LEAGUE MATCHES 11 MARCH 2010
QUESTIONS BY THE CHUNKY
Updated Friday 26 October 2012
First Verbal Round
1
Fishing boats from which British port carry the registration letters FY?
Fowey
2
What name is given to the rock debris deposited by glaciers?
Moraine
3
Which Italian Serie A (first division) team play home games in pink shirts?
Palermo
4
What name was given to a Roman soldier’s short sword?
Gladius
5
In Indian cooking, which vegetable is known as gobi?
Cauliflower
6
Which African national football team is nicknamed ‘The Cranes’?
Uganda
7
Brandon Flowers is lead singer with which rock/pop group?
The Killers
8
Which company manufactures products under the brand names Andrex and Kleenex?
Kimberley-Clark
9
Which 1970s comedy series starred Terry Scott and June Whitfield as the Fletchers, living with their Aunt
Lucy and her mynah bird named Gunga Din?
Happy Ever After
10
Julius Nyerere was the first elected President of which African country?
Tanzania (or Tanganyika, as it was known when Nyerere was first elected)
11
Whose poems include Fire and Ice and The Road Not Taken?
Robert Frost
12
The playwright John Godber is associated with which theatre?
Hull Truck Theatre
13
The Victoria and Albert Museum has a Museum of Childhood, not based at its South Kensington site.
Where is it?
Bethnal Green (accept ‘Tower Hamlets’)
14
Which was the first country to legalise same-sex marriages in 2001?
Netherlands
15
Who has been the Children’s Laureate since 2009?
Anthony Browne
16
Mill worker and domestic servant Mary Burns was succeeded by her sister, Lizzie, as the lover of whom?
Friedrich Engels
17
The 18th amendment to the US constitution is the only one to be repealed. What did the amendment
concern?
Prohibition (of alcohol)
18
Who played ‘Denry’ Machin in the 1952 film The Card, adapted from the novel by Arnold Bennett?
Alec Guinness
19
Who was the 10th President of the USA?
John Tyler
20
What was the name of the policeman in the Dennis the Menace comic strip?
(Sergeant) Slipper
21
Born Margaret Rumney in 1932, by what stage name is this British actress known?
Prunella Scales see note 1
22
In the Bible, according to Judges 6:8 who chose 300 men from 10,000 and defeated the Midianites?
Gideon
23
Who was the question master for the 2009/10 season of Radio 4’s Brain of Britain?
Russell Davies
24
Which is the only club to have won the English FA Cup in three consecutive years?
Blackburn Rovers
25
Which poem opens with these lines: “Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, and many goodly states
and kingdoms seen”?
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (Keats)
26
Who had a UK No.1 album titled Anything for You?
Gloria Estefan (& Miami Sound Machine)
27
Which Yorkshire TV production had Lightning Tree as its theme tune?
Follyfoot
28
What was the name of the dragon that lived in Ivor the Engine's firebox?
Idris
29
In the 1970 film, which actress was Ryan's Daughter?
Sarah Miles
30
Which country developed the Tarrango grape for winemaking?
Australia
First written round THERE IS A THEME
31
For which natural product is the Tuscan city of Carrara famous?
Marble
32
In Orwell’s Animal Farm what is the name of the pig who becomes dictator and supposedly is an analogy
for Joseph Stalin?
Napoleon
33
What kind of foodstuff is Tilsit?
Cheese
34
Who was the Greek equivalent of the Roman deity Faunus?
Pan
35
What is the English title of the 1930 German film starring Marlene Dietrich which was based on Heinrich
Mann’s Professor Unrat?
The Blue Angel
36
Which creature would belong to the phylum Porifera?
Sponge
37
Which defeated Yorkist pretender to the throne of Henry VII ended up working in the king’s kitchens?
Lambert Simnel
38
Before moving to the Colchester Community Stadium in 2008, at which ground did Colchester United
play their home games?
Layer Road
39
Which township within Greater Manchester ultimately takes its name from the Latin word for ‘church’?
Eccles
40
The Mountbatten family, relations to the royal family, were known by which surname prior to 1917?
Battenberg
Theme is types of cake
Second Verbal Round
41
What was the name of the bird that guided Noggin the Nog?
Graculus
42
Fishing boats from which British port carry the registration letters BM?
Brixham
43
What name is given to shattered rock slopes at base of mountains?
Scree or Talus
44
Which French League Un (first division) team play home games in violet shirts?
