2016–17 Season: Week 14 – 14 February 2017

Specialist Rounds

Set by the Park Tavern; vetted by the Ox–fford 'C' and The Cock.

Round 1: Arts & Entertainment – First Lines

You will be given the first line from a book, film, or song. Simply name the title.

1	Book: It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him			Catch 22
2	Book: All children, except one, grow up			Peter Pan
3	TV series theme tune: It's time to start the music			The Muppets
4	TV series theme tune: So no one told you life was gonna be this way			Friends
5	Film: Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family			Trainspotting
6	Song: Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me, I think they're ok			Material Girl
7	Song: I met her in a club down in old Soho			Lola
8	Film: As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster			Goodfellas

Supplementaries:

1	TV series theme tune: Here we come walking down the Street			The Monkees
2	Book: It was the day my grandmother exploded			The Crow Road

Round 2: History – Recognise a Face – Picture Round

1		Born c. 1501; executed 19 May 1536		Anne Boleyn
2		Born 7 February 1478; executed 6 July 1535		Sir Thomas More
3		Born 29 December 1809; died 19 May 1898		Florence Nightingale
4		Born 8 December 1542; executed 8 February 1587		Mary, Queen of Scots
5		Born 12 May 1820; died 13 August 1910		William Gladstone
6		Born 12 February 1809; assassinated 15 April 1865		Abraham Lincoln
7		Born 25 April 1599; died 3 September 1658		Oliver Cromwell
8		Born 29 September 1758; died 21 October 1805		Admiral (Horatio) Nelson

Supplementaries:

6		Born 26 August 1819; died 14 December 1861		Prince Albert of Saxe–Coburg and Gotha
7		Born 4 June 1738; died 29 January 1820		King George III

Alternative questions for any visually impaired players:

1	Who was the 31st US President? He was born in 1874 and died in 1964.		Herbert Hoover
2	Who was the Scottish knight who defeated the English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 and was executed in London in 1305?		Sir William Wallace

Round 3: Geography – Island Hopping

1	Which island of the Inner Hebrides has Bowmore for its capital and is famous for its distinctive whiskies?			Islay (pronounced 'isla')
2	Which island group, whose capital is Longyearbyen, lies halfway between Norway and the North Pole?			Svalbard (or Spitzbergen)
3	By area, which is the largest of Greece's many islands?			Crete
4	If you travel due west from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, which celebrated island group will you first reach?			The Galapagos Islands
5	Which island is shared between Chile & Argentina?			Tierra del Fuego
6	Which island in the Gulf of St Lawrence has St John's for its capital and was previously known as Vinland by the Danes?			Newfoundland
7	Which is the largest of the four main islands in Japan?			Honshu
8	In which island nation would you find the islands of Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao?			The Phillippines

Supplementaries:

1	Which small island in the South Atlantic has Georgetown as its capital, but is best known for its RAF station and as a refuelling and stop off point for aircraft servicing the Falklands War?		Ascension Island
2	With its capital Victoria the principal island of Mahe is in which luxury holiday island nation in the Indian Ocean?		Seychelles

Round 4: Science

1	Designed to limit the rise of global temperature to 2 degrees, environmentalists are concerned that Trump will pull the US out of which climate treaty of 2015?			Paris
2	What is the minimum number of volts it would take to push a current of 1 amp though a three ohm resistor?			3 Volts
3	What piece of Space memorabilia has recently been purchased and put on display in the Science Museum in London?			A space capsule
4	In 1869 what did Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev publish?			The periodic table
5	The atomic number of an element tells you what information about the composition of that element?			The number of protons in the nucleus
6	In weather forecasting, when a cold front and a warm front combine, what name is given to the resulting new front?			An occluded front
7	What is the name given to the bubble of space containing and effectively dominated by our sun, created and maintained by the solar wind against the pressure of interstellar space?			The Heliosphere
8	What is the more common name for the chemical reaction that involves an exothermic, irreversible, oxidation of a material such as wood?			Fire

Supplementaries:

