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Round 2

  1. Watergate.
  2. Camp David (called Shangri-La until 1953).
  3. Wilson (Woodrow and Harold).
  4. False (President John Quincy Adams was the son of President John Adams).
  5. Jack Nicholson.
  6. Ronald Reagan.
  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  8. The Gettysburg Address (1863).
  9. Al Gore.
  10. Nothing (his grandfathers both had surnames beginning with S, so this was a way of honouring both).

Half-time teaser
3,605.

Round 3

  1. Status Quo.
  2. Nirvana.
  3. The Quarry Men.
  4. Björn Again (Abba tribute band).
  5. Bryan Ferry.
  6. The Traveling Wilburys.
  7. Malcolm McLaren.
  8. Birmingham.
  9. Slade.
  10. Stephen Morrissey.

Round 4

  1. Frank Sinatra.
  2. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
  3. George Headley.
  4. The X-Files
    .
  5. The boogie (in the single ‘Blame it on the boogie’).
  6. A coelacanth.
  7. Heroin.
  8. Grace Kelly.
  9. Quentin Tarantino.
  10. Arthur Daley.

Jackpot
Ho Chi Minh City.

 

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Round 1

  1. James Brown.
  2. Yew.
  3. Canterbury cathedral.
  4. Woodrow Wilson.
  5. Ibrox stadium.
  6. American football.
  7. Richard Attenborough.
  8. The Barber of Seville
    .
  9. The Netherlands.
  10. Breadfruit.

Round 2

  1. An eyrie.
  2. True.
  3. A falcon.
  4. Penguins.
  5. The pheasant.
  6. True.
  7. Guano.
  8. The goldcrest.
  9. The gizzard.
  10. Storm petrels.

Half-time teaser
637.

Round 3

  1. True.
  2. St Paul’s Cathedral.
  3. Colditz.
  4. Liverpool.
  5. False (Canterbury is the oldest).
  6. Castle Howard.
  7. Glasgow.
  8. Salisbury.
  9. Dorset.
  10. The keep.

Round 4

  1. Michael Jackson’s.
  2. Casino.
  3. The Drifters.
  4. Lancashire.
  5. The North Sea.
  6. Tatum O’Neal.
  7. West Ham.
  8. A mulligan.
  9. Björk.
  10. Bungee-jumping.

Jackpot

Pints and quarts (originally an innkeeper’s phrase, referring to the chalked-up tally of drinks a person had to pay for).

 

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Round 1

  1. Benny Hill (in the hit single ‘Ernie’).
  2. Basin Street.
  3. Saudi Arabia.
  4. Dana.
  5. Shredded Wheat.
  6. Benito Mussolini.
  7. The Tony awards.
  8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
  9. Great Britain.
  10. John Ford.

Round 2

  1. Oscar Wilde.
  2. County Antrim.
  3. Paul Hewson.
  4. True (seven times up to 2007).
  5. Michael Collins.
  6. The Shannon.
  7. The Black and Tans.
  8. Shergar.
  9. Knock.
  10. Seamus Heaney.

Half-time Teaser
594 days.

Round 3

  1. Peter Shilton (with 125).
  2. David Puttnam.
  3. Sandy Lyle.
  4. Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff.
  5. Swansea.
  6. Sonny Liston.
  7. The USA (four times).
  8. The triple jump.
  9. Sir Donald Bradman.
  10. Silverstone.

Round 4

  1. Scapa Flow.
  2. Brian Epstein.
  3. The aurora borealis.
  4. Kathmandu.
  5. The love-apple.
  6. Venus.
  7. Alf Garnett.
  8. John Steinbeck.
  9. Hillary Clinton.
  10. Johnny Nash.

Jackpot
Haiti.

 

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Round 1

  1. Macbeth
    .
  2. Base jumping.
  3. Squeeze.
  4. Manchester United.
  5. Mystery fiction.
  6. Honky-tonk.
  7. Dean Martin.
  8. Carmen
    .
  9. Hull.
  10. Lord’s.

Round 2

  1. The liver.
  2. The collarbone.
  3. The Sphinx.
  4. Elizabeth I.
  5. The big toe.
  6. The retina.
  7. The pancreas.
  8. Canines.
  9. 30.
  10. 23.

Half-time teaser
£33,230.

