th Questions for Wednesday, 17 October 2018. Set by: Arachnid When you are ready to start reading the questions, proceed to the next page Press Page Up or Page Down to move between rounds (or half-rounds for team questions) Question Reader: All parts of the answer shown in Bold Face are required. Parts shown in ordinary type are not essential, but if given incorrectly will mean that the answer is wrong; for example, if the answer shown is “Tom Watson”, “Watson” would be a correct answer, but “John Watson” would be incorrect. Parts shown in italics are purely explanatory and are not required. If the answer offered is incomplete (for example, “Roosevelt” for “Theodore Roosevelt”, you may, at your discretion, ask the person answering to expand the answer. In the event of any problem, three spare questions can be found on the final sheet. Individual Round 1 Dogs. 1. Which breed of dog takes its name from a country that ceased to exist in 1979? Rhodesian Ridgeback 2. Peugeot's equivalent of the Ford Transit van is called what? Boxer 3. Which breed of dog, native to the Adriatic region, is famed for its “maculate” appearance? Dalmatian 4. Which popular afternoon TV police drama took its title from a nickname for the Australian Blue Heelers cattle dog? 5. Malham, Saltaire and Kirkstall Abbey are attractions in which Yorkshire valley? Airedale 6. In 2009, what was replaced by Gas Safety Registration in the UK? CORGI registration 7. In 1989, who became the second English cricketer of the twentieth century to score a century Jack Russell in his first Test appearance? 8. Complete this line from John Donne’s poem To His Mistress Going to Bed: “O my America, my New Found Land ...”? 9. Elizabeth Barrett Browning once paid a ransom of six guineas when her dog Flush was 126 kidnapped. How much was that in shillings? 10. David Bowie never completed his rock opera version of Nineteen Eighty-Four but songs from it Diamond Dogs can be found on which 1974 album with a controversial cover painted by Guy Peellaert? Team Round 2 1. First and Last a) Who became the first woman Prime Minister of France during the presidency of François Edith Cresson Mitterrand? b) Sir Peter Inge was the last head of the army to hold which rank? Field Marshall c) When Dixie Dean’s 13-year career at Everton ended in injury he played just one more season at Notts County which East Midlands club? 2. Three Men Named Ewan “-ish” a) Ewen Montague organised Operation Mincemeat during World War 2. His book about it was The Man Who Never Was called what? b) Who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in three Star Wars films between 1999 and 2005? Ewan McGregor c) Who wrote the songs The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Dirty Old Town? Ewan McColl 3. Foreign Phrases From the former Axis Powers a) British Leyland’s Triumph Acclaim was an unfortunately named model of car, as it was a Sieg Heil translation of which German phrase? b) Which slogan meaning “Ten thousand years” was shouted by Kamikaze pilots as they attacked? Banzai! c) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s parties were known by which repetitive phrase? Bunga Bunga 4. V For Victor and other names a) Which Dutch painter moved to the French town of Arles in 1888? Vincent Van Gogh b) At which fort on Hadrian’s Wall was a wooden toilet seat discovered in 2014, an item almost Vindolanda unknown at any other Roman archaeological site? c) Women from India and which other nation have won Miss World six times (as of 2017), making Venezuela their nations joint top? Team Round 2 (Continued) 5. City Parks a) The Luxembourg Garden is in which European city? Paris b) Griffith Park, home of the Griffith Observatory, is in which American city? Los Angeles c) The Englischer Garten or English Garden is in which European city? Munich 6. Bunnies on the Air a) Which Bunny appears regularly on Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time? Bunny Guinness b) Sam Kelly played Bunny in TV’s Porridge. What was his surname? Warren c) Who played Bunny Manders, sidekick to Raffles, on ITV? Christopher Strauli 7. Deadly Blue a) The ‘Blue Screen of Death’ is seen where? PC (using Windows) b) To indicate the approaching menace of time running out, on which long-running quiz show was Mastermind the ‘Blue Line of Death’ recently added to the scorebox? c) Which paint colour became a nickname for cyanide? Prussian Blue 8. Close to Home a) In which of D H Lawrence’s novels does Tom Brangwen take his step-daughter to market in The Rainbow Derby and