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WithQuiz League paper 20/11/24

Set by: KFD

QotW: R4/Q8

Average Aggregate Score: 74.3

(Season's Ave. Agg.: 76.2)

"It was a bit of a 'curate’s egg'  and a game of two halves”

"A few long confers, but overall, a well-constructed quiz."

"Some very good confounders in the theme rounds."

 

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

What connects a literary quarterly journal published between 1894 and 1897, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, and an annual guide to open gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands?

2.

What is the name of the film character/narrator who informs us that, “Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine … and came out clean on the other side”?

3.

Which hip-hop group headlined the Superbowl XLV halftime show in 2011?

4.

With an average speed of about 1mph, which large species of shark is the slowest fish known?  It is also thought to be the longest lived vertebrate, being capable of reaching over 400 years old.

5.

Which Indie band, originating from Hoylake, Merseyside, released their first, eponymous album in 2002?  Among their best known hits are Dreaming of You and In the Morning.

6.

Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the American Declaration of Independence?

7.

The actor who played this role in the original Star Trek TV series later went on to become a gay rights activist with a prominent social media presence.  Name the character.

8.

Which singer, reality TV star and generic celebrity presents the BBC TV show Sort Your Life Out?

Sp1

Which arts centre in north-east England is housed in a former flour mill?

Sp2

What were the first two sentences spoken from the moon?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

Which 17th Century philosopher is credited with the creation of the 'x,y coordinate system'?

2.

Which League 1 club is the 3rd oldest professional football club in the world?  Its stadium is named after a sport previously held there.  It is thought to be the world’s oldest international stadium; the first international was held there in 1877.

3.

Which League 1 club was founded in 1883 as Black Arabs FC?  Its official nickname is the 'Pirates' although the supporters are more likely to use the name 'The Gas'.

4.

Which town, 35 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne and 37 miles from Carlisle, has a famous abbey founded by St Wilfrid, in c674?  The town has the only racecourse in the county of Northumberland.

5.

Which word connects symphonies by Vaughan Williams and Beethoven?

6.

Which branch of mathematics developed, independently, in England and Germany in the 17th century gets its name from a Latin word for pebble?

7.

Which town, 9 miles from Hull and 27 miles from York, has a famous minster founded by St John of York, in c700?  The town has the only racecourse in the administrative area of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

8.

Which word connects a string quartet by Haydn and a piano concerto by Beethoven?

Sp.

Which League 1 club was the first to rise from Division 4 to Division 1?  Its nickname comes from its famous local industry.  Until moving to their present stadium they shared a ground with the local cricket team.

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Announced theme - 'Sure I'm Grand'

Each answer contains a word that can be placed after the word 'grand' to make a longer word or phrase

1.

This hotel group was founded in 1881.  It was taken over by the Leonardo Hotels Group in 2023 and its hotels were rebranded.  By what name were they originally named?

2.

For which film was Sissy Spacek awarded the Oscar for Best Actress in 1980?

3.

Which phrase links a Leiber and Stoller song first recorded in 1961 and a 1986 Rob Reiner film starring River Phoenix?

4.

This novel by Gaston Leroux was first published in 1910.  It inspired film versions in 1925 (starring Lon Chaney), 1943 (starring Claude Rains), 1962 (starring Herbert Lom), 1989, 1998 and 2004 (a film adaptation of the musical version).  What is the novel called?

5.

Its holdings include Pickering Castle, Peveril Castle, the Peak Cavern, Harrogate Ladies College and Kiln Park (the original home of AFC Rushden and Diamonds).  It was created in 1351.  What is it?

6.

It was first awarded in 1903.  Previous winners include Marcel Proust and Simone de Beauvoir.  The winner receives a reward of 10 Euros.  What is it?

7.

Which organisation founded in 1895 is based at Heelis in Swindon?  The name of the building is the married name of one of the key figures in the organisation’s early history.

8.

Which unofficial title is currently held by Sir Edward Leigh?

