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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League QUESTION PAPER March 28th 2018 |
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The 'WithQuiz at 40' Nostalgia Quiz |
Set by: Roddy Toffler |
28/03/18 |
1.
What ingredient will a dish contain if it is described as Florentine?
2.
Who wrote Tom Brown's School Days?
3.
What cheese is made backwards?
4.
What is the capital of Guernsey?
5.
Whose first Symphony is called The Spring?
6.
For what does the letter 'S' in TS Eliot's name stand?
7.
What does the abbreviation 'ROC' stand for? The organisation disappeared in 1995.
8.
Who is the only person to have won 2 Nobel prizes which weren't shared with anyone else?
9.
What would you be served with in an Indian restaurant if you ordered dal?
10.
Who directed the film The Red Desert?
11.
What does the German expression 'Man ist was er isst' mean in English?
12.
If Beethoven wrote 16 and Shostakovich 15 how many did Bartok write?
13.
For what occasion did Wagner write Siegfried's Idyll?
14.
Who wrote the novels Mary: A Fiction and Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman?
15.
Which stretch of water lies between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire in the south?
16.
Name the following characters who share two sorts of connection: a character in a board game, a detective in a series of novels written between 1910 and 1936 and someone who broadcast on Radio 4 regularly in the morning for 25 years.
1.
Which singer had hits with Ruby Tuesday in 1970 and What Have They Done to My Song Ma? in 1972?
2.
In which country is the mouth of Danube ?
3.
In which country is the mouth of the Zambezi?
4.
What starts at Shardlow and finishes at Preston Brook?
5.
What is the speed of light in diamonds?
6.
What was Dickens's penultimate book called?
7.
In which calendar is the current year Anno Lucis 6018?
What time BST is sunrise on Midsummer's day in Manchester city centre this year?
1.
What ingredient will a dish contain if it is described as Florentine?
2.
Who wrote Tom Brown's School Days?
Thomas Hughes
3.
What cheese is made backwards?
Edam
4.
What is the capital of Guernsey?
St Peter Port
5.
Whose first Symphony is called The Spring?
(Robert) Schumann
6.
For what does the letter 'S' in TS Eliot's name stand?
Stearns
7.
What does the abbreviation 'ROC' stand for? The organisation disappeared in 1995.
Royal Observer Corps
8.
Who is the only person to have won 2 Nobel prizes which weren't shared with anyone else?
Linus Pauling
9.
What would you be served with in an Indian restaurant if you ordered dal?
Lentils
(split pulses, peas or beans)
10.
Who directed the film The Red Desert?
Michelangelo Antonioni
11.
What does the German expression 'Man ist was er isst' mean in English?
'You are what you eat'
12.
If Beethoven wrote 16 and Shostakovich 15 how many did Bartok write?
6
(Violin concertos)
13.
For what occasion did Wagner write Siegfried's Idyll?
His wife's Christmas present
14.
Who wrote the novels Mary: A Fiction and Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman?
Mary Wollstonecraft
15.
Which stretch of water lies between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire in the south?
Cardigan Bay
16.
Name the following characters who share two sorts of connection: a character in a board game, a detective in a series of novels written between 1910 and 1936 and someone who broadcast on Radio 4 regularly in the morning for 25 years.
The Rev Green, Father Brown, Rabbi Blue
1.
Which singer had hits with Ruby Tuesday in 1970 and What Have They Done to My Song Ma? in 1972?
Melanie Safka
2.
In which country is the mouth of Danube ?
Rumania
3.
In which country is the mouth of the Zambezi?
Mozambique
4.
What starts at Shardlow and finishes at Preston Brook?
The Trent and Mersey Canal
5.
What is the speed of light in diamonds?
124,000 km/h
(or 77,000 miles per hour)
6.
What was Dickens's penultimate book called?
Our Mutual Friend
7.
In which calendar is the current year Anno Lucis 6018?
The Masonic calendar
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What time BST is sunrise on Midsummer's day in Manchester city centre this year?
04:39
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