1

Teresa Edwards is the female athlete to have achieved the most medals at the summer Olympics in
which team sport, with four gold (1984, 1988, 1996, 2000) and one bronze (1992)?

BASKETBALL

At 4220m, Tajumulco volcano is the highest mountain in Central America. It stands in which
country?

GUATEMALA

Chorukor' is an artificial language from the 1965 play 'The Memorandum'. Who was the author of
the play? A future president of a European country and the man Samuel Beckett dedicated his own
play 'The Catastrophe' to.

What is the name of the Ethiopian princess who is loved by Radams; she is the title character
from an opera first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House, on 24 December 1871?

Vclav HAVEL

AIDA

At one of Picassos exhibitions in Paris in the 1940s, a Nazi officer asked him if he created a
particular painting. Picassos short reply was: 'No, you did.' Which painting were they discussing?

Bornu, Fulani and Jolof are three empires that were founded on which continent?

The name of which Italian American restaurateur, chef, and hotel owner is given to a salad of
romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg,
Worcestershire sauce, anchovies, garlic and black pepper?

In mathematics, the real numbers set is represented by which letter?

The South American equivalent of Real Madrid, which football (soccer) team has won the most
Libertadores Cups with seven wins - the last one in 1984?

10

Which sea, located in the Arctic Ocean, is named after Robert Todd, the son of a US president who
himself became a US Secretary of War.

11

The Italian film director Giovanni Pastrone was the first to use 'Dolly' system, having the camera
move smoothly on rails. This technique bears the name of the 1914 movie for which it was first
used. Whats the name of this technique, similar to that of a character played by Giulietta Masina
in a 1957 movie?

CABIRIA

12

Which Swedish pop rock duo, who released their first single in 1986, took their name from a song
by the band Dr. Feelgood that was recorded in 1974?

ROXETTE

13

Always bearing a temple, the name of which sacred construction in the Zoroastrian religion comes
from the Akkadian language and means to build on a raised area?

GUERNICA
AFRICA
CAESAR Cardini

R
NDEPENDIENTE

14

The first person on this list of people is a metal worker called Berta Aftergut (b. 1916), and the last
is an unskilled worker called Chana Kief (b. 1917). Whose list is this?

15

The '2012 Phenomenon' was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic transformative
events would occur on or around which day and month of 2012?

16

Which chemical element, with the atomic number 53 and from the group of halogens, was
discovered in 1811 by the French Bernard Courtois and is the most dense non-metallic element?

17

In which popular sport in the US does the team captain have the letter C on his/her shirt, while the
second captain has the letter A (meaning Alternate Captain)?

18

Which is the only country outside of the Americas that uses the peso as the name of its official
currency?

19

Which famous character from the 19th century crosses 11 countries (17 nowadays), in 115,200
minutes?

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LINCOLN Sea

ZIGGURAT
Oscar SCHINDLER's List

21 DECEMBER
IODINE
ICE HOCKEY / Inline
Hockey (roller hockey)
The PHILIPPINES
PHILEAS FOGG (Accept Jean
Passepartout or Detective Fix

20

Which jazz song, recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, is most famous for its
nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics (for example, "Hi De Hi De Hi De Hi")?

21

Which school of philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium, taught of destructive emotions
coming from errors in judgment, and was concerned with the active relationship between cosmic
determinism and human freedom?

22

Commissioned by Peter the Great in honour of his wife Catherine, Kadriorg Palace is now a
museum and also the location of the official residence of the president of which country?

23
24

In 1972, following a mastectomy, Shirley Temple was one of the first celebrities to speak publicly
about which disease?
Phycology is the scientific study of which diverse group of photosynthetic organisms which are
not necessarily closely related and are thus polyphyletic?

MINNIE THE MOOCHER

STOICISM

ESTONIA
BREAST CANCER
ALGAE

25

Sydney Cavill (1881-1945) of Australia is credited with the creation of which swimming style that
was introduced to the Olympics in 1956?

BUTTERFLY

26

Named Posonium by the Romans and Pressburg by the Germans, this EU capital was named after
the 1st World War, for more than a year, Wilsonovo (in honour of Woodrow Wilson). Which
capital city is it?

BRATISLAVA

27

Which famous actress (b. 1942) was married to Elliott Gould between 1963 and 1971, had a
romance with the Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s, a relationship with Andre Agassi in
the 1990s, and married James Brolin in 1998?

