On a 9th of November
Named after Lions
Hidden H,O,M, and A's
Starts with H, ends with A
Hidden I,R,A, and N's
Farsi loan words
100

in 1934, this  “the astronomer of the people" is born.

Who is Carl Sagan?


100

This 12th century English king probably spoke no English.

Who is Richard the Lionheart?


100

Caravaggio painted his Incredulity in 1602.


Who is Saint tHOMAs?


100

Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in this British period romantic comedy film about the invention of the vibrator.

What is Hysteria?


100

The police must give it to criminal suspects before an interrogation.

What is the mIRANda warning?


100

This Japanese car brand is named after the Zoroastrian God of Light.

What is Mazda?


200

In 1872, this city loses almost 1000 buildings in a great fire.


What is Boston?

200

Frida Kahlo slept with him to spite Diego Rivera

Who is Leon Trotsky?


200

George Orwell wrote this personal account of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War in 1938.

What is HOMAge to Catalonia?


200

England was fined £2,000 for lining up in a V formation to face this before their Rugby World Cup semi-final match last week.

What is the haka?


200

They owe their reputation as ferocious killing machines of Amazonia to Teddy Roosevelt.

What are pIRANhas?


200

What a Bostonian is looking for when he asks if you've seen in car keys?

What are khakis?

- from Persian خاک  khâk 'soil' -


300

In 1970, The Supreme Court votes to allow this state to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

What is Massachusetts?

300

The 500 year anniversary of his death is currently celebrated at the Louvres.

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?


300

The one question the peasants had for King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 

What is "wHO MAde you king?"


300

This Northern Californian slang for "very"

What is "hella"?


300

The rank of a student officer or a future monk. 

What is an aspIRANt?


300

This Britney Spear's song uses samples from the Bollywood soundtrack

What is Toxic? 

from Persian taxša- "bow" 


400

In 1620, after two months at sea, the Mayflower spots this cape. 

What is Cape Cod?


400

He started his carreer with the Comodores in 1968.

Who is Lionel Richie?


400

This Western musical has been on Broadway since 1943.

What is OklaHOMA! ?


400

In geometry, it is the intersection of a plane with both halves of a double cone.

What is an hyperbola?


400

With Vatican City, this is the only European capital city without a Mc Donald's.

What is tIRANa?


400

The god Anubis has the head of this animal

What is a jackal?

- from Persian شغال‎ (šağâl)


500

This Hungarian Nobel Prize laureate author of Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child is born.


Who is Imre Kertész?


500

His administration of the Congo was characterised by murder, torture, and atrocities

Who is Leopold II?


500

This adjective means "incapable of being fully explored or understood"


What is "unfatHOMAble"?


500

In Turkey and Iran, it is cooked and offered at funerals to visitors by relatives of the deceased.

What is halva?


500

There is no real scientific evidence that aluminum or any of the other ingredients in these products pose any threat to human health.

What are antiperspIRANts?


500

Of course, the 2018 Forida bomb mailer lived in one

What is a van?

- from Persian کاروان‎ (kârvân)