WikiQuiz General Knowledge #19

Bob Godfrey

Which animator is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb (1974-75), and Henry's Cat (1983-95) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements?

Lal Bahadur Shastri

According to the former CIA operative Robert Crowley, which national prime minister — who died in Tashkent on Janury 11, 1966 — did not pass away from natural causes, but was murdered by the CIA, owing to his enthusiasm to proceed with nuclear testing? His successor as prime minister was unquestionably murdered.

sodium

Aldosterone plays an important role in maintaining levels of what ion in one's bloodstream? A relative lack of this ion is called hyponatraemia.

cello

British musician Jacqueline du Pré popularised Elgar's concerto for what instrument with a 1965 recording? Yo-Yo Ma also plays this instrument.

Don't Turn Around

In 1988, The Pet Shop Boys got to Number One with 'Heart', It replaced which song which contains the lines "Don't worry about this heart of mine" and "Coz you're gonna see my heart breaking"?

virus

In 1898, the Dutch microbiologist and botanist Martinus Beijerinck coined which five-letter word, when trying to find the causal agent of tobacco mosaic disease?

Battle of Chapultepec

The opening line of the US Marines Hymn "From the Halls of Montezuma" references the Marines' key role in which 1847 attack on a castle just outside Mexico City during the Mexican-American War?

Pitcairn Islands

The phrase "The Sun never sets on the British Empire" is still technically true - but for about an hour between the sunset in the Cayman Islands and the sunrise in the British Indian Ocean territory, the only British territory in daylight is what set of tiny islands in the Pacific whose population are mainly descended from the mutineers on the HMS Bounty?

Don Norman

The term "affordance" refers to the actions plainly possible to be taken by a user when interacting with a machine or object: for example, a button "affords" being pressed. Who popularised the notion of affordance as a way to understand technology through his book The Design of Everyday Things?

Tiger Woods

Vuong Dang Phong's nickname inspired that of what sporting great? This golfer is second only to Jack Nicklaus in number of major tournaments won by a man.

Yellow

What colour links the shirts worn by Thai protestors against Thaksin Shinawatra in 2005-6 and the ribbons tied by Hong Kong protestors against CY Leung in 2014?

Polly

What is the name of the sequel John Gay wrote to his Beggar's Opera?

Inspector Roderick Alleyn

Which character, created by the crime writer Ngiao Marsh, was named after the Elizabethan actor who founded Dulwich College in London?

Beastie Boys

The music of which band features in all three of the rebooted Star Trek films?

Johnny Hallyday

"Je te promets" was a hit for what French singer, who attracted a crowd of 500,000 for a 2000 concert at the Eiffel Tower? It was originally recorded for his 1986 album Gang, which was a collaboration with hit-maker Jean-Jacques Goldman (no relation to the setter).

Lovehoney

"The sexual happiness people" is the tagline of which British company that sells sex toys, lingerie and erotic gifts on the internet? The company has seen a significant upswing of business during the lockdown.

Judith Kerr

"When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" was a semi-autobiographical children's book by which German-born British writer and illustrator? She was also known for her 1968 children's book "The Tiger Who Came to Tea".

Wicket keeper

Adam Gilchrist and Kumar Sangakkara are among successful cricketers to have played in which role? The player in this role is the only one allowed to perform stumpings, and the only member of the fielding team allowed to wear gloves.

John Adams

Alice Goodman, the former Anglican chaplain of Trinity College Cambridge, has written the libretti to two operas by which American composer?

Kedgeree

An early example of fusion food, which Anglo-Indian dish cooks smoked fish with curried rice, and is usually served with slices of boiled egg?

Mercosur

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are full members of which South American trade bloc that was established by the 1991 "Treaty of Asuncion"? By 2019 the bloc had generated a nominal GDP of around 4.6 trillion US dollars.

Seljuk Empire

Brothers Tughril Beg (990-1063) and Chaghri Beg (989-1060) founded which high medieval Turko-Persian empire? At its greatest extent the Empire controlled a vast area stretching from western Anatolia and the Levant to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf in the south.

Brother Daniel

By what name was the Discalced Carmelite Friar born Shmuel Oswald Rufeisen better known? When he fled Poland for Israel in the 1950s over fears of state-supported anti-semitism, he was denied citizenship because his status as a friar made him ineligible under the Law of Return.

Sloane Stephens (last women to win their home tennis Grand Slam)

Chris O'Neil in 1978, Mary Pierce in 2000, and Virginia Wade in 1977 - Who in 2017 replaced Serena Williams as the fourth member of this group?

