Hot 100 March 2013

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This book comprises 100 questions from March 2013; the
first quiz in the 2013/14 season of the Hot 100. Six or so
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Hot 100 March 2013

QUESTIONS
1. Which country has the largest population of feral
(wild) camels in the world?
2. Which company owns the Perrier, Hagen-Dazs and
Wonka brands?
3. Park Jae-sang was the talk of the internet in 2012.
How is he better known?
4. Which author was named after a famous explorer,
claimed to have eaten a bar of chocolate every day and
was once married to Oscar-winning actress, Patricia
Neal?
5. Headquartered in the Philippines and probably bestknown for its beers, which is the largest publicly listed
food, beverage and packaging company in South East
Asia?
6. Which blood group can be given to anyone?
7. Which word can be described as being 'the degree of
brightness of a star, as represented by a number on a
logarithmic scale'?
8. What was the name of Captain Nemos submarine?
9. Name the sacred law of Islam, believed by Muslims
to be based upon divine revelation?
10. Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-

Arts style, it is officially named the Fuller Building.

What is the better-known name for the distinctive
building that sits at the intersection of 5th Avenue and
Broadway in New York City?
11. Which claims to be 'The King of Beers'?
12. Which novel was originally called The Whale?
13. On 12th October 1187 after a 12 day siege, Saladin
captured which religiously and culturally important city
that had been under Crusader rule for the previous 88
years?
14. Which Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit single of the
1960s opens with the lines I thought love was only true
in fairytales, meant for someone else but not for me?
15. An 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, a 1985 stage show by
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg and a 2012
movie directed by Tom Hooper. What title connects
these clues?
16. Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron and
Toledo; the so called big six cities of which state of the
U.S.A?
17. Which NFL franchise ceased to exist for three years
between 1995 and 1998, when its owner Art Modell
formed the Baltimore Ravens and took all the players and
staff with him?
18. Which rock 'n roll singer sued HP over the name of
an app that guessed the size of someone's manhood using
their shoe size?

19. What seven-lettered word is the name of an icon,

usually a brand logo, that appears on the URL bar when
you reach a company's website?
20. In terms of economics and politics, what number
follows G7, G22 and G33?
21. According to the Bible, Jews are descended from
Abraham's son, Isaac, while Arabs are descended from
which other son of Abraham?
22. What name is given in basketball to a shot by a
moving player who jumps very close to the basket and
shoots while in the air?
23. The Palace of Versailles is an example of which
style of architecture?
24. The Auxiliaries are the womens branch of which
religious group, best known for leaving bibles in hotel
rooms?
25. What iconic American landmark almost featured
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Buffalo Bill and
Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief Red Cloud instead of its four
current residents?
26. In the USA, the Volstead Act of 1919 introduced it
and the Blaine Act of 1933 partially repealed it. What is
it?
27. Mariner 4, Curiosity, Phobos1, Pathfinder, Climate
Orbiter, Phoenix and Beagle 2 have all been projects to
explore which planet in our solar system?
28. What nationality links cyclist Marianne Vos,

gymnast Epke Zonderland, cricketer Ryan ten Doeschate,

tennis player Betty Stove and pool player Nick Van Den
Berg?
29. Name one of the four African member nations of
OPEC.
30. Fyodor Dostoevsky declared which Tolstoy novel
about a woman's affair with Count Vronsky to be
"flawless as a work of art"?
31. Gradiente Electronica, who make an android phone
called the iphone, has successfully prevented Apple from
using the name iPhone in which South American
country?
32. Which endurance race is due to run from Lima
TucumnSantiago in 2013?
33. Who wrote 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand
Splendid Suns'?
34. For which children's (and big kid's!) toy can we
thank Ole Kirk Christiansen, the 10th son of an
impoverished family from Jutland?
35. The Mastretta MXT is a sports car made in which
country?
36. Tony Buzan is credited with popularising which
aliterative term for a diagram used to visually outline
information? (Aliterative means that the words begin with
the same letter.)
37. According to an iconic 1981 advertisement, what
comes between Brooke Shields and her Calvin Klein

