This year’s Quiz was a great success. 28 teams battled it out on Friday 19th February at the Civil Service Sports Club. Once again, the winners were the famous Runners & Non-Runners. Jeremy Birch was our super-efficient quizmaster, and Derek Tomblin ran a superb laser display board, putting up the answers and scores as we went along.We raised over £1000 on the quiz itself and the raffle, another £100 from a Michael Yardy Sussex team shirt, and over £230 from this year’s orange cryptic quiz sheet. Thanks to all our sponsors, especially Kiley’s Karpets. If you couldn’t get to the quiz, or if you were there and want to have another look at the questions and answers, here they are:
ROUND 1: POT LUCK
1. Which New Testament book tells us ‘…there is more happiness in giving than receiving…’?
2. Which religious group is known as the ‘Society of Friends’?
3. What is the name of Napoleon’s horse which he rode at Waterloo and which is buried at Cranbrook?
4. What are ‘Golden Acre’, ‘Derby Day’ and ‘Greyhound’ types of?
5. Which hit record (title & group’s name) plays out ‘Sounds of the Sixties’ each Saturday morning on Radio Two at 10 o’clock?
6. How many miles is it from Land’s End to John o’ Groats? (a) 765 (b) 876 (c) 987
7. The last three WWI surviving veterans died in 2009. They were Bill Stone,
Henry Allingham and … who was the third?
8. Which vowel does not appear on the top row of a computer keyboard in the UK?
9. The sinking of which vessel was instrumental in the USA entering WWI?
10. What did the Ancient Greeks use a clepsydra for?
Answers: 1 Acts of the Apostles / just ‘Acts’
2 The Quakers
3 Jaffa
4 Cabbages
5 Foot Tapper (1 point) by The Shadows (1 point)
6 (b) 876
7 Henry or ‘Harry’ (1) Patch (1)
8 A
9 The Lusitania
10 To measure time/ to tell the time [it was a water-clock]
ROUND 2: LOCAL FACTS
1. In which street or road is Hastings History House?
2. Which river does Lewes stand on?
3. Which philanthropist bought Bodiam Castle for £3000 in 1829, to save it from demolition?
4. There are two reservoirs in Alexandra Park. One is Buck’s Hole. What is the name of the other one?
5. Which famous person lived in Exmouth Place, Hoads Wood Road and St Helens Park Road at different times in his or her life?
6. Where would you find RX53 Dorothy Melinda?
7. Which famous cricketer scored 143 at the Central Cricket Ground before being caught by F.G. Mann off T. Bailey? A plaque to this effect can be seen in Priory Meadow.
8. Who was Robert de Mortain?
9. Licensed in 1829, which is St Leonards’ oldest pub?
10. Which number in the series will this year’s Hastings Half Marathon be?
Answers
1 Courthouse Street
2 The Ouse
3 Jack Fuller / ‘Mad’ Jack Fuller / John Fuller
4 Shornden
5 Catherine Cookson
6 In front of Hastings Station
7 Don Bradman
8 A Norman baron/ one of William the Conqueror’s barons / William’s half-brother
9 The Horse & Groom [in Mercatoria]
10 Nº 26
ROUND 3: People’s names given to everyday objects (like ‘hoover’ or ‘Gladstone bag’).
1. A biscuit named after an Italian political hero.
2. A firework named after a martyred saint.
3. An item of clothing named after a general involved in the Crimean War.
4. A two-wheeled conveyance that Sherlock Holmes often took.
5. A dessert named after a famous Russian artiste.
6. A safety jacket named after a film star.
7. A children’s toy named after an American president.
8. An item of street-furniture named after a British Minister of Transport in the 1930’s.
9. A Roman emperor who gave his name to French street urinals in more modern times.
10. A unit of electrical resistance. Is it ohm, ampere, volt or watt?
Answers
1 garibaldi
2 Catherine wheel
3 cardigan
4 hansom cab
5 pavlova
6 Mae West
7 teddy / teddy bear [after Roosevelt]
8 Belisha beacon
9 Vespasian [French street urinals were ‘vespasiennes’]
10 ohm
ROUND 4: INITIALS & ACRONYMS
1. What do P G Wodehouse’s first two initials stand for?
2. What do the letters TT stand for, in the motor-cycle event called the Isle of Man TT Races?
3.What is the VPL that fashion-conscious girls might worry about?
