Latest questions: 12 January 2021

This week's questions have been gleaned from those set for use in the Cup and Plate finals of the 2017–18 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Railway, the Fingerpost, Heaton Moor Rugby Club and the Sun & Castle.

In Coronation Street, which character was played by Catherine Tyldesley from 2011 to 2018?		Eva Price
In Coronation Street, who played Stella Price, Eva's mother – who replaced Liz McDonald as manager of the Rovers Return in 2011, and turned out also to be the mother of Leanne Battersby?		Michelle Collins
In Coronation Street, who played Gloria Price – Stella's mother, and Eva's grandmother?		Sue Johnston
The logo of which British charity has been described as "[suggesting] the plan of an ancient building with the buttresses shown as square protrusions around the exterior"?		English Heritage
What was the stage name of the Swedish DJ and recording artiste Tim Bergling – greatest hits Wake Me Up and Hey Brother (both in 2013) – took who his own life in 2018, aged 28?		Avicii
What was the surname of the sister (Eve – 'skip' of the women's team) and two brothers (Thomas and Glen) who represented Great Britain in the Curling competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics?		Muirhead
What name is used for the distance between each complete turn of the thread, on a screw?		Pitch (or lead)
The American television sitcom Archie Bunker's Place, which ran from 1979 to 1983, was a continuation of which other series, that ran from 1971 to 1979?		All in the Family
In which English county is RAF Cosford – the site of one of the two RAF Museums, and also famous for its indoor running track, which has hosted several international competitions?		Shropshire
Which English cathedral city has railway stations named Westgate and Kirkgate?		Wakefield
According to the Health and Safety Executive of the UK Government, what does PPE stand for?		Personal Protective Equipment
The last UK General Election to be held on any day other than a Thursday followed the collapse of a Labour government, and resulted in a landslide victory for the National Government, which had been formed two months previously. In which year did this happen?		1931
What was the family relationship between Millicent Fawcett (the suffragist, commemorated in 2018 by a statue in Parliament Square) and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Britain's first female doctor and first female mayor)?		Sisters
Which pale yellowish cloth is named after the city in China where it was originally made from a yellow variety of cotton – used for example to make trousers in the early 19th century? (It was subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed.)		Nankeen
In which country was the film director Peter Jackson born?		New Zealand
Which Japanese multinational consumer electronics and entertainment company was founded in 1889 to produce handmade playing cards?		Nintendo
In Australia or New Zealand, what might you expect to buy in the Manchester department of a shop?		Bed linen (etc.)
What name (essentially a Latin word meaning 'a rich man') is traditionally given to the rich man in the parable of 'the rich man and the poor man named Lazarus', which appears in Luke's gospel?		Dives
Which jazz musician, who died in 1991 aged 65, was sometimes referred to as 'the Prince of Darkness'?		Miles Davis
What did the Argentinian short story writer, essayist, poet and translator describe as "a fight between two bald men over a comb"?		The Falklands conflict
How are Pitti–Sing, Peep–Bo and Yum–Yum described, in the lyrics and title of a song that was first performed in 1885?		Three Little Maids from School
Who was married to former sex worker Daisy Parker from 1919 to 1923, pianist Lil Hardin from 1924 to 1938, Alpha Smith from 1938 to 1942, and singer Lucille Wilson from from 1942 until his death in 1971?		Louis Armstrong
The Clee Hills (highest point Brown Clee Hill – 540 metres, 1,770 feet) are in which English county?		Shropshire
Who played the title role in the 2008 film The Other Boleyn Girl?		Natalie Portman
Which American folk song, about an American civil war veteran who was hanged in 1868, aged 22, for a murder that many claim he didn't commit, was a UK top ten hit in 1958 for both Lonnie Donegan and the Kingston Trio?		Tom Dooley
Who was the eponymous presenter of the BBC children's news programme Newsround, from its inception in 1972 until 1989, when he moved on to Countryfile?		John Craven
Which English writer wrote novels in the style of contemporary girls' school fiction, under the pen name Brunette Coleman, while at Oxford during World War II? They were not published, and only became known to the public some seven or eight years after his death in 1985, when they were referred to in a biography by Andrew Motion.		Philip Larkin
Which English cricketer holds the record for the most centuries scored in a first–class career?		Jack Hobbs
In which US city was Martin Luther King, Junior, born?		Atlanta (Georgia)
The common'subspecies of which mammal has the scientific name Pan troglodytes?		Chimpanzee
Which Jacobite sympathiser, in 1747, was the last person in Britain to be subjected to a judicial execution by beheading?		Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat
A memorial was unveiled in 2018 near the birthplace in Perivale, Middlesex of which keyboards player, who performed with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and David Bowie (among many others)? (He died in 1994, aged 50, from complications of Crohn's disease.)		Nicky Hopkins
Which Essex–born snooker player is nicknamed The Captain, because he holds a private pilot's licence?		Ali Carter
Which 1997 film features Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore, Meat Loaf, Barry Humphries, Richard O'Brien, Michael Barrymore, Jools Holland, Richard Briers, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in supporting or cameo roles, and Peter Sissons, Jonathan Ross, Elvis Costello, Elton John, Bob Geldof and Bob Hoskins as themselves?		Spice World
Which French club has won the UEFA Women's Champions League in the last five years, from 2016 to 2020?		Olympique Lyonnais
Which footballer rejoined Manchester City in 2020, three years after leaving them to play for Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, with whom she won three UEFA Champions League winners' medals?		Lucy Bronze
Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015, to become the first female Editor–in–Chief of which British daily newspaper?		The Guardian
Which word, imported into English from French, is derived from the Greek for 'spiral wing'?		Helicopter

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