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2023–4 Season
Week 14

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2023–4 Season: Week 14 – 12 March 2024

Set by the Sutton Mutton; vetted by the Harrington Academicals, with supplementary comments from the Dolphin and the Bate Hallers.

Specialist Rounds

1 The Fairer Sex 2 Not Just a Pretty Face
3 Her Sepcial Day 4 Just Not Ladylike (Sport)
5 In Her Own Name (Geography) 6 In Her Own Write (Arts & Entertainment)
7 Her Story (History) 8 A Wife Scientific (Science)

Round 1: The Fairer Sex

1 In popular culture, which blonde is incorrectly believed to have jumped out of a very large birthday cake before singing Happy Birthday to US President John F. Kennedy?
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2 Who was the vocalist for Blondie?
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3 Which American actress, nicknamed 'the Blonde bombshell' and sharing the 'platinum blonde' moniker, had a surname synonymous with a new town in Essex?
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4 Which brewery uses Centennial and Progress hops combined with Maris Otter, Pale Ale and Wheat malts to make a 4.4% ABV ale called Blonde Witch?
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5 The song Just Like a Woman is from Blonde on Blonde, the seventh studio album by whom?
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6 In the 2001 film Legally Blonde (starring Reece Witherspoon), what did her character Elle Woods study at Harvard?
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7 The recipe for Blondies (or blonde brownies) omits what key ingredient when compared to the ingredients for chocolate brownies?
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8 Osiris and Blondie are the reserves for which sporting event?
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Supplementaries:

1 Which blonde cockney actress, who came to fame as a Carry On film series regular, became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society in August 2019 but died, suffering from dementia, in December 2020?
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2 Whose controversial 'Blond Ambition World Tour 90' featured costumes by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier?
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Round 2: Not Just a Pretty Face

1 Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the world's first woman Prime Minister. Who, in a neighbouring country, became the second on the 24th of January 1966?
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2 Sanna Mirella Marin served as prime minister of which country from 2019 to 2023?
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3 Belfast–born Mary McAleese was inaugurated as the eighth President of which country on the 11th of November 1997?
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4 Who was the Unity Party MP, then the youngest woman to be elected an MP, for the Westminster constituency of Mid–Ulster between 1969 and 1974?
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5 Who was the MP for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, whose achievements when Minister of Transport included closing 2000 miles of railway identified by the Beeching report?
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6 Bettie Harvie Anderson, Dawn Primarolo, Eleanor Laing and Rosie Winterton are four of the eight women who have held what position in the House of Commons?
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7 Mhairi Black (the Scottish Nationalist MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South) lost which unofficial parliamentary title when Nadia Whittome was elected Labour MP for Nottingham East at the 2019 General Election?
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8 Vigdí­s Finnbogadóttir was the first woman to serve as president of a nation, when the people of which country chose her as their elected head of state?
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Supplementaries:

1 Who was the Member of Parliament for Finchley between 1959 and 1992?
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2 Mary Simon is the 30th Governor General of which large commonwealth country (and the first Inuk to hold the office)?
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Round 3: Her Special Day – the 12th of March

1 Who is Judy Garland's first daughter, born on this day in 1946?
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2 Karen Bradley, born on this day in 1970, is currently the MP for which local constituency?
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3 Born on this day in 1951, Rebecca Akufo–Addo was educated in Accra at Achimota School and Wesley Grammar School. Of which West African country is she currently first lady?
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4 Peta Buscombe, now Baroness Buscombe of Goring in the County of Oxfordshire (ne é Peta Jane O'Flynn) was born on this day in 1954. What is her birth sign?
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5 Who did photographer Linda Eastman marry 55 years ago today?
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6 On this day last year, Hashemite Princess Iman bint Abdullah married Venezuelan Jameel Alexander Thermiótis. Of which country is her father the king?
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7 On this day last year Michelle Yeoh won a best actress Oscar for her role as Evelyn Quan Wang in which film?
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8 On this day in 1994, Angela Veronica Isabel Berners–Wilson was the first woman to be what, being alphabetically the first of the 32 on the list to be ordained?
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1 Born on this day in 1965, former singer Coleen Nolan is a panellist and presenter on which ITV talk show?
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2 Cyclist Katie Archibald was born on this day in 1994, and won a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Women's Madison. Who was her partner in this event?
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Round 4: Just Not Ladylike (Sport)

