2019 Quiz

Who is the Speaker in the UK’s House of Commons?

What is the formal name given to the period between the end of a session of Parliament and the State Opening of Parliament that begins the next session?

Where was the Magna Carta, a charter of rights agreed to by the King of England in 1215, signed?

Which drug did the East India Company infamously smuggle into China (even after the trade was made illegal) during the 18th century?

In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

The War of the Roses was fought between the House of York and which other House?

The atom bomb was dropped in the Second World War in Hiroshima and which other Japanese city?

What is the name of the current President of Brazil?

What is the name of the current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China?

Who was the King of Scotland, England and Ireland at the time of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605?

Which is largest country in the world by area?

What is the name of the tallest mountain in Africa?

Excluding the poles, which is the largest desert in the world?

What is the capital of Mongolia?

In which continent would you find the Andes?

What word describes a chain or cluster or islands?

The former British Colony known as Gold Coast is now part of which independent African country?

What is the capital of Nigeria?

In which state in the USA would you find the city of New Orleans?

In which country would you find the Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat?

Who is responsible for setting the base rate of interest in the UK?

What is the name of the current Governor of the Bank of England?

What was the UK’s nominal GDP value to the nearest USD trillion in 2018?

What name is given to a market dominated by a small number of large firms?

What word describes a nation state or economy that is self-sufficient without external assistance or trade?

What does the phrase “SSD” in relation to computer components stand for?

Who is the founder of the world wide web?

What is the shorthand for a collection 1,024 bytes?

How would you describe data which has been encrypted?

What was the name of the first algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results?

What is the sum of the angles inside a triangle?

What is the formula for the area inside a circle with a radius of “r”?

What is the square root of 169?

How many faces does a dodecahedron have?

What name is given to the type of average determined by finding the middle value of an ordered set of numbers?

What name is given to the longest side of a right-angled triangle?

What is 25 x (5-2)?

What is 99 x 9?

What is sin (θ) / cos (θ) equal to?

What name is given to the absolute (or non-negative) value of a real number without regard to its sign?

What name is given to the jelly-like material in an animal cell containing dissolved nutrients and salts etc.?

What name is given the process through which plants use carbon dioxide, water and light provide the energy for a plant to survive?

What name is given to the period between conception and birth for mammals, during which an embryo or foetus develops in the uterus?

What name is given to the constant that provides the number of units in one mole (molecular weight in grams) of any substance?

How many protons are there in a hydrogen atom?

What is the symbol for gold?

The wavelength is equal to the speed of a wave in a medium divided by which other variable?

What type of reaction creates the energy that powers the Sun?

What name is given to the counter instrument used to measure radiation?

Voltage is the product of current and which other variable?

In biology, what level of classification or taxonomic rank sits below “Kingdom” and above “Class”?

What is the name given to the tissue which hangs from the middle of the soft palate in one’s mouth?

What is the Latin name for the collarbone?

In chemistry, what is produced in addition to water when an acid reacts with a base?

What name is given to the type of bond formed when two atoms share a pair of electrons?

What noun describes the minor component in a solution i.e. that which has been dissolved in the liquid?

Newton’s second law states that an object’s acceleration is dependent on two variables: the net force acting on the object and what other attribute pertaining to the object?

In physics, whose law relates the distance a spring stretches to the force applied to the spring?

Momentum is calculated by multiplying the mass of an object by which other attribute of the object?

In the life cycle of stars much bigger than the sun, what stage typically immediately follows the “red super giant star” stage?

From which classical language are the words “juggernaut” and “avatar” derived?

What Latin words meaning “and the others” are often shortened at the end of a list to indicate that there are further items?

What is the name of the principal native language of the people of the Philippines?

What does “nĭ hăo” mean in Mandarin?

What colour does the Spanish word “amarillo” translate to in English?

What is the word for “pineapple” in French, Italian, Arabic and Hindi?

How would you say “Thank you” in Italian?

How would you say “Thanks” in Japanese?

To which destination are directions being sought in the German phrase “Wie komme ich am besten zum Bahnhof, bitte?”?

Which language, other than English, is commonly used across East African countries such as Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda among others?

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a prince from which country?

“Waiting for Godot” is the name of a play written by which playwright?

Who wrote “The God of Small Things”?

What is the pen name of the author of “Middlemarch”?

David Copperfield is a novel written by which author?

What is the name of the Booker-prize winning novel partly inspired by the 1884 legal case of R v Dudley and Stephens concerning the death of a cabin boy by the name of Richard Parker?

Who wrote “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”?

Who came up with the quote “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act”?

The name of the Philip Pullman series, His Dark Materials, is a phrase from which poem written by John Milton?

Who shared the Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood in 2019?

Who painted “The Persistence of Memory”?

In the video game “Fortnite”, what chapter are players currently on?

In which country was the set for the town of Hobbiton, featuring in “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogies, built?

What is the name of the character played by Daisy Ridley in the most recent Star Wars trilogy?

Who composed “Für Elise”?

Who played the lead role of “Black Panther” in the film of the same name?

Who will be playing the lead role of David Copperfield in the film called “The Personal History of David Copperfield” written and directed by Armando Iannucci?

What was the building that currently houses the Tate Modern previously used for?

Who won Mercury Prize in 2019?

What is the name of the new James Bond film?

How many times has Lewis Hamilton won the World Championship in F1?

Which club won the first Premier League title in 1992-1993?

From which country does Liverpool’s Sadio Mané hail?

Who won the men’s ICC Cricket World Cup in 2019?

Which country won the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup?

Who won the Ladies’ Singles tennis title at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships?

To the nearest mile, how many miles are there in a marathon?

What is the nickname for the Australian women’s national football (soccer) team?

Who won the 2019 Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award?

Which city will be hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics?