9th December Questions
Specialist Questions Set by The Lamb Inn
SPORT
01. Football - On
ANSWER : 86 years ( accept 84 – 88 )
02. Boxing - Ricky Hatton recently beat American Pauli Malignaggi in
ANSWER : The Magic Man
03. Olympics - Sir Steven Redgrave (the supreme Olympian) has represented GB at what other sport ?
ANSWER : Bobsleigh
04. Horse racing - Jockey Jason McKeown was recently suspended for 2 days for improper conduct. What was his offence ?
ANSWER : He took the whip off a fellow rider in mid race.
(other rider was Donal Devereux - Not essential to answer)
05. Football – In season 2007/8 Derby County recorded the worst ever points tally in Premiership history, achieving just one victory from their 38 games. Who did they beat ?
ANSWER :
06. Golf - Between 1973 & 1977 the
ANSWER :
07. Cricket - Which bowler holds the record for taking most wickets for
ANSWER : Wasim Akram (414 wickets)
08. Rugby Union – In which year did
ANSWER : 1910 (ACCEPT 1908 – 1912)
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. Which horse finished runner-up to Red Rum in the 1973 Grand National ?
ANSWER : Crisp
b. Who scored
ANSWER : Matthew Upson
c. Football - In 2000 which round 2 defeated team were re-instated as a lucky loser to replace
ANSWER :
GEOGRAPHY
01.
ANSWER : Java
02. On which stretch of water does
ANSWER :
03. Which lake, also called Bodensee, lies partly in
ANSWER :
04. Where in
ANSWER :
05. Which country is nicknamed ‘The cockpit of
ANSWER :
06. Which of the
ANSWER :
07. Which stretch of water separates
ANSWER :
08.
ANSWER : Puerto Rico
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. What colour are the four stars on the flag of
ANSWER : Red
b.
ANSWER :
c. Name one of the two countries partly separated by the river
ANSWER :
d. Which is the southernmost of the
ANSWER :
HISTORY
01. The doomed ship Titanic had two sister ships. Name either of them.
ANSWER : Britanic and Olympic
02. What occupation has, for centuries, been assumed that unmarried women would take ?
ANSWER : Spinster (spinning yarn from cotton or wool)
03. For how many days were U.S. TV commercials suspended as a mark of respect after President Kennedy’s assassination ?
ANSWER : 4
04. What links the following : Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Shokagu, Soryu and Zuikaku ?
ANSWER : They were the Japanese aircraft carriers which attacked
05. Which famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825 ?
ANSWER :
06. Which achievement links the following : Arthur Martin-Leake, Noel Chavasse and Charles Upham ?
ANSWER : The only people to be awarded two Victoria Crosses.
07. What was the name of
ANSWER :
08. The words Tsar and Kaiser are both derived from which famous historical figurehead ?
ANSWER : Julius Caesar
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. What was the name of Henry VIII’s elder brother who died in 1502 whilst still heir-presumptive ?
ANSWER : Arthur
b. Which three letters did S O S replace as a morse code mayday signal ?
ANSWER : C Q D (C Q was a general call to all ships and D was for distress)
c. In which battle was the Monmouth rebellion defeated in 1685 ?
ANSWER :
SCIENCE
01. The elements Erbium, Yttrium, Ytterbium and Terbium were named after the town of Ytterby in which country ?
ANSWER :
02. What name is given to the spore-bearing leaf of a fern ?
ANSWER : Frond
03. Oil from the berries of which tree are used to flavour gin ?
ANSWER : Juniper
04. Relative density is the density of a substance relative to what ?
ANSWER : Water
05. What is the name of the highly corrosive mixture of acids capable of dissolving gold ?
ANSWER : Aqua Regia
06. Which acid, named after the latin for the plant wood sorrel, is found in rhubarb leaves ?
ANSWER : Oxalic Acid
07. Which gas is formed when a hydrogen bomb is detonated ?
ANSWER : Helium
08. What is the eye condition which causes round objects to appear oval ?
ANSWER : Astigmatism
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. Which rare gas is also known as ‘heavy hydrogen’ and produces ‘heavy water’ when its oxide is present in water ?
ANSWER : Deuterium
b. Which type of leather made from dried untanned skins is traditionally used for the highest quality manuscripts ?
ANSWER : Vellum
c. Which group of mostly alpine herbs means ‘stone breaker’ because their roots break up rocks by growing into cracks ?
ANSWER : Saxifrages
d. What is the lightest known metal ?
