Questions for Wednesday, 23/1/19

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Individual Round 1 Click here to enter text.

1. In what 80s film do a commodities broker and a homeless street hustler see their lives TRADING PLACES switched around as the result of a bet? 2. Slivovitz (spelt several ways) is a type of brandy made with what fruit? PLUMS (or Damsons)

3. What do the first two letters of PDSA represent? PEOPLE’S DISPENSARY

4. Ammonia is a compound of which two elements? NITROGEN / HYDROGEN

5. In what year was the NHS founded in the UK? 1948

6. What sweet filling derives its name from the Italian for ‘to break the bread’? FRANGIPANE / FRANGIPANI

7. Benny the Ball, Fancy-Fancy, Spook and Brain are members of whose gang? TOP CAT

8. Often seen as a literary device, the act of attributing human qualities to an animal or object is PERSONIFICATION (acc. known as what? Anthropocentrism/Anthropomorphism or Pathetic Fallacy) 9. What three initials connect diseases such as syphilis with making a telephone call? S.T.D.

10. If “Monday’s child is fair of face”, what do we know about Thursday’s child? He/she HAS FAR TO GO

Team Round 2 1. FILMS – THREE DECADES. Click here to enter rubric. a) 1980. In Robert Altman’s ‘Popeye’, who played Olive Oyl? SHELLEY DUVAL

b) 1990. In ‘Home Alone’, what was the surname of Macaulay Culkin’s character? McCALLISTER

c) 2000. Who played the title role in ‘Billy Elliot’? JAMIE BELL

2. SO THAT WAS CHRISTMAS. Click here to enter rubric. a) What song did Elton John sing in the John Lewis Xmas advert? YOUR SONG

b) There was great debate on social media about whether or not which 1988 film actually counts DIE HARD as a Christmas film? c) Why was Anak Krakatoa in the news in the week leading up to Xmas? VOLCANO that caused INDONESIAN TSUNAMI 3. FOOD. Click here to enter rubric. a) Cornish pasties, Parma ham, and champagne are all protected by GIs. If the G stands for INDICATIONS ‘Geographical’, what does the ‘I’ represent? b) In Japanese cuisine, what are edamame? Soy BEANS

c) In French it is a ‘menu dégustation’. What would we call this menu in English? A TASTING menu

4. 20th-CENTURY HISTORY. Click here to enter rubric. a) In which month of 1945 was Adolf Hitler said to have committed suicide? APRIL

b) In which decade was Buckingham Palace first opened to the general public? 1990s (1993)

c) Name either of the years in which Andrew Bonar Law was British Prime Minister. 1922 or 1923 Team Round 2 (Continued) 5. THE PROMENADE CONCERTS. Click here to enter rubric. a) The Proms were founded in which decade of the 19th century? 1890s (1895)

b) The Last Night of the Proms traditionally takes place in which month? SEPTEMBER

c) Who was the chief conductor from 1947 to 1966? Sir MALCOLM SARGENT

6. POTTERS. Click here to enter rubric. a) Who wrote ‘The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship’ (1947), and several sequels? STEPHEN POTTER

b) The Championship team known as ‘The Potters’ played at what stadium until 1997? VICTORIA GROUND

c) Television. At the start of this century, Brian Potter was the owner of what fictional The PHOENIX CLUB establishment? 7. SPORTING MIX. Click here to enter rubric. a) How many of the positions in netball do not include the word ‘goal’ in their name? THREE

b) With what sport do you associate Joe Erskine (1934 - 1990)? BOXING

c) What is the penultimate event in both the women’s heptathlon and the men’s decathlon? JAVELIN

8. GEOGRAPHY – ENGLISH COUNTIES. One question, three answers. a) Of the 48 English ceremonial counties ranked by population, is 43rd (459,000 +) and City NORTHUMBERLAND, of last (9,400). Name three of the four that come in between. HEREFORDSHIRE, RUTLAND, b) Click here to type your question. andWIGHT ISLE OF WIGHT

Individual Round 3 Answers include place names – five from North America, and five from Europe. (N.B. These names may be in adjectival forms, eg ‘Welsh’ instead of ‘Wales’.) Two-word answers unless stated otherwise.

