Quiz 4
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Written by Jim Ackroyd
Round 1. General Knowledge
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What profession did Handel originally study?
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What European nation was the first to drink tea?
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Beaufort - the wind scale man - had what job?
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What bird is the symbol of Penguin books
(children's section)?
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Diane Leather was the first woman to do what?
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What is Admiral Sir Miles Messervy usually known
as?
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Which part of the body is most sensitive to
radiation?
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The Boar War - South Africa started in1899. What
year did it end?
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Mr Chips said goodbye from Brookfield school -
What subject?
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In which American city can you get a doctorate
in hambugerology?
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Which author created The Saint (both names)?
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Which famous man was known as "Barry O'Bomber"
at school due to his basketball prowess?
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Francis Rossi and Ronnie Wood have both lost
which part of their face?
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In 1985, Sting sang guest vocals on which
"relatively" best- selling album for a group of troublemakers?
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The US state of California borders the Pacific
Ocean, the Mexican state of Baja California and which three
other US States?
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In Greek mythology, who was known as a divine
hero, the son of the ruler of Mount Olympus and the nephew of
Amphitryon?
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Who am I? I was a English poet, novelist and
jazz critic and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the
death of John Betjamin, but declined the post?
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Canopus, Rigel, Regulus and Procyon are all
examples of what?
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In which country can one find (spell it out) "Agencja
Wywiadu", the Foreign Intelligence Agency?
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What connects the actors Lon Chaney, Charles
Laughton and Anthony Quinn?
Round 1 - Answers
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The Law
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The Dutch
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Sailor (Admiral)
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Puffin
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Sub 5 minute mile
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M (Bond films)
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The Blood
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Nineteen nought two
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Latin
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Hamburger College Chicago
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Leslie Charteri
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Barack Obama, US Politician
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Nasal Septum - part of their nose, due to drug
abuse
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Brothers in Arms - (Dire Straits)
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Oregon, Nevada, Arizona
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Heracles (or Hercules)
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Philip Larkin
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Bright stars
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Poland
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They have all played the hunchback of Notre Dame
Round 2 - Sporting Surfaces
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On what surface is the French Open tennis
tournament played?
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Which sport is played on a pitch that is usually
300 yards long?
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Which sporting surface is 78 feet long and 27
feet wide for singles matches?
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What does a yellow and red striped flag tell you
in a Formula One race?
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On a golf course, where is usually the only
place that you would be allowed to
mark, lift and clean your ball?
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How many squares are there on a chessboard?
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Which west London football club installed an
artificial pitch, later banned, in the
1980s?
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Which sporting field of play has a free throw
line at each end?
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In which sport does the pitch have numbered
lines every ten metres?
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Which sport’s pitch has a 22-metre line in each
half?
Round 2 - Answers
1 - Clay,
2 - Polo,
3 - Tennis Court,
4 - Slippery surface: Oil or water on Track,
5 - On the putting green,
6 - 64,
7 - Queens Park Rangers,
8 - Basketball court,
9 - American/Canadian Football,
10 - Rugby Union
Round 3 - General Knowledge
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Who flew in Vostok 1?
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What's the name given to lines of equal
underwater depth on maps?
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The X-Men character Wolverine is named after the
animal of the same name. What kind of animal is a wolverine?
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What is the SI unit of frequency (used in
measuring audio and radio transmissions among many others)?
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What is the name of a single dot on a computer
monitor screen?
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Where would you commonly find a sand dollar?
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Which gas has the chemical formula CO?
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What was the Wright Brother's first successful
aeroplane called?
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What is the name of the study of the motion of
the earth's crust?
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Graphite is composed of which element?
Round 3 - Answers
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Yuri Gagarin
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Isobath (or more mundanely, depth contours, or
simply contour lines)
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The wolverine (Gulo gulo) is a member of the
weasel family (Mustelidae)
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Hertz
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Pixel (picture element)
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On a beach (it's the skeleton of a sea urchin)
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Carbon monoxide
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Flyer
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Plate Tectonics
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Carbon
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