2016–17 Season: Week 13 – 7 February 2017
All questions set by the Robin Hood.
Specialist Rounds
Round 1: History
1 |
Name the last pitched battle fought on British soil in 1746? |
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Culloden |
2 |
A Victoria Cross is struck from the gun metal of Russian cannons captured at which battle? |
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Sebastopol |
3 | In 1804, which country became the only nation in the world established as a result of a
successful slave revolt? |
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Haiti |
4 | During which year did George V become king and Halley's Comet return? |
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1910 |
5 | Which native American was war leader of the Oglala Lakota and led a war party to victory
at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? |
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Crazy Horse |
6 | Around 400 'Glorious Gloucesters' fought a last stand on Hill 235 in which war? |
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Korean war |
7 | Name the last British king born outside the UK? |
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George II |
8 | Who was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace? |
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Queen Victoria |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
Whose parents were Philip II of Macedon and Olympias? |
|
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Alexander the Great (born in Pella in 356 BC) |
S2 |
In 1867, who became special correspondent for the New York Herald? |
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Henry Stanley |
Round 2: Geography
1 |
Of which African country is Lilongwe the capital? |
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Malawi |
2 |
Which gulf lies between Saudi Arabia and Iran? |
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The Persian Gulf |
3 |
Which UK city has an annual goose fair? |
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Nottingham |
4 |
Which is the third most populous country on earth? |
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United States of America |
5 |
Into which body of water does the River Ganges drain? |
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The Bay of Bengal |
6 |
What is the capital of the US state of South Carolina? |
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Colombia |
7 |
Name either of the two communes that stand on the estuary of the Seine? |
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Le Havre or Honfleur |
8 |
The Goodwin sands are at the entrance to which straits? |
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The Straits of Dover |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
In which US state is Mount Rushmore? |
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South Dakota |
S2 |
Of which country are the Galapagos Islands a province? |
|
Ecuador |
Round 3: Science – Inventions
1 |
Who first developed the Polio Vaccine? |
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Jonas Salk |
2 |
Who championed Alternating Current as a means of power transmission? |
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Nikla Tesla |
3 |
Who invented the movable type printing press? |
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Johannes Gutenberg |
4 |
Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web? |
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Tim Berners–Lee |
5 |
Who invented the first practical airworthy helicopter |
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Igor Sikorsky |
6 |
Percy Shaw is famous for inventing what ubiquitous item in 1934? |
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Cat's eyes |
7 |
Who invented bifocal spectacles ? |
|
Benjamin Franklin |
8 |
Who invented the widely adopted version of the telegraph? |
|
Samuel Morse |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
Who invented the vulcanisation of rubber? |
|
Charles Goodyear |
S2 |
Who discovered X–rays? |
|
William Roentgen |
Round 4: Arts & Entertainment
1 |
What is the name of the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird is set? |
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Maycomb |
2 |
Whose works include The Persistence of Memory and Swans Reflecting Elephants? |
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Salvador Dali |
3 |
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever ... " These are opening lines by which famous poet? |
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John Keats |
4 |
The Sellout was the Man Booker Prize–winning title of 2016. Who wrote it? |
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Paul Beatty |
5 |
The Accident (2014), The Lie (2015) and The Missing (2016) are all novels by which British author? |
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C. L. Taylor |
6 |
What colour is the coat mentioned in the opening line of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde? |
|
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Scarlet |
7 |
The Owl and the Pussycat were looking for a ring so that they could be married. Where did they find one? |
|
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In the end of a pig's nose or words to that effect (And there in a wood a Piggy–wig
stood With a ring at the end of his nose) |
8 |
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht is a satirical allegory of the rise to power of which political figure? |
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Adolf Hitler |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
Which artist founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Pablo Picasso? |
|
Georges Braque |
S2 |
Who has written children's books entitled Gangsta Granny and Grandpa's Great Escape? |
|
David Walliams |
Round 5: Sport
1 |
Which sport is played on the largest pitch; 300 x 160 yards? |
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Polo – approximately the area of 6 football pitches |
2 |
Which sports playing area is 2.7 metres by 1.5 metres? |
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Table Tennis |
3 |
What is the connection between Volleyball, Squash and Badminton? Clue: This connection is not shared with tennis or table tennis |
|
