2019–20 Season: Week 15 – 25 February 2020

Specialist Rounds

Set by the Waters Green Lemmings.

1	History	2	Sport	3	Fine Art and Literature	4	Exit Brexit
5	Science	6	Geography	7	The Blues	8	Art and Entertainment

Round 1: History

1	How are Thomas Ridley, Hugh Latimer and Thomas Cranmer, who were all burnt at the stake in the reign of Queen Mary, collectively known?
	The Oxford Martyrs
2	By what name are the anti–Catholic riots that took place in London in 1780 known?
	The Gordon riots
3	What ship sank in 1120, killing Henry I's heir William Adelin?
	The White Ship
4	Where in Yorkshire was a synod held in 664 to settle the differences between Roman and Celtic clergy?
	Whitby
5	With which country did Scotland sign what would become known as the 'Auld Alliance', in 1295?
	France
6	At which location did King John and the barons sign Magna Carta?
	Runnymede
7	Why did a railway carriage in Compiègne achieve importance on the 11th of November 1918?
	It's where the World War I armistice was signed
8	Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd is based on a book by Herman Melville about two mutinies. Name either mutiny.
	Spithead or The Nore (both 1797)

Supplementaries:

1	The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws were all relaxed in the process of what?
	Catholic emancipation
2	Which Welsh reformer and utopian socialist instituted welfare programmes at his New Lanark mills?
	Robert Owen

Round 2: Sport

1	For which Formula One team does Charles Leclerc race?
	Ferrari
2	Who is the only player in tennis history to have won a golden slam (all four major titles plus an Olympic gold) in the same year?
	Steffi Graf
3	Which cricketer was the first man to score 400 in a test match?
	Brian Lara
4	Which city will host the 2022 Winter Olympics?
	Beijing
5	How many players are there on an Olympic curling team?
	Four
6	How many Olympic gold medals have cyclists Jason and Laura Kenny won between them?
	Ten (accept 9 to 11)
7	During the 1920s, Big Bill Tilden was the dominant figure in which sport?
	Tennis
8	Which horse, with the same name as a Steve McQueen film, won the Grand National in 2000?
	Papillon

Supplementaries:

1	Who beat Michael van Gerwen in the final of the PDC Darts Championship on the 1st of January 2020?
	Peter Wright (been asked already)
2	Toronto Wolfpack is currently North America's only professional team in which sport?
	Rugby League

Round 3: Fine Art and Literature

1	Artemisia Gentileschi (jen–till–ess–kee), one of the few female Baroque artists, painted a biblical scene showing a beheading. Name either slayer or victim.
	Judith and Holofernes
2	St John's co–cathedral in Malta has two paintings by Caravaggio, one of which shows the beheading of whom?
	John the Baptist
3	Who guided Dante through Heaven in The Divine Comedy?
	Beatrice
4	Which poem begins "April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land"?
	The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot
5	Michelangelo sculpted several representations of the Virgin Mary holding the body of her crucified son. What are they called?
	Pietà
6	Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson joined a number of other artists in which Cornish town?
	St. Ives
7	Who wrote "No man is an island", and another line taken into the English language by Hemingway – "For whom the bell tolls"?
	John Donne
8	Which 16th century murdered author and possibly spy popularised the idea of Doctor Faustus in England?
	Christopher (Kit) Marlowe

Supplementaries:

1	Mies Van De Rohe and Le Corbusier were outstanding in what field?
	Architecture
2	Which significant film maker attracted much criticism after the War for Nazi propaganda films (Triumph of the Will and Olympia)?
	Leni Riefenstal

Round 4: Exit Brexit

A round about series of Brexit wounds suffered during the long saga.

1	Which Tory MP said "Boris is the life and soul of the party but he's not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening"?
	Amber Rudd
2	Who introduced the Act that was designed to prevent a no–deal Brexit?
	Hilary Benn
3	Which Nordic country has been touted as a potential model for the UK to follow after Brexit?
	Norway
4	Which party leader asked for Article 50 to be invoked the day after the referendum?
	Jeremy Corbyn
5	Which Brexit Minister followed his boss David Davis by resigning from the Department for Exiting the EU in July 2018?
	Steve Baker
6	Who chairs the European Research Group?
	Steve Baker
7	What phrase did Theresa May first coin in her speech announcing her campaign to be Prime Minister in July 2016?
	"Brexit means Brexit"
8	Who is on record as saying that negotiating a post–Brexit free–trade deal with the EU should be the easiest in human history?
	Liam Fox

Supplementaries:

