23rd February – All Questions Set by The Harrington Academicals

 

HISTORY

1. Great Britain gained which strategic possession through the treaty of Utrecht
A1 Gibraltar

2 What was formed as the result of the Continental Congress of 1775

A2 The United States of America

3.Which Archbishop of Canterbury introduced the Book of Common Prayer into the Church of England

A3 Thomas Cranmer

4. Cranmer was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of 2 monarchs. Name either

A4 Henry VIII and Edward VI

5. Where is Horatio Nelson buried

A5 St. Paul's Cathedral

6. Buckingham Palace became the official royal palace on the ascension of which monarch?

A6 Queen Victoria

7. Who is the only prime minister to die at 10 Downing Street

A7 Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman

8. Who said in 1876 "All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes"

A8 William Gladstone

Supplementaries

SQ1 Where is the nearest original copy of Magna Carta to Macclesfield usually displayed

AQ1 Lincoln Cathedral

SQ2 What was introduced in USA by the Volstead Act of 1919

AQ2 Prohibition ( accept banning sale of alcohol)

 

FOOD & DRINK

1. Which brewery brews Bosley Cloud
A1 Storm (of Macclesfleld)

2.  What name for cured belly pork is derived from the Italian for "little belly",

A2 Pancetta

3. Which Indian actress and cookery writer introduced James Ivory to Ismail Merchant

A3 Madhur Jaffrey

4. Ben and Gerry produce an ice cream named after the lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead. Name the Guitarist or the ice cream.

A4 Gerry Garcia (Cherry Garcia)

5. What is the name of the dried cured meat, usually beef from South Africa
A5 Biltong

6. Bacalao - spelt and pronounced slightly differently in Portuguese, Basque, Italian and Croatian is what Mediterranean foodstuff

A6 Dried salt cod

7. What is the traditional bonfire night cake, coloured with dark brown sugar or treacle and flavoured with ginger

A7 Parkin

8. What is the main ingredient added to potato to make bubble and squeak
A8 Cabbage

Supplementaries

SQ1 What is Aloo in Indian cookery

AQ1 Potatoes

SQ2 What is traditionally drunk from a copita

AQ2 Sherry

 

GEOGRAPHY

1. The gulf of Riga is an inlet of which sea
A1 The Baltic

2. Where in Britain are the Gladstone and Royal Seaforth docks
A2 Liverpool

3.  Name the Scottish island famous for the production of a distinctive style of jersey said to have been derived from survivors of the Spanish Armada

A3 Fair Isle

4 Anglo-Saxon England was divided into seven kingdoms - East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Northumbria were 5. Name either of the other two

A4 Mercia or Wessex

5. Which of the Great Lakes of North America is the only one wholly in the United states

A5 Michigan

6. What sea does the river Volga empty into
A6 Caspian Sea

7. In which English County do these rivers flow - Teme, Frome, Lugg, Dore, Arrow and Monnow

A7 Herefordshire

8. In which English County are the rivers - Taw, Torridge and Teign

A8 Devon

Supplementaries

SQ1 The Erskine bridge in Scotland spans which river

AQ1 Clyde

SQ2 Which river does the Clifton suspension bridge span

AQ2 Avon

 

 

MIDDLE GROUND

From their middle name and other hints name these famous people

1. Middle name Aaron - Rock singer - The king
A1 Elvis Aaron Presley

2. Middle name - Albert - crooner - 'ole blue eyes'

A2 Francis Albert Sinatra ( Frank Sinatra )

3. Middle name Fitzgerald - President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

4. Middle name - Millhous - president

A4 Richard Millhous Nixon

5. Middle name Luther - Civil rights dreamer

AS Martin Luther King

6. Original middle name Marcellus - Boxing's the greatest

A6 Cassius Marcellus Clay ( Muhammad Ali)

7. Middle name Law - English field marshal

A7 Bernard Law Montgomery (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein )

8. Antartic explorer - Falcon

A8 Robert Falcon Scott ( Scott of the Antartic)

Supplementaries

SQ1 Middle name Winston - singer & airport

SA1 John Winston Lennon

SQ2 Middle name Manuel - 5 times Motor racing world champion SA2 Juan Manuel Fangio

 

 

SCIENCE

1.What is the common name for the molecule O₃?

A1 Ozone

2. The parsec is a unit of measurement of what?

A2 Astronomical distance (accept distance)

3. Flies belong to the insect class. To what class do spiders belong?

A3 Arthropods

4. Where in the body would you find cells called astrocytes?

A4 Brain or spinal Column (accept either)

5. What is the name of the pouch in which marsupials carry their young?
A5 Marsupium

6. What is the tallest grass?

A6 Bamboo

7. What is the hardest material in the human body

A7 Tooth enamel

8. The Ishihara test is used to detect what?

A8 Colour blindness

Supplementaries

SQ1 The moons of Uranus are all named after what?

SA1 Shakespearean characters

SQ2 What is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust?

SA2 Aluminium

 

 

SPORT

1. New Zealander Ivan Mauger ("Major") was a multiple world champion in which sport?

A1 Speedway

2. The modern version of which sport was staged for the first time at Belle Vue, Manchester, in 1926?

A2 Greyhound Racing

3. With a little leeway, in which year was the first Rugby League World Cup played?
A3 1954 (accept 1952-6)

4. In which sport do one team wear blue caps, their opponents white caps, and both goalkeepers red caps?

A4 Water Polo

5. What is the standard distance of a Drag Race?
A5 1/4 mile (so accept 440yds , or 400 m)

6. What major change took place in Ryder Cup golf in 1 979?

A6 It was opened to European golfers - previously the USA had played against a Great Britain team

7. Usain Bolt won in spectacular fashion over which distance in an exhibition race in the centre of Manchester in May 2009?

A7 150m

8. West Indian Franklyn Stephenson was the last to achieve which cricketing feat in 1984?

A8 1000 runs and 100 wickets in the English first-class season - the "Domestic Double".

Supplementaries

SQ1 Which Arsenal player scored the famous last-minute goal against Liverpool in 1989 to win the League Championship, though he later went on to score an FA Cup Final goal for Liverpool?

SA1 Michael Thomas

SQ2 Whose career started with a win over Tunney Hunsaker in  1960 and ended with a 1981 defeat at the hands of Trevor Berbick?

SA2 Muhammad Ali (accept Cassius Clay)

 

 

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

1. In the Adrian Mole Diaries, what was the surname of his girlfriend?
A1 Braithwaite

2 In which county is to be found "Constable country", the scenes of Constable's most famous landscapes?

A2 Suffolk

3. Which Scottish painter, born in 1951 painted the "Singing Butler" an evocative scene of four figures on a windswept beach?