Sp1

What phrase is used to describe someone who tries to remove all the difficulties their children may have to deal with?

Sp2

This novel was written between 1928 and the author’s death in 1940, but not published until 1967. It mixes supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy.  Its characters include Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate and a giant cat called Behemoth.  It was said to have inspired the Rolling Stones song Sympathy For The Devil.  What is the name of the novel?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Which 2008 film is centred around the relationship between Owen Wilson and his pet Labrador?

2.

Which actor starred as Black Panther and died early from cancer in 2020?  (full name required)

3.

What is the colloquial name of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest maximum-security prison in the United states, housing 6,300 inmates?

4.

This locally born author recently celebrated his 90th birthday.  His first children’s fantasy novel was published in 1960 and his latest was nominated for the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist.  Who is he?

5.

Since 1952 the SS United States has held the Blue Riband for the fastest average speed by a passenger liner crossing the Atlantic.  Which ship previously held the Blue Riband for the longest period?

6.

Which animated film franchise has seen four iterations and features the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and David Schwimmer?

7.

Despite being demonetised in 1816, the name of which coin remains in colloquial use?  The original coin had a value of 20 shillings.

8.

It has been recorded by artists as diverse as Julie London, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Max Bygraves.  It has been referenced in the novels of Norman Mailer and Terry Pratchett.  It is sung in the films Jaws and A River Runs Through It.  What is the title of this song, written in 1925?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

1.

Five stadiums have staged a men’s football World Cup final, a men’s football European Championship final, a men’s football Champions League final and have been the main stadium for an Olympic Games. Name three.

2.

36 teams contest the various sporting championships of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). 32 are the counties of Ireland, name two of the other four?

3.

The Boston Red Sox failed to win a World Series Baseball Championship for 85 years between 1919 and 2003.  How was the superstition which developed around this epic failure known?

4.

Gaelic Park in the Bronx is the furthest senior GAA ground away from where you are now.  Which is the nearest (it’s closer than you might imagine)?

5.

In a theatre an actor may occasionally be required to leave the room, spin around three times, spit and then curse before re-entering the room.  This is not part of the performance so why would an actor do this?

6.

Less than six miles from where you are sitting an event took place, before the quiz league was founded, which, it is claimed, inspired the formation of The Smiths, Joy Division, Buzzcocks and The Fall (and others).  What was the event?

7.

Selected by the American Dialect Society as its word of the year for 2023, what word is used to describe the following:

“A pattern in which online products and services decline in quality.  Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.”?

8.

Collins 2022 word of the year described the feeling or experience of living through a period of war, inflation and political instability.  What was it?

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Announced theme

Each answer contains the name of a character that features in one of Shakespeare's comedies

1.

In which Mozart opera does the Queen of the Night appear?

2.

Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler were the two unemployed, crude and perverted flatmates in which BBC sitcom which ran from 1991 to 1995?

3.

Which item of sporting equipment has a standard size of 1 inch thickness, 3 inches diameter and a weight of between 5.5 and 6 ounces?

4.

Which Spartan general appears in the song The British Grenadiers alongside Alexander, Hercules and Hector?  It is also the name of a Second World War aircraft produced by Westland which was regularly used to support agents in occupied France.

5.

Which 3rd century Roman is the saint of plague, epilepsy and beekeepers and other groups of people.  It is also the name of the most produced British tank of the Second World War manufactured by Vickers.  Its name, possibly, came about because of the time of year that the plans were submitted to the War Office.

6.

What is the name of the fruit produced by the cydonia oblonga?  Slices of the fruit were eaten by the two main protagonists in a work produced by a poet with a Shakespearian name.

7.

Which avuncular character was played by Jackie Coogan in an American TV series from 1964-1966? He was also played by Christopher Lloyd in the 1991 film version alongside Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia.

8.

What was Verdi’s last opera?

Sp.

Which actor’s TV roles include Lance Stater and Alan Bates.  He is also the voice of Dobby in the Harry Potter films.

