2021–2 Season: Week 5 – 11 January 2022
All questions set by Harrington Diamonds.
Specialist Rounds
Round 1: Neil's History Round – History of Medicine
1 |
Which English doctor in the late 18th century used cowpox to prevent smallpox – this being the first use of vaccination? |
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Edward Jenner |
2 |
Who discovered the circulation of blood in the 17th century? |
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William Harvey |
3 |
What did Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discover in 1895? |
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X Rays rontgen |
4 |
What did Karl Landsteiner discover in the early 20th century? |
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Blood groups |
5 |
How did Howard Florey and Ernst Chain help to save countless lives from the mid 1940's? |
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They developed the mass production of penicillin |
6 |
Why is Louis Washkansky famous in the field of medicine? |
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First successful heart transplant. He lived for 18 days before dying of pneumonia |
7 |
Which chemist discovered that micro-organisms caused
beverages such as beer, wine and milk to spoil and then linked these
micro-organisms to being the cause of human disease? |
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Louis Pasteur |
8 |
Which surgeon working in Glasgow was the first to use antiseptics (carbolic spray in this instance) when operating? |
|
Joseph Lister |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Why is Louise Brown, born in July 1978, famous? |
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First human birth by in vitro fertilisation (accept
IVF) |
2 |
Near which city was the first cloning of a sheep achieved? |
|
Edinburgh |
Round 2: Sport – It's Always the Germans
1 |
Which popular sport do the Germans call Radfahren? |
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Cycling |
2 |
Name a German winner of the Wimbledon Gentlemen's singles, apart from Boris Becker. |
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Michael Stich (1991) |
3 |
Likewise, name a German winner of the Wimbledon Ladies Singles, apart from Steffi Graf. |
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Angelique Kerber (2018) or Cilly
Aussem (1931) |
4 |
Which pundit famously said: "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball, and then the Germans win"? |
|
Gary Lineker |
5 |
Marita Koch of East Germany set a world record of 47.6 seconds in 1985, which has never been beaten. What was the athletics
event? |
|
400m (women) |
6 |
In the club name Bayern Munich (or Munchen), what's the translation of the word Bayern? |
|
Bavaria |
7 |
Name one of the two players who scored for West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final. |
|
Wolfgang Weber or Helmut Haller |
8 |
Which Olympic team sport, virtually unknown in Britain, has been won three times by various German men's teams? |
|
Handball |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Who holds the record for the most goals for the German men's football team? |
|
Gerd Müller
muller |
2 |
Which football club's ground features a huge standing area behind one goal called the Yellow Wall? |
|
Borussia Dortmund (yellow because it is virtually compulsory to wear club
colours if you stand there) |
Round 3: Geography from Derek
1 |
What's the capital of Azerbaijan? |
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Baku |
2 |
Which continent has the shortest coastline? |
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Africa |
3 |
What's the county town and administrative headquarters of Anglesey? |
|
Llangefni |
4 |
What's the state capital of New Hampshire, sharing its name with an aircraft? |
|
Concord |
5 |
Peru has borders with 5 other countries. Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador are four of them; what's the fifth? |
|
Colombia |
6 |
Huntingdonshire existed as an administrative county until 1974. Which county did it merge with? |
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Cambridgeshire |
7 |
What's the name of the main river of Myanmar (formerly Burma)? |
|
The Irrawaddy |
8 |
Which city is the highest capital city in Europe? |
|
Madrid |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Name either of the two countries with which Costa Rica has a land border. |
|
Nicaragua or Panama |
2 |
Name either of the two countries that are immediately south of Tunisia. |
|
Algeria or Libya |
Round 4: Science – Metal Guru (courtesy of Gill)
1 |
Apart from iron name another magnetic metal. |
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Nickel or cobalt |
2 |
Name the common process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal. |
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Smelting |
3 |
Which metal's name is derived from the Greek word meaning colour? |
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Chromium |
4 |
Name the metal vital to form the light–absorbing green plant pigment chlorophyll. |
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Magnesium |
5 |
In legend, what did alchemists think was capable of turning base metal into gold? |
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The Philosopher's stone |
6 |
Which radioactive metal, discovered in 1898, was named after the discoverer's homeland? |
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Polonium |
7 |
What name is given to two lengths of steel and copper joined together to convert a temperature change into a mechanical
displacement? |
|
A bimetallic strip |
8 |
What is the lightest metal in the periodic table? |
|
Lithium |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which precious metal has the same name as a well–known theatre? |
|
Palladium |
2 |
Which metal was discovered in Cornwall in 1791 and named after a second generation of divine beings in Greek mythology? |
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Titanium |
3 |
Which metal has the highest percentage by mass in the human body? |
|
Calcium |
4 |
From which metal is the Statue of Liberty made? |
|
Copper |
Round 5: Art's Fruit & Veg Stall
Each answer contains the name of a fruit or vegetable.
