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Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. In which London building would you find Poets’ Corner?
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  2. What is the heaviest weight division in wrestling, for men over 100 kilograms, called?
  3. Which chemical element has the symbol K?
  4. What type of animal are loons and potoos?
  5. Which British MP was killed by an IRA bomb in the House of Commons car park?
  6. What is the name of the marbles that Greece would like back from the British Museum?
  7. Of which Australian state is Melbourne the capital?
  8. Who was prime minister of Russia until swept away in the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917?
  9. In which Shakespeare play are Malcolm, Hecate and Fleance characters?
  10. Who is Richard Penniman better known as?

Jackpot

Of which country was Queen Liliuokalani the last monarch?

 

Quiz 57

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Who performed 12 mythological labours?
  2. Which singer was nicknamed ‘the Queen of Soul’?
  3. To whom did Don McLean dedicate his classic hit single ‘American Pie’?
  4. Which British film company specialising in horror was founded in 1947?
  5. Where was chocolate first made?
  6. What was the tune blasted out by US helicopters going into the attack in the 1979 film
    Apocalypse Now
    ?
  7. Whose long-jump world record established in 1968 remained unbroken until 1991?
  8. Who played opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1995 film
    The Bridges of Madison County
    ?
  9. Who adopted ‘Bring me sunshine’ as a signature tune?
  10. What is an LED?

Round 2: Smells and Bells

  1. Which institution is sometimes referred to by the nickname ‘smells and bells’?
  2. What nationality was Pope Adrian IV?
  3. What name was given to the split that occurred in the Roman Catholic Church in 1378, leading to the establishment of rival popes?
  4. Which to date has proved the most popular name among popes?
  5. Which 1959 film was the first film ever to be blessed by the Pope?
  6. Who played Pope Julius II in the 1965 film
    The Agony and the Ecstasy
    ?
  7. Which pope of the twentieth century reigned for just 33 days?
  8. Which Roman Catholic organisation was founded in 1928 to promote Christian principles throughout the world?
  9. Which city in Northern Ireland has a Catholic district called Bogside?
  10. Where was the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi found hanging in 1982?

Half-time teaser

How many countries (by the end of 2005) had abolished the death penalty for all offences?

Round 3: Birds

  1. Which popular television sitcom starred Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as two Essex girls?
  2. In golf, what is the name given to a hole that a player completes in three strokes less than par?
  3. On which day are birds traditionally believed to choose their mates?
  4. Which infectious disease is caused by the H5N1 virus?
  5. Who had everyone dancing to the ‘Birdie Song’ in 1981?
  6. By what name did imprisoned US murderer Robert Stroud become better known?
  7. Which pop group had hits with cover versions of Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ and ‘Turn, turn, turn’?
  8. Barnacle geese were formerly eaten by Catholics during Lent because it was thought that they hatched from barnacles and could thus be classed as fish – true or false?
  9. By what bird-related nickname are the football clubs Newcastle United and Notts County known?
  10. Which French singer was known as ‘the little Sparrow’?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Who killed Shakespeare’s Macbeth?
  2. Who led a mutiny against Captain Bligh on the
    Bounty
    in 1787?
  3. Which boy band were at number one in the UK charts on 1 January 2000 with the double-A side ‘I have a dream/Seasons in the sun’?
  4. Who founded Amstrad in 1968?
  5. Charles Dickens was an enthusiastic player of croquet – true or false?
  6. Who wrote the lyrics for Elton John’s single ‘Candle in the wind’?
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  7. Only women take part in Olympic synchronised swimming competitions – true or false?
  8. Which character in Greek tragedy unknowingly killed his father and married his mother?
  9. Which organisation sells artificial poppies to mark Remembrance Day?
  10. Which one of King Arthur’s knights found the Holy Grail?

Jackpot

Which is the highest mountain in Europe?