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Only the server can score |
4 |
In darts, what is the lowest score that CANNOT be scored with a single dart? |
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23 |
5 |
In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA refused to let them do what? |
|
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Play barefoot |
6 |
In Athletics, what is the last event of the Decathlon? |
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1500m |
7 |
What is the only sport to have been played on the surface of the moon? |
|
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Golf |
8 |
Who was the first cricketer to achieve 10,000 runs in test cricket? |
|
Sunil Gavasker |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
What is the highest possible break in snooker (but under unusual circumstances)? |
|
|
155 |
S2 |
James Naismith invented which sport? |
|
Basketball |
Round 6: Cheshire Life Through the Ages
1 |
What was the name of the Anglo Saxon Princess who became the Patron saint of Chester? |
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St. Werbergh |
2 |
In which century was Macclesfield Grammar School (Kings) founded? |
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16th Century (1502) |
3 |
In which year was the second IRA bomb explosion that killed two children on Bridge Street in Warrington? |
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1993 |
4 |
After the Romans left Chester, Cheshire formed part of which Anglo Saxon Kingdom? |
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Mercia |
5 |
Which King of Wessex drove the Danes from the City of Chester? |
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King Alfred the Great (894–5) |
6 |
Charles Roe, English Industrialist, played a major part in establishing which industry in Cheshire? |
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Silk in Macclesfield, 1744 |
7 |
In terms of Roman Catholic Church administration, most of Cheshire falls into which Diocese? |
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Diocese of Shrewsbury |
8 |
Two rivers meet in Stockport to form the River Mersey. The Goyt is one, name the other. |
|
|
Tame |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in which Cheshire village? |
|
Daresbury |
S2 |
Which World War Two American General was based for a time at Peover Hall near Knutsford? |
|
George S. Patton |
Round 7: Airport!
Please give the names of the cities served by the airports below:
1 |
Dulles International Airport |
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Washington DC |
2 |
Sheremetyevo Airport |
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Moscow |
3 |
Humberto Delgado Airport |
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Lisbon |
4 |
Jomo Kenyatta Airport |
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Nairobi |
5 |
Indira Gandhi Airport |
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New Delhi |
6 |
Presidente Juscelino Kubitchek Intl Airport (Pron Jusselino) |
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Brazilia |
7 |
Adolfo Suarez Airport |
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Madrid (aka Madrid – Barajas) |
8 |
Ninoy Aquino International Airport |
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Manila |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
MacDonald – Cartier International Airport |
|
Ottawa |
S2 |
Heydar Aliyev International Airport |
|
Baku |
Round 8: Boys Named Sue
The questions are about works in which men play women, or vice versa.
1 |
In which film did Julie Andrews play a woman pretending to be a man working as a female impersonator? |
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Victor Victoria (1982) |
2 |
In which film did Alec Guiness play 8 male and female members of the D'Ascoyne family? |
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
3 |
Which Norse God dresses as a woman to enter the stronghold of his enemies? |
|
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Thor |
4 |
Which hero was disguised as a woman by his mother to avoid the Trojan War? |
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Achilles; discovered by Ulysses, he went to war and was killed as prophesised |
5 |
In which film was Rachel Welch unconvincingly transformed into a man, then a woman and back to a man? |
|
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Myra Breckinridge (1970) |
6 |
In which 1982 film starring Mel Gibson was the other main male part played by a woman? |
|
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The Year of Living Dangerously |
7 |
In the play/film Hairspray, which female role is always played in drag? |
|
Edna Turnblad |
8 |
Who played Elizabeth I in the film Orlando (1992)? |
|
Quentin Crisp |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
Which male actor played the headmistress in the original St Trinians films? |
|
Alastair Sim |
S2 |
In which film series did Eddie Murphy play male and female members of his character's extended family? |
|
The Nutty Professor |
General Knowledge Questions
1 |
Which epic movie, based on a real historical character, was the only film to have won the Oscar for Best Picture without a
single female speaking role? |
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Lawrence of Arabia |
2 |
Name one of the Titanic's two sister ships |
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Britannic or Olympic |
3 |
Ukrainian Sergey Bubka is best known for record setting in which sporting discipline? |
|
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Pole vault |
4 |
If you're on a boat called Maid of the Mist you're looking at which natural spectacle? |
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Niagara Falls |
5 |
Who was the second German voted Footballer of the year in England? |
|
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Jurgen Klinsmann |
6 |
Which large US city, located on the Ohio river, was named after a popular Roman statesman? |
|
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Cincinnati |
7 |
If you took a walk along Venice Beach, in which city would you be? |
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Los Angeles |
8 |
Sir Sandford Fleming came up with a world changing invention when a mistake printed in a timetable caused him to miss his train.
