In 1998, Benoit Lecomte became the first man credited with which feat?

Swimming the Atlantic (with stops on a boat to eat and sleep)

Which role has been played on the stage by David Bowie, Mark Hamill and Bradley Cooper in a play by Bernard Pomerance?

John/Joseph Merrick/The Elephant Man

The 1959 film "Ben Hur" was narrated by a Scotsman, had an Englishman playing Ben Hur's trainer, won a Welshman a Best Supporting Oscar and had a Nortern Irishman playing Ben Hurs enemy Messala. Name either of these.

Finlay Currie, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith or Stephen Boyd

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Harder Randoms 9

I Call this Beast the Askalotl.

Question	Answer
What is the name of the rescue ship which is barely visible in the top right of Théodore Géricault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa"?	Argus
"Guerrillero Heroica" is the iconic 1960 photo of Che Guevara, taken at a memorial service for victims of which exploding ship?	La Coubre
In the US an independent city is one which does not belong to a particulat county. Thirty-eight of the forty-one independent cities of the US are in which state?	Virginia
Which east coast city is the largest independent city in the US?	Baltimore
Which major alga group, the commonest phytoplanktons, shares its name with the types of molecule which include most molecules of hydrogen and oxygen?	Diatom
Inspired by the music scene in the year of the singer's birth, which was the best-selling US album of 2014?	1989 (by Taylor Swift)
In 2015, whose first novel in nearly ten years was called "Buried Giant"?	Kazuo Ishiguro
2015 was designated the International Year of Light by the UN. Who was chief patron of the Year of Light whose 2015 didn't get off to a great start?	Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Which farmer turned politician became President of Sri Lanka in 2015?	(Maithripala) Sirisena
Dave Rowntree has made several attempts to be an MP, but is better known generally as the drummer with which band:	Blur
In 2015, Stephen Fry announced that he would be marrying which stand-up comedian?	Elliott Spencer
Which guitarist and vocalist of the band Good Charlotte did actress Cameron Diaz marry in 2015 in a Jewish ceremony despite neither being Jewish?	Benji Madeen
In 1998, Benoit Lecomte became the first man credited with which feat?	Swimming the Atlantic (with stops on a boat to eat and sleep)
Named after the southern suburb of Paris in which it stands Fleury Mérogis is Europe's largest what?	Prison
What is the name of the former island on which Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster were built?	Thorney Island
The London Theatre, the Hornimann Museum, Millwall Football Club and the Rivoli Ballroom are all found in which London borough whose council is based in Catford?	Lewisham
In 2014, which 81-year-old British actress published her debut novel "Mrs Carter's War"?	Sheila Hancock
Which actress played the same role in "National Lampoon's European Vacation", "Naked Gun" and "Goldmember", a role she played from 1971 to 2014?	Jeanette Charles
Which role has been played on the stage by David Bowie, Mark Hamill and Bradley Cooper in a play by Bernard Pomerance?	John/Joseph Merrick/The Elephant Man
In 2014, Ashton Kutcher announced his engagement to which "That 70s Show" co-star?	Mila Kunis
Which Muslim BBC newsreader, born in Northampton to a Pakistani family, has presented the "Today" programme, "Newsnight" and "HARDTalk"?	Michal Hussein
Which BBC newsreader was born in London to a Bengali family and studied at the Calcutta International School?	Reeta Chakrabati
What was the primary language of Upper Brittany until it was superseded by standard French?	Gallo
What was the Roman name for the part of France between the Seine and the Loire including Brittany?	Armorica
According to the sea shanty "Spanish Ladies", which French island marking the southern entrance to the English Channel is 35 leagues from the Scillies?	Ushant
What is defined as a body of water sheltered from rip currents, spring tides or ocean swell outside a harbor where ships can lie reasonably safely at anchor without dragging or snatching while waiting for their turn to enter a port of call?	Roadstead
Which is the short two word name for the war of 1485-88 between French nobles and the French monarchy which led to the absorption of Brittany into France?	Mad War
What Arabic name for ISIS or ISIL is disliked by them as it sounds similar to the Arabic for "something that is trodden underfoot"?	Daesh
Who produced "King Solomon's Mines" and "Quo Vadis" but died of a heart attack while producing "Ben Hur" becoming the only producer (to date) to receive a posthumous Best Picture Oscar?	Sam Zimbalist
The 1959 film "Ben Hur" was narrated by a Scotsman, had an Englishman playing Ben Hur's trainer, won a Welshman a Best Supporting Oscar and had a Nortern Irishman playing Ben Hurs enemy Messala. Name either of these.	Finlay Currie, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith or Stephen Boyd
Which 1959 Hollywood film was based on a 1951 German film called "Fanfaren der Liebe" based on a 1905 French play called "Fanfare d'Amour"?	Some Like It Hot
Which quote, often misattributed to a famous Frenchman, was the working title of the film "Some Like It Hot"?	Not Tonight Josephine
Which 1959 Disney film, the last based on a fairy tale until "The Little Mermaid" in 1989, has a title character who only appears for 18 minutes?	Sleeping Beauty
"Les Quatre Cents Coups" or "The 400 Blows", a 1959 film about a troubled adolescent, was the first made by which director?	Francois Truffaut
Named after the British anthropologist who proposed it in the 1990s, what name is given to the suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships?	Dunbar's number
"Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" is a literary journal founded by which US author in 1998 while he was working on his famous but immodestly-titled memoir?	Dave Eggers
In US police slang, an all-points bulletin or APB is also often known as a BOLO which stands for what?	Be On the Look-Out
The Australian equivalent of an all-points bulletin (US) or all-points warning (UK) is a KALOF which is short for what?	Keep A Look Out For
Nathan Zuckerman is a protagonist and narrator in many novels by and is often said to be an alter ego of which US author?	Philip Roth
Which 2000 novel features a Muslim fundamentalist group called Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation, or KEVIN?	White Teeth
Whose 2000 memoir and guide book "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" was preceded by his novel "Nightmares in the Sky" and succeeded by "Secret Windows"?	Stephen King
Which 2000 novel, the third is a series, was both the first children's book to win Whitbread Book of the Year and the first children's book to be longlisted for the Booker Prize?	The Amber Spyglass
In 2013, which Premier club successfully campaigned to have their motto "Nil Satis Nisi Optimum" reinstated on their team crest?	Everton
Which Midland club has the motto "Labor omnia vinvit" or work conquers all?	West Bromwich Albion
Despite having a partly Roman sounding team name, which Premier club has the English motto "Prepared"?	Aston Villa
As at 2014, which team's only European trophy was the 1970-71 UEFA Cup Winners Cup?	Manchester City
In the controversial 1969-70 South Africa rugby tour of Britain and Ireland, which future politician co-ordinated the Edinburgh branch of the anti-apartheid "Stop the Seventy" group?	Gordon Brown
Which city, the winter capital of the Achaemenid Empire, was the setting for Aeschylus's play "The Persians"?	Susa
In 2014, Harvey Keitel reprised his role of Winston Wolfe from "Pulp Fiction" for a series of TV adverts for which company?	Direct Line Insurance
Between 1970 and 1980, which Austrian Alpine skier won 62 World Cup wins, a record eventually beaten by Lindsay Vonn in 2015?	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
After Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry, who in 2002-3 became the third person to do the snooker Triple Crown (Masters, Uk Championship, World Championship) in one season?	Mark Williams
In January 2015, which South African scored an ODI century against the West Indies in a record 31 balls, continuing to score 149 in 44 balls?	AB De Villiers
Frenchman Gary Stal won the 2015 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship after which player blew a ten-shot lead?	Martin Kaymer
What is the surname of the six rugby playing brothers, five of whom have represented Samoa and Manu who plays for England?	Tuilagi
Which Russian tennis player's greatest achievement was winning the 2009 ATP World Tour Final?	Nikolay Davydenko
Which Chilean tennis player's greatest achievement was winning the singles and doubles gold at the 2004 Olympics?	Nicolas Massu
Which Arabic style of serving meat had a sales boost when all the heroes were shown eating it at the end of the 2012 film "Avengers Assemble"?	Shawarma
In 2015, which NFL side were accused of reaching the Super Bowl by deflating footballs to make them easier to throw and catch?	New England Patriots
Who is best known as Hank on "The Larry Sanders Show", Bluth Sr on "Arrested Development" and Mort/Maura in the series "Transparent"?	Jeffrey Tambor
In 2013, which Finnish company was making $2.5 million a day on its freemium games "Clash of Clans" and "Hay Day"?	Supercell
The 2014 film "Wild" starred Reese Witherspoon, and was based on the memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed, but which British author wrote the screenplay?	Nick Hornby
Who plays Miles Teller's fearsome drum teacher in the 2014 film "Whiplash"?	JK Simmons
Which 2015 end-of-world drama starring Rob Lowe is set in Berkshire?	Apocalypse Slough
Which model who has courted much controversy in order to gain the media spotlight was "The Most Hated Woman in Britain?" in a 2015 Channel 4 documentary?	Josie Cunningham
Which Swedish father of a famous inventor himself invented a rotary lathe for cutting plywood?	Immanuel Nobel
Which astronomer is also noted for being the first to identify the four regular star polyhedra?	Johannes Kepler
What follows great, small stellated and great stellated to give the names of three of the four regular star polyhedra?	Dodecahedron
Who played OSS117, a parody of 1960s James Bond, in the 2006 film "OSS117:Cairo Nest of Spies" and the 2009 film "OSS117:Lost in Rio"?	Jean Dujardin [The films were directed by Michel Hazanavicius and co-starred his wife Bérénice Bejo]
Largely divided into dialogue and expository, what is the single word name for pieces of filmed printed text which appeared in silent movies?	Intertitles
Name either of the two silent film stars, both of whom died in the 1930s, that the character of Geroge Valentin in "The Artist" was based?	John Gilbert and Douglas Fairbanks
Which film appeared in my TV listings as "a classic sci-fi adventure starring Dee Wallace and Peter Coyote"?	ET: The Extra Terrestrial
Who played the young girl who Elliott kisses in class in the film "ET:The Extra Terrestrial"?	Erika Eleniak
In the film "ET;The Extra Terrestrial", who had a scene as the principal of Elliott's school which was cut from the final film?	Harrison Ford
A large portion of the world's okapis live in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the 24,000 square mile Ituri Rainforest in which country?	Democratic Republic of Congo
What pair connects one side in croquet, being badly beaten and the two species of gnu?	Black and blue [The black gnu is also called white-tailed and the blue gnu is also called the brindled]
What was the previous Dutch name given to the pastoralist Khoikhoi people of southwest Africa, now seen as derogatory?	Hottentot
Borts is an air-dried meat associated with the cuisine of which Asian country?	Mongolia [Traditionally hung in strips under the roof of a yurt]
Which meat is dried and salted to make the European delicacy kuivaliha?	Reindeer [it is Finnish]
The novel "Lady Don't Fall Backwards" by Darcy Santo is at the centre of which episode of a classic BBC sitcom?	The Missing Page [Hancock's Half Hour]
Which ITV police series of the 1960s shares its name with an episode of "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" in which Bob and Terry try to avoid hearing the results of an England Bulgaria football match?	No Hiding Place
Once known as the second richest man in Russia, who spoke out against Putin and was found hanged at his Berkshire home in 2013?	Boris Berezovsky
In which city was a 2002 theatre siege by Islamic militants ended by pumping an unknown gas into the building which incapacitated the attackers enough to be killed, but also killed 130 out of the 850 hostages?	Moscow
Alluding to an 18th century conflict, what name is generally given to the 1992 general election controversy involving the Labour Party's use of a five-year old girl in its TV broadcast?	The War of Jennifer's Ear
Which 2006 UK top ten hit by a female singer-songwriter sampled from "Reggae Merengue" by Tommy McCook and the Supersonics?	LDN" by Lily Allen
Which 2012 Pitbull hit single samples from "Funky Kingston" by Toots and the Maytails?	Don't Stop the Party"
Founded by Philip III Duke of Burgundy in 1430, two branches of the Order of the Golden Fleece survive in which two countries?	Spain and the Netherlands
Which 19th century Italian gives his name to a system of prisms for inverting images in a refracting telescope?	(Ignazio) Porro
Which country has over 820 indigenous languages, thought to be about twelve per cent of the world's total?	Papua New Guinea
Which country with a land area totalling less than 5,000 square miles has over 113 indigenous languages, the official ones being English, French and Bislama?	Vanuata
James Q Wilson and George L Kelling in the March 1982 edition of "The Atlantic Monthly" introduced what name for the theory that preventing small crimes like vandalism creates an atmosphere where larger crimes are less likely?	Broken Windows Theory
Cagayan and Sibutu, when they were sold to the US in 1900 for $100,000, were the last two Pacific island territories of which country?	Spain [Now part of the Philippines]
Which Dutch botanist rediscovered Mendel's experiments, coined the term pangenes (later shortened to "genes") and developed a mutation theory of evolution?	Hugo de Vries
In 1900, which French chemist and physicist discovered that radium emitted rays that were not alpha or beta rays, which Rutherford later called gamma rays?	(Paul Ulrich) Villard
"Go Set A Watchman", published in July 2015, is a sequel to which novel (although written before the original)?	To Kill A Mockingbird
Which 2015 film is set in the city of San Fransokyo?	Big Hero 6
Developed by Harvey Friedman in the 1970s, which form of mathematics is a program attempting to work backwards from theorems to find which axioms are required?	Reverse mathematics
In January 2015, who became the first Sicilian to be elected as President of Italy?	Sergio Mattarella
Edgar Lunga was narrowly elected in 2015, following the death of Michael Sata, as the sixth president of which African country?	Zambia
"The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet", involving characters from "Pride and Prejudice". was one of the last novels of which Australian author who died in 2015?	Colleen McCullough
Aged 82, which actor came out as gay in 2015, 42 years after winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for a very camp role?	Joel Grey
In 2015, British executive Steve Easterbrook succeeded Don Thompson as CEO of which global company?	McDonald's
Founded in 2000 and based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which company, taking its name from the last three syllables of a fruit, grew to become the largest online food retailer in the world?	Ocado
Nicknamed the Human Polar Bear and the Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming, who in 2007 became the first to swim a kilometre across the North Pole and was named 2015 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year?	Lewis Pugh
Ragnar, played by Travis Fimmel , is the central character of which Irish-Canadian drama series?	Vikings
The Black Cabinet or Black Brain Trust was the name given to a group of black policy advisors to which US President?	FD Roosevelt
Who was shot and killed in 1974 by Wayne Chenault while sitting at the organ of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia?	Alberta Williams King [mother of Martin Luther King Jr]
Taken from the book of Isaiah, what is the two word Hebrew name for Israel's official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 on the west side of Mount Herzl?	Yad Vashem
Zegota was the codename for a Council to Aid Jews, a resistance organisation in which country during WW2?	Poland
Which British band is named after Linda, a member of the Manson "family" who was a key witness in the prosecution of Manson and others for their part in the Tate-Labianca murders?	Kasabian
Which editor at large of "Time" magazine wrote the unauthorised biography "Born to be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor" in which she says his court is so riven by infighting, it is known to insiders as "Wolf Hall"?	Catherine Mayer
"The Hardest Problem", first performed in 2015, is the first play for nine years by which playwright, who complained that audiences no longer understand his cultural references?	Tom Stoppard
Which famous London establishment opened in 1917 on West Street, opposite the Ambassadors and St Martin's theatres?	The Ivy
Won by Alex and Ed in series one and by Bob Smith in series two, which Oxfordshire based reality show starting in 2014 with Fern Britten as host?	The Big Allotment Challenge
After a 2011 takeover, stores of which Irish supermarket chain were rebranded in 2014 as SuperValus?	SuperQuinn
Which 2014 film is based on a comic book by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar?	Kingsman: The Secret Service
In which Kent town in 2015 was a 1300 copy of the Magna Carta found in a Victorian scrapbook owned by Kent County Council?	Sandwich
Two rugby union players representing which country disappeared from the 2014 Commonwealth Games and turned up in 2015 playing for a small Cardiff club?	Uganda
Rebels asked the 2015 Miss Universe Paulina Vega to assist in their negotiations with the government after she expressed an interest in seeing peace in her country. Which country?	Colombia
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced the decision to remove the Union Jack from the flag of which country?	Fiji
The Sirdavidia flowering plant, discovered in Gabon, is named after whom?	Sir David Attenborough
Which popular detergent brand launched a "Fifty Shades of Grey" spin-off involving aphrodisiac scents and have sent out muscular Household Heroes to persuade women to buy it?	(Flirty Shades of) Surf
Much of the action of "Fifty Shades of Grey" takes place in the Heathman Hotel in which US city?	Portland, Oregon
Whose UK number one single "Love Me Like You Do" was on the soundtrack of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie?	Ellie Goulding
