2022–3 Season: Week 8 – 24 January 2023

Specialist Rounds

1	Sport	2	People & Places
3	A Kaleidoscope of Colours	4	History
5	Arts & Entertainment	6	Dearly Departed
7	Science	8	Geography

Specialist Questions

Round 1: Sport

1	A new world record transfer fee for a female player was set last year when Keira Walsh moved for £400,000 from Manchester City to which other club?
	Barcelona
2	Earlier this year, American Mikaela Shiffrin equalled Lindsey Vonn's world record of 82 World Cup wins in which sport?
	Skiing
3	Which British stadium holds the European attendance record for a football match when over 149,000 packed in for a game in 1937?
	Hampden Park
4	Jake Wightman won gold for Team GB in which event at last year's Athletics World Championships?
	1500m
5	In which town do the Leopards, newly promoted to Rugby League's Super League, play? They were known as the Centurions until October 2022?
	Leigh
6	With 24 titles, which woman holds the record for the most tennis Grand Slam singles wins?
	Margaret Court
7	Natalie Metcalf is the captain of the England team in which sport? They have recently played a three–match series against Jamaica?
	Netball
8	Which footballer, who helped England win the Euros last summer, then went on to become Queen of the Jungle in December?
	Jill Scott

Supplementaries:

1	Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest this month whilst playing for which American Football team? They are often considered the unluckiest team in the NFL after losing four Superbowls in a row in the 1990s?
	Buffalo Bills (accept either part of the name)
2	At which venue have the PDC Darts World Championships been held since 2008?
	Alexandra Palace

Round 2: People and places

All the answers are people whose name is also that of a British town or city.

1	Which former model and presenter on Loose Women is married to Rod Stewart?
	Penny Lancaster
2	Which woman had hits in the 1980s with Circle in the Sand and Heaven is a Place on Earth?
	Belinda Carlisle
3	What was the real name of the magician with the stage name The Great Soprendo? From 1980 to 2002 he was married to Victoria Wood?
	Geoffrey Durham
4	Which actor is known for his roles in Cabaret, Logan's Run and The Three Musketeers?
	Michael York
5	What is the one–word name of the lead singer of The Ordinary Boys who stormed out of a recording of Never Mind the Buzzcocks after Simon Amstell persistently made fun of his relationship with a Big Brother contestant?
	Preston
6	In 1966–7, who became the first person to sail single–handed around the world via the clipper route?
	Francis Chichester
7	Which manager guided both Newport County and Leyton Orient back into the football league before his untimely death aged just 49 in 2019? He spent most of his playing career with Tottenham Hotspur.
	Justin Edinburgh
8	Which actor's breakthrough role was as Egg in the 1990s drama This Life? He has also starred in Teachers, The Walking Dead and in the film Love Actually.
	Andrew Lincoln

Supplementaries:

1	Who is Great Britain's most successful tennis doubles player of recent times, having won five grand slam titles since 2020?
	Joe Salisbury
2	Who won the Men's 100m at the 1980 Olympics?
	Allan Wells

Round 3: A Kaleidoscope of Colours

All the questions or answers contain a colour. The colour may be the whole word or part of a word.

1	With the real first names Paul Neal, what was the name of the famous oilwell firefighter whose exploits included helping put out the oil platform fire on Piper Alpha in the North Sea in 1988 and the oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991 after the Gulf War? Two word answer required.
	Red Adair
2	Which new wave UK band had a hit single with Fade to Grey in 1980?
	Visage
3	Which DJ was the first to play a record on Radio 1 in 1967? He was aged 24 at the time and the song was Flowers in the Rain by the Move.
	Tony Blackburn
4	Name the 1887 detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson?
	A Study in Scarlet
5	Name the title of the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay. It was set during the First World War.
	Greenmantle
6	The Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 was a famous summit meeting between Francis I of France and which English king?
	Henry VIII
7	What is the nickname of Cardiff City Football Club?
	Bluebirds
8	Which Texas city is also the Spanish word for yellow? It featured in the title of a 1971 song by Tony Christie?
	Amarillo

