2022–3 Season: Week 11 – 14 February 2023

Set by the Harrington Academicals; vetted by Sutton Club and Waters Green Weavers.

Specialist Rounds

1	It's Valentine's Day	2	History
3	Geography	4	Sport
5	Science – It's Elementary	6	Dancing Around
7	Arts & Entertainment	8	Dumb Britain

Specialist Questions

Round 1: Valentines

It's Valentine's Day – so guess what's coming.

1	In what city did the St Valentine's massacre take place?
	Chicago
2	Which actor, nicknamed The Latin Lover, died in 1926?
	Rudolph Valentino
3	Which English author's poem, Parliament of Fowls, written around 1380, was said to first associate Saint Valentine with lovers?
	Geoffrey Chaucer
4	Which famous explorer was killed on St. Valentine's Day by natives in the Sandwich Islands?
	Captain Cook
5	Which Shakespeare play features Valentine and Proteus?
	The Two Gentlemen of Verona
6	Who played the title role in the film Shirley Valentine?
	Pauline Collins
7	If you were born today, what star sign would you be?
	Aquarius
8	Who is the nine–time Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion, nicknamed The Doctor for his ability to operate on opponents' minds?
	Valentino Rossi

Supplementaries:

1	Which pope deleted St Valentine's Day from the Roman Calendar of Saints in 1969?
	Pope Paul VI
2	Who was the first woman in space?
	Valentina Tereshkova (was in original set, but relegated after being asked a fortnight ago)
3	In the 18th century, sailors used to give their wives and girlfriends a 'busk valentine'. What was this?
	A piece of carved whalebone or driftwood, which they'd wear to stiffen their corsets
4	As well as being the unofficial patron saint of love, what occupation is St Valentine also believed to be the patron of?
	Beekeepers

Round 2: History

1	James, The Old Pretender, and Charles, the Young Pretender, were leaders at different times during which long–lasting Rebellion against the British monarchy?
	The Jacobite Rebellion
2	Which legendary Scottish leader resigned as Guardian of Scotland after his defeat by the English at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298?
	William Wallace
3	Marie Antoinette was the wife of which French monarch? They were both guillotined in 1793. (Regnal name and number required.)
	Louis XVI (the Sixteenth)
4	Between 1309 and 1377, Avignon in France was the seat of which religious leaders?
	The Popes
5	Who was the first African–American to hold the post of US Secretary of State?
	Colin Powell (2001–5)
6	Who was last white President of South Africa?
	F. W. de Klerk (1989–94)
7	Ivan the Terrible became the first Tsar of all Russia in which century?
	The 16th (1547)
8	Which Welsh mediaeval fortification is the second largest castle in the UK, after Windsor?
	Caerphilly

Supplementaries:

1	The Home Insurance Building, the world's first skyscraper, was built by William Le Baron Jenney in 1885 in which city?
	Chicago
2	Which country underwent a "Great Leap Forward" between 1958 and 1962?
	China

Round 3: Geography

1	If you booked a holiday flight to Humberto Delgado Airport, which country would you be visiting?
	Portugal. Humberto Delgado Airport serves the city of Lisbon
2	Name either of the two other countries, other than the USA, with which Mexico shares a land border.
	Belize or Guatemala
3	Abuja is the capital of which country?
	Nigeria
4	During which geological period were the salt deposits of the Cheshire Plain laid down?
	Triassic (about 220 million years ago)
5	In which Latin American country would you find the cities of Porto Alegre, Manaus and Recife?
	Brazil
6	What name is shared by the strait between Russia and Crimea, and the bridge blown up during the current war?
	The Kerch (Strait and Strait Bridge)
7	Which country shares land borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia?
	Yemen
8	The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of which Australian state?
	Queensland

Supplementaries:

1	What is the driest continent on Earth, on the basis of its mean annual precipitation?
	Antarctica
2	If you booked a holiday flight to Adolfo Suarez airport, which country would you be visiting?
	Spain (Adolfo Suarez Airport serves the city of Madrid)
3	How many US states share a border with Canada?
	13 (accept 12 or 14)
4	Brazil is one of four countries in South America that do not have Spanish as an official language. Name one of the others.
	Surinam, Guyana or French Guiana

Round 4: Sport

A mixture of 20^th century sport, with not a football question insight.

