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Which Hollywood icon immortalised her legs by pressing their impression into the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre? This famous pin-up model insured her legs for $1 million following the success of Down Argentine Way (1940).
One challenging variant of Wordle involves guessing words like the original game, but avoiding the right word for seven tries, while being forced to use only the letters that you guessed right. What is the name of the game, based on the aim of lasting till the end?
One of the key facets that became associated with Impressionism is a move away from the existing practice for painting landscapes, and towards a new practice that became known as en plein air. What is this new practice referring to?
Which host city’s logo for Euro 2020 featured the Széchenyi Chain Bridge? Completed in 1849, it was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in its country.
Half Hitch is a comic strip that ran in the Saturday Evening Post about a short, mischievious sailor. Following successful syndication, the creator started which gag-a-day comic strip, with a rhyming title, that was inspired by his son?
Constructed between 1057 and 1287 during a building frenzy initiated by King Anawrahta, the 3000-temple complex on the banks of the Irrawaddy river features in the category "In The Presence Of Gods" in Smithsonian's '28 Places To See Before You Die' list. In WHICH TOWN, the erstwhile capital of the Pagan kingdom, would you visit this bucket-list-worthy site, especially famed for its hot air balloon rides?
Italian jewellery house BVLGARI was very appropriately chosen to represent the fashion choice of the female lead in which 2021 film, that narrates A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed? While the 11-ruby fitted diamond necklace (shown here) was the most expensive, BVLGARI's heritage 1991 collar necklace was the most instantly recognizable.
Which mountain has Bierstadt depicted here, the highest peak in the state of Washington? Located within the namesake national park, the peak and its surrounding areas have many names in different indigenous languages, with the most popular name also being adopted as the name of a nearby port city.
ESPN SportsZone, funded by Paul Allen, collaborated with Progressive Networks' RealAudio system on the Seattle Mariners vs New York Yankees MLB match on 5th September 1995. What technological first occurred as a result?
The 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event affected societies around the world in c. 22nd century BC. A decades-long drought led to which empire ruled by Shar-Kali-Sharri to start abandoning cities in northern Mesopotamia and taking refuge in southern regions? This eventually resulted in a confrontation with the Gutians and collapse of the empire by c. 2150 BC.
Armani favoured the wider shoulders of 1980s “power dressing” over the historical accuracy of the 1930s for which 1987 film that saw Prohibition agent Eliot Ness forming the titular team to bring Al Capone to justice?
Which city was the fourth destination of the "A to Z Club"? The second-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, it is known as "Little Tokyo" for hosting Europe's largest Japanese community.
This tarot card is for the tenth season of which Netflix reality series where people try to build a connection based on personality rather than appearance? It is the most-watched streaming original series of all time.
Lays launched a Crab Curry flavour in this country in 2019. While the feedback for the taste was generally positive, what people missed was the experience of breaking into a crab's claw. This is why in 2022, Lays has now released an extra crunch variant. Which country?
Which production company, responsible for films such as Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle and Bombshell, is named after an Indian goddess? This is by way of founder Megan Ellison's trek to a Himalayan mountain named after the goddess.
Victoria Kakuktinniq is a Canadian Inuk designer, who specialises in indigenous clothing in her collections. Pictured here is one of her signature outfits. What item of clothing common in North Canadian and Greenland native culture is it?
In which 2014 book by a French economist is the main argument that wealth inequality in the world will rise because of the relation r > g, i.e. the net rate of return to capital (r) exceeds the growth rate of output (g)? You could also name the author instead.
Quantum Moves is a citizen science game where players simulate the operations of a quantum computer. The wave function integral to the gameplay reacts to changes as dictated by what partial differential equation named after the Austrian scientist who postulated it in 1925?
In Birmingham, England is a company town that came up in the 1890s in an effort to improve productivity to cater to the growing needs of the nation's sweet tooth. It has come to be known as one of the nicest English places to live. The brand also named one of its products after the town. You won't just be given the point; you have to earn it! Name the town.
This Gustave Dore illustration depicts the fall of Satan in which 17th century poem? It begins in the middle of this action, depicting his banishment after a failed rebellion, before he goes onto rule over Hell from the city of Pandemonium.
Which deity of the heavens and progenitor of all life on Earth is said to have his earthly domain associated with several mountains in the Tian Shan range? The first Turkic Khaganate claimed to be sons of this deity, who gives his name to a namesake spiritual belief system.
Identify this perfume brand (3) by Dior. With Jennifer Lawrence as its face since 2018, it has been described as being an "ode to happiness". It is only a coincidence that Lawrence played an Oscar nominated role of the same name three years prior to the perfume's launch.
Members of which family of viruses insert a copy of their RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that they invade, thus changing the genome of that cell? Once inside the host cell's cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, a 'reversal of the usual pattern' - giving it the name. In humans, viruses from this family cause diseases such as HIV and a type of leukemia.
