2019–20 Season: Cup Round 1 – 29 October 2019

Questions 1 to 60 set by the Harrington 'B'; questions 61 to 120 set by the Dolphin.

1	What name is given to the text of an opera?
	Libretto
2	Which Rugby League team, formed only three years ago, recently won promotion to the Super League?
	Toronto Wolfpack
3	Which High Court judge was in the news recently for criticising the Metropolitan Police over their handling of Operation Midland?
	Sir Richard Henriques
4	On the 1st of November, Alison Rose will take over as Chief Executive of which major UK business?
	Royal Bank of Scotland
5	Name the Hong Kong leader forced to suspend plans for extraditions to China by mass demonstrations.
	Carrie Lam
6	Who is the Shadow Brexit Secretary?
	Sir Keir Starmer
7	Who played the Queen in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown?
	Claire Foy
8	What name is given to the wooden structures built along a beach into the sea to prevent erosion?
	Groynes
9	Opened in 1836, which is the oldest railway terminal in London still in use?
	London Bridge
10	What do the Salvation Army call their place of worship?
	A citadel
11	Which hymn refers to "the purple–headed mountain"?
	All Things Bright and Beautiful
12	Name either of Monty Don's dogs, who appear regularly with him on Gardener's World.
	Nigel or Nellie
13	How is Dame Lesley Lawson better known?
	Twiggy
14	Natrium is the Latin name for which element?
	Sodium
15	Which horse won the 2019 Epsom Derby?
	Anthony Van Dyck
16	Maurizio Sarri left Chelsea to join which European club?
	Juventus
17	Following Theresa May's resignation, only two women entered the race to become Tory leader. Name either.
	Esther McVey or Andrea Leadsom
18	Name the society osteopath who committed suicide in the wake of the Profumo scandal.
	Stephen Ward
19	Who is the only person in the UK allowed to drive without a licence?
	The Queen
20	What links the Battle of Hastings, the Great Fire of London and England winning the World Cup?
	All years end in 66 (1066, 1666, 1966)

21	Winston Churchill's life spanned the reign of how many British monarchs?
	Six
22	What was Churchill's second Christian name?
	Leonard
23	San Marino is noted for the production of which liqueur?
	Amaretto
24	Who did Phil Collins replace as lead singer in Genesis?
	Peter Gabriel
25	Who played Carson, the butler in Downton Abbey?
	Jim Carter
26	How many squares are there on a Rubik Cube?
	54
27	How is a pedestrian light–controlled crossing better known?
	A Pelican crossing
28	Give either Christian name of C. S. Lewis.
	Clive or Staples
29	Who was Don Quixote's squire?
	Sancho Panza
30	Which element is named after the German word for a goblin?
	Cobalt
31	Who was known as 'the Sailor King'?
	William IV
32	Who wrote Gone with the Wind?
	Margaret Mitchell
33	In The Wizard of Oz, what does the Tin Man want?
	A heart
34	Who painted The Night Watch?
	Rembrandt
35	Who lived at 32 Windsor Gardens?
	Mr & Mrs Brown and Paddington Bear (accept Paddington)
36	Who was the Roman God of Fire?
	Vulcan
37	Abraham Lincoln's portrait appears on which US bank note?
	Five dollars
38	Roe v Wade was a landmark case in the US concerning what subject?
	It made abortion legal (in 1973)
39	What is the collective noun for crows?
	A murder
40	Which is the only football ground to host both an FA Cup Final and a cricket Test Match?
	Bramall Lane

