Withington Pub Quiz League - questions 02/11/22

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ROUND 1 - 'It's a Punny Old World'

A set of general knowledge questions with an extra clue in the form of a pun on the answer

The name of which breed of dog is the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese characters for 'lion'?

You might find it in a poorly performing menagerie.

What is the county town of the county that is south of Antrim and east of Armagh?

Spongebob Squarepants might say this to his over-eager best friend.

Which British dish could be expressed in Latin as 'bufonem in foraminis'?

In a slight variation, it is the title of a Laurel & Hardy short in which they buy a boat and try to fix it up.

Which now-defunct retail chain was responsible in 1997 for ending Gary Glitter's career?

Despite its name, it is not an outfitter for The Met.

Who wrote and sang the song You've Got a Friend In Me, which is used as a leitmotif throughout the Toy Story franchise?

One might say he is an oversexed metrosexual.

For which 1992 film did Emma Thompson win her Best Actress Oscar?

It could also refer to a second beheading.

Which novel won the 2002 Booker Prize?

It's alternative title could have been A Transcendental Biography.

Which country's flag comprises five horizontal stripes of red, white, blue, white and red, the middle stripe being twice as wide as the others?

There are no winners or losers here.

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

What's the name of the red parrot in the 1992 Disney version of Aladdin?

Which lackadaisical police constable of the fictional Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh was created by M C Beaton?

Who was the first wife of King James II of England?

Which former TMS commentator is the author of the partly autographical book My Dear Old Thing?

In Jack Kerouac's On the Road, what is the name of the travelling companion of the narrator Sal Paradise?

Which former assistant to Robert Boyle wrote Micrographia, which was the first book to include illustrations of insects and plants as seen through microscopes?

Which female TV and radio presenter from Ashton-under-Lyne has been a co-host with Des O'Connor, Gino D'Acampo, and Alan Carr?

Who played the part of Jenny Gifford in the ITV series Cold Feet?

Sp.

Which Hungarian-born architect and designer of furniture moved to the UK in the 1930s, and became a key member of the Modernist architectural movement? He married Ursula Blackwell, heiress to the Crosse & Blackwell fortune.

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Announced theme - 'Whiter than White'

Each answer contains a word that can be put after the word 'white'

There are sound-alikes and some keywords words are contained in longer words

What is the name of Clint Eastwood's 5th film as director? Released in 1976 the film is set during and after the American Civil War and co-stars chief Dan George.

The Iris pseudacorus, Iris versicolor and Iris prismatica are varieties of Iris commonly called by which name?

Which Rugby league club which plays in a town 2 miles southwest from Pontefract won the Rugby championship for the only time in 1977?

What is the name of the 1988 live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis? The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy amongst others.

Which band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career? They have had success in the British charts with Enter Sandman in 1991 and with Until it Sleeps in 1996.

Which soft drink was invented a year before Coca-Cola in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, and is now available in cans worldwide?

Which Australian cricketer and former captain held the record for the most number of test catches at his retirement from the game in 1984? He is probably better-known for ordering his brother to bowl an underarm delivery in the last over of a one-day international.

(2 for the price of one) Which architect (1830-1905) designed Strangeways prison, the Whitworth Hall at Manchester University, the Natural History Museum in London and other buildings in Manchester and elsewhere? He is chiefly associated with the Victorian Gothic revival.

Sp1

What is the name in French of an 1892 two-act ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky? The libretto is adapted from an E T A Hoffmann's 1816 short story.

Sp2

What can be Mao, Mandarin, Peter Pan, Edwardian, Butterfly, Wing and many others?

Sp3

Which Cole Porter classic song of 1932 is unusual in that it starts with the singer singing the same note 35 times with several of the words also being repeated such as "Drip, drip, drip (of the raindrops)", and "You, you, you"?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Pairs

Which eponymous literary character is an orphan who, at the start of the novel, lives with their maternal uncle's family, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall?

Which novel begins with a prologue consisting of letters written in the year 17- by Robert Walton to his sister Margaret Saville? Robert is the captain of a ship setting out to explore the North Pole who rescues a nearly frozen man.

Arthur Ryan, who died in July 2019, founded the fashion retailer Penneys in Ireland. Under what name does it trade in the UK to avoid conflict with the US business J C Penney?

Tonic water is flavoured with quinine which is extracted from chinchona bark. Which London-based manufacturer of premium tonic water and other premium drink mixers takes its name from an alternative name for the source of quinine?

Which son of Calliope was a poet and a musician who played the lyre and joined the Argonauts?

Also known as Hades, in Greek mythology the name of which God means 'the rich one'?

Which record was broken on June 30th 2021 by Abhimanyu Mishra, aged 12 years and 5 months? The previous record was achieved by Sergey Karjakin, aged 12 years and 7 months in 2003.

What record is held by Arnold Sommerfeld, with 84 nominations without success?

