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GK 19
Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name any two of the four films for which John Ford won Best Director Oscars? | The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man |
| What is the final book in Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" trilogy? | The Mirror and the Light |
| The Roborovski is a species of which animal and pet? | Hamster |
| Founded in 1766, what is the Royal Family of Bahrain? | Al Khalifa |
| Who was the first US President to be assassinated? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Which 1924 George Gershwin work opens with a clarinet glissando made famous by its use in 'Annie Hall'? | Rhapsody in Blue |
| The oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world, which university was founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kraków? | Jagiellonian University |
| "Welcome To The 60s" and "You Can't Stop The Beat" are songs from which musical? | Hairspray |
| On 9 June 1954, who was famously asked by army lawyer Joseph N Welch "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| Although best-known for his positive contribution to chemistry, Linus Pauling is also remembered for a biological blunder which saw him propose that the structure of DNA had which shape, prior to the question being resolved by Crick and Watson? | Triple helix |
| Who wrote the poem "Sympathy" famous for its final line "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"? | (Paul Laurence) Dunbar |
| What name is common to: one of the names of Cassius, one of Caesar's assassins; a Greek literary critic who may have lived in the 1st century, author of On the Sublime; and the man whose lance supposedly pierced Christ's side on the cross? | Longinus |
| Which strongly intorverted US poet (1830-86) had a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom; most of her 1800 poems were published posthumously? | Emily Dickinson |
| One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, which Missouri born poet and social activist for fellow American blacks, wrote the poem "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers"? | Langston Hughes |
| Which American Modernist poet whose poetry is noted for her formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit (1887-1972) offered Ford a range of names for the Edsel that included "Utopian Turtletop", and was a great admired of Muhammad Ali? | Marianne Moore |
| What does the acronym stand for in the name of the NRSV Bible? | New Revised Standard Version |
| The term "poetry" derives from the Greek "poeien" for what? | To make; to create |
| The word "fiction" derives from the Latin "facio", which means what? | To do; to make |
| From the Greek for "the art of placing side by side" which literary technique, in writing or speaking, favours short, simple sentences, with the use of coordinating rather than subordinating conjunctions? | Parataxis |
| What name is given to the grammatical arrangement of functionally similar but "unequal" constructs (its name taken from the Greek for "beneath arrangement"), i.e., constructs playing an unequal role in a sentence? | Hypotaxis |
| Who wrote the plays "The Chairs", "How To Get Rid of It" and "The Killer"? | Eugene Ionesco |
| The first commercial elevator, installed in New York's Demarest Building in 1889, was built by which company? | Otis |
| Which was the first building in the world to have more than 100 stories? | Empire State Building |
| The Carson Pirie Scott Building of 1904, often considered skyscraper pioneer Louis Sullivan's finest work, is in which city? | Chicago |
| The Larkin Building in Buffalo, demolished in 1950, was the first building worldwide to be fully air-conditioned - who designed it? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| In which American state was the teen TV series 'Dawson's Creek' set? | Massachussetts |
| What was the name of the mediaeval, Danish historian who wrote the 'Gesta Danorum' from which Shakespeare took the story of the semi-legendary Hamlet? | Saxo Grammaticus |
| Which Roman Emperor of the 3rd Century AD was the father of the future Roman Emperors Geta and Caracalla? | Septimus Severus |
| Which is the world's oldest continuously made liqueur, having first been developed by Dom Bernardo Vincelli in Normandy in 1510? | Benedictine |
| What is the name of the Parisian cemetery at which Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf are buried? | Pere Lachaise |
| Which river forms part of the Mexico/USA border? | Rio Grande |
| Which river was crossed by George Washington the night before the Battle of Trenton? | Delaware |
| Which 1980 film was such a financial disaster caused its parent studio, United Artists, to collapse, and effectively destroyed the reputation of its director, Michael Cimino? | Heaven's Gate |
| Who won the 1994 BAFTA Award for Best Direction for "Four Weddings and a Funeral"? | Mike Newell |
| What date is "Groundhog Day"? | February 2nd |
| Dizzy, Mick and Scoop were characters in which children's TV series? | Bob the Builder |
| As of 2016, how many "Carry On" films have been made? | 31 |
| What was the theme music of Laurel and Hardy called? | Dance of the Cuckoos |
| In which soap opera was the character Fallon kidnapped by a UFO? | The Colbys |
| In the film, what was the first name of "Bullitt"? | Frank |
| What was the State of Mysore renamed in 1973? | Karnataka |
| Which state is bounded on the northeast by Pennsylvania and Maryland, on the southeast by Virginia, on the northwest by Ohio, and on the southwest by Kentucky? | West Virginia |
| Which type of chemical, used in aerospace and military applications, for ballistic-rated body armor fabric and ballistic composites, in bicycle tires, and as an asbestos substitute, takes its name from a portmanteau of "aromatic polyamide"? | Aramid |
| Which newspaper, founded in 1838, is - as of 2016 - largest selling English-language daily in the world? | The Times of India |
| Avarua is the capital city of which self-governing island country? | Cook Islands |
| During which years was Harry Truman President of the USA? | 1945-53 |
| Who was Truman's Vice-President from 1949 to 1953? | Alben W Barkley |
| Who was the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, World champion and world record holder in the 800 metres, and the first (and as of 2016 only) person to ever run under 1:41 for the event? | David Rudisha |
| Who won the Country Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year with Loretta Lynn each year from 1972 to 1975? | Conway Twitty |
| What is by far the biggest town or city in the Irish province of Connacht? | Galway |
| Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of James I of England, had what nickname, also the title of a Boris Akunin novel? | The Winter Queen |
| What overtook Cologne Cathedral as the world's tallest structure (not building) in 1884? | Washington Monument |
| Which treaties did Napoleon sign in 1807, first with Alexander of Russia and then Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland? | Treaties of Tilsit |
| Japan derived its knowledge of western medicine largely from which country, who were the only Western country not to have their missions expelled after the Shimabara uprising? | Netherlands |
| To whom was James I and VI's daughter Elizabeth married? | Frederick V, Elector Palatine, of Bohemia |
| PASOK and New Democracy are political parties in which EU member state? | Greece |
| Civic Platform and Law and Justice are two of the main political parties in which EU member state? | Poland |
| Which 1559 and 1662 Acts of Parliament in the UK imposed the use of the Book of Common Prayer? | Uniformity Acts |
| The 1926 General Strike in the UK was called mainly in support of which group of workers? | Miners |
| South America's first indigenous leader, Evo Morales, became President of which country in 2006? | Bolivia |
| Who commanded the defeated garrison at the Alamo? | Lt Col William B Travis |
| Who led the British Liberal Party between 1945 and 1956? | Clement Davies |
| Who took over as leader of the UK Liberal Party in 1956 and held the post until 1967? | Jo Grimond |
| What body was founded on 10 March 1831 by King Louis Philippe of France? | French Foreign Legion |
| Who was King of England at the time of the Battle of Poitiers? | Edward III |
| Which man led the "Mutiny on the Bounty"? | Fletcher Christian |
| In which year did Prince Charles marry Diana Spencer? | 1981 |
| What is the forename of the twin sister of Angela Eagle, also a Labour MP, and often harshly called "the lesser of two eagles"? | Maria Eagle |
| Who was monarch of England in the year 1500? | Henry VII |
| In 2016, who unsuccessfully stood against Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour Party in the UK? | Owen Smith |
| Who succeeded John Quincy Adams as US President in 1828? | Andrew Jackson |
| With most of its population now living in Oklahoma, the largest of the 566 federally recognized tribes in the United States,which Native American tribe suffered most from the forced relocation known as the "Trail of Tears"? | Cherokee |
| Which US President followed Andrew Jackson, becoming the eighth president in 1837? | Martin Van Buren |
| Which future US President led the US Army at the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista? | Zachary Taylor |
| The USA was at war with which country from 1846 to 1848? | Mexico |
| Sutter's Fort, synonymous with the Californian Gold Rush of 1848, later grew into which city? | Sacramento |
| Which 2nd February 1848 treaty ended the Mexican–American War? | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| What significant find did James Wilson Marshall make in the American River January 1848? | Gold, triggering the Californian Gold Rush |
| Which US social reformer (1818-95), after escaping from slavery in Maryland, became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings? | Frederick Douglass |
| Who discovered the gold-laden tomb of Sumerian Queen Puabi, or Shubad, in the 1920s? | Leonard Woolley |
| Which Polish-American mathematician (1924-2010) introduced the concept of fractals? | Benoit Mandelbrot |
| Who wrote "Guns, Germs and Steel"? | Jared Diamond |
| Who wrote the 1992 work "The End of History and The Last Man"? | Francis Fukuyama |
| Whose first book "Ecrits" was published in 1966 and contained major revisions of Freudianism, including denying that the ego exists? | Lacan |
| Which city on the Clain river in west-central France, famed for an 8th century battle, and a 14th century one, was the birthplace of Michel Foucault? | Poitiers |
| Which French Marxist philosopher (1918-90) killed his wife by strangling her in 1980, though was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity, and was committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years? | Louis Althusser |
| Who invented and gave his name to older-generation analogue music synthesizers? | Robert Moog |
| Which American sculptor (1898-1976) became known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents? | Alexander Calder |
| Who composed 1957's "Klavierstuck XI"? | Stockhausen |
| In which city is the Stedlijk Museum of Modern Art? | Amsterdam |
| Which Dane designed Sydney Opera House? | Jorn Utzon |
| Who popularised the terms 'introversion' and 'extroversion'? | Jung |
| Who wrote 1913 poem "A Boy's Will"? | Robert Frost |
| Which man, famed for his discovery of an elementary particle, was President of the Royal Society from 1915 to 1920? | JJ Thomson |
| Which Blaue Reiter artist died at the front in Champagne, France, on 26 September 1914? | August Macke |
| Which founding member of Der Blaue Reiter died at Verdun in 1916, just before an order for him to be withdrawn as a notable artist reached him? | Franz Marc |
| Which war poet was killed on the Sambre Canal a week before the Armistice? | Wilfred Owen |
| To whom did Wittgenstein send the manuscript of his "Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus", whilst interned in a WW1 POW camp in Northern Itaky? | Bertrand Russell |
| Which fictional garage band had their biggest hit with "Sugar, Sugar" in 1969? | The Archies |
| On whom did Germany declare war on 4th August 1914? | France |
| Which architect was commissioned by Pope Julius II to rebuild St Peter's Basilica, although he died before much progress had been made, and his plans were thus revised by Michelangelo? | Donato Bramante |
| A phenomenon often encountered by mountaineers, what name is given to an apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds that are below the observer giving the impression of a huge stalking figure? | Brocken Spectre |
| Who was the American athlete who, in 1991, broke Bob Beamon's 23-year old long jump world record? | Mike Powell |
| Which 1936 film, starring Greta Garbo as Marguerite Gautier and directed by George Cukor, was based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas? | Camille |
| Which 20th Century French painter and sculptor coined the term Art Brut (or 'raw art') to describe the kind of art created by psychotics and children? | Jean Dubuffet |
| Which important artist and architect began his apprenticeship with Ghirlandaio in 1488? | Michelangelo |
| Which German family of bankers took over many of the Medicis' assets and their political power and influence and controlled much of Europe's finances in the 16th century? | Fuggers |
| Who coined the term 'renaissance' or 'renascimento'? | Vasari |
| Which architect was born Andrea di Pietro della Gondola in Padua in 1508? | Palladio |
| In which century was Don Quixote published? | 17th (1603) |
| "Foe" by JM Coetzee is a retelling of which 18th century novel? | Robinson Crusoe |
| What was the name of the two goats who pulled Thor's chariot in Norse myth? | Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher |
| The Republic of the Rif was a shortlived country that revolted against colonial rule; it was in the territory of which modern country? | Morocco |
| The Septinsular Republic was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovereignty in which island group? | Ionian islands |
| Manuel de Arriaga was the first elected President of which country's "First Republic"? | Portugal (in 1910) |
| Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in the UK is the only one to be awarded mixed World Heritage Status for both 'natural' and 'cultural' significance? | St Kilda |
| What is the scientific name of the magpie? | Pica Pica |
| Which book was the first follow up to "Game of Thrones", book two in the Song of Ice and Fire series? | A Clash of Kings |
| What does the RR stand for in the name of George RR Martin? | Raymond Richard |
| Which Roman stadium lay in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills and could hold 150,000 people? | Circus Maximus |
| By what alternate one word name is the Sahara-dwelling screwhorn antelope, or white antelope, known? | Addax |
| Which animal has the scientific name vipera berus? | Adder |
| Which profession is defined as "a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty"? | Actuary |
| Which Austrian (1870-1937) is considered to have been the founder of the school of individual psychology? | Alfred Adler |
| Which Royal Navy rank is immediately superior to commodore? | Rear Admiral |
| What does ADP stand for in cellular biology? | Adenosine Diphosphate |
| What type of hormones are produced by the adrenal cortex? | Steroids |
| What name do Americans give to the hormone and drug adrenaline? | Epinephrine |
| In chemistry, what name is given to the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface? | Adsorption |
| On what date does St Andrews Day fall? | 30th November |
| Archangel lies on which southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia? | White Sea |
| What nationality was explorer William Barents? | Dutch |
| South American fishing often depends on which cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the west coast from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru? | Humboldt Current |
| Which river flows through Vancouver? | Fraser River |
| Which sea lies between Italy and Croatia? | Adriatic Sea |
| Which capital city's name derives from the local word for 'warm', referring to 30 hot springs on the side of Mount Tabori? | Tbilisi |
| Which sea, north of the Black Sea, is the shallowest in the world? | Sea of Azov |
| Which sea is located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey? | Aegean Sea |
| Which female saint, whose cross is recognisable by the slight drooping of its horizontal arms, has become one of the most venerated saints of the Georgian Orthodox Church? | St Nino |
| What nationality was the artist Ibrahim Isfahanli (1897-1967)? | Turkish |
| Which William Burroughs novel was responsible for coining the term 'heavy metal'? | The Soft Machine |
| What connects Marilyn Monroe's character in 'The Seven Year Itch', Paul McGann's character in 'Withnail and I', and Edward Norton's character in 'Fight Club'? | They are never named |
| Who was the calligrapher who invented the nakshi script, the first cursive style of Arabic lettering? | Ibn Muqlah |
| What is the name of the naturally-carbonated yoghurt beverage that is a popular accompaniment to meals in Iran, Afghanistan and several of the Asiatic ex-Soviet states? | Doogh |
| The name of which African capital city means 'rope matting' in its local language? | Banjul |
| What was the name, deriving ultimately from the Berber for 'spear', of the short spear used as a stabbing weapon by the Zulus? | Assegai |
| In 1558, which Scottish religious reformer wrote 'The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women'? | John Knox |
| In which city was the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972 that led, later that year, to the creation of the UN Environment Programme? | Stockholm |
| Which American singer-songwriter, who recorded as a solo artist as well as with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, died of a drug overdose at the age of 26 in 1973? | Gram Parsons |
| In 1824, which became the first dinosaur to be named? | Megalosaurus |
| In 1981, Susan Brown became the first woman to take part in which sporting event? | University Boat Race |
| Arthur Jefferson was born in Ulverston in Cumbria in 1890; under what name did he achieve fame? | Stan Laurel |
| What is the hereditary title of the imam of the Ismaili community? | Aga Khan |
| Meaning 'six modes' which Central Asian music form is a refined sort of music, with lyrics derived from Sufi poems about divine love? | Shashmaqam |
| Turzonsoda is a major producer factory, the third-biggest world in the world, of which metal, Tajikistan's major export? | Aluminium |
| Meaning 'black lake' in Kyrgyz, what is the name of Tajikistan's biggest lake? | Lake Karakul |
| Which historical region was located between the Hindu Kush mountain range and the Amu Darya river, covering the flat region that straddles modern-day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan? | Bactria |
| Köýtendag Nature Reserve, formerly Kugitang Nature Reserve, that has a 'dinosaur plateau' is in which Central Asian country? | Turkmenistan |
| The tamarix genus of trees and shrubs is also known by what common two-word term? | Salt cedar |
| The apple originated in which continent? | Asia |
| What type of animal is a puku? | Antelope |
| Bemba is the most widely spoken language in which country? | Zambia |
| Manicaland is part of which sovereign nation? | Zimbabwe |
| The Haraz Mountains are located in which country? | Yemen |
| Which famous prehistoric skeleton was found by Rev William Buckland in 1823? | Red Lady of Paviland |
| How old was oldest Victoria Cross winner William Raynor, who won "For gallant conduct in the defence of the Magazine at Delhi, on the 11th May, 1857"? | 61 |
| Who commanded the US Pacific fleet from 1942-5? | Nimitz |
| Where were French kings crowned until 1825? | Rheims |
| Who searched for the NW Passage with ships Gabriel and Michael in 1576? | Martin Frobisher |
| By what Christian name was Edward VIII known to his family? | David |
| In myth, who was the father of Atreus? | Pelops |
| In myth, across which sea did Jason sail to Colchis? | Black Sea |
| Who was the only mortal Greek hero was, in myth, granted immortality? | Heracles |
| In 186BCE, the Roman senate passed laws against the worship of which God? | Dionysus |
| In Greek myth, which leader of the Centaurs trained Achilles in warfare? | Chiron |
| In myth, which sorceress did Aegeus marry? | Medea |
| Theseus was sent to capture which bull in myth - note that the Minotaur was half-man, half-bull, so it wasn't him? | Marathonian Bull |
| In myth, which daughter of Priam was betrothed to Aeneas? | Creusa |
| In myth, who killed herself when Aeneas left Carthage? | Dido |
| Who did Aeneas marry in Italy in myth - she was his last wife? | Lavinia |
| What name was given to a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-coloured leather, and often without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? | Jerkin |
| What name is given to an officer of the College of Arms ranking below a herald? | Pursuivant |
| Which Britten opera was written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953? | Gloriana |
| Which word can refer to both an area of woodland and an otter's den? | Holt |
| What is a furlough? | Temporary leave of absence |
| What colour are most flowers in the genus gentian? | Blue |
| The 'International DN' where DN stands for Detroit News, is the most common class in which sport or activity, most commonly practised in the Northern USA and Canada, but also seen in the Netherlands, the Gulf of Finland and elsewhere in Europe? | Ice yachting/ice boating |
| The 2009 graphic novel "Dark Entries" was the first work in the medium by which British crime novellist? | Ian Rankin |
| The former Cinque Port of Sandwich and the railway town of Ashford are both located on whih river? | Stour |
| What name is given to a verb form which functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing? | Gerund |
| What was the name of the place in ancient Greek mythology, that was the deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans, located as far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens? | Tartarus |
| Both Thomas Wolfe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle named this as their favourite novel of all time, which 1861 historical novel by Charles Reade is set in the 15th century and relates the story of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen? | The Cloister and the Hearth |
| What name, adapted from Hindi, was used for a covering for the lower part of the leg from the ankle to the knee, consisting of a long narrow piece of cloth wound tightly and spirally round the leg, often worn by both mounted and dismounted soldiers? | Puttee |
| Popularised by British naturopath John W. Armstrong in the early 20th century, and sometimes called mana mutra, which strange health custom was practised by JD Salinger and former Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai? | Urine therapy |
| Which four letter word is found in Austronesian languages and means "power, effectiveness, prestige," where in most cases the power is understood to be supernatural? | Mana |
| How is ilex, the only living genus (of about 400 to 600 species of flowering plants) in the family Aquifoliaceae better known? | Holly |
| Which London landmark once carried the anti-Catholic words ""but Popish frenzy, which wrought such horrors, is not yet quenched" until they were chiselled out after the 1830 ctaholic Emancipation Act? | The Monument |
| Extant since 1575, and claiming to be the oldest distillery brand in the world, which Dutch alcoholic beverage brand line currently consists of vodkas, gins, genevers and liqueurs? | Bols |
| Often connected to city walls, what name was given to a fortified outpost or gateway, such as an outer defence to a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive purposes? | Barbican |
| In art, architecture, and traditional Christian symbolism, what name is given to a type of decorative framework consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping circles of the same diameter? | Quatrefoil |
| The Maluku islands belong to which country? | Indonesia |
| What is the highest point on Antarctica? | Mt Erebus |
| Which two bodies of water are separated by the Bosphorus? | Sea of Marmara, Black Sea |
| Which two bodies of water are separated by the Dardanelles? | Sea of Marmara, Aegean |
| Which channel, named for a patron saint, separates Ireland from South-West Wales? | St George's Channel |
| Which strait connects the Adriatic and Ionian seas and separates Italy from Albania? | Strait of Otranto |
| Which strait separates Corsica and Sardinia? | Strait of Bonifacio |
| In which country is the active volcano called Hekla? | Iceland |
| In which country is the active volcano called Raupenu? | New Zealand |
| Which strait separates Malaysia from Sumatra? | Malacca Strait/Straits of Malacca |
| Pyramus and Thisbe appear in a play within in a play in which work? | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Which poem contains the line "The ice was here, the ice was there"? | The Rime of The Ancient Mariner |
| Which German wrote 1955's "The Sane Society"? | Erich Fromm |
| Derived from a Moliere play, what name is given to someone who is falsely pious? | Tartuf |
| Which country's monarch is cured by Helena in Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well"? | France |
| Which illustrator, who died 3 days after WW2 broke out, came to prominence for his work on 1900's "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "Gulliver's Travels"? | Arthur Rackham |
| Who wrote the epic poem "Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage"? | Byron |
| Which Victorian photography pioneer was the great aunt of Virginia Woolf, she became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes? | Julia Margaret Cameron |
| Complete the proverb: "All cats are grey...."? | In The Dark |
| Which Sienese painter, (c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319) was known as 'di Buoninsegna'? | Duccio |
| Nicknamed 'Little Ellick' because of his diminutive size, who was the Vice-President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War? | Alexander Stephens |
| By what name is the hip-hop legend Andre Romell Young better known? | Dr Dre |
| Which plant is sometimes known as 'burning bush' because its oil can vaporise and catch fire in strong heat? | White Dittany (accept gasplant or dictamnus) |
| In horse racing, at which racecourse is the French Derby run? | Chantilly |
| The television personality and singer Des O'Connor once played professional football for which league club? | Northampton Town |
| Now usually assigned to both him and his brother-in-law Lippo Memmi, who painted 1333's "Annunciation" for Siena Cathedral, where gold words stream from Gabriel's mouth towards Mary? | Simone Martini |
| Who is traditionally venerated as the Protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity? | St Stephen |
| Which painter was known, when given his full title as 'di Bondone'? | Giotto |
| His shrine in France became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela in Spain - which saint best known for the account of his using his sword to cut his cloak in two, to give half to a beggar in the depth of winter? | St Martin (of Tours) |
| What nickname was given to the artist Antonio Pisano (c1394-c1455), a marked exponent of the International Gothic style? | Pisanello |
