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2 April 2019

Latest questions: 2 April 2019

This week's questions are from those written for Week 18 of the 2018–19 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Weaver.

Present–day Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Principé, Goa (India), East Timor and Macau were all formerly colonies of which European country? Click to show or hide the answer
The Indochinese Union, formed in 1887 and consisting of present–day Vietnam and Cambodia – joined by Laos from 1893 – was a colony of which European country? Click to show or hide the answer
Present–day Rwanda and Burundi, then known as Ruanda–Urundi, were ruled from 1922 to 1962 by which European country? Click to show or hide the answer
Which modern European country was incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1809, but declared itself independent following the 1917 Russian Revolution? Click to show or hide the answer
Which modern country gained independence from South Africa in 1990, having been a German colony from 1884 to 1918 and mandated to the UK, under administration by South Africa, by the League of Nations in 1920? Click to show or hide the answer
From 1778 to 1968, what is now Equatorial Guinea was a colony of which European country? Click to show or hide the answer
Pride and Perjury, first published in 2003, is a memoir by which disgraced former Conservative cabinet minister? Click to show or hide the answer
Name the vice–captain of the Australian cricket team, who was banned for 12 months in 2018 (along with captain Steve Smith) after admitting involvement in ball–tampering. Click to show or hide the answer
The Great North Run (an annual half–marathon) begins in Newcastle–upon–Tyne, and ends in which town? Click to show or hide the answer
Which famous British sporting venue was founded by Queen Anne in 1711 – near Swinley Bottom, where her hunting hounds were kennelled? Click to show or hide the answer
Which German pharmaceuticals company introduced Aspirin in 1897, but lost the rights to the name? Click to show or hide the answer
The Hungarian–born British engineer Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971, for the invention of what technique? Click to show or hide the answer
Which is the second smallest of the fifty US states, by area, after Rhode Island? Click to show or hide the answer
What is the USA's most westerly state capital? Click to show or hide the answer
What is Australia's sixth most populous city, and the largest that isn't a state capital? Click to show or hide the answer
Which river gave its name to an Australian state capital? Click to show or hide the answer
What is South Africa's largest city? Click to show or hide the answer
What's the English translation of Dauphin, the title afforded to the heir to the throne of France? Click to show or hide the answer
Who directed the 2012 film Django Unchained? Click to show or hide the answer
What was the last musical for which Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III wrote the music and lyrics? Click to show or hide the answer
Which word, meaning a slight illness, of mysterious origin, that's easily caught, originates in a 1954 episode of the Goon Show? Click to show or hide the answer
What was the (English) name of the Thai boys' football team whose members were trapped in a cave in June 2018 following sudden and heavy monsoon rainfall? Click to show or hide the answer
'Oscitatio', or 'oscitation', is the medical name for which natural reflex? Click to show or hide the answer
The ONS is a non–ministerial department of the UK government. What does ONS stand for? Click to show or hide the answer
Born in Carmarthen in 1968, why has Adam Price been in the news, in September 2018 and subsequently? Click to show or hide the answer
What did Keith Allen, Alex James and Damien Hirst call themselves when they recorded Vindaloo for the 1998 FIFA World Cup? Click to show or hide the answer
Which media personality was named in March 2019 as the youngest dollar billionaire ever, at the age of 21 – beating Mark Zuckerberg by two years? Click to show or hide the answer
Clive Everton, Jack Karnehm and Ted Lowe are (or were) three of the best–known commentators on which sport? Click to show or hide the answer
Which British racing driver won the Helen Rollason award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards in 2018, having returned to racing less than a year after having both legs amputated following a high–speed crash in a Formula 4 race in 2017 (aged 17)? Click to show or hide the answer
In which US city does the McDonalds Corporation have its headquarters? Click to show or hide the answer
Which song, written by the Bee Gees and named after a novel by Ernest Hemingway, was a No. 1 hit in the USA, Canada and Australia, but only No. 7 in the UK, for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton in 1983? Click to show or hide the answer
Produced in the UK for BBC America, and first broadcast in 2018, which television drama series is based on a series of novellas by Luke Jennings, entitled Codename Villanelle, and developed for television by Phoebe Waller–Bridge? Click to show or hide the answer

© Haydn Thompson 2019