2016–17 Season: Week 13 – 7 February 2017

All questions set by the Robin Hood.

Specialist Rounds

Round 1: History

1	Name the last pitched battle fought on British soil in 1746?			Culloden
2	A Victoria Cross is struck from the gun metal of Russian cannons captured at which battle?			Sebastopol
3	In 1804, which country became the only nation in the world established as a result of a successful slave revolt?			Haiti
4	During which year did George V become king and Halley's Comet return?			1910
5	Which native American was war leader of the Oglala Lakota and led a war party to victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?			Crazy Horse
6	Around 400 'Glorious Gloucesters' fought a last stand on Hill 235 in which war?			Korean war
7	Name the last British king born outside the UK?			George II
8	Who was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace?			Queen Victoria

Supplementaries:

S1	Whose parents were Philip II of Macedon and Olympias?			Alexander the Great (born in Pella in 356 BC)
S2	In 1867, who became special correspondent for the New York Herald?			Henry Stanley

Round 2: Geography

1	Of which African country is Lilongwe the capital?			Malawi
2	Which gulf lies between Saudi Arabia and Iran?			The Persian Gulf
3	Which UK city has an annual goose fair?			Nottingham
4	Which is the third most populous country on earth?			United States of America
5	Into which body of water does the River Ganges drain?			The Bay of Bengal
6	What is the capital of the US state of South Carolina?			Colombia
7	Name either of the two communes that stand on the estuary of the Seine?			Le Havre or Honfleur
8	The Goodwin sands are at the entrance to which straits?			The Straits of Dover

Supplementaries:

S1	In which US state is Mount Rushmore?		South Dakota
S2	Of which country are the Galapagos Islands a province?		Ecuador

Round 3: Science – Inventions

1	Who first developed the Polio Vaccine?			Jonas Salk
2	Who championed Alternating Current as a means of power transmission?			Nikla Tesla
3	Who invented the movable type printing press?			Johannes Gutenberg
4	Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?			Tim Berners–Lee
5	Who invented the first practical airworthy helicopter			Igor Sikorsky
6	Percy Shaw is famous for inventing what ubiquitous item in 1934?			Cat's eyes
7	Who invented bifocal spectacles ?			Benjamin Franklin
8	Who invented the widely adopted version of the telegraph?			Samuel Morse

Supplementaries:

S1	Who invented the vulcanisation of rubber?		Charles Goodyear
S2	Who discovered X–rays?		William Roentgen

Round 4: Arts & Entertainment

1	What is the name of the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird is set?			Maycomb
2	Whose works include The Persistence of Memory and Swans Reflecting Elephants?			Salvador Dali
3	"A thing of beauty is a joy forever ... " These are opening lines by which famous poet?			John Keats
4	The Sellout was the Man Booker Prize–winning title of 2016. Who wrote it?			Paul Beatty
5	The Accident (2014), The Lie (2015) and The Missing (2016) are all novels by which British author?			C. L. Taylor
6	What colour is the coat mentioned in the opening line of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde?			Scarlet
7	The Owl and the Pussycat were looking for a ring so that they could be married. Where did they find one?			In the end of a pig's nose or words to that effect (And there in a wood a Piggy–wig stood With a ring at the end of his nose)
8	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht is a satirical allegory of the rise to power of which political figure?			Adolf Hitler

Supplementaries:

S1	Which artist founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Pablo Picasso?		Georges Braque
S2	Who has written children's books entitled Gangsta Granny and Grandpa's Great Escape?		David Walliams

Round 5: Sport

1	Which sport is played on the largest pitch; 300 x 160 yards?			Polo – approximately the area of 6 football pitches
2	Which sports playing area is 2.7 metres by 1.5 metres?			Table Tennis
3	What is the connection between Volleyball, Squash and Badminton? Clue: This connection is not shared with tennis or table tennis			Only the server can score
4	In darts, what is the lowest score that CANNOT be scored with a single dart?			23
5	In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA refused to let them do what?			Play barefoot
6	In Athletics, what is the last event of the Decathlon?			1500m
7	What is the only sport to have been played on the surface of the moon?			Golf
8	Who was the first cricketer to achieve 10,000 runs in test cricket?			Sunil Gavasker