Supplementaries:

1	What two–word term has entered politics to describe the block of constitutional seats in the North and Midlands of England that have traditionally returned Labour MPs at elections? Many of these seats were captured by the Conservatives at the 2019 election.
	Red Wall
2	Which American singer/songwriter, real name Alecia Beth Moore Hart, has had hits including Who Knew and Get the Party Started She also appeared on the collaborative single Lady Marmalade which was the soundtrack to the 2001 film Moulin Rouge. We need her one–word professional name.
	Pink

Round 4: History

1	In August 1942 the Allies carried out a major raid on which German occupied French coastal town? Involving mainly Canadian troops it was code named Operation Jubilee and was widely considered a disaster?
	Dieppe
2	Which English king carried out The Harrying of the North? It was a brutal campaign to subjugate the North of England and is believed to have resulted in approximately 100,000 deaths?
	William I (or William the Conqueror)
3	Bucephalus was the horse of which famous king and military leader from Greek antiquity?
	Alexander the Great
4	What name was given to the two artificial portable harbours towed across the English Channel and used in the D Day landings?
	Mulberry Harbours
5	Which British king, who reigned from 1830 to 1837, was known as the Sailor King?
	William IV
6	Those English and Welsh settlements where all their members of the armed forces survived The First World War are known as what villages?
	Thankful Villages (or Blessed Villages)
7	Whom did Lloyd George replace as Prime Minister in December 1916 during the First World War?
	Herbert Asquith
8	What word describes an ancient vessel and type of galley used by the ancient maritime civilisations of the Mediterranean such as the Greeks and Romans? Its name derives from the Latin for 'with three banks of oars'.
	Trireme

Supplementaries:

1	Who replaced Konstantin Chernenko as leader of the Soviet Union is March 1985?
	Mikhail Gorbachev
2	During which 1854 battle did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place?
	Balaclava

Round 5: Arts & Entertainment

1	Name the director of such films as Ryan's Daughter and Great Expectations?
	David Lean
2	Which band released the compilation album We Sold our Soul for Rock and Roll in 1976? Members included Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler?
	Black Sabbath
3	A ship named the Compass Rose features in which 1953 film?
	The Cruel Sea
4	Which film studio's logo is a spinning globe?
	Universal
5	Who painted Rain, Steam and Speed?
	J. M. W. Turner
6	Who wrote the poem The Road Not Taken?
	Robert Frost
7	Who received the best actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field?
	Sidney Poitier
8	Give a year in the life of Auguste Rodin.
	1840 to 1917

Supplementaries:

1	In Fireball XL5, who was Steve Zodiac's robot pal?
	Robert (accept Robbie)
10	Who sang On Days Like These, the opening song in the film of The Italian Job?
	Matt Monro

Round 6: Dearly Departed

1	Comedy writer born in 1935. He was a long serving panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
	Barry Cryer
2	The original and longest serving host of University Challenge.
	Bamber Gascoigne
3	Australian cricketer, bowler of the 'ball of the century' at Old Trafford?
	Shane Warne
4	Nine–time Derby winning jockey who rode 4493 winners, the first at the age of 12 at Haydock Park in 1948.
	Lester Piggott
5	Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring up the Bodies.
	Hilary Mantel
6	Bestselling author, real name Henry Patterson. He wrote 85 books but is best known for his 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed.
	Jack Higgins
7	Born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague, she arrived in the USA as a refugee in 1948. She went on to become the first female US Secretary of State?
	Madeleine Albright
8	English actress known for roles in Eastenders and Last of the Summer Wine but best remembered as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours?
	Lynda Baron

Supplementaries:

1	Drummer with the Foo Fighters since 1997, died aged 50 during the band's tour of South America?
	Taylor Hawkins
2	Actress and singer perhaps most notably known for her role as Sandy Olsson in the 1978 film musical Grease?
	Olivia Newton–John

