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1.
You have three bonuses about an “annus horribilis”.
A.
The Queen used this phrase, a humorous reference to Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis”, in a
speech at the Guildhall on 24 November of which year?
answer: 1992
B.
In April 1992, the Princess Royal divorced her husband. Name him.
answer: Captain Mark (Antony Peter) Phillips
C.
In March 1992, the Duke of York separated from his wife Sarah, who was photographed
topless later in the year kissing which financial advisor friend?
answer: John Bryan
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2.
Given lyrics, name the artist or artists who appeared on the show Neighbours to whom each
song is credited.
A.
“When you look at me, tell me what do you see / This is what you get, it’s the way I am /
When I look at you, I wannabe, I wannabe / Somewhere close to heaven with Neanderthal
man”
answer: Holly Valance [from “Kiss Kiss”]
B.
“Well you couldn’t be that man I adored / You don’t seem to know, or seem to care, what
your heart is for / I don’t know him anymore”
answer: Natalie Imbruglia [im-BROO-lee-ah] [from “Torn”]
C.
“I wanna let you know what I was going through / All the time we were apart / I thought of
you / You were in my heart”
answer: Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (accept either name for each; do not prompt on only one
artist given) [from “Especially For You”]
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3.
Both teams in the final of the Euro 2004 football competition had foreign coaches.
A.
Which 65-year-old German led the Greek team to an unexpected victory?
answer: Otto Rehhagel [ruh-HAR-gul]
B.
Runners-up Portugal were led by which coach, ten years Rehhagel’s junior?
answer: Luiz Felipe Scolari
C.
Scolari had previously had success with his native country’s team. Which country?
answer: Brazil
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4.
Name these Caribbean islands.
A.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share which island?
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answer: Hispaniola
B.
The Windward Passage separates Haiti from which country to its west?
answer: Republic of Cuba
C.
Which member of the ABC islands broke away from Bonaire and Curaçao [KUR-uss-ow] in
1986?
answer: Aruba
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It’s actually a ternary star system.
A.
Name this closest star system to the Sun.
answer: Alpha Centauri
B.
Specifically, this dwarf in Alpha Centauri is the closest star to the Sun.
answer: Proxima [PROK-sih-muh] Centauri
C.
Within one, how many light-years away is Proxima Centauri?
answer: 4.3 (accept 3.3 to 5.3)
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6.
Your bonuses are on numbers in sculpture. How many…
A.
Presidential portraits are carved on Mount Rushmore?
answer: four
B.
Human figures are depicted in the Hellenistic sculpture, Laocöon [lay-OCK-oh-on]?
answer: three
C.
Burghers are shown in Rodin’s [roh-DANZ] The Burghers of Calais?
answer: six
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7.
Your bonuses are about leaders who lost and gained power in the European revolutions of
1848.
A.
In France, the king was forced to flee in February, and a prince was elected president in
December. Name both.
answer: Louis Philippe Orléans
(Charles-)Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (accept Napoleon III)
B.
In Austria, the emperor abdicated on December 2, his nephew therefore beginning a 67-year
reign. Name both.
answer: Ferdinand I Habsburg or Ferdinand the Benign or Ferdinand der Gütige
Franz Joseph I Habsburg or Francis Joseph
C.
On 11 March, 1848, which Bavarian king abdicated in favour of his son Maximilian II?
answer: Ludwig I or Louis I
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8.
He refused to fight in the Trojan War because Agamemnon robbed him of one of his prizes.
Name:
A.
This figure from the Iliad known for a vulnerable spot on his body.
answer: Achilles or Akhilleus (accept Achilles’ heel)
B.
The friend of Achilles whose death finally inspired Achilles to fight.
answer: Patroclus [puh-TROH-klus] or Patrokles or Patroklos
C.
The Trojan prince who killed Patroclus, and who was later slain by Achilles.
answer: Hector
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9.
Your bonuses are about Tennessee Williams plays.
A.
Set in New Orleans, which play includes the characters of Stella and Stanley Kowalski?
answer: A Streetcar Named Desire
B.
Set in St. Louis, the title of which play refers to the collection of Laura Wingfield?
answer: The Glass Menagerie
C.
Set in a run-down Mexican resort, which play concerns a defrocked minister and a spinster
who discover a mutual need for compassion and companionship?
answer: The Night of the Iguana
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10.
In degree classifications, if a Desmond is a 2:2, what is:
A.
an Attila?
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answer: a 2:1 or upper second class [from Attila the Hun]
B.
a Douglas?
answer: a third class [from Douglas Hurd]
C.
a Geoff?
answer: a first class [from Geoff Hurst]
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11.
Pull a rabbit out of your hat by telling me who created these literary rabbits.
A.
Hazel and Fiver
answer: Richard Adams [in Watership Down]
B.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail
answer: (Helen) Beatrix Potter [in The Tale of Peter Rabbit]
C.
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom
answer: John (Hoyer) Updike [in Rabbit, Run and its sequels]
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12.
You have three questions about major rivers of Northern Ireland.
A.
Which river rises in the Mourne Mountains and flows into the south end of Lough Neagh
[lock nay], emerging again in the north to flow through Coleraine into the Atlantic?
answer: River Bann
B.
Known as the Maiden City, and sometimes ironically nicknamed “Stroke City”, which city
stands near the mouth of the River Foyle?
answer: Londonderry or Derry [“Stroke City” is because of its frequent description as
“Derry/Londonderry”]
C.
On which river does Belfast stand?
answer: River Lagan
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13.
In February 2003, Radio Times released a list of shows that “changed the face of television.”
Name these U.S. shows from that list.
A.
This Kiefer Sutherland drama topped the list.
answer: 24
B.
