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1 October 2024

Latest questions: 1 October 2024

These questions were inspired by those set for use in Weeks 7 and 8 of the 2023–4 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the Nags Head (questions 1 to 18) and the Waters Green Nags (19 to 44).

Which BBC television sitcom, first broadcast from 2019 to 2023, is set in Button House – a vast but crumbling mansion that's been inherited by Alison Cooper (played by Charlotte Ritchie)? Click to show or hide the answer
According to Wikipedia, where Madonna is the Queen of Pop, who is "often referred to in the media" as the Goddess of Pop? Click to show or hide the answer
Who presents the British version of the BBC reality television game show The Traitors? Click to show or hide the answer
What type of bird appears in the logo of Germany's 'flag carrier' airline, Lufthansa? Click to show or hide the answer
In a national poll carried out in 2015, which bird was chosen as Britain's National Bird? Click to show or hide the answer
What was the name of Bruce Hornsby's backing band (on his first three albums and related singles, including That's Just the Way It Is – his greatest hit)? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Sri Lankan batter became the first to be timed out in international cricket, during a group stage match against Bangladesh at the 2023 Cricket World Cup in India? Click to show or hide the answer
Who became the first female referee in a men's Premier League game, at a match between Fulham and Burnley in December 2023? Click to show or hide the answer
'Zion' is a metonym for which Middle Eastern city? Click to show or hide the answer
In association football: following a rule change that took effect in 1998, for how long is a goalkeeper allowed to hold on to the ball? Click to show or hide the answer
On board a ship or boat, what is a painter? Click to show or hide the answer
Which river rises in the Trossachs, and gives its name to the estuary on whose banks Leith, the port of Edinburgh, and the former naval dockyard of Rosyth stand? Click to show or hide the answer
Who passed Jonny Wilkinson's total to become England's leading points scorer in rugby union, during the 2023 World Cup? Click to show or hide the answer
In baseball, what's the ironic name for a pitch that the batter misses, or fails to hit into the field of play? Click to show or hide the answer
In the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army, what four words appeared at the start of the closing credits? Click to show or hide the answer
Who played Jean Valjean in the 2012 film version of the musical Les Misérables? Click to show or hide the answer
In musical theory, what term is used to refer to a note that's neither a sharp nor a flat? Click to show or hide the answer
Which hotel was built on Park Avenue, New York, in 1931 – to replace two hotels, built side by side on Fifth Avenue in 1893 by feuding relatives, which were razed in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building? Click to show or hide the answer
What was designated in 1947 as Scotland's first New Town, and is now its sixth largest town or city by population? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Cardiff–born Rugby League legend, of part African heritage, is Wigan RLFC's record try scorer, and won 31 caps for Great Britain between 1952 and 1964? Click to show or hide the answer
Which high–energy dance, originating in French music hall in the early 19th century, was made famous in the 1890s by professional dancers such as La Goulue (Louise Weber) and Jane Avril – both regular performers at the Moulin Rouge in Paris? Click to show or hide the answer
Which style of dance originated as a folk dance in Austria and Bavaria in the 17th century, and became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, when (for the first time) couples danced in "closed position" (with actual body contact)? Click to show or hide the answer
Which American Nobel prize winner wrote a book entitled The Double Helix (subtitled A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, and first published in 1968)? Click to show or hide the answer
In Alice in Wonderland, which character sings about "Soup of the evening, beautiful soup"? Click to show or hide the answer
Who was the last king to be crowned in Scotland? Click to show or hide the answer
The Beqaa or Bekaa Valley produces 90% of the wines of which Mediterranean country? Click to show or hide the answer
How many lines were there to the picture, in the original BBC television service (the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting)? Click to show or hide the answer
How old was Yuri Gagarin when he became the first human being in space? Click to show or hide the answer
Which American entertainer went missing in action on 15 December 1944, over the English Channel, while on a flight to Paris from the RAF Training Unit at RAF Twinwood Farm, near Bedford (while serving with the US Army Air Forces)? Click to show or hide the answer
Stratfield Saye House, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, has been home to which Dukes since 1817? Click to show or hide the answer
Who wrote the poem entitled Man was Made to Mourn, which includes the lines "Man's inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn"? Click to show or hide the answer
Which city hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games? Click to show or hide the answer
In information technology, what does the abbreviation VPN stand for? Click to show or hide the answer
Who came out of retirement in 2022, to succeed Cressida Dick as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police? Click to show or hide the answer
An extract from The Schickel Shamble (written by Ron Goodwin for the 1969 film Monte Carlo or Bust) is the theme tune to which long–running BBC Radio 4 comedy programme? Click to show or hide the answer
Which football club was the first to win the FA Cup in successive years, in the 20th century? Click to show or hide the answer
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio – first performed in 1839 – was the first opera by which composer? Click to show or hide the answer
Koplik's spots – forming in the mouth – are an early sign of which highly infectious disease, once common in childhood? Click to show or hide the answer
Who became director of football operations at Manchester United FC, after Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS Group purchased 25 per cent of the club? Click to show or hide the answer
Britain's first commemorative postage stamps were issued in 1924, to commemorate which event? Click to show or hide the answer
Sir Brian Langstaff chaired the inquiry into which medical scandal? The inquiry lasted from 2018 to 2024. Click to show or hide the answer
Blyth is the largest settlement in which English county? Click to show or hide the answer
Which Australian media tycoon founded World Series Cricket in 1977? Click to show or hide the answer
Which French word is used in English for a type of clear soup made from richly flavoured stock or broth that has been clarified, using egg whites to remove fat and sediment? (Its English translation is a synonym to 'eaten' or 'drunk'.) Click to show or hide the answer

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