Milton Babbitt

Composition for Four Instruments and Composition for Twelve Instruments are among the serialist works of which American composer who pioneered electronic music with his colleague Roger Sessions? With Vladimir Ussachevsky ad Otto Luenig, he advised on the development of the RCA Mark II, the first programmable electronic synthesiser.

Sweden

Credited with establishing his country as a great power, Gustavus Adolphus was king of which country from 1611 to 1632? He was killed at The Battle of Lutzen, during the Thirty Years War.

Raspberry Pi

Eben Upton is one of the creators of which credit-card sized computer which aimed to be ten times cheaper than the BBC Micro, a price of around £25? The second part of its name references the fact that it promotes Python as its main programming language.

Gordias

Famous as the maker of a legendary Knot, which figure in Greek mythology was the father of the legendary King Midas?

Arrowroot

Formerly the basis of nearly half the economy of St Vincent and the Grenadines, which starch is often preferred to cornstarch as a sauce thickener since it allows thickening at a lower temperature, can be kept warm for longer without breaking down, and is less prone to cause clouding of the sauce?

Scuderia Ferrari

Four-time world Champion Sebastian Vettel announced this week that he was leaving which Formula 1 team? Based in Maranello, they haven't had an individual World Champion since Kimi Raikkonen in 2007, much to the disappointment of their fans, the Tifosi.

Where Eagles Dare

Geoff Dyer wrote the book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy as a celebration of which war film that starred Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton and Mary Ure?

Borussia Dortmund and Schalke

Germany's premier football division the "Bundesliga" returns today, one of the first matches is the "Revierderby" which is a local derby between which two clubs from the Ruhr region of Germany?

Columbine

In the slapstick adaptations of the commedia dell'arte, who is the love interest of Harlequin, also sharing her name with an infamous American school?

Yesterday

Himesh Patel starred in which 2019 Danny Boyle film set in a world where everyone has apparently forgotten the music of the Beatles?

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

His name has become a byword for crafty and cynical diplomacy, which long serving French politician and diplomat represented France at the 1814-15, Congress of Vienna? His negotiating skills were key in getting a good settlement for France.

Duel

How does Lensky die in Tchaikovsy's "Eugene Onegin", a fate shared by the writer of the original novel?

Lighting the Olympic Flame

In 1936, Fritz Schilgen was chosen for a role as a "symbol of German sporting youth", and reprised this role at the age of 89 in 1996. What role?

Crewe and Nantwich

In 2008, the Conservative Party made its first by-election gain in 26 years in which constituency? Edward Timpson beat Tamsin Dunwoody after the death of her mother Gwyneth, and held the seat until the 2017 General Election when he lost to the Laura Smith by 48 votes.

Locutus of Borg

In Star Trek The Next Generation, what name, from the Latin for "spoken, or having spoken", was given to Picard when he was originally assimilated by the Borg to act as a spokesman?

Geodesic

In general relativity, what concepts generalise the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime? Those fullowed by massless particles like photons are called "null".

Il Trovatore

In the 1935 movie "A Night At The Opera", the Marx Brothers are trying to sabotage a performance of which Verdi work?

Spore

In which 2008 life simulation real-time strategy game developed by the company "Maxis", did players control the development of a species from its beginnings as a microscopic organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture?

Sri Lanka

In which modern day country is Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" set?

Grateful Dead

John Perry Barlow, the author of the cyber-libertarian manifesto "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", probably had more mainstream influence as a lyricist for what band?

The Lion

Louis VIII of France, Henry III of Saxony and William I of Scotland are all known by which epithet?

Shoaib Akhtar

Nicknamed "Rawalpindi Express", which Pakistani fast bowler became the first bowler to officially bowl a 100mph ball in professional cricket, when he did so against England at the 2003 Cricket World Cup?

Pablo Neruda

The 1924 poetry collection "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" is a famous work by which Chilean winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature? He died in suspicious circumstances not long after the coup d'etat led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973.

Phobos

The 1993 first edition of the video game 'Doom' begins on which moon of the inner Solar System?

Francisco

Possibly originating from a title given to a saint, the name 'Paco' is a common Spanish nickname for people with which first name?

French Revolution

Poulenc's 1957 opera "Dialogues des Carmelites" is set during which historical event?

Big Eggo

Replaced in 1948 by Biffo the Bear, which ostrich created by Reg Carter and R. D. Lowe was the first cover star of The Beano?

Shadow

Richard Strauss's 1919 opera "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" translates as "The Woman Without ..." - what?

Adam Price

Sharing his name with the current leader of Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru, who's the Danish creator of the TV series Borgen?

