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Authors: David Pickering

Round 2

  1. Bath.
  2. Waterloo.
  3. W. H. Smith.
  4. Amtrak.
  5. Anna Karenina.
  6. 1843.
  7. Casey Jones.
  8. Grand Central station in New York.
  9. Dublin.
  10. A dragon.

Half-time teaser
1,852.

Round 3

  1. Canada.
  2. The US PGA.
  3. 86 kg.
  4. Red.
  5. Skiing and shooting.
  6. Meccano.
  7. Eight.
  8. Betty Stove.
  9. Fencing.
  10. The Kaiser.

Round 4

  1. Wales.
  2. Captain Hastings.
  3. False (it is Welsh).
  4. Field-Marshal Montgomery.
  5. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  6. The English throne.
  7. Tasmania.
  8. Israel.
  9. Violins.
  10. Liquorice.

Jackpot
Seaweed.

 

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Round 1

  1. Australia.
  2. Anti-social behaviour order.
  3. The Drifters.
  4. Typhoid Mary.
  5. Catherine Zeta-Jones.
  6. Eddie Merckx.
  7. Amman.
  8. Catseyes.
  9. Airships (it was the site of the hangar in which R101 was kept).
  10. Mother Shipton.

Round 2

  1. The bikini.
  2. Nîmes, in France.
  3. Vivienne Westwood.
  4. Bra Wars.
  5. Ecuador.
  6. Men’s bathing-trunks.
  7. Blue.
  8. Madness.
  9. Bobby socks.
  10. Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

Half-time teaser
25.

Round 3

  1. Chairman Mao.
  2. Marshal Ney.
  3. Robert Catesby (Guy Fawkes was in charge of the gunpowder).
  4. George II (at Dettingen in 1743).
  5. David Steel.
  6. Akela.
  7. Arthur Scargill.
  8. Mussolini.
  9. Genghis Khan.
  10. Screaming Lord Sutch.

Round 4

  1. Six.
  2. Henry Ford.
  3. The Brittas Empire
    .
  4. Queen Victoria.
  5. Tom Sharpe.
  6. False (it is getting bigger due to overgrazing of surrounding areas).
  7. The Rubicon.
  8. Q.
  9. Prince Harry.
  10. A Town Like Alice
    .

Jackpot
Heraldry.

 

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Round 1

  1. Jamboree.
  2. John Paul II.
  3. Four.
  4. They were brothers.
  5. Nova Scotia.
  6. A fox.
  7. The apex.
  8. Two.
  9. Romulus.
  10. The Singing Nun.

Round 2

  1. Rome.
  2. Seattle.
  3. Istanbul.
  4. False (it is in Morocco).
  5. Sydney.
  6. Venice.
  7. Edinburgh.
  8. Washington DC.
  9. Sheffield.
  10. Glasgow.

Half-time teaser
30 hours, 45 minutes.

Round 3

  1. Women’s hats.
  2. A butcher.
  3. Mining.
  4. Gerald Ford.
  5. Carts and wagons.
  6. He is a weaver.
  7. Clark Gable.
  8. Television weather presenters.
  9. Christopher Dean.
  10. Assistant to the chief electrician.

Round 4

  1. Samuel Morse.
  2. A brownfield site.
  3. Coconut.
  4. David Bowie.
  5. Leeds and London.
  6. Haemophilia.
  7. Oasis.
  8. Tom Wolfe.
  9. Photography.
  10. The Ming Dynasty.

Jackpot
Volleyball.

 

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Round 1

  1. Australia.
  2. A rat.
  3. Siam.
  4. Chrissie Hynde.
  5. Derek Jacobi.
  6. Eric the Red.
  7. The platypus.
  8. 1961.
  9. The number 13.
  10. Elba.

Round 2

  1. Captain Matthew Webb.
  2. Uruguay.
  3. The 1920s.
  4. Ernest Rutherford.
  5. Trial by Jury
    .
  6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    (1937).
  7. Tobacco.
  8. Lancelot.
  9. Diana, Princess of Wales.
  10. A getaway car.

Half-time teaser
21.

Round 3

  1. The shopping trolley.
  2. Allinson wholemeal bread.
  3. Poison.
  4. ‘. . . not in your hand’ (slogan for Treets confectionery).
  5. The
    Big Issue
    .
  6. The escalator.
  7. Grace Brothers.
  8. The Pet Shop Boys.
  9. Selfridge’s.
  10. Granville.

