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Jackpot

Which poetic surname goes with Ezra and Loomis?

 

Quiz 69

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which Greek scientist is famous for shouting ‘Eureka!’?
  2. Who designed the Albert Memorial?
  3. In 1992 the reputation of Galileo was restored when the Vatican made what concession?
  4. Whose best-known paintings included one entitled
    Whaam!
    ?
  5. Who wrote the children’s story
    The Old Man of Lochnagar
    ?
  6. Which former transatlantic liner is now moored at Long Beach, California?
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  7. Apart from Brazil, which is the only country to have won two successive World Cup football titles?
  8. Hendrick Avercamp, Vanessa Bell and Sidney Nolan were all famous as what?
  9. Who was the senior British church representative who was kidnapped by Muslim extremists in Beirut in 1984?
  10. Who died trying to break a water speed record on Lake Windermere in 1930?

Round 2: Big Business

  1. What term describes a level beyond which an employee is unlikely to be promoted?
  2. In business jargon, what do the initials PDQ stand for?
  3. ‘Taking care of business’ was the motto of which internationally famous pop star?
  4. What is the name given to the process of buying up a company and then selling off anything of value?
  5. Which company was bought by Victor Kiam because he liked its products so much?
  6. In business jargon, what does the acronym ‘yuppie’ stand for?
  7. What name was given to the often unscrupulous traders who descended upon the southern states at the end of the US Civil War in search of easy profits?
  8. In what play does a dimwitted apprentice called Willie Mossop rise to riches as a shoe salesman?
  9. Which successful diet expert suffered a loss of credibility when he died overweight of a heart attack in 2003?
  10. What name was given to the modernisation of the London Stock Exchange, which came into effect on 27 October 1986?

Half-time teaser

What is the metric equivalent, in square metres, of 300 square feet?

Round 3: Love and Marriage

  1. With whom does Quasimodo fall in love in Victor Hugo’s
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    ?
  2. Who wrote the play
    When We Are Married
    ?
  3. Who had just one big chart hit with ‘Lovin’ you’ before her untimely death in 1979?
  4. In England in 1576, how old did a person have to be before they could marry?
  5. Which of the following does not make an appearance in the classic Beatles song ‘All you need is love’ – ‘La Marseillaise’, ‘Greensleeves’, ‘God save the queen’, ‘In the mood’?
  6. What happened when Napoleon tried to kiss his wife Josephine after their wedding?
  7. Which year witnessed the so-called ‘Summer of love’?
  8. Which sculptor’s most famous work shows two people kissing?
  9. Who embarked on a ‘caravan of love’ in 1986?
  10. What substance when drunk in tea or coffee is supposed to reduce sexual desire?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. At which battle was General Custer killed?
  2. Which fictional character was inspired by the adventures of Alexander Selkirk?
  3. Who had hits with ‘If I were a carpenter’, ‘Reach out I’ll be there’ and ‘Walk away Renée’?
  4. Who was ‘the Milk Snatcher’?
  5. Who provided the voice of Shrek?
  6. Wild Bill Hickock, Al Jolson and Buster Keaton all died while engaged in what activity?
  7. Ben Travers was the author of a series of highly successful West End comedies – by what name did they become known?
  8. What nationality was Henry Stanley, the man who found the explorer David Livingstone in deepest Africa in 1870?
  9. Who released an album called
    Goat’s Head Soup
    ?
  10. By what name is the Mafia also known in the USA?

Jackpot

Who died in the same plane crash as Richie Valens and Buddy Holly?

 

Quiz 70

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. In which city did Roger Bannister break the four-minute mile?
  2. Which US state is bordered by Arizona, Nevada and Oregon?
  3. Which car manufacturer makes the Perdana, the Persona and the Satria?
  4. How many people are there in an American football team?
  5. Which US showman claimed ‘There’s a sucker born every minute’?
  6. How were Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots related?
  7. Which sport was formerly called battledore?
  8. The composer J. S. Bach had how many children – 10, 15 or 20?
  9. Who was the first black English football international?
  10. Which international women’s organisation is traditionally associated with ‘jam and Jerusalem’?

