Latest questions: 21 January 2020

This week's questions are from those used in Week 11 of the 2019–20 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, set by the Church House Bollington.

Name either title on the double–A–sided single that was the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK. It was the Christmas No. 1 in 1977, and spent nine weeks at No. 1.		Mull of Kintyre / Girls School (Wings)
Which British long–distance footpath is followed (with slight deviations) by the Spine Race 'ultramarathon', held annually since 2012, in which competitors are allowed seven days to complete the course?		The Pennine Way
Which country beat the USSR 4–0 in the so–called 'Blood in the Water' water polo match, at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, when one of its team was punched in the eye by a Soviet player?		Hungary
Which career soldier won gold in the Running Deer (shooting) event at the 1924 (Paris) Olympics, and is the only person to have won an Olympic gold medal and the Victoria Cross?		Philip Neame
Held annually since 1929 (with some breaks) and described as Northern Ireland's biggest annual sporting event – attracting over 150,000 visitors from all over the world – the North West 200 is an event in which sport?		Motor cycling
Which English swimmer has broken the world 100m breaststroke record five times and the 50m record four times, and has held both since 2015?		Adam Peaty
Which 1955 film was a highly–fictionalised account of a raid on German cargo shipping by British Royal Marines, in December 1942, when Special Boat Service commandos infiltrated Bordeaux Harbour using folding kayaks (codenamed Operation Franklin)?		The Cockleshell Heroes
Marie Frederiksson died in 2019, aged 61. Of which pop–rock duo was she the lead singer and keyboard player?		Roxette
Of which footballer, who died in 2019 aged 74, did Bill Shankly once say, "[he] wasn't born; he was quarried"?		Tommy Smith
Which Irish broadcaster, whose Late Late Show was the world's second longest–running television chat show, died in November 2019 aged 85?		Gay Byrne
Which American born singer, born Noel Engel, died in March 2019 aged 76?		Scott Walker
The Australian–born broadcaster Clive James died in 2019, aged 80. What was the title of the Japanese television programme (where contestants attempt to withstand unpleasant experiences longer than their rivals) that he made more familiar to UK audiences than it was in Japan?		Endurance
Who ruled as the King of Siam, from 1851 to 1868, and is portrayed in the musical The King and I?		Mongkut (a.k.a. Rama IV)
In Brideshead Revisited, what's the name of Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear?		Aloysius
In which Cumbrian town (in Lancashire until 1974) was Britain's first submarine built in 1901, its first nuclear submarine in 1960, and the vast majority of its nuclear–powered submarines since then?		Barrow–in–Furness
Inaugurated in 2007, which UK National Trail runs from Chipping Camden in Gloucestershire to Bath in Somerset?		The Cotswold Way
Which character in a popular BBC television sitcom works as a roadsweeper, and claimed to have used the same brush for 20 years – despite its having had 17 new heads and 14 new handles?		Trigger
What's the capital of the French region of Normandy?		Rouen
Which much–loved character from children's literature was given a hat by his Uncle Pastuzo?		Paddington Bear
Who became the only UK prime minister (current or former) to lose his seat in a general election, when he was defeated in Manchester East at the 1905 general election?		A. J. Balfour
What was the title of the single by the Australian singer–songwriter Tones and I, which spent eleven weeks at No. 1 in the UK in 2019?		Dance Monkey
Insomnia Café was the working title for which American sitcom?		Friends
Who played Timothy 'Timmy' Lea in the Confessions series of British sex comedy films in the 1970s?		Robin Askwith
In which sport, an Olympic sport in 1920, have Belgium and the Netherlands contested every World Championships final (11, from 1978 up to and including 2019) and every one of the first eight World Games finals (1978 to 2013) – the Netherlands winning every one, except the 1991 World Championships?		Korfball
Spiral Scratch was the legendary debut EP of which punk–rock band, formed at Bolton Institute of Technology in 1976?		Buzzcocks
"Saigon. Shit! I'm still only in Saigon" is the opening line (spoken by Martin Sheen) from which 1979 film?		Apocalypse Now
Which American cigarette brand uses the advertising slogan "It's toasted!" – claiming that they taste better because the tobacco is toasted rather than sun–dried?		Lucky Strike
Which market town near Stoke–on–Trent, Staffordshire, is dominated by the 19th century Catholic Church of St. Giles – known locally as 'Pugin's Gem', after the architect who was commissioned by John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, to create a church that "would have no rival"?		Cheadle
Which term, used in the 1920s and 30s to mean 'nonsense', provided the title for the Marx Brothers' sixth film, released in 1932 and the last but one to feature Zeppo?		Horse Feathers
Which extensive peak in the West Pennine Moors, between the towns of Bolton, Blackburn and Chorley, was the scene of a wildfire that burned for 41 days in 2018, and has on its summit a television mast (built in 1966 to replace a shorter one built in 1956) that's one of the tallest structures in the UK?		Winter Hill
Which game, introduced by Parker Brothers in 1972, involves making up words from sequences of letters displayed on sixteen dice arranged in a 4 x 4 formation?		Boggle
Which character in Viz magazine is a left–wing feminist and champion of wimmin's rights, who describes all men as "potential rapists" and addresses all women as "my fellow lesbians" regardless of their sexual orientation?		Millie Tant
What term is used to refer to an un–neutered male sheep, and hence to mating in sheep and their mating season?		Tup(ping)

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