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Jackpot

Who was Nazi Germany’s foreign minister?

 

Quiz 73

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which country lies to the west of Argentina?
  2. By what name is the Leonardo da Vinci painting
    La Gioconda
    also known?
  3. Who succeeded Oliver Cromwell as head of England, Scotland and Ireland?
  4. What do the initials T. S. stand for in poet T. S. Eliot’s name?
  5. Which sportsman was variously known as the Brockton Bomber, the Blockbuster or the Rock from Brockton?
  6. What is the main ingredient of a Molotov cocktail?
  7. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1974 with ‘The streak’?
  8. What was the code name of the beach in Normandy entrusted to Canadian invasion forces on D-Day 1944?
  9. The Egyptians were plagued by locusts, flies – and which other insects?
  10. Which country has a plain green flag?

Round 2: Ships

  1. Who sailed the seas in the
    Calypso
    ?
  2. In which ship did the Pilgrim Fathers sail to the New World?
  3. Nelson’s flagship
    Victory
    is now preserved in dry dock in which port – Southampton, Portsmouth or Falmouth?
  4. Which Royal Navy battlecruiser was sunk by the German battleship
    Bismarck
    on 24 May 1941, with the loss of all but three hands?
  5. On sailing ships of the Royal Navy, what was the name given to the upper deck to which only officers had free access?
  6. What was the name of the ship upon which Charles Darwin voyaged to the Pacific?
  7. Which Greek shipping magnate abandoned his long-term mistress Maria Callas to marry Jackie Kennedy in 1968?
  8. What was the name of the Greenpeace vessel sunk by French secret agents in 1985?
  9. Who commanded the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
  10. What was the name of the oil tanker that sank off Cornwall in 1967, spilling oil on Cornish beaches?

Half-time teaser

How old, in years and days, was Aaron Lennon when, in 2003, he became the youngest player ever to appear in a Premier League match?

Round 3: High Society

  1. In which month does Elizabeth II celebrate her official birthday?
  2. In
    Brideshead Revisited
    , what was the name of Sebastian Flyte’s teddy bear?
  3. Which classic 1941 film starring Orson Welles was based on the life of William Randolph Hearst?
  4. Which well-known London night-club was dedicated to socialite Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart in 1963?
  5. What was the title that Anthony Wedgwood Benn gave up in 1963 in order to continue as a member of parliament?
  6. What was the name of the self-proclaimed holy man who exercised great influence over the Russian royal family before the Russian Revolution of 1917?
  7. What royal title was bestowed upon Camilla Parker Bowles on her marriage to Prince Charles?
  8. Which 1975 album by Queen included the track ‘Bohemian rhapsody’?
  9. What was the real name of Oscar Wilde’s lover Bosie?
  10. How many of Henry VIII’s wives were beheaded?
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Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. In which novel is Alan Breck a fugitive from the English?
  2. Which is the only country in Africa that is split into two time zones?
  3. Which sport did Mark Twain famously dismiss as ‘a good walk spoiled’?
  4. What nationality are the pop group the Stereophonics?
  5. Who became president of Ireland in 1997?
  6. Who wrote the
    Enigma Variations
    ?
  7. Who played the lead role opposite Leslie Caron in
    An American in Paris
    ?
  8. What innovation was introduced to scoring in tennis in 1970?
  9. What was the name of the nuclear plant that exploded in April 1986, releasing large amounts of radioactive material?
  10. Singer Barry Alan Pincus is better known by what name?

Jackpot

What was introduced to British football on 2 October 1976?

 

Quiz 74

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Whereabouts in France is the Hall of Mirrors?
  2. How long does it take the Earth to go round the Sun?
  3. Which post has been occupied by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Geoffrey Fisher and Arthur Ramsey?
  4. Of which sport is a ‘garryowen’ a feature?
  5. With which single did the Rolling Stones first get to number one?
  6. What was the name of the horse that collapsed under Dick Francis in the Grand National?
  7. William Wordsworth was one of several prominent poets to refuse the post of Poet Laureate – true or false?
  8. Which mythological beast had a lion’s body and an eagle’s head and wings?
  9. Which two US states share no borders with other US states?
  10. If something is described as annular, what shape is it?

