Wrexham Quiz League Questions | 8th
October 2013 - League Week 1
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Round 1 |
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1 |
Which five letter word links the surname of an England cricketer who lived from 1922 to 1986 and a British airline entrepreneur who lived from 1922 to 2006 ? | LAKER |
2 |
Which six letter word links the nickname of a now obsolete British coin and the surname of a tennis player who lost to Bjorn Borg in a men’s singles final at Wimbledon ? | TANNER |
3 |
Who was President Of The USA
at the time of the Wall Street Crash ? |
Herbert HOOVER |
4 |
Which famous novel, published in 1719 does the title character describe his home as "The Island Of Despair" ? | ROBINSON CRUSOE |
5 |
Specifically, where on the
human body is the Axilla ? |
ARMPIT |
6 |
Which famous heavenly body
shares it’s name with the second Astronomer Royal who held
the position from 1720 to 1742 ? |
HALLEY'S COMET |
7 |
Which small island, situated in the middle of the South Atlantic was named after the day it was discovered in 1503 by Portuguese navigator Afonso De Albuquerque ? | ASCENSION |
8 |
Which famous film actor,
singer, music composer and author provided the voice of
Shere Khan the tiger in the 1967 Disney animated film The
Jungle Book ? |
GEORGE SANDERS |
9 |
Which North American State
has the nickname The Peach State ? |
GEORGIA |
10 |
What is the first Christian
name of ex British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ? |
JAMES |
Round 2 |
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11 |
Moses, Muriel, Mollie,
Benjamin, Mr Whymper, Squealer and Minimus are all
characters that appear in which famous novel of 1945 ? |
ANIMAL FARM |
12 |
In which part
of the human body can you find the Malleus
or Hammer bone ? |
THE EAR |
13 |
What was the first Christian
name of ex British Prime Minister James Callaghan ? |
LEONARD |
14 |
Who was President Of The USA
during the time of the British National Strike ? |
Calvin COOLIDGE |
15 |
Having a radius of 586
kilometres, what is the name of the largest satellite of the
dwarf planet Pluto ? |
CHARON |
16 |
Which island, situated in the Canadian territory of Nanavut was discovered by Europeans in 1576 and is named after an English navigator who died in 1622 ? | BAFFIN ISLAND |
17 |
Which ex Carry On star
provided the voice of Mallymkun The Dormouse in the 2010
computer animated Disney film Alice In Wonderland ? |
BARBARBA WINDSOR |
18 |
Which North American State
has the nickname The Badger State ? |
WISCONSIN |
19 |
Which astronaut, part of the
Apollo 12 mission on November 19th 1969 became the 4th
person to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
and Pete Conrad ? |
Alan BEAN |
20 |
Which astronaut, part of the Apollo 17 mission on December 11th 1972 became the last of two men to walk on the moon along with fellow astronaut Harrison Schmitt ? | Eugene CERNAN |
Round 3 |
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21 |
Which London theatre has the same name as a silvery, white metal with the atomic number 46 ? | PALLADIUM |
22 |
What was the name of the
African, American civil rights activist dubbed ‘ The first
lady of civil rights ‘ who on December 1st 1955 refused to
obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she gave up her
seat in the coloured section of the bus to a white passenger
because the white section was full ? |
ROSA PARKS |
23 |
Which English football club
used to play their home matches at The Old Show Ground until
moving to their current stadium in 1988 ? |
SCUNTHORPE UNITED |
24 |
Which chemical element, a
strong, light metal with the atomic number 22 takes it’s
name from the Greek for "First Sons On Earth" ? |
TITANIUM |
25 |
What was the two word name of
the Jordanian citizen, who, on June 5th 1968 shot and
eventually killed Senator Robert F Kennedy ? |
SIRHAN SIRHAN |
26 |
Which English football club used to play their home matches at Fellows Park until moving to their current stadium in 1990 ? | WALSALL |
27 |
Standing at 1,309 metres in height, which is Scotland’s second highest mountain after Ben Nevis, it is the highest mountain in the Cairngorms ? | BEN MCDUI |
28 |
23 out of the first 24 highest peaks in England lie in the Lake District with Scafell Pike being the highest. Which is the peak that does not lie in the Lake District, it is the 11th highest in England at 893 metres in height and is situated in the North Pennines ? | CROSS FELL |
29 |
Which plant or vegetable is
sometimes called Ladies Fingers ? |
OKRA |
30 |
Sometimes called a Loganberry when first Patented by David L Jennings of Dundee in 1979 what name is given to a fruit that is a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, it takes it’s name from a well known British river ? | TAYBERRY |
Round 4 |
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What is the name of the all
female Russian punk band that in 2012 were jailed for two
Years for staging an anti Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow
Cathedral ? |
PUSSY RIOT |
32 |
An incident that occurred on
November 19th 2002, in which European capital city did Pop
