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27/05/2019

Keep Your Distance

15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  Each answer contains the name of a unit of length - past or present.  Make your choice.

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1.

Film characters

Which film character believes his mission is to protect the galaxy from the Evil Emperor Zurg?

Buzz Lightyear

(in the Toy Story series of films)
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2.

News broadcasters

Which well known news broadcaster is this taking part in a charity triathlon event?

Louise Minchin

(from BBC Breakfast)
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3.

1960s pop

Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck all started their careers with which 1960s band playing this 1965 hit?  (click to play)

The Yardbirds

(playing For Your Love)
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4.

Boars

In 20th century literature who is described as “a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar” who has “a reputation for getting his own way”?

Napoleon

(the chief antagonist in Animal Farm by George Orwell)
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5.

Architecture

What is the architectural term for the area of this arch showing the carved figure?

Spandrel
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6.

Opera

Who wrote the 1842 opera Russlan and Ludmilla whose overture you can now hear?  (click to play)

(Mikhail) Glinka
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7.

1980s novels

Which 1984 Mary Wesley novel starts with a family holiday in Cornwall in the summer of 1939?  The 1992 TV version starred Tara Fitzgerald and Paul Eddington.

The Camomile Lawn
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8.

Museums

Britain’s National Waterways Museum is based in which North West town?

Ellesmere Port
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9.

South Manchester

Of which long-established South Manchester business is Patrick Hannity founder and owner?

The Lime Tree

(the restaurant on Lapwing Lane)
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10.

Nobel prizes

Along with Sir Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey who won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1945 for discovering penicillin?

Sir Ernst Chain
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11.

Theatres

This east of England theatre is home to which famous group of performers?

(The Cambridge University) Footlights (Club)
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12.

Horses

What is the name of this breed of draft horse that originated in France?

Percheron
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13.

Diplomacy

Between 1920 and 1933 British diplomat Sir Eric Drummond was Secretary General of which organisation?

The League of Nations
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14.

Film production

What is the name of the film production company set up by George Harrison that made The Life of Brian and Withnail and I amongst other films?

Handmade films
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15.

Female pioneers

Since early 2018 Sarah Clarke has been the first woman to fill which London-based role?

(Lady Usher of the)

 Black Rod
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