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Round 2

  1. Howard Carter.
  2. Wiltshire.
  3. Cartouches.
  4. Constantine.
  5. Corinthian.
  6. Colchester.
  7. Santorini (otherwise known as Thira).
  8. Jason and the Argonauts.
  9. The Titans.
  10. With a blast of their trumpets.

Half-time teaser
2,467.5 kilograms.

Round 3

  1. Del Shannon.
  2. ‘Back home’.
  3. Celine Dion.
  4. Telly Savalas.
  5. The Boomtown Rats.
  6. Luciano Pavarotti.
  7. Girls Aloud.
  8. Geri Halliwell.
  9. Take That.
  10. Jimmy Young.

Round 4

  1. Sri Lanka.
  2. The Grand Old Duke of York.
  3. 1961.
  4. C. S. Forester.
  5. Orlando
    .
  6. New York.
  7. April.
  8. Noël Coward (who also directed the film).
  9. Its provenance.
  10. Jasper Carrott.

Jackpot
Nigel Bruce.

 

Quiz 88 answers

Round 1

  1. Handel.
  2. Spain.
  3. Chad.
  4. Rick Stein.
  5. Graceland.
  6. R. D. Wingfield.
  7. The Isle of Wight.
  8. Formic acid.
  9. The M6.
  10. The dead man’s handle.

Round 2

  1. Anne Hathaway.
  2. Prince Edward (the Earl of Wessex).
  3. Lilith.
  4. Timothy Laurence.
  5. Maryland.
  6. Raisa.
  7. Mel Brooks.
  8. Anthony Newley.
  9. Jane Asher.
  10. The Mayor of Casterbridge
    .

Half-time teaser
399.

Round 3

  1. Sedgefield.
  2. Gerry Adams.
  3. The Conservative Party.
  4. Donald Dewar.
  5. Trident.
  6. CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament).
  7. Norman Lamont.
  8. New Hampshire.
  9. 35.
  10. Vladimir Putin.

Round 4

  1. Yellow.
  2. A young salmon.
  3. Pittsburgh.
  4. 12.
  5. Little Bighorn.
  6. Finnish.
  7. Alaska.
  8. Leon Spinks.
  9. Williams-Renault.
  10. The Spanish Civil War.

Jackpot
James Earl Ray.

 

Quiz 89 answers

Round 1

  1. King Arthur.
  2. Iain Duncan Smith.
  3. Italy.
  4. Marengo.
  5. Hawaii.
  6. A bell-tower.
  7. Baftas.
  8. In front of the Louvre in Paris.
  9. Johnny Haynes.
  10. (Mary Beth) Lacey.

Round 2

  1. ‘Rock around the clock’.
  2. True.
  3. The first international beauty contest.
  4. Billiards.
  5. Derby County (in 1946).
  6. David Lloyd George.
  7. 1893.
  8. Len Hutton.
  9. She became Britain’s first woman to be elected as an MP.
  10. Mark Twain.

Half-time teaser
5,034.

Round 3

  1. True.
  2. 13.
  3. Room 101.
  4. 1,000.
  5. Four.
  6. 42.
  7. Public Enemy Number One.
  8. Number eights.
  9. 99.
  10. 666.

Round 4

  1. Mr Micawber (in
    David Copperfield)
    .
  2. Absolutely Fabulous
    .
  3. Bebop.
  4. Carlsberg.
  5. The Three Graces.
  6. The Treaty of Versailles.
  7. The Vietnam War.
  8. Newly-baked bread.
  9. Jim Callaghan.
  10. The Humber Bridge.

Jackpot
Borley Rectory.

 

Quiz 90 answers

Round 1

  1. Australia.
  2. Water.
  3. The Super Bowl (in American football).
  4. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
  5. Liberace.
  6. A supporting structure in buildings.
  7. Female.
  8. Mary I.
  9. Rwanda.
  10. An operetta has spoken dialogue.

Round 2

  1. John.
  2. Market place.
  3. The Cinque Ports.
  4. Bath.
  5. The Crown.
  6. HandMade Films.
  7. Mr White.
  8. Norbert.
  9. Cambodia.
  10. Reginald.

Half-time teaser
8 hours, 32 minutes.

Round 3

  1. Pluto.
  2. Diana Ross.
  3. Richard Gere.
  4. Little Women
    .
  5. Charley’s Aunt
    .
  6. Russia.
  7. Sullivan.
  8. The Olivier.
  9. Alfie.
  10. Carousel
    .

