Sunderland Echo Quiz League
Set by Chesters
Set B
Round 1 - B
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1. What surname is shared by the Author
listed by Guinness world records as the bestselling novelist of all time and
a serial killer hanged in 1953 for the murder of at least eight people?
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Christie
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2.
This European
country has a population of just over 1.3 million and consists of a mainland
and around 2,000 islands. It is bordered by Russia in the East and Latvia in
the South and joined Nato as a full member in 2004. Name this country?
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Estonia
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3. Only two French players have
scored more than 100 goals in the English Premier League. Thierry Henry is
one….name the other?
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Nicolas ANELKA
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4. Name either of the chemical
elements to be named after asteroids.
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Cerium or
Palladium
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Round
2- B
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1.
Pierce
Brosnan played James Bond in how many films?
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4
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2. If you add together the
symphony numbers of Mozarts “Prague Symphony” and Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony
what number do you get?
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39 (38 and 1)
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3. Which is the smallest and
southernmost of the four main Balearic Islands?
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Formentera
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4. Tessa Sanderson is one of only
2 women to compete in 6 consecutive Olympic Games in track and field events.
In which year did she make her Olympic debut?
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1976
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Round
3 - B
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1. At which major tourist
attraction in France would you find “Point Zero”, the point from which all
French distances (especially those to and from Paris) are measured?
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Notre Dame
Cathedral
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2. Occurring in the 21st
century, who was the last non-British, non-German winner of the Formula 1
World Championship?
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Kimi
RAIKONNEN
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3.
Who am I? In 1971 I became the 4th
playwright of the 20th century to be knighted. I served in the Royal Air
Force during World War 2 as a tail gunner which inspired my work “Flare Path”
and I shared a writing credit with Graham Greene on the 1947 film of Brighton
Rock.
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Terence
RATTIGAN
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4. To within a year either way, in
which year was Theresa May born?
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1956
(accept 1955-1957)
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Round
4 – B
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1. Two word answer
required…..which constituency was the first to declare their result in the
2017 General Election?
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Newcastle
Central
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2. What name is shared by a film
which won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and a band who had their
only UK number one hit in 1977?
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Wings
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3. The
third pillar of Islam is Zakat. What does Zakat oblige people to do?
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Give to
Charity/the Poor
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4.
Signed in 1985, the Schengen
Agreement is named after a town in which country?
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Luxembourg
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Round
5 - B
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1. The Dreamtime is the basis of
the understanding of the world and the creation beliefs of which group of
people?
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Aborigines
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2. Interviewing over 900 witnesses
and costing £150 million pounds, the inquiry by Lord Saville concluding in
1998, was the largest and most expensive enquiry in British legal history at
the time. What infamous event was the inquiry looking into?
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Bloody
Sunday
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3. The Booker Prize winning novel
“Rites of Passage” tells the tale of a 6 month voyage to which country?
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Australia
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4. Also featuring in the name of a
popular modern country band, which word refers to the period of American
history and culture following the Revolutionary War but prior to the American
Civil War?
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Antebellum
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Round
6 - B
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1. Pyrosis is
the medical term for what common complaint?
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Heartburn
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2. Lake Tanganyika, the world’s
longest freshwater lake, is divided between 4 countries. Tanzania and the
Democratic Republic of Congo are 2. Name either of the others?
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Zambia or
Burundi
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3. What was
the name of the round, brick, fortified gun positions, over a 100 of which
were built in the early 19th century along the south coast of England to
repel an expected invasion from Napoleon?
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Martello
Towers
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4.
Which crime writer is the author of the “Women’s
Murder Club” series including the books “1st to Die”, “3rd Degree” “7th
Heaven” and the latest in the series “15th Affair”?
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James
Paterson
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