2023–4 Season: Cup Round 1 – 12 December 2023

Set by external setters.

1	Who was elected President of the USA in the same year the Great Depression started?
	Herbert Hoover (1929)
2	Which yachtsman, born in Macclesfield in 1977, won Olympic gold medals in Sydney and Athens?
	Ben Ainslie
3	Which of Dennis Potter's plays for BBC Television was about a group of seven–year–old children playing in the woods, all of whom were played by adults?
	Blue Remembered Hills
4	To which debonair actor did Mae West actually say the line "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" in the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong?
	Cary Grant
5	Which African country was formerly known as French Sudan?
	Mali
6	Which UK newspaper was launched in October 1986 by three former journalists from the Daily Telegraph?
	The Independent
7	What genus of tree has the Latin name Quercus, and includes species called Sessile, Turkey, English and Mirbeck's?
	Oak
8	From 1750 to 1781, Shiraz served as the capital of which country?
	Persia (accept Iran)
9	What is taught at Leith's School in London?
	Cookery (founded by Prue Leith)
10	Who co–founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates?
	Paul Allen
11	Which German officer was known as the Butcher of Lyon?
	Klaus Barbie
12	In the TV series Keeping Up Appearances, who played the role of Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet)?
	Patricia Routledge
13	In biology, what name is given to the naming and classification of species?
	Taxonomy
14	Taxonomically speaking, what comes above the family?
	The order
15	"Blood and Fire" is the motto of which organisation?
	The Salvation Army
16	On which river does the city of Lancaster stand?
	The Lune
17	Who is commemorated by a blue plaque in the ticket office of Mornington Crescent tube station?
	William (Willie) Rushton
18	Which eponymous heroine of a classic French novel poisons herself with arsenic when her lover refuses to give her money to settle a debt?
	Madame Bovary (by Gustave Flaubert)
19	From which language do we get the word 'safari'?
	Swahili
20	Who was the Italian Prime Minister murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978?
	Aldo Moro

21	Which cyclist, born in Belgium with an Australian father, won gold, silver and bronze medals for Britain in the Athens Olympics?
	Bradley Wiggins
22	Which famous street and square in New York are named after the fourth President of the United States?
	Madison (Avenue and Square)
23	Which famous actor and author played the killer of PC George Dixon in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp?
	Dirk Bogarde
24	Which opera by Richard Strauss is named after a character from the Bible?
	Salome
25	Which Secretary–General of the RMT Union led a rail strike in the UK in June 2022?
	Mick Lynch
26	Sucre is the constitutional capital of which South American country?
	Bolivia (La Paz is the administrative capital)
27	Who was King of Spain at the time of the attempted invasion of England by the Armada in 1588?
	Philip II (the Second)
28	Which insect larva is associated with sericulture?
	The silkworm
29	According to legend, the playwright Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped what on his head?
	A tortoise
30	Which eminent British colonial administrator also founded London Zoo, in Regent's Park, just before his death in 1825?
	Sir Stamford Raffles (founder of Singapore, etc.)
31	On TV, by what nickname are Dave Myers and Si King better known?
	The Hairy Bikers (of cookery programme fame)
32	In which century did China's Ming Dynasty end?
	The seventeenth (1644)
33	Selenography is the study of what?
	The Moon
34	Which Canadian singer was born Eileen Regina Edwards?
	Shania Twain
35	Which model village, established in the Victorian era, has an art gallery devoted to the works of David Hockney?
	Saltaire (West Yorkshire)
36	Kurt Waldheim was UN Secretary General in the 1970s, and later served as President of which country?
	Austria
37	Edmond Dantès is the protagonist of which famous French novel?
	The Count of Monte Cristo (by Alexandre Dumas)
38	Who is the current Shadow Home Secretary?
	Yvette Cooper
39	Which was the first British ship to be sunk during the Falklands War?
	HMS Sheffield
40	From which language do we get the word 'yoga'?
	Sanskrit