A3 Jack Vettriano

4. Who, recently deceased, wrote "Catcher in the Rye"?
A4 JD Salinger

5. Who wrote the opera Don Giovanni?
A5 Mozart

6. Whose Choral Symphony features "The Ode to Joy" by Schiller?
A6 Beethoven (the 9th)

7. In which Oscar -winning movie do the characters Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart appear

A7 Chicago

8. Which band, formed in 1977, named themselves after their financial situation at the time ?

A8 Dire Straits

Supplementaries

SQ1 For what is the French town of Sevres famous?

SA1 Porcelain (accept pottery)

SQ2 Which pop singer did Debbie Rowe marry?

SA2 Michael Jackson

 

 

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

This is a round about money

1. Who was the king of Lydia around 550 BC, famous for his fabulous wealth

A1 Croesus

2. Which organization was described recently in Rolling Stone magazine as "A great vampire squid wrapped round the face of humanity"

A2 Goldman Sachs

3. What value of estate do you have to leave for the taxman to demand Inheritance Tax Or more technically, what is the IHT threshold for the tax year 2009/10

A3 £325000 Allow £1 0,000 either way

4. How much can you earn before you have to pay income tax ie what is the basic level of personal allowance for the tax year 2009/10

A4 £6475 Allow £300 either way

5. In which film does the song "Money makes the world go round" feature?

A5 Cabaret

6.  Which author, himself the son of a famous author published the novel "Money" in 1984

A6 Martin Amis

7. How much profit did Barclays report for the last financial year
A7 £11.6bn allow 1 billion either way ( to cover bonuses !!!)

8. What is the term used to describe the bank of England printing money to buy financial assets

AS Quantitative easing

Supplementaries

SQ1 The bible (1 Timothy) doesn't say money is the root of all evil. What is?

AQ1 The love of money

SQ2 What is the full basic rate state pension (per week) in 2009/10 AQ2 £95.25 Allow £4 either way

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

 

1.  The film Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll is based on the life of which singer?
A1 Ian Dury

2. Which controversial comedian has sold almost 1/4million copies of his autobiography "My sh*t life so far"?
A2 Frankie Boyle

3. Which countries name translates as "Fragrant Harbour"?
A3 Hong Kong

4. Which squirrel helped promote road safety to children in the 1970's?
A4 Tufty

5. Which football ground shares its name with a Battle of 1066?
A5 Stamford Bridge

6. How is the country formerly called Dutch East Indies now known?
A6 Indonesia

7. Who was the Chief Engineer responsible for the Menai Bridge project?
A7 Thomas Telford

8. Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler were two of the three members of which top UK band of the late 70s and early 80s?
A8 The Jam. Paul Weller was the somewhat better known 3rd member.

9. Which role was voiced by Rupert Everett in the Shrek films?
A9 Prince Charming

10. Sponsorship-wise what event links Guinness, Mars, ADT, Flora and Virgin?

a10 The London Marathon

11. Beautiful South vocalist Paul Heaton and dance producer Fatboy Slim, under his real Norman Cook, were both members of which 1980's band?

A1 1 The Housemartins

12. Why were the family names in the TV programme Gavin and Stacey the source of controversy?

A12 Both families were named after notorious killers - the Shipmans (Dr Harold) and the Wests (Rose and Fred). Another major character in the show was named Pete Sutcliffe (as in Yorkshire Ripper)

13. In the world of the internet, what did ITV buy for £120m in December 2005 and sell four years later at a loss of£95m?

A13 The Friends Reunited website

14. In football, which country recently won the African Nations' Cup for a record 7th time?

a14 Egypt

15. Who temporarily made themselves Public Enemy No 1 by kicking out at Diego Simeone?

A15 David Beckham - this led to his red card in the 1998 World Cup vs Argentina.

16. What was the name of the Hanna Barbera cartoon featuring a space-age family?

a.16 The Jetsons

17, The villain of which TV comedy was Den Perry, owner of the Banana Grove nightclub?

A17 Phoenix Nights

18. In which year was the National Lottery launched in the UK A18 1994 (on 19th November)

19. How many different selections do you need for a Yankee bet? A. 19 Four

20. Which company, not usually known for food manufacture, make "Pringles"?

Proctor and Gamble

21. Without the use of any bonus squares, how may points would you score in the game Scrabble for the word "Quiz"?

A21 22-10 points each for Q and Z and 1 point for each of the vowels

22 From which animal is cashmere obtained?

A22 Goat

23. Which creatures live in a formicary?

A23 Ants

24. In computing, how many nibbles are there in a byte?

A24 2

25. Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web is now famously known as ... .?

A25 Yahoo

26 Which electronics company invented the compact disk in 1980?

A26 Philips

27. What was the name of the mongoose in the stories by Rudyard Kipling?

A27 Riki Tiki Tavi

28. Which river flows through Berlin?

A28 The Spree (pron. Spray)

20. In which country has the highest shade temperature been re9orded?

A29 Libya

30. In Britain, which is the only road sign with an inverted triangle (point down)?

A30 Give Way

31. How many time zones are there across China?

A31 1 (was 5 until 1949)

32. How many states had America when first founded?

A32 13

33. In Australia, what profession is a chalkie?

A33 Teacher

34. In which decade did the world's population reach 4 billion? 1970's

35. Who is the Hindu god of creation?

A35 Vishnu

36. Which articulate atheist wrote "The God Delusion"?

A36 Richard Dawkins

37  Which ancient city shares its name with a system for weighing precious metals and gemstones?

A37 Troy

38. Who was on the throne of England 1000 years ago?

Aethelred II (the Unready)

89 How many points are needed to win a game of cribbage?

A39 121

40 In money slang, what is a Pavarotti?

A40 £10 (a tenner)

41. In 1992, which popular British author published "Every Living Thing, his first new novel for 10 years

A41 James Herriot

42. Who was the female star of Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film, Limelight

A42 Claire Bloom

43. What is the second largest city in Syria

A43 Aleppo

44. What is the nationality of Ngaio Marsh, who created the detective Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard

A44. New Zealand

45. The Kenyan born athlete Wilson Kipketer , who broke the 800m world record in 1997, represented which European country

A45 Denmark

46. What is the name given to wounds or scars corresponding to those on Christ's body after the crucifixion

A46 Stigmata

47. What is the regional capital of Bavaria

A47 Munich

48. Which northern Italian town was famous for the manufacture of violins by Stradivarius and others

A48 Cremona

49. In 1979, who succeeded Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr as his country's president

A49 Saddam Hussein

50. In 1956, Bedloe's Island was re named. What is it now called A50 Liberty Island - the Statue of Liberty is built there

51.Thomas Selfridge, from the department store family was the first passenger to die in a plane crash. Who was the pilot

A51 Orville Wright

52. In which city was the first motor show held

A52 Paris

53. On which street was Elizabeth Barrett living when she met Robert Browning

A53 Wimpole Street

54. Which British cyclist won 6 stages of the Tour de France in 2009

A54 Mark Cavendish

55. From which city will the 2010 Tour de France start

A55 Rotterdam

56. Slieve Donard, the highest point in Northern Ireland is in which range of hills

A56 Mountains of Mourne

57. What is the name given to the class of roses characterized by large sprays or clusters of flowers

A57 Floribunda

58. Which French writer and statesman who lived from 1768 to 1848 gave his name to a thick steak cut from a fillet of beef

A58 Chateaubriand

59 Who wrote the lyrics for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Whistle down the wind"

A59 Jim Steinman (who wrote Bat out of Hell for Meatloaf)

60. In which movie did Vivien Leigh play Blanche DuBois

A60 A Streetcar Named Desire

61. Who invented the vacuum bottle or flask, which sometimes bears his name

A61 Dewar

62. Stephen Gough was jailed in December 2008 for breach of the peace. By what name is he more commonly known?

A62 The Naked Rambler

63. According to the story, who is the only person to see Lady Godiva riding a horse naked through the streets of Coventry?