| In what form did Zeus abduct the beautiful youth Ganymede, according to Greek myth? | Eagle |
| In Greek myth who was the goddess of women and marriage? | Hera |
| Ares and Hebe were Greek Gods who had the same two parents - who? | Zeus and Hera |
| Although sprouting from Zeus head after he swallowed his lover, with whom did Zeus lie in order to conceive Athena? | Metis |
| Who was the mother of Artemis and Apollo in Greek myth? | Leto |
| The Three Graces were usually considered to be the offspring of Zeus and who? | Eurynome |
| Who was the mother of Heracles, with Zeus as his father? | Alcmene |
| Who was the mother of Perseus, with Zeus as his father? | Danae |
| In Greek myth, of what was Calliope the Muse? | Epic poetry and poetic inspiration |
| In Greek myth, of what was Melpomene the Muse? | Tragedy |
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, perhaps best known internationally for some skimpy bikini photos, was elected President of which country in 2015? | Croatia |
| The skull of Oswald of Northumbria has been interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of which other saint? | Cuthbert of Lindisfarne |
| Which music term refers to a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat, or a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur"? | Syncopation |
| In music which term can mean: a voice above or removed from others; the treble or soprano singer in any group of voices; the higher pitched line in a song or the highest pitched of a group of instruments? | Descant |
| What name was given to Polish light cavalry armed with lances, sabres and pistols, from Turkic for a brave warrior or young man? | Uhlan |
| What is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh most populous city in Germany? | Dusseldorf |
| Which German photographer and artist (1941-2010) founded the painting movement "Kapitalistischer Realismus" ("Capitalist realism") with Gerhard Richter produced paintings focused on historical events and perceptions of them? | Sigmar Polke |
| A palliasse is a mattress made from which material? | Straw |
| Which German classicist received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for being "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work A History of Rome"? | Theodor Mommsen |
| Which Danish-German statesman, banker, and historian became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography, wrote Roman History (1827-32)? | Barthold Niebuhr |
| In physiology, what name is given to a short-lasting event in which the electrical membrane potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls, following a consistent trajectory? | Action potential |
| "When I Was A Lad" is a song in which Gilbert and Sullivan work? | HMS Pinafore |
| Which tree has the scientific name "Corylus Avellana"? | Common Hazel |
| Which type of reaction, in organic chemistry, is in its simplest terms an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one? | Addition Reaction |
| Which army position is an officer who assists a more senior officer, while in other armies, especially Francophone ones, it is an NCO? | Adjutant |
| Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès created which foodstuff in 1869? | Margarine |
| Of what is trypanophobia the morbid fear? | Injections |
| Which dog breed, called a Deutsche Dogge in Germany, is nicknamed "The Apollo of Dogs"? | Great Dane |
| "Grant's" (Nanger granti) is a species of which specific animal? | Gazelle |
| In chemistry, which term was introduced in 1889 by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius to describe the minimum energy which must be available to a chemical system with potential reactants to result in a chemical reaction? | Activation Energy |
| Which band released the 2009 album "We Started Nothing"? | The Ting Tings |
| Which herb, Artemisia dracunculus, traditionally helps flavour a Béarnaise sauce? | Tarragon |
| How is singer Pauline Matthews, born 1947 in Bradford, better known? | Kiki Dee |
| Which woman, named 12 times in the Gospels, is traditionally believed to have anointed the body of Jesus, particularly in iconography | Mary Magdalene |
| Jimmy Somerville left which band to join The Communards? | Bronski Beat |
| In the Greek legends, on which lake did Heracles kill birds as part of his Labours? | Lake Stympnalia |
| Who composed the 1929 opera "Sir John in Love"? | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Gin, lemon juice and cherry brandy comprise which cocktail? | Gin sling |
| Which musical, debuted in the West End in 1978, has an opening scene that is set at a funeral? | Evita |
| Which country won the very first Eurovision Song Contest? | Switzerland |
| Who was the third son of Adam and Eve, according to Christianity? | Seth |
| In which year did Pope John Paul II first visit Britain, the first visit to that country by a reigning pope? | 1982 |
| Which Indian miniature painter in the Mughal style was famed for his use of portraiture in the illustrations of Akbarnama, Mughal Emperor, Akbar's official Biography, which is seen as an innovation in Indian art? | Basawan |
| Reigning 1658-1707, who was the sixth, and widely considered the last effective Mughal Emperor? | Aurungzeb |
| One of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi holds 7000 of whose (1882-1966) works? | Nandalal Bose |
| The first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art, which important artist (1871-1951) was also a writer - his books Rajkahini, Budo Angla, Nalak, and Khirer Putul are landmarks in Bengali language children's literature? | Abanindranath Tagore |
| Which Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman was one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his time wrote the "Wang River Collection"? | Wang Wei |
| Which imperial dynasty of China was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period? | Tang Dynasty |
| Which Chinese painter of the Song Dynasty (1160/65-1225) painted Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring, and often painted the actual subjects of his works in one corner? | Ma Yuan |
| Which Chinese dynasty succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was followed by the Yuan dynasty? | Sung/Song Dynasty |
| Which major composer (1685-1750) had 20 children? | JS Bach |
| Both Robert Schumann and Bedrich Smetana shared which fate? | Dying insane/in an asylum |
| The 1936 film Night Mail featured music by which composer? | Britten |
| From top to bottom, which strings are on a bass guitar? | G, D, A, E |
| Which strings, from top to bottom, are on an ordinary guitar? | E, B, G, D, A, E |
| Which woodwind instrument is pitched an octave above a flute? | Piccolo |
| Which string instrument is pitched an octave below a viola? | Cello |
| One derived from Greek, one from Latin, which two names are given for the site of Jesus' crucifixion? | Golgotha, Calvary |
| Johann Christoph Denner is generally believed to have invented which musical instrument in Germany around the year 1700 by adding a register key to the earlier chalumeau? | Clarinet |
| Which musical instrument was once known as a "hautbois"? | Oboe |
| What was the first vehicle to break 400mph, piloted by John Cobb, in land speed record attempts? | Railton Mobil Special (accept Railton Special) |
| Which astronomical phenomenon has a theoretical longest duration of 7 minutes 31 seconds? | Solar eclipse |
| Which company made the Merlin engines that powered WW2 Spitfire aircraft? | Rolls Royce |
| The tallest, heaviest, and most powerful (highest total impulse) rocket ever brought to operational status, which rocket was used for all the Apollo moon missions? | Saturn V |
| Which breed of miniature horse was developed in 19th century Argentina from horses of Criollo stock? | Falabella |
| Which is the only planet in the solar system to rotate clockwise? | Venus |
| What date is St Patrick's Day? | 17th March |
| 'White Lisbon' and 'Performer' are varieties of which vegetable? | Spring Onion |
| How is cheiromancy better known? | Palm reading |
| How is the phenomenon known as ignis fatuus better known? | Will-o-the-wisp |
| In 1938 screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby", who is "Baby"? | A leopard |
| Who directed 1938 film "Bringing Up Baby"? | Howard Hawks |
| Prior to the role of Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe had made his acting debut aged 10 as which Dickens character? | David Copperfield |
| The Brad Pitt film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was based on a short story by who? | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| In the hit film, who played the "Slumdog Millionaire"? | Dev Patel |
| Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway both won Oscars for which film? | Network |
| Martin Scorsese's film "The Last Waltz" is based on which group's last gig? | The Band |
| Who directed "Rocky"? | John G Avildsen |
| Which 2008 Israeli animated war documentary film deals with the 1982 Lebanon War? | Waltz with Bashir |
| Who played the title role in 1969 film "The Detective?" | Frank Sinatra |
| Mountjoy Prison is located in which city? | Dublin |
| Where did Notts County FC play from 1883 to 1910? | Trent Bridge |
| St Bees Head is located in which English county? | Cumbria |
| Which port lies at the mouth of the Great Ouse river? | Kings Lynn |
| On which island is Wideawake Airfield, abandoned after WW2, but now the site of an RAF base? | Ascension Island |
| Which term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which are grouped for administrative purposes into two of them? | Bailiwick |
| Founded in 1866, what is also known as the RAeS? | Royal Aeronautical Society |
| What was the name of the 19thC Albanian author and poet, who worked for the British Consulate in his homeland, whose best known published works include 'The Truth of Albania' and 'A Historical Outline of Montenegro According to the Traditions of Albania'? | Pashko Vasa |
| Which trademarked quality description of a group of cultivars of rapeseed variants was initially bred in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur Stefansson in the 1970s? | Canola |
| What is the name of the least populous and easternmost state of Austria that joined from Hungary in 1921? | Burgenland |
| Doing so in 1972, which NFL team are, as of 2016, the only ones to complete a perfect season? | Miami Dolphins |
| In which event did Brit Germaine Mason finish second in the 2008 Olympics? | Men's High Jump |
| In which event did Brit Phillips Idowu finish second in the 2008 Olympics? | Men's Triple Jump |
| Renaud Lavillenie set the world record in which athletics event in 2014? | Men's Pole Vault |
| Which NFL team won four Superbowls in the 1980s? | San Francisco 49ers |
| Which NFL team lost 4 consecutive Superbowls from 1990 to 1993? | Buffalo Bills |
| Although born in the Ivory Coast, triple jumper Nelson Evora, the 2008 Olympic champion, represented which country? | Portugal |
| Where were the 2010 Commonwealth Games held? | Delhi |
| Where were the 2014 Commonwealth Games held? | Glasgow |
| Gerd Kanter, who was the 2007 World Champion in the discus and won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and bronze in London 2012, represented which country? | Estonia |
| What was the nickname of NFL legend Red Grange? | The Galloping Ghost |
| Why are the Cleveland Browns called the 'Browns'? | Named after former coach Paul Brown |
| In which form of motor-paced cycle racing do track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer? | Keirin |
| Who represented GB at the 2008 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division, and by later becoming IBF super-middleweight champion became the first ever British boxer to have won both an Olympic gold medal and a professional world title? | James DeGale |
| In which sporting event did Tina Cook win Olympic individual and team bronze in 2008 and team silver in 2012? | Eventing |
| Which Welsh cyclist won gold in the road race at the 2008 Olympics, 2008 World Championships and 2002 Commonwealths? | Nicole Cooke |
| Who, in 2008, became the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908? | Rebecca Adlington |
| Which island group in the North Pacific was known as the Catherine Archipelago prior to 1867? | Aleutian Islands |
| Which 17th Century French explorer was known as the 'Father of New France' after founding and naming Quebec City? | Samuel de Champlain |
| Which palace is the official residence of the Archbishop of York? | Bishopthorpe Palace |
| The Last Judgment, The Great Day of His Wrath, and The Plains of Heaven are a trilogy of works by which Victorian artist? | John Martin |
| Which Bishop of London was burned at the stake as one of the Oxford martyrs in 1555? | Nicholas Ridley |
| Biblically, who was the son of Asa, the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, and successor to his father; his children included his successor Jehoram? His name is sometimes used as an oath, following 'jumping'. | Jehoshaphat |
| Which king of England was supposedly killed in 869 by Vikings at an unidentified place known as Haegelisdun, after he refused the Danes' demand that he renounce Christ? | Edmund (the Martyr) |
| Who was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471? | Henry VI |
| Which liturgical vestment was a tunic of white linen or cotton fabric, reaching to the knees, with wide or moderately wide sleeves? | Surplice |
| Which monk and poet, born near Haverhill, Suffolk, (1370-1451) wrote around 145,000 lines of poetry in total, including Fall of Princes, The Monk's Tale and The Siege of Thebes? | John Lydgate |
| What name is given to a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse, is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave? | Bier |
