2021–2 Season: Week 10 – 1 March 2022
Specialist Rounds
Set by the Nags Head; vetted by the King's
Gambit.
Round 1: History – a round on notable historical events and people in the USA
1 |
In which year did the American Civil War end? |
|
1865 (accept 1863 to 1867) |
2 |
What was the name of the female passenger that drowned when Senator Edward Kennedy drove off Chappaquiddick Bridge in 1969? |
|
Mary Jo Kopechne |
3 |
In which theatre was Abraham Lincoln assassinated? |
|
Ford's Theatre (accept Ford) |
4 |
Which lawman and customs agent was responsible for killing Billy the Kid? |
|
Pat Garrett |
5 |
Which city gave its name to both the treaty that ended the American War of Independence and the Accords that ended the Vietnam
War? |
|
Paris |
6 |
St Augustine, founded by the Spanish in 1565, is the oldest European settlement in mainland USA. In which US state can it be
found? |
|
Florida |
7 |
James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in which US city? |
|
Memphis |
8 |
Donald Trump became the 5th US President to have never been previously elected to public office. Name any of the
previous four. |
|
Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S Grant, Herbert Hoover
or Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Give either of the surnames of the bank robbers known as
Bonnie and Clyde. |
|
Parker or Barrow |
2 |
Name either of the states that formed the terminal points
of the Pony Express. |
|
Missouri or California |
Round 2: Partygate – a round on parties of all types
1 |
Who founded the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 1983? |
|
David Sutch (accept Screaming Lord Sutch) |
2 |
On 30th November last year which was the first national newspaper to break stories of drinks events being held in
10 Downing Street? |
|
Daily Mirror |
3 |
Who was the first Prime Minister to represent the Labour Party? |
|
James Ramsay MacDonald |
4 |
Which group had a hit with (You've Gotta) Fight For Your Right (to Party!) from their 1986 debut album? |
|
The Beastie Boys |
5 |
Who famously sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy at his 45th birthday party? |
|
Marilyn Monroe |
6 |
Which magazine traditionally hosts the glitziest Oscars after party? |
|
Vanity Fair |
7 |
Who is the founder and leader of French political party La Republique en Marche!? |
|
Emmanuel Macron |
8 |
In which year was the Boston Tea Party? |
|
1773 (accept 1771 to 1775) |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which Dutch master was responsible for painting Belshazzar's Feast? |
|
Rembrandt |
2 |
Which Scottish band had a hit in 1982 with Party Fears Two? |
|
The Associates |
Round 3: Geography
1 |
Which Pacific Island is known as the Big Island? |
|
The island of Hawaii |
2 |
The Giant's Causeway is located in which Northern Ireland county? |
|
County Antrim |
3 |
Which is the largest African country by area? |
|
Algeria |
4 |
The Welland Canal connects two of the Great Lakes. Name either. |
|
Lake Ontario or Lake Erie |
5 |
In which sea is the Great Barrier Reef? |
|
The Coral Sea |
6 |
In which American state is Big Sur, one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world? |
|
California |
7 |
The Great Orme Tramway is Britain's only cable operated street tramway. In which town is it? |
|
Llandudno |
8 |
England's highest unbroken, single drop waterfall is Hardraw Force. In the boundaries of which National Park does it lie? |
|
The Yorkshire Dales |
Supplementaries:
1 |
One of the largest monoliths in the world is Uluru in Australia. By what name was it formerly known? |
|
Ayers Rock |
2 |
In which Middle Eastern country would you find the world's largest airport by area? It covers nearly 300 square miles. |
|
Saudi Arabia (King Fahd International in Dammam) |
Round 4: Gold
1 |
Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the 100m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last year, representing which country?
