The Quiz Blogger

So here's part two of a quiz project that outgrew my grasp. I'm planning to restart my quizzes one day (when I no longer have a day job that consumes my precious time), probably reducing each one to 400 questions each. In fact, 13 of them have already been written in rough form. They just need to be chopped down (or expanded in a couple of cases), have all the really long questions removed and then pumped up with a few more "gettable" questions. Easy. Then there's my other ongoing quiz project; I call it the "yellow file", which is a real time-suck of an effort. I've been doing it for four years.

But I'll tell you one thing: if you want to learn something inside out - and I mean like imprinted on your brain for eternity - put them in a 500-question quiz and then mark the 100+ question papers. It may seem excessive, but it works! Pat Gibson told me he would save himself the massive effort of doing so and automate the answers, and I said PAH and PAH again.

Anyway, remember I wrote this quiz in 2008 (I think). I've corrected a couple of egregious errors to do with champagne and a Swedish lake; otherwise, I haven't updated it. Please bear that in mind...

Q1 'The Springle-Ring' is the first number in Act 1 of which musical that had its gala premiere in Toronto on March 24, 2006?

Q2 What surname links Anders: the Swedish artist (1860-1920) whose paintings include Lilla bryggeriet and Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath; with John, the US avant-garde composer and saxophonist who recorded the 1980s albums The Big Gundown and Spillane?

Q3 On what piece of gymnastics apparatus might you do a 'Pak salto' or a Bhardwaj salto', as well as a 'Jaeger', a 'Geinger' and a 'Tkachev'?

Q4 Given a fitting cartoon character's name, which IBM supercomputer has been confirmed as the world's fastest electronic brain?

Q5 Using two horizontal oppositely charged plates, what experiment was begun in 1909 by Robert Milikan to determine the charge on an electron?

Q6 What dance was developed by Joseph Neruba in Poland in 1835?

Q7 First expounded by Dhanvantari in c.1500BC but not written down until 200BC, what ancient Indian system of healing is the oldest holistic system in existence?

Q8 Forced to abdicate by Napoleon in 1797, Ludovico Manin was the last holder of which title?

Q9 (202) 456-1414 is the telephone number for which building?

Q10 'One percent CN gas in a solvent of 2-butanol, propylane glycol, cyclohexene and dipropylene glycol methyl ether', was the original formulation of which tear gas brand, first manufactured under the name "Chemical ____" by Lake Erie Chemical in 1962?

Q11 Paolo Uccello is best known for three paintings, once wrongly named the Battle of Sant' Egidio of 1416, commemorating which 1432 military clash between Florence and Siena?

Q12 Irish comics writer Garth Ennis penned which 75-issue, 1995-2000 DC/Vertigo series that he co-created with artist Steve Dillon and told the supernatural story of small town Texas reverend Jesse Custer?

Q13 First produced by Nabisco in 1912 at its Chelsea factory in New York City, over 491 billion of which sandwich cookies have been sold, making it the best selling of the 20th century?

Q14 Born Matsuo Kinsaku in c.1644, which Edu period haiku poet wrote Oku no Hosomichi ('Narrow road to/of the interior'), also called The Narrow Road to the Deep North?

Q15 Which Canadian-American experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist has written such popular science books as The Language Instinct (1994) and The Blank Slate (2002)?

Q16 Known in English as Embers or Flames, which 1975 Bollywood action blockbuster, starring Amitabh Bachchan as bandit chief Jaidev, is the highest grossing film of all time in India and was declared 'Film of the Millennium' by BBC India?

Q17 The 'Ems Dispatch' was used by France as a pretext to declare which war in 1870?

Q18 Which grilled or toasted sandwich, made with either pastrami or corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian or Thousand Island dressing on rye bread, shares its name with the first son of Jacob and Leah in the Old Testament?

Q19 In the USA, what are 'Freddie Mac' and 'Fannie Mae' authorised to make?

Q20 Run by the Ministry of Information, MRTV is the state television and radio broadcaster of which Asian country?

Q21 The Senegalese drummer Mor Thiam is the father of which popular US-based rapper, whose hit singles include Lonely and Smack That?

Q22 Known as the 'Spanish Opening' or 'Spanish Game' outside English-speaking countries, which chess opening is characterised by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5?

Q23 Concerning Dutch banker Hans van den Broek and the time he spent in New York City after 9/11, Joseph O'Neill's 2008 novel Netherland centres on which sport?

Q24 If the Cosa Nostra is Sicily, the 'Ndrangheta is Calabria and the Camorra is Naples, what is the Sacra Corona Unita?

Q25 Which 1903 symphonic poem in 10 tableaux by Bela Bartok is based on the life of the eponymous leader of a failed Hungarian uprising against Austria that began in 1848?

Q26 Founded in 1965, the Mujahedin-e Khalq or PMOI is a militant Islamic socialist organisation dedicated to overthrowing of which country's current government?

Q27 By what French name do we know the pass in northern Spain, known for an event that took place there in 778AD, which has the Basque name Orrega ('place of junipers')?

Q28 Choreographed by Agnes DeMille, the dramatic ballet Fall River Legend (1948) was based on which infamous double-murder case of 1892?

Q29 Which sloping three-letter fashion logo - far more visible in May 2008 for newsworthy reasons - is perhaps the best known work of graphic designer Cassandre?

Q30 Which Czech footballer delicately chipped his penalty over West German keeper Sepp Maier to win the 1976 European Championships?

Q31 Which Sikh Guru (the fifth) was the patron of Amritsar's Golden Temple during its construction and completion in 1601?

Q32 Which large black-and-rust coloured dog breed, frequently used as guard and police dogs, takes its name from the oldest town in south-west Germany, in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg?

Q33 Add the four missing words to the full title of an 1859 work: On the ______ __ ___ ______ by Means of Natural Selection on the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Q34 First published in c.850AD, Alf laylah wa laylah is the original Arabic title of which literary work?

Q35 Legend has it that the eyes of the architect of which building - constructed to commemorate the crushing of the Tatars in 1552 - were put out so he could not repeat the confection of onion domes anywhere else?

Q36 Originally deriving its name from a phrase meaning 'four circuits of rivers and gorges', which earthquake-hit Chinese province has its capital at Chengdu?

Q37 Designer of the Billy bookcase and IKEA's fourth ever employee, Gillis Lundgren suggested pulling the legs off a table in 1952, therefore inventing what assembly method?

Q38 Psychologist Dr Michael Shore runs a team of 30 researchers who consult children at every developmental stage of his company's products. The biggest toy company in the world, what is it called?

Q39 What bird can be rockhopper, macaroni or emperor?

Q40 The first laws of which sport were formulated by the Melbourne Football Club in 1859?

Q41 The Immeuble Louise Weiss in Strasbourg is one of two meeting places for which institution, established in 1952 as the 'Common Assembly'?

Q42 A title subject of one of the Magnetic Fields's 69 Love Songs, which Swiss linguist's most influential work, Course in General Linguistics/Cours de linguistique generale, was published posthumously in 1916 by former students Charles Bally and Albert Sechechaye?

Q43 Played by Robert Englund, which undead serial killer features in the Nightmare on Elm Street movies?

Q44 The archaeological site of ancient Akrotiri is found on which Greek island (also known as Thera) that was devastated by an earthquake in 470BC?

Q45 What two-player card game, which shares its name with a 1980s Formula One world champion driver, would you be playing if you win a 'capot', i.e. all 12 tricks in the hand?

Q46 Yellowstone National Park is mostly located in which US state?

Q47 Which country's flag is the world's oldest tricolour, having first appeared in 1572 as the Prince's Flag?

Q48 Allan McNish, Rinaldo Capello and Tom Kristensen ensured that which team and German automobile company won its 8th '24 Hours of Le Mans' in 2008?

Q49 La Marseillaise and the tsarist Russian national anthem feature in which Tchaikovsky concert overture that debuted in 1882?

Q50 The fabric, tussore, is made from which natural protein fibre that is produced by larvae of Bombyx mori?

Q51 The 7th century mudbrick building known as the Great Kyz Kala is the best surviving example of a kohsk, a type of structure found in Central Asia. It is in which country?

Q52 Cinnabar is a common ore of which transition metal?

Q53 Which 2008 'action comedy stoner' film, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, takes its name from the popular term for a meteorological phenomenon that affects Hawaii and the North American Pacific coast and is characterised by heavy rainfall?

Q54 Based at the Tokyo Dome, which baseball team - the country's oldest professional side - are regarded as 'The New York Yankees of Japan'?

Q55 Which Canadian communications scholar wrote in his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy: "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village"?

Q56 Which man - a legend in a far different field - made the first successful flight on the Australian continent in March 1910 in a Voisin biplane?

Q57 What two-words link a 1971 Sam Peckinpah film set in England; a translated passage by Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu that begins "Heaven and Earth are ruthless and treat the myriad of creatures as _____ ____"; and a 2003 book by British philosopher John Gray which furthered his view that mankind's progress is an illusion?

Q58 What type of clock is named after the silicon dioxide crystal that regulates its electronic oscillator?

Q59 The Macaque peach and Chinese gooseberry are alternative names for which fruit?

Q60 What event broke out at Thomas Farriner's bakery?

Q61 Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a particularly lethal form of which cancer?

Q62 The world's richest woman, Liliane Betancourt, is said to be worth $22.9 million. She is the heiress associated with which cosmetics company?

Q63 Known for his trademark facepaint, the 'world champion' wrestler Brian James Hellwig was better known by which name when he performed in the then WWF?

Q64 Which Scottish post-rock band, whose name ultimately comes from a Cantonese word for 'ghost', released their debut album Young Team in 1997 and have since released such other records as Rock Action and Mr Beast?

Q65 The setting for Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which Italian city is home to the Scrovegni Chapel and a football team once graced by US defender Alexei Lalas?

Q66 The cover of Coldplay's fourth album, Vida La Vida or Death and All His Friends, was modelled on which patriotic 1830 Eugene Delacroix painting?

Q67 Which Iranian was the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Q68 Which brand of the champagne company Lous Roederer, who have tried to disassociate themselves from rappers who often name-checked it, shares its name with a type of cheap Bic ballpoint pen?

Q69 A cross between a chatshow and a variety show, La Noche del 10 was one of the most popular, if not THE most popular TV programmes in Argentina. Who hosted it?

Q70 Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey. What is the name of the largest lake in Sweden?

Q71 What type of structure is the Singapore Flyer?

Q72 The Playstation 3 video game Guns of the Patriots is the first title in the fourth generation of which 'stealth action' series, produced, written and directed by Hideo Kojima for publishers Konami?

Q73 A 2,000-year-old seed recovered from the ancient fortress of Masada recently became the oldest seed in the world to have germinated successfully. What plant, known as the 'tree of life', grew from it?

Q74 What musical-sounding mathematical term describes a line that joins two points of a circle?

