Identify this American track and field athlete who won three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics where she participated after giving birth to a daughter two years prior. She retired in 1962 as the world record-holder in the 100 and 200 meter individual events and the 4 × 100 meter relay.

In S01E04 of Mad Men, Don Draper pitches an ad campaign - with the simple words - "___ ____ (3,4) brought to you by Bethlehem Steel Company" in a reference to the company's role in strengthening infrastructure in a particular location. Fill in the blanks (3,4).

In S04E07 of Mad Men, Don Draper conceives an ad campaign to show the strength of Samsonite suitcases. What 1965 event served as the inspiration for this design? You need to provide both the individuals involved in this event.

Clifford Butler and George Rochester published their discovery of the kaon - the first strange particle - in the December 1947 issue of Nature. The article was titled "Evidence for the Existence of New Unstable Elementary Particles". This led to the discovery of quarks and ultimately to the establishment (in the 1970s) of the ________ _____ (8,5). What theory of fundamental particles and how they interact is this? (8,5)

According to the History of the World in 100 Animals, there were 38 of these involved in a 3rd century BC event. They got as far as the River Po, but most of them succumbed to illness by this point. Only one survived and was used for a triumphal entry into the comune of Capua. The question, however, is who was in charge of these?

When Variety magazine reviewed this 1970 film, they used the line ‘Flop! Flop! Flop!’ to reference its box office failure in the US. Which film, that went on to awaken other giant, sleeping markets like Japan!

In 1774, which French scientist - following his experiments with oxygen and mercury - discovered that the total mass of matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical reaction? Although he did not refer to the notion of atoms, his experiments provided an accurate definition for an "element" and thus paved the transition from the philosophical tradition of atomism to modern atomic theory.

In an interview on the Today Show, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a flight where he was asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during take-off, so that the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdock. Which 1980 film, voted #1 on 'The 50 Funniest Comedies Ever' poll by Empire magazine, was the inspiration for this stunt!

According to the Zoroastrian account, Ahriman tries to destroy the world with a drought. Who foils this plan by shooting an arrow into a rock, from which a flood springs resulting in one man surviving with his cattle? This friendly deity is the god of covenant, light, oath, justice and the sun.

This May 1985 paper in the journal Nature by Joe Farman et al. first reported this observation: “The spring values of total [redacted] in Antarctica have now fallen considerably. The circulation in the lower stratosphere is apparently unchanged, and possible chemical causes must be considered.” This alarming finding aided by NASA images of a deficiency (visual) prompted the adoption of the Montreal Protocol in 1987 to phase out what man-made class of chemicals?

Identify this Dutch track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics where she participated after giving birth to two children, the younger of whom was born three years prior. While her first appearance was at the 1936 Olympics, her 1948 feat is even more remarkable as WW2 severely impacted her training and nutrition in the interim years.

Bollywood music director Anu Malik has taken "inspiration" from many famous songs from across the world for his superhit compositions. Which 1993 song, by a Spanish duo that became a worldwide hit following the release of a 1996 remix with English lyrics, "inspired" this Anu Malik song from the 1997 movie Auzaar?

Around 5,000 boys were auditioned, following which Mark Lester, who played the titular character, was selected for this 1968 film. Which winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, that also contained musical numbers like “You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two”!

Norman Hartnell, the designer of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation gown, secretly added an extra element on the left-hand side of the gown (where her hand grazed) as a symbol of good luck. It is a rarer variant of the symbol of one of the regions in the United Kingdom. Identify the symbol or the variant.

In this song from the 2001 movie Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi, Anu Malik "expertly" replaces the distinctive sitar track in the song that served as his "inspiration" with a guitar. Identify the 1965 song that more famously served as the inspiration for a literary work from the 1980s.

Identify this squat variant (6), which is performed with the body facing to the side with one leg facing outward while the other leg is in the regular position. It gets its name due its resemblance to a ______ (6) balancing on their equipment, which are generally ~6 feet in length.

Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley published a paper in the November 1985 issue of the journal Nature that triggered the nanotechnology revolution. They confirmed the existence of a stable new molecule C-60 when they vapourised graphite by laser. Their paper had the concise two-word title "C-60: ____________________"(20). Fill in the blank. The name is a tribute to the man in the visual.

In 1849, this author was supposed to leave Richmond for work in Philadelphia and then to New York. However, he never made it to either city and was instead found semi-conscious in Baltimore, delirious and unable to account for his week-long disappearance. He subsequently died in the hospital. Which writer, considered to be the inventor of the detective genre?

The highest god, Enlil, decides to destroy the world with a flood because humans have become too noisy. The god Ea secretly warns the hero Utnapishtim about it and gives him detailed instructions for building a boat so that life may survive. What work, dating back to the 21st century BC, is the source of this flood myth? It is considered the oldest surviving notable literature.

In season 2 of Taskmaster, the contestants had to create a stop-motion film using a potato. Comedians Jon Richardson and Richard Osmond created a film featuring the vegetable rising from the grave to seek revenge on the person that ate his family. What name do they give this film? It differs by one letter from the title of a 2002 Danny Boyle-directed zombie film.

King Lycaon of Arcadia sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who appalled by this offering, decided to put an end to the Bronze Age by unleashing a deluge. Who, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest? He and his wife Pyrrha, after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus.

Identify this American track and field athlete who won one gold and one bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after giving birth to a daughter three years prior. With six golds from team relays and one from an individual event, she is the first female track and field athlete to ever win seven Olympic gold medals. The most decorated woman in Olympic track and field history, she holds eleven total medals from five consecutive Olympic Games.

Identify this squat variant (6), which is performed with one leg while the other leg is extended forward without touching the ground. It is named ______ (6) owing to its resemblance to an entity that is held and fired with one hand.

The April 1953 issue of the journal Nature contained three seminal articles that dealt with the structure of an organic molecule. One of them was titled "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate" and described its X-ray diffraction patterns. The authors of Paper 2 and 3 based their Nobel Prize winning discovery on this previously unpublished photograph (that they had access to). Who was the unrecognised first (or main) author of this paper?