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Question 1

The spiralling numbering of Paris’s 20 arrondissements mean it is often called l’escargot, the French for which animal, also a stereotypical French foodstuff?

Answer 1

Snail

Question 2

What colour are the eyes of Yu-gi-oh’s Yugi and alongside white, the bulbous patches of Dragonball Z’s Frieza?

Answer 2

Purple

Question 3

Frank Silver and Irving Cohn’s novelty hit of 1923 describes how “Yes! We Have no…” examples of which fruit?

Answer 3

Bananas

Question 4

Joe Rosenthal’s best known photograph is of American troops raising an American flag on Iwo Jima, an island in which country, during WW2?

Answer 4

Japan

Question 5

One of Africa’s richest men, Nicky Oppenheimer is the chairman of which South African diamond mining company?

Answer 5

De Beers

Question 6

Which planet of the solar system is closest to the sun?

Answer 6

Mercury

Question 7

Epaminondas led which city-state’s Sacred Band to victory over the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra?

Answer 7

Thebes

Question 8

In 2015 and 2019, which American sports team were honoured the two most recent times a New York City ticker-tape parade has been held?

Answer 8

USWNT

Question 9

What first name is shared by the golfer with the surname Els and boxer with the surname Terrell?

Answer 9

Ernie

Question 10

Before Donald Trump, who was the last President “from” New York State, the primary advocate of the New Deal?

Answer 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 11

With a Christmassy first name, which veteran TV presenter presented Deal or No Deal and is known for their pairing with Mr Blobby?

Answer 11

Noel Edmonds

Question 12

Which private members club at 104 Pall Mall, associated with Liberal politics, is where Phileas Fogg begins and ends his journey in Around the World in Eighty Days?

Answer 12

The Reform Club

Question 13

The Miracle of the Slave, a diagonally arranged last supper and an 80 ft. Paradiso are among the most famous works of which 16th century Venetian painter?

Answer 13

Tintoretto

Question 14

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy had an illegitimate daughter Rhonda. Which musician, at the time married to Robert Ellis Silberstein, was Rhonda’s mother?

Answer 14

Diana Ross

Question 15

A increasingly popular theory for the sharp rise of which condition in developing countries is that people who live in less cramped conditions are less likely to build up immune resistance? It is characterised by inflammation in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen.

Answer 15

Appendicitis

Question 16

Reporters Jeremy Bowen and Robert Fisk are primarily known for their reporting from which region of the world?

Answer 16

Middle East

Question 17

Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, what is the one-word title of the 1970 novel by Larry Niven that is set on an alien construct 186 miles in diameter?

Answer 17

Ringworld

Question 18

The aria “Nessun Dorma” is sung in which Puccini opera?

Answer 18

Turandot

Question 19

The Graafian follicle is found on which organ of the body?

Answer 19

Ovary

Question 20

The word tadig refers to the prized crust formed when cooking the basmati form of what ingredient in Iranian dishes like sabzi polo?

Answer 20

Rice

Question 21

The goal at the good calx end in the Eton Wall game is what sort of object? A black one of these objects is painted with a number 10 on London’s Downing Street.

Answer 21

Door

Question 22

The Frankish king Charles I is generally known by what one word name in English, a combination of his name with a French word for great?

Answer 22

Charlemagne

Question 23

In the song ‘My Favourite Things’ from The Sound of Music, what foodstuff is rhymed with the word ‘strudels’ after the line ‘Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels’?

Answer 23

Schnitzel with noodles

Question 24

In the 2019 Cricket World Cup, India and Pakistan played in Manchester. Which city in Punjab, formerly known as Lyallpur [lee-ahl-poor], is known as the “Manchester of Pakistan”?

Answer 24

Faisalabad [fayz-la-bard]

Question 25

In palmistry, what name is given to the flat area at the very centre of the palm, surrounded by the mounts of various planetary bodies around the edge of the palm?

