Kirkcaldy Quiz League Round 1 Questions

KIRKCALDY QUIZ LEAGUE ROUND 1 QUESTIONS

1. Which American state is home to Jim Beam bourbon? KENTUCKY 2. Which English city does the M11 motorway run to from London? CAMBRIDGE 3. What is an otoscope used to examine? EARS 4. Grevy’s is the largest species of which equine mammal? ZEBRA 5. The UK’s Billy Morgan has just achieved a backside 1800 quadruple cork. In which sport? SNOWBOARDING 6. In which decade was the Sun ‘newspaper’ first published as a tabloid? THE 60s 7. What is the name of the group who re-enact battles from the English Civil War? SEALED KNOT 8. Which singer’s given Christian names were Charles Hardin? BUDDY HOLLY 9. Which country’s F1 motor race is run at Albert Park? AUSTRALIA 10 Umiak, Umnak and Unalaska are islands in which US archipelago? ALEUTIANS 11 Which line in Shakespeare, topical in the past few weeks, comes before: ‘Slave, I have set my life upon a cast’ ? ‘MY HORSE, MY HORSE, MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE’ 12 Which 2 boxers, with 13 divisional World titles between them, will contest the most lucrative match ever next month (May ’15)? (2-part answer) FLOYD MAYWEATHER and MANNY PACQUIAO 13 How many standard wine/champagne bottles are contained in a Methuselah? 8 14 ‘Milk and Alcohol’ was the only UK top 10 hit for which Southend band? DR FEELGOOD 15 What common word for a pleasant place comes from the ancient Persian for a walled garden? PARADISE 16 Which André built the first factory to mass-produce rubber tyres? MICHELIN

17 What is the usual name of the painting by Velazquez, that depicts a nude goddess and which was bought by the owner of a North Yorkshire estate? THE ROKEBY VANUS 18 Which area of England is drained by the rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney? THE BROADS 19 What was the name of Hopalong Cassidy’s horse? TOPPER 20 What were Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor the first to win in 1929? OSCARS ….. FOR BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS 21 Who is the postmistress in ‘Postman Pat’? MRS GOGGINS 22 Which scary fictional murderer, who first appeared in print in 1981, came from Lithuania? HANNIBAL LECTER 23 Which Roman road headed north into Scotland from York through Corbridge? DERE STREET 24 Which country of islands used to be called the Dutch East Indies? INDONESIA 25 In which month does Beaujolais Nouveau appear every year? NOVEMBER 26 What name is given to a solid with 20 regular faces? ICOSOHEDRON 27 What style of music - a dance rhythm - is played as bullfighters enter the corrida and just before the kill? PASODOBLE 28 Which British sportswoman broke many cycling world records including a men’s one in 1967. She worked on a rhubarb farm to build up her stamina. BERYL BURTON 29 Which dance troupe was formed in 1932 at the Folies Bégère in Paris? THE BLUEBELL GIRLS 30 Which fictional diarist was created by Sue Townsend? ADRIAN MOLE 31 Which order of chivalry has ‘Nemo me impune lacessit’ as its motto? THE ORDER OF THE THISTLE 32 Which Swiss sports club have an insect’s name? ZURICH GRASSHOPPERS 33 Which 2 animals were with Alice at the Mad Hatter’s tea party? (2-part answer) THE DORMOUSE and THE MARCH HARE (1 MARK EACH) 34 The recently-deceased John Renbourne, along with musicians Jansch, Thomson, Cox and Jacqui McShee formed which group? PENTANGLE 35 What is former Royal girlfriend Koo Stark’s proper Christian name? KATHLEEN 36 Which car was designed and driven by Caractacus Potts? CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG 37 Chichester is the administrative centre of which English county? WEST SUSSEX 38 Who told the artist Lely to paint his portrait ‘warts and all’? OLIVER CROMWELL 39 What bit of sporting equipment has maximum dimensions of 38” x 4¼”? A CRICKET BAT 40 Jonquil is a hue of what colour? YELLOW