1 |
Which popular TV show was hosted by Cilla Black from 1985 to 2003? |
|
Blind Date |
2 |
Robert Davis is the real name of which British comedian? |
|
Jasper Carrott |
3 |
What's the name of the producer of many James Bond films, including Octopussy and The Spy Who Loved Me? |
|
Cubby Broccoli |
3 |
The well–known painting Bubbles, by John Millais, was used to advertise which product? |
|
Pears soap |
5 |
What links the actress Ingrid Bergman, the footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel? |
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They're all swedes |
6 |
In the 1980s TV cartoon series, Eric Twinge was the real name of which superhero? |
|
Bananaman |
7 |
Which Staffordshire town is twinned with the Italian town of Este? |
|
Leek |
8 |
Which popular dance craze of the 1960s involved swivelling backwards and forwards on both feet while moving up and down? |
|
The mashed potato |
Supplementaries:
1 |
What's the title of the 1962 hit instrumental by Booker T and the MGs? |
|
Green Onions |
2 |
In the 1991 film, what was being served at the Whistle Stop Café? |
|
Fried green tomatoes |
Round 6: Can I Have a P Please Bob – courtesy of Gill
Each answer is a letter of the alphabet.
1 |
Which agent does Will Smith play in the Men in Black films? |
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J (Agent J) |
2 |
Which letter is commonly used to refer to the vertical axis on a co–ordinate graph? |
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Y |
3 |
What letter comes before 'Bahn' in the name of the Berlin underground railway system? |
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U (U–Bahn) |
4 |
In The Simpsons, Homer has a middle initial. What is it? |
|
J (Jay) |
5 |
The primary backing band of Bruce Springsteen since 1972 |
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E (E Street Band) |
6 |
The blood type of people who are universal donors |
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O (actually O negative) |
7 |
Which letter is the symbol for a billion (1 000 000 000) in the metric system? |
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G (giga) |
8 |
What sort of tips are often used to describe a cotton bud in the US? |
|
Q (Q–tips) |
Supplementaries:
1 |
What letter represents the unit of electrical capacitance? |
|
F (farad) |
2 |
The head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, signs letters in green ink with what one letter initial? |
|
C (Commander) |
3 |
Which colonel, voiced by Stephen Fry since 2015, is the pompous head of the Secret Service and Danger Mouse's boss? |
|
K (Colonel K) |
Round 7: Mike's Art Collection
1 |
Which Italian artist, between 1508–12, got a very bad neck in the cause of art? |
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Michelangelo (painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling) |
2 |
Which British Pop artist designed the record cover for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? |
|
Peter Blake |
3 |
Who worked as a stockbroker in Paris before becoming a painter, eventually dying in the South Seas? |
|
Paul Gauguin |
4 |
Which Bristol–based artist has significantly raised the value of some buildings? |
|
Banksy |
5 |
In pottery, what is slip? |
|
Liquid clay |
6 |
Cinnabar is a pigment of what colour? |
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Bright red (vermilion – accept orange)
|
7 |
Max Ernst and René Magritte were part of what movement? |
|
Surrealism |
8 |
Which visionary artist, who lived from 1757 to 1827, also wrote poetry including Songs of Innocence?
|
|
William Blake |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which Surrealist artist collaborated with Luis Bunuel on the films Un Chien Andalou and L'age D'or? |
|
Salvador Dali |
2 |
The Bauhaus was a famous art school in what country? |
|
Germany |
Round 8: Flowers by Christine
Each answer contains the name of a flower.