41	On a dartboard, what number is directly opposite to 19?
	1
42	What part of the body is affected by Dupuytren's contracture?
	The hand
43	What does a deltiologist collect?
	Postcards
44	On which instrument was the theme to the film The Third Man played?
	A zither
45	Enver Hoxha was President of which country for over 40 years?
	Albania
46	What nationality was Mata Hari?
	Dutch
47	"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is the first line of which novel?
	A Tale of Two Cities
48	To which country does Easter Island belong?
	Chile
49	Which fictional school was the setting for the TV sitcom Please Sir?
	Fenn Street
50	US TV sitcom Frasier was set in which city?
	Seattle
51	In which country is the mountain called Aconcagua?
	Argentina
52	In what year was the Jarrow March?
	1936
53	Which French phrase means 'required by fashion'?
	De rigeur
54	In which African country is the port of Dar es Salaam?
	Tanzania
55	In which country would you find the River Irrawaddy?
	Myanmar (accept Burma)
56	Who was the leader of the Branch Davidian sect, which was the subject of the Waco siege in 1993?
	David Koresh
57	How is the disease parotitis better known?
	Mumps
58	Who is the patron saint of music?
	St. Cecilia
59	What is the deepest lake in England?
	Wastwater (in the Lake District)
60	The ancient land of Mesopotamia lies largely in which modern country?
	Iraq

61	In his account of a journey taken in 1878, with whom or what did Robert Louis Stevenson travel in the Cévennes?
	A donkey
62	With what manufacturing process is the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 concerned?
	The brewing of beer
63	In the film version of the musical Cabaret, who plays the part of the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Club?
	Joel Grey
64	What does an ammeter measure?
	Electric current
65	The noted furniture maker Robert Thompson of Kilburn, North Yorkshire, was known by what nickname?
	Mouse man (he included a carving of a mouse on each of his pieces)
66	Which city is served by Kastrup airport?
	Copenhagen
67	When French general Pierre Bosquet uttered the words "It's magnificent, but it isn't war" to what was he referring?
	The Charge of the Light Brigade
68	Who plays the title role in the 2019 film Joker?
	Joaquin Phoenix
69	"If winter comes can spring be far behind?" is a line from Ode to the West Wind by which poet?
	Shelley
70	Who recorded the 2003 million selling album Life for Rent?
	Dido
71	Which African state was the last country to join the Commonwealth in 2009?
	Rwanda
72	Who directed the film Back to the Future?
	Robert Zemeckis
73	On which river does the city of Derry stand?
	The Foyle
74	A shield with a red and white checkerboard design forms the central motif of the flag of which country?
	Croatia
75	Who designed the iconic red telephone box?
	Giles Gilbert Scott
76	What was the nickname of Liverpool's hard man fullback of the 1970s, Tommy Smith, who died in 2019? It was the title of his autobiography.
	The Anfield Iron
77	Which was the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil?
	The Battle of Towton (1461)
78	In heraldry, what name is given to the two figures, usually human or animal, which stand either side of a coat of arms (for example, the lion and unicorn on the Royal coat of arms)?
	Supporters
79	In Greek mythology, what kind of creature was Polyphemus, who kept Odysseus and his companions prisoner and started to eat them?
	A Cyclops
80	Variations and Fugue on a theme by Purcell, by Benjamin Britten, is better known by what title, reflecting the composer's intent to write an educational work?
	A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

