Latest questions: 20 March 2018

This week's questions are from those written for Week 16 of the 2017–18 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Harrington Academicals and the Park Taverners.

What word for an ancient Roman marketplace is also a site on the internet for open discussion?		Forum
Who was the first woman to skipper a boat in the Whitbread Round the World race, finishing 5th in 1977–8 in ADC Accutrac? She later became a successful novelist		Clare Francis
Which branch of geometry is concerned with the relationships between the angles of triangles and the lengths of their sides?		Trigonometry
In medicine, what name is given to a bacterial infection involving the inner layers of the skin – most commonly affecting the legs or the face?		Cellulitis
What two–word name is commonly given to methamphetamine – a stimulant to the central nervous system, discovered in 1893?		Crystal meth
Which meat product, traditionally using beef, has a name that comes ultimately from the Turkish for 'pressed meat' and is served on rye bread in a classic New York sandwich?		Pastrami
Which Italian 'finger food' is made from balls of rice (often left–over risotto rice), mixed with meat sauce, mozzarella and/or peas, covered in breadcrumbs and fried? Popular in Sicily, it is believed to have originated there in the 10th century (a time of Arab rule); the name is derived from the Italian for 'little orange'		Arancini
Who played the title role in the Crocodile Dundee films (1986, 1988 and 2001)?		Paul Hogan
Which Australian–born gay rights activist stood as the Labour candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by–election, after Bob Mellish stood down in protest against the party's shift to the Left? He had previously been denounced by Michael Foot for supporting extra–parliamentary action against the Thatcher government; in the by–election he came second to the Liberal candidate, Simon Hughes.		Peter Tatchell
Which Australian cricketer reputedly drank 52 cans of beer on the flight to England for the 1989 Ashes series?		David Boon
What four–letter mnemonic is used to remind members of the public how to recognise the symptoms of a stroke, and what to do if they detect them?		FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time)
Which Ukrainian port is sometimes known as "the Pearl of the Black Sea"?		Odessa
Which painting by Degas, stolen from a museum in Marseille in 2009, was found last month during a "random search" in the luggage compartment of a bus near Paris?		Les Choristes (The Chorus)
Who wrote the 2012 novel The Casual Vacancy – made into a BBC television series in 2015?		J. K. Rowling
Which real–estate developer married Ivanka Trump in 2009, and became senior advisor to his father–in–law? He admitted meeting Russians during and after the 2016 presidential election campaign, but denied any impropriety.		Jared Kushner
Which Italian populist political party, founded in 2009 by comedian and blogger Beppe Grillo and web strategist Gianroberto Casaleggio, shares its name (in translation) with a 1980s British pop group? (Casaleggio died in 2016.)		The Five Star Movement
Who presents the BBC Radio 4 live discussion programme The Moral Maze?		Michael Buerk
In the 1976 film Logan's Run, what is the age at which all citizens are vaporised in the "Carrousel" (sic) and ostensibly reviewed?		30

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Latest questions: 20 March 2018