book.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Who directed Brendan Fraser in The Whale?
Darren Aronofsky
Which Scottish director directed Paul Mescal to a Oscar and bafta nomination in 2022 film Aftersun?
Charlotte Wells
Who plays title character in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande earning a bafta nomination? Used to be in Fair City and Praky Blinders.
Daryl McCormack
The 2022 film The Woman King is about which FON all female military regiment of Kingdom of Dahomey (Benin)?
Agojie
Who directed 2022 biographical drama Till? First African American woman to win the US dramatic grand jury prize at Sundance.
Chinonye Chukwu
Who earnt BAFTA nomination in 2023 for playing Mamie Till-Bradley campaigning after son Emmett Till died?
Danielle Deadwyler
Nominated as Liz in The Whale for a bafta which American actress? Breakthrough role in 2017 Downsizing.
Hong Chau
Bafta nomination for which Filipino actress for work in Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness?
Dolly de Leon
Who won BAFta award for work in Banshees of Inisherin? Troy Kutsur accidentally announced Carey Mulligan as winner first.
Kerry Condon
When kerry Condon won BAFta award for work in Banshees of Inisherin, Troy Kutsur accidentally announced Carey Mulligan as winner first, Mulligan had been in which film?
She Said
What was the film and title character that Jessica Chastain won Best Actress at Oscar’s for in 2022?
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Bakker)
Name of the film that Andrea Riseborough got an Oscar nomination for in 2023?
To Leslie
What married couple volcanologists is the documentary Fire of Love about? They died in 1991 Unzen eruption on Nagasaki, Kyushu.
Katia and Maurice Krafft
Which RHS garden is situated at Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Harlow Carr
Which rhs garden is at Chelmsford, Essex
Hyde Hall
Which RHS garden is at Great Torrington, Devon
Rosemoor
Which rhs garden is at Woking, Surrey
Wisley
It is the opposite of an acclaimed TV show. What is the two word name for the record selling card from Magic: The Gathering, which sole for $540k at auction in March 2023?:
BLACK LOTUS