jeans?
38. February 2013 saw the beginning of the Chinese year
of which animal?
39. Which mobile app features an Indiana Jones-like
character called Guy Dangerous and saw over 1 million
downloads in less than three days when its sequel was
released in 2013?
40. If you saw 'Hell in a Cell', which sport would you be
watching?
41. Which country will see King Willem-Alexander
ascend the throne this year?
42. What medical name is given to the condition where
a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of
a blood vessel occurs?
43. Which African nation is known as 'The Kingdom In
The Sky'?
44. Daniel Day-Lewis is married to the daughter of
which playwright?
45. Which character in a book by Chekhov had a niece
called Sofya Alexandrovna Serebryakov?
46. The first power driven flight was made on 17
December 1903 by Orville Wright near Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, U.S.A.. What was the name given to
that first aircraft?
47. Which was the first Australian city to host a Summer
Olympic Games?
48. He was one of the greatest portrait sculptors of all

time working on statues in France and the U.S.A.. His

highly successful career began in Rome with his Saint
Bruno. Although he made many religious and
mythological sculptures, he was most popular as a
portrait sculptor; famous sitters included Voltaire,
Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon, and
Washington. Who was he?
49. An annual day of Earthquake Mourning on January 12
has been instituted in which country to remember the
dead of the massive tremors on that day in 2010?
50. What name is given to the study of microscopic
study of individual cells?
51. On which continent is the Pampas?
52. Who was the first person to correctly predict the
reappearance of a comet?
53. In which country is there a noted structure called the
Shalom Meir tower (aka Migdal Shalom)?
54. By today's reckoning, what nationality was the
classical composer Antonn Dvork?
55. The Girl with the Pearl Earring' is a Masterpiece by
which painter?
56. The tune, Westminster Quarters, played by Big Ben,
is possibly based in part on the tune I Know My
Redeemer Liveth; a piece from Messiah by which
German-born English composer?
57. What nationality were the Romantic Painters;
Johannes Veit, Casper David Friedrich and Franz

Winterhalter?
58. The Vienna Boys Choir has four touring groups
named after Austrian classical composers. If Mozart and
Haydn are two, name either of the others.
59. The oil painting, The Young Anthony, incorrectly
attributed to Rubens is actually thought to have been a
self-portrait by which of Rubens pupils?
60. Which biblical character, the author of two Epistles
to the Corinthians, was converted to Christianity after
seeing a vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus?
61. The song Pie Jesu is derived from which French
composers Requiem in D Minor written between 1887
and 1890?
62. Urban myth has it that The Simpsons character, Monty
Burns, is based on him; known as Harvards rock star
philosopher whose works include a critique of John
Rawls A Theory of Justice in his 1982 work
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice?
63. Named for a South American revolutionary hero,
what is the name of the orchestra founded in Caracas,
Venezuela in 1975, by Jose Antonio Abreu?
64. On 31st October 1917 at the Battle of Beersheba,
what Commonwealth countrys forces made, what is
described as, the last successful cavalry charge in
history?
65. The top 10 destinations for religious holidays
includes all the usual suspects; Lourdes, Vatican,

Mecca. Which destination in County Mayo, Ireland

made it onto the 2012 list?
66. The North American Free Trade Association, which
came into being in 1994, is an economic co-operative
organisation comprising three countries. If the U.S.A is
one; name either of the others?
67. Nicknamed the Little Magician, who was the first
President of The United States of America to actually
be born an American citizen?
68. Roland K. Noble is the secretary general of which
crime-fighting organisation that began life in Vienna in
1923 and now has its HQ at Quai Charles de Gaulle,
Lyon, France?
69. Which is the only country to be a member of the
African Union, Organisation of Islamic Co-Operation,
Arab League, Francophonie and Indian Ocean
Commission?
70. In his 2002 State of the Union Address, George W.
Bush identified three countries as his bogeyman axis of
Evil. If Iraq was one, name either of the others?
71. In Anna Christie she talks, in Ninotchka she laughs, in
Grand Hotel she wanted to be alone. Who?
72. And he would be there when Jem waked up in the
morning, the final line of which 1960 Pulitzer prize
winning novel, turned film, set in Maycomb, Alabama?
73. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
and Jacki Weaver all starred in which David O.Russell

directed multi-award nominated movie?

74. According to Forbes magazine, the worlds highest
paid club DJ is the Dutchman Tijs Michiel Verwest who
earned around 15 million last year. What is his most
regularly used one word stage name?
75. For which 1988 film did Sigourney Weaver win an
Oscar nomination for playing the part of Dian Fossey?
76. What traditional Spanish folk song and dance,
widely heard and seen in Mexico during the revolution,
has a name that translates into English as the
Cockroach?
77. Sharing a name with the eldest son of the biblical
characters Jacob and Leah, what is the name of the hot
sandwich that contains corned beef, Swiss cheese,
sauerkraut and Russian dressing?
78. Which French term, used widely in the USA,
describes a silver-gilt object made of Sterling silver and
coated with a minimum 2.5 micro-metres of at least 10
carat gold?
79. What name is given to an annuity shared by
subscribers to a loan or promise, the shares increasing as
subscribers die until the last survivor gets the lot?
80. What alliterative two-word concept was
introduced by Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 work Theory
of the Leisure Class and is defined as the acquisition of
luxury items and services in order to display economic
strength and influence?

