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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy	84%
What is the codename of the character who gives Bond his missions? He was played by Bernard Lee, then Robert Brown, and then as a woman by Judi Dench.	M	84%
Richard III \| Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy	84%
Ghana	Christianity	79%
What is the codename of the scientist who gives Bond his weapons and gadgets? He famously makes modifications to Bond cars and is known for the quote: 'I never joke about my work 007'.	Q	79%
Directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, this film tells the story of man with a low IQ who accomplishes a lot in his life and is randomly involved in many historical events.	Forrest Gump	76%
Belgium	Franc	76%
Nigeria	Islam	76%
India	Hinduism	74%
John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor.	Queen	74%
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.	The Lord of the Rings	74%
The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy.	The Chronicles of Narnia	71%
This musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber concerns a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House.	The Phantom of the Opera	71%
Benny Andersson, Agetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Bjorn Ulvaeus.	ABBA	66%
The most traditional use of the lowercase letter pi is to represent the ratio of any circle's diameter to what length?	Circumference	66%
The Father of Impressionism; works included Water Lilies, Field with Poppies and The Beach at Trouville.	Claude Monet	66%
This gas named after the sun with atomic number 2 is notable as the second most abundant element in the universe.	Helium	66%
This board game was invented Anthony Pratt, with characters including Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlett.	Cluedo	58%
Directed by Peter Farrelly and starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, this film tells the story of two men whose stupidity is quote: 'really indescribable'?	Dumb and Dumber	58%
Which college is the second-largest university in the UK by enrolment and largest by postgraduate enrolment? Its closest tube station is Euston Square.	University College London (UCL)	58%
Collarbone	Clavicle	55%
Andrew Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold in 2019/20.	Liverpool	55%
For all three answers, name all the properties in the red set of properties on the original UK Monopoly board.	Trafalgar Square	55%
Directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, this film tells the story of a man who is wrongfully sent to prison where he comes to be admired by the other inmates for his integrity and sense of hope.	The Shawshank Redemption	53%
This area off the coast of Portugal was the location of an 1805 battle in which Admiral Nelson defeated Napoleon. The battle is commemorated by a square in England.	Trafalgar	53%
Which fast food chain with headquarters in Louisville is the world's second-largest chain after McDonalds?	KFC	50%
Spielberg has made more films about which archaeologist than any other character? First in 1981 and most recently in 2008.	Indiana Jones	47%
This physicist wrote another book called Principia in which he described the new field of calculus. He is also considered the father of classical mechanics.	Isaac Newton	47%
Which African capital's name can be spelt using the symbols for calcium, iridium and oxygen?	Cairo	45%
This toy was invented by Ole Kirk Kristiansen.	Lego	45%
Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth and Christian Fuchs in 2015/16.	Leicester City	45%
Which German composed music for Gladiator, The Dark Knight and the Pirates of the Caribbean series?	Hans Zimmer	42%
Which fast food chain was led by entrepenuer Ray Kroc whose story is told in a 2016 film starring Michael Keaton?	McDonalds	42%
Which chef is most well-known for his series about school dinners in which he challenged the junk-food culture?	Jamie Oliver	39%
Which Asian capital's name can be spelt using the symbols for barium, potassium and uranium?	Baku	37%
The Greek mathematician who wrote Elements. He is considered a father of geometry; fields of geometry are split into the ones which obey his rules and those which don't.	Euclid	37%
Which sword in Arthurian legend was given to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake? It is not to be confused with the sword in the stone.	Excalibur	37%
This metallic liquid was named after France. It has atomic number 31.	Gallium	37%
Which American composed music for Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Harry Potter?	John Williams	37%
This play written by Arthur Miller tells the story of the Salem Witch Trials. It is an allegory of the second Red Scare in America in the later 1940s and 50s. It shares its name with the theatre where the World Snooker Championship takes place annually.	The Crucible	37%
Which are hydrocarbons in which the carbon atoms are held together by single bonds? Their general formula is CnH2n+2 for molecules which don't contain ring structures.	Alkane	34%
Dennis Irwin, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister and Paul Parker in 1992/93.	Manchester United	34%
