Latest questions: 4 May 2021

This week's questions were inspired by those set for use in the Relegation Play–offs, and League Week 1, of the 2011–12 season in Stockport Quiz League, by the Alexandra (Questions 1 to 20) and the Tame Valley (21 to 38).

Which canal runs from Dukinfield Junction in Tameside, Greater Manchester, to Bugsworth Basin at Buxworth, Derbyshire, with a branch to nearby Whaley Bridge?		The Peak Forest Canal
Which canal runs from Marple, near Stockport in Greater Manchester, to join the Trent and Mersey Canal at Kidsgrove, near Stoke–on–Trent (Staffordshire)		Macclesfield Canal
Which Scottish historian and essayist first referred to Maximilien Robespierre as "the sea–green incorruptible"?		Thomas Carlyle
Which golf club in Kent has hosted the Open Championship tournament on thirteen occasions – approximately once every ten years since 1894, when it became the first outside Scotland to do so?		Royal St. George's
In which town near Dover – one of the historic Cinque Ports – is Royal St. George's Golf Club situated?		Sandwich
Which organisation, founded in 1930, moved its headquarters from Welwyn Garden City to St. Albans in 1955, and from there to Matlock (Derbyshire) in 2002?		Youth Hostels Association (YHA)
In the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of Silver Blaze, first published in 1892 (and from which Mark Haddon took the title of his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Time), who or what was Silver Blaze?		A racehorse
Who has won eighteen Brit awards, up to and including 2020 – more than any other artiste?		Robbie Williams
In which English county are the Stanton Drew stone circles – the largest of which is the second largest in Britain, after Avebury?		Somerset
What's the three–word name of Germany's fourth largest state (or Land) by area, but the most populous – including the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen?		North Rhine–Westphalia
In The Archers, who is the mother of Adam Macy?		Jennifer Aldridge
Previously known for playing the title role in a BBC "television comedy–drama mystery series", who played the pirate Edward Teach (Blackbeard) in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, subtitled On Stranger Tides?		Ian McShane
Who directed the films This Sporting Life (1963), If ... (1968), and O Lucky Man! (1973)?		Lindsay Anderson
Who played the title role in the unsuccessful 2011 film remake of Arthur (the 1981 original starring Dudley Moore)?		Russell Brand
The title of which opera, first performed in 1883 and famous for a popular duet, is the French rendition of the Sanskrit name of the Hindu goddess of wealth?		Lakmé
In the mythology of ancient Egypt, which god was typically depicted with green skin, symbolising rebirth?		Osiris
According to the Book of Jonah, God said that the people of which city "[could not] discern between their right hand and their left hand"?		Nineveh
What's the English title of Molière's play L'Avare – first performed in Paris in 1668, and in England in 1672?		The Miser
What was the name of the 29–year–old Londoner, of mixed Irish and African–Caribbean descent, whose fatal shooting by police in 2011 (while under investigation for suspected involvement in gun crime) sparked riots across London and elsewhere?		Mark Duggan
Which actress, who played Doctor Who's assistant Romana from 1979 to 1981, was married to Tom Baker from 1980 to 1982, and to the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins from 1992? (They separated in 2016.)		Lalla Ward
Which New Zealand athlete was the first to run a mile in less than 3 minutes 50 seconds? He also won the 1500 metres event at the 1976 Olympics (in Montreal), and was knighted in 2009 for services to sport and the community.		John Walker
What nickname was coined by the American press for the Lockheed F–104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft that entered service in 1958, due to its high accident rate?		The Widowmaker
The Weber Cup is an annual competition (first contested in 2000) between the USA and Europe, in which sport?		Tenpin bowling
Which tennis player, born in Prague in 1921, left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and won the Wimbledon Men's Singles tournament five years later – while travelling as an Egyptian citizen?		Jaroslav Drobný drobny
Which Peruvian–born tennis player won the Wimbledon Men's Singles tournament in 1959, while representing the USA – beating Rod Laver in the final?		Alex Olmedo
A mysterious young widow, calling herself Helen Graham, is the title character of which epistolary novel – first published in 1848, and now (according to Wikipedia) considered by most critics to be "one of the first feminist novels"?		The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Which fictional character was played as a Canadian by Humphrey Bogart in a 1951 film, although he was a London Cockney in the 1935 novel?		Charlie Allnut
In films, who played characters named Captain Jeffrey Spalding, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Rufus T. Firefly, Otis B. Driftwood, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, J. Cheever Loophole, S. Quentin Quale, Wolf J. Flywheel, Ronald Kornblow, and Detective Sam Grunion?		Groucho Marx
What is Austria's second most populous city, and the capital of the state of Styria?		Graz
The Analects (written between around 475 and 220 BC) are a collection of the sayings and ideas of which ancient philosopher?		Confucius
The songs Begin the Beguine and Just One of Those Things came originally from which musical, first produced on Broadway in 1935?		Jubilee
Which song, best known today through its rendition in a classic 1959 comedy film, was previously the signature song of Helen Kane – who first performed it in 1928, and on whom the cartoon character Betty Boop is widely believed to have been based?		I Wanna Be Loved By You
Which Lancastrian comedian, described in a BBC notice of his death as "one of the best–loved radio comics of the 1950s", and on Wikipedia as "one of the last links with music hall and variety in Great Britain", began every performance with his best–known catchphrase: "I won't take me coat off, I'm not stoppin'!"		Ken Platt
Amaterasu, the sun goddess, is one of the principal deities in which religion?		Shinto
Which Hollywood actress, whose co–stars included Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, James Cagney, Ronald Reagan and Cary Grant, was known as 'the Oomph Girl'? She also played the title role in the 1947 film noir, Nora Prentiss.		Ann Sheridan
Which British pre–decimal coin was exactly one inch in diameter?		The halfpenny
In which European city was Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie') born? He also died there, in the same building, at the age of 67.		Rome
What's the only ground, apart from The Oval, to have hosted football internationals, a cricket test match, and an FA Cup Final?		Bramall Lane, Sheffield

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