Latest questions: 11 December 2018

This week's questions are from those written for Week 7 of the 2018–19 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Ox–fford 'C'.

Name one of the three cities that are linked by (and gave their name to) a bridge opened in 2018, which became the world's longest sea crossing and its longest fixed link		Hong Kong
		Zhuhai
		Macau
Which BBC Radio 4 spoof news comedy series, first broadcast from 1991 to 1992, introduced Alan Partridge (played by Steve Coogan) as its Sports Desk reporter?		On the Hour
Which Brazilian jockey was Flat Racing Champion Jockey for the third time in 2018?		Silvestre de Sousa
In which city does La Liga football club Real Betis play its home games?		Seville
The theme song to which BBC television sitcom begins with the words "They say I might as well face the truth, That I'm just too long in the tooth"?		One Foot in the Grave
News of the World by the Jam is the theme song to which comedy panel show?		Mock the Week
Ray Parker Junior had a No. 2 hit in 1984 with the theme song from which film, released in the same year?		Ghostbusters
Which film role did Anjelica Huston claim to have based in part on her friend Jerry Hall, "to give the character more warmth"?		Morticia Addams
Which superstar was played by actor Rami Malek in a recent biographical film?		Freddie Mercury
Which survival–based video game, launched in 2017, drew in more than 125 million players in less than a year and has been said to have popularised the dance crazes flossing, fresh and flapping?		Fortnite
Which 2017 film musical includes the songs This is Me and Rewrite the Stars?		The Greatest Showman
Who resigned her position as Sports Minister on the first of November 2018, in protest against the delay to the introduction of reduced limits on the stakes of fixed odds betting terminals?		Tracey Crouch
What term was coined by the writer Arthur Mee (in The King's England, a series of books published in the 1930s) to refer to the communities that lost no servicemen in World War I?		Thankful villages
Who wrote the so–called 'black spider memos' to ministers in seven Government departments in 2004 and 2005, which were released in 2015?		Prince Charles
Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory is now the location of two museums (a Museum of Contemporary Art, and a branch of the Historical Museum) in which European city?		Kraków
William Henry Hare is Leicester Tigers RUFC's record points scorer; he won 25 England caps between 1974 and 1984, and is currently Chief Scout for Northampton Saints. What is his nickname?		Dusty
Whose painting, entitled Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two Figures), recently sold at auction for $90.3 million – a record for a work by a living artist?		David Hockney
Released in 1984, what was George Michael's first solo single, and the first of his seven UK No. 1s?		Careless Whisper
The Doom Bar (which gave its name to a popular beer, first produced nearby in the 1990s) is a notorious sandbank at the mouth of which Cornish river?		The Camel

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