2017–18 Season: Week 17 – 20 March 2018

Specialist Rounds

Set by the Chester Road Tavern.

Round 1: Sport – 2018

1	Which local mother with a six–month–old baby won a medal at the recent cycling world championships?
	Laura Kenny (accept Laura Trott)
2	Which British athlete won medals in both the 1500m and 3000m at the recent world indoor championships?
	Laura Muir
3	Who won the gold medal in the women's skeleton event at the recent Winter Olympics?
	Lizzie Yarnold
4	What was the name of the Fiorentina captain, whose death on 4 March led to the cancellation of all Serie A matches that day?
	Davide Astori
5	Who won this year's Super Bowl?
	Philadelphia Eagles
6	Who beat Michael van Gerwen to win the darts World Championship in early January?
	Rob Cross
7	Who won the men's Australian Open tennis grand slam tournament in January?
	Roger Federer
8	Which US golfer won his first title for over four years at the WGC tournament in Mexico City at the beginning of March? He is the oldest player to win a WGC tournament.
	Phil Mickelson

Supplementaries:

1	Who is the current manager of the England women's football team?
	Phil Neville
2	Who began as England's captain in this year's rugby Six Nations championship?
	Dylan Hartley

Round 2: London

1	Who designed the lions of Trafalgar Square?
	Edward Landseer
2	In which London cemetery is Karl Marx buried?
	Highgate
3	Which group heard "London Calling" in 1979?
	The Clash
4	Which football club plays its home games at Kenilworth Road?
	Luton Town
5	Who was the first poet to be buried at Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey?
	Geoffrey Chaucer
6	Where was the first permanent London gallows set up?
	Tyburn
7	What is the newest London Underground line?
	The Jubilee Line
8	What is the name of the famous jazz club in Frith Street, Soho?
	Ronnie Scott's

Supplementaries:

1	In which street did the Great Fire of London begin?
	Pudding Lane
2	Who was initially responsible for the building of the Tower of London?
	William I (the Conqueror)

Round 3: History

1	Where was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914?
	Sarajevo
2	Carlos Menem became president of which country in 1989?
	Argentina
3	The remains of two 16th century theatres were discovered in London in 1989, the Globe and which other?
	The Rose
4	Who succeeded Arthur Balfour as UK Prime Minister?
	Henry Campbell–Bannerman
5	Which Prime Minister introduced a 10.30pm TV Curfew?
	Edward Heath (1973)
6	Which country was ruled by the house of Vasa from 1523 to 1654?
	Sweden
7	Which English City did the Romans call Venta Bulgarum?
	Winchester
8	In which century was Martin Luther born?
	15th

Supplementaries:

1	The News of the World newspaper was founded in which decade?
	1840s (1843)
2	What was William Henry Cavendish's title when he was UK Prime Minister?
	Duke of Portland

Round 4: Inventors

1	Who invented the seed drill?
	Jethro Tull
2	Who invented a device for lifting up water from a well?
	Archimedes (Archimedes screw)
3	Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
	Tim Berners–Lee
4	Who invented the elevator?
	Elisha Otis
5	Who developed the first commercially viable ballpoint pen?
	Laszlo Biro
6	Who invented the first Alternating Current (AC) motor? He also has a car company named after him.
	Nikola Tesla
7	Who invented the hovercraft?
	Christopher Cockerell
8	Who invented the helicopter?
	Igor Sikorsky

Supplementaries:

1	Who invented the first astronomical telescope?
	Galileo Galilei (accept Galileo)
2	Who invented the vacuum cleaner?
	Hubert Cecil Booth
3	Who invented the mobile phone?
	Martin Cooper

Round 5: Science

1	What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere called?
	The Troposphere
2	Who discovered the minor planet Pluto?
	Clyde Tombaugh
3	What does a mycologist study?
	Fungi
4	Lead and which other metal make up the alloy pewter?
	Tin
5	How many bones are there in an adult human?
	206
6	What name is given to high pitched sounds above 20,000 hertz?
	Ultrasound
7	Argent is another name for what?
	Silver
8	What is the medical term used to describe painkillers?
	Analgesics

