Best Season Ever!
Thus, it is time to reflect on the President's Cup season *sigh*. The "Champions League" or something of London quiz leagues finished with Sussex being absolutely crushed and spat out by an on-form Mastermind Club. Well, they did win the whole thing, so maybe it was to be expected. The score was 51-24 (coincidentally the score that Ireland achieved against Italy the previous day in the climactic round of Six Nations rugby matches - spooky eh? Some things are written in the stars, I suppose).
Gavin scored more than we did on his own; therefore contributing to my single player takes everyone on and emerges victorious thanks to a symbiotic mind meld with the question master theory. It's getting there, but may not be fully developed until my mid-40s. Plenty of time then.
The season ended with us finishing with five points: far, far better than the shabby four points tally of last season. Never mind that we won less games, it is the "not losing every match" that really matters. Good old stolid Italian football values. Next season, let's aim for six. Oh yeah.
And oh yeah: I'll be on BBC1 on Saturday at 6.15pm doing A QUIZ. Of sorts. Then later on 8.50pm. I have to be a bit hush hush at the moment. I know you understand. Perhaps, you won't understand me having It's Gonna Be Me by *NSYNC in my head at the moment (the amount of crap I buy off iTunes, you'll never know)
My Hostile
I think the "friendly" ended something like 47-48 to the Sussex side, though Mark had switched sides by then, and it was a three player-four player split. It was a nicely balanced little effort as I'm sure you'll see. Unanswered questions are marked with an asterisk *.
President's Cup friendly 18/3/07
Round 1
1a How high in inches is the net in table tennis?
SIX
1b Which celestial object gives its name to the smallest member of the bear family?*
SUN (Bear)
2a What bird nickname was given to the German swimmer Michael Gross?
THE ALBATROSS
2b What specific kind of cards would a fusilatelist collect?*
TELEPHONE
3a Which large island off the south coast of Alaska gives its name to the largest species of bear?
KODIAK (Bear)
3b The hilariously bad Equatorial Guinea swimmer Eric Moussambani was given which fishy nickname?
THE EEL
4a What kind of food labels are collected by a laclabphilist?*
CHEESE
4b How high in metres is the ring of the goalpost above the ground in netball?
THREE
Round 2
1a Roy of the Rovers first appeared in a weekly strip in which comic magazine in 1954?
TIGER
1b The 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter dramatized the struggles of which country singer's rise to stardom and won Sissy Spacek a Best Actress Oscar?
LORETTA LYNN
2a The Somoni is the currency of which former Soviet republic?*
TAJIKISTAN
2b The Soum is the currency of which former Soviet republic?*
UZBEKISTAN
3a Which fast food delicacy is believed to have been first served at Louis Lunch's sandwich shop in New Haven, Connecticut in 1900, having been invented by its owner Louis Lassen?
HAMBURGER
3b In which boys' comic did Dan Dare first appear in 1950?
EAGLE
4a Tragically killed at the age of 30, which female country singer's life was dramatized in the 1985 film Sweet Dreams?
PATSY CLINE
4b Which food were reputedly invented in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1853 when a guest at Moon Lake Lodge complained about his French fries?
CRISPS or POTATO CHIPS
Round 3
1a Which Cabinet minister was the subject of the ITV comedy Confessions of a Diary Secretary?
JOHN PRESCOTT
1b Which British heavy metal band had a number one album in 1981 with No Sleep Till Hammersmith?*
MOTORHEAD
2a Consisting of two hemispheres linked by the corpus callosum, what is the largest part of the vertrebrate brain?*
CEREBRUM
2b John Davison is the captain of which non-Test playing nation at the Cricket World Cup?
CANADA
3a Steve Tikolo is the captain of which non-Test playing nation at the Cricket World Cup?
KENYA
3b What two-word name is given to the part of the vertebrate brainstem which regulates the reflex responses controlling respiration, heartbeat, blood pressure and other involuntary processes?*
MEDULLA OBLONGATA
4a Which English rock group had a number one album in 1980 with Flesh and Blood?
