Constable Quiz League Week 1

CONSTABLE QUIZ LEAGUE – 2011/12 - WEEK 8 table IN ALL ROUNDS THE FULL ANSWER GIVEN IS NEEDED FOR THE POINT(S), UNLESS A WORD IS UNDERLINED, IN WHICH CASE THAT PART OF THE ANSWER WILL SUFFICE

ROUND 1 – RECENT NEWS 1 WHO CAPTAINED ENGLAND TO THEIR 1-0 WIN FRANK LAMPARD OVER SPAIN LAST WEEK? 2 WHO WON THE ABU DHABI FORMULA ONE GRAND LEWIS HAMILTON PRIX LAST SUNDAY? 3 WHICH FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING JOE FRAZIER CHAMPION DIED RECENTLY AT THE AGE OF 67? 1 WHO RESIGNED AS HEAD OF THE U.K. BORDER BRODIE CLARK AGENCY RECENTLY? 2 WHICH DOCTOR WAS FOUND GUILTY OF THE CONRAD MURRAY MANSLAUGHTER OF MICHAEL JACKSON? 3 WHO IS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY? MARIO MONTI 1 PRIVATE FIRM, CIRCLE HEALTH, HAVE TAKEN HINCHINGBROKE OVER THE RUNNING OF WHICH HUNTINGDON HOSPITAL? 2 HELD AT EARLS COURT LAST WEEK, FROM WHICH VENEZUELA COUNTRY DID THE WINNER OF THE 2011 MISS WORLD CONTEST HAIL? 3 WHICH COMIC ACTOR RECENTLY RELEASED HIS JAMES CORDEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY ENTITLED ‘MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION’?

ROUND 2 - HISTORY – 16TH, 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY – ONE QUESTION PER TEAM PER CENTURY

1 WHO SUCCEEDED WILLIAM III IN 1702? ANNE 2 WHO SUCCEEDED CHARLES II IN 1685? JAMES II 3 WHO SUCCEEDED HENRY VIII IN 1547? EDWARD VI. 1 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE’S DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH THE SINGEING OF THE KING FLEET AT CADIZ IN 1587 IS COMMONLY KNOWN BY OF SPAIN’S BEARD. WHICH PHRASE? 2 WHEN ADOPTING THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR IN ELEVEN 1752 RIOTS BROKE OUT WHEN HOW MANY DAYS WERE LOST IN SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR? 3 WHO LED THE GANG WHO TRIED TO ASSASSINATE ROBERT CATESBY JAMES I IN 1605, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE GUNPOWDER OR GUY FAWKES PLOT? 1 THE PILGRIM FATHERS LEFT PLYMOUTH IN 1620 IN SPEEDWELL 2 BOATS. NAME THE VESSEL THAT TURNED BACK AND DID NOT COMPLETE THE JOURNEY? 2 WHO WAS LORD CHANCELLOR TO HENRY VIII THOMAS, LORD AUDLEY DURING THE EXECUTIONS OF THOMAS MORE, ANNE BOLEYN, THOMAS CROMWELL AND CATHERINE HOWARD AND HAS A SCHOOL IN COLCHESTER NAMED AFTER HIM? 3 ADMIRAL JOHN BYNG WAS TRIED AND SHOT FOR MENORCA TREASON FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY IN 1757 AFTER FAILING TO DEFEND WHICH THEN BRITISH-HELD SMALL MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND?

ROUND 3 – CINEMA / FILMS 1 WHO PLAYED THE TITLE ROLE IN THE FILM JOHNNY DEPP EDWARD SCISSORHANDS? 2 WHO PLAYED THE TITLE ROLE IN THE TWO PAUL HOGAN CROCODILE DUNDEE FILMS? 3 WHO PLAYED FANNY BRICE IN THE FILMS FUNNY BARBRA STREISAND GIRL AND FUNNY LADY? 1 WHICH ACTRESS PLAYED BURT REYNOLDS’ LOVE SALLY FIELD INTEREST IN SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT? 2 IN WHICH FILM DOES DIANA RIGG MARRY JAMES ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET BOND, PLAYED BY GEORGE LAZENBY? SERVICE 3 WHICH ACTRESS PLAYED DUDLEY MOORE’S LOVE LIZA MINNELLI INTEREST IN THE 1981 FILM ARTHUR? 1 IN DISNEY’S ALADDIN WHAT IS IAGO, OWNED BY PARROT JAFAR? 2 IN DISNEY’S CINDERELLA WHAT IS LUCIFER? CAT 3 IN DISNEY’S PINOCCHIO WHAT IS J. FOX WORTHINGTON FOULFELLOW?

