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Jackpot

Which public statement of 1917 made clear British policy on Palestine?

 

Quiz 97

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. In which big country house does much of Daphne du Maurier’s novel
    Rebecca
    take place?
  2. The equator does not go through India – true or false?
  3. Where did the first Butlin’s holiday camp open in 1936?
  4. In which county is the village of Adlestrop, made famous as the setting of a poem by Edward Thomas?
  5. Which US town was the scene of a notorious witchcraft trial in 1692?
  6. What was Cliff Clavin’s job in the US television series
    Cheers
    ?
  7. Which country emerged victorious in the Six Day War of 1967?
  8. Which Russian city was known as Leningrad from 1924 to 1991?
  9. Which sports stadium is informally known as Billy Williams’ Cabbage Patch after the man who first developed it?
  10. Who succeeded Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in 2006?

Round 2: Music of the Seventies

  1. Who went ‘Kung fu fighting’ in the singles charts in 1974?
  2. What nationality were the 1970s band Tangerine Dream?
  3. Who were ‘calling occupants of interplanetary craft’ in 1977?
  4. According to the Buggles, who killed the radio star?
  5. Who warned Billy against being a hero in 1974?
  6. Who replaced Peter Gabriel as lead singer of Genesis in 1975?
  7. In 1978, who wanted to know if you thought he was sexy?
  8. Which member of Abba was from Norway?
  9. With which band did Les McKeown sing lead vocals?
  10. Who had their only chart hit in 1977 with ‘The Floral Dance’?

Half-time teaser

How many years did Matt Busby serve as manager of Manchester United?

Round 3: Food and Drink

  1. Which variety of pasta comes in long flat ribbons?
  2. In cockney rhyming slang, what is the ‘currant bun’?
  3. On which day are pancakes traditionally eaten?
  4. With what wine does Hannibal Lecter admit to having consumed the liver of one of his victims in the film
    The Silence of the Lambs
    ?
  5. Who released an album called
    Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
    ?
  6. Which variety of drink was allegedly invented on 4 August 1693 by a Benedictine monk called Dom Perignon?
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  7. What name is given to a roasted fillet of beef baked in a pastry crust?
  8. Which popular foodstuff was supposedly created on 24 August 1853 by one George Crum, chef at Moon’s Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York?
  9. Which cocktail is made with vodka and tomato juice?
  10. Who released the album
    Breakfast in America
    ?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1970 with ‘I hear you knocking’?
  2. What is the name of the hero in J. R. R. Tolkien’s
    The Hobbit
    ?
  3. Which architect is famous for his observation that ‘the house is a machine for living in’?
  4. By what name is Siddhartha Gautama better known?
  5. Near which English port is Hellfire Corner, the scene of fierce fighting during the Battle of Britain?
  6. Under what name did Gordon Sumner become famous?
  7. What was the popular name of the flintlock musket carried by British soldiers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
  8. Which pop group comprised Rob Manzoli and the Fairbrass brothers?
  9. What was the name of Doctor Finlay’s older colleague?
  10. Which actor provides the voice of Bob the Builder?

Jackpot

Who wrote
Out of Africa
?

 

Quiz 98

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Where is opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa from?
  2. Charlie Fairhead was a character in which hospital drama series?
  3. How many minutes are there in four-and-a-half hours?
  4. Which Tom Stopped play was based on characters from Shakespeare’s
    Hamlet
    ?
  5. Who is the only tennis player to have won two complete Grand Slams?
  6. Who was head of the Argentine government during the Falklands War?
  7. At which London station do rail travellers from Aberdeen arrive?
  8. Which historical leader had a name that translated as ‘very mighty ruler’?
  9. Which planet became the third to be visited by spacecraft from Earth?
  10. Which English football league club plays at the Madejski Stadium?