BARBRA STREISAND

28

Whats the name of the French dance performer and choreographer, considered the father of
ballet, whose birthday (29th April 1727) is celebrated as the International Day of Dance?

Jean-Georges NOVERRE

29

Which European avant-garde movement, active from 1948 to 1951, was named after the capital
cities of Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium?

30

Lasting from 1828 to 1834, this war, named the Liberal War, also known as the War of the Two
Brothers, or Miguelite War, took place between progressive constitutionalists and authoritarian
absolutists in which European country?

31

Whats the name of the sweet cocktail that's made with white rum, coconut cream and pineapple
juice, usually served with ice? It is usually garnished with a pineapple slice or a maraschino cherry
and is the official drink of Puerto Rico.

32

The name of which European capital city is given to the interpretation of the meaning of quantum
mechanics that was largely devised between 1925 and 1927 by Niels Bohr and Werner
Heisenberg?

33

Eddie Eagan (USA), Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR), Clara
Hughes (CAN) and Lauryn Williams (USA) are so far the only people in sporting history to have
achieved which notable accomplishment?

34

With an estimated population of around 649,100, living in an area of 30.4 km2, which autonomous
territory on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, China, is often said to be the most densely
populated region in the world, with 55,301 people/km2?

35

Laurie Juspeczyk / Silk Spectre is the only woman in which group of super-heroes, created in 1986
by the British writer Alan Moore?

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COBRA

PORTUGAL

PIA COLADA

COPENHAGEN

WON MEDALS IN SUMMER

AND WINTER GAMES

MACAU

WATCHMEN

36

Which song, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, collected the Academy
Award for Best Original Song in 1997 for the movie 'Evita'?

37

Always depicted as having two opposite faces, one looking forward and the other to the past,
whats the name of the Roman god of doorways, and of passage rituals and transition
phenomena?

38

Which Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer first demonstrated that Brazil and the West
Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts and referred to them as the New World? First and
last names please.

39

Which small Nissan SUV is named after a nomadic Iranian population of just over 1,000,000
people because the designers of the car believed that the buyers "will be nomadic in nature too"?

JANUS

AMERIGO VESPUCCI

QASHQAI

LUMEN [Do not accept candela, lux or

footcandles, which all relate to light intensity]

40

The flow of light is measured in which unit of measurement?

41

The six professional divisions of which traditional Japanese sport are: makuuchi (maximum 42
wrestlers), jry (fixed at 28 wrestlers), makushita (fixed at 120 wrestlers), sandanme (fixed at 200
wrestlers), jonidan (around 230 wrestlers), and jonokuchi (about 80 wrestlers)?

42

Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx are the five known moons of which dwarf planet?

43

Which American actor became, at the Oscars in 2016, the sixth person to be nominated for playing
the same role in two different films?

44

[By what sweet name is the Italian musician, Adelmo Fornaciari (b. 1955) better known?] By which
sweet-sounding stage-name is the Italian musician, Adelmo Fornaciari (b. 1955) better known?

45

YOU MUST LOVE ME

The building of which complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560, for Cosimo I de' Medici, to
accommodate the offices of the Florentine magistrates, hence the name which is Italian for
"offices"?

SUMO Wrestling
PLUTO
SYLVESTER STALLONE

ZUCCHERO
UFFIZI

46

Known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, the battle of Austerlitz was one of Napoleons biggest
CZECHIA / CZECH
victories, leading to the dismantling of the Third Coalition formed against the French Empire. In the REPUBLIC
territory of which present-day country can one find Austerlitz?

47

Which garment, invented in the 19th century by a gentlemen called Strauss, has a name linked to
both a colour and a Swiss city, while the original name of the material used to make it is linked to
the French city of Nmes?

48

The Superiority Complex is a psychological defence mechanism where feelings of superiority are
used to conceal feelings of inferiority. Which eminent Austrian doctor and psychologist, founder
of the Individual Psychology, explored this concept in his reference book Understanding Life?

49

Which European cinema prize shares its name with the nickname of a famous retired American
professional golfer, regarded as the greatest golfer of all time after winning a total of 18 career
Major championships?

50

In the 2015 film 'Joy', which actress portrays Joy Mangano, a successful American business woman,
known as the inventor of the Miracle Mop?

51

Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, and Brady Corbet star in the main roles in which 2007
psychological thriller film, written and directed by Michael Haneke, a remake of his own 1997
Austrian film?