1	Krypton, Neon, Argon, Xenon & Radon are five of the naturally occurring noble gases. Which is missing, and has atomic number 2?		Helium
2	The four nucleobases of DNA are known by their initial letters of A, C, G & T. Give the full name of one of these?		Adenine or Cytosine or Guanine or Thymine

Round 5: Sport

1	Which organisation has Gianni Infantino as its president?		FIFA
2	Which squash player had a winning streak of 555 matches in the 1980s?		Jahanghir Khan
3	Ignoring bonus points, how many points are awarded for a win in the Rugby Union Aviva Premiership?		4
4	Which major competition will take place in Bermuda in May & June 2017?		The America's Cup (yachting)
5	Michael Van Gerwen is a world champion in which sport?		Darts
6	In January 2017 Joey Barton rejoined Burnley FC, but had to immediately serve a one match misconduct ban, for what reason was the ban imposed?		Illegal gambling on football matches
7	Korean born Lydia Ko is the current world number one in which sport?		Golf (ladies)
8	Which major sports manufacturer recently announced that it would stop making golf clubs, leaving Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods to find another supplier?		Nike

Supplementaries:

1	At the 30th January 2017 there are three British men in the top 50 of the world Tennis singles rankings. Sir Andy Murray is one of them; name either of the other two.			Kyle Edmund or Dan Evans
2	Who went from being English Football Premier League Manager of the Month in August 2016 to unemployed in January 2017?			Mike Phelan

Round 6: Capital Punishment

All the answers to the following questions contain the name of a US state capital. In some cases it may be a forename, in others a surname. Please supply the capital.

1	Division of the Ford Motor Company known for selling luxury vehicles such as the Continental			Lincoln
2	A former World No 1 female tennis player, winner of 3 grand slams between 1979 and 1981.			Tracy Austin
3	What first name is shared by a Danish supermodel of the 1990s, a quirky British actress and the founder of an international cosmetics enterprise?			Helena
4	Which market town in the Yorkshire Dales shares its name with a London Borough?			Richmond
5	Sporting venue, home of the New York Knicks basketball team			Madison Square Gardens
6	Who was the American actor who co–starred alongside Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in John Huston's "The Misfits"?			Montgomery Clift
7	Family surname of the first and only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards			Phoenix
8	Former Canadian Prime Minister – father of the current Canadian prime minister			Pierre Trudeau

Supplementaries:

1	High energy dance popularised in the 1920s and synonymous with the Jazz Age		Charleston
2	Which American Rock band came to prominence in the 1970s and had a major hit with "More than a feeling" in 1976?		Boston

Round 7: Love Is In the Air

A round of questions to celebrate St Valentine's Day…

1	Who played ageing rock star Billy Mack in the film Love Actually?		Bill Nighy
2	What cocktail is made from vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry juice and orange juice?		Sex on the beach
3	In Arthurian legend, whose adulterous affair with Queen Guinevere led to the downfall of the Round Table?		Lancelot
4	In the film Muriel's Wedding, Muriel dreams of her wedding day whilst listening to the music of which band?		ABBA
5	Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin married which Hollywood actor in 2014?		George Clooney
6	Who said "Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire"?		George Bernard Shaw
7	What fruit is also known as the love apple?		Tomato
8	Paul Newman was married to which Hollywood actress for 50 years until his death in 2008?		Joanne Woodward

Supplementaries:

1	Who said "Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you"?		Mae West
2	In the Greek legend, who was the wife of Orpheus whom he visited in the underworld after her untimely death?		Eurydice

Round 8: All But the Kitchen Sink

All the answers in this round contain items found in the Kitchen

1	Which type of banana, currently accounts for nearly half of all bananas grown, and was originally named after the occupant of Chatsworth House (where it was cultivated)?			Cavendish
2	What is the name of the ranch featured in the TV drama Dallas?			Southfork
3	Tim Martin was the founder of which British pub chain?			Wetherspoons
4	Which song originated in The Threepenny Opera, and was later made famous by Bobby Darin and others?			Mack the Knife
5	Which Buenos Aires football team takes its name from the nearby water course?			River Plate
6	Which dance troupe, active from 1966 to the mid 1970's, were preceded in their most famous slot by the Go-Jos?			Pans People
7	Which lanky gangling Beano character appeared in the Bash Street Kids, and had forenames Percival Proudfoot?			Plug
8	Which New York band formed in 2001, taking its name from a lesbian sexual practice?			The Scissor Sisters

