Wikiquiz 1 Flashcards
Wikiquiz
Which titular objectof the first Harry Potter novel was originally found in Vault 713 at Gringott’s Bank?
The Philosopher’s Stone
What is thename beginning with Bof the soft, flat-crowned hat made of wool or felt which has been worn by figures such as Bernard Montgomery and Frank Spencer but most popularly by the French?
Beret
Which London thoroughfare, part of the A4, runs from Hyde Park Corner east to its namesake Circus with its famous neon advertising hoardings?
Piccadilly
The first was open from 1923 to 2000 and the second has been open since 2007.What London football venueis this?
Wembley
What name is given tothe regular shedding of blood and mucosal tissuefrom the wall of the uterus through the vagina?
Menstruation or period
“Probably the worst scholar Eton ever sent us -a buffoon and idler.” This quote from Oswyn Murray, an ancient history don at Balliol College, Oxford, is aboutwhich current MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip? As in life, a forename alone is not acceptable.
Boris Johnson
Monty Norman was unfairly deprived of credit for composing the iconic theme towhich British film series, with many people believing that John Barry (who merely arranged it for the first film in the franchise) was its composer?
James Bond
Which American(1835-1910) wrote the novelsThe Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King ArthurandPudd’n’head Wilsonamong other better known works?
Mark Twain
Prince Harry, Harry Styles and Danny Cipriani were all past romantic partners ofwhich TV presenter and celebritywho died aged just 40 in February 2020?
Caroline Flack
The regional park the Phlegraean Fields, known for numerous craters and other volcanic landforms, is located just west ofwhich Italian city, the capital of the Campania region?
Naples or Napoli
Twinkle Twinkle Little StarandBaa Baa Black Sheepshare a tune.What perhaps even more famous song, taught to most young children, also shares that tune?
Alphabet song
Tupac Amaru, who led a remnant group of survivors from Vilcabamba from 1571, was the last indigenous leader ofwhich group of people, conquered by the Spanish?
Inca
Both involving Adolf Anderssen, the Evergreen and the Immortal Games are separate and celebrated 19th century contests inwhat board game and mind sport?
Chess
What word with various scientific meanings is given tothe solid central part of a comet, also nicknamed “the dirty snowball”?
Nucleus
The Embassy Club in Manchester was owned bywhich Mancunian comedianwhose racial “humour” meant he thankfully rarely featured on British television in the years leading up to his death in 2007?
Bernard Manning
Father of microbiology Antoine van Leeuvenhoek was the executor of the will ofwhich Dutch painterwhose works includeThe MilkmaidandView of Delft?
(Johannes) Hans Vermeer
The icons for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook on a standard Apple iPhone all consist ofwhich two colours?
Blue and white
Which is theonly chemical elementwhose English name begins with V?
Vanadium
The Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti hadwhich nationality?
Nigerian
Gitega replacedwhich cityon the list of African capital cities in 2019?
Bujumbura
Formed after the Montreal Expos moved south of the border in 2004,which baseball franchisewon its first World Series in 2019 with a 4-3 win over Houston Astros? Franchise name needed but city is not.
(Washington) Nationals
In English lawwhich tortinvolves the making of a false statement about another, and can be in writing (libel) or spoken (slander)? A namesake 2013 statute reformed some aspects of English law in this area.
Defamation
Which pasta shapehas a name meaning “thin string” or “twine” in Italian?
Spaghetti
What wasthe original middle nameof John Lennon and is the middle name of Gary Lineker?
Winston
The Embarkation of Cythera(1717) is a paintingwhich Frenchmanwho is particularly associated with thefete galantegenre?
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Which BBC newsreader, a formerCelebrity Mastermindchampion of champions, successfully sued the BBC in 2019/20 under the Equal Pay Act, alleging she had been paid less than male peers?
Samira Ahmed
Which movementfrom Claude Debussy’sSuite bergamasquehas a name basically translating as “moonlight”?
Clair de Lune
The annoying phrase “bulge bracket” is collectively given to the key multinational companies operating inwhat sector?