Answer 25

Plain of Mars

Question 26

The demand for which fish, also known as anemonefish, increased significantly after one was portrayed as the title character of Finding Nemo?

Answer 26

Clownfish

Question 27

Lord Nicholls described how “Fairness, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder” in introducing the case of White v. White which established the UK as a capital for what sort of cases?

Answer 27

Divorce (prompt on family)

Question 28

Tendayi Darikwa and Adlene Guerdiora played at the African Cup of Nations and played for which Championship club in the 2018-19 season?

Answer 28

Nottingham Forest

Question 29

The world’s longest guided busway stretches from Huntingdon to Trumpington and passes through which English county town in the East of England on its route?

Answer 29

Cambridge

Question 30

Nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar without ever winning – joint second to Clarence Brown’s unlucky 6 – whose films include 1944’s Lifeboat?

Answer 30

Alfred Hitchcock

Question 31

Cheryl Cole was best known as a member of which band formed on Popstars: The Rivals?

Answer 31

Girls Aloud

Question 32

Mary Anne Evans was the real name of which writer who took the pen name George?

Answer 32

George Eliot

Question 33

One of Africa’s richest men, Johann Rupert founded Richemont, a holding company for which sort of companies including Vacheron Constantin and Alfred Dunhill?

Answer 33

Luxury goods

Question 34

Since the demotion of Pluto, what is the farthest planet in the solar system from the Sun?

Answer 34

Neptune

Question 35

Cypselus and his son Periander were both tyrants who ruled which city-state, the host of the Isthmian games?

Answer 35

Corinth

Question 36

The only other female sportswoman to be honoured in a New York City ticket tape parade was which African American woman who won the 1957 Wimbledon womens’ singles title?

Answer 36

Althea Gibson

Question 37

The rough shape of France means that Metropolitan France is often called l’Hexagone [leg-za-gon], the French for what shape?

Answer 37

Hexagon

Question 38

The Digimon Guilmon [gi-u-mon] and the jacket of One Piece’s protagonist Luffy are both predominantly which colour?

Answer 38

Red

Question 39

Fred Heatherton’s novelty hit of 1944 describes how “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of...” which fruit?

Answer 39

Coconuts

Question 40

Yevgeney Khaldei’s best known photograph shows a Soviet soldier raising a flag on which nation’s parliament building in May 1945?

Answer 40

Germany

Question 41

The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi are among the detailed artworks of which 16th century Venetian artist?

Answer 41

Paolo Veronese

Question 42

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy had an illegitimate son Kennedy. By what name is Kennedy Gordy better known? He had a hit, Somebody’s Watching Me, featuring his brother in law Jermaine Jackson.

Answer 42

Rockwell

Question 43

A traditional but now discredited theory for the sharp rise of appendicitis in developing countries is that it is caused by a decrease in consumption of what part of plant-derived foods which cannot be broken down by digestive enzymes?

Answer 43

Fibre/Roughage

Question 44

Reporter Adam Fleming and former reporter Boris Johnson are primarily noted for their reporting from which region of the world?

Answer 44

Europe/Brussels/EU

Question 45

What first name is shared by the golfer with the surname Sarazen and boxer with the surname Tunney?

Answer 45

Gene

Question 46

Before Barack Obama, the last president “from” Illinois was which Civil War general, nicknamed “Unconditional Surrender” in a play on his initials?

Answer 46

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 47

With a Christmassy first name, which veteran TV presenter regularly presents This Morning and Dancing on Ice alongside Philip Schofield?

Answer 47

Holly Willoughby

Question 48

Which private members club, formed by the Duke of Wellington to coordinate opposition to the First Reform Act, long served as the unofficial Tory party HQ and is now based at 69 St James Street?

Answer 48

Carlton Club

Question 49

The goal at the bad calx end in the Eton Wall game is what sort of thing? A very large one of these in Sequoia National Park is known as General Sherman.

