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President's Cup Round 4
Oh how I laughed. And oh how I grimaced when we got the very first question of our last President's Cup match on Sunday. It was something about an alternative name for an M6 something. Well, it was about motorways. Bloody motorways. Yet, and all because Jesse had absented himself from the Cambridge team, not a single soul got it (there is always a need for a motorway king on a Sunday).
However, despite my grumbling about the inevitable cavalcade of birds, breweries and other depressing President's Cup staples (and despite my actually getting the bird question right - I'm beginning to cope with them), Sussex managed to prevail in the lion's den (aka the Oakdale Arms) to score our fourth victory out of four in this season's competition. I scored 15 - only sullied by my monstrous mistake on saying Edgar when I should have said Edmund on a King Lear question - and everyone else contributed vital answers that resulted in our 39-34 win.
Hurrah! It is all downhill from here (as Andrew of our opponents reminded us; they started with 5/5 last season and a series of disastrous ties followed).
Next up, we go back to another place of bad luck and general playing rubbishness in Oxford. Can we actually win this time, or are we always doomed to somehow muck it up in the face of the Mortimore-Billson home alliance? December 2 will tell.
President's Cup friendly 18/11/07
It seems that yes, I am getting softer in my setting ways. The match scored 43-38 to Sussex. Wow, almost like a normal match.
Unanswered questions marked * as usual.
Round 1
1a Dukhan, Umm Said and Al Wakrah are chief towns in which Middle East state and hereditary monarchy headed by an Emir?*
QATAR
1b Held on Rabi I, the religious festival Mawlid al-Nabi celebrates whose birthday?
MUHAMMAD
2a Which baked roll of thin pastry with a fruit filling such as apple takes its name from the German word for "whirlpool"?
STRUDEL
2b Champions League semi-finalists in 2006, which Spanish football side play their home games at the Estadio El Madrigal?
VILLAREAL
3a Held on Sravana S 15, the Hindu festival Janamashtami celebrates whose birthday?*
Lord KRISHNA
3b Which dark and heavy coarse rye bread takes its name from the German for "lout"?
PUMPERNICKEL
4a Two-time Champions League finalists, which Spanish football team play at the Mestalla?
VALENCIA
4b Matrah, Nazwa and Salalah are chief towns in which Middle East Sultanate?
OMAN
Round 2
1a Who played Archie Bunker, the American version of Alf Garnett, in the US sitcom All in the Family?
CARROLL O'CONNOR
1b Which type of rocks result from the deposition of materials transported by water, wind or ice?
SEDIMENTARY
2a Taking its name from the Irish words for "foreigner" and "warrior", what word described an armed soldier or retainer of an ancient Irish chieftain?
GALLOGLASS
2b Who plays Michael Scott, the American equivalent of David Brent, in the US version of The Office?
STEVE CARELL
3a In which African country did an "October Revolution" take place in 1964?*
SUDAN
3b What word, describing a soldier of a light cavalry regiment in several European armies, comes from the Hungarian word for "freebooter"?
HUSSAR
4a Which type of rocks result from volcanic activity in the Earth's crust and upper mantle?
IGNEOUS
4b In which Asian country did the "Saur Revolution" take place in 1978?*
AFGHANISTAN
Round 3
1a Nico Rosberg and Alexander Wurz raced for which Formula One team in the 2007 season?
WILLIAMS
1b The name of the computer programming language ALGOL is a contraction of which two words?
ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE
2a Which British filmmaker directed the films True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Top Gun?
TONY SCOTT
2b Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica raced for which F1 team during the last season?
BMW SAUBER
3a The name of the programming language LISP is a contraction of which two words?
LIST PROCESSING
3b In Norse myth, which wife of Odin and mother of his children Balder, Hermod, Hoder and Tyr was the goddess of sky, marriage and motherhood?
FRIGG or FRIGGA
4a The son of Njord, which Norse god of fertility, horses, sun and rain possessed a ship called Skidbladnir?*
FREY (yeah, I could have mentioned his twin sister Freya, but that might have given it away)
4b Which British director's films include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita?
ALAN PARKER
Round 4
1a Set for release on November 20, the controversial new video game Shadows of War is the first game dedicated to which 20th century conflict?*
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
1b What is the historical significance of the contentious release date, November 20?*
ANNIVERSARY OF FRANCO'S DEATH
2a The US physicist Theodore Maiman constructed the first working version of which device in 1960?
