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  1. Global Positioning System.
  2. Seven.
  3. He is Nicolas Cage’s uncle.
  4. Dexy’s Midnight Runners (in their single ‘Come on Eileen’).
  5. It is the rearmost mast.
  6. Epsom.
  7. George Bernard Shaw.
  8. The aubergine.
  9. The Comet.
  10. Trevor Francis.

Round 2

  1. 30.
  2. The Tarpeian Rock.
  3. Charles II.
  4. Mata Hari.
  5. Queen Victoria.
  6. Benedict Arnold.
  7. The Spanish Civil War.
  8. The Tower of London.
  9. Elizabeth I.
  10. Marshal Philippe Pétain.

Half-time teaser
28.1 metres.

Round 3

  1. Today
    .
  2. William Golding.
  3. Princess Royal.
  4. He became the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final.
  5. Bob Champion.
  6. The sixpence.
  7. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
  8. Lionel Richie.
  9. Greenland won independence from Denmark and left the community.
  10. Bobby Robson.

Round 4

  1. Ben Jonson.
  2. Amontillado.
  3. The Great Bear.
  4. True.
  5. Triangular.
  6. Astronomer Royal.
  7. The BBC.
  8. Golf.
  9. South African.
  10. EastEnders
    .

Jackpot
Stan Laurel.

 

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Round 1

  1. Pudding Lane.
  2. Belgian.
  3. George Eliot.
  4. Robert Palmer.
  5. L. Ron Hubbard.
  6. Kazakhstan.
  7. The Turner Prize.
  8. Taxi Driver
    .
  9. Hot Chocolate.
  10. Sodor.

Round 2

  1. Au.
  2. Benson and Hedges.
  3. Ethel Merman.
  4. The Crazy Gang.
  5. The Referendum Party.
  6. Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
    .
  7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    .
  8. The Berlin Film Festival.
  9. Fool’s gold.
  10. Tina Turner.

Half-time teaser
122.

Round 3

  1. Max Miller.
  2. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
  3. Life of Brian
    .
  4. Norman Wisdom.
  5. Hattie Jacques.
  6. Barcelona.
  7. Harpo.
  8. On Craggy Island.
  9. The Algonquin Round Table.
  10. Billy Connolly.

Round 4

  1. Beatrix Potter.
  2. Kiss.
  3. C. S. Lewis.
  4. Camelot.
  5. Doodlebugs.
  6. Savannah.
  7. Six (Donny, Alan, Jimmy, Wayne, Jay and Merrill).
  8. Maplin’s.
  9. Ethiopia.
  10. Any Which Way You Can
    .

Jackpot
Nepal (the flag consists of two triangles, one above the other).

 

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Round 1

  1. 180.
  2. An elephant.
  3. Lotus.
  4. Don Giovanni
    .
  5. Yellow.
  6. Queen’s Park Rangers.
  7. The Riddle of the Sands
    .
  8. Sleep.
  9. A butler.
  10. Meteor showers.

Round 2

  1. Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
  2. John.
  3. Britney Spears.
  4. Elvis Presley.
  5. Pamela Anderson.
  6. Sir Elton John.
  7. Madonna.
  8. Christina Aguilera.
  9. Shilpa Shetty.
  10. Pigs (who went on the run from an abattoir in Malmesbury in 1998).

Half-time teaser
75.

Round 3

  1. ‘The Forces’ Sweetheart’.
  2. Alan Freeman.
  3. Jack Nicklaus.
  4. Cynthia Payne.
  5. Jerry Lee Lewis.
  6. ‘The Swedish Nightingale’.
  7. Lord Longford.
  8. Jesse Owens.
  9. Princess Michael of Kent.
  10. Mary Pickford.

Round 4

  1. St Paul’s Cathedral.
  2. Weatherfield.
  3. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
  4. Jean Borotra.
  5. The Canterbury Tales
    .
  6. Passover (or Pesach).
  7. Richard Nixon.
  8. Coniston.
  9. Far From the Madding Crowd
    .
  10. Cheese wrapped in nettles.

Jackpot
Gymnastics.

 

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Round 1

  1. Victor Meldrew.
  2. Cumbria.
  3. Lady Jane Grey.
  4. The Sex Pistols.
  5. Azkaban.
  6. 4 July 1776 (date of the US declaration of independence).
  7. True.
  8. Pop art.
  9. Santa Anna.
  10. Jack Dempsey.

