2017–18 Season: Week 11 – 29 January 2019

Specialist Rounds

Set by the Sutton Mutton; vetted by the Brewers Arms and the Dolphin Dragons.

Round 1: Mind Your Language – Spoken Geography

1	Portuguese is the official language in which country, which joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1995 despite having no colonial links with Britain?
	Mozambique
2	Twi (pronounced twee) is spoken by the Ashantis in which country?
	Ghana
3	Dutch is the official language in Paramaribo, the capital and largest city of which South American country?
	Surinam
4	Welsh is spoken in the Welsh colony in Chubut Province in which country?
	Argentina
5	Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in which Indian state, whose capital was formerly known as Trivandrum?
	Kerala (kerruh–luh)
6	Suomi (also known as suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in which country?
	Finland
7	Hakka is spoken by roughly 40 million people worldwide. In which country did the Hakka ethnic group originate?
	China
8	Amharic is an Afro–Asiatic language of the Semitic branch, and serves as the official working language of which country?
	Ethiopia

Supplementaries:

1	Doric is a dialect spoken in which British city?
	Aberdeen
2	Name one of the four states of the USA in which French is the second most prevalent language.
	Louisiana, Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine

Round 2: Mind Your Ps and Qs – Ps and Qs in the Arts and Literature

1	Peter Perfect drove car number 9, the Turbo Terrific, in which TV cartoon series?
	Wacky Races
2	In 1947, Peter Pears was co–founder, with Benjamin Britten, of which festival?
	The Aldeburgh Festival
3	The Pickwick Papers feature the eponymous Sam Pickwick. What was the name of Pickwick's personal servant?
	Sam Weller
4	Pilot Officer Percy Prune was a character featured in the Tee Emm, or training memoranda, produced by which organisation?
	The RAF
5	Fred Quimby received several Academy Awards for Animated Short Films as producer of which films?
	Tom and Jerry cartoons
6	Allan Quartermain is the protagonist of which 1885 novel, the first of many books and short stories published that feature this professional big game hunter?
	King Solomon's Mines
7	Name one of the three Michael Jackson albums that were produced by Quincy Jones.
	Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982) or Bad (1987)
8	What was the name of Don Quixote's squire?
	Sancho Panza

Supplementaries:

1	Which French novelist, essayist and critic was born in Paris in 1871, and is best known for his seven–volume novel À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, fist published in 1913 with the later volumes published posthumously?
	Marcel Proust
2	Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group supervised what first in the science fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television in 1953?
	The first manned flight into space

Round 3: Mind Your Own Business – History

1	Give a year when the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, also called the Scottish Darien Company, was in existence.
	1695 to 1707
2	Which manufacturing company was founded in St. Helens in 1826 and became the largest employer in the town before being sold to NSG of Japan in 2006?
	Pilkingtons
3	A 2008 report calculated that there were just over 5,000 companies in the world that were more than 200 years old. Which single country accounted for more than half of the world total?
	Japan (with 3,146; Germany was second with 837)
4	Shares in a particular UK company rose from £100 per share at the start of 1720 to over £1,000 in August and crashed back below £150 by September 1720. What was this brief period of wild financial speculation in Britain known as?
	The South Sea Bubble – named after the South Sea Company (officially "the Governor and Company of the Merchants of Great Britain, Trading to the South Seas and Other Parts of America, and for the Encouragement of Fishing)"
5	Which famous British company was established in 1824 as a grocer's shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, selling tea, coffee and cocoa? The business is now US–owned, having been bought for $19 billion in 2010.
	Cadbury
6	Which tea company was established on the Strand in London in 1709, and claims to have the oldest unchanged commercial logo in the world?
	Twinings
7	What was illegally imported from Bengal to China for decades in the early 19th century by the British East India Company, leading to war between Britain and China in 1839?
	Opium (the First Opium War 1839–42)
8	In 1623, a business was founded in Istanbul to make musical instruments. The founder's name, Zildjian, is still written on their most famous product today. What is that product?
	Cymbals

Supplementaries:

1	In 108, King James I granted Sir Thomas Phillips a licence to distil. The distillery now claims to be the oldest working distillery in Ireland. What is it called?
	(Old) Bushmills
2	Which firearms manufacturer can date its history back to 1526 in Brescia, Italy, and claims to have supplied weapons to every major European war since 1650?
	Beretta

