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WIST Friendly paper  28/09/22

Set by: Mike Bath

QotW: R4/NTT

Average Aggregate Score:   141.0

(Last season WIST Pre-season: 154.0)

"My impression from the QM chair was that there were quite a few teasers that stirred the imagination of the teams and that overall the quiz worked well."

 

ROUND 1 - Stockport format - Verbal

1.

Who was the second person to win £1 million on the UK quiz programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire?? He was a Welshman.

2.

Smarties of which colour originally derived their shade from the cochineal insect?

3.

In which general area of the British Isles would you come across people speaking the Doric language?

4.

In relation to modern warfare what do the initials UAV stand for?

5.

Which playwright won the 2020 Olivier Best New Play award for the play Leopoldstadt?

6.

Which current Football League team plays at the Keepmoat Stadium?

7.

Who is the ancient Greek widely known as ‘The Father of Geometry’?

8.

Of the 32 Irish counties (North and South) what is the second largest by population?

9.

Which British city has areas known as Haymarket, Marchmont and Morningside?

10.

Which Underground line is the oldest having been opened in 1863?

11.

The famous movie line: “They call me Mister Tibbs” comes from which film?

12.

The group of chemical elements symbolised as F, Cl, Br, I and At are collectively known as what?

13.

From which film is this quote taken? “What did you expect, an exploding pen?”

14.

Romaine, Boston and Escarole are all types of what?

15.

What’s the name of the river that empties into the Irish Sea just beyond Lancaster?

16.

Which team were runners up in the last completed University Challenge series?

17.

In 2006 when Smarties started exclusively using natural dyes to achieve their colour which shade was dropped? The shade was reintroduced in 2008 using cyanobacterium spirulina as the dyeing agent.

18.

Which type of people use the British languages Beurla Reagaird and Shelta?

19.

In December 2018 where in the UK did drones cause a significant public nuisance, requiring the deployment of the British Army?

20.

Which playwright wrote the plays Ink and Quiz?

21.

Which current Football League team plays at the New York Stadium?

22.

Who is the ancient Greek widely known as ‘The Father of History’?

23.

Of the 32 Irish counties (North and South) what is the second largest by land area?

24.

Which British city has areas known as Ocean Village, Peartree Green and The Polygon?

25.

Which Jubilee line station between Dollis Hill and Wembley Park is closest to Europe's first traditional Hindu stone temple?

26.

Which film can be summarised thus: “It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor.”?

27.

The group of chemical elements symbolised as He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe and Rn are collectively known as what?

28.

From which film is this quote taken? “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

29.

Cascade, Seckel and Conference are all types of what?

30.

What’s the name of the river that empties into the Irish Sea at Ravenglass?

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ROUND 2 - Stockport format - Written

No themes – no links – just 10 random questions

1.

Which German State with its capital at Erfurt includes the cities of Jena and Weimar?

2.

Up to September 2021 Queen’s Park was the most southerly First-Class Cricket stadium in the world.  At that date it lost its first-class status.  In which city is Queens Park?

3.

Who reached number one in the charts in 2014 writing and producing the single Uptown Funk?

4.

Reading clockwise from the north which US State borders just 4 other States whose initial letters read in order ‘W’, ‘I’ ‘N’ and ‘C’?

5.

What is the name of the South American city district that means ‘stinky lake’, whose beach is thought by many to be the sexiest in the world?  It is probably best known as a result of something for which Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes were responsible.

6.

What’s the name of the bridge that crosses the river Tees near Stockton and is used by both pedestrians and cyclists?  It was opened in 2009 and was given its name because of the shape it forms in conjunction with its reflection.

7.

What specific branded food product is said by some to derive its name from the initials of the name of the generic foodstuff expressed in Roman numerals?

8.

Which SI unit of measurement can be converted into the standard unit used for measuring this physical phenomenon in the USA, by multiplying by 9 over 5, then subtracting 459.67?

9.

