QUIZ QUESTIONS: 10th January 2012

 

SPECIALIST ROUNDS

Set by the Water Green Phoenix

Geography

History

Sport

Science

Arts & Entertainment

Film Quotes

Bob’s Silver Jubilee

Name that City

GEOGRAPHY

Q1: Natives of which British Overseas Territory call themselves Llanitos?

A: GIBRALTAR

Q2: Managua is the capital of which country?

A: NICARAGUA

Q3: Which seaside town in Kent, is famous for its oysters?

A: WHITSTABLE

Q4: In which country is the Christiansborg Palace?

A: DENMARK (seat of the folketing)

Q5: .Which river is the main tributary of the Dead Sea?

A: THE RIVER JORDAN

Q6: Iona is off the coast of which other Scottish Island?

A: MULL

Q7: Which triple flight of waterfalls is formed by the River Ure in mid-Wensleydale, and were featured in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?

A: AYSGARTH FALLS

Q8: Which Scottish town is traditionally known as the “Queen of the South”?

A: DUMFRIES

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: What is the UK’s most northerly motorway?

A: M90 (Dunfermline to Perth)

S2: In geography, what is a geonym (pronounced “jee-o-nim”)?

A: THE NAME OF A GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE OR PLACE.

HISTORY

Q1: The 1783 Treaty of Paris ended which war?

A: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (War of American Independence).

Q2: What name was given to the Roman Road that linked London with York via Lincoln?

A: ERMINE STREET

Q3: What name is given to those who supported the claim of the House of Stuart to the British throne?

A: JACOBITES

Q4: Who was the British Prime minister at the time of John Kennedy’s assassination?

A: ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME (P.M. from Oct 1963 –Oct 1964).

Q5: Name a year during the Regency Period.

A: 1810 – 1820

Q6: Who was the last wife of Henry the Eighth?

A: CATHERINE PARR

Q7: Who led the Gunpowder Plot?

A: ROBERT CATESBY

Q8: What was the first battle of the English Civil War?

A: EDGEHILL

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: Between 1837-55 which movement attempted to better the conditions of the British working classes?

A: THE CHARTISTS

S2: What was the popular nickname of the Act by which suffragettes who had been released from prison while on hunger strike were rearrested as soon as they recovered their strength.

A: THE CAT AND MOUSE ACT

SPORT

Q1: Which athlete in the space of 40 days in 1979 broke the world records for the 800 metres, 1500 metres and the mile?

A: SEBASTIAN COE

Q2: In cricket, 111 is believed to be an unlucky score – what is it called?

A: THE NELSON

Q3: Which football club is known as The Owls?

A: SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY

Q4: In golf what is the traditional name for the No 10 iron?

A: THE PITCHING WEDGE (accept wedge)

Q5: Who won the Green Jersey in 2011’s Tour De France?

A: MARK CAVENDISH

Q6: In which season were the FA Premier League’s first games played?

A: 1992-93

Q7: Where were the 2004 Summer Olympics held?

A: ATHENS, GREECE

Q8: Who won the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa?

A: SPAIN

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: In Formula 1 motor racing, what does DRS stand for?

A: DRAG REDUCTION SYSTEM (not cheap sofas)

S2: What is the penalty for a relatively minor infringement in ice hockey?

A: TWO MINUTES IN THE PENALTY BOX.

SCIENCE

Q1: In the news recently what is the Maunder Minimum?

A: PERIOD OF VERY LOW SUNSPOT ACTIVITY COINCIDING WITH MINI ICE AGE IN BRITAIN 1645-1715. ( accept either LOW SUNSPOT ACTIVITY or MINI ICE-AGE).

Q2: In astronomy what is a VLT?

A: VERY LARGE TELESCOPE

Q3: Which mobile phone manufacturer did Google purchase?

A: MOTOROLA MOBILITY (accept Motorola)

Q4: What is the UK’s largest native butterfly?

A: SWALLOWTAIL

Q5: Which planet did Johan Galle discover in 1846?

A: NEPTUNE

Q6: In which decade were windscreen wipers patented in the UK?

A: 1920s

Q7: Who won the first Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to in 1976?

A: MILTON FRIEDMAN.

Q8: The periodic table shows 118 elements. In 1789, when a list of elements was first produced, it showed only 33. Who produced that first list of elements?

A: ANTOINE LAVOISER

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: What was the first remote controlled vehicle to land on the moon?

A: Lunokhod (1970-71)

S2: Which readily available ‘over the counter’ drug was first produced in a small test lab in Nottingham in 1961 by Boots pharmacologist Dr Stewart Adams and colleagues?

A: IBUPROFEN

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Q1: Wakefield’s new art gallery is named after which modern sculptor?

A: BARBARA HEPWORTH.

Q2: The Magnum Cooperative is devoted to which art form?

A: PHOTOGRAPHY

Q3: Which radio special agent had sidekicks called Snowy and Jock?

A: DICK BARTON

Q4 : What was the first name of The Fonz?

A: ARTHUR

Q5: Which book by Michael Morpurgo has been turned into a successful West End production and film?

A: WAR HORSE

Q6: Which London born artist has been appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy?

A: TRACEY EMIN.

Q7: Who played Ron Weasley in the “Harry Potter” films?

A: RUPERT GRINT

Q8: The actress America Ferrara became famous playing the lead role in which US comedy drama?

A: UGLY BETTY

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: What was the name of the BBC TV arts show that ran from 1958 to 1965?

A: MONITOR

S2: How is Kimball O’Hara better known?

A: KIM, in Rudyard Kipling’s novel of the same name.

FILM QUOTES

Q1: In which film does a dying man utter the word “Rosebud”?

A: CITIZEN KANE

Q2: Which film has the tagline “Every generation has a legend? Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning.”?

A: STAR WARS (Episode One, but accept STAR WARS).

Q3: Which cult film has the tagline: “The residents of Summer Isle invited Sergeant Howie to their traditional May Day festival.

A: THE WICKER MAN

Q4: Name the film from which the following comes: - “That’ll do pig”

A: BABE

Q5: Name the film from which the following comes “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”

A: APOCALYPSE NOW.

Q6: Name the film from which the following comes:

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

A: PSYCHO.

Q7: Name the film from which the following comes

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

A: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Q8: Name the film from which the following comes

"Round up the usual suspects."

A: CASABLANCA

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1 Name the film from which the following comes

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

A: GONE WITH THE WIND

S2: Name the film from which the following comes

“They call me Mr. Tibbs.”

A: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

BOB’S SILVER JUBILEE

Bob Langstaff started in the Macclesfield quiz league in the 1986-87 season, so this year is his Silver Jubilee. We thought we should celebrate this event with a specialist round in his honour. The obvious topic would be Bob’s jokes as these have been doing the rounds for the whole 25 years too, but as he needs to recycle them over the 2^nd half of the season we have had to come up with an alternative, which is; Famous Bobs!! Each question or answer will relate to a famous Robert, Bob or Bobby.

Q1: Robert the Magnificent (1000-1035 A.D.) was the father of which King of England

A: WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

Q2: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was the first British Prime Minister of the 20^th century, what was his title?

A; THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY

Q3: Who was the American Attorney General at the time of the investigation into the corruption allegations and Mafia connections of union leader Jimmy Hoffa?

A: ROBERT (BOBBY) KENNEDY.

Q4: Which recording artist, who died aged 54 in 2003 in Paris, was for a time part of the 70’s group “Vinegar Joe” with Elkie Brooks before going on to have a successful solo career in the UK.

A: ROBERT PALMER

Q5: Who won a BAFTA award for best actor in 1986 for his role as George in Mona Lisa?

A: BOB HOSKINS

Q6: At the Royal Television Society’s Television Journalism Awards of 2008/9 who won both “Specialist Journalist of the Year” award and the “Television Journalist of the Year” award for his reporting of the credit crunch for the BBC?

A: ROBERT PESTON.

Q7: Kevin Spacey starred in the 2004 biopic “Beyond the Sea” playing which late American singer?

A: BOBBY DARIN.

Q8: Bob Dylan was part of the Travelling Wilburys alongside Roy Orbison and George Harrison. Name either of the other two band members.

A: JEFF LYNNE or TOM PETTY.

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: In Citizen Smith Robert Lindsay played the role of Wolfie Smith, self-proclaimed leader of the TPF. What does the “T” stand for in TPF?

A: TOOTING (Popular Front)

S2: Which goalkeeper won Championship and FA Cup medals in the 1970-71 season with Arsenal

A: BOB WILSON

NICKNAME THAT CITY

You will be given the nickname of a city. All you have to do is name that city.