Banking or finance
Which winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physicsis known, among many other things, for developing his namesake diagram which shows what happens when elementary particles collide?
Richard Feynman
Beginning with C and D,name either of the named winter stormswhich caused significant damage including flooding in the UK in January 2020. This seems like a golden age now.
Ciara or Dennis
Nicknamed “the pocket rocket”,which Jamaican sprinterhas won four of the last five world 100 metres titles and two of the last three Olympic titles, her best time being 10.70 seconds?
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Welcome to the Dollhouse,Storytelling,PalindromesandHappinessare among the films directed bywhich American independent film screenwriter and director?
Todd Solondz
Which demonymfollows “No True…” in the name of a fallacy first named by philosopher Antony Flew, which involves attempting to protect a generalisation from counterexamples by changing a definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample?
Scotsman
The name of chapter 7 ofThe Wind in the Willowswas taken by an English rock band for the title of their 1967 debut album which featured tracks such asAstronomy DomineandInterstellar Overdrive.Name that band(or, if you wish, the album, but no extra points for that).
Pink Floyd orThe Piper at the Gates of Dawn
It depicts former Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase and only 336 are believed to remain in circulation:what is the highest denomination of US dollar bill to publicly circulate?
$10,000
What nameis shared by the brightest star in Canis Minor and the genus of mammals popularly known as the raccoons?
Procyon
Which ‘blogwas founded by the formerFinancial Timesjournalist Nick Denton but closed in 2016 after being bankrupted by a libel action taken by Hulk Hogan?
Gawker
Derived from a Portuguese (and ultimately an Urdu or Persian) word for “soldier”,what six-letter namewas given to sailors from the Indian subcontinent, and Asia and the Arab world more generally, employed on ships until the mid-20th century?
Lascar
Anthony Field is the only person who has been a member ofwhich groupthroughout its existence? This Australian group is aimed at pre-school children and has sold many records in its home nation and the US.
The Wiggles
Which 2000 action role-playing video gamereleased by Eidos centres on nanotechnically-enhanced UNATCO agent JC Denton in a future world ravaged by inequality and a deadly plague?
Deus Ex
Nip/Tuck,It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,ArcherandThe Americanswere all first broadcast onwhich US pay TV channel?
FX
A mihrab is a notch in the wall of a Mosque which indicates the direction of Mecca to facilitate prayers.What five letter termis given in Arabic to the direction of Mecca?
Qibla
Which yearwas the longest year in human history at 445 days, because Julius Caesar shifted from the pre-Julian Roman calendar to the Julian calendar by adding two leap months?
46 BC
Alexander Stewart, the third surviving son of the Scottish King Robert II, was known for his rapacity and his destruction of the Royal Burgh and Cathedral of Elgin;by what epithetis he best known?
Wolf of Badenoch
Which 79 year-old widowwas the plaintiff in a 1994 legal case against McDonalds after being burnt by their scalding coffee, being awarded almost $3m? While sometimes cited as an example of overly litigious US culture, in fact she sustained burns to 16% of her body and spent one week in hospital, and McDonalds had offered her just $800.
Stella Liebeck
With the subtitlePrivate Vices, Public Benefits,which 1714 work by Bernard Mandevilleis noted for suggesting key economic principles such as division of labour and the invisible hand many years before Adam Smith wrote about them?
The Fable of the Bees
A real-life Will Hunting,which astronomerbegan his career as a janitor at Mount Wilson Observatory? He volunteered to be a night assistant and was eventually made a staff member, assisting Edwin Hubble in formulating his namesake law and narrowly failing to discover Pluto (he took photos which included it in 1920, but failed to spot it himself).
Milton Humason
Tony Blackburn emotionally appealed live on air forwhich actress, his wife since 1972, who would go on to appear inRobin’s Nest, to return to him?
Tessa Wyatt
The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not On Fireand[This band] Do Dallasare two of the albums made bywhich post-hardcore bandformed in Cardiff, active from 1996 to 2005?
