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Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What is the infield area called in baseball?
  2. What is an alternative name for belladonna?
  3. In which equestrian sport was Ann Moore a well-known figure?
  4. Who released an album called
    Electric Warrior
    ?
  5. In which year was the first British census held – 1801, 1821 or 1851?
  6. What is the source of ermine?
  7. Which two cities are connected by the M11?
  8. What does the medical term strabismus refer to?
  9. In Shakespeare’s
    Romeo and Juliet
    , who is killed in a sword fight with Tybalt?
  10. What nationality were the pop group Catatonia?

Round 2: Parks and Gardens

  1. In which park might you find Yogi Bear and Booboo?
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  2. Who said that all he needed to make a film was park, a policeman and a pretty girl?
  3. What was the destination of Operation Market Garden?
  4. Whose statue was placed in Kensington Gardens in 1912?
  5. Which is the largest national park in Britain?
  6. In which part of Britain is Parkhurst prison?
  7. Who wrote
    Barefoot in the Park
    ?
  8. Which member of the British royal family lives at Gatcombe Park?
  9. Which comedian, as gardening expert Arthur Fallowfield, advised, ‘I think the answer lies in the soil’?
  10. Which character in
    South Park
    is killed in each episode?

Half-time teaser

How many hours would it take the average reader to read the whole Bible?

Round 3: Music

  1. The Three Choirs Festival involves choirs from which three cities?
  2. Which British television comedy had ‘Liberty Bell’ as its theme tune?
  3. Who was ‘born to make you happy’ in 2000?
  4. In which city is the Hallé Orchestra based?
  5. From which show does the song ‘Another suitcase in another hall’ come?
  6. A trumpet voluntary is usually played on which instrument?
  7. Which Mussorgsky work was inspired by an art show?
  8. What instrument do Vanessa Mae and Anne-Sophie Mutter play?
  9. Whose number one hits have included ‘Careless whisper’, ‘Don’t let the sun go down on me’ and ‘A different corner’?
  10. Where did the Thompson Twins get their name from?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What does a vintner sell?
  2. In which country is the world’s longest railway tunnel?
  3. Which British city has the telephone dialling code 0121?
  4. Which Roman emperor is said to have made his horse Incitatus a consul of Rome?
  5. Who is the fourth archangel, alongside Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel?
  6. What was the original name of the Commonwealth Games?
  7. Who was propaganda minister under Adolf Hitler?
  8. What is Mount Godwin-Austen in the Himalayas usually referred to as?
  9. Which is the only continent upon which strawberries are not grown?
  10. Which novel by Margaret Atwood was filmed in 1990 with Natasha Richardson as Offred?

Jackpot

What is the name of the fearsome beast that Winnie-the-Pooh attempts to trap in
The House at Pooh Corner
?

 

Quiz 25

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. In what natural disaster did 36,000 people die on 27 August 1883?
  2. To what group of artists did Degas, Manet, Monet and Renoir belong?
  3. Which part of the human body is technically known as the niddick?
  4. In which country was the 1952 film
    The Quiet Man
    set?
  5. What was the battle-cry of Japanese soldiers in the World War II?
  6. Who played drums with The Who until his death in 1978?
  7. Who was sacked from the Conservative shadow cabinet after making a speech in which he prophesied ‘rivers of blood’?
  8. Who made a racket without a racket at Wimbledon in 1996?
  9. Who became manager of the Ireland football team in 1986?
  10. Which footballer remains unique in scoring a hat trick in a World Cup final?

Round 2: Detectives

  1. Who created the archetypal fictional detective Sergeant Richard Cuff in his novel
    The Moonstone
    ?
  2. What was the name of Sherlock Holmes’s landlady?
  3. What was the name of the fictional detective created by G. K. Chesterton?
  4. Who created the police detective Roderick Alleyn?
  5. Which San Francisco detective was played for many years by Raymond Burr?
  6. Which medieval detective appears in stories by Ellis Peters?
  7. What, in a 1997 episode of
    Inspector Morse
    , turned out to be the detective’s first name?
  8. Which famous private detective was played on the big screen in 1990 by Warren Beatty?
  9. Which fictional detective was created by Margery Allingham?
  10. Which television detective operated in the Channel Islands?

