University Challenge Quiz

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Q1. Which French diplomat and statesman prompted Mary Wollstonecraft to write her landmark 1792 work by suggesting that girls' education should be limited to the domestic sphere?

Q2. The physicist S.N.Bose is famously associated with which Nobel laureate who translated his 1924 paper into German for publication?

Q3. Which Spanish football club was founded by Scottish expatriates in 1890 and hosted the country's first official match?

Q4. The art movement Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, emerged in 1920s Germany as a reaction against which preceding style?

Q5. Which semi-parasitic wildflower, common in UK meadows, is named for the distinct sound its seeds make within their dry capsules?

Q6. In the context of the 2022 BFI Sight and Sound poll, which director's 1975 film was named the greatest of all time?

Q7. Which mathematical technique was developed by Paul Cohen to prove that the continuum hypothesis is independent of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory?

Q8. In anthropology, what name is given to the ancestral culture of the Inuit, derived from a settlement in Northwest Greenland?

Q9. Which element was the last naturally occurring element to be discovered and is frequently found in the ore of molybdenum?

Q10. Following the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, Robert Mugabe led which political party to victory in Zimbabwe's 1980 elections?

Q11. Which Italian preacher and reformer, known for the 'bonfire of the vanities' in Florence, was the subject of a 1983 work by Jean-Michel Basquiat?

Q12. In quantum mechanics, what term describes a situation where two or more different stationary states of a system have the same energy level?

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