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First female mp

Nancy Astor
First female us president candidate
Victoria woodhull
Module crashed into moon deliberately
Lunar prospector
Pop star whose partner is simon konecki
Adele
Pop star whose toddler won damages
Adele
Lib dem mp controversial Gaza tweet?
David ward
Health sec from 97 and holborn mp?
Frank Dobson
Former labour director of public prosecutions
Keir starmer
Sochi snowboarder lost photos
Jenny jones
First British Olympian to win gold on snow
Jenny jones
Willem Alexander's queen?
Maxima
Back flipping commonwealth games netballers?
Sasha and Kadeen Corbin
Contemporary cottish classical violinist?
Nicola benedetti
Council area in docklands with controversial new floating homes?
Newham
Red shoe designer
Christian louboutin
Florence, as in machine, surname?
Welch
Motorway from m25 to Dover
M20
Motorway between m25 and stansted
M11
Tulisa surname
Contostavlos
Woodall and Constantine?
Trinny and Susannah
Brit cage fighter went out with jordan
Alex Reid
Plays gene hunt in life on mars
Philip glenister
Legendary NZ all rounder
Richard Hadlee
Spectator chairman?
Andrew Neil
Nme feminism married to tony parsons
Julie burchill
Danish pm?
Helle thorning–Schmidt
Danish pm married to whose son?
Neil kinnock
Ed miliband wife
Justine Thornton
Contemporary Cuban Ballet dancer
Carlos Acosta
Liz I court painter?
Marcus gheeraerts
Spads stand for?
Special advisors
New education sec
Nicky Morgan
'Good day to bury bad news' on 9/11
Jo Moore
New environment sec
Liz truss
Previous environment sec
Owen Paterson
Controversial special advisor to Gordon brown?
Damian mcbride
Chancellor until 93
Norman Lamont
P&o stands for?
Peninsular and oriental
New welsh sec
Stephen crabb
Un high commissioner for human rights
Navil pillay
FAA acronym?
Federal aviation administration
Palestinian presideng
Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian pm
Rami hamdallah
New Indonesia president
Joko widodo
Indonesia presidential race loser
Prabowo subianto
Italian ferry? Near what island?
Costa Concordia, giglio
Philip green owns what shop?
Top shop
Kenyan 800m runner
David rudisha
Australian female cyclist
Anna meares
Australian female swimmer
Alicia coutts
Scottish male 200m breaststroke silver medallist
Michael jamieson
Scottish 400m hurdler female
Eilidh child
Female 100m olympic champ
Shelly Ann Fraser pryce
English make triathletes
Alastair and Jonny brownlee
Scottish female 400m individual medley swimmer
Hannah Miley
Male cyclist team and individual spring gold medal
Jason Kenny
Female cyclist team pursuit and omnium champ
Laura trott
British female cyclist gold team pursuit
Jo rowsell
British male backstroke holds wr in 50m
Liam tancock
Female Brit weightlifter not Zoe smith
Michaela breeze
Brit female butterfly and freestyle 50m
Fran halsall
Brit female boxing champ
Nicola Adams
England cricket coach
Peter moores
Oval sponsored by
Kia
England t20 captain
Stuart broad
Anderson pushed which Indian cricketer?
Ravi jadeja
Company run by churchill grandson Rupert soames?
Serco
Bolshoi director attacked with acid?
Sergei filin
St Petersburg ballet
Mariinsky
Bill of rights influenced by which writer
John Locke
SEAL acronym
Sea air land
Sang 'at last'
Etta James
Film set in metroville
The incredibles
Royal disease
Haemophilia
Last line of Casablanca
Louis this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Casablanca director
Michael curtiz
Main stars of Casablanca
Bogart and Bergman
Casablanca based on what book
Everybody comes to rick's
It happened one night and it's a wonderful life director
Frank Capra
Malayan 60s communist insurgent
Chin peng
Bible translated into English century?
14th
First black Victoria cross
William hall
Act of union year
1707
Brit king died of dysentery
Stephen
EFTA acronym and members
European free trade association, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
Falsely convicted of 1970s pub bombings
Guildford 4 and maguire 7
Known as book of winchester
Domesday book
In the days of the Spanish New World Empire, the mainland of the North and South American continents enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico was referred to as the
Spanish Main
Uk's first nuclear weapons program
Polaris
Uk us 1962 treaty on nuclear weapons
Nassau agreement
Uk nukes were going to be usa's...
Sky bolt
Uk nuclear submarines 1960–94
Resolution
Uk nuclear submarines
Vanguard
Previously called sandwich islands
Hawaii
Sword used by William wallace
Claymore
Mayflower year
1620
George ii's son, and how did he die?
Frederick louis hit by cricket ball
Monarchy law in 1701
Act of settlement
Act of parliament before William and mart
Bill of rights
Where is Yale uni
New haven Connecticut
Iconic feminist 'we can do it' image
Rosie the riveter
Trade union action in 70s at film processing
Grunwick dispute, mrs desai
Played cpt Kirk in Star Trek
William shatner
Hikaru sulu in star trek
George takei
Facebook celebrities app
Mentions
Hard sell knife adverts
Ginsu
Hills south west of edinburgh
Pentland
Fingals cave which island
Staffa
Cobbled street in Shaftesbury Dorset
Gold hill
Gold hill advertised what and who directed ad
Hovis, Ridley Scott
Broad region including Edinburgh
Lothian
Fingals cave named after poem by
James McPherson
Fingals cave poet also created what
James McPherson Ossian
How many cities in uk
69
Mway London Brighton
M23
Mesozoic eras in order?
Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous
Royal mint where
Llantrisant
Football team at rugby park
Kilmarnock
Area south east of Winchester
Twyford down
North west wales county
Gwynedd
Nw Wales peninsula
Llyn
Small island with lighthouse nw wales
Bardsey
Mary queen of scots imprisoned which Scottish castle
Loch leven
Mqos husband
Henry Stuart lord Darnley
Mary qos dad
James v of Scotland
Mary qos 1st husband
Francis
Catholic Rebellion to depose Liz i
Rising of the north
Most east Thames bridge
Dartford Thurrock crossing, qe2 bridge
Grockle West Country
Tourist
Mway m4 to Bristol
M32
Lesbian Yorkshire town
Hebden bridge
North laine shopping district where
Brighton
Official monarch residence in Scotland
Holyrood house
17th century Scottish architect
William Bruce
He left his mark on London by single buildings, such as the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and in area design for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End
Inigo jones
Mways meet west of heathrow
4 and 25
West yorks county town
Wakefield
Troon and turnberry county
Ayrshire
Ucl top art school
Slade
Director of Armageddon, pearl harbour, various horrors
Michael bay
1st commonwealth games host and year
1930 Hamilton Canada
Next commonwealth games
Gold Coast
Country features hat in flag
Lesotho
2nd city of Malawi
Blantyre
Victoria falls river
Zambezi
Monteverdi and Vivaldi profession
Priest
German for song
Lied
Indonesian musical styke
Gamelan
Chinese opera type
Peking/Beijing opera
Whose 8th symphony unfinished
Franz Schubert
Maori soprano
Kiri te kanawa
2nd symphony is resurrection symphony
Gustav Mahler
Who wrote wedding march
Memdelssohn
Who wrote bridal chorus
Wagner
Israeli American violinist with polio
Itzhak Perlman
had two distinct national lines of development, French (proceeding partly from the influence of Erik Satie and represented by Igor Stravinsky), and German (proceeding from the "New Objectivity" of Ferruccio Busoni and represented by Paul Hindemith.