Q75 Which Russian nuclear physicist turned peace activist gave his name to the European Parliament's Prize for Freedom of Thought?

Q76 The military body known as the Derg, meaning 'committee' or 'council' in Ge'ez, began ruling which country in 1974?

Q77 Which English naturalist and broadcaster wrote and presented the TV documentary series Life on Earth (1979) and The Living Planet (1984), and narrated The Blue Planet (2001)?

Q78 In Greek myth, the 'Seven Against Thebes' failed in their attempt to overthrow which king?

Q79 Sharing its name with a SI unit, what is the largest general-use car rental company in the world?

Q80 While Lou Ferrigno got all green and mad, who played The Incredible Hulk's alterego Bruce Banner in the 1978-82 TV series?

Q81 The American Kelly Slater is an eight-time world champion in which water sport?

Q82 Sponsors of England's FA Cup, what is Germany's biggest energy group?

Q83 Excavations suggest that which 3rd Century BC marble sculpture of the goddess Nike, seen at the Louvre since 1884, occupied a niche in an open-air amphitheatre and also served as an altar within view of the ship monument of Demetrius I Poliorcetes?

Q84 Mario Vargas Llosa's 2000 novel The Feast of the Goat/La fiesta del chivo portrays the May 30, 1961 assassination of which Dominican dictator?

Q85 Described as "a great event in the religious life of the West" by Reinhold Niebuhr, I and Thou/Ich und Du is a 1923 work by which Austrian theologian?

Q86 In the activity of BASE jumping, what does the 'A' stand for?

Q87 Which 1863 Edouard Manet painting shocked contemporary audiences not with the nudity, but the confrontational gaze of model Victorine Meurent and the surrounding details identifying her as a high-class prostitute waiting for a client?

Q88 The Cadbury Dairy Milk 'Gorilla' drums to which 1980s power ballad in the follow-up to the hit advert featuring In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins?

Q89 A member of a German family famed for such daring feats, which veteran high-wire performer fell to his death while walking a tightrope between two buildings in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 22, 1978?

Q90 Named after a pioneer in antiseptic surgery, which mouthwash is manufactured by Pfizer and was first formulated by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in 1889?

Q91 Which mathematician of Syracuse (c.287-212BC) proved the principle of the lever and invented the compound pulley, declaring: "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth"?

Q92 Which Danish-born sculptor died in 1941 just before the completion of his vast carvings of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore?

Q93 Which Prince of Wittenberg and Elector of Saxony acted as Martin Luther's protector, kidnapping Luther after he was declared an outlaw and taking him into custody at Wartburg castle?

Q94 Which US botanist and geneticist (d.1992) is best known for her discovery of 'jumping genes', since renamed 'transposons', that move along a chromosome and exert control over other genes?

Q95 In relation to a country's economy, what is the GDP?

Q96 Which 1727 composition (BWV 244) by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra with libretto by Picander, sets chapters 26 and 27 of an eponymous 'Gospel' to music?

Q97 Which Budapest-born US academic published his first book, the controversial The Myth of Mental Illness in 1961, and expanded on his theme in The Manufacture of Madness?

Q98 Introduced to the West Indies because of its ability to kill large poisonous snakes, the 'Egyptian ichneumon' is the largest species of which civet-like mammal?

Q99 Which king led the victorious Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314?

Q100 A leading figure in 'participatory journalism', the late Paris Review editor George Plimpton took up which contact sport at the unlikely age of 39 for his 1966 book Paper Lion?

Q101 In 1976, which cartoonist became the youngest ever recipient of an honorary degree from his alma mater Yale University at the age of 27 for creating the Doonesbury comic strip?

Q102 The subject of an infamous newspaper headline, what was the USS Phoenix renamed when it became part of another country's navy?

Q103 Known in German as Weichsel, what is the longest river in Poland at 678 miles?

Q104 Which German physicist devised the Second Law of Thermodynamics in 1850 and was the first person to use the word 'entropy'?

Q105 Meaning 'beauty writing' in Greek, what term describes the art of writing?

Q106 The Sella Descent and the Liffey Descent are long-distance races in which sport?

Q107 Born Nazeer Gayed, Pope Shenouda III is the 117th primate of which Christian church, the largest in Egypt?

Q108 Which starchy vegetable is called 'brambor' in Czech, 'ziemniak' in Polish, 'kentang' in Indonesian, 'burgonya' in Hungarian, 'kartoffel' in Danish and 'cartof' in Romanian?

Q109 Mentioned as a gift in the Gospel of Matthew, which aromatic resin is also called olibanum and gives its name to a 'Trail' in Oman?

Q110 Released in Japan this September priced at 18,000 yen/£85, which company's Eternal Maiden Actualisation toy robot can run, dance and kiss?

Q111 After three series and audiences of 400 million, the Chinese TV series Super Girl was banned by the government for allegedly corrupting its viewers. It was the native version of which show that was created in the UK by 19 Entertainment?

Q112 Tatyana Kazankina, Svetlana Masterkova and Kelly Holmes have each achieved which Olympic double?

Q113 The tribes of which ancient region, covering most of modern Romania, united in c.60BC and threatened the Roman Empire, until it was finally conquered by Trajan in 107AD?

Q114 Named after its Belgian inventor, what material is formed by the reaction under heat and pressure of phenol and formaldehyde and was the world's first synthetic plastic?

Q115 What type of natural disaster links Shenshi in China (February 2, 1556); Antioch (May 20, 526AD); Yeddo in Japan (December 30, 1703); and Messina in Italy (December 28, 1908)?

Q116 Who is the only US President to have resigned from office?

Q117 Which NHL team won its 11th Stanley Cup in 2008?

Q118 Located at Jackson in New Jersey, the Kingda-Ka is - at the time of writing - the fastest of its kind in the world. What is it?

Q119 Lada has sold more than 13.5 million cars of a certain model since 1980. Sharing its name with a 1960s/early70s footballer who scored 35 goals in 42 games for Italy, what is this car called?

Q120 Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici were stabbed during a High Mass in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore on April 26, 1478, as part of which plot, named after a rival Florentine family?

Q121 Which Irish province shares its name with a smelly cow's cheese from the Alsace-Lorraine region that is traditionally aged for 90 days?

Q122 Which 1759 Voltaire novel sees the eponymous hero schooled in the highly optimistic belief that the world we inhabit is the best of all possible worlds by his tutor Dr. Pangloss?

Q123 Known as 'Madiba' to his friends and family, which Nobel Peace Prize winner celebrated his 90th birthday in 2008?

Q124 In a letter to his father, dated October 1512, who wrote: "I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied"?

Q125 Which Icelandic novelist and 1955 Nobel Laureate published Independent People/ Sjalfstaett folk in 1935?

Q126 Which Eastern Roman Emperor gave his name to the Eurasian 'Plague of _________' that killed an estimated 25 million people between 541-90AD?

Q127 What shade of brownish-purple derives its name from the French for 'flea'?

Q128 In 1819, the German chemist Friedrich Ferdinand Runge discovered which white, crystalline, bitter alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system stimulant in humans?

Q129 Sussanah 'the Angel-maker' Olah, a nurse who killed herself in 1929, is said to have poisoned up to 100 people with arsenic. In which country did she commit these murders?

Q130 Premiered in January 1904, which Anton Chekhov play - his last - opens in the early morning hours of a day in May in the nursery of Madame Ranevskaya's ancestral estate?

Q131 Sharing his surname with the Russian artist who inspired Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, which German air ace claimed a record reported 352 kills during WW2?

Q132 "Match me, Sidney"; "You're dead kid, get yourself buried"; and "I'd hate to take a bite out of you - you're a cookie full of arsenic" are lines spoken by Burt Lancaster's gossip columnist JJ Hunsecker in which 1957 film?

Q133 The Rubens triptych Descent from the Cross (1611-14) is displayed in which Belgian city's cathedral?

Q134 Beqaa (aka Bekaa or Biqa) is a fertile valley and the most important farming region of which country on the Mediterranean's eastern shore?

Q135 Who composed Symphony No. 1 "African-American" (1930), the first symphony written by an African-American man and performed for an American audience?

Q136 Featuring DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz, Now You're Gone was a 2008 UK no.1 for which Swedish dance musician whose real name is Jonas Erik Altberg?

Q137 Played with 54 wooden blocks that are stacked in a tower formation, which game derives its name from the imperative form of a Swahili verb meaning 'to build'?

Q138 Later used for the name of a long-running and alliteratively titled TV show, what two-word phrase was originally coined by a London Graphic writer to describe the irreverent and intimate Leica portraits of statesmen created by the German photographer Erich Solomon?

Q139 Sharing his surname with a female Nobel Prize for Literature winner, which German dramatist wrote the tragedy Minna von Barnhelm (1767) and comedy Nathan the Wise/Nathan der Weise (1779)?

Q140 On March 25, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their first 'bed-in' for world peace in room 902 of the Hilton Hotel in which European capital?

Q141 At what age did Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas, the former Supreme Florence Ballard and Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham all die?

Q142 The original version of which high-level programming language was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964 to provide access for non-science students to computers?

Q143 The capital of the Ilyrian Kingdom up to 168BC. what diamond-shaped Albanian city is bounded by two rivers, a lake and Rozafa Castle, and is also the site of the Ura e Mesit/Mesi Bridge - 13 stone arcs soaring high over the Kiri River?

Q144 Which soul singer, whose many albums include I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) and This Girl's in Love with You (1970), played Mrs. Murphy in The Blues Brothers?

Q145 Which Czech photographer, whose books include Gypsies (1975 - his first) and Exiles (1988), won the 'Robert Capa Gold Medal' for his anonymously published pictures of the 1968 Soviet invasion?

Q146 Which Mission Impossible TV series star asks a young boy visiting his cockpit in the movie spoof Airplane! "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" amongst many other dubious questions?

Q147 Pacific Ocean Blue was the only completed solo album (he never finished his follow-up Bambu) by which Beach Boy, reputedly the only one who could surf?

Q148 Located 3km to the north-west of Dublin, what 712 hectare/1760 acre area of land with a walled circumference of 16km, is the largest enclosed urban public park in Europe?

Q149 Which unit of mass for gemstones is equal to 0.2 gram/200mg?

Q150 First published in 1971, which influential book is divided into the sections 'Summary', 'Body', 'Soul', 'Love', 'Hate' and 'Revolution', and includes such chapters as 'The Wicked Womb' and 'The Object of Male Fantasy'?

Q151 Which reformist Shi'ite offshoot was formed by Mirza Ali Muhammad, who adopted a title meaning 'Gate' and was executed in 1850?

Q152 Taman Negara, meaning 'national park', is the world's oldest rainforest and the oldest national park in which Asian country?

Q153 Located by the Ping river, what is Thailand's second city and great northern capital, which is home to well over 100 Buddhist temples including the Wat Phra That, near the summit of Doi Suthep?