star Michael Jackson create huge controversy when he dangled
a baby from the fifth Floor of a hotel bedroom window ? |
BERLIN |
33 |
What is the surname of the
four children in the Children’s book The Lion The Witch And
The Wardrobe by C S Lewis ? |
PEVENSIE |
34 |
Which Gilbert And Sullivan opera set in Asia featured the famous saying "Let the punishment fit the crime" ? | THE MIKADO |
35 |
In which children’s comic did
the character "Roy Of The Rovers" first appear in September
1954 ? |
THE TIGER |
36 |
Elected on October 14th 2011,
what is the name of the current Secretary of state for
defence ? |
Phillip HAMMOND |
37 |
Apart from it’s original
presenter Roy Plomly, who has been the only regular male
presenter of the radio show Desert Island Discs, doing so
from 1985 to 1988 ? |
MICHAEL PARKINSON |
38 |
Introduced in 2006, What two
word term was given to the optical disc storing medium,
designed to be the successor to DVD, offering a much larger
capacity and picture quality ? |
BLURAY |
39 |
Which Asian country’s flag
consists of a single yellow star on a red background ? |
VIETNAM |
40 |
Ex US President George H W
Bush was born in 1924, the same year as which other still
living ex US President ? |
JIMMY CARTER |
Round 5 |
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41 |
Elected on September 4th
2012, who is the current Leader of the House Of Commons ? |
Andrew LANSLEY |
42 |
Apart from it’s current
presenter Kirsty Young, who has been the only regular
female presenter of the radio show Desert Island Discs,
doing so from 1988 to 2006 ? |
SUE LAWLEY |
43 |
Which Gilbert And Sullivan
opera that was introduced in 1889 opens to 24 Venetian
young maidens binding white and red roses in posies to give
to Marco and Giuseppe Palmeiri two persons that they all
love ? |
THE GONDOLIERS |
44 |
Which Asian country’s flag
consists of a large red disc on a green background ? |
BANGLADESH |
45 |
Ex US President Gerald Ford
was born in 1913, the same year as which other ex US
president, now deceased ? |
RIXHARD NIXON |
46 |
In which children’s comic did
the character Dan Dare first appear in September 1954 ? |
THE EAGLE |
47 |
Introduced in 2007 what six
letter name is given to the device described as being
an e – book reader or a software and hardware platform
designed by Amazon for the rendering of e – books and other
digital media., they are often able to download over 1,000
books ? |
KINDLE |
48 |
Excluding the baby twins John
and Barbara, name either of the Christian names of the Two
children that Mary Poppins was sent to look after in the
1934 book by PL Travers Their names being the same in the
1964 film ? |
JANE or MICHAEL |
49 |
Which county won the Cricket
County Championship on six occasions during the 1960’s
Including three consecutive titles in 1966, 1967 and 1968 ? |
YORKSHIRE |
50 |
Which county won the Cricket
County Championship seven years in succession between 1952
and 1958 ? |
SURREY |
Round 6 |
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51 |
Clara Petacci, who lived from
1912 – 1945 was the mistress of which famous politician who
lived from 1883 – 1945 ? |
Benito MUSSOLINI |
52 |
Released in 1973, Rod Stewart
provided the lead vocals for which three word named
Australian rock band for a 1972 top ten single entitled ‘ In
A Broken Dream ‘ ? |
PYTHIN LEE JACKSON |
53 |
The Brenner Pass connects
Italy with which other country ? |
AUSTRIA |
54 |
Which famous historical
figure who lived from 1595 to 1617 was famously linked to
English captain John Smith who arrived in her country with
more than 100 settlers in April 1607 ? |
POCOHONTAS |
55 |
In 1971, the pop band
Sakkarin under the production of Jonathan King reached
number Twelve in the British pop charts with which record
that had been a number one hit two Years earlier ? |
SUGAR, SUGAR |
56 |
Which famous novel, published
in 1939 features the main family who are named Joad, a poor
family of tenant farmers during the Great Depression ? |
THE GRAPES OF WRATH |
57 |
Which famous novel, published in 1922 is the main character and protagonist named Leopold Bloom and follows his encounters in Dublin ? | ULYSSES |
58 |
What is the name of the Bridge in Southern France that opened in 2004, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central Mountains and with a height of 984 feet, it is the world’s highest Road bridge ? | THE MILLAU |
59 |
Which renowned public school
is situated in Godalming in Surrey ? |
CHARTERHOUSE |
60 |
Which renowned independent
school is situated in Elgin in Moray ? |
GORDONSTOUN |
SPARE
QUESTIONS |
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1 |
Which
Austrian far right leader was killed in a car crash in
October 2008 ? |
Jorg HAIDER |
2 |
The song ‘
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas comes from which
musical ? |
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS |
3 |
Which was
the first English football club that Liverpool legend Bill
Shankly managed ? |
CARLISLE UNITED |
4 |
Which actor played the role
of Milton Arbogast, the detective who is killed on the
stairs in the Hitchcock thriller Psycho ? |
MARTIN BALSAM |