What is the Scottish Gaelic word for isthmus which has become the name of a number of appropriately placed Scottish towns and villages - notably at the northern end of the Kintyre peninsula and on the Isle of Harris where the ferry from the Isle of Skye docks?

10.

Which EFL Championship football team are renowned for their chant "No one likes us, we don't care" which is sung to the tune of Sailing by Rod Stewart?

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ROUND 3 - Stockport format - Written

From an alphabetical list of all the sovereign countries of the world provide the names of the first 10 whose common English name ends with an ‘N’.

You may provide your answers in any sequence.

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz format - Blockbuster Bingo

Choose your own question.  The answer begins with the letter(s) given.  Where the required answer is a person’s name both the first and surnames must be given.

IT

An unnamed mountain spot (or perhaps not?).  Alfred Wainwright’s ashes were scattered here.

WMA

A phrase written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles in 1939 but much more recently the key message from a national broadcast on April 5th 2020.

S

English title of the French TV police procedural and legal drama series known in France as Engrenages.

CCR

Three words that complete the full title of this Evelyn Waugh novel: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of …

HL

States that “the extension is proportional to the force”.

VF

Former home of Swansea Town football club.

RDW

The full married name of an eponymous character in a 1938 novel and a 1940 film based on the novel.  The character does not actually appear in either work.

HW

 The current name for the local building formerly known as the Wellington Mill close to the banks of the River Mersey.

FG

Short name for the popular song whose title is based on the Queensboro Bridge in New York.

OS

Pioneering Manchester BBC broadcaster who was shortlisted for the WoManchester Statue competition (decisively won by Emmeline Pankhurst).  A street in Didsbury is named after her.

BDW

Its title based on a quote from Theresa May in 2016 when she had just become Prime Minister, which recent play dramatises the political struggles between Theresa May and Gina Miller during the years of Brexit indecision?

TED

What was the popular name given to a banquet held at Café Anglais in Paris, France on 7 June 1867?  It consisted of 16 courses with eight wines served over eight hours. The banquet was prepared by chef Adolphe Dugléré for King William I of Prussia, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, plus his son the tsarevitch and Prince Otto von Bismarck.

NTT

Name of a hospitality suite in East Manchester.

TF

Computer designer who built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages during World War 2.

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz format - Announced theme

Each answer contains the first/only 3 letters in the English name of a month of the year.

1.

Which African city was known from the 19th century until 1973 as Bathurst?

2.

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Constable Dogberry states: “Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons". This quote is an example of what?

3.

Workers from which company were involved in a famous strike in 1888 and featured in the 19th century scandal surrounding the condition commonly known as ‘phossy jaw’?

4.

Who is the only person to have received Nobel prizes in two different scientific disciplines?

5.

Which novel revolves around the capture of the main protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, by the German Army and his survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war?

6.

Swing bowlers at the WACA on a summer afternoon often benefitted from which natural phenomenon travelling inwards from the coast? (provide the colloquial name given by locals)

7.

Longhope in Scotland is famous for a disaster that occurred on March 17th 1969.  What happened that day?

8.

There is only one US state capital in mainland North America that you cannot reach directly by road from Washington DC without resort to any other form of transport.  Which is it?

9.

What is the English word (not abbreviation) that is a translation of the German abbreviation PS?

10.

Referred to by some as ‘the Nice of the Pacific’ the New Zealand city of Napier is famed for which style of architecture?

11.

In 2014 the football club Qarabağ qualified for the group stage of the European Champions League.  From which country does this club come?

12.

What is the third most populous city in Russia?

Sp1

Motown artist Autry DeWalt Mixon and his backing group had a hit with the song What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) in 1968.  It was particular notable for its haunting saxophone intro. How is Autry DeWalt Mixon better known?

Sp2

Which book of short stories is structured as a ‘frame story’ told by a group of seven young women and three young men.  In 1971 Pier Paolo Pasolini turned 9 of the tales into a film.

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz format - Picture Round
Each picture displays the final character from the logo of a popular retail brand, media brand or pop act using the very distinctive font and colouring selected by the brand/act concerned.  Identify the brand/act name.