This obstacle racing company is named after an ancient city-state which prioritised military proficiency and physical excellence in its social structuring. Name the company, whose logo is seen here.
The Teen Titans are a teenage superhero team appearing in DC Comics, whose members have acted as sidekicks to DC's premier superheroes in the Justice League.
Identify this member of Teen Titans. (5) As the team leader, he uses his training with the League of Shadows and a plethora of gadgets to best his enemies. In certain iterations of the series, he goes by the alter ego Damian Wayne.
Named after the Zulu for 'Be Happy', what was the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa called? It is a much-maligned ball, famously by Maradona when he said "we won't see any long passes in this World Cup because the ball doesn't fly straight".
A side mission in Ōkami takes place in Sei'an City's Commoner's Quarter and involves restoring certain possessed trees, including getting them to bloom. Which tree, belonging to the Prunus genus, is this?
This Ugandan street food dish is primarily made using eggs and veggies. When rolled in a compact manner in an East African Chapati, it comes together like clockwork. Over time, the two word generic name of this cheap dish has been corrupted into that of a famous brand that is often used as a marker of elite social status. What is the one word colloquial name of this dish?
In his essay in The Four Horsemen, Sam Harris criticises modern day American politics motivated by religion - primarily mainstream biggies who remain neutral on paper while encouraging external extremist opinions that lie in their favour. What method from electrochemistry, where an external plate with higher positive potential is ceded to protect the main object from rusting, does he compare this to? Its popular name honours an Italian physicist.
A business merger in 2015 between Kraft and this American company created the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world. Which company is this, with the slogan 57 varieties, that is known to most of us mainly for its manufacture of ketchup?
Which pair are the co-producers of Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)? As a directorial team, they are the second most commercially successful directors of all time, although this is largely due to the four films they have directed as part of a large franchise.
Which city was the twenty-first destination of the "A to Z Club"? This university town, featuring iconic inner-city canals such as the Oudegracht ("old canal"), is the fourth largest city in its country.
This novel sees Alex travelling from one African nation to another to stop a criminal named The Tiger. Identify its two-word title, which might make one think Alex has taken up a form of running or skiing as a hobby.
This biriyani is made with the short-grained kaima rice that lends the dish its distinct aroma. It is named after a coastal town in Kannur district, which was famous for its role in the spice trade. Identify this biryani, which is also referred to as "Malabar Biriyani" or "Kerala Biriyani".
Which NBA team's logo was, quite aptly, re-interpreted by the artist PKAir with Mickey Mouse from The Sorcerer's Apprentice? Both city and team name, please.
WHAT MODERN-DAY GAME was patented by Alfred Collier in 1891? Emperor Akbar enjoyed playing a precursor of this game using servants in this courtyard at Fatehpur Sikri.
“Chan Wing Yan, a policeman, successfully infiltrates a Triad while Wong Chi-Shing, a Triad member, becomes a mole in the police force. However, things change when both of them must seek each other out.” This is the synopsis of a 2002 Hong Kong film. Name the 2006 Hollywood remake of this film.
The Spark Plug in a H-Bomb component consists of the radioactive isotope of WHICH element: [Blank]-239? Its small critical mass and natural availability within an Uranium ore makes it an apt choice. This element was discovered in the UCLA Berkeley lab during WW2 and was also used in Project Manhattan.
Which strait separates Mexico and Cuba, connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Caribbean Sea? It is a region rich with coral reefs, and the namesake current provides the most inflow into the Gulf of Mexico.
The next stage of a theatrical production, once actors are familiar with lines, is fixing their actions and movements onstage. The term for this process comes from the practice of using little wooden [BLANKS] on a miniature set to demonstrate the parts of the set and indicate what happens where. What is this stage of rehearsals called? Incidentally, the same word is used in quizzing to refer to an act relating to hints!
Aside from Andy Warhol, several artists have incorporated Marilyn Monroe as a subject in their works. Which visual artist has used pin-ups of Marilyn on several occasions for his silkscreen prints and collages? Due to legal reasons, he couldn't use a picture of Marilyn for his most famous collage co-created in 1967 with Jann Haworth.
In 1980, Sandip Kumar Basu helped establish the pathway of low density lipoprotein receptors. This laid the foundation for Brown and Goldstein's 1985 Nobel Prize-winning work that developed statins as a treatment for the reduction of which class of waxy, fat-like organic molecules? It gets its name from the Ancient Greek words for "bile" and "solid".
[Blank] by Sohn Won-Pyung is about a young boy, Yunjae, born with a brain condition called Alexithymia which makes it difficult for him to feel emotions. What is the title of this book, referring to the edible item which the amygdala (region of the brain responsible for feeling emotions) looks like?
