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Half-time Teaser
1,513.

Round 3

  1. The Chancellor of the Exchequer.
  2. Sexton Blake.
  3. A pub.
  4. The Archbishop of Canterbury.
  5. George Washington.
  6. Arsenal Stadium, Highbury.
  7. The Royal Air Force.
  8. Wall Street.
  9. Queen Victoria.
  10. Blue.

Round 4

  1. Impatience.
  2. Road rage.
  3. Maya Angelou.
  4. Los Angeles.
  5. Madame Butterfly
    .
  6. Australia.
  7. Adam Smith.
  8. Beethoven.
  9. Wind speed.
  10. Cycling (tiredness caused by lack of food).

Jackpot
The decimal halfpenny.

 

Quiz 39 answers

Round 1

  1. The Lady of the Lamp.
  2. Dolly.
  3. The Pipkins.
  4. Real Madrid.
  5. J. R. Ewing (in television’s
    Dallas)
    .
  6. Jack Nicholson.
  7. Liberty’s.
  8. London and Portsmouth.
  9. Highgrove.
  10. Iain Duncan Smith.

Round 2

  1. The Battle of Marston Moor.
  2. Peter Pan
    .
  3. Pickles.
  4. True.
  5. John Wayne (who had a dog called Duke).
  6. Max.
  7. Dog licences were abolished.
  8. They do not bark.
  9. Vivian Stanshall.
  10. Nipper.

Half-time Teaser
3,106 carats.

Round 3

  1. In his bath.
  2. Colombia.
  3. He dissolved them in a bath of acid.
  4. John Nettles.
  5. The A6.
  6. Norman Bates.
  7. Doctor Crippen.
  8. True.
  9. Saddleworth.
  10. 10 Rillington Place.

Round 4

  1. A detective.
  2. Jimmy Durante.
  3. Lillie Langtry.
  4. False (it lasted 116 years).
  5. Minimalism.
  6. Midge Ure.
  7. Thermal underwear.
  8. Roald Amundsen.
  9. Coventry.
  10. The Severn.

Jackpot
Mannerism.

 

Quiz 40 answers

Round 1

  1. Belgium.
  2. Five.
  3. Henry VIII
    .
  4. Tin Pan Alley.
  5. Lourdes, in southern France.
  6. Trinity House.
  7. Ecuador.
  8. A.
  9. Charles II.
  10. George Bush Senior.

Round 2

  1. Thomas De Quincey.
  2. Pelé.
  3. Adolf Hitler.
  4. Laurie Lee.
  5. Wayne Sleep.
  6. Flora Thompson.
  7. Tammy Wynette.
  8. Roald Dahl.
  9. Henry Thoreau.
  10. Gertrude Stein.

Half-time teaser
1,189.

Round 3

  1. A pear.
  2. Apples.
  3. Broccoli.
  4. A clementine.
  5. True.
  6. A beetroot.
  7. A loganberry.
  8. Mushrooms.
  9. Vitamin C.
  10. A peach.

Round 4

  1. Shergar.
  2. The
    Ark Royal
    .
  3. Arsenal.
  4. Peter Pan
    .
  5. Glandular fever.
  6. Spain.
  7. ‘Mad world’.
  8. Tasmanian wolf.
  9. The men’s discus.
  10. Frans Hals.

Jackpot
Richmond, Virginia.

 

Quiz 41 answers

Round 1

  1. Yuri Gagarin.
  2. Ralph McTell.
  3. Nicole Kidman.
  4. Arthur Askey.
  5. Rudolph Valentino.
  6. John Dryden.
  7. The spring term.
  8. Hungarian.
  9. Stanley Matthews.
  10. The Kaiser Chiefs.

Round 2

  1. The Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
  2. England.
  3. A pedalo.
  4. Jack Hawkins.
  5. Albatross.
  6. False (it is the real thing).
  7. The Battle of Copenhagen.
  8. Australia (Harold Holt).
  9. Madagascar.
  10. Lord Horatio Kitchener.

Half-time teaser
10,570 miles.

Round 3

  1. Toto.
  2. Damon Runyon.
  3. Annie Get Your Gun
    (based on the life of Annie Oakley).
  4. Sally Bowles.
  5. Brigadoon
    .
  6. Calamity Jane
    .
  7. Billy Bigelow.
  8. Oh, What a Lovely War!
  9. The Philadelphia Story
    .
  10. Bugsy Malone
    .

