The Quiz Blogger: The 500th Post: The Giant I

I realised that I left a few people in the lurch when I seemed to abandon my final big email quiz The Giant Parts I and II many years ago. I mean "another life" territory. For that I apologise. I must also apologise to the Norwegians who sent me their question papers. I didn't do anything with them (apart from skim them), and I still feel really bad about that (it's what happens when the TV people give you the chance to write questions for an actual living). So I'm posting The Giant I (with answers)...

NB Please bear in mind, these questions haven't been updated from 15/16 years ago. Nor have I corrected any errors. Though I notice the Belarusian leader question doesn't need changing. Such is life. You can always count on authoritarian dictatorships to stick around.

THE GIANT: PART 1

Q1 The Habsburg dynasty's winter home, which Viennese palace is the official residence of the President of Austria?

Q2 Used for arthritis and post-operation pain relief, which form of acupuncture involves placing a burning piece of material (e.g. sunflower pith or cotton wool) on the head of an inserted needle to heat it?

Q3 Which continent gives its name to the element (atomic no. 95) found between plutonium and curium in the Periodic Table?

Q4 Starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbe, which 1980 Paul Verhoeven film centres around three young men (two of whom hope to win a motor-cross biking championship) who each get involved with a blonde mobile kitchen worker?

Q5 Also called the Acanthopteri, which order includes about 40 per cent of all fish and is the largest order of vertebrates?

Q6 Which widow of Mao Zedong, born Li Shumeng, formed the Gang of Four with Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen?

Q7 Beethoven's No. 3 Symphony in E flat major is better known by what name?

Q8 If you were the winner of the Borg-Warner Trophy, you would be at which sporting venue?

Q9 The rugby league club, the Catalans Dragons, are based in which city of 116,000 in southern France?

Q10 The controversial cover of the 1981 album Season of Glass featured bloodstained eyeglasses placed next to a half-full glass of water with a background view of Central Park. Which recording artiste released it?

Q11 Established by Peter the Great on the Neva Riverfront facing the Winter Palace, what was the first ever museum in Russia, which was dedicated to preserving "natural and human curiosities and rarities", in other words, mutants?

Q12 Which critically endangered turtle species is the primary source of tortoiseshell?

Q13 Soren Sorensen devised which scale of acidity in 1909?

Q14 In which Moroccan city was the world's oldest degree-granting university founded in 859AD?

Q15 The title subject of a flop 1984 film, which New York night club - originally named Club Deluxe - was opened by boxer Jack Johnson at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920?

Q16 Legend has it that club founder Joan Gamper chose Barcelona's club colours, "blaugrana" (blue-maroon), after which Swiss football team ?

Q17 Nicknamed 'El Pato' ('the duck'), which Argentine golfer won the men's 2007 US Open?

Q18 Made into a 1991 film, which debut novel by Mexican writer Laura Esquivel tells the story of Tita, the youngest member of the all-female De La Garza family, who is forbidden to marry because of a tradition that dictates the youngest daughter must care for her mother until she dies?

Q19 What political term was coined in the 1920s by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile to describe the ideal fascist state?

Q20 A krytocracy or kritocracy is a government run by whom?

Q21 Andre Dallaire attempted to assassinate which politician in November 1995, but was thwarted when his target's wife locked the door?

Q22 Which French philosopher famously coined the axiom "Cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am")?

Q23 Invented by the American astronomer Samuel Pierpoint Langley in 1878, what device measures the energy of incident electromagnetic radiation?

Q24 Often called a 'slipstick', which mechanical analog computer consisting of two scales was invented by William Oughtred?

Q25 What was the adopted name of Swiss-born French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris?

Q26 Otis, Toscana, Koochy, Quattro, Oscar and Pas Si Classique are all upmarket designs of which piece of common household furniture ?

Q27 Which Zulu king's forces were crushed by the Transvaal Boers at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?

Q28 The 'absorption' version of which household appliance was invented by Swedish students Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters in 1922?

Q29 As in the name of the Hare Krishna religious movement, what does 'Hare' mean ?

Q30 Which Czech chemist (1913-1989) invented modern contact lenses, as well as the first gel used for their production?

Q31 Named after Dick Weber, the Weber Cup is which sport's equivalent of golf's Ryder Cup?

Q32 Founded in the 10th century and set in the mountains that give it its informal name, what is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria and is one of the country's most important monuments?

Q33 Manchester City football club's "Official Premium Beer", it is an all-malt concoction produced by Bangkok's Boon Rawd Brewery. What is considered to be Thailand's national beer brand?

Q34 How many member states currently comprise the European Union?

Q35 Albert Einstein proposed which theory in his 1905 article (his third paper that year) "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"?

Q36 Ultimately derived from the Greek words for 'nature' and 'interpreter', what is the art of reading character from the features of the face or the form of the body?

Q37 Bob Nudd (England), Mario Barras (Portugal), Pierre Jean (France) and Juan Blasco (Spain) have all won world championships in which sport ?

Q38 Pakhtoonistan is the independent state desired by which Muslim people of north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Q39 Thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch, what 203cm-tall object was discovered by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas in 1820?

Q40 How many hoops are used in a game of croquet?

Q41 Translated from the Arabic as 'state of the masses', the term Jamahiriya was coined by which Arab leader to describe a "republic ruled by the masses"?

Q42 Having played antiques dealer Lovejoy in the namesake BBC series, which British actor took on the role of vicious saloon owner Al Swearengen in the western TV drama Deadwood?

Q43 The electron and electron-neutrino, muon and muon-neutrino, tau and tau-neutrino, together with their anti-particles, are the 12 members of which elementary particle class that interact by electromagnetic interaction and are governed by the weak nuclear force?

Q44 Plants of the family Poaceae, aka Graminae, are commonly known by what name ?

Q45 In Morse code, which letter is represented by a single dash, i.e. - ?

Q46 Employed as a lubricant, which soft, medicated paraffin jelly takes its name from the German words for 'water' and 'oil'?

Q47 Which Spanish-American philosopher wrote in his 1905 work Life of Reason : "Music is essentially useless, as life is" ?

Q48 In the 1988 film Coming to America, Eddie Murphy plays Akeem, a prince from which fictional African kingdom ?

Q49 Anthelminthic drugs, such as Piperazine, Mebendazole and Pyrantel, are designed to treat or kill what ?

Q50 Which spiral galaxy, 2.2 million light years away in the namesake constellation, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye?

Q51 Which country is home to airports with the codes HDO, KHI and LHE?

Q52 Emperors Constantine the Great and Licinus signed which letter proclaiming religious toleration throughout the Roman Empire in 313?

Q53 Famed for his hard-bat defence, which Viennese-born table tennis player won the world championship in 1937 and then left Austria to settle in England whom he represented when winning further world titles in 1939, 1948 and 1950?

Q54 Which fashion designer was shot dead on the steps of his Miami home by Andrew Cunanan?

Q55 What is the largest animal in the world?

Q56 Usually described as an island in the Venetian Lagoon though it is actually an archipelago of islands linked by bridges, Murano is famous for producing objects made of what material?

Q57 Which religion was divided into Shrine (jinga) and Sectarian (kyoko) schools in the 19th century?

Q58 Aramaic for 'all the vows', Kol Nidre is the name given to the service marking the start of which Jewish festival and are the first words of the opening prayer?

Q59 Which US aircraft manufacturer built the Vega plane, later used by Amelia Earhart in her solo transatlantic flight, in 1926?

Q60 Herri kilorak are 'country sports' that include harrijasotzaille (stone lifting) and aizkolaris (wood chopping). They are indigenous to which European autonomous region ?

Q61 On November 6, 1962, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 1761 condemning which set of political policies ?

Q62 Designed by William Hedley, what became the world's first steam locomotive to run on smooth rails instead of the previous rack rails when it was first put into operation in 1813?

Q63 Which luggage company was started in Denver in 1910 by Jess Shwayder as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, but changed its name in 1966, deriving it from a Old Testament figure?

Q64 Which South American region gives its name to the hare, belonging to the genus Dolichotis, that has the unusual characteristic in a mammal of being strictly monogamous?

Q65 The site of an October 10, 680 battle that resulted in victory for the Umayyad dynasty, which Iraqi city is home to the tomb - the Masjid Al-Husayn - of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad killed in that clash?

Q66 Martial arts experts Ken (whose surname Masters is hardly ever mentioned) and his best friend and fierce rival, Ryu, are characters from which series of Capcom video games ?

Q67 Which 36-character alphabet has been based on the Tosk language since 1945?

Q68 Derived from the Greek for 'bark', what term describes the living tissue in vascular plants that carries organic nutrients to all parts of the plant where required?

Q69 Which mythical creature from Australian folklore, whose name is usually translated as 'devil' or 'spirit', is usually described as a swamp and billabong-lurking monster with a horse-like tail, flippers and walrus-like tusks?

Q70 Which football club was founded in 1923 as Club of the October Revolution and was renamed Kazanka (Moskovskaya-Kazanskaya Zh.D) in 1931 before taking its present name in 1936?

Q71 In which 1927 film does the mad inventor Rotwang create a chrome robot that is transformed into the image of the workers' heroine Maria?

Q72 Also the title of a BBC comedy sketch show starring Simon Pegg and Mark Heap, what nickname was given in 1910 to the tall and well-built baseball player Walter Johnson (1887-1946) due to his powerful pitches?

Q73 Founded by Georg Carstensen, which Copenhagen amusement park and pleasure garden was opened on August 15, 1843?

Q74 Japan's Junko Tabei became the first woman to achieve what feat on May 16, 1975?

Q75 Which industrialist founded Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobil Torino) in 1899?

Q76 Born in Dakar to parents from Chad in 1969, which Francophone rap artist, whose real name is Claude M'Barali, sold over 400,000 copies of his first album Qui seme le vent recolte le tempo in France during 1991-2?

Q77 Originating in the Chamoli district of the Indian region Uttarakhand in 1973, the 'Chipko' peasant movement aimed to prevent the felling of trees and reclaim traditional forest rights threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department. The peaceful method they employed gave rise to a mocking English name for an environmentalist. Which term?

Q78 Named after a French mathematician and physicist (1781-1840), what frequency distribution gives the probability of events taking place in a fixed time in statistics?

Q79 Which 1977 Fleetwood Mac album includes the tracks Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way and The Chain?

Q80 Bachoukheh is the oldest form of wrestling practised in which Middle Eastern country?

