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Jackpot
Robespierre.

 

Quiz 29 answers

Round 1

  1. Graceland.
  2. Desperate Housewives
    .
  3. Cider with Rosie
    .
  4. David Essex.
  5. A marine.
  6. A urinal.
  7. On a fingertip.
  8. Raquel Welch.
  9. Peanuts.
  10. The Green Rifles.

Round 2

  1. St Patrick.
  2. St Andrew.
  3. True.
  4. St Peter.
  5. St Bernard (of Montjoux).
  6. Edward the Confessor.
  7. St James (St James’s Park).
  8. All Saints.
  9. St Andrews.
  10. As a tent-maker.

Half-time teaser
98,721.

Round 3

  1. Richard Greene.
  2. M.A.S.H
    .
  3. As
    Time Goes By
    .
  4. Toothpaste (Gibbs SR).
  5. Holby.
  6. Jacob Bronowski.
  7. Tony Robinson.
  8. Absolutely Fabulous
    .
  9. Uncle Fester.
  10. Teddy.

Round 4

  1. The Jackal.
  2. 1914.
  3. Ravel’s
    Boléro
    .
  4. Flatfishes.
  5. The Eagles.
  6. Dundee.
  7. Seasonal affective disorder.
  8. Woody Allen.
  9. Op(tical) art.
  10. A Belisha beacon.

Jackpot
Lieutenant Pigeon.

 

Quiz 30 answers

Round 1

  1. Joseph.
  2. U2.
  3. General Douglas MacArthur (referring to the Philippines).
  4. Good intentions.
  5. Eugene Ionesco.
  6. A cap.
  7. Finchley (and Barnet, Finchley).
  8. Father.
  9. Ernie Els.
  10. Peninsular and Oriental.

Round 2

  1. What you see is what you get.
  2. A.
  3. Computer-generated imagery.
  4. The at sign (@).
  5. Apple Macintosh.
  6. Keep it simple, stupid.
  7. Charles Babbage.
  8. Frequently Asked Questions.
  9. A central processing unit.
  10. Rolling on floor laughing.

Half-time teaser
227.

Round 3

  1. Emily Davison.
  2. The River Ouse.
  3. Led Zeppelin.
  4. In a plane crash.
  5. Gianni Versace.
  6. Anton von Webern.
  7. Jesse James.
  8. Clark Gable.
  9. Olof Palme.
  10. Gladiator
    .

Round 4

  1. Maundy Thursday.
  2. Bluebird.
  3. Oasis.
  4. Newfoundland.
  5. Axis.
  6. Groundhog Day
    .
  7. Samoa.
  8. George.
  9. Dreadnought
    .
  10. Athens.

Jackpot
Six.

 

Quiz 31 answers

Round 1

  1. Sealed with a loving kiss.
  2. Pepper.
  3. Pentangle.
  4. The Onedin Line
    .
  5. Edward VII.
  6. University Challenge
    .
  7. A Volkswagen Beetle.
  8. Malaysia.
  9. Apollo.
  10. John Le Carré.

Round 2

  1. Professor Moriarty.
  2. Taking (a vehicle) without the owner’s consent.
  3. For trying to steal the Crown Jewels.
  4. Interpol.
  5. Police
    5.
  6. Dick Barton.
  7. Sun Hill.
  8. The Black Panther.
  9. The Costa del Crime.
  10. The hoodie.

Half-time teaser

Eleven feet one inch.

Round 3

  1. Cubism.
  2. Dutch.
  3. Salvador Dali.
  4. Venice.
  5. Art Deco.
  6. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (or Pre-Raphaelites).
  7. Charles I.
  8. Tracey Emin.
  9. Tahiti.
  10. You can’t – it was destroyed after Churchill’s death by his widow, who hated it.

Round 4

  1. Malta.
  2. Eleven (from their shape).
  3. Lara Croft.
  4. Gregory Peck.
  5. Sweden.
  6. Katrina and the Waves.
  7. Jupiter.
  8. Synchronised swimming.
  9. Chicago.
  10. The Circle line.

Jackpot
George I.

 

Quiz 32 answer

Round 1

  1. Discretion.
  2. Chester.
  3. She became the first woman cox in the Boat Race.
  4. Earl Grey.
  5. The five inhabited continents.
  6. The Dave Clark Five.
  7. A friend.
  8. The Caledonian Canal.
  9. Al Gore.
  10. Eye.

