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In 1596, during the Anglo-Spanish War, Sir Walter Raleigh served as the rear admiral to the 2nd Earl of Sussex in the capture of which Spanish port city? Named for the Berberic word for "walled", a feature seen in naming of other Moorish cities such as Agadir in Morocco, this was Spain's main port until 1778 that enjoyed monopoly of trade with America.
The shade of green shown here, Kelly Green, is named for the anglicisation of the surname from which country, meaning a descendant of Ceallach? It is named so as the shade invokes the lush green countryside of this place.
A bookstore located inside the Gare Montparnasse railway station serves a pivotal role in which 2011 film? The titular character and Isabelle find clues here that lead them to (a fictionalised) Georges Méliès.
Which French dish is made by deboning a whole bird (typically chicken or duck), stuffing it with forcemeat and optional garnishes like pistachios or truffles? It is rolled into a cylindrical shape, poached, and served cold in aspic.
What term is given to this round, shallow pan made of carbon steel that heats quickly and evenly? It lends its name to a Valencian dish that is made traditionally using bomba rice, rabbit, chicken, and green beans.
Which restaurant (7) was started by Chef Chintan in 2021? The "explosive" menu of this Essex Market joint was curated towards pan-Indian street food hits and personalised experiential dishes.
Which Semitic language serves as the official working language of the government of Ethiopia? Named after a major ethnic group of the region, it is the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic.
Identify this Gujarati dish, which gets its name from the Gujarati word for "mistake". Popular in Surat, it was made accidentally when a cook steamed khaman batter that had a little extra water content, making it mushy. He sold the mixture with mint chutney, sev, and freshly chopped onions.
What finishing move (10,5) is Cody McKenzie using here? This move involves using the arms to constrict the opponent's neck in a fashion similar to an eponymous French device.
In The Wire, the dealers sell a potent batch of heroin with the promise "to blow you up". Even the cops knew "it is the bomb". Its three-letter street name referenced the purpoted reason behind a then-recent invasion launched by the US. What is the street name of this drug?
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which saw its return this year, picks a unique theme for each edition. The 2010 edition was based on a two-word expression used to indicate that a match of some kind is about to start. It is also used broadly when one accepts any type of challenge. What was the theme? (4,2)
An early work by which artist do you see here? Although oil paints were used here, the artist would later become renowned for exploring the same subject but at a much more intimate, zoomed in scale using water colours.
Identify this type of structure (7), made up of vertical posts topped with an open lattice of beams and rafters. This kind of “projecting roof” is typically attached to homes over a deck but can also be free-standing.
TempleOS is an open-source operating system described by the writer as a revelation from God. He wrote it in a programming language which was somewhere between C and C++. Keeping in theme with the biblical nature of the OS, WHAT DID HE NAME the language? The name is also a homophone for the central governing body of the worldwide Catholic Church.
"Ba" is a genus of land snail endemic to Fiji, named after the Ba District. When combined with the genus name 'ba', the name for its sole species is a reference to WHICH CATCHPHRASE used by a character from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?
Robert Venturi was an American Architect and winner of the Pritzker prize in 1991. He is known for his ideas of redirecting American architecture away from a widely practiced modernism in the 1960s to a more exploratory design aesthetic. Venturi is also known for having coined a 4-word maxim, a postmodern counter to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum which we saw a while ago. What is this phrase, which rhymes with Mies' maxim?
Here's a quick mnemonic to help you remember the 3 trigonometric ratios of a right triangle: 'Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid'. It tells you the relationship between the ratios and the sides they measure.
Sine = Opposite ÷ [BLANK]
Cosine = Adjacent ÷ [BLANK]
Tangent = Opposite ÷ Adjacent
What word goes in the blanks?
Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician who has been serving as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2009. She is the daughter of WHICH LEADER, the first president and later the first prime minister of Bangladesh? He was affectionately called "Bangabandhu" or the "Friend of Bengal" by the people of Bangaladesh.
The crew of the twin Mars rover missions Spirit and Opportunity, who worked according to Mars-days (sols), were woken-up with songs that mirrored the situation of the mission. Which song, by a band named after a famous 1920s German novel, was played on the morning Spirit departed on its free-spirited mission to explore unchartered territories?
This is a list of countries bordering Brazil, in descending order of border length. Which country is missing?
1. Bolivia: 3,400 km (2,100 mi)
2. Venezuela: 2,200 km (1,400 mi)
3. Colombia: 1,643 km (1,021 mi)
4. Identify this country: 1,560 km (970 mi)
5. Paraguay: 1,290 km (800 mi)
In Greek mythology, women who had sexual relationships with several men were called what girls, referring to the god of the shepherds well known for his sexual prowess? Often depicted with a Phallus, this god is the only one who dies according to historian Plutarch.
The males of which ethnolinguistic group inhabiting Niger and Mali traditionally wore a long veil called the fatalaa? With sub-groups known as Zarma and Isawaghen, they descend from the namesake empire established by Sunni Ali in the 15th century, one of the largest in African history.