A63 Peeping Tom

64. On which island would you find Thomas the Tank Engine?

A64 Sodor

65. Which organisation was founded by Chad Varah in 1953?

A65 The Samaritans

66. According to the Bible at what event was the writing on the wall translated by Daniel?

A66 Balshazzar's feast

67. Which novel by William Styron was made into a film version in which Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as an Auschwitz survivor who had faced a terrible dilemna?

A67 Sophie's Choice

68. By what name did road protest activist Daniel Hooper become better known?

A68 Swampy

69. Which big cat is sometimes called an ounce?

A69 Snow Leopard

70. Name either of the first two presenters of Top Gear in the late  1970s on BBC2?

A70 Angela Rippon or Noel Edmonds

71. Whose body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey in 1661 , and was then subjected to a posthumous beheading, with the detached head not finally being re-interred until 1960?

A71 Oliver Cromwell

72. Who was the first wicketkeeper to reach 2000 runs and make 200 dismissals in text match cricket?

A72 (Thomas) Godfrey Evans

73. Which novel by Umberto Eco published in 1988 derived its title from an experiment by a French physicist to demonstrate the rotation of the earth?

A73 Foucault's Pendulum

74. What is Gymnophobia the fear of?

A74 Nudity

75. Who is the only non American to have won all the golfing majors?

A75 Gary Player

76. In which country did the Orange Revolution take place in 2004?

A76 Ukraine

77.  Brandon Flowers is the lead singer with which group?

A77 The Killers

78. How is Lord Marmaduke of Bunkerton better known?

A78 Lord Snooty

79. How many points for a touchdown in American football?

A79 6

80 About whom did Bette Davies say "she has slept with every MGM star except Lassie"?

A80 Joan Crawford

81. Shami Chakrabati is the director of which UK organisation? A81 Liberty

82. What is the popular name for the statue, designed in 1893, which is a famous London landmark and was originally entitled The Angel of Christian Charity¹

 A82 The statue of Eros in Piccadilly circus

83. What feature is peculiar to the Postage Stamps of Great Britain

A83 They do not bear the name of the country - only the head of the sovereign

84. What book, modelled on Homer's Odyssey, tells the story of a day in Dublin

A84 Ulysses ( by James Joyce )

85" How did Lord Kitchener die?

A85 He was drowned - lost in the cruiser Hampshire when it struck a mine in 1916.

86. What was the tenth part of a legion, consisting of 600 infantrymen called

A86 A cohort

87. The french call it 'La Tapisserie de la Reine Matilde'. What do we call it ?

A87 The Bayeux Tapestry. The tapestry of Queen Matilda - wife of William the Conqueror

88. Giovanni Antonio Canal was born in Venice in 1697. what is he remembered for ?

A88 His paintings - he is better known as Canaletto

89. In what type of space capsule did John Glen first circle the earth

A89 Mercury

90. Queen Victoria lived to see her Silver, Golden and Diamond jubilees. Which one was celebrated in 1887

A90 Her Golden Jubilee

91. What city besides Pompeii was overwhelmed in the earthquake of AD 79

A91 Herculaneum

92 Electrical resistance is measured by the ohm. What unit measures conductance or the reciprocal of resistance ?

A92 The mho ( ohm spelt backwards )

93. What name is sometimes given to the legislative assembly of a country that is derived from the Latin word for old man ?

A93 The senate. Senex is Latin for old man.

04. What is the fruit of the plant ananas comosus

A94 Pineapple

95. What nationality was the painter Edvard Munch

A95 Norwegian

96. What name is usually given to the mounted herdsmen or cowboys of the pampas of South America

A96 Gauchos

Supplementaries

SQ1 Who discovered the island of Cuba in 1492

AQ1 Christopher Columbus

SQ2 In February 1940 British naval forces entered Norwegian waters to rescue prisoners from a German ship. What was the name of the ship ?

AQ2 The Altmark

SQ3 In 1927 the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia moved from Melbourne to which city ?

AQ3 Canberra.

SQ4 Which King of Egypt abdicated in 1952

AQ4 Farouk

Plate Semi Finals 16 Feb 2010

 

Questions set by:

The British Flag (1 – 60)

&

The Ox-fford (61 – 120)

