Trivia Masterclass 10
TV; Chemistry; Picture Round
Welcome back to the Trivia Masterclass! Huge thanks for joining me on this journey of quiz revision — I really hope you enjoy it.
As with previous weeks, you’ll find the answers to each round immediately after said round, rather than all together at the end. And if a question begins “[PICTURE]” then it relates in some way to the image included at the beginning of the round: there will be one such question in every round. This week we’ve got a dedicated picture round, which will hopefully be a bit of fun, although it does mean we’re absolutely tearing past the e-mail length limit!
Feel free to post your scores in the comments, and especially to share answers you’re proud of, frustrating misses, facts you found interesting, or extra information — I’m keen for this to be an active community so conversation is encouraged, provided you all keep it friendly and respectful.
Round 1 — Warm-Up
[PICTURE] What forename was shared by two of the five members of the Spice Girls, who adopted the personas of Sporty and Scary Spice respectively?
Aptly named after a pair of twins from Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux are the two brightest stars in which constellation of the zodiac?
In what Shakespeare tragedy does Mercutio declare “a plague o’ both your houses” after being fatally wounded in a duel with Tybalt?
What alternative name for a ballpoint pen was originally the surname of the Hungarian inventor, with the first name László, who patented the first commercially successful version of the instrument in 1938?
Currently led by Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC has been the only ruling party in which country since 1994, although they lost their parliamentary majority in last year’s general election?
Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith voiced the personified emotions of Joy and Sadness in which 2015 animated film and its 2024 sequel?
In grammar, what part of speech serves to link words or clauses within a sentence, with English examples including “so”, “or”, and “and”?
In cycling, what is the usual English translation of the French phrase “le maillot jaune”, the coloured garment worn by the overall race leader in the Tour de France?
Shared with one of the Teletubbies, what is the very short name of the longest river in Italy?
With other well-known examples composed by Verdi and Fauré, what type of religious Mass, written to accompany a funeral liturgy, did Mozart famously leave unfinished at his own death?
Sub-Zero and Raiden are among the characters in what long-running series of fighting games, in which players can execute gruesome “Fatalities” when instructed to “Finish” their opponent?
The world’s first vaccine was created in 1796 by Edward Jenner and conferred immunity against what deadly virus, which in 1980 became the first human disease to be officially eradicated worldwide?
Also used more generally for any strategic action, what word beginning with G refers in chess to an opening move where a player offers to sacrifice one of their pieces with the aim of gaining an advantage overall?
Which actor won an Oscar in 1969 for playing a charismatic Edinburgh schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and three Emmys in the 2010s for playing the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey?
Although he produced his most famous work in the Spanish city of Toledo, the Late Renaissance painter born Doménikos Theotokópoulos is best known by what Spanish nickname, referring to his birth nationality?
Named by Paul McCartney as his favourite song of all time, what 1966 baroque-pop love song by The Beach Boys begins with a French horn motif followed by the opening line “I may not always love you”?
Currently the second tallest building in the world, the Merdeka 118 tower is located in which Asian city, the capital of Malaysia?
What forename was shared by the consorts of English kings Henry II, Henry III, and Edward I? These queens’ by-names referred to their ancestral ties to Aquitaine, Provence, and Castile respectively.
What palindromic word, derived from an Inuit language of northern Canada, refers to a narrow closed-deck watercraft propelled with a double-bladed paddle? The Olympic canoeing events include competitions using these boats as well as canoes.
Which stage musical, set in Victorian London, includes such songs as Consider Yourself, Oom-Pah-Pah, and I’d Do Anything? The latter provided the name of a 2008 BBC talent show aimed at casting unknown actors for a new West End production of the show.
Round 1 — ANSWERS
Melanie (or Mel — Chisholm and Brown, aka Mel C and Mel B)
Gemini
Romeo and Juliet
Biro
South Africa
Inside Out
Conjunction
Yellow jersey
Po
Requiem
Mortal Kombat
Smallpox
Gambit
Maggie Smith
El Greco
God Only Knows
Kuala Lumpur
Eleanor
Kayak
Oliver!
Round 2 — TV
Which Kettering-born comedian’s eventful appearance on a celebrity special of The Great British Bake-Off spawned the immortal meme “Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appétit”?
The BBC quiz show The Finish Line is co-hosted by Roman Kemp and which other presenter, 35 years his senior, who made her name in the 1980s as a host of Saturday Superstore and Going Live?
