Round 4
- Baseball.
- The keystone.
- Shane MacGowan.
- The clarinet.
- Prince.
- Titanic
.
- Lewis Carroll (he was over six feet tall, while Barrie stopped growing at the age of 15).
- George Orwell, in his novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four
.
- The dogs (in the single ‘Who let the dogs out’).
- Vlad the Impaler.
Jackpot
The Cheviots.
Quiz 68 answers
Round 1
- Prima donna.
- A diamond.
- Hope.
- Tony Curtis.
- Portugal.
- The Jam.
- Italy.
- Oven gloves.
- True.
- Augustus.
Round 2
- Golf.
- Princess Anne.
- Denis Compton.
- Joe Davis.
- Nadia Comaneci.
- 1993 (the race was declared void).
- None.
- The eighteenth century.
- 300.
- One hour.
Half-time teaser
84 hours.
Round 3
- A venomous snake.
- The alpaca.
- Timmy.
- A fish.
- Mulberry leaves.
- Two.
- False (it is a large marine mammal).
- Seals.
- Otters.
- 12.
Round 4
- Draws maps.
- Canoeing (or kayaking).
- Lotus.
- Jaws
.
- Rome.
- The Napoleonic War.
- David Lloyd George.
- Charles.
- Live8.
- Keith.
Jackpot
Pound.
Quiz 69 answers
Round 1
- Archimedes.
- Sir George Gilbert Scott.
- That the Earth revolves around the Sun.
- Roy Lichtenstein.
- Prince Charles.
- Queen Mary
.
- Italy (1934 and 1938).
- Artists.
- Terry Waite.
- Sir Henry Segrave.
Round 2
- A glass ceiling.
- Pretty damn quick.
- Elvis Presley.
- Asset stripping.
- Remington (electric razors).
- Young upwardly mobile professional person.
- Carpetbaggers.
- Hobson’s Choice
(by Harold Brighouse).
- Doctor Robert Atkins.
- The Big Bang.
Half-time teaser
27.87 square metres.
Round 3
- Esmeralda.
- J. B. Priestley.
- Minnie Riperton.
- 10.
- ‘God save the queen’.
- Her dog bit him.
- 1967.
- Auguste Rodin.
- The Housemartins.
- Bromide.
Round 4
- Little Big Horn.
- Robinson Crusoe.
- The Four Tops.
- Margaret Thatcher.
- Mike Myers.
- Playing cards.
- Aldwych farces.
- American.
- The Rolling Stones.
- Cosa Nostra.
Jackpot
The Big Bopper.
Quiz 70 answers
Round 1
- Oxford.
- California.
- Proton.
- 11.
- P.T. Barnum.
- They were cousins.
- Badminton.
- 20.
- Viv Anderson.
- The Women’s Institute.
Round 2
- Iron.
- The live wire.
- Genetically modified.
- 10,000.
- Four.
- One kilogram.
- 7/100 (seven hundredths).
- 180.
- The newton.
- Six.
Half-time teaser
654.
Round 3
- A joey.
- The Order of the Thistle.
- William Gladstone.
- A rock stack in Orkney.
- Wayne Rooney.
- Theodore Roosevelt (aged 43).
- Windsor Castle.
- Mike Tyson.
- Douglas MacArthur.
- ‘Old Glory’.
Round 4
- Margaret Thatcher.
- Yellow.
- Grease
.
- The Bahamas.
- Scorpio.
- 200°C (400°F).
- Temeraire
- Turin.
- The scooter.
- Ruritania.
Jackpot
It was the first warship made of (glass-reinforced) plastic.
Quiz 71 answers
Round 1
- Goldfinger
.
- Robert Browning.
- Maxwell House coffee.
- Cream.
- Darrell Hair.
- Les Dawson.
- Apples.
- Gracie Fields.
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Knight of the Order of the Thistle.
Round 2
- The Cultural Revolution.
- The Gobi Desert.
- New Zealand.
- The Bamboo Curtain.
- Chow mein.
- The Boxer Rebellion.
- T’Pau.
- The Terracotta Army.
- False (it depends on the lunar calendar).
- The Huang He (or Yellow River).
Half-time teaser
31,173.
Round 3
- Air Force One (when Tony Blair suggested he have one as well, it was dubbed ‘Blair Force One’).
- Enola Gay.
- The jumbo jet.
- Tail-End Charlie.
- Hydrogen.
- 1,000 feet (300 metres).
- A wind (the hot, dry Chinook wind melts snow and causes flash floods: in 1943 it raised the temperature in South Dakota from -20 degrees centigrade to 7 degrees centigrade in just two minutes).
- Matt Busby.
- Quidditch.
- The Red Baron.
Round 4
- Stormont, Belfast.
- Elton John.
- Carry On Up the Khyber
.
- Aunt Agatha.
- Very Superior Old Pale.
- 17.
- Dennis Skinner.
- The Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500) motor race.
- The Fates.
- Roswell.
Jackpot
Syd Barrett.
Quiz 72 answers
Round 1
- The Mini (or the Morris Minor).
- Ronald Reagan.
- France.
- Dartmouth.
- Cricket.
- Osmosis.
- Paper Moon
.
- Benfica.
- Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier.
- The Times
.
Round 2
- William Hartnell.
- Stingray
.
- Hector’s (in
Hector’s House)
.
- ‘Clementine’.
- Fireball XL 5
.
- The Banana Splits.
- Brains.
- Honey.
- Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile (or Wear a Smile).
- Newcastle upon Tyne.
