General Knowledge - Very difficult

What is the study of signs and symbols called?

What is the study of flags called?

In 1066, after the death of Edward the Confessor, there were four claimants to the throne. They were Harold Godwinson: Earl of Wessex. William: Duke of Normandy. Harald Hardrada: King of Norway and ____Atheling: Great-nephew of Edward.

After the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror, a Norman, became King of England. He conducted a violent campaign, having his knights kill people in Northern England to squash any possible rebellions. This was called the ____ of the North.

The _______ book was manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror to see how much land, livestock and people he governed.

A grilled dish of minced meat found traditionally in the countries of southeast Europe, mainly the Balkans (starts with C).

A dish you'd find in Georgia, Azerbaijan or Armenia, is made from a blend of onions, eggplant, tomato, capsicum, and potato.

Apart from French, what is the official language of Madagascar?

The ____ people are a Bantu ethnic group found in Equatorial Guinea, northern Gabon, and southern Cameroon.

Wales, Bhutan, and _____ are the only countries that have dragons on their flags.

The Kenyan flag is a tricolour of black, red, and green with two white edges, a red, white, and black ____ shield, and two crossed spears in the centre.

Yang Kyoungjong (1920-1992) was a Korean man who fought for three armies during World War II: the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and the German ________.

Leyla _____ (1952-1974) was a Feyli Kurdish activist against the Iraqi Ba'ath regime who was executed in Baghdad in 1974 at the age of 22. She is known as a national martyr among the Kurds.

Kanno ____ (1881-1911) was a Japanese journalist and anarcha-feminist who was executed for her alleged involvement in the attempted assassination of Emperor Meiji

Abdullah Öcalan is the founder is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as the ____.

The civil war in Sudan is being fought between two major rival factions. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. Dagalo is also more commonly known by the name _____.

An electric battery is a source of electric power. When a battery is supplying power, its positive terminal is the cathode and its negative terminal is the _____.

The ____ effect is a physical force that occurs between two uncharged, perfectly conducting plates that are held close together in a vacuum.

The real name of Mark Twain was Samuel Langhorne _____.

The five pillars of Islam include Shahadah, Salah, Zakat, Hajj and ____.

In thermodynamics, Prevost's Theory of _____ states that bodies radiate and absorb radiation, or heat, from other bodies. For instance, If a body at a cooler temperature is placed inside a higher-temperature enclosure, the body's heat will rise to match the enclosure's, and vice versa.

The Bronte sisters were, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), were well-known poets and novelists. Emily the middle child, wrote only one novel, which was ___________.

The Grand Mosque seizure, also known as the siege of Calamity, was a siege that took place between 20 November - 4 December 1979 at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, the holiest Islamic site in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The building was besieged by up to 600 militants under the leadership of Juhayman al-Otaybi, a Saudi anti-monarchy Islamist from the _____ tribe.

A Hero of Our Time is a famous Russian novel published in 1839 by Mikhail ________.

The value of Pi (π) is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Give the first five numbers of Pi after the decimal. 3.______.

The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation _________.

In the 1950s in Sri Lanka (called Ceylon from 1792 until 1972), pogroms were committed by the Sinhalese against what ethnic group?

The word pogrom means an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, it originates to the massacre of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The word comes from pogromit meaning to ______by the use of violence’.

The Shoah refers to the massacre of Jews in the Holocaust. But what word refers to the killing of Sinti and Roma people?

The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings and genocide in __________ between 1983 - 1987. The name derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".

Before the British came to dominate India in the 1700s, India was comprised mainly of two Empires, the Maratha empire and ____ empire.

Accidental Death of an _______ is a play by Italian playwright Dario Fo that premiered in 1970. The play is based on the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and on the death of Giuseppe Pinelli who died in police custody, being falsely blamed for the bombing.