February 7th Questions

Specialist Questions

Set by

The Plough Taverners

Rounds are:

Eponymous

Sport

Right Royal History

Geography - Cities

Science

The Blues

Arts & Entertainment

A Bit On The Side

Eponymous

In this round you need to provide the title of a film, or book from the description given. All the titles are eponymous with respect, i.e. relate, to the character named in the question.

Example: 1860 novel in which Anne Catherick’s identity is switched with that of an heiress (Answer: The Woman In White).

Q1. 1976 film about ex US marine, Travis Bickle?

A1. Taxi Driver

Q2. 1987 Oscar winning biopic of Aisin-Gioro Puyi?

A2. The Last Emperor

Q3. 1963 book telling the story of loner Frederick Clegg and his criminal life after winning the football pools?

A3. The Collector

Q4. 1980 film about Julian Kaye – a male prostitute framed for murder?

A4. American Gigolo

Q5. 1976 film about the humanoid alien Thomas Jerome Newton and his search for water?

A5. The Man Who Fell To Earth

Q6. 1983 film following the fortunes of Cuban immigrant, Tony Montana?

A6. Scarface

Q7. 1998 film in which animal trainer Tom Booker helps a girl recover from a life threatening accident?

A7. The Horse Whisperer

Q8. 1969 book (& 1981 film) about Sarah Woodruff, a disgraced resident of Lyme Regis?

A8. The French Lieutenant’s Woman

SQ1. UK television documentary series fronted initially by Ruth Watson and latterly by Alex Polizzi?

SA1. The Hotel Inspector

SQ2. US television series about Robert McCall a former secret agent turned vigilante?

SA2. The Equalizer

Sport

Q1. Camogie is the female version of which “stick and ball” sport?

A1. Hurling

Q2. The highest average league home attendance in the world is for a team playing which sport?

A2. American Football (Dallas Cowboys Average 87,047 for season 2010-2011)

Q3. Who is the only Belgian to be in an FA Cup winning team?

A3. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City season 2010-2011)

Q4. For muslims, what is controversial about the timing of this year’s Summer Olympics?

A4. They occur during the fasting month of Ramadan

Q5. Kempton Park and Lingfield Park racecourses are in which English county?

A5. Surrey

Q6. In Yachting, how did the America’s Cup get it’s name?

A6. The trophy was (re)named after it’s first winner – the schooner America in 1851. (It had previously been known as The Royal Yacht Squadron’s One Hundred Guinea Cup).

Q7. In 2014 which nation will host the Winter Olympics for the first time?

A7. Russia (Host City of Sochi)

Q8. Which is the only founder member of the Football League (still in existence) that has never won the FA Cup?

A8. Stoke City

SQ1. Who was the last British tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title?

SA1. Virginia Wade (Wimbledon 1977)

SQ2. How many points are awarded for a try in Rugby League?

SA2. Four

Right Royal History

Q1. What service did John Dolland provide to King George III?

A1. He was his optician. (His company eventually became Dolland & Atchison recently purchased by Boots Opticians.)

Q2. Who was the youngest brother of Edward VIII and George VI who died in 1919 aged 13?

A2 Prince John

Q3 Besides being husband and wife, how were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert related?

A3 Cousins

Q4 Which Queen founded the chapel which evolved into St Michael’s Church in Macclesfield?

A4 Eleanor of Castile, (wife of Edward 1) on 25 January 1279

Q5 How is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall connected to Edward VII?

A5 Her grandmother was his mistress.

Q6 What relation was Kaiser Wilhelm II to Edward VII?

A6 His nephew

Q7 Where were Richard the Lionheart and King John born?

A7 Beaumont Palace, Oxford. (accept either)

Q8 In Scotland, the real King Macbeth (not Shakespeare’s character) 1040-1057 was a contemporary of which English King?

A8 Edward the Confessor

SQ1. During whose reign was England ruled temporarily by two regents, Hubert de Burgh and William the Marshal?

SA1 Henry III ( He was crowned King at the age of nine.)

SQ2 Edward IV fell out with his brother George, Duke of Clarence, who is then murdered. How is it supposed that he died?

SA2 In the Tower, drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.

Geography - Cities

In this round you will be given three clues from which to identify a city. Simply name the city.

Q1 South Rampart Street, Basin Street, Jackson Square.

A1 New Orleans

Q2 Chowpatty Beach, Dhobi Ghats, Taj Hotel.

A2 Mumbai or Bombay

Q3 Promenade des Anglais, Musée Matisse, Baie des Anges.

A3 Nice (France)

Q4 The Malecón, Hotel Nacional, Tropicana Nightclub

A4 Havana, Cuba

Q5 Copacabana, Ipanema, Sugar Loaf mountain

A5 Rio de Janeiro.

Q6 Nanjing Street, The Bund, Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

A6 Shanghai

Q7 Beale Street, Union Avenue, W C Handy Park.

A7 Memphis, Tennessee

Q8 Mulholland Drive., Kodak Theatre, Venice Beach

A8 Los Angeles

SQ1 Church of our Lady before Tyn, Charles Bridge, Hradcany Castle

SA1 Prague

SQ2 Unter den Linden, Potsdamer Plaz, Kurfurstendamm.

SA2 Berlin

Science Round

Q1. Which British inventor is credited with inventing the incandescent light bulb?

A1. Sir Joseph Swan

Q2. What common compound is responsible for giving Mars its red appearance?

A2. Rust (Accept Iron Oxide)

Q3. Metrology is the study of what?

A3. Measurement

Q4. Which chemist is credited with producing the first periodic table of elements in 1869?

A4. Dmitri Mendeleev

Q5. Which element with atomic number 13 is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?

A5. Aluminium (approximately 8.1%)

Q6. What was the nationality of the famous astronomer Edwin Hubble?

A6. American (ie USA citizen)

Q7. Give a year in the life of Gregor Mendel, the father of the science of genetics?

A7. 1822-1884

Q8. Which “ology” is the scientific study of caves?

A8. Speleology

S1. Which physicist is regarded as the founder of “quantum theory”?

S1. Max Planck

S2. The heart drug Digoxin is extracted from which plant?

S2. Foxglove (Accept Digitalis)

The Blues

In this round either the question or the answer have a reference to “blue”

Q1 How is the “Memphis Blues Boy” more commonly known?

A1 B. B. King

Q2 What did “Dolly Blue” do to your washing?

A2 It made it appear whiter.

Q3 Which country’s national football team are called Azzurri?

A3 Italy (azzurri – Italian for light blue)

Q4 How was the blues singer born Jamesetta Hawkins who died recently better known?

A4 Etta James

Q5 Which copying process was invented In 1861 by Alphonse Louis Poitevin?

A5 Blueprints

Q6 In publishing, a blue pencil is traditionally used by whom?

A6 Editors (or sub editors)

Q7 What did Josiah Wedgwood call the colour of his first kind of Jasperware?

A7 Portland Blue

Q8 What kind of blue is the colour of Ferric ferrocyanide first synthesised Diesbach around 1706?

A8 Prussian Blue

SQ1 How are the Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons of the Household Cavalry also known?

SA1 The Blues and Royals

SQ2 Who wrote and performed on what is probably the best selling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue?

SA2 Miles Davis

Arts & Entertainment

Q1. Which author wrote The Foundation Series and developed three laws of robotics?

A1. Isaac Asimov

Q2. Which Roman poet, who was banished by Augustus, wrote The Metamorphoses?

A2 Ovid (Pubilus Ovidius Naso)

Q3. Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke were the founder members of which rock band?

A3 Free

Q4. Who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films?

A4 Mark Hamill

Q5. What was the name of Tintin’s dog?

A5 Snowy (or Milou in the French version)

Q6. Which London-born singer asked Da Ya Think I’m Sexy in 1978?

A6 Rod Stewart

Q7. Dashiell Hammett created which detective, who first appeared in The Maltese Falcon and was played on-screen by Humphrey Bogart?

A7 Sam Spade

Q8. Which actress was married to Humphrey Bogart from 1945 until his death?

A8 Lauren Bacall

Supplementaries

SQ1. Dame Barbara Hepworth was a noted 20^th century British figure in which of the arts?

SA1 Sculpture

SQ2. Dermot Morgan played which eponymous television comedy character?

SA2 Father Ted

SQ3. Which sitcom was a spin-off from Man About the House?

SA3 George and Mildred

SQ4. Who played Fontaine Khaled in The Stud and the Bitch?

SA4 Joan Collins

A BIT ON THE SIDE

You will be given the name and description of women in history who were mistresses – you just have to name their famous lovers.