Supplementaries:

S1	What is the highest possible break in snooker (but under unusual circumstances)?			155
S2	James Naismith invented which sport?			Basketball

Round 6: Cheshire Life Through the Ages

1	What was the name of the Anglo Saxon Princess who became the Patron saint of Chester?			St. Werbergh
2	In which century was Macclesfield Grammar School (Kings) founded?			16th Century (1502)
3	In which year was the second IRA bomb explosion that killed two children on Bridge Street in Warrington?			1993
4	After the Romans left Chester, Cheshire formed part of which Anglo Saxon Kingdom?			Mercia
5	Which King of Wessex drove the Danes from the City of Chester?			King Alfred the Great (894–5)
6	Charles Roe, English Industrialist, played a major part in establishing which industry in Cheshire?			Silk in Macclesfield, 1744
7	In terms of Roman Catholic Church administration, most of Cheshire falls into which Diocese?			Diocese of Shrewsbury
8	Two rivers meet in Stockport to form the River Mersey. The Goyt is one, name the other.			Tame

Supplementaries:

S1	Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in which Cheshire village?		Daresbury
S2	Which World War Two American General was based for a time at Peover Hall near Knutsford?		George S. Patton

Round 7: Airport!

Please give the names of the cities served by the airports below:

1	Dulles International Airport		Washington DC
2	Sheremetyevo Airport		Moscow
3	Humberto Delgado Airport		Lisbon
4	Jomo Kenyatta Airport		Nairobi
5	Indira Gandhi Airport		New Delhi
6	Presidente Juscelino Kubitchek Intl Airport (Pron Jusselino)		Brazilia
7	Adolfo Suarez Airport		Madrid (aka Madrid – Barajas)
8	Ninoy Aquino International Airport		Manila

Supplementaries:

S1	MacDonald – Cartier International Airport		Ottawa
S2	Heydar Aliyev International Airport		Baku

Round 8: Boys Named Sue

The questions are about works in which men play women, or vice versa.

1	In which film did Julie Andrews play a woman pretending to be a man working as a female impersonator?			Victor Victoria (1982)
2	In which film did Alec Guiness play 8 male and female members of the D'Ascoyne family?			Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
3	Which Norse God dresses as a woman to enter the stronghold of his enemies?			Thor
4	Which hero was disguised as a woman by his mother to avoid the Trojan War?			Achilles; discovered by Ulysses, he went to war and was killed as prophesised
5	In which film was Rachel Welch unconvincingly transformed into a man, then a woman and back to a man?			Myra Breckinridge (1970)
6	In which 1982 film starring Mel Gibson was the other main male part played by a woman?			The Year of Living Dangerously
7	In the play/film Hairspray, which female role is always played in drag?			Edna Turnblad
8	Who played Elizabeth I in the film Orlando (1992)?			Quentin Crisp

Supplementaries:

S1	Which male actor played the headmistress in the original St Trinians films?		Alastair Sim
S2	In which film series did Eddie Murphy play male and female members of his character's extended family?		The Nutty Professor

General Knowledge Questions

1	Which epic movie, based on a real historical character, was the only film to have won the Oscar for Best Picture without a single female speaking role?			Lawrence of Arabia
2	Name one of the Titanic's two sister ships			Britannic or Olympic
3	Ukrainian Sergey Bubka is best known for record setting in which sporting discipline?			Pole vault
4	If you're on a boat called Maid of the Mist you're looking at which natural spectacle?			Niagara Falls
5	Who was the second German voted Footballer of the year in England?			Jurgen Klinsmann
6	Which large US city, located on the Ohio river, was named after a popular Roman statesman?			Cincinnati
7	If you took a walk along Venice Beach, in which city would you be?			Los Angeles
8	Sir Sandford Fleming came up with a world changing invention when a mistake printed in a timetable caused him to miss his train. This apparently inspired his invention of what?			Worldwide Standard Time Zones

