CUP AND PLATE QUESTIONS 24 November

Questions by Harrington Academicals and the Baths Speedos

1/ Who was replaced by Rachel Riley in January 2009?

Carol Vorderman (on Countdown)

2/ Who was replaced by Alesha Dixon in September 2009? (This was actually replaced by Supp3 as it was asked recently)

Arlene Phillips (as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing)

3/ Which English league football ground has hosted a cricket Test match?

Bramall Lane (Accept Sheffield United).

4/ Who were the last team from outside the top division to win the FA Cup?

West Ham (who beat Arsenal in 1980)

5/ Who will replace Terry Wogan as host of the Radio Two breakfast show in January 2010?

Chris Evans.

6/ In which TV show is Karren Brady to replace Margaret Mountford?

The Apprentice.

7/ Reality Killed The Video Star is the latest album release by who?

Robbie Williams.

8/ The Italian word for "brothers" gives which current chart band their name?

The Fratellis

9/ Which Manchester store suffered a large fire in 1979 with the loss of 10 lives?

Woolworths.

10/ In which English city was 95% of the housing stock either damaged or destroyed in WW2 air

raids?

Kingston Upon Hull (accept Hull).

11/ In the 2012 Olympics, which sport will take place in Horse Guards Parade?

Beach Volleyball.

12/ Which city is to host the 2016 summer Olympics?

Rio de Janeiro

13/ In which city will this season's football Champions League final be held?

Madrid (at the Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid's ground)

14/ What is unique about the scheduling of this year's final?

For the first time it's to be held on a Saturday.

15/ Giving his name to a UK slang term for the police, what's the name of the police officer

tormented by Top Cat and his gang?

Officer Dibble.

16/ For what are the Dundee company D.C. Thomson best known?

Childrens comics. They are the publishers of both Beano and Dandy. (Accept magazine publisher).

17/ In which Northern town would you find, Eureka! the national museum for children?

Halifax

18/ In which Northern city would you find the National Museum of Photography, Film and

Television?

Bradford

19/ Fictionally who diarised his unrequited love for Pandora Braithwaite?

Adrian Mole

20/ 90s chart band The Boo Radleys took their name from a character in which classic novel.

To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee).

21/ Which river flows from the Black Forest to the Black Sea?

Danube

22/ The Ouse and the Trent converge to form which river estuary?

Humber

23/ The UK's biggest ever lottery winners shared a huge jackpot in the Nov 6th Euromillions game.

How much did each winning ticket win?

f45.57m - accept 45-46

24/ Which radio station would you find on 1053 and 1089 AM?

Talksport.

25/ Which local landmark takes its name from the Greek word for "brothers"?

Adelphi Mill

26/ Closed in 1960, what formerly was to be found at the site of the large Tesco store in Macclesfield?

Hibel Road railway station

27/ Where would you be if you took your seat on a Howdah ?

On an elephant

 28/ If Prince William became King what number William would he be?

5th

29/ Which company was bankrupted by the cost of developing the RB 211 jet engine

Rolls Royce

30/ What merchant bank collapsed in 1995 due to unauthorised debts accumulated by trader Nick

Leeson?

Barings

31/ Who was the first president of independent Russia (as distinct from USSR the Soviet Union)?

Boris Yeltsin (1992)

32/ Which British prime minister resigned in 1957 after his failure to handle the Suez Crisis?

Anthony Eden

33/ Timbuktu is always cited as a very distant and outlandish place, where is it?

The Sahara Desert in Mali

34/ The Crimea is a famous as the scene of a war in the middle of the last century which included the

famous Charge of the Light Brigade. What country does it belong to?

Ukraine

35/ What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa)?

Sloe

36/ Which English county is known locally as Kernow?

Cornwall

37Which Yorkshire town has liquorice sweets named after it?

Pontefract

38/ What variety of mandarin orange takes its name from a city in Morocco?

Tangerine.

39/ What is the name of the National Trust property, built by the Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in

the late 19th century to house his art collection and now contains more 18th century French furniture than Versailles?