1	Despite several recent near misses, which cricketer still holds the record for the fastest Test century for England?
	Gilbert Jessop (76 balls, in 1902)
2	What's the sporting connection between Berlin in 1916, Helsinki in 1940, and London in 1944?
	These were the three scheduled summer Olympic games that were cancelled due to the World Wars
3	The longest unbroken reign as the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world lasted from 1937 to 1949. Who was that boxer?
	Joe Louis (Wladimir Klitschko had a longer cumulative title reign)
4	Who is the only male tennis player to have completed the Grand Slam of all four majors in the same year, more than once?
	Rod Laver, in 1962 and 1969 (Don Budge is the only other to have done it at all)
5	Which horse, in 1970, was the most recent winner of the English Triple Crown?
	Nijinsky. (Comprises the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the St Leger Stakes in the same year)
6	With 18 majors wins to his name, who was the most successful male golfer of the 20th century?
	Jack Nicklaus
7	Which snooker player in 1983 became the first to make a maximum 147 break in the World Championships?
	Cliff Thorburn
8	In 2016 the GB women's hockey team took Olympic gold. At which 20th century games did the men's team, led by Sean Kerly, achieve their only Olympic title?
	Seoul, 1988 (either city or year is acceptable)

Supplementaries:

1	Introduced in 1946, in which sport is the Lance Todd Trophy awarded?
	Rugby League. It's given to the Man of the Match in the Challenge Cup final
2	In which year did the modern London Marathon take place for the first time?
	1981 (accept 1980 to 1982)

Round 5: Science – It's Elementary

The answers are all chemical elements.

1	What element used to be called Brimstone?
	Sulphur
2	What gas was originally thought to be air deprived of phlogiston, and referred to as dephlogisticated air?
	Oxygen
3	What element is used in the atomic clock used to define a second?
	Caesium
4	Of all metals in pure form, which has the highest melting point?
	Tungsten
5	Two elements are liquid at room temperature (unless your room is particularly hot – i.e. under 24 °C). One is mercury; what's the other?
	Bromine
6	The Earth's core is an alloy of two metals mainly. One is iron; what's the other?
	Nickel
7	What element is usually used in fireworks to produce deep reds?
	Strontium
8	What poisonous element was used in Victorian times to give a green colour in Wallpaper?
	Arsenic

Supplementaries:

1	What substance was referred to as Quicksilver?
	Mercury
2	Discovered in 1789, what's the heaviest element occurring naturally on Earth in more than trace quantities?
	Uranium
3	What's the second most common element by mass in the human body?
	Carbon

Round 6: Dancing Around

All the questions, surprisingly, are about dance.

1	Name the dance that means 'two step' or 'double step' in Spanish. Music for this dance is often used to accompany bull–fighters entering the ring?
	The paso doble
2	Having its origin in Brazilian samba around the 1960s, which dance style combines elements of samba with jazz and has the literal meaning 'new trend' or 'new wave' in Portuguese?
	The bossa nova
3	In the NATO phonetic alphabet, two letters are represented by dances. One of the dances is Tango; what's the other?
	The foxtrot
4	Jennifer Grey played Frances 'Baby' Houseman in which well–known romantic drama released in 1987?
	Dirty Dancing
5	Name the Irish–American dancer and producer who became famous for the Irish dance shows Riverdance, Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames?
	Michael Flatley
6	Which dance performed by a honeybee indicates to other bees the direction of and distance to nectar–rich flowers?
	The waggle dance
7	Which orchestral piece, written by the French composer Camille Saint–Saens in 1874, recalls a legend where Death appears at Halloween and calls forth the dead from their graves? The music was used as the theme music to the BBC TV series Jonathan Creek.
	Danse Macabre
8	Which Russian composer wrote the Dance of the Knights (from the ballet Romeo and Juliet)? It provides the main theme to BBC TV's The Apprentice.
	Sergei Prokofiev

Supplementaries:

1	US singer–songwriter and actress Irene Cara died in 2022. She starred as Coco Hernandez in which well–known film, directed by Alan Parker and released in 1980?
	Fame
2	Which actor's major roles include Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Lord Louis Mountbatten in The Crown, and Mr Tulkinghorn in BBC's 2005 series Bleak House? (First and last names required).
	Charles Dance
3	Joke question: Who wrote Khachaturian's Sabre Dance?
	Aram Khachaturian

