Latest questions: 3 March 2020

This week's questions are from those used in Week 15 of the 2019–20 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, set by the Waters Green Lemmings and the Park Taverners.

Who is the only tennis player (to date) to win the Golden Slam – all four Grand Slams and the Olympics, in the same calendar year?		Steffi Graf (in 1988)
With which 1973 film, that starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, did the winner of the Grand National in the year 2000 share its name?		Papillon
Name the Italian Baroque painter, 1593–c. 1656, who was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. She specialised in scenes of female heroines and stories centered on women from myths, allegories, and the Bible, including victims, suicides, and warriors; an exhibition dedicated to her work is to be held at the National Gallery in London later this year		Artemisia Gentilleschi (Lomi)
Which member of the Shadow Cabinet introduced the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019, designed to prevent a no–deal Brexit – dubbed "the Surrender Act" by Boris Johnson?		Hilary Benn
Russian Banana and Yukon Gold are varieties of which vegetable?		Potato
Which river flows through the city of Bath (and is spanned by the Pulteney Bridge)?		The Avon
What name is shared by rivers in Dorset, Kent, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire?		Stour
Which Woody Allen film, released in 2013, stars Cate Blanchett as a rich Manhattan socialite who falls on hard times and has to move into her working class sister's apartment in San Francisco?		Blue Jasmine
Who wrote the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – first published in 1970, and subtitled An Indian History of the American West?		Dee Brown
Who won the Turner Prize in 1991 with Field – consisting of approximately 35,000 individual terracotta figures, each between 8 and 26 cm (3 to 10 inches) high, installed on the floor of a room facing the viewer?		Anthony Gormley
What's the title of the video–sharing mobile app, launched in China in 2017 (but only available outside China), which by 2019 had become the seventh most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s?		TikTok
Who wrote the 2018 novel Middle England, which won the 2019 Costa Novel Award?		Jonathan Coe
Which BBC2 drama series, first broadcast in 1996 to 7 and centred on the lives of a group twenty–something law graduates sharing a house in London, was repeated recently following the death of its executive producer Tony Garnett?		This Life
Which current member of the Shadow Cabinet has represented Hackney North and Stoke Newington at Westminster since 1987?		Diane Abbott
Which Japanese company introduced the first mass–produced autofocus camera, in 1977?		Konica
Which city was the capital of 'pluricontinental' Portugal from 1808 to 1822?		Rio de Janeiro
Pet passports are required to bring three types of pets into the UK: dogs, cats and ... which other type?		Ferrets
Who presented the first National Lottery draw on BBC television, on 19 November 1994?		Noel Edmonds
'Bluemotion' was a trademark, now discontinued, used to designate a combination of technologies designed to increase fuel economy and reduce emissions, by which car manufacturer?		Volkswagen
What's the name, indicating its total "collecting area", of the proposed intergovernmental radio telescope project to be built in Australia and South Africa, with construction due to begin later this year?		The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

© Haydn Thompson 2020