2018–19 Season: Week 3 – 23 October 2018

Specialist Rounds

Round 1: Follically Challenged

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Verbal descriptions for the visually impaired, and answers:

1	Born in 1890, died in 1969. American male in charge of all Allied Forces landing in France on D–Day in 1944
	Dwight D Eisenhower
2	Born in 1869, died in 1948. This man was an activist and was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.
	Mahatma Ghandi
3	Born in 1940. Famous for being Captain Jean–Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation
	Patrick Stewart
4	Born in 1986 in Brussels, Belgium. Footballer; started his professional career at Anderlecht, before moving to Hamburg and then to Manchester City FC in 2008. Became club captain in the 2011–12 season.
	Vincent Kompany
5	Born in 1970 in Gosforth, Newcastle–upon–Tyne. Played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United, and for the England national team. Scored 283 league goals in his career – all in the top tier of English football, including a record 260 in the Premier League.
	Alan Shearer
6	Born in 1955. American actor, producer and singer. Found fame playing John McClane in Die Hard (1988), and the sequels Die Hard 2 (1990) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).
	Bruce Willis
7	Born in 1960 in Bologna, Italy. Named FIFA's "Best Referee of the Year" six consecutive times. Widely considered to be the greatest football referee of all time. Was in charge for England's 5–1 victory over Germany in September 2001.
	Pierluigi Collina
8	This character was arch–enemy of the British comic book hero Dan Dare. Appeared first in 1950 in the Eagle comic strip Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. He was the ruler of the Treens of northern Venus.
	The Mekon

Supplementaries:

1	Born in 1964. English swimmer who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s. Gold medal in the 100–metre breaststroke at 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
	Adrian Moorhouse
2	This man stood against Nigel Farage in the South Thanet Parliamentary constituency in the General Election in May 2015. One of his campaign promises was "The NHS: if you come to A&E and it's neither an emergency or an accident, then you will be sent to a random hospital department to be experimented on. Common Sense"
	Al Murray

Round 2: Geography – UK Isles and Islands

1	Which Isle in London has an area called Cubitt Town and includes Millwall inner and outer docks?
	Isle of Dogs
2	Which north–west Scotland isle contains the villages of Craignure, Tobermory and Lochbuie?
	Isle of Mull
3	Which south–west English island lies to the west of Ilfracombe and north–west of Bideford and Clovelly?
	Lundy
4	Which island near Bournemouth and Poole is described as "Home to the Boy Scout movement of UK"?
	Brownsea Island
5	What is the name of the outer Hebridean island that has Stornoway, Tarbert and Callanish as larger centres of population?
	Lewis and Harris (accept either singly or both together...)
6	What's the name of the narrow, bow–shaped island immediately to the south–west of Barrow–in–Furness?
	Walney Island
7	Which 'island' in Kent contains the towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs? (Note: the 'inverted commas' around island are significant!)
	Isle of Thanet
8	Which island lies almost mid–way between Orkney and Shetland and gives its name to a British Sea Area?
	Fair Isle

Supplementaries:

9	Which island in the Castle Point parliamentary constituency in Essex was badly flooded in the 1953 storms?
	Canvey Island
10	Which island to the west of Chichester, West Sussex is currently used as an airbase for an RAF signal squadron?
	Thorney Island

Round 3: History – Political Women

To mark the Centenary of the granting of the first stage of Women's Suffrage in the UK the following questions concern women who have made their mark in any political context anywhere in the world – some more recently than others.

1	Novelist, nurse, feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain had a daughter who has been prominent in UK and US politics since the 1970s and is currently Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. Who is she?
	Shirley Williams (Baroness Williams of Crosby)
2	Name the Welsh–born woman who was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Australian Labour Party from 2010 to 2013.
	Julia Gillard
3	What was Hillary Clinton's maiden name?
	Hillary Rodham
4	English comedienne, singer & actress, Joyce Grenfell, was the niece of a groundbreaking MP in the British Parliament. Who was she?
	Nancy, Lady Astor
5	Baroness Barbara Castle was the Labour MP for which constituency from 1945 – 1979?
	Blackburn
6	Name the suffragist who was President of the (more moderate) National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. A statue to her in Parliament Square was unveiled in April 2018 by Theresa May.
	Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
7	Name the woman who became the first female Prime Minister in the Middle East (1969–1974)?
	Golda Meir, Israel
8	Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the first female head of Government of which Island state? She served from 1960 to 1965, 1970 to 1977, and 1994 to 2000 (a total of 17 years).
	Ceylon (accept Sri Lanka)

