ABSOLUTE ESSENTIALS

Question 1

The longest english trail?

Answer 1

SOUTH WEST COASTAL PATH from Minehead to Poole

Question 2

First female president of RA

Answer 2

Rebecca SALTER

Question 3

Which work by Aphra Behn inspired Purcell and in turn the Young Persons guide to the Orchestra?

Answer 3

Abdelazar

Question 4

Sounding like it involves a traditional dance, which two-player boardgame,
involves placing and moving black and white pieces, with the aim of getting lines
or “mills” of three in a row, at which point an opponent’s piece is removed from
the board?.

Answer 4

Nine mens morris

Question 5

Only female presenter Robot Wars

Answer 5

Angela SCANLON

Question 6

Originating in a tweet by @dril, which maize-based food stuff is used in internet
slang to a person who, despite having clearly lost a debate, continues to publicly
deny the fact, further damaging their credibility?

Answer 6

CORN COBBING

Question 7

wrote New Grub Street

Answer 7

George GISSING

Question 8

David Lloyd George became Earl of

Answer 8

DWYFOR

Question 9

Which debut novel Mrs Gaskell was subtitled A Tale of Manchester Life

Answer 9

MARY BARTON

Question 10

First f minister of education

Answer 10

Ellen WILKINSON

Question 11

In 2021, 3rd mercury prize nomination out of three for PINK NOISE

Answer 11

Laura MVULA

Question 12

Named after a famous nurse, what is the name of the huge tunnelling machine that has just commenced its work in helping the HS2 project through the Chilterns ?

Answer 12

Florence

Question 13

New Birmingham Station for HS2

Answer 13

CURZON STREET

Question 14

Female tennis player, Canada born

Answer 14

Emily RADACANU

Question 15

Trained Minella Times and Minella Indo

Answer 15

Joe de BROMHEAD

Question 16

tdf 123 2021

Answer 16

pogacar/ vingegaard/ carapaz

Question 17

tdf 2021 combativity

Answer 17

bonnamour

Question 18

tdf 2021 started

Answer 18

brest

Question 19

bdo world darts 2020

Answer 19

wayne warren

Question 20

gerwyn price aka

Answer 20

iceman

Question 21

leader, only mp alliance party

Answer 21

naomi long

Question 22

new wordls strongest man

Answer 22

tom STOLTMAN

Question 23

Which company, known for its hour-long outdoor exercise classes, was founded
by three retired army officers in the late 1990s, and purchased by Bear Grylls
Ventures in 2018? The answer has three words

Answer 23

be militry fit

Question 24

Which 2020 TV series, written by and starring Michaela Coel, was the recipient of
multiple BAFTAs and a GLAAD media award?

Answer 24

i may destroy you

Question 25

Brothers Paul and Mark Collyer founded the company Sports Interactive to further develop which simulation computer game series that they conceived in their Shropshire bedroom in the early 1990s?

Answer 25

CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER

Question 26

The clothes brand Florence and Fred is sold by which supermarket chain?

Answer 26

TESCO

Question 27

Which American science communicator is known as ‘the Science Guy’, after that phrase was rhymed with his name in the title of the popular children’s science show he hosted from 1993-98?

Answer 27

BILL NYE

Question 28

Dale Vince and Arsenal right-back Hector Bellerin are the two largest stakeholders in which League Two football club?

Answer 28

FOREST GREEN

Question 29

A favourite among Norwegian-Americans in the Midwest, what notoriously smelly dish is made by reconstituting dried cod in lye for several days and then baking or boiling the fish down to a gelatinous mash?

Answer 29

LUTEFISK

Question 30

Credit Suisse estimated it had sustained $3 billion of losses as a result of the March 2021 liquidation of which supply chain financing group named after the man who had founded it in in 2011?

Answer 30

GREENSILL

Question 31

What term in bricklaying describes a brick laid flat with its long narrow side exposed?

Answer 31

STRETCHER

Question 32

Which Swedish dish, known for its characteristic strong smell, is made by adding just enough salt to herring, to allow it to ferment while preventing it from rotting altogether?

Answer 32

SURSTROMMING

Question 33

Which is the third largest lake in the Lake District after Windermere and Ullswater? This lake located in Borrowdale lies immediately south of Keswick and is drained by the river which forms part of its name.

Answer 33

DERWENTWATER

Question 34

What was the forename and surname of The French Lieutenant's Woman in the novel by John Fowles?

Answer 34

SARA WOODRUFF

Question 35

The name of what type of entertainment facility completes the title of this 2018 album by the Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel and … what?

Answer 35

CASINO

Question 36

The great great grandson of a cavalier poet, and also related to Robert Walpole, which naval officer is now best known as the man who trained his nephew Horatio Nelson?

Answer 36

MAURICE SUCKLING

Question 37

Which wetland and SSSI in Cambridgeshire was in 1899 the first nature reserve run by the National Trust?

Answer 37

WICKEN FEN

Question 38

Which rapper, MC and internet personality was born Tyrone Lindo?

Answer 38

BIG NARSTIE

Question 39

Which fellow Made in Chelsea star married Millie Mackintosh in 2018?

Answer 39

HUGO TAYLOR

Question 40

made his league debut after coming on as a 88th-minute substitute for André-Frank Zambo Anguissa in a 1–0 away defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers. In doing so, he became the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days, beating the record set by fellow Fulham player Matthew Briggs in 2007.

Answer 40

HARVEY ELLIOTT

Question 41

Which ship succeeded the SS Great Eastern in 1899 to become the largest passenger ship in the world?

Answer 41

RMS OCEANIC

Question 42

What was the name of the brothers who founded Superdrug in 1964?

Answer 42

GOLDSTEIN

Question 43

Which Lake District hill has the alternative name Saddleback?

Answer 43

BLENCATHRA

Question 44

Which 1974 novel was set in the fictional African nation of Zangaro?

Answer 44

DOGS OF WAR

Question 45

Head chef at Dorchester

Answer 45

Alalin DUCASSE

Question 46

Head chef at Sketch

Answer 46

Pierre GAGNAIRE

Question 47

Head chef at connaught

Answer 47

helene darroze

Question 48

head chef at core

Answer 48

claire smyth

Question 49

Which Lib Dem life peer founded the nightclub Ministry of Sound in 1991?

Answer 49

james palumbo