Round 4: Pot Luck
- In which London building would you find Poets’ Corner?
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- What is the heaviest weight division in wrestling, for men over 100 kilograms, called?
- Which chemical element has the symbol K?
- What type of animal are loons and potoos?
- Which British MP was killed by an IRA bomb in the House of Commons car park?
- What is the name of the marbles that Greece would like back from the British Museum?
- Of which Australian state is Melbourne the capital?
- Who was prime minister of Russia until swept away in the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917?
- In which Shakespeare play are Malcolm, Hecate and Fleance characters?
- Who is Richard Penniman better known as?
Jackpot
Of which country was Queen Liliuokalani the last monarch?
Quiz 57
Round 1: Pot Luck
- Who performed 12 mythological labours?
- Which singer was nicknamed ‘the Queen of Soul’?
- To whom did Don McLean dedicate his classic hit single ‘American Pie’?
- Which British film company specialising in horror was founded in 1947?
- Where was chocolate first made?
- What was the tune blasted out by US helicopters going into the attack in the 1979 film
Apocalypse Now
?
- Whose long-jump world record established in 1968 remained unbroken until 1991?
- Who played opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1995 film
The Bridges of Madison County
?
- Who adopted ‘Bring me sunshine’ as a signature tune?
- What is an LED?
Round 2: Smells and Bells
- Which institution is sometimes referred to by the nickname ‘smells and bells’?
- What nationality was Pope Adrian IV?
- What name was given to the split that occurred in the Roman Catholic Church in 1378, leading to the establishment of rival popes?
- Which to date has proved the most popular name among popes?
- Which 1959 film was the first film ever to be blessed by the Pope?
- Who played Pope Julius II in the 1965 film
The Agony and the Ecstasy
?
- Which pope of the twentieth century reigned for just 33 days?
- Which Roman Catholic organisation was founded in 1928 to promote Christian principles throughout the world?
- Which city in Northern Ireland has a Catholic district called Bogside?
- Where was the Vatican banker Roberto Calvi found hanging in 1982?
Half-time teaser
How many countries (by the end of 2005) had abolished the death penalty for all offences?
Round 3: Birds
- Which popular television sitcom starred Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as two Essex girls?
- In golf, what is the name given to a hole that a player completes in three strokes less than par?
- On which day are birds traditionally believed to choose their mates?
- Which infectious disease is caused by the H5N1 virus?
- Who had everyone dancing to the ‘Birdie Song’ in 1981?
- By what name did imprisoned US murderer Robert Stroud become better known?
- Which pop group had hits with cover versions of Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ and ‘Turn, turn, turn’?
- Barnacle geese were formerly eaten by Catholics during Lent because it was thought that they hatched from barnacles and could thus be classed as fish – true or false?
- By what bird-related nickname are the football clubs Newcastle United and Notts County known?
- Which French singer was known as ‘the little Sparrow’?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- Who killed Shakespeare’s Macbeth?
- Who led a mutiny against Captain Bligh on the
Bounty
in 1787?
- Which boy band were at number one in the UK charts on 1 January 2000 with the double-A side ‘I have a dream/Seasons in the sun’?
- Who founded Amstrad in 1968?
- Charles Dickens was an enthusiastic player of croquet – true or false?
- Who wrote the lyrics for Elton John’s single ‘Candle in the wind’?
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- Only women take part in Olympic synchronised swimming competitions – true or false?
- Which character in Greek tragedy unknowingly killed his father and married his mother?
- Which organisation sells artificial poppies to mark Remembrance Day?
- Which one of King Arthur’s knights found the Holy Grail?
Jackpot
Which is the highest mountain in Europe?
Quiz 58
Round 1: Pot Luck
- What do the initials GPS stand for?
- How many sides are there in a heptagon?
- What relation is film director Francis Ford Coppola to actor Nicolas Cage?
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- Who were urging on Eileen in 1982?
- Is a ship’s mizzenmast at the front or rear of the vessel?
- Where is the English Derby horse race held?
- Who wrote music criticism under the pseudonym Corno di Bassetto?
- By what alternative name is the eggplant also known?
- What was the name of Britain’s first commercial jet airliner?
- Which footballer became, in 1979, the subject of the first one-million-pound transfer?
Round 2: Traitors
- How many pieces of silver did Judas get for betraying Christ?
- What was the name of the rock from which traitors were thrown in ancient Rome?
- Against which monarch was the Rye House Plot aimed?
- Under what name did Margaretha Geertruida Zelle become notorious?
- Which English monarch did Edward Oxford, John William Bean, John Francis, William Hamilton, Robert Pate, Arthur O’Connor and Roderick Maclean all try to murder?
- Which American general was branded a traitor after changing sides during the American War of Independence?
- In which war was the term ‘fifth column’ first used?
- Where in London would you find Traitor’s Gate?
- Against whom was the Babington Plot organised?
- Who was imprisoned as a traitor after World War II as head of the Vichy regime in France?
Half-time teaser
How long, in metres, is the world’s longest bicycle?
Round 3: The 1980s
- Which newspaper was founded by Eddie Shah in 1986?
- Who won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1980 with
Rites of Passage
?
- What royal title was bestowed upon Princess Anne in 1987?
- What first did Kevin Moran of Manchester United achieve during an FA Cup final in 1985?
- Which jockey’s struggle against cancer and subsequent Grand National triumph inspired a 1983 film starring John Hurt?
- What finally disappeared from the British coinage in 1980?
- What event provoked a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
- Who was dancing on the ceiling in 1986?
- Who left the European Economic Community in 1985?
- Who succeeded Ron Greenwood as England football manager in 1982?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- Who wrote the plays
Volpone
and
Bartholomew Fair
?
- Which is darker in colour – fino or amontillado sherry?