Melbourne

Taking place only 121 years after its foundation, what's the youngest city to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games?

Johannes Brahms

The "Academic Festival Overture", "The Tragic Overture and "A German Requiem" were all famous works by which German composer (1833-1897)? He is often grouped with Bach and Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of classical music.

Gilbert Stuart

The "Athenaeum Portrait" which is a famous unfinished portrait of George Washington is considered the most notable work of which Rhode Island born artist? The painter in question produced portraits of more than 1,000 people, including the first six Presidents.

Gleneagles

The 2019 Solheim Cup, the international summit that saw the foundation of the G8 + 5, and a meeting where Commonwealth heads of government agreed to discourage sporting contacts with apartheid South Africa all took place at which Scottish hotel?

Design Innovate Communicate Entertain

The D.I.C.E. Awards, first awarded in 1998 as the the Interactive Achievement Awards by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, awarded game of the year in 2019 to Untitled Goose Game. What does the acronym/backronym D.I.C.E. stand for?

Spitzbergen

The Global Seed Vault, which has the Arctic World Archive (for data preservation) as its neighbour, was built by the Norwegian government on which island?

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Marriage of Maria Braun, a 1978 West German film chronicling the rise and fall of a German woman in the wake of World War II, is one of the most successful films by which controversial film director? Openly homosexual he died in 1982 aged 37 from a cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.

Brazil

The National Order of the Southern Cross, instituted in 1822 to commemorate a notable local event, is an order of chivalry of which country?

Jed Mercurio

The TV series "Line of Duty" and "Bodyguard" are amongst the series created by which British television writer? He had previously worked as a hospital doctor and also a Royal Air Force Officer.

Uttar Pradesh

The Taj Mahal and the sacred Jain city of Varanasi are both located in which Indian state, the most populous subnational division in the world?

The Cabin in the Woods

The directorial debut of Drew Goddard was which Joss Whedon-produced movie that featured Chris Hemsworth as one of five college students who are the subject of a convoluted human sacrifice ritual to appease a group of subterranean deities called the "Ancient Ones"?

Monteverdi

The first work considered to unite all the various elements of opera, the 1607 work "L'Orfeo" is by which composer?

Sérgio Santos [acc. Serginho or Escadinha]

The most successful male Olympic volleyball player, what Brazilian won two gold and two silver medals from 2004-16? In 2009, he became the first libero to be named MVP of the FIVB Volleyball World League.

Fiji

Viti Levu and Vanua Levu are the two major islands of which country? The islands that make up the country were formed through volcanic activity which started around 150 million years ago.

Wu OR Shanghainese

What's the most spoken language/language group in China after Mandarin?

Morag

What's the name, derived from the name of the body of water, given to the monster said to inhabit Scotland's deepest loch?

Monarch of the Glen

Which 2000s BBC TV series featured the retauranteur Archie MacDonald trying to restore his home in the Highlands? It took its title from a novel by Sir Compton Mackenzie, which in turn referenced a painting of a red deer stag by Sir Edwin Landseer.

Manon Lescaut

Which Abbé Prévost novel has been turned into an opera by Auber, Henze, Massenet and Puccini?

Robert Wagner

Which American actor was twice married to the actress Natalie Wood (1957 to 1962 and 1972 to her death)? In 2018, he was named a person of interest in her controversial 1981 death.

Harry Hopman

Which Australian captained his country to Davis Cup wins a record 16 times, and has a another international team tennis tournament named after him?

Glenn Gould

Which Canadian pianist, best known for his recordings of J. S. Bach and his unusual low playing posture, was so protective of his body that he once sued the piano manufacturers Steinway after one of their tuners clapped him on the back?

Carol Reed

Which Englishman directed The Third Man, and won a Best Director Oscar for Oliver!?

Chandigarh

Which Indian city serves as the capital of the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana? The master plan of the city was designed in the first half of the 20th century by the famous architect "Le Corbusier".

Seiko

Which Japanese company made the first commercially available quartz watch, the Astron? It was the first non-Swiss watchmaker to serve as official timekeeper for the Olympics, doing so in 1964 in Tokyo.

Salwa Eid Naser

Which Nigerian-born Bahraini athlete won the women's 400 metres at the 2019 World Championships in a time of 48.13 seconds, placing her third on the all-time list only behind the extremely suspect marks of Marita Koch and Jarmmila Kratochvilova?

Cabin Pressure

Which Radio 4 sitcom uses as its theme music the overture from the 1842 Glinka opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila"?

Angela Georghiu

Which Romanian diva has been known by the somewhat unkind nickname "Draculina"?

