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GK 4
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Question | Answer |
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The animal infra-order catarrhini comprises which creatures? | Old world monkeys and apes |
The superfamily cercopithecoidea comprises Old World monkeys - it is one of two superfamilies in the infra-order catarrhini - what is the other? | Hominoidea (or hominids) |
The animal family pongidae has only one species as a member - which one? | Orang-utans |
The chimpanzee belongs to which primate sub-family? | Paninae |
Notable for a throat pouch that can be inflated to the size of its head, which black, tailless primate of SE Asia is the only member of the genus symphalangus? | Siamang |
In which field was Edmund Leach a famous name? | Anthropology |
What was the name given to the 1908 event in Siberia that was the largest meteor impact event in recorded history? | Tunguska |
Meteor Crater in Arizona also has what name, from the man who first postulated that it was caused by extraterrestrial impact? | Barringer crater |
As of the year 2000, how many human beings had walked on the moon? | 12 |
Margaret Bondfield, the UK's first female cabinet minister, represented which political party? | Labour |
In which year did Harold MacMillan famously tell the British public "you've never had it so good"? | 1959 |
In which 1904 incident did Russian warships fire on a British fishing fleet after allegedly mistaking them for Japanese battleships? | Dogger Bank Incident |
What was 'Stonewall' Jackson's real first name? | Thomas |
At which Battle was Stonewall Jackson accidentally shot by his own side on May 2nd, 1863 - he died of surgical complications 8 days later? | Chancellorsville |
What title is held by the elected heads of Australian states? | Premiers |
Which summer tours did Tudor and Stuart monarchs use in order to meet their subjects? | Royal Progresses |
Which Democratic candidate for Presidential nomination was shot and paralysed after a 1972 assassination attempt? | George Wallace |
What was the subject of the 18th amendment to the US Constitution? | Prohibition |
Who was Australian Prime Minister from 1996 to 2007? | John Howard |
What nickname did the US 369th Infantry obtain during WW2? | Harlem Hellfighters |
The phrase "God blew and they were scattered" refers to which historical event? | Spanish Armada |
Which British monarch made Tunbridge Wells 'Royal'? | Edward VII |
Which historical figure said of the Long Parliament "what should we do with this bauble, take it away"? | Oliver Cromwell |
Give a year in the life of penal reform campaigner Elizabeth Fry. | 1780-1845 |
On what day of the week did Britain declare war on Germany in 1939? | Sunday |
Tokyo replaced which city as Japan's capital? | Kyoto |
For what is Abraham Zapruder famous? | Filming Kennedy's Assassination |
Gibraltar was ceded to the UK by which 1713 treaty? | Utrecht |
Which major city did General Sherman burn in 1864, later a famous film scene? | Atlanta |
Name either nation that joined NATO on 1st April 2009? | Croatia, Albania |
Which US President's wife was possibly the first to be given the title 'First Lady, albeit at a funeral eulogy? | Zachary Taylor |
How is the Asian organisation LTTE better known in the West? | Tamil Tigers |
Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on January 1st of which year? | 2007 |
Which capital city lends its name to the criteria for EU membership? | Copenhagen |
Give a year in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. | 1804-6 |
At what temperature Kelvin does water boil? | 373K |
The Solvay process produces which chemical compound? | Sodium Carbonate/soda ash |
Which process is the only economic method of recovering sulphur from elemental deposits? | Frasch process |
Celestine is the principal ore worldwide for obtaining which element? | Strontium |
Divided into the Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs, which geological 'period' are we currently living in? | Quaternary |
Whose classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal in July and October 1948 is credited with inventing Information Theory? | Claude E Shannon |
Who discovered and developed the oral polio vaccine? | Salk |
Which was the UK's first gas-lit street? | Pall Mall |
Who invented the cloud chamber? | Charles Wilson |
Gail Borden (a man) is credited with inventing which foodstuff? | Condensed milk |
Magnesium Sulphate has what alternative name, from the location of a spring that produced it? | Epsom salt |
Methyl salicylate, an organic ester naturally produced by many species of plants, is also known as which oil? | Oil of Wintergreen |
What is the correct chemical name for alum? | Hydrated Aluminium Potassium Sulphate |
Artillery, Mansell and wire are types of what? | Wheel |
At 36, who was the youngest man to walk on the moon? | Charlie Duke |
In which year did the Wright Brothers first achieve powered flight? | 1903 |
What was the name of the place where the Wright Brothers first achieved powered flight? | Kill Devils Hill |
In the first human powered flight, for how many seconds was Orville Wright in the air? | 68 seconds |
The term "post-impressionism" was coined by which critic? | Roger Fry |
Who painted 1913's "Composition No 7"? | Kandinsky |
Which 1913 art exhibition in New York, properly entitled the 'International Exhibition of Modern Art', was seminal in art history in that it introduced futuristic styles to a Transatlantic audience? | Armory Show |
What name is given to Europe's longest roller coaster, based in Lightwater Valley? | The Ultimate |
Which two birds of the family gaviidae (loons and divers) are found in the UK? | Red-throated and black-throated |
The Tarim mummies, dating from 1800BC to the 1st Century BC, were from which country? | China |
What do 'xi' and 'dong' mean in Chinese place names? | West and East respectively |
Which Chinese province surrounds Hong Kong on 3 sides? | Guangdong |
What does Nanjing mean in English? | Southern capital |
Which was the earliest known hominid species to have had a larynx located low in the neck, indicating that it was capable of complex language? | Homo Ergaster |
Both Neanderthals and humans are believed to have had which direct hominid descendant? | Homo Heidelbergensis |
Who translated the New Testament into English in 1534? | Tyndale |
Who produced a gruesome "Book of Martyrs" depicting Protestant martyrs in 1563? | John Foxe |
In which palace was Elizabeth I born? | Greenwich |
Elizabeth I reigned for how many complete years? | 44 |
Which wife of Henry VIII acted as Elizabeth I's stepmother after Anne Boleyn's execution? | Catherine Parr |
In which Hertfordshire stately home did Elizabeth I live prior to accession to the throne? | Hatfield |
Who founded the Royal exchange in 1571? | Gresham |
William Cecil, advisor to Elizabeth I, took which title on elevation to the peerage? | Lord Burghley |
Which two nations joined the EEC in 1986? | Spain and Portugal |
Robert Dudley, a close friend of Elizabeth I, was appointed as the first Earl of which place when ennobled? | Leicester |
Which country withdrew from NATO in 1966? | France |
Who was UN secretary-general from 1946-53? | Trygve Lie |
Living 2.33 to 1.44 million years ago, and the source of controversy over whether it should be classed as a homo species or an Australopithecus, which early hominid's remains are often found near primitive stone tools? | Homo Habilis |
Sediba, garhi and bahrelghazali were species of which extinct hominid genus? | Australopithecus |
What nationality was Trygve Lie, the first UN secretary-general? | Norwegian |
Who replaced Trygve Lie, and thus became the 2nd UN secretary-general? | Dag Hammarskjöld |
Which is the earliest hominid species known to have used fire? | Homo erectus |
How many years ago, to the nearest thousand, was the maximum glaciation in the last Ice Age? | 22,000 |
Which civilisation are generally credited with being the first to use the wheel? | Sumerians |
The Boxer Rebellion was led by members of which 'order'? | Order of Righteous and Harmonious Fists |
What was John Major's constituency while he was Prime Minister? | Huntingdon |
Which king was the intended victim of the Gunpowder plot? | James I |
What was the name of the Green Party of England and Wales between 1975 and 1985? | Ecology Party |
In 1926, who became the first woman to swim the Channel? | Gertrude Ederle |
The £1, the £2 and which other coin were introduced after decimalisation? | 20p |
20p and 50p coins are officially legal tender up to what sum? | £10 |
From which island did Enola Gay take off prior to bombing Hiroshima? | Tinian Island |
In 1991, who became Britain's first female astronaut? | Helen Sharman |
Thomas More wrote a history of which monarch? | Richard III |
Which is the lowest rank of the peerage? | Baron |
On a hi-fi, what is a DBB? | Dynamic Bass Boost |
Which animal, native to the UK, has the Latin name 'dama dama'? | Fallow deer |
Which company developed the VHS system of video? | JVC |
Which animal has the Latin name 'sciurus carolinensus'? | Grey squirrel |
What is a 'mullet' in heraldry? | A star |
What name is given to a judge on the Isle of Man? | Deemster |
What did RDS stand for on a radio? | Radio Data Systems |
The Mazeppa and the Tally-Ho were all names given to individual examples of which obsolete form of transport? | Stagecoach |
Black, grey, white and Lombardy are all species of what type of tree? | Poplar |
The prunus dulcis tree provides which edible nut? | Almond |
What name is given to the practice of bidding at an auction solely in order to drive up the price? | Shilling |
What is the modern, more correct name for the brontosaurus? | Apatosaurus |
The insect phylloxera Vitifolii, related to aphids, is apest affecting which plant or industry? | Vines/winemaking |
Which chemical element has the lowest normal boiling point? | Helium |
Which quickly-built prefab cargo ships were British in concept, but came to be seen as symbolic of US WW2 maritime industrial output - about 2700 were constructed? | Liberty Ships |
A supercell is a particularly severe example of what? | Thunderstorrn |
Which wings lie on an aircraft's fuselage ahead of its main wings? | Canards |
In heraldry, what name is given to a vertical band in a shield? | Pale |
Which two men founded Google in 1998? | Larry Page and Sergei Brin |
What is a 'pink fir apple'? | Type of potato |
Of what is orthoepy the study? | Pronounciation |
How many constitute a quorum in the House of Commons? | Forty |
Hirundine is an adjective applying to which animal? | Swallow |
Which investment banking firm was founded in 1869 and is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan? | Goldman Sachs |
