Sunderland Echo Quiz League
2018
Set
by Chesters
Questions
A
Round 1
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1. Actors Tom Conti, Gerard Butler and singer Gerry Rafferty
were all born in which town, which to the amazement of some was on the
shortlist to be Britain's City of Culture 2021?
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Paisley
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2. Which Premier League team's manager (as of last week) is a
former international for the Republic of Ireland?
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Brighton and Hove Albion
(London-born Chris Hughton)
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3.
Which actress was certainly being serious
when she told tales of her marital woes in her autobiography entitled “A
Paper Life”?
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Tatum O Neal
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4.
If you travelled directly south from any
point of Majorca, which would be the first country you would hit?
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Algeria
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Round 2
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1.
Ed Sheeran's mother was
called Imogen after his grandmother's friend, who was director of the
Aldeburgh Festival for 20 years and the daughter of which English
composer?
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Gustav Holst
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2. Airing
on BBC 1 from 1979 to 1981 for 21 episodes, and revived for a one off special
in 2007, which sitcom takes its title loosely from a quote from “Hamlet”?
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To the Manor Born
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3.
Taking its first paying passengers in 2008,
when it was the largest of its kind in the world, what is the Singapore
Flyer?
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A Ferris Wheel
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4.
The Australian city of Cairns has a
coastline on which sea?
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Coral Sea
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Round 3
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1.
In 2015, who became the first boxer to have
won both an Olympic Gold Medal for Team GB and a Professional world title?
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James De Gale
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2. In 1986,
what became was the first daily newspaper in the UK to be printed in colour?
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Today
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3. In 1993,
Rachel Whiteread became the first woman to win which annual award?
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Turner Prize
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4.
The city of Hue was the capital of which
country between 1902 and 1945?
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Vietnam
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Questions
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Round
4
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1.
Which band's final
British appearance was a Christmas benefit concert for the children
of striking firemen in Huddersfield in December 1977 ?
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The Sex Pistols
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2. The Tartan Giraffe Ball will be staged in Kelso on Friday
(January 26)in honour of which sportsman?
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Doddie Weir
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3.
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
founded which American city?
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Detroit
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4.
An extension to which
London building inspired the naming of the Carbuncle
Awards?
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The National Gallery
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Round
5
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1.
Based on passenger numbers, which was the
busiest railway station in the UK in 2017?
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London Waterloo
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2.
What animal appears on the logo of Bacardi?
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Bat
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3.
'Yerba Buena' was the original name of which
North American bay city, later given another Spanish name?
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San Francisco
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4.
Paul McCartney is the only person to have UK
Number 1 singles as part of a five piece, a four piece, a threesome, a duet
and as a solo artist. But which song was his only solo number 1 single,
occurring in 1984?
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Pipes of Peace
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Round
6
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1. Which
street in London, that appears on the Monopoly board, takes its name from a
croquet like game played in the 17th Century?
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Pall Mall
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2.
Sharing her name with a famous character
from the world of Opera, what was the first name of the only daughter of
General Franco who died in December 2017?
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Carmen
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3.
Canada's Thousand Islands Sauce
originated on islands in which body of water?
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The St Lawrence River
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4.
Which former Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom had a brother called Austen who served as a Foreign Secretary and won
the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize?
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Neville Chamberlain
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