What number is the identity of addition? This is the real number for which leaves any real number unchanged when the operation is undergone.	0	32%
Which European capital's name can be spelt using the symbols for beryllium and radon?	Bern	32%
In the second verse, what 3 word phrase is also the name of a 1981 Best Picture winning film about British athletes at the Olympic games?	Chariot(s) of Fire	32%
Which state's most populated cities are Anchorage, Juneau and Sitka?	Alaska	29%
Which 2000 film directed by Mary Harron concerns an investment banking executive who hides his psychopathic alter ego from his co-workers?	American Psycho	29%
This type of puzzle was invented by John Spilsbury.	Jigsaw	29%
The Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus.	Taxonomy	29%
Which state's most populated cities are Milwaukee, Madison and Waukesha?	Wisconsin	29%
A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords.	A Song of Ice and Fire	26%
What curry was invented in Glasgow in the 1970s by a Bangladeshi chef who added a mild tomato-cream sauce to an existing recipe? It is now considered the national dish of the UK.	Chicken tikka masala	26%
At which Test Cricket venue is the hymn regularly sung before play begins?	Lords	26%
What is the name of the sword in the Harry Potter series of books which is capable of destroying Voldemort's horcruxes? It is named after one of the Hogwarts houses.	Sword of Gryffindor	26%
Which groups consist of a hydroxyl and a carbonyl bonded to a single carbon atom?	Carboxyl	24%
This pantomime concerns the title character and his pet cat on their quest for fame and fortune in London.	Dick Whittington	24%
Which social sciences institution, usually shortened to a 3 letter acronym, was founded in 1895? Its closest tube station is Holborn.	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	24%
'God does not play dice' is a quote from Einstein's argument with which Danish physicist about the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics?	Niels Bohr	24%
This radioactive element with atomic number 43, is a result of the decay of molybdenum. It is put to use in medicine.	Technetium	24%
Which year is known as Einstein's 'annus mirabilis' or 'miracle year' in English due to the many papers he published that year?	1905	21%
Whose field equations, in the form of a tensor equation, relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution of matter within it?	Albert Einstein	21%
This philosopher wrote Principia Mathematica in collaboration with AN Whitehead. He also devised an important paradox of Georg Cantor's set theory by considering the set of sets which are not members of themselves.	Bertrand Russell	21%
Maxwell's equations are partial differential vector equations which describe what type of fields?	Electromagnetic	21%
Which Italin composed music for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Django Unchained and Kill Bill?	Ennio Morricone	21%
Spartan Strike was a 2015 release in which videogame series from the military science fiction genre?	Halo	21%
What 3 word phrase, in the 3rd line of the hymn is referred to multiple times in the Book of Revelation? It is also an alternative name for Christ	Lamb of God	21%
This French post-impressionist painted The Vision after the Sermon, Tahitian Women and La Seine au Pont d'lena.	Paul Gauguin	21%
Also in mathematics, the capital pi is used to represent the what of a sequence?	Product	21%
The polymath and mathematician Charles Babbage.	Computer science	18%
What curry is believed by some to have originated in India, but by others to come from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Persia? Its name comes from the Turkish Qavirma.	Korma	18%
This impressionist born in Limoges painted Umbrellas, Moulin de la Galette and Madame Charpentier and Her Children. His son Jean became a notable film director.	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	18%
This area off the southwest tip of England is named after a city in Devon which shares its name with the location of the pilgrim ship the Mayflower's landing spot.	Plymouth	18%
In mathematical economics, the lowercase pi is used to represent what quantity, calculated in some models as the dot product of the price vector and the output vector for a firm?	Profit	18%
The Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation which described particles for which, what quantity equals 1/2?	Spin	18%
This fielding position on the leg side is also taken by the second umpire.	Square leg	18%
	Strand	18%
Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds.	Suffolk	18%
A fielder anywhere in the space between point and mid-off is given this name. A second fielder in this area is 'extra...'.	Cover	16%
	Fleet Street	16%
In 1836, which college became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London? It was established by royal charter in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington.	King's College London	16%
What is the codename of the woman who works for MI6 that Bond regularly sees? She usually works outside M's office.	Miss Moneypenny	16%
Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth and Newcastle-under-Lyme.	Staffordshire	16%