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

A partial Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in 1862 prompted President Lincoln to issue which historic Executive Order on New Year’s Day 1863?

2.

What is significant about discoveries made at Happisburgh (pronounced Hayzboro), Norfolk, in 2010?

3.

The dugong, a large marine mammal found in coastal waters around the Indian Ocean is closely related to which other members of the order Sirenia, all found around the Atlantic Ocean?

4.

What is the name of the short speech delivered on 19th November 1863 by President Lincoln on the battlefield where the Union Army had won a major victory a few months earlier?

5.

What is the lowest score that is impossible to obtain in a cribbage hand?

6.

Hyraxes (or dassies) are small marmot-like mammals found abundantly in southern and eastern Africa.  Despite their size, they are most closely related to manatees, dugongs and which other family of large mammals?

7.

Grimes Graves, near Thetford, Norfolk is an important archaeological site.  What material was mined there an estimated 4600 years ago?

8.

What is the lowest impossible 3 dart checkout?

Sp1

Which lyric, from a much-covered song originally recorded by Mack Rice in 1965, was emblazoned on T-shirts worn by many spectators at the launch of the space shuttle Challenger in June 1983?

Sp2

Which unlikely feat was achieved by Lowestoft Ladies FC, nicknamed ‘The Waves’ in 1981-82?  The club folded a year later.

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Pairs - 'A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place'

Each answer is the name of a country, a county, a city or a town

1.

The two largest tea producing countries are China and India.  The fourth largest is Sri Lanka.  But which country is the third largest?

2.

In 2011 this English county had no cities.  By the end of 2022 it had three.  Which county is it?

3.

Which town is the site of a battle in the Wars of the Roses and also the terminus of a London Underground line?

4.

Four members of the European Union are not members of NATO.  Name three of them.

5.

Two places located outside the UK were granted city status in 2022 to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  Name one of them.

6.

Which town is the home of Brunel University and also the terminus of a London Underground line?

7.

In addition to Liverpool four English cities have both Anglican and Catholic cathedrals.  Name three of them.

8.

The first and third largest coffee producing countries are Brazil and Colombia.  But which country is the second largest?

Sp.

Which was the only place in Scotland to be granted city status in 2022 as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee?  It is the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie and its football team play at East End Park.

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ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

What connects a literary quarterly journal published between 1894 and 1897, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, and an annual guide to open gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands?

The Yellow Book

2.

What is the name of the film character/narrator who informs us that, “Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine … and came out clean on the other side”?

Ellis Redding

(but ‘Red’ will do)

3.

Which hip-hop group headlined the Superbowl XLV halftime show in 2011?

The Black-Eyed Peas

4.

With an average speed of about 1mph, which large species of shark is the slowest fish known?  It is also thought to be the longest lived vertebrate, being capable of reaching over 400 years old.

Greenland Shark

5.

Which Indie band, originating from Hoylake, Merseyside, released their first, eponymous album in 2002?  Among their best known hits are Dreaming of You and In the Morning.

The Coral

6.

Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the American Declaration of Independence?

Lord North

7.

The actor who played this role in the original Star Trek TV series later went on to become a gay rights activist with a prominent social media presence.  Name the character.

Mr Sulu

(the actor is George Takei)

8.

Which singer, reality TV star and generic celebrity presents the BBC TV show Sort Your Life Out?

Stacey Solomon

Sp1

Which arts centre in north-east England is housed in a former flour mill?

The Baltic Centre

(for Contemporary Art)

Sp2

What were the first two sentences spoken from the moon?

“Tranquility base here.  The Eagle has landed.”

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a sea

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ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

Which 17th Century philosopher is credited with the creation of the 'x,y coordinate system'?

Descartes

2.

Which League 1 club is the 3rd oldest professional football club in the world?  Its stadium is named after a sport previously held there.  It is thought to be the world’s oldest international stadium; the first international was held there in 1877.

Wrexham

(Racecourse Ground - although it also has a silly sponsorship name)

3.