9	What part of the eye can be described as the transparent front part that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber			Cornea
10	Which Mediterranean capital's name is derived from the Greek word for an anchor?			Ankara
11	Which film of 1995, tells the story of William Wallace?			Braveheart
12	The adventurer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl was born in which country?			Norway
13	Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos?			Johann Sebastian Bach
14	David Beckham's son Cruz was born where?			Madrid, Spain
15	Which planet in our solar system has the most rings?			Uranus
16	Which nation has been runner–up in the Football World Cup the most times without actually winning it?			Netherlands

17	As of 23 January 2017, who is the UK's Secretary of State for Education ?			Justine Greening
18	What is the name of the Rugby World Cup trophy?			The William Web Ellis Cup
19	How many countries border France?			8
20	As of 23 January 2017, who is the Shadow Home Secretary?			Diane Abbott
21	Whose book The Tropic of Cancer was banned for many years?			Henry Miller
22	Which Hemingway book title comes from a line in a John Donne poem?			For Whom the Bell Tolls
23	Into which sea does the Mekong River flow?			The South China Sea
24	Which French philosopher wrote 'I think therefore I am'?			Rene Descartes

25	In which year did UK National Service end?			1960 (accept 1959–1961)
26	When is All Saints Day?			November 1st
27	In which Italian City is The Taming of the Shrew set?			Padua
28	On which river does the city of Ely stand?			The Ouse
29	Which is the largest island in the Bristol Channel?			Lundy
30	Who is the porcine ruler in George Orwell's Animal Farm?			Napoleon
31	Who was Shirley Williams's pacifist mother?			Vera Brittain
32	Who wrote 'Brevity is the soul of wit'?			William Shakespeare

33	What is the capital of the US state of Nevada?			Carson City
34	To which 1960s group did the poet Roger McGough belong?			The Scaffold
35	Which TV cop is based in Ystad?			Kurt Wallander
36	What colour is malachite?			Green
37	Sb is the chemical symbol for which element?			Antimony
38	Who wrote The Maltese Falcon?			Dashiell Hammett
39	What was the name of the purchase that saw the USA more than double in size when it bought out France's territorial claims in North America?			Louisiana Purchase
40	During which century was the Black Death?			Fourteenth

41	Which queen was the last Stuart monarch?			Queen Anne
42	Which two–word Latin expression meaning 'a scraped tablet' refers to the human mind in its primary state?			Tabula rasa
43	In which year did Great Britain join what would become the European Union?			1973
44	Which oath taken by GPs requires doctors to act in the best interests of their patients?			Hippocratic Oath
45	Talia Balsam was married to which actor between 1989 and 1993?			George Clooney
46	Benedict Cumberbatch plays mathematician Alan Turing in which 2014 film?			The Imitation Game
47	Actor Wagner Moura played which crime figure in the Netflix series Narcos?			Pablo Escobar
48	Which was the first film in the James Bond series to star Pierce Brosnan in the role?			GoldenEye

49	Which country was known as Ceylon until 1972?			Sri Lanka
50	Which 'C' is the name for an object used to measure the thickness of things?			Caliper
51	What is the real name of rocker Alice Cooper?			Vincent David Furnier
52	Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael made up which crime fighting team?			Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Teenage Hero Ninja Turtles
53	Which river runs through Leeds city centre?			River Aire
54	Which group worked with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers on the track Get Lucky in 2013?			Daft Punk
55	Which Irish county is known as the Red Hand County?			Tyrone
56	What does a Clinometer measure?			Angle of slope

