Pub quizzes - Prince of Wales questions, 23 October 2007

From Worldtraveller

I did two rounds for this quiz, Stu did one and Oli did one.

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. Who were the two winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?
2. Which band, writers of a christmas song regularly named as the best ever, took their name from a gaelic phrase meaning "Kiss my arse"?
3. What lasting contribution to political terminology was made by the French National Assembly of 1789?
4. What nationality are the following people:
   • Mountaineer Rheinhold Messner?
   • Architect Oscar Niemeyer?
   • Writer Ariel Dorfman?
5. It was initially founded by a soft porn internet search engine company, and takes its name from the Honolulu airport terminal transfer bus. It's now among the top 10 most popular websites in the world. What is it?
6. In Italian it's called the snail, in Chinese it's the little mouse, in Croatian it's called the Monkey, and in Danish it's the elephant's trunk. We don't really have a word for it in English, but most people will use it many times every day. What is it?
7. Which 2006 film featured a villain whose name means 'The number', who suffered from haemolacria?
8. In which European country would you find a province called Moldavia, a mountain called Moldoveanu, and a monastery called Moldovitsa? Clue: it's not Moldova.
9. In which European country would you find the breakaway Republic of Pridnestrovie, a pro-Russian enclave whose president is called Igor Smirnov?
10. Great Britain is the 8th largest island in the world. Name the seven islands that are larger.

Round Two

This was Oli's round.

Beer round

1. Which country's name comes from the Arabic for 'Land of the blacks'?
2. Ahn Jung-Hwan, Michael Laudrup, Paolo Wanchope and Gary Lineker have all played football in which league?
3. In which city would you find the Castello de Sforzesco, Galleria de Vittorio Emmanuele II and the Basilica de San Lorenzo?
4. The dinosaurs are thought to have become extinct after an asteroid six miles across hit the earth. Off which peninsula does the impact crater lie?
5. Who was exhorted to join the Caravan of Love in the Isley Brothers' 1985 single?

Tiebreaker - when I travelled through the breakaway Republic of Transdnistria recently, how much in total did I have to pay in bribes to enter and exit?

Round Three

Stu's round: rest of the questions appearing imminently.

4. What first was marked by the sale of a book called "Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought" by Douglas Hofstadter, in July 1995?
5. Lochaber, Sutherland, Lewis, Skye, Bathgate, Linwood, Methil and Irvine all feature in the lyrics of a 1987 hit single, followed by which two words?

Round Four

1. Who is currently the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds?
2. Which national newspaper recently published a correction in which they apologised for having misspelt the word misspelt, twice, in a correction the previous day?
3. What is the etymological connection between the words television, homosexual, liposuction, neurotransmitter and sociopath?
4. What is unusual about the theme tune to 'Some Mothers Do Have 'Em'? You might expect the same to be true of the theme to Morse, but it's not.
5. Which football club played in the Premiership from 1999-2001 but currently lie 19th in League Two, the lowest league position of any ex-premiership club?
6. Which head of state, assassinated by his own bodyguards in 2001, briefly fought alongside Che Guevara in 1965 before Che said "Nothing leads me to believe he is the man of the hour" and their revolution was abandandoned?
7. In the Eurovision song contest, what rule, in force from 1966-1973 and 1977-1999, would have prevented Waterloo from winning the contest in 1974 if it had ben in force then?
8. Which sportsman is Lewis Hamilton named after? And which sportsman is Bryan Habana named after?
9. Who was the last person before Lewis Hamilton to score a Formula One victory in their debut season? It happened in 2001.
10. The national airline of Australia is Qantas. What does Qantas stand for?

Answers

Round One

1. Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2. The Pogues
3. Left wing/right wing
   • Italian
   • Brazilian
   • Chilean
4. Wikipedia
5. The @ symbol
6. Casino Royale (Le Chiffre)
7. Romania
8. Moldova
9. In descending order: Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin, Sumatra, Honshu.

Round Two

Will be here shortly

Beer Round

1. Sudan
2. Japan
3. Milan
4. Yucatan
5. Every woman, every man

The connection is that they all appear in the first verse of Hit me with your rhythm stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

Tiebreak: I paid 25 Euros to get in and 20 US dollars to get out. At the exchange rates of the time that was equivalent to £27.23.

Round Three

1. Soldiers of Destiny
2. Their home strip is green and white hoops
3. First topless shot
4. It was the first book sold on Amazon
5. 'No more' - from Letter from America by the Proclaimers
6. The Handmaid's Tale / Yevgeny Zamyatin / Alex / Oceania
7. Sir or madam / Your honour / My lord
8. Flanker/Wing forward
9. He wrote songs about them
10. George Santayana

Round Four

1. Tony Blair
2. The Guardian
3. They are combinations of Greek and Latin words
4. Its rhythm spells out the title of the show in morse code
5. Bradford City
6. Laurent Kabila, of the Congo
7. Songs had to be sung in an official language of the entrant nation. The best answer on the night was the suggestion that entries weren't allowed to reference political events - a brilliant idea but sadly we had to give nul points for it.
8. a) Carl Lewis; b) Bryan Robson
9. Juan Pablo Montoya
10. Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services

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