8th January–The Questions

 

SPECIALIST QUESTIONS

set by The Lamb

Art & Entertainment

1. The sculpture Another Place on Crosby beach, in which cast iron replicas of the artist’s body are spread over two miles, is the work of which artist ?

ANTONY GORMLEY

2. Which band had a 1969 single called Mr Apollo, parodying Charles Atlas and other muscle men and contained the lines ‘Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas’ ?

THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND

3. Which actor played Alf Garnet’s socialist son-in-law Mike Rawlins in Til Death us do Part ?

ANTHONY BOOTH (father of Cherie)

4. Which Coronation Street actress did Anthony Booth marry shortly before her death from lung cancer in 1986 ?

PAT PHOENIX (do not accept Elsie Tanner)

5. In the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, one of Verbal Kint’s lines is ‘The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist’. Which actor played Verbal Kint ?

KEVIN SPACEY

6. What is the name of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the classic 1967 film The Graduate ? Full name required.

BENJAMIN BRADDOCK

7. Which Shakespeare play contains the line ‘Out, vile jelly’ ?

KING LEAR (when they gouge out Gloucester’s eyes)

8. On which Shakespeare play was the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics based?

THE TEMPEST (Isles of Wonder)

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) William Henry Pratt was better known as which horror film star ?

BORIS KARLOFF

(b) ARP Warden Hodges, in Dad’s Army, is related to which former Dr. Who actor ?

JON PERTWEE (Hodges – still is - Bill Pertwee)

(c) Who painted The Night Watch ?

REMBRANDT (van Rijn)

HISTORY – WORLD WAR II

1. How was the German method of rapid warfare known ?

BLITZKRIEG (Lightning war)

2. Which massive body of men approaching 200,000 was rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk ?

THE B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force)

3. Which British territory fell to the Japanese in 1942 with around 25,000 prisoners taken ?

SINGAPORE.

4. Which medieval hilltop religious building in central Italy was bombed and destroyed by the Allies in 1944 ?

MONTE CASSINO (Monastery)

5. On which of the five D-Day beaches were over 4,500 American casualties sustained ?

OMAHA.

6. What was the codename for the attempted Allied crossing of the Rhine at Arnhem ?

MARKET GARDEN.

7. The cruiser USS Phoenix was one of the few vessels to avoid damage at Pearl Harbour. By what name did she hit the headlines in 1982 ?

GENERAL BELGRANO.

8. By what name was the European Recovery Program, whereby the USA gave monetary support to help re-build Europe, generally known ?

THE MARSHALL PLAN.

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) What was the name of the French fortifications originally built on the French border between Switzerland and Luxembourg ?

THE MAGINOT LINE.

(b) What was the German code-name for the planned invasion of Britain ?

OPERATION SEA LION.

(c) Before entering WWII in 1941, the USA assisted the allies with supplies and armaments. What was this arrangement called ?

LEND-LEASE.

SPORT

1. Why did ‘Benny the Swinger’ ridden by Brendan Powell at Fakenham in November 2012 hit the headlines ?

HE TOOK THE WRONG ROUTE (whilst in the lead after jumping the final fence but missing the winning post)

2. In which year did Macclesfield Town FC lose 4-2 to Fulham in the 3^rd round of the F.A. Cup, after leading at half time ?

1968 (accept 67-69) (Captain Keith Goalen was named as the first ever non-league player to be Footballer of the Month by The London Evening Standard).

3. Jan Kodes (‘code esh’) was Wimbledon champion in which year ? This was the year in which 81 of the worlds top players boycotted the championships in support of Niki Pilic who was suspended.

As the answer is not given and no-one knew a supplementary was used

4. Which athlete won the Olympic 400 metres hurdles in 1968 ?

DAVID HEMERY

5. What was the name of the boxer defeated by Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff on points on 30^th November 2012 ?

RICHARD DAWSON

6. In the recent second test match between India and England at the Wankhede Stadium inMumbai, Alistair Cook and which other England batsman reached their 22^nd test match centuries ?

KEVIN PIETERSEN

7. In which city does the Bundesliga team Schalke 04 play their home games ?

GELSENKIRCHEN (the team’s full name is Futball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04)

8. The Swalec Stadium (formerly Sophia Gardens) is the home ground of which rugby union team ?

GLAMORGAN

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) Superbowl XLVII (47) will take place in which city on 3^rd February 2013 ?

NEW ORLEANS (at The Mercedes-Benz Superdrome)

(b) Stanley J. Matthews, son of Sir Stanley Matthews the footballer, became a three times national junior champion in the early sixties, at which sport ?

TENNIS

CLASSICAL CHESTNUTS

Classical music you know and love – yes you do, honestly !

1. Name Hubert Parry’s famous choral song usually sung at W.I. meetings.

JERUSALEM

2. Which music by J.S. Bach used for the Hamlet cigar advertisement played by the Jacques Loussier Trio from the 1960’s to the 1980’s might be confused with a stripper’s garment !

AIR ON A G STRING (Orchestral suite No. 3)

3. Name the signature tune to Monty Python’s Flying Circus originally composed by John Philip Sousa which concerns a faulty piece of British engineering located in Philadelphia.

LIBERTY BELL

4. Puccini’s aria ‘None shall sleep’ hears Calaf challenge the cold princess Turandot to guess his name before dawn or she must marry him. What is the aria called in Italian ?

NESSUN DORMA

5. Ballet music by Aram Kachaturian to the story of Spartacus when he bids farewell to Phrygia (‘fridge ear’) was used as the theme tune to which 1970’s seagoing drama series?

THE ONEDIN LINE

6. Ponchielli’s ‘Dance of the Hours’ from ‘La Gioconda’ was given words and the title ‘Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh’ in 1963 by which comedy writer / singer ?

ALLAN SHERMAN

7. ‘By the Sleepy Lagoon’ was written by Eric Coates, probably more famous for his ‘Knightsbridge Marches’ and ‘The Dambusters March’, but which long running radio programme uses it as its signature tune ?

DESERT ISLAND DISCS

8. Who wrote the choral work ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ but is more famous for writing the ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ marches, the first of which had words added to create ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ which he hated ?

EDWARD ELGAR

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) Arguably one of the most famous pieces of music in the world thanks to ‘The Lone Ranger’ ?

THE WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE by Rossini

(b) Music to the films ‘Out of Africa ; Dances with Wolves ; and the arrangement of the James Bond theme have one thing in common. What is it ?

JOHN BARRY (He wrote the first two and arranged Monty Norman’s original Bond theme)

SCIENCE

1. In what device in the home would you find a magnetron ?

MICROWAVE OVEN

2. How is Daltonism more usually known ?

COLOUR BLINDNESS

3. Which low growing plant with white, yellow or red flowers and found in poor soils, has a Latin name meaning rock breaker ?

SAXIFRAGE

4. Which measuring instrument was invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643 ?

BAROMETER

5. Which physicist, who discovered radioactive rays emitting from uranium salts, shared the 1903 Nobel prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie ?

ANTOINE BEQUEREL

6. What name is given to static discharges visible on aeroplane wing tips and the tops of ships masts ?

ST. ELMO’S FIRE

7. Pinchbeck, named after a Victorian watchmaker, was used as a cheap substitute for gold and comprises copper and which other metal ?

ZINC

8. What is the main invention of Scottish physicist Sir James Dewar ?

VACUUM FLASK

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) Who discovered and demonstrated the existence of carbon dioxide and hydrogen in atmospheric air ?

HENRY CAVENDISH

(b) The process of antisepsis was developed by whom in 1865 ?

JOSEPH LISTER

Thieves (allegedly)

1. What is Jack Dawkins better known as in Oliver Twist ?

THE ARTFUL DODGER

2. In Greek mythology, who stole fire from the gods ?

PROMETHEUS

3. During The Great Depression, who led The Barrow Gang ?

BONNIE PARKER & CLYDE BARROW (accept Bonnie & Clyde)

4. Which actress was arrested in 2001 in a department store in Beverley Hills and accused of stealing $5,500 worth of designer clothes and accessories ?

WINONA RYDER

5. Who played Mr. Bridger, the prisoner and head of a gangland empire, in the 1969 film The Italian Job ?

NOEL COWARD

6. What was the real name of the English pirate Blackbeard ?

EDWARD TEACH

7. Which detective agency was commissioned to find the outlaw Jesse James ?

PINKERTON NATIONAL DETECTIVE AGENCY (Accept Pinkertons)

8. Which Australian double winning ‘Booker Prize’ author wrote the deliberately semi-literate novel, ostensibly penned by Ned Kelly, The True History of the Kelly Gang?

PETER CAREY

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) The reggae song Police and Thieves was first recorded by Junior Murvin in 1976. Which English band did a punk-reggae version a year later ?