Round 4

  1. Greece.
  2. Ragtime.
  3. Tiananmen Square.
  4. Kurt Cobain.
  5. Stevie Smith.
  6. Lake Superior.
  7. Athlete’s foot.
  8. Coventry.
  9. Quakers.
  10. Golf.

Jackpot
Thabo Mbeki.

 

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Round 1

  1. Bastille Day.
  2. Fiat.
  3. Leopold Bloom.
  4. Pope.
  5. A gigantic aircraft built by Howard Hughes.
  6. David Cameron.
  7. A human shield.
  8. Yemen.
  9. Cliff.
  10. Italy.

Round 2

  1. Kenya.
  2. Queen Anne.
  3. Belgium.
  4. Cnut.
  5. Italy.
  6. 10.
  7. Sweden.
  8. Worcester.
  9. Benny Goodman.
  10. King Midas.

Half-time teaser
40.

Round 3

  1. Geraint Evans (Evans was a bass, the others were tenors).
  2. Irving Berlin.
  3. The Doors.
  4. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.
  5. The Sound of Music
    .
  6. True.
  7. Summer Holiday
    .
  8. Because little girls get bigger every day.
  9. The sitar.
  10. The
    1812 Overture
    .

Round 4

  1. Captain Cook.
  2. Crown green bowls.
  3. The Seychelles.
  4. In a castle (they are parts of the battlements).
  5. Hara-kiri (the other two are foods).
  6. Hatfield.
  7. Henry Irving.
  8. Rutland.
  9. The Atlantic Wall.
  10. London clubs.

Jackpot
Gossip (or rumours).

 

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Round 1

  1. Omega.
  2. Read only memory.
  3. Bollywood.
  4. Gordonstoun.
  5. Heathrow airport.
  6. An early bicycle.
  7. Nigeria.
  8. Frank Capra.
  9. Jean-Marie Le Pen.
  10. Brian Jones.

Round 2

  1. Michael Collins.
  2. L’Oréal hair and beauty products.
  3. Andy Warhol.
  4. Celtic.
  5. All Gas and Gaiters
    .
  6. Harold Macmillan.
  7. The Avengers
    .
  8. ‘Back in the USSR’.
  9. The Bay of Pigs.
  10. John F. Kennedy (quoted as saying
    ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’
    , a
    berliner
    being German for a type of doughnut).

Half-time teaser
30.3 per cent.

Round 3

  1. Pablo Picasso.
  2. Green.
  3. Chris De Burgh.
  4. Black (in the single ‘Paint it black’).
  5. Marlene Dietrich.
  6. Audie Murphy.
  7. The Incredible Hulk.
  8. Yellow.
  9. Rugby.
  10. Green.

Round 4

  1. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
  2. A police procedural.
  3. Renee and Renato.
  4. Ian Rankin.
  5. The CIA.
  6. Leeds United.
  7. Beavers.
  8. Saudi Arabia.
  9. Pointillism.
  10. Bow.

Jackpot
Melchester Rovers.

 

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Round 1

  1. American football.
  2. The United Arab Emirates.
  3. Iron.
  4. Greek.
  5. Oxfam.
  6. Poland.
  7. The Japanese empire.
  8. Sugar Ray Leonard.
  9. Pal Joey
    .
  10. Czechoslovakia.

Round 2

  1. John Logie Baird.
  2. Six.
  3. £2.
  4. William Tell.
  5. False (the presenters were Leila Williams and Christopher Trace).
  6. Dr Finlay’s Casebook
    .
  7. Slade.
  8. Psoriasis.
  9. University Challenge
    .
  10. Hercules.

Half-time teaser
175,000.

Round 3

  1. Seaweed.
  2. True.
  3. The oyster.
  4. A clownfish.
  5. Amity.
  6. A calf.
  7. Terns.
  8. A Fish Called Wanda
    .
  9. The herring family.
  10. The puffin.

Round 4

  1. Rome.
  2. 25 January.
  3. James I.
  4. Gloucestershire.
  5. Akihito.
  6. Bob Hope.
  7. Flushing Meadows, New York.
  8. Alexander the Great (he cut it with his sword).
  9. A breed of dog.
  10. Drunk.