Round 2

  1. This Life
    .
  2. Six billion.
  3. Emma Thompson.
  4. Schindler’s List
    .
  5. Tommi Mäkinen.
  6. Benetton.
  7. John Major’s.
  8. Baywatch
    .
  9. Brit art.
  10. Jarvis Cocker.

Half-time Teaser
8,022 square miles.

Round 3

  1. US president Theodore Roosevelt (apparently after he spared a young bear tied up for him to shoot).
  2. Housey-housey (or, going back to the eighteenth century, lotto).
  3. True (he used them to store gas).
  4. Sandie Shaw.
  5. G. I. Joe.
  6. The yo-yo.
  7. Beanie Babies.
  8. Bridge.
  9. Sony.
  10. Peter Gabriel.

Round 4

  1. Russell Crowe.
  2. The Black Pearl.
  3. Lindisfarne.
  4. Jean-Paul Sartre.
  5. The Solway Firth.
  6. Bruce Wayne.
  7. Jimmy Hoffa.
  8. 30.
  9. The Beach Boys.
  10. Methuselah.

Jackpot
Ragnarok.

 

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Round 1

  1. A fawn.
  2. Epilepsy.
  3. Bananaman.
  4. Argentina.
  5. Midnight to 4 a.m.
  6. Trowbridge.
  7. Table-tennis.
  8. Yes.
  9. Order of the British Empire.
  10. Cotton.

Round 2

  1. Gypsy Moth IV
    .
  2. Hajj.
  3. The
    Empire Windrush
    .
  4. Rome and Brindisi.
  5. False.
  6. Helen Sharman.
  7. DeLorean.
  8. It is within a human body (in a mini-submarine).
  9. Starlight Express
    .
  10. St Christopher.

Half-time teaser
36.

Round 3

  1. Ingrid Bergman.
  2. Carry On Sergeant
    .
  3. Renée Zellweger.
  4. Stanley Kubrick.
  5. The Boys from Brazil
    .
  6. Billy Wilder.
  7. Apocalypse Now
    .
  8. Harry Palmer.
  9. That’ll Be the Day
    .
  10. The Ten Commandments
    .

Round 4

  1. Vitamin C.
  2. Crete.
  3. Woodrow Wilson.
  4. West Side Story
    .
  5. Johnny Cash.
  6. The Benson and Hedges Cup.
  7. Under Milk Wood
    .
  8. Queen Victoria.
  9. The breastbone.
  10. Los Angeles.

Jackpot
Heart of Midlothian.

 

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Round 1

  1. A lavatory.
  2. Tiger Woods.
  3. The Clangers
    .
  4. For what it’s worth.
  5. Dolly Parton.
  6. The
    Exxon Valdez
    .
  7. Jonestown.
  8. False (there is more nitrogen than oxygen).
  9. The Stratofortress.
  10. The boxer Joe Louis.

Round 2

  1. Zeus.
  2. Hermes.
  3. The Norse god Thor.
  4. Haile Selassie.
  5. Peter Shilton.
  6. Kali.
  7. Venus.
  8. ‘Life on Mars’.
  9. Francis Ford Coppola.
  10. A theatre.

Half-time teaser
Around 150,000.

Round 3

  1. Sacha Distel’s.
  2. Cabin fever.
  3. David Frost.
  4. St Swithun’s Day.
  5. ‘Telstar’.
  6. Gone With the Wind
    .
  7. Katrina.
  8. Carole King.
  9. Terry Jacks.
  10. Travis.

Round 4

  1. ‘Amazing Grace’.
  2. The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  3. True.
  4. A school.
  5. ‘All shook up’.
  6. Red Rum.
  7. José Carreras.
  8. Oliver Cromwell.
  9. Handwriting.
  10. Chicken Kiev.

Jackpot
Ukraine.

 

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Round 1

  1. Havana.
  2. Brooklands.
  3. A sheriff.
  4. Porsche.
  5. Michael Winner.
  6. The deep-fried Mars bar.
  7. Billy Elliot
    .
  8. 48.
  9. Speedway.
  10. Cricket.

Round 2

  1. Table Mountain.
  2. Ethiopia.
  3. The Springboks.
  4. The African Queen
    .
  5. Idi Amin.
  6. Zimbabwe.
  7. The hippo.
  8. Eat it.
  9. Tunisia.
  10. True.

