4, Maple Drive,
DPQL 9th November 2011
ROUND ONE – INDIVIDUAL – OLD CHESNUTS
1) Dorothy Perkins, Ena Harkness and Elizabeth of Glamis share what prickly connection ? They are Roses
2) The Battle of the Little Bighorn, what is the Little Bighorn ? A River
3) Which precious stone is associated with a 40th Wedding Anniversary ? Ruby
4) Brights disease affects which part of the human body ? The Kidneys
5) What was the official residency of the British Monarchy from 1698 to 1837 ? St James Court
6) What is a Bonspiel ? Curling Tournament
7) Who engineered / initiated the Suez Canal ? Ferdinand de Lessops
8) Dunkery Beacon is the highest point in which National Park ? Exmoor
9) What is the name of the monster in The Tempest ? Caliban
10) What in 1938 Europe was the Anschluss ? The Annexation of Austria
ROUND TWO – TEAM (Please allow teams to select by subject)
1.) FOOD ORIGINS
a) Manchego cheese comes from which country ? Spain
b) What is the name of the light batter usually associated Japan and the Far East ? Tempura
c) The word “Ketchup” originated from which country ? China
2.) FILMS
a) How did Cool Hand Luke get the nickname “Cool Hand”? From playing poker
b) Who played Eve in the film “All about Eve” ? Anne Baxter
c) Which actor played major roles in The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix Trilogies ? Hugo Weaving
3.) RADIOACTIVITY
a) Which is the largest of the three different types of radioactive particle ? Gamma
b) What is the SI unit of Radioactivity ? Becquerel
c) What is the structural difference between Carbon 12 and Carbon 14 ? Carbon 14 has 2 extra neutrons
4.) SPORT – YORKSHIRE CRICKETERS
a) Which Indian batsman became Yorkshire’s first overseas player ? Sachin Tendulcar
b) For which professional London football club did Brian Close sign for ? Arsenal
c) Vaughn, Hutton & Stanyforth all captained England but what oddity connects their Yorkshire careers ?
Although they captained England, they never captained Yorkshire
5.) THE (MAN)BOOKER PRIZE
a) Which book won this years (2011) Booker Prize ? The Sense of an Ending
b) Who became known as the Booker Bridesmaid ? Beryl Bainbridge c) Three people are dual winners of the Booker Prize, name two of them ? Farrell, Coetzee, Carey
6.) GAMES
a) In which game did Super Mario first appear ? Donkey Kong
b) In which game / pastime do you have “knobs and voids” ? Jigsaw Puzzles
c) In Poker which hand is known as the “Dead Man’s Hand” ? A Pair of Aces and a Pair of Eights
7.) HONG KONG
a) On which day of the year did Hong Kong fall to the Japanese in WW II ? Christmas Day
b) What does Hong Kong actually mean ? Fragrant Harbour
c) Hong Kong is located on the delta of which river ? River Pearl
8.) MYTHICAL CREATURES
a) Describe a Griffin ? Body of a Lion and Head and Wings of an Eagle
b) A Pookhah is an animal spirit from whose Mythology ? Celtic
c)“The body of a lion, a head of a goat and a tail with a snake’s head” describes which mythical creature ?
A Chimera
ROUND THREE – INDIVIDUAL – MORE OLD CHESNUTS
1) Where is the island of Surtsey? Off the coast of Iceland
2) Which is the longest of the five Horse Racing Classics ? St Leger
3) In which town does Fred Flintstone live ? Bedrock
4) The term of office for the French Presidency lasts for how many years ? Five years
5) Who was murdered whilst sailing away from Mullaghmore in 1979 ? Mountbatten
6) The Bible, which miracle appears in all four of the Gospels ? The Feeding of the Five Thousand
7) How many times a day should a Muslim pray ? Five
8) London Underground, what colour is the Northern Line ? Black
9) What character did John Wayne play in the film “Stagecoach” ? The Ringo Kid
10) Where did Diogenes sleep, allegedly ? In a barrel
ROUND FOUR – TEAM
1.) THE SURNAME’S THE SAME OR SOUNDS THE SAME
a) A fictional detective - a Merseyside goal legend ? Dalgleish
b) A present Tory Cabinet Minister - a past England cricket captain - a rock guitarist ? May
c) A Sporting Dame - a World War II American general ? MacArthur
2.) SAINTS
a) The flags of which three saints make up the Union Jack ? George, Andrew, Patrick
b) St Anthony is the patron saint of whom ? Gravediggers
c) What is the study of saints called ? Hagiology
3.) WHO SAID THE FOLLOWING
a) “I was Snow White but I drifted” ? Mae West
b) “God does not play dice with the universe” ? Albert Einstein
c) “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it” ? Winston Churchill
4.) FIRST MONARCHS
a) Who was the first Tudor monarch ? Henry VII
b) Name England’s first Protestant monarch ? Edward VI c) Which pre-Norman monarch was the first to declare himself King of all Britain, “Totalis Britannica” ?