A child can legally buy a pet from what age upward in the UK? | 16 |
What are the equivalents of latitude and longitude on a celestial sphere? | Declination and right assention |
Which word's first recorded use was in a 2nd century poem by a physician from Alexandria as a design on an amulet designed to cure malaria, and was believed to have been a Gnostic charm? | Abracadabra |
Corsican is a dialect of which language? | Italian |
Which aviator was nicknamed 'The Lone Eagle'? | Lindbergh |
The initials RRC after someone's name indicates membership of which body? | Royal Red Cross |
In 1748 Antonio de Ulloa published a report on a new metal from Colombia that was the first time which metal had been brought to scientific attention? | Platinum |
What was Princess Margaret's title at the end of her life? | Countess of Snowdon |
What was Queen Elizabeth II's Princess Margaret's middle name? | Rose |
In which year did Queen Elizabeth II's only sibling, Princess Margaret, die? | 2002 |
Which Northern comic (1923-2012) wore lensless glasses as a hearing aid? | Eric Sykes |
Who narrated 'Trumpton'? | Brian Cant |
Who was the captain of the Trumpton Fire Service? | Captain Flack |
What was the profession of Mickey Murphy in Camberwick Green? | Baker |
Who was Windy Miller's rival in 'Camberwick Green'? | Jonathan Bell |
BBC Three Counties Radio serves which three counties? | Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire |
In which city did 'The Jetsons' live? | Orbit City |
Which BBC Radio Station also broadcasts on 198LW? | Radio 4 |
Which two best-selling authors had cameos in the film version of 'Bridget Jones Diary'? | Jeffrey Archer, Salman Rushdie |
What was the third series in the Camberwick Green/Trumpton stop-motion animation group? | Chigley |
Who was the policeman in 'Camberwick Green'? | PC McGarry |
What is the name of the African-American woman whose feet are seen in 'Tom & Jerry'? | Mammy Two-shoes |
What were Tom and Jerry originally called? | Jasper and Jinx |
Whose memoir was "A Clown Too Many"? | Les Dawson |
The film "Witness For The Prosecution" (1957) was based on a novel by whom? | Agatha Christie |
Which TV show's theme tune is "At The Castle Gate" by Sibelius? | The Sky At Night |
Who wrote the memoirs "What's It All About?"? | Michael Caine |
Who wrote the memoirs "Tall, Dark and Gruesome"? | Christopher Lee |
Who is the main female character in Terry Johnson's 1954 play "Insignificance"? | Marilyn Monroe |
Which pop singer had (unsuccessful) trials with Brentford FC, and around the same time, worked briefly as a grave digger at Highgate Cemetery? | Rod Stewart |
The 1956 film "High Society" was a remake of which earlier movie? | The Philadelphia Story |
Who began his TV career playing Bert Bradshaw in Crossroads in 1964? | David Jason |
Which actress married director and writer Joel Coen in 1984? | Frances McDormand |
In which fictional land was The Beatles film "Yellow Submarine" set? | Pepperland |
Who directed "Avatar"? | James Cameron |
What was the first cartoon to feature Mickey Mouse; it was released as a test screening only, and only later as a full sound feature following the success of 'Steamboat Willie'? | Plane Crazy |
Who are the 'baddies' in The Beatles' film "Yellow Submarine"? | Blue Meanies |
Who played the titular role in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"? | Kristen Bell |
As of December 2014, what is the highest-grossing animated film of all time? | Frozen |
What is the longest river that is at least part in Spain? | Tagus |
On which lake does Lucerns stand? | Lake Lucerne |
Pila and Plock are towns in which country? | Poland |
In which county is Kenilworth Castle? | Warwickshire |
On which island does Copenhagen lie? | Zealand |
BIFU was the acronym for which defunct union? | Banking, Insurance and Finance Union |
Which body, with around 6.5million members in 2008, was founded in 1868 at the Machanics' Institute in Manchester? | TUC |
Which of the Balearic islands is closest to Mainland Spain? | Ibiza |
Which UK trade union represents pilots? | BALPA (British Air line Pilots' Association) |
Which country's national airline is Avianca? | Colombia |
The mistral wind blows down which valley? | Rhone |
Which city has been called "The Athens of America"? | Boston |
Which two places are connected by The Pilgrim's Way? | Winchester and Canterbury |
Which continent is home to the Sonoran Desert? | North America |
South Africa's 'Blue Train' connects which two cities? | Cape Town and Pretoria |
The first of Japan's bullet trains ran between Tokyo and which other city? | Osaka |
What is South Africa's judicial capital? | Bloemfontein |
Who designed the 'Dream' sculpture between the M62 and St Helens? | Plensa |
Which London building has a "Sainsbury Wing"? | National Gallery |
What is the world's oldest publishing house? | Cambridge University Press |
The greater part of the Kalahari Desert lies within the borders of which nation? | Botswana |
Mocha, from which the name of the coffee derives, is a city in which country? | Yemen |
In which English county is the Cerne giant? | Dorset |
Which zoo lies three miles south of Dunstable? | Whipsnade |
Cawdor Castle is near which Scottish city? | Inverness |
Which London Underground line connects with every other one? | Jubilee |
What is the UK's largest publishing house? | OUP |
What is the highest order that can be conferred in Japan? | Order of the Chrysanthemum |
South Africa's "Blue Train" connects which two cities? | Pretoria, Cape Town |
The first of Japan's bullet trains conected Tokyo with which other city? | Osaka |
What is the judicial capital of South Africa? | Bloemfontein |
Who designed the 'Dream' sculpture that sits outside St Helens? | Plensa |
Which London building has a 'Sainsbury Wing'? | National Gallery |
What is the oldest publishing house in the world? | Cambridge University Press |
Mocha, the source of the coffee, is a city in which country? | Yemen (there is also a Mocha in Ecuador) |
In which English county is the Cerne giant? | Dorset |
What is the largest publishing house in the UK? | Oxford University Press |
Which zoo lies three miles south of Dunstable? | Whipsnade |
Cawdor Castle is near which Scottish city? | Inverness |
Which London Underground line connects with every other one? | Jubilee |
Which country has the largest area of the Kalahari Desert within its borders? | Botswana |
What is the highest order awarded by Japan? | Order of the Chrysanthemum |
Which is the longest of London's Underground lines? | Northern |
What is the highest order awarded by Denmark? | Order of the Elephant |
What names have been given to the two giant gantry cranes at the Harland & Woolf shipyards that dominate the Belfast skyline? | Samson and Goliath |
Who was the architect who won a design contest to design Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral? | Frederick Gibberd |
Which UK regiment is nicknamed "The Kiddies"? | Scots Guards |
What is the administrative capital of Kent? | Maidstone |
Which city is served by George Bush Intercontinental Airport? | Houston |
What is the oldest surviving building in Liverpool City Centre, standing in School Lane, it was built in 1716-7 as a charity school? | Bluecoat Chambers |
Which river separates Boston and Cambridge, Massachussetts? | Charles |
At almost 6000 miles long, what is the world's longest railway line? | Trans-Siberian |
Which mountain range, defined as European, contains 15 peaks that are higher than Mont Blanc? | Caucasus |
In which English city are St Chad's Roman Catholic Cathedral and St. Philip's Cathedral? | Birmingham |
What is the Sanskrit name of India? | Bharat |
What is the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir? | Srinagar (it is Jammu in winter) |
Which museum, adjacent to Lincoln's Inn, is named after the latter's architect? | Sir John Soane's Museum |
What are London's four Inns of Court, to which barristers of England and Wales belong? | Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn |
Which preserved railway runs between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth? | Severn Valley Railway |
Which UK national trail part-follows the ancient Icknield Way? | The Ridgeway |
The Ridgeway ends (or starts!) at which prominent peak in the Chiltern Hills? | Ivinghoe Beacon |
Which former Royal Castle in Kent, the first incarnation of which was raised in 1119, today dates largely from the 19th century, and sits on two islands on a lake? | Leeds Castle |
What is the capital of Madeira? | Funchal |
Hargeisha is the capital of which largely unrecognised self-proclaimed state? | Somaliland |
In which English county is Lacock, and its Fox Talbot Museum? | Wiltshire |
Which underground river is dammed to form the Serpentine? | Westbourne |
Cragside, owned by the National Trust, is a country home that was originally built for industrialist Lord Armstrong, and is in which county? | Northumberland |
Which island in Copenhagen, whose English name means 'castle islet' is home to the Danish parliament? | Slotsholmen |
In which building is the Danish parliament housed? | Christiansborg Palace |
A Sect named after which area of London, and that included William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton and Zachary MacAulay, campaigned for slavery abolition in the late 18th and early 19th centuries? | Clapham |
What is the capital of Indian state Kerala? | Trivandrum |
What is the capital of Indian state Madhya Pradesh? | Bhopal |
Found on the island of Funen, what is the only ship burial yet found in Denmark, believed to have been of a 10thC Viking chieftain? | Ladby ship |
Which underground river has been dammed to form Regent's Park Lake in London? | Tyburn |
Who is the patron saint of Madrid, bullfights mark his feast day? | San Isidro |
Monaco lies just to the East of which city? | Nice |
Who is rugby league's all time record try scorer in top-flight marches? | Brian Bevan |
From which RL team did Wigan sign Martin Offiah? | Widnes |
Which unusual profession did John Cootes, a try scorer in the 1970 Rugby League World Cup final have in non-sporting life? | Priest |
When was the first Rugby Union World Cup? | 1987 |
Who won the first Rugby Union World Cup? | New Zealand (1987) |
What are the two categories of Olympic Wrestling? | Greco-Roman, Freestyle |
Who is the most successful competitor of all time in the BBC World Superstars contest, winning 3 times consecutively from 1978-80? | Brian Budd |
Who is the only F1 driver to have won the BBC World Superstars programme? | Jody Scheckter |
Which sport was originally called mintonette? | Volleyball |
Where are the 2016 Olympics being held? | Rio de Janeiro |
Who won the 2006 and 2009 ICC Champions Trophy for One-day cricket? | Australia |
Who won the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy for One-day cricket? | India |
Konstantinos Kenteris won Olympic Athletics gold in 2000, in which event? | 200m |
In which sport is the Eisenhower Trophy awarded? | Golf |
Where was the English Grand National run from 1916 to 1918? | Gatwick |
Which Mozambique athlete is the only athlete ever to hold Olympic, World, World indoor, Commonwealth, Continental Games and Continental Championships titles in the same event? | Maria Mutola (800m) |
Who was voted European Footballer Of The Year in 1983, 1984 and 1985? | Platini |
In which year did Lester Piggott first win the Derby? | 1954 |
How many times in total did Lester Piggott win the Derby? | Nine |
Which city do the Ravens franchise represent in NFL, as of 2014? | Baltimore |
In which year did suffragette Emily Davison run into Anmer's path at the Derby? | 1913 |
The title of which Michael Frayn play is also a stage direction? | Noises Off |
Finish the proverb - "man's extremity is God's..."? | Opportunity |
Which George Bernard Shaw play is subtitled "A Comedy and a Philosophy"? | Man and Superman |
Who created Cadfael? | Ellis Peters |
Which Adolf Adam ballet is about 2 rivals for the affections of the titular peasant girl? | Giselle |
Which collection of poetry by Philip Larkin took its name from a quote by Ophelia in Hamlet? | The Less Deceived |
Which form of entertainment has a name that means "imitator of all" in Greek? | Pantomime |
Who created the detective Adam Dalgliesh? | PD James |
Whose poem features the line "for whom the bells toll"? | Donne |
Which geneticist has written a "View From The Lab" column from the Telegraph? | Steve Jones |
Who wrote the plays "Gasping" and "Silly Cow"? | Ben Elton |
In which year did the poet Rupert Brooke die? | 1915 |
Which poet and dramatist wrote "Blood Wedding" and "Gypsy Ballads"? | Llorca |
The vessel 'Nellie' appears in which book's opening sentence? | Heart of Darkness |
Maggie Tulliver is the central character of which Eliot novel? | The Mill On The Floss |
Who wrote the 1991 book "Generation X"? | Douglas Copeland |
Which term for a menial job comes from the 1991 book "Generation X"? | McJob |
Lady Lancing was the working title for which play of 1895? | The Importance of Being Earnest |
In Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play, how many characters were 'in search of an author'? | Six |
What was the name of Billy Bunter's sister? | Bessie |
Which word is Latin for "that which is to be done"? | Agenda |
Which Shakespearean character is "to the manor born"? | Hamlet |
Which Shakespearean character is described as having "very poor and unhappy brains for drinking"? | Cassio (in Othello) |
In which play does a character say "drink provokes three things - nosepainting, sleep and urine"? | MacBeth |
Which Ancient Roman wrote Naturalis Historia ('Natural History'), which became a model for all other encyclopedias? | Pliny the Elder |
Complete the title of the CS Lewis work: "Voyage of the..."? | Dawn Treader |
Who wrote both "A Painted House" and "Skipping Christmas"? | John Grisham |
Who won the 2001 Turner Prize for an exhibit of an empty gallery with the lights turning on and off "Work No. 227: The lights going on and off"? | Martin Creed |
Who wrote "The Thief Of Time"? | Terry Pratchett |
Which UK newspaper has been based at Northcliffe House in Kensington since 1988? | Daily Mail |
Who wrote the 'Alex Ryder' series of novels? | Anthony Horowitz |
Who wrote the 'Artemis Fowl' series? | Eoin Colfer |
Which Frenchman was called 'The Father of Fauvism'? | Matisse |
Who won 8 TONY awards for choreography? | Bob Fosse |
Which word was first coined by Thomas More in 1516? | Utopia |
What was 'Artemis Fowl' in the novel by Eoin Colfer? | A teenage criminal mastermind |
William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), known as 'Boss Tweed' was a prominent businessman and politician who was brought down on corruption charges, in part helped by continual lampooning by which German caricaturist (1840–1902)? | Thomas Nast |
Who drew the 'Bringing Up Father' cartoons? | McManus |
Give a year in the life of Thomas More | 1478-1535 |
The DC comics version of 'Captain Marvel' had what alter ego? | Billy Batson |
The DC comics version of 'Captain Marvel' had what alternative name? | Shazam |
Which character smoked hookah in 'Alice in Wonderland'? | Caterpillar |
Who wrote "All Quiet On The Western Front"? | Remarque |
Clyde Griffiths is the central character in which book? | An American Tragedy |
Who wrote "All Creatures Great and Small"? | James Herriott |
Where was Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders" born? | Newgate Prison |
To which US state is Moll Flanders transported in Defoe's classic work? | Virginia |
Who wrote "An American Tragedy"? | Dreiser |
Who wrote "And Quiet Flows The Don"? | Sholokov |
What is the name of the farm in "Animal Farm"? | Manor Farm |
What is the name of the farmer in "Animal Farm"? | Jones |
Josef Albers was prominent in which artistic movement? | Bauhaus |
Which Dutch-born British painter painted "The Visit (1868)" and "An Audience at Agrippa's" (1876)? | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
In which work did Nietzsche declare that 'God is dead'? | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
Who wrote the poem "Dover Beach"? | Matthew Arnold |
What is the meaning of "inchoate"? | Just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary |
Which general led the Allies in the SW Pacific campaign 1942-45? | MacArthur |
In which year did Burgess and MacLean defect to the Soviet Union? | 1951 |
Who led Bomber Command during the Battle of Britain? | Dowding |
Who commanded the Nazi submarine fleet in WW2? | Doenitz |
On what date did the Battle of the Somme commence? | 1st July 1916 |
In which year was Lord Mountbatten murdered by the IRA? | 1979 |
Who led the Lollards? | Wycliffe |
Which doctor and vegetarian was also a Russian-born health enthusiast who gained celebrity in the early 1960s for her long-distance walking? | Barbara Moore |
Which codename was first used for October 2001's US attack on Afghanistan? | Operation Infinite Justice |
What was Operation Infinite Justice later re-named? | Operation Enduring Freedom |
In which year was Prince Philip born? | 1921 |
Who is the only monarch of England to reign twice, non-consecutively? | Henry VI |
Who apparently ordered Henry VI's murder? | Edward IV |
To whom was Henry VI married? | Margaret of Anjou |
Haakon has been a traditional name for Kings in which country? | Norway |
Which King sired illegitimate children with Dorothea Jordan? | William IV |
Which monarch had an affair with the actress Mrs Robinson? | George IV |
Give any year in the two reigns of Henry VI. | 1422-61; 1470-1 |
What was the only item rationed in the UK after WW2 but not during it? | Bread |
In which modern day county was Captain Cook born? | North Yorkshire (Marton) |
Owen Glendower led a rebellion against which monarch? | Henry IV |
Which English monarch helped to establish the Bank of England? | William III |
What did BAOR stand for in WW2? | British Army On The Rhine |
In which year was Anwar Sadat assassinated? | 1981 |
Who said of Gandhi "you have no idea what it costs to keep that man in poverty"? | Mountbatten |
Who captained the Enola Gay when it bombed Hiroshima? | Paul Tibbets Jr |
Who did Lloyd George call "brilliant to the top of his army boots"? | Haig |
Who was UK Foreign Secretary from April to December 1955? | Harold MacMillan |
Which anguilliform fish is supposedly an aphrodisiac to eat? | Eel |
Butterhead and bib are varieties of which vegetable? | Lettuce |
Which food gets its name from the High German for 'ring'? | Bagel |
What was the mythological kraken? | Sea monster |
Goliath belonged to which people according to the Bible? | Philistines |
What is the flavour of Amaretto? | Apricot |
Who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981? | Mehmet Ali Ağca |
Which lager type, first brewed in 1842, is named after a Czech town? | Pilsner |
In myth, Midas was given the ears of an ass for judging a lyre contest unfavourably against which God? | Apollo |
Which 1970s band got their name from one of TS Eliot's cats? | Mungo Jerry |
Ananda was a disciple of which prominent religious figure? | Buddha |
Who released a 2006 album entitled "An American Classic"? | Tony Bennett |
"Champion" and "Express yellow" are varieties of which vegetable? | Onion |
Where is "Opera North" of the UK based? | Leeds |
Who released the 1985 album 'Songs From The Big Chair'? | Tears For Fears |
Paul Tortellier was a soloist on which instrument? | Cello |
Which Russian composed 1887's "Cappriccio Espanol"? | Rimsky-Korsakov |
Which meat is "sanglier" in a French restaurant? | Wild boar |
Who composed the "Crozier Sonata"? | Beethoven |
What is the translation of the Biblical term 'Gethsemone'? | Olive press |
With whom did Michael Jackson collaborate on "The Girl Is Mine"? | Paul McCartney |
A cran, or 37.5 gallons, is a measure of what? | Herrings |
What instrument was played by Rudolf Crozier, for whom Beethoven's sonata was named? | Violin |
"Take Five" features on the "Time Out" LP of which US jazz quartet? | Dave Brubeck |
Which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta goes by the alternative title "Yeoman Of The Guard"? | The Merryman and his Maid |
D'Orville and Julia feature in which Rossini opera? | The Silken Ladder |
In the Old Testement, which city was founded as the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel? | Sumeria |
Which Ancient Egyptian God had a crocodile's head? | Sebek |
Which Egyptian goddess had the form of a cow? | Hathor |
What type of creature is a cockchafer? | Beetle |
Which kind of bird has nostrils at the end of its beak? | Kiwi |
The kookaburra is most closely related to which European bird? | Kingfisher |
What type of animal, along with rabbits and hares, makes up the order lagomorpha? | Pika |
An outgrowth of skin around the noses of some bats gives them what common name? | Horseshoe |
What is the name of the functionless shortest claw on a dog's foot? | Dew Claw |
Barnacles are members of which class of creatures? | Crustaceans |
To which other animal is the meerkat most closely related? | Mongoose |
What is a bushbaby also called? | Galago |
The animal the pika has what alternate name? | Mousehair |
What sinister name is given to a marsh crocodile found in parts of India? | Mugger |
Which insects form the order dermaptera? | Earwigs |
What makes up the skeleton of lampreys? | Cartilage |
Speltre (with a purity of 97%) is the main commercial form of which metal? | Zinc |
Which temperature scale has a fixed point at water's triple point? | Kelvin |
Which animal is also known as an eft? | Newt |
Quercus is the scientific name for which tree? | Oak |
Which philosophical doctrine was promulgated by Mill and Bentham? | Utilitarianism |
Who was the most famous grandson of Josiah Wedgewood? | Charles Darwin |
What is Phytophthora Infestans? | Potato blight |
Who is an autodidact? | Self-taught person |
Charles Lyell was a famous name in which field? | Geology |
What is the largest member of the weasel family? | Wolverine |
Who was the second woman in space? | Savitskaya |
What luxury item is made by Raymond Weil? | Watches |
Which union was the GPMU, which merged with Amicus in 2005? | Graphical, Paper and Media Union |
Where did the giant panda 'Chi-Chi' die in 1972? | London Zoo |
How many imperial gallons in one oil barrel? | 35 |
The minimum tyre tread depth of 1.6mm was introduced in which year? | 1986 |
What once had the name 'servant regulators'? | Alarm clocks |
Which Iargely Iraq-based monotheists believe in one God, who has placed the world under the care of seven "holy beings" or angels, the chief of whom is Melek Taus, the "Peacock Angel"? | Yazidis |
What is the name of Al-Qaeda's online magazine? | Inspire |
Which dwindling religious group, a Gnostic sect whose adherents revere John the Baptist but reject Abraham, Moses and Jesus, now mainly live in Iran? | Mandaeans |
Which monotheistic people, living mainly in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, have an Ismailist religion incorporating elements from Abrahamic religions as well as Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, and other philosophies? | Druze |
Which prominent religious group, centred in Syria, who follow a branch of the Twelver school of Shia Islam but with syncretistic elements? | Alawites |
With 125,000 followers, which country outside the Middle East has the largest number of followers of the Druze religion? | Venezuela |
What is the name of the online magaizine of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL)? | Dabiq |
In which capital city is the Akershus Fortress? | Oslo |
Which Swedish royal palace lies on the island of Lovon? | Drottningholm Palace |
Who was King of Sweden from 1523 to his death in 1560, establishing the House of Vasa and ending Stockholm's elected monarchy? | King Gustav I (Gustav Vasa) |
What name was given to the Union of the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish crowns from 1397 to 1523? | Kalmar Union |
What is Sweden's largest island? | Gotland |
What is Norway's largest fjord, the longest open (ice-free) fjord in the world, and important for tourism in the country? | Sognefjord |
What is the main town on the Swedish island of Gotland? | Visby |
Ekero is a municipality and island near which capital city? | Stockholm |
Where is Scoresby Sund, the largest fjord system in the world? | Greenland |
Jointly with the Nærøyfjorden, which Norwegian fjord, often described as the country's most beautiful, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005? | Geiranger Fjord |
Where is the Kon-Tiki boat currently displayed, in a name-sake museum? | Oslo |
What name is used for a part of a county in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden? | Socken |
On which island is Torshavn, the capital of the Faroes? | Streymoy |
Which bird comes in three species: Atlantic, Horned and Tufted? | Puffin |
Which large region of volcanic rock has been linked with major extinctions at the time of the Permian-Triassic boundary? | Siberian Traps |
Which East Slavic people, who traditionally inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins are belived to have first emerged as a distinct identity in the 14th and 15th Centuries? | Cossacks |
What is a Russian ostrog? | Non-permanently-manned wooden fort/fortress |
In which region is Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest active volcano in Eurasia? | Kamchatka |
Famous for birdwatching on the sea cliffs, what is the most- visited village of the Faroes by tourists, located on the West of the isle of Streymoy? | Vestmanna |
The Tinganes peninsula, former site of one of the world's three oldest continuous parliaments, is in which capital? | Torshavn |
Which Greek poet wrote the Symbolist manifesto in 1886? | Jean Moreas |
What name was given to Emile Zola's 20-book cycle of realist novels? | Les Rougon-Macquart |
The decadent character Des Esseint was an inspiration for symbolist painters and featured in which 1884 book? | A Rebours (Huysmans) |
What was Art Nouveau also known as in France (2 possible answers)? | Stile Liberty; Arte Moderne |
What was Art Nouveau called in Italy? | Stile Floreale |
Which French artist (1867-1942) was best known for designing Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris Metro? | Hector Guimard |
Which (12 December 1851 – 15 March 1942) progressive English architect and designer influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement, notably through the Century Guild of Artists, which he set up in partnership with Selwyn Image in 1882? | Mackmurdo |
Emile Gallé (Nancy, 8 May 1846 – Nancy, 23 September 1904) was a French artist best known for his work in which medium? | Glass |
Which May 31, 1836 – September 23, 1932) French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art, has been called the father of the modern poster? | Jules Cheret |
Which English illustrator artist, a leader figure in the Aesthetic movement, died aged just 25 of TB in Menton, France, in 1898? | Aubrey Beardsley |
Which artist's signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail? | Whistler |
Give a year in the life of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. | 1868-1928 |
What nationality was the illustrator Felix Hoffmann? | Swiss |
Possibly the most recognised piece of Japanes art in the world, what name was given to Hokusai's depiction of the ocean on a woodblock print, sometime between 1830 and 1833? | The Great Wave off Kanagawa |
Often considered the last great master of ukiyo-e, which Japanese artist (1797 – 1858) was best known for his landscapes, such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō? | Hiroshige |
An influence on European impressionists, which Japanese artist (1753 – 1806) was reknowned for his portraits of female beauties (or bijin-ga) including 'Three Beauties of the Present Day'? | Utamaro |
What Latin name is given to the logical mistake that can be summarised and translated as "after this, therefore because of this"? | Post hoc, ergo propter hoc |
Who sung the Teddy Boy classic "Cast Iron Arm"? | Peanuts Wilson |
What 1993 hit was the first UK Number 1 since 1953 not to have been issued on a 7-inch vinyl record? | Mr Vain (Culture Beat) |
What was the first UK Number 1 single since the chart started that was not released on vinyl at all? | Think Twice (Celine Dion) |
Who entered Eurovision for the UK in 1970 with "Knock Knock, Who's There?"? | Mary Hopkin |
A biker riot occurred occurred from July 3rd-6th 1947 at the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) sanctioned 'Gypsy Tour motorcycle rally' in which Californian town? | Hollister |
Which Viennese zither player and composer was best known for his internationally famous 1948 soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man? | Anton Karas |
Which two-word term in music was first used in print as an insult in Variety magazine in 1941, although it had been used verbally previously to describe radio announcer Martin Block? | Disc jockey |
Who wrote the music and lyrics for both "Guys and Dolls" and "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"? | Frank Loesser |
Starting in 1939, what was the BBC's first radio channel? | Home Service |
Starting in 1945, what was the BBC's second radio channel, after the Home Service? | BBC Light Programme |
What was the third BBC radio channel to start up, doing so in 1946? | The Third Programme |
In which year did BBC Radio One start broadcasting? | 1967 |
Which radio station began the concept of placing songs by popularity, with its 'hit parade', that began on Sundays in 1948? | Radio Luxembourg |
What was the name of the signature tune of "Pick Of The Pops", written by Bryan Fahey? | At The Sign of the Swinging Cymbal |
In which year was the 'Festival of Britain', organised by the government to give the British a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts? | 1951 |
78RPM records were usually not made out of vinyl, but of which other substance instead? | Shellac |
In which year was the NME magazine launched? | 1952 |
Which 1952 film, based on a Hemingway work, starred Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner? | Snows of Kilimanjaro |
Which song, with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, was first published in 1929 but is much better known by the version from an eponymous 1952 musical film? | Singin' In The Rain |
David Whitfield was the first winner of which contest first held on the radio in 1949, later transferring to UK television? | Opportunity Knocks |
"Stardust", "Pretend" and "Smile" were all UK hits for which crooner? | Nat King Cole |
With which song did David Whitfield, the first winner of 'Opportunity Knocks', spend 10 weeks at the top of the UK charts in 1954? | Cara Mia |
Under normal circumstances to what percentage is haemoglobin saturated with oxygen? | 97% |
Which part of the brainstem contains the cardiac, respiratory, vomiting and vasomotor centers and therefore deals with the autonomic (involuntary) functions of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure? | Medulla oblongata |
What name is given to the medical condition of there being high levels of carbon dioxide in the blood? | Hypercapnia |
What do eccrine glands produce? | Sweat |
How is horropilation better known? | Goose bumps |
Which Iron Age site in Ulster was the fortified capital of the Ulaid people? | Emain Macha |
Which modern-day county was inhabited by the Iron Age Durotriges? | Dorset |
Which Iron Age people had the largest capital - it was then known as Mai Dun, but is now called Maiden Castle? | Durotriges |
Which British Iron Age tribe were also called the Painted People? | Picti/Picts |
Which legendary figure's story cycle is said to be narrated by his son, the poet Oisín? | Finn MacCool |
What colour is woad dye? | Blue |
Who sung "Outside of Heaven" and "I'm Walking Behind You"? | Eddie Fisher |
Which famous 1950s crooner (born 1912, Pennsylvania) was the seventh son of a seventh son? | Perry Como |
Who wrote "How much is that Doggie In The Window", "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake" and "Mambo Italiano"? | Bob Merrill |
Which singer died aged 29 on the 1st January 1953? | Hank Williams |
"Answer Me" and "I Believe" were hits for who in the 1950s? | Frankie Laine |
How many singles made up the first British 'hit parade'? | Twelve |
Who sang "Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo" in 1955? | Alma Cogan |