Sp1

Which country straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, making it the only country in the world to be situated in all four cardinal hemispheres?

Sp2

Which island on the equator is the world’s most populous? It is part of the world’s largest island country.

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

Which sea named after a 19th-century politician lies within the nation of Papua New Guinea, and is situated north-east of New Guinea and south of the islands of New Ireland, New Hanover and the Admiralty Islands?

Which sea with the same name as a biblical character is separated from the Bismarck Sea by the island of New Britain, and is separated from the Coral Sea to the south by the south-east tip of New Guinea?

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so well with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

This is a quotation from a well-known book set in the Midlands published in instalments in 1871-72 and considered to be the best work by which author?

"Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
the short and simple annals of the poor.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow' r,
and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
awaits alike th' individual hour,
the path of glory lead but to the grave."

These are 2 stanzas from a poem written in 1751 and considered to be the best work by which poet, most of whose other works are now forgotten?

What was the christian name of Fred Astaire's dancing sister who retired from the stage when she married into the aristocracy, and whom some consider to be the better dancer of the two?

What is the christian name of Jacqueline du Pré's flute-playing sister portrayed in the 1998 film ... And Jackie by Rachel Griffiths?

What is the nationality of Armand Duplantis, the athlete who broke the men's pole vault world record earlier this year?

What is the nationality of the African athlete Tobi Amusan who smashed the hundred meter women's hurdles record earlier this year?

Sp1

A Passage to India is the last film in which director?

Sp2

Who is the MP for the constituency Portsmouth North?

Sp3

What is the nickname of the national football team of the Ivory Coast?

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

Whose historical fictions include The Last Tudor and The White Queen?

Whose historical novels include the Shardlake series, set during the reign of Henry VIII?

What was the name of the set of English Post-Impressionist artists founded in 1911 and active until 1913? They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert and were named after the area in which the studio was situated.

Which term was coined by art critic David Sylvester in 1954 referring to a group of British social realist painters popular in mid-1950's who focused their work deliberately on the unglamorous, typically domestic scenes? The group consisted of John Bratby, Derrick Greaves, Edward Middleditch and others.

The theory of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons is termed in short QCD. What does the abbreviation QCD stand for?

A model in particle physics in which, at high energies, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model comprising the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces are merged into a single force is termed in short GUT. What do the initials GUT stand for?

In which year did the following events occur?

Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to SSC Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at the time of $10.48M (£6.9M).
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi.
Niki Lauda wins the Formula One championship.

In which year did the following events occur?

The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign an Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
Airey Neave, Conservative MP is killed by a bomb in the the Houses of Parliament's car park.
Jody Scheckter wins the Formula One championship.

Sp1

Who is the female lead in the film 3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri?

Sp2

What word can mean both to adhere and to separate?

Sp3

What word can mean to withstand or to wear away?

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - A Round of Hidden Pairs

What was the second Wallace and Gromit film?

Which film starts Paul Newman as a rebellious prisoner determined to escape a Florida prison camp?

What term was first used in 1970 to describe extremely short shorts? James Brown had a hit of the same name the following year.

What tool/item/device can be described as Ambidextrous, Benbow and Buttonhole amongst other terms?

What was the better-known nickname of the entertainer initially nicknamed ‘Chairman of the Board’?

For what specific tool/item/device did the Chinese first use flat panes of smoky quartz in the 12th century, and the Inuit use pierced strips of flattened walrus or caribou ivory?

Which book (or books) of the Bible describe the last days of David, the glory of Solomon, and the feats of Elijah, but end with the destruction of Jerusalem and the priests, prophets and royal court being led into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar?

What group did Alan Partridge describe with the words “they’re only the band the Beatles could have been”?

Sp.

What name was shared by Bill Clinton’s presidential cat and a Blue Peter cat?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - A Round of Normal Pairs

The Imperial State Crown holds several named stones, including the Black Prince’s Ruby. However, this stone is not in fact a ruby, (nor a garnet). What is it?

The Black Prince’s Ruby is not faceted but shaped and polished into a convex shape with a flat base, as was typical before gemstone cutting developed. What is the name for the cut of such a stone?

Who composed the Marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre for the Coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II respectively?

Which other composer also composed pieces for the Coronations of both George VI and Elizabeth II. He is being celebrated this year for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

At 49 days, Liz Truss is the shortest serving PM, but at 5ft 3ins, she is also the shortest PM. She holds this record jointly with another Tory, who had to manage the beginnings of the madness of King George, the Luddite riots and the grievance of John Bellingham. Who was he?

Rishi Sunak is the youngest PM since 1812. Taking over the premiership from the unfortunate Perceval, the previous youngest PM who served for 15 years, dealt with such issues as the Peterloo Massacre, Catholic emancipation and the original Corn Laws. Who was he?