Mclusky
Outsider Foinavon won the 1967 Grand National whenwhich perhaps aptly named horse, which had unseated its rider, caused a pile up of other horses?
Popham Down
Which of the planets in the Solar System has the most consonants in its name?
Mercury
Which Indian Batsmen with 15,921 runs is the highest runscorer in the history of Test Cricket?
Sachin Tendulkar
What is the name commonly give to a male horse under four years of age?
Colt
What South American country has a pair of cannons on its flag making it the one of four countries in the World with firearms on its flag?
Bolivia
The Shannon is well knowm for being the longest river in Ireland but what is the second longest?
The Barrow
Juba is the capital of which African country?
South Sudan
What deceased soul singer, who was at the height of his fame in the 1980s was a significant contributor to David Bowie’sYoung Americansalbum?
Luther Vandross
What is the name of the fictional village that is thome to Miss Marple? It is the setting forMurder in the Vicarage?
St Mary Mead
Who was the leader of the UK Labour Party at the commencement of World War I?
Arthur Henderson
What 1984 spoof documentary was the directorial debut for Rob Reiner?
This is Spinal Tap
Who, in 1668 was appointed the first poet laureate?
John Dryden
Which professional wrestler starred in John Carpenters cult scifi 1988 filmThey Live? It features a classic line about asskicking and bubblegum.
Roderick George “Roddy” Toombs, ring name “Rowdy” Roddy Piper
In 1816 who led an unsuccessful slave revolt against the the British Government in Barbados?
Bussa
iIn 2007 Mauretainia became the last country in the world to fully outlaw which activity?
Slavery
Eldrick Tont are the first two given names of which famous sporting figure?
Tiger Woods
Liberdade, a district considered to have the highest ethnic Japanese population ourside of Japan, is in which South American City?
Sao Paolo
According to Biblical tradition whose father was Amram?
Moses
In what year was Channel 4 launched?
1982
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company associated with famous billionaire businessman?
Warren Buffet
The first rank symptoms of Schizophrenia are often named after which German psyciatrist, the first to describe them?
Kurt Schneider
What was the name of Elvis Costello’s original backing band?
The Attractions
Who was the only US President born in the state of California?
Richard Milhaus Nixon
Which hit song from 2000 has the immortal line “Get back you flea -infested mongrel”?
Who let the dogs out
Which 1970s police drama starring Michael Douglas and Karl Malden with a Californian city in its title?
The Streets of San Francisco
What is the name of the fruit brandy common in the Balkans, associated with Bulgaria but also with roots in other nations in the area?
Rakia/Rakija/Rakiya
In Texas Hold em poker what is the name given to mandatory bets placed by players prior to any hand being played?
Blinds
What nationality were the first European climbers to ascend Mount Everest in 1956?
Swiss
Which virus, which had vaccine developed bt Maz Theiler in 1937, is transmitted by the bite of the female Aedes Aegypti mosquito?
Yellow Fever
On a weather map what are line which linking areas with the same atmospheric pressure called?
Isobars
Sirimavo Bandaraike became the first elected Prime Minister in 1960 of which country?
Sri Lanka
In 1986, who became the first person from an Anglophone country to win the Tour De France?
Greg Lemond
The2000 ADcomic book series, best known for Judge Dredd, began puslishing in what year?
1977
The molecule trioxygen with the formula O3 is commonly known by what name?
Ozone
“Unsex me here, And fill me from the crow to the toe topful Of direst cruelty”are lines spoken by which Shakespearean character?
Lady Macbeth
Which record label were the band Oasis initially signed to when they releasedDefinitely Maybe, their debut album in 1993?
Creation
Cheyenne is the capital of which US State?
Wyoming
What is the term used to describe whwn two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond differences in their reproductive organs?
Dimorphism
Andres Manuel Lopez Oblador is the current serving President of which country?
Mexico
Who is the only player to have appeared in a Superbowl and the World Series Baseball Finals?
Deion Sanders
Who was Napoleon I’s second wife, whom he married in 1810, ostensibly to produce an heir?