Supplementaries:

1	Also known as cenotes (si–NO–tays), swallets or dolines (doll–EENS), these are often caused by chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks.		Sinkholes
2	Which Cambodian revolutionary/Khmer Rouge leader died in 1998?		Pol Pot

General Knowledge

Set by The Cock.

1	Who became host of the TV quiz show Mastermind in 2003?			John Humphrys
2	Where did Neville Chamberlain call "A faraway country" of which "we know nothing?"			Czechoslovakia
3	In terms of total cargo handled, which port is the largest in Europe?			Rotterdam
4	Which country signed the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 and is often called England's oldest ally?			Portugal
5	Which fruit is known as the alligator pear?			Avocado
6	Which battle was described afterwards by its victor as "The nearest run thing you ever saw"?			Waterloo
7	Which Asian country has borders with India, Afghanistan, Iran and China?			Pakistan
8	In which US sport is the object to carry the ball into your opponents end zone?			American football

9	Henry John Heinz began his business in 1869 originally to prepare and market which product?			Horseradish sauce
10	Edmund Bertram and Mary Crawford are characters in which Jane Austen novel?			Mansfield Park
11	In the game of chess, which piece stands between the castle and the bishop at the start of the game?			Knight
12	In which 1993 film does Anthony Hopkins play a butler named Stevens?			The Remains of the Day
13	In 1864 the bursting of the Dale Dyke Dam flooded which city?			Sheffield
14	Which was the last battle of the Wars of the Roses?			Bosworth
15	Which car manufacturer has a blue oval as its emblem with the company's name written in?			Ford
16	Which car manufacturer's vehicles have a bull as its logo?			Lamborghini

17	Who was the first leader of Pakistan after independence from Britain?			Muhammad Ali Jinnah
18	Who was the first leader of Ghana after independence from Britain?			Kwame Nkrumah
19	Which make of aircraft do the Red Arrows display team use?			BAE Systems Hawk
20	Which fixed wing aircraft will be used on HMS Queen Elizabeth?			See comment
21	Where would you find a Gurney Flap?			See comment
22	What is the most common use for a leaf spring?			In a vehicle's suspension system
23	Who wrote the 1976 novel Roots?			Alex Haley
24	Who wrote the collection of poems A Shropshire Lad?			A. E. Housman

 

25	Which English player was famously substituted in the 1970 World Cup match against Germany?			Bobby Charlton
26	Who is the England Rugby Union coach?			Eddie Jones
27	What was the title of David Bowie's last album?			Blackstar
28	What was Adele's first single UK number 1?			Someone Like You
29	Who resigned his Parliamentary seat over the issue of Heathrow's new runway?			Zak Goldsmith
30	Who is Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Exiting The European Union?			David Davis
31	Who is remaining as a judge when The Great British Bake–Off moves to Channel 4?			Paul Hollywood
32	Which actress played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street?			Julie Hesmondhalgh

33	What is LINUX?		A computer operating system
34	Which company was founded in 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800?		Microsoft
35	Which English city was known as Durnovaria to the Romans?		Dorchester
36	Which English town was known as Aquae Arnemetiae to the Romans?		Buxton
37	Which river runs through Towcester?		Tove
38	The river Croco runs through which Cheshire town?		Middlewich
39	How should a piece of music be played with the instruction con brio?		With spirit or vigour
40	How should a piece of music be played with the instruction lento?		Slowly

