18th November
GEOGRAPHY
1) Name one of the two capital cities in Europe closest by distance (This does not include
A)
2) Nuuk is the capital of which country?
A)
3) Which country has borders with
A)
4) Which country has borders with
A)
5) Which Borough of
A)
6) Which Canadian province is named after one of Queen
A)
7) In which European city is the General Secretariat of Interpol?
A)
8) In 1579 the
A)
SUPPLEMENTARY.
1) Approximately how many kilometres of coast line does the
A) 12500 accept 12000 – 13000.
2) Which city stands at the northern end of the
A) Port Said)
1. On which saint's day did the Battle of Agincourt take place?
3. Who was on the throne of
4. By what name is the Battle of Ardennes better known?
6. After which battle is a renowned stand at Anfield football ground named?
7. Who led the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC?
9. Who was the last Norman king of
10. What was the official codename of the Dambusters raid in 1943?
11. Off the coast of which country was the German battle ship Tirpitz sunk in 1944?
12. What was the popular nickname of Sir Henry Percy, son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland?
MUSIC
1. Who’s current album is entitled “Funhouse”
A: Pink
2: In Gustav Holst’s Planet Suite, which planet is depicted as “The Winged Messenger”?
A: Mercury
3:“Shine a Light” is a film about a band on tour and is directed by Martin Scorcese, name the band that it follows on tour.
A: The Rolling Stones
4: “The Circus Live” is the upcoming tour by which band?
A: Take That
5. In Gustav Holst’s Planet Suite, which planet is depicted as “The Bringer of Old Age”?
A: Saturn
6. Who’s current album is entitled “Death Magnetic”
A: Metallica
7: Who recently topped the
A: The X Factor finalists
8: Who recently presented the “MTV Music Awards in
A: Katy Perry
SUPPLEMENTARIES:
1: What is the name of the musical based on a novel by Victor Hugo that follows the life of Jean Valjean?
A: Les Miserables
2: What is the name of the opera based on a novel by Gaston Leroux whose main character is called Christine Daae?
A: Phantom of the Opera
SCIENCE & NATURE
1. What is the only place in the world where there is
no cold virus?
A.
2. What natural feature covers a quarter of
A.
3. Sn is the symbol for which chemical element?
A. TIN
4. What is the proper name for the tail of a whale?
A. FLUKE
5. What is the fastest land mammal over a short
distance?
A. CHEETAH
6. What is the chemical symbol for Nobelium?
A. No
7. Who developed the effective vaccine for smallpox?
A. EDWARD JENNER
8. How many legs does a bee have?
A. 6
SUPPLEMENTARY
9. Which blood group is the type most often found in
humans?
A. O
10. How did dinosaurs gestate their young?
A. IN AN EGG
SPORT
1) Football, name the West Bromwich
A) Tony Mowbray.
2) Rugby
A) Leeds Carnegie (accept
3) American Football, name either of the two teams that played at Wembley on the 24 Oct 08?
A)
4) Football, Which player currently holds the British transfer record? ,
A) Robinho (
5) Cricket, In the recent
A) Patel (22 runs)
6) Who is the manager of West Ham?
A) Gianfranco Zola.
7) Formula 1, who became the youngest ever winner of a formula 1 race when he won this years Italian grand prix?
A) Sebastian Vettel. (Toro Rosso)
8) Which English Rugby player had a try disallowed in the 2007
A) Mark Cueto
SUPPS
1, Bob Nudd is a 4x world champion in which sport?
A) Course fishing.
2) Who won this years golf’s US open?
A) Tiger Woods
TRANSPORTATION.
1. Virgin Trains operates its’ West Coast Mainline services with Pendolino tilting trains, built under licence by Alstom in
A.
2. When GNR lost the franchise to operate East Coast Mainline
services, which operating Company took over the services
and routes?
A. NATIONAL EXPRESS
3. BMI, the
last month?
A. LUFTHANSA
4. The
A. BOVINGTON
5. Before the M60 was completed as an orbital motorway and
re-numbered, the original Worsley to
which M number?
A. M63
6. Which British city has an airport at Lulsgate?
A.
7. Where is the
A. CRICH (Derbyshire)
8.
national were formed in
where was “First Group” formed?
A.
SUPPLEMENTARY.
9. Which Bicycle manufacturer is based in
A.
10. Which
A.
1) The painter Caneletto is famous for painting landscapes of two European cities,
A)
2) Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
3) How many contestants' boxes feature in the (
4) Which UK TV series was based on Eric Chappell's play The Banana Box?
5) Tall Dark and Gruesome is the title of whose autobiography?
6) Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great exponent of blank verse?
A) Christopher Marlowe (1564-93 - Blank verse traditionally is unrhymed, comprising ten syllables per line, stressing every second syllable.)
7) Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
A) Robert Browning (1812-89)
8) Name either of the two centuries that the artist Leonardo Da Vinci was alive?
A) 15th and 16th
Supplementary Questions
9) What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year 1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in
A) Beowulf
10) To what animal was Robert Burns referring in his poem with the lines "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie"?
Comics and Cartoons
1. Who is Norrin Radd’s alter ego?
2. Who is Steve Rogers’ alter ego?
3. Who wrote the graphic novel ‘V for Vendetta’ ?
4. In the Batman story who is the evil alter ego of Harvey Dent?
5. From which fictional substance is Wolverine’s skeleton made?
6. According to the graphic novel ‘The Killing Joke’, which super villain started his career as a struggling stand up comic?
7. In which city was Judge Dread ‘the law’?
8. For which organisation did Joe 90 work?
Supplementary
1. What was the special power of Mr. Fantastic from the ‘Fantastic Four’?
General Knowledge Questions
1. In which state was Barak Obama born?
2. In local media circles who is David Lafferty?
Editor of the Macclesfield Express.
3. Which playwright wrote the four plays; The Birds, The Clouds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs?
Aristophanes.
4. Who wrote the book on which the Hitchcock film The Birds was based?
Daphne Du Maurier
5. What name connects a college in Wrexham and one in
Yale.
6. Burning and dodging are processes used in which graphic art? Photography.
7. As at 6th November who is the manager of Newcastle United?
Joe Kinnear.
8. Of what are Chestnut, Portobello and Shitake varieties?
Mushrooms.
9. What kind of sentence is, “Evil rats on no star live”? Palindrome.
10. Which British Prime Minister was born in
11. What was the profession of Edward Chambré Hardman, whose house in
Photographer.
12. What ceased to darken peoples’ lives in 1851?
Window Tax.
13. How is Sir Isaac Newton said to have lost £20,000?
He had invested in the South Sea Company or “Bubble”.
14. If fishmongers sold fish and ironmongers sold iron goods, what were Costers that costermongers originally sold?
A variety of apple popular in medieval times.
15. Who acceded to the throne of
16. Who was given a patent for the world’s first electric dry shaver in 1928?
Jacob Schick.
17. When exactly was the Unknown Warrior buried in Westminster Abbey? (Date, Month & Year please.)
11th November 1920.
18. Which banker helped
Nathan Rothschild.
19. In photography, what is meant by the term Contra Jour?
The subject is lit from behind. (It means against the day.)
20. Of what are Desiree, Vivaldi and Charlotte varieties?
Potatoes.
21. Which British Prime Minister was born in Govan, Glasgow?
Gordon Brown
22. The
Johnny Cash.
23. Which rocker originally had a backing group called The Drifters? Cliff Richard.
24. In an internal combustion engine what joins a piston to a connecting rod?
A Gudgeon pin.
25. In mechanical engineering, what shape is a Woodruff Key?
Semi-circular .(or almost so)
26. Which
27. Which
28. As of 6th November who is the manager of
Tony Pulis.
29. What was the venue for MTV Europe Music Awards 2008?
Echo Arena,
30. In which country is the
31. What is the name of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange index? Hangseng?
32. What name is given to the Paris Stock Exchange?
The Bourse
33. The
Beer
34. “Cervine” is an adjective relating to which animal?
Deer
35. What type of creature is a mugger?
A Crocodile
36. In which Jane Austen novel do Sir Thomas Bertram and Mrs. Norris appear?
37. In Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ who does the heroine eventually marry?
Mr. Rochester
38. What is the alternative name for the chemical element Wolfrine, hence its symbol “W”?
Tungsten
39. Which ancient hero of classical mythology showed his strength at an early age when, as a baby, he strangled 2 snakes that had crawled into his bed? Hercules (or Heracles)
40. What, What as one of his 12 tasks, did Hercules have to fetch from the
Golden apples
41. The Watussi or Tutsi tribe come from
Their height. (They are the world’s tallest tribe)
42. In
Blue blooded (veins showed blue under very white skin)
43. In 1519 Trinidad,
Ferdinand Magellan
44. The main motor manufacturing plant of Skoda Auto is in which European country?
45. “Sportsters”, “Fat Boys”, “Soft Tails” and “Electra-Glides” are all models of which famous motor bike?