Anna Karen

Which South African born actress played the roles of "Olive Rudge" in the classic sitcom "On The Buses" and the recurring role of "Aunt Sal" in Eastenders?

Viscacha

Which South American rodent, outwardly similar to rabbits, along with the chincilla makes up the family chinchillidae?

Jan-Ove Waldner

Which Swede nicknamed "the Mozart of table tennis"is the only non-Asian player to win singles Olympic gold in table tennis? Known as "The Evergreen Tree" in China for his longevity, he spent nearly 18 years continuously in the Top Ten of the ITTF world rankings.

Dura-Europos

Which archaeological site by the Euphrates river was Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman at various points in its history? It contains the earliest identified Christian house church, and Shapur I is alleged to have used bitumen and sulfur as early chemical weapons during his siege of it.

Frick Collection

Which art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan includes a number of old masters, and is based on the collection of, and named after, an industrialist who was a former chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company?

Finnegan's Wake

Which classic of Irish literature provided the word "quark" to physics?

Red Star Belgrade

Which club, more famous for other sports, became the first Serbian club to compete in the Rugby League Challenge Cup in 2019? They were defeated by former professional club Millom in round 1.

Diamond Princess

Which cruise ship was quarantined in Yokohama in early 2020, and was, for a period, second only to China in terms of numbers of recorded cases of Covid-19?

Carrie Lam

Which embattled politician is the Current Chief Executive of Hong Kong? Her controversial amendments to the extradition law in Hong Kong has led to widespread protests against her leadership.

Bucciali

Which innovative French motor manufacturer, active until 1933, was known for the TAV-6, TAV-8 (Fleche D'Or) and the two-engined Double Huit models?

Eddie Jones

Which man coached Australia to the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, was assistant for South Africa when they won the 2007 Rugby World Cup and also coached England to the 2019 Rugby World Cup final?

Tchoukball

Which non-contact sport was invented in the 1970s by the Swiss biologist Dr Hermann Brandt? It contains elements of handball, volleyball and squash, and is dominated internationally by Taiwan.

Turandot

Which opera was completed by Franco Alfano following the death of its original composer in 1924?

Zinky Boys

Which oral history of the Russian war in Afghanistan by Svetlana Alexievich is named after the material used for the coffins in which many soldiers were sent home?

Chitin

Which polysaccharide makes up the cell walls of fungi, the exoskeletons of insects, and the beaks of giant squid?

Eddie Bunker

Which real-life bank robber moved on to acting and played one of the bank robbers killed in Reservoir Dogs?

Aline Lahoud

Which singer, with the song "Quand tout s'enfuit", was due to represent Lebanon in its debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005? They pulled out after realising it would have been illegal for them to broadcast Israel's entry.

Kristof Milak

Which then 19 year old Hungarian swimmer won the gold medal in the 200m butterfly at the 2019 World Aquatics Championship? In doing so he broke Michael Phelps 10-year-old world record in the event.

Baháʼí

Which world religion was established by the Persian religious leader Baháʼu'lláh in 1863?

Uncle Boonmee

Who can "Recall His Past Lives" to help him to find reasons for his illness in a 2010 film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the first Thai movie to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes?

Eugene Terreblanche

Who founded the right-wing political organisation 'Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging' in 1973, and was brutally murdered in 2010? Between these events, he met Louis Theroux, which may have made things worthwhile.

Bernstein

Who wrote the 1956 operatic musical, best known by its overture, that contained the numbers "Glitter And Be Gay" and "The Best Of All Possible Worlds"?

Lagaan

With a name meaning 'Taxation', which Hindi film, based around a fictional cricket match during the Raj, was in 2001 the most recent Indian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?

Paro

With the code PBH, and restricted to daylight use due to the difficultly of landing there, what is the only international airport in Bhutan?

the first five popes (Peter; Linus; (Ana)Cletus; Clement; Everistus)

"PLACE" is a mnemonic for remembering the first five entries on what list? The first two names — and an alternative name for the third — are animated characters created respectively by Seth MacFarlane, Charles M Schulz, and Matt Groening.

Agatha Christie

"Very few of us are what we seem", a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in her own right, who could be styled 'Lady Mallowan' after her husband was knighted for his archaeological work in 1968?

