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Jackpot

In which city was the world’s first pizzeria opened in 1830?

Quiz 20

Round 1: Pot Luck

On which day are hot cross buns supposed to be eaten?
What is the state capital of Arizona?
Who among the disciples was the brother of Peter?
What word meaning ‘separateness’ characterised the internal policies of the South African government from 1948 to 1991?
What kind of milk is used in Roquefort cheese?
Robert Muldoon, Geoffrey Palmer and Jim Bolger have all served as prime minister of which Commonwealth country?
What nationality are the Cheeky Girls?
²⁰
In which Dickens novel do Abel Magwitch and Joe Gargery appear?
Where did Fiddler’s Dram go on a day trip in 1979?
What is the English equivalent of an American ‘davenport’?

Round 2: Bad Behaviour

Which boxer was bitten on the ear by Mike Tyson during a fight?
Who stole fire from Mount Olympus?
On whom did Michael Fagin make a surprise visit in 1982?
Who was stabbed in the arras by Hamlet?
Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
In the
Stars Wars
saga, which character was transformed into the evil Darth Vader?
Who was spied on by Peeping Tom in 1040?
What name was given to disgruntled workers who set about destroying industrial machinery in the early nineteenth century?
Who did John Hinckley Junior take a pot shot at?
In 2006 which squash legend found himself facing a possible death sentence on charges of assault?

Half-time teaser

How long, in metres, is the course over which the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is competed?

Round 3: Signs and Symbols

Which mathematical symbol describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter?
In which hand does the Statue of Liberty hold her flaming torch?
Which animal features on the club crests of both Coventry and Dumbarton football clubs?
What is the sign of the zodiac for Capricorn?
What first appeared on roads in Slough in 1956?
Which city has a silver hallmark comprising a harp and crown?
What is the symbol of the Democratic Party in the USA?
Cars from which country are represented by the letters IRL?
Which sign of the zodiac is represented by a pair of scales?
In Morse code, which letter is represented by a single dot?

Round 4: Pot Luck

In which London park is Speaker’s Corner?
In which sport might competitors perform a ‘lutz’ or a ‘salchow’?
By what name were the Home Guard known because of their advanced average age?
What is dry ice made of?
Where is the Unknown Warrior’s Tomb in London?
In which year did Brazil win the Jules Rimet Trophy outright after winning the World Cup competition for the third time?
Who took over Baron von Richthofen’s squadron when he was killed in 1918?
Who played Boromir in the film version of
The Lord of the Rings
?
From which album did the Michael Jackson chart-topping single ‘Billie Jean’ come?
In the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, what is the Moonstone?

Jackpot

What name is given to the silver mascot on most Rolls-Royce models?

Quiz 21

Round 1: Pot Luck

Which celebrated character made his first appearance in the 1934 Disney cartoon
The Wise Little Hen
?
Which word connects ‘family’, ‘marines’ and ‘jelly’?
Which two animals appear on the Australian coat of arms?
From which ship were 299 British prisoners of war rescued by HMS
Cossack
in 1940?
In which city is Aston University located?
What was the name of Blackadder’s slow-witted, slovenly servant?
Who wrote the soundtrack for the 1981 film
Chariots of Fire
?
Who starred in the 1955 film
Rebel Without a Cause
?
What is the name of the house at Hogwarts in which Harry Potter is enrolled in the novels of J. K. Rowling?
Which Trojan prophetess was granted the ability to foretell the future but was also fated never to be believed?

Round 2: Animals

Many kinds of shark will drown if they stop swimming – true or false?
Gorillas have the loudest snore in the animal kingdom – true or false?
What kind of fish does the fisherman in Ernest Hemingway’s
The Old Man and the Sea
manage to catch?
The chough belongs to which family of birds?
Pandas are not bears – true or false?
A ‘spat’ is a baby what?
What does the Ancient Mariner kill in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’?
Which insects do you have in your pants if you are restless or jittery?
Is the bongo a species of snake, lizard or antelope?
What is the offspring of a male ass and a mare called?

Half-time teaser

How many times does the word ‘and’ appear in the Bible?

Round 3: Weird Words

What is xenophobia?
Which Italian city gave its name to jeans?
What is the English equivalent of the US ‘bobby pin’?
If a person is ‘hippophobic’ what is he or she afraid of?
What is a campanologist interested in?
According to a survey conducted in London in 2000, what is the British nation’s favourite word – mellifluous, onomatopoeia, serendipity or football?
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In his famous dictionary, what did Dr Samuel Johnson define as ‘anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections’?
What is a hostelaphilist interested in?
In the expression ‘sweet Fanny Adams’, who was Fanny Adams?
Which metal was named after the island of Cyprus?

Round 4: Pot Luck

Which two Scottish football teams are known as ‘The Old Firm’?
In business jargon, what do the initials BOGOF mean?
Who painted
The Haywain
?
Which 1970s rock band was named after the eighteenth-century inventor of the seed drill?
What innovation was introduced in the February 1954 issue of
Playboy
magazine?
Which celebrated flyer died when her plane ditched in the Thames estuary in 1941?
Who played detective Paul Temple on television in the early 1970s?
What is the chief ingredient of scampi?
Which country lies to the south of Afghanistan?
From whom did Demi Moore separate in 1998?

Jackpot

Who saw a ‘bad moon rising’ in 1969?

