Questions 11/10/2011 set by The Ox-fford

 

SPECIALIST

1. Geography – where in the world…
2. Sport
3. Murder etc…
4. Return of the Dingbats
5. Arts and Entertainment
6. Science
7. History
8. Things are looking down…

 

GEOGRAPHY – WHERE IN THE WORLD…
In this round you will be shown the flag of a country, and given a couple of
clues to help you work out which it is – all you have to do is name the
country! (Note to QMs – There are 2 copies of each picture. Please give a copy to each team at the same time. For visually impaired Quizzers, simply give the clues)
1.

Capital city is Belmopan; this country was formally known as British Honduras.
Answer: BELIZE

2. Capital city is Astana; this country is the largest landlocked country in the world
Answer: KAZAKHSTAN

3. Capital city is Ouagadougou; this country was formally known as Upper Volta
Answer: BURKINA FASO

4. This country has the largest Muslim population in the world;
comprises between 17,508 & 18,306 islands of which 922 are
inhabited.
Answer: INDONESIA

5. Capital city is Windhoek; formally known as South West Africa
Answer: NAMIBIA

6. Capital city is Cayenne; European Space Agency “Ariane” flights
were launched from here.
Answer: FRENCH GUIANA

7. Capital city is Skopje; gained peaceful separation from Yugoslavia in 1991.
Answer: MACEDONIA

8. Capital city is Tallinn; forced into USSR in 1940, gained freedom in 1991.
Answer: ESTONIA

Supplementaries:

1. Capital city is Vientiane; bordered by Burma, Cambodia, China,
Thailand and Vietnam.
Answer: LAOS

2. Formerly known as Abyssinia; previous leader known as The Lion of
Judah.
Answer: ETHIOPIA
SPORT

1. Which country will be hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Answer - BRAZIL
2. Which 2003 Rugby World Cup winner was the 2006 winner of
Celebrity Masterchef?
Answer – MATT DAWSON
3. Which sporting event started at 8 minutes and 8 seconds past
eight on the 8th of the 8th, 2008?
Answer – BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES
4. Which sporting legend lit the Olympic Torch for the 1996
Olympics?
Answer – MUHAMMAD ALI
5. Which biennial sporting event was postponed in 2001 following
the September 11th terrorist attack on New York?
Answer – THE RYDER CUP (GOLF)
6. Based on the number of Major Championships won (Masters, U.S. Open, the Open, PGA), who is the most successful golfer ever
from outside the United States?
Answer – GARY PLAYER (9 Titles – Jack Nicklaus leads with 18)
7. Which Formula One driver was nicknamed The Professor?
Answer – ALAIN PROST
8. “Deadly” was the nickname of which bowler, who took 297 Test
Cricket wickets?
Answer – DEREK UNDERWOOD

Supplementaries

1. Who became the 1st non-European to win the Tour de France
cycle race?
Answer – GREG LE MOND
2. Name either of the only two Americans who have won the
Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship.
Answer – PHIL HILL or MARIO ANDRETTI

MURDER ETC…
A round of questions on murder, assassination and general despair…

1. Which playwright was murdered in a Deptford tavern in 1593?
Answer – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
2. Which country’s Prime Minister was Olaf Palme, who was
assassinated in 1986?
Answer - SWEDEN
3. In what district of East London did Jack the Ripper prey on
women?
Answer – WHITECHAPEL
4. Which Shakespearean character is haunted by the ghost of his
murdered father?
Answer - HAMLET
5. Who or what did Lindy Chamberlain claimed had kidnapped her
child?
Answer – A DINGO (A likely story…)
6. Christopher Craig shot a British Policeman in 1952, but who hung for the murder?
Answer – DEREK BENTLEY
7. Which heiress did the Black Panther Donald Nielson murder?
Answer – LESLEY WHITTLE
8. Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Charles Manson
family, who was she married to at the time?
Answer – ROMAN POLANSKI

Supplementaries

1. What relation was Marvin Gaye’s assassin?
Answer – HIS FATHER
2. Ethel Le Neve was which murderer’s secretary?
Answer – DR CRIPPEN