Mory Kante and Salif Keita

'The Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako' or simply known as the 'Rail Band' are a Malian band whose fame was built upon the mid-20th century craze for Latin (especially Cuban) jazz music which came out of Congo in the 1940s. Who are by far its TWO most famous past members, both gentlemen are still with us, they're both 70, one has a UK top 40 hit in 1995 and again in 96 with the same song? (Two different people please)

Alan Measles

(Two words please) Featuring in many of his works, what was the two-word name of Grayson Perry's childhood teddy bear, his name includes a highly contagious infectious disease?

kombucha

A "symbiotic community of bacteria and yeast", or SCOBY, is essential to make what fermented tea drink, popular with hipsters and people concerned with their gut flora? Popular brands of this drink include Health-Ade and Brew Dr.

Photius

A "theatrical and hypnotic character", often compared to Rasputin, which influential and reactionary Russian priest and mystic, was appointed the Archimandrite of the Saint George or Yuriev Monastery in Novgorod in 1822, where he and Alexey Arakcheyev conceived many political plots and curses?

Afghanistan

A member of the Abdali tribe, Ahmad Shah Durrani is often regarded as the founding father of what modern-day country? He is buried near the Shrine of the Cloak, or Kherqa Sharifa, which is found in this country.

Slice of Life

A play on words on a phrase associated with variety, what was the name of serial killer Dexter Morgan's boat in the HBO series Dexter?

Dustin Moskovitz

Along with Messrs Zuckerberg, Savarin, McCollum, and Hughes, he co-founded Facebook; then founded the software application Asana. In 2011, whom did Forbes magazine describe as "the youngest self-made billionaire in history" — a title now more-commonly applied to Kylie Jenner?

Marcia Klein (the daughter of Calvin)

At the Golden Globes in 2007, Alec Baldwin called her "the greatest producer in the history of broadcast television". Which multi-Emmy-winning 30 Rock producer once claimed to be embarrassed by how often she saw her father's name on her boyfriends' underwear?

Rian Johnson

Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out were all directed by which 46-year-old?

Perfume Genius

Cited in the acknowledgements of Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous as an influential creator of queer art, under what stage name did Mike Hadreas release the 2014 album Too Bright? His 2020 album Set My Heart on Fire Immediately has received rave reviews.

Stedelijk Museum

Close to the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum, what is the name of the modern art museum in Amsterdam that features the usual suspects such as; van Gogh, Kandinsky, Chagall, Warhol, Matisse and many more?

Lothar Matthaus

Described by Maradona thus, "he is the best rival I've ever had. I guess that's enough to define him", which 'box-to-box' midfielder played 150 times for his country, a record, and played in 5 World Cups, also a record until Rafael Marquez of Mexico equalled it?

Alain Delon

Doing so in the 1960 film Purple Noon, the first actor ever to play Tom Ripley on-screen was which former lover of both Romy Schneider and the singer Nico? In 1969, this actor's bodyguard was found murdered in a dumpster, resulting in allegations of high-level sex-parties that may have implicated future prime minister Georges Pompidou.

Can't Stop This Thing We Started

During the time the Bryan Adams hit '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' was at number one, his follow up single, not only entered the chart, but climbed to number 12, fell down the chart and disappeared from the chart altogether, what was its title?

DECIEM

Dying from a fall from his Toronto apartment in 2019, Brandon Trueaxe was the troubled founder of what "abnormal beauty company"? This company is the umbrella corporation that operates The Ordinary, which is recognisable for minimalist design that foregrounds ingredients.

Bay City

Featuring in the name of a famous musical act at the 'peak of their powers' the 1970s, in which city in Michigan was Madonna born in 1958?

L'Enclume

From the French for 'anvil' and set in an 800-year-old Blacksmiths forge, what is the name of the two Michelin Star multi award winning Simon Rogan restaurant that serves a 20-course tasting menu in Cartmel, Cumbria?

Finland

Her husband, Markus Räikkönen, is a professional footballer, and no relation to the 2007 Formula 1 world champion. She describes her upbringing as "the rainbow family", having been raised by two same-sex parents. This is Sanna Marin, who in 2019 became the youngest-ever prime minister of which country?

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Hitchcock made two films of the same name with a differing plot and script in 1935 & 1956, the second starring James Stewart & Doris Day. When François Truffaut asserted that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied "Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional." Which film title?

Gino d'Acampo

In 1998 which celebrity chef was convicted of burgling singer Paul Young's London home, and served two years in prison? He nicked Paul's £4,000 guitar collection, alongside a platinum disc and was caught after his DNA matched tests on cigarette butts he had dropped in the star's bedroom?

Berlin

In 2018, Adidas released 500 special edition EQT Support 93 shoes that doubled as transit passes for metro and buses in what city? This city is the capital of the country in which Adidas was founded in 1924 by Adolf Dassler.

Hafthor "Thor" Bjornsson

In 2018, what Icelandic athlete won both the World's Strongest Man and Arnold Strongman Classic? This strongman broke Eddie Hall's deadlift world record by 1kg in 2020, and appeared as "The Mountain" on Game of Thrones.

Cordoba

In around the year 1000 AD, which Spanish city was certainly the most populous wholly in Europe, and by some estimates the most populous city in the world?

Martin Peters

In the 20th minute he tugged on Wolfgang Overath's shirt after losing the ball to him. Who was the only played to be booked in the 1966 World Cup Final?

Toumani Diabaté

In the Heart of the Moon was a 2005 collaboration between two master musicians from Mali, the guitarist Ali Farka Touré and what kora player? This leader of the Symmetric Orchestra released the 2008 solo album The Mandé Variations with label World Circuit.

American Cinema Editors

In the credits at the end of a Hollywood Blockbuster, you'll see lots of people with the letters A.C.E. at the end of their name. What do the letters stand for?

Polo

La Dolfina has been the dominant force in what team sport since the club was established in 2000? The club's founder, Adolfo Cambiaso, achieved a 10-goal handicap aged just seventeen, and frequently plays on clones of his favourite horse, Cuartetera.

Juan Gris

Many paintings lay claim to being the second-most-famous at the Reina Sofía gallery in Mádrid. Whose 1931 painting Violin And Guitar is one such candidate?

Moscow (accept Moskva) (Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow; the Moscow mule; and the Games of the XXII Olympiad)

Mentioned in the subtitle of the only Police Academy film not to feature Moses Hightower — and in the name of a cocktail of vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice — in which city, in 1980, did Vladimir Salnikov become the first man to swim fifteen-hundred-metres in under fifteen minutes; and a man now known as "Lord Coe" avenge an earlier defeat to his arch-rival Steve Ovett?

the Venetian Macao

Modelled on its sister resort in Las Vegas, which casino in Macao is said to be the largest in the world, the largest hotel structure in Asia, and the world's seventh-largest building by floor area? It shares its name with a well-known school of painting.

Iran or South Korea

Name either of the two countries who took part in the final of the men's kabaddi at the 2018 Asian Games — which was, effectively, a contest to be the first non-Indian winner of a major international kabaddi tournament.

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac

Portrayed in a performance that won the Academy Award for Best Actor, which man is considered one of the earliest science-fiction authors? In his best-known novel, the protagonist attempts to reach the moon by having rockets attached to him.

structural Marxism

Ralph Miliband was a noted opponent — and Louis Althusser a proponent — of which branch of Marxism, which arose in opposition to humanistic Marxism?

Fulbright Scholarship

Recounting the poet's first sight of Sylvia Plath, the opening sequence of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters is titled for what US-government funded scholarship? It was established in 1946 by its namesake Arkansas Senator with the mission of promoting international relations, and is among the most prestigious academic scholarships in the world.

Simon Woodroffe

Restaurant chain YO! Sushi was founded in 1997 by which British entrepreneur? He appeared in the first series of Dragon's Den.

Robin Cooper

Robert Popper, creator and writer of Channel 4s Friday Night Dinner, also wrote the books; The Timewaster Letters, Return of The Timewaster Letters and The Timewaster Diaries under which pseudonym?

Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings

Scoring more home runs than any other player in history, Sadaharu Oh spent his entire career playing for the Giants — the oldest team in Japanese baseball. Which media conglomerate owns the Giants, as well as the world's highest-circulation newspaper? I'm looking for a seven-letter word, spelled correctly.

John Christian Watson (known as Chris)

Sharing his first name and surname with a famous detective sidekick, who in 1904 became the first Labour Prime Minister of Australia and in so doing became the first Labour and indeed Socialist (at a democratic level) Prime Minister in the World?

Taggart

Sharing his name with a British TV detective, what is the name of the Commander played by Tim Allen in the Star Trek parody/tribute film 'Galaxy Quest'?

Safin

Sharing his name with the surname with a two-time Grand Slam winning, former World number one tennis player turned politician, what is the name of the bad guy in No Time To Die, the forthcoming Bond film, played by Rami Malek?

Bob Spink

Sharing his surname with a goalkeeper who made 449 professional appearances, the vast majority for a team in the Midlands and one for England in 1983, what is the name of the Conservative MP who defected to UKIP in 2008 without standing for re-election, thus becoming the party's first MP?

Woodbine

Sharing its name with an archaic British cigarette brand, which racecourse sits adjacent to Lester B. Pearson Airport in Toronto?

