26th November–The Questions

 

Specialist Questions set by Harrington Academicals:

Vetted by Nags Head and Waters Green Lemmings

1. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

2. SPORT

3. HISTORY

4. THEME TUNES

5. SCIENCE

6. GEOPGRAPHY

7. ARTS AND CULTURE

8. ACHTUNG!

 

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

1. First on air in 1970, who is Radio One’s longest serving disc-jockey?

Annie Nightingale

2. Which singer famously said “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” ?

Dolly Parton

3. Which singer released the solo albums Transformer and Berlin?

Lou Reed

4. John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson played a pair of hitmen in which classic 1990s film?

Pulp Fiction

5. In the recent TV revival of Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, who played Watson?

Martin Freeman

6. Following on from a father and son before him, Richard Cadell is now whose human sidekick?

Sooty

7. Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly, and Felix and his Amazing Underpants are two of the characters you might find in which comic?

Viz

8. Which musical genre is most closely associated with clubs such as The Torch, The Twisted Wheel, and Wigan Casino?

Northern Soul (Do not accept just “Soul”)

S1. In which TV sitcom would you find Roy and Moss working in the basement at Reynholm Industries?

The I.T. Crowd

S2. Under what pen-name did Ronnie Barker write many of the Two Ronnies’ best-loved sketches?

Gerald Wiley

SPORT

1. Tony Martin is a 3-time world champion in which sport?

Cycling. He’s won the last 3 World Time-Trial Championships.

2. Who was recently dismissed as manager of the England women’s football team after 15 years in charge?

Hope Powell

3. In 1889, who became the 3rd nation to play Test Cricket?

South Africa. (The first 12 years only saw England-Australia games)

4. The sheep farmer Joss Naylor is a legendary name in which branch of athletics?

Fell Running

5. Football - who were the beaten finalists in the 2013 Carling Cup Final?

Bradford City

6. Which sport was played at Wembley Stadium for the first time in 1983?

American Football – A pre-season game between Minnesota Vikings and St Louis Cardinals

7. Name the Scottish racing driver who’s won the Indianapolis 500 3 times in the last 7 years?

Dario Franchitti

8. The commentator Ray French is most closely associated with which sport?

Rugby League

S1. In which sport is a Derny used?

Cycling. It’s a motorised bike used for pacing in events such as the Keirin.

S2. Who was the first female to win an Olympic boxing gold?

Nicola Adams

 

HISTORY

1. Which famous phrase stems from the doomed troops on board the sinking ship HMS Birkenhead?

"Women and children first"

2. What made the deciphering of hieroglyphics possible and was rediscovered in Egypt in 1799?

The Rosetta Stone

3. What year were David Niven and Jean Genet born, the Union of South Africa was created and George V became King of England.

1910 accept 1908 - 1912

4. In what year did Ramsey MacDonald become Prime Minister, the IBM corporation was founded, and Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail.

1924 accept 1922 - 1926

5. Who became LEADER of the USSR after leading a coup to topple Khrushchev?

Leonid Brezhnev

6. Who gave up divine status in 1945?

Emperor Hirohito

7. Henry VIII executed Ann Boleyn and which other wife?

Catherine Howard

8. How was Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset related to Henry VIII

He was his illegitimate son. The only illegitimate child of Henry VIII to be acknowledged during his lifetime

SUPPLEMENTARIES

SQ1 In what year was Mattel’s ‘Barbie Doll’ launched, Cyprus gained independence from the UK and Charles de Gaulle became France’s first President

1959 accept 1957 - 1961

SQ2 This English monarch was born in 1312 and died 1377. In 1337 he declared himself the rightful heir to the French throne, invading France and starting the Hundred Years’ War.