Neoclassicism
First Viennese school?
Haydn Mozart Beethoven, sometimes Schubert
The members were:

Georges Auric (1899–1983)
Louis Durey (1888–1979)
Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
Les six
Wedding march in which piece
Midsummer nights dream
Which composer became a monk in rome
Franz Liszt
Composed circus polka for elephants
Stravinsky
ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid and Rodeo, his Fanfare for the Common Man and Third Symphon
Aaron Copland
Legendary American female dancer and choreographer
Martha graham
Wrote voss and riders in the chariot
Patrick white
Composed scottish symphony
Mendelssohn
8th sonata pathetique?
Beethoven
Canadian 20th c pianist
Glenn Gould
Italian 16c masked theatre
Commedia dell'arte
John Hughes sets movies where
Chicago
reached the peak of his early career in the early 1940s, in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940), The More the Merrier (1943) directed by George Stevens, and two by Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942).[6]
Joel mccrea
Female star of Sullivan's travels
Veronica lake
Film about Eleanor of Aquitaine, which stars?
Lion in winter. Otoole henry, k Hepburn Eleanor, Hopkins Richard I
Directed ghostbusters
Ivan reitman
40s and 50s comedians did 'who's on first'
Abbott and Costello
3d film produced by Warhol
Flesh for Frankenstein
Pearl harbour year
1941
Country's citizens banned from entering us from 1902
China
Apple 80s alternative to mac
Lisa
Old pointy shoe
Sabaton
Quebec separatist politician lost leg
Lucien Bouchard
Enuresis?
Bed wetting
Cremaster muscle where?
Testes
Men long jump record holder
Mike Powell
5k 10k men wr holder 04–08
Kenenisa bekele
Aztec underworld
Mictlan
Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
Erinyes/furies
Evil Slavic mythology woman
Baba Yaga
Jewish anthropomorphic doll, which rabbi created one?
Golem, rabbi low
Shield carried by Athena or Zeus
Aegis
Greek gods blood
Ichor
Who lived in jotunheim and muspell
Norse giants
Unicorn collective noun
Blessing
Deity sided with Trojans in Trojan war
Aphrodite
Agamemnon king of where
Mycenae/Argos
Agamemnon brother
Menelaus
Agamemnon wife
Clytemnestra
Odysseus's dog
Argos
What is a cailleach
Divine hag in scots Irish mythology
Greek goddess of strife
Eris
Dwarf planet in asteroid belt
Ceres
Most massive dwarf planet
Eris
Other dwarf planets
Haumea, makemake
Lady of the lake name
Vivienne
Arthur final battle
Camlann
Odins brothers
Vili ve
1st woman swim channel
Gertrude Ederle
King Arthur's spear
Ron
Curling broom name
Besom
New England nautical folk hero
Captain stormalong
national epic of Iran (Persia), Afghanistan (Khorasan), Tajikistan and the Persian–speaking world
Shahnameh
Kinich ahau
Mayan sun god jaguar
Mermaid based on what animal
Manatee dugong
Manatee dugong what family
Sirenia
Inca creator god
Viracocha, son was inti
Arab mythology fish that supports the earth
Bahamut
Illness named Greek 'purple pigment'
Porphyria
The usual list, from youngest to oldest is Aglaea ("Splendor"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer")
Charities Greek graces roman
Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs. In answer, she was transformed into hollow water reeds that made a haunting sound when the god's frustrated breath blew across them. Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of pan pipes
Syrinx
Paul Sheldon protagonist of which book
Misery
His most well–known act from that time is perhaps the 1971 performance piece Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters with a .22 rifle
Chris burden
Lead singer of spinal tap
David st hubbins
Band wears eyeball masks
The residents
Separates Scotland and Orkney
Pentland firth
Cinque ports
Hastings, new Romney, hythe, Dover, sandwich
Open air museum in Durham
Beamish
McManus gallery city
Dundee
Salford peat bog
Chat miss
First mway service station in uk
Watford gap
Watford gap county
Northamptonshire
Architect of Watford Gap services and Art Deco odeon cinemas
Harry weedon
Russian foreign minister
Sergei lavrov
Unguja and pemba
Zanzibar
Cruel intentions adaptation of which booj
Dangerous liaisons
Prince Albert actual first name
Francis
'Father of the raf'
Lord trenchard
Founded great north run
Brendan foster
1830 France revolution month, two monarcgd
July, Charles x, louis–Philippe
French president 1848–70
Louis Napoleon, Napoleon iii
Enemy at the gates film set during
Battle of Stalingrad
French Protestants 16–17c, inspired by who
Huguenots, john Calvin
Musical based on la boheme, and who by
Rent, jonathan Larson
First Rodgers &h musical
Oklahoma
Protagonist of The show includes the well–known songs "If I Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Carousel, billy bigelow
Musical with 'old red hills of home' and 'all that wasted time'
Parade
The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen–year–old employee, Mary Phagan.
Parade
Wrote Cinderella
Charles Perrault
The songs include 1960s–style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real–life Buddy Deane Show.[1
Hairspray
'Memory' in what musical
Cats
Cats musical based on
Old possums book of practical cats by ts Eliot
Longest running musical show
Phantom of the opera
'Getting to know you' and 'hello young lovers' musical
King And I
Grease leading characters
Sandy Olsen Danny zuko
Songs for a new world, parade, urban cowboy producer
Jason Robert brown
Wrote bridges of Madison county
Robert James Waller
made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She received the first of six (as of 2014) Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita. In 1985, she played Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in both.
Patti lupone
Max Bialystok, Leo bloom feAture in
The producers
His most well known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Mel brooks
Originally titled Threes, its plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends
Company
his most famous works include (as composer and lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gyps
Stephen Sondheim
Tony award named after
Antoinette perry
Sky masterson Nathan Detroit which musical
Guys and dolls
best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, The Shaggy Dog, Enchanted, and most recently, Tangled and Mirror Mirror.
