2017–18 Season: Week 10 – 16 January 2018
Specialist Rounds
Set by the Cock Inn.
Round 1: Arts & Entertainment
1 |
Who composed the Clock Symphony? |
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Haydn |
2 |
Name the choral finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, now commonly associated with a discredited political institution. |
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Ode to Joy |
3 |
Who was Pink Floyd's original lead singer and songwriter? |
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Syd Barrett |
4 |
Who was Fleetwood Mac's original lead singer and guitarist? |
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Peter Green |
5 |
The aria When I Am Laid in Earth comes from which opera by Henry Purcell? |
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Dido and Aeneas |
6 |
The hymn I Vow to Thee, My Country is sung to a partial adaptation of which orchestral work by Gustav
Holst? |
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The Planets (Jupiter) |
7 |
Who wrote Closing Time, the sequel to the more famous novel which has become a synonym for an absurd or
contradictory choice? |
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Joseph Heller |
8 |
Matt Groening created which cartoon character, beloved of nuclear power station operators? |
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Bartholomew Jo–Jo 'Bart' Simpson |
Supplementaries
1 |
What is the is the world's longest–running radio soap opera? |
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The Archers |
2 |
What was the soap Coronation Street originally intended to be titled? |
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Florizel Street |
Round 2: Geography
1 |
In which Canadian province is Ottawa? |
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Ontario |
2 |
Which river flows through Wakefield? |
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The Calder |
3 |
What is the capital of St. Lucia? |
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Castries |
4 |
In which Canadian province is St. John's? |
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Prince Edward Island |
5 |
Which river flows through Droitwich? |
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The Salwarpe |
6 |
What is the capital of Mali? |
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Bamako |
7 |
Which is the highest mountain in Austria? |
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The Grossglockner |
8 |
In which mountain range is Elbrus? |
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The Caucasus |
Supplementaries
1 |
Which sea lies between the Gulf of Genoa and Corsica? |
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The Ligurian Sea |
2 |
What is the state capital of Colorado? |
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Denver |
Round 3: Science
1 |
The Pareto Principle is better known as what? |
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The 80/20 rule – that roughly 80% of the effects come
from 20% of the causes |
2 |
In nuclear physics, what is a half–life? |
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The time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive
substance to disintegrate. |
3 |
Diamond and graphite are allotropes of which element? |
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Carbon |
4 |
In chemistry what does a catalyst do? |
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Increases the rate of a reaction, without taking part in it. |
5 |
What is pitchblende? |
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Uranium ore (accept "a variety of uranite" or "a major ore
of uranium and radium") |
6 |
Ga is the symbol of which element? |
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Gallium |
7 |
Rosalind Franklin demonstrated the existence of what, yet did not receive the Nobel Prize? |
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DNA |
8 |
Janet Parker died in 1978 from which disease, despite it having been eradicated worldwide the year before? |
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Smallpox |
Supplementaries
1 |
What is likely to supplement if not replace, the Hubble telescope in 2019? |
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The James Webb Space Telescope |
8 |
What is the most common element in the Earth by mass? |
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Iron |
Round 4: History
1 |
Queen Alexandra was the wife of which British King? |
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Edward VII |
2 |
What type of clock was invented in 1656 by Christian Huygens? |
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The pendulum clock |
3 |
Who was Britain's last Viceroy of India? |
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Lord Louis Mountbatten |
4 |
Which American President proposed a League of Nations in 1919? |
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Woodrow Wilson |
5 |
In which decade was London's Crystal Palace destroyed by fire? |
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1930s |
6 |
Which war ended in 1902 with the Treaty of Vereeniging? |
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The Boer War |
7 |
In a hit song of 1939, where was the washing going to be hung out? |
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On the Siegfried Line |
8 |
Indira Ghandi was the daughter of which Indian Prime Minister? |
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Pandit Nehru |
Supplementaries
1 |
Which two countries signed a peace agreement at Camp David in 1978? |
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Egypt and Israel |
2 |
Which city was the residence of Holy Roman Emperors from 1558 to 1806? |
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Vienna |
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In which year did Charles Lindbergh make his solo Atlantic crossing? |
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1927 |
Round 5: Creatures – Fact and Fiction
1 |
What was the name of the first Blue Peter dog? |