81. Punta La Marmora is the highest point on which

island, the second largest in the Mediterranean sea?
82. With tributaries including the Esla, Arlanzon and
Pisuerga, which river rises in the Sierra de Urbion in
north central Spain and enters the Atlantic Ocean just
south of Porto?
83. What kind of creature, pictured in a dream, is said
to have inspired the chemist Friedrich Kekule to propose
a circular structure for the benzene molecule?
84. The name of which spider, the prey of the creature
concerned, features in the name of the Hawk Wasp which
has the alternative name the Pepsis Wasp?
85. Which gas, chemical symbol Xe, is used in cinema
projectors and car headlights to produce an intense white
light?
86. Which golf course, overlooking the Firth of Forth, is
home to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh golfers
and will play host to the 2013 Open Championship?
87. During the 1990s, which boxer became the first
Irishman to win versions of a world title at two different
weights?
88. Rugby Unions Tri Nations tournament of South
Africa, Australia and New Zealand, has now become a
four nation tournament with the addition of which
country?
89. Which then Manchester City footballer said in
2012 When I score I dont celebrate. Its my job. Does a

postman celebrate when he delivers a letter?

90. Three time world champion, Sebastian Vettel, made
his Formula 1 debut in 2007 at the United States Grand
Prix driving for which team?
91. What surname comes next in this sequence
Kolehmainen, Zatopek, Kuts, Viren, Yifter, Bekele?
92. Which West Indian is the only cricketer to hit a six
off the first ball of a Test match?
93. The four sons of which god are depicted on the
canopic jars found in ancient Egyptian tombs?
94. In which TV series do stars drive as quickly as they
can around a track in a 'reasonably-priced car'?
95. Which hotel was built in Singapore by two
Armenian brothers from Persia, Martin and Tigran
Sarkies, in 1887?
96. Who created Family Guy and American Dad!, and
hosted the 2013 Academy Awards?
97. Self Portrait in Drag' is a Polaroid photo of which
pop artist?
98. Discovered in 1912 by a German archaeological
team led by Ludwig Borchardt, a very famous bust of
which Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh
Akhenaten is on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin?
99. The daughter of Rhea and Cronos, which wife of
Zeus in Greek mythology was the goddess of women and
marriage?
100. Which WWE wrestler, the first undisputed WWE

champion, is the front man of the heavy metal band Fozzy?

Hot 100 March 2013

ANSWERS
The required part of the answer is indicated in CAPS.
1.Which country has the largest population of feral (wild)
camels in the world?
ANSWER: AUSTRALIA
2.Which company owns the Perrier, Hagen-Dazs and
Wonka brands?
ANSWER: NESTLE
3.Park Jae-sang was the talk of the internet in 2012. How
is he better known?
ANSWER: PSY (of Gangnam Style fame)
4.Which author was named after a famous explorer,
claimed to have eaten a bar of chocolate every day and
was once married to Oscar-winning actress, Patricia
Neal?
ANSWER: Roald DAHL
5.Headquartered in the Philippines and probably bestknown for its beers, which is the largest publicly listed
food, beverage and packaging company in South East
Asia?
ANSWER: SAN MIGUEL Corporation
6.Which blood group can be given to anyone?

ANSWER: O
7.Which word can be described as being 'the degree of
brightness of a star, as represented by a number on a
logarithmic scale'?
ANSWER: MAGNITUDE
8.What was the name of Captain Nemos submarine?
ANSWER: NAUTILUS
9.Name the sacred law of Islam, believed by Muslims to
be based upon divine revelation?
ANSWER: SHARIA
10.Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the BeauxArts style, it is officially named the Fuller Building. What
is the better-known name for the distinctive building that
sits at the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway in
New York City?
ANSWER: FLAT IRON Building
11.Which claims to be 'The King of Beers'?
ANSWER: BUDWEISER
12.Which novel was originally called The Whale?
ANSWER: MOBY DICK
13.On 12th October 1187 after a 12 day siege, Saladin
captured which religiously and culturally important city
that had been under Crusader rule for the previous 88
years?
ANSWER: JERUSALEM
14.Which Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit single of the