Q154 Home to the richest variety of tropical fish found in any freshwater lake in the world, Africa's third largest lake is named after which country?

Q155 The (Vodacom) Blue Bulls is a top rugby union club from which country?

Q156 Also known as the Southern Tropic, which circle of latitude lies 23° 26′ 22″ south of the Equator, and marks the most southerly latitude at which the Sun can appear directly overhead at noon?

Q157 Known as campionissimo (champion of champions), which Italian winner of the Tour de France (1949 & '52) was aged only 40 when he died from malaria he contracted in Upper Volta in 1960?

Q158 Sharing its name with a military antipersonnel mine and a defunct American football NFL Europe team, what type of broadsword is named from the Scots Gaelic for 'great sword'?

Q159 Issued on May 1, 1840, what was the world's first adhesive stamp of a public postal system?

Q160 What is the tallest building in Paris?

Q161 The Jesuit Missions of La Santisima Trinidad de Parana and Jesus de Tavarangue is the only World Heritage Site in which landlocked South American country?

Q162 Meaning 'shallow dish' in Latin, what art term describes an incrustation of oxide formed on the surface of a metal, especially the blue-green oxidation of bronze, which occurs naturally with age through exposure to the atmosphere?

Q163 Found in many cities of the USSR, the most famous of which 'Main Department Stores' (though actually a shopping mall) is located in Kitai-gorod of Moscow with a facade extending for 242m along the eastern side of Red Square?

Q164 What type of radiation comes between microwaves and visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum?

Q165 Salpingitis is an infection that affects which parts of a woman's body?

Q166 Which boy is infatuated with Becky Thatcher, has a half-brother named Sid and lives with his Aunt Polly in St Petersburg, Missouri?

Q167 The founder of Alpine hospices in the passes that bear his name, who is the patron saint of mountaineers?

Q168 Which German philosopher (1844-1900) expounded his belief that only the strong ought to survive and the doctrine of the superman in such works as Thus Spoke Zarathustra/Also sprach Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil/Jenseits von Gut und Bose?

Q169 Andrianampoinimerina ('The-King-in-the-Heart-of-Imerina'), nicknamed Nampoina or Ny Ombalahibemaso ('The-Big-Eyed-Bull'), was a Merina ('Highlander') military and political leader of which island from c.1787-1810?

Q170 Owner of a vineyard adjoining King Ahab's palace, which Jezreelite was put to death on false evidence at Queen Jezebel's instigation so that her husband could seize his property?

Q171 Introduced by the Nazis for the 1936 Games, the first Olympic torch bore the name of its manufacturer. Which German company made it?

Q172 Which Chinese pianist, called "the Liberace of the concert platform", has a name meaning 'brilliant man' and is so popular that he has acted as a brand ambassador for Rolex, Montblanc pens, Panasonic and Sony?

Q173 Which video, the musical finale to Judson Laipply's show 'Inspirational Comedy', had the most all-time views on YouTube for two years until Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend overtook it in July?

Q174 Army leader when Burma gained independence from the UK in 1948, which general seized power in a 1962 coup and became the first soldier to rule the country?

Q175 Rugby and Eton are the two main types of which British sport that involves using your hands instead of a racquet to hit the ball?

Q176 Fasoulatha, a soup that has reputedly existed since ancient times, is made with haricot beans, tomato, onion, olive oil and oregano. It is seen as the national dish of which country?

Q177 Which English comedian, best known for chasing scantily clad women to the sound of Yakety Sax on his eponymous TV show, played the 'Toymaker' Professor Simon Peach in The Italian Job?

Q178 What two-word term describes stock seen as strong and reliable in terms of the dividend yield and capital value, and which get their name from casinos where they stand for counters of the highest value?

Q179 What colour did fashion guru Diana Vreeland call "the navy blue of India"?

Q180 The Canadian postal service's postcode for which person and location is H0H 0H0?

Q181 The ballerina Lydia Lopokova surprised many, in light of her husband's alleged sexual orientation, when she married which British economist in 1925?

Q182 Nicknamed 'the Human Spider', which epileptic French rock and urban climber has scaled such structures as Berlin's Debis Tower, Shanghai's Jin Mao Tower and The New York Times Building?

Q183 Founded in the aftermath of a 1993 Rio de Janeiro police massacre that left 21 unarmed residents of Vigario Geral dead, what cultural movement was started by local music promoter Jose Junior when he opened a centre offering classes in percussion and Brazilian dance?

Q184 Pilar Lopez, who died aged 96 in March 2008, was regarded as the last representative of the 1930s/40s golden age of which style of ballet?

Q185 In clothing, the name of which ungulate animal is used to describe a block-style check or plaid usually produced in red and black?

Q186 Named from the Latin word for 'skilled in business', what is the study of language in terms of the situational context within which utterances are made, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relations between speaker and listener?

Q187 'The Slavic Eminem', which Belarus musician (b.1976), who features on the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, combines Russian 'chastushki' folk music with modern beats and youth-oriented lyrics and had his first big European hit with Chyorniy Burner/Black Beemer?

Q188 Carme Chacón has become the first Spanish cabinet minister to give birth whilst in office. What post does she hold?

Q189 Named after the Indian physicist who discovered it in liquids and won the 1930 Nobel Prize for his work on the scattering of light, what term describes the inelastic scattering of a photon?

Q190 El juego del Angel/The Angel's Game is the latest novel from which Spanish writer, who came to global prominence with The Shadow of the Wind/La sombra del viento (2001)?

Q191 Sharing his surname with an Australian allrounder/left-arm bowler of the same period, which tennis player became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam championship when he took the French Open title in 1957?

Q192 The Welsh pop singer Duffy; the US musician whose songs Wise Up and Save Me featured in the film Magnolia; and the eldest daughter of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne who refused to appear in their MTV reality show, share which first name?

Q193 The Formula One team once called Jordan, then Midland and then Spyker, was given what name for the 2008 season, partly reflecting the country of its financial backers?

Q194 Which leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia served as the Non-Aligned Movement's first Secretary General, taking office on September 1, 1961?

Q195 The Marrah Mountains are located in the centre of which Sudanese region, whose main towns are Al Fashir, Nyala and Geneina?

Q196 A former woodcutter, which Belarus-born Soviet freestyle wrestler won Olympic gold in the lightweight division in 1964 and, as a heavyweight, in 1968 and 1972?

Q197 From the Latin for 'breath' or 'soul', what term describes the oldest belief (religious) system of all, originating between 40,000 and 10,000BC in the Upper Palaeolithic period?

Q198 In physics, what term is defined as the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body; for example, that of a planet around a star?

Q199 The Venetian Macao is the largest establishment of its kind in the world. What is it?

Q200 Winners at the Laureus World Sports Awards each receive a statuette made by which French jeweller and watch manufacturer?

Q201 Redonda is the only uninhabited island of three that make up which independent Caribbean country, whose name is composed of the other two?

Q202 In 1774, Joseph Priestley discovered a gas which he called "dephlogisticated air". This chemical element was later given what name?

Q203 The English social anthropologist A. R. Radcliffe Brown (1881-1955) developed what theory, in which a framework describes basic concepts relating to the social structure of primitive civilisations?

Q204 The present stone version of which bridge - the oldest across Venice's Grand Canal - was designed by Antonio da Ponte and completed in 1591?

Q205 According to its UK website, what is "the World's No.1-selling Premium Indian Lager brand"?

Q206 Which October 1827 naval battle shares its name with one of the islands in the Tierra del Fuego group?

Q207 Enigmatology is the study of what?

Q208 Named after the creator of humanity and chief god of the bird cult in Easter Island/Rapa Nui mythology, what is third largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System?

Q209 Which secessionist state in south-east Nigeria existed between May 30, 1967 and January 15, 1970?

Q210 Which wealthy British aristocrat sponsored Vasco de Gama on an expedition that might have sailed to the East coast of America and discovered it in 1497?

Q211 The drug, acetylsalicylic acid, is better known by what name?

Q212 The chilli paste nam prik, noodle soup khuaytiow rua and sweet-smelling jasmine rice khao hohm mali are part of which country's cuisine?

Q213 Which Greek gynaecologist of Ephesus and member of the 'Methodists' school of physicians wrote On Midwifery and the Diseases of Women in c.150AD?

Q214 Robert Mugabe led which political party, Zimbabwe’s ruling party since independence in 1980?

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Q215 In which of the classical orders of architecture is a column the most slender and ornate, and characterised by a bell-shaped capital with carved ornamental decorations of acanthus leaves?

Q216 Also called the shinbone or shankbone, what is the larger and stronger of the two bones in the leg below the knee?

Q217 The Egyptian president General Abd al-Nasser announced the nationalisation of which 'Company' on July 26, 1956?

Q218 Which two-winged insect derives its name from the diminutive of the Spanish-Portuguese word for 'fly'?

Q219 Which Space Telescope was placed in Earth's orbit by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990?

Q220 Nicknamed the 'comet ferret', which French astronomer compiled the first catalogue of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters between 1760 and 1784?

Q221 What three-letter word connects the first Sunday after Easter with a 1977 LP recorded by David Bowie in Berlin; a US no.1 from Flo Rida (featuring T-Pain); and a slowcore band from Duluth, Minnesota, whose albums include Things Lost in the Fire and The Great Destroyer?

Q222 What animal comes next in this sequence: Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat, __ ?

Q223 What band name links Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy, Marky, Richie, C.J. and Elvis?

Q224 A French-Japanese production, which 1982 animated TV series was set in 1532 and followed the adventures of a young Spanish boy named Esteban who sets out to find his father by travelling to the New World?

Q225 Conceived by astronomer Fred Hoyle, the 1961 TV series A for Andromeda introduced which future Oscar-winning, Indian-born British actress playing an android in the title role?

Q226 Popularised by an eponymous Flickr picture collection and subsequent Facebook group and website, what term describes posing for photos with your head or other body part hidden behind a vinyl LP jacket to impersonate the musician appearing on the cover?

Q227 The wife of French actor Vincent Cassel, which Italian model branched into acting by taking on film parts like the title role in Malena (2000) and Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ?

Q228 Featured in the 2008 documentary Bomb It, what kind of 'artists' are the Parisian Blek Le Rat, Sao Paolo's Zezao and Tokyo's Belx2?

Q229 Each passage through the locks of the Panama Canal uses 55 million gallons of water from which artificial 'Lake'?

Q230 What term for a system of social stratification comes from the Portuguese for 'class' or 'race'?

Q231 What word links a Patrick Marber play premiered in 1997; track 5 on the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral; Joy Division's final album; a type of pitcher used at the end of a baseball game; a 2008 UK no. 1 from Ne-Yo; and a TV title role played by Kyra Sedgwick?

Q232 An accidental discovery made by Dr Percy Spencer of Raytheon Corporation in 1946 when he found melted chocolate bars in his jacket pocket led to the invention of which kitchen appliance?

Q233 How many states (emirates) make up the United Arab Emirates?

