Wrexham Quiz League Questions - Colin Hughes Trophy	2nd October 2012
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Round 1 - Islands
1	People travel to Goat Island in New York State, USA, to get spectacular views of which natural phenomenon?	NIAGARA FALLS
2	Ynys Gybi is the Welsh name for which island?	HOLY ISLAND
3	Which island in the Indian Ocean has the highest population of any French island and sends five deputies to the National Assembly in Paris?	REUNION
4	The Torres Strait lies between Australia and which island?	NEW GUINEA
5	Baltra, Floreanna, San Crystobal and Santa Cruz are the five inhabited islands in which Pacific group?	GALAPAGOS
6	The neighbouring islands of Romo and Sylt in the Wadden Sea, lie on either side of the border between which two EU countries? (both needed)	DENMARK and GERMANY
7	Which is the largest of the 7,107 islands that make up the Philippines?	LUZON
8	Which Pacific Island group changed to driving on the left in 2009 and also moved to the west of the International Dateline in 2011, thereby losing a day?	SAMOA
9	Ellan Vannin is the name of which island in the British Isles in the local language?	ISLE OF MAN (in Manx)
10	Which chemical element is named after the island of Cyprus where it was extensively mined in the Roman era?	COPPER
Round 2 - Films and Television (A connection round)     NB There is a connection between one word or name in each of the first nine answers.  However for all ten      questions, the full answer is needed to get the points.
11	Who has played Dot Cotton in Eastenders since 1985?	JUNE BROWN
12	Which former Home and Away actor won a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2009?	HEATH LEDGER
13	Which Faulty Towers character was played by Ballard Berkeley?	MAJOR GOWEN
14	Who voiced Princess Fiona in the Shrek movies?	CAMERON DIAZ
15	Which Coronation Street character, who "died" in 2006, apparently had 25 girlfriends at various times and four wives?	MIKE BALDWIN
16	In the 2004 film Starsky and Hutch, if Ben Stiller played Starsky, who played Hutch?	OWEN WILSON
17	Which journalist and author won the fifth series of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here in 2005, beating Cannon and Ball, Jimmy Osmond and Sheree Murphy amongst others?	CAROL THATCHER
18	Who directed the Noughties films One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void?	KEVIN MACDONALD
19	Which 1999 horror film tells the story of three students who disappeared in Maryland whilst making a documentary film about a local legend?	THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
20	The first episode of which sitcom sequel was broadcast  on BBC2 on January 9th 1986 (NB This answer contains the connection)?	YES, PRIME MINISTER
Round 3 - On This Day
21	Which cartoon strip by Charles M Schulz first appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times on this day in 1950?	PEANUTS
22	Operation Typhoon, launched on this day in 1941, was a German strategic offensive designed to capture which capital city?	MOSCOW
23	What was the surname of the French explorer who discovered the area where Montreal is now situated, on this day in 1953?	(Jacques) CARTIER
24	What was the real christian name of the comedian Grougho Marx, born on this day in 1890?	JULIUS
25	Which was the last year in which October 2nd fell on a Wednesday?	2002
26	The king of which country led his army against the Scots at the Battle of Largs in Ayrshire on this day in 1263?	NORWAY
27	Celebrating her 44th birthday today, who presents the Radio Five Live news and interview show each weekday between 10am and noon?	VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE
28	Which US President suffered a massive stroke on this day in 1919 which severely incapacitated him for the remainder of his Presidency?	WOODROW WILSON
29	Who led the Muslim forces who captured Jerusalem on this day in 1187, thus ending 88 years of crusader rule of the city?	SALADIN
30	Born on this day in 1951, how is the pop singer Gordon Sumner better known?	STING
Round 4 - Fictional Characters
31	Bigwig, Fiver and Hazel are the main characters in which 1972 novel?	WATERSHIP DOWN
32	Who was the youngest of King Lear's three daughters?	CORDELIA
33	Which Marvel Comic's super-hero, a member of The Avengers group, is the alter ego of an originally frail young man called Steve Rogers?	CAPTAIN AMERICA
34	Becky Sharp was the central character in which mid 19th century novel?	VANITY FAIR
35	What was the surname of the title character in H.G.Wells; novel The Invisible Man?	GRIFFIN
36	Which well-known fictional character, who first appeared in print in the 90's, has the rare ability to speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes?	HARRY POTTER
37	What was the christian name of the daughter of William Dorrit, known as Little Dorrit in the 1857 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens?	AMY
38	Green politician Samantha Weinberg wrote a trilogy of novels under the alias Kate Westbrook in the noughties, based on the fictional diaries of which Ian Fleming character?	MISS MONEYPENNY
39	Who is the elder sister of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire?	BLANCHE DUBOIS
40	Which famous fictional character retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 and took up the hobby of bee-keeping as his main occupation?	SHERLOCK HOLMES
Round 5 - Sporting Venues
41	Which ground was the venue for the first ever cricket Test Match between England and Australia in 1877 ?	MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND
42	Which motor racing circuit was used for the cycling raod races at the 2012 London Paralympic Games?	BRANDS HATCH
43	Which US Football team moved from the Three Rovers Stadium to the newly built Heinz Field in 2001 ?	PITTSBURGH STEELERS
44	The Olympic Stadium in which city was completed in 1938 and has hosted two World Athletic Championships, three Europeans and one Olympics, but not the one it was built for?	HELSINKI (Built for the cancelled 1940 games)
45	What was the name of the circuit on which the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix was held from 1948 until its last running in 1985 ?	ZANDVOORT
46	At which football ground did Frank Bruno defeat Joe Bugner in October 1987 ?	WHITE HART LANE (Tottenham)
47	In which of New York's five boroughs is the New Yankee stadium located?	THE BRONX
48	Near which village in North Wales were the rowing events held at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games?	LLANBERIS (on Llyn Padarn)
49	After which famous American tennis player is the stadium at Flushing Meadow named, where the final of the US Open has been held each year since 1997 ?	ARTHUR ASHE
50	In which Swiss resort is the famous bobsleigh track, the Cresta Run?	ST MORITZ
Round 6 - General Knowledge
51	Which Scottish Lib Dem MP is currently Chief Secretary to the Treasury?	DANNY ALEXANDER
52	The name's the same - A small Norfolk town near the Suffolk border and a verb used by teenagers meaning "to show a lack of respect"?	DISS
53	Guy Lombardo and Oscar Peterson were the first inductees into which nation's newly instituted Music Hall of Fame in 1978 ?	CANADA
54	Chemistry - which of the halogens has the lowest atomic number?	FLOURINE
55	The naem of which Japanese car company can be translated as "three diamonds", which is reflected in its fanous logo?	MITSUBISHI
56	Lady Day or, more properly, the Feast of the Anunciation of the Blessed Virgin, is celebrated on the 25th of which month?	MARCH
57	Which common British mammal has the scientific name Erinaceous Europaeus?	HEDGEHOG
58	Sri Lanka has two official languages - Sinhala or Singhalese is one, what is the other?	TAMIL
59	What was the surname of the last man to walk on the moon?	(Eugene) CERNAN
60	Which wrexham company was formed in 1931 by the merger of Soames Brewery, Island Green Brewery and the Oswestry firm of Dorsett Owen?	BORDER BREWERIES
TIE BREAKER - Soccer, what was the attendance at the 2012 French Cup Final between Olympic Lyonnaise and 3rd division club Quevilly at the Stade de France in Paris on 8th April?		76,293