20th October - all questions set by The Castle
SPECIALIST
WHO’S THE DADDY (or Mummy)
In this round you will be given the name of a (hopefully) prominent female person and asked who their daddy (or mummy) was.
1) Who is the father of the TV presenter, journalist and politician Baroness Jay?
JAMES CALLAGHAN
2) Who was the mother of the actress Mia Farrow?
MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN
3) Who was the father of the biographer and fiction writer Lady Antonia Fraser?
LORD LONGFORD
4) Who is the father of the American singer-songwriter Norah Jones?
5) Who is the mother of the TV presenter Claudia Winkleman?
EVE POLLARD
6) Who was the mother of the novelist Mary Shelley?
MARY WOLLSTONCROFT
7) Who is the father of the actress Angelina Jolie?
JON VOIGHT
8) Who is the mother of the actress Carrie Fisher?
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
SUPPLEMENTARIES
9) Who was the father of Queen
(EDWARD) DUKE OF
10) Who was the father of Princess Di?
EARL SPENCER
SPORT
1. Which League football club’s ground is nearest to the River Mersey?
2 A game of ten-pin bowling is divided into 10 segments, in each of which a player has up to 2 attempts to clear the 10 pins. What are these “segments” called?
Frames
3 The largest single tier stand at an English sports stadium is situated where?
ANFIELD – the KOP
4 Which club finished top of Division 2 of the County Cricket Championship in 2009?
5 In which sport has Tom Daley become famous?
DIVING
6 How many balls are on the table at the start of a frame of snooker?
22 (15 reds, 6 colours and the white)
7 In which city will the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show be held in 2009?
8 In soccer, which Championship manager’s autobiography is titled “No Smoke, No Fire”?
Dave Jones (
Supplementaries
9 Who captained the Gt Britain & Europe team in the 2008 Ryder Cup?
NICK FALDO
10 What is the minimum number of darts required for a 501?
NINE
GEOGRAPHY
1 How long is
73 miles (accept 70 – 75)
2 What is the capital of
3 Which river flows through
Itchen
4 Which town has railway stations called North Western and Wallgate?
In which country was the site of the
6 How many stars are there on the flag of
FOUR
7 Which is the most northerly Greek island?
8 In which
Knutsford
Supplementaries
9 What is the most famous tourist attraction in
10 What’s the name of the port that principally serves
1) The Great Gate of Kiev is a movement in which piece by Mussorgsky?
PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION
2) A movement from a piano concerto by Mozart was used as the theme music for which 1960’s Swedish film?
ELVIRA MADIGAN
3) Whose first hit single in the
ELKIE BROOKS
4) Which founder member of the Supremes died in 1976 aged 32, of complications arising from her copious intake of drink and drugs?
5) Dance of the Knights, the theme music for the TV show The Apprentice, comes from which ballet by Prokofiev?
ROMEO AND JULIET
6) The song Don’t rain on My Parade comes from which stage and screen musical?
FUNNY GIRL
7) The original version of which overture by Mendelssohn was called The
8) “February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver” is a line from which song?
AMERICAN PIE
Supplementaries
Which singer had a number 1 hit with Uptown Girl?
Billy Joel
Which singer had a hit with My Guy in the 1960s
Mary Wells
History
1) Who was President of the
HERBERT HOOVER
2) Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb is in which former home for disabled soldiers?
LES INVALIDES
3) In the harbour of which city was the Greenpeace Warrior sunk by French agents in 1985?
4) Elected in 1978, what was the nationality of the first non-Italian Pope since the sixteenth century?
POLISH (Karol Wojtyla – John Paul II)
5) In what year did
1947
6) Which royal house has ruled
GRIMALDI
7) Ignatius of Loyola founded which religious order?
JESUITS (or Society of Jesus – accept either)
8) Who was President of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969?
HO CHI MINH
SUPPLEMENTARIES
9) At which battle did the Black Prince win his spurs?
10) Who discovered the
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
1) There are three Shakespeare plays with women’s christian names in the title. Romeo & Juliet is one, name either of the other two
ANTHONY & CLEOPATRA and TROILUS & CRESSIDA
2) In 1942 Vic Oliver was interviewed by Roy Plomley in the first of which long-running radio programme?
3) Where could you see Anthoy Ghormley’s work One et Other?
4) The artist’s colony founded by James Whistler which included Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson was situated in which town?
ST IVES
5) Who is Adrian Chiles’s regular co-host on the BBC TV programme The One Show?
CHRISTINE BLEAKLEY
6) In 1969 Desmond Dekker became the first Jamaican artist to top the
THE ISRAELITES
7) In the 1989 film When Harry met Sally, which actress played Sally?
