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Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which European explorer discovered Hawaii?
  2. In which sport is the Waterloo Cup contested?
  3. Which island group includes Praslin, Silhouette and Bird islands?
  4. Where would you find crenels and merlons?
  5. Which of the following is the odd one out – hara-kiri, sushi or sashimi?
  6. Where is the University of Hertfordshire based?
  7. Who was the first actor to be knighted – David Garrick, Edmund Kean or Henry Irving?
  8. Which English county has the motto ‘Much in little’?
  9. In World War II, what did the Germans call their defences on the Channel coast?
  10. What are Boodle’s, Groucho’s and Pratt’s?

Jackpot

What does the American word ‘scuttlebutt’ refer to?

 

Quiz 53

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What is the last letter of the ancient Greek alphabet?
  2. In CD-ROM, what does ROM stand for?
  3. What is the popular name for the Indian film industry?
  4. At which Scottish school were Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward educated?
  5. Where did the record-breaking Brinks-Mat robbery of 1983 take place?
  6. What was a ‘boneshaker’?
  7. Of what country is Biafra a part?
  8. Who directed James Stewart in the classic 1946 film
    It’s a Wonderful Life
    ?
  9. Who formed the French National Party in 1972?
  10. Which member of the Rolling Stones died in 1969?

Round 2: The 1960s

  1. Who was the third member of the 1969 Apollo moon landing mission, alongside Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
  2. What, since 1967, has been sold under the slogan ‘Because I’m worth it’?
  3. Which US artist and film-maker in 1968 was shot and wounded by an actress who had appeared in one of his films?
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  4. In 1967, which British football club became the first to win the European Championship?
  5. Which popular television sitcom of the late 1960s starred Derek Nimmo as an accident-prone clergyman?
  6. With which political figure did the phrase ‘the wind of change’ become associated?
  7. In which television series of the 1960s was Cathy Gale a character?
  8. Which 1968 Beatles song was originally given the title ‘I’m backing Britain’?
  9. Where did an anti-Castro invasion end in fiasco on 17 April 1961?
  10. Who, in 1963, proclaimed to a large German audience ‘I am a doughnut’?

Half-time teaser

According to the 2001 census, what percentage of homes in the UK are one-person households?

Round 3: Colours

  1. Who had a ‘blue period’ from 1901 to 1904?
  2. Copper nitrate is blue, but what colour is copper chloride?
  3. Who sang about a lady in red in 1986?
  4. What colour did the Rolling Stones suggest it should be painted in 1966?
  5. Who shot to stardom in the 1930 film
    Blue Angel
    ?
  6. Which real-life hero played a young Union soldier in the American Civil War in the 1951 film
    The Red Badge of Courage
    ?
  7. Into which large green creature does Dr David Banner transform when angered?
  8. What colour cards are used for history questions in the board game Trivial Pursuit?
  9. At which school was the fictional Tom Brown educated in the novel
    Tom Brown’s Schooldays
    ?
  10. What colour is absinthe?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What do the initials ACAS stand for?
  2. A television drama series about the police is sometimes known as a police periodical, a police procedural or a police epidural?
  3. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1982 with ‘Save your love’?
  4. Who created the Edinburgh policeman Inspector Rebus?
  5. Which organisation is based at Langley, Virginia?
  6. For which team did Eric Cantona play immediately before joining Manchester United?
  7. What are Boy Scouts between the ages of six and eight called?
  8. In which country are more people beheaded than in any other?
  9. What did the neo-Impressionists call their technique of using small dots of pure colour to form a picture?
  10. In the music-hall song, where did Burlington Bertie come from?

Jackpot

Which team did Roy of the Rovers play for?