Q81 Originating from the Minangkabau people, which Indonesian dish is traditionally made from beef and vegetables like jackfruit or cassava, and slowly cooked in coconut milk and spices for several hours until almost all the liquid is gone leaving the meat coated in spicy condiments?

Q82 Sited 90 miles south-west of Mandalay in the dry central plains of Burma on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy, which capital of several ancient kingdoms in Myanmar has been formally titled 'Arimaddanapura' The City of the Enemy Crusher, 'Tambadipa' The Land of Copper and 'Tassadessa' The Parched Land?

Q83 What was Thailand's official name until June 24, 1939?

Q84 Caitra, Sravan, Magha, Pausha and Phalguna are names of months in which religious calendar ?

Q85 Which US chef and writer (b.1949), renowned for popularising Chinese cooking in the West, published his first book Chinese Technique in 1981 and presented such TV series as Hot Wok (1996)?

Q86 In which of the fencing disciplines is there no restriction on where you can strike your opponent?

Q87 Also known as the Edgar J Kaufmann Sr. Residence, which house in rural south-west Pennsylvania was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann family in 1935?

Q88 Known for its range of luxury, precision-cut lead crystal glass products and its swan logo, which company runs a crystal-themed indoor theme park ("Crystal Worlds" ) at its original Wattens site near Innsbruck, Austria?

Q89 The initial publication of which volume of poetry in 1857 saw it arranged into five thematically segregated sections, among them: 'Spleen et Ideal'; 'Revolte'; 'Le Vin' and 'La Mort'?

Q90 Which American rap trio made their concert movie Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! with footage shot by 50 fans who had each been issued Hi8 cameras?

Q91 In which city was Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University founded in 1960?

Q92 Established in 1923 by Edward Harper only three years after broadcasting was launched in Europe, which national radio station is the oldest-running such station in Asia?

Q93 Known by the scientific name Cetorhinus maximus, it is the world's second largest living fish. Name this species of shark.

Q94 Headquartered in Belle Vue, Washington, which internet-based travel agency was created as a division of Microsoft in October 1996 by founders Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink?

Q95 An ice hockey game consists of three periods of how many minutes each?

Q96 Born Walden Robert Cassotto, which American teen idol sold more than a million copies of his single Splish Splash in 1958, following it up with another massive hit, Dream Lover, in 1959?

Q97 What alternative term for silk farming describes the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk?

Q98 Which President of the Central African Republic proclaimed his country an empire on December 4, 1976, and one year later crowned himself emperor for life?

Q99 Newly trained as an electrical technician, Lech Walesa first entered Lenin Shipyard in which city in 1967?

Q100 Sharing its name with the capital of a Central American republic, which Spanish galleon sank on June 8, 1708 while trying to outrun British warships near the Colombian port of Cartagena, and could be the richest ever shipwreck, as it may contain £1 billion of treasure?

Q101 Which Scythian Christian scholar fixed the dating of the Christian era in his 525 work Cyclus Paschalis?

Q102 Which Russian soprano (b.1971) worked as a floor cleaner at the Mariinsky Theatre before she auditioned for the company and was taken under the wing of conductor Valery Gergiev, who gave her Mariinsky stage debut playing Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro?

Q103 The 4,634m-tall mountain Dufourspitze is the highest peak in which country?

Q104 Centring on a dying vigilante named the Jigsaw Killer who places his kidnap victims in deadly traps to test them, the first entry in which horror movie franchise, the brainchild of Australian filmmakers David Wan and Leigh Whannell, was released in 2004 with the fourth instalment coming out last year?

Q105 What is the well known name of the tranquilliser 'diazepam', derived from the Latin for "to be well"?

Q106 Bill and Dave founded a computer company in Palo Alto, California in 1939. What were their respective surnames?

Q107 Which Italian city became a republic on the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in 1447?

Q108 The dominant figure of 19th century Armenian literature and author of the poems Liberty and Days of Childhood, and an Argentine tennis player and 2002 Wimbledon singles finalist, share which surname?

Q109 Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band play every Monday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel. What instrument does Allen play?

Q110 Stepanakert is the capital of which autonomous region of Azerbaijan that declared independence in 1991 and started a civil war, before Armenian troops invaded in 1993 and a peace agreement was signed the next year?

Q111 European settlers founded Melbourne after landing on the north banks of which river on August 30, 1835?

Q112 Which World Championship has been a part of Finland's Oulu Music Video Festival since 1996, and produced such winners as David 'C-Diddy' Jung, Michael 'The Destroyer' Heffels and Ochi 'Dainoji' Yosuke?

Q113 Known as 'the Scholar', which Danish chronicler (c.1150-1220) compiled the monumental, 16-volume Gesta Danorum: a Latin history of legendary and historical kings of Denmark to 1186?

Q114 King Malietoa Tanumafili II became the head of state of which South Pacific country in 1963?

Q115 Which Swiss-born, Argentine professor and adventurer rode two South American ponies - one named Mancha, the other Gato - from Buenos Aires to Washington between 1925 and 1928, and wrote three books about his 10,000 mile journey?

Q116 On which island is Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe?

Q117 Originating in Ethiopia, which community of black Jews refer to themselves as 'Beta Israel' (House of Israel) and were accorded Jewish status by Israel in 1975 having suffered much discrimination under the Mengistu regime, before completing their final emigration to that country in 1991?

Q118 What name for a large veil worn over the head and body by Muslim women comes from the Persian word for 'sheet'?

Q119 Made up of 21 fragments, which comet had its first recorded sighting in 1993 and crashed into Jupiter the following year?

Q120 Caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which tropical disease is characterised by high fever and inflammation of the heart muscles and is named after Carlos ______, a Brazilian physician (1879-1934)?

Q121 Which ancient city in North Africa was destroyed in 146BC?

Q122 In architecture, what upper part of a classical building, supported upon the columns, consists in upward succession of the architrave, frieze and cornice?

Q123 Which German sociologist wrote the 1904-5 work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism/Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus?

Q124 What four-letter name - short for 'knowledge' - has been chosen by Google for its proposed rival reference site to Wikipedia?

Q125 Which TV character has written such crime novels as The Corpse Danced at Midnight, Dirge for a Dead Dachshund, A Killing at Hastings Rock and Murder Comes to Maine?

Q126 Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal began his professional career with which NBA team?

Q127 Entrusting it to the Dominicans, which pontiff founded the Papal Inquisition for the suppression of heresy in 1233?

Q128 The 1980 film You Can't Stop the Music starred which all-male disco group?

Q129 What is the most obvious difference between the Mona Lisa and Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.?

Q130 Which furniture style, common in Germany in the first half of the 19th century, takes its name from a fictitious poet characterised by his naivety and unintentionally comic nature, created by Ludwig Eichrodt in 1855?

Q131 Which German physicist, whilst a professor at Heidelberg University in 1859, discovered rubidium and caesium with Robert Bunsen, and explained the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum as the absorption of the corresponding spectral wavelengths in the Sun's atmosphere?

Q132 The (men's) US Masters golf championship is held at which course?

Q133 Born in Lancashire in 1845, which politician - nicknamed "King Dick" - became New Zealand's longest serving prime minister?

Q134 Which Hungarian swimmer won four Olympic golds thanks to his prowess in the 200m and 400m individual medley, triumphing in 1988 and 1992?

Q135 Batesian, Peckhamian (or aggressive) and Wasmannian (or host) are types of which natural phenomenon?

Q136 The country's largest such body of water, which lake and significant feeder for the Blue Nile is located entirely in Ethiopia?

Q137 Which French still-life painter (1699-1779), produced such masterpieces as The Ray (1728) and Le Benedicite/The Grace (1740; also known as Grace before Meal), both on display in the Louvre?

Q138 In 2007, Spain put on trial 14 heads of which criminal gang originating in Ecuador - whose alleged leader is Eric Javier Velastegui - on charges of illicit organisation, coercion and making threats?

Q139 The Turkish pianist Victoria Kamhi (d. 1997) was married to which Spanish composer, who composed Fantasia para un gentilhombre in 1954 at the request of Andres Segovia, and his Concierto Andaluz for four guitars and orchestra?

Q140 In which year did the Korean War end?

Q141 Which egg-shaped fruit is the main ingredient of guacamole?

Q142 The Les Blank documentary, The Burden of Dreams, tells the story of the troubled making of which 1982 Werner Herzog film?

Q143 The name for which loose Japanese ankle-length garment with wide sleeves literally means 'wear thing'?

Q144 Gustav I Vasa broke which 'Union' in 1523, thus establishing the state of Sweden and the Vasa dynasty?

Q145 Sometimes called 'Skyamsen', which totem figures of north-west native American religion flashed lightning from its eyes, fed on killer whales and counted Golden Eagle ('Keneun') as their chief, and gave their name to a TV puppet series?

Q146 Which King of England is believed to have been murdered in Pontefract Castle in 1400?

Q147 The Arabic name, Bayn Al Nahrain, for which ancient region means 'between the two rivers'?

Q148 Which Disney TV film sequel's soundtrack was the highest selling album of any genre in 2007?

Q149 In hurling, how many points are scored if the ball ends up in the net?

Q150 Driving for Toyota, which Spaniard was World Rally Champion in 1990 and 1992?

Q151 Mitya, Ivan and Alyosha are the title characters in which 1880 Fyodor Dostoevsky novel?

Q152 Pearl is composed of which chalky substance, composed of hexagonal platelets of aragonite (calcium carbonate CaCO3) and also called mother-of-pearl?

Q153 Founded in 930AD, what is the national parliament of Iceland?

Q154 Which stretch of water separates the islands of Java and Sumatra?

Q155 Which musical instrument shares its name with the genus/family to which the herbaceous flower the pansy belongs, as well as the nickname of Italian football club Fiorentina?

Q156 Which Japanese unit of volume, equal to ten cubic 'shaku', was historically defined as a quantity of enough rice to feed one person for a whole year?

Q157 Immortalised by the native poet Frances Preseren in a work calling for independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which 255 ft/80m waterfall in Triglav National Park is perhaps Slovenia's most famous natural wonder?

Q158 Which group of E-numbers are classified E100-180?

Q159 Which Yasmin Reza comedy play concerns three long-time friends, Marc, Yvan and Serge, who argue about a large, expensive and completely white painting bought by Serge?

Q160 Stars of an HBO comedy series, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement comprise which struggling singer-songwriting duo who claim to be "New Zealand's fourth most successful folk act"?

