2012/13

Question 1

In the marketing abbreviation EPOS, referring to a check-out or Point of Sale, what does the letter ‘E’
stand for?

Answer 1

ELECTRONIC

Question 2

Two Premiership rugby unioin teams in administration?

Answer 2

Worcester Warriors, Wasps

Question 3

Premiership champs rugby union 2021-22

Answer 3

Leicester Tigers

Question 4

Most Premiership tries

Answer 4

Chris Ashton

Question 5

Most Premiership points

Answer 5

Charlie Hodgson

Question 6

Most Premiership appearances

Answer 6

Richard Wrigglesworth

Question 7

Maupassant’s first published short story, translates as Dumpling or Butterball?

Answer 7

Boule de SUIF

Question 8

Which two actors were at the centre of the 1849 Astor Place riots

Answer 8

Edwin FORREST and William Charles MACREADY

Question 9

Which vegetable has varieties including Autumn King, Early Giant, and St Valery

Answer 9

CARROT

Question 10

Which prominent Nazi was appointed Germany’s Minister for Aviation in 1933, and oversaw the
growth of the Luftwaffe, which he commanded until the last days of the war?

Answer 10

HERMANN GOERRING

Question 11

Famed for a namesake turn, which german aviator was the first to win the decoration Pour La Merite which was nicknamed the Blue Max in his honour?

Answer 11

MAX IMMELMAN

Question 12

Private research university in Pittsburgh

Answer 12

CARNEGIE MELLON

Question 13

Goring’s manner of death?

Answer 13

Suicide pill night before his planned hanging

Question 14

a German Generaloberst who served as the chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.

After the war, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organised Nuremberg trials. The principal charges against him related to his signature of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders. Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

Answer 14

ALFRED JODL

Question 15

two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus

Answer 15

ALPHA PARTICLES/DECAY

Question 16

a type of radioactive decay in which a particle (fast energetic electron or positron) is emitted from an atomic nucleus, transforming the original nuclide to an isobar of that nuclide.

Answer 16

BETA DECAY

Question 17

Henri Clouzot directed which film after Wages of Fear, said to have inspired much of Psycho?

Answer 17

LES DIABOLIQUES

Question 18

Pen name of the French crime writing duo, who wrote the novel which inspired Vertigo

Answer 18

BOILEAU-NARCEJAC

Question 19

What was the seventh Christian name of King Edward VIII, by which he was commonly known to his
family and friends?

Answer 19

DAVID

Question 20

CURRENT OLYMPIC MENS TENNIS

Answer 20

Alexander zverev

Question 21

current olympic womens tennis

Answer 21

belinda bebcic

Question 22

awarded to five winners each year for their contributions to environmentalism. It was first awarded in 2021 and is planned to run annually until 2030. Each winner receives a grant of £1 million to continue

The Prize was launched in 2020 by Prince William and David Attenborough.

Answer 22

earthshot

Question 23

king charles 111 royal residence

Answer 23

clarence house

Question 24

In poker, what name is given to a hand that contains three matching cards of one denomination and
two matching cards of another?

Answer 24

FULL HOUSE