Round 4: Pot Luck
- Which European explorer discovered Hawaii?
- In which sport is the Waterloo Cup contested?
- Which island group includes Praslin, Silhouette and Bird islands?
- Where would you find crenels and merlons?
- Which of the following is the odd one out – hara-kiri, sushi or sashimi?
- Where is the University of Hertfordshire based?
- Who was the first actor to be knighted – David Garrick, Edmund Kean or Henry Irving?
- Which English county has the motto ‘Much in little’?
- In World War II, what did the Germans call their defences on the Channel coast?
- What are Boodle’s, Groucho’s and Pratt’s?
Jackpot
What does the American word ‘scuttlebutt’ refer to?
Quiz 53
Round 1: Pot Luck
- What is the last letter of the ancient Greek alphabet?
- In CD-ROM, what does ROM stand for?
- What is the popular name for the Indian film industry?
- At which Scottish school were Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward educated?
- Where did the record-breaking Brinks-Mat robbery of 1983 take place?
- What was a ‘boneshaker’?
- Of what country is Biafra a part?
- Who directed James Stewart in the classic 1946 film
It’s a Wonderful Life
?
- Who formed the French National Party in 1972?
- Which member of the Rolling Stones died in 1969?
Round 2: The 1960s
- Who was the third member of the 1969 Apollo moon landing mission, alongside Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
- What, since 1967, has been sold under the slogan ‘Because I’m worth it’?
- Which US artist and film-maker in 1968 was shot and wounded by an actress who had appeared in one of his films?
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- In 1967, which British football club became the first to win the European Championship?
- Which popular television sitcom of the late 1960s starred Derek Nimmo as an accident-prone clergyman?
- With which political figure did the phrase ‘the wind of change’ become associated?
- In which television series of the 1960s was Cathy Gale a character?
- Which 1968 Beatles song was originally given the title ‘I’m backing Britain’?
- Where did an anti-Castro invasion end in fiasco on 17 April 1961?
- Who, in 1963, proclaimed to a large German audience ‘I am a doughnut’?
Half-time teaser
According to the 2001 census, what percentage of homes in the UK are one-person households?
Round 3: Colours
- Who had a ‘blue period’ from 1901 to 1904?
- Copper nitrate is blue, but what colour is copper chloride?
- Who sang about a lady in red in 1986?
- What colour did the Rolling Stones suggest it should be painted in 1966?
- Who shot to stardom in the 1930 film
Blue Angel
?
- Which real-life hero played a young Union soldier in the American Civil War in the 1951 film
The Red Badge of Courage
?
- Into which large green creature does Dr David Banner transform when angered?
- What colour cards are used for history questions in the board game Trivial Pursuit?
- At which school was the fictional Tom Brown educated in the novel
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
?
- What colour is absinthe?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- What do the initials ACAS stand for?
- A television drama series about the police is sometimes known as a police periodical, a police procedural or a police epidural?
- Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1982 with ‘Save your love’?
- Who created the Edinburgh policeman Inspector Rebus?
- Which organisation is based at Langley, Virginia?
- For which team did Eric Cantona play immediately before joining Manchester United?
- What are Boy Scouts between the ages of six and eight called?
- In which country are more people beheaded than in any other?
- What did the neo-Impressionists call their technique of using small dots of pure colour to form a picture?
- In the music-hall song, where did Burlington Bertie come from?
Jackpot
Which team did Roy of the Rovers play for?
Quiz 54
Round 1: Pot Luck
- In which sport is the Super Bowl played?
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- What is the UAE?
- What element gives Mars its red colour?
- In which language was the New Testament originally written?
- Which charitable organisation was founded in Oxford in 1942?
- In which country might you find the John Paul II airport?
- Jimmu, Hanzel and Konin were early rulers of which empire?
- Which boxer became a champion at five different weights?
- From which show does the song ‘Bewitched, bothered and bewildered’ come?
- In which country did the Velvet Revolution of 1989 take place?
Round 2: Classic British Television
- Who was the so-called ‘Father of Television’?
- What was Patrick McGoohan’s number in
The Prisoner
?
- How much did a UK television licence cost when introduced in 1946?
- Which medieval hero was played on television in the 1950s by Conrad Phillips?
- Valerie Singleton co-presented the first edition of
Blue Peter
– true or false?
- Which radio and television series was set in Tannochbrae?
- What was the name of the prison in the comedy series
Porridge
?
- Which disease afflicted the central character in Dennis Potter’s
The Singing Detective
?
- Which quiz programme has been hosted by Bamber Gascoigne and Jeremy Paxman?
- What was the name of the horse in
Steptoe and Son
?
Half-time teaser
In 2007 Steve Milton of Oregon established a new world record for a ball made solely of rubber bands – how many rubber bands did he use?
Round 3: Sea Life
- Bladderwrack is a form of what?
- A killer whale is a member of the dolphin family – true or false?
- Which sea creature changes its sex annually?
- To which species of fish does the central character in the 2003 film
Finding Nemo
belong?
- What is the name of the seaside resort plagued by a great white shark in
Jaws
?
- What is a young whale called?
- What kind of seabird comes in Arctic, common, little and Sandwich varieties?
- The 1997 movie
Fierce Creatures
was the unsuccessful follow-up to which earlier film?
- To which family of fishes does the anchovy belong?
- Which bird is sometimes referred to as a sea parrot?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- Tarquinius Superbus was the last king of where?
- On which date is Burns Night celebrated in Scotland?
- From whose reign does Jacobean architecture date?
- Which county cricket team has the nickname Gladiators?
- What is the name of the emperor of Japan whose reign began in 1989?
- Who adopted ‘Thanks for the memory’ as a signature tune?
- Where is the US Open tennis tournament held?
- Who solved the challenge of the Gordian Knot, said to be so intricate that no man could unravel it?
- Is Kerry Blue a type of cheese, a breed of dog or a shade of light blue?
- In cockney rhyming slang, what are you if you are ‘elephant’s trunk’?
Jackpot
What did the ancient Greeks call a pillar built in the shape of a woman?
Quiz 55
Round 1: Pot Luck
- Great Britain comprises how many countries?
- Who wrote ‘Summertime’?
- From which film comes the line ‘I’ll have what she’s having’?
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- Who was captain of the England rugby union team from 1988 to 1996?
- In astronomy, what are classed as spiral, elliptical or irregular?
- Who topped the charts with ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’?
- What is the name of the stretch of water that divides Alaska from Russia?
- Which famous designer worked on the costumes for the film
My Fair Lady
?
- Who wrote
The Call of the Wild
?
- What is sake brewed from?
Round 2: Children
- What, according to a recent survey, is the most popular sandwich filling among British schoolchildren?
- Which English king sired the most illegitimate children?
- Which popular long-running BBC radio programme included among its presenters Uncle Mac?
- Which pop group comprising Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams broke up in 2005?
- Which trilogy of novels follows the adventures of a young girl called Lyra?
- Which member of the Monkees was a former child star whose credits included
Coronation Street
and the stage musical
Oliver!
?
- The child depicted in the famous painting
Bubbles
by John Everett Millais was the artist’s son – true or false?
- Which popular children’s television series of the 1970s was set in a Victorian magic shop?
- What kind of animal formed the subject matter of Damien Hirst’s
Mother and Child Divided
?
- Who appeared both as one of the children and, in the remake, as the mother in film versions of E. Nesbit’s
The Railway Children
?
Half-time teaser
How tall (in feet) is the Canary Wharf Tower?
Round 3: Trains
- Who took the midnight train to Georgia in 1973?
- Who was the chairman of the British Railways Board who carried out closures of less well-used lines in the early 1960s?
- In which real-life railway station was much of the classic 1945 movie
Brief Encounter
filmed?
- Which first in railway history did William Huskisson MP achieve in 1825?
- Who lived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam?
- What was the name of the big express train in the
Thomas the Tank Engine
stories of the Reverend W. Awdry?
- By what name did the rail service between King’s Cross, London and Edinburgh become known?
- Who embarked on a love train in 1971?
- In 1988 French politicians demanded the renaming of which London railway station?
- Which Scottish rail disaster was commemorated in verse by William McGonagall?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- Who sang about Lucy in the sky with diamonds in 1974?
- Which comedy show, cancelled in 1989, always closed with a chase sequence involving scantily clad women?
- Who created the air ace Biggles?
- On which continent would you find the country of Suriname?
- At which theme park can be found the Nemesis and Oblivion rides?
- Which country came under the dictatorial control of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier?
- Which swimmer dominated the Olympic swimming events in 1972?
- Who played television’s Doctor Kildare in the 1960s?
- Who released the album
Obscured by Clouds
in 1972?
- Which year did Elizabeth II call her ‘annus horribilis’?
Jackpot
Of which town in California did Clint Eastwood become mayor in 1986?
Quiz 56
Round 1: Pot Luck
- Which three colours appear on the Italian flag?
- What does a fletcher make?
- Who is the creator of Tracy Beaker?
- Stanley Rous was known as ‘the Father of English – ’ what?
- By what other name is the peewit or green plover known?
- Which part of the body is vulnerable to alopecia?
- Over which empire did Xerxes and Darius reign?
- Who wrote the play
What the Butler Saw
?
- Under what name did Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart have a series of chart hits?
- Which territory in north-west India is disputed between India and Pakistan?
Round 2: Lifestyles
- Who observed that life is too short to stuff a mushroom?
- Which instrument did Sherlock Holmes play in his spare time?
- Instant coffee was introduced by Nestlé in which year – 1917, 1927 or 1937?
- How did Mrs W. A. Cockran ease the lot of housewives in 1889?
- In which city did Beau Nash become a celebrated social figure and fashion icon?
- When was the first microwave oven made – 1945, 1955 or 1965?
- Which company introduced the first waterproof watch in 1927?
- Who was the founder of Habitat?
- The world first suntan cream was developed in which year – 1926, 1936 or 1946?
- How did Steve Wozniack and Steve Jobs change the modern way of life in 1977?
Half-time teaser
How many episodes were made of the
Dad’s Army
comedy series?
Round 3: Books
- Which book of the Bible describes the flight of the Israelites from Egypt?
- How old was Adrian Mole when he wrote the first volume of his secret diary?
- Whose books include
When the Wind Blows
and
Fungus the Bogeyman
?
- What was voted Book of the Century in a 1997 survey held by Waterstone’s and Channel Four?
- Who wrote books with the titles
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
and
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
?
- In which book was Dolores Haze the object of an older man’s obsession?
- Whose books have included
Down Among the Women
and
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
?
- Which is the only Charles Dickens book that has a female narrator?
- In which book does a ship called the
Pequod
feature prominently?
- What was the title of the first of the Harry Potter books?