Q161 Which weekly magazine was launched in February 1925 by Harold Ross and Jane Grant with funds from the family that owned the Fleischmann Yeast Company?

Q162 Which Belizean Punta musician and government official died on January 19 of this year aged only 47, having released such albums as Nabi (1990) and Watina (2007)?

Q163 In e-mail terminology, what does "bcc" stand for?

Q164 What word for a prosperous Russian peasant, who owned their own farms, arose in the 19th century as a synonym for a tight-fisted person, which itself comes from the Turkic word for 'hand'?

Q165 Which company lost the battle of the high definition viewing formats with Sony's Blu-ray system, its HD-DVD being rejected by most retailers in February of this year?

Q166 Which football team won the 2008 African Nations Cup?

Q167 By what two-word name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development also known?

Q168 Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams formed which R&B trio, who had hits with Lose My Breath, Say My Name and Survivor before splitting in 2005?

Q169 Which South Korean footballer was sacked by the owner of his club Perugia for scoring the Golden Goal winner against Italy in the second round of the 2002 World Cup?

Q170 Which Czech composer wrote modern programme pieces inspired by such unusual subjects as football in Half Time (1925) and aeroplanes in Thunderbolt P.47, as well as the work La bagarre about aviator Charles Lindbergh?

Q171 Which snooker player succeeded his brother as world champion in 1948, winning the first of eight world titles?

Q172 Which 1989 single was the biggest ever hit for Italo-house group Black Box, though it made uncredited use of Loleatta Holloway's vocals from her recording of Love Sensation and led to the singer being paid an undisclosed settlement?

Q173 Which television festival, held in Switzerland, awards the prestigious Golden Rose/Rose d'Or?

Q174 Which insects' 'waggle dance' - a notable example of communication in animals - was first investigated by Karl von Frisch?

Q175 Racine's 1677 play Phedre was based on which Greek tragedian's Hippolytus?

Q176 Which Scottish actor plays the current television incarnation of Doctor Who?

Q177 Which musical was based on the autobiography The Von Trapp Family Singers?

Q178 Which Soviet gymnast became the first man to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics with his longhorse vault in 1980?

Q179 A 'mele' is the name given to a chant or song associated with which style of dancing?

Q180 Born on Valentine's Day in 1974, which female Italian fencer and member of the Fiamme Oro team has won five Olympic gold medals including titles in the Foil Individual events in 2000, '04 and '08?

Q181 To within three degrees either way, what is the tilt of the Earth's axis?

Q182 Founded by Hasan al-Banna in Egypt in 1928, which Sunni movement wishes to establish a state governed by Islamic law and operates under such names as the People of the Call/Alh al-Da'wa in Algeria and The Islamic Party/al Hizb al-Islami in Tunisia?

Q183 Which US athlete was about to be awarded the gold medal for winning the marathon at the 1904 St Louis Olympics when it was revealed that he had covered 11 miles as the passenger in a car?

Q184 Which actor links the roles of gangsters Tom Powers, Cody Jarrett and Rocky Sullivan?

Q185 Which French sculptor's smaller scale works include The Lion of Belfort at the namesake location in France, Switzerland Succouring Strasbourg in Basel and General Rapp's monument in Colmar?

Q186 Which American conceptual artist, known for his five-film series, The Cremaster Cycle, recently unveiled his latest project, a £6 million film set on a Japanese whaling vessel entitled Drawing Restraint 9, although he is most famous for being Bjork's partner?

Q187 What is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere?

Q188 Adapted from a Victor Hugo work, which 1876 Amilcare Ponchielli opera - given the English title The Ballad Singer - sees the title character commit suicide after promising to give herself to the spy Barnaby if he helped her lover Enzo escape?

Q189 Which game show originated in Chile in 1962 and is now transmitted in 42 countries, with its host Don Francisco stating the only reason he would stop presenting is "death" itself?

Q190 Which 1928 Buster Keaton film features his most famous visual gag, in which the facade of a house falls on him, only for the comedian to escape unscathed due to a fortuitously placed window frame?

Q191 Which Pharaoh with a two-letter name succeeded Tutankhamun sometime during the early 14th century BC?

Q192 Which European country won the men's World Basketball Championship in 2006 for the first time, beating Greece in the final?

Q193 In 1998, which Austrian mountain railway - starting at Gloggnitz and leading to Murzzuschlag - became the first such transport system to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Q194 Ardashir founded which empire in 224AD after toppling the last Parthian king, Artabanus IV?

Q195 Which Austrian conductor joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and after WW2 was not permitted to work until 1947, but was made principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1955?

Q196 The music festival South By Southwest is held in which Texas city?

Q197 Who became the USSR's foreign minister in 1957 and stayed in the post for most of the Cold War before becoming Soviet President in 1985?

Q198 Also known as Harpocrates, which Egyptian god, ruler of the air and husband of Hathor became universal king of the earth after defeating his murderous brother Seth?

Q199 A centre of Japanese Buddhism, which city on Honshu was founded in 706 and became Japan's first imperial capital (710-784), and is the site of the 7th century Horyuji temple, reputed to be the country's oldest building?

Q200 Equal to 100 pesewas, what is the standard unit of currency in Ghana?

Q201 Which New Zealand skier made history in 1992 when she won Olympic silver in the giant slalom, making her the first Winter Olympic medallist from the Southern Hemisphere?

Q202 Identified by its spotted coat, which North American breed of horse is named after a river in Idaho?

Q203 Ningikuga, Enki, Ningal, An and Nammu were deities in the pantheon of which ancient civilisation's mythology?

Q204 What stage name did blues musician McKinley Morganfield adopt?

Q205 Which patron saint of Venice has a winged lion for his emblem?

Q206 The 1920s art movement, The Group of Seven, was formed in which country?

Q207 Featuring 130 reproductions of some of the world's most famous tourist attractions, the Window of the World theme park is located in the western part of which city in Guangdong province, the second busiest port in China after Shanghai?

Q208 Which Japanese poetry form, named from an abbreviation of words meaning 'unserious verse', developed out of the opening stanza of the renga, a form popular during the Edo period?

Q209 In Greek mythology, which flying creatures, whose name means 'snatchers', were sometimes known by the individual names Aello, Ocypete and Celoeno?

Q210 Which politician was succeeded as Argentina's president by his wife Cristina in October 2007?

Q211 Nicknamed the 'Steel Hammer', which Ukrainian boxer won the 1996 Olympic superheavyweight gold medal and gained his first world crown in 2000 when he beat Chris Byrd to take the WBO title?

Q212 Which Croatian-born writer, whose best known novel in the former Yugoslavia is perhaps Stefica Cvek u raljama zivota/Stefic in the Jaws of Life (1981), has published such essay collections as The Culture of Lies/Kulturilazi (1996) and Nobody's Home/Nikog nema doma (2005)?

Q213 Which wild Indian and south-east Asian member - Gallus gallus - of the pheasant family is believed to be the direct ancestor of the domestic chicken and was first raised in captivity at least 5,000 years ago in India?

Q214 Abbreviated SEM, what is the standard deviation divided by the square root of the number of samples?

Q215 Originally called the Simplo Filler Pen company, which German manufacturer of writing instruments is famed for its 'White Star' logo?

Q216 Which supermarket chain was created in a merger engineered by Merrill Lynch in 1926 of Skaggs Stores and Sam Seelig Company?

Q217 Which US author's blockbuster novels include Next, Timeline, Rising Sun and Disclosure?

Q218 Coined by critic Leonard Feather, which term describes the jazz style of composing a lyric and singing it in the same way as recorded instrumental solos reached its creative peak during 1957-62 thanks to such performers such as Eddie Jefferson and Jon Hendricks?

Q219 In which city, on the River Guaire, was Simon Bolivar born in 1783?

Q220 John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer was 'inspired' by the PLO hijacking of which cruise ship in 1985?

Q221 First staged in 1953, which Samuel Beckett play features the characters Estragon, Vladimir, Lucky, Pozzo and Boy?

Q222 What name do the Turkish people give to their famous steam baths?

Q223 A number one in several countries in 1967, which song has the opening lines: "We skipped the light fandango/turned cartwheels 'cross the floor"?

Q224 Common to all mammals, what large muscular partition separates the thorax from the abdomen?

Q225 The subject of a Schiller play trilogy, which Austrian military leader - whose titles included Prince of Sagan and Duke of Friedland and of Mecklenburg - was defeated by Swedish forces at Lutzen in 1632 and later assassinated by Irish and Scottish soldiers in his retinue at Eger in 1634?

Q226 Which Polish director's films include A Short Film About Killing/Krotki Film O Zabijaniu (1988) and the triptych Trois Couleurs: Blue (1993), Blanc (1994), Rouge (1994) (Three Colours: Blue, White and Red)?

Q227 Which Russian darts player became women's world champion in January of this year?

Q228 Anthropologists believe the Inuit to be descendants of which culture, a nomadic people that emerged from western Alaska c.1000AD and named from the Greek and Roman word for the most northerly land known?

Q229 Nina Romashkova became the Soviet Union's first ever Olympic champion at the 1952 Helsinki Games. In which athletics event did she compete? (She won it again at the 1960 Olympics participating under her married name Ponomaryeva.)

Q230 Of German descent, which 27-year-old Brazilian woman from Horizontina in Rio Grande do Sul is, according to Forbes magazine, the highest paid model in the world?

Q231 What warm, dry wind derives its name from the American Indian for "snow-eater"?

Q232 A former puppeteer on such films as Labyrinth, which Australian hyperrealist sculptor made his name with the 1997 piece Dead Dad - a silicone and mixed media reproduction of his father's corpse reduced to 2/3rds of its natural size?

Q233 Which cartoon teen superhero is aided by her sidekick and friend Ron Stoppable, his pet naked mole rat Rufus, and 10-year-old gadgets genius Wade Load?

Q234 Which American author,Vietnam vet and Oxford graduate wrote the autobiographical books In Pharoah's Army and This Boy's Life, before making his debut as a novelist with Old School?

Q235 In which 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni film does Anna (Lea Massari) disappear following a row at an island picnic, as her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) and friend Claudia (Monica Vitti) fall in love with each other during the ensuing nationwide search?

Q236 Who are Tribbiani, Bing, Green, Buffay, Geller and Geller?

Q237 Which architectural partners designed the eco-friendly $500 million Beijing Olympic Stadium, popularly known as 'The Bird's Nest'?