RETURN OF THE DINGBATS

Due to the success of the Dingbats Round last year, they are making a
“welcome” return! This year, there is no theme – as Roy Walker might say “Just say what you see”!
(Note to QMs: there are 2 substitute questions at the end for use if there are any visually impaired Quizzers)

1. Three men in a boat

2. Right between the eyes

3. Potatoes

4. Within reason

5. Good looking

6. Flat iron

7. Double cream

8. Read all about it

S1. A multitude of sins

S2. Round robin
Visually impaired Q1.
What is the most common bat found in the United Kingdom?
Answer: The Pipistrelle
Visually impaired Q2.
From which wood are cricket bats normally made?
Answer: Willow

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
This is a picture round, and all you have to do is identify the Artist from
the well known works of art in the pictures.
Just give out the pictures one at a time and the answer is quite simply who is the artist, not the title of the work.
Note to QMs – There are 2 copies of each picture. Please give a copy to each team at the same time.
Artist Title

1 JMW Turner The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth
to be broken up (1839)

2 Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1598)

3 Constable The Hay Wain (1821)

4 Salvador Dalí The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft
Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934)

5 Edgar Degas Dancers at The Bar (1888)

6 Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)

7 Rubens The Fall of Man (1628-29)

8 Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

S1 Joan Miró Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird) (1982)

S2 Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper (1498)
WRITTEN QUESTIONS TO BE USED IF ANY PLAYER HAS A VISUAL
HANDICAP
1 Which poet described autumn as the season “of mists and mellow fruitfulness”? Keats
2 Who painted The Scream? Edvard Munch

SCIENCE

1. In mathematics, what name is given to a three-dimensional
spiral curve like a spring or a corkscrew?
Answer - HELIX
2. Which planet in the Solar System is thought to weigh about
two and a half times that of all the other planets combined?
Answer – JUPITER
3. What would be removed from your body if you underwent a
nephrectomy?
Answer - KIDNEY
4. The discoveries of sodium, magnesium, potassium and
calcium are all credited to which scientist?
Answer – SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
5. Which vitamin, often routinely given to newborn babies shortly
after their birth, is essential for blood clotting?
Answer – VITAMIN K
6. Which Boy’s name is also the name of the derived SI unit of
inductance?
Answer – HENRY
7. What name is given to the system of healing developed by Dr
Andrew Still, involving the manipulation of bones in the body?
Answer – OSTEOPATHY
8. Which metal was once called plumbium?
Answer - LEAD
Supplementaries
1. What name is given to the study and use of frequencies above
the limits of human hearing?
Answer - ULTRASONICS
2. Name either of the two planets which lie between the Earth and
the Sun.
Answer – MERCURY or VENUS

HISTORY

1. Which English Monarch had a horse called White Surrey, at least
according to Shakespeare?
Answer – RICHARD III (the Third)
2. Which Treaty formed the League of Nations in 1919?
Answer – TREATY OF VERSAILLES
3. Which decisive Battle of the Crimean War took place on the 5th of November 1854?
Answer – BATTLE OF INKERMAN
4. Which English Monarch was on the throne at the time of Thomas Beckett’s murder in 1170?
Answer – HENRY II (the Second)
5. Which Leader declared Martial Law in the Philippines in 1972?
Answer – FERDINAND MARCOS
6. Which Germanic Race of people sacked Rome in 455 AD?
Answer – THE VANDALS
7. Which British Prime Minister wrote several novels, including
"Vivien Grey", "Coningsby, or the New Generation" and "Sybil, or
the Two Nations"?
Answer – BENJAMIN DISRAELI
8. Under which Conservative Prime Minister was Income Tax reintroduced to this Country in 1871?
Answer – SIR ROBERT PEEL
Supplementaries
1. By what other name were the Red Army Faction Terrorist Group known?
Answer – BAADER-MEINHOF GROUP
2. Which British Statesman made a speech in 1850 in support of his decision to send gunboats to Greece in support of Don Pacifico?
Answer – LORD PALMERSTON

THINGS ARE LOOKING DOWN…
This is another picture round, and all you have to do is identify the
famous landmarks or locations as seen from above.
Just give out the pictures one at a time and the answer is quite simply what is the landmark or location is in the picture.
Note to QMs – There are 2 copies of each picture. Please give a copy to each team at the same time.

