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As described by Lord Byron in his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage name each city described:

'Firstly for five The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe, An empty urn within her wither’d hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago'.

Rome

'Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone, but beauty still is here'.

Venice

In the 1990s which Italian designer created several pieces using a print based on Warhol's silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean? His sister revised the print as a tribute to him in 2018

Versace

Which British designer's works include a corset painted by François Boucher, she has called the 18th century a high point of art and culture

Vivienne Westwood

The name of which country appears within the name of the following the nobel laureate who wrote six characters in search of an author ?

Iran

The STPH5EHD experiment tested a cooling system in which cooling fluid is pumped without the need for fragile mechanical parts for what subfield of physics do the letters EHD stand here?

Electrohydrodynamics

The ISS-CREAM experiment used a balloon mounted instrument to measure the level of high speed particles travelling through space, what do the letters CR stand for?

Cosmic rays

What do the letters AR stand?

Augmented reality

The map showed routes travelled by major leaders and army's in a particular military campaign

Third Crusade

Similar maps show the major routes travelled by the main leaders and armies during the crusade, what is the number by which the crusade is most commonly known

Fourth Crusade

Named after a french mathematician which special case of the mean value theorem states that if a function is differentiable

Rolle's theorem

Give the term from the definition, a military term meaning a junior officer used in this context to refer to groups excluded from structures of power

Subaltern

A term referring to reductive and romanticized versions of asian art or culture?

Orientalism

What letter links these place names? The county town of Tyrone and Rutland?

O

'No mathematician should allow himself to forget that mathematics more than any other art or science is a young man's game', who wrote these words?

GH Hardy

A close collaborator of Hardy, which indian mathematician wrote the title character of the man who knew infinity

Ramanujan

A fundamental equation in 1908 describes the fundamental distribution of a population whose members reproduce at random, this was formulated by Hardy and which German scientist?

Weinberg

In physics which greek letter is used for Pauli matrice

Sigma

Name each country; one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, it's two neighbours both have populations of over one million

Mongolia

A landlocked countries with one of Africa's highest literacy levels?

Zimbabwe

The world's largest producer of copper?

Chile

The 1960s and 80s saw military coups in which country? The former resulting in the execution of the Prime Minister

Turkey

What term denotes the central component o the three parts of a classical tablature?

Frieze

What general six letter term refers to sculpture designed to stand out from a flat surface?

Relief

Often known by a single word title what word does the Oxford companion philosophy describe as a meer 75 pages long?  It was first published in german in 1921

Tractatus

Name the language from the description; A Chadic language which is one of the major of Africa, it has at least 40 million speakers, many of them in Nigeria

Hausa

On road signs in France what seven letter word is used to indicate a cul de sac or blind alley?

In Passe

Using a commercial aircraft the 1971 Hafele Keating experiment was a test of which effect?

Time Dilation

Created by cosmic rays which second generation layons gave evidence for time dilation when they were detected in large numbers at ground level?

Muon

Who was the first stewart king of Scotland? The grandfather of James I?

Robert II

A shortened term for an insect of the order lepidoptera regarded as a household pest?

Roach

What term denotes a non newtonian fluid made of water and cornflour?

Oobleck

The 1954 winner The Mandarins concerned with the political climate of post-war France?

Simone de Beauvoir

What is the two word common name of the name Toxicodendron radicans?

Poison Ivy

Kapuscinski book The Soccer War concerns conflict between El Salvador and which country?

Honduras

First performed in St Petersburg in 1888 which orchestral suite is named after the young wife of a sultan?

Scheherazade

Meaning way of the elders which major branch of Buddhism is prevalent in Sri Lanka?

Theravada

The scriptural canon of theravada is often referred to by the name of which Middle Indo-Aryan language

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