Summer League 13-15 Flashcards
In chess which piece travels in an L-shape and is the only one that can leap over others?
Knight
Which railway terminus serving destinations in Kent and East Sussex is served by a tube station located between Bank and Borough on the Northern Line?
London Bridge
Which matchmaking app allows users to ‘swipe right’ on a prospective partner and has a stylised flame as its logo?
Tinder
Ending with the restoration of King Louis XVIII and containing the Battle of Waterloo what name is given to the period of nearly four months following Napoleon’s return from Elba?
The Hundred Days
Which French author wrote the book Le Petit Prince having survived a plane crash in the Libyan desert in 1935?
Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Tokamak reactor ITER is a European project which aims to produce energy from what process of combining atomic nuclei?
Nuclear fusion
Named for the author or the Lusiads what literary prize is awarded for an outstanding oeuvre [ERV-ruh] of work written in Portuguese?
Camoes Prize
Which British female vocalist featured on the 1988 Coldcut hit Doctorin’ The House going on to have a number one hit in her own right later that year?
Yazz (accept Yasmin Evans)
What fish’s skipjack variety is dried to produce Japanese Katsuobushi flakes? Its other varieties include Albacore.
Tuna
Which former government chief whip and MP for the Forest of Dean was eliminated from the 2019 Conservative Party leadership elections in the first round of balloting?
Mark Harper
Which Russian athlete who competes as a neutral has been the dominant force in women’s high jump for the past two years winning the Diamond League finals in 2017 and 2018?
Maria Lasitskene
In which country would you find the Salar de Uyuni Salt flat which covers a large deposit of commercially valuable lithium?
Bolivia
Which Scottish poet wrote To a Mouse and Tam O’Shanter?
Robert Burns
The Two Ronnies parodied which quiz show in a sketch where Charlie Smithers specialises in answering the question before last?
Mastermind
In English courts what colour cap was traditionally worn by a judge about to pass down a death sentence?
Black
Which planet was the target of the space probes Galileo and Juno?
Jupiter
In British Sign Language what letter is signed by touching the right index finger onto the left thumb?
A
Which aromatic chemical compound is also known as methylbenzene and has three nitro groups attached to it to form TNT?
Toluene
Which Renaissance artist painted The Madonna with a Goldfinch and has works including The Parnassus and the Disputa on the walls of the Vatican museum’s Stanza della Segnatura?
Raphael (or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Which American entertainer showed a choir being mown down by gunfire in the music video for his song This is America?
Donald Glover or Childish Gambino
Which South Korean footballer scored the first professional goal at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April 2019?
Son Heung-Min
A contender for the title of oldest lake which Russian lake is both the world’s deepest and largest by volume?
Lake Baikal
Freddy the tallest living dog is a member of what breed that as its name suggests originates from a country to the North of Germany?
Great Dane
Which people’s mythology included the sun god Ra and the jackal-headed Anubis?
Ancient Egyptians
Coming in at thirteenth on the 2019 Classic FM hall of fame which Mozart opera features the Queen of the Night’s aria Der Holle Rache?
The Magic Flute (or Die Zauberflöte)
Quora user Kynan Eng calculated that over a trillion dollars had been spent saving which actor’s characters from different places including Mars in The Martian and bunker in Normandy in Saving Private Ryan?
Matt Damon
The musical We Will Rock You was written around the music of which band?
Queen
The tarantula and black widow are types of what animal that might frighten an arachnophobe?
Spider
Which restaurant run by Massimo Bottura was named the world’s best in 2016 and 2018?
Osteria Francescana
Modern day Jakarta was built on the site of which centre of the Dutch East India Company’s trade network in East Asia?
Batavia
Named for a two-time calendar grand slam winner what tennis stadium which is part of the Melbourne Park complex holds the finals of the Australian Open?
Rod Laver Arena
The name of the Manhattan Neighbourhood of SoHo refers to its position just south of which Street?
Houston Street
Milly the shortest living dog is a member of what breed that shares its name with the largest state of Mexico?
Chihuahua
Which terminus serving destinations in Surrey and Hampshire is served by a tube station located between Embankment and Kennington on the Northern Line?
Waterloo
Son Heung-Min claimed that among his footballing inspirations was which South Korean player’s appearance in the 2009 Champion’s League final for Manchester United?
Park Ji-Sung
In which 2014 Christopher Nolan movie which stars Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey is it revealed that Matt Damon’s character has faked data on an uninhabitable extrasolar planet to try and be rescued?
Interstellar
Which painting by Raphael shows a group of philosophers including Aristotle and Plato at its centre?
The School of Athens
ITER will aim to produce energy by fusing tritium and what other isotope of hydrogen? Symbolised D its nucleus contains one proton and one neutron.
Deuterium
In British Sign Language what letter is signed by brushing a flat right hand over a flat left hand?
H
During the Edo period one of the only places where Westerners could trade with Japan was on Dejima a Dutch East India Company trading post just off the coast of which city?