1	Which area had the highest proportion of Remain voters in the 2016 EU Referendum?
	Gibraltar
2	The Prime Minister infuriated many MPs in the House of Commons by constantly referring to the Benn Act as what?
	The Surrender Act

Round 5: Science

1	What is the name given to the number of protons in an atom?
	The atomic number
2	What nationality was the first recipient of a heart transplant?
	South African
3	Where in the human body would you find the limbic system?
	In the brain
4	Where does an epiphyte grow?
	On a plant
5	Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to do what in 1963?
	Go into space
6	Ascorbic acid is a form of which vitamin?
	Vitamin C
7	Which insects live in a vespiary?
	Wasps
8	How is the process by which food moves through the digestive system known?
	Peristalsis

Supplementaries:

1	What does the 'S' stand for in USB?
	Serial (Universal Serial Bus)
2	Yukon Gold and Russian Banana are both varieties of which foodstuff?
	Potato

Round 6: Geography

1	In which English county is the seaside town of Whitley Bay?
	Northumberland
2	What country is located northwest of Algeria?
	Morocco
3	On Radio 4, what comes next in the sequence "Sole, Lundy, Fastnet ... "?
	Irish Sea (they're shipping forecast areas)
4	On which UK river does Pulteney Bridge stand?
	The Avon (in Bath)
5	What is the capital of Bahrain?
	Manama
6	What name is shared by rivers in Kent, Suffolk, Dorset, Warwickshire and Worcestershire?
	The Stour
7	Which bridge in Prague is famous for a series of statues along its length?
	The Charles Bridge
8	What is the most southerly point in the UK (note: not on the mainland)?
	St. Agnes (in the Isles of Scilly)

Supplementaries:

1	What is the smallest city in the UK?
	St. Davids
2	The town of Torbole stands on the shore of which lake?
	Lake Garda

Round 7: The Blues

In this round, every answer contains the word "blue" or "blues".

1	Which 2013 film tells the story of a Manhattan socialite who falls on hard times?
	Blue Jasmine
2	Which 1990s TV comedy, set in a police station, starred Rowan Atkinson and was written by Ben Elton?
	The Thin Blue Line
3	What is the nickname of Coventry City football club?
	The Sky Blues
4	What was the name of Madonna's 1986 album?
	True Blue
5	What is the semi–precious mineral found in Derbyshire?
	Blue John
6	What is the name of the festival celebrating music, art and science which takes place at Jodrell Bank in July?
	Blue Dot
7	Which charity has been supporting sick and injured animals in the UK since 1897?
	The Blue Cross
8	Which chess–playing computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1996?
	Deep Blue

Supplementaries:

1	What was the name of the several craft in which father and son Malcolm and Donald Campbell set land and water speed records?
	Bluebird
2	What is the name of the heritage railway that runs through East Sussex?
	Bluebell Railway

Round 8: Arts and Entertainment

1	Which movie won the most Oscars in 2019?
	Bohemian Rhapsody (four in total)
2	In which country will Eurovision 2020 be held?
	The Netherlands
3	Who wrote the award–winning BBC show Fleabag?
	Phoebe Waller–Bridge
4	In 2019, which UK band put their album tour on hold due to concerns over the climate?
	Coldplay
5	Which English painter, born in Liverpool in 1724, is known for his paintings of horses, including Whistlejacket, which hangs in the National Gallery?
	George Stubbs
6	What colour is the coat mentioned in the first line of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol?
	Scarlet
7	Who wrote the novel The Loneliness of the Long–Distance Runner?
	Alan Sillitoe
8	The 2019 film Pet Semetary is based on a book by which author?
	Stephen King

Supplementaries:

1	Who wrote Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West?
	Dee Brown
2	What prize was won in the 1990s by Rachel Whiteread, Steve McQueen and Anthony Gormley?
	The Turner Prize

General Knowledge

Set by the Park Taverners.

1	Who used his acceptance speech at the recent BAFTAs to criticise the film industry for racism?
	Joaquin Phoenix
2	'Comeback kid' Patrick Mahomes is the quarter–back for which US football team?
	Kansas City Chiefs
3	What is the name of the video–sharing networking service founded in Beijing in 2012?
	Tik–Tok
4	Who wrote the 2018 novel Middle England, which won the 2019 Costa Novel Award?
	Jonathan Coe
5	Who played Jack Geller, father of Ross and Monica, in Friends?
	Elliott Gould
6	What is in danger of not being built after its initial £30bn estimate rose to £56bn and is now set to potentially rise to £106bn?
	HS2
7	What has taken ten days to build in Wuhan, China?
	A new hospital
8	Name the telescope planned to replace the Hubble Telescope.
	The James Webb Telescope