|
|
Italy |
2 |
What is the name of the liquid that can be used to dissolve gold? |
|
Aqua regia |
3 |
Four presenters have hosted ITV's The Golden Shot, which ran from 1967 to 1975. Jackie Rae and Bob Monkhouse were
two of them; name either of the other two. |
|
Norman Vaughan or Charlie Williams |
4 |
Which is the only country to have won a gold medal at every Summer Olympic Games? |
|
Great Britain (the USA boycotted the 1980 Games) |
5 |
The largest alluvial gold nugget ever found was the Welcome Stranger, weighing 72kg. It was discovered in 1869 in which
country? |
|
Australia |
6 |
What was the name of the Pullman train that ran from 1926 to 1972 between London Victoria and Dover, and connected with the
Calais to Paris train via ferry? |
|
The Golden Arrow |
7 |
The theme song for the film GoldenEye was performed by Tina Turner. Two members of which world–famous group
wrote it? |
|
U2 (written by Bono and The Edge) |
8 |
Which artist had a 1972 single hit with Heart of Gold and a 1970 album After the Gold Rush? |
|
Neil Young |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Until independence in 1957, which country was called Gold Coast? |
|
Ghana |
2 |
Which male competitor has won the most Olympic (not Paralympic) gold medals for Great Britain? |
|
Jason Kenny (7 golds) |
3 |
After the 2012 Olympics, which athlete had a gold post box painted in Macclesfield Market Place? |
|
Dame Sarah Storey |
Round 5: Science – O I Hate Science!
1 |
What carries sensory nerve impulses from the retina towards the visual centres in the brain? |
|
The optic nerve |
2 |
What's the name of the muscular tube connecting your mouth to your stomach? |
|
The oesophagus |
3 |
In the computing term OS, what does the O most commonly stand for? |
|
Operating (System) |
4 |
Electrical resistance is measured in what SI units? |
|
Ohms |
5 |
The chemistry of carbon–containing compounds is known as what? |
|
Organic chemistry |
6 |
What is the name for the branch of medicine specializing in the study and treatment of cancer? |
|
Oncology |
7 |
Animals that eat both plant and meat–based foods are called what? |
|
Omnivores |
8 |
Os is the chemical symbol for which metallic element? |
|
Osmium |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which inorganic molecule is produced at ground level by lightning? |
|
Ozone |
2 |
What is the scientific term for the study of mountains and their formation? |
|
Orology |
Round 6: Sport – celebrating sports men and women associated with the North East
1 |
Which athlete was the only competitor to win a medal for Great Britain inside the stadium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics? |
|
Brendan Foster |
2 |
Who was named Women's Footballer of the Year in 2018 and 2020 and, in 2019, became the first English player to win UEFA
Women's Player of the Year? |
|
Lucy Bronze |
3 |
Which small pit village in Northumberland has famously spawned Bobby and Jackie Charlton, their uncle Jackie Milburn, and
current England test bowler Mark Wood? |
|
Ashington |
4 |
Which athlete, known as the Jarrow Arrow, won the 1500m gold at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki and silver at the
1984 LA Olympics? |
|
Steve Cram |
5 |
The father of footballing brothers Sean and Matty Longstaff played for Whitley Bay Warriors and Great Britain at which sport? |
|
Ice hockey |
6 |
Which former England Test cricketer has recently been appointed as interim coach for the test series against the West Indies? |
|
Paul Collingwood |
7 |
Who in 1996 became the world's most expensive footballer when he was sold by Blackburn Rovers? |
|
Alan Shearer |
8 |
Which Newcastle Falcons rugby player won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2003? |
|
Johnny Wilkinson |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Which former England Test batsman of the 1960s retired from first class cricket after losing an eye in a car accident and
died at the age of 48? |
|
Colin Milburn |
2 |