Supplementaries:

1	The excess of which substance causes gout?
	Uric acid
2	What is the Latin name for the black rat?
	Rattus rattus

Round 6: Arts and Entertainment

1	Which film won the 2018 academy award for best picture?
	The Shape of Water
2	Who won the best actress (in a leading role) award at the 2018 academy awards?
	Frances McDormand
3	Who is described in a Shakespeare play as "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy"?
	Yorick
4	What is the name of the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, situated in Brompton, London?
	The Victoria and Albert
5	Name any member of the folk band, The Humblebums.
	Billy Connolly, Gerry Rafferty, or Tam Harvey
6	The BBC series Peaky Blinders revolves around the lives of brothers with which surname?
	Shelby
7	Cloud Gate, a large metallic oval sculpture in Chicago's Millenium Park, was created by which British sculptor?
	Anish Kapoor
8	The Duffer brothers achieved fame with which hit Netflix series?
	Stranger Things

Supplementaries:

1	David St. Hubbins is the lead singer of which band?
	Spinal Tap
2	A pensioner from Devon recently sold a vase previously kept in a shoebox for £381,000. Which renowned potter created it?
	Hans Coper
3	What was the first name of the Fonz?
	Arthur

Round 7: Geography

1	In which capital city would you find Phoenix Park?
	Dublin
2	In which capital city would you find the Prado art gallery?
	Madrid
3	What is the only US State named after an English county?
	New Hampshire
4	In which US State is the city of Philadelphia?
	Pennsylvania
5	Excluding Russia, which European country has the most neighbours (i.e. land borders with other countries)?
	Germany (with 9)
6	Which European country is divided into 26 cantons?
	Switzerland
7	Which river flows through Glasgow?
	The Clyde
8	By what name is the Thames known as it passes through Oxford?
	The Isis

Supplementaries:

1	In which city would you find the headquarters of Interpol?
	Lyon
2	Nobel Prizes are only presented in two European cities – Stockholm and which other?
	Oslo

Round 8: TV Shows

You will be given the first name of three characters from popular TV shows; just name the show.

1	Norman, Lennie, Harry.
	Porridge
2	Fox, Dana, Walter.
	The X files
3	Xander, Willow, Spike.
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4	Shaggy, Daphne, Velma.
	Scooby–Doo
5	Walter, Jesse, Skyler.
	Breaking Bad
6	Matthew, Mary, Sybil.
	Downton Abbey
7	Fred, Barney, Pebbles.
	The Flintstones
8	Rupert, Ruth, Alan.
	Rising Damp

Supplementaries:

1	Leonard, Sheldon, Penny.
	The Big Bang Theory
2	Jon, Tyrion, Cerce.
	Game of Thrones

General Knowledge

Set by the Waters Green Lemmings.

1	What surname links a shipping forecast area and the captain of HMS Beagle?
	Fitzroy
2	Which Beatles song begins, "Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me"?
	Taxman
3	In the 17th century, who was known as Tumbledown Dick?
	Richard Cromwell
4	Where in the body would you find the hyoid bone?
	In the throat
5	About which disaster did William McGonagall write a famously terrible poem?
	The Tay Bridge disaster
6	Which softly–spoken TV artist used to say, "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents"?
	Bob Ross
7	Which capital city lies about 70 miles south of the Caspian Sea?
	Tehran
8	Who was the US president on 1 January 2000?
	Bill Clinton

9	In September 2017, who became the first English cricketer to take 500 test wickets?
	Jimmy Anderson
10	What industry links the roles Gaffer, Grip and Spark?
	Movies or TV (they're all technical roles)
11	Who sang "I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar"?
	The Smiths (accept Morrissey) – How Soon Is Now?
12	Which divide stretched from Stettin to Trieste?
	The Iron Curtain
13	Which astronomer and broadcaster popularised the term "Big Bang" to describe the creation of the universe?
	Fred Hoyle
14	In which Jack Lemmon movie does a nuclear reactor go into meltdown?
	The China Syndrome
15	Which playwright's last works were Karaoke and Cold Lazarus?
	Denis Potter
16	The Ebro is the longest river in which country?
	Spain

17	What is the name of Donald Trump's youngest child?
	Barron
18	Name the pioneering black footballer who died in January, aged 59?
	Cyrille Regis
19	In Queensland Australia, which otherwise banned animal links scientists and magicians?
	Rabbit (considered a pest species, so only scientists and magicians can be granted licences to own them)
20	Which dystopian novel begins with the line, "A squat grey building of only thirty–four storeys."
	Brave New World
21	During World War II, Operation Tannenbaum was the cancelled German plan to invade which neutral country?
	Switzerland
22	Which is the fourth largest planet in the Solar System?
	Earth
23	What colour dye did William Henry Perkin accidentally discover in 1856?
	Mauve
24	In which novel would you find a device called a Steely Dan?
	The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

25	In which English county would you find Gotham?
	Nottinghamshire
26	Who was the first female Prime Minister of Australia?
	Julia Gillard
27	In 1992, who won Great Britain's first cycling medal for over 70 years?
	Chris Boardman
28	What game links a boot, a wheelbarrow and a thimble?
	Monopoly (player pieces replaced by a T–Rex, a penguin and a rubber duck)
29	"Well, nobody's perfect" is the last line to which 1959 comedy film?
	Some Like It Hot
30	In which German town did Martin Luther nail his 95 Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in 1517?
	Wittenberg
31	Muriatic acid is the commercial name for which acid?
	Hydrochloric acid
32	Which airship famously crashed in France in 1930?
	The R–101

33	Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Ares?
	Mars
34	In which ocean would you find Tristan da Cunha?
	The South Atlantic (accept Atlantic)
35	Who became the leader of the Labour Party in July 1992?
	John Smith
36	Who captained the England cricket team between Mike Brearley and Ian Botham?
	Geoffrey Boycott
37	Which political party links Monday and 1922?
	The Conservatives (the Monday Club and the 1922 Committee)
38	Which "play for voices" begins, "To begin at the beginning. It is spring, a moonless night in the small town ..."
	Under Milk Wood
39	Who was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle on 8th February 1587?
	Mary, Queen of Scots (not Mary I of England – they're different people)
40	The name of which astronomical phenomenon comes from the Latin for 'fog'?
	Nebula

41	The burning of which library has become a byword for the loss of public knowledge?
	The library of Alexandria
42	Who wrote the Bobby Darin hit Mack the Knife?
	Kurt Weill (it's from The Threepenny Opera)
43	In Paris, the Arc de Triomphe stands at one end of the Champs Elysees. Which public square is at the other end?
	The Place de la Concorde
44	In which year of the 1970s did the UK government impose the three–day week?
	1974 (1 January to 7 March)
45	Name the host nation that beat England 3–0 in the semi–final of the Women's Euro 2017?
	The Netherlands
46	What in the home links the terms rise and going?
	Stairs (the rise is how tall the step is; the going is how deep)
47	Which 60s hit begins "Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"
	Like A Rolling Stone
48	Derived from the ancient game chaturanga, which board game has its origins in India?
	Chess

49	Name the 6th element in the periodic table
	Carbon
50	An accident at whose laboratory led to Michael Faraday's entry into science?
	Sir Humphrey Davy
51	Who wrote the novel A Scanner Darkly?
	Philip K. Dick
52	Which island nation lies about 700 miles east of Vietnam across the South China Sea?
	The Philippines
53	Which politician was famous for his "bunga bunga" parties?
	Silvio Berlusconi
54	What nationality is boxer Joe Calzaghe?
	Welsh
55	Which winter sport features houses, hogs, and hammers?
	Curling
56	"Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo, crying in the rain" is the first line of which hit by Soft Cell?
	Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

57	How many Punic wars were fought between Rome and Carthage?
	Three
58	Which element has the lowest boiling point?
	Helium
59	Which Shakespeare play concerns two sets of identical twins accidentally separated at birth?
	A Comedy of Errors
60	Which writer first coined the term "dark satanic mills"?
	William Blake
61	In nature, what is a caldera?
	A crater formed from a collapsed volcano
62	Who was the leader of the Conservative Party, directly before Winston Churchill?
	Neville Chamberlain
63	Which is the only country to have reached three World Cup Finals and lost all three?
	The Netherlands
64	Which play links Giles Corey, Abigail Williams and Rebecca Nurse?
	The Crucible

65	Which Sex Pistols song begins with, "There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply"?
	Pretty Vacant
66	In which month of 1066 was the Battle of Hastings fought?
	October (14th)
67	Which element is the most reactive?
	Fluorine
68	In which year did the Herald of Free Enterprise capsize minutes after leaving the Belgian port of Zebrugge?
	1987 (6 March – accept 1986 or 1988)
69	Singer Karen Carpenter was also a virtuoso on which instrument?
	Drums
70	Which German city holds an annual trade fair called the Messe?
	Hanover
71	Which female leader kept the surname of the husband she divorced in 1982 even though she has since remarried?
	Angela Merkel
72	At which Grand Prix did Lewis Hamilton become the 2017 Formula 1 World Champion?
	Mexico

73	Spin, float and fly are all types of what pastime?
	Angling
74	Which evergreen 70s hit ends with the line "Any way the wind blows"?
	Bohemian Rhapsody
75	Which climber's body was found on Everest in 1991, after 75 years?
	George Mallory
76	During pregnancy, what medical condition causes cravings for non–foods such as coal?
	Pica
77	For which American newspaper was Stanley writing when he finally stumbled upon Dr Livingstone?
	The New York Herald
78	Lady Caroline Lamb was in love with which Romantic poet?
	Lord Byron
79	On which motorway would you find the UK's most southerly services?
	M5 (Exeter Services)
80	In which country was the Podemos party formed in 2014?
	Spain (translates as "We can")

81	What is the nickname of the England Ladies' Rugby Union Team?
	The Red Roses
82	What links the acronyms EDT, CDT, and PDT?
	Time zones (Eastern Daylight Time, Central Daylight Time, and Pacific Daylight Time)
83	Which John Cooper Clarke poem begins, "I wanna be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust"?
	I Wanna Be Yours
84	Boudicca was the queen of which ancient tribe?
	The Iceni (eye–SEEN–eye)
85	Where in the brain are the occipital lobes?
	At the back
86	A Pan Am Jumbo Jet with which flight designation crashed into Lockerbie in 1988?
	Flight 103
87	In which decade was The Hobbit first published?
	1930s (1937)
88	In which ocean does the island group Bora Bora lie?
	The Pacific (French Polynesia)

89	Leanne Wood became the leader of which UK political party in March 2012?
	Plaid Cymru
90	Name either of the UK's six–time Olympic gold medallists
	Chris Hoy or Jason Kenny (both also have a silver Olympic medal)
91	Which 1990s sitcom links Bren, Twinkle, Dolly and Jean?
	Dinnerladies
92	Who wrote "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York"?
	Sylvia Plath, in The Bell Jar
93	Which young king died in 1553 from a lung infection?
	Edward VI (Henry VIII's son)
94	A manganate is a salt of what metal?
	Manganese
95	Name the Space Shuttle that broke up on re–entry in 2003?
	Columbia
96	In which Shakespeare play would you find characters called The Mechanicals?
	A Midsummer Night's Dream

Supplementaries:

1	In what device would you find an armature, brushes and a commutator?
	An electric motor
2	The last line of which movie is, "Kevin, what did you do to my room?"
	Home Alone
3	In the late 14th century, which sect was led by John Wycliffe?
	The Lollards
4	What single word name links the baby elephant that "had an accident" on Blue Peter in 1969, and a female singer of the same era?
	Lulu
5	Which is the only act to have won the Mercury Music Prize twice?
	PJ Harvey
6	The subject of a wartime song, how are the Langdon Cliffs better known?
	The White Cliffs of Dover

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