Latest questions: 16 June 2020

This week's questions are from those used in Weeks 1, 2 and 3 of the 2019–20 season in Stockport Quiz League, set by the Tiviot, Railway and Heaton Moor Rugby Club.

The town of Schengen, which lies at the 'tripoint' of France, Luxembourg and Germany – but is best known as the place where an EEC agreement was signed in 2005 – lies on which river?		The Mosel(lle)
The 'tripoint' of France, Germany and Switzerland lies in the northern outskirts of which city – Switzerland's third largest, and its only cargo port (situated on the river Rhine)?		Basel (Basle)
King James V of Scotland died some three weeks after which battle, fought some two miles north–east of the village of Gretna, in which his hastily–assembled army was heavily defeated by one sent by his uncle, Henry VIII of England, who was furious at James's refusal to join him in breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church?		Solway Moss
Which self–governing college of London University, specialising in the history of art, is named after the industrialist who founded it in 1932? Its art collection has been housed in Somerset House since 1989.		The Courtauld Institute
Whose political memoir, published in 2019, was entitled For the Record?		David Cameron
Which poem includes the lines "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense / As though of hemlock I had drunk"?		Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)
Who won a silver medal at the 1980 Olympics (in Moscow), and was appointed as Minister for Sport seven years later by Margaret Thatcher? He went to the House of Lords in 1997 thanks to a hereditary peerage, and was Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2005 to 2012.		Colin Moynihan
In the Jewish religion, what is the girls' equivalent of the boys' Bar Mitzvah?		Bat Mitzvah
Who played the title role in the 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married?		Kathleen Turner
Which national leader, who died in 1975, was exhumed from his original burial place in the Valley of the Fallen in 2019, and reinterred with his wife and several of his former ministers?		Francisco Franco
Name the Reading full–back (previously of Nottingham Forest) who in 2018 broke Neville Southall's record of 92 caps for Wales.		Chris Gunter
Which constituent college of the University of London is commonly known as SOAS?		The School of Oriental and African Studies
Which Italian restaurant, on the north bank of the Thames in London, was opened in 1987 by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray?		The River Café
Who wrote the poem Auguries of Innocence, which opens with the lines "To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour / A Robin Red breast in a Cage / Puts all Heaven in a Rage"?		William Blake
Chloe Ardelia Wofford was the real name of which Pulitzer– and Nobel–prize–winning author, who died in 2019 aged 88?		Toni Morrison
Which car manufacturer has a name that's the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster (also known in English as the Seven Sisters – although the company's logo has only six stars)?		Subaru
In the field of transport, what does the acronym ULEZ represent?		Ultra Low Emissions Zone
Which ITV crime drama series, originally broadcast from 2013 to 2017, starred David Tennant as DI Alec Hardy, and Olivia Colman as DS Ellie Miller (and an "ensemble cast")? Series 1 centred around the murder of 11–year–old Danny Latimer, Series 2 and 3 on its aftermath.		Broadchurch
In which city is the Dohány Street Synagogue – the largest in Europe?		Budapest
Which rapper won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018 with his album Damn – the first time it had been won by music from a genre other than classical or jazz?		Kendrick Lamar
Which Danish–born British lawyer was convicted on two counts of attempting to murder his wife Sunny (in the USA), but found not guilty on appeal in 1985? He was played in the 1990 biopic Reversal of Fortune (based on a book of the same title by American lawyer Alan Dershowitz) by Jeremy Irons – who won the Best Actor Oscar for the role.		Claus von Bülow
Who joined the cast of Coronation Street in 2018 to play Evelyn Plummer, the long–lost grandmother of Tyrone Dobbs?		Maureen Lipman
Which American 'Beat poet' is said to have coined the term "flower power" in 1965, in order to transform anti–war protests into peaceful, affirmative spectacles?		Allen Ginsberg
What term was invented by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, to refer to the improvement of the human population through a statistical understanding of heredity used to encourage good breeding?		Eugenics
Which broadcaster's autobiography, published in 2019, was entitled An Improbable Life?		Trevor McDonald
Also known as the multiplicative inverse, what name is given in mathematics to the result of dividing one by a particular number – in other words, the value by which that number must be multiplied to make one?		The reciprocal
In what year did the UK Parliament pass the Peerage Act, allowing women peers and Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed?		1963
Which pop icon released a memoir entitled Face It in 2019?		Debbie Harry
Raising any number to the power zero gives what value?		One
Which American television sitcom, originally broadcast between 2006 and 2013, was created by Tina Fey, based on her experiences as head writer on Saturday Night Live, and named after the address of the studios where that show is written, produced and filmed?		30 Rock
In the human body, flexors and tensors (or extensors) are two types of what?		Muscle
In the title of a best–selling 1994 novel and a 2001 film, who or what was Antonia?		Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Which small town and port on the north coast of Anglesey is Wales's most northerly town?		Amlwch

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