Pub quizzes - Prince of Wales questions, 9 May 2006

From Worldtraveller

Here's the quiz we set. The first two rounds and the beer round are by Pete, Ivan did the third and the fourth, plus R2Q10 and R3Q1, was mine.

Contents 1 Questions 1.1 Round One 1.2 Round Two 1.3 Beer Round 1.4 Round Three 1.5 Round Four 2 Answers 2.1 Round One 2.2 Round Two 2.3 Beer Round 2.4 Round Three 2.5 Round Four

Questions

Round One

1. The town of Roslyn in Midlothian has been put on the map by The Da Vinci Code book and movie. It last hit headlines in 1997, when which celebrity birth took place nearby?
2. What connects next year's UEFA cup, the elopement of Edward Wakefield and Ellen Turner to the writer Thomas Carlyle?
3. What connects Miss Jean Brodie, the band Primal Scream and the Australian cricketer who recently set the record for the highest innings by a night watchman?
4. What connects Queen Victoria's confinements, Homer and the abdication crisis?
5. Why have the molecules Haemaglutanin and Neuraminidase been in the news lately?
6. According to Ian Fleming, what was the Bond Family Motto? It was later used as the title of a film starring Pierce Brosnan.
7. What is polydactyly? Famous sufferers include Anne Boleyn and Marilyn Monroe.
8. Which city in the Americas can be recognised by an abbreviation, one 28th of the length of its original Spanish name?
9. Leonard Maltin holds the record for shortest ever movie review. What was his comment on 1948s Isn't It Romantic?
10. The following come from the rulebook of which annual musical contest:

    - Instruments may be electric, acoustic or both

    - Help from roadies is allowed, but backing bands or duets are not.

    - Performers may wear costumes according to preference

    - Competitors take part at their own risk

Round Two

1. Spheno-palatine ganglioneuralgia consists of sudden dilatation of the cerebral vasculature in response to a cold stimulus to the nervous plexus of the hard palate. What is its common name?
2. Which two of the following are not recognised medical terms: Cheesy sputum; Coffee ground vomit; Nutmeg liver; Pizza face; Redcurrant jelly stools?
3. William Shakespeare, Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong all share which distinction? HM the Queen has not achieved this, but is statistically twice as likely as the rest of us
4. A move is afoot to return Gillespie Road tube station to its original name. By what name has it been known since 1932?
5. What connects the 1923 FA cup match between Bolton and West Ham to England's 2005 world cup qualifier against Germany?
6. What is the name given to the region of Manhattan south of Houston St?
7. What is the fruity name of the memorial garden in Central Park opposite the Dakota Hotel?
8. UK number ones: what is the only palindromic title by a palindromic artist?
9. The New Hebrides archipelago gained independence from Britain and France jointly in 1980. By what name is it now known?
10. He was a legendary striker at Watford in the 1980s, and his name came to prominence again in the late 1990s when it was adopted as a collective epithet by a group of Italian anarchists who successfully hoaxed the media with stories of chimpanzee artists, and then by a group of authors whose novel, Q, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Prize. Who is he?

Beer Round

1. Famous quotations John Donne's Meditation 17 gave us the phrase "No man is an island", and, from the same passage, gave us the title of which Hemingway novel?
2. Arlo Guthrie's 20-minute long anti-war classic Alice's Restaurant Massacree tells us the story of Thanksgiving in Stockbridge in Which US State?
3. In Nuclear physics, the term "Critical Mass" relates to the amount of an isotope which must be present for which process to occur?
4. What did Aristotle define as "An imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude. with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its Katharsis of such emotions"?
5. What was the name of the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever?

