2018–19 Season: Week 10 – 7 January 2020

Specialist Rounds

Set by the Plough Horntails.

Round 1: Geography

1	What's the name of the Russian exclave that borders Lithuania and Poland?
	Kaliningrad
2	Which US City houses the headquarters of Coca Cola?
	Atlanta
3	In which city are the Tivoli gardens?
	Copenhagen
4	On which island did the Dodo live?
	Mauritius
5	Ghetto, where Jews were forced to live in 1516 and which subsequently gave its name to all such zones, is an area in which city?
	Venice
6	What is the current name of Dutch Guiana?
	Suriname
7	In which US state does the Missouri river rise?
	Montana
8	Which central American country is bordered by Panama and Nicaragua?
	Costa Rica

Supplementaries:

1	What is the only part of North America still under French control?
	The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the St Lawrence estuary
2	On an Ordnance Survey Map, how steep is a hill when represented by two arrows?
	Greater than 1 in 5 (20%)
3	Christopher Columbus named which country from the Spanish word for 'depths', referring to the deep waters off its northern coast?
	Honduras (the Spanish word for deep is hondo)

Round 2: Treaties, Pacts, Protocols, Accords and Agreements. Well some of them.

1	The Paris Peace Accord of 1973 dealt with the end of which conflict?
	The Vietnam War (American withdrawal from Vietnam)
2	In 1989, an accord sought to limit the use of various substances that were damaging to the ozone layer of the earth. What was this agreement called?
	The Montreal Protocol
3	What was the name of the agreement that bought to an end the Bosnian wars of 1995?
	The Dayton Agreement (signed by the governments of Bosnia & Herzegovina in Dayton, Ohio USA, following pressure from Russian and USA governments)
4	In 1929, a treaty was developed to set down rules for treatment of prisoners of war. What was this treaty called?
	The Geneva Convention
5	What was the name of the 1961 agreement between the UK and USA, which provided the UK with Polaris missiles and the USA with a submarine base at Holy Loch in Scotland?
	The Nassau Agreement
6	What topic was covered by the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact of 1939?
	Neutrality between Germany and the Soviet Union
7	What's the name of the 1529 treaty that specified the anti–meridian line of demarcation between Spanish and Portuguese imperial territories?
	Saragossa
8	Which treaty followed the defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?
	The Treaty of Paris

Supplementaries:

1	What name was given to the agreement of 1978 that stopped fighting between Israel and Egypt?
	The Camp David Accord
2	In 1860, which conflict was brought to an end by the Convention of Peking?
	The Second Opium War between Britain/France and China (accept Opium War)
3	What was the name of the treaty that ended fighting between Russia and Germany in 1918?
	Brest–Litovsk

Round 3: History – Famous Marys or Margarets

The names Mary or Margaret, or any of several accepted variations, will appear either in the question or the answer – sometimes both.

1	Who was the mother of Henry VII?
	Margaret Beaufort
2	Born in 1942, Margaret Court (nee Smith) won 24 Tennis Grand Slam singles titles in her career. In what year did she first win the Ladies Singles at Wimbledon?
	1963 (accept 1962 to 1964). (She beat the unseeded Billie Jean Moffitt 6–3, 6–4)
3	In which decade of the 16th Century did Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose sink in the Solent?
	The 1540s (1545)
4	Queen Mary I of England, the daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, was born in which year?
	1516 (accept 1515 to 1517)
5	Which English acting dame won the 1984 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her part in David Lean's film of A Passage to India?
	Dame Peggy Ashcroft
6	Who was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots?
	Mary of Guise (also called Mary of Lorraine)
7	Which American novelist had an actress daughter named Margaux, born in Oregon in 1955?
	Ernest Hemingway
8	Which American president, born in 1809 in Kentucky, married Mary Todd in 1842?
	Abraham Lincoln

Supplementaries

1	Mary Anne, Viscountess Beaconsfield, was the wife of which British Prime Minister?
	Benjamin Disraeli
2	Born Margaret Osborne in 1918, she married a well–known American businessman and banker and won six Grand Slam tennis titles between 1944 and 1950. What was her married surname?
	Dupont

Round 4: Science and Engineering

Some general science and engineering questions.