Howard Florey

The 2002 BBC series 100 Greatest Britons inspired many countries to conduct their own versions — yielding some surprise winners, including Pim Fortuyn and Antonio Salazar. Friendly rivals New Zealand and Australia were the only two countries whose respective polls were won by scientists — New Zealand selecting Ernest Rutherford; Australia opting for which Nobel laureate, who lived between 1898 and 1968?

Hooch (in Turner And Hooch)

The American actor JC Quinn died in a car-crash in México in February, 2004. In a popular film of 1989, he plays a criminal who shoots dead which title-character, who shares his name with a drink launched in 1995?

roads

The Incan network of what form of infrastructure was served by tampu inns and navigated by chasquis? Roman examples of these in Britain include those named Watling, Fosse and Stane.

Chesney Hawkes

The Tremeloes had a UK Number One single in 1967 with 'Silence is Golden', 24 years later the son of a member of the band was at Number One for 5 weeks, what is his name?

Bananas In Pyjamas (B1 and B2)

The alphanumeric designations of the vitamins thiamine and riboflavin are also the names of the lead characters in which Australian children's television series, first broadcast in 1992?

navel

The character Pilate in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon lacks one, while Filipino author Nick Joaquin wrote a novel about The Woman Who Had Two of these. What?

Die Zauberflöte (accept The Magic Flute)

The dramatis personæ of which 1791 opera includes three slaves, three priests, three children, and the Queen of the Night?

Lashkar Gah

The former main British military base in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion, now Camp Shorabak, is situated northwest of which city, the capital of Helmand Province?

Mon Oncle or Powerpuff Girls

The house pictured on top here inspired the design of the house on the bottom. Name either the 1958 Jacques Tati comedy film in which the house originally appeared, or the cartoon in which Professor Utonium creates the title characters, who live together in the animated version of the building.

silver

The mines of Laurion were the major source of what precious metal in ancient Greece, used to mint coins like the tetradrachms that played a prominent role in Matthew 26:15? Nevada's Comstock Lode primarily consisted of this metal, which was also mined at Cerro Rico in Bolivia.

Lake Victoria

This is Migingo Island, which lays claim to being the most-densely-populated in the world. The subject of a low-level territorial dispute between Kenya and Uganda, it is to be found in which lake — the largest by area in Africa?

Water Margin

This is a print from Utagawa Kuniyoshi's series 108 Heroes of the popular Suikoden, showing Wu Song slaying a tiger. What Chinese novel, usually attributed to Shi Nai'an, is translated into Japanese as the Suikoden?

James Hildreth

Two substitute fielders were involved in getting Ricky Ponting out in separate dismissals in the 2005 Ashes series, neither of them ever played Test cricket for England. Gary Pratt is famous for being one of them, who is the other, many think he should have played Test cricket?

Salvador Allende

Well-known historical events that took place on September 11 include the battle of Malplaquet, in 1709; an attempted terrorist attack in New York City, in 1976, by Zvonko Bušić; and the suicide of which man, at La Moneda Palace in 1973?

Ellyse Perry

What Australian has represented the women's national sides in both cricket and football, in fact making World Cup appearances in both sports? If you include her middle initial, 'A', then her name is an anagram, aptly, of "rarely sleepy".

Liège

What city on the Meuse River is home to the impressive Bueren Mountain staircase, built in 1881? The cycling one-day classic nicknamed La Doyenne involves racing from this city to Bastogne and back.

jealousy

What concept, which titles a 1957 novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet in which a man spies on his wife through the Venetian slats of a window, was called the "green-eyed monster" in Shakespeare's Othello?

Greys

What connect the Grand National Winners; The Lamb, Nicolaus Silver and more recently Neptune Collonges and no other winner?

Finland

What country appears in the name of the St Petersburg train station where Lenin arrived from exile in 1917? During a civil war in this country, the anti-communist "Whites" were led by C.G.E. Mannerheim.

Bill Simmons

What editor-in-chief of Grantland founded the sport and pop culture website The Ringer? This Boston sports fan also wrote The Book of Basketball.

Li

What family name is shared by Herman, a guitarist in the band DragonForce, and the actor who played the nameless central character of Zhang Yimou's Hero? The latter's first English-speaking role was as the villain in Lethal Weapon 4.

McCarthy [Mary and Kevin]

What family name is shared by Mary, the author of The Group and Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, and her brother Kevin, who played the lead role in 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

"—eezer" (Deezer and Weezer)

What final five letters link a French online streaming service founded in 2007, and a rock band fronted by Rivers Cuomo?

