QM Quiz #15

The Lancaster City Quiz League season began last night. The Pub got a 66-48 victory over Slyne Lodge. Decent enough set written by the Gregson A team. Managed to get a score of 15 which I'm pleased about after thinking about it more thoroughly - only got three of my eight questions right but managed to get six passes. Mistaking Cadiz for Calvi on a question about Nelson's loss of one eye was an absolute shitter, though. Still, not too bad for our first league match. That'll be my last game for a month or so at least - though I'd like to be back temporarily for a couple of matches. Depends on if I'm picked for a start.

Anyway, questions...

QM Quiz #15
1 What is the largest city to stand on Lake Champlain, which is divided between the US states of New York and Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec?

2 Which Colombian cyclist won the 2014 Giro d'Italia?

3 What was actress Diane Keaton's birth surname?

4 Close to the border crossing with Croatia, what is the only coastal town in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

5 The film Schindler's List was based on a 1982 novel by which Australian writer?

6 The 2013 and 2014 winners of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture have both been from which country?

7 Willy Lott's Cottage can be seen in which famous painting of 1821?

8 What name, meaning unauthorised, was given to the castles built in 12th-century England without royal approval, particularly during the Anarchy war of 1135 to 1154?

9 2014 is the Chinese year of which creature?

10 Which 2004 Martin Scorsese film tells the story of a twenty-year period in the life of Howard Hughes?

11 Which short-lived US comedy series, first seen in 1982 and starring Leslie Nielsen, was a spoof of police procedurals and a precursor to the successful Naked Gun film series?

12 "I met a traveller from an antique land..." is the first line of which 1818 poem?

13 What was the official name of the "Dam Busters" raids of 1943 that saw the bombing of the Moehne and Edersee Dams?

14 Which stock character of Russian folk puppetry is also the title of an Igor Stravinsky ballet?

15 The largest city of its namesake governorate, what is the capital of Oman?
16 What newspaper format has pages that are slightly wider and taller than the tabloid format, but narrower and shorter than that of the broadsheet?
17 Which Brazilian city, the country's fifth-largest, is the state capital of Ceara?
18 Possibly his best-known work is the brutalist Royal National Theatre on the South Bank of the Thames; which English architect was also responsible for designing the European Investment Bank building in Luxembourg?
19 Caused by the inhalation of coal dust, which disease affecting the lungs is known as "miner's disease"?
20 Name the year. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is displayed in the US for the first time; Harold Wilson becomes leader of the UK Labour Party; Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes.




Answers:
1 Burlington
2 Nairo Quintana
3 Hall
4 Neum
5 Thomas Keneally
6 Japan
7 The Hay Wain
8 Adulterine
9 Horse
10 The Aviator
11 Police Squad!
12 "Ozymandias"
13 Operation Chastise
14 Petrushka
15 Muscat
16 Berliner
17 Fortaleza
18 Denys Lasdun
19 Pneumoconiosis
20 1963

QM Quiz #14

1 The hopak is a dance from which country?

2 Which Yugoslav movement of World War II, led by Draza Mihailovic, was dissolved in 1946 as Tito proclaimed an amnesty to all defecting forces?

3 The Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing, is set on which island?

4 Giles Clarke is the current chairman of which sport governing body?

5 Which English theatre critic and writer was supposedly the first person to say the word "fuck" on British television?

6 What is the name of the sea cave, so-called after a British captain, that lies on the south-east face of the Rock of Gibraltar?

7 What was the first James Bond film to star Roger Moore?

8 Automobile engineer Louis Chevrolet, pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, and revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat were all born in which present-day country?

9 What is the main colour of the flag of Macau?

10 Stephen Crane's book, The Red Badge of Courage, is set during which war?

11 Who is the most recent British prime minister to have served non-consecutive terms?

12 The last time a team outside the top flight won the competition, which team won the 1980 FA Cup?

13 The Wasatch Front is home to roughly 80% of the population of which US state?

14 Usain Bolt set both the 100m and 200m world records in which city in 2009?

15 Poly Styrene, Lora Logic, and Jak Airport were members of which English punk band?

16 What do the Libyans call the sirocco wind, the same name as that of a Japanese film studio?

17 Numismatics is the scientific study of what?

18 Which composer created the Symphonie fantastique and the Grande messe des morts requiem? 

19 What is the longest river in the European Union?

20 The highest point of the Dinaric Alps is in which country?

Answers:

