UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE
1. After a speech made there in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel, which Staffordshire town gives its name to a ‘manifesto’ that is often regarded as the foundation of modern Conservatism? 2. Meaning ‘horizontal rope’ in Japanese, what is the highest rank in sumo wrestling? 3. What is the Chinese name of the Yellow River, so called because of the immense quantities of yellow silt it carries? 4. Which mountain in central Italy gives its name to the large particle physics laboratory buried within it, which holds an experiment searching for dark matter? 5. Following the example of the Cadbury brothers’ model at Bournville, which manufacturer and philanthropist developed the model village of New Earswick, north-east of York? 6. In which Booker Prize-winning novel by Peter Carey do the title characters become involved in a wager to transport a glass church into the Australian Bush? 7. Which word in this question contains the same number of letters as its immediate predecessor? 8. ‘Lenient ethics’ is an anagram of the single-word name of which landlocked state, noted for its banking privacy policies and low rates of income tax? 9. The name of which British prime minister appears in historical expressions which also contain the words ‘poodle’ and ‘declaration’? The former refers to the House of Lords, the latter to a letter of 1917 supporting the establishment of ‘a national home for the
Jewish people’. 10. In 2010, which tennis player became the seventh male player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments when he defeated Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open men’s final?
11. ‘Self-pitying snivel’ is how the Evening Standard greeted the premiere in 1956 of which three-act play, whose action takes place in a one-room flat in the Midlands? 12. The UK Space Agency, launched in 2010, is based in which town to the west of London? The same town has featured in two James Bond films, was the home of the first lending library, has a group of five conglomerated miniroundabouts known as the Magic Roundabout and was home to a branch of Wernham Hogg in the sitcom The Office?