ROUND 4 – GEOGRAPHY – ISLANDS

1 WHICH ISLAND IS ONE OF THE NEW ENGLAND RHODE ISLAND STATES? 2 WHICH ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC BECAME PITCAIRN ISLAND HOME TO THE MUTINEERS OF H.M.S. BOUNTY? 3 WHICH ISLAND BOROUGH OF NEW YORK WAS STATEN ISLAND KNOWN AS RICHMOND UNTIL 1975? 1 WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF THE BAHAMAS? NASSAU 2 WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF TRINIDAD? PORT OF SPAIN 3 WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF BERMUDA? HAMILTON 1 THE ISLAND OF GOTLAND BELONGS TO WHICH SWEDEN COUNTRY? 2 PRIOR TO 1956, WHAT WAS THE NAME OF LIBERTY BEDLOE’S ISLAND ISLAND ON WHICH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY STANDS? 3 WHAT IS THE LARGEST ISLAND IN THE LUZON PHILIPPINES? ROUND 5 – MIX AND MATCH. QUESTION MASTER PLEASE HAND OUT MIX AND MATCH SHEETS TO EACH TEAM. THERE ARE ENOUGH FOR 2 PER TEAM TO ALLOW FOR TRIAL AND ERROR BEFORE FILLING IN FINAL SHEET TO BE MARKED. THIS IS DOUBLE-SIDED WITH AN ANSWER SHEET FOR THE FOLLOWING WRITTEN ROUND ON THE BACK.

THE ANSWERS ARE:- 1 DOLLY VARDEN 2 BARKIS 3 EDITH GRANGER 4 JAGGERS 5 TOM GRADGRIND 6 DANIEL DOYCE 7 SARAH GAMP 8 SMIKE 9 NELLY TRENT 10 JACK DAWKINS (A.K.A. THE ARTFUL DODGER)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE -WRITTEN ROUND 1

PLEASE NOTE - ALL ANSWERS IN THIS ROUND ARE OF EQUAL LENGTH

1 IF ‘A’ IS ALPHA AND ‘B’ IS BRAVO, WHAT IS ‘M’? MIKE 2 WHICH COUNTRY IS BORDERED TO THE WEST BY TOGO GHANA AND TO THE EAST BY BURKINA FASO? 3 THE ADJECTIVE CERINE REFERS TO WHICH DEER ANIMAL? 4 WHICH LONDON UNDERGROUND STATION IS BANK SITUATED BETWEEN MOORGATE AND LONDON BRIDGE ON THE NORTHERN LINE AND IS ALSO ON THE CENTRAL LINE? 5 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PET RAVEN THAT GRIP BELONGS TO THE TITLE CHARACTER IN DICKENS’ BARNABY RUDGE? 6 WHICH SHIPPING FORECAST AREA LIES DIRECTLY SOLE TO THE WEST OF FORECAST AREA PLYMOUTH? 7 WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON NAME FOR POPES? JOHN (23 SO FAR) 8 WHICH WORD THAT MEANS A SMALL AMOUNT IS IOTA THE NINTH LETTER OF THE GREEK ALPHABET? 9 WHICH T.V. COMEDY STARRED JUDD HIRSCH AS TAXI ALEX REIGER, DANNY DE VITO AS LOUIS DE PALMA AND ANDY KAUFMAN AS LATKA GRAVAS? 10 PERTH, AUSTRALIA STANDS ON WHICH RIVER? SWAN 11 WHICH OLD TESTAMENT PATRIARCH HAD SONS NOAH CALLED JAPHETH, HAM AND SHEM? 12 NO LONGER USED FOR FOOTBALL, ON WHICH (KENNINGTON) OVAL GROUND WAS THE FIRST F.A. CUP FINAL PLAYED IN 1872? 13 BY BEATING DERBY 6-0 IN 1903 WHICH CURRENT BURY LEAGUE ONE TEAM RECORDED THE BIGGEST WINNING MARGIN IN AN F.A. CUP FINAL? 14 WHAT WAS THE FIRST NAME OF CHARLIE OONA CHAPLIN’S LAST WIFE? 15 HOW MANY TIMES DID CHARLIE CHAPLIN FOUR MARRY?

