It’s time for this week’s quiz. These are ten of the best questions from last night’s QVQL, where Pat Gibson triumphed in the final over Paul Sinha by one point, with Nick Reed and Scott Dawson just behind. These are some of the questions that thee players wrestled with.
1. The Vauxhall End, with the Pavilion End opposite, are features of which famous English cricket ground?
2. What name was given to the Celtic god normally depicted with antlers and a bag of coins? He is supposed to have inspired Herne the Hunter, who appears in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
3. The ancient city of Samarkand is found in the southeastern part of which present-day country?
4. Which song from Encanto became the first original Disney song to reach number one on the Official Singles Chart when it did so on 1 January 2022 remaining in that position for a total of seven weeks?
5. Like macaroni cut into shorter pieces, what “D” is a type of pasta that is often used in soups or with a chunkier sauce?
6. Villahermosa, known as the “emerald of the southeast”, is the capital of which Mexican state that has a coast on the Gulf of Mexico?
7. The Westminster, a two-day event held in Madison Square Garden every year since 1877, is the US equivalent to what in the UK?
8. What is another name for the coypu, an herbivorous semi-aquatic mammal native to South America and considered in the United States to be an invasive species?
9. The two river dolphins of the Platanistidae family are found in the Ganges and in which other Asian river?
10. The Journey to Parnassus, The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda, and the 12 Exemplary Novels are some of the lesser-known works of which 16th and 17th C writer?
We’ll post the answers in a few days.
Here are the answers to last week’s quiz.
1. Northanger Abbey
2. Duke of Norfolk
3. The Arnolfini Portrait (Jan van Eyck)
4. China
5. Her hand
6. Io
7. Ron Greenwood
8. Hi-de-Hi
9. Angostura Bitters
10. The River Cafe