9	Who is the new coach of England's Rugby League team?
	Shaun Wane
10	Which American tennis player won her maiden Grand Slam singles title in Australia this year?
	Sofia Kenin
11	In which English county was Fotheringhay Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was executed?
	Northamptonshire
12	The Caucus in which US state was the first round in the contest to pick a Democratic candidate for US President?
	Iowa
13	In what language was the New Testament of the Bible written?
	Greek (also allow Koine)
14	Who composed the Carnival of the Animals?
	Camille Saint–Saens
15	Adding up all the results from the Premier League since it started in 1992 to the end of last season, which team comes out top with 2168 points?
	Manchester United
16	Which English city has an annual Goose Fair?
	Nottingham

17	Which band has had hits with Losing my Religion and The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight?
	R.E.M.
18	Three US Presidents have been formally impeached: Trump, Clinton and who else in 1868?
	Andrew Johnson
19	What unit of distance is approximately 93 million miles, the distance from the Earth to the Sun?
	The astronomical unit
20	What is the common name of the compound NH3?
	Ammonia
21	Mount Cook is the highest point in which country?
	New Zealand
22	To the nearest hundred thousand kilometres per second, what is the speed of light in a vacuum? (P.S. This must be the biggest leeway ever given!)
	Three (300,000 km/s)
23	On the 18th of October 1867, the United States of America spent 7.2 million dollars on what piece of real estate?
	Alaska
24	Cheshire has four unitary authorities. Cheshire East is one of them, and Cheshire West and Chester is another; name one of the other two.
	Halton or Warrington

25	What is Greenland's capital and largest city?
	Nuuk
26	What iconic 1990s British drama, starring Andrew Lincoln, Daniela Nardini and Jack Davenport, has been repeated on BBC4?
	This Life
27	Which English actress plays Dr. Gemma Foster in the BBC TV drama Doctor Foster?
	Suranne Jones
28	Who was the first woman to become US Secretary of State?
	Madeleine Albright
29	Which member of the Shadow Cabinet is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington?
	Diane Abbott
30	What is the official currency of Hungary?
	The forint
31	What is Derbyshire's longest river?
	The Derwent
32	Which female American country music singer died in a plane crash in 1963, aged just 30?
	Patsy Cline

33	Gentoo, Adelie and Macaroni are all species of which bird?
	Penguin
34	In medicine, what does the R stand for in the phrase 'MRI scanner'?
	Resonance (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
35	Who was Gene Kelly's unusual dance partner in the 1945 movie Anchors Aweigh?
	Jerry, the animated mouse in the Tom and Jerry cartoons
36	What did Elvis never give at a concert?
	An encore. ("Elvis has left the building")
37	Which of King Arthur's nephews had an encounter with the Green Knight?
	Sir Gawain
38	By what name was Ethiopia formerly known?
	Abyssinia (accept also Habesha)
39	Which fictional character went on a circumnavigation of the world from the Reform Club as the result of a bet he made?
	Phileas Fogg (in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days)
40	Commemorated by a statue outside its headquarters in Burlington House, which painter was the first President of the Royal Academy?
	Sir Joshua Reynolds

41	In which year was Bloody Sunday in Londonderry? (No leeway)
	1972
42	In which city will the 2028 Olympics be held?
	Los Angeles
43	Which company recently announced its first major UK store closure in Coventry?
	IKEA
44	Rich Uncle Pennybags, a round old man in a top hat, serves as the mascot for what?
	Monopoly
45	Which sport was reintroduced at the Seoul Olympics after an absence of 64 years?
	Tennis
46	Which Japanese company developed the first mass–produced automatic focus camera, in 1976?
	Konika
47	What was the capital city of Portugal between the years 1808 and 1821?
	Rio de Janeiro
48	Mahatma Gandhi qualified in England for which profession, before practising in South Africa?
	Law

49	How are the presenters of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish collectively known?
	The QI Elves
50	The film Chariots of Fire charts the rivalry between two great sprinters; name either.
	Harold Abrahams or Eric Liddell
51	To the nearest whole mile, what is the minimum distance across the Straits of Gibraltar?
	Nine miles (allow 8 to 10)
52	Wibbly Wallaby is one of the beers made by which microbrewery on the Cheshire–Staffordshire border?
	Wincle Brewery
53	Which BBC journalist and presenter shares her name with the MP for Congleton?
	Fiona Bruce
54	Which League One football club is nicknamed The Posh?
	Peterborough United
55	Who played the drums in Band Aid's 1984 Christmas hit, Do They Know It's Christmas??
	Phil Collins
56	The shawm is the mediaeval forerunner of which modern–day musical instrument?
	The oboe