Round 3

  1. Major.
  2. The English Civil War.
  3. The torpedo.
  4. The Salvation Army.
  5. Douglas Haig.
  6. The Crimean War.
  7. The Trojan War.
  8. Iceland.
  9. Tuberculosis.
  10. Charles II.

Round 4

  1. Gerald Ford.
  2. Billy Bragg.
  3. Tapping up.
  4. The aardvark.
  5. The Marx Brothers.
  6. Table-tennis.
  7. Richard Wagner’s.
  8. Lacrosse.
  9. Bad Manners.
  10. Bullfighting.

Jackpot
Richard III.

 

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Round 1

  1. Twiggy.
  2. Sir Edwin Landseer.
  3. Magnus Magnusson.
  4. Clara Bow.
  5. Tommy Atkins.
  6. Blur.
  7. Culloden.
  8. The dinar.
  9. Mrs Robinson.
  10. Big Daddy.

Round 2

  1. Spencer Perceval (in 1812).
  2. He committed suicide.
  3. Twin Peaks
    .
  4. The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
  5. They all ate poisonous mushrooms.
  6. Hungerford.
  7. Marvin Gaye.
  8. Reinhardt Heydrich.
  9. He was stabbed with a poisoned umbrella.
  10. Polonium.

Half-time teaser
88.

Round 3

  1. Mortimer Mouse.
  2. Bambi.
  3. Mel Blanc.
  4. Betty Boop.
  5. Top Cat
    (also known in the UK as
    Boss Cat)
    .
  6. George Sanders.
  7. Charles M. Schulz.
  8. Fred Flintstone.
  9. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
  10. The Slag Brothers.

Round 4

  1. The Berlin Wall.
  2. Route 66.
  3. Sri Lanka.
  4. Anita Dobson.
  5. The water closet (an early lavatory).
  6. Benjamin Britten.
  7. The French.
  8. Noo Noo.
  9. Al Pacino.
  10. Alcatraz.

Jackpot
12.

 

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Round 1

  1. Rolf Harris.
  2. Nero.
  3. HMS
    Belfast
    .
  4. A number five iron.
  5. Iceland.
  6. Sandro Botticelli.
  7. Fox.
  8. 15.
  9. Beer and sandwiches.
  10. A maiden.

Round 2

  1. The town hall.
  2. True.
  3. Estonia.
  4. Chile.
  5. Zanzibar.
  6. Montevideo.
  7. Chicago.
  8. Dionne Warwick.
  9. Africa.
  10. Jordan.

Half-time teaser
76 hours, 40 minutes.

Round 3

  1. Mount St Helens.
  2. Liverpool and Juventus.
  3. Chernobyl.
  4. France.
  5. Superman.
  6. Gareth Southgate.
  7. True (as the result of an accidental collision).
  8. He was killed and put in a pie by Mrs MacGregor.
  9. Exocet.
  10. Schadenfreude.

Round 4

  1. W. G. Grace.
  2. The Republican Party.
  3. Kent.
  4. J. M. Barrie (in
    Peter Pan)
    .
  5. Lincoln and the Grand National.
  6. Junk.
  7. Greg Lemond.
  8. Earvin.
  9. Commodore.
  10. In the dungeon (it is a confined space where prisoners could be conveniently ‘forgotten’).

Jackpot
Dresden.

 

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Round 1

  1. Valhalla.
  2. James Callaghan.
  3. The theatre.
  4. True.
  5. William Hogarth.
  6. Madonna.
  7. The Ark of the Covenant.
  8. Norman Tebbit.
  9. False.
  10. Six.

Round 2

  1. William II (William Rufus).
  2. Charles Laughton.
  3. Elizabeth I.
  4. Edward VII.
  5. He was struck on the head by a cricket ball.
  6. Anne Boleyn.
  7. Charles I.
  8. Richard I (the Lionheart).
  9. Martin Luther King.
  10. Adam and the Ants.

Half-time teaser
£1.57 million.

Round 3

  1. Victor Mature.
  2. Tony Curtis.
  3. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  4. Sean Connery.
  5. George Clooney (nephew of Rosemary Clooney).
  6. Bruce Willis.
  7. Johnny Depp.
  8. Burt Lancaster.
  9. Clint Eastwood.
  10. Russell Crowe.