Alan menken
Sings 'memory'
Griselda
Broke through in 'seesaw'
Tommy tune
Gangs in west side story
Sharks and jets
Countries without decinal currency
Madagascar Mauritania
UPC bar code acronym
Universe product code
best known for two articles in particular: "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), which introduces the concept of transaction costs to explain the nature and limits of firms, and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960
Ronald coase
Colonel sanders name
Harland
Built up mcd's
Ray Kroc
McDonald's brothers names
Richard Maurice
Bonnie and Clyde actors
Warren Beatty Faye dunaway
Zionist terrorist group post ww2
Lehi
Other name for Persian empire
Achamenid
Snp deputy
Nicola sturgeon
Unrecognised state within Azerbaijan
Nagorno–karabakh
Last hung in Britain
Peter Allen, gwyne Evans
A6 murderer
James hanratty
Drowned in butt of malmsey wine
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence
Roman flavouring fish paste
Garum
Hunger games set where
Panem
Played Robin Hood and Marian in 2010 film
Crowe, blanchett
Film about falling in love with ai
Her
made her breakthrough with Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), followed by critically acclaimed performances in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), and Safe (1995). Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar nominations for Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002), and The Hours (2002). Other notable film appearances include The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), and Children of Men (2006
Julianne Moore
Mean girls based on book
Queen bees and wannabes
Directed wolf wall st
Scorsese
Adult rating of films in usa
Nc–17
a 2011 British drama film cowritten and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. It was coproduced by Film4 and See–Saw Films. The film's explicit sexual scenes regarding sexual addiction resulted in it being rated NC–17 in the United States
Shame
MGM stands for
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Protagonists and antagonists of transformers plus leaders
Autobots led by Optimus prime, decepticons led by megatron
Germany's president
Joachim gauck
King of Belgium
Philippe
Poet a Shropshire lad
Ae Housman
Graves of 'first and last' died in ww1
St symphorien
1st ww1 battle
Mons
Big nasa telescope 2018
James Webb space telescope
Guy disabled by Reagan bullet
James Brady
Founded Achaemenid empire
Cyrus
Dynasty built most of china great wall
Ming
Charlemagne dAd and brother
Pepin the short, carloman
Capital Spain before madrd
Toledo
1389 battle Turks Bt Serbs
Kosovo
Soviet leaders between Brezhnev and Gorbachev
Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, andrei Gromyko
Acting russian leader thrice in 80s
Vasili kuznetsov
SALT stands for
Strategic arms limitation talks
'Epitaph to a dog' name of dog
Boatswain
Cheltenham gold cup winner 2014
Lord Windermere
Created c programming language and unix
Dennis Ritchie
author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
Old area of Belgium and Netherlands
Brabant
Spanish king before golden age, also holy roman
Charles I/v
King and queen of spain
Felipe vi, Letizia
Czech decathlete won 2004 gold
Roman sebrle
Usa 10000m record holder man
Galen rupp
Womens heptathlon 1st and last
100m hurdles, 800m
88 92 heptathlete gold
Jackie Joyner kersee
Nigerian gold medallist, female long jump 96
Chioma ajunwa
Only man to throw javelin 100m
Uwe hohn
Javelin men gold 92 96 00, has 5 best throws ever
Jan zelezny
Female heptathlon gold04
Carolina kluft
Sport 'indoor bandy'
Floorball
After securing a position as the babysitter for Zappa's children, she at last found herself a few years later finding multiple opportunities to compare the drawing with the actual object.[3] She famously paired up as a friend to a lot of old school rockers, as well as with future sexual partners Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon,[3][4] Nick St. Nicholas, Noel Redding, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, and actors Brandon deWilde, Michael Richards, Woody Allen and Don Johnson.[2]
Pamela des barres
Marvin lee aday
Meat loaf
Meat loaf famous album
Bat out of hell
American pie singer
Don McLean
The "Classic 5" lineup: David Ruffin (bottom left), Melvin Franklin (top left), Paul Williams (top right), Otis Williams (bottom right), and Eddie Kendricks (center) c. 1965.
Temptations
Band wore red hats called energy domes
Devo
Composed pictures at an exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
Played Billie Halliday in lady sings the blues
Diana Ross
Elp band stands for
Emerson lake and Palmer
Did music for Mario, Zelda etc
Koji kondo
Famous 70s synthesizer
Moog
Vincent David furnier
Alice cooper
stars Diana Ross as Tracy Chambers, a poor African–American woman who rises to become a popular fashion designer in Rome
Mahogany
Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner.
Eagles
Eagles formerly backing band for
Linda ronstadt
Tears of a clown song by
Smokey Robinson and the miracles
Jackson 5 first us no1 single
I want you back
Summertime blues 'first heavy metal song' by
Blue cheer
LSD cook in 60s
Owsley Stanley
Junior walker instrument
Saxophone
Had hit 'you light up my life'
Debby Boone
Burnt down in Beijing by Brits and French during 2nd opium war
Summer Palace
Cold War euphemism for the political demarcation between the Communist and capitalist and non–communist states of East Asia,
Bamboo curtain
Victory in hindi
Vijay
India Pakistan war 1999
Kargil war
Hural parliament of where
Mongolia
Women's World Cup 2015
Canada
Fictional Jeeves and Wooster fascists, leader
Black shorts, Roderick Spode
NZ born Irish scrum half
Isaac boss
Heineken cup first final
Toulouse bt Cardiff in 1996
This is the name of the magical reverse pass which Gregor gave to Gavin Hastings for Scotland to register a dramatic and famous last–minute 23–21 victory against France in Paris in 1995.
Toonie flip
Plays michelle fowler in eas tenders
Susan tully
Minder main characters
Dennis waterman as terry McCann, George cole as arthur Daley
Actresses brookside lesbian kiss
Anna friel, Beth Nicola Stephenson
Mike in the young ones
Christopher Ryan
Created inspector morse, played inspector morse
Colin dexter, john thaw
Dr who original planet
Gallifrey
Crossroads set what fictional village
Kings oak
The series centres on the life of five twentysomething law graduates embarking upon their careers while sharing a house in south London.
It is considered to be the definitive statement on twentysomething life in mid–90s 'Cool Britannia' London and is notable for its Britpop soundtrack and pushing of sex and drugs broadcasting boundaries of the time
This life
Played finchy
Ralph ineson
starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington.[4] Rossiter played Rupert Rigsby (originally Rooksby in the stage play): the miserly, seedy, and ludicrously self–regarding landlord of a run–down Victorian town house who rents out his shabby bedsits to a variety of tenants
Rising damp
Played 2nd dr who
Patrick troughton
Played jeremy and Margot lead better in good life
Paul eddington, Penelope Keith
Spitting image creators
Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie–Nairn
Porridge cell mate, warden, warden assistant
Lennie godber, mr Mackay, mr barrowclough
John Gibbs marshall
John sessions
Greco Persian wars final battle
Salamis
Athenian commander at end of Greco Persian wars
Themistocles
Sea battle at same time as Thermopylae
Artemisium
Historical region including athens
Attica
Thebes region
Boeotia
Separates peloponnese from mainland
Corinth canal
Resident alien ancient greece
Metic
Richest man in roman history, beat Spartacus, triumvirate with Pompey and caesar
Crassus
1st bearded roman emperor
Hadrian
Roman emperor 0ad
Augustus
Hannibal dad
Hamilcar
18–19c Danish archaeologist
Christian jurgensen thomsen
3age system archaeology
Stone bronze iron
a flat, thin, single–sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vendel era in Sweden). The term is also used for thin discs, especially in gold, to be sewn onto clothing in the ancient world, as found for example in the ancient Persian Oxus Treasure, and also later silver coins produced in central Europe during the early Middle Ages.
Bracteate
Indian empire 320–550 ce
Gupta
period in Europe from about 376 to 800 AD[2][3] during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. This period was marked by profound changes both within the Roman Empire and beyond its "barbarian frontier
Migration period
Roman emperor killed while weeing on road
Caracalla
seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.[5] invaded caledonia
Septimus Severus
Hodgson r speech impediment
Rhotacism
an old English Christmas tradition from Devon and Somerset, similar to that of the Yule log and related to the wassail tradition.
Ashen ******
Socrates wife
Xanthippe
Straight street through ancient rome
Via del corso
Argentina manager 86
Carlos bilardo
Premiership ball
Nike ordem
How many Punic wars
3
claims to promote "the restoration of classical Roman religion, culture, and virtues" and "shared Roman ideals" what state?