In semiconductor production, what term (6) is used to refer to the intentional introduction of impurities into an intrinsic semiconductor for the purpose of modulating its electrical, optical and structural properties? In sports, the term refers to a form of cheating governed by WADA.
In 1942, Picasso created this found object work when he found a seat and handlebars of a bicycle that immediately reminded him of something else. He put them together and called it ____'_ ____ (5, 4), something that it obviously resembles. Fill in the blanks.
Although it's visually among the more intriguing dishes he's tried on TV, Anthony Bourdain swore that the balut is actually a perfectly attractive meal, extremely popular in many countries particularly in South China and Southeast Asia. The dish is essentially a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled and eaten from the shell. While it is also a staple food in Cambodia and Vietnam, in which island nation did Bourdain try this preparation?
Which dish is consumed by sitting around a table-top grill where various cold cuts of cheese are melted and then dropped on to plates containing boiled potatoes, cured meats, and vegetables? The dish derives its name from the fact that the cheese is "scraped" on to the plates.
Which country, at the instigation of Éamon de Valera and the Oireachtas (the official parliament of this nation), remained neutral through WW2? They have continued military neutrality since, refusing to join NATO and is one of four EU members not to do so. Their naval ship yards, however, were open to Allied forces.
These items are a group of more than a thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of [BLANK] in what is now Nigeria, created from start of 13th century by the Edo people. They were looted by the British forces in 1897 and since then they have found their way to different museums in the world with the British museum having the biggest collection of these. What are these stolen items?
In the Zenpencils comic The Beauty of a Flower, Gavin Aung Than illustrates a conversation between an artist and a well-known scientist. The artist contests he alone can appreciate the true beauty of a flower, where the scientist, being a scientist, "takes the flower apart and it becomes a dull thing". Who is the scientist, the original writer of this anecdote, who responds by saying that scientific knowledge adds dozens of other interesting questions when viewing a beautiful thing, all of which "only add"? Image: https://i.imgur.com/RQpQivs.png (ask the reader to click on this link and share screen)
Identify this Marvel series, which sees Alaqua Cox reprising her role from Hawkeye. It follows the titular character trying to find her voice after she returns to her Native American roots.
Street Food: Latin America is a Netflix Original series that explores dishes from various parts of the continent. When the show visited Mexico, one of the featured items was a type of baked or deep-fried turnover consisting of pastry and a filling of meat, cheese and vegetables. Which dish deriving from the Spanish for "breaded"?
Which cricket umpire on the ICC Elite Panel has the unique record of being the only one to have both played and umpired in a World Cup Final - in 1996 as a player when Sri Lanka won the World Cup and most (in)famously in 2019?
Which proposed fifth vital sign is usually measured on a subjective scale and is used by many organisations such as the U.S. Veterans Affairs? It is most commonly measured using the visual analogue scale or rating scale, but specialised scales such as the Schmidt Index are used for insect bites.
This is the entrance to the headquarters of which company in Emeryville, California? It was designed to allow its creatives to exchange ideas and draw inspiration for their emotionally touching outputs.
"The Triple Crown of Endurance Racing" is an informal tag given to three automobile races that include 12 hours of Sibering, 24 hours of Le Mans, and which third 24 hour event? This event, known by its sponsorship name as Rolex 24 at [blank], takes place at the international speedway nearby the namesake beach (in the namesake city) of Florida.
This is the logo of which text to image Generative AI program & service created by a San Francisco-based company of the same name? Founded by David Holz after leaving Leap Motion, the small company seems to suggest by both its name and its logo that it is only "halfway to its destination".
Legion, ThinkPad, and Yoga are product lines by which Chinese company? With a 24% market share, it is the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales.
____ ____ (4,4): The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them is based on a 1992 incident where plastic bath toys washed into the Pacific Ocean and travelled as far as the Arctic where they froze and travelled further with the floating ice. What is the punny title of this book that references a 19th century novel in a similar setting, but adjusts it for this plot?
While they can be seen in the NBA and the World Series, celebratory showers with this liquid have become a mainstay of the Super Bowl to the extent that gaming websites invite bets on the colour of the liquid used. What liquid? Some teams prefer the rival product produced by Coca-Cola instead, for sponsorship reasons.
The image of a horse in full flow in a race features as an imagery on the products of which fashion brand, as a nod to the origin of its name? The brand was named for a horse-racing venue in Paris, known for hosting Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Who is the most commercially successful film director of all time? A description of his career would be long and wide-ranging, but his single most successful year was probably 1993 when he released two films. One of them became his own highest grossing film and the start of a franchise, while the other has often been described as one of the greatest films ever made.
Which island located in the South Atlantic Ocean is regarded as the world's most remote island? This dependency of Norway lies 1,700 km north of its closest point, the Princess Astrid Coast of Antarctica.
On 18th March 1905, the German scientific journal Annalen der Physik received a submission titled 'On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light', which eventually won its author a Nobel Prize. It dealt with the emission of electrons when light strikes a material, and established that the luminous energy can only be asborbed or emitted in discrete amounts, or quanta. What 'effect' (13) did this paper primarily deal with?