Both the 1992 and the 2015 African Cup of Nations finals featured which country defeating which other on penalties after a goalless draw?	Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana [11-10 in 1992, 9-8 in 2015]
Stephen Green, the Tory trade minister and chief executive of HSBC from 2006 to 2010 is Lord Green of which Sussex village?	Hurstpierpoint
Who wrote the 40-part motet "Spem in alium" which rose to the top of the UK Classical Chart in 2012 due to a mention in the book "Fifty Shades of Grey"?	Thomas Tallis
Meaning "Islands of the Fortunate", and nothing to do with pasta, what is the name for the Atlantic archipelago which includes the Azores, Madeira Islands, Canary Islands and the Cape Verde islands?	Macaronesia
Which island group lies halfway between Madeira and the Canary Islands?	Savage Islands
People of which Canary Island are known as Mahoreros, meaning "ones who wear goatskin shoes", goats being a major feature of the island?	Fuertoventura
Which 18th century Spanish military engineer was prospecting an estate for the future King Charles III of Spain when he discovered the ruins of Herculaneum and subsequently Pompeii?	Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
Famous for making folklore an academic discipline and controversially analysing off-colour humour, which University of California professor stated in a 2005 lecture "But there are really only two uses for Marxist theory in folkloristics", his last words b	Alan Dundes
Which US author famous for books about women who doubt themselves and their looks, such as "First Wives Club", died in 2004 from complications due to a facelift?	Olivia Goldsmith
Which ancient Indian surgeon who is believed to have lived before 600 BC pioneered plastic surgery, detailed over 1,000 diseases and describes over 100 surgical tools, many similar to those used today, in his 184 chapter Samhita?	Sushruta
Possibly the cause of Joseph Merrick's famous deformities, which syndrome is a very rare congenital disorder named after a shape-shifting ancient god?	Proteus Syndrome [also called Wiedemann syndrome after a German paediatrician]
How are Blondie, Angel Eyes and Tuco Ramirez better known in film?	The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Which company was founded as Red Door Salon on Fifth Avenue, New York in 1910 and still uses the red door as its logo?	Elizabeth Arden
Which author is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, having written lyrics for 30 musical comedies including "Anything Goes" and "Showboat"?	PG Wodehouse
Which American singer-songwriter, with three Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary Folk Album, often performs with her musical partner David Rawlings?	Gillian Welch
Which nun, nicknamed the Holy Maid of Kent, was executed in 1534 for prophecying against the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn?	Elizabeth Barton
Miosis, mydriasis and anisocoria are medical terms concerning the sizes of which pair of body parts?	Eye pupils
The hunt for the Railway Killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who raped around 60 and murdered three at railway stations around London was the first case in Britain to use what?	Psychological profiling
Which writer, traveller, archaeologist and spy established the Hashamite dynasties in Jordan and Iraq and is played by Nicole Kidman in the 2015 Werner Herzog film "Queen of the Desert"?	Gertrude Bell
Nick Logan was the creator of "Smash Hits" magazine and worked at "NME" before founding which fashion magazine in 1980?	The Face
Which fashion magazine, founded in 1980 by Terry and Tricia Jones, usually has a person winking on the front cover?	i-D
What is the usual two word term for the device which clips to a person's finger and uses light to measure the oxygenation of blood?	Pulse oximeter
From 1864, Simla was offically the summer capital of British India. Under the name Shimla it is the capital of which northern Indian state?	Himachal Pradesh
In masonry, what is the one word name, suggesting flowering, for the appearance of salts exuded to the outside of a building?	Efflorescence
Albert Schatz sued Selman Waksman for the recognition for his part in the 1943 discovery of which antibiotic?	Streptomycin
Indicating their use by Middle Eastern fraudsters, what two word name is usually given to a device which blocks an ATM's card slot and makes it seem as if the card has been retained by the machine?	Lebanese loop
Early capital of the Golden Horde and centre of a Little Hajj movement for Islamic Soviets who could not travel to Mecca, Bolgar lies south of which city, the largest in Tataristan?	Kazan
The 18th century confectioner Bekir Efendi is often credited with the invention of which popular sweetmeat?	Turkish Delight
Then known as Hüdavendigar, meaning "God's gift", which city in Marmara, the fourth largest in Turkey, was the first major capital of the Ottomon Empire from 1335 to 1363?	Bursa
Chauvet Pont d'Arc in the Ardèche area of south central France is best known for having the world's oldest known what?	Cave paintings
What common four letter word in archaeology can mean a mound formed by human occupation and abandonments of a geographical site over several centuries?	Tell
As the largest sea port on the Red Sea and the gateway to Mecca, which city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014?	Jeddah
The 300 or so Stone Spheres of the Diquis People are a pre-Columbian feature of which country in the Americas?	Costa Rica
While a student at the University of Chicago, which pioneer of sleep study discovered REM sleep and died aged 77 in a crash after falling asleep at the wheel of his car?	Eugene Aserinsky
Algor mortis is the name given to the change in what after a person's death?	Body temperature
Which SI derived unit for measuring enzyme reactions is equivalent to one mole per second and shares its name with a village in Iran?	Katal
In July 1603 what were the Main and the Bye?	Plots against James I
"Sable, fifteen bezants", that is, a base upward triangle of fifteen yellow circles on a black background is the coat of arms of which royal dukedom?	Cornwall
Until the 20th century, Alfred, the fourth child of Queen Victoria was the last and only the third in history to hold which royal dukedom?	Duke of Edinburgh
Clémence Poésy plays detective Elise Wasserman in which Anglo-French TV drama?	The Tunnel
Which 2003 Nobel Prize laureate has the middle name Maxwell and became an Australian citizen in 2006?	JM (John Maxwell) Coetzee
Which French-Mauritian winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature has the first names Jean-Marie Gustave?	JMG Le Clezia
Which creative director of Gucci went on to direct the 2009 film "The Single Man" starring Colin Firth?	Tom Ford
Which runner-up to Chris Ofili in the 1998 Turner Prize directed the film whose trailer had the highest number of Youtube views in 2014?	Sam Taylor-Johnson ("Fifty Shades of Grey")
Named after the founder, whose ceramics business, started in 1985 has become one of the biggest employers in Stoke-on-Trent?	Emma Bridgewater
Credited with introducing the S&M leather and studs style into heavy metal, Rob Hallford, KK Dowling and Glen Tiptonn were members of which Birmingham rock band?	Judas Priest
Which maker of bathroom fixtures, partly named after a village in Staffordshire, is said to sponsor the fictional Championship Bowl for playing Mornington Crescent in "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"?	Armitage Shanks
The glacial Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in which European country?	Andorra
Which African country is named after an island, itself named after a 15th century sultan, the island now being the country's only UNESCO World Heritage Site?	Mozambique
On 27th February 2015, who was shot in the back several times as he was crossing the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow?	Boris Nemtsov
How is Amy Dunne described in the title of a 2012 thriller by Gillian Flynn?	Gone Girl
How is Rachel described in the title of a 2015 thriller by Zimbabwean author Paula Hawkins?	The Girl on the Train
"The Slide" was a gritty 2008 jukebox musical featuring songs by which English band?	The Beauutiful South
Premiering in San Francisco in 2013, "Beautiful" by Douglas McGrath is a jukebox musical telling the story of which US singer-songwriter?	Carole King
Made of 1,237 coins, the Fishpool Hoard, discovered on a building site in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire in 1966 is the largest hoard of mediaeval coins found in Britain. From which century does it date?	Fifteenth [possibly dumped by someone fleeing the Battle of Hexham]
Made up of over 5,000 eleventh century Anglo-Saxon coins, the Lenborough Hoard was discovered in 2014 in which English county?	Buckinghamshire
Which London born stand-up comic has the middle name Kehinde?	Stephen K Amos
In 2015, Tom Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev broke world distance and duration records for a gas balloon by crossing the Pacific. What was the name of the balloon?	Two Eagles
This glamorous actress has played villain Marcia in the TV soap "Mariana de la Noche" and starred in the telenovella "Destillado Amor". Who did she marry in 2010?	Enrique Peña Nieto [at time of writing President of Mexico]
Christine Cavanaugh, who died in 2014, was best known for voicing Chuckie in "Rugrats" and the title role in which acclaimed 1995 childrens film?	Babe
In 2014, Argentine-Japanese fashion model Jessica Michibata married which Formula 1 driver?	Jensen Button
The Australian actor Rod Taylor, who died in 2015, starred in "The Birds" and voiced one of the title animal characters in which 1961 Disney film?	101 Dalmatians"
Which British comedy actor, who died in 2015, had one UK top 40 hit in 1965 with a calypso called "Shame and Scandal in the Family"?	Lance Percival
MoDe:Me and MoDe:Pro are folding electric bicycles made by which company?	Ford Motors
Which form of monopod was named one of Time magazine's 25 best inventions of 2014?	Selfie stick
Whose contemporary "History of the Peloponnesian War" is the main source for study of that war?	Thucydides
A letter A in the shape of a horseshoe is the logo of which maker of accessories currently split into fashion houses in New York and Munich?	Etienne Aigner
Which Swiss fashion house takes its name from the initials of Alice Kriemer Schoch who founded the label in 1922?	Akris
Grace Chatto was sacked as a school cello teacher in 2013 after she appeared half naked in a video for "Mozart's House" (featuring part of the String Quartet number 21). She is a string player with which electronic band?	Clean Bandit
Originating from Persian, which word was used in British India to mean native language teachers and secretaries employed by Europeans?	Munshi
Which word, translated as district, means the administrative districts of India, Pakistan or Bangladesh smaller than a state or division?	Zilas/Zillahs
Which word can mean a Hindu symbol of the Universe or one of the ten chapters of the Rig Veda consisting of hymns called suktas?	Mandala
In which Staffordshire borough in 1961, did Sikhs buy the Congressional Chapel which became the Guru Nanak Gurdwara, the first and largest Sikh temple in Europe?	Smethwick
After an ill-tempered 1964 election centred around immigration, who became Conservative MP for Smethwick until he was defeated two years later by the actor Andrew Faulds?	Peter Griffiths
Whose performance of his song "All Day" at the 2015 BRIT Awards was largely muted on ITV due to multiple uses of the N-word?	Kanye West
Which song was Madonna singing when she fell down stairs at the 2015 BRIT Awards?	Living For Love
Which country singer voiced the role of Alan-a-Dale in Disney's 1973 film "Robin Hood" as which he sang "Not in Nottingham", "Whistle-Stop" and "Oo-De-Lally"?	Roger Miller
Masoala, Isalo, Ranomafana and Amber Mountain are all notable national parks in which country?	Madagascar
Which pre-colonial state ruled most of Madagascar from 1540-1897?	Merina
Often compared to a cougar, but more closely related to the mongoose, what is the largest carnivorous mammal in Madagascar?	Fossa
What name is given to the tube zither made from bamboo and considered the national instrument of Madagascar?	Valiha
Which Philadelphia singer-songwriter is best known for the 1983 hit "Maniac" from the film "Flashdance"?	Michael Sembello
A play on thier initials, what was the title of the studio album that gave Hall and Oates their biggest hit, "Maneater" which topped the Billboard charts for four weeks?	H2O
Who in 1983 became the first ever Welsh singer to top the Billboard charts?	Bonnie Tyler [Tom Jones's highest position was no 2 in 1971 with "She's a Lady"]
Which 1983 hit for Michael Jackson won the following year's Grammy Award for Record of the Year?	Beat It
Which 1983 hit, with music by Georgio Moroder, won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Song the following year?	Flashdance...What A Feeling
Colin Hay was the lead vocalist of which group who were successfully sued in 2010 for having lifted the flute line of their 1983 hit from a song called "Kookaburra"?	Men At Work
Which mountain in Tibet is sacred to four religions, Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, and is near the sources of the Indus, Brahmaputra and the Kamali rivers?	Kailash
The Hill of Crosses is a pilgrimmage site containing over 100,000 crosses, despite having been bulldozed at least three times in the Soviet era. It is found in which country?	Lithuania
Off the coast of which small country was the famous 1938 discovery of the coelecanth?	Comoros
Which dove is the ancestor of most town pigeons?	Rock dove
Which portmanteau nickname for a US city comes from its population of over 700,000 Iranians, the most found outside of Iran?	Teherangeles
Which actress who played Kim in over 70 episodes of "Peak Practice" plays the title role in the Paul Whitehouse comedy "Nurse"?	Esther Coles
Noakes was the surname of which title character of a Channel 4 series written by Ricky Gervais?	Derek
In which decade were Ig Nobel Prizes first awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research?	1990s (1991)
Edmund Teller won the first Ig Nobel Prize awarded in which category?	Peace ["for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it"]
Banknotes of what value were first introduced by the Bank of England in 1759 due to gold shortages caused by the Seven Years War?	Ten pounds
In which decade did the Bank of England first introduce £5, £1 and £2 notes?	1790s [1793 for fivers, 1979 for the others]
Currently (2015) the longest ship that is not an oil tanker, what sort of ship is the 1,311 ft long CSCL Globe?	Container (Ship) [CSCL = Chinese Shipping Container Line)]
What is the next in the sequence Deimos, Callisto, Rhea...?	Oberon {second largest moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus]
What is the largest known irregular shaped moon in our solar system?	Proteus (Neptune)
What two word term, patented by Dr Charles Runels in the US in 2011, is used for a cosmetic operation that involves injecting a patient's own blood platelets into the face?	Vampire facelift
What was the surname of the title characters in Chekhov's "Three Sisters"?	Prozorova
What are the first names of Dostoyevsky's three "Brothers Karamazov"?	Dmitri, Ivan, Alexei
Which word beginning with X means a carved cult image of Ancient Greece?	Xoanon
Which word beginning with X is a covered portico of an Ancient Greek gymnasium?	Xystus
Born in London to a Nigerian father and Brazilian mother, which singer-songwriter has had UK number one hits with "Break Your Heart" and "Dynamite"?	Taio Cruz
Which "X Factor" contestant's debut single was the 2010 UK chart-topper "Please Don't Let Me Go"?	Olly Murs
Which 2010 number one song by Alexandra Burke features US reggae artist Laza Morgan and has a chorus reminiscent of Boney M's "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday"?	Start Without You
What full name connects a sailor who with Bryn Vaile won a 1988 Olympic gold for Britain in Star class sailing and a comedian who in 2011 judged "Britain's Got Talent"?	Michael McIntyre
Announced by Forbes in 2015 as the richest Asian, the appropriately named Li Ka-shing lives in which city?	Hong Kong
Redhead Day is an a festival that takes place in the first weekend of September in which European country?	The Netherlands (Breda)
What was the full first name of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet?	Oscar-Claude
Which Japanese sports equipment maker was the official ball provider for volleyball and waterpolo at the 2012 Olympics?	Mikasa
Which originally US sports company, now based in Mexico City, created the first rubber-bodied water polo ball and the scuba gear used in the film "Thunderball"?	Voit
What is the full name of THC, the active ingredient of cannabis?	Tetrahydrocannabinol
Which pure cultivar of cannabis, popular among cannabis afficionados of the 1960s and 70s, is sometimes abbreviated to PR?	Panama Red
In which US sitcom running from 2011 to 2014 starred Elijah Wood with Jason Gann as a talking dog?	Wilfred
Elijah Wood and Colin Dean play Wirt and Greg on which animated miniseries, created by "Adventure Time" producer Patrick McHale?	Over the Garden Wall
Which poet, who died in 1800, wrote the lines "Variety is the very spice of life" and "I am monarch of all I survey"?	William Cowper
Which historical word for a lower class Spanish woman noted for exaggerated traditional costume is most associated with two paintings by Goya?	Maja
Named after the year in which it was widely believed to have been first aged in wooden barrels, 1800 is a popular brand of which alcoholic beverage?	Tequila
In 1793, the world's oldest surviving what was constructed at Fritchley in Derbyshire?	Railway tunnel
This city was founded around the site of where three Irishman found gold after stopping to reshoe their horse and has a name deriviing from Wangai for "place of the silky pears"?	Kalgoorlie
Which city in the West Coast region of Southern Australia, famous for its tuna fishing, is reputed to have the most millionaires per capita in the country?	Port Lincoln
What literary name is also that of the Devon born "Father of the South Australian Wine Industry"?	Thomas Hardy
Which range on the Caribbean is the world's highest coastal range?	Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Centro Financiero Confinanzas, the unfinished skyscraper home to hundreds of squatters in Caracas, is better known by what name?	The Tower of David/Torre de David
The private island of Mustique is a part of which country?	St Vincent and the Grenadines
Which country has the longest Caribbean coastline?	Venezuela
What is joined to the Caribbean Sea to make an area known as the American Mediterranean?	Gulf of Mexico
In 1951, which boxer did Sugar Ray Robinson defeat in the St Valentine's Day Massacre?	Jake LaMotta
Sugar Ray Robinson's second loss in 132 professional fights came in 1951 when he lost his middleweight title to which boxer at the Earl's Court Arena in London?	Randy Turpin