Round 7: Science

1	Most of us will have taken a PCR test. But what does the R stand for?
	Reaction (polymerase chain reaction)
2	What does the D stand for in LED lights?
	Diode (light emitting diode)
3	How many hydrogen atoms are there in 1 molecule of ethanol?
	6 (CH3–CH2–OH, C2H5OH, or C2H6H)
4	In which constellation would you find the star Betelgeuse?
	Orion
5	What is the only letter that doesn't appear in the periodic table of elements?
	J
6	What is nephrology the study of?
	The kidneys
7	Which metallic element is the best conductor of electricity?
	Silver
8	At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit the same numerical value?
	–40

Supplementaries:

1	Where in the body would you find the alveoli?
	Lungs
2	Which Scottish mathematician discovered logarithms in 1614?
	John Napier

Round 8: Geography

1	Chicago borders which of the Great Lakes?
	Lake Michigan
2	Into which sea does the River Volga flow?
	The Caspian Sea
3	What is the capital of the Australian state of South Australia?
	Adelaide
4	In which country would you find the Negev Desert?
	Israel
5	Luzon is the largest island of which country?
	The Philippines
6	Slightly larger than Rhode Island, which US state is the second smallest?
	Delaware
7	On which river does the city of Timbuktu stand?
	The Niger
8	A World Heritage Site since 1986, what was described by Dr Johnson as 'worth seeing but not worth going to see'?
	The Giant's Causeway

Supplementaries:

1	What is the only Asian country through which the Equator passes?
	Indonesia
2	What is the world's most populous Portuguese speaking city?
	Sao Paolo

General Knowledge

1	What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
	Na
2	St Mungo is the patron saint of which British city?
	Glasgow
3	Banned by the BBC, which band's 1972 debut single was entitled Give Ireland Back to the Irish?
	Wings
4	Lynn Benfield is the long–suffering personal assistant of which fictional character?
	Alan Partridge
5	In 2005, who became the first ever Russian to be ranked number 1 in women's tennis?
	Maria Sharapova
6	A gay bar called the Blue Oyster was often featured in which series of seven films made between 1984 and 1994?
	Police Academy
7	Which artist has released the albums Pilgrim, No Reason to Cry and 461 Ocean Boulevard?
	Eric Clapton
8	In the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons, which bells say 'when will you pay me'?
	Old Bailey

9	Which woman was still appearing in the West End last year at the age of 90 as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins? She was often referred to as the 'first lady of the British Invasion' of the USA' in the 1960s?
	Petula Clark
10	Who took over from Joe Lycett as presenter of The Great British Sewing Bee last year?
	Sara Pascoe
11	Now TV presenters in their own right, Robert and Bindi are the children of which man, who died aged 44 in 2006?
	Steve Irwin
12	What is the name of the Leeds Rhinos legend whose battle with Motor Neuron Disease has inspired his former teammate Kevin Sinfield to raise millions for charity through his marathon running?
	Rob Burrow
13	In which 1952 novel by Mary Norton do the title characters refer to human beings as 'human beans'?
	The Borrowers
14	In the Star Wars films, what was the colour of the blade on Luke Skywalker's lightsabre?
	Blue
15	In 1941, which song became the first from a Disney movie to win the Best Original Song Oscar?
	When You Wish Upon a Star
16	What was the name of the music festival sponsored by Tennent's Lager and held annually in Scotland, usually at Balado Airfield, from 1994 until 2016?
	T in the Park

17	What is the usual colour of the ball used in water polo?
	Yellow
18	Which English king's army was defeated at the Battle of Bannockburn?
	Edward II
19	What is the first name of the title character in the film The Talented Mr Ripley?
	Tom
20	What is the name of the loyalty card programme run by Boot's?
	Advantage (card)
21	Which man sent Brian Johnston into hysterics when he suggested that Ian Botham had 'failed to get his leg over' during a 1991 TMS commentary?
	Jonathan Agnew
22	Thomas Becket was murdered on the 'orders' of which monarch?
	Henry II
23	'I just want to apologise to Mike's mom, Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone.' is a to–camera quote by the character Heather in which horror film?
	The Blair Witch Project
24	As painted by Michelangelo, which biblical character is God depicted as almost touching fingers with on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
	Adam