THE CLASH

(b) In The Hobbit, what does Bilbo try to steal from one of the trolls before he is caught ?

A PURSE (Wallet)

(c) How much money was stolen in The Great Train Robbery of 1963 ?

£2.6 million (accept 2.5 – 2.7 million)

GEOGRAPHY

1. What is the capital of Indonesia ?

JAKARTA

2. In which country is the city of Shiraz ?

IRAN

3. Which semi-precious variety of lignite can be found on beaches in an area of North Yorkshire ?

JET (also known as Whitby Jet)

4. In which country would you find Lake Athabasca ?

CANADA

5. Which range of hills between Bridgewater and Watchet lie to the east of Exmoor National Park ?

QUANTOCKS

6. What is the largest active volcano on earth ?

MAUNA LOA (in Hawaii)

7. In an alphabetical list of capital cities which country’s capital would appear last ?

CROATIA (Zagreb)

8. Of which South American country is Paramaribo the capital ?

SURINAME

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) How is Port Jackson now universally known ?

SYDNEY HARBOUR

(b) Which Roman road ran from London to Lincoln ?

ERMINE STREET

SHOUT YOURSELF HORSE !

All questions or answers include references to horses.

1. The word Hussar is a reference to Light Cavalry. In which country did the Hussar originate?

HUNGARY

2. What was the name of Alexander the Great’s horse ?

BUCEPHALUS

3. Which deceased footballer had the nickname ‘Crazy Horse’ ?

EMLYN HUGHES

4. Who wrote the play Equus ?

PETER SHAFFER

5. What was the name of the horse portrayed in Michael Morpurgo’s book ‘War Horse’ ?

JOEY

6. Paul Barber, the actor who played ‘Horse’ in the film ‘Full Monty’ also played which character in ‘Only Fools and Horses’ ?

DENZEL

7. The Osmonds recorded the song ‘Crazy Horses’ in 1972, but what was the song about ?

AIR POLLUTION (Accept environmental damage etc)

8. In which city has ‘The Horse of the Year’ show been staged since 2002 ?

BIRMINGHAM (at the NEC)

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) Which welsh band recorded ‘They shoot horses don’t they’ in 1977, getting to No. 14 in the UK charts ?

RACING CARS

(b) There were Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Three were Conquest (or Pestilence), Famine and War. What was the fourth ?

DEATH

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Set by The Plough Taverners

1. What type of animal is a Sooty Mangabey ?

ANSWER : MONKEY

2. What kind of creature is a Skink ?

ANSWER : LIZARD

3. Ely stands on which river ?

ANSWER : THE OUSE

4. Which river flows mostly hidden through Macclesfield, to join the Bollin under Macclesfield  station ?

ANSWER : THE DAMS BROOK (accept medieval name Water of Ee)

5. What was the fore-name of Kate Winslet’s character in ‘Titanic’ ? ANSWER : ROSE

6. In the film ‘The Tommy Steele Story’ who played Tommy Steele ?

ANSWER : TOMMY STEELE

7. In Orwell’s ‘1984’ what is called ‘Airstrip One’ ?

ANSWER : BRITAIN

8. Who wrote the 1927 novel ‘Steppenwolf’ ?

ANSWER : HERMAN HESSE

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9. What is the top weight division in Olympic boxing ?

ANSWER : SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT

10. In which sport are there moves called ‘Triffus’, ‘Rudolph’ and ‘Miller’ ?

ANSWER :TRAMPOLINING

11. What is the name of the hot, dry wind which blows from North Africa and affects parts of Southern Europe ?

ANSWER : SIROCCO

12. What name is given to the warm, dry wind which blows off North America’s Rocky Mountains ?

ANSWER : CHINOOK

13. Which year saw the first British Labour Cabinet ?

ANSWER : 1924 (accept 23-25)

14. In which year was Al Capone jailed for tax evasion ?

ANSWER : 1931 (accept 30-32)

15. Which politician often began his speeches by saying that the first rule in politics was never to invade Afghanistan ?

ANSWER : HAROLD MACMILLAN

16. Who was the leader of the opposition who gave his full support to Mrs. Thatcher during the Falklands crisis ?

ANSWER : MICHAEL FOOT

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17. The song ‘The Surrey with the Fringe on top’ comes from which musical ?

