ROUND 1

1.

Still Life with Mandolin (1885), The Yellow Christ (1889), and Haystacks in Brittany (1890) were painted by which Post-Impressionist artist?

2.

Which Oscar-nominated film of 1987 was set during the London Blitz of the 1940s and was a semi-autobiographical account of the early life of the film’s director John Boorman?

3.

In Tony Blair’s cabinet, who is the current Chief Secretary to the Treasury?

4.

Livorno, Grosetto and Arezzo are provinces of which Italian region?

5.

Philippa of Hainault was the consort of which King of England?

6.

Dr John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu currently holds which prominent position?

7.

‘Teenager’ Lauren Cooper and Joanie ‘Nan’ Taylor are the two most famous characters featured on which TV comedy show?

8.

Which author, who died recently, was responsible for the works Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions?

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the first Landlord of the Woolpack in Emmerdale.

2.

Which actor won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in Cabaret in 1972?

3.

Which American expatriate, poet, musician, and critic, who died in 1972, lived for some time with W B Yeats in Sussex working as his secretary before moving to France?

4.

Amongst other things they can be super-real, hyper-real, surreal, or real.  What are they?

5.

Released in 1987, what is considered by many to be the defining rock album made by U2?

6.

Which sportsman was known as the 'Sultan of Swat'?

7.

An American Actress, born in 1921, who started out as a champion swimmer, and then made over 30 films including Million Dollar Mermaid and Dangerous When Wet.  She announced in her autobiography that she had had an affair with Victor Mature during the filming of the first of these films.  Who was she?

8.

Which highly popular drink is made in Lynchburg, Tennessee?

ROUND 3 - Picture Round

1.

In which country is this?

2.

In which country is this?

3.

In which country is this building?

4.

In which country is this building?

5.

Which Football Club plays at this ground?

6.

Which Football Club plays at this ground?

7.

What is the name of this Pub, and where is it?

8.

What is the name of this Pub, and where is it?

ROUND 4

1.

Which actress has had 14 Oscar acting nominations, more than any other actor male or female?

2.

What are the names of the three ballets composed by Tchaikovsky?

3.

Which is the oldest continually inhabited city in the world?

4.

From which film does the line “I want to live again Clarence, I want to live again”, come?

5.

The wife of which musician, with whom Mick Jagger is supposed to have had an affair, was reputedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ song Angie?

6.

Which famous British ship’s name means The Short Skirt?

7.

Which two F1 drivers currently drive for Ferrari?

8.

What was the name of Jeremy Thorpe’s alleged lover during the affair that led to the end of his political career

ROUND 5

1.

Which African country has Lome as it’s capital?

2.

Which African country has Nouakchott as it’s capital?

3.

What was the name of Kenya’s President from 1978  to 2002?

4.

Who became President of Kenya in 1964?

5.

Which Scottish Football team has Ochilview Park as its home ground?

6.

Which Scottish Football team has Gayfield Park as its home ground?

7.

Name the President of the World Bank currently in the news.

8.

Name the Russian multimillionaire allegedly plotting to overthrow President Putin.

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

The characters Leopold, Odysseus, Molly and Penelope are central to which 20th century novel that was first serialised in the American journal The Little Review?

2.

Which city, the sixth largest in Florida and the county seat of Orange County, has the nickname 'The City Beautiful', and has the second largest number of available hotel rooms in the USA?

3.

Which piece of sporting equipment, made from vulcanized rubber, is one inch thick, three inches in diameter and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces?

4.

Complete this original TV cast: James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst and ……

5.

Who was nominated for an acting Oscar for these two films: Damage (in 1992) and Tom and Viv (in 1994)?

6.

18 Stepney Causeway, London was the address of the first establishment to bear the name of this social thinker and philanthropist, who was born in 1845? Who was it?

7.

Radha Raman and Uri Fruchtmann are the two former husbands of which Scottish singer?

8.

With which musical instrument would you most associate the names of Lionel Tertis, Lillian Fuchs and William Primrose?

ROUND 7 - Picture Round

Name these faces of 2007

1.

Name this politician.

2.

Name this politician.

3.

Name this award-winning actress.

4.

Name this award-winning singer.

5.

Name this darts champion.

6.

Name this golf champion.

7.

Name this woman who has made news headlines this year.

8.

Name this woman who made news headlines this year.

ROUND 8

1.