25	What was the surname of the character Phoebe in the TV series Friends?
	Buffay
26	What nationality was Tove Jansson, who wrote the Moomins series of books?
	Finnish
27	What was the name of the special envoy of the then Archbishop of Canterbury who was kidnapped in Beirut in 1987 and held captive for four years?
	Terry Waite
28	Which record label was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica in 1959?
	Island
29	Who was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 until 2013?
	Kier Starmer
30	What was the nickname of the character Samuel Powers, played by Dustin Diamond, in the TV series Saved by the Bell?
	Screech
31	At 34 miles, the longest possible direct journey on the London Underground is between West Ruislip and Epping – on which line?
	Central
32	Sometimes called the Rose City, what is Jordan's most visited tourist attraction?
	Petra

33	Which London landmark was originally designed to be the entrance to Buckingham Palace?
	Marble Arch
34	Paul McCartney and Gordon Brown are both known by their middle names. What is their shared first name?
	James
35	The one hundred folds in a toque, or chef's hat, are supposed to represent the many different ways a chef knows how to cook what?
	An egg
36	Which single by Take That credits both Barry Manilow and Frederic Chopin, as the music was composed by the former but based on the latter's Prelude in C Minor?
	Could It Be Magic
37	What was the title of the second novel to be published in the James Bond series, but the 8th to be made into an 'official' film?
	Live and Let Die
38	Which real–life person did Benedict Cumberbatch play in the 2019 Channel 4 TV film Brexit: The Unclean War?
	Dominic Cummings
39	In the Harry Potter novels, how many players make up a quidditch team?
	7
40	Why is Billund Airport, serving a town of just 6,000 people, the second busiest airport in Denmark?
	Because Billund is home to the original Legoland theme park (accept anything that refers to Legoland)

41	Which English football club used to be nicknamed The Biscuitmen, due to the presence of the Huntley and Palmers factory in the town?
	Reading
42	The Five, a highly–acclaimed 2019 non–fiction book by historian Hallie Rubenhold, is subtitled The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by ... whom?
	Jack the Ripper
43	Who currently presents the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show?
	Zoe Ball
44	What is the name of the Radio 4 music quiz hosted by Paul Gambaccini?
	Counterpoint
45	What is the medical name for the breastbone?
	Sternum
46	What was the name of the man who broke into the Queen's bedroom in 1982?
	Michael Fagan
47	Ushanka and chullo are both what type of items of clothing?
	Hats
48	Who is the famous father of Elijah and Eve Hewson, respectively the lead singer of the band Inhaler and an actress?
	Bono (Paul David Hewson)

49	Which Beatles song lends its name to the second film in the Knives Out series starring Daniel Craig?
	Glass Onion
50	Dying on 12 January, Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa–Marie had been married four times. Which actor, himself a member of a famous family, the Coppolas, was her third husband?
	Nicolas Cage
51	George Macdonald Fraser wrote a series of novels based on which character who had first appeared in Thomas Hughes' novel Tom Brown's Schooldays?
	Harry Flashman
52	What links Katie Boyle, Moira Shearer, Angela Rippon, Jan Leeming, Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson? The last two did it together, the others all on their own?
	Hosted the Eurovision Song Contest (on those occasions it has been held in the UK)
53	What name is given to the head electrician on a film set?
	Gaffer
54	The Anthony Nolan Trust maintains a register of donors of what bodily tissue for transplants?
	Bone marrow
55	George Floyd was killed in which US city in 2020?
	Minneapolis
56	Which man delivered the spoken word sequence at the end of Michael Jackson's single Thriller?
	Vincent Price

57	American Brittney Griner, recently released after ten months in a Russian prison, had been in the country to play which sport professionally?
	Basketball
58	On the 1st of January 2023, which country became the 20th state to adopt the Euro as its currency?
	Croatia
59	Which London Underground line is the only one to intersect with all the others?
	Jubilee
60	What name is given to a whale's tail?
	Fluke
61	Which character in the adult comic Viz was known for his 'unfeasibly large testicles'?
	Buster Gonad
62	Badgers is the name given to junior members of which organization founded in 1877?
	St John Ambulance
63	Annette Mills, sister of actor John, was best known as the human companion to which character?
	Muffin the Mule
64	Name either of the two Willy Russell plays, with girls' names in the titles, that were adapted into films in the 1980s.
	Educating Rita or Shirley Valentine

