British TV
The Wives of Henry VIII
Human Anatomy
Olympic Host Cities by Year
Math Terms
Poets by Opening Lines
400
Her smash-hit TV show Fleabag started out as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
What is Fleabag?
400
Henry's second wife was only 35 years old when she was the First Beheaded
Who is Anne Boleyn?
400
This tendon, named after a Greek hero
What is the Achilles?
400
1896: The first modern Olympics fittingly returns in this city.
What is Athens?
400
The sum of two sides of a triangle squared are always the length of the long side, also called this, squared
What is a hypotenuse?
400
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
800
David Mitchell plays this famous Brit in "Upstart Crow", named for a quote by theater critic Robert Greene.
Who is William Shakespeare?
800
Henry's first wife -- her divorce necessitated the creation of the Church of England
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
800
It's the scientific name for your kneecap
Patella
800
1936: Jesse Owens wins four golds in an act of defiance here
What is Berlin?
800
The major three functions of trigonometry are sine, cosine, and this third one, that represents the opposite side over the adjacent side
What is tangent?
800
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
Who is Allen Ginsburg?
1200
David Tennant and Olivia Coleman solve murders as DI Hardy and DS Miller in this drama series.
What is Broadchurch?
1200
Henry's third wife -- the first to give birth to a male heir, Edward VI
Who is Jane Seymour?
1200
The largest artery in the body is the aorta, the largest vein in the body is this.
What is the vena cava?
1200
1968: This iconic photo of John Carlos and Tommie Smith was taken after the 200 meter dash in this city
What is Mexico City?
1200
5th, 50th, and 5000th are ordinal numbers, as opposed 5, 50, and 5000 which are these
What are cardinal numbers
1200
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
Who is Maya Angelou?
1600
Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne send British comedians on zany assignments in this reality show.
What is Taskmaster?
1600
Henry's fifth wife, married just 19 days after Henry's divorce to Anne of Cleves. She would be beheaded just two years later for the charge of adultery.
Who is Catherine Howard?
1600
The scientific name of the first five to seven feet of the small intestine.
What is the duodenum?
1600
1904: The first Olympics in the US was supposed to take place in Chicago, but due to a conflict with the first world fair, it was moved to this city
What is St. Louis?
1600
A triangle with all equal sides is equilateral, a triangle with two equal sides is isoceles, a triangle with no equal sides is this
What is scalene?
1600
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
2000
This outlandish -- and often offensive -- sketch comedy show from Matt Lucas went off the air in 2007, but news of a reboot began in 2020.
What is Little Britain?
2000
Henry's sixth and final wife, whose marriage to Henry VIII was only her third marriage, her fourth being to the brother of one of Henry's other wives
Who is Catherine Parr?
2000
Often considered appealing, these features are a genetic defect of the zygomaticus muscles of the face.
What are dimples?
2000
Michael Phelps won his first Gold Medal in Athens in 2004, but it was in 2008 that he won a record eight gold medals in this city?
What is Beijing?
2000
When you take the slope of a function in calculus, you get its derivative. When you do the opposite, you get this.
What is the integral?
2000
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
Who is Walt Whitman?