Only two male actors have been nominated for acting Oscars in every decade since the 1960s.  Jack Nicholson is one, who is the other?

2.

What are the names of the two ballets that Stravinsky composed before The Rite of Spring?

3.

Which capital city has a name meaning ‘I see the mountain’?

4.

In which film would you find the line:

“You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson”?

5.

Which rock musician’s first wife was Cynthia Powell?

6.

What was the name of the UK’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the name of which was used six times previously for different ships in the Royal Navy?

7.

Who is the current Director of the F1 Ferrari Team?

8.

What was the name of Edward II’s lover?

1.

What’s the name for the type of algebra, named after its developer, that combines sets and logic?

2.

What was the name of the Nazi, who chaired the Wannsee conference that developed The Final Solution, and who was killed by Czech partisans?

3.

Which term in geometry means a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole?

4.

What was the name of the former Italian Prime Minister who was murdered by the Red Brigade in 1978?

5.

In Shakespeare’s Othello what is the name of Iago’s wife?

6.

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet what is the name of Romeo’s friend killed by Tybalt?

7.

What is the name of the driver who won the Bahrain Formula 1 race on Sunday?

8.

Why did British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton enter the record books on Sunday?

ROUND 1

1.

Still Life with Mandolin (1885), The Yellow Christ (1889), and Haystacks in Brittany (1890) were painted by which Post-Impressionist artist?

Paul Gauguin

2.

Which Oscar-nominated film of 1987 was set during the London Blitz of the 1940s and was a semi-autobiographical account of the early life of the film’s director John Boorman?

Hope and Glory

3.

In Tony Blair’s cabinet, who is the current Chief Secretary to the Treasury?

Stephen Timms

4.

Livorno, Grosetto and Arezzo are provinces of which Italian region?

Tuscany

5.

Philippa of Hainault was the consort of which King of England?

Edward III

6.

Dr John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu currently holds which prominent position?

Archbishop of York

7.

‘Teenager’ Lauren Cooper and Joanie ‘Nan’ Taylor are the two most famous characters featured on which TV comedy show?

The Catherine Tate Show

8.

Which author, who died recently, was responsible for the works Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions?

Kurt Vonnegut

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the first Landlord of the Woolpack in Emmerdale.

Amos Brearley

2.

Which actor won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in Cabaret in 1972?

Joel Grey

3.

Which American expatriate, poet, musician, and critic, who died in 1972, lived for some time with W B Yeats in Sussex working as his secretary before moving to France?

Ezra Pound

4.

Amongst other things they can be super-real, hyper-real, surreal, or real.  What are they?

Numbers

5.

Released in 1987, what is considered by many to be the defining rock album made by U2?

The Joshua Tree

6.

Which sportsman was known as the 'Sultan of Swat'?

Babe Ruth

7.

An American Actress, born in 1921, who started out as a champion swimmer, and then made over 30 films including Million Dollar Mermaid and Dangerous When Wet.  She announced in her autobiography that she had had an affair with Victor Mature during the filming of the first of these films.  Who was she?

Esther Williams

8.

Which highly popular drink is made in Lynchburg, Tennessee?

Jack Daniel’s

ROUND 3 - Picture Round

1.

In which country is this?

France

(it’s the world’s largest bridge across the River Tarn in the Massif Central)

2.

In which country is this?

Japan

(it’s the Honshu-Shikoku bridge, the longest single span bridge in the world with it’s central span being 1990m)

3.

In which country is this building?

Russia

(Moscow – it’s the old Soviet state department store, Gum)

4.

In which country is this building?

Cambodia

(it’s Angkor Wat, an example of Khmer architecture, outside the city of Angkor Thom)

5.

Which Football Club plays at this ground?

Swansea City

6.

Which Football Club plays at this ground?

Coventry City

7.

What is the name of this Pub, and where is it?

Horse & Jockey - Chorlton

8.

What is the name of this Pub, and where is it?

Hind’s Head - Heaton Chapel

ROUND 4

1.

Which actress has had 14 Oscar acting nominations, more than any other actor male or female?

Meryl Streep

2.

What are the names of the three ballets composed by Tchaikovsky?

Swan Lake, the Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty

3.

Which is the oldest continually inhabited city in the world?

Damascus

4.

From which film does the line “I want to live again Clarence, I want to live again”, come?

It’s a Wonderful Life

5.

