QUESTIONS B
ROUND 1
B1. Designed
by Nicola Salvi, which fountain in Rome is fed from the waters of the Virgo
aqueduct?
TREVI
fountain
B2. Which
American brand of cigarettes was named after the street where its British
factory was located?
MARLBORO
(after Great Marlborough
Street)
B3. Dustin
Lance Black who won the best screenplay Oscar for the 2008 film “Milk” is
engaged to which British Olympic bronze medallist?
Tom
DALEY
B4. Which
Zone 1 London underground station has the same name as a station on the Paris
Metro?
TEMPLE
ROUND 2
B5. The
Bridge of the Americas spans which waterway?
PANAMA CANAL
B6. Which
British celebrity, who died in August 2015, was Google’s top trending UK search
term in 2015?
Cilla BLACK
B7. In
2001 British Airways dropped its slogan ‘The world’s favourite airline’ after
which of its rivals overtook its passenger numbers?
LUFTHANSA
B8. Philip
Larkin - poet, grump and traditionalist – held a particular dislike for three
modernists whom he referred to as the three Ps. Name the poet.
Ezra POUND
ROUND
3
B9. Founded in 1837, Wellington Public School is in which county?
SOMERSET
B10. The “Lyrical Ballads” published in 1798 were a collaboration between William Wordsworth and which other poet?
Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE
B11. The legend of El Dorado may have been based on the Muisca tradition of leaving spiritual offerings of gold ornaments in lakes and caves. In which country were the Muisca based?
COLOMBIA
B12. According to Shakespeare,
which wood moved to defeat Macbeth?
BIRNAM wood
ROUND 4
B13. The ‘Cutty Sark’ made a fortune for the owner Jock Willis between 1883 and 1895 carrying what cargo?
WOOL (from Australia)
B14. Which Heritage Railway runs from Sheffield Park, Essex to East
Grinstead?
The BLUEBELL
Line
B15. New Caledonia is an island group in the Pacific Ocean,
administered by which country?
FRANCE
B16. Ken Catchpole represented Australia internationally on 27 occasions at which sport?
RUGBY UNION
ROUND 5
B17. What is the combined
value of the green properties on a standard UK Monopoly board?
£920
B18. The festival of Mardi
Gras in France is what day in England?
SHROVE (or PANCAKE) TUESDAY
B19. Where did Napoleon III surrender to the Prussians in 1870?
SEDAN
B20. The eleventh labour of Hercules was to steal the golden apples,
from where?
The
Garden of the HESPERIDES
ROUND
6
B21. Ascending to the throne in 1999, Mohammed VI is the current king
of which country?
MOROCCO
B22. What does Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Devil’s
Dictionary’ define as ‘a machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders
with good reason’?
The GUILLOTINE
B23. Which branch of philosophy examines the
nature of being?
ONTOLOGY
B24. Name sport’s richest franchise,
estimated at $4 billion in 2016, and owned by Jerry Jones.
DALLAS
COWBOYS
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