LASER or OPTICAL MASER
2b Taking place on May 14, 1264, at which battle did Simon de Montfort triumph over King Henry III's army?
LEWES
3a Which French composer's works include the 1911 comic opera The Spanish Hour and the 1917 piano suite The Tomb of Couperin?*
MAURICE RAVEL
3b Which Frenchman, who gave his name to a basic SI unit, is credited by some with inventing the galvanometer in 1834?
ANDRE MARIE AMPERE
4a At which August 1265 battle was Simon de Montfort defeated and killed?
EVESHAM
4b Which French composer won the Prix de Rome in 1884 with his cantata L'Enfant Prodigue and went on to produce such works as the piano pieces, Images and Preludes?*
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Round 5
1a Born in 1881, which artist produced such paintings as Barefoot Girl, Customs of Aragon and Gypsy Girl on the Beach during his teenage years?
PABLO PICASSO
1b Aldous Huxley took the title of his novel Brave New World from which Shakespeare play?
THE TEMPEST
2a Nicknamed both the "Cincinnati Flash" and "Cincinnati Cobra", which undisputed heavyweight champion from 1949-51 is the only boxer to have beaten Joe Louis in a world title fight?
EZZARD CHARLES
2b The body that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, what do the letters CC in the intergovernmental panel known as the IPCC stand for?
CLIMATE CHANGE
3a Aldous Huxley took the title of his novel Eyeless in Gaza from a phrase in which work by John Milton?
SAMSON AGONISTES
3b Born Arnold Raymond Cream, which heavyweight boxer took on Ezzard Charles twice for the world title; losing the first but winning the second bout?
JERSEY JOE WALCOTT
4a Named after a Japanese city, which "Protocol" on greenhouse emissions will expire in 2012?
KYOTO PROTOCOL
4b Born in 1904, which artist published the novel Hidden Faces in 1944 and painted Christ of St John of the Cross seven years later?
SALVADOR DALI
Round 6
1a Who is the head of state of Luxembourg?
GRAND DUKE HENRI
1b Situated on the namesake avenue, which London theatre is currently putting on the musical Hairspray?
SHAFTESBURY THEATRE
2a Which Scottish explorer discovered the North Magnetic Pole during an 1829-33 expedition?
JOHN ROSS
2b Who is the head of state of Liechtenstein?
PRINCE HANS ADAM II
3a Located next to Leicester Square underground station, which theatre is currently putting on a new production of the play Shadowlands?
WYNDHAM'S THEATRE
3b Featured in the title of a 2003 Margaret Atwood novel, what name is given to the genus of large African and Asian antelopes that includes such rare species as the Arabian and Scimitar-horned?
ORYX
4a Sharing its name with a percussion instrument, which rare forest antelope is known by the scientific name Tragelaphus euryceros and has spiralled horns and a red-brown coat with cream stripes?
BONGO
4b Which Dutch explorer and navigator made three expeditions to seek the Northeast Passage, but died on his last voyage in 1597?
WILLEM BARENTS
Round 7
1a Reknowned for his systematic and exacting work, which English archaeologist began excavating Akhetaton in Egypt in 1891?
FLINDERS PETRIE
1b The grounds of which house in Hertfordshire hosted the last Led Zeppelin UK concert with their original line-up in 1979?
KNEBWORTH
2a Which American sprinter won both the men's 100m and 200m at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics?
BOBBY JOE MORROW
2b Host of a ITV chat show broadcast earlier this year, which British stand-up comedian adopts the persona known as "The Pub Landlord"?
AL MURRAY
3a Recently starting a run of their third series on BBC3, the characters Howard Moon and Vince Noir feature in which cult comedy?
THE MIGHTY BOOSH
3b Which English archaeologist gained lasting fame thanks to his 1899 to 1935 excavation of Minoan Knossos on the island of Crete?
ARTHUR EVANS
4a Which London venue will host the much-anticipated Led Zeppelin reunion gig on November 26?
O2 ARENA or The O2
4b Which Australian athlete won the women's 100m and 200m at the 1956 Olympics?
BETTY/ELIZABETH CUTHBERT
Round 8
1a Including the cities of Allahabad, Varanasi and Agra, what is India's most populous state?*
UTTAR PRADESH
1b In which month is Waitangi Day, the national day of New Zealand, celebrated every year?