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Petra |
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2 |
In the film 101 Dalmatians, Pongo was the 'father'; what was the name of the 'mother'? |
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Perdita |
3 |
What is a dik–dik? |
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A type of antelope |
4 |
What is the collective noun for a group of crocodiles? |
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A float or a bask |
5 |
In Disney's The Jungle Book, which creatures sang That's What Friends Are For? |
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Vultures |
6 |
In the film The Lion King, what kind of animal is Pumba? |
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A warthog |
7 |
What was the name of Ross's monkey in the US comedy Friends? |
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Marcel |
8 |
What is the name of Fred Flintstone's pet dinosaur? |
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Dino |
Supplementaries
1 |
Cynophobia is the fear of which animals? |
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Dogs |
2 |
What type of fish is Nemo in the film Finding Nemo? |
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Clownfish |
3 |
What were the first living creatures that were intentionally sent into space in 1946? |
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Fruit flies (accept flies) |
Round 6: Sport
1 |
In which US city is the baseball team, the Orioles, based? |
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Baltimore |
2 |
At the 1948 Olympics, which Dutch woman won four gold medals in athletics? |
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Fanny Blankers–Koen |
3 |
American, Paul Anderson was a multi–medal winning athlete in which sport? |
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Weightlifting (accept "powerlifting") |
4 |
Where were the 2014 Winter Olympics held? |
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Sochi |
5 |
For which team did Michael Schummacher make his earliest appearances in Formula One? |
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Jordan |
6 |
In gymnastics, how wide is the beam? |
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4 inches |
7 |
In the Central Asian region horseback sport of Buzkashi, what is traditionally fought over by two teams? |
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The carcass of a goat or calf |
8 |
What is the name of the world's longest official ski run at Morren in Switzerland? |
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The Inferno |
Supplementaries
1 |
In 1957, who became the first black woman to win the US tennis open? |
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Althea Gibson |
2 |
Wilt Chamberlain holds the record for scoring 100 points in single game, in which sport? |
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Basketball |
3 |
Excluding Antarctica, which is the only continent never to have hosted the Olympic Games? |
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Africa |
Round 7: Literature – Books, Plays and Poets
1 |
In which Russian novel are Tania Gromyko and Lara Antipova the wife and lover (respectively) of the title character? |
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Dr. Zhivago |
2 |
In which book do we first meet the characters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy? |
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Little Women |
3 |
Who wrote A Clockwork Orange? |
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Anthony Burgess |
4 |
Who was Thornton Hall's mad inhabitant in the novel
Jane Eyre? |
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Mrs. Rochester |
5 |
Which poet drowned in the Mediterranean near Viareggio in 1822? |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley |
6 |
What is the name of Bertie Wooster's club? |
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The Drones |
7 |
In which book do a group of pilgrims meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark? |
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The Canterbury Tales |
8 |
In literature, which character is told that he "shall never vanquish'd be, until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane
Hill shall come against him"? |
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Macbeth |
Supplementaries
1 |
In Samuel Beckett's play, what are Estragon and Vladimir doing? |
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Waiting for Godot |
2 |
Which poet laureate wrote about the religious troubles of his teddy bear? |
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John Betjeman |
Round 8: Food and Drink
1 |
What name is given to a cocktail made with gin, cointreau and lemon juice? |
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White lady |
2 |
What would you find in the middle of a Sussex pond pudding? |
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A lemon |
3 |
What is a calzone? |
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A folded pizza |
4 |
Which Australian ballerina gave her name to a pudding? |
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Anna Pavlova |
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5 |
What is the minimum age for a malt whisky? |
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3 years (no leeway) |
6 |
What type of citrus fruit is a shamouti? |
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An orange |
7 |
In which decade did sliced bread first appear? |
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1930s |
8 |
What type of food did Adolf Hitler ban on the day he proclaimed the Third Reich? |
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Kosher food |
Supplementaries
1 |
Who "invented" the breakfast cereal? |
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William Kellogg |
2 |
What is Marmite? |
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Yeast extract |
General Knowledge
Set by the Plough Horntails.
