ROUND 1-4 - Bingo Quiz

Choose your question by selecting a number

1.

The Suffolk town of Lavenham earned its medieval wealth by being at the centre of which trade, which flourished until the 17th century?

2.

In 2004 which actor said:

 “It will be a rough ride at first.  I don’t look or sound like any of the others who’ve played the part. But I think people will get used to a big-eared Northerner running around in the role.”?

3.

To date, what has been the least populous country to host the Summer Olympic games?

4.

'Wife, Mother, Criminal' is the tag line for Mike Leigh’s 2004 film Vera Drake.  What was her criminal activity?

5.

Which daily newspaper features a fortnightly cookery column called The Commie Chef?

6.

In May 2005 in a football play-off final at the Millenium Stadium the 'Shrimps' played the 'Imps'. Which two clubs were involved?

7.

Alec Guinness, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott and Bruno Ganz have all played which real life character, either on the small or large screen?

8.

What Shadow Cabinet position is currently held by Andrew Lansley?

9.

If this season’s Coca Cola football championship was settled alphabetically which team would finish as champions?

10.

What old Norse word is used to describe a circular prehistoric stone fort found only in the far north of Scotland?

11.

In the year 2000, four anarchist novelists in Italy co-wrote the bestselling novel Q dealing with the rise of Protestantism in Europe.  The surprising but fitting pseudonym they used was the name of which English-born footballer of the 1980s?

12.

Translate 'the foundation' into Arabic.

13.

What was the highest mountain on German territory in the year 1900?

14.

Name this South East London suburb:

“Its college, founded in 1619, has Raymond Chandler, P G Wodehouse and Lord Haw-Haw amongst its old boys.  Britain’s oldest public art gallery can also be found here.”

15.

The Star Spangled Banner is played in Act One of which opera?

16.

What was the title of Denis Potter’s 1979 TV play in which adult actors were required to impersonate children?

17.

In November 2005 which successful sports celebrity died suddenly and publicly from a heart attack in Exeter?

18.

Render the verb 'to be' into the first person (singular) future perfect.

19.

Described as having been "Saintly and heroic”, William Mompesson was the rector of which small English village in the year 1665?

20.

Name both the male and female singers who sang a bitter-sweet duet in the 1987 Christmas hit single A Fairytale of New York?

21.

Only two elements in the periodic table end with the letter 'y'.  Mercury is one.  Name the other.

22.

Who was the British Foreign Secretary between the years 1940 and 1945?

23.

Who was King Henry VIII’s first mother-in–law?

24.

If you sailed due north from Rathlin Island you would arrive on which Scottish island?

25.

The following is the Latin version of the chorus of a popular 1960s song:

“Fumus draco magus, incoluit mare.  Lusit autumnal’illic, maritimo Hanalo.”

Name the tune.

26.

Which American novel, now considered a classic both for adults and children, was initially banned in 1884 on social grounds?  According to the US library authority it was “trash fit only for the slums.”

27.

For those that follow pagan beliefs, what type of ceremony is a handfasting?

28.

Name the 3 Irish counties that end in  “....ford”.

29.

For which film did Meryl Streep win a best actress Oscar award in 1982?

30.

What is burned in a thurible?

31.

In British politics, what event occurred for the second time in eleven months on November 2^nd 2005?

32.

What one word links St Nicholas to the Moors Murders and a novel by Gore Vidal?

ROUND 5 - 'Pushing the Boundaries'

The first significant letters from each answer combine, in sequence, to give the name of a renowned frontiersman

1.

Which is the deepest part of the world’s deepest ocean trench?

2.

What is the name of the peripheral political party headed by former Labour MP George Galloway?

3.

What was the name of the 1960s Sci-Fi television series that always started with the warning:

“There is nothing wrong with your television set.  Do not attempt to adjust the picture.  We are controlling transmission . . .”?

4.

The event which wiped out the dinosaurs is the boundary between the Jurassic period and which other geological period?

5.

What name was taken by British scientist (1824 to 1907) when raised to the peerage in 1892?  He was most famous for his work on thermodynamics and low temperature physics.

6.

What name is given to the outermost part of the earth’s atmosphere?

7.

Which city has the most northerly university in the world?

8.

Name the US lake in the Sierra Nevada, close to Carson City, and on the border of California and Nevada.