1	In the non–destructive testing of metals, for what would you use a borescope?
	Viewing areas of a piece of equipment that would otherwise not be visible (an instrument is inserted into the item being checked, without destroying it in any way)
2	For what purpose would you use a reticule or graticule? (Note: reticule also has reticle as a spelling variant)
	For aligning a sighting device like a microscope or telescope. (It's the name given to alignment cross hairs)
3	Which automobile company was founded in Detroit, USA by Henry Leland in 1902?
	Cadillac
4	Which major car company opened its first UK manufacturing plant in Trafford Park (now in Greater Manchester) in the year 1911?
	Ford
5	What's the name of the French geologist and mineralogist after whom the scale of hardness of minerals in named?
	Friedrich Mohs (on the Mohs scale of hardness, talc is 1, and diamond is 10 for example)
6	The newton metre is the derived SI unit what quantity or property?
	Torque
7	What's the name of the derived SI unit of radioactivity?
	The bequerel
8	What material was isolated in 2004 at the University of Manchester by Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov?
	Graphene

Supplementaries:

9	What would you be measuring if you were using any of the following tests: Brinell, Vicker's Diamond or Rockwell?
	Hardness of a material, for example a metal. (All three methods involve indentation of the material being checked. The hardness is calculated by measuring the force applied and comparing this to some geometrical aspect of the indentation such as surface area or depth.)
10	What is measured using a pycnometer?
	The density of solids

Round 5: What comes next?

From a list of items, all you have to do is name the next item in the list.

1	Atlee, Churchill, Eden
	Macmillan (UK Prime Ministers)
2	Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium
	Berylium (order of elements)
3	Dr No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger
	Thunderball (Bond films)
4	Kilo, Mega, Giga
	Tera (Metric prefixes)
5	Gale, severe gale, storm
	Violent storm (Beaufort scale)
6	Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew
	Cuthbert (the fire crew in Trumpton)
7	Viscount, earl, marquess
	Duke (English peerage)
8	Corley, Hilton Park, Stafford
	Keele (Service areas on the M6 going north)

Supplementaries:

1	Lieutenant, Captain, Major
	Lieutenant Colonel (accept Colonel – Ranks in the British Army)
2	Un, dau, tri
	Pedwar (the numbers 1 to 4 in Welsh)

Round 6: Sporting nicknames

1	What was the nickname of the French tennis star René Lacoste?
	The Crocodile
2	Which snooker player was nicknamed The Grinder?
	Cliff Thorburn
3	Which footballer was known as the Lion of Vienna?
	Nat Lofthouse
4	In International Rugby Union, who are the Pumas?
	Argentina
5	'Deadly' was the nickname of which bowler, who took 297 Test wickets?
	Derek Underwood
6	Which famous Italian football club is known as The Old Lady?
	Juventus
7	Which British boxer was known as The Dark Destroyer?
	Nigel Benn
8	Which cricketer was known as the Little Master, or God of cricket?
	Sachin Tendulkar

Supplementaries:

1	Which darts player is known as Wolfie?
	Martin Adams
2	What was the nickname of Ole Gunnar Solskjær, former striker and now manager of Manchester United, whilst he was playing?
	The Baby–Faced Assassin

Round 7: Arts and Entertainment

1	Which British novelist, born in Nagasaki in 1954, won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature?
	Kazuo Ishiguro
2	Novelist Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy consists of three books. Regeneration (1991) and The Eye in the Door (1993) were the first two. What was the title of the third, published in 1995?
	The Ghost Road
3	Giacomo Puccini wrote twelve operas in his lifetime. Born in 1858, in which decade of the 20th Century did he die?
	1920s (1924)
4	Which British composer wrote the cantata Belshazzar's Feast in 1931?
	William Walton ("Oldham's own!")
5	Who was named in May 2019 as the successor to Carol Ann Duffy as UK Poet Laureate?
	Simon Armitage
6	Which 19th Century British female poet wrote the words to the Carols In the Bleak Midwinter and Love Came Down?
	Christina Rosetti
7	Who painted The Toilet of Venus (also known as The Rokeby Venus)?
	Diego Velazquez
8	In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what was Yorick's role?
	Court jester

Supplementaries

9	Which American playwright wrote The Iceman Cometh in 1939, first performed in 1946?
	Eugene O'Neill
10	Father N. C., son Andrew and grandson Jamie are three generations of a family of US painters. A museum featuring their work is located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. What is their surname?
	Wyeth

Round 8: So you know your wines, Eh?

1	Along which river is most of France's sauvignon blanc cultivated?
	Loire
2	Claret wine is produced in the region surrounding which French city?
	Bordeaux
3	How are fizzy wines, other than champagnes, described?
	Sparkling
4	How many normal size wine bottles would you have in a Methuselah?
	Eight
5	In which area of Italy is Chianti Classico produced?
	Tuscany
6	In which country is the wine-making area of Stellenbosch?
	South Africa
7	In which South American country is Casablanca Valley?
	Chile
8	Retsina is native to which country?
	Greece

Supplementaries

1	What is the normal capacity for a standard bottle of wine?
	75 centilitres or 750 mil
2	Which red wine is drunk when young and is called 'nouveau'?
	Beaujolais
3	Which scientist discovered that yeast causes fermentation?
	Louis Pasteur

General Knowledge

Set by the Harrington 'B'.