1 |
A picture taken by Hugh Gray on 12 November 1933 began a long standing search for who or what? |
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The Loch Ness Monster |
2 |
Who composed the opera Boris Godunov? |
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Mussorgsky |
3 |
Ujiji, where Stanley met Livingstone, is in which modern country? |
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Tanzania. |
4 |
What is the name of the body of water between the island of Lewis and the North West Scottish mainland? |
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The North Minch (accept "the Minch") |
5 |
What in degrees is the total of the internal angles of a hexagon? |
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720 degrees |
6 |
How many chains are there in a mile? |
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80. |
7 |
Which author wrote the novels Blott on the Landscape and
Porterhouse Blue? |
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Tom Sharpe |
8 |
In which country is the state of Tabasco? |
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Mexico |
9 |
For which film did Colin Welland win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay? |
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Chariots of Fire (his acceptance speech famously included the phrase "the British are coming") |
10 |
Which European country is known in its native language as Hrvatska? |
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Croatia |
11 |
In Dickens's story A Christmas Carol, what was the name of Scrooge's clerk? |
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Bob Cratchit |
12 |
From which country did Madagascar gain independence in 1960? |
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France |
13 |
Who wrote the novel on which the 1993 movie Jurassic Park was based? |
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Michael Crichton |
14 |
Which country does Jarlsberg cheese come from? |
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Norway |
15 |
Who was the last British Governor of Hong Kong? |
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Chris Patten |
16 |
In which English city would you find De Montfort University? |
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Leicester |
17 |
Which was the first British royal wedding to be televised? |
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Princess Margaret (to Anthony
Armstrong–Jones, in 1960) |
18 |
To which notes are the top and bottom strings tuned, on a standard–tuned six–stringed guitar? |
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E |
19 |
The lack of which vitamin gives rise to beri–beri? |
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Vitamin B1 [Thiamine] |
20 |
Who composed the opera Porgy and Bess? |
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George Gershwin |
21 |
Which is the only country never to have lost a football match against Brazil, including friendlies? |
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Norway (played 4, won 2, drawn 2, goals for 8, goals against
5!!) |
22 |
Which European Golfer won the 2017 Masters tournament at Augusta National golf club? |
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Sergio Garcia Fernandez (he beat Justin Rose in a sudden
death play–off) |
23 |
In which year did Alliot Verdon Roe and his brother found the aircraft company Avro? |
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1910 (allow 1907 to 1913) |
24 |
Which motor car company once made a model called the Interceptor? |
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Jensen |
25 |
Which motor car company once made a model called the Scimitar? |
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Reliant |
26 |
The Acton Swing Bridge in Cheshire spans which river? |
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The Weaver |
27 |
What nationality is the pop singer Sia? |
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Australian (born in 1975, Adelaide) |
28 |
In science, which test discovers whether a solution is acidic or basic? |
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Litmus test (accept pH indicator test) |
29 |
Who wrote the novels Along Came a Spider and
Kiss the Girls, where the main character is Detective Alex Cross? |
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James Patterson |
30 |
Which UK city is to be the next UK city of Culture (in 2021)? |
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Coventry |
31 |
In Norse mythology, which female figures choose those who may die in battle and those who may live? |
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The Valkyrie |
32 |
What major crop fruit, informally called a cherry, contains one or two seeds with outer 'parchment coat' and inner
'silver skin'? |
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Coffee beans |
33 |
Which planet in our Solar System is known as the Horned Planet? |
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Venus |
34 |
In which area of the Moon did the first manned lunar landing take place on 20 July 1969? |
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Sea of Tranquility |
35 |
In which US state was George Washington (the American soldier and statesman) born? |
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Virginia |
36 |
Bacchus is the Roman God of fertility and wine, who was his Greek counterpart? |
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Dionysus |
37 |
Who wrote the music for the ballet The Rite of Spring? |
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Igor Stravinsky |
38 |
Which actress appeared on the cover and centre pages in the first edition of Playboy magazine, in 1953? |
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Marilyn Monroe |
39 |
What is the maximum number of dots used to portray a single letter in the Braille alphabet? |
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6 |
40 |
In Western Christianity, what name is given to the first day of Lent? |
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Ash Wednesday |
41 |
In which English town, which became a city in 2000, were Britain's first three–colour traffic lights put
into operation in 1927? |
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Wolverhampton |
42 |
How did London's Fleet Street get its name? |
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After the river Fleet |
43 |
Amritsar is a holy city for followers of which religion? |
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Sikh |
44 |
According to the famous book, where did Bram Stoker say Dracula landed in England? |
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Whitby |
45 |
Under what stage name does the world better know the legendary Hollywood comic actor who was born Arthur Jefferson
in Ulverston, Cumbria? |
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Stan Laurel |
46 |
Which legendary British TV comedy character was created by the comedy writer David Nobbs? |
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Reginald Perrin |
47 |
Comedian and actor Billy Connolly is a former member of which late 1960's/early 1970's Scottish band? |
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The Humblebums |
48 |
According to the Bible, what was the former job of the Apostle and Evangelist Matthew? |
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Tax collector |
49 |
What's the name of the ground where Brighton & Hove Albion play football? |
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The American Express Community Stadium (accept The
Amex Stadium) |
50 |
Which British car company was founded in 1878 by John Starley and William Sutton? |
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Rover |
51 |
