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The
Wise
Old Owls Yorkshire Quiz League
Champion
of Champions Match
Questions used in the final of our 2000 Knock-out Competition
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Four
players in a team. Excepting round 5 (see later), scoring as follows ...
Team
Rounds = 2 points for a correct
answer, 1 point bonus if passed to the opposing side.
Individual
Rounds = 3 points for a correct
answer, 2 points if answered by opponent, otherwise 1 point.
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February, which
ex-PM was awarded an earldom on his 90th birthday ?
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Harold
Macmillan
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A member of the
House of Lords and an ex-MP, who celebrated his 100th birthday
in November 1984 ?
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Mannie
Shinwell
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Which
government department banned trades unions causing a national outcry
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GCHQ
(Government Communications
Headquarters)
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Outside
which foreign government building was policewoman Yvonne Fletcher
shot and fatally wounded ?
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Libyan
People's Bureau or Libyan Embassy
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In the course of a
violent argument in April, which recording artist was shot and
killed by his father ?
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Marvin
Gaye
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In October, who was
killed by members of her own bodyguard ?
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Indira
Ghandi
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In
March the British government announced its approval of the sale of
which shipyard on the lower Clyde to Trafalgar House ?
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Scott
Lithgow
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In October which
bank, a bullion dealer, was rescued from debts of around £250
million by a Bank of England buy-out ?
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Johnson
Matthey
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A
1992 Oscar winning Clint Eastwood film in which a former
hired killer turned unsuccessful farmer returns to his old ways in
pursuit of a $1,000 reward ?
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Unforgiven
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A
1972 John Boorman film in which a leading character, played by Ned
Beatty, is raped by a ‘Hillbilly’ ?
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Deliverance
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A
1929 film, Hitchcock’s first talkie, in which a Scotland
Yard Inspector is placed in a difficult position when he discovers
his girlfriend has committed a murder ?
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Blackmail
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Set
in Rio, a 1946 Hitchcock film with Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman
in which a woman marries a Nazi renegade to help the US Government ?
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Notorious
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A
1916 film by D.W. Griffith starring Lillian Gish in one of four
intercut stories including Balshazzar’s Feast and the St
Bartholomew’s Day Massacre ?
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Intolerance
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A
1967 camped-up version of Faust in which a short order
cook is saved from suicide by Mr Spiggott - who offers him 7
wishes in exchange for his soul ?
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Bedazzled
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A
1924 Erich von Stroheim film in which an ex-miner turned dentist
kills his avaricious wife and her lover ?
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Greed
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Set
in the mid 19th century, a 1999 film starring Guy Pearce
& Robert Carlyle in which a cannibalistic officer commands an
isolated army outpost ?
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Ravenous
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The
liqueur Curaçao
(say “Koor-a-sow”) is traditionally flavoured with sugar &
which fruit ?
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Orange
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Which
spirit takes its name from a place near Guadalajara (say “Gwadlahara”)
where the conquistadors first developed it from a variety of Aztec
drink ?
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Tequila
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With
a peculiar but agreeable taste, which coarse & potent liquor is
made in the East Indies from a variety of sources, including
fermented rice & coconut juice ?
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Arrack
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Used
to season food & fruit as well as alcoholic drinks, which
flavouring is prepared with oil distilled from the aromatic bark of
two S. American trees blended with herbs, and bears the former name
of a port in Venezuela ?
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Angostura
(now
called Cuidad Bolivar)
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Derived
from a town in north east Hungary, what name is shared by a grape
variety and a golden-yellow coloured, sweet, aromatic wine ?
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Tokay
(from Tokaj)
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Which
variety of grape is traditionally used to make Beaujolais
wines ?
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Gamay
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Which
surname is associated with an iced drink made of gin or whisky with
soda, lemon or lime juice, and sugar ?
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(Tom)
Collins
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Which
rum-producing district in Cuba gives its name to a popular cocktail
made with light-rum and ingredients such as lime juice ?
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Daiquiri
(say “Dak-ary”)
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… a spout on a
hose etc. from which a jet issues ?
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Nozzel
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…
a small round piece of meat or a chocolate made with hazelnuts ?
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Noisette
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…
something or someone absolutely unrivalled or unique ?
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Nonpareil
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…
a short composition of a romantic nature, usually for piano ?
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Nocturne
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…
a composition for nine voices or instruments ?
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Nonet
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…
a devotion consisting of special prayers or services on nine
successive days ?
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Novena
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…
something lacking distinctive characteristics, neither one thing nor
another ?
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Nondescript
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…
a bunch of flowers, especially a sweet-scented posy ?
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Nosegay
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Round
5 Team
Questions ~ Themed Round
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There is a specific
link between each of the answers to the four questions that follow.