This apparently inspired his invention of what? |
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Worldwide Standard Time Zones |
9 |
What part of the eye can be described as the transparent front part that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber |
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Cornea |
10 |
Which Mediterranean capital's name is derived from the Greek word for an anchor? |
|
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Ankara |
11 |
Which film of 1995, tells the story of William Wallace? |
|
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Braveheart |
12 |
The adventurer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl was born in which country? |
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Norway |
13 |
Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos? |
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
14 |
David Beckham's son Cruz was born where? |
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Madrid, Spain |
15 |
Which planet in our solar system has the most rings? |
|
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Uranus |
16 |
Which nation has been runner–up in the Football World Cup the most times without actually winning it? |
|
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Netherlands |
17 |
As of 23 January 2017, who is the UK's Secretary of State for Education ? |
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Justine Greening |
18 |
What is the name of the Rugby World Cup trophy? |
|
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The William Web Ellis Cup |
19 |
How many countries border France? |
|
|
8 |
20 |
As of 23 January 2017, who is the Shadow Home Secretary? |
|
Diane Abbott |
21 |
Whose book The Tropic of Cancer was banned for many years? |
|
|
Henry Miller |
22 |
Which Hemingway book title comes from a line in a John Donne poem? |
|
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For Whom the Bell Tolls |
23 |
Into which sea does the Mekong River flow? |
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The South China Sea |
24 |
Which French philosopher wrote 'I think therefore I am'? |
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Rene Descartes |
25 |
In which year did UK National Service end? |
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1960 (accept 1959–1961) |
26 |
When is All Saints Day? |
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November 1st |
27 |
In which Italian City is The Taming of the Shrew set? |
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Padua |
28 |
On which river does the city of Ely stand? |
|
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The Ouse |
29 |
Which is the largest island in the Bristol Channel? |
|
Lundy |
30 |
Who is the porcine ruler in George Orwell's Animal Farm? |
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Napoleon |
31 |
Who was Shirley Williams's pacifist mother? |
|
Vera Brittain |
32 |
Who wrote 'Brevity is the soul of wit'? |
|
|
William Shakespeare |
33 |
What is the capital of the US state of Nevada? |
|
Carson City |
34 |
To which 1960s group did the poet Roger McGough belong? |
|
The Scaffold |
35 |
Which TV cop is based in Ystad? |
|
Kurt Wallander |
36 |
What colour is malachite? |
|
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Green |
37 |
Sb is the chemical symbol for which element? |
|
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Antimony |
38 |
Who wrote The Maltese Falcon? |
|
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Dashiell Hammett |
39 |
What was the name of the purchase that saw the USA more than double in size when it bought out France's territorial claims
in North America? |
|
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Louisiana Purchase |
40 |
During which century was the Black Death? |
|
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Fourteenth |
41 |
Which queen was the last Stuart monarch? |
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Queen Anne |
42 |
Which two–word Latin expression meaning 'a scraped tablet' refers to the human mind in its primary state? |
|
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Tabula rasa |
43 |
In which year did Great Britain join what would become the European Union? |
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1973 |
44 |
Which oath taken by GPs requires doctors to act in the best interests of their patients? |
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Hippocratic Oath |
45 |
Talia Balsam was married to which actor between 1989 and 1993? |
|
George Clooney |
46 |
Benedict Cumberbatch plays mathematician Alan Turing in which 2014 film? |
|
The Imitation Game |
47 |
Actor Wagner Moura played which crime figure in the Netflix series Narcos? |
|
Pablo Escobar |
48 |
Which was the first film in the James Bond series to star Pierce Brosnan in the role? |
|
GoldenEye |
49 |
Which country was known as Ceylon until 1972? |
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Sri Lanka |
50 |
Which 'C' is the name for an object used to measure the thickness of things? |
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Caliper |
51 |
What is the real name of rocker Alice Cooper? |
|
|
Vincent David Furnier |
52 |
Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael made up which crime fighting team? |
|
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Teenage Hero Ninja Turtles |
53 |
Which river runs through Leeds city centre? |
|
River Aire |
54 |
Which group worked with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers on the track Get Lucky in 2013? |
