Jackpot
Patsy Stone.
Quiz 19 answers
Round 1
- George Harrison.
- Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- Michael Foot.
- On Jupiter.
- Six.
- Football.
- The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- Norway.
- Menachem Begin.
- Gerald Ford.
Round 2
- Mercury.
- Sputnik 1.
- Pluto.
- Beagle 2
.
- Stephen Hawking’s
A Brief History of Time
.
- HAL.
- Apollo 13.
- Laika.
- Challenger
.
- Mars.
Half-time teaser
36,220 feet.
Round 3
- Gilbert O’Sullivan.
- Maurice.
- ‘Bitter sweet symphony’.
- The Wurzels (who topped the charts with ‘Combine harvester’).
- The Police.
- Pat Boone.
- ‘My perfect cousin’.
- Bananarama.
- Rod Stewart.
- Scottish.
Round 4
- Paraguay.
- Catherine Parr.
- Ring of Bright Water
.
- Joan Bakewell.
- Iron oxide.
- They were all battles in the American War of Independence.
- Matthew.
- 15.
- The Isle of Man (in 1880).
- 1988.
Jackpot
Naples.
Quiz 20 answers
Round 1
- Good Friday.
- Phoenix.
- Andrew.
- Apartheid.
- Sheep’s milk.
- New Zealand.
- Romanian.
- Great Expectations
.
- Bangor.
- A sofa.
Round 2
- Evander Holyfield.
- Prometheus.
- Queen Elizabeth II.
- Polonius (an arras is a curtain).
- Thomas Becket.
- Anakin Skywalker.
- Lady Godiva.
- Luddites.
- Ronald Reagan.
- Jansher Khan.
Half-time teaser
6,779 metres.
Round 3
- Pi.
- Her right hand.
- An elephant.
- A goat.
- Yellow lines.
- Dublin.
- A donkey.
- Ireland.
- Libra.
- E.
Round 4
- Hyde Park.
- Ice-skating.
- Dad’s Army.
- Frozen carbon dioxide.
- Westminster Abbey.
- 1970.
- Hermann Goering.
- Sean Bean.
- Thriller
.
- A diamond.
Jackpot
‘Spirit of Ecstasy’.
Quiz 21 answers
Round 1
- Donald Duck.
- Royal.
- A kangaroo and an emu.
- The
Altmark
.
- Birmingham.
- Baldrick.
- Vangelis.
- James Dean.
- Gryffindor.
- Cassandra.
Round 2
- True.
- False (they never snore).
- A marlin.
- The crows.
- True (they are closer to raccoons).
- A baby oyster.
- An albatross.
- Ants.
- Antelope.
- A mule.
Half-time teaser
51,696.
Round 3
- Fear of strangers.
- Genoa (where they were first made).
- Hair grip.
- Horses.
- Bell-ringing.
- Serendipity.
- A net.
- Pub signs.
- An eight-year-old girl murdered in Alton, Hampshire in 1867.
- Copper (called Cyprian metal by the Romans).
Round 4
- Celtic and Rangers.
- Buy one, get one free.
- John Constable.
- Jethro Tull.
- The centrefold.
- Amy Johnson.
- Francis Matthews.
- Prawns.
- Pakistan.
- Her husband Bruce Willis.
Jackpot
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Quiz 22 answers
Round 1
- Spain.
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
.
- Seven.
- Charles II.
- The galley.
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
- Wine.
- Warrior
.
- Malin.
- Doncaster.
Round 2
- Top of the Pops
.
- Two.
- W. H. Auden.
- Their sapphire anniversary.
- Stanley Kubrick (in
Eyes Wide Shut
).
- Sibyl.
- Walter Raleigh’s.
- Princess Alexandra of Kent (cousin of Elizabeth II).
- Julie Andrews.
- Charlotte.
Half-time teaser
186,000.
Round 3
- The slave trade.
- Maypoles.
- She was shot by a firing squad.
- The British Army.
- Horatio Nelson.
- Chatsworth House.
- George IV.
- Henry VIII.
- Charles II.
- Sir Barnes Wallis.
Round 4
- Spaghetti Junction.
- The Railway Children
.
- A strike.
- The Pacific.
- Methodism.
- A dig.
- Pillars (or columns).
- The World’s Strongest Man.
- The Witan.
- A harp.
Jackpot
A bird.
Quiz 23 answers
Round 1
- The bikini (after the Bikini atoll where atom-bomb testing took place).
- Cheese.
- Shakespear’s Sister.
- The sinking of the
Titanic
.
- Trumpton
.
- He was a doctor.
- Walter Matthau.
- Beverly Hills.
- David Bowie.
- Fish and chips.
Round 2
- Alice Cooper.
- Boz.
- Boris Karloff.
- Saki.
- Judy Garland.
- A Mississippi pilots’ cry (meaning ‘two fathoms deep’).
- Tarzan.
- The sabre-toothed tiger.
- Sirius.
- Ayers Rock.
Half-time teaser
594.
Round 3
- Cheese and onion.
- Spinach.
- Chewing-gum.
- Tinned food.
- True.
- Manna.
- False (it ended in 1954).
- Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba.
- Vincent Van Gogh.
- The Australians.
Round 4
- By drinking hemlock.
- 666.
- Hamlet.
- The Brat Pack.
- A Hard Day’s Night
.
- A tree.
- Polo.
- Beyond the Fringe
.
- A type of rose.
- Oz
.
Jackpot
David Hempleman-Adams.
Quiz 24 answers
Round 1
- The diamond.