1.

Pop act:

2.

Pop act:

3.

Retail brand:

4.

Retail brand:

5.

Media brand:

6.

Media brand:

7.

Retail brand:

8.

Retail brand:

9.

Pop act:

10.

Pop act:

11.

Media brand:

12.

Media brand:

Sp1

Retail brand:

Sp2

Retail brand:

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ROUND 7 - WithQuiz format - Hidden theme

All the answers share a common feature

1.

East Coker, the second of T S Eliot’s Four Quartets starts with which 6 words?  The poem continues: “In succession / Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended / Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place / Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.”

2.

Brother-in-law to Prime Minister Robert Walpole, he served as Secretary of State for the Northern Regions. However, he is best remembered for his keen interest in agriculture which gave rise to his popular nickname.  Who was he?

3.

Which hit song contains the lyrics: “Here today, built to last in every city and in every nation / From Lake Geneva to the Finland station”?

4.

Which British director was responsible for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008)?

5.

What are the names of the human glands that secrete hormones directly into the blood system?

6.

On March 1st 2022 Prince Charles (now Charles III) marked a very sad event by presenting letters patent to which organization?

7.

Which Dickens novel opens with the body of John Harmon being found in the Thames by waterman Gaffer Hexam?

8.

Which coastal Department in Western France has its prefecture at La Roche-sur-Yon?  It was a major centre for fighting during the Hundred Years’ War.

9.

Which writer of popular fiction has written a trilogy of trilogies the last of which contained novels entitled Faith, Hope and Charity?

10.

An Election Entertainment is a painting by the satirical artist William Hogarth.  It deals with a popular protest against a 1750 act introduced by the government which took effect in 1752. What was changed by this act?

11.

Who starred in the 2019 TV drama Elizabeth is Missing which won her a BAFTA Best Actress award?

12.

Which popular phrase was first used in Chaucer’s poem Troilus and Criseyde but is now perhaps best known in a slightly shorter form as the title of a hit song for Nelly Furtado which reached Number 4 in the UK Charts in 2007?

Sp1

Marie-Henri Beyle was best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.  How was he better known?

Sp2

At which club did David Moyes start his managerial career?

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Tiebreaker

Teams confer - nearest to the answer wins

1.

Windermere is England’s largest lake. What is its maximum length in miles to the nearest tenth of a mile?

2.

In square miles what is the size of England?

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ROUND 1Stockport format - Verbal

1.

Who was the second person to win £1 million on the UK quiz programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire?? He was a Welshman.

David Edwards

2.

Smarties of which colour originally derived their shade from the cochineal insect?

Red

3.

In which general area of the British Isles would you come across people speaking the Doric language?

Scotland

(it’s a version of the Scots language used especially around the Aberdeen area)

4.

In relation to modern warfare what do the initials UAV stand for?

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

(i.e. a drone)

5.

Which playwright won the 2020 Olivier Best New Play award for the play Leopoldstadt?

Tom Stoppard

6.

Which current Football League team plays at the Keepmoat Stadium?

Doncaster Rovers

7.

Who is the ancient Greek widely known as ‘The Father of Geometry’?

Euclid

8.

Of the 32 Irish counties (North and South) what is the second largest by population?

Antrim

9.

Which British city has areas known as Haymarket, Marchmont and Morningside?

Edinburgh

10.

Which Underground line is the oldest having been opened in 1863?

Metropolitan

11.

The famous movie line: “They call me Mister Tibbs” comes from which film?

In the Heat of the Night

12.

The group of chemical elements symbolised as F, Cl, Br, I and At are collectively known as what?

Halogens

13.

From which film is this quote taken? “What did you expect, an exploding pen?”

Skyfall

14.

Romaine, Boston and Escarole are all types of what?

Lettuce

15.

What’s the name of the river that empties into the Irish Sea just beyond Lancaster?

Lune

16.

Which team were runners up in the last completed University Challenge series?