Marie Louise of Austria
Which nation is the World’s largest producer of Sugar Beet, with over one quarter of World’s production?
Russia
A sideline cut is a skill executed in which fast moving field sport?
Hurling
In the film adaptation of The Who’sTommywhich famous singer played the role of The Acid Queen?
Tina Turner
Proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole act by reducing what substance in the human body?
Stomach Acid
Which book by Italo Calvino consists of 55 prose poems describing conversations between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, describing cities on the latter’s travels?
Invisible Cities
What is the busiest railway station in Europe and in what city is it located?
Gare du Nord, Paris
IIn 1936 who was the first woman to be named Time Magazine’s person of the year?
Wallis Simpson
Which maritime sport is due to make its debut at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, coronavirus notwithstandstanding?
Surfing
What plant is Cornish Yarg cheese coated with?
Nettles
A well known Specsavers ad contains a dog being accidentally sheared., but what is the name of the traditional Irish song used in the advert?
Mo Ghile Mear/ Bimse Buain ar Buairt Gach lo
Also the title of a David Bowie hit,what was the nameof the follow up series toLife on Mars?
Ashes to Ashes
What nicknamelinks sports teams from Northampton and Southampton?
Saints
What name is sharedby the Greek god of darkness, the world’s southernmost active volcano, and the ship captained by Sir John Franklin when he and his crew disappeared in 1847?
Erebus
Which popular Australian wine brandis named after a small tributary of the North Para River?
Jacob’s Creek
Commonly translated as the ‘Peacock Angel’, Melek Taus is the pre-eminent of the seven holy beings to whom god entrusted the world according to the doctrines ofwhich religion?
YazidismorSharfadin
Sharing its name with a light blue property on aMonopolyboard,which 20thcentury art movementcounted Vanessa Bell, Eric Gill, and John Nash among its members?
Euston RoadSchool
No longer an independent country, the armies ofwhich nationwere defeated by Napoleon at the battles of Jena and Ligny?
Prussia
Later a ‘roving ambassador’ for Speedo,which American swimmerwon four gold medals at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, all in world record times? At those Games, he became the first person to swim the 200 metres backstroke in under two minutes and his record stood for seven years.
JohnNaber
Rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea of Japan, and with a name meaning ‘ten thousand’ in Mongolian,which riverserves as part of the three-way border between China, North Korea, and Russia?
TumenorDuman
Which cat breedshares its name with a number 2 hit for The Four Seasons that appears in the musicalJersey Boys?
Ragdoll
Bertrand Russell said that Western philosophy begins withwhich philosopher, born in the city of Miletus in the 7th century BCE, who believed that everything was ultimately made of water?
Thales
Whowas the manager of the Great Britain football team at the 1948 Olympic Games?
MattBusby
Whomade her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 filmLookin’ to Get Out?
AngelinaJolie
What name is sharedby three Roman Emperors of the 4thand 5thcenturies CE, and three Scottish Kings of the 9thand 10thcenturies?
Constantine
Which traditional British soft drinkis fermented from the roots of the plantsTaraxacum officinaleandArctium lappa?
Dandelion and burdock
WhenPrivate Eyelost a libel action brought by this man in 1986, Ian Hislop quipped, “I’ve just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech”. Aboutwhomwas he talking?
RobertMaxwell
Which city in the UKis home to two cathedrals called St Patrick’s, making it the world’s only city with two cathedrals with the same name?
Armagh
Al Pacino was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role aswhich real-life Americanin the 2019 filmThe Irishman? The man in question disappeared without trace in 1975.
JimmyHoffa
Now noted as one of the world’s five ‘Blue Zones’, known for the longevity of their inhabitants, this island earned the nickname of Red Rock when around 10,000 Communists, including the composer Mikis Theodorakis, were exiled there in the aftermath of a failed coup of 1945. This iswhich Aegean islandnamed after a tragic figure from Greek myth?
Icaria
Once famous for its drinking dens, gambling clubs, and brothels,which district of Manhattanshares its name with a succulent cut of meat?