Q1 The Polish Countess, Marie Walewski, was a blonde beauty with an outstanding presence that completely conquered the heart of one of the most powerful men in history. Maria was born into a wealthy noble family in Kiernozia.

A1 Napoleon Bonaparte

Q2 Frances Stevenson was born in London. She was educated at Clapham High School and Royal Holloway College, where she graduated with a Classics degree. She was hired as a governess for her future lover’s youngest daughter Megan when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

A2 David Lloyd George

Q3 Famous courtesan and outstanding personality, Madame de Pompadour, was intelligent, beautiful, and refined. She spent her younger childhood at the Ursuline convent in Poissy where she received a good education and was known as Reinette to her friends.

A3 King Louis XV of France

Q4 Eleanor "Nell" Gwynne was called "pretty, witty Nell" by Samuel Pepys, she has been regarded as a living embodiment of the spirit of Restoration England and has come to be considered a folk heroine, with a story echoing the rags-to-royalty tale of Cinderella.

A4 King Charles II

Q5 Emma, Lady Hamilton, was the muse of George Romney. She was born Amy Lyon in Ness near Neston, Cheshire, England, the daughter of a blacksmith, Henry Lyon, who died when she was two months old.

A5 Admiral Lord Nelson

Q6 Sara Keays is the former mistress and personal secretary of a British Conservative politician. Her public revelation of her pregnancy and of their twelve-year long affair, when she realised that her lover would neither marry her nor help her become an MP, led to his resignation.

A6 Cecil Parkinson

Q7 Before Ellen Ternan disappeared into her lover’s life and custody, she was highly visible: she had been an actress. She was the youngest of three sisters who were the third generation of theatre folk; her family had trouped with the great from the days of Mrs. Siddons.

A7 Charles Dickens

Q8. American waitress Jaimee Grubbs, a Los Angeles cocktail waitress, claimed she and her lover carried on a torrid 31-month affair - and that she has photos and 300 "racy" text messages to prove it.

A8 Golfer Tiger Woods

SQ1. Eva Anna Paula Braun was a longtime companion and, for less than 40 hours, a wife. Braun met her lover in Munich when she was 17 years old, while she was working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer.

SA1 Adolf Hitler

SQ2 Rosamund Clifford, often called "The Fair Rosamund", was famed for her beauty and was the daughter of the marcher Lord Walter de Clifford and his wife Margaret Isobel de Tosny.

SA2. King Henry II

 

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS Set by the Cock

1. Who is the Home Secretary?

TERESA MAY

2. Who is the Immigration Minister?

DAMIAN GREEN

3. Where was HMS Royal Oak sunk?

SCAPA FLOW

4. Which was the first airline to use Boeing's 787 airliner? ALL NIPPON AIRLINES

5. Whose aircraft engines are named after rivers?

ROLLS ROYCE

6. Who wrote A Clockwork Orange?

 ANTHONY BURGESS

7. Which Dickens novel contains the line "The children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up"?

BLEAK HOUSE

8. Which Dickens novel contains the line "Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess"?

DOMBEY & SON

9. Who was the last Viceroy of India?

EARL MOUNTBATTEN

10. Who was the last Emperor of India?

GEORGE VI

11. Calcium Carbonate is the main constituent of which rock?

LIMESTONE

12. Granite is a type of which rock?

IGNEOUS

13. Who conducted the 2011 Last Night of the Proms? EDWARD GARDNER

14. Who bought the chocolate firm Cadbury in 2010? KRAFT FOODS

15. Where are Rolls Royce cars made?

GOODWOOD

16. Which is the newest Oxford college; formed in 2008? GREEN TEMPLETON

17. Who is generally regarded as Britain's first Prime Minister?

ROBERT WALPOLE

18. Who succeeded Henry VIII?

EDWARD VI

19. Who produced the "Light Nancy" and the "Three Peaks" beers?

BOLLINGTON BREWING COMPANY

20. Where is the Bruce Arms in Macclesfield? CROMPTON ROAD

21. In which children's TV programme would you find Upsy Daisy?

IN THE NIGHT GARDEN

22. In which children' TV programme was there a cleaning lady called Mrs Scrubbit?

THE WOODENTOPS

23. TWANG, a Lionel Bart musical was about which hero?

ROBIN HOOD

24. Which musical film has characters called Nathan Detroit and Nicely Nicely?

GUYS AND DOLLS

25. Mother Carey's chicken is what type of bird?

STORM PETREL

26. What does a Buck Rarebit have that a Welsh Rarebit doesn't?

A POACHED EGG

27. In which hotel was the Singapore Sling allegedly "invented"?

RAFFLES

28. Who was the first Briton to walk in space?

MICHAEL FOALE

29. Who made Number 1 with Spaceman?

BABYLON ZOO

30. Onto which road did a British Midlands plane crash in 1989?

M1

31. Who referred to his wife as "She who must be obeyed"? RUMPOLE

32. Who referred to his wife as 'Er indoors"?

 ARTHUR DALEY

33. What is the title of the only surviving Mitford sister? Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

34. What is the name of the Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster?

EATON HALL

35. What was the name of Hoppalong Cassidy's horse? TOPPER

36. What was the name of the track used for horse races in Roman times called?

HIPPODROME

37. Stamps with the name Suomi come from which country? FINLAND

38. Stamps with the name Sverge come from which country?

SWEDEN

39. In which group of Islands is Corfu?

IONIAN

40. Which canal joins the Adriatic with the Mediterranean?

CORINTH This is wrong – it connects the Aegean to the Gulf of Corinth

41. What was the title of the sixth Harry Potter book? HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

42. What was the name of the bank in the Harry Potter books?

GRINGROTS

43. Where in the body would you find the sylvian fissure? THE BRAIN

44. Which organs of the body are affected by Bright's Disease?

THE KIDNEYS

45. In Enid Blyton Secret Seven Books, what is the name of the dog?

SCAMP

46. What was the name of Dennis the Menace's pet pig? RASHER

47. Cheyenne is the capital of which state in the USA? WYOMING

48. Annapolis is the capital of which state in the USA? MARYLAND

49. Who seduced Europa in the guise of a bull?

ZEUS

50. Who was the Roman Goddess of Wisdom?

MINERVA

51. Which word can mean a sailing vessel and a drinking glass?

SCHOONER

52. Which word can mean a type of shoe and a poisonous snake?

MOCCASIN

53. In which country would you find the National Parks of Fundy and Jasper?

CANADA

54. In which country are the Troodos mountains? CYPRUS

55. Which king had a horse called White Surrey? RICHARD III

56. Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France in 1969?

GEORGES POMPIDOU

57. What is the main use for calcium nitrate? FERTILISER

58. Which acid is found in stinging nettles?

FORMIC ACID

59. Who set Edith Sitwell's poem Facade, to music? WILLIAM WALTON

60. Who wrote the opera the Bartered Bride?

 SMETANA

61. Which British hospital has the ability to stage a full athletics meeting?

 STOKE MANDEVILLE

62. In motor racing, what does a yellow flag indicate to the drivers?

NO OVERTAKING

63. Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey) in Dad's Army wrote the play The Ghost Train after being stranded at a railway station — what is the name of the station?

MANGOTSFIELD - BRISTOL

64. In the TV comedy The Vicar of Dibley who did the verger, Alice Tinker marry?

HUGO HORTON

65. What is the Aborigine word for Ayer's Rock? ULURU

66. Which Derbyshire town is overlooked by Riber Castle?

MATLOCK

67. On which Island was Napoleon born?

CORSICA

68. Who was the mother of Solomon?

BATHSHEBA

69. Who was the sister of Moses?

MIRIAM

70. What was the name of the ship whose crew were rescued by Grace Darling?

SS FORFARSHIRE

71. Which Samuel Becket play features a master who cannot stand up and a servant who cannot sit down?

ENDGAME

72. Michaelangelo's statue of David is housed in which city?

FLORENCE

73. What is the more common name for the skin complaint miliaria?

PRICKLY HEAT

74. Rome is the capital city of which region of Italy? LAZIO

75. The Hunter Valley is a famous wine producing region in which country?

AUSTRALIA

76. Robert Plant was the lead singer in which British rock band? LED ZEPPLIN

77. The British competitor Tommy Simpson was a leading name in which sport in the 1960's?

CYCLING

78. 0131 is the dialling code for which British city? BIRMIN GHAM This is incorrect, Birmingham is 0121 Edinburgh is 0131