Nagasaki
Named for the first black player to win Wimbledon and the US Open which stadium which is part of the Flushing Meadows complex hosts the final of the US Open?
Arthur Ashe Arena
Which actor managed to convince a Georgia State Representative to repel terrorists by showing them his buttocks and shouting racial slurs in his recent series Who is America?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Which restaurant run by Spanish brothers Juan Josep and Jordi was named the world’s best in 2013 and 2015?
El Celler de Can Roca
In which country would you find the Mak•gadik•gadi Pan a dried up lakebed which is one of the main breeding sites for flamingos?
Botswana
The musical Bat Out of Hell was written around the music of which artist?
Meat Loaf
Which people’s mythology included the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl and the rain god Tlaloc?
Aztecs
Coming in at twelfth on the 2019 Classic FM hall of fame which piece by Mozart was left unfinished at his death and completed by Franz Sussmayr?
Requiem in D Minor
Which planet was the target of the space probes Messenger and BepiColombo?
Mercury
Named for the author of In a Grove what Japanese literary prize is presented twice a year to the best literary story by a new or rising author?
Akutagawa Prize
Which aromatic chemical compound consists of two fused benzene rings and was traditionally used in mothballs?
Naphthalene
Which American screenwriter created the Star Trek franchise having survived plane crashes in Vanuatu in 1943 and the Syrian desert in 1947?
Gene Roddenberry
Which former head of the 1922 Committee of Conservative Party backbenchers resigned that position to explore whether to launch a party leadership bid in May 2019 before deciding not to?
Sir Graham Brady
Which matchmaking app targeted at LGBTQ users has a stylised mask as its logo?
Grindr
Another contender for the title of oldest lake is what brackish body of water in Venezuela that is fed by the river Catatumbo?
Lake Maracaibo
Which chess piece can only travel in diagonal lines and is hence restricted to squares of a single colour?
Bishop
The Young Ones episode Bambi features a match between Scumbag College and Footlights College Oxbridge which parodies which quiz show?
University Challenge
In English courts what colour tape was traditionally used to tie up stacks of documents giving rise to a slang term for administrative faff?
Red
Napoleon’s return during the Hundred Days interrupted what international summit hosted by the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich?
Congress of Vienna
Which poem by Robbie Burns is often sung at Hogmanay and begins with the lines ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?’
Auld Lang Syne
The boa and anaconda are types of what animal that might frighten an ophidiophobe?
Snake
Which Colombian athlete has been the dominant athlete in the Triple Jump for the past two years winning the Diamond League final in both it and the long jump in 2018?
Caterine Ibarguen
Which British female vocalist featured on the 1989 Coldcut hit People Hold On going on to have a number one hit in her own right later that year?
Lisa Stansfield
What fish is dried and salted to produce Portuguese bacalhau and West Indian saltfish?
Atlantic Cod
The name of the Manhattan Neighbourhood of TriBeCa refers to its status as a triangle below which street?
Canal Street
Which chess piece can move a single square in any direction and is traditionally the tallest piece in a set?
King
Which Copenhagen restaurant run by Rene Redzepi was named as the world’s best for three years from 2010-2012 and again in 2014?
Noma
Which aromatic chemical compound consists of a hydroxyl group bound to a benzene ring and is also known as carbolic acid?
Phenol
The name of the Manhattan neighbourhood of Nolita refers to its location just north of which other neighbourhood?
Little Italy
Which American poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings recited at the inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1993?
Maya Angelou
Which Marvel Cinematic Universe film starred Chadwick Boseman in the title role?
Black Panther
Which major river in Africa has tributaries known as the Blue and White?
Nile
Gamal Nasser Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak are former rulers of which country?
Egypt
Which song by Lil Nas X which was controversially removed from the US Country Music charts has versions featuring Billy Ray Cyrus and 12-year old yodeller Mason Ramsay?
Old Town Road
Which Chinese-American cellist who played on the score of the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon performed at the White House during the 1987 state visit of Japanese Crown Prince Akihito?
Yo-Yo Ma
What name is given to South American members of the same taxonomic group as emus cassowaries and kiwis? It is also the name of a moon of Saturn.
Rhea
Which table-top roleplaying game originally published by Chaosium was set in a world inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and frequently ended with the characters going insane?
Call of Cthulhu
Which religion celebrates the festival and pilgrimage of Kumbh Mela held roughly every three years in which participants gather to bathe in a sacred or holy river?
Hinduism
Toussaint L’Ouverture was one of the leaders of the war for independence of which country?
Haiti
Of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent who has held the record for most expensive work at auction by an American artist since 2017?
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Which British sitcom starring Ram John Holder in the title role was a spinoff from Desmonds?
Porkpie
The invasive fungal disease of elm trees caused by Ascomycota is commonly known by which demonym referring to the European country where it was first identified?
Dutch
