2nd February - The Questions

SPECIALIST ROUNDS –

SET BY THE ROBIN HOOD

1.                       Arts and Entertainments

2.                       Geography (pics)

3.                       Runners Up

4.                       Science

5.                       Teenage Kicks

6.                       PPE

7.                       History

8.                       Sport (Pics)

Apologies for the smaller than traditional pictures…we live in austere times.

sorry I'm having some problems with the pictures - I'll come back to it but have posted in the meantime - Nick

	Arts and Ents – Waxing Lyrical.  Identify either the song/novel/poem OR the singer/band/author as appropriate.
Q1	With reference to our stay in the A-League…. 2002 Song, taken from album “A rush of blood to the head” – Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard Oh take me back to the start		Coldplay or “The Scientist”
Q2	On the same theme…….. 1993 Song taken from album “Pablo Honey” I’m a _BLANK_, I'm a weirdo, What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.		Radiohead or “Creep”
Q3	1898 Poem I only knew what hunted thought quickened his step, and why He looked upon the garish day with such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved and so he had to die.		Oscar Wilde or “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
Q4	1819 Poem My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains      One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunkMy heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains          My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains          One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk		Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
Q5	1987 Song taken from the album “Actually” At school they taught me how to be so pure in thought and word and deed They didn't quite succeed		Pet Shop Boys or “It’s a Sin”
Q6	1967 Song from an eponymous album The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray		Procol Harum or “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
Q7	1878 Novel "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."		Leo Tolstoy or “Anna Karenina”
Q8	1963 Novel "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."		Sylvia Plath, or “The Bell Jar”
S1	Supp 1 1989 Novel "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."		Salman Rushdie or “The Satanic Verses”
S2	Song – Original Artist from 1975 or title Required She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair		Hallelujah or “Leonard Cohen”
	Geography – Picture Round. Identify the country from the image provided. Q1 1 Honduras Q2 2 Angola Q3 3 Germany Q4 4 China Q5 5 Peru (Machu Pichu) Q6 6 South Africa (Table Mountain) Q7 7 Venezuela Q8 8 Slovenia
S1 / VI 1	SUPP/VISUALLY IMPAIRED 1. Kinshasa is one of the 20 biggest cities (by population) in the world.  In which country is it found.	DR Congo (accept Zaire with reluctance)
S2/ VI 2	SUPP/VISUALLY IMPAIRED 2 Dili is the capital of which country which achieved independence in 2002.	East Timor/ ( or Timor-Leste)
	Runners Up – in honour of the position the Robin keeps achieving on a Tuesday night.   In each case you will be given the name of a winner of an event.  Name the memorable 2nd placer.
Q1	1997 General Election.  Enfield Southgate constituency.  Winner, Stephen Twigg (Labour)	Michael Portillo (..were you still up for him?...)
Q2	2015. General Election. Twickenham Constituency. Winner, Tania Mathias (Conservative)	Vince Cable
Q3	2002 Pop Idol.  Winner – Will Young	Gareth Gates
Q4	2009 Britain’s Got Talent.  Winner – Diversity	Susan Boyle
Q5	2015. General Election. Thanet South Constituency.  Winner Craig Mackinlay (Conservative)	Nigel Farage
Q6	2015 General Election. Bradford West constituency.  Winner Naseem Shah (Labour)	George Galloway
Q7	1990-1994. 5 World Snooker Championship Finals.  Winners – Stephen Hendry and John Parrott	Jimmy White
Q8	1993 Wimbledon Ladies Singles (tearfully).  Winner: Steffi Graf	Jana Novotna
S1	SUPP1 1968 Eurovision Song Contest.  Winner:  Massiel (Spain)	Cliff Richard
S2	SUPP2 2000 US Presidential Election.  Winner: George W. Bush	Al Gore
	Science – Periodic Table.  All of these are chemical elements – but there are other routes to the answer if you are not a scientist.  Slight errors in the ending of the name should be tolerated.
