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Round 2: Science and Technology

  1. Which is the only planet in the solar system not named after a classical god?
  2. Which metal is produced by combining copper and tin?
  3. What was the name of the lunar module from which Neil Armstrong made the first steps on the Moon?
  4. Which English scientist discovered oxygen?
  5. Television pictures are composed of just three colours, of which two are red and blue. What is the third?
  6. Which video format launched in the 1970s was eventually eclipsed by the rival VHS system?
  7. In the nuclear industry, what is water enriched with deuterium oxide called?
  8. What did Hiram Stevens Maxim invent in 1883?
  9. Krypton is not a real chemical element – true or false?
  10. US patent number 174,465, registered in February 1876, is considered to be the most valuable ever recorded – what did it relate to?

Half-time teaser

In 1998 a US clothing company established a record when it placed a pizza order on behalf of its 40,160 employees – how many pizzas were ordered?

Round 3: Pirates

  1. What is the popular name for the pirate flag?
  2. Which English buccaneer won a royal pardon and became lieutenant governor of Jamaica?
  3. Which part did actor Bill Nighy play in
    The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
    ?
  4. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s
    Treasure Island
    , whose treasure map falls into the hands of Long John Silver?
  5. What was the name of Captain Pugwash’s ship?
  6. By what name was Edward Teach better known?
  7. In the pirate song, how many men were ‘on a dead man’s chest’?
  8. Who captained the
    Golden Hind
    ?
  9. What was the name of the short sword used by pirates and other contemporary seafarers?
  10. In J. M. Barrie’s
    Peter Pan
    , how did Captain Hook lose his hand?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. In Cluedo, what is the name of the person who has been found dead at the start of the game?
  2. Which musical play by Bertolt Brecht was based on John Gay’s
    The Beggar’s Opera
    ?
  3. What was the name of the empire founded by Akbar, Sultan of Delhi in the late sixteenth century?
  4. Who served as vice-president under John F. Kennedy?
  5. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 2002 with ‘The tide is high’?
  6. Which fictional London club included Bertie Wooster among its members?
  7. By what name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, whose career was launched at the American Toy Fair in New York in 1959, better known?
  8. Which US president had the nickname Ike?
  9. Which nursery rhyme character spilled her curds and whey?
  10. Who demanded the head of John the Baptist?

Jackpot

In Greek mythology, who was the wife of Hephaestos?

 

Quiz 8

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What does a cooper make?
  2. What is a squirrel’s home called?
  3. In golf, where is the US Masters held?
  4. What disease kills Gustav von Aschenbach in
    Death in Venice
    ?
  5. In which year was the MOT test introduced – 1950, 1960 or 1970?
  6. What did Chris Chataway, Sebastian Coe and Lord Burghley all do after retiring from sport?
  7. Which car manufacturer makes the Highlander, the Prius and the Tundra?
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  8. Who had hits with ‘Girls on film’, ‘Hungry like the wolf’ and ‘Rio’?
  9. Which sport is played on a pitch that is 300 yards by 200 yards in size?
  10. Who was the first jockey to be knighted?

Round 2: Planet Earth

  1. Where is the lowest point of Asia?
  2. Which country in Africa boasts the continent’s most northerly point?
  3. In which country is the highest waterfall in the world?
  4. Which country not actually landlocked has the shortest coastline?
  5. In which continent is the driest place on earth?
  6. In which country is the Qattara Depression?
  7. What name is given to that part of the Earth between the core and the crust?
  8. What are the Diablo, the Elephanta and the Fremantle Doctor?
  9. Challenger Deep is the deepest point of which ocean?
  10. Which sea borders on Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia and Yemen?

Half-time teaser

How many popes have been assassinated?

