2013 Plate Final–The Questions

 

QUESTIONS COMPILED BY THE LAMB INN & THE NAG’S HEAD

01. Mary Ann Todd was the wife of which U.S. President?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

02. What is the name of Private Godfrey’s sister in ‘Dad’s Army’?

DOLLY

03. Which organ is affected by Bright’s Disease?

KIDNEYS

04. Who wrote the song ‘Manic Monday’ sung by The Bangles in 1986?

PRINCE

05. What is the current geological era?

CENOZOIC

06. Who, in 2012, became the first skydiver to exceed the speed of sound?

FELIX BAUMGARTNER

07. Which fish has the Latin name Anguilla Anguilla?

EEL

08. Which great traditional jazz musician died in March 2013?

KENNY BALL

09. How many gold medals did Great Britain win at the 2012 London

Olympics?

29

10. In which ‘Carry on Film’ did Harry H. Corbett make his only appearance?

CARRY ON SCREAMING

11. What is the first name of tennis player Andy Murray’s mother?

JUDY

12. What is the capital of the Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island?

CHARLOTTETOWN

13. ’I Drove all Night’ was a posthumous No. 7 hit for Roy Orbison in 1992.

Which singer had reached the same chart position with the song in 1989?

CYNDI LAUPER

14. Who defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium?

OCTAVIAN

15. Macclesfield Town’s first season in the Football League (1997-8) led to immediate promotion

as runner’s up despite being 20 points behind which team?

NOTTS COUNTY

16. From which Shakespeare play is the phrase ‘Brave New World’ taken?

THE TEMPEST

17. In which UK city is the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which contains the Royal Centre for Defence

Medicine for military personnel injured in conflict zones?

BIRMINGHAM

18. Which country, with capital Paramaribo, is the smallest sovereign state in South America?

SURINAME

19. Which party did Enoch Powell MP represent, as MP for the constituency of South Down from 1974 to 1987?

ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY

20. Who played the character ‘McGill’ in the TV series ‘Man in a suitcase’?

RICHARD BRADFORD

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21. What medical condition gets its name from the Greek for ‘half a head’?

MIGRAINE (HEMICRANIA)

22. In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Fergusson?

1986

23. Who played the second Doctor Who?

PATRICK TROUGHTON

24. What were famously found at Qumran in 1946/47?

DEAD SEA SCROLLS

25. In which year did Princess Anne marry Captain Mark Phillips?

1973

26. Who was stoned to death and became the first Christian martyr?

ST. STEPHEN

27. What was the Roman name for Gloucester ?

GLEVUM

28. Which Bulgarian dissident was murdered in London in 1978 by means

of a poisoned pellet fired from an umbrella?

GEORGI MARKOV

29. What was the date of ‘D-Day’?

JUNE 6^th 1944

30. Who directed ‘Natural Born Killers’ and ‘Born on the 4^th of July’?

OLIVER STONE

31. Which novel describes events in Dublin on 16^th June 1904?

ULYSSES (by James Joyce)

32. Who wrote the ‘Uncle Remus’ series of stories?

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

33. Who, in 1981, became the first Australian golfer to win the U.S. Open?

DAVID GRAHAM

34. Name one of the two countries bordering Ecuador.

PERU or COLOMBIA

35. Which Devon harbour town was devastated when a river burst its banks

in August 1952?

LYNMOUTH

36. Monte Cervino is the Italian name for which mountain?

MATTERHORN

37. Henrietta Maria was the wife of which English king?

CHARLES I

38. At what event would the words “Ave Caesar, Morituri te Salutant”

be used?

ROMAN GLADITORIAL CONTESTS (Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you)

39. How was the Roman emperor Gaius who reigned from 37 – 41AD otherwise known?

CALIGULA

40. Give a year in The Thirty Years War.

1618 – 1648

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41. Which Dickens novel begins with the recovery of a body from the Thames?

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND

42. Edward II is believed to have died in which castle?

BERKELEY CASTLE

43. What is the name of King Arthur’s sorceress half-sister?

MORGAN or MORGANA

44. What is the capital of Tanzania?

DODOMA

45. Which two word phrase was used in the media to describe ‘trendy

Britain’ in the 1990’s?

COOL BRITANNIA

46. What was used for the first time in a Wembley international in 1955?

FLOODLIGHTS

47. Who guested with Dire Straits on the ‘Money for Nothing’ track?

STING

48. Which musician’s real name was John Simon Ritchie?

SID VICIOUS

49. Which tycoon started the UK newspaper ‘Today’?

EDDY SHAH

50. What was the name of cowboy Tom Mix’s horse?

TONY

51. What is the smallest administrative unit in the Church of England?

PARISH

52. Who broke Bob Beamon’s long jump record of the 1968 Olympics?

MIKE POWELL (1991, nearly 23 years later)

53. What is the mating cry of the wading bird the Bittern called?

A BOOM

54. Which actor voices the baby’s thoughts in the film ‘Look Who’s Talking’?

BRUCE WILLIS

55. Who became caretaker manager of Spurs after the departure of Glen Hoddle in 2003?

DAVID PLEAT

56. What is the white of an egg called as an alternative to albumen?

GLAIR

57. Which French fashion designer was the first to launch a menswear and

‘ready- to -wear’ collection?

PIERRE CARDIN

58. Which football team did cricketer Alec Stewart’s father play for?

CHARLTON ATHLETIC

59. Which character did Ricky Gervais play in ‘Extras?

ANDY

60. Which group recorded the instrumental ‘Atlantis’ in the 1960’s?

THE SHADOWS

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61. Which town links Margaret Thatcher and Isaac Newton?

