Constable Quiz League Week 1 s1

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CONSTABLE QUIZ LEAGUE – WEEK 3 1 NOV 2015 – HARE & HOUNDS

ROUND 1 – RECENTISH NEWS

1. WHICH CLUB IS IN THE ROUGH OVER A PLAN TO WENTWORTH GOLF CLUB CHARGE £100,00 FOR A DEBENTURE 2. WHICH CITY DID THE CHINESE PRESIDENT VISIT TO MANCHESTER ANNOUNCE THE FIRST DIRECT FLIGHTS TO CHINA OUTSIDE OF LONDON 3. WHO WON THE MANN BOOKER PRIZE FOR 2015 MARLON JAMES 1 WHOSE EARLY ARRIVAL IN THIS COUNTRY BERWICK SWAN ALLEGEDLY HERALDS A COLD WINTER 2 WHAT WAS THE NICKNAME FOR THE JAPANESE BRAVE BLOSSOMS RUGBY TEAM HERE FOR THE WORLD CUP 3 WHO IS THE PRESIDENT ELECT FOR CANADA AFTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU THE RECENT GENERAL ELECTION 1 APART FROM BEING TRAFALGAR DAY WHY WAS 21 BACK TO THE FUTURE (2) OCTOBER 2015 FEATURED IN THE NEWS DAY. 2 LEWIS HAMILTON SECURED HIS THIRD F1 US GRAND PRIX CHAMPIONSHIP AT WHICH GRAND PRIX 3 WHICH OF THIS YEARS ANNIVERSARIES DOES THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT (600 NEW £5 COIN COMMEMORATE. YEARS)

ROUND 2 – BIRTHS DEATHS AND MARRIAGES

1. BORN 5TH NOV 1941 IN NEW YORK. SINGING PARTNER ART GARFUNKEL OF EPONYMOUS FOLK DUO. SUPPLIED MUSIC TO MIKE NICHOLLS AND WAS IN TWO OF HIS FILMS 2. BORN 5 NOV 1911 OHIO. DIED 1998. MARRIED 4 ROY ROGERS TIMES, KNOWN AS KING OF THE COWBOYS 3. BORN 5 NOV 1931. MISSISSIPPI. DIED 2007. MADE IKE TURNER STRING OF R&B HITS WITH HIS WIFE. DIED OF HEROIN OVERDOSE 1 WHICH ICONIC BASEBALL PLAYER DIED 22 SEPT YOGI BERRA 2015 AT THE AGE OF 90 2 WHICH LONG SERVING CONSERVATIVE CABINET GEOFFREY HOWE MINISTER DIED OCT 2015, BUT NOT OF SCABIES 3 WHICH CHICK LIT AUTHOR DIED SEPT 2015 AT THE JACKIE COLLINS AGE OF 77 1 WHO WAS THE WIFE OF CHARLES II CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA 2 THE SAME SEX MARRIAGE ACT WAS PASSED IN 2013 WHICH YEAR 3 WHO MADE THE SONG LOVE AND MARRIAGE FRANK SINATRA FAMOUS IN THE 1950’S

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ROUND 3 – LITERATURE

1. WHICH FAMOUS AUTHOR INVENTED THE POST BOX ANTHONY TROLLOPE 2. WHO WROTE THE POEM ‘THE RAVEN’ EDGAR ALLEN POE 3. WHICH BRONTE SISTER WROTE ONLY ONE NOVEL EMILY (WUTHERING HEIGHTS) 1 WHICH FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NOVEL THE SECRET GARDEN FEATURES MARY LENNOX 2 WHICH BOOK FEATURES USAF CAPTAIN JOHN CATCH 22 YOSSARIAN 3 WHICH AUTHORS REAL NAME WAS SAMUEL MARK TWAIN LONGHORN CLEMENS 1 WHICH AUTHOR INVENTED THE THREE LAWS OF ISAAC ASIMOV ROBOTICS 2 WHO WROTE THE ‘MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE’ PHILIP K DICK 3 WHO WROTE ‘STARSHIP TROOPERS’ ALSO A CULT ROBERT HEINLEIN FILM

