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2016–17 Season
Week 11

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Specialist Rounds
General Knowledge

2016–17 Season: Week 11 – 17 January 2017

All questions set by the Church House Bollington.

Specialist Rounds

Round 1: Geography

1 Which city is protected by the MOSE flood barrier? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
2 Wills Neck is the highest point in which range of English hills? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Which American state lies between Mississippi and Georgia? Click to show or hide the answer
4 What is the second highest mountain in the world? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
5 The capital of Costa Rica shares its name with which Californian city? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
6 What do Mexicans call the river that Americans call the Rio Grande? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Which Kent town on the River Medway is home to a former Royal Navy dockyard, nowadays a museum and heritage site? Click to show or hide the answer
8 San Antonio is a resort on which Mediterranean island? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 China shares borders with how many sovereign states? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
2 Lake Vostok lies two miles beneath the surface of which continent? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer

Round 2: Science and Nature

1 How is the creature with the Latin name Ursus Maritimus more commonly known? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which toy dog, originating in Tibet, is also known as the Chrysanthemum dog? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
3 What is the name of the recently deceased astronaut who in 1998 became the oldest man in space? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Rothschilds, Reticulated, Nubian and Masai are all subspecies of which animal? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
5 Name either of the two species of deer which are native to the UK (i.e. have not been introduced). Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
6 Which planet has 14 moons, all named after minor Greek water deities? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Which number Apollo marks the furthest humans have ever travelled from Earth? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
8 What name is given to the fruit of a rose bush? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 What are also known as Roentgen rays? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
2 By what name is the diamorphine hydrochloride better known? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 3: History

1 'The Great Game' refers to the political and diplomatic confrontation between Britain and which other country in the nineteenth century over their respective interests in central Asia, particularly Afghanistan? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Of German cities, Dresden suffered the most casualties as a result of aerial bombardment during the Second World War. Which German city suffered the next most? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Which winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize sent his wife to Oslo to collect it as he feared being refused entry back into his own country? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Following the mutiny on the Bounty, which island did Fletcher Christian and his cohorts colonise? Click to show or hide the answer
5 Who instigated the Third Servile War in 73BC? He was portrayed on film by a man who turned 100 in December. Click to show or hide the answer
6 What was the surname of Papa Doc and Baby Doc, both dictators of Haiti? Click to show or hide the answer
7 What famous American building was burnt by British troops in 1812? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
8 Which of Henry VIII's wives did he refer to as 'The Flanders Mare'? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 Who traditionally wears the Fisherman's ring? Click to show or hide the answer
2 The name for which type of car derives from the word for long coats worn by French shepherds? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer

Round 4: Sport

1 Which Swiss football team, whose name can often elicit schoolboy sniggers, play their home games at the equally wonderfully named Wankdorf stadium? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which is the only NFL team not to have a logo on their helmets? Their name reflects the colour of their kit and they are one of very few sports teams to play in this colour. More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
3 Since 2005, the stretch of the A52 between Derby and Nottingham has been named after which man with sporting connections to both cities? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Before they adopted the more mundane 'City', Leicester's professional football team carried which suffix which referred to a nearby Roman road? Click to show or hide the answer
5 Which sport held at the 1900 Olympics led to the deaths of 300 animals? Protests by animal rights groups led to the sport's disappearance by the time of the 1904 games. Click to show or hide the answer
6 Adolf Dassler founded Adidas. Which sportswear manufacturer was founded by his brother Rudolf? Click to show or hide the answer
7 In Ice Hockey, a Gordie Howe hat–trick named after a legend of the game who died last year is a goal, an assist and a what in one game? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Recently retired Huddersfield Giants rugby league prop Eorl Crabtree is the nephew of which Yorkshire sporting legend? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 Apart from Red Rum, name either of the other two horses to have won the Grand National with the word 'red' in their name. Click to show or hide the answer
2 What nationality was the boxer Roberto Duran who won five titles at four different weights and was the first man to beat Sugar Ray Leonard? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 5: Arts and Entertainment

1 McKinley Morganfield was the real name of which blues musician? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which group has had the most top 40 singles in the UK without ever having a number one? Among their near misses are People are People and Everything Counts. Click to show or hide the answer
3 A snatch of which traditional British song can be heard at the end of Queen's Seven Seas of Rhye? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
4 Which stage and screen musical features the songs, Skid Row, Suddenly Seymour and Mushnik and Son? Click to show or hide the answer
5 Which is the only Shakespeare title character to die before the end of Act 3? Click to show or hide the answer
6 What was the name of the book published in 1979 by the artist Kit Williams which took the form of a treasure hunt to find a real golden hare buried somewhere in the UK? Click to show or hide the answer
7 A character from which TV series had a poster in his office which read 'I want to believe'? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Which director won his only Best Picture Oscar for Rebecca in 1940? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 What is the name of the spaceship in the film Alien? Click to show or hide the answer
Apart from members of the titular family themselves, which character has had the most speaking appearances in The Simpsons? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 6: Famous Pets