ROXY MUSIC
4b Which former Cabinet minister was the subject of the Channel 4 comedy drama A Very Social Secretary?
DAVID BLUNKETT
Round 4
1a Which fictional law enforcer and hero of the American West was created in 1933 by scriptwriter Fran Striker and producer George W Trendle for a US radio series?
THE LONE RANGER
1b Which revolutionary event of 1871 ended with the massacre of 25,000 people by French troops in Paris?
THE PARIS COMMUNE
2a What scale was devised by Soren Sorensen in 1909?
PH scale of acidity
2b The city of Chemnitz was named after which philosopher and economist from 1953 to 1990 when it was part of East Germany?
KARL MARX
3a During the French Revolution, the National Convention delegated power to which Robespierre-dominated committee in April 1793? It instigated the Reign of Terror and ruled France during this period.
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
3b Which fictional swordsman was created by Johnston McCulley and first appeared in 1919 in the magazine story The Curse of Capistrano?
ZORRO
4a Which Russian city was known as Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961?
VOLGOGRAD
4b John Newlands devised the first type of what table in 1864?
PERIODIC table of ELEMENTS
Round 5
1a Which American actor has played such movie roles as television Anchorman Ron Burgundy, NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby and the title role of Buddy in the film Elf?
WILL FERRELL
1b What major archaeological discovery did the American Hiram Bingham make in 1911?
MACHU PICCHU
2a In ballet, what term describes a turn in which one leg is whipped around?*
FOUETTE
2b Which American actor has played weatherman Brick Tamland and the title character of Andy Stitzer in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but is perhaps best known for playing boss Michael Scott in the US version of The Office?
STEVE CARELL
3a Which sporting trophy was named after the Lord of Preston and Governor-General of Canada who donated it in 1893?
STANLEY CUP
3b What ballet term describes the rapid crossing and uncrossing of the feet during a jump?
ENTRECHAT
4a Which Minoan language was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1953?
LINEAR B
4b Which legendary Green Bay Packers coach gives his name to the trophy won by the winners of the NFL Superbowl?
VINCE LOMBARDI
Round 6
1a Winner of Best Female at the Brit Awards this year, which jazz and soul singer has had a number one album with Back to Black and a top ten hit with Rehab?
AMY WINEHOUSE
1b Which singer from Leeds was nominated for a Grammy twice this year for her song Put Your Records On, and has also released the singles Trouble Sleeping and Like a Star?
CORINNE BAILEY RAE
2a Name either of the South American countries that engaged in the Chaco War during much of the 1930s.
BOLIVIA or PARAGUAY
2b Dr Albert Sabin of the Children's Hospital in Cincinnati developed an eponymous oral vaccine for which viral infection during the 1950s?
POLIO
3a Which No. 8 started his international rugby union career brilliantly in March 1986 when he became the first England player since 1929 to score two tries on debut in a 25-20 win over Ireland?
DEAN RICHARDS
3b Name either of the Central American countries that fought the Football War in 1969.
EL SALVADOR or HONDURAS
4a Named after a Hungarian-born American paediatrician, the Schick Test is used to determine the susceptibility of a person to which acute infectious disease?
DIPHTHERIA
4b Which centre scored a hat trick of tries on his England debut against Romania in a 58-3 win in May 1989, the performance earning a call up to that year's Lions tour to Australia?
JEREMY GUSCOTT
Round 7
1a Which Russian composer's works include the operas The Fiery Angel, The Gambler and The Story of a Real Man, and the cantatas We Are Seven and Hail to Stalin?
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
1b The subject of an 1818 Keats poem, which beautiful young man from Greek mythology was loved by the moon goddess Selene and was granted eternal sleep in order to stay forever young?
ENDYMION
2a The subject of an 1819 ode by Keats, which beautiful young mortal had the god of love Eros helplessly fall in love with her even though he was ordered by a jealous Aphrodite to make her love the ugliest man on Earth?
PSYCHE
2b In a mosque, what is the mihrab?