1960s opens with the lines I thought love was only true in
fairytales, meant for someone else but not for me?
ANSWER: IM A BELIEVER (The Monkees)
15.An 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, a 1985 stage show by
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg and a 2012
movie directed by Tom Hooper. What title connects these
clues?
ANSWER: LES MISERABLES
16.Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron and
Toledo; the so called big six cities of which state of the
USA?
ANSWER: OHIO
17.Which NFL franchise ceased to exist for three years
between 1995 and 1998, when its owner Art Modell
formed the Baltimore Ravens and took all the players and
staff with him?
ANSWER: CLEVELAND BROWNS
18.Which rock 'n roll singer sued HP over the name of an
app that guessed the size of someone's manhood using their
shoe size?
ANSWER: Chubby CHECKER
19.What seven-lettered word is the name of an icon,
usually a brand logo, that appears on the URL bar when
you reach a company's website?
ANSWER: FAVICON
20.In terms of economics and politics, what number

follows G7, G22 and G33?

ANSWER: G20
21.According to the Bible, Jews are descended from
Abraham's son, Isaac, while Arabs are descended from
which other son of Abraham?
ANSWER: ISHMAEL
22.What name is given in basketball to a shot by a moving
player who jumps very close to the basket and shoots
while in the air?
ANSWER: LAY UP
23.The Palace of Versailles is an example of which style
of architecture?
ANSWER: BAROQUE
24.The Auxiliaries are the womens branch of which
religious group, best known for leaving bibles in hotel
rooms?
ANSWER: The GIDEONS
25.What iconic American landmark almost featured
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Buffalo Bill and
Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief Red Cloud instead of its four
current residents?
ANSWER: Mount RUSHMORE
26.In the USA, the Volstead Act of 1919 introduced it and
the Blaine Act of 1933 partially repealed it. What is it?
ANSWER: PROHIBITION
27.Mariner 4, Curiosity, Phobos1, Pathfinder, Climate

Orbiter, Phoenix and Beagle 2 have all been projects to

explore which planet in our solar system?
ANSWER: MARS
28.What nationality links cyclist Marianne Vos, gymnast
Epke Zonderland, cricketer Ryan ten Doeschate, tennis
player Betty Stove and pool player Nick Van Den Berg?
ANSWER: DUTCH (Netherlands)
29.Name one of the four African member nations of
OPEC.
ANSWER: ALGERIA, ANGOLA, LIBYA or
NIGERIA
30.Fyodor Dostoevsky declared which Tolstoy novel
about a woman's affair with Count Vronsky to be "flawless
as a work of art"?
ANSWER: ANNA KARENINA
31.Gradiente Electronica, who make an android phone
called the iphone, has successfully prevented Apple from
using the name iPhone in which South American country?
ANSWER: BRAZIL
32.Which endurance race is due to run from Lima
TucumnSantiago in 2013?
ANSWER: DAKAR Rally
33.Who wrote 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand
Splendid Suns'?
ANSWER: Khaled HOSSEINI
34.For which children's (and big kid's!) toy can we thank

Ole Kirk Christiansen, the 10th son of an impoverished

family from Jutland?
ANSWER: LEGO
35.The Mastretta MXT is a sports car made in which
country?
ANSWER: MEXICO
36.Tony Buzan is credited with popularising which
aliterative term for a diagram used to visually outline
information? (Aliterative means that the words begin with
the same letter.)
ANSWER: MIND MAPS
37.According to an iconic 1981 advertisement, what
comes between Brooke Shields and her Calvin Klein
jeans?
ANSWER: NOTHING
38.February 2013 saw the beginning of the Chinese year
of which animal?
ANSWER: SNAKE (Black Snake)
39.Which mobile app features an Indiana Jones-like
character called Guy Dangerous and saw over 1 million
downloads in less than three days when its sequel was
released in 2013?
ANSWER: TEMPLE RUN (2)
40.If you saw 'Hell in a Cell', which sport would you be
watching?
ANSWER: WRESTLING (WWE)

41.Which country will see King Willem-Alexander ascend

the throne this year?
ANSWER: NETHERLANDS
42.What medical name is given to the condition where a
localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a
blood vessel occurs?
ANSWER: ANEURISM
43.Which African nation is known as 'The Kingdom In The
Sky'?
ANSWER: LESOTHO
44.Daniel Day-Lewis is married to the daughter of which
playwright?
ANSWER: Arthur MILLER
45.Which character in a book by Chekhov had a niece
called Sofya Alexandrovna Serebryakov?
ANSWER: UNCLE VANYA
46.The first power driven flight was made on 17
December 1903 by Orville Wright near Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, USA. What was the name given to that first
aircraft?
ANSWER: FLYER
47.Which was the first Australian city to host a Summer
Olympic Games?
ANSWER: MELBOURNE
48.He was one of the greatest portrait sculptors of all time
working on statues in France and the USA. His highly

successful career began in Rome with his Saint Bruno.

