2021–2 Season: Week 8 – 8 February 2022
Specialist Questions
Set by the Pack Horse Bowling Club.
Round 1: British History
1 |
Who, in 1745, came to Macclesfield on his way to London to claim the British throne? |
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Prince Charles Edward Stuart (accept Bonnie Prince Charlie) |
2 |
Charles Darwin's famous voyage, which helped him formulate the Origin of the Species, was aboard which ship? |
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HMS Beagle |
3 |
What did Winston Churchill refer to as "the geese who laid the golden egg but never cackled"? |
|
The code breakers at Bletchley Park |
4 |
Which British Prime Minister became the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield? |
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Benjamin Disraeli |
5 |
Which publication, by the Normans, has been called "the most comprehensive survey of any human society before the 19th
century"? |
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The Domesday Book |
6 |
Give the code name of one of the three beaches assaulted by British troops on D–Day (in 1944).
|
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Gold, Juno or Sword |
7 |
Who described the Battle of Waterloo as "a damned nice thing – the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life"? |
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The Duke of Wellington |
8 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during which 19th–century battle? |
|
Balaclava |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Whose body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, more than two years after his death, to be 'posthumously executed' for
treason? |
|
Oliver Cromwell |
2 |
When did the last Romans allegedly leave Britain? |
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Around AD 410 (accept 390 to 430) |
Round 2: Books and their Authors
You'll be given the title of a book; please give the name of the author.
1 |
In Cold Blood |
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Truman Capote |
2 |
The Jungle Book |
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Rudyard Kipling |
3 |
The Silmarillion |
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J. R. R. Tolkien |
4 |
Goldfinger |
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Ian Fleming |
5 |
Crime and Punishment |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky |
6 |
Watership Down |
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Richard Adams |
7 |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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Mark Twain |
8 |
Les Misérables |
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Victor Hugo |
Supplementaries:
1 |
A Dance to the Music of Time |
|
Anthony Powell |
2 |
The Life of Pi |
|
Yann Martel |
Round 3: Sport
1 |
Why has businesswoman Amanda Staveley been in the sports news recently? |
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She was involved in the takeover of Newcastle United by Saudi Arabia in October
2021 |
2 |
Who won the Women's Singles in the Australian Open last month – so becoming the first home–grown champion since 1978? |
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Ashleigh Barty |
3 |
Who scored England's goal in the first few minutes of the Euro 2020 final versus Italy (held in July 2021)? |
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Luke Shaw |
4 |
Name the captain of either Team Europe or Team USA at the 2021 Ryder Cup, held at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin. |
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Padraig Harrington (Europe) or Steve Stricker (USA) |
5 |
What's the name for the target area in curling? |
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The house (accept button – which is the centre of the
house.) |
6 |
In darts, what's meant by the slang term 'the madhouse'? |
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It's when the player is left with a score of 2 (double 1).
|
7 |
In snooker, the winner of the Masters tournament receives a trophy named after which former player, who died in 2006 at the age
of 27? |
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Paul Hunter |
8 |
What's the name of the new Manchester United manager? |
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Ralf Rangnick |
Supplementaries:
1 |
What's the series title of Amazon Prime's 'access all areas' documentaries focusing on a professional sports team
throughout an entire season? |
|
All or Nothing |
2 |
Name the cricketer at centre of recent race claims against Yorkshire County Cricket Club. |
|
Azeem Rafiq |
Round 4: Tall Tales and Misdemeanours
This round is about political scandals, excuses and cover–ups.
1 |
During the trial of Stephen Ward in 1963, what did Mandy Rice–Davies famously say when it was put to her that
Lord Astor denied an affair or even having met her? |
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Well he would, wouldn't he? (Often misquoted as "Well he
would say that, wouldn't he?" Accept either.) |
2 |
The Jeremy Thorpe scandal of the 1970s is sometimes referred to as 'Rinkagate'.