1 The Charlotte Edwards Cup is competed for in which sport?
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2 Dick, Kerr Ladies played which sport?
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3 Fallon Sherrock (or the Queen of the Palace) plays which professional sport?
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4 What was the Billie Jean King (or BJK) Cup called before 2020?
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5 Who won a Gold Medal at London 2012 and became the first female boxer to become an Olympic champion?
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6 The gold post–box adjacent the Tesco Express on Alderley Road in Wilmslow, commemorates the achievements of which sports woman during the 2012 Olympics?
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7 Who was BBC Sports Personality of the Year 35 years after her mother was?
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8 Sue Redfern stood at Sophia Gardens in September 2023, umpiring in which professional sport?
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1 In what foreign city, now the capital of a country, was former British professional tennis player Elena Baltacha born?
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2 In which sport is Rebecca Morrison the skip of the Scottish team competing in the BKT Tires World Championships 2024 in Sydney, Nova Scotia?
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Round 5: In Her Own Name (Geography)

1 Which Australian city was named in honour of a queen of Great Britain and Ireland?
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2 Which American state was named in honour of a queen of England and Scotland? (Note to question masters – ensure teams understand the England and Scotland part of the question)
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3 Queen Alia International Airport serves the capital city of which Middle Eastern country?
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4 Florence Court, the National Trust property named after the grandmother of the 1st Earl of Enniskillen, is in which Northern Irish county?
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5 Which Caribbean country is the only member of the United Nations named after a (human) woman?
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6 Which of the ten provinces and three territories of Canada is named after a woman?
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7 Charlotte Square in Edinburgh was named after either Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, or their first daughter – Charlotte, the Princess Royal (sources differ). Who lives at number 6?
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8 Indira Gandhi International Airport serves which Indian city?
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1 Which city's International Airport includes the words 'Mother Teresa' in its full name?
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2 Victoria Falls waterfall on the Zambezi River was given its English colonial name in honour of Queen Victoria, by which missionary and explorer?
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Round 6: In Her Own Write (Arts & Entertainment)

1 Which novel's alternative title is The Modern Prometheus?
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2 Who, in 1975, was the first female writer to have her novels appear on commemorative British Stamps?
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3 Which cookery writer was responsible for books entitled How to Cook: Book 1, How to Cook: Book 2 and How to Cook: Book 3?
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4 Which singer/songwriter released the albums 19, 21, 25 and 30?
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5 Whose lyrics for the song Big Yellow Taxi include the line "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot"?
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6 Which screenwriter is best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series?
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7 Which actress, screenwriter and producer is primarily responsible for the TV series Fleabag and Killing Eve?
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8 Which woman, born on the 15th of September 1890 in Torquay, is regarded as the world's best–selling fiction author?
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1 After her ennoblement in 1991, Baroness James of Holland Park wrote six further novels featuring which Scotland Yard detective and poet?
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2 Who wrote and performed lead vocals on the song Everywhere from the 1987 album Tango in the Night?
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Round 7: Her Story (History)

1 Bertha Benz visited her mother on the 5th of August 1888. How did she travel the 65 miles from Mannheim to her mother's in Pforzheim? (i.e. what mode of transport did she use)?
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2 In 1974, when the PSV licensing regulations changed, Londoner Jill Viner became the first woman to do what?
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3 Emily Davison was fatally injured by the racehorse Anmer on the 8th of June 1913 at which racecourse?
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4 Police Officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and fatally wounded outside what building in St James's Square, London on the 17th of April 1984?
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5 Aneira Thomas, named after Aneurin Bevan, was born at one minute past midnight on 5th July, 1948 at Amman Valley Hospital in Carmarthenshire. What is her claim to fame?
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6 Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi worked in England between 1638 and 1641. Which English monarch invited her to England, and commissioned her to paint works that are now in the royal collection?
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7 Who was living at 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, when she was arrested in October 1965?
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8 Who was assassinated whilst he was having a medicinal bath, on the 13th of July 1793, by Marie–Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (commonly known as Charlotte Corday)?
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1 Which women's branch of the British forces was established on the 1 st April 1918?
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2 In 1953, Jo Stafford with You Belong to Me was the first woman have a UK number one hit single, toppling whose Here in my Heart from the peak?
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Round 8: A Wife Scientific

