Round 4: Pot Luck
- Who is remembered as the inventor of the pneumatic tyre?
- In 1960s television, where did the
Seaview
sail to under Admiral Nelson?
- Who adopted ‘I got rhythm’ as a signature tune?
- Which strait links the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara?
- Pearl is a derivative form of which first name?
- How many innings are there in a game of baseball?
- Who, in the role of
Little Britain’s
Emily Howard, repeatedly and unconvincingly protests ‘I’m a laydee’?
- Who came first – Julius Caesar, Nero or Caligula?
- In which century did the population of the world pass one billion?
- What was the original title of the television soap opera
Emmerdale
?
Jackpot
In 2002, when the British public were invited to choose a wildflower to represent their county, which flower was selected more often than any other?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- What is the name of the fantasy land where Peter Pan lives?
- Which fictional character was inspired by the real-life Alice Liddell?
- Who had a ‘beautiful day’ in 2000?
- Who was King Lear’s other daughter, beside Goneril and Cordelia?
- What is the anthem of the European Union?
- What nationality are the pop group Rush?
- Which aristocratic family have their ancestral seat at Althorp in Northamptonshire?
- What is a ziggurat?
- Which sport was rocked by the Black Sox scandal in 1919?
- Who crowned Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor in 1804?
Round 2: La Belle France
- Which French town remained in English hands from 1347 to 1558?
- Which quay, located on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, is often taken to represent the French government as a whole?
- Who played the title role in the hit 2001 film
Amélie
?
- Which French artist, influenced by Degas, is celebrated for his paintings of performers at the Moulin Rouge in Paris?
- Who played Monsieur Hulot in a series of celebrated French film comedies that began in 1953?
- What was the name of the French commander who died fighting General Wolfe at Quebec?
- Who provided the heavy breathing on French singer Serge Gainsbourg’s 1967 hit ‘Je t’aime … moi non plus’?
- What did the French call the massive gun with which the Germans shelled Paris in 1918?
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- Which famous French Impressionist had a son who in his turn became a celebrated film director?
- Who wrote
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
?
Half-time teaser
How many symphonies did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart write?
Round 3: Family Matters
- Apart from being husband and wife, how are Prince Philip and Elizabeth II related?
- Who wrote
My Family and Other Animals
?
- To which family of insects do glow-worms belong?
- Which member of the Russian royal family did Mrs Anna Anderson claim to be?
- Who played numerous members of the D’Ascoigne family in the Ealing comedy
Kind Hearts and Coronets
?
- What was the name of the family cook in
Upstairs Downstairs
?
- In which J. B. Priestley play does a mysterious policeman interrogate each member of the Birling family about the suicide of a young woman?
- The king of which country was machine-gunned with most of his family by his own son in 2001?
- Who played James Bond’s ill-fated wife in the film
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
?
- Were the Walker Brothers, whose hits included ‘No regrets’, actually brothers?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- How many squares does a chessboard have?
- Who painted
Girl with a Pearl Earring
?
- Who was ‘blinded by the light’ in 1976?
- Jayne Torvill was born a year before Chistopher Dean – true or false?
- What nationality were the parents of Mother Teresa?
- In which television series is Nora Batty a character?
- If a person is described in the press as ‘tired as emotional’ what are they likely to be really?
- What battle took place on Senlac Hill?
- Whose best friends include Bill Badger, Algy Pug, Edward Trunk and Bingo the Brainy Pup?
- In which war did the Battle of the Clouds take place?
Jackpot
Who created the Daleks for television’s
Doctor Who
?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- By what other name is the buddleia commonly known?
- From which show does the song ‘Ding dong the witch is dead’ come?
- Which theatre on London’s South Bank was rebuilt largely through the efforts of Sam Wanamaker?
- How many sides are there in a trapezium?
- What is William Harvey remembered for discovering?
- Who said, when entering US Customs, ‘I have nothing to declare but my genius’?
- Which Basque and Spanish ball game is usually identified as the fastest ball sport besides golf?
- Who sang about Enola Gay in 1980?
- Who wrote the novel
High Fidelity
about a struggling record shop owner?
- Where in the UK is New Street station?
Round 2: Tourist Destinations
- Where might you view the Horseshoe Falls and the Rainbow Falls?
- What material was used to construct the Statue of Liberty?
- In which country was the first Disneyland resort in Asia opened?
- Where would you be if you visited ‘the Athens of Ireland’?
- Which lies further north – Majorca, Ibiza or Madeira?
- Where might tourists view the Venus de Milo?
- Where did tourists flock in 1851 to see the Great Exhibition?
- Where can tourists see the Crown Jewels?
- Which spectacular waterfalls are situated on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe?
- Where might the local population call a tourist a ‘grockle’?
Half-time teaser
Kharagpur in West Bengal boasts the longest railway platform in the world – how long is it in metres?
Round 3: Handbags and Glad Rags
- What name is given to the protective leather trousers worn by cowboys in the American West?
- What kind of garment is a glengarry?
- What was the name given to the sleeveless tops fashionable in the early 1970s?
- Where would a man wear dundrearies?
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- By what name is the Scottish filibeg better known?
- What kind of garment is a mantilla?
- What colour cap do goalkeepers in water polo wear?
- In greyhound racing, what colour is worn by the dog in trap two?
- What is a wide-awake?
- Which language gave us the word ‘anorak’?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- If something is simian, what animal does it resemble?
- Alongside the juniper and the Scots pine, which is Britain’s other native conifer?
- Which singer began his career backed by the Jordanaires?
- What is measured in pascals?