In 1871 Charles W. Alcock, the FA Secretary, proposed what became the FA Cup. What team did he captain to win the first FA
Cup in 1872? (He also refereed the 1875 and 1879 finals) |
|
Wanderers |
Round 7: Arts & Entertainment
1 |
The George Harrison song Taxman is the opening track on which Beatles album? |
|
Revolver |
2 |
Who composed the opera Hansel and Gretel? |
|
Engelbert Humperdinck |
3 |
Who wrote the screenplay for the film Brief Encounter, based on his own 1936 play Still Life? |
|
Noel Coward |
4 |
The 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley is largely set in which country? |
|
Italy |
5 |
The artist Paul Cezanne is associated with which art movement? |
|
(French) Impressionism
|
6 |
Which BBC TV programme, written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, won Best Scripted Comedy at the 2021 BAFTAs? |
|
Inside Number 9 |
7 |
The jazz musician Thelonius Monk is associated with which instrument? |
|
Piano |
8 |
Whose first novel was The Rachel Papers (1973)? |
|
Martin Amis |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Who painted The Birth of Venus in 1486? |
|
Sandro Botticelli |
2 |
Which author won the 'Booker of Bookers' in 1994 (which judged the best winner in the first 25 years of the prize)? |
|
Salman Rushdie (for Midnight's Children) |
3 |
Which poet wrote the famous first line "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" |
|
W. H. Auden |
Round 8: Peace In Our Time – the Nobel Peace Prize
1 |
Which former UN Secretary General won the only posthumous Peace Prize in 1961? |
|
Dag Hammarskjold |
2 |
The Peace Prize was established with the other categories in what year? |
|
1901 (accept 1898 to 1904) |
3 |
Which US President was awarded the Prize in 2002, many years after leaving office? |
|
Jimmy Carter |
4 |
Which Polish Trade unionist and campaigner against Soviet rule won in 1983? |
|
Lech Walesa |
5 |
In 1976, two women shared the Prize for their work fighting for peace in which region? |
|
Northern Ireland |
6 |
Who was awarded the Prize in 1973, prompting the quote "Political Satire is Dead"?
|
|
Henry Kissinger |
7 |
With whom did Nelson Mandela share the award in 1993? |
|
(President) F. W. De Klerk |
8 |
Which international organisation has won three times (in 1917, 1944, and 1963)? |
|
The International Red Cross |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Who was nominated five times (in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1948) but never won? |
|
(Mahatma) Gandhi |
2 |
The other Nobel Prizes are awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and what? |
|
Economics |
General Knowledge
Set by the King's Gambit; vetted by the Nags Head.
1 |
Which drink – still popular today, more than 100 years after its invention – was the brainchild of an American
pharmacist named Caleb Bradham? |
|
Pepsi Cola (accept Pepsi) |
2 |
What was the last of the ten plagues of Egypt? |
|
Death of the Firstborn |
3 |
Which capital city is served by Queen Alia international airport? |
|
Amman, Jordan |
4 |
A game of Scrabble is played on a board containing how many squares? |
|
225 |
5 |
Which African country was formerly known as the French Territory of the Afars and Issas? |
|
Djibouti |
6 |
Which 1995 film directed by screen writer Wesley Strick, starred Keith Carradine and Daryl Hannah as psychotic parents? |
|
The Tie that Binds |
7 |
Where's the Rest of Me? is the autobiography of which US President? |
|
Ronald Reagan |
8 |
Which Canadian poet, novelist and singer/songwriter wrote the poem Flowers for Hitler and the novel Beautiful
Losers? |
|
Leonard Cohen |
9 |
What sport, apart from skiing, takes place on a piste? |
|
Fencing |
10 |
Usually, how many movements are there in a symphony? |
|
Four |
11 |
Who succeeded Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormon Church in 1844? |
|
Brigham Young |
12 |
Which capital city's airport is called Kastrup? |
|
Copenhagen |
13 |
Which ballet by Stravinsky caused a riot at its first performance in Paris in 1913?
