Round 2
- Bath.
- Waterloo.
- W. H. Smith.
- Amtrak.
- Anna Karenina.
- 1843.
- Casey Jones.
- Grand Central station in New York.
- Dublin.
- A dragon.
Half-time teaser
1,852.
Round 3
- Canada.
- The US PGA.
- 86 kg.
- Red.
- Skiing and shooting.
- Meccano.
- Eight.
- Betty Stove.
- Fencing.
- The Kaiser.
Round 4
- Wales.
- Captain Hastings.
- False (it is Welsh).
- Field-Marshal Montgomery.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- The English throne.
- Tasmania.
- Israel.
- Violins.
- Liquorice.
Jackpot
Seaweed.
Quiz 49 answers
Round 1
- Australia.
- Anti-social behaviour order.
- The Drifters.
- Typhoid Mary.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- Eddie Merckx.
- Amman.
- Catseyes.
- Airships (it was the site of the hangar in which R101 was kept).
- Mother Shipton.
Round 2
- The bikini.
- Nîmes, in France.
- Vivienne Westwood.
- Bra Wars.
- Ecuador.
- Men’s bathing-trunks.
- Blue.
- Madness.
- Bobby socks.
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
Half-time teaser
25.
Round 3
- Chairman Mao.
- Marshal Ney.
- Robert Catesby (Guy Fawkes was in charge of the gunpowder).
- George II (at Dettingen in 1743).
- David Steel.
- Akela.
- Arthur Scargill.
- Mussolini.
- Genghis Khan.
- Screaming Lord Sutch.
Round 4
- Six.
- Henry Ford.
- The Brittas Empire
.
- Queen Victoria.
- Tom Sharpe.
- False (it is getting bigger due to overgrazing of surrounding areas).
- The Rubicon.
- Q.
- Prince Harry.
- A Town Like Alice
.
Jackpot
Heraldry.
Quiz 50 answers
Round 1
- Jamboree.
- John Paul II.
- Four.
- They were brothers.
- Nova Scotia.
- A fox.
- The apex.
- Two.
- Romulus.
- The Singing Nun.
Round 2
- Rome.
- Seattle.
- Istanbul.
- False (it is in Morocco).
- Sydney.
- Venice.
- Edinburgh.
- Washington DC.
- Sheffield.
- Glasgow.
Half-time teaser
30 hours, 45 minutes.
Round 3
- Women’s hats.
- A butcher.
- Mining.
- Gerald Ford.
- Carts and wagons.
- He is a weaver.
- Clark Gable.
- Television weather presenters.
- Christopher Dean.
- Assistant to the chief electrician.
Round 4
- Samuel Morse.
- A brownfield site.
- Coconut.
- David Bowie.
- Leeds and London.
- Haemophilia.
- Oasis.
- Tom Wolfe.
- Photography.
- The Ming Dynasty.
Jackpot
Volleyball.
Quiz 51 answers
Round 1
- Australia.
- A rat.
- Siam.
- Chrissie Hynde.
- Derek Jacobi.
- Eric the Red.
- The platypus.
- 1961.
- The number 13.
- Elba.
Round 2
- Captain Matthew Webb.
- Uruguay.
- The 1920s.
- Ernest Rutherford.
- Trial by Jury
.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937).
- Tobacco.
- Lancelot.
- Diana, Princess of Wales.
- A getaway car.
Half-time teaser
21.
Round 3
- The shopping trolley.
- Allinson wholemeal bread.
- Poison.
- ‘. . . not in your hand’ (slogan for Treets confectionery).
- The
Big Issue
.
- The escalator.
- Grace Brothers.
- The Pet Shop Boys.
- Selfridge’s.
- Granville.
Round 4
- Greece.
- Ragtime.
- Tiananmen Square.
- Kurt Cobain.
- Stevie Smith.
- Lake Superior.
- Athlete’s foot.
- Coventry.
- Quakers.
- Golf.
Jackpot
Thabo Mbeki.
Quiz 52 answers
Round 1
- Bastille Day.
- Fiat.
- Leopold Bloom.
- Pope.
- A gigantic aircraft built by Howard Hughes.
- David Cameron.
- A human shield.
- Yemen.
- Cliff.
- Italy.
Round 2
- Kenya.
- Queen Anne.
- Belgium.
- Cnut.
- Italy.
- 10.
- Sweden.
- Worcester.
- Benny Goodman.
- King Midas.
Half-time teaser
40.
Round 3
- Geraint Evans (Evans was a bass, the others were tenors).
- Irving Berlin.
- The Doors.
- Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.
- The Sound of Music
.
- True.
- Summer Holiday
.
- Because little girls get bigger every day.
- The sitar.
- The
1812 Overture
.
Round 4
- Captain Cook.
- Crown green bowls.
- The Seychelles.
- In a castle (they are parts of the battlements).
- Hara-kiri (the other two are foods).
- Hatfield.
- Henry Irving.
- Rutland.
- The Atlantic Wall.
- London clubs.
Jackpot
Gossip (or rumours).
Quiz 53 answers
Round 1
- Omega.
- Read only memory.
- Bollywood.
- Gordonstoun.
- Heathrow airport.
- An early bicycle.
- Nigeria.
- Frank Capra.
- Jean-Marie Le Pen.
- Brian Jones.
Round 2
- Michael Collins.
- L’Oréal hair and beauty products.
- Andy Warhol.
- Celtic.