(with apologies to Jim Al–Khalili and Radio 4)

1 The Countess of Lovelace, née Ada Augusta Byron, developed the algorithm that would enable whose Analytical Engine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers?
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2 Dorothy Hodgkin, née Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, received what prize for chemistry in 1964?
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3 Marie Curie, née Maria Salomea Skłodowska, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of two radioactive elements. Name either of them.
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4 Dame Rachel Skinner CBE, BSc, MSc (Eng), LL.D, FREng, CEng, FICE (née Rachel Susan Bass) became the 156th President of which professional institution in November 2020?
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5 Margaret Hilda Thatcher, née Margaret Hilda Roberts, attended Somerville College, Oxford and graduated with a second–class degree in which subject?
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6 Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray, was a computer scientist and mathematician who retired from active duty with which nation's navy when she was 79?
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7 Former German chancellor Angela Merkel, née Angela Dorothea Kasner, studied Physics at Karl Marx University, was awarded a Doctorate in Quantum Chemistry, and became a research scientist. In which German city is Karl Marx University?
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8 Mathematician and computer scientist Mary Berners–Lee, née Mary Lee Woods, was born on this day in 1924. What's the first name of her eldest son, also a computer scientist?
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1 In 1959, paleoanthropologist Mary Douglas Leakey, née Mary Douglas Nicol, discovered the skull of an early hominin or member of the human lineage in which Tanzanian gorge?
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2 Mona Chalmers Watson, née Alexandra Mary Campbell Geddes; was the first woman to be awarded a medical degree by Edinburgh University. In 1917, she was appointed the first Controller (the most senior officer) of the WAAC. What does the "W" in WAAC stand for?
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General Knowledge

