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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Your Choice - 25/02/19 - Answers |
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Ford Fiesta |
15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter. Each answer contains a word or syllable that precedes ‘ford’ in a UK place-name. Make your choice. |
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1990s Oscars |
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Which film directed by Michael Radford with a main theme that you can hear playing won an Oscar in 1995 for Best Musical Score? (click to play) |
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Il Postino (The Postman) Ilford |
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2. |
Teflon-coated pans |
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Which company, started in 1960 by Canadian Philip Kives, used a new-style TV ad campaign to sell teflon-coated pans? It’s fame in the UK is mainly linked to music. |
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K-Tel (Kives television) Telford |
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3. |
Footballers |
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Which Dutch player spent just 3 years in the Premiership winning 3 league titles, one FA Cup final and one Champions league final before joining Lazio? |
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Jaap Stam (Manchester United defender 1998-2001) Stamford |
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1960s pop music |
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Which song taken from a famous 1969 album includes the lyrics:
“Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting |
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Here Comes the Sun (written by George Harrison and performed by The Beatles on Abbey Road) Hereford |
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5. |
2012 films |
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Which 2012 Sci-fi film starring Jennifer Lawrence is being advertised here?
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The Hunger Games Hungerford |
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Early aviation |
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Which was the first British fighter plane to synchronise its machine gun fire with propeller rotation? |
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Sopwith Camel Camelford |
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14th century England |
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Richard II is seen at Smithfield Market in 1381 overseeing whose murder?
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Wat Tyler (leader of the Peasants’ Revolt – the picture is taken from a contemporary chronicle) Watford |
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8. |
Manchester politics |
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Known until 1944 as Miss Betts who – amongst many other jobs – represented Greater Manchester as MEP between 1979 and 1989? |
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Barbara Castle Castleford |
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Football connections |
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What surname connects the song Blue Moon and two post war Manchester City footballers, one of whom also briefly managed them? |
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Hart (Lorenz H wrote the lyrics to Blue Moon, Joe H played for City and Johnny H played for, and managed, City) Hartford |
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Thelma and Louise |
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Whose ninth film role – that of a cowboy hitchhiker (called JD) in Thelma and Louise – was the role that gained him recognition as a Hollywood star? |
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Brad Pitt Bradford |
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11. |
Traditional tunes |
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What’s the name of this traditional English folk tune? (click to play) |
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The Ash Grove Ashford |
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12. |
London buildings |
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Situated in the City of London just off Gresham Street which building is this?
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The Guildhall Guildford |
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Chinese texts |
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Which ancient Chinese divination text is also known as the Book of Changes? |
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I Ching Chingford |
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14. |
Geology |
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Also known as ‘scoria’ what word defines extrusive igneous rocks, usually coloured brown, red or black, and – up to the 1960s – used to surface running tracks? |
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Cinders Cinderford |
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15. |
Manchester pubs |
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What’s the name of the pub on Liverpool Road opposite the MOSI and the Air and Space Museum? |
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The Ox (formerly The Oxnoble) Oxford |
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