ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

The replica of which vessel is currently moored in St Mary Overie Dock, off Cathedral Street, Southwark, London?

2.

The Galata bridge in Istanbul spans which body of water?

3.

Name the bird pictured.

4.

Which film features the character Pussy Galore?

5.

Which song by The Stranglers has heroin as its subject matter?

6.

Name the pictured recording artist. (surname will suffice)

7.

Two varieties of hop are used to flavour Marston’s Pedigree.  One is Fuggles.  Name the other.

8.

Which opera comes first in Wagner’s Ring Cycle?

Sp

Name the Old Etonian who founded and funded the eurosceptic Referendum Party in the UK.

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the former Labour MP for Walsall North who was convicted for fraud in 1976 and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.

2.

Name the manufacturer and model of the pictured aircraft.

3.

Name the manufacturer of the pictured vehicle.

4.

What did Scottish aristocrat Thomas Bruce sell to the Crown in 1816 for £35000?

5.

What was the name of the orang utan in the film Every Which Way but Loose?

6.

Robert Scott and his parry perished while trying to cross which feature, some 487,000 sq km in area?

7.

Which model of Rolls Royce car was in production from 1949 to 1955?

8.

Who was Prime Minister from 1852 to 1855 when he resigned following criticism of his conduct of the Crimean War?

Sp

Which Oscar winning actress was the wife in Peter Greenaway’s 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover?

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Who was killed by William Walworth, the Mayor of London, on June 15 1381?

2.

Name the Liberal Democrat’s Treasury spokesman.

3.

In 1962 American automotive race and design maestro, Carrol Shelby, designed an iconic sports car utilising a British built chassis with an aluminium body and a Ford v8 engine.  Name the car.

4.

In chemistry what name is given to the group 2 metals: beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and radium?

5.

Which recording artist’s best selling single declared that “you know you’re in the largest state in the union when you’re anchored down in Anchorage”?

6.

Which 1995 film starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Rene Russo, was based on an Elmore Leonard novel published in 1990?

7.

Name the commander of the infamous Sturmabteilung executed on the 2 July 1934 at the culmination of the night of the long knives.  (surname will suffice)

8.

Which tributary of the River Manifold has its source near Upper Hulme in Staffordshire and for much of its length is a close companion of the southern section of the Manifold Way?

Sp

What was used as the basis for the border of newly independent North and South Korea in 1948?

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Where was Sir Winston Churchill born?

2.

Born Arthur Wellesley, how is the Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 better known?

3.

Name the try scorer pictured.

4.

Complete the Fred Trueman quotation: “People started calling me fiery because it rhymes with Fred just like…...”

5.

Which fictional character posed this question: “If seven maids with seven mops swept it for seven years do you suppose they’d ever get it clear?”?

6.

From which film is this still taken?

7.

Who replaced Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary in 1938 and was subsequently succeeded by Eden in 1940?

8.

Name the admiral who led the Spartan fleet to victory over the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.

Sp

What title did Edward III confer upon John of Gaunt on 13 November 1362?

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the actor: born in Longsight in 1942.  He first appeared on television in Redcap in 1965 and went on to marry Sheila Hancock in 1973.

2.

Which poet wrote the line “I took the road less travelled by, and that has made all the difference”?

3.

Which 1968 film, directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, was based on a novel by Alistair Maclean?

4.

Which 1983 film nominated for an Oscar for best film had an ensemble cast including Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Kelvin Kline, and William Hurt and revolved around the reunion of old college friends at a funeral?

5.

Which band were the last ever to appear on Top of the Pops when they performed Chasing Cars from their album Eyes Open?

6.

Which Stella Gibbons novel features “something nasty in the woodshed”?

7.

The ferry from Mallaig to Armadale on the Isle of Skye, crosses which body of water?

8.

Which villain was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film Batman and Robin?

Sp

For which band, prominent in the 1980s but recently reformed, was Ian MacNabb the vocalist?

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Who wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II, which has been played at all subsequent coronations?

2.

Who wrote the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?

3.

What is the common name for members of the echinoida class, an example of which is pictured?

4.

