Latest questions: 9 January 2018

This week's questions are from those asked in Stockport Quiz League on Thursday 23 November and Thursday 14 December 2017 (set by the Tiviot and the Horse & Farrier respectively).

Described by Majestic Wines as "the party wine of choice", which sparkling wine from the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli–Venezia Giulia is the main ingredient of the true Bellini cocktail?		Prosecco
Which wine, exported in huge volumes in the 1970s and 1980s, has been produced since ancient times in the Italian regions of Emilia–Romagna and Lombardy? Its most famous variety is a frothy, slightly sparkling red, designed to be drunk young		Lambrusco
What's the full name of the computer file format that's commonly abbreviated to 'CSV'?		Comma Separated Values (accept Variables)
Which English city is home to the National Marine Aquarium (opened in 1998)?		Plymouth
Which street in Notting Hill, west London, is famous for its Saturday antiques and second–hand clothes market?		Portobello Road
Clyde FC (a Scottish League club since 1891) was originally based in Glasgow, but in which town in North Lanarkshire (site of a New Town since 1955) has it played home games since 1994?		Cumbernauld
Which New Town in West Lothian gave its name to the football club that moved there in 1995, having been founded in 1943 as Ferranti Thistle (a works team) and joined the Scottish League in 1974 as Meadowbank Thistle?		Livingston
Which country's parliament is housed in the São Bento Palace?		Portugal
Which body of water separates the island of Tierra del Fuego (Chile and Argentina) from various smaller islands to the south (all of which belong to Chile)?		The Beagle Channel
Which neoclassical mansion near Knutsford, Cheshire, was owned by the Egerton family from its construction in the 18th century (on a site that the family had owned since 1598) until 1958, when it was bequeathed to the National Trust		Tatton Hall
Which timber–framed house in south Manchester, built in 1540 for the Tatton family, was beseiged by Parliamentary forces in the winter of 1643–4? It was donated to Manchester Corporation in 1926, opened to the public as a museum in 1930, and badly damaged in an arson attack in March 2016; restoration work is due for completion in late 2019.		Wythenshawe Hall
The Finger Lakes (and Lake Oneida, popularly known as 'the Thumb') are a popular tourist destination in which US state?		New York
The Deccan Plateau – also known as the Deccan Flats – is a large area, between two coastal mountain ranges, in		India
Which US city beat New York, Washington DC and St. Louis in the competition to hold the World's Columbian Exposition (a.k.a. World's Fair), held in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America?		Chicago
EuroCargo, EuroTech, EuroTrakker and EuroStar are industrial vehicles manufactured by which company, founded in Turin in 1975?		Iveco
Which 1999 film stars Hugh Grant as Will Thacker, owner of the Travel Book Co. (an independent bookshop)?		Notting Hill
What was the title of Hank Mizell's only UK hit – originally recorded in 1958, but reaching No. 3 in the UK (and No. 1 in the Netherlands) in 1976 after being released on a Dutch bootleg album in 1971 and subsequently on Charly records in the UK?		Jungle Rock
Whose only UK hit was All By Myself – reaching No. 12 in 1976?		Eric Carmen
Which type of birds belong to the family that's known scientifically as Strigidae?		Owls
Which 1993 bio–pic starred Meryl Streep as a trade union activist and nuclear whistleblower, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the plutonium plant where she worked?		Silkwood
Which church, situated outside the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand, London, was completed in 1682 by Sir Christopher Wren, gutted during the Blitz (in World War II) and not restored until 1958, when it was adapted as the central church of the RAF?		St. Clement Danes
Complete this line from a poem by William Barnes, which was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1901: "And there vor me the apple tree do lean down low in ... "		Linden Lea
According to St. Luke's gospel, who first spoke the words that are repeated in the traditional Catholic prayer known as the Hail Mary or Ave Maria?		The Angel Gabrial
The Karakum Desert occupies about 70% of the land area of which country?		Turkmenistan
Which television journalist has written books entitled Who Runs Britain? (first published in 2008), How Can We Fix This? (2012), and WTF (2017)?		Robert Peston
The Armistice between the Allies and Germany, which ended the First World War, was signed on 11 November 1918, in a carriage of Marshal Foch's private train, in which forest in Picardy, northern France?		Forest of Compiègne
Whose political memoirs, published in 2017, were entitled My Life, Our Times?		Gordon Brown

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Latest questions: 9 January 2018