King Athelstan
5.) ARTISTS
a) Who is famous for his paintings of Racehorses and Ballet Dancers ? Degas
b) About whom did Monet say “he was painting in the Impressionist style years before I started” ? Turner
c) Who created the famous Seagram paintings depicting rectangular blocks of colour ? Mark Rothko
6.) MYTHICAL HORSES – WHO RODE THEM
a) Shadowfax ? Gandalf
b) Llamrei & Hengroen & Passelande were all said be horses belonging to whom ? King Arthur
c) Which film character rode “The Pie” ? Velvet Brown
7.) PAST OLYMPICS
a) Which city was due to host the 1940 games until World War II intervened ? Tokyo
b) Name the venue and year in which women first competed in the Olympics ? Paris - 1900
c) She sprinted in the Olympics from 1980 to 2004 gaining two individual Silver and five individual Bronze medals but never won an individual Gold medal – who ? Merlene Ottey
8.) FISH
a) To which family does Whitebait belong ? Herring
b) Which fish is the slowest swimmer ? The Seahorse
c) The markings of which fish supposedly depict the thumb print of St. Peter ? John Dory
ROUND FIVE – INDIVIDUAL – EVEN MORE OLD CHESNUTS
1) In which sport might you “catch a crab” ? Rowing / Sculling
2) In which modern day country are the ruins of Carthage ? Tunisia
3) What does a Speleologist study ? Caves
4) Who said “Guns will make us more powerful, butter will only make us fat” ? Hermann Goering
5) Vivien Leigh was the second wife of whom ? Laurence Olivier
6) In which country did “The Great Trek” take place ? South Africa
7) What is the name of the Icelandic parliament ? The Althing
8) In which mountains did Rip van Winkle fall asleep? Catskill
9) The Bible – who interpreted the writing on the wall ? Daniel
10) Who was Harlequin’s sweetheart ? Columbine
ROUND SIX – TEAM (Please allow teams to select by subject)
1.SPORT – RUGBY UNION
a) Who holds the record number of international caps for England ? Jason Leonard
b) Who scored the most tries in 2011 Six Nations Tournament ? Chris Ashton
c) What is the nickname of London Irish ? The Exiles
2.) RECENT U.S. FINANCIAL MATTERS
a) Name the major US bank that failed and collapsed into bankruptcy ? Lehman Brothers
b) Name America’s two biggest mortgage lenders at the centre of the crisis ? Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
c) Who is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ? Ben Bernanke
3.) ALBUMS
a) “Nevermind” was a land mark album for which group ? Nirvana
b) Who had a big hit with the album “Rocky Mountain High” ? John Denver
c) Name the best known album by the rather eccentric Captain Beefheart ? Trout Mask Replica
4.) MEDICAL LADIES
a) Who was first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain ? Elizabeth Garret Anderson
b) Name the Black Jamaican nurse much admired for her work during the Crimean War ? Mary Seacole
c) Who was the very first woman in the world to qualify as a doctor ? Elizabeth Blackwell
5.) SPIRITS
a) What is the flavour of Kahlua ? Coffee
b) What does the word Schnapps actually mean ? Swallow
c) Name the oldest licensed distillery in the world and where is it ? Bushmills - Northern Ireland
6. HARRY POTTER – NAUGHTY WIZARDS
a) What is the name of the prison for wizards ? Azkaban
b) Who was the first person to escape from the wizard’s prison ? Sirius Black
c) Where is the wizard’s prison located ? The North Sea
7.) GEOGRAPHY & THE MOVIES
a) In which US state does the climax of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” occur ? Wyoming
b) “The Wizard of Oz”, in which state does Dorothy live ? Kansas
c) In which US state do “The Blues Brothers” cause mayhem ? Illinois
8.) POETRY
a) Who wrote the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” ? Dylan Thomas