41	The characters Sally Brass, Daniel Quilp and Richard (Dick) Swiveller appear in which Dickens novel?		The Old Curiosity Shop
42	The characters Mrs. Gummidge, Mr. Murdstone and Betsy Trotwood appear in which Dickens novel?		David Copperfield
43	What is the connection between Lisbon and Sheffield?		Built on seven hills
44	The original Severn Bridge enters Wales nearest to which town?		Chepstow
45	The Umbrellas is a famous painting by which French artist?		Renoir
46	Who wrote the novel "The Running Man" under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?		Stephen King
47	What is the former name of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe?		Salisbury
48	On which river does Adelaide stand?		The Torrens

49	Which store in the UK was the first to have an escalator installed?			Harrods
50	The Spar group of shops originated in which country in 1932?			The Netherlands
51	In our solar system what are Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta?			Asteroids
52	What kind of creature is a manakin?			A bird
53	King Zog was the ruler of which country?			Albania
54	A barber, banker, fireman and nurse appear in the lyrics of which Beatles song?			Penny Lane
55	Which city was due to stage the Olympic Games in 1916?			Berlin
56	Sarah Palin was the governor of which American State?			Alaska

57	Who said, "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"?			Winston Churchill
58	Who said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"?			Harry S Truman
59	What is the fifth book of the Old Testament?			Deuteronomy
60	What is the most northerly desert in the world?			The Gobi
61	Which US state has the sugar maple tree as its emblem?			Vermont
62	In the film "The Fantastic Mr. Fox", who provided the voice of Mr. Fox?			George Clooney
63	In the same film, who provided the voice of Mrs. Fox?			Meryl Streep
64	On which musical instrument would you find a Claribell?			Organ

 

65	The town of Cremona in Italy is renowned for the manufacture of which musical instruments?			Violins
66	The Eagles is the nickname of which football team?			Crystal Palace
67	Leeds United, Fulham and Preston all have the same nickname. What is it?			The Whites
68	TV presenter Annabel Croft was British No 1 in which sport?			Tennis
69	San José is the capital of which Central American country?			Costa Rica
70	Who wrote South Riding?			Winifred Holtby
71	What is the national flower of Mexico?			Dahlia
72	Little Rock is the capital of which US state?			Arkansas

73	Which poet wrote The Rainy Day?			Longfellow
74	Complete the following group name: Desmond Decker and the…?			Aces
75	Complete the following group name: Huey Lewis and the…..?			News
76	Who did Mehmet Ali attempt to assassinate in May 1981?			The Pope
77	Which US President proposed a League of Nations?			Woodrow Wilson
78	In children's' TV programme In the Night Garden, who lives next door to the Pontipines?			The Wottingers
79	In the children's cartoon what was the name of the cat who terrorised Pixie and Dixie?			Mr. Jinks
80	What would your profession be if you wore a soutane?			A priest

81	What name is given to the close fitting cap worn by nuns?			A coif
82	What type of creature is an addax?			Antelope
83	What are Rockhoppers and Adelie types of?			Penguins
84	Whose first major English speaking film role was in the 1930 film The Blue Angel?			Marlene Dietrich
85	Which actress was painted gold in the Bond film Goldfinger?			Shirley Eaton
86	What sort of art work, often seen on TV, does Julia Quenzler specialise in?			Court artist
87	Who was the first woman to swim the English Channel?			Gertrude Ederle
88	The Dodgers are the baseball team of which American city?			Los Angeles

89	Which Brazilian racing driver was killed at Imola in 1994?			Ayrton Senna
90	Where in the north Atlantic can you find tropical fruits grown in hothouses heated by natural heat sources?			Iceland
91	What is the more common name for the citrus fruit, the shaddock?			Pomelo
92	If you were eating lappi in Finland, what would you be eating?			Cheese
93	What flavour is crème de cassis?			Blackcurrants
94	Who recorded Rubber Soul?			The Beatles
95	Which group had UK hit in 1995 with Common People?			Pulp
96	If A is Alpha and J is Juliet, what is U?			Uniform

Supplementaries:

1	By population, which is the largest city in the USA?			New York
2	On which Caribbean island is the prison Guantanamo Bay located?			Cuba
3	Prior to decimalisation, how many pennies were there in a British pound?			240
4	Which internet search engine has the unofficial slogan "Don't be evil"?			Google

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