 

Quiz 54

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. In which sport is the Super Bowl played?
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  2. What is the UAE?
  3. What element gives Mars its red colour?
  4. In which language was the New Testament originally written?
  5. Which charitable organisation was founded in Oxford in 1942?
  6. In which country might you find the John Paul II airport?
  7. Jimmu, Hanzel and Konin were early rulers of which empire?
  8. Which boxer became a champion at five different weights?
  9. From which show does the song ‘Bewitched, bothered and bewildered’ come?
  10. In which country did the Velvet Revolution of 1989 take place?

Round 2: Classic British Television

  1. Who was the so-called ‘Father of Television’?
  2. What was Patrick McGoohan’s number in
    The Prisoner
    ?
  3. How much did a UK television licence cost when introduced in 1946?
  4. Which medieval hero was played on television in the 1950s by Conrad Phillips?
  5. Valerie Singleton co-presented the first edition of
    Blue Peter
    – true or false?
  6. Which radio and television series was set in Tannochbrae?
  7. What was the name of the prison in the comedy series
    Porridge
    ?
  8. Which disease afflicted the central character in Dennis Potter’s
    The Singing Detective
    ?
  9. Which quiz programme has been hosted by Bamber Gascoigne and Jeremy Paxman?
  10. What was the name of the horse in
    Steptoe and Son
    ?

Half-time teaser

In 2007 Steve Milton of Oregon established a new world record for a ball made solely of rubber bands – how many rubber bands did he use?

Round 3: Sea Life

  1. Bladderwrack is a form of what?
  2. A killer whale is a member of the dolphin family – true or false?
  3. Which sea creature changes its sex annually?
  4. To which species of fish does the central character in the 2003 film
    Finding Nemo
    belong?
  5. What is the name of the seaside resort plagued by a great white shark in
    Jaws
    ?
  6. What is a young whale called?
  7. What kind of seabird comes in Arctic, common, little and Sandwich varieties?
  8. The 1997 movie
    Fierce Creatures
    was the unsuccessful follow-up to which earlier film?
  9. To which family of fishes does the anchovy belong?
  10. Which bird is sometimes referred to as a sea parrot?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Tarquinius Superbus was the last king of where?
  2. On which date is Burns Night celebrated in Scotland?
  3. From whose reign does Jacobean architecture date?
  4. Which county cricket team has the nickname Gladiators?
  5. What is the name of the emperor of Japan whose reign began in 1989?
  6. Who adopted ‘Thanks for the memory’ as a signature tune?
  7. Where is the US Open tennis tournament held?
  8. Who solved the challenge of the Gordian Knot, said to be so intricate that no man could unravel it?
  9. Is Kerry Blue a type of cheese, a breed of dog or a shade of light blue?
  10. In cockney rhyming slang, what are you if you are ‘elephant’s trunk’?

Jackpot

What did the ancient Greeks call a pillar built in the shape of a woman?

 

Quiz 55

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Great Britain comprises how many countries?
  2. Who wrote ‘Summertime’?
  3. From which film comes the line ‘I’ll have what she’s having’?
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  4. Who was captain of the England rugby union team from 1988 to 1996?
  5. In astronomy, what are classed as spiral, elliptical or irregular?
  6. Who topped the charts with ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’?
  7. What is the name of the stretch of water that divides Alaska from Russia?
  8. Which famous designer worked on the costumes for the film
    My Fair Lady
    ?
  9. Who wrote
    The Call of the Wild
    ?
  10. What is sake brewed from?

Round 2: Children

  1. What, according to a recent survey, is the most popular sandwich filling among British schoolchildren?
  2. Which English king sired the most illegitimate children?
  3. Which popular long-running BBC radio programme included among its presenters Uncle Mac?
  4. Which pop group comprising Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams broke up in 2005?
  5. Which trilogy of novels follows the adventures of a young girl called Lyra?
  6. Which member of the Monkees was a former child star whose credits included
    Coronation Street
    and the stage musical
    Oliver!
    ?
  7. The child depicted in the famous painting
    Bubbles
    by John Everett Millais was the artist’s son – true or false?
  8. Which popular children’s television series of the 1970s was set in a Victorian magic shop?
  9. What kind of animal formed the subject matter of Damien Hirst’s
    Mother and Child Divided
    ?
  10. Who appeared both as one of the children and, in the remake, as the mother in film versions of E. Nesbit’s
    The Railway Children
    ?