Supplementaries:

1	Who was leader of Plaid Cymru from March 2012–Sept 2018, and has served as Member of the National Assembly for Rhondda since 2016.
	Leanne Wood
2	Who was elected as MP for the Tatton Constituency in 2017? She was previously Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2013–15).
	Esther McVey

Round 4: "Highlights" of 2018

1	Name the island in Indonesia which was hit by an earthquake and tsunami on 28 September 2018.
	Sulawesi
2	French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to loan what to the United Kingdom for the first time in 950 years?
	The Bayeux Tapestry
3	How old was Stephen Hawking, world–renowned theoretical physicist, author, and cosmologist when he died at his home in Cambridge on March 14?
	76 (accept 74 to 78)
4	What was the reason for the resignation, in April, of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary?
	The Windrush Scandal (Rudd first denied there were targets for the removal of immigrants. Later, she maintained that she had not known of targets.)
5	What was the name of the 23–month–old child who died in Liverpool in April, having been at the centre of a legal case over whether his life should be prolonged by continued life support?
	Alfie Evans
6	Which former Scottish football player and manager was included in the Queen's Birthday Honours (in June)?
	Sir Kenny Dalglish
7	Which iconic UK building caught fire in June, for the second time in four years?
	The Glasgow School of Art
8	Social media giant Facebook found itself in the midst of a firestorm in March 2018 when it was announced that a London–based political consulting firm had harvested data from Facebook users and shared their information. What was the name of the consulting firm?
	Cambridge Analytica

Supplementaries:

1	What was the name of the woman who died in Salisbury Hospital after being exposed to a "high dose" of novichok nerve agent in Wiltshire on 30 June?
	Dawn Sturgess
2	Name the third child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, baptised on July 9.
	Prince Louis (Full name Louis Arthur Charles)

Round 5: Arts and Entertainment

1	Which artist painted Girl with Balloon , which recently shredded itself after being sold at Sotheby's?
	Banksy
2	What was the Empress of Blandings in the works of P G Wodehouse?
	A prize winning pig
3	About which bird did Percy Bysshe Shelley write "Hail to Thee, blithe spirit!"?
	Skylark
4	Who wrote the play Blithe Spirit which took its title from Shelley's poem?
	Noel Coward
5	In which 1903 novel do Carruthers and Davies discover a German plan to attack Britain while on a yachting holiday?
	The Riddle of the Sands (by Erskine Childers)
6	What was the name of the girl in Sir John Betjeman's poem A Subaltern's Love–song?
	Miss Joan Hunter Dunn
7	Which art work by Roy Lichtenstein features a comic–book style plane shooting down an enemy and has its title written in it?
	Whaam!
8	Who painted the 80th birthday portrait of Sir Winston Churchill?
	Graham Sutherland

Supplementaries:

1	In Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, what was Mr Pickwick's first name?
	Samuel
2	Who wrote the series of novels about SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp and the Alpha Force?
	Chris Ryan

Round 6: Sport – Mostly Olympics

1	Lennox Lewis, representing Canada, won a gold medal in the super–heavyweight class at which Olympic Games?
	Seoul, 1988 (accept either)
2	Which Finnish athlete won a total of nine Gold and three Silver medals at three Olympic Games – 1920, 1924, and 1928?
	Paavo Nurmi
3	Who partnered Chris Mears to become Britain's first diving Gold medallists in the synchronised 3m springboard event at the 2016 Games in Rio?
	Jack Laugher
4	Who carried the Team GB flag at the closing ceremony at the Rio Olympics (2016)?
	Kate Richardson–Walsh (captain of the GB women's hockey team)
5	Which US athlete, at the 2016 Games, won a 400m silver medal & two relay gold medals (4 x 100m and 4 x 400m) to bring her total Olympic medal haul to nine – six Golds and three Silvers?
	Allyson Felix
6	Ann Packer won Gold in the 800m and Silver in the 400m at which Olympic Games?
	Tokyo, 1964 (accept either)
7	Which country has won the most Winter Olympics medals?
	Norway with 329 (USA 282; Germany 228; Austria 218; Soviet Union 194)
8	Who won the silver medal in the 1500m behind Seb Coe in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles?
	Steve Cram