| At its height it was an international port similar in size to 14th century London, which Suffolk town has largely disappeared due to coastal erosion? | Dunwich |
| What is the traditional English term for a painting or other image of the Last Judgment in Christian eschatology when Christ judges souls to send them to either Heaven or Hell? | Doom |
| Sean Dillon is a character created by which novelist? | Jack Higgins |
| Andre Derain and Albert Marquet were associated with which art movement? | Fauvism |
| In Latin what does "Carmen" mean? | Song |
| Which architect did Pope Julius II commission to rebuild St Peter's Basilica in 1502? | Donato Bramante |
| Who edited the poetry collection "The Golden Treasury"? | Palgrave |
| Veruca Salt is a character in which children's book? | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Which US President - like Churchill - wrote a book called "My Early Life"? | Ronald Reagan |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh was created by which ancient civilisation? | Sumerian |
| Who painted "Blind Guitarist" and "Family of Charles IV"? | Goya |
| Which Dickens novel opens with the Dover mailcoach being stopped? | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Which British agriculturist (1674-1738) popularised the four-crop rotation system in the 18th century? | Charles 'turnip' Townshend |
| As of 2016, who is the only woman in history to have been first lady of two separate republics? | Graça Machel |
| At which battle did FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan lose an arm? | Waterloo |
| Whose quote was "c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre", about the Charge of the Light Brigade? | Pierre Bosquet |
| Which historian wrote "The Struggle For Mastery In Europe"? | AJP Taylor |
| Where was the treaty signed that ended the Crimean War? | Paris |
| Who replaced the Earl of Aberdeen as British PM? | Lord Palmerston |
| Whose last words of 19th April 1882 were reputedly "I'm not in the least afraid to die"? | Charles Darwin |
| Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter and Richard McIlkenny are all part of which group? | Birmingham Six |
| In which year was Bloody Sunday? | 1972 |
| Which French explorer left his country in 1534 and explored the St Lawrence river? | Cartier |
| Which explorer sighted the Cape of Good Hope in 1488? | Bartholomew Diaz |
| In which conflict was the Battle of Aspern-Essling? | Napoleonic Wars |
| In which conflict was the Battle of Inkerman? | Crimean War |
| Give a year in the Seven Years War. | 1756-63 |
| Fortnum of Fortnum and Mason was a footman to which monarch? | Queen Anne |
| Who was US Defence Secretary during the Vietnam War? | Robert McNamara |
| Which disease killed Francis Drake? | Dysentry |
| When was the Thirty Years War? | 1618-48 |
| Which country started awarding the military medal The Honour Cross in 2009? | Germany |
| What is the capital city of Italy's Abruzzo region? | L'Aquila |
| Which prominent female politician, born 1945, was Myanmar's leader of the National League of Democracy, and from 2012 to 2016 was a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Kawhmu Township? | Aung San Suu Kyi |
| In which year was the gay rights milestone, the Stonewall riot? | 1969 |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, became President of which country in 2006? | Liberia |
| In which year did the Khmer Rouge declare 'Year Zero' in Cambodia? | 1975 |
| What was the name of the Cuban leader Batista overthrown by Castro in 1959? | Fulgencio |
| Which battle occurred near York on 2 July 1644? | Battle of Marston Moor |
| Who succeeded Khrushchev as Soviet PM (properly Chairman of the Council of Ministers) in 1964? | Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin |
| Who did Khrushchev replace as Soviet PM (properly Chairman of the Council of Ministers) in 1958? | Nikolai Bulganin |
| How many times in total did Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 or 1539 – 15 November 1594) voyage to seek the NW Passage? | Three |
| Which rock group, formed in 1992, were originally called Tragic Love Company? | Stereophonics |
| The headquarters of the car manufacturer Ferrari are based in which Italian town 12 miles outside Modena? | Maranello |
| According to the 2001 census, which is the largest town in England never to have had a football league team? | Wakefield |
| The 1958 film 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness' told the true story of which British missionary in China? | Gladys Aylward |
| Which 17th-Century French author wrote many of today's most famous fairy-tales, including 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Cindarella', 'Puss in Boots' and 'Sleeping Beauty'? | Charles Perrault |
| With a name meaning 'to chop into small pieces', what is the name of the cold Russian soup made from raw vegetables, boiled potatoes, eggs and ham? | Okroshka |
| The islands of Bulla, Vulf and Nargin all lie in which body of water? | Caspian Sea |
| The word ghetto has come to describe any area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion; but the original ghetto was an area set aside for Jews in the 15th and 16th Centuries in which city? | Venice |
| Deriving from the Persian for 'fairy', what name is given to the creature of Persian mythology, descended from fallen angels, who have been denied Paradise until they have done penance? | Peri |
| Who became the first President of Indonesia upon its independence from the Netherlands in 1945? | Sukarno |
| What is the official language of Ethiopia? | Amharic |
| In Roman times, Batavia was a region in which modern-day country? | Netherlands |
| Which city on the Volga delta, near to the Kazakh border, is called both "The Caspian capital" and "the home of caviar"? | Astrakhan |
| What is the most northerly lake in the Lake District? | Bassenthwaite Lake |
| Coca Cola's HQ is in which US city? | Atlanta |
| Often used as a metonym for the CIA, the CIA's HQ is in which Virginia town? | Langley |
| London and Dover are linked by which A road? | A2 |
| Lusitania was the old name for which country? | Portugal |
| The territory once known as British Togoland is now part of which independent nation? | Ghana |
| Apart from Swansea, Cardiff, St Asaph and Newport, which are Wales's other two cities? | St David's, Bangor |
| What is a monopsony? | Situation where there is only one buyer |
| Who did William the Conqueror appoint as his first Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070? | Lanfranc |
| Who was the legendary king of Athens and father of Theseus who threw himself into the sea upon mistakenly believing that his son had perished during his mission to kill the minotaur? | Aegaeus |
| Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Peterloo Massacre and the Cato Street Conspiracy? | Earl of Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson |
| From 1984 to 1987, Pearl Jam's future guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Mark Ament were both members of which early grunge band fronted by the future Mudhoney lead vocalist Mark Arm? | Green River |
| The nymphs of which insects produce cuckoo-spit? | Froghoppers |
| At which Scottish golf course was the first Open Championship held in 1860? | Prestwick |
| The English folk song 'Johnny Todd' was used as the theme tune to which British TV series of the 1960s and 70s? | Z Cars |
| In EM Forster's novel 'Maurice', what is the name of the gamekeeper with whom the title character falls in love? | Alec Scudder |
| What is the name of the traditional Ashkenazi Jewish braided bread that is eaten on the Jewish Sabbath and other holidays when the eating of leavened bread is forbidden? | Challah |
| Which organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely conceived by India's first PM, Nehru; Indonesia's first president, Sukarno; Egypt's second president,Nasser; Ghana's first president Nkrumah; and Yugoslavia's president, Josip Tito? | Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) |
| What the most populous landlocked country in the world? | Ethiopia |
| The Ethiopian calendar lies how many years behind the Gregorian one? | Between 7 and 8 |
| Called "The Queen of Christian Pop", who released successful albums Unguarded and Lead Me On, and in 1986, scored her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song in a duet with Peter Cetera, "The Next Time I Fall"? | Amy Grant |
| Who released the 2008 album "Breakout" and 2010's "Can't Be Tamed"? | Miley Cyrus |
| On which river does the Italian city of Verona stand? | Adige |
| What was the name of the week-long Roman winter festival dedicated to the god of agriculture? | Saturnalia |
| Which rank in the Christian ministry takes its name from the Greek for 'waiter'? | Deacon |
| In English law, the phrase 'time immemorial' refers to the time prior to the reign of which English King? | Richard I |
| Who was the American singer and songwriter who wrote the famous folk song 'This Land is Your Land' in 1940 in response to Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America', which he considered unrealistic and complacent? | Woody Guthrie |
| Between the 6th and 8th centuries, this city was the residence of the Merovingian kings of Austrasia; in 843, it became the capital of the Kingdom of Lotharingia and from the 12th to the 15th centuries was a 'republic' - which city? | Metz |
| The flag of which European country is identical to that of Indonesia? | Monaco |
| Which third-level British military decoration was created on 28 December 1914 for commissioned officers of the substantive rank of Captain or below and for Warrant Officers, though all army personnel became eligible in 1993? | Military Cross |
| Whose 1918 poem is "Futility"? | Wilfred Owen |
| What is the singular form of the posts that make up a balustrade? | Baluster |
| The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 was a famous poetry anthology edited by which noted poet? | WB Yeats |
| What name was given, based on their first creator's birthplace, to prints on popular subjects rendered in bright sharp colours, sold in France in the 19th century? | Images d'Epinal |
| Which French novelist, member of the French Communist Party and lifelong friend of Albert Einstein wrote Le Feu (usually translated as 'Under Fire') in 1916? | Henri Barbusse |
| A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, which French film director is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and the monumental Napoléon (1927)? | Abel Gance |
| Which German-born conductor, pianist and composer left Germany in 1933 to escape the Third Reich, settling finally in the United States in 1939, made his last live concert appearance on December 4, 1960 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic? | Bruno Walter |
| Diogenes of Sinope was considered the founder of which Hellenistic school of philosophy? | Cynics |
| Which Greek Stoic philosopher was the third head of the school - he greatly refined the Stoic position but sadly none of how works have survived? | Chrysippus |
| Which ancient biographer of the 3rd century CE wrote the surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy? | Diogenes Laeirtus |
| In classical mythology, which nymph and a follower of Artemis, known for her chastity, was pursued by Pan and asking for help, was turned into water reeds? | Syrinx |
| Which poet and playwright wrote Epithalamion, an ode written to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day in 1594? | Edmund Spenser |
| Which poet wrote "The Scholar Gipsy"in 1853? | Matthew Arnold |
| "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna", popular in 19th century anthologies, was written by who? | Charles Wolfe |
| Which Alban Berg opera was based on an unfinished play by Georg Buchner? | Wozzeck |
| Who created 'serial music' in 1921? | Schoenberg |
| Who wrote 1919's "The Economic Consequences of the Peace"? | John Maynard Keynes |
| Which anthropomorphic character first appears in the medieval Latin poem Ysengrimus, a long Latin mock-epic written c. 1148-1153 by the poet Nivardus in Ghent? | Reynard the Fox |
| Who is the mistress of Harlequin and wife of Pierrot in the Commedia dell'Arte? | Columbina/Columbine |
| Which Commedia dell'Arte character is depicted as a wealthy old man? | Pantaloon/Pantalone |
| Who created the character the Cisco Kid? | O Henry |
| Who was, from 1945 onwards, the sidekick of the Cisco Kid? | Pancho |
| Who wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Who wrote "Tom Brown's Schooldays"? | Thomas Hughes |
| Who painted Bocca Baciata (1859) and The Beloved (1865-6)? | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Which man, a pallbearer at Darwin's funeral, wrote Eric, or Little by Little, a school story (1858) and St Winifred's, or The World of School (1862)? | Frederic Farrar (Dean Farrar, as he was a cleric) |
| Which man wrote "The Water Babies"? | Charles Kingsley |
| Which Italian conductor (d. 2014) music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, where he was replaced by Simon Rattle? | Claudio Abbado |
| The companion of Muhammad, Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, known as Abbas, was what relation to him? | Uncle |
| In Islam, which term refers to the companions, disciples, scribes and family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad? | Sahabah (singular sahabi) |
| Whose is the first death recorded in the Hebrew Bible? | Abel |
| What name is given to washing for religious purposes? | Ablution |
| What name is given to the Islamic procedure for washing parts of the body (hands, mouth, nostrils, arms, head, feet) using wate, especially prior to prayerr? | Wudu |
| Moses was descended from which of Abraham's grandsons, according to the Bible? | Jacob |
| Absinthe has three principal flavourings: fennel, worwood and which other? | Anise |
