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Half-time teaser
26.

Round 3

  1. Tagliatelle.
  2. The Sun.
  3. Shrove Tuesday.
  4. ‘A nice Chianti’.
  5. The Who.
  6. Champagne.
  7. Beef Wellington.
  8. The potato crisp.
  9. A Bloody Mary.
  10. Supertramp.

Round 4

  1. Dave Edmunds.
  2. Bilbo Baggins.
  3. Le Corbusier.
  4. Buddha.
  5. Dover.
  6. Sting.
  7. The Brown Bess.
  8. Right Said Fred.
  9. Doctor Cameron.
  10. Neil Morrissey.

Jackpot
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).

 

Quiz 98 answers

Round 1

  1. New Zealand.
  2. Casualty
    .
  3. 270.
  4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    .
  5. Rod Laver.
  6. General Galtieri.
  7. King’s Cross.
  8. Genghis Khan.
  9. Mars.
  10. Reading.

Round 2

  1. The National Gallery.
  2. Pablo Picasso.
  3. The vanishing point.
  4. False (they actually went up).
  5. Goya.
  6. Hans Holbein.
  7. Impasto.
  8. Tintoretto.
  9. Henri Rousseau.
  10. His left ear.

Half-time teaser
23.11.

Round 3

  1. Alfred the Great.
  2. James I.
  3. Her Golden Jubilee.
  4. Henry VII.
  5. Henry VIII.
  6. James II.
  7. Eleanor (of Castile).
  8. George IV.
  9. Fotheringhay.
  10. Prince Andrew.

Round 4

  1. New Zealand.
  2. The Boston crab.
  3. Myanmar.
  4. The Book of Common Prayer.
  5. Everton.
  6. Belgium.
  7. Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher).
  8. Nightwatchman.
  9. 1895.
  10. Costa Rica.

Jackpot
17.

 

Quiz 99 answers

Round 1

  1. The Richter scale.
  2. Jim Henson.
  3. Billy Joel.
  4. A panther.
  5. John Ford.
  6. The pole vault.
  7. West Point.
  8. Humphrey Bogart.
  9. Chile.
  10. Fairy Liquid.

Round 2

  1. D. W. Griffith.
  2. Steve Biko’s.
  3. Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow).
  4. The Netherlands.
  5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
    .
  6. The Bridge on the River Kwai
    .
  7. George Raft.
  8. Tom Hanks (for
    Philadelphia
    and
    Forrest Gump)
    .
  9. Jake LaMotta.
  10. Truman Capote (in
    Capote)
    .

Half-time teaser
60.

Round 3

  1. Acker Bilk.
  2. Desert Island Discs
    .
  3. Martha and the Muffins.
  4. A starfish.
  5. Thor Heyerdahl.
  6. The Blue Riband.
  7. Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee.
  8. The Pacific.
  9. Jaws
    .
  10. Steve Irwin.

Round 4

  1. Chain smoker.
  2. Superman.
  3. Lee Majors.
  4. Tokyo.
  5. Jacqueline du Pré.
  6. Matthias.
  7. J. M. Coetzee or Peter Carey.
  8. The Tempest
    .
  9. Spandau Ballet.
  10. Jemini.

Jackpot
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham.

 

Quiz 100 answers

Round 1

  1. Bangladesh.
  2. They were both born on 29 February and thus have had fewer birthdays.
  3. Emil Zatopek.
  4. Foo Fighters.
  5. Alfred Wainwright.
  6. Seven.
  7. Brutalism.
  8. Shinty.
  9. The camera obscura.
  10. Cabbage.

Round 2

  1. Jesse Owens.
  2. Suffolk.
  3. Arsenal.
  4. Appeasement.
  5. The Ramblers’ Association.
  6. The RR monogram on the bonnet was changed from red to black.
  7. 1934.
  8. Guernica.
  9. He was assassinated.
  10. The
    Hindenburg
    .

Half-time teaser
228.

Round 3

  1. Capricorn.
  2. The Tempest
    .
  3. India and Pakistan.
  4. ‘Down at the Old Bull and Bush’.
  5. A bayonet.
  6. Dreamt.
  7. London.
  8. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    .
  9. The Italian Job
    .
  10. Gone With the Wind
    .

Round 4

  1. The Avon.
  2. A shallow basket used by gardeners.
  3. Edinburgh.
  4. Claude Monet.
  5. Sopwith.
  6. Zinédine Zidane.
  7. The thigh bone (femur).
  8. Motor-racing.
  9. Boscastle.
  10. Ford Madox Brown.