1. ‘Who will survive, and what will be left of them?’ is the tagline for what 1970s horror film? THE TEXAS CHAINSAW (Four words according to Halliwell’s, five according to others.) MASSACRE 2. ‘No.2 in C-sharp minor’, by Franz Liszt, is the most famous in a set of 19 compositions known HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES as what? 3. In the USA, ‘blowing a raspberry’ is called ‘making a …’ what? BRONX CHEER

4. What famous horse race takes place in Louisville on the first Saturday in May? KENTUCKY DERBY

5. What game is played – unwillingly – by the three lead characters in ‘The Deer Hunter’? RUSSIAN ROULETTE

6. What nickname for Muhammad Ali comes from the city where he was born? LOUISVILLE LIP

7. Found in the Atlantic, Physalia physalis can deliver a painful sting. How is it more commonly PORTUGUESE MAN O’WAR/OF known? (Three/four words.) WAR 8. “… she told me to sit anywhere. So I looked around and I noticed there wasn’t a chair.” Lyrics NORWEGIAN WOOD from which Beatles song? 9. The contraceptive device known as the diaphragm is also known as what? DUTCH CAP

10. First identified in US greyhounds in the 80s, how is the often fatal condition CRGV (cutaneous ALABAMA ROT and renal glomerular vasculopathy) more commonly known? Team Round 4 1. THEY PASSED ON IN 2018. a) Having hosted ‘In It to Win It’ from 2002 to 2016, who died on April 18th? DALE WINTON

b) What electronics store went into administration at the end of February? MAPLIN

c) Born in 1930, who was the famous art historian who died on Boxing Day? WENDY BECKETT (acc. Sister Wendy)

2. HASTINGS. Click here to enter rubric. a) What is the name of the hill where the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066? SENLAC HILL

b) Born in 1996, what is the first name of the Hastings who plays rugby for Glasgow Warriors and ADAM Scotland? c) With which fictional character do you associate Arthur Hastings, a military man in WWI? HERCULE POIROT

3. LITERATURE MIX. Click here to enter rubric. a) What 1877 novel would have been entitled ‘Darkie’, had the central character not had a name BLACK BEAUTY changed? b) In Kipling’s poem ‘If’, what are referred to as “those two impostors”? TRIUMPH and DISASTER

c) Who wrote the 1994 novel ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’? LOUIS DE BERNIERES

4. MORECAMBE AND WISE TV SHOWS. Click here to enter rubric. a) When Ern or a guest coughed or sneezed, Eric would often shout the name of which soccer ARSENAL team? b) In November, it was reported that two old recordings of their shows, thought to be lost, had SIERRA LEONE been found in a derelict cinema in which African country? c) What are the next three words in the lyrics of ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ – “Make me happy through ME ANY TEARS the years, never bring …”? Team Round 4 (Continued) 5. POP MUSIC - NOT THE WINDOWS SET. Click here to enter rubric. a) Who topped the charts with ‘Band of Gold’ in 1970? FREDA PAYNE

b) Who topped the charts with ‘Ride on Time’ in 1989? BLACK BOX

c) In 1997/8, this German DJ/production team had four no.2 hits, a no.3, and a no.8. The first of SASH! (acc. without exclamation mark!) these was ‘Encore Un Fois’. Name them. 6. I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME. Repetition of words or phrases, eg BOUTROS BOUTROS-Ghalli. a) Needing a hyphen, like Fancy-Fancy, who was the fifth member of Top Cat’s gang? CHOO-CHOO

b) In which city in New South Wales does Dame Edna Everage claim to have been born? WAGGA WAGGA

c) “A decorative ball or tuft of fibrous material.” A definition of what word? POMPOM / POM-POM

7. TODAY’S THE DAY. Click here to enter rubric. a) In 1997, who became the first female US Secretary of State? MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

b) In 1957, Walter Morrison and his wife sold the rights of a toy he had invented to the Wham-O FRISBEE toy company. How is this toy known today? c) Dying in 1996, who was the Liverpool FC manager who was born on this day in 1919? BOB PAISLEY

8. BLACKPOOL. Click here to enter rubric. a) Stephen Blackpool is a main character in which Dickens work, his shortest completed novel? HARD TIMES

b) What capital city’s name means ‘Black pool’ in its own language? DUBLIN

c) The Lancashire resort of Blackpool lies between the estuaries of the Wyre and what other river? RIBBLE (Second Half) Individual Round 5 …which introduces the topics for round 6, and two of the beer round sets.