Q1	Atomic Number 84.  Radioactive and metallic chemical named after a European country, in honour of one of its leading female scientists.  Used to poison Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006	Polonium
Q2	Atomic Number 8.  Comes from the Greek for “gives birth to acid”	Oxygen
Q3	Atomic Number 97.  Silvery radioactive transuranic chemical named after an Ivy League university, itself named after a philosopher and bishop who argued that a falling branch in a forest makes no sound unless someone hears it.	Berkelium
Q4	Atomic Number 77.  Silvery white metal, named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.	Iridium
Q5	Atomic Number 93.  Radioactive transuranic chemical that appears in between Uranium and Plutonium in the Table.	Neptunium
Q6	Atomic Number 10.  Colourless Noble Gas, named after the Greek for “new”	Neon
Q7	Atomic Number 3.  Soft alkali metal which shares its name with a 1991 hit single for Nirvana	Lithium
Q8	Atomic Number 112.  Radioactive synthetic element, shares its name with Polish astronomer and polymath who pioneered a Heliocentric view of the universe.	Copernicium
S1	Supp 1: The final elements are currently Ununseptium and Ununoctium What is the atomic number of Ununoctium	118 (no leeway)
S2	Supp2: Atomic Number 24.  Grey, brittle metal, name comes from the Greek for “colour” because of its many brightly coloured compounds.	Chromium
	Teenage Kicks – Having failed miserably to get to grips with 1960s radio shows and 1970s racist TV comedies (mainly courtesy of the Park Taverners), the 30something question writer has taken revenge by asking his Upper-Sixth Formers to submit questions – he did tell them to take it easy and vet thoroughly…
Q1	Which musician, born in 1942 got Down with the kids when accompanying Rihanna and Kanye West on “Fourfiveseconds”	Paul McCartney
Q2	Which Tennessee-based chanteuse had, according to October 2015 statistics, over 52 million Instagram followers, second only to Instagram’s own page	Taylor Swift
Q3	Popularised in a 2011 rap, which four letter acronym has become a popular alternative to “carpe diem”	YOLO (you only live once)
Q4	Which 8 letter word has become a verb meaning to remove a person from a list of contacts, particularly on Facebook	Unfriend
Q5	Which 5 letter word was OEDs word of the year for 2015 – it describes a symbol, often a smiley yellow face that can be attached to e-mails, texts and the like.	Emoji
Q6	Who is the American female actress and singer of Italian descent who starred in Victorious, Sam & Cat and had the most top 10 singles in the US in 2014, taken from the album “My Everything”	Ariana Grande
Q7	What is the name of the brother of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian	Rob(ert)
Q8	Without needing to be too specific, how did Rebecca Black achieve youtube notoriety in 2011?	She uploaded the viral “hit” song Friday – please accept any reference to “very bad song” or similar, the more abusive the better.
S1	Supp1.  What was the name of the American singer who hit number one with the Body Positive (unless you happen to be very slim, at least)  single “All about the base” in 2014	Meghan Trainor
S2	Supp2. Which heartthrob actor (born 1978), divorced Demi Moore (born 1962) and subsequently married Mila Kunis (born 1982)	Ashton Kutcher
	PPE – In honour of the degree taken by David Cameron amongst many other movers and shakers, identify the Philosopher, Political Theorist or Economist (and, yes, the fields do overlap) from the following details.
Q1	1712-1798. Swiss philosopher, more associated with France.  Wrote the Social Contract.  Famously stated that “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”.	Jean-Jacques Rousseau (also stated Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.)
Q2	1912-2006. American Economist, intellectual darling of Thatcher and Reagan.  Wrote “Capitalism and Freedom”.  Famously stated that “There's no such thing as a free lunch.”	Milton Friedman (also stated that If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.)
Q3	1818-1883. German Philosopher, Economist and Political Theorist.  Author of “The German Ideology”.  Stated “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”	Karl Marx (also stated that The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.)