| Which Arabic female given name which means "She who lives" or "womanly" and was shared by the daughter of Abu Bakr who married the prophet Muhammad? | Aisha |
| Which term means 'singing without musical accompaniment'? | A Capella |
| On board a ship, at what time does the morning watch start? | 4am |
| On which wedding anniversary is the traditional gift fruit or flowers? | Fourth |
| Which letter is represented by two dashes then two dots in Morse code? | Z |
| What is the highest value on the pH scale? | 14 |
| Which word represents M in the NATO phonetic alphabet? | Mike |
| What is traditionally given as a gift on the tenth wedding anniversary? | Tin |
| Which legal term means 'corruptly trying to influence a jury'? | Embracery |
| Of what is taphophobia the (properly entirely justified) fear of? | Burial alive |
| Which planet is sometimes called 'the horned planet'? | Venus |
| What do Americans call an estate agent? | Realtor |
| In which decade was Thunderbirds set? | 2060s (2063) |
| Who piloted Thunderbird 2 in the TV series? | Virgil Tracy |
| In Thunderbirds, what was the name of Jeff Tracy's oriental manservant? | Kyrano |
| In Thunderbords, if FAB1 was Lady Penelope's car, what was FAB2? | Her yacht |
| For which film did John Hurt win his only Best Actor Oscar? | Kiss of the Spider-Woman |
| Which major Hollywood star made his film debut with a minor role in the horror film He Knows You're Alone (1980)? | Tom Hanks |
| Who was the chief villain in 'Thunderbirds'? | The Hood |
| Who was the first host of Gardener's World? | Percy Thrower |
| What was Para Handy's boat called? | The Vital Spark |
| Which 1960s TV comedy was set in St Ogg's Cathedral? | All Gas and Gaiters |
| In which film did Morgan Freeman first play the role of Alex Cross? | Kiss the Girls |
| Which acting brothers both appeared in the film "The Fabulous Baker Boys"? | Jeff and Beau Bridges |
| Who directed the movie "Black Hawk Down"? | Ridley Scott |
| In the TV series of the same name, what is unusual about Jonathan Creek's home? | It is a windmill |
| Owned by Universal, and the main rival of Pixar, which animation studio released the franchises of Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon? | Dreamworks Animation |
| The cartoon chipmunks Chip N Dale can be distinguished by which physical characteristic? | Number of teeth (Chip has one, Dale has two) |
| Who first presented Antiques Roadshow when it debuted in 1981; he died in 2015? | Hugh Scully |
| Which film by Mel Brooks, released in 1977, was a spoof of Hitchcock thrillers? | High Anxiety |
| In which film did George Clooney play the character Ulysses McGill? | O Brother Where Art Thou? |
| Where does Popeye live? | Sweetwater Island |
| What is the common name of the main square in central Mexico City? | Zocalo |
| In which Mexican city is the cultural centre and IMAX theatre known as 'la Bola' for its rounded shape? | Tijuana |
| What is the capital of Guinea? | Conakry |
| What is the capital of Lesotho? | Maseru |
| What is the capital of Swaziland? | Mbababane |
| Pago Pago is the capital of which country or territory? | American Samoa |
| Acklins Island is one of the larger islands in which group? | Bahamas |
| Acre is a state in which country? | Brazil |
| What is the capital of Western Samoa? | Apia |
| In 1970, following a cash donation by Sir Jack Hayward, which passenger steamship was repaired and towed back from the Falkland Islands to be displayed in the UK? | SS Great Britain |
| Roger Fenton, a pioneering British photographer, was famed for his photos of which conflict? | Crimean |
| Which building was destroyed on 23rd May 1871 by the Paris Commune? | Tuileries Palace |
| Beginning in Meerut, in which year did the Indian Mutiny begin? | 1857 |
| How was the Indian guerrilla Ramchandra Pandanenga, active in the Indian Mutiny better known? | Tanya Tope |
| Who resigned as leader of the Labour Party in the UK in 1935? | George Lansbury |
| Sandy Woodward is perhaps best remembered for commanding a British Naval Task Force in which conflict? | Falklands |
| Give a year in the life of the real Dick Whittington. | 1358-1428 |
| Who was the first US President to suffer an assassination attempt? | Andrew Jackson |
| Which 1902 treaty ended the Boer War? | Treaty of Vereenigning |
| In which year was the Victoria Cross instituted? | 1856 |
| In communications, what is the 'S to N' ratio? | Signal to noise |
| Astronomer Karl Schwarzchild laid the foundations of the theory behind which objects? | Black holes |
| The lower case η symbolises which property of a fluid? | Viscosity (co-efficient of viscocity) |
| What is the chemical formula of the mineral halite? | NaCl |
| What is the common name of the mineral halite? | Rock salt |
| Commander Lumley Robinson of the British Royal Navy invented which device in 1921, designed to hold a soft, pliable hose onto a rigid circular pipe, or sometimes a solid spigot, of smaller diameter? | Jubilee clip |
| Prairie dogs are members of which family of rodents? | Sciuridae/squirrels |
| Zeus and Giant George were both record holders for the world's tallest dog - what breed were they? | Great Dane |
| How is Kleine-Levin syndrome also known, its name taken from a work of fiction? | Sleeping Beauty Syndrome |
| What type of animal is the critically endangered silky sifaka? | Lemur |
| Which poet (1591-1674) is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems, which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"? | Robert Herrick |
| Which English poet (8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems? | Francis Quarles |
| "Innisfree" and "Down by the Salley Gardens" were works by which poet? | WB Yeats |
| Which English metaphysical poet's poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden"? | Andrew Marvell |
| Standard reading in British public schools for more than a century, who wrote 1842's "Lays of Ancient Rome"? | Thomas Macaulay |
| The Hebrew for 'cornflower' what name was given to the first kibbutz, set up on the Sea of Galilee in 1909? | Degania |
| Considered one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron and Tiberias, and a home of Kabbalah, which is the highest city in Israel in terms of eleveation? | Safed |
| In which decade was the city of Tel Aviv founded? | 1900s (1909) |
| In which city did Theodor Herzl die, aged 44, in 1904? | Vienna |
| In which city was Theodor Herzl born in 1860? | Budapest |
| What is Liberia's capital? | Monrovia |
| Nafplio is a former capital of which country? | Greece |
| What is the lowest point on land in Africa? | Lake Assal |
| How many continents are bigger than Europe? | Five |
| Where is North America's lowest point on land? | Death Valley |
| Where, in 1985, was Europe's first 'capital of culture'? | Athens |
| Where did an earthquake measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale hit on Good Friday, March 27, 1964? | Alaska |
| Which two Caribbean islands are British dependencies? | Anguilla, Montserrat |
| The cedi is the currency of which country? | Ghana |
| Which country uses the metical as its currency? | Mozambique |
| Which island was given to Barrow-in-Furness by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1920? | Piel Island |
| The Tees and Skerne both pass through which County Durham town? | Darlington |
| The Bowes Museum is in which castle in County Durham? | Barnard Castle |
| Which UK landmark is nicknamed 'the blinking eye'? | Gateshead Millennium Bridge |
| Which organisation is headquartered at Trevelyan House in Matlock? | YHA |
| Which two geological epochs are named for tribes that formerly lived in Wales? | Silurian, Ordivician |
| In which country is the wine-producing Okanagan Valley? | Canada |
| Which organisation is headquartered at The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England? | RSPB |
| The K-T boundary separates which two geological periods? | Cretaceous, Tertiary |
| What is the largest town or city on New Zealand's South Island? | Christchurch |
| Which one of two positions is used when MPs resign - the other being Steward of the Manor of Northstead? | Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds |
| Which religious cult were involved in the 1993 Waco siege? | Branch Davidians |
| How many sons did William I have? | Four |
| What relation was William I to Edward the Confessor? | Cousin |
| Hereward the Wake raided which abbey in 1070? | Peterborough Abbey |
| Where did William I first land in England as part of the Norman Conquest? | Pevensey |
| Which US first lady wrote a newspaper column called 'My Day'? | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| From 1890 to 2013, the Netherlands had three consecutive queens - who were they? | Wilhelmina, Juliana, Beatrix |
| Canaan Banana was the first president of which country? | Zimbabwe |
| Which US first lady was christened with the forenames Claudia Taylor? | Lady Bird Johnson |
| Which archbishop, a close ally of Charles I, was beheaded in Jan 1645 after being accused of treason? | William Laud |
| Which Spanish colonial city, in Central America, was captured and sacked by Henry Morgan on 28th January 1671? | Panama |
| Who was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1872 to 1879 and its leader during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879? | Cetshwayo |
| In which socialist newspaper did Emile Zola pen his famous 'J'Accuse' letter about the Dreyfus affair? | L'Aurore |
| In which country did Edward, Duke of Windsor, marry Wallis Simpson? | France |
| In which Birmingham suburb was Crossroads set? | Kings Oak |
| Which character did Sidney Poitier play in "In The Heat of the Night"? | Virgil Tibbs |
| In which year was the Best Actor Oscar shared? | 1932 (5th ceremony) |
| Who directed "Midnight Cowboy"? | John Schlesinger |
| Who directed "Groundhog Day"? | Harold Ramis |
| In California particularly, what profession is held by a 'buckaroo'? | Cowboy (accept rancher or similar) |
| Which word beginning with 'ballet' itself, refers to an enthusiastic ballet fan? | Balletomane |
| Which is by far the best-selling book that Stephen Crane wrote? | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Who created the fictional FBI agent Alex Cross? | James Patterson |
| John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra created which comic book character in 1977? | Judge Dredd |
| Which cartoon character was created in 1919 by Pat Sullivan, although Otto Messmer also made a rival claim? | Felix the Cat |
| Whose final published crime novel was 2015's "Dark Corners"? | Ruth Rendell |
| Which Japanese artist coined the term superflat, which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society? | Takashi Murakami |
| Which artist's best known work is "A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel originally by W.H. Mallock", perhaps the first 'altered novel'? | Tom Phillips |
| Which book publishers were set up in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath? | Thames & Hudson |
| Which famous architect died whilst swimming on August 27, 1965? | Le Corbusier |
| Give a year in the life of Geoffrey Chaucer. | 1340-1400 |
| Which are believed to be Shakespeare's two 'lost' plays? | Cardenio, Love's Labours Won |
| Little Jo is a character in which Dickens novel? | Bleak House |
| What does 'ersatz' mean? | Artificial or substitute |
| What does the Japanese word 'banzai' mean? | Literally "ten thousand years", or "forever" |
| Though now headquarted in Berlin, the newspaper Die Welt was founded in 1946 in which city? | Hamburg |
| Who wrote "The Quiet American"? | Graham Greene |
| What is the name of "The Quiet American" in the novel of 1955? | (Alden) Pyle |
| What was Le Corbusier's real name? | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret |
| Who wrote both "The Stepford Wives" and "Rosemary's Baby"? | Ira Levin |
| What is the real name of author Stephen King? | Richard Bachmann |
| What type of fictional creation first appeared in 1895's "The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls"? | Golliwog |
| Whose last words, of 19 April 1824, were reputed to be "I Must Sleep Now"? | Byron |
| Give a year in the life of artist Canaletto. | 1697-1768 |
| Who wrote the play in 1887 entitled "The Father"? | August Strindberg |
| Willem Van de Velde (1611-93) and his son, of the same name, are primarily known for paintings of what? | Seascapes |
| Francis Flute, a character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has what occupation? | Bellows Mender |
| Who wrote the 1922 novel "Siddharta"? | Hermann Hesse |
| What did the 'J' stand for in JD Salinger? | Jerome (David) |
| Which British Prime Minister was involved in the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919? | David Lloyd George |
| Who was President of France from 1974 to 1981? | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| Duncan Grant and Desmond MacCarthy are probably the two least known of the ten core members of which group? | Bloomsbury Group |
| Which economist attended the peace treaty talks in Versailles in 1919, representing the Chancellor of the Exchequer? | John Maynard Keynes |
| A Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Education responsible for culture and education, who helped coin the idea of art as 'agitprop'? | Anatoly Lunacharsky |
| In which city was the Vkhutemas School, a leading centre in the Constructivist art movement? | Moscow |
| Which art movement was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, around 1913, and announced in Malevich's 1915 exhibition, The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10? | Suprematism |
| Who was President of France from 1932 until 1940, his tenure being ended by the de facto rule of Petain during occupation? | Albert Lebrun |
