2018–19 Season: Week 4 – 22 October 2019

Specialist Questions

Set by Park Timers; vetted by Waters Green Rams and the Weaver.

1. Geography

2. Obituaries

3. Sport

4. Wedding Related

5. Arts & Entertainment

6. Fruit and Vegetables

7. History

8. Science

Round 1: Geography

1	The region of Patagonia straddles two countries; name either of them.
	Argentina or Chile
2	Aruba is an overseas territory of which European country?
	The Netherlands (Holland)
3	Which English city has railway stations called Snow Hill and Moor Street?
	Birmingham
4	Which river separates Devon from Cornwall?
	River Tamar
5	Where in the British Isles is Lady Isabella – also known as the Laxey Wheel, the world's oldest working water wheel?
	Isle of Man
6	Which country is nicknamed 'The Cockpit of Europe' because of the number of battles throughout history fought on its soil?
	Belgium
7	Hamilton is the capital of which island in the North Atlantic Ocean?
	Bermuda
8	What is the capital of Malta?
	Valletta

Supplementaries:

1	What is the capital of Guernsey?
	St. Peter Port
2	Which motorway links Warwick to London?
	The M40

Round 2: Obituaries

All of these people have died in the last year.

This is a picture round. If there are any visually-impaired players, please read the clue on their question but don't hand out the picture to either team.

1	Charismatic conductor, composer and pianist, renowned as one of the most versatile musicians of his generation
	André Previn
2	French head of state from 1995 to 2007
	Jacques Chirac
3	President of Zimbabwe (the one on the right!)
	Robert Mugabe
4	Former president of Egypt, and leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood
	Mohamed Morsi
5	First editor of Private Eye, and Sunday Telegraph columnist
	Christopher Booker
6	Former Labour MP and well–known political interviewer on television in the 1970s and 80s
	Brian Walden
7	Dutch actor who found fame in the 1982 sci–fi film classic Blade Runner
	Rutger Hauer
8	Popular entertainer in the 1970s and 80s who first won fame through Opportunity Knocks
	Freddie Starr

Supplementaries:

1	Actor who played PC Alf Ventress in 18 series of the TV police drama Heartbeat
	William Simons
2	Singer, songwriter and frontman of The Cars
	Ric Ocasek

Round 3: Sport

1	Who has won the BBC sports personality of the year the most times, with three wins?
	Andy Murray
2	In which town did this year's road cycling world championship races finish?
	Harrogate
3	In which city is the final of the 2019 men's Rugby Union World Cup to be played?
	Yokohama
4	Which athlete won both the women's 800 metre and 1500 metre gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics?
	Dame Kelly Holmes
5	Against which goalkeeper did Diego Maradona score the infamous 'hand of God' goal?
	Peter Shilton
6	How many points is a conversion worth in Rugby Union?
	Two
7	Who was the winner of the Golden Boot and scored the winning goal at the 2019 women's FIFA world cup?
	Megan Rapinoe
8	What is the maximum number of clubs you are allowed to carry in competitive golf?
	14

Supplementaries:

1	Who was man of the match in the final of the 2019 men's cricket world cup?
	Ben Stokes
2	Which is Britain's richest horse race?
	The Epsom Derby

Round 4: Wedding Related

1	Who had a hit record in 1985 with the song White Wedding?
	Billy Idol
2	David and Elizabeth Emanuel designed whose iconic wedding dress?
	Lady Diana Spencer (accept Princess Diana)
3	Why was Prince Charles's marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles postponed for 24 hours?
	So that Charles could attend the funeral of Pope John Paul the Second
4	Who composed the opera The Marriage of Figaro?
	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5	In literature, whose wedding was ruined when it was discovered that her fiancé was already married to Bertha?
	Jane Eyre
6	What colour is a traditional Chinese wedding dress?
	Red
7	Which was Henry the 8th's shortest marriage?
	Anne of Cleves (8 months)
8	Which gift is traditional for a 20th wedding anniversary?
	China

Supplementaries:

1	Get Me to the Church on Time is a song composed and written for which musical?
	My Fair Lady
2	Which comedian once said, "Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit"?
	Billy Connolly