ROUND 6 - Hidden Theme

This round has a hidden theme which is really quite simple – however, don’t expect the logic to proceed in an orderly fashion

1.

Reveal the title of this Beatles song by completing the following verse:

“We would be so happy you and me, no one there to tell us what to do.  I’d like to be under the sea ...............................................”

2.

Louise Fletcher won a best actress Oscar award for her role in which film?

3.

The 15th century National Trust property Knole House, once owned by Elizabeth I, lies just off the A21 to the east of which town in Kent?

4.

Why is the Sistine Chapel so named?

5.

The name for the forward part of a ship where sailors have their quarters has become permanently abbreviated to fo’c’s’le.  What is the word in full?

6.

Give the exotic name of the Manchester-based comedy rock group formed in 1973 by singer Les Prior and friends.  In 1978 they had a top 50 hit with Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie, which they dedicated to Status Quo morons everywhere.

7.

What archaic word for misfortune, or the devil personified, was derived from the game of dice?

8.

What is the title of Thomas Pynchon’s influential, but willfully obscure, first novel published in 1963?

ROUND 7 - 'Who’s that Girl?'

Name the songs, with the girls’ names in their titles, from which the following lyrics are taken

1.

“I laughed at all of your jokes, my love you didn’t need to coax”

2.

“It did rain all night / The day I left the weather was bone dry / The sun was so hot I froze myself”

3.

“While the sun is bright or in the darkest night / No one knows she comes and goes”

4.

“Say it loud and there’s music playing / Say it soft and it’s almost like praying”

5.

“The light shines down the valley / The wind blows up the alley...”

6.

“I know your mind is made up / So put away your make-up”

7.

“I don’t know why she’s leaving / I don’t know where she’ll go / I know she’s got her reasons / But I just don’t want to know”

8.

“There’s a place for us, you know the movie song / When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong”

ROUND 8 - 'Manchester City'

However this round has little or nothing to do with football

1.

Which Manchester city centre pub shares its name with a Scottish ballad, and a paddle steamer that used to carry jute from Dundee?

2.

There is a small basement bar called The Temple at the junction of Great Bridgewater Street and Oxford Street.  Until the mid-1970s what had been the function of this building?

3.

The Amaechi centre based in Whalley Range High School coaches young people in the skills of which sport?

4.

What sport is played by Didsbury-based Old Waconians?

5.

What building stood on the site that is now Piccadilly Gardens from 1754 until 1908 when a larger version was opened in Chorlton-on- Medlock?

6.

The foundation stone of Manchester’s Central Library was laid by which Prime Minister?

7.

Which two closely associated heroes are commemorated separately by two blue plaques, one at 6 Kingswood Road, Ladybarn, and one at 6 Oswald Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy?

8.

On which South Manchester landmark would you see the following inscription:

‘Erected in memory of Dr J Milson Rhodes JP CA, 1847-1909: A friend to humanity’?

1.

Which English poet and writer died 78 years ago today?

2.

What Hyde’s pub stands at 32 Victory Street, Rusholme?

3.

What is the first name of Rumpole of the Bailey?

4.

Who had a 1957 hit with The Cumberland Gap?

5.

Which fictional killer was an expert on Dante?

6.

Banksy is a leading exponent of which controversial art form?

7.

Only once has a palindromic pop group taken a palindromic pop song into the top 10.  Name the group and the song.

ROUND 1-4 - Bingo Quiz

Choose your question by selecting a number

1.

The Suffolk town of Lavenham earned its medieval wealth by being at the centre of which trade, which flourished until the 17th century?

Wool

2.

In 2004 which actor said:

 “It will be a rough ride at first.  I don’t look or sound like any of the others who’ve played the part. But I think people will get used to a big-eared Northerner running around in the role.”?

Christopher Eccleston

(on becoming Dr Who)

3.

To date, what has been the least populous country to host the Summer Olympic games?

Finland

(Helsinki in 1952)

4.

'Wife, Mother, Criminal' is the tag line for Mike Leigh’s 2004 film Vera Drake.  What was her criminal activity?

She carried out abortions

5.

Which daily newspaper features a fortnightly cookery column called The Commie Chef?

The Morning Star

6.

In May 2005 in a football play-off final at the Millenium Stadium the 'Shrimps' played the 'Imps'. Which two clubs were involved?

Southend United & Lincoln City

7.

