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S2E4 of House features a doctor who has self-diagnosed himself with Tuberculosis. The episode centres around the dilemma of whether the diagnosis is correct. What is the title of the episode, a play on a famous soliloquy?
The Cenacle on Mount Zion is an upper room of a building that also houses the tomb of King David of Israel. As its Latin root word suggests, the Cenacle is believed to be the site of what biblical event?
Which forward, with a surname similar to a Woodstock performer, was top scorer of the men's field hockey event at the 2020 Olympics? He scored 14 goals while guiding Belgium to the gold medal.
ESA is developing a visible to near-infrared space telescope to study the shape of galaxies and the geometry of the universe. Which Greek mathematician and “father of geometry” is it named after?
Condemned to the Eighth Circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno are people accused of fraud and deception. Who, along with Diomedes, is punished here for the stratagem of the Trojan Horse, for persuading Achilles to sail for Troy, and for the theft of the sacred statue of Pallas?
For his role as the title character in which 2006 film was Doug Jones required to wear a suit with several mechanical moving prosthetics as well as walk on stilts to give his character a seven-foot frame? The film features a scene paying tribute to a famous 19th century Spanish painting.
This is Andrićgrad, a town constructed by film director Emir Kusturica based on the locations described in the best known novel by 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić. Which novel named after a 16th century structure built on the order of the Grand Vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović?
The First Circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno is home to the unbaptised and the virtuous pagans. Which 12th-century Muslim ruler, known for his chivalry and opposition to certain religious campaigns of the time, is encountered here?
Doug Jones is an American actor best known for portraying non-human roles. For playing which character in a 2007 superhero sequel was he required to wear a monochrome suit, with facial expressions rendered later using CGI? The alliterative two-word name of the character can be used to refer to an elderly browser of the internet.
Which central holy scripture of a religion from the Indian subcontinent has its key sections classified according to the ragas in which the hymns are to be sung? There are 31 single ragas and 29 mixed (or mishrit) ragas, that combine two or three ragas together.
Which sponge cake found in traditional British and Irish cookery is named after a sweet wine that takes its name from a group of islands in Western Europe? Its name might remind one of the Sanskrit word for wine.
The Battle of Surfaces was an exhibition match played at the Palma Arena between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on a specially prepared half-grass, half-clay court. What type of sporting arena was converted to host this match?
Which type of a geometric shape is derived from a Greek word meaning “stirred up or hoed up”? When a piece of the ground was stirred up, the surface would become uneven, and this was later associated with the Greek word. It is also the name of a group of three muscles in the neck that are of unequal length.
This is a still from the 2016 ballet Strapless. The ballet is based on a 2004 book of the same name about which painting that caused a huge scandal when first exhibited in the 1880s?
The canals of Lambert are microscopic collateral airways between terminal bronchioles and what tiny balloon-shaped structures that surround it? It means "little cavity" in Latin.
What two words precede the name of the ragas Todi, Malhar, and Sarang as created and interpreted by the 16th century musician whose real name was Ramtanu?
The Masjid al-Qiblatayn in Medina is known in Islamic tradition as the location where the Prophet and his followers were directed in a verse to pray towards Mecca. Before this revelation, the qibla was held to be in the direction of _________ (9), guided by the practice followed in Medina by another Abrahamic religion. Which city fills in the blank?
The term used for what type of angle in geometry can be traced to a Latin word meaning “beaten down to the point of being dull”? The word is also used in English to describe someone who is "annoyingly insensitive" or "slow to understand".
Polartec Big Air At ______ (6) was a big air snowboarding and skiing competition that took place on February 11-12, 2016. At what famous sporting venue was it held? (Blank is part of the answer)
Schlemm's canal is a circular lymphatic-like vessel in the eye. what transparent water-like fluid secreted from the ciliary body does this canal deliver into the episcleral blood vessels? This fluid keeps the eye from drying out.
To bring to life his role in which 2010s Academy Award-winning film, did Doug Jones have to sit through a three-hour make up process that involved a skin-tight suit, glued on appendages and mechanical gills?
Which cranial nerve passes through the Fallopian canal and helps in expressing feelings of doubt, happiness and anger among others? It gets its name from the region of the human body it passes through.
For his role in a thus far unreleased remake of which film celebrating its centenary in 2022 was Doug Jones required to wear pale make up and dental prosthetics? The film features an antagonist who gets his name from the Hungarian word "ördög", meaning devil.
There has been a recent spike in tourist trips from Shellal to Wadi Halfa retracing the route taken by the S. S. Karnak. Some even begin the experience with a leisurely stay at the Old Cataract Hotel. Which creative work, that caused a similar tourist spike 85 years ago, is the basis for these trips?