Round 4

  1. Insulin.
  2. From oil.
  3. Prince Charles.
  4. Spanish.
  5. Coral.
  6. Alain Prost.
  7. Angles.
  8. Hollyhocks.
  9. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
  10. Rowing.

Jackpot
Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

 

Quiz 91 answers

Round 1

  1. Aslan.
  2. The Archers
    .
  3. Fred Perry.
  4. Culture Club.
  5. The Ladykillers
    .
  6. Basra.
  7. Jess.
  8. Amnesty International.
  9. Underwater.
  10. Getafix.

Round 2

  1. It was a power station.
  2. The Angel of the North
    .
  3. Collage.
  4. David Hockney.
  5. Charles Saatchi.
  6. Damien Hirst.
  7. Francis Bacon.
  8. Jacob Epstein.
  9. Jackson Pollock.
  10. The Guggenheim Museum.

Half-time teaser
137.

Round 3

  1. Procul Harum.
  2. A White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
  3. Michael Caine.
  4. King Arthur.
  5. Gilbert White.
  6. Cilla Black.
  7. The White Ship.
  8. Jimmy White.
  9. Barry White.
  10. ‘Satisfaction’ (by the Rolling Stones).

Round 4

  1. K2.
  2. Alfred Nobel.
  3. Airborne warning and control.
  4. The Cenotaph.
  5. Marlon Brando.
  6. Louis Armstrong.
  7. The Lord Mayor of the City of London.
  8. Dr Hook.
  9. Joe Frazier.
  10. ‘Abide with me’.

Jackpot
In the Heat of the Night
.

 

Quiz 92 answers

Round 1

  1. Caffeine.
  2. Monaco.
  3. Light winds.
  4. The 100 metres hurdles.
  5. He is a Roman Catholic priest.
  6. A cob.
  7. Ruth Ellis.
  8. 44.
  9. Golf.
  10. The Brownies (younger female members of the Scouting Association).

Round 2

  1. Jill Dando.
  2. At the Reichenbach Falls.
  3. Robert De Niro.
  4. A cat burglar.
  5. Church bells.
  6. John Wilkes Booth.
  7. The Great Train Robbery.
  8. Crime and Punishment
    .
  9. James Gandolfini.
  10. Bob Marley.

Half-time teaser
153.6 miles.

Round 3

  1. Karl Dönitz.
  2. London.
  3. Clement Attlee.
  4. Passport to Pimlico
    .
  5. Coventry cathedral.
  6. The geodesic dome.
  7. The ball burst.
  8. He was the first man to break the sound barrier.
  9. Christian Dior.
  10. ‘From the cradle to the grave’.

Round 4

  1. A typhoon.
  2. Montana.
  3. 1975.
  4. Anderson shelters.
  5. Morris.
  6. Eric Clapton.
  7. The Rank Organisation.
  8. Snapdragons.
  9. Bordeaux.
  10. Three.

Jackpot
Neil Simon.

 

Quiz 93 answers

Round 1

  1. ‘Wannabe’.
  2. Gene Wilder.
  3. Alton Towers.
  4. A form of Indonesian music.
  5. Iago.
  6. The anglepoise.
  7. Rising Damp
    .
  8. That World War II was over.
  9. Glass.
  10. Vietnam.

Round 2

  1. The electric chair.
  2. 1955.
  3. He was a doctor.
  4. Albert Pierrepoint.
  5. Dead Man Walking
    .
  6. Judge Jeffreys.
  7. True.
  8. Gary Gilmore.
  9. Tsar Nicholas II.
  10. Sydney Carton.

Half-time teaser
256.

Round 3

  1. Baseball.
  2. Kenneth Wolstenholme.
  3. Italy.
  4. The World Cup.
  5. Albania.
  6. LA Galaxy.
  7. Jim Clark.
  8. Shorts.
  9. Dressage.
  10. Christopher Chataway.

Round 4

  1. True.
  2. Iran.
  3. Lurcio.
  4. Harold Wilson.
  5. ‘Peggy Sue’.
  6. Mrs Slocombe (played by Mollie Sugden).
  7. Al Fatah.
  8. The Parachute Regiment.
  9. Jackanory
    .
  10. Michael Crichton.

Jackpot
The accordion.

 

Quiz 94 answers

Round 1

  1. Mount Ararat.
  2. Campaign for Real Ale.
  3. Its height.
  4. Louis XVI.
  5. True.
  6. Harold Abrahams.
  7. Baedeker.
  8. Russia.
  9. Mia Farrow.
  10. Alan Bradley.