1 |
Who played Private Pike in Dad's Army? |
|
Ian Lavender |
2 |
In Coronation Street, who played Ena Sharples? |
|
Violet Carson |
3 |
Which flower is the emblem of the Marie Curie charity? |
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The daffodil |
4 |
Which flower is the emblem of the Alzheimer's Society? |
|
The forget–me–not |
5 |
Which common garden flower derives from the wildflower heartsease? |
|
Pansy |
6 |
Which tall garden flower is also known as the sword lily? |
|
Gladiolus |
7 |
Which Strictly Come Dancing contestant is named after a flower? |
|
Rose Ayling-Ellis |
8 |
Which celebrity chef's forename is the scientific name of Love-in-a-mist? |
|
Nigella Lawson |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which widely advertised perfume by Marc Jacobs is named after a flower? |
|
Daisy |
2 |
Who wrote the Booker Prize winner, The Sea, The Sea? |
|
Iris Murdoch |
General Knowledge
Set by Harrington Diamonds; vetted by Park Timers.
1 |
Apart from the 400m, in which individual event did the US athlete Michael Johnson win Olympic gold? |
|
200m |
2 |
Cerumen is the technical name for which bodily substance? |
|
Ear wax (accept wax) |
3 |
Which Cheshire–born novelist wrote the books Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin? |
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Christopher Isherwood (well, High Lane was in Cheshire when he was born!) |
4 |
Which New York thoroughfare is famed as the centre of the American advertising industry? |
|
Madison Avenue |
5 |
The bunyip is a legendary monster in which culture? |
|
Aboriginal |
6 |
Gentoo, Adelie and Macaroni are all types of which bird? |
|
Penguin |
7 |
Released as a double A–side single with Something, what's the opening song of the Beatles'
Abbey Road album? |
|
Come Together |
8 |
Which Dutch artist is known for his lithographs of impossible structures? |
|
M. C. Escher |
9 |
Four US states have the preface 'New'. New York, New Jersey and New Mexico are three of them; what's the fourth? |
|
New Hampshire |
10 |
Which singer had major parts in the films Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Last Temptation of Christ? |
|
David Bowie |
11 |
Which battle of World War I is known by Germans as the Battle of Skagerrak? |
|
Battle of Jutland |
12 |
In which city is the Hepworth Art gallery? |
|
Wakefield |
13 |
Which two–word French phrase, commonly used in English, literally translates as 'knowing how to do'? |
|
Savoir faire |
14 |
What name is given in English to the area on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, which contains the tombs of many pharaohs? |
|
The Valley of the Kings |
15 |
Epistaxis – a Greek word meaning 'dripping' – is the medical term for what common problem? |
|
Nosebleed |
16 |
Which racecourse usually hosts The Oaks? |
|
Epsom |
17 |
Which tree shares its name with a ski resort in the United States? |
|
Aspen |
18 |
Which book by George Orwell relates his experiences in the Spanish Civil war? |
|
Homage to Catalonia |
19 |
Who plays Gavin in Gavin and Stacey? |
|
Mathew Horne |
20 |
What's the common name for the childhood ailment that affects the parotid salivary gland? |
|
Mumps |
21 |
The name of which English football team is an anagram of 'sweat in the mud'? |
|
West Ham United |
22 |
Which English novelist is named in the title of a play by Edward Albee? |
|
(Who's Afraid of) Virginia Woolf |
23 |
On a standard London Monopoly board, what square is between Vine Street and the Strand? |
|
Free Parking |
24 |
Seen in many online gambling ads, the "Acca" is an abbreviation of which type of bet? |
|
Accumulator |
25 |
By what name is the capital city of Austria known in German? |
|
Wien (pronounced veen) |
26 |
The western roll was the standard technique used in which athletics event, before an American athlete made it obsolete at