65	Who played Hannibal Smith in the 1980s TV series The A Team?
	George Peppard
66	Whose novels include Enduring Love, On Chesil Beach and Amsterdam?
	Ian McEwan
67	What nationality is John Part, who in 1994 became the first overseas player to win the BDO World Darts Championship?
	Canadian
68	On almost every list of the Seven Deadly Sins, which sin is regarded as the original and worst?
	Pride
69	In which European country is the town of Davos, home to an annual economic forum?
	Switzerland
70	Which job has a name that means 'equal to' in French?
	Au Pair
71	Name either of the two people about whose wedding 'Egghead weds Hourglass' was a 1956 newspaper headline.
	Arthur Miller or Marilyn Monroe
72	Who was the original presenter of Masterchef when it was launched in 1990?
	Loyd Grossman

73	Due to its shape, which type of pasta is sometimes called 'belly–button' pasta?
	Tortellini
74	What nationality are the golfers Retief Goosen, Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen?
	South African
75	Bobbin, needle and tape are all types of what fabric, the traditional 13th wedding anniversary gift?
	Lace
76	What percentage of the vote must a candidate receive to retain his or her deposit in a UK general election?
	5%
77	What animal features on the logo of the car maker Abarth?
	Scorpion
78	What was the first name of the title character in the sitcom The Brittas Empire?
	Gordon
79	In the 2002 BBC TV show 100 Greatest Britons, Winston Churchill topped the poll. Name any other person who made the top four.
	Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Darwin, Princess Diana
80	In 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first man to do what?
	Spacewalk

81	Armalcolite is the name of a mineral which was first found where? It is named after the first letters of the surnames of the three men instrumental in its discovery.
	The moon (after Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins)
82	Which senior British army officer was drowned when HMS Hampshire sank in 1916?
	Lord Kitchener
83	What name is given to the false contractions often experienced in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy?
	Braxton Hicks
84	The UK's first conservation area was the Georgian centre of which Lincolnshire town some 15 miles north–west of Peterborough?
	Stamford
85	RAF Akrotiri can be found on which island?
	Cyprus
86	Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis was the first novel about which character to be written by a man other than the original author, who had written twelve novels featuring the character before his death in 1964?
	James Bond
87	What name is given to a small bouquet of flowers worn on a woman's dress or around her wrist for a formal occasion?
	Corsage
88	In which month of the year is Australia Day celebrated?
	January

89	Procurator Fiscal is the Scottish equivalent of which role in England and Wales?
	Coroner
90	How many jumps does a horse have to make to complete the Grand National (including those jumped twice)?
	30
91	In 1961, blond–haired, bespectacled Terry Brooks became the first boy to play which role in a TV advert?
	The Milky Bar Kid
92	Llantrisant in the Welsh Valleys is the home of which state–owned organization?
	The Royal Mint
93	What is the name of the English cartoonist (1872–1944), famous for his drawings featuring whimsically elaborate machines to achieve actually quite simple objectives?
	William Heath Robinson
94	In which British city did the 1963 bus boycott take place?
	Bristol
95	Between April and December 1962, the Beatles played three residencies at the Star–Club in which German city?
	Hamburg
96	Turpentine is obtained from which trees?
	Pines

Supplementaries:

1	What is the name of Apple's intelligent personal assistant?
	Siri
2	The call sign 'Shepherd One' is used if which man is on board an aeroplane?
	The Pope
3	What was the surname of Terry and June in the sitcom of the same name?
	Medford
4	What was the name of the 1960s Scottish folk band featuring Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty?
	The Humblebums
5	What price features on the Mad Hatter's hat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
	10/6 (ten shillings and sixpence, or ten and six)

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