1 Which organisation, active in the early years of the 20th century, used the colours green, white and purple on its flags, banners and sashes?
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2 Who did Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss Jr marry in 1986?
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3 What does a Tegestologist collect?
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4 Which NFL (National Football League) American football team plays its home games in the city of Charlotte?
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5 Which of the 23 identified species of macaques is the only one not native to Asia?
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6 What film role was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992, Halle Berry in 2004 and Anne Hathaway in 2012?
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7 Annie and Clarabel are noted for being pulled and pushed about by which children's hero?
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8 From which political role did Peter Murrell resign in March 2023?
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9 By what professional stage name is the English actor born David John White in Edmonton in 1940, better known?
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10 Which Paralympian, now a Baroness, is the chair of Sport Wales, the national organisation responsible for developing and promoting sport and physical activity in Wales?
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11 Erin Pizzey received a CBE in the 2024 New Year Honours for what services?
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12 In January 1974, Barbara Edwards was the first woman to present what on BBC TV?
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13 Parmentier potatoes are cubes of potato roasted in oil, garlic and which herb?
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14 In which US State is the presidential retreat Camp David situated?
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15 What's the second largest island in the state of Malta?
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16 Who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director?
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17 Which Italian pop singer had a 1987 hit entitled Boys (Summertime Love), popular with lads as the video showed her dancing in a swimming pool in a white bikini that occasionally slipped down to reveal her nipples?
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18 Which ceramic artist and designer was born in Meir Street, Tunstall in 1899, started work gilding pottery when she was thirteen, moved to the A. J. Wilkinson Pottery in 1916, and eventually married the owner?
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19 Who played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service?
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20 Scottish sports presenter Hazel Irvine, awarded an MBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to sport and to charity, is known for presenting which sport on BBC?
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21 Whose book Married Love had its publication financed by Humprey Verdon Roe, co–founder of aircraft manufacturer Avro, and later her second husband?
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22 Denise Coates – supposedly one of the best paid chief executives and biggest payer of taxes in the UK – is the majority shareholder in which company?
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23 Although the first brewers were Spanish, in which modern day country was the lager San Miguel first brewed?
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24 Mother Theresa of Calcutta was born and baptised in Skopje. Of which modern day country is Skopje the capital?
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25 In 1556, Queen Mary I of England and Ireland created Queen's County in Ireland. What has this county been called since 1922?
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26 What was the nationality of the first woman to pilot a helicopter?
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27 Hidden Figures is a 2016 bio–pic about mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Who did they work for?
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28 What's the name of sculptor Antonio Canova's statue of the mythical three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, in a semi–circle with their arms entwined?
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29 Two actors were approached to play the role of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses. David Jason got the role; who lost out and played Roy Slater?
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30 Karren Brady, Baroness Brady CBE, is current vice–chair of West Ham United F.C. Of which football club was she managing director from 1985 to 2009?
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31 The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill–Health) Act 1913, which allowed hunger strikers to be temporarily released and rearrested after they had stopped fasting, is better known as what?
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32 Which film star, born in 1914 in the Austrian–Hungarian empire, was also a prolific inventor, being one of the patentees of US Patent 2292387 for a Secret Communication System – which led to her being dubbed 'the Mother of Wi–Fi'?
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33 In the 1990s, city fund manager Nicola Horlick acquired what nickname – the title of a book by Shirley Conran – because of her large family, demanding job and marriage to a city investment banker?
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34 In the New Hampshire Republican primaries of January this year, who came second to Donald Trump?
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35 Which American university – whose sports teams are known as the Wolverines – is based in the city of Ann Arbor?
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36 Jane Austen, Elizabeth Fry, and Florence Nightingale are the only three women whose images have appeared on the back of what?
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37 In the musical film Cabaret, what's the name of the character played by Liza Minelli?
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38 What's the nickname of the painting by Diego Velázquez, officially entitled The Toilet of Venus?
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39 Which senior European politician, president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019, is now Prime Minister of Poland?
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40 In March 1974, which sportswoman (and her then husband) were the subject of a kidnap attempt in Pall Mall in which her bodyguard was shot?
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41 Who is the current manager of the England women's football team?
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42 In which children's television series did Madame Zsazsa live with Hector?
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43 Who is Travis Kelce's girlfriend? (He is tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.)
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44 Hilary McGrady is director–general of which charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland?
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45 Alice Springs is in which Australian state or territory?
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46 Which Colombian singer and songwriter is reported to have said 'he traded a Ferrari for a Twingo' after she split from her former footballer partner in 2022?
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47 Which actress starred alongside John Wayne in five films, including Rio Grande in 1950 and The Wings of Eagles in 1957?
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48 What was the stage name of the ballerina born Margaret Evelyn Hookham, grand–daughter of North Staffordshire Railway Company Locomotive Superintendent John Hookham?
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49 Which Iraqi–born architect won the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011?
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50 One of the top universities in the world is known as M.I.T. For what does the letter M stand?
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51 Who was kissed by Luis Rubiales in a non–consensual way?
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52 On the ITV 1960s pop music show Thank Your Lucky Stars, which panellist became famous for saying "O'ill give it foive" in a strong Black Country accent?