79. James Moir is the real name of which comedian?

VIC REEVES

80. What is the name of the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald?

JACK RUBY

81. Russia and which other country share a border with Estonia?

LATVIA

82. Which TV presenter founded the charity Childline in 1986?

ESTHER RANTZEN

83. John Balliol was the king of which country in the 13^th century?

SCOTLAND

84. Who wrote the novel Middlemarch?

GEORGE ELIOT

85. George Eliot was the pen name of which author? MARY ANN EVANS

86. Which Scottish monarch was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513?

JAMES IV

87. The Zambesi river flows into which ocean

THE INDIAN OCEAN

88. The phrase "Sewards Folly" refers to the U.S.A. 1867 purchase of which land?

ALASKA

89. In the human body the Pinna is a part of which sensory organ?

THE EAR

90. In the 1925 film The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin ate which item of clothing?

A BOOT

91. Fado is a type of melancholy folk music associated with which country?

PORTUGAL

92. In what year were tins of baked beans commercially introduced into the UK?

1901 (ACCEPT 5 YEARS EITHER WAY)

93. In which country is the Zandvoort motor racing circuit?

THE NETHERLANDS

94. The pod of the carob tree is used as a substitute for which food?

CHOCOLATE

95. Who was the manager of Celtic F.0 in 1967 when they became the first British club to win the European Cup?

JOCK STEIN

96. If you were born on 11 November, what would your star sign be? SCORPIO

SUPPLEMENTARIES

What year did Britain go fully decimal?

1971 (NO LEEWAY)

In which year were the Olympic Games first televised? 1936

What is the capital of Taiwan?

TAIPEI

Which singer is known as the Queen of Soul?

ARETHA FRANKLIN

What is the world's third most spoken language? HINDUSTANI

How was Ghana known before independence?

THE GOLD COAST

31st January Cup and Plate Quarter Finals

Questions set by:-

Cock-A-2 (1 – 60)

Ox-fford (61-120)

1) At the Beijing Olympics there were two events open only to men. One was boxing, what was the other?

BASEBALL

2) Which is the only US state to border Maine?

NEW HAMPSHIRE

3) Name either of the creators of the internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia?

JIMMY WALES or LARRY SANGER

4) In the Book of Genesis, who is described as “a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time”?

NOAH

5) In which decade of the 17^th century was the Bank of England established?

1690s (1694 in fact)

6) The Securitate was the secret police service of which European country?

RUMANIA

7) Which American humorist wrote “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses”?

DOROTHY PARKER

8) Benjamin Britten’s composition A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is based on a tune by which composer?

PURCELL

9) The Mannerheim Line was a defensive structure erected by which country against an attack by the Soviet Union?

FINLAND

10) Established in 1866, which distillery draws its water from a spring in Lynchburg, Tennessee?

JACK DANIELS

11) Used in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody, what Arabic term means “In the name of God”?

BISMILLAH (Accept BASMALA also)

12) Which English king was deposed by his first cousin, who became Henry IV?

RICHARD II

13) The ancient kingdom of Sheba, whose Queen visited Solomon, is part of which present day country?

YEMEN

14) Which African national football team is known as the “Super Eagles”?

NIGERIA

15) Which British economist married the ballerina Lydia Lopokova in 1925?

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

16) Which word from the NATO alphabet appears in the title of a book by E M Forster?

INDIA (from A Passage to India)

17) On which holiday island is the resort of Porto Cervo and the Costa

Smeralda?

SARDINIA

18) The Ritz in London has not surprisingly recently been voted the nation’s top choice for afternoon tea, but where in Cheshire was voted in the top ten?

CREWE HALL (at number 8)

19) Who organised the Irish Parliamentary Party, said to be the first professionally organised political party, in 1882?

CHARLES STEWART PARNELL

20) The Alliance and Leicester Bank is now part of which banking group?

SANTANDER

21) In what month will the Spring Bank Holiday be held in 2012?

JUNE (on the 4^th, immediately before the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday on the 5th)

22) Kim Jong-Il, the dictator of North Korea died in December 2011. Who was his predecessor as dictator of the country?

KIM-IL-SUNG

23) In which county is Lulworth Cove?

DORSET

24) Who is currently starring as the Wizard of Oz at the Palladium theatre London?

MICHAEL CRAWFORD

25) During 2011 what caused the BBC News website to have the largest volume of web traffic in its history at 16 million hits?

AUGUST RIOTS

26) Only one group which included a mother and son has achieved a UK number one hit? Which group?

LIEUTENANT PIGEON (WITH MOULDY OLD DOUGH)

27) The Liver Building and Port of Liverpool Building form 2 of the three graces on the Liverpool waterfront. What is the third building?

CUNARD BUILDING

28) Who wrote the play “An Inspector calls”?

J B PRIESTLEY

29) Where would you normally see “votive lights”?

IN A CHURCH (The proper name for the candles lit by people in support of prayers)

30) What was the family name for the inhabitants of Dunham Massey from the early 1400s onwards?

BOOTH

31) Which sign of the zodiac is not a living creature?

LIBRA (the scales)

32) Which stories featured Sir Thopas, Manciple and the Canon’s Yeoman?

THE CANTERBURY TALES

33) What are Doomstead, Skinfaxi and Sleipnir?

HORSES IN SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY

34) In the Victorian language of flowers, what does a white rose signify?

LOVE, INNOCENCE OR PURITY (Accept any)

35) Who said “Pile it high, sell it cheap”?

SIR JACK COHEN (the founder of Tesco)

36) The soup Cullen Skink is made from onion, potatoes and which fish?

FINNAN HADDOCK (Accept HADDOCK)

37) What is the name of the largest group of baleen whales, which includes the humpback whale and the blue whale?

RORQUALS

38) Which document famously contains the following words…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

39) In the famous 1959 film, what is Ben Hur’s first name?

JUDAH

40) Hed Kandi, Def Jam South and Captains of Industry are all examples of what?

RECORD LABELS

41) What is the main ingredient of guacamole?

AVOCADO

42) There are two 10 letter words in the English language of 10 letters which both start and end with “th”. Give either.

THIRTEENTH OR THOUSANDTH

43) If a recipe calls for 100 grams of an ingredient, what is that in ounces?

4 (no leeway!)

44) In which county is Runnymede?

SURREY

45) In law what is embracery?

CORRUPTING A JURY (OR INDIVIDUAL JUROR)

46) Vectis was the Roman name for where?

ISLE OF WIGHT

47) Which horse won the King George VI chase on Boxing Day 2011?

KAUTO STAR

48) Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash in April 1960. Which other rock star was badly injured in the same crash?

GENE VINCENT

49) Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper were killed in the same plane crash in February 1959. Which other rock star died with them?

RITCHIE VALENS

50) The Mousetrap is the longest continuous running play ever, but in what year did it open in London?

1952 (no leeway as 60^th anniversary year)

51) Who was the Greek Goddess of Revenge?

NEMESIS

52) In Hamlet whose grave was being dug when Yorick’s skull was found?

OPHELIA

53) Who starred as Tom Thumb in the 1958 film of the same name?

RUSS TAMBLYN

54) How long in miles is the Great Barrier Reef?

1600 MILES (ACCEPT 1500 - 1700)

55) In which fictional town does Inspector Wexford live and work?

KINGS MARKHAM

56) Orenthal was the Christian name of which defendant in a famous trial of the 1990’s?

O.J. SIMPSON

57) In which province of Ireland is Dublin situated?

LEINSTER

58) On which river does Bordeaux stand?

THE GARONNE

59) In which town was Colonel Ghaddafi captured?

SIRTE

60) A Shamouti is a variety of which fruit?

ORANGE (a Jaffa orange)

61

Q In America, what is known as the “shrine of democracy”?

A Mount Rushmore

62 Q What is the main ingredient of the dish hummus?

A Chickpeas

63 Q The Persian phrase meaning “The King is helpless” has given us which word or phrase commonly used in English?

A Checkmate (Shāh Māt)

64 Q On which island is Duart Castle?

A Mull

65 Q Which disease gets its name from the Greek word for coal?

A Anthrax (hence anthracite: because of the black lesions it causes)

66 Q What is the name of the world’s tallest road bridge, over which the motorway from Paris to the Spanish border passes?

