Sunday Quiz – 18th July 2021 Round 1: Sport - History 10 questions on the subject of sporting history. None On the Last kick of the game at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, who became the first northern-hemisphere team to win the Webb Ellis Cup? Winning in both 1957 And 1958, who was the first African-American woman to win a Wimbledon Tennis event? With the capital city Montevideo, where was the first football (soccer) world cup held? Which sporting event was BBC2's first ever colour transmission in 1967? In 1983, which Canadian made the first 147 break at The Snooker World Championships? In Paris in 1900 what became the first Olympic sport to include women? In Atlanta in 1996 the Olympic torch was lit by which boxing legend, sadly suffering from Parkinsons? Who won the Golf Masters in 1997, the tournament's youngest winner, and would go on to win 14 Major tournaments? Set in Berlin with Hitler watching, at the 1936 Games who won gold medals in the 100 and 200-meter sprints, the long jump and the relay team? On October 6th, 1993, Michael Jordan retired from basketball for the first time, which sport did he play instead? Round 2: Film - Crime 10 questions on the subject of crime films. None The feature-length debut of Quentin Tarantino, which film depicts the events before and after, but not during, the heist of a jewellery store? For which film did Kevin Spacey's turn as Roger 'Verbal' Kint, a con artist with cerebral palsy, earn him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor? In which 1995 film did De Niro play Neil McCauley, a seasoned professional robber, and Pacino play Lt. Vincent Hanna, an LAPD robbery-homicide detective tracking down Neil's crew after a heist leaves three security guards dead? What 1988 heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and written by John Cleese, stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin? What film tells the story of Charlie Croker (Michael Caine), the leader of a cockney criminal gang released from prison with the intention of doing a "big job" in Italy to steal gold bullion from an armoured security truck? What is the 2017 film written and directed by Edgar Wright tha stars Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver seeking freedom from a life of crime with his girlfriend Debora? Considered one of the first films of the New Hollywood era and a landmark film, what is the 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway? Which 1968 American film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen was remade with the same title in 1999 starring Pierce Brosnan? What film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze as four American soldiers on a gold heist that takes place during the 1991 uprisings in Iraq against Saddam Hussein following the end of the Gulf War? Released on Christmas Day of 1973, which film involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss? Round 3: Sport and Games - Video Games 10 questions on the topic of video games. None A game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in 1998, has been used in a variety of genres of 3D games and has seen adoption by other industries. What game was it named for? What interactive fiction computer game, featuring a carnivorous Grue, was originally developed by four members of MIT between 1977 and 1979? Written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell, what space trading video games open-ended game model and revolutionary 3D graphics earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history? In what 1989 classic do players control an unnamed protagonist who must venture through a series of dungeons to defeat the Grand Vizier Jaffar and save an imprisoned princess? With difficulty groups – "Fun", "Tricky", "Taxing", and "Mayhem", in what game is the goal to guide at least a certain percentage of green-haired, blue-robed creatures from the entrance to the exit? Which 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by id Software for MS-DOS, is one of the most significant games in video game history? What game was a huge success upon its original release in 2004 and quickly became the most popular MMORPG of all-time, reaching a peak of 12 million subscribers in 2010? Published by Sony for the PlayStation 3, what game revolves around the player's control of a small character, known as a "Sackboy", in a variety of platforming levels? Featuring the Dragonborn, what is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following 2006's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion? Which game's map encompassed three cities — Liberty City (based on New York City), San Andreas (based on San Francisco), and Vice City (based on Miami)? Round 4: Picture Round - Board Games 10 pictures of board games to identify. None What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? What board games is this? Round 5: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection. None Butterflies & moths are in the insect group Lepidoptera, which group contains ants, bees & wasps? The music in Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' is based upon which composer's version of the classic story? What was the title of William Golding's book about boys marooned on an island in the Pacific? What name is given a coral island consisting of a ring of rock enclosing a central lagoon? In the 2020 film Artemis Fowl, which Oscar-winning actress and Dame of the British Empire plays the gun-toting fairy Commander Root? Which river passes through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and four more countries before arriving at the Black Sea? I'll Be There For You, sung by the Rembrandts, is the theme song of which American television comedy series? With which period in music do we associate composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, and Chopin? Who died at Gravesend, UK, in March 1617 when she was about to embark for her homeland in America? The Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord, who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Discordia? Time's up
