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4 February 2020

Latest questions: 4 February 2020

This week's questions are from those used in Week 12 of the 2019–20 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, set by the Chester Road Tavern and the Pack Horse Bowling Club.

Entonox – a.k.a. 'gas and air', used for pain relief in childbirth and other clinical procedures – is a 50–50 mixture of oxygen and which other gas? Click to show or hide the answer
Name one of the three Pakistani cricketers that were banned for five years for taking bribes, in the 2010 spot–fixing scandal. Captain (born 1984) Click to show or hide the answer
Fast bowler, born 1992 Click to show or hide the answer
Fast bowler, born 1982 – played for Leics in 2006 Click to show or hide the answer
The Heisman Trophy is awarded annually to the outstanding player in the United States, at college level, in which sport? Click to show or hide the answer
Which French term (essentially meaning 'rock turned into a sheep') is used to refer to a rock formation created when a glacier passed over it? Click to show or hide the answer
Which food product was advertised with the slogan "It's a bit of an animal"? Click to show or hide the answer
Which credit card was advertised as "your flexible friend"? Click to show or hide the answer
Which company's range of male grooming products was advertised as "the best a man can get"? Click to show or hide the answer
Who was the first monarch to be crowned in Westminster Abbey? Click to show or hide the answer
To an antiques dealer, Rummers and Berkemeyers are types of what? Click to show or hide the answer
Which business estate in the London Borough of Hillingdon is the location of the English Premier League's Video Assistant Referee (or VAR) hub? Click to show or hide the answer
Which fish gets its name from the resemblance of its spear–like upper jaw – which can be up to three feet long – to a tool used by sailors? Click to show or hide the answer
Which pop–rock band was formed in 2000 in Southend–on–Sea, Essex, by James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson? Click to show or hide the answer
The actress Kim Cattrall – star of Sex and the City – was born in which English city? Click to show or hide the answer
The history of France is often dated to the reign of which Frankish king, who ruled only from AD 509 to 511 but was the first to unite all of the Frankish kingdoms? Click to show or hide the answer
Which cricket competition, named after the number of balls per innings and featuring eight franchises, each based in an English or Welsh city and fielding both a men's and a women's team, is due to start in July 2020? Click to show or hide the answer
Dmitri, Alyosha and Ivan are the title characters of which classic Russian novel? Click to show or hide the answer
"With courage, nothing is impossible" is a motto that's associated with which UK charitable organisation? Click to show or hide the answer
Which archaic word for a scribe (someone who copies documents) was used by Herman Melville in the title of a short story about one named Bartleby, first published in 1853? Click to show or hide the answer
Which peninsula, forming the Asian part of Egypt, was occupied by Israel following the Six–Day War of 1967, but returned to Egypt over a three–year period following a peace treaty signed in 1979? Click to show or hide the answer
What was, and is, England's second largest county, by area – in 1831, and also in 2014? Click to show or hide the answer
Who has written and recorded the title song for the next James Bond film, No Time to Die – due for release in February 2020? (The song, not the film) Click to show or hide the answer
Which Kenyan athlete, the current holder of the men's world record for the marathon, became the first person to run a marathon distance in less than two hours, in October 2019 (but not in an officially recognised race)? Click to show or hide the answer
Stretching for 75 miles (120 km) from the Belgian border to the Somme estuary, and including Cap Griz Nez and Cap Blanc Nez – the closest points to England on the French coast – what is the French counterpart to the White Cliffs of Dover? Click to show or hide the answer
When Australian cricketers talk about "the baggy green", what are they referring to? Click to show or hide the answer
Which actress was convicted of shoplifting, and other related offences, in 2002, for stealing $5,500 worth of designer clothes and accessories from a Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills in December 2001? Click to show or hide the answer
Which famous racecourse is situated in Paris's Bois de Boulogne? Click to show or hide the answer
Whose 1742 pamphlet, entitled A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, was regarded as the authority on the rules of that game until at least 1864? Click to show or hide the answer

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