Supplementaries:

1	Who is the only British gymnast to win medals (two silver and two bronze) at three different Olympic Games?
	Louis Smith
2	Name the England cricket captain, first appointed in 1976 at the age of 34, who captained the side in 31 matches: winning 17, drawing 10 and losing only 4.
	Mike Brearley

Round 7: Science and Nature

1	In dyeing material, what name is given to the substance used for fixing the colouring?
	Mordant
2	What is the name for the main protein in milk?
	Casein
3	What name is given to an alloy of mercury?
	Amalgam
4	What is the next prime number after 23?
	29
5	What is the SI unit of electrical capacitance?
	Farad
6	What planet in the Solar System is closest in size to Earth?
	Venus
7	What name is given to a triangle with no sides of equal length and no equal angles?
	Scalene
8	What is the common name for metamorphosed limestone?
	Marble

Supplementaries:

1	Which chemical element has the symbol 'V'?
	Vanadium
2	What is the name for the temperature and pressure at which the gas, liquid, and solid of a substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium?
	Triple point

Round 8: The Irish Question ... or, John Bull's other island.

Some questions about our neighbours across the Irish sea.

1	Which poet received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995?
	Seamus Heaney
2	Name one of the three Northern Irish sports people that have won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
	Mary Peters (1972), Barry McGuigan (1985), and Tony McCoy (2010).
3	The Giant's Causeway is made from which kind of rock?
	Basalt
4	Which Irish saint is said to have discovered America a thousand years before Columbus?
	St. Brendan
5	As of 15 October 2018, who is the manager of the Republic of Ireland football team?
	Martin O'Neill
6	Belfast's City airport is named after which Irish sports person?
	George Best
7	In which century did St Patrick live?
	5th
8	According to the song, what was the occupation of Molly Malone?
	Fishmonger

Supplementaries:

1	Which Irish singer is the only person to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice?
	Johnny Logan in 1980 and 1987. He also composed the winning song in 1992.
2	What is a Kerry Blue?
	A type of terrier