4. What did the E stand for in UNICEF?
5. On a foreign vehicle’s registration plate, where would it be from if it bore the letters SLO?
6. A business letter is sometimes signed by one person ‘pp’ somebody else. What two words does ‘pp’ stand for?
7. Which 3-letter acronym stands for the common anti-tuberculosis inoculation?
8. Our old money, pounds- shillings-and-pence, used to be referred to as ‘LSD’. What did the D stand for?
9. What do the letters KBE stand for after a person’s name?
10. What letter is, or letters are, the abbreviation for the element tungsten in the periodic table?
Answers
1 Pelham Grenville (1 + 1)
2 Tourist Trophy (1 + 1)
3 Visible (1) Panty Line (1)
4 Emergency
5 Slovenia
6 per pro (1 + 1)
7 BCG [bacillus Calmette-Guérin]
8 denarius or denarii
9 Knight Commander (1 point) of the British Empire (1 point)
10 W [it used to be called wolfram]
ROUND 5: LONDON AND PARIS
1. What is the post code for Buckingham Palace?
2. When was the Great Fire of London?
3. Which firm sponsored the London Eye?
4. If I’m travelling by Underground from Finchley Road to Green Park, which line am I on?
5. Which year was the first Clean Air Act which ended the famous London
‘pea-souper’ fogs?
6. On which bank of the Seine is the Latin Quarter – left or right?
7. What is the Paris equivalent of our Underground?
8. How much does the Eiffel Tower weigh, roughly: (a) 7,000 tons, (b) 17,000 tons, (c) 70,000 tons (d) nobody knows.
9. Why do Parisians keep an eye on the zouave, the statue of a soldier by the Pont de l’Alma?
10. What does London have which is very similar to what Paris calls the “Obélisque”?
Answers
1 SW1A 1AA (SW1A = 1 point, 1AA = 1 point)
2 1666
3 British Airways
4 Jubilee line
5 1956
6 left
7 Métro
8 (a) 7,000 tons
9 To see the water level / the height of the River Seine
10 Cleopatra’s Needle.
Round 6: SPORT
- Who is the current holder of the BBC Sports Personality award?
- In cricket, how many runs are scored when the ball hits a helmet
left on the ground by the fielding team?
- Who, in professional boxing, is known as ‘The Cobra’?
- Which golf course hosts the ‘U S Masters’?
- What is the current 100m world record set by Usain Bolt set in 2009?
- Which member of a netball team has the letters WA on her bib?
- Which boxer used to enter the ring to Tina Turner’s ‘Simply the Best’?
- Which sport was originally called ‘MINTONETTE’ ?
- Which was the first team to score 7 goals in one English Premiership
league game?
10. Which British town houses The National Museum of Football?
Answers:
1. RYAN (1) GIGGS (1)
2. 5
3. CARL FROCH (Carl = 1, Foch = 1)
4. AUGUSTA
5. 9.58 secs
6. WING (1) ATTACK (1)
7. CHRIS (1) EUBANK (1)
8. VOLLEY BALL
9. BLACKBURN [Oct '92 Score: Blackburn7 Norwich 1]
10. PRESTON
ROUND 7: Spelling bee
What are the English spellings of these words? [Well, this was read out loud, after all - contestants didn't see this!]