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53 Councillor Alift Harewood–Jones MBE was elected as the first Deputy Mayor of which town council after its creation in 2015?
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54 Corazon Aquino served as the eleventh president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. Who was her immediate predecessor – the tenth president?
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55 In which Canton of Switzerland is Johanna Spyri's book about a Swiss orphan called Heidi set?
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56 In the URL acronym for a web address, what does the U stand for?
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57 Colonel Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. What were his mother's forenames?
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58 In the traditional British version of the board game Cluedo, which of the characters is the housekeeper (or chef, maid or nurse, depending on the edition)?
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59 In 1503, the painting of the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo née Gherardini was begun. By what name is her portrait better known?
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60 In which city is the Space Needle tower that was built for the 1962 World's Fair whose theme was The Age of Space?
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61 Ebony Rainford–Brent commentates and summarises for Sky Sports and the BBC on which sport?
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62 Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson–Wright appeared together in 24 episodes of which television cookery programme in the 1990s?
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63 Stephanie Marrian (also known as Stephanie Khan or Stephanie Rahm) made history when a picture of her in the nude appeared in which newspaper on the 17 November 1970?
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64 Who was the mother of King Charles II?
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65 What title did political secretary Marcia Williams (née Marcia Matilda Field) take when she was elevated to the peerage?
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66 Who lived at 62 Nelson Street, Manchester, where the building is now an eponymous museum, between 1898 and 1907?
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67 At which railway station is Platform 93/4?
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68 What number lies between 8 and 14 on a standard dartboard?
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69 What two–metre tall armless statue in Parian marble was unearthed on the Greek island of Milos and has been on display at the Louvre since 1821?
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70 In which mountain range might you find a Maiden, a Monk and an Ogre?
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71 Which former amateur jockey wrote an autobiography called My Animals and Other Family?
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72 Who, except when she is broody, provides green soup for the Clangers?
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73 Madame Cholet (show–lay) was the cook in which books, television series, group of musicians (she was saxophone player in the band) and spin–off film?
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74 What was the real first name of silent movie actor Fatty Arbuckle?
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75 As of 14 February 2024, what senior public sector job in the UK is currently held by Amanda Pritchard?
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76 In September 1921, Margaret Wintringham became the third woman, the second British born woman and the first widow to be what?
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77 Which word follows Posh, Baby, Ginger, Sporty, Scary and Old?
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78 In classic French cuisine, 'fines herbes' is a mix of chervil, tarragon, chives and which other herb?
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79 Sculptor Veronica Ryan became the oldest winner of what prize in 2022?
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80 The Via Francigena (fran–chee–jane–ah) runs from the southern portico of Canterbury cathedral to which city?
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81 What language is recognised by the Swiss as their fourth and least–spoken national language?
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82 Which retired singer was born Sandra Ann Goodrich in 1947?
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83 In what 1970s US TV crime series did Susan Saint James star alongside Rock Hudson?
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84 In the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen, who played Major Reisman (pronounced rise–man)?
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85 Isabel Peron served as the forty–sixth president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. Who was her immediate predecessor?
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86 Who wrote The Female Eunuch – first published in London in 1970?
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87 Which UK Supermarket chain, with around 500 stores, was acquired by Morrisons in 2004?
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88 Which Manchester City footballer currently wears the shirt number 47?
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89 On a traditional standard British Monopoly board, Bond Street and Oxford Street are two of the three green properties. What's the third?
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90 Catherine Street, running between Chestergate and Shaw Street, was named after the eldest daughter, born in 1745, of which Macclesfield industrialist?
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91 Held biennially, what major international sporting competition is named after the seed merchant born in Preston who donated the gold cup for the first official tournament in 1927?
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92 In the musical film The Sound of Music, what was the name of the oldest of the von Trapp children?
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93 Which 1980s Channel 4 music show was presented by Paula Yates (among others)?
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94 Who is the current host of University Challenge?
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95 Prince George of Denmark and Norway, who was born in April 1653 and died in October 1708, was the husband and consort of which monarch?
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96 Men and women were given electoral equality by the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise Act) of which year?
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1 Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, née Millicent Garrett, was a younger sister of which famous doctor?
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2 What does the letter L stand for in the name of the US actor Samuel L. Jackson?
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3 Name either of the towns to the north or south of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge in England?
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4 Which Italian–born British actress, radio announcer and multilingual television celebrity (best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest four times) died on the 20 th of March 2018?
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5 Sheila Ford Hamp, née Sheila Firestone Ford, is the principal owner and chairwoman of the National Football League (NFL) American football franchise in which city?
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6 The Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie suffers from what sensory deprivation?
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7 A citadel is the name often given to the premises where members of which church and charity assemble?
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8 Which Quaker prison reformer, born in 1780, became known as the Angel of Prisons and was instrumental in the passing of in the 1823 Gaols Act?
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9 Penelope Pitstop is a fictional character who first appeared in which 1968 Hanna–Barbera animated series?
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10 What's the capital city of Belarus?
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11 In the Hebrew Bible, who was the father of King David?
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