Tenderloin
The Stevenson Way is a long-distance walk between Mull and Edinburgh that traces a journey made inwhich novelby Robert Louis Stevenson?
Kidnapped
In the mid-1970s,which bandreleased two albums named after Marx Brothers films?
Queen
Lady Gaga has a tattoo on her left bicep that reads,”Prüfen Sie, ob er in der tiefsten Stelle Ihres / Herzens seine Wurzeln ausstreckt, gestehen / Sie sich ein, ob Sie sterben müßten, wenn es Ihnen / versagt würde zu schreiben. Muss ich schreiben?”.The words were those ofwhich poetwho died of leukaemia in 1926, but whose death is commonly, if mistakenly, more romantically attributed to his having pricked his finger on the thorn of a rose?
Rainer MariaRilke
The order of the animals in the Chinese calendar was supposedly decided by a race.Which animalwon the race by riding on the back of the ox and jumping off at the last minute?
Rat
Which former Chancellor of the Exchequerwas three times defeated in Tory leadership elections, in 1997, 2001, and 2005?
KenClarke
Which French Romantic artist’s early works includedGreece on the Ruins of MissolonghiandDeath of Sardanapalus, both now on display at the Louvre?
EugèneDelacroix
Which British TV serieswas known asMy Partner the Ghostwhen broadcast in the USA?
Randall & Hopkirk Deceased
Only two men who never served as President appear on the obverse of American banknotes. One is Benjamin Franklin, and the other iswhich man, whose profile has risen somewhat in the last few years?
AlexanderHamilton
Which American rock band, formed in 1987, take their name from a slang term for spending a 24-hour period smoking marijuana?
Green Day
Founded in 1972,which retaileris named after the Greek city in which Richard Tompkins was holidaying when he had the idea for the company?
Argos
Although Chanel is best-known forChanel No. 5,which other numberwas used for another of its well-known perfumes, launched in 1971, the year before Coco Chanel’s death?
19
Which scientifically-important site in Cheshirebecame the UK’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019?
Jodrell Bank(Observatory)
What is the name of the eight-year-old girlwho is the protagonist ofCandy Crush Saga?
TiffiorToffette
As well as being the primary ore of aluminium, bauxite is also the primary source ofwhich soft, silvery-blue metalthat becomes silvery-white in its liquid state?
Gallium
The oldest man ever proclaimed Roman Emperor waswhich man, proclaimed emperor alongside his son, and largely against his will, whilst Pro-consul in Africa, during a revolt against Maximinus? Aged 79, he committed suicide after just 21 days upon learning of the death of son at the Battle of Carthage.
GordianI
Also the name of a fictional spacecraft,what was the name of the US Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched in 1960?
USSEnterprise
Which card game, often associated with Christmas, in which players bet on one of four cards and try to play out their hands first, shares its name with a major English racecourse?
Newmarket
Which French mathematician(1540-1603), whose work is seen as an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations, also served as codebreaker to the French kings Henry III and Henry IV?
FrançoisVièteor FranciscusVieta
What surname is sharedby a member of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning team and his nephew who was a member of England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning team?
Cohen(George & Ben)
Which town in Shropshireis named after a famous Scottish engineer who died in 1834?
Telford
Aged 11, this Moravian composer wrote the balletThe Snowman, which was popular in Vienna, and two years later hisSecond Piano Sonatawas played throughout Europe by Artur Schnabel. This iswhich composerwho became better-known in the USA for his Oscar-winning scores for the filmsAnthony Adverse(1936) andThe Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)?
Erich WolfgangKorngold
James Lovelock chose the name Gaia Hypothesis to describe his hypothesis that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth’s environment that acts to sustain life on the suggestion ofwhich Booker Prize-winning novelist?
WilliamGolding
Lance Armstrong’s last Tour de France victory (later quashed) and Alberto Contador’s first Tour de France victory both came while they were riding for a team named afterwhich American TV channelassociated with science and history documentaries?
DiscoveryChannel
Which questionhas been posed in the titles of top 10 hits for both the Eurythmics and Madonna?