Round 7: Arts and Entertainment – All the Nudes Fit to Print

1	The cover of which Jimi Hendrix double album featured a photograph of a number of naked ladies?
	Electric Ladyland
2	How are Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia, often shown naked in pictures or statues commonly known? No bonus points for answering in Greek or Latin.
	The Three Graces (or charites or gratiae)
3	Who painted Benefits Supervisor Sleeping – a portrait of Sue Tilley who reputedly weighed 20 stone?
	Lucien Freud
4	Which goddess was portrayed by Botticelli arriving at the coast of Cyprus, naked on a scallop shell?
	Venus
5	Who is the subject of the 5.17–metre marble statue created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo currently located in Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence?
	David
6	The cover of which album by a band including Eric Clapton controversially featured a pre pubescent girl holding an aeroplane?
	Blind Faith
7	In which museum would you find the Venus de Milo?
	The Louvre
8	Who painted Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (French: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur) in a 1932 painting featuring his mistress Marie–Thérèse Walter – though her mother wouldn't recognise her from the portrait?
	Picasso

Supplementaries:

1	Who was famous for his photographs of well–endowed black men as well as being a lover of Patti Smith and shooting the cover of her album, Horses?
	Robert Mapplethorpe
2	Which actress appeared on the front cover of Vanity Fair in august 1992, naked but with her body painted with a suit and waistcoat?
	Demi Moore
3	Who paid $33.6m at Christies in 2008 for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping?
	Roman Abramovich

Round 8: Dumb Britain

All these questions are reported in Private Eye to have been asked in UK quiz shows. Give either the correct answer or the answer given by the contestant.

1	Which Liverpool club became famous as the venue for many of the Beatles' early gigs?
	The Cavern (not Everton)
2	Which British novelist created the character Bathsheba Everdene?
	Thomas Hardy (not Enid Blyton)
3	Which poet had the first names Thomas Stearns?
	T. S. Eliot (not John Keats)
4	What five–letter word is the last word in the Communist Manifesto in English translation, and name of Britain's largest trade union??
	UNITE (not ASLEF)
5	Where is the auditory canal?
	In the ear (not Manchester)
6	Which snooker player's nickname was 'the Whirlwind'?
	Jimmy White (not Hurricane Higgins)
7	Which 'P' is the smallest native British bat?
	The pipistrelle (not the pigeon)
8	He was known as King of the Cowboys. He was Roy who?
	Rogers (not Keane)

Supplementaries:

1	What 'K' is a suicide mission for a pilot?
	Kamikaze (not Kama Sutra)
2	Helen Moffett's novel Charlotte is inspired by which Jane Austen novel?
	Pride and Prejudice (not Charlotte's Web)
3	Which country did the Panama hat originate from?
	Ecuador (not Luton)

General Knowledge

1	Which landmark in Rome was the largest amphitheatre in the ancient world?
	The Colosseum
2	Cancelled in July, which long–running TV soap has Amazon has said it will revive?
	Neighbours
3	The Filipina baby Vinice Mabansag has been chosen this year to symbolise which world population milestone?
	The eight billionth person
4	Which word for a place that stores ammunition and explosives can also mean a type of periodical publication?
	Magazine
5	Which 1973 play by Peter Shaffer shares its name with a genus that includes horses and donkeys?
	Equus
6	Which Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered in 1566 when he was stabbed about 55 times?
	David Rizzio
7	Who is the mayor of New York City?
	Eric Adams
8	Mighty Mouse was created as a parody of which DC Comics superhero?
	Superman

9	Containing the male gametes, which powdery substance is produced by the anthers of seed–bearing plants?
	Pollen
10	Mountain (tadasana), chair (utkatasana) and triangle (trikonasana) are poses in which form of exercise?
	Yoga
11	Terry McCann was the sidekick of Arthur Daley in which ITV show?
	Minder
12	Featured in the film Baby Driver, which 1974 Queen song shares its title with a Graham Greene novel?
	Brighton Rock
13	Gustav Klimt's painting Death and Life has been sprayed with a black, oily liquid at which Vienna museum?
	The Leopold Museum
14	Doctor Burney is said to have coined the anagram 'Honor est a Nilo' from the name of which naval hero?
	Horatio Nelson. The anagram means 'Honour is from the Nile', referring to Nelson's victory at the 1798 battle.
15	In 1735, which highwayman went into partnership with Tom King, whom he may later have killed by accident?
	Dick Turpin
16	Who was the first Native American to win an Olympic gold for the US?
	Jim Thorpe – the 1912 Olympic champion in decathlon and pentathlon