A Millau Viaduct

67 Q What was the name of the sect involved in the Waco massacre in Texas in 1993?

A Branch Davidian

68 Q In the film Interview with the Vampire, which actor plays the vampire who is interviewed?

A Brad Pitt (not Tom Cruise, who plays Lestadt, the main character)

69 Q According to the book of Genesis, who first bought Joseph as a slave in Egypt?

A Potiphar

70 Q In the song the Devil Went Down To Georgia, in what type of contest did the devil compete in order to win souls?

A Fiddle-playing

71 Q Which song was the Labour Party’s theme in its Election campaign of 1997?

A Things can only get better

72 Q Which fictional Victorian scoundrel did George MacDonald Fraser re-create as an anti-hero?

A Flashman

73 Q What is the title of Eric Idle’s hit musical play, based on the film Monty Python & the Holy Grail?

A Spamalot

74 Q Who was the lead guitarist of The Smiths, and co-operated with Morrissey in writing most of their songs?

A Johnny Marr

75 Q Which British band had its first top ten hit in 1999 with Why does it always rain on me?

A Travis

76 Q What substance is formed (along with water) by adding an alkali to an acid?

A A salt

77 Q By what name was the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan known between 1922 and 1946?

A Transjordan

78 Q Joe Louis only lost 2 professional fights – one was to Rocky Marciano, against who was his other defeat?

A Max Schmelling

79 Q Who is the only woman to have been French Prime Minister?

A Edith Cresson

80 Q In which novel set in the near future is there a country called Gilead, roughly where New England now is?

A The Handmaid’s Tale (by Margaret Atwood)

81 Q Which town was Captain James Cook’s birthplace in 1728?

A Middlesbrough

82 Q To listen to whom did 180,000 people pack into Wembley Stadium in 1954?

A   Billy Graham

83 Q What is the prize for Best Film at the Berlin film festival?

A Golden Bear

84 Q What is the full name of Rupert Bear’s elephant chum?

A Edward Trunk

85 Q In which country is A Midsummer Night’s Dream set?

A Greece (mainly in a wood near Athens)

86 Q Who or what is a gricer?

A Trainspotter

87 Q Who wrote the novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin?

A Louis de Bernieres

88 Q Which fictional character had female companions called Cathy, Emma and Tara?

A John Steed (from The Avengers)

89 Q In which castle did the Duke of Wellington die?

A Walmer Castle (Kent)

90 Q Which cyclist, born in Belgium with an Australian father, won gold, silver and bronze medals for Britain in the Athens Olympics?

A Bradley Wiggins

91 Q Of which other actress was Bette Davis speaking when she said “she’s screwed everyone at MGM except Lassie”?

A Joan Crawford

92 Q Which African country was formerly known as French Sudan?

A Mali

93 Q Gregorian and Schmidt are varieties of which type of instrument?

A Telescope

94 Q By what name is the Russian Wolfhound also known?

A Borzoi

95 Q In which English cathedral are the bones of King Canute?

A Winchester

96 Q The Book of Changes, one of the 5 classics of Confucianism, is better known by what Chinese name?

A I Ching

97 Q Four colours of ball are used in squash. Apart from the skill levels of the players involved, what determines which colour is used?

A The Temperature / Atmospheric Conditions

98 Q In which European capital city did Slobodan Milosevic die?

A The Hague

99 Q Which best-selling novel, first published in 2003, took its title from the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze?

A  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (by Mark Haddon)

100 Q In which castle was Edward II murdered in 1327?

A Berkeley

101 Q What is the name of the dish made from anchovies and eggs on toast?

A Scotch Woodcock

102 Q By what name was the state of Tuvalu known until 1976?

A Ellice Islands

103 Q  what is the capital city of the Indian state of Kashmir?

A Srinagar

104 Q Of which actress did Groucho Marx say “I knew her before she became a virgin”?

A Doris Day

105 Q Which fictional character’s last words were “Floreat Etona”?

A Captain Hook

106 Q Which US tennis player was the first to win the Grand Slam?

A Donald Budge

107 Q For which club did Paul Gascoigne sign for £5.5 million from Tottenham in the 1991-2 season?

A Lazio

108 Q In which body of water did the Mary Rose sink?

A The Solent (or Portsmouth harbour)

109 Q Who will be the captain of this year’s American Ryder Cup team?

A Davis Love III (Accept Davis Love)

110 Q On which racecourse is the Kentucky Derby run?

A Churchill Downs

111 Q Which Brighton hotel was bombed during the Tory Party Conference?

A The Grand

112 Q What was the name of Yogi Bear’s sweetheart?

A Cindy Bear

113 Q Who built the first British motor car but was beaten to the market by Daimler?

A Frederick William Lanchester

114 Q In Douglas Adams’ Hitch Hiker “trilogy”, who is the only other surviving human being apart from Arthur Dent?

A Trillian (Trisha Marie McMillan) – played in the TV series by Sandra Dickinson

115 Q Willie Loman is the name of the title character in which play?

A Death of a salesman

116 Q Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Edward VIII’s abdication?

A Cosmo Gordon Lang

117 Q Which group had hit albums called ‘Picture Book’ and ‘Men & Women’?

A Simply Red

118 Q What does the T stand for in James T. Kirk?

A Tiberius

119 Q Which 20th century statesman was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm?

A Willy Brandt

120 Q Which 1989 film starred Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man?

A See no evil, hear no evil

Supplementaries

1. Who was the head of Polly Peck International when it crashed in 1991?

ASIL NADIR

2. What is the highest mountain in South America?

ACONCAGUA

3. By what name do we now know the city known by the Romans as Vindobona?

VIENNA

4. Who was the first Australian golfer to win the US Open?

DAVID GRAHAM

5. To which family of plants does the apple tree belong?

ROSE

Tiebreak

What was the attendance at the third round FA Cup replay between Bolton and Macclesfield Town held on 17 January 2012?

9,466

24th Jan Questions

There are a couple of  duplicates that were spotted it time but  I don’t have the replacement questions

All questions set by The Knot Originals

All questions set by Knot Originals - hope you enjoy the quiz!

Specialist Rounds are: History; Myths, Legends and Folklore; Reinventing the Wheel; Arts and Entertainment; Sport; Geography; Science;     English, but not as we know it.

 

HISTORY

1 Who was President Ford’s running mate in the 1976 US presidential election?

Robert Dole

2 Which Prime Minister asserted ‘The Conservative Party is an organised hypocrisy’?

Benjamin Disraeli

3 Who sought, and failed, to gain election as Adlai Stevenson’s running mate at the 1956 Democratic Convention after Stevenson threw open the decision to the floor of the convention?

(John F Kennedy - both names needed

4. Which First Minister of Northern Ireland lost his Westminster seat in the 2010 UK General Election?

Peter Robinson

5 In what year was the Shah of Iran overthrown? 

1979 - no leeway

6 In what year did General Pinochet seize power in Chile? 

1973 - no leeway

7 Which controversial right-wing historian, once successfully sued for libel by another historian, has completed two volumes of his projected three volume biography of Winston Churchill?

David Irving

8 Which US president has been the subject of an acclaimed multi-volume biography by Robert A Caro, the fourth volume of which will be published in May this year?

Lyndon B Johnson

Supplementaries
1 Who vowed to restore order to the streets of Warsaw?

(General Jaruzelski

2 Which Polish President died in the Smolensk air crash in 2010? Lech Kaczinski

 

MYTHS LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE

1.In folklore,, what name is given to the ghostly flickering lights seen over bogs and marshes ?

Will o the Wisp
2. According to legend, which saint nipped the devil’s nose with a pair of tongs ?

St. Dunstan
3. Moonrakers is the name traditionally given to natives of which county

Wiltshire

4. The first reference to which mythical creature is when it was said to have been seen by Saint Columba in 565 A.D.?

Loch Ness monster

5. Which legendary 11th century leader of resistance to the Normans had his headquarters near Ely in Cambridgeshire ?   Hereward the Wake

6. The old Celtic or Wiccan festival of Beltane falls on which day of the year ?

May Day - May 1st

7.Where in Cornwall would you go to in early May to see the Furry Dance ? 
Helston

8. Which Staffordshire village is famous for its annual Horn Dance?

Abbots Bromley

SUPPLEMENTARIES

1. Who in legend slayed the giants Cormoran and Blunderbore ?   Jack the Giant Killer
2. The old Celtic or Wiccan festival of Beltane falls on which day of the year ?
                                                                ( May Day - May 1st )
REINVENTING THE WHEEL
A round devoted to the greatest engineering invention of them all.

1. What is the two-word term used to describe energy lost in the interaction of wheel and road?

A: rolling resistance

2. What part of a car was pioneered by Alfred Vacheron in the Paris-Rouen race in 1894?

A: the steering wheel (cars were previously steered with a tiller)

3. A cover version of Bob Dylan and the Band’s “This Wheel’s on Fire” is the theme music to which British TV comedy?

A: Absolutely Fabulous

4. What colour is the wheel in the centre of the Indian national flag?

A: Navy blue

5. The wheel is representative of what in the iconography of Orphic, Jain and Buddhist religions?

A: Reincarnation

6. What was the name of the American competitor to Matchbox, introduced by Mattel in 1968?

A: Hot Wheels

7. In which board game do you have to collect six segments to make up a wheel?       
A: Trivial Pursuit

8. The American TV version of Wheel of Fortune made a superstar of the female co-host, even though she never spoke. What was her name?