Who or what was Rinka? |
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A dog, owned by Thorpe's former lover Norman Scott, that was killed,
instead of Scott, in a botched hit. |
3 |
During his now infamous Newsnight interview, Prince Andrew defended himself by stating that on one of the nights in
question he was actually at a Pizza Express in which town? |
|
Woking |
4 |
The Starr Report, published in 1998, looked predominantly into which scandal? |
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The affair of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky |
5 |
Name the civil servant carrying out the investigation into parties held at Downing Street during lockdown. |
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Sue Gray |
6 |
Name the Downing Street Press Secretary who resigned in December after video emerged of her fielding mock questions about parties
held at Downing Street during lockdown. |
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Allegra Stratton |
7 |
Which US President had a sign on his desk reading "The Buck Stops Here!" |
|
Harry S. Truman |
8 |
Which Conservative politician said "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in
failure"? |
|
Enoch Powell |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Jacob Rees–Mogg, after recently being cleared by the parliamentary standards committee, tweeted the following quote from
Shakespeare. Please give either the play or the character: "Who steals my purse steals trash ... But he that filches from me my good name Robs me
of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed." |
|
Play: Othello. Character: Iago
|
2 |
Name the interior designer who has managed to get caught up in two of Boris Johnson's recent issues – carrying out the
redecoration of the Downing Street flat and being one of the attendees at his lockdown birthday party. |
|
Lulu Lytle |
Round 5: Fun and Games
1 |
In the game of chess, what's the maximum number of squares that a knight can move to (if positioned on a central square)? |
|
Eight |
2 |
How many counters does each player have at the start of a game of backgammon? |
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Fifteen |
3 |
How many tiles make up a set of dominoes? |
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Twenty–eight |
4 |
In Scrabble, which is the only letter that's worth five points? |
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K |
5 |
What do the letter RPG stand for in the world of computer gaming? |
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Role–Playing Game (allow 'Play' or
'Player' for 'Playing') |
6 |
Which computer games character first appeared in the game Donkey Kong, as Jumpman? |
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Mario |
7 |
What name is given to the activity where GPS technology is used to locate small items hidden by other participants and where finds
are recorded on a website? |
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Geocaching |
8 |
What are you playing if you cross–wire your opponents balls? |
|
Croquet |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which games company's name translates as 'leave luck to heaven'? |
|
Nintendo |
2 |
How many points were awarded for each dot that Pac–man swallowed? |
|
Ten |
Round 6: Science
1 |
What was the surname of the brothers who built the first hot air balloons? |
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Montgolfier |
2 |
In the abbreviation 'PVC', what does the C stand for? |
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Chloride |
3 |
What is Helix aspersa, a pest in the garden because of its liking for green vegetation?
|
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A snail (not the Pulmonata, the slug a different family) |
4 |
What's the chemical symbol for lead? |
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Pb |
5 |
What's the SI unit of illumination? |
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Lux |
6 |
Brass is an alloy of copper and which other metal? |
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Zinc |
7 |
Who discovered X–rays? |
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Wilhelm Roentgen |
8 |
What useful tool did Charles Moncke invent? |
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The Moncke [now Monkey] Wrench |
Supplementaries:
1 |
What shape is the piston in a Wankel engine? |
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Triangular (accept three–cornered, etc.) |
2 |
What disease takes its name from medieval Italian words for 'bad air'?
|
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Malaria |
Round 7: Geography
1 |
What is the name of Hamburg's red light district? |
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The Reeperbahn |
2 |
Which area of London is believed to be named after an ancient hunting cry? |
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Soho |
3 |
Which city offers the opportunity to cross the Bridge of Sighs and shop in the Rows? |
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Chester |
4 |
Which bridge over the River Thames has the shortest name? |
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Kew Bridge |
5 |
Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, is Europe's largest example of what? |
|
Man–made mound |
6 |
Which cross–channel ferry port shares its name with the capital of the US state of Delaware? |
|
Dover |
7 |
The flag of Monaco matches that of which European country, but with the colours reversed? |
|
Poland |
8 |
Which valuable commodity is taken from Trinidad's Pitch Lake? |
|
Asphalt |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Brown Willy is the highest point on which moor? |
|
Bodmin Moor |
2 |
Which town in East Devon is at the westernmost end of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site? |
|
Exmouth |
Round 8: Arts & Entertainment
1 |
Who is the subject of Sting's song An Englishman in New York? |
|
Quentin Crisp |
2 |
Which movie gave Julia Roberts the chance to explain to Hugh Grant "I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking
him to love her"? |
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Notting Hill |
3 |
To whose memory is the movie Gladiator dedicated? |
|
Oliver Reed |
4 |
In which TV programme did Squidward the octopus live in an Easter Island head? |
|
SpongeBob SquarePants |
5 |
Who provided the voice for Maggie Simpson's first word – which none of her family heard her say? |
|
Elizabeth Taylor |
6 |
Which celebrity won 2021's Strictly Come Dancing? |
|
Rose Ayling Ellis |
7 |
Who took the lead character in the 1958 movie King Creole that had originally been offered to James Dean?
|
|
Elvis Presley |
8 |
Which band rewrote the lyrics to their song Shiny Happy People – changing it to Furry Happy People when
they appeared on Sesame Street? |
|
R.E.M. |
Supplementaries:
1 |
What colourful rock duo claimed to be brother and sister but were actually a divorced couple?
|
|
The White Stripes |
2 |
Which major pop star is credited as co–writer and backing singer for David Bowie's song Fame? |
|
John Lennon |
General Knowledge
Set by Waters Green Lemmings.
