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Jackpot
Patsy Stone.

 

Quiz 19 answers

Round 1

  1. George Harrison.
  2. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
  3. Michael Foot.
  4. On Jupiter.
  5. Six.
  6. Football.
  7. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  8. Norway.
  9. Menachem Begin.
  10. Gerald Ford.

Round 2

  1. Mercury.
  2. Sputnik 1.
  3. Pluto.
  4. Beagle 2
    .
  5. Stephen Hawking’s
    A Brief History of Time
    .
  6. HAL.
  7. Apollo 13.
  8. Laika.
  9. Challenger
    .
  10. Mars.

Half-time teaser
36,220 feet.

Round 3

  1. Gilbert O’Sullivan.
  2. Maurice.
  3. ‘Bitter sweet symphony’.
  4. The Wurzels (who topped the charts with ‘Combine harvester’).
  5. The Police.
  6. Pat Boone.
  7. ‘My perfect cousin’.
  8. Bananarama.
  9. Rod Stewart.
  10. Scottish.

Round 4

  1. Paraguay.
  2. Catherine Parr.
  3. Ring of Bright Water
    .
  4. Joan Bakewell.
  5. Iron oxide.
  6. They were all battles in the American War of Independence.
  7. Matthew.
  8. 15.
  9. The Isle of Man (in 1880).
  10. 1988.

Jackpot
Naples.

 

Quiz 20 answers

Round 1

  1. Good Friday.
  2. Phoenix.
  3. Andrew.
  4. Apartheid.
  5. Sheep’s milk.
  6. New Zealand.
  7. Romanian.
  8. Great Expectations
    .
  9. Bangor.
  10. A sofa.

Round 2

  1. Evander Holyfield.
  2. Prometheus.
  3. Queen Elizabeth II.
  4. Polonius (an arras is a curtain).
  5. Thomas Becket.
  6. Anakin Skywalker.
  7. Lady Godiva.
  8. Luddites.
  9. Ronald Reagan.
  10. Jansher Khan.

Half-time teaser
6,779 metres.

Round 3

  1. Pi.
  2. Her right hand.
  3. An elephant.
  4. A goat.
  5. Yellow lines.
  6. Dublin.
  7. A donkey.
  8. Ireland.
  9. Libra.
  10. E.

Round 4

  1. Hyde Park.
  2. Ice-skating.
  3. Dad’s Army.
  4. Frozen carbon dioxide.
  5. Westminster Abbey.
  6. 1970.
  7. Hermann Goering.
  8. Sean Bean.
  9. Thriller
    .
  10. A diamond.

Jackpot
‘Spirit of Ecstasy’.

 

Quiz 21 answers

Round 1

  1. Donald Duck.
  2. Royal.
  3. A kangaroo and an emu.
  4. The
    Altmark
    .
  5. Birmingham.
  6. Baldrick.
  7. Vangelis.
  8. James Dean.
  9. Gryffindor.
  10. Cassandra.

Round 2

  1. True.
  2. False (they never snore).
  3. A marlin.
  4. The crows.
  5. True (they are closer to raccoons).
  6. A baby oyster.
  7. An albatross.
  8. Ants.
  9. Antelope.
  10. A mule.

Half-time teaser
51,696.

Round 3

  1. Fear of strangers.
  2. Genoa (where they were first made).
  3. Hair grip.
  4. Horses.
  5. Bell-ringing.
  6. Serendipity.
  7. A net.
  8. Pub signs.
  9. An eight-year-old girl murdered in Alton, Hampshire in 1867.
  10. Copper (called Cyprian metal by the Romans).

Round 4

  1. Celtic and Rangers.
  2. Buy one, get one free.
  3. John Constable.
  4. Jethro Tull.
  5. The centrefold.
  6. Amy Johnson.
  7. Francis Matthews.
  8. Prawns.
  9. Pakistan.
  10. Her husband Bruce Willis.

Jackpot
Creedence Clearwater Revival.

 

Quiz 22 answers

Round 1

  1. Spain.
  2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    .
  3. Seven.
  4. Charles II.
  5. The galley.
  6. Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
  7. Wine.
  8. Warrior
    .
  9. Malin.
  10. Doncaster.

Round 2

  1. Top of the Pops
    .
  2. Two.
  3. W. H. Auden.
  4. Their sapphire anniversary.
  5. Stanley Kubrick (in
    Eyes Wide Shut
    ).
  6. Sibyl.
  7. Walter Raleigh’s.
  8. Princess Alexandra of Kent (cousin of Elizabeth II).
  9. Julie Andrews.
  10. Charlotte.

