LEAGUE MATCHES 27 JANUARY 2011
QUESTIONS BY TAME VALLEY
Updated Sunday 16 September 2012
First Verbal Round
1.
Since 1966 what time has been shown on the clock on the leader page of the Times newspaper?
4.30
2.
Giuseppe Farina won the first motor racing F1 championship in 1950 driving what make of car?
Alfa Romeo
3.
The cancelled 1916 summer Olympics were originally scheduled to be held in which city?
Berlin
4.
To which London club did Bertie Wooster belong?
The Drones Club
5.
The chemical symbols for tin, oxygen and tungsten in that order would spell what word?
Snow (Sn, O, W)
6.
‘’Gentlemen start your engines’’ is the traditional way to begin which race?
Indianapolis 500
7.
Who began a poem: ‘Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky’?
T. S. Eliot (The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock)
8.
Which is the only team to lose four consecutive Charity/Community Shield matches?
Manchester United (1998–2001)
9.
John Reid was the supposed real name of which fictional character?
The Lone Ranger
10.
What acronym is given to the rail service around Dublin Bay?
DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit)
11.
Who designed the Menai Suspension Bridge?
Thomas Telford
12.
Complete this World War II propaganda slogan guarding against gossip (two words): ‘Loose lips
might…”
Sink Ships
13.
What is the formula for the area of a sphere?
2
4πr (4 pi r squared)
14.
After Rome and Milan what is Italy’s third most populous city?
Naples
15.
Founded in 1924, F.I.D.E. is the international governing body of which game?
Chess (Fédération Internationale des Échecs)
16.
In which Shakespeare play would you find the lines: ‘Good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing
thee to thy rest’?
Hamlet
17.
What connects Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Penguin and Johnny Craddock?
The wearing of a monocle
18.
Complete this trio: Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell and…
Martha Longhurst
19.
The song Hernando’s Hideaway comes from which musical?
The Pajama Game
20.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first female English woman mayor in 1908. Mayor of where?
Aldeburgh (Sussex)
21.
In the 2002 BBC 100 Greatest Britons poll, the first Scotsman was 20th. Who was he?
Sir Alexander Fleming
22.
The German Junkers 87 aeroplane had what nickname?
Stuka (dive bomber)
23.
In the Flanders and Swan song lyrics who came to call on a Monday, setting off a disastrous train of
events?
The gasman
24.
Who began a novel: ‘There was no possibility of taking a walk that day’?
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
25.
In the first major change for 40 years, the British army is to receive a new pattern of battle dress: the
MTP. What does this stand for?
Multi Terrain Pattern
26.
Which book of the Bible tells of the death of Joshua?
Judges see note 1
27.
Citadel railway station serves which English city?
Carlisle
28.
Which horse holds the record time for the Derby (2 mins 31.33 secs)?
Workforce see note 2
29.
A picture of which character was usually on the cover of Mad magazine?
Alfred E. Neuman
30.
Who opened a poem with the words: ‘Much have I travelled in realms of gold’?
John Keats (On first looking into Chapman’s Homer)
First written round
31.
Which song begins: ‘There is a fruit store in our street, it’s run by a Greek and he keeps good things to
eat.’?
Yes! We have no bananas
32.
According to Winston Churchill an iron curtain had descended from Stettin in the Baltic to where in the
Adriatic?
Trieste
33.
On film, what was Herbie the Beetle’s number?
53
34.
Which mythical creature appears on the cover of Reader’s Digest?
Pegasus see note 3
35.
Where specifically did the first WH Smith bookstall open in 1848 (place and city required)
Euston Station, London
36.
Erich von Stalhein was whose arch enemy in literature?
Biggles
37.
Where would you most likely be if you were listening to the music Asteroid by Sam Fonteyn?
In the cinema (music to the Pearl and Dean adverts) see note 4
38.
What connects a US state, a weapon, a metal, a US city and a goddess?
D Day beaches (Utah, Sword, Gold, Omaha, Juno)
39.
What number vest did Roger Bannister wear when he broke the 4 minute mile barrier?
41
40.
In The Beggar’s Opera, what is the profession of Macheath?
Highwayman
Second Verbal Round
41.
The first British motor racing F1 champion was Mike Hawthorn in 1958, driving what make of car?
Ferrari
42.
In literature, how is Cedric Earl known in a book written in 1886?
Little Lord Fauntleroy see note 5
43.
Who began a novel: ‘Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically’?
D. H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley’s Lover)
44.
The cancelled 1940 summer Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be held where?
Tokyo
45.
What is the traditional celebratory drink for the winner of the Indianapolis 500 motor race?
Milk
46.
Founded in 1931 F.I.T.E. is the international governing body of which sport?
Archery (Federation International de Tir à l’Arc) see note 6
47.
Complete this World War II slogan guarding against careless talk (2 words): ’Be like dad…
Keep mum
48.
In the 2002 BBC Greatest Britons poll, the first person still alive (as of December 2010) was at number
16. Who was it?
Margaret Thatcher
49.