A: Vanna White

Supplementaries
1.    Who wrote the Times editorial entitled ‘Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel’ about the Rolling Stones Drug Trial in 1968?

William Rees-Mogg
2.    Stuck in the Middle With You was the biggest hit for which band?

Stealers Wheel

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT - LET’S GO CLUBBING !

1. What’s the name of the famous Harlem nightclub of the 1930s where the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie both had residencies ?

The Cotton Club

2. Which Swiss nightclub was the meeting place for the founders of the art movement known as Dadaism ?

The Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich

3. Which New York club is known as the birthplace of the dance craze “the twist “ ?

The Peppermint Lounge

4. The character Tony Manero spends much of his time in a disco in which film ?

Saturday Night Fever

5. Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker gave his name to which famous New York jazz club ?

Birdland

6. In which nightclub would you expect to see Jane Avril and Yvette Guilbert ? 
  The Moulin Rouge - subjects of well-known paintings by Toulouse Lautrec

7. Which actor played the master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat club in the film  “ Cabaret “?

Joel Grey

8. A night club in Shanghai in 1935 , where a troupe of tap dancers are performing a   routine to the tune of “ Anything Goes “, features in the opening scene of which blockbuster film of 1984 ?

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

  SUPPLEMENTARIES

1. In the film “ Casablanca “, the house band at Rick’s Club Americaine play which national anthem ?

The Marseillaise - accept French)

2. The painting “ The Bar at the Folies Bergeres “ is by which French artist ?

Manet

IS IT SPORT?
A mix of questions on games that are called sports and other games that aren’t.

1. Subtract a snooker maximum from a 3-dart maximum. What answer do you get?

33 (180 minus 147)

2. In Scrabble, how many points are scored for the word Quiz, assuming no bonus score squares or blanks?

22

3. In contract bridge, what is the lowest possible opening bid?

One Club

4. In the 1990’s Channel 4 featured a sport of Indian origin, which has been described as a mixture of wrestling and rugby. What is it called?

Kabbadi

5. ‘Rolling downhill, usually on a gentle slope, in a large transparent sphere’ describes what pastime?

Zorbing

6. The tokens in the original Monopoly set were inspired by the inventor’s wife’s charm bracelet. Four of them are a racing car, a boot, a ship, and a top hat. Give one of the other two.

Iron or Dog

7. In what board game do contestants have to draw a recognisable picture of a named object against the clock, so it can be recognised by their teammates?

Pictionary

8. What is the name of the table-top game, invented in 1987, which has been the main source of income for the Games Workshop chain of shops?

Warhammer 40,000 (Accept Warhammer)

Supplementaries
1. What is the name of the classic 1980’s computer game, where the player controls his piece through a maze, eating dots.

Pacman

2. How many pieces are there in a standard Double Six Domino set?

28

GEOGRAPHY

1. The equator only runs through one Asian country. Which one? Indonesia

2. Tropic of Capricorn runs through 5 African countries. Name one.
South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Mozambique or Botswana.

3. Iconic sports grounds: Eden Gardens claims to be the biggest cricket ground in the world. In which city would you find it?             Kolkata/Calcutta

4. In which US state is Augusta National, home of the US Masters Golf?

Georgia

5. In which city can you see most of the works by the architect Gaudi?

Barcelona

6. Which European country is known as Hrvatska by the locals? Croatia

7. Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, but in which modern country is Sarajevo?

Bosnia/Herzegovina

8. The treaty of Brest Litovsk ended Russia’s involvement in WW1. In which present-day country is Brest-Litovsk?

Belarus

Supplementary
1. Which European country is called Crna Gora by its natives? Montenegro

2. Which  city was laid out by the town planner Baron Haussmann?

  Paris

 

SCIENCE AND NATURE

1. Which creature, found widely in England, has the Latin name " bufo bufo " ?

the common toad
2. In medieval times in England, what creatures were called " urchins " ?

hedgehogs
3. Which disease of the central nervous system is named after a 19th century English scientist who wrote a treatise on " the shaking palsy " ?

Parkinson's Disease

4. Which disorder in the autism spectrum is named after the Austrian doctor who identified it in 1944 ?

Aspergers Syndrome

5. If a leaf is cordate, what shape is it ?

Heart shaped

6. What shape is a sagitate leaf ?

Arrow shaped

7. What do we call the soft skin covering a deer's antlers ?       Velvet

8. Which flower gets its name from the Turkish word for a turban ?  Tulip

  SUPPLEMENTARIES
1. Calisto and Io are moons of which planet ?

Jupiter

2. What name do we give to a cloud of dust and gas in space ?   Nebula

ENGLISH, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
1. When we are in a difficult situation, we say we are snookered, but what term derived from pool do Americans use?

Behind the 8-ball

2. In the Scottish dish Neeps and Tatties, what are neeps?         Turnips

3. What is an Esky in Australia?

A cool box or picnic basket

4. What do South Africans call a barbecue?

Braai (pronounced BRI)

5. What traffic item do South Africans call a Robot?

Traffic Light

6. We call it a tap, what do the Americans call it?

Faucet

7. What do Scots refer to as a But and Ben?

A small house (originally 2-room)

8. What do Australians call flip-flops?

Thongs

SUPPLEMENTARIES
1. What do Americans call a spanner?

Wrench

2. What does a Scot mean by the Gloaming?

Twilight

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. According to FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, how can racist incidents during football matches best be settled?

With a handshake after the game.

2. Which cabinet minister was recently discovered disposing of confidential documents in a bin in St James Park London?             Oliver Letwin

3. Why was Aliona Vilani in the news in December 2011?                           

Professional dance partner of Strictly Winner Harry Judd

4. What is the life expectancy for a woman in the UK?

82 (accept 81-83)

5. Which British film director, famous for ‘Women in Love’, died in November 2011?

Ken Russell

6. The inventor Ron Hickman died in February 2011. For which product is he best remembered?

Black and Decker Workmate

7. On the Kelvin scale, what is the boiling point of water?             373

8. Who is (Jan 20th) Secretary of state for Defence?

Philip Hammond                                       
9. Spell the word CONNOISSEUR (CONNA-SIR)

10. What is 2012 in Roman numerals?

MMXII.

What was the name of the Japanese nuclear reactor badly damaged in the 2011 tsunami?

Fukushima

12. Which luxury resort was ironically chosen for the G20 crisis talks in 2011?   
Cannes
13. Near which Pakistani city was Osama Bin Laden captured and killed?

Abbottobad

14. In which field of sporting endeavour did Hayley Turner make her mark in 2011? 
Horse racing(first female jockey to win a Group 1 race)

15. Who designed Kate Middleton’s dress for the Royal Wedding in 2011?

Sarah Burton

16. Which seaside town features in Bram Stoker’s Dracula?           Whitby

17. In the Rocky Horror Show, what is the name of the dance we are urged to do again and again?

The Time Warp

18. Why did George Michael cancel concerts towards the end of 2011?
He had Pneumonia

19. What is an ergophobic’s fear?

Work

20. Salt, Sweet, Bitter and Sour are the four basic tastes, but what is the Japanese word given to the fifth taste?

Umami

21. In the books by Enid Blyton, what colour is Noddy’s hat ?    blue

22. What does Popeye the sailorman have tattooed on his forearm ? an anchor

23. “ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness “, is the opening line of which famous 20th century poem ?       Howl by Allen Ginsberg

24. Sal Paradise and Dean Moriaty are the central characters in which famous 20th century novel ?

On the Road by Jack Kerouac)

25. In which English city would you find the district of Old Swan ?   Liverpool

26. Scousers are natives of Liverpool, but which city do Mackems come from ?

Sunderland

27. What drink do you get by taking the first letters of the following ; Prince Phillip’s island of birth ; the play in which Iago appears ; The destination of the Wife of Bath ; the Beatles’ song featuring Desmond the barrow boy and the first name of 
Wesker the playwright ? 

COCOA  - Corfu, Othello, Canterbury, Obladi Oblada 
  and Arnold

28. Where in Cheshire would you end up if you took the first letters of the following : Lady Godiva’s husband ; the colour of Leicester Square on a Monopoly board ; the woman who Tennyson asked to “ come into the garden “ and the principal river of Vietnam ? 

LYMM - Leofric, Yellow, Maud, Mekong

29. Which crime novelist created the character Detective Inspector Banks ?

Peter Robinson
30. In the crime novels of John Harvey, Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick works in which Midlands city ?  (

Nottingham

31. Which star of the Tarzan movies died, allegedly aged 80, in Florida on 28th December 2011?
Cheetah the Chimp

32. In which county is the lowest point in England?    Cambridgeshire (Holme Fen: 9.8 feet below sea level)

33. Which English National Park has the highest sea cliffs?                Exmoor

34. Michelangelo was born in which century ?

15th – 1475

35. Where in print did we famously see the words “ Thank you and goodbye “ last year ?

Front page headline on last edition of the News of the World 
     
36. Which political leader caused offence last year by telling an African priest that he  had “ a nice tan “ ?

Berlusconi

37. The ill-fated horse Khartoum appeared in which film ?

The Godfather - Don Corleone has Khartoum’s head chopped off

38. What’s the name of the horse mentioned in the Beatles song “ Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite “ on the Sgt. Peppers album ?           Henry

39. Who was on the English throne when Dick Turpin was hanged in 1739 ?

George 2nd

40. The Great Fire of London took place during the reign of which monarch ?

Charles 2nd

41..Which 1986 Turner Prize winning duo is most famous for their large photographic work, The Pictures?

A: Gilbert & George

42.. The Venetian island of Murano is famous for the making of what?

  Glass

43. Who was the elder brother of Moses?

Aaron.

44. What do you call a statistician who calculates risks for insurance?

Actuary.

45. What do you call a horizontal mining shaft?

Adit.

46. Who coined the term ‘Affluent Society’?

John Kenneth Galbraith (the economist)
47. What was the name of the naturalist who accompanied Captain Cook?  

Joseph Banks.
48. What is the name – from the Bible – for the spiritual qualities that characterise members of the Kingdom of God?                    Beatitudes.

49. What was the name of the first Prime Minister of Algeria which became independent of France in 1962?

Ahmed Ben Bella.
50. Which historian was criticised in his lifetime for “treating the Christian church as a phenomenon of general history” in his history of the Roman Empire?

A: Edward Gibbon

51. Who was the Minister of Health in Attlee’s government, overseeing the establishment of the modern National Health Service?

A: Aneurin Bevan

52. What is the name of the American explorer who discovered Machu Pichu and other Inca settlements in Peru?

Hiram Bingham.

53. What is the modern name for Bechuanaland?

Botswana.

54. What is the popular name for ‘Genealogical and Heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of the UK’?

Burke’s Peerage.

55. Patek-Phillipe manufactures what high quality items?            Watches

56. The Aubergine is native to which area of the world?

Indian sub-continent

57. Who was the Prussian officer and writer on war (1780 – 1831) credited with the philosophical foundation to the science of war?

   Karl von Clausewitz.
58. What is the name of the computer game series made by Will Wright, who was later to create The Sims in which players built cities?

A: SimCity

59. Magneto, Professor Xavier and Wolverine are major characters in which comic book series?

A: X-Men

60. What is the more common name for ‘climacteric’?        Menopause.

61. A ‘condominium’ is commonly used to describe a type of joint ownership of property in America. What is the older and proper use of the term?        
The joint rule of a territory by two or more countries.

62. Famously, Nelson put his telescope to his blind eye (to refuse to see the signal from his commander, Sir Hyde Parker) at a sea battle in 1801. What was the name of the battle?

Battle of Copenhagen.
63. What is the one word for the Ten Commandments?

Decalogue

64. Which politician famously has the middle names Denzil Xavier?

Michael Portillo

65. Recently elected Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is keen to take her country out of the Commonwealth. Which country?

Jamaica

66. Wayne Hemingway, the fashion designer and founder of Red Or Dead, is the son of which 1960s TV wrestler of native North American descent?

Billy Two Rivers

67. Tim Canterbury and Dawn Tinsley are two of the major characters from which early-2000s British sitcom?

A: The Office

68. The song “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine returned to popularity in December 2009 for what reason, having first charted in 1992?

A: It was the focus of a successful campaign to deny The X Factor winner the Christmas number one

69. Which former StockportCounty manager enjoyed a short managerial tenure between the two incarnations of Micky Adams at Port Vale?

Jim Gannon

70. Which team did Manchester City beat to win the FA Cup last season?

Stoke City

71. Which former Yugoslav country will, if approved in a referendum, join the EU in 2013?

Croatia

72. The ‘velvet divorce’ describes the dissolution of which country in 1993?

Czechoslovakia

73. Who is the current Prime Minister (or Taoiseach) of the Irish Republic?

Enda Kenny

74. Who plays George Smiley in the recent film adaptation of ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?’

Gary Oldman

75. Which team did Nemanja Vidic play for before Manchester United?

Spartak Moscow

76. Give a year in the life of Samuel Johnson.

1709-1784

77. Give a year in the life of Jonathan Swift.

1667-1745

78. Who is the current Secretary of State for Scotland?

Michael Moore

79. Which politician famously compared Sir Geoffrey Howe to a dead sheep?

Denis Healey

80. Which Scottish politician resigned as his party’s leader in 2000, vowing never to return, only to seek (and win) election as party leader in 2004?

Alex Salmond

81. Which female singer released an album about war titled ‘Let England Shake’?

PJ Harvey

82. Carlton Banks and Geoffrey Butler are two of the major characters from which early-1990s American sitcom?

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

83. Who plays the poetically foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in the TV series The Thick of It?

Peter Capaldi

84. Stefanie Meyer is the author of which popular series of fantasy novels?

The Twilight Saga

85. Grant Naylor is the collective name for the men behind which TV programme and series of novels?

Red Dwarf

86. Which US politician declared ‘Message: I care’?

George HW Bush

87. Which recently deceased writer called Mother Theresa ‘a thieving Albanian dwarf?’

Christopher Hitchens

88. Who was the only Cabinet minister to resign in protest at the Iraq war?

Robin Cook

89. What is the name of the right-wing political protest movement, defined by its opposition to taxation and government spending, which made Michelle Bachmann a favourite in 2011?

The Tea Party

90. Which prominent Republican was the subject of the films, The Undefeated and You Betcha!,?

Sarah Palin

91. The Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke recently made an individual score of 329 not out in the New Year’s cricket Test against India. Only three Australians have made a higher Test score: Bradman was one, name one of the other two.

Mark Taylor (334 not out)
Or Matthew Hayden (380)

92. Which battle took place on St. Crispin’s Day, 25th October 1415?

Agincourt

93. The lines ‘’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.’ come from which poem?

In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

94. The festive storyline of Eastenders featured a fire in a B&B. The presence of what caused the fire to be unusually severe?

Contraband fireworks

95. Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson are the original members of which rock and roll group?

The Band

96. Who is the current Vice President of the USA?

Joe Biden

SUPPLEMENTARIES
1. On 4th November 2011, there was a major motorway crash near to which town’s rugby club?
Taunton
2. Who plays Victor Meldrew’s wife Margaret in One Foot In The Grave?
   Annette Crosbie

3. In which Cumbrian town is the home brewery for Jennings beer?

Cockermouth

4. Aubergine is native to which area of the world?

Indian sub-continent

5. In the Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Adventure Of The Speckled Band’, what is the ‘speckled band’?
A snake

TUESDAY 17TH JANUARY 2012

SPECIALIST QUESTIONS

set by The Church House Bollington

1. SPORT

2. HISTORY

3. ENTERTAINMENT

4. SCIENCE

5. GEOGRAPHY

6. DOUBLE BARREL

7. RUGBY BUT NOT RUGBY

8. DO THEY MEAN ME?

ROUND 1: SPORT

1. The Chennai Super Kings are the current holders of which title?
Indian Premier League /(IPL) (Cricket T20 competition)

2. In August 2011, Guernsey resident, 70 years old Roger Allsop became the oldest person to do what ?

To swim the English Channel

3. In March 2011, boxer David Haye was defeated by Vladamir Klitchko. What did Haye attribute his defeat to ?

A broken toe

4. Peter Ridsdale has previously been Chairman of Leeds United, Barnsley, Cardiff City and Plymouth Argyle, but which club did he become Chairman of in December 2011 ?

Preston North End

5. Which coach led England to the Rugby Union World Cup Final in 2007 and was then controversially replaced by Martin Johnson ? Brian ASHTON

6. Which Super League Rugby League Club has been given permission to install an artificial all weather playing surface for the 2012 season ?

