Latest questions: 5 January 2021

This week's questions have mainly been gleaned from those set for use in Weeks 25 26 of the 2017–18 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Tame Valley (Questions 1 to 11), the Fingerpost (Questions 12 to 21) and the James Watts (Questions 22 to 35).

In Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, what is James's surname?		Trotter
In Roald Dahl's Matilda, what is Matilda's surname?		Wormwood
What name, coined by the Austrian–born British physicist Wolfgang Rindler (1924–2019), is given to the boundary around a black hole, beyond which no matter or energy can escape?		Event horizon
Also known as the twilight zone, what name do astronomers give to the line that divides the light and dark sides of a planet or moon (especially Earth's Moon)?		The terminator
Coxa, and coxal, are respectively the technical name and adjective for which part of the human body?		The hip
The name of which National Park in South Dakota refers to a type of dry terrain that is difficult to navigate on foot because softer sedimentary rocks and soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water, leaving steep slopes, canyons, ravines, gullies, buttes and mesas?		Badlands
In which award–winning and best–selling novel, first published in 2003, does the first–person narrator describe himself as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties"? The chapter numbers are all primes, rather than the more conventional 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.		The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time
Which TV detective drove a 1949 Triumph Roadster 2000 Convertible – colour burgundy, registration number 1610 J?		Bergerac
The Hubert Laneites are the sworn enemies of which fictional gang?		The Outlaws
Frank Williams was the only actor from the TV series Dad's Army to play the same character in the 2016 film version. Which character did he play?		The Vicar (the Rev. Timothy Farthing)
Which former Bond villain played the equally nasty Baron Bomburst in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?		Gert Fröbe
Which canal links the West Midlands, at Wolverhampton, with the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire – 66 miles (106 km) away?		Shropshire Union
Two American golfers, with very similar surnames, are third and joint fourth on the list of most frequent winners of Major tournaments, with eleven and nine wins respectively. Name both.		Walter Hagen
		Ben Hogan
Willersley Castle, a country mansion on the banks of the Derwent hear Matlock, Derbyshire, was built for which inventor and industrialist, shortly before his death in 1792?		Sir Richard Arkwright
In which US state is the 'census–designated place' of Yorktown (population 195 in 2010) – scene of the British surrender in 1781, at the end of the American War of Independence?		Virginia
What's the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony, and also its largest city?		Han(n)over
Which Norwegian explorer won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86° 14' during his Fram expedition of 1893–6 (an attempt to reach the geographical North Pole)?		Fridtjof Nansen
There are only three native British conifers. The Yew and the Scots Pine are two of them; what's the third?		Juniper
Which American cartoonist and author wrote the 2007 children's book Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and its fourteen sequels to date?		Jeff Kinney
Where were the minerals armalcolite, tranquillityite and pyroxferroite first found?		On the Moon
The football club whose name is commonly abbreviated to Chievo (who played in Serie A from 2008 to 2019) is named after the suburb that it's based in, which is part of which Italian city?		Verona
Which classic song was a Top 20 hit in the UK for its American composer Bobby Hebb, in 1966, also a hit for Cher and Georgie Fame in the same year, and a UK No. 3 for Boney M in 1976?		Sunny
Who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1998 and 1999 – thus becoming the last to win it before most of us celebrated the dawn of the new millennium?		Mika Häkkinen
Which song was a hit for Louis Armstrong, Frankie Vaughan, Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen and Frank Sinatra (all in 1964), and for the Bachelors in 1966?		Hello, Dolly!
Which historical character was played by Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine (1946), James Stewart in Cheyenne Autumn (1964), and James Garner in Hour of the Gun (1967)?		Wyatt Earp
The Western Union (also known as the Brussels Treaty Organization) was replaced by NATO under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty, which was signed in what year?		1949
In The Archers, which character was played by Jack May from 1952 to 1997?		Nelson Gabriel
Horseguards, Whitehall, by the English composer Haydn Wood, was the theme tune to which programme that was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, later Radio 4, from 1946 to 1992?		Down Your Way
American white, Brown, Peruvian, Great white, Australian, Pink–backed, Dalmatian and Spot–billed are the eight living species in which genus of birds?		Pelicans
Marriage à la Mode, Aureng–Zebe, All for Love and Don Sebastian, King of Portugal are plays by which 17th century writer?		John Dryden
Who created and wrote the BBC television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances?		Roy Clarke
Described by Wikipedia as "[the] last of the great nomadic conquerors of the Eurasian Steppe", who was the Mongol ruler of Samarkand from 1369 to 1405?		Timur I Leng
Which skier represented Great Britain at five Winter Olympics between 1984 and 1998 (four of them along with his brother Martin), and went on to a career in sports broadcasting, inclding Ski Sunday?		Graham Bell
The Plaka is the old historical part of which European capital city?		Athens
Darragh Ennis – a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University, where he studies the brains of insects – is the latest addition to the regular cast of experts on which television programme?		The Chase
Confirmed as a species in 2006, the Scottish variety of which genus of finches is the only vertebrate species that's found only in Great Britain?		Crossbills

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