Here be awesomely difficult questions. Scarier than dragons. If you want stuff you already know, probably best go somewhere else. It's all the choice of steins;gate.
Through geography and up to the administrative divisions. Feel like I’ve broke the back of the Wikipedia slog now and will get to the end before too long.
Questions
Lying south-east of Mount Elbrus in the Greater Caucausus, what is the name of Georgia’s highest mountain?
SHKHARA
Double-peaked Mount Ushba is said to be the home of which Georgian hunting goddess associated with animals like the ibex? She is a supposed rival of St. George and has a name that is the same as the surname of a famous painter.
DALI
Situated in the south of Georgia in the Lower Caucasus, which volcanic plateau that has wetlands and lakes has a name that makes up a mkhare with Samtskhe?
JAVAKHETI
Known in ancient times as the Phasis, which main river in the west of Georgia flows through the city of Kutaisi and empties into the Black Sea near Poti?
RIONI
Found on the slopes of Erusheti Mountain in the south of Georgia, what is the name of a monastic complex where excavated caves contain hundreds of rooms including churches and wine cellars?
VARDZIA
Both found in Georgia, the West and East Caucasian tur are members of which genus of animals that sits within the Bovidae family?
CAPRA
Born in France, who was the first woman appointed to be president of Georgia in 1998, this being considered a more ceremonial role with the major power being exerted by the Prime Minister?
SALOME ZOURABICHVILI
Mentioning a ‘global war party’ in his speeches that has been seen as anti-Western sentiment, which Georgian Prime Minister who came into the role in 2024 has labelled sanctions made against members of his government as offensive?
IRAKLI KOBAKHIDZE
Running from Baku to the Turkish city of Ceyhan via Tbilisi, the BTC pipeline was the supposed influence for an incomplete oil pipeline that was an important feature in the plot of which 1999 film?
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
Sites to visit there including Okatse Canyon and the Katshki Pillar, which mkhare of Georgia has Kutaisi as its capital?
This is really just a bunch of questions I’ve collected over a long period of time, many of which needed a re-write. Along with a bunch of others that I’m procrastinating on that seemed like a good idea at the time.
Questions
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction four times, which writer finally won on the last of these occasions for “Annals of the Former World”, a collection of books on geology?
JOHN MCPHEE
Later responsible for “A Christmas Story”, who directed the 1981 sex comedy “Porky’s”? Works by him that are probably best avoided include “Rhinestone” and “Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2” as he received Worst Director nominations for both at the Razzies.
BOB CLARK
Produced simply to retain the legal rights to a future remake, what was the ashcan version of “Porky’s” that was released in 2009 called?
PORKY’S PIMPIN’ PEE WEE
Other highly regarded films by her being “It Felt Like Love” and “Beach Rats”, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” was directed by which American from New York City?
ELIZA HITTMAN
Established by skull seller Jay Villemarette in 2010, the Museum of Osteology can be found in which American city? There was a second one in Orlando, but it closed its doors in 2020.
OKLAHOMA CITY
One example being a baker’s dozen where a merchant would throw in a 13th item when someone has only bought 12, what Cajun word meaning ‘a little extra’ is used when someone adds something of additional value that is only worth a small portion of the overall total?
LAGNIAPPE
Popular in Louisiana and having a two word name, which Cajun side dish that contains corn, pepper and onion is considered to be the regional equivalent of succotash?
MAQUE CHOUX
It requiring a photo finish to determine that he had beaten Jamaican sprinter Herb McKenley, who won the men’s Olympic 100m gold in 1952 for USA?
LINDY REMIGINO
Where an incriminating skateboard was thrown into in the Gus Van Sant film “Paranoid Park”, on which river can the Oregon cities of Portland, Salem and Eugene all be found?
WILLAMETTE
Tales that are all linked by a typewriter, what is the first collection of fiction to be published by Tom Hanks?
UNCOMMON TYPE: (SOME STORIES)
His tasks while in office including opening the 1932 Olympics in Herbert Hoover’s absence, which vice president of the United States was the first in that role to have native American ancestry?
CHARLES CURTIS
Giving her name to a prize that rewards good writing about the history of women in science, which American coined the term ‘Matilda effect’?