GRANTHAM

62. Which art style, was exhibited in 1847 by Monet, Renoir and Degas’?

IMPRESSIONISM

63. What are, Blue Swedish, Rouen Clair and Silver Appleyard types of?

DUCKS

64. Which Shakespeare play is set mainly in Cyprus?

OTHELLO

65. Which legendary comedy actor wrote Petula Clark’s 1967 number 1 hit ‘This Is My Song’?

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

66. In which European capital does OPEC have its headquarters?

VIENNA

67. Who is the Roman goddess of the hearth?

VESTA

68. Give another name for the Russian Wolfhound

BORZOI

69. What name is given to the outermost layer of a planet’s atmosphere?

EXOSPHERE

70. Who in 1216 succeeded John on the English throne?

HENRY III (1216-72)

71. Which British football club play their home games at Pittodrie Stadium?

ABERDEEN

72. Which is the most northerly horseracing course in the UK?

PERTH

73. What is the main ingredient of the Middle Eastern dish Baba Ghanoush?

AUBERGINE

74. Who was President of France throughout World War 1?

RAYMOND POINCARE (1913-1921)

75. What is the high tower of a mosque called?

A MINARET

76. The ‘Naira’ is the currency of which African country?

NIGERIA

77. How is French Somaliland now known?

DJIBOUTI

78. Botulism, a life threatening form of food poisoning, is derived from the Latin word

Botulus, which means what?

SAUSAGE

79. Which group had a hit in 1981 with ‘The Land of Make Believe’?

BUCKS FIZZ

80. Who hosts the channel 4 quiz show ‘Tipping Point’?

BEN SHEPPHARD

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81. ‘Primus inter pares’ Translates into what?

FIRST AMONG EQUALS

82. Cinnabar is the main ore of what metal?

MERCURY

83. What is the capital of the Canadian province OF Newfoundland?

St. JOHNS

84. Where in the body would you find the Uvula?

AT THE BACK OF THE THROAT

85. What name is shared by the ringleader of the Peasants revolt and the Lord Chancellor

In Gordon Brown’s government? JACK STRAW

86. How many stripes are on the US flag?

13

87. Also the name of a Rolling Stones album, what is another name for the Jamaican dish

‘Mannish Water?

GOATS HEAD SOUP

88. In which year did London first host the Olympic Games?

1908

89. Some wills are strange, but which famous man left his wife his second best bed?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

90. What was the former name of Bangladesh?

EAST PAKISTAN

91. Which country has a national football team nicknamed the ‘Eagles of Carthage’?

TUNISIA

92. Which Chelsea footballer was the victim of the Luis Suarez bite in their match against

Liverpool, last season?

BRANISLAV IVANOVIC

93. Who is credited with saying, “A week is a long time in politics”?

HAROLD WILSON

94. What is the name of the local pub in the TV show ‘Shameless’?

THE JOCKEY

95. Which horse won this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup?

BOBS WORTH

96. What has been the most popular name for a pope?

JOHN

97. What bird is the symbol of the Greek goddess Athena?

AN OWL

98. Which planet in the solar system is closest in size to Earth?

VENUS

99. In which country was the abstract impressionist Mark Rathko born?

RUSSIA (IN WHAT IS NOW IN FACT LATVIA)

100. Who designed the rail bridge over the River Tay in Scotland that collapsed in a storm?

in 1879 with the loss of many lives?

THOMAS BOUCH

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101. Where in the body would you find the ‘ischium’?

THE PELVIS (Lowest of the three bones which make up the Pelvis – accept Hips also)

102. Cape Verde was, until independence, a territory of which European country?

PORTUGAL

103. Which famous 19^th century engineer, born in Stockport, had an accepted standard of

screw thread named after him, and has a major Manchester street named in his honour?

JOSEPH WHITWORTH

104. On which river does Derby stand?

THE DERWENT

105. What is the term for a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to 3.26 light years?

PARSEC (PARALLAX SECOND)

106. Which band had a No 1 hit album in both the UK and the US with ‘Out of Time’?

R.E.M.

107. With 172 wins, who was crowned Champion Flat Race Jockey for 2012?

RICHARD HUGHES

108. What is the capital of the US state of Vermont?

MONTPELIER

109. What was the first name of Mrs Beeton, famed for her book of household management?

ISABELLA

110. The holiday destination of Pago Pago is in which group of South Pacific islands?

AMERICAN SAMOA

111. Who was on the throne at the time of The Great Fire of London?

CHARLES II

112. Which horse won this year’s Epsom Derby?

RULER OF THE WORLD

113. Who wrote the novel ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

TRUMAN CAPOTE

114. In Liverpool they call this dish Scouse. What do they call it in the Potteries?

LOBBY

115. Two African countries have the ‘Kwacha’ for currency. Name either

ZAMBIA & MALAWI

116. Which fruit has varieties called Papershell and Spanish Ruby?

POMEGRANATE

117. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in which city?

EDINBURGH

118. Which bird has the Latin name Troglodytes Troglodytes?

THE WREN

119. How were the United Arab Emirates formerly known?

THE TRUCIAL STATES

120. Which car manufacturer produces a model called the Arnage?

BENTLEY

SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS

01 Which England cricketer was born in Milan in 1935 and became the

first chairman of the England Selection Committee in 1989?

TED DEXTER

02. Which Italian fashion house uses the head of Medusa as its trademark?

VERSACE

03. Which city institute is based at 10, Paternoster Square?

THE STOCK EXCHANGE

04. How many acres are in a square mile?

640

05. Which British king reigned from 1830 to 1837?

WILLIAM IV

06. What would you be suffering from if you had ‘Epistaxis’?

NOSEBLEED

Tie break question

In a Scottish League One football match on 24^th August this year, Brechin City beat Forfar Athletic by 2 goals to 1. What was the official attendance?

724