Alec Guinness, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott and Bruno Ganz have all played which real life character, either on the small or large screen?

Adolf Hitler

8.

What Shadow Cabinet position is currently held by Andrew Lansley?

Shadow Health Secretary

9.

If this season’s Coca Cola football championship was settled alphabetically which team would finish as champions?

Brighton

10.

What old Norse word is used to describe a circular prehistoric stone fort found only in the far north of Scotland?

Broch

11.

In the year 2000, four anarchist novelists in Italy co-wrote the bestselling novel Q dealing with the rise of Protestantism in Europe.  The surprising but fitting pseudonym they used was the name of which English-born footballer of the 1980s?

Luther Blissett

12.

Translate 'the foundation' into Arabic.

Al Qaida

13.

What was the highest mountain on German territory in the year 1900?

Mount Kilimanjaro

(then in German East Africa Territory)

14.

Name this South East London suburb:

“Its college, founded in 1619, has Raymond Chandler, P G Wodehouse and Lord Haw-Haw amongst its old boys.  Britain’s oldest public art gallery can also be found here.”

Dulwich

15.

The Star Spangled Banner is played in Act One of which opera?

Madame Butterfly

16.

What was the title of Denis Potter’s 1979 TV play in which adult actors were required to impersonate children?

Blue Remembered Hills

17.

In November 2005 which successful sports celebrity died suddenly and publicly from a heart attack in Exeter?

Best Mate

(the racehorse)

18.

Render the verb 'to be' into the first person (singular) future perfect.

"I shall have been"

(or "I will have been")

19.

Described as having been "Saintly and heroic”, William Mompesson was the rector of which small English village in the year 1665?

Eyam

(Derbyshire’s plague village)

20.

Name both the male and female singers who sang a bitter-sweet duet in the 1987 Christmas hit single A Fairytale of New York?

Shane McGowan and Kirsty McColl

21.

Only two elements in the periodic table end with the letter 'y'.  Mercury is one.  Name the other.

Antimony

22.

Who was the British Foreign Secretary between the years 1940 and 1945?

Anthony Eden

23.

Who was King Henry VIII’s first mother-in–law?

Queen Isabella of Spain

24.

If you sailed due north from Rathlin Island you would arrive on which Scottish island?

Islay

25.

The following is the Latin version of the chorus of a popular 1960s song:

“Fumus draco magus, incoluit mare.  Lusit autumnal’illic, maritimo Hanalo.”

Name the tune.

Puff the Magic Dragon

26.

Which American novel, now considered a classic both for adults and children, was initially banned in 1884 on social grounds?  According to the US library authority it was “trash fit only for the slums.”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

(by Mark Twain)

27

For those that follow pagan beliefs, what type of ceremony is a handfasting?

A Wedding ceremony

28.

Name the 3 Irish counties that end in  “....ford”.

Wexford, Waterford & Longford

29.

For which film did Meryl Streep win a best actress Oscar award in 1982?

Sophie’s Choice

30.

What is burned in a thurible?

Incense

31.

In British politics, what event occurred for the second time in eleven months on November 2^nd 2005?

David Blunkett resigned from the cabinet

32.

What one word links St Nicholas to the Moors Murders and a novel by Gore Vidal?

Myra

(Bishop of Myra in present day Turkey; Myra Hindley; Myra Breckinridge)

ROUND 5 - ''Pushing the Boundaries'

The first significant letters from each answer combine, in sequence, to give the name of a renowned frontiersman

1

Which is the deepest part of the world’s deepest ocean trench?

Challenger Deep

2.

What is the name of the peripheral political party headed by former Labour MP George Galloway?

Respect

3.

What was the name of the 1960s Sci-Fi television series that always started with the warning:

“There is nothing wrong with your television set.  Do not attempt to adjust the picture.  We are controlling transmission . . .”?

The Outer Limits

4.

The event which wiped out the dinosaurs is the boundary between the Jurassic period and which other geological period?

Cretaceous Period

5.

What name was taken by British scientist (1824 to 1907) when raised to the peerage in 1892?  He was most famous for his work on thermodynamics and low temperature physics.

Kelvin

(William Thomson)

6.

What name is given to the outermost part of the earth’s atmosphere?

Exosphere

7.

Which city has the most northerly university in the world?

Tromso

8.

Name the US lake in the Sierra Nevada, close to Carson City, and on the border of California and Nevada.

