This time last year I produced a set of questions for the Sunderland Echo Quiz league Knockout stages. I meant to post them up here ages ago but here they are! The league is two teams of up to 6 players battling it out. No individual questions. 2 Points for a correct answer on your own set, 1 point on a passover.
This was Set A from the quiz in the middle of last year. Set B to follow...
Round 1
Answers
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1. What is
the title of the novel written under the pen name of Robert Galbraith that
shot to the top of the bestsellers chart last week after revelations that the
real author was JK Rowling?
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The Cuckoo’s Calling
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2. Which
album by U2 took its name from a line in the Mel Brooks film
“The Producers”?
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Achtung Baby
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3.
“Where Do You Want To Go Today” is an
advertising slogan that has been used by which international company?
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Microsoft
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4.
What is the name of Derbyshire's limited
overs cricket team in
reference
to the bird that nests on Derby cathedral?
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Falcons
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Round
2
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1.
Which golfer who was inducted into the Golf
World Hall of Fame in 2013 holds the record for the most number of European
tour event victories with 31 despite never winning a major championship?
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Colin
Montgomerie
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2. Who
comes next in this sequence - Sir
Arnold Bax, Sir Arthur Bliss and Malcolm Williamson?
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Masters of the
Queen’s Musick)
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3. In which
Jim Carrey 2004 movie does he play Joel
Barish, who discovers that his girlfriend, played by Kate Winslet, has had
their relationship scientifically erased from her memory?
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Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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4.
Which former male TV soap star is
responsible for the “Standard Issue” clothing range?
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Ross Kemp
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Round
3
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1.
What is the name of the “intelligent
personal assistant” which appears on Apple phones and tablets which requires
the user to simply speak into the device in order to carry out tasks?
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Siri
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2. In 2011,
Osama Bin Laden was located and killed in which town named after a 19th
Century British Army officer?
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Abbottabad
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3.
Which vegetable has varieties including
Ailsa Craig, Bedfordshire Champion and Express Yellow?
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Onion
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4. Who
did Michael Foot defeat by ten votes to become the Leader of the Labour Party
in 1980?
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Denis Healey
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Round
4, Set A
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1.
Which animal appears on the logo of the
Dutch banking company
ING?
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Lion
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2. What was
the name of the voluptuous movie star, created by Kenny Everett, who did
everything in the “Best Possible Taste”?
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Cupid Stunt (the BBC rejected the original
name Mary Hinge!)
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3.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change and which American Politician were the joint winners of the
Nobel Peace Prize?
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Al Gore
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4.
Only two players have made more than 100
Premier League appearances for 3 different clubs. Rory Delap is one, who is
the other?
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Gary Speed (Newcastle, Leeds and Bolton)
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Round
5
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1.
In which Asian country is car manufacturer
Proton based?
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Malaysia
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2.
Which actor, comedian and writer is the current
host of “The Unbelievable Truth” on BBC Radio 4?
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David Mitchell
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3.
On the 1st January 1801 George
III relinquished which title that had been claimed by English kings since
1340 in the reign of Edward III?
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King Of France
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4.
Which former Prime Minister wrote a history
of cricket entitled “More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket’s Early Years”?
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John Major
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Round
6
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1. What
name, the Russian for “fist” was given to the wealthy peasants whom the
Soviet Government sought to “liquidate
as a class” in a campaign launched in 1929?
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Kulaks
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2. Who was
President of France at the time of the Falklands War?
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Francois Mitterand
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3. The
Danish town of Billund is home to which famous company that constructed both
the airport and a theme park there?
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Lego
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4.
The best-selling cigarettes in the USA during
the 1930s, which
American cigarette brand is
known for its target logo?
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Lucky Strike
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