University of Reading

17.

In 2006 when Smarties started exclusively using natural dyes to achieve their colour which shade was dropped? The shade was reintroduced in 2008 using cyanobacterium spirulina as the dyeing agent.

Blue

18.

Which type of people use the British languages Beurla Reagaird and Shelta?

Travelling communities

19.

In December 2018 where in the UK did drones cause a significant public nuisance, requiring the deployment of the British Army?

Gatwick Airport

20.

Which playwright wrote the plays Ink and Quiz?

James Graham

21.

Which current Football League team plays at the New York Stadium?

Rotherham United

22.

Who is the ancient Greek widely known as ‘The Father of History’?

Herodotus

23.

Of the 32 Irish counties (North and South) what is the second largest by land area?

Galway

24.

Which British city has areas known as Ocean Village, Peartree Green and The Polygon?

Southampton

25.

Which Jubilee line station between Dollis Hill and Wembley Park is closest to Europe's first traditional Hindu stone temple?

Neasden

26.

Which film can be summarised thus: “It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor.”?

Avatar

27.

The group of chemical elements symbolised as He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe and Rn are collectively known as what?

Noble gases

28.

From which film is this quote taken? “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

Dr Strangelove

29.

Cascade, Seckel and Conference are all types of what?

Pear

30.

What’s the name of the river that empties into the Irish Sea at Ravenglass?

Esk

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ROUND 2Stockport format - Written

No themes – no links – just 10 random questions

1.

Which German State with its capital at Erfurt includes the cities of Jena and Weimar?

Thuringia

2.

Up to September 2021 Queen’s Park was the most southerly First-Class Cricket stadium in the world.  At that date it lost its first-class status.  In which city is Queens Park?

Invercargill

(at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island)

3.

Who reached number one in the charts in 2014 writing and producing the single Uptown Funk?

Mark Ronson

4.

Reading clockwise from the north which US State borders just 4 other States whose initial letters read in order ‘W’, ‘I’ ‘N’ and ‘C’?

Oregon

5.

What is the name of the South American city district that means ‘stinky lake’, whose beach is thought by many to be the sexiest in the world?  It is probably best known as a result of something for which Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes were responsible.

Ipanema

(Ref: the hit song The Girl from Ipanema)

6.

What’s the name of the bridge that crosses the river Tees near Stockton and is used by both pedestrians and cyclists?  It was opened in 2009 and was given its name because of the shape it forms in conjunction with its reflection.

Infinity Bridge

7.

What specific branded food product is said by some to derive its name from the initials of the name of the generic foodstuff expressed in Roman numerals?

Ninety Nine

(99 = IC = Ice Cream)

8.

Which SI unit of measurement can be converted into the standard unit used for measuring this physical phenomenon in the USA, by multiplying by 9 over 5, then subtracting 459.67?

Kelvin

(converting temperature from Kelvin to Fahrenheit)

9.

What is the Scottish Gaelic word for isthmus which has become the name of a number of appropriately placed Scottish towns and villages - notably at the northern end of the Kintyre peninsula and on the Isle of Harris where the ferry from the Isle of Skye docks?

Tarbert

10.

Which EFL Championship football team are renowned for their chant "No one likes us, we don't care" which is sung to the tune of Sailing by Rod Stewart?

Millwall

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ROUND 3 - Stockport format - Written

From an alphabetical list of all the sovereign countries of the world provide the names of the first 10 whose common English name ends with an ‘N’.

You may provide your answers in any sequence.

1.

Afghanistan

2.

Azerbaijan

3.

Bahrain

4.

Benin

5.

Bhutan

6.

Cameroon

7.

Gabon

8.

Iran

9.

Japan

10.

Jordan

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz format - Blockbuster Bingo

Choose your own question.  The answer begins with the letter(s) given.  Where the required answer is a person’s name both the first and surnames must be given.

IT

An unnamed mountain spot (or perhaps not?).  Alfred Wainwright’s ashes were scattered here.

