Latest questions: 30 October 2018

This week's questions are from those written for Week 3 of the 2018–19 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Plough Horntails.

Named FIFA's "Best Referee of the Year" six consecutive times, and widely considered to be the greatest football referee of all time, who refereed England's 5–1 victory over Germany in September 2001?		Pierluigi Collina
Which comedian stood against Nigel Farage, in the South Thanet constituency, in the General Election of May 2015?		Al Murray
Which area of London's East End is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, and comprises Millwall, Cubitt Town, Canary Wharf and parts of Blackwall, Limehouse and Poplar?		The Isle of Dogs
What is the largest of the group of islands at the end of the Furness peninsula (now in Cumbria), forming part of the town of Barrow–in–Furness?		Walney (Island)
On which Scottish island would you find Callanish Stones (a cross–shaped arrangement of standing stones, with a central stone circle, erected around 3,000 BC)?		Lewis (and Harris)
What name is given to the north–eastern extremity of Kent, which was once separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel but is now no longer an island? It includes the seaside towns of Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate.		Isle of Thanet
Which reclaimed island off the northern (Essex) shore of the Thames Estuary, associated with the petrochemical industry since 1936, was devastated by floods in 1953?		Canvey Island
Which English comedian and actress (who died in 1979, aged 69) was the niece of Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit as a member of the Westminster Parliament?		Joyce Grenfell
On 24 April this year, to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act (which gave votes to women for the first time in the UK), Theresa May unveiled a statue of which "moderate suffragist" in Parliament Square? (She was President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, from 1897 to 1919.)		Dame Millicent Fawcett
What is due to be exhibited in Britain in 2022, for the first time in its 950–year history?		The Bayeux tapestry
Which London–based political consulting firm was revealed in March 2018 to have harvested data from Facebook users and shared their information?		Cambridge Analytica
What was the name of the 44–year–old woman who died in hospital in Salisbury, in July 2018, after being exposed to a "high dose" of the nerve agent Novichok (as allegedly used in the poisoning of the Russian defector and former military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal)?		Dawn Sturgess
What was the title of the work by Banksy, which (partly) shredded itself after being sold at Sotheby's in October 2018?		Girl with Balloon
Name either of the gold medallists in the synchronised 3 metre springboard even at the Rio Olympics in 2016 – Britain's first ever diving gold(s).		Jack Laugher
		Chris Mears
Who captained Britain's women's hockey team to their first ever Olympic gold medal, and carried the GB flag at the closing ceremony?		Kate Richardson–Walsh
Which American sprinter won gold medals in the 4 x 400m relays at Beijing, London and Rio, the 4 x 100m relays at London and Rio, and the 200m individual competition at London? She also won silvers in the 200m at Athens and Beijing, and the 400m at Rio (total 6 golds and 3 silvers).		Allyson Felix
Which British athlete won the silver medal in the 800m at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, finishing second behind Sebastian Coe?		Steve Cram
Who was the first British gymnast to win medals at three Olympiads? He won bronze in Beijing, silver at London and Rio (all on the pommel horse), and team bronze in London.		Louis Smith
Who won seventeen, drew ten and lost only four of his 31 matches as England's cricket captain, having been appointed in 1976 at the age of 34?		Mike Brearley
What is defined as the temperature and pressure at which a substance can coexist in its gas, liquid, and solid phases, in thermodynamic equilibrium?		The triple point
Belfast City Airport was renamed in 2006 after which local sporting hero, who died in November 2005?		George Best
In the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, what is Raymond's surname?		Barone
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, what's the name of Mr. Darcy's Derbyshire pile?		Pemberley
Who summed up his position amongst his peers with the words "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"?		Brian Clough
What type of creature is a potoo?		A bird
Geoffrey Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1925, and died in 2008. By what name was he better known as a publisher and club owner?		Paul Raymond
Michael Jackson was treated for second and third degree burns in 1984 after his hair caught fire during filming of an avertisement for which brand of soft drink?		Pepsi Cola
Who divorced his third wife Wendi Deng in 2013, suspecting her of having an affair with Tony Blair?		Rupert Murdoch
André Planché, a Huguenot immigrant from Saxony, founded a porcelain factory around 1750 which has been known ever since for its fine bone china, in which English midland town – a city since 1977?		Derby
Who played the title role in the 1996 film The English Patient?		Ralph Fiennes
Which sport was featured in the 2005 US film version of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch?		Baseball
In Europe, which colour denotes the easiest ski slopes?		Green
Which organisation's flag is officially described as "a dark blue field charged with a white compass rose emblem from which radiate four white lines"?		NATO
The Pschent was a double crown, worn by the rulers of which ancient civilisation to signify their Upper and Lower kingdoms?		Egypt
Which genus of mosses, commonly known as 'peat moss', is one of the most common components in peat?		Sphagnum
The human eye is most sensitive to light of which colour?		Green
What was the title of the highly–regarded play by Lorraine Hansberry, about the lives of black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago? In 1959 it became the first play by a black female author to be performed on Broadway		A Raisin in the Sun

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Latest questions: 30 October 2018