ANSWER : OKLAHOMA

18. The song ‘America’ comes from which musical ?

ANSWER : WEST SIDE STORY

19. Rupert Bear has appeared in which newspaper since 1920 ? ANSWER : DAILY EXPRESS

20. In which year did Dennis the Menace first appear in the Beano ?

ANSWER : 1951 (50-52)

21. Which city is at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone ? ANSWER : LYON

22. In which city is the Alhambra palace ?

ANSWER : GRANADA

23. Who wrote ‘The Beggars Opera’ in 1728 ?

ANSWER : JOHN GAY

24. Based on ‘The Beggars Opera’, how is ‘Die Dreigroschenoper’ (dry groshen oper) known

in English ?

ANSWER : THE THREEPENNY OPERA

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25. What is the common name for Magnesium Sulphate ? ANSWER : EPSOM SALTS

26. What is the common name for Iron Pyrites ?

ANSWER : FOOLS GOLD

27. Which river flows through Nashville, Tenessee ?

ANSWER : THE CUMBERLAND RIVER

28. Which plant has a flower called ‘Poor Man’s Weather-glass’ ?

ANSWER : SCARLET PIMPERNEL

29. Which West Ham fan had a wife called Elsie and a daughter called Rita ?

ANSWER : ALF GARNET

30. Who lived at 23, Railway Cuttings, East Cheam ?

ANSWER : TONY HANCOCK

31. Which major English city lies on the confluence of the Ouse and the Foss ?

ANSWER : YORK

32. Which Mexican drink comes from the Agave plant ?

ANSWER : TEQUILA

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33. Who had sisters, Jane Fellowes and Sarah McCorquodale ? ANSWER : PRINCESS DIANA

34. Who married Renate Blauel on the 14^th February, 1984 ? ANSWER : ELTON JOHN

35. Who surveyed and built the Macclesfield Canal ?

ANSWER : THOMAS TELFORD

36. Who was responsible for the building of Christ Church, Macclesfield ?

ANSWER : CHARLES ROE

37. What is the main flavouring ingredient of aioli ?

ANSWER : GARLIC

38. What is the English for the French vegetable ‘epinard’ ? ANSWER : SPINACH

39. Which US state is known as ‘The Hoosier State’ ? ANSWER : INDIANA

40. Which US state is known as ‘The Peach State’ ? ANSWER : GEORGIA

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41. In the James Bond film ‘Skyfall’, what is Skyfall ?

ANSWER : THE COUNTRY HOUSE (in Scotland that belonged to Bond’s parents) (accept House)

42. Give a year in the life of Rembrandt.

ANSWER : 1606 – 1669

43. Who is the current MP for Doncaster North ?

ANSWER : ED MILLIBAND

44. Who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as the eponymous ‘Annie Hall’?

ANSWER : DIANE KEATON

45. Which author created the amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey ?

ANSWER : DOROTHY L. SAYERS

46. In which English county will you find Towcester racecourse ?

ANSWER : NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

47. Who was the last Plantagenet king of England ?

ANSWER : RICHARD III

48. In the Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Adventures of the Devil’s Foot’, what is the Devil’s Foot ?

ANSWER : A POISONOUS ROOT from and African plant

(Radix pedis diabolis) used as a murder weapon. (Accept any-

thing to do with poison)

49. Which current football league club comes last alphabetically ? ANSWER : YORK CITY

50. Which MP is at the centre of the ‘Plebgate’ affair ? ANSWER : ANDREW MITCHELL

51. In which US state is the city of Seattle located ?

ANSWER : WASHINGTON STATE

52. Name either of the 2 non-European footballers to have scored 100 Premier League goals ?

ANSWER : DIDIER DROGBA (IVORY COAST) & DWIGHT YORKE (TRINIDAD & TOBAGO)

53. Which character from Greek mythology has given his name to a type of drinks decanter stand, and also a chemical element ? ANSWER : TANTALUS (TANTALUS & TANTALUM)

54. In which US city was Muhammad Ali born and raised ? ANSWER : LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

55. Which painting technique in which small, distinct dots of pure colour are applied in patterns to form an image was developed in the 1880’s by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac ?

ANSWER : POINTILISM

56. Which 1978 film is set at Rydell High School ?

ANSWER : GREASE

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57. What is the main ingredient of Prawn Crackers (It’s not Prawns !)