Innominate Tarn

(near the summit of Haystacks in the Lake District)

WMA

A phrase written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles in 1939 but much more recently the key message from a national broadcast on April 5th 2020.

“We’ll Meet Again”

(Vera Lynn song and the words of Queen Elizabeth II)

S

English title of the French TV police procedural and legal drama series known in France as Engrenages.

Spiral

CCR

Three words that complete the full title of this Evelyn Waugh novel: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of …

Captain Charles Ryder

HL

States that “the extension is proportional to the force”.

Hooke’s Law

VF

Former home of Swansea Town football club.

Vetch Field

RDW

The full married name of an eponymous character in a 1938 novel and a 1940 film based on the novel.  The character does not actually appear in either work.

Rebecca De Winter

(in the Du Maurier novel & Hitchcock film both called Rebecca)

HW

 The current name for the local building formerly known as the Wellington Mill close to the banks of the River Mersey.

Hat Works

(in Stockport)

FG

Short name for the popular song whose title is based on the Queensboro Bridge in New York.

Feelin’ Groovy

(The 59th Street Bridge Song by Simon and Garfunkel)

OS

Pioneering Manchester BBC broadcaster who was shortlisted for the WoManchester Statue competition (decisively won by Emmeline Pankhurst).  A street in Didsbury is named after her.

Olive Shapley

BDW

Its title based on a quote from Theresa May in 2016 when she had just become Prime Minister, which recent play dramatises the political struggles between Theresa May and Gina Miller during the years of Brexit indecision?

Bloody Difficult Women

TED

What was the popular name given to a banquet held at Café Anglais in Paris, France on 7 June 1867?  It consisted of 16 courses with eight wines served over eight hours. The banquet was prepared by chef Adolphe Dugléré for King William I of Prussia, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, plus his son the tsarevitch and Prince Otto von Bismarck.

Three Emperors Dinner

NTT

Name of a hospitality suite in East Manchester.

Ninety Three Twenty

(93 minutes and 20 seconds - the time in the match when Sergio Aguero scored the decisive goal on 13th May 2012 that clinched the Premier League title for Manchester City)

TF

Computer designer who built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages during World War 2.

Tommy Flowers

(IMHO an Englishman every bit as important as Alan Turing!)

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz format - Announced theme

Each answer contains the first/only 3 letters in the English name of a month of the year.

1.

Which African city was known from the 19th century until 1973 as Bathurst?

Banjul

(capital of The Gambia)

2.

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Constable Dogberry states: “Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons". This quote is an example of what?

Malapropism

(should be “apprehended” and “suspicious”)

3.

Workers from which company were involved in a famous strike in 1888 and featured in the 19th century scandal surrounding the condition commonly known as ‘phossy jaw’?

Bryant & May

(Matchgirl strike and phosphorus necrosis)

4.

Who is the only person to have received Nobel prizes in two different scientific disciplines?

Marie Curie

(Physics and Chemistry)

5.

Which novel revolves around the capture of the main protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, by the German Army and his survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war?

Slaughterhouse-Five

(by Kurt Vonnegut)

6.

Swing bowlers at the WACA on a summer afternoon often benefitted from which natural phenomenon travelling inwards from the coast? (provide the colloquial name given by locals)

The Fremantle Doctor

(a sea breeze)

7.

Longhope in Scotland is famous for a disaster that occurred on March 17th 1969.  What happened that day?

Longhope lifeboat sank

(off the coast of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys with all crew lost)

8.

There is only one US state capital in mainland North America that you cannot reach directly by road from Washington DC without resort to any other form of transport.  Which is it?

Juneau

(in Alaska is cut off by road from other parts of Alaska or indeed of the US)

9.

What is the English word (not abbreviation) that is a translation of the German abbreviation PS?

Horsepower

(Pferdestärke)

10.

Referred to by some as ‘the Nice of the Pacific’ the New Zealand city of Napier is famed for which style of architecture?

Art Deco

11.

In 2014 the football club Qarabağ qualified for the group stage of the European Champions League.  From which country does this club come?