Round 4

  1. Andrex toilet tissue.
  2. A red flag.
  3. The Kinks.
  4. The Long Range Desert Group.
  5. Ned Kelly.
  6. Greying, leisured, affluent and married.
  7. On a sailing vessel.
  8. Corporal.
  9. False (drummer Frank Beard is clean-shaven).
  10. Robbie Coltrane.

Jackpot
Sergei Diaghilev.

 

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Round 1

  1. The Mersey.
  2. Moe’s.
  3. False.
  4. Nitrogen and sulphur.
  5. Whitechapel.
  6. A rabbit.
  7. Daley Thompson.
  8. Ronan Keating.
  9. The US Civil War.
  10. The Milk Cup.

Round 2

  1. Fidel Castro.
  2. A veteran car.
  3. Rosa Parks.
  4. Playboy
    .
  5. Kenya.
  6. The Beat Generation.
  7. Stan Mortensen.
  8. In a car crash.
  9. Andy Capp.
  10. Carl Perkins.

Half-time teaser
888.

Round 3

  1. Freddie Mercury.
  2. Birmingham City.
  3. John F. Kennedy (who served on torpedo boat PT 109).
  4. Bill Wyman.
  5. Paul Gauguin.
  6. Andrew Jackson.
  7. Charles Dickens.
  8. Stan Laurel.
  9. True.
  10. Andy Warhol.

Round 4

  1. Sand.
  2. The Edinburgh Festival.
  3. Rallying.
  4. The Oklahoma bombing.
  5. Hilda.
  6. G.
  7. 1869.
  8. Salisbury.
  9. Stop playing (or be silent).
  10. Monza.

Jackpot
Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell.

 

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Round 1

  1. Richard Nixon.
  2. The Crucifixion.
  3. Alan Shearer.
  4. Charles Dickens.
  5. Sir Henry Wood.
  6. The Great Rift Valley.
  7. The Chindits.
  8. The Shadows.
  9. John F. Kennedy International Airport (or JFK).
  10. Massachusetts.

Round 2

  1. The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).
  2. Q.
  3. Sir John Vanbrugh.
  4. ITMA (It’s That Man Again)
    .
  5. Karla.
  6. George Blake.
  7. Anthony Blunt.
  8. Elizabeth I.
  9. Timothy Dalton.
  10. Alex Rider.

Half-time teaser
266.

Round 3

  1. The hermit crab.
  2. True.
  3. Trigger.
  4. T. S. Eliot.
  5. The aspidistra (in her song ‘The biggest aspidistra in the world’).
  6. False.
  7. The Suffragettes.
  8. Eric Burdon.
  9. Jonah.
  10. Stevie Wonder.

Round 4

  1. A young child.
  2. Tom Baker.
  3. Des Lynam.
  4. Rambo.
  5. Mervyn Peake.
  6. Audrey Hepburn.
  7. The Colorado River.
  8. Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast).
  9. Donald Rumsfeld.
  10. Cologne.

Jackpot
Birmingham.

 

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Round 1

  1. Black.
  2. Nigella Lawson.
  3. Russia.
  4. The Yeomen of the Guard
    .
  5. Mario.
  6. He was kidnapped.
  7. Ferenc Puskas.
  8. 168.
  9. Playwright Joe Orton.
  10. A holt.

Round 2

  1. Greenland.
  2. Brazil.
  3. Peru.
  4. Turkey.
  5. Canada.
  6. Australia.
  7. Bahrain.
  8. The UK.
  9. Korea.
  10. Russia.

Half-time teaser
13 hours, 25 minutes.

Round 3

  1. Colour.
  2. Jersey.
  3. The X-Files
    .
  4. Ally McBeal.
  5. Antiques Roadshow
    .
  6. Big Brother
    (he cheated).
  7. Number 42.
  8. Holmfirth (in Yorkshire).
  9. Martin Clunes and Harry Enfield.
  10. Strictly Come Dancing
    .

Round 4

  1. Candles.
  2. A wig.
  3. Therefore.
  4. Regent Street.
  5. Auric.
  6. Winter.
  7. Britain.
  8. Salisbury.
  9. A touchdown.
  10. Four.

Jackpot
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
.

 

Quiz 87 answers

Round 1

  1. The Church of England.
  2. The Home Service.
  3. Björn Borg.
  4. Edinburgh.
  5. The Battle of the Somme.
  6. Christopher Plummer.
  7. Pal Joey
    .
  8. An administrative organisation.
  9. ‘Lara’s theme’.
  10. None.

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