Q234 Which 2006 Bong Joon-ho horror movie - a huge hit in his native South Korea - tells the story of a giant, razor-toothed tadpole spawned after the US military dumps nuclear waster in the Han river?

Q235 In a two-parter that remains the most watched Simpsons episode of all time, who shot Mr Burns?

Q236 In the French Revolutionary calendar, how many days constituted one week?

Q237 The pop singer Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero adopted which Anglicised stage name?

Q238 With a name reminiscent of something that might have happened regularly during the Vietnam War, which UK heavy metal band set the Guinness World Record for shortest song at 1.316 seconds in 1987?

Q239 Sharing his surname with a Mediterranean strait, which Italian devised the first form of sign language known to have been specially created for the deaf in 1616?

Q240 Named after the Virginia town that is home to the FBI Academy, what surveillance tap provides intelligence services with access to every conversation on an entire mobile phone network?

Q241 The Institute for Biological Cybernetics at Tubingen in Germany is named after which Nobel prize-winning physicist, the founder of quantum theory?

Q242 Which legendary 1973 US Triple Crown-winning colt was known as 'Big Red'?

Q243 Known as 'the Flying Mantuan', which racing legend switched from motorbikes to cars in 1924 and had 24 major race victories, including a famous win at the 1935 German Grand Prix when he beat the technical might of Mercedes and Auto Union driving an outdated Alfa Romeo?

Q244 The Comic-Con International fan convention (or Comic-Con) drew 300 people when it was first held in 1970, with attendance reaching 125,000 in 2007. Which Californian city hosts it?

Q245 From the Swiss-French for a type of crumbly white cheese, what term describes a block or column of ice (often house-sized or larger) formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier?

Q246 Which 660lb Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler, the first foreigner to win three Grand Slam titles and achieve the ozeki ranking, was nicknamed 'The Dump Truck'?

Q247 What is the sole subject of the Wikipedia-style reference website, Wookieepedia?

Q248 Introduced by Andrea Camilleri in his 1994 novel The Shape of Water/La forma dell'acqua, which Sicilian detective has been played in two TV mini-series by Luca Zingaretti?

Q249 Ilan Ramon, who died abroad the NASA shuttle Columbia, was the first astronaut from which country?

Q250 During the late 19th century, the Englishman Henry Wickham smuggled tree seeds out of Brazil to start which industry in Britain's south-east Asian colonies?

Q251 Founded by Marcel Bloch in 1930, which French aeronautics company manufactures the Falcon, one of the most fuel efficient large-cabin business jets in the world?

Q252 Which London-born singer's hits include Maggie May, Hot Legs and Da Ya Think I'm Sexy??

Q253 What form of headgear is associated with the date October 25, 1854?

Q254 The only canonised King of France, which monarch died of either bubonic plague or dysentry at Tunis whilst embarking on his second crusade in 1270?

Q255 Formed in May 1976, the FLNC is a clandestine extremist group fighting for the liberation of which Mediterranean island?

Q256 Named after the British overseas territory that first hosted the event in 1950, what 'Bowl' is the world team championship in contract bridge?

Q257 Giving its name to a 1997 David Mamet film, which confidence trick starts with the conman telling the mark that he is corresponding with a wealthy person of high estate who has been jailed in a particular European country under a false identity?

Q258 Founded in Barcelona in 1944 by Antonio Sanchez Gomez, which weekly Spanish celebrity news magazine is the parent publication of numerous local editions around the world, including a popular English-language spin-off?

Q259 Sharing its name with a sobriquet for Superman, what title was first awarded to the Leeds player David Ward in 1977?

Q260 Genroku chushingura/The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (1941) and Sansho dayu/Sansho the Bailiff (1954) are both cinematic retellings of traditional folk tales made by which Japanese director, who died in 1956?

Q261 David Bryant became the first world champion in which sport in 1966?

Q262 What bad guy role links Otto Preminger, George Sanders, Eli Wallach and Arnold Schwarznegger?

Q263 Operation Vittles began on June 26, 1948. What was this humanitarian mission popularly called?

Q264 Which East Germanic Gothic tribe famously defeated the Huns after Attila's death when, led by King Ardaric, they broke the Hunnic power in the Battle at the River Nedao in 454?

Q265 Keira Knightley and James McAvoy played the doomed lovers Cecilia Tallis and Robbie Turner in which 2007 film adaptation of an Ian McEwan novel?

Q266 Crawford W. Long performed the first surgical operation in general anaesthesia induced by which clear, colourless and highly flammable liquid in 1842?

Q267 Lt. Gen. Choummaly Sayasone became president of which 'People's Democratic Republic' in 2006?

Q268 A regular free kick and penalty taker who scored eight international goals, which Paraguayan footballer was named 'World Goalkeeper of the Year' in 1995 and 1997?

Q269 A Jet Ski is a type of 'Stand-up' PWC. What does PWC stand for?

Q270 The first European judo black belt under Kano Jigoro, the 1930s purge victim Vasili Oshchepkov created which martial art in the USSR from judo's influence, integrating other combat techniques into his new system?

Q271 Dedicated to a Norwegian king (995-1030), which Tallinn church is believed to have been built in the 12th century and is said to have been the world's tallest building from 1549 to 1625?

Q272 Which two countries contested the infamous 'blood in the water' water polo match at the 1956 Olympics?

Q273 Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc., which 41-year-old British designer is the acclaimed principal designer of the iMac, iPod and iPhone?

Q274 MacBeth: The Witches Scenes (1988), Nature Is Leaving Us (1989) and the Transformed City series (2001-04) are works by which Polish-born US video and interactive artist?

Q275 What year is the setting - as stated in the title - for Arthur C. Clarke's final book (after The Sentinel aka 2001 and 2010) in his 'Odyssey' trilogy, which he published in 1997?

Q276 Sharing his surname with the protagonist of a US TV drama that debuted in 2001, which Hungarian discus thrower was the only non-American gold medallist in a field event at the 1900 Olympics?

Q277 Jose Gorostiza, Carlos Pellicer and Jaime Torres Bodet were among the founders of which vanguardist literary group that first met at Mexico City's National Preparatory School and gave its name to the magazine that served as its mouthpiece from 1928-31?

Q278 Originally titled Metamorphoses, which Lucius Apuleius work is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety?

Q279 King Louis XIV's confessor gave his name to which morbid Paris tourist attraction?

Q280 Named for a medieval fortified town in southern France famed for its city walls, which board game, designed by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede and published in 2000, starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for players to draw from and uses wooden follower pieces called meeples?

Q281 The Focke-Wulf Fw 61, which first flew in 1936, is regarded as the first practical type of what aircraft?

Q282 Which valley in Afghanistan's Hazarajat region leant its name to two monumental 1500-year-old statues of standing Buddhas that were dynamited by the Taliban in 2001?

Q283 Given a title meaning 'day of wrath' in Latin, which hymn about the Last Judgement is attributed to Thomas of Celano (d.1260)?

Q284 Paralysed from the neck down due to a spinal artery collapse on December 7, 1988: a day he calls "The Event", which US artist's massive-scale portraits, e.g. Linda (1975-76), are produced by transferring a snapshot to a gigantic grid, then worked over with an airbrush to reproduce the sheer-smooth effects of the original photo along with any flaws?

Q285 Built across Finland's border with the USSR, which defensive 'Line' was named after the general who first proposed its construction in 1918?

Q286 What fungus of the Amanita group is the most poisonous mushroom known?

Q287 Identified in a May 1935 paper, which steroid hormone from the androgen group was first isolated by the Organon group in the Netherlands and is the principal male sex hormone?

Q288 Which bird - Larus michahellis - is the most common southern European species of its kind and is a major pest on Spain's south-western tip, where Andalusia's regional government has implemented an emergency plan to combat it?

Q289 Which North American city celebrated its 400th anniversary on July 3, 2008?

Q290 Abbreviated Y.M.O., which Japanese electronica group was comprised of bassist Haruomi 'Harry' Hosono, keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto and drummer/lead singer Yukihiro Takahashi, and had early 1980s hits with Computer Games, Behind the Mask and Tighten Up?

Q291 Which city, currently the 6th most populous in the US, gave its name to the model of Deringer pocket pistol John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln?

Q292 What name is shared by a major Italian river; the red Teletubby; and the title character, voiced by Jack Black, of the 2008 computer animated film Kung Fu Panda?

Q293 Ealhswith was the wife of which King of Wessex, who was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder in 899?

Q294 Felix Baumgartner became the first person to fly across which passage of water in freefall, using a specially made fibre wing in 2003?

Q295 Mohenjo Daro and which other ancient city, located in the Pakistani province of Punjab c.22 miles/35km south-west of Sahiwal, were the greatest cities of the Indus Valley civilisation?

Q296 Which Chilean president was deposed and killed in the military coup of September 11, 1973?

Q297 Coined by Alfred Binet in 1887, what term - derived from a Portuguese word meaning 'artificial' or 'charm' - was used by Krafft-Ebing to imply moral degeneracy via learned association and is defined as an irrational attachment to an object?

Q298 Having laid siege to Constantinople, the Ottoman forces of Sultan Bayazid the Thunderbolt's victory at which September 1396 battle effectively finished off the Byzantine Empire?

Q299 What annual 16-day celebration has its origins in the public festivities held for the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese in 1810?

Q300 What titular seat of learning was attended by Tackleberry, Fackler, Mahoney, Hightower, Barbara and Jones?

Q301 Which strait, 47 miles long and 4 miles wide, is called Canakkale Bogazi in Turkish?

Q302 What two-word French term describes an advanced culinary technique involving the use of vacuum-sealed plastic bags to cook foods in water at precisely controlled temperatures?

Q303 What car company links the US emergency telephone number; a type of pepper and the capital of French Guiana; and a group of islands that form a UK overseas territory and a member of the genus Alligatoridae?

Q304 Most scholars believe that Jesus Christ primarily spoke which Semitic language?

Q305 A common sight at Wimbledon thanks to their tennis balls and leaping cat logo, which British sporting goods company was founded in Shirebrook in 1881?

Q306 From the Greek for 'self severing', what act involves an animal severing or self-amputating one or more of its own appendages, usually as a self-defence mechanism against predators?

Q307 What does the 'Raven's Progressive Matrices' test measure?

Q308 Which branch of mathematics uses simple calculations and rigorous logic to help understand how people make choices; an example in the field being the 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in which two criminal suspects are held in separate cells and given the choice of saying nothing or ratting each other out?

Q309 Which German architect (1869-1936) and Modernist pioneer designed the IG Farben Building (1931) in Frankfurt am Main, the world's largest office complex until the 1950s?

Q310 Which Swedish astronomer (1701-44) proposed an eponymous centigrade scale of temperature?

Q311 Musical duo Los del Rio wrote their massive hit Macarena about a woman of the same name, or any woman from the 'La Macarena' neighbourhood of which Spanish city, their home?

