LANCASTER CITY QUIZ LEAGUE MONDAY 9th

FEBRUARY 2015

Set by Blue Anchor B (Bolton-le-Sands) Required answers are in BOLD CAPITALS

This quiz has been set in response to a complaint by our mascot Flossie that over the years she has been with

us there has been a distinct lack of questions concerning dogs. To remedy this deficiency all the rounds in

tonight’s quiz are about dogs, beginning with Flossie’s own breed.

ROUND ONE: WEST HIGHLAND WHITE

1A Which fictional Scottish policeman, played on TV by Robert Carlyle, owned

a West Highland White called Wee Jock? HAMISH MACBETH

1B Travelling west from Fort William on the West Highland Railway which port

is at the line’s terminus, a departure point for ferries to the Isle of Skye? MALLAIG

2A Who was the first President of the U.S.A. to live in the White House, taking

up residence in 1800, the year it was completed? JOHN ADAMS

2B A White Dwarf is a very dense star. The nearest one to Earth is the smaller

component of the binary star which is the brightest in our night sky. Name it. SIRIUS

3A Which composer wrote the 1910 opera Girl of the Golden West? PUCCINI

3B Which order of monks is known as the White Friars? CARMELITES

4A Which European capital city’s name literally means ‘White City’? BELGRADE

4B In which state of the U.S.A. is West Point Military Academy? NEW YORK

Spare: How many World Snooker finals did Jimmy White contest, winning none? SIX

ROUND TWO: SPANIELS – VARIOUS

1A In which castle on the Isle of Wight was King Charles I imprisoned for

fourteen months before his execution in 1649? CARISBROOKE

1B With which female singer did Joe Cocker record the hit single Up Where

We Belong for the soundtrack of the film An Officer and a Gentleman? JENNIFER WARNES

2A Jerry Springer: The Opera was a controversial British musical written by

Richard Thomas and which stand-up comedian? He later won an award

for his eponymous Comedy Vehicle series on BBC TV. STEWART LEE

2B The American Water spaniel is the state dog of which state of the U.S.A.?

Its capital is Madison. WISCONSIN

3A The Clumber spaniel was named after Clumber Park, the ancestral home

of the Dukes of Newcastle, in which English county? NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

3B Which Flemish artist was court painter to King Charles I from 1632 until

his death in 1641, during which time he was knighted by the monarch? (Sir Anthony) VAN DYCK

4A The River Cocker in Cumbria joins which other river at Cockermouth? DERWENT

4B In which late 1950’s ITV comedy series did Michael Medwin play a

cockney soldier called Corporal Springer? THE ARMY GAME

Spare: Which river in the centre of Prague is spanned by the Charles bridge? VITAVA

ROUND THREE: COLLIES – ROUGH, BEARDED and BORDER

1A Collie Weed is a slang term used by Jamaican Rastafarians for a particular CANNABIS

substance. How is it better known, based on its botanical Latin name? (Cannabis indica)

1B In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, the ‘Calling Birds’ of the fourth

day is a variation of the original term ‘Collie Bird’. The bird’s Latin

name is Turdus merula but what is its more common English name? BLACKBIRD 2A In the Shakespeare sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? which

five words complete the line ‘Rough winds do shake…......................…’ ? THE DARLING

The words were later used as the title of a novel by H.E. Bates. BUDS OF MAY

2B The TV investigative series Rough Justice ran from 1982 to 2007. Its last

presenter is now a regular interviewer on BBC TV’s Newsnight. Name her. KIRSTY WARK

3A Found across much of Australia, to which family of animals does the

Bearded Dragon belong? LIZARDS

3B The Border Leicester is a sheep breed originally developed in the English-

Scottish border region by crossing an English Leicester with which other

breed of sheep? CHEVIOT

4A Which country has a first-class cricket team called Border? SOUTH AFRICA

4B The Bearded singer Conchita Wurst (real name Thomas Neuwirth) won the

Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 with the song Rise like a Phoenix. Which

country did she/he represent? AUSTRIA

Spare: The intelligent Rough Collie Lassie (actually played by a male called Pal)

first appeared in which 1942 film, based on a book by Eric Knight? LASSIE COME HOME

ROUND FOUR: CARTOON DOGS – A PICTURE ROUND (Two copies per team)

All questions have two part answers. One point awarded for either part; both parts needed for a pass.

1A Letter B. Identify this dog and name the daily newspaper in which he appears. BOOT

DAILY MIRROR

1B Letter A. Identify this dog and name the daily newspaper in which he appears. FRED BASSETT

DAILY MAIL

2A Letter F. Identify this cultured dog and name the TV series in which he appears. BRIAN

FAMILY GUY

2B Letter D. Identify this skinny dog and name the TV series in which he appears. SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER

THE SIMPSONS

3A Letter E. Identify this colourful dog and name the song he repeatly sings. HUCKLEBERRY HOUND