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Teams should write
down the four answers and the specific
link between those answers and should then exchange papers for
marking. Teams only have 1
MINUTE after the reading of the final question to complete their
sheets.
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TO
THE QUESTION-MASTER & TIME-KEEPER
Read the questions
as normal, allowing time for teams to jot down some notes.
When you have read the final question (number 4) time one
minute. After the
expiry of that one minute, ask the teams to exchange their papers
for marking.
Please
do not give any answers until after the papers are exchanged
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Two points are
scored for each correct answer.
Two points are scored for identifying the correct link.
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Answers
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Q1
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Born
in Missouri in 1852, what was the second forename of Martha Burke, née
Canary ?
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Jane
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Q2
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By what forename is
the disciple Simon, whom Jesus called Cephas, better known ?
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Peter
(Cephas = rock)
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Q3
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What was the
surname of the costume designer killed close to London’s Euston
Station when she tried to prevent thieves making-off with her
handbag ?
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(Liz)
Sherlock
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Q4
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In 1768, James Cook
took charge of a sturdy Whitby coal-hauling bark.
Drafted into the Royal Navy, what had this ship been re-named
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HMS
Endeavour
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The specific link
being … … Detectives
(Jane Marple, Peter Wimsey, Sherlock
Holmes, Endeavour Morse)
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Prior
to taking the half-time break, please tell the teams that the
subjects for round 9 are as follows ...
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1970s British Pop Albums
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Classical
Conductors
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Jazz Legends
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Stage
Musicals
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Team
members should decide over the half-time break which of the subjects
each will take in round 9.
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The
main airport of which capital is located at Kastrup ?
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Copenhagen
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The
main airport of which capital is located at Schwechat ?
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Vienna
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Called
the Escaut in France, which 270 mile-long river rises in the north
of that country, flows across Belgium, and then empties into the
North Sea in Holland ?
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Schelde
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Which
590 mile long river rises on France’s Langres plateau, enters
Belgium at Givet, then flows across that country to Holland and
thence to the North Sea ?
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Meuse
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Greece
has land borders with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
and which three other countries ?
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Albania,
Bulgaria, Turkey
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Slovenia
has land borders with the former Yugoslav republic of Croatia
and which three other countries ?
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Austria,
Hungary, Italy
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In
which modern-day nation is the region known as Batavia to
Ancient Rome ?
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Netherlands
or Holland
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In
which modern-day nation is the region known as Dacia to
Ancient Rome ?
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Romania
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In
a speech in 1989, who said “One word sums up … the
responsibility of any Vice President, and that one word is ‘to be
prepared’” ?
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(James)
Dan Quayle
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Hoping
to end their party’s squabbling over the Maastricht Treaty,
who in 1992 said “I’m drawing a line under the sand” ?
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John
Major
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Which
newly appointed UK junior health minister said in September 1986, “People
in the North die of ignorance and crisps” ?
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Edwina
Currie
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Speaking
of 800,000 murders in Rwanda, which French President said in 1994 “In
some countries, genocide is not really important” ?
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François
Mitterand
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Born
into a Lutheran Protestant family in 1844, which philosopher once
said “When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually something
wrong with her sex organs” ?
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Nietzsche
(say “Kneech”)
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Which
broadcaster said “The British motor industry is … owned by
Nazis” and South Koreans are “too busy eating dogs to
design a decent car” ?
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Jeremy
Clarkson
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In
1991, which French Prime Minister described the Japanese in the
following terms - “Ants … little yellow men who sit up all
night thinking how to screw us” ?
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Edith
Cresson
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Addressing
Southampton students in 1994, which then Chief Secretary to
the Treasury said
“If any of you have got an A-level, it is because you have
worked to get it. Go to
any other country and when you have got an A-Level, you have bought
it” ?
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Michael
Portillo
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Jurisprudence
is the science or philosophy of what ?
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Law
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The
computing term Heuristics (say “Hew-ristics”) refers to
the arrival at a solution by the use of which familiar sounding
experimental process ?
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Trial
and error
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Concerning
the written word, Orthography is the study or science of what
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Letters
or Spelling
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Pomology
is the
study of growing what ?
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Fruit
(Pom fruit in Latin)
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What
name is given to the science or study of the cultivation of
grapevines ?
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Viticulture
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Sometimes
used in staff recruitment, what name is given to the science of
measuring mental capacities and processes ?
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Psychometrics
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What
name is given to the science of classification, especially the
classification of living and extinct organisms ?
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Taxonomy
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What
name is given to the science of classifying physical types,
especially the typical body shapes that people can apparently be
grouped into ?
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Somatology
or
Somatypes
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Brought
up in a New York orphanage and discovered in a talent show in 1933
at age 16; who sang with the Chick Webb Band from 1934 until
1939 ?
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Ella
Fitzgerald
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