Todd is shown consuming which cereal brand (4,8) whose name is a pun on a Kellogg's brand known for its "snap, crackle and pop" sounds. The first word in the brand's name is replaced with the rhyming vermin shown on the box.
Deeply rooted in Catholic cultures, onomástico (name day) celebrates a day of the year associated with one's given name. This practice is especially prevalent for those with names such as "Sebastián", "Francisco", "Teresa" or "María". What is common to all these names?
Part of the nation of Papua New Guinea and located to its northeast, which sea was the site of a major Japanese naval defeat in March 1943? It is named for the Reichskanzler of the colonial power that controlled these waters from 1885 until 1914.
Winning the Autobiography of the Year at Audie Awards 2024 was Making It So. Which actor wrote and narrated it? The title is a reference to a signature line by a character he has played across multiple TV series set in the same universe.
The UNESCO World Heritage Program was drafted as a consequence of the successful project UNESCO undertook to relocate and save the "Nubian monuments" stretching up to the town of Philae. The construction of WHICH STRUCTURE forced the relocation of these monuments, which were threatened to be inundated from the formation of the reservoir due to this construction?
Staff Meeting Plain is a typeface in the style of the title font used for which mockumentary sitcom TV series?
Kamal Haasan’s 1987 black comedy Pushpaka Vimana features Amala as the female lead. Her character’s father is a performing artist in the film, with the role essayed by an expert named KS Ramesh. Who, however, had been the original choice for this role?
In 1913, at the Epsom Derby Race, activist Emily Davison ran out in front of King George V's horse and was instantly killed. WHAT MOVEMENT was Emily a part of, for which she registered this protest? Evaline Hilda Burkitt was another famous figure in the movement, who was force-fed by the government to break her hunger strike. We're looking for a word, but you could describe the movement as well.
WHICH South American grassland is named after the Quechua word meaning "plain"? These are fertile South American lowlands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
In 2013, following revelations of institutional doping between 1973 and 1989, Swimming World decided to strip six East German (DDR) swimmers, all women, of their World and European Swimmers of the Year titles won during this period. Two of them were three-time winners of World Swimmer of the Year. Name either.
After Hurricane Hattie almost entirely destroyed the capital of a country then known as British Honduras, the capital was shifted in 1970 to a newly constructed city. Only these two places hold the official status of a 'city' in this country, and, along with the country itself, share the first three letters of their names. Name this Caribbean country.
Which 21st-century Booker Prize winning novel by a New Zealand author is centred on a young adventurer named Anna Wetherell, who has travelled from the UK to start a new life in New Zealand during the 1860s West Coast Gold Rush? Each of the twelve men who comprise the council in the first chapter of the book is a "stellar" character. It was adapted as a television miniseries in 2020.
Who made her acting debut in Bollywood with the role of Sanyogita in the historical drama Samrat Prithviraj? She followed in the footsteps of the previous Indian winners of a global contest that she herself won in 2017.
Located in its namesake neighbourhood, the Santa Teresa tramway established in 1896 is the oldest electric tramway line in its continent. Which city does it serve? It runs between Carioca and Dois Irmãos, and passes over a colonial aqueduct built to bring fresh water from the Carioca River.
3 researchers in the University of Twente recently published a humorous article identifying the healthcare dangers women in fairy tales would have been afflicted by, if it were the real world.
Which character, according to them, would have developed COPD due to the constant inhalation of dust particles through the day, and shining aluminium-coated microplastics at night?
What Goan preparation does Beryl Shereshewsky pick for the letter X in her series Eating the Alphabet in India? This spicy pungent dish of meat cooked in gravy is made from a blend of native ingredients such as coconuts, black pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, white poppy seeds along with ingredients brought to the country by the Portuguese colonists such as chilli and nutmeg.
In 2011, the Times of India published an article that focused exclusively on makeup that one could use to accentuate a certain part. It started with the importance of applying mascara and concluded with how adding glitter or rhinestone stickers enhances the look. Which James Bond film serves as the article’s title?
Which Asian superapp was founded by two Malaysians in 2012 as the MyTeksi app based in Kuala Lumpur, although it has now added food delivery and digital payments services? This super-app is functional across almost every South-East Asian nation, making it the largest tech company in the region.
Located on what was the south-western fringe of the Roman Empire, the ruins of Volubilis is a World Heritage Site located near present-day Meknes, Morocco. The city served as the capital of which ancient kingdom (10), a vassal state of the Romans spread across present-day Morocco and Algeria? It shares its name with a modern-day country in the region.
Titian's Danaë (visual) series and Velázquez's Rokeby Venus were the basis for the subject of a famous 1800 painting which was created as part of a pair. Identify the 1800 painting and its artist. It in turn served as the basis for Olympia by Manet.
After his retirement in 2004, this tennis pro decided to invest in real estate. However, according to him, "My investments sunk, like the Titanic. Things went bad from the start. Every time that I invested in Croatia, things went wrong." The remedy? Senior exhibition matches and coaching a prominent Men's player. Who are we talking about?