Round 4: Mind the Gap – Holes in the Ground

1	In which gorge, now a World Heritage Site, is there a bridge made from parts cast in Abraham Darby's furnace?
	Ironbridge Gorge
2	Which British city has a subway system nicknamed the Clockwork Orange?
	Glasgow
3	Name either of the two cities that would be connected by Transport for the North's proposal for the world's longest road tunnel.
	Manchester or Sheffield
4	The B1329, with Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve to the north–west and Clifton Observatory to the north–east, is carried on a suspension bridge over which gorge?
	The Avon Gorge
5	At the start of the Second World War, the National Gallery's collection of paintings was placed in temporary storage. By the summer of 1941, the whole collection had been reunited in one subterranean home. What had been mined to create this?
	Slate (the home was a disused slate mine at Manod, near Blaenau Ffestiniog)
6	The Rocher du Combalou caves are used to mature which PDO blue cheese, made from ewes' milk?
	Roquefort
7	The tunnels of the largest purpose–built civilian air raid shelters in Britain, holding as many as 6,500 people, opened as a tourist attraction in 1996. Where is this attraction?
	Stockport
8	The Cumberland Gap is a mountain pass in the Appalachian Mountains, where the states of Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky meet. Which skiffle artist had a UK No. 1 hit with a song referring to this location?
	Lonnie Donegan

Supplementaries:

1	Which gap has been regarded as the boundary between the north and south of England?
	Watford Gap
2	Who completed a tightrope walk across the Little Colorado River gorge in 2013?
	Nik Wallenda

Round 5: Mind Your Back – Sporting Backs

1	In which present–day Olympic sport do the backs of the competitors cross the finishing line first?
	Rowing (also accept sculling)
2	Inside line backer is a position in which sport?
	American football
3	In which sport does the fullback wear the number 1 shirt (except in competitions where squad numbers are used)?
	Rugby League
4	How many points are there on a backgammon board?
	24
5	Backward point is a fielding position in which sport?
	Cricket
6	Give one of the distances for Olympic swimming events in which only backstroke is allowed (i.e. not medleys).
	100m or 200m
7	In which sport do the players play the game mounted on the backs of horses, elephants, camels or yaks?
	Polo
8	Back Home, written and arranged by Phil Coulter and Bill Martin, was a number one hit for the World Cup squad of which year? (Exact year needed)
	1970

Supplementaries:

1	Which footballing full back had the nickname 'Psycho'?
	Stuart Pearce (of Wealdstone, Coventry City, Nottingham Forest and England, plus other minor clubs in his declining years)
2	In which sport (whose players include adult women) is the lower edge of the 1.8 metre wide by 1.05 meters high backboard approximately 3 metres above the court?
	Basketball (do not accept netball – the netball ring has no backboard)

Round 6: Mind Your Step – Science and Nature Going Bang

1	In a fertiliser bomb IED, what is the third main constituent along with fertiliser and diesel?
	Sugar
2	Saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal, when finely ground and mixed together, form what explosive?
	Gunpowder (also accept black powder or blasting powder)
3	In 1972, the French Atomic Energy Commission said that self–sustaining nuclear chain reactions had occurred naturally on Earth about two billion years ago, at the location of the Oklo uranium mines. In which African country are the Oklo mines?
	Gabon
4	Copper compounds are used in fireworks to give what colour to the flashes?
	Blue
5	Which Cambridge University astronomer and science fiction writer first coined the phrase 'Big Bang' in 1949, despite favouring the alternative 'steady state' cosmological model?
	Fred Hoyle
6	The ten–day volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies caused such severe climate abnormalities that the following year was called "the year without a summer". In which decade of the 19th century did this happen?
	The 1810s (the eruption was in 1815, and the year without a summer was 1816)
7	The closest active volcano to Macclesfield is in which country?
	Iceland (Mount Katia, about 1,500 km away. There are 17 other volcanoes in Iceland that have erupted whilst the country has been inhabited. Mount Vesuvius in Italy is about 1,900 km away.)
8	What is the approximate speed of sound (in miles per hour) at ground level? (There is leeway – and emphasise "at ground level" as the speed reduces with altitude)
	About 760 mph (accept 730 to 790)

Supplementaries:

1	On which North Sea island did the Royal Navy detonate 6,700 tonnes of surplus explosives in April 1947, creating one of the biggest single non–nuclear detonations in history?
	Heligoland
2	What was tested for the first time in Alamogordo?
	An atomic bomb (on 16 July 1945, 20 days before an untested one of a different design was used at Hiroshima)