Edward III

 

THEME TUNES

1. Which comedy programme is has ‘ The Liberty Bell’ as its theme tune.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

2. Which quiz programme is introduced by ‘The minute walz’

Just a minute

3. Which iconic 70’s game show was introduced by Herb Alperts knockabout ‘Bean Bag’

It’s a Knockout

4. Which sport is associated with Booker T and the MG’s “Soul Limbo”

Cricket (on BBC )

5. Which TV star recorded an unprecedented 4 TV theme tunes – On The UP, Stay Lucky, It’s Alright and I Could Be So Good For You?

Dennis Waterman

6. Which family comedy was introduced by “The Ballad Of Jed Clampett”

The Beverley Hillbillies

7. Name the current affairs programme which for the last 35 years has been introduced by the very familiar “Aujourd’hui c’est toi”?

Panorama

8 The 1986 hit song “Anyone can fall in love” was a lyrical version of which current soap opera’s theme tune

Eastenders

SUPPLEMENTARIES

SQ1 Which legendary guitarist played the score for 80’s mini series Edge of Darkness

Eric Clapton

SQ2 Whose comedy capers were played out to the sound of Boots Randolph’s “Yakety Sax”

Benny Hill

 

SCIENCE

1. What is the new form of carbon, the discovery of which earned the Nobel Prize for two Manchester University scientists?

GRAPHENE

2. Two mathematicians independently discovered calculus. One was Isaac Newton, who was the other?

LEIBNITZ

3. What is the fruit of the tropical tree Ananas comosus?

PINEAPPLE

4. What does the M stand for in MRSA?

METHICILLIN

5. What is the only bone in the human body not connected to any other bone?

THE HYOID BONE

6. What is the disabling substance in South American arrow poison?

CURARE

7. Who is known as the father of geometry?

EUCLID

8. Helium is named after the sun. Which element is named after the moon?

SELENIUM

Supplementaries

S1. Which planet orbits the sun at an average distance of 150 million km.

EARTH

S2. How many inches of mercury are there in 1 bar (1000 millibar)

29.5

S3. How many gigabytes are there in a terabyte?

1024

S4. Who first formulated the theoretical cycle for the heat engine – e.g. the internal combustion engine of a car

CARNOT

 

GEOGRAPHY

1. The world's second highest mountain is K2. What does K stand for?

KARAKORUM

2. Which science is concerned with synclines and anticlines?

GEOLOGY

3. Which science is concerned with flumes and magma?

VULCANOLOGY

4. Which National Trail runs from Milngavie to Fort William?

THE WEST HIGHLAND WAY

5. Which shipping forecast area is named after an island in the Bristol Channel?

LUNDY

6. What name is given to the natural grassland area of Argentina, South Brazil

and Uruguay?

THE PAMPAS

7. In which modern country are the ruins of Troy?

TURKEY

8. What is Britain's most southerly National Park?

DARTMOOR

Supplementaries

S1. Which shipping forecast area has the same name as a long-distance yacht race?

FASTNET

S2. What is the longest river in South Africa?

THE ORANGE RIVER

 

GLITTERING PRIZES – all questions relate to prizes in arts and culture

1 The Stirling prize is awarded in which field of the arts

Architecture

2 In which city are the 2013 Turner Prize contenders currently displayed

Londonderry

3 Which major prize was won by Alice Munro in 2013

Nobel Prize for Literature

4 Who in Greek mythology was the judge in the beauty contest involving Hera, Athena and Aphrodite for which the prize was a golden apple

Paris

5 Fanny Waterman established a world famous piano competition held every 3 years in which British city?

Leeds

6 Who won this year’s Man Booker prize

Eleanor Catton

7 In 1990, which was the first British city to be European Capital of Culture

Glasgow

8 Which artist, who became a Companion of honour in 1997, was given the Order of Merit by the queen in 2012

David Hockney

S1 Who wrote the novel, Glittering Prizes which was the basis for the TV series

Frederic Raphael

S2 In which field is the Casson medal awarded by Private eye

Architecture – for the worst building of the year

S3 Who won the Turner Prize last year

Elizabeth Price

S4 Which Wagner opera features a singing competition

Die Meistersinger von Nurenburg

 

