Latest questions: 10 November 2020

This week's questions have mainly been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 9, 10 and 11 of the 2017–18 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Smart Italics (Questions 1 to 18), the Horse & Farrier (Questions 19 and 20), and the Railway (Questions 21 to 30).

Which British Prime Minister, in response to rumours of unrest within his party, said "I know what's going on. I'm going on. Your government is going on"?		Harold Wilson
Which Surrey and England cricketer, who played in 71 Test matches between 1997 and 2004, was married, at one time during his playing career, to Alec Stewart's sister Judy?		Mark Butcher
Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery, and Benefits Supervisor 'Big Sue' Tilley, were frequent models and muses for which British artist, who died in 2011 aged 88?		Lucian Freud
Which ABC sitcom, first broadcast from 2009 to 2020 and shown on Sky One in the UK, revolves around three related but different families (nuclear, blended and same–sex) living in the Los Angeles area?		Modern Family
What's the name of the serial prankster – best known as the creator of 'cheerful chav' Lee Nelson – who handed Theresa May a P45 during her speech at the 2017 Conservative Party conference (saying "Boris asked me to give this to you")?		Simon Brodkin
Tabor is a type of cheese, made from raw cows' milk. It takes its name from Rupentabor, which is the Slovenian name for a town in which country?		Italy
Who presented BBC Radio 4's PM programme, from 2003 until 2018, when he left the BBC to join LBC?		Eddie Mair
Which British–American singer–songwriter scored a No. 1 hit in the USA, in 1979, with Escape (the Piña Colada Song)? It only reached No. 23 in the UK (in 1980), and his almost equally catchy follow–up Him reached No. 31		Rupert Holmes
Which football club, in 1973, became the second (after Real Madrid) to win the European Cup in three consecutive years?		Ajax
The prefix 'bi–' in the name of a chemical compound (e.g. sodium bicarbonate) indicates the presence of which element?		Hydrogen
Which British theoretical physicist won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013, for proposing a mechanism that predicts the existence of a new particle, which was named after him – and was discovered at CERN in 2012?		Peter Higgs
Who wrote, in his poem An Essay on Man, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"?		Alexander Pope
Who married Alexis Ohanian, co–founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit, in 2017?		Serena Williams
Who wrote the play The Long and the Short and the Tall? Set in the Second World War, it was premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1959 – directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring Peter O'Toole and Robert Shaw		Willis Hall
What do the initials 'CN' stand for, in the name of the CN Tower in Toronto – once the world's tallest free–standing man–made structure?		Canadian National (railway company)
Which German–Dutch canon wrote, in The Imitation of Christ (published around 1420), "Man proposes, but God disposes"?		Thomas à Kempis
Name the Glasgow–born Managing Director, and later Chairman, of Great Universal Stores, who set up a foundation that established colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge universities, both of which were named after him.		Sir Isaac Wolfson
Which English actor requested an inflatable rubber doll as his luxury item on Desert Island Discs, in 1974?		Oliver Reed
Mrs. Clennam, and her confidential clerk and partner Jeremiah Flintwinch, are characters in which novel by Charles Dickens?		Little Dorrit
Which Oscar–nominated actor, born Ira Grossel in New York, died in 1961, aged 42, after he injured his back playing baseball and corrective surgery went wrong?		Jeff Chandler
A passerine bird is one whose feet are specially adapted for what purpose?		Perching
Who was married to the actor and producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2013?		Meghan Markle
Which American boxer, known for his fierce style of fighting and his ability to take punishment, became world middleweight champion in June 1949, but lost the title on St. Valentine's Day 1951 in the last of his six fights with Sugar Ray Robinson?		Jake LaMotta
Who commanded the German forces opposing the D–Day landings in June 1944?		Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Who wrote the 'Campus Trilogy' of novels – Changing Places (1975), Small World (1984), and Nice Work (1988)?		David Lodge
In the name of a computer file format, what do the initials PNG stand for?		Portable Network Graphics
The American alt–rock band Death Cab for Cutie, formed in 1997, took their name from a 1967 album track by which British art–school band?		Bonzo Dog Doo–Dah Band
Which BBC sitcom, first broadcast in 2016, examines the trials and traumas of middle–class parenthood, and stars Anna Maxwell Martin as a stressed working mother, trying to juggle the demands of her children and her job?		Motherland
Described as one of the greatest projects of the Great Depression era, which 22–acre site in New York City is named after the family that commissioned its fourteen original Art Deco buildings, including the Radio City Music Hall?		The Rockefeller Centre
Which BBC sitcom, first broadcast between 2014 and 2017, was written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, who also stars as Andy alongside Toby Jones as Lance? The title refers to their shared hobby.		Detectorists
Two members of Great Britain's women's hockey team married in 2013, and in 2016 they became the first same–sex married couple to win Olympic gold as part of the same team, and the first British married couple to do so since 1920. Give either of their names, before the marriage		Helen Richardson
		Kate Walsh

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