| Who did Paul Gorguloff assassinate in 1932? | (French President) Paul Doumer |
| Who began the Futurist movement in 1909, a poet? | Filipo Marinetti |
| Which Russian artist published the series of lithographs "Mystical Images of War" in which ancient Russian icons appeared, under attack from enemy aircraft? | Natalya Goncharova |
| Who wrote a riposte to Keynes - "The Carthaginian Peace; or the Economic Consequences of Mr Keynes?" | Etienne Mantoux |
| Which 16th-17th century Dutch jurist helped to lay the foundations of international law? | Hugo Grotius |
| Which date gives its name to an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student participants in Beijing in 1919, protesting against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles? | May 4 |
| What was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature? | Lu Xun |
| Which Alban Berg opera is about a murderous soldier degraded by his army experiences? | Wozzeck |
| Of what did Egon Schiele and Freud's daughter Sophie both die? | Spanish flu epidemic |
| In which province of China was Mao Zedong born? | Hunan |
| Karl Mannheim, a sociologist, the art historian Arnold Hauser, the composer Bela Bartok, the critic George Lukacs and the writer Bela Balasz were all members of a postwar circle named after which city and day of the week? | Budapest Sunday Circle |
| Shockley, Bardeen and Brittain - who had fallen out - shared a 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing which invention? | Transistor |
| What is the meaning of the word 'protean'? | Able to assume many different forms or shapes |
| Which Hebrew term, meaning commandment, refers to precepts and commandments commanded by God? | Mitzvah |
| From the Hebrew root ayin-bet-resh, meaning to pass or cross over, what word means 'transgression' or 'sin' in Judaism? | Aveira/Averah/Avera |
| Literally meaning 'return', what is the Hebrew term for 'repentance' in Judaism? | Teshuvah |
| Jewish writer Ephraim of Bonn is the leading source for information about the massacre of several hundred Jews in which city on the nights of 16th March and 17th March 1190? | York |
| What two-word name is traditionally given to the false accusation that Jews used the blood of Christian children for Passover ceremonies, that led to much Jewish persecution in European history? | Blood libel |
| What is the German term for the 'Final Solution', the murderous policy that lay behind the Holocaust? | Endlosung |
| The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 that increased segregation and persecution of Jews, was called by which Pope, who also organised the Fourth Crusade, and persecuted the Cathars? | Innocent III |
| Which Italian cause célèbre of 1858 involved a Jewish boy being seized from his parents and forcibly baptised by agents of the Papal States? | Mortara case or affair |
| Which associate of Karl Marx, one of the founders of Labor Zionism, wrote "Rome and Jersualem: The Last National Question" in 1862? | Moses Hess |
| Which Warring States Chinese philosopher founded the school of Mohism that argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism, and that emphasized self-restraint, self-reflection and authenticity rather than obedience to ritual? | Mozi |
| Give a year in China's Warring States period. | 475-221BCE |
| The first to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's eyes, which Arab philosopher and early optics pioneer (965-1040CE) has been called the 'first theoretical physicist'? | Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) |
| Which late 18th/early 19th century curiosity, named after its painter inventor, consisted of a blackened mirror, gently convex, that produced a blurry image of the surroundings? | Claude glass (named for Claude Lorrain) |
| Which term was, it was found in 2004, first used by Brazilian Hercules Florence, rather than John Herschel, who 'invented' it four years later? | Photography |
| How is pigment ferric ferranocyanide better known? | Prussian Blue |
| Whose 'heliograph' 'Boy Leading A Horse' was bought for 450,000 Euros by the French National Library in 2002 as the 'first surviving photograph'? | Nicephore Niepce |
| Which polymath (1792-1871) was a mentor to both Fox Talbot and to Julia Margaret Cameron and was the first to use the terms 'negative' and 'fix' in relation to early photography? | Sir John Herschel |
| Which great chemist discovered the role of oxygen in combustion, and changed chemistry from a qualitative to a quantitative discipline? | Lavoisier |
| Which man invented an early photography technique called a 'calotype'? | William Fox Talbot |
| How is the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, renamed in 1792, better known? | Jacobins |
| What was the forename of OJ Simpson's murdered wife? | Nicole |
| What codename was given to Hitler's planned invasion of Britain? | Operation Sealion |
| Who was Lyndon Johnson's Vice-President? | Hubert Humphrey |
| Who became King of Jordan in 1999? | Abdullah II |
| Who became King of Saudi Arabia in 2015? | Salman |
| Operation Corporate was the codename for which military action? | Retaking the Falkland Islands |
| Who assassinated Leon Trotsky in 1940? | Ramon Mercader |
| What institution gained the metonym "Foggy Bottom" when it moved its headquarters to the Harry S Truman Building in that region of Washington DC 1947? | Foggy Bottom |
| In which city was the famous detective Allan Pinkerton born? | Glasgow |
| Which 2-month long English parliament in 1614 failed to pass a single act? | Addled Parliament |
| Who was the first PM of Australia? | Edmund Barton |
| What event caused a drop in the number of British MPs in 1922? | Creation of Irish Free State |
| As of 2017, how many times has the Red Cross won the Nobel Peace Prize? | Three |
| Which monarch was Clarence House built for - he was then the Duke of Clarence? | William IV |
| In which month of 1963 was JFK assassinated? | November |
| Which MP for the constituency for Warwick and Leamington (1923-57) was also Prime Minister? | Anthony Eden |
| What was the codename for the Nazi invasion of the USSR? | Operation Barbarossa |
| Which PM of the UK said "one man's wage rise is another man's price increase"? | Harold Wilson |
| Sebastian Coe became an MP for which constituency in 1992? | Falmouth and Camborne |
| What was the real forename of Coco Chanel? | Gabrielle |
| The 1992 Windsor Castle fire gutted which banqueting hall? | St George's Hall |
| What was the real name of the first Duke of Wellington? | Arthur Wellesley |
| Who was the first non-European UN Secretary-general? | U Thant |
| In which month of 1969 did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon? | July |
| Which country elected Michelle Bachelet in 2006? | Chile |
| Which prominent historical figure married the former nun Catherine Von Bora? | Martin Luther |
| France fought the 'Pastry War' of 1838-39 against which nation? | Mexico |
| Which American-born English socialite and MP said "I married beneath me - all women do"? | Nancy Astor |
| The Fuggers were a family dominant in which field in the 16th century? | Banking |
| Pseudaelurus, that lived in Europe, Asia and North America in the Miocene between approximately 20 to 8 million years ago, is an ancestor of which animal family? | Cat/felines/felinidae |
| Which cat, also known as the tierboskat, is a wild cat found in Africa, has a small head, large ears, a golden-yellow to buff coat spotted and striped with black, and a short, black-tipped tail? It has the longest legs relative to body size of any cat. | Serval |
| Which medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India is characterised by a robust build, long legs, a short face, long tufted ears, and long canine teeth, with a coat that is uniformly reddish tan or sandy? | Caracal |
| Which North American cat, with 12 subspecies, is about twice as large as the domestic cat and has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby tail, from which it derives its name? | Bobcat |
| Which wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America is named after a 19th century French zoologist? | Geoffroy's Cat |
| Which Central Asian cat, with a stocky posture and long, dense fur that makes it appear stout and plush, is also called the manul? | Pallas's cat |
| Which medium-sized wild cat of South and Southeast Asia (Prionailurus viverrinus) that lives near water, is the state animal of West Bengal? | Fishing cat |
| How is Felis chaus, also called the reed cat or swamp cat, a medium-sized cat native to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to southern China better known? | Jungle cat |
| Which deer, rufous with white spots, also known as spotted deer or axis deer, is found in the Indian subcontinent? | Chital |
| Which cat species are felis margarita, a long-eared species that hunts at night, and the only cat living foremost in true deserts? | Sand cat |
| On which date is the Feast of the Annunciation, also known as Lady Day? | 25th March |
| The dinosaurs perished approximately how many million years ago? | 65 million |
| Which pharaoh, a son of Khufu, had the second largest of the Giza Pyramids for a tomb? | Khafre/Khafra |
| The smallest of the three pyramids at Giza was built for which 4th dynasty pharaoh? | Menkaure |
| Which ancient ruler started out as the cup-bearer to king Ur-Zababa of Kish? | Sargon of Akkad |
| Considered one of the great heroes of Chinese history, who was the first king of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China, who overthrew the Shang dynasty and declared that he had a "mandate from heaven"? | Ji Fa |
| What was the capital of the Zhou Chinese dynasty from 1122BCE to 771BCE? | Xi'an |
| What is the largest tributary of the Yellow River, very important in the early development of Chinese civilization? | River Wei |
| According to the Bible, which King united Israel and Judah, becoming king after the Philistines had killed Saul and his son Jonathan? | David |
| In art, which saint is often depicted pierced with multiple arrows? | St Sebastian |
| Which Cole Porter musical won the very first Tony Award for Best Musical? | Kiss Me, Kate |
| In which state was US musician Jack Johnson born? | Hawaii |
| In Greek myth, what was Adonis doing when he was killed? | Boar-hunting |
| In myth, which lake was the dwelling place of the Hydra? | Lerna |
| Who wrote the music for the musical "Top Hat"? | Irving Berlin |
| What is the name of the Jewish festival of lights? | Chanukah |
| Who was the lead singer of the band Talking Heads? | David Byrne |
| Nancy & Ann Wilson were both founder members of which power ballad band? | Heart |
| Violetta Valery and Alfredo Germont appear in which opera? | La Traviata |
| Which cake takes its name from the French word for a flash of lightning? | Eclair |
| What name is given to the first Sunday after Easter? | Low Sunday (or Divine Mercy Sunday) |
| What is the first month after New Year in the Hebrew calendar? | Tishri |
| In mythology, who was the famous son of Anchises and Aphrodite? | Aeneas |
| What foodstuff got its name as it was believed to taste of cloves, pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg? | Allspice |
| Suzanne Sulley and Joanne Catherall are best known for being members of which band? | The Human League |
| What type of wood was Noah's Ark supposedly made of? | Gopherwood |
| Which food additives are given the E numbers E600 to E699? | Flavour Enhancers |
| Mozzarella cheese is traditionally made from which animal's milk? | Buffalo |
| In a sushi restaurant which fish is called 'maguro'? | Tuna |
| 'An Omelette and a Glass of Wine' is the title of a book by which English cookery writer, who is considered responsible for popularising French and Italian cookery in British homes? | Elizabeth David |
| Which influential writer of the French Renaissance, who helped to popularise the essay as a literary form, is perhaps best remembered for his 'Apology for Raymond Sebond'? | Michael de Montaigne |
| Telegraph, Tokyo and King of the Ridge are all varieties of which vegetable? | Cucumber |
| Which lake and UNESCO World Heritage Site straddles the border between Macedonia and Albania? | Lake Ohrid |
| At which battle, fought in August 1526, was Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, defeated and killed by forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent? | Battle of Mohacs |
| Which Pope who reigned for thirteen days in September 1590 is the shortest reigning Pope in history? | Urban VII |
| What was the first name of the cartoon character Mr Magoo? | Quincy |
| Released by Elvis Presley in 1958, which was the first song to go straight to number 1 in the UK singles chart? | Jailhouse Rock |
| Hippotragus leucophaeus was an antelope that became, in around 1800, the first large African mammal to become extinct in historic times; what was its common name? | Bluebuck (or Blue Antelope) |
| Which former Wimbledon men's singles champion was known as the Bounding Basque? | Jean Borotra |
| Which famous Japanese architect designed the city plan for the Nigerian capital Abuja? | Kenzo Tange |
| The mojito is a traditional cocktail that originated in which country? | Cuba |
| In which American city could you visit the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial? | St Louis |
| Lasting between 1804 and 1813, in which country did the first revolution to occur in Europe following the French Revolution take place? | Serbia |
| Deriving from the Slavonic for 'assembly', which word is given to a council of bishops and other clerical and lay representatives representing the church in matters of importance? | Sobor |
| In which country was the three time Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres born? | Poland |
| What was the name of the 15th Century Florentine humanist and historian who is best known for his work 'On Civic Life'? | Matteo Palmieri |