Which League 1 club was founded in 1883 as Black Arabs FC?  Its official nickname is the 'Pirates' although the supporters are more likely to use the name 'The Gas'.

Bristol Rovers

4.

Which town, 35 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne and 37 miles from Carlisle, has a famous abbey founded by St Wilfrid, in c674?  The town has the only racecourse in the county of Northumberland.

Hexham

(Newcastle is in Tyne and Wear)

5.

Which word connects symphonies by Vaughan Williams and Beethoven?

Pastoral

6.

Which branch of mathematics developed, independently, in England and Germany in the 17th century gets its name from a Latin word for pebble?

Calculus

7.

Which town, 9 miles from Hull and 27 miles from York, has a famous minster founded by St John of York, in c700?  The town has the only racecourse in the administrative area of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Beverley

8.

Which word connects a string quartet by Haydn and a piano concerto by Beethoven?

Emperor

Sp.

Which League 1 club was the first to rise from Division 4 to Division 1?  Its nickname comes from its famous local industry.  Until moving to their present stadium they shared a ground with the local cricket team.

Northampton Town

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ROUND 3 - Announced theme - 'Sure I'm Grand'

Each answer contains a word that can be placed after the word 'grand' to make a longer word or phrase

1.

This hotel group was founded in 1881.  It was taken over by the Leonardo Hotels Group in 2023 and its hotels were rebranded.  By what name were they originally named?

Jury's

2.

For which film was Sissy Spacek awarded the Oscar for Best Actress in 1980?

Coal Miner's Daughter

3.

Which phrase links a Leiber and Stoller song first recorded in 1961 and a 1986 Rob Reiner film starring River Phoenix?

Stand by Me

4.

This novel by Gaston Leroux was first published in 1910.  It inspired film versions in 1925 (starring Lon Chaney), 1943 (starring Claude Rains), 1962 (starring Herbert Lom), 1989, 1998 and 2004 (a film adaptation of the musical version).  What is the novel called?

Phantom of the Opera

5.

Its holdings include Pickering Castle, Peveril Castle, the Peak Cavern, Harrogate Ladies College and Kiln Park (the original home of AFC Rushden and Diamonds).  It was created in 1351.  What is it?

The Duchy of Lancaster

6.

It was first awarded in 1903.  Previous winners include Marcel Proust and Simone de Beauvoir.  The winner receives a reward of 10 Euros.  What is it?

Prix Goncourt

7.

Which organisation founded in 1895 is based at Heelis in Swindon?  The name of the building is the married name of one of the key figures in the organisation’s early history.

The National Trust

(Heelis was the married name of Beatrix Potter)

8.

Which unofficial title is currently held by Sir Edward Leigh?

Father of the House

(He has been an MP since 1983 - so have Sir Roger Gale and Jeremy Corbyn but Leigh was the first to be sworn in)

Sp1

What phrase is used to describe someone who tries to remove all the difficulties their children may have to deal with?

A lawnmower parent

Sp2

This novel was written between 1928 and the author’s death in 1940, but not published until 1967. It mixes supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy.  Its characters include Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate and a giant cat called Behemoth.  It was said to have inspired the Rolling Stones song Sympathy For The Devil.  What is the name of the novel?

The Master and Magarita

(by Mikhail Bulgakov - and if you haven’t read it you must a book like no other!)

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ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Which 2008 film is centred around the relationship between Owen Wilson and his pet Labrador?

Marley & Me

2.

Which actor starred as Black Panther and died early from cancer in 2020?  (full name required)

Chadwick Boseman

3.

What is the colloquial name of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest maximum-security prison in the United states, housing 6,300 inmates?

The Angola Plantation

(accept reasonably close answers so long as they contain Angola)

4.

This locally born author recently celebrated his 90th birthday.  His first children’s fantasy novel was published in 1960 and his latest was nominated for the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist.  Who is he?

Alan Garner

5.