ANSWER : Lithium
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
These celebrities from stage and screen have well known relatives
ANSWER : Angelina Jolie
02. Who is the daughter of Newspaper Editor and Columnist Eve Pollard ?
ANSWER : Claudia Winkelman (Presenter of Strictly Come Dancing’s ‘It takes two)
03. Mark McManus of Taggart fame had a famous singing half-brother. Who is he ?
ANSWER : Brian Connolly (lead singer of The Sweet)
04. Laila Morse, better known as Mo Harris in Eastenders has a famous big screen actor for a brother. Who is he ?
ANSWER : Gary Oldman
05. Game show presenter Hughie Green’s daughter became a famous TV presenter in her own right, but it was not confirmed that she was his daughter until late in his life. Who was she ?
ANSWER : Paula Yates (supposed daughter of TV presenter Jess Yates)
06. Pop singer Lily Alan has a famous father Keith, but can you name her famous step-father ?
ANSWER : Harry Enfield
07. Big screen actress Kate Hudson has a famous step-father Kurt Russell, but who is her mother ?
ANSWER : Goldie Hawn
08. Emilio Estevez has a famous father, but who is his equally famous brother ?
ANSWER : Charlie Sheen
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. Who is Warren Beatty’s famous film star sister ?
ANSWER : Shirley Maclaine
b. Carrie Fisher of Star Wars fame is the daughter of which famous
ANSWER : Debbie Reynolds
c. Who is the mother of actress Joely Richardson ?
ANSWER : Vanessa Redgrave
LEST WE FORGET
Questions all relate to World War One
01. Against whom did
ANSWER :
02. What was the nationality of Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, author of the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ ?
ANSWER : Canadian
03. Which major battle / offensive on the Western Front commenced on
ANSWER : The
04. Which military hardware was used for the first time in battle during the Somme Offensive at the battle of Fleurs-Courcelette ?
ANSWER : Tanks (Mark I’s)
05. What is the title of the poem by Rupert Brooke which begins with the lines ‘If I should die, think only this of me, that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever
ANSWER : The Soldier
06. Which major battle on the Western Front commenced on 31st July lasting until November 1917 in which British, Canadian, South African and Anzac forces fought to gain control of the
ANSWER : Passchendaele (Accept Third
07. Who is
ANSWER : Harry Patch
08. Who was the Allied Supreme Commander who signed the Armistice at
ANSWER : Ferdinand Foch (Accept Marshal Foch)
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. In which year did the unofficial Christmas truce along parts of the Western Front take place ?
ANSWER : 1914
b. Which treaty ended World War One on
ANSWER : Treaty of
c. Who became Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in December 1915 replacing Field Marshall Sir John French ?
ANSWER : General Sir Douglas Haig
THE MUSIC ROUND
Sorry, it’s classical again, but there’s nothing here that’s not general knowledge !
01. In Puccini’s opera Turandot, the tenor sings an aria which proclaims that ‘None shall sleep’. What is this aria called ?
ANSWER : Nessun Dorma
02. Which opera, with music by George Gershwin, had an original cast of classically trained African-American singers and is set in ‘Catfish Row’, C
ANSWER : Porgy & Bess
03. Which Gilbert & Sullivan operetta contains the song generally known as ‘A policeman’s lot is not a happy one’
ANSWER : The Pirates of
04. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 was used to great effect in which 1945 film starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard and written and directed by Noel Coward ?
ANSWER : Brief Encounter
05. Which classical composer’s tortured life and career was the subject of the Ken Russell film ‘The Music Lovers’ ?
ANSWER : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
06.
ANSWER : A boating song, particularly by gondoliers. (accept any reasonable reference to boats )
07. Which 1941 film starring Anton Wallbrook is probably best known for the music by Richard Addinsell which included the ‘Warsaw Concerto’ ?
ANSWER : Dangerous Moonlight
08. In 1963, who had a hit with ‘Hello Muddah, hello Faaduh’ which had words set to Ponchielli’s ‘Dance of the Hours’ from ‘La Gioconda’ ?
ANSWER : Allan Sherman
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. Who wrote ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ but is more famous for music sung to at the Last Night of the Proms ?
ANSWER : Sir Edward Elgar
b. Which Austrian composer wrote the Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major which is loosely translated as ‘A little night music’ ?
ANSWER : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c. Who wrote the music to Onward Christian Soldiers, The Lost Chord and all of the
ANSWER : Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
THE ANSWER LIES IN THE SOIL
‘Part of your five-a-day’
01. Which fruiting body of the nightshade family has the latin name solanum lycopersicum and
was once known as the ‘love apple’ ?
ANSWER : TOMATO
02. Which vegetable was used by Gregor Mendel whilst formulating his theory on genetics ?
ANSWER : PEAS
03. In preparation of this vegetable for cooking, a volatile gas called syn-propanethial-S-oxide can be released causing ophthalmic irritation. What is the vegetable ?
