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?		Portugal
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?		France
Present–day Rwanda and Burundi, then known as Ruanda–Urundi, were ruled from 1922 to 1962 by which European country?		Belgium
Which modern European country was incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1809, but declared itself independent following the 1917 Russian Revolution?		Finland
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?		Namibia
From 1778 to 1968, what is now Equatorial Guinea was a colony of which European country?		Spain
Pride and Perjury, first published in 2003, is a memoir by which disgraced former Conservative cabinet minister?		Jonathan Aitken
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.		David Warner
The Great North Run (an annual half–marathon) begins in Newcastle–upon–Tyne, and ends in which town?		South Shields
Which famous British sporting venue was founded by Queen Anne in 1711 – near Swinley Bottom, where her hunting hounds were kennelled?		Ascot racecourse
Which German pharmaceuticals company introduced Aspirin in 1897, but lost the rights to the name?		Bayer
The Hungarian–born British engineer Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971, for the invention of what technique?		Holography
Which is the second smallest of the fifty US states, by area, after Rhode Island?		Delaware
What is the USA's most westerly state capital?		Honolulu
What is Australia's sixth most populous city, and the largest that isn't a state capital?		Gold Coast
Which river gave its name to an Australian state capital?		The Brisbane River
What is South Africa's largest city?		Johannesburg
What's the English translation of Dauphin, the title afforded to the heir to the throne of France?		Dolphin
Who directed the 2012 film Django Unchained?		Quentin Tarantino
What was the last musical for which Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III wrote the music and lyrics?		The Sound of Music
Which word, meaning a slight illness, of mysterious origin, that's easily caught, originates in a 1954 episode of the Goon Show?		Lurgi (lurgy)
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?		Wild Boars
'Oscitatio', or 'oscitation', is the medical name for which natural reflex?		Yawning
The ONS is a non–ministerial department of the UK government. What does ONS stand for?		Office for National Statistics
Born in Carmarthen in 1968, why has Adam Price been in the news, in September 2018 and subsequently?		He's the new leader of Plaid Cymru
What did Keith Allen, Alex James and Damien Hirst call themselves when they recorded Vindaloo for the 1998 FIFA World Cup?		Fat Les
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?		Kylie Jenner
Clive Everton, Jack Karnehm and Ted Lowe are (or were) three of the best–known commentators on which sport?		Snooker
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)?		Billy Monger
In which US city does the McDonalds Corporation have its headquarters?		Chicago
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?		Islands in the Stream
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?		Killing Eve

© Haydn Thompson 2019