CONFERENCE CONUNDRUMS
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Should be easier than a teacher reaching a pension!
Maze – find
the way to the car park. Should be easier than a teacher reaching a pension!
The black route or diverting to the red will lead to an arrival.
For Geographers (or Rugby Players!)
Quiz in Sevens
A
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2.
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6.
7.
Name the county town of Derbyshire ....................................
Name the capital city of Australia .........................................
What is a TSUNAMI? ...........................................................
What is the PLEISTOCENE? ...............................................
What is a SEQUOIA? ...........................................................
In which country is the highest peak in the Andes? .............
On the banks of which river does Chester stand? ...............
B
What is the main difference between:
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A hurricane and a whirlwind?
8.
A snowflake and a hailstone?
10. A drumlin and an esker?
11. A dyke and a sill?
12. A cyclone and an anticyclone?
13. Immigration and emigration?
14. Cumulus and cumulonimbus?
MATLOCK
CANBERRA
HIGH TIDAL WAVE
ICE AGE
GIANT REDWOOD TREE (California)
ARGENTINA (Mount Aconcagua)
RIVER DEE
SNOWFLAKE – loose collection of ice crystals
HAILSTONE – concentric rings of ice
HURRICANE – strong winds, rain, a central eye of calm
WHIRLWIND – dry dust storm affecting smaller area than hurricane
DRUMLIN – small rounded hill formed by glaciers
ESKER – long sinuous ridge formed by sub-glacial streams
DYKE – igneous intrusion vertically across the layers of the rock
SILL – igneous intrusion between the layers of the rock
CYCLONE – a low pressure cell (anti-clockwise winds), usually
wet and rainy
ANTICYCLONE – a high pressure cell (clockwise winds), usually
dry
IMMIGRATION – the action of coming to live permanently in a
foreign country
EMIGRATION – the act of leaving one’s own country to settle
permanently in another
CUMULUS – small, white puffy clouds
CUMULONIMBUS – large, dark anvil-shape puffy clouds
projecting high into the atmosphere. Storm clouds.
C
15. On the banks of which river is Chester-Le-Street?
16. What is the name of the highest mountain completely within China?
17. What was Lake Pickering?
18. Near which line of latitude would you find the TUNDRA?
19. Name the capital city of Canada
20. Name the largest city in Tasmania
21. Name the county town of Lancashire
RIVER WEAR
KUNGUR or KONGURTAGH
GLACIAL LAKE or POND
trapped by ice which drained
away, post-glaciation
ARCTIC CIRCLE
OTTOWA
HOBART
PRESTON
Tom’s History Quiz
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2.
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9.
Whose description of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD
is still used by modern vulcanologists?
Which Roman author and military commander died in the
79AD Vesuvius eruption while trying to rescue friends?
What was the relationship between the two men in questions
1 and 2?
Which mad Roman emperor was nicknamed ‘Little Boots’
and why?
Which Anglo-Saxon king was renowned to have burnt the
cakes?
Who tried to invade England in 1066 before William the
Conqueror succeeded?
At which battle near York were the unsuccessful 1066
invaders beaten?
Who did Henry I nominate as his successor in 1135 (his sole
legitimate child)?
What was the main cause of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381?
Pliny the Younger (61-113AD)
Pliny the Elder (23-79AD)
Uncle and Nephew
Caligula (12-41 AD) – diminutive of Roman
military boots ‘caliga’ – was his nickname
Alfred
Vikings (under Harald Hardrada)
Stamford Bridge
Matilda
The Poll Tax
10. Who killed the Princes in the Tower?
Richard III or Henry VII? Probably the latter
12. What was the main reason for the defeat of the Spanish
Armada in 1588?
The weather; poor communication (no army
from Netherlands); English seamanship
11. Why did Elizabeth I have to be a Protestant if she wanted to
be Queen of England?
13. Which King of England and Scotland lost his head in 1649?
14. Which Civil War General ran the country during the
Commonwealth of the 1650s?
15. Which group of 1650s agrarian socialists led by Gerrard
Winstanley have been publicised in the music of Billy Bragg,
Leon Rosselson and Chumbawamba?
16. Which weaving invention of c. 1733 sparked the Industrial
Revolution in the cotton industry?
17. What was the collective name for the group of handloom
weavers who tried to protect their livelihoods in the early
1800s by destroying factory-based power looms?
18. Which group of agricultural labourers was sentenced to
transportation in 1834 for attempting to set up an agricultural
workers’ union? Who was their leader?
19. By which law were the agricultural workers in question 18
prosecuted?
20. Which successful 1888 strike at the Bryant & May factory in
London sparked the development of unions for unskilled
workers?
The Catholic Church regarded her parents’
(Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn) marriage as
illegitimate
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
The Diggers
John Kay’s Flying Shuttle
The Luddites
The Tolpuddle Martyrs led by George
Lovelace
The 1797 Unlawful Oaths Act
The London Matchgirls’ Strike
21. Which female social activist and, later, suffragette
publicisedthe plight of the workers in question 20?
