The Dawn of a New Era - The AGM and Plate Final
Plate competition – 2008/9 season
Final – 22 September 2009
These questions were collated by the Ox-fford ‘C’.
1. | Q | Who designed the cover of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album? |
| A | Peter Blake |
2. | Q | According to Greek legend, who slew the Minotaur? |
| A | Theseus |
3. | Q | Which river flows through Madrid? |
| A | The Manzanares |
4. | Q | The anthem of the European Union is an excerpt from Beethoven’s choral symphony. What’s the name of the poem that it sets to music? |
| A | Ode to Joy |
5. | Q | Which British astronomer coined the term “big bang”, as a derisive reference to a theory he didn’t subscribe to? |
| A | Fred Hoyle |
6. | Q | Which branch of mathematics has a name that is derived from Greek and literally represents “measurement of the Earth”? |
| A | Geometry |
7. | Q | What was the name of the spaceship in the TV series Blake’s Seven? |
| A | The Liberator |
8. | Q | Which former West Indies pace bowler holds the records for the most ducks and the most not-outs in Test cricket? |
| A | Courtney Walsh |
9. | Q | Who invented the clockwork radio? |
| A | Trevor Baylis |
10. | Q | Who painted Rail, Steam and Speed, depicting a steam locomotive, in 1844? |
| A | J. M. W. Turner |
11. | Q | Who was the Roman god of fire? |
| A | Vulcan |
12. | Q | Which river flows through the city of Munich? |
| A | The Isar |
13. | Q | Which work by Tchaikovsky incorporated the tune of La Marseillaise? |
| A | The 1812 Overture (the Russian national anthem appears in the 1812 and also in the Marche Slave; but the French one only appears in the 1812) |
14. | Q | What’s the common name for the flower myosotis? |
| A | Forget-me-not |
15. | Q | What is the American term for variety entertainment? |
| A | Vaudeville |
16. | Q | In which field was Walter Gropius famous? |
| A | Architecture |
17. | Q | Which football club did Alf Ramsey manage before taking on the England job? |
| A | Ipswich Town |
18. | Q | Which organisation won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963? |
| A | The Red Cross |
19. | Q | In The Simpsons, what’s the name of Moe’s pet cat? |
| A | Mrs. Snookums |
20. | Q | Whose first volume of autobiography, published in 1992, was entitled Don’t laugh at me? |
| A | Norman Wisdom (the second volume was Cos I’m a clown) |
21. | Q | What’s the name of the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania? |
| A | Kaliningrad |
22. | Q | Which opera by Borodin features the Polotsvian Dances? |
| A | Prince Igor |
23. | Q | What’s the common name for the flowering plant impatiens? |
| A | Busy Lizzie |
24. | Q | Which English word is derived from two Old French words meaning “sour wine”? |
| A | Vinegar |
25. | Q | By what sobriquet was the architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret better known? |
| A | Le Corbusier |
26. | Q | Name one of the clubs that Fabio Capello managed before taking on the England job. |
| A | AC Milan (1991-6 and 1997-8), Real Madrid (1996-7 and 2006-7), Roma (1999-2004), or Juventus (2004-6) |
27. | Q | Which trade union was formed in 2007 by the merger of Amicus and the TGWU? |
| A | Unite (or, to give it its full title: Unite – the Union) |
28. | Q | In which US state is the cartoon series South Park set? |
| A | Colorado |
29. | Q | Give one of the forenames of the English author G. K. Chesterton. |
| A | Gilbert (or) Keith |
30. | Q | Which region of Italy has Rome as its capital? |
| A | Lazio |
31. | Q | Which opera by Verdi features the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves? |
| A | Nabucco |
32. | Q | Which website was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger? |
| A | Wikipedia |
33. | Q | What name is given to the study of the history and origins of words? |
| A | Etymology |
34. | Q | Which world-famous building was (due to be) renamed the Willis Tower in the Summer of 2009? |
| A | The Sears Tower (in Chicago) |
35. | Q | Who played his 52nd and last US Masters tournament this year? |
| A | Gary Player |
36. | Q | In which London building would you find Poets’ Corner? |
| A | Westminster Abbey |
37. | Q | Who directed the films Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Raising Arizona? |
| A | The Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel – only the latter was credited) |
38. | Q | Who were Joy, Babs and Teddy? |
| A | The Beverley Sisters |
39. | Q | What did Howard Carter discover in 1923? |
| A | The tomb of Tutankhamen |
40. | Q | Which musical features the song Getting to know you? |
| A | The King and I |
41. | Q | Which fish has the Latin name Esox lucius? |
| A | The pike |
42. | Q | What does a dendrochronologist use to date past events? |
| A | Tree rings |
43. | Q | In which US city would you find the Space Needle, a 605-foot tower built for the 1962 World’s Fair? |
| A | Seattle |
44. | Q | Which Japanese company currently supplies all the tyres for Formula One? |
| A | Bridgestone |
45. | Q | Which famous sporting venue is in the postcode area of SW19? |
