BH quiz #14
Ah. I had a restful Saturday evening spent, er, pillaging The Times and The Guardian for quiz question material. Well, I think at least those are done. I have a four-foot pile of old newspapers in my bedroom waiting for me to give them the same treatment, but then the spectre of just how much time that takes raises its head, and I start watching Chappelle's Show DVDs again. Which reminds me in turn of that old-looking pimp in the Black Bush sketches warning about the yellowcake that head of the CIA Mos Def pulls out and shows in his specially designed container (a dinner napkin). But I digress. Today is Sunday. It is again President's Cup day. I think UC Alumni have achieved our aim of at least winning one match and have a nice little unit going, though obviously we have completely blown some matches by choking like a bunch of presidential pretzel eaters. When I say 'we' I really mean 'I' just so you know I'm not homing in on anyone, because I have dropped some cataclysmic boo-boos. It's a general feeling of choking-ness. It's just that we have some very bad rounds when the match runs away from us. Never mind. I like my average.
Today we play Cambridge, who count among them the traitorous turncoat Jesse Honey (boo-hiss). Cambridge have had a disastrous first half of the season but have been on the turn. However, they have a very good team undeserving of such a record, with some brilliant players like Andrew Frazer and Roger Bennett, and very useful ones like Ray Eaton. We'll be lucky if we make it out of this match alive. Because, you know, I'm really there just for the camaraderie and those lovely, hard questions. The never winning never matters. At least, not while I'm in my twenties. Which reminds me...
1 Admitted in 1735, Elizabeth St Leger was the first known woman what?
2 Which flamboyant, villain-playing wrestler who died recently aged 80 and made his TV debut in the ring in 1956 versus Irishman Jack Dempsey and was nicknamed Mr TV partly due to such visual touches as his bleached hair and pigtail tied with velvet ribbon?
3 Which lawyer famously asked of the jury at Lady Chatterly's Lover 1960 obscenity trial: "Is it a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read"?
4 A South African-raised doctor specialising in frontline surgical work, who has written the memoirs The Dressing Station and Contact Wounds: A war surgeon's education?
5 Seen as one of the founders of jazz, which schizophrenic cornet player was committed to a Louisiana sanitarium in 1907 and though he made no recordings is still remembered for his theme song which now goes by the name Funky Butt?
6 On a Saturday every June, Ottery St Mary commemorates the legend of which titular mischievous creatures being banished from the town to local caves known as ther 'Parlour' and which starts with the capture of the St Mary's church bell ringers?
7 Sometimes called the 8th Tower due to its similarity to the Seven Sisters skyscrapers built in Moscow during the 50s, which 57-storey Moscow apartment building is the tallest building in Europe at 264 metres and has the address 3 Chapayevsky Perculok?
8 According to legend, which snack got its name when newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan used it in a 1906 cartoon illustrating food vendors at the Polo Grounds baseball stadium in New York?
9 Which film is based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz, who was paid $7,500 and one per cent of th profits for the rights?
10 Famed for its steep incline and majestic scenery, a resolution was passed in Stortinget in 1908 to build which Norwegian train that runs begins in Myrdal in the Aurland municipality?
11 What is the collective two-word name for the 13 towns that occupy the hills above Rome?
12 Which 24-year-old labourer was the last ever victim of prolific hangman Albert Pierrepoint in 1955, the former having murdered two small boys?
13 What in Australia is The Taint?
14 Who is famed for his work illustrating and creating the popular image of Sherlock Holmes in Strand magazine, and also giving him his deerstalker cap?
15 What company was founded as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik in 1924 by Rudolf Dassler?
16 Which Nobel-prize winning novelist was born Chloe Anthony Wofford?
17 Which Ethiopian athlete broke Haile Gebrselassie's 5,000m and 10,000m records then 10,0oom gold and 5,000m silver at the Olympics in just ten days?
18 Which 6ft-wide, 200kg jellyfish has been overrunning Japanese, Chinese and Korean fisherman in recent months?
19 What is the name of the estate on which the Gallagher family live in Channel 4 show Shameless?
20 Who designed the new buildings of Christ's Hospital between 1893 and 1902 at the location it moved to near Horsham?
Today we play Cambridge, who count among them the traitorous turncoat Jesse Honey (boo-hiss). Cambridge have had a disastrous first half of the season but have been on the turn. However, they have a very good team undeserving of such a record, with some brilliant players like Andrew Frazer and Roger Bennett, and very useful ones like Ray Eaton. We'll be lucky if we make it out of this match alive. Because, you know, I'm really there just for the camaraderie and those lovely, hard questions. The never winning never matters. At least, not while I'm in my twenties. Which reminds me...
1 Admitted in 1735, Elizabeth St Leger was the first known woman what?
2 Which flamboyant, villain-playing wrestler who died recently aged 80 and made his TV debut in the ring in 1956 versus Irishman Jack Dempsey and was nicknamed Mr TV partly due to such visual touches as his bleached hair and pigtail tied with velvet ribbon?
3 Which lawyer famously asked of the jury at Lady Chatterly's Lover 1960 obscenity trial: "Is it a book you would wish your wife or your servants to read"?
4 A South African-raised doctor specialising in frontline surgical work, who has written the memoirs The Dressing Station and Contact Wounds: A war surgeon's education?
5 Seen as one of the founders of jazz, which schizophrenic cornet player was committed to a Louisiana sanitarium in 1907 and though he made no recordings is still remembered for his theme song which now goes by the name Funky Butt?
6 On a Saturday every June, Ottery St Mary commemorates the legend of which titular mischievous creatures being banished from the town to local caves known as ther 'Parlour' and which starts with the capture of the St Mary's church bell ringers?
7 Sometimes called the 8th Tower due to its similarity to the Seven Sisters skyscrapers built in Moscow during the 50s, which 57-storey Moscow apartment building is the tallest building in Europe at 264 metres and has the address 3 Chapayevsky Perculok?
8 According to legend, which snack got its name when newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan used it in a 1906 cartoon illustrating food vendors at the Polo Grounds baseball stadium in New York?
9 Which film is based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz, who was paid $7,500 and one per cent of th profits for the rights?
10 Famed for its steep incline and majestic scenery, a resolution was passed in Stortinget in 1908 to build which Norwegian train that runs begins in Myrdal in the Aurland municipality?
11 What is the collective two-word name for the 13 towns that occupy the hills above Rome?
12 Which 24-year-old labourer was the last ever victim of prolific hangman Albert Pierrepoint in 1955, the former having murdered two small boys?
13 What in Australia is The Taint?
14 Who is famed for his work illustrating and creating the popular image of Sherlock Holmes in Strand magazine, and also giving him his deerstalker cap?
15 What company was founded as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik in 1924 by Rudolf Dassler?
16 Which Nobel-prize winning novelist was born Chloe Anthony Wofford?
17 Which Ethiopian athlete broke Haile Gebrselassie's 5,000m and 10,000m records then 10,0oom gold and 5,000m silver at the Olympics in just ten days?
18 Which 6ft-wide, 200kg jellyfish has been overrunning Japanese, Chinese and Korean fisherman in recent months?
19 What is the name of the estate on which the Gallagher family live in Channel 4 show Shameless?
20 Who designed the new buildings of Christ's Hospital between 1893 and 1902 at the location it moved to near Horsham?
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