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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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