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From Worldtraveller

Here's the questions from 31 July. I compiled rounds 1, beer and 4, Oli did round 3, Pete did round 2 and Ivan produced the bonus round.

Questions

Round One

1. The music played at what kind of event is legally defined in the CJA 1994 as "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats"?
2. What in law is defined as "12 or more persons who together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety"?
3. "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours" - which scientist, explaining which scientific concept?
4. Which highly successful band of the 1990s had to add a definite article to their original name following a legal dispute with a legendary jazz label?
5. What connects Peter Finch (1976 Best Actor Oscar winner), Jochen Rindt (1970 Formula One world champion) and Mel Carnahan (2000 Missouri senator election winner)?
6. Bernd Maylander led more laps than anyone except the winner Lewis Hamilton at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix. What car was he driving?
7. The name of which vehicle comes from a sanskrit word meaning 'Lord of the universe'?
8. Who died the day the music died?
9. Since 1066, which two kings of England/Great Britain have had unique names?
10. In the three original Star Wars films, four characters use the phrase "I have a bad feeling about this", one of them twice. Which characters?

Round Two

(this will be here soon...)

Beer round

1. Which variety of poker involves players making the best five card hand they can using two of four cards which have been dealt to them, plus three of five community cards?
2. Which chemical element is the most ductile? One ounce of it can make a thread 80km long?
3. For what is Hattori Hanzo legendary in Kill Bill?
4. Who was the queen of all the gods in Roman mythology?
5. Which band, described by the KLF as the first true stadium house band, had three top ten hits in the early 1990s with What Can You Do For Me, Something Good and Believe In Me?

Round Three

This one is all about geography.

1. Which country's head of state is known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong?
2. Which is further north, Edinburgh or Moscow?
3. Who is the only person to have two republics named after him? Hint: they are both in South America.
4. A three-part question about translated country names. Which countries are:
   1. the Black Mountain?
   2. Land of the South?
   3. silver-coloured?
5. A four-part question about historical names for countries. Which countries are also known as:
   1. Lusitania?
   2. Cathay?
   3. Batavia?
   4. Azania?
6. A three part question. In which cities to the parliaments of the following countries sit:
   1. Chile?
   2. Bolivia?
   3. The Netherlands?
7. Name all the countries in the world that contain the word Guinea in their name.
8. Which country has the world's northernmost settlement? and the southernmost (excluding scientific bases)?
9. Which two islands are connected by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge?
10. Six parts:
    1. Which African country is the Great People's Arab Socialist State of the Masses?
    2. Which South American country is the Oriental Republic?
    3. Which European country is the Hellenic Republic?
    4. Which South American country is the Bolivarian Republic?
    5. Which European country is the Most Serene Republic?
    6. Which Middle-Eastern country is the Sultanate?

Round Four

1. The longest running sitcom in the UK first broadcast in 1973 and is now in its 28th series, showing on Sunday evenings on BBC1. What is it?
2. Does the equator pass through Equatorial Guinea?
3. Harrison Ford has never done it; Tom Cruise has done it but only once, in Collateral; Marlon Brando did it in every film he made in the 1970s. What?
4. Famous sufferers have included Winston Churchill and Henry VIII but a family in Newcastle recently claimed to have been hounded from their homes because they were all afflicted by it. What?
5. Which 1987 one hit wonder named themselves after a vulcan elder from Star Trek?
6. Which two people have writing credits on both Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve and After the Watershed by Carter USM?
7. Who become the oldest female singer to reach number one in the UK singles chart in 1999?
8. In his speech which coined the phrase "Iron Curtain", between which two cities did Churchill say the curtain had fallen?
9. Which two words have preceded Emmanuelle, Dick, Abroad, Loving and Cabbie in film titles
10. Day H occurred in Sweden on 3 September 1967. What happened?

Round Four

1. Malaysia
2. Edinburgh, by about ten miles.
3. Simón Bolívar
4. 1. Montenegro
   2. Australia
   3. Argentina
5. 1. Portugal
   2. China
   3. Netherlands
   4. South Africa
6. 1. Valparaíso
   2. La Paz
   3. The Hague
7. Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea
8. a) Canada, b) Chile
9. Long Island and Staten Island
10. 1. Libya
    2. Uruguay
    3. Greece
    4. Venezuala
    5. San Marino
    6. Oman

Ivan's Bonus Round

Give the English titles of the following films (except the one that is already in English, for which the Spanish is required)

1. Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
2. Die Braut, die sich nicht traut
3. Le mystere du lapin-garou
4. To Return
5. Der Spion, der mich liebte
6. L'agent qui m'a tiree
7. En busca del arca perdida
8. Les indestructibles
9. Les affranchis
10. Tierra de los Muertos
11. Das Leben der Anderen
12. La ameneza fantasma
13. Les girls de Las Vegas

Answers

Round One

1. Rave
2. Riot
3. Einstein, Relativity
4. Verve
5. All were posthumous winners
6. The safety car.
7. Juggernaut
8. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper
9. John and Stephen
10. Luke, Han (Star Wars), Leia (ESB), C3PO, Han (ROTJ)

Round Two

(coming soon)

Beer round

1. Omaha hold-em
2. Gold
3. Making swords
4. Juno
5. Utah saints

Round Three

Round Four

1. Last of the summer wine
2. No
3. Died.
4. Ginger hair
5. T'Pau
6. Both credited to Jagger/Richards
7. Debbie Harry of Blondie, with Maria, aged 54
8. Stettin/Szczecin and Trieste
9. Carry On
10. Switch to right hand drive

Ivan's Bonus Round

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de Nervios	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Die Braut, die sich nicht traut	Runaway Bride
Le mystere du lapin-garou	Wallace and Gromit - Curse of the Were-Rabbit
To Return	Volver
Der Spion, der mich liebte	The Spy Who Loved Me
L'agent qui m'a tiree	The Spy Who Shagged Me
En busca del arca perdida	Raiders of the Lost Ark
Les indestructibles	The Incredibles
Les affranchis	Goodfellas
Tierra de los Muertos	Land of the dead
Das Leben der Anderen	The Lives of Others
La ameneza fantasma	The Phantom Menace
Les girls de Las Vegas	Showgirls

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