AQA GCSE Higher Biology - Paper 2 (2024)
Pop Girlies and Their Albums
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Questions I stole from University Challenge
POLITICS
200

This is the result of a change in DNA, chromosome, or genetic code

Mutation

200
The world was taken by storm in 2024 with this vivid monosyllable, but I don't want to "Talk talk" or else "I might say something stupid"

Charli XCX - Brat

200

These three papers are the only Part IB papers under Dr. Zille's purview

Paper 6, Paper 7a, Paper 7b

200

If 'A' is Alpha, and 'B' is Bravo, then this popular nickname must be 'R'

Romeo

200

This Selwyn alumna ran for leader of the Scottish National Party, but lost to Humza Yousaf in 2023

Kate Forbes

400

These scientists suggested the theory of evolution by natural selection

Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin

400

The actress turned singer turned actress was both "Greedy" and "Into You" as she was walking "Side to Side" on this provocatively titled 2016 album 

Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman

400

In his free time, Dr. Zille likes to write and publish this type of short-form poetry

Haiku OR senryu

400

This is where Romantic Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described how 'did Kubla Kahn / A stately pleasure-dome decree' 

Xanadu

400

Russia, India, China, and South Africa are laying BRICS as part of an International Governmental Organisation with this South American country

Brazil

600

This is a reason why a student would surround seedlings with damp blotting paper whilst investigating the effect of gravity on plant growth

To prevent water affecting the direction of root growth, OR, to provide enough water for root growth

600

In 2009, she wanted a "Bad Romance" on the "Telephone" with "Alejandro" - but be careful for this album's self-descriptive title!

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster

600

In 2025, Dr. Zille was elected an Associate Fellow of this learned society, founded in 1868

The Royal Historical Society

600

This famous 17th Century sitter requested the portrait painter Sir Peter Lely to "Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me"

Oliver Cromwell

600

The United Nations Security Council is made up of The US, The UK, China, Russia, and this Western European remnant from WWII

France

800

This hormone, when incorrectly distributed, can cause a plant to grow unevenly

Auxin

800

She had a rebirth with this 2022 smash hit, winning 4 Grammy Awards, like a true "ALIEN SUPERSTAR"

Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
800

This Anglo-German translator is the topic of Dr. Zille's latest book

Christian Felix Weiße

800

This name is given to the rise or fall of a liquid in, for example, a tube of small cross-sectional area

Capillary Action

800

This strange role gets shut out of UK Parliament to symbolically represent the separation between the Monarch and their Government

Black Rod

1000

This is a reason someone would be concerned about the use of GM soya bean plants, WITHOUT discussing ethics or religion in their answer

do not know effects on animals / humans; gene / allele may be transferred to other plants; reduce biodiversity; increased cost of seed or increased cost to consumer; may affect flavour / taste

1000

This debut had her singing about how "I Kissed A Girl" in a "Hot N Cold" way

Katy Perry - One of the Boys

1000

This is Dr. Zille's crsid

tz274

1000

Voyager 2, in 1985 and 1986, discovered ten new satellites of THIS planet, nine of which were named after Shakespearean characters

Uranus

1000

The UK House of Lords holds this many Lords Spiritual: religious leaders that make up around 3% of its total population (± 4)

26 (753 total)