Set B
Round 1 - B
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1. Two Booker Prize winning novels were the basis for movies that
won Best Picture Oscars in the 1990s. Schindler’s List was one, what was the
other?
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The English Patient
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2. In which city would you find the Eden Gardens cricket ground?
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Calcutta, India
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3. Sir James Clark
Ross, whose name was given to the Ross Sea, commanded which ship on the 1839
expedition to the Antarctic?
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HMS Erebus
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4. The name of which Alpine Goat is included in the name of the
Spanish Stock Market Index ?
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Ibex
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Round 2- B
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1. Declared First Citizen of Athens, which statesman, orator and
general was leader in its Golden Age, between the Persian and Peloponnesian
Wars in the 5th Century BC ?
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Pericles
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2. The following is a definition of which scientific term “A
compound whose molecule is formed from a large number of repeated units of
one or more compounds of low molecular weight.”?
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Polymer
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3. Which building in Moscow started life as an insurance office and
later became the headquarters of the KGB ?
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The Lubyanka
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4. What historical 'First' is attributed to the assassination of
the Scottish Regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray, in Linlithgow in 1570?
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First by Firearm/Gun
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Round 3 - B
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1.
Poundbury
is an experimental New Town in England developed on land owned by The
Prince of Wales, according to his architectural principles, started in 1987.
In which county is Poundbury?
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Dorset
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2.
Donald McLeod is the presenter of
which classical music programme, claimed to be the oldest of its type in
British broadcasting and first aired in 1943?
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Composer of the Week
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3.
The plinth of the statue of which
Labour politician, standing in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, is inscribed with
the opening words of the Scotland Act: “There Shall Be a Scottish
Parliament”?
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Donald DEWAR
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4.
Sir
Joseph Swan, who is known as an independent developer of an incandescent
light bulb, shares his middle name with the surname of a 20th century Labour Prime
Minister. What name?
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Wilson
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Round 4 – B
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1.
Who published "A
Treatise on Make-up and Jam" one of the world's first cook books in 1555
and wrongly predicted it would be a big success?
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Michel de NOSTRADAME (aka NOSTRADAMUS)
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2.
Who was voted last month as the
best player of the Six Nations for the second year running?
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Stuart HOGG
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3.
Cape St Vincent lies at the
southwestern most point of which European Country?
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Portugal
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4.
On
3rd April 1967 (50 years ago) British publishers Calder and Boyars were sent
for trial for publishing which novel by Hubert Selby jnr?
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Round 5 - B
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1. The 1st Earl of Beaconsfield and cricketer Jason
Gillespie share which nickname with the band leader and trumpeter most famous
for “A Night in Tunisia.”?
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Dizzy (Disraeli, Dizzy
Gillespie)
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2. The Scottish actor descended from Kirkpatrick
Macmillan, the blacksmith who invented the bicycle, uses
which stage name in tribute to the saxophonist who
recorded “A Love Supreme”?
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Robbie COLTRANE (born Anthony Robert Macmillan)
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3. Which current quiz show was originally going to be
called "Obviously"?
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Pointless
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4. Which North East brewery has beers called Extinction
Ale, Galapagos Stout and Beagle Blonde?
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Darwin
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Round 6 - B
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1. Which Harry, normally thought
of as a comic actor, was Len Deighton's choice to play his unnamed spy in the
Ipcress File?
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Harry H CORBETT
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2.
Ridley
Scott directed the 1973 advert voted Britain's favourite advertisement of all
time. It was shot at Golden Hill at Shaftesbury in Dorset. Which
foodstuff was being advertised?
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Hovis
(accept Bread )
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3. What was the title of the only
UK No. 1 hit for Dusty Springfield ?
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You Don’t
Have To Say You Love Me
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4. Two European capitals lie on
the same latitude (48º__´N) as Paris. One is Bratislava, name the other?
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Vienna
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