1
Which 1985 Martin Scorsese film
centres around Paul Hackett, a New York City word processor played by
Griffin Dunne, who experiences a series of misadventures as he tries
to make his way home from SoHo at night?
2
The order Siphonaptera
refers to which insects?
3
Stockholm syndrome refers to
the feelings of sympathy and affection from hostages to their
captors. The inverse of this, in which captors feel sympathy for
their hostages, takes its name from which other world capital?
4
ToncontÃn
International Airport, ranked as one of the most dangerous in the
world, serves which Central American capital?
5
Who
is notable for being the last UK prime minister to hold office while
being a member of the House of Lords?
6
Which
decade links the First Anglo-Sikh War, the births of future US
president William McKinley and writer Henry James, and the
publication of The
Communist Manifesto?
7
How
many nations participated in 1930's inaugural FIFA World Cup?
8
The
1911 painting, L'Atelier
Rouge,
named as an influential work of modern art, was a creation of which
French artist?
9
Who
co-wrote, with David Bowie, the song China
Girl?
10
In
which country is Issyk Kul, the second-largest saline lake after the
Caspian Sea, and the tenth-largest lake in the world by volume?
11
Which
US vice-president from 1933 to 1941, known as “Cactus Jack” to
his contemporaries, described the position as being “not worth a
bucket of warm piss”?
12
Shortland
Street,
broadcasting since 1992, is which country's longest-running soap
opera?
13
Known as the British Tin Pan
Alley, which London street is associated with British popular music,
and is the title of a 1970 Kinks song?
14
Coming from the Latin for
“little moon”, what name is given to the crescent-shaped white
area at the base of the fingernail?
15
What was the codeword for the
anti-Nazi uprising and planned attempt on Hitler's life by Claus von
Stauffenberg that also forms the name of a 2008 film on the same
topic starring Tom Cruise?
16
According to 2014's Fortune
Global 500 list, what is the world's largest public corporation?
17
Which colourful bird is the
only extant member of the family Upupidae?
18
The Sandinista National
Liberation Front is associated with – and headquartered in - which
country?
19
Which Italian received the 1909
Nobel Prize for Physics, alongside the German Karl Ferdinand Braun,
for “his contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy”?
20
In September 1973, Billie Jean
King beat which male tennis player over three sets in the so-called
Battle of the Sexes match, one of three held over a period of
nineteen years?
Answers:
1
After Hours
2 Fleas
3 Lima
4
Tegucigalpa
5 Alec
Douglas-Home
6 1840s
7 13
8 Henri
Matisse
9 Iggy
Pop
10
Kyrgyzstan
11
John Nance Garner
12 New
Zealand
13
Denmark Street
14 Lunula
15 Valkyrie
16
Walmart
17
Hoopoe
18
Nicaragua
19 Guglielmo
Marconi
20 Bobby
Riggs
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