Latest questions: 10 October 2018

This week's questions are from those used in the Plate Final of the 2017–18 season in Macclesfield Quiz League. The questions were supplied by all teams, and collated by the Pack Horse Bowling Club and the Robin Hood.

Which English–born snooker player – one of the first women professionals (if not the first) – relocated to the USA in 1995, and became equally successful at pool – nicknamed 'the Duchess of Doom'?		Allison Fisher
Which non–departmental public body (or qango) is currently responsible for England's national trails? It was formed in 2006 by the merger of the Countryside Agency, English Nature and the Rural Development Service		Natural England
Which botanical symbol does English Nature use to mark its National Trails?		An acorn
In music, which note is written on the middle line of the treble stave?		B
Which Hollywood actor won a Grammy in 2002 for his collaboration with the bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, and another for his 2009 album The Crow: New Songs for the 5–String Banjo?
What letter is used as a prefix to indicate an aircraft registered in the United Kingdom?		G
In which year was the Government of Ireland Act passed, leading to the creation of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom in the following year?		1920
Clout (or clout shooting) is a form of which sport?		Archery
Which American entertainer lost an eye in a car accident in 1954, and wore a glass eye for the last 35 years of his life?		Sammy Davis Jr.
Which port on the Bay of Biscay, where Germany established a major submarine (U–boat) base, was the last French city to be liberated at the end of World War Two?		La Rochelle
What title – also a senior rank in the Royal Navy – is usually given to the president of a yacht club?		Commodore
Who, at his trial in 399 BC, summed up his attitude to death and exile (after choosing the former over the latter) in the famous dictum "the unexamined life is not worth living"?		Socrates
Which singer took his stage name from the name of a hearing aid shop – which is Latin for "Good Voice"?		Bono
Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorov are the title characters of which play by Chekhov?		Three Sisters
'Donjon' is another word, originating in Middle French, for which part of a castle?		The keep
What is the popular name, derived from a traditional children's story, for the (circumstellar) habitable zone – the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure?		Goldilocks zone
Bokmål is the preferred written standard for 85% to 90% of the population of which European country?		Norway

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Latest questions: 10 October 2018