1 What is the name of Dennis the Menace's pet pig? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which politician once had a cat named 'Harold Wilson'? Click to show or hide the answer
3 What was the name of the dog in the Famous Five? Click to show or hide the answer
4 'Wellington' is the canine murder victim of which 2003 novel by Mark Haddon, now a multi–award winning stage play? Click to show or hide the answer
5 'Crookshanks' is the pet cat of which Harry Potter character? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
6 What is the first name of the talking dog in the TV series Family Guy? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Bo and Sunny are the Portuguese Water Dog pets of which family? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Commemorated by a statue outside his master's London house, 'Hodge' was the pet cat of which English literary figure and lexicographer? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 'Astro' was the pet dog of which space–age American animated sitcom family? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Duchess, Toulouse, Marie and Berlioz are the pets of Madame Adelaide who are rescued by Thomas O'Malley in which Disney animated film? Click to show or hide the answer

Round 7: Banknotes

1 Which type of bird appears with Charles Darwin on the back of the current £10 note? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Who features on the reverse of the current £20 note? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Which painter will replace Adam Smith on £20 notes from 2020? Click to show or hide the answer
4 Which author will replace Charles Darwin on £10 notes from 2017? Click to show or hide the answer
5 If Washington appears on the $1 bill and Lincoln on the $5 bill, which president features on the US $2 bill? Click to show or hide the answer
6 Banknotes issued in which part of the British Isles feature depictions of, amongst others, Castle Rushen and the Laxey Wheel? Click to show or hide the answer
7 Which country was the first to introduce plastic (strictly speaking 'polymer') bank notes into general circulation in 1988? Click to show or hide the answer
8 Who featured on the reverse of the £1 note from 1978 to 1988? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 Which nations banknotes have featured Charles Kingsford–Smith and Banjo Patterson? Click to show or hide the answer
In which year was the British one pound note removed from circulation? Comments on the question More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer

Round 8: Blockbusters Gold Run–Style Round

Each question requires an answer of more than one word. You will be given the initial letter of each word to help. For example:

What SDW was an Arab–Israeli conflict of 1967? Click to show or hide the answer

1 TJAMC – A Scottish alternative rock band formed in 1983 by the brothers Jim and William Reid. Click to show or hide the answer
2 AOTQOS – First premiered in London in 1749, this piece of music by Handel has since become a widely popular processional piece often played at weddings and was used at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Click to show or hide the answer
3 AJR – The full name of the character played by Chris Barrie in Red Dwarf, his middle name reflecting his treacherous nature. Click to show or hide the answer
4 TSAN – Popular long running BBC programme currently hosted by Maggie Aderin–Pocock and Chris Lintott. Click to show or hide the answer
5 RTBC –Hit for Ian Dury in 1979 containing the lines "curing smallpox, Buddy Holly, Bolshoi ballet, porridge oats, juice of a carrot and yellow socks." Click to show or hide the answer
6 PSOTY – Award discontinued in 2003 when Stephen Fry was the last winner. Other recipients had included Tony Benn and Harold Wilson. Click to show or hide the answer
7 FF – Lozenge manufactured by the Lofthouse company in Fleetwood, Lancashire Click to show or hide the answer
8 CG – subject of an iconic photograph taken by Alberto Korda on March 5th 1960 Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 STM – What a player might aim to do in a game of Hearts. Click to show or hide the answer
2 NSF – Sitcom character who did time in HMP Slade Click to show or hide the answer

General Knowledge

1 Which southern state of America is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State? Click to show or hide the answer
2 Which race on the F1 Grand Prix calendar is held at the Marina Bay Street Circuit? Click to show or hide the answer
3 Which James Bond actor starred in the 1992 film The Lawnmower Man? Click to show or hide the answer
4 The Call of the Wild is a 1903 novel by which American author? Click to show or hide the answer
5 A traditional balalaika has how many strings? Click to show or hide the answer
6 Boca Juniors versus River Plate is the big derby football match in which capital city? Click to show or hide the answer
7 "Jesus wept" is the shortest verse in the Bible but for whom did Jesus weep? Click to show or hide the answer
8 In Greek Mythology, who challenged Athena to a weaving contest before being turned into a spider? Click to show or hide the answer

