ROUND 1 - 'Gotta light, Mac'

Name these people

1.

A briefly successful pop group who reached No. 2 in 1970 with When I’m Dead and Gone.

2.

A folk singer, composer, playwright and socialist, born in 1915 in Salford who wrote the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

3.

A 6 foot, 3 inch Rugby player, born in Ballymena in 1940, who won 65 Irish caps and went on 5 tours with the Lions.

4.

A popular radio and TV broadcaster and journalist who has written books called Cider with Roadies and Pies and Prejudice; Peter Kay reckons he’s the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton.

5.

Belfast-born, Anglo-Irish left wing poet of the 1930s and friend of W H Auden; like Auden, his centenary was celebrated in 2007.

6.

American author born in Columbus, Georgia in 1917; her novels were written in the Southern Gothic style, including The Ballad of the Sad Cafe .

7.

American Democratic politician and businessman born in 1916; he left his job as President of the Ford Motor Company in 1961 to become  JFK’s Defence Secretary; he held this post until his resignation in 1968.

8.

Italian statesman, writer and political philosopher born in 1469; he wrote a famous handbook on the art of becoming a successful ruler.

ROUND 2 - '….and never called me mother!'

1.

Which influential book by Dee Brown was subtitled An Indian History of the American West?

2.

Which English writer and poet’s works include a novel called King Jesus and a memoir of the First World War entitled Good-bye to All That?

3.

Published in 1948 and drawing heavily on his own fighting experiences in the Pacific during World War II, what was the title of Norman Mailer’s hugely successful first novel?

4.

Which 1932 book marked a rare departure from fiction by Ernest Hemingway and is a study of, and homage to, the Spanish bullfight?

5.

Which French phrase is sometimes used to describe a short period of melancholy and/or transcendence that comes (!) immediately after an orgasm?

6.

What word is used in theatrical slang to describe the moment when an actor breaks the belief in a character by laughing or causing another actor to laugh?

7.

Name this band: hardcore punk from San Francisco; formed in the 1980s; set out to offend both the far right and the liberal left; their 1985 album  Frankenchrist was the subject of a protracted obscenity trial.

8.

Name this band: punk band formed in 1977 in Belfast; split up in 1982 but have since reformed; like their compatriots The Undertones, they were championed by John Peel; their lead singer was Jake Burns.

ROUND 3 - 'Sign on, sign on.....with a pen in your hand!'

1.

Which 12 year old Manchester building is underpinned by 270 giant steel springs which act as shock absorbers thus making it vibration free?

2.

3 monumental buildings on the pier head are known as Liverpool’s 3 Graces.  The Liver building is one, name one of the other two.

3.

What is the official motto of Liverpool’s John Lennon International airport?

4.

East Manchester girl, Melanie Sykes shot to fame as a TV presenter after appearing in a series of adverts for which product?

5.

Which self-styled bard of Salford didn’t quite manage to write the following haiku:

“To convey one’s mood

   In seventeen syllables

   Is very diffic......”

6.

The following is from the chorus of which well-known traditional folk song:

“So fare thee well, my own true love,

  When I return, united we will be.........”  

7.

In which year did Everton beat Rapid Vienna to win the European Cup Winners  Cup Final only to lose the FA Cup Final four days later to Manchester United?

8.

Everton beat Manchester City 3-0 in the 1933 FA Cup Final, according to eye-witnesses Kieran and Ivor.  It was a largely uneventful game with the favourites running out easy winners.  It is however, remembered in the history books as the final in which what were used for the first time?

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the popular ITV comedy series from the early 1970s in which Paula Wilcox sought romance and Richard Beckinsale sought ‘Percy Filth’.

2.

Who played the somewhat demanding Sir Lancelot Spratt in the series of Doctor comedy films of the 1950s?

3.

According to legend, what lofty position of power was held for two years and seven months in the middle of the 9th century by a German woman dressed as a man?

4.

In which 1971 film directed by Ken Russell does an unusually sober Oliver Reed play the 17th century priest Father Urban Grandier who is accused of witchcraft by the even more demented Vanessa Redgrave?

5.

Which tacky ITV gameshow was hosted by Nicky Campbell from 1988 until 1996?

6.

Name this rock star: born in 1946 in North London; aged 17 he replaced Doug Sandom in an iconic British rock band and quickly became a legend; his biography Dear Boy was published in 1998, exactly 20 years after his untimely but not unexpected death.

7.

The following is a line from Strange Fruit, one of Billie Holiday’s most brilliant songs:

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit,

  Blood on the leaves and blood at the root”

What did this ‘strange fruit’ refer to?

8.

The original cover of the album Led Zeppelin IV (and countless posters and t-shirts connected with Stairway to Heaven) contains a painting depicting which character from the major arcana of the Tarot pack?

ROUNDS 5-8 - Bingo Quiz

1.

In which novel, set partly in the Second World War, is the main character called Billy Pilgrim?

2.

In his book A Devil’s Dictionary what is defined by Ambrose Bierce as “God’s way of teaching Americans geography”?

3.