Q1: Which city is known as the” Big Apple”?

A: NEW YORK

Q2: Which city is known as the “Windy City”?

A: CHICAGO

Q3: Which city is known as the “City of Angels”?

A: LOS ANGELES

Q4: Which city is known as the “Granite City”?

A: ABERDEEN

Q5: Which city is known as “Motown”?

A: DETROIT

Q6: Which city is known as the “The City of David”?

A: JERUSALEM

Q7: Which city is known as the “Crescent City” or “The Big Easy”?

A: NEW ORLEANS

Q8: Which city is known as the “City of Dreaming Spires”?

A: OXFORD

SUPPLEMENTARIES

S1: Which city is known as the “The Eternal City”?

A: ROME

S2: Which city suburb is known as “Tinseltown”?

A: HOLLYWOOD

General Knowledge Questions

(Set by Knot Know-alls)

1. What are the small discs used in the game of tiddly winks called? Answer: WINKS

2. In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories, what is the name of the smallest and cheekiest engine?

Answer: PERCY

3. By what name or title is Anne Heggety referred to on TV?

Answer: THE GOVERNESS (from The Chase)

4. At which location is the Peter Pan Cup contested annually on Christmas morning?

Answer: HYDE PARK LAKE or THE SERPENTINE (swimming) (accept either, as they are the same place)

5. Which Strictly Come Dancing regular recently admitted to The Mirror newspaper, to having had a breast reduction?

Answer: Craig Revel HORWOOD

(Quote: “I couldn’t cha cha cha without them jingling in my face”)

6. Which comedian’s best selling childrens’ novels include: The Boy in the Dress, Billionaire Boy and Gangsta Granny?

Answer: David WALLIAMS

7. What is the maximum number of characters available for a single twitter message?

Answer: 140

8. Who created Postman Pat?

Answer: John CUNLIFFE

9. Which English county gives its name to a pudding of suet pastry, which encases a whole lemon?

Answer: SUSSEX i.e. Sussex pond pudding

10. By what name is Anakin Skywalker better known?

Answer: Darth VADER

11. Which city is served by Dum Dum airport?

Answer: KOLKATA (CALCUTTA)

12. Which year did the Queen describe as her Annus Horribilis? Answer: 1992

13. What is the name of the glossy fabric, with a woven reversible pattern, which derives its name from a middle-eastern capital city?

Answer: DAMASK (from Damascus)

14. What forms the basis of the meat substitute quorn? nswer: MUSHROOMS

15. In Hinduism, who is the 8^th avatar of Vishnu and known as the Butter Thief?

Answer: KRISHNA

16. On what date in 2012 is the Olympic torch due to arrive in the Olympic stadium?

Answer: 27^th JULY

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17. Which comedian, musician, poet and podcaster started his stand-up career as Porky the Poet?

Answer: Phil JUPITUS

18. By what name is Irish singer-songwriter George Ivan better known?

Answer: VAN MORRISON (full name required)

19. If an American said he had swallowed a goofball, what would you expect him to do?

Answer: FALL ASLEEP (it’s a sleeping pill)

20. The Golden Temple of Amritsar is in which Indian state? Answer: THE PUNJAB

21. An example of a comic verse written in a regular rhythm is a limerick. What is comic verse called when written to have an irregular rhythm?

Answer: DOGGEREL

22. What is the technical name for the organ of hearing in the ear? Answer: COCHLEA

23. What is the name of the ship on which the first West Indian immigrants arrived in Tilbury in 1948?

Answer: EMPIRE WINDRUSH (accept Windrush)

24. What is the name given to the early 20^th century art movement, characterised by visible brush strokes and strong colours, which translates from the French for “wild beast”?

Answer: FAUVISM

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25. What is the name of the cult followers of the Hindu goddess Kali, who were notorious for robbing travellers and ritual murder by strangling?

Answer: THUGS or THUGGEES

26. Matthew Bourne adapted Bizet’s Carmen into a highly successful ballet. What is it called?

Answer: THE CARMAN

27. What exhibit has for the last 12 months occupied the 4^th plinth in Trafalgar Square?

Answer: SHIP IN A BOTTLE (Nelson’s Victory by artist Yinka Shonibare)

28. Who is the only astronaut who went to the moon twice but never landed on it?

Answer: Jim LOVELL

 29. On the cover of Sergeant Pepper LP, what is John Lennon holding?

Answer: FRENCH HORN (also accept TUBA or WAGNER TUBA)

30. What is the name of the early 20^th Century dance craze which shares its name with an American state capital?

Answer: CHARLESTON

31. In WWII, the term “GI” became a generic name for US soldiers, especially ground forces. What does letter “I” stand for?