|
|
The Rite of Spring |
14 |
In which Italian city was the Mona Lisa recovered, two years after it had been stolen from the Louvre in Paris? |
|
Florence |
15 |
What was the name of the character played by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction? |
|
Vincent Vega |
16 |
Which golfer lost the 1991 Ryder Cup on the final putt? |
|
Bernhard Langer |
17 |
In which part of the human body is the organ of Corti? |
|
The ear |
18 |
Who took over as Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2002? |
|
Sir Simon Rattle |
19 |
In what year did the Spanish Civil War end? |
|
1939 |
20 |
What's the name for a solid with twenty triangular faces? |
|
Icosahedron |
21 |
What lower–level clouds are commonly called 'rainclouds'? |
|
Nimbus |
22 |
The Falashas are a Jewish people who live in which East African country? |
|
Ethiopia |
23 |
For how many years did Mobuto Sese Seko rule the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zaire? |
|
32 (accept 30 - 34) |
24 |
Which German author wrote the short novel Death in Venice? |
|
Thomas Mann |
25 |
What metal is derived from sphalerite? |
|
Zinc |
26 |
Snake–necked and hawksbill are what types of creature? |
|
Turtle |
27 |
What does the 'W' stand for in George W. Bush? |
|
Walker |
28 |
Which continent has the longest coastline? |
|
Asia |
29 |
Which American Ivy League University is in New Haven, Connecticut? |
|
Yale |
30 |
What is a sequidilla in Spain? |
|
A dance |
31 |
Name the other European country that the Ardennes Hills run through apart from France and Belgium? |
|
Luxembourg |
32 |
Which country in Europe was the last, in 1984, to give votes to women? |
|
Liechtenstein |
33 |
Which British singer had a hit with The Universal Soldier in 1965? |
|
Donovan |
34 |
Name either of the fastest flying insects known to science. |
|
Horse fly or dragonfly |
35 |
In 330 AD which Roman emperor re–named the ancient city of Byzantium after himself? |
|
Constantine |
36 |
Wilt Chamberlain held the record for scoring 100 points in a single game of which sport? |
|
Basketball |
37 |
Who composed the Music for the Royal Fireworks? |
|
Handel |
38 |
What name is given to a semiconductor device with three or more electrodes? |
|
A transistor |
39 |
In March 2000, Bill Clinton said "I've wanted to come here all my life", when visiting what famous building? |
|
The Taj Mahal |
40 |
What was the name of Lesley Nielson's character in the Naked Gun series of films? |
|
Frank Dreben |
41 |
How many were the Labours of Hercules? |
|
12 |
42 |
In which country is the ski resort of Sestrierre? |
|
Italy |
43 |
'Windflower' is the alternative name of which flower? |
|
The anemone |
44 |
Which Old Testament book of the Bible is the shortest? |
|
Obadiah |
45 |
Which Irish dramatist wrote The School for Scandal? |
|
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
46 |
After which politician was the Prohibition Act of 1919 named? |
|
Andrew Volstead |
47 |
What nationality was the prince known as Henry the Navigator? |
|
Portuguese |
48 |
What is a paradiddle? |
|
A drum roll (with alternate beating of sticks) |
49 |
Where would you find an upright centre pin called a gnomon? |
|
On a sundial |
50 |
In the world of rock 'n' roll, how is Richard Penniman better known? |
|
Little Richard |
51 |
What present day country did the Romans call Hibernia? |
|
Ireland |
52 |
What was the surname of the American physicist that led the Manhattan project to produce the Atom Bomb? |
|
Oppenheimer |
53 |
With which planet, in 1994, did the comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collide? |
|
Jupiter |
54 |
Who wrote the book of short stories, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog? |
|
Dylan Thomas |
55 |
In which country is the Coptic Church based? |
|
Egypt |
56 |
What's the middle colour of the spectrum? |
|
Green |
57 |
Who was the commander of the Greeks in the Trojan War, who was then murdered by his wife Clytemnestra? |
|
Agamemnon |
58 |
What Asian capital city was known as Batavia until 1949? |
|
Jakarta |
59 |
Which West Point cadet is widely credited with the invention of baseball in 1839? |
|
Abner Doubleday |
60 |
Which group rang the Division Bell in 1994? |
|
Pink Floyd |
61 |
What is the literal meaning of the Russian word Kremlin? |
|
Citadel (accept castle or fortress) |
62 |
Seven kings of which country have been called Haakon? |