Half-time teaser
186,000.

Round 3

  1. The slave trade.
  2. Maypoles.
  3. She was shot by a firing squad.
  4. The British Army.
  5. Horatio Nelson.
  6. Chatsworth House.
  7. George IV.
  8. Henry VIII.
  9. Charles II.
  10. Sir Barnes Wallis.

Round 4

  1. Spaghetti Junction.
  2. The Railway Children
    .
  3. A strike.
  4. The Pacific.
  5. Methodism.
  6. A dig.
  7. Pillars (or columns).
  8. The World’s Strongest Man.
  9. The Witan.
  10. A harp.

Jackpot
A bird.

 

Quiz 23 answers

Round 1

  1. The bikini (after the Bikini atoll where atom-bomb testing took place).
  2. Cheese.
  3. Shakespear’s Sister.
  4. The sinking of the
    Titanic
    .
  5. Trumpton
    .
  6. He was a doctor.
  7. Walter Matthau.
  8. Beverly Hills.
  9. David Bowie.
  10. Fish and chips.

Round 2

  1. Alice Cooper.
  2. Boz.
  3. Boris Karloff.
  4. Saki.
  5. Judy Garland.
  6. A Mississippi pilots’ cry (meaning ‘two fathoms deep’).
  7. Tarzan.
  8. The sabre-toothed tiger.
  9. Sirius.
  10. Ayers Rock.

Half-time teaser
594.

Round 3

  1. Cheese and onion.
  2. Spinach.
  3. Chewing-gum.
  4. Tinned food.
  5. True.
  6. Manna.
  7. False (it ended in 1954).
  8. Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba.
  9. Vincent Van Gogh.
  10. The Australians.

Round 4

  1. By drinking hemlock.
  2. 666.
  3. Hamlet.
  4. The Brat Pack.
  5. A Hard Day’s Night
    .
  6. A tree.
  7. Polo.
  8. Beyond the Fringe
    .
  9. A type of rose.
  10. Oz
    .

Jackpot
David Hempleman-Adams.

 

Quiz 24 answers

Round 1

  1. The diamond.
  2. Deadly nightshade.
  3. Show-jumping.
  4. T. Rex.
  5. 1801.
  6. The stoat.
  7. Cambridge and London.
  8. A squint.
  9. Mercutio.
  10. Welsh.

Round 2

  1. Jellystone Park.
  2. Charlie Chaplin.
  3. Arnhem.
  4. Peter Pan’s.
  5. The Cairngorms.
  6. The Isle of Wight.
  7. Neil Simon.
  8. Princess Anne.
  9. Kenneth Williams.
  10. Kenny.

Half-time teaser
70.

Round 3

  1. Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester.
  2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
    .
  3. Britney Spears.
  4. Manchester.
  5. Evita
    .
  6. An organ.
  7. Pictures at an Exhibition
    .
  8. The violin.
  9. George Michael.
  10. From characters in the Tintin cartoons.

Round 4

  1. Wine.
  2. Japan.
  3. Birmingham.
  4. Caligula.
  5. Michael.
  6. The British Empire Games.
  7. Joseph Goebbels.
  8. K2.
  9. Antarctica.
  10. The Handmaid’s Tale
    .

Jackpot
The Heffalump.

 

Quiz 25 answers

Round 1

  1. Krakatoa (volcanic explosion and tidal wave).
  2. The Impressionists.
  3. The nape of the neck.
  4. Ireland.
  5. ‘Banzai!’
  6. Keith Moon.
  7. Enoch Powell.
  8. Cliff Richard.
  9. Jack Charlton.
  10. Geoff Hurst.

Round 2

  1. Wilkie Collins.
  2. Mrs Hudson.
  3. Father Brown.
  4. Ngaio Marsh.
  5. Robert Ironside.
  6. Brother Cadfael.
  7. Endeavour.
  8. Dick Tracy.
  9. Albert Campion.
  10. Jim Bergerac.

Half-time teaser
91 feet 10 inches.

Round 3

  1. The hovercraft.
  2. True (he was Adolphe Sax).
  3. Anthony Trollope.
  4. Mary Quant.
  5. Frank Zappa.
  6. The sewing-machine.
  7. Phil Spector.
  8. Lewis Carroll (in
    Through the Looking-Glass
    ).
  9. Barnes Wallis.
  10. Tarmac (originally Tarmacadam).