 Answer: ISSUE (Government Issue)

32. What am I describing? “Lying flat, face down, in an unusual or original situation, with both hands touching the sides of the body. Somebody takes a photo and puts it on the internet.”

Answer: The recent craze of “PLANKING”

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33. For how many days was Edward VIII king of the UK? Answer: 325 (accept 310 – 340)

34. Name the dog, which shares its name with one of the six towns of the Potteries, that became a YouTube sensation, for its deer-chasing antics in November 2011?

Answer: FENTON

35. Where in Italy was Mussolini executed?

Answer: COMO

36. What biblical-sounding, off-coast rock formations would you discover along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia? Answer: THE TWELVE APOSTLES

37. Whose process decarbonised iron?

Answer: BESSAMER’S

38. What other animal appears on the front of a UK passport as well as a lion?

Answer: UNICORN

39. Which item of lingerie is also the language of the inhabitants of the Western Pyrenees?

Answer: BASQUE

40. Who was the first UK Prime Minister to make use of Chequers as his country residence?

Answer: David LLOYD GEORGE

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41. Which city is at the mouth of the rivers Don and Dee? Answer: ABERDEEN

42. Which film director, best known for the Oscar-winning Women in Love, and the film of the The Who's Tommy, died in November 2011?

Answer: KEN RUSSELL

43. Who was president of Egypt during the Suez Crisis of 1956?

Answer: Gamal Abdel NASSER

44. Which UK Prime Minister shares his name with a type of tea? Answer: EARL GREY

45. Who was given the Helen Rollason Award (for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity) at BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year 2011?

Answer: BOB CHAMPION

46. Name the actress who played Miss Havisham in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in December 2011.

Answer: GILLIAN ANDERSON

47. Who won the Man Booker Prize 2011?

Answer: Julian BARNES (for A Sense of an Ending)

48. Martin Boyce won the Turner Prize 2011 for his installation called what?

Answer: DO WORDS HAVE VOICES

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49. Name the title of the 23^rd James Bond movie to be released this year (2012)

Answer: SKYFALL

50. Which Scottish River supplies over 90% of the water used in whiskey manufacture?

Answer: SPEY

51. Which foodstuff not rationed during WWII was rationed afterwards?

Answer: BREAD

52. A widget inside of a can of beer is an aid to produce a good head of beer. What is inside the pressurised pellet?

Answer: NITROGEN

53. Where in the human body is the lunula located?

Answer: FINGERNAIL or TOENAIL (it is the white crescent shape at the base of the nail)

54. Four different women won tennis grand slam singles titles in 2011: Kim Clijsters, Petra Kvitova, Samantha Stosur and who else? Answer: LI NA (full name required)

(also accept NA LI which she seems to be referred to sometimes)

55. What connects Steve Coogan, Max Mosley, Charlotte Church, J K Rowling, Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller?

Answer: All gave evidence at the LEVESON enquiry

56. What previously privately owned monument did Sir Cecil Chubb donate to the British Government in 1918?

Answer: STONEHENGE

57. Why was Mark Duggan in the news in August?

Answer: He was SHOT BY POLICE, and protests DEVELOPED INTO WIDESPEAD RIOTS IN THE UK

58. Of which US state is Jefferson City the capital?

Answer: MISSOURI

59. Which US city is appropriately twinned with the Italian city of Assisi?

Answer: SAN FRANCISCO

60. Which gemstone is fossilised Araucaria (monkey puzzle) tree? Answer: JET

61. What is obtained by boiling sugar beyond 115 degrees Centigrade?

Answer: CARAMEL

62. What was the real name of Genghis Khan?

Answer: TEMUJIN

63. Which club plays football at the Liberty Stadium?

Answer: SWANSEA CITY

64. Who is the only footballer to have scored in every season since the Premiership began in 1992-3 season? Answer: Ryan GIGGS

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65. Which fruit or vegetable has varieties Timperley Early, Champagne and Victoria?

