Let’s just say it’s not easy !!! The questions 1 Player 456 won 45.6bn won on what? 2 Masahiro Mori coined what term for our unease at human-like robots? 3 A cosmic year is the time the sun takes to do what? 4 Hornsea 2 in the North Sea is the world’s largest what? 5 Which two US states give their names to chemical elements? 6 Whose Blazing World is claimed to be the first sci-fi novel by a woman? 7 The term “fifth column” originated in which conflict? 8 Mash of at least 51% corn is used to make which whiskey? What links: 9 II (Augustus); III (the Bold); IV (the Fair); V (the Tall)? 10 Tie up; sealing food in tins; smallest Yorkshire city; legal rules of society? 11 Alan Menken; Jennifer Hudson; Viola Davis; Elton John? 12 NTSC; PAL; SECAM? 13 Berlin; Berne; California; Warwickshire? 14 Crewe Alexandra; Sampdoria; Tottenham Hotspur; Vasco da Gama; Willem II? 15 Samaritan woman; Draupadi; Wife of Bath; Gail Platt?
3. Elapsed time for the sun to circle the Milky Way galaxy. 4. Offshore wind farm. 5. There used to be 3. Columbium was renamed Niobium. T'other two are Californium and Tennessine. 7. Spanish Civil War.
4 offshore wind farm 5 california and can't think... florida? 6 mary shelley 7 first world war 9 nicknames of caesars 12 TV signal protocols 14 david platt 15 hamster evolution
The answers 1 Squid Game (TV series). 2 Uncanny valley. 3 Orbit the centre of the Milky Way galaxy (about 225m years). 4 Offshore windfarm. 5 California and Tennessee. 6 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1666). 7 Spanish civil war. 8 Bourbon. 9 Bynames of French king Philips. 10 Shortest serving British PMs: Truss; Canning; (Earl of) Ripon; Law. 11 Most recent to complete (competitive) Egot award set. 12 Video format standards. 13 Flags feature bears. 14 Football clubs named after real people: Princess Alexandra; Andrea Doria; Henry Percy (Hotspur); Vasco da Gama (Rio club); Dutch king. 15 Fictional women with five husbands: John’s gospel; Mahabharata; Canterbury Tales; Coronation Street.
The questions 1 Which poet pointed out his name was an anagram of “hug a shady wet nun”? 2 What was the first sport to have fans? 3 Charlemagne is buried in which cathedral? 4 Who is the highest-rated female chess player ever? 5 Nessiteras rhombopteryx was a proposed scientific name for what? 6 The punk musical Lizzie is about which cause célèbre? 7 What was established in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures? 8 Which Vietnam veteran directed three films about the war? What links: 9 Perfumery, stationery (ground); telephones, gents’ suits (1st); carpets, travel goods (2nd)? 10 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; Arnolfini Portrait; Las Meninas; Rokeby Venus? 11 Lydia Monks; David Roberts; Nick Sharratt; Axel Scheffler? 12 26 bones; 33 joints; more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments? 13 People of the tradition (87-90%); party of Ali (10-13%)? 14 Ezra Cornell; Sarah Lawrence; Leland Stanford; Matthew Vassar? 15 Trois-Îlets, Martinique in 1763; Hofburg Palace, Vienna in 1791?
I'll go for Judit Polgar for 4. She's the only female chess player I know (other than her sister) and she was by far the best in her time.
5 was sir peter scott's joke april fool's classification name for the loch ness monster. if i remember correctly, it was an anagram. i'm not going to work it out, but it was something like "a monster hoax by sir peter s". funny what one remembers... 11 are illustrators of children's books (it helps that i know one of them personally. i know at least two of them have illustrated books by julia donaldson and perhaps they all have). 12 hands, at a guess.
2 What was the first sport to have fans?......Polo 3 Charlemagne is buried in which cathedral?...Notre Dame 6 The punk musical Lizzie is about which cause célèbre? Suzie Sue 8 Which Vietnam veteran directed three films about the war? Oliver Stone What links: 9 Perfumery, stationery (ground); telephones, gents’ suits (1st); carpets, travel goods (2nd)? Are You Being Served, intro
