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Half-time teaser
45,000.

Round 3

  1. EastEnders
    .
  2. Nelson Gabriel.
  3. Emmerdale
    .
  4. Ramsay Street.
  5. 1960.
  6. Eldorado
    .
  7. Home and Away
    .
  8. Benny (Hawkins).
  9. Tamsin Greig.
  10. Status Quo.

Round 4

  1. 13.
  2. Cotopaxi (in the Andes).
  3. Michael Jackson.
  4. On the Moon.
  5. Hawker (later Hawker-Siddeley).
  6. The Rite of Spring
    .
  7. Animals.
  8. Flags.
  9. Jefferson City.
  10. Monica Lewinsky.

Jackpot
The Seychelles.

 

Quiz 10 answers

Round 1

  1. The Alamo.
  2. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
    .
  3. Finland.
  4. Windscale (or Calder Hall).
  5. The wire frame on a dartboard.
  6. David Cassidy.
  7. The UEFA Cup.
  8. Orchid.
  9. The Incas.
  10. A hill.

Round 2

  1. Hydrogen.
  2. The willow.
  3. One horsepower.
  4. Vinegar.
  5. Sodium chloride.
  6. The Chemical Brothers.
  7. Sir Humphry Davy.
  8. Distance travelled.
  9. A Beautiful Mind
    .
  10. The ozone layer.

Half-time teaser
47.

Round 3

  1. New Year’s Day.
  2. 62.
  3. Mothering Sunday.
  4. Lady Day.
  5. On Shrove Tuesday.
  6. 21 October.
  7. Martin Luther King.
  8. Orangeman’s Day (known as ‘the Twelfth’ in Northern Ireland).
  9. 13.
  10. They all have birthdays on 25 December.

Round 4

  1. The landings at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles.
  2. Chocolate.
  3. Helmets were made compulsory.
  4. The Virginian
    .
  5. Durham.
  6. Sapphire (or chrysolite).
  7. The Godfather Part II
    .
  8. Paris (in 1914).
  9. Hawaii.
  10. 1932.

Jackpot
Blue.

 

Quiz 11 answers

Round 1

  1. Tchaikovsky.
  2. He was shot dead by outraged fans.
  3. The Phoney War.
  4. The Stereophonics.
  5. The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show
    .
  6. New Orleans.
  7. A platform on which a dead body is placed.
  8. The pH scale.
  9. Punishment.
  10. The House of Lancaster and the House of York.

Round 2

  1. Athens.
  2. Damon Hill.
  3. Scrabble.
  4. William Webb Ellis.
  5. An olive wreath.
  6. False (England and France – the only teams that entered – played cricket in the Olympic Games of 1900: England won).
  7. Tennis.
  8. Babe Ruth.
  9. Paul Ince.
  10. He had only one arm.

Half-time teaser
34 years old.

Round 3

  1. Heineken.
  2. KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).
  3. John Lewis stores.
  4. Audi.
  5. Ronseal wood varnish.
  6. Playtex Wonderbra.
  7. Hamlet.
  8. Bovril.
  9. Martini.
  10. Johnnie Walker whisky.

Round 4

  1. Patina.
  2. Nobby Styles.
  3. The Labour Party.
  4. Columbo.
  5. The League of Nations.
  6. Rembrandt.
  7. The Aga cooker.
  8. Lieutenant Commander ‘Scotty’ Scott.
  9. Santa’s Little Helper.
  10. Yellow.

Jackpot
O (recorded in the Semitic alphabet as early as 1300
BC
)

 

Quiz 12 answers

Round 1

  1. Nine.
  2. Sarah Bernhardt.
  3. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  4. Sauron the Great.
  5. Brno (in the Czech Republic, where it was first made) and Enfield (in Birmingham, where production continued).
  6. Hampshire.
  7. Ryan Giggs.
  8. Blondie.
  9. She throws herself off a parapet.
  10. Swiss.

Round 2

  1. The boa.
  2. Shoes.
  3. A short jacket.
  4. A bustle.
  5. The Emanuels.
  6. Calvin Klein.
  7. Leather bags.
  8. Pink.
  9. The miniskirt.
  10. Jean Shrimpton.

Half-time teaser
71.

