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Round 4

  1. Baseball.
  2. The keystone.
  3. Shane MacGowan.
  4. The clarinet.
  5. Prince.
  6. Titanic
    .
  7. Lewis Carroll (he was over six feet tall, while Barrie stopped growing at the age of 15).
  8. George Orwell, in his novel
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    .
  9. The dogs (in the single ‘Who let the dogs out’).
  10. Vlad the Impaler.

Jackpot
The Cheviots.

 

Quiz 68 answers

Round 1

  1. Prima donna.
  2. A diamond.
  3. Hope.
  4. Tony Curtis.
  5. Portugal.
  6. The Jam.
  7. Italy.
  8. Oven gloves.
  9. True.
  10. Augustus.

Round 2

  1. Golf.
  2. Princess Anne.
  3. Denis Compton.
  4. Joe Davis.
  5. Nadia Comaneci.
  6. 1993 (the race was declared void).
  7. None.
  8. The eighteenth century.
  9. 300.
  10. One hour.

Half-time teaser
84 hours.

Round 3

  1. A venomous snake.
  2. The alpaca.
  3. Timmy.
  4. A fish.
  5. Mulberry leaves.
  6. Two.
  7. False (it is a large marine mammal).
  8. Seals.
  9. Otters.
  10. 12.

Round 4

  1. Draws maps.
  2. Canoeing (or kayaking).
  3. Lotus.
  4. Jaws
    .
  5. Rome.
  6. The Napoleonic War.
  7. David Lloyd George.
  8. Charles.
  9. Live8.
  10. Keith.

Jackpot
Pound.

 

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Round 1

  1. Archimedes.
  2. Sir George Gilbert Scott.
  3. That the Earth revolves around the Sun.
  4. Roy Lichtenstein.
  5. Prince Charles.
  6. Queen Mary
    .
  7. Italy (1934 and 1938).
  8. Artists.
  9. Terry Waite.
  10. Sir Henry Segrave.

Round 2

  1. A glass ceiling.
  2. Pretty damn quick.
  3. Elvis Presley.
  4. Asset stripping.
  5. Remington (electric razors).
  6. Young upwardly mobile professional person.
  7. Carpetbaggers.
  8. Hobson’s Choice
    (by Harold Brighouse).
  9. Doctor Robert Atkins.
  10. The Big Bang.

Half-time teaser
27.87 square metres.

Round 3

  1. Esmeralda.
  2. J. B. Priestley.
  3. Minnie Riperton.
  4. 10.
  5. ‘God save the queen’.
  6. Her dog bit him.
  7. 1967.
  8. Auguste Rodin.
  9. The Housemartins.
  10. Bromide.

Round 4

  1. Little Big Horn.
  2. Robinson Crusoe.
  3. The Four Tops.
  4. Margaret Thatcher.
  5. Mike Myers.
  6. Playing cards.
  7. Aldwych farces.
  8. American.
  9. The Rolling Stones.
  10. Cosa Nostra.

Jackpot
The Big Bopper.

 

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Round 1

  1. Oxford.
  2. California.
  3. Proton.
  4. 11.
  5. P.T. Barnum.
  6. They were cousins.
  7. Badminton.
  8. 20.
  9. Viv Anderson.
  10. The Women’s Institute.

Round 2

  1. Iron.
  2. The live wire.
  3. Genetically modified.
  4. 10,000.
  5. Four.
  6. One kilogram.
  7. 7/100 (seven hundredths).
  8. 180.
  9. The newton.
  10. Six.

Half-time teaser
654.

Round 3

  1. A joey.
  2. The Order of the Thistle.
  3. William Gladstone.
  4. A rock stack in Orkney.
  5. Wayne Rooney.
  6. Theodore Roosevelt (aged 43).
  7. Windsor Castle.
  8. Mike Tyson.
  9. Douglas MacArthur.
  10. ‘Old Glory’.

Round 4

  1. Margaret Thatcher.
  2. Yellow.
  3. Grease
    .
  4. The Bahamas.
  5. Scorpio.
  6. 200°C (400°F).
  7. Temeraire
  8. Turin.
  9. The scooter.
  10. Ruritania.

Jackpot
It was the first warship made of (glass-reinforced) plastic.