57	Name either of the two men to be elected as an MP for UKIP.
	Douglas Carswell or Mark Reckless
58	How many emirates constitute the United Arab Emirates?
	Seven
59	NHS prescription charges are free up to the age of 18, and for others depending on circumstances. What is the next age–based threshold for free prescriptions in England?
	60
60	What is the highest three–dart checkout in 501?
	170 (treble 20, treble 20, bullseye)
61	How many UK TV channels were available in the 1970s?
	Three (BBC1, BBC2 and ITV)
62	Blair and Wilson are two of the six Labour MPs that have been Prime Minister of the UK. Name one of the other four.
	MacDonald, Attlee, Callaghan or Brown
63	Which tree do we get turpentine from?
	Pine (also accept balsam fir or western larch)
64	Anschluss is the German word for the annexation of which country?
	Austria

65	Denise Coates of Sandbach was last year named as the UK's largest personal tax contributor, paying £276 million. Which company did she create?
	Bet365
66	What is kept in an ossuary?
	Bones
67	The EFL Cup (previously known as the Football League Cup) has had three sponsors that make non–alcoholic drinks. The Milk Marketing Board and Coca Cola are two; which is the third?
	Carabao
68	There are only two European cities in the world's top twenty cities by population size. Istanbul is sixth; name the other (eleventh in size).
	Moscow
69	UK pet passports can be obtained for cats, dogs and which other species?
	Ferrets
70	What did Noel Edmonds present on TV on the 19th of November 1994?
	The first National Lottery draw
71	What distinguishes a croque monsieur from a croque madame?
	A fried egg
72	'Bluemotion' is trademark of which car company?
	Volkswagen

73	Sergei Brin and Larry Page were co–founders of which technology company?
	Google (also accept Alphabet)
74	What does the I stand for in the name of the car manufacturer FIAT?
	Italiana (accept Italian)
75	Who wrote the biography entitled Wild Swans – Three Daughters of China?
	Jung Chang
76	Who became president of Turkey in 1923?
	Kemal Ataturk
77	The SKA is a large radio telescope project. What does the K stand for?
	Kilometre (Square Kilometre Array)
78	Who became the first guest editor of British Vogue in September 2019?
	Meghan Markle (accept Duchess of Sussex)
79	Who is the CEO of Ryanair?
	Michael O'Leary
80	How many points are awarded for an unconverted touchdown in American football?
	Six

81	Which car manufacturer produced the Pixo?
	Nissan
82	Which dance takes its name from the Spanish for 'two step'?
	Paso doble
83	Who is the subject of the 2019 book I Robot: How to Be a Footballer 2?
	Peter Crouch
84	What word, beginning with P, is the name of the time before a general election, where broadcasters have to be impartial?
	Purdah
85	Which contestant was replaced by a tub of lard on Have I Got News For You in 1993?
	Roy Hattersley
86	What is the only country to be crossed by both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn?
	Brazil
87	Which chain store started with the slogan "Don't ask the price – it's a penny"?
	Marks and Spencer
88	By tonight, Liverpool could have equalled the Premier league all–time record of eighteen consecutive wins. Who currently holds this mark?
	Manchester City (26 August to 27 December 2017)

89	How much does a colour TV licence currently cost? (No leeway)
	£154.50
90	A new car registered today in the UK would have what two digits as part of its number plate to signify when it was registered?
	69
91	If you multiply the diameter of a circle by pi, what have you calculated?
	The circumference
92	Who wrote the musical piece Carmina Burana?
	Carl Orff
93	What is the current inheritance tax threshold?
	£325,000
94	Which pre–decimal coin was also known as 'two bob' or 'two shillings'?
	Florin
95	Who wrote the 2013 novel The Goldfinch?
	Donna Tartt
96	What product is advertised with the slogan "Taste the rainbow"?
	Skittles

Supplementaries:

1	What is the number of the A road from Buxton to Knutsford?
	537
2	Who won the UK 2019 series of The Apprentice? First name will do.
	Carina Lapore (accept first name only)
3	Who presents the Radio 4 series The Untold?
	Grace Dent
4	What is a weather front called when a cold front merges with a warm front?
	An occluded front
5	Which League Two football club is nicknamed The Cobblers?
	Northampton Town
6	Marion Tugwood was the minister of which local church, before she became a roving minister?
	Macclesfield United Reformed Church (also accept Park Green URC)

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