then for a drink at the George Inn in Iron Gate? b) Which architect began his career working on the restoration of Youlgreave and Longstone Norman Shaw parish churches in Derbyshire? Two Parliamentary buildings now bear his name. c) "With eleven pints of beer and seven small gins inside him, Arthur fell from the top of the stairs Saturday Night and Sunday to the bottom” are the opening words of which novel? Morning Individual Round 3 Who are these people who share their surnames with places? For instance, Clint Eastwood 1. A British Field Marshall and the state capital of Alabama? Bernard Montgomery 2. Did she seek a home in the land of the Prince Bishops? Judith Durham 3. A Derbyshire doctor who thought of evolution before his grandson and the capital of an Erasmus Darwin Australian territory? 4. Did this Nottinghamshire swimmer explore the largest marina on the Leeds and Liverpool Rebecca Adlington canal? 5. Did he tinker in the West Midlands or a suburb of London? Dudley Sutton 6. A singer who cried a river and a capital in the British Isles? Julie London 7. Did things turn out nice again for this entertainer from Lancashire? George Formby 8. Did he act from here to eternity or just to a north western city? Burt Lancaster 9. Did he paint The Blue Boy on the banks of the Trent? Thomas Gainsborough 10. Did this singer discover what a difference a day makes in a North American capital? Dinah Washington Team Round 4 1. The first name’s the same The first letter is S a) What was the maiden name of the Countess of Wessex? Sophie Rhys-Jones b) Meryl Streep starred in which 1982 film about a Polish immigrant in New York just after the Sophie’s Choice Second World War? c) With a sister who may be head and shoulders above her on TV, what is Lady Frederick Sophie Winkleman Windsor’s stage name? 2. The first name’s the same The first letter is M a) Which actress was 10 when her father was commander of HMS Coventry during the Falklands Miranda Hart War? b) Who played Ruth Ellis in the film Dance With A Stranger? Miranda Richardson c) In 2018, who published a joint biography of Lord Byron’s wife and daughter while living in Miranda Seymour Thrumpton Hall, where both women once resided? 3. The first name’s the same The first letter is A a) Who will cease to be Director of Public Prosecutions at the end of 2018? Alison Saunders b) According to folk song, who was the ugliest witch in the north country? Alison Gross c) Who was Vince Clarke’s partner in the synth-pop duo Yazoo? Alison Moyet 4. The first name’s the same The first letter is L a) Who played Leela, warrior companion to Dr Who, in the late 1970s? Louise Jameson b) Which sculptor featured enormous spiders in her work on display at the Tate Modern? Louise Bourgeois c) Who won the Oscar for best actress for her part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? Louise Fletcher Team Round 4 (Continued) 5. The first name’s the same The first letter is B a) Who became the BBC Middle East correspondent in 2000? Barbara Plett (-Usher) b) Who played Janet MacPherson, television housekeeper to Doctors Cruikshank and Findlay, Barbara Mullen between 1962 and 1971? c) During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, proponents of physical force popularised the song “Bomb Barbara Ann Iran”. It was a parody of which Beach Boys hit record? 6. The first name’s the same The first letter is K a) Which television presenter served as President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Kate Humble from 2009 until 2013? b) Which former BBC reporter now presents Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent? Kate Adie c) Who played Sabrina Duncan in the television series Charlie’s Angels? Kate Jackson 7. The first name’s the same The first letter is G a) Who played the Duchess of Duke Street on BBC television? Gemma Jones b) In which 2014 film about English expatriates living in France did the leading actress share her Gemma Bovary first name with the title character? c) “Basically: My Real Life as an Essex Girl” was the autobiography of which TOWIE star? Gemma Collins 8. The first name’s the same The first letter is H a) Who wrote and recorded “I Am Woman” in 1972, which became an anthem of the Women’s Helen Reddy Liberation Movement? b) Who played Mrs Miggins, the pie shop owner in Blackadder? Helen Atkinson-Wood c) In 1991 who became Britain’s first astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station? Helen Sharman (Second Half) Individual Round 5 Phlegmatic – spelled by the initials of the answers 1.