ROUND 1 - Rebecca

1.

Who was Rebecca married to in the Bible?

2.

Which modern day Rebecca was described as “a bit of a slapper” by her “dear friend” Piers Morgan?

3.

Who wrote Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm?

4.

Who wrote The Birds Fall Down?

5.

What was Rebecca accused of in Ivanhoe?

6.

Who said: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”?

7.

What name links Gone with the Wind, Maxim De Winter and the Comet?

8.

What name links a play by Terence Rattigan, Daphne Du Maurier and an automatic firearm?

ROUND 2 - Fruit & Music

1.

What is the common name of the tree Malus Sylvestris?

2.

Who are known as the Apple Islanders?

3.

What did the Apple Tree Gang introduce into the US?

4.

What did the Bells of Whitechapel say?

5.

What is the text of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation based on?

6.

Who wrote The Creation Mass?

7.

Who wrote a collection of stories called A House of Pomegranates?

8.

Who wrote an opera called The Love for Three Oranges?

ROUND 3 - Football & Seafaring Literature

1.

How many current premier league managers have played in the same team as David Beckham?

2.

Which football league club is closest to the River Mersey?

3.

Which football league club in the British Isles has its ground in two different countries?

4.

How many English Football league clubs have 'X' in their name?

5.

Who wrote the Jack Aubrey series of novels?

6.

Who wrote the Hornblower series of novels?

7.

Who wrote the Ramage series of novels?

8.

Who wrote the Richard Bolitho series of novels?

ROUND 4 - Which US State (Qs 1-4) & Which Countries (Qs 5-8)

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

ROUND 5 - General & Sport

1.

On a Monopoly board complete the set: Pall Mall, Whitehall, and what?

2.

On a Monopoly board complete the set: Bow Street, Marlborough Street, and what?

3.

Who played the female lead in Hitchcock’s film North by North West (1959)?

4.

Who played the female lead in Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963)?

5.

Who were the captains of England and Australia when England won The Ashes in 1953?

6.

Len Hutton defended The Ashes in Australia in 1954, but who defended them in England in 1956 and who was the opposing Australian captain in that series?

7.

What is the final event in The Decathlon?

8.

Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Manchester United?

ROUND 6 - Heaven

1.

Who wrote the tone poem A Walk to the Paradise Garden?

2.

Name either of the female leads in the film Heavenly Creatures.

3.

On what epic poem is the Dark Materials trilogy based?

4.

Who wrote the novel Seventy Two Virgins?

5.

In the Dark Materials trilogy who is Lyra’s father?

6.

In the Dark Materials trilogy what form does Mrs Coulter’s daemon take?

7.

Give the first line of the chorus of this song penned by Little Jimmy Dickens:

“One fine day as I was a-walkin down the street

 Spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet

 Took a penny from my pocket

 In his tin cup I did drop it

 I heard him say as I made my retreat”

8.

Give the chorus of this song written by Battisti and Fish:

“A look from your eyes, a touch of your hand

 And I seem to fly to some other land

 When you are around my heart always pounds

 Just like a brass band”

ROUND 7 - Music & Ships

1.

What was the first name of the composer who was also Felix Mendelssohn’s sister?

2.

What was the first name of the composer who was also Robert Schumann’s wife?

3.

What was the title of Bob Dylan’s first album?

4.

What was the title of Bob Dylan’s first publication?

5.

What was Bob Dylan’s middle name?

6.

What was Dylan Thomas’ middle name?

7.

How many masts has a brig?

8.

How many masts has a sloop?

1.

At the age of 18 Hitler left Linz to travel to Vienna anticipating that he would study at which Viennese Institution?

2.

In what year did Hitler become Reich Chancellor?

3.

The Soviet Union and Germany signed a Non-Aggression Pact on 24 August 1939 but who were the two, respective Foreign Ministers?

4.

Which British newspaper wrote on 2 May 1945: “Europe has never known such a calamity to her civilisation and nobody can say when she will begin to recover from its effects”?

5.

Joseph Stalin died in March 1953.   One of the men at his death bed had overseen the Soviet Police apparatus throughout the Stalinist years.  Within three months of Stalin’s death that man was arrested on suspicion of spying and being a traitor and was executed in December 1953.   Who was he?

6.

Who ordered Beria’s arrest?

7.

Stalin died, probably of natural causes.  Which group of people were blamed, arrested, put on trial and sentenced for their alleged role in his deteriorating health?

8.

What was the distinction between the NKID and NKVD?