MEG RYAN
8) In the 1991 film Thelma and Louise, Susan Sarandon played Louise. Who played Thelma?
GEENA
SUPPLEMENTARIES
9) Which song from South Pacific was a number 1 hit in 1982 for Captain Sensible?
HAPPY TALK
10) which film star married Aly Khan in 1949, shortly after divorcing Orson Welles?
RITA HAYWORTH
The
All these questions are about the sea or areas of land around it
1 What does the word
Middle of the earth
2 What is the largest island in the
3 What range of mountains runs the length of
4 Which Spanish city is famous for the making of swords
5 Elizabeth Davis wrote about which aspect of Mediterranean life?
Food
6 What is the capital of
Valetta
7 How wide is the mouth of the Mediterranean where it meets the
9 miles (accept 7-11)
8 In which Italian coastal city do the football team Sampdoria play?
Supps
Which is the only Mediterranean country never to have participated in the Mediterranean Games?
What term is used to collectively describe the countries of Algeria Morocco and
The
Science
1 Give the name of the first artificial satellite launched in 1957
Sputnik
2 In computing what do the initials DTP stand for
Desk Top Publishing
3 A gnu is a member of which animal family
Antelope
4 In maths an angle greater than 180 degrees is known as what type of angle
Reflex
5 What is an isohyet
Lines on a map showing areas of equal rainfall
6 What type of heat is required to convert a solid into a vapour or a liquid without a change in temperature
Latent heat
7 What is next in this sequence of numbers - 5 8 13 21
34 – Fibonacci numbers (add the last 2 together to get the next)
8 What does the chemical symbol I stand for
Iodine
Supps
In the human body, what is the trachea more commonly called
Windpipe
In which decade was the barcode first patented
1950’s
RONNIE BARKER
2) Who was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons?
BETTY BOOTHROYD
3) William Davenant, born 1606 and appointed Poet Laureate in 1638, was rumoured to be the illegitimate son of which Elizabethan playwright?
SHAKESPEARE
4) James Newell Osterberg is the real name of which barechested punk rocker?
IGGY POP
5) What makes the painting “Red Vineyard at Arles” by Vincent van Gogh unique amongst his works?
IT WAS THE ONLY ONE HE EVER SOLD (TO HIS BROTHER!)
6) Which British sports car (in various types) has been in production since 1935?
MORGAN
7) What breed of dog was Greyfriars Bobby?
SKYE TERRIER (do not accept just “terrier”)
8) In the international radio code, what does F stand for?
FOXTROT
9) In the
GROUNDHOG DAY
10) What rank in the Army is the equivalent of Admiral of the Fleet in the Navy?
FIELD-MARSHAL
11) What is the collective name for the 9 handmaidens of the Norse god Odin?
VALKYRIES
12) What South American country is named after an Italian city?
13) Who made the first telephone call to the Moon?
PRESIDENT NIXON
14)
AMERICAN WAR OF
15) Who, upon splitting with her film star partner, said: “At least I can wear high heels now”?
NICOLE KIDMAN
16) What subject did Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, teach at
MATHEMATICS
17) Who in World War I succeeded Von Richtofen as commander of the Flying Circus?
HERMANN GOERING
18) The vast salt flats in
BONNEVILLE
19) What is the principal diet of a koala bear?
EUCALYPTUS LEAVES
20) Who was the chief author of the Declaration of American Independence, first issued in 1776?
THOMAS JEFFERSON
21) Where in
22) What instrument did the bandleader Benny Goodman play?
CLARINET
23) When is
23rd APRIL
24) How many floors are there in the
102 (accept 97-107)
25) What name was given to the Samurai code of honour?
BUSHIDO
26) Who is the current Taoiseach of Ireland (the Irish Prime Minister)?
BRIAN COWEN
27) In post-war British military history, what was Operation Corporate?
RE-TAKING OF THE
28) What animal is the international symbol for the World Wildlife Fund?
PANDA
29) How many strings does a violin have?
FOUR
30) Which country has a wine-producing region called Gisborne?
31) How many pieces are on the board at the start of a game of Draughts?
24
32) Who wrote the “Rumpole” stories?
John Mortimer
33) Peter and Lucy are two of the children who appear in the Narnia stories. Name either of the other two.
Susan and Edmund
34) What is a tantalus?
A lockable (open-sided) container for bottles or decanters.
35) In what year did the devastating fire occur which destroyed nearly one-fifth of
1992 (accept 1991-93)
36) Where do Wigan Athletic play their home games?
The DW stadium (Do NOT accept the JJB stadium.)
37) Including the flagpole, how tall in feet, is
518 ft 9 ins. (Accept 508 to 528)
38) Who was the first British sovereign to reside in
Queen
39) Music is written on five horizontal lines separated by four spaces. What is this arrangement of lines and spaces called?
