2022–3 Season: Cup Quarter–Finals – 21 February 2023

First Half

Set by the Chester Road Tavern.

1	What is the name of the Paris stock exchange?
	La Bourse (accept The Bourse)
2	Who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela?
	F. W. De Klerk
3	The Phil Silvers Show was originally set in which fictional army base?
	Fort Baxter
4	What is the fictional name of the seaside resort where Dads Army was set?
	Walmington on Sea
5	Where would you normally find an aglet?
	On the end of a shoelace (it's the plastic or metal seal)
6	Melbourne is situated on which river?
	The Yarra
7	Where did Cromwell's army defeat the Royalists to end the English Civil War?
	Worcester
8	What is the more common name for the illness 'varicella'?
	Chicken pox
9	The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves is from which Verdi opera?
	Nabucco
10	Who succeeded Henry II as King of England?
	Richard the First (Lionheart)
11	Who wrote the books on which the TV series Game of Thrones is based?
	George R. R. Martin
12	Name either of the women's finalists in the Australian Open tennis last month.
	Aryna Sabalenka (winner) or Elena Rybakina (runner–up)
13	Who was given the role of dressmaker to the Royal Family in 1938?
	Norman Hartnell
14	Althorp House is in which English County?
	Northamptonshire
15	Michael Hutchence was the lead singer with which group until his death in 1997?
	INXS
16	Which food item takes its name from the French for 'twice cooked'?
	Biscuit
17	Who scored two tries for Scotland to help them beat England in the Calcutta Cup this month?
	Duhan van der Merwe
18	Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? Both names required.
	Anne Bronte
19	Name the third film of the Star Wars series.
	Revenge of the Sith
20	In which country is the city of Caracas?
	Venezuela

21	Winnipeg is the capital of which Canadian province?
	Manitoba
22	Who was the Roman equivalent of Greek goddess Athena?
	Minerva
23	Whose albums include Blood on the Tracks and Blonde on Blonde?
	Bob Dylan
24	What rate of VAT applies to UK domestic energy?
	5%
25	Elizabeth Woodville, a noted 15th century beauty (but not of royal birth), married which English King?
	Edward IV
26	Whose albums include Astral Weeks and Beautiful Vision?
	Van Morrison
27	In which year was Everest first climbed to the summit?
	1953
28	On what object would you find the inscription "Cormac McCarthy fortis me fieri fecit AD 1446"?
	The Blarney Stone
29	Who is the current manager of Macclesfield FC?
	Neil Danns
30	In Peter Pan, what part of Peter was kept in a drawer?
	His shadow
31	A Muscovy is what type of bird?
	A duck
32	Who directed the film Platoon?
	Oliver Stone
33	What is the subject matter of Renoir's painting Les Parapluies?
	Umbrellas
34	Bourbon, Gallica and Rugosa are types of what?
	Roses
35	What is the name of the Sergeant in BBC TV's Happy Valley?
	Catherine Cawood
36	In which TV program would you find the Tombliboos and Makka Pakka?
	In the Night Garden
37	What was the name of Captain Pugwash's ship?
	The Black Pig
38	What is the currency of South Korea?
	The won
39	Which element has the atomic number 2?
	Helium
40	Who is the reigning PDC darts champion?
	Michael Smith

41	Who played Billy Mack in the film Love Actually?
	Bill Nighy
42	How many clubs is a golfer allowed to carry?
	14
43	In which year did Margaret Thatcher die?
	2013 (8 April)
44	In which country were the 1994 Winter Olympics held?
	Norway (Lillehammer)
45	Mount Redoubt is in which US state?
	Alaska
46	What is the capital of Costa Rica?
	San José
47	Which fish has the Latin name Esox lucius?
	The pike
48	What is the longest river in Canada?
	The Mackenzie River
49	What is the capital of Cambodia?
	Phnom Penh
50	Which bird has the Latin name Passer domesticus?
	The house sparrow
51	Which US state is known as the North Star State?
	Minnesota
52	What is the title of the second book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
	The Two Towers
53	How many tiles are there in a game of Mahjong?
	144
54	Who was the first woman to train a Grand National winner?
	Jenny Pitman
55	What is the smallest British bird?
	The goldcrest (also accept firecrest – a sub–species)
56	Which team won the first cricket county championship, in 1864?
	Surrey
57	Who is the only woman to have ridden the winner of the Grand National?
	Rachael Blackmore
58	Who was the mother of King Edward VI?
	Jane Seymour
59	Iron pyrites, containing iron and sulphur, is also known by what informal name?
	Fool's gold
60	In rowing, what is the rower that sits closest to the cox known as?
	Stroke

Second Half

Set by the Sutton Club.