Who was appointed Education Secretary in July, in the dying days of Johnson’s premiership, only to resign 2 days later? She is a current cabinet member (but not for Education).

Who took over as Education Secretary for the lame duck period of Johnson’s tenure as PM in July and August? He is a current cabinet member (but not for Education).

Sp1

Who was Liz Truss’ Education Secretary? It was the peak of his political career, and he is now a backbencher.

Sp2

There have been 5 Education Secretaries this year, who were the other two?

Sp3

Serving from 1886-1892, at 6’4” who was the tallest PM?

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

ROUND 1 - 'It's a Punny Old World'

A set of general knowledge questions with an extra clue in the form of a pun on the answer

The name of which breed of dog is the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese characters for 'lion'?

You might find it in a poorly performing menagerie.

Shih tzu

What is the county town of the county that is south of Antrim and east of Armagh?

Spongebob Squarepants might say this to his over-eager best friend.

Downpatrick

Which British dish could be expressed in Latin as 'bufonem in foraminis'?

In a slight variation, it is the title of a Laurel & Hardy short in which they buy a boat and try to fix it up.

Toad in the hole

(Towed in a Hole)

Which now-defunct retail chain was responsible in 1997 for ending Gary Glitter's career?

Despite its name, it is not an outfitter for The Met.

PC World

Who wrote and sang the song You've Got a Friend In Me, which is used as a leitmotif throughout the Toy Story franchise?

One might say he is an oversexed metrosexual.

Randy Newman

For which 1992 film did Emma Thompson win her Best Actress Oscar?

It could also refer to a second beheading.

Howard's End

Which novel won the 2002 Booker Prize?

It's alternative title could have been A Transcendental Biography.

Life of Pi

Which country's flag comprises five horizontal stripes of red, white, blue, white and red, the middle stripe being twice as wide as the others?

There are no winners or losers here.

Thailand

Go back to Round 1 questions without answers

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

What's the name of the red parrot in the 1992 Disney version of Aladdin?

Iago

Which lackadaisical police constable of the fictional Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh was created by M C Beaton?

Hamish Macbeth

Who was the first wife of King James II of England?

Anne Hyde

Which former TMS commentator is the author of the partly autographical book My Dear Old Thing?

Henry Blofeld

In Jack Kerouac's On the Road, what is the name of the travelling companion of the narrator Sal Paradise?

(Dean) Moriarty

Which former assistant to Robert Boyle wrote Micrographia, which was the first book to include illustrations of insects and plants as seen through microscopes?

Robert Hooke

Which female TV and radio presenter from Ashton-under-Lyne has been a co-host with Des O'Connor, Gino D'Acampo, and Alan Carr?

Melanie Sikes

Who played the part of Jenny Gifford in the ITV series Cold Feet?

Fay Ripley

Sp.

(Ernő) Goldfinger

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a literary villain:

Iago (Othello), Macbeth, Edward Hyde, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Professor Jim Moriarty, Captain Hook, Bill Sikes, Tom Ripley,

Auric Goldfinger

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Announced theme - 'Whiter than White'

Each answer contains a word that can be put after the word 'white'

There are sound-alikes and some keywords words are contained in longer words

What is the name of Clint Eastwood's 5th film as director? Released in 1976 the film is set during and after the American Civil War and co-stars chief Dan George.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Iris pseudacorus, Iris versicolor and Iris prismatica are varieties of Iris commonly called by which name?

Flag

Which Rugby league club which plays in a town 2 miles southwest from Pontefract won the Rugby championship for the only time in 1977?

Featherstone Rovers

What is the name of the 1988 live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis? The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy amongst others.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Metallica

Which soft drink was invented a year before Coca-Cola in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, and is now available in cans worldwide?

Dr Pepper

Greg Chappell

(Alfred) Waterhouse

Sp1

Le Casse-Noisette

Sp2

What can be Mao, Mandarin, Peter Pan, Edwardian, Butterfly, Wing and many others?

Collars

Sp3

Night and Day

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Pairs

Which eponymous literary character is an orphan who, at the start of the novel, lives with their maternal uncle's family, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall?

Jane Eyre

Frankenstein

Arthur Ryan, who died in July 2019, founded the fashion retailer Penneys in Ireland. Under what name does it trade in the UK to avoid conflict with the US business J C Penney?

Primark

Fever-Tree

Which son of Calliope was a poet and a musician who played the lyre and joined the Argonauts?

Orpheus

Also known as Hades, in Greek mythology the name of which God means 'the rich one'?

Pluto

Which record was broken on June 30th 2021 by Abhimanyu Mishra, aged 12 years and 5 months? The previous record was achieved by Sergey Karjakin, aged 12 years and 7 months in 2003.

Youngest chess grandmaster

What record is held by Arnold Sommerfeld, with 84 nominations without success?