Achtung – Identify the German from the description

1 Who was known as “The Desert Fox”

Erwin Rommel

2. Who was the female star of the 1930 film ”The Blue Angel”

Marlene Dietrich She was German born but later took American citizenship

3. Who is the youngest winner of the Men’s singles title at Wimbledon

Boris Becker

4 Alois Schickelgruber changed his surname in 1876, and in 1889 fathered an infamous child – who was he

Adolf Hitler

5 Who was known as the Iron Chancellor

Bismark

6 Who was the first female German Chancellor

Angela Merkel

7 Who composed the Ring Cycle of operas

Wagner

8 Who proposed two theories of Relativity

Einstein (Special and General)

S1 Which German footballer was known as “Der Kaiser”

Franz Beckenbauer

S2 Who painted “The Ambassadors”

Holbein

S3 Who was the director of the film “ Paris Texas”

Wim Wenders

 

General Knowledge Questions

set by the Nags Head

Vetted by the Harrington Academicals and Waters Green Lemmings

1. Which King of England ordered the death of Thomas Becket (also known as Thomas A’Becket)?

HENRY II

2. Which is the most southerly city to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games ?

MELBOURNE (1956)

3. From which musical does the song ‘Bring Him Home’ come ?

LES MISERABLES

4. By what name is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony Number 6 known ?

PATHÉTIQUE

5. The capital city of Ohio has the same name as an explorer. What is it ?

COLUMBUS

6. Which UK assay office has an anchor as its symbol ?

BIRMINGHAM

7. Clara Petacci was the mistress of which political leader ?

MUSSOLINI

8. Born in Hong Kong in 1953 and now living in Ireland, which male fashion designer also designed vases and cut glassware for Waterford Crystal ?

John ROCHA

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9. New Zealander Eleanor Catton won this year’s Man Booker prize. What was the title of her book ?

THE LUMINARIES

10. Which now famous singer was criticised by the BBC in 1968 because “he writes dreary songs and sounds like a wonky singer” ?

ELTON JOHN

11. Which Oxfordshire town, 8 miles south west of Abingdon, was the birthplace of Alfred The Great ?

WANTAGE

12. Which marsupial is native to North America ?

(Virginia) OPOSSUM

13. Richard Drummie and Peter Cox formed which English pop duo in 1982 ? Their biggest UK hit single was ‘We Close Our Eyes’ in 1984.

GO WEST

14. Who co-wrote the book Good Omens in 1990 with Terry Pratchett ?

Neil GAIMAN

15. Who plays Doctor McCoy in the current Star Trek movies ?

Karl URBAN

16. In which field of entertainment is Gerry Cottle a famous name ?

CIRCUS

17. How wide, in inches, is a set of 3 cricket stumps ?

NINE INCHES

18. In which US city would you find sports teams called the Chargers and the Padres ?

SAN DIEGO

19. Which martial art’s name means ‘the way of the sword’ ?

KENDO

20. French, Italian, German and which other language is used officially in Switzerland ?

ROMANSH

21. Which word can mean the act of breathing in or a desire for high achievement ?

ASPIRATION

22. Who won this year’s cycling Tour of Britain ?

Sir Bradley WIGGINS

23. Johannesburg National Airport was renamed in 2006 after which former President of the African National Congress ?

Oliver TAMBO

24. Which World War I poet wrote the lines ‘They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old’ ?

Laurence BINYON

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25. Which country has borders with Panama and Nicaragua ?

COSTA RICA

26. When the R101 airship crashed in 1930, which Asian country was its intended final destination ?

INDIA (to Karachi which then was part of British india) (accept PAKISTAN)

27. What is the medical name for a tube inserted into the body as a drain or feeding device?

CATHETER

28. In September this year, which city won the bid to stage the 2020 Summer Olympic Games ?

TOKYO

29. In the Stephen King novel ‘Christine’, who or what is Christine ?

A CAR

30. ‘Service above self’ is the motto of which international club ?