Nova Roma, Maine
Caesar beat who and said 'veni vidi vici'
Pharnaces ii
Argonaut Golden Fleece place
Colchis
Carthage in Phoenician
Kart hadasht
an ancient city located between Carthage in the south and Hippo Diarrhytus (now Bizerte) in the north, near the outflow of the Medjerda River into the Mediterranean Sea. It is traditionally considered to be the first colony founded by the Phoenicians in North Africa
Utica
Assassinated Cassius chaerea
Caligula
French dressing
Vinaigrette
mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon, Persian melon, spanspek
Cantaloupe
the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for seven, nine or nineteen years (according to differing interpretations)[1] before the Day of Judgment (yawm al–qiyamah / literally, the Day of Resurrection)[2] and will rid the world of evil.[3]
Mahdi
Teachings of Mohammed
Hadith
Polish blue cheese
Rokpol
Mayu Yamamoto extracted vanilla flavour from what
Cow dung
Pasta e fagioli
Pasta and beans
an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of French–speaking exiles from Acadia in Eastern Canada
Cajun
Triple sec tastes like
Orange
Casablanca director
Michael curtiz
Main stars of Casablanca
Bogart and Bergman
It happened one night and it's a wonderful life director
Frank Capra
Brit king died of dysentery
Stephen
Previously called sandwich islands
Hawaii
Trade union action in 70s at film processing
Grunwick dispute, mrs desai
Played cpt Kirk in Star Trek
William shatner
Cobbled street in Shaftesbury Dorset
Gold hill
Broad region including Edinburgh
Lothian
Mway London Brighton
M23
Football team at rugby park
Kilmarnock
Area south east of Winchester
Twyford down
Mqos husband
Henry Stuart lord Darnley
Mary qos 1st husband
Francis
Most east Thames bridge
Dartford Thurrock crossing, qe2 bridge
Grockle West Country
Tourist
Mway m4 to Bristol
M32
Official monarch residence in Scotland
Holyrood house
Troon and turnberry county
Ayrshire
Next commonwealth games
Gold Coast
2nd city of Malawi
Blantyre
Victoria falls river
Zambezi
German for song
Lied
Chinese opera type
Peking/Beijing opera
Whose 8th symphony unfinished
Franz Schubert
Wedding march in which piece
Midsummer nights dream
Composed scottish symphony
Mendelssohn
Canadian 20th c pianist
Glenn Gould
Directed ghostbusters
Ivan reitman
40s and 50s comedians did 'who's on first'
Abbott and Costello
3d film produced by Warhol
Flesh for Frankenstein
Pearl harbour year
1941
Old pointy shoe
Sabaton
Men long jump record holder
Mike Powell
Aztec underworld
Mictlan
Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
Erinyes/furies
Shield carried by Athena or Zeus
Aegis
Agamemnon king of where
Mycenae/Argos
Agamemnon brother
Menelaus
Greek goddess of strife
Eris
Dwarf planet in asteroid belt
Ceres
Most massive dwarf planet
Eris
Other dwarf planets
Haumea, makemake
Arthur final battle
Camlann
Odins brothers
Vili ve
King Arthur's spear
Ron
Mermaid based on what animal
Manatee dugong
Arab mythology fish that supports the earth
Bahamut
The usual list, from youngest to oldest is Aglaea ("Splendor"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer"). Greek and roman names
Charities Greek graces roman
Paul Sheldon protagonist of which book
Misery
Band wears eyeball masks
The residents
Separates Scotland and Orkney
Pentland firth
Open air museum in Durham
Beamish
Architect of Watford Gap services and Art Deco odeon cinemas
Harry weedon
Prince Albert actual first name
Francis
Founded great north run
Brendan foster
Enemy at the gates film set during
Battle of Stalingrad
French Protestants 16–17c, inspired by who
Huguenots, john Calvin
First Rodgers &h musical
Oklahoma
Wrote Cinderella
Charles Perrault
Longest running musical show
Phantom of the opera
Grease leading characters
Sandy Olsen Danny zuko
Songs for a new world, parade, urban cowboy producer
Jason Robert brown
Wrote bridges of Madison county
Robert James Waller
made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She received the first of six (as of 2014) Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita. In 1985, she played Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in both.
Patti lupone
His most well known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Mel brooks
Sky masterson Nathan Detroit which musical
Guys and dolls
Gangs in west side story
Sharks and jets
Countries without decinal currency
Madagascar Mauritania
UPC bar code acronym
Universe product code
Built up mcd's
Ray Kroc
McDonald's brothers names
Richard Maurice
Bonnie and Clyde actors
Warren Beatty Faye dunaway
Bay watch filmed where
Venice beach
New noël fielding show
Luxury comedy
Liberia president
Ellen Johnson sirleaf
Noah actor
Russell Crowe
Noah and black swan director
Darren aronofsky
Noah antagonist
Ray win stone
Men Olympic triple jump champ
Christian Taylor
400m hurdles 2010 commonwealth champ
Dai Greene
Commonwealth male squash champ 2010–14
Nick matthew
Mercedes drivers
Hamilton rosberg
Toe of itaky
Calabria
Nibali team
Astana
Streetcar named desire playwright
Tennessee Williams
Streetcar named desire set where
New Orleans
Phone hacker scored for wimbledon
Glenn mulcaire
Who had affair with Kimberley quinn
David blunkett
Sun gossip column
Bizarre
former editor of the Daily Mirror who had become a professor of journalism at City University, London
Roy green slade
Fracking stands for
Hydraulic fracturing
Feng shui translation
Wind water
Europe Ryder cup captain.
Paul Mcginley
No1 test cricket team as of 29.7.14
South Africa
Israel defence minister
Moshe ya'alon
First newspaper crossword
Arthur wynne New York Times
P/e in economics
Price/earnings ratio
Jailed russian oil magnate
Mikhail khordokovsky
Chinese eBay
Alibaba
Chinese google
Baidu
Previous Italian Tour de France champ
Marco pantani
Future bug problem year
2038
Italy allies ww2 armistice
Cassibile
Italian king during ww2
Victor Emmanuel iii
Hungarian currency 1927–46
Pengo
Queens horse drugs test
Estimate
New bob leader
Adam walker
Berlusconi prostitute
Karima el mahroug/ruby the heartstealer
Bosnian Serb war criminal
Ratko mladic
Chicago mayor
Rahm Emmanuel
Big tobacco sued for $23.6bn
R j Reynolds
Ex military dictator of panama
Manuel Noriega
Panama dictator in what video game
Call of duty black ops ii
Southern Chinese province with island
Hainan
Commonwealth cycling team pursuit
Wiggins, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, and Andy Tennant
Dell olio last boyfriend
Trevor nunn
Wrote score for Matilda
Tim minchin
Played gollum, King Kong, Caesar in dawn of planet apes
Andy serkis
Aldi founder dies
Karl Albrecht
Last caliph 1924
Abdulmecid ii
Isis leader
Abu bakr al baghdadi
Mohammed death year
632
First 4 caliphs after Mohammed
Rashidun
Caliphate before ottoman
Umayyad, Abbasid
Declared seat of isis
Raqqa, Syria
Mohammed's Meccan tribe
Quraysh
Wheeled suitcase inventor
Bernard sadow then Robert Plath
German finance minisuer
Wolfgang schauble
Prince George middle names
Alexander louis
Supreme Court justice???
Clarence Thomas
Egypt pm
Ibrahim mahlab
Golf career grand slam winners
Ben hogan, gene Sarazen, player Nicklaus woods
Elly Jackson and ben langmaid which band?