Q4	Approx 470BC-399BC.  Greek Philosopher.  Inspired “The Dialogues” written by other Philosophers.  Stated that “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”	Socrates (also stated that “By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher”).
Q5	1469-1527. Italian Political Theorist.  Wrote “The Prince” and stated that “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”.	Niccolo Machiavelli (also stated that The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Q6	1724-1804. German Philosopher, wrote the “Critique of Pure Reason”.  Stated that “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law”, otherwise known as the Categorical Imperative.	Immanuel Kant (also stated that From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.)
Q7	1883-1946 English Economist. Wrote “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”.  Famously stated that “in the long run, we are all dead”	John Maynard Keynes.  Also described Education as the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Q8	1906-1975 Jewish-American (token?) female philosopher born in Germany. Wrote “Eichmann in Jerusalem.  A report on the Banality of Evil”.  Stated that “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”	Hannah Arendt.  Also stated that Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
S1	SUPP 1 1723-1790 – Scottish Philosopher and Economist.  Wrote “The Wealth of Nations”.  Stated that “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest”.	Adam Smith.  Also stated that “Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
S2	SUPP 2 1788-1860. German Philosopher.  Wrote “on the Suffering of the World”.  Stated that Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.	Arthur Schopenhauer Also stated that “The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”
	HISTORY – Culture does history.  Which historical event/figure is depicted by the following pieces of art and literature?
Q1	Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge was set against the backdrop of which 1780 events?	Gordon Riots (accept reference to anti-Catholic riots/protests)
Q2	In Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”, what event did “midnight” herald?	The independence of India (also accept partition of India/Pakistan and independence of Pakistan)
Q3	The National Gallery contains Paul Delaroche’s painting of the 1553 execution of which teenage woman?	Lady Jane Grey
Q4	Scenes from which conflict is represented in Picasso’s Guernica?	Spanish Civil War
Q5	Who was the author of “The Rhythm of Time” amongst other poems, written during his imprisonment in HMP Maze between 1976 and 1981?	Bobby Sands
Q6	“Drummer Hodge”, written by Thomas Hardy, was a fictitious victim of which War?	Boer War
Q7	What is the name of the Czech Priest burned at the stake for heresy, to whom a monument stands in Prague’s Old Town Square?	Jan Hus
Q8	The last non-religious statue to be the tallest in the world, “The Motherland Calls” commemorates which battle of 1942-43?	Stalingrad
S1	SUPP1: Primo Levi wrote “If This is a Man” about his experiences as a prisoner in which place?	Auschwitz
S2	SUPP2 What was the name of the historically significant aircraft that provided Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark with a 1980s hit title.	Enola Gay
	SPORT – Name that Team (past and present).  Identify the team from the badge, colours or both.  The place that the team is from will be accepted without needing the full correct name.  eg: “Partick” would be OK, no need for the “Thistle”.
Q1			Bradford Bulls (Rugby League)
Q2	2		Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Cricket)
Q3	3		Chelsea (retro football)
Q4	4		Leicester Tigers (Rugby Union)
Q5	5		Benetton (F1)
Q6	6		Green Bay Packers (American Football)
Q7	7 Either the owner or the stable is acceptable.		Godolphin/Sheikh Mohammed (al-Maktoum)
Q8	8		Orlando Magic (Basketball)
S1	SUPP1		Doncaster Belles (Football)
S2	SUPP2		Team Sky (Cycling)
VI1	VIS IMP 1. Which county cricket team has a badge featuring three black pears?		Worcestershire
VI2	VIS IMP 2 Which Italian football team has a badge featuring two twin babies and a wolf?		AS Roma

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1.    Which US state is named on the label of a Jack Daniels bottle? Tennessee

2.    A phlebotomist extracts what from the human body? Blood

3.    What is the female equivalent of polygyny? Polyandry (a woman with more than one husband - Polygamy refers to male or female)

4.    Granadilla is another name for which fruit? Passion-fruit

5.    Nariyal is the Indian term for which nut? Coconut

6.    Who was president of Vietnam from 1945-69? Ho Chi Min

7.    In which county of the UK is Bramber Castle? West Sussex

8.    What type of animal was inside Sputnik 2 when launched into orbit in 1957? Dog (called Laika - no, sadly she never made it back…)

9.    Who was the eldest of the Marx Brothers? Chico (real name Leonard Marx)

10. What type of creature is a dugite? Snake

11. What are the first names of English novelist G K Chesterton? Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)

12. In computing what does DMA normally stand for? Direct Memory Access

13. Who painted The Water Lily Pool? Claude Monet

14. Which vitamin is also known as pantothenic acid? B5

15. Couples celebrating their crystal wedding anniversary have been married for how many years? 15 (fifteen)

16. The song Luck be a Lady features in which musical? Guys and Dolls

17. What type of animal is a Kolinsky? Weasel

18. Who wrote the book Catch-22? Joseph Heller

19. Kodiak Island is in which US state? Alaska

20. In the human body what is the hallux? Big toe

21. In which year did Henry VIII become King of England? 1509

22. The 1999 film Tea with Mussolini is based on whose autobiography? Franco Zeffirelli

23. Port Said is in which North African country? Egypt

24. In which year were premium bonds first issued in Britain? 1956

25. Who designed the Beatles Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover? Peter Blake

26. Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of which French King? Louis XV (fifteenth)

27. What is the name of Moe's pet cat in the cartoon show The Simpsons? Mr Snookums

28. Which country is known as the Pearl of Africa? Uganda (supposedly coined by Winston Churchill.)

29. 'The Red Vineyards Near Arles' is the only compositional work sold in his lifetime by which artist? Van Gogh

30. The never-used internet top-level domain '.dd' was for which nation? East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik)

31. The rotator cuff is a tough sheath of tendons and ligaments which supports which human joint? Shoulder

32. The 'latte' in the coffee drink means what in original Italian? Milk

33. ZrO2 is the formula for what diamond substitute? Zirconia

34. The 600th anniversary of what battle was on St Crispin's Day, 25 Oct 2015? Agincourt

35. What dramatically fictionalised king actually ruled the Scots between1040-1057? Macbeth

36. What popular 20thC movie franchise predicted life and technology at 21 Oct 2015? Back to the Future

37. What famous French endurance motor racing track/city is named after the early inhabiting Cenomani Celtic people? Le Mans

38. A term for a dark shape against a brighter background is named after 18th century French author/politician Etienne de (Who?)? Silhouette (nobody knows why exactly)

39. What word for sadness referred historically to human black bile in the ancient medical theory of the Four Humours? Melancholy (or Melancholia)

40. The Han ethnic people constitute 90% of which mainland country? China

41. What word features in stonemasonry, cabinet-making and carpentry; and strategies to combat stress? Coping

42. In chemistry what element is always present in an amalgam? Mercury

43. Willy Loman is the lead character in what Arthur Miller play? 'Death of a Salesman

44. Named after its town of origin, Marsala fortified wine originated on which island? Sicily

45. What is a kick, a cut, a horse, and uninspiring journalist? Hack

46. What was the first name of the Kray twins' mother? Violet

47. Which bell is synonymous with the name of Lloyd’s of London? Lutine

48. What board game name comes from the Latin, 'I play'? Ludo

49. The chonmage is a traditional haircut worn by men in which country? Japan

50. Who did Liverpool beat to win the Champions League in Istanbul in 2005? AC Milan (accept Milan but not Inter Milan)

51. What is the capital of Liechtenstein? Vaduz

52. What is the capital of Belarus? Minsk

53. Which company was founded in Birmingham in 1892 by Frederick Rushbrooke? Halfords

54. Which England cricketer recently scored the fastest 250 in test cricket? Ben Stokes

55. With which conservative cabinet minister was Antonia da Sancha scandalously linked in 1992? David Mellor

56. What is the highest mountain is Europe? Mount Elbrus (in Russia)

57. What was David Bowie’s birth surname? Jones (David Robert Jones)

58. Who wrote the novel ‘On the Road’, first published in 1957? Jack Kerouac

59. The phrase ‘Brave New World’ comes from which Shakespeare play? The Tempest

60. What is the chemical symbol for the element antimony? Sb

61. What was the first Stephen King book to be turned into a film? Carrie

62. What nationality was the spy Mata Hari? Dutch

63. Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who had been charged with the assassination of President J F Kennedy? Jack Ruby