1	Who wrote Three Men in a Boat?
	Jerome K. Jerome
2	How many keys are there on a full–size piano?
	88 (52 white, 36 black)
3	Who was the last Roman Catholic King of England?
	James II
4	Which US city is named after a British Prime Minister?
	Pittsburgh
5	Who composed Peter and the Wolf?
	Sergei Prokofiev
6	From which Brit Award–winning song of 1997 does this chorus line come: "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom"?
	Brim Full of Asha (by Cornershop)
7	Manchester now has its first Michelin–starred restaurant in over 40 years. What's it called?
	Mana (in Ancoats)
8	Legendary drummer Ginger Baker died in early October. Named Ginger because of his red hair, what was his real first name?
	Peter

9	In the medical abbreviation CT (as in a CT scan), for what does the T stand?
	Tomography
10	Name the unfinished Jane Austen novel that became an ITV drama series earlier this year.
	Sanditon
11	A member of which well–known music group is part of the Football Ventures consortium that earlier this season stepped in to save Bolton Wanderers Football Club?
	Pink Floyd (drummer Nick Mason)
12	Name either of the golfers who'll co–host the Scandinavian Mixed, the first golf event with men and women competing against each other in a full–field format, which takes place in Stockholm in June 2020.
	Henrik Stenson and Annika Sorenstam
13	In October St Helens won Rugby League's Super League Grand Final by beating which club?
	Salford Red Devils
14	Who was the first Briton to lift football's European Cup?
	Billy McNeill (captain of Celtic in 1967)
15	There is a pub within the walls of the Tower of London. What's its particularly appropriate name?
	The Keys
16	World War II's Operation Chastise is better known as what?
	The Dambusters Raid

17	What's the largest lake in the British Isles?
	Lough Neagh (Northern Ireland)
18	What was the first record played on Radio 1 when it was launched in 1967?
	Flowers in the Rain (by The Move)
19	In Glasgow, what is nicknamed 'The Clockwork Orange'?
	The Subway or Underground system
20	Name either of the aircraft that have replaced the RAF Tornado fleet following its retirement in 2019.
	Eurofighter Typhoon or F–35 Lightning II (accept Typhoon, F–35 or Lightning)
21	Name the American woman who, in October, returned to the US claiming diplomatic immunity after the road accident in which Harry Dunn was killed.
	Anne Sacoolas
22	What is the capital of the US state of Michigan?
	Lans1ing
23	From which 1979 hit song does the lyric "Only takes one itchy trigger, one more widow, one less white nigger" come?
	Oliver's Army (Elvis Costello)
24	Which English Football League club plays at Highbury Stadium?
	Fleetwood Town (NOT Arsenal – they now play at The Emirates, also known as Ashburton Grove)

25	The instrumental Jessica by the Allman Brothers Band is the theme to which popular BBC series?
	Top Gear
26	The third instalment of which trilogy of films won Oscars in all eleven categories for which it was entered (including Best Picture) in 2004?
	Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King)
27	Which English county recently decided, rather unusually, to apply to become UK City of Culture in 2025?
	Lancashire
28	Which football club's Latin motto is Superbia in Proelio (Pride in Battle)?
	Manchester City
29	What was the name of the male model in the Jeremy Thorpe affair?
	Norman Scott
30	Which is the last of the Canterbury Tales?
	The Parson's Tale
31	In boxing, who was known as The Brown Bomber?
	Joe Louis
32	Who invented the fountain pen in 1884?
	Lewis Waterman

33	What was mathematician John Napier's most useful invention?
	Logarithms
34	Who protected Penelope Pitstop from the Hooded Claw?
	The Ant Hill Mob
35	What was the Professor's name in Wacky Races?
	Pat Pending
36	Who had a Number One hit in 1971 with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?
	Middle of the Road
37	Give a year in the reign of George II.
	1727 to 1760
38	Give a year in the reign of Henry IV.
	1399 to 1413
39	The disease Variola is more commonly known as what?
	Smallpox
40	What is the capital of Morocco?
	Rabat

41	Which Jane Austen novel was originally known as First Impressions?
	Pride and Prejudice
42	The island called Surtsey emerged from the sea off the coast of which country in 1963?
	Iceland
43	Who was the last Emperor of India?
	George VI
44	Which part of an internal combustion engine converts the up and down movement of the pistons into rotary movement?
	The crankshaft
45	Which is Canada's largest province (not territory) by area?
	Quebec (Nunavut is the largest territory)
46	General Santa Anna led the Mexican forces at which battle in 1836?
	The Alamo
47	What vegetable does a dish contain if it's described as 'Lyonnaise'?
	Onion
48	What position was held by John Bolton when he was sacked by Donald Trump in September last year?
	National Security Adviser