Round 2: The 1970s

  1. Which boys were back in town in 1976?
  2. Which new county was formed in 1974 from parts of Somerset and Gloucestershire?
  3. Who did Muhammad Ali fight in the famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ bout staged in Zaire in 1974?
  4. Which composer’s music provided the soundtrack for the 1971 film
    Death in Venice
    ?
  5. Who was football’s Supersub in the 1970s?
  6. What controversial innovation was introduced in the British press in 1970?
  7. Which country, in 1976, became the only one to fail to win a gold medal while hosting an Olympic Games?
  8. Which country was until 1979 ruled from the so-called Peacock Throne?
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  9. How were refugees from Vietnam in the 1970s referred to in the press?
  10. The coastline of which country was damaged in 1978 by oil from the
    Amoco Cadiz
    ?

Half-time teaser

Emilio Florin of Uruguay has the world’s largest collection of key rings, all different – how many does he own?

Round 3: The British Isles

  1. Sark is part of which island group?
  2. Which island is home to Grimsetter airport?
  3. On which island did King John agree the Magna Carta?
  4. Which footballer helped Lindisfarne out with ‘Fog on the Tyne’ in 1990?
  5. Which island is governed by the Tynwald?
  6. In which islands is 10 January set aside as Maggie Thatcher Day?
  7. On which island would you find Fingal’s Cave?
  8. From which island did Hereward the Wake lead a rebellion against William the Conqueror?
  9. On which island is the town of St Helier?
  10. Of which island is Portree the largest town?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. How many red ballons did Nena see go by in 1984?
  2. In motor-racing, what does a yellow flag mean?
  3. Whose nicknames have included ‘The Sultan of Spin’ and ‘Mandy’?
  4. What part of Europe did the Romans know as Lusitania?
  5. Who designed the
    Great Western
    , the
    Great Britain
    and the
    Great Eastern
    ?
  6. What is the name of ITV’s teletext system?
  7. What nationality is pop singer Enya?
  8. Which German commander suffered a reversal in fortunes at El Alamein in 1942?
  9. The Skagerrak lies between which two countries?
  10. What emergency procedure involves a sufferer being firmly gripped from behind around the ribcage and jerked?

Jackpot

What was the name of the Christian Democrat leader of West Germany for 14 years from 1949?

 

Quiz 75

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What began on 18 June 1940?
  2. Who was Europe’s first woman prime minister?
  3. What starts at Cheriton?
  4. Who provided the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn in the film
    My Fair Lady
    ?
  5. Which mountain, crowned by an ancient monastery, was the scene of fierce fighting 80 miles south of Rome in February 1944?
  6. Queen Victoria’s reign was the longest reign in history – true or false?
  7. In cricket, what is a ‘baggy green’?
  8. What physical disability did poets Homer and John Milton have in common?
  9. What was the name of Phileas Fogg’s manservant in the Jules Verne novel
    Around the World in Eighty Days
    ?
  10. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1999 with ‘Millennium prayer’?

Round 2: The Scots

  1. Who was the Scottish hero played by Mel Gibson in
    Braveheart
    ?
  2. Soldiers of which Scottish clan carried out the massacre at Glencoe in 1691?
  3. Who, in Scottish football, was the Big Man?
  4. In which film did Edward Woodward come to a fiery end on a Scottish island?
  5. What was the name of the leading Nazi who flew to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to negotiate peace between Britain and Germany?
  6. In which pop group have Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, Bon Scott and Brian Johnson been leading figures over the years?
  7. Who wrote the novel
    Tender is the Night
    ?
  8. Which dictator included among his titles ‘Big Daddy’ and ‘King of Scotland’?
  9. What is Mons Meg – a Scottish bread roll, a large fifteenth-century cannon at Edinburgh Castle or a Scottish folk dance?
  10. The last time a bagpiper accompanied Scottish troops into battle was in 1945 – true or false?

Half-time teaser

How many ships of the line took part in the Battle of Trafalgar?