ROUND 4 – TRANSPORT

1. WHAT DO THE LETTERS DB IN FRONT OF ASTON DAVID BROWN THE MARTIN MARQUES STAND FOR COMPANY FOUNDER 2. WHAT DOES MG IN THE CAR MARQUE STAND FOR MORRIS GARAGES 3. EARLY JAGUARS WHERE KNOWN AS SS JAGUAR. SWALLOW SIDECARS, THE WHAT DOES SS STAND FOR. ORIGINAL PRODUCERS OF JAGUARS. 1 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE LAST STEAM EVENING STAR LOCOMOTIVE BUILT BY BRITISH RAILWAYS 2 RIBBLEHEAD VIADUCT IS ON WHICH RAILWAY SETTLE TO CARLISLE ROUTE. BE SPECIFIC THE REGION IS NOT ENOUGH. 3 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE LNER A1 CLASS BUILT TORNADO WITH MODERN MATERIALS AND RUNNING TODAY. 1 WHEN WAS A DRIVING TEST MADE COMPULSORY 1934 +/-2 2 WHEN WERE FRONT SEAT BELTS MADE 1983+/-2 COMPULSORY 3 WHEN WAS THE MOT INTRODUCED 1960+/-2

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ROUND 5 – MIX AND MATCH

QUESTION MASTER PLEASE HAND OUT MIX AND MATCH SHEETS TO EACH TEAM, 2 PER TEAM.

THE ANSWERS ARE:-

1 LEICESTER SOAR 2 NORTHAMPTON NENE 3 SHREWSBURY SEVERN 4 BIRMINGHAM REA 5 MANCHESTER IRWELL 6 PRESTON RIBBLE 7 LANCASTER LUNE 8 BRIDGEWATER PARRET 9 CARLISLE EDEN 10 LEEDS AIRE

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE -WRITTEN ROUND 1

USE BACK OF MIX AND MATCH ROUND FOR ANSWER SHEET

1. A YARMULKE IS WORN BY A PRACTIONER OF JUDAISM WHICH RELIGION 2. WHICH EASTENDER WON DANCING ON ICE IN 2011 SAM ATTWATER 3. WHAT IS US PRESIDENT OBAMA’S MIDDLE NAME HUSSAIN 4. WHAT SIZE PAPER MEASURES 297X420 MM A3 5. WHAT IS THE RIGHT WING PRESSURE GROUP THAT THE MONDAY CLUB TAKES ITS NAME FROM A DAY OF THE WEEK 6. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ANCIENT GREEK LYCEUM SCHOOL FOUNDED BY ARISTOTLE 7. THE FINKLER QUESTION WAS WRITTEN BY WHICH HOWARD JACOBSON AUTHOR 8. WHO WAS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL DAVID BEN-GURION 9. DEAR OLD SHIZ AND I’M NOT THAT GIRL ARE SONGS WICKED FROM WHICH WEST END MUSICAL 10 HOW MANY GALLONS ARE THERE IN A FIRKIN OF 9 . BEER 11 WHICH BOOK ENDS WITH THE LINE.. ‘THE OLD MAN THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA . WAS DREAMING ABOUT THE LIONS’ (ERNEST HEMINGWAY) 12 A DACTYLOGRAM IS BETTER KNOWN AS WHAT? A FINGER PRINT . 13 REGINA IS CAPITAL CITY OF WHICH CANADIAN SASKATCHEWAN

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PROVINCE 14 IN WHICH DECADE WERE DOG LICENSES ABOLISHED 1980’S . IN THE UK 15 WHICH CITY WAS CAPITAL OF THE USA 1783 TO 1789 PHILADELPHIA .