In the title of a long-running segment on Top Gear in which celebrities made timed laps of the show’s track in unglamorous family hatchbacks, the Suzuki Liana, Chevrolet Lacetti, Kia Cee’d, and Vauxhall Astra were all described at various times as what sort of car?
Which Irish actor was introduced to British TV audiences as one of the central trio in Channel 4’s Queer as Folk, and to US audiences a few years later as shiny but morally vacuous mayor Tommy Carcetti in The Wire?
Viola Davis became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy award for a lead performance in a drama in 2015, for playing Annalise Keating in what Shonda Rhimes-produced legal thriller?
With a voice and physicality modelled on philosopher Bertrand Russell, which character in the classic 1970s children’s series Bagpuss is a carved wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker?
[PICTURE] In one of the biggest “jaw-drop” moments of recent UK reality TV history, what three words complete this quotation from season 2 of The Traitors, where Diane privately addressed her fellow contestants’ speculations about her possible covert connection to another contestant: “Paul just couldn’t be my son …”?
What US state contains the fictional towns of Hawkins and Pawnee, the respective settings of TV shows Stranger Things and Parks and Recreation?
Antiques dealer Paul Martin hosted which BBC series for well over a thousand episodes from 2002 until its 2020 cancellation? Each episode saw members of the public bringing their heirlooms for expert valuation, deciding whether to auction them, and then sometimes trying to do so.
Which video-on-demand service was launched by a group of Berkeley students in 2006, originally as a pirate site, to provide access to Japanese anime and other East Asian media that was unavailable in the US? Now owned by Sony, it currently has over 15 million paid subscribers.
Which Liverpool screenwriter created the ground-breaking police procedural Cracker, one of whose best serials starred Robert Carlyle as a traumatised survivor of the Hillsborough disaster? Two years later in 1996, he wrote a powerful ITV docudrama about Hillsborough.
What is the stage name of grime artist Zuhair Hassan who hosted the comedy food show Big Eats on Dave, and made a critically acclaimed 2024 documentary for the BBC about his own umrah pilgrimage to Mecca?
In which American sitcom of the 1980s did a young Michael J. Fox star as teenage yuppie Alex P. Keaton, whose conservative social values and enthusiasm for supply-side economics created tension with his liberal ex-hippie parents?
After her breakout role alongside Ben Whishaw in 2022’s This Is Going to Hurt, which British actor starred as Emma, one of the central couple in the 2024 Netflix mega-hit One Day?
The catchphrase “The weekend starts here!” began every episode of what live music showcase, that, aired on ITV from 1963 to 1966? It gave its name to a single by late-’70s punk band Generation X whose lyrics declared “I’m in love with Cathy McGowan”, one of the show’s presenters.
The first hit for show-runner Joe Barton, now the brains behind Netflix’s Black Doves, what 2019 crime thriller miniseries for the BBC had a substantially bilingual script, with major portions of Japanese dialogue, and a Japanese title translating as “Duty/Shame”? Will Sharpe won a BAFTA for his scene-stealing supporting role as sex worker Rodney.
Which US TV personality, a veteran morning show anchor on CBS and a close friend of Oprah Winfrey, conducted a bombshell 2019 interview with disgraced musician R Kelly and was widely praised for her unruffled response to Kelly’s histrionics? She was less widely praised in 2025 for her participation in Blue Origin’s all-female space-flight.
Based on the French series Les Rencontres de Papotin, whose guests have included President Emmanuel Macron, what is the English title of the celebrity interview show in which guests answer unfiltered questions from a group of autistic and neurodivergent people? In the first UK episode, Michael Sheen was asked how it felt to be dating someone five years older than his daughter.
A pioneer of LGBTQ representation in children’s television, Rebecca Sugar created what Cartoon Network series in 2013, in which the titular child helps protect the world alongside his alien allies, the Crystal Gems? One of those allies, Garnet (voiced by R&B singer Estelle), is actually a fusion of two characters who share a single holographic body as a manifestation of their love for each other.
Not to be confused with Dix pour cent, the original-language title of French sitcom Call My Agent!, the dystopian thriller 3% was the first Netflix original series from what country? Its title referred to the low success rate of an arduous series of challenges where residents of the Inland slums compete for admittance to the distant and affluent Offshore.