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Daft Punk |
55 |
Which Irish county is known as the Red Hand County? |
|
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Tyrone |
56 |
What does a Clinometer measure? |
|
|
Angle of slope |
57 |
Who was the creator of Coronation Street who died in 2016? |
|
Tony Warren |
58 |
During which century did the world's population reach 1 billion? |
|
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19th; estimated to have happened in 1804 |
59 |
Which German philosopher is known for his major work Critique of Pure Reason? |
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Immanuel Kant |
60 |
Michael Aspel presented which television show between 1987 and 2003? |
|
|
This Is Your Life |
61 |
If it's a motorway in the UK, Autobahn in Germany and Autopista in Spain, what is it in Italy? |
|
Autostrade |
62 |
Kent Walton was a regular commentator of which sport broadcast on ITV's World of Sport in the 1970s? |
|
Wrestling |
63 |
Brothers Joseph and Edward Tetley founded their tea company in 1837 in which British city? |
|
Leeds |
64 |
Which former IRA activist, who was Sinn Fein's leader in Northern Ireland, has announced the end of his political career due to illness? |
|
Martin McGuinness |
65 |
Trump was inaugurated as President this week, but who is his Vice President? |
|
Mike Pence |
66 |
Sales of yellow dresses have rocketed thanks to a tea dress that is worn by Emma Stone in which recent film? |
|
La La Land |
67 |
The Duke of Marlborough is apparently planning to build up to 1600 houses on land he owns. What was his name before he became the Duke in 2014? |
|
|
Jamie Blandford |
68 |
Biz Stone has called for a 'trust' button to counter 'fake news', but which IT company did he co–found? |
|
Twitter |
69 |
Adama Barrow a former security guard at an Argos store in north London, has been elected leader of which African country? |
|
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Gambia |
70 |
Which striker has just broken Manchester United's all time goal scoring record? |
|
Wayne Rooney |
71 |
Which city has hosted the premier of the film T2 Trainspotting? |
|
Edinburgh |
72 |
In which English National Park would you find the highest point at the summit of Dunkery Hill? |
|
Exmoor |
73 |
Which US star because the highest–paid actress in the world following her performance alongside Chris Pratt in
Passengers? |
|
Jennifer Lawrence |
74 |
Which Irish jockey is the eldest son of former champion amateur jockey Ted Walsh (full name required)? |
|
Ruby Walsh |
75 |
What is the occupation of Otto Man in the animated series The Simpsons? |
|
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School Bus Driver |
76 |
Tom Bombadil is a fictional character created by which English author? |
|
J. R. R. Tolkien |
77 |
If an event is said to be 'quotidian', it will re–occur how frequently? |
|
|
Daily |
78 |
Between 1986 and 2005, which Russian chess grandmaster was once ranked world number 1 for 225 out of 228 months? |
|
|
Garry Kasparov |
79 |
What colour is the lower half of the Welsh flag? |
|
Green |
80 |
Which English football club play at Gigg Lane? |
|
Bury |
81 |
Bells Beach, Margaret River and Byron Bay are Australian towns best known for which sport? |
|
Surfing |
82 |
Who recorded the 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home? |
|
Bob Dylan |
83 |
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is a fear of which number? |
|
|
666 |
84 |
Along with partner Hal David, who wrote the following songs: What's New Pussycat?,
Long after Tonight Is All Over and Alfie? |
|
Burt Bacharach |
85 |
What is the surname of the British singer Adele? |
|
Adkins |
86 |
Which ancient Greek temple, dedicated to the goddess Athena, sits on the hill of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece? |
|
Parthenon |
87 |
What is the first name of the Coronation Street character played by Samia Ghadie? |
|
|
Maria |
88 |
The books of which Venetian merchant traveller introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China? |
|
Marco Polo |
89 |
Carole King's Tapestry album was released and became the longest charting album by a female solo artist in which year? |
|
|
1971 |
90 |
Who published works under the pen name Currer Bell? |
|
Charlotte Bronte |
91 |
William Pitt 'the younger' was prime minister from 1783 to 1801. How old was he when he became Prime Minister? |
|
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24 years |
92 |
Who was the only President of the Confederate States of America? |
|
Jefferson Davis |
93 |
The Kennington Oval hosted the inaugural final of which competition in 1872? |
|
The FA Cup final |
94 |
What is the fifth planet from the Sun? |
|
Jupiter |
95 |
What is the name for the process of the loss of water vapour through the stomata of leaves? |
|
Transpiration |
96 |
Which film of 2016 is based on a comic by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld? |
|
|
Deadpool |
Supplementaries:
S1 |
8 minutes and 47.8 seconds is the fastest ever winning time for what race? |
|
The Grand National |
S2 |
Edina and Patsy starred in a film version of which BBC comedy television series in 2016? |
|
Absolutely Fabulous |
S3 |
Which country has a national anthem entitled Wilhelmus which can be translated as the name 'William'? |
|
|
The Netherlands |
S4 |
Which letter in Morse Code consists of one single dash? |
|
T |
S5 |
Which evil mythological creature was part woman and part bird, having a human face and a bird's wings and claws? |
|
Harpy |
S6 |
Which river flows through the city of Durham? |
|
|
River Wear |
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