Toulouse see note 2
45
What name is given to a Zulu warrior’s long, javelin-like spear?
Assegai
46
In Indian cooking, what is known as khumbi?
Mushroom
47
Which African national football team is nicknamed ‘The Desert Hawks’?
Sudan
48
Trace Cyrus is lead singer with which rock/pop group?
Metro Station
49
Which company manufactures products under the brand names Plenty and Charmin?
Proctor & Gamble (or SCA, under licence)
50
Which 1970s comedy series starred Sid James and Diana Coupland as the Abbotts, living with their son
Mike and daughter Sally?
Bless This House
51
Samora Machel was the first President of which African Country?
Mozambique
52
Whose poems include I Sing the Body Electric and O Captain! My Captain!?
Walt Whitman
53
The playwright Alan Ayckbourn is associated with which theatre?
Stephen Joseph Theatre (do not accept simply ‘Scarborough’)
54
The booksellers Marks and Co. ceased trading in 1970. Their former address became the title of a
popular book, later film. What was the address?
84 Charing Cross Road
55
Which was the first state in the USA to legalise same sex marriage in 2004?
Massachusetts
56
Who was the Poet Laureate prior to Carol Anne Duffy?
Andrew Motion
57
What name was given the Irishmen William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien, hanged in 1867?
The Manchester Martyrs
58
The decision in the US supreme Court Case of Loving vs. Virginia made all laws forbidding mixed-race
marriages unconstitutional. In what year?
1967 (allow a year either way)
59
Who played the male lead in the 1965 film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
Richard Burton
60
Who was the 20th President of the USA?
James Garfield
61
Which policeman does Oor Wullie regularly fall foul of in the comic strip?
(P.C.) Murdoch
62
What was the professional name of the film star Gladys Louise Smith born in 1892?
Mary Pickford
63
In the Bible, according to Judges 14, which Israelite displeased his parents by marrying a Philistine of
Timnah?
Samson
64
Over the Christmas 2009/2010 New Year holiday period BBC Radio 7 repeated episodes of Rumpole of
the Bailey made in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Who played Horace Rumpole in these episodes?
Maurice Denham (NOT Leo McKern)
65
Three teams whose names begin with the letter O have won the English FA Cup. Two of these are Old
Etonians and Old Carthusians; what is the name of the third?
Oxford University (1874)
66
Which poem closes with these lines: “He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn. A
sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.”?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
67
Who had a UK No.1 single titled Sleeping Satellite?
Tasmin Archer
68
On children’s TV which character did Eric Twinge of 29 Acacia Road often become?
Bananaman
69
Which country uses the native grape variety Malagousia in winemaking?
Greece
70
In the 1981 film, which actress was The French Lieutenant's Woman?
Meryl Streep
Second written round
71
FC Saturn plays in which country’s football league?
Russia
72
In 1920, Mayme Stocker was granted the first what in the state of Nevada?
A gambling licence see note 3
73
Which sport is played on a ‘sheet’?
Curling
74
Who appears on the back of a UK £20 note?
Adam Smith see note 4
75
Hornbeam Brewery is in which township of Greater Manchester?
Denton (don’t accept ‘Tameside’)
76
Marg Helgenberger plays Catherine Willows in which US drama series?
CSI : Crime Scene Investigation
77
Todor Zhivkov was Chairman of the State Council from 1971 to 1989 in which country?
Bulgaria
78
Who is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester?
Prof. Alan Gilbert
79
Who wrote the opera Gesualdo?
Alfred Schnittke
80
What is the capital of Northwest Territories in Canada?
Yellowknife
Spares
1
Maud Watson was the first winner of what?
Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles
2
Who was the mother of the biblical King Solomon?
Bathsheba
3
What is the name of the dry and dusty wind which blows south from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea
each winter?
The Harmattan
4
The ski resort of Courmayeur is in which country?
Italy
5
In which city would you find the Reina Sofia Museum, specialising in modern art?
Madrid
6
The yellowhammer is the state bird of which US state?
Alabama
Notes and corrections
1
Prunella Scales was born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth.
2
The Toulouse home shirt is violet and white.
3
Most sources state that the first casino licence was granted in 1931, not 1920.
4
An equally acceptable answer is ‘Edward Elgar’, who appears on the older version of the £20 note which
will be withdrawn from circulation on 30 June 2010.
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