Round 3: Haute Cuisine

  1. What shouldn’t you eat when there is an R in the month?
  2. What does ‘al dente’ mean?
  3. What is the main ingredient of calamares?
  4. From which country does goulash come?
  5. What kind of fish do Germans use to make a rollmop?
  6. Christmas Drumhead, January King and Spivoy are all types of what?
  7. A brown egg is more nutritious than a white egg – true or false?
  8. What foodstuff did Clifton Fadiman call ‘milk’s leap towards immortality’?
  9. In which part of the British Isles may one be served a bannock?
  10. What are oysters wrapped in bacon called?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. After whom was the month of January named?
  2. What is the main ingredient of hummus?
  3. Who founded a famous academy in Athens in 387
    BC
    ?
  4. Who became leader of the Conservative Party in 1965?
  5. Who released an album called
    Atom Heart Mother
    ?
  6. Amethyst is the birthstone for which month?
  7. Which mythological hero killed the Nemean lion?
  8. In the Boat Race, Oxford’s reserve boat is called
    Isis
    – what is the Cambridge reserve called?
  9. In which war was napalm first used as a weapon?
  10. In which popular US television series were Lieutenant Mitch Bucannon and C. J. Parker central characters?

Jackpot

Which film star had the real name Reginald Truscott-Jones?

 

Quiz 9

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Who played Woody Allen’s love interest in the 1977 film
    Annie Hall
    ?
  2. What country did Germany annex in 1938 in the so-called ‘Anschluss’?
  3. By what name was Mark Feld better known?
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  4. Who designed the Morris Mini?
  5. What dance was invented by Harry Fox in 1914?
  6. Is a cheongsam a dress, a chopstick or a type of noodle?
  7. In which sitcom did Ricky Tomlinson play Caroline Aherne’s father?
  8. Who wrote the opera
    Carmen
    ?
  9. Which famous architect designed the celebrated ‘Barcelona chair’?
  10. Albert de Salvo strangled 13 women in Massachusetts in the early 1960s – by what name was he better known?

Round 2: Novels

  1. With whom did Lady Chatterley have an affair in D. H. Lawrence’s novel?
  2. In
    The Lord of the Rings
    what is the name of Gandalf’s horse?
  3. With which novel would one associate the concept of doublethink?
  4. What is the name of Sharpe’s sergeant and best friend in the
    Sharpe
    novels of Bernard Cornwell?
  5. Which novel by C. S. Forester, set in Africa, became a hugely successful film starring Humphrey Bogart?
  6. Who wrote the novel
    Brideshead Revisited
    ?
  7. In which 1924 novel do three brothers join the French Foreign Legion after falsely admitting to stealing a diamond in order to protect the reputation of their family?
  8. In the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, what is ‘the big sleep’?
  9. Who drew on his own experiences of life in a borstal in the novel
    Borstal Boy
    ?
  10. On which Greek island was the 1994 novel
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
    by Louis de Bernières set?

Half-time teaser

How many aeroplanes did Britain lose in combat during World War II?

Round 3: Soap Operas

  1. Which popular television soap opera is set in Albert Square?
  2. In
    The Archers
    , who became notorious for his black satin sheets?
  3. Which British soap opera is set in the fictional village of Beckindale?
  4. On which street do television’s
    Neighbours
    live?
  5. In which year was the first episode of
    Coronation Street
    broadcast?
  6. Which BBC soap opera was cancelled in 1993 after just one year?
  7. Which soap opera is set in the town of Summer Bay?
  8. What was the name of the slow-witted handyman in
    Crossroads
    ?
  9. Who plays both Debbie Aldridge in
    The Archers
    and Doctor Caroline Todd in
    Green Wing
    ?
  10. Members of which rock band made appearances in
    Coronation Street
    in 2005?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. How many people are there in a rugby league team?
  2. Which is the world’s highest volcano?
  3. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1997 with ‘Blood on the dance floor’?
  4. Where is the Sea of Tranquillity?
  5. Which aircraft manufacturing company produced the Hurricane, Hunter and Harrier fighters?
  6. Which work by Igor Stravinsky was greeted by a riot on its first performance?
  7. Which members of the British armed forces are eligible for the Dickin Medal for gallantry?
  8. What is vexillology the study of?
  9. What is the state capital of Missouri?
  10. What was the name of the White House intern with whom US President Bill Clinton finally admitted having an inappropriate relationship?