- Deadly nightshade.
- Show-jumping.
- T. Rex.
- 1801.
- The stoat.
- Cambridge and London.
- A squint.
- Mercutio.
- Welsh.
Round 2
- Jellystone Park.
- Charlie Chaplin.
- Arnhem.
- Peter Pan’s.
- The Cairngorms.
- The Isle of Wight.
- Neil Simon.
- Princess Anne.
- Kenneth Williams.
- Kenny.
Half-time teaser
70.
Round 3
- Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester.
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
.
- Britney Spears.
- Manchester.
- Evita
.
- An organ.
- Pictures at an Exhibition
.
- The violin.
- George Michael.
- From characters in the Tintin cartoons.
Round 4
- Wine.
- Japan.
- Birmingham.
- Caligula.
- Michael.
- The British Empire Games.
- Joseph Goebbels.
- K2.
- Antarctica.
- The Handmaid’s Tale
.
Jackpot
The Heffalump.
Quiz 25 answers
Round 1
- Krakatoa (volcanic explosion and tidal wave).
- The Impressionists.
- The nape of the neck.
- Ireland.
- ‘Banzai!’
- Keith Moon.
- Enoch Powell.
- Cliff Richard.
- Jack Charlton.
- Geoff Hurst.
Round 2
- Wilkie Collins.
- Mrs Hudson.
- Father Brown.
- Ngaio Marsh.
- Robert Ironside.
- Brother Cadfael.
- Endeavour.
- Dick Tracy.
- Albert Campion.
- Jim Bergerac.
Half-time teaser
91 feet 10 inches.
Round 3
- The hovercraft.
- True (he was Adolphe Sax).
- Anthony Trollope.
- Mary Quant.
- Frank Zappa.
- The sewing-machine.
- Phil Spector.
- Lewis Carroll (in
Through the Looking-Glass
).
- Barnes Wallis.
- Tarmac (originally Tarmacadam).
Round 4
- Daphne du Maurier.
- Vicious.
- George Bernard Shaw.
- Black September.
- Pete Best.
- David Brent.
- Iron Maiden.
- TASS.
- Michael Heseltine.
- Pride and Prejudice
.
Jackpot
Donald Duck.
Quiz 26 answers
Round 1
- Elvis Presley.
- Crocus.
- Kentucky.
- Motor-racing.
- Richard Nixon.
- Bevin Boys.
- Oliver Reed.
- The guitar.
- Rail.
- Flamingos.
Round 2
- Y.
- A leopard.
- A handbag.
- She was the first test-tube baby (born by
in vitro
fertilisation).
- A.I
.
- Pudsey Bear.
- Baby-boomers.
- Loving and giving.
- Sporty.
- Million Dollar Baby
.
Half-time teaser
211.
Round 3
- True.
- Harry Hill.
- Frank Spencer.
- Sydney.
- Ben Elton.
- Lenny Henry.
- ‘I’m the only gay in the village.’
- Shameless
.
- Steve Coogan.
- The Navy Lark
.
Round 4
- Philadelphia.
- Getting softer.
- 23.50.
- Cricket (in Australia).
- The crab.
- 617 Squadron.
- Book.
- A swan.
- Basketball.
- Jack Nicholson.
Jackpot
The becquerel.
Quiz 27 answers
Round 1
- Mars.
- All Quiet on the Western Front
.
- A Hard Day’s Night
.
- 32.
- The River Dee.
- AufWidersehen, Pet
.
- The Bastille.
- The Bermuda Triangle.
- Tottenham Hotspur.
- The Ryder Cup.
Round 2
- The crocodile.
- The Ford Zephyr.
- The
Victory
.
- Cary Grant.
- New Amsterdam.
- True.
- The Malvinas.
- Nosey Parker.
- Stuart.
- Vidkun Quisling.
Half-time teaser
2,639.
Round 3
- The
Queen Mary
.
- Four miles per hour (6.4 km/h).
- The
Spirit of St Louis
.
- Because US bottoms had got bigger.
- A beltway.
- Duel
.
- Christopher Eccleston.
- Charon.
- The Lady Vanishes
.
- Roscoe Tanner.
Round 4
- The Theatre Museum.
- Lindisfarne.
- Rwanda.
- Income tax.
- The Sugarbabes.
- Worcester cathedral.
- Gerald Ford.
- They were joined for the first time by ballgirls.
- Richard II.
- Minder
.
Jackpot
Mauritius.
Quiz 28 answers
Round 1
- Bamboo (at a rate of 38 cm a day).
- Barbara Castle.
- The 20 pence coin.
- Ohms.
- Archaeology.
- A table.
- ‘Don’t go breaking my heart’.
- Swans.
- True.
- Under Milk Wood
.
Round 2
- The Olympic Games.
- The United Nations.
- Roy Jenkins.
- Switzerland.
- The Society of Friends (the Quakers).
- A giant panda.
- Thrush.
- False (Austria joined in 1995, 22 years after the UK).
- The Red Cross.
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Half-time teaser
69.
Round 3
- Cardiff.
- Richard Rogers.
- Cheese and bread (toast).
- The leek.
- Richard Burton.
- Laura Ashley.
- Chepstow.
- Emlyn Williams.
- Fashion.
- Shirley Bassey.
Round 4
- Madrid.
- Revenge
.
- Parma.
- The US Civil War.
- Trinity College.
- The Rivals
.
- Pan’s People.
- The Archbishop of Westminster.
- Sikhism.
- A form of massage.