HALF TIME – REVERSE ORDER

ROUND 7 – BRITISH POLITICS

3 WHO LIVES AT 12 DOWNING ST. GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP 2 WHICH PRIME MINISTER WROTE THE NOVELS SYBIL BENJAMIN DISRAELI AND CONINGSBY 1. WHO WAS PRIME MINISTER AT THE START OF THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY 20TH CENTURY 3 WHO KILLED SPENCER PERCIVAL JOHN BELLINGHAM 2. FOLLOWING RETIREMENT FROM POLITICS JOHN SURREY MAJOR BECAME PRESIDENT OF WHICH CRICKET CLUB 1 WHO IS UK’S LONGEST SERVING CHANCELLOR OF GORDON BROWN THE EXCHEQUER SINCE THE 18TH CENTURY 3. WHICH 20TH CENTURY PRIME MINISTER WAS BORN ANDREW BONAR-LAW IN CANADA AND ONLY SERVED FOR 7 MONTHS 2 WHO WAS DESCRIBED BY CHURCHILL AS ‘ A CLEMENT ATTLEE MODEST LITTLE MAN WITH A GREAT DEAL TO BE MODEST ABOUT’ 1 FORMER PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON HUDDERSFIELD SUPPORTED WHICH FOOTBALL CLUB

ROUND 8 – I SPY

3 WHO SUCCEEDED ROGER MOORE AS JAMES BOND TIMOTHY DALTON IN 1987 2 WHAT WAS THE CODE NAME OF GEORGE SMILEY’S KARLA ADVERSARY IN JOHN LE CARRE SPY THRILLER ‘ TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY’ 1. FRANCIS WALSINGHAM WAS SPYMASTER FOR ELIZABETH I WHICH MONARCH 3 WHICH RADIO SERIES OF THE 1940’S FEATURED ITMA CHARACTERS SUCH AS MRS MOPP AND FUNF THE SPY 2. WHICH SOVIET DOUBLE AGENT FLED TO THE USSR GEORGE BLAKE AFTER ESCAPING FROM WORMWOOD SCRUBS IN 1966 1 WHICH ENGLISH ARCHITECT , BUILDER OF SIR JOHN VANBRUGH BLENHEIM PALACE, WAS ONCE IMPRISONED IN THE

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BASTILLE AS A SPY 3. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE LITTLE BOY SPY ALEX RIDER CREATED BY ANTHONY HOROWITZ 2 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ART EXPERT ANTHONY BLUNT REVEALED AS THE FOURTH MAN IN THE CAMBRIDGE SPY RING 1 WHICH US INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WAS SET UP IN CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 1947. (FULL NAME REQUIRED) AGENCY

ROUND 9 – SPORT

3 WHERE DO LEICESTER CITY PLAY THEIR HOME KING POWER STADIUM GAMES 2 WHAT IS THE NEW NAME OF THE BOLTON MACRON STADIUM (USED TO WANDERERS HOME GROUND BE THE REEBOCK) 1. WHERE DO DERBY COUNTY PLAY THEIR HOME PRIDE PARK STADIUM GAMES 3 HOW MANY POINTS ARE SCORED FOR A TRY IN 4 RUGBY LEAGUE 2. HOW MANY POINTS ARE SCORED IN BASKETBALL 3 FOR SHOOTING THROUGH THE HOOP FROM OUTSIDE THE SEMICIRCLE 1 IF A CRICKET UMPIRE RAISES BOTH ARMS UPWARDS 6 HOW MANY RUNS ARE SCORED 3. WHO WON THE 2015 US PGA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP JASON DAY 2 WHO IS THE PDC WORLD DARTS CHAMPION GARY ANDERSON 1 WHO IS THE SNOOKER WORLD CHAMPION STUART BINGHAM