Which football club failed to win re-election to the Football League in 1960?

5.

Name the Greek Astronomer who lived circa 190 BC to 120 BC and whose treatise, On the Length of the Year, improved the calculation of the subject matter to within 6 minutes of the actual time.

6.

From which 1986 film is this still taken?

7.

Which 1979 UK number 1 hit single includes this line:

“Seemed like the real thing only to find

Mucho mistrust not far behind”?

8.

Name the hill that at 2220 feet is the highest point in the Howgill Fells.

Sp

In which town is the grave of George Stephenson, the railway engineer, to be found?

ROUND 7 - 'Contrived Connections'

1.

What is the connection between the author Joseph Conrad and the film Alien?

2.

What is the connection between Joseph Conrad and the film Apocalypse Now?

3.

The only human survivor from the spacecraft Nostromo was Ellen Ripley.  Name the actress who played the role.

4.

Martin Sheen played Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now.  Name his two sons who are also actors.

5.

John Hurt was also on board the Nostromo, but what was the name of the grossly disfigured character that he played in the film The Elephant Man?

6.

Charlie Sheen was married to Denise Richards who was seen fighting giant insects in which 1997 film?

7.

In the film The Elephant Man, actor Michael Elphick played the role of the night porter, but who played the role of the Night Porter in the film of the same name?

8.

Who claimed to have “lost her heart to a Starship Trooper” in 1979?

ROUND 8 - 'Um, er'

The Men They Couldn’t Hang have spent the season not being entirely sure of any answer (except for those two that started “which mainly 80s bands” when Steve couldn't understand why the questions had suddenly become so easy).

Here are 8 questions celebrating the art of not being sure.

1.

Who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1932 for his uncertainty principle? (surname will suffice)

2.

Which Nobel prize winner said: “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe”?

3.

Which author wrote the following line regarding the impact of the infinite improbability drive: “In other words you’re never sure where you’ll end up”?

4.

When the fictional Emmanuel Goldstein wrote: “We can be reasonably sure that he will never die and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born”, to whom was he referring?

5.

Who wrote in 1789 “in this world nothing is certain except death and taxes”?

6.

Robert Draper’s book Dead Certain is a critique of which American President?

7.

Which singer/songwriter wrote and recorded the following lyric, releasing it as a single in 1981:

“There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis

Just like you swore that you’d be true

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis

But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you”?

8.

Which singer/songwriter wrote the following lyrics for a song made famous by other artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and The Sex Pistols:

“And now the end is near

And so I face the final curtain

My friend I’ll say it clear

I’ll state my case of which I’m certain”?

1.

Who said: “Only the insane take themselves quite seriously”?

2.

Who said: “Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains”?

3.

Which actor links the films: The Candidate, Young Frankenstein, and Taxi Driver?

4.

Which actor links the films: Animal House, Local Hero, and Barbarians at the Gate?

5.

Which brothers exhibited their work Great Deeds Against the Dead at the Sensation exhibition in 1997

6.

Which Brazilian brothers’ work is based on found objects combined with advanced technologies, and includes Project 66 exhibited at New York’s MOMA in 1988?

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

The replica of which vessel is currently moored in St Mary Overie Dock, off Cathedral Street, Southwark, London?

Golden Hind

2.

The Galata bridge in Istanbul spans which body of water?

The Golden Horn

3.

Name the bird pictured.

Golden Plover

4.

Which film features the character Pussy Galore?

Goldfinger

5.

Which song by The Stranglers has heroin as its subject matter?

Golden Brown

6.

Name the pictured recording artist. (surname will suffice)

(Alison) Goldfrapp

7.

Two varieties of hop are used to flavour Marston’s Pedigree.  One is Fuggles.  Name the other.

Goldings

8.

Which opera comes first in Wagner’s Ring Cycle?

Das Rheingold

Sp

Name the Old Etonian who founded and funded the eurosceptic Referendum Party in the UK.

Sir James Goldsmith

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the former Labour MP for Walsall North who was convicted for fraud in 1976 and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.

John Stonehouse

2.

Name the manufacturer and model of the pictured aircraft.

