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In January 2013, this organisation decided to rebrand itself after one of its brands ahead of an explosive tell-all interview by its sportsperson founder. The brand, started in 2003 as __________ Survivorcare with the mission of helping survivors of a chronic illness, has now become the face of the organization. FILL IN THE BLANK.
In a 2009 NPR interview, Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons confirmed that the blue look of the character Doctor Manhattan was based on the blue glow emitted by nuclear reactor piles underwater. WHAT PHENOMENON, named after a Soviet physicist, is this?
WHICH 'SUPER BASS' RAPPER collaborated on Elton John's 2020 album 'The Lockdown Sessions' with the song 'Always Love You'?
WHICH SWEDISH-AMERICAN GOLFER and recipient of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom was the first woman to compete in a PGA tour event since 1945? A multi-sport player, she also has the highest number of wins among female golfers and captained Europe in the 2017 Solheim Cup after retiring from competitive golf in 2008.
WHAT STYLE OF PARENTING involves few rules, low expectations, and overindulgence without any structure? It is named after a marine creature that has been around for half a billion years and is the titular subject of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Lion's Mane.
A cinematic depiction of a musical was awarded Worst Picture at the 2022 Razzie Awards. WHICH REGAL FIGURE, also depicted in a 2021 biopic set partly at Sandringham House, was the subject of this film?
WHICH AMINO ACID, the first one to be isolated, is named after this plant? The shoots of this plant are commonly eaten across the world.
While living at their three-hundred-year-old palatial home, WHOSE PET CORGIS Monty, Willow and Holly have had the pleasure of welcoming global guests including a famous spy in 2012?
In 1896, Franz Joseph I decided that the Belvedere should serve as a residence for his nephew, the heir to the throne. WHO lived here until his assassination during a military inspection in 1914?
In 2018, this company chose to rebrand itself to stay current with the rising popularity of holistic wellness and body positivity. In an attempt to remove its association with traditional techniques like dieting, which had made it an industry leader in the 90s, the company decided to replace its two-word alliterative name with just its initials. WHAT TWO-LETTER NAME - with the tagline “Wellness that Works.” - does the company use now?
WHO won the 1904 British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, played twice for the England women's national field hockey team and won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in archery? She is best remembered for her 5 Wimbledon titles, winning her first while being just 15 years old.
One of the nominees for Worst Picture at the 2022 Razzie Awards was a crime thriller centred around a young black couple who move into an upmarket suburb and their interactions with their neighbour. WHAT IS THE FIVE-LETTER TITLE OF THE FILM - the same as a pejorative term for a (usually) white woman perceived as entitled or demanding?
WHICH AUTHOR made a cameo as a school wrestling referee in the 1982 film adaptation of his novel that starred Robin Williams? He has also written the bestsellers The Cider House Rules and Hotel New Hampshire.
In the alternate history universe of the Watchmen, the character Comedian silences many of his critics by resolving an issue which cropped up in the late 1970s. WHAT DEVELOPMENT in Asia, stretching 444 days, is this?
The ___ ____ fallacy is the tendency to believe, irrationally, that someone who has been successful in a task or activity is more likely to be successful again in further attempts. WHAT TWO-WORD ALLITERATIVE TERM originating from basketball is this? The concept is explained by Richard Thaler and Selena Gomez in one of the expository scenes in The Big Short.
WHO, along with his wife Brigitte, named their adopted Labrador Retriever-Griffon after Captain Nemo from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? Nemo was adopted in 2017 from an animal shelter in Hermeray, Yvelines.
WHICH AFRICAN LANGUAGE has a flexible history that involves heavy borrowing of words from every language it has encountered, including Arabic? Deriving its name from Arabic for “boundary” or “coast”, it's full name is “Ki_______” meaning “language of the coast”.
The world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was the R-7 Semyorka – the brainchild of the Ukraine-born Sergei Korolev. The ICBM made 28 launches but was never deployed operationally. Its most significant contribution came in 1957 during WHICH SPECIFIC ENDEAVOUR that saw a modified version of the R-7 being used for an 83 kg payload?
WHICH CARIBBEAN ISLAND COUNTRY'S tourism tagline "Fly Away" took inspiration from Lenny Kravitz (who spent his boyhood summers here) and his 1998 hit song of the same name? The song and Kravitz himself feature in their advertisements, urging you to explore the archipelago by boat and plane.
WHICH CARIBBEAN ISLAND'S tourism tagline is "....go beyond ordinary"? It is considered by some to be the inspiration for the island in Robinson Crusoe and the 1960 film Swiss Family Robinson was shot entirely on this island, with Bacolet Bay Beach featuring extensively.
WHAT STYLE OF PARENTING, typically associated with Chinese-Americans, involves authoritarian parents pushing their kids towards academic and extra-curricular excellence? The term was coined in 2011 when Yale Law School professor Amy Chua published her memoir “Battle Hymn of the _____ Mother".
In 1752, WHICH RULER of the Habsburg Empire purchased the Belvedere from Prince Eugene’s niece Victoria? The successor of Charles VI, this monarch’s inheritance of the throne led to the War of the Austrian Succession.
WHICH AUTHOR'S cameo as a news reporter in the 1975 film adaptation of his novel was considered apt as he was a Washington Post journalist at the time of its writing? He also co-wrote the screenplay along with Carl Gottlieb.
WHAT TYPE OF ELECTRIC MOTOR that utilises materials such as lead zirconium titanate or lithium niobate to produce motion was invented in 1964 by Ukrainian engineer Vyacheslav Lavrinenko? Some of the common applications for these motors include camera focus systems, computer disk drives, and precision motion control of instruments.