Harley Davidson
46. In which European city is Shakespeare’s play “Measure for Measure” set?
47. What did Don Quixote mistake for giants?
Windmills
48. What was the name of Edward VIII’s country residence in
49. In Victorian
To search for bodies on the banks of the
50. Which company built the Vimy and the
Vickers
51. Which African country was formerly known as
52. In which country would you find the volcano Villarica?
53. What is the collective name for a group of chickens?
A clutch
54. What is the collective name for a group of Angels?
A host
55. Who is the patron saint of
St Mark
56. Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?
St Crispin
57. By which treaty was
Treaty of
58. What was the name of the huge tract of land covering many present states, purchased by the
59. What name is given to a sugar syrup gently heated until it browns? Caramel
60. What was the profession of Marie-Antoine Carême?
Chef (The originator of French Haut Cuisine)
61. What was the “well known” advertising slogan for Wisconsin-brewed Schlitz Beer?
The Beer That Made
62. In 1968 which “rocker” had a country hit with “What Made Milwaukee Famous”?
Jerry Lee Lewis.
63. What is a sheep ked?
A (louse) fly
64. Of what in sport were mufflers, invented by Jack Broughton in the eighteenth century, the forerunner?
Boxing gloves
65. “Empire of the Sun”, The Kindness of Women” and “A User’s Guide to the Millenium” are all works by which English Writer?
J.G. Ballard
66. What is the name of the lagoon behind
67. By what name is the World Heritage Site coast of Dorset and
The
68. Who wrote ‘Labyrinth’ and ‘Sepulchre’?
Kate Mosse
69. Which company build the Spitfire?
Supermarine
70. Which famous newspaper and radio journalist, lived in Rainow and is buried at Jenkin Chapel?
Brian Redhead
71. Brian Redhead’s younger son, Will, was killed in a car crash. Which current political TV journalist was with him and survived?
Nick Robinson
72. What is the name of George W Bush’s dog that recently bit a reporter?
Barney
73. What was the name of Hitler’s dog?
Blondi
74. Who was the first Plantagenet king of
Henry II
75. In which English county would you find the seaside town of
76. Name either of the 2 female judges in the 2008 series of “X Factor”. Danii Minogue or Cheryl Cole (nee Tweedy)
77. Which Football League team is nicknamed “The Chairboys”?
Wycombe Wanderers
78. Give a year in the life of Isaac Newton.
1643-1727
79. Name any of the 3 chemical elements that make up the precious stone Ruby?
Aluminium, Oxygen, or Chromium (which gives the distinctive red colour)
80.
81. Which group’s albums include “A Rush of Blood to the Head” and “X&Y”?
Coldplay
82. Watford FC shares its ground with which Rugby Union Team?
Saracens
83. Who wrote the modern crime novels “Case Histories” and “One Good Turn”?
Kate Atkinson
84. Which chemical element (atomic number 34) is named after the moon?
Selenium (from the Greek word Selene meaning Moon)
85. Who directed the musical films “Bugsy Malone” and “The Commitments”?
Alan Parker
86. In which country would you find the
87. Give a year during which
1649-1660
88. The band “The Arctic Monkeys” come from which Northern city?
89. Give a year in the life of Galileo Galilei.
1564-1642
90. Arthur Wainwright MBE is best remembered for his books about what?
Walking – particularly in the
91. Which country’s airline is called “Varig”?
92. Who wrote the novels “Deception Point” and “Angels & Demons”?
Dan Brown
93. Which actor provides the voice for “Bob The Builder”?
Neil Morrissey
94. Give a year in the reign of George I.
1714-1727
95. “Looney Tunes” cartoons are produced by which movie studio?
Warner Brothers
96. Who is the current presenter of “Antiques Roadshow”?
Fiona Bruce
Supplementary Questions
1. Which American city was almost destroyed by fire in 1871?
2. ‘Pink
Rhododendron
3. In what year was the earthquake and subsequent fire that destroyed most of
1900
4. What is the common name for the tree Pinus Silvestris?
Scots Pine
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