Round 2 — ANSWERS
James Acaster
Sarah Greene
Reasonably-Priced (‘Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car’)
Aiden Gillan
How to Get Away with Murder
Professor Yaffle
“… but Ross is.”
Indiana
Flog It!
Crunchyroll
Jimmy McGovern
Big Zuu
Family Ties
Ambika Mod
Ready, Steady, Go!
Giri/Haji
Gayle King
The Assembly
Steven Universe
Brazil
Round 3 — Chemistry
What adjective, which in general use suggests something pleasing to one of the senses, is used in chemistry to describe very stable organic compounds whose carbon atoms are arranged in a ring structure, with alternating single and double bonds? August Kekulé was supposedly inspired by a daydream about a snake swallowing its own tail in discovering the structure of benzene, the simplest of these compounds.
Consisting of two amino groups linked by a carbonyl, what compound’s artificial synthesis by Friedrich Wöhler in 1828 is often called the starting point of modern organic chemistry? This compound plays a key role in human metabolism, allowing the body to excrete excess nitrogen.
What word describes a solution which resists major changes in its pH level when a strong acid or base is added to it? Carbonic acid and bicarbonate ions form a stabilising system of this kind in human blood.
The noble or inert gases are essentially inert (i.e. unlikely to participate in chemical reactions) because their outermost shell of electrons is full, whereas other elements have to complete their shells by forming bonds. Apart from helium, which has two, how many electrons do all the other noble gases have in this outermost shell?
What is the eponymous name of the set of possible models for the arrangement of atoms in a crystalline solid, with each model uniquely characterised by a single “unit cell” which can be repeated to form an arbitrarily large lattice? In three-dimensional space, there are fourteen such possible lattices, including triclinic and body-centred cubic.
What metallic element with the atomic number 31 is known for having an extremely low melting point, so that despite being a solid at room temperature it will easily melt when held in the hand? A classic chemistry-lab practical joke involves teaspoons made of this metal.
What prefix for a power of 10 to the negative 15 partly names a branch of chemistry that studies reaction kinetics on extremely short timescales, generally using ultrafast laser pulses to observe the movement of atoms?
[PICTURE] What is the eponymous name of the chemical reagent used in a common lab test to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones, reacting with the former to leave a characteristic “silver mirror” precipitate on the inner surface of the test tube?
From a German word for “hermaphrodite”, what word describes molecules with an equal number of positively- and negatively-charged functional groups? All amino acids are examples of this type of molecule.
As reflected in its alternative name, Vitamin B12 (the most structurally complex of all vitamins) has an atom of what metallic element at its centre?
Symbolised by a letter from the Swedish alphabet, what eponymous unit of length is equal to one ten-billionth of a metre and is often used in chemistry to express the size of atoms or the lengths of bonds?
Also known as caustic soda or lye, what extremely corrosive alkaline compound is produced by the electrolysis of brine in the industrial chloralkali process?
Coined by 2022 Nobel Prize-winning American chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, who also pioneered their practical use in medicine, what word describes chemical reactions which occur inside living organisms without disturbing the organisms’ own native chemical processes?
Named after a 19th-century Glaswegian chemist who also pioneered the technique of dialysis, what major law describes the molecular effusion of gases (i.e. gases passing through very small holes), and states that a gas’s rate of effusion is inversely related to the square root of its molar mass?
The Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules govern the process of naming what specific type of isomers? Unlike structural isomers which differ in the ways that atoms are bonded to each other, these isomers have identical bond structures and differ only in their 3-D spatial orientation.
Named after their two discoverers, one German and one Italian, what important class of chemical catalysts usually have a titanium chloride centre and are used to accelerate the linking up of alkenes (like ethylene) into long-chain polymers (like polyethylene)?
What radioactive isotope of carbon is used for ascertaining the age of organic materials in the well-known method of carbon dating? Your answer must include a number, the total number of protons and neutrons in this isotope’s nucleus (two more than in a normal carbon atom).
What “factor”, named after the first Nobel Laureate in chemistry, describes the effect on a solution’s internal properties caused by the addition of a solute, and is calculated by dividing the the number of dissociated particles in the solution by the number of particles initially dissolved in it?
In organic chemistry, what general term describes any reaction where two molecules combine to form a larger, more complex molecule, generally involving the release of a smaller molecule like H2O as a byproduct, hence their name? An example is Fischer esterification, where a carboxylic acid reacts with an alcohol to form an ester.
What important device is used in chemical laboratories and medical surgeries for sterilising equipment by exposing it to high-pressure steam at a temperature of 121 degrees Celsius?
Round 3 — ANSWERS
Aromatic
Urea (Wöhler’s experiment was the first time an organic compound had been synthesised from inorganic components, and disproved the theory of vitalism which claimed that organic compounds could only be produced via the “life force” of living organisms)
Buffer
Eight (the valence shell theory of chemical bonding is explained by the so-called octet rule, because it’s all about this magic number of eight valence electrons)
Bravais lattices
Gallium
Femto- (the first Arab recipient of a scientific Nobel Prize was Egypt’s Ahmed Zewail in 1999, the “father of femtochemistry”)
Tollens’s reagent
Zwitterions
Cobalt (Vitamin B12 is also known as cobalmin)
Angstrom (symbolised by the Swedish letter Å)
Sodium hydroxide (the “alkali” element of “chloralkali”, which also produces chlorine gas as a by-product)
Bio-orthogonal
Graham’s law
Stereoisomers (stereochemistry is the branch of chemistry that deals with stereoisomers)
Ziegler-Natta catalysts
Carbon-14
Van ’t Hoff factor
Condensation reactions
Autoclave
Round 4 — Picture Round
This is the logo of what popular smartphone and desktop app, which uses audio fingerprinting technology to identify music from short snippets played into the device’s microphone?
The cover of The Smiths’ 1987 compilation album Louder Than Bombs featured a picture of what British playwright, one of the leading figures of the “kitchen sink” realist movement of the late 1950s, who wrote her most famous play A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen?
One of two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland is what two-peaked crag off the coast of County Kerry, famous for its early monastic settlement and as a filming location for the recent Star Wars prequel films?
Known for its distinctive top-down perspective, what 2012 shooter game created by Devolver Digital follows an assassin known only as “Jacket” as he kills innumerable Russian gangsters while gradually losing his mind from all the carnage he has inflicted?
Euro banknotes feature text in three different alphabets: the Latin alphabet used in most EU languages; the Greek alphabet obviously used in Greek; and the Cyrillic alphabet used for the language of what country, which joined the EU in 2007?
What French word is used in billiards and other cue sports for a difficult-to-master shot, similar to a piqué, that uses a steeply inclined cue stroke to impart a large swerve to the ball? When inexpertly performed, such shots risk damaging the cloth on the table, hence why many amateur snooker halls discourage their use.
Influenced by the spiritual movement of Theosophy, what proto-abstract Swedish painter created several huge altarpieces for a mystic Temple (never actually built), supposedly at the commission of ethereal patrons called The High Masters?
What epic nine-minute power ballad by Guns N’ Roses, from the 1991 album Use Your Illusion I, is known for its equally epic music video whose most iconic moment involves Slash playing a guitar solo on a desolate plain after walking out of Axl Rose’s wedding ceremony?
Often cited as a visible example of natural selection in action, what is the common name of the species of moth which evolved darker wings in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, when the lichen-covered trees where they camouflaged themselves were blackened by factory soot?
Known for its unique spiral minaret, the Great Mosque of what city in modern-day Iraq was commissioned in 849 CE soon after the city’s foundation as the new capital of the Abbasid Caliphate? In the 860s, the Abbasids endured by a decade of political turbulence usually referred as the “Anarchy at” this city, from which their power never fully recovered.
What small forward for the Chicago Bulls performed one of the most gloriously “disrespectful” dunks in NBA history, shoving Knicks rival Patrick Ewing to the floor, during the 1994 Eastern Conference semi-finals? The ’94 season saw this player lead the Bulls in scoring, assists, and blocks, after the surprise (temporary) retirement of Michael Jordan who had hitherto rather overshadowed him.
What rope-tuned drum, with a distinctive goblet shape and a membrane made from untreated goat’s hide, is one of the iconic instruments of West African music and has a name derived from a Bambara phrase meaning “everybody gather in peace”?
Alex Cooper created and hosts what hugely popular comedy advice podcast, known for its explicit focus on sexuality and its candid discussion of mental health? Just a few months before her death, primatologist Jane Goodall was interviewed on the podcast in 2025.