52

Equivalent to the American Tony Award and the British Olivier Award, which seventeenth-century
French dramatist gives his name to the annual French theatre awards?

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Blue JEANS / Denim

JEANS

Alfred ADLER
The GOLDEN BEAR

Jenniffer LAWRENCE
FUNNY GAMES

MOLIRE

53

The second son of Odin and the goddess Frigg, which god from Norse mythology is often
interpreted as the god of love, peace, forgiveness, justice, light or purity?

54

Which famous political activist (b. 1869) came 4th in a nationwide poll of "100 Greatest South
Africans" in 2004 despite not being South African?

55

Founded in Turin in 1895, which Italian manufacturer of coffee products, has produced an annual
calendar since 1991 featuring fashion photography from some of the world's leading
photographers that has become a showpiece of conceptual fashion photography?

56

The organ of Corti is found only in which class of animals?

57

The four major competitive groups in the Dakar Rally are the motorcycles, the cars, the trucks and
which other class, introduced in 2009?

58

Which cardinal point can be found in the name of two UN member countries?

59

Which writer popularised the term heavy metal in his 1962 novel 'The Soft Machine'?

60

Which rock song, written in 1975 by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of The Arrows, was later made
famous by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, in 1982?

61

With a name derived from the Arabic word for glory or splendor, which monotheistic religion was
founded by Bah'u'llh in the 19th-century Persia?

BAH' Faith

In which country, on 1st June 2001, at a house in the grounds of the Narayanhiti Royal Palace, did
Prince Dipendra kill 10 members of his family during gathering of the royal family?

NEPAL

62
63

BALDR
Mahatma GANDHI

LAVAZZA
MAMMALS/ Mammalia
("spiral organ" in cochlea)
QUADS (ATVS)
SOUTH
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I LOVE ROCK 'N' ROLL

From a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer and orator, what name is given to a guide who
conducts visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological,
antiquarian, historic or artistic interest?

64

The westernmost point of the continent of Africa and of the Old World mainland, Cape-Vert is a
peninsula that belongs to which country?

65

During a handball match, how many players can be actively playing for a team at one time?

66

Which human-powered land vehicle, with one or more wheels, takes its name from the Latin word
for "fast foot"?

67

Paul Rusesabagina works as the manager of the Htel des Mille Collines in which capital city in a
2004 film about genocide?

68

Which couple's dance from Par, Brazil, of African origin, became famous thanks to a European
tour by Kaoma, a band formed with several musicians from the Senegalese group Tour Kunda?

CICERONE

SENEGAL
7
VELOCIPEDE

KIGALI ('Hotel Rwanda')

LAMBADA

69

Nuwaubian Nation is a religious organization founded and led by which American musician and CARACALLA / Marcus Aurelius
Severus Antoninus Augustus /
writer, who shares his name with a Trinidadian former footballer who played for Aston Villa,
Lucius Septimius Bassianus
Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, etc.?

70

Constitutio Antoniniana (Antonine Constitution) was an edict issued in 212, by which Roman
Emperor (famous for his Baths of Rome), that declared that nearly all free men in the Roman
Empire were to be given theoretical Roman citizenship?

71

Introduced in the 1990s by the linguist and political activist Ian Hancock, the word 'Porajmos',
meaning destruction, refers to the holocaust by the Nazis against which ethnic group?

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CARACALLA / Marcus
Aurelius Severus Antoninus
Augustus / Lucius Septimius
Bassianus

GYPSIES / Romanies

72

73

Classical conditioning is a learning process in which an innate response to a potent stimulus comes
to be elicited in response to a previously neutral stimulus and it is associated with the name of
which Russian physiologist, Nobel Laureate in medicine in 1904?
Sharing its name with an American city, in which form of Poker does each player receive four cards
face down, while five common cards are placed face up and all the players use three cards from
the common pile, together with two cards from their own, to form a hand of five poker cards?

74

Which ethnic group amounts to 30 million in Pakistan, and forms the major population in
Afghanistan with 12 million?

75

Set in the city of Argos Mycenae a few years after the Trojan war, it recounts the tale of this
woman and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes took on their mother Clytemnestra
and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. What is the name of this
Greek tragedy by Sophocles?

Ivan PAVLOV

OMAHA

PASHTUN / Pakthun / Pathan

ELECTRA

76

Give the name of either of the married couple who have announced their plans to fund research
to eradicate all disease within the next 100 years?