Round 2: Art and Artists

  1. Which art gallery stands on the north side of Trafalgar Square?
  2. Which artist included among his masterpieces
    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
    ?
  3. What name do artists give the point on the horizon at which various parallel lines within a painting converge?
  4. After the
    Mona Lisa
    was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911, visitor numbers fell by half – true or false?
  5. Which Spanish artist famously depicted the horrors of the Peninsular War?
  6. Which German artist served as court painter to Henry VIII and painted prominent figures of the day?
  7. What word is used to describe the thickness of paint on a canvas or panel?
  8. Which Italian artist became known by his nickname, meaning ‘little dyer’?
  9. Which French artist worked as a tax collector in Paris before establishing a reputation as a painter?
  10. Which of his ears did Vincent Van Gogh cut off in 1888?
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Half-time teaser

Ashrita Furman holds the record for pogo-stick jumping – how many miles did he go?

Round 3: British Royalty

  1. Which king founded the Royal Navy?
  2. Which British monarch wrote a tract against smoking?
  3. What did Elizabeth II celebrate in 2002?
  4. Who was the first Tudor king?
  5. Which king of England died with the words ‘Monk! Monks! Monks!’?
  6. Who was the last Roman Catholic monarch of Britain?
  7. To the memory of which queen were 12 crosses erected between Lincoln and London?
  8. Which king of England was the fattest?
  9. At which castle in Northamptonshire was Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded?
  10. Who comes next in the Order of Succession after Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which country includes among its cities Sheffield, Nelson and Wanganui?
  2. In wrestling, what name is given to the hold in which one fighter sits on the back of another, with the other’s legs tucked under his arms?
  3. What did Burma officially change its name to in 1989?
  4. Which influential religious publication was compiled by Thomas Cranmer?
  5. Which English football league club originally played as St Domingo FC?
  6. Lambic and faro beers are drunk in which European country?
  7. Which former member of a classic pop duo died in a skiing accident in 1998?
  8. In cricket, what name is given to a lower-order batsman sent in to protect a key player late in the day?
  9. In which year was the National Trust founded – 1895, 1945 or 1975?
  10. Which country lies between Nicaragua and Panama?

Jackpot

How old did recruits to the Home Guard in World War II have to be?

 

Quiz 99

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What scale is used to measure the strength of earthquakes?
  2. Who created the Muppets?
  3. Who was an ‘innocent man’ in 1984?
  4. In Rudyard Kipling’s
    The Jungle Book
    , what kind of animal is Bagheera?
  5. Who directed the 1940 film
    The Grapes of Wrath
    ?
  6. In which athletic event was Sergei Bubka a star?
  7. Where is the US Military Academy based?
  8. Who played Captain Queeg in the 1953 film
    The Caine Mutiny
    ?
  9. Which country has sovereignty over Easter Island?
  10. In advertising, what is recommended ‘for hands that do dishes’?

Round 2: Films

  1. Which film director made the silent classic
    The Birth of a Nation
    ?
  2. Whose death in police custody inspired Richard Attenborough’s 1987 film
    Cry Freedom
    ?
  3. The films
    You Only Live Once, They Live by Night, Gun Crazy
    and
    Thieves Like Us
    were all about which pair of notorious US bank robbers?
  4. In which country did the action depicted in the 1974 film
    A Bridge Too Far
    take place?
  5. In which film did Audrey Hepburn appear as Holly Golightly?
  6. In which 1957 film did Alec Guinness play the part of Colonel Nicholson?
  7. Which other Hollywood star was due to play the lead in the classic 1942 film
    Casablanca
    until he became unavailable and the part passed to Humphrey Bogart?
  8. Who won successive Oscars for Best Actor in 1993 and 1994?
  9. On which middleweight boxer’s life was the 1980 film
    Raging Bull
    based?
  10. What was the role for which Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2006?

Half-time teaser

How many people were executed by the authorities in the USA in 2005?