Joan Sutherland attained global super-stardom in the opera world with her performances as the titular heroine of what 19th-century opera? This role’s famous “mad scene” features the aria Il dolce suono and was originally written to be accompanied by a glass harmonica.
What is the Quechua name of the rainbow patchwork flag which has been widely adopted as a symbol of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, and is one of the two co-official national flags of Bolivia?
The Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the most famous examples of a planetary nebula and the first to be studied in detail, is located in which constellation?
What 1966 avant-garde film by director Ingmar Bergman featured Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson as a famous stage actress who mysteriously stops speaking and the young nurse who is employed to care for her? The film includes a famous surprise “intermission” where the physical celluloid appears to burn up in the projector.
Emerging from the riot grrl movement of the early 1990s, and named after a road sign, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker were founding members of what indie rock band from Olympia, Washington, whose acclaimed albums include 1997’s Dig Me Out and 2015’s No Cities to Love?
The role that made a star of Pierce Brosnan, the title character of what 1980s TV detective show was not in fact a real detective but rather the fictional “boss” created by Stephanie Zimbalist’s female PI as a ruse to get male clients to take her agency seriously, only for Brosnan’s charming con artist to show up and assume the cypher’s identity?
One of the defining toys of the 2000s, although inspired by a traditional Japanese toy that originated centuries earlier, what brand of collectable spinning tops were designed to be aggressively launched at each other in multi-player battles, with victory going to the last top still spinning?
Round 4 — ANSWERS
Shazam
Shelagh Delaney
Skellig Michael
Hotline Miami
Bulgarian
Massé
Hilma af Klint
November Rain
Peppered moth
Samarra
Scottie Pippen
Djembe
Call Her Daddy
Lucia di Lammermoor
Wiphala
Draco
Persona
Sleater-Kinney
Remington Steele
Beyblade
Round 5 — No Pain, No Gain
Having previously described the film as a key artistic influence on her debut album, what single from Billie Eilish’s latest album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, did she name after the 10-year-old protagonist from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away?
The only mainland provincial capital in Spain with no direct transport link to Madrid, what high-altitude city in Aragon is often described as the “town of Mudéjar” because of its unique wealth of Moorish-influenced architecture? A battle over this city in the bitterly cold winter of 1937-38 was one of the bloodiest engagements of the Spanish Civil War.
What traditional sweet from Provence, a bit like a fruity marzipan, consists of a smooth, chewy paste of ground almonds and candied fruit (usually melon) formed into a diamond shape and topped with a thin layer of royal icing?
In computer science, what technique transforms a multi-argument function into a chain of single-argument functions that yield the same result? This term derives from the surname of an American logician whose first name was given to a major functional programming language.
In Norse mythology, the most detailed account of the apocalyptic events of Ragnarök appears in what first and most famous poem from the Poetic Edda, in which Odin consults the namesake prophetess?
Despite receiving death threats from conservative Muslims in her own country who objected to her showing too much of her body while racing, what middle-distance runner won Algeria’s first Olympic gold medal when she triumphed in the women’s 1500 metres at Barcelona in 1992?
Described by legendary film critic Pauline Kael as “probably the finest hour of television I’ve ever seen”, what 1983 British TV movie, written by Alan Bennett, told the true story of a chance meeting in Moscow between actress Coral Browne (played by Browne herself) and infamous double agent Guy Burgess seven years after his defection, with Burgess asking her to measure him for a new suit from his favourite London tailor?
Leading figures in the Midlands-based “grebo” genre, which Stourbridge indie band, who unusually had two bassists, named themselves after an episode from 1950s radio comedy series The Goon Show and topped the UK independent charts with their 1990 debut single Kill Your Television?
Now giving his name to Mogadishu’s international airpot, which first president of an independent Somalia left office after the 1967 election in the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in any African state since the effective end of Liberia’s two-party system in 1878? Somali democracy sadly did not last long after this, as his successor was assassinated in 1969 in a military putsch led by Siad Barre.
In fluid dynamics, what is the eponymous name for a flow induced in a viscous fluid contained between two parallel surfaces when one surface is moving relative to the other? A variant of this flow, in which the fluid is contained between two concentric rotating cylinders, is co-named after G. I. Taylor.
One of the earliest known female historians, which Chinese polymath of the Han dynasty wrote the influential treatise Lessons for Women and collaborated with her brother on the Book of Han, the second of China’s Twenty-Four Histories after Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian?