Half-time teaser

How big, in feet and inches, was the world’s biggest bra, made by Triumph International in 1990?

Round 3: Inventions

  1. For what invention is Christopher Cockerell remembered?
  2. The saxophone was named after its inventor – true or false?
  3. Which English novelist invented the pillar box for posting letters?
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  4. Who introduced the miniskirt to Britain?
  5. Which rock star was backed by the Mothers of Invention?
  6. What did Isaac Singer invent?
  7. Who invented the ‘wall of sound’ technique in pop music?
  8. Which author invented the word ‘chortle’?
  9. Who invented the bouncing bomb?
  10. What did John McAdam invent?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Who wrote the short story filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as
    The Birds
    ?
  2. Which word connects ‘circle’ and ‘Sid’?
  3. Whose plays included
    You Never Can Tell, The Devil’s Disciple
    and
    Man and Superman
    ?
  4. Which Palestinian terrorist group assassinated 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games?
  5. Who played the drums in the Lennon and McCartney band the Quarrymen?
  6. What was the name of the regional manager played by Ricky Gervais in the television sitcom
    The Office
    ?
  7. Which pop group took its name from that of a medieval torture instrument?
  8. What was the name of the official news agency of the former Soviet Union?
  9. Which British politician was nicknamed Tarzan?
  10. In which Jane Austen novel did Mr Darcy provide the love interest?

Jackpot

Which cartoon character has the middle name Fauntleroy?

 

Quiz 26

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Who was ‘the Pelvis’?
  2. Which plant does saffron come from?
  3. Which is the ‘bluegrass state’?
  4. In which sport was Henry Segrave a well-known figure?
  5. Who opposed John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960?
  6. What were the young men conscripted to work in Britain’s coal mines during World War II called?
  7. Who wrestled naked with Alan Bates in the 1969 film
    Women in Love
    ?
  8. Julian Bream and John Williams are associated with which instrument?
  9. What kind of transport would you be taking if you were travelling in a Pendolino?
  10. In
    Alice in Wonderland
    , what are used as mallets in croquet?

Round 2: Babes and Sucklings

  1. Which chromosome dictates that a baby will be male – X or Y?
  2. What was the baby in the 1938 film
    Bringing Up Baby
    ?
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  3. In Oscar Wilde’s
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    , what was the infant Jack Worthing found in?
  4. What medical first was recorded by Louise Brown in 1978?
  5. Which 2001 film concerned the attempts of a robot child to find his mother?
  6. What is the name of the injured bear used to promote BBC Children in Need events?
  7. What informal name is commonly given to the generation born immediately after World War II?
  8. According to the proverb, what is Friday’s child?
  9. The Spice Girls comprised Baby, Ginger, Posh, Scary – and who else?
  10. In 2005, for which film did Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman all win Oscars?

Half-time teaser

The list of named cast at the end of the 1987 film
Little Dorrit
is the longest of any British film – how many names does it include?

Round 3: British Radio and TV Comedy

  1. Benny Hill worked as a milkman before becoming famous as a comedian – true or false?
  2. Which contemporary British comedian was previously known as Dr Matthew Hall?
  3. What was the name of the character played by Michael Crawford in
    Some Mothers do ’ave ’em
    ?
  4. In which city did comedian Tony Hancock die in 1968?
  5. Which comedian has published the books
    Gridlock, Popcorn
    and
    Stark
    ?
  6. To whom is comedienne Dawn French married?
  7. Which catchphrase from
    Little Britain
    was voted Best Comedy Catchphrase Ever in a 2005 poll?
  8. Which controversial television comedy series is set on the inner-city Chatsworth Estate?
  9. Alan Partridge and Paul Calf were creations of which comedian?
  10. From which popular radio sitcom did the catchphrase ‘Left hand down a bit’ come?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which city was the capital of the USA before Washington?
  2. What does the musical term ‘diminuendo’ mean?
  3. What is 11.50 p.m. on a 24-hour clock?
  4. In which sport do teams contest the Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield)?
  5. Which type of animal comes in edible, robber and spider varieties?
  6. Which RAF squadron carried out the Dambusters raid in World War II?
  7. What does the word ‘bible’ mean?
  8. In what guise did the god Zeus seduce Leda?
  9. The Chicago Bulls are a leading side in which sport?
  10. Which actor has won the most Oscars?