Round 2: Science and Technology

  1. Which chemical element has the symbol Fe?
  2. In British electric plugs, what is the brown wire?
  3. In food science, what do the initials GM stand for?
  4. How many square centimetres are there in one square metre?
  5. How many sides does a trapezium have?
  6. What is the weight of a litre of water?
  7. How should 0.07 be expressed in fractions?
  8. How many degrees are there in a semicircle?
  9. What unit is used to measure force?
  10. How many noughts are there in a million when written as numerals?

Half-time teaser

John Cassidy holds the record for balloon sculptures modelled in one hour – how many did he manage?

Round 3: Young and Old

  1. What is a young kangaroo called?
  2. Which British order of chivalry is the oldest?
  3. Who was the ‘Grand Old Man’ or ‘GOM’ of British politics?
  4. Is the Old Man of Hoy a type of tobacco, a novel by Walter Scott or a rock stack in Orkney?
  5. Only three players have won the PFA Young Player of the Year two years running – Ryan Giggs, Robbie Fowler and who else?
  6. Which US president was the youngest to achieve office?
  7. Which is the oldest royal residence still in regular use?
  8. Who became the youngest world heavyweight champion?
  9. Which controversial US general observed ‘Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away’?
  10. By what name is the ‘Stars and Stripes’ also known?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which lady famously declared that she was not for turning?
  2. What colour is
    Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac
    ?
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  3. From which show does the song ‘Hopelessly devoted to you’ come?
  4. In which part of the British Commonwealth was Edward VIII Governor after his abdication?
  5. Which sign of the zodiac covers a person born on 28 October?
  6. If something is cooked at Gas Mark 6, what temperature is it cooked at?
  7. Which sailing ship was painted by Turner on its way to be broken up?
  8. In which Italian city does most of the 1969 film
    The Italian Job
    take place?
  9. What was the preferred mode of transport among mods in the 1960s?
  10. In which fictional country was Anthony Hope’s
    The Prisoner of Zenda
    (1894) set?

Jackpot

What was special about the construction of HMS
Wilton
, commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1972?

 

Quiz 71

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. In which James Bond adventure is Oddjob an evil henchman?
  2. Which poet wrote ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’?
  3. What has been ‘good to the last drop’ since 1907?
  4. Which supergroup of the 1960s consisted of drummer Ginger Baker, bassist Jack Bruce and guitarist Eric Clapton?
  5. What was the name of the umpire who became involved in an acrimonious ball-tampering row involving the Pakistan national team in 2006?
  6. Who took over from Terry Wogan as host of the television game show
    Blankety-Blank
    ?
  7. From which fruit is calvados made?
  8. Who adopted ‘Sally’ as a signature tune?
  9. By what name is the country of Zaire now known?
  10. What chivalric rank does a person with KT after their name hold?

Round 2: China

  1. By what name did the political reorganisation of Chinese society on Maoist principles in the 1960s become known?
  2. Which desert extends over a large area of northern China and south-eastern Mongolia?
  3. Where do Chinese gooseberries come from?
  4. What was the name given to the notional political barrier that grew up between communist China and the non-communist world in the late 1940s?
  5. Which Chinese dish has a name that means ‘fried flour’?
  6. What was the name of the violent uprising directed against foreigners that erupted in China in 1900?
  7. Who had china in their hand in 1987?
  8. What name has been given to the rows of lifesize model soldiers found in the tomb of the early Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi?
  9. The date of the Chinese New Year is judged by the solar calendar – true or false?
  10. What is the second longest river in China, after the Yangtze?

Half-time teaser

How many verses are there in the Bible?

