Sunday Quiz – 23rd October 2022 Round 1: Music - Best Selling UK Debut Albums These are the top ten best selling debut albums in the UK, in order. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63244820Also - I know the Alanis Morissette question wasn't her debut. Just go with it. None Developed from a musical, Neverland, What is the name of the 1977 debut album by American rock singer Meat Loaf, and composer Jim Steinman? What is the name of the debut studio album of British singer James Blunt, which was named after the famous psychiatric institution of Bethlem Royal Hospital? After winning The X Factor, Leona Lewis's debut album became the fastest-selling debut album in the UK (at time of release - 2007). What was it called? "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" were the first two singles released from which debut album by Lady Gaga? Originally released on 1 June 1999, by 2003 which debut album by Dido had sold more than 15 million copies worldwide? The world's top-selling album of 1997 and the best-selling album in music history by a girl group, what was the debut album by The Spice Girls? What was the debut studio album by the English band Keane - It was the second best-selling British album of 2004? The third studio album by Alanis Morissette, but her first to be released worldwide, which album won the Grammy award for Album of the Year in 1995? Which debut album by English singer / songwriter Sam Smith peaked in the top ten in over 20 countries and was the second best-selling album of 2014 in the UK? Released in July 2000 and featuring the singles "Shiver", "Yellow", "Trouble", and "Don't Panic", what was the debut album of Coldplay? Round 2: Hotels A theme round. All of the answers and questions are to do with hotels. None Which hotel featured in Stephen King's best selling 1977 novel, The Shining, as well as the 1980 film of the same name? Which group had a massive late 1976 hit with their release of Hotel California? What type of Bible first appeared in The Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana, in 1908? Founded in 1812 as Mivart's Hotel and located in Mayfair, London, which hotel is renowned for its afternoon teas? When the Ritz Paris opened in 1898, it was the first hotel with electricity, a bath, and a what in every room? In which film does Ralph Fiennes play Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a mountainside resort in the fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka? The Icehotel was first built in 1989 and each November it's rebuilt over the course of six weeks. Which country is it in? Which 2011 British comedy-drama film features an ensemble cast as a group of British pensioners moving to a retirement hotel in India? Elvis sang "Well, since my baby left me. Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street. At..."? Opened in 1907 at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, which New York hotel was used as a setting in Home Alone 2? Round 3: Picture Round - Animals Please identify the animals from the pictures. You don't need to put "a" or "the" in front.So if it's a Rhino (it won't be), just put "Rhino", not "A Rhino". None What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? What animal is this? Round 4: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions, no theme. None What was the name given to the place in the northwestern outskirts of Athens where Plato acquired property about 387 BCE and used to teach? The four quarters of a hot cross bun are meant to symbolise the phases of the what? What name is given to rough cider distilled from withered apples? In folklore, a supernatural, sea-dwelling creature with the head and upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of a fish is a what? Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler, what was her surname before she married him? From the French for candlestick, a branched hanging support for lights is called a what? To turn a Welsh rarebit into a Buck rarebit you would add an egg which has been cooked in which fashion? Who played Sarah Conner in the 1984 film The Terminator (full name)? It's pretty obvious that Eiffel designed the Eiffel tower, but what was his first name? What is the name of the tissue layer which covers a growing antler? Round 5: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions, no theme. None What colour (typically) are the eggs of cassowaries? Which leafy green herb is commonly used to make pesto? Which historical figure said "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)? What would you normally expect to see during a pyrotechnic display? Impaired normal blood clotting is the main symptom of which disease? In Geology what time period preceded The Cretaceous? In Prokoviev's "Peter and the Wolf", the wolf is represented by which instrument? In The Bible, who was asked to sacrifice his only son? Which song by the palindromic pop group Abba had a palindromic title? Also known as mother of pearl, what is an organic–inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs? Time's up