La roux
Early 20c russian violinist
David oistrakh
Watson come here I want to see you
First telephone conversation
Black square russian artist
Kazimir Malevich
The mirror crack'd which detective
Miss marple
Wine city in iran
Shiraz
Iran religious capital built 550bc
Persepolis
Iran city 'half of the world'
Isfahan
Standing stones on outer hebrides
Callanish
Bret maverick star
James garner
Rockford files star
James garner
Ladies who lunch singer married to john bay
Elaine stritch
Us company owned by john Malone bought virgin media and bid for itv
Liberty global
Microsoft chief
Satya nadella
City 'fear index'
Vix
'Britains favourite brand' ahead of john Lewis and bbc iplayer
Aldi
Company that owns hbo, bid for by 21c fox
Time warner
Tesco old and new ceo
Philip Clarke, dave Lewis
Tescos founder
Jack Cohen
Owned 200 papers, head of Heinz, Ireland first billionnaire
Tony o'reilly
Malay flight numbers
370, 17
Cma acronym
Competition and markets authority
Christian grey in film?
Jamie dornan
Anastasia Steele actress
Dakota Johnson
Us attorney general ???
Eric holder
Philippines president after Marcos
Benigno Aquino
Israeli newspaper
Haaretz
Sean bean latest us series
Legends
Italy pm
Matteo renzi
Chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff
Martin Dempsey
Large silver city Bolivia
Potosi
Bolivian ethnic group
Aymara
Measure of economic equality from 0 to 1
Gini co efficient
Former head of China security and legal
Zhou yongkang
When women wee, the vodka diaries by who
Rachel hirons
Arrival of Queen of Sheba composer
Handel
Smoke on the water by
Deep purple
The Brazilian song by
Genesis
Chief inspector of schools
Michael wilshaw
Provide energy to cells
Mitochondria
Soviets shot down plane in 1983
Korean air lines flight 007
Derogatory Arab word for Christian
Nazarene
Paris jewish suburb
Sarcelles
Substance in inhalers
Corticosteroid
New defence secretary
Michael Fallon
Peaches geldof husband
Thomas Cohen
Sky cycling coach
Dave brailsford
primary British main battle tank of the post–World War II period
Centurion
Chilean Marxist president 70–73
Salvador Allende
Shakespeare in love scripted by
Tom Stoppard
Shakespeare in love with
Violet de Lesseps
Jason's lover commits infanticide play
Medea by Euripides
In court of Charles ii, abducted Elizabeth mallett, dandy libertine subject of 'blazing star'
John wilmot earl of Rochester
Nicholas cage latest film, Texan forester
Joe
The rock real name
Dwayne Johnson
Wes Anderson latest film, protagonist played by
Grand Budapest hotel, gustave, ralph fiennes
Dorothea tanning married which artist
Max Ernst
Winter holiday book by
Arthur ransome
Barefoot in the park play by
Neil Simon
The good companions book by
JB Priestley
Film where white woman marries Sydney Poitier
Guess who's coming to dinner
Japanese after work red lantern sake bars
Izakaya
Menorca capital
Mahon
Menorca 2nd town
Ciutadella
Hungarian wild horse
Przewalski's horse
Eleuthera island where
Bahamas
Kon tiki guy
Thor Heyerdahl
First black woman Olympic gold, event
Alice coachman high jump
Glaxosmithkline ceo
Andrew witty
RB pharma stands for
Reckitt benckiser
Russia largest car maker
Avtovaz
Rosneft chairman
Igor sechin
Bp CEO
Bob Dudley
Khordokovsky company
Yukos
Built up bear stearns
Alan Greenberg
OECD stands for
Organisation for economic cooperation and development
Arrested anchor of 'economic news' in China
Rui chenggang
Israel operation rescue Uganda 1976
Entebbe
India richest man
Mukesh ambani
Satirical german political party
Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
Chief inspector of prisons
Nick hardwick
Colombia president
Juan Manuel santos
Western region of china, ethnic group
Xinjiang, Uighur
Enola gay type of plane
B29
Axel kicillof finance minister of where
Argentina
Buenaventura wheee
Colombia
FARC guerrillas from where
Colombia
Where was ban on handguns overturned
District of Columbia
California governor
Jerry brown
Usa most popular real estate listings site, rival just bought
Zillow, trulia
Banco Espirito Santo country
Portugal
Who wrote book minority report
Philip k dick
Bieber ex, star of come and get it
Selena Gomez
Other name for Persian empire
Achamenid
Snp deputy
Nicola sturgeon
Unrecognised state within Azerbaijan
Nagorno–karabakh
Last hung in Britain
Peter Allen, gwyne Evans
Drowned in butt of malmsey wine
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence
Roman flavouring fish paste
Garum
Hunger games set where
Panem
Played Robin Hood and Marian in 2010 film
Crowe, blanchett
Mean girls based on book
Queen bees and wannabes
Protagonists and antagonists of transformers plus leaders
Autobots led by Optimus prime, decepticons led by megatron
Germany's president
Joachim gauck
King of Belgium
Philippe
Poet a Shropshire lad
Ae Housman
Founded Achaemenid empire
Cyrus
1389 battle Turks Bt Serbs
Kosovo
3 Soviet leaders between Brezhnev and Gorbachev
Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, andrei Gromyko
SALT stands for
Strategic arms limitation talks
Created c programming language and unix
Dennis Ritchie
Old area of Belgium and Netherlands
Brabant
Spanish king before golden age, also holy roman
Charles I/v
Czech male decathlete won 2004 gold
Roman sebrle
Womens heptathlon 1st and last
100m hurdles, 800m
Javelin men gold 92 96 00, has 5 best throws ever
Jan zelezny
Meat loaf famous album
Bat out of hell
Band wore red hats called energy domes
Devo
Composed pictures at an exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
Played Billie Halliday in lady sings the blues
Diana Ross
Vincent David furnier
Alice cooper
Eagles formerly backing band for
Linda ronstadt
Jackson 5 first us no1 single
I want you back
Junior walker instrument
Saxophone
Cold War euphemism for the political demarcation between the Communist and capitalist and non–communist states of East Asia,
Bamboo curtain
Heineken cup first final
Toulouse bt Cardiff in 1996
Minder main characters
Dennis waterman as terry McCann, George cole as arthur Daley
Mike in the young ones
Christopher Ryan
Created inspector morse, played inspector morse
Colin dexter, john thaw
Dr who original planet
Gallifrey
Crossroads set what fictional village
Kings oak
Porridge cell mate, warden, warden assistant
Lennie godber, mr Mackay, mr barrowclough
Greco Persian wars final battle
Salamis
Sea battle at same time as Thermopylae
Artemisium
Thebes region
Boeotia
Separates peloponnese from mainland
Corinth canal
1st bearded roman emperor
Hadrian
18–19c Danish archaeologist
Christian jurgensen thomsen
3age system archaeology
Stone bronze iron
Roman emperor killed while weeing on road
Caracalla
seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.[5] invaded caledonia
Septimus Severus
Hodgson r speech impediment
Rhotacism
Argonaut Golden Fleece place
Colchis
Carthage in Phoenician
Kart hadasht
Assassinated by Cassius chaerea
Caligula
Teachings of Mohammed
Hadith
Pasta e fagioli
Pasta and beans
Vivian liperto and June carter married to
Johnny cash
What year Black Tuesday
1929
Director of fifth element, subway, leon
Luc besson
Wrote Adam bede
George Eliot
2013 Nobel literature
Alice Munro
Wrote the autobiography of Alice b Toklas
Gertrude stein
She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.