 

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Round 1

  1. Goldfinger
    .
  2. Robert Browning.
  3. Maxwell House coffee.
  4. Cream.
  5. Darrell Hair.
  6. Les Dawson.
  7. Apples.
  8. Gracie Fields.
  9. The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  10. Knight of the Order of the Thistle.

Round 2

  1. The Cultural Revolution.
  2. The Gobi Desert.
  3. New Zealand.
  4. The Bamboo Curtain.
  5. Chow mein.
  6. The Boxer Rebellion.
  7. T’Pau.
  8. The Terracotta Army.
  9. False (it depends on the lunar calendar).
  10. The Huang He (or Yellow River).

Half-time teaser
31,173.

Round 3

  1. Air Force One (when Tony Blair suggested he have one as well, it was dubbed ‘Blair Force One’).
  2. Enola Gay.
  3. The jumbo jet.
  4. Tail-End Charlie.
  5. Hydrogen.
  6. 1,000 feet (300 metres).
  7. A wind (the hot, dry Chinook wind melts snow and causes flash floods: in 1943 it raised the temperature in South Dakota from -20 degrees centigrade to 7 degrees centigrade in just two minutes).
  8. Matt Busby.
  9. Quidditch.
  10. The Red Baron.

Round 4

  1. Stormont, Belfast.
  2. Elton John.
  3. Carry On Up the Khyber
    .
  4. Aunt Agatha.
  5. Very Superior Old Pale.
  6. 17.
  7. Dennis Skinner.
  8. The Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500) motor race.
  9. The Fates.
  10. Roswell.

Jackpot
Syd Barrett.

 

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Round 1

  1. The Mini (or the Morris Minor).
  2. Ronald Reagan.
  3. France.
  4. Dartmouth.
  5. Cricket.
  6. Osmosis.
  7. Paper Moon
    .
  8. Benfica.
  9. Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier.
  10. The Times
    .

Round 2

  1. William Hartnell.
  2. Stingray
    .
  3. Hector’s (in
    Hector’s House)
    .
  4. ‘Clementine’.
  5. Fireball XL 5
    .
  6. The Banana Splits.
  7. Brains.
  8. Honey.
  9. Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile (or Wear a Smile).
  10. Newcastle upon Tyne.

Half-time teaser
8.91.

Round 3

  1. Chicago.
  2. Wyoming.
  3. Mike Oldfield (
    Tubular Bells
    ).
  4. Acrylic paint.
  5. Galileo’s (referring to his theory concerning the movement of the Earth around the Sun).
  6. Omdurman.
  7. Betty Boothroyd.
  8. 1795.
  9. Albania.
  10. The Jazz Singer
    .

Round 4

  1. Mr Spock.
  2. Holy Innocents (or Childermass).
  3. Goal nets were not invented until then.
  4. The iris.
  5. The Bloomsbury Group.
  6. Cold calling.
  7. The Corrs.
  8. 1919.
  9. AufWiedersehen Pet
    .
  10. West Ham United.

Jackpot
Joachim von Ribbentrop.

 

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Round 1

  1. Chile.
  2. The
    Mona Lisa
    .
  3. Richard Cromwell.
  4. Thomas Stearns.
  5. Rocky Marciano.
  6. Petrol.
  7. Ray Stevens.
  8. Juno.
  9. Gnats.
  10. Libya.

Round 2

  1. Jacques Cousteau.
  2. The
    Mayflower
    .
  3. Portsmouth.
  4. The
    Hood
    .
  5. The quarterdeck.
  6. The
    Beagle
    .
  7. Aristotle Onassis.
  8. Rainbow Warrior
    .
  9. Admiral Jellicoe.
  10. The
    Torrey Canyon
    .

Half-time teaser
16 years 129 days.

Round 3

  1. June.
  2. Aloysius.
  3. Citizen Kane
    .
  4. Annabel’s.
  5. Viscount Stansgate.
  6. Rasputin.
  7. Duchess of Cornwall.
  8. A Night at the Opera
    .
  9. Lord Alfred Douglas.
  10. Two (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard).

Round 4

  1. Kidnapped
    .
  2. The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  3. Golf.
  4. Welsh.
  5. Mary McAleese.
  6. Edward Elgar.
  7. Gene Kelly.
  8. The tie-breaker.
  9. Chernobyl.
  10. Barry Manilow.

Jackpot
The red card.