ANSWER : ONION
04. Which vegetable, with an annual production of 70 million tonnes in
consumption of over 300 kilos per person in
ANSWER : POTATO
05. Which vegetable is the main ingredient of borscht ?
ANSWER : BEETROOT
06. The acquisition of which vegetable was the only ambition of Baldrick ?
ANSWER : TURNIPS
07. A giant imitation of this vegetable has been seen to be carried by comedian Max Boyce. What is it ?
ANSWER : LEEK
08. Of which vegetable are there varieties called, Mung,
ANSWER : BEANS
SUPPLEMENTARIES
a. Which vegetable was popularized in
ANSWER : SPINACH
c. Which vegetable has a measurement of strength listed on the Scoville scale ?
ANSWER : PEPPERS (accept Chilli, capsaicin, etc)
b. How many heaped tablespoons of vegetables, beans or pulses constitutes one of your five-a-day portions ?
ANSWER : THREE
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Set by TheCock Inn
01. What is the capital of
ANSWER :
02. What is the capital of the
ANSWER : HOINARA
03. In which British city would you find the squinty bridge ?
ANSWER :
04. In which British city would you find the Mathematical bridge.
ANSWER :
05. By what name is Beethoven’s third symphony known ?
ANSWER : EROICA
06. By what name is Mozart’s 38th symphony known ?
ANSWER :
07. Whose gravestone bears the words “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read” ?
ANSWER : HILAIRE BELLOC
08. Whose epitaph was “A brave life and a heroic death. Be British” ?
ANSWER : EDWARD J. SMITH (Captain of the Titanic)
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09. The Greek words for ‘beautiful’, ‘appearance’ and ‘I behold’ converge to give us which word ?
ANSWER : KALEIDASCOPE
10. Which contraction of the word ‘grandfather’ is used as a slang word for someone in charge ?
ANSWER : GAFFER
11. Which serpent haunted the caves at
ANSWER : PYTHON
12. Who was the half sister of King Arthur ?
ANSWER : MORGAN LE FEY
13. Who was the subject of a film starring Richard Attenborough, who lived at 10,
ANSWER : JOHN CHRISTIE
14. By what name was Salvatore Luciana better known ?
ANSWER : LUCKY LUCIANO
15. In which castle was the late Princess Margaret born ?
ANSWER : GLAMIS
16. Which castle holds an annual service for the Knights of the Order of the Garter ?
ANSWER :
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17. Where was ‘Lola’ a showgirl ?
ANSWER : AT THE COPACABANA
18. Which fair was the subject of a Simon and Garfunkel song ?
ANSWER :
19. In Shakespeare, who asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed ?” ?
ANSWER : SHYLOCK (in The merchant of
20. In Shakespeare, who swears “A plague on both your houses” ?
ANSWER : MERCUTIO (in Romeo and Juliet)
21. What was the name of Captain Pugwash’s mortal enemy ?
ANSWER : CUT-THROAT JAKE
22. Who owned Roald Dahl’s chocolate factory ?
ANSWER : WILLY WONKA
23. In which city is the oldest metro system in the world ?
ANSWER :
24. Which road runs from
ANSWER : THE
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25. What roadside item was invented by Carlton Magee in 1935 ?
ANSWER : THE PARKING METER
26. To which island in the
ANSWER :
27. Which actress currently plays ‘The Commander’ ?
ANSWER : AMANDA BURTON
28. President elect Barack Obama is a senator of which state ?
ANSWER :
29. What is the name of Bob the Builder’s cat ?
ANSWER : PILCHARD
30. What is the title of Dawn French’s latest book ?
ANSWER : FULTIC
31. Who invented the aqualung ?
ANSWER : JACQUES COUSTEAU
32. Who led the Gunpowder Plot ?
ANSWER : ROBERT CATESBY
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33. Which
ANSWER : WILLIAM McKINLEY
34. Who is the current Education Secretary (as at
ANSWER : ED BALLS
35. Who has recently had a statue unveiled in his memory in Lytham St. Annes ?
ANSWER : LES
36. Who was
ANSWER : HERBERT ASQUITH
37. How much would 11 guineas be in today’s currency ?
ANSWER : £11.55p
38. Who is
ANSWER : QUEEN BEATRIX
39. Where is the Book of Kells currently to found ?
ANSWER :
40. What is the capital of
ANSWER :
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41. What is the capital of
ANSWER :
42. Which country would have ‘
ANSWER :
43. In whose reign was the Jacobite Rebellion ?
ANSWER : GEORGE III
44. What is the RAF rank equivalent to an Admiral ?
ANSWER : AIR CHIEF MARSHALL
45. In which Shakespeare play would you find Malvolio ?
ANSWER : TWELTH NIGHT
46. How is Dutch Capsicum better known ?
ANSWER : GREEN PEPPER
47. Which Titan stole fire from heaven ?
ANSWER : PROMETHEUS
48. Who was born at Burnham Thorpe,
ANSWER : HORATIO NELSON
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49. Which is the longest river in