Carolyn shoemaker
She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since. She has won two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award and seven Golden Globe Awards (including 3 special awards) among many other accolades. She announced her retirement from acting in 1991, but returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule, released in 2007.
Jane Fonda
Death of a salesman by
Arthur miller
best–known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (El Aleph)
Jorge Luis Borges
Lady in portrait of a lady
Isabel archer
Princess author of heptameron
Marguerite of Navarre
first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
Henry iv
Countries with bourbon monarchs
Spain Luxembourg
Isak Dinesen better known as, most famous book
Karen blixen, out of Africa
Plane hijack money USA
Db cooper
When is thanksgiving
4th thurs in November
Mother of pearl
Nacre
Tacoma where
Near Seattle, Washington
Seattle area
Puget sound
used as placeholder names for a party whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal action, case, or discussion.[1] The names are also used to refer to a corpse or hospital patient whose identity is unknown. This practice is widely used in the United States and Canada, but is rarely used in other English–speaking countries including the United Kingdom itself, from where the use in a legal context originates.
John Doe
is a hair styling technique in which hot curling tongs are used to induce a curl into the hair.
Marcelling
clients included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987),[1] and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994). In 2002, offered to represent former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević declined any legal advice from any pa
Jacques verges
Khmer Rouge brother #2
Ieng sary
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Carlos the jackal
12 years a slave protagonist
Solomon northup
Mary Celeste captain
Benjamin Briggs
Hudson castaway painting by
John collier
El Salvador Marshall Islands castsway
Jose alvarenga
remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland
Erik the red
L'anse aux meadows famous for
Vinland
Fernão Lopes (died 1545) was the first known permanent inhabitant of
St Helena
Henry viii pope
Clement vii
1913 voyage ended wrangel island
Karluk
It was widely adopted as a high–energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen.
Pemmican
Sea above Bering strait
Chukchi
the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. is also the closest Russian settlement to the United States.
Uelen
Three great Siberian rivers
Ob, yenisei, Lena
southernmost island of the world.
Berkner island
a city in the Peruvian Andes located near a gold mine.[1] It is the highest elevation human habitation in the world
La rinconada
Honshu Hokkaido strait, tunnel
Tsugaru, seikan
The most remote city with a population in excess of one million
Auckland
The most remote city with a population in excess of 500,000
Honolulu
northernmost point of the British Isles, lying immediately 600 m north of Muckle Flugga and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of the island of Unst
Out stack
peninsula in Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland, that includes the most northerly point of the mainland of Great Britain. The point, known as
Dunnet head Easter head
most northerly settlement in the United Kingdom
Skaw
Deepest known cave on earth
Krubera/voronya
In 1969 he became the first man fully recognized for walking to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's famous, but disputed, expedition.[1] He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest polar explorer of our time
Wally herbert
Eustache Dauger
Man in the iron mask
Green children appeared where
Woolpit
He was responsible for the Western epic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
B traven
Rosa Luxembourg accomplice
Karl liebnecht
counter–intelligence program initiated by the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (a forerunner of the National Security Agency) that lasted from 1943 to 1980.[1] The program attempted to decrypt messages sent by Soviet Union intelligence agencies, including its foreign intelligence service and military intelligence services
Venona project
3rd–century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria, who led a famous revolt against the Roman Empire
Zenobia
Played Lucy in I love Lucy
Lucille ball
Rko pictures stands for
Radio Keith Orpheum
was a Scottish–born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragist. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide. Called the "Greatest Australian Woman" by Miles Franklin and given the nomenclature of "Grand Old Woman of Australia' on her eightieth birthday, was commemorated on the Australian five–dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation of Australia.
Catherine spence
Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law.
Emily murphy
Legendary royal ballet English ballerina
Margot Fonteyn
Queen of jazz
Ella Fitzgerald
She was the first non–royal female head of state and head of government in the Western Hemisphere in modern times.
Isabel peron
nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award–winning South African singer and civil rights activist.
Miriam makeba
Her novel The Good Earth was the best–selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."
Pearl s buck
In addition to being both Iceland and Europe's first female president, she was the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
Vigdis finnbogadottir
the modern world's first female head of government
Srimavo Bandaranaike
the longest–running number–one song in U.S. chart history
One sweet day by mariah Carey and boyz ii men
18th number–one single in the United States, more than any other solo artist
Mariah Carey
Anna Mae bullock
Tina turner
Anne bronte other novel
Agnes grey
Afi voted top female Hollywood star
Katherine Hepburn
Elite hotel, luxury liner singer
Emmylou Harris
someone who supports a centralized Republic, with power made at the national level in contemporary usage. At its inception during the French Revolution, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of left–wing revolutionary opinions.
Jacobin
Liliuokalani last monarch where
Hawaii
In December 1918, she was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat
Constance markiewicz
American tennis player, the winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar year.
Maureen Connolly
Other two stars of singing in the rain
Debbie Reynolds, Donald o'Connor
1913 us flood
Great Dayton
Chief Justice of us
John Roberts
Philippines president after Marcos
Benigno Aquino
Large silver city Bolivia
Potosi
Bolivian ethnic group
Aymara
Former head of China security and legal
Zhou yongkang
When women wee, the vodka diaries by who
Rachel hirons
Arrival of Queen of Sheba composer
Handel
The Brazilian song by
Genesis
Chief inspector of schools
Michael wilshaw
Provide energy to cells
Mitochondria
Derogatory Arab word for Christian
Nazarene
Substance in inhalers
Corticosteroid
New defence secretary
Michael Fallon
Peaches geldof husband
Thomas Cohen
Sky cycling coach
Dave brailsford
Shakespeare in love with
Violet de Lesseps
Nicholas cage latest film, Texan forester
Joe
The rock real name
Dwayne Johnson
Wes Anderson latest film, protagonist played by
Grand Budapest hotel, gustave, ralph fiennes
Dorothea tanning married which artist
Max Ernst
Film where white woman marries Sydney Poitier
Guess who's coming to dinner
Menorca capital
Mahon
Menorca 2nd town
Ciutadella
Hungarian wild horse
Przewalski's horse
Eleuthera island where
Bahamas
First black woman Olympic gold, event
Alice coachman high jump
Rosneft chairman
Igor sechin
Bp CEO
Bob Dudley
Khordokovsky company
Yukos
OECD stands for
Organisation for economic cooperation and development
Arrested anchor of 'economic news' in China
Rui chenggang
India richest man
Mukesh ambani
Satirical german political party, who runs it
Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
Chief inspector of prisons
Nick hardwick
Colombia president
Juan Manuel santos
Western region of china, ethnic group
Xinjiang, Uighur
Where was ban on handguns overturned
District of Columbia
California governor
Jerry brown
Usa most popular real estate listings site, rival just bought
Zillow, trulia
Banco Espirito Santo country
Portugal
Who wrote book minority report
Philip k dick
X
X
Wrote the autobiography of Alice b Toklas
Gertrude stein
Countries with bourbon monarchs
Spain Luxembourg
Isak Dinesen better known as, most famous book
Karen blixen, out of Africa
Plane hijack money USA
Db cooper
When is thanksgiving
4th thurs in November
Mother of pearl
Nacre
Tacoma wgeee
Near Seattle, Washington
12 years a slave protagonist
Solomon northup
1913 voyage ended wrangel island
Karluk
the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. is also the closest Russian settlement to the United States.