b) Who wrote the Sonnets from the Portuguese ? Elizabeth Barret Browning
c) “Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk the drawing down of blinds” are the last two lines of which poem ? Anthem For Doomed Youth
ROUND SEVEN – INDIVIDUAL - ANOTHER NAME
HOW ARE THE FOLLOWING BETTER KNOWN
1) He was born Joseph Ratzinger but what does he call himself now ? Pope Benedict 16th
2) Who in Puerto Rico is known as Mr. World ? Bruce Forsythe
3) Who in royal circles is known as Foggy ? Mark Phillips
4) Who is called “The Father of the World Wide Web” ? Tim Berners Lee
5) Who was the “The Lone Eagle” ? Charles Lindberg
6) The hero Paul Metcalfe is best known as whom ? Captain Scarlet
7) To whom does the nickname “The Frome Flyer” belong to ? Jenson Button
8) Which past rugby player was called “Pitbull” ? Brian Moore
9) Who is Patrick Clifton ? Postman Pat
10) What is the Christian name of the second Mrs de Winter ? Rebecca
ROUND EIGHT – TEAM
1.) MUSIC MEN
a) Thom York is the lead singer with which band ? Radiohead
b) With which band is Peter Green most associated with ? Fleetwood Mac
c) With which band did Vangelis first come to prominence ? Aphrodite’s Child
2.) FLAGS - Name the country from the following description of their flags…….
a) Two Spears and a Shield ? accept either Kenya or Swaziland
b) A White Dragon holding a jewel in each claw ? Bhutan
c) A Blue and Red Yin and Yang symbol surrounded by four Trigrams ? South Korea
3.) DISASTERS
a) Name the ferry involved in the Zeebrugge disaster ? The Herald of Free Enter prise
b) Which disaster is associated with “The Maid of the Seas” ? Lockerbie
c) Name the Russian nuclear submarine that sank in the Barrents Sea in 2000 ? The Kursk
4.) GEOGRAPHY - Countries
a) Which is the largest country to border with only one other country ? Canada
b) Which is the largest country in Africa since the division of Sudan? Algeria
c) Name the only two doubly landlocked countries (countries that are surrounded by landlocked countries) ?
Leichtenstein and Uzbekistan
5.) THE MAIN MAN
a) Name the head honcho of Apple who died recently ? Steve Jobs
b) Who founded Wikileaks ? Julian Assange
c) Who, with his wife founded E-Bay ? Pierre Omidyar
6.) NATURE
a) The highly poisonous Brown snake is mainly native to which continent ? Australia
b) What is the largest member of the weasel family indigenous to Britain? The Badger
c) What is the world’s smallest mammal ? The Bumble-Bee Bat
7.) ARCHITECTURAL NICKNAMES
a) What was the nickname of The Olympic stadium in Beijing ? The Birds Nest
b) What nickname has been given to the new Olympic Velodrome in London ? The Pringle
c) In Dublin the “Floozie in the Jacuzzi” is a statue of whom ? Anna Livia
8.) WHO WAS PRIME MINISTER WHEN …….
a) Edward VIII abdicated ? Stanley Baldwin
b) The Peterloo Riot occurred ? Lord Liverpool or Robert Banks Jenkins
c) Old Age Pensions were introduced ? Herbert Asquith
BEER ROUND TEAM QUESTIONS
NAME THE YEAR
a) El Alamein took place ? 1942
b) Prohibition in America ends ? 1933
c) The launch of The Mini Car ? 1959
a) Pearl Harbour attacked by the Japanese ? 1941
b) Prohibition begins in America ? 1920
c) The opening of Britain’s first road built to Motorway standards ? 1958
COMPILED BY D.FOWLER
NOTES: just in case……………..
Round 3, Q 4 - The French Presidency use to be 7 years, it is now 5 years.
Round 4, Q 4, - Although Henry VIII fell out with the catholic church he never became a protestant.
Round 4, Q 7 - Olympics, Women played Tennis and Croquet
Round 7, Q 2 - He married Miss World and she was Miss Puerto Rico
Round 8, Q 4 - The Sudan split July 2011
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