- All Gas and Gaiters
.
- Harold Macmillan.
- The Avengers
.
- ‘Back in the USSR’.
- The Bay of Pigs.
- John F. Kennedy (quoted as saying
‘Ich bin ein Berliner’
, a
berliner
being German for a type of doughnut).
Half-time teaser
30.3 per cent.
Round 3
- Pablo Picasso.
- Green.
- Chris De Burgh.
- Black (in the single ‘Paint it black’).
- Marlene Dietrich.
- Audie Murphy.
- The Incredible Hulk.
- Yellow.
- Rugby.
- Green.
Round 4
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
- A police procedural.
- Renee and Renato.
- Ian Rankin.
- The CIA.
- Leeds United.
- Beavers.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Pointillism.
- Bow.
Jackpot
Melchester Rovers.
Quiz 54 answers
Round 1
- American football.
- The United Arab Emirates.
- Iron.
- Greek.
- Oxfam.
- Poland.
- The Japanese empire.
- Sugar Ray Leonard.
- Pal Joey
.
- Czechoslovakia.
Round 2
- John Logie Baird.
- Six.
- £2.
- William Tell.
- False (the presenters were Leila Williams and Christopher Trace).
- Dr Finlay’s Casebook
.
- Slade.
- Psoriasis.
- University Challenge
.
- Hercules.
Half-time teaser
175,000.
Round 3
- Seaweed.
- True.
- The oyster.
- A clownfish.
- Amity.
- A calf.
- Terns.
- A Fish Called Wanda
.
- The herring family.
- The puffin.
Round 4
- Rome.
- 25 January.
- James I.
- Gloucestershire.
- Akihito.
- Bob Hope.
- Flushing Meadows, New York.
- Alexander the Great (he cut it with his sword).
- A breed of dog.
- Drunk.
Jackpot
A caryatid.
Quiz 55 answers
Round 1
- Three.
- George and Ira Gershwin.
- When Harry Met Sally
.
- Will Carling.
- Galaxies.
- The New Seekers.
- The Bering Strait.
- Cecil Beaton.
- Jack London.
- Rice.
Round 2
- Ham.
- Henry I (with at least 20).
- Children’s Hour
.
- Destiny’s Child.
- His Dark Materials
(by Philip Pullman).
- Davy Jones.
- False (it was his grandson).
- Bagpuss
.
- A cow (and calf).
- Jenny Agutter.
Half-time teaser
771 feet.
Round 3
- Gladys Knight and the Pips.
- Dr Richard Beeching.
- Carnforth (in Lancashire).
- He was run down by Stephenson’s
Rocket
, thus becoming the first person to die in a rail accident.
- Tony Hancock (in
Hancock’s Half-Hour
).
- Gordon.
- The Flying Scotsman.
- The O’Jays.
- Waterloo.
- The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879.
Round 4
- Elton John.
- The Benny Hill Show
.
- Captain W. E. Johns.
- (South) America.
- Alton Towers.
- Haiti.
- Mark Spitz.
- Richard Chamberlain.
- Pink Floyd.
- 1992.
Jackpot
Carmel.
Quiz 56 answers
Round 1
- Red, white and green.
- Arrows.
- Jacqueline Wilson.
- Football.
- Lapwing.
- Hair (especially on the scalp).
- Persia.
- Joe Orton.
- Eurythmics.
- Kashmir.
Round 2
- Shirley Conran.
- The violin.
- 1937.
- She invented the automatic dishwasher.
- Bath.
- 1945.
- Rolex.
- Terence Conran.
- 1936.
- They introduced the first home computer.
Half-time teaser
80.
Round 3
- Exodus.
- 13¾.
- Raymond Briggs.
- The Lord of the Rings
.
- Anita Loos.
- Lolita
.
- Fay Weldon.
- Bleak House
.
- Moby-Dick
.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
.
Round 4
- Westminster Abbey.
- Super-heavyweight.
- Potassium.
- Birds.
- Airey Neave.
- The Elgin Marbles.
- Victoria.
- Alexander Kerensky.
- Macbeth
.
- Little Richard.
Jackpot
Hawaii.
Quiz 57 answers
Round 1
- Hercules.
- Aretha Franklin.
- Buddy Holly.
- Hammer Films.
- Mexico.
- ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’ by Richard Wagner.
- Bob Beamon.
- Meryl Streep.
- Morecambe and Wise.
- A light-emitting diode.
Round 2
- The Catholic Church (strictly speaking, the Anglo-Catholic Church).
- He was the only English pope (born Nicholas Breakspear).
- The Great Schism.
- John (23 so far).
- Ben-Hur
.
- Rex Harrison.
- John Paul I.
- Opus Dei.
- Londonderry (Derry).
- Under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
Half-time teaser
88.
Round 3
- Birds of a Feather
.
- An albatross.
- 14 February (St Valentine’s Day).
- Bird flu.
- The Tweets.
- The Birdman of Alcatraz.
- The Byrds.
- True.
- The Magpies.
- Edith Piaf.
Round 4
- Macduff.
- Fletcher Christian.
- Westlife.
- Alan Sugar (the name Amstrad was arrived at from the initials of Alan Michael Sugar combined with Trading).
- False (he hated it).
- Bernie Taupin.
- True.
- Oedipus.
- The Royal British Legion.
- Sir Galahad.
Jackpot
Elbrus.
Quiz 58 answers
Round 1