Answer 49

Tree

Question 50

The nomadic conqueror Timur, is more commonly known by what one word name combining his name with a reference to his pronounced limp, and which is also the title of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe?

Answer 50

Tamerlane

Question 51

In the song ‘So Long, Farewell’ from The Sound of Music, what alcoholic drink is rhymed with the words ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ after the line ‘So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen’?

Answer 51

My first champagne

Question 52

In the 2019 Cricket World Cup India and Pakistan played in Manchester. Which heavily polluted city in Uttar Pradesh is known as the “Manchester of India”?

Answer 52

Kanpur [kahn-puur]

Question 53

Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, what is the four-word title of the 2007 novel by Michael Chabon that is set in an alternative history version of Sitka, Alaska?

Answer 53

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union

Question 54

The aria “La donna è mobile” is sung in which Verdi opera?

Answer 54

Rigoletto

Question 55

The Gräfenberg spot is a region in which organ of the body?

Answer 55

Vagina

Question 56

The word soccarat refers to the prized crust formed when cooking which very popular Spanish rice dish?

Answer 56

Paella

Question 57

The world’s first guided busway was the tramroad stretching from Cheltenham to which nearby county town?

Answer 57

Gloucester

Question 58

Nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar without ever winning – joint second to Clarence Brown’s unlucky 6 – whose films include Gosford Park and Nashville?

Answer 58

Robert Altman

Question 59

Myleen Klass and Kym Marsh were members of which band formed from the winners of Popstars in 2001, while the losing finalists formed the band Liberty X?

Answer 59

Hear’Say

Question 60

Eric Arthur Blair was the real name of which writer who took the pen name George?

Answer 60

George Orwell

Question 61

In palmistry, what name is given to the curved line surrounding the middle and ring fingers?

Answer 61

Girdle of Venus

Question 62

What name, referencing their tendency to rapidly inflate, is given to fish in the order Tetraodontidae? Most species are toxic.

Answer 62

Puffer fish

Question 63

The case of Berezovsky v. Michaels which upheld a Russian oligarch’s right to sue Forbes helped to establish Britain’s status as a legal capital for what sort of cases?

Answer 63

Libel

Question 64

Brit Assombalonga and Jon Obi Mikel both played at the African Cup of Nations and play for which Championship club?

Answer 64

Middlesbrough

Question 65

Deglet Nour is a variety of which fruit, normally served dried, and traditionally the first thing eaten when breaking fast during Ramadan?

Answer 65

Date

Question 66

Served at the Three Broomsticks and the Hog’s Head, what name is given in the Harry Potter books to the presumably alcoholic drink served either hot or cold?

Answer 66

Butterbeer

Question 67

Imran Khan took 362 career Test wickets, which New Zealand left arm spinner also took 362 test wickets?

Answer 67

Daniel Vettori

Question 68

Including claws, how many limbs does a crab have?

Answer 68

10

Question 69

How many legs does a fly have?

Answer 69

6

Question 70

Dennis Lillee took 355 career Test wickets, which Sri Lanka left arm fast-medium bowler also took 355 Test wickets?

Answer 70

Chaminda Vaas

Question 71

In the Harry Potter Books, what name is given to the public house used to gain entry into Diagon Alley?

Answer 71

The Leaky Cauldron

Question 72

Turkey’s Malatya province produces a large amount of which orange fruit’s popular dried variety?

Answer 72

Apricot

Question 73

Which god in Roman mythology is identified with the Greek god Hephaestus?

Answer 73

Vulcan

Question 74

Marienbad Elegy and Elective Affinities are works by which German-language writer?

Answer 74

Goethe

Question 75

Which chemical element is the densest naturally occurring element, and takes its name from the Greek for “smell”?

Answer 75

Osmium

Question 76

Which song by Elton John, originally released in 1973, reached the top 10 in the UK chart over the 2018/19 festive period?

Answer 76

Step Into Christmas