Q238 In August 2007, the artist Gerhard Richter unveiled a stained glass window, 20 metres high with 11,500 squares of glass in 72 colours, he designed to replace the plain glass window installed after the original was destroyed during WW2 in which German cathedral?

Q239 The rock documentary DiG centres on the fluctuating fortunes of The Dandy Warhols and Anton Newcombe, the man behind which band, whose name links a dead Rolling Stone and a religious cult's infamous mass suicide?

Q240 Monaco came under the rule of which family dynasty in 1297, remaining so to this day?

Q241 The city of Vancouver occupies the coastal peninsula adjoining which river, one of the largest North American waterways flowing into the Pacific Ocean?

Q242 Best known for a namesake 'paradox', which German astronomer discovered the asteroids Pallas and Vesta between 1802 and 1807?

Q243 Native to Japan and China, what ornamental plant with edible tubers has the scientific name Pueraria lobata and produces berries from its purple flowers that are used to make a sweet jelly?

Q244 Eugene Pottier wrote the original French words and Pierre De Geyter composed the music to which socialist anthem in 1888?

Q245 Made from white wine and cassis, what drink took its name from Canon Felix ___ (1876-1968), the mayor of Dijon said to have devised its recipe?

Q246 Used to predict the results of the 1952 Presidential election, what was the name of the first commercial computer produced in the USA?

Q247 Giving its name to an Olympic sailing event, which class of boat was designed by the Norwegian Jan Linge in 1967, and was originally intended for his young son, thus giving rise to its name, which means 'youngster'?

Q248 Jeff Bezos founded which online store, originally called Cadabra.com, in 1994?

Q249 Walter Lines is credited with inventing which vehicle in 1897?

Q250 Which Frenchman wrote the music and lyrics to Luxembourg's winning 1965 Eurovision Song Contest entry, Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son?

Q251 Derived from the Greek for 'how much', what is the scientific study of treating doses or the quantities of medicines to be administered?

Q252 Literally meaning 'door-closing panic', what German word dates from the mid-20th century and refers to a sense of alarm or anxiety at the passing of life's opportunities?

Q253 Nicknamed 'Goldie', which 35-year-old All Black wing scored 44 tries in his international career and also represented New Zealand in one-day cricket?

Q254 Robert Koch discovered which bacillus - transmitted in contaminated water - when he led a German expedition to Egypt and India in 1883?

Q255 Which Indian chief, who gave his name to a type of military helicopter, was the great-grandfather of Olympic champion Jim Thorpe?

Q256 The Galapagos Islands belong to which country?

Q257 Which veined blue cheese, made from unskimmed cow's milk, is named after the small town near Milan where it was reportedly first made in 879?

Q258 Named after the Italian city where they lived and worked, the Carraccis founded which school of painting?

Q259 The Don't Make a Wave Committee was instrumental in the formation of which global organisation?

Q260 What publishing company was founded when Allen Lane recognised the need for cheap, good-quality paperbacks whilst stuck at a train station in Exeter in 1935 with nothing to read?

Q261 What was Brigadier-General McAuliffe's defiant one-word reply to Van Manteuffel's call to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge?

Q262 The Swiss surgeon Andreas Grunzig performed the first of what type of operation in 1964 by clearing an arterial blockage with an inflatable balloon?

Q263 From the French for 'carving', what computing term describes a character or symbol beyond the normal range of characters?

Q264 Used to make Vouvray and Saumur wines, what white-wine grape variety is widely grown in the Loire Valley and is called Steen in South Africa?

Q265 Then featuring such members as Damo Suzuki and the late Michael Karoli, which Krautrock group released the landmark albums Ege Bamyasi, Future Days and Tago Mago during the early 1970s?

Q266 What is defined as any positive integer greater than 1 and exactly divisible only by 1 and itself?

Q267 Raku is what kind of Japanese craft or art?

Q268 What was the last NASA mission to land men on the moon?

Q269 On which historically significant South Atlantic island would you find Mount Actaeon and Diana Peak?

Q270 Johannes Brahms's Academic Festival Overture (1880) was composed in honour of his receiving an honorary doctorate from which university, located in the Polish city now known as Wroclaw?

Q271 The subject of a Sufjan Stevens song and Brian Dennehy TV film, which American serial killer, occasional clown and Death Row artist tortured and killed 33 men and boys, whose bodies he buried under his house?

Q272 Found growing in the centre of town in 1792 by former American slaves, the Cotton Tree is the historic symbol of which African capital city?

Q273 Which Italian scientist invented a namesake 'cell' in 1800?

Q274 Led by the Nasi, what was the supreme Jewish court of Jerusalem from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD?

Q275 Which young boy is the eponymous star of a Spanish children's cartoon series (narrated by Stephen Fry in the UK), whose friends include Pato the duck, Elly the pink elephant and his pet puppy Loula?

Q276 Which Mozambique politician, former FRELIMO member and environmentalist wrote the book Dumba-Nengue - Historias tragicas do Banditismo translated into English in 1988 as Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life. Peasant Tales of Tragedy?

Q277 Baade and Zwicky first proposed the formation by supernovae of which compact stellar objects, produced from parent stars that are not massive enough to collapse directly into black holes?

Q278 Also known by the title Al Azif, which work of cult fiction has been ascribed to an insane Arab named Abdul Alhazred and is the alleged source of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos?

Q279 Literally meaning 'drifting person', which masterless samurai during Japan's feudal period (1185-1868) gave their name to a 1998 action-thriller starring Robert De Niro and Jean Reno?

Q280 Which conflict - lasting from 1864 to 1870 - remains the bloodiest in South American history?

Q281 Sharing his surname with an early 20th century artist, which Italian-born economist formulated the life cycle hypothesis and a namesake theory suggesting that the value of a firm is unaffected by the method by which it is financed?

Q282 Ascribed to Valmiki, which 24,000 verse Sanskrit epic tells of a prince whose wife Sita is kidnapped by the demon Ravanna?

Q283 The Contact process was invented in 1831 to create concentrated forms of which acid?

Q284 Literally meaning 'a tenth part', what Sikh term refers to the practice of donating ten per cent of one's harvest, both financial and in the form of time and service such as seva, to one's gurdwara?

Q285 In 1998, the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory was destroyed with US cruise missiles in reprisal for al-Qaeda's alleged part in some embassy bombings. In which African capital was the factory located?

Q286 Meijin is the Japanese title of a Kawabata Yasunari novel. Taking a board game as its subject, what is the book's English name?

Q287 What is the least commonly used letter in the French alphabet?

Q288 Seen in such films as Munich, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Tell No One/Ne Le Dis a Personne, which Canadian actress won Best Actress at Cannes for her role as a heroin addict in The Barbarian Invasions/Les Invasions barbares?

Q289 Which Belgrade-born French comics writer and film director is perhaps best known for his graphic novel series The Nikopol Trilogy (1980-92)?

Q290 Napoleon Perdis is considered to be which country's leading makeup artist?

Q291 Moves known as 'drops', whereby captured enemy pieces are returned into play as ally pieces, are unique to which game of the chess family?

Q292 Which French woman mathematician (1776-1831) made important contributions to the fields of

differential geometry and number theory, publishing Recherches sur la theorie des surfaces/Research on the Theory of Elastic Surfaces in 1821?

Q293 In Slavic mythology, which three guardian goddesses - also known as the Auroras - guard and watch over the doomsday hound that threatens to eat Ursa Minor, and represent the Morning Star (_____ Utrennyaya), the Evening Star (_____ Vechernyaya) and the Midnight Star (_____ Polunochnaya)?

Q294 Mathematicians must be under what age if they are to win the Fields Medal?

Q295 Growing to 2.2m compared to the 6m length of the Black, the Spectacled is the most widely distributed species - from southern Mexico to northern Argentina - of which large reptile?

Q296 Sharing its name with a brand of Mexican beer, what type of colloid has a dispersed phase of solid particles suspended in a dispersion medium of any liquid, as in oil paints?

Q297 Named after the territory's floral emblem, the Grand Bauhinia Medal is the highest award given out by which Special Administrative Region?

Q298 The brainchild of Bert Schneider and Bob Rafaelson, which pop group came about as the result of an advert for "four insane lads aged 17-21" in Variety magazine?

Q299 Remade in the US as Phenomenon, the Israeli TV show The Successor aimed to find a successor to which controversial celebrity with supposed psychic powers?

Q300 Which Italian fashion company, founded in 1983 and named after its founder Franco, is known for its "classico con twist" style and has three women's lines: Main Line, Cheap & Chic and Jeans?

Q301 In January 2008, it was revealed that which bank - France's second biggest - was defrauded by employee Jerome Kerviel of 6.9 billion euros?

Q302 Which tennis player was the last French winner of the Australian Open men's singles championship in 1928?

Q303 Director Terry Gilliam was instrumental in the establishment of which film festival, held in Montone and named after the Italian region in which the aforementioned hill town is located?

Q304 Boris Blank and Dieter Meier comprise which Swiss electronic duo who had a 1988 hit with their song The Race?

Q305 The feminist writer Katha Pollitt coined the name of which 'Principle' in 1991 to describe the cartoon trope in which "a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined"?

Q306 Philadelphia natives Pat and Harry Olivieri are said to have invented which meaty snack in the early 1930s at their hot dog stand near the city's Italian market?

Q307 The centre of which Mexican city in Veracruz is home to the Gustave Eiffel-designed Palace de Hierro/The Iron Palace?

Q308 A modern orchestral harp has a triangular frame carrying how many strings?

Q309 Which famed arch-villain and masked master criminal of French crime fiction was created by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre in 1911?

Q310 Created a baron by Charles XIV in 1835, which Swedish chemist discovered selenium and thorium and was the first to isolate silicon, zirconium and titanium?

Q311 What two initials are used in Sweden to represent the term (meaning 'stock company') for a corporation?

Q312 Merged with Konica in 2003, which photographic company was founded in Osaka in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shoten meaning 'Japanese-German camera shop'?

Q313 Created by Shinji Mikami, which series of 13 video games has sold over 30 million copies, been adapted into a film trilogy and is known as Biohazard in Japan?

Q314 Which English mathematician completed his first model for the difference engine in 1822?

Q315 Which Stephen Sondheim musical features the songs Epiphany, Pretty Women, My Friends and The Worst Pies in London?

Q316 Derived from the Persian for 'string', what three-letter name is given to the long-necked lute played in Azerbaijan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and other regions of the Caucasus region?

Q317 Which flying insect gives its name to the world's smallest species of bat (also known as the Kitti's Hog-nosed bat)?