Round 7: Mine's a Pint – Alcoholic Effects

1	Which brewery gained Internet notoriety when sacked maintenance men removed the bulbs from the letters H, I and E in the large illuminated sign dominating Blackburn town centre?
	Thwaites
2	Professional footballer Wayne Rooney was stopped by the police at 2 am on Friday 1 September 2017 and breathalysed. What make and model of car was he driving at the time?
	Volkswagen Beetle
3	Grapes suffering from botrytis (or noble rot) are used to make what sort of wines?
	Sauternes (accept any sweet dessert wines – e.g. Tokaji / Tokay)
4	Repetitive strain injury is an occupational hazard of the remuer (rem–oo–air) turning, by hand, the bottles during the production of sparkling wine by what method?
	Champagne method or traditional method
5	On the 31st of July 1970, 'Black Tot Day' was born when the Royal Navy stopped doing what?
	Giving sailors a daily rum ration
6	The length of what became, according to W. H. Barlow, the unit of measure upon which all the arrangements of the undercroft at St. Pancras station in London were based?
	A beer barrel (the undercroft was used primarily as a warehouse for the storage of beer from Burton)
7	The 1996 advertising campaign for which quintessentially English foodstuff has led to the name being used to describe anything that provokes strong and polarised feelings?
	Marmite (which was developed after Justus von Liebig discovered that by–products of the brewing industry could be concentrated, bottled and eaten)
8	Labour politician George Brown was noted for his drunkenness, which gave rise to which three–word euphemism, later a title for his biography, describing this state?
	Tired and emotional

Supplementaries:

1	Give a year during which the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages was outlawed by the United States Constitution – i.e. 'prohibition'.
	1920 to 1933
2	Which well–known free house sells beer supplied by the Newton and Ridley brewery?
	The Rovers Return (in Coronation Street)

Round 8: Mind Your Head – questions provided by Mind, the mental health charity

1	Which British politician described the depression with which he lived as his "black dog"?
	Winston Churchill
2	According to Mind, people with which disorder experience frequent intrusive and unwelcome obsessional thoughts, often followed by repetitive compulsions or impulses?
	Obsessive compulsive disorder (accept OCD)
3	Before the Mental Health Discrimination Act was signed into law in 2013, people who had been sectioned for more than six months were not eligible to be elected as what?
	Members of Parliament (accept MPs)
4	In 2001, Kjell Magne Bondevik was re–elected as Prime Minister of which country, after taking time off for depression in 1999?
	Norway
5	The most common symptoms of which mental health problem are hallucinations, delusions and hearing voices, despite the common misconception that sufferers are violent and have a split personality?
	Schizophrenia
6	Before the Mental Health Discrimination Act 2013, what lay part of the legal process were people currently receiving treatment for mental health not allowed to do?
	They could not serve on juries
7	Which former professional footballer, TV pundit and PFA Chairman is an ambassador for Mind? (He also went missing in September 2017)
	Clarke Carlisle
8	The friends and colleagues of which American president described his "melancholy" and "blue spells", when he was experiencing depression?
	Abraham Lincoln

Supplementaries:

1	What mental health issue links Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Carrie Fisher and Richard Dreyfus?
	Bipolar disorder
2	According to Mind, what percentage of people with mental health problems experience stigma? (There is some leeway)
	90% (accept anything between 80% and 100%)

General Knowledge

Set by the Brewers Arms; vetted by the Sutton Mutton and the Dolphin Dragons.

1	Which Gerry Anderson series was the first to use a full live cast rather than puppets?
	UFO
2	Who was the Egyptian goddess of the rain?
	Tefnut
3	What was the first non–league club to knock a Football League club out of the FA Cup in a penalty shoot–out?
	Macclesfield Town (v. Chesterfield in 1992)
4	In which country will you find the only living thing that can be seen from space?
	Australia (the Great Barrier Reef)
5	Which ancient country and wine–producing region in the east of the Balkan peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea, colonised by ancient Greeks and later a Roman province, is now divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey?
	Thrace
6	Which country has a coastline of 152,100 miles – the longest on Earth?
	Canada
7	How many hoops are there in a game of garden croquet?
	Six
8	Which team was the lucky loser in the second round of the FA Cup in 1999–2000, to allow Manchester United to compete in the Club World Championship?
	Darlington

9	Other than Lou Reed, name one artist who sings more than once in the 1997 charity remake of Reed's single Perfect Day.
	Bono, David Bowie, Heather Small, Emmylou Harris, or Dr. John
10	In terms of time, what does the abbreviation BYA stand for?
	Billion Years Ago
11	Harland was the first name of which fast food entrepreneur?
	Colonel Sanders
12	In the Thomas the Tank Engine series of books (and later TV series), which engine carried the No. 9 on his tender?
	Donald
13	Which Mel Brooks film features the characters Ahchoo, Asneeze, Latrine and Don Giovanni?
	Robin Hood: Men in Tights
14	In geometry, how many sides does a hendecagon have?
	Eleven
15	By what name is paradoxical sleep or desynchronised sleep more commonly known?
	Rapid eye movement (accept REM)
16	In Walt Disney's Robin Hood (1973), what kind of animal is Prince John, the film's principal antagonist?
	A lion