Widnes Vikings

7. In December 2011, which New Zealand Cricketer equalled the record for the number of sixes, namely 16, scored in a first class innings.?

Jesse RYDER (Previously achieved by Andrew Symonds & Graham Napier)

8. Rory Mcllroy, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and Padraig Harrington are all members of the same golf club in Northern Ireland. Name the club.

9. Royal Portrush

SUPPLEMENTARIES

10. Which Football League Club has the nickname 'The Shakers' ? Bury

11. In which city will the 2014 Commonwealth Games be held ? Glasgow

ROUND 2: HISTORY

1. Tarquin the Proud was the last ruler of which people who ruled Rome prior to 510 BC, when the Roman Empire was established?

ETRUSCANS

2. Who was the King of Norway who led an invasion of England before William of Normandy's invasion in 1066?

HARALD HARDRADA

3. Which Muslim leader led an army that re-captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187?

SALADIN

4. What was the name of the court introduced by King Henry VII to deal with rebellious and disobedient barons?

COURT OF STAR CHAMBER

5. By what name is the massacre of Huguenots in Paris in 1572 commonly known?

ST BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE

6. What name is given to the uprising of 1688-89 which led to King James II of England being deposed?

GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

7. Which Eastern European defensive alliance was created by the Soviet Union in 1955?

WARSAW PACT

8. What name is given to the period of reform introduced to

Czechoslovakia in 1956 by Alexander Dubcek?

PRAGUE SPRING

SUPPLEMENTARIES

9. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, was a member of which organization?

BLACK HAND

10. Who invented a converter to turn liquid iron into steel in 1956?

Henry BESSEMER

ROUND 3: ENTERTAINMENT: Name the Film

Simply name the film from the (tongue-twisting) description.

1. Stammering sovereign seeks support from sassy subordinate skilled in the science of speaking.

The Kings Speech

2. Peculiar but prosperous personality persuades panel of professionals to peruse his prehistoric playground.

Jurassic Park

3. Determined deputy dogs disgraced doctor.

The Fugitive

4. Captain craves Cambodian conference with crazy colonel. Apocalypse Now

5. Covetous court composer cunningly kills confoundedly creative curiosity.

Amadeus

6. Coarse crew of colour coded cons congregate after catastrophic caper for copious carats.

Reservoir Dogs

7. Plucky professor and his pa prevent pernicious plunderers from purloining prominent primeval prize.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

8. Besmirched banker bound in a bastille buys a bludgeon and, by and by, burrows out.

The Shawshank Redemption

SUPPLEMENTARIES

9. Willis works with weepy whippersnapper who witnesses worrisome wonders.

The Sixth Sense

10. Bashful ballerina's big break begets bizarre battle with her own black being. Black Swan

ROUND 4: SCIENCE — PICTURE ROUND Please look at each picture. There is a question for each.

1. Which generic term is used to describe all of these angles?

OBTUSE

2. What would you use this equation to calculate?

AREA OF A CIRCLE

3. What does this symbol represent?

APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO

4. Whose laws are these?

OHM

5. What is represented by this symbol, which is like an 8 turned on its side?

INFINITY

6. Whose theory is this?

PYTHAGORAS

7. Who is the scientist in picture?

Dr Brian COX

8. Who is the scientist in picture?

Sir Isaac NEWTON

Supplementaries / Visually Impaired

9. Give a year in the life of Louis Pasteur

1822-1895

10.Give a year in the life of Marie Curie

1867-1934

ROUND 5: GEOGRAPHY

This round is based on entries from the BBC's list of 50 things to see before you die!

1. The Terracotta Army can be seen near which Chinese city? XIAN

2. Off the coast of which Australian state is the Great Barrier Reef? QUEENSLAND

3. The Victoria Falls are on the border of Zimbabwe and which other country?

ZAMBIA

4. The island of La Digue is part of which island group? SEYCHELLES

5. The Galapagos Islands belong to which country?

ECUADOR

6. The Temples of Abu Simnel are in which historical area which runs along the River Nile from southern Egypt into North Sudan? NUBIA

7. Yosemite National Park is in which American state? CALIFORNIA

8. Which city is known as "the rose-red city half as old as time"? PETRA

SUPPLEMENTARIES

9. The temple of Angkor Wat is in which modern day country? CAMBODIA

10. The Golden Temple can be found in which Indian city? AMRITSAR

ROUND 6: DOUBLE BARREL

All the answers in this round are people with double barrelled surnames

1. Which famous writer was also an MCC cricketer whose only first class wicket was that of W.G.Grace?

Sir Arthur CONAN DOYLE

2. Which comedian invented the characters whose 'real' names are Alistair Leslie Graham and Mr Sagdiyev?

Sacha BARON COHEN (They are the names of Ali G and Borat)

3. Which composer wrote the opera Hugh The Drover?

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

4. Which actress is the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith ?

Helena BONHAM CARTER

5. Which actor played the roles of Trigger in Only Fools and Horses and Owen in The Vicar of Dibley?

Roger LLOYD PACK

6. Who is the presenter of the series of TV programmes featuring River Cottage?

Hugh FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL

7. Who, along with the late Jennifer Paterson, made up the Two Fat Ladies?

Clarissa DICKSON-WRIGHT

8. Which Australian golfer won the 1991 Open Championship?

Ian BAKER-FINCH

SUPPLEMENTARIES

9. What was the maiden name of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother?

BOWES-LYON

10.Which Australian-born talent show judge's best known catchphrase is "Just 3 words — FAB-U-LOUS'?

Craig REVEL-HORWOOD

ROUND 7: RUGBY BUT NOT RUGBY

The answers in this round all contain words used in rugby — you need to give the full answer, not just the rugby term (Surnames will suffice where the answer is a person)

1. William Shatner, of Star Trek fame, was also the star of which U.S. police series of the 1980s?

T.J.HOOKER

2. Who composed the Brandenburg Concerto?

J.S. BACH

3. Which classic Jules Verne adventure novel has twice been made into a film, with the lead role being taken by James Mason in 1959 and Brendan Fraser in 2008?

JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

4. The name of which character from Sheridan's play The Rivals passed into the English language for the practice of using incorrect words?

MRS MALAPROP

5. Which classic soul song was a hit for Eddie Floyd in 1967 and Amii Stewart in 1979?

 KNOCK ON WOOD

6. What is the name of the principal mountain route linking Pakistan with Afghanistan?

KHYBER PASS

7. Which current Premier League footballer represents Nigeria but was born in Uzbekistan?

Peter ODEMWINGIE

8. In Star Wars; The Phantom Menace, what is the name of the character voiced by Peter Serafinowicz who kills the Jedi Knight Qui Gon Jin ?

DARTH MAUL

 

SUPPLEMENTARIES

9. Which 1998 film starring Samantha Janus and Neil Morrissey, adapted from a John Godber play, is about a pub rugby team coached by a woman?

UP 'N' UNDER

10. What was the first solo song released by Shane Ward, winner of X Factor 2005?

THAT'S MY GOAL

Round 8: DO THEY MEAN ME?

This round is about hit songs that mention real people

1. Which actor is mentioned in the title of a Bananarama hit including the lines: " This is my only escape from it all, watching a film or a face on the wall”

ROBERT DE NIRO

2. Which outlaw is mentioned in the title of Cher's hit song which begins: "You're struttin' into town like you're slingin' a gun Just a small town dude with a big city attitude"

JESSE JAMES

3. Who were the group 'The Special AKA' talking about in the lines:

"21 years in captivity, shoes too small to fit his feet"?

NELSON MANDELA

4. Which sportsman, according to the words of a Johnny Wakelin hit: "knows how to talk and he knows how to fight, and all the contenders were beat out of sight."?

MUHAMMAD ALI (accept CASSIUS CLAY)

5. Which actor, according to a Hayzee Fantayzee hit: "stands so high, it's enough to make any redskin cry?

JOHN WAYNE

6. Which historical figure is referred to in an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark hit as a "Little catholic girl fallin' in love"? JOAN OF ARC

7. Who is the subject of the Don McLean song featuring the line:
"Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes"?

VINCENT VAN GOGH

8. Who, according to the words of a novelty hit by Bell & Spurling, is  "a lovely geezer - but don't forget that he's from Sweden"?

SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON

SUPPLEMENTARIES

9. Which actor, in a hit by Madness, "picks up useless paper and puts it in my pocket"? MICHAEL CAINE

10. Which actress is mentioned in the title of the Kim Carnes hit which begins "Her hair is hollow gold, I left a sweet surprise" BETTE DAVIS

 

 

 

 

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS

SET BY THE LAMB SHANKS

Q1: Which musical did Lee Marvins sole hit , “Wander’in star“, come from?