ROUND 10 – FOOD AND DRINK

3 ON WHAT SCOTTISH ISLAND IS TALISKER SKYE PRODUCED 2 FROM WHICH GRAIN IS SEMOLINA MADE DURUM WHEAT 1. WHAT SORT OF VEGETABLE IS OFFENHAM FLOWER SPRING CABBAGE OF SPRING 3 WHAT IS USQUEBAUGH BETTER KNOWN AS WHISKEY 2. HOW MANY GALLONS OF BEER IN A UK BARREL 36 1 WHAT SORT OF FRUIT ARE AMBROSIA, MAIGOLD APPLES AND ST EVERARD 3 A TAYBERRY IS A CROSS BETWEEN WHICH TWO BLACKBERRY AND BERRIES RASPBERRY 2 MACE IS PRODUCED FROM THE HUSK OF WHICH NUTMEG OTHER SPICE 1 WHAT TYPE OF CHERRIES HAVE THE NICKNAME MARASCHINO CHERRIES 'COCKTAIL CHERRIES'?

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ROUND 11 - THE PICTURE ROUND

HAND OUT SHEETS

MANUFACTURERS NAME IS NOT REQUIRED

THE ANSWERS ARE

1 GLOSTER METEOR 2 HP VICTOR 3 GLOSTER JAVELIN 4 EE CANBERRA 5 BLACKBURN BUCCANEER 6 DH SEA VIXEN (ACCEPT DH 110) 7 AVRO VULCAN 8 HAWKER HUNTER 9 JAGUAR (MADE BY ANGLO FRENCH CONSORTIUM) 10 PANAVIA TORNADO

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – WRITTEN ROUND 2

USUAL RULES APPLY. THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 6-14 CONTAIN A CONNECTION THAT IS ANSWER NO. 15.

1. OVINE REFERS TO WHICH ANIMAL SHEEP 2. IN WHICH CITY WAS MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMPHIS ASSASSINATED 3. IN THE GREAT ESCAPE IN WWII WHAT WERE THE TOM, DICK AND HARRY NAMES GIVEN TO THE THREE TUNNELS 4. WHICH BIRD HAS THE ALTERNATIVE NAME OF GREEN WOODPECKER YAFFLE 5. WHAT IS A CAVY GUINEA PIG 6. GLAMOROUS BLOND ACTRESS OF DANISH SCARLET JOHANSSON EXTRACTION BORN NY IN 1984. GOLDEN GLOBE 2003 FOR GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. 7. HAMMER WIELDING NORSE GOD THOR 8. CANADIAN FUR TRADING CO. FOUNDED IN 1670 HUDSON BAY CO. 9. ICONIC QUEEN TRACK FROM ‘NIGHT AT THE OPERA’ BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 10 FAGUS SYLVATICA, TREE KNOWN FOR THE COPPER BEECH . SPECTACULAR COLOUR OF ITS FOLIAGE 11 STREET RUNNING BETWEEN FLEET ST. AND THE STRAND . CHARING CROSS 12 2003 NOVEL BY MARK HADDON WHICH USES PRIME THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF . NUMBERS FOR ITS CHAPTERS THE DOG IN THE NIGHT. 13 WHAT TYPE OF SPORTSMAN USES A VELODROME CYCLIST .

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14 WHAT DOES AN APIARIST DO KEEP BEES. . 15 AND THE CONNECTION IS …… SHERLOCK HOLMES. . STUDY IN SCARLET, THOR BRIDGE, MRS HUDSON, SCANDAL IN BOMEMIA,CASE OF THE COPPER BEECHES, STRAND MAGAZINE, QUOTE FROM SILVER BLAZE, CASE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST, HOLMES RETIREMENT HOBBY.

SPARES

1. WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRY HAD THE LONGEST FRANCE (LOUIS XIV) SERVING MONARCH 2. WHAT IS AN OTTERS HOME CALLED HOLT 3. WHAT WAS THE FIRST POP TUNE PLAYED ON RADIO FLOWERS IN THE RAIN BY 1 THE MOVE

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