1. The Statue of Liberty (New York City)

2. Sydney Opera House

3. St Paul’s Cathedral (London)

4. Angel of the North (Gateshead)

5. The Colosseum (Rome)

6. Wimbledon (All England Lawn Tennis Club, Church Road, Wimbledon)

7. The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)

8. The Hoover Dam (Nevada / Arizona border, USA)

S1. The Taj Mahal (Agra, India)

S2. Blackpool Tower (Blackpool!)
WRITTEN QUESTIONS TO BE USED IF ANY PLAYER HAS A VISUAL
HANDICAP
1. In which country is the Barossa Valley wine producing region?
Answer - AUSTRALIA
2. Which City contains Fisherman's Wharf and Lombard Street?
Answer – SAN FRANCISCO

General Knowledge

 

1.	What kind of creature lives in a Lodge?
		BEAVER
2.	What kind of creature is an alewife?
		FISH (type of herring)
3.	Which 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack revolves around a dance marathon in Los Angeles with a $1,500 cash prize to the winner?
		THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY
4.	In which film did John Wayne make his final appearance?
		THE SHOOTIST
5.	Which religious organisation was founded by the Korean Sun Myung Moon in 1954?
		UNIFICATION CHURCH
6.	Which religious organisation was founded in Boston by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866?
		CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MOVEMENT
7.	Which perfume was first made in 1768 in response to a Russian count’s (Count Orlof) challenge to recreate the distinctive aroma of the Russian Court?
		IMPERIAL LEATHER
8.	Which perfume house makes perfumes called Opium, Paris and Rive Gauche?
		YVES ST LAURENT
9.	Who was writing “Love Letters in the Sand” in 1957?
		PAT BOONE
10.	Who was “Alone Again (Naturally)” in 1972?
		GILBERT O’SULLIVAN
11.	To which legendary queen of Carthage did Aeneas recount the story of the fall of Troy in Virgil’s Aeneid?
		DIDO
12.	Who was the first husband of Catherine of Aragon, who became the first wife of Henry VIII?
		PRINCE ARTHUR (Henry’s older brother who died 6 months after marrying her in 1501)
13.	Who plays Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films?
		JULIE WALTERS
14.	What is the title of the third part of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
		THE RETURN OF THE KING
15.	In the recent adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” who provides the voice for the eponymous character?
		GEORGE CLOONEY
16.	In which song would you find “the heavy, heavy monster sound”?
		ONE STEP BEYOND (Madness – 1979)
17.	In which 1987 Channel 4 drama based on Tom Sharpe’s 1974 novel, did David Jason play the role of Skullion, a janitor at a Cambridge college?
		PORTERHOUSE BLUE
18.	In 1986, which natural area was declared the first World Heritage site in Northern Ireland?
		THE GIANT’S CAUSEWAY
19.	Whose inscription in St Paul’s Cathedral reads, “Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice”?
		SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (Reader, if you seek a monument, look around…)
20.	Whose books have included “Down Among The Women” and “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”?
		FAY WELDON
21.	Against which monarch was the Babington Plot organised?
		ELIZABETH I
22.	Against which monarch was the Rye House Plot organised?
		CHARLES II
23.	Which brand of cigarettes was sold under the slogan “pure gold”?
		BENSON AND HEDGES
24.	What was the name of the political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith in 1994?
		THE REFERENDUM PARTY
25.	What was the name of Bertie Wooster’s most formidable aunt?
		AUNT AGATHA
26.	What was the name of the first Blue Peter guide dog who was introduced to the show in 1964?
		HONEY
27.	Which was the last team to win the F.A. Cup with a team comprising all English players?
		WEST HAM UNITED (1975)
28.	Which English football league team has been relegated the fewest times?
		ARSENAL (1 time only in 1912/13)
29.	Which US recording artist has released albums entitled Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and The Velvet Rope?
		JANET JACKSON
30.	Which US recording artist’s latest studio album is The Blueprint 3, featuring the New York inspired hit song Empire State of Mind?
		JAY-Z
31.	Which is the largest castle in England?
		WINDSOR
32.	Which is the oldest cathedral in Great Britain?
		CANTERBURY
33.	In English folklore, which tree is credited with magical protective powers against witchcraft?
		ROWAN (Accept Mountain Ash)
34.	According to legend, which plant, attributed with quasi-human properties, could be safely uprooted only on a moonlit night with a cord pulled by a black dog, which would later die?
		MANDRAKE
35.	Which 1980’s BBC cartoon series featured a hero dressed in a blue and yellow costume whose real identity was Eric Twinge?
		BANANAMAN
36.	In the first James Bond movie, what is the first name of  Dr. No?
		JULIUS
37.	What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
		LIVER
38.	Which part of the body is medically referred to as the hallux?
		BIG TOE
39.	Which naval weapon was invented by Robert Whitehead in 1866?
		TORPEDO
40.	The Gettysburg Battlefield is in which US State?
		PENNSYLVANIA
41.	Which magazine, founded in 1991 by Gordon Roddick and John Bird, was inspired by a New York publication called Street News?
		THE BIG ISSUE
42.	What was the name of the cavemen racers in “Wacky Races”?
		SLAG BROTHERS (Rock and Gravel, in the Bouldermobile…)
43.	What does Zorro mean in Spanish?
		FOX
44.	How did the French author, philosopher, Nobel prize winner and occasional Goalkeeper Albert Camus die in 1960?
		IN A CAR CRASH
45.	Which 1971 British gangster film was based on the Ted Lewis novel Jack’s Return Home, inspired by the so-called ‘One Armed Bandit Murder’ of a debt collector in County Durham?
		GET CARTER
46.	What was the name of the Oklahoma City bomber of April 1995 who was executed for the crime in 2001?
		TIMOTHY McVEIGH
47.	Which country lies between Niger and Sudan?
		CHAD
48.	How many stars are there on the New Zealand flag?
		4
49.	Who was the first Christian Emperor of Rome?
		CONSTANTINE (AD 306 to 337)
50.	What was the name of the race of giants that Zeus defeated in order to rule on Mount Olympus?
		THE TITANS
51.	Which British footballer was the first to earn £100 a week?
		JOHNNY HAYNES
52.	On 11th June 1953, which famous cricketer became the first professional player to captain England?
		LEN HUTTON
53.	What is the most abundant mineral in the human body?
		CALCIUM
54.	The lack of which fat-soluble vitamin over a long period of time causes rickets in children and contributes to osteomalcia in adults?
		VITAMIN D
55.	From which Shakespeare play did Ray Bradbury take the title for his 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes?
		MACBETH (Act IV, scene 1, with the witches - “By the pricking of my thumbs…”)
56.	In Shakespeare, which character’s “flashes of merriment…were wont to set the table on a roar”?
		YORICK (According to Hamlet)
57.	Which English monarch had the nickname “Old Rowley”?
		CHARLES II
58.	Who was known as “Brandy Nan”?
		QUEEN ANNE
59.	At what temperature does water have its maximum density?
		4°C (39.2°F)
60.	What name is given to the angle between two radii of a circle that cut off on the circumference an arc equal in length to the radius?
		A RADIAN (57.2°)
61.	By what name is the European Treaty of Union signed in December 1991 better known, after the name of the town where it was signed?
		MAASTRICHT TREATY (In the Netherlands)
62.	Which Norwegian politician was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
		TRYGVE LIE
63.	Who directed the 2009 film Invictus?
		CLINT EASTWOOD
64.	Who directed the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes?
		GUY RITCHIE
65.	What was the name of the French-produced missile used to dramatic effect by the Argentinian Air Force in the Falklands War in 1982?
		EXOCET
66.	In the First World War, the slogan They Shall Not Pass symbolised the defence of which French town?
		VERDUN
67.	Who was the first post-war German Chancellor to have been brought up in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?
		ANGELA MERKEL
68.	Who did not seek re-election as Austrian President in 1992 after revelations about his activities in World War II?
		KURT WALDHEIM
69.	Which chemical element, symbol Sb and atomic number 51, is a brittle silver-grey semi-metallic element?
		ANTIMONY
70.	Which chemical element, symbol Cd and atomic number 48, is a soft silvery-white metallic element?
		CADMIUM
71.	Which ballet, first performed in 1841, was inspired by a Heinrich Heine story about a peasant girl who kills herself when she discovers the man she loves is engaged to someone else?
		GISELLE
