Latest questions: 28 March 2023

These questions were inspired by those set for use in Week 7 of the 2022–3 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Nags Head.

Which American photographer specialises in large–scale nude shoots, and has been the subject of three HBO documentaries – Naked States, Naked World, and Positively Naked?		Spencer Tunick
What's the name of the partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in the NASA–led Artemis programme?		Orion
The tennis competition formerly known as the Federation Cup (later the Fed Cup) was renamed in 2020, in honour of which former player?		Billie Jean King
The Formula One racing team formerly known (successively) as Jordan, Force India and Racing Point, was rebranded yet again in 2021 – under what name?		Aston Martin
What name is given to the metal web that divides a dartboard into sections?		The spider
What was the first Bond movie theme to reach No. 1 on the UK charts (and the only one, to date)?		Writing's On the Wall (Spectre)
The technical name of which bone in the human body is a diminutive of the Latin word for a shallow dish?		The kneecap (patella)
Originally bred for fighting, and still legally used there for that purpose (but restricted in the UK under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991), the Tosa Inu is a dog native to which country?		Japan
Which group went to No. 1 in the UK in September 1970 with Woodstock – their only hit single?		Matthews' Southern Comfort
Which annual music festival was founded in 1934 by John Christie, and is held at (and named after) his country house near Lewes, East Sussex?		Glyndebourne
An arrangement for brass of Alice, Where Art Thou? – a popular Victorian parlour ballad, composed by Joseph Ascher – is or was the theme music to which BBC television sitcom?		Open All Hours
In the standard UK edition of Monopoly, what's the last property, alphabetically?		Whitehall
Under the London Blue Plaque scheme (currently administered by English Heritage), how long must a person have been dead in order to qualify for a plaque?		20 years
Leigh–Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Jesy Nelson was the original line–up of which singing group – winners of The X Factor in 2011?		Little Mix
In Game of Thrones, what's the capital and largest city of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms?		King's Landing
What was the title of the critically–acclaimed murder mystery film, released in 2019 and starring Daniel Craig as master detective Benoit Blanc? Netflix bought the right to two sequels, the first of which was Glass Onion (2022).		Knives Out
Who was the last King of England or Great Britain (to date!) to win the throne in battle?		Henry VII
Krakatoa is one of the islands in which body of water, that separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra?		The Sunda Strait

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