MARGARET ROSSITER
Along with Linda Denham, who was the co-creator of the “Care Bears” franchise when she provided drawings for American Greetings? She is also known for her “Little Blessings” books.
ELENA KUCHARIK
Known for his novel “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, which other book by Lionel Shriver provided a biting criticism of the US healthcare system?
Some Camus questions here which reminds me that I’d probably put “L’Étranger” in my top ten novels of all time. What that says about me I’m not sure I want to find out…
Questions
A real-time-strategy video game coming out in 2000 being based on it, which creatures are featured in a trilogy of sci-fi novels by French writer Bernard Werber?
ANTS
Dying at the young age of 24 in 1870 and having a limited corpus that includes “Poésies”, what is the nom de plume of French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse?
COMTE DE LAUTRÉAMONT
In which country was the French poet Comte de Lautréamont born during a civil war that lasted from 1839 to 1851? A siege of its capital was featured in Alexandre Dumas’ novel “The New Troy”.
URUGUAY
The Comte de Lautréamont only wrote two works, “Poésies” and which novel that features an immoral title character? The latter work had an influence on the surrealist movement.
LES CHANTS DE MALDOROR
In a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, what follows ‘A Throw of the Dice’? It is particularly noted for its unusual form of presentation.
WILL NEVER ABOLISH CHANCE
Albert Camus introduces what philosophy in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”, this holding among its views that there is irrationality throughout the universe?
PHILOSOPHY OF THE ABSURD
Its French title being a translation of an address in Rome, with which novel did 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Patrick Modiano take home the 1978 Prix Goncourt? Its two-word English title is quite different.
RUE DES BOUTIQUES OBSCURES / MISSING PERSON
In which ‘absurd’ Albert Camus play does a man return home to find his sister and mother don’t recognise him? He then decides to become a lodger with them under an assumed identity.
THE MISUNDERSTANDING / LE MALENTENDU
Seen as a sequel to “The Myth of Sisyphus”, in which Albert Camus book-length essay does he discuss figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Fyodor Dostoevsky?
THE REBEL
Featuring a contemporary history of the Hundred Years’ War up to 1400, for which work is the medieval French-language writer Jean Froissart best known? There are extant copies featuring fantastic illustrations from that era.
CHRONICLES
Associated with the Oulipo movement, Hervé Le Tellier won the Prix Goncourt for which novel, the first time the award was presented by Zoom because of the ongoing Covid pandemic? It features planes and passenngers than inexplicably become duplicated.
L’ANOMALIE / THE ANOMALY
Not set in China, “The Mandarins” is a work that follows French intellectuals from the end of World War II until the mid-1950s. It won the 1954 Prix Goncourt for which writer?
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Other than Puccini, which Naples-born composer has an opera called “La Bohème” based on the work of Henri Murger?
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
For what novel did André Malraux win the 1933 Prix Goncourt? Fred Zinnemann, Bernardo Bertolucci and Michael Cimino were all linked with a film adaptation of it but none completed their project.
MAN’S FATE / LA CONDITIONE HUMAINE
Forming a trilogy on revolutions in Asia with “The Conquerors” and “The Royal Navy”, André Malraux’s 1933 Prix Goncourt winning novel “Man’s Fate” is about the 1927 failed communist insurrection in which city?
SHANGHAI
Seen as a step towards the creation of Arsène Lupin, Fantômas and The Shadow, which 19th-century writer created the character Rocambole, in turn leading to the creation of the adjective ‘rocambolesque’?
I feel like I’m getting somewhere now. The history slog is done and I’m on to geography and starting to get some appreciation of just how awkward it is to navigate your way around massive mountain ranges.
Questions
Second Prime Minister of Georgia during its short-lived independence from 1918 to 1921, who subsequently led the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile from France until his death in 1953?
NOE ZHORDANIA
Only existing for just over a month in the fallout from the October Revolution, what did TDFR stand for in the name of a state that included Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan?
TRANSCAUCASIAN DEMOCRATIC FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC
Joseph Stalin’s mother Keke Geladze, Ilia Chavchavadze and Niko Pirosmani are among those buried in which Tbilisi pantheon that has a name meaning ‘holy mountain’? You can reach it via funicular and whilst there why not visit the nearby hilltop amusement park.
MTATSMINDA
Arrested in the late 1970s following a crackdown on human rights activists by Leonid Brezhnev’s government, who became the first President of Georgia when independence was restored in 1991?
ZVIAD GAMSAKHURDIA
Their flag containing a roundel of St. George slaying the dragon, which paramilitary group founded in 1989 was active in the Georgian Civil War and was involved in removing Zviad Gamsakhurdia from power in 1992? The organisation was outlawed in 1995, though it tried to reinvent itself as the Union of Patriots.
MKHEDRIONI
Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1990 under Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the Georgian president who ultimately resigned following the non-violent Rose Revolution in 2003?
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
Called the ‘Russian law’ by its detractors, which four words follow ‘Proposed law on’ in the controversial bill that led to significant demonstrations within Georgia during 2023 and 2024?
TRANSPARENCY OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE
Also known as the Surami range, which group of mountains that connect the Greater Caucasus in the north to the Lesser Caucasus in the south effectively splits Georgia into western and eastern halves, these historically being known as Colchis and Iberia respectively?
LIKHI RANGE
Access to the Russian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania from Georgia is most commonly through the Roki Tunnel. This can be accessed via the breakaway state of South Ossetia from which Georgian mkhare that has Gori as its capital and still lays claim to the breakaway state?
SHIDA KARTLI / INNER KARTLI
The Terek river runs through which gorge that lies south of Vladikavkaz and north of the Georgian mkhare of Mtskheta-Mtianeti? Ancient names it was known by including the Iberian Gates, it is one of the few routes through the Northern Caucasus.
Just finished watching the lengthy “Laurence Anyways” and found it very moving and beautifully shot.
Questions
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1943 film “Day of Wrath” is based on what 1909 play by Hans Wiers-Jenssen? It is named for someone who was burned alive in Bergen at the end of the 16th century after being accused of witchcraft.
ANNE PEDERSDOTTER
A winner of the Golden Lion that saw Emil Hass Christensen and Birgitte Federspiel honoured with Bodil Awards, which 1955 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer that is centred around the Borgen family sees one character think they are Jesus Christ after suffering a mental breakdown?
ORDET / THE WORD
Her other work including “The Cave of the Yellow Dog” and “Veins of the World”, which Mongolian filmmaker’s “The Story of the Weeping Camel” received a Best Documentary nomination at the Oscars held in 2005?
BYAMBASUREN DAVAA
On the production team for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Dogtooth”, which female Greek director’s films include the strange short “The Capsule” and the competitive “Chevalier”, a film that included Sakis Rouvas in its cast?
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
Winning the Volpi Cup for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Attenberg”, which Greek-French actress who married Yorgos Lanthimos in 2013 has appeared in western films such as “Assassin’s Creed”, “The Souvenir” and “Flux Gourmet”?
ARIANE LABED
Chantal Akerman directed which 2011 film that was an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s first novel? It received multiple Magritte Award nominations including Most Promising Actress for Aurora Marion.
ALMAYER’S FOLLY
Featuring a small role for her David di Donatello winning sister Alba, the 2023 Etruscan artifact seeking “La Chimera” is by which Italian director? Her previous films “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro” have won awards at Cannes.
ALICE ROHRWACHER
Known for his Emmy Award winning role as Prince Charles in “The Crown”, who played the role of archaeologist Arthur in the Italian film “La Chimera”? He also made up part of the tennis love triangle in Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers”.
JOSH O’CONNOR
Known for directing films like “Laurence Anyways”, Canadian Xavier Dolan also acts with him having received a 2022 César Award nomination for which adaptation of a novel from Honoré de Balzac’s “La Comédie Humaine”? Also in the cast were Cécile de France and Gérard Depardieu.
ILLUSIONS PERDUES / LOST ILLUSIONS
Starring alongside Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément in Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” was which celebrated French actress who has won multiple César Awards? Her films include Jean-Luc Godard’s “Every Man for Himself” and Claude Chabrol’s “The Flower of Evil”, with her also gaining celebrity renown for her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday.
I need a concerted effort to get this Georgia research finished. May just need to say at least ten questions a day until it’s clear, however long that takes. Other tasks will have to take a back seat for now.
Questions
Having a four-letter name, which medieval defensive towers built during the Georgian golden age are associated with a specific region that makes up part of a mkhare’s name in north-western Georgia?
SVAN (TOWERS) (In the Svaneti region)
Named for a region in ancient Armenia that now lies within Turkey’s borders, which treaty of the late 4th century saw the Eastern Roman Empire confirm the loss of Iberia to the Sassanid Empire of Shapur III?
PEACE OF ACILISENE
Tbilisi was supposedly founded when which 5th century Iberian king discovered some hot springs while out hunting? An equestrian monument to him can be found on a cliff in the capital’s Metekhi district.
VAKHTANG
Also known as the Colchidian War or Great War of Egrisi, which conflict that lasted from 541 to 562 and is named for a historical region that lay on the Black Sea coast saw the Byzantines pitted against the Persians during the respective reigns of Justinian I and Khosrow I?
LAZIC WAR
Founded by David the Builder and providing great views of the surrounding valleys, which monastic complex that is not far from Kutaisi has been listed among UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites?
GELATI MONASTERY
David the Builder moved the Georgian capital from Kutaisi to Tbilisi in the aftermath of victory over the Seljuks at which 1121 battle? The country celebrates a festival named after it on August 12 each year.
DIDGORI (The festival being Didgoroba)
Queen Tamar of Georgia helped establish which empire that claimed to be the successor state of Byzantium after the Fourth Crusade ended with the 1204 Sack of Constantinople? Situated on the southern Black Sea coast, its rivals included the Empire of Nicaea and Empire of Thessalonica.
EMPIRE OF TREBIZOND
Called ‘the Brilliant’ and sharing his name and regnal number with a monarch from the United Kingdom, who expelled the Mongols from Georgia in the 14th century after a lengthy period of rule under them?
GEORGE V
Having its capital at Batumi, which autonomous republic in the south-west of Georgia was incorporated into the Russian Empire following the 1878 Treaty of Berlin after a period of over 200 years under Ottoman rule?
ADJARA
Lying to the north of the autonomous republic of Adjara, which mkhare with its capital at Ozurgeti lost its status as a principality when it was annexed by the expanding Russians during the 19th century? In ancient times it was part of the Kingdom of Colchis.
GURIA
Canonised as St Ilia the Righteous by the Georgian Orthodox Church, which writer who is considered to be the father of Georgian nationalism was ambushed and murdered by assassins near Mtskheta in 1907?
Just had a fun time watching “Love Lies Bleeding” that has allowed me to finish a batch of questions I’ve been collecting for a while.
Questions
Now most well known as director of “Return of the Jedi”, Welshman Richard Marquand’s other work includes which 1981 movie that starred Donald Sutherland as German World War II sleeper agent Henry Faber? It was an adaptation of a 1978 Ken Follett novel.
THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
The last of his silent films before moving on to talkies with “Blackmail”, Alfred Hitchcock adapted which Hall Caine novel for the screen in 1929, its title being a nod to where the author dwelt?
THE MANXMAN
Cinematography is provided by Swedish Oscar winner Linus Sandgren for which 2023 Emerald Fennell drama, which sees Barry Keoghan play an Oxford University student who spends some time at the titular estate?
SALTBURN
Directed by Frenchman Jean-Jacques Annaud of “Black and White in Color” fame, “Enemy at the Gates” saw Jude Law portray Russian sniper Vasily Zaitsev at the Battle of Stalingrad, with which English actor having a go at Nikita Kruschchev?
BOB HOSKINS
Turning up as Elizabeth Kublek in the two season spin-off “The Walking Dead: World Beyond”, which English actress has had film roles that include Vivien Leigh in “My Week with Marilyn”, Smilla Jaspersen in “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” and Sabrina Fairchild in a remake of Billy Wilder’s “Sabrina”?
JULIA ORMOND
Sister to two famous actors, who directed “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema” and “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”? In both of these Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek was the main man.
SOPHIE FIENNES
Sally Potter’s 2017 film “The Party” includes in its ensemble cast which actress as Martha, a character who is in a same-sex relationship with the pregnant Jinny as played by Emily Mortimer? She has won Emmy Awards for her roles in “24”, “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Succession”.
CHERRY JONES
2017 black comedy “The Party” by British director Sally Potter won the Rainbow Spike at which Spanish city’s international film awards that began in 1956? Past winners of its Golden Spike include “Thelma and Louise”, “Requiem for a Dream” and “3-Iron”.
VALLADOLID
Known for the documentaries “Senna”, “Diego Maradona” and “Amy”, the last winning a Best Documentary Oscar, which Brit directed the 2001 Irrfan Khan starring Hindi language film “The Warrior”?
ASIF KAPADIA
Her debut film being the disturbing horror “Saint Maud”, which British director brought us back to the end of the 80s in the 2024 dark thriller “Loves Lies Bleeding”?
I couldn’t resist trying to write some questions about the brightly coloured and a bit on the weird side “Please Baby Please”. But of course, you usually find some unexpectedly juicy nuggets when you do this.
Questions
Suze in “Please Baby Please” was a 2022 role for British actress Andrea Riseborough, but which film released that same year where she played a troubled alcoholic saw her receive an Oscar nomination?
TO LESLIE
Other films by her including the “Lord of the Flies” inspired “Ladyworld”, which American director of “Please Baby Please” chose “Basic Instinct” to be among her favourite films in a “Sight and Sound” poll?
AMANDA KRAMER
Previously playing Dudley Dursley in the “Harry Potter” films and Harry Beltik in “The Queen’s Gambit”, who played the role of Arthur in Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please”?
HARRY MELLING
Featuring as Teddy in Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please” and starring in Gaspard Noé’s “Love”, American actor Karl Glusman was married to which actress from 2019 to 2021?
ZOË KRAVITZ
Additionally credited for the less prominent roles of Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come in the same film, who provides the voice of Ebeneezer Scrooge in the 2009 Robert Zemeckis animated feature “A Christmas Carol”?
JIM CARREY
Along with “Pulp Fiction” contributor Roger Avary, which famous author wrote the screenplay for Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf”?
NEIL GAIMAN
Robert Zemeckis’ “The Polar Express” was based on a 1985 children’s picture book by which author? Other works by him include “Jumanji” and its sequel “Zathura”.
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
Now named after Karl Jansky, which radio astronomy observatory in New Mexico is one of the main settings for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film “Contact”?
VERY LARGE ARRAY / VLA
Starring Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep, the Robert Zemeckis film “Death Becomes Her” brought home which Oscar that was one of the six won by “Forrest Gump” two years later?
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Adapted from a Stephanie Perkins novel, which 2021 slasher flick set in Nebraska stars Sydney Park and Théodore Pellerin? It opens with a college football player at home all alone.
This is a Ham-fisted attempt to generate some honey-roasted interest in Noah’s second son. Though curses are cool. And grimoires. I like grimoires. They have nothing to do with any of this. I just wanted to write the word.
Questions
Coming from Greek words that mean ‘common’ and ‘life’, what term has been used for monks who live in a community? They share their name with a group of demonic beings created by English horror writer Clive Barker.
CENOBITES
Father to mighty hunter Nimrod, which son of Ham is identified with a namesake kingdom that was established in the 8th century BC?
CUSH
The second son of Ham, which biblical figure has been suggested to be the ultimate origin of the name of a modern day country in the language that is most commonly spoke there?
MIZRAIM (Misr is the Arabic for Egypt)
Phut was the third son of Ham and is supposed to be the founder of which ancient region that lives on in the name of a modern country?
LIBYA
Brother to Cush, Mizraim and Phut, which son of Ham was the one who was unfortunately the subject of the curse given by Noah after his second son caught him naked? His name was used for a Semitic-speaking civilisation.
CANAAN
Found within the sun of the Jesuits’ logo along with a cross and three nails, which Latin phrase do the letters IHS stand for?
IESUS HOMINUM SALVATOR
Published in 1971, “A Theology of Liberation” is a work by which influential Peruvian priest who helped to popularise the concept of Latin American liberation theology?
GUSTAVE GUTIÉRREZ
Canonised in 1962, ‘Saint of the broom’ Martin of Porres was active in which country during the 16th and 17th centuries? He is buried in the Convent of Santo Domingo in the country’s capital.
PERU
The last of his regnal name and the most recent not to be a bishop when elected, which Pope beatified Martin of Porres in 1837? His reign lasted from 1831 to 1846.