A stave (ACCEPT STAFF)
40) Which plant used in a salad takes its name from the Latin word for milk?
Lettuce
41) Where would mat, jack and mark come together on an uneven playing field?
Crown Green bowls. (Do NOT accept just “bowls”.)
(If explanation is needed: jack is the object ball, the mark is the route the jack takes, mat is the place the bowler starts from, and the green has various undulations.)
42) What is the name of the main character in Scott Adam’s cartoons decrying Management?
Dilbert
43) Which British car was produced from 1948 to 1971 (albeit in various parts of the world) usually as a saloon, but also had several commercial adaptations?
The Morris Minor series
44) Which pigment is released in your body when you get a suntan?
Melanin
45) Which capital city shares its name with a TV detective?
Columbo
46) Which tree has the Latin name “Fraxinus exelsior?
Ash
47) Who composed “The Lark Ascending”?
= R. Vaughan-Williams
48) What metal is derived from malachite?
Copper
49) Which cathedral has a famous Octagon tower?
Ely
50) Which Prime Minister refused to meet the Jarrow Marchers on their arrival in
51) Which
52) The
53) What name is given to the outermost layer of the Sun, normally only visible during a total eclipse?
54)
55) Natalie Wood drowned after apparently falling from her husband’s yacht. Which
ROBERT WAGNER
56) Dick Fuld is the former chairman of the company whose collapse precipitated the world’s biggest bankruptcy crisis. Which company?
LEHMANN BROTHERS
57) Which is the only mythological creature among the 12 animals which represent Chinese years?
THE DRAGON
58) The FA always has a member of the Royal Family as its President. Who was appointed President in 2005?
PRINCE WILLIAM
59) In which country are the
60) Which American President appointed Richard Nixon as his Vice-President?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
61) In May 2009, who became the oldest Briton to climb Mt Everest?
RANULPH FIENNES
62) Which horse won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe,
SEE THE STARS
63) The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus was which actor’s last film before he died?
HEATH LEDGER
64) The ancient city of
NABATEANS
65) How long in miles was the Berlin Wall?
66 miles (accept 61-71)
66) Which is the world’s oldest competitive motoring event?
67) Ramsay MacDonald was
ATTLEE
68) The Daimler motor company produced a new model of car in 1900, which they named after the daughter of their French agent. What was her christian name?
MERCEDES
70) In May 2005 which footballer became the first Macclesfield born player to be selected for
PETER CROUCH
71) Which politician founded the Respect Party?
GEORGE GALLOWAY
72) St George was adopted as the patron saint of
EDMUND THE CONFESSOR (canonised in 1161) [should be Edward]
73) Which American-born publisher of the Spectator had affairs with journalist Simon Hoggart and Home Secretary David Blunkett?
KIMBERLEY QUINN (also known as Kimberley Fortier – accept either)
74) What is the name of a baby deer
Fawn
75) What is the figure 80 in Roman numerals
LXXX
76) Who is the Greek Goddess of retribution
Nemesis
77) How was author James Alfred Wight better known
James Herriott
78) Who wrote the operetta The Merry Widow
Lehar
79) In which film did Kevin Spacey win the Oscar for Best Actor in 1999
American Beauty
80) Who was the lead singer with band Wet Wet Wet
Marti Pellow
81) What is the currency of
NUEVO Sol (accept SOL)
82) The brand name Dove of toiletries and cosmetics is made by which company
Unilever
83) Give any year during the 7 Years war
1756-63
84) Max Hastings and Bill Deeds were both editors of which national newspaper
Daily Telegraph
85) What is the tropopause
the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere
86) Who was the manager of
Vialli
87) Which company manufactures cars called Alto and Splash
Suzuki
88) Robert Noyce is famous in which field
Computing (Co-founder of Intel and co-inventor of the microchip)
89) Who as at 12.10.2009 is the Home Secretary
Alan Johnson
90) On what river does the city of
DERWENT
91) Halkidiki is a region of which country
92) In which city will the 2010 Commonwealth Games be held
93) What was the family name of the Queen’s mother
Bowes-Lyon
94) Who was the first British astronaut
Helen Sharman
95) Andrew Bailey holds which financial post
Chief Cashier of the Bank of
96) Who is the current Poet Laureate?
Carol Ann Duffy
SUPPLEMENTARIES
What in medicine is pathology?
Study of diseases
In what forest is Shakespeare’s As you like it set?
Which independent principality lies between Nice and Menton?
What’s the longest river in
THE
What instrument did Pablo Casals play?
CELLO
Which sculptor created the lions at the foot of Nelson’s Column
LANDSEER
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