17	In which board game do the majority of players try to get out of a German castle being used as a prison camp?
	Escape from Colditz
18	In terms of the overall cask ale brewing process, what is a spile?
	A small wooden peg or spigot, for stopping a cask
19	Which multi–national furniture retailer began in Carcroft, Doncaster in 969 by Graham Kirkham, trading as Northern Upholstery?
	DFS
20	As of 16 January 2019, who holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest 147 break in professional snooker?
	Ronnie O'Sullivan (5 minutes, 20 seconds – v. Mick Price at the 1997 Embassy World Championship)
21	In the song Where Do You Go To, My Lovely, by Peter Sarstedt, which French singer is mentioned?
	Sacha Distel
22	Which rock band was the first act to appear on the BBC TV music programme Top of the Pops, on the 1st of January 1964?
	The Rolling Stones (with I Wanna Be Your Man)
23	What range of snacks includes the flavours Rib 'n' Saucy, Scampi 'n' Lemon, and Nice 'n' Spicy?
	Nik Naks
24	In which sport was the first 'varsity' game played between Oxford and Cambridge universities?
	Cricket

25	The town of Westhoughton (west horton), in Greater Manchester, has a pub named after which actor, who was born there in 1927 and most notably starred in the 1975 hit Jaws?
	Robert Shaw
26	Who was the last Tsar of the Romanov dynasty?
	Nicholas II
27	Kim Hartman played which character in the TV series 'Allo 'Allo?
	Private Helga Geerhart (accept Helga)
28	What is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force?
	Marshal of the Royal Air Force
29	How were Jason, Zack, Trini, Kimberley and Billy collectively known, in a children's TV show of the 1990s?
	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (accept Power Rangers)
30	In which year was the Grand National declared void, for the first and (so far) only time? After the second of two false starts, 30 of the 39 horses started and continued to race; the event was dubbed "the race that never was".
	1993
31	In which Woody Allen film would you hear the line, "Hey, don't knock masturbation – it's sex with someone I love"?
	Annie Hall
32	On the latest Forbes Golden 500 list of the world's top companies, what is the highest–listed British company, at number eight?
	BP

33	The village of Willaston, near Nantwich, has held the World Championships of what, in June every year since 1980?
	Worm charming
34	Norman Stanley Fletcher was convicted of stealing what type of vehicle, which resulted in him doing "porridge" at Slade Prison?
	An articulated truck (accept a truck)
35	Which brewery is the oldest in the UK?
	Shepherd Neame (in Faversham, Kent – established in 1698)
36	What's the first name of the criminal law barrister and television personality, Judge Rinder?
	Robert
37	What type of creature is a Sealyham?
	A dog (a type of terrier)
38	Which English poet wrote In Memoriam and Idylls of the King?
	Alfred, Lord Tennyson
39	What was the final home video game console by the Japanese manufacturer Sega, released in Europe on the 14th of October 1999?
	Dreamcast
40	What name is given to a Japanese woman whose profession is to entertain men?
	Geisha

41	Which Radio 2 presenter also starred in the TV comedy series Watching, which ran from 1988 to 1993?
	Liza Tarbuck
42	Which 1985 film starred Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close, as a man accused of murdering his wife and the lawyer hired to defend him?
	Jagged Edge
43	Which hard, dark wood is traditionally used to make the black keys on a piano?
	Ebony
44	What is the best–known nickname of the jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong?
	Satchmo
45	Which Italian town, at the foot of a hill containing the first Benedictine monastery, was destroyed during heavy fighting in 1944?
	Cassino (accept Monte Cassino, which is the name of the hill)
46	Of which African country is Kigali the capital?
	Rwanda
47	Which member of the Rolling Stones released a solo anthem entitled Wandering Spirit, in 1993?
	Mick Jagger
48	Which precious metal has the chemical symbol Au?
	Gold

