Sunderland Echo Quiz League
Set A
Round 1 - A
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1. In a 2006 auction of the works
of Andy Warhol, portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy were sold but
the portrait of which world leader sold for $17 million, a world record for
the artist?
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Chairman
Mao
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2. Which is the only planet of the
solar system whose name appears in the title of an Academy Award winner for
Best Picture?
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Earth (The
Greatest Show on Earth)
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3. If you add together the
symphony numbers of Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony and Mozart’s “Jupiter”
Symphony….what number do you get?
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43 (2 and
41)
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4.
Which is the third largest country
in the EU by area, but only the 13th highest by Population?
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Sweden
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Round
2- A
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1. Due to be contested in the
upcoming football season, which team do Crystal Palace play in what is known
as the M23 Debry?
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Brighton
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2.
If black represents the dark past,
and red represents blood shed in times of war, what does the colour Green
represent on the flag of Afghanistan and several other middle eastern
nations?
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Islam
(Accept Religion)
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3. The Booker Prize winning novel
“The Life and Times of Michael K” is set during an imaginary civil war in
which country?
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South
Africa
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4.
Which
of the Canary islands lies closest to mainland Africa?
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Fuerteventura
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Round
3 - A
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1. In which heptathlon event
of the 2016 Rio Olympics did Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson
outperform the gold medallist of the individual event?
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High Jump
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2. There are six types (or
flavours) of quarks – Up, down, top and bottom are four. Name either of the
other two?
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Charm or
Strange
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3. When Kevin Moran became the
first player to be sent off in the FA Cup Final in 1985, which opponent,
later to become a Premier League manager, did he recklessly tackle to earn
the red card?
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Peter Reid
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4. To within a year either way, in
what year was Jeremy Corbyn born?
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1949
(Accept 1948-1950)
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Round
4 – A
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1. The world's fifth largest by
area, which North American lake is the largest lake contained entirely within
one country?
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Lake
Michigan
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2.
The British writer and critic AA
Gill was married to which prominent politician and current MP, between 1990
and 1995?
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Amber Rudd
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3. Who am I? In 1970 I became the
third playwright of the 20th century to be knighted. During the
second world war I volunteered to run the British Propaganda office in Paris.
In 1943 I was awarded an honorary Academy Award for a film I co-directed with
David Lean about the naval ship the HMS Torrin.
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Noel Coward
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4. Which Italian has scored the
highest numbers of goals in the English Premier League with a total of 69?
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Paolo Di
Canio
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Round
5 - A
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1.
In
how many official films did Roger Moore play James Bond?
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7
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2. The Darien
scheme was an ill-fated attempt by which European country in the late 17th
and early 18th centuries to establish a colony on the border of
present day Panama and Columbia?
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Scotland
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3. Occurring in the 1990s, who was
the last non-European to win the Formula 1 World Championship?
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Jacques
Villeneuve
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4. Greece
shares land borders with four countries. Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria and which
other?
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Macedonia
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Round
6 - A
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1. Signed in 1916 and named after an island in the Ionian sea, what
name is given to the treaty that made possible the creation of the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia?
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Corfu
Declaration (Accept Corfu Treaty or Similar)
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2. In 1957 which nation, once home to the 18th century
“Ashanti Empire”, was the first sub-Saharan African nation to become
independent of European colonisation?
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Ghana
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3. Which specific point in London
is deemed as the “Centre of the city” and is the point from which Distances
from London are now measured?
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Charing
Cross
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4. Which UK Number 1 hit Single by
Madonna shares a name with the highest grossing film of 2013?
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Frozen
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