22. Who founded the Women’s Social Political Union (WSPU) in
1903? (aka the suffragettes). What was her job in Manchester
which led her to become involved in women’s suffrage?
23. Which suffragette became a martyr at the 1913 Derby?
Whose horse was she trampled by? Did she mean to kill
herself?
24. Which deal by the WSPU with the Government led to the
vote being granted to women in 1918?
25. In which year did the first Labour government hold office and
who was its Prime Minister?
26. Which British Prime Minister commented before the 1926
General Strike: “I thought the miners’ union leaders were the
stupidest men I had ever met – until I met the mine owners”?
Annie Beasant
Emmeline Pankhurst
Poor Law Guardian (or Registrar)
Emily Davidson; King George V
No
Stopping the militant suffragette campaign
& support for the war effort by the WSPU.
1924; Ramsay MacDonald
FE Smith
27. Who recorded the version of the traditional song ‘The Blackleg Miner’ on his 2003 album ‘1000 Years of Popular Music’?
Richard Thompson
29. How many British governments since 1900 have been
elected by a true majority of the electorate? (i.e. gained more
than 50% of the total vote). Name them.
2; 1906 Liberal Landslide and 1945
Labour Government
28. Which reform of local taxation led to the downfall of Margaret
Thatcher in 1990?
The Community Charge (or Poll Tax)
Artist Anagrams
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2.
3.
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5.
6.
Mile Long Ache
It Aint
Pal Hare
So Aspic
In Soups
Return
MICHELANGELO
TITIAN
RAPHAEL
PICASSO
POUSSIN
TURNER
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8.
9.
Tie Loop
Agog Caviar
Overseen
10. In Dank Sky
11. Val In Mack
12. Lil Rout
TIEPOLO
CARAVAGGIO
VERONESE
KANDINSKY
VLAMINCK
UTRILLO
Oenophile’s General Knowledge Quiz
The 1970s
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2.
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9.
Which war started the oil crisis of 1973/74?
Which terrorist group killed 11 Israeli athletes during the
Munich Olympics?
Which famous fashion designer died on 10 January 1971?
Which two countries became members of the EEC along
with Britain in January 1973?
Which famous opera house opened on 28 September 1973?
What was the best-selling single of the 1970s?
Who played Jill Munroe in the TV series ‘Charlie’s Angels’?
Why did Louise Brown and Patrick Steptoe make the
headlines in July 1978?
Who seized power from Milton Obote in a military coup on
25 January 1971?
10. Which film star married Ali MacGraw in 1973 and became
the highest paid actor in the world in 1974?
YOM KIPPUR
BLACK SEPTEMBER
COCO CHANEL
IRELAND AND DENMARK
SYDNEY
MULL OF KINTYRE
FARRAH FAWCETT MAJORS
FIRST TEST-TUBE BABY AND SURGEON
IDI AMIN
STEVE McQUEEN
The 1980s
1.
2.
3.
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5.
6.
7.
8.
Which war ended on 14 June 1982?
In which year did West Ham win the FA Cup Final?
Which famous novel by Alice Walker was released in 1982
and won the Pulitzer prize in 1983?
Who became the 40th President of the United States of
America on 20 January 1981?
Which famous Irish playwright died on 22 December 1989?
Which group had the Christmas hit of 1987 with ‘Always On
My Mind’?
Which soap opera was first broadcast on 1 February 1985?
What did the Soviet Union launch on 20 February 1986?
THE FALKLANDS WAR
1980
THE COLOR PURPLE
RONALD REAGAN
SAMUEL BECKETT
THE PET SHOP BOYS
EASTENDERS
THE MIR SPACE STATION
9.
Which volcano erupted with a 24-kilometre eruption column
on 18 May 1980?
10. Who was the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1988?
MOUNT ST. HELENS
STEVE DAVIS
The 1990s
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Which European treaty heralded common citizenship and
economic and defence policies on 7 February 1992?
Which German won
championship in 1991?
the
Wimbledon
men’s
tennis
How was the flame lit at the Barcelona Olympics of 1996?
Who was the Secretary of State for Education in 1998?
What was the top-grossing film of the 1990s?
MAASTRICHT TREATY
MICHAEL STICH
PARALYMPIC ARCHER’S FIRE ARROW
DAVID BLUNKETT
TITANIC
How many number-one singles did the Spice Girls have in
the 1990s?
Who played Simenon’s Jules Maigret in the 1992/93 TV
series ‘Maigret’?
What was recorded at 253mph on Barrow Island, Australia
in 1996?
Which general was arrested in London on 16 October 1998
and later deemed too ill for extradition?
10. Who was released from prison on 11 February 1990?
EIGHT
MICHAEL GAMBON
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