SUNDERLAND
ECHO QUIZ LEAGUE - WEEK 2
26.10.2016
QUESTIONS A
ROUND
1
1
What
is the most northerly city to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games?
HELSINKI
2
What is the name of the London-based group which owns
retailers Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Topman and Topshop?
ARCADIA Group Ltd
3 Of
England’s 164 state-run grammar schools, the nearest to Sunderland is 65 miles or
so to the south - in which town?
RIPON
4
Which character’s death was the first to be depicted in
a Disney feature?
SNOW
WHITE’S STEPMOTHER / THE WICKED QUEEN (1937)
ROUND
2
5
How many carpels or seed chambers does each apple have?
5
6
Which part of a hospital is being referred to in code if staff are
discussing ‘Rose Cottage’?
The MORGUE / MORTUARY (to allow discussion
in front of patients - ‘Rainbow’s End’ and Ward 13
also used)
7
You can stay at the Resolution Hotel off Flowergate...in which northeast
town? WHITBY
8
Who took five or more test
wickets
in a single innings on 27 occasions, an England record? Ian BOTHAM
ROUND
3
9
Which Puccini opera is based, in part, on an 1887 semi-autobiographical
novel by Pierre Loti?
MADAME BUTTERFLY
10 The most recent holders of what post have
been the MPs for West Bromwich West, Glasgow North East and
Buckingham? SPEAKER (of the
House of Commons)
11
The 1975 novel ‘Last Bus to Woodstock’ introduced
readers to which detective? Inspector
Endeavour MORSE
12
Bodrum, in Turkey, was built on
the site of which ancient city,
a part of the Persian Empire until conquered by
Alexander
the Great in 334BC?
HALICARNASSUS
ROUND
4
13
Which drink features in the title of the fifth Adrian Mole diary,
released in 1999? (The) CAPPUCCINO
(Years)
14
Bordering Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, the flat-topped
Mount
Roraima inspired Conan Doyle to pen which novel?
The LOST WORLD
15
The heavy-metal band
Sepultura, which had top twenty albums
in the 1990s with Chaos AD and Roots, hails from
which country?
BRAZIL
16
The 1980s Grange Hill character
Samuel McGuire was better known by what nickname? ZAMMO
ROUND
5
17
What environmental hazard was Princess Diana’s nickname for her
stepmother? ACID RAIN(E)
(Spencer)
18
In which range of mountains in the American
Cordillera is Denali / Mount McKinley, the USA’s loftiest
peak?
The ALASKA Range
19
Similar to the Black Death
and estimated to have killed up to 50m people
- a quarter of the World’s population - in
the
Byzantine and Sassanid Empires and
around the Mediterranean, which 6th century
Byzantine Emperor gave his
name to the pandemic?
(Plague of) JUSTINIAN
20
Which motorway passes closest to Norfolk? M11
(20 miles)
ROUND 6
21
Which Roman Emperor dissolved the Praetorian
Guard in 312AD? CONSTANTINE the
Great
22
Before becoming an athletics commentator for the BBC, Stuart Storey had
represented Great Britain in which track
event at
the Olympics?
110m HURDLES
23 Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish
and which other Briton won stages in both 2015 and 2016 Tours de France?
Steve
CUMMINGS
24
Playing against Oldham in November 1992, which then
Norwich player became the first Englishman to score a
Premier League hat-trick?
Mark ROBINS
QUESTIONS B
ROUND 1
1
Which motorway passes closest to Cornwall? M5 (32 miles)
2
The first outbreak of the Black Death in
England
occurred in 1348, during
which King’s reign? EDWARD III
3 Located in
California, what’s the name of the highest mountain in the 48 contiguous US states? Mount WHITNEY
4
What dog breed was Princess Diana’s nickname for Camilla Parker Bowles? The ROTTWEILER
ROUND
2
5
The 1980s Grange Hill character Luke Gardiner was better known by what
nickname?
GONCH
6 Lars Ulrich, the drummer and songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica, comes from which
country? DENMARK
7
The south of San Francisco; the west of the
San Joaquin Valley; and the Salinas Valley
were the California settings for
novels by which Nobel prize-winner? John STEINBECK
8 The title of the fourth Adrian Mole diary,
released in 1993, shares what name with a period in Winston Churchill’s
political career? (The) WILDERNESS YEARS
ROUND
3
9
Which city, considered to be Europe’s oldest,
was
the centre of the Minoan Civilization? KNOSSOS
10
In 1933, The Case of the Velvet
Claws introduced readers to which
fictional attorney? Perry MASON
11 The most recent holders of what post have
been the MPs for Edinburgh South West, Tatton, and Runnymede and
Weybridge? CHANCELLOR
OF THE EXCHEQUER
12
Which opera by Delibes is based, in part, on an 1880 autobiographical
novel by Pierre Loti?
LAKMÉ
ROUND
4
13 Which
England bowler took nine South African wickets in an innings at The Oval
in 1994? Devon MALCOLM
14
You can dine out at the Treehouse Restaurant on Denwick Lane…in which
northeast town? ALNWICK
15
An announcement in a theatre which references Inspector Sands is code to
inform staff of what?
FIRE
(to avoid panic)
16
Which fruit is said to have 613 seeds, corresponding with the number of mitzvos
or commandments in the Torah?
POMEGRANATE
ROUND
5
17
Name the first of the six characters to die in
William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. MERCUTIO
18
The most northerly of England’s 164 state-run grammar schools is 75
miles or so west of Sunderland - in which
town?
PENRITH
(Queen Elizabeth)
19
What is the name of the Paddington-based
company whose brands include B&Q and Screwfix? KINGFISHER plc
20
The Summer Olympics held at the highest altitude took
place in which city? MEXICO City
ROUND
6
21 Playing against Blackburn
in December 1992, which then Middlesbrough player became the first Scotsman
to score a
Premier League hat-trick?
John HENDRIE
22 Name the
Slovak cyclist who has won the Green Jersey in the Tour de France
for the last five years? Peter SAGAN
23 Before becoming an athletics commentator
for the BBC, Paul Dickensen represented Great
Britain in which field
event at
the Olympics? HAMMER throw
24 Name the prefect of the Praetorian Guard who was left in charge of Rome when Tiberius retired to
Capri - he later led
purges against his political opponents until executed in 31AD for treason? Lucius Aelius SEJANUS
STAND
BY (GK): Used throughout medieval Europe from the late 12th
century, the arbalest was a bigger and more
powerful version of
which weapon? CROSSBOW
(SPORT): Name
the only Englishmen in a list of the top 10 Premier League goalscorers under
Arsène Wenger.
Theo WALCOTT
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