Half-time teaser
How many chapters are there in the Bible?
Round 3: Fruit and Veg
- If you were eating a Green William, what would you be consuming?
- Which kind of fruit comes in Flower of Kent, Northern Spy and Rome Beauty varieties?
- Which vegetable did George Bush senior admit to hating?
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- Which fruit is a cross between an orange and a tangerine?
- Mel Blanc, who provided the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots – true or false?
- Which kind of vegetable is a Crimson Globe?
- What kind of fruit do you get if you cross a raspberry with a blackberry?
- What is quorn made of?
- Potatoes are a plentiful source of which vitamin?
- If you bit into an Elegant Lady, what would you be eating?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- Which famous horse won the Derby by a record 10 lengths?
- What is the largest ship in the modern Royal Navy?
- Which football team is the subject of the central character’s obsession in Nick Hornby’s
Fever Pitch
?
- Which children’s classic begins with the line ‘All children, except one, grow up’?
- What is known as ‘the kissing disease’?
- Which European country was ruled by Joseph Bonaparte from 1808 to 1814?
- Which song provided hits for Tears for Fears in 1982 and for Michael Andrews and Gary Jules in 2003?
- The extinct thylacine of Australasia is better known by what other name?
- In which event has the world record never been broken at the Olympic Games?
- Who painted
The Laughing Cavalier?
Jackpot
Which city was capital of the Confederacy during the US Civil War?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- Who, in 1961, became the first man in space?
- Who took a walk through the streets of London in 1974?
- Which Hollywood actress collaborated with Robbie Williams on the chart-topping 2001 hit ‘Somethin’ stupid’?
- Who was ‘Big-Hearted Arthur’?
- Which heart-throb of silent cinema first worked in Hollywood as a gardener and dancer?
- Who, in 1668, became the first official Poet Laureate?
- Which is the Hilary term at the universities of Dublin and Oxford?
- What nationality was László Biró, the inventor of the Biro?
- Who was the first footballer to receive a knighthood?
- Which pop band borrowed its name from that of a South African football team?
Round 2: All at Sea
- Which two seas are linked by the Suez Canal?
- In Shakespeare’s
Richard II
, what is described as a ‘precious stone set in a silver sea’?
- In 1995, Britons Jason Lewis and Steve Smith achieved the first crossing of the Atlantic in what kind of vessel?
- Who starred in the 1953 film version of Nicholas Monsarrat’s
The Cruel Sea
?
- Which seabird inspired a 1968 number one hit by Fleetwood Mac?
- Cleopatra’s Needle on the Embankment in London is a copy made after the original was lost at sea – true or false?
- At which battle did Nelson put his telescope to his blind eye and declare he could see no ships?
- The prime minister of which country disappeared while swimming in the sea in 1967?
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- Which island country is located east of southern Africa?
- Which British field marshal drowned in HMS
Hampshire
in 1915?
Half-time teaser
How far is it in miles from London, England to Sydney, Australia?
Round 3: Musicals
- In
The Wizard of Oz
, what was the name of Dorothy’s dog?
- Who wrote the short stories about New York characters that provided the basis for the musical
Guys and Dolls
?
- Which musical was loosely based upon the life of a real-life sharpshooting cowgirl?
- What is the name of the nightclub singer who is the central character in
Cabaret
?
- Which musical is based in an imaginary village in the Scottish highlands that comes to life for just one day every hundred years?
- Which film musical set in the Black Hills of Dakota during the Gold Rush starred Doris Day?
- Who is the main male character in the musical
Carousel
?
- Which stage musical by Joan Littlewood featured songs from World War I?
- Which film was the musical
High Society
based on?
- From which musical comes the song ‘My name is Tallulah’?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- In which film did Marlon Brando play a Hell’s Angel?
- Which Arthur became a star of television’s
Going for a Song
?
- Which was the first country to grant women the vote?
- What colour caps do members of the British military police wear?
- Who, in 2004, denied the affair he had had with Petronella Wyatt?
- Crockett and Tubbs were characters in which US television series?
- Who chaired radio’s
Any Questions
? programme from 1967 to 1984?
- In which Shakespeare play does the phrase ‘brave new world’ appear?
- Who were Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Jerry Howard and (later) Shemp Howard better known as?
- Who became the first man to represent Great Britain in the Olympic ski jump event?
Jackpot
On which day of the week were both Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy shot?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- Which is the Land of the Long White Cloud?
- In which Disney cartoon film are Perdita and Pongo central characters?
- What is a russophobic afraid of?
- Which 2002 film concerned a Sikh teenager’s dream of becoming a professional footballer?
- Who was the first British monarch to fly in an aeroplane?
- What is the name given to the play of light and dark in paintings?
- Upon which Shakespeare play was the musical
Kiss Me Kate
based?
- Who was the Flanders Mare?
- Who preceded Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston have all been sufferers of which disease?
Round 2: Partners
- Which musical pair parted after quarrelling over the choice of carpet for their theatre?
- Charles Rolls and Henry Royce never met – true or false?
- Which pair shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize?
- Lucien B. Smith and Joseph Glidden introduced which obstacle to progress in the 1860s and 1870s?
- Mervyn Bunter is manservant to which aristocratic British sleuth?
- Under which US president did J. Danforth Quayle serve as vice-president?
- Which cartoon character danced with Gene Kelly in the 1945 film
Anchors Aweigh
?
- In which city did William Burke and William Hare provide the medical profession with fresh corpses?
- Alongside Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, who was the fourth member of the Gang of Four who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981?
- Were Alcock and Brown famous as men’s outfitters, makers of sherbet fountains, or transatlantic aviators?