41	Who wrote the opera Samson and Delilah and the orchestral piece Danse Macabre?
	Camille Saint–Saens
42	Which product's advertising campaign featured an arrangement by the Jacques Loussier Trio of Bach's Air on the G String?
	Hamlet (cigars)
43	Who said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
	Lord Acton
44	Where is Lord Nelson Buried?
	St Paul's Cathedral
45	Who had a hit record in 1978 with the words from Psalm 137?
	Boney M (By the Rivers of Babylon)
46	In which English County would you find Sandown Park and Brooklands?
	Surrey
47	Grammatically, to which part of speech do the words 'and', 'but', and 'or' belong?
	Conjunctions
48	Who, in 1712, produced the first workable steam engine, which was improved fifty years later by James Watt?
	Thomas Newcomen
49	Who is the current Secretary of State for Education?
	Gillian Keegan
50	Which English King is commemorated in a statue by Carlo Marochetti situated just outside the House of Lords?
	Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) - accept either
51	What was Queen Mary referring to when she said to the wife of the Prime Minister, "Well, Mrs. Baldwin: this is a pretty kettle of fish!"?
	The abdication crisis of Edward VIII (1936)
52	Which US fur trader set up a frozen food business in 1924 after noticing how the people in Labrador preserved food for the winter?
	Clarence Birdseye
53	Which online delivery service was founded in London in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski?
	Deliveroo
54	Which dance was once described as "stubbing out cigarettes with both feet whilst drying your back with a towel"?
	The twist
55	Who was the lead singer of the group Van Halen when they had a hit with the song Jump?
	David Lee Roth
56	Which rare butterfly is named after the London borough in which it was first discovered in the UK?
	Camberwell beauty
57	What is Mock Turtle soup made from?
	Calf's head
58	What is the last book of the Old Testament?
	Malachi
59	Who is the Chef Patron of Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire?
	Raymond Blanc
60	Jamaica Pepper and Pimento are alternative names for which spice?
	Allspice

61	"You hum it son, I'll play it" was a line from one of a long running series of TV adverts. What was the product being advertised?
	PG Tips (tea)
62	Who painted Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe), which caused a scandal when it was first shown in 1863 as it juxtaposed a nude woman with several fully clothed men?
	Édouard Manet
63	Which Dominican friar led the revolt in 1494 that expelled the ruling Medici family from Florence?
	Girolamo Savonarola
64	Which Russian writer, famous for his plays and short stories, once said, "Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress"?
	Anton Chekhov
65	Which town in the Scottish Borders is the burial place of Robert the Bruce (or his heart, at least) and the birthplace of seven–a–side rugby football?
	Melrose
66	Who had a hit record in 1965 with the words from Ecclesiastes Chapter 3?
	The Byrds ("To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven". The song was Turn! Turn! Turn! – written by Pete Seeger)
67	What name was given to the periodic mob attacks on Jews in Russia, beginning in 1881?
	Pogroms
68	Grammatically, to what part of speech do the words 'a', 'an' and 'the' belong?
	Articles
69	The Age of Bronze, a figure of a nude male, was the first full–scale work by which sculptor?
	Auguste Rodin
70	Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Premium Bonds in 1956?
	Harold Macmillan
71	Which breed of horse, dating back to 1580, is traditionally ridden at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna?
	Lipizzaner
72	Which famous designer said, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee"?
	Sir Alec Issigonis
73	Which vegetable is also known as 'ladies' fingers'?
	Okra
74	Which English town, where mineral springs were discovered in 1618, is referred to in the more familiar term for hydrated magnesium sulphate?
	Epsom (Epsom salts)
75	What was the name of the ship commissioned by Fridtjof Nansen, and used for polar exploration by both Nansen and Roald Amundsen?
	The Fram
76	Which French mariner sailed from his home town of St Malo in Brittany to explore the Gulf of St Lawrence in 1534?
	Jacques Cartier
77	According to the Bible, who was the wife of King David and the mother of Solomon?
	Bathsheba
78	Which writer created the amateur detective, Albert Campion?
	Margery Allingham
79	From 1965 to 1972, the photographer David Bailey was married to which French actress?
	Catherine Deneuve
80	The Strait of Bonifacio separates two Mediterranean islands, one French and one Italian. Name either.
	Corsica (French) or Sardinia (Italian)

