General Knowledge - Very Difficult XVI

What sport was revolutionized by Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi? Competative _____

A samurai of African origin who served Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period.

Who proposed to employ the guillotine as a more humane method of execution?

King Louis 16th was executed on 21st January 1793 at the age of 38. His Austrian wife was executed by guillotine on 16th October 1793 at the age of 37. What was her name?

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman was the first person to be executed by guillotine on 25th April 1792 at the age of 35. The execution took place in what city?

The ______ ________ is an Egyptian engraved stone bearing a tri-lingual decree dated 197 BC inscribed in Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek text. It was rediscovered by Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard on 19th July, 1799, during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt.

William Francis Kemmler (1860-1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier. In what US state did this occur?

An American Marxist-Leninist revolutionary. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. He was murdered by US police in 4 December 1969, West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States at the age of 21.

A 2021 film about the life of the above mentioned man and the William O'Neal, who worked with the police to assassinate him.

An American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Murdered by white supremacists on his front lawn in Jackson Mississippi, June 12, 1963 at the aged 37.

A 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store on the 28th August 1955.

The first African American woman to run for Presidency in 1972.

The wife of Malcolm X.

The wife of Martin Luther King.

The oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the United States. It was founded in 1837 by Richard Humphreys, a Quaker philanthropist.

A loose dress of Hawaiian origin that has 4 u's.

If you're a polygot, you know a lot of ________?

At 8am on 13th August 1964, two men, convicted just a few weeks earlier of murder, were led to the gallows at separate prisons in Manchester and Liverpool. No one involved knew it at the time, but Gwynne Evans and _______ were the last executions before capital punishment was abolished in Britain.

The _________ or Exaggerators were a radical revolutionary political group. They came to power during the Reign of Terror and played a significant role in the French Revolution.

The northernmost capital in continental South America.

The southernmost capital in continental South America.

The smallest state in the United States by land area. It's also known as "The Ocean State" because most of the state is less than 30 miles from the ocean.

The largest US state, covering 665,384 square miles.

The centrist/moderate conservative Shigeru Ishiba of the Liberal Democratic Party has been the Prime Minister of what country since 2024?

In 1961, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov performed an __________ on himself while working in Antarctica. He was the only medical professional on the expedition and was too ill to receive outside help.

What actor who played Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and also fought in World War II as a member of the Royal Air Force?

Bruce Lee had his ____ glands surgically removed a few months before his death. It is thought this prodecure helped lead to his death at 32 on the 20th July 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

What Russian politician and statesman had his portstain birthmark on his head airbrushed out of his early official portraits?

The above statesman also served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He introduced policies of “__________” (restructuring) referring to the restructuring of the political economy of the Soviet Union, in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation,

The above statesman also introduced the policies of "______" (openness) taken to mean increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union

Bōsōzoku is a Japanese youth subculture that arose in the 1950s, they are associated with having customised ________.

In Norse mythology, the hammer of the thunder god, Thor is called ______and is a symbol of his power. Forged by dwarfs, the hammer never failed Thor, he used it as a weapon to crash down on the heads of giants and as an instrument to hallow people and things.

In Norse mythology, ______ is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future).