Waddesdon Manor

40/ What was the ancestral home of Anne Boleyn, which was subsequently modernised by William

Waldorf Astor

Hever Castle

41/ On the menu in an Italian restaurant, what are polpettine

meatballs

42/ On the menu in an Spanish restaurant, what are morcilla

Blood sausage or black pudding

43/ Which company built the Russian equivalent of Concorde?

Tupolev (Tu144)

44/ Which Japanese electronics company started out as a manufacturer of mechanical pencils

Sharp

45/ In which sport is Britain's Chrissie Wellington a world champion?

Ironman Triathlon (accept Triathlon )

46/ In which sport did Charlotte Edwards captain an English World Cup winning team in 2009?

Cricket

47/ What is the second largest island in the Mediterranean

Sardinia

48/ What is the second longest river in China

Yellow River or Hwang Ho

49/ Which drink was named by its inventor after rejecting the first six names that was offered?

7 UP

50/ What item of clothing takes its name from the Spanish word for shade?

sombrero

51/ What is the name of the system of healing based on manipulation of bones?

Osteopathy

52/ Colonel Paul W Tibbets was a decorated US Bomber Pilot in World War 2. He and his mother are

associated with a cataclysmic event. What was her name??

Enola Gay (the name of the bomber, piloted by Col Tibbetts which dropped the Hiroshima bomb)

 53/ Which London Theatre has the same name as a hard white metal with atomic number 46?

Palladium

54/ Which country claimed to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of its empire in 1971

Persia ( accept Iran )

55/ From which mountain range does the water for Dublin's Guinness Brewery flow?

Wicklow mountains

56/ In which country is Aconcagua, the highest mountain in S. America?

Argentina

57/ What is the world's largest ocean liner

Queen Mary 2

(Freedom of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas are bigger, but are cruise ships, not liners)

58/ Which is the world's highest bridge (from base to highest tower?

Millau Bridge (over the Tarn in France)

59/ What form of defence in a criminal prosecution is a Latin word meaning 'elsewhere'?

alibi

60/ In which county is the arboretum containing the national collection of crabapples (Males),

mountain ash and whitebeam (Sorbus)

Cheshire — Jodrell Bank

61. Which aircraft manufacturer created the infamous 'Zero' fighter in WWII?

Mitsubishi

62. With which country does Brazil share its longest border?

Bolivia (3423km)

63. Lewis Hamilton (2008) and Jensen Button (2009) both claimed the F1 drivers championship at Interlagos. In what place did they both finish the race?

Fifth

64. In the Chinese Zodiac which symbol contains the fewest letters

Ox

65. Which Frederick Forsythe novel tells the story of a journalist tracking down the Nazi murderer of his father?

The Odessa File

66. Of which union was Jack Jones the general secretary in the 1970's?

Transport & General Worker's Union

67. Which current American TV series was inspired by the life of forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs?

Bones

68. With which sport would you associate the name of Rhona Martin?

Curling (Gold medal winning captain for Scotland 2002)

69. Across which river is the 3 Gorges Dam?

Yangtze River, China

70. Marengo is the most famous horse belonging to who?

Napoleon 1

71. What is Dogger Bank?

A large sandbank in the North Se4a off the east coast of England

72.  Which British car manufacturer was bought by Russian Nikolay Smolensky in 2004?

TVR

73. Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis?

Anthony Eden

74. Which Brewer makes Bombadier?

Charles Wells

75. What is the capital of Namibia?

Windhoek

76. Which player currently carries the highest transfer fee paid by a Premiership club ?

Robinho (Man City) 32.5 Million

77.  Who was the first U.S. president to visit all 50 states?

Richard Nixon

78. In which British Sit-Com were the main characters "Lionel, Jean, Judith, Sandy & Alistair"?

As Time Goes By

79. Which Beatles album was at one time going to be called Everest?

Abbey Road

80. Which US State has the capital Lincoln?

Nebraska

81. Where did the British surrender to the Japanese in Feb 1942?

Singapore

82. In the novel, what Christian name is shared by both Domby & Son?

Paul

83 Who starred in the 1940 pirate film The Sea Hawk?

Errol Flynn

84 The biggest River delta in the world is found where?

India (The Ganges Delta)