Round 3: Wonderful Words

  1. What two words were combined to form the word ‘motel’?
  2. In the phonetic NATO alphabet beginning Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, which word represents the letter Y?
  3. What is the only word in English that begins and ends with the letters ‘und’?
  4. What is the correct spelling of the word ecstasy?
  5. What does the dialect word ‘mouldiwarp’ refer to – an old cow, a mole or a grassy field?
  6. The hypothetical particle called the quark takes its name from which work of literature?
  7. In the limericks of Edward Lear, what is a ‘runcible’?
  8. A ‘clowder’ is the collective name for a group of what kind of animals?
  9. An ancient Greek word meaning ‘kingfisher’ now means in English ‘peaceful’ or ‘calm’ – what is it?
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  10. Which foreign language contributed to English the words ‘howitzer’, ‘pistol’ and ‘robot’?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What colour is the Central Line on maps of the London Underground?
  2. A tiger has striped skin – true or false?
  3. Which male striptease group was originally founded in Los Angeles in the 1970s?
  4. Which is ‘the Lone Star State’?
  5. Which US rock musician is known as ‘the Boss’?
  6. Who drew on her own experience of mental breakdown in the 1963 novel
    The Bell Jar
    ?
  7. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1991 with ‘Bring your daughter to the slaughter’?
  8. Which of the following was not an Anglo-Saxon kingdom – Wessex, Mercia or Anglesey?
  9. Which Anthony Burgess novel became a notorious film directed by Stanley Kubrick?
  10. Who was known as ‘the Welsh Wizard’?

Jackpot

What colour jersey is worn by the winner of the Mountain Stage of the Tour de France?

 

Quiz 76

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which war provided the setting for the television series
    M.A.S.H
    .?
  2. In which month is the US Masters golf competition always held?
  3. What should you do with bombazine – eat it, wear it or take out the pin and throw it?
  4. Upon which Shakespeare play was the 1966 film
    Chimes at Midnight
    based?
  5. Who is Warren Beatty’s actress sister?
  6. Who wrote
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    ?
  7. Which martial art has a name that translates as ‘way of the empty hand’?
  8. Only males can suffer from haemophilia – true or false?
  9. Cumbria is the most northerly county in England – true or false?
  10. What is unusual about fossils of the dinosaur known as archaeopteryx?

Round 2: Scandals

  1. What was exposed by Bernstein and Woodward?
  2. Which top jockey was sentenced to three years in prison in 1987?
  3. Which scandal was relived in the 1989 film
    Scandal
    ?
  4. Which well-known figure was lost overboard from the
    Lady Ghislaine
    in 1991?
  5. Which Nobel Prize-winning German novelist caused a stir in 2006 when he revealed he had been in the Waffen SS?
  6. How did Tommie Smith and John Carlos cause a scandal at the 1968 Mexico Olympics?
  7. Which European football club was stripped of the 1993 European Champion Clubs’ Cup title because of a bribery scandal?
  8. Who called the Lonrho Affair the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’?
  9. Who was the ghillie with whom Queen Victoria was scandalously linked?
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  10. Who, when threatened with exposure in the press, thundered ‘Publish and be damned!’

Half-time teaser

Lauren and David Blair, who married in 1984, hold the world record for the number of times they have renewed their vows – how many times have they done so?

Round 3: The Weather

  1. Who was the Norse god of thunder?
  2. Which chilly wind blows off the Alps into southern France and northern Italy for as many as 100 days a year?
  3. On the Beaufort scale, which number denotes a whole gale?
  4. For whom does Hayley Mills mistake a fugitive on the family farm in the 1961 film
    Whistle Down the Wind
    ?
  5. Which weather-related band has released such albums as
    Songs for Polar Bears, Final Straw
    and
    Eyes Open
    ?
  6. What is a wind-operated harp called?
  7. Which 1969 film featured the song ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’?
  8. Which clouds occur higher in the atmosphere – cirrus or cumulus?
  9. Which British politician owned a yacht called
    Morning Cloud
    ?
  10. What is the literal meaning of the Japanese word ‘kamikaze’?
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