Quiz League Set B

As promised, the second set of Quiz League questions set by Ashbrooke

QUESTIONS B

ROUND 1

B1.       Which comedian had the catchphrase “You lucky people!”? 

Tommy TRINDER

B2.       GaGa is a tribute band of which group?

                                                                                    QUEEN

 

B3.       Purchased by ING for £1 in 1995, which bank loaned the USA the money for the Louisiana Purchase, thereby helping Napoleon I to fund his war with Britain?

                                                                                                                        BARINGS (& Hope)

 

B4.       Which fairy tale character is known in China as Yeh-Shen, to Algonquin Indians as the Rough-Face Girl, and in the Grimm brothers’ tales as Ash Girl?

                                                                                                            CINDERELLA

ROUND 2

B5.       Of the five football teams to have won all four tiers of the English professional game, two achieved the feat in the 2016-17 season. Name either.

                                                                                    SHEFFIELD UNITED or PORTSMOUTH

 

B6.       Which town which was the setting, after the first six episodes, for TV’s “Doctor Finlay’s Casebook” and is also known as “The Gateway to the Trossachs”?

 CALLANDER

 

B7.       To how many characters did the maximum length of a Twitter tweet expand last year for some of its users?

                                                                                                                                      280

 

B8.       In the children’s song “Nick, nack, paddywhack, give a dog a bone”, where in the body is a paddywhack?

NECK (the nuchal ligament at the back of the skull)

 

ROUND 3

B9.       Which Alfred Hitchcock film features a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali?

                                                                                                            SPELLBOUND

B10.     Pharsalus, the deciding battle for power between Julius Caesar and Pompey is in which present day country? 

GREECE

B11.     The World War 2 German navy had one aircraft carrier, although it never entered service. What was the name of the carrier – a name perhaps more associated with World War 1?

                                                                                                                        Graf ZEPPELIN

B12.     Dolomite is an ore used in the Pidgeon process for the production of which metal?

MAGNESIUM           

 

 

                                   

ROUND 4

B13.     “The Mousetrap” is a play within which of Shakespeare’s plays? 

HAMLET

B14.     Which horse’s defeat, at 2/9 on, was a shock at Cheltenham in 2017, costing one punter £375 000?

                                                                                                            DOUVAN

B15.     Arguing that low zinc levels in the population because of unleavened bread led to heightened aggression in the Middle East, the lateral thinker, Edward de Bono, suggested the smuggling there of jars of what - because of its high zinc content? 

MARMITE

B16.     In 1973, who succeeded Éamon de Valera as President of Ireland, but died just a year after taking office?
                                                                                    Erskine Hamilton CHILDERS

ROUND 5

B17.     In his Test cricket career, which player scored 13,289 runs, took 292 wickets and held 200 catches? 

Jacques KALLIS

 

B18.     In the Old Testament, name the husband of Bathsheba whom King David sent into the front line of battle.

                                                                                                URIAH the Hittite

B19.     The Temple of the Reclining Buddha is found on an island in the Wat Pho temple complex in which city?

                                                                                                                        BANGKOK

 

B20.     The first Christmas stamps were issued by the Royal Mail in 1966. They were designed by the winner of a competition run by which TV programme?

                                                                                                     BLUE PETER

ROUND 6 

B21.     When Bob Dylan did not attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony in December 2016, which singer/songwriter accepted the prize in his absence?
                                                                                    Patti SMITH

B22.     Which mountain range takes its name from the Mongolian meaning “Mountains of gold”? 

ALTAI  mountains

B23.     Jeremy Corbyn has been MP for which constituency since 1983?

                                                                                                ISLINGTON NORTH

B24.     MINT is an acronym referring to the economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey and which other country?
                                                                                    NIGERIA

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