Who’s That Girl?
All of England’s ten highest mountains are inwhich county?
Cumbria
Which famous writerwas the daughter of the author of the 1792 bookA Vindication of the Rights of Womanand the wife of the author of the 1820 poemTo a Skylark?
MaryShelley
The Philemon Foundation was established in 2003 to publish the complete works ofwhich 20thcentury thinker? The foundation is named after the wise spirit guide who appears in this man’s work commonly known asThe Red Book.
Carl GustavJung
What name is given to the painful condition of womenwhere tissue similar to the lining of the womb starts to grow in other places, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes?
Endometriosis
In 1982, Ingrid Bergman’s last film role saw her playwhich world leaderwho had died four years earlier?
GoldaMeir
Sharing its name with a semi-precious stone that comes in bands of different colours,what is the longest river in Antarctica?
Onyx
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.” This is the opening line of the 1963 novel The Bell Jar, which was the only novel written by which author?
Sylvia Plath
Number 3 in the periodic table. Which soft, silvery-white alkali metal is the lightest solid chemical element?
Lithium
Which song title is shared by 1984 UK number one singles by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Jennifer Rush and a 1985 UK number nine single by Huey Lewis and the News?
The Power of Love
Brisket, Flank and Sirloin are all cuts of which meat?
Beef
Which British heavyweight boxer defeated Deontay Wilder in February 2020? In doing so he unified the WBA, IBF, WBC, WBO and The Ring world titles.
Tyson Fury
Jones, Blake, Dinkley and Rogers, are the surnames of four of the characters in which classic cartoon series?
Scooby-Doo
Wuhan, the city at the centre of the current Coronavirus outbreak, is the capital of which province in Central China?
Hubei
Surely a staple in any healthy diet. Which colour packet do Rib N Saucy flavoured Nik Naks come in?
Purple
Angra Mainyu (also known as Ahriman) is the evil, destructive spirit in which religion?
Zoroastrianism
Which English cathedral city shares its name with the former name of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe?
Salisbury
On the Kinsey Scale, used to describe a person’s sexual orientation. If 0 is exclusively heterosexual, then which number is used to represent people who are exclusively homosexual?
6/six
Coming to mean a person who is neglecting their duties. Which Roman emperor begins the phrase “______ fiddled while Rome burned”?
Nero
Built between 1853 and 1856. Manchester’s Free Trade Hall is built on the site of which 1819 event?
Peterloo Massacre
Which American actor, who is perhaps best known for his role in a 2018 Marvel movie, has also portrayed real life figures Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall on film?
Chadwick Boseman
Officially 948 metres in height, Tugela Falls is the 2nd tallest waterfall in the world. In which country is it located?
South Africa
Which traditionally non-league English football club has enjoyed a rapid rise into the football league in recent years, after being purchased by 5 ex Manchester United players and Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim?
Salford City
Mary Anning was a fossil collector and palaeontologist who became known for the important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds along the coast at Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis is a town in which English county?
Dorset
German chancellor Angela Merkel is the leader of which centre-right political party?
Christian Democratic Union/CDU
What name is given to the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish?
Ichthyology
“a priori” describing knowledge obtained independent of experience and “a posteriori” describing knowledge obtained through experience. Are terms that first appeared in which influential work by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781
Critique of Pure Reason
Presuming that no letters are placed on a double or triple square. How many points would you get for the word QUIZ in a game of English language scrabble?
22
Which franchise did legendary NFL Quarterback Tom Brady sign for this week? Ending his 20 year stint with the New England Patriots
Tampa Bay Buccaneers/Tampa Bay
Two men who later became president of the United States, signed the declaration of Independence in 1776. Thomas Jefferson was one, who was the other?
John Adams
Which fashion designer (1890-1973) who worked with Salvador Dali on a number of creations, including the Lobster Dress, was the great rival of Coco Chanel?
Elsa Schiaparelli
An Oxford Chemistry graduate, born in Grantham and an Oxford Geography graduate, born in Eastbourne. Are the only two women to have held which job?