61	The Skeleton Coast runs for some 500 kilometres, along which African country?
	Namibia
62	The painting entitled The toilet of Venus and also known as The Rokeby Venus was painted by which artist?
	Diego Velazquez
63	Which strategy board game uses 64 double–sided black and white discs, and shares its name with a Shakespeare play?
	Othello
64	Which wild British birds are traditionally owned partly by the monarch and partly by the Vintners and Dyers companies?
	(Mute) swans
65	Which type of military vehicle is a Leopard 2?
	A tank
66	In the human body, how many bones in total are there in the hands and feet? Some leeway.
	106 (accept 104 to 108)
67	The Trimurti are the three gods that form the Hindu Trinity. Name any one of them.
	Brahma, Shiva, or Vishnu
68	In which town in Bavaria is a Passion Play performed every ten years as an act of thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague?
	Oberammergau
69	Which singer and songwriter wrote My Way for Frank Sinatra?
	Paul Anka
70	What is the Italian title of the aria from Puccini's opera Turandot that translates as 'None shall sleep'?
	Nessun Dorma
71	What is the name of Amazon's charity donation service, set up in 2013 but due to close soon?
	Amazon Smile
72	Who captained the West Indies team that won the first Cricket World Cup in 1975?
	Clive Lloyd
73	The Shakespeare North Playhouse opened last year (2022) in which city?
	Liverpool (accept Prescot)
74	The Red Backed and Great Grey Shrike birds impale their prey on thorns. What nickname have they earned?
	The butcher bird
75	Who was the last Liberal Prime Minister of the UK?
	David Lloyd George
76	Which scientific word translates as 'disease producer'?
	Pathogen
77	In the Lake District, which lake is closest to Keswick?
	Derwentwater (accept Derwent)
78	What is Cliff Richard's real name?
	Harry (Rodger) Webb
79	In Norse mythology: Fenrir, son of Loki, is what type of creature?
	A wolf
80	Which car manufacturer uses a trident as its badge?
	Maserati

81	The first Polaroid camera, known as the model 95, went on sale in which decade of the 20th century?
	1940s (1948)
82	In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty–Four, what is known as 'Airstrip One'?
	Great Britain
83	Which was England's first Garden City?
	Letchworth (not Welwyn!)
84	If an animal is described as 'laniferous', what does it mean?
	Wool–bearing
85	The first UK decimal pound coin bore the legend Decus et Tutamen around the rim. What does it mean?
	An ornament and a safeguard (accept either)
86	Which synthetic fibre, used in tyres and body armour, was developed by Stephen Kwolek in 1965?
	Kevlar
87	What is the real name of rapper Eminem?
	Marshall Mathers
88	In heraldry, what is the name for the colour black?
	Sable
89	In the game of baseball, what is the distance in yards, between each base?
	30 yards
90	In criminal slang, what is or was the speciality of a peterman?
	Safe–breaking
91	Who wrote the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
	Muriel Spark
92	In the human body, which organ produces bile?
	The liver
93	What was the standard rate of VAT when first introduced in 1973?
	10% (reduced to 8% in 1974)
94	What is the common name of the Chilean Pine tree?
	The monkey puzzle tree
95	Who painted the picture entitled Girl with Pearl Earring?
	Jan Vermeer
96	What name is given to a quadrilateral with all sides equal but no right angles?
	A rhombus
97	The title of which famous film might be reworded as "Went away because of flatulence"?
	Gone with the Wind
98	Who wrote the poem The Soldier, which begins "If I should die, think only this of me"?
	Rupert Brooke (1914)
99	In which class of creature is a woodlouse?
	Crustaceans
100	A Christmas hit in 1971, who was Ernie's nemesis in the Benny Hill song Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)?
	Two Ton Ted (from Teddington)

101	In old Imperial measurement, what was the length of a chain?
	22 yards
102	In which region of the atmosphere is the ozone layer?
	The Stratosphere
103	What is the name of the ruling family of Monaco?
	Grimaldi
104	Give both names of Richmal Crompton's 'naughty boy'.
	William Brown
105	Whose incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream included a famous Wedding March?
	Felix Mendelssohn
106	The Driving Instructor and Walter Raleigh are famous comedy monologues by which American entertainer?
	Bob Newhart
107	The novel and film Seabiscuit tell the true story of which kind of animal?
	A racehorse (accept horse)
108	What nationality was five–times Formula One champion Manuel Fangio?
	Argentinian
109	What name is given to a fruit which is a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine?
	Tangelo or ugli fruit
110	David Niven's autobiography The Moon's a Balloon was published in 1971. What was the title of his sequel, published in 1975?
	Bring On the Empty Horses
111	How many sides or faces does an icosahedron have?
	Twenty
112	The large village of Lambourn – second largest centre for racehorse training in England after Newmarket – is in which county?
	Berkshire
113	Which small portmanteau bag, usually made of leather and favoured by doctors, was named after a former prime minister?
	The Gladstone bag
114	The Honourable Charles Rolls, partnered by Henry Royce, sold the famous Rolls Royce motor cars. But how did Rolls die?
	Air accident (Bournemouth, 1910)
115	What was the first charity single for Comic Relief in 1986?
	Livin' Doll (Cliff Richard & The Young Ones)
116	The clock of which railway station became a powerful feature in the Noel Coward film Brief Encounter?
	Carnforth
117	How was the English pirate Edward Teach known?
	Blackbeard
118	Which detective agency was commissioned to find the outlaw Jesse James?
	Pinkerton National Detective Agency (accept Pinkerton's)
119	What was the trade name of the raincoat famously worn by Harold Wilson during his premiership?
	Gannex
120	Which king, once described as "the wisest fool in Christendom", wrote the treatise A Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604?
	James I (VI of Scotland)

Supplementaries:

1	Which gland in the human body secretes the hormone responsible for growth?
	The pituitary gland
2	What is the official residence of the French President?
	The Élysée Palace
3	Which American company was the first to manufacture nylon?
	Du Pont
4	Which English hero was born in Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk in 1758?
	Horatio Nelson

Tie breaker:

	How many dukedoms exist in England?
	11: Cornwall, Norfolk, Somerset, Richmond, Grafton, Beaufort, St. Albans, Bedford, Devonshire, Marlborough and Rutland

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