| Who was the 18th Century Swiss mathematician and physicist, who published more papers than any other mathematician in history, who pioneered the theory of trigonometric and logarithmic functions? | Leonhard Euler |
| In which Scottish town do Albion Rovers Football Club play their home matches? | Coatbridge |
| Who played the title character in the 1969 film 'Isadora'? | Vanessa Redgrave |
| In 1972, Sally Priesand became the first woman in the US to do what? | Be ordained as a rabbi |
| Who is the patron saint of architects? | St Thomas |
| Who composed 'The Drum Roll Symphony'? | Haydn |
| Which singer was born Steven Demetre Georgiou? | Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam |
| How was country singer Lecil Travis Martin (1931-99) better known? | Boxcar Willie |
| Which orchestral and operatic conductor (1912-97) won a record 31 Grammy awards? | Georg Solti |
| In 1975 who had a UK #3 hit with "Love Me Love My Dog"? | Peter Shelley |
| Who had a 1977 UK hit with a medley of Chip Taylor's "Angel of the Morning" / "Any Way You Want Me", reaching #27 and spending six weeks in the chart? | Mary Mason |
| What, according to the Bible, did Nebuchadnezzar do to Shadrach, Mesnach and Abednego? | Cast them into the fiery furnace |
| What genre of opera is considered to be humorous and 'everyday'? | Opera buffa |
| What, according to myth, did Aeneas have to give to Prosperina in order to gain access to the underworld? | A golden bough |
| The name of which genre of opera refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770? | Opera seria |
| Who wrote the opera "Idomeneo"? | Mozart |
| How did God punish David and Bathsheba for plotting the death of Uriah the Hittite in the Bible? | Death of their firstborn |
| "Tradition" and "Sunrise, Sunset" both come from which musical? | Fiddler On The Roof |
| Which man wrote the music of "Fiddler on the Roof"? | Jerry Bock |
| What job did Matthew do before becoming an apostle, according to the New Testament? | Tax Collector |
| Jelly Roll Morton is most associated with playing which instrument? | Piano |
| Which city hosted the US leg of 'Live Aid' in 1985? | Philadelphia |
| What was the Pope's summer residence (a papal palace until October 2016) called? | Castel Gandolfo |
| The most common recipes included salted bacon or beef with potatoes, swedes, carrots and other seasonal vegetables - which soup-like dish is often called Wales's national dish? | Cawl |
| Who would wear a chimere? | (Anglican) Bishop |
| What are the three 'pilgrim' festivals of Judaism? | Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Pentecost) and Succot (Tabernacles) |
| In Judaism, what name is given to the Passover festival? | Seder |
| In synagogues, what is a bimah? | Raised platform for Torah reading |
| What name is given to the Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder? | Haggadah |
| Since Rabbinic times it has been customary for Jews to drink how many cups of wine at the Passover meal? | Four |
| At Passover, a Jew may put an extra cup of wine on the table for which prophet? | Elijah |
| What is the Jewish name for New Year? | Rosh Hashanah |
| Sounded in some Jewish festivals, what is the shofur? | Ram's horn |
| Which medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire was founded by Tughril Beg (1016–63) in 1037, and lasted until 1194? | Seljuk Empire |
| Found exclusively in the Galapagos Islands, what is the name of the world's only lizard that hunts and forages in the sea? | Marine Iguana |
| Who was the American animator who created Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny? | Tex Avery |
| Which 20th Century French painter designed scenes for Diaghilev's ballets 'Les Fâcheux' and 'Zéphyr et Flore'? | Georges Braque |
| Used when making tea, and deriving from the Russian for 'self brewer', what name is given the heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in Russia, Iran and Turkey? | Samovar |
| What is the capital of the Spanish autonomous region of Cantabria? | Santander |
| Fought on September 7th 1812, which was the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than a quarter of a million soldiers and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties? | Battle of Borodino |
| The Digambara Texts are sacred writings in which religion? | Jainism |
| Who was the Democratic Presidential nominee who was defeated by George Bush Snr. in the American Presidential elections in 1988? | Michael Dukakis |
| Which group, formed in Glasgow in 1996, took their name from a children's book written by the French actress and writer Cécile Aubry? | Belle and Sebastian |
| Which American medial mogul created the Goodwill Games in reaction to the political troubles that surrounded the Olympic Games during the early 1980s? | Ted Turner |
| Who wrote the musical 'Guys and Dolls'? | Frank Loesser |
| Simmental is a breed of which animals? | Cattle |
| What term, much favoured by Marx, is defined as the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized? | Praxis |
| Which Canadian-American sociologist and writer, considered "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century"(1922-82) wrote Asylums, Behavior in Public and Stigma? | Erving Goffmann |
| Which US sociologist explained crime by way of anomie, in that culture and the social structure were no longer in line in Western society, but is perhaps best known for the terms "role model" and "self-fulfilling prophecy"? | Robert Merton |
| In which decade were Catholics given the vote in Scotland? | 1820s (1829) |
| Coined by Max Weber, which term refers to members of the 'service class' or those who delegate authority or specialised knowledge on behalf of their amploying authority, in return for a wage? | Salariat |
| Which Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment wrote "Essay on the History of Civil Society"? | Adam Ferguson |
| Which North African Arab historiographer and historian (27 May 1332 – 19 March 1406) is best known for his book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction")? | Ibn Khaldun |
| Which ethno-religious group, a communal branch of Anabaptists who, and similar to the Amish and Mennonites, are named after their Tyrolean founder (1500-36)? | Hutterites |
| Which Christian denomination is distinguished by its observance of Saturday as Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming of Jesus Christ? | Seventh-day Adventist Church |
| Which Christian denomination, founded in mid-17th century England, characteristically wore wide-brimmed hats that they infamously failed to doff for the king? | Quakers |
| In which month of 1945 did FD Roosevelt die? | April |
| Which date of the 20th century was VE Day? | May 8th 1945 |
| Whose second published work was 1953's "Philosophical Investigations"? | Wittgenstein |
| On 20th June 1936, which Russian author died at his dacha just outside Moscow? | Maxim Gorky |
| Which former professor of psychology at Harvard wrote "Science and Human Behavior" in 1953? | Burrhus Skinner |
| Which playwright wrote "American Buffalo" (1975) and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1983)? | David Mamet |
| Which is the first square number, after 1, to appear in a Fibonacci sequence? | 144 |
| Who devised the Fibonnaci sequence in 1202? | Leonardo of Pisa |
| Orogenesis is the formation of what? | Mountains |
| What name is given to the art, science or study of lying? | Pseudology |
| Alva J Fisher has been incorrectly credited with the invention of which domestic appliance - the real inventor remains unknown? | Washing machine |
| In retail technology, what is EPOS? | Electronic Point of Sale |
| In engineering, what name is given to a pin that locates a piston into a connecting rod? | Gudgeon Pin |
| Name either of the two British birds whose common names include a place in Kent. | Sandwich tern, Dartford warbler |
| What is scotopic vision? | Low light/night vision |
| Which luxury car manufacturer's emblem features a raging bull? | Lamborghini |
| Operated by Laker Airways, in which year did the low-cost Transatlantic 'Skytrain' take off? | 1977 |
| Introduced in 1951, what was the RAF's first jet-powered bomber aircraft? | English Electric Canberra |
| What does 'Hyundai' mean in English? | Modern |
| Name any two banks, that as of 2017, issues Northern Irish banknotes? | Ulster Bank, First Trust Bank, Danske Bank, Bank of Ireland |
| What name is given to someone who analyses dreams? | Oneirologist |
| Zonular fibres are found in which part of the human body? | Eye |
| How is the plant 'tradescantia pallida', commonly used in hanging baskets, better known? | Wandering Jew |
| The North American killdeer is a bird belonging to which subfamily? | Plover |
| Where does a female shard-beetle preferentially lay eggs? | Dung |
| What is the popular name of the plant Sansevieria trifasciata? | Snake plant or mother-in-law's tongue |
| The Brighton Belle train departed from which London mainline station from 1933 to 1972? | Victoria |
| How is the General Dynamics F-16 jet better known? | Fighting Falcon |
| Which type and quantity of quarks form a proton? | One down, two up |
| Which type and quantity of quarks form a neutron? | Two down, one up |
| What name is given to an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases? | Nebula |
| The densest known star cluster in the Milky Way, located about 100 light years from its centre, lies in which constellation? | Sagittarius |
| Stars are often formed from the remnants of prior star deaths - which generation of star (i.e. first, second etc) is our Sun thus believed to be? | Third |
| What name is given to a body that is in direct orbit of the Sun, and is massive enough for its gravity to crush it into a hydrostatic equilibrium shape (usually a spheroid), but has not cleared the neighbourhood of other material around its orbit? | Dwarf Planet |
| What is an astrobleme? | An impact or meteor crater caused by an object from space |
| In 2017, it was announced by Japanese researchers that which element is probably the 3rd most abundant in Earth's core after iron and nickel? | Silicon |
| Which dense, coarse-grained igneous rock is the dominant rock of the upper part of the Earth's mantle? | Peridotite |
| Which common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of lava makes up most of Earth's oceanic crust? | Basalt |
| Which layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains form mounds and are considered fossils of bacterial colonies dating back millions of years? | Stromatolites |
| What name, from a Croatian seismologist, is given to the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle? | Mohorovicic Discontinuity |
| In geology, what name is given to a large area of exposed Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that form tectonically stable areas that are between 570 million years and 2 to 3.5 billion years old? | (Continental) Shield |
| What name is given to the rigid, outermost part of the Earth that moves on the asthenosphere as part of the concept of plate tectonics? | Lithosphere |
| There are three types of tectonic plate boundaries on Earth - divergent, convergent and which other, of which the San Andreas Fault is a prime example? | Transform Boundary |
| What name is given to salts that have a strong affinity for moisture and will absorb relatively large amounts of water from the atmosphere if exposed to it, forming an aqueous solution? | Deliquescent salts |
| Which famously misogynistic Roman satiric poet of the 1st and 2nd Centuries wrote 'The Woes of a Gigolo' and 'Roman Wives'? | Juvenal |
| Which famous Greek wine is flavoured with pine resin? | Retsina |
| What was the name of the Polish and Lithuanian national hero and general who led the 1794 uprising against the Russian Empire? | Tadeusz Kosciusko |
| Who was the Belgian socialist politician and former Prisoner of War who served as Belgian Prime Minister on three occasions between 1938 and 1949? | Paul-Henri Spaak |
| What was Anichises punishment, in mythology, for announcing that he had slept with Aphrodite? | Blinded by a flash of lightning |
| On which golf course did Tony Jacklin win the British Open in 1969? | Royal Lytham & St Annes |
| Who played The Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film of the same name? | Frank Morgan |
| Which fictional detective made his first appearance in the 1977 novel 'A Morbid Taste for Bones'? | Cadfael |
| Named after a region in Slovakia, what is the name of the Slovak dish, also used in Hungarian and Austrian cuisine, of spiced white cheese made from a mixture of sheep and cow milk? | Liptauer (or Liptov) |
| In which coastal town in Devon did William of Orange and his Dutch army land to fight the Glorious Revolution? | Brixham |
| As of 2017, which is the only country in Europe to still use capital punishment? | Belarus |
| Which Austrian psychologist and Holocaust Survivor, who founded logotherapy and Existential Analysis, wrote the book 'Man's Search for Meaning', chronicling his experiences in a concentration camp? | Victor Frankl |
| According to tradition, all racehorses in the Southern hemisphere celebrate their birthday on what date? | August 1st |
| Who wrote the short story upon which the film 'Brokeback Mountain' was based? | Annie Proulx |
| Portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the films, who is the main protagonist of The Hunger Games novels? | Katniss Everdeen |
| What is the first name of Zara Tindall's first child, born in 2014? | Mia |
| World Championship boxing matches are contested over how many rounds? | 12 |
| Joseph Valente and Leah Totton are among the former winners of which British TV show? | The Apprentice |
| What does B2B stand for in commerce? | Business to business |
| What does B2C stand for in commerce? | Business to consumer |