Round 4

  1. The Wild One
    .
  2. Arthur Negus.
  3. New Zealand.
  4. Red.
  5. Boris Johnson.
  6. Miami Vice
    .
  7. David Jacobs.
  8. The Tempest
    .
  9. The Three Stooges.
  10. Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards.

Jackpot
Friday.

 

Quiz 42 answers

Round 1

  1. New Zealand.
  2. 101 Dalmatians
    .
  3. Russia.
  4. Bend It Like Beckham
    .
  5. Edward VIII (on the day that he acceded to the throne, in 1936).
  6. Chiaroscuro.
  7. The Taming of the Shrew
    .
  8. Anne of Cleves.
  9. George Carey.
  10. Alzheimer’s.

Round 2

  1. Gilbert and Sullivan.
  2. False.
  3. Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk.
  4. Barbed wire.
  5. Lord Peter Wimsey.
  6. George Bush Senior.
  7. Jerry Mouse.
  8. Edinburgh.
  9. William Rodgers.
  10. They were transatlantic aviators.

Half-time teaser
66.

Round 3

  1. Polaris.
  2. Galaxies.
  3. The Hubble Space Telescope.
  4. Douglas Adams.
  5. The solar system.
  6. Uranus.
  7. Five years.
  8. Nebula.
  9. The USSR (in 1959).
  10. 77.

Round 4

  1. Procrastination.
  2. Charles De Gaulle.
  3. Lester Piggott (30).
  4. 12.
  5. Theatre critic Alexander Woollcott.
  6. The haka.
  7. Fox-hunting.
  8. Jeffrey Bernard (
    Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
    ).
  9. Tesco.
  10. Mayfair.

Jackpot
Shelta.

 

Quiz 43 answers

Round 1

  1. Thomas Jefferson.
  2. Yellow Submarine
    .
  3. Marcel Proust.
  4. Guitar.
  5. Canada.
  6. All About Eve
    .
  7. Roland Rat.
  8. Samuel Beckett.
  9. False.
  10. Joe DiMaggio.

Round 2

  1. Karl Benz.
  2. The bonnet.
  3. The VW Beetle.
  4. The Brighton Run.
  5. Tracy Chapman.
  6. Chappaquiddick.
  7. Madness.
  8. The Reliant Robin.
  9. Kraftwerk (with the single ‘Autobahn’).
  10. The Highway Code
    .

Half-time teaser
12.

Round 3

  1. Gavrilo Princip (who assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo and thus helped precipitate World War I).
  2. The Boston Tea Party.
  3. U2.
  4. The Angels of Mons.
  5. The Crimean War.
  6. Agent Orange.
  7. The Desert Rats.
  8. Kuwait.
  9. The German invasion of Russia in 1941.
  10. The (Second) Boer War.

Round 4

  1. Abbey Road
    .
  2. Rosemary’s Baby
    .
  3. He was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.
  4. Britpop.
  5. False (it was in the USA).
  6. Coventry.
  7. Mexico (Quetzalcoatl).
  8. US president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  9. The British Library.
  10. Ink-blots.

Jackpot
Anne of Green Gables
(and its sequels, including
Anne of Avonlea
).

 

Quiz 44 answers

Round 1

  1. The Roundheads (or Parliamentarians).
  2. John Constable.
  3. The Beggar’s Opera
    .
  4. Ontario.
  5. November.
  6. The
    Mona Lisa
    .
  7. Margaret Thatcher.
  8. Brookside
  9. A daisycutter.
  10. Greece.

Round 2

  1. Fred Astaire.
  2. John Ravenscroft.
  3. Sting.
  4. Captain Black.
  5. Uncle Remus.
  6. Bill Wyman.
  7. Tony Bennett.
  8. Anthony.
  9. Charles Bronson.
  10. Pelé.

Half-time teaser
5,801.

Round 3

  1. John F. Kennedy.
  2. François Mitterand.
  3. President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
  4. Abraham Lincoln.
  5. Paul von Hindenburg.
  6. The West Wing
    .
  7. The Elysée Palace.
  8. True.
  9. ‘Hail to the chief’.
  10. Mount Rushmore.

Round 4

  1. Dance.
  2. Kodak.
  3. Led Zeppelin.
  4. Boris Becker.
  5. The South Downs Way.
  6. Ash Wednesday.
  7. Palm trees.
  8. Alabama.
  9. Wormwood Scrubs.
  10. Sir Edwin Landseer.