Half-time teaser
How many books are there in the Bible?
Round 3: Heavens Above
- By what other name is the Pole Star known?
- What may be classified as elliptical, irregular or spiral?
- What was the name of the telescope put into orbit by the space shuttle
Discovery
in 1990?
- Who, in 1979, provided hitchhikers with a guide to the galaxy?
- What does an orrery show?
- Which planet was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781?
- In
Star Trek
, how long was the
Enterprise
’s original mission supposed to last?
- What name is given to a cloud of gas and dust in space?
- Which country achieved the first unmanned moon landing?
- How old (to within two years) was John Glenn when, in 1998, he became the oldest man in space?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- What, according to the proverb, is the thief of time?
- Who is the assassin’s target in the thriller
The Day of the Jackal
?
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- Which jockey has won the most Classic races?
- How many sides are there in a dodecagon?
- Who was renowned as the Butcher of Broadway?
- What is the name of the ritual dance performed by New Zealand’s international rugby team before the start of play?
- What did Oscar Wilde dismiss as ‘the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’?
- Which dipsomaniac journalist is named in the title of a play by Keith Waterhouse?
- Which supermarket chain was built on the slogan ‘Pile it high, sell it cheap’?
- Which is the most expensive property in Monopoly?
Jackpot
What is the secret language of beggars and tinkers called?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- Who wrote the American Declaration of Independence?
- In which Beatles film was the Blue Meanie a character?
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- Who was the author of the mammoth cycle of seven novels published in English as
Remembrance of Things Past
?
- Which musical instrument did Django Reinhardt play?
- Which country has the longest coastline?
- In which film did Bette Davis deliver the line ‘Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’?
- Which puppet character helped restore the fortunes of the commercial breakfast television company TV-am in the 1980s?
- Which famous playwright wrote a 30-second play comprising a single breath and then a cry?
- More people died in the Vietnam War than in World War I – true or false?
- Which famous baseball player did film actress Marilyn Monroe marry?
Round 2: Motoring and Motorists
- Who made the first petrol-fuelled car?
- When Americans say ‘hood’, which part of a car are they referring to?
- Which German-made car was originally intended as a car of the people during Hitler’s Third Reich?
- Which annual rally for veteran cars provided the backdrop for the 1953 film
Genevieve
?
- Which singer was driving a fast car in 1988?
- Where did an accident in 1969 cost the life of Mary Jo Kopechne in a car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy?
- Whose hits included ‘House of fun’, ‘It must be love’ and ‘Driving in my car’?
- Which much-loved car was dubbed ‘the plastic pig’ when a new model was launched in 1989?
- Who had their first hit in 1975 with a single about German motorways?
- What aid to motorists made its first appearance in 1931?
Half-time teaser
How many men have landed on the Moon to date?
Round 3: Waging War
- Who, on 28 June 1914, fired the ‘shot that rang round the world’?
- What public act of defiance on 16 December 1773 increased tension in the lead-up to the American War of Independence?
- Who released an album called, simply,
War
?
- What was the name given to the apparently divine warriors who were reported to have come to the aid of the Old Contemptibles when hard-pressed in August 1914?
- During which war did soldiers first wear what became known as balaclavas?
- What was the name of the herbicide dropped by US bombers to defoliate trees during the Vietnam War?
- What was the nickname of the Seventh Armoured Division that fought in North Africa during World War II?
- In 1991 which country was liberated in the course of Operation Desert Storm?
- Which World War II operation had the code name Barbarossa?
- Which war ended with the Treaty of Vereeniging?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- On which Beatles album cover did Paul McCartney appear barefoot, leading to speculation that he had died?
- In which horror film did Mia Farrow give birth to the Devil’s child?
- What was odd about the death of the Greek playwright Aeschylus?
- What label was bestowed upon Oasis, Blur and other leading British rock and pop bands of the mid-1990s?
- F. W. Woolworth opened his first store in Scotland – true or false?
- With which city is the semi-legendary figure of Lady Godiva associated?
- In which country will you find the largest pyramid in the world?
- Who broadcast a series of ‘Fireside Chats’ in the early years of World War II?
- Which major cultural institution opened in new premises in St Pancras, London in 1998?
- What are studied in Rorschach tests in order to reveal the subject’s underlying personality?
Jackpot
In which children’s book is Anne Shirley the central character?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- In
1066 and All That
, who were described as ‘right but repulsive’?
- Who became famous with paintings of Flatford Mill and its surroundings?
- In which opera are Jemmy Twitcher, Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum characters?
- Toronto is the capital of which Canadian province?
- In which month is the first Beaujolais Nouveau delivered?
- Vincenzo Perugia was imprisoned for one year, 15 days after stealing which work of art?
- Who followed Jim Callaghan as prime minister?
- In which television soap opera were Sinbad and Billy Corkhill characters?
- What, in cricket, is the name given to a ball that is bowled along the ground towards the batsman?
- Which country always leads the opening procession at the Olympic Games?
Round 2: Aliases
- By what name is Frederick Austerlitz better known?
- What was John Peel’s real name?
- By what name do pop fans know Gordon Sumner?
- By what name was Captain Scarlet’s deadly enemy Conrad Turner better known?
- Joel Chandler Harris wrote celebrated animal stories under what pseudonym?
- Which member of the Rolling Stones is really called William George Perks?
- By what name was Anthony Dominic Benevetto better known?
- What was Lonnie Donegan’s real first name?
- After which US film star did notorious British prison inmate Michael Gordon Peterson name himself?
- Which international sportsman’s real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento?