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GK 41
Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which term is used to describe the angle at a particular point on the Earth's surface between the direction of the geographical or true north, and the magnetic north pole? | Angle of Declination |
| In Norse myth, what name was given to the cow that nourished, Ymir, father of the evil giants, who drank from the four milky streams that flowed from her udders? | Audhumla |
| The American composer Paul J Smith spent most of his career working on music for films made by which Chicago-born producer, who set up his own small studio in the 1920s? | Walt Disney |
| Who wrote "The Bridges of Madison County" in 1992? It is one of the 20th century's best-selling novels. | Robert James Waller |
| Which US radio engineer, for whom a unit of radio emission strength is named, picked up the first radio signals from space while working on reception interference problems in 1931, publishing his findings the following year? | Karl Jansky |
| Married to the actor and director Lewis Casson, which actress was a leading member of Annie Horniman's theatre company, and also played the title role in the first English performance of GB Shaw's "Saint Joan"? | Dame Sybil Thorndike |
| Christopher, a cricketer who captained England in 1988, was the son of which English batsman, whose 114 tests included 27 as captain? | Colin Cowdrey |
| "Saint Wilfred's Needle", a narrow passage which by local legend only virgin women could pass through, is to be found in the crypt of which cathedral in North Yorkshire? | Ripon Cathedral |
| Which soft, wax-like, silver-white metallic chemical element burns with a distinctive lilac flame? | Potassium |
| Which writer, music critic and caricaturist, born in Prussia in 1776, was the author of "The Nutcracker and The Mouse King" used by Tchaikovsky as the basis of a ballet? | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| Which country has the oldest continuing monarchical house in the world? | Japan |
| Where did Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi first intend a statue "Progress", that eventually became the Statue of Liberty, to be located? | Suez Canal |
| When he became the first person to achieve a true circumnavigation of the world solo from West to East via the great Capes in 1966-67, which city did Francis Chichester set out from (and return to)? | Plymouth |
| Who was the first British PM to serve under three monarchs? | Stanley Baldwin |
| When Sir Francis Chichester sailed his ketch Gipsy Moth IV round the globe in 1966-67, which city was his only stop outside of the UK? | Sydney |
| In the 19th Century, Wallachia united with which other Danubian Principality to create the state of Romania? | Moldavia |
| Which Conservative MP was in the Houses of Parliament from 1931 to 1945 and 1950 to 1974, and was the longest-serving female MP until that record was broken by Gwyneth Dunwoody in 2007? | Irene Ward |
| The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (TEEC), was in which year? | 1957 |
| Which company donated Cape Cornwall to the National Trust in 1987? | Heinz |
| Which monarch of the UK called Balmoral "a Highland barn of a thousand draughts"? | Edward VII |
| The Khomani Cultural Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in which country? | South Africa |
| The historical city of Yazd is recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and lies in the centre of which country? | Iran |
| Sviyazhsk, home of the Assumption Cathedral and Monastery, which were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2017, lies in which Republic of Russia? | Tatarstan |
| Which town, monastery complex and Christian pilgrimage centre in Late Antique Egypt, made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, is named after a martyr who died in the 3rd or 4th centuries? | Abu Mena (Menas of Alexandria) |
| Also the third highest mountain in Africa, what is the highest point in Democratic Republic of the Congo and also Uganda? | Mount Stanley |
| Consisting of two river valleys, those of the Stryama to the west and the Tundzha to the east, the Rose Valley lies in which country? | Bulgaria |
| Three 'Durbar Squares' in Nepal are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. One is in Kathmandu. Name either of the two others. | Patan; Bhaktapur |
| One of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, Stuttgart is part of which historic area, also encompassing Württemberg? | Swabia |
| Also called Transbaikal, which area beyond Lake Baikal is named after a Mongolic-speaking ethnic group? | Dauria |
| Which capital city, with a name meaning "They made them unite" in Tigrinya, is known for its well-preserved colonial Italian modernist architecture? | Asmara |
| Which Florence born Italian shoe designer (1898-1960) worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found his eponymous company making unique handmade footwear? | Salvatore Ferragamo |
| Used in school demonstrations, which apparatus designed for the preparation of small volumes of gases was invented in the 1840s and named after a Dutch pharmacist? | Kipps Apparatus |
| Named after a Russian admiral, which Antarctic Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island? | Bellingshausen Sea |
| Which jazz singer was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933? | Nina Simone |
| Which US company, with a focus on health and exercise, was founded in 2007 by Eric Friedman and James Park? | Fitbit |
| Which US photographer, known for his black and white photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, co-founded the photography group f/64? | Ansel Adams |
| Which Japanese author (1867-1916) wrote the novels "Kokoro", "Botchan", "I Am A Cat" and the unfinished "Light and Darkness"? | Natsume Sōseki |
| Starring John Boyega, which 2017 Kathryn Bigelow movie is based on the Algiers Motel Incident during the 12th Street Riot in 1967 in the titular city? | Detroit |
| Riots in which city in 1863 remain the largest civil and racially charged insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself? | New York |
| The first game of this video games series was released in 1986. "Breath of Wild" was released in 2017, and is an instalment of which game series taking place in the Kingdom of Hyrule? | The Legend of Zelda |
| The Preakness Stakes horse race takes place in which US city? | Baltimore |
| The Belmont Stakes horse race takes place in the town of Elmont in which US state? | New York |
| Matteo Ciacci became, in 2018, the youngest head of state in the world at age 27. In which country? | San Marino |
| In 2015, who had worldwide hits with "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face"? | The Weeknd |
| Its name comes from the last two syllables of the Chinese transliteration of Liebherr, a large equipment manufacturer based in Switzerland. Which Chinese company, in 2014 had brand had the world's largest market share in white goods home appliances? | Haier |
| Titled after WH Auden's poem dedicated to the Russian conductor and composer Serge Koussevitzky, what is the nickname of Symphony Number 2 composed by Leonard Bernstein? | The Age of Anxiety |
| Who has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing for Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally... (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993)? | Nora Ephron |
| Two winners of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, Álvaro Siza Vieira, and Eduardo Souta de Moura are alumni of the prestigious architecture school in which city? | Porto |
| The Diabaté family (Toumani, Sidiki, Mamadou, and Mamadou Sidiki) are all Malian musicians considered virtuosi on which 21-stringed musical instrument? | Kora |
| Which French philosopher (1930-2002) wrote "Distinction: A Social Critique of Judgement of Taste"? | Pierre Bourdieu |
| Which poet was nicknamed "the nun of Amherst"? | Emily Dickinson |
| Jazz musician Erroll Garner is most commonly associated with which instrument? | Piano |
| Which US cartoonist, born in 1954, had his first success with syndicated comic strip "Life In Hell"? | Matt Groening |
| The Eiffel Tower was built to celebrate the centenary of which event? | French Revolution |
| The use of which chemical, at the time being used to treat sewage in Carlisle, was pioneered from 1866 by Joseph Lister as an antiseptic, in solution, at Glasgow Royal Infirmary? | Carbolic acid/phenol |
| Jenkins Hill in Washington DC is now better known by a name referring to a building. What name is that? | Capitol Hill |
| What type of star, the smallest and densest known, is produced when a massive star explodes as a supernova, exceeding what's called the Chandrasekhar Limit, and then collapses into itself? | Neutron star |
| What were the first three words spoken in a 'talkie' by Greta Garbo, in Anna Christie? | Gimme a whikey/gimme a viskey |
| The Land of Green Ginger is the name of a street in which northern British city? | Hull |
| Which author wrote "Ginger, You're Barmy!", a comic novel based on his experience of National Service in the 1950s? | David Lodge |
| In which decade was Switzerland admitted to the United Nations? | 2000s (2002) |
| What two-word term describes the temperature at which air becomes saturated and unable to hold any more water vapour? | Dew Point |
| What forename was shared by Jane Austen's mother and older sister? | Cassandra |
| Who wrote the much-anthologised English poem that opens with the lines "So we'll go no more a-roving/So late into the night/Though the heart be still as loving/And the moon be still as bright"? | Byron |
| The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 and the inventor of the domestic sewing machine in the 19th century share what forename and surname? | Isaac Singer (Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Merritt Singer) |
| Which branch of mechanics is concerned with the motion of objects under the actions of forces? | Dynamics |
| First published in 1982, the anthology "The Rattle Bag" is a collection of the favourite poems of the two poets who edited it. They were Ted Hughes and who else? | Seamus Heaney |
| Who wrote the song "Blue Suede Shoes"? | Carl Perkins |
| Which large building in London, opened in 1998, was described by Prince Charles as looking like a "an academy for secret policeman"? | British Library |
| What is the one-word name of the fish that is often eaten as 'Bombay duck'? | Bummalo |
| Which late 19th century French demagogue, general and politician was nicknamed Général Revanche? | Georges Boulanger |
| Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio set up the short-lived Italian Regency of Carnaro in which Mediterranean town, with himself as Duce, from 1919 to 1920? | Fiume |
| In which year did Filippo Marinetti produce "The Futurist Manifesto"? | 1909 |
| Which company used the advertising slogan "Think Different" from 1997 to 2002? | Apple |
| Which French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher (1689-1755) is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world? | Montesquieu |
| Who became the 16th Prime Minister of India in 2014, a Hindu nationalist and member of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)? | Narendra Modi |
| On 15 July 2016, a coup d'état was attempted in Turkey against state institutions, including the government which President? | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Who called Rousseau "the greatest militant lowbrow in history"? | Isaiah Berlin |
| Which German philosopher and literary critic, a member of the Sturm and Drang movement, published "Treatise on the Origin of Language"in 1722, having previously exhorted Germans to "spew out the ugly slime of the Seine. Speak German, O You German"? | Johann Gottfried Herder |
| Which German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, was the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis, an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel? | Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
| What was the name of the cook who became the first ever Olympic champion when he won the sprint race in 776BC? | Coroebus of Elis |
| In which city were the first cases of AIDS identified in 1981? | Los Angeles |
| Created in the monastery of Clonmacnoise by three scribes, the best known of whom was Máel Muire mac Célechair, what is the common name given to Lebor na hUidre, the oldest Irish manuscript to contain primarily native narrative materials? | Book of the Dun Cow |
| Built by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I, which is the world's oldest remaining stone mosque and, in 2001, became the first mosque to visited by a Pope when John-Paul II came to see the relics of John the Baptist that are said to be held there? | Grand Mosque of Damascus |
| Although Australia is the world's largest producer of bauxite, which African country is home to the greatest bauxite reserves, believed to be in the region of one-third of all the world's supply? | Guinea |
| What's the family relationship between the writer of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"'s screenplay and the author of recipe book "Voluptous Delights - The Art Of Eating A Little of What You Fancy"? | Grandfather and granddaughter (Roald and Sophie Dahl) |
| The 1970 film "The Great White Hope" starring James Earl Jones was based on the life of which real heavyweight champion? | Jack Johnson |
| What's the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet? | Bet |
| The Rungrado May Day Stadium, with a capacity of 150,000 and one of the largest sporting venues in the world, is situated in which country? | North Korea |
| According to Daniel Defoe's "Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain" which town in County Durham contained "nothing remarkable but dirt"? | Darlington |
| Which island was known as Alashiya in ancient times? | Cyprus |
| Gortyn is an ancient archaeological site on which island? | Crete |
| In architecture, what name is given to a high section of wall that contains windows above eye levelor the upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, which are pierced with windows? | Clerestory |
| What is the highest mountain on Crete, and according to some mythical sources, the site of Zeus's birth? | Mount Ida |
| What was the name given to the great hall in ancient Greek palace complexes of Mycenae and the Minoan civilisations? | Megaron |
| Which ancient port city in northern Syria's ruins are often called Ras Shamra after the headland where they lie? | Ugarit |
| The 1986 "People Power Revolution" took place in which country? | Philippines |
| Known as the first Filipino hero because he was the first native to resist Imperial Spanish colonization who led the Filipino troops at the 1521 Battle of Mactan that resulted in the death of Magellan? | Lapu-Lapu |
| Who was TIME Woman Of The Year in 1986 after she led a peaceful revolutionary transition to power in her home country that year? | Corazon Aquino |
| Which Tamil dynasty ruled over South India and parts of SE Asia from the 10th-12th centuries AD, and had great kings called Raja Raja and Rajendra I? | Chola |
| The statue of "Eros" in London's Piccadilly Circus isn't a depiction of Eros at all, but is supposed to be who or what else? | Anteros (Eros' brother) |
| What is the English name for Yr Wyddfa Fawr? | Mount Snowdon |
| Which city on the Târnava Mare River in Mureș County, Romania, as an old walled town that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site? | Sighișoara |
| Approximately 2,600 kilometres (1,600 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, what is the world's most remote island? | Bouvet Island |
| Which Italian city was once nicknamed "Fiatville"? | Turin |
| Which Inner Hebridean island, linked to Colonsay by a tidal causeway (called An Traigh (The Strand)) consisting of sands and mud flats, is known for its Mesolithic middens? | Oronsay |
| Supposedly founded by Saint Wilfrid during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, what is the smallest cathedral city by population in Yorkshire? | Ripon |
| The Stopera complex, housing the city hall and the national ballet and opera companies, can be found in which major European city? | Amsterdam |
| What is the largest public square in London, and the location for the Sir John Soare's Museum? | Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Lake Võrtsjärv is the largest to be entirely situated in which country? | Estonia |
| Which Oscar-winning film was a biopic of George M. Cohan, an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer? | Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Anne Archer and Gene Hackman starred in which 1990 film that tells the story of a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who attempts to keep a murder witness safe from hit men while traveling through the Canadian wilderness aboard a train? | Narrow Margin |
| Who voiced Homer's half-brother, Herb Powell, in "The Simpsons"? | Danny DeVito |
| Who directed the '1984' Apple Macintosh commercial, which was given a showcase airing in the US on 22 January 1984, during Super Bowl XVIII, alongside screenings in cinemas? | Ridley Scott |
| Who was Oscar nominated for playing the character Jerry Lundegaard in "Fargo"? | William H. Macy |
| Boots the Monkey is a friend of which British children's character? | Dora the Explorer |
| Which 'master of disaster' directed "The Towering Inferno" (1974) and "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972)? | Irwin Allen |
| Which Greek actress and singer, who starred in "Never On Sunday" (1960) and "Phaedra" (1962) became a minister in her country's parliament in 1981? | Melina Mercouri |
| Which movie composer wrote the soundtrack to "The Mission" and "The Untouchables"? | Ennio Morricone |
| Who was the director of the controversial 1971 film "The Devils"? | Ken Russell |
| The ancient settlement of Pithekousae, a Greek outpost, was on which Italian island? | Ischia |
| Established in 1386, which is the oldest university in Germany? | University of Heidelberg |
| The dormant volcanoes Nemrut and Süphan are to be found in which saline and soda lake, the largest in Turkey? | Lake Van |
| Which European republic was proclaimed on January 19th 1795 after William V fled to England? | Batavian Republic |
| Established in February 1991, the Visegrád Group is an alliance of which four European countries set up for the purpose of furthering their European integration? | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary |
| Which of Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'Three Colours' trilogy was made primarily in Polish? The other two being made in French. | Three Colours: White |
| The Netherlands is divided into 12 administrative regions, each under the control of a Commissioner of the Queen with the exception of one region that is under the control of a Gouverneur, emphasising its perceived 'un-Dutch' character. Which region? | Limburg |
| Who was the Portuguese nobleman and explorer who led the expeditions that conquered Goa, Ormuz and Malacca in the early 16th Century and was rewarded by his appointment as the first Duke of Goa by King Manuel I? | Afonso de Albuquerque |
| Fernando Ribeiro is the lead vocalist with which popular Portuguese goth metal band, popular throughout Europe, that released the 2006 album 'Memorial' which won them an MTV Europe Award in the 'Best Portuguese Act' category? | Moonspell |
| Typically containing fish (or sometimes chicken) and vegetables, what is the name of the traditional stew of northern Belgium, the name of which is derived from the Dutch for 'watery mess'? | Waterzooi |
| Francesinha is a dish made from wet-cured ham, pork sausages and steak covered with cheese and tomato and beer sauce that originated in which European city? | Porto |
| La Pérouse Strait separates Hokkaidō from which Russian island? | Sakhalin Island |
| Who was the first ever Indian World Chess Champion? | Viswanathan Anand |
| Of which country did Napoleon say “Why, it’s a model republic!” when asked why he did not attempt to invade it? | San Marino |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis began when Khruschev began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to the United States installing Jupiter missiles in which country? | Turkey |
| The Kingdom of Vannius, home to the Quadi tribe in the First Century, was located in which modern-day European country? | Austria |
| Which country's racing Grand National is held at Fairyhouse? | Ireland |
| At the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony, the groom will break which object with his right foot? | A glass |
| The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is held in which building’s grounds? | The Royal Hospital, Chelsea |
| Lac du Bourget, aka Lac Gris, is the deepest lake located entirely within which country? | France |
| Which car maker made the Kadjar and Koleos? | Renault |
| In which country were the politicians Mohamed Khemisti (in 1963), Mohamed Boudiaf (1992) and Kasdi Merbah (1993) assassinated? | Algeria |
| In 1885, the chemist Nagai Nagayoshi first isolated which stimulant from an ephedra shrub? | Ephedrine |
| Author of Reporter: A Memoir (2018), which US journalist exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam? | Seymour Hersh |
| In 1971, Edward Heath conducted which English composer’s Cockaigne Overture at the Royal Festival Hall? | Edward Elgar |
| The T206 Honus Wagner is said to be the holy grail for collectors of what? | Baseball cards |
| Which band changed their name from the original "The New Yardbirds"? | Led Zeppelin |
| Which river starts at Fontibre in Cantabria and ends in a delta on the Mediterranean Sea in Tarragona? | Ebro |
| The potentially fatal disease pellagra, that has symptoms including dermatitis, diarrhoea, insomnia and dementia, is caused by a dietary deficiency of which vitamin? | Vitamin B3 (niacin) |
| Which brother of Napoleon served as King of Holland from 1806 until 1810? | Louis Napoleon |
| Which 1998 Michel Houellebecq novel focuses on the half-brothers Bruno Clément and Michel Djerzinski? | Atomised (also known as The Elementary Particles) |
| On September 2, 1945, which revolutionary leader proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam? | Ho Chi Minh |
| The role of Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) became Esther Hoffman (Barbra Streisand) in which 1976 remake? | A Star Is Born |
| Which weed (Latin name Urtica dioica) has been used as a source of bast fibres for textiles? | Stinging nettle |
| In 1977, the guillotine was last used to execute French criminals during whose presidency? | Valery Giscard d'Estaing |
| Which German-born Flemish painter’s earliest dated work is Portrait of a Young Man (1597)? | Peter Paul Rubens |
| In 2017, which self-governing island country designated Marae Moana as the world’s largest ocean sanctuary? | Cook Islands |
| Which June Volksfeste in the capital of Schleswig-Holstein is the largest sailing event in the world? | Kiel Week/Kiel Regatta |
| Which Russian republic is also called Yakutia? | Sakha Republic (the largest sub-national governing body by area in the world) |
| With a population of 4,104,000, which is the largest of the 21 Russian Republics by population? | Bashkortostan |
| What is the third-largest moon in the solar system? | Callisto |
| Designed by Reiner Knizia, which 1997 strategy board game is named after two rivers in the Middle East? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Born in 1975, which double -48kg Olympic champion has CNN called “the greatest female judoka ever”? The seven-time world champion won Olympic gold in 2000 and 2004. | Ryoko Tani née Tamura |
| Originally built to be a Mosque, what is the name of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Córdoba, construction of which began in 784AD under the supervision of the Muslim Emir Abd ar-Rahman I? | Mezquita |
| Which Norwegian marathon runner won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1984 Olympic Games but is best remembered for winning the New York City Marathon nine times between 1978 and 1988? | Grete Waitz |
| Hautuumaasaari and Ukonkivi are the two best known islands in which Finnish lake, the country’s third largest? | Lake Inari |
| Which Dutch film director is best known for directing Hollywood movies such as 'Robocop', 'Total Recall' and 'Basic Instinct'? | Paul Verhoeven |
| Which city, the capital and the largest city of the Swabia region of Bavaria and located at the confluence of the Wertach and Lech rivers, was founded by the Romans in 15 BC and became the capital of the Roman province of Raetia in around 120 AD? | Augsburg |
| Who was the First secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party between 1954 and 1989? | Todor Zhikov |
| Commissioned in 1664 by Ferdinand Maria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, in which city could you visit the Baroque Nymphenburg Palace? | Munich |
| What is the name of the eastern part of the Sahara Desert, lying between the River Nile and the Red Sea in NW Sudan? | Nubian Desert |
| Asser, a monk at St David's Abbey in Pembrokeshire, became the counsellor and biographer of which Anglo-Saxon monarch? | Alfred the Great |
| Master of the Rolls from 1962 to 1982 who was perhaps best known for his report on the Profumo affair? | Lord Denning |
| What was the interim capital of Pakistan between Karachi and Islamabad, from 1959-67? | Rawalpindi |
| Which trophy is awarded annually to the "player judged most valuable to his team" in the National Hockey League (NHL)? | Hart Memorial Trophy/Hart Trophy |
| Jacques de Flesselles, who was killed early in the French Revolution, during the storming of the Bastille, held which position? | Provost (or mayor) of Paris |
| The film "Brief Encounter" was based on which Noel Coward short play? | Still Life |
| What do the letters "CN" stand for in the name of Toronto's CN Tower? | Canadian National (a former railway company) |
| In Jewish law, a husband must issue a document called a get as part of which process? | Divorce |
| Which queen’s French-born prince consort, Henrik, died on 13th February 2018? | Queen Margrethe II of Denmark |
| Botany Bay in Eastern Australia's original name was what, relating to an animal that lived there? | Stingray Bay |
| Knockaloe, an internment camp for alien enemies during WW2 was located on which island off the coast of Britain? | Isle of Man |
| Edgware Road in London lies along the course of which major Roman road? | Watling Street |
| In "The Marriage of Figaro", who does Figaro marry? | Susanna |
| The Central Lobby at the Palace of Westminster, the Globe Theatre erected around 1599 in London and the centrepiece observatory of Wren's Flamsteed House in Greenwich all share which architectural distinction? | All octagons |
| Who was the first Master of the King's Musick, appointed by Charles I in 1626? | Nicholas Lanier |
| Wild Life In Suburbia, an LP released in 1959 consisting of the monologues of Edna and Sandy Stone, is an early work by which humourist and writer? | Barry Humphries |
| What did the EM stand for in the name of the author EM Forster? | Edward Morgan |
| Which 2015 film portrayed the investigation by the Boston Globe newspaper into child abuse in the Catholic Church? | Spotlight |
| In 2017, which controversial sportsman was - somewhat surprisingly - working as a government goodwill ambassador and adviser on sport to his country's President Macky Sall? | El Hadji Diouf |
| Which youth of Greek legend gave his name to the title of a 1880 Benjamin Disraeli novel? | Endymion |
| Which chain of British comedy clubs takes its name from medieval wandering minstrels? | Jongleurs |
| The lamb is the symbol of which female saint, often placed by her side in religious paintings? | St Agnes |
| In 1724, as part of the Hanoverian programme to make the still potentially volatile Highlands easier to control, which field marshal and MP for Bath went there to supervise the construction of numerous bridges and metalled roads? | George Wade (from which Wade Bridges) |
| Which US horse breed gets its name from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horses in races of 440 yards or less? | Quarter horse |
| Shakespeare's sonnets, first published together in 1609, comprise how many poems? | 154 |
| Who released the 1976 album "Still Crazy After All These Years"? | Simon & Garfunkel |
| What title was given to the chief minister of the Abbasid caliphs, and subsequently to the chief minister of the Turkish sultan, and other Muslim states? | Vizier |
| Cleeve Cloud, at around 330m, is the highest point of which English county? | Gloucestershire |
| Which crank-turned instrument, originally used to teach music in cloisters or monastic schools, can be referred to as a 'wheel fiddle' or "vielle à roue"? | Hurdy-gurdy |
| The Ides of March correspond to which date? | 15th March |
| Eugene Cernan, as of 2018, the last man to walk on the moon, did so in which year? | 1972 |
| Which two men walked on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission, the third successful mission to land men on the moon? | Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell |
| Which lunar mission was the first mission on which the Lunar Roving Vehicle was used? | Apollo 15 |
| Which astronaut on Apollo 13 first said "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here"? | Jack Swigert |
| Along with Jim Lovell, which other Apollo 13 astronaut would have walked on the moon had the craft made it there? | Fred Haise |
| Who became the record holder for the most time spent in space when he surpassed, on 28 June 2015, the record of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev? | Gennady Padalka |
| What was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971? | Salyut 1 |
| Called the Sabrina in Latin, which river has the Welsh name Afon Hafren? | Severn |
| Who commanded the Anglo-Egyptian army that won the battle of Omdurman (1898)? | Sir Herbert Kitchener, later Lord Kitchener |
| What name is given to the main German stock market index? | DAX |
| Kona Sugarloaf, Natal Queen and Smooth Cayenne are varieties of which fruit? | Pineapple |
| Which space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) found a subglacial lake on Mars in 2018? | Mars Express |
| What is the medical term for excessive teeth grinding or jaw clenching? | Bruxism |
| What is oscitation? | Yawning |
| Sir William Lyons was the co-founder of which company, that developed from the Swallow Sidecar Company? | Jaguar |
| Which field of biological research is called evo-devo? | Evolutionary developmental biology |
| What was the first operational British jet fighter aircraft, and the Allies' only jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during the Second World War? | Gloster Meteor |
| Which mathematician proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal by the Royal Society? | Andrew Wiles |
| Which Russian mathematician solved the Poincaré conjecture? | Grigori Perelman |
| How many unsolved problems in mathematics were published as Hilbert's Problems by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900, although he only presented 10 at the Paris conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians in August of that year? | 23 |
| Which Latin maxim, meaning "we do not know and will not know", represents the idea that scientific knowledge is limited? | Ignoramus et ignorabimus |
| What is the collective name for badgers? | Cete |
| On which day of the week is Thanksgiving? | Thursday (4th Thursday in November) |
| Which Essex town is well known for its four-yearly ritual of the "Flitch Trials", in which couples must convince a jury of six local bachelors and six local maidens that, for a year and a day, they have never wished themselves unwed? | (Great) Dunmow/Dunmow Flitch |
| Who was the first Scot to be depicted on an English banknote? | Adam Smith |
| Which town in Swedish Lapland is best known for its hotel made entirely from ice, the world's first such hotel? | Jukkasjärvi |
| Which Bulgarian physicist, who died in 1995, is best remembered as the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer? | John Vincent Atanasoff |
| Which Czech educator and scientist wrote 'Didactica Magna', in which he was one of the first people to put forward the concept of universal education? | John Amos Comenius |
| First published in the 1850s, what is the name of the epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald that is often considered to be the Estonian national epic? | Kalevipoeg |
| The company COMAC is the "Commercial Aircraft Corporation of...." what? | China |
| 2000 Olympic Games gold medallist, and four time world champion Ivan Pedroso represented Cuba in which athletics event? | Long Jump |
| In 2014 Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win which prize? | Fields Medal |
| Which Hungarian mathematician was one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century, publishing around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed? | Paul Erdős |
| Who presented "Soccer AM" for 22 years from 1995 to 2017? | Helen Chamberlain |
| Which Italian fashion designer (1890-1973) - along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival - is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars, and was heavily influenced by Dali? | Elsa Schiaparelli |
| Which species of deer (dama dama) has characteristic shovel-shaped antlers? | Fallow deer |
| How many senators sit in the US Senate? | 100 |
| On 2 July of which year was the Civil Rights Act signed into US Law, prohibiting discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, and national origin by federal and state governments? | 1964 |
| In which modern day country did two clans, Birkebeiners and Baglers fight for power in the early 13th Centry, peace coming about only when Birkebeiner princess Kristin married the head of the Baglers? | Norway |
| What is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, and India's third largest city? | Bangalore/Bengaluru |
| Which German actress played the titular role in the acclaimed action thriller "Run Lola Run" of 1998? | Franka Potente |
| In which three volume novel by Haruki Murakami does main character Aomame realise, after leaving a taxi cauht in a traffic jam, that she is suddenly in an alternative reality, that lends the novel its title? | 1Q84 |
| The "Sinfonietta", a very expressive and festive work for large orchestra (of which 25 are brass players) which was first performed in 1926 and was dedicated “To the Czechoslovak Army” was written by which composer? | Leoš Janáček |
| Which future high-profile politician, while serving as Mayor of Cologne during WW1, invented soy sausages as a substitute to regular ones due to a meat shortage? | Konrad Adenauer |
| Radio and TV Marti are government-funded services whose target are the people of which country? | Cuba |
| Radio Free Europe was a US-backed service targeting the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War - what was the name of the equivalent service that targeted listeners in the Soviet Union? | Radio Liberty |
| Who was the first male skier to win all five World Cup alpine skiing events in one season? | Marc Girardelli |
| Which retired Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer won in all five World Cup disciplines and was the third to do it in a single season? | Tina Maze |
| Who wrote "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" in 1759? | Laurence Sterne |
| In Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", which property is rented by Lockwood? | Thrushcross Grange |
| Which literary character lives at Thornfield Hall? | Rochester (in Jane Eyre) |
| What was the name of the giant who threatens to waylay the Pilgrim in John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress"? | Giant Despair |
| Which word, taken from Greek, is defined as: a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments? | Axiom |
| Which humorous writer and performer wrote the monologue "Stately As A Galleon"? | Joyce Grenfell |
| "A Child Called It" was whose 1995 autobiography of childhood abuse? | Dave Pelzer |
| "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" is a 1992 book by which US author? | John Gray |
| Which book by James Herriot was published in 1970 and was thus the first in his semi-autobiographical series about being a country vet? | If Only They Could Talk |
| What was the real name of vet and author James Herriot (1916-95)? | James Alfred "Alf" Wight |
| Who is the villainous Italian aristocrat in Wilkie Collins' "The Woman In White"? | Count Fosco |
| What is thought to be the final evolutionary state of stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star, which would include the Sun and over 97% of the other stars in the Milky Way? | White Dwarf |
| Which element's abundance in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production by fusion in high-mass stars, where it is the last element to be produced with release of energy before the violent collapse of a supernova? | Iron |
| How many yards are there in a mile? | 1760 |
| Peter Goldmark (1906-77) was a Hungarian-American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing what? | LP record |
| What is the scientific term for pain perception? | Nociception |
| Implicated in both physical and emotional pain, which part of the brain's name is abbreviated as ACC? | Anterior Cingulate Cortex |
| The Forest of Dean is in the western part of which county? | Gloucestershire |
| Brigg Fair is a folk song based on a fair held in which English county? | Lincolnshire |
| What was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America? | Mason Dixon Line |
| Who was made the Earl of Inverness in 1986? | HRH Prince Andrew |
| Which poem begins "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves,. And the mome raths outgrabe"? | The Jabberwocky |
| Patented in 1855 what was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace? | Bessemer Process |
| What is the second largest city in Norway? | Bergen |
| What is produced by the Haber process? | Ammonia |
| In Edward Lear's "The Owl And The Pussycat" from which creature did the title characters obtain their wedding ring? | Pig/piggy-wiggy |
| In terms of population, what is Sweden's second largest city? | Gothenburg |
| Which English king is widely believed to have invented the cloth handkerchief, as surviving documents written by his courtiers describe his use of square pieces of cloth to wipe his nose? | Richard II |
| One of the smallest islands in the world with a building on it, which island is west of the Scilly Isles and is famous for its lighthouse, which was completed by 1858? | Bishop Rock |
| Who played the title role in 2008 film "You Don't Mess with the Zohan"? | Adam Sandler |
| Which island in the Firth of Clyde is nicknamed "Paddy's Milestone"? | Ailsa Craig |
| According to popular legend, which Pre-Socratic philosopher was "The Weeping Philosopher"? | Heraclitus |
| Which chemical element, atomic number 43, is the lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive? | Technetium |
| Who was the first person to win the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award twice? | Henry Cooper |
| Who was the first person to win the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award three times? | Andy Murray |
| Released in 1995, what was the first feature-length film to be entirely computer-animated? | Toy Story |
| "Operation Bernhard" was a Nazi plan to flood Britain with what? | Forged banknotes |
| What nationality was "Anne of Green Gables" author L.M. Montgomery? | Canadian |
| For what did the "L.M." stand in the name of "Anne of Green Gables" author L.M. Montgomery? | Lucy Maud |
| Who was the only golfer to have won the (British) Open in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s? | Gary Player |
| How many years are there in a 'chiliad'? | 1000 |
| The term was introduced in the 18th century by Christian von Wolff in his work Logic (1728), which word means a philosophy where all things have a common origin and are in some sense, all one? | Monism |
| The phrase Panta rhei, "everything flows" originated with which philosopher? | Heraclitus |
| Which body of study has a name meaning "after physics"? | Metaphysics |
| From which city, now ruined, in modern-day Italy did the philosophers Parmenides and Zeno hail? | Elea |
| What year was it in when ancient philosopher Socrates died by drinking hemlock? | 399BCE |
| Who was the first artistic director of the Royal National Theatre? | Laurence Olivier |
| Which word in modern usage derives from the ancient Greek for "against belief"? | Paradox |
| Named after the American female golfer who dominated her sport in the 1920s, what name is given to the trophy awarded to the LPGA player with the lowest seasonal scoring average? | Vare Trophy |
| Who became the first Argentinian to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, doing so in 1970 "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"? | Luis Federico Leloir |
| Which scientific word derives from the ancient Greek for "uncuttable"? | Atom |
| What is the only non-rectangular U.S. state flag? | Flag of Ohio |
| Anne of Cleves was born on the outskirts of which European city? | Düsseldorf |
| In 1966, Seretse Khama became which country's first President? | Botswana |
| João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, was a three time President of which country, but was assassinated in 2009? | Guinea-Bissau |
| What were the forenames of Wyatt Earp's brothers, who fought at the OK Corral? | Morgan, Virgil |
| Which Scottish educator and author was known for his school, Summerhill, founded in 1923, and its philosophies of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance? | AS Neill |
| Who shot and killed Jesse James in 1882? | Robert Ford |
| How was the "Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913" better known? | Cat and Mouse Act |
| What was the name of the Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, most famous in the UK for his controversial tenure at British Steel Corporation and his conduct during the 1984–85 miners' strike while managing the National Coal Board? | Ian MacGregor |
| For what did the initials FW stand in the name of the American entrepreneur and the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, F.W. Woolworth? | Frank Winfield |
| Who had a 1973 hit with "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"? | George Harrison |
| Which 2005 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Orlando Bloom is set during the 12th Century Crusades? | Kingdom of Heaven |
| Which band had a 2003 hit with "One Night In Heaven"? | M People |
| Which band had a UK Number 2 hit in 1983 with "Temptation"? | Heaven 17 |
| The BBC TV drama "Peaky Blinders" is set mainly in which city? | Birmingham |
| Katniss Everdeen is the central character in which film series? | The Hunger Games |
| Name either of the daughters of Zara Phillips. | Mia, Lena |
| World Championship boxing matches are contested over how many rounds? | 12 |
| Which gangster, who lived 1899-1947, was nicknamed "Scarface"? | Al Capone |
| In which country was the 2014 Football World Cup held? | Brazil |
| Who directed the 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes" and the 2011 sequel "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"? | Guy Ritchie |
| Which author wrote the 2012 Sherlock Holmes novel "A House Of Silk"? | Anthony Horowitz |
| Which short story by Arthur Conan Doyle was the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls? | The Adventure of The Empty House |
| The songs "Money" and "Time" appeared on which album by Pink Floyd? | The Dark Side of The Moon |
| Who provided the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the "Toy Story" film trilogy? | Tim Allen |
| Timothy Dalton made his debut as James Bond in which film? | The Living Daylights |
| Who released the 1997 album "Postcards From Heaven"? | The Lighthouse Family |
| Since 1968, what has been the lightest weight category in men's boxing at the Summer Olympics? | Light Flyweight |
| Which 2012 American political-thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks in the United States? | Zero Dark Thirty |
| The most successful American Idol winner as of 2018, whose debut album, Some Hearts, was released in 2005? | Carrie Underwood |
| Which Welsh poet and writer (1871-1940) lived much of his life as a vagrant in the US and wrote "The Autobiography of A Supertramp"? | WH Davies |
| Which Frenchman and fabulist, one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, wrote his "Fables" in 1668? | Jean de la Fontaine |
| What was the profession of Marcel Proust's father, Adrien? | Physician |
| Which architect of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow and St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh, is buried in Westminster Abbey? | George Gilbert Scott |
| Who wrote "A Woman's Place" in 1996? | Edwina Currie |
| The word "assassin" ultimately derives from which language? | Arabic |
| Which critically acclaimed American musical duo composed of Joy Williams and John Paul White won four Grammy Awards prior to their 2014 breakup? | The Civil Wars |
| For which novel did Normal Mailer win the 1980 Pulitzer Prize? | The Executioner's Song |
| Whose first novel, published in 1895, was "Sir Quixote of the Moors"? | John Buchan |
| Vincent Crummles is a character in which Charles Dickens work? | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Which character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a bellows-mender who is disappointed to have to play a woman in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play-within-the-play? | Francis Flute |
| In the Harry Potter novels, what is Hermione Granger's cat called? | Crookshanks |
| Which poet wrote the lines "she dwells with beauty; beauty that must die"? | Keats |
| Roald Dahl was born in which of the countries of the UK? | Wales |
| Who wrote the play "Barefoot in the Park"? | Neil Simon |
| Billy Bones is a character in which classic novel? | Treasure Island |
| Who wrote the classic "Ten Days That Shook The World" in 1919, about the Russian Revolution? | John Reed |
| The line "Journeys end in lovers meeting, every wise man's son doth know" comes from which Shakespeare play? | Twelfth Night |
| What was the surname of Hieronymus Bosch at birth? | Van Aken |
| In the book "Busman's Honeymoon" which famous fictional detective is on honeymoon? | Lord Peter Wimsey |
| One of the earliest written works on this topic, what is the subject of the Ebers Papyrus of Ancient Egypt, currently kept at the University of Leipzig? | Medicine |
| What name was given to a series of foreign policy speeches given by William Ewart Gladstone in 1878–80, often cited as the first modern political campaign, that took its name from the constituency where Gladstone successfully stood in the 1880 election? | Midlothian campaign |
| What name, derived from a popular hobby, is given to political information sent out to the media in order to observe the reaction of the public? | Flying a kite |
| In which city was Juan Carlos of Spain born in 1938? | Rome |
| Which Chinese dynasty ruled the country at the same time as Jesus Christ was alive? | Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE) |
| On 14th August 1881, 129 fishermen from which British town or city were killed in a disastrous storm, that killed 189 people in total? | Eyemouth |
| In which year did 102 Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth, USA? | 1620 |
| What was the main news story on all the major evening news bulletins in the UK, on the day before the terrorist attacks of 7th July 2005? | London winning the Olympic bid |
| On which island off the coast of North Carolina was an English colony established in 1585? | Roanoke |
| Derived from the colour of what they wore, what name given to the volunteers who followed Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his expedition of the Thousand? | Redshirts |
| Which 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia is the world's largest Buddhist temple? | Borobudur |
| Which European capital was a city-state called Ledra in ancient times? | Nicosia |
| What part of the body must cross the line to stop sprint timings? | Torso |
| The name of which 'The Lion King' character means 'foolish' in Swahili? | Pumbaa |
| Ato Boldon was a sprinter who represented which nation? | Trinidad & Tobago |
| What is the only British city to hold the Commonwealth Games twice? | Edinburgh |
| In 1824, what was first defined as a unit of energy by Nicolas Clément? | Calorie |
| Which gorge is spanned by the Clifton Suspension Bridge? | Avon |
| Which British athlete, born 1952, has the middle name "Wipper"? | Allan Wells |
| Nicknamed the "Pocket Rocket" which female sprinter won 100m gold at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Olympics? | Shelly-Ann Fraser(-Pryce) |
| Which Cambridge chapel is the traditional home of the BBC's broadcasts of "Nine Lessons and Carols"? | King's College Chapel |
| The Marrah Mountains and the city of al-Fashir lie in which region? | Darfur |
| The Conch Republic is a micronation declared as a tongue-in-cheek secession of which city, from the United States on April 23, 1982? | Key West |
| What is the capital of the Italian region of Umbria? | Perugia |
| Who said "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"? | Walter Scott |
| Which Ivy League university is based in New Haven, Connecticut? | Yale University |
| The Glyndebourne Festival Opera is held near which East Sussex town? | Lewes |
| Which US state is occasionally, in addition to its more well known nicknames, called The Blue Hen State? | Delaware |
| In which US state is Harvard University? | Massachussetts |
| Known in the Tiwi language as Yermalner, what is the second-largest island in Australia? | Melville Island |
| Who founded Harrow school? | John Lyon (of Preston) |
| The Open University was established in which year? | 1969 |
| Which university is the oldest in Great Britain? | University of Oxford |
| Which is the oldest university in the USA? | Harvard University |
| The spies Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean defected to the USSR in which year? | 1951 |
| Which American director was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Director for his 1992 debut feature Alien 3? | David Fincher |
| Which influential 13th century Pope initiated both the Fourth Crusade and the Albigensian Crusade? | Innocent III |
| Although the Amish are now found almost exclusively in North America, the Amish church was founded in the late 17th century by Jakob Amman in which European country? | Switzerland |
| The Great Rhetra was the oral - and quasi-mythical - constitution of Sparta, believed to have been formulated and established by which legendary lawgiver in accordance with the Oracle at Delphi? | Lycurgus |
| Dating from pre-Columbian times, tepache is a popular Mexican fermented beverage made from which fruit? | Pineapple |
| Which intelligence agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary and caused his downfall? | Günter Guillaume |
| Who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and thus head of the CIA? | Allen Dulles |
| Which French diplomat, spy, Freemason and soldier (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810) successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman? | Chevalier d'Éon |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies in the USA in which year? | 1953 |
| George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and Winston Churchill both attended which school? | Harrow |
| Existing from 1942-45 what was the predecessor agency of the CIA? | Office of Strategic Services |
| The EEC originally had how many members when set up by the Treaty of Rome in 1957? | Six |
| Which nation or territory left the EU in 1985? | Greenland |
| What was founded by Henry Dunant by 1863? | International Red Cross |
| Who was the first NATO Secretary-General? | Trygve Lie |
| "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" is a song from which musical? | South Pacific |
| "Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a song that first appeared in which 1936 film? | Follow the Fleet |
| Who was UN Secretary-General from 1982 to 1992? | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary-General hailed from which nation? | Egypt |
| Who was both the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and head of the World Bank from April 1968 to June 1981? | Robert McNamara |
| How old was Alfred the Great when he led the army of his brother, King Ethelred of Wessex, in a victorious battle against the invading Danes in 871 at the Battle of Ashdown? | 22 |
| In which year was Thomas Becket murdered in Canterbury Cathedral? | 1170 |
| What was the noble title of John of Gaunt (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399)? | Duke of Lancaster |
| How old was Elizabeth I when she took the throne? | 25 |
| In which modern-day country did Sir Francis Drake die in 1596? | Panama |
| Boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, and tellurium are the six metals generally agreed to belong to which group that have properties "in between" metals and non-metals? | Metalloids |
| What letter is used to designate the atomic electron orbital that is shaped like a sphere? | s |
| What is the maximum number of electrons that can reside in one atomic orbital? | Two |
| What is the only naturally-occurring chemical element that is named after a real person? | Gadolinium |
| What name is given to an investment scheme where each member pays an agreed sum, and receives an increasing annuity as each member dies? | Tontine |
| There are four British auk species - the puffin, the guillemot, the black guillemot and which bird, alca torda? | Razorbill |
| Coots and moorhens belong to which family of birds? | Rails (rallidae) |
| In the USA, what name is given to an informal dance sponsored by a high school, middle school or college, in which female students invite male students? | Sadie Hawkins Dance |
| Using the Culture Fair test, what is the minimum IQ requirement to join British Mensa? | 132 |
| Named after a Romanian aerodynamics pioneer, what name is given to the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface? | Coandă effect |
| Tirana, Albania, stands on which river? | Lana (Lanë) |
| Invaded in 2008 to suppress a secessionist movement, Anjouan is an autonomous island that is part of which country? | Comoros |
| What is the biggest city in the US state of Maine? | Portland |
| Which Middle Eastern country has a name meaning "Kingdom of the Two Seas"? | Bahrain |
| La Bayamesa, or the Bayamo Song, is which country's national anthem? | Cuba |
| Which singer, who goes by her surname professionally, was born with the forenames Aimee Anne in Bangor, Wales in 1984? | Duffy |
| Who represented the UK at the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest with "Let Me Be The One"? | The Shadows |
| In England, what one-word name is given to the charge paid to drink wine not bought on the premises? | Corkage |
| In Norse myth, who is the goddess of the underworld? | Hel |
| A name still in use in many Oxbridge colleges, what term originally referred to a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests? | Buttery |
| Named part of a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France where he was supposedly born, which man is often linked to the design of Canterbury cathedral? | William of Sens |
| Regent Street and Regent's Park in London were designed by which architect? | John Nash |
| Which architect designed The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London? | Edwin Lutyens |
| The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry - what is it? | Embroidery |
| In weaving, if the longitudinal threads are the warp, what are the transverse ones called? | Woof or weft |
| In Test cricket, against which country did England complete their first overseas whitewash in 56 years in 2018? | Sri Lanka |
| Which Indian city, capital of the two neighbouring states of Haryana and Punjab, was laid out by Le Corbusier? | Chandigarh |
| Who built and designed Chiswick House in London? He was nicknamed "Apollo of the Arts". | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington/Lord Burlington |
| In which 1475 Botticelli painting are the Medici family depicted as Wise Men? | Adoration of the Magi |
| Who wrote the novel "From Here To Eternity"? | James Jones |
| Which English blues rock band, composed of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech was one of the first 'supergroups'? | Blind Faith |
| The regular oboe first appeared in the mid-17th century, when it was known by variants of what original, French, name? | Hautbois |
| In Greek myth, who gave birth to the Minotaur? | Pasiphae |
| Which man, born 1943, composed scores for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, The Bounty, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander? | Vangelis |
| From 1973 to 1978 the Scottish Sutherland Brothers joined forces with a rock band to record and tour under their joint name: "Sutherland Brothers and..." who? | Quiver |
| Which Scottish composer was Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1887 to 1924? | Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie |
| Who, in Greek myth, gave birth to the winged horse Pegasus, after dying? | Medusa |
| Biblically, which king had Daniel thrown into the lion's den? | Darius the Mede (a fictional king) |
| Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by which American songwriter (1910-69)? | Frank Loesser |
| Who released the album "Come Around Sundown" in 2010? | Kings of Leon |
| Which German photographer and artist, well known for her early photos of The Beatles, was engaged to Stuart Sutcliffe, until the latter's death of a brain haemorrhage aged 22? | Astrid Kirchherr |
| Bradbourne Black and Merton Glory are varieties of which fruit? | Cherry |
| What is the Gaelic form of the name John? | Sean |
| Who was the first US woman to go into space in 1983? | Sally Ride |
| Which was the first space shuttle to orbit the Earth? | Columbia |
| What name is given to the ridge between the shoulder blades of an animal, typically a quadruped? In many species, it is the tallest point of the body. | Withers |
| Jonah, lady, pea, king and porcelain are all species of what? | Crab |
| Pioneer 10 in 1983 was the first manmade object to do what? | Leave the solar system |
| Other than Borneo, orang-utans are also native to which island? | Sumatra |
| What sort of creature is a whippoorwill? | Bird (nightjar) |
| In banking, what does BACS stand for? | Bankers' Automated Clearing Services |
| Black Friday, a discounted shopping day, follows which other traditional day? | Thanksgiving |
| Which bird was called Mother Carey's Chicken by sailors, seabirds in the family Hydrobatidae? | Storm petrels |
| Which flower, Saxifraga × urbium, took its common name from the fact that it rapidly colonised bomb sites during the Blitz? | London pride |
| Which flower, Campanula medium, supposedly represents gratitude in floriography? | Canterbury Bell |
| Founded in 1762 in London, which company is the world's oldest mutual insurer? | Equitable Life/The Equitable Life Assurance Society |
| Which company used the famous slogan "the appliance of science" in its advertising? | Zanussi |
| Which company famously used the slogan "we won't make a drama out of a crisis" in the UK? | Commercial Union |
| In heraldry, what is a Talbot? | (Hunting) dog |
| Which part of theology is concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity? This concept is commonly referred to as the "end of the world" or "end times". | Eschatology |
| Which Italian luxury fashion house introduced the "youthful" line Miu Miu in 1993? | Prada |
| Which major international sporting team is frequently referred to in English and French as the Habs? | Montreal Canadiens |
| What three word title is shared by the 1689 British statute enshrining the constitutional principles won during the Glorious Revolution, and the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution? | Bill of Rights |
| Named for a US President, which US state capital's name contains more letters than any of the others? | Jefferson City |
| Known as the 'Mother Tongue' philosophy in Japan, this method of teaching music is known in the West by the name of its inventor. What was his name? | (Shinichi) Suzuki |
| Facing Mount Rushmore, which President's face is on the right? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Which male tennis player appeared in eight consecutive US Open finals between 1982 and 1989, winning 3 of them? | Ivan Lendl |
| Which former tennis player from Sweden won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open) from 1982 to 1988? | Mats Wilander |
| In which Swiss city are the headquarters of Rolex based? | Geneva |
| Coming between delta and zeta, what is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet? | Epsilon |
| Al-Jazeera, the broadcaster, are based in which city? | Doha |
| The second in the Fantastic Beasts series, which 2018 film was the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)? | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald |
| Who was arrested at Heathrow Airport in 1968 travelling under a false passport in the name of Ramon Sneyd? | James Earl Ray |
| What four-word acclamation precedes each of the following lines: " __ we have chosen for the nation; __ we salute him one and all; __ as we pledge co-operation"? | Hail to the chief |
| Climbers in the USA like to conquer the "fourteeners" - peaks over 14,000 feet high. Which state is home to more than half of the known fourteeners in the USA? | Colorado |
| Arthur Morgan is the protagonist in which video game? | Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| Who took the iconic photograph of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore for the August 1991 cover of Vanity Fair? | Annie Leibovitz |
| Which South American author, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, always wrote in green because green is the colour of hope? | Pablo Neruda |
| Who played Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander in the film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"? | Eddie Redmayne |
| Who, in December 1997, became the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand? | Jenny Shipley |
| Which nation is closest to Boa Vista, the Cape Verdean island closest to the African mainland? | Senegal |
| Which big cat has Latin name Panthera Onca? | Jaguar |
| Which country switched from the koruna to the Euro in 2009? | Slovakia |
| Of what is the tesla the SI unit? | Magnetic induction (also, magnetic flux density) |
| Who painted the coronation portrait of George IV? | Thomas Lawrence |
| Which French composer, a member of 'les Six', wrote the ballet "Les Biches"? | Francis Poulenc |
| Which Swiss composer, the first member of 'les Six' to die in 1955, wrote the orchestral work "Pacific 231", which was inspired by the sound of a steam locomotive? | Arthur Honegger |
| Which two fences are jumped only once at the Grand National? | Water jump, the Chair |
| Esha Ness, the name of the winner of the 1993 'Grand National that never was' takes its name from a peninsula on which island? | Mainland, Shetland |
| The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, published in 1765, is often attributed to which author, who also wrote poem "The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society" (1764)? | Oliver Goldsmith |
| In which town or city, still famed for violin production, was Antonio Stradivari born and based? | Cremona |
| What is half of a minim called? | Crotchet |
| Johann Christoph Denner (1655-1707) was credited with inventing which musical instrument? | Clarinet |
| Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (April 9, 1794 – November 25, 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who perfected the modern form of which musical instrument? | Flute |
| Which instrument is called an English horn in North America? | Cor anglais |
| Discovered by Italian archaeologists in 1964 and described as the first recorded world power, the city-state of Ebla (also known as Tell Mardikh) is to be found in which modern-day country? | Syria |
| Which American author wrote the 1913 autobiographical novel John Barleycorn which detailed his lifelong struggle with alcoholism? | Jack London |
| What name is given to meat-eating animals' paired upper and lower teeth (either molars or premolars and molars) modified in such a way as to allow enlarged and often self-sharpening edges to pass by each other in a shearing manner? | Carnassials |
| How many quarks make a proton? | Three |
| How many legs does have a flea have? | Six |
| Which literary figure's mother was Susan Pollexfen (13 July 1841 – 3 January 1900)? | WB Yeats |
| Give a year during Japan's Meiji Period. | 1868-1912 |
| Commonly known as one of the richest in Paris, with calm, select and very expensive neighbourhoods, and the birthplace of Marcel Proust, which area of Paris is sometimes abbreviated as NAP? | Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy |
| Which critically acclaimed 1921 play takes as its plot the story of an Italian aristocrat who falls off his horse while playing a historic Holy Roman Emperor at Lent and then spends 20 years believing himself to be that Emperor? | Henry IV (Pirandello) |
| Who wrote the 1904 novel "The Late Mattia Pascal"? | Luigi Pirandello |
| Who wrote the trilogy "Sanshirō", "And Then" and "The Gate"? | Natsume Soseki |
| Which literary figure had a romantic relationship with composer Reynaldo Hahn, and an infatuation with his chauffeur and secretary, Alfred Agostinelli? | Marcel Proust |
| Which singing duo achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No.1 smash "A World Without Love"? | Peter and Gordon |
| Kiviak is a traditional winter food of the Greenlandic Inuit. It is made from which birds being left to ferment in the hollowed-out body of a seal? | Little auks |
| In 2012, one member of this family became the first person in history to walk over the Niagara Falls on a high wire. What is the name of this German-US circus act and daredevil stunt family, best known for performing high wire acts without a safety net? | Flying Wallendas |
| In which city is the Menshikov Palace? | St Petersburg |
| Which graffiti and mural artist based in New York City was born Sandra Fabara in 1964? | Graffiti |
| Granted a Royal charter in 1448 as one of the City Livery Companies of London, the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers formerly regulated a textile and a fabric. Name both of these once luxury times. | Silk, velvet |
| The Bay of Pigs in Cuba is an inlet to which gulf? | Gulf of Cazones |
| In which year was Thomas a Becket murdered in Canterbury Cathedral? | 1170 |
| Which Flemish Baroque painter (1593-1678), who unlike Rubens and van Dyck never travelled abroad, and instead remained in Antwerp, produced works "St. Peter Finding the Tribute Money", "The Martyrdom of St. Apollonia" and "The Story of Cupid and Psyche"? | Jacob Jordaens |
| Which artist's (1904-97) work "Interchange" sold for $300m in Septmeber 2015? | Willem de Kooning |
| Now the location of a small memorial, at which site in the City of London was Sir William Wallace hanged, drawn and quartered on 23rd August 1305? | Smithfield |
| Which Punjabi word meaning "the pure" refers to both a special group of initiated Sikh warriors, as well as a community that considers Sikhism as its faith? | Khalsa |
| Who became King of the Netherlands in 2013? | Willem-Alexander |
| What was Kylie Minogue's debut film, of 1989? | The Delinquents |
| What is the only county in Northern Ireland that does not border Lough Neagh? | Fermanagh |
| Who is Alexander Armstrong's comedy partner, also known for playing the lead role of DI Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC Crime Drama Death in Paradise? | Ben Miller |
| The Lincolnshire physician Dr Francis Willis famously treated which king of England? | George III |
| The "Kempler video" shows the assassination of which leader? | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Which ballet dancer played Russian artist, Aleksandr Petrovsky, a love interest of Carrie Bradshaw, in the final series of "Sex and the City"? | Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| Find the Lady is an alternative name for which card game? | Three-card trick |
| Who played Justine Last, the titular "The Good Girl" in the 2002 film? | Jennifer Aniston |
| With which song, a cover of a Marcie Blane track, did Susan Maugham have a UK No 3 hit in 1962? | Bobby's Girl |
| What is the name of Desperate Dan's pet dog? | Dawg |
| Who replaced Robert Robinson as host of Brain of Britain in 2010? | Russell Davies |
| In Voltaire's novel Candide, what is the name of the Manichaean scholar whom the title character meets in Suriname? The exact opposite of Pangloss, he is convinced that the world is full of fools. | Martin |
| Which Russian geneticist (1917-85) is best-known for his decades long experiment breeding the wild silver fox, selecting only those individuals that showed the least fear of humans, until he was left with foxes which wagged their tails when approached? | Dmitry Konstantinovich |
| Geralt of Rivia is the protagonist of which 2007 action role-playing video game adapted from the book series of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski? | The Witcher |
| Which British spy for the Soviets (1912-88) was known as "The Third Man"? | Kim Philby |
| What is the culinary term for the edible offal of a fowl, typically including the heart, gizzard, liver, and other visceral organs | Giblets |
| A quinary system is based on which number? | Five |
| Frank Lampard began his career with which football club? | West Ham |
| Who played Aron Ralston in the survival film "127 Hours"? | James Franko |
| Peter Mandelson was MP for which English town? | Hartlepool |
| The sitcom "Cold Feet" was set in which UK city? | Manchester |
| Who played Johnny Cash in the film "Walk The Line"? | Joaquin Phoenix |
| What was the surname of the Czech husband and wife who were jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy | Cori |
| Baskin-Robbins ice cream is known for its slogan advertising how many flavours ("flavors")? | 31 |
| Cleopatra VII of Egypt died in which city? | Alexandria |
| Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and ________. This UNESCO World Heritage Site consists of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Mukden Palace in which city of 6 million people - the largest in northeastern China? | Shenyang |
| Who is the mother of TV presenter Emma Forbes? | Nanette Newman |
| Although officially called 'followers', they are almost universally referred to as 'meeples'. These distinctive playing pieces are used in which board game? | Carcassonne |
| Who directed the Angelina Jolie film "Changeling" of 2008? | Clint Eastwood |
| Who released the 2007 album "Good Girl Gone Bad"? | Rihanna |
| Taking the role of Chingachgook in 1992's The Last of the Mohicans, he also appeared in 1994 film Natural Born Killers. Which controversial Oglala Sioux actor - who died in 2012 - is better known as an activist for the rights of Native American people? | Russell Means |
| Who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films from 2001-2011? | Tom Felton |
| The 17th century German professor Wilhelm Schickard is best-known for his invention of an early example of which device, the invention of which is often attributed to Blaise Pascal who independently invented such a device some two decades later? | Mechanical calculator |
| The orbit of which planet is closest to the Earth's? | Venus |
| Rupert Murdoch was born with which first name? | Keith |
| First appearing in the 1962 novel "Cover Her Face" PD James created which poetry writing detective? | Adam Dalgliesh |
| "I Talk To The Trees" is a song from which musical? | Paint Your Wagon |
| The 1908 painting The Football Players is a well-known work of which artist? | Henri Rousseau |
| It was situated in the southern hemisphere, between the paleocontinents of Laurentia, Baltica, and Avalonia until it disappeared during the Paleozoic with the formation of Euamerica. Which ocean? | Iapetus Ocean |
| Which patriotic Cuban song became a hit in the United States when The Sandpipers took their version - based on an arrangement by Pete Seeger - in to the top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100? | Guantanamera |
| Playing the White Witch in the Narnia series (2005-10) who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Karen Crowder in the 2007 film Michael Clayton? | Tilda Swinton |
| The Mildenhall treasure was found in which county in 1942? | Suffolk |
| In the title of a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel, who is Sara Crewe? | A Little Princess |
| Which corporation made the Hayabusa motorcycle and Burgman scooters? | Suzuki |
| Which Korean dish involves serving a live baby octopus? | San-nakji |
| Who was shot dead at Pete Maxwell's ranch home on July 14th, 1881? | Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty/William Bonney) |
| Which shark species is the second largest fish? | Basking shark (whale shark) |
| Anthony Marriott and Alastair Foot wrote which long-running 1971 stage farce? | No Sex Please, We're British |
| Which saint is credited with staging the first nativity scene (presepio) in 1223? | St Francis of Assisi |
| The Jeffersonian Institute is home to the Medico-Legal Lab team in which US TV series (2005-17)? | Bones |
| Where are Kirkwood gaps found? | Asteroid belt |
| Charles Marrow falls in love with Kate Hardcastle in which 1773 play? | She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith |
| What, in education, does the abbreviation SAT stand for? | Scholastic Aptitude Test |
| In computing, what does the abbreviation DHCP stand for? | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| To whom was Isaac Newton writing when he used his "standing on the shoulders of giants" quote? | Robert Hooke |
| Father of the noted literary siblings Antonia Fraser, Judith Kazantzis and Rachel Billington, who was one of the few aristocratic hereditary peers to serve in a Labour government, doing so under PM Harold Wilson? | Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford/Lord Longford |
| He was servant of Hephaestus in Lemnos. According to one tradition, he was Hephaestus's tutor, with whom Hera fostered her son on Naxos to teach him smithcraft. Who most famously stood on the shoulders of the blinded Orion for a guide to the East? | Cedalion |
| For what does the "e" stand in the name of the firm e-Bay? | Echo |
| In particle physics, what name is given to a composite particle made of two or more quarks held together by the strong force in a similar way as molecules are held together by the electromagnetic force? | Hadron |
| Which particles form a when a neutron undergoes free neutron decay? | Proton, electron, antineutrino |
| Which is the only baryon that does not undergo spontaneous decay? | Proton |
| Which Prime Minister of Spain, appointed 2 June 2018, announced controversial plans to exhume Franco? | Pedro Sánchez |
| Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and formed in 1996 as a result of the merger of the French company Ecco and the Swiss company Adia Interim, what is the world's largest HR company? | Adecco |
| What is the most westerly capital city of mainland Africa? | Dakar |
| What replaced Bujumbura as capital of Burundi in 2019? | Gitega |
| In particle physics, which mesons are denoted by the letter K? | Kaons |
| Played by Daniel Day-Lewis what is the nickname of the villain William Cutting in the film "Gangs of New York"? | Bill the Butcher |
| In Texas Hold Em Poker, five community cards are dealt face up in three stages. The stages consist of a series of three cards ("the flop"), later an additional single card ("the turn" or "fourth street"), and a final card, nicknamed what? | The River (of fifth street) |
| The second of four wives, photographer David Bailey married which actress in 1965? | Catherine Deneuve |
| An icon of Swinging London and considered to be one of the world's first supermodels, which English mode, born 1942, starred alongside Paul Jones in the 1967 film Privilege and rose to prominence through her work with photographer David Bailey? | Jean Shrimpton |
| Which TV role links David Threlfall in the UK and William H Macy in the USA? | Frank Gallagher from Shameless |
| Who played Jon Snow in the hit show "Game of Thrones"? | Kit Harington |
| Alain Delon, John Malkovich and Matt Damon have all played which con artist? | Tom Ripley (Patricia Highsmith's fictional character) |
| Which US mobile phone maker pioneered the "flip phone" with the MicroTAC in 1989? | Motorola |
| In Doctor Who, the Torchwood Institute was founded by which monarch? | Queen Victoria |
| South Africa's Henry Cele played the title role in which 1986 UK TV series? | Shaka Zulu |
| The first six series of which US TV series (2011-18) were largely set in the fictitious seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, with the characters of Emma Swan and Regina Mills serving as the leads? | Once Upon A Time |
| Which Italian contemporary artist gathered 100 nude models in Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie for her artwork VB55 IN 2005? | Vanessa Beecroft |
| What are onionskins, commies, chinas and aggies? | Types of (playing) marbles |
| Who hosted Seasons 1-4 of TV show "Man vs Food"? | Adam Richman |
| Which man, a winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, once directed two episodes of Inspector Morse starring John Thaw? | Danny Boyle |
| On TV and radio, which act, the stage names of female impersonators George Logan and Patrick Fyffe, lived in the fictional village of Stackton Tressell? | Hinge and Bracket |
| Which recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress played "Suzanne" in a 1993 episode of Casualty entitled "Family Matters"? | Kate Winslet |
| In which modern day country was the actor Edward G Robinson born in 1893? | Romania |
| Played by Edward G Robinson in the Cecil B DeMille film "The Ten Commandments", which character in the book of Exodus, along with his brother Abiram, placed obstacles in Moses way at every turn? | Dathan |
| In "The Lion King" what type of animal is Pumbaa? | Warthog |
| In "The Lion King" what type of animal is Timon? | Meerkat |
| What is the surname of the family at the centre of the animated TV show "Family Guy"? | Griffin |
| Who had major roles as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend in the crime drama Charlie's Angels (1976–1981) — a role he would reprise in the 2000 and 2003 film adaptations — and as patriarch Blake Carrington in Dynasty (1981–1989)? | John Forsythe |
| Who was born born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918? | Rita Hayworth |
| What is the numeric designation of the purpose-built taxicab (hackney carriage) manufactured since 2013 by The London Taxi Company? | TX4 |
| The poinsettia is named after the first US Ambassador to which country? | Mexico |
| The Melbourne Ladies presented Ivo Bligh with which 11cm high item in 1882-3? | Ashes urn |
| What is the Norfolk estate of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley? | Houghton Hall |
| Which Paco Rabane fragrance shares its name with a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley? | Invictus |
| Peter Oborne's book "Wounded Tiger" is about cricket in which country? | Pakistan |
| Donald Featherstone, who died in 2015, is best remembered for creating which kitsch lawn ornaments which inspired a namesake black comedy film of 1972? | Pink Flamingos |
| Which asterism (group of stars) appears on the state flag of Alaska? | The Plough (or Big Dipper) |
| Although he is the primary narrator of Absalom! Absalom!, Quentin Compson's own story, and suicide, is told in which other novel by William Faulkner? | The Sound and the Fury |
| Which podcast, starting in 2014, re-investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore? | Serial |
| Which French composer wrote the rhapsodic piece Tzigane (1924)? | Maurice Ravel |
| Who composed "L'Amico Fritz" (1891) and "Guglielmo Ratcliff" (1895)? | Pietro Mascagni |
| Which opera by Peter Maxwell Davies is about a 16th century English composer? | Taverner (as in John Taverner) |
| Which composer scored Laurence Olivier's films Henry V and Hamlet? | William Walton |
| The composers Holst, Elgar and Delius all died in which year? | 1934 |
| Other than Spain's, name two European countries whose national anthems do not have lyrics. | Kosovo, San Marino, Bosnia-Hercegovina |
| What is the Afrikaans term for a barbeque? | Braai |
| Which US minimalist composer wrote "Drumming" and "Music for 18 Musicians"? | Steve Reich |
| With which other ship did the Andrea Doria collide in 1956? | SS Stockholm |
| Which children's book creation, first appearing in 1955, was described as having "a heart two sizes two small"? | The Grinch |
| China's most northeasterly, which Chinese province's name means "black dragon river"? | Heilongjiang |
| Which architect designed the Sage Gateshead? | Norman Foster |
| Which controversial US cognitive linguist is best known for his thesis that lives of individuals are significantly influenced by the central metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena, an idea first introduced in the 1980 book Metaphors We Live By? | George Lakoff |
| A bartender named Desmond Miles is captured by megacorporation Abstergo Industries. Using a machine known as the Animus, he is forced to relive the memories of his ancestors in order to recover the "Pieces of Eden", for Abstergo. Which video game series? | Assassin's Creed |
| The province of Nuoro is particularly famous for the longevity of its inhabitants, with the area having a far higher density of centenarians than any other province in Europe. On which island can the province of Nuoro be found? | Sardinia |
| Which younger brother of Joseph Haydn was also a highly regarded composer? | Michael (Johann Michael Haydn) |
| What metal did Kipling call "the master of them all"? | Iron |
| Who was the first female Master of the Queen's Music? | Judith Weir |
| Which Spanish and Portuguese term referring to beef or grilled meat more generally, denotes a style of cooking popular in Latin America, and means 'barbeque' in Brazil? | Churrasco |
| Peter Warlock was the byname of which English composer (1894-1930)? | Philip Heseltine |
| What was the first satellite launched by the United States, part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year? | Explorer 1 |
| Flying V, Firebird, Archtop, L7 and Super 400 are guitars made by which US company? | Gibson |
| A long-legged creature what is South America's largest canid, Chrysocyon brachyurus? | Maned wolf |
| Whose one year, five day reign as world chess champion is, as of 2019, the briefest in history? | Mikhail Tal |
| Which entertainment company was founded by Guy Laliberte in 1984? | Cirque du Soleil |
| Which English composer and conductor wrote the theme to the 1964 film "633 Squadron"? | Ron Goodwin |
| In which town or city was the first Harry Ramsden's fish and chip shop opened in 1926? | Bradford |
| Heracles was the result of a liaison Zeus had with which mortal? | Alcmene |
| Which party hostess made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was acquitted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a southwestern suburb of London? | Cynthia Payne |
| Biman is the state-owned airline of which country? | Bangladesh |
| In 1933, Ernie Schaaf died four days after he was knocked out by which heavyweight boxer? | Primo Carnera |
| Los Charruas, or La Celeste, is the nickname of which South American national football team? | Uruguay |
| Riding Prince of Penzance, Michelle Payne was, in 2015, the first female jockey to win which event? | Melbourne Cup |
| Charles Pooter is a fictional character, the supposed author and leading character of which novel? | Diary of a Nobody (by Charles and Weedon Grossmith) |
| Founded by Steve Fairbairn and first contested in 1926, which rowing race runs from Mortlake to Putney? | The Head of The River Race |
| Charles Dickens described which monarch as "a most intolerable ruffian"? | Henry VIII |
| Kama, or Kamadeva, is the Hindu god of what? | Love (accept sexual desire) |
| Which explosive was developed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia, originally under the name B 1, and under its current name since 1964? | Semtex |
| On 23rd September 1779 which Scottish-born captain led a Franco-American naval squadron against a British convoy in what became known as the Battle of Flamborough Head? | John Paul Jones |
| Lieutenants John Chard and Gonville Bromhead were both awarded the Victoria Cross for their roles in leading the troops at which battle in January 1879? | Rorke's Drift |
| Nicknamed "the soldier's battle", which battle was fought during the Crimean War on 5 November 1854 between the allied armies of Britain, France and Ottoman Empire against the Imperial Russian Army? | Battle of Inkerman |
| Which farm, owned by Michael Eavis, is the traditional home of the Glastonbury Festival? | Worthy Farm |
| MPs in the UK who wish to resign their office may apply for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, or which other paid office? | Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead |
| The Dalai Lama is a member of which school of Tibetan Buddhism which was founded by Je Tsongkhapa in the early 15th century? Although the Dalai Lama is the school's most influential figure, its spiritual leader is the Ganden Tripa. | Gelug or Yellow Hat |
| The cross-country skiers Raisa Smetanina and Stefania Belmondo were the first two women to win 10 or more Winter Olympic medals; but which other cross-country skier became the third in Sochi in 2014? She eventually won 15 with five more in 2018. | Marit Bjørgen |
| Hipped, jerkin and monopitch are all types of which universal structure? | Roof |
| There are two living species of ostrich. One is the common ostrich, while the other was recognised as a separate species only in 2014. Named for the country in which it is most commonly found, this is which species? | Somali ostrich |
| Excluding Kingston Upon Hull, what is the only city in the UK - as of 2019 - to begin with the letter 'H'? | Hereford |
| What nationality were the authors Henrik Pontoppidan and Karl Gjellerup who shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature? | Danish |
| Ventriloquist Peter Brough famously operated which puppet? | Archie Andrews |
| Launched in 1973, what was the USA's first space station? | Skylab |
| Despina, Larissa and Naiad are moons of which planet? | Neptune |
| Edward Lear described which characters whose "heads are green, and their hands are blue"? | The Jumblies |
| Which American model and entrepreneur, born 1992, is an avid computer programmer and appeared as "Knockout" in Taylor Swift's music video for the single "Bad Blood" in May 2015? | Karlie Kloss |
| Launched in 1959 by the USA, what was the first weather satellite? | Vanguard 2 |
| Which Apollo 13 astronaut said "Okay Houston, we've had a problem here"? | Jack Swigert |
| The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in which US city? | Boston |
| Arthur Conan Doyle's 1929 novel "The Maracot Deep" centres on which legend? | Atlantis |
| The Fourcault Process is used for manufacturing which material? | Glass |
| Salyut I was the first ever type of which structure? | Space Station |
| Supposedly compiled by Confucius, which Chinese chronicle - one of the Five Classics of Chinese literature - gives its name to the period of Chinese history between 771 BC and 476 BC? | Spring and Autumn Annals |
| In 2009, the Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell became the first known adult human to have been killed by which predators? | Coyotes |
| Which civilisation had a 260-day ritual calendar divided into thirteen day periods named for, among other things, the rabbit, the lizard, the monkey, the dog, the jaguar, and the vulture? | Aztecs |
| Which American actor and singer faked a supposedly racist and homophobic attack on himself in February 2019? | Jussie Smollett |
| The impact basin Hellas is which planet's largest recognisable impact feature? | Mars |
| The 1939 film "Ninotchka" carried which famous two-word tagline? | "Garbo Laughs" |
| Who was shot by Boston Corbett on April 26th 1865? | John Wilkes Booth |
| Which bird can be Pink, Rock, Speckled, Nicobar or Domestic? | Pigeon |
| In 1957, US physicist Hugh Everett proposed which relative state formulation of quantum physics? His interpretation says that every quantum event causes a splitting of our universe into a series of parallel universes. | Many worlds interpretation |
| Coming to power in a military coup in 1994, Yahya Jammeh was the controversial and long-serving president of which African country, until 2017? | Gambia |
| The Capital of Uttar Pradeesh, which city was the scene of a significant siege in the Indian Rebellion of 1857? | Lucknow |
| What is the capital of the Indian state of Nagaland? | Kohima |
| Scene of a notable 1944 battle, what is the capital of the Indian state of Manipur? | Imphal |
| Tang (c. 1675 – 1646 BC) or Cheng Tang, recorded on oracle bones as Da Yi, was the first king of which Chinese dynasty? | Shang |
| The Terracotta Army was made during which Chinese dynasty? | Qin Dynasty |
| Who was the first emperor of a unified China, the creator of the Terracotta Army? | Qin Shi Huang |
| Hydroformylation, also known as oxo synthesis or oxo process, is an industrial process for the production of what chemical group from alkenes? | Aldehydes |
| Which metal forms the basis of Grignard reagants? | Magnesium |
| Described as "the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian", which musical - based on Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name - won five Tony Awards in 2015? | Fun Home |
| What alcohol would be formed by the oxidation of formaldehyde? | Methanol |
| The Rosetta Stone bears writing in three scripts - hieroglyphs, Greek and which other? | Egyptian demotic |
| Which English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England is best known for "The Boke of Phyllyp Sparowe"? | John Skelton |
| Which upper case Greek letter refers to the density of the universe, also called the density parameter? | Omega (Ω) |
| "Less is more" and "God is in the details" are phrases associated with which minimalist architect, born in Germany in 1886? | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| The 1969 minimalist stage work "Breath" was created by which Nobel Laureate? | Samuel Beckett |
| The Army of the Andes (Spanish: Ejército de los Andes) was a military force mustered by general José de San Martín in his campaign for independence for which country from Spanish rule? | Chile |
| For what do the letters TMZ stand in the name the celebrity news website? | Thirty Mile Zone |
| Held annually at the Vincennes hippodrome in Paris, the Prix d'Amérique is considered the world's most prestigious race in which sport? | Harness Racing |
| The Erie Canal originally ran from Lake Erie to which river? | Hudson River |
| Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is an 1873 painting by whom? | Arnold Böcklin |
| Which element, atomic number 48, was discovered in 1817 simultaneously by Stromeyer and Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in zinc carbonate? | Cadmium |
| Which bridge over the Thames was opened by the Prince Regent in 1817, and replaced with a new one opened in 1945? It lies between Blackfriars Bridge and Hungerford Bridge. | Waterloo Bridge |
| What name is given to the analytical technique that ionizes chemical species and sorts the ions based on their mass-to-charge ratio? | Mass spectrometry |
| Which Indian Tamil physicist born in the former Madras Province in India presently the state of Tamil Nadu, carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics? | C.V. Raman |
| Most of the thermal radiation emitted by objects near room temperature lies within which band of electromagnetic radiation? | Infrared |
| Who was the Republican nominee in both 1944 and 1948, losing the latter in one of the biggest upsets in Presidential election history? | Thomas E Dewey |
| Which US politician was the first member of either chamber of Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office? | Strom Thurmond |
| By some measures the rainiest city in the world, Buenaventura (pop. 360,000) is which country's largest Pacific port? | Colombia |
| Focussing on the cultures of Bali, Java, and Saharan Morocco, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973) was listed by the TLS as one of 100 the most important publications since WW2. It is a collection of essays by which influential US anthropologist? | Clifford Geertz |
| Briefly the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809 under the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, which Syrian city, on the north bank of the Euphrates, served as the de facto capital of Islamic State? | Raqqah |
| Which was the only US state won by George McGovern in the 1972 US Presidential election? | Massachusetts |
| What nationality is the racing cyclist Jolanda Neff, who, in 2015, became the first ever gold medal-winner at the European Games by virtue of winning the cross country event at the inaugural competition in Baku? | Swiss |
| The last native ruler of Egypt, Nectanebo II, was ultimately defeated by the combined Persian and Greek forces in which battle? | Battle of Pelusium |
| Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains is the sobriquet for the state in Sanskrit. It is also known as the Orchid State of India or the Paradise of the Botanists. Which Indian state? | Arunachal Pradesh |
| In 1925, who combined a series of articles about decorative art from "L'Esprit Nouveau" into a book, L'art décoratif d'aujourd'hui (The Decorative Art of Today)? | Le Corbusier |
| Which large château in the city of Amboise, France is famous for being the official residence of Leonardo da Vinci between 1516 and 1519, when Leonardo died? | Clos Lucé |
| Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz married which prince in 1978? | Prince Michael of Kent |
| Which cathedral has the longest nave in the Caribbean? | St Albans Cathedral |
| Which Italian composed the 1892 opera "La Wally"? | Alfredo Catalini |
| What is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust? | Aluminium |
| Which Peel model is the smallest production car ever? | P50 |
| The Dutch company Batavus is most famed for making what? | Bicycles |
| Which Labour politician first entered parliament in 1945 as MP for Ormskirk? | Harold Wilson |
| "Lady, Be Good" (1924) was the first Broadway musical by which pair? | George & Ira Gershwin |
| Whose play "The Cyclops" is the only extant satyr play? | Euripides |
| Hamletmachine (1977) is a postmodernist drama by which German playwright? | Heiner Muller |
| Before fighting who, in 1938, did Franklin D Roosevelt tell Joe Louis "we need muscles like yours to beat Germany"? | Max Schmeling |
| Which British novelist and journalist (b. 1932) said "life is too short to stuff a mushroom"? | Shirley Conran |
| Which car company started making the Escalade in 1998? | Cadillac |
| What do Australians call an Esky? | Ice box/cooler |
| Which canal that connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston, Ontario becomes the world's largest naturally frozen skating rink in winter? | Rideau Canal |
| Which Irish travel writer wrote "Full Tilt: Ireland to India With A Bicycle"? | Dervla Murphy |
| Nathan Fillion played which titular mystery novelist, with the first name Richard, in a US TV drama (2009-2016)? | Castle |
| The Galleria Sabauda is an art gallery in which Italian city? | Turin |
| The Ten Commandments appear in Exodus and which other book of the Old Testament? | Deuteronomy |
| Adolf Ehinger created which office device in 1936? | (Mechanical) Paper Shredder |
| Who was the youngest son of Odysseus and Circe in Greek myth? | Telegonus |
| Which traditional Thai greeting is similar to the Indian namaste gesture? | Wai |
| Which eye infection is also known as granular conjunctivitis and Egyptian ophthalmia? | Trachoma |
| Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, which 2014 film was called the first Iranian "vampire western"? | A Girl Walks Home At Night |
| Winner of the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize, who was the first Labour cabinet minister in the UK? | Arthur Henderson |
| Jessica Gunning played which future MP for Swansea East in the 2014 film "Pride"? | Siân James |
| The holder of which political office resides at 24 Sussex Drive? | Prime Minister of Canada |
| What is the SI unit of mass? | Kilogram |
| Meaning "house of pine waves", and developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945), what is the most widely practiced style of karate? | Shotokan |
| Which Jane Austen heroine is introduced as "handsome, clever and rich"? | Emma Woodhouse from "Emma" |
| Which US band originally had a hit with the song "Dancing In The Moonlight" in 1972? | King Harvest |
| Bob Slattery created which fragrance for Calvin Klein in 1985? | Obsession |
| Which Anglo-Saxon king succeeded Harthacanute in 1042? | Edward the Confessor |
| In 1990, which 45 year old golfer became the oldest US Open champion? | Hale Irwin |
| Which musician (1909-86) was nicknamed "The King of Swing"? | Benny Goodman |
| Which Beatles song contains the lyric "the wild and windy night that the rain washed away, has left a pool of tears"? | The Long And Winding Road |
| The virginal and the spinet are both what type of musical instrument? | Keyboard |
| In a standard orchestral layout, which instruments are directly in front of the conductor? | Violas |
| The dulcian was an early forerunner of which musical instrument? | Bassoon |
| Which musical instrument was invented in 1886 by Auguste Mustel? | Celesta |
| Which violinist and conductor claimed to have introduced the baton to England on 10 April 1820, while conducting his second symphony with the Philharmonic Society in London? | Louis Spohr |
| Who composed "Music For The Royal Fireworks" in 1749? | George Frideric Handel |
| Jim Adkins is the lead vocalist of which rock band formed in Mesa, Arizona in 1993? | Jimmy Eat World |
| The bombardon is another name for which musical instrument? | Tuba |
| The supertall skyscraper Landmark 81, opened in 2014, is in which city? | Ho Chi Minh City |
| What is the capital of Vietnam? | Hanoi |
| What is the only body of water in the English Lake District to contain the word 'lake' in its name? | Bassenthwaite Lake |
| Name either of the eight main compass directions that do not correspond to a London postcode. | NE or S |
| Which town is designated by the British postcode of NN? | Northampton |
| Which town is designated by the British postcode of SS? | Southend-on-Sea |
| What is the most populous city in Bolivia? | Santa Cruz (de la Sierra) |
| Which is the second most populous city in Malawi after Lilongwe? | Blantyre |
| In which museum can one find the Hammurabi Law Code? | Louvre |
| The archaeological site of Minoan town Akrotiri is on which island? | Thera (Santorini) |
| Painted in 1635 or 1636 who was the artist behind "Charles I in Three Positions"? | Anthony van Dyck |
| From which work did Agatha Christie take the title of her novel "The Mirror Crack'd"? | The Lady of Shallot (Tennyson) |
| Which Manchester-based businessman launched the short-lived 1986 newspaper "Today"? | Eddie Shah |
| Who wrote the book "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"? | Philip Pullman |
| The Last Roundup trilogy (consisting of A Star Called Henry (1999); Oh, Play That Thing! (2004); and The Dead Republic (2010)) were works by which author? | Roddy Doyle |
| Under what pen name does James D. Grant (born Coventry in 1954) write novels? | Lee Child |
| Who wrote the play "Beyond the Horizon" that premiered in 1920? | Eugene O'Neill |
| Set in 1930s Mississippi, who wrote the 1937 play "Spring Storm"? | Tennessee Williams |
| "What the Thunder Said" is the fifth and last part of which literary work? | The Waste Land (TS Eliot) |
| Which artist (1889-1946) was best known for war and surrealistic paintings, one of his most famous works being "The Menin Road"? | Paul Nash |
| Which ancient philosopher (c. 60-120) important ancient mathematician is best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic and Manual of Harmonics in Greek? | Nicomachus |
| Who wrote the play "Our American Cousin" that Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated? | Tom Taylor |
| Which ballet move with a name derived from the French for "whip" - begins with the performer standing on one flat foot in plié? The working leg is extended and whipped around to the side and then bent and pulled in to a passe or retiré position? | Fouette |
| What is the surname of the man after whom Hugo Awards are named - he was the founder of "Amazing Stories"? | (Hugo) Gernsback |
| Samuel Johnson said: "'Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink..." what? | Brandy |
| The logo for which agency that covers England and Scotland and was founded in 1919, combines a coniferous tree with a smaller deciduous one? | Forestry Commission |
| "4 3 2 1" is a novel by who, published in 2017? | Paul Auster |
| Which composer (born 1943) wrote music for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, The Bounty, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander? | Vangelis |
| For which 1979 film did Meryl Streep win her first Academy Award (for Best Supporting Actress)? | Kramer vs Kramer |
| The final play by Arthur Miller in 2004 "Finishing the Picture", recounted his experience making which movie? | The Misfits |
| Truman Capote said staying in which US state caused you to "lose one point of your IQ every year"? | California |
| Which French artist lost his job as a stockbroker in 1882? | Gauguin |
| Dr Frances Kelsey received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy in 1962 for something she refused to do. What was it? | Allow thalidomide to be marketed in the USA |
| In the Aeneid which Trojan priest was attacked, with his two sons, by giant serpents sent by the gods, after trying to warn that the wooden horse was a trick? | Laocoon |
| Although best-known for his positive contribution to chemistry, Linus Pauling is also remembered for a biological blunder which saw him propose that the structure of DNA had which shape, prior to the question being resolved by Crick and Watson? | Triple helix |
| Sometimes described as 'the national food of the Greeks', which soup is made by simmering dry white beans in olive oil along with vegetables such as carrots, onions, and celery? | Fasolada |
| Which Japanese shogunate was ended by the Meiji Restoration of 1868? | Tokugawa |
| Often caused by a deficiency in vitamin A and taking its name from the Greek for 'dry eyes', which medical condition can be described as a pathological dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea as a result of the inability of the eye to produce tears? | Xerophthalmia |
| Which product - first launched in 2001 - took its name from a line spoken in the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey? | iPod |
| Later coming to represent the spirit of the Risorgimento, Il Bacio (The Kiss), is the best-known work of which 19th century Italian painter? | Francesco Hayez |
| Medically, the Senning operation involves doing what? | Implanting a pacemaker |
| Who was the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world? | Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz |
| Who was first British woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e., solo) around the world, doing so in 1978? | Naomi James |
| Which climbing flower has the Latin name Lathyrus odoratus? | Sweet Pea |
| The Angstrom is a measure of what? | Length/distance |
| Hierocracy is rule by which group of people? | Priests |
| A pismire is an archaic word for which animal? | Ant |
| Strontium, radium and barium all belong to which group of chemicals? | Alkali Earth Metals |
| Who gave the gyroscope its name? | Léon Foucault |
| In World War Two, what were Hamilcars and Horsas? | Gliders |
| Evgeny Kissin, Artur Schnabel and Alfred Brendel are best known for their work on which musical instrument? | Piano |
| Evelyn Glennie is best known for her work with which musical instrument(s)? | Percussion instruments |
| Yuri Bashmet is best known for his work on which instrument(s)? | Violin or viola |
| In Judaism, what name is given to someone who ritually slaughters animals according to kashrut? | Shochet |
| Who, in 1974, was the first French singer to top the UK number 1 singles chart? | Charles Aznavour |
| Which word can be a musical instrument, a wine glass or an organ stop? | Flute |
| Which word for a costly jaunt is also a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet? | Junket |
| Who composed both the theme tunes to "Desert Island Discs" and "The Dambusters"? | Eric Coates |
| Which town, mentioned in the Bible, derives its name from the Hebrew for "house of bread"? | Bethlehem |
| Lyonnaise sauce is a compound or small French sauce of demi-glace, white wine, vinegar and which vegetable? | Onions |
| Who wrote the score for 1960's "The Magnificent Seven"? | Elmer Bernstein |
| Who directed "Shakespeare in Love", "Mrs Brown" and "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"? | John Madden |
| Sophie Marceau played Bond girl Elektra King in which film? | The World Is Not Enough |
| Which 1981 CP Taylor play about Nazi Germany became a 2008 Viggo Mortensen film? | Good |
| Which author wrote the screenplay for the film "28 Days Later"? | Alex Garland |
| In which 2001 film did Sylvester Stallone play a racing driver trying to win the CART championship? | Driven |
| In the film "Apollo 13" who played astronauts Jack Swigert and Fred Haise? | Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton |
| In which Ben Affleck film of 2004 does his wife, Jennifer Lopez, die during childbirth of an aneurysm? | Jersey Girl |
| Who directed the 1991 film "The Commitments"? | Alan Parker |
| In the 1982 film "The King of Comedy" who played successful comedian and talk show host Jerry Langford? | Jerry Lewis |
| In which month is ANZAC Day commemorated? | April (25th) |
| In 1965, who was assassinated by Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson? | Malcolm X |
| In what Summer Olympic year did the Soviet Union, China, Indonesia, Israel and Thailand all make their debuts? | 1952 (Helsinki) |
| The Carnation Revolution in Portugal occurred in which year? | 1974 |
| Which body of water separates Caithness from the Orkneys? | Pentland Firth |
| Often taking the form of windowless cylindrical towers, what name is given to Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structures found in Scotland? | Broch |
| Derived from Persian, which Indo-Aryan word, equally common in many South Asian languages was the term used for the place where Indian Kings and other rulers had their formal and informal meetings, i.e. in European context, equivalent to a King's Court? | Durbar |
| Which palace is the largest residential Roman building discovered in Britain, located near Chichester? | Fishbourne Roman Palace |
| In Roman times, the name Batavia referred to an area in which modern-day country? | Netherlands |
| In which alphabet are the first ten letters alpha, beta, gamma, delta, ei, so, zeta, eta, theta, and yota? | Coptic |
| Who assassinated Harvey Milk on 27th November 1978? | Dan White |
| Vermeer's "Girl With The Pearl Earring" is usually to be found in which art gallery? | Mauritshuis, the Hague |
| Owning the horse Gulltoppr, which giant and son of Nine Mothers in Norse mythology guards the rainbow bridge Bifröst and is known for drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg? | Heimdallr |
| Australia's 1854 Eureka Rebellion of gold miners began on which city on the Yarrowee River? | Ballarat |
| The Second Triumvirate of Rome consisted of Marc Antony, Octavian (Augustus) and which other politician who had been a close ally of Julius Caesar's? | Lepidus |
| Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America, was married for three months of 1835 (until she died of malaria) to the daughter of which US President? | Zachary Taylor |
| Which Chinese revolutionary's chief legacy was his "three principles of the people", a political philosophy developed by him to make his nation a free, powerful and prosperous nation? He died in 1925. | Sun Yat-sen |
| The November 27th 1934 Battle of Barrington resulted in the death of which notorious Chicago gangster? | Baby Face Nelson |
| Minamoto no Yoritimo was the first Japanese shogun, and led which shogunate that lasted from 1192-1333? | Kamakura |
| The Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 was a Basque retaliation against Charlemagne's forces for the destruction of which city's walls? | Pamplona |
| In September 2009, at the age of 92, who became the oldest living artist to make it to number 1 in the British album chart? | Vera Lynn |
| Which man, nicknamed "The Godfather of Gloom", released the albums Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)? | Leonard Cohen |
| Which jazz bandleader's real name was Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe? | Jelly Roll Morton |
| Zipporah was the wife of which Biblical figure? | Moses |
| Which instrument is also called an English horn or a tenor oboe? | Cor Anglais |