FEBRUARY (6TH)
2a Do The Bartman, The Fly by U2 and The One and Only by Chesney Hawkes were all number ones in which year?*
1991
2b Covering 171,196 square miles, what is India's largest state in terms of area? Its capital is Bhopal and it is also home to such cities as Indore and Jabalpur.*
MADHYA PRADESH
3a Canada Day is celebrated in the aforementioned country on the first day of which month every year?
JULY
3b Popularly known as "the Beehive", the open star cluster Praesepe is the most distinctive feature of which constellation that shares its name with an astrological sign?
CANCER
4a Kaus Australis and Nunki are the brightest stars in which constellation that shares its name with an astrological sign?
SAGITTARIUS
4b Take That's Back for Good, Some Might Say by Oasis and Fairground by Simply Red were all number ones in which year?
1995
Spares
Whose only opera, Saint Francois d'Assise, was given its first performance in Paris in 1983?
OLIVIER MESSAIEN
What did the father of the H-bomb Edward Teller call "a technological Pearl Harbor" and the then US President Eisenhower dismiss as "one small ball"?
SPUTNIK
Its design and construction overseen by Sergei Korolev, the R-5 was the Soviet Union's first what?
STRATEGIC MISSILE
Which American warship was salvaged and converted into an ironclad called the CSS Virginia and on March 8, 1862 sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads?
USS MERRIMACK
In an action that provided one of the causes of the War of 1812, which American warship was attacked by the HMS Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807, leading to a duel between Commodores Stephen Decatur and James Barron?
USS CHESAPEAKE
Which Scottish football side plays at East End Park?
DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC
In which Scottish town is the football club Queen of the South based?
DUMFRIES
El Toro was the Mexican sidekick of which Western hero?
KIT CARSON
Whose principle states that when a body is wholly or partly immersed in a fluid it experiences an upwards force equal to the weight of fluid it displaces?
ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE
A try-scorer in the losing World Cup quarter-final against France, the All Black fly half/inside centre Luke McAlister recently moved to which English club?
SALE SHARKS
Oh how I laughed. And oh how I grimaced when we got the very first question of our last President's Cup match on Sunday. It was something about an alternative name for an M6 something. Well, it was about motorways. Bloody motorways. Yet, and all because Jesse had absented himself from the Cambridge team, not a single soul got it (there is always a need for a motorway king on a Sunday).
However, despite my grumbling about the inevitable cavalcade of birds, breweries and other depressing President's Cup staples (and despite my actually getting the bird question right - I'm beginning to cope with them), Sussex managed to prevail in the lion's den (aka the Oakdale Arms) to score our fourth victory out of four in this season's competition. I scored 15 - only sullied by my monstrous mistake on saying Edgar when I should have said Edmund on a King Lear question - and everyone else contributed vital answers that resulted in our 39-34 win.
Hurrah! It is all downhill from here (as Andrew of our opponents reminded us; they started with 5/5 last season and a series of disastrous ties followed).
Next up, we go back to another place of bad luck and general playing rubbishness in Oxford. Can we actually win this time, or are we always doomed to somehow muck it up in the face of the Mortimore-Billson home alliance? December 2 will tell.
President's Cup friendly 18/11/07
It seems that yes, I am getting softer in my setting ways. The match scored 43-38 to Sussex. Wow, almost like a normal match.
Unanswered questions marked * as usual.
Round 1
1a Dukhan, Umm Said and Al Wakrah are chief towns in which Middle East state and hereditary monarchy headed by an Emir?*
QATAR
1b Held on Rabi I, the religious festival Mawlid al-Nabi celebrates whose birthday?
MUHAMMAD
2a Which baked roll of thin pastry with a fruit filling such as apple takes its name from the German word for "whirlpool"?
STRUDEL
2b Champions League semi-finalists in 2006, which Spanish football side play their home games at the Estadio El Madrigal?
VILLAREAL
3a Held on Sravana S 15, the Hindu festival Janamashtami celebrates whose birthday?*
Lord KRISHNA
3b Which dark and heavy coarse rye bread takes its name from the German for "lout"?
PUMPERNICKEL
4a Two-time Champions League finalists, which Spanish football team play at the Mestalla?
