Latest questions: 16 January 2018

This week's questions are from those written for 9 January 2018 in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Prince of Wales and the Nags Head.

Which additional title was held by the Governor–General of India, from 1858 to 1947?		Viceroy
What name was given to the evacuation of British, French and Polish troops from Norway, on 24 May 1940?		Operation Alphabet
Which city on the southern shore of the Straits of Gibraltar was captured by Portugal in 1415, ceded to Spain in 1668, and remains part of Spain today?		Ceuta
Which famous British painter was born in Berlin in 1922, and came with his family in 1933 to live in London?		Lucian Freud
Which TV soap opera, produced by Scottish Television from 1980 to 2003, was set in the fictional village of Glendarroch?		Take the High Road
In Egyptian mythology, who was the god of knowledge, wisdom, the moon and magic, depicted as an ibis, or as a human with the head of an ibis (or sometimes a baboon)?		Thoth
Which television science fiction series featured spacecraft called Liberator and Scorpio, and computers Orac and Slave?		Blake's 7
In the 1988 Summer Olympics, in Seoul, Yoo Nam–kyo of South Korea and Chen Jing of China won the first ever gold medals in the men's and women's singles, in which sport?		Table tennis
Which isolated volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly midway between the horn (easternmost point) of South America and Africa, was used as a staging post by the British Task Force during the Falklands War of 1982, and by the RAF as a base to supply the Task Force?		Ascension Island
Which writer created the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan – protagonist of the Fox TV series Bones, originally broadcast from 2005 to 2017?		Kathy Reichs
Origin is the latest novel by which best–selling novelist?		Dan Brown
In which US state is St. Augustine – founded in 1565, the oldest continuously–occupied European–established settlement in the continental USA?		Florida
Which seminal British folk–rock group was formed in London in 1967 by Ashley Hutchings and Simon Nicol, with Richard Thompson on lead guitar?		Fairport Convention
Which Commonwealth country was governed from 1876 to 1891 (with three breaks) by the so–called Continuous Ministry – led by Sir Harry Atkinson, who himself served four separate terms as Prime Minister?		New Zealand
Which Canadian city hosted the 2017 Invictus Games?		Toronto
In which Middle Eastern city did the Louvre open its third museum (the first outside France) in 2017?		Abu Dhabi
Which European golfer successfully sank a record putt, claimed to have travelled 9.232 miles, on the way to the 1999 Ryder Cup?		José María Olazábal
In architecture, 'fenestration' is the arrangement of what?		Windows
Which English spa town was referred to by Mary, Queen of Scots (who spent seven summers there while under the charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury) as 'La Fontagne de Bogsby'?		Buxton
Which sitcom couple lived at 71 Poplar Avenue, Purley (Surrey)?		Terry & June
S.Pellegrino, Perrier and Buxton mineral waters are brands of which transnational food company?		Nestlé Nestle
What word, from the past participle of the Latin verb meaning to lick, is used in English to mean a syrupy medicinal formulation taken to relieve coughs and sore throats?		Linctus
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place from November 2004 to January 2005, in which country?		Ukraine
Who was married to his co–presenter Maggie Philbin, from 1982 until 1993?		Keith Chegwin
Which TV presenter was the recipient, along with his sister, of one of the first two Paddington Bear stuffed toys, in 1972 (a prototype, made by his parents' company)?		Jeremy Clarkson

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Latest questions: 16 January 2018