Jackpot
Tamla Records (which became Tamla Motown).

 

New Year quiz answers

Round 1

  1. Hogmanay.
  2. First-footing.
  3. Robert Burns.
  4. Garnet.
  5. Rosh Hashanah.
  6. Twelfth Night (or Old Christmas Day or Epiphany).
  7. Eel.
  8. Ernie Wise.
  9. 1973.
  10. The flooding of the Nile.

Round 2

  1. Capricorn.
  2. Paul Revere.
  3. Pierre de Coubertin.
  4. E. M. Forster.
  5. Oslo.
  6. J. D. Salinger.
  7. J. Edgar Hoover.
  8. The euro.
  9. The Rose Bowl (American football).
  10. The Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Half-time teaser
8,513.

Round 3

  1. Fred West.
  2. Hank Williams.
  3. The Times
    .
  4. Dashiell Hammett.
  5. The Joker.
  6. Haiti.
  7. Atatürk (Father of the Turks).
  8. Cigarette advertising.
  9. Albany.
  10. Slaves.

Round 4

  1. The millennium bug.
  2. Empress of India.
  3. U2.
  4. True (in the northern hemisphere).
  5. Dr Watson.
  6. He announced that he was not a god.
  7. The Beatles (they were turned down).
  8. Samuel Pepys.
  9. X-rays.
  10. ‘Heartbreak Hotel’.

Jackpot
Eggs.

 

St Valentine’s Day quiz answers

Round 1

  1. 14 February.
  2. Claudius II.
  3. True.
  4. The feast of Lupercalia.
  5. Absence.
  6. He sent the first Valentine’s Day card.
  7. Chicago.
  8. Leonardo DiCaprio.
  9. The Beckhams.
  10. 26.

Round 2

  1. They were first cousins.
  2. Kurt Cobain.
  3. Seven.
  4. David Furnish.
  5. Mariah Carey.
  6. Guinevere.
  7. Prince Rainier of Monaco.
  8. Jude Law.
  9. Sharon.
  10. Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.

Half-time teaser
£22 million.

Round 3

  1. Kate Winslet.
  2. Catherine Earnshaw.
  3. Deborah Kerr.
  4. Andie MacDowell.
  5. Renée Zellwegger.
  6. Colin Firth.
  7. Love Story
    .
  8. Shirley Valentine
    .
  9. Rhett Butler.
  10. Edward Rochester.

Round 4

  1. Paris.
  2. Henry VIII.
  3. The Man in Black.
  4. Cupid.
  5. True.
  6. Teachers.
  7. D. H. Lawrence.
  8. Oranges.
  9. Venice.
  10. Rodgers and Hart.

Jackpot
Nancy Mitford.

 

St David’s Day quiz answers

Round 1

  1. 1 March.
  2. The daffodil.
  3. ‘Land of my fathers’.
  4. Seaweed.
  5. Red, white and green.
  6. Offa’s Dyke.
  7. Llewelyn.
  8. Plaid Cymru.
  9. Bangor.
  10. Eat it (it is a variety of fruit bread).

Round 2

  1. The National Eisteddfod.
  2. Sir Geraint Evans.
  3. Ivor Novello.
  4. Tom Jones.
  5. Charlotte Church.
  6. Shakin’ Stevens.
  7. ‘Total eclipse of the heart’.
  8. Shirley Bassey.
  9. The Manic Street Preachers.
  10. Harry Secombe.

Half-time teaser
750 miles.

Round 3

  1. Wrexham.
  2. Snooker.
  3. The Dragons.
  4. Glamorgan.
  5. The Bluebirds.
  6. 2005.
  7. Colin Jackson.
  8. Motor-racing (both were Formula One drivers).
  9. Gareth Thomas (with 37).
  10. Joe Calzaghe.

Round 4

  1. Cymru.
  2. Edward I.
  3. Owen Glendower.
  4. Snowdon.
  5. Anglesey.
  6. Black and gold.
  7. Rob Brydon.
  8. Terry Jones.
  9. Caerleon.
  10. Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Jackpot
‘Stranger’ or ‘foreigner’.

