Wrexham Quiz League Questions 8th January 2013 - League Week 10 
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Questions set by David Kendrick
Round 1
1
Which African country lies directly south of Gibraltar?
MOROCCO
2
What are salmon usually called during the first two years of their life?
PARR
3
Alice Perrers was the mistress of which English king?
EDWARD III
4
Which boy's name, according to website BabyCenter, is the most globally popular for the eigth year in a row?
AIDEN
5
What were first used in the UK at the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket in 1965?
STARTING STALLS
6
Reggae superstar Bob Marley died in which year?
1981
7
Which breakfast food is named after the Roman goddess of corn and agriculture?
CEREAL (after Ceres)
8
What name is given to the painting medium that uses eggs?
TEMPERA
9
Give the title of the first UK No 1 hit single of the group 'Take That'?
PRAY (1993)
10
Who wrote the novel 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'?
STIEG LARSON
Round 2
11
Rabbinic and Sephardic are denominations of which religion?
JUDAISM
12
The Minoan civilisation was based on which island?
CRETE
13
What's the third book in the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L.James/
FIFTY SHADES FREED
14
Americans call them scallions; what do we call them?
SPRING ONIONS
15
In which town will you find the Black Sheep brewery?
MASHAM
16
What role was played by Doreen Mantle in TV's One Foot In The Grave?
MRS WARBOYS
17
Which American newspaper is associated with the slogan "All the news that's fit to print"?
NEW YOUR TIMES
18
What is the name of the strait which divides the city of Istanbul?
BOSPOROUS
19
Which freshwater fish, native to Britain has the nickname 'little Jack Sharp'?
STICKLEBACK
20
In which film did the Frankenstein monster sing 'Puttin on the Ritz'?
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Round 3
21
By what name is Oil of Vitriol known today?
SULPHURIC ACID
22
Which group had a number one hit in 2009 with 'I Gotta Feeling'?
BLACK EYED PEAS
23
Cathay is a poetic name for which far eastern country?
CHINA
24
Which metaphysical poet famously wrote 'No man is an island'?
JOHN DONNE
25
According to research carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which country will be the best to be born into in 2013?
SWITZERLAND
26
Blue vitriol is the sulphate of which metal?
COPER
27
In 1983, Lady Donaldson was the first woman to be elected as what?
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
28
A Shadoof is a device used to raise what?
WATER
29
Which asian country has the Kip as its main unit of currency?
LAOS
30
How many canonical gospels are there in the New Testament?
FOUR
Round 4
31
Who composed Night on a Bare Mountain?
MUSSORGSKY
32
What was the work of a 'dhobi wallah'?
LAUNDRY
33
In which Scottish castle was Mary Stuart crowned Queen of Scots in 1543?
STIRLING
34
What in Italy is the ferroviaria?
RAILWAY
35
At which place in Devon will you find the Britannia Royal Naval College?
DARTMOUTH
36
Russia's TU-144 plane was the broad equivalent of which western airliner?
CONCORDE
37
An incident in the life of naval cadet George Archer-Shee was the main inspiration for which play by Terence Rattigan?
THE WINSLOW BOY
38
Which former 'Have I Got News For You' presenter made an occassional appearance as Patrick in 'One Foot In The Grave'?
ANGUS DEAYTON
39
Which pre-Euro German coin was one hundreth of a mark?
PFENNIG
40
Which wading bird is also known as a peewit due to its shrill call?
LAPWING or PLOVER
Round 5
41
'Doodlebug' was a colloquial name for which type of World War II missile?
V-1 / FLYING BOMB
42
Which singer, along with Buddy Holly and 'The Big Bopper' was killed in a plane crash in 1959?
RITCHIE VALENS
43
Nominated by Bill Clinton, who, in 1993, became the first female Attorney General of the USA?
JANET RENO
44
In which city was Guy Fawkes born?
YORK
45
Who invented the Steam Hammer in the nineteenth century?
(James) NAISMITH
46
What is depicted in a stretched out form at the bottom of Holbein's painting The Ambassadors?
A SKULL
47
Who is said to have designed the maze in which the mythical Minotaur was confined?
DAEDALUS
48
Moneymaker, beefsteak and plum are varieties of which fruit?
TOMATO
49
Which iconic U.S. detective agency used the motto 'We Never Sleep'?
PINKERTONS
50
Which stagework, the most performed of all Arthur Miller's plays, was inspired by the so-called McCarthy witchhunts in 1950's America?
THE CRUCIBLE
Round 6
51
What type of foliage is used for the fences on the Grand National course at Aintree?
SPRUCE
52
A British father and son won the Nobel Prize for Physics; the father in 1906 and the son in 1837.  What was their surname?
THOMPSON
(Joseph and George)
53
Which is the only African capital city to have an underground railway system?
CAIRO
54
Which British military institution has the motto; "Serve To Lead"?
SANDHURST
55
In which town or city are the hadquarters of CAMRA - the Campaign For Real Ale?
SAINT ALBANS
56
Which poet wrote the 1817 poem 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving'?
BYRON
57
Said to be the fastest creature on the planet, which is Britain's largest Falcon?
PEREGRINE
58
Who composed the tone poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
DUKAS
59
Which English Queen married her brother-in-law?
CATHERINE OF ARAGON
60
What is the name of the Nazi musical featured in the film The Producers?
SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER
SPARE QUESTIONS
1
In an electrical context, what do the initials LED stand for?
LIGHT EMITTING DIODE
2
Which 1979 science fiction film was at one time going to be called Star Beast?
ALIEN
3
Whic is the most northerly racecourse in the UK?
PERTH