Half-time teaser

How tall (in feet) is the Canary Wharf Tower?

Round 3: Trains

  1. Who took the midnight train to Georgia in 1973?
  2. Who was the chairman of the British Railways Board who carried out closures of less well-used lines in the early 1960s?
  3. In which real-life railway station was much of the classic 1945 movie
    Brief Encounter
    filmed?
  4. Which first in railway history did William Huskisson MP achieve in 1825?
  5. Who lived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam?
  6. What was the name of the big express train in the
    Thomas the Tank Engine
    stories of the Reverend W. Awdry?
  7. By what name did the rail service between King’s Cross, London and Edinburgh become known?
  8. Who embarked on a love train in 1971?
  9. In 1988 French politicians demanded the renaming of which London railway station?
  10. Which Scottish rail disaster was commemorated in verse by William McGonagall?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Who sang about Lucy in the sky with diamonds in 1974?
  2. Which comedy show, cancelled in 1989, always closed with a chase sequence involving scantily clad women?
  3. Who created the air ace Biggles?
  4. On which continent would you find the country of Suriname?
  5. At which theme park can be found the Nemesis and Oblivion rides?
  6. Which country came under the dictatorial control of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier?
  7. Which swimmer dominated the Olympic swimming events in 1972?
  8. Who played television’s Doctor Kildare in the 1960s?
  9. Who released the album
    Obscured by Clouds
    in 1972?
  10. Which year did Elizabeth II call her ‘annus horribilis’?

Jackpot

Of which town in California did Clint Eastwood become mayor in 1986?

 

Quiz 56

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which three colours appear on the Italian flag?
  2. What does a fletcher make?
  3. Who is the creator of Tracy Beaker?
  4. Stanley Rous was known as ‘the Father of English – ’ what?
  5. By what other name is the peewit or green plover known?
  6. Which part of the body is vulnerable to alopecia?
  7. Over which empire did Xerxes and Darius reign?
  8. Who wrote the play
    What the Butler Saw
    ?
  9. Under what name did Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart have a series of chart hits?
  10. Which territory in north-west India is disputed between India and Pakistan?

Round 2: Lifestyles

  1. Who observed that life is too short to stuff a mushroom?
  2. Which instrument did Sherlock Holmes play in his spare time?
  3. Instant coffee was introduced by Nestlé in which year – 1917, 1927 or 1937?
  4. How did Mrs W. A. Cockran ease the lot of housewives in 1889?
  5. In which city did Beau Nash become a celebrated social figure and fashion icon?
  6. When was the first microwave oven made – 1945, 1955 or 1965?
  7. Which company introduced the first waterproof watch in 1927?
  8. Who was the founder of Habitat?
  9. The world first suntan cream was developed in which year – 1926, 1936 or 1946?
  10. How did Steve Wozniack and Steve Jobs change the modern way of life in 1977?

Half-time teaser

How many episodes were made of the
Dad’s Army
comedy series?

Round 3: Books

  1. Which book of the Bible describes the flight of the Israelites from Egypt?
  2. How old was Adrian Mole when he wrote the first volume of his secret diary?
  3. Whose books include
    When the Wind Blows
    and
    Fungus the Bogeyman
    ?
  4. What was voted Book of the Century in a 1997 survey held by Waterstone’s and Channel Four?
  5. Who wrote books with the titles
    Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
    and
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    ?
  6. In which book was Dolores Haze the object of an older man’s obsession?
  7. Whose books have included
    Down Among the Women
    and
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
    ?
  8. Which is the only Charles Dickens book that has a female narrator?
  9. In which book does a ship called the
    Pequod
    feature prominently?
  10. What was the title of the first of the Harry Potter books?

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