Monday 14th February 2022

Ormskirk Set Six - Correct as at August 2021

Round 1
1a Inspector Bucket is a character which Dickens novel?
BLEAK HOUSE
1b Which Egyptian footballer won the Liverpool Player of the Season Award for the 2020-2021 season?
MOHAMED SALAH
2a In the Bible who was the son of Abraham and the father of Jacob?
ISAAC
2b What is the capital city of Mali?
BAMAKO
3a In which war was the Battle of Crécy fought?
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
3b Who succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister in June this year?
NAFTALI BENNETT
4a Who composed the concert overture The Hebrides, often known as Fingal’s Cave, in 1830?
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
4b In the 1967 film In The Heat of The Night who plays the police chief Bill Gillespie?
ROD STEIGER

Round 2
1a The UK’s largest peacetime evacuation, which started in the wake of the collapse of Thomas Cook in 2019, was named after which mountain?
(OPERATION) MATTERHORN
1b In the full name of the motor manufacturer FIAT for what does the T stand?
TORINO
2a With which instrument would you associate jazzmen Charlie Christian, John McLaughlin, and Wes Montgomery?
GUITAR
2b What was the name of the dog in Frasier - the part was originally played by Moose, and later by Moose’s son Enzo?
EDDIE
3a In French cookery, what term is used for a dish wrapped in pastry and baked?
EN CROUTE
3b Which river do the Czechs know as Labe?
ELBE
4a In Spanish, what is the name of the line sometimes put above the letter n to change the sound?
TILDE
4b Known until 2015 by the French name as the FIBT, for what does the S stand in the IBSF, the International Bobsleigh and S__________ Federation?
SKELETON

Round 3
1a Which small rodent gave its name to a two-seater trainer aircraft, first developed and manufactured in Canada from the late 1940s?
CHIPMUNK
1b To within two years either way, in what year did the military authorities change the name of Burma to Myanmar?
1989 (accept 1987-1991)
2aWho wrote the book The Tiger Who Came to Tea?
JUDITH KERR
2b Which former Indian cricketer was known as ‘The Wall’ because of his resolute batting technique?
RAHUL DRAVID
3a In Greek myth, who was the husband of Hecuba?
PRIAM
3b Three women jockeys have ridden in The Derby at Epsom. Name any.
ALEX GREAVES or HAYLEY TURNER or ANA O’BRIEN
4a In an annual poll in October 2019 which UK hotel chain was rated the worst for the seventh year running ?
BRITANNIA
4b In which county is Newstead Abbey? NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Round 4
1a Give either of the first names of the drummer ‘Ginger’ Baker who died in 2019?
PETER EDWARD
1b What is the surname of the South African sisters, one a judge, the other a dancer, on Strictly Come Dancing?
MABUSE
2a Who was held captive in Mytchett Place, Surrey, between 1941 and 1942 and at the Maindiff Court Hospital until 1945 before being returned to Germany?
RUDOLF HESS
2b Which constellation, whose name is the Latin for dragon, shares its name with a Bond villain and a bully in Harry Potter’s year at Hogwarts?
DRACO
3a The 2013/2014 worldwide hit single Get Lucky was recorded by the French duo Daft Punk with vocals from which American singer, rapper and producer?
PHARRELL WILLIAMS
3b Which 2000 film starts with the following lines spoken in voice-over: “Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet”?
X-MEN
4a Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst was born in Prussia in 1729. She died at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1796. How was she better known?
CATHERINE THE GREAT
4b The Ssangyong motor company is based in which country?
SOUTH KOREA

Round 5
1a Which explorer gave his name to a long-range maritime patrol aircraft in RAF service from 1951 to 1991?
SHACKLETON
1b To within two years either way, in what year did Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
1993 (accept 1991-1995)
2a Who wrote the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
ERIC CARLE
2b Which current West Indian cricketer is known as ‘The Universe Boss’?
CHRIS GAYLE
3a In French cookery, what term is given to a boneless steak, cut from between two ribs?
ENTRECOTE
3b Which river do the Welsh know as Hafren?
SEVERN
4a In French, what name is given to the diacritic mark like an upturned v sometimes placed above a vowel to change the sound?
CIRCUMFLEX
4b Which sport invented by a Dutch teacher in 1902 is governed by the IKF?
KORFBALL

Round 6
1a Who was the Secretary of State for Transport at the time of the Thomas Cook collapse in 2019?
GRANT SHAPPS
1b For what does the D stand for in WD40?
DISPLACEMENT
2a What name did BB King give to his guitars?
LUCILLE
2b What was the name of the cat in the Archie Comics and TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch?
SALEM (SABERHAGEN)
3a In Greek myth, who was the husband of Clytemnestra?
AGAMEMNON
3b Four women have trained the winner of the Grand National at Aintree. Who is the only one to do this twice?
JENNY PITMAN
4a Which former brewer, now a hospitality group, owns Premier Inn, the biggest hotel chain in the UK?
WHITBREAD
4b In which county is Lacock Abbey?
WILTSHIRE

Round 7
1a Which drummer, who died in 1980, was voted by ‘All Music’ as the most important drummer in rock and by ‘Rolling Stone’ as number one of the greatest 100 drummers?
JOHN BONHAM
1b Who partnered Oti Mabuse to win the 2020 series of Strictly Come Dancing?
BILL BAILEY
2a An architect by training who was the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production from 1942 to 1945, sentenced to twenty years in prison at the Nuremberg Trials?
ALBERT SPEER
2b Which constellation, the name of a mythical bird, shares its name with an original Coronation Street actress and the fifth most populous city in the USA?
PHOENIX
3a The 2014/15 worldwide hit single Uptown Funk was recorded by the British producer Mark Ronson with vocals from which American singer?
BRUNO MARS
3b Which 1990 film starts with the following lines spoken in voice-over: “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States”?
GOODFELLAS
4a Which Russian General peacefully annexed Crimea in 1783 and was given the task of building the fortress of Sevastopol?
GRIGORY POTEMKIN
4b In which country are the headquarters of Proton Cars?
MALAYSIA

Round 8
1a Miss Havisham is a character which Dickens novel?
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
1b Which goalkeeper has kept most clean sheets for Everton FC?
NEVILLE SOUTHALL
2a In the Bible who was the youngest of Jacob’s twelve sons?
BENJAMIN
2b What is the capital city of Chad?
N’DJAMENA
3a In which war was the Battle of Salamanca fought?
PENINSULAR WAR
3b What is the name of the Political Party founded by French President Emmanuel Macron?
(LA RÉPUBLIQUE) EN MARCHE
4a Who composed Symphonie fantastique in 1830 and Harold in Italy, a symphony with viola solo in 1834?
HECTOR BERLIOZ
4b In the 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner who plays the character Matt Drayton?
SPENCER TRACY

Spare Questions
1 What letter is between U and O on a standard keyboard?
I
2 Bishops Finger, Master Brew and 1698 are brewed in Kent by which brewery?
SHEPHERD NEAME
3 Which state capital in the USA is only accessible by air or water?
JUNEAU