Uelen
Three great Siberian rivers
Ob, yenisei, Lena
Green children appeared where
Woolpit
Rosa Luxembourg accomplice
Karl liebnecht
Played Lucy in I love Lucy
Lucille ball
Rko pictures stands for
Radio Keith Orpheum
Legendary royal ballet English ballerina
Margot Fonteyn
Queen of jazz
Ella Fitzgerald
Anna Mae bullock
Tina turner
Anne bronte other novel
Agnes grey
Afi voted top female Hollywood star
Katherine Hepburn
Elite hotel, luxury liner singer
Emmylou Harris
someone who supports a centralized Republic, with power made at the national level in contemporary usage. At its inception during the French Revolution, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of left–wing revolutionary opinions.
Jacobin
Liliuokalani last monarch where
Hawaii
Other two stars of singing in the rain
Debbie Reynolds, Donald o'Connor
He is known for his overland crossing of what is now Canada to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1793. This was the first east to west crossing of North America north of Mexico and predated the Lewis and Clark expedition by 10 years.
Alexander Mackenzie
Raleigh armada ship
Ark royal
Irish navigator saint
Brendan
most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and the discovery and naming of Lake Victoria
John hanning Speke
famous for having named Venezuela, which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Colombia, and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita).
Alonso de ojeda
First black woman in congress
Shirley Chisholm
Sang me and bobby mcgee
Janis Joplin
Green Party leader
Natalie Bennett
Edinburgh train station
Waverley
Ny ticker tape parades where
Broadway
Mount McKinley native name
Denali
Most populous landlocked nation
Ethiopia
Largest uninhabited island
Devon Island
one of the world's most active volcanoes[2] and the largest active volcano in New Zealand. It is the highest point in the North Island
Ruapehu
borne by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria and, later, by all members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within the Holy Roman Empire below that of king and above that of duke.
Archduke
Europe longest river
Volga
Rivers meet Shanghai
Huangpu, Yangtze
large indentation in the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island. It stretches from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway in the east, a wide stretch of some 259 km of open coastline.
Bay of plenty
Only Lake District lake
Bassenthwaite
Disney castle inspired by
Neuschwanstein
Flag yellow sun blue background
Palau
large pre–Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Post Classic. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.[3]
Chichen itza
1956 at Old Trafford, Manchester, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia
Jim laker
Captain went out of wc miscalculated duck Lewis
Graham pollock
was an English cricketer, whose main role was as a fast bowler. He played first–class cricket for Kent and Worcestershire, and appeared in 41 test matches and 36 ODIs for England. He is perhaps best remembered for his tail–end batting with Ian Botham in England's second innings at Headingley in 1981, reaching his Test highest score of 56 in an eighth–wicket partnership of 117 in 80 minutes. This helped England to beat Australia despite following on and being quoted as 500–1 outsiders.
Graham dilley
Highest cricket wc total
413 India v Bermuda
Largest gothic cathedral in Northern Europe?
York Minster
Where is ettrick forest
Scottish Borders
Three js Dundee
JAm jute journalism
City of discovery
Dundee
Chicken peanuts vegetables chilis dish
Kung pao
Little sparrow dumpling dish
Spatzle
Japanese pancakes
Okonomiyaki
Hamlets parents
Claudius Gertrude
Britains last African colony
Rhodesia
First director of royal academy of music
George Handel
half–brother (through his mother) of Sir Walter Raleigh and cousin of Sir Richard Grenville.[2] Adventurer, explorer, member of parliament, and soldier, he served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth[2] and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.
Humphrey Gilbert
Topped '100 worst britond'
Tony Blair
Llewellyn died where
Climeri
first man to perform a single–handed non–stop circumnavigation of the globe and was the second winner of the Jules Verne Trophy (together with Sir Peter Blake). For this he was awarded with Blake the ISAF Yachtsman of the Year award. In 2006 he became at 67 the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the VELUX 5 Oceans Race
Robin Knox Johnston
prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht
Jules Verne
1st ship to pass through suez canal
Newport
an Iron Age drystone hollow–walled structure of a type found only in Scotland
Broch
Bede famous work
Ecclesiastical history of the English people
Britain first motorway
Preston bypass
First actor given knighthood
Henry Irving
First ship of Jamaicans
Empire wind rush
Raleigh armada ship
Ark royal
First black woman in congress
Shirley Chisholm
Green Party leader
Natalie Bennett
Edinburgh train station
Waverley
Ny ticker tape parades where
Broadway
Mount McKinley native name
Denali
Most populous landlocked nation
Ethiopia
Largest uninhabited island
Devon Island
Rivers meet Shanghai
Huangpu, Yangtze
Flag yellow sun blue background
Palau
Captain went out of wc miscalculated duck Lewis
Graham pollock
Three js Dundee
JAm jute journalism
Chicken peanuts vegetables chilis dish
Kung pao
Japanese pancakes
Okonomiyaki
Hamlets parents
Claudius Gertrude
Britains last African colony
Rhodesia
First director of royal academy of music
George Handel
Llewellyn died where
Climeri
Bede famous work
Ecclesiastical history of the English people
First actor given knighthood
Henry Irving
First ship of Jamaicans
Empire wind rush
Satirical german political party, who runs it
Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
Satirical german political party
Martin sonneborn's 'die partie'
Henry vii born where
Pembroke castle
Undertook Boston tea party
Sons of liberty
The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor–General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914.
Herbert
was a UK Government white paper written in 1969.[1] It was a proposed act to use the law to reduce the power of trade unions in the United Kingdom, but was never passed into law.[1]
In place of strife
Created nhs
Aneurin bevan
Queen street station where
Glasgow
Easterly point of n Ireland
Burr point
Highest point of Northern Ireland, what range
Slieve donard, mourne mountains
on the English Channel coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, stretching from the Lizard Point to Gwennap Head on the eastern side of the Land's End peninsula
Mounts bay
Dorking county
Surrey
Biggest uk zoo
Whipsnade
Blu and jevel film
Rio
Course dettori 7
Ascot
Beatles and Dylan met where, organised by
Delmonico, Alan aronowitz
Uk royal motto
Dieu et mon droit
Largest Hertfordshire town
Watford
Wigan rugby league nickname
Warriors
Kielder forest wgere
Northumberland
Largest town without city status in uk
Reading
Often described as England's smallest city,[2][3] it is second only to the City of London in area and population, though not part of a larger metropolitan conurbation like Greater London.
Wells
Liverpool hull motorway
M62
Oak leaf county
Derry
Caledonian cabal ends, constructed by
Inverness fort William, Thomas Telford
Derby river
Derwent
a headland on the east coast of England. It is on the coast of Essex just north of Blackwater and projects into the North Sea. This area is south of the double estuary of the River Stour and River Orwell at Harwich
The naze
Biggin hill borough
Bromley
has two architectural features that are unique among England's medieval cathedrals—a free–standing medieval bell tower (or campanile) and double aisles.
Chichester cathedral
Exact ends of channel tunnel
Cheriton, Folkestone and coquelles, pas de Calais
series of glens in Scotland running for 62 miles (100 km) from Inverness on the edge of Moray Firth, to Fort William at the head of Loch Linnhe.
