CONSTABLE QUIZ LEAGUE – WEEK 12
/ Red LionROUND 1 – The lyrics of david bowie. name the song from the lyric
/ ground control to major tom / space oddity/ didn’t know what time it was the lights were low, i leaned back on my radio / starman
/ i wish you could swim like the doplhins, like doplhins can swim / heroes
/ it’s a god awful small affair to the girl with the mousey hair / life on mars
/ and if you say run, i’ll run with you. and if you say hide, we’ll hide / let’s dance
/ i never done good things, i never done bad thngs, i never did anything out of the blue / ashes to ashes
/ blue, blue, electric blue that’s the colour of my room, where i will live / sound and vision
/ hot tramp, i love you so / rebel rebel
/ there’s a brand new dance but i don’t know its name / fashion
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ROUND 2 – POETRY-WHO WROTE THE FOLLOWING
/ / / THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE / ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON/ THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT / EDWARD LEAR
/ GUNGA DIN / RUDYARD KIPLING
/ HIAWATHA / HENRY LONGFELLOW
/ PARADISE LOST / JOHN MILTON
/ KUBLA KHAN / SAMUEL T COLERIDGE
/ DON JUAN / LORD BYRON
/ THE SOLDIER / RUPERT BROOKE
/ TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS / CLEMENT MOORE
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ROUND 3 – BRITISH HISTORY
/ / / WHO WAS THE ONLY FEMALE MEMBER OF THE “GANG OF 4” sOCIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY FOUNDERS / SHIRLEY WILLIAMS/ IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE “EASTER RISING” / 1916
/ WHAT WAS THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES / BOSWORTH FIELD
/ WHICH SAINT FOUNDED A MONASTERY ON THE ISLAND OF IONA / ST COLUMBA
/ WHAT IS BRITAIN’S OLDEST UNIVERSITY / OXFORD
/ IN WHICH YEAR WERE THE BIRMINGHAM 6 CONVICTED / 1975
/ WHAT WAS the DESTINATION OF THE INAUGRAL FLIGHT OF CONCORDE / BAHRAIN
/ WHICH MONARCH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THOMAS A BECKETT / HENRY ii
/ WHOSE DECLARATION IN 1917 ULTIMATELY LED TO THE FORMATION OF ISRAEL IN 1948 / BALFOUR
ROUND 4 – FOOD AND DRINK
/ / / From which country do Vinho Verde and Mateus Rosé wines come? / portugal/ Which fruit shares its name with a term for a Chinese official that nowadays is applied to certain civil servants? / MANDARIN
/ The liqueur Crème de Cassis is made using which fruit? / blackcurrant
/ Which brand of tea shares its name with a Yorkshire brewery? / tetley
/ Which sausage is most commonly used in a hot dog? / frankfurter
/ What sort of drink is Twining's Options range of flavours / hot chocolate
/ Taking a team of 55 people 6 hours to make, cooked in a 10.3 metre diameter pan and weighing 6.466 tonnes, the world's largest what was made in Portugal in 2012? / omelette
/ Which sauce usually contains mushrooms and tomatoes, often used in a chicken dish, takes its name from the French for "hunter"? / chasseur
/ Which beer used to advertise itself using the slogan "Reassuringly expensive"? / stella artois
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ROUND 5 – MIX AND MATCH
QUESTION MASTER PLEASE HAND OUT MIX AND MATCH SHEETS TO EACH TEAM, 2 PER TEAM.
THE ANSWERS ARE:-
/ / 1 / GIRLS ALOUD2 / GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS
3 / TWISTED SISTER
4 / THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN
5 / GUNS AND ROSES
6 / ROLLING STONES
7 / DEACON BLUE
8 / THE BEACH BOYS
9 / MANIC STREET PREACHERS
10 / THREE DOG NIGHT
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE -WRITTEN ROUND 1
/ / / Who was the 1st actor to refuse an oscar / george c scott/ in which country was cricketer ted dexter born / italy
/ who would use a maulstick / an artist
/ if a dish is described as “lyonnaise”.what does it contain / onions
/ how long did the 100 years war last (exact) / 115 years
/ what is the largest species of tiger / siberian
/ how many episodes of fawlty towers were made / 12
/ which 2 countries signed up to the common market in 1973 alongside the u.k. / eire and denmark
/ who was the father of shem, ham and japeth in the bible / noah
/ which planet is nearest the sun / mercury
/ who painted the laughing cavalier / frans hals
/ which u.s.president had an explorer son called kermit / theodore roosevelt
/ in which county is the idle alley nature reserve / nottinghamshire
/ which poet laureate wrote crime novels under the name of nicholas blake / cecil day lewis
/ which cultivated plant suffers from bottom rot / tomatoes
HALF TIME – REVERSE ORDER
/ROUND 7 – SCIENCE AND NATURE
/ / / Which fish has a name which is also a verb meaning to find fault or nag? / CARP/ Which vitamin is also called Ascorbic Acid? / vitamin c