"Nikita" (Khruschev; La Femme Nikita; Nikita)

What given-name links characters played by Steve Buscemi in The Death Of Stalin; by Anne Parillaud in a 1990 Luc Besson action-film; and by Anya Major in a 1985 Elton John video?

Zuleika

What given-name links the title-character of Bernardine Evaristo's 2001 novel The Emperor's Babe (the babe — not the emperor); and a 1911 novel about a female undergraduate at Oxford University?

Mangalica

What hairy Hungarian pig species is pictured here? Amusingly, one of the breeds from which it descends hails from the Bakony region of Hungary.

Colcestrian

What is the demonym for someone from Colchester?

Julius Maada Bio

What is the surname of the current president of Sierra Leone? The word can precede "shock" and "hazard" to provide — respectively — the title of a 2007 first-person shooter set in the underwater city of Rapture, and the Japanese name for the Resident Evil franchise.

Robertson

What is the surname of the twin brothers Zane and Jake, who, aged seventeen, left home for the Kenyan distance-running hub of Iten? At the 2018 Lake Biwa Marathon, Jake set a New Zealand national record, only for Zane to best it by seven seconds at the Gold Coast Marathon the following year.

Jacks in a pack of cards

What links; Ogier the Dane (a knight of Charlemagne), La Hire (French warrior), Hector (hero of the Iliad) and Sir Lancelot (of Arthurian legend)?

Wired

What magazine's former editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson, popularised the notion of "the long tail"? Owned by Conde Nast, this magazine about the intersection of technology and culture also saw the first used of the word "crowdsourcing".

Chien-Shiung Wu

What scientist led the team that used observations of the decay of cobalt-60 to demonstrate the violation of parity conservation?

No England qualified players

What was notable about the Liverpool team in the 1986 FA Cup Final? This hadn't happened since 1885?

Different

What word precedes Trains in the title of a three-movement piece for string quartet and tape, composed by Steve Reich? The piece was inspired by journeys between NYC and LA taken by its composer, which prompted the thought that had things been otherwise he may have been on a train to a Nazi concentration camp.

Andrea Long Chu

What writer defined the title group in relation to "self-negation" in her 2019 book Females? Sandy Stone, a founding figure in trans studies, praised her essay "On Liking Women" for reinvigorating the field.

Love's Labour's Lost

Which Shakespeare play, set in Navarre, features the simple rustic Costard, and ends with the song The Cuckoo and the Owl?

Paul Ritter

Which actor played Anatoly Dyatlov the deputy chief engineer and most culpable party at Chernobyl in the highly acclaimed HBO series of the same name? For obvious reasons he managed to keep his shirt on for the entire miniseries.

Stagira

Which ancient city is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle? Philip II of Macedon occupied and destroyed the city, but in return for Aristotle's tutoring of his son Alexander, he later rebuilt the city and resettled its inhabitants?

Salvador

Which city, that hosted matches at the 2014 World Cup, is the 4th largest city in Brazil and was the country's first capital? It is home to the cathedral that is the see of the primate of Brazil and has a Carnival celebration thought by some to be the largest party in the world.

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Which famous 20th century figure played fly-half for the Club Universitario de Buenos Aires rugby team? His rugby playing earned him the nickname "Fuser"—a contraction of El Furibundo (raging) and his mother's surname, de la Serna—for his aggressive style of play. He also briefly published a rugby magazine called 'Tackle'

Stratton Oakmont

Which firm was targeted by law enforcement officials throughout virtually its entire history, its notoriety inspired the film 'Boiler Room' in 2000, as well as a more successful 2013 film?

Florence Nightingale

Who died peacefully in her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Mayfair, on 13 August 1910, at the age of 90?

Alan Pakula

Who directed the "Paranoia Triology" in the 1970s, the first two films of which were Klute and The Parallax View?

Emerson Fittipaldi

Who was the McLaren Formula One team's first World Champion?

Elizabeth Fraser

Who was the lead vocalist of the Cocteau Twins? She recorded the vocals for Massive Attack's "Teardrop" on the day she learned of the death of her friend Jeff Buckley, with whom she recorded a duet of "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun".

Jabir ibn Hayyan

Who was the supposed author of an enormous number and variety of works in Arabic often called the Jabirian corpus? The scope of the corpus is vast and diverse covering a wide range of topics, including alchemy, cosmology, numerology, astrology, medicine, magic, mysticism and philosophy. He is popularly known as the "father of chemistry".

Dover Street Market

With its three word name removed, this is the logo of what high-end fashion retailer, founded by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons? It has seven branches worldwide, including those in Ginza, NYC and London.