Jackpot

What is the smallest country in Africa?

 

Quiz 10

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Where were Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie killed?
  2. From which film comes the line ‘Blessed are the cheesemakers!’?
  3. In which country was the sauna introduced?
  4. By what name was Sellafield nuclear power station formerly known?
  5. In darts, what is a spider?
  6. Whose hits included ‘Breaking up is hard to do’ and ‘Daydreamer’?
  7. What was football’s Fairs Cup renamed as?
  8. What type of plant is dead man’s fingers?
  9. Over whom did Atahualpa reign?
  10. What is a drumlin?

Round 2: Science and Nature

  1. Which element has an atomic number of one?
  2. From the bark of which tree did aspirin originally come?
  3. Which unit of energy amounts to 746 watts?
  4. What is acetic acid commonly known as?
  5. What is the chemical name for salt?
  6. Which set of scientific siblings comprise Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands?
  7. Which English chemist of the early 19th century listed among his discoveries potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium and laughing gas?
  8. What would you measure with an odometer?
  9. In which 2001 film did Russell Crowe play tormented mathematical genius John Nash?
  10. Which layer of the Earth’s atmosphere absorbs most of the incoming solar UV radiation?

Half-time teaser

How many strings does a harp have?

Round 3: High Days and Holidays

  1. Which day of the year first became an official public holiday in 1974?
  2. How many guns are fired at the Tower of London in salute to the Queen’s birthday?
  3. What is celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent?
  4. Which English Quarter Day falls on 25 March?
  5. When does the Mardi Gras festival take place?
  6. On which date is Trafalgar Day celebrated?
  7. To whom was Stevie Wonder’s 1982 hit ‘Happy birthday’ addressed?
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  8. What is 12 July celebrated as by Irish Protestants?
  9. How many years are a couple married on their lace anniversary?
  10. Why is Christmas particularly special for actress Sissy Spacek and singers Annie Lennox and Dido?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What does Anzac Day on 25 April commemorate?
  2. François-Louis Cailler of Switzerland introduced the first solid form of what in 1819?
  3. How was safety in horse racing improved in 1924?
  4. Which television western series was set on the Shiloh Ranch?
  5. Which cricket club was admitted to the County Championship in 1992?
  6. What is the gemstone for September?
  7. Which film became the first sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar?
  8. Which was the first capital city to be bombed from the air?
  9. By what name are the Sandwich Islands now known?
  10. In which year did the Sydney Harbour Bridge open – 1932, 1952 or 1972?

Jackpot

Besides black, which other colour features on an Eton school tie?

 

Quiz 11

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Who composed the music for the ballet
    Swan Lake
    ?
  2. What happened to Colombian footballer Andres Escobar after he scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup?
  3. What was the uneasy period of peace that followed the declaration of war in 1939 known as?
  4. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 2005 with ‘Dakota’?
  5. From which stage show and film come the characters Dr Frank N. Furter and Riff Raff the butler?
  6. Which city is known as the Big Easy?
  7. Is a catafalque a sort of catapult, a hat or a platform on which a dead body is placed?
  8. What did Danish chemist Søren Sørensen devise to measure acidity and alkalinity in 1909?
  9. What is the meaning of the army slang term ‘jankers’?
  10. What were the names of the two houses who fought each other in the Wars of the Roses?

Round 2: Sport and Leisure

  1. Where were the 2004 Summer Olympics held?
  2. Which British Formula One champion also had a world-championship-winning father?
  3. What internationally played board game was invented by Alfred Butts in 1921?
  4. What was the name of the schoolboy who in 1823 invented rugby when he picked up the ball and ran with it?
  5. Modern winners in the Olympic Games receive gold medals, but what did they receive in classical times?
  6. Cricket has never been an Olympic sport – true or false?
  7. Which modern sport was first marketed under the name Sphairistike?
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  8. Which major baseball star moved from the New York Yankees to the Boston Red Sox in 1921?
  9. Who was the first black footballer to captain England?
  10. What was unusual about the Austrian tennis player Hans Redl, who played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956?
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