| What is the name of Blue Peter's theme tune? | Barnacle Bill |
| Which British golfer won the 2013 US Open? | Justin Rose |
| In which decade was the inaugural Solheim Cup (the female equivalent to the Ryder Cup)? | 1990s (1990) |
| In which event was British athlete Phillips Idowu a world champion? | Triple Jump |
| Which two members of the EU have a name that, in English, starts and ends with the same letter? | Austria, Czech Republic |
| In aviation, what is the common language used by pilots? | English |
| According to the proverb, whose wife must be above suspicion? | Caesar's |
| Which of the Teletubbies was green? | Dipsy |
| Someone born between the 23rd September and 23rd October has what starsign? | Libra |
| Who was the co-presenter of BBC Breakfast from 2003 until her departure in early 2014, when she moved to Good Morning Britain? | Susanna Reid |
| Who was the last British monarch to be part of the House of Hanover? | Victoria |
| In police work, what is a SOCO? | Scene of Crime Officer |
| Which former panel-show host played George Windsor in the TV show 'Waterloo Road'? | Angus Deayton |
| Which film was Marilyn Monroe filming immediately prior to her death? | Something's Got To Give |
| Which UK city is reputed for its 'dreaming spires'? | Oxford |
| Which UK city has a prison that was once called Winson Green? | Birmingham |
| What is a PCSO in UK policing? | Police Community Support Officer |
| Which English gangland boss wrote 2014's "The Last Gangster: My Final Confession", released after his 2012 date? | Charlie Richardson |
| In the Metropolitan Police, which rank is indicated by two pips on an epaulette? | Inspector |
| Gee Jon, on February 8, 1924, became the first man in the USA to be executed by which method? | Gas chamber |
| William Francis Kemmler, in 1890, was the first man worldwide to be executed via which method? | Electric chair |
| Charles Brooks, Jr., in 1982, was the first man in the USA to be executed by what method? | Lethal Injection |
| Hitting number 1 in 2011, what was One Direction's debut single? | What Makes You Beautiful |
| Which nation has been nicknamed 'The Lucky Country', based on the title of a 1964 Donald Horne book? | Australia |
| The letter 'J' is worth how many Scrabble points? | Eight |
| Which artist designed the Sgt Pepper album cover? | Peter Blake |
| How many red balls are used in billiards? | One |
| Which English poet released "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"? | William Blake |
| Who was the arch-enemy of Biggles, first meeting him in "Biggles Flies East"? | Erich von Stalhein |
| Which veteran British band won a 2014 Grammy for their album "Celebration Day"? | Led Zeppelin |
| Who was the first cricketer to make 200 Test match appearances? | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Which sport Is named after the Gloucestershire home of the Duke of Beaufort? | Badminton |
| On which island was tennis star Rafael Nadal born? | Majorca |
| A bawson is an alternative name for which animal? | Badger |
| Which British socialist intellectual wrote "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism" (1926) and "Equality" (1931), and expected the imminent demise of capitalism? | RH Tawney |
| In which city was TS Eliot born in 1888? | St Louis |
| In Greek myth, which blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes was famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years? | Tiresias |
| What is the first of the six parts of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land"? | The Epigraph |
| What is the sixth and last of the six parts of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land"? | What the Thunder Said |
| In which year did James Joyce's "Ulysses" appear? | 1922 |
| Which three cities are mentioned in the final line of James Joyce's Ulysses? | Zurich, Paris, Trieste |
| In which city was James Joyce born in 1882? | Dublin |
| From 1905, with which woman, later his wife and muse, did James Joyce live? | Nora Barnacle |
| Who released the hugely influential "Maternal Care and Mental Health" in 1951 that brought about a wholesale change in how we view childhood? | John Bowlby |
| Which US filmmaker was responsible for Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–onwards)? | Michael Bay |
| In which film did Bruce Willis play Dr Malcolm Crowe? | The Sixth Sense |
| What is a Gabbeh, in Iran? | A type of carpet |
| Who played the 'Bad Lieutenant' in the 1992 film? | Harvey Keitel |
| As of 2017, and since 1990, what is the highest rating given by the MPAA in the USA, for films not to be seen by children - it replaced X-ratings? | NC-17 |
| Which US state hosts the annual Sundance film festival? | Utah |
| Which actor founded the Sundance film festival? | Robert Redford |
| Who directed 2009 film "Valkyrie"? | Bryan Singer |
| Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture? | Wings |
| Who won the first Academy Award for Best Actor? | Emil Jannings |
| In the title of a 1968 Peter Maxwell Davies composition, how many songs were there 'for a mad king'? | Eight (Songs For A Mad King) |
| Peter O Toole played Henry II in two films - A Lion In Winter and which other? | Becket |
| Who founded the High Holborn toy shop "Noah's Ark" in 1760? | William Hamley |
| Who first played Doctor Who villain "The Master" in 1971? | Roger Delgado |
| Which man, the "Faberge of Footwear" designed Queen Elizabeth II's coronation shoes? | Roger Vivier |
| Henry Laurens is the only American ever to have been imprisoned in which UNESCO World Heritage Site? | Tower of London |
| The Egyptian goddess Heqet had the head of which creature? | Frog |
| On Twitter, 500,000 followers is equivalent to which unit, named after an American actor, blogger, voice actor, and writer? | One Wheaton |
| Which African country is the largest Francophone nation by population? | DR Congo |
| Which world light heavyweight boxing champion won British TV's "Superstars" programme in 1974? | John Conteh |
| In which month is London's Lord Mayor's Show? | November |
| Who is the only citizen of the UK allowed to keep a private army? | Duke of Atholl |
| Which region is represented by 'P' in a British car registrations? | Preston area |
| Which region is represented by 'D' in a British car registrations? | Deeside (Chester/Shrewsbury) |
| The West Highland Way connects which two places? | Milngavie and Fort William |
| Tin Pan Alley is a nickname given to which street in London? | Denmark Street |
| The Nyiragongo volcano is in which country? | DR Congo |
| What is the name of Las Vegas' airport? | McCarran International |
| Which family originally owned Speke Hall? | Norris |
| Which river forms part of the Iraq-Iran border and is formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq? | Shatt Al-Arab |
| What is the capital of Mali? | Bamako |
| What is the nickname of the traditional Stock Exchange in Paris? | Bourse |
| What name is given to the group of European stock exchanges seated in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Lisbon and Paris? | Euronext |
| Which was the first suspension bridge built over the Thames in London? | Hammersmith Bridge |
| Which English boxer, and the world light heavyweight champion from 1948 to 1950, was linked after his 1965 suicide, with being serial killer "Jack the Stripper"? | Freddie Mills |
| Virtually all scholars agree that the Biblical Queen of Sheba hailed from which modern-day country? | Yemen |
| The Naval and Military Club in London has what common nickname? | The In-Out Club |
| In which US state is Edwards Air Force Base? | California |
| What are Heysham, Torness and Hunterston in the UK? | Nuclear power stations |
| Hinkley Point is in which English county? | Somerset |
| How many gold Olympic medals did Sir Chris Hoy win in his cycling career? | Six |
| What name is given to a dive with knees straight but a tight bend at the hips? | Pike |
| Who won gold at the cycling Men's Individual Pursuit at the 2008 Olympics? | Bradley Wiggins |
| What is a 'dolly' in cricket? | A very easy catch |
| What is the amateur equivalent of golf's Ryder Cup - contested in odd-numbered years by leading amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland? | Walker Cup |
| What name is given to a phenomenon commonly known in paragliding, hang gliding, and sailplane flying where pilots experience significant lift due to a thermal under the base of cumulus clouds? | Cloud suck |
| In which country did the board game Go originate? | China |
| What name is given to an over in cricket during which no runs are scored? | Maiden |
| What was tennis player Billie Jean King's maiden name? | Moffitt |
| In which county is Newmarket racecourse? | Suffolk |
| Aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe and slopestyle are disciplines in which Winter Olympic sport? | Freestyle skiing |
| Bachmann Industries and Peco are famous manufacturers of what? | Model railways |
| What alternative name is given to the assistant referees in rugby union? | Touch judges |
| Which country did former world No. 4 tennis player Robin Soderling represent? | Sweden |
| From 1917 onwards, who have been Toronto's representative team in ice hockey's NHL? | Maple Leafs |
| What was the first name of Mr Rubik, who invented his eponymous cube? | Erno |
| What name is given to people other than the coach who can be in a boxer's corner during a fight - they often administer treatment to cuts and other injuries? | Seconds |
| What was the real first name of famous cricket umpire "Dickie" Bird? | Harold |
| What is the usual name given to the captain of a curling team? | Skip |
| What is the English translation of the Olympic motto? | Swifter, Higher, Stronger |
| In which decade was the Royal Bank of Scotland founded? | 1720s (1727) |
| Seen in the name of an Edinburgh church, what was a city's 'tron'? | Public scales (for weighing) |
| Which conflicts, both political and military, occurred in 1639 and 1640, and centred on the nature of the governance of the Church of Scotland, and the rights and powers of the Crown? | Bishops' Wars |
| What position was held by John Tillotson from 1691 until 1694? | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Who wrote 1689's "A Letter Concerning Toleration"? | John Locke |
| In which decade was the infamous Salem witch trial? | 1690s (1692) |
| The Rye House Plot was a plot against which monarch? | Charles II |
| What name was given to an helmet that forced an iron plate into the mouth of blasphemer or liar, formerly used as punishment? | Brank or Scold's Bridle |
| Give a year in the life of church reformer John Knox. | 1513-72 |
| Which of her cousins did Mary Queen of Scots controversially marry? | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley |
| Who was Mary Queen of Scots' mother? | Mary of Guise |
| The Duke of Monmouth, who led an ill-fated rebellion, was the bastard son of which monarch? | Charles II |
| Which former wrestler was born Martin Ruane? | Giant Haystacks |
| Onomastos of Smyrna was the first recorded Olympic champion at what event? | Boxing |
| To whiom did Herbie Hide lose his WBO title in 1995? | Riddick Bowe |
| From its inception in 1987, the English Premiership in English rugby union was, until 2010, won exclusively by Wasps, Bath or Leicester Tigers - except in two years. Name either of the teams to break their domination. | Newcastle Falcons, Sale Sharks |
| What nationality was the referee of the 1966 World Cup Final? | Swiss |
| Which side won the first rugby union Heineken Cup in 1996? | Toulouse |
| Who, in 1998, were the first English winners of rugby's Heineken Cup? | Bath |
| Kegel is a variant of bowling now mainly played in which country? | Australia |
| Who replaced Mark Lamarr as host of "Never Mind The Buzzcocks"? | Simon Amstell |
| "Night and Day" is a 1946 film starring Cary Grant about which songwriter? | Cole Porter |
| Kerr Avon, Vila Restal and Supreme Commander Servalan were all characters in which UK TV sci-fi series? | Blake's Seven |
| The 1973 film "Don't Look Now" is mainly set in which city? | Venice |
| In which two cities was the 1971 thriller "The French Connection" chiefly set? | New York, Marseilles |
| Directed by Liza Minnelli's father Vicente, which 1951 Gene Kelly musical won an Oscar for Best Picture? | An American in Paris |
| Which film was the first one to sweep the Academy Awards in the categories of best actor, actress, director, picture and screenplay? | It Happened One Night |
| In which country was actress Mary Pickford born? | Canada |
| Who directed the Judy Garland film "The Wizard of Oz"? | Victor Fleming |
| In which year was perennial Christmas movie classic "The Wizard of Oz" released? | 1939 |
| What is the name given to the equivalent position to a barrister in Scottish law? | Advocate |
| What is the largest city in India by population? | Mumbai |
| Opened in the 13th century, which salt mine near Krakow produced table salt continuously until 2007, one of the world's oldest salt mines? | Wieliczka Salt Mine |
| Which capital city has sunk, in places, as much as 9m since the start of the 20th century? | Mexico City |
| Which architect was perhaps was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York? | Oscar Niemeyer |
| Which city is known locally as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon? | Bangkok |
| Which island does Copenhagen sit on, the 96th-largest island in the world by area and the 35th most populous? | Zealand (a small part is also on Amager island) |
| Mexico City was built on the site of which Aztec capital? | Tenochtitlan |
| What is the largest of New York's boroughs in area, though second-largest in population? | Queens |
| The Mayan ruins of Tikal are in which country? | Guatemala |
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