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17 October 2018

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Latest questions: 17 October 2018

This week's questions are from those written for Week 1 of the 2018–19 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Ox–fford.

In algebra, "ax2 + bx + c = y" (where a, b, c and y are known numbers, and x is an unknown number) is the generalised form of what sort of equation? Click to show or hide the answer
Which popular cartoon character was created by writer and editor René Goscinny and illustrator Albert Uderzo, and first appeared in 1959, in the first issue of the Franco–Belgian comics magazine Pilote? Click to show or hide the answer
Which play by Chekhov portrays the visit of a retired university professor, with his new, young, second wife, Yelena, to the family estate that has supported their lavish urban lifestyle? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Italian–born clown performed at Blackpool Tower Circus every summer season for forty years (1939–79) – a world record for the most performances at a single venue? Click to show or hide the answer
Which ballet company was founded in 1950 by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin, and renamed English National Ballet in 1989? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Radio 1 DJ resigned live on air in 1993 with the words; "changes are being made here which go against my principles and I just cannot agree with them"? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Nazi party member is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in Krakow (in occupied Poland)? Click to show or hide the answer
What was the official name of the US–backed regime that took power in Cambodia in 1970, following the overthrow of Norodom Sihanouk in a military coup, which was itself overthrown by communists five years later? Click to show or hide the answer
In Greek legend, the Amazons were a female warrior race whose capital was Themiscyra, on the banks of the Thermodon River (now called the Terme). In which modern country is this? Click to show or hide the answer
What name is used in the UK for the salad vegetable, scientific name Eruca sativa, which is known in the USA and Canada as 'arugula'? Click to show or hide the answer
With which instrument was the jazz musician and bandleader Dave Brubeck most closely associated? Click to show or hide the answer
Max Gate was whose last home (from 1885, when it was built to his design, until his death in 1928)? Click to show or hide the answer
A car with the international licence plate code of IL comes from which country? Click to show or hide the answer
Whose third volume of political memoirs, published in 2017, was entitled What Happened? Click to show or hide the answer
Which major drinks manufacturer, founded in Cuba in 1862, has a bat as its logo? Click to show or hide the answer
Which confectionery brand was launched by Rowntree's, no later than 1882, as 'chocolate beans'? Its current name dates from 1937. Click to show or hide the answer
Which live discussion programme, chaired by Melvyn Bragg and "exploring the world of ideas", has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1998? Click to show or hide the answer
Which French wine region is described on its own website as "Located north of Lyon in eastern France, [overlapping] Burgundy in the north and Rhône in the south"? Click to show or hide the answer

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