1 Ukraine

2 Chetniks

3 Sicily

4 ECB

5 Kenneth Tynan

6 Gorham's Cave

7 Live and Let Die

8 Switzerland

9 Green

10 American Civil War

11 Harold Wilson

12 West Ham

13 Utah

14 Berlin

15 X-Ray Spex

16 Ghibli

17 Currency

18 Hector Berlioz

19 Danube

20 Albania

QM Quiz #9

1 Protozoa of the genus Plasmodium cause which disease?
2 Which highest point of Indonesia is also the highest mountain to be found on an island?
3 In which city was Anne Frank born in 1929?
4 Which retired US professional wrestler, comedian, and actor is often referred to as "The Hardcore Legend" and was a special guest referee in the closing match of WrestleMania 2000?
5 Air Algerie Flight 5017 crashed this week in which African country?
6 Traditionally more affluent than other South American countries, which nation has been known by the sobriquet "the Switzerland of South America"?
7 By what nickname was Joan of Arc most commonly known?
8 Who directed The Bridge on the River Kwai?
9 High Land, Hard Rain was the debut album of which Scottish new wave band?
10 From her second studio album, 21, "Set Fire to the Rain" is a song by which singer-songwriter?
11 The Ustase was a fascist terrorist organisation active in which modern-day country from 1929 to 1945?
12 In what year was Channel 4 first broadcast in the UK?
13 What is the largest island of Fiji, comprising much of the population?
14 Which Middle Eastern country has a name that means "two seas"?
15 A complex of five internationally significant sites, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Museum Island can be found in which European capital?
16 Who rose to fame with his revolutionary 1957 book, Syntactic Structures?
17 Found on the Neretva River, Mostar is the fourth-largest city in which country?
18 What is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name?
19 Which US vice president served under Richard Nixon from 1969-1973?
20 In which decade did the deadliest hurricane in history occur, striking the Caribbean and killing thousands?




Answers:
1 Malaria
2 Puncak Jaya
3 Frankfurt
4 Mick Foley
5 Mali
6 Uruguay
7 Maid of Orleans
8 David Lean
9 Aztec Camera
10 Adele
11 Croatia
12 1982
13 Viti Levu
14 Bahrain
15 Berlin
16 Noam Chomsky
17 Bosnia & Herzegovina
18 KLM
19 Spiro Agnew
20 1780s

Geography-biased questions

A host of questions centred around my favourite quizzing area:

1 The Milad Tower offers panoramic views of which large Asian capital?

2 What is the largest island of Fiji, and the site of the nation's capital, Suva?

3 A lake shared by Argentina and Chile is named on the Chilean side by one of the founders of the country. How do the Chileans know this lake that the Argentinians know as Lake Buenos Aires?

4 How many members are there in the Commonwealth of Independent States, an organisation whose members are typically ex-Soviet countries? 

5 Which US city's Beale Street is an iconic thoroughfare in the history of blues music?

6 Which US river flooded in early 1937, with damage stretching from Pennsylvania to Illinois? The river is widest just west of Louisville.

7 The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and utilisation of what?

8 What is the nearest US city to the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area?
9 What is the county town of Shropshire?
10 Galle is a major city situated on the south-western tip of which island?
11 A lusophone is someone who speaks which language?
12 Taur Matan Ruak is the president of which republic?
13 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects Brooklyn with which other New York City borough?
14 What is the capital - and largest city - of Tajikistan?
15 The OPCW is the Organisation for the Prohibition of what?
16 Who was the first woman to sit as an MP in the House of Commons?
17 Among the world's least-developed countries, which landlocked African republic was formerly known as Nyasaland?
18 The flag of which German state is a bicolour of white over green?
19 Which Italian company is the second-largest utility company in Europe?
20 The Abraj Al Bait is the tallest clock tower, and one of the tallest structures, in the world. In which city of major religious importance can it be seen?




Answers:
1 Tehran
2 Viti Levu
3 General Carrera Lake
4 Nine
5 Memphis
6 Ohio River
7 Wetlands
8 Louisville
9 Shrewsbury
10 Sri Lanka
11 Portuguese
12 East Timor
13 Staten Island
14 Dushanbe
15 Chemical weapons
16 Nancy Astor
17 Malawi
18 Saxony
19 Enel
20 Mecca