The 2009 UK number one hit "Oopsy Daisy" by Chipmunk references which group which the song kept at number two in the charts?	The Saturdays
Who is the Flying Scotsman of darts who beat Phil Taylor to win the 2015 PDC Darts Championship?	Gary Anderson
What is the nickname of 2015 BDO Darts World Champion Scott Mitchell who enters to the song "Who Let The Dogs Out"?	Scott Mitchell [The Dog beat Martin "Wolfie" Adams]
The 31 metric ton Ahnighito, currently at the American Museum of Natural History, is the largest meteorite ever moved having fallen on which island?	Greenland
The Campo del Cielo is a group of iron meteorites with a combined known weight of over 100 tons so far which fell on which country?	Argentina
The only comet ever recorded as having come within a million miles of Eath is the "Comet of" what year?	1491
Which chemical element, named after a European feature, has the highest boiling point of any element and in 1925 was the last stable element to be discovered?	Rhenium
What are the only three stable chemical elements denser than gold or rhenium at room temperature?	Platinum, Iridium, Osmium
Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massey and their lead singer made up which pop quartet?	The Four Seasons
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, "Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton and their lead singer made up which pop quartet?	The Four Tops
Lionel Morton, Fritz Friar, Mike Wilsh and Alan Buck made up which chart-topping British pop quartet?	The Four Pennies
The 1964 song "A Little Loving" was the biggest hit for which Merseybeat band founded by Brian O'Hara and Joey Bower?	The Fourmost
What is the usual one word name for the prepared vegetables known in France as cornichons?	Gherkins
Which form of psychotherapy, originally developed to treat depression, is abbreviated to CBT?	Cognitive behavioural therapy
Which form of psychotherapy, developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s to treat post traumatic stress disorder, what is EMDR?	Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprogramming
Shortly before his death on New Year's Day 1953 aged 29, who released the song "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"?	Hank Williams
In the 1964 biopic "Your Cheatin' Heart", Hank Williams Jr dubbed as his father's voice but who played Hank?	George Hamilton
"Did I Make the Most of Loving You?" by John Lunn is the theme tune to which British drama?	Downton Abbey
"Alice, Where Art Thou?" by Max Harris is the theme tune to which classic British sitcom and its 2013 revival?	Open All Hours/Still Open All Hours
Rosie Marcel has suffered from endometriosis, Behcet's Disease, cervical cancer and had a miscarriage, and is known for playing which tole in "Holby City"?	Jac Naylor
Which actor has played Ric Griffin in over 480 episodes of "Holby City"?	Hugh Quarshie
Named after a large mammal, which fish of the family Pterois which spiky venomous fins are a notorious invasive species in the Caribbean?	Lionfish
Who wrote a famous article in 1889 called "The Gospel of Wealth" and was nicknamed Saint Andrew by Mark Twain?	Andrew Carnegie
The last known live aurochs was seen in Poland and the last known live elephant bird was seen in Madagascar in which century?	Seventeenth
The Eurasian wild horse, Equus ferus ferus, which probably died out in the 19th century, also has which one word name?	Tarpan
In the 1984 film "The Terminator", much of the programming code seen in the Terminator's view screen was written in which language, more associated with accounting packages?	COBOL
Played by Halle Berry in the film "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?", Zoe Taylor was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of which group from 1954 to 1962?	The Platters
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of which Californian rock band from 1972 to 1979?	The Greatful Dead
Sedlec in the Czech Republic is best known for a chapel containing an altar, coat of arms and a chandelier all made out of what?	(Human) Bones
A suspension bridge which draws 600,000 visitors a year is named after and passes 250 feet over which river north of Vancouver?	Capilano
Which park surrounded by 9 kilometres of sea wall lies on the outskirts of Vancouver and in 2014 was named the best park in the world on Tripadvisor?	Stanley Park
Salukis, Rhodesian ridgebacks and dachshunds belong to which Kennel Club group?	Hounds
Weimeraners, Portuguese water dogs and Italian spinones belong to which Kennel Club group?	Gundogs
At an average of 9.5 inches what is the longest bone in the human body not in the arms or legs?	7th rib
At an average of 7.3 inches, what is the longest bone in the human body that is not in the arms, legs or ribcage?	Innominate bone
The 2005 film '"The World's Fastest Indian" starring Anthony Hopkins as New Zealander Burt Munro centres on which which sport?	Motorcycle racing
Played by Mark Wahlberg in the 2006 film "Invincible", Vince Papale was, at 30, the oldest ever player without college experience for which NFL team?	Philadelphia Eagles
Bernese mountain dogs, boxers and rottweilers belong to which Kennel Club group?	Working
Poodles, dalmatians and bulldogs belong to which Kennel Club group?	Utility
French footballer, Lucien Laurent is best known for being the first player to do what?	Score in a FIFA World Cup
Who won the FIFA World Cup as a player in 1958, as a coach in 1970 and as assistant coach in 1994?	Mario Zagallo
Which TV cartoon series centred on the afterlives of dead pop singers like Freddy Mercury, Kurt Cobain and John Denver all living together in limbo?	House of Rock
Which MTV series began with a fight between Charles Manson and Marilyn Manson?	Celebrity Deathmatch
Which country has the highest Muslim population after Indonesia?	India
Which country has the highest Muslim population outside Asia?	Nigeria
Besides Iran and Iraq, in which other two countries are the majority of the population Shiite Muslims?	Bahrain and Azerbaijan
Which word for sex outside marriage comes from the Latin word for an arched vault?	Fornication [from fornix as Ancient Roman men tended to meet prostitutes under such vaults]
Establised in 1893 and named after a British diplomat, the Durand Line marks the boundary between which two modern day countries?	Afghanistan and Pakistan
Which French president died in office from a rare form of cancer called Waldenström's macroglobulinemia?	Georges Pompidou
Which world leader was overthrown while visiting the US for therapy for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and died the following year?	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran
Which river, part of the upper headwaters of the Nile, became infamous in 1994 as the river carrying bodies from the Rwandan Genocide into Lake Victoria?	Kagera
Where did Johann II rule for 70 years from 1858 to 1929?	Liechtenstein
Who was an emperor for 68 years from 1848 until his death in 1916?	Franz-Joseph I of Austro-Hungary
Which three monarchs were less than ten when they came to the English throne?	Edward VI, Henry III (both 9) and Henry VI (8 months) [Richard II was 10]
Who was alleged to have been involved in 931 murders by strangulation between 1790 and 1840 when he was hanged?	(Thug) Behram or Buhram Jemedar (meaning King of the Thugs)
Which city contains the prison formerly called Winston Green?	Birmingham
HM Oakwood, a prison holding with a holding capacity of over 1600, second only to Wandsworth, opened in 2012 in Featherstone, in which English county?	Staffordshire
In October 1901, on her 63rd birthday, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive which famously crazy stunt?	Going over the Niagara Falls (in a barrel)
In 1956, Jurg Marmet and Ernst Schmied of Switzerland were the third and fourth people to do what?	Climb to the top of Everest
Who, in 1935, became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry?	Irène Joliot-Curie [only Dorothy Hodgkin and Ada Yonath have won it since]
Who in 1963, for her work on nuclear shell structure, became the second (and to 2015 last) woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics?	Maria Goeppert Mayer
Thanks to the Nakhchivan exclave, Turkey shares a less than six mile border with which country?	Azerbaijan
The Yumen River marks the less than 12 mile border between Russia and which country?	North Korea
Which city, after Rome and Alexandria, is thought to have become the third city to reach a population of a million in about 900AD, but was abandoned in the 15th century?	Angkor
The well-preserved 16BC Roman temple known as the Maison Carrée stands opposite Norman Foster's 1993 glass, concrete and steel art museum Carré d'Art in which city?	Nimes
Located at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Great Cameo of France is a depiction in sardonyx of the family of which Roman Emperor?	Tiberius
Which coastal town, halfway between Rome and Naples, is best known for the Villa of Tiberius with its sculptures celebrating the deeds of Odysseus?	Sperlonga
Which satyr of Greek myth is largely remembered as being flayed alive by Apollo for having the temerity to challenge him in a musical contest?	Marsyas
What name was given to the judgment in Ancient Rome that a person should be erased from history?	Damnatio memoriae
Which controversially homoerotic silver Roman drinking vessel was purchased by the British Museum in 1999 for £1.8 million?	Warren Cup
There are at least 115 surviving Ancient Roman statues of which favourite of Hadrian, who drowned in the Nile, leading the Emperor to name a city and start a widespread religious cult in his honour?	Antinous
Cartoon background artist Paul Julian used to imitate a car horn to get people to move out of his way. Someone recorded this in 1948 and ever since it was used as the voice of which character?	Road Runner
Since turned into a musical in 1968, a 1984 film starring Tracey Ullman and a BBC TV film in 2003, what was unusual about the author of the 1890 novel "The Young Visters"(sic)?	The author Daisy Ashford wrote it aged 9
The Welsh for which plant is Cenhinen Pedr, literally Peter's Leek?	Daffodil
The Red Dragon is the symbol of which legendary Welsh figure based on a King of Gwynedd who ruled from 655 to 685AD?	Cadwaladr
Which St Lucia born singer was the first black man to sell over a million copies of a single in the UK?	Emile Ford [What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? 1960]
A smear of which inorganic compound on a piece of paper will explode violently in a purple cloud if so much as tickled with a feather?	Nitrogen triiodide (NI3)
What is the formula of chlorine azide, notable for exploding spontaneously without apparent provocation?	ClN3
Which 1946 film opens with the words "This is the universe. Big isn't it?"?	A Matter of Life and Death
Which English character actor is probably best known for his roles in the three Powell & Pressburger films "A Matter of Life and Death", "I Know Where I'm Going" and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" where he played the lead?	Roger Livesey
Which two co-stars of "A Prisoner of Zenda" and "A Matter of Life and Death" both died on July 29th 1983?	David Niven and Raymond Massey [aged 73 and 86 respectively]
In an insect what is usually made of a short scape, a pedicel containing the Johnston's organ and the longer flagellum?	Antennae or feelers
On an insect, what are made of parts called ommatidia, singular ommatidium?	Compound eyes
By jumping off a Houston skyscraper in January 1981, Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield were the first to gain numbers in which activity, whose name was coined by filmmaker Carl Boenish?	BASE jumping
The first BASE jumping record listed in the Guinness Book of World Records was in 1984 when Carl Boenish leapt from which Norwegian site, only to die trying the same thing two days later?	Trollweggan/Troll Wall
In 2006, a record BASE jump of 21,667 feet was made by Glenn Singleman and Heather Swann from Meru Peak in which country?	India
Irene Bedard is probably best known as the voice of which Disney heroine of a film released on the 400th anniversary of that character's birth?	Pocahontas
Who succeeded Edward Maria Wingfield as Colonial Governor of Virginia and was, perhaps unfairly, portrayed as a greedy black-hearted villain in Disney's "Pocahontas"?	John Ratcliffe
Which Russian fishing trawler sank off the Kamchatka Peninsula in April 2015 killing just over half its crew of 132?	Dalniy Vostok
Bob Menendez, indicted on corruption charges in April 2015, was senator of which US state?	New Jersey
In which country did gunmen storm Garissa University College in April 2015 killing 148 and wounding dozens more?	Kenya
The ill-fated Germanwings 9525 flight crashed in March 2015 when travelling between which two cities?	Barcelona to Dusseldorf
Which country's first Vice President, Joice Mujuru, was expelled from the ruling party in 2015 after she was alleged to have plotted against the president?	Zimbabwe
The Poynter Institute called it the "Error of the Year" and Columbia Journalism Review included it in its "Worst Journalism of 2014" feature. Which magazine published the notorious article "A Rape on Campus", which was proved to be false and was later ret	Rolling Stone
In 2015, Saudi Arabia spearheaded a coalition of nine Arab states in Operation Decisive Storm, a series of airstrikes against forces loyal to which country's former president?	Yemen
Karachi is the largest city and capital of which of Pakistan's four provinces?	Sindh
Quetta is the largest city and capital of which of Pakistan's four provinces?	Balochistan
What is the largest city and capital of the Punjab province of Pakistan?	Lahore
In 2015, which country saw Barack Obama meet Raul Castro, the first meeting of a US and Cuban leader since the Cuban Revolution?	Panama
In The Boat Race, the Oxford and Cambridge men's reserve teams are called Isis and Goldie. What are the women's reserve teams called?	Osiris and Blondie
Which TV presenter rowed for Oxford in The Boat Race in 1999, 2000 and 2001?	Dan Snow
Running on Chilean TV from 1962 to 1986 and on US TV from 1986 onwards, which weekly Spanish language live entertainment show was cancelled after 53 years in 2015?	Sabado Gigante (Big Saturday)
In a 2014 Test against India, which bowler scored a record 81 runs for a number 11 England batsman and with Joe Root scored 198, a world record for a 10th-wicket partnership?	James Anderson
Who did James Anderson overtake as best England Test wicket-taker by taking his 384th wicket against the West Indies in 2015?	Ian Botham
Performers become eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame how many years after release of their first record?	25
What two word name is given to theatrical variety performances put on by the Scouting movement, including the first ones staged by Ralph Reader in the 1930s?	Gang Shows
In 2000, who was first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a third time, when elected as a solo artist, having already been inducted as a member of two groups?	Eric Clapton [Yardbirds in 1992 and Cream in 1993]
Which song written by Ralph Reader has long been the standard closing number for Scouting gang shows?	On The Crest of a Wave
The largest stadium by capacity in the world when it opened in 1989, in which country is Rungrado 1st of May Stadium?	North Korea
Which film ends with Hamlet's "What a piece of work is a man" speech being performed to wolves at London Zoo?	Wothnail & I
With one arm in the neck to operate the head and the other hand operating the wings, Caroll Spinney has met eight first ladies of the USA, has sung with Michael Jackson and would have travelled on the Space Shuttle Challenger if the costume had fitted, al	Big Bird
A record 161 days after nomination, Loretta Lynch was the first African-American to serve in which position in the US?	Attorney General
His father was Al Capone's lawyer, he became the US Navy's first flying ace and also the US Navy's first Medal of Honor winner in World War II. His surname is still associated with Chicago. Who was he?	Edward "Butch" O'Hare
By donating a dollar or more of every ticket at every tour stop to local charities, which US progressive rock group, whose name is shortened to TSO, have donated over $10 million?	Trans-Siberian Orchestra
A bixie or Chinese chimera, such as the sculpted one seen as a symbol of Nanking, is a mythical creature with the head of which animal?	A lion
In which range of hills would you find the British Camp, an iron-age hillfort?	The Malverns (on Herefordshire Beacon)
At least 90% of the natural slate used for roofing in Europe comes from which country?	Spain [largely Galicia]
"Scruples", "Princess Daisy" and "Mistral's Daughter" are among the best known works of which Jewish-American romantic novelist, copyrighted under the name of her husband Steve?	Judith Krantz
Who turned to writing novels such as "Rage of Angels" and "Windmills of the Gods" only after creating TV series such as "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Hart to Hart"?	Sidney Sheldon
He was played on film by William Powell and others and on radio. Which arrogant English-accented New York sleuth did Raymond Chandler call "the most asinine character in detective fiction" and Ogden Nash say "Needs a kick in the pance"?	Philo Vance [created by SS Van Dine aka Willard Huntington-Wright]
Who played Nora Charles alongside William Powell's Nick Charles in film adaptations of the "Thin Man" series by Dashiell Hammett?	Myrna Loy
Who was directed by her husband Jack Fisk in the 1981 film "Raggedy Man"?, having met her on the set of Terrence Malick's 1973 film "Badlands"?	Sissy Spacek
Who is the wife of Judd Apatow who appears in his films "The 40-Year Old Virgin", "Knocked Up" and "This Is 40"?	Leslie Mann
Who is the wife of Joel Coen who has appeared in at least three Coen Brothers movies?	Frances McDormand
Which frequent runner up to AP McCoy as Champion Jockey beat him in his 17,630th and final race at Sandown in April 2015?	Richard Johnson
Which former Arsenal player handed Tony McCoy his 20th consecutive Champions Jockey award, then being able to keep that trophy in perpetuity?	Ian Wright
Tony McCoy was most frequently seen wearing hoops of which two colours, the colours of Irish owner JP McManis?	Green and yellow
When it was the only ball left on the table, how many times in total did Davis and Taylor hit the black in the final frame of the 1985 World Snooker Championship?	Seven [It was the first time the Championship was decided on the last ball]
Against whom did Dennis Taylor stage a comeback to win the Masters title in 1987?	Alex Higgins
Which sport's World Cup was known as the Canada Cup from its start in 1953 through to 1966?	Golf
Which biennial multi-sport event, organised by FISU, is held at Gwangju, South Korea in 2015 and Taipei in 2017?	Universiade aka the World Student Games
Who in 2000 was the last European (as of 2014) to win the London marathon?	Antonio Pinto [of Portugal]
Besides Kenya, what is the only other country to have produced the London Marathon winner in four successive years?	UK [1982-5]
