Latest questions: 20 October 2020

This week's questions have mainly been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 2 and 3 of the 2017–18 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Travellers Call (Questions 1 to 16) and the Sun & Castle (Questions 17 to 28).

Which Argentinian defender was the first player to be sent off in a FIFA World Cup Final – for a high tackle on Germany's Jürgen Klinsmann, in 1990?		Pedro Monzón
Which Arsenal goalkeeper, in 2006, became the first player to be sent off in the final of the European Cup or Champions League?		Jens Lehmann
Which Marvel superhero is the alter–ego of James Howlett (also known, among other things, as Logan)?		Wolverine (a.k.a. Weapon X)
Who was the first artist to have a posthumous No. 1 single in the UK ( with It Doesn't Matter Anymore, in 1959)?		Buddy Holly
... and who was the second, one year later (with Three Steps to Heaven)?		Eddie Cochran
The ranch in the 1960s television western series The Virginian was named after one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, which was also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. What was the name of the ranch?		Shiloh
Dudley–born Reanne Evans has been world champion a record twelve times, to date, in which sport?		Snooker
Name either of the two recording artistes who died, four years apart and both aged 32, in the same Mayfair flat, which was owned by the singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.		Cass Elliot (1974) or Keith Moon (1978)
Who has been captain of England Women's cricket team since 2016 – a period that includes a World Cup win in 2017?		Heather Knight
Which Russian–born artist was controversially commissioned in 1963 to paint the ceiling of the Paris Opéra?		Marc Chagall
Part of the Paris metropolitan area, and named after a statue that was erected in 1883, what is Europe's largest purpose–built business district? It includes La Grande Arche (a monument and building completed in 1989) and many of the city's tallest buildings.		La Défense
Which common British bird has the Latin name Erithacus rubecula?		The robin
Monk's House, in the village of Rodmell, near Lewes, East Sussex, was the "country retreat" for the last twenty years of her life, of which famous writer and her husband, Leonard?		Virginia Woolf
What's the name of the single–engine, jet–powered advanced trainer aircraft, manufactured by BAE Systems, that's been used by the RAF Aerobatic Team (better known as the Red Arrows) since 1979?		The Hawk
Paul Kagame has been President, since 2000, of which African country?		Rwanda
Texas Hold 'em, Omaha, Short Deck, Crazy Pineapple and Razz are variants of which game?		Poker
The drummer in the Britpop band Pulp (first name Nick) is the nephew of which famous footballer – who died in 2019, aged 81?		Gordon Banks
Who played Nero in the 1976 BBC2 production of I, Claudius?		Christopher Biggins
Whose most notable role (in film or any other media, according to Wikipedia) was Queen Elizabeth I, in both Fire Over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940)?		Flora Robson
What did the K stand for in the name of the American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick?		Kindred
Who narrated the animated children's television programme Roobarb and Custard (first broadcast in 1974)?		Richard Briers
Which short–lived ITV sitcom "about love across the social divide" starred Dennis Quilley, Patricia Hodge, Lionel Jeffries and Jean Alexander? It ran for just six episodes, in 1991.		Rich Tea and Sympathy
Britain's first street tramway opened in 1860, in which Cheshire town (now in Merseyside)?		Birkenhead
The Elliots, the Musgroves and the Wentworths are the three principal families in which classic novel, first published in 1818?		Persuasion (Jane Austen)
In 1997, who became the first cartoon character to appear on a US postage stamp?		Bugs Bunny
In which year did the Eurostar rail service, from London to Paris and Brussels, begin running? (This was a limited 'Discovery' service; the full daily service started in May of the following year.)		1994 (14 November)
Who wrote the poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere, which includes the line "Kind hearts are more than coronets" – inspiring the title of a film released by Ealing Studios in 1949?		Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Which rugby club was promoted to the Aviva Premiership in 2010, and won it in 2017 – becoming the only team to have won all of the top four divisions in English rugby?		Exeter Chiefs
Who won the 14th series of Britain's Got Talent on the tenth of October 2020?		Jon Courtenay
Who succeeded James K. Polk as US President, having distinguished himself as a military leader in the Mexican–American War of 1846 to 1848 (which led to Mexico giving up its claims to the territory of Texas)?		Zachary Taylor

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