This animated spin-off of The Tracey Ullman Show was praised for “comprehensively
filleting every family value”.
answer: The Simpsons
C.
Also on the list was this 1980s cop drama starring Daniel Travanti, one of the first U.S. shows
imported by the BBC.
answer: Hill Street Blues
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14.
Some forces are named after the role that they play in a problem rather than from their
physical source.
A.
What name is given to the vector sum of all the forces acting on an object? It is proportional
to the object’s acceleration.
answer: net force
B.
What name is given to a contact force between two objects that acts at right angles to their
adjacent surfaces?
answer: normal force
C.
What name is given to any central force that causes an object to move in a circular trajectory?
answer: centripetal force
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15.
You have three bonuses about an undesirable economic situation.
A.
Which portmanteau word describes a period in which high inflation is coupled with an
economic recession?
answer: stagflation
B.
Which graph, named after its British devisor, shows the relationship between inflation and
unemployment and suggests that stagflation is impossible according to classic Keynsian
theory?
answer: Phillips curve [after Alban W Phillips]
C.
Which Conservative politician, appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Edward Heath
shortly before his death in 1970, is said to have coined the term “stagflation”?
answer: Iain Macleod
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You have bonuses about the membership of the Commonwealth.
A.
There are two current Commonwealth members in Europe apart from the United Kingdom.
Name them.
answer: Republic of Cyprus and Republic of Malta
B.
Which is the only Commonwealth member nation on the mainland of South America?
answer: Co-operative Republic of Guyana
C.
The most recent brand-new member of the Commonwealth joined in 1999, but added just 21
square kilometres to the land area of the organisation. Name this Pacific island nation, the
only nation in the world without a national capital.
answer: Republic of Nauru
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17.
The notes of C and E form a major third. What notes combine with C as the lower note to
form these intervals?
A.
Minor third
answer: E flat
B.
Dissonant diminished fifth
answer: G flat
C.
Dissonant augmented fifth
answer: G sharp
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18.
Various European countries went to the polls in early March 2004.
A.
Which incumbent President was re-elected with 71% of the vote, although there had been
fears that turn-out would drop below 50% and invalidate the election?
answer: Vladimir Putin
B.
Following the Madrid bomb attacks, Spain’s Popular Party was ousted by the Socialist
Workers’ Party. Name either the outgoing right-wing Prime Minister, or Spain’s new leftwing leader.
answer: José Maria Aznar (outgoing) or José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (new)
C.
The New Democracy party gained 45% of the vote against 41% for PASOK, which had been
in power for most of the last two decades. In which EU country?
answer: Greece or the Hellenic Republic
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Your bonuses are about famous diamonds.
A.
Which 45.5 carat diamond, formerly owned by the French crown and now in the Smithsonian
Institution, is claimed to place a curse on anyone who owns it?
answer: Hope Diamond
B.
With a name meaning “mountain of light”, which 108 carat diamond was brought from India
and is currently set into the crown of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother?
answer: Koh-i-Noor
C.
The Great and Lesser Stars of Africa, found respectively in the royal sceptre and the Imperial
State Crown of the British crown jewels, were both cut from which 3,106 carat diamond found
in South Africa in 1905, the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found?
answer: Cullinan Diamond
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20.
Name these Parisian landmarks.
A.
Actually a landmark no more, the construction of which building began around 1370 as part of
Paris fortifications, and the Colonne de Juillet [coh-LON duh ZHWEE-ay] now stands in the
square on the site?
answer: the Bastille
B.
The Arc de Triomphe is located on which star-shaped plaza named after a 20th century leader?
answer: Place Charles de Gaulle (prompt on “Place de l’Étoile”)
C.
Built by Louis XIV as a hospital for disabled veterans, which building now houses Napoleon’s
tomb?
answer: Hôtel des Invalides
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21.
He signed autographs at Princeton while supervising Ron Howard’s adaptation of his life
story.
A.
Who is this mathematician portrayed in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind?
answer: John (Forbes) Nash, Jr.
B.
Nash was played by what Oscar-winning actor?
answer: Russell (Ira) Crowe
C.
Nash won his 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for work in which field of applied mathematics
that includes his namesake equilibrium?
answer: game theory
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22.
Given an African writer, name his home country.
A.
Naguib Mahfouz [nah-GEEB mah-FOOZ]
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answer: Arab Republic of Egypt
B.
Athol Fugard
answer: Republic of South Africa
C.
Wole [WOH-lay] Soyinka
answer: Federal Republic of Nigeria
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23.
Name these colourful Greek terms from various fields of science.
A.
Greek for “colourful bodies”, which structures contain the genetic information of a cell?
answer: chromosomes
B.
Greek for “colourful writing”, what term describes any of several techniques for separating
mixtures?
answer: chromatography
C.
Greek for “colourful motion”, what term when used with “quantum” names the theory of the
strong nuclear force?
answer: (quantum) chromodynamics
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24.
How many of these bones are found in the human body?
A.
Scapulae
answer: 2
B.
Cervical vertebrae
answer: 7
C.
Tarsals, not counting metatarsals
answer: 14
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25.
On 1 January 2002, the Euro became the official currency of 12 European countries, replacing
their former national currencies. Please name those currencies no longer in use, taking care to
distinguish between similarly-named currencies, for 5 points for eight correct, 10 points for
ten and 15 points for all twelve.
answer: Austrian schilling, Belgian franc (prompt on “franc”), Dutch guilder, Finnish markka,
French franc (prompt on “franc”), German mark, Greek drachma, Irish pound or punt,
Italian lira, Luxembourg franc (prompt on “franc”), Portuguese escudo, Spanish peseta
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