Q318 Directed and written by Oleg Pogodin, which 2003 Russian TV mini-series centres on undercover agent Victor Bystroletov tracking down an ex-terrorist named Javal in a Middle East oil kingdom?

Q319 What non-metallic element is harvested by hand from the volcanic peak Kawah Ijen on the island of Java?

Q320 Choi Min-sik played the avenging title character in which ultra-violent 2003 South Korean film, based upon the Japanese manga of the same name by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tscuhiya?

Q321 Which religion awards the Freedom Medal of Valor, a gold-coloured medallion that only one man has ever received, as well as the Freedom Medal?

Q322 In 1965, the eldest and favourite daughter of which deposed Guatemalan leader committed suicide by shooting herself in front of her boyfriend, matador Jaime Bravo, in the Colombian capital Bogota?

Q323 Lucien Pothier was the first ever runner-up in which major sporting event?

Q324 Which comic book superhero was recently and controversially divorced from his wife of 21 years, Mary Jane Watson, in a deal done with the villain Mephisto?

Q325 Which Radiohead guitarist composed the score for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood?

Q326 The Egyptian Amr Shabana became world champion in which racket sport in 2003?

Q327 Completed in 1974, which 485 ft-high dam on the river Indus is located about 50 km north-west of Islamabad and is the largest earth-filled dam in the world?

Q328 Which movie monster inspired the nickname of the Nissan GT-R, the so-called "Porsche-killer" that has a top speed of 194 mph?

Q329 What weather-related stage name has been adopted by the South Korean pop singer and actor Jung Ji-hoon, who made Time magazine's 2006 '100 Most Influential People Who Shape Our World' list and released such albums as Bad Guy (2002) and How to Avoid the Sun (2003)?

Q330 Which Andalusian-Arab polymath born in Cordoba in 1126, has been described as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe and wrote The Incoherence of the Incoherence/Tahafut al-tahafut, a defence of Aristotelian philosophy against al-Ghazali's claims in The Incoherence of the Philosophers/Tahafut al-falasifa?

Q331 Author of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa/Manuscrit trouve a Saragosse, which Polish adventurer became the first person in his country to fly in a hot air balloon when he made an ascent over Warsaw with Jean Blanchard in 1790?

Q332 In 1923, the Spanish aviator Juan de la Cierva flew the first type of which heavier-than-air craft that supports itself in the air with a rotary wing or rotor?

Q333 Which veteran Scottish pop singer shares her name with a website that allows you to write and self-publish print-on-demand books?

Q334 Which future Oscar-winning director played Pinkie Brown in the 1947 film Brighton Rock?

Q335 Which woman took the iconic 1935 photograph Migrant Mother?

Q336 Which Hindu goddess shares her name with the Filipino martial art used extensively in the Jason Bourne film trilogy?

Q337 In physics, what term describes a vector that measures the tendency of a force to rotate an object about some axis; its magnitude being defined as force times its lever arm?

Q338 Which super-tanker ran aground off the coast of Brittany in March 1978 spilling 220,000 tons of crude oil?

Q339 Which Roman Catholic archbishop was assassinated while preaching in San Salvador on March 24, 1980?

Q340 Located in Kanagawa Prefecture between Tokyo and Yokohama, which city shares its name with a 'Heavy Industries' company that is developing the C-X next generation support aircraft for the Japanese government and produces such motorcycles as the ZZR1400?

Q341 Founded by Jeff Hawkins in 1992, which computer company with its HQ in Sunnyvale, California, produces the Zine, Tungsten PDA, Treo smartphone, and the eponymous Pilot device?

Q342 Which religious figure also goes by the names Gyalwa Rinpoche (Precious Victor) and Yeshe Norbu (Wish-fulfilling Jewel) in his home country?

Q343 Suva is the capital of which Pacific country?

Q344 Named after the daughter of Lycaon who bore Arcas to Zeus, what is the second largest moon of Jupiter?

Q345 In 2000, France's Philippe Quintas won the first of many 'Precision Shooting' titles at which ball game's world championships?

Q346 Which billionaire entrepreneur chose the name of his business empire "because it reflected an inexperience in business ... and also a freshness and slight outrageousness"?

Q347 Who did Margaret Thatcher succeed as British Prime Minister in 1979?

Q348 Which Brazilian writer's 1881 novel Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas/The Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas, also known by the English title Epitaph of a Small Winner, is considered to be the grandfather of all Latin American magic realism?

Q349 Chef Alain Ducasse named his world famous Monte Carlo restaurant after which French king?

Q350 In which organ of the human body will you find the Bundle of His?

Q351 Which 2007 fantasy film and novel adaptation shares its name with Italy's leading industrial design award?

Q352 Officially known as the Communist Party of Peru (Partido Comunista del Peru), which Peruvian guerrilla organisation's leader Abimael Guzman - aka Presidente Gonzalo - was captured in 1992?

Q353 Which composer's last work, a Requiem Mass written to an anonymous commission now known to be from Count Walsegg, was left unfinished when he died on December 5, 1791?

Q354 The Cyprus-born fashion designer Hussein Chalayan was recently appointed the first ever creative director of which sportswear company that has Jochen Zeitz for its chairman and CEO?

Q355 Which athlete won the 400m hurdles at the 1972 Munich Games, making him the first ever Ugandan Olympic champion?

Q356 Similar to the spread eagle but performed with a bent knee and the other leg stretched out behind, which ice skating move is named after the female German figure skater (b.1941) who first performed it?

Q357 Which US novelist is best known for writing such science-fiction and fantasy works as the acclaimed Earthsea Cycle (1968-2001), one of which - The Farthest Shore (1972) - won the 'National Book Award for Children's Books'?

Q358 What are the common land-routes mapped out in the 15th century by the Kings of Spain over which the transhumancia - the traditional driving of livestock from summer to winter pastures - used to make its way?

Q359 Nicknamed "El Nene", this man became Peruvian Minister of Sport in 1999, an appointment that was undoubtedly helped by his being the only player to score five goals in two separate World Cups (in 1970 and '78). Name this footballer.

Q360 In which seminal 1955 work did the French sociologist Raymond Aron write: "the liberal believes in the permanence of humanity's imperfection ... he subscribes to the pessimism that sees, in politics, the art of creating the conditions in which the vices of men will contribute to the good of the state"?

Q361 Bandiagara in Mali is famed for which colourful masks crafted by a namesake ethnic group, and

described as "living things ... mostly of the large, robust, box-like sort with basic features" such as holes for eyes sunk in deep vertical grooves by world culture expert Dan Cruikshank?

Q362 Inspired by the Keats poem La Belle Dame sans Merci, the title of which 1962 Rachel Carson book on the environmental movement was meant to evoke a season in which no birdsong could be heard?

Q363 Which horse race in the US Triple Crown is the last of the season?

Q364 Centring on Texas high school football team the Permian Panthers, which 1990 HC Bissinger non-fiction book was adapted into a 2004 film and, from 2006, an NBC TV series?

Q365 In Formula 1, what colour flag signals that a car is about to overtake?

Q366 Which Palestinian terrorist group instigated the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics?

Q367 Which Pakistan batsman scored a then world record 499 runs in a single innings for Karachi versus Bahawalpur during the 1958-9 season?

Q368 Sharing its name with a famous sporting venue, which January 10-12, 1871 battle of the Franco-Prussian War resulted in a victory for the Prussian forces led by Prince Friedrich Karl?

Q369 Which university plays its home games at the biggest capacity American football stadium - nicknamed 'The Big House' - in the world?

Q370 Lamri was the horse of which legendary Anglo-Saxon king?

Q371 Kalki was the tenth and last avatar of which god?

Q372 Partly named from a tree species of the genus Adansonia, which Senegalese Afro-Cuban, Son, and Pachanga band first organised in 1970, when fronted by the Casamance singers Balla Sidibe, Rudy Gomis and the ill-fated Laye Mboup, and released the acclaimed 2007 album Made in Dakar?

Q373 Which German pioneer in immunology won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901 for his work on serum therapy?

Q374 Later finding fame and notoriety as the director of the film Kids, Larry Clark first made his name as a photographer with the 1971 publication of which book of monochrome pictures, named after the Oklahoma city in which he was born?

Q375 The Bougainville Revolutionary Army seeks the independence of the island of Bougainville from which country?

Q376 In an alphabetical list of the G8 nations, which country comes first?

Q377 Used as a fixative in perfumery, 'castoreum' comes from follicles in the genital areas of both the sexes of which animals?

Q378 Subtitled Decline of a Family/Verfall einer Familie, which 1901 debut Thomas Mann novel portrays the life of a wealthy mercantile family of Lubeck over four generations (the main time period covered being 1835-77)?

Q379 What term describes long-chain molecules in which a group of atoms are repeated, and can be natural (e.g. cellulose, DNA, proteins) or artificial (e.g. nylon)?

Q380 In this list of the noble gases - helium, radon, krypton, xenon and neon - which one is missing?

Q381 Complete Newton's 3rd Law of Motion with four missing words: "To every action there is an _____ ___ ________ ________ ."

Q382 What "L" word describes the type of heat required to convert a solid into a liquid or vapour, or a liquid into a vapour, without change of temperature"?

Q383 Which Trinidadian historian, novelist and political activist published the cricket and Caribbean culture memoir Beyond a Boundary in 1963?

Q384 Isabelle Romee, also known as Isabelle de Vouthon, was the mother of which historical figure?

Q385 Caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor, which infectious disease was certified eradicated by the World Health Organisation in 1979?

Q386 The first surviving records of which mysterious person are from July 1, 1669 when Louis XIV's minister the Marquis de Louvois sent a prisoner to the care of Benigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, governor of the prison of Pignerol?

Q387 Which capital city is home to Esplanadi Park, the Ateneum museum and Uspenski Cathedral, said to be the largest Orthodox church in western Europe?

Q388 Aphrodite and her mortal lover Anchises were the parents of which Trojan hero ?

Q389 Revolving around the attempts of Robert of Artois to reclaim the county of Artois from his Aunt Mahaut, which sequence of seven historical novels by Maurice Druon was adapted into an acclaimed 1970s miniseries and remade in 2005 in a French-Italian production starring Philippe Torreton and Jeanne Moreau?

Q390 Author of The Psychoanalysis of Children (1932), which psychologist disagreed with Sigmund Freud when she posited that the seeds of the superego are sewn in the first two years of infancy?

