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Authors: David Pickering

Jackpot

Who shot Martin Luther King?

 

Quiz 89

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Who had a sword called Excalibur?
  2. Which British politician became known as ‘the Quiet Man’?
  3. Who were the first European winners of football’s World Cup?
  4. Napoleon’s favourite horse was named after which of his great victories?
  5. Which state most recently became part of the USA?
  6. What is a campanile?
  7. What awards are presented annually for outstanding contributions to British film and television in imitation of Oscars in the USA?
  8. Where would you find a glass pyramid designed by the architect Ieoh Meng Pei?
  9. Which British footballer was the first to earn £100 a week?
  10. Which part was played by Tyne Daly in the US television series
    Cagney and Lacey
    ?

Round 2: Fabulous Firsts

  1. Which was the first single to sell a million copies?
  2. The first recorded use of the word ‘baseball’ is in Jane Austen’s
    Northanger Abbey
    – true or false?
  3. What kind of international competition was first held in Folkestone in August 1908?
  4. Which sport was the first to have an official world championship (first held in 1873)?
  5. Which football club won the first FA Cup competition following World War II?
  6. Who promised to build ‘a country fit for heroes’ at the end of World War I?
  7. In which year did Rowntree’s Fruit Gums first go on sale – 1893, 1903 or 1913?
  8. On 11 June 1953, which famous cricketer became the first professional player to captain England?
  9. How did the Countess Constance Markievicz make political history in 1918?
  10. Which author is usually identified as the first to use a typewriter?

Half-time teaser

Dutchman Niek Vermeulen holds the record for the world’s largest collection of airline sick bags – how many does he have?

Round 3: Numbers

  1. No number between one and 99 contains the letter A – true or false?
  2. Which number in the National Lottery is chosen less often than any other?
  3. In George Orwell’s novel
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    , what is the name of the room in which people are tortured by their greatest fear?
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  4. In Roman numerals, which number is represented by the letter M?
  5. How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse are there?
  6. In
    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    , what is the answer to the question ‘what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?’
  7. What was US murderer John Dillinger known as?
  8. By what number do members of the Royal Navy refer to their working dress?
  9. What number refers to an ice-cream with a chocolate flake stuck in it?
  10. According to the Bible, what is the Number of the Beast?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Which Charles Dickens character is always expecting something to turn up?
  2. For what television programme was ‘This wheel’s on fire’ the theme tune?
  3. What style of jazz erupted in New York after World War II in the hands of such exponents as Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie and Miles Davis?
  4. Which is ‘probably the best lager in the world’?
  5. What are the Port of Liverpool Building, the Royal Liver Exchange Building and the Cunard Building in Liverpool collectively known as?
  6. Which treaty formally ended World War I?
  7. Which war did Muhammad Ali refuse to fight in?
  8. According to a recent survey, what is the average Briton’s favourite smell?
  9. Which prime minister was accused of ignoring reality in the
    Sun
    headline ‘Crisis? What crisis?’?
  10. Which is the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world?

Jackpot

Which location in Essex became notorious in the 1930s as ‘the most haunted place in Britain’?

 

Quiz 90

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Which is the only country that occupies an entire continent?
  2. What is a hydrophobic afraid of?
  3. Which major US sporting event has been held every January since 1967?
  4. Who led the anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s in the USA?
  5. What stage name did pianist Wladziu Valentino adopt?
  6. What is a buttress – a folding chair, a supporting structure in buildings or a tight-fitting dress?
  7. What gender are worker ants?
  8. Which queen ruled first – Elizabeth I or Mary I?
  9. In which country did violence erupt between Tutsis and Hutus in 1994?
  10. How does an operetta differ from an opera?

