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Category: Art
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Statuary| |The Louvre| |Venus de Milo|
The Louvre is home to the famous statue known as the Venus de Milo, one of the most celebrated works of ancient sculpture. However, one striking feature of the statue is that a certain part of the body is missing. Which part is absent?
Her arms
Category: Art
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Statuary|
In sculpture, what term is used for the balanced relationship between opposing movements within a human figure, creating an effect of harmony and natural poise? Some of the best-known examples may be seen in Polykleitos’ Doryphoros and Myron’s Discobolus.
Contrapposto
Category: Art
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Michelangelo Buonarroti| |Statuary|
Among the most celebrated sculptures carved by Michelangelo Buonarroti is the figure of Moses, created for the tomb of Pope Julius II. The whole funerary complex was likewise conceived by Michelangelo, and for a project of this scale he relied on the highest-quality marble that could be obtained in Italy. Near which city was the quarry situated from which this marble came?
Carrara
Category: Sport
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Basketball| |NBA|
The NBA’s annual championship trophy bears the name of a man who served as league commissioner from 1975 to 1984 and played a major role in strengthening the league’s commercial and international profile. Since 1984, the trophy awarded to the NBA champions has officially been named in his honour. What is the name of this trophy?
The Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy
Category: Sport
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |England| |Football| |Italy| |Liverpool FC| |UEFA Champions League|
One of the most famous matches in the history of English club football is the 2005 UEFA Champions League final, often remembered as the “Miracle of Istanbul.” On that night, Liverpool recovered from a three-goal deficit at half-time to draw level and eventually win on penalties. Which Italian club had established that 3–0 lead before Liverpool’s dramatic comeback?
AC Milan
Category: Sport
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |England| |FIFA World Cup| |Football|
When England won the 1966 FIFA World Cup on home soil, the trophy was lifted by a captain who would later come to be regarded as one of the finest defenders in the history of the game. He spent the great majority of his club career with West Ham United and remains one of the most iconic figures ever to wear the England shirt. Who was he?
Bobby Moore
Category: Sport
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |England| |Football| |Nottingham Forest|
English football history remembers one manager above all others for leading a provincial club to achievements that seemed almost impossible in modern European football. After first winning the English First Division with Nottingham Forest, he then guided the same club to back-to-back European Cup triumphs in 1979 and 1980. What was the name of this legendary manager?
Brian Clough
Category: Science
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Nobel Prize| |Physics|
The physicist Niels Bohr, whose name is inseparably linked with early quantum theory and the study of atomic structure, was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. In which country was he born?
Denmark
Category: Literature
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Nobel Prize| |The Forsyte Saga|
The Forsyte Saga secured a lasting place in English literature for a writer who later received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 and whose name is also linked with the founding of PEN. Who is being described?
John Galsworthy
Category: Science
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Alexander Fleming| |Medicine| |Nobel Prize|
By the middle of the twentieth century, Alexander Fleming had already secured his place in scientific history thanks to the discovery that initiated the antibiotic revolution. Honoured with a knighthood in 1944 and a Nobel Prize in 1945, what exactly had Fleming discovered?
Penicillin
Category: Literature
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Ernest Hemingway| |Nobel Prize| |Pulitzer Prize|
In July 1961, Ernest Hemingway, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, took his own life with a shotgun. Nearly a decade earlier, in 1952, he had published the short novel that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, while the following year he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. What was the title of that final major work published in his lifetime?
The Old Man and the Sea
Category: Trivia
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |France| |Gastronomy|
Identify the classic French loaf, elongated in shape and noted for its firm crust, that has become a symbol of French baking.
Baguette
Category: Trivia
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Gastronomy| |Italy|
Translated literally, the answer to this question means “hollow bone,” and it is traditionally served with risotto alla milanese. Its principal ingredient is slices of veal shank, braised with vegetables and white wine. What is the Italian name of this dish?
Osso buco
Category: Trivia
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Gastronomy| |Italy|
What key ingredient, besides basil, garlic, olive oil, and hard cheeses, is traditionally used in pesto alla genovese?
Pine nuts
Category: Trivia
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Gastronomy| |Italy|
Alongside pasta, pizza is one of the most widespread Italian dishes in the world, and it appears in countless varieties. Yet some kinds are recognisable almost everywhere: Napoletana, Margherita, Quattro Formaggi, and Quattro Stagioni. What was the name of the Italian Baroque composer whose cycle of four violin concertos is popularly known by the same title as the last of these pizzas?
Antonio Vivaldi
Category: Trivia
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Terms: |Gastronomy| |Italy|
The roots of this world-famous dessert are associated with northern Italy. In its classic form, the recipe includes ladyfingers, egg yolks, mascarpone, coffee, sugar, and cocoa. What is the name of this celebrated dessert?
Tiramisu
Category: Geography
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Africa| |Mount Kilimanjaro|
Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, rises within the borders of which African country?
Tanzania
Category: History
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Erwin Rommel| |Germany| |World War II|
Shortly after the failed 1944 plot against Hitler, all those involved in the conspiracy, as well as many merely suspected of involvement, were put to death. Only a few were offered the option of suicide. One of them was Erwin Rommel, among the best German generals of the war, who was forced to take his own life soon after the failure of the plot. What was the nickname of this general, earned during the fighting in North Africa?
The Desert Fox
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Africa| |Woody Allen|
This question refers to one of Woody Allen’s finest films, and one he himself considered among his favourites. In it, a character steps out of the cinema screen after falling in love with one of the audience members. The film’s title contains a colour, a flower, and the name of an African capital. Which capital is it?
Cairo
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Africa| |Ridley Scott|
Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down dramatizes the events that followed the downing of two American Black Hawk helicopters over which African city?
Mogadishu
Category: Sport
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Africa| |Football| |Ghana|
The Ghana national football team is one of the most recognisable sides in African international football. By what nickname is it known?
The Black Stars
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |South Korea|
Which animated feature directed by Maggie Kang won this year’s Academy Awards both for Best Animated Feature and for Best Original Song with “Golden”?
KPop Demon Hunters
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Japan|
Which Japanese filmmaker, later celebrated for directing Violent Cop and Fireworks, had earlier appeared as Sergeant Gengo Hara in Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence?
Takeshi Kitano
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Donald Westlake| |Lee Byung-hun| |Park Chan-wook|
What is the title of Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald Westlake’s novel The Ax, released last year and starring Lee Byung-hun in the central role?
No Other Choice
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Terms: |Japan|
Which leading figure of the Japanese New Wave directed the 1964 noir Pale Flower, a work often associated with the spirit of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, and later became the first filmmaker to adapt Shusaku Endo’s Silence for the screen?
Masahiro Shinoda