Round 2

  1. Eldorado.
  2. Venice.
  3. Captain Cook.
  4. Ferdinand Magellan.
  5. Alan Shepard.
  6. Christopher Columbus.
  7. Roald Amundsen.
  8. Robert Falcon.
  9. Santa Maria
    .
  10. Ranulph Fiennes.

Half-time Teaser
4,862.

Round 3

  1. Justin Timberlake.
  2. Mariah Carey.
  3. Avril Lavigne.
  4. Nelly Furtado.
  5. Joe Strummer.
  6. Kelly Clarkson.
  7. ‘Crazy frog’.
  8. Legal downloads from the internet.
  9. Leeds.
  10. The Arctic Monkeys (
    Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
    ).

Round 4

  1. The high jump.
  2. San Francisco (in the single ‘Let’s go to San Francisco’).
  3. The Fifth Amendment.
  4. Woody Allen.
  5. Beatrix Potter.
  6. Harold Wilson.
  7. A crossbar.
  8. Celia Johnson.
  9. Arthur Hailey.
  10. Nautilus
    .

Jackpot
James Garfield.

 

Quiz 33 answers

Round 1

  1. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.
  2. The Borrowers
    by Mary Norton.
  3. Gary Cooper.
  4. Mogadishu.
  5. As an ambulance driver (with the Red Cross).
  6. 1964.
  7. James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
  8. Alexis Colby.
  9. T. Rex.
  10. Friends of the Earth.

Round 2

  1. The Mount of Olives.
  2. Lesotho.
  3. The Rialto.
  4. The Vatican.
  5. Oxford.
  6. Rio de Janeiro.
  7. Wellington (the capital of New Zealand).
  8. Slough.
  9. Florence.
  10. Nicaragua.

Half-time teaser
1,811 times.

Round 3

  1. William Shakespeare.
  2. John Keats.
  3. Charles II.
  4. Sir Christopher Wren (in St Paul’s Cathedral, which he designed).
  5. Karl Marx.
  6. Dorothy Parker.
  7. Mel Blanc (US cartoon voice artist).
  8. W. B. Yeats.
  9. Spike Milligan.
  10. Edgar Allan Poe.

Round 4

  1. The Bullet Train.
  2. Whistler’s Mother
    .
  3. The African Queen
    .
  4. Lord Haw-Haw.
  5. Bobby Moore.
  6. A doe.
  7. The Rovers Return.
  8. Yorick.
  9. Dana International.
  10. Houdini.

Jackpot
Antonio Gaudí.

 

Quiz 34 answers

Round 1

  1. Mandarin Chinese.
  2. Halley’s Comet.
  3. Percussion.
  4. Portugal.
  5. Anything Goes
    .
  6. January.
  7. ‘Chattanooga choo choo’.
  8. Egg-shaped.
  9. Jesse.
  10. The British Expeditionary Force.

Round 2

  1. Cul-de-sac.
  2. Hoi polloi.
  3. Hindi.
  4. Non sequitur.
  5. Afrikaans.
  6. Chutzpah.
  7. Faux pas.
  8. Ombudsman.
  9. Kitsch.
  10. Prét-à-porter.

Half-time teaser
365 feet.

Round 3

  1. The Lord of the Rings
    .
  2. Angel Clare.
  3. Three Men in a Boat
    .
  4. Edward.
  5. David Copperfield
    .
  6. Bunbury.
  7. Eton.
  8. The Lost World
    .
  9. Mr Funny.
  10. Leo McKern.

Round 4

  1. Across, or beyond.
  2. The Open University.
  3. Football.
  4. The Battle of the Bulge.
  5. The farthing.
  6. Rowan.
  7. The orchid.
  8. William IV.
  9. Wagner.
  10. Kelly Holmes.

Jackpot
The press.

 

Quiz 35 answers

Round 1

  1. The Pyramids of Egypt.
  2. The Red Arrows.
  3. The Arndale Centre.
  4. Mastermind
    .
  5. Portmeirion, Gwynedd.
  6. True.
  7. Sirhan Sirhan.
  8. He was a gardener (more precisely, head gardener to Charles II).
  9. Benjamin Britten’s.
  10. William Shakespeare (in 1964).