VALENCIA
4b Matrah, Nazwa and Salalah are chief towns in which Middle East Sultanate?
OMAN
Round 2
1a Who played Archie Bunker, the American version of Alf Garnett, in the US sitcom All in the Family?
CARROLL O'CONNOR
1b Which type of rocks result from the deposition of materials transported by water, wind or ice?
SEDIMENTARY
2a Taking its name from the Irish words for "foreigner" and "warrior", what word described an armed soldier or retainer of an ancient Irish chieftain?
GALLOGLASS
2b Who plays Michael Scott, the American equivalent of David Brent, in the US version of The Office?
STEVE CARELL
3a In which African country did an "October Revolution" take place in 1964?*
SUDAN
3b What word, describing a soldier of a light cavalry regiment in several European armies, comes from the Hungarian word for "freebooter"?
HUSSAR
4a Which type of rocks result from volcanic activity in the Earth's crust and upper mantle?
IGNEOUS
4b In which Asian country did the "Saur Revolution" take place in 1978?*
AFGHANISTAN
Round 3
1a Nico Rosberg and Alexander Wurz raced for which Formula One team in the 2007 season?
WILLIAMS
1b The name of the computer programming language ALGOL is a contraction of which two words?
ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE
2a Which British filmmaker directed the films True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Top Gun?
TONY SCOTT
2b Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica raced for which F1 team during the last season?
BMW SAUBER
3a The name of the programming language LISP is a contraction of which two words?
LIST PROCESSING
3b In Norse myth, which wife of Odin and mother of his children Balder, Hermod, Hoder and Tyr was the goddess of sky, marriage and motherhood?
FRIGG or FRIGGA
4a The son of Njord, which Norse god of fertility, horses, sun and rain possessed a ship called Skidbladnir?*
FREY (yeah, I could have mentioned his twin sister Freya, but that might have given it away)
4b Which British director's films include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita?
ALAN PARKER
Round 4
1a Set for release on November 20, the controversial new video game Shadows of War is the first game dedicated to which 20th century conflict?*
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
1b What is the historical significance of the contentious release date, November 20?*
ANNIVERSARY OF FRANCO'S DEATH
2a The US physicist Theodore Maiman constructed the first working version of which device in 1960?
LASER or OPTICAL MASER
2b Taking place on May 14, 1264, at which battle did Simon de Montfort triumph over King Henry III's army?
LEWES
3a Which French composer's works include the 1911 comic opera The Spanish Hour and the 1917 piano suite The Tomb of Couperin?*
MAURICE RAVEL
3b Which Frenchman, who gave his name to a basic SI unit, is credited by some with inventing the galvanometer in 1834?
ANDRE MARIE AMPERE
4a At which August 1265 battle was Simon de Montfort defeated and killed?
EVESHAM
4b Which French composer won the Prix de Rome in 1884 with his cantata L'Enfant Prodigue and went on to produce such works as the piano pieces, Images and Preludes?*
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Round 5
1a Born in 1881, which artist produced such paintings as Barefoot Girl, Customs of Aragon and Gypsy Girl on the Beach during his teenage years?
PABLO PICASSO
1b Aldous Huxley took the title of his novel Brave New World from which Shakespeare play?
THE TEMPEST
2a Nicknamed both the "Cincinnati Flash" and "Cincinnati Cobra", which undisputed heavyweight champion from 1949-51 is the only boxer to have beaten Joe Louis in a world title fight?
EZZARD CHARLES
2b The body that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, what do the letters CC in the intergovernmental panel known as the IPCC stand for?
CLIMATE CHANGE
3a Aldous Huxley took the title of his novel Eyeless in Gaza from a phrase in which work by John Milton?
SAMSON AGONISTES
3b Born Arnold Raymond Cream, which heavyweight boxer took on Ezzard Charles twice for the world title; losing the first but winning the second bout?
JERSEY JOE WALCOTT
4a Named after a Japanese city, which "Protocol" on greenhouse emissions will expire in 2012?
KYOTO PROTOCOL
4b Born in 1904, which artist published the novel Hidden Faces in 1944 and painted Christ of St John of the Cross seven years later?
SALVADOR DALI
Round 6
1a Who is the head of state of Luxembourg?
GRAND DUKE HENRI
1b Situated on the namesake avenue, which London theatre is currently putting on the musical Hairspray?