85 Which Barcelona footballer moved to Real Madrid in July 2000 for £37m?

Luis Figo

86 Captain Fitzroy, who gave his name to a shipping forecast region, is famous for founding what?

The Met Office

87 Who is the male presenter of the Channel 4 Property Program Location, Location, Location?

Phil Spencer

88 From which country does the lambada dance originate?

Brazil

89 What is the Mohorovicic (Moh-ho-ro-vee-chich)Discontinuity?

AKA The Moho it is the boundary between the Earth’s crust and mantle

90 Who sculpted the Statue of Liberty?

Frederick Auguste Bartholdi

91 Who founded the Red Cross?

Jean Henri Durant

92 What country is known as the "roof of the world"?

Tibet

93 What's the fewest number of moves a person has to make to win a game of chess?

2 (no leeway!)

94 Who is the female presenter of C4's Property Ladder?

Sarah Beeney

95 In old occupations, what did a' nob thatcher' do for a living?

Make Wigs

96 Who was the world F1 Motor racing champion in 1992?

Nigel Mansell

97 The Trans-Canadian highway is the world's longest with an approximate length of?

8000 km (accept 7500-8500km)

98 Which silent movie star lost half his right hand in an explosion in august 1919?

Harold Lloyd

99 Which Dickens Novel is set in the fictional northern setting of Coketown?

Hard Times

100 Which Asian capital city's airport is built at the mouth of the Tama-gawa

Tokyo

101 Which US State has the capital Baton Rouge?

Louisiana

102 The Celine Dion hit "Because You Loved Me" stemmed from which film?

Up Close And Personal

103  In which British Sit-Com were the main Characters "Ria, Ben, Adam, Russell & Leonard"?

Butterflies

104 What is the name of the film company owned by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzeberg and David Geffen

Dreamworks

105 Which player did Manchester United sign from Nottingham Forest in 1993 for the then record fee of £3.75m?

Roy Keane

106 Of where did Tung Chee-Hwa become chief executive in 1997?

Hong Kong

107 Which brewer based in Devises makes the bitter 6X?

Wadsworths

108 Who's Second world war memoires were entitled 'Hitler: my part in his downfall1?

Spike Milligan

109 Which British car manufacturer was founded in 1935 by T.L.Williams?

Reliant

110 What substance is added to Nitric Acid to form Aqua Regia?

Concentrated Hydrochloric Acid

111 Which great warrior rode a horse called Beucephalus?

 Alexander The Great

112 Napolean Solo and Illya Kuryakin were agents for which fictional law enforcement agancy?

U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law Enforcement)

113 In which sport do players take both long & short corners?

Field Hockey

114 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. When was it constructed?

(August 13th) 1961

115 Although used as a nickname for US soldiers, what does Gl actually stand for?

Government Issue

116 Give a year in the life of Samuel Pepys

1633-1703

117 In the history of the premiership, which team name has contained the fewest letters?

Fulham

118 Who is the only driver to simultaneously hold the F1 and Indy Car drivers crowns?

Nigel Mansell

119 With which country does Russia share its longest border?

Kazakhstan (6846km)

120 Which WWII fighter was affectionately known as the 'Wooden Wonder'?

 (De Havilland) Mosquito

SUPPLEMENTARIES        

               

Sl/ What do the French call the ethnic cleansing by the British of their North American colony in the

area now called Nova Scotia

Le Grand Derangement — accept the great upheaval

S2/ What is the name of the designer of the garden at Sissinghurst

Vita Sackville West

S3/ Which leader was painted "warts and all"?

Oliver Cromwell

S4/ In which film does Pauline Collins star as a bored scouse housewife who finds romance in

Greece?

Shirley Valentine

S5/ Who runs the Greendale Post Office in the children's TV show Postman Pat?

Mrs Goggins
S6/ In UK we call it a tap, what is it called in USA?
Faucet