Extremely Hard General Knowledge #80

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Which is the second largest city in Finland by population?
Tampere
Who was the first black woman to serve as a Cabinet minister and first black woman to lead a university in the United Kingdom?
Valorie Amos
How long is each stump in cricket?
28 inches
Which Dutch philosopher's works include On Free Will and The Praise of Folly?
Erasmus
Which English novelist wrote Orbital, which follows astronauts on a space station, and won the 2024 Booker Prize?
Samantha Harvey
Which band, which had 2 UK Number Twos in 1979 with "Cool for Cats" and "Up the Junction", was Jools Holland a member of?
Squeeze
Who has "Gone to Sea", in the name of an 18th century North East English folk song, theorized to be based on a County Durham MP around at the time?
Bobby Shaftoe
Which Chinese animated film series consists of two films, the second being the highest grossing animated film of all time, about a heroic figure destined to either save or destroy the world?
Ne Zha
Which comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan involves a love triangle between Josephine, Ralph, and Sir Joseph?
H.M.S. Pinafore
SSL is the cryptographic protocol which allowed secure communication over the Internet until replaced by TLS in 1999, what does the initialism SSL stand for?
Secure Sockets Layer
In which year did the first episode of Coronation Street air, with an episode written by creator Tony Warren?
1960
In 1970, who became BBC Radio 1's first female presenter, and was the longest-serving broadcaster in the station's history?
Annie Nightingale
In phonetics, what name is given to a consonantal sound produced by the abrupt obstruction of airflow in the throat such as t, k, and b?
Plosive
Who won the 2025 Snooker World Championship, becoming the first Chinese man to win the tournament
Zhao Xintong
Which element on the periodic table, with an atomic number 72, has a name derived from the Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered?
Hafnium
Who became the Chancellor of Germany in May 2025, representing the CDU?
Friedrich Merz
Which desert, located in northern Chile, is the driest nonpolar desert in the world?
Atacama Desert
Who won consecutive Best Supporting Actor Oscars for roles in All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977)?
Jason Robards
In Greek Mythology, who was married to Eurydice and known as the greatest musician of all time?
Orpheus
Which cheese, sometimes informally described as a "mild feta", is named after a town in Mexico?
Cotija
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