Jackpot

Which unit is used to measure radiation activity?

 

Quiz 27

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Who was the Roman god of war?
  2. Which novel by Erich Maria Remarque remains a classic of literature about World War I?
  3. From which album came the Beatles single ‘Can’t buy me love’?
  4. How many teeth do most adult humans have?
  5. On what river does the royal residence Balmoral stand?
  6. In which 1980s television series were Denis, Neville and Bomber leading characters?
  7. What was the name of the royal fortress stormed by the Paris mob during the French Revolution of 1789?
  8. Which area east of Florida has a notorious reputation for the ships and aircraft that have disappeared there?
  9. Which football club got to number five in the UK charts in 1981 with ‘Ossie’s dream’?
  10. Which golfing trophy was first contested by teams representing Britain and the USA in 1927?

Round 2: Names

  1. Which animal has a name that in ancient Greek meant ‘pebble-worm’?
  2. Which Ford car was named after the Greek god of the wind?
  3. What was the name of Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar?
  4. Which film actor had the real name Archie Leach?
  5. What was the original name of New York?
  6. Cigarette, Euthanasia and Vaselina have all been registered as girls’ names in recent years – true or false?
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  7. What is the Argentinian name for the Falkland Islands?
  8. Which insulting nickname evokes the memory of sixteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker?
  9. What was Bonnie Prince Charlie’s surname?
  10. Which Norwegian politician’s name became a byword for a traitor?

Half-time teaser

Bangladesh is the most crowded country on earth – on average, how many people does it have per square mile?

Round 3: Transport

  1. Which great passenger liner is now preserved at Long Beach, California?
  2. How fast were the first motorists in Britain allowed to drive, providing they were preceded by a man carrying a red flag?
  3. In what aeroplane did Charles Lindbergh complete a solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
  4. Why did a US ferry reduce its capacity from 250 seats to 230 in 1998?
  5. What is the US equivalent of a British ring road?
  6. Which 1971 Spielberg film starred Dennis Weaver as a motorist menaced by a huge tanker truck?
  7. Who starred as the time-traveller Doctor Who when the series was revived in 2005?
  8. What is the name of the ferryman who in Greek mythology rows the dead across the Styx?
  9. In which film does a Miss Froy do a disappearing act while on a train?
  10. Which tennis player was nicknamed the Chattanooga Express?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which London museum based in Covent Garden closed in January 2007 due to lack of funds?
  2. Which folk rock group named itself after an island off the north-east coast of England?
  3. Of which African country is Kigali the capital?
  4. What tax did William Pitt introduce in 1799 as a temporary measure to finance the Napoleonic Wars?
  5. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 2002 with ‘Round round’?
  6. Which cathedral appears on the back of the £20 note (as first issued in 1999)?
  7. Who was the only man to become Vice-President and President of the USA without being elected to either post?
  8. What change was made to the ballboys at Wimbledon in 1985?
  9. Which English king died a prisoner in Pontefract Castle?
  10. For what television programme was ‘I could be so good for you’ the theme tune?

Jackpot

On which island was the last living dodo recorded?

 

Quiz 28

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which plant grows the fastest?
  2. Which Minister of Transport introduced the breathalyser?
  3. What was introduced to the British coinage in 1982?
  4. What is electrical resistance measured in?
  5. In which field did Sir Leonard Woolley become a prominent figure?
  6. In cockney rhyming slang, what is a ‘Cain and Abel’?
  7. With which song did Elton John and RuPaul enter the Top Ten in 1994?
  8. Which kind of bird comes in mute, trumpeter and whooper varieties?
  9. A lime tree and a linden tree are alternative names for the same thing – true or false?
  10. In which literary work does Captain Cat appear?

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