Great glen
Designed Houses of Parliament
Charles Barry, helped by Augustus pugin
Edinburgh airport
Turnhouse
1 lime street
Lloyds of London
highest inn in the British Isles at 1,732 feet (528 m) above sea level
Tan hill
The second highest pub in the UK
Cat and fiddle, Peak District
a bay located two miles north of Newquay on the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road near the village of Tregurrian in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It faces the Atlantic Ocean. The two mile long, sandy beach and exposed north westerly location is a popular location for water sports, kite flying, and sand art. In May, 2007, it played host to the English Nationals Surfing Championships
Watergate bay
Ulster symbol
Red hand
prominent coastal headland on the north–west tip of the island of Anglesey.
Carmel head
What collective name is given to the legendary triplets who fought duels with the Curiatii to settle a war with Ancient Rome’s neighbour, Alba?
Horatii
Who wrote what is known as 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (The Flowers of Evil), a compendium of poems on Satanism, lesbianism, sex, death and revolt that led to a prosecution for blasphemy after its 1857 publication?
Baudelaire
Which volcano in the Philippines erupted in 1991 injecting vast amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere?
Pinatubo
Carolina NFL
Panthers
Florence church
Basilica di santo Croce
Lampedusa was in the international news recently as it is often the target European landing spot for desperate African refugees. The island is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento but of which island group is it the largest island
Pelagie
What is the name of the islands, part of the Venetian Lagoon, that are internationally recognized for the manufacture of glass objects? The industry has flourished since the Venetian Republic ordered its relocation from Venice itself in 1291 as a result of a fear of Venice being destroyed by fire spreading through its wooden buildings.
Murano
The Verona Arena, completed in 30AD, is the venue for a series of musical concerts each summer. In which square in Verona can the Arena be found?
Piazza bra
First Verdi opera
Correct answer:
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
Last Italian royal family
Savoy
Which heavyweight boxer, nicknamed ‘the Ambling Alp’, was born in Sequals in October 1906 and died there in June 1967? He was World Champion briefly from June 1933 to June 1934.
Primo carnera
Mary ii relation to James ii
Daughter
1723–1792) was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier fought in indus
Hannah snell
1300–1359), nicknamed the "Lioness of Brittany", was a privateer who plied the English Channel sinking French ships from 1343 to 1356.
Jeanne de clisson
Father of the house 1987–92
Bernard Braine
Gandhi born where
Porgandar
Victoria cross made from
Crimean war gun metal
was the part of Ireland that was directly under the control of the English government in the late Middle Ages. It had been reduced by the late 15th century to an area along the east coast stretching from Dalkey, south of Dublin, to the garrison town of Dundalk
The pale
Duke of Kent
Prince Edward
Bisexual son of George v
George duke of Kent
They lived in the tropical lowlands of south–central Mexico, in the present–day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
Olmec
Madrid gate
Alcala
Roosevelt four freedoms, which artist
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
Norman Rockwell
£5 notes in order
Wellington, George Stephenson, Elizabeth fry, Churchill
£10
Nightingale, dickens, Darwin, Austen
£20
Shakespeare, faraday, Elgar, smith
£50
Wren, houblon, Boulton/watt
Old £1 note
Isaac Newton
Tesco headquarter
Cheshunt
the town is known for "Wade's Bridge", built in 1733 and designed by architect William Adam, father of the more famous Robert Adam. General Wade considered this bridge to be his greatest accomplishment
Aberfeldy
1692 Scottish massacre
Glencoe
Viking protection money
Danegeld
Winter of discontent years
78–79
34–35 survey about war in uk
Peace ballot
Moved observatory to Greenwich
Charles ii
Samoan transgender
Fa'afafine
King of Swaziland
Mswati
Mysterious road messages
Toynbee tiles
By election Tory Ukip
Douglas carswell, clacton
Album prism
Katy perry
Journalist beheaded by isis
James Foley
Us defence secretary
Chuck hagel
Daily record based wheee
Glasgow
Wildly optimistic Voltaire character
Pangloss
Naples mafia
Camorra
Latest Icelandic Volcano
Bardarbunga
France pm
Manuel valls
Erdogan party
Akp
American teenager shot caused riot August
Michael brown
Building Lennon killed outside
Dakota building
Misrata where
Libya
Old Thai pm
Yingluck shinawatra
New Thai pm
Prayuth chan ocha
Former Ireland pm died
Albert Reynolds
Magaluf where
Mallorca
an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for being an affluent summer colony. It includes the smaller Chappaquiddick Island, which until 2007 was part of the same land mass before becoming detached by a storm.
Martha's Vineyard
Brit male 50m breast stroke world record
Adam peaty
Tiger woods former coach
Sean foley
New Howard Jacobson novel
J
Annie Oakley frank butler characters in, and who by
Annie get your gun by Irving Berlin
Guys and dolls by
Frank loesser
Luc besson Scarlett johansson film
Lucy
Radcliffe played Ginsberg in
Kill your darlings
Daniel Radcliffe new film , costar
What if. Zoe Kazan
A little learning by
Evelyn Waugh
Worlds biggest advertising group
Wpp
Purged and New France economy minister
Arnaud montebourg, Emmanuel macron
Uber founder
Travis kalanick
Rationing ended what year
1954
18 pregnancies one son queen of England
Anne
the threatened attack in September 1922 by Turkish troops on British and French troops to guard the Dardanelles neutral zone. The handling of the crisis by the British cabinet was a major contributor to the downfall of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. In addition, it was the occasion of the Canadian government's first assertion of diplomatic independence from the United Kingdom. The crisis was a major factor in the creation of the Statute of Westminster 1931, which determined that the Dominions of the British Commonwealth would have independence in foreign policy.
Chanak crisis
Minister for women
Nicky Morgan
Eu used to be called
European economic community
Britain joined eu date
1973
–worth means
Enclosure
Big river in essex
Crouch
Essex Island military base
Foulness
Bhopal gas
Methyl isocyanate
Largest town on sheppey
Sheerness
Eurostar stops where in kent
Ashford
Supposedly dating from about 1386, it is claimed to be the oldest working clock in the world,[1] although a similar claim is made of the clock in the cathedral of Beauvais in France (said to date from 1305)
Salisbury cathedral clock
was the largest non carbonado and largest gem–quality diamond ever found, at 3106.75 carat (621.35 g, 1.37 lb) rough weight
Cullinan
achieved some spectacular successes, notably the sinking of one and damaging two battleships of the Regia Marina (the Italian Navy) in the Battle of Taranto and the famous crippling of the Bismarck. Nicknamed stringbag
Fairey swordfish
Europes longest medieval church
Winchester
King in 1000
Ethelred the unready
was a British police officer fatally shot during a protest outside the Libyan embassy at St. James's Square, London, in 1984
Yvonne fletcher
Omar sharif born where
Iran
Joanna Lumley born
Srinagar India
Ursula andress born
Switzerland
Beat tostig then lost to hardrada at fulford
Edwin and morcar
a popular tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams–Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village, and is now owned by a charitable trust.
Portmeirion
is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal
Falkirk wheel
Us steptoe
Sanford and son
Warhol New York studio
Andy Warhol
James Herriot real name
James wight
Tom cruise first wife
Mimi rogers
Eva peron maiden name

Duarte