Latest questions: 4 February 2020

This week's questions are from those used in Week 12 of the 2019–20 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, set by the Chester Road Tavern and the Pack Horse Bowling Club.

Entonox – a.k.a. 'gas and air', used for pain relief in childbirth and other clinical procedures – is a 50–50 mixture of oxygen and which other gas?			Nitrous oxide
Name one of the three Pakistani cricketers that were banned for five years for taking bribes, in the 2010 spot–fixing scandal.	Captain (born 1984)		Salman Butt
	Fast bowler, born 1992		Mohammad Amir
	Fast bowler, born 1982 – played for Leics in 2006		Mohammad Asif
The Heisman Trophy is awarded annually to the outstanding player in the United States, at college level, in which sport?			American (Gridiron) football
Which French term (essentially meaning 'rock turned into a sheep') is used to refer to a rock formation created when a glacier passed over it?			Roche moutonée
Which food product was advertised with the slogan "It's a bit of an animal"?			Pepperoni
Which credit card was advertised as "your flexible friend"?			Access
Which company's range of male grooming products was advertised as "the best a man can get"?			Gillette
Who was the first monarch to be crowned in Westminster Abbey?			Harold II (Godwinson)
To an antiques dealer, Rummers and Berkemeyers are types of what?			Drinking glass
Which business estate in the London Borough of Hillingdon is the location of the English Premier League's Video Assistant Referee (or VAR) hub?			Stockley Park
Which fish gets its name from the resemblance of its spear–like upper jaw – which can be up to three feet long – to a tool used by sailors?			The marlin
Which pop–rock band was formed in 2000 in Southend–on–Sea, Essex, by James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson?			Busted
The actress Kim Cattrall – star of Sex and the City – was born in which English city?			Liverpool
The history of France is often dated to the reign of which Frankish king, who ruled only from AD 509 to 511 but was the first to unite all of the Frankish kingdoms?			Clovis I
Which cricket competition, named after the number of balls per innings and featuring eight franchises, each based in an English or Welsh city and fielding both a men's and a women's team, is due to start in July 2020?			The Hundred
Dmitri, Alyosha and Ivan are the title characters of which classic Russian novel?			The Brothers Karamazov
"With courage, nothing is impossible" is a motto that's associated with which UK charitable organisation?			The RNLI
Which archaic word for a scribe (someone who copies documents) was used by Herman Melville in the title of a short story about one named Bartleby, first published in 1853?			Scrivener
Which peninsula, forming the Asian part of Egypt, was occupied by Israel following the Six–Day War of 1967, but returned to Egypt over a three–year period following a peace treaty signed in 1979?			Sinai
What was, and is, England's second largest county, by area – in 1831, and also in 2014?			Lincolnshire
Who has written and recorded the title song for the next James Bond film, No Time to Die – due for release in February 2020? (The song, not the film)			Billie Eilish
Which Kenyan athlete, the current holder of the men's world record for the marathon, became the first person to run a marathon distance in less than two hours, in October 2019 (but not in an officially recognised race)?			Eliud Kipchoge
Stretching for 75 miles (120 km) from the Belgian border to the Somme estuary, and including Cap Griz Nez and Cap Blanc Nez – the closest points to England on the French coast – what is the French counterpart to the White Cliffs of Dover?			The Opal Coast (Côte d'Opale)
When Australian cricketers talk about "the baggy green", what are they referring to?			Their caps
Which actress was convicted of shoplifting, and other related offences, in 2002, for stealing $5,500 worth of designer clothes and accessories from a Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills in December 2001?			Winona Ryder
Which famous racecourse is situated in Paris's Bois de Boulogne?			Longchamp
Whose 1742 pamphlet, entitled A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, was regarded as the authority on the rules of that game until at least 1864?			Edmond Hoyle

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