1.	What kind of creature is a boomslang?
		VENOMOUS SNAKE
2.	What kind of creature is an alewife?
		FISH (type of herring)
3.	Which 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack revolves around a dance marathon in Los Angeles with a $1,500 cash prize to the winner?
		THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY
4.	In which film did John Wayne make his final appearance?
		THE SHOOTIST
5.	Which religious organisation was founded by the Korean Sun Myung Moon in 1954?
		UNIFICATION CHURCH
6.	Which religious organisation was founded in Boston by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866?
		CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MOVEMENT
7.	Which perfume was first made in 1768 in response to a Russian count’s (Count Orlof) challenge to recreate the distinctive aroma of the Russian Court?
		IMPERIAL LEATHER
8.	Which perfume house makes perfumes called Opium, Paris and Rive Gauche?
		YVES ST LAURENT
9.	Who was writing “Love Letters in the Sand” in 1957?
		PAT BOONE
10.	Who was “Alone Again (Naturally)” in 1972?
		GILBERT O’SULLIVAN
11.	To which legendary queen of Carthage did Aeneas recount the story of the fall of Troy in Virgil’s Aeneid?
		DIDO
12.	Who was the first husband of Catherine of Aragon, who became the first wife of Henry VIII?
		PRINCE ARTHUR (Henry’s older brother who died 6 months after marrying her in 1501)
13.	Who switched on the Blackpool Illuminations in September 2009?
		ALAN CARR
14.	Whose new friends are Stumpy the elephant, a snorting bull and a bossy cockerel?
		NODDY (In the first new book for 46 years - Noddy and The Farmyard Muddle – written by Enid Blyton’s granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood)
15.	In the recent adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” who provides the voice for the eponymous character?
		GEORGE CLOONEY
16.	In which song would you find “the heavy, heavy monster sound”?
		ONE STEP BEYOND (Madness – 1979)
17.	Who wrote books with the titles and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes”?
		ANITA LOOS
18.	In which year was the first automatic dishwasher invented by Mrs Josephine Cochran?
		1889 (accept 1884 to 1894)
19.	In which year was the world’s first suntan cream developed?
		1936 (accept 1932 to 1940)
20.	Whose books have included “Down Among The Women” and “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”?
		FAY WELDON
21.	Against which monarch was the Babington Plot organised?
		ELIZABETH I
22.	Against which monarch was the Rye House Plot organised?
		CHARLES II
23.	Which brand of cigarettes was sold under the slogan “pure gold”?
		BENSON AND HEDGES
24.	What was the name of the political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith in 1994?
		THE REFERENDUM PARTY
25.	What was the name of Bertie Wooster’s most formidable aunt?
		AUNT AGATHA
26.	What was the name of the first Blue Peter guide dog who was introduced to the show in 1964?
		HONEY
27.	Which was the last team to win the F.A. Cup with a team comprising all English players?
		WEST HAM UNITED (1975)
28.	Which English football league team has been relegated the fewest times?
		ARSENAL (1 time only in 1912/13)
29.	Which island is home to Grimsetter airport?
		ORKNEY
30.	In which islands is the date of January 10th set aside as Maggie Thatcher Day?
		FALKLAND ISLANDS
31.	Which is the largest castle in England?
		WINDSOR
32.	Which is the oldest cathedral in Great Britain?
		CANTERBURY
33.	Daisuke Inoue invented which musical machine in 1971?
		KARAOKE MACHINE (Bastard…)
34.	Which miniature synthesizer did Brian Jarvis invent in 1967?
		STYLOPHONE
35.	Which 1980’s BBC children’s cartoon series featured a hero dressed in a blue and yellow costume whose real identity was Eric Twinge?
		BANANAMAN
36.	In the first James Bond movie, what is the first name of Dr. No?
		JULIUS
37.	What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
		LIVER
38.	Which part of the body is medically referred to as the hallux?
		BIG TOE
39.	Which naval weapon was invented by Robert Whitehead in 1866?
		TORPEDO
40.	The Gettysburg Battlefield is in which US State?
		PENNSYLVANIA
41.	Which was the first cartoon character to attract the attention of the censors?
		BETTY BOOP
42.	What was the name of the cavemen racers in “Wacky Races”?
		SLAG BROTHERS (Rock and Gravel, in the Bouldermobile…)
43.	What does Zorro mean in Spanish?
		FOX
44.	How did the French author, philosopher, Nobel prize winner and occasional Goalkeeper Albert Camus die in 1960?
		IN A CAR CRASH
45.	How many spots are there on a complete set of “double six” dominoes? (allow 20 seconds thinking time)
		168
46.	What would be the smallest whole number written as a word that would have all its letters written in alphabetical order? (allow 20 seconds thinking time)
		FORTY
47.	Which country lies between Niger and Sudan?
		CHAD
48.	How many stars are there on the New Zealand flag?
		4
49.	Who was the first Christian Emperor of Rome?
		CONSTANTINE
50.	What was the name of the race of giants that Zeus defeated in order to rule on Mount Olympus?
		THE TITANS
51.	Which British footballer was the first to earn £100 a week?
		JOHNNY HAYNES
52.	On 11th June 1953, which famous cricketer became the first professional player to captain England?
		LEN HUTTON
53.	What links Kate Moss, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen Fry and Prince Philip?
		THEY ALL OWN A LONDON BLACK CAB!
54.	Who is the only non-Royal living person to appear on a British stamp?
		ROGER TAYLOR (drummer with Queen – in the background of a Freddy Mercury stamp)
55.	Which artist painted the double portrait “Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy”?
		DAVID HOCKNEY
56.	Which British artist provided a coloured pattern to be used as a test card for cameras on board the space probe Beagle 2 in 2003?
		DAMIEN HIRST
57.	Which English monarch had the nickname “Old Rowley”?
		CHARLES II
58.	Who was known as “Brandy Nan”?
		QUEEN ANNE
59.	At what temperature does water have its maximum density?
		4°C (39.2°F)
60.	What name is given to the angle between two radii of a circle that cut off on the circumference an arc equal in length to the radius?
		A RADIAN (57.2°)
61.	Which football team knocked Macclesfield Town out of this season’s F.A. Cup in Round 1?
		M. K. DONS (managed by former Macclesfield Town boss Paul Ince)
62.	Former Macclesfield Town boss Sammy McIlroy is currently the manager of which English football league team?
		MORECAMBE
63.	Who directed the 2009 film Invictus?
		CLINT EASTWOOD
64.	Who directed the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes?
		GUY RITCHIE
65.	In November 2006, a painting entitled No. 5, 1948 was sold privately for a still current world record price (for any work of art) of $140 Million. Who was the artist?
		JACKSON POLLOCK
66.	What is the name of the sculptor of L’Homme Qui Marche 1 (The Walking Man 1), recently sold for a world record price (for a sculpture sold at auction) of £65 Million at Sotheby’s, London?
		ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
67.	Who was the first post-war German Chancellor to have been brought up in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?
		ANGELA MERKEL
68.	Who did not seek re-election as Austrian President in 1992 after revelations about his activities in World War II?
		KURT WALDHEIM
69.	Which chemical element, symbol Sb and atomic number 51, is a brittle silver-grey semi-metallic element?
		ANTIMONY
70.	Which chemical element, symbol Cd and atomic number 48, is a soft silvery-white metallic element?
		CADMIUM