Round 2

  1. Wolves.
  2. The king cobra.
  3. Sheep.
  4. A fish.
  5. One.
  6. A lodge.
  7. A bird.
  8. A piebald.
  9. Pigs.
  10. Butterflies.

Half-time teaser
165 kilograms.

Round 3

  1. George III.
  2. Steve Davis.
  3. The Black Watch.
  4. Stormin’ Norman.
  5. Queen Anne.
  6. Charles II.
  7. The Bhoys.
  8. General Patton.
  9. The Kiwis.
  10. Tom Finney.

Round 4

  1. Dublin.
  2. Cat.
  3. Flora Macdonald.
  4. Italy.
  5. Michael Hutchence.
  6. The tsetse fly.
  7. Canada.
  8. Steffi Graf.
  9. Rio Ferdinand.
  10. All the President’s Men
    .

Jackpot
The SAS (Special Air Service).

 

Quiz 95 answers

Round 1

  1. World War II.
  2. Life.
  3. The Salvation Army.
  4. ‘The Londonderry Air’.
  5. Bing Crosby.
  6. The Battle of Towton (1461).
  7. 22.
  8. Miss Price.
  9. Electro-Convulsive Therapy.
  10. Napoleon.

Round 2

  1. It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
    .
  2. Auntie.
  3. Sibelius.
  4. Blake’s 7
    .
  5. Opportunity Knocks
    .
  6. Blue Peter
    .
  7. Aidensfield.
  8. ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris.
  9. Ready, Steady, Go!
  10. Royston Vasey.

Half-time teaser
4,320.

Round 3

  1. Carnaby Street.
  2. Window shopping.
  3. Gerald Ratner.
  4. Campbell’s.
  5. It is a cake (and thus taxed less heavily).
  6. 1937.
  7. Lyle’s Golden Syrup.
  8. Wal-Mart.
  9. ASDA.
  10. Marie Lloyd.

Round 4

  1. ’… Then I’ll begin’ (the opening of the BBC radio programme
    Listen with Mother
    ).
  2. Carmina Burana
    .
  3. Jerusalem.
  4. Tennessee Williams.
  5. Revolver
    .
  6. Honduras and El Salvador.
  7. Theodore Roosevelt.
  8. Stephen Potter.
  9. Blackpool.
  10. The bar.

Jackpot
Richard Strauss.

 

Quiz 96 answers

Round 1

  1. Greece.
  2. Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador.
  3. Salman Rushdie.
  4. Britney Spears (to Jason Allen Alexander).
  5. Blue.
  6. Cumbria.
  7. Scrabble.
  8. Fish.
  9. Manchester.
  10. Boxing.

Round 2

  1. The Bay of Biscay.
  2. Helvetia.
  3. The Netherlands.
  4. Portugal.
  5. Liechtenstein.
  6. Jean-Claude Van Damme.
  7. None.
  8. Estonia.
  9. The Danube.
  10. Finland (last on eight occasions).

Half-time teaser
25 hours, 25 minutes.

Round 3

  1. Ice hockey.
  2. Polo.
  3. Curling.
  4. Table-tennis.
  5. Australian Rules football.
  6. Lance Armstrong.
  7. Bullfighting.
  8. Darts.
  9. Lacrosse.
  10. Wipe-out.

Round 4

  1. Hops.
  2. Mother Teresa.
  3. Cambodia.
  4. General Douglas MacArthur.
  5. Bailey bridges.
  6. Thierry Henry.
  7. Montserrat.
  8. An obelisk.
  9. C. S. Lewis.
  10. Geri Halliwell.

Jackpot
The Balfour Declaration.

 

Quiz 97 answers

Round 1

  1. Manderley.
  2. True.
  3. Skegness.
  4. Gloucestershire.
  5. Salem, Massachusetts.
  6. He was a mailman.
  7. Israel.
  8. St Petersburg.
  9. Twickenham rugby football ground.
  10. Steve Martin.

Round 2

  1. Carl Douglas.
  2. (West) German.
  3. The Carpenters.
  4. Video (in the 1979 single ‘Video killed the radio star’).
  5. Paper Lace.
  6. Phil Collins.
  7. Rod Stewart.
  8. Anni-Frid Lyngstad (the brunette).
  9. Bay City Rollers.
  10. The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band.
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