Q391 Y Viva Espana was a major hit for singer Sylvia. However, she wasn't Spanish. What was her true nationality?

Q392 Named after an item of headwear, which 1919 Manuel de Falla ballet was based on a story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon?

Q393 In which city was the artistic and literary movement Dada founded in 1915 by a group of political exiles that included the painter Jean Arp and the poet Tristan Tzara?

Q394 Meaning 'Way of the Elders', what is the oldest extant Buddhist school?

Q395 Three-time winner of the Women's Tour de France, which French cyclist's career was blighted by her failure to win an Olympic gold, until she won the road race event at the Atlanta Olympics at the age of 37?

Q396 From the Greek words for 'hermit' and 'exercise', what name is given to the principle of self-denial for the purpose of attaining a heightened state of spiritual awareness, intellectual acuity or physical ability?

Q397 Which French star of the Truffaut film Tirez sur le pianiste/Shoot the Piano Player, who had a 1974 UK number one with She, was deemed the voice of the 20th century by Time magazine?

Q398 EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) is the state record label of which country?

Q399 In which former Soviet republic did the youth movement known as Kmara ('enough') take action against a long-standing president and help bring about the 2003 'Revolution of Roses'?

Q400 Originally titled Now I Lay Me Down To Weep, what was the signature tune of bandleader Glenn Miller?

Q401 Which national women's football team are nicknamed the 'Steel Rosebuds'?

Q402 Meaning 'Thief-in-Law', what name is given to the Russian mafia-style gang that originated in Stalin's gulags and featured in the David Cronenberg film Eastern Promises?

Q403 What is the common English translation of the name Zijin Cheng given to a complex of buildings said to be the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world?

Q404 According to Herodotus, which ancient equestrian nomads originally inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine and Russia during the 8th and 7th centuries BC, and fought the Assyrians, whose king Sargon II died in battle against them in 705BC, as well as Lydia, killing its king Gyges and greatly damaging the Lydian capital Sardis in c.652BC?

Q405 KaDeWe is Europe's largest department store. It is in which capital city?

Q406 From the Greek for 'adorned with ribbons', what is the bundle of fibres or ribbon-like appendages in the brain connected to the thalamus called?

Q407 Which Briton became World Superbikes champion in 2007?

Q408 Which country's rugby union team came by its nickname on its first tour abroad in southern Africa in 1965 when journalists mistook the animal on their badge for another?

Q409 The 1948 record by the Orioles, Too Soon to Know, was the first hit in which vocal-based rhythm & blues musical style, said to be the first black street music to go mainstream?

Q410 What is the five-letter acronym of the registry that assigns all web addresses?

Q411 Giuseppe Cipriani invented a dish of raw beef that he named after which Venetian artist because its colours reminded Cipriani of his paintings?

Q412 Which term, used in a popular game, comes from a Persian phrase meaning 'The king is dead'?

Q413 In which sport have the All-Ireland Champions been awarded the Sam Maguire Cup since 1928?

Q414 Which Brazilian 'Brutalist' architect and 2006 Pritzker Prize winner designed the Serra Dourada Stadium in Goiania, but is best known for his works in Sao Paulo, including the Patriarch Plaza, Viaduct do Cha and Pinacoteca do Estado?

Q415 The Sargasso Sea gets its name from the Sargassum that floats on its surface. What is Sargassum?

Q416 Stachys affinis, Cynara scolymus and Helianthus tuberosus are varieties of which vegetable?

Q417 So named because they resemble the horns of an eponymous breed of sheep reared in the grasslands of Huarocho, what Spanish choux pastry is usually served with a cup of chocolate?

Q418 Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel invented which invaluable practice tool for musicians in 1812, later patented by Johann Malzel?

Q419 Shocked by the power unleashed by the atom bomb, Manhattan Project director Robert Oppenheimer quoted from which Sanskrit text from the chapter Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata when he said: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"?

Q420 Christopher Walken played the villainous Max Zorin in which James Bond film?

Q421 Which Kurdish filmmaker was jailed for 18 years in 1975 after his nephew shot an anticommunist Turkish judge in a restaurant, and during this time scripted Suru/The Herd (1978), Dusman/The Enemy (1979) and Yol/The Way (1982), which he finished in post-production after escaping from prison in 1981?

Q422 Jewish Israelis call the war of 1948 the 'War of Independence', but Palestinians use what Arabic phrase - meaning 'the catastrophe' - to describe it?

Q423 Which Asian country began a 'Broadcasting Service' in 1999, therefore bringing television to the world's last TV-free nation?

Q424 What symbol features in the centre of the national flag of Barbados?

Q425 In 1894, which German geographer and geologist published his classic two-volume work Morphology of the Earth's Surface/Morphologie der Erdoberflache in which he identified six topographic forms and is believed to have introduced the term 'geomorphology'?

Q426 Published every 15 days, Filmfare is the oldest movie magazine of which country?

Q427 After moving to New York, which Prague-born chess player won decisively in the 1886 match organised to decide the first official world champion?

Q428 Otto Neurath, Moritz Schlick, Kurt Godel and Rudolf Carnap were members of which influential group of philosophers and thinkers named after the city in which they resided?

Q429 What art term describes a form of etching or intaglio printmaking technique in which varying degrees of tone are produced by dipping the plate repeatedly into acid, covering different parts of it with varnish before each dipping?

Q430 The full Greek name for which African bird was ho megas strouthos, meaning 'the big sparrow'?

Q431 The Jantar Mantar Observatory is located in which so-called "Pink City" of India, founded in 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II?

Q432 First used in an 1852 paper by William Benjamin Carpenter discussing the means through which the Ouija board produced its results, what two-word term describes the psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously?

Q433 Bisque d'Homard is a creamy soup made from which marine crustacean?

Q434 Founded in 1948, which French leather goods company shares its name with a French racecourse and a De Tomaso car model?

Q435 Which 1960s Swedish instrumental rock band, who originated from 'Rock Teddy and The Blue Caps' and wore trademark space suits, recorded over 700 songs (including 1963's Hava Nagila) and sold more than 20 million albums of the 42 they recorded?

Q436 Relating to a word meaning 'to choose' or 'to collect', what word in Greek philosophy describes the divine reason implicit in governing the cosmos, and was used in a mystic sense by St John, in whose Gospel and Book of Revelation it is translated in English by 'Word' as a title of Christ?

Q437 What term, used to describe a globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction, was coined in 1878 from the Greek 'in leaven' by German physiologist Wilhelm Kuhne to describe a fermentation process?

Q438 First drawn, according to legend, on a napkin in a Washington DC restaurant, what is the graphic representation of a principle tenet of supply-side economics, that there is an optimal revenue-maximising tax rate above which tax revenues actually decline?

Q439 What is the popular name of the 'Sinews of Peace' speech, given at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946?

Q440 In 1991, which woman was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for her involvement in the murder of James Seipi, also known as Stompie Moeketsi, though this was reduced to a fine on appeal?

Q441 Which igneous rock, consisting of a felsitic or cryptocrystalline groundmass full of feldspar or quartz crystals, is so named from its colour, its name ultimately derived from the Greek for 'purple dye'?

Q442 Joe Kaeser is chief financial officer of Germany's biggest technology group. Named after an electrical engineer named Ernst Werner von _______ (1829-92), what is the company he founded called ?

Q443 Originating in South Carolina, which dance became an American craze thanks to the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild?

Q444 In radio terminology, what does the acronym FM stand for?

Q445 Which African country's flag is identical to that of Andorra and Romania: the blue representing sky and hope, yellow symbolising the Sahara Desert and red standing for blood?

Q446 What is the only island-state in the Arab world?

Q447 The drinks company Bacardi uses which animal in its logo?

Q448 Which desert, running along an extremely dry and arid coastal strip of south-western Africa for 1200 km, has been described as the oldest in the world and is the second largest African desert?

Q449 It was reported in February 2008 that many items have gone missing, or have perhaps been given away, from a museum dedicated to which Spanish fashion designer (1895-1972) in his home town of Getaria in the Basque country?

Q450 Deneb is the brightest star in which constellation of the northern hemisphere?

Q451 Named for its rich deposits of coal by William Conybeare and William Phillips in an 1822 paper, which geological period occurred between the Devonian and the Permian 260 to 290 millon years ago?

Q452 The most successful short-track speed skater of all time, which Chinese sportswoman's gold medal at the 2002 Games in the 500m was her country's first ever in the Winter Olympics?

Q453 Which Montreal-born ice hockey player (b.1965) won the Stanley Cup and the Conn Smythe Trophy with the Pittsburgh Pirates (the team he took ownership of in 1999) in 1991 and '92?

Q454 Established in 1602 when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities, what is said to be the world's first multinational corporation and the first company to issue stock?

Q455 Literally 'form', what Japanese word describes detailed choreographed patterns of movements practised either in solo or in pairs that can be seen in theatre forms like kabuki, schools of tea ceremony and martial arts?

Q456 In yachting, which large triangular jib sail is named after an Italian city and seaport?

Q457 The novel Primary Colours was a thinly disguised account of Bill Clinton's quest for the US presidency originally published by 'Anonymous'. Which journalist was revealed to be its author?

Q458 The 'A-factor' is the local term for the unexpected difficulties caused by the environment of which continent?

Q459 Named from an Arabic phrase meaning 'the islands', which African capital was founded on four islands by Phoenicians in about 2000BC?

Q460 On which date is St George's Day celebrated?

Q461 The Decembrists resisted the accession of which Tsar of Russia in 1825?

Q462 Administered by New Zealand, which island group consists of three tiny, crowded atolls - Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo - each no more than 200m wide?

Q463 Since they believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise again the next day, the Aztecs sacrificed 15,000 men every year to which fearsome sun god?

Q464 What was the name of the horse that the Roman emperor Caligula planned to honour by making him a member of the college of priests and then consul?

Q465 Which king of Babylon (556-539BC) - the last of the Neo-Babylonian Empire - was one of the world's first archaeologists, excavating various ruined shrines and temples and restoring the great ziggurat of Ur?

Q466 Which aviator made the first crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane on July 25, 1909?

Q467 Which Major League Baseball team play their home games at Shea Stadium, but are due to move to Citi Field in 2009?

Q468 In 1889, two teams from a British regiment stationed at Jubbulpore, India, took part in the longest known contest ever known - lasting 2 hours and 41 minutes - in which former Olympic sport?