the 1968 Olympics? |
|
High jump |
27 |
I'm Into Something Good was the breakthrough hit of which group, formed in Manchester in 1963? |
|
Herman's Hermits |
28 |
By what name is the city of Florence known in Italian? |
|
Firenze |
29 |
In which present US state did Custer's last Stand take place? |
|
Montana |
30 |
Which Cornish village claims to be the birthplace of King Arthur? |
|
Tintagel |
31 |
In the United States, what surname is given to an unidentified person (for instance someone admitted to hospital in an
unconscious state)? |
|
Doe (John or Jane) |
32 |
What's the only English anagram of the word 'hatter'? |
|
Threat |
33 |
Who was the last British governor of Hong Kong? |
|
Chris Patten |
34 |
Which newspaper has been published in Edinburgh since its foundation in 1817? |
|
The Scotsman |
35 |
Which English pop duo, big in the 1990s, consisted of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke? |
|
Erasure |
36 |
In which town did the Flintstones live? |
|
Bedrock |
37 |
The term 'bunny boiler' derived from the plot of which movie? |
|
Fatal Attraction |
38 |
Cheryl Tweedy and Sarah Harding were founder members of which girl group, big in the 2000s? |
|
Girls Aloud |
39 |
What word is the opposite of halal, meaning 'forbidden' in Arabic? |
|
Haram
|
40 |
Which is the world's most visited art gallery? |
|
The Louvre |
41 |
Who was the first British male to receive a Covid–19 vaccination? |
|
William Shakespeare |
42 |
Which horse won the 2021 Aintree Grand National? |
|
Minella Times |
43 |
What's the name of Australia's most prestigious horse race? |
|
Melbourne Cup |
44 |
To which of his characters was Charles Darwin referring when he wrote, "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of
hearts a favourite child"? |
|
David Copperfield |
45 |
What's the name of the new global prize for the environment, designed to incentivise change and help repair planet
Earth over the next ten years? |
|
The Earthshot Prize |
46 |
Name one of the two finalists that Andy Murray defeated at Wimbledon, in either 2013 or 2016. |
|
Novak Djokovic or Milos Raonic |
47 |
As of December 2021, who is fifth in line to the British throne? |
|
Prince Louis of Cambridge |
48 |
Who has been the First Minister for Wales since December 2018?
|
|
Mark Drakeford |
49 |
What's a baby pig called? |
|
A piglet |
50 |
Which American actor, with a very English name, played the part of Fantine in Tom Hooper's 2012 film version of
Les Misérables? |
|
Anne Hathaway |
51 |
How many sides does a heptadecagon have? |
|
17 |
52 |
Name the South Korean survival drama, streamed on Netflix in 2021, in which players risk their lives in a series of deadly
children's games for financial gain. |
|
Squid Game |
53 |
The female footballer Alex Putellas, who has won the 2021 Ballon d'Or, is from which country? |
|
Spain |
54 |
Who wrote the 2021 Man Booker Prize winner, The Promise? |
|
Damon Galgut |
55 |
The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is currently occupied by a sculpture called The End. What is its main feature,
apart from a drone, a fly and a cherry? |
|
Giant swirl of whipped cream |
56 |
According to Arthurian legend, on which island was Excalibur forged? |
|
Avalon |
57 |
Rising to 6,961 metres above sea level, what's the highest mountain in Argentina and in the Andes? |
|
Aconcagua |
58 |
Which is the only country whose national flag is not quadrilateral in shape? |
|
Nepal |
59 |
Which female actor's 2021 autobiography – described as "eye popping, hilarious and candid" – is
entitled This Much is True? |
|
Miriam Margolyes |
60 |
Cava is a sparkling wine from which country? |
|
Spain |
61 |
Who sang the theme song for the 1981 Bond film For Your Eyes Only (starring Roger Moore)? |
|
Sheena Easton |
62 |
Podgorica is the capital city of which European country? |
|
Montenegro |
63 |