Round 5: Arts & Entertainment

1	Which musical centres around the making of a fictional dubbed silent movie called The Dueling Cavalier?
	Singin' in the Rain
2	Which musical about a flame–haired parentless child is based on a Harold Gray comic strip?
	Annie (from Gray's Little Orphan Annie)
3	Who wrote the poem The Lady of Shalott?
	Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4	Which poet lived at Dove Cottage on the edge of Grasmere?
	William Wordsworth
5	Name one of the two co–creators of the spoof news show The Day Today?
	Armando Iannucci or Chris Morris
6	Who played enforcer Malcolm Tucker in the TV series called The Thick of It?
	Peter Capaldi
7	What was the first book in English to be printed in England?
	The Canterbury Tales, printed by William Caxton
8	Who wrote The Downing Street Years?
	Margaret Thatcher

Supplementaries:

1	Which Sean O'Casey play was premiered in 1924, made in to a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1930 and is on the GCSE English Literature syllabus?
	Juno and the Paycock
2	In which decade of the 20th Century did Seamus Heaney win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
	1990s (1995)

Round 6: Fruit and Vegetables

1	What sort of republic is a politically unstable country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity?
	A banana republic
2	What is the name of the TV character who hosts Celebrity Juice?
	Keith Lemon
3	What is the name of Popeye's girlfriend?
	Olive (Oyl)
4	In the human body, what is the slight projection at the front of the throat formed by the largest cartilage of the larynx known as?
	Adam's apple
5	Who co–produced several James Bond films in conjunction with Harry Saltzman?
	Albert (Cubby) Broccoli
6	Often exhibited by boxers, the medical condition Haematoma Auris is better known as what?
	Cauliflower ear
7	Which 1940 film directed by John Ford was based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name?
	The Grapes of Wrath
8	Which member of Take That has a twin brother named Justin?
	Jason Orange

Supplementaries:

1	Which British actor played the villain Alec Trevelyan in the James Bond film Goldeneye?
	Sean Bean
2	The feathers of which bird are said to bring bad luck if brought into the house?
	Peacock

Round 7: History

1	Queen Victoria died at which residence in 1901?
	Osborne House
2	Which Chief of Gaul was defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Alesia?
	Vercingetorix
3	Who was assassinated when travelling with Texas Governor John Connally?
	John F. Kennedy
4	Which Derbyshire village was famously quarantined in 1666 following an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague?
	Eyam
5	The Battle of Tory Island was a naval engagement fought between Great Britain and which other country in 1798?
	France
6	The fall of which city marked the end of the Vietnam War on 30th April 1975?
	Saigon (since renamed Ho Chi Minh City)
7	Which British Prime Minister was both preceded and succeeded by Winston Churchill?
	Clement Attlee
8	Which American President saw active service in both the first and second World Wars?
	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supplementaries:

1	Which Venetian explorer served the emperor Kublai Khan?
	Marco Polo
2	Who was the queen of the British king, Charles I?
	Henrietta Maria (accept Henrietta)

Round 8: Science

1	Commonly known as the Father of Computing, which English mathematician invented an early mechanical computer in the early 19th century?
	Charles Babbage
2	How heavy in kilograms is a litre of water?
	1 kilogram
3	At what speed in miles per hour does a wind become a hurricane?
	73 m.p.h. (accept 70 to 76)
4	Who first claimed that the world was not flat but a sphere?
	Pythagoras
5	Betz cells are found in which organ in the human body?
	The brain
6	What is the term for a positive electrode?
	Anode
7	What is the lightest metal?
	Lithium
8	What is the English translation of the motto of the Royal Society – Nullius in verba?
	Take nobody's word for it (accept anything close)

Supplementaries:

1	The world's first iron bridge was erected in which English county in 1779?
	Shropshire
2	What tube connects the kidney to the bladder?
	The ureter

General Knowledge

Set by Waters Green Rams; vetted by Park Timers and the Weaver.

1	Which five–time Bafta TV award winner played Father Noel Furlong in the TV series Father Ted?
	Graham Norton
2	Brothers Greg and Jonny Searle won gold medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Olympics, at which sport?
	Rowing
3	Who was UK Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974?
	Edward Heath
4	What was the first name of the composer Beethoven, born in Bonn in 1770?
	Ludwig
5	How many points is a goal worth in Australian Rules Football?
	Six
6	Great Crested and Black–necked are varieties of which freshwater diving bird?
	Grebe
7	Which is the only UK city to begin with the letter T?
	Truro
8	At which resort on the Bay of Biscay was the G7 conference held in August 2019?
	Biarritz