Half-time teaser
8.91.
Round 3
- Chicago.
- Wyoming.
- Mike Oldfield (
Tubular Bells
).
- Acrylic paint.
- Galileo’s (referring to his theory concerning the movement of the Earth around the Sun).
- Omdurman.
- Betty Boothroyd.
- 1795.
- Albania.
- The Jazz Singer
.
Round 4
- Mr Spock.
- Holy Innocents (or Childermass).
- Goal nets were not invented until then.
- The iris.
- The Bloomsbury Group.
- Cold calling.
- The Corrs.
- 1919.
- AufWiedersehen Pet
.
- West Ham United.
Jackpot
Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Quiz 73 answers
Round 1
- Chile.
- The
Mona Lisa
.
- Richard Cromwell.
- Thomas Stearns.
- Rocky Marciano.
- Petrol.
- Ray Stevens.
- Juno.
- Gnats.
- Libya.
Round 2
- Jacques Cousteau.
- The
Mayflower
.
- Portsmouth.
- The
Hood
.
- The quarterdeck.
- The
Beagle
.
- Aristotle Onassis.
- Rainbow Warrior
.
- Admiral Jellicoe.
- The
Torrey Canyon
.
Half-time teaser
16 years 129 days.
Round 3
- June.
- Aloysius.
- Citizen Kane
.
- Annabel’s.
- Viscount Stansgate.
- Rasputin.
- Duchess of Cornwall.
- A Night at the Opera
.
- Lord Alfred Douglas.
- Two (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard).
Round 4
- Kidnapped
.
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Golf.
- Welsh.
- Mary McAleese.
- Edward Elgar.
- Gene Kelly.
- The tie-breaker.
- Chernobyl.
- Barry Manilow.
Jackpot
The red card.
Quiz 74 answers
Round 1
- At Versailles.
- One year.
- Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Rugby.
- ‘It’s all over now’.
- Devon Loch.
- False.
- A griffin.
- Alaska and Hawaii.
- Circular or ring-shaped.
Round 2
- Thin Lizzy.
- Avon.
- George Foreman.
- Gustav Mahler’s.
- David Fairclough.
- The page three girl.
- Canada.
- Iran.
- Boat people.
- France (Brittany).
Half-time teaser
25,630.
Round 3
- The Channel Islands.
- Orkney.
- Runnymede.
- Paul Gascoigne (Gazza).
- The Isle of Man.
- The Falkland Islands.
- Staffa.
- The isle of Ely.
- Jersey.
- Skye.
Round 4
- 99.
- Danger: no overtaking.
- Peter Mandelson.
- Portugal.
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
- Oracle.
- Irish.
- Erwin Rommel.
- Denmark and Norway.
- The Heimlich manoeuvre.
Jackpot
Konard Adenauer.
Quiz 75 answers
Round 1
- The Blitz.
- Margaret Thatcher.
- The Channel Tunnel.
- Marni Nixon.
- Monte Cassino.
- False (Louis XIV of France reigned for 72 and Pepi II of Egypt for perhaps as long as 94 years).
- The loose-fitting cap worn by players in the Australian cricket team.
- They both suffered from poor eyesight.
- Passepartout.
- Cliff Richard.
Round 2
- William Wallace.
- The Campbells.
- Jock Stein.
- The Wicker Man
.
- Rudolf Hess.
- AC/DC.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Idi Amin.
- A large fifteenth-century cannon at Edinburgh Castle.
- False (they continue to play even now, for instance in Basra in 2003).
Half-time teaser
60 (27 English and 33 French or Spanish).
Round 3
- ‘Motor’ and ‘hotel’.
- Yankee.
- Underground.
- Ecstasy.
- A mole.
- James Joyce’s
Finnegans Wake
.
- A spoon.
- Cats.
- Halcyon.
- Czech.
Round 4
- Red.
- True.
- The Chippendales.
- Texas.
- Bruce Springsteen.
- Sylvia Plath.
- Iron Maiden.
- Anglesey.
- A Clockwork Orange
.
- David Lloyd George.
Jackpot
White with red spots.
Quiz 76 answers
Round 1
- The Korean War.
- April.
- Wear it (it is a form of dress material).
- Henry V
.
- Shirley MacLaine.
- Milan Kundera.
- Karate.
- True (though women can be carriers).
- False (it is Northumberland).
- They show feathers.
Round 2
- The Watergate Affair.
- Lester Piggott.
- The Profumo Affair.
- Robert Maxwell.
- Günter Grass.
- They raised their fists in black gloves (the salute of the Black Panthers anti-racist movement) when receiving their medals.
- Marseille.
- Edward Heath.
- John Brown.
- The Duke of Wellington.
Half-time teaser
83 times.
Round 3
- Thor.
- The mistral.
- 10.
- Jesus.
- Snow Patrol.
- An Aeolian harp.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
.
- Cirrus.
- Edward Heath.
- Divine wind.
Round 4
- Israel.
- Puccini.
- The Bridgewater Four.
- False (it was Led Zeppelin).
- Mike Hawthorn.
- Edgbaston.
- Tommy Lee Jones.
- Munchausen’s Syndrome.
- The
Monitor
.
- The Khmer Rouge.
Jackpot
July.
Quiz 77 answers
Round 1
- Chequers.
- The Desert Fox.
- ‘Octopus’s garden’.
- Arachnophobia.
- Connacht (also spelt Connaught).
- True.
- Egypt.
- River Phoenix.
- True.
- Ronseal wood preservatives.