1 |
What was the name of the ranch in the TV series Bonanza? |
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The Ponderosa |
2 |
John Denver's Take Me Home Country Roads is about which state? |
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West Virginia |
3 |
What's the name of the pub featured in Emmerdale? |
|
The Woolpack |
4 |
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived – who was Henry VIII's last wife? |
|
Catherine Parr |
5 |
O'Hare airport serves which US city? |
|
Chicago |
6 |
Who plays 'Delboy' Trotter in Only Fools and Horses? |
|
David Jason |
7 |
In the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, who does the wolf dress up as? |
|
Grandmother |
8 |
In which US state is the city of Nashville? |
|
Tennesse |
9 |
In which part of the body would you find the cruciate ligament? |
|
Knee |
10 |
Which tennis grand slam is played on clay? |
|
The French Open |
11 |
What was the old name for a Snickers bar before 1990? |
|
Marathon |
12 |
In what year did Tony Blair become British Prime Minister? |
|
1997 |
13 |
Which product was advertised by Douglas, a trombonist made of butter? |
|
Lurpak |
14 |
Starring Iain Armitage, what's the title of the prequel to The Big Bang Theory? |
|
Young Sheldon |
15 |
Which Shakespeare title character dies in the first half of the play? |
|
Julius Caesar |
16 |
Whose death is the first to be recorded in the Bible? |
|
Abel |
17 |
In which decade was the Battle of the Boyne? |
|
The 1690s (accept 1680 to 1700 – it was 1690)
|
18 |
In The Sound of Music, who is described as "a flibbergibbet, a will–o'–the–whisp, a
clown"? |
|
Maria |
19 |
Which Italian word is used in music to mean 'lively' or 'fast'? |
|
Allegro |
20 |
Epernay in northern France calls itself the capital of which drink? |
|
Champagne |
21 |
The name of which fabric literally means 'hairy caterpillar' in French? |
|
Chenille |
22 |
What's the name of a straight line joining any two points on a circle's circumference? |
|
A chord |
23 |
The Clarence Hotel in Dublin is co–owned by members of which band? |
|
U2 |
24 |
In 2004, artist Sam Taylor Wood created a video of which sportsman sleeping? |
|
David Beckham |
25 |
Name the act that had the UK's No. 1 single in 2018, 2019 and 2020. |
|
LadBaby |
26 |
In Greek legend, who was the first Queen of Carthage? |
|
Dido |
27 |
The company Manganese Bronze was famous for making which iconic London vehicles? |
|
Black cabs |
28 |
How many legs does a lobster have? |
|
10 (accept 9 – 11) |
29 |
In the Julia Donaldson story, which creature confronts the Gruffalo? |
|
The mouse |
30 |
In the children's book, what does the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat first? |
|
An apple |
31 |
How many pints are there in a firkin? |
|
72 |
32 |
In which English county is The Darling Buds of May set? |
|
Kent |
33 |
Italy's longest international border is with which country? |
|
Switzerland |
34 |
The Bhagavad Gita is the sacred text of which religion? |
|
Hinduism |
35 |
In 2012, a pet called Tardar Sauce became an internet sensation under which name? |
|
Grumpy Cat |
36 |
What name is given to a second full moon occurring in a single month? |
|
A blue moon |
37 |
In geometry, shapes with the same size and shape are said to be what? |
|
Congruent |
38 |
François Nars is a professional what? |
|
Make–up artist |
39 |
Which scientist gives his name to a constant, a cage and a law? |
|
Michael Faraday |
40 |
Which skin condition is known medically as pruritis? |
|
Itching |
41 |
Bring Him Home and Master of the House are songs from which musical? |
|
Les Misérables |
42 |
Which two–word phrase links "I haven't A Clue" and "I'll Read That Again"? |
|
"I'm Sorry" – they're both famous radio comedy shows |
43 |
In which forest would you find Sandy Balls? |
|
The New Forest |
44 |
On a Monopoly board, which colour properties have the lowest rents? |
|
Brown |
45 |
Which Beatle was barefoot on the cover of Abbey Road? |
|
Paul McCartney |
46 |
What mode of transport is a felucca? |
|
A boat |
47 |
Modern Life Is Rubbish was which band's second album? |
|
Blur |
48 |
What kind of clothing is a Dolly Varden? |
|
A hat |
49 |
In music, which type of note is followed by a symbol resembling the lower–case letter 'b'? |
|
A flat |
50 |
Which child's toy was originally designed as a wallpaper cleaner? |