Round 3

  1. Holy Island.
  2. The Shetlands.
  3. The George Cross.
  4. Hispaniola.
  5. Oahu.
  6. Robben Island.
  7. Sicily.
  8. Capri.
  9. Ellis Island.
  10. Dogs (their name in Latin is
    Insulae Canariae
    , meaning ‘Island of the Dogs’).

Round 4

  1. Australian.
  2. Silver.
  3. Greenland.
  4. André Agassi.
  5. Four.
  6. The Battleship Potemkin
    .
  7. False (he sold one, entitled
    Red Vineyard
    ).
  8. Lewis Carroll.
  9. The kneecap.
  10. George VI.

Jackpot
36.

 

Quiz 13 answers

Round 1

  1. Robbie Williams.
  2. Harley Street.
  3. John F. Kennedy.
  4. A gargoyle.
  5. The Jungle Book
    .
  6. Gatcombe Park, Gloucestershire.
  7. Oswald Mosley.
  8. The Old Contemptibles.
  9. 24.
  10. David Icke.

Round 2

  1. The Czech Republic (they drink more than 35 gallons of beer per year each).
  2. Pepsi-Cola.
  3. The koala.
  4. Absinthe.
  5. Alcopops.
  6. Ginger ale.
  7. Coca-Cola.
  8. CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale).
  9. Carlsberg.
  10. Stella Artois beer.

Half-time teaser
340,000.

Round 3

  1. Dylan Thomas.
  2. Captain Lawrence Oates.
  3. George V.
  4. Edith Cavell (shot by a German firing squad in 1915).
  5. Beethoven.
  6. Hamlet.
  7. Charles II.
  8. Elizabeth I.
  9. ‘Kiss me, Hardy’ (or, possibly, ‘Kismet, Hardy’, acknowledging the power of fate over life and death).
  10. Sir Walter Raleigh.

Round 4

  1. Billy the Kid.
  2. Timothy Leary.
  3. The Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  4. Southfork.
  5. Clare Short.
  6. Michael Caine.
  7. The House of Stuart.
  8. The Mississippi.
  9. Green Day.
  10. Attila the Hun.

Jackpot
St Clare.

 

Quiz 14 answers

Round 1

  1. The Great Barrier Reef.
  2. The pine.
  3. The two-pound coin.
  4. 30.
  5. Cleveland.
  6. Genesis.
  7. Alan Bennett.
  8. The
    Sun
    .
  9. Cricket.
  10. Suzi Quatro.

Round 2

  1. The
    Mary Rose
    .
  2. The
    Titanic
    .
  3. The
    Bowbelle
    .
  4. Grace Darling.
  5. The
    Queen Elizabeth
    .
  6. The
    Arizona
    .
  7. The
    Herald of Free Enterprise
    .
  8. The
    Graf Spee
    .
  9. The
    Sea Empress
    .
  10. Four.

Half-time teaser
1,070.

Round 3

  1. Dreamtime.
  2. A pool.
  3. ‘Waltzing Matilda’.
  4. New South Wales.
  5. Gold.
  6. Endeavour
    .
  7. Bondi Beach.
  8. Brisbane.
  9. The Liberal Party.
  10. The Tasman Sea.

Round 4

  1. Gary Sobers.
  2. The Colorado.
  3. R. A. (‘Rab’) Butler.
  4. Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events
    .
  5. Green.
  6. Charles Trenet.
  7. Psalms.
  8. Barry Humphries.
  9. Switzerland.
  10. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Jackpot
Mongolia.

 

Quiz 15 answers

Round 1

  1. 11 November, 1918.
  2. Curling.
  3. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
  4. Ronaldinho.
  5. Terence.
  6. ‘Spirit in the sky’.
  7. Ross Kemp (her husband).
  8. Alien
    .
  9. Marie Curie.
  10. Sue Ellen.

Round 2

  1. Stagecoach
    (1939).
  2. Lauren.
  3. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
    .
  4. Corporal Jones.
  5. George Formby.
  6. Greta Garbo.
  7. Buzz Lightyear.
  8. Vicky Pollard (in the television series
    Little Britain
    ).
  9. True.
  10. David Dickinson.

Half-time teaser
17 feet, 6 inches.

Round 3

  1. King John.
  2. The Battle of Crécy in 1346 (by the English).
  3. Overlord.
  4. He played his fiddle (more accurately, his lyre).
  5. The Falklands War (1982).
  6. General Patton.
  7. Spain.
  8. Attila the Hun.
  9. The defence of Rorke’s Drift against the Zulus in 1879.
  10. The Scots (because of their kilts).