A: Paint your wagon

Q2: Which pop duo recorded “In the year 2025”?

A: Zager and Evans

Q3: At what speed in miles per hour does a wind become a Hurricane?

A: 73mph

Q4: What colour is the ribbon of the Victoria Cross?

A: Purple

Q5: Which of the worlds seas has no coastline?

A: Sargasso Sea

Q6: In the paso doble what is the female dancer supposed to be?

A: The bullfighters cape or cloak

Q7: What is manufactured from the Sapodilla tree?

A: Chewing gum

Q8: Which American film studio was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith,

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford?

A: United Artists

Q9: Name one of the countries the Kingdom of Navarre was divided between?

A: France and Spain

Q10: In heraldry what is meant by “couchant”?

A: Lying down

Q11: What was the capitol of the Roman province of Britain before Londinium?

A: Camulodunum (Colchester)

Q12: Which grain is used to make malt whiskey?

A: Barley

Q13: What type of fish are Arbroath smokies?

A: Haddock

Q14: Which term in Italian cooking means “soft but firm”?

A: Al dente

Q15: Which is the longest river in Italy?

A: The Po

Q16: Which Irish village is famous for its shrine to the Virgin Mary?

A: Knock

Q17: Why was income tax first levied in Britain?

A: To pay for the Napoleonic wars

Q18: Which animal was once called a Foul Marten?

A: Polecat

Q19: Which Saudi Arabian King was assasinated in 1975?

A: King Faisal

Q20: Of the five Great lakes of North America which is the only one which is wholly

In the USA?

A: Lake Michigan

Q21: How many players are there in a Gaelic football team?

A: Fifteen

Q22: Which football club formerly played its home games at Roker Park?

A: Sunderland

Q23: Which Czech wrote the novel “The good soldier Svejk“?

A: Jaroslav Hasek

Q24: Which Labour polititian was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

In 1999 and died in 2005?

A: Mo Mowlam

Q25: What is a necropolis?

A: A cemetery

Q26: What does an aphyllous plant not have?

A: Leaves

Q27: Which treaty allowed Britains entry into the European Community?

A: Treaty of Brussels

Q28: Which trading organisation was Britain a member of prior to joining the EEC?

A: European Free Trade Association

(EFTA)

Q29: What does scotopic vision allow you to do?

A: See in the dark

Q30: In which country was the singer Engelbert Humperdink born?

A: India

Q31: The cocktail Cuba Libre is made from Rum, Coca Cola, Ice and what other

Ingredient?

A: Lime juice

Q32: In which country was the spirits company Bacardi founded in 1862?

A: Cuba

Q33: What name was given to Adolf Hitler’s purge of members of the Nazi Party in

June/July 1934?

A: The night of the long knives

Q34: Which German Field Marshall surrendered to the Russian Army on the 31^st of

January 1943.

A: Von Paulus

Q35: Three films have won eleven Oscars, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings-Return

Of the King are two, what is the third?

A: Ben Hur

Q36: The Moat House Hotel at Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent was originally built

as Etruria Hall for which famous industrialist in 1771?

A: Josiah Wedgwood

Q37: How else is the star Sirius known?

A: The Dog Star

Q38: The Macclesfield canal runs north to join which other canal at Marple?

A: The Peak Forest Canal

Q39: Who had a number one hit single in 1965 with “Yeh Yeh”?

A: Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames

Q40: Who is the current Secretary of State for Education?

A: Micheal Gove

Q41: Which US state is north of Arkansas?

A: Missouri

Q42: Down which valley does the Mistral blow?

A: The Rhone Valley

Q43: Who was the first person to climb the Matterhorn?

A: Edward Whymper

Q44: The names of British racehorses are limited to how many letters?

A: Eighteen letters including spaces

Q45: Who was Margaret Thatchers first chancellor of the exchequer ?

A: Sir Geoffrey Howe

Q46: Who was the last English monarch to be born abroad?

A: George II

Q47: Who instituted the penny post?

A: Rowland Hill

Q48: On a post box what monarch is indicated by the inscription GR?

A: George V ( George is not enough)

Q49: What name is given to a young hawk taken from its nest for training?

A: Eyas

Q50: What is a hogget?

A: A sheep (between one and two years

old)

Q51: What do the initials MG stand for on a sports car?

A: Morris Garages

Q52: Which US state is called the nutmeg state?

A: Connecticut

Q53: Which stretch of water separates Italy and Sicily?

A: Straits of Messina

Q54: What was John Waynes last film?

A: The Shootist

Q55: Which city in Ontario is known as the Steel City of Canada?

A: Hamilton

Q56: Which British city is served by Aldergrove airport?

A: Belfast

Q57: The Hambleton cup, first run in 1612, is still run at what racecourse?

A: Thirsk

Q58: Who completes the quartet with Leonardo, Raphael and Michaelangelo?

A: Donatello (The Teenage mutant

Ninja turtles)

Q59: How many points has the star of David?

A: six

Q60: Which of the three Wilson brothers played the drums in The Beach boys?

A: Dennis

Q61: In Greek mythology what was the Sword of Damocles suspended by?

A: A single horse hair

Q62: What nationality was the composer Richard Strauss?

A: German

Q63: Which Scottish mathemmatician invented logarithms?

A: John Rapier

Q64: Which English County has the shortest coastline?

A: Durham

Q65: Marble is formed by the metamorphosis of which rock?

A: Limestone

Q66: Something unusual happens to the River Manifold and its tributary the Hamps

Before they join the River Dove at Ilam; what is it?

A: They flow underground (except

when in spate)

Q67: Which post did JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, hold at the outbreak of World War Two?

A: Ambassador to Great Britain

Q68: Which US President ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and

Nagasaki?

A: Harry Trueman

Q69: Which playwright wrote “Barefoot in the Park” and “The odd couple”?

A: Neil Simon

Q70: Which fashion designer created Madonna’s famous conical bra?

A: Jean Paul Gaultier

Q71: Which country’s parliament is called the Storting?

A: Norway

Q72: In which country did the sport Polo originate?

A: Iran (Persia)

Q73: Parsley belongs to which family of plants?

A: the Carrot family (Apiaceae)

Q74: Which artery supplies the kidney with blood?

A: The Renal Artery

Q75: In the Bible which King of Babylon saw his own death prophesied?

A: Belshazzar

Q76: In the ABBA song supertrooper where did the singer call from?

A: Glasgow

Q77: Which artist has an exhibition of new landscapes at the Royal Academy of Arts in

London?

A: David Hockney

Q78: What was the name of the cruise liner which ran aground and sank off the coast of

Italy on January the 14^th?

A: Costa Concordia

Q79: When were the Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck?

A: 1976

Q80: Lager is a very popular drink which originated in the German speaking areas of

Europe. What does the word mean in german?

A: Store or storage

Q81: Which part of the gut absorbs water from food?

A: The colon

Q82: What did social reformer George Williams found in 1844?

A: YMCA

Q83: Who wrote the Rolling Stones first top twenty hit “I wanna be your man”?

A: Lennon and Mcartney

Q84: What was the German codeword for the invasion of Russia in June 1941?

A: Barbarossa

Q85: Who is the patron saint of fishermen?

A: St Peter

Q86: Who is the patron saint of carpenters?

A: St Joseph

Q87: What illness is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus?

A: Glandular fever

Q88: Odynophobia is the fear of what?

A: Pain

Q89: Thierry Henry scored a goal for Arsenal on his return to the club last week.

In what year did he play his last game for them prior to leaving.

A: 2007

Q90: How is the German Mastiff better known?

A: Great Dane

Q91: On a London underground map what line is coloured green?

A: District line

Q92: In which country is the city of Aleppo?

A: Syria

Q93: What railway terminus would you arrive at if you caught a direct service

From Norwich to London?

A: Liverpool Street

Q94: Who presents the TV series “Great British Railway Journeys” currently on

Its third series.

A: Michael Portill

Q95: Name a year in the life of John Milton?

A: 1608-1674

Q96: Who surveyed the route of the Macclesfield canal?

A: Thomas Telford

SUPPLEMENTARIES

1: What is the capital of the Canadian province of Saskstchewan?

A: Regina

2: Which country has the only land border with the Dominion Republic?

A: Haiti

3: Who starred as Richard Hannay in the 1959 remake of “The 39 steps”?

A: Kenneth More

4. Who invented the Polaroid camera in 1947?

A: Edwin Land