ANSWER : DARLING
50. Who created the fictional detective Albert Campion ?
ANSWER : MARJORIE ALLINGHAM
51. In the game of polo, where were the first set of English rules drawn up ?
ANSWER : HURLINGHAM
52. Who disguised himself as Betty Burge after losing a battle ?
ANSWER : BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE
53. In the 16th century, what name was given to a hooped petticoat ?
ANSWER : FARTHINGALE
54. Who was Prime Minister at the time of the White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ ?
ANSWER : HAROLD WILSON
55. How many murder weapons are there in a standard version of Cluedo ?
ANSWER : 6
56. In which year did the 100-1 outsider Foinavon win the Grand National ?
ANSWER : 1967 (No leeway)
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57. Which cartoon hero was created by Elsie Segar in 1929 ?
ANSWER : POPEYE
58. What is the name of the ghostly lights which appear over damp ground ?
ANSWER : WILL O’ THE WISP
59. Which
ANSWER : THE
60. Which was the first industry to be nationalised in post-war
ANSWER : COAL
61. Martin Shaw, Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley have all appeared in which long running TV series ?
ANSWER :
62. Which 1998 smash hit movie was the first successful film spin-off of a current TV series ?
ANSWER : THE X-FILES MOVIE
63. What kind of fruit is an ‘Elegant Lady’ ?
ANSWER : PEACH
64. Clement Atlee’s biography is called ‘As it happened’, but whose was called ‘As it happens’ ?
ANSWER : JIMMY SAVILLE
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65. Who was King of England when Wat Tyler led the Peasant’s Revolt ?
ANSWER : RICHARD II
66. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode different coloured horses; who rode the Pale Horse ?
ANSWER : DEATH
67. Nicholas Breakspear is the only Englishman to become what ?
ANSWER : POPE
68. In modern fencing, the swords used are the sabre, epee and which other ?
ANSWER : FOIL
69. Ganymede is a moon of which planet ?
ANSWER : JUPITER
70. Who was the youngest Beatle ?
ANSWER : GEORGE HARRISON
71. What does Noddy do for a living ?
ANSWER : TAXI DRIVER
72. What date is inscribed on the book held by the Statue of Liberty ?
ANSWER : 1776
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73. Who played the part of Fagin in the 1968 film Oliver ?
ANSWER : RON MOODY
74. Which speech from Shakespeare was recited on the first public demonstration of the telephone ?
ANSWER : “TO BE OR NOT TO BE” (from Hamlet)
75. Who was George VI’s mother ?
ANSWER : QUEEN MARY
76. Who was Edward VII ‘s father ?
ANSWER :
77. On which Beatles’ album was the song ‘Norwegian Wood’ ?
ANSWER : RUBBER SOUL
78. On which Beatles’ album was the song ‘Taxman’ ?
ANSWER : REVOLVER
79. Which football club is known as the ‘Trotters’ ?
ANSWER :
80. Which football club is known as the ‘Cottagers’ ?
ANSWER : FULHAM
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81. Which country declared war on
ANSWER : THE SOVIET
82. Which German military leader said their army had been “stabbed in the back” by left-wing politicians in 1918 ?
ANSWER : ERICH VON LUDENDORF
83. Who is the
ANSWER : JOHN HUTTON
84. Who is the
ANSWER : JAMES PURNELL
85. Who wrote ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money’ ?
ANSWER : JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
86. Who wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in
ANSWER : FREDERICK ENGELS
87. Who commanded the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland ?
ANSWER : JOHN JELLICO
88. Which British battleship was sunk in
ANSWER : HMS ROYAL OAK
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89. What type of research is carried out at The Joint European Torus ?
ANSWER : NUCLEAR FUSION
90. Where is the world’s first electrical generating station powered by tidal energy ?
ANSWER : RANCE (in
91. Who provided engines for the Williams Formula 1 team in 2008 ?
ANSWER :
92. Who provided engines for the Red Bull Formula 1 team in 2008 ?
ANSWER : RENAULT
93. Which vehicle holds the absolute land speed record ?
ANSWER : THRUST SSC
94. Which driver holds the absolute land speed record ?
ANSWER : ANDY GREEN
95. Which poet wrote ‘The Celtic Twilight’ ?
ANSWER : W.B.YEATS
96. How many ‘Enigma Variations’ are there in Elgar’s work ?
ANSWER : 14
SUPPLEMENTARIES
1. Who wrote the symphony commonly referred to as ‘The Clock’ ?
ANSWER : HAYDN
2. Who plays Donald de Souza in Emmerdale ?
ANSWER : MICHAEL JAYSTON
3. Who is the current Poet Laureate ?
ANSWER : ANDREW MOTION
4. Who played the matron in the ‘Carry on’ films ?
ANSWER : HATTIE JACQUES
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