49	How is the tree Aesculus hippocastanum better known?
	Horse Chestnut
50	Vulpes vulpes is the Latin name for which common mammal?
	Fox
51	Which crime writer rode Devon Loch, which famously fell in the home straight of the 1956 Grand National?
	Dick Francis
52	Where is the Gulf of Carpentaria?
	Australia
53	Which footballer has made the most Premier League appearances?
	Gareth Barry (653)
54	Who played Rumpole in the original TV series Rumpole of the Bailey?
	Leo McKern
55	Following the English Civil War, in which year was the monarchy restored?
	1660 (Charles II) (accept 1658 to 1662)
56	One hundred and three structures were built as coastal defence against a French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. By what name are they known?
	Martello Towers

57	What was the first name of Spain's General Franco?
	Francisco
58	What is a jurist an expert in?
	Law
59	Following December's General Election, in which former MP Kenneth Clarke didn't stand and veteran MP Dennis Skinner lost his seat, who is now Father of the House?
	Tory MP Peter Bottomley
60	On November 1st last year, who replaced Jean–Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission?
	Ursula von der Leyen
61	On what day and month, in 1945, was VE Day celebrated?
	8 May
62	Cricketer Ben Stokes won The BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in December. Which county team does he play for?
	Durham
63	Who, in the 3rd century, became the first British martyr? His name appears in the modern–day name of the Roman settlement of Verulamium.
	Alban (St. Albans)
64	In the recent Rugby World Cup, who was the All Blacks' Head Coach?
	Steve Hansen

65	How many counties are there in the Republic of Ireland?
	26
66	In which US state is Yale University?
	Connecticut
67	How old was Buddy Holly when he died?
	22 (accept 21 or 23)
68	Which is Macclesfield's oldest surviving retail business?
	Hadfields (established in 1755)
69	What is the first name of the Dickens character Mr. Micawber?
	Wilkins
70	In terms of canals and waterways, what's a 'pound'?
	The stretch of water between two locks
71	What is the official residence of Scotland's First Minister, the equivalent of 10 Downing Street?
	Bute House
72	What does the 'B' stand for in the acronym COBRA, when used to refer to a series of meetings held by the Government?
	Briefing (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A)

73	Which classic film featured the characters 'The Blue Angel' and 'Pinky'?
	Brighton Rock
74	By what name was Wembley Stadium known when it was first built?
	The Empire Stadium
75	Name the darts player who became the first woman to win a PDC World Championship darts match against a male player.
	Fallon Sherrock
76	In late December, who was named as the new Governor of the Bank of England?
	Andrew Bailey
77	Which Christian festival occurs on the 6th of January?
	Epiphany
78	In which country is the Coptic Church Sect based?
	Egypt
79	What type of projectile was pioneered by American physicist Robert Hutchings Goddard?
	Rocket
80	What do birds do when they nidificate?
	Build nests

81	Who was the wife of the Egyptian god Osiris?
	Isis
82	In Greek mythology, who was the wife of Orpheus (who died from a snake bite)?
	Eurydice
83	Who is the Czechoslovakian–born British writer of the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
	Tom Stoppard
84	Which American author wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
	Maya Angelou
85	Henry VIII had wives of how many different nationalities?
	Three
86	Who, alongside Pavarotti and Domingo, is the third of the Three Tenors?
	Jose Carreras
87	Who succeeded Claudio Abbado as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002?
	Sir Simon Rattle
88	Shogi is a Japanese form of which board game?
	Chess

89	What sort of gemstone is the jewel known as the Star of India?
	Sapphire
90	Who is the Metropolitan Mayor of Liverpool, who shares his name with a town in Yorkshire?
	Steve Rotheram
91	Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, was previously MP for which North–west constituency?
	Leigh
92	Which is the sixth planet from the sun?
	Saturn
93	Name either of the two planets in our solar system that have no moons.
	Mercury and Venus
94	Prince William earned a Master of Arts degree at St. Andrews University – in which subject?
	Geography
95	Which car maker demonstrated its hybrid Valkyrie 'hypercar' before 2019's British Grand Prix at Silverstone?
	Aston Martin
96	In the human body, which is the only vein that carries oxygenated blood?
	Pulmonary

Supplementaries:

1	How many lines has a sonnet?
	14
2	In the US, what's known as a John Hancock?
	A signature
3	Which was the world's first underground or tube line?
	The Metropolitan line
4	What name is given to a young bat?
	A pup
5	Name the Royal burial ground situated around half a mile from Windsor Castle.
	Frogmore
6	Known as Beefeaters, what are the guardians of the Tower of London actually called?
	Yeomen Warden
7	Which English king was murdered in Pontefract Castle in 1400?
	Richard II

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