Latest questions: 4 August 2020

This week's questions have been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 4 and 5 of the 2018–19 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Hatters Arms (Questions 1 to 11) and Heaton Moor Rugby Club (Questions 12 to 32).

In the 'Best of British' series of ten pence coins, issued by the Royal Mint in 2018, what did the letter D represent?		Double decker bus
In the 'Best of British' series of ten pence coins, issued by the Royal Mint in 2018, what did the letter E represent?		English breakfast
In the Old Testament, who appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions?		The archangel Gabriel
Which village in North Yorkshire gives its name to a triple flight of waterfalls on the River Ure (a popular tourist attraction)?		Aysgarth
Which perfumed body spray was marketed by Fabergé with the slogans "Men can't help acting on ... " and "When a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers, that's ... "?		Impulse
Whose death in 1955, aged 46, of a heart attack after filming a sequence for NBC's Jimmy Durante Show, led to a period of national mourning in Brazil?		Carmen Miranda
Which US boxer was world light heavyweight champion for a record 9 years and 5 months from 1952 to 1962? He is regularly ranked as one of the best punchers ever, and one of the best pound–for–pound boxers ever		Archie Moore
In the BBC sitcom Up Pompeii!, Frankie Howerd's character was a slave called Lurcio; his master was Senator Ludicrus Sextus, and the Senator's wife was Ammonia. Name either the son or the daughter of Ludicrus and Ammonia.		Nauseous or Erotica
Name one of the two sisters of Private Godfrey, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army.		Dolly or Cissy
Which Roman Emperor's last word (according to the historian Tacitus) was "Vivo!" ("I live", or "I am still alive" – after being stabbed by an officer of his guard)?		Caligula
Who was the founder and editor of The Political Register, a newspaper that was published weekly from 1802 until shortly after his death in 1835?		William Cobbett
What is the nom de guerre of Stephen Christopher Yaxley–Lennon, far–right political activist and co–founder of the English Defence League?		Tommy Robinson
Whose first and third symphonies, composed in 1841 and 1850 respectively, are known as the Spring and the Rhenish?		Robert Schumann
Credited with devising much of the format that is still used today, who was the Editor of the long–running BBC children's television programme Blue Peter, from 1965 to 1988?		Biddy Baxter
Which song – a pop standard, introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way (when it won the Oscar for Best Original Song) was a Top Ten hit in the UK for Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva, in 1964?		Swinging on a Star
The largest cavalry charge in European (if not world) history occurred in 1683 when 20,000 Polish, Austrian and German troops led by the Polish king Jan III Sobieski, and spearheaded by 3,000 heavily–armed Polish hussars, charged the Ottoman lines during the siege of which city?		Vienna
What 'pet' name, inspired by a Beatles song, was given to a hominid skeleton, dated at 3.2 million years old, that was found in Ethiopia in 1974?		Lucy
On the World Wide Web, what does the abbreviation IMDb stand for?		Internet Movie Database
Which current BBC television crime drama series is based on a series of books by Robert Galbraith and stars Tom Burke as the title character and Holly Grainger as his assistant, Robin Ellacott?		Strike
Which British prime minister said, "When I want to read a book, I write one"?		Benjamin Disraeli
In ancient Greece, what name was given to the mythical paradise, located (according to Homer) at the Western edge of the world, that was reserved originally for gods and heroes (but later expanded to include those chosen by them)?		Elysium (a.k.a. the Elysian Fields or Plain)
Which military euphemism for aggressive murder, execution or assassination, was brought to mainstream attention by its use in the Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now?		Termination with extreme prejudice
Which UK celebrity published a memoir entitled Spectacles in 2015?		Sue Perkins
Which UK celebrity published a memoir entitled Cheer Up Love in 2016?		Susan Calman
"Did Mary Ever Visit Brighton Beach?" is a mnemonic that might help you to remember what?		The ranks of the UK peerage
What was the surname of the husband and wife team of folklorists, who applied modern techniques to children's literature, summarising their results in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959)?		Opie (Peter and Iona)
Which Manchester–born writer lived in Dove Cottage, Grasmere (William Wordsworth's home from 1799 to 1805) between 1810 and 1820, for part of which time he was briefly editor of the Westmorland Gazette?		Thomas de Quincey
Which large, pale–coloured hippo–like creatures, created by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Larsson and her brother Lars, featured in a TV series that was dubbed in English and first broadcast on CBBC in 1990–91?		Moomins
In eight–ball pool, what colour are the solid number 1 ball and the striped number 9 ball (ignoring spots, stripes and numbers)?		Yellow
Sometimes caused as a side effect of medication, what is xerostomia?		Dry mouth
Which British pop–rock group appeared (as themselves) on Coronation Street in 2005 – beating up Les Battersby and then playing at his wedding in lieu of compensation?		Status Quo
Available in UK supermarkets from 2008, Tusker Lager was first brewed in 1922 (by two white settlers) in which African country?		Kenya

© Haydn Thompson 2020