1. The corpse of which self-proclaimed holy man was dropped into the Nevka river in December, Grigori RASPUTIN 1916? 2. What was the first name of Schindler, he of ‘Schindler’s Ark’ and ‘Schindler’s List’ fame? OSKAR

3. How is the drink we know as ‘pop’ generally known in most parts of North America? SODA

4. In rugby, a penalty kick is one of the three permitted kicks at goal. What are the other two? CONVERSION, DROP KICK

5. What alliterative two-word phrase describes TV programmes you know you shouldn’t watch, CAR CRASH and you know you’ll regret watching afterwards, but you just can’t help yourself? 6. The Latin phrase ‘ex cathedra’ means ‘from the …’ … what? CHAIR

7. In what sort of well does water rise under hydrostatic pressure? (In true examples, pumping is ARTESIAN not necessary.) 8. Who co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1988 film ‘Twins’? DANNY DEVITO

9. Along with his group, who was the pioneer of the ‘scrumpy and western’ musical genre?

10. The village of Ytterby, which has had four chemical elements named after it, is in which SWEDEN country?

Team Round 6 1. CORPSES. Click here to enter rubric. a) In ‘Brookside’, whose corpse was found buried under the patio of his former home? TREVOR JORDACHE

b) “I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.” To whose corpse is Hamlet referring? POLONIUS

c) Whose corpse was found in a medicinal bath in Paris in July, 1793? Jean-Paul MARAT

2. TWINS. Click here to enter rubric. a) An English actor was born on 2/2/1940, but his twin brother died during childbirth. However, it DAVID JASON is an urban myth that he chose his screen surname as a tribute to him. Who is the actor? b) How are/were twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia more commonly known? The CHEEKY GIRLS

c) Name either of the twin children of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. HAMNET or JUDITH

3. POP MIX! Click here to enter rubric. a) Pop, the younger brother of Snap and Crackle, wears what colour tunic? RED

b) A chap in an old TV advert tiptoes downstairs, claiming to be “a secret lemonade drinker”. R. WHITE’S Name the pop. c) In 1961, who had a No.12 hit with ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’? ANTHONY NEWLEY

4. LATIN PHRASES. Click here to enter rubric. a) With what 1979 film do you associate the ungrammatical ‘Romanes eunt domus’? Monty Python’s LIFE OF BRIAN

b) What three-word Latin phrase means “a thing that is absolutely necessary; something SINE QUA NON essential”? c) ‘Bounteous mother’ is the literal translation of what Latin phrase? ALMA MATER Team Round 6 (Continued) 5. CHEMICAL ELEMENTS – NAME ORIGINS. Which element gets its name from … a) … the Greek for ‘new twin’, because didymium separated into this and praseodymium? NEODYMIUM

b) … the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Luna? SELENIUM

c) … the theoretical physicist who was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879? EINSTEINIUM

6. FIRST NAMES. What was the first name of … a) … Barnier, the EU’s Chief Negotiator for Brexit? MICHEL

b) … Khashoggi, the journalist, dissident and author who was murdered by the Saudis in October? JAMAL

c) … Higgins, who became President of Ireland in November, 2011? MICHAEL

7. WELL, WELL, WELL. Click here to enter rubric. a) In the nursery rhyme ‘Ding Dong Bell’, who gets the unfortunate feline out of the well? Little TOMMY STOUT

b) Name the group who got to No.2 in the charts with ‘Oh, Well’ in 1969. FLEETWOOD MAC

c) In what traditional poem do three dead sons return to their grieving mother in ghostly form, but The WIFE OF USHER’S WELL have to be gone by daylight? 8. CAR CRASHES. Click here to enter rubric. a) In what year did Diana, Princess of Wales, die in a car crash? 1997

b) He was the host of ‘The Price is Right’ from 1984-88. In 1992 he nearly died when he wrote off LESLIE CROWTHER his Rolls Royce on the M5, no other vehicles being involved. Who was he? c) In 1994, who was the Austrian F1 driver who died at the same Grand Prix as Ayrton Senna, but a ROLAND RATZENBERGER day earlier? Individual Round 7 Click here to enter text.