While filming an episode of The Grand Tour in 2017, presenter Richard Hammond suffered a serious crash in one of the eight Concept One sports cars produced by what Croatian manufacturer of limited-edition high-performance electric vehicles?
The 2024 film Saturday Night featured an uncanny embodiment of a young Dan Aykroyd by what teen heartthrob of the 2010s, who made his name as one of the two leads, alongside Kaya Scodelario, in the Maze Runner trilogy of young adult sci-fi films?
Which eight-movement piano suite by Robert Schumann was named after a fictional conductor created by German author E. T. A. Hoffmann, with the dramatic shifts in tone within each movement representing the character’s (and Schumann’s own) manic depression?
One of the deadliest natural disasters in US history, and a major incident in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, was a 1928 hurricane usually named after what huge lake in Florida which it caused to flood? After Lake Michigan, this is the second-largest freshwater lake located wholly in the contiguous United States, and it lies at the northern head of the famous Everglades wetland region.
Which post-modern author made her name with the controversial 1984 “punk” novel Blood and Guts in High School and later “re-wrote” Cervantes’s Don Quixote about a middle-aged woman searching for love in contemporary New York, accompanied by a talking dog?
[PICTURE] What pioneering 17th-century Lorrainian printmaker is best known for a series of panoramic etchings inspired by the atrocities of the French invasion of Lorraine during the Thirty Years’ War, the most famous of which depicts a hanging tree?
Future Bond girl Carole Bouquet made her cinema debut in what 1977 film by surrealist director Luis Buñuel, in which she and Angela Molina starred interchangeably (sometimes switching roles mid-scene) as a dancer with whom Fernando Rey’s protagonist becomes infatuated?
One of the most prolific lyricists of the Great American Songbook, which female songwriter collaborated with composer Jerome Kern on the songs for the 1936 film Swing Time, pitched and wrote the book for Annie Get Your Gun, and wrote the libretto for 1966’s Sweet Charity?
In a record which lasted until well after the tournament’s re-branding as the Champions League (finally broken by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2013-14), which Brazilian striker scored 14 goals to help AC Milan to victory in the 1962-63 European Cup? He later became a beloved commentator on Italian TV and radio, and his self-coined cry of “golaço!” will be familiar to any of you who watched Channel 4’s Football Italia in the 1990s.
Round 5 — ANSWERS
Chihiro
Teruel
Calisson
Currying (named after Haskell Curry, as is the programming language Haskell)
Völuspá (“The Prophecy of the Völva”)
Hassiba Boulmerka
An Englishman Abroad
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Aden Adde
Couette flow (the variant being Taylor-Couette flow)
Ban Zhao (her brother was Ban Gu)
Rimac
Dylan O’Brien
Kreisleriana
Lake Okeechobee
Kathy Acker (amazingly one of her last published works before her death in 1997 was an interview she conducted with The Spice Girls for The Guardian)
Jacques Callot
That Obscure Object of Desire
Dorothy Fields (she also wrote quite a fun-sounding musical called Redhead in 1959, a Gothic murder-mystery set in a wax museum in Victorian London, her first collaboration with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon with whom she would reunite with greater success for Sweet Charity)
José Altafini
And that’s your lot. Hope you had fun. Feel free to share your best gets and most annoying misses in the comments. Paid subscribers can expect a Quiz Everest next weekend, and I’ll see all of you with a new Masterclass in a fortnight’s time. For now I’ll leave you with a joyful (and appropriately TV-inspired) video from Sleater-Kinney in collaboration with the animators of ‘Bob’s Burgers’.











R1 20/20
R2 13/20
R3 4/20 - actually quite pleased to at least have got 4(Gallium, Cobalt, Angstrom & Carbon 14)
R4 9/20 - should have got Autoclave with all the 'Call the Midwife' episodes I've seen!
R5 - so much pain... just 'That Obscure Object of Desire'
R1: 19 (thought R1 was quite a lot tougher than usual, and we got our first ever R1 wrong answer with Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat).
R2: 17 (Conversely, our best-ever R2 score)
R3: 7
R4: 12
R5: 2 (Chihero and Dylan O'Brian. Hit the post with That Immaculate Object of Desire for a clean sweep of the film questions)
Total: 57