- What was tennis player Evonne Goolagong’s married name?
- Who, in 2006, ended his career holding the record for goals scored in the Premiership?
- Anton Edelman, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Robert Carrier are all what?
- Who plays Harry Potter in the films of the adventure stories by J. K. Rowling?
- What nationality is the central character in
Schindler’s List
?
- What colour is heliotrope?
Jackpot
Where would you find a tittle?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- Which Great Dane kept company with Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Daphne?
- Who got to number two in the UK charts with ‘I did what I did for Maria’?
- In which children’s novel is a rabbit called Hazel a central character?
- Which is the most common day of the week for heart attacks?
- Which Beatles track is said to have inspired Charles Manson to go on a murder spree in 1969?
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- In which English county is the city of Exeter?
- Why did the conviction of a 54-year-old Norwegian for drunken driving make headlines around the world in 1995?
- Which is the biggest country in Africa?
- In
Peter Pan
, what did J. M. Barrie call ‘an awfully big adventure’?
- Where did Napoleon die in 1821?
Round 2: Food and Drink
- What two words were combined to form the word ‘brunch’?
- When is simnel cake eaten?
- Which cut of beef was supposedly knighted by an English king?
- What is tofu made from?
- What allegedly causes Chinese Restaurant Syndrome?
- What is rum made from?
- With how many fish did Jesus feed the five thousand?
- A Bakewell tart is made with jam, sugar, eggs, butter and what other essential ingredient?
- Which English king died of ‘a surfeit of lampreys’?
- How many pints are there in a flagon?
Half-time teaser
How many emperors of Japan were there before Emperor Akihito succeeded to the throne in 1989?
Round 3: School
- Who are the gang of riotous schoolchildren whose escapades have long been a star feature of the
Beano
comic?
- What is the name of the government body set up in 1992 to inspect schools?
- Who is the best friend of the schoolboy Jennings in the novels of Anthony Buckeridge?
- Which fictional schoolboy was created by Frank Richards?
- Which sensational 1954 novel presented a shockingly realistic picture of life in an American urban high school?
- Which 1961 novel by Muriel Spark described the efforts of a Scottish schoolmistress to inspire her gifted pupils?
- What is the name of the school in the Charles Dickens novel
Nicholas Nickleby
?
- Which actor put together a school rock band in the 2003 film
School of Rock
?
- Who wrote
The School for Scandal
?
- In which Charlotte Brontë novel is the 10-year-old central character sent to the inhuman Lowood school?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- From which sport comes the phrase ‘ballpark figure’, meaning ‘an approximate figure’?
- What is the central wedge-shaped stone in an arch called?
- Who sang lead vocals with the Pogues until replaced by Joe Strummer?
- Which classical instrument does Woody Allen play in his spare time?
- Who wrote ‘Nothing compares 2 U’?
- Only three films have ever won 11 Academy Awards –
Ben-Hur, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
and which other?
- Who was taller – Lewis Carroll or J. M. Barrie?
- Who introduced the concept of ‘Big Brother’?
- Who did the Baha Men let out in 2000?
- Which historical figure is supposed to have provided the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Jackpot
In which range of hills would you find Hedgehope Hill, Windy Gyle, Cushat Law and Bloodybush Edge?
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Round 1: Pot Luck
- What is the leading female singer in an opera called?
- What was the Pink Panther in the first film of that name?
- What was the only thing left in Pandora’s box after she opened it?
- Whom did film actress Janet Leigh marry in 1951?
- Which country administers the Azores island group?
- Paul Weller achieved fame as lead man with which new wave rock band?
- Which national football team was the first to win two successive World Cup titles?
- To Americans, are ‘pot holders’ china ornaments, oven gloves or bras?
- Hawthorn and may are the same plant – true or false?
- Who was the first of the Roman emperors?
Round 2: Sport and Leisure
- In which sport might you use a niblick?
- Who enjoyed Olympic success on Goodwill?
- Which England cricketer and Arsenal footballer appeared in advertisements for Brylcreem?
- Who, in 1955, scored the first official maximum break in snooker?
- Which Olympic gymnast recorded a perfect score in 1976?
- In which year was there no winner of the Grand National?
- How many Formula One world championships did Stirling Moss win?
- In which century was the jigsaw puzzle invented – the seventeenth century, the eighteenth century or the nineteenth century?
- What is the maximum score in a tenpin bowling game?
- How long does an American football match last?
Half-time teaser
In 2004, a new world record was set by an individual playing the drums nonstop – how long did he manage to keep going?
Round 3: Animals
- What is a boomslang?
- Which animal, closely related to the llama, is famous for its luxurious wool?
- What was the dog in Enid Blyton’s
Famous Five
books called?
- What kind of creature is an alewife?
- What do silkworms feed on?
- How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?
- A dugong is a bird with a large curved bill – true or false?
- What kind of animal comes in eared, elephant and grey varieties?
- Which animals leave droppings called spraints?
- At what age under British law does it become legal for a person to buy a pet?
Round 4: Pot Luck
- What does a cartographer do?
- In which sport might a competitor execute an Eskimo roll?
- Which car company was founded by Colin Chapman?
- In which film does one character tell another ‘We’re going to need a bigger boat?’
- In which European city was the 1959 film
La Dolce Vita
set?
- The Battle of Borodino was fought in which war?
- Which British prime minister attended the Treaty of Versailles in 1918?
- What was Buddy Holly’s first name?
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- What was the name given to the revived Band Aid project staged in July 2005 to draw attention to Third World poverty?
- What was the name of David Cassidy’s character in television’s
Partridge Family
?