71.	Which ballet, first performed in 1841, was inspired by a Heinrich Heine story about a peasant girl who kills herself when she discovers the man she loves is engaged to someone else?
		GISELLE
72.	Which Latvian-born dancer of the New York City Ballet defected to the West in 1974 and later appeared in films entitled The Turning Point and Dancers?
		MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
73.	The name of which garden flower means, literally, “many flowers”?
		POLYANTHUS
74.	The name of which flower means, literally, “rock-breaker”?
		SAXIFRAGE
75.	What was the name of the space station launched by the USSR in 1996, later replaced by the International Space Station in 2001?
		MIR
76.	What was the name of the world’s first ‘space tourist’, a sixty-year old Californian financier, who paid the Russian space agency $20 Million to travel to the International Space Station in April 2001?
		DENNIS TITO
77.	According to the Bible, who visited King Solomon and gave him ‘a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones’?
		THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
78.	In Genesis 4:16, to where was Cain exiled after killing his brother Abel?
		THE LAND OF NOD
79.	Which cathedral contains the tomb of the Venerable Bede?
		DURHAM
80.	Which saint’s shrine is in the crypt of Glasgow cathedral?
		ST MUNGO
81.	In J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, what was the name of the Darling family’s dog, which was also the children’s nurse?
		NANA
82.	What was the name of the dog who was the first to win the English Greyhound Racing Derby twice, and whose embalmed body is now on display at Tring Zoological Museum
		MICK THE MILLER
83.	In 1912, what name was coined by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener for the “supercontinent” which was thought to have split up to form the present continents?
		PANGAEA
84.	What is the Hobo West, which was found in 1920 near Grootfontein in what is now Namibia?
		THE LARGEST KNOWN METEORITE (Believed to weigh over 60 tons, which fell to Earth about 80,000 years ago)
85.	Which US bandleader and clarinettist, who achieved huge success with Begin the Beguine in 1938, was born Arthur Arshawsky?
		ARTIE SHAW
86.	Which US clarinettist and bandleader, who featured on the Let’s Dance radio series, was known as the ‘King of Swing’?
		BENNY GOODMAN
87.	Which British newspaper has as its logo a knight dressed in chain mail and carrying a white shield bearing a red cross?
		DAILY EXPRESS
88.	Which Mediterranean island was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem from 1529 to 1798?
		MALTA
89.	By what Latin phrase is the Canticle of Simeon from Luke 2:29, which begins “Lord, now let your servant depart in peace”, better known?
		NUNC DIMITTIS From the opening words of the Latin (Vulgate) version
90.	Which Latin phrase is the motto of the Crown of Scotland, the Order of the Thistle and all the Scottish regiments, often referred to in local dialect as “Wha daur meddle wi’ me”?
		NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT (No one provokes me with impunity)
91.	In which 19th century novel is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov the central character?
		CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (by Dostoyevsky)
92.	Which Oxford philosopher and writer won the 1978 Booker Prize for the novel The Sea, the Sea?
		IRIS MURDOCH
93.	Which bird is particularly associated with the village of Abbotsbury, near Dorchester?
		MUTE SWAN (Accept Swan)
94.	Which is the only native British bird to change the colour of its plumage in winter?
		PTARMIGAN (Grey and brown in the summer, white in winter)
95.	Which card game is said to have been invented by the seventeenth century poet John Suckling?
		CRIBBAGE
96.	Which playing card is sometimes called ‘the curse of Scotland’?
		NINE OF DIAMONDS (For a variety of reasons, all of which probably have some truth in them!)
97.	From which Shakespeare play did Ray Bradbury take the title for his 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes?
		MACBETH (Act IV, scene 1, with the witches - “By the pricking of my thumbs…”)
98.	In Shakespeare, which character’s “flashes of merriment…were wont to set the table on a roar”?
		YORICK (According to Hamlet)
99.	By what name is the European Treaty of Union signed in December 1991 better known, after the name of the town where it was signed?
		MAASTRICHT TREATY (In the Netherlands)
100.	Which Norwegian politician was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
		TRYGVE LIE
101.	Which German artist, commissioned by Thomas Cromwell, painted a flattering portrait of Anne of Cleves in 1539 which helped persuade Henry VIII to marry her?
		HANS HOLBEIN (THE YOUNGER) (Accept Holbein)
102.	Which Renaissance painter was the subject of the fictionalised biography The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone, later made into a film starring Charlton Heston?
		MICHAELANGELO
103.	What was the name of the French-produced missile used to dramatic effect by the Argentinian Air Force in the Falklands War in 1982?
		EXOCET
104.	In the First World War, the slogan They Shall Not Pass symbolised the defence of which French town?
		VERDUN
105.	Who wrote the 1848 children’s Christmas story of The Little Match Girl?
		HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
106.	In which Cambridge College has the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols been held every Christmas Eve since 1918?
		KING’S COLLEGE
107.	Which renowned English editor of the Manchester Guardian wrote in a 1927 editorial that “Comment is free, but facts are sacred”?
		C.P. SCOTT
108.	Which magazine, founded in 1991 by Gordon Roddick and John Bird, was inspired by a New York publication called Street News?
		THE BIG ISSUE
109.	Which US recording artist has released albums entitled Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and The Velvet Rope?
		JANET JACKSON
110.	Which US recording artist’s latest album is The Blueprint 3, featuring the New York inspired hit song Empire State of Mind?
		JAY-Z
111.	Which 1971 British gangster film was based on the Ted Lewis novel Jack’s Return Home, inspired by the so-called ‘One Armed Bandit Murder’ of a debt collector in County Durham?
		GET CARTER
112.	What was the name of the Oklahoma City bomber of April 1995 who was executed for the crime in 2001?
		TIMOTHY McVEIGH
113.	In English folklore, which tree is credited with magical protective powers against witchcraft?
		ROWAN (Accept Mountain Ash)
114.	According to legend, which plant, attributed with quasi-human properties, could be safely uprooted only on a moonlit night with a cord pulled by a black dog, which would later die?
		MANDRAKE
115.	In 1986, which natural area was declared the first World Heritage site in Northern Ireland?
		THE GIANT’S CAUSEWAY
116.	Whose inscription in St Paul’s Cathedral reads, “Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice”?
		SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (Reader, if you seek a monument, look around…)
117.	What is the most abundant mineral in the human body?
		CALCIUM
118.	The lack of which fat-soluble vitamin over a long period of time causes rickets in children and contributes to osteomalcia in adults?
		VITAMIN D
119.	In which 1987 Channel 4 drama based on Tom Sharpe’s 1974 novel, did David Jason play the role of Skullion, a janitor at a Cambridge college?
		PORTERHOUSE BLUE
120.	After which famous engineer is the university at Uxbridge named?
		ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

