Week 15 - Lancaster City Quiz League

MONDAY 9th FEBRUARY 2015
LANCASTER CITY QUIZ LEAGUE
Set by Blue Anchor B (Bolton-le-Sands)
Required answers are in BOLD CAPITALS
This quiz has been set in response to a complaint by our mascot Flossie that over the years she has been with
us there has been a distinct lack of questions concerning dogs. To remedy this deficiency all the rounds in
tonight’s quiz are about dogs, beginning with Flossie’s own breed.
ROUND ONE: WEST HIGHLAND WHITE
1A
Which fictional Scottish policeman, played on TV by Robert Carlyle, owned
a West Highland White called Wee Jock?
HAMISH MACBETH
Travelling west from Fort William on the West Highland Railway which port
is at the line’s terminus, a departure point for ferries to the Isle of Skye?
MALLAIG
Who was the first President of the U.S.A. to live in the White House, taking
up residence in 1800, the year it was completed?
JOHN ADAMS
A White Dwarf is a very dense star. The nearest one to Earth is the smaller
component of the binary star which is the brightest in our night sky. Name it.
SIRIUS
3A
Which composer wrote the 1910 opera Girl of the Golden West?
PUCCINI
3B
Which order of monks is known as the White Friars?
CARMELITES
4A
Which European capital city’s name literally means ‘White City’?
BELGRADE
4B
In which state of the U.S.A. is West Point Military Academy?
NEW YORK
1B
2A
2B
Spare: How many World Snooker finals did Jimmy White contest, winning none?
SIX
ROUND TWO: SPANIELS – VARIOUS
In which castle on the Isle of Wight was King Charles I imprisoned for
fourteen months before his execution in 1649?
CARISBROOKE
With which female singer did Joe Cocker record the hit single Up Where
We Belong for the soundtrack of the film An Officer and a Gentleman?
JENNIFER WARNES
Jerry Springer: The Opera was a controversial British musical written by
Richard Thomas and which stand-up comedian? He later won an award
for his eponymous Comedy Vehicle series on BBC TV.
STEWART LEE
The American Water spaniel is the state dog of which state of the U.S.A.?
Its capital is Madison.
WISCONSIN
The Clumber spaniel was named after Clumber Park, the ancestral home
of the Dukes of Newcastle, in which English county?
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Which Flemish artist was court painter to King Charles I from 1632 until
his death in 1641, during which time he was knighted by the monarch?
(Sir Anthony) VAN DYCK
4A
The River Cocker in Cumbria joins which other river at Cockermouth?
DERWENT
4B
In which late 1950’s ITV comedy series did Michael Medwin play a
cockney soldier called Corporal Springer?
THE ARMY GAME
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
3B
Spare: Which river in the centre of Prague is spanned by the Charles bridge?
VITAVA
ROUND THREE: COLLIES – ROUGH, BEARDED and BORDER
1A
Collie Weed is a slang term used by Jamaican Rastafarians for a particular
substance. How is it better known, based on its botanical Latin name?
CANNABIS
(Cannabis indica)
1B
In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, the ‘Calling Birds’ of the fourth
day is a variation of the original term ‘Collie Bird’. The bird’s Latin
name is Turdus merula but what is its more common English name?
BLACKBIRD
In the Shakespeare sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? which
five words complete the line ‘Rough winds do shake…......................…’ ?
The words were later used as the title of a novel by H.E. Bates.
THE DARLING
BUDS OF MAY
The TV investigative series Rough Justice ran from 1982 to 2007. Its last
presenter is now a regular interviewer on BBC TV’s Newsnight. Name her.
KIRSTY WARK
Found across much of Australia, to which family of animals does the
Bearded Dragon belong?
LIZARDS
The Border Leicester is a sheep breed originally developed in the EnglishScottish border region by crossing an English Leicester with which other
breed of sheep?
CHEVIOT
4A
Which country has a first-class cricket team called Border?
SOUTH AFRICA
4B
The Bearded singer Conchita Wurst (real name Thomas Neuwirth) won the
Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 with the song Rise like a Phoenix. Which
country did she/he represent?
AUSTRIA
2A
2B
3A
3B
Spare: The intelligent Rough Collie Lassie (actually played by a male called Pal)
first appeared in which 1942 film, based on a book by Eric Knight?
LASSIE COME HOME
ROUND FOUR: CARTOON DOGS – A PICTURE ROUND (Two copies per team)
All questions have two part answers. One point awarded for either part; both parts needed for a pass.
1A
Letter B. Identify this dog and name the daily newspaper in which he appears.
BOOT
DAILY MIRROR
1B
Letter A. Identify this dog and name the daily newspaper in which he appears.
FRED BASSETT
DAILY MAIL
2A
Letter F. Identify this cultured dog and name the TV series in which he appears. BRIAN
FAMILY GUY
2B
Letter D. Identify this skinny dog and name the TV series in which he appears. SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER
THE SIMPSONS
3A
Letter E. Identify this colourful dog and name the song he repeatly sings.
HUCKLEBERRY HOUND
(My Darling) CLEMENTINE
3B
Letter H. Identify this sniggering dog and name the racing car in which he
accompanies his dastardly master.
MUTTLEY
THE MEAN MACHINE
4A
Letter G. Identify this faithful little dog and name his creator.