| A | Wimbledon |
46. | Q | Which instrument plays the theme music of the film The Third Man? |
| A | The zither |
47. | Q | Which famous American writer was the father of Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and last wife Oona? |
| A | Eugene O’Neill |
48. | Q | Which battle took place near York in 1066, three days before Hastings? |
| A | Stamford Bridge |
49. | Q | Which musical features the song Luck be a lady? |
| A | Guys and Dolls |
50. | Q | If a capital E represents energy and a small m represents mass, what does a small c represent? |
| A | The speed of light in a vacuum (E=mc2 – “the energy equation”) |
51. | Q | Which herbal liqueur is combined with brandy to make a B & B? |
| A | Benedictine |
52. | Q | In which month is Saint Swithin’s Day? |
| A | July (15th) |
53. | Q | What was the first US city to host the Olympic Games? |
| A | St. Louis (1904) |
54. | Q | What’s the only African country with an eponymous capital city? (i.e. the city has the same name as the country) |
| A | Djibouti |
55. | Q | In The Wizard of Oz, what was the scarecrow searching for? |
| A | A brain |
56. | Q | Who assisted Bruce Forsyth in The Generation Game, and became his second wife? |
| A | Anthea Redfern |
57. | Q | Which Mexican leader captured the Alamo in 1836? |
| A | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
58. | Q | What left Pennsylvania Station on Track 39 at a quarter to four? |
| A | The Chattanooga Choo Choo |
59. | Q | The Salk vaccine was developed in 1954 to be used against which disease? |
| A | Poliomyelitis (polio) |
60. | Q | Which cocktail is made from vodka, Galliano and orange juice? |
| A | Harvey Wallbanger |
61. | Q | What was the name of the lioness featured in Joy Adamson’s book Born Free? |
| A | Elsa |
62. | Q | At which sport, apart from cricket, did W. G. Grace captain England? |
| A | Bowls |
63. | Q | What’s the capital city of Croatia? |
| A | Zagreb |
64. | Q | Who starred as the troubled mathematician John Forbes Nash Junior, in the 2001 bio-pic A Beautiful Mind? |
| A | Russell Crowe |
65. | Q | Which Royal spouse was nicknamed Fog, because he was thick and wet? |
| A | Mark Phillips |
66. | Q | Who, in 1520, became the first European explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean? |
| A | Ferdinand Magellan |
67. | Q | Who composed the song God bless America? |
| A | Irving Berlin |
68. | Q | Which part of the body is affected by silicosis? |
| A | The lungs |
69. | Q | Which fruit is used in the dish known as sole Veronique? |
| A | Grapes |
70. | Q | What’s the lowest rank in the RAF? |
| A | Aircraftman |
71. | Q | Name one of the three years in which Red Rum won the Grand National. |
| A | 1973, 1974 or 1977 |
72. | Q | In which country is the city of Donetsk, home of the last ever UEFA Cup winners? |
| A | Ukraine |
73. | Q | Which character in English literature had sisters called Mary, Jane, Kitty and Lydia? |
| A | Elizabeth Bennet (in Pride and Prejudice) |
74. | Q | In World War Two, who was known as The Desert Fox? |
| A | Erwin Rommel |
75. | Q | The first amendment to the US constitution guaranteed freedom of speech. What was the principal effect of the second amendment? |
| A | The right to bear arms |
76. | Q | Who starred opposite Robert Powell in the TV comedy series The Detectives? |
| A | Jasper Carrott |
77. | Q | What is Britain’s smallest bird of prey? |
| A | The merlin |
78. | Q | Which foodstuff is known in France as Crème Anglaise? |
| A | Custard |
79. | Q | What is Finland’s largest company, accounting for approximately one third of the market capitalisation of the Helsinki stock exchange? |
| A | Nokia |
80. | Q | Who was the first woman to ride in the Grand National? |
| A | Charlotte Brew (1977 – Geraldine Rees, five years later, became the first to complete the course) |
81. | Q | In which English town are the headquarters of the Open University? |
| A | Milton Keynes |
82. | Q | Which Graham Greene novel features a sociopathic teenager named Pinkie? |
| A | Brighton Rock |
83. | Q | Whose last recorded words were, “I’m just going outside – I may be some time”? |
| A | Captain Laurence “Titus” Oates |
84. | Q | Which monarch was the intended victim of the Rye House Plot? |
| A | Charles II |
85. | Q | Which US city provides the setting for the popular TV drama series The Wire? |
| A | Baltimore |
86. | Q | What type of creature is a hawksbill? |
| A | A turtle |
87. | Q | What type of food is chateaubriand? |
| A | A cut of fillet steak |
88. | Q | What is the name of the headdress that was commonly worn by women in the middle ages but is now mainly associated with nuns? |
| A | The wimple |
89. | Q | Who was the captain of the British and Irish Lions side in South Africa this summer? |
| A | Paul O’Connell |
90. | Q | Which county on the East coast of Ireland borders Northern Ireland and is the smallest in the Republic by area? |
| A | Louth |
91. | Q | Who wrote the plays Tamburlaine and Edward II? |
| A | Christopher Marlowe |