SUPPLEMENTARIES:

1.	What is the name of the underwear model, ex girlfriend of Wayne Bridge who John Terry, the ex-England had an affair with thus ending up with him losing the England captaincy to Rio Ferdinand?
		VANESSA PERRONCEL (Amongst other names used…)
2.	The following is the first line from which well known novel? “It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”?
		PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jane Austen)
3.	Who painted the “Monarch Of The Glen” and sculpted the 4 bronze lions in Trafalgar Square?
		SIR EDWIN LANDSEER
4.	In the 1938 film Going Places, Louis Armstrong sung the song ‘Jeepers Creepers’ – who or what was ‘Jeepers Creepers’?
		A RACEHORSE
5.	If all the chemical elements in the periodic table were listed alphabetically which one would come first?
		ACTINIUM
6.	If all the US States were listed alphabetically which one would come last?
		WYOMING

TIE_BREAK QUESTIONS – USE THEM CAREFULLY!

The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is currently the tallest man-made structure ever built. How tall is it in feet?
	2,717 feet (828 metres)

AND IF YOU ARE REALLY STUCK…

Add together the following numbers and write down the total… The height in feet of Mount Everest The height in feet of Blackpool Tower The length in miles of the Amazon River The height in feet of Angel Falls, Venezuela The year in which Shakespeare died
	Everest = 29,028 Blackpool Tower = 518 Amazon = 4,080 Angel Falls = 2,648 Shakespeare = 1616 Total = 37,890

9th February

SPECIALIST QUESTIONS

set by The Lamb Inn

14th February

Art and Entertainment

Creatures

Drink

Geography

History

Science

Sport

01.  Who was the first woman in space?
A. Valentina Tereshkova
2. Who abolished St. Valentine's Day, Hogmanay and Halloween as being altogether too frivolous and irreligious ?
A. Oliver Cromwell.
3. Who was the Greek goddess of love ? A. Aphrodite.
4. Which British city did Shirley Valentine abandon for her Greek holiday ?
 A. Liverpool.
05. Q. In which year was the first recorded valentine sent ? Considerable leeway allowed.
1415 (accept 1365 to 1465). (a rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife believed earliest surviving valentine)
6. Who was the intended target of the St Valentine's Day Massacre ?
A. George Clarence "Bugs" Moran (accept Bugsy Moran or Moran)
07.  In the middle ages, where would jousting knights wear a handkerchief or favour given by their admiring lady ?
A. On the sleeve (accept arm) `wearing your heart on your sleeve'.
Q8. Other than chocolates, flowers or cards etc., what traditional Valentine's gift was originally given to a loved one ?
A. Gloves, symbolising a desire for the hand in marriage.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) Who first linked St. Valentine with love and romance ? A. Geoffrey Chaucer in his Parlement of Foules'.
(b) Which romantically named actor played Raffles ? A. Anthony Valentine.
(c)  Worldwide, plus or minus 5%, what percentage of Valentine's Day cards are romantic compared to humorous ?
A. 75% (accept 70% to 80%).
(d)  Which multi-Oscar winning film has been described as "dangerously close to being a Shirley Valentine for middle-aged men" ? A. American Beauty.

ART & ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment with a leaning towards law enforcement.
1. What was the name of the antipodean detective series of the 1970's featuring a member of Australia's indigenous population ? A. Boney.
2. The UK TV series `Shoestring' was set in which city ?
A. Bristol.
3. Which actor played the role of ex British intelligence officer Callan ?
A. Edward Woodward.
4. Who sang `Watching the Detectives' in 1977 ?
A. Elvis Costello.
5. `Eye Level' was the theme tune to the Dutch TV detective series `Van der Valk' starring Barry Foster. Who performed the instrumental music theme ?
A. The Simon Park Orchestra.
6. Who had a 1977 hit with the catchy single `Whodunnit' ?
A. Tavares.
7. Who starred in the lead role of the I970's US crime series `Policewoman' ?
A. Angie Dickinson.
8. What was the name of the US TV series that saw a lawyer living in a caravan in the country with his wife Maggie, whilst their home was being built and, arguably never finished ?
A. Petrocelli.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) Raymond Burr famously portrayed which disabled US detective ?
A. Ironside.
(b) What was the name of the TV series featuring Michael Kitchen as a WW2 detective ?
A. Foyles War.
(c) E.G.Marshall and Robert Reed starred as father and son defence lawyers in which US TV series ?
A. The Defenders.

CREATURES

1. Which creatures, of the type meaning literally `stomach-foot', have eyes on the end of their horns ?
A. Slugs and snails. (Gastropods)
2. Which Lancastrian-born English film maker and animator created the short film `Creature Comforts' and later popularised the cheese `Stinking Bishop' ?
A. Nick Park (Aardman Animations)
3. In the Edgar Allan Poe story `Murders in the Rue Morgue', who is the murderer ?
A. An ape (Orangutan)
4. In `Macbeth' which part of a newt do the witches add to their cauldron to make their `charm of powerful trouble' ?
A. The eye. (Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog ).
5. Which creature, from the novel alternatively named `The Modern Prometheus', did William Henry Pratt become famous for portraying ?
A. Frankenstein's monster (William Henry Pratt was the real name of Boris Karloff)
6, In the 1960's TV series `Daktari', what distinctive feature did the lion Clarence possess ?
A. He was cross-eyed.
8. The name Halcyon, meaning calm, peaceful and happy, derives from which bird found all over the world, that in various mythologies had a calming effect on the seas ?
A. The Kingfisher.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) Which creature, tattooed on his chest, became the nickname of the French criminal Henri Carriere, who was portrayed in film by Steve McQueen ?
A. A Butterfly (Papillon).
(b) `The Phoenix and the Turtle' by Shakespeare, is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love. What type of creature is the turtle ?
A, A bird (The Turtle Dove).
(c) Which 1940's female `film star' was played by a male ?
 A. Lassie (played by a male dog called Pal).
(d) Who is the subject of the Monty Python song with these lines :
"I love this hive employee, bisected accidentally, one summer afternoon by me" ?
A. Eric the Haifa Bee.

DRINK

1. `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" is a quote from which fictional character, voiced by teetotaller Dan Castellaneta ?
A. Homer Simpson.
2. What nickname was given to the spirit Absinthe, a favoured tipple of 19^th century bohemian artists ?
A. The Green Fairy.
3. Who is the only member of the House of Commons officially permitted to consume alcohol in the chamber ?
A. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the budget speech).
4. Which 18^th century artist produced the prints called `Beer Street' and `Gin Lane' ?
 A. William Hogarth
5. The literary character Zaphod Beeblebrox invented the `Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster' cocktail in which book ?
A. The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy. (By Douglas Adams)
6. Introduced in the late 1980's, the `Bacardi Breezer' was one of the first examples of which generic type of beverage ?
A. Alcopop.
7. Which band had a hit with the Neil Diamond song `Red Red Wine', in the 1980's ?
A. UB40
8. Which novelist and journalist wrote the 1946 article, `The Moon Under Water', describing his ideal pub ?
A. George Orwell.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) What was the name for establishments which illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition in the United States ?
A. Speakeasys (the term `blind pig' was also sometimes used).
(b) Which gas, less soluble than carbon dioxide, is used to put Guinness under high pressure and create tiny bubbles, without making it fizzy?
A. Nitrogen.
(c) What is the name of the fictional priest who lives on `Craggy Island' and whose vocabulary is usually restricted to outbursts such as "Drink" ; "Feck" ; "Arse" ; "Girls" ?
 A. Father Jack Hackett (Tv 's Father Ted) accept Father Jack.
(d) Which member of the `Rat Pack' said "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on" ?
 A. Dean Martin.