 

St Patrick’s Day quiz answers

Round 1

  1. 17 March.
  2. The shamrock (three-leaved clover).
  3. He was captured by raiders and sold as a slave.
  4. In Downpatrick (under Down Cathedral).
  5. False (it has one reptile, the common lizard).
  6. Hibernia or Scotia.
  7. Green, orange and white (or green, white and gold).
  8. The Liffey.
  9. Eire.
  10. 1801.

Round 2

  1. Munster.
  2. Six.
  3. Limerick.
  4. Kilkenny.
  5. Malin Head.
  6. County Kerry.
  7. Its prehistoric remains.
  8. Horses.
  9. Mountains.
  10. Donegal Bay.

Half-time teaser
31.

Round 3

  1. False (he never won it).
  2. Clannad.
  3. Father Dougal McGuire.
  4. Sinéad O’Connor.
  5. Richard Harris.
  6. George Best.
  7. Eamon De Valera.
  8. Jonathan Swift.
  9. Liam Neeson.
  10. J. M. Synge.

Round 4

  1. The 1840s.
  2. Harp.
  3. The Chieftains.
  4. Potatoes.
  5. The Celtic Tiger.
  6. 15.
  7. 1990.
  8. Play it (it is a drum).
  9. The Good Friday Agreement.
  10. Tara.

Jackpot
Hurling (the
caman
is the hurling stick and the
sliotar
the ball).

 

Mother’s Day quiz answers

Round 1

  1. Mother Goose.
  2. Mother Teresa.
  3. George Formby.
  4. Pink Floyd.
  5. Lily of the valley.
  6. Ronnie Corbett.
  7. Saddam Hussein.
  8. Danny DeVito (with the help of Billy Crystal).
  9. Motherwell.
  10. Mother Courage.

Round 2

  1. Judy Garland.
  2. Queen Mary.
  3. Sarah Ferguson (‘Fergie’).
  4. Joan Crawford.
  5. Debbie Reynolds.
  6. Victoria Beckham.
  7. Leda.
  8. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
  9. John the Baptist.
  10. Gwyneth Paltrow.

Half-time teaser
69 (borne by Mrs Feodor Vassilyev between 1725 and 1765).

Round 3

  1. Simnel cake.
  2. Pears soap.
  3. Mother-of-pearl.
  4. Chocolate.
  5. Imperial Leather.
  6. Amber.
  7. Musk.
  8. The poinsettia.
  9. Thornton’s.
  10. Christian Dior.

Round 4

  1. Al Jolson.
  2. Paul Simon.
  3. Cinderella.
  4. Abba.
  5. Imhotep.
  6. Mummers’ plays.
  7. Tutankhamun.
  8. The Mamas and the Papas.
  9. A bone.
  10. It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

Jackpot
The Mumbles.

 

St George’s Day quiz answers

Round 1

  1. 23 April.
  2. Red.
  3. 303.
  4. Hungary.
  5. False.
  6. A red rose.
  7. ‘Jerusalem’.
  8. The Order of the Garter.
  9. The Roman army.
  10. William Shakespeare.

Round 2

  1. Tintagel.
  2. Robin Hood.
  3. Edward Elgar.
  4. True.
  5. 16.
  6. The Scots.
  7. Napoleon.
  8. Vera Lynn.
  9. Richard II
    .
  10. Country lane.

Half-time teaser
158.

Round 3

  1. George III.
  2. George Smiley.
  3. George Best.
  4. A tortoise.
  5. George Clooney.
  6. Brendan Fraser.
  7. Boy George.
  8. George Sand.
  9. Susan George.
  10. George Gershwin.

Round 4

  1. Georgia.
  2. A lance.
  3. The Crusaders.
  4. He was beheaded.
  5. St Edmund.
  6. Windsor Castle.
  7. Henry V.
  8. Miguel de Cervantes.
  9. Royal Automobile Club.
  10. St Peter.

Jackpot
Edward III.

 

Father’s Day quiz answers

Round 1

  1. June.
  2. St Joseph’s Day (23 March).
  3. The child.
  4. Cole Porter.
  5. The Tempest
    .
  6. Madonna.
  7. The English Civil War.
  8. Steve Martin.
  9. Jazz.
  10. Haiti.

Round 2

  1. Hippocrates.
  2. Computing.
  3. Martin Sheen.
  4. Scott Joplin.
  5. John Logie Baird.
  6. Izaak Walton.
  7. Graham Hill.
  8. Ernest Rutherford.
  9. Igor Sikorsky.
  10. Herodotus.

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