Latest questions: 24 November 2020

This week's questions have been gleaned from those set for use in the first Knockout round of the 2017–18 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Little Horse & Farrier (Questions 1 to 11), and in League weeks 14 and 15 by the Travellers Call (Questions 12 to 24) and the Railway Fliers (Questions 25 to 30).

More questions from Week 15 to come next week!

Which writer spent part of his childhood at Uppark, a country house in West Sussex, where his mother was a lady's maid?		H. G. Wells
What was the name of the chief deity of ancient Egypt, who eventually became fused with Ra, the sun god?		Amun
Which Rogers & Hammerstein musical was based on a Pulitzer prize–winning short story collection by James A. Michener, first published in 1947?		South Pacific
Molbo and Esrom are cheeses from which European country?		Denmark
The word peccadillo, meaning 'little sin', entered English from which other European language?		Spanish
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Leon Taylor and Peter Waterfield won Britain's first medal since 1960, in which sport?		Diving
The German bacteriologist Robert Koch won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905 – 23 years after discovering the bacillus that causes which disease?		Tuberculosis
Which word for a minor fault in a system, first used in English in the US space industry in the mid–1960s, probably comes from a German or Yiddish word meaning to slip or slide?		Glitch
What food item gives its name to a slang term in tennis for a set score of 6–0 (six love)?		Bagel
In 2017, the Nobel Prize for Peace was won by an international organisation known as ICAN. What does the N stand for?		Nuclear (weapons)
Agra – the former capital of the Mughal Empire, and the location of the Taj Mahal – is the fourth most populous city in which state of modern India?		Uttar Pradesh
Which German philosopher developed a distinctive articulation of idealism, sometimes termed 'absolute idealism'? His works include The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and Philosophy of Right (1821).		Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What was the stage name of Jeanne Louise Beaudon, a French can–can dancer made famous by the paintings of Henri de Toulouse–Lautrec in the 1890s?		Jane Avril
Who is England's leading wicket taker in Ashes tests?		Ian Botham (128)
Which philosopher, born in Vienna in 1889, studied and worked at Cambridge University from 1911 and died in Cambridge in 1951?		Ludwig Wittgenstein
Who scored 5,410 runs in 61 Test matches, between 1908 and 1930, including 3,636 against Australia – making him the second highest scorer in Ashes Tests, after Don Bradman?		Jack Hobbs
Siblings Deniece, Doris, Lorraine, Stedman and Delroy Pearson formed which UK vocal group, having six Top Ten hits between 1986 and 1987, and 21 UK Top 40 hits altogether between 1985 and 1990?		Five Star
The Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, Byrdland and Nighthawk are among the guitar models made by which American manufacturer?		Gibson
Which film, released in 2003, stars Jim Carrey as a TV reporter who complains to God that He is not doing His job properly, and is offered the chance to take on the job for a week?		Bruce Almighty
Justin Currie is the singer and principal songwriter in which 'alternative rock' band, formed in Glasgow in 1980?		Del Amitri
Sandham Memorial Chapel, in the village of Burghclere, Berkshire, was built in the 1920s to accommodate a series of works by which painter, born in the same county in 1891?		Stanley Spencer
Which actress co–starred with John Wayne, by his personal request, in his final film – The Shootist (1976)?		Lauren Bacall
Whose last full–length play, written at the age of 92 and premiered in 1948, was entitled Buoyant Billions?		George Bernard Shaw
Scoring his biggest hit in 1990, by what name is the recording artiste Stanley Kirk Burrell better known?		MC Hammer
Which American 'police procedural' television series, first broadcast between 1981 and 1987, starred Daniel J. Travanti as Captain Frank Furillo, and Veronica Hamel as lawyer Joyce Davenport (who also happened to be Furillo's 'love interest')?		Hill Street Blues
Who sang on UK Number One hits with The Housemartins in 1986 and the Beautiful South in 1990?		Paul Heaton
Name the group and the artist with whom David Bowie had UK Number One hits, in November 1981 and September 1985 (respectively).		Queen
		Mick Jagger
Who joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Cheers in Series 4 – playing the "not–so–bright" assistant bartender, who shared his first name?		Woody Harrelson
What's the home town of the actor James Nesbitt and the novelist Maggie O'Farrell, and the county town of Derry or Londonderry?		Coleraine

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