GEOGRAPHY

1. What is the great mass of stone trees in the Painted Desert in Arizona, USA, called ?
A. The Petrified Forest.
2. Honshu, Hokkaido, and Kyushu are three of the four main islands of Japan. Name the fourth.
A. Shikoku.
3. Which of the North American Great Lakes lies wholly within the U.S.A. ?
A. Lake Michigan.
4.  Sierra Nevada mountain ranges can be found in both Spain and the U.S.A. Name either the Spanish region or U.S. state.
A. Andalucia or California.
5. The South American country Suriname was formerly known as what ?
A. Dutch Guyana.
6. If you were travelling from London to Brighton by rail, from which station would you normally leave ?
A. Victoria.
7. What is the word, derived from Malay, for rice when its grains are still in their husks ?
A. Paddy.
8. Which former Arab port is now part of Tel Aviv in Israel ?
A. Jaffa.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) Of which northern city did Sir Walter Scott write "Half church of God, half castle `gainst the Scot" ?
A. Durham.
(b) The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is the breeding ground of which fish ?
A. (European) Eel. (Accept Eel).
(c) What do the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Monaco, Denmark, and Portugal have in common ?
A. A coastline and a land border with only one country. (accept one land border).
(d) The Galapagos Islands belong to which country ?
A. Ecuador.

1.  Name any of the Pankhursts who campaigned for women’s suffrage.
A. Emmeline, Sylvia and Christobel.
2. Name any of the three letters which were replaced by SOS as a morse code mayday signal

A. C Q D (C Q was a general call to all ships and D was for distress).
3. In China in 1900, how was the `Society of Harmonious Fists' known ?
A. The Boxers
04. What startling theory did Polish astronomer Copernicus put forward ?
A, That the earth orbited the sun.
05.  Who designed the gun known as `The Peacemaker' ?
A. Samuel Colt.
06. What did Elisha Otis install for the first time ever in a New York store in 1857 ?
A. A passenger elevator (accept elevator or lift).
07  Who invented a system to reduce background noise on audio equipment in 1967 ?
A. Ray Dolby.
08.  Where was the Russian royal family shot in 1918 ?
A. Yekaterinburg (also called Ekaterinburg).
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) Which political group imposed dictatorship in France after the revolution ?
A. The Jacobins.
(b) In the Indian mutiny of 1857, sepoys serving with the British army refused to handle cartridges. Why ?
A. In the belief that they were coated with cow or pig grease.
(c) In 1907 the worlds most powerful warship to date was launched. What was it called? A. Dreadnought.
(d) Name either of the two British sprinters remembered in the film `Chariots of Fire'. A. Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell.

SCIENCE

1. What name is given to the spore bearing leaf of ferns?
A. Fronds
2. What is the heaviest known metallic element?
A. Osmium
3 In mechanics what name is given to the mass of an object multiplied by its speed ?
A. Momentum.
4. Which chemical element is named after the Greek for the sun ?
A. Helium.
5. What is the British name for the synthetic material called `Dacron' in the U.S.A. ?
A. Terylene.
6, What do astronomers call the redness of the sky just before sunset or sunrise ?
A. Aurora.
7. Which is the only chemical element named after an American state ?
A. Californium.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) In Einstein's theory of relativity, what does C stand for in E=MC2 ?
A. The speed of light (in a vacuum).
(b) Which gland produces hormones to control the body's metabolic rate ?
A. Thyroid.
(c) The dinosaur Archeopteryx had teeth, claws and a bony tail, but otherwise had the characteristics of which modem group of creatures ?
(d) A. Birds.
(e) Which part of the body is affected by Crohn's disease ?
A. Intestines.
f. What is the medical name for the skull ?
 A. Cranium.

SPORT

1. In which German city do FC Schalke 04 play their home games ?
A. Gelsenkirchen.
2.  Name the GB skier who had his Olympic bronze medal stripped away after using an unauthorised nasal spray ?
a. Alain Baxter.
3. Name the substitute fielder who famously ran out Ricky Ponting at Trent Bridge during the 2005 Ashes series ?
A. Gary Pratt.
4. Who is the current British Open Golf champion ?
A. Stewart Cink.
5. The 2010 Winter Olympics commence on 12^th February in which city ?
 A. Vancouver.
6. The original `Red Devils', Salford Reds Rugby League club play their home games at which stadium ?
A. The Willows.
7. Who won the first ever match played under lights at Wimbledon in 2009 ?
A. Andy Murray.
8. In which city were the 1976 summer Olympics held ?
 A. Montreal.
SUPPLEMENTARIES
(a) Name either of the teams that competed in this year's Superbowl ?
(b) A. New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts.
(c) Name either of the teams that played in the 2008 FA Cup Final ?
(d) A. Portsmouth and Cardiff
(e) In golf, which Englishman won the 1^S` Volvo World Matchplay competition to be played away from Wentworth ?
A. Ross Fisher.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

set by CHURCH HOUSE BOLLINGTON

1. Which Russian city was previously known as Tsaritsin and Stalingrad?
VOLGOGRAD
2. Who is the only woman to have been French Prime Minister?
EDITH CRESSON
3. On which Flemish ridge did 400,000 British soldiers die in 1917?
PASSCHENDAELE
4. The European parliament is based in Strasbourg and which other city?
LUXEMBOURG
5. In which short film did Micky Mouse first appear?
S'TEAMBOAT WILLIE
6. What is the prize for best film at the Berlin film festival?
GOLDEN BEAR
7. What is the name of Rupert Bear's elephant chum?
EDWARD TRUNK
8. Senator Scott Brown, tipped to be the next President of the USA, first came to fame as what?
A NUDE MODEL

9. What is England's best visited tourist attraction outside London?
ALTON TOWERS
10. In the original 1960s film, who or what was the Pink Panther?
A DIAMOND
11. Which French phrase is commonly used to describe a small second home usually located in a city ?
PIED-A-TERRE
12. Of which country is Vaduz the capital?
LIECHTENSTEIN
13. What substance is formed when an alkali is added to an acid?
SALT
14. What is the literal English translation of the word Blitzkrieg?
LIGHTNING WAR
15. By what name was the Kingdom of Jordan known until 1949?
TRANSJORDAN
^16. Which European country declared itself officially to be an atheist state in 1967?
ALBANIA

17 For what is the chemical aspartame used?
SWEETENER
18. After football, what, measured by numbers attending, is Britain's second most popular spectator sport ? GREYHOUND RACING
19. By what name is the sport of octopush otherwise known?
UNDERWATER HOCKEY
20. For what reason was Irish teenager Kirk McCambley in the news in January this year?
AFFAIR WITH IRIS ROBINSON(Northern Ireland First Minister's wife)
21. What word describes a word or phrase chanted repeatedly during meditation ?
MANTRA
22. Which bandleader's signature tune was "You're Dancing on my Heart"?
VICTOR SYLVES'IER
23. Which is the only Canadian province with a Pacific coastline?
BRITISH COLUMBIA
24. What name is given to a harmless pill or drug which is prescribed because the person taking it believes it will cure him of an illness ?
PLACEBO

