DAAT QUIZ 2015 – ANSWER SHEET

ROUND 1 - TRIVIA

1) What US city is also known as “The Big Apple”? – New York

2) Which world city traverses 2 continents? – Istanbul

3) What is the name of the royal barge used in British pageantry this century? – Gloriana

4) The Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury is connected to which London museum? – V&A

5) Cilla Black died in recent months – her chart career started with 2 number 1 hits in 1964 – one was

“Anyone who had a Heart” – what is the other? – “You’re My World”.

6) Lady Godiva, the wife of 11th century Earl Leofric of Mercer asked townspeople not to look at her as

she paraded naked in protest at her husband through Coventry, but folklore suggests one lad didn’t

do as requested – his action gave birth to an expression in common use today – what is the

expression? – “Peeping Tom” (Tom opened his window & looked at her)

7) Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Cupid? – Eros

8) We all know the expression “ saw the writing on the wall” – this originates from the Old Testament

when despot Belshazzar feasted & debauched to excess, to God’s displeasure. Which great biblical

empire, of which he was emperor, fell the night the writing appeared? - Babylon

ROUND 2 - AROUND THE UK

1) In which Scottish county will you find the 5,000 year old yew tree which scientists have recently

discovered is changing its sex? – Perthshire (Fortingall Yew)

2) In which city will you find streets specifically defined as The Turl, The Broad & The High? – Oxford

3) Which city is served by George Best airport? – Belfast

4) Exactly where in Wales did Sir Malcolm Campbell set his land speed record in 1919, with the named

area still used for this purpose? – Pendine Sands , Carmarthenshire

5) The acclaimed ITV series Broadchurch is set in which real location (where was it filmed)? – West Bay

Dorset

6) Which Scottish island is associated with a particular tweed fabric? – Harris

7) Port Meirion in Wales was the location for which cult 1960s TV series? – The Prisoner

8) “Oh Mary this London’s a wonderful sight, with people there working by day and by night” are the

opening lines of a song of longing – where exactly does the songwriter long to be? – The Mountains

of Mourne (Co. Down,N. Ireland)

ROUND 3 - LIFE IN COLD BLOOD

1) What is the only venomous snake in the British Isles? – adder/viper

2) What is the world’s largest extant species of lizard? – Komodo Dragon

3) After alligator eggs are laid, what singular factor dictates the gender of these reptiles as they develop

& hatch? - temperature

4) Name one of the 2 homes of the Giant Tortoise? – Galapagos Islands or Seychelle Islands

5) In which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes mystery did a murderer use a venomous snake to

kill his victims? – The Speckled Band

6) Turtles – teenage Mutant Ninja ones – their names are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello & .... name

the fourth. Raphael

7) What is the visible difference between frogspawn and toadspawn? – frogspawn is in clumps, patches

– toadspawn is in strings or chains

8) In which Commonwealth country will you not only find no snakes in the wild, but would be

prosecuted should you keep or attempt to keep one? – New Zealand

ROUND 4 – MONEY

1) In which year did the UK decimalise its currency? – 1971

2) In the 1980s, who sang about “Money for nothing and your chicks for free”? – Dire Straits

3) Which world country has been the first to issue a full series of polymer/plastic bank notes? – Australia

(1996)

4) Which bank was broken by the rash financial acts of rogue trader Nick Leeson? – Barings

5) During the recent Greek economic crisis, there was speculation about it returning to its pre-euro

currency – what was its pre-euro currency? – Drachma

6) What is the nationality of the last Governor of the Bank of England ? – Canadian (Mark Carney)

7) In the “Cubby” Broccoli Bond movies, who played the first Miss Moneypenny? – Lois Maxwell

8) What is the name of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”? – Shylock

ROUND 5 - FOOD & DRINK

1) What type of food is pumpernickel? – Bread

2) Which Shakespeare play opens with the words “if music be the food of love, play on”? – Twelfth

Night

3) In supermarkets you will see UHT milk and cream on the shelves – what exactly does UHT stand for? –

Ultra High Temperature

4) What is used to fortify wine to make port? – Brandy

5) 2014 saw the death of popular Lynda Bellingham – for advertising which branded cooking product did

she become most famously known – Oxo

6) From which Verdi opera does the “drinking song” come? –“ La Traviata”

7) In Welsh cuisine, what is “cawl”? – a soup, broth or stew

8) The theme song of a Radio Luxembourg childrens club, founded in 1935, was used to advertise what

beverage in 1975? - Ovaltine

ROUND 6 - STAGE & SCREEN

1) In which musical do the Jets & Sharks feature? – West Side Story

2) Helen Mirren’s film “Woman in Gold” was a factual tale about restoration to rightful ownership of a

portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer – by which renowned artist of the mid 19th and early 20th century was

the portrait painted? – Gustav Klimt

3) The 1960s cult TV series ”The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” was resurrected onto the big screen in 2015 by