What is the name of the sword that belonged to first Bilbo Baggins and then Frodo Baggins in the works of Tolkien? It gets its name from the exclamation of a spider stabbed by Bilbo in The Hobbit.	Sting	16%
Reading, Slough and Bracknell.	Berkshire	13%
The National Exhibition Centre in which English city has hosted the 4 day show annually since 1991?	Birmingham	13%
This area on the eastern coast of England is named after the river which flows through the city Kingston-upon-Hull.	Humber	13%
Which major rival of Manchester United did Cantona play for before he joined United? The game between these two clubs is called the Roses Derby.	Leeds United	13%
Upper jaw bone.	Maxilla	13%
The New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford.	Nuclear physics	13%
What property of addition means that elements can be grouped in any way when they are added? i.e. a+(b+c) is the same as (a+b)+c	Associativity	11%
Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson.	Backstreet Boys	11%
What curry was invented in Birmingham in the 1970s, when Pakistani residents created a fusion dish inspired by traditional recipes but cooked in appeal to Western tastes?	Balti	11%
What property of addition means that elements can be added in any order? i.e. a+b is the same as b+a	Commutativity	11%
Which state's most populated cities are Bridgeport, Danbury and Waterbury?	Connecticut	11%
What was the name of the final hat-trick scorer, whose club career involved West Ham United, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion?	Geoff Hurst	11%
This position behind the wicket keeper on the offside is usually 45 degrees to the wicket and on the boundary.	Third man	11%
Which aromatic functional group is characterised by a ring of six carbon atoms, bonded by alternating single and double bonds?	Benzene ring	8%
Einstein's special theory of relativity has 2 key postulates: the first is that the laws of physics are invariant in all inertial reference frames. Which other physicist first devised this postulate in his theory of relativity?	Galileo Galilei	8%
What was the name of the goalkeeper, whose club career involved Chesterfield, Leicester City, Stoke City and Fort Lauderdale Strikers?	Gordon Banks	8%
Which 2022 film was Spielberg's most recent? It is a film about film-making and it was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture.	The Fabelmans	8%
What 3 word term is given to the winner of Crufts?	Best in show	5%
Which UK-based chain offers fish and chips and claims to be 'Britain's longest established restaurant chain'?	Harry Ramsden's	5%
In 2019, Eric Cantona's speech at the Champions League draw baffled many. Which Shakespeare play did he quote at the beginning?	King Lear	5%
What was the name of England's other goalscorer in the final, who played for West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Sheffield United?	Martin Peters	5%
One of the developers behind Halo, W!Games, also contributed to which show jumping game for the Nintendo Wii, DS and Windows?	My Horse and Me	5%
One of Cantona's most famous moments was his violent attack on a supporter after being sent off in a Premier League game. At which stadium did this occur?	Selhurst Park	5%
My Horse and Me was released in 2007. What specific shooter videogame was DICE Game of the Year that year?	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare	3%
Portugal	Escudo	3%
Netherlands	Guilder	3%
Which British TV Chef rose to fame after she won the Great British Bake Off in 2015? She is known for the books Simple Spices and Family Favourites.	Nadiya Hussain	3%
In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, what sentence is written on the side mirrors on the car when it is being chased by a T-Rex?	Objects in mirror are closer than they appear	3%
Which TV chef is known for his shows from around the world and his show since 2016 called Long Weekends?	Rick Stein	3%
When Mr Bean sits a maths exam, he realises he has revised the wrong topic, but at the end of the exam discovers questions on the topic he had revised on the other side of the paper. Name both the topic he did and didn't revise.	Trigonometry and calculus	3%
In another sketch, Atkinson plays a student being told off by the headmaster. The audience thinks he is being told off for starting every essay with 'My aunt, who I live with, has a parrot called...', when actually he is told off for a grammatical error in this line. What is the corrected version?	With whom I live	3%
Heel bone	Calcaneus	0%
What breed of dog has been best in show the most times according to the Crufts website?	Cocker spaniel	0%
In a 1980 sketch, Rowan Atkinson plays a gorilla with what name, which has been taught to speak and act like a human?	Gerald	0%
Which 1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella concerns a Hungarian map maker who falls in love with a woman called Hana? It also won Best Picture.	The English Patient	0%
Which 1971 film directed by William Friedkin concerns narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle's hot pursuit of a heroin-smuggling operation? It won Best Picture.	The French Connection	0%

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