77

From which type of earthenware are the sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang di, the
first Emperor of China, made? It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210209 BCE
and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

Priscilla CHAN/Mark
ZUCKERBERG

TERRACOTTA

78

In which European city was there a series of conferences between the European states at the end
of the Napoleonic wars (1814-1815), with the purpose of restoring political order in Europe?

VIENNA

79

Jnana, Bhakti, Karma, Laya, Hatha and Rja are all forms of which mental, physical and spiritual
practices?

YOGA

80

In which small valley of the river Dssel in Germany did Johann Karl Fuhlrott first identify the
fossils of subspecies of humans in the genus Homo, which became extinct between 40,000 and
28,000 years ago?

81

The name of which popular puzzle video game, inspired by the name of an Aztec leader, is also the
name of an African president?

82

The strait found between Iceland and Greenland has the name of which other country?

83

Marayat Rollet-Andriane (1932-2005), whose birth name was Marayat Bibidh, is a Thai/French
writer known for the creation of which female character in erotic literature (and cinema)?

84

Which British national daily newspaper was founded by mill-owners in 1821 in response to the
closure of the radical workers' newspaper, the Manchester Observer?

THE GUARDIAN

85

Rayhana and Safiyya, two Jewish women, and Maria, a Christian woman of Coptic religion, were
three of the 13 wives of which prophet?

MUHAMMAD

86

In 1532, with an army of fewer than 200 men and 62 horses, Francisco Pizzaro captured the Inca
king Atahualpa in which Peruvian city?

87

With which three letters is the mobile operating system known that was created and developed by
Apple Inc. and distributed exclusively for Apple hardware?

88

Originating from the study of visible light dispersed according to its wavelength (eg by a prism),
what is the name of the study of the interaction between matter and radiated energy?

89

Who is the only man in the world known to be able to run 100m in 9.58 seconds?

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NEANDER Valley

ZUMA

DENMARK Strait
EMMANUELLE / Accept
Emmanuelle Arsan the nom de
plume of the author

CAJAMARCA

IOS

SPECTROSCOPY
Usain BOLT

90

.fm, unofficially used by FM radio stations, is the top level domain of internet of which country?

Federated States of
MICRONESIA

91

Le proporzioni del corpo umano... ' is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1490, that is
accompanied by notes based on the work of which architect?

VITRUVIUS / acc.
'VITRUVIAN'

92

Graffiti Bridge', a 1990 American rock musical drama film, is the sequel to which 1984 film, that
won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score?

PURPLE RAIN

93

[image] This 11cm high statuette, dating from around 24000BC, was discovered in Austria in 1908
VENUS OF WILLENDORF /
and is considered one of the earliest images of the body made by humankind. How is it known? Woman of Willendorf
[image] Nicknamed the Father-in-law of Europe, because many European kings are related to
DENMARK
him, Christian the Ninth reigned in which country between 1863 and 1906?

94
95
96

97

[image] In 1971, Georgina Rizk became the only woman from the Arabic world, in the tradition of
63 years of this contest, to win the Miss Universe crown. Which country does she come from?
[image] This syndrome, also referred to as Wiedemann syndrome, is a condition that determines
the excessive growth of a tissue and the abnormal development of the bones. It bears the name of
a Greek god that had the capacity to metamorphose and was the guardian of the herds of seals of
Poseidon. Name him.
[image] Released on Play Station in 2005, whats the name of this series of video games whose
action takes place in Ancient Greece?

98

[image] Earthrise is a photograph of the Earth and parts of the Moon's surface taken by astronaut
William Anders in 1968, during which Apollo (number) mission?

99

[image] Considered an early predecessor of film noir, which 1937 French film directed by Julien
Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin, served as inspiration for Greene's screenplay for The Third Man?

100

[image] An international hit in 1995, 1996 and 1997, which Spanish dance song by Los del Ro is
about a woman of the same name, and it appeared on the 1994 album, A m me gusta?

LEBANON
PROTEUS

GOD OF WAR

8
PP LE MOKO
MACARENA

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VENUS
OF
WILLE
NDOR
F/
Woman
of
Willend
orf

93.

DENMARK

94.

LEBANON
PROTEUS

96.

95.
97.

GOD OF WAR

98.

99.

100.

MACARENA

PP LE MOKO

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