1.

Paraguay has borders with Argentina, Brazil and which other country?

2.

Guyana has borders with Brazil, Surinam and which other country?

3.

What is the capital of Morocco?

4.

In which country is Timbuktu?

5.

What is the most southerly point of England?

6.

Which British city has an underground railway system nicknamed ‘The Clockwork Orange’?

7.

Oscar Wilde said: “I can resist everything except…..” What?

8.

Mae West said: “Is that a gun in your pocket or……” What?

9.

Complete this line from a Beatles song:  “Wearing a face that she keeps…..”.

10.

Complete this A E Housman quote: “The man that runs away lives to…..”.

11.

Who said: “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough”?

12.

Who said: “Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you”?

13.

Who said: “A hippie is someone who works like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah”?

14.

Who said: “Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended”?

15.

Which toy was originally called ‘The Pluto Platter’ when first sold in 1955?

16.

Which of the teletubbies has a triangular antenna on its head?

17.

What are the colours of Dennis The Menace’s jumper?

18.

In the Wizard of Oz what is the Tin Man looking for?

ROUND 1 - Rebecca

1.

Who was Rebecca married to in the Bible?

Isaac

2.

Which modern day Rebecca was described as “a bit of a slapper” by her “dear friend” Piers Morgan?

Rebekkah Wade

(editor of The Sun)

3.

Who wrote Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm?

Kate Douglas Wiggin

4.

Who wrote The Birds Fall Down?

Rebecca West

5.

What was Rebecca accused of in Ivanhoe?

Witchcraft

6.

Who said: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”?

The girl, or the second Mrs De Winter

7.

What name links Gone with the Wind, Maxim De Winter and the Comet?

De Havilland

(Olivia De Haviland starred in Gone with the Wind, her sister Joan Fontaine - neé De Havilland - in Rebecca, and the De Havilland Comet)

8.

What name links a play by Terence Rattigan, Daphne Du Maurier and an automatic firearm?

Browning

(Rattigan’s The Browning Version, Daphne Du Maurier Browning was married to Lieutenant-General Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning, and the Automatic Rifle introduced by American Forces in Europe in 1918)

ROUND 2 - Fruit & Music

1.

What is the common name of the tree Malus Sylvestris?

Crab Apple

2.

Who are known as the Apple Islanders?

Tasmanians

3.

What did the Apple Tree Gang introduce into the US?

Golf

(at Yonkers in 1888)

4.

What did the Bells of Whitechapel say?

Two sticks and an apple

5.

What is the text of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation based on?

Paradise Lost

(by Milton)

6.

Who wrote The Creation Mass?

Haydn

7.

Who wrote a collection of stories called A House of Pomegranates?

Oscar Wilde

8.

Who wrote an opera called The Love for Three Oranges?

Prokofiev

ROUND 3 - Football & Seafaring Literature

1.

How many current premier league managers have played in the same team as David Beckham?

Five

(Hughes, Bruce, Robson, Pierce, Moyes)

2.

Which football league club is closest to the River Mersey?

Stockport County

3.

Which football league club in the British Isles has its ground in two different countries?

Chester

(one part in Wales and the other in England)

4.

How many English Football league clubs have 'X' in their name?

Three

(Crewe Alexandra, Wrexham and Oxford – note that Halifax and Exeter are no longer in the league)

5.

Who wrote the Jack Aubrey series of novels?

Patrick O’Brien

6.

Who wrote the Hornblower series of novels?

C S Forrester

7.

Who wrote the Ramage series of novels?

Dudley Pope

8.

Who wrote the Richard Bolitho series of novels?

Alexander Kent

ROUND 4 - Which US States (Qs 1-4) & Which Countries (Qs 5-8)

1.

Connecticut

2.

Delaware

3.

Georgia

4.

Illinois

5.

Malawi

6.

Mongolia

7.

Morocco

8.

Myanmar

ROUND 5 - General & Sport

1

On a Monopoly board complete the set: Pall Mall, Whitehall, and what?

Northumberland Avenue

2.

On a Monopoly board complete the set: Bow Street, Marlborough Street, and what?

Vine Street

3.

Who played the female lead in Hitchcock’s film North by North West (1959)?

Eve Marie Saint

4.

Who played the female lead in Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963)?

Tippi Hedren

5.

Who were the captains of England and Australia when England won The Ashes in 1953?

Len Hutton & Lindsey Hassett

6.

Len Hutton defended The Ashes in Australia in 1954, but who defended them in England in 1956 and who was the opposing Australian captain in that series?