Since 1952 the SS United States has held the Blue Riband for the fastest average speed by a passenger liner crossing the Atlantic.  Which ship previously held the Blue Riband for the longest period?

RMS Mauretania

(1909 – 1929)

6.

Which animated film franchise has seen four iterations and features the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and David Schwimmer?

Madagascar

7.

Despite being demonetised in 1816, the name of which coin remains in colloquial use?  The original coin had a value of 20 shillings.

Guinea

(QM: Please note this is not a typo, a Guinea originally WAS worth 20 shillings so don’t allow any pleas for a spare)

8.

It has been recorded by artists as diverse as Julie London, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Max Bygraves.  It has been referenced in the novels of Norman Mailer and Terry Pratchett.  It is sung in the films Jaws and A River Runs Through It.  What is the title of this song, written in 1925?

Show Me The Way To Go Home

Theme: Each answer contains the name of an African country ...

Mali, Chad, Angola, Ghana, Mauritania, Madagascar, Guinea and Togo

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ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

1.

Five stadiums have staged a men’s football World Cup final, a men’s football European Championship final, a men’s football Champions League final and have been the main stadium for an Olympic Games. Name three.

(three of) ...

(Old) Wembley,

Stade de France,

Olympic Stadium Rome,

Olympic Stadium Berlin,

Olympic Stadium Munich

2.

36 teams contest the various sporting championships of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). 32 are the counties of Ireland, name two of the other four?

(two of) ...

London,

New York,

Lancashire,

Warwickshire.

3.

The Boston Red Sox failed to win a World Series Baseball Championship for 85 years between 1919 and 2003.  How was the superstition which developed around this epic failure known?

The Curse of the Bambino

(Red Sox star player Babe Ruth was the Bambino - he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1920, thus giving rise to the curse)

4.

Gaelic Park in the Bronx is the furthest senior GAA ground away from where you are now.  Which is the nearest (it’s closer than you might imagine)?

Old Bedians

(on Mill Gate Lane in East Didsbury)

5.

In a theatre an actor may occasionally be required to leave the room, spin around three times, spit and then curse before re-entering the room.  This is not part of the performance so why would an actor do this?

To lift the curse caused by saying the name Macbeth other than in rehearsal or performance

6.

Less than six miles from where you are sitting an event took place, before the quiz league was founded, which, it is claimed, inspired the formation of The Smiths, Joy Division, Buzzcocks and The Fall (and others).  What was the event?

The Sex Pistols playing the Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976

(It is claimed that Pete Shelley, Howard Devoto, Morrissey, Peter Hook and Mark E Smith all attended the gig.  Since the Lesser Free Trade Hall could only hold an audience of forty the claim may be exaggerated and it’s really unfair on the Pistols to suggest that Mick Hucknall was also present and formed Simply Red as a consequence.)

7.

Selected by the American Dialect Society as its word of the year for 2023, what word is used to describe the following:

“A pattern in which online products and services decline in quality.  Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.”?

Enshittification

(accept crapification - it is now also applied to democracy, politics and so on)

8.

Collins 2022 word of the year described the feeling or experience of living through a period of war, inflation and political instability.  What was it?

Permacrisis

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ROUND 6 - Announced theme

Each answer contains the name of a character that features in one of Shakespeare's comedies

1.

In which Mozart opera does the Queen of the Night appear?

Magic Flute

(Die Zauberflote)

2.

Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler were the two unemployed, crude and perverted flatmates in which BBC sitcom which ran from 1991 to 1995?

Bottom

3.

Which item of sporting equipment has a standard size of 1 inch thickness, 3 inches diameter and a weight of between 5.5 and 6 ounces?

Ice hockey puck

(accept puck)

4.

Which Spartan general appears in the song The British Grenadiers alongside Alexander, Hercules and Hector?  It is also the name of a Second World War aircraft produced by Westland which was regularly used to support agents in occupied France.

Lysander

5.

Which 3rd century Roman is the saint of plague, epilepsy and beekeepers and other groups of people.  It is also the name of the most produced British tank of the Second World War manufactured by Vickers.  Its name, possibly, came about because of the time of year that the plans were submitted to the War Office.

Valentine

6.

What is the name of the fruit produced by the cydonia oblonga?  Slices of the fruit were eaten by the two main protagonists in a work produced by a poet with a Shakespearian name.

Quince

7.

Which avuncular character was played by Jackie Coogan in an American TV series from 1964-1966? He was also played by Christopher Lloyd in the 1991 film version alongside Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia.

Uncle Fester

8.

What was Verdi’s last opera?

Falstaff

Sp.

Which actor’s TV roles include Lance Stater and Alan Bates.  He is also the voice of Dobby in the Harry Potter films.

Toby Jones

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ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

A partial Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in 1862 prompted President Lincoln to issue which historic Executive Order on New Year’s Day 1863?

The Emancipation Proclamation

2.

What is significant about discoveries made at Happisburgh (pronounced Hayzboro), Norfolk, in 2010?

Earliest evidence of human habitation in Britain

(about 900,000 years ago)

3.

The dugong, a large marine mammal found in coastal waters around the Indian Ocean is closely related to which other members of the order Sirenia, all found around the Atlantic Ocean?

Manatees

4.

What is the name of the short speech delivered on 19th November 1863 by President Lincoln on the battlefield where the Union Army had won a major victory a few months earlier?

The Gettysburg Address

5.

What is the lowest score that is impossible to obtain in a cribbage hand?

19

6.

Hyraxes (or dassies) are small marmot-like mammals found abundantly in southern and eastern Africa.  Despite their size, they are most closely related to manatees, dugongs and which other family of large mammals?

Elephantidae or Elephants

7.

Grimes Graves, near Thetford, Norfolk is an important archaeological site.  What material was mined there an estimated 4600 years ago?

Flint

8.

What is the lowest impossible 3 dart checkout?

163

Sp1

Which lyric, from a much-covered song originally recorded by Mack Rice in 1965, was emblazoned on T-shirts worn by many spectators at the launch of the space shuttle Challenger in June 1983?

"Ride, Sally Ride"

Sp2

Which unlikely feat was achieved by Lowestoft Ladies FC, nicknamed ‘The Waves’ in 1981-82?  The club folded a year later.

Won the WFA Cup

(beating Cleveland Spartans 2-0 at Loftus Road)

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ROUND 8 - Pairs - 'A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place'

Each answer is the name of a country, a county, a city or a town

1.

The two largest tea producing countries are China and India.  The fourth largest is Sri Lanka.  But which country is the third largest?

Kenya

2.

In 2011 this English county had no cities.  By the end of 2022 it had three.  Which county is it?

Essex

(Chelmsford was granted city status in June 2012 to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee; Southend-on-Sea in March 2022 following the death of its MP David Amess; Colchester in September 2022 to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee)

3.

Which town is the site of a battle in the Wars of the Roses and also the terminus of a London Underground line?

Barnet

4.

Four members of the European Union are not members of NATO.  Name three of them.

(three from) ...

Austria,

Cyprus,

Malta

Ireland

5.

Two places located outside the UK were granted city status in 2022 to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  Name one of them.

(either)

Douglas (Isle of Man)

(or)

Stanley (Falkland Islands)

6.

Which town is the home of Brunel University and also the terminus of a London Underground line?

Uxbridge

7.

In addition to Liverpool four English cities have both Anglican and Catholic cathedrals.  Name three of them.

(three from) ...

Newcastle,

Norwich,

Sheffield,

Portsmouth

(Westminster Abbey isn’t a cathedral)

8.

The first and third largest coffee producing countries are Brazil and Colombia.  But which country is the second largest?

Vietnam

Sp.

Which was the only place in Scotland to be granted city status in 2022 as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee?  It is the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie and its football team play at East End Park.

Dunfermline

Go back to Round 8 questions without answers