Week 2 M3 Flashcards
Dominic West and Idris Elba are both English actors who made their namesplaying Americans in which TV series?
The Wire
Which river of great religious significance links the Sea of Galilee and the DeadSea?
River Jordan
Named for its apparent attacks on livestock which cryptid was first attributed inPuerto Rico in March 1995? It was featured in a 1997 X-Files episode
Chupacabra (or goat-sucker)
The Old Man of Lochnagar is a children’s book written by which public figure?
Prince Charles(accept Prince ofWales etc.)
If a negatively-charged atom or molecule is an ‘anion’ [AN-IRON] what is itspositively-charged counterpart?
Cation [CAT-IRON]
Krzysztof Penderecki Frederic Chopin and Henryk Gorecki were all composersfrom which European nation?
Poland
The Florida Purchase Treaty of 1819 was signed between the United States andwhich other country?
Spain
On the Brink In the Lab and State of Emergency are expansion packs for whichtopical boardgame?
Pandemic
With the advent of mobile technology tic-tac has largely disappeared from racecourses but back in the day what odds would be indicated by crossing arms with hands flat on the chest ‘Double Carpet’?
33-1 [Thirty-three toone]
Which former world leader was exiled to Saint Helena dying there in May 1821?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Until 2018 eSwatini was known by what name?
Swaziland
Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan advertised which branded product over a series of soap-like adverts between 1987 and 1993?
Gold Blend (prompton “coffee”)
Andy Dufresne [du-FRAYN] is imprisoned in which penitentiary from which he eventually escapes in a Stephen King novella later filmed by Frank Darabont?
Shawshank
Back in the good old days before the Kardashian clan mastered the art of building careers out of ‘famous for being famous’ which part-time actress and DJtrademarked her catchphrase “That’s hot”?
Paris Hilton
Jean-Philippe Leo Smet the ‘French Elvis’ was better known by what stage- name?
Johnny Hallyday
Although the term was in some use before him G.K. Gilbert popularised the term ‘orogeny’ in 1890 to indicate the process of formation of what?
Mountains
Artist Mark Quinn used what unusual organic material to produce a sculpture ofhis own head Self?
His blood
Which Canadian psychologist and pundit the author of 12 Rules for Life wasrecently hospitalised in Russia for drug problems a year after announcing that hewas switching to an all-beef diet?
Jordan Peterson
Michael Jackson sang about a girl from which West-African nation on a song offBad?
Liberia(n)
Although he certainly wasn’t the first to advance a heliocentric idea of theuniverse which Polish mathematician’s On the Revolutions of the CelestialSpheres proposed that model when published in 1543?
Nicolaus Copernicus(Mikolai Kopernik)
How much money do you begin with in a standard British game of Monopoly?
£1500
Marco Polo visited the Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan in the late 13th century butwhich dynasty had Kublai founded after the division of the Mongol Empire?
Yuan
What is the name of the strait that separates the island Sri Lanka from India onthe Asian mainland?
Palk Strait
Victoria Wood created which sitcom set in a factory canteen?
Dinnerladies
Before becoming extinct in the 17th century the dodo was native to which IndianOcean island?
Mauritius
The late Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan noted for his influence onBollywood as well as appearances on Western film soundtracks was primarilyassociated with which genre of Sufi devotional music?
Qawwali
Which is the oldest duchy in England created in 1337? It is traditionally held bythe eldest son of the reigning monarch.
Duchy of Cornwall