September 19th 2019 Quiz Questions, set 10. Actor Jason Statham represented by Rems: first half at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in which sport? 1. Which stock character in French Diving theatre wears a loose white blouse 11. Both Formula One motor racing and and pantaloons and has a white- cricket use systems abbreviated to painted face? DRS. What do these initials stand for Pierrot in either case (you only need name 2. What comes next in this sequence: one for the points)? Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Drag Reduction System (Formula Maidenhead, Witney? One) or Decision Review System Kirkaldy and/or Cowdenbeath (Cricket) (Prime ministers' constituencies, 12. Which English flagship sunk during going backwards from Boris the Battle of the Solent? Johnson) The Mary Rose 3. In 1958, which renowned explorer 13. Which is the largest landlocked led the third successful overland country in the world? expedition to the South Pole? Kazakhstan Edmund Hillary (after Amundsen in 14. At standard temperature and 1911 and Scott in 1912) pressure, which is the only one of 4. In the world of horse racing, who or the halogens that is a liquid? what was owned by Noel le Mare? Bromine Red Rum 15. What two-word title is held by the 5. In which part of the UK does Anne Queen’s representative in the Isle of Cleeve’s fictional detective Jimmy Man? Perez operate? Lieutenant Governor Shetland 16. Ben Stokes and which other player 6. Chittagong is the second largest city batted for England in the World Cup by population of which country? Super Over? Bangladesh Jos Butler 7. Kenneth Wolstenholme famously 17. Bury FC have been expelled from commentated on the 1966 World the Football League. Their Cup Final for the BBC. Who was the controversial owner bought the club commentator for ITV? for £1.00. Who is he? Hugh Johns Steve Dale 8. In Greek mythology, which sculptor 18. Which much-loved Canadian novel fell in love with his statue of a of 1908 tells of the adventures of woman named Galatea, who was 11-year-old orphan girl Anne brought to life by Aphrodite? Shirley? Pygmalion Anne of Green Gables 9. Which book in the Old Testament 19. Who did John Bercow succeed as has the shortest name? Speaker of the House of Commons Job in 2009? Michael Martin. 20. Robert the Bruce and his army beat 30. Known for its striped cliffs which the forces of which English king at town is the only west-facing the Battle of Bannockburn? resort on the east coast of England? Edward II Hunstanton 21. By population what is the second largest city of Brazil? Rio de Janeiro (Sao Paulo is the SPARES largest) • The daughter of which artist is a 22. By what Christian name was Edward fashion designer called Paloma? VIII known to his family and close Pablo Picasso friends? • What features on the badge of Lada David cars? 23. In 2020, the English Cricket Board A Viking Longship will introduce a new tournament. It • Sean Connery starred with Tippi will feature city-based franchises, Hedren in which Hitchcock film? rather than the traditional English Marnie Counties. What will the tournament be called? The Hundred 24. Which New Town in the north of England was named after a leader of the Durham miners? Peterlee 25. Which moon of Jupiter is the largest moon in the solar system? Ganymede 26. During World War Two what code name did British Military Intelligence give to the deciphered information from the Enigma machine? Ultra 27. The weekly newspaper called the Sunday Pictorial until 1963, is now known as what? Sunday Mirror 28. Which Polish astronomer formulated a heliocentric model of the Solar system in the 16th century? Copernicus 29. In Norse mythology, the trickster Loki killed the god Balder using which plant? Mistletoe September 19th 2019 Quiz Questions, set 40. For the National Three Peaks by Rems: second half Challenge, the mountains climbed are Ben Nevis, Snowdon and what? 31. What is the surname of Dorothy in Scafell Pike the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz? 41. What are birds doing when they Gale nidificate? 32. In the 2019 Premier League summer Building nests transfer window, which club spent 42. Name the MP who removed Boris the least amount of money? Johnson’s majority when he crossed Norwich City (£1.1 million) the floor to join the Liberal 33. Built between 1929 and 1934, the Democrats. A580 Road is more commonly Dr Phillip Lee known by what name? 43. The site of Napoleon's victory at The East Lancs Road (or the the battle of Austerlitz in 1805 is Liverpool-East Road) today located in which country? 34. Who is the current leader of High Czechia/Czech Republic Peak Borough Council? 44. On a bottle of wine, what is a Anthony McKeown muselet? 35. In the 2019 Premier League summer The wire cage on the cork of a transfer window, which club spent bottle of champagne or sparkling the second highest amount (behind wine. United)? 45. Which British actress played Olenna Aston Villa (£144 million) Tyrell in Game of Thrones? 36. Who beat Serena Williams in the US Diana Rigg Open women’s tennis final this 46. Prince Siegfried and Princess Odette month? appear in which ballet? Bianca Andreescu Swan Lake 37. Ex-Tory MP Dominic Grieve held 47. What mammal, found in Britain, has which position in David Cameron’s the Latin name Erinaceus Cabinet, between 2010 and 2014? europaeus? Attorney General Hedgehog 38. Which long-established women’s 48. The site of the Battle of Hydaspes, magazine (first published in France (326 BC) at the easternmost extent in 1937) has just announced that it of Alexander the Great's empire, is will withdraw its UK print edition in today located in which country? November to become wholly web- Pakistan based? 49. Who was the orator scheduled to be Marie Claire the main speaker at the public 39. The armies of James IV of Scotland meeting that led to the Peterloo fought the armies of which English Massacre? king at the Battle of Flodden Field? Henry Hunt Henry VIII 50. Who is the writer and star of Fleabag? Phoebe Waller-Bridge

51. The Yorkshire Three Peaks around SPARES the head of the Ribble Valley are • Who is the subject of Madiba the Ingleborough, Whernside and what? Musical? Pen-y-Ghent Nelson Mandela 52. The waters around which island • What is the surname of the sisters were designated as the first Marine Elinor, Marianne and Margaret in Nature Reserve for England and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility? Wales in 1986? Dashwood Lundy • Which painter was the husband of 53. Who was the manager and captain artist Frida Kahlo? of Timperley Big Shorts FC? Diego Rivera Frank Sidebottom 54. Since the inauguration of the Formula One World Championship in 1950, which track has hosted the most Grand Prix? Monza 55. In chemistry, dissolved substances that allow a solution to conduct electricity are called what? Electrolytes 56. What mammal, found in Britain, has the Latin name Meles Meles? Badger 57. Which Prime Minister’s first Government was damaged by the scandal caused by “the Zinoviev Letter” ? James Ramsey MacDonald (it was a fraudulent letter published in the Daily Mail intended to undermine the Labour Government) 58. Which fictional hero made his first appearance in a short story called The White Fokker for a magazine in 1932? Biggles 59. Which is the principal town on the Isle of Mull? Tobemory 60. Wild marjoram is better known as which herb, often used on pizza? Oregano