| Who was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to ordain women priests? | George Carey |
| Who had a hit single at number 8 in 1957 with "The Banana Boat Song" and a number 37 in 2007 with "The Living Tree"? | Shirley Bassey |
| Gheorghe Zamfir is a virtuoso on which instrument? | Pan pipes/pan flute |
| Which Italian dessert consists of cream, milk and sugar set with gelatine? | Panna cotta |
| "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" was the signature song of which singer, born August 4th 1901 in New Orleans? | Louis Armstrong |
| What post did Winston Churchill hold at WW1's outbreak? | First Lord of the Admiralty |
| In which small village in northern Italy was Benito Mussolini executed? | Giulino (di Mezzegra) |
| How was the person born Matoaka, and also known as Amonute, (c. 1596 – March 1617) better known? | Pocahontas |
| Which 1968 treaty had the objective to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology? | Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT |
| What is the name of the unicameral national legislature of Israel? | Knesset |
| Which US government official was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950? | Alger Hiss |
| Born in Tennessee on December 13, 1887 and originally a pacifist, who was the most decorated US soldier of WW1? | Alvin York (Sgt York) |
| Who became Queen of Denmark in 1972? | Margrethe II |
| Who was the last monarch of France, reigning from 1830 to 1848? | Louis Philippe I |
| Who was the last monarch of Germany reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918? | Wilhelm II |
| Which Swiss sculptor's (1925-91) "junk sculptor" works satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society? | Jean Tinguely |
| The Rock Drill; Oscar Wilde's memorial at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris; and Liverpool Resurgent are all works by which sculptor? | Jacob Epstein |
| Which artist's later works, such as the Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue series, use vibrant, pure colours, often on very large canvases - Anna's Light (1968), named in memory of his mother who had died in 1965, is his largest work? | Barnett Newman |
| NHL regulation ice hockey rinks are 85 feet wide by how many feet long? | 200 |
| The King George VI Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older, and is held on Boxing Day at which racecourse? | Kempton Park |
| Which is the second most valuable team in the NHL, and the team based in Toronto? | Toronto Maple Leafs |
| Which four Scrabble letters are worth 3 points? | B, C, M. P |
| What are the two NHL teams based in New York? | New York Islanders, New York Rangers |
| Based in Newark, what is the NHL team based in New Jersey called? | New Jersey Devils |
| Which city's NHL team is known as the Flames? | Calgary |
| Who provided the "Tarzan yell" used in the 1966-68 "Tarzan" TV series? | Johnny Weissmuller |
| Who won acclaim for their portrayal of the title character Dr. Meredith Grey in the TV show "Grey's Anatomy", and signed a $20 million annual contract with the American Broadcasting Company in late 2017? | Ellen Pompeo |
| In the medical comedy "Scrubs", who played the central character, Dr. John "J.D." Dorian? | Zach Braff |
| Who was the narrator for the first series of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" and played Frank Cannon in the TV series "Cannon" (1971–1976)? | William Conrad |
| Which comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, firstly by and BBC radio and subsequently Radio Luxembourg, starred Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience? | Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh |
| Who directed "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990), Mission: Impossible (1996) and The Black Dahlia (2006)? | Brian de Palma |
| Who wrote the music for Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films? | John Williams |
| In the cult TV series "The Prisoner" who did Number Six (played by Patrick McGoohan) find when he unmasked "Number One"? | Himself |
| Who directed 1992's "Bram Stoker's Dracula"? | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Barbara Bach played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in which film? | The Spy Who Loved Me |
| Which footballer missed the crucial penalty for West Germany in the Euro ‘76 final shoot-out, allowing Panenka to chip in for a Czechoslovakian victory? | Uli Hoeneß |
| At 400 miles wide and 50 times larger than Mauna Loa, it is comparable in size to Olympus Mons on Mars. Which shield volcano, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean, is the largest volcano on Earth? | Tamu Massif |
| Written in 1925 by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, and Kenneth Casey, which jazz standard is widely known as the theme tune of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team? | Sweet Georgia Brown |
| Michel Temer served as which country's President from 2016 to 2018? | Brazil |
| What is the largest city by population in Morocco? | Casablanca |
| Dagen H (H day), usually called "Högertrafikomläggningen" refers to which event of the 1960s? | The day the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right |
| Which company was created through a corporate restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries? | Alphabet Inc. |
| Rupert's Land was a territory that existed from 1670-1870 and is now located in which country? | Canada |
| Deriving from Ancient Greek meaning "man-house" what name is given to all the stamens collectively in a flower? | Androecium |
| The town of Gimli, which has the highest number of persons of Icelandic descent outside Iceland, and where an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel in 1983 and successfully glided to a landing is in which Canadian province? | Manitoba |
| What is the capital of South Ossetia? | Tskhinvali |
| Which king of England was a brother of Richard III? | Edward IV |
| With who was Britain at war for 36 minutes in 1896? | Zanzibar |
| What name is given to 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, from the name of the man who anthologized them during the second half of the 19th century? | Child Ballads |
| Joseph Stalin died in which year? | 1953 |
| Which Soviet politician, who died in 1988, briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union? He subsequently became embroiled in a power struggle culminating in his removal from the premiership in 1955 and the Presidium in 1957. | Georgy Malenkov |
| Who was Israeli Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974? | Golda Meir |
| Who were the 6 original members of the EEC? | Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, France, West Germany |
| What links Henry I, John I, Mary I and William IV? | They all succeeded brothers as monarchs |
| Which political figure was assassinated by an extremist named Yigal Amir? | Yitzhak Rabin |
| In which country was the world's first full face transplant perfomed in 2010? | Spain |
| Which former PM of India gives his name to a style of jacket with a mandarin collar? | Nehru |
| Which major German producer of outdoor clothing is known for its aggressive legal action against the use of its paw-print logo? | Jack Wolfskin |
| What breed of dog were Bo and Sunny, owned by the Obamas while Barack was US President? | Portuguese Water Dog |
| The composition for solo guitar known as 'Gran Vals' by Spanish composer Francisco Tarrega is iconic due its use as a musical jingle since the 1990s by which company? | Nokia |
| Corresponsing to the toga worn by men, what was the traditional Roman garment for women - as modelled by the Statue of Liberty? | Stola |
| Named after a Japanese city, Minamata disease is a neurological illness caused by severe poisoning from what? | Mercury |
| Which archaeological site was home to the capital of one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca Empire and flourished in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru from 300-1000CE . It is home to the Gate of the Sun and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | Tiwanuku |
| Which condiment food brand is made exclusively from three ingredients and is produced by the McIlhenny Company of Louisiana on Avery Island? | Tabasco |
| Made with Cachaça (a sugar cane hard liquour), sugar and lime, what is Brazil's national cocktail? | Caipirinha |
| What sport is played by the Florida Panthers? | Ice Hockey |
| In which year was the Olympic "Blood in the Water" match between Hungary and USSR? | 1956 |
| In football, what is the English equivalent of the Italian "rigore"? | Penalty |
| How was US professional wrestler George Raymond Wagner (March 24, 1915 – December 26, 1963) better known? | Gorgeous George |
| Referencing his birthplace in Colorado, what alliterative nickname was given to boxer Jack Dempsey? | Manassa Mauler |
| What sport is played by the Cleveland Cavaliers? | Basketball |
| Who defeated boxer Jack Dempsey in ten rounds in 1926 and in a 1927 rematch? | Gene Tunney |
| How is the boxer Andrew Chiariglione (December 24, 1879–April 12, 1935) better known? He was the only boxer to knock out Jack Dempsey. | Fireman Jim Flynn |
| After his birthplace in Texas, what alliterative nickname was given to boxer Jack Johnson? | Galveston Giant |
| Who did Jack Johnson defeat in the July 4th 1910 boxing match in Reno, Nevada, nicknamed "The Fight Of The Century"? Riots occurred after the "Great White Hope" failed. | James J. Jeffries |
| Founded in 1947, which company originally produced the "Matchbox" toy cars? it went bankrupt in 1982. | Lesney |
| Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute is often credited as the inventor of which aid to computing? | Computer Mouse |
| What is the scientific, taxonomic name of the European badger? | Meles meles |
| What is the highest number on the Mercalli Earthquake Intensity Scale? | Twelve |
| Which car manufacturer has a name that is the Latin for "I roll"? | Volvo |
| Which company was founded in March 1969 in Southampton, England, by Richard Block and David Quayle? | B & Q |
| Which animal has the scientific name lutra lutra? | (Eurasian) Otter |
| Dinky Toys was the brand name for a range of die-cast zinc alloy miniature vehicles produced by which company? | Meccano |
| Dr. Herman Tarnower, a cardiologist who was murdered in 1980, produced which diet? | Scarsdale Diet |
| The Lancaster, Typhoon, Tempest and Star Sapphire were car models made by which car company? | Armstrong Siddeley |
| Which people have three parliaments, at Kiruna, Kárášjohka (Karasjok) and Aanaar? | Sami (Sweden, Norway and Finland respectively) |
| What is the largest city north of the Arctic circle? | Murmansk |
| Which of Shakespeare’s plays was his first tragedy to be written? | Titus Andronicus |
| In degrees, what is each internal angle of a regular pentagon? | 108 Degrees |
| Which glycoalkaloid poison is found in species of the nightshade family, such as the potato, the tomato, and the eggplant? | Solanine |
| In degrees, what is each internal angle of a regular octagon? | 135 Degrees |
| What is the one word botanical term for the cap of a toadstool? | Pileus |
| Hugo Drax is the villain in which Bond film? | Moonraker |
| Dr. Kanaga is a villain in which Bond film? | Live and Let Die |
| Emilio Largo is the villain in which Bond film? | Thunderball |
| The major extinction event called the Grande Coupure (the "Great Break" in continuity) is also known by what name referencing the two epochs it straddled? | Eocene–Oligocene extinction event |
| Which Australian moral philosopher is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor? | Peter Singer |
| Which American director, producer and writer of film and television, the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions, directed "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018), Superman Returns (2006) and The Usual Suspects (1995)? | Bryan Singer |
| Which 20th century Korean religious ideology has its origins in the peasant rebellions which arose starting in 1812 during the Joseon dynasty and incorporates elements of shamanism and Confucianism? | Cheondoism |
| Who was US Secretary of State for an unequalled eleven years under Franklin D. Roosevelt? He was awarded the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to set up the UN. | Cordell Hull |
| Amber Von Tussle is a character in which musical? | Hairspray |
| The first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which judge on "America's Next Top Model" wrote "A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty and Power Really Look Like"? | Ashley Graham |
| Who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal? | Maryam Mirzakhani |
| Born Annie Chancel, which French singer fronted a disco band called __________ and B. Devotion, where the blank was her stage name? Their biggest hits were "Singin' In The Rain" and "Spacer". | Sheila |
| His conflict with Pizarro was dramatized by Peter Shaffer in his play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", who very briefly became the last Sapa Inca or sovereign emperor of the Inca Empire? | Atahualpa |
| Which future British PM was confined to the Tower of London in 1712 on trumped-up charges of corruption? | Robert Walpole |
| "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix is an allegory of which revolution that led to the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans? | July Revolution/French Revolution of 1830 |
| The Indian Mutiny of 1857 began in which garrison town 40 miles north-east of Delhi? | Meerut |
| Who was the first person to become British PM on three separate occasions, although these totalled only 3 years and 280 days? | Earl of Derby |
| Which British PM - in office from 1763-65 entered the Commons in 1741 as MP for Buckingham? | George Grenville |
| Which uninhabited hill in Wiltshire, until 1832 elected two MPs? | Old Sarum |
| Who was Spencer Perceval's assassin? | John Bellingham |
| The British PM, The Marquis of Salisbury, three times PM from 1885 to 1902, had what name at birth? | (Lord) Robert Cecil |
| Which battle of 20 September 1854 in the Crimean War followed the Allies' surprise landing in the Crimea 6 days earlier, and was named after a river? | Battle of Alma |
| A shooting accident in the 1820s left which British PM with persistent tinnitus? | Robert Peel |
| Which French writer, one of the founders of Romanticism, wrote the autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe ("Memoirs from Beyond the Grave"), published posthumously in 1849–1850? | François-René de Chateaubriand |
| Which word for a pirate is shared with a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film written, produced and directed by Roland West, and a car sold in the UK by Ford from 1963-70? | Corsair |
| Born in Amaseia, Pontus - modern day Amasya, Turkey - in sixty four or sixty three BC, which Greek wrote the seventeen-book encyclopaedia "Geographica"? | Strabo |
| Farringford House on the Isle of Wight was the house of which Poet Laureate? | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Which brand of apple juice is pressed on Boxford Farm in Suffolk? | Copella |
| Jean Prouvost founded which weekly magazine in nineteen forty-nine? | Paris Match |
| Le Virgen de Los Socarios or The Virgin of The Assassins, written in nineteen-ninety four, is which Colombian writer's best known novel? | Fernando Vallejo |
| Which Thelonius Monk song is the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician? | Round Midnight |
| Air Koryo is which country's national airline? | North Korea |
| Béarnaise Sauce becomes Sauce Choron with the addition of which puree? | Tomato |
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