 

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Round 1

  1. At Versailles.
  2. One year.
  3. Archbishop of Canterbury.
  4. Rugby.
  5. ‘It’s all over now’.
  6. Devon Loch.
  7. False.
  8. A griffin.
  9. Alaska and Hawaii.
  10. Circular or ring-shaped.

Round 2

  1. Thin Lizzy.
  2. Avon.
  3. George Foreman.
  4. Gustav Mahler’s.
  5. David Fairclough.
  6. The page three girl.
  7. Canada.
  8. Iran.
  9. Boat people.
  10. France (Brittany).

Half-time teaser
25,630.

Round 3

  1. The Channel Islands.
  2. Orkney.
  3. Runnymede.
  4. Paul Gascoigne (Gazza).
  5. The Isle of Man.
  6. The Falkland Islands.
  7. Staffa.
  8. The isle of Ely.
  9. Jersey.
  10. Skye.

Round 4

  1. 99.
  2. Danger: no overtaking.
  3. Peter Mandelson.
  4. Portugal.
  5. Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
  6. Oracle.
  7. Irish.
  8. Erwin Rommel.
  9. Denmark and Norway.
  10. The Heimlich manoeuvre.

Jackpot
Konard Adenauer.

 

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Round 1

  1. The Blitz.
  2. Margaret Thatcher.
  3. The Channel Tunnel.
  4. Marni Nixon.
  5. Monte Cassino.
  6. False (Louis XIV of France reigned for 72 and Pepi II of Egypt for perhaps as long as 94 years).
  7. The loose-fitting cap worn by players in the Australian cricket team.
  8. They both suffered from poor eyesight.
  9. Passepartout.
  10. Cliff Richard.

Round 2

  1. William Wallace.
  2. The Campbells.
  3. Jock Stein.
  4. The Wicker Man
    .
  5. Rudolf Hess.
  6. AC/DC.
  7. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  8. Idi Amin.
  9. A large fifteenth-century cannon at Edinburgh Castle.
  10. False (they continue to play even now, for instance in Basra in 2003).

Half-time teaser
60 (27 English and 33 French or Spanish).

Round 3

  1. ‘Motor’ and ‘hotel’.
  2. Yankee.
  3. Underground.
  4. Ecstasy.
  5. A mole.
  6. James Joyce’s
    Finnegans Wake
    .
  7. A spoon.
  8. Cats.
  9. Halcyon.
  10. Czech.

Round 4

  1. Red.
  2. True.
  3. The Chippendales.
  4. Texas.
  5. Bruce Springsteen.
  6. Sylvia Plath.
  7. Iron Maiden.
  8. Anglesey.
  9. A Clockwork Orange
    .
  10. David Lloyd George.

Jackpot
White with red spots.

 

Quiz 76 answers

Round 1

  1. The Korean War.
  2. April.
  3. Wear it (it is a form of dress material).
  4. Henry V
    .
  5. Shirley MacLaine.
  6. Milan Kundera.
  7. Karate.
  8. True (though women can be carriers).
  9. False (it is Northumberland).
  10. They show feathers.

Round 2

  1. The Watergate Affair.
  2. Lester Piggott.
  3. The Profumo Affair.
  4. Robert Maxwell.
  5. Günter Grass.
  6. They raised their fists in black gloves (the salute of the Black Panthers anti-racist movement) when receiving their medals.
  7. Marseille.
  8. Edward Heath.
  9. John Brown.
  10. The Duke of Wellington.

Half-time teaser
83 times.

Round 3

  1. Thor.
  2. The mistral.
  3. 10.
  4. Jesus.
  5. Snow Patrol.
  6. An Aeolian harp.
  7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    .
  8. Cirrus.
  9. Edward Heath.
  10. Divine wind.

Round 4

  1. Israel.
  2. Puccini.
  3. The Bridgewater Four.
  4. False (it was Led Zeppelin).
  5. Mike Hawthorn.
  6. Edgbaston.
  7. Tommy Lee Jones.
  8. Munchausen’s Syndrome.
  9. The
    Monitor
    .
  10. The Khmer Rouge.

Jackpot
July.

 

Quiz 77 answers

Round 1

  1. Chequers.
  2. The Desert Fox.
  3. ‘Octopus’s garden’.
  4. Arachnophobia.
  5. Connacht (also spelt Connaught).
  6. True.
  7. Egypt.
  8. River Phoenix.
  9. True.
  10. Ronseal wood preservatives.

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