THE ROTARY CLUB

31. Who directed the critically acclaimed 2013 comedy drama film ‘Blue Jasmine’ ?

Woody ALLEN

32. Which city has railway stations called Interchange and Forster Square ?

BRADFORD

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33. Which American rapper topped the singles charts in the UK and USA in 2007 with ‘Stronger’ ?

KANYE WEST

34. What is the surname of the three brothers who are in England Rugby League World Cup squad ?

BURGESS

35. Which city has railway stations called Snow Hill and Moor Street ?

BIRMINGHAM

36. What is the chief port of Western Australia, situated at the mouth of the River Swan ?

FREMANTLE

37. Four men have managed both Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Brian Clough is one. Name one of the other three.

Billy DAVIES, Steve MCLAREN and Dave MACKAY

38. In which English town are the headquarters of Tesco ?

CHESHUNT

39. The character Major Boothroyd appears in the Bond films ‘Dr No’ and ‘From Russia With Love’. In subsequent films, he is better known as what ?

Q

40. Which 4 letter word can be a bet, a boat, a kick or a former unit of currency ?

PUNT

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41. What was the cost of the wedding ring for The Owl and The Pussycat ?

ONE SHILLING

42. In 2009, which girl group had a top 3 UK hit with the English language interpretation of the Hindi song ‘Jai Ho’ ?

PUSSYCAT DOLLS

43. Which celebrity chef, earlier this year, launched the Fabulous Fanfayre menus at Manchester City FC ?

JAIMIE OLIVER

44. Who was the US President at the time of the Wall Street crash in 1929 ?

HERBERT HOOVER

45. On which book is Stephen Fry’s novel ‘The Stars’ Tennis Balls’ based ?

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

46. Who introduced carbolic acid as an antiseptic in the 1860s ?

Joseph LISTER

47. How many birds are featured in the Chinese calendar ?

ONE

48. What is the county town of Somerset ?

TAUNTON

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49. Who played the Doctor’s granddaughter in the very first Doctor Who story ?

Carole Anne FORD

50. Of which country is Pashto one of the two main languages ?

AFGHANISTAN

51. Which royal Duke, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the youngest grandchild of King George V, lived at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire until 1995 ?

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

52. What was the now politically incorrect name of Squadron Leader Guy Gibson’s black Labrador dog which was run over and killed on the eve of the famous Dambuster raids ?

NIGGER

53. Which horse race is run at Flemington Racecourse on the first Tuesday in November and is marketed as ‘the race that stops a nation’ ?

THE MELBOURNE CUP

54. Rhoose Airport serves which UK city ?

CARDIFF

55. Meaning ‘bestiality’, which art movement, briefly popular in the early 1900s, was led by Henri Matisse ?

FAUVISM

56. Where were the McDonald clan massacred by the Campbells in 1692 ?

GLENCOE

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57. A P McCoy earlier this month became the first jump jockey to ride 4000 winners with victory on Mountain Tunes. At which racecourse did he achieve this feat?

TOWCESTER

58. Which motorway in England ends furthest east ?

M20 (Folkestone)

59. Which 1949 Arthur Miller play tells of the tragedy of a small man destroyed by false values ?

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

60. Which bearded seafarer is Tintin’s best friend ?

CAPTAIN HADDOCK

61. Which now defunct American coin was worth 12½ cents ?

BIT

62. Who directed the 1976 film ‘The Killing of A Chinese Bookie’ and acted in 60s films ‘The Dirty Dozen’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ ?

John CASSAVETES

63. Which African city was besieged for 241 days from 11^th April 1941 ?

TOBRUK

64. What was Pink Floyd’s 1975 follow up album to The Dark Side Of The Moon ?

WISH YOU WERE HERE

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65. Who is the ‘Master of the Queen’s Music’ ?

Sir Peter Maxwell DAVIES

66. Better known as the entertainer Al Jolson, in which country was Asa Yoelson born ?

RUSSIA

67. Which fashion designer who was married to the singer Sandie Shaw, redesigned the Brownies and Guides uniforms in 1990 ?