ANSWER : TAPIOCA FLOUR (Accept Tapioca)

58. Who was the Prime Minister during the Profumo scandal ?

ANSWER : HAROLD MacMILLAN (1963)

59. In which year did Marilyn Monroe die ?

ANSWER : 1962

60. Ljubljana is the capital of which country ?

ANSWER : SLOVENIA

61. What are ‘Goudy Stout’, ‘Tahoma’ and ‘Verdana’ varieties of ?

ANSWER : FONTS (Accept typefaces)

62. Which chemical element is named after a US state ?

ANSWER : CALIFORNIUM

63. Who has been picked as the USA captain for the 2014 Ryder Cup ?

ANSWER : TOM WATSON

64. Who was British monarch when ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ was first published ?

ANSWER : QUEEN VICTORIA (1865)

65. Which New Zealand city is named after the Gaelic name for Edinburgh ?

ANSWER : DUNEDIN (From Dun Eideann)

66. In which cartoon series would you find ‘The Slag Brothers, ‘The Red Max’ and ‘Professor PatPending’ ?

ANSWER : THE WACKY RACES

67. Which world musician died in December 2012 at the age of 92? ANSWER : RAVI SHANKAR

68. What is the capital of Western Australia ?

ANSWER : PERTH

69. Who was the British monarch when ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was first published ?

ANSWER : GEORGE III (1813)

70. Beluga, Sterlet, Ossetra and Sevruga are the four main types of which foodstuff ?

ANSWER : CAVIAR

71. In which animated TV series would you find ‘The Soup Dragon’ ?

ANSWER : THE CLANGERS

72. Which American popular music lyricist died in September, 2012 aged 91 ?

ANSWER : HAL DAVID

73. Who was the first heavyweight boxing champion to retire undefeated ?

ANSWER : ROCKY MARCIANO

74. In tennis ; give the name of either of the famous ‘Woodies’ doubles pairing.

ANSWER : TODD WOODBRIDGE & MARK WOODFORDE

75. The official newspaper of which communist regime is called ‘Granma’ ?

ANSWER : CUBA (Granma was the name of the boat Castro used to invade Cuba in 1956)

76. In which country can you buy ‘The People’s Daily’ ?

ANSWER : CHINA (It’s the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist party)

77. Which hairstyle is also the name of a fish ?

ANSWER : MULLET

78. Which hairstyle could also be an apiary ?

ANSWER : BEEHIVE

79. Which distress call did SOS replace ?

ANSWER : C Q D

80. Which signalling system uses hand-held flags ?

ANSWER : SEMAPHORE

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81. In which city were Tsar Nicholas II and his family murdered ? ANSWER : YEKATERINBURG

82. In which city was Leon Trotsky murdered ?

ANSWER : MEXICO CITY

83. What is the surname of Pip’s Uncle Joe in Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations ?

ANSWER : GARGERY

84. Which Dickens’ character has a dog called ‘Bullseye’ ? ANSWER : BILL SYKES (In Oliver Twist)

85. In which capital city are the Tivoli Gardens ?

ANSWER : COPENHAGEN

86. In which city is the riverside area known as ‘The Bund’ ? ANSWER : SHANGHAI

87. Montrachet is a wine from which French wine area ?

ANSWER : BURGUNDY (Cote d’Or)

88. Cloudy Bay is a wine from which country ?

ANSWER : NEW ZEALAND

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89. Edward Pakenham, a British commander killed during the Battle of New Orleans, was the Brother-in-law of which Duke ? ANSWER : WELLINGTON

90. Which singer was the daughter of the late Ravi Shankar ? ANSWER : NORAH JONES

91. Who said ‘Never give a sucker an even break’ ?

ANSWER : W.C. FIELDS

92. Who said ‘Some chicken ! Some neck !’ ?

ANSWER : W S CHURCHILL

93. The remains of King John are buried in which cathedral ? ANSWER : WORCESTER

94. Which fruit was used as a badge by Catherine of Aragon ? ANSWER : POMEGRANATE

95. Who won the BBC Sports Personality Coach of the Year Award in 2012 ?

ANSWER : DAVE BRAILSFORD

96. Who won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award for 2012 ?

ANSWER : USAIN BOLT

SUPPLEMENTARIES

(a) Which 60’s singer married the designer Jeff Banks ? ANSWER : SANDIE SHAW

(b) Who had hits with ‘The Streak’ and ‘Misty’ in the 1970’s ? ANSWER : RAY STEVENS

(c) What is the more common name for toxaemia ? ANSWER : BLOOD POISONING

(d) Which cartoon duo starred in the Oscar winning film ‘Quiet Please’ ?

ANSWER : TOM & JERRY