Week 1 M2 Flashcards
One of the toughest races in the world which six-day 156 mile ultramarathon is heldevery year in southern Morocco in the Sahara desert?
Marathon des Sables
Waney-edged hazel hurdle heras and picket are types of what structure often used tomark a boundary around gardens?
Fence or fencing
The first international success for architect Daniel Libeskind was the design of a museumin Berlin dedicated to which religion? Permanent installations there include the workShalekhet – Fallen Leaves.
Judaism [acceptJewish]
What surname is shared by a three-time tennis Grand Slam winner in men’s singles andhis brother Jamie who is a multiple Grand Slam winner in men’s doubles and mixeddoubles?
Murray
Signed in a porcelain factory in France which 1920 treaty aimed to partition the territoryof the Ottoman Empire but ended up proving ineffective and aiding the growth of theTurkish National Movement?
Treaty of Sèvres
Which indigenous people share their name with a 1938 jazz standard that is the first offive movements in Ray Noble’s Indian Suite? Saxophonist Charlie Parker used this songas the basis for his composition Ko-Ko.
Cherokee
The Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance has a fantastic selection of talking headsdropped casually into the mix with little fanfare. Which US president during Jordan’speriod of dominance in the 1990s is introduced simply as a “former Arkansas governor”?
Bill Clinton
What metal that has almost doubled in value in the last year is a popular alternative toplatinum as a wedding ring choice due to being similarly resistant to scratches andcorrosion while weighing less? It is part of the so-called “platinum group” of metalsnamed for their proximity in the periodic table.
Palladium
The epidemiological S-I-R model which has featured in a number of recent Covid-19papers models the spread of a disease by placing people into three possible states. If theI represents Infected and the R represents Recovered what S represents the group ofpeople who can still catch the disease? The word in question means liable to be harmedby a particular thing.
Susceptible
Dubbed “Nasty Nick” by the British tabloids what is the surname of the contestant fromthe first series of Big Brother who was asked to leave by the show’s producers afterplaying housemates off against each other during the voting process?
Bateman
Winner of the 2011 Car of the Year what is the botanical name of Nissan’s all-electriccar?
Leaf
Beginning with C which chase is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty adjacent toSalisbury Plain that straddles Dorset Hampshire and Wiltshire? It is featured in Tess ofthe D’Urbervilles.
Cranborne
Added Time The Man in the Middle and Seeing Red are all books by members of whichsporting profession?
Football referee [prompton referee for the sport]
Both the Shakespearean and the Petrarchan form of what type of 14-line poem aretraditionally written in iambic pentameter?
Sonnet
Which singer unusually released two albums on the same day in 1992. Lucky Townreached number 2 in the UK but its companion Human Touch went one better and hit thetop spot.
Bruce Springsteen
Caused by centuries of ecclesiastical differences The Great Schism of 1054 between theCatholic and Eastern Orthodox churches was formalised when pope Leo IX of Rome andpatriarch Michael Cerularius of which city excommunicated each other? The FourthCrusade was later diverted to attack and capture this city.
Constantinople
Originating from the game Carcassone what portmanteau word is now used forthe stylised human playing pieces found in some board games?
Meeple
A pioneer of large genre painting particularly relating to the lives and activities ofthe titular people which Dutch Renaissance artist painted The Peasant Weddingin 1567?
Pieter Brueghel theElder
The UK number one with the longest single word title is Congratulations a hit forwhich tennis-loving singer who was backed by The Shadows?
Cliff Richard
A noted enemy of Rome Pyrrhus was the King of which ancient Greek state inthe western Balkans?
Epirus
Along with auxins and cytokinins what is the third main group of growthpromoters in plants stimulating the growth of shoots and leaves and promotingcell elongation.
Gibberellins
The Battles of Scarif Yavin Endor and Hoth take place in the universe of whatfilm franchise?