Round 4

  1. Daphne du Maurier.
  2. Vicious.
  3. George Bernard Shaw.
  4. Black September.
  5. Pete Best.
  6. David Brent.
  7. Iron Maiden.
  8. TASS.
  9. Michael Heseltine.
  10. Pride and Prejudice
    .

Jackpot
Donald Duck.

 

Quiz 26 answers

Round 1

  1. Elvis Presley.
  2. Crocus.
  3. Kentucky.
  4. Motor-racing.
  5. Richard Nixon.
  6. Bevin Boys.
  7. Oliver Reed.
  8. The guitar.
  9. Rail.
  10. Flamingos.

Round 2

  1. Y.
  2. A leopard.
  3. A handbag.
  4. She was the first test-tube baby (born by
    in vitro
    fertilisation).
  5. A.I
    .
  6. Pudsey Bear.
  7. Baby-boomers.
  8. Loving and giving.
  9. Sporty.
  10. Million Dollar Baby
    .

Half-time teaser
211.

Round 3

  1. True.
  2. Harry Hill.
  3. Frank Spencer.
  4. Sydney.
  5. Ben Elton.
  6. Lenny Henry.
  7. ‘I’m the only gay in the village.’
  8. Shameless
    .
  9. Steve Coogan.
  10. The Navy Lark
    .

Round 4

  1. Philadelphia.
  2. Getting softer.
  3. 23.50.
  4. Cricket (in Australia).
  5. The crab.
  6. 617 Squadron.
  7. Book.
  8. A swan.
  9. Basketball.
  10. Jack Nicholson.

Jackpot
The becquerel.

 

Quiz 27 answers

Round 1

  1. Mars.
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front
    .
  3. A Hard Day’s Night
    .
  4. 32.
  5. The River Dee.
  6. AufWidersehen, Pet
    .
  7. The Bastille.
  8. The Bermuda Triangle.
  9. Tottenham Hotspur.
  10. The Ryder Cup.

Round 2

  1. The crocodile.
  2. The Ford Zephyr.
  3. The
    Victory
    .
  4. Cary Grant.
  5. New Amsterdam.
  6. True.
  7. The Malvinas.
  8. Nosey Parker.
  9. Stuart.
  10. Vidkun Quisling.

Half-time teaser
2,639.

Round 3

  1. The
    Queen Mary
    .
  2. Four miles per hour (6.4 km/h).
  3. The
    Spirit of St Louis
    .
  4. Because US bottoms had got bigger.
  5. A beltway.
  6. Duel
    .
  7. Christopher Eccleston.
  8. Charon.
  9. The Lady Vanishes
    .
  10. Roscoe Tanner.

Round 4

  1. The Theatre Museum.
  2. Lindisfarne.
  3. Rwanda.
  4. Income tax.
  5. The Sugarbabes.
  6. Worcester cathedral.
  7. Gerald Ford.
  8. They were joined for the first time by ballgirls.
  9. Richard II.
  10. Minder
    .

Jackpot
Mauritius.

 

Quiz 28 answers

Round 1

  1. Bamboo (at a rate of 38 cm a day).
  2. Barbara Castle.
  3. The 20 pence coin.
  4. Ohms.
  5. Archaeology.
  6. A table.
  7. ‘Don’t go breaking my heart’.
  8. Swans.
  9. True.
  10. Under Milk Wood
    .

Round 2

  1. The Olympic Games.
  2. The United Nations.
  3. Roy Jenkins.
  4. Switzerland.
  5. The Society of Friends (the Quakers).
  6. A giant panda.
  7. Thrush.
  8. False (Austria joined in 1995, 22 years after the UK).
  9. The Red Cross.
  10. The Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Half-time teaser
69.

Round 3

  1. Cardiff.
  2. Richard Rogers.
  3. Cheese and bread (toast).
  4. The leek.
  5. Richard Burton.
  6. Laura Ashley.
  7. Chepstow.
  8. Emlyn Williams.
  9. Fashion.
  10. Shirley Bassey.

Round 4

  1. Madrid.
  2. Revenge
    .
  3. Parma.
  4. The US Civil War.
  5. Trinity College.
  6. The Rivals
    .
  7. Pan’s People.
  8. The Archbishop of Westminster.
  9. Sikhism.
  10. A form of massage.

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