UK Prime Minister
What is the surname of brothers Angus and Malcolm, who formed the band AC/DC in Sydney in 1973?
Young
Which stew of beans with beef and pork is considered the national dish of Brazil? Its name comes from the Portuguese for “beans”.
Feijoada
Which antibiotic gives its name to a cocktail made from blended Scotch, smoky Islay Scotch, lemon juice, and honey ginger simple syrup?
Penicillin
Meursault a French-Algerian man condemned to death for the murder of an Arab man in French-Algiers, is the main character in which very well regarded philisophical novel of 1942?
The Stranger/The Outsider
Which Oscar winning movie of the 1970s, was controversial at its time for its portrayal of Russian roulette in Vietnamese POW camps? Journalist Peter Arnett claimed “In its 20 years of war, there was not a single recorded case of Russian roulette … The central metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie”
The Deer Hunter
Which legendary Dutch track and field athlete who was nicknamed “the flying housewife”, won four golds medals in track field at the 1948 London Olympic Games?
Fanny Blankers-Koen
What was the name of the Scottish chef, best known for his 1969-71 TV cooking show The Galloping Gourmet?
Graham Kerr
What name is shared by a corrupt former Vice President of FIFA, an actor who starred in the TV series Dixon of Dock Green from 1955 to 1976 and an important early Canadian-American film executive? (First and Last names)
Jack Warner
The favourite actor of your setter. Which Hungarian-American actor rose to international acclaim playing a crazed serial killer in the 1931 Fritz Lang film M?
Peter Lorre
Its name coming from the Arabic for “Rightly Guided”. What was the name of the first of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
Rashidun
Written by Pete St. John in 1979 and recorded by artists including Mairead Carlin, Daniel O’Donnell and The Dubliners. Which Irish folk ballad tells the story of a fictional man from County Galway, who is sentenced to transportation for stealing food for his starving family?
The Fields of Athenry
After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, three men were posthumously executed. Two of those were Oliver Cromwell and John Bradshaw. Which man, the brother in-law of Cromwell, was the third man posthumously executed?
Henry Ireton
The 2007 single Dream Catch Me, was a one hit wonder for which English singer-songwriter?
Newton Faulkner/Sam Faulkner
A favourite of Frederic Chopin. The 1831 opera Robert le Diable is a work by which German composer?
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Commissioned by Napoleon’s sister and noted for having two or three too many vertebrates in the subject’s back. The 1814 work Grande Odalisque, is one of the most famous works by which French artist?
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Bounded by the Liffey to the north, Dame Street to the south, Westmoreland Street to the east and Fishamble Street to the west. Which area of Dublin, that is thought to take its name from a 17th century English statesman, is promoted as its “cultural quarter” and as the centre of the city’s nightlife?
Temple Bar
Which movie superstar gives his name to a 2018 UK number five single, by DJs Tiesto and Dzeko?
Jackie Chan
What was the name of the Russian submarine that exploded on August 12th, 2000 in the Barents Sea killing all 118 people aboard? Russian authorities attempted to cover up the disaster for 5 days, before finally accepting British and Norwegian help to locate the wreckage.
Kursk
Which anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism within the art world, was launched in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture” (1984), whose roster of 165 artists included only 13 women?
Guerilla Girls
“De rerum natura”, (also known as On The Nature of Things”, in English) is a first century didactic poem by which Roman philosopher? The poem was written with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
Lucretius
Motown: The Musical, a Jukebox Musical which premiered on Broadway in April 2013, is based on the autobiography of which man?
Berry Gordy
She is currently the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Which American chemical engineer was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes?
Frances Arnold
The 1840 novel A Hero of Our Time was written by which Russian author and poet? He has been given the epithet “the poet of the Caucasus”.
Mikhail Lermontov
Which Welsh darts player won the 2020 BDO World Championships? At aged 57 he is the oldest man to win either of the darts world titles.
Wayne Warren
The television sitcom Dad’s Army was primarily filmed in which Norfolk town? The town was also the birthplace of Thomas Paine.
Thetford