Jackpot
An ice-pick.

 

Quiz 45 answers

Round 1

  1. The discovery of penicillin.
  2. The Mekon.
  3. Pinkie.
  4. Dario Fo.
  5. To measure eyesight.
  6. Steak tartare.
  7. Yellow.
  8. Berni Inns.
  9. Arnold Wesker.
  10. Imelda Marcos.

Round 2

  1. York.
  2. The Scilly Isles.
  3. Aylesbury.
  4. Glasgow.
  5. The Golden Mile.
  6. The congestion charge.
  7. Walmington-on-Sea.
  8. Birmingham.
  9. Caernarvon.
  10. Newlyn.

Half-time teaser
14.

Round 3

  1. Broadway.
  2. Waiting for Godot
    .
  3. The World Snooker Championship.
  4. The Old Vic.
  5. Aunt Edna.
  6. Method.
  7. Gertrude Lawrence.
  8. Angry Young Men.
  9. Arsenic and Old Lace
    .
  10. Hamlet
    .

Round 4

  1. Eight (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain).
  2. The Boers.
  3. Four.
  4. George Bernard Shaw.
  5. The Cat.
  6. Wham!
  7. Dorset.
  8. The Hippocratic Oath.
  9. Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace, London).
  10. Sheep.

Jackpot
Aldo Moro.

 

Quiz 46 answers

Round 1

  1. ‘Bigfoot’.
  2. Andrew Jackson.
  3. The ordination of women.
  4. Ben Gunn.
  5. Schubert.
  6. The membrane between the nostrils.
  7. Chuck Berry.
  8. Isaac Newton.
  9. Plover.
  10. Paul Ince.

Round 2

  1. The introduction of antiseptics in surgery.
  2. Vitamin D.
  3. Shortsightedness.
  4. Rubella.
  5. The ambulance.
  6. The first sex-change operation.
  7. High blood pressure.
  8. Tourette’s syndrome.
  9. Sputum.
  10. Heart surgery.

Half-time teaser
34 centimetres.

Round 3

  1. George Dixon (of Dock Green).
  2. Ray Reardon.
  3. Tosca
    .
  4. New Scotland Yard.
  5. Richard Hannay.
  6. True.
  7. Chief Wiggum.
  8. The Kray Twins.
  9. Buzzer.
  10. Because of their black-and-white markings.

Round 4

  1. King Kong.
  2. Decibels.
  3. The top row.
  4. Australian.
  5. St Paul.
  6. They were all deaf.
  7. Essex.
  8. Detroit.
  9. Greg Norman.
  10. The Scaffold.

Jackpot
Reptiles.

 

Quiz 47 answers

Round 1

  1. Tripoli.
  2. True.
  3. Cher.
  4. Lake Victoria.
  5. Harold Pinter.
  6. Thalidomide.
  7. Sri Lanka (1960).
  8. Orcs.
  9. He was a doctor.
  10. Belshazzar.

Round 2

  1. New York City.
  2. California.
  3. Enrico Caruso.
  4. Big Ears.
  5. The US state of Georgia (which is twice the size of the republic).
  6. Maine.
  7. Fort Knox.
  8. True (since 2003).
  9. Rip Van Winkle.
  10. Veterans Day.

Half-time teaser
David (it appears over 1,000 times).

Round 3

  1. They both faked famous works of art.
  2. Myra Hindley.
  3. 41.
  4. William Joyce (‘Lord Haw-Haw’, hanged in 1946).
  5. Sweeney Todd.
  6. Al-Qaida.
  7. R. D. Blackmore’s
    Lorna Doone
    (1869).
  8. Scarface.
  9. Phil Silvers.
  10. The Butcher of Lyon.

Round 4

  1. Coconut ice.
  2. ‘Macarena’.
  3. Milky Way.
  4. The boat owned by Charlie Allnutt (played in the film by Humphrey Bogart).
  5. The Tour de France.
  6. The hardness of materials.
  7. The Duke of Buckingham.
  8. Dartmoor.
  9. Mezzanine.
  10. Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Jackpot
The Hermitage in St Petersburg.

 

Quiz 48 answers

Round 1

  1. Garrard.
  2. Bros.
  3. Road tunnels.
  4. Death of a Salesman
    .
  5. Leslie Howard.
  6. The Potomac.
  7. Harry S. Truman.
  8. Graham Kerr.
  9. Three.
  10. His right heel.

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