Which Worcestershire town goes before Purple, Emblem and Yellow Egg to give varieties of plums, the town holding an annual plum festival?	Pershore
Which French telecommunications equipment company was bought by Nokia in 2015 for 15.6 euros?	Alcatel-Lucent
Which song by 90s indie band The Bluetones was kept at number two in the UK singles chart by Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman"?	Slight Return
Which 90s band formed by Stone Roses guitarist John Squire had a top three UK hit with "Love Is the Law"?	The Seahorses
The first and second series of "The Island with Bear Grylls" were filmed in the Pearl Islands off the coast of which country?	Panama
Founded in March 2000 by Michael Pennington and Simon Crookall, which website, designed to help Australians, New Zealanders and South Africanas in London became, by 2015, the biggest classified ads site in the UK and has the slogan "Turn your stuff into c	Gumtree
Lisa Hammond, who has dwarfism, first appeared in "Eastenders" in 2014 playing which character?	Donna Yates
Played by Kristian Kiehling in "Eastenders", Aleks Shirovs was a character of what nationality?	Latvian
Which former child star with the first name Bonita, joined "Eastenders" in 2015 as Carmel Kazemi?	Bonnie Langford
Which Essex born singer, dancer and presenter joined "Eastenders" in 2015 in the role of Karin Smart?	Denise van Outen
Which comedian, who famously impersonated a "Coronation Street" character in the 80s and 90s, joined the show himself in 2014 as petty criminal Michael Rodwell?	Les Dennis
Juliette Kaplan, who joined "Coronation Street" as Alice Tinker in 2015, played which character in 226 episodes of "Last of the Summer Wine"?	Pearl (Sibshaw)
Khao Phing Kan in Thailand is popularly known as James Bond Island having appeared in which film?	The Man With The Golden Gun
A thought experiment critiquing the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the EPR Paradox is named after Albert Einstein and which two other scientists?	Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen
What two word name is given to the phenomenon in which particles interact in a such a way that their quantum state cannot be described independently?	Quantum entanglement
Deriving from the German for storage space, which word means a sedimentary site containing fossils in an extraordinary state of preservation?	Lagerstätte
The American scientist Stephen P Synott is best known for having discovered at least four what?	Moons
Which British chemist and inventor wrote "Consolations of Travel" shortly before dying in Geneva in 1829?	Sir Humphrey Davy
What is the name of the Head of Olympic Deliverance and Head of Values at the BBC played by Hugh Bonneville?	Ian Fletcher
With the 17th century discovery of the itch mite, which contagious disease of humans is one of the first whose cause was known?	Scabies
Which scale of aggregate particle size runs from boulder and cobble down to clay and colloid?	Wentworth Scale
What was the first name of the wife for whose murder Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen was executed at Pentonville in 1910?	Cora
What name is often given to the part of County Galway which lies west of Lough Corrib?	Connemara
They covered Cameo's "Word Up" and released an album called "0141 632 6326". Gun formed in which UK city?	Glasgow
Which dyslexic actor had an uncredited role as school principal in the 1996 horror film "Scream"?	Henry Winkler
Which Marxist philosopher wrote on poltical theory, sociology and linguistics and was from 1924 to 1926 the secretary of the Italian Communist Party?	Antonio Gramsci
Which oasis on the Silk Road as it passes through China gives its name to a water system consisting of wells connected by underground tunnels to collect nearby water run-off?	Turpan
Deriving from the Turkic for steep bank, whichr rock feature is a streamlined protruberance carved by a combination of wind and sand erosion?	Yardang
If Eunus and Cleon instigated the First and Athenion and Tryphon started the Second, who is usually credited with starting the Third?	Spartacus [Servile Wars (135-132 BC, 104-100 BC and 73-71 BC)]
Which Spanish prime minister was assassinated in 1973 by four Basque members of ETA?	Luis Carero Blanco
Which French President was assassinated at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on May 6, 1932 by Russian emigré Paul Gorguloff?	Paul Doumer
Which Ancient Greek unit, equal to 100 Greek feet, was roughly the length pf an athletic track and also used as the width and length of a Wrestling square?	Plethron
Which Greek unit of area, now metricised as a thousand square metres, was an ancient unit, originally the amount a team of oxen could plough in a day but was later standardised as a square plethron of side 100 Greek feet?	Stremma
Used in Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Turkey, which unit of area, based on an Ottoman unit, in turn based on the Greek stremma, is equal to 1,000 square metres?	Dunam
Balls on lever arms attached to a spindle turned by a flywheel rise as the speed of the flywheel increases. If the speed of the wheel increases too much, the lever arms activate a throttle valve which reduces the flow of fuel and the speed decreases. What	Centrifugal governor
Which word means any device which uses error-sensing negative feedback to correct the performance of a mechanism that is defined by its function?	Servo(mechanism)
Until the Roman Catholic minor orders were refprmed in 1972 by Pope Paul VI, what was the Latin name for the lowest of the four orders, sometimes also called a porter or doorman?	Ostiarius [ostiary]
Scrapped by the Roman Catholic reform of the four minor orders by Paul VI in 1972, which position was lower than an acolyte, but higher than a lector or porter?	Exorcist
Which common British bird has the scientific name Milvus milvus?	Red kite
The greater species of which bird has the appropriate name Indicator indicator?	Honeyguide
Which humanitarian has his country's second highest mountain named after him and had a bitter rivalry with Gustav Moynier, his co-founder of a famous organisation?	Henri Dunant [Dunantspitze is the mountain]
Which Danish TV series is set during the Second Schleswig War between the Kingdom of Denmark and the German Confederation?	1864
Established in 1889 by Fréderic Passy and Randal Cremer, which institution was the first permanent forum for political multilateral negotiations, has (in 2015) 163 national parliaments as members and has permanent observer status at the UN?	Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Which national channels' Slow TV broadcasts have included a 7 hour train journey, a 134 hour sea voyage, 8 hours of firewood burning and 12 hours of non-stop knitting?	NRK/NRK2 (of Norway)
Élie Ducommun won the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize as the first secretary of which non-governmental organisation, which won the Nobel Prize itself in 1910, and since 1992 has issued prizes named after its secretary and 1974 Nobel Prize winner, Sean MacBride?	International Peace Bureau
Based on its French name, the Institute of International Law, in 1904 the first ever organisation to win the Nobel Peace Prize, is known by what three initials?	IDI (Institut de Droit International)
One time housekeeper to Alfred Nobel himself, Bertha von Suttner became in 1905 the second women to win a Nobel Prize for her novel "Die Waffen Nieder!". What is the English translation of the title, also the name of a 1956 chart hit for Anne Shelton?	Lay Down Your Arms
Which French arbitrator at the Hague and 1907 Nobel Prize co-winner shared his name with a man described by Time magazine as "a little Napoleon of the automaking industry"?	Louis Renault
Who fought in the Five Days in Milan, an 1848 uprising against the Austrians, joined Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand and supported Italy's entry in the First World War, between the last two having shared a Nobel peace Prize in 1907?	Ernesto Moreto
Which German designed the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich and was announced to have won the Pritzke Prize the day after his death in March 2015?	Frei Otto
Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Bellagio in Las Vegas and Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California were all examples of which type of building specialised in by Jon Jerde, who died in February 2015?	Shopping Malls
Receiving over 40 million visitors annually since it opened in 1992, the Mall of America is in which US state?	Minnesota
One of the best known of his generation, the 18th century architect Matthew Bettingham is best known for designing which Norfolk stately home?	Holkham Hall
Sometimes decorated with painting or sculpture what name is given to the rectangular spaces between triglyphs on a Doric frieze?	Metopes
Sculptures on the 92 metopes of the Parthenon depict the Lapiths fighting which creatures?	Centaurs
Which word is usually used to mean the upright elements of a parapet or bannister?	Baluster
Also the name of part of the body and a musical instrument, which word can mean the decorated area above an entrance surrounded by a lintel and an arch?	Tympanum
In architecture, pendentives and squinches are usually means of supporting what structures?	Domes
Which city would you visit in order to see Jagiellonian University and Wawel Cathedral and Castle?	Krakow
Under the town of Wieliczka is a nine level mine containing cathedrals, chandeliers, sculptures and various other items carved from which mineral?	Salt
Thought to have been invented by 16th century printer Henry Denham, the percontation point is a punctuation mark resembling which more well used one?	Backwards question mark
At the 2015 UK General Election, which incumbent did Tory Andrea Jenkyns defeat to become MP for Morley and Outwood?	Ed Balls
At the 2015 UK General Election, Pamela Nash lost her seat to Neil Gray and lost which title to new SNP MP Mhairi Black?	Baby of the House of Commons [at 20 Mhari Black, who beat Shadow Foreign Sec Douglas Alexander, is the youngest ever "Baby"]
At the 2015 UK General Election, which incumbent did Tania Mathias defeat to become MP for Twickenham?	Vince Cable
Which Minister of State for Employment was defeated at the 2015 General Election as MP for Wirral West by Margaret Greenwood?	Esther McVey
Which village site of a cave near Mt Ida in Crete gives its name to a Minoan pottery style of orange and white painted on black, often depicting octopuses and dolphins?	Kamares
Which general under Alexander the Great and one of his seven somatophylakes (bodyguards) ruled Egypt from 323 to 282 BC?	Ptolemy I Soter aka Ptolemy Lagides
Under the Minoan civilisation, the north of Crete is thought of have been governed from the palace of Knossos while the south is thought to have been governed from which palace, the second largest discovered on the island?	Phaistos
By overthrowing the Parthian Empire in 224 AD, who founded the Sassanid dynasty which was a leading world power beside the Byzantine Empire for over 400 years?	Ardashir I
Which 3rd century BC Egyptian priest and historian is thought to have been the first to divide Egyptian history into 30 dynasties and is credited with coining the Greek word "dynasteia" or dynasty?	Manetho
Which Ancient Egyptian god of storms, disorder and violence is depicted with the head of a mythical animal named after the god?	Set
From about 900 BC to 800 AD, the Chavin and Moche cultures were pre-Columbian civilisations centred in which modern day country?	Peru
Following the Shang and lasting from 1046 to 256 BC, including the Warring States period, what was the longest dynasty in Chinese history?	Zhou
Soteriology is the study of religious doctrines relating to what?	Salvation
Hamartiology is a branch of Christian theology concerned with what?	Sin
In Burma or parts of Thailand, what would you put in a gaung baung?	Your head (it's a hat made from a turban wrapped around a rattan frame)
In baseball, striking out three times is called a hat trick, but striking out four times warrants a bigger hat so is called a golden what?	Sombrero
What name is given to the conical hat, worn by European noble women in the Middle Ages, which was usually accompanied by a veil called a cointoise which came out of the top of the hat and fell down to the shoulders or beyond?	Hennin
Wide brimmed and dented at the top, the traditional Tyrolean hat is usually made of felt of which colour?	Green
What was the Latin word for a helmet?	Galea
Which Danish seismologist is most famous for her quickly accepted 1936 postulation, based on seismic data, that the Earth has a separate inner core?	Inge Lehmann
Which British geologist was the first to clearly identify the separate arrivals of S-waves, P-waves and surface waves on seismograms and so deduced that the Earth has a core of a radius 2/5 of that of the Earth?	Richard Dixon Oldham
Meaning little puffs of smoke, relating to the shape of speech bubble, which Italian word for comics is used in English as another word for photocomics?	Fumetti
"Astro Boy", "Kimba the White Lion" and "Black Jack" are among the most famous comic series created by which prolific Japanese cartoonist and animator?	Osamu Tezuka
A Darwin stubby is a large what?	Australian beer bottle holding at least 2 litres
Operation Noah's Ark involved moving wild animals from Southern Africa to Kisima Nationall Park in which country, most of whose wild animals were eaten during 25 years of civil war?	Angola
Which Welsh author of "Raiders Dawn and Other Poems" and "Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets. Poems in Transit" was found shot in the head in 1944 in Burma with his revolver in his hand?	Alun Lewis
Which Castle, built by the Normans but burnt doen in 1666, gives its name to the Ward of London containing St Paul's Cathedral?	Castle Baynard
Who, in 1957, was the first Briton to finish the Tour de France and, in 1958, the first Briton to win a stage of the race?	Brian Robinson
In 2015, Version O, the fifteenth painting in Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" series sold for $179.4 million, breaking Francis Bacon's 2013 record for a work of art at auction. Bacon's record-selling painting was called "Three Studies of" who?	Lucien Freud
Pablo Picasso made 15 paintings and several drawings based on the 1834 painting "Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement" by which artist?	Eugène Delacroix
Herbad, mobad and dastur are successive ranks of priesthood in which religion?	Zoroastrianism
Which 196 minute long film, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and contrasting the rich and poor in Turkey, won the 2014 Palm D'Or?	Winter Sleep
Alice Lowe and Steve Oram co-wrote and starred in which black British film comedy for which Poppy, killed by knitting needles and her replacement, Banjo, won the 2012 Palm Dog award?	Sightseers
American pulp fiction writer Paul Twitchell (1909-1971) was the founder of which religion launched in 1965 and which by the 1980s had an estimated half a million followers worldwide?	Eckankar
Thought to have over 3 million adherents worldwide, Aladura, whose name means "Praying people", was founded in 1918 in which country?	Nigeria
The Tay Ninh Holy See, about 90km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is the home of which 20th century religion with over 3 million adherents?	Cao Ðài or Caodaism
Which green parrot, who first appeared in the 1942 Disney film "Saludos Amigos", is so-called because he comes from Rio and still appears in Brazilian comics?	José "Zé" Carioca
The German army officer Friedrich Robert Beringe gives his name to a species of which animal, having shot a pair and sent them to the Natural History Museum for analysis?	Eastern gorilla (includes mountain and eastern lowland gorillas)
Which NFL team have a simplified fleur-de-lis as their logo?	New Orleans Saints
Since the team debuted in 1960, which NFL team has used an arc-shaped lightning bolt as their logo?	San Diego Chargers
Named after a US electrical engineer, which law refers to the frequency of digits in real data, with one as the lead digit about 30% of the time?	Benford's Law
Named after a US linguist, which law states that the most frequently uttered word in a language will occur twice as much as the second most frequent, three times as much as the third most frequent and so on?	Zipf's Law
Which word is generally used to mean any Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony, either ritual or informal?	Corroboree
Thought to derive form an Aboriginal term meaning "wandering white man", which word is used in Australia to mean any trainee stockman?	Jackaroo
Who did athlete Derek Redmond once describe as "Britain's best-balanced athlete, because he has a chip on both shoulders"?	Linford Christie
Which US athlete, when asked if he had a pre-race ritual said no but that his post-race ritual was to stand on a podium while they put a gold medal round his neck?	Michael Johnson
Which US actor and comedian was the first guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" in 1993 and in 2015 was also the show's final guest?	Bill Murray
Who left "The Simpsons" in 2015 after 26 years of providing the voices of Ned Flanders, Mr Burns and others?	Harry Shearer
Which TV character played by Patrick Dempsey from 2005 until the character's death in a car crash in 2015 was nicknamed McDreamy?	Derek Shepherd [Gray's Anatomy]
With Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis as his inaugural guests, who did James Corden succeed as host of "The Late Late Show"?	Craig Ferguson
Who, in 2015, became the first openly gay man to host the Oscars?	Neil Patrick Harris
Which child dancer and actress gained wide notice at the age of 11 for her dancing in the video of Sia's song "Chandelier"?	Maddie Ziegler
In 2015, which British singer took home Grammies for Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album?	Sam Smith
In a popular Ancient Persian folk tale, translated by Edward Fitzgerald and quoted by Abraham Lincoln, an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and sit	This too shall pass
The Gelada baboon, Simien fox and Walia ibex are only found in the wild in which country?	Ethiopia
In 1981, Willie Shoemaker became the first time winner of which million dollar race?	Arlington Million
The Nintendo Game Cube was launched, Ian Duncan Smith became Conservative leader, the UK launched a new vehicle registration numbering system, Charles Ingram and Robert Brydges appeared on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", all in which memorable month?	September 2001
College Park Airport, founded in 1909 making it the world's oldest continuously operating airport, is in which US state?	Maryland
Point Roberts, also known as the Point or Point Bob, is part of which US state but not connected to it?	Washington
Constructed between 1900 and 1902, Rockville Bridge is the world's longest stone arch masonry railway viaduct at over 3,820 feet long. It crosses the Susquehanna River near which state capital?	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