Although he made many religious and mythological
sculptures, he was most popular as a po
ANSWER: Jean Antoine HOUDON
49.An annual day of Earthquake Mourning on January 12
has been instituted in which country to remember the dead
of the massive tremors on that day in 2010?
ANSWER: HAITI
50.What name is given to the study of microscopic study
of individual cells?
ANSWER: CYTOLOGY
51.On which continent is the Pampas?
ANSWER: SOUTH AMERICA
52.Who was the first person to correctly predict the
reappearance of a comet?
ANSWER: Edmund HALLEY
53.In which country is there a noted structure called the
Shalom Meir tower (aka Migdal Shalom)?
ANSWER: ISRAEL
54.By today's reckoning, what nationality was the
classical composer Antonn Dvork?
ANSWER: CZECH
55.The Girl with the Pearl Earring' is a Masterpiece by
which painter?
ANSWER: Johannes VERMEER (aka Jan or Johan)
56.The tune, Westminster Quarters, played by Big Ben,

is possibly based in part on the tune I Know My

Redeemer Liveth; a piece from Messiah by which
German-born English composer?
ANSWER: HANDEL
57.What nationality were the Romantic Painters; Johannes
Veit, Casper David Friedrich and Franz Winterhalter?
ANSWER: GERMAN
58.The Vienna Boys Choir has four touring groups named
after Austrian classical composers. If Mozart and Haydn
are two, name either of the others.
ANSWER: BRUCKNER or SCHUBERT
59.The oil painting, The Young Anthony, incorrectly
attributed to Rubens is actually thought to have been a
self-portrait by which of Rubens pupils?
ANSWER: Anthony VAN DYCK
60.Which biblical character, the author of two Epistles to
the Corinthians, was converted to Christianity after seeing
a vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus?
ANSWER: St PAUL / SAUL
61.The song Pie Jesu is derived from which French
composers Requiem in D Minor written between 1887
and 1890?
ANSWER: Gabriel FAURE
62.Urban myth has it that The Simpsons character, Monty
Burns, is based on him; known as Harvards rock star
philosopher whose works include a critique of John

Rawls A Theory of Justice in his 1982 work Liberalism

and the Limits of Justice?
ANSWER: Michael SANDAL
63.Named for a South American revolutionary hero, what
is the name of the orchestra founded in Caracas, Venezuela
in 1975, by Jose Antonio Abreu?
ANSWER: SIMON BOLIVAR Symphony Orchestra
64.On 31st October 1917 at the Battle of Beersheba, what
Commonwealth countrys forces made, what is described
as, the last successful cavalry charge in history?
ANSWER: AUSTRALIA
65.The top 10 destinations for religious holidays includes
all the usual suspects; Lourdes, Vatican, Mecca Which
destination in County Mayo, Ireland made it onto the 2012
list?
ANSWER: KNOCK
66.The North American Free Trade Association, which
came into being in 1994, is an economic co-operative
organisation comprising three countries. If the USA is one;
name either of the others.
ANSWER: CANADA or MEXICO
67.Nicknamed the Little Magician, who was the first
President of The United States of America to actually be
born an American citizen?
ANSWER: Martin VAN BUREN
68.Roland K. Noble is the secretary general of which

crime-fighting organisation that began life in Vienna in

1923 and now has its HQ at Quai Charles de Gaulle, Lyon,
France?
ANSWER: INTERPOL
69.Which is the only country to be a member of the
African Union, Organisation of Islamic Co-Operation,
Arab League, Francophonie and Indian Ocean
Commission?
ANSWER: COMOROS
70.Bush identified three countries as his bogeyman axis
of Evil If Iraq was one, name either of the others?
ANSWER: IRAN or NORTH KOREA
71.In Anna Christie she talks, in Ninotchka she laughs, in
Grand Hotel she wanted to be alone. Who?
ANSWER: Greta GARBO
72.And he would be there when Jem waked up in the
morning, the final line of which 1960 Pulitzer prize
winning novel, turned film, set in Maycomb, Alabama?
ANSWER: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
73.Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
and Jacki Weaver all starred in which David O. Russell
directed multi-award nominated movie?
ANSWER: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
74.According to Forbes magazine, the worlds highest
paid club DJ is the Dutchman Tijs Michiel Verwest who
earned around 15 million last year. What is his most

regularly used one word stage name?