Star Wars
The name of which tube station one stop from Canary Wharf on the Jubilee Linebroadly describes the Yukon river the Great Bear Lake or the Great Slave Lake?
Canada Water
The largest non-capital city to straddle the Greenwich meridian is which Frenchcity the fifth largest in its country whose wider region is associated with wine andwhose inhabitants are known as Bordelais?
Bordeaux
According to an ITV interview in 2017 the naughtiest thing that Theresa May hasever done was to run through fields of what popular grain when she was a child?This grain is shredded in the name of a breakfast cereal.
Wheat
What nationality were the composers Hildegard of Bingen Clara Schumann andFanny Mendelssohn?
German
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere starred together in 1990’s Pretty Woman thenrenewed their on-screen partnership nine years later in which wedding-themedromantic comedy?
Runaway Bride
On a pocket calculator the numbers 6 and 9 have what type of symmetry? Thisword is often associated with objects turning.
Rotational symmetry[accept radial]
First mentioned in the Ramayana Adam’s Bridge is a chain of limestone shoalsthat was likely a former land connection between which two countries? Theshoals separate the Gulf of Mannar from the Palk Strait.
Sri Lanka and India
One of the world’s largest mining companies based on market capitalisation inwhich country is BHP Billiton headquartered?
Australia
Which American journalist a commentator on environmentalism for the NewYorker magazine wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning work The Sixth Extinction in2014 in which she estimates that 20-50% of all living species on Earth will be lostby the end of the 21st century?
Elizabeth Kolbert
Nominated for the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year from 2018 to 2020 whichAmerican skier and two-time Olympic gold medallist is the only person ever withwins across all six FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup disciplines?
Mikaela Shiffrin
After the Treaty of Sevres was rejected by the Turkish nationalist regime whichsubsequent 1923 treaty was signed in Switzerland and defined the borders of theTurkish republic?
Treaty of Lausanne
Which seasonal objects share their name with a 1945 jazz standard written byJoseph Kosma? The song has over a thousand commercial recordings by jazzmusicians and was taken to the top of the US charts in 1955 by Roger Williams.
Autumn Leaves
The Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance has a fantastic selection of talkingheads dropped casually into the mix. Which former US president who becamesenator of Illinois during Jordan’s period of dominance is introduced simply as a“former Chicago resident”?
Barack Obama
The oxide of which metal in its cubic crystalline form is the main synthetic competitorfor diamond and is popular for engagement ring stones? This metal is similar inappearance to hafnium and titanium due to their proximity in the periodic table.
Zirconium [acceptzirconia]
One of the toughest races in the world with 14600ft of ascent and 6000ft of descentwhich 135-mile ultramarathon finishes on the tallest mountain in the continental USMount Whitney but takes its name from the basin in Death Valley where it starts?
Badwater 135
The Big Green Egg Napoleon Pro and Weber SmokeFire are makes of what cookingdevice usually found in the garden?
Barbecue grill
Architect I.M. Pei was coaxed out of retirement to design a museum that houses theart of which religion? The museum resides on an artificial island in Doha and hascollections from Spain and across North Africa.
Islam [accept Muslim]
What surname is shared by a seven-time tennis Grand Slam winner in men’s singlesin the late 1970s and early 1980s and his brother Patrick who won the 1989 FrenchOpen in men’s doubles?
McEnroe
White Cap and Bails Finding the Gaps and The Men in White Coats are all books by or about members of which sporting profession?
Cricket umpire [prompton umpire for thesport]
Common in Shakespearean sonnets what is the term for a pair of successive lines in poetry that typically have the same meter and are rhyming? They are known asheroic when written in iambic pentameter.
Couplet
Which rapper unusually released two albums on the same day in 2004. Sweatreached number 2 in the US but its companion Suit went one better and hit the topspot also giving him a number one single in the UK with Over and Over.