Short Stirling

3.

Name the manufacturer of the pictured vehicle.

Albion

4.

What did Scottish aristocrat Thomas Bruce sell to the Crown in 1816 for £35000?

Elgin Marbles

(accept the Parthenon frieze, but highlight the fact that the Elgin Marbles is the answer required for the theme)

5.

What was the name of the orang utan in the film Every Which Way but Loose?

Clyde

6.

Robert Scott and his parry perished while trying to cross which feature, some 487,000 sq km in area?

Ross ice shelf

7.

Which model of Rolls Royce car was in production from 1949 to 1955?

Silver Wraith

8.

Who was Prime Minister from 1852 to 1855 when he resigned following criticism of his conduct of the Crimean War?

(4th Earl of) Aberdeen

Sp

Which Oscar winning actress was the wife in Peter Greenaway’s 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover?

Helen Mirren

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Who was killed by William Walworth, the Mayor of London, on June 15 1381?

Wat Tyler

2.

Name the Liberal Democrat’s Treasury spokesman.

Vince Cable

3.

In 1962 American automotive race and design maestro, Carrol Shelby, designed an iconic sports car utilising a British built chassis with an aluminium body and a Ford v8 engine.  Name the car.

AC Cobra

4.

In chemistry what name is given to the group 2 metals: beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and radium?

Alkaline earth metals

5.

Which recording artist’s best selling single declared that “you know you’re in the largest state in the union when you’re anchored down in Anchorage”?

Michelle Shocked

6.

Which 1995 film starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Rene Russo, was based on an Elmore Leonard novel published in 1990?

Get Shorty

7.

Name the commander of the infamous Sturmabteilung executed on the 2 July 1934 at the culmination of the night of the long knives.  (surname will suffice)

(Ernst) Rohm

8.

Which tributary of the River Manifold has its source near Upper Hulme in Staffordshire and for much of its length is a close companion of the southern section of the Manifold Way?

River Hamps

Sp

What was used as the basis for the border of newly independent North and South Korea in 1948?

The 38th Parallel (north)

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Where was Sir Winston Churchill born?

Blenheim Palace

2.

Born Arthur Wellesley, how is the Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 better known?

Duke of Wellington

3.

Name the try scorer pictured.

Billy Boston

4.

Complete the Fred Trueman quotation: “People started calling me fiery because it rhymes with Fred just like…...”

“Typhoon rhymes with Tyson”

5.

Which fictional character posed this question: “If seven maids with seven mops swept it for seven years do you suppose they’d ever get it clear?”?

The Walrus

6.

From which film is this still taken?

The Defiant Ones

7.

Who replaced Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary in 1938 and was subsequently succeeded by Eden in 1940?

(Earl of) Halifax

8.

Name the admiral who led the Spartan fleet to victory over the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.

Lysander

Sp

What title did Edward III confer upon John of Gaunt on 13 November 1362?

Duke of Lancaster

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

1

Name the actor: born in Longsight in 1942.  He first appeared on television in Redcap in 1965 and went on to marry Sheila Hancock in 1973.

John Thaw

2.

Which poet wrote the line “I took the road less travelled by, and that has made all the difference”?

Robert Frost

3.

Which 1968 film, directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, was based on a novel by Alistair Maclean?

Ice Station Zebra

4.

Which 1983 film nominated for an Oscar for best film had an ensemble cast including Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Kelvin Kline, and William Hurt and revolved around the reunion of old college friends at a funeral?

The Big Chill

5.

Which band were the last ever to appear on Top of the Pops when they performed Chasing Cars from their album Eyes Open?

Snow Patrol

6.

Which Stella Gibbons novel features “something nasty in the woodshed”?

Cold Comfort Farm

7.

The ferry from Mallaig to Armadale on the Isle of Skye, crosses which body of water?

Sound of Sleat

8.

Which villain was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film Batman and Robin?

Mister Freeze

Sp

For which band, prominent in the 1980s but recently reformed, was Ian MacNabb the vocalist?

The Icicle Works

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1

Who wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II, which has been played at all subsequent coronations?

Handel

2.