9	In the Harry Potter series of novels, what is the surname of Petunia and Vernon?
	Dursley
10	In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led a symbolic protest march against the British government's tax on which commodity?
	Salt
11	What same alliterative nickname was given to the athletes Paavo Nurmi in the 1920s and Lasse Viren in the 1970s?
	The Flying Finn
12	From which song do the following lyrics come – "I've wined and dined on Mulligan stew and never asked for turkey"?
	The Lady is a Tramp
13	Mycology is the scientific study of what?
	Fungi (accept mushrooms)
14	In which country is the Hunter Valley wine–producing area?
	Australia
15	In which city did the temperature reach 38.7 degrees Celsius on the 25th of July 2019, setting a British record?
	Cambridge
16	The strong–smelling Limburger cheese takes its name from a town in which modern–day country?
	Belgium

17	Merchandise, particularly baseball caps, bearing the initials M.A.G.A., started to appear during Donald Trump's presidential campaign. What do the initials stand for?
	Make America Great Again
18	Which artist became the first President of the Royal Academy Of Arts in 1768?
	Sir Joshua Reynolds
19	The adjective 'ursine' relates to which animals?
	Bears
20	Name one of the three players who jointly hold the record for receiving most red cards in the history of the Premier League (eight each).
	Duncan Ferguson, Richard Dunne or Patrick Vieira
21	Which Derbyshire–born actor, who played in the Fast And Furious series and is famous for doing a lot of his own stunt work, was part of the England diving team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games?
	Jason Statham
22	Which 93–year–old said, in July 2019, "I'm still perfectly capable of planting a tree"?
	Queen Elizabeth
23	What was advertised with the slogan "Totally tropical taste"?
	Lilt
24	Who was the shortest–serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century?
	Andrew Bonar Law (211 days, 1922/23)

25	According to the lyrics of a Max Bygraves song, where did the pink toothbrush and the blue toothbrush meet?
	By the bathroom door
26	Cordelia, Goneril and Regan are daughters of the title character in which Shakespearean play?
	King Lear
27	Riboflavin is the common name for which vitamin?
	B2
28	Which city is served by George Bush Intercontinental Airport?
	Houston, Texas
29	The Balmoral Estate, a royal residence, sits alongside which river?
	The Dee
30	Which novelist, who was born in London in 1810 and wrote about the north of England, had the middle name Cleghorn?
	Mrs. Gaskell (born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson)
31	The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in a town that is now in which modern–day country?
	Austria (the town is Salzburg)
32	The album The Seldom Seen Kid, which won the Mercury Prize in 2008, was recorded by which band, fronted by Guy Garvey?
	Elbow

33	Which Polish astronomer was the first to show that the earth rotates around the sun?
	Nicolas Copernicus
34	Which river, the 12th–longest in the world at 2,700 miles, runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam?
	The Mekong
35	Who is the central female character of the novel Pride and Prejudice, having sisters named Jane, Catherine, Mary and Lydia? (First name and surname required)
	Elizabeth (accept Eliza) Bennet
36	Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following the first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927?
	The Lindy Hop (after Charles Lindbergh)
37	The Cobb, a curved seawall, is a feature of which Dorset resort?
	Lyme Regis
38	Pablo Casals was a virtuoso on which instrument?
	Cello
39	Andres Segovia was a virtuoso on which instrument?
	Guitar
40	In the Shrek films, what's the name of the princess that Shrek marries?
	Princess Fiona

41	Who was the first man to be President of all the 50 states of the USA?
	Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)
42	Which English county is traditionally known as the Garden of England?
	Kent
43	Samso is the national cheese of which European country?
	Denmark
44	Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde are characters in which classic video game?
	Pac–Man
45	Phuket is an island tourist destination in which country?
	Thailand
46	Which is the only US state that has a land border with the state of Maine?
	New Hampshire
47	Who wrote the 24 stories collectively known as The Canterbury Tales?
	Geoffrey Chaucer
48	Who wrote the 19th–century novel Black Beauty?
	Anna Sewell

49	Bought by the Professional Footballers Association in 1999, Going To The Match is a painting by which artist?
	L. S. Lowry
50	Who plays the title character in the 2019 film Judy?
	Renee Zellweger
51	Which mainland country is closest to the island of Madeira?
	Morocco
52	What species is Esio Trot, an animal created by Roald Dahl?
	Tortoise
53	Which group had their only UK number one hit with Blockbuster in 1973?
	The Sweet
54	Who released the album Swings Both Ways in 2013?
	Robbie Williams
55	Who, in 2010, was the last non–UK winner of the World Snooker Championship?
	Neil Robertson (Australia)
56	Which gas is released from plants during photosynthesis?
	Oxygen