In Ancient Egypt, what name was given to the striped headdress worn by the pharaohs, such as the one depicted in gold and lapis lazuli on the death mask of Tutankhamun?	Nemes
Which two creatures, depicting the gods Wadjet and Nekhbet, are depicted on the front of Tutankhamun's burial mask?	Cobra and vulture
Winning an honorary award regarded as a precursor to the Best Film Oscar, the 1946 film "Shoeshine" (in Italian "Sciuscia") was the first major work of which director?	Vittorio de Sica
Anthony Quinn and Fellini's future wife Giulietta Musina starred in which 1954 film, the first to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?	La Strada
In the video of the 2015 Carly Rae Jepsen single "I Really Like You" who is seen lip synching and dancing to the song?	Tom Hanks
Which 2014 summer song by Norwegian singer Anders Nilsen contains the lyrics "Taco Eva Mendez costa gringo chorizo" and appropraitely ends "No hablo espanol"?	Salsa Tequila
Which word for crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea comes from the Norwegian for young fish fry?	Krill
In skiing, what is klister?	Ski wax
Which country contains a Coca Museum covering the history of the coca plant and the related drug cocaine?	Bolivia
Which Bolivian city, one of the world's highest, takes its name from the nearby mountain, whose silver led to the city being at one time the second largest city in the Americas and home to the first mint?	Potosi
Who succeeded Simon Bolivar as the first President of Bolivia in 1825?	(Antonio José) de Sucre
Give the common names of two of the main groups of New World monkeys included in the family of Atelinidae or atelids?	Spider, howler, woolly or woolly spider aka the muriqui [the latter is the largest New World monkey]
The Gate of the Sun, Gate of the Moon and the Stairs and Temple of Kalasasaya are features of which civilisation based near Lake Titicaca and conquered by Incas in the 15th century?	Tiwanaku
In 2015, an episode of which US sitcom was almost all viewed through Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads and so on?	Modern Family
Since 1996, American lawyer Judith Sheindlin has made millions of dollars and is better known by what name?	Judge Judy
Rodner Figueroa was fired from Spanish language network Univision for comparing who to "the cast of Planet of the Apes"?	Michelle Obama
On May 2nd 2015, many celebrities including Sting, Robert De Niro, Jay-Z, Donald Trump, Steffi Graf and Justin Bieber were all attending which sporting event?	Floyd Mayweather, Jr v Manny Pacquiao
In May 2015, which pop video broke Vevo's 24-hour record by accumulating over 20 million views on its first day of release?	"Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift
Former "Glee" actress Melissa Benoist plays the title role in which TV series with her step-parents being played appropriately by Helen Slater and Dean Cain?	Supergirl
Which fairy tale themed musical comedy show has Glenn Slater and Alan Menken serving as executive producers, songwriters and composers?	Galavant
Record-breaking yachtswoman Florence Arthaud, Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine all died in 2015 in what sort of accident?	Helicopter crash [in Argentina during a reality show called "Dropped"]
Apart from the Ghent Altarpiece and the illuminated miniatures, the 25 surviving works confidently attributed to Jan van Eyck date from which decade?	1430s
Which Flemish painter's 1435 work "Descent From the Cross" features Christ's body in the shape of a crossbow to relect the commission from the Leuwen guild of archers?	Rogier van der Weyden
Who based his famous "Ave Maria" on the first Prelude in C Major of Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier"?	Charles Gounod
Which Baroque composer's over 3,000 works are given TWV numbers?	Georg Phillipp Telemann
Which Shakespearean title character is based on someone ruling during the life of Jesus Christ?	Cymbeline [based on Cunobeline (ruled c9 AD to c43 AD)]
Which Romano-Jewish historian is our main contemporary source on the Roman Siege of Masada in 73 or 74 AD?	Josephus
Whose second century AD work "Geographia" includes a gazetteer which lists latitudes and longitudes of all the places listed?	(Claudius) Ptolemy (of Alexandria)
Which pair of first century AD Chinese rulers of the golden age of the Eastern Han Dynasty saw Buddhism spread through China and the opening of the Silk Route to Rome?	Ming and Zhang
Often stated in the Malcolm Gladwell book "Outliers", an oft-quoted rule states that to achieve world class expertise in any skill requires how many hours of practice?	10,000
Christian Dior's collection of February 1947 became known as The New Look, but was called what at the time?	The Corolle Collection
What is the "Boss of the Plains", made in factories in St Joseph, Missouri and Galveston, Texas?	(Stetson or ten-gallon) hat
Who (as at 2014) was the last US President to wear a top hat on the way to his inauguration?	John F Kennedy
What type of two-toned Oxford shoe takes its name from the legal term for a third party in an adultery case?	Co-respondent shoe
Souter is a surname deriving from the Scots for which profession?	Shoemaker or cobbler
"Oryx and Crake" (2003), "The Year of the Flood" (2009) and "Maddaddam" (2013) are a dystopian trilogy of novels by which writer?	Margaret Atwood
The Musée Matisse and Musée Chagalle are both found in which French city?	Nice
Gamlang Razi and Hkakabo Razi are the two highest mountains in South East Asia and the highest points in which country?	Myanmar/Burma
The gympie-gympie, the plant infamous for the chronic unbearable pain caused by its stinging leaves, is native to which country?	Australia
Named after an Oxford Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, which paradox states that the incidences of cancer in a species is not related to the number of cells an organism of that species has?	Peto's Paradox
May 2015 saw the start of Expo 2015, a universal exposition on the theme of "Feeding the planet, energy for life" in which European city?	Milan
Mick Malthouse set a record in May 2015 by coaching a team in his 715th match in which sport?	Aussie Rules (Football)
According to the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, the first how many people in line to the British throne require the monarch's approval in order to marry?	Six
The actor Gary Waldhorn is best known for playing which councillor in every episode of "The Vicar of Dibley"?	David Horton
Beko is a domestic appliance and consumer electronics company founded in which country?	Turkey
In six weeks after opening in 2014, the film comedy "Ocho apellidos vascos" ("Eight Basque surnames"), had become Spain's second grossing film behind "Avatar". What is the film's alternative English title?	A Spanish Affair
Dune 7 and Big Daddy are sand dunes often measuring over 300 metres and are found in an area called Sossusvlei in which country?	Namibia
In 2009, the highest point of which Caribbean nation was renamed from Boggy Peak to Mount Obama?	Antigua & Barbuda
Grüner See (Green Lake), a lake which is about a metre deep in winter and fills with 12 metres of clear snowmelt in summer so that scuba divers can see trees, park benches and so on, is a tourist feature of which country?	Austria
Which Russian born spiritual teacher, whose works "All and Nothing" taught how "The Fourth Way" can break humans out of their waking sleep, gained some notoriety in the 1920s when writer Katherine Mansfield died at his Institute in France?	George Gurdijeff
Jay Pritzker, who in 1979 founded the annual Pritzker Prize for Architecture, was also a co-founder of which hotel chain?	Hyatt
In 2004, which architect designed the trophy for the World Cup of Hockey, leading to the Toronto Sun headline "What is that?"?	Frank Gehry
Which Greek word meaning "Successors" is used to mean those rival generals, friends and family who fought for his empire after he died?	Diadochi
Who was Hitler's unoffical ambassador in occupied Paris, who once famously asked Picasso if he did "Guernica" to be told "No, you did"?	Otto Abetz
Named after a British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which word meant an opposition to Appeasement before World War II?	Vansittartism
Which singer had fraternal twins in April 2011 called Monroe and Moroccan?	Mariah Carey
In 2014, The Daily Mail was widely mocked for a headline in which who "jumps round puddle outside coffee shop"?	Lauren Goodger
In 2014, who, to try and win back his ex-wife, named an album after her, the UK sales of which were only 530 copies in the first week?	Robin Thicke ("Paula" after Paula Patten and including the single "Get Her Back")
Computer programmer Phil Katz is probably best known for co-creating which file format for data compression?	ZIP files
Which geographical word is also used in typography to mean a gap running down through a paragraph of text due to coincidental alignment of spacing?	River
Most associated with short repeating animations, which file format was introduced by Compuserve in 1987?	GIF/Graphics Interchange Format
What was the code name of Android 5.0-5.1.1, following on from Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and KitKat?	Lollipop
Referring to the practice of 19th century French architecture students still furiously working on scale models while those models were being taken away in a cart, which French word for a cart is used to mean an intense period of design or planning prior t	Charrette
Which US husband and wife design team, first names Charles and Ray, are well-known for their short film "Powers of Ten" showing a couple in Chicago picnicking from various distances, and for their lounge chairs?	Eames
What is the name of the red, white and blue Pepsi logo?	Pepsi Globe
Written in the 1870s by Brewster M Higley and put to a tune by Daniel E Kelley, "Home On The Range" is the state song of which US state?	Kansas
Which US state has Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell's 1939 song "You Are My Sunshine" as a state song?	Louisiana
The Lion and Sun was an emblem of which country, appearing on its flag from 1846 to 1980?	Iran
Whose first novel, "This Side of Paradise", contains the earliest known uses of the words 'T-shirt' and 'daiquiri'?	F Scott Fitzgerald
He unsuccessfully ran the first SAAB dealership in America and had a brother who discovered silver iodide could be used to seed clouds. Which US writer and World War II prisoner of war?	Kurt Vonnegut
Which author's last novel, left unfinished on his death in 1924, was appropriately entitled "Suspense"?	Joseph Conrad
Which town was depicted in Arnold Bennet novels as "Oldcastle"?	Newcastle-under-Lyme
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent also uses which religiously neutral equivalent symbol in some areas?	Red Crystal
In which country in 2013, was a 100ft high 2,300 year old Mayan pyramid called Nohmul bulldozed to make crushed rock for road building?	Belize
In 1972, which country's king declared that "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product"?	Bhutan
A single lane road on 2,000 ft high cliffs with no guard rails and prone to rain and fog, the North Yungas Road was estimated in 2006 to kill 200 to 300 travellers annually. It is in which country?	Bolivia
Receiving a geographic indication tag in 2008, which traditional Hand Block Print technique is named after a village in Madhyar Pradesh?	Bagh printing
What is the name in Standard Chinese for the characters used in writing the language?	Hanzi
Which famous conductor and violinist was severely beaten for refusing to play a Fascist anthem at a gathering in Bologna in 1931?	Arturo Toscanini
Between 193 and 268 AD, what specifically connects the deaths of all Roman Emperors besides Septimus Severus, Gordianus I, Hostilanus and Valerianus?	All 17 were killed by their own soldiers
The selling of faulty aircraft parts in World War II by the protagonist of the play "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller leads to the death of a number of airmen. Which US indie band are named after those airmen?	Twenty-One Pilots
Which 18-minute black and white 1963 British TV recording of a comedy sketch starring Freddie Frinton and Mary Warden has become an annual Christmas period staple on TV in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and across Scandinavia?	Dinner For One [It is the most repeated programme on German TV]
Which word means to neglect duties or, in Islam, the sin of idolatry, polytheism or anything that contravenes the Tawhid or Oneness of Allah?	Shirk
A Pomak is the name given to a Muslim who speaks which language?	Bulgarian
Peter T Daniels, a US linguist who, with William Bright, co-edited "The World's Writing Systems" (1996), coined which word to mean alphabets without vowels such as those of Hebrew and Arabic?	Abjad
Which word was used by Gauguin, Bernard and Anquetil for the philosphy that art should synthesise subject matter with the artist's emotions rather than reality?	Synthetism
Which international event was first held in 1895 to celebrate the silver anniversary of King Umberto I to Margherita of Savoy?	Venice Biennale
Which BBC2 documentary filmed in Mumbai shares its name with two consecutive letters of the NATO alphabet?	Hotel India
Who voices Grampy Rabbit in the Channel 5 children's programme "Peppa Pig"?	Brian Blessed
A visit by London music journalist Dave Godin to which Manchester club in 1970 led him to coin the term Northern Soul?	Twisted Wheel Club
Which US intelligence organisation during World War II was the predecessor of the CIA?	OSS/Office of Strategic Services
Which famous Polish-born French American mathematician had a surname which means "almond bread"?	(Benoit) Mandelbrot
A Greek one was about 26 kilos, a Roman one about 32 kilos and a Babylonian one was about 30 kilos. Which ancient unit of mass?	Talent
Arequipa, the second largest city in its country, is the birthplace of which Nobel Literature Laureate?	Mario Vargas Llosa
Which acid is so named as it is a result of lysis or breaking down of alkaloids in the grain fungus known as ergot?	Lysergic acid
Which town in the Veneto region of Italy is best known for a variety of cherry and its annual live chess event using humans as pieces?	Manostica
Which of the Marshall Islands was obliterated in November 1952 by the first hydrogen bomb test?	Elugelab
The area of sand dunes known as the Seven Coloured Earths is a major tourist attraction in which country?	Mauritius
Which country occupies 702 sq km of land and 2.6 million sq km of ocean?	Federated States of Micronesia
Featuring the annual Gutbuster run and an annual Jaffa rolling event, Baldwin Street, the steepest residential street in the world is in which Commonwealth country?	New Zealand [north of Dunedin]
What is unusual about the duck eggs eaten in South East Asia as balut?	Fertlised (so, basically, duck embryo in a shell)
Despite being almost blind due to a detached retina, Alicia Alonso became prima ballerina absoluta and, in 1948, founded the national ballet of which country?	Cuba
Often compared to Alicia Markova, Phyllis Spira became, in 1984, the only person from which Commonwealth country to be named prima ballerina absoluta?	South Africa
In May 2015, Picasso's "Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) sold for $179.4 million including fees at Christie’s, a world record for any work of art at auction. Less than 30 minutes later, which sculpture by Giacometti sold for $141.3 million with fees?	Pointing Man/L’homme au doigt
Which US film producer who died in 2014 won the Best Picture Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuchoo's Nest", "Amadeus" and "The English Patient"?	Saul Zaentz
Who has had a producer credit on most of Spielberg's films, co-founded Amblin Entertainment, has been President of Lucasfilm, Co-President of the Producers Guild of America and formed a production company named after herself and her husband Frank Marshall	Kathleen Kennedy
Which US playwright and lyricist is best known for his collaborations with Disney composer Alan Menken, but died in 1991 and got four posthumous Oscar nominations?	Howard Ashman
Who was played by Terry O'Quinn in Disney's "The Rocketeer" and by Jason Robards in "Melvin and Howard"?	Howard Hughes
Spacey is the Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey's middle name. What is his surname?	Fowler
Reed Hastings was inspired to create which website after he was forced to pay a $40 fine for returning "Apollo 13" after its due date?	Netflix
In 2009, a US team in the UK failed to find what it was looking for but instead discovered about 100,000 lost golf balls. What were they searching for?	The Loch Ness Monster
What term including a food stuff is commonly given to cranial pains known fully as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia?	Ice-cream Headache
The major urinary protein (Mup) which attracts female mice to male mouse urine is named what, in honour of a Jane Austen character?	Darcin
At the 1854 New York World's Fair, which inventor amazed a crowd by standing on a platform which rose five storeys and having an axeman cut the supporting rope?	Elisha Otis
Which 18th century art style, whose name was possibly coined pejoratively by a student of Jacque-Louis David, was led by Jean-Antonie Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard?	Rococo
Which three word phrase, taken from an 1855 poem by Robert Browning, was espoused by architect Miles van der Rohe as a precept for minimalist design?	Less is more
Which US architect, who coined the phrase "Less is a bore", was solely awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1991, despite asking for his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown to be included in the citation?	Robert Venturi
Which composer, associated with a system of 12, had a fear of 13 and died on a Friday 13th in 1951?	Arnold Schoenberg
Which composer never grew over 5ft tall, was nicknamed "Schwammer" meaning "Little Mushroon", and died aged 31 in 1828?	Franz Schubert
Which famous composer's last works in the final months of his life after his sister died, were not musical but a series of watercolours?	Felix Mendelssohn
Which nun wrote "Dead Man Walking" about her experiences talking to people on Death Row and was played by Susan Sarandon in a film adaptation of the book?	(Sister) Helen Prejean
Which Italian Jesuit missionary arrived in China in 1715, took the name Lang Shining, and, as a court painter to the emperor, is thought to have had a westernising influence on Chinese art?	Giuseppe Castiglioni
Having assisted in toppling the Tokugawa Shogunate, which Scottish merchant opened the first coal mine and built the first dry dock in Japan and was given the Order of the Rising Sun?	Thomas Baker Glover
In which series of video games does a bartender called Desmond Miles explore his ancestral memories with a device called an Animus?	Assassins Creed
With ties to Assassins Creed Rogue and Black Flag, which 2014 edition of the series revolved around the French Revolution?	Unity