17	The coffee liqueur Tia Maria was originally made in which Caribbean country?
	Jamaica
18	The great majority of J. M. W. Turner's paintings are now at which London museum? (Two words needed.)
	Tate Britain
19	What does the S stand for in the acronym 'SLAPP', as in a SLAPP suit?
	Strategic (litigation against public participation, or lawsuit against public protection)
20	James Hunt won the 1976 Formula One drivers' title with which British team?
	McLaren
21	The Basmala or Bismillah is one of the most important phrases in which religion?
	Islam
22	Which former member of The Jam provided lead guitar and backing vocals on Oasis's Champagne Supernova?
	Paul Weller
23	Which physician was Britain's first female mayor?
	Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (elected mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908)
24	The Dorking is a five–toed English breed of which domestic bird?
	Chicken

25	Who was Roman emperor at the time of the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64?
	Nero
26	In Disney's 1973 film Robin Hood, what wild carnivorous mammal is the Sheriff of Nottingham?
	A wolf
27	In 1973, which Liberal Party leader married Marion Stein, Countess of Harewood?
	Jeremy Thorpe
28	Which political magazine was founded in 1937 by the Labour MPs Stafford Cripps and George Strauss?
	Tribune
29	MacKenzie Scott, the author of the 2005 novel The Testing of Luther Albright, divorced which US billionaire in 2019?
	Jeff Bezos
30	Hailed as a Twitter alternative, which crowd–funded social networking app was launched in 2016 by Eugen Rochko?
	Mastodon
31	The kapa haka are the traditional performing arts of which Polynesian people?
	Maori
32	The Château de Monte–Cristo, on Port–Marly hill, Paris, was built for which French writer?
	Alexandre Dumas

33	In 1960, which British company was tried under obscenity law for publishing the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover?
	Penguin Books
34	Which term for the central part of a church is derived from the Latin word for a ship?
	Nave
35	The name of which new town in Monmouthshire means 'crow valley' in Welsh?
	Cwmbran
36	Moira Shearer played the dancing automaton Olympia in which Powell and Pressburger film, based on an Offenbach opera?
	The Tales of Hoffmann
37	The traditional Latin American dish, arroz con pollo, is rice served with which meat?
	Chicken
38	Ulm's Bahnhofstrasse is home to Max Bill's 1979 memorial to which physicist?
	Albert Einstein (born in Ulm in 1879)
39	Geschichte is the German name for which school subject?
	History
40	Which studio album by the Beatles was released on May 26, 1967?
	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

41	Name either of the comedy–writing duo who met while recovering from tuberculosis at Milford Sanatorium in Surrey in 1948.
	Ray Galton or Alan Simpson
42	The US scientist Albert Ghiorso is credited with discovering or co–discovering a record twelve what?
	Chemical elements
43	In French, which archipelago is called Îles Anglo–Normandes or Îles de la Manche ?
	The Channel Islands
44	Who did Gough Whitlam make a dame in the 1974 film Barry McKenzie Holds His Own?
	Edna Everage. Whitlam was Australian prime minister at the time. (Accept Barry Humphries)
45	According to the Louvre, which portrait shows Lisa Gherardini, wife of the silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo?
	The Mona Lisa
46	According to Larkin's poem This Be the Verse, which people "fill you with the faults they had"?
	Your mum and dad (accept parents)
47	Which Private Eye journalist stood for the Dog Lovers Party in North Devon in the 1979 general election?
	Auberon Waugh. He polled 79 votes
48	Which Briton was in command of Allied ground invasion forces during Operation Overlord in 1944?
	Bernard Law Montgomery (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein)

49	The Shape of Water (1994) is the first novel in which series about and named after a Sicilian detective?
	Inspector Montalbano series (by Andrea Camilleri)
50	Chitralada Palace is a residence of which Asian country's royal family?
	Thailand
51	Which word describes an animal that has returned to a wild, untamed state from domestication?
	Feral
52	The term for which type of medicine is derived from the Greek for 'opposing life'?
	Antibiotic
53	Born in Jamaica in 1938, who was the first black leader of a major British trade union?
	Bill Morris
54	Which premier league manager co–owned Rock of Gibraltar, the racehorse that won the 2000 Guineas and the Irish 2000 Guineas in 2002?
	Alex Ferguson
55	About 230 of Vivaldi's almost 500 surviving concertos are written for which solo stringed instrument?
	Violin
56	A common sight at the theatre and opera in the 19th century, what is a 'lorgnette'?
	A pair of spectacles or opera glasses with a long handle (accept spectacles or glasses)