Round 2

  1. To stop perspiration from the forehead running down into the eyes.
  2. Twenty-four.
  3. False (it takes 12 to smile and just 11 to frown).
  4. Elle Macpherson.
  5. The bodyline tour.
  6. Body-popping.
  7. The Body Shop.
  8. The leg.
  9. False (there are 206).
  10. Kevin Costner.

Half-time Teaser
1,680 hours.

Round 3

  1. I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
  2. The Netherlands.
  3. Mustique.
  4. Brad Pitt.
  5. The Church of Scientology.
  6. Patsy Kensit.
  7. Kate Winslet.
  8. Sean Penn.
  9. Lisa Marie Presley.
  10. Beckham.

Round 4

  1. L. S. Lowry.
  2. Reggae.
  3. Sudan.
  4. Potatoes.
  5. Céleste.
  6. Queensland (where bananas are widely grown).
  7. Portugal.
  8. Brothel-creepers.
  9. Little Jimmy Osmond.
  10. Rin Tin Tin.

Jackpot
Ramsay MacDonald.

 

Quiz 36 answers

Round 1

  1. Rome.
  2. The gridiron.
  3. The Sweet.
  4. Stalin.
  5. The French Open (tennis).
  6. Hotel du Lac
    .
  7. Said Aouita.
  8. Victory.
  9. The sweet chestnut.
  10. The Archers
    .

Round 2

  1. A Tale of Two Cities
    by Charles Dickens.
  2. Rawhide.
  3. Reveille.
  4. ‘Da capo’.
  5. Twelfth Night
    .
  6. Green.
  7. Julio Iglesias.
  8. Distant.
  9. C.
  10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    by C. S. Lewis.

Half-time teaser
14.

Round 3

  1. The Jordan.
  2. The Zambesi.
  3. The Test.
  4. The Hudson.
  5. Tchaikovsky.
  6. The Yangste.
  7. The Danube.
  8. The Nene.
  9. The Rhine.
  10. The Rio Grande.

Round 4

  1. Casterbridge.
  2. Formula One motor-racing.
  3. The Plimsoll line.
  4. Aaron.
  5. True.
  6. Smokey Robinson.
  7. Nottinghamshire.
  8. Frank Zappa.
  9. Bobby Riggs.
  10. Alec Douglas-Home.

Jackpot
Charles Laughton (for
The Private Life of Henry VIII
).

 

Quiz 37 answers

Round 1

  1. Mount Kilimanjaro.
  2. Blair Babes.
  3. Melanie B.
  4. Constantinople.
  5. The America’s Cup.
  6. Judy Garland.
  7. True.
  8. Gerard Manley Hopkins (the poem was ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’).
  9. The Red Duster.
  10. E. H. Shepherd.

Round 2

  1. Sam Peckinpah.
  2. Ben Murphy and Pete Duel.
  3. Billy the Kid.
  4. The Searchers.
  5. ‘Apache’ (by the Shadows).
  6. The Sioux.
  7. The Lone Ranger
    .
  8. Wounded Knee.
  9. The High Chaparral
    .
  10. Gene Wilder.

Half-time Teaser
132.

Round 3

  1. The
    News of the World
    .
  2. The marriage of playwright Arthur Miller and actress Marilyn Monroe.
  3. Private Eye
    .
  4. A crossword (in
    The Daily Express)
    .
  5. The
    Beano
    .
  6. The marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.
  7. The
    Daily Express
    .
  8. Argentina’s
    General Belgrano
    .
  9. The
    Dandy
    .
  10. OK!

Round 4

  1. Elvis Presley’s.
  2. Catch-22
    .
  3. Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  4. Adolf Hitler.
  5. Canberra.
  6. Walter Winterbottom.
  7. Ingrid Bergman.
  8. The Fly
    .
  9. Madame Tussaud’s.
  10. General Patton.

Jackpot
The Hays Code.

 

Quiz 38 answers

Round 1

  1. Wimbledon.
  2. An umbrella.
  3. Earthworms.
  4. Paris.
  5. An Oscar (Academy Award).
  6. Baseball.
  7. In Milan.
  8. Wizzard.
  9. False.
  10. The Royal Horticultural Society.

Round 2

  1. Charles Lindbergh.
  2. The Hebrides.
  3. A fruit bat.
  4. Canada.
  5. Harrison Ford.
  6. New Hampshire.
  7. Derbyshire.
  8. She became the first air hostess.
  9. Boston, Massachusetts.
  10. Squadron Leader.

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