General Knowledge

1	The Giant's Causeway is part of a World Heritage site on the northern coast of Ireland in which county?
	Antrim (three miles northeast of Bushmills)
2	Maratho is Greek for which herb?
	Fennel ('Marathon' literally means a plain with fennel)
3	What is the surname of Raymond in the US hit television show Everybody Loves Raymond?
	Barone
4	Which French Impressionist had a son called Jean, who became a famous film director of more than 40 films including La Grande Illusion?
	Pierre–Auguste Renoir
5	English singer songwriter Pixie Lott is a judge on which TV talent show?
	The Voice Kids UK
6	In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, what is the name of Mr. Darcy's country estate?
	Pemberley
7	Which deceased English football manager once said "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one"?
	Brian Clough
8	Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) is a 1963 Serigraph (painting) by which North American artist?
	Andy Warhol
9	Flatford Mill (scene on a navigable river) is a 1816 painting by which English Artist?
	John Constable
10	What is the title of the last novel by Charles Dickens, left unfinished due to his death in 1870?
	The Mystery of Edwin Drood
11	Where on the body would you find the phalanges?
	Foot, they are the toes (accept foot or toes)
12	Guildford Cathedral in Surrey, England, was one of the filming locations for which 1976 horror film?
	The Omen (Damien wouldn't go into the Church and threw a tantrum)
13	In December 1993 Peter Boross became Prime Minister of which European country?
	Hungary
14	In which year was the Golden Gate Bridge in California officially opened?
	1937 (27 May) – allow +/- 5 years
15	What type of creature is a potoo?
	Bird (related to the nightjar, from tropical Central and South America)
16	A group of which birds is known as a murmuration?
	Starlings
17	Relating to holiday companies, what does the A stand for in ATOL?
	Air Travel Organisers' Licensing
18	Time Warp and Dammit Janet are songs from which 1975 musical film?
	The Rocky Horror Picture Show
19	Which late London strip–club/revue bar owner, publisher of Men Only and property developer, was born Geoffrey Quinn in 1925 and died in 2008?
	Paul Raymond
20	What was the first name of Mr. Birdseye, who is considered to be the founder of the frozen food industry?
	Clarence
21	Which English cricketer was known as Fiery Fred?
	Fred Trueman
22	Barry, jazz and Worcester pearmain are varieties of which fruit?
	Apples
23	Michael Jackson suffered burns during the filming of a commercial in 1984 for which brand of soft drink?
	Pepsi–Cola (accept Pepsi)
24	On February 10th 1996 what was the name of the computer which became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion under regular time controls?
	Deep Blue
25	Prairie wolf is another name for which animal?
	Coyote
26	Which bird is depicted on the bottle of Gloria Vanderbilt eau de toilette?
	Swan
27	Which sports clothing and equipment label has fragrances called Fizzy Energy, Happy Game and Fruity Rhythm?
	Adidas
28	Businesswoman Wendi Deng divorced which media mogul in 2013?
	Rupert Murdoch
29	What is the highest straight flush in a game of poker?
	Royal flush
30	The Philippines islands are surrounded by three bodies of water: the Philippine Sea, the Celebes Sea and which other?
	The South China Sea
31	What is the name of the medal known internationally as the animals' Victoria Cross?
	The (PDSA) Dickin Medal
32	Mount Aconcagua is in which South American country?
	Argentina
33	Vivaldi, Anya and Desiree are all varieties of which vegetable?
	Potatoes
34	In human anatomy, what is another name for the mandible?
	The lower jawbone
35	Which US heavyweight world champion boxer was born Joseph Barrow in 1914?
	Joe Louis
36	Take Me Home is a 1995 autobiography by which late US singer?
	John Denver
37	Which English city is known as The Faithful City?
	Worcester
38	The mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, and its berry are called what?
	Rowan (shrub or tree)
39	A mouflon is a Coriscan wild species of what domesticated creature?
	Sheep
40	The nymph Daphne became a laurel tree escaping which Greek god?
	Apollo
41	What does Rene Descartes' quote "Cogito ergo sum" mean in English?
	I think therefore I am
42	Crown Derby is what sort of antique?
	Porcelain
43	The removal of salt from brine to produce fresh water is commonly named what?
	Desalination
44	What was the German WWII air force called?
	The Luftwaffe
45	Who played the title role in the 1996 film The English Patient?
	Ralph Fiennes
46	How is the year 2018 represented in Roman numerals?
	MMXVIII
47	According to Dart Board Regulations, how high should the centre of the bullseye be from the floor in feet and inches?
	5 feet 8 inches (accept +/- 2 inches)
48	Which Bolton comedian and actor played the Doctor Who monster Abzorbaloff, which appeared in the 2006 episode Love and Monsters?
	Peter Kay
49	What type of animal is a macaque?
	Monkey
50	Who was elected in March 1990 as the first–ever President of the Soviet Union?
	Mikhail Gorbachev
51	Beaker, Janice, Sweetums and The Swedish Chef are all characters in which children's television show?
	The Muppet Show (Muppets Tonight)
52	Saga and Stichelton are types of which foodstuff?
	Cheese
53	In which country was the former Formula One racing driver Nelson Piquet born?
	Brazil
54	The 2005 US film Fever Pitch, starring Drew Barrymore, is about which sport?