1. What French word might describe a person’s nose that is small and turned up at the end? RETROUSSÉ

2. What is the principal flavour of the Italian liqueur Amaretto? ALMONDS

3. Of the four capitals through which the Danube flows, three begin with the same letter. What is VIENNA the ‘odd one out’, ie the fourth capital? 4. What is the largest living rodent in the world? CAPYBARA

5. Mythology. Who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity? PROMETHEUS

6. What does ‘sternutation’ mean? The act of SNEEZING

7. The first four prime numbers add up to what? 17

8. In the phrase ‘blues and twos’, what are (or were) the ‘twos’? TWO-TONE SIREN or HORN

9. Who became Secretary of State for the Environment in June 2017? MICHAEL GOVE

10. Lymm and Winsford are towns in which English county? CHESHIRE

Team Round 8 1. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Click here to enter rubric. a) What is the SI unit of electric charge? COULOMB

b) Produced by the liver of most vertebrates, what liquid aids the digestion of lipids in the small BILE (acc. GALL) intestine? c) Who invented the vacuum flask in 1892? JAMES DEWAR

2. FORMULA 1 MOTOR RACING. One question, three answers. a) In the 2018 Grand Prix season, Mercedes won the team event, with Ferrari second and Red Bull FORCE INDIA, SAUBER, TORO third. Name three of the teams who finished in the bottom four. ROSSO, and WILLIAMS b) Click here to type your question. Click here to type your answer.

c) Click here to type your question. Click here to type your answer.

3. MUSIC MIX. Click here to enter rubric. a) Old time songs. What bird is mentioned in the lyrics of ‘Don’t Dilly Dally (My Old Man)’? LINNET

b) Classical. Who composed the three-act opera ‘Rigoletto’, which premiered in 1851? Giuseppe VERDI

c) Folk. Who had dogs named Ranter, Ringwood, and Bellman, among others? JOHN PEEL

4. ILLNESS AND DISEASE. Click here to enter rubric. a) With what farm animals do you associate the disease ‘strangles’? HORSES (acc. ponies and donkeys)

b) ‘Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis’, sometimes called ‘Lou Gehrig’s Disease’, is more commonly MOTOR NEURONE Disease known as what disease? (Two words.) c) Often seen around the mouth/lips, cold sores are caused by what virus? (Two words.) HERPES SIMPLEX Team Round 8 (Continued) 5. NOT THE HAY SET. Click here to enter rubric. a) The film ‘Casablanca’ (1942) is based on a play entitled ‘Everybody Comes to ****’s’. Fill in the RICK missing name. b) Made a Dame seven months after her death in 1979, who was born above a Rochdale fish and GRACIE FIELDS chip shop in 1898? c) Naproxen, Ibuprofen, and Tylenol can all be used to reduce what? FEVER

6. MODERN TELEVISION. All programmes could be viewed in December. a) “You’ve got five out, including the one that threw itself on the floor.” In what programme might TIPPING POINT you hear these words? b) John Malkovich played which famous character in the BBC One mini-series ‘The ABC Murders’? Hercule POIROT

c) Who is the 60-year-old who lost a lot of weight for his part as a slave in ‘The Long Song’? LENNY HENRY

7. AT THE TOP AT XMAS. Click here to enter rubric. a) Who were leading the EFL Championship on Christmas Day? LEEDS United

b) Who was the winner of the most recent series of ‘I’m a Celebrity etc’, that finished just before HARRY REDKNAPP Christmas? c) In rugby union, who were leading the English Premiership table on Christmas Day? EXETER Chiefs

8. FILMS – FAMOUS LINES. Name the film. The year is given as an extra clue. a) “You’ve got me … who’s got you?!” 1978. SUPERMAN

b) “I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must change FINDING NEMO myself first. Fish are friends, not food.” 2003 c) “There is nothing to worry about. You are going to be just fine. I am your number one fan.” MISERY 1990. Beer Round Tonight’s topics are: ; both rugby codes – missed ‘sitters’; proverbs. 1. Click here to enter title. Click here to enter rubric. a) They topped the charts in 1976 with a re-working of which Melanie Top 10 hit?

b) Union. Which Welsh player missed a penalty in front of the posts when Wales beat Australia LEIGH HALFPENNY last November? c) According to the proverb, who “calls the tune”? HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER

2. Click here to enter title. Click here to enter rubric. a) According to the singer, “from Chesterfield to Cheddar” his dad was a champion what? DUNG SPREADER

b) League. Whose missed conversion from in front of the posts in 1968 resulted in Wakefield DON FOX losing the Challenge Cup final? c) Who or what is said to be Invention’s maternal parent? NECESSITY

Spare Questions

1. Which chemical element derives its name from the Roman word for Paris? LUTETIUM

2. Who was the giant of the US comic book world who died on 12th November last year? STAN LEE

3. Who was George V’s queen? MARY OF TECK