The wife of which musician, with whom Mick Jagger is supposed to have had an affair, was reputedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ song Angie?

David Bowie

(Angie was David Bowie’s wife at the time)

6.

Which famous British ship’s name means The Short Skirt?

The Cutty Sark

(in the Burns’ poem Tam o’Shanter)

7.

Which two F1 drivers currently drive for Ferrari?

Filipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen

8.

What was the name of Jeremy Thorpe’s alleged lover during the affair that led to the end of his political career

Norman Scott

ROUND 5

1

Which African country has Lome as it’s capital?

Togo

2.

Which African country has Nouakchott as it’s capital?

Mauritania

3.

What was the name of Kenya’s President from 1978  to 2002?

Daniel Arap Moi

4.

Who became President of Kenya in 1964?

Jomo Kenyatta

5.

Which Scottish Football team has Ochilview Park as its home ground?

Stenhousemuir

6.

Which Scottish Football team has Gayfield Park as its home ground?

Arbroath

7.

Name the President of the World Bank currently in the news.

Paul Wolfowitz

8.

Name the Russian multimillionaire allegedly plotting to overthrow President Putin.

Boris Berezovsky

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1

The characters Leopold, Odysseus, Molly and Penelope are central to which 20th century novel that was first serialised in the American journal The Little Review?

Ulysses

2.

Which city, the sixth largest in Florida and the county seat of Orange County, has the nickname 'The City Beautiful', and has the second largest number of available hotel rooms in the USA?

Orlando

3.

Which piece of sporting equipment, made from vulcanized rubber, is one inch thick, three inches in diameter and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces?

An Ice hockey puck

4.

Complete this original TV cast: James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst and ……

Hermione Norris

(it was the original cast of Cold Feet)

5.

Who was nominated for an acting Oscar for these two films: Damage (in 1992) and Tom and Viv (in 1994)?

Miranda Richardson

6.

18 Stepney Causeway, London was the address of the first establishment to bear the name of this social thinker and philanthropist, who was born in 1845? Who was it?

Dr Thomas John Barnardo

7.

Radha Raman and Uri Fruchtmann are the two former husbands of which Scottish singer?

Annie Lennox

8.

With which musical instrument would you most associate the names of Lionel Tertis, Lillian Fuchs and William Primrose?

Viola

ROUND 7 - Picture Round

Name these faces of 2007

1.

Name this politician.

Barack Obama

2.

Name this politician.

Segolene Royal

3.

Name this award-winning actress.

Jennifer Hudson

4.

Name this award-winning singer.

Amy Winehouse

5.

Name this darts champion.

Raymond van Barneveld

6.

Name this golf champion.

Zach Johnson

7.

Name this woman who has made news headlines this year.

Faye Turney

8.

Name this woman who made news headlines this year.

Shilpa Shetty

ROUND 8

1.

Only two male actors have been nominated for acting Oscars in every decade since the 1960s.  Jack Nicholson is one, who is the other?

Michael Caine

2.

What are the names of the two ballets that Stravinsky composed before The Rite of Spring?

Firebird and Petrushka

3.

Which capital city has a name meaning ‘I see the mountain’?

Montevideo

4.

In which film would you find the line:

“You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson”?

The Matrix

5.

Which rock musician’s first wife was Cynthia Powell?

John Lennon

(they were married in 1962)

6.

What was the name of the UK’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the name of which was used six times previously for different ships in the Royal Navy?

HMS Dreadnought

7.

Who is the current Director of the F1 Ferrari Team?

Jean Todt

8.

What was the name of Edward II’s lover?

Piers Gaveston

1.

What’s the name for the type of algebra, named after its developer, that combines sets and logic?

Boolean algebra

2.

What was the name of the Nazi, who chaired the Wannsee conference that developed The Final Solution, and who was killed by Czech partisans?

Reinhard Heydrich

3.

Which term in geometry means a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole?

Fractal

4.

What was the name of the former Italian Prime Minister who was murdered by the Red Brigade in 1978?

Aldo Moro

5.

In Shakespeare’s Othello what is the name of Iago’s wife?

Emilia

6.

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet what is the name of Romeo’s friend killed by Tybalt?

Mercutio

7.

What is the name of the driver who won the Bahrain Formula 1 race on Sunday?

Filipe Massa

8.

Why did British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton enter the record books on Sunday?

He became the first driver in the 57 years of the championship to finish his first three races on the podium

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