All articles starting with Q

Quique Sánchez Flores

Quique Sánchez Flores (Enrique Sánchez Flores), Spanish football manager and former full-back born 1965 in Madrid; won the 2010 Europa League with Atlético Madrid, coached Valencia, Benfica, Watford, Espanyol, Sevilla, and now Deportivo Alavés.

Quique Setién

Quique Setién (Enrique Setién Solar, born 1958, Santander), Spanish former central midfielder and manager of Racing, Las Palmas, Betis, Barcelona, Villarreal, and Beijing Guoan; possession-based, chess-loving tactician.

Quiriguá

Quiriguá is a Classic-period Maya archaeological site in Izabal, Guatemala, known for its large carved sandstone stelae and for the 738 CE revolt in which its ruler captured and beheaded Copán's king.

Quiriguá stelae

The Quiriguá stelae are carved sandstone Maya monuments at Quiriguá, Guatemala, erected mostly in the 8th century and famous as the tallest stelae in the Maya world.

Quiriguá Zoomorph P

Quiriguá Zoomorph P, also known as Monument 16, is a Maya sandstone boulder sculpture at Quiriguá, Guatemala, depicting a two-headed cosmic monster and dedicated by ruler Sky Xul in 795 AD.

Quiriguá's capture of Copán

Quiriguá's capture of Copán was the seizure and ritual beheading of Copán's thirteenth ruler, Waxaklajuun Ubaah K'awiil, by Quiriguá's king in AD 738, ending three centuries of Copán's dominance.

Quirinal Hill

Quirinal Hill (Quirinalis Collis), northernmost of Rome's seven hills, named for the god Quirinus; site of the Quirinale Palace, residence of Italy's president, with ancient temples, baths, and the Dioscuri of Monte Cavallo.

Quirinal Palace

The Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale) is a palace on the Quirinal Hill in Rome and, since 1946, the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ("who will guard the guards themselves?") is a Latin phrase from Juvenal's Satire VI, originally about guarding unfaithful wives, now used for oversight of the powerful.

Quiscalus

Quiscalus (grackles), genus of New World blackbirds (Icteridae) established by Vieillot in 1816; seven species including Common, Great-tailed, Boat-tailed, Carib grackles and the extinct Slender-billed Grackle, ranging across North America and the Caribbean.

Quisling

Quisling: common noun for a traitor who collaborates with an occupying enemy, from Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), Norwegian fascist Minister-President under German occupation 1942–1945, executed for treason in 1945.

Quisp

Quisp is a saucer-shaped sugar corn cereal introduced by Quaker Oats in 1965 with sister cereal Quake, mascots by Jay Ward, discontinued 1979, revived 1985, 2001 online, and 2012; now a PepsiCo Quaker brand.

Quisqueya

Quisqueya (pronounced kwiss-KWAY-ah) is a genus of four orchid species in Laeliinae, endemic to Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), described by Donald Dod in 1979 with type species Q. karstii.

Quistococha Zoo

Quistococha Zoo (Zoológico de Quistococha), an Amazonian wildlife zoo in the 369-hectare Quistococha Tourist Park on the Iquitos–Nauta road near Iquitos, Peru; created 1972, holds 72 local species, run by the Loreto regional government, undergoing remodeling through 2026.

Quit India Movement

Quit India Movement (August Kranti), launched by the Indian National Congress on 8 August 1942 at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, demanding immediate British withdrawal; Gandhi's 'Do or Die' call, mass arrests, underground resistance, parallel governments, and 1947 aftermath.

Quit India speech

Quit India speech: Gandhi's 8 August 1942 address to the AICC at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, launching the Quit India satyagraha with the 'Do or Die' mantra; Gandhi and the Congress leadership were jailed within 24 hours.

Sep 29, 2026

Quitline

A quitline is a free, confidential telephone service that helps tobacco users quit through counseling by trained staff, often combined with free nicotine replacement therapy.

Quito

Quito, capital of Ecuador, founded 1534 on Inca ruins at about 2,850 m in the Andes; first city inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (1978), with Latin America's best-preserved historic centre and the Baroque school of Quito.

Quito alcabala revolt

The Quito alcabala revolt, called in Spanish the Revolución de las Alcabalas, was an uprising against a 2 percent royal sales tax that lasted from 1592 to 1593.

Quito Revolution of 1809

The Quito Revolution of 1809 saw criollos depose the president of the Real Audiencia of Quito on 10 August and install the Junta Soberana de Gobierno.

Quito School

The Quito School (Escuela Quiteña) was the colonial painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Real Audiencia de Quito, present-day Ecuador, from the 16th to the early 19th century.

Quiver

Quiver is a line of plug-and-play unstructured-data storage appliances from Arrow Intelligent Solutions, sold with Qumulo Core file and object software pre-integrated for AI and large-scale file workloads.

Quiverfull

Quiverfull is an American evangelical Protestant movement whose members reject all birth control, seek many children per Psalm 127, and practice homeschooling and male headship; rooted in Mary Pride's 1985 The Way Home and the Hesses' 1990 A Full Quiver.

Sep 19, 2026

Quivver

Quivver is the alias of British producer and DJ John Graham, active since the early 1990s and known for progressive house, trance, and Bedrock Records releases.

Sep 19, 2026

Quix

Quix, real name Jonathan Schnell, is a New Zealand DJ and electronic producer from Auckland known for wonky trap and bass music, now based in Los Angeles.

Quixo

Quixo is a 1995 Gigamic abstract strategy game by Thierry Chapeau: 25 wooden cubes on a 5x5 grid, slide edge cubes to make five in a row; solved as a draw in 2020.

Quiz

Quiz: a game or competition in which players answer questions. Covers radio and TV quiz shows, the 1950s rigging scandal, pub quizzes, quizbowl, and the World Quizzing Championships (since 2003, 240 questions, first Saturday of June).

Quiz (TV series)

Quiz is the 2020 three-part ITV/AMC drama by James Graham, directed by Stephen Frears, dramatizing the 2001 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? coughing scandal and the Ingrams' 2003 conviction; starring Macfadyen, Clifford, and Sheen.