Which 'Calamity Jane' star set up the Animal League in the 1970s? | Doris Day |
Who once had a record 5 songs in the UK Top 20, this occurring in 1955? | Ruby Murray |
Jerry Wexler coined the term "Rhythm and Blues" while writing for which magazine? | Billboard |
Alan Freed, who is usually credited with inventing the term "rock n roll" for the music of the late 1950s, was a DJ in which US city? | Cleveland |
What was the name of Gene Vincent's backing band? | The Blue Caps |
Who had hits with "C'mon Everybody" and "Summertime Blues"? | Eddie Cochran |
Sam Phillips instrumental in creating the 'rockabilly' sound, set up which record label in 1953? | Sun |
Which singer controversially married his 13-year old cousin Myra Gale? | Jerry Lee Lewis |
What was Buddy Holly's name at birth? | Charles Hallin Holley |
In which town was Buddy Holly born? | Lubbock, Texas |
Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Selenium and Sulphur are known by what collective name? | Nonmetals |
Which group of chemical elements, that include commercially important semi-conductors, lies between the metals and non-metals on the Periodic Table? | Metalloids |
On the Periodic Table, which group of elements lies in a rough diagonal line between the transition metals and the metalloids? | Ordinary metals |
Which group of chemical elements are extremely reactive and for the most part have strong odours - they occur in liquid, solid and gaseous states at normal pressures and temperatures? | Halogens |
On a set of Cartesian co-ordinates what name is given to the point (0,0)? | Origin |
Which unit is used in physics for measuring angles, it is equivalent to approximately 57 degrees? | Radian |
What name is given collectively to the lanthanide and actinide group of chemical elements? | Rare Earths |
What name is given to the symbol "^"? | Carat |
What does the symbol "^" represent in physics? | Unit or base vectors |
The dot product of two vectors is what kind of value? | A scalar |
What is the dot product of two orthogonal (i.e. perpendicular) vectors? | Zero |
From which monarch did the RSPB receive its charter? | Edward VII |
From which monarch did the RSPCA receive its charter? | Victoria |
Both Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon attended which Cambridge college? | Trinity |
Who is credited with discovering the circulation of blood? | William Harvey |
Who wrote Novum Organum (New Logic) and New Atlantis? | Francis Bacon |
In which year did Newton devise his three laws of motion? | 1687 |
Who devised the notation used for calculus? | Leibniz |
Who said of Newton "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'let Newton be' and all was light"? | Pope |
Who wrote the essay "Faith In A Seed"? | Thoreau |
Which Polish-born German philosopher, theologian, poet & literary critic, associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism wrote "Outline of a Philosophical History of Humanity" and "Treatise on the Origin of Language"? | Herder |
A former university roommate, early friend, and later rival of Hegel, which German philosopher (1775-1854) main work was Naturphilosophie? | Schelling |
The rosette of which body has a gold centre, representing science, and a purple surround, representing natural philosophy? | US National Academy of Sciences |
In which country did Descartes die? | Sweden |
What are congeries? | A collection of disparate items |
Which American modern dancer and choreographer (1894-1991) was the first dancer to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom? | Martha Graham |
Which is the only group of elements in the Periodic Table that includes a solid, a liquid and a gas at normal atmospheric pressures and temperature? | Halogens |
What is the chemical element with an atomic number of 100? | Fermium |
Which man is credited as the main or co-discoverer of 10 chemical elements? | Glenn Seaborg |
What is the SI unit of solid angle measurement? | Steradian |
What name is given to a right-angled triangle where the lengths of all 3 sides are integers? | Pythagorean triangle |
What was Buddy Holly's backing group called? | The Crickets |
What was the name of Buddy Holly's first posthumous No 1? | It Doesn't Matter Anymore |
Which songwriting husband and wife wrote "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have To Do Is Dream" and "Devoted To You"? | Bryants |
Who had a number one with "Cathy's Clown" in 1960? | Everly Brothers |
Who had a worldwide hit in the 1950s with "Rock Island Line"? | Lonnie Donegan |
What was Lonnie Donegan's real first name? | Tony |
What was the real surname of Tommy Steele? | Hicks |
What was Adam Faith's real name? | Terry Nelhams |
Who had a 1959 hit with "Dynamite 16"? | Cliff Richard |
Who had hits with "Jet Black Machine" and "Brand New Cadillac"? | Vince Taylor and The Playboys |
The artistic group Die Brucke was founded in which city in 1905? | Dresden |
Who coined the term "Fauves" to describe the artistic group? | Louis Vauxcelles |
The painting "Luxe, Calme et Volupte" by Matisse was inspired by whose works? | Baudelaire |
In which year did Paul Cezanne die? | 1906 |
Which two artists founded the Der Blaue Reiter artistic group? | Kandinsky and Marc |
Which artistic movement was part inspired by two of its protagonists visit to a 1907 Cezanne exhibition? | Cubism |
The artists De Vlaminck, Derain and Matisse belonged to which movement? | Fauvism |
Who painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon"? | Picasso |
Who painted "Houses At L'Estaque" and "Le Portugais"? | Braque |
The artists Robert & Sonia Delaunay and Jacques Villon belonged to which movement? | Orphism |
The Russian Natalia Goncharova adopted the ideals of the Orphism movement under what alternative name? | Rayonism |
Who coined the term 'Orphism' to describe the artistic movement? | Guillaume Apollinaire |
Who published the Futurist manifesto? | Marinetti |
Which artistic movement's name was chosen entirely at random? | Dadaism |
Cabaret Voltaire was the first publication of which artistic movement? | Dadaism |
Which artist used the name Naum Gabo? | Naum Pevsner |
Who wrote "On The Genealogy Of Morals" in 1887? | Nietzsche |
The musical style "Doo-Wop" is generally considered to have originated in which city? | New York City |
Who had a 1956 hit with "In The Still Of The Night"? | The Five Satins |
Bill Kenny was the lead singer with which American vocal group popular in the 1930s and 1940s? | The Ink Spots |
What is the state bird of Maryland? | Oriole |
What was the name of Frankie Lymon's backing group? | The Teenagers |
Who had hits with "Diana", "Lonely Boy" and "Put Your Head On My Shoulder"? | Paul Anka |
Who had a 1959 hit with "Why", America's last #1 of the 1950s? | Frankie Avalon |
Who had a 1960 UK No. 1 with "Good Timin'"? | Jimmy Jones |
What was Roy Orbison's first UK No. 1? | Only The Lonely |
Who had a UK No. 1 in 1961 with "Runaway"? | Del Shannon |
Who wrote both "Rubber Ball" and "Hello Mary Lou"? | Gene Pitney |
Which 1960s star was born Charles Weedon Westover? | Del Shannon |
What is the forename and professional name of Francis DiMucci, a US singer-songwriter born in July 1939? | Dion |
Who had a 1964 Number 1 with "It's Over"? | Roy Orbison |
What type of animal is the tub gurnard? | Fish |
Which migratory, insectivorous bird is Acrocephalus schoenobaenus? | Sedge Warbler |
Which shrub is also called 'sweet gale"? | Bog myrtle |
What type of animal is a knot? | Bird |
Which bird is also known as a dabchick? | Little grebe |
The insect order Trichoptera, is better known by what name? | Caddisfly |
What name is given to knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat? | Cockade |
A fathom is how many feet? | Six |
Who had a 1960 hit with "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Polka Dot bikini"? | Brian Ryland |
Who had a 1959 Number 1 hit with "Mack The Knife"? | Bobby Darin |
Who had a massive 1960s hit with "Telstar"? | The Tornados |
"La Bamba" and "Donna" were hits for who? | Richie Valens |
Who had the original hit with "I Love How You Love Me"? | Paris Sisters |
Who sang about the motorbike rider "Terry"? | Twinkle |
Who had a 1960s hit with "Leader Of The Pack"? | The Shangri-Las |
Who had a 1960s hit with "To Know Him Is To Love Him"? | The Teddy Bears |
"To Know Him Is To Love Him" and "I Love How You Love Me" were early productions by which famous music producer? | Phil Spector |
Which song-writing duo wrote "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl".? | Goffin-King |
Which songwriting duo wrote "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Here You Come Again"? | Mann and Weil |
What name is given to the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, bounded by a lintel and arch? | Tympanum |
Which sprite stemming from Germanic mythology, usually invisible, can materialise in the form of an animal, fire, a human being, and a candle | Kobold |
Who met at a Woolton church fete? | McCartney and Lennon |
What was the first No. 1 shown on "Top Of The Pops"? | I Want To Hold Your Hand |
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" was a UK number one in which year? | 1964 |
Which 1960s TV show about pop music announced "The weekend starts here"? | Ready Steady Go! |
What was The Beatles first UK No. 1? | From Me To You |
Who presented "Ready Steady Go!"? | Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan |
What was the first single released by The Rolling Stones? | Come On |
Which Egyptian deity had a cat's head? | Bastet |
Who had a 2005 UK No. 1 with "Stick Wit U"? | Pussycat Dolls |
Which figure from history or myth had a horse called Xanthos? | Achilles |
In Greek myth, in what form did Zeus seduce Antiope? | Satyr |
In myth, what did Callisto get changed into by Zeus? | Bear |
Who was the father of Theseus in Greek myth? | Aegeus |
In Greek mythology, on which island was Achilles once hidden amongst women? | Skyros |
Who wrote the oratorio "Elijah" which premiered in 1846? | Mendelssohn |
Who composed "the Fairy-Queen" in 1692? | Purcell |
How did Theseus's father die in Greek myth? | He (Aegeus) committed suicide by throwing himself off the cliffs |
Who composed "The Faust Symphony"? | Liszt |
Who composed the concert overture "Fingal's Cave"? | Mendelssohn |
Which violinist and composer was so proficient it was rumoured that he had made a pact with the Devil? | Paganini |
Who wrote the solo piano piece "Fur Elise"? | Beethoven |
Which popular musician (1928-2008) took his name from an African-American musical instrument? | Bo Diddley |
Who composed the symphonic poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"? | Dukas |
Whose hand was the prize in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg? | Eva |
Who was the victor in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg? | The Knight Walther |
What was the vocation of 'Norma' in the eponymous Bellini opera? | Druid (High-priestess of the druids) |
The clown Canio appears in which popular opera? | I Pagliacci |
Who are the two fathers of Madonna's birth children? | Carlos Leon & Guy Ritchie |
Both Stephen Stills and Charles Manson went to the auditions for which band? | The Monkees |
Who had the 1000th official UK Number 1? | Elvis Presley |
In which year did Elvis Presley have his first UK Number 1? | 1957 (All Shook Up) |
Which music group changed their name from 'Nightlife Thugs'? | The Boomtown Rats |
Which group were called "Carl and The Passions" pre-fame? | The Beach Boys |
Who is ZZ Top's drummer? | Frank Beard (he's the only band member who doesn't have a beard) |
In Greek myth, Zeus seduced Rhea in what form? | A serpent |
In Greek myth, Zeus seduced Leda in what form? | Swan |
In ballet, which type of leap involves jumping into the air and rapidly crossing the legs before and behind; it involves beating first the right thigh on the back of the left thigh, then at the front of the left thigh, and possibly clicking the heels? | Entrechat |
Who had a 1953 UK No. 1 with "Comes-A-Long-A-Love"? | Kay Starr |
Who had a 1953 UK No. 1 with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra with the track "Outside Of Heaven"? | Eddie Fisher |
Who had a UK number 1 with "Poor Me"? | Adam Faith |
Who composed the lied, or song, "The Trout"? | Schubert |
Which musical features "Anything You Can Do"? | Annie Get Your Gun |
Ammon is a God in which people's mythology? | (Ancient) Egyptian |
Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess Demeter? | Ceres |
Who was the Greek Goddess of the dawn? | Eos |
Who was the Roman Goddess of the dawn? | Aurora |
In the Bible, who were the parents of Ishmael? | Abraham and Hagar |
In the Bible, who was the mother of Isaac? | Sarah |
Which two angels are mentioned by name in The Bible? | Michael and Gabriel |
Mentioned in Luke's Gospel, what is held to be the traditional site of Christ's Ascension? | Bethany (or the Mount of Olives) |
How many holes are there in an abalone shell? | Seven |
What is the Indian achar? | A pickle |
Candied nopal, or acitrone, is a Mexican dish made from what? | Cacti |
What were the surnames of "Peter, Paul & Mary"? | Yarrow, Stookey & Travers (respectively) |
Which musical features the number "Sing, Sing, Sing"? | Seven Brides For Seven Brothers |
For which group did Ringo Starr drum prior to joining The Beatles? | Rory Storm & The Hurricanes |
Bill Harry was responsible for which 1960s pop publication? | Mersey Beat |
The "Great C Major" is a symphony by whom? | Schubert |
In classical music, what is often referred to as simply "The 48"? | Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues |
What instrument did George Formby actually play? | Banjolele (or ukulele, but former is louder and thus was used by him more often) |
What instrument is the main one played by Ravi Shankar? | Sitar |
Who was the mother of St Augustine? | St Monica |
In cookery, what does "au gratin" mean? | Topped with a brown crust (often breadcrumbs and/or cheese) |
Which is Britain's oldest professional orchestra? | The Hallé |
Who was the consort of Neptune in Roman myth, the equivalent of the Greek Amphitrite? | Salacia |
How is Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 7 better known? | Antarctica |
Whose third symphony is called "The Wagner Symphony"? | Bruckner |
Which of Mahler's symphonies is nicknamed "The Resurrection"? | Second |
Who had a 1965 hit album with "Farewell Angelina"? | Joan Baez |
What were the birth forenames of 'Bing' Crosby? | Harry Lillis |
Which perennial plant takes its name from the Greek for 'unfading flower'? | Amaranth |
Who had a 1985 hit with "We Don't Need Another Hero"? | Tina Turner |
Who composed the music for "Annie Get Your Gun"? | Irving Berlin |
What did Nicole win in 1982 with "A Little Peace"? | The Eurovision Song Contest |
Which is the only one of the Top 5 most common domesticated animals not to be mentioned at all in the Bible? | Cat |
What was the name of the song that provided Johnny Logan with his first Eurovision winner? | Another Year |
What was the name of the song that provided Johnny Logan with his second Eurovision winner? | Hold Me Now |
Which were the two trees in the Garden of Eden, according to the Bible? | Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; Tree of Life |
Which composer lived from 1833 to 1897, and was born in Hamburg? | Johannes Brahms |
Whose first opera was 1713's "Ottone"? | Vivaldi |
What is cassata? | Either an Italian dessert like a cake, or an Italian ice cream (both have the same name) |
Give a year in the life of Karl Marx | 1818-83 |
Which philosopher had the idea of the 'categorical imperative'? | Kant |
In which year was Marx & Engels' Communist Manifesto published? | 1848 |
Who designed the V2 rocket, and after WW2 went on to work for the USA as a rocket scientist? | Wernher Von Braun |
Who wrote "The World As I See It" in 1934? | Einstein |
Which German theologian (1906-45) wrote "The Cost Of Discipleship", acted as a double agent for the German resistance inside the Abwehr, and was implicated in a plot to assassinate Hitler? | Bonhoeffer |
Which German-Jewish philosopher, who converted to Catholicism, perished at Auschwitz, and was later made into a Saint, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross? | Edith Stein |
Which prize for 'political thought', instituted by the German Heinrich Böll Foundation and the government of Bremen in 1995, and awarded by an international jury, is named after a famous campaigner against totalitarianism? | Hannah Arendt Prize |
The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht followed which war? | War of The Spanish Succession |
Catherine de Medici was the wife of which French King? | Henri II |
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the wife of which French king? | Louis VII |
In March 1708, 6000 Frenchmen and 30 French ships were involved in a failed attempt to invade which country? | Scotland |
The Battle Of Ramillies took place during which conflict? | War of The Spanish Succession |
The Battle Of Ramillies took place in which modern-day country? | Belgium |
Who commanded the victorious side at the Battle of Ramillies? | Marlborough (against France and Bourbon Spain) |
What was called 'The Year Without A Summer' due to the eruption of Mount Tambora at the end of the preceding year, and a historic low in solar activity? | 1816 |
What relation was Louis XV of France to Louis XIV? | Great-grandson |
Which treaty ended the War of Austrian Succession? | Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle |
Which eighteenth-century conflict was fought on 4 continents, and thus has been called the first true 'world war'? | Seven Years' War |
In French, the Bataille des Cardinaux, which 1759 battle saw the British Navy score a decisive victory over their French counterparts? | Battle of Quiberon Bay |
Give a year in the life of Gregor Mendel. | 1822-84 |
Monk and early 'geneticist' Gregor Mendel was born in which modern-day country? | Czech Republic |
Which philosophical idea or theory states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience? | Empiricism |
Which philosophical idea or theory asserts that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial? | Idealism |
The Gifford Lectures, which have been delivered by the likes of Pinker, Penrose, Dawkins, Arendt, Bohr, Ayer, Bergson and Sagan, take place annually in which country? | Scotland |
Who wrote the essay "An Answer To The Question: What is Enlightenment?"? | Kant |
How is the formerly East Prussian city, then known as Konigsberg, now known? | Kaliningrad |
What colour is a VC ribbon? | Crimson |
What is the Mafia of Naples called? | Camorra |
What type of creature is a "Devil's Darning Needle"? | Dragonfly |
How old must a person be before they can become an MP in the UK? | 18 |
What is the (now near obsolete) name for a hat maker? | Milliner |
Which group was founded by "Bill W" and "Dr Bob"? | Alcoholics Anonymous |
As of Jan 2015, what is the largest ship in the Royal Navy? | HMS Ocean |
What name is given to a male red deer? | Hart |
What does 'euthanasia' mean in Greek? | Well death |
Where do 'demersal' creatures live? | Seabed |
Which degenerative prion disease, related to BSE, affects a sheep's nervous system? | Scrapie |
The 4 types of camera lens are: concave, and which 3 others? | Concavo-convex, compound & concavo-concave |
What does the XP stand for in Windows XP? | Experience |
What is the term for resistance to fluids caused by internal factors? | Viscosity |
How do fulmar chicks protect themseles from predators? | Vomiting |
What is a 'bolster' in the building trade? | Metal chisel |
What area is represented by the letter 'A' in new car registrations? | Anglia |
Which common house plant is "chlorophytum comosum"? | Spider plant |
Which airline was the first national 'flag carrier' in the world? | KLM |
In which year did Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity, win his Nobel Prize? | 1903 |
Which acid is found in nettle stings? | Formic |
What does 'URL' stand for? | Unifrom Resource Locator |
Which three UK cities register 'C' number plates? | Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor |
Which tree has the Latin name "juglans regia"? | Walnut |
What is the name given to an instrument for measuring wind speed? | Anemometer |
What is the colour of mourning in China? | White |
What are the six types of quark particle? | Up, down, top, bottom, strange. charm |
Which two gasses comprise "Brown's Gas2? | Hydrogen, Oxygen |
Who designed the Wellington bomber aircraft? | Barnes Wallis |
What is a German 'gymnasium'? | Grammar school |
Which secondary scale, used on many measuring devices (inclusing sextants, calipers, theodolites and building measures) lets the user measure more precisely than could be done unaided when reading a uniformly-divided straight or circular measurement? | Vernier scale |
In which place was the Sten gun designed? | Enfield |
Which two men devised the Sten gun? | Sheppard & Turpin |
Which two places, both involved in its design, are commemorated in the name of the Bren gun? | Brno, Enfiled |
What is orology the study of? | Mountains |
In 1959, postcodes were first trialled in which British city? | Norwich |
What type of animal is a Black Moor? | Goldfish |
Which element has atomic number 1? | Hydrogen |
What is a hoplophobe pathologically afraid of? | Guns |
Which element has atomic number 11? | Sodium |
What was the name of the first fully electric computer, of 1945? | ENIAC |
What is the computer language FORTRAN short for? | Formula Translation |