Quiz 22

Round 1: Pot Luck

Benidorm is a resort in which country?
Which Shakespeare play includes characters called Peaseblossom and Mustardseed?
In the film
The Sound of Music
, how many Von Trapp children were there?
The Duke of Monmouth, leader of the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, was a son of which English king?
What is a kitchen on a ship known as?
Who said ‘Hit me with your rhythm stick’ in 1978?
On which subject is Oz Clarke an acknowledged expert?
Which was the world’s first iron-hulled battleship?
Which sea area includes the Inner Hebrides?
At which racecourse is the St Leger run each year?

Round 2: Love and Marriage

For which television programme was ‘Whole lotta love’ the theme tune for many years?
How many of Henry VIII’s wives survived him?
Who wrote the line ‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’, as featured in the film
Four Weddings and a Funeral
?
Which anniversary does a married couple celebrate when they have been married for 45 years?
Which director’s last film starred husband-and-wife team Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman?
What was Basil Fawlty’s wife’s name in
Fawlty Towers
?
Whose marriage to Elizabeth Throckmorton incurred the wrath of Elizabeth I?
²²
Businessman Angus Ogilvy married which British royal in 1963?
To whom is film director Blake Edwards married?
Which was the only one of the Brontë children to marry?

Half-time teaser

How many miles does light travel in one second?

Round 3: History

Which trade did William Wilberforce help to end?
What were banned from village greens by the Puritans in 1644 as a ‘heathenish vanity’?
How did Mata Hari die?
What did the Duke of Wellington dismiss as ‘the scum of the earth’?
With which English hero was Emma Hamilton associated?
Which is the ancestral home of the dukes of Devonshire?
Which British monarch refused to allow his queen to attend her own coronation?
Which English king had the philosopher Thomas More beheaded?
Who was crowned king of Scotland on New Year’s Day 1651?
Who designed the Bouncing Bomb?

Round 4: Pot Luck

By what name is the Gravelly Hill Interchange in Birmingham better known?
In which novel do children called Peter, Phyllis and Roberta play central roles?
What do baseball players call a complete miss of the ball?
Across which ocean does El Niño travel?
Which religious movement was founded by John Wesley in 1738?
What is an archaeological excavation commonly known as?
What may be decorated in the Doric, Ionic or Corinthian manner?
To win which sporting title must competitors complete the Farmer’s Walk and the Carry and Drag among other events?
What was the name of the royal council in Anglo-Saxon times?
Which musical instrument features in the royal arms?

Jackpot

What kind of animal is a drongo?

Quiz 23

Round 1: Pot Luck

Which item of clothing was named after an atoll in the Pacific Ocean?
Bel Paese (meaning ‘beautiful country’) is a variety of which of the following – cheese, wine or sausage?
Under what name did Marcella Detroit and Siobhan Fahey enjoy chart success?
Which 1912 disaster was re-enacted in the 1958 film
A Night to Remember
?
Which children’s television programme included a fire chief called Captain Flack?
What was W. G. Grace’s occupation off the cricket pitch?
Who partnered Jack Lemmon in
Grumpy Old Men
and other films?
In which part of Los Angeles have numerous Hollywood stars bought homes since the 1920s?
Who sang about a laughing gnome in 1967?
What is Harry Ramsden famous for selling?

Round 2: Aliases

By what name is Vincent Damon Furnier better known?
Under what pseudonym did Charles Dickens write some of his earlier stories?
By what name did audiences know William Henry Pratt?
Under what pseudonym did Hector Hugh Munro publish volumes of celebrated short stories in the early twentieth century?
What name did Frances Ethel Gumm choose when she became famous?
From what did Samuel Langhorn Clemens take the alias ‘Mark Twain’?
Lord Greystoke became better known by what name?
By what name is the prehistoric smilodon better known?
What is the formal name of the Dog Star?
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In 1988 what famous site in central Australia reverted to its aboriginal name Uluru?

Half-time teaser

How many miles has the average housewife been calculated to walk as she goes about her duties in a single year?

Round 3: Food

According to a recent poll, which flavour of crisps is most popular among British children?
Which food provides Popeye with his superhuman strength?
In 1992 it became illegal to import what foodstuff into Singapore because of the mess it made?
What invention was introduced in 1795 to make it easier to feed French armies on campaign?
The Birdseye food company was founded by a fur trapper named Clarence Birdseye – true or false?
What food from heaven kept the Israelites from dying of starvation in the desert?
Food rationing was still in force in the UK in 1956 – true or false?
After whom did the French chef Escoffier name the peach melba?
Who painted
The Potato Eaters
?
Which nation eats more ice-cream than any other?

Round 4: Pot Luck

How did the Greek philosopher Socrates commit suicide?
What significant number would you reach if you added up all the numbers on a roulette wheel?
Which is the largest part in a Shakespeare play?
What was the name given to a group of lively young Hollywood stars, including Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez and Patrick Swayze, in the mid-1980s?
Which Beatles album includes the tracks ‘Can’t buy me love’, ‘Tell me why’ and ‘And I love her’?
Is a baobab a type of monkey, a tree or a chocolate and banana pudding?
Which sport is controlled from the Hurlingham Club in London?
In which satirical show did Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller have their first big success in 1960?
Apart from being a film title and an album by the Grateful Dead, what is an American Beauty?
Which underground publication of the 1960s ended up in court after presenting among other subjects the sex life of Rupert Bear?

Jackpot

Who made a solo trek on foot to the South Pole in 1996?

Quiz 24

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