GREGORY XVI
The “Codex Vaticanus”, “Codex Sinaiticus”, “Codex Alexandrinus” and “Codex Ephraemi” are known as the ‘Four Great’ what, being the only remaining codices of this type to contain the entire text of the old and new testaments in Greek?
This completes my re-write of questions I already had for this country. I won’t be happy if I don’t at least get through making notes on its Wikipedia page before I head there in September, but I also need to do the same for Armenia.
Questions
Georgia is an exonym that was presumably not created to sow confusion with the well known American state. How is the country known in its own language, this being partly derived from a central historical region where Tbilisi can be found?
SAKARTVELO (The region being Kartveli)
Adopted in 2004 following the Rose Revolution and composed by Zacharia Paliashvili, how does the Georgian national anthem “Tavisupleba” translate into English?
FREEDOM
Named for a neighbouring country and making up over 5% of the population, what is the second largest ethnic group in Georgia?
AZERBAIJANIS
Resigning in 2024, who during his three years in the office of Georgian Prime Minister submitted an application for his country to join the European Union? He had also been in the role from 2013 to 2015, becoming one of the youngest world leaders when he first started.
IRAKLI GARIBASHVILI
Occurring on the death of Gurgan II, the King of Iberia at the time, which year is traditionally given as the founding of the United Georgian Monarchy? Bagrat III had been the Abkhazian king at the time and became known as the ‘Unifier’.
1008
After a period of struggle that had seen fighting against the Ottoman Empire and the burning of Tbilisi by the Persians, in which year was Kartli-Kakheti annexed by Russia? Other parts of Georgia like the port of Poti were added in subsequent decades.
1801
An important source on the history of the Crusades, which French theologian wrote “Historia Orientalis”? This bishop of Acre explained Georgia’s name by the popularity of St. George.
JACQUES DE VITRY
A set of works compiled over centuries, the “Georgian Chronicles” gives which legendary descendant of Japheth as the father of the Georgian people?
KARTLOS
Located east of Kutaisi and north-west of Tbilisi, which city in Georgia has a name that means ‘Land of hornbeams’?
TSKHINVALI (The capital of South Ossetia)
A clear reference to a famous Soviet, what was the name of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali between 1934 and 1961?
STALINIRI
Also known by the Georgian name of Mtkvati, on which river that rises in Turkey does Tbilisi stand? Its tributaries include the Aras and it empties into the Caspian Sea within Azerbaijan’s borders.
KURA
Having a ‘Great’ prefix to distinguish it from the ‘Little’ tributary that feeds into it, on which river do Gori and Tskhinvali stand? Its source is found in South Ossetia and it ultimately flows into the Caspian Sea via the Kura, a river that also has the native name Mtkvari.
LIAKHVI
Queen Tamar’s Bridge is a medieval construction situated not far from which Black Sea coast city that has a beach and serves as the capital of Abkhazia?
SUKHUMI
Excerpts from it being adapted into Georgia’s national anthem, which opera by Zacharia Paliashvili is based on a medieval Georgian folk poem and features two names in its title?
ABESALOM DA ETERI / ABESALOM AND ETERI
Featuring the tried and tested narrative of a love story with tragic consequences, on which medieval Georgian folk poem is Zacharia Paliashvili’s opera “Abesalom da Eteri” based?
ETERIANI
In 2017 it was reported that the earliest evidence of what product had been found in Georgia following investigations into 8,000 year old pottery shards? The earliest known example to still contain its full contents was found near Speyer in Germany.
WINE
Thought to be one of the earliest known from the Neolithic period, which double-barreled culture takes its names from sites in Georgia and Azerbaijan respectively? The Armenian site of Aratashen is sometimes added to make it a triple-barreled.
SHULAVERI-SHOMU / SHULAVERI-SHOMUTEPE
Around at the same time as Constantine the Great, which King of Iberia and founder of the Chosroid dynasty is credited with establishing Christianity as Georgia’s state religion? He is buried at Samtavro Church in Mtskheta.
MIRIAN III
Egrisi was located on the coast of the Black Sea in present-day western Georgia. An important location in Greek mythology, by what exonym is it much better known?
COLCHIS
The incorporation of the Golden Fleece into the famous Greek myth may have come from using that woolen product to sift gold dust from rivers in the Georgian region. One of those to incorporate this into their telling of the story was which writer of “Argonautica”?
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