49	How is deoxy–ribo–nucleic acid more commonly known?
	DNA
50	Rutger Heuer, star of Blade Runner and Hitcher, is from which European country?
	The Netherlands (accept Holland)
51	The naturalist and actor James John Audubon was famous for his paintings of which creatures?
	Birds
52	On the radio show Just a Minute, there are three things that you are not allowed to do while speaking. Hesitation and repetition are two of them; what's the third?
	Deviation
53	Which Tudor ship was raised off the coast of Portsmouth in 1982?
	HMS Mary Rose
54	Which 90s pop group was named after a leisure centre in Swindon?
	Oasis
55	Which German word describes delight taken in the misfortune of others?
	Schadenfreude
56	Which religious organisation produces a newspaper called The War Cry?
	The Salvation Army

57	The politician Sir Henry Parkes, and the writer and suffragette Catherine Helen Spence, appear on the banknotes of which Commonwealth country?
	Australia
58	Which jazz record label was founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff?
	Blue Note
59	Who was known as the Nine Days Queen?
	Lady Jane Grey
60	What colour of jersey is worn by the leader of the Giro d'Italia bicycle race?
	Pink
61	Which novel by Naomi Alderman won the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017?
	The Power
62	Aaron was the brother of which Biblical character?
	Moses
63	Which school did both Prince Philip and Prince Charles attend?
	Gordonstoun
64	Which fictional school opened its doors for the first time on the 8th of February 1978?
	Grange Hill

65	An epistolary novel is one written as a series of what?
	Letters
66	Which English–born American revolutionary wrote The Rights of Man and Common Sense?
	Thomas Paine
67	In a pack of cards, which is known as the 'death card'?
	The Ace of Spades
68	Which member of David Cameron's Cabinet had the same name as a character in Thackeray's Vanity Fair?
	George Osborne
69	What was traditionally made by a chandler?
	Candles
70	In which joint of the human body would you find the medial epicondyle?
	The knee (also accept the elbow)
71	What gem is used to celebrate 55 years of marriage?
	Emerald
72	Which fruit is contained in the dish known as chicken Montmorency?
	Cherries

73	The Netherlands achieved independence from which country, after the Eighty Years' War?
	Spain
74	Suva is the capital of which country?
	Fiji
75	In which year was the iconic Hollywood sign erected?
	1923 (accept 1918 to 1928)
76	"More experience than our name suggests" was the tagline of which airline?
	Virgin (Atlantic)
77	In an Indian meal, what are masoor?
	Lentils (red or orange)
78	According to the Bible, who was the third son of Adam and Eve?
	Seth
79	Which supermarket launched a new discount store chain called Jack's?
	Tesco
80	Rochelle Clark has retired from which sport, after playing 137 times for England?
	Rugby union

81	Operation Crucible was the codename for the bombing of which British city by the Germans in World War II?
	Sheffield
82	Which world–famous bridge connects Dawes Point and Milsons Point?
	Sydney Harbour Bridge
83	Which musical is set in Denton, Ohio?
	The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show
84	In which century was the construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa started?
	12th (1173)
85	Which country handed Macau back to China in 1999?
	Portugal
86	What does the Latin phrase primus inter pares mean? (pares pronounced pah–rays)
	First among equals
87	Glevum was the Roman name for which English city?
	Gloucester
88	Diplopia is the medical name for which condition?
	Double vision

89	Which French railway station takes its name from the site of an 1805 battle won by Napoleon I?
	Austerlitz
90	Carlsberg Special Brew was first made to honour whose 1950 visit to Denmark?
	Winston Churchill
91	In darts, what's the only two–figure number that cannot be finished in two darts – if the last dart has to be a double?
	99
92	Eugene Cernan was the last man to do what?
	Walk on the Moon
93	What was the name of the first dog sent into space, in 1957?
	Laika
94	Which city became Europe's first Capital of Culture, in 1985?
	Athens
95	Aleph and Tav are the first and last letters of which alphabet?
	Hebrew
96	Which French artist worked as a labourer on the Panama Canal?
	Paul Gaugin

Supplementaries:

1	The theme music for the television comedy series Father Ted was adapted from the song Songs of Love, by which Northern Ireland pop band?
	The Divine Comedy
2	Which part of the British Isles features a triskelion?
	The Isle of Man (it's the three–legged symbol)
3	What fabric, invented in 1958 by Du Pont, was originally known as Fibre K?
	Spandex (accept Lycra)
4	"May your God go with you" was the catchphrase of which comedian?
	Dave Allen
5	Between 1918 and 1943, Boris III was the king of which European country?
	Bulgaria
6	Which country has a national anthem entitled Wilhelmus, meaning 'William'?
	The Netherlands (accept Holland)
7	In which UK city would you find a Mathematical Bridge?
	Cambridge (accept Oxford)

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