Round 4

  1. A monkey.
  2. William Blake.
  3. A rabbit.
  4. Red Dwarf
    .
  5. Scafell Pike.
  6. The Browning Version
    .
  7. The Cavern Club.
  8. Garibaldi.
  9. Ballykissangel
    .
  10. Earl’s Court, London.

Jackpot
1,125 miles (1,800 km).

 

Quiz 16 answers

Round 1

  1. Cerberus.
  2. Nine.
  3. Clive Dunn.
  4. Pomeroy’s.
  5. False (the Ashmolean is the oldest).
  6. Sound.
  7. 1783.
  8. Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
  9. An épée.
  10. Sebastian Coe.

Round 2

  1. The North Sea.
  2. Windermere.
  3. The Caribbean.
  4. The Sargasso Sea.
  5. Superior.
  6. Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
  7. Garrison Keillor.
  8. Africa.
  9. Between Wales and Ireland.
  10. Finisterre.

Half-time teaser
17,508.

Round 3

  1. Jon Voight.
  2. Carrie Fisher.
  3. False (she was the daughter of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru).
  4. They are mother and daughter.
  5. He was Wagner’s son-in-law.
  6. Ravi Shankar.
  7. They are sisters.
  8. Vanessa Redgrave.
  9. Mia Farrow.
  10. Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton.

Round 4

  1. Dauphin.
  2. The trombone.
  3. Dunkirk.
  4. A compass.
  5. 14.
  6. Neil Diamond.
  7. Tokyo Rose.
  8. Ayr.
  9. The Samaritans.
  10. They are all dances.

Jackpot
The house.

 

Quiz 17 answers

Round 1

  1. Kenya.
  2. Cruella De Vil.
  3. Charlie Parker.
  4. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
  5. Barbarella.
  6. Oklahoma!
  7. Richard Rogers.
  8. In the country.
  9. Three Mile Island.
  10. A one-armed bandit.

Round 2

  1. Bucephalus.
  2. Dick Turpin.
  3. Copenhagen.
  4. George Stubbs.
  5. Roger Lloyd Pack.
  6. Arkle.
  7. Rosinante.
  8. Silver.
  9. America.
  10. A beetle.

Half-time teaser
3,212 feet.

Round 3

  1. Charlie Chaplin.
  2. David Lean.
  3. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They
    ?
  4. The Third Man
    .
  5. Robert Powell.
  6. John Wayne.
  7. Fred Astaire.
  8. Master and Commander
    .
  9. Peter Finch.
  10. Heaven’s Gate
    .

Round 4

  1. Concorde.
  2. The Louvre, in Paris.
  3. The Synod of Whitby.
  4. Captain Marvel.
  5. Roseanne Barr.
  6. Kenny Dalgleish.
  7. Madagascar.
  8. Rose.
  9. False (but she was one-eighth Iroquois Indian).
  10. Get a life.

Jackpot
Bakelite.

 

Quiz 18 answers

Round 1

  1. Androcles.
  2. Sri Lanka.
  3. Slavery.
  4. Its tail.
  5. Rab C. Nesbitt.
  6. Thin Lizzy.
  7. Boris Yeltsin.
  8. Two.
  9. Ten.
  10. Cape Horn.

Round 2

  1. Buddhism.
  2. The Koran.
  3. Hinduism.
  4. White smoke from the Vatican chimney.
  5. Confucianism.
  6. Shari’a.
  7. The Christian Scientists.
  8. ‘Blood and fire’.
  9. Judaism.
  10. The Unification Church.

Half-time teaser
18.

Round 3

  1. The skunk.
  2. False.
  3. Stink.
  4. Yves St Laurent.
  5. A fungus.
  6. Imperial Leather.
  7. Rotten eggs.
  8. A rose.
  9. Decaying flesh (or corpses).
  10. Miss You Nights.

Round 4

  1. Watling Street.
  2. Jilly Cooper.
  3. Vesuvius.
  4. The Mason–Dixon Line.
  5. Elizabeth Montgomery.
  6. A hedgehog.
  7. Real Madrid.
  8. Frances McDormand.
  9. They were both posthumous champions.
  10. The Comedy of Errors
    .

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