81	Which substance, found in many fruits, makes jam 'set'?
	Pectin
82	Tobermory is the only town on which Scottish island?
	Mull
83	Name either of the two 1986 French films directed by Claude Berri that were based on a two–part novel by Marcel Pagnol, and whose plot centres on a subterranean spring in Provence.
	Jean de Florette or Manon des Sources
84	In which British island group were the Churchill Barriers constructed during the Second World War to protect the British Fleet anchored there?
	The Orkneys
85	On which racecourse are the Rowley Mile and the July Course?
	Newmarket
86	Which American film actor played himself in the 1955 war film biography To Hell and Back?
	Audie Murphy
87	In traditional Japanese dress, what is an obi?
	A wide sash or belt (accept either)
88	For which county team did Dr W.G. Grace play cricket?
	Gloucestershire
89	Calamine, used to treat stings and burns, is a carbonate of which element?
	Zinc
90	What type of creature is a colobus?
	A monkey
91	In which country did the Frelimo movement fight?
	Mozambique
92	Which island's name derives from a Latin word meaning 'Land of Honey'?
	Malta
93	In distilling, around 2% of spirits evaporates through the cask whilst it is maturing. How is this lost quantity of spirit referred to?
	The angels' share
94	Which long–lived US comedian was born Nathan Birnbaum?
	George Burns
95	By what name is the fragrant, white–flowering garden shrub Philadelphus commonly known?
	Mock orange
96	In chess, what is defined as "the sacrifice of a piece in the early stages of a game, for the sake of a later advantage"?
	A gambit
97	Who played Mike Gambit in The New Avengers, and died in March 2007?
	Gareth Hunt
98	Which US composer was inspired to write El Salon Mexico by a visit to that country in 1936?
	Aaron Copland
99	In which game do players sometimes use a device called a spider?
	Snooker
100	In the Punch and Judy puppet theatre, what was the name of Mr Punch's dog?
	Toby

101	Whose autobiography, published in 1954, was entitled My Left Foot?
	Christy Brown
102	What was the name of Joe Brown's backing group?
	The Bruvvers
103	Which motor manufacturer now owns Rolls–Royce Motor Cars?
	BMW
104	What is a breviary?
	A condensed prayer book, hymn book, or psalm book (accept any one of these)
105	Which was the first city in the Southern hemisphere to host the Olympic Games?
	Melbourne (1956)
106	Which noted football manager played around 100 games in Portuguese lower league football before taking his first managerial role at Benfica in 2000?
	Jose Mourinho
107	In which series of adventure stories and films are John Clayton and Jane Porter the leading characters?
	The Tarzan stories (Tarzan is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, Jane's surname is Porter)
108	In Greek mythology, who was the avenger of crime and the dispenser of justice and retribution?
	Nemesis
109	Peter Howitt directed the films Sliding Doors and Johnny English, but as an actor, in which popular British sitcom had he previously played a starring role?
	Bread (he was Joey Boswell)
110	Which cartoonist created The Gambols, who appeared in the Daily Express from 1951 to 1994?
	Barry Appleby
111	The Starbucks coffee shop chain is named after a character in which novel?
	Moby–Dick (Starbuck was Chief Mate of the Pequod)
112	Which seventeenth century artist painted a portrait of Charles I in Three Positions?
	Van Dyck
113	Which American blacksmith invented the steel plough in 1837, after tiring of repairing cast iron ploughs?
	John Deere
114	Which music–hall singer sang I'm One of the Ruins that Cromwell Knocked About a Bit and Oh, Mr Porter?
	Marie Lloyd
115	Name either of the two men who became the first Britons to climb Everest in 1976.
	Dougal Haston or Doug Scott
116	FINA is the world–governing body for which sport?
	Swimming (also diving, water polo and synchronised swimming – accept any of these)
117	During World War II, which 'club' was composed of people whose lives had been saved by the Irvin parachute?
	The Caterpillar Club
118	During World War II, which 'club' was composed of the patients of pioneering surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe?
	The Guinea Pig Club (they were treated for severe burns by plastic surgery, which was only at an experimental stage at that time)
119	Which Canadian–born US economist coined the phrase "the affluent society"?
	J. K. Galbraith
120	Which jazz musician and composer had the first names Leon Bismark?
	'Bix' Beiderbecke

Supplementaries:

1	At 7,310 feet, Mount Kosciusko is the highest mountain in which country?
	Australia
2	Which musical instrument has a name that originates in Hawaii and means 'jumping flea'?
	The ukulele
3	Which US actress, the star of Hitchcock's 1943 film Lifeboat, described herself as "pure as the driven slush"?
	Tallulah Bankhead
4	In the Bible, who said "Am I my brother's keeper?"?
	Cain
5	In Wuthering Heights, what is Cathy's surname (before she marries Edgar Linton)?
	Earnshaw
6	What is the capital of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador?
	St John's

Tie–breaker:

	According to Wikipedia, what is the total height of Angel Falls in Venezuela?
	3,212 feet

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