SNOWY
HERGE or GEORGE REMI
4B
Letter I. Identify this spotty dog and name his literary creator.
PONGO
DODIE SMITH
Spares: Letter C. Identify this cowardly dog and name any ONE of his human
companions.
Letter J. Identify this superhero dog and give his alter ego.
SCOOBY DOO
SHAGGY, FREDDY,
VELMA, DAPHNE
HONG KONG PHOOEY
PENROD POOCH / PENRY
ROUND FIVE: JACK RUSSELL
1A
In which decade did the notorious murderer Jack the Ripper operate?
1880s
1B
David Jack of Bolton Wanderers scored the first goal in the first F.A. Cup
Final at the old Wembley Stadium. In which year?
1923
Jack Worthing, a character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being
Earnest, was found as a baby in a handbag at which London railway station?
VICTORIA
2B
Which religious sect was founded by Charles Taze Russell in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania in 1872?
JEHOVAH’S
WITNESSES
3A
For which 2000 film did Russell Crowe win the Best Actor Academy Award?
GLADIATOR
3B
First made in California in the 1840s, what is Monterey Jack?
CHEESE
4A
The Russell Group in the U.K. is an association comprising the leading 24
members of what type of organisation?
UNIVERSITIES
On which London Underground line is Russell Square station?
PICCADILLY
2A
4B
Spares: Who played shop steward Fred Kite in the 1959 film I‘m All Right, Jack?
Name Russell Brand’s recent best-selling book, published in October 2014.
PETER SELLERS
REVOLUTION
ROUND SIX: LAKELAND and YORKSHIRE TERRIERS
Which Lakeland delicacy was created by Victorian cook Sarah Nelson
of Grasmere in 1854?
GINGERBREAD
1B
Which Lakeland pass links the valleys of Borrowdale and Buttermere?
HONISTER
2A
In which year was the Yorkshire Dales National Park designated?
1954 (Allow 1953 or 1955)
2B
In the natural world what is Yorkshire Fog?
GRASS
3A
Which Lakeland valley was flooded by the creation of Haweswater
Reservoir in 1935?
MARDALE
Which Yorkshire artist/sculptor was born in Wakefield in 1903 and died
in a house fire in Cornwall in 1975?
BARBARA HEPWORTH
4A
Which Yorkshire town has a Football League club nicknamed The Terriers?
HUDDERSFIELD
4B
As well as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was
the third of the so-called Lakeland Poets? He was also Poet Laureate
between 1813 and 1843.
(Robert) SOUTHEY
1A
3B
Spares: Traversing all 42 Lakeland peaks within a 24 hour period is a fell-running
challenge named after which person, who first completed it in 1932?
Yorkshire County Cricket Club play most of their home fixtures in Leeds
but at which seaside resort do they also play first-team games?
BOB GRAHAM
SCARBOROUGH
ROUND SEVEN: GREAT DANES and GERMAN SHEPHERDS
In which TV soap opera is there a character called Dane Canning played
by Luke Pegler?
NEIGHBOURS
Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer founded in 1698, is based in the
town of Faversham in which English county?
KENT
Originally a poem by Thomas Shadwell, Nymphs and Shepherds was set to
music around 1695 by which English composer?
(Henry) PURCELL
The Dane Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a famous astronomer who lost
which part of his anatomy in a duel with his third cousin?
NOSE
The Danelaw was that part of England ruled by the Danes in the 9th century.
Its boundaries were established in 884 A.D. by a treaty between the Danish
warlord Guthrum and which English king?
ALFRED (The Great)
3B
Which Shipping Forecast sea area lies immediately north of German Bight?
FISHER
4A
For which discovery was the German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen awarded
the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901?
X-RAYS
In the TV soap opera Coronation Street the character Chesney Brown
named his Great Dane after which famous sportsman?
PETER SCHMEICHEL
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
4B
Spares: Which portly Dane, born in 1963, played in Liverpool F.C.’s midfield for
twelve years and won 33 caps for his country?
Which post-1945 President of the U.S.A. owned German Shepherds
called Charlie and Clipper?
JAN MOLBY
(John F.) KENNEDY
ROUND EIGHT: HOUNDS - ASSORTED
Who wrote the one-act play The Real Inspector Hound, first performed at
the Criterion Theatre in London in 1968?
TOM STOPPARD
1B
The British Bloodhound S.S.C. is a high technology project to design and
build a vehicle to achieve what aim?
BREAK THE WORLD
LAND SPEED RECORD
2A
Name the military camp near the Afghan city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand
Province which was the base for British forces in the war against the Taliban.
(Camp) BASTION
2B
Hounds of Love was which singer’s fifth studio album, released in 1985?
KATE BUSH
3A
Which Simon & Garfunkel song contains the lines:
‘Kathy, I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
Michegan seems like a dream to me now’?
AMERICA
Madeline Bassett is one of the young women to whom Bertie Wooster finds
himself periodically engaged in stories by which writer?
P.G. WODEHOUSE
Name the captain of H.M.S. Beagle, the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed
around the world. He later had a Shipping Forecast sea area named after him.
(Robert) FITZROY
For the hunting of which particular animal was the Dachshund bred?
BADGER
1A
3B
4A
4B
Spare: What sort of marine creature is a Nurse Hound?
SHARK