Quiz books' questions

This page contains a collection of questions taken from University Challenge's many quiz books published over the years, including editions from 1978, 1995, 2010 and 2015.

* 1978 (starters)
* 1978 (specialized starters)
* 1978 (bonuses)
* 1978 (specialized bonuses)
* 1995 (starters)
* 1995 (bonuses)
* 2010 (starters)
* 2010 (bonuses)
* 2015 (starters)
* 2015 (bonuses)

* Which capital city lies on roughly the same latitude as San Francisco and faces it across the north Pacific Ocean?
* Which capital city lies almost on the same line of longitude in the Mediterranean Sea as Algiers?
* Tokyo
 **Philosophy:*** Which branch of philosophy is concerned with human conduct and values and the nature of right wrong?
* Which seventeenth-century philosopher was expelled by the Jewish community of Amsterdam in 1656 for his heretical thinking?
* Scotsman David Hume influenced the development of two modern philosophical schools, one was scepticism, what was the other?
* Baruch Spinoza
 Identify the plane figures in each case.
* It can be converted into a rectangle by cutting a right-angled triangle off one end and sliding it to the opposite end.
* A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to its side.
* It comprises a quadrilateral having two parallel sides of unequal length.
* Parabola
 **Musical terms:*** Which word, Italian for detached, describes a method of playing a note so that it is shortened and thus 'detached' from its successor?
* Which term used in musical scores is synonymous with ritardando, meaning to hold back or slow down gradually?
* What name is given to the pedal on an organ that gradually brings into action all the stops?
* Rallentando
 **Place names:*** What did the word chipping mean, as used in English place names such as Chipping Norton and Chipping Campden?
* Many Scottish and Irish place names began with the letters 'Kil', for example, Kilkenny or Kilmarnock. What did 'Kil' usually mean?
* The old English word 'burna' is responsible for the endings of place names such as Eastbourne, Sherbourne and Pangbourne. What did this ending signify?
* Place of a church
 **Mother and daughter actresses:*** Which actress was once the stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor and later the wife of a hugely successful singer-songwriter?
* The mother of which actress was the 'victim' in a legendary Hitchcock shower scene?
* The female lead in the Hitchcock films *The Birds* and *Marnie* is the mother of which film actress?
* Jamie Lee Curtis
 **Ancient Egypt and archaeology:*** In which year did the British Museum stage a Tutankhamen exhibition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the tomb's discovery by Howard Carter?
* Much of Howard Carter's early training came from which British archaeologist, with whom he first went to Egypt in 1890?
* Which pharaoh, who reigned for much of the thirteenth century BC, reigned for a short time as co-ruler with his father Seti the first?
* Sir Flinders Petrie
 **Art:*** Which Flemish artist, best known for a portrait that hangs in the Wallace Collection in London, also painted *Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company* in 1616?
* Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix was a friend of which lovers, both of whom he painted in 1838?
* Two of John Constable's favourite subjects were the mills owned by his father; some were in Flatford in Suffolk, where in Essex were the others?
* Frederic Chopin and George Sand
 Animal products:
* Formerly much used in the manufacture of perfumes to maintain their fragrance, ambergris is a grey, waxy substance derived from the intestines of which mammal?
* Used in ointments and in soap, lanolin is a waxy material occurring naturally in which animal product?
* Consisting of the myricyl ester of palmitic acid, free cerotic acid and other homologues, which white or yellow plastic substance is used in polishes and in the shaping of waxwork models?
* Sheep's wool
* Beeswax