Described as "the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe", nicknamed "The Commentator" and known for his extensions to the works of Aristotle, the 12th century Cordoban polymath Ibn Rushd is usually known in the west by which one word name?	Averroes
Honoured as "Ptolemaeus Secundus", also known as "The Physicist", and noted for his work on optics, what is the one word western name for the 10th/11th century Basra born polymath Ibn Al--Haytham?	Alhazen
Which famous novel was originally written in notebooks and, in three weeks of 1951, was typed onto a 120 foot long roll of tracing paper?	On the Road
Which third-person beat'em up by Platinum Games is named after and centres on a shape-shifting witch who is encouraged to destroy angelic enemies with as much flare as possible?	Bayonetta
In 2008, studies of trees around the world showed that regardless of climate the internal temperature of a leaf was what, to the nearest degree centigrade?	21
Palaeontologist William Buckland was expelled from the shrine of St Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, for pointing out that her bones were actually what?	A goat
Which 5th/6th century founder of western monasticism is regarded by the Anglican and the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe?	St Benedict (of Nursia)
Starting in 1999, with later versions called "Melee" and "Brawl", which Nintendo game sees fighting between well-known characters including Mario, Link, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, Sonic the Hedgehog, Yoshi and Pac Man?	Super Smash Bros
Crashing in 1933 killing 73 of its 76 passengers, which ship still holds the record for largest helium filled airship and the biggest loss of life in any airship disaster?	(USS) Akron
The full name of the Hindenburg airship began with which two letters and the number 129?	LZ [Luftschiff Zeppelin]
In which 2009 role-playing first person shoot'em up by Gearbox Games can you play Roland the Soldier, Lilith the Siren, Mordecai the Hunter or Brick the Berserker?	Borderlands
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air. Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there." In the harbour of which city in 1814 did Francis Scott Key witness this?	Baltimore
Named after the "convivial bard of Greece" of the 6th century BC, which 18th century London gentleman's club for amateur musicians, had a theme song by John Stafford Smith which became the music for "The Star Spangled Banner"?	The Anacreontic Society
In which month of 1825 did Russian army officers lead 3,000 men in a failed attempt to prevent Nikolai I assuming the Russian throne?	December [they were the Decembrists]
Which 2015 Netflix sitcom about a woman rescued from 15 years spent in a cult's underground bunker stars Ellie Kemper in the title role?	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Which 1950s Tintin adventure, the author's favourite, led to the Hergé Foundation receiving the Golden Light of Truth Award?	Tintin In Tibet
The Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado aka Quino is best known for his creation of which six year old girl who vexes her parents with concerns for human rights?	Mafalda
Which Argentine comic, founded by Guillermo Divito in 1944, often featured sensual women on the cover and is thought to have widely influenced the fashions of women in Buenos Aires?	Rico Tipo
Which Republican with a pencil moustache and dapper dress was described by Alice Roosevelt Longworth as "like the man on the wedding cake", an image which may have cost him the US Presidential elections of 1944 and 1948?	Thomas E Dewey
Of which US President did Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore, say "I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on pickle"?	Calvin Coolidge
Which two famous economists met at the Café de la Régence in Paris in 1844?	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Which 18th century Frenchman developed comic opera, was regarded as the greatest chess player of his age and often met Benjamin Franklin at the Café de la Régence in Paris?	(François-André Danican) Philidor
Which American woman wrote 40 books including "Steps to Christ", translated into 140 languages, and had visions which led her to co-found the Seventh-Day Adventist Church?	Ellen Gould White
Named after a local chief who unsuccessfully led his Lenca people against the Spanish conquistadors, what is the currency of Honduras?	Lempira
Named after the country's founder who was beheaded in 1526, what is the currency of Nicaragua?	Cordoba [Francisco Hernandez Cordoba]
Wolfgang Priklopil committed suicide shortly after who escaped, having been held in captivity by him for eight years?	Natascha Kampusch
When found on the body, what can be keloidal or hypertrophic?	Scars
Deriving from Albanian, and appearing in fantasy media such as the Castlevania video game series, what sort of hybrid is a dhampyr?	A vampire/human hybrid
Turned into a 2015 TV drama starring Christian Cooke, the 2012 novel "Stonymouth" was one of the final novels of which author?	Iain Banks
Who invited Charles VIII, King of France to help him fight the King of Naples, but ended up making 80 tons of bronze, intended to make a Leonardo statue of him, into weapons to help fight the French?	Ludovico Sforza [Duke of Milan, 1494-1499]
Which Welsh actress is best known for her collaborations with Peter Kay such as co-writing and co-starring as Kayleigh in the sitcom "Car Share"?	Sian Gibson
Who won the 2015 series "Britain's Got Talent" with her border collies Matisse and Chase?	Jules O'Dwyer
Who went from playing slacker Andy Dwyer, the eventual husband of April Ludgate in "Parks and Recreation", to starring in the 2015 film "Jurassic World"?	Chris Pratt
Who was in the top three models in the TV series "Project Catwalk", the UK version of US series "Project Runway" and in 2015 starred as synthetic human Anita in "Humans", the UK remake of the Swedish series "Real Humans"?	Gemma Chan
What name was given to two cities, one near Astrakhan, one near Volgograd, which served as capital of the Golden Horde in Russia? Like a European capital city, their name derived from a Persian word for a palace.	Sarai [The European capital was Sarajevo]
The home of volleyball, boxing, fencing, karate and taekwondo at the 2015 European Games, the Baku Crystal Hall was built to host which event in 2012?	The Eurovision Song Contest
The name of which US city ultimately derives, via a Duke and a Spanish town, from the Latin for "White oak"?	Albuquerque
Who, in 1506, named the islands of Tristan de Cunha?	Tristão da Cunha
Sometimes seen as the start of European colonialism in Asia, the 1509 naval Battle of Diu saw which country defeat a combined force of Gujarat, Egyptians, Ottomans, Venetians and Croatians?	Portugal
Which Italian Jesuit collaborated with Chinese cartographers in 1602 to create the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, literally "A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World"?	Matteo Ricci
The Southampton Plot was a conspiracy to replace which English king with Edward Mortimer?	Henry V
In about 1603, both Wollaton in Nottinghamshire and Brosely are claimed to have seen the world's first what?	Wagonway/flanged wheel rail system
The last Milky Way supernova unquestionably viewed with the human eye, Supernova 1604 is usually named after which scientist?	(Johannes) Kepler
Whose 1601 play "The Poetaster" popularised the word meaning an inferior poet with artistic pretensions?	Ben Jonson
What was the first Phil Collins cover released as a single and the first track on Now 1?	You Can't Hurry Love
Containing the lyric "You're about as easy as a nuclear war", what was the first UK number one for Duran Duran?	Is There Something I Should Know?
Which 1983 top ten hit by a Sheffield based group from the album "The Luxury Gap" featured the guest vocals of Carol Kenyan?	Temptation
Malcolm McLaren was sued by Mbaqanga group The Boyoyo Boys for the similarity of which of his hits to their own hit "3 Mabone"?	Double Dutch
According to Jim Steinman, the original title of which UK number one was "Vampires in Love" as he was working on a musical called "Nosferatu"?	Total Eclipse of the Heart
Which Canadian worldwide hit of 1983 was a protest against bouncers banning apparently dangerous pogoing in dance clubs?	The Safety Dance
Maggie Reilly was the vocalist on which 1983 UK top ten hit released by Virgin Records?	Moonlight Shadow [by Mike Oldfield]
Which UK number one hit of 1983 has been used as the walk on music of darts player Simon Whitlock?	Down Under
Which Kirsty MacColl penned hit featured the writer on backing vocals (including a prominent appearance of the word "baby") and featured Paul McCartney in the video?	They Don't Know" by Tracy Ullman
Michael Jackson's biggest selling single and Rod Stewart's last UK number one share which initials?	BJ [Billie Jean and Baby Jane]
Which Pope annulled the Magna Carta in return for King John's support leading to the First Barons' War?	Innocent III
According to the Magna Carta's clause 61, the "Security Clause", a group of how many barons could overrule the king at any time in a feudal process called distraint which had never, until then, applied to a king?	25
Who developed a method of manufacturing carbonated water based on experiments by Joseph Priestley and established his own company in Geneva in 1783?	J J Schweppe
In the fantasy novel "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke and the TV series based on it what is the forename of Mr Norrell?	Gilbert
Who won an Olivier Award for playing Miss Trenchbull in "Matilda the Musical" and played Jonathan Strange on TV?	Bertie Carvel
Which actor with a height of 6ft 7inches died the day after Les Dawson in 1993 and had a surname which probably derived from the German name for the city of Wroclaw?	Bernard Bresslaw
Who had a 2011 Tanglish (Tamil-English) hit with "Why this Kolaveri Di?" (meaning "Why This Murderous Rage, Girl?"), the video achieving over 30 million hits before the start of 2012?	Dhanush
Which ITV drama, whose stars included Samantha Bond and Ruth Gemmel, was based on World War II WI accounts in the Julie Summers book "Jambusters"?	Home Fires
Which owner of the Khushal Public School chain was, in 2012, named the UN Special Advisor on Global Education?	Ziauddin Yousafzai [father of Malala]
What was the name of Jonathan Maitland's 2015 play which opened at the Park Theatre, starring Alistair McGowan?	An Audience With Jimmy Savile
The 2015 play "Dead Sheep", by Jonathan Maitland, centred around a speech by which politician?	Geoffrey Howe
From which Andalusian town did Columbus set sail for the Americas in 1492?	Palos de la Frontera
In 2013, the band Hanson launched which beer, punningly named after their biggest hit?	Mmmhops
His real name was Daryl Dragon and her first name was Antoinette. Which married pop duo divorced in 2014 after 39 years despite the title of their biggest hit?	Captain and Tennille
In 1916, which device, invented by and named after a British major general, enabled telegraphy and telephony to be used together on the same line simultaneously, keeping communications secret?	Fullerphone [after Algernon Fuller]
USAAF World War II era SCR-578 survival radio transmitters carried by aircraft on over-water operations, had which name associated with 1890s female beauty due to their hourglass shape?	Gibson girls
Which peninsula and national park in eastern Hokkaido, with a name from the Ainu for "end of the earth", marks the southernmost point where sea ice usually forms in the northern hemisphere?	Shiretoko
Raphael was apprenticed to which artist whose name indicates his origins in the chief city of Umbria?	Perugino
In colour theory, which word is usually used to mean any colour mixed with white?	Tint
In colour theory, which word is usually used to mean any colour mixed with grey?	Tone
In the logo of which major German company do the letters 'C' and 'o' combine to form the shape of a tyre?	Continental
From 1978 to 1993, the logo of which MLB team were the letters 'M' and 'B' in the form of a baseballer's mitt holding a ball?	Milwaukee Brewers
Which English actor, with US citizenship since 1959, appeared in videos for the Pretenders song "Don't Get Me Wrong" and Oasis's "Don't Look Back In Anger"?	Patrick Macnee
The subject of a 1998 documentary film, under what name has Barry Charles become infamous in Australia for lying down in Sydney's urinals?	Troughman
The subject of a 1996 documentary film, what is the collective name for indigenous Aboriginal ball games, thought to have inspired Tom Wills to create Aussie Rules Football?	Marn Grook
Which word means the near-simultaneous ignition of most of the directly exposed combustible material in an enclosed area, often said to be the point when a fire in a room becomes a room on fire?	Flashover
The 1990 Lime Street fire and its reconstruction in an abandoned nearby house revolutionised fire investigation by showing that a fire could reach flashover in four minutes leaving pour patterns, previously associated with arson, without using an accelera	Florida
Which Japanese special effects director (1901-1970) co-created Godzilla and was the main creator of Ultraman?	Eiji Tsuburaya
After Georgia dropped the Confederate Battle flag from its state flag in 2001, what was the last US state flag to contain it?	Mississippi
The flag Georgia adopted in 2003 was based on the early Confederate flag with a circle of 13 white stars on a blue background in the top left on a horizontal red white red tricloeur. By what nickname is that Confederate flag commonly known?	Stars and Bars
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in 2003 and "Sir Billi" in 2012 were which actor's last two films before announcing his retirement?	Sean Connery
Which Oscar winner retired from Hollywood after starring in "Runaway Jury" (2003) and "Welcome to Mooseport" (2004)?	Gene Hackman
Who scored the own goal which knocked England out of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2015?	Laura Bassett
Who scored the winning goal against Germany for England in the third place play off of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2015?	Fara Williams
Which famous novel is set in "17___" according to the frame story told by Captain Robert Walton?	Frankenstein
Which 1816 poem was a Romantic closet drama with supernatural elements started by Byron a few months after the ghost-story sessions which inspired Mary Shelley to write "Frankenstein"?	Manfred: (a dramatic poem)
Associated with the discovery of Dippel's oil, tales of Lord Georg and the Dragon and a fountain of youth, and a series of fruitless 18th century gold rushes, Frankenstein Castle overlooks which German state capital and official "City of Science"?	Darmstadt
Which fifteen letter word means fats which have more than one double bonded pair of carbons in their molecules?	Polyunsaturated
What common name involving a letter and a number is given to polyunsaturated fatty acids with a double bond between the third and fourth carbons from the end of the chain?	Omega-3
What name, made of a Greek letter and a number, is given to a mutation of the CCR5 gene which results in 10% of Europeans being resistant to many forms of HIV?	Delta 32
With a name that can be made by attaching the short name of a British city to the end of the name of a British comedienne, who stood against Ulysses Grant in 1872 and was thus the first female candidate for US President?	Victoria Woodhull
His most famous quote inspiring the name of a British 1980s pop band and a hit for the Village People, who was the main opponent of Ulysses Grant in the 1872 Presidential election?	Horace Greeley ["Go west, young man"]
Y Gweilch is the local name of which rugby union side?	The Ospreys
Rugbaí Mumhan is the local name of which rugby union side?	Munster (Rugby)
He was a pupil of John Blow, the first organist of the then newly built St Paul's and shot himself in 1701. Who is best known for having written a piece long misattributed to another composer?	Jeremiah Clark
The Trumpet Voluntary" by Jeremiah Clark is often claimed to have been dedicated to which royal, after whom the piece is sometimes named?	Prince of Denmark (March) [after Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne]
Which Glasgow artist who grew up in South Africa was commissioned in 2012 to paint the Portrait of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge?	Paul Emsley
Its name an acronym deriving from the Sanskrit words suzuli, bodhi and dharma, Subud is a spiritual movement which began in the 1920s in which country?	Indonesia
Which English entrepreneur, in 1997, started the YO! Sushi chain of restaurants and appeared in only the first series of UK's "Dragons Den"?	Simon Woodroffe
Which band was founded in 1968 by former Byrds members Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman?	The Flying Burrito Brothers
Which guitarist of The Byrds sang lead vocals on their cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man"?	Jim McGuinn
Which départment in the Pay de la Loire region of France is probably best known for a revolt against the Revolutionary government which lasted from 1793 to 1796 and cost 240,000 lives?	Vendée
Which Swedish noble fought in the American Revolutionary War, helped the French royal family escape Paris and was killed in 1810 by a Stockholm lynch mob?	Axel von Fersen
Who, as Royal Executioner of France and High Executioner of the French Republic killed nearly 3,000 people including Louis XVI?	Charles-Henri Sanson
On June 7th 1788, soldiers sent to stop parliamentarians forming a "parlement" were driven out by people hurling down roof tiles. Regarded by some historians as the start of the Revolution, the Day of the Tiles took place in which southeastern French town	Grenoble
Since 2011, France Télévisions has been adapting the DI Joe Faraday novels of Graham Hurley set in which English city?	Portsmouth
Swallows Bank, later Martins Bank, was the name of the bank in which some characters worked in which British sitcom?	Dad's Army
Which non-profit organisation created the web browser Phoenix in 2002 which later became Firefox?	Mozilla
Starting in 1994 as a research project by Norwegian communications company Telenor, which web browser is (in 2015) the fifth most popular after IE, Chrome, Safari and Firefox?	Opera
In which popular essay by Isaiah Berlin, based on a fragment of poetry by Archilochus, are writers who view lthe world through one overarching idea and those who view it through several compared to two animals?	The Hedgehog and the Fox
One of Isaiah Berlin's first expressions of value pluralism, in his inaugural lecture to Oxford University in 1958, he famously divided which concept into negative and positive?	Liberty
The German theologian and physicist, Theodoric of Freiberg did experiments with glass flasks to show the role of individual raindrops in creating rainbows in the early part of which century?	14th
The Richard Dawkins book "Unweaving the Rainbow" centred on the accusation that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow made by which poet?	Keats
The song "Don't Turn Around" which made 1988 UK number one for Aswad and 1994 number five for Ace of Base was originally a 1986 B-side by which artist?	Tina Turner