64. In which year was VAT introduced in the UK?  1973 (the year Britain joined the EEC)

65. Bauxite is the main source of which metal? Aluminium

66. The play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is mainly set in which Italian city? Verona

67. Andrew Marr is the former editor of which newspaper? The Independent

68. Bacchus was the Roman god of what? Wine

69. What colour is the Welsh word 'coch'? Red

70. Andy Millman is the main character in which British sitcom? Extras

71. In which country is the worlds largest Coca Cola bottling plant? China

72.  When founding the state colony, Two groups were specifically banned from settling in Georgia. Lawyers were one, what was the other? Roman Catholics (for fear of allying themselves with The neighbouring Spanish Colony of Florida)

73. In which country is the world’s largest Coca Cola bottling plant? China

74. Why was Savannah spared from being burnt to the ground during Sherman's March to the Sea? Abraham Lincoln accepted it as a Christmas gift from General Sherman

75. In which US State is the Liberty Bell hung? Pennsylvania

76. Which company owns Bentley Motors? Volkswagen AG (Audi Group)

77. Which company owns Jaguar Land Rover? Tata Motors

78. Who was the drummer of the group Police? Stewart Copeland (son of CIA officer Miles Copeland

79. Name Pink Floyd's drummer. Nick Mason

80. Thunderclap was the code name given to the Allied Bombing of which German city? Berlin

81. Operation Husky was the code name given to which allied invasion of ww2? Sicily

82. The Engaged Couples was the original name of which 70s pop group? ABBA

83. The British Group "the Drifters" became highly successful under which name? The Shadows.

84. Who said Claret is for boys, port for men and brandy for heroes? Dr Johnson

85. Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of which composer? Richard Wagner

86. At which school did Mr. Chips teach Latin? Brookfield

87. Captain Arthur J M Hastings was which fictional detective's companion and chronicler? Hercules Poirot

88. What was the name of the detective chief inspector who appeared in many of Poirot's cases? Japp

89. Shawn Carter is better known as whom? Jay-Z (Zee)

90. Who spoke the only line in Mel Brookes 1976 film Silent Movie? Marcel Marceau

91. What is the distinctive ingredient of a Sambar in South Asian cookery? Lentils

92. At which 1066 battle did Harold II defeat Harald Hadrada’s Norwegian invaders? Stamford Bridge

93. If you selected Polpo as a main course in an Italian restaurant, what would you receive? Octopus

94. Which city of mainland South America hosted 30 Test Matches between 1930 and 2005? Georgetown (Guyana)

95. Americans who found themselves eating Jack Rabbits and Armadillos during the Great Depression gave them which alliterative two-word nickname in reference to the then President and the meat that they were substituting for? Hoover Hog

96. Dying in 2015, which Chancellor of the Exchequer made a memorable appearance on the Morecambe and Wise Show? Denis Healey

Supplementaries

97. What was the first name of the unusually competent American waitress in Fawlty Towers? Polly

98. Taking its name from a popular children’s story, what name is used to describe an area surrounding a star that has suitable conditions to support liquid water? The Goldilocks Zone

99. For which 1994 film did Robert Zemeckis win a Directing Oscar? Forrest Gump

100.  In which West Yorkshire town was Last of the Summer Wine set? Holmfirth

101.  Grover Cleveland is the only US president to serve two non-consecutive terms.  Who served the term in between his two presidencies (1889-1893)? Harrison (Benjamin)

102.  In which European country does most of the population write in Bokmal script? Norway

103.  Who won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize did Alice Walker win a Pulitzer Prize? The Colour Purple

104.  The people of which English town are nicknamed “Monkeyhangers”? Hartlepool