 

Quiz 58

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What do the initials GPS stand for?
  2. How many sides are there in a heptagon?
  3. What relation is film director Francis Ford Coppola to actor Nicolas Cage?
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  4. Who were urging on Eileen in 1982?
  5. Is a ship’s mizzenmast at the front or rear of the vessel?
  6. Where is the English Derby horse race held?
  7. Who wrote music criticism under the pseudonym Corno di Bassetto?
  8. By what alternative name is the eggplant also known?
  9. What was the name of Britain’s first commercial jet airliner?
  10. Which footballer became, in 1979, the subject of the first one-million-pound transfer?

Round 2: Traitors

  1. How many pieces of silver did Judas get for betraying Christ?
  2. What was the name of the rock from which traitors were thrown in ancient Rome?
  3. Against which monarch was the Rye House Plot aimed?
  4. Under what name did Margaretha Geertruida Zelle become notorious?
  5. Which English monarch did Edward Oxford, John William Bean, John Francis, William Hamilton, Robert Pate, Arthur O’Connor and Roderick Maclean all try to murder?
  6. Which American general was branded a traitor after changing sides during the American War of Independence?
  7. In which war was the term ‘fifth column’ first used?
  8. Where in London would you find Traitor’s Gate?
  9. Against whom was the Babington Plot organised?
  10. Who was imprisoned as a traitor after World War II as head of the Vichy regime in France?

Half-time teaser

How long, in metres, is the world’s longest bicycle?

Round 3: The 1980s

  1. Which newspaper was founded by Eddie Shah in 1986?
  2. Who won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1980 with
    Rites of Passage
    ?
  3. What royal title was bestowed upon Princess Anne in 1987?
  4. What first did Kevin Moran of Manchester United achieve during an FA Cup final in 1985?
  5. Which jockey’s struggle against cancer and subsequent Grand National triumph inspired a 1983 film starring John Hurt?
  6. What finally disappeared from the British coinage in 1980?
  7. What event provoked a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
  8. Who was dancing on the ceiling in 1986?
  9. Who left the European Economic Community in 1985?
  10. Who succeeded Ron Greenwood as England football manager in 1982?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Who wrote the plays
    Volpone
    and
    Bartholomew Fair
    ?
  2. Which is darker in colour – fino or amontillado sherry?
  3. By what English name is the Ursa Major constellation also known?
  4. The Romans used concrete in their buildings – true or false?
  5. What shape is a lateen sail?
  6. To which post were John Flamsteed, Sir Martin Ryle and Sir Martin Rees all appointed?
  7. Of which organisation was John Reith the first director-general?
  8. On 4 February 1504 James IV of Scotland took part in the first officially documented match in which sport?
  9. What nationality is pop musician Manfred Mann?
  10. Which television soap opera included among its cast dogs called Willy and Wellard?

Jackpot

Of whom did Buster Keaton say ‘Chaplin wasn’t the funniest, I wasn’t the funniest, this man was the funniest’?

 

Quiz 59

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. In which street did the Great Fire of London break out in 1666?
  2. What nationality was artist René Magritte?
  3. Who wrote the novels
    Silas Marner, Romola
    and
    Middlemarch
    ?
  4. Who, in 1986, was ‘addicted to love’?
  5. Who founded the cult of scientology?
  6. Which country took offence when lampooned by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in a film released in 2006?
  7. Which major art prize was won by Gilbert and George in 1986 and by Damien Hirst in 1995?
  8. In which film does a troubled former marine called Travis Bickle befriend a young girl called Iris?
  9. With which pop group was Errol Brown lead singer?
  10. On what fictional island do the
    Thomas the Tank Engine
    stories of the Reverend W. Awdry take place?

Round 2: Gold

  1. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
  2. Which brand of cigarettes was sold under the slogan ‘pure gold’?
  3. Which singer had the nickname ‘the Golden Foghorn’?
  4. Which comedy team of the 1930s and 1940s included the duos Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, and Naughton and Gold?
  5. What was the name of the political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith in 1994?
  6. Upon which popular US television show did comedienne Goldie Hawn get her big break?
  7. In which John Huston film do three gold miners fall out in their search for a lost gold mine in central Mexico?
  8. At which film festival is the Golden Bear awarded?
  9. What is the popular gold-related name for iron pyrite?
  10. Who sang the theme song for the James Bond film
    Goldeneye
    ?

Half-time teaser

In his memoirs, how many women does the legendary womaniser Casanova admit to having seduced?

Round 3: Funny Folk

  1. Which comedian was known as ‘the Cheeky Chappie’?
  2. Which British comedians assumed the roles of Jeeves and Wooster in 1990?
  3. Which film by the Monty Python team created a furore in religious circles on its release in 1979?
  4. Who wrote an autobiography entitled
    Don’t Laugh at Me
    ?
  5. To which
    Carry On
    star was John Le Mesurier married?
  6. From which Spanish city did the waiter played by Andrew Sachs come in the hit sitcom
    Fawlty Towers
    ?
  7. Which of the Marx Brothers pretended he was mute?
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  8. Where was the comedy series
    Father Ted
    set?
  9. What was the name of the informal lunch club at a hotel in New York that was regularly attended by Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and other legendary wits of the 1920s and 1930s?
  10. Who is the Big Yin?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Who lived at Hill Top in the Lake District?
  2. Which US rock group includes bassist Gene Simmons?
  3. On whose life was the film biography
    Shadowlands
    based?
  4. By what Arthurian name was John F. Kennedy’s administration popularly known?
  5. German V-1 flying bombs were variously known as ‘buzz bombs’ or by what other nickname?
  6. What is the name given to the grassland that covers 40 per cent of Africa?
  7. How many individuals were there in the Osmonds pop group?
  8. What was the name of the fictional holiday camp in the sitcom
    Hi-de-Hi!
    ?
  9. In which African country is the native currency the birr?
  10. What was the sequel to the Clint Eastwood film
    Every Which Way But Loose
    ?

Jackpot

Which country has a national flag that is not rectangular in shape?

 

Quiz 60

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What is the maximum number of points that a player can score with three darts?
  2. What is the symbol of the Republican Party in the USA?
  3. With which racing team did Jim Clark spend his entire Formula One career?
  4. In which opera does the ill-fated central character invite a statue to dinner?
  5. What colour is celandine?
  6. Which English football league club was the first to install artificial turf?
  7. Which thriller by Erskine Childers concerned German preparations to invade Britain before World War I?
  8. Hypnos was the Greek god of what?
  9. What is Crichton’s job in J. M. Barrie’s play
    The Admirable Crichton
    ?
  10. The Perseids, the Leonids and the Geminids are all what?

Round 2: Celebrities

  1. Which two Hollywood stars made their last appearances in the 1961 film
    The Misfits
    ?
  2. What is Ozzy Osbourne’s first name?
  3. Which pop star in 2007 notoriously cut off her own hair after the staff at a hair salon refused to do so?
  4. In 1994 Michael Jackson became the son-in-law of which deceased pop star?
  5. US singer Tommy Lee was married to which US film and television actress?
  6. Who is godfather to, among others, Sean Lennon, Liz Hurley’s son Damian and Brooklyn Beckham?
  7. Who caused a stir in 2006 by adopting David Banda?
  8. Which contemporary pop star has the married name Shelly Kearns?
  9. Who was the victim of allegedly racist comments made by Jade Goody in
    Celebrity Big Brother
    in 2007?
  10. What were the Tamworth Two?

Half-time teaser

Jackie Bibby and Rosie Reynolds-McCasland share the record for sitting in a bath with rattlesnakes – how many snakes did each share their bath with?

Round 3: Nicknames

  1. What nickname did singer Vera Lynn acquire during World War II?
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  2. Which disc jockey had the nickname ‘Fluff’?
  3. Who is golf’s ‘Golden Bear’?
  4. Who was the so-called ‘Madame Sin’ who offered intimate encounters in exchange for luncheon vouchers?
  5. Which pop musician had the nickname ‘Killer’?
  6. By what nickname was singer Jenny Lind widely known?
  7. Which public figure became known in the press as ‘Lord Porn’?
  8. Who, in track athletics, became known as ‘the Ebony Antelope’?
  9. Which member of the royal family was dubbed ‘Princess Pushy’?
  10. Who was ‘America’s Sweetheart’?

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