SHAFTESBURY THEATRE
2a Which Scottish explorer discovered the North Magnetic Pole during an 1829-33 expedition?
JOHN ROSS
2b Who is the head of state of Liechtenstein?
PRINCE HANS ADAM II
3a Located next to Leicester Square underground station, which theatre is currently putting on a new production of the play Shadowlands?
WYNDHAM'S THEATRE
3b Featured in the title of a 2003 Margaret Atwood novel, what name is given to the genus of large African and Asian antelopes that includes such rare species as the Arabian and Scimitar-horned?
ORYX
4a Sharing its name with a percussion instrument, which rare forest antelope is known by the scientific name Tragelaphus euryceros and has spiralled horns and a red-brown coat with cream stripes?
BONGO
4b Which Dutch explorer and navigator made three expeditions to seek the Northeast Passage, but died on his last voyage in 1597?
WILLEM BARENTS
Round 7
1a Reknowned for his systematic and exacting work, which English archaeologist began excavating Akhetaton in Egypt in 1891?
FLINDERS PETRIE
1b The grounds of which house in Hertfordshire hosted the last Led Zeppelin UK concert with their original line-up in 1979?
KNEBWORTH
2a Which American sprinter won both the men's 100m and 200m at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics?
BOBBY JOE MORROW
2b Host of a ITV chat show broadcast earlier this year, which British stand-up comedian adopts the persona known as "The Pub Landlord"?
AL MURRAY
3a Recently starting a run of their third series on BBC3, the characters Howard Moon and Vince Noir feature in which cult comedy?
THE MIGHTY BOOSH
3b Which English archaeologist gained lasting fame thanks to his 1899 to 1935 excavation of Minoan Knossos on the island of Crete?
ARTHUR EVANS
4a Which London venue will host the much-anticipated Led Zeppelin reunion gig on November 26?
O2 ARENA or The O2
4b Which Australian athlete won the women's 100m and 200m at the 1956 Olympics?
BETTY/ELIZABETH CUTHBERT
Round 8
1a Including the cities of Allahabad, Varanasi and Agra, what is India's most populous state?*
UTTAR PRADESH
1b In which month is Waitangi Day, the national day of New Zealand, celebrated every year?
FEBRUARY (6TH)
2a Do The Bartman, The Fly by U2 and The One and Only by Chesney Hawkes were all number ones in which year?*
1991
2b Covering 171,196 square miles, what is India's largest state in terms of area? Its capital is Bhopal and it is also home to such cities as Indore and Jabalpur.*
MADHYA PRADESH
3a Canada Day is celebrated in the aforementioned country on the first day of which month every year?
JULY
3b Popularly known as "the Beehive", the open star cluster Praesepe is the most distinctive feature of which constellation that shares its name with an astrological sign?
CANCER
4a Kaus Australis and Nunki are the brightest stars in which constellation that shares its name with an astrological sign?
SAGITTARIUS
4b Take That's Back for Good, Some Might Say by Oasis and Fairground by Simply Red were all number ones in which year?
1995
Spares
Whose only opera, Saint Francois d'Assise, was given its first performance in Paris in 1983?
OLIVIER MESSAIEN
What did the father of the H-bomb Edward Teller call "a technological Pearl Harbor" and the then US President Eisenhower dismiss as "one small ball"?
SPUTNIK
Its design and construction overseen by Sergei Korolev, the R-5 was the Soviet Union's first what?
STRATEGIC MISSILE
Which American warship was salvaged and converted into an ironclad called the CSS Virginia and on March 8, 1862 sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads?
USS MERRIMACK
In an action that provided one of the causes of the War of 1812, which American warship was attacked by the HMS Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807, leading to a duel between Commodores Stephen Decatur and James Barron?
USS CHESAPEAKE
Which Scottish football side plays at East End Park?
DUNFERMLINE ATHLETIC
In which Scottish town is the football club Queen of the South based?
DUMFRIES
El Toro was the Mexican sidekick of which Western hero?
KIT CARSON
Whose principle states that when a body is wholly or partly immersed in a fluid it experiences an upwards force equal to the weight of fluid it displaces?
ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE
A try-scorer in the losing World Cup quarter-final against France, the All Black fly half/inside centre Luke McAlister recently moved to which English club?
SALE SHARKS
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