Latest questions: 29 September 2020

This week's questions have been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 23, 24 and 25 of the 2018–19 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Tame Valley (Questions 1 to 6), the Fingerpost (Questions 7 to 15) and the Wandering Star (Questions 16 to 29).

Under what title is Robert Banks Jenkinson, British Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, better remembered?		Lord Liverpool
Which poem includes these lines: "O for a draught of vintage! that hath been / Cool'd a long age in the deep–delvèd earth"?		Ode to a Nightingale (Keats)
The Full Strength version of which brand of cigarettes, launched by W. D. & H. O. Wills in 1894 and named after part of a ship, has been shown to be the strongest available in the UK (in terms of nicotine content)?		Capstan
Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite, first published in 2018, was the autobiography of which rock star?		Roger Daltrey
Albert Fitzwilliam Digby was batman to which iconic comic book character?		Dan Dare
Square (the traditional type), macon (since the 1950s) and cleaver (developed in 1991 and now used almost universally), are the three main styles of what type of sporting equipment?		Oars (in rowing)
Which market town in Suffolk gave its name to a major hoard of Roman silverware that was discovered in 1942 by a farmer in the nearby village of West Row?		Mildenhall
What short name, from a former chemical name, is commonly used by photographers to refer to sodium thiosulphate (pentahydrate) – which they use as a fixer?		Hypo
Which actress has been married to the former footballer Lee Chapman since 1988?		Leslie Ash
Which pass in the English Lake District links Seatoller (in Borrowdale) to Gatesgarth (at the southern end of Buttermere)?		Honister
Lhamo Dhondup is the birth name of which current religious leader?		The Dalai Lama
Which Queen was it that commissioned the Queen's House at Greenwich from the architect Inigo Jones?		Anne of Denmark (consort of James I)
Which modern country was colonised by Italy from 1912 to 1943, being known as Italian North Africa from 1911 to 1927, two separate colonies (Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania) from 1927 to 1934, and by its current name from 1934 to 1943?		Libya
Yusuf ibn Ayub, the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, lived from 1138 to 1193. By what name is he known in Western Europe?		Saladin
Which English music hall artiste popularised the songs Boiled Beef and Carrots, Any Old Iron, I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am, and A Little Bit of Cucumber?		Harry Champion
Which English polymath wrote in 1882 of this "golden rule": "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful"?		William Morris
Founded in 1839, which is the oldest of the eighteen first–class county cricket clubs?		Sussex
Widely regarded (according to one commentator, writing on his death in 2013) as "the world's greatest poet of the last half century", who wrote in 1983: "Be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen"?		Seamus Heaney
Which country is known to approximately 15% of its population as Aotearoa – '[the land of] the long white cloud'?		New Zealand
Which Franco–American naturalist and painter is best known for The Birds of America, a colour–plate book that was first published as a series, in sections, between 1827 and 1838?		John James Audubon
Which annual publication, first published in 1972, was edited by Roger Protz from 1978 to 1983 and from 2000 to 2018?		The Good Beer Guide
The 'thorn' is a letter that was once used in various north European alphabets, including Old English, but was replaced from around the 14th century with which digraph (a digraph being a pair of characters used to represent a single sound)?		Th
What's the longest river in southern Africa? Rising in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, it flows westwards through South Africa, forming most of its border with Namibia.		The Orange River
Which King of England issued the Edict of Expulsion, expelling the Jews from England? (It was formally overturned under Oliver Cromwell, 367 years later.)		Edward I (1290)
Which European city is known as Lefkosia (lef–ko–SEE–a) in Greek and Lefkoşa (lef–kosha) in Turkish?		Nicosia
In the ABC hospital drama series Grey's Anatomy, who plays Cristina Yang (one of the principal colleagues of the title character)?		Sandra Oh
Which genus of trees shares its name with a ligature (or combination) of the letters A and E – used in Old English, but relatively rare in modern English?		Ash
In which county is Cranfield Point – the southernmost point of Northern Ireland?		County Down
Which English author wrote the short story collection The Bloody Chamber (1979) and the novels Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (1991)? She died in 1992, aged 51, from lung cancer.		Angela Carter

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