Round 3: Flight

  1. What is the name given to the official aircraft assigned to the president of the USA?
  2. What was the name of the aircraft from which an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945?
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  3. By what name is the Boeing 747 better known?
  4. In RAF bombers of World War II, what name was given to a rear gunner in the tail of an aircraft?
  5. Which flammable gas was used to fill the R101 airship, ultimately with disastrous results?
  6. In RAF slang what height did an ‘angel’ (as in ‘angels one five’) represent?
  7. After what is the Chinook helicopter named?
  8. Who was manager of Manchester United at the time of the Munich air crash of February 1958?
  9. What is the aerial sport played by two teams of seven players in the Harry Potter novels of J. K. Rowling?
  10. By what name was air ace Manfred von Richthofen better known?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Where is the home of the Northern Ireland Assembly?
  2. Who released an album called
    Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player
    ?
  3. Which of the ‘Carry On’ films was set against the background of the Indian Mutiny?
  4. What was the name of Bertie Wooster’s most formidable aunt?
  5. What do the initials VSOP stand for?
  6. How many syllables are there in a Japanese haiku?
  7. Which member of parliament earned the nickname ‘the Beast of Bolsover’?
  8. Which annual US sporting event attracts more spectators than any other?
  9. Who were Clotho, Atropos and Lachesis?
  10. Where in New Mexico was a UFO rumoured to have crashed in 1947?

Jackpot

Which founder-member of Pink Floyd died in 2006?

 

Quiz 72

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. For what is designer Alec Issigonis usually remembered?
  2. Who was ‘the Teflon President’?
  3. From whom did the USA buy Louisiana in 1803?
  4. Where is the Royal Navy’s Officer Training School?
  5. In which sport does the playing area include a ‘popping crease’?
  6. What is the process by which water is absorbed by plants?
  7. In which film did Ryan O’Neal and his daughter Tatum star as a father and daughter?
  8. Which football team plays at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon?
  9. Which novel begins with the line ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’?
  10. Of which newspaper was William Rees-Mogg editor until 1981?

Round 2: Children’s Television

  1. Who was the first actor to play Doctor Who on television?
  2. Which classic series featured the World Aquanaut Security Patrol?
  3. Whose best friends were Zaza and Mrs Kiki?
  4. Which song was Huckleberry Hound constantly singing?
  5. Which programme included the characters Colonel Steve Zodiac and Robert the Robot?
  6. Who were Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky?
  7. In television’s
    Thunderbirds
    , by what name was Hiram Hackenbacker better known?
  8. What was the name of the first
    Blue Peter
    guide dog, introduced to the show in 1964?
  9. What did the acronym
    TISWAS
    stand for?
  10. In which city is the television series
    Byker Grove
    set?

Half-time teaser

The world’s tallest sandcastle was constructed in Falmouth, Maine in 2003 – how tall was it, in metres?

Round 3: First and Last

  1. In which city was the world’s first skyscraper built?
  2. Which US state would come last in an alphabetical list?
  3. What Michael made the first album to be released on the Virgin record label?
  4. What type of paint was first marketed by Reeves Ltd in 1964?
  5. Whose last words were ‘Yet it still moves’?
  6. At which battle did the British army stage its last full-scale cavalry charge?
  7. Who became the first female Speaker of the House of Commons?
  8. The pencil made its first appearance in which year – 1695, 1795 or 1895?
  9. Of which country was Zog I the last king?
  10. Which was the first sound film?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which character in television’s
    Star Trek
    had green blood (T positive)?
  2. Which Christian feast is celebrated on 28 December?
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  3. Why was it impossible to put the ball in the back of the net before 1890?
  4. Which part of the eye gives it its colour?
  5. Which group of writers and artists included the Woolfs, the Bells and Lytton Strachey?
  6. What name refers to the practice of making uninvited telephone calls to potential customers in order to sell them something?
  7. Whose hits have included ‘Breathless’, ‘Runaway’ and ‘What can I do’?
  8. In which year was the Irish Free State founded – 1916, 1919 or 1949?
  9. For what television programme was ‘That’s living alright’ the theme tune?
  10. Which football team did television’s Alf Garnett support?

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