92. | Q | Which famous speech began with the words, “At last I am able to say a few words of my own”? |
| A | The abdication speech of Edward VIII |
93. | Q | Who was succeeded as monarch of England by Lady Jane Grey? |
| A | Edward VI |
94. | Q | Which TV detective kept his gun in a cookie jar (translation: biscuit barrel)? |
| A | Jim Rockford |
95. | Q | What type of creature is an alewife? |
| A | A fish |
96. | Q | Which popular Italian dish consists of dumplings made with potato, flour or semolina? |
| A | Gnocchi |
97. | Q | What stopped appearing on British coins after 1982? |
| A | The word new (as in “new penny” or “new pence”) |
98. | Q | Who won the World Snooker Championship this year, for the third time? |
| A | John Higgins |
99. | Q | Which country is Australia’s closest neighbour? |
| A | Papua New Guinea |
100. | Q | Who wrote the play The Madness of George the Third? |
| A | Alan Bennett |
101. | Q | How is or was Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known? |
| A | Mark Twain |
102. | Q | Who was Henry the Eighth’s elder brother, and the first husband of Catherine of Aragon? |
| A | Prince Arthur |
103. | Q | What was the name of the character played by John Thaw in The Sweeney? |
| A | Jack Regan |
104. | Q | What is the SI unit of force? |
| A | The newton |
105. | Q | Who first appeared in the arcade game Donkey Kong, went on to star in over 200 video games, and has an antagonist called Bowser? |
| A | Mario |
106. | Q | What was the name of the dog that found the Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966? |
| A | Pickles |
107. | Q | What was the name of the oil tanker that caused the world’s first major oil spill, when it broke up off Cornwall in 1967? |
| A | Torrey Canyon |
108. | Q | What’s the name of the major ocean current that flows northwards along the Pacific coast of South America? |
| A | The Humboldt Current |
109. | Q | In which literary work did the phrase “brave new world” first appear? |
| A | The Tempest (Shakespeare) |
110. | Q | What is the shortest book in the Bible, consisting of one chapter with 21 verses? |
| A | Obadiah |
111. | Q | Which Westminster constituency was represented from 1964 to 1970 by Robert Maxwell, and currently by Mr. Speaker, John Bercow? |
| A | Buckingham |
112. | Q | Which TV series brought together David McCallum and Joanna Lumley? |
| A | Sapphire and Steel |
113. | Q | Who was the captain of England’s cricket team on the infamous Bodyline tour of Australia in 1932-3? |
| A | Douglas Jardine |
114. | Q | What is the surname of Barbie’s boyfriend Ken? |
| A | Carson |
115. | Q | Which English king is said to have ridden a horse called White Surrey? |
| A | Richard III |
116. | Q | Which London underground line serves only two stations and is colloquially known as The Drain? |
| A | The Waterloo and City (probably because it’s an underground line but is, or was, operated by staff who normally worked above ground) |
117. | Q | Which famous Paris landmark stands in the Place Charles de Gaulle, previously known as the Place de l’Etoile? |
| A | The Arc de Triomphe |
118. | Q | From which work of literature did the TV series Room 101 and Big Brother get their names? |
| A | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
119. | Q | In the Bible, who was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? |
| A | Lot’s wife |
120. | Q | Who was replaced by Idi Amin as President of Uganda in 1971, but returned to power in 1980? |
| A | Milton Obote |
Supplementaries
121. | Q | Which battle of 1746 ended the rebellion known as the forty-five? |
| A | Culloden |
122. | Q | Chittagong is the largest port in which country? |
| A | Bangladesh |
123. | Q | Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical was based on a 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder? |
| A | Sunset Boulevard |
124. | Q | Who wrote Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats? |
| A | T. S. Eliot |
125. | Q | By what nickname was Edward Teach known? |
| A | Blackbeard |
126. | Q | Who built the labyrinth on Crete which was home to the Minotaur? |
| A | Daedalus |
127. | Q | Who wrote the plays Volpone and Bartholomew Fair? |
| A | Ben Jonson |
128. | Q | What is the nationality of the golfer Rory Sabbatini? |
| A | South African |
129. | Q | Who wrote the Tracey Beaker series of children’s books? |
| A | Jacqueline Wilson |
130. | Q | What type of creature is a boomslang (bomes-lang)? |
| A | A venomous snake |
Tie-breaker
1. | Q | How old, in days, was the Queen Mother when she died? (method of calculation is to subtract date of birth from date of death; in other words, either the date of birth or the date of death is included – but not both) |
| A | 37,128 (born 4 August 1900; died 30 March 2002. 101 years (including 25 leap days) = 36,890 days; 4 August to 30 March = 238 days |
2. | Q | How many pages, in total, are there in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989 (the latest complete edition to date)? |
| A | 21,730 |
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