NICHE INDICATING DIRECTION TO MECCA
3a Which teenage film star has just made his stage debut in the role of Alan Strang in the Peter Shaffer play Equus currently on show at the Gielgud Theatre?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
3b Which Austrian composer's works include the song cycle The Fair Maid of the Mill, the Wanderer Fantasy for piano, and the operas Alfonso und Estrella and Fierabas?
FRANZ SCHUBERT
4a In a mosque what is the minbar?*
PULPIT
4b Which pop singer turned TV acting star has just made her stage debut in a revival of the Christopher Hampton play Treats at the Garrick Theatre?
BILLIE PIPER
Round 8
1a What international exchange scholarship programme was conceived by a Senator from Arkansas, who gave his name to an 1946 Act which authorised funds from the sale of surplus war materials to be used for the purpose?
FULBRIGHT scholars (as in William Fulbright)
1b In his 1998 poem Fulbright Scholars, which Englishman wrote: "A picture of that year's intake/ Of Fulbright Scholars. Just arriving - / Or arrived. Or some of them./ Were you among them?"?
TED HUGHES
2a On this day - March 18 - in 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first person to walk in space. He ventured outside which spacecraft?
VOSKHOD 2
2b What is the nationality of Yulia Nesterenko the current female 100m Olympic champion?
BELARUS
3a Set between the two World Wars, which 1938 Elizabeth Bowen novel tells the story of a 16-year-old orphan Portia Quoyne who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas?*
THE DEATH OF THE HEART
3b Who became the first American to perform a spacewalk on the Gemini 4 mission in 1965?
EDWARD WHITE
4a What is the nationality of reigning 400m Olympic champion Tonique Williams-Darling?
BAHAMIAN
4b Which 1945 novel by Henry Green tells the story of the servants in an upper class Irish household named Kinalty Castle during World War Two?
LOVING
Spares
Which motor manufacturer was founded in 1925 by Gustaf Larson and Assar Gabrielson?
VOLVO
Who was enthroned as Bishop of Monmouth in 1992?
ROWAN WILLIAMS
Who composed the theme tunes to The Avengers, The Professionals and This is Your Life (known as Gala Performance)?*
LAURIE JOHNSON
Which international rugby team from Europe is nicknamed The Oaks?
ROMANIA
Who wrote the 1681 play The Soldier's Fortune?
THOMAS OTWAY
Gavin scored more than we did on his own; therefore contributing to my single player takes everyone on and emerges victorious thanks to a symbiotic mind meld with the question master theory. It's getting there, but may not be fully developed until my mid-40s. Plenty of time then.
The season ended with us finishing with five points: far, far better than the shabby four points tally of last season. Never mind that we won less games, it is the "not losing every match" that really matters. Good old stolid Italian football values. Next season, let's aim for six. Oh yeah.
And oh yeah: I'll be on BBC1 on Saturday at 6.15pm doing A QUIZ. Of sorts. Then later on 8.50pm. I have to be a bit hush hush at the moment. I know you understand. Perhaps, you won't understand me having It's Gonna Be Me by *NSYNC in my head at the moment (the amount of crap I buy off iTunes, you'll never know)
My Hostile
I think the "friendly" ended something like 47-48 to the Sussex side, though Mark had switched sides by then, and it was a three player-four player split. It was a nicely balanced little effort as I'm sure you'll see. Unanswered questions are marked with an asterisk *.
President's Cup friendly 18/3/07
Round 1
1a How high in inches is the net in table tennis?
SIX
1b Which celestial object gives its name to the smallest member of the bear family?*
SUN (Bear)
2a What bird nickname was given to the German swimmer Michael Gross?
THE ALBATROSS
2b What specific kind of cards would a fusilatelist collect?*
TELEPHONE
3a Which large island off the south coast of Alaska gives its name to the largest species of bear?
KODIAK (Bear)
3b The hilariously bad Equatorial Guinea swimmer Eric Moussambani was given which fishy nickname?
THE EEL
4a What kind of food labels are collected by a laclabphilist?*
CHEESE
4b How high in metres is the ring of the goalpost above the ground in netball?