Who wrote the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?

Alan Sillitoe

3.

What is the common name for members of the echinoida class, an example of which is pictured?

Sea Urchins

4.

Which football club failed to win re-election to the Football League in 1960?

Gateshead

5.

Name the Greek Astronomer who lived circa 190 BC to 120 BC and whose treatise, On the Length of the Year, improved the calculation of the subject matter to within 6 minutes of the actual time.

Hipparchus

6.

From which 1986 film is this still taken?

Withnail & I

7.

Which 1979 UK number 1 hit single includes this line:

“Seemed like the real thing only to find

Mucho mistrust not far behind”?

Heart of Glass

8.

Name the hill that at 2220 feet is the highest point in the Howgill Fells.

The Calf

Sp

In which town is the grave of George Stephenson, the railway engineer, to be found?

Chesterfield

ROUND 7 - 'Contrived Connections'

1.

What is the connection between the author Joseph Conrad and the film Alien?

Nostromo

(Conrad wrote Nostromo, and Nostromo was the name of the spacecraft in Alien)

2.

What is the connection between Joseph Conrad and the film Apocalypse Now?

Heart of Darkness

(Conrad wrote The Heart of Darkness which inspired the film Apocalypse Now)

3.

The only human survivor from the spacecraft Nostromo was Ellen Ripley.  Name the actress who played the role.

Sigournev Weaver

4.

Martin Sheen played Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now.  Name his two sons who are also actors.

Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez

5.

John Hurt was also on board the Nostromo, but what was the name of the grossly disfigured character that he played in the film The Elephant Man?

John Merrick

6.

Charlie Sheen was married to Denise Richards who was seen fighting giant insects in which 1997 film?

Starship Troopers

7.

In the film The Elephant Man, actor Michael Elphick played the role of the night porter, but who played the role of the Night Porter in the film of the same name?

Dirk Bogarde

8.

Who claimed to have “lost her heart to a Starship Trooper” in 1979?

Sarah Brightman

(who in an ideal world would have been instantly teleported to Ursa Minor)

ROUND 8 - 'Um, er'

The Men They Couldn’t Hang have spent the season not being entirely sure of any answer (except for those two that started “which mainly 80s bands” when Steve couldn't understand why the questions had suddenly become so easy).

Here are 8 questions celebrating the art of not being sure.

1.

Who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1932 for his uncertainty principle? (surname will suffice)

(Werner Karl) Heisenberg

2.

Which Nobel prize winner said: “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe”?

Albert Einstein

3.

Which author wrote the following line regarding the impact of the infinite improbability drive: “In other words you’re never sure where you’ll end up”?

Douglas Adams

4.

When the fictional Emmanuel Goldstein wrote: “We can be reasonably sure that he will never die and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born”, to whom was he referring?

Big Brother

5.

Who wrote in 1789 “in this world nothing is certain except death and taxes”?

Benjamin Franklin

6.

Robert Draper’s book Dead Certain is a critique of which American President?

George W Bush

7.

Which singer/songwriter wrote and recorded the following lyric, releasing it as a single in 1981:

“There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis

Just like you swore that you’d be true

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis

But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you”?

Kirsty Maccoll

8.

Which singer/songwriter wrote the following lyrics for a song made famous by other artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and The Sex Pistols:

“And now the end is near

And so I face the final curtain

My friend I’ll say it clear

I’ll state my case of which I’m certain”?

Paul Anka

1.

Who said: “Only the insane take themselves quite seriously”?

Max Beerbohm

2.

Who said: “Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains”?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

3.

Which actor links the films: The Candidate, Young Frankenstein, and Taxi Driver?

Peter Boyle

4.

Which actor links the films: Animal House, Local Hero, and Barbarians at the Gate?

Peter Riegert

5.

Which brothers exhibited their work Great Deeds Against the Dead at the Sensation exhibition in 1997

The Chapmans

(Jake and Dinos)

6.

Which Brazilian brothers’ work is based on found objects combined with advanced technologies, and includes Project 66 exhibited at New York’s MOMA in 1988?

The Campanas

(Fernando and Humbert)

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