Q312 Used by George Lucas for the planet of the exiled Yoda in the Star Wars films, what Sinhalese name for a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine is derived from the Pali for 'receptacle for relics'?

Q313 The daughter of a Sri Lankan Tamil militant, the London-born musician and artist Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam uses what three-letter acronym as her stage name when releasing such records as the 2005 album Arular?

Q314 Known in Greek as 'Cheops', which Egyptian pharoah (c.2589-2566BC) - the second of the Fourth Dynasty - was the son of King Sneferu and Queen Hetepheres and is the reputed builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Q315 Developed by the US Army and launched on December 18, 1958, what was the first ever communications satellite, though its batteries failed after only 12 days?

Q316 What type of cheap movie theatre was so called because the admission price was only 5 cents; the original one being opened by John P Harris and Harry Davis in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1905?

Q317 Calypso singer Harry Belafonte released a 1957 version of which traditional Jamaican folk song, given the alternate title Day-O?

Q318 Taking place in Louisville, Kentucky on October 29, 1960, which boxer's first professional fight was against Tunney Hunsaker?

Q319 Which organisation was conceived in a Wisconsin hotel room in 1898 by the commercial travellers and devout Christians, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill?

Q320 Attacked by the British in an immensely destructive and controversial 1940 operation, which Algerian port near Oran became a French naval base in 1935?

Q321 How many points does a 1st place secure riders in the MotoGP Class scoring system?

Q322 What iconic landmark did Scottish conman Arthur Furguson very nearly successfully 'sell' to an Australian tourist in 1925?

Q323 Owing to its castle location, what was the popular name of Oflag IV-C?

Q324 What university for retired people, where learning is for pleasure and neither qualifications are awarded nor examinations enforced, was founded in France by Pierre Vellus in 1973?

Q325 Which Indonesian won the All-England Badminton Championships men's singles title seven consecutive times (1968-74)?

Q326 Declared the most effective slogan of the 20th century by Advertising Age, what four-word line was coined by copywriter Frances Gerety for De Beers in 1947?

Q327 "I don't wanna talk/About the things we've gone through/Though it's hurting me/Now it's history" are the first lines of which ABBA single?

Q328 Spanning the Yangtze River and not expected to become fully operational until 2011, what is the world's largest hydro-electric power station?

Q329 The Dutchwoman, Esther Vergeer, switched from wheelchair basketball to what sport in which she built up an unparalleled record of 344 consecutive wins up to the Beijing Paralympics?

Q330 Which British figure skater, inventor of the camel spin and the first woman to pull off a double Salchow in competition, remains the youngest ever Olympian in Winter Games history, having taken part at Lake Placid in 1932 aged 11 years and 75 days?

Q331 In which capital city can the British sculptor Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Monument aka Nameless Library (2000) be seen?

Q332 Who was 'resurrected' in the 1903 story The Adventure of the Empty House?

Q333 Which casualwear company, Japan's leading clothing retail chain in terms of both sales and profits, was founded as a shop called Ogori Shoji in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1949?

Q334 An anagram of her Christian name, what is Oprah Winfrey's television production company called?

Q335 Who is the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Q336 Awarded a total of 12 Michelin Stars, which fiery Scots-born chef presents The F-Word on Channel 4 in the UK and hosts FOX's Hell's Kitchen in the US?

Q337 Which Hungarian-born journalist and dramatist wrote in his diary entry of September 3, 1897, with regard to the first Zionist congress: "At Basle I founded the Zionist state"?

Q338 In 2001, the journalist Alexis Sinduhije founded Radio Publique Africaine as a means of fostering peace between the warring Tutsi and Hutu in which country?

Q339 Bypassing the moral issues involved in destroying living embryos, iPS cells are the potentially revolutionary products of reprogramming adult cells in order to give them the characteristics of embryonic cells. Discovered by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in 2007, what does iPS stand for?

Q340 Meaning 'swaying one' in Old Norse, Gungir is the property of Odin. What sort of weapon is it?

Q341 Which Mormon housewife is the author of the Twilight young adult novel series: the story of the love affair between teenager Bella Swan and "vegetarian vampire" Edward Cullen now made into a 2008 film?

Q342 Lloyd Blankfein is the CEO of which financial company, the most profitable trader in Wall Street history having earned $11.6 billion in 2007 thanks to its expertise as the top risk manager in the business?

Q343 What term describes the deepest zone or deepest trenches of the ocean, below the abyssal zone, of depths greater than 6,000m/20,000ft?

Q344 Described by Valerie Steel, the director of the Fashion Institute of Technology museum, as "the foremost shoe designer in the world", which Frenchman has produced a pair of stilettos called 'Siamese' in collaboration with film director David Lynch?

Q345 Succeeding Babur, who became the second Mughal emperor in 1530, but lost the throne and became a fugitive before regaining power 15 years later?

Q346 Frank Gehry's building in downtown Prague, The Dancing House/Tancici dum, was originally named after which famous dance partners due to its suggestive shape?

Q347 Which ocean covers 28,350,000 square miles (c.20 per cent) of the Earth's surface?

Q348 Which classic 1973 album includes the tracks Breathe, The Great Gig in the Sky, Money and Brain Damage?

Q349 Lying to the east of Sumer and Akkad, Elam was an ancient civilisation located in what is now the south-west of which modern day country?

Q350 Last erupting in 1956, which 1780m-high volcano in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea shares its name with a type of sponge cake, popular in Australia?

Q351 Which messenger ran the first marathon to Athens in 490BC?

Q352 Paul Mitchell, Vidal Sassoon, Charles Worthington and Trevor Sorbie are names associated with which profession?

Q353 "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" is a summation of which principle?

Q354 How many humans were there on Noah's Ark?

Q355 What 'colour' train is associated with the rail route between Cape Town and Pretoria?

Q356 Which island between Flores and Sumbawa, lying 300 miles east of Bali, is home to around 2,500 namesake 'dragons'?

Q357 What ice hockey position links Dominik Hasek, Tony Esposito and Jacques Plante?

Q358 Which island republic is the smallest Asian country in terms of population and the world's smallest predominantly Muslim nation?

Q359 Salt Peanuts, Manteca and Guachi Guraro (Soul Sauce) are three compositions by which jazz trumpeter, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21, 1917?

Q360 Which retired Croatian skier is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics (2002 & '06), as well as win three alpine skiing Olympic golds in one year (2002)?

Q361 "Vicisti, Galilaee" (You have won, Galilean) were the supposed last words of which Roman emperor, who died in 363AD?

Q362 At the time of her construction in 2003 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique, which 345m-long Cunard ocean liner was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built?

Q363 What two letters represent the internet country code top level domain for the Russian Federation?

Q364 The most commonly accepted story of which cocktail's creation is that of the Mexican bartender Carlos Herrera naming a concoction of his own design in 1938 or 1939 in honour of a showgirl who was allergic to every spirit except tequila?

Q365 Which small Bosnian town was the setting for Ivo Andric's 1945 novel The Bridge on the River Drina/Na Drini cuprija: the same bridge that became infamous in 1992 when Serb police and paramilitaries threw the bodies of slaughtered Muslims off it?

Q366 Which famous German undercover journalist (b.1942) infiltrated the tabloid Bild-Zeitung and revealed the methods it used to manipulate and deceive readers in his book Der Aufmacher/ Lead Story, and disguised himself as gasterbeiter Levent 'Ali' Sinirlioglu to expose discrimination against Turkish immigrants?

Q367 The most popular suicide destination in the world, what is the title subject of the 2006 Eric Steel documentary The Bridge?

Q368 Oakland A's baseball player Reggie Jackson gained what timely nickname because of his brilliant batting record in World Series games?

Q369 Used in the construction of Rome's Colosseum, what light yellow porous rock is formed by calcareous deposit from streams and hardens on exposure, and ultimately derives its name from a region of ancient Latium?

Q370 Which 'City of Palms', 25 miles east of Jerusalem in the Jordan Valley, claims to be the oldest city in the world?

Q371 Which Booker Prize-winning Marxist writer and culture critic presented the landmark TV series on art, with accompanying essays, Ways of Seeing in 1972?

Q372 What common newspaper name comes from a small coin the public paid to buy a copy of the Nottizie Scrittie, which was published in Venice in 1556?

Q373 Sharing its title with both a Powell & Pressburger film and a Kate Bush album, which 1845 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale tells the story of a vain girl called Karen who is forced to dance nonstop in the eponymous footwear?

Q374 The subject of a 2007 book of portraits by South African photographer Pieter Hugo, the Gadawan Kuru, "a group of itinerant minstrels and performers [of Nigeria's Hausa people] who used animals to entertain crowds and sell traditional medicines", are known by what English name?

Q375 What traditional Danish pastry, characterised by circles that have fillings in the middle, is perhaps named after a Berlin prison (demolished in 1987) due to its fortress-like shape?

Q376 Which Egyptian filmmaker, who first made his name with Baba Amin (1950) and Nile Boy (1951), died in July 2008 and has been called "the emblem of Arab cinema, credited with launching the career of Omar Sharif, [the man] who raised his voice against all kinds of extremism"?

Q377 Lebanon's president, Michel Suleiman, belongs to which of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, founded by an eponymous 5th century Christian monk?

Q378 Paid a reported $825,000 per episode, who is said to be the highest earning actor in TV thanks to his playing 40-year-old bachelor Charlie Harper?

Q379 What unit of currency links Serbia, Macedonia, Iraq, Algeria, Libya and Jordan?

Q380 Complete the title of the 1851 Emmanuel Leutze painting Washington Crossing the ________?

Q381 Which vitamin is purely the L-enantiomer of ascorbate?

Q382 Which goddess is the Roman equivalent of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom?

Q383 Jared Fogle is said to have lost 300lb on which diet, named after a fast food sandwich restaurant franchise?

Q384 Which controversial flower has the Latin name Papaver somniferum?

Q385 Used in the title of a 2005 book by Adam Jacot de Boinod, what word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island means "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left"?

Q386 Which Spanish artist, who suddenly died in 2001 aged only 48, was known for sculptural installations often populated by strangely haunting, almost human figures; and filled the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for the second 'Unilever Commission' with his vast work Double Bind?

Q387 In 1866, Alfred Nobel discovered that nitroglycerin could be made much more stable if absorbed in what naturally occurring, chalk-like sedimentary rock that is also known by such names as diatomaceous earth, diatomite or TSS?

Q388 Called 'Monsieur de Paris', Marcel Chevalier (b.1921) had the last job of its kind in France. What was his occupation?

Q389 Named from the Sumerian for 'sky' or 'heaven', who was the god of heaven, lord of constellations and king of gods, spirits and demons in Sumerian mythology and later for the Assyrians and Babylonians?

Q390 Which current Premier League (EPL) football team was founded as Newton Heath, L&YR F.C. in 1878?