25. According to the song, what happens when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars ?
(THE DAWNING OF) THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
26. Which neutral country did Britain accidentally bomb in the Second World War?
SAN MARINO
27. ) Who is the director of the film Avatar which recently became the biggest grossing movie of all time ?
JAMES CAMERON
28. What word is defined as the resistance of liquid to flow?
VISCOSITY
29. What name is given to the vibration that spreads out from the epicentre of an earthquake?
SEISMIC WAVE
30. Which Manchester United footballer played cricket for England in the 1980s?
ARNOLD SIDEBOTTOM
31. In the financial world, what does the letter P in the abbreviation APR stand for?
PERCENTAGE
32. What was the codename for the evacuation of Dunkirk?
OPERATION DYNAMO

33. On which book is the film Cabaret based?
GOODBYE TO BERLIN (written by Christopher Isherwood)
34. Who does "she" refer to in the song lyric "I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more" ?
DELILAH
35. Which 1942 report first outlined the idea of the Welfare State? BEVERIDGE REPORT
36. Opened in January in Dubai, what is the name of the current highest building in the world?
BURJ KHALIFA
37. The song Flowers In The Rain was the first ... what?
FIRST SONG PLAYED ON RADIO ONE
38. The song Sing Little Birdy Sing was the first... what?
BRITISH ENTRY INTO THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
39. Which dam controls the waters of the Zambezi river?
KARIBA
40. Which ship rescued many of the survivors of the Titanic? CARPATHIA

41. ,What was the name of the plane which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima?
ENOLA GAY
42. Which law of physics states that energy can neither be destroyed nor created?
THERMODYNAMICS
43 What is the only time a chess player may move two pieces in one move?
IN CASTLING (i.e. changing the positions of the king and rook/castle)
44. Whom did Andy Murray beat in the semi final of the recent Australian Open?
MARIN CILIC
45. In which Sussex village is the Royal Greenwich Observatory now located?
HURSTMONCEUX
46. What is the common name for acetylsalicylic acid?
ASPIRIN
47. What is calculated using the formula 4 Pi r squared?
SURFACE AREA OF A SPHERE
48. Who was the runner-up in the 2009 X Factor contest? (full name)
OLLY MURS

49. What would be most distinctive about someone suffering from calivity?
THEY'D BE BALD
50. Which Scottish physicist invented Radar?
ROBERT WATSON-WATT
51. Who was the first cricketer to play 100 test matches?
COLIN COWDREY
52. Which TV western series starred Leif Ericsson as a rancher and Cameron Mitchell as his brother ?
THE HIGH CHAPARRAL
53. In which film did Kane, Parker, Lambert, Ash, Dallas and Brett all fail to make it to the end?
ALIEN (NB NOT Aliens)
54. On which river does Florence stand?
ARNO

55 . A tangelo is a hybrid of a tangerine and which other fruit? POMELO
56. Which prophetess and witch lived in a cave near Knaresborough?
MOTHER SHIPTON
57. What is removed in the process of excortication?
BARK OF A TREE
58. What German word means pleasure in another's misfortune?
SCHADENFREUDE
59. About whose life is the Somerset Maugham novel The Moon and Sixpence?
PAUL GAUGUIN
60. Capers are the pickled seeds of which flower?
NASTURTIUM
61 Which train did Casey Jones drive?
CANNONBALL EXPRESS
62. Which actress is the mother of film star Melanie Griffith?
TIPPI HEDREN
63. In literature, who was the son of the giant Pantagruel?
GARGANTUA
64. Which TV character's catchphrase was "You've all done very well"?
(YOUNG) MR GRACE

 65. Which city was known by the Romans as Durovernum?
CANTERBURY
66. Under Hebrew Law, in what circumstances would a man be able to marry his dead brother's widow ?
IF THE MARRIAGE HAD BEEN CHILDLESS
67. Who wrote the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird sings?
MAYA ANGELOU
68. Which spirit is used in a margarita?
TEQUILA
69. Which ladies tennis champion had to retire after a horse-riding accident?
MAUREEN CONNOLLY (LITTLE MO)
70. Who or what was referred to in the early 20^th century as The Sick Man of Europe
TURKEY (OTTOMAN EMPIRE)
71. On what product can a painting of the Barnum & Bailey's Circus animal Old Joe be seen?
CAMEL CIGARETTES
72. What was Casanova's main profession?
LIBRARIAN

73. . Who was the manager of Arsenal when they won the double in 1971?
BERTIE MEE
74. Which secret society took its name from the Greek word for circle?
KU KLUX KLAN
75. Which Canadian territory forms most of the border with Alaska?
YUKON
76. By what name is Lake Tiberias also known?
SEA OF GALILEE
77. What code was invented by Depillon and developed by Popham and Pasley?
SEMAPHORE
78. In a pack of playing cards, what are the queens holding?
A FLOWER
79. What did the Combination Laws of 1799 & 1800 prohibit?
TRADE UNIONS
80. As in Galapagos Islands, what does the word Galapagos mean?
TORTOISES/TURTLES

81. What is the more common name for a lycanthrope? WEREWOLF
82. What poison is obtained from the seed nux vomica? STRYCHNINE
83. What was Kevin Keegan's first football league club as a player? SCUNTHORPE UNITED
84. Who was Israel's Defence Minister during the Six-day War?
MOSHE DAYAN
85. Which liqueur is flavoured with caraway seeds?
KUMMEL
86. What is made in the process of nidification?
A NEST
87. Which Englishman became Pope Adrian IV?
NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR
88. Which country was liberated in the 19th century by Bernardo O'Higgins?
CHILE

89. Which flower is also known as the rose-mallow?
HOLLYHOCK
90. From which TV programme did the hit songs Hi-Fidelity and Starmaker come?
FAME
91Which breed of dog was originally bred to hunt badgers?
DACHSHUND
92. Which English town is served by Radio Wave?
BLACKPOOL
93. What is the purpose of the process of kyanisation?
PREVENT DRY-ROT
94. Which old name for Britain derives from the Latin word for white?
ALBION
95. In Elizabethan times, what profession was followed by the Admiral's Men?
ACTORS
96. Which James Herbert novel features a man who is reincarnated as a dog?
FLUKE

SUPPLEMENTARIES

1. Which spice comes from the berry of the pimento?
ALLSPICE
2. Whom did Frank Bruno defeat to win the WBC heavyweight Championship ?
OLIVER McCALL
3. Who would use a cockabondy?
AN ANGLER
4. By what name is a loupe better known?
MAGNIFYING GLASS
5. By what name is the drug methylene dioxy methamphetamine better known?
ECSTACY
6. Where in Britain is a figure supposed to represent Hercules carved into the earth?
CERNE ABBAS
7. A proposed merger between Oxford United and Reading very nearly took place a few years ago. By what name would the new club have been known ?
THAMES VALLEY ROYALS
8. Which poem by Milton tells the story of Christ's temptation by Satan?
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