Quizzing in London

On Tuesday night I took part in a quiz in a pub in London that was more than just a pub quiz.  Part of the Quiz League of London, I was in a team competing in a fixture against another team in the league.  This is pretty serious level quizzing and whenever I go, I am always slightly conscious that I don't want to let the team down by any lack of knowledge of trivia.  I don't think I will ever get to the stage of knowing many of the sports people or sports facts that come up - it's a huge subject that I am not very intersted in, but I was pleased/fortunate that I had a nuclear physics question - 

"Which New Zealand scientist won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, for hiswork on investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistryof radioactive substances?".  

I was tempted to jump in after the first four words, but in the quiz format, there is no benefit to doing so, and this was a question specifically for me.  You can see the scores on this page from which you can also download the quiz and the friendly quiz following it (see links at the top middle of page).  In the main quiz I was asked the 2B questions in rounds 1-4 and the 2A questions in rounds 5-8.  

After the quiz and the first friendly, we did one more friendly themed quiz whose theme was animated tv & film, though many of the questions were also gettable through general knowledge by the way they were phrased.   One of the answers, asking about an actress in Bedknobs and Broomsticks was Angela Lansbury.  At the end of the quiz, we hear that she had died earlier that day.  One of those coincidences...