Kamal Haasan’s 1995 film Kuruthipunal pits him as a police officer trying to take down a militant outfit. The film kicks off with a photomontage which hints at its theme. This was also director PC Sreeram’s way of reflecting his anger at whatever was happening in the country. What development in Tamil Nadu, from earlier that decade, is part of this montage?
In bartending, what adjective is used for a single, unmixed liquor served without being chilled and without the addition of any water or other mixers? One of two terms are used interchangeably, with one of them also used to classify whiskies such as a Bourbon.
This cruise, starting in Venice and terminating in Verona, takes place on which river? The cruise includes visits to the fishing village of Chioggia and the ancient town of Padua but does not cover Milan even though the river flows all the way there.
A clip from which 1985 film is used for The Clock at 8:00 AM? The opening sequence from the film, it shows clocks striking the hour within an eccentric inventor's garage laboratory, as a number of inventions prepare breakfast.
Invented in the 1880s which brand was initially marketed as a refreshing additive to cigarettes, a cure for the common cold, and as a dandruff treatment? It was only in the 1920s that this powerful germ-killing liquid finally landed on its most lucrative use, one that saves us much embarassment.
Which Hispanic surname, with a similar Portuguese cognate, comes from Arabic, which in turn borrows from the Ge'ez word for "dining table" (ma'dd)? The titular protagonist of a recent Booker Prize winner may remind you of the answer.
This 1973 Charlton Heston starrer, based on Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison and named for a fictional food item in the movie, is a murder investigation in a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity caused by the greenhouse effect, along with the resulting pollution, depleted resources, poverty, and overpopulation. Name the movie.
Ebert always enjoyed a good old metanarrative, and awarded four stars to which 2006 comedy (4,3,4,5) by Michael Winterbottom - about a dysfunctional attempt at adapting Lawrence Sterne's infamous Tristram Shandy to the screen? The film is ridiculous, filled with deceptions, and far-fetched beyond belief, as hinted at in its poster and its title, A ____ ___ ____ _____ (4,3,4,5).
Which 1970 short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates comprises stories such as "Boy and Girl", "What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?" and “Accomplished Desires”? It differs by one word from the the title of a high fantasy series created by Robert Jordan.
In this 1807 poem, William Wordsworth addresses which titular bird as “Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery”? Its echoing song, according to Wordsworth, transforms the world into the unsubstantial faery place of his childhood.
Who directed the War Trilogy? A towering figure in the Italian neorealist movement, his most commercially successful films were with Ingrid Bergman.
There are four Thai-Laos Friendship Bridges, with the first of them erected in 1994 and the latest in 2013. They all span over which river that originates in the Tibetan Plateau and runs through six different countries in East Asia?
In “I Hate It Here”, Swift pays homage to which British-American novelist by making an explicit reference to her best-known work from 1911, a novel Swift read as a child and imagines she's able to jump into the pages of to escape?
Which restaurant (5) was started by Chef Chintan in 2021? Taking its name from Tamil for "fantastic" or "awesome", it is an exploration of heritage South Indian cuisine, with its head chef Vijaya Kumar recently becoming the first Indian to receive the prestigious James Beard Award.
In his book Olympus: An Indian Retelling of Greek Myths, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik points out compelling connections between Greek and Indian mythologies. He finds shades of the Indian god Shiva in which son of Zeus and Semele (as per most accounts), often associated with intoxication and madness?
Gradus ad Parnassum is a term frequently given to musical guidebooks that build up in difficulty. Johann Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum is a seminal work to write what type of composition (5) entailing a short melody being interwoven among many voices? Bach wrote many of these, including one paired with a "Toccata in D Minor".
The first race of the 2022 Moto GP World Championship was hosted by which city? It took place on a circuit that witnessed the first-ever night race in Moto GP's history in 2008. In December 2022, a sporting event will culminate at a venue located barely 10km away from the circuit.
Which holy object is associated with Saint Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus on his side with it while he was on the Cross? The Crusaders claim that finding this weapon helped them bring a favorable end to the Siege of Antioch.
The interstellar space probe Voyager 1's exploration near Jupiter led to the discovery of the first active volcanoes outside Earth. Which moon was thus identified to be the most geologically active object in the Solar System? The third largest of the Galilean moons, it is named after a priestess of Hera who became one of Zeus's lovers.
The Butler did it:
- Campaigned for women’s suffrage in 19th century Britain
- Stopped discrimination in prostitution by getting the Contagious Disease Acts repealed
- Exposed child trafficking and improved the education standards for women
- Became the beacon of inspiration for suffragettes to come.
What was her first name?
What name (9 or 4,5) is given to seats in a sports stadium that are far away from the action? It originates from a joke in the army that these seats were so high up that it might cause the people there to have a _________ (9) due to the pressure difference, like mountaineers.