57	In January 1773, who became the first recorded navigator to cross the Antarctic Circle?
	Captain James Cook
58	Which Times columnist published her children's novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 16? She later wrote How to Be a Woman.
	Caitlin Moran
59	In a Shakespeare play, Cloten is the horrid stepson of which king of Britain?
	Cymbeline
60	In Japanese cuisine, aonori are dried flakes of what?
	Seaweed or green laver
61	In 1934, Alicia Markova played Odette/Odile in the first full–scale British performance of which Tchaikovsky ballet?
	Swan Lake
62	Which German footwear giant launched Boston clog in 1979?
	Birkenstock
63	Now a museum ship, what was Keppel's flagship at Ushant in 1778 and Howe's at Cape Spartel in 1782?
	HMS Victory
64	Featuring Tom Hulce in the title role, which 1984 film ironically helped revive interest in the music of Antonio Salieri?
	Amadeus. Salieri was the film's antagonist

65	"What a Glorious Feeling!" is a tagline of which 1952 MGM musical?
	Singin' in the Rain
66	Which actress appeared on the front cover and centrefold of the first issue of Playboy in 1953?
	Marilyn Monroe
67	In which former Soviet state is the statue filled Grutas Park, a.k.a. Stalin's World?
	Lithuania
68	In 1964, who became the first commoner to appear on a British postage stamp?
	William Shakespeare
69	Which holy river completes the title of Eric Newby's 1966 travel book Slowly Down the ... ?
	Ganges
70	Penelope Featherington was revealed as the gossip columnist Lady Whistledown in which Netflix series?
	Bridgerton. She is played by Nicola Coughlan
71	Which English snooker player has won a record 21 Triple Crown titles?
	Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won seven World titles, seven Masters titles and seven UK titles
72	Which rank in the Royal Navy is equivalent to a general in the British Army?
	Admiral

73	In 1983, a theatre in Birkenhead was renamed after which double Oscar–winning actress?
	Glenda Jackson. The theatre was closed in 2003 and demolished by Wirral council
74	Canada's three most populous metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal and which city in British Columbia?
	Vancouver
75	Which electronic device was named Machine of the Year by Time magazine in 1982?
	The (personal) computer (accept PC)
76	Ken Russell called which 1971 film "the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac"?
	The Music Lovers – Russell's Tchaikovsky biopic
77	Which Italian tenor, who became totally blind aged 12, inspired the 2017 film The Music of Silence?
	Andrea Bocelli
78	The Tin–Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman is a 1984 picture book by which English author and illustrator?
	Raymond Briggs
79	Micklegate Bar was the most important of the four main medieval gateways of which cathedral city?
	York
80	Which South American rodent's fur is considered to be the softest in the world?
	The chinchilla

81	Which charity runs the Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh?
	The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (accept RNLI)
82	Mabel, Edith, Kate and Isabel are Major–General Stanley's daughters, in which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
	The Pirates of Penzance
83	Edward V. Appleton, James Chadwick and Peter Higgs are British winners of which Nobel prize?
	Physics – in 1947, 1935 and 2013
84	How many white arrows feature on a blue road sign for a mini–roundabout?
	Three
85	Helianthus annuus is the common species of which flower?
	Sunflower
86	Which Tech company completed its acquisition of FitBit in January 2021?
	Google
87	In 1998, who became the first German model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel?
	Heidi Klum
88	Which band, formed in Wallasey in 1988, is named after a character in To Kill a Mockingbird?
	The Boo Radleys

89	Which Stuart king married a daughter of King John IV of Portugal?
	Charles II. He married Catherine of Braganza in 1662
90	Mare Frigoris, or the Sea of Cold, is the northernmost sea on which natural satellite?
	The Moon
91	The state–owned oil company Petrobras is which South American country's largest corporation?
	Brazil
92	Who is the subject of Caravaggio's painting the Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1601)?
	St. Paul (accept Saul)
93	"Defend the Children of the Poor & Punish the Wrongdoer" is inscribed above the main entrance to which London building?
	The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, or the Old Bailey
94	The name of which pasta sauce derives from an Italian term for 'in sailor's style'?
	Marinara
95	Which 1988 book, by Joe Simpson, is about a disastrous descent from Siula Grande in the Andes in 1985?
	Touching the Void
96	Copper sulphate crystals are a vivid shade of which primary colour?
	Blue

Supplementaries:

1	'The Boy David' was a nickname of which Kirkcaldy–born politician, the Liberal Party's final leader?
	David Steel (now Lord Steel)
2	The two official languages of Finland are Finnish and what?
	Swedish
3	Which long–necked Indian lute derives its name from a Persian word meaning 'three–stringed'?
	Sitar
4	In 1857, Sam Houston lost in his first bid to become governor of which US state?
	Texas

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