Round 2: Names

  1. Sean is an Irish equivalent of which first name?
  2. In British place names, what does ‘Chipping’ mean?
  3. By what name are the ports of Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney and Sandwich collectively known?
  4. Which English city had the Roman name Aquae Sulis?
  5. What, according to a survey of 2005, overtook the Red Lion as the most common pub name in Britain?
  6. What was the name of the film company co-founded by George Harrison?
  7. What colour name did Harvey Keitel have in the 1991 film
    Reservoir Dogs
    ?
  8. What is the first name of footballer Nobby Stiles?
  9. By what name is Kampuchea now known?
  10. In the Jeeves and Wooster stories of P. G. Wodehouse, what is Jeeves’s first name?

Half-time teaser

Tomas Lundman holds the record for heading a football continuously without dropping it – how long did he manage to keep going?

Round 3: Entertainment

  1. What was Mickey Mouse’s dog called?
  2. Whose hits included ‘Endless love’ and ‘Touch me in the morning’?
  3. Which Hollywood hunk was the first man to appear on the cover of
    Vogue
    ?
  4. Which popular novel includes among its main characters the sisters Amy, Beth, Jo and Meg?
  5. From which play comes the line ‘Brazil, where the nuts come from’?
  6. In which country was US songwriter Irving Berlin born?
  7. Which of Gilbert and Sullivan wrote the music?
  8. Alongside the Lyttelton and the Cottesloe, what is the Royal National Theatre’s third stage?
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  9. Which role was played in the cinema by Michael Caine in 1966, by Alan Price in 1975 and by Jude Law in 2004?
  10. From which musical does ‘You’ll never walk alone’ come?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. Lack of which hormone causes diabetes?
  2. How did the Getty family make their fortune?
  3. Which 14-year-old famously got himself into trouble for ordering a cherry brandy?
  4. Which language is spoken most widely in Chile?
  5. What does the Great Barrier Reef consist of?
  6. Who was the first Frenchman to win the Formula One championship?
  7. What is measured with a theodolite?
  8. By what other name are althaea plants popularly known?
  9. To what did the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) change its name in 1996?
  10. In which sport might you ‘catch a crab’?

Jackpot

In the 2002 BBC poll of the Greatest Britons of all time, Winston Churchill came top – who came second?

 

Quiz 91

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. What is the name of the lion in the Narnia books of C. S. Lewis?
  2. In which long-running series are David, Ruth and Eddie central characters?
  3. Who won three consecutive Wimbledon men’s singles titles in the years 1934 to 1936?
  4. What was the name of the pop group of which Boy George was frontman?
  5. In which film did Katy Johnson play a little old lady who unwittingly plays host to a desperate gang of robbers led by Alec Guinness?
  6. Which Iraqi city stands on the Shatt al-Arab waterway?
  7. What is the name of Postman Pat’s cat?
  8. Which international pressure group has as its symbol a candle wrapped in barbed wire?
  9. In what manner was the English Channel swum for the first time in 1962?
  10. What is the name of the Gaulish Druid in the adventures of Asterix?

Round 2: Modern Art

  1. What purpose did the building in which the Tate Modern art gallery is housed originally serve?
  2. What is the name of the giant Antony Gormley statue in Gateshead?
  3. What is the name given to a work of art in which the picture is built up wholly or partly using pieces of paper, cloth or other material stuck to a canvas or other backing?
  4. Which artist painted the double portrait
    Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
    ?
  5. Which famous art collector lost much of his collection in a disastrous fire in May 2004?
  6. Which British artist provided a coloured pattern to be used as a test card for cameras on board the space probe
    Beagle 2
    in 2003?
  7. Who included among his masterpieces the 1944 painting
    Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
    ?
  8. Which sculptor provided a statue of St Michael to be mounted on the new Coventry Cathedral in 1958?
  9. Which controversial US artist was popularly dubbed Jack the Dripper?
  10. Which New York art gallery designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was opened in 1959?

Half-time teaser

David Morgan of Burford has the world’s largest collection of traffic cones – how many different cones does he have?