Jackpot
A caryatid.

 

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Round 1

  1. Three.
  2. George and Ira Gershwin.
  3. When Harry Met Sally
    .
  4. Will Carling.
  5. Galaxies.
  6. The New Seekers.
  7. The Bering Strait.
  8. Cecil Beaton.
  9. Jack London.
  10. Rice.

Round 2

  1. Ham.
  2. Henry I (with at least 20).
  3. Children’s Hour
    .
  4. Destiny’s Child.
  5. His Dark Materials
    (by Philip Pullman).
  6. Davy Jones.
  7. False (it was his grandson).
  8. Bagpuss
    .
  9. A cow (and calf).
  10. Jenny Agutter.

Half-time teaser
771 feet.

Round 3

  1. Gladys Knight and the Pips.
  2. Dr Richard Beeching.
  3. Carnforth (in Lancashire).
  4. He was run down by Stephenson’s
    Rocket
    , thus becoming the first person to die in a rail accident.
  5. Tony Hancock (in
    Hancock’s Half-Hour
    ).
  6. Gordon.
  7. The Flying Scotsman.
  8. The O’Jays.
  9. Waterloo.
  10. The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879.

Round 4

  1. Elton John.
  2. The Benny Hill Show
    .
  3. Captain W. E. Johns.
  4. (South) America.
  5. Alton Towers.
  6. Haiti.
  7. Mark Spitz.
  8. Richard Chamberlain.
  9. Pink Floyd.
  10. 1992.

Jackpot
Carmel.

 

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Round 1

  1. Red, white and green.
  2. Arrows.
  3. Jacqueline Wilson.
  4. Football.
  5. Lapwing.
  6. Hair (especially on the scalp).
  7. Persia.
  8. Joe Orton.
  9. Eurythmics.
  10. Kashmir.

Round 2

  1. Shirley Conran.
  2. The violin.
  3. 1937.
  4. She invented the automatic dishwasher.
  5. Bath.
  6. 1945.
  7. Rolex.
  8. Terence Conran.
  9. 1936.
  10. They introduced the first home computer.

Half-time teaser
80.

Round 3

  1. Exodus.
  2. 13¾.
  3. Raymond Briggs.
  4. The Lord of the Rings
    .
  5. Anita Loos.
  6. Lolita
    .
  7. Fay Weldon.
  8. Bleak House
    .
  9. Moby-Dick
    .
  10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
    .

Round 4

  1. Westminster Abbey.
  2. Super-heavyweight.
  3. Potassium.
  4. Birds.
  5. Airey Neave.
  6. The Elgin Marbles.
  7. Victoria.
  8. Alexander Kerensky.
  9. Macbeth
    .
  10. Little Richard.

Jackpot
Hawaii.

 

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Round 1

  1. Hercules.
  2. Aretha Franklin.
  3. Buddy Holly.
  4. Hammer Films.
  5. Mexico.
  6. ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’ by Richard Wagner.
  7. Bob Beamon.
  8. Meryl Streep.
  9. Morecambe and Wise.
  10. A light-emitting diode.

Round 2

  1. The Catholic Church (strictly speaking, the Anglo-Catholic Church).
  2. He was the only English pope (born Nicholas Breakspear).
  3. The Great Schism.
  4. John (23 so far).
  5. Ben-Hur
    .
  6. Rex Harrison.
  7. John Paul I.
  8. Opus Dei.
  9. Londonderry (Derry).
  10. Under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Half-time teaser
88.

Round 3

  1. Birds of a Feather
    .
  2. An albatross.
  3. 14 February (St Valentine’s Day).
  4. Bird flu.
  5. The Tweets.
  6. The Birdman of Alcatraz.
  7. The Byrds.
  8. True.
  9. The Magpies.
  10. Edith Piaf.

Round 4

  1. Macduff.
  2. Fletcher Christian.
  3. Westlife.
  4. Alan Sugar (the name Amstrad was arrived at from the initials of Alan Michael Sugar combined with Trading).
  5. False (he hated it).
  6. Bernie Taupin.
  7. True.
  8. Oedipus.
  9. The Royal British Legion.
  10. Sir Galahad.

Jackpot
Elbrus.

 

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