Which 1997 UK number one by an Australian soap star was originally recorded in 1995 by alt-rock band Ednaswap?	Torn
Later covered by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Britney Spears, which band released the 1975 song "I Love Rock 'n; Roll"?	The Arrows
Later covered by the Grateful Dead, the writer Kris Kristofferson, Janis Joplin and others, who first recorded the song "Me and Bobby McGee"?	Roger Miller
Which 1984 hit cover song was originally recorded by Robert Hazard in 1979?	Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Which word, the Italian for repentance, is used in art to mean an alteration showing an artist's change of mind about composition of a painting?	Pentimento
Which long loose garment, whose name came from the Turkish for robe, gave its name to a narrow type of sleeve with some popularity among women in the 1880s and 1980s?	Dolman
Which British amateur meteorologist proposed, in 1802, that clouds be divided into three types; cumulus, stratus and cirrus, and is described in a Tottenham blue plaque as "Namer of Clouds"?	Luke Howard
Which 19th/20th century meteorologist is best remembered for his system of naming cyclones after unpopular politicians and his Stafford museum whose collection has gone missing?	Clement Lindley Wragge
Zolotoy Rog, meaning the Golden Horn, is a bay named after its similarity in shape to the one in Turkey, but is best known as the site of which Russian port?	Vladivostok
Zolotoy Rog, or Golden Horn Bay, is part of a gulf, the largest in the Sea of Japan, named after which Russian ruler?	Peter the Great (Gulf)
Which Irish physicist gives his name to a discharge or "avalanche", the phenomenon whereby current flows in a gas due to the movement of free electons in a strong electric field?	John Sealy Townsend
Named after a German physicist, which law gives the voltage needed to generate an electric arc in a given gas as a function of the gas pressure and gap length?	Paschen's Law
Before Pope John XXIII, there had not been 22 Pope Johns as which number was never used?	XX [The 13th century Pope who would have been Pope John XX skipped the number, mistakenly thinking there had been two Pope John XIVs]
What is the home country of Naver, launched in June 1999 and soon that country's top search engine?	South Korea
What was hidden by Helena Bonham Carter in "Sweeney Todd", Reese Witherspoon in "Vanity Fair", Julia Roberts in "Oceans Twelve" and Scarlett Johansson in "The Avengers; Age of Ultron"?	Pregnancy
The lowchen and the large Munsterlander are breeds of which animal?	Dog
German wirehaired and German shorthaired are two varieties of which English gundog breed?	Pointer
Why, specifically, is footballer Lucien Laurent most likely to come up in a pub quiz>	He was the first scorer at the FIFA World Cup
Why, specifically, is footballer Hans Tilkowski most likely to come up in an (English) pub quiz>	He was the West German goalkeeper at the 1966 World Cup Final
In 1993, the home ground of the Azerbaijani football team in Baku was named after which famous linesman?	Tofiq Bahramov [often incorrectly known as "the Russian linesman" who awarded England a goal in the 1966 World Cup Final]
Portrayed by Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz in the 2014 Tim Burton film "Big Eyes", what is the name of the artist who, in the 1950s and 60s, made popular paintings of big eyed waifs and the husband who tried to take credit for her work?	Margaret and Walter Keane
Which genus of popular flowering plants and the corresponding shade of purple have a name deriving from a Paraguayan Guarani word for tobacco?	Petunia
In Chile, which Aymaran word means the dense fog banks which form in the Chilean mountains without dropping any rain?	Camanchaca
Which word from Quechua means a Peruvian method of cooking over hot stones in an oven called a huatia?	Pachamanca
Which Melbourne based company, maker of Shopkins dolls, surprised many in the toy industry by beating Mattel and Lego to become US's 2015 Girls Toy of the Year?	Moose Toys
Centring on an overweight bean farmer called Perfecto Lopez and introducing many to Mexican culture, which comic strip drawn by Mexican-American Gustavo "Gus" Arriola between 1941 and 1985 did Charles Schultz call "probably the most beautifully drawn stri	Gordo
Created by Mexican American Laura Molina in 1996, what is the one word name of the comic strip in which Linda Rivera, fed up of a Californian police state run by right wing hate groups, takes on a vigilante persona with the Aztec name Cihualyaomiquiz?	Jaguar
Sharing its name with a UK city, which small Washington city is probably best known as the birthplace of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain?	Aberdeen
Sharing its name iwth a European capital city, which city in the US state of Georgia is probably best known as the place where bands REM and the B-52s were formed?	Athens
Which adult cartoon TV series, which began in 2013, stars Justin Rowland and Dan Harmon as an alcoholic scientist and his suggestible nephew, initially based on Doc Brown and Marty McFly?	Rick and Morty
Which "Desperate Housewives" actress voices Rudi Wilson, the central character in the Canadian animated comedy "Mother Up"?	Eva Longoria
Featuring Steven and three aliens called Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl who save the world from others of their kind, which series, created in 2013 by Rebecca Sugar, was the first Cartoon Network series to be created by a woman?	Steven Universe
She was the first woman to head one of the top ten US companies/ Which former CEO of Hewlett-Packard announced, in May 2016, that she was running for US President?	Carly Fiorina
Flibanserin is being advocated as a drug for women with HSDD or a particularly low what?	Sex-drive/libido
Since 2012, solanezumab has been investigated as a cure for some forms of which disease?	Alzheimer's
Which royal house is the current ruling dynasty of Japan, with evidence of continuity going back over 1500 years?	Yamato
Diamini is the ruling royal house of which kingdom?	Swaziland
Which dynasty ruled Nepal from 1768 to 2006?	Shah dynasty
Occuring in the sixth day of the month of Sivan, what Hebrew name is usually given to the Festival of Weeks when God gave the Torah to man on Mount Sinai?	Shavuot
Occuring in the seventeenth day of the month of Tishrei, what Hebrew name is usually given to the Festival of Tabernacles commemorating the 40 days of travel in the desert after the Exodus?	Sukkot
The four original citrus fruits from which most others developed through hybridisation are the citron, mandarin, pomelo and which other?	Papeda [Least edible hence least well known]
The sweet orange, more commonly just known as the orange, has genes which are 75% mandarin and 25% which other fruit?	Pomelo
According to genetic studies, which fruit, itself a cross between pomelo and mandarin, was bred with the citron to make a lemon?	Bitter orange
Which Hebrew substitution cipher is formed by replacing aleph with tav, beth with shin and so on, these four letters giving the cipher its name?	Atbash
Mentioned as early as the 7th century BC, which ancient cryptography tool consists of parchment wrapped around a cylindrical rod?	Scytale [rhymes with Italy]
In which 2015 Dreamworks film, based on the book "The True Meaning of Smekday" by Adam Rex, does an alien called Oh, voiced by Jim Parsoms. befriend a girl called Tip ,voiced by Rihanna?	Home
In the 2015 Pixar film "Inside Out" about the emotions guiding an 11 year girl called Riley Anderson, who provides the voice of Joy?	Amy Poehler
Appearing with him on the TV show "Backchat", what is the first name of comedian Jack Whitehall's father?	Michael
Banned in twenty US states, what term means a trophy hunt in which an animal is kept in a confined area to increase the chance of a hunter obtaining a kill?	Canned hunt
Formerly called the Wankie Game Reserve, the Hwange National Park is in which African country?	Zimbabwe
After which Englishman was the tame Zimbabwean lion who gained world headlines after being killed by US dentist Walter Palmer, named?	Cecil Rhodes
"Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength" centring the characetr Elwin Ransom made up the Cosmic or Space Trilogy of which British writer?	CS Lewis
Set in a dystopian 2027 where society is on the brink after two decades of human infertility and made into a 2006 film by Alfonso Cuaron, who wrote the sci-fi novel "Children of Men"?	PD James
Set in a world where climate change has melted the polar ice caps, who wrote the 1962 dystopian novel "The Drowned World"?	JG Ballard
What name is given to an organic chemical in which a proton migrates and a single bond swaps with an adjacent double bond to create another, reactions which happen so interchangeably, the chemicals are seen as effectively the same?	Tautomer
In organic chemistry, what is the one word name for molecules with the same atoms forming the same connections but with different three dimensional orientations in space?	Stereoisomers
Having been in a band called "Runny Nose", he formed the Best Party and from 2010 to 2014 Jon Gnarr was mayor of which city?	Reykjavik
Which compound word, coined by New York environmentalist Jay Westervelt in a 1986 essay, means the deceptive marketing of an organisation's products or policies as being environmentally friendly?	Greenwashing
Which Nowegian bottled water, noted for its cylindrical glass bottles, takes its name from a west Norwegian municipality 250 miles from where it is actually bottled?	Voss
Which European island, with a name meaning "lynx foot", has the world's largest positive temperature anomaly relative to latitude so has a mild climate within the Arctic Circle?	Lofoten
In 2007, which company bought the Borsa Italiana, Italy's main stock exhange?	London Stock Exchange Group plc
PRG4 or proteoglycan 4 is a protein that also has which name due to its role in the synovial fluid between the joints?	Lubricin
What name is given to the water-soluble structural proteins found in the cornea and lens of the vertebrate eye which are responsible for transparency?	Crystallins
The first Eddystone Lighthouse and its builder, the Bishop of Bath and Wells and his wife, flattened by chimneystacks, ships blown off course, hundreds drowned on the Somerset Levels and windmills set alight by the friction of their own sails were all vic	1703
In the name of the largest chemical producer in the world, BASF, the B stands for the former Grand Duchy pf Baden, F is for Fabrik (Factory and the AS stand for which two chemicals?)	Aniline and Soda
Mount Whaleback, a source of iron ore in the Ophthalmia Range, lies to the north of which Australian state capital?	Perth
Running since 1883, the oldest operating electric railway in the world, as at 2014, Volk's Electric Railway is in which UK resort?	Brighton
Which Canadian singer and record producer was host of TV game show "The Golden Shot" for 14 episodes until Bob Monkhouse took over?	Jackie Rae
Which term for the dissemination of censored material came from the Russian for "self-publishing"?	Samizdat
In Soviet era Russia, which word, deriving from Samizdat, was the dissemination of illegal taped sound recordings?	Magnitizdat
Which girl group were named after a London road near the ZTT recording studios?	All Saints
The Swedish pop foursome A*Teens had a name which was an abbreviation of their earlier name which was what?	ABBA Teens [They were a tribute band before their hit "Upside Down"]
Which English group was formed in 2010 by Dan Smith whose birthday is on July 14th?	Bastille
At various times, which band claim to have got their name from a Welsh tribe, a player for Ayr United or a spoonerised Cliff Richard pen?	Biffy Clyro
Hurst Park, Woore and Gatwick are all defunct UK examples of what?	Racecourses
Trained by François Boutin, on which horse did Lester Piggott win three consecutive Ascot Gold Cups in 1975,76 and 77?	Sagaro
Trained by Aidan O'Brien which horse won the Ascot Gold Cup four times from 2006 to 2009?	Yeats
After a day of criticism from listeners, the band and Kirsty McColl's mother, BBC Radio 1 reversed their decision to edit which three words out of "Fairytale of New York"?	Slut, faggot and arse
When the Pogues and the Dubliners released "The Irish Rover", the B-side was which folk song referred to in the lyrics of "Fairytale of New York"?	Rare Auld Mountain Dew
Which book involving the introduction of locomotives to Discworld is the last published by Terry Pratchett in his lifetime?	Raising Steam
Published in August 2015, what was the last Discworld novel to be completed by Terry Pratchett before his death?	The Shepherd's Crook
Which form of origami involving cutting as well as folding takes its name from the Japanese for cut and paper?	Kirigami
Which therapod dinosaur of the late Cretaceous poriod derives its genus name from the Lewis Caroll poem "The Jabberwock"?	Borogovia
A Lielvarde belt is a traditional belt covered in 22 ancient symbols from which East European country?	Latvia
Popular in Baltic states, Karum are a Latvian brand of packaged sweet made from which flavoured ingredient?	Cheese curd
Latvian pharmacist Abraham Kunze is largely associated with the creation of which 45% proof vodka based drink?	Riga Black Balsam
San Diego-Tijuana is the largest bi-national metropolitan area on the US-Mexican border. Which two cities make the second largest?	El Paso-Ciudad Juarez
With an estimated population in 2010 of 5.7 million people the largestr bi-national conurbation between US and Canada includes Detroit and which other city?	Windsor
One of the most numerous of all pig breeds, Yorkshire pig is usually known by what name indicating its size and colour?	Large White
Named after a district of Yorkshire and its colour, which rare breed of horse is favoured for British Royal Family carriage processions?	Cleveland Bay
In 2008 and 2012, Maris trombergs won Latvia's second and third Olympic golds in which cycling event?	Men's BMX
What is the two word French phrase used in the art world to mean a comprehensive, annotated list of all the artworks of an artist in one or all media?	Catalogue raisonné
Which white wine grape is the only one permitted to make the Rhone wines Condrieu and Château Grillet?	Viognier
Beaujolais nouveau is made with which purple grape?	Gamay
The black-skinned Zinfandel grape, associated with Californian vineyards, is genetically equivalent to which grape grown in the Apulia region of Italy?	Primitivo
Grenache is the dominant grape in Châteauneuf-du-Pape but originated in which country?	Spain
Hobble skirts, kimono coats, harem pants were all created by which French fashion designer often claimed to be the greatest of the first two decades of the 20th century?	Paul Poiret
The 1910s fashion for Orientalism is often claimed to have been started by the performance of which Rimsky-Korsakov ballet by the Ballet Russes in Paris?	Scheherazade
How is Anna Fierline, a canteen woman in the Swedish army during the Thirty Years War known in the title of a play by Berthold Brecht?	Mother Courage [Mother Courage and Her Children]
How is Pelagea Vlassova known in the title of Berthold Brecht's 1932 play named after a Maxim Gorky novel of the same name?	The Mother
Which Neo-Renaissance house built in Buckinghamshire for the Rothschild family is now one of the most visited National Trust stately homes?	Waddesdon Manor
Tring Park, home to the National Museum at Tring, originally the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, is in which English county?	Hertfordshire
Which US Attorney General, with a much more famous French great uncle, founded the Bureau of Investigation which in the 1920s became the FBI?	Charles Bonaparte
Which word can be a Greek word for saw, another name for one of the whalebirds of the Southern Ocean or a protein which spreads lke a virus?	Prion
In what year did Sir Peter Maxwell Davies succeed Malcolm Williamson to be the first Master of the Queen's Music to be elected for ten years rather than life?	2004
In July 2014, who succeeded Sir Peter Maxwell Davis to be the first woman Master of the Queen's Music?	Judith Weir
Which Liberal MP and Manchester Guardian journalist who died in 1932 once famously commented "Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it."?	C P Scott
Which US comedian, actor and writer who appeared in "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In" and "Saturday Night Live" before his death in 1962 is often attributed with defining television as "a medium" because it is "neither rare nor well done"?	Ernie Kovacs
Since the 1970s, Monsanto have marketed the weedkiller glyphosate under which brand name?	RoundUp
First performed at the Manchester Opera House in 2011, who wrote a musical about Tubby and Enid called "That Day We Sang"?	Victoria Wood
Who composed "Nymphs and Shepherds", a song made famous by a performance of 250 schoolchildren in 1929 at the Free Trade Hall accompanied by the Hallé Orchestra?	Henry Purcell
Which 17th century Italian anatomist has many features including pyramids in the kidneys, tubules in insects and a layer of skin named after him?	Marcello Malpighi
Which 16th century Italian has part of the body named after him and is often credited, along with his contemporary Vesalius, as being the founder of human anatomy?	Bartolemeo Eustachi
Begun in 1895 by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, which institute attempted to classify all human knownledge under the Universal Decimal Classification system and has been regarded as a precursor to the internet?	Mundaneum
Which attempt to cover all ancient knowledge was begun in 77 AD and is divided into 37 books organised into ten volumes?	Naturalis Historia (by Pliny the Elder)
Launched with much fanfare in 2007, which shoes with "microwobbleboard technology" was David Cameron wearing in 2015 on holiday to help him lose weight?	FitFlops
What common name, after the activity which causes it, is commonly given to the painful condition otalgia externa?	Swimmer's ear
Which World Snooker Championship finalist is from Derbyshire but is nicknamed Basildon?	Nigel Bond
Which professional snooker player is nicknamed the Sheriff of Pottingham?	Anthony Hamilton
Which body of the Solar System has all its known mountains named after mountains in Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings"?	Titan
In planetary geology, which two Latin words differing only by their initial letter mean the bright spots and dark spots on a planet's surface?	Faculae and maculae
Which European culture hero, whose name may be a corruption of Jan Primus, a 13th century Duke of Brabant, is an icon of beer and brewing?	Gambrinus
With breweries in Lyon, France and Eugene, Oregon named in her honour, who was the Sumerian goddess of beer?	Ninkasi
In 2006, Nigerian sprinter Olusoji Fasuba ran 100 metres in 9.85 seconds overtaking whose ten year old record to become the fastest runner in Africa?	Frankie Fredericks
Born in Cremona, which woman became official court painter to Phillip II of Spain and after two marriages, died in Palermo, Sicily aged 93?	(Sofonisba) Anguissola