Half-time teaser
80.96.

Round 3

  1. Pears.
  2. Greece.
  3. Kahlua.
  4. Tequila.
  5. Orange.
  6. Drambuie.
  7. Cherries.
  8. Eight.
  9. There is too much tannin in it.
  10. A Harvey wallbanger.

Round 4

  1. John Dunlop.
  2. To the bottom of the sea.
  3. Ethel Merman.
  4. The Dardanelles (or Hellespont).
  5. Margaret.
  6. Nine.
  7. David Walliams.
  8. Julius Caesar.
  9. The 19th century.
  10. Emmerdale Farm
    .

Jackpot
The bluebell.

 

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Round 1

  1. Neverland.
  2. Alice in Wonderland.
  3. U2.
  4. Regan.
  5. ‘Ode to Joy’ by Beethoven.
  6. Canadian.
  7. The Spencer family
  8. A tower (usually part of a temple).
  9. Baseball.
  10. Napoleon did it himself.

Round 2

  1. Calais.
  2. The Quai d’Orsay.
  3. Audrey Tautou.
  4. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
  5. Jacques Tati.
  6. Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
  7. Jane Birkin.
  8. Big Bertha.
  9. Renoir.
  10. John Fowles.

Half-time teaser
49.

Round 3

  1. They are third cousins.
  2. Gerald Durrell.
  3. Beetles.
  4. The Grand Duchess Anastasia (posthumous DNA tests in 1991 proved she was not).
  5. Alec Guinness.
  6. Mrs Bridges.
  7. An Inspector Calls
    .
  8. Nepal.
  9. Diana Rigg.
  10. No (neither were they called Walker until they all adopted the name after forming the band).

Round 4

  1. 64.
  2. Jan Vermeer.
  3. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
  4. True.
  5. Albanian.
  6. Last of the Summer Wine
    .
  7. Drunk.
  8. The Battle of Hastings.
  9. Rupert Bear.
  10. The American Civil War.

Jackpot
Terry Nation.

 

Quiz 66 answers

Round 1

  1. The butterfly bush.
  2. The Wizard of Oz
    .
  3. The Globe Theatre.
  4. Four.
  5. The circulation of blood.
  6. Oscar Wilde.
  7. Pelota.
  8. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
  9. Nick Hornby.
  10. Birmingham.

Round 2

  1. At Niagara.
  2. Cast iron.
  3. Japan.
  4. Belfast.
  5. Majorca.
  6. In the Louvre in Paris.
  7. To the Crystal Palace.
  8. In the Tower of London.
  9. The Victoria Falls.
  10. Cornwall.

Half-time teaser
1,072.

Round 3

  1. Chaps.
  2. A hat.
  3. Tank tops.
  4. On your face (they are long side-whiskers).
  5. Kilt.
  6. A light scarf (worn over the head and shoulders).
  7. Red.
  8. Blue.
  9. A hat.
  10. Innuit (or Eskimo).

Round 4

  1. An ape.
  2. The yew.
  3. Elvis Presley.
  4. Pressure (or stress).
  5. Evonne Cawley.
  6. Alan Shearer (with 260).
  7. TV chefs.
  8. Daniel Radcliffe.
  9. Austrian.
  10. Mauve (or light purple).

Jackpot
It’s the dot above a letter i.

 

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Round 1

  1. Scooby Doo.
  2. Tony Christie.
  3. Watership Down
    .
  4. Monday.
  5. ‘Helter-skelter’.
  6. Devon.
  7. He was the first man to be convicted for driving a lawnmower while drunk.
  8. Algeria.
  9. Death.
  10. St Helena.

Round 2

  1. Breakfast and lunch.
  2. At Easter.
  3. Sirloin (though it more likely comes from the French
    surlonge
    , meaning ‘above loin’).
  4. Soya beans (curd).
  5. Monosodium glutamate.
  6. Molasses.
  7. Two.
  8. Ground almonds.
  9. Henry I.
  10. Two.

Half-time teaser
124.

Round 3

  1. The Bash Street Kids.
  2. Ofsted.
  3. Darbishire.
  4. Billy Bunter.
  5. The Blackboard Jungle
    .
  6. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    .
  7. Dotheboys Hall.
  8. Jack Black.
  9. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
  10. Jane Eyre
    .

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