Questions

ROUND 1 – That was the week that was

1.

Which premiership football team last week established a new goal scoring record by scoring four goals and yet lost?

2.

In which premiership football match last Saturday were both goalies substituted (name both teams)?

3.

In the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia what is the name of the Indian born astronaut who was killed?

4.

Name the Israeli Colonel who died in the same disaster?

5.

Why was Brandon Vedas in the news on Tuesday?

6.

Manchester’s new bishop was installed on Monday.  Who is he?

7.

Tony Blair met Jacques Chirac this week.  Where?

8.

Name the solicitor whose conviction for murder was quashed in the Court of Appeal?

ROUND 2 – Did you see?

1.

Eminem has starred in what recently released film?

2.

Who play the 60s groupies The Banger Sisters?

3.

In the film Cry Freedom who played the part of Steve Biko?

4.

Who played Gandhi in the film?

5.

Which BBC children’s series has been sold for screening in USA?

6.

Whose nephew has just started at Grange Hill?

7.

Who manufactures the Game Cube?

8.

Which games software company has just called in the Receiver?

ROUND 3 – R & R

1.

Who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?

2.

Who composed Nights in the Gardens of Spain?

3.

Where are the Butchart Gardens?

4.

Where are the Plains of Abraham?

5.

Who wrote Gorky Park?

6.

Who wrote McArthur Park?

7.

Who wrote Barefoot in the Park?

8.

Who wrote “…il faut cultiver le jardin”?

ROUND 4 - Bookish

1.

Which famous work of literature begins with the words “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull”?

2.

Which famous work begins “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day”?

3.

Who wrote under the pseudonym of Acton Bell?

4.

Who illustrated Sketches by Boz?

5.

Which great work begins “1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.”?

6.

Which novel opens with the words “Now what I want is facts.”?

7.

Who lived at Manderley?

8.

Whose home was Pemberley?

ROUND 5 - Bags

1.

The extravagantly wide trousers popular between the two World Wars were first worn at which university?

2.

Which football team is nicknamed the Baggies?

3.

Why did sailors try not to let the cat out of the bag?

4.

In Australia what do the sheep shearers call their back packs?

5.

What is bagasse?

6.

What is distinctive about Northumbrian bagpipes?

7.

What to a coal miner is bagging?

8.

In the Lord of the Rings, Saruman took over the Shire and installed a nominal puppet ruler, who was this?

ROUND 6 – Where on earth? 

1.

What is the latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn?

2.

What are the Roaring Forties? 

3.

What name is given to an area of ocean 55 to 85 degrees W and 30 to 40 degrees N, whose westernmost point is close to Melbourne, Florida?

4.

Which child appears at intervals of between 3 and 7 years?

5.

The Grauspitze is the highest peak in which European state?

6.

Mount Titano is the highest mountain of which European country?

7.

Where was the Queen when her father died?

8.

Where in Australia did Prince Charles go to school?

ROUND 7 – Picture this

1.

This Indian city is now called Mumbai. What was its previous name?

2.

This Indian city is now as Chennai. What was its former name?

3.

This is the flag of a Caribbean Island which was devastated by a volcanic activity.  Name it.

4.

Two islands in this island group were recently devastated by a typhoon.  Name the country.

5.

This duo are number 1 in the hit parade and have had a video banned by Top of the Pops.  What is their name?

6.

Winner of Fame Academy, he was last week's number 1, who is he?

7.

Name this German, who recently lost in the final of the Australian Tennis Open Championship?

8.

This Austrian won the Super G in last week's Skiing World Championship in St Moritz.  What is his name?

ROUND 8 - Leftovers

1.

Seven left handed players have won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon.  Name three of them.

2.

Who was the first left handed player to win the women’s singles title at Wimbledon?

3.

Who is married to singer Patti Smith?

4.

Whom did Judy Nelson sue for palimony?

5.

Who wrote Bend Sinister?

6.

Who wrote the science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness?

7.

This naturally left handed player was told by her coach that no left hander had ever won Wimbledon, so she switched to right handed play and went on to win three titles, who was she?

8.

In which sport is it forbidden to play left handed ?

SPARES – What on earth?

1.

What would you do with a Vienna Regulator?

2.

What would you do with a Cornish Rex?

3.

What would you do with a Kelvedon Wonder?

4.

What would you do with a rheostat?

5.

What you do with an arbalest?

6.

What would you do with a trebuchet?

7.

What would you do with a halberd?

8.

What would you do with a grayling?

Answers

ROUND 1 – That was the week that was

1.

Sunderland (three of the goals were own goals) 

2.

Manchester United v Southampton (both keepers were injured)

3.

Kalpara Chawla

4.

Llan Ramon

5.

He committed suicide over the Internet

6.

Right Rev. Nigel McCulloch

7.

Le Touquet

8.

Sally Clark

ROUND 2 – Did you see?

1.

8 Mile

2.

Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn

3.

Denzil Washington

4.

Ben Kingsley

5.

The Tweenies

6.

Tucker Jenkins

7.

Nintendo

8.

Rage

ROUND 3 – R & R

1.

John Berendt

2.

Manuel De Falla

3.

Vancouver

4.

Quebec City

5.

Martin Cruz Smith

6.

Jimmy Webb

7.

Neil Simon

8.

Voltaire

ROUND 4 - Bookish

1.

Robinson Crusoe

2.

Jane Eyre

3.

Anne Bronte

4.

Phizz

5.

Wuthering Heights

6.

Hard Times

7.

The De Winters (from Rebecca)

8.

Mr Darcy (from Pride and Prejudice)

ROUND 5 - Bags

1.

Oxford (bags)

2.

West Bromwich Albion

3.

Because it meant a flogging (the Cat o’Nine Tails was kept in a canvass bag by the boatswain)

4.

Shirilee

5.

The residue of sugar cane or sugar beet after extraction of juice

6.

They are inflated by means of a bellows under the player’s arm

7.

Ventilation pipes (now of course in metal but formerly tubes or pipes made of sack cloth as a form of trunking to lead air into the workings)

8.

Lotho Sackville-Baggins (referred to as The Chief)

ROUND 6 – Where on earth?

1.

23.5 degrees S ( more exactly 23 degrees 27 minutes)

2.

An  area of prevailing WNW winds 40 degrees south in the Southern Ocean

3.

The Bermuda Triangle

4.

El Nino

5.

Liechtenstein

6.

San Marino

7.

Treetops Hotel, Kenya

8.

Geelong Grammar School

ROUND 7 – Picture this

1.

Bombay

2.

Madras

3.

Montserrat

4.

Solomon Islands

5.

Tatu (banned for a lesbian kiss)

6.

Dave Sneddon

7.

Rainer Schuettler

8.

Stephan Eberharter

ROUND 8 - Leftovers

1.

Norman Brookes, Jaroslav Drobny, Neal Fraser, Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Goran Ivanisevic

2.

Ann Jones (beating Billie Jean King in 1969)

3.

John McEnroe

4.

Martina Navratilova

5.

Vladimir Nabokov

6.

Ursula Le Guin

7.

Maureen Connelly

8.

Polo

SPARES – What on earth?

1.

Tell the time with it (it is a type of clock)

2.

Stroke it (it is a type of cat)

3.

Plant it or eat it (it is a variety of pea)

4.

Regulate the flow of electricity, fluids etc.

5.

Fire it (more accurately shoot with it - it is a kind of crossbow)

6.

Knock a wall down with it (it is a kind of siege engine or catapult)

7.

Fight with it (it is a combined battle axe and pike)

8.

Catch it, maybe eat it, maybe photograph it (it is a type of fish related to the salmon; it is also a variety of butterfly)