57	As at the 1st of October 2019, who is the manager of Macclesfield Town?
	Daryl McMahon
58	What were advertised as "tasty, tasty, very, very tasty"?
	(Kellogg's) Bran Flakes
59	In what year did Britain hand the crown colony of Hong Kong back to China after 150 years of British rule? (There is no leeway)
	1997
60	On which island was the Duke of Edinburgh born?
	Corfu
61	Which organisation, founded in London in the 1860s, has the motto "Blood and Fire"?
	The Salvation Army
62	In the novel Frankenstein, what's the first name of the title character?
	Viktor
63	The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States, passed in 1791, are collectively known as what?
	The Bill of Rights
64	In which country did the 2019 World Athletic Championships take place?
	Qatar

65	In which Irish county is the city of Dublin?
	County Dublin
66	In which country would you find a range of mountains known as the Dolomites?
	Italy
67	Said to be one of England's oldest pubs, Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem is built in the castle walls of which city?
	Nottingham
68	In August 2019, Richard Braine replaced Gerard Batten as leader of which political party?
	UKIP
69	Which country did Germany invade on the 1st of September 1939, prompting Britain to declare war two days later?
	Poland
70	Who was the longest–reigning British King?
	George III
71	In 1979, Trevor Francis became the first "million pound footballer" when he was transferred to Nottingham Forest from which club?
	Birmingham City
72	On what date is St. Swithin's Day?
	15 July

73	Which bird is represented on the national flag of Ecuador?
	The (Andean) Condor
74	Give one of the decades during which the Duke Of Wellington was UK Prime minister.
	1820s or 1830s
75	Which group had their first UK number one hit with Ruby in 2007?
	Kaiser Chiefs
76	Which artist won the 2019 Hyundai Mercury Prize for his album Psychodrama?
	Dave (Dave Orobosa Omoregie)
77	In which English county would you find Buckfast Abbey, a Benedictine abbey founded in 1018 and now famous for producing tonic wine?
	Devon
78	What name is given to a line on a map linking places of equal atmospheric pressure?
	Isobar
79	The hallux is the medical name for which part of the body?
	The big toe
80	What does the O stand for in the name of the ex–actor and American football player O. J. Simpson?
	Orenthal

81	Which English county is advertised as "Shakespeare's County"?
	Warwickshire
82	In the 1970s, which rock group released the album Animals, featuring inflatable animals above Battersea power station on the cover?
	Pink Floyd
83	In which US state did the Woodstock Music Festival take place in 1969?
	New York State
84	Which actress, born in Canada in 1892, was nicknamed 'America's Sweetheart'?
	Mary Pickford
85	Which radio presenter died in 2017 after hosting the Radio Two programme Sounds Of The Sixties for 27 years?
	Brian Matthew
86	The title character of which TV comedy series (running from 2004 to the present) has the surname Ellingham?
	Doc Martin
87	How many players are there on each team in the TV programme Eggheads?
	Five
88	Three elements of the periodic table have names that begin with the letter O. Oxygen is one of them; name one of the other two.
	Osmium or Oganesson

89	The politician commonly known as Marshal Tito was president of which country from 1953 to 1980?
	Yugoslavia
90	Which company, founded by the Lea family in Swettenham, Cheshire in 1675, and still run by the family, is one of the oldest in the country and employs over 300 people in Crewe?
	Mornflake
91	What part was played by Julia Sawalha in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous?
	Saffron Monsoon (accept Saffy)
92	Which of the noble gases comes first alphabetically?
	Argon
93	In botany, what does the word nyctanthous mean in relation to plants?
	Night–flowering (evening primrose is an example)
94	When it started as a single division in 1888, how many teams first contested the English Football League?
	Twelve
95	Which 82–year–old actress plays the female title character in the 2019 film Mrs. Lowry and Son?
	Vanessa Redgrave
96	Who wrote the opera Lohengrin?
	Richard Wagner

Supplementaries:

1	Which Roman Emperor appointed his horse Incitatus a consul?
	Caligula
2	What is the height, in inches, of a tennis court net at its centre?
	36 inches
3	The 'address' of a site on the internet is referred to as its URL. In this instance, what does the U stand for?
	Uniform (Resource Locator)
4	What was the name of the first line to open on the London Underground, in 1863?
	The Metropolitan Line
5	Who wrote the novel The Rainbow, first published in 1915 and telling the story of the Brangwen family?
	D. H. Lawrence
6	Which actress played Sandy Olsson in the 1978 film Grease?
	Olivia Newton–John

© Macclesfield Quiz League 2019