HALF TIME – REVERSE ORDER

ROUND 7 – FAMOUS ARTISTS

3 WHICH BRITISH ARTIST’S MOST FAMOUS PAINTING WILLIAM HOGARTH IS THE RAKE’S PROGRESS? 2 WHICH FRENCH POST IMPRESSIONIST PAINTED HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC POSTER DESIGNS OF THE MOULIN ROUGE? 1 WHOSE FOUR PAINTINGS OF SUNFLOWERS, DATED VINCENT VAN GOGH 1888, WERE INTENDED TO DECORATE THE YELLOW HOUSE AT ARLES? 3 THE SELF-PORTRAIT AGED SIXTY-THREE IS OF REMBRANDT WHICH ARTIST PAINTED IN THE LAST YEAR OF HIS LIFE IN 1669? 2 PORTRAITS OF MRS SIDDONS, MRS ROBINSON AND THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH MR AND MRS ANDREWS ARE AMONGST THE WORKS OF WHICH ARTIST? 1 WHICH ARTIST IS FAMOUS FOR PAINTINGS OF CLAUDE MONET SEVERAL SCENES OF HIS GARDEN AT GIVERNY? 3 WHICH ENGLISH ARTIST’S PORTRAITS OF TALULAH AUGUSTUS JOHN BANKHEAD IN 1933 AND DYLAN THOMAS IN 1938 CAN BE FOUND IN THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF WASHINGTON? 2 WHICH AMERICAN PAINTER AND LEADING FIGURE MAN RAY IN THE ARTISTIC AVANT-GARDE OF PARIS IN THE 1920’S WAS A NOTED PHOTOGRAPHER? 1 LAS MENINAS IS THE MASTERPIECE OF WHICH VELAZQUEZ SPANISH ARTIST, BORN IN 1599, WHO MANET RFERRED TO AS THE PAINTER OF PAINTERS? ROUND 8 – LITERATURE

3 HOLLY GOLIGHTLY IS THE HEROINE OF WHICH BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S TRUMAN CAPOTE NOVEL, WHICH WAS MADE INTO A HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FILM? 2 HOLDEN CAUFIELD IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF CATCHER IN THE RYE. WHICH NOVEL BY J. D. SALINGER? 1 CAPTAIN YOSSARIAN IS A LEADING CHARACTER IN CATCH 22. WHICH JOSEPH HELLER NOVEL? 3 IN WHICH NOVEL DOES BATHSHEBA EVERDENE FAR FROM THE MADDING FIRSTLY MARRY SOLDIER SERGEANT TROY AND CROWD THEN FARMER GABRIEL OAK? 2 IN WHICH NOVEL DOES INSPECTOR PETROVICH CRIME AND PUNISHMENT BRING RASKOLNIKOV TO JUSTICE AFTER HE MURDERS A FEMALE PAWNBROKER? 1 IN WHICH NOVEL DOES MICHAEL HENCHARD SELL THE MAYOR OF HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER FOR FIVE GUINEAS? CASTERBRIDGE. 3 WHO WROTE THE RAJ QUARTET WHICH COMPRISES PAUL SCOTT – THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN, THE DAY OF THE SCORPION, A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS AND THE TOWERS OF SILENCE? 2 WHO WROTE THE RABBIT TETRALOGY WHICH JOHN UPDIKE COMPRISES – RABBIT RUN, RABBIT REDUX, RABBIT IS RICH AND RABBIT AT REST? 1 WHO WROTE THE SWORD OF HONOUR TRILOGY EVELYN WAUGH WHICH COMPRISES – MEN AT ARMS, OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN AND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER?

ROUND 9 – CLASSICAL MUSIC & MUSICIANS

3 JULIAN BREAM IS FAMOUS FOR PLAYING WHICH GUITAR INSTRUMENT? 2 MOURA LYMPANY IS NOTED FOR PLAYING WHICH PIANO INSTRUMENT? 1 PABLO CASALS IS FAMOUS FOR PLAYING WHICH CELLO INSTRUMENT? 3 WHO COMPOSED THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE EDWARD ELGAR MARCH? 2 WHICH COMPOSER’S SYMPHONY NO. 4 IS KNOWN AS FELIX MENDELSSOHN THE ITALIAN SYMPHONY? 1 WHO WROTE THE OPERA THE MARRIAGE OF W.A. MOZART FIGARO? 3 WHICH COMPOSER WROTE 104 SYMPHONIES, MANY FRANZ HAYDN EARNING NICKNAMES SUCH AS THE CLOCK AND THE MILITARY? 2 WHICH COMPOSER, ALTHOUGH DYING AGED 31, FRANZ SCHUBERT WROTE 9 SYMPHONIES, OVER 600 SONGS, MANY PIANO WORKS, CHAMBER MUSIC AND SOME OPERAS? 1 THE RESURRECTION SYMPHONY AND THE GUSTAV MAHLER SYMPHONY OF A THOUSAND ARE WORKS BY WHICH AUSTRIAN BORN COMPOSER?

