Could you beat Leo to the buzzer? Take our superhard University Challenge quiz

Ahead of tonight’s final, we asked the question setters to share some of their toughest starters for 10. How many can you get right?

'Together with Annie Lennox’s Diva and Madonna’s Blonde Ambition tour … (it) put female desire at the heart of mass popular entertainment.' These words refer to Ingénue, a song cycle by which Canadian singer-songwriter?

kd lang

Alanis Morissette

Céline Dion

Under its colonial name, which leading producer of cocoa beans made its only appearance in the FIFA World Cup in 1938? It lost 6-0 to Hungary in the first round.

Zaire

Indonesia

Cameroon

The song California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys parodies the public image of which politician? He was governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and was re-elected in 2010 and 2014.

Ronald Reagan

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jerry Brown

Flake white and Prussian blue were among the five colours on the palette of which artist, born in north-west England in 1887?

Joseph Wright of Derby

Jacob Epstein

LS Lowry

Cutthroat Island and A League of Their Own starred which actor? In 2004, she founded an institute to investigate gender in media.

Rosie O’Donnell

Geena Davis

Patricia Arquette

In the Welsh alphabet, which two letters represent the sound known phonetically as a voiceless labiodental fricative?

Double-D

Double-S

Double-F

The Spanish word for what compass direction may be spelt by concatenating the initial letters of the medical names of the breastbone and of the longer and shorter bones of the forearm?

South

West

East

What multiple of 10,000 is closest to all of these: the number of astronomical units in a light year, the number of inches in a mile, the capacity of Celtic Park in Glasgow?

Five (50,000)

Six (60,000)

Eight (80,000)

During the 1680s, what seven-letter word was coined to describe the large numbers of French Huguenots who had begun to enter England?

Refugee

Migrant

Outcast

The number of days in October multiplied by the number of playing squares on a chessboard is a possible expression of the title of which well-known novel?

2001: A Space Odyssey

Nineteen Eighty-Four

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

If 'one', 'one', 'two' and 'three' are the first four numbers of the Fibonacci sequence, what is the ninth?

'(The female agent) was the calm, rational sceptic and the bloke was the superstitious, emotional one.' These words refer to which television series, first broadcast in 1993?

Law and Order

The X-Files

Dark Skies

From the Latin for 'bold' or 'daring', what term is used in the UK for a long-distance road event in which cyclists navigate a route within pre-determined time limits?

Audax

Keirin

Madison

In geometry, what adjective describes a spheroid flattened at the poles, for example planet earth?

Prolate

Oblate

Lentoid

Named after two US psychologists who published a 1999 paper on cognitive bias, what 'effect' sees unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority, with the worst performers the worst at estimating their own aptitude?

Voight-Kampff

Fry-Knowles

Dunning-Kruger

15 and above.

Hapax Legomenon! You’re amazing. You’d beat Leo any day.

14 and above.

Hapax Legomenon! You’re amazing. You’d beat Leo any day.

13 and above.

Hapax Legomenon! You’re amazing. You’d beat Leo any day.

12 and above.

Hapax Legomenon! You’re amazing. You’d beat Leo any day.

11 and above.

Hapax Legomenon! You’re amazing. You’d beat Leo any day.

10 and above.

A middling performance, but it won’t quite win you the trophy

9 and above.

A middling performance, but it won’t quite win you the trophy

8 and above.

A middling performance, but it won’t quite win you the trophy

7 and above.

A middling performance, but it won’t quite win you the trophy

6 and above.

A middling performance, but it won’t quite win you the trophy

5 and above.