Q469 Which pieces of sporting equipment, introduced after aristocratic fans demanded a chance to compete against famous professionals, were once called "feather bedders"?

Q470 Which Australian driver won the Formula 1 championship in 1959, 1960 and 1966?

Q471 In poker, what is the popular nickname of the hand comprising the two black aces, the two black eights and the Queen of Hearts?

Q472 Charles Darrow, an out-of-work heating engineer from Philadelphia, invented which board game in the early 1930s?

Q473 First climbed by Compagnoni and Lacdelli, which mountain in the Karakoram range is also called Chogori?

Q474 Mostly ignored by other scientists at the time, Alfred Wegener put forward which theory in 1915 that explained, for instance, why fossil evidence showed that tropical plants once grew in icy regions like Alaska?

Q475 Which planet in our solar system is 12,756km/7,926 miles in diameter at its equator?

Q476 Formulated by a German physicist in 1833, which law states that any induced electromotive force will be in the direction such that the flux it creates will oppose the change in the flux that produced it?

Q477 Host of weekly TV cookery show Tasting, Grumbling, Samak Sundaravej was selected by which country's parliament to be prime minister in January and was forced out of office on September 9?

Q478 All the Right Reasons is the latest album from which Canadian rock band, who had a worldwide hit with the song How You Remind Me in 2001?

Q479 Which 100-year-old Hong Kong media mogul and philanthropist established and gave his name to an international award, often called "the Nobel Prize of the East"?

Q480 Which king of Macedon died on the afternoon of June 10, 323BC in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon?

Q481 The Algerian rock singer Rachid Taha is best known in the West for his Arabic cover of which song by The Clash - a top 30 UK hit in 1982 and no.15 on its 1991 reissue - that featured on his 2004 album Tekitoi?

Q482 Attached to weather balloons and used to measure various atmospheric parameters, the first of which devices was launched by meteorologist Pavel Molchanov in Pavlovsk, USSR on January 30, 1930?

Q483 Which giant sea monster is described as both "the piercing serpent" and "the crooked serpent" in Isaiah xxvii?

Q484 In The Simpsons, what is the nickname of Springfield's Mayor Quimby?

Q485 Which order of chivalry was instituted by King Oscar I of Norway and Sweden on August 21, 1847, as a distinctly Norwegian order?

Q486 Including such sequels as Party, Rocks! and Anthems, which competitive karaoke video game series for the PlayStation 2 is published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and developed by London Studio?

Q487 Founded in 1875 by two Syrian brothers Beshara and Saleem Teqla, which Cairo-based Egyptian daily newspaper has a name meaning 'The Pyramids' in Arabic?

Q488 In 1985, which Swedish ski jumper invented the V-technique that usurped such styles as the Daescher and Windisch techniques?

Q489 Considered the wisest and most eloquent of the deities of Asgard, which Aesir god of justice, peace and truth has a name meaning 'the presiding one' in Old Norse and 'president' in Modern Icelandic and Faroese?

Q490 Practised by King Henry VIII, 'Roving Marks' is the oldest competitive form of which sport?

Q491 What first name is shared by a deceased court jester in a Shakespeare play and the eponymous hero of Brian K. Vaughan's 60-issue comic series Y: The Last Man?

Q492 Shown in more than 160 countries since its UK premiere in September 2005, which nature documentary TV series tells the story of the Whiskers, one of over a dozen families of the titular creature, living in the Kalahari Desert?

Q493 The six-year-old Ana, a shy girl living in an isolated village just after the end of the Spanish Civil War, is the main character in which 1973 Spanish film - the directorial debut of Victor Erice?

Q494 An eponymous group of art and archaeological museums - conceived in a plan by Michelangelo in 1536 - in the Piazza del Campidoglio are located on top of which of the seven hills of Rome?

Q495 What surname links Lev, the US author of recent novels Codex and War; Vasily, the Soviet-era journalist and writer of the epic 1959 war novel Life and Fate and the article 'The Hell of Treblinka'; and David, the Israeli author of The Smile of the Lamb/Hiyukh ha-gedi:roman (1983) and The Zigzag Kid/Yesh yeladim zigzag (1994)?

Q496 Who is the authoritarian president of Belarus?

Q497 In his History of the Peloponnesian War, which Athenian historian (c.455-c.400BC) gave a detailed account of the said conflict down to 411?

Q498 Exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art, which 1911 surrealist painting by Marc Chagall prominently features a cap-wearing green-faced man staring at a goat or sheep with a smaller goat being milked in its cheek and, in the background, a female violinist hanging upside down in front of a black-clothed man with a scythe?

Q499 Believed to have been head of the great library at Alexandria during the 3rd century BC, which Greek poet's best known work was the "Aetia": explanations of familiar legends and customs written in elegiac couplets?

Q500 Lapp or Sami and Hungarian are members of which family of more than 20 languages spoken by more than 20 million people?

Q501 On which Hawaiian island, known as 'The Gathering Place', is the Pacific naval base of Pearl Harbor located?

1-100

1 Hofburg Imperial Palace (accept Hofburg) 2 Moxibustion 3 America (accept Americium) 4 Spetters 5

Perciformes or Percomorphi 6 Jiang Qing 7 Eroica 8 Indianapolis Motor Speedway or The Brickyard

(accept Indianapolis) 9 Perpignan 10 Yoko Ono 11 Kunstkammer or Kunstkamera 12 Hawksbill Turtle or Eretmochelys imbricata 13 pH scale 14 Fez or Fes 15 Cotton Club 16 FC Basel (accept Basle) 17 Angel Cabrera 18 Like Water for Chocolate/Como agua para chocolate 19 Totalitarianism or totalitarianismo (accept 'totalitarian') 20 Judges or law-makers or lawgivers 21 Jean Chretien 22 Rene Descartes 23 Bolometer 24 Slide rule 25 Le Corbusier 26 Sofas (accept 'couches', do not accept 'chairs') 27 Dingaan or Dingane 28 Refrigerator 29 'Lord' 30 Otto Wichterle 31 Ten-pin bowling 32 Rila Monastery or The Monastery of St John of Rila (accept Rila) 33 Singha 34 Twenty-seven (27) 35 Special Theory of Relativity 36 Physiognomy 37 Angling (World Fresh Water Championship) 38 Pathan or Pashtun 39 Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Milos 40 Six 41 Muammar al-Gaddafi or Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (accept Gaddafi or Qaddafi) 42 Ian McShane 43 Leptons 44 Grasses 45 'T' 46 Vaseline 47 George Santayana 48 Zamunda 49 Parasitic worms (e.g. tapeworms, threadworms, roundworms) 50 Andromeda 51 Pakistan (Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore) 52 Edict of Milan 53 Richard Bergmann 54 Gianni Versace 55 Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) 56 Glass (accept glass-making or lampworking) 57 Shintoism/Shinto 58 Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement 59 Lockheed 60 Basque Country or Euskadi or Pais Vasco or Vascongadas 61 South Africa's apartheid policies (accept 'apartheid') 62 Puffing Billy 63 Samsonite 64 Patagonia (as in the Patagonian Mara/Dolichotis patagonum/Patagonian mara) 65 Karbala (aka Karbala al-Muqaddasah) 66 Street Fighter 67 Albanian or Gjuha shqipe 68 Phloem 69 Bunyip 70 Lokomotiv Moscow (no 1/2 point for Moscow) 71 Metropolis 72 "Big Train" 73 Tivoli Gardens 74 Reach summit of Mount Everest 75 Giovanni Agnelli 76 MC Solaar 77 Tree-hugger (Chipko means "to hug" in Hindi) 78 Poisson distribution 79 Rumours 80 Iran 81 Rendang 82 Bagan or Pagan 83 Siam 84 Buddhist 85 Ken(neth) Hom 86 Epee 87 Fallingwater 88 Swarovski 89 Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire (accept 'The Flowers of Evil') 90 Beastie Boys 91 Moscow 92 Radio Ceylon (1/2 point for mentioning Sri Lanka) 93 Basking shark 94 Expedia 95 Twenty 96 Bobby Darin 97 Sericulture 98 Jean-Bedel Bokassa 99 Gdansk or Danzig 100 San Jose (the clash was called "Wager's Action")

101-200

101 Dionysius Exiguus (accept Dennis the Little or Dennis the Short) 102 Anna Jurjewna Netrebko 103 Switzerland 104 Saw 105 Valium 106 Hewlett-Packard 107 Milan 108 (Mikael and David) Nalbandian 109 Clarinet 110 Nagorno-Karabakh or (Armenian name, Dagliq Qarabag) 111 Yarra 112 Air Guitar World Championship 113 Saxo Grammaticus 114 Samoa (accept Western Samoa) 115 Aime Felix Tschiffely 116 Sicily 117 Falashas (accept the Tigrinya 'Kayla' or Hebrew 'Habashim') 118 Chado or chadar 119 Shoemaker Levy 9 or SL9 (accept Shoemaker Levy) 120 Chagas' disease 121 Carthage 122 Entablature 123 Max Weber 124 Knol 125 JB Fletcher or Jessica Fletcher or Jessica McGill (from Murder, She Wrote ... B stands for Beatrice) 126 Orlando Magic 127 Pope Gregory IX (1/2 point for Gregory) 128 Village People 129 The addition of a moustache in the latter work (accept goatee, do not accept addition of acronym L.H.O.O.Q.) 130 Biedermeier (as in Gottlieb Biedermeier) 131 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 132 Augusta National (accept Augusta) 133 Richard Seddon 134 Tamas Darnyi 135 Mimicry (1/2 point for 'camouflage') 136 Lake Tana or Tsana or Dembiya 137 Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 138 Latin Kings (accept Spanish translation) 139 Joaquin Rodrigo 140 1953 141 Avocado or aguacate or butter pear or alligator pear 142 Fiztcarraldo 143 Kimono 144 Kalmar Union 145 Thunderbird(s) 146 Richard II 147 Mesopotamia 148 High School Musical 2 ( accept High School Musical) 149 Three 150 Carlos Sainz 151 The Brothers Karamazov or Brat'ya Karamazovy 152 Nacre 153 Althing 154 Sunda Strait 155 Viola 156 Koku 157 Savica Waterfall (the work was Baptism at Savica) 158 Colourings 159 "Art" 160 Flight of the Conchords (accept Conchords) 161 New Yorker 162 Andy Palacio 163 blind carbon copy (1/2 point for 'carbon copy' or 'blind copy') 164 Kulak 165 Toshiba 166 Egypt 167 World Bank 168 Destiny's Child 169 Ahn Jung-Hwan (accept Jung-Hwan) 170 Bohuslav Martinu 171 Fred Davis 172 Ride on Time 173 Lucerne, but accept Montreux Festival 174 Honeybees 175 Euripides 176 David Tennant 177 The Sound of Music 178 Alexander Dityatin 179 Hula (accept kohiko or halau or 'auana) 180 (Maria) Valentina Vezzali 181 23.5 degrees (accept answers between 20.5 and 26.5 degrees) 182 Muslim Brotherhood or The Society of Muslim Brothers or 'the Brotherhood' or MB or al-ikhwan 183 Fred Lorz 184 James Cagney 185 Auguste Bartholdi 186 Matthew Barney 187 Nitrogen 188 La Gioconda 189 Sabado Gigante 190 Steamboat Bill Jr 191 Ay 192 Spain 193 Semmering Railway 194 Sassanian or Eranshahr (meaning 'Empire of the Aryans') 195 Herbert von Karajan 196 Austin 197 Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko 198 Horus or Heru 199 Nara or Nara-shi 200 Cedi (from the Akan word for cowry shell)