ROUND 10 – SPORT – THE SUMMER OLYMPICS

3 WHICH BRITISH WOMAN WON THE OLYMPIC DENISE LEWIS HEPTATHLON AT THE 2000 GAMES? 2 WHICH BRITISH WOMAN WON THE 1984 JAVELIN TESSA SANDERSON EVENT AND COMPETED IN FOUR OTHER OLYMPICS? 1 WHICH BRITISH WOMAN WON GOLD IN THE LONG MARY RAND (NEE BIGNALL) JUMP, SILVER IN THE PENTATHLON AND BRONZE IN ACCEPT EITHER SURNAME THE RELAY AT THE 1964 OLYMPICS? 3 WHICH CUBAN RUNNER WON THE 400 AND 800 ALBERTO JUANTORENA. METRES GOLD MEDALS IN 1976? 2 WHICH RUSSIAN ATHLETE WON THE 100 AND 200 VALERIY BORZOV. METRES GOLD MEDALS IN 1972? 1 WHICH ETHIOPIAN RUNNER WON THE 5,000 AND MIRUTS YIFTER 10,000 METRES GOLD MEDALS IN 1980? 3 AT WHICH ATHLETICS EVENT DID VIKTOR TRIPLE JUMP SANEYEV WIN 3 SUCCESSIVE GOLD MEDALS BETWEEN 1968 AND 1976? 2 AL OERTER WON WHICH ATHLETICS EVENT AT 4 DISCUS CONSECUTIVE GAMES BETWEEN 1956 AND 1968? 1 AT WHICH ATHLETICS EVENT DID ULRIKE HIGH JUMP MAYFARTH WIN GOLD, AGED 16, IN 1972 AND AGAIN 12 YEARS LATER?

ROUND 11 - THE TOP TEN ROUND. 11 GUESSES ARE ALLOWED, ANSWERS CAN BE IN ANY ORDER. THERE IS A DOUBLE-SIDED ANSWER SHEET TO BE HANDED OUT, FOR THIS AND THE FOLLOWING WRITTEN ROUND.

TOP TEN QUESTION :- WHAT ARE THE TEN HIGHEST SCORING LETTERS IN THE GAME OF SCRABBLE AND THEIR CORRESPONDING POINTS VALUE. ONE POINT FOR EACH CORRECT LETTER AND A SECOND POINT FOR IT’S CORRECT POINTS VALUE. THE ANSWERS ARE 1 Q - 10 POINTS 2 Z - 10 3 J - 8 4 X - 8 5 K - 5 6 F - 4 7 H - 4 8 V - 4 9 W - 4 10 Y - 4

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – WRITTEN ROUND 2. USUAL RULES APPLY. THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 6-14 CONTAIN A CONNECTION WHICH IS ANSWER NO. 15.

1 WHAT IS THE INDIAN WORD FOR INDIA? BHARAT OR BHARATA. 2 PHEBOS AND DELMOS ARE THE MOONS OF WHICH MARS PLANET? 3 IN RADIO TRANSMISSION WHAT DOES THE AMPLITUDE MODULATION ABBREVIATION A.M. STAND FOR? 4 WHICH DIRECTOR SAID “THE LENGTH OF A FILM ALFRED HITCHCOCK SHOULD BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE ENDURANCE OF THE HUMAN BLADDER”? 5 WHAT NAME IS SHARED BY A NEW ZEALAND PORT NAPIER AND THE SURNAME OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED LOGARITHMS? 6 WHO SHOT AND KILLED JESSE JAMES IN 1882? BOB FORD 7 BORN IN IOWA ON FEBRUARY 26TH 1846, HOW IS BUFFALO BILL WILLIAM F. CODY MORE FAMOUSLY KNOWN? 8 THE SWAYTHLING AND CORBILLON CUPS ARE TABLE TENNIS AWARDED TO THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONS IN WHICH SPORT? 9 PAUL NEWMAN WON HIS ONLY BEST ACTOR OSCAR THE COLOUR OF MONEY FOR HIS ROLE IN WHICH FILM? 10 BASED ON THE NOVELS OF DAVID NOBBS, WHICH THE FALL AND RISE OF T.V. SITCOM AIRED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1976 AND REGINALD PERRIN STARRED LEONARD ROSSITER IN THE TITLE ROLE? (MUST BE CORRECT ORDER OF FALL AND RISE, IF REVERSED ONLY ONE POINT) 11 LADY HELEN TAYLOR, THE DAUGHTER OF THE MELONS DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT, WAS GIVEN WHICH NICKNAME AS A TEENAGER BECAUSE OF HER LARGE BREASTS? 12 THE GROUP SCAFFOLD ACHIEVED THEIR ONLY LILY THE PINK NUMBER ONE SINGLE IN 1968 WITH WHICH SONG? 13 WHAT IS THE NAME OF VENICE’S INTERNATIONAL MARCO POLO AIRPORT? 14 IN WHICH 1958 FILM DID KIRK DOUGLAS PLAY A ACE IN THE HOLE REPORTER WHO DELAYS THE RESCUE OF A MAN TRAPPED UNDERGROUND TO BOOST SALES OF HIS NEWSPAPER? 15 AND THE CONNECTION IS……? WATER (CAN PRECEDE ALL THE HIGHLIGHTED WORDS)

