QUESTIONS A
ROUND
1
A1. For
ninety years from 1363, Edirne was
the capital of which Empire?
OTTOMAN
A2. What is the first name of TV’s Judge Rinder?
ROBERT
A3. In
which French city does rugby Super League team Catalan Dragons play their home
matches?
PERPIGNAN
A4. Who
said, not in English, of the Holy Roman Empire, “It is neither holy nor Roman nor an empire”?
VOLTAIRE
ROUND 2
A5. Which
author was Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940?
John BUCHAN (Baron Tweedsmuir)
A6. The
last Royal Institution Christmas lecture given by Michael Faraday in 1860 was
entitled “The Chemical History of …..
“- what then everyday household object?
A
CANDLE
A7. In
which poem by Lord Tennyson are the lines “’Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all”?
IN MEMORIAM
A8. Since the death of Peter Richardson in
2017, name either of the two
cricketers who played in the 1956 Test match at Old Trafford (Laker’s match)
who are still living.
Neil
HARVEY
(Australia) or Alan OAKMAN (England)
ROUND 3
A9. What
was the name of the gang led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
The
WILD BUNCH
A10. Trichologist
Philip Kingsley coined which three word phrase to describe a period of time
when things seem to go wrong.
BAD HAIR DAY
A11. “It’s my party” was first recorded by the
Chiffons in 1962, then Helen Shapiro in 1963, followed by Lesley Gore in the
same year, but which female singer reached No.1 in the UK in 1981 as part of a
duo with Dave Stewart?
Barbara
GASKIN
A12. In 1992, Doctor
Who star Lalla Ward married which atheist?
Richard
DAWKINS
ROUND
4
A13. Hortus
Bulborum is a garden in which European country?
NETHERLANDS (HOLLAND)
A14. Which Middle Eastern dish is a deep fried patty of
chickpeas or fava beans commonly served in a pita?
FALAFEL
A15. Sharing his surname with a current England cricketer,
which mathematical physicist, born in 1819, was Lucasian
Professor of mathematics at Cambridge University for 54 years and gave his name
to the CGS unit of kinematic viscosity?
Sir
George STOKES
A16. To which England back-row forward in the recent England-Italy
international did Romain Poite
say “I can’t say. I’m the referee, not a coach”?
James HASKELL
ROUND 5
A17. What 11-letter word was used for the
mechanical direction indicator on a vehicle used on British roads between 1908
and 1960?
TRAFFICATOR
A18. What was the name of the two brothers who served as
tribunes of the people in Rome during the second century B.C. but were both
assassinated for their revolutionary reforms, which affected the landowning
patricians?
GRACCHUS (accept
GRACCHI)
A19. According to the Bible, who beheaded Nebuchadnezzar’s
general Holofernes?
JUDITH
A20. Which author, and Daily Telegraph correspondent, who
died on the 10th January 2017, was the first to report the Wehrmacht
build up and the invasion of Poland three days later?
Clare HOLLINGSWORTH
ROUND 6
A21. With a name meaning “Great Bell”, what is the highest
mountain in Austria?
GROSSGLOCKNER
A22. The title of the Agatha Christie novel “By the Pricking of my Thumbs” is a
quotation from which Shakespeare play?
MACBETH
A23. Named after a German polymath, which sea current runs
along the west coast of South America?
HUMBOLDT
Current
A24. In the famous painting by Emanuel Leutze, which river
was being crossed by George Washington?
DELAWARE
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