Azerbaijan

12.

What is the third most populous city in Russia?

Novosibirsk

Sp1

Motown artist Autry DeWalt Mixon and his backing group had a hit with the song What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) in 1968.  It was particular notable for its haunting saxophone intro. How is Autry DeWalt Mixon better known?

Junior Walker

(and his group was called ‘The All Stars’)

Sp2

Which book of short stories is structured as a ‘frame story’ told by a group of seven young women and three young men.  In 1971 Pier Paolo Pasolini turned 9 of the tales into a film.

The Decameron

 

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz format - Picture Round
Each picture displays the final character from the logo of a popular retail brand, media brand or pop act using the very distinctive font and colouring selected by the brand/act concerned.  Identify the brand/act name.

1.

Pop act:

Oasis

2.

Pop act:

Dua Lipa

3.

Retail brand:

Kit Kat (chocolate)

4.

Retail brand:

Heinz

5.

Media brand:

Nickelodeon

6.

Media brand:

Netflix

7.

Retail brand:

Fairy Liquid

8.

Retail brand:

Galaxy (chocolate)

9.

Pop act:

Blur

10.

Pop act:

Metallica

11.

Media brand:

Sky

12.

Media brand:

Disney

Sp1

Retail brand:

Co-op

Sp2

Retail brand:

Wispa (chocolate)

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ROUND 7 - WithQuiz format - Hidden theme

All the answers share a common feature

1.

East Coker, the second of T S Eliot’s Four Quartets starts with which 6 words?  The poem continues: “In succession / Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended / Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place / Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.”

“In my beginning is my end”

2.

Brother-in-law to Prime Minister Robert Walpole, he served as Secretary of State for the Northern Regions. However, he is best remembered for his keen interest in agriculture which gave rise to his popular nickname.  Who was he?

(Viscount Charles) ‘Turnip’ Townshend

3.

Which hit song contains the lyrics: “Here today, built to last in every city and in every nation / From Lake Geneva to the Finland station”?

West End Girls

(by the Pet Shop Boys)

4.

Which British director was responsible for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008)?

Stephen Daldry

5.

What are the names of the human glands that secrete hormones directly into the blood system?

Endocrine glands

6.

On March 1st 2022 Prince Charles (now Charles III) marked a very sad event by presenting letters patent to which organization?

Southend-on-sea Borough Council

(to grant Southend city status in memory of its murdered MP Sir David Amess)

7.

Which Dickens novel opens with the body of John Harmon being found in the Thames by waterman Gaffer Hexam?

Our Mutual Friend

8.

Which coastal Department in Western France has its prefecture at La Roche-sur-Yon?  It was a major centre for fighting during the Hundred Years’ War.

Vendée

9.

Which writer of popular fiction has written a trilogy of trilogies the last of which contained novels entitled Faith, Hope and Charity?

Len Deighton

10.

An Election Entertainment is a painting by the satirical artist William Hogarth.  It deals with a popular protest against a 1750 act introduced by the government which took effect in 1752. What was changed by this act?

The Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar

(protests concerned the 11 days ‘stolen’ from the people)

11.

Who starred in the 2019 TV drama Elizabeth is Missing which won her a BAFTA Best Actress award?

Glenda Jackson

12.

Which popular phrase was first used in Chaucer’s poem Troilus and Criseyde but is now perhaps best known in a slightly shorter form as the title of a hit song for Nelly Furtado which reached Number 4 in the UK Charts in 2007?

“All good things (must) come to an end”

Sp1

Marie-Henri Beyle was best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.  How was he better known?

Stendhal

Sp2

At which club did David Moyes start his managerial career?

Preston North End

Theme: Each answer contains the consecutive letters 'e-n-d'

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Tiebreaker

Teams confer - nearest to the answer wins

1.

Windermere is England’s largest lake. What is its maximum length in miles to the nearest tenth of a mile?

11.2 miles

2.

In square miles what is the size of England?

50,346 square miles

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