Nelly
The Western schism was a split in the Catholic church between 1378 and 1417 after pope Gregory XI abandoned which city to move his court back to Rome? Sevensuccessive French popes had resided in this city since 1309.
Avignon
S-E-I-R is an extension of the standard S-I-R epidemiological model to capture the group of people who have been infected but are not yet infectious to others. The E inthis case represents what word meaning in a vulnerable position or situation?
Exposed
Dubbed “Nasty Nigel” by the British tabloids what is the surname of the TV producer who was the tough judge on the first series of the show Popstars before going on toproduce Pop Idol and American Idol?
Lythgoe
The best-selling electric car in Europe in 2015 and 2016 Renault’s all-electric car has what girl’s name?
Zoe
Beginning with C which chase is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty inStaffordshire that achieved notoriety for the A34 murders in the 1960s and thenefarious activities of footballer Stan Collymore in 2004?
Cannock
With a name derived from the incorrect belief that it was the direct cause of a leaf falling which acid acts as a powerful growth inhibitor for plants promoting seeddormancy and the closing of stomata?
Abscisic acid
The Battles of the Bastards the Blackwater Kings Landing and Winterfell take place in the universe of what TV series?
Game of Thrones
The name of which tube station one stop from Bank on the Central Line broadlydescribes Goodison Road Anfield Road or Penny Lane?
Liverpool Street
The largest non-capital city to straddle the equator is Pekanbaru lying in the eastern part of Sumatra in which country?
Indonesia
What three-letter shape-related abbreviation is used to describe the board tiles used in games such as Kaliko Tantrix and Catan?
Hex
Depicting an event not typically associated with genre painting and doing so on a giant scale which realist French artist painted the A Burial at Ornans in 1850?
Gustave Courbet
The UK number one with the shortest single word title is If a hit for which actor famed for playing the lollipop-sucking detective Kojak?
Telly Savalas
A noted enemy of Rome Mithridates VI was the King of which historical region on the southern coast of the Black Sea?
Pontus
Potentially using two bridges to connect to the intermediate Diomede Islands thetheoretical Bering Strait crossing would connect which two countries?
USA and Russia
Both a mining company and one of the world’s largest commodities tradingcompanies in which country is Glencore headquartered?
Switzerland
Which Canadian author wrote the 2014 book This Changes Everything in whichshe argues that the climate crisis cannot be tackled in our current era of freemarket capitalism?
Naomi Klein
Nominated for the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year in 2019 which Czechwoman became the first ever Winter Olympian to win gold medals using twodifferent types of equipment - skis and snowboard – a feat she achieved atPyeongchang in 2018?
Ester Ledecka
In a 2019 Sky interview Boris Johnson said that the naughtiest thing he wouldadmit to having done was to ride one of his namesake bikes on which outdoorsurface which the Americans call a sidewalk?
On the pavement
What nationality were the composers Louise Farrenc Nadia Boulanger [BOO-LON-JAY] and Germaine Tailleferre [TIE-FAIR]?
French
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway starred together in 2005’s BrokebackMountain then renewed their on-screen partnership five years later in whichromantic comedy based on the non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of aViagra Salesman?
Love and OtherDrugs
On a pocket calculator the numbers 2 and 5 have what type of symmetry? Thisword is often associated with a mirror.
Reflectionalsymmetry [acceptbilateral or line]
Which alkene gas plays a crucial role in the processes of seed dormancy leafabscission and fruit ripening?
Ethylene (acceptEthene)
Coming across as possibly the most zen man in the world during the MichaelJordan documentary The Last Dance which coach took the Chicago Bulls to sixtitle in the 1990s? He would win a further five titles with the LA Lakers.
Phil Jackson
Sharing their name with the biggest selling single of 1979 in the UK which bandreleased the albums I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urnon the same day in 2005?
Bright Eyes
Sharing its name with a Spanish river which Anglo-Australian company is thethird biggest metals and mining corporation in the world?
Rio Tinto