Which organisation won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999? | Medicins Sans Frontieres |
Which organisation won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977? | Amnesty International |
Which organisation won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969? | International Labour Organisation |
Which element has the atomic number 21? | Scandium |
What is the birthstone of January? | Garnet |
What was invented by the Norwegian Erik Rotheim in 1926? | Aerosol spray can |
Who invented the rigid airship? | Ferdinand Von Zeppelin |
Released in 1971, what was the world's first microprocessor? | Intel 4004 |
What is 'modem' short for? | Modulator-demodulator |
Which space probe to Venus crashed in 1962 due to a computer error? | Mariner 1 |
Give a year in the life of the man who first worked out the blood's circulation, William Harvey. | 1578-1657 |
Which 19th century French physicist created a device that demonstrated that Earth spins on its axis? | Leon Foucault |
Who discovered the electron, in 1897? | JJ Thomson |
Leon Battista Alberti, the Mayans and Robert Hooke have all been credited with the invention of which measuring device? | Anemometer |
Felix Hoffmann is credited with the first synthesized medically useful forms of which two drugs? | Heroin and aspirin |
Who invented bakelite? | Baekeland |
In which year were 999 calls introduced in the UK? | 1937 |
Sir William Perkin accidentally discovered the first what, at age 18? | Synthetic dye |
What is the atomic number of mercury? | 80 |
Which US pilot first landed a plane on a warship, in 1911? | Eugene Ely |
In 1921, which British submarine sunk with all 57 hands in 1921 en route to a training exercise in the Bay of Biscay? | HMS K5 |
Which scientist reputedly died of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow? | Francis Bacon |
Which was the third Apollo mission to land men on the Moon? | Apollo 14 |
Which US astronaut famously played golf on the Moon? | Alan Shephard |
How fast, in miles per hour, and to the nearest 100mph, does the Earth orbit the Sun? | 66,700mph |
How is 10,000 expressed in Roman numerals? | X with a bar over it (the bar means 'multiplied by 1000 and is used for all larger numbers) |
What are ratites? | Flightless birds |
What is a drongo? | Subfamily of birds/a bird |
What is the collective name for rhinoceroses? | Crash |
What nationality was aircraft designer Anthony Fokker? | Dutch |
In which year was the human voice first broadcast by radio? | 1900 |
Who was Roland Garros, after whom the tennis arena is named? | A French WW1 fighter pilot |
Which Norwegian mathematician proved that there was no formula for a polynomial of the 5th degree? | Niels Abel |
In which country was the Dane Tycho Brahe actually born? | Sweden |
Of which metal was Tycho Brahe's false nose famously made? | Silver |
"Tycho's Star" is in which constellation? | Cassiopoeia |
A member of the team that synthesized penicillin in the 1940s, who won the 1968 Nobel Medicine Prize for publishing the molecular structure of tRNA? | Holling |
Which prominent early geologist wrote "A Theory Of The Earth" in 1785? | James Hutton |
Which NASA lander landed on Mars in 2004 and was described as a "travelling robotic geologist"? | Spirit |
Which was the last of the 6 quark types to be discovered? | Top |
Which space shuttle launched the Hubble space telescope? | Discovery |
In which year was the Hubble Space Telescope launched? | 1990 |
Which psychiatrist coined the term "inferiority complex"? | Adler |
Which two physicists first proposed the existence of quarks? | Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig |
Which scientist discovered protons? | Rutherford |
Kirpatrick MacMillan is often credited with the invention of what, although he was among several men to pioneer the device? | Bicycle |
What shape is described by a rolling wheel when it moves? | Cycloid |
Which English physicist, involved in the detection of galactic radio waves, established and was the first director of Jodrell Bank? | Bernard Lovell |
Which father and son geologists devised the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a metor impact? | Luis and Walter Alvarez |
In which make of plane did Alcock and Brown cross the Atlantic in 1919? | Vickers Vimy |
Which type of knot shortens ropes? | Sheepshank |
What colour light is shown on the starboard side of a ship? | Green |
How many legs does a lobster have? | Ten |
Who invented the spinning jenny? | James Hargreaves |
Who invented the power loom? | Edmund Cartwright |
Which aid to cotton production was invented by Richard Arkwright (in conjunction with John Kay)? | Spinning frame |
What colour light is traditionally shown on a ship's mast? | White |
'Gentian' is a dye of which colour? | Violet |
What type of animal is a krait? | Snake |
What does CBT stand for in terms of tuition in riding motorcycles? | Compulsory Basic Training |
Which colour can follow 'Venetian'? | Red |
What is made by Massey-Ferguson? | Agricultural equipment, mainly transport |
Which acid is found in grapes? | Tartaric |
What is the horizontal part of a stair called, if the vertical is the 'riser'? | Tread |
In maths, what symbol is used for the constant with the value 2.7182818? | e |
How many Ivy League universities are there in the US? | Eight |
Which line on a map connexts areas of equal water depth? | Isobath |
What type of bird is a rosella? | Parakeet |
How many enemy aircraft must a pilot shoot down in order to be called an 'ace'? | Five or more |
In which country was Louis Chevrolet born? | Switzerland |
Which family of animals have the scientific name talpidae? | Moles, shrew-moles etc |
What is the name of Russia's largest company, and the largest extractor of natural gas in the world? | Gazprom |
Which species, called a 'worm', is actually a a lizard? | Slow worm |
The desman is a member of which animal family? | Mole/talpidae |
Aspirin and heroin were both synthesized for medical use by which pharmaceutical company? | Bayer |
What is the name of the man, made of tyres, who features in advertising material for Michelin? | Bibendum |
The leaves of which plants adorn the coronets of dukes, marquises and earls? | Strawberry |
Which engines were used in Avro Lancasters and Hawker Hurricanes? | Rolls-Royce Merlins |
Which substance makes jams gel/set? | Pectin |
In which year was the Mir Space Station launched? | 1986 |
What name is given to the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules? | Deontological ethics/deontology |
Which theory, combining the name of a philosopher and a scientist, describes the nebular formation of the solar system? | Kant-Laplace |
Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705) founded which branch of Christianity, that rejected doctrinal propositions in place of a living relationship with God? | Pietism |
Which verb means 'to instruct (someone) in the principles of Christian religion by means of question and answer'? | Catechise |
What does 'to wheedle' mean? | To use endearments or flattery to persuade someone to do something or give one something |
Which religious term refers to the aspect of a god wholly independent of the material universe? | Transcendence |
Which branch of philosophy is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it? | Metaphysics |
In which book of Plato's does his famous cave allegory appear? | The Republic |
Give a year in the life of John Stuart Mill. | 1806-73 |
In which country did John Stuart Mill die, and is buried? | France |
Who did John Stuart Mill marry, and collaborate with on 'The Subjection Of Women'? | Harriet Taylor |
Who (1802-76) is often described as the first female sociologist, and translated the works of Comte into English? | Harriet Martineau |
Auguste Comte is associated with which philosophy of science? | Positivism |
Which French New Wave director directed 'Alphaville', 'Breathless' and 'Pierrot Le Fou'? | Jean-Luc Godard |
Which French New Wave director's debut was 'The 400 Blows'? | Francois Truffaut |
The Miocene epoch occurred between which dates, each to the nearest million years? | 23mya to 5mya |
What is the Japanese national anthem called? | Kimigayo |
In what field did Sir Edmund Leach (1910-78) attain fame? | Social anthropology |
Named after an anthropologist, what name has been given to the suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships? | Dunbar's number (in humans, apparently 150) |
Give a year in the life of the ancient physician Galen. | 129-216AD |
What is the meaning of 'homo ergaster', in the name of the proto-human species of 1.8 to 1.3mya? | Working man |
What is couvade? | The practice of a father mimicking pregnancy or labour to signify paternity |
What name is given to cousins from same-sex siblings (i.e. the children of two brothers, or of two sisters)? | Parallel cousins |
What name is given to cousins from different sex siblings (i.e. the children of a brother and a sister)? | Cross-cousins |
What name is given to the practice of a new couple setting up home close to the female's parents? | Matrilocality (the opposite is patrilocality) |
Which anthropologist wrote "Le Don", often translated as "The Gift"? | Marcel Mauss |
In which US state is the Pipestone National Monument, where Native Americans made their ceremonial pipes? | Minnesota |
Which Aboriginal people live near Uluru and hold it sacred? | Anangu |
What, in Mexico, is an ejido? | An area of communal land used for agriculture, on which community members individually possess and farm a specific parcel. |
What are the three civilian property rights? | Usus (right to use), fructus (right to make profit from) and abusus (right to destroy, alter or sell on) |
The Cree people mainly inhabit which country? | Canada |
Which US city is called 'The Steel City'? | Pittsburgh |
Paleolithic site Dolni Vestonice is in which country? | Czech Republic |
Which is the Northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands? | Alderney |
Which Canadian city was called 'The Paris Of The North' during the Klondike Gold Rush, with a population of 40,000 - it now has less than 2000 inhabitants? | Dawson City |
What is Peru's currency? | Nuevo sol |
What is Surinam's capital? | Paramaraibo |
What is the capital of Guyana? | Georgetown |
What has been Suriname's currency since 2004? | Surinamese Dollar |
What is the currency of Venezuela? | Bolivar (fuerte) |
What is the capital of the Bahamas? | Nassau |
Which Lieutenant of Magellan completed the Vittoria's circumnavigation of the world after his captain's death? | Del Cano |
Sir Francis Drake was knighted on board which ship? | The Golden Hind |
What creates fjords? | Glaciation |
What is the name given to an overhanging ridge of snow on a mountain? | Cornice |
What are the upward-pointing equivalents of stalactites? | Stalagmites |
What is a tarn? | Small lake |
