Half-time teaser
85.
Round 3
- Ferrari.
- Mackeson.
- Status Quo.
- He invented the Miss World competition.
- Trevor (the name of the founder of the TVR sports car company, Trevor Wilkinson).
- Neckties.
- Liz Hurley.
- Liquid crystal display.
- Golf.
- Manchester United.
Round 4
- 1908.
- Richard Nixon.
- The Mississippi (the child is the Missouri).
- A scythe.
- Private Frazer.
- King Lear.
- Gloucestershire.
- Mayflower
.
- Father Ted (Crilly).
- Idi Amin.
Jackpot
(the Venerable) Bede.
Hallowe’en quiz answers
Round 1
- Trick or treat.
- Ireland.
- Samhain.
- A coven.
- Lancashire.
- Hogwarts.
- Edgar Allan Poe.
- Abraham Lincoln.
- A man-eating plant.
- Matthew Hopkins.
Round 2
- The Shining
.
- Michael Myers.
- Don’t get them wet or feed them after midnight.
- The Cat and the Canary
.
- Lon Chaney (Senior).
- The Blair Witch Project
.
- Vincent Price.
- Night of the Living Dead
.
- He is burned to death.
- Carry On Screaming
.
Half-time teaser
70.
Round 3
- Bram Stoker.
- Vlad the Impaler.
- Bela Lugosi.
- Ray Reardon.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar.
- Nosferatu
.
- Jonathan Harker.
- Garlic.
- Whitby.
- True.
Round 4
- Mary Shelley.
- Spiders.
- Narnia.
- Boris Karloff.
- Most Haunted
.
- Three.
- Poltergeist.
- The west.
- The werewolf.
- Because he had no body to go with.
Jackpot
Horace Walpole.
St Andrew’s Day quiz answers
Round 1
- 30 November.
- White.
- The Order of the Thistle.
- St Peter (otherwise called Simon Peter).
- He was a fisherman.
- Italy.
- The tenth century.
- St Andrews.
- Fishmongers.
- Edinburgh.
Round 2
- In Edinburgh.
- Orkney.
- The Antonine Wall.
- Jacobites.
- Rockall.
- True.
- Trainspotting
.
- Prestwick.
- James Boswell.
- Thomas.
Half-time teaser
154.
Round 3
- Julie Andrews.
- Andy Murray.
- Andrew Jackson.
- Peter André.
- Blue and white.
- Dana Andrews.
- Eamonn Andrews (in
This Is Your Life)
.
- False.
- Andy Warhol.
- Andy Kershaw.
Round 4
- Saltire.
- The Royal Navy.
- Air Force One.
- Menzies Campbell.
- Henry Fielding.
- Archie Andrews.
- Holyroodhouse.
- Hampden Park.
- The M
8.
- 2006.
Jackpot
HMS
Invincible
.
Christmas quiz answers
Round 1
- Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar.
- Turkey.
- Jacob Marley.
- St Stephen.
- Norway.
- Pauline Fowler’s.
- Advent.
- 1914.
- Epiphany.
- Raymond Briggs.
Round 2
- Irving Berlin.
- Wenceslas.
- ‘Mistletoe and wine’.
- Thanksgiving.
- 364.
- St Winifred’s School Choir.
- A blackbird.
- A button.
- Two front teeth.
- Everybody.
Half-time teaser
1895.
Round 3
- The Christmas card.
- Mistletoe.
- Christingle.
- Prince Albert.
- Aladdin
.
- Kevin.
- Holly.
- George V (in 1932).
- The Christmas cracker.
- The yule log.
Round 4
- A big, red india-rubber ball.
- Lancer.
- Bedford Falls.
- Poinsettia.
- Eat it (it was a spiced porridge once eaten at Christmas).
- J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Lapland (or the North Pole).
- An invisibility cloak.
- Macy’s.
- Bob Cratchit.
Jackpot
‘The night before Christmas’.
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