Round Three

1. A rare but celebrated event in British politics happened on 27 May 1976 during a debate on the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill, and again on 20th April 1988 during a debate on the poll tax. What was the event?
2. Woodrow Wilson's vice-president Thomas R Marshall announced in a debate in the US Senate in 1917 that 'What this country needs is a good...' what?
3. Oh decid! Despliega aún Su hermosura estrellada sobre tierra de libres, la bandera sagrada. Why does George Bush object to these words?
4. Which American economist once wrote: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite"?
5. Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs is reputed to have chosen that name for his company because he wanted it to appear before another computer manufacturer in the telephone directory. What was the name of that rival company?
6. What unique record will Reading set when they play their first game in the Premiership this coming August?
7. Owl-Stretching Time, Sex and Violence, A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon, A Toad-Elevating Moment and It's.... are just some of the many alternative titles originally considered for which which comedy sketch show?
8. Who made his debut last week as presenter of the Theme Time Radio Hour US on satellite radio station XM, playing songs about the weather?
9. Who hosted this year's Oscars?
10. Give the names of the winter Olympic sports governed by the following federations: (i) FIS (ii) ISF (iii) FIL (iv) IBU

Round Four

1. Only one country in South America has no territory in the tropics. Which one?
2. There are only two countries in Europe which are adjacent both geographically and alphabetically. Which?
3. Which two great liberators of South America famously met in Guayaquil in Ecuador in 1812, each leaving the meeting thoroughly disappointed with the other?
4. Which TV series is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the office of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company?
5. In which South America country does every town have an O'Higgins Street?
6. Which is the only street on a Monopoly board that is south of the River?
7. At a diplomatic reception in Lima in 1967, the famously thirsty Foreign Secretary George Brown asked someone if they would like to dance with him. They turned him down, giving three reasons. What were the reasons?
8. Which is taller, Nelson's Column or the Monument?
9. In January 1502, Gaspar de Lemos sailed into a bay which he mistook for a river mouth. The location was later the site of a French colony called Antarctic France but is better known today as the site of which city?
10. Which fictional characters live at the following addresses: a) 29 Acacia Road; b) 23 Meteor Street; c) 52 Festive Road; d) 742 Evergreen Terrace

Answers

Round One

1. Dolly the Sheep
2. Gretna Green - Home of Carlyle. In next year's cup
3. Gillespie: based on James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh, singer is Bobby Gillespie, Jason Gillespie (201* vs Bangladesh).
4. Simpsons: Sir James Young S was her obstetrician, Homer S and Wallis S
5. Bird 'flu: They are the H+N of H5N1 influenza
6. The World is Not Enough: Mentioned in On Her Majesties Secret Service
7. Extra digits: AB had 6 fingers on her L hand, MM had 6 toes on her L foot
8. El Pueblo Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciunula or L.A.
9. No.
10. World Air Guitar Championships

Round Two

1. Ice cream headache
2. Cheesy sputum (although caseous necrosis is a feature of pulmonary TB) and Pizza face. The others are features of Upper GI haemorrhage, heart failure and intestinal intussusception respectively.
3. Died on their birthdays
4. Arsenal
5. First and last matches at Wembley
6. SoHo
7. Strawberry Fields
8. SOS by ABBA
9. Vanuatu
10. Luther Blissett

Beer Round

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Massachusetts
3. Chain Reaction
4. Tragedy
5. Staying Alive

Round Three

1. Someone wielded the mace. Heseltine first one, Ron Brown the second one
2. Five cent cigar
3. Star-Spangled Banner in Spanish
4. J K Galbraith
5. Atari
6. First team beginning with letter R to play in Premiership
7. Monty Python's Flying Circus
8. Bob Dylan
9. John Stewart
10. i/ Skiing, ii/ Skating, iii/ Luge, iv/ Biathlon

Round Four

1. Uruguay
2. France and Germany
3. Jose San Martín and Simón Bolívar
4. Office (US version)
5. Chile.
6. Old Kent Road
7. I shall not dance with you, for three reasons. First, because you are drunk. Second, because this is not a waltz but the Peruvian national anthem. And third, because I am not a beautiful lady in red; I am the cardinal bishop of Lima. - attributed
8. The Monument is 202ft tall, Nelson a mere 165ft.
9. Rio de Janeiro
10. a) Bananaman; b) Spaced; c) Mr Benn; d) The Simpsons

More Prince of Wales pub quizzes: 9 May 2006 / 28 July 2006 / 17 October 2006 / 5 December 2006 / 6 February 2007 / 29 May 2007 / 31 July 2007 / 23 October 2007 / 22 January 2008