Most Nobel Prize nominations

Sp1

Which country straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, making it the only country in the world to be situated in all four cardinal hemispheres?

Kiribati

Sp2

Which island on the equator is the world’s most populous? It is part of the world’s largest island country.

Java

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ROUND 5 - Pairs

The Bismarck Sea

The Solomon Sea

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so well with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

This is a quotation from a well-known book set in the Midlands published in instalments in 1871-72 and considered to be the best work by which author?

(George) Eliot

(from Middlemarch)

"Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
the short and simple annals of the poor.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow' r,
and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
awaits alike th' individual hour,
the path of glory lead but to the grave."

These are 2 stanzas from a poem written in 1751 and considered to be the best work by which poet, most of whose other works are now forgotten?

(Thomas) Gray

(from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)

What was the christian name of Fred Astaire's dancing sister who retired from the stage when she married into the aristocracy, and whom some consider to be the better dancer of the two?

Adele

What is the christian name of Jacqueline du Pré's flute-playing sister portrayed in the 1998 film ... And Jackie by Rachel Griffiths?

Hillary

What is the nationality of Armand Duplantis, the athlete who broke the men's pole vault world record earlier this year?

Swedish

What is the nationality of the African athlete Tobi Amusan who smashed the hundred meter women's hurdles record earlier this year?

Nigerian

Sp1

A Passage to India is the last film in which director?

David Lean

Sp2

Who is the MP for the constituency Portsmouth North?

Penny Mordaunt

Sp3

What is the nickname of the national football team of the Ivory Coast?

The Elephants

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

Whose historical fictions include The Last Tudor and The White Queen?

Philippa Gregory

Whose historical novels include the Shardlake series, set during the reign of Henry VIII?

C J Sansom

Camden Town group

Kitchen Sink school

The theory of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons is termed in short QCD. What does the abbreviation QCD stand for?

Quantum Chromodynamics

Grand Unified (or unification or unifying) Theory

In which year did the following events occur?

Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to SSC Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at the time of $10.48M (£6.9M).
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi.
Niki Lauda wins the Formula One championship.

1984

In which year did the following events occur?

The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign an Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
Airey Neave, Conservative MP is killed by a bomb in the the Houses of Parliament's car park.
Jody Scheckter wins the Formula One championship.

1979

Sp1

Who is the female lead in the film 3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri?

Frances McDormand

Sp2

What word can mean both to adhere and to separate?

Cleave

Sp3

What word can mean to withstand or to wear away?

Weather

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - A Round of Hidden Pairs

What was the second Wallace and Gromit film?

The Wrong Trousers

Which film starts Paul Newman as a rebellious prisoner determined to escape a Florida prison camp?

Cool Hand Luke

What term was first used in 1970 to describe extremely short shorts? James Brown had a hit of the same name the following year.

Hot Pants

What tool/item/device can be described as Ambidextrous, Benbow and Buttonhole amongst other terms?

Scissors

What was the better-known nickname of the entertainer initially nicknamed ‘Chairman of the Board’?

'Ole Blue Eyes'

For what specific tool/item/device did the Chinese first use flat panes of smoky quartz in the 12th century, and the Inuit use pierced strips of flattened walrus or caribou ivory?

Sunglasses

(accept snow goggles)

The Book of Kings

(which is Kings I and II)

What group did Alan Partridge describe with the words “they’re only the band the Beatles could have been”?

Wings

Sp.

What name was shared by Bill Clinton’s presidential cat and a Blue Peter cat?

Socks

Theme: Each answer contains something that can be found in a pair

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - A Round of Normal Pairs

The Imperial State Crown holds several named stones, including the Black Prince’s Ruby. However, this stone is not in fact a ruby, (nor a garnet). What is it?

Spinel

The Black Prince’s Ruby is not faceted but shaped and polished into a convex shape with a flat base, as was typical before gemstone cutting developed. What is the name for the cut of such a stone?

Cabochon

Who composed the Marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre for the Coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II respectively?

William Walton

Which other composer also composed pieces for the Coronations of both George VI and Elizabeth II. He is being celebrated this year for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Spencer Perceval

The Earl of Liverpool

(aka Robert Banks Jenkinson)

Who was appointed Education Secretary in July, in the dying days of Johnson’s premiership, only to resign 2 days later? She is a current cabinet member (but not for Education).

Michelle Donelan

Who took over as Education Secretary for the lame duck period of Johnson’s tenure as PM in July and August? He is a current cabinet member (but not for Education).

James Cleverly

Sp1

Who was Liz Truss’ Education Secretary? It was the peak of his political career, and he is now a backbencher.

Kit Malthouse

Sp2

There have been 5 Education Secretaries this year, who were the other two?

Nadhim Zahawi and Gillian Keegan

Sp3

Serving from 1886-1892, at 6’4” who was the tallest PM?

Lord Salisbury

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