THREE
Round 2
1a Roy of the Rovers first appeared in a weekly strip in which comic magazine in 1954?
TIGER
1b The 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter dramatized the struggles of which country singer's rise to stardom and won Sissy Spacek a Best Actress Oscar?
LORETTA LYNN
2a The Somoni is the currency of which former Soviet republic?*
TAJIKISTAN
2b The Soum is the currency of which former Soviet republic?*
UZBEKISTAN
3a Which fast food delicacy is believed to have been first served at Louis Lunch's sandwich shop in New Haven, Connecticut in 1900, having been invented by its owner Louis Lassen?
HAMBURGER
3b In which boys' comic did Dan Dare first appear in 1950?
EAGLE
4a Tragically killed at the age of 30, which female country singer's life was dramatized in the 1985 film Sweet Dreams?
PATSY CLINE
4b Which food were reputedly invented in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1853 when a guest at Moon Lake Lodge complained about his French fries?
CRISPS or POTATO CHIPS
Round 3
1a Which Cabinet minister was the subject of the ITV comedy Confessions of a Diary Secretary?
JOHN PRESCOTT
1b Which British heavy metal band had a number one album in 1981 with No Sleep Till Hammersmith?*
MOTORHEAD
2a Consisting of two hemispheres linked by the corpus callosum, what is the largest part of the vertrebrate brain?*
CEREBRUM
2b John Davison is the captain of which non-Test playing nation at the Cricket World Cup?
CANADA
3a Steve Tikolo is the captain of which non-Test playing nation at the Cricket World Cup?
KENYA
3b What two-word name is given to the part of the vertebrate brainstem which regulates the reflex responses controlling respiration, heartbeat, blood pressure and other involuntary processes?*
MEDULLA OBLONGATA
4a Which English rock group had a number one album in 1980 with Flesh and Blood?
ROXY MUSIC
4b Which former Cabinet minister was the subject of the Channel 4 comedy drama A Very Social Secretary?
DAVID BLUNKETT
Round 4
1a Which fictional law enforcer and hero of the American West was created in 1933 by scriptwriter Fran Striker and producer George W Trendle for a US radio series?
THE LONE RANGER
1b Which revolutionary event of 1871 ended with the massacre of 25,000 people by French troops in Paris?
THE PARIS COMMUNE
2a What scale was devised by Soren Sorensen in 1909?
PH scale of acidity
2b The city of Chemnitz was named after which philosopher and economist from 1953 to 1990 when it was part of East Germany?
KARL MARX
3a During the French Revolution, the National Convention delegated power to which Robespierre-dominated committee in April 1793? It instigated the Reign of Terror and ruled France during this period.
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
3b Which fictional swordsman was created by Johnston McCulley and first appeared in 1919 in the magazine story The Curse of Capistrano?
ZORRO
4a Which Russian city was known as Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961?
VOLGOGRAD
4b John Newlands devised the first type of what table in 1864?
PERIODIC table of ELEMENTS
Round 5
1a Which American actor has played such movie roles as television Anchorman Ron Burgundy, NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby and the title role of Buddy in the film Elf?
WILL FERRELL
1b What major archaeological discovery did the American Hiram Bingham make in 1911?
MACHU PICCHU
2a In ballet, what term describes a turn in which one leg is whipped around?*
FOUETTE
2b Which American actor has played weatherman Brick Tamland and the title character of Andy Stitzer in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but is perhaps best known for playing boss Michael Scott in the US version of The Office?
STEVE CARELL
3a Which sporting trophy was named after the Lord of Preston and Governor-General of Canada who donated it in 1893?
STANLEY CUP
3b What ballet term describes the rapid crossing and uncrossing of the feet during a jump?
ENTRECHAT
4a Which Minoan language was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1953?
LINEAR B
4b Which legendary Green Bay Packers coach gives his name to the trophy won by the winners of the NFL Superbowl?
VINCE LOMBARDI
Round 6
1a Winner of Best Female at the Brit Awards this year, which jazz and soul singer has had a number one album with Back to Black and a top ten hit with Rehab?
AMY WINEHOUSE
1b Which singer from Leeds was nominated for a Grammy twice this year for her song Put Your Records On, and has also released the singles Trouble Sleeping and Like a Star?
CORINNE BAILEY RAE
2a Name either of the South American countries that engaged in the Chaco War during much of the 1930s.
BOLIVIA or PARAGUAY
2b Dr Albert Sabin of the Children's Hospital in Cincinnati developed an eponymous oral vaccine for which viral infection during the 1950s?
POLIO
3a Which No. 8 started his international rugby union career brilliantly in March 1986 when he became the first England player since 1929 to score two tries on debut in a 25-20 win over Ireland?
DEAN RICHARDS
3b Name either of the Central American countries that fought the Football War in 1969.
EL SALVADOR or HONDURAS
4a Named after a Hungarian-born American paediatrician, the Schick Test is used to determine the susceptibility of a person to which acute infectious disease?
DIPHTHERIA
4b Which centre scored a hat trick of tries on his England debut against Romania in a 58-3 win in May 1989, the performance earning a call up to that year's Lions tour to Australia?
JEREMY GUSCOTT
Round 7
1a Which Russian composer's works include the operas The Fiery Angel, The Gambler and The Story of a Real Man, and the cantatas We Are Seven and Hail to Stalin?
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
1b The subject of an 1818 Keats poem, which beautiful young man from Greek mythology was loved by the moon goddess Selene and was granted eternal sleep in order to stay forever young?
ENDYMION
2a The subject of an 1819 ode by Keats, which beautiful young mortal had the god of love Eros helplessly fall in love with her even though he was ordered by a jealous Aphrodite to make her love the ugliest man on Earth?
PSYCHE
2b In a mosque, what is the mihrab?
NICHE INDICATING DIRECTION TO MECCA
3a Which teenage film star has just made his stage debut in the role of Alan Strang in the Peter Shaffer play Equus currently on show at the Gielgud Theatre?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
3b Which Austrian composer's works include the song cycle The Fair Maid of the Mill, the Wanderer Fantasy for piano, and the operas Alfonso und Estrella and Fierabas?
FRANZ SCHUBERT
4a In a mosque what is the minbar?*
PULPIT
4b Which pop singer turned TV acting star has just made her stage debut in a revival of the Christopher Hampton play Treats at the Garrick Theatre?
BILLIE PIPER
Round 8
1a What international exchange scholarship programme was conceived by a Senator from Arkansas, who gave his name to an 1946 Act which authorised funds from the sale of surplus war materials to be used for the purpose?
FULBRIGHT scholars (as in William Fulbright)
1b In his 1998 poem Fulbright Scholars, which Englishman wrote: "A picture of that year's intake/ Of Fulbright Scholars. Just arriving - / Or arrived. Or some of them./ Were you among them?"?
TED HUGHES
2a On this day - March 18 - in 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first person to walk in space. He ventured outside which spacecraft?
VOSKHOD 2
2b What is the nationality of Yulia Nesterenko the current female 100m Olympic champion?
BELARUS
3a Set between the two World Wars, which 1938 Elizabeth Bowen novel tells the story of a 16-year-old orphan Portia Quoyne who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas?*
THE DEATH OF THE HEART
3b Who became the first American to perform a spacewalk on the Gemini 4 mission in 1965?
EDWARD WHITE
4a What is the nationality of reigning 400m Olympic champion Tonique Williams-Darling?
BAHAMIAN
4b Which 1945 novel by Henry Green tells the story of the servants in an upper class Irish household named Kinalty Castle during World War Two?
LOVING
Spares
Which motor manufacturer was founded in 1925 by Gustaf Larson and Assar Gabrielson?
VOLVO
Who was enthroned as Bishop of Monmouth in 1992?
ROWAN WILLIAMS
Who composed the theme tunes to The Avengers, The Professionals and This is Your Life (known as Gala Performance)?*
LAURIE JOHNSON
Which international rugby team from Europe is nicknamed The Oaks?
ROMANIA
Who wrote the 1681 play The Soldier's Fortune?
THOMAS OTWAY
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