Peter May & Ian Johnstone

7.

What is the final event in The Decathlon?

1500 metres

8.

Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Manchester United?

Ron Atkinson

ROUND 6 - Heaven

1

Who wrote the tone poem A Walk to the Paradise Garden?

Delius

2.

Name either of the female leads in the film Heavenly Creatures.

(one of)

Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey

3.

On what epic poem is the Dark Materials trilogy based?

Paradise Lost

(by Milton)

4.

Who wrote the novel Seventy Two Virgins?

Boris Johnson

(this being the number of virgins awaiting Muslims when they go to heaven)

5.

In the Dark Materials trilogy who is Lyra’s father?

Lord Asriel

6.

In the Dark Materials trilogy what form does Mrs Coulter’s daemon take?

A golden monkey

7.

Give the first line of the chorus of this song penned by Little Jimmy Dickens:

“One fine day as I was a-walkin down the street

 Spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet

 Took a penny from my pocket

 In his tin cup I did drop it

 I heard him say as I made my retreat”

“May the bird of Paradise fly up your nose”

8.

Give the chorus of this song written by Battisti and Fish:

“A look from your eyes, a touch of your hand

 And I seem to fly to some other land

 When you are around my heart always pounds

 Just like a brass band”

“If paradise is half as nice”

ROUND 7 - Music & Ships

1.

What was the first name of the composer who was also Felix Mendelssohn’s sister?

Fanny

2.

What was the first name of the composer who was also Robert Schumann’s wife?

Clara

3.

What was the title of Bob Dylan’s first album?

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

4.

What was the title of Bob Dylan’s first publication?

18 Poems

5.

What was Bob Dylan’s middle name?

Allen

(Robert Allen Zimmermann)

6.

What was Dylan Thomas’ middle name?

Marlais

7.

How many masts has a brig?

Two

8.

How many masts has a sloop?

One

1.

At the age of 18 Hitler left Linz to travel to Vienna anticipating that he would study at which Viennese Institution?

The Academy of Fine Art

2.

In what year did Hitler become Reich Chancellor?

1933

(January)

3.

The Soviet Union and Germany signed a Non-Aggression Pact on 24 August 1939 but who were the two, respective Foreign Ministers?

Molotov and Von Ribbentrop

4.

Which British newspaper wrote on 2 May 1945: “Europe has never known such a calamity to her civilisation and nobody can say when she will begin to recover from its effects”?

The Manchester Guardian

5.

Joseph Stalin died in March 1953.   One of the men at his death bed had overseen the Soviet Police apparatus throughout the Stalinist years.  Within three months of Stalin’s death that man was arrested on suspicion of spying and being a traitor and was executed in December 1953.   Who was he?

Lavrentii Beria

6.

Who ordered Beria’s arrest?

Nikita Kruschev

7.

Stalin died, probably of natural causes.  Which group of people were blamed, arrested, put on trial and sentenced for their alleged role in his deteriorating health?

His doctors

8.

What was the distinction between the NKID and NKVD?

Respectively the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs

1.

Paraguay has borders with Argentina, Brazil and which other country?

Bolivia

2.

Guyana has borders with Brazil, Surinam and which other country?

Venezuela

3.

What is the capital of Morocco?

Rabat

4.

In which country is Timbuktu?

Mali

5.

What is the most southerly point of England?

Lizard Point

6.

Which British city has an underground railway system nicknamed ‘The Clockwork Orange’?

Glasgow

7.

Oscar Wilde said: “I can resist everything except…..” What?

“Temptation”

8.

Mae West said: “Is that a gun in your pocket or……” What?

“Are you pleased to see me?”

9.

Complete this line from a Beatles song:  “Wearing a face that she keeps…..”.

“In a jar by the door”

10.

Complete this A E Housman quote: “The man that runs away lives to…..”.

“Die another day”

11.

Who said: “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough”?

Albert Einstein

12.

Who said: “Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you”?

Mae West

13.

Who said: “A hippie is someone who works like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah”?

Ronald Reagan

14.

Who said: “Husbands are like fires – they go out when unattended”?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

15.

Which toy was originally called ‘The Pluto Platter’ when first sold in 1955?

Frisbee

16.

Which of the teletubbies has a triangular antenna on its head?

Tinky Winky

17.

What are the colours of Dennis The Menace’s jumper?

Red and Black

18.

In the Wizard of Oz what is the Tin Man looking for?

A heart

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