1. cappuccino
2. vacuum
3. dysfunctional
4. diarrhoea
5. rhythm
6. sinecure
7. rheumatism
8. desiccated
9. abscess
10. onomatopoeia
ROUND 8: THE EUROPEAN UNION
1. The founder members of the forerunner of the EU, the EEC, in 1957 were France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and…. Which country was the 6th member?
2. Which national symbol appears on the euro coins of the Republic of Ireland?
3. How many different denominations of euro coins are there?
4. How many stars are there now on the EU flag?
5. What is the capital of Estonia?
6. Which EU country hosted the Euro 2004 football tournament?
7. Which is the smallest country in the EU?
8. What is the speed limit on German motorways?
9. Which EU country is the home of Nokia phones?
10. In which town is the European Court of Human Rights?
Answers
1 Luxembourg
2 a harp
3 eight [1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, 1 euro and 2 euros]
4 twelve [the number doesn’t change, however many states join the EU]
5 TALLINN (1 point if misspelt)
6 Portugal
7 Malta [only about 300 square km]
8 There isn’t one*
9 Finland
10 Strasbourg (The Hague has the International Court of Human Rights)
* This was disputed. The official, not very clear, answer is: Although the autobahns in Germany are not subject to an overall speed limit (the blue speed limit signs, usually showing 130, are suggested maximum speeds), many stretches of autobahn are covered by signed speed limits, which are mostly closely observed by the Germans.
ROUND 9: WORLD WAR II
1. Field Marshal Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army in Africa and Europe. What was his first name?
2. What was the name of the most decorated American soldier of World War II who later became a film star?
3. Operation Chastise was carried out by the RAF on the 17th May 1943 and probably turned the course of the war. What is this sortie much better known as?
4. What colloquial 9-letter name did the British population give to the Fieseler Fi 103 or “Retaliation Weapon 1’” ?
5. What sort of vehicle was a Horsa, used during the D-Day Landings?
6. What is the literal translation of ‘kamikaze’, the suicidal manœuvre performed by Japanese pilots?
7. The future political shape of Europe was negotiated in February 1945 by Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at a conference somewhere in the Crimea. In which town did it take place?
8. Florence Nightingale Graham was a Canadian business woman whose cosmetics firm produced black face cream as camouflage on night missions. Under what name did she trade?
9. Which English football ground was used as a prisoner-of-war camp until May 1945?
10. Which English mathematician spent part of his childhood in Hastings and did important work during the war at Bletchley Park on which the Enigma code- breaking machine was based?
Answers
1 Bernard
2 Audie Murphy (1 + 1)
3 The Dambusters Raid / The Dambusters
4 doodlebug
5 a glider
6 ‘divine wind’ (1 + 1)
7 Yalta
8 Elizabeth Arden (1 + 1)
9 Swindon Town
10 Alan Turing (1 + 1)
ROUND 10: FOOD- NUTRITION- SCIENCE
1. Which is the only metal that is liquid in form at room temperature?
2. Which gas freezes to form ‘Dry Ice’?
3. Which planet has 2 moons known as Deimos & Phobos?
4. Which famous product did the Baron von Liebig, a Victorian chemist, develop from the yeast left over from brewing beer?
5. On the pH scale, is pH 7 acid, alakaline or neutral?
6. A form of ascorbic acid is an essential part of our diet. What is it usually known as?
7. What accompanies bacon in the dish angels-on-horseback?
8. Is the condition called “Sydenham’s chorea” better known as (a) epilepsy (b) club foot or (c) St Vitus’ Dance ?
9. Gold can be dissolved by (a) nothing at all (b) Coca cola (c) a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids
10. If you ordered kip in The Netherlands or pollo in Italy, what would you be served?
Answers
1 mercury
2 carbon dioxide (must be all correct for 2 marks)
3 Mars
4 Marmite
5 neutral
6 vitamin C
7 oysters
8 (c) St Vitus’ Dance
9 (c) a mixture of nitric & hydrochloric acids [called ‘aqua regia’]
10 chicken
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