Which Austrian Neoclassical painter, largely of historical scenes, was, with Mary Moser, one of the two women founders of the Royal Academy?	Angelica Kauffman
In which city in 1792 did Captain Rouget de Lisle lock himself in a room with a violin to create a battle march for General Kellermann?	Strasbourg [When Parisians saw it sung by people from Marseilles, they called it La Marseillaise]
What are the first and last field events in a Olympic men's decathlon?	Long jump and javelin
What are the first and last field events in a Olympic women's heptathlon?	High jump and javelin
In which series of films is Eel Marsh House haunted by the title character Jennet Humpfrye?	The Woman in Black
The name of which 2008 action film centring on family man Bryan Mills completes this typically negative review for its second sequel in 2015: "This time it's the audience that is..."?	Taken
Geraldine Estelle are the first names of which singer who married the Infiniti Red Bull Formula One Team Principal Chris Horner in May 2015?	Geri Halliwell
Milena Markovna are the first names of which actress who married her celebrity husband in July 2015?	Mila Kunis [married Ashton Kutcher]
In 2014, Mary-Kate Olsen secretly married Olivier, the half-brother to which former president?	Nicolas Sarkozy
Who wrote for "Harper's Bazaar", was editor-in-chief of "Vogue" from 1963 to 1971, gave style advice to Jackie Kennedy and died in 1989 having written an autobiography in 1984 called "DV"?	Diana Vreeland
Before she became famous as a comedienne, who was a contestant on the 2001 reality show "Survivor"?	Zoe Lyons
What is both the surname of a dorky alter ego of a character in a BBC sitcom and the name of the fictional Oxforshire location of another BBC sitcom?	Dibley [The Cat in "Red Dwarf" aka Duane Dibley]
In 2015, who succceeded Robert Atwell as Bishop of Stockport, so becoming the first woman to be consecrated a bishop by the Church of England?	Libby Lane
Rising in about 900 AD, with a capital city at Chan Chan, which moon worshipping culture ruled northern coastal Peru until being conquered by the sun-worshipping Incas in about 1470?	Chimu
The name of which ancient dynasty of southern India at its height from the 9th to the 13th centuries also appears in the name of current Malay princes who claim descent from that dynasty?	Chola
Which former journalist founded the fashion portal Net-a-Porter and in 2013 was made chairman of the British Fashion Council?	Natalie Massenet
From 1950 to 1962, Rajendra Prasad was the first to hold which political position?	President of India
From 1938 to 1945, Douglas Hyde was the first to hold which political position?	President of Ireland
The Sacred Valley of the Incas, lying in Cusco not far from Macchu Picchu, is the valley of which Peruvian river?	Urubamba, Willkanuta or Willkamayu River
What were the surnames of S Duncan and Alonzo G who opened a small machine shop in Baltimore in 1910 and in 1917 invented a portable electric drill?	Black and Decker
Named after the man who founded it in Walblingen near Stuttgart, Germany in 1926, which company claims to be the world's bestselling brand of chain saws?	Stihl
Russian-born American George Balabushka was known as "the Stradivarius of..." which sports equipment, of which he handcrafted about 1,200 in his lifetime?	Cues (billiards/pool)
The summer residence of Frederick the Great was the Sanssousi Palace in Potsdam, with "sans souci" meaning what in French?	Carefree
While the Sanssouci Palce was built in the 1740s for Frederick the Great, but where in the Americas will you find the 1810s built Sans-Souci Palace?	Haiti
Often cited in the 2010s by international aid groups as one of the most persecuted minoroties in the world, the Rohingya are people from Rakhine State in which Asian country?	Burma/Myanmar
Bestsellers "Animal Kingdom" by Millie Marotta and "Secret Garden" by Johanna Basford are part of which craze which swept across the UK in 2015?	(Adult) Colouring books
Which English county beginning with B does not border Greater London?	Bedfordshire
Which three neighbouring English counties sound like animals when abbreviated?	Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire (aka Oxon, Bucks, Herts)
A meeting in which Hungarian town in 1991 gives rise to Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics being known as the V4 countries?	Visegrad
Which film centres around the previews and performance of a dramatisation of Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"?	Birdman
Which Cambridgeshire hamlet in what was Huntingdonshire is made famous as the last of TS Eliot's "Four Quartets"?	Little Gidding
Which British product's geographical protected status means it cannot be made in the place it is named after?	Stilton cheese
The first recorded instance of which famous race in Buckinghamshire was in 1445?	Olney Pancake Race
Pete Sampras and Roger Federer are the second and third people to win Wimbledon seven times. Who in 1889 became the first?	William Renshaw
Who played Jimmy Slade in "Baywatch" and has been surfing's ASP World Tour champion a record eleven times?	Kelly Slater
The Lord who was the main antagonist in "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" and the Russian-German producer Anton Zaslavski whose 2013 hit "Clarity" featured the singer Foxes, share which name?	Zedd
Which author, who died in 2004, was famous for supernatural fiction and alternative history novels for children wrote "The Wolves of Willoughby Place" and "Black Hearts in Battersea" ?	Joan Aiken
The American physicist Hugh Everett III was largely associated with which view of quantum mechanics, sometimes abbreviated to MWI?	Many-worlds interpretation
Mark Oliver Everett, son of the US physicist Hugh Everett III, was frontman of which alternative Californian group whose first album was the 1995 "Beautiful Freak"?	The Eels
The 2015 Wiz Khalifa song "See You Again" was written for the film "Furious 7" as a tribute to which actor?	Paul Welker
Which group's 1981 version of the Shadows hit "Apache" includes the lyrics "Kemo sabe. Jump on it. Jump on it."?	The Sugarhill Gang
What nationality were Ian Van Dahl, largely remembered for their 2000 dance hit "Castles in the Sky"?	Belgian
What nationality were Modjo, largely remembered for their 2000 dance hit "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)"?	French
What is the full name of the organisation in the title of the TV series "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D"?	Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division
What was the full name of WASP in the TV series "Stingray"?	World Aquatic Security Patrol
Middle Mouse and Flat Holm are the northernmost and southernmost extremities of which region?	Wales
What is the translation of the Welsh motto "Cymru am byth"?	Wales forever
Which waterfall 15 miles west of Oswestry is the first of the Seven Wonders of Wales listed in a famous but anonymous poem?	Pistyll Rhaeadr
The metasoma, regarded as the tail of a scorpion, is comprised of how many segments?	Six [Five caudal segments and the telson or sting]
In a scorpion, what is the name of the barbed part of the telson, or sting, which injects the venom?	Acuteus
What was the name of the US 2nd Lieutenant who, in 1971, was found guilty of the 1968 murder of 22 unarmed civilians in My Lai, Vietnam?	William Calley
The team Jeunesse Hautcharage, later known as UN Käerjéng 97, played their first UEFA Cup tie in 1971 against Chelsea where they lost by a record aggregate of 21-0. In which country were they based?	Luxembourg
Clinically more common in dogs and mice than humans, pseudocyesis is more commonly known by what two word name?	Phantom/fake pregnancy
In 1814, which Devon prophetess at the age of 64 came to London claiming to be pregnant with the Messiah, but is more famous for her box, to be opened in front of 24 bishops at a time of national crisis?	Joanna Southcott
Discovered in 2013, but not announced to the public until two years later, fossils of which extinct hominid were found in the Rising Star Caves in South Africa?	Homo naledi [found in the Dinaledi Chamber whose name is Sesotho for "star"]
What is the more common two word name for the male psychosomatic condition known as Couvade syndrome?	Sympathetic pregnancy
Which Neolithic site, two miles east of Stonehenge saw the discovery of a buried henge in 2015?	Durrington Walls
First mentioned by the Romans in the 1st century BC, which people lived in the area between the rivers Ems and the Elbe as far inland as the upper Weser, until they merged with the Saxons in the 3rd century AD?	Chauci
Arminius, who led Germanic tribes to victory in the Battle of Teutoberg Forest, was himself from which tribe around modern-day Hanover, later absorbed into the Franks and Alemanii?	Cherusci
Which European country has never issued coins for general circulation?	Belarus
According to 2013 figures, which country contains by far the greatest number of elephants?	Botswana [Elephants are migrating from other parts into Gabon, Uganda, Namibia and Botswana where there are thought to be over 100,000]
In 1979, who was overthrown after personally supervising the massacre of 100 schoolchildren for refusing to wear school uniforms made by a company of one of his 17 wives?	(Jean-Bedel) Bokassa
The resort of San Alfonso del Mar, west of Santiago in Chile, is famous for having the world's largest what, which is over 1,000 metres long?	Swimming pool
In 1999, which Colombian was convicted of murdering 139 children, but had his maximum 40 year sentence reduced to 22 for helping police find the bodies?	Luis Garavito
In 2012, which South American country introduced a system whereby prisoners could reduce their sentences by a day for every three days spent cycling eight-hour shifts on exercise bikes to generate electricity?	Brazil
Since independence, as at 2015 which African country's only legal party has been the ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice, whose leader is both head of state and head of government?	Eritrea
Which Mönchengladbach born racing driver was known as HHF and finished runner-up in the 1997 World Drivers' Championship driving for Williams?	Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Which Mönchengladbach born racing driver had 13 podium finishes and 8 runner-up positions in Formula One without winning a race?	Nick Heidfeld
Sweden's Kerstin "Kiki" Håkansson was the first holder of what title in 1951?	Miss World
As at 2015, who was the last English player to win the Premier League Golden Boot?	Kevin Philips [1999-2000 Sunderland]
Who was played by Paul Barber in 18 episodes of "Only Fools and Horses"?	Denzel
Who was played by Kenneth MacDonald in 30 episodes of "Only Fools and Horses"?	Mike
The tallest mud-built minaret in the world forms part of which Nigerien city, a key Tuareg centre and an important crossroads for mediaeval caravans?	Agadez
Almost a third of all the world's uranium is mined in which country?	Kazakhstan
Ninalee Craig, for a while known as Jinx Allen, is best known as the woman walking down the street being ogled by several men in the 1951 picture "American Girl in Italy" by which photographer?	Ruth Orkin
What is the usual word for the midriff-baring blouse or upper garment traditionally worn with a sari in India?	Choli
What is the usual Hindi word for tight fitting trousers similar to leggings and contrasting with the baggier salwar?	Churidar
Who wrote a series of semi-autobiographical prose stories, published in 1940 under the title "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"?	Dylan Thomas
Based on the second novel of a semi-autobiographical trilogy by Reidar Jönsson, who directed the popular 1985 Swedish film "My Life as a Dog"?	Lasse Hallström
He had UK top ten hits with his album "Veneer" and his acoustic version of The Knife's "Heartbeats". In which country was singer-songwriter and guitarist José Gonzalez born?	Sweden [born in Gothenberg after his family fled the Dirty War in Argentina]
Also noted for its rare vegetation, the largest limestone plain in Europe, the 100 square mile Stola Alvaret makes up a quarter of the land area of which island?	Öland
Home to eight million puffins every summer, which island southwest of the mainland is the largest and most populated island off the coast of Iceland?	Heimaey
What is the Greek derived word for a constant boiling mixture, that is, a mixture of liquids whose proportion is unchanged when the mixture is boiled to form vapours?	Azeotrope
Named after their belief in twelve holy successors to Mohammed, Twelvers form the largest branch of which denomination of Islam?	Shia Islam
From 1501 to 1722, which dynasty ruled Iran, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Armenia, most of Georgia, Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan and parts of Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan?	Safavid dynasty
Which capital city sits on the Barada River and the Hejaz Railway?	Damascus
The name of which capital city has long been thought to derive its name from the Arabic for "elephant trunk"?	Khartoum [due to the narrow strip of land between the Niles]
What specifically connects another name for the West African primate known as a potto, Ruby Murray and a 1960s TV series directed by Ridley Scott?	Softly Softly
Due to the sebacious glands, which common white spots, not indicative of illness, and commonly found on the genitals, face and mouth have a name which sounds like a set of items iwth 84 spots?	Fordyce (spots)
With a name meaning "Assembly of the dead" due to the heads of criminals that used to be displayed there, Jemaa el Fna is the main square in which city?	Marrakesh
Named after the founder of Fez, who brought Islam to Morocco in 789, six visits to which town during its annual festival are claimed by Moroccans to be equivalent to one pilgrimmage to Mecca?	Moulay Idriss
In 2007, Nawal el Moutawakel became the Moroccan Minister for Sport having won the inaugural Olympic gold medal in 1984 in which athletics event?	Women's 400 metres
The largest known concentration of mammals are the estimated 20 million bats living in Bracken Cave in which US state?	Texas
Female short-nosed fruit bats are the only non-primates known to engage in what activity?	Fellatio
Ferdie Aboboe of Ghana is possibly as famous for his football keepy-uppy skills as his 100-yard dash world record of 12.7 seconds in 1983 which was unusual in what regard?	He ran it backwards
Known as the "King of Country" who, in 2009, broke Conway Twitty's record of 40 number ones on the US Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart and has sold 100 million records worldwide?	George Strait [Yes, the certified sales are almost entirely in the US and Canada]
Sometimes known as the "Queen of Country", who has sold over 80 million records, but may be better known outside the US for a trigger happy scene with Burt Gummer in the cult film "Tremors"?	Reba McEntire
The killer sandworms of the cult 1990s film "Tremors" are known by what name, mentioned more frequently in the subsequent films and TV series?	Graboids
Olgoi-khorkhoi is the local name for which alleged underground creatures with no eyes, said to spew acid and discharge electricity?	Mongolian death worms
With a surname which is nearly an anagram of the country he served, who was President of his country for 41 years until his death in 2009?	Omar Bongo [of Gabon]
The 17th century Salé Pirates, based near Rabat in Morocco, are probably best remembered in literature for their kidnapping of which character?	Robinson Crusoe
Which Russian born US wheelchair athlete won 2012 Paralympic golds in the T54 400m, 800m and 1500m and was 2015 Laureus Sportsperson with a Disability award?	Tatyana McFadden
Marie Bochet, the 2014 Laureus Sportsperson with a Disability, won four Paralympic golds at one games in which sport?	Skiing
What is the two word name for the doctrine, taken from the First Book of Corinthians, usually interpreted as meaning that if two unbaptised people marry and one becomes Christian while the other does not, then separation is allowed?	Pauline Privilege
Which EU country legalised divorce in 2011?	Malta
Involved in the transport of cholesterol around the body, what are divided into LDLs and HDLs?	(Low/High Density) Lipoproteins
Which Brazilian company competes with Bombardier for the title of third largest aircraft manufacturer after Airbus and Boeing?	Embraer
Formed in 2008, the state owned Shanghai-based Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China is usually known by what five letter name?	Comac
Makers of the L-410 Turbojet, Let, np is an aircraft manufacturer based in which European country?	Czech Republic [sometimes known as Let Kunovice]
Which word, in Islam means the border between heaven and hell, but in Wales is more likely to be seen painted on the road?	Araf [Welsh for "Slow"]
Described twice in Exodus as the "Mountain of God", which mountain divides religious scholars, with some equating it with the Biblical Mount Sinai and others thinking they are separate mountains?	Horeb
Which common law tort, now only active in only a few US states (as of 2015), most notably North Carolina, does a partner seek damages for sexual relations outside a marriage? It is abbreviated to crim con.	Criminal conversation
What is the three word name for the common law tort, now only active in only a few US states (as of 2015), most notably North Carolina, in which a partner sues a third party for damage to their marriage but without having to prove sex took place?.	Alienation of affections
Which political journalist and non-fiction author gained some notoriety in 2015 as the co-author, with Lord Ashcroft, of the unauthorised biography "Call Me Dave"?	Isabel Oakeshott
First held in 1983, the annual EUROPAfest, an international music festival involving jazz, blues, pop and classical, takes place in which European capital city?	Bucharest
Which Laureus World Sports Award has been won by Serena Williams, Darren Clark, Paula Radcliffe and Schalk Burger?	Comeback of the Year
Which Laureus World Sports Award has been won by Liu Xiang (2005), Rebecca Adlington (2009), Rory McIlroy (2012) and Daniel Riccardo )2015)?	Breakthrough of the Year
With a name meaning "handle" in Latin, what is the upper part of the sternum, connected to the clavicles and the cartilages of the first pair of ribs?	Manubrium
Named after the festival founder, what cup is awarded to the Best Actress at the Vienna Film Festival?	Volpi Cup
Which Italian actress, best known to English speaking audiences for her role in the "Hot Shots!" movies, in 2015 became only the third actress, after Shirley Maclaine and Isabelle Huppert, to win Best Actress at the Venice Festival twice ?	Valeria Golino
Designed by Aaron Dustin in 2015, which potential New Zealand flag was added to the shortlist of four after a campaign by social media?	Red Peak or "First to the Light"
Of the original 2015 shortlist of four potential New Zealand flags, three showed a silver fern, while the other showed which Maori spiral symbol?	Koru

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