72.	Which Latvian-born dancer of the New York City Ballet defected to the West in 1974 and later appeared in films entitled The Turning Point and Dancers?
		MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
73.	The name of which garden flower means, literally, “many flowers”?
		POLYANTHUS
74.	The name of which flower means, literally, “rock-breaker”?
		SAXIFRAGE
75.	What was the name of the space station launched by the USSR in 1996, later replaced by the International Space Station in 2001?
		MIR
76.	What was the name of the world’s first ‘space tourist’, a sixty-year old Californian financier, who paid the Russian space agency $20 Million to travel to the International Space Station in April 2001?
		DENNIS TITO
77.	According to the Bible, who visited King Solomon and gave him ‘a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones’?
		THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
78.	In Genesis 4:16, to where was Cain exiled after killing his brother Abel?
		THE LAND OF NOD
79.	Which cathedral contains the tomb of the Venerable Bede?
		DURHAM
80.	Which saint’s shrine is in the crypt of Glasgow cathedral?
		ST MUNGO
81.	In J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, what was the name of the Darling family’s dog, which was also the children’s nurse?
		NANA
82.	What was the name of the dog who was the first to win the English Greyhound Racing Derby twice, and whose embalmed body is now on display at Tring Zoological Museum
		MICK THE MILLER
83.	In 1912, what name was coined by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener for the “supercontinent” which was thought to have split up to form the present continents?
		PANGAEA
84.	What is the Hobo West, which was found in 1920 near Grootfontein in what is now Namibia?
		THE LARGEST KNOWN METEORITE (Believed to weigh over 60 tons, which fell to Earth about 80,000 years ago)
85.	Which US bandleader and clarinettist, who achieved huge success with Begin the Beguine in 1938, was born Arthur Arshawsky?
		ARTIE SHAW
86.	Which US clarinettist and bandleader, who featured on the Let’s Dance radio series, was known as the ‘King of Swing’?
		BENNY GOODMAN
87.	Which British newspaper has as its logo a knight dressed in chain mail and carrying a white shield bearing a red cross?
		DAILY EXPRESS
88.	Which Mediterranean island was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem from 1529 to 1798?
		MALTA
89.	By what Latin phrase is the Canticle of Simeon from Luke 2:29, which begins “Lord, now let your servant depart in peace”, better known?
		NUNC DIMITTIS From the opening words of the Latin (Vulgate) version
90.	Which Latin phrase is the motto of the Crown of Scotland, the Order of the Thistle and all the Scottish regiments, often referred to in local dialect as “Wha daur meddle wi’ me”?
		NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT (No one provokes me with impunity)
91.	In which 19th century novel is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov the central character?
		CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (by Dostoyevsky)
92.	Which Oxford philosopher and writer won the 1978 Booker Prize for the novel The Sea, the Sea?
		IRIS MURDOCH
93.	Which bird is particularly associated with the village of Abbotsbury, near Dorchester?
		MUTE SWAN (Accept Swan)
94.	Which is the only native British bird to change the colour of its plumage in winter?
		PTARMIGAN (Grey and brown in the summer, white in winter)
95.	Which card game is said to have been invented by the seventeenth century poet John Suckling?
		CRIBBAGE
96.	Which playing card is sometimes called ‘the curse of Scotland’?
		NINE OF DIAMONDS (For a variety of reasons, all of which probably have some truth in them!)

SUPPLEMENTARIES:

1.	What was the name of Tonto’s horse in The Lone Ranger?
		SCOUT
2.	The following is the first line from which well known novel? “It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”?
		PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jane Austen)
3.	Who painted the “Monarch Of The Glen” and sculpted the 4 bronze lions in Trafalgar Square?
		SIR EDWIN LANDSEER
4.	Which type of bird might be garganeys, gadwalls, pintails or goosanders?
		DUCKS
5.	If all the chemical elements in the periodic table were listed alphabetically which one would come first?
		ACTINIUM
6.	If all the US States were listed alphabetically which one would come last?
		WYOMING