	Baseball
55	In Europe, which colour denotes the easiest ski slope for skiers?
	Green
56	What was the first name of the Irish author Bram Stoker?
	Abraham
57	Templeton Peck, or Face, is a character in which US television and film series?
	The A Team
58	Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus (Escalus) was killed by having which creature dropped on his head by an eagle?
	Tortoise
59	Who plays Winston Wolf in the television advertisements for Direct Line Insurance?
	Harvey Keitel
60	Which British politician was dubbed 'Big Beast' by the press, is currently the Father of the House, and was also known for his fondness for Hush Puppies'?
	Kenneth Clarke
61	Which cricketer won the fourth series of the British television show Strictly Come Dancing in 2006, with dance partner Karen Hardy?
	Mark Ramprakash
62	What is the name of the paranoid android in the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?
	Marvin
63	Sarah Burton (for Alexander McQueen) designed the wedding dress worn by which member of the Royal Family?
	Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge
64	Used in church advent services, a Christingle is made using which fruit?
	Orange
65	The original Ferris Wheel was erected in which US state for the 1893 World's Fair and Columbian Exposition?
	Illinois (it was in Chicago, invented by George W. Ferris – 264 feet high)
66	Which US author, poet, critic and satirist coined the phrase "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses"?
	Dorothy Parker
67	The state of Baja California is in which country?
	Mexico
68	Which Roman god was said to be the father of Romulus and Remus, the legendary 'founders' of Rome?
	Mars
69	What is the title of the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle?
	The Sign of Four, (the first being A Study in Scarlet, the third The Final Problem and the fourth novel The Hound of the Baskervilles)
70	What is the title of the last UK number one hit for Swedish group Abba in 1980?
	Super Trouper
71	Galilean, Keplerian, Newtonian and Conde are types of what instrument?
	Telescope
72	Founded in 1950, whose flag is a white compass rose/star in a circle on blue background?
	NATO
73	In which year were driving tests first introduced into the UK?
	1935
74	The first UK drink–driving law was introduced in October 1967. At that time, 80mg alcohol was allowed in 100 ml of blood. What are the current limits in breath in England, Wales and Northern Ireland?
	35 mg per 100 ml of breath (in Scotland it's 22mg per 100ml)
75	What ancient rulers wore a double–crown (a Pschent) symbolizing their joined upper and lower lands?
	The Pharoahs of Egypt
76	The arbalest (or arblast) is a medieval more powerfully developed version of which weapon used today in some hunting and shooting sports?
	Crossbow
77	The finding of which precious mineral, on a farm, caused the founding of S Africa's Johannesburg in 1886?
	Gold – it was a gold mining settlement
78	What chemical element has the symbol Sr and is named from the village in Scotland near which it was discovered?
	Strontium (from Strontianite – a mineral found in 1791 near Strontian, a village in the Highlands of Scotland)
79	The Cyclades are an eastern island group of which nation?
	Greece
80	Which band headlined the opening and rebranding of London's Millennium Dome as O2, in June 2007?
	Bon Jovi
81	What part of Manhattan is named after a Dutch city famous for its bulb trade?
	Harlem (after Haarlem just outside Amsterdam)
82	Insurgents of what nation took part in the Easter Rising of 1916?
	Ireland
83	What Greek mythological horse sprang from the blood of Medusa?
	Pegasus
84	What was disestablished as the state religion of Japan after WWII?
	Shinto
85	Which chemical element is named after Cyprus?
	Copper
86	A 'classical' guitar is popularly referred to as what nationality?
	Spanish
87	Who sang with James Taylor on the hits Mockingbird and How Sweet It Is?
	Carly Simon
88	Bosworth Field was Richard III's final battle in 1485, thus marking an end to the Plantagenet dynasty. Whose army defeated him?
	Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond
89	Name the USSR's world–beating 1959–76 Moon program/craft.
	Luna
90	What was South Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City called before 1976?
	Saigon
91	The moss genus sphagnum produces what traditional ancient fuel?
	Peat
92	The Mossbauer effect refers to which sort of radiation?
	Gamma
93	To what colour is the human eye most sensitive?
	Green
94	St Moritz in Switzerland has which famous bobsled track?
	Cresta Run
95	What marten, with the scientific name Martes zibellina, was a prized fur and erroneously a fine paintbrush?
	Sable
96	What orange black and white creature is Vanessa cardui?
	Painted Lady (butterfly)

Supplementaries:

1	In which human lung condition are the membranes surrounding the lungs inflamed?
	Pleurisy
2	A 'what' in the Sun is a 1959 play by Lorraine Hansbury?
	Raisin
3	Who plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight film series?
	Robert Pattinson
4	The cultivation of which crop was banned in France in 1748 because it was thought to cause leprosy?
	Potato
5	Which singer got her hair caught in the blades of a fan as she was performing in concert in Montreal in July 2013?
	Beyonce
6	Emetophobia is the irrational fear of which bodily function?
	Vomiting
7	Coulrophobia is the irrational fear of what?
	Clowns

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