Jeff BANKS

68. With Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell, which American model, born in 1969, was the third model in the 1990s group of models labelled The Trinity by Vogue ?

Christy TURLINGTON

69. What is the county town of Wiltshire ?

TROWBRIDGE

70. What does an American call a silencer on a car ?

A MUFFLER

71. What was the only UK number one hit single by The Moody Blues ?

GO NOW

72. Which country will make their Cricket World Cup debut in 2015 after defeating Kenya in a qualifying match in October ?

AFGHANISTAN

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73. Which British daily newspaper features a column by Frederick Forsythe every Friday ?

DAILY EXPRESS

74. The Australian kookaburra is one of the largest species of which bird ?

KINGFISHER

75. Last month, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake created a new 20 metre high island off the coast of which country ?

PAKISTAN

76. How many pieces are there in a standard European set of dominoes ?

28

77. Which actor plays Thorin Oakenshield in the film The Hobbit ? He also appeared in TV programmes such as North and South and Spooks.

Richard ARMITAGE

78. What was the pen name of the English writer born James Alfred Wight in 1916 ?

James HERRIOT

79. On which Antarctic island is Mount Erebus, the world’s southernmost active volcano ?

ROSS ISLAND

80. Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet ?

MARS

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81. On which Scottish golf course would you play the Postage Stamp hole ?

TROON

82. Who wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’ ?

William GOLDING

83. By what name is Beethoven’s 3^rd symphony known ?

EROICA

84. From which English port would you board a ferry to Dieppe ?

NEWHAVEN

85. Which individual trophy did rugby player Matty Smith win at Wembley in August this year ?

LANCE TODD trophy (awarded to the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final man of the match)

86. Which Archbishop of Canterbury crowned George VI ?

Cosmo LANG

87. What is the most northerly city in Europe to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games ?

HELSINKI (in 1952. Stockholm is slightly further south)

88. With whom did Robert Plant record the 2007 album Raising Sand ?

Alison KRAUSS

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89. What type of creature is a dotterel ?

A BIRD (of the plover family)

90. Major, Mother, Small, Tiny & Granny are returning to TV after 40 years. By what name are they better known ?

THE CLANGERS

91. There are currently (as at November 15^th) four female Cabinet ministers. Theresa May is one. Name any of the other three.

Theresa VILLIERS, Maria MILLER and Justine GREENING

92. In which Agatha Christie mystery are the first two victims Alice Asher from Andover and Betty Barnard from Bexhill ?

THE ABC MURDERS

93. Which writer’s novels include ‘The Edible Woman’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘The Blind Assassin’ ?

Margaret ATWOOD

94. Why was Abraham Zapruder in the news 50 years ago this week ?

HE TOOK THE MOST COMPLETE FILM OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION (accept anything to do with filming JFK’s assassination)

95. What name was given to the 7 Saxon kingdoms thought to have existed in England before AD 800 ?

HEPTARCHY

96. Who, on Saturday, starred alongside David Tennant and Matt Smith as The Doctor in the Doctor Who special TV programme, 50 years to the day since the first Doctor Who was shown ?

John HURT

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Supplementaries

1. Who played Scotty in the original Star Trek TV series ?

James DOOHAN

2. How many sons did Queen Victoria have ?

FOUR

3. Which of the Marx Brothers had the real names Herbert Manfred ?

ZEPPO

4. What is the name of the world’s deepest lake ?

LAKE BAIKAL (in Russia)

5. What name do Americans give to the small rectangles of card that voters punch out in elections ?

CHADS

6. Fingal’s Cave is on which Scottish island ?

STAFFA

7. To which singer is King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp married ?

TOYAH Willcox

8. In geometry, what is found using the formula ½ x base x perpendicular height ?

AREA OF A TRIANGLE

9. How many millimetres are there in a kilometre ?

ONE MILLION

10. Which Premier League manager was the first to be sacked this season ?

Paulo DI CANIO