Guy Ritchie – for what exactly do the letters U.N.C.L.E. stand for? – United Network Command for

Law & Enforcement

4) Which Wagner opera was inspired by the legend of a ghost ship & it’s captain? – The Flying Dutchman

5) Which English playwright who frequently scandalized society was murdered in 1967 by his lover,

Kenneth Halliwell? – Joe Orton

6) Roger Delgado , in 1971, was the first actor to play which character on TV? – “The Master” (Dr Who)

7) Which estate is the real life location of TV’s recently ended Downton Abbey? – Highclere Castle

8) In which ballet would you find Clara, Dr Droppelmeyer & the Sugar Plum fairy? – the Nutcracker

ROUND 7 - BY THE SEASIDE

1) From which natural seaside product is iodine extracted? – seaweed

2) Who is the author of the novel “To The Lighthouse”? – Virginia Woolf

3) Whitby (on Sea) became famous for a natural product used in Victorian jewellery – what was it?- jet

4) Which Poet Laureate wrote “I must go down to the sea again, the lonely sea and the sky”? – John

Masefield

5) The song “Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside” was written in 1907 – which famous seaside organist

used this as his signature tune for many years up to the early 1970s? – Reginald Dixon (resident,

Tower Ballroom Blackpool)

6) In which famous drama, frequently performed at the seaside, will you find, amongst other things, a

string of sausages & a policeman? – Punch & Judy

7) In Kent seaside town Broadstairs, Charles Dickens spent summers writing David Copperfield – the

house where he wrote the novel was rechristened to reflect his residency – what was the house

retitled? Bleak House

8) What award is given to beaches which meet an acceptable cleanliness & eco standard both in the

European Union and Foundation for Environmental Education? –Blue Flag

ROUND 8 - COLLECTIVES

1) What is the collective noun for a group of geese in flight? – skein

2) The collective noun for rhinos is “crash” – in what year did the Wall Street Crash occur? – 1929

3) What word does the Old Testament of the Bible have in common with groups of swans? –

Lamentations (book in the OT & collective for swans)

4) The collective noun for cheetahs is a coalition – who was the Prime Minister at the time of the

dissolution of the UK coalition government prior to the coalition of 2010-2015? – (Sir) Winston

Churchill (coalition 1940-45)

5) Starlings en masse are well known for a type of aerial ballet which they tend to perform at dusk – by

what collective noun is this activity known? - murmuration

6) One of the collectives for a group of giraffes is tower – for what purpose was the (now leaning) Tower

of Pisa built? – bell tower (for Pisa’s adjoining cathedral).

7) Which of our feathered friends gathers in a host? – sparrow

8) The collective for ravens is a conspiracy – which conspiracy was reputedly hatched in May 1604 in the

Dog & Duck pub off London’s Strand? – Gunpowder Plot

ROUND 9 - NOT A QUESTION OF SPORT

1) The seeds of horse chestnut trees are used to play what traditional game? – conkers

2) Which piece can only move diagonally on a chessboard? – bishop

3) A game has recently been the subject of a row as there was a large-scale bid to make it an Olympic

sport –the bid failed. What was the game? – bridge

4) In what game would players use squidgers? – tiddlywinks

5) On a standard UK Monopoly board, Vine Street is on one side of the Free Parking square – what is on

the other? – Strand

6) In what game would you find a pitcher, 3 bases and a home plate? – baseball

7) If Q & Z are 10, and J & X are 8, what is K? 5 – (Scrabble)

8) What game was invented in the mid-1850´s by British soldiers based in Canada, rules were set in

Montréal in 1879, & first played in the USA in 1893? – Ice hockey

ROUND 10 – 2014

1) Who won BBC Sports personality of the Year? – Lewis Hamilton

2) In November, after over 10 years in flight, a lander detached from the Rosetta spacecraft and

made a first ever successful soft landing on a comet to carry out experiments – what was the

name of the lander? – Philae

3) For which constituency was Boris Johnson selected in 2014 (to fight the 2015 election and

onwards )?– Uxbridge

4) Which country won Eurovision 2014? - Austria

5) What was the nationality of the Last Night of the Proms host/conductor in that year? – Finnish

(Sakari Oramo)

6) What did artists Paul Cummins & Tom Piper create to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of

WW1? – ceramic poppies outside the Tower of London

7) 2014 saw the departure of Sir Richard Attenborough who brought many roles to life on the stage

and screen – playing opposite James Stewart, in which film did he play navigator Lew Moran? –

Flight of the Phoenix

8) Which Appledore built Irish warship was floated (or launched if you prefer) in November 2014? –

James Joyce