Latest questions: 17 November 2020

This week's questions have mainly been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 12 and 13 of the 2017–18 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the James Watts (Questions 1 to 22) and the Printers (Questions 23 to 42).

What's the only exact name that's shared by currently–operating stations on the London Underground and the Paris Metro?		Temple
Which poem, first published posthumously in 1920, opens with the lines: "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks / Knock–kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge"?		Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
Which 1988 film, directed by John Waters and set in Baltimore, Maryland in 1962, was adapted as a musical that opened on Broadway in 2002?		Hairspray
Which American sitcom, first broadcast between 2000 and 2006, starred Frankie Muniz as the title character, a 'gifted child', and Bryan Cranston as his father?		Malcolm in the Middle
Which controversial book by William Allison and John Fairley, adapted by Alan Bleasdale into a BBC television drama series first broadcast in 1986, was a speculative account of the First World War exploits of Percy Toplis (played in the television version by Paul McGann)?		The Monocled Mutineer
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary ... " are the opening words of which historical, and indeed historic, document?		The US Declaration of Independence
Which 1949 Western film, starring John Wayne, took its five–word title from a popular US marching song (which was adapted for use in the film)?		She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The ship commanded by Sir Francis Drake in the defence against the Spanish Armada was the first of thirteen ships of the English / Royal Navy (to date) to bear what name?		HMS Revenge
Detectives Mike Shepherd, Kristin Sims and Sam Breen, Shepherd's Maori neighbour Jared Morehu, and medical examiner Dr. Gina Kadinsky are the central characters in which quirky New Zealand crime drama television series, broadcast on Prime from 2014, whose title includes the name of the fictional town in which the series is set?		The Brokenwood Mysteries
In which Us state are the Grand Teton National Park, and the nearby Jackson Hole National Monument?		Wyoming
Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales – changed its logo in 2006, from the traditional green and red triban (three peaks) to a stylised representation of a yellow flower with the Latin name Meconopsis cambrica. By what name is this flower known in English?		Welsh poppy
Published in 1903 – ten years after the one in which Dr. Watson concludes that he has fallen to his death, along with Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls – what's the title of the story in which Sherlock Holmes reappears?		The (Adventure of the) Empty House
In which Olympic sport is the playing area known as 'the sheet'?		Curling
What was the name of the Duke of Medina Sidonia's flagship in the Spanish Armada?		São Martinho (San Martín) san martin
What was the nationality of the actress Elke Sommer – whose starring roles in films included one opposite Peter Sellers in the first Pink Panther sequel, A Shot in the Dark?		German
Meaning 'generals' game', what is the Japanese name for the Japanese variant of chess, sometimes known in English as Japanese chess?		Shogi
According to the Guinness Book of Records (before it stopped accepting such claims), what is the heavest breed of dog?		The (English) Mastiff
Who was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1945 until his death in 1976 (eight months before that of Mao Zedong)?		Zhou Enlai
Opened in 1832 as a precaution in case of war with the United States, and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, what is the oldest continuously operated canal system in North America? It connects Ottawa to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River; its name is a French word for a screen or curtain, after the waterfall where the river of the same name empties into the Ottawa river at the same place as the canal.		Rideau Canal
Which Rogers & Hammerstein musical is based on the play Liliom, by Ferenc Molnár – transplanting the setting from Budapest to the Maine coastline, and changing the name of the play's title character to Billy Bigelow?		Carousel
What's the title of BBC Radio 4's programme about numbers and statistics? First broadcast (as a one–off series of six programmes) in 2001, it's been presented since 2007 by Tim Harford.		More or less
Cressida Cowell replaced Lauren Child, in 2019, in what post?		Children's Laureate
Which American football (NFL) team moved to Las Vegas in 2019, changing their name accordingly?		Oakland Raiders
The chullo and the ushanka are similar styles, from Andean South America and Russia respectively, of what?		Hats
The British jazz musician Stan Tracey (1926–2013) was most closely associated with which instrument?		Piano
Which fictional private investigator was played by Biff Elliot in I, the Jury (1953), Robert Aldrich in Kiss me Deadly (1955), Robert Bray in My Gun is Quick (1957), Armand Assante in a 1982 remake of I, the Jury, and by his creator in The Girl Hunters (1963)?		Mike Hammer
In Neighbours, which nasty, nosy, interfering character was played by Vivean Gray (who also appeared in the Australian period drama The Sullivans, and in Prisoner: Cell Bock H)?		Mrs. (Nell) Mangel (later Worthington)
The words Desperation, Pacification, Expectation, Acclamation and Realization were associated with which confectionery product, which was made from 1902 to 1976?		Fry's Five Boys
What's the currency of East Timor?		The US dollar
The sale of which painting by Gainsborough, for a record price, to the American railway pioneer Henry E. Huntington, caused a public outcry in Britain in 1920?		The Blue Boy
What name was given to the London Borough that was formed in 1965 to cover the areas previously administered by the Essex county boroughs of East Ham and West Ham?		Newham
Who was the controversial editor of The Sun newspaper from 1981 to 1994?		Kelvin MacKenzie
The pastel de nata is a Portuguese style of what specific type of baked food product?		Custard tart
What name do British butchers give to the cut of beef from the animal's foreshank (the upper part of the front leg)?		Shin
What name is given to the joint in the hind leg of a quadruped, between the knee and the fetlock – the angle of which points backwards?		The hock
Give the first name of either of the two biological daughters of Kris and Bruce (or Caitlin) Jenner.		Kendall or Kylie
The Martello Tower at Sandycove, Dublin, was opened in 1962 as a museum to which writer, who stayed in it for six nights in 1904 and set the opening scene of his most famous novel there?		James Joyce
Nurse Nancy, Jenny Wren and Witch Winkle were among the most popular characters in which "picture paper specially for little girls", published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. from 1968 to 1999?		Twinkle
Which 'Busby Babe' scored 178 goals in 294 games for Manchester United, and survived the Munich air disaster, but was surprisingly sold to Stoke City in 1962, aged 28, for £25,000? He died of cancer in 1999, aged 65.		Dennis Viollet
Carmela is the wife, Livia the mother, Meadow and A. J. the daughter and son, and Corrado (known as Junior) the uncle, of the central character in which television crime drama series?		The Sopranos
The actor born Percy Kent–Smith, in 1943 – in Dunoon, a town on the Firth of Clyde in south–west Scotland – is best known for a role he played on television from 1987 to 1989. What is his professional name?		Sylvester McCoy
Which American rock band, formed in 1964 in Lincoln Park, Michigan, was once said to "[crystallize] the counterculture movement at its most volatile and threatening"? The band's name reflects the original number of members and their Detroit roots; their best–known song is Kick Out the Jams, and they split up in 1972.		MC5
Which 1980 film did Stephen King describe as "a big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it"?		The Shining
The American actor, singer and drag queen Harris Glenn Milstead died in 1988, aged 42 – three weeks after the release of the original Hairspray film, in which he starred. What was his single–word professional name?		Divine
Who, in September 2020, became the sixth winner of the top prize in the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and the first in the new version hosted by Jeremy Clarkson?		Donald Fear

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