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23 June 2020

Latest questions: 24 June 2020

This week's questions are from those used in Weeks 5 and 7, and Week 1 of the inter–divisional matches, in the 2019–20 season of Stockport Quiz League, set by the Horse & Farrier (Questions 1 to 6), Travellers Call (7 to 13) and Heaton Moor Rugby Club (14 to 34).

Founded in 1871, Wales's oldest rugby club is nicknamed The Welsh All Blacks, plays home games at The Gnoll, and is today a 'feeder' club to the Ospreys. Which town gives the club its name? Click to show or hide the answer
The exterior of which mountain lodge on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon – a US National Historic Landmark – doubled as that of the Overlook Hotel in the 1980 film The Shining? Click to show or hide the answer
Broadcast on BBC One (previously BBC Television) since 1953, what is the world's longest–running television news programme? Click to show or hide the answer
With music by William Boyce and words by the actor David Garrick, what is the official march of the Royal Navy? Click to show or hide the answer
Which US singer, songwriter and guitarist, noted for his intense, rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings) and wide, roots–orientated range of influences, was the first act to appear at Woodstock festival? Click to show or hide the answer
What is Belgium's second–largest city by population, and Europe's second–largest port by cargo tonnage? Click to show or hide the answer
Who directed the 1957 film The Seventh Seal – considered a classic of world cinema? Click to show or hide the answer
The 1968 film Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen and a 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback, is set almost entirely in which US city? Click to show or hide the answer
Swartland, Robertson, Paarl and Constantia are four of the most famous wine–growing regions in which country? Click to show or hide the answer
In which English city is Addenbrooke's Hospital – an internationally–renowned teaching hospital and research centre? Click to show or hide the answer
Which English poet, one of whose best–known works is entitled Adlestrop, was fatally shot through the chest at the Battle of Arras in April 1917 (on Easter Monday), soon after arriving in France on active service? Click to show or hide the answer
Which architect, who worked alongside Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, designed the west towers of Westminster Abbey – which however were not completed until after his death in 1736? Click to show or hide the answer
Which popular guidebook author and illustrator served as Borough Treasurer in Kendal, Westmorland (now in Cumbria), from 1948 until retirement in 1967? Click to show or hide the answer
In the world of politics, what did the initials WSPU stand for between 1903 and 1918? Click to show or hide the answer
What is the most westerly of the major lakes in the English Lake District? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Prussian polymath, who travelled extensively in the Americas between 1799 and 1804, gave his name to literally dozens of places and features – most famously a cold current that flows northwards along the Pacific coast of South America, as well as a crater and a sea on the Moon? Click to show or hide the answer
Arguably better known as a travel writer, or even through the work of his two sons, who wrote the 1981 novel The Mosquito Coast? Click to show or hide the answer
Which word, closely related to the name of a loose over–garment worn by men in the later Middle Ages, was revived in 1879 (and patented nine years later) by Thomas Burberry, to refer to a tough, tightly woven woollen or cotton fabric used to make weatherproof outer garments? Click to show or hide the answer
In the popular television crime drama series Midsomer Murders, what is the county town of Midsomer – where Tom Barnaby (and his younger cousin and replacement John Barnaby) live and are based? Click to show or hide the answer
Before achieving mainstream renown as a broadcaster, Cerys Matthews was the lead singer with which indy–rock group, of which she was a founder member? Click to show or hide the answer
In Victorian times it was customary to lay down a 'pipe' of which alcoholic beverage for your children – pipes being the long, thin barrels, containing 534 litres, in which it was shipped? Click to show or hide the answer
What word was coined in 1912 by the Polish biochemist Kazimierz Funk, for nutrients postulated in 1898 by the English ditto Frederick Hopkins (who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery, along with the Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman)? Click to show or hide the answer
Which English actor played Cardinal Wolsey in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days? He also starred in The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Click to show or hide the answer
In which English county is Watership Down (the real–life location in which Richard Adams's novel is set)? Click to show or hide the answer
What is the smallest species of swan that's native to Britain, Europe and most of the Northern hemisphere? Click to show or hide the answer
Concierto de Aranjuez – described by Wikipedia as "a cornerstone of the classical guitar repertoire" – is probably the most famous work by which Spanish composer, who died in 1999 aged 97? Click to show or hide the answer
Who created the fictional police officer Hamish Macbeth, and the detective Agatha Raisin? Click to show or hide the answer
Equivalent to 10–7 joules (one ten millionth of a joule, or 100 nanojoules), what is the unit of work or energy in the CGS (centimetre, gram, second) system of measurement? Click to show or hide the answer
What's the name of the controversial private (all–male) dining club for former public schoolboys at Oxford, whose former members include Boris Johnson, David Cameron, George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt? It has often been featured in fiction and drama, for example in the 2014 film The Riot Club (based on a stage play entitled Posh, whose writer naturally denied any link). Click to show or hide the answer
Which Samoan–born New Zealand chef has been a judge on Masterchef: The Professionals since its second series, broadcast in 2009? Click to show or hide the answer
Who replaced Michel Roux Jr. as a judge on Masterchef: The Professionals in 2015? Click to show or hide the answer
What is the largest town in the Vale of Glamorgan (the southernmost part of Wales) and as such, the southernmost town in Wales? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Italian composer and record producer was credited along with Phil Oakey (of the Human League) on the 1984 UK Top Three hit Together in Electric Dreams? Click to show or hide the answer
There has only been one crowned king of both England and France. What was his name, and regnal number in England? Click to show or hide the answer

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