Wednesday – 30 Question Quiz – 18/01/2023 Round 1: Alphabet - CA 10 questions where the answers all start with the letters "CA" and they are all in ascending alphabetical order. None What is the name of the apple based liqueur from Normandy, France? Who was the American President from 1923 to 1929, the 30th president of the U.S.? Full name please. What is the art or practice of bell-ringing known as? The object of which card game is to meld sets of 7 or more cards? In biology, what tiny vessels connect arteries with veins? What Opera's story features a female cigar/cigarette factory worker? What is the architectural term for a piece of ornamental stonework representing a scroll of paper? What other common name is given to a Rook in chess? In ancient Egypt which animals were considered sacred? What road safety device did Percy Shaw invent in 1934? Round 2: Authors - Comedy 10 questions about comedy authors / books. None A humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames, who wrote "Three Men In A Boat"? Stella Gibbons was an English writer who established her reputation with her first novel - what was it called? Which novel by Laurence Sterne, inspired by Don Quixote, was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759? The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time" is a 2003 mystery novel by which British author? Making his name as a surreal comedian, Spike Milligan wrote which novel - set against the backdrop of the Partition of Ireland? Which 1997 novel by Richard Russo is a mid-life crisis tale told in the first person by William Henry Devereaux, Jr.? What comic novel by Henry Fielding was first published in 1749 and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel? First published in 1954, what was Kingsley Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction? In which 2010 tragicomic novel by Paul Murray does the main character die during a donut-eating contest in the novel's opening scene? His 13th novel and his fourth written in English, the success of which book in the United States launched Vladimir Nabokov's career into literary prominence? Round 3: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions with no theme. None Which bird is the national emblem of the United States? What is the largest inhabited castle in the world? On the London Underground, one station has a different name on two of its platforms, the station is Bank and what? Which large feline of Asia is sometimes called an Ounce? In January 2022, which country recorded a temperature of 50.7 °C, which if verified, would be tied as the highest in the Southern Hemisphere? What vitamin is most commonly added to milk, because it is not found in milk naturally? Dubbed the New World Symphony, Neil Armstrong brought the composition with him on the Apollo mission to the moon. Who composed it? Opened in 1752 Tiergarten Schönbrunn is the oldest zoo in the world. In which country is it? Jelly roll, roll cake, cream roll, roulade, call it what you will, it appears that whatever name you give it this cake _didn't_ originate in which European country? What Canadian Prime Minister retired in 1984? Time's up
