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Category: History
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Mexico|
Pancho Villa is one of the most recognizable Mexican revolutionaries and freedom fighters, but Pancho itself is only a nickname. What first name stands behind that nickname?
Francisco
Category: Music
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |New York|
Which New York band is associated with the hits “Denis,” “Hanging on the Telephone,” and “Heart of Glass”?
Blondie
Category: Music
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |British Music| |Epitaphs|
The words Love Will Tear Us Apart appear as the epitaph on the grave of a musician who died in 1980. Who was he?
Ian Curtis
Category: Art
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Art Museums| |Coyoacán| |Mexico| |Women Artists|
In Coyoacán, the famous Blue House is home to a museum dedicated to which artist?
Frida Kahlo
Category: Trivia
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Epitaphs|
Imagine not being primarily known as a musician, yet having the words “I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on” written on your tombstone beside the year 1982. Whose grave is this?
John Belushi
Category: Science
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Epitaphs| |Mathematics|
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288… This sequence was engraved on the tombstone of a mathematician who died in 1610 and was buried in Leiden in the Netherlands. What was his name?
Ludolph van Ceulen
Category: Film
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
What name connects the Canadian film director Egoyan with a particle made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons?
Atom
Category: History
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Cold War| |Cuba| |Fidel Castro|
In 1961, around 1,400 Cuban exiles, backed by the CIA, attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro. They landed in a bay, but the operation ended in complete failure. Which animal gives that bay its name?
Pigs
Category: Sport
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Between 1921 and 1927, the world chess champion was a Cuban grandmaster remembered as one of the greatest natural talents in the history of the game. What was his name?
José Raúl Capablanca
Category: Music
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
A famous American producer, composer, and musician died in 2021 after leaving a major mark on twentieth-century pop and rock music. His first name was Phil, and he worked with artists such as Ike & Tina Turner, the Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones. What was his surname?
Spector
Category: TV
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Game of Thrones| |Peter Dinklage|
Peter Dinklage became world-famous as Tyrion in Game of Thrones, appearing in more episodes than any other character. What is the surname of the powerful family to which Tyrion belongs, even if he is not exactly loved by them?
Lannister
Category: Trivia
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Christianity|
Saint Peter is remembered as one of the twelve apostles, the first bishop of Rome, the first pope, and a Christian saint. What did he do for a living before he met Jesus?
Fisherman
Category: Sport
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Football| |Premier League|
Peter Schmeichel is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers in football history. He made his name in English football and also ended his playing career there. For which Premier League club did he play his final professional match?
Manchester City
Category: Literature
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Children Literature| |Denmark| |Fairy Tales|
The Princess and the Pea is a well-known fairy tale in which a young woman’s royal identity is tested through her extraordinary sensitivity. Who wrote this story?
Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Film
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Mr Bean| |Rowan Atkinson|
In the film Bean, Mr. Bean works as a clumsy and eccentric guard at London’s Royal National Gallery. Since the board cannot fire him directly, they send him to the Grierson Gallery for the presentation of Whistler’s Mother. In which city is that gallery located?
Los Angeles
Category: Music
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Bob Geldof| |Live Aid|
Bob Geldof is widely remembered for organizing Live Aid, but he was also the lead singer of an Irish band known for one of the most famous songs ever written about the beginning of the week. What was the band called?
The Boomtown Rats
Category: Literature
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |American Literature| |Stephen King|
Stephen King’s first published novel appeared in 1974 and told the story of a young girl with terrifying psychic powers. What was this novel called?
Carrie
Category: Literature
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Physics| |Stephen Hawking|
Stephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist known for his work in cosmology, quantum gravity, and especially black holes. He also wrote popular science books explaining his ideas about the universe, including a bestseller that topped the British Sunday Times list and remained there for a record 237 weeks. What is the title of this book that mentions time?
A Brief History of Time
Category: Sport
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Basketball| |NBA| |Stephen Curry|
Stephen Curry is regarded as one of the finest basketball players of today, and his father was also a well-known player who spent many years in the NBA. What is the name of Steph’s father?
Dell Curry
Category: Sport
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Japan| |Olympics| |Summer Olympic Games| |Tokyo|
The 2020 Summer Olympics marked the second time that Tokyo hosted the Games. In what year had the Japanese capital hosted them for the first time?
1964
Category: History
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Even though it had long been the real center of power since the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo only became the official capital in 1868, when the imperial court moved there and the city received its present name. What was it called before that?
Edo
Category: Film
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Terms: |James Bond| |Japan| |Sean Connery| |Tokyo|
Tokyo also found its way into Western pop culture, and already in 1967 one of the Bond films was set partly there. With Sean Connery as Bond, and with the Japanese spy Tiger Tanaka and his ninja units appearing in the story, which film is it?
You Only Live Twice
Category: Trivia
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Civil Aviation| |Japan| |Tokyo|
The vast Tokyo metropolitan area is served by two major airports, one of them being Haneda. What is the name of the other airport, which for many years handled most international flights to Tokyo before Haneda expanded in 2010?
Narita International Airport
Category: Geography
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Terms: |Japan| |Nightlife| |Tokyo|
Which district of Tokyo is known as the main hub of the city’s youth subcultures, as a fashion center for young Japanese people, and as one of the capitals of Tokyo nightlife?
Shibuya
Category: History
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Terms: |American History| |American Presidents| |JFK|
JFK did not die immediately at the scene. He was taken to a Dallas hospital, where doctors tried to save his life, but it was there that he was officially declared dead. What was the name of that hospital?
Parkland Memorial Hospital