/ Common Stinkhorn, Destroying Angel and Dingy Agaric are all types of what? / FUNGUS (OR MUSHROOM/TOADSTOOL)
/ Hawksbill, Kemp’s Ridley, Olive Ridley and Leatherback are endangered species of
which reptile? / turtle
/ Which planet takes just under 29½ years to orbit the Sun? / saturn
/ Which chemical element, number 61 on the Periodic Table, is named after the stealer of fire from the Heavens in Greek myth / prometheum
/ Which number on the Beaufort Scale denotes a violent storm? / 11
/ where is the ilium bone / the pelvis
/ which element of the periodic table is the subject of a campaign to be renamed “lemmy” / ununpentium (115)
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ROUND 8 – sport
/ / / Which two numbers flank 20 on a standard dartboard? / 5 and 1/ What position in Rugby League wears the Number 9 shirt / hooker
/ In ten pin bowling, what name is given to three successive strikes? / turkey
/ In which sport did Amy Williams win Team GB’s only gold at the 2010 Winter / skeleton
/ who is the current world snooker champion / stuart bingham
/ who won the ladies 2016 australian open / angelique kerber
/ where will the 2020 olympics be held / tokyo
/ In Athletics, what is the final event of a woman’s heptathlon? / 800 metres
/ New Zealander Scott Dixon is the reigning champion in which form of motor racing? / indycar
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ROUND 9 – LITERATURE
/ / / WHO KILLED MACBETH / MACDUFF/ WHO WAS BARONESS ORCZY’S MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER / THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
/ WHICH CHARACTER WAS MODELLED ON ALEXANDER SELKIRK / ROBINSON CRUSOE
/ WHAT CAREER DID KEATS ABANDON FOR LITERATURE / MEDICINE
/ WHO WROTE THE CARETAKER / HAROLD PINTER
/ WHO WROTE SONNETS FROM PORTUGAL / ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
/ WHO WROTE THE NAKED LUNCH / WILLIAM BURROUGHS
/ HOW WAS JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN BETTER KNOWN / MOLIERE
/ WHO WROTE A PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIR / EDWINA CURRIE
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ROUND 10 – NAME THE COUNTY TOWN
/ / / HAMPSHIRE / WINCHESTER/ SOMERSET / TAUNTON
/ SHROPSHIRE / SHREWSBURY
/ KENT / MAIDSTONE
/ WEST SUSSEX / CHICHESTER
/ RUTLAND / OAKHAM
/ CORNWALL / TRURO
/ BUCKINGHAMSHIRE / AYLESBURY
/ SURREY / KINGSTON ON THAMES
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ROUND 11 - THE TOP TEN ROUND.
11 GUESSES ARE ALLOWED. ANSWERS CAN BE IN ANY ORDER. THERE IS A DOUBLE-SIDED ANSWER SHEET FOR THIS AND THE FOLLOWING WRITTEN ROUND.LONGEST COASTLINES
/ / /THE ANSWERS ARE
/ / 1 / canada2 / indonesia
3 / greenland
4 / russia
5 / phillipines
6 / japan
7 / australia
8 / norway
9 / u.s.a.
10 / new zealand
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – WRITTEN ROUND 2
USUAL RULES APPLY. THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 6-14 CONTAIN A CONNECTION WHICH IS ANSWER NO. 15.
/ / / what fruit is used in a courting cake / strawberries/ which childrens tv presenter designed the blue peter badge / tony hart
/ spirits of salt is an alternative name for which acid / hydrochloric acid
/ who did idi amin replace as head of state of uganda / milton obote
/ what colour bill does a greylag goose have / orange
/ GEORGIA MOFFETT IS BOTH MARRIED TO A TIME LORD AND IS THE WIFE OF A TIME LORD. WHO ARE THEY BOTH? / DAVID TENNANT AND PETER DAVIDSON
/ BILLIONAIRE JAMES PACKER HAS JUST GOT ENGAGED TO WHICH SINGER / MARIAH CAREY
/ WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE BUTLER IN THE US COMEDY “SOAP” / BENSON DU BOIS
/ WHOSE BIGGEST CHART success WAS “POETRY IN MOTION” / JOHNNY TILLOTSON
/ WHICH STREET IS FEATURED IN “NEIGHBOURS” / RAMSAY STREET
/ WHAT IS MEASURED AS “THE LENGTH FROM THE BACK OF THE PLOUGH TO THE NOSE OF THE OX” / POLE
/ WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE 2ND INDIANA JONES FILM / TEMPLE OF DOOM
/ WHICH SINGER BECAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S 4 TH HUSBAND / EDDIE FISHER
/ WHAT IS STING’S REAL NAME / GORDON SUMNER
/ And the connection is …… / ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY
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SPARES
/ / / WITH WHICH COUNTRY DID ENGLAND GO TO WAR IN THE OPIUM WARS / CHINA/ WHAT IS THE COUNTY TOWN OF DERBYSHIRE / MATLOCK
/ name the david bowie song from this lyric: gotta make way for the homo superior / oh you pretty things
/ Launched in 1990, what is the name of Microsoft's proprietary slideshow and commercial presentation program? / powerpoint
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