- By what English name is the Ursa Major constellation also known?
- The Romans used concrete in their buildings – true or false?
- What shape is a lateen sail?
- To which post were John Flamsteed, Sir Martin Ryle and Sir Martin Rees all appointed?
- Of which organisation was John Reith the first director-general?
- On 4 February 1504 James IV of Scotland took part in the first officially documented match in which sport?
- What nationality is pop musician Manfred Mann?
- Which television soap opera included among its cast dogs called Willy and Wellard?
Jackpot
Of whom did Buster Keaton say ‘Chaplin wasn’t the funniest, I wasn’t the funniest, this man was the funniest’?
Quiz 59
Round 1: Pot Luck
- In which street did the Great Fire of London break out in 1666?
- What nationality was artist René Magritte?
- Who wrote the novels
Silas Marner, Romola
and
Middlemarch
?
- Who, in 1986, was ‘addicted to love’?
- Who founded the cult of scientology?
- Which country took offence when lampooned by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in a film released in 2006?
- Which major art prize was won by Gilbert and George in 1986 and by Damien Hirst in 1995?
- In which film does a troubled former marine called Travis Bickle befriend a young girl called Iris?
- With which pop group was Errol Brown lead singer?
- On what fictional island do the
Thomas the Tank Engine
stories of the Reverend W. Awdry take place?
Round 2: Gold
- What is the chemical symbol for gold?
- Which brand of cigarettes was sold under the slogan ‘pure gold’?
- Which singer had the nickname ‘the Golden Foghorn’?
- Which comedy team of the 1930s and 1940s included the duos Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, and Naughton and Gold?
- What was the name of the political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith in 1994?
- Upon which popular US television show did comedienne Goldie Hawn get her big break?
- In which John Huston film do three gold miners fall out in their search for a lost gold mine in central Mexico?
- At which film festival is the Golden Bear awarded?
- What is the popular gold-related name for iron pyrite?
- Who sang the theme song for the James Bond film
Goldeneye
?
Half-time teaser
In his memoirs, how many women does the legendary womaniser Casanova admit to having seduced?
Round 3: Funny Folk
- Which comedian was known as ‘the Cheeky Chappie’?
- Which British comedians assumed the roles of Jeeves and Wooster in 1990?
- Which film by the Monty Python team created a furore in religious circles on its release in 1979?
- Who wrote an autobiography entitled
Don’t Laugh at Me
?
- To which
Carry On
star was John Le Mesurier married?
- From which Spanish city did the waiter played by Andrew Sachs come in the hit sitcom
Fawlty Towers
?
- Which of the Marx Brothers pretended he was mute?
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- Where was the comedy series
Father Ted
set?
- What was the name of the informal lunch club at a hotel in New York that was regularly attended by Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and other legendary wits of the 1920s and 1930s?
- Who is the Big Yin?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- Who lived at Hill Top in the Lake District?
- Which US rock group includes bassist Gene Simmons?
- On whose life was the film biography
Shadowlands
based?
- By what Arthurian name was John F. Kennedy’s administration popularly known?
- German V-1 flying bombs were variously known as ‘buzz bombs’ or by what other nickname?
- What is the name given to the grassland that covers 40 per cent of Africa?
- How many individuals were there in the Osmonds pop group?
- What was the name of the fictional holiday camp in the sitcom
Hi-de-Hi!
?
- In which African country is the native currency the birr?
- What was the sequel to the Clint Eastwood film
Every Which Way But Loose
?
Jackpot
Which country has a national flag that is not rectangular in shape?
Quiz 60
Round 1: Pot Luck
- What is the maximum number of points that a player can score with three darts?
- What is the symbol of the Republican Party in the USA?
- With which racing team did Jim Clark spend his entire Formula One career?
- In which opera does the ill-fated central character invite a statue to dinner?
- What colour is celandine?
- Which English football league club was the first to install artificial turf?
- Which thriller by Erskine Childers concerned German preparations to invade Britain before World War I?
- Hypnos was the Greek god of what?
- What is Crichton’s job in J. M. Barrie’s play
The Admirable Crichton
?
- The Perseids, the Leonids and the Geminids are all what?
Round 2: Celebrities
- Which two Hollywood stars made their last appearances in the 1961 film
The Misfits
?
- What is Ozzy Osbourne’s first name?
- Which pop star in 2007 notoriously cut off her own hair after the staff at a hair salon refused to do so?
- In 1994 Michael Jackson became the son-in-law of which deceased pop star?
- US singer Tommy Lee was married to which US film and television actress?
- Who is godfather to, among others, Sean Lennon, Liz Hurley’s son Damian and Brooklyn Beckham?
- Who caused a stir in 2006 by adopting David Banda?
- Which contemporary pop star has the married name Shelly Kearns?
- Who was the victim of allegedly racist comments made by Jade Goody in
Celebrity Big Brother
in 2007?
- What were the Tamworth Two?
Half-time teaser
Jackie Bibby and Rosie Reynolds-McCasland share the record for sitting in a bath with rattlesnakes – how many snakes did each share their bath with?
Round 3: Nicknames
- What nickname did singer Vera Lynn acquire during World War II?
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- Which disc jockey had the nickname ‘Fluff’?
- Who is golf’s ‘Golden Bear’?
- Who was the so-called ‘Madame Sin’ who offered intimate encounters in exchange for luncheon vouchers?
- Which pop musician had the nickname ‘Killer’?
- By what nickname was singer Jenny Lind widely known?
- Which public figure became known in the press as ‘Lord Porn’?
- Who, in track athletics, became known as ‘the Ebony Antelope’?
- Which member of the royal family was dubbed ‘Princess Pushy’?
- Who was ‘America’s Sweetheart’?