Q391 Which country music legend, who died in 1953 after injecting himself with vitamin B12 and morphine, had 11 US number ones in his career, including Lovesick Blues, Hey Good Lookin' and Your Cheatin' Heart?

Q392 Originating in the namesake port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, which banking group is the largest bank in Spain and the second largest in Europe in terms of market capitalisation (behind HSBC)?

Q393 Nicknamed 'Dai Goh Dai' (Biggest Big Brother), which Chinese martial arts star was first seen in Western cinemas fighting Bruce Lee in the opening scene of Enter the Dragon and later starred with Arsenio Hall in the TV series Martial Law?

Q394 First published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914, the Hornbostel-Sachs system classifies what devices?

Q395 Fischbacher and Horn were the surnames of which Las Vegas-based German-American entertainers?

Q396 Named after the sister and wife of the Greek Titan Cronus, which satellite of Saturn was discovered to have the first known rings round a moon in March 2008?

Q397 Nikola 'The Machine' Karabatic, a French international of Croatian heritage, has been called the world's most complete player in which team sport?

Q398 Dari is the name for the Persian language variant spoken in (and the term insisted upon by the authorities of) which country?

Q399 What type of transportation system, though it only had two stations and 0.3km of track, first opened in 1957 at Tokyo's UENO Zoo?

Q400 John Brown is the title victim of which Bob Marley song that was recorded in April 1973?

Q401 Which 1973 Kurt Vonnegut novel, subtitled or Goodbye Blue Monday, takes its title from a well-known slogan for Wheaties cereal?

Q402 Which Portuguese wine region that became a Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) appellation in 1990 is the origin of the Touriga Nacional vine that is the principal component of port?

Q403 Named after a Dutch Renaissance humanist and theologian, which programme allows students to complete part of their undergraduate degree at another European Union university?

Q404 Which large cat, native to the Americas, gives its name to the Grumman F-9 fighter aircraft; the Eurocopter AS 532 helicopter; and a mid-sized coupe car sold by Ford in Europe during 1998-2002?

Q405 Deriving its name from either the Tagalog for 'wilderness' (repeated twice) or another word meaning 'rare', what small flower of the cananga tree (Cananga odorata) produces a much prized perfume extract and an essential oil used in aromatherapy?

Q406 In 1778, Abraham Darby III undertook the building of the world's first cast iron bridge at which side valley of the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire?

Q407 Which senator and historian of the Roman Empire (c.56-c.117AD) is known for his two major works, the Annals and the Histories?

Q408 The businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer is the exiled leader of which mainly Sunni Muslim people from the troubled northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang?

Q409 Formed in 1965, Maki (formerly called Rakah) is the main communist party in which country?

Q410 Founded in Lucerne in 1874, which Swiss company is the largest manufacturer of escalators and the second largest manufacturers of elevators in the world?

Q411 The Karakul or Qaraqul, meaning 'black lake' in several Turkic languages, is a domestic breed of which animal?

Q412 Which Nigerian-British actor is known for roles in such films as Dirty Pretty Things and American Gangster and won a Best Actor Laurence Olivier Award in 2008 for playing Othello opposite Ewan McGregor's Iago?

Q413 Which Brazilian composer's works include his Bachianas brasileiras (1930-45) and Symphonies, No.1 Imprevisto 'The Unforeseen' (1920) and No.3 A Guerra 'The War' (1919)?

Q414 Telling the mythical story of Jason's quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the land of Colchis, which 3rd century BC poem by Apollonius Rhodius is the only surviving Hellenistic epic?

Q415 Which Oscar-winning Hungarian-born composer is best known for his many film scores, including Jungle Book (1942), Quo Vadis? (1951), Ben-Hur (1959) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)?

Q416 Named after a German industrialist, the Paul Wolfskehl prize bequeathed 100,000 marks to the first person to prove or disprove which mathematical problem that was solved in papers published in 1995?

Q417 In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 11.5 per cent of what hard metal content by mass?

Q418 Far more famous for inventing the electric telegraph, which American painter became the first President of the National Academy in 1826 and produced such works as House of Representatives (Corcoran, Washington DC)?

Q419 A Cheder, meaning 'room', is a traditional elementary school teaching the basics of which religion?

Q420 Located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Janub Sina', this former port is now a favourite spot for scuba divers. Which Egyptian city is known as 'The City of Peace' due to the many international peace conferences that have been held there?

Q421 Which Australian swimmer currently holds the women's world record in the 200m and 400m individual medley and won three golds at the Beijing Olympics?

Q422 Sharing its name with a device used on oil fields, which 1974-98 German TV series centred on a titular Oberinspektor played by Horst Tappert and his assistant Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper) who solved murders in the Munich area?

Q423 What Arabic name is given to a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states, often strong during the day, but decreasing at night, and which often causes large sandstorms?

Q424 Which German singer topped the UK singles chart in 1984 and reached no. 2 in the US with her song 99 Red Balloon?

Q425 What name links the 'Detention Centre' in Australian TV show Prisoner; the Surrey golf club that hosts the World Match Play Championship; and a measurement scale for particle or grain sizes?

Q426 The Beogradska Arena hosted which event on the evening of May 24, 2008?

Q427 Also known as the Manchu, what was China's last ruling dynasty?

Q428 The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to which German "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays"?

Q429 Derived from calypso, which dance music style of Trinidad & Tobago gives its name to the national football team, as in the '____ Warriors'?

Q430 What Hebrew word meaning 'strength' links the Israeli author of My Michael; the puppeteer and voice of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear; an HBO series set in prison; and a fairy country created by L Frank Baum?

Q431 What term describes a substance that alters the speed of, or makes possible, a chemical or biochemical reaction that remains unchanged at the end of the reaction?

Q432 Conquered by the Inca ruler Tupac Inca Yupanqui 50 years before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, which people had their capital at the city of Chan Chan in the Moche valley of Trujillo, Peru?

Q433 Which name was adopted by Mahesh Prasad Varma (1917-2008), the man who founded and developed the Transcendental Meditation technique?

Q434 How many minutes are there in one year (not a leap year)?

Q435 Which nine-piece, self-styled "jipjop flamenkillo" band from Barcelona, whose name means 'Wizard Eyes', set up their own label, La Fabrica de Colores, and sold over 100,000 copies of their self-produced 2002 album Bari?

Q436 Now representing Switzerland, which four-time USSR chess champion defected in 1974 and was beaten by Anatoly Karpov in the 1978 World Championship match in Baguio, Philippines?

Q437 Christopher Pike commanded which vessel in the original pilot episode of a TV series?

Q438 After Rigel, what is the brightest star in the constellation of Orion?

Q439 The winner of which annual golf tournament is awarded the Wanamaker Trophy?

Q440 Giving its name to a character played by Cliff Robertson in the 1959 film Gidget and a burger mentioned in Pulp Fiction, what Hawaiian word is defined as a "priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession"?

Q441 Mali's Bassekou Kouyate is a renowned player of which musical instrument, a desert lute that resembles a guitar and has a body made of hollowed-out wood with dried animal skin stretched over it like a drum?

Q442 First organised by former Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes in 1970, what '_____ Day' - held every April 22 - marks the birth of the modern environmental movement?

Q443 Cloe, Yasmina, Sasha and Jade are the four primary models in which popular children's and teen doll franchise produced by MGA Entertainment?

Q444 The Camões Prize or Prémio Camões is an important literary prize for works in which Romance language?

Q445 Along with Philo of Byzantium, Strabo, Herodotus and Diodorus of Sicily, Antipater of Sidon is attributed with compiling which famous list that he described in a c.140BC poem?

Q446 In 1995, the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released an impure form of which fluorinated phosphonate and nerve agent in the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people?

Q447 Which French sociologist first articulated the concept of 'cultural capital' and argued in his 1979 book La Distinction/Distinction that judgements of taste are related to social position?

Q448 In Celtic mythology, which intended bride of Conchobar, King of Ulster, eloped with Naoise and died of sorrow after the king killed her lover and his two brothers in revenge?

Q449 American football's first Super Bowl took place on January 15 in which year?

Q450 Vincent Defrasne (Fra), Sven Fischer (Ger), Anna Carin Olofsson (Swe) and Svetlana Ishmouratova (Rus) won individual golds in which sport at the 2006 Winter Olympics?

Q451 How many sides (or edges or vertices) does a hexagon have?

Q452 Commissioned by Ferdinand Maria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy to Agostino Barelli in 1664 after the birth of their son Maximilian II Emanuel, which Baroque palace in Munich was the summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria?

Q453 Arrested in 1995 by the Chinese government, the whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima are unknown. He is the 11th holder of which religious title?

Q454 What title for the leader of the Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'a, is a transliterated version of an Arabic word meaning 'successor' or 'representative'?

Q455 Which state emblem of Western Australia (Cygnus atratus) shares its name with a 2007 book about randomness and uncertainty by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb?

Q456 Located at the base of a namesake Oslo ski jump, what is the world's oldest ski museum, having been founded in 1923?

Q457 Said to be the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor in a play, which man from Icaria was awarded the very first prize for tragedy at the Dionysos theatre in Athens in 534BC?

Q458 Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has been called "the prophet and founding hero" of the modern form of which science, whose name is Greek for 'ancient study'?

Q459 Which Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs was stabbed to death by Mijailo Mijailovic in 2003?

Q460 The 1960 single Shop Around was Motown's first no.1 on the R&B singles chart and the first big hit for which group, whose members included Smokey Robinson?

Q461 Which short-lived 'Republic' was established on September 7, 1821, with Simon Bolivar as founding president?

Q462 In 1966, Kathy Switzer became the first woman to complete which annual race, although she ran without an official number because only men were allowed to take part in it at the time?

Q463 Normally a gas that is compressible to a transportable liquid, which three-carbon alkane is commonly known as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or LP-gas)?

Q464 The son of Esarhaddon, he founded the ancient Middle East's first systematically organised library and perhaps produced the first ever dictionary, composed of cuneiform-inscribed terracotta tablets. Name the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (685-c.627BC).

Q465 The philosopher and sociologist Max Horkheimer, author of Eclipse of Reason (1947), was a founder of which school of neo-Marxist critical theory, named for the university where he became director of the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) in 1930?

Q466 The first game of which Asian country's basketball association was played on April 9, 1975, making it the second oldest professional basketball league in the world?

Q467 The discovery of which non-commutative extension of complex numbers was made by the Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843?

Q468 From the Greek for 'each other', what term describes one member of a pair or series of different forms of a gene?

Q469 The birthplace of Stalin, which Georgian city and regional capital of Shida Kartli recently hit the news headlines when it was occupied by Russian troops during the South Ossetian War?

Q470 The favourite pizza topping of Futurama character Fry, which small green fish with a silver longitudinal stripe that runs from the base of the caudal fin have a maximum length of 9 inches and belong to the family Engraulidae?

Q471 What significance does the person born George William Jorgensen Jr have in surgical history?