9 Which classic song from 1964 opens with the line, "Hello darkness my old friend"? Click to show or hide the answer
10 Which island is known in the native tongue as Rapa Nui? Click to show or hide the answer
11 Who wrote the 1980 novel The Name of the Rose? Click to show or hide the answer
12 Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love? Click to show or hide the answer
13 What sport is played by, among others, the Anaheim Ducks, the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs? Click to show or hide the answer
14 In which city can you take a ferry from Circular Quay to Taronga Zoo? Click to show or hide the answer
15 Which popular prime time TV programme features Dave Arch and his Orchestra? Click to show or hide the answer
16 Who were England's opponents in Gareth Southgate's first game in charge following the sacking of Sam Allardyce in October 2016? Click to show or hide the answer

17 Which song do the British soldiers defending Rorkes Drift sing in reply to the Zulu warriors war chant in the 1964 film Zulu? Click to show or hide the answer
18 In which 2005 film did Joaquin Phoenix and Reece Witherspoon play Johnny Cash and June Carter? Click to show or hide the answer
19 Which four time Tour de France winner was known as The Cannibal? Click to show or hide the answer
20 Which US president was the first to die in office and consequently also has served the shortest term in presidential history? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
21 What is the capital of the Australian state of Victoria? Click to show or hide the answer
22 How many teams have won the English Premier League since its inception in 1992? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
23 A statue of which famous explorer stands atop the column at the lower end of the La Rambla thoroughfare in Barcelona? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
24 Before the introduction of the Euro, what was the currency of Greece? Click to show or hide the answer

25 Who, in 1994, became the first Channel Islands born footballer to play for England? Click to show or hide the answer
26 What is the more common name of the skin complaint, Urticaria? More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
27 Mittwoch is the German name for which day of the week? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
28 Which dance became an international dance craze in 1975 following Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony's song of the same name? Click to show or hide the answer
29 The 1980's advertising campaign of which confectionary product bet us that we couldn't put one in our mouth without chewing it? Click to show or hide the answer
30 What is the name of the thin, plain weave, sheer fabric traditionally made from silk and often used in bridalwear? Click to show or hide the answer
31 From which classic 1950 film does Gloria Swanson's character Norma Desmond utter the closing line, "Alright Mr De Mille, I'm ready for my close up". Click to show or hide the answer
32 What was the name of Paul Eddington's character in the sitcom Yes, Minister? Click to show or hide the answer

33 In which European country would you find the village of Y? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
34 Which member of England's 1966 World Cup winning football team once played a first class cricket match for Essex? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
35 Which guitarist replaced Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones in 1969? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
36 Which philosopher famously claimed that "God is dead"? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
37 Which US state shares the longest border with Canada? Click to show or hide the answer
38 Who was the Mayor of New York at the time of the September 11th attacks in 2001? Click to show or hide the answer
39 In which Russian city was Tsar Nicholas II and his family executed in 1918? Click to show or hide the answer
40 Which American president said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time"? Click to show or hide the answer

41 The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a symphonic poem written in 1896 by which French composer? Click to show or hide the answer
42 Who showed us around the celebrities' houses in the original series of Through the Keyhole hosted by Sir David Frost? Click to show or hide the answer
43 Who eventually replaced Dermot Murnaghan as host of the BBC2 quiz show Eggheads after sharing the job for a short time? Click to show or hide the answer
44 What nationality was racing driver Emerson Fittipaldi? Click to show or hide the answer
45 The ground of which English football club, currently playing in League 1, was used as a World War II prisoner of war camp until May 1945? Click to show or hide the answer
46 How many American Presidents held office during the Vietnam War? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
47 Perhaps the most well –known of cricket umpires, Dickie Bird, retired from first class cricket in 1998 but what was his real first name? Click to show or hide the answer
48 Which actress starred in the Alan Bennett monologue A Cream Cracker under The Settee forming part of the 1987 BBC series Talking Heads? Click to show or hide the answer

49 Which spirit, when added to white Crème de Menthe, puts the sting in a Stinger cocktail? Click to show or hide the answer
50 Which legendary American record producer is currently serving a prison sentence for second degree murder? Click to show or hide the answer
51 What was the name of the man wrongly executed in 1950 for crimes committed by John Christie at 10 Rillington Place? Click to show or hide the answer
52 What is the capital of the Canadian province, Manitoba? Click to show or hide the answer
53 What is the largest living species of lizard? Click to show or hide the answer
54 Which autobiographical novel of 1969 tells the story of the authors incarceration and subsequent escape from the French Penal Colony of French Guiana? Click to show or hide the answer
55 Which member of an acting dynasty played the greedy banker Mr Potter in the 1946 film, It's A Wonderful Life? Both names required. Click to show or hide the answer
56 Which book of the Old Testament tells the story of Samson and Delilah? Click to show or hide the answer

57 What nickname name was given to serial killer Albert DeSalvo, convicted of thirteen murders committed between 1962 and 1964? Click to show or hide the answer
58 Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ is the semi–autobiographical book by which British comedy actor, who died in 2014 aged 56? Click to show or hide the answer
59 What is the name of the Tudor mansion in Kent, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn? Click to show or hide the answer
60 Which author's novels include Portnoys Complaint, American Pastoral and The Human Stain? Click to show or hide the answer
61 In fencing, what is the name given to a counterattack made immediately after a successful parry? Click to show or hide the answer
62 In the Old Testament, who was Jacob's twin brother? Click to show or hide the answer
63 Robert Stroud, an American sentenced to life in prison and portrayed on film by Burt Lancaster was given what nickname? Click to show or hide the answer
64 Spike, dig, set and block are terms in which team sport? Click to show or hide the answer

65 2016 saw the death of Harper Lee, what was the name of her long awaited sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird? Click to show or hide the answer
66 In Japanese cuisine, thin slices of what are eaten in between courses to cleanse the palate? Click to show or hide the answer
67 Along with New Mexico which US state joined the Union in 1912? Doing so on February 14th and so gaining its nickname, the Valentine State. More about the answer Click to show or hide the answer
68 What is the nickname of League One football team, Chesterfield? Click to show or hide the answer
69 Inmates seized control of Winson Green Prison in December 2016, in which city is Winson Green? Click to show or hide the answer
70 In which Indian city would you find Sri Harmandir Sahib, also known as The Golden Temple, the holiest Gurdwara in Sikhism? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
71 Which athlete came second in the BBC's 2016 Sports Personality of the Year? Click to show or hide the answer
72 Also at the 2016 Sports Personality of the Year awards, which US sporting legend was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award? Click to show or hide the answer

73 Eyes Wide Shut starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman was the final film from which director, released four months after his death in 1999? Click to show or hide the answer
74 How is the Chapparal Cock, a ground cuckoo native to Mexico, more commonly known? Click to show or hide the answer
75 Common, Water and Pygmy are types of which British mammal? Click to show or hide the answer
76 What is the only bone in the human body that is not attached to any other bone? Click to show or hide the answer
77 What is the name of Alexander Armstrong's co presenter on the BBC quiz show Pointless? Click to show or hide the answer
78 Who knocked Macclesfield Town FC out of the 2016/17 FA Cup in December 2016? Click to show or hide the answer
79 What is the national flower of Austria? Click to show or hide the answer
80 Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated on three occasions for the Best Actor In A Leading Role Oscar before finally winning in 2016 for his role in which film? Click to show or hide the answer

81 Who did Andy Murray beat to win the Wimbledon Mens singles title in 2016? Click to show or hide the answer
82 Which Hollywood actress and socialite who once said she "never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back" died in late December 2016 aged 99? Click to show or hide the answer
83 According to The White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass, which kind of food is eaten tomorrow, yesterday, but never today? Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
84 At which venue was the William Hill World Darts Championship held in December? Click to show or hide the answer
85 Name either of the countries that occupy the Caribbean island of Hispaniola? Click to show or hide the answer
86 Which was the first English "New Town" to be created following the New Towns Act of 1946? Click to show or hide the answer
87 Which Mexican painter, married to fellow artist Frieda Kahlo, helped to establish the Mexican Mural Movement and painted numerous murals in cities across Mexico and the USA? Click to show or hide the answer
88 "I love the colourful clothes she wears and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair" is a line taken from which hit song of 1966? Click to show or hide the answer

89 In the Chinese Zodiac, the year commencing 28th January 2017 will be the year of which animal? Click to show or hide the answer
90 Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855, is a collection of the work of which American poet? Click to show or hide the answer
91 Which comic strip character, created by Mary Tourtel, first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920? Click to show or hide the answer
92 Which British author wrote the books, High Fidelity, About a Boy and A Long Way Down? Click to show or hide the answer
93 In which Shakespeare play would you find the characters Proteus, Valentine, Silvia and Julia? Click to show or hide the answer
94 Which Christian hymn starts with the line, "O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made"? Click to show or hide the answer
95 What is the name of the children's book written by Prince Charles, illustrated by Sir Hugh Casson and published in 1980? Click to show or hide the answer
96 Which board game, the original version of which was released in 1957, involves a political map of the world divided into six continents and forty–two territories? Click to show or hide the answer

Supplementaries:

1 Which British group had a 1979 hit with Some Girls? Click to show or hide the answer
2 What is the capital of Nigeria? Click to show or hide the answer
3 What is the gel like substance that fills most of the eye? Comments on the question Click to show or hide the answer
4 In the children's TV series Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, what was the name of the tortoise? Click to show or hide the answer

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