Modern Music
Which European capital city is mentioned in the lyrics of ‘Men at Work’s’ 1983 UK number one hit ‘Down Under’?
Brussels
In Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ which game was played with flamingos and hedeghogs?
Croquet
What is Scotland's national animal
unicorn
In this problem one has to pull a lever to kill 1 instead of the original 5 it is heading for
Trolley Problem
His original name was Aristocles
Plato
Quote: ‘I travel the world and the seven seas, everybody’s looking for something’ (1983)
Sweet Dreams (are made of this) / Eurythmics
Best known for writing crime fiction, is P.D. James male or female?
female
Who is the professional swimmer on Celebraty Traitors (held in the Highlands)
Tom Daley
problem of determining the relationship between the human body and the human mind.
Mind-Body problem
tutored Alexander the Great, founded his own school (the Lyceum), and established the basics of formal logic and biology
Aristotle
‘So many times, it happens too fast, you trade your passion for glory’ (1982)
Eye of the Tiger / Survivor
In George Orwell’s animal farm, Old Major is a wise and persuasive pig who inspires a rebellion and promotes which political ideology?
Communism
Where is the World's Largest Arts Festival located
Edinburgh
There used to be the great ship of Theseus which was made out of, say, 100 parts. Each part has a single corresponding replacement part in the ship's port. Over the centuries, each part is replaced individually as it breaks, and eventually, not a single original part of the ship remains. Is this new ship the ship of Theseus or not?
Theseus paradox
While his followers compiled his teachings into the Analects, he did not write down his own teachings himself. Also has an astroid named after him
Confucius
In which decade were the UK singles charts introduced?
1950s (1952)
What book was the winner of the Booker Prize in 2025?
Flesh by David Szalay
Aprox. how many islands are in Scotland
790
an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge
Problem of the criterion
originally Prince Siddhartha Gautama, was a royal who renounced luxury for enlightenment
Buddha
Which French phrase was the title of a 1998 UK number one hit?
C’est La Vie
According to the story by the Brothers Grimm, a Queen had to guess the name of which dwarf in order to prevent losing her child?
Rumpelstiltskin
Where are Europe's oldest rocks located
Isle of Lewis
refers to the question of whether properties exist, and if so, what they are.[26] Properties are qualities or relations or names that two or more entities have in common
Problem of universals
Witnessed the French Rev and and raised a daughter who became the author of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft