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Specialist Rounds
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2016–17 Season: Week 15 – 28 February 2017

All questions set by the Waters Green Lemmings, and vetted by the Wharfies.

Specialist Rounds

Round 1: Geography

1 Where is Ronaldsway Airport? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
2 Christiana is the former name of which European city? Click to show or hide the answer
3 St Paul's is a suburb of which UK city? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Hay on Wye is located in which national park? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
5 What links the English towns of Barton and Hessle? Click to show or hide the answer
6 Which is the largest lake in the British Isles, supposedly formed by the urine of a giant horse? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Where do the White and Blue Niles join? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
8 In what year was the People's Republic of China founded? Click to show or hide the answer

S1 Which city is home to the European Court of Justice and the European Investment Bank's HQ? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 What country is nearest to the site of the sinking of the Titanic? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
S3 In which country is the ancient city of Samarkand? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer

Round 2: History

1 What links Bridgeo Bridge and Leatherslade Farm in 1963? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which king of England ruled for 59 years? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
3 In which century did the Glencoe massacre take place? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
4 In 1554 who married Phillip II of Spain? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
5 Who won the Battle of Prestonpans on 21st September 1745? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
6 Who fled his 'Peacock Throne' into exile in 1979? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Which 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner decided to send his wife to Oslo to accept the prize because he feared he would not be readmitted to his homeland? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
8 For how long did the UK General Strike last? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries

S1 Who was assassinated by John Bellingham May 11th 1812? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 What did Hermann Göring do 3 hours before he was due to be executed? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer

Round 3: Arts & Entertainment

1 Which was the first Liverpool pop group to have a UK number 1 hit record? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which Stanley Kubrick film features the "Dawn of Man" sequence? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Aged 22 who became the conductor of the attendants' band at Worcester and County Lunatic Asylum in Powick in 1879 Click to show or hide the answer
4 Which Englishwoman had hits in the sixties with This Is My Song and Sailor? Click to show or hide the answer
5 Which American producer developed the wall of sound formula? Click to show or hide the answer
6 The drummer Art Blakey led which group? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Who was the art critic and writer whose works include The Stones of Venice and who championed Turner and the Pre–Raphaelites and has an Oxford college named after him? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
8 Whose symphony No 4 in A major was called The Italian? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries

S1 In a 1915 novel, (later turned into a film) who is accused of the Portland Place murder? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 Leopold Stokowski arranged and conducted the music for which famous Disney film? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 4: Sport

1 What is the maximum number of golf clubs a golfer is allowed to carry in a round? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which marathon is the world's oldest foot race, the first to permit women to enter and the first to run a wheelchair race? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
3 Who was the first person to win the tennis grand slam twice? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
4 In which sport would you throw stones at houses? Click to show or hide the answer
5 In which athletic event would you employ the O'Brien shift? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
6 In which city were the winter Olympics that saw Eddie the Eagle's attempts at ski jumping held? Click to show or hide the answer
7 At which ground did Eric Cantona display his kung fu skills against an abusive spectator? Click to show or hide the answer
8 What colour is the flag used by the starter to bring the horses into line for a race? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries

S1 What kind of sport is the Vendee Globe? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 What was the nickname of the French tennis star Rene Lacoste? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 5: Science

1 Which French scientist who named oxygen and hydrogen was executed in 1794? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which English scientist discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction in 1831? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Brent Blend, Tapis, Minas and Midway Sunset Heavy are well–known classifications of what expensive commodity? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Where in the human body is the lunula located? Click to show or hide the answer
5 The Kroll process replaced the Hunter process in the production of which metal? Click to show or hide the answer
6 In 1928 which professor of bacteriology discovered the first true antibiotic? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Found in Sumatra and Borneo what is the only Asian great ape? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Which English biologist (1825–95) was known as Darwin's Bulldog because of his advocacy of the theory of evolution? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries

S1 The infectious woolsorters disease is better known as what? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 In trigonometry, what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 6: Strange Fruit

All answers contain the name of a fruit. The full answer is required (unless instructed otherwise).

1 Name given to the statement released by 'the gang of four' announcing the establishment of the SDP in 1981 (first word needed only) Click to show or hide the answer
2 What is the title of the 1940 song in which various singers including Elvis, Louis Armstrong and Fats Domino "found their thrill"? Click to show or hide the answer
3 What is the name of the semi–autobiographical novel charting Jeanette Winterson's childhood in Accrington? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Who was the title character in Spike Milligan's serialised Jack the Ripper spoof which was featured in The Two Ronnies? Click to show or hide the answer
5 What is the stage name of the irreverent host of several TV gameshows born Leigh Francis in 1973 in Leeds. Click to show or hide the answer
6 Who was the alliterative title character, played by Johnny Depp, in a 1993 comedy–drama, set in Iowa, also starring Leonardo diCaprio and Juliette Lewis? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
7 What was the name of the New Zealand born teacher who died in 1979 due to injuries sustained in an Anti–Nazi League march in London? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
8 Which fruit is used as a term of insult to describe a third person interrupting the wishes of two others to spend time alone? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries

S1 What is the surname of the carpenter and actor in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 Which Yorkshire footballer, born in 1948 and most heavily associated with Leeds United, was the first England player sent off in a friendly international? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 7: Scandalum Magnatum

No – not a Latin round, but one about the tainted reputation of various people who perhaps should have known better.

1 Which TV host became the first Blue Peter presenter to have his contract terminated in 1998 after his cocaine use was exposed by the News of the World? Click to show or hide the answer
2 An icon of the 2010 MPs expenses scandal, which item was unsuccessfully claimed for by conservative Peter Viggers? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Which Rochdale MP, noted for exposing paedophilia in politics, was suspended by his party in 2015 after sending explicit text messages to a 17 year old? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Theophylactus of Tusculum is the only man to hold which post more than once? He is alleged to have been guilty of many "rapes, murders and unspeakable acts of violence and sodomy" during his period of office Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
5 Who encountered undercover police officer Marcelo Rodriguez in a public toilet in the Will Rogers Memorial Park, Beverly Hills, in April 1998? Click to show or hide the answer
6 Who was the former Treasurer of the Conservative Party, himself associated with tax avoidance, who wrote a 2015 biography of David Cameron that made reference to a decapitated pig's head? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Who was the captain of South Africa's test cricket team until he was involved in a match–fixing scandal in 2000? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Ruby Rubacuori, a teenage Moroccan belly dancer was instrumental in the 2013 conviction (later successfully appealed) of which European political leader? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries

S1 Which televangelist from the "Assemblies of God" was jailed in 1989 after paying off an alleged rape victim? Click to show or hide the answer
S2 Which fire–prone Ford car model was the subject of a 1973 leaked memo detailing the decision that it was preferable to pay damages than recall the car? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 8: Name the Artist

You are required to name the person who produced the visual artwork shown from the information given.

Two of the pictures are of album covers; the designer of the cover is required, not the musical artiste or group.

Visually impaired players were given the biographical details of the artist on the picture, plus the name of the piece.

Note that players who are not visually impaired were not told the title of the piece before answering.

1 Who painted this picture? Nationality: Dutch
Year: 1921
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2 Who painted this picture? Nationality: French
Year: 1880–1
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3 Who painted this picture? Nationality: USA
Year: 1966
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4 Who painted this picture? Nationality: Chinese
Year: 2010
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5 Who painted this picture? Nationality: Scottish
Year: 1992
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6 Who painted this picture? Nationality: French
Year: 1897–9
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7 Who painted this picture? Nationality: French
Year: 1894–5
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8 Who painted this picture? Nationality: English
Year: 1967
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S1 Who painted this picture? Nationality: English
Year: 1761
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S2 Who painted this picture? Nationality: USA
Year: 1942
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S3 Who painted this picture? Nationality: French
Year: 1876
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S4 Who painted this picture? Nationality: Dutch
Year: c. 1495–1505
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General Knowledge

1 In which sitcom would you find Jim, Bernard and Humphrey? Click to show or hide the answer
2 In football, who was known as the Non–flying Dutchman? Click to show or hide the answer
3 What is a comptometer? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Which car company makes the famously fast Veyron supercar? Click to show or hide the answer
5 In which decade did Top of the Pops cease regular broadcasts? Click to show or hide the answer
6 In which county is the Thomas Hardy museum? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
7 In which decade was The Great Gatsby published? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Who does the union BALPA represent? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
9 Which instrument did Marilyn Monroe play in Some Like It Hot? Click to show or hide the answer
10 Which sitcom links Bren, Dolly and Twinkle? Click to show or hide the answer
11 In which European city is the football team PSG based? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
12 In medicine, what is phlebitis? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
13 Which world leader is the honorary president of the World Judo Federation? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
14 Of which celebrated US band is Trent Reznor the lead singer? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
15 On which hill in London would you find St Paul's Cathedral? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
16 Which 1980s singer wrote the novel List of the Lost? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
17 Near which UK city would you find The Mumbles? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
18 Alphabetically, which Carry On… film comes first? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
19 Which dance has styles including American, International and Viennese? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
20 In cricket, who in 2016 became the youngest batsman to score 10,000 test runs? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
21 Visited by the Huygens probe in 2005, what is the name of the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
22 In which year did Stalin die? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
23 Which Eagle had a massive hit in the 1980s with The Boys of Summer? Click to show or hide the answer
24 On which day of the week is The Archers NOT broadcast on Radio 4? Click to show or hide the answer
25 In the Daphne du Maurier book Rebecca, Mrs Danvers is the head housekeeper of which iconic house? Click to show or hide the answer
26 In which US state would you find the city of Chattanooga? Click to show or hide the answer
27 Name the Seth Rogan film about killing the North Korean leader that caused the regime to hack Sony in 2014? Click to show or hide the answer
28 What name links an Australian city and the first jet bomber to cross the Atlantic without refuelling? Click to show or hide the answer
29 Which country's cricket team played its first international test match in November 2000? Click to show or hide the answer
30 Between which two planets would you find the asteroid belt? Click to show or hide the answer
31 In which year did Margaret Thatcher die? Click to show or hide the answer
32 Whose 1980s debut single was called Love Resurrection? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
33 Who was the last UK Prime Minister to win two General Elections in the same year? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
34 In the British countryside, what is a "brock"? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
35 Liechtenstein lies between Switzerland and which other country? Click to show or hide the answer
36 At the cinema, who had a Big Adventure and a Bogus Journey? Click to show or hide the answer
37 Which long–running TV show has starred actors Fred Feast, Bernard Youens and Bradley Walsh? Click to show or hide the answer
38 In the UK, The Chief of the General Staff belongs to which of the armed forces? Click to show or hide the answer
39 What colour are the flowers of the laburnum tree? Click to show or hide the answer
40 In which decade of the 20th century was sliced bread first marketed? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
41 What surname links Charlie and Craig of 1980s pop duo The Proclaimers? Click to show or hide the answer
42 Who was the UK's last unmarried Prime Minister? Click to show or hide the answer
43 In poetry, which old sailor accosts three men on their way to a wedding? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
44 Which Italian city is known as La Serenissima? Click to show or hide the answer
45 Who played Liberace in the 2013 film Behind The Candelabra? Click to show or hide the answer
46 Which high–energy game show has been presented by Leslie Crowther, Bruce Forsyth, and Joe Pasquale? Click to show or hide the answer
47 Which Canadian won the World Snooker Championship in 1980? Click to show or hide the answer
48 Which unit of measurement comes from the Latin word Uncia meaning "one–twelfth part"? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
49 Who is the patron saint of Macclesfield? Click to show or hide the answer
50 Which 19th century Russian composer was also a respected chemist? Click to show or hide the answer
51 Winston Churchill appears on the new £5 note design, and Jane Austen will be on the next £10, but which painter will grace the new £20 note? Click to show or hide the answer
52 Which fictional diarist made his first entry on 1st January 1981? Click to show or hide the answer
53 Famed for the battle that took place there in 1686, in which county is Sedgemoor? Click to show or hide the answer