Answer: RHUBARB

66. Since 1928, which breed has won Best in Show at Crufts seven times, three more than any other?

Answer: COCKER SPANIEL

67 . What distinguishes the Basenji or Congo Dog from all other breeds?

Answer: IT DOESN’T BARK

68. What is the oldest warship still in commission in the Royal Navy?

Answer: HMS VICTORY (launched 1765)

69. The US ship The Phoenix was one of only a few ships to escape from Pearl Harbour unscathed. It was sold by the US Navy, renamed and eventually sunk in action in 1982. What was its name at that time?

Answer: THE GENERAL BELGRANO

70. In Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, what despicable act did Michael Henchard commit involving his wife?

Answer: HE AUCTIONED HER [sold her]

71. What is the name of the theme tune to TV sitcom Absolutely Fabulous?

Answer: WHEELS ON FIRE (originally by Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger Trinity)

72. What was striking about the Welsh Grand National, run on Boxing Day 2011?

Answer: IT WAS A DEAD HEAT

73. What does an anemometer measure?

Answer: WINDSPEED

74. Which Hollywood actress has recently produced a cookery book called Notes From My Kitchen?

Answer: Gwyneth PALTROW

75. Charles Dickens was born near to which British seaport?

Answer: PORTSMOUTH (accept Portsea)

76. In which debtor’s prison was John, father of Charles Dickens, incarcerated?

Answer: MARSHALSEA

77. Now closed down, in what year was The News of the World founded?

Answer: 1843 (accept 1835 to 1850)

78. How many EU countries are there in the Eurozone (officially called the Euro Area)?

Answer: 17

79. Whose autobiography is called At My Mother’s Knee...........And Other Low Joints?

Answer: Paul O’GRADY

80. Name one of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Gerona?

Answer: VALENTINE or PROTEUS

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81. Which of the American space shuttles was the last one to fly on a mission to the International Space Station, before the retirement of the entire fleet in July 2011?

Answer: ATLANTIS

82. At the start of 2012, NASA’s twin probes Grail A & B started a mission to circle the moon. What particular aspect of the moon is being studied?

Answer: Its UNEVEN GRAVITATIONAL PULL (accept anything to do with GRAVITY in the answer)

83. Which record Rugby Union try scorer, for the Welsh national team, retired in December 2011 after scoring his 58^th try with the very last touch of his international career?

Answer: SHANE WILLIAMS (full name required)

84. Which Scottish Rugby Union record cap and points holder, who retired from international rugby in December 2011, received an MBE in the recent New Year’s Honours list?

Answer: Chris PATERSON

85. Who was the hero in King Solomon’s Mines by H Rider Haggard?

Answer: Allan QUARTERMAIN

86 . What is the name of Britain’s largest example of public art?

Answer: ORBIT (Olympic Park)

87. What is the world’s longest freshwater lake?

Answer: TANGANYIKA

88. Who invented the mercury barometer?

Answer: Evangelista TORRICELLI

89. Which Dior fashion designer was sacked after his anti-Semitic rantings in a Paris Bar in March 2011?

Answer: John GALLIANO

90. Name one of the fathers who share the house with Father Ted on Craggy Island?

Answer: FATHER DOUGAL or FATHER JACK

91. Who plays the part of Karen in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered?

Answer: Ramona MARQUEZ

92. What name is given to the fluid which surrounds a foetus in the womb?

Answer: AMNIOTIC FLUID

93. What is the name of the adagio composed by Aram Khachaturian, for the ballet of the same name, and used as the theme for TV’s the Onedin Line?

Answer: SPARTACUS

94. Which American President said “I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I am in a cabinet meeting”?

Answer: RONALD REAGAN

95. My Eyes Adore You, and Sherry, are songs from which popular musical?

Answer: JERSEY BOYS

96. What was Elvis Presley’s middle name?

Answer: AARON

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SUPPLEMENTARIES

1. In which mountain range is mainland Spain’s highest point, Mulhacen?

Answer: SIERRA NEVADA

2. In which country is the infamous bridge on the River Quai? Answer: THAILAND

3. Who wrote the musical Oliver?

Answer: Lionel BART

4. Regarding furniture, what is a Cheval?

Answer: A long mirror mounted on swivels in a frame, accept MIRROR

5. What would a sportsman store in an Ascham?

Answer: ARROWS (it’s a tall narrow cupboard)

6. Who was born in Northern Ireland and became president of Israel

Answer: Chaim HERZOG