Q472 Meaning 'misshapen pearl', what name describes an era and set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between c.1600 and 1750?

Q473 Which TV character lived at 1901 Elliot Bay Towers with his retired cop father and a pet Jack Russell terrier?

Q474 Meaning 'ball' in Maori, what form of juggling or object manipulation uses balls on ropes that are held in the hands and swung in circular patterns?

Q475 Which Sri Lankan batsman, who played county cricket for Kent, hit 107* against Australia to help his country win the 1996 World Cup final?

Q476 The name of a major treatise by Aristotle, which branch of philosophy investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science and is concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of being and the world?

Q477 Which Liberal-Conservative politician became the first Prime Minister of Canada in 1867?

Q478 Which body organ consists of red pulp and white pulp areas: the former including sinuses, cords of reticular fibres and a marginal zone; the latter, lymphoid follicles and periarteriolar lymphoid sheaths?

Q479 Due to be held on October 28 this year, which religious festival is celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs around the world as the 'Festival of Light'?

Q480 What creature, aka Arvicolla terrestris, is Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's book The Wind in The Willows?

Q481 In Puccini's opera La Boheme, what is the usual English translation of the line - "Che gelida manina" - that Rodolfo says to Mimi?

Q482 Which index of human well-being and environmental impact, known by the acronym HPI, was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in July 2006?

Q483 On arriving in which city did Robert Benchley send the famous telegram: "STREETS FLOODED. PLEASE ADVISE"?

Q484 Author of the 2005 historical novel Le Feu sous la soutane/Fire under the Cassock, writer Benjamin Sehene comes from which landlocked African country?

Q485 Which national leader was shot and wounded, while sitting in a car, by the Irishwoman Violet Gibson on April 7, 1926?

Q486 Which no.1 ranked, world champion high jumper from Croatia failed to win the Olympic title at the Beijing Games, being beaten by Belgium's Tia Hellebaut on countback?

Q487 Played in an eponymous TV film by Angelina Jolie, which Philadelphia-born fashion model and heroin addict became one of the first high profile victims of AIDS when she died aged 26 in 1986?

Q488 Cape Lopatka is the southernmost point of which 1,250km-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, lying between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west?

Q489 In Russia it is Ria Novosti, in China it is called Xinhua and in Libya its name is JANA. What are type of state agencies are they?

Q490 The Germans, Karl Adam and Jürgen Gröbler, revolutionised coaching in which sport?

Q491 Which 2001 action film, starring Steven Seagal and DMX, shares its title with a 2007 graphic novel by Rutu Modan about Tel Aviv cab driver Koby Franco's search for his estranged father?

Q492 What term for a physical substance that supposedly manifests as a result of 'spiritual energy' or 'psychic phenomenon' was coined by Charles Richet from the Greek for 'outside' and 'something formed'?

Q493 It is believed that Ludovico di Barthema became the first non-Muslim European to do what in 1503?

Q494 In March 2008, Comoros armed forces and around 400 African Union troops invaded which autonomous island in order to bring it back under the control of the island nation?

Q495 French physician, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, discovered that which vector-borne infectious disease was caused by protozoan parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) in 1880?

Q496 Which 2006 album by indie-harpist Joanna Newsom shares its name with a mythical city that was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the sea?

Q497 In Haitian Voodoo and Yoruba mythology, which traditional warrior and patron of smiths is a Loa and Orisha spirit who presides over fire, iron, hunting, politics and war and is similar to Ares in Greek myth?

Q498 Founded in Mannheim by Friedrich Engelhorn in 1865 for the production of dyes, which German company is the largest chemical company in the world?

Q499 Regarded as the heart of modern Istanbul, which 'Square' is the site of the Cumhuriyet Aniti/Republic Monument: built in 1928 to commemorate the formation of the Turkish republic?

Q500 Nicknamed 'The Nigerian Nightmare', which boxer became the WBC heavyweight champion and therefore the first ever such champion from Nigeria when he defeated Oleg Maskaev last March?

Q501 Clark Gable played which role, described as "a visitor from Charleston" in Margaret Mitchell's novel, in Gone with the Wind?

QUIZ ENDS

The GIANT: PART II ANSWERS

1-50

1 The Lord of the Rings 2 Zorn 3 Uneven bars or asymmetric bars (1/2 point for 'bars') 4 Roadrunner 5 (Milikan's) oil-drop experiment 6 Polka 7 Ayurveda 8 Doge of Venice 9 The White House 10 Mace or MACE 11 Battle of San Romano 12 Preacher 13 Oreo 14 Basho or Matuso Basho 15 Steven Pinker 16 Sholay 17 Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (do not accept 1870 War) 18 Reuben 19 Loans or loan guarantees or mortgages (Freddie Mac is short for Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; Fannie Mae is the Federal National Mortgage Association) 20 Burma or Myanmar (Myanmar Radio and TeleVision) 21 Akon or Aliuane Badara Thiam 22 'The Ruy Lopez' 23 Cricket 24 Puglia or Apulia (mafia-style organisations and their respective regions) 25 Kossuth (as in

Lajos Kossuth) 26 Iran (aka People Mojahedin Organisation of Iran or PMOI or MEK or MKO) 27 Roncesvalles or Roncevaux, as in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass 28 Lizzie Borden (accused of the hatchet murder of her father and stepmother) 29 YSL (Yves Saint Laurent) 30 Antonin Panenka 31 Arjan Dev or Guru Arjan Dev Ji or Guru Arjun Dev Ji (accept Guru Arjan or Guru Dev) 32 Rottweiler or Rottweil Metzgerhund (as in the town of Rottweil) 33 The Origin of the Species 34 One Thousand and One Nights (accept 'Arabian Nights') 35 St Basil's Cathedral or Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat or The Cathedral of the Protection of the Mother of God or Pokrovkiy Cathedral or Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed 36 Sichuan or Szechuan or Szechwan 37 Flat-pack 38 Mattel 39 Penguin 40 Aussie Rules or Australian Rule Football 41 European Parliament 42 Ferdinand de Saussure 43 Freddy Krueger 44 Santorini 45 Piquet 46 Wyoming 47 Netherlands 48 AUDI 49 1812 Overture or the Festival Overture 'The Year 1812' in E major (in French: Ouverture solennelle 'L'Annee 1812' and in Russian: Torzestvennaja uvertjura 1812 goda) 50 Silk

51-100

51 Turkmenistan 52 Mercury 53 Pineapple Express 54 Yomiuri Giants (1/2 point for getting either 'Yomiuri' or 'Giants') 55 Marshall McLuhan 56 Harry Houdini (b. Erik Weisz, then Ehrich Weiss) 57 'Straw dogs' 58 Quartz (clock) 59 Kiwi fruit 60 Great Fire of London (1666) 61 Leukaemia 62 L'Oreal 63 Ultimate Warrior (accept 'Warrior', which is what he legally changed it to in 1993) 64 Mogwai 65 Padua or Padova 66 Liberty Leading The People or La Liberte guidant le peuple 67 Shirin Ebadi 68 Cristal 69 Diego Armando Maradona 70 Lake Vänern 71 Ferris wheel or Observation wheel 72 Metal Gear Solid 73 Judean date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) (accept 'date palm') 74 Chord 75 Andrei Sakharov 76 Ethiopia 77 David Attenborough or Sir David Frederick Attenborough 78

Eteocles (accept 'Tawaglawas', the Hittite rendition of the name) 79 (The) Hertz (Corporation) 80 Bruce Bixby 81 Surfing 82 E.ON 83 Winged Victory of Samothrace (accept Nike of Samothrace, though Samothrace must be mentioned) 84 Rafael Trujillo or Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina 85 Martin Buber 86 Antenna (Building Antenna Span Earth) 87 Olympia 88 Total Eclipse of the Heart 89 Karl Wallenda 90 Mouthwash 91 Archimedes 92 Gutzon Borglum or John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum 93 Frederick the Wise or Frederick III (1/2 point for 'Frederick') 94 Barbara McClintock 95 Gross Domestic Product 96 St Matthew Passion or Matthauspassion 97 Thomas Szasz 98

Mongoose 99 Robert the Bruce or Robert I 100 American football

101-150

101 Garry Trudeau or Garretson Beekman Trudeau 102 ARA General Belgrano 103 Vistula or Wisla (Polish) or Visla (Czech) 104 Rudolf Clausius 105 Calligraphy 106 Canoeing 107 Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or Coptic 108 Potato 109 Frankincense (the site is called 'The Frankincense Trail') 110 Sega 111 Pop Idol (1/2 point for American Idol) 112 Winning 800m and 1500m (1976;1996;2004) 113 Dacia 114 Bakelite (named after Leo Baekeland) 115 Earthquake 116 Richard Nixon 117 Detroit Red Wings (accept 'Detroit' or 'Red Wings') 118 Rollercoaster 119 Riva 120 Pazzi (conspiracy/plot) 121 Munster 122 Candide 123 Nelson Mandela 124 Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) 125 Halldor Laxness 126 Justinian (I) 127 Puce 128 Caffeine 129 Hungary 130 The Cherry Orchard or Vishniovy sad 131 Erich Hartmann (the Russian artist being Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann) 132 Sweet Smell of Success 133 Antwerp Cathedral or Church of Our Lady, Antwerp or Onza-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal 134 Lebanon 135 William Grant Still 136 Basshunter 137 Jenga 138 'Candid Camera' 139 G.E. Lessing or Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 140 Amsterdam 141 Thirty-two (32) 142 BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) 143 Shkoder or Shkodra 144 Aretha Franklin 145 Josef Koudelka 146 Peter Graves 147 Dennis Wilson 148 Phoenix Park 149 Carat 150 The Female Eunuch (by Germaine Greer)

151-200

151 Babism, as in 'The Bab' 152 Malaysia 153 Chiang Mai or Jiang Mai or Chiengmai 154 Malawi 155 South Africa (Pretoria) 156 Tropic of Capricorn 157 (Angelo) Fausto Coppi 158 Claymore 159 Penny Black 160 Eiffel Tower 161 Paraguay 162 Patina 163 GUM or Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin 164 Infrared 165 Fallopian tubes 166 Tom Sawyer 167 St Bernard of Menthon or Bernard of Montjoux (accept St Bernard) 168 Friedrich Nietzsche 169 Madagascar 170 Naboth (meaning 'fruits') 171 Krupp (now known as Friedrich Krupp Hoesch-Krupp, and merged with Thyssen AG in 1999 to form ThyssenKrupp AG) 172 Lang Lang 173 Evolution of Dance (1/2 point for mentioning 'evolution'

or 'dance') 174 Ne Win (b. Shu Maung) 175 Fives 176 Greece 177 Beethoven 178 Blue chip 179 Pink 180 Santa Claus, North Pole (1 point for either) 181 John Maynard Keynes 182 Alain Robert (b. Robert Alain Philippe, so accept 'Philippe') 183 AfroReggae or Afro Reggae 184 Flamenco (ballet) 185 Buffalo (plaid) 186 Pragmatics 187 Seryoga or Sergej Vasil'evic Parhomenko or (Belarusian) Siarhiej Vasilijevic Parchomienka 188 (Minister of) Defence 189 Raman scattering or Raman effect (as in C.V. Raman or Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman) 190 Carlos Ruiz Zafon 191 Sven Davidson (the cricketer being Alan Davidson) 192 Aimee 193 Force India 194 Tito or Josip Broz Tito or Josip Brozovic 195 Darfur 196 Alexander Medved 197 Animism 198 Orbit 199 Casino (accept