Lake Tahoe

The Frontiersman is (Davy) CROCKETT

1

Reveal the title of this Beatles song by completing the following verse:

“We would be so happy you and me, no one there to tell us what to do.  I’d like to be under the sea ...............................................”

“in an Octopus’s garden (with you)”

2.

Louise Fletcher won a best actress Oscar award for her role in which film?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

3.

The 15th century National Trust property Knole House, once owned by Elizabeth I, lies just off the A21 to the east of which town in Kent?

Sevenoaks

4.

Why is the Sistine Chapel so named?

In honour of Pope Sixtus IV who had it built

5.

The name for the forward part of a ship where sailors have their quarters has become permanently abbreviated to fo’c’s’le.  What is the word in full?

Forecastle

6.

Give the exotic name of the Manchester-based comedy rock group formed in 1973 by singer Les Prior and friends.  In 1978 they had a top 50 hit with Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie, which they dedicated to Status Quo morons everywhere.

Albertos y Los Trios Paranoias

7.

What archaic word for misfortune, or the devil personified, was derived from the game of dice?

Deuce

8.

What is the title of Thomas Pynchon’s influential, but willfully obscure, first novel published in 1963?

V

Theme: Each answer has a word, or part of a word, associated with one of the numbers between 1 and 8

ROUND 7 - 'Who’s that Girl?'

Name the songs, with the girls’ names in their titles, from which the following lyrics are taken

1.

“I laughed at all of your jokes, my love you didn’t need to coax”

Maggie May

(by Rod Stewart and the Faces)

2.

“It did rain all night / The day I left the weather was bone dry / The sun was so hot I froze myself”

Oh Susannah

(by Stephen Foster)

3.

“While the sun is bright or in the darkest night / No one knows she comes and goes”

Ruby Tuesday

(by The Rolling Stones)

4.

“Say it loud and there’s music playing / Say it soft and it’s almost like praying”

Maria

(from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein)

5.

“The light shines down the valley / The wind blows up the alley...”

Lying in the Arms of Mary

(by the Sutherland Brothers)

6.

“I know your mind is made up / So put away your make-up”

Roxanne

(by The Police)

7.

“I don’t know why she’s leaving / I don’t know where she’ll go / I know she’s got her reasons / But I just don’t want to know”

Living Next Door to Alice

(by Smokey)

8.

“There’s a place for us, you know the movie song / When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong”

Romeo and Juliet

(by Dire Straits)

ROUND 8 - 'Manchester City'

However this round has little or nothing to do with football

1.

Which Manchester city centre pub shares its name with a Scottish ballad, and a paddle steamer that used to carry jute from Dundee?

The Lass O’Gowrie

2.

There is a small basement bar called The Temple at the junction of Great Bridgewater Street and Oxford Street.  Until the mid-1970s what had been the function of this building?

It was a public toilet

3.

The Amaechi centre based in Whalley Range High School coaches young people in the skills of which sport?

Basketball

4.

What sport is played by Didsbury-based Old Waconians?

Lacrosse

5.

What building stood on the site that is now Piccadilly Gardens from 1754 until 1908 when a larger version was opened in Chorlton-on- Medlock?

Manchester Royal Infirmary

6.

The foundation stone of Manchester’s Central Library was laid by which Prime Minister?

Ramsay McDonald

7.

Which two closely associated heroes are commemorated separately by two blue plaques, one at 6 Kingswood Road, Ladybarn, and one at 6 Oswald Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy?

The aviators Allcock and Brown

8.

On which South Manchester landmark would you see the following inscription:

‘Erected in memory of Dr J Milson Rhodes JP CA, 1847-1909: A friend to humanity’?

The Didsbury Clocktower

1.

Which English poet and writer died 78 years ago today?

Thomas Hardy

2.

What Hyde’s pub stands at 32 Victory Street, Rusholme?

The Osbourne House

3.

What is the first name of Rumpole of the Bailey?

Horace

4.

Who had a 1957 hit with The Cumberland Gap?

Lonnie Donnegan

5.

Which fictional killer was an expert on Dante?

Hannibal Lecter

6.

Banksy is a leading exponent of which controversial art form?

Urban Graffiti

7.

Only once has a palindromic pop group taken a palindromic pop song into the top 10.  Name the group and the song.

Abba with S.O.S.

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