Bridgend Quiz League

ON Monday, September 30, Bridgend Quiz League started its 46th season with some closely contested matches across two divisions.

The league welcomed a brand new team – the Tondu Locos – whose first match was, unfortunately, a walkover due to opposition members being on tour in Japan following the Rugby World Cup. Winners were – First

division: Oldcastle A, Penybont AFC Nomads, Ty Risha Royals and the Crown Maesteg. Second division: Cabo Roche, Prince of Wales Coychurch and the Pheasant Gamekeepers. The results for Monday, October 7:

■ Division one

Penybont AFC Nomads 52 Oldcastle A 36 Chatterton Shunters 41 Tondu Railway Club 46 Mackworth Arms 38 Laleston Inn A 46 Crown Maesteg 51 TyRisha Royals 43

■ Division two

Pheasant Pluckers 50 Cabo Roche 44 Laleston Inn B 41 Six Bells Clangers 45 Oldcastle B 32 Prince of Wales Rebels 44 Tondu Railway Locos 27 Pheasant Gamekeepers 51

■ Quiz questions for this week:

■ Which Welshman’s last words translated into English were “do the little things”?

■ Which 6ft 5ins DJ previously worked in a fish factory and Safeway and was once an Armani model?

■ Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, was the location for which famous TV ad?

■ The building housing London’s Tate Modern Gallery was a former what?

■ The politician John Bercow is a qualified coach in which sport?

■ Which country produces most of the world’s avocados?

■ What was the first product made by Nintendo?

■ In which seaside resort is the most easterly point in England?

■ What is a Bedfordshire Clanger?

■ The Pharaoh hound is the national dog of which country?