Latest questions: 11 January 2022

These questions were inspired by those set for use in the first round of the Cup competition and Week 4 in the League, in the 2021–2 season of Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Nags Head 'B', the Dolphin, the Park Taverners and the Cock Inn.

Which city is home to the 'Big Three' American motor manufacturers (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler)?			Detroit
What's the English name for Yr Wyddfa (err oithva) – a well–known geographical feature of the British Isles, whose local name means 'the tumulus' or 'the barrow'?			Snowdon
In Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, who conducted interviews while lying on a bed?			Paula Yates
In chemistry, what class of compounds, made up of positively and negatively charged ions, are typically formed (often along with water) when an acid reacts with a base or a metal?			Salts
Name the winner, runner–up and third place in the 2021 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.	1st		Emma Raducanu
	2nd		Tom Daley
	3rd		Adam Peaty
Which New Zealand slow left–armer became only the third bowler to take ten wickets in a Test innings, in December 2021 (v. India in Mumbai, taking 10 for 119)?			Ajaz Patel
In boxing, and other combat sports, what term is used to describe a non–standard weight limit – used when competitors agree to weigh in at a certain amount, rather than within an official weight class?			Catchweight
What links the racecourses at Chelmsford City, Kempton Park, Lingfield Park, Newcastle, Southwell and Wolverhampton?			Artificial ('all–weather') tracks
Which popular confectionery brand was introduced in 1969 by the Italian company Ferrero as 'Refreshing mints' – the name being changed in 1970?			tic tac
What term is used to refer to a distribution of profits by a company or other corporation?			Dividend
Which film, released in 1995, ends with the words "That'll do, pig. That'll do"?			Babe
In which film did Julia Roberts speak the line, "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her"?			Notting Hill
Which late mediaeval fortress in the English midlands was given in 1553 (at the end of Edward VI's reign) to John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, the head of Edward's government? After his execution for enthroning his daughter–in–law Jane Grey, it was given by Elizabeth I in 1563 to his son, and her favourite, Robert Dudley (soon to become Earl of Leicester)			Kenilworth Castle
Name either the composer or the lyricist of Over the Rainbow – voted the No. 1 song of the 20th century by the United States' Recording Industry Association and National Endowment for the Arts	Composer		Harold Arlen
	Lyricist		E. Y. ('Yip') Harburg
Hungarian–born George Szell was music director of which American city's orchestra – one of the United States' 'Big Five' – from 1946 to 1970?			Cleveland, Ohio
Vincent van Gogh cut off all or part of his ear, in December 1888, after an argument with which other artist?			Paul Gauguin
Which branch of mathematics takes its name from the Greek for 'measurement of the earth'?			Geometry
In which year of the 19th century did Earl Grey, Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel all serve as UK Prime Minister?			1834
In World War Two, which innovative weapon was code named 'Upkeep'?			The bouncing bomb
What name is given to a towed underwater device, used in minesweeping and anti–submarine warfare, in sport, or in commercial fishing? It was also the code name of the British air raid of World War II that inflicted heavy damage on the German battleship Tirpitz.			Paravane
What is a poniard?			A type of knife or dagger
The name of which type of fast food, popular in Greece, is a diminutive of the Greek word for a skewer?			Souvlaki
Which BBC One sitcom, first broadcast between 2000 and 2011, starred Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wannamaker?			My Family
Which Italian city is widely regarded as the home of pizza?			Naples
The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on the 1st of January, in which year (coins and banknotes entering into circulation three years later)?			1999

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