Round 3: Whiter than White

  1. Who had a number one hit in the UK in 1967 with ‘A whiter shade of pale’?
  2. What is a WASP?
  3. How is Maurice Micklewhite better known?
  4. Which king is the subject of T. H. White’s book
    The Once and Future King
    ?
  5. Which English naturalist wrote
    The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
    ?
  6. By what name did Priscilla White become famous?
  7. What was the name of the ship in which the heir of Henry I drowned in 1120?
  8. Which snooker player has been (to date) runner-up in the World Championship no less than six times?
  9. Which soul singer noted for his deep, gravelly voice died in 2003?
  10. From which pop song comes the line ‘some man comes on and tells me how white my shirts could be but he can’t be a man ’cos he doesn’t smoke the same cigarettes as me’?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What is the name of the world’s second-highest mountain?
  2. Who invented dynamite?
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  3. What do the initials AWAC stand for?
  4. What is the name of the monument to the dead of the two world wars that stands in Whitehall, London?
  5. Who played Terry, a former boxer, in the 1954 film
    On the Waterfront
    ?
  6. Who was known as Satchmo?
  7. The Mansion House in London is the official residence of whom?
  8. Who had trouble getting past Sylvia’s mother in 1972?
  9. Who fought Muhammad Ali in the 1975 boxing match known as the Thriller in Manila?
  10. Which hymn has been sung at FA Cup finals since 1927?

Jackpot

In which film did Sidney Poitier play a character called Virgil Tibbs?

 

Quiz 92

Round 1: Pot Luck

  1. Coffee contains which stimulant?
  2. Which state is ruled by members of the Grimaldi family?
  3. What are the doldrums?
  4. In the heptathlon, which event is contested first?
  5. In the comic stories of Giovanni Guareschi, what is the job of Don Camillo?
  6. What is a male swan called?
  7. Who killed David Blakely?
  8. How old was F. Scott Fitzgerald when he died – 44, 54 or 64?
  9. In which sport do teams contest the Canada Cup?
  10. Which youth organisation originally called its members ‘Rosebuds’?

Round 2: Crime

  1. Which presenter of television’s
    Crimewatch
    became herself the subject of a crime featured on the programme in 1999?
  2. Where did Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty apparently fall to their deaths?
  3. Who played the younger Vito Corleone in
    The Godfather
    series?
  4. What name is given to a housebreaker who uses natural agility to gain entry to a building via a roof, window, chimney, etc.?
  5. In the murder mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, what are the Nine Tailors?
  6. What was the name of the actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
  7. With which sensational crime was Ronnie Biggs intimately associated in 1963?
  8. In which novel does Raskolnikov murder a much-hated pawnbroker?
  9. Who played crime boss Tony Soprano in television’s
    The Sopranos
    ?
  10. Who shot the sheriff in 1973?

Half-time teaser

In 2004, Edit Berces established a new world women’s record for the distance travelled on a treadmill – how many miles did she cover?

Round 3: The 1940s

  1. Who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as leader of Nazi Germany in 1945?
  2. Where would the 1944 Olympic Games have been held if not cancelled?
  3. Who replaced Winston Churchill as prime minister of the UK in 1945?
  4. In which 1949 film does a part of London discover it is part of Burgundy and thus free from rationing?
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  5. Which English cathedral was destroyed by bombs in November 1940?
  6. What distinctive structure was invented by Richard Buckminster Fuller in 1945?
  7. What mishap occurred during both the 1946 and 1947 FA Cup finals?
  8. What first did Captain Charles Yeager achieve in 1947?
  9. Who created the A-line, the H-line and the ‘New Look’ of 1947?
  10. Under what slogan did Labour plan state assistance throughout a person’s life?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. What is a hurricane in the Pacific called?
  2. Which is furthest north – Colorado, Montana or Utah?
  3. In which year was the Cricket World Cup first contested – 1975, 1980 or 1985?
  4. What was the name of the prefabricated outdoor air-raid shelters erected in British gardens during World War II?
  5. Which British car company was founded by Lord Nuffield?
  6. Which guitarist has the nickname Slowhand?
  7. Which film company has a logo comprising a man striking a gong?
  8. By what other name are antirrhinums popularly known?
  9. Which French town lies at the heart of the claret-growing region?
  10. How many general elections did Margaret Thatcher win?

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