User:NickTemp/University Challenge Questions

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17:16 on 21/8/06 Added raw Questions - Nick

Added my (rather poor) attempts at answers --NickTemp 16:30, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING THIRTY QUESTIONS. YOU SHOULD WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM, WITHOUT USING REFERENCE MATERIALS, AND ALLOW YOURSELVES NO MORE THAN FIFTEEN MINUTES. PLEASE RETURN THE QUIZ COMPLETED, WITH THE APPLICATION FORM.

1. ‘I can’t believe we’ve just met Mr Bean’ was the response of which fictional American to his televised encounter with Tony Blair in November 2003?

A Homer Simpson - (bit of a guess)

2. Who at the age of 32, became the Premiership’s youngest-ever manager when, in May 2003, he was confirmed as the successor to Jean Tigana at Fulham?

A ………….………………………………………………………………………….

3. In a flying aeroplane, what name is given to the force which acts in a direction opposite to the downward force of gravity?

A. Lift

4. Which six year-old pioneer of cloning science died on 14th February 2003?

A. Dolly the Sheep?

5. Which event, that took place on June 15th 1215, is surprising omitted from Shakespeare’s ‘The Life and Death of King John’?

A Magna Carter?

6. Which country is bordered by Poland to the south-west, Belarus to the East and Latvia to the North?

A. Lithuania?

7. Which of the sacraments in the Christian church derives its name from the Greek for ‘the giving of thanks’?

A …………. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. An icosahedron is a three-dimensional figure with how many faces?

A. 20?

9. What region of Southern France formed part of an Italian Kingdom until 1861 and gives its name to a variety of cabbage and to a London hotel?

A Savoy???

10 What word is a contraction of Para-Acetyl-Amino-Phenol, and refers to a commonly used analgesic drug?

A. Ether?

11. The music of the composer and lute player John Dowland, born in 1563, is featured on a 2006 album entitled ‘Songs from the Labyrinth’ by which British pop musician?

A. Peter Gabriel - (Complete Guess - N)

12. Designed to create a 365-mile-long reservoir, the Three Gorges Dam is being constructed on which Asian river?

A Yantzee??

13. Which engineer designed the Pacific A4 class of steam locomotives of which ‘Mallard’ is an example?

A  ………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………….

14. What four letter word has been defined as ‘a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, provided by the writer’?

A. Blog - shortening of "Web log"

15. Which American novelist followed her 1992 novel ‘Secret History’ with ‘The Little Friend’ ten years later?

A ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

16.Characteristic of insects, what form of eye comprises many individual units called ommatidia?

A. Compound

17. Before the first move in a chess game, how many of the pieces standing on the board occupy black squares?

A. 16

18. Which politician became the first black leader of the House of Lords in 2003?

A. …………..………………………………………………………………………………………………….

19. East Kent Goldings, Fuggles and Bohemian Saaz are varieties of what agricultural product used in the drinks industry?

A.  Hops

20. Which Shakespeare play ends with Lodovico saying, ‘This heavy act with heavy heart relate’?

A. ……..………………………………………………………………………….

21. In which lunar sea did the Apollo 11 mission land in July 1969?

A.  Tranquility

22. Which nursery rhyme has been ascribed to the 16th century physician and entomologist Thomas Mouffet?

A. ………………..………………………………………………………….

23. What term derives from the Greek for ‘worthy’, and is given to a widely accepted principle or self-evident truth?

A. ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

24. Elizabeth Siddall and Jane Burden both sat as models for which English artist, the former becoming his wife, the latter his    mistress?

A. ………………….………………………………………………………………………………………

25. Which 19th century novel opens with the line: ‘There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.’

A. ……….…………………………………………………………………………………………..

26. Of which hydrocarbon is CH4 the chemical formula?

A. Methane

27. ‘Being and Time’ is a work of 1927 by which German philosopher, a major influence on both existentialism and deconstruction?

A. …………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………

28. What, according to the title of an album of 2004 by Badly Drawn Boy, is one plus one?

A. ….………………………………………………………………………….

29. Pierre Omidyar founded which successful web-based company in 1995?

A. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

30. In the board game Scrabble, which is the only letter with a value of five points?

A. …..……………………………………………………………………………………….