What is the Australian term for a waterhole? | Billabong |
What is the name for a vent on the side of a volcano? | Fumarole |
There are two annual equinoxes - autumnal, and which other? | Vernal |
What is a 'wadi' in North Africa and the Middle East? | Dry riverbed |
Which is the largest island to lie between Corsica and Italy? | Elba |
The Seychelles are mainly made from which type of rock? | Granite |
Which is Greece's largest island? | Crete |
The largest being Okinawa, which chain of islands stretch from Japan to Taiwan? | Ryukyu Islands |
After Australia and Greenland, what is the world's third-largest island? | New Guinea |
Which is the world's fourth-largest island? | Borneo (after Australia, Greenland, New Guinea) |
Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea? | Sicily |
Where is the infamous penal colony of Devil's Island? | French Guiana |
Approximately 2,200 kilometres (1,400 mi) south-southwest of the coast of South Africa and approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi) north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, which is the world's remotest island? | Bouvet Island |
Which is the world's largest freshwater lake? | Lake Superior |
Which shipping forecast area covers Orkney and Shetland? | Fair Isle |
Which shipping forecast area lies between SE Iceland and Fair Isle? | Faroes |
Which two shipping forecast areas border Norway's west coast? | North & South Utsire |
Which shipping forecast area lies between North Utsire and Fair Isle? | Viking |
Which shipping forecast area lies due south of Viking? | Forties |
What is the world's largest inhabited island? | Tristan Da Cunha |
Stromboli is part of which island group? | Aeolian Islands (sometimes Lipari Islands) |
Which shipping forecast area lies between Fitzroy and Fastnet? | Sole |
Which shipping forecast area lies between SE Iceland and Rockall? | Bailey |
Which shipping forecast area lies west of Malin? | Rockall |
What is Sweden's largest island? | Gotland |
What is is the second largest Swedish island, and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden? | Öland |
Which country administers Bouganville Island? | Papua New Guinea |
Bouganville Island is in which sea? | Solomon Sea |
How many points are there on a Maltese cross? | Eight |
What does the Northern Irish political Party the SDLP's name stand for? | Social Democratic and Labour Party |
Which of London's bridges lies between Blackfriars Bridge and London Bridge? | Southwark |
Which London underground stop was renamed Arsenal? | Gillespie Road |
Which London road connects Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner? | Park Lane |
Which city's famous Biennale Festival was first held in 1895? | Venice |
Taxi drivers in London are required to have a detailed knowledge of streets within a 6-mile radius of which point? | Charing Cross |
What does 'llan' mean in Welsh place-names? | Church |
Which island off the coast of Iceland was created by volcanic activity in 1963? | Surtsey |
In which county does the River Severn enter England? | Shropshire |
As of 2015, what is the maximum value of a postal order? | £250 |
What name is given to the study or collection of currency? | Numismatics |
On which island did the British build Fort Rinella in the 19th Century? | Malta |
Grenada and St Vincent are part of which island group? | Windward islands |
Whose official residence is in the Naval Observatory Grounds, Washington DC? | US Vice-President |
Whipsnade Zoo & Woburn Abbey are both in which English county? | Bedfordshire |
Which architect designed Portmeirion? | Williams-Ellis |
The highest point of which island is Monte Solaro? | Capri |
Where in London is the Roosevelt Memorial? | Grosvenor Square |
For whom is the passage named where the South Atlantic meets the Pacific? | Drake |
Nagasaki is a city on which Japanese island? | Kyushu |
On which Hawaiian island is Pearl Harbor? | Oahu |
On which of Japan's main islands is Sapporo located? | Hokkaido |
Dundalk is the county town of which Irish county? | Louth |
In Judaism, what name is given to someone trained in the musical arts, who helps to lead the congregation in songful prayer? | Hazzan |
What name is given to a Jew practiced in the skill of circumscision? | Mohel |
In Judaism, what is the week-long mourning period called? | Shiva (or shivah) |
By tradition, how many mitzvot, or commandments, are there in the Torah, in Judaism? | 613 |
Which work begins: "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains"? | Rousseau's Social Contract |
Which 'letters' were a 1721 satirical work by Montesquieu? | Persian Letters |
Who wrote "Julie: Ou La Nouvelle Heloise"? | Rousseau |
Who wrote, in the late 18th Century, "Esquisse D'un Tableau Historique Des Progres De L'Esprit Humain (Historical Outline Of The Progress Of The Human Mind"? | Condorcet |
Which artist's real name was Giovanni di Fiesole? | Fra Angelico |
Which Dublin-born painter's works include "Three Studies For A Crucifixition"? | Francis Bacon |
Which artist's works have included one of a pick-axe embedded in a phone box? | Banksy |
Which Victorian artist published "A Book Of Fifty Drawings"? | Beardsley |
Who was the court painter to Charles I? | Van Dyck |
Which Bombay-born sculptor made "Sky Mirror"? | Kapoor |
Give a year in the life of Titian. | 1487-1576 |
Which play has the opening line "If music be the food of love"? | Twelfth Night |
Who were Shakespeare's two daughters? | Susanna, Judith |
Shakespeare dedicated many of his poems to Henry Wriothsley, who was the Earl of where? | Southampton |
Based on a real man, what surname did Shakespeare first give to Falstaff? | Oldcastle |
Who drew the cartoon "Modesty Blaise"? | O'Donnell |
Who drew the "Mutt and Jeff" cartoons? | Fisher |
Who drew the Peanuts cartoons? | Charles Schulz |
Which breed of dog is Snoopy? | Beagle |
What is the name of the small bird who appears in the Peanuts cartoons? | Woodstock |
Who is the piano player in the Peanuts cartons? | Schroeder |
Who wrote the novel "Ben Hur"? | Wallace |
With whom does Ben Hur have a chariot race? | Messala |
Jesus cures Ben Hur's mother and sister of what in the novel? | Leprosy |
In a church, which seat has a bracket for leaning on? | Miserichord |
Which seat for priests is cut into the chancel in a church? | Sedilia |
What is the name for a column supporting a handrail? | Balustrade |
Who wrote "Where Angels Fear To Tread"? | EM Forster |
Where is "Where Angels Fear To Tread" set? | Italy |
Who wrote "Professor Unrat"? | Heinrich Mann |
"Professor Unrat" was made into which famous film? | The Blue Angel |
Lily Bart is the heroine of which Edith Wharton novel? | The House Of Mirth |
Which abstract expressionist painted "Eyes In The Heat"? | Pollock |
Which painter was born Vosdanig Manoog Adoian? | Gorky |
Which artist (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) produced 1940s paintings termed 'pictographs'? | Adolph Gottlieb |
Who painted "Laus Veneris", based on Swinburne's poem? | Burne-Jones |
Who painted "Solomon Eagle Exhorting The People To Repentance During The Plague Of London"? | Paul Falconer Poole |
Who was the first playwright to be knighted in the 20th Century? | Pinero |
Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature? | Hemingway |
Which Frenchman created the writers Gargantua and Pantagruel? | Rabelais |
What were the Christian names of Lord Byron? | George Gordon |
Which French impressionist was born at Limoges in 1841? | Renoir |
Which French Impressionist died of a gangrenous leg in 1883? | Manet |
Who wrote both "Sheba" and "Year Of The Tiger"? | Jack Higgins |
What is the name of Prospero's daughter in "The Tempest"? | Miranda |
What name is given to the vertical bar that divides a window? | Mullion |
Who wrote the novels "Harry's Game" and "Song Of The Morning"? | Gerald Seymour |
The surrender of which Dutch town inspired a painting by Velazquez? | Breda |
Which female US modernist created the work "Black Iris"? | Georgia O'Keefe |
Which bird features in Dali's 1949 artwork "Leda Atomica"? | Swan |
Which British artist sculpted "Ecce Homo", the first artwork to occupy the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square? | Mark Wallinger |
Which Nuremberg-born artist drew "The Praying Hands"? | Durer |
In July 1839, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes won a competition to be the architect of which Liverpool building? | St. George's Hall |
Which sportswoman was nicknamed "The Paignton Peach"? | Sue Barker |
How many tiles are there in a Mah Jong set? | 144 |
How far must competitors swim in a modern pentathlon? | 200m |
How long is the cross-country section of the modern pentathlon? | 3000m |
What are the points on a backgammon board called? | Fleches |
Which major sports event was held in Edmonton in 2001 and Berlin in 2009? | World Athletics Championships |
Which two letters are each worth 2 points in 'Scrabble'? | D and G |
Which two Monopoly properties are of the lowest value? | Whitechapel, Old Kent Road |
The Bowring Bowl was the former name for the prize for which match? | Oxford & Cambridge/Varsity Rugby Union Match |
Who were the two teams involved in the first football match to be played under floodlights, in 1956? | Portsmouth and Newcastle United |
Who was the very first winner of the Indianapolis 500? | Ray Harroun |
Starting stalls were first used at which racecourse? | Newmarket |
How many tarot cards are there in a pack? | 78 |
Which footballer has scored the most post-war hat-tricks for England? | Jimmy Greaves |
What lies between Park Lane and Mayfair on a Monopoly board? | Super Tax |
At which racecourse is the Welsh Grand National run? | Chepstow |
Which horse set a record Grand National time in 1990? | Mr Frisk |
Which Australian cricketer was out for nearly a year after tackling an English pitch invader in 1982? | Terry Alderman |
What was Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards' real first name? | Michael |
How was Eric Moussambi better known in the world of sport? | Eric the Eel |
Where do Gloucester RUFC play home matches? | Kingsholm Stadium |
Which rugby union team will ground-share with Reading FC until 2026? | London Irish |
Where do Leicester Tigers RUFC play home matches? | Welford Road Stadium |
Stanislas Wawrinka represents which country at tennis? | Switzerland |
As of 2014, who is the only male Japanese tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10 in ATP Singles Ranking? | Kei Nishikori |
Milos Raonic plays tennis for which country? | Canada |
Marcos Baghtadis represents which country at tennis? | Cyprus |
Who were the runners-up in the Davis Cup in 1966, 1974 & 1987? | India |
Which body governs women's tennis? | WTA |
Jelena Jankovic is a female tennis player who represents which country? | Serbia |