Quiz League Set A

On an old memory stick I came across a League pair I set way back in January 2016 for the Sunderland Echo Quiz League which I don't think I have posted up yet. So here it is....

As mentioned before the Sunderland Quiz League involves team based questions (as oppose to some Leagues which focus on individual questions) so up to 6 brains are working on these at any one time.

I will post Set B up tomorrow.

Questions A

Round 1                                                                                                                        Answers

1.       The title of which Beach Boys song is also the title of the autobiography of Jacqueline Gold, the founder of Ann Summers?	Good Vibrations
2.       Which Government organisation is housed in a building known as the “Doughnut”?	GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters)
3.       Lady Isobel Barnett, considered one of the first TV celebrities,  became a household name on which show?	What’s My Line?
4.       Which landlocked country lies between Ukraine to the North and Romania to the South?	Moldova

 

Round 2

1.       Which daily newspaper was launched in 1986 by Andreas Whittam Smith?	The Independent
2.       When Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to England in the early 1600s, which King wrote a pamphlet arguing against its use?	James I
3.       There are only two British Female Solo Artists to have 5 number 1 hit singles in the UK. Name either?	Jess Glynn OR Cheryl Fernandez Versini (Accept Cheryl on its own, Cheryl Cole or Cheryl Tweedy)
4.       Flowing through France, Germany and Luxembourg which river joins the Rhine at Koblenz?	Moselle

 

Set A - Round 3

1.       In 1982, who went missing for 6 days during the Paris/Dakar rally?	Mark Thatcher
2.       Much in the news in January 2016, which famous model and actress appeared on the cover of Roxy Music’s album “Sirens” dressed as a mermaid?	Jerry Hall
3.       Since the addition of Italy, which team have won the 6 nations title on the most occasions?	France
3.       Which current Labour MP is married to the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thronging Schmidt?	Stephen Kinnock

 

Round 4

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?	Petra Kvitova
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?	Mini Roundabouts (Do not accept roundabout)
3.       Who is the only person to win 2 unshared Nobel prizes in 2 different fields?	Linus Pauling
4.       Which band, formed in the 1980s in Sheffield, took their name from a fictional band in the novel “A Clockwork Orange”?	Heaven 17

 

 

 

 

 

Set A - Round 5

1.       Name EITHER of the two countries that joined the EEC at the same time as the UK in 1973	Denmark or Republic of Ireland
2.       Which composer’s 1st Symphony is nicknamed “Winter Daydreams”?	Tchaikovsky
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?	Anil Kumble
4.       The answer is not sausages. In the 1980s, a national newspaper launched the “Save our Sizzlers” campaign to prevent a ban on what?	Page Three (The Sun) Accept: Topless Models

 

Round 6

1.       Which former Soviet state is the only European country in which capital punishment is still practised with more than 250 executions since 1992?	Belarus
2.        Which Ayrshire golf course has both the longest and shortest holes on the Open Championship roster and will stage the event this year?	Royal Troon
3.       Which is the largest island in the Outer Hebrides?	Lewis and Harris
4.       Which Queen of England married Louis VII, King of France in 1137 before marrying Henry II of England in 1152?	Eleanor of Aquitaine