'gambling resort') 200 Cartier

201-250

201 Antigua & Barbuda (in the Leeward Islands) 202 Oxygen 203 'Structural Functionalism' 204 Rialto Bridge 205 Kingfisher 206 Navarino 207 Puzzles 208 Makemake 209 Biafra 210 Richard Amerike 211 Aspirin 212 Thailand 213 Soranus 214 ZANU-PF (Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front) 215 Corinthian 216 Tibia 217 Suez Canal Company (accept 'Suez') 218 Mosquito 219 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) 220 Charles Messier 221 Low 222 Ox 223 Ramones or Ramone 224 The Mysterious Cities of Gold/Les Mysterieuses Cites d'Or/Esteban and the Seven Cities of Gold/Taiyo no Ko Esuteban 225 Julie Christie 226 Sleevefacing or Sleeveface 227 Monica Bellucci

228 Graffiti artists (accept 'taggers' or similar) 229 Gatun Lake or Lago Gatun 230 Caste 231 Closer 232 Microwave oven 233 Seven (7) 234 The Host or Gwoemul ('Water Monster') 235 Maggie (Simpson) 236 Ten (10) 237 Connie Francis 238 Napalm Death 239 Giovanni Bonifacio 240 Quantico circuit (1/2 point for just 'Quantico') 241 Max Planck 242 Secretariat 243 Tazio Nuvolari 244 San Diego 245 Serac 246 Konishiki Yasokichi or Saleva'a Fuauli Atisano'e (accept Atisano'e or Konishiki) 247 Star Wars 248 Inspector Salvo Montalbano (just need 'Montalbano') 249 Israel 250 Rubber industry (accept 'latex')

251-300

251 Dassault 252 Rod Stewart (Roderick David Stewart) 253 Balaclava (as in the Battle) 254 Louis IX (1/2 point for St. Louis) 255 Corsica 256 Bermuda Bowl 257 'Spanish Prisoner' 258 ¡Hola! (accept 'Hello' and local equivalents) 259 (Rugby league's) Man of Steel 260 Kenji Mizoguchi (accept 'Mizoguchi') 261 Bowls 262 Mr. Freeze aka Dr Victor Fries (enemy of Batman) 263 'Berlin Airlift' 264 The Gepids or Gepidae or Gifoas 265 Atonement 266 Ether or ethoxyethane or diethyl ether 267 Laos or Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao 268 Jose Luis Chilavert 269 Personal Water Craft (1/2 point for 'water craft') 270 Sambo or Sombo or Cambo 271 St Olaf's church or St Olav's church (accept answers including Olav or Olaf, obviously) 272 Hungary & Soviet Union (1/2 point for each) 273 Jonathan Ive 274 Miroslaw Rogala 275 1968 3001 (3001: The Final Odyssey) 276 Rudolf Bauer or Rezso Bauer (TV character being Jack Bauer of 24) 277 Los Contemporaneos (the magazine was called Contemporaneos) 278 The Golden Ass or Asineus Aureus 279 Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise, officially cimitiere de l'Est (named after Pere Francois de la Chaise (1624-1709)) 280 Carcassonne 281 Helicopter 282 Bamyan or Bamiyan 283 Dies Irae 284 Chuck Close 285 Mannerheim Line or Mannerheim-linja, named after Field Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim 286 Death Cap (accept Amanita phalloides) 287 Testosterone 288 Yellow-legged gull (1/2 point for 'gull') 289 Quebec City 290 Yellow Magic Orchestra (1/2 point for getting 2/3 words) 291 Philadelphia

(Deringer) 292 Po 293 Alfred the Great (accept 'Alfred') 294 English Channel 295 Harappa 296 Salvador Allende or Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens 297 Fetish / fetishism 298 Battle of Nicopolis (accept Nikopol or Nigbolu) 299 Oktoberfest 300 Police Academy

301-350

301 Dardanelles (accept ancient 'Hellespont') 302 Sous-vide 303 Porsche (names of models: 911; Cayenne; Cayman) 304 Aramaic 305 Slazenger 306 Autotomy 307 Abstract reasoning 308 Game theory 309 Hans Poelzig 310 Anders Celsius 311 Seville 312 Dagobah 313 M.I.A. 314 Khufu 315 SCORE (Signal Communications Orbit Relay Equipment) 316 Nickelodeon 317 Banana Boat Song 318 Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali 319 Gideons International, aka Gideon's Bible 320 Mers-el-Kebir 321 Twenty-five (25) 322 Statue of Library 323 Colditz or Colditz Castle 324 University of the Third Age or U3A 325 Rudy Hartono 326 "A Diamond is Forever" (1/2 point for 'Diamonds are forever') 327 The Winner Takes It All 328 Three Gorges dam 329 Wheelchair tennis (1/2 point for

tennis) 330 Cecilia Colledge 331 Vienna 332 Sherlock Holmes 333 UNIQLO (from Unique Clothing Warehouse) 334 Harpo 335 Bartholomew I (accept 'Bartholomew') 336 Gordon Ramsay 337 Theodor Herzl 338 Burundi 339 Induced Pluripotent Stem (Cell) 340 Spear 341 Stephenie (Morgan) Meyer 342 Goldman Sachs 343 Hadal or Hadopelagic zone 344 Christian Louboutin 345 Humayun (full title: Al-Sultan al-Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Mjazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu'l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu'llah) 346 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (so accept Fred and Ginger) 347 Indian Ocean 348 Dark Side of the Moon (by Pink Floyd) 349 Iran 350 Lamington

351-400

351 Pheidippides, aka Philippides or Phidippides 352 Hairdressing 353 'The Peter Principle' 354 Eight (8) 355 The Blue Train 356 Komodo Island 357 Goaltender or goalkeeper or goalie 358 Maldives 359 John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie 360 Janica Kostelic 361 Julian the Apostate or Flavius Claudius Iulianus 362 (RMS) Queen Mary 2 (accept QM2) 363 .ru 364 Margarita 365 Visegrad 366 Gunter Wallraff 367 Golden Gate Bridge (in San Francisco) 368 'Mr. October' 369 Travertine 370 Jericho 371 John Berger 372 Gazette (from 'gazzetta') 373 The Red Shoes/De rode sko 374 'Hyena Men' 375 Spandauer (1/2 point for 'Spandau') 376 Youssef Chahine 377 Maronite 378 Charlie Sheen (sitcom Two and a Half Men) 379 Dinar 380 'Delaware' 381 (Vitamin) C 382 Minerva 383 'Subway Diet' 384 Opium poppy (need 'opium' for full point) 385 Tingo, as in The Meaning of Tingo 386 Juan

Munoz 387 Kieselguhr or diahydro or celite 388 Executioner (accept 'guillotine operator') 389 An (accept 'Anu') 390 Manchester United 391 Hank Williams or Hiram King Williams 392 Banco Santander or Grupo Santander (accept just 'Santander') 393 Sammo Hung (accept Sammo) 394 Musical instruments 395 Siegfried & Roy 396 Rhea 397 Handball 398 Afghanistan 399 Monorail 400 I Shot the Sheriff

401-450

401 Breakfast of Champions 402 Dão 403 ERASMUS 404 Cougar 405 Ylang-ylang 406 Coalbrookdale 407 Tacitus or Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus 408 Uyghur or Uighur 409 Israel 410 Schindler Group 411 Sheep 412 Chiwetel Ejiofor 413 Heitor Villa-Lobos 414 Argonautica 415 Miklos Rosza 416 Fermat's Last Theorem 417 Chromium 418 Samuel Morse 419 Judaism 420 Sharm el-Sheikh or Sharm Al Shaykh (accept 'Sharm') 421 Stephanie Rice 422 Derrick 423 Shamal 424 Nena (Gabriele Susanne Kerner) 425 Wentworth 426 Eurovision Song Contest 427 Qing (accept 'Ching', do not accept 'Qin' which was 221BC-206BC) 428 Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen 429 Soca 430 Oz (Amos Oz the author, Frank Oz the puppeteer) 431 Catalyst 432 Chimu 433 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 434 525,600 435 Ojos de Brujo 436 Viktor Korchnoi 437 USS Enterprise, starship in Star Trek 438 Betelgeuse 439 The (men's) USPGA Championship (accept 'PGA') (as in the last of the four golf Majors of the year) 440 Kahuna 441 Ngoni 442 Earth Day 443 Bratz 444 Portugal 445 Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 446 Sarin (also known by the Nato designation 'GB' and as 'O-isopropyl') 447 Pierre Bourdieu 448 Deirdre 449 1967 450 Biathlon

451-501

451 Six (6) 452 Nymphenburg Palace or Schloss Nymphenburg 453 Panchen Lama 454 Caliph (from 'Khalifah') 455 Black swan 456 Holmenkollen Ski Museum 457 Thespis 458 Archaeology 459 Anna Lindh 460 The Miracles 461 Gran Colombia (accept 'Republic of Colombia') 462 Boston Marathon 463 Propane 464 Ashurbanipal (accept Sardanapalus or Osnapper) 465 Frankfurt School 466 Philippines 467 Quaternions 468 Allele 469 Gori 470 Anchovy 471 First (widely known) sex change/gender reassignment operation from male to female (accept 'first transsexual') 472 Baroque 473 Frasier Crane (accept 'Frasier') 474 Poi 475 Aravinda da Silva 476 Metaphysics (1/2 point for 'physics') 477 Sir John A. Macdonald 478 Spleen 479 Diwali or Deepavali (or in Nepal: Tihar or

Swanti) 480 Water vole 481 "Your tiny hand is frozen" 482 Happy Planet Index (1/2 point for either 'Happy' or 'Planet') 483 Venice 484 Rwanda 485 Benito Mussolini 486 Blanka Vlasic 487 Gia or Gia Marie Carangi 488 Kamchatka Peninsula 489 News or press agencies 490 Rowing 491 Exit Wounds 492 Ectoplasm 493 Make the Hajj (accept 'visit Mecca') 494 Anjouan 495 Malaria 496 Ys 497 Ogoun or Ogun or Ogum or Ogou 498 BASF (originally standing for Badische Anilin- und Soda Fabrik - Baden Aniline and Soda Factory 499 Taksim Square or Taksim Meydani 500 Samuel Peter 501 Rhett Butler

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