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| 5 December 2017 |
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This week's questions were inspired by those written for Week 6 of the 2017–18 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Sutton Club.
| Which 1998 film stars Anthony Hopkins as billionaire media mogul Bill Parrish, and Brad Pitt as Death, who comes to visit him in the guise of a young man who has just died in a road accident? Its strapline was "Sooner or later, everyone does" |
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Meet Joe Black |
| What informal name has given in the USA, since at least 1961, to the day after Thanksgiving – seen as the start of the Christmas shopping season? |
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Black Friday |
| Which 2001 film, directed by Ridley Scott and based on a book of the same title by Mark Bowden, featured an "ensemble" cast led by Josh Hartnett and Ewan McGregor, and told the story of the real–life attempt by the US military in 1993 to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid? |
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Black Hawk Down |
| What is the current designation of the motorway that crosses the original Severn Bridge (previously the M4)? |
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M48 |
| Which is the only country with a coastline on both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (i.e. both sides of the Arabian peninsula)? |
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Saudi Arabia |
| In the BBC's wartime radio programme It's That Man Again (ITMA), what was the name of the charlady, played by Dorothy Summers, famous for her catchphrase "Can I do you now, Sir?" |
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Mrs. Mopp |
| What was the nationality of Julius Richard Petri, the inventor of the petri dish? |
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German |
| Under what name did singer–songwriter Harold Ragsdale have a US No. 1 hit (UK No. 6) in 1970 with Everything is Beautiful, and a No. 1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1975 with the comedy song The Streak? |
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Ray Stevens |
| Which comedy song, a No. 5 hit in the UK, was conceived by George Martin for the 1960 film The Millionairess, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers? It was composed by David Lee, and the lyrics were written by Kretzmer (of Les Misérables fame). In the end it wasn't included in the film; the title was used for a BBC TV sitcom originally broadcast from 1996 to 1998. |
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Goodness Gracious Me |
| Which Olympic swimming champion beat Terry Wogan's record for the longest successful putt on TV, in 2012, with a 53–yard putt in the pro–am Alfred Dunhill Links Championship? |
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Michael Phelps |
| The quotation "If you can meet with trimph and disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same" (from Kipling's poem If) can be seen in the tunnel, at the players' entrance to which world–famous sporting venue? |
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Wimbledon (centre court) |
| Which Jamaican sprinter currently has the joint second fastest time for the 100m, along with the USA's Tyson Gay? |
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Yohan Blake |
| What is Britain's largest carnivore? (Trick question alert!) |
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Grey seal |
| Name any one of the cycles of the 4–stroke internal combustion engine. |
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Intake (or Induction) |
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Compression | |
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Combustion (or Power, or Ignition) | |
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Exhaust (or Outlet) | |
| Which former politician owns the world's largest collection of Victoria Cross medals? The collection was placed on permanent display in the Imperial War Museum in 2010 – seven years after he left the House of Commons |
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Lord (Paddy) Ashdown |
| Which 'cryptocurrency', or worldwide payment system, was created by person or persons unknown operating under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, and released as open–source software in 2009? |
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Bitcoin |
| What is the Russian word for a second home? Originally a small country estate given as a gift by the tsar, they are now owned by an estimated 25% of Russian city dwellers |
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Dacha |
| In which UK town or city was the world's first traffic roundabout introduced in 1909? |
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Letchworth |
| Since taking over its rival Wenger in 2005, Victorinox is the only manufacturer of which iconic item of hardware? |
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Swiss Army knives |
| Which genus of flowering plants includes the onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek and chives? |
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Allium |
| Which street on the south side of St. James's Park, Westminster, London, is named because the Royal Menagerie and Aviary was sited there in the reign of King James I? |
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Birdcage Walk |
| The Infernal Galop, better known outside classical music circles as 'the can–can', is the climax to which opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Offenbach? |
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Orpheus in the Underworld |
| According to a scene from My Fair Lady (transcribed from Pygmalion), what hardly ever happens in Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire? |
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Hurricanes |
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