Which is the only team to win four consecutive Charity/Community Shield matches?
Everton (1984–1987)
50.
The chemical symbols for potassium, nickel and iron when put together in that order would spell which
word?
Knife (K, Ni, Fe)
51.
To which London Club did Mycroft, brother of Sherlock Holmes, belong?
The Diogenes Club
52.
What connects James Joyce, Dangermouse and Moshe Dayan?
Wearing an eye patch
53.
Complete this trio: Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy and…
Rhett Butler (husbands of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind)
54.
Which English motor racing circuit features Dingle Dell and Druids bend?
Brands Hatch
55.
What acronym is given to the rail system around San Francisco Bay?
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
56.
The MTP pattern to be issued to British troops supersedes the DPM pattern. For what does DPM
stand?
Disruptive Pattern Material
57.
Which horse holds the record for the fastest time in the Grand National (8 mins 47.8 seconds)
Mr. Frisk
58.
Foregate Street railway station serves which English city?
Worcester
59.
Nancy Astor became the first woman MP to take her seat in the commons in 1919. Where was she MP
for?
Plymouth Sutton (accept ‘Plymouth’)
60.
The song Cheek to Cheek features in which musical?
Top Hat
61.
The Japanese aeroplane the Mitsubishi A6M was known colloquially as what?
The Zero
62.
When Rupert Brooke inquired ‘If there was still honey for tea’ at what time stood the clock?
Ten to three
63.
In which book of the Bible is the death of King David recorded?
First book of Kings (accept ‘Kings’)
64.
Who designed the original Britannia Rail Bridge across the Menai Strait?
Robert Stephenson
65.
After Madrid and Barcelona what is Spain’s third most populous city?
Valencia
66.
In the Flanders and Swan lyrics of the song A Transport of Delight what was the form of transport in
question?
‘A big six-wheeler London Transport, diesel-engined, scarlet-painted, ninety-seven-horsepower
omnibus’ (accept ‘bus’)
67.
Who opened a poem with the words: ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’?
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias)
68.
What is the formula for the volume of a sphere?
3
4/3πr
69.
(four thirds pi r cubed)
From which Shakespeare play do the lines ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life
is rounded with a sleep’ come?
The Tempest
70.
In the Viz comic, who is the first team goalkeeper for Fulchester United?
Billy the Fish (accept ‘Billy Thompson’)
Second written round
71.
In Pride and Prejudice what was the name of Darcy’s country estate?
Pemberley
72.
In Norse mythology Baldur, son of Odin was immune to everything except which plant?
Mistletoe
73.
Complete the Len Deighton trilogy: Berlin game, Mexico set…
London match
74.
How many different countries have won football’s World Cup?
Eight (Uruguay, Italy, France, Brazil, England, Spain, Germany, Argentina)
75.
At the end of each episode of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum what song did the char wallah sing?
Land of Hope and Glory
76.
The Anderton boat lift connects the Trent and Mersey canal to which river?
The Weaver
77.
Instead of chapters, Charles Dickens’ book A Christmas Carol is divided into what?
Staves
78.
Anaïs Anaïs is a fragrance from which perfume house?
Cacharel
79.
Sheffield Wednesday were losing finalists in both the 1993 FA Cup Final and the 1993 League Cup
Final, the same side beating them in both. Who beat them?
Arsenal
80.
Gillespie Road London Underground station changed its name to what in 1932?
Arsenal
Spares
1.
What can be measured in oktas?
Cloud cover
2.
In which city are the headquarters of the Met Office?
Exeter
3.
What did Andrew Wiles finally prove in 1994?
Fermat’s last theorem
4.
Constable Knapweed appeared in which children’s TV show?
The Herbs
5.
Which county cricket team’s badge features a leaping stag?
Nottinghamshire
6.
Which TV programme has the opening music Pop looks Bach?
Ski Sunday
7.
According to Sir Thomas Beecham you should try everything once except incest and what else?
Morris dancing see note 7
Notes and corrections
1
An equally acceptable answer is ‘Joshua’. The death of Joshua is described in Judges (2:8) and Joshua
(24:29).
2
More accurately Workforce holds the record for the fastest running of the Derby at Epsom. The race
was held at Newmarket during World War 2 and several horses recorded a better time than Workforce,
the fastest being Dante’s 2:26.6 in 1945.
3
Following a re-branding exercise the cover of Reader’s Digest no longer features the Pegasus logo.
4
Asteroid is by Pete Moore, not Sam Fonteyn.
5
The title character’s real name is Cedric Errol, not Earl.
6
Archery’s governing body is FITA, not FITE.
7
This phrase has been attributed to many people, including Beecham, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde,
Woody Allen and Bertrand Russell. According to most reputable sources these words originated with Sir
Arnold Bax (although he was quoting someone else). It also appears that he referred to ‘folk dancing’
rather than ‘morris dancing’; a mere detail to most of us, but very important to the morris-dancing quiz
leaguer who pointed out this insult/error.
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