SPARES 1 THE ARAN ISLANDS ARE AT THE MOUTH OF WHICH GALWAY BAY IRISH BAY? 2 ANTHONY VAN DYCK IS BEST REMEMBERED FOR CHARLES I HIS PORTRAITS OF WHICH BRITISH KING? 3 THREE MAJOR COMPOSERS WERE BORN IN 1685. DOMENCIO SCARLATTI BACH, HANDEL AND WHICH ITALIAN WHO WAS ALSO A NOTED HARPSICHORDIST AND ORGANIST? 4 WHO ACCOMPANIED STEVE REDGRAVE WHEN HE ANDY HOLMES WON HIS FIRST 2 GOLD MEDALS IN 1984 AND 1988?

PLEASE EITHER PHONE IN THE RESULT ON 07970 557943 OR EMAIL TO [email protected] ASAP. ROUND 2 – LITERATURE HOLLY GOLIGHTLY IS THE HEROINE OF WHICH BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S TRUMAN CAPOTE NOVEL, WHICH WAS MADE INTO A HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FILM? HOLDEN CAUFIELD IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF CATCHER IN THE RYE. WHICH NOVEL BY J. D. SALINGER? CAPTAIN YOSSARIAN IS A LEADING CHARACTER CATCH 22. IN WHICH JOSEPH HELLER NOVEL? IN WHICH NOVEL DOES BATHSHEBA EVERDENE FAR FROM THE MADDING FIRSTLY MARRY SOLDIER SERGEANT TROY AND CROWD THEN FARMER GABRIEL OAK? IN WHICH NOVEL DOES INSPECTOR PETROVICH CRIME AND PUNISHMENT BRING RASKOLNIKOV TO JUSTICE AFTER HE MURDERS A FEMALE PAWNBROKER? IN WHICH NOVEL DOES MICHAEL HENCHARD SELL THE MAYOR OF HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER FOR FIVE GUINEAS? CASTERBRIDGE. WHO WROTE THE RAJ QUARTET WHICH PAUL SCOTT COMPRISES – THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN, THE DAY OF THE SCORPION, A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS AND THE TOWERS OF SILENCE? WHO WROTE THE RABBIT TETRALOGY WHICH JOHN UPDIKE COMPRISES – RABBIT RUN, RABBIT REDUX, RABBIT IS RICH AND RABBIT AT REST? WHO WROTE THE SWORD OF HONOUR TRILOGY EVELYN WAUGH WHICH COMPRISES – MEN AT ARMS, OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN AND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER?

ROUND 8 – LONDON

WHICH STRUCTURE COMMEMORATES THE GREAT THE MONUMENT FIRE OF LONDON? WHAT STANDS IN JUBILEE GARDENS ON THE THE LONDON EYE SOUTH BANK AND OPENED IN JANUARY 2000? WHAT HAS, AT VARIOUS TIMES, SERVED AS A ZOO, TOWER OF LONDON A MINT AND A PRISON? WHICH LANDMARK NOW STANDS ON THE SITE OF MARBLE ARCH TYBURN, THE THREE-LEGGED GALLOWS? IN WHICH THOROUGHFARE IS THE CENOTAPH WHITEHALL SITUATED? IN WHICH CEMETERY IS KARL MARX BURIED? HIGHGATE TO WHICH REFORMER IS THE STATUE OF EROS IN EARL OF SHAFTESBURY PICCADILLY A TRIBUTE? WHO WAS THE FIRST WRITER TO BE BURIED AT GEOFFREY CHAUCER POET’S CORNER IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY? WHICH FAMOUS PERSON LIVED AT APSLEY HOUSE, DUKE OF WELLINGTON FORMERLY KNOWN AS NUMBER ONE, LONDON?