201-300

201 Annelise Coberger 202 Appaloosa 203 Sumerian 204 Muddy Waters 205 St Mark or San Marco 206 Canada 207 Shenzhen 208 Haiku 209 Harpies 210 Nestor Kirchner 211 Wladimir Klitschko (do not accept Vitali, his brother) 212 Dubravka Ugresic 213 Red Junglefowl 214 Standard Error of the Mean 215 Mont Blanc 216 Safeway 217 Michael Crichton 218 Vocalese 219 Caracas 220 Achille Lauro 221 Waiting for Godot or En attendant Godot 222 Hamam or Hummum 223 A Whiter Shade of Pale (by Procul Harum) 224 Thoracic diaphragm (accept diaphragm) 225 Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (accept Wallenstein) 226 Krzysztof Kieslowski 227 Anastasia Dobromyslova 228 Thule culture 229 Discus 230 Gisele Bundchen or Gisele 231 Chinook 232 Ron Mueck 233 Kim Possible 234 Tobias Wolff 235 L'Avventura (accept The Adventure) 236 Friends 237 Herzog & de Meuron (though accept Ai Weiwei for an even more clever answer since he inspired the stadium design) 238 Cologne or Koln Cathedral or Kolner Dom or Hohne Domkirche St Peter und Maria 239 The Brian Jonestown Massacre 240 Grimaldi 241 Fraser river 242 Heinrich Wilhem Olbers 243 Kudzu (also accept 'foot a night vine', 'mile a minute vine' or 'Gat Gun' or 'Ge Gan' or 'The vine that ate the South') 244 The Internationale or L'Internationale 245 Kir 246 UNIVAC I or Universal Automatic Computer I) 247 Yngling 248 Amazon 249 Scooter 250 Serge Gainsbourg 251 Posology 252 Torschlusspanik 253 Jeff Wilson 254 Cholera 255 Black Hawk 256 Ecuador 257 Gorgonzola 258 Bologna or Bolognese 259 Greenpeace 260 Penguin 261 "Nuts!" 262 Angioplasty or angioblasty 263 Glyph 264 Chenin blanc 265 Can 266 Prime number 267 Pottery (accept similar) 268 Apollo 17 269 St Helena 270 Breslau 271 John Wayne Gacy 272 Freetown, Sierra Leone 273 Alessandro Volta (as in Voltaic cell) 274 Sanhedrin or synedrion 275 Pocoyo 276 Lina Magaia 277 Neutron stars 278 Necronomicon 279 Ronin 280 The War of the Triple Alliance (accept the Paraguyan War or the Great War) 281 Franco Modigliani 282 Ramayana 283 Sulphuric acid 284 Dasvand 285 Khartoum 286 The Master of Go (1/2 point for 'Go') 287 W 288 Marie-Josee Croze 289 Enki Bilal or Enes Bilalovic 290 Australia 291 Shogi (accept 'Japanese chess') 292 Marie-Sophie Germain 293 Zoryas 294 40-years-old 295 Caiman or cayman (accept Caimaninae) 296 Sol 297 Hong Kong 298 The Monkees 299 Uri Geller 300 Moschino

301-400

301 Societe Generale 302 Jean Borotra 303 Umbrian Film Festival (accept Umbria) 304 Yello 305 "The Smurfette Principle" (1/2 point for mention of 'Smurf') 306 (Philly) Cheesesteak (1/2 point for Philly Steak) 307 Orizaba 308 Forty-seven (47) (accept '46') 309 Fantomas 310 Jons Jacob Berzelius 311 AB as in AktieBolag 312 Minolta 313 Resident Evil 314 Charles Babbage 315 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (accept Sweeney Todd) 316 Tar 317 Bumblebee 318 Rodina zhdet/In the Service of My Country 319 Sulphur 320 Oldboy 321 Scientology (1/2 point for Dianetics) 322 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (accept Arbenz or Guzman) 323 Tour de France 324 Spiderman/Peter Parker 325 Jonny Greenwood 326 Squash 327 Tarbela Dam 328 Godzilla 329 Rain 330 Averroes or Ibn Rushd or Abul Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd 331 Jan Potocki 332 Autogiro/autogyro 333 Lulu 334 Richard Attenborough 335 Dorothea Lange 336 Kali 337 Torque 338 Amoco Cadiz 339 Oscar Romero or Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames 340 Kawasaki 341 Palm (Computing Inc.) 342 Dalai Lama 343 Fiji 344 Callisto 345 Petanque (do not accept 'boules') 346 Richard Branson (as in Virgin) 347 James Callaghan 348 Machado de Assis or Joaquim Machado de Assis (accept Machado) 349 Louis XV 350 Heart 351 Compasso d'Oro/The Golden Compass 352 Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path 353 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 354 Puma 355 John Akii-Bua 356 Ina Bauer 357 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin 358 Canadas 359 Teofilo Cubillas 360 L'Opium des intellectuels/The Opium of the Intellectuals 361 Dogon masks 362 Silent Spring 363 Belmont Stakes 364 Friday Night Lights 365 Blue 366 Black September 367 Hanif Mohammed (accept Mohammed) 368 Battle of Le Mans 369 University of Michigan 370 King Arthur 371 Vishnu (accept Krishna) 372 Orchestre Baobab (1/2 point for 'Baobab') 373 Emil von Behring 374 Tulsa 375 Papua New Guinea 376 Canada 377 Beaver 378 Buddenbrooks 379 Polymers 380 Argon 381 "equal and opposite reaction" 382 Latent 383 CLR James 384 Joan of Arc 385 Smallpox 386 The Man in the Iron Mask 387 Helsinki 388 Aeneas 389 Les Rois Maudits/The Accursed Kings 390 Melanie Klein 391 Swedish 392 The Three Cornered Hat/El Sombrero de Tres Picos 393 Zurich 394 Theravada 395 Jeannie Longo 396 Asceticism 397 Charles Aznavour 398 Cuba 399 Georgia (Eduard Shevardnade) 400 Moonlight Serenade

401-501

401 China 402 vory v zakone 403 Forbidden City (accept Forbidden Palace) 404 Cimmerians or Gimirri or Kimmeriori 405 Berlin 406 Lemniscus 407 James Toseland 408 Argentina('s Pumas) 409 Doo-wop 410 ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names) 411 Vittore Carpaccio 412 Checkmate 413 Gaelic football (accept 'Gah' or 'Peil' or 'Peil Ghaelach' or 'Caid') 414 Paulo Mendes da Rocha (accept Mendes da Rocha; 1/2 point for either 'Mendes' or 'Rocha') 415 A seaweed (or accept explanations equivalent to 'planktonic macroalgae') 416 Artichoke (respectively Chinese, globe, Jerusalem) 417 Churro 418 Metronome 419 Bhagavad Ghita 420 A View to a Kill 421 Yilmaz Guney 422 "al nakba" (accept 'nakba') 423 Bhutan 424 Trident 425 Albrecht Penck 426 India 427 Wilhelm Steinitz 428 Vienna Circle or Vienna Group 429 Aquatint (do not accept 'mezzotint') 430 Ostrich 431 Jaipur 432 'Ideomotor effect' (1/2 point for 'ideomotor') 433 Lobster 434 Longchamp 435 The Spotnicks 436 Logos 437 Enzyme 438 The Laffer Curve (accept 'Laffer') 439 "Iron Curtain" speech (given by Winston Churchill) 440 Winnie Mandela 441 Porphyry 442 Siemens 443 Charleston 444 Frequency Modulation 445 Chad 446 Bahrain 447 Bat 448 Namib desert 449 Cristobal Balenciaga 450 Cygnus (accept 'Swan') 451 Carboniferous 452 Yang Yang (A) (there is also a Yang Yang (C), but accept just 'Yang Yang') 453 Mario Lemieux 454 Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC 455 Kata 456 Genoa 457 Joe Klein 458 Antarctica 459 Algiers 460 April 23rd (accept May 6th or November 23rd) 461 Nicholas I 462 Tokelau 463 Huitzilopochtli 464 Incitatus 465 Nabonidus or (his Akkadian name) Nabu-naid 466 Louis Bleriot 467 New York Mets (accept Mets) 468 Tug of war 469 Boxing gloves 470 Jack Brabham 471 Dead Man's Hand 472 Monopoly 473 K2 474 Continental drift 475 Earth 476 Lenz's law (as in Heinrich Lenz) 477 Thailand 478 Nickelback 479 Sir Run Run Shaw (Shaw Prize) (accept 'Shaw') 480 Alexander the Great or Alexander III 481 Rock the Casbah/Rock El Casbah 482 Radiosonde (accept 'rawinsonde') 483 Leviathan 484 "Diamond Joe' 485 Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav/Den Kongelige Norske St Olavs Orden/Sanct Olafs Orden (accept 'Olav', of course) 486 SingStar 487 Al-Ahram 488 Jan Boklov 489 Forseti 490 Archery 491 Yorick 492 Meerkat Manor (1/2 point for mentioning 'meerkat') 493 The Spirit of the Beehive/El Spiritu de la colmena 494 Capitoline Hill (The Capitoline Museums or Musei Capitolini) 495 Grossman 496 Alexander Lukashenko 497 Thucydides or Thoukydides 498 I and the Village 499 Callimachus 500 Finno-Ugric (1/2 point for mentioning either 'Finno' or 'Ugric') 501 Oahu or O'ahu

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