Following on from a post a few days ago here is the second half of Set A from my Sunderland Echo Quiz League Questions.
Round 4
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1. Who was the first
(and only) tennis player born in the 1990s to have won a Grand Slam, a feat
she achieved for the first time in 2011?
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Petra Kvitova
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2. Frank Blackmore
introduced which specific features to UK roads in 1969. They were so
confusing to drivers that he initially stood by the side of the road with a
loudspeaker to direct traffic?
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Mini Roundabouts
(Do not accept
roundabout)
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3. Who is the only
person to win 2 unshared Nobel prizes in 2 different fields?
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Linus Pauling
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4. Which band, formed
in the 1980s in Sheffield, took their name from a fictional band in the novel
“A Clockwork Orange”?
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Heaven 17
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Set A - Round 5
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1. Name EITHER of the
two countries that joined the EEC at the same time as the UK in 1973
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Denmark or Republic
of Ireland
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2. Which composer’s 1st Symphony
is nicknamed “Winter Daydreams”?
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Tchaikovsky
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3. The top Test wicket
takers are Mutiah Muralitharan with 800 and Shane Warne on 708. Which Indian
leg spinner is third with 619 wickets in 132 test matches?
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Anil Kumble
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4. The answer is not
sausages. In the 1980s, a national newspaper launched the “Save our Sizzlers”
campaign to prevent a ban on what?
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Page Three (The
Sun)
Accept: Topless
Models
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Round 6
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1. Which former Soviet
state is the only European country in which capital punishment is still
practised with more than 250 executions since 1992?
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Belarus
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2. Which Ayrshire golf course has both the longest and shortest holes on
the Open Championship roster and will stage the event this year?
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Royal Troon
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3. Which is the
largest island in the Outer Hebrides?
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Lewis and Harris
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4. Which Queen of
England married Louis VII, King of France in 1137 before marrying Henry II of
England in 1152?
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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