81	Which snooker player has lost in the final of each of the last three World Championships?
	John Higgins
82	Described by Picasso as "the father of us all", and seen as a precursor of Cubism, which French artist painted a series of pictures of Mont St. Victoire in southern France between 1882 and 1906?
	Paul Cézanne
83	High blood concentrations of which acid can lead to gout?
	Uric
84	Who is the president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom?
	Baroness Hale of Richmond
85	In which nursery rhyme would you come across a cow with a crumpled horn and a maiden all forlorn?
	The House that Jack Built
86	Daisy Buchanan is the love interest in which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
	The Great Gatsby
87	A clayey substance consisting largely of hydrated aluminium silicates was once used in an important part of the process of manufacturing woollen cloth. By what name is it commonly known, from its use in that industry?
	Fuller's earth
88	Sharing its name with an Oxford college, what name is given to a bay window, supported by a bracket or corbels, that project from the main wall of a building?
	An oriel window
89	What river flows through Wensleydale?
	The River Ure
90	After the artist James McNeill Whistler made a witty remark, Oscar Wilde, who was present, commented "I wish I had said that". What was Whistler's reply?
	"You will, Oscar, you will" (accept any words to that effect)
91	One of the Five Pillars of Islam, Zakat is a requirement of all Muslims to do what?
	The giving of alms (charitable giving)
92	To what characteristic of his mistress does the 17th century poet Andrew Marvell refer in the title of a famous poem?
	Her coyness (To His Coy Mistress)
93	Which British butterfly shares its name with a punctuation mark?
	The comma butterfly
94	According to the medieval writer Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was the father of King Arthur?
	Uther Pendragon
95	According to tradition, which painter, when asked to demonstrate his skill for the Pope, drew a perfect circle freehand?
	Giotto
96	On which river does the city of Cork stand?
	The Lee
97	Who became Earl of Stockton on his 90th birthday in 1984?
	Harold Macmillan
98	A whitesmith was a worker in what material?
	Tin
99	BBC Television's first ever female news reader died earlier this year. What was her name?
	Nan Winton
100	Earlier this year, which Bury St. Edmunds based brewery was taken over by the family of Hong Kong multi–billionaire Li Ka–shing?
	Greene King

101	Which double–Oscar winning actor featured in the title of a 1984 hit by Madness?
	Michael Caine
102	Who became women's 400 metres Olympic Champion at the 2000 Summer Olympics?
	Cathy Freeman
103	In heraldry, what is a blazon?
	The formal description of a coat of arms, using technical heraldic language
104	The Adi Granth, meaning First Book, is the sacred scripture of which religion?
	Sikhism
105	What product was traditionally made by a cordwainer?
	Shoes
106	In the nursery rhyme There was a crooked man, what did the crooked man buy with the crooked sixpence he found on a crooked stile?
	A crooked cat
107	Which Belgian politician, and former Prime Minister, is the European Parliament's Brexit co–ordinator?
	Guy Verhofstadt
108	Which Sussex town is famous for its exceptionally elaborate celebrations of Bonfire Night?
	Lewes
109	Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 36, is better known by what title?
	The Enigma Variations
110	Which town in Somerset shares its name with a leafy green vegetable of the beet family?
	Chard
111	The Coen Brothers' film O Brother where art thou? is loosely based on which classical story?
	The Odyssey (accept "the story of Odysseus")
112	Historically speaking, what were Thermidor, Germinal, Vendémiere and Nivose?
	Months in the French Revolutionary Calendar
113	Which motorway is carried across the Firth of Forth by the Queensferry Crossing (formerly known as the Forth Replacement Crossing), which opened in 2017?
	The M90
114	Name either of the two bones in the human lower arm.
	Radius or ulna
115	An eagle, sitting on a cactus and devouring a serpent, is the central motif of the flag of which country?
	Mexico
116	What is the Christian name of Jacob Rees Moggs's sister, elected to the European Parliament at the last election?
	Annunciata
117	What is the name of the Viking Fire Festival held in Shetland, each January?
	Up Helly aa
118	Which country became the 29th to join NATO in June 2017?
	Montenegro
119	According to UK horse–racing rules, at what age does a 'filly' became a 'mare'?
	Five years
120	The American crime drama The Wire is set in which city?
	Baltimore

Supplementaries:

1	Which acid is found in lead acid car batteries?
	Sulphuric
2	"After all, tomorrow is another day" is the last line of which film?
	Gone with the Wind
3	The rivers Rhine and Rhone both rise in which country?
	Switzerland
4	Which public school did Winston Churchill attend?
	Harrow
5	Which of Henry VIII's wives was previously married to his brother, Arthur?
	Katherine of Aragon
6	Who famously described the Rugby Union hierarchy as "old farts"?
	Will Carling

Tie Breaker:

	According to Government statistics, what was the population of the prisons of the United Kingdom in 2018?
	83,618

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