In the Olympic decathlon, what's the first throwing event? |
|
Shot put |
64 |
For which film did Anthony Hopkins win the Best Actor Oscar in April 2021? |
|
The Father |
65 |
Which actor played the title character in Armando Iannucci's 2019 film The Personal History of David Copperfield? |
|
Dev Patel |
66 |
Cinnabar is an ore of which metal? |
|
Mercury |
67 |
In the acronym COP26, what does the P stand for? |
|
Parties (Conference of the Parties – 26th meeting) |
68 |
Cutis anserine is the medical term for what occurrence, common at this time of year? |
|
Goose pimples |
69 |
Which US president led his country into World War I in 1917? |
|
Woodrow Wilson |
70 |
In 2017 Edward Enninful became the first black editor–in–chief of which British magazine? |
|
(British) Vogue |
71 |
Which Slovenian rider won the Tour de France in 2021? |
|
Tadej Podacar (pod–archa) |
72 |
What's the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of 2021, which has been used 72 times more than it was in 2020? |
|
Vax |
73 |
In Greek legend, Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. What was his mother's name? |
|
Jocasta |
74 |
What's the largest island in Canada? |
|
Baffin Island |
75 |
Where will the 2022 British Golf Open be held? |
|
St. Andrews (Old Course) |
76 |
What was the name of the cruise ship that struck a rock and sank off the coast of Italy in January 2012? |
|
Costa Concordia |
77 |
Whose 1994 suicide note concluded with "It's better to burn out than fade away"? |
|
Kurt Cobain |
78 |
In trigonometry, what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse? |
|
Cosine |
79 |
Which king of Babylon gave his name to the largest champagne bottle, which holds 20 standard bottles?
|
|
Nebuchadnezzar |
80 |
What's the name of the complex carbohydrate, found in plant cell walls, that gives them strength? |
|
Cellulose |
81 |
Brother and sister Steve and Susie Fletcher feature in which popular TV programme? |
|
The Repair Shop |
82 |
Who is the host of the daytime TV quiz The Tournament? |
|
Alex Scott |
83 |
In the traditional magpie rhyme, starting "One for sorrow, two for joy", what do you get if you see six magpies? |
|
Gold |
84 |
In the traditional nursery rhyme Bye Baby Bunting, why did Baby Bunting's father go hunting? |
|
To get a (little) rabbit skin (to wrap Baby Bunting in) |
85 |
In which Cornish town does the 'Obby 'Oss procession take place each May Day? |
|
Padstow |
86 |
Which town in Kent holds an annual Oyster Festival? |
|
Whitstable |
87 |
Which famous popular singer was born in Tupelo, Mississippi? |
|
Elvis Presley |
88 |
Which popular singer was born in Hoboken, New Jersey? |
|
Frank Sinatra |
89 |
Whose 2019 autobiography is entitled Me? |
|
Elton John |
90 |
Whose recent autobiography is entitled Windswept and Interesting? |
|
Billy Connolly |
91 |
Which jazz trumpeter's albums include Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain? |
|
Miles Davis |
92 |
With which instrument do you associate Fats Waller and Oscar Peterson? |
|
Piano |
93 |
What's the name of the Harvard University professor who features in books by Dan Brown? |
|
Robert Langdon |
94 |
In the books by Peter Robinson, which Detective Inspector solves crimes in the town of Eastvale? |
|
Alan Banks |
95 |
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, what kind of animal was Boxer? |
|
A horse |
96 |
What's the name of the horse in the Christmas song Jingle Bells? |
|
Bobtail |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which is the best known statue in the Galleria dell'Accademia (Gallery of the Academy) in Florence? |
|
Michelangelo's David |
2 |
In Greek mythology, who was the god of the heavens and father of the Titans? |
|
Uranus |
3 |
In Roman mythology, who was the goddess of wisdom and justice? |
|
Minerva |
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