|
Norway |
63 |
What type of fruit grows on the Malus tree? |
|
Apples |
64 |
Which country is sandwiched between Austria to the West and Romania to the East? |
|
Hungary |
65 |
What type of animal is an addax? |
|
An antelope |
66 |
Memphis was the ancient capital of which country? |
|
Egypt |
67 |
In The Simpsons, what's the name of Ned Flanders's wife? |
|
Maude |
68 |
In biology, what name is given to the branch involving the study of fungi? |
|
Mycology |
69 |
Which fruit is a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry? |
|
Tayberry or loganberry |
70 |
After which saint is the massacre of the Huguenots that began in Paris on August the 24th 1572 named? |
|
St. Bartholomew |
71 |
What group was going in All Directions in their 1972 album? |
|
The Temptations |
72 |
By what ironic name was the Colt 45 Revolver popularly known? |
|
The Peacemaker |
73 |
What two–word name is given to the deterioration of metal caused by repeated stress? |
|
Metal fatigue |
74 |
Which actor's dour expression earned him the nickname of 'the Great Stoneface'? |
|
Buster Keaton |
75 |
What town in Bavaria is host to the Wagner Festival? |
|
Bayreuth (pronounced byroyt) |
76 |
Chevy Chase is a suburb of which major American city? |
|
Washington D. C. |
77 |
What is the more common name of the disease varicella? |
|
Chicken pox |
78 |
Which country's Formula 1 circuit is currently sited at Portimão? |
|
Portugal |
79 |
What Prussian military leader, who fought at Waterloo, was known as Marshal Forwards? |
|
Field Marshal Blucher |
80 |
Which American actress was dubbed 'the world's oldest virgin'? |
|
Doris Day |
81 |
Which American writer created the character Pudd'nhead Wilson in his 1894 detective story? |
|
Mark Twain |
82 |
Mick Jagger, Ursula von der Leyen and Monica Lewinski all attended which university in London? |
|
The London School of Economics |
83 |
What is the common name of the wasp Vespa crabro? |
|
Hornet |
84 |
Who wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's? |
|
Truman Capote |
85 |
In 1962 who was the first man to orbit the earth? |
|
John Glenn |
86 |
Which European River is crossed by the Vasco da Gama Bridge? |
|
The Tagus |
87 |
In clothing, what is an Ulster? |
|
A kind of long, loose overcoat |
88 |
In 1781, at the end of the American Revolutionary War, where did the British Forces surrender? |
|
Yorktown |
89 |
Which British painter was the first President of the Royal Academy? |
|
Joshua Reynolds |
90 |
What name connects a leopard and a particular weight? |
|
Ounce |
91 |
Launched by the US in 1954, what was the name of the first nuclear submarine? |
|
Nautilus |
92 |
In the Bible, the Decalogue is an alternative name for what? |
|
The Ten Commandments |
93 |
Which 1989 film starred Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man? |
|
See No Evil, Hear No Evil |
94 |
Where did the first Oxford versus Cambridge boat race take place, in 1829? |
|
Henley on Thames |
95 |
Whose second piano concerto rose to fame in the wider world when it was used in the movie Brief Encounter? |
|
Rachmaninoff |
96 |
What is the name of an instrument used for detecting underwater sounds? |
|
Hydrophone |
Supplementaries:
1 |
Who is the present Prime Minister of Spain? |
|
Pedro Sanchez |
2 |
Who are the current European Rugby Champions Cup holders? |
|
Toulouse |
3 |
Macclesfield is home to an Augustus Pugin church. What is its name? |
|
St. Albans |
4 |
How many countries are there in South America? |
|
13 (accept 12 – French Guyana is not a sovereign territory) |
5 |
Name Billy Connolly's latest book, which is an autobiography? |
|
Windswept and Interesting |
6 |
Born Nathan Birnbaum, which American comedian was popular for over 70 years in vaudeville, radio, film and television? |
|
George Burns |
7 |
Apart from Ecuador and Brazil, which other country in South America does the equator pass through? |
|
Columbia |
8 |
Which actor's daughter, named Cheyenne, committed suicide in Tahiti in 1995? |
|
Marlon Brando |
9 |
In what year was Ukraine's 'Revolution of Dignity'? |
|
2014 |
10 |
Which country, with 221,800, has the most islands in the world? |
|
Sweden |
11 |
What is the collective noun for a group of lapwings? |
|
A deceit |
12 |
What was the name of the French General who was Supreme Allied Commander in 1918? |
|
General Foch |
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