|
Play–Doh |
51 |
In which sport might you perform Randolphs and Rudolphs? |
|
Trampolining |
52 |
What name s given to the act of shaping a pot on a wheel? |
|
Throwing |
53 |
In the sitcom The Young Ones, who played Neil the hippy? |
|
Nigel Planer |
54 |
Established in 1866, what does the Howard League campaign for? |
|
Penal reform |
55 |
Which section of an orchestra is also known as the 'kitchen sink'? |
|
Percussion |
56 |
Which instrument is nicknamed 'the clown of the orchestra'? |
|
The bassoon |
57 |
When he was 12 years old, Fidel Castro sent a letter to president Franklin Roosevelt asking for what? |
|
An autograph |
58 |
If you had a graphospasm, from what would you suffer? |
|
Writer's cramp |
59 |
What name is given to the two promontories at the eastern end of the Straits of Gibraltar? |
|
The Pillars of Hercules |
60 |
An image of which mountain is on packets of Toblerone? |
|
The Matterhorn |
61 |
What kind of pet is a Mexican Hairless? |
|
Dog |
62 |
In the Hergé cartoons, what style of trousers does Tintin wear? |
|
Plus fours |
63 |
The name of which non–metallic element can precede neutral, footprint and dating? |
|
Carbon |
64 |
In which year did the USA enter World War I? |
|
1917 |
65 |
Name either of the two cities between which the Royal Mail train that was robbed in the 1966 Great Train Robbery was travelling. |
|
Glasgow or London |
66 |
Which 1947 opera by Benjamin Britten is set in the East Suffolk market town of Loxford? |
|
Albert Herring |
67 |
Which Russian submarine sank to the bottom of the Bering Sea on the 12th of August 2000? |
|
Kursk |
68 |
What colour are the seats in the House of Commons? |
|
Green |
69 |
In which year did Elvis Presley die? |
|
1977 |
70 |
What's the name of Wendy's dog in Peter Pan? |
|
Nana |
71 |
What's the name of Sir Keir Starmer's constituency? |
|
Holborn & St. Pancras (accept either name) |
72 |
In what year was the Chernobyl disaster? |
|
1986 |
73 |
In which century did Leonardo da Vinci paint The Last Supper? |
|
15th |
74 |
Which fictional detective lived in the village of St. Mary Mead? |
|
Miss Marple |
75 |
How many teeth does an adult human have? |
|
32 |
76 |
Which is the largest landlocked county in the UK? |
|
Shropshire |
77 |
What's the state capital of Alaska? |
|
Juneau |
78 |
What is the Japanese drink Sake made from? |
|
Rice |
79 |
Born in 1954, by what name is the singer Declan McManus better known? |
|
Elvis Costello |
80 |
On which date is St. Andrew's Day? |
|
30th November |
81 |
Whose face (apart from the Queen's) appears on the current £10 note? |
|
Jane Austen |
82 |
Which is Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, having been first published in 1791? |
|
The Observer |
83 |
In which country did the first Football World Cup take place (in 1930)? |
|
Uruguay |
84 |
What was the most downloaded app of 2020? |
|
TikTok |
85 |
In which year was the Football Premier League started? |
|
1992 |
86 |
Who is currently the Vice President of the United States? |
|
Kamala Harris |
87 |
Who did Queen Elizabeth II surpass as Britain's longest–serving monarch in September 2015? |
|
Queen Victoria |
88 |
Who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia? |
|
C. S. Lewis |
89 |
Which art movement is Salvador Dali associated with? |
|
Surrealism |
90 |
In which year did Princess Diana die? |
|
1997 |
91 |
Who killed the Minotaur? |
|
Theseus |
92 |
What is the pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg? |
|
Woody Allen |
93 |
On which island is the city of Palermo? |
|
Sicily |
94 |
From which cactus plant is tequila made? |
|
Agave (A–gave) |
95 |
How many strings does a violin have? |
|
Four |
96 |
In which year was the Berlin Wall built? |
|
1961 |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which animal features on the Porsche logo? |
|
A horse |
2 |
Which hockey team did Wayne Gretzky play for in the 1980s? |
|
Edmonton Oilers |
3 |
Where are the Petronas Towers? |
|
Kuala Lumpur |
4 |
Born in 1954, by what name is the singer Declan McManus better known? |
|
Elvis Costello |
5 |
Who is the subject of the 2005 film Cinderella Man? |
|
Heavyweight boxer James J. Braddock |
6 |
Which sportsman is the subject of the book Wink, published in 2004? |
|
African–American jockey Jimmy Winkfield |
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