(My Darling) CLEMENTINE

3B Letter H. Identify this sniggering dog and name the racing car in which he MUTTLEY

accompanies his dastardly master. THE MEAN MACHINE

4A Letter G. Identify this faithful little dog and name his creator. SNOWY

HERGE or GEORGE REMI

4B Letter I. Identify this spotty dog and name his literary creator. PONGO

DODIE SMITH

Spares: Letter C. Identify this cowardly dog and name any ONE of his human SCOOBY DOO

companions. SHAGGY, FREDDY,

VELMA, DAPHNE Letter J. Identify this superhero dog and give his alter ego. HONG KONG PHOOEY

PENROD POOCH / PENRY

ROUND FIVE: JACK RUSSELL

1A In which decade did the notorious murderer Jack the Ripper operate? 1880s

1B David Jack of Bolton Wanderers scored the first goal in the first F.A. Cup

Final at the old Wembley Stadium. In which year? 1923

2A Jack Worthing, a character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being

Earnest, was found as a baby in a handbag at which London railway station? VICTORIA

2B Which religious sect was founded by Charles Taze Russell in Pittsburgh, JEHOVAH’S

Pennsylvania in 1872? WITNESSES

3A For which 2000 film did Russell Crowe win the Best Actor Academy Award? GLADIATOR

3B First made in California in the 1840s, what is Monterey Jack? CHEESE

4A The Russell Group in the U.K. is an association comprising the leading 24

members of what type of organisation? UNIVERSITIES

4B On which London Underground line is Russell Square station? PICCADILLY

Spares: Who played shop steward Fred Kite in the 1959 film I‘m All Right, Jack? PETER SELLERS

Name Russell Brand’s recent best-selling book, published in October 2014. REVOLUTION

ROUND SIX: LAKELAND and YORKSHIRE TERRIERS

1A Which Lakeland delicacy was created by Victorian cook Sarah Nelson

of Grasmere in 1854? GINGERBREAD

1B Which Lakeland pass links the valleys of Borrowdale and Buttermere? HONISTER

2A In which year was the Yorkshire Dales National Park designated? 1954 (Allow 1953 or 1955)

2B In the natural world what is Yorkshire Fog? GRASS

3A Which Lakeland valley was flooded by the creation of Haweswater

Reservoir in 1935? MARDALE

3B Which Yorkshire artist/sculptor was born in Wakefield in 1903 and died

in a house fire in Cornwall in 1975? BARBARA HEPWORTH

4A Which Yorkshire town has a Football League club nicknamed The Terriers? HUDDERSFIELD

4B As well as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was

the third of the so-called Lakeland Poets? He was also Poet Laureate

between 1813 and 1843. (Robert) SOUTHEY

Spares: Traversing all 42 Lakeland peaks within a 24 hour period is a fell-running

challenge named after which person, who first completed it in 1932? BOB GRAHAM Yorkshire County Cricket Club play most of their home fixtures in Leeds

but at which seaside resort do they also play first-team games? SCARBOROUGH

ROUND SEVEN: GREAT DANES and GERMAN SHEPHERDS

1A In which TV soap opera is there a character called Dane Canning played

by Luke Pegler? NEIGHBOURS

1B Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer founded in 1698, is based in the

town of Faversham in which English county? KENT

2A Originally a poem by Thomas Shadwell, Nymphs and Shepherds was set to

music around 1695 by which English composer? (Henry) PURCELL

2B The Dane Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a famous astronomer who lost

which part of his anatomy in a duel with his third cousin? NOSE

3A The Danelaw was that part of England ruled by the Danes in the 9th century.

Its boundaries were established in 884 A.D. by a treaty between the Danish

warlord Guthrum and which English king? ALFRED (The Great)

3B Which Shipping Forecast sea area lies immediately north of German Bight? FISHER

4A For which discovery was the German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen awarded

the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901? X-RAYS

4B In the TV soap opera Coronation Street the character Chesney Brown

named his Great Dane after which famous sportsman? PETER SCHMEICHEL

Spares: Which portly Dane, born in 1963, played in Liverpool F.C.’s midfield for

twelve years and won 33 caps for his country? JAN MOLBY

Which post-1945 President of the U.S.A. owned German Shepherds

called Charlie and Clipper? (John F.) KENNEDY

ROUND EIGHT: HOUNDS - ASSORTED

1A Who wrote the one-act play The Real Inspector Hound, first performed at

the Criterion Theatre in London in 1968? TOM STOPPARD

1B The British Bloodhound S.S.C. is a high technology project to design and BREAK THE WORLD

build a vehicle to achieve what aim? LAND SPEED RECORD

2A Name the military camp near the Afghan city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand

Province which was the base for British forces in the war against the Taliban. (Camp) BASTION

2B Hounds of Love was which singer’s fifth studio album, released in 1985? KATE BUSH

3A Which Simon & Garfunkel song contains the lines:

‘Kathy, I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,

Michegan seems like a dream to me now’? AMERICA

3B Madeline Bassett is one of the young women to whom Bertie Wooster finds

himself periodically engaged in stories by which writer? P.G. WODEHOUSE

4A Name the captain of H.M.S. Beagle, the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed

around the world. He later had a Shipping Forecast sea area named after him. (Robert) FITZROY

4B For the hunting of which particular animal was the Dachshund bred? BADGER

Spare: What sort of marine creature is a Nurse Hound? SHARK