What is the stage name of the comedian and actor Jim Moir? |
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Vic Reeves |
52 |
What's the name of the stadium where Bournemouth play football? |
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The Vitality Stadium (also accept Dean Court) |
53 |
What kind of animal is a coney? |
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Rabbit |
54 |
Around which French town is the champagne industry centred? |
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Épernay Epernay |
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55 |
Bouillabaisse (bwee–a–base) is what kind of fish dish? |
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Soup |
56 |
How is Brassica oleracea better known? |
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Cabbage (accept cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts – all are
cultivars of Brassica oleracea) |
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57 |
By what nickname does the world know the Russian entertainer Nikolai Poliakoff? |
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Coco the Clown |
58 |
By what nickname does the world know the American outlaw gang member Harry Alonso Longabaugh – born in 1867, died in 1908? |
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The Sundance Kid |
59 |
The French cathedral of Chartres is specifically famous for which feature? |
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Stained glass |
60 |
The male of which animal species is known as a cob? |
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Swan |
61 |
Divali is a day of major celebration for which religion? |
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Hindu |
62 |
Donnerstag is the German name for which day of the week? |
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Thursday |
63 |
Bell metal is an alloy of two metals. Copper is one; what is other? |
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Tin |
64 |
During which battle, in 1854, did the Light Brigade launch their famous charge? |
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Balaclava |
65 |
Which musical includes the song It Ain't Necessarily So? |
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Porgy and Bess |
66 |
In which decade was Oliver Cromwell born? |
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1590s (1599) |
67 |
Name the former FBI Director who was appointed in 2013 and fired by Donald Trump in 2017. |
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James Comey |
68 |
1970s pop icon David Cassidy died in November 2017. In which year was he born? |
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1950 (accept 1949 to 1951) |
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69 |
In The Archers, to which saint is the parish church dedicated? |
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St. Stephen |
70 |
Four US States border Lake Michigan. Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin are
three of them. Which is the fourth? |
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Indiana |
71 |
How many players are there in a men's lacrosse team? |
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10 |
72 |
Which city in New Zealand is nicknamed 'the Edinburgh of the South'? |
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Dunedin |
73 |
Which is the highest mountain in India? |
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Kanchenjunga |
74 |
What cheese is made in the Yorkshire town of Hawes? |
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Wensleydale |
75 |
Which Indie group from Sheffield recorded the fastest–selling debut album in the UK in 2006? |
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Arctic Monkeys |
76 |
Who, in 1781, discovered the planet Uranus? |
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William Herschel |
77 |
In which year was the Manchester Ship Canal finished? |
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1893 (accept 1890–95) |
78 |
Who wrote the novel The Bostonians, first published as a serial in 1885–6? |
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Henry James |
79 |
What was the name of Jane Austen's only sister? |
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Cassandra |
80 |
Brazilian Mario Bueno won the Women's Championship at Wimbledon
three times. In which decade was her first win? |
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The 1950s (1959) |
81 |
Who won the 2017 Turner Prize? |
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Lubaina Himid |
82 |
Who is the current Taoiseach (tee–shock) of the Irish Republic? |
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Leo Varadkar |
83 |
Where in the human body is pepsin produced? |
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In the stomach
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84 |
Who played the part of Scrooge in the Muppets' 1992 version of A Christmas Carol? |
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Michael Caine |
85 |
Which Second World War aeroplane was known as 'the Cadillac of the Skies'? |
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The P51 Mustang |
86 |
What's the official name of the German WWII airplane that was nicknamed 'the Stuka'? |
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Junkers JU 87 (accept Junkers) |
87 |
In the UK Government, who is the current Secretary of State for International Trade? |
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Liam Fox |
88 |
What was the surname of the Indian brothers with whom Peter Mandelson was involved over passports in 2001, leading
to his resignation? |
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Hinduja (Srichand and Gopichand) |
89 |
Which internet song swapping service was closed in July 2001 by a Californian court? |
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Napster |
90 |
Which Dutch city gave its name to the 1992 treaty that established the European Union? |
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Maastrich |
91 |
Which country withdrew from NATO in 1966? |
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France |
92 |
In astronomy, what is measured in light years? |
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Distance |
93 |
Which unit of length is defined as a millionth of a meter? |
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The micron |
94 |
In physics, who is credited with inventing the cloud chamber? |
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C. T. Wilson |
95 |
In physics, who is credited with inventing the barometer? |
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Evangelista Torricelli |
96 |
What was the name of the North Sea oil platform that blew up in 1988? |
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Piper Alpha |
Supplementaries
1 |
What was the name of the ~235,000 ton oil tanker that sank off Brittany in 1978? |
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Amoco Cadiz |
2 |
Where in the UK was the De Lorean car manufactured? |
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Belfast |
3 |
Which river flows through Winchester? |
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The Itchen |
4 |
What was Elvis Presley's first UK no.1 single – entering the charts in June 1957 and reaching No. 1 on 12 July? |
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All Shook Up |
5 |
According to someone else's diary entry, who said on 17 March 1912, "I am just going outside and may be some time"? |
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Captain Oates |
6 |
Which cocktail is made with Tia Maria, vodka and Coke? |
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Black Russian |
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