ANSWER: TIESTO
75.For which 1988 film did Sigourney Weaver win an
Oscar nomination for playing the part of Dian Fossey?
ANSWER: GORILLAS IN THE MIST
76.What traditional Spanish folk song and dance, widely
heard and seen in Mexico during the revolution, has a
name that translates into English as the Cockroach?
ANSWER: La CUCARACHA
77.Sharing a name with the eldest son of the biblical
characters Jacob and Leah, what is the name of the hot
sandwich that contains corned beef, Swiss cheese,
sauerkraut and Russian dressing?
ANSWER: REUBEN
78.Which French term, used widely in the USA, describes
a silver-gilt object made of Sterling silver and coated with
a minimum 2.5 micro-metres of at least 10 carat gold?
ANSWER: VERMIEL
79.What name is given to an annuity shared by subscribers
to a loan or promise, the shares increasing as subscribers
die until the last survivor gets the lot?
ANSWER: TONTINE
80.What alliterative two-word concept was introduced by
Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 work Theory of the Leisure
Class and is defined as the acquisition of luxury items and
services in order to display economic strength and

influence?
ANSWER: CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION
81.Punta La Marmora is the highest point on which island,
the second largest in the Mediterranean sea?
ANSWER: SARDINIA
82.With tributaries including the Esla, Arlanzon and
Pisuerga, which river rises in the Sierra de Urbion in
north central Spain and enters the Atlantic Ocean just
south of Porto?
ANSWER: DOURO
83.What kind of creature, pictured in a dream, is said to
have inspired the chemist Friedrich Kekule to propose a
circular structure for the benzene molecule?
ANSWER: SNAKE
84.The name of which spider, the prey of the creature
concerned, features in the name of the Hawk Wasp which
has the alternative name the Pepsis Wasp?
ANSWER: TARANTULA
85.Which gas, chemical symbol Xe, is used in cinema
projectors and car headlights to produce an intense white
light?
ANSWER: XENON
86.Which golf course, overlooking the Firth of Forth, is
home to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh golfers
and will play host to the 2013 Open Championship?
ANSWER: MUIRFIELD

87.During the 1990s, which boxer became the first

Irishman to win versions of a world title at two different
weights?
ANSWER: Steve COLLINS
88.Rugby Unions Tri Nations tournament of South Africa,
Australia and New Zealand, has now become a four nation
tournament with the addition of which country?
ANSWER: ARGENTINA
89.Which then Manchester City footballer said in 2012
When I score I dont celebrate. Its my job. Does a
postman celebrate when he delivers a letter?
ANSWER: Mario BALLOTELLI
90.Three time world champion, Sebastian Vettel, made his
Formula 1 debut in 2007 at the United States Grand Prix
driving for which team?
ANSWER: BMW SAUBER
91.What surname comes next in this sequence
Kolehmainen, Zatopek, Kuts, Viren, Yifter, Bekele?
ANSWER: FARAH (5k and 10k Olympic gold)
92.Which West Indian is the only cricketer to hit a six off
the first ball of a Test match?
ANSWER: Chris GAYLE
93.The four sons of which god are depicted on the canopic
jars found in ancient Egyptian tombs?
ANSWER: HORUS
94.In which TV series do stars drive as quickly as they

can around a track in a 'reasonably-priced car'?

ANSWER: TOP GEAR
95.Which hotel was built in Singapore by two Armenian
brothers from Persia, Martin and Tigran Sarkies, in 1887?
ANSWER: RAFFLES
96.Who created Family Guy and American Dad!, and
hosted the 2013 Academy Awards?
ANSWER: Seth MACFARLANE
97.Self Portrait in Drag' is a Polaroid photo of which pop
artist?
ANSWER: Andy WARHOL
98.Discovered in 1912 by a German archaeological team
led by Ludwig Borchardt, a very famous bust of which
Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten is on
display at the Neues Museum in Berlin?
ANSWER: NEFERTITI
99.The daughter of Rhea and Cronos, which wife of Zeus
in Greek mythology was the goddess of women and
marriage?
ANSWER: HERA
100.Which WWE wrestler, the first undisputed WWE
champion, is the front man of the heavy metal band Fozzy?
ANSWER: Chris JERICHO
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