57	Who was the creator of Coronation Street who died in 2016?			Tony Warren
58	During which century did the world's population reach 1 billion?			19th; estimated to have happened in 1804
59	Which German philosopher is known for his major work Critique of Pure Reason?			Immanuel Kant
60	Michael Aspel presented which television show between 1987 and 2003?			This Is Your Life
61	If it's a motorway in the UK, Autobahn in Germany and Autopista in Spain, what is it in Italy?			Autostrade
62	Kent Walton was a regular commentator of which sport broadcast on ITV's World of Sport in the 1970s?			Wrestling
63	Brothers Joseph and Edward Tetley founded their tea company in 1837 in which British city?			Leeds
64	Which former IRA activist, who was Sinn Fein's leader in Northern Ireland, has announced the end of his political career due to illness?			Martin McGuinness

65	Trump was inaugurated as President this week, but who is his Vice President?			Mike Pence
66	Sales of yellow dresses have rocketed thanks to a tea dress that is worn by Emma Stone in which recent film?			La La Land
67	The Duke of Marlborough is apparently planning to build up to 1600 houses on land he owns. What was his name before he became the Duke in 2014?			Jamie Blandford
68	Biz Stone has called for a 'trust' button to counter 'fake news', but which IT company did he co–found?			Twitter
69	Adama Barrow a former security guard at an Argos store in north London, has been elected leader of which African country?			Gambia
70	Which striker has just broken Manchester United's all time goal scoring record?			Wayne Rooney
71	Which city has hosted the premier of the film T2 Trainspotting?			Edinburgh
72	In which English National Park would you find the highest point at the summit of Dunkery Hill?			Exmoor

73	Which US star because the highest–paid actress in the world following her performance alongside Chris Pratt in Passengers?			Jennifer Lawrence
74	Which Irish jockey is the eldest son of former champion amateur jockey Ted Walsh (full name required)?			Ruby Walsh
75	What is the occupation of Otto Man in the animated series The Simpsons?			School Bus Driver
76	Tom Bombadil is a fictional character created by which English author?			J. R. R. Tolkien
77	If an event is said to be 'quotidian', it will re–occur how frequently?			Daily
78	Between 1986 and 2005, which Russian chess grandmaster was once ranked world number 1 for 225 out of 228 months?			Garry Kasparov
79	What colour is the lower half of the Welsh flag?			Green
80	Which English football club play at Gigg Lane?			Bury

81	Bells Beach, Margaret River and Byron Bay are Australian towns best known for which sport?			Surfing
82	Who recorded the 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home?			Bob Dylan
83	Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is a fear of which number?			666
84	Along with partner Hal David, who wrote the following songs: What's New Pussycat?, Long after Tonight Is All Over and Alfie?			Burt Bacharach
85	What is the surname of the British singer Adele?			Adkins
86	Which ancient Greek temple, dedicated to the goddess Athena, sits on the hill of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece?			Parthenon
87	What is the first name of the Coronation Street character played by Samia Ghadie?			Maria
88	The books of which Venetian merchant traveller introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China?			Marco Polo

89	Carole King's Tapestry album was released and became the longest charting album by a female solo artist in which year?			1971
90	Who published works under the pen name Currer Bell?			Charlotte Bronte
91	William Pitt 'the younger' was prime minister from 1783 to 1801. How old was he when he became Prime Minister?			24 years
92	Who was the only President of the Confederate States of America?			Jefferson Davis
93	The Kennington Oval hosted the inaugural final of which competition in 1872?			The FA Cup final
94	What is the fifth planet from the Sun?			Jupiter
95	What is the name for the process of the loss of water vapour through the stomata of leaves?			Transpiration
96	Which film of 2016 is based on a comic by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld?			Deadpool

Supplementaries:

S1	8 minutes and 47.8 seconds is the fastest ever winning time for what race?			The Grand National
S2	Edina and Patsy starred in a film version of which BBC comedy television series in 2016?			Absolutely Fabulous
S3	Which country has a national anthem entitled Wilhelmus which can be translated as the name 'William'?			The Netherlands
S4	Which letter in Morse Code consists of one single dash?			T
S5	Which evil mythological creature was part woman and part bird, having a human face and a bird's wings and claws?			Harpy
S6	Which river flows through the city of Durham?			River Wear

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