Round 3: Beside the Sea

  1. Who got to number two in the UK charts with ‘Stranger on the shore’?
  2. For what radio programme is ‘By the sleepy lagoon’ the theme tune?
  3. Who proclaimed the virtues of Echo Beach in 1980?
  4. What kind of sea animal is a crown-of-thorns?
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  5. Who, in 1947, crossed the Pacific in a balsa wood raft called the
    Kon-Tiki
    ?
  6. What title were transatlantic liners formerly awarded for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic?
  7. What do the initials ASDIC stand for?
  8. In which ocean are the Mariana Islands?
  9. ‘Leviathan Rising’, ‘A Silence in the Water’ and ‘Great White’ were all considered as alternative titles for which 1975 film?
  10. Who died in 2006 when attacked by a stingray?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What name is given to a person who smokes one cigarette after another, without taking a break between?
  2. Who spent his childhood in Smallville, USA?
  3. Who played television’s
    Six-Million Dollar Man
    ?
  4. How was the Japanese city of Yeda or Edo renamed in 1868?
  5. Which famous cellist was married to conductor Daniel Barenboim?
  6. Who took the place of Judas Iscariot?
  7. Only two novelists have won the annual Man Booker literary prize more than once – name one of them.
  8. Which Shakespeare play includes characters called Trinculo, Alonso, Stephano and Sebastian?
  9. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1983 with ‘True’?
  10. Who finished last in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest, representing the UK?

Jackpot

Which novel ends with the words: ‘Until we have wiped the last one of them from the face of the land they have usurped’?

 

Quiz 100

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which country was called East Pakistan until 1972?
  2. How may actor Joss Ackland and motor-racing driver Mario Andretti claim to be younger than they appear to be?
  3. In 1952, who won Olympic gold in the 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and marathon events?
  4. Which rock band took its name from World War II slang for mystery aircraft?
  5. Which northern rambler wrote a series of books detailing routes for walkers?
  6. How many points does a snooker player get for potting the black ball?
  7. Which style of twentieth-century architecture favoured unfinished moulded concrete and monumental designs?
  8. In which sport do players aim for a goal called a hail?
  9. What camera did artists use long before the invention of photography?
  10. Which shredded vegetable is a main ingredient of sauerkraut?

Round 2: The 1930s

  1. Who broke five world records in one day in the 1935 Olympics?
  2. In which English county was the Sutton Hoo ship burial unearthed in 1939?
  3. Gillespie Road underground station was renamed in honour of which football team in 1932?
  4. Which word described the placatory policy of Britain and France towards the Fascist powers in the 1930s?
  5. Which pressure group was founded in 1935 to promote enjoyment of the countryside and public access to it?
  6. How, in 1933, was the death of Henry Royce of Rolls-Royce Ltd commemorated in the company’s cars?
  7. Driving tests were introduced in Britain in which year – 1934, 1936 or 1939?
  8. The bombing of which Spanish town in 1937 inspired a painting by Picasso?
  9. What happened to end Huey Long’s presidential campaign in 1935?
  10. What was the name of the airship destroyed by fire in New Jersey in 1937 with the loss of 36 lives?

Half-time teaser

In 2005, a new record was set for the number of horses taking part in the same race – how many were there?

Round 3: Endings

  1. Under which sign of the zodiac does the year end on 31 December?
  2. In which play does William Shakespeare appear to bid a final farewell to the stage?
  3. At one minute before midnight on 1 January 1949 a UN ceasefire ended war between which two Commonwealth members?
  4. With which song did television’s
    The Good Old Days
    always end?
  5. What did Lenin describe as ‘a weapon with a worker at both ends’?
  6. Which is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters ‘mt’?
  7. In which city did Jimi Hendrix die in 1970?
  8. What was the title of the Charles Dickens novel left unfinished at the author’s death?
  9. In which film did Noël Coward make his final screen appearance?
  10. Which novel ends with the words ‘After all, tomorrow is another day’?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which river is spanned by the Clifton Suspension Bridge?
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  2. What is a trug?
  3. Which city has the nickname ‘Auld Reekie’?
  4. Which artist had a garden at Giverny in Normandy?
  5. Which company made the Camel fighter used in World War I?
  6. Alongside Ronaldo, who is only person to have won the FIFA World Footballer of the Year three times?
  7. Which is the longest bone in the human body?
  8. In which sport was the Gordon Bennett Trophy formerly a major prize?
  9. Which Cornish town was devastated by a flash flood in 2004?
  10. Who painted
    The Last of England
    ?

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