Latest questions: 18 August 2020

This week's questions have been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 8 and 9 of the 2018–19 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Fiveways (Questions 1 to 17) and the Traveller's Rest (Questions 18 to 30).

Which English word has been borrowed from French, where it was derived from a verb meaning 'to attach, or stick', and was used in the court of King Louis XIV for cards reminding courtiers of rules such as keeping off the grass?		Etiquette
In Coronation Street, what was the name of Emily Bishop's second husband – who turned out to be a bigamist, and died in a mental hospital some 18 months later?		Arnold Swain
Which hormone, produced by the pineal gland, regulates the sleep–wake cycle in most vertebrates (including humans)?		Melatonin
Which four sports were due to be introduced to the Olympic Games for the first time in 2020? (Three of them start with the same letter!)		Karate
		Skateboarding
		(Sports) climbing
		Surfing
Who married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and had two sons with her, named Cyril and Vyvyan?		Oscar Wilde
Founded in 1935 by cricketer Jack Meyer, in Street, Somerset, and originally housed in a mansion built by the Clark family, what is the UK's largest co–educational boarding school?		Millfield
Which river flows into the sea at Amble, Northumberland?		The Coquet
Who presented BBC TV's Ski Sunday from 1978 to 96, and was the anchorman for the BBC's snooker coverage from 1978 until his retirement in 2000?		David Vine
Which 2005 film – based on a novel by John le Carré, which in turn was loosely based on a true story – stars Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, a low–level British diplomat based in Kenya, and Rachel Weisz as his wife Tessa (who is murdered early on in the film)?		The Constant Gardener
In the Shipping Forecast (issued by the Met Office), two areas border the coasts of Spain and Portugal. Name either.		Fitzroy
		Trafalgar
Which South Africa wicketkeeper–batsman took a record 555 Test dismissals (including 23 stumpings) and scored 5,515 Test runs, between 1997 and 2012?		Mark Boucher
Which British actor, born in 1942, has appeared in more than 70 films, including Romeo and Juliet (1968), Cabaret (1972), The Three Musketeers (1973), Logan's Run (1976), and the Austin Powers series (1997–2002)?		Michael York
Which Latin phrase, typically used in English to describe works of art, etc., means effectively "remember that you will die"?		Memento mori
Who became the youngest ever winner of the MAN Booker Prize, when she won it in 2013 aged 28?		Eleanor Catton
Who, in 1998, became the oldest female act to have a UK No. 1 single – at 52 years and 164 days?		Cher (with Believe)
Who, in 1961, became the youngest act to have a UK No. 1 single – at 14 years and 316 days – and is still the youngest female act to have had one?		Helen Shapiro (with You Don't Know)
What name is given to any specialised tool used in manufacturing industries to cut or shape material, typically using a press – generally customised to the item it's used to create		Die
The Hawk in the Rain (1957) was the highly–acclaimed first collection published by which English poet?		Ted Hughes
Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) and The Flame (2018) were the first and posthumous collections of poetry, respectively, by which writer?		Leonard Cohen
The North Ship (1945) was the first collection published by which English poet?		Philip Larkin
Salt–Water Poems and Ballads (1916) was the first collection published by which English poet?		John Masefield
Who was the captain of the West German team, in the 1966 FIFA World Cup final?		Uwe Seeler
Who was West Germany's goalkeeper in the 1966 FIFA World Cup final?		Hans Tilkowski
What was the title of the play by Howard Brenton, first staged at the National Theatre in 1980, that was the subject of an unsuccessful prosecution for gross indecency by Mary Whitehouse in 1982?		The Romans in Britain
Which play by Harold Brighouse – set in Salford in 1880 and first performed in New York in 1916 – has been compared to Cinderella and King Lear, with both of which it shares similar characters?		Hobson's Choice
In which English county is the village of Hook Norton, which gives its name to one of Britain's last working Victorian tower breweries (founded in 1849)?		Oxfordshire

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