54 Who played down–at–heel producer Max Bialystock in the 1968 Mel Brooks movie the Producers? Click to show or hide the answer
55 What number links the characters Major Major, Chaplain Tappman, and Milo Minderbinder? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
56 In which Norwegian town was the 1994 Winter Olympics held? Click to show or hide the answer
57 Which gaseous element has a name derived from the Greek for stench? Click to show or hide the answer
58 The fall of Constantinople finally signalled the end of which Empire? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
59 Which band was first on stage at the original Live Aid concert in 1985? Click to show or hide the answer
60 What was the name of the Labour MP murdered in 2016? Click to show or hide the answer
61 Which 1889 novel was subtitled To Say Nothing of the Dog? Click to show or hide the answer
62 Which Liverpudlian wrote the play John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert? Click to show or hide the answer
63 In which Polish city was the trade union Solidarity founded? Click to show or hide the answer
64 The 2016 film Hail, Caesar! Staring George Clooney is by which duo? Click to show or hide the answer
65 What number links Timmy, Dick, George, Julian, and Anne? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
66 Which athlete claimed to have eaten over 1,000 chicken nuggets during the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
67 The notorious Prison Experiment of the early 1970s took place at which US university? Click to show or hide the answer
68 Name a month in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Click to show or hide the answer
69 Which band had a 1996 hit with The Day We Caught The Train? Click to show or hide the answer
70 Before nationalisation, which rail company ran the West Coast Mainline? Click to show or hide the answer
71 Founded in 1973, Virago Press publishes books by whom? Click to show or hide the answer
72 Which famous London museum is located on Great Russell Street? Click to show or hide the answer
73 What is the subject of the movies Sneakers, Blackhat, and Wargames? Click to show or hide the answer
74 Which lubricant links the characters Danny, Kenickie, Rizzo and Sandy? Click to show or hide the answer
75 Which racing driver and Top Gear presenter is known as the Queen of the Nurburgring? Click to show or hide the answer
76 What is the main colour of the Fly Agaric mushroom? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
77 In which capital city was Oscar Wilde born in 1854? Click to show or hide the answer
78 Who is the lead singer of The Specials? Click to show or hide the answer
79 In prehistory, what was mined at Grimes' Graves in Norfolk? Click to show or hide the answer
80 Who wrote the 1973 novel Fear of Flying? Click to show or hide the answer
81 The birthplace of philosopher Albert Camus, which country lies immediately to the north of Mali? Click to show or hide the answer
82 Who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Now Voyager? Click to show or hide the answer
83 Which government position has been held by lawyers, teachers, and a tiller girl? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
84 How is the England Women's Football Team better known? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
85 According to Ohm's Law, what is current multiplied by resistance? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
86 Which shop chain introduced the Winfield brand in the 1960s? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
87 The name of which percussion instrument means "wood sound" in Greek? Click to show or hide the answer
88 Jacobites were named after which monarch? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
89 Which novel is the first in a series about the children of the Walker and Blackett families? Click to show or hide the answer
90 Which sea is also known as Lake Tiberias? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
91 In the film Brief Encounter, who plays housewife Laura Jesson? Click to show or hide the answer
92 Which annual race links Isis and Goldie? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
93 In football, which team won the 2016 Women's Super League and the Women's Continental Cup? Click to show or hide the answer
94 What did Ole Rømer first attempt to measure accurately in 1676? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
95 Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I? Click to show or hide the answer
96 Which group scored a 60s hit with Lily The Pink? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementary Questions

1 Who, in the late 1970s, did "Wearside Jack" pretend to be? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
2 How many digits are there in a completed Sudoku grid? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Which volcano is known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean? Click to show or hide the answer
4 In Casablanca, which character was played by Dooley Wilson? Click to show or hide the answer
5 What body part links Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson? Click to show or hide the answer
6 Name the device built by Alexander Graham Bell in 1881 to locate the bullet after President Garfield was shot? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
7 In what year was the Great Exhibition? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
8 Which 20th century UK monarch had no children? Click to show or hide the answer
9 In which sea is the Gulf of Aqaba? Click to show or hide the answer
10 Released in 1964, the movie Fail Safe is considered a serious version of which other Cold War blockbuster? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer

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