Whose diet consisted of “1 apple Monday, 2 pears Tuesday, 3 plums Wednesday”?

4.

Which king of England was married to Anne Neville?

5.

The actor who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers shared his surname with an actor who, for many years, was the compere for which BBC light entertainment show?

6.

Who has just become the first British female to top the American singles charts since Kim Wilde in the 1980s?

7.

For which 2007 film did Daniel Day-Lewis win his second Best Actor award at this year’s Oscars playing a character called Daniel Plainview?

8.

In which song from The White Album do the Beatles address Mia Farrow’s sister and invite her to come out to play?

9.

Which 3 consecutive words in the dictionary have these meanings:

• to strike repeatedly (especially with the fists)

• a light shoe worn for dancing, tennis etc.

• German variety of wholemeal rye bread?

10.

The female Russian tennis player, Dinara Safina, has a better-known tennis playing brother.  Name him.

11.

In classical Greece, victorious soldiers were given ‘sulon’, which meant they had the right to pillage.  What English word is derived from the Greek word meaning ‘a place where pillage is forbidden’?

12.

In which film did Brad Pitt’s character say: “Just 'cos a guy carries a library card, doesn’t mean he’s Yoda”?

13.

Which US Physicist and Director of the Manhattan Project, was called ‘the father of the atomic bomb’?

14.

Which Scottish Football League club play their home games at Palmerston Park, DG2 9BA, and are justly proud of being the only Scottish Football club to be named in The Bible?

15.

Which bird is often stated to be the fastest animal on the planet in its hunting dive which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over 200 mph?

16.

Recite the next 2 lines in this famous poem by Hilaire Belloc entitled Tarantella:

“Do you remember an inn, Miranda?  Do you remember an inn?

and the tedding and the spreading of the straw for a bedding”.

17.

Actor and bon viveur, the late Oliver Reed surprised nobody by dying in a pub. In which European capital city was that pub located?

18.

Which popular British science fiction series, which ran from 1979 to 1982,  opened each episode with this prologue:

“All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.  Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life.  Medium atomic weights are available...”?

19.

Elgar’s Nursery Suite, written in 1930, was dedicated to which two young sisters?

20.

Which lake on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia has recently been identified as the site of a supervolcano which exploded 74 thousand years ago and is thought to have ushered in the most recent series of ice ages and accelerated the evolution of human beings?

21.

The classic, highly popular Granada TV series, A Family at War, orginally broadcast between 1970 and 1972, concerned the trials and tribulations of a middle-class Liverpool family during the second World War.  What was the name of the family?

22.

In which African country is Morgan Tsvangirai the leader of the political opposition?

23.

What was the purpose of Operation Pied Piper that began in London on the morning of September 1st 1939?

24.

Name the latest addition to this list: Princess Mary, Princess Anne, Princess Charlotte, Princess Victoria, Princess Louise, Princess Mary.

25.

In 2003, Geoff Hoon attempted to reassure the British army that the Iraqi town of Umm Qasr was pretty similar to Southampton.  This prompted one squaddie to retort: “It’s nothing like Southampton.  The food is terrible, there aren’t any prostitutes and the locals keep shooting at us.  It’s more like……”.  Where did he think it was more like?

26.

Who once famously stated on TV in front of millions of watching viewers that, “Great cooking is making doughnuts like Fanny’s.”?

27.

The opening stage directions of which 20th century play read as follows:  “A country road - a tree - evening - nothing to be done”?

28.

Which historical queen has been played in a recently released film, based on the historical novel of the same name, by American actress, Natalie Portman ?

29.

According to the artist, which painting was inspired by “Lligat, my favourite Catalonian landscape and a very ripe camembert cheese”?

30.

The Latin motto of the Order of the Thistle and of the royal coat of arms of Scotland is “Nemo me impune lacessit”.  How does this translate into English?

31.

Before going on sale nationally in 1987, what was sold as a stapled photocopy in and around the pubs of Newcastle for the price of 20 pence (30 pence to students)?

32.

The plot of which Shakespeare play can be crudely summed up as: ‘a corrupt official demanding sex from a woman in return for sparing her brother from execution’?

33.

Which bizarre event in May 1941 caused Winston Churchill to comment: “The maggot is now in the apple”?

34.

Recite the next two lines of this well-known rhyme entitled Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns:

“Yesterday, upon the stair

I met a man who wasn’t there”.

35.

Often acclaimed as one of the capital’s most exciting drama venues, which London theatre is named after Sir Donald Albery and Dame Margot Fonteyn?

36.

Who, when once asked what he thought about Western civilization, famously replied: “I think it would be a very good idea!”?

37.

According to the lyrics of Ian Curtis, what will happen “When routine bites hard and ambition runs low”?

38.

Which planet of the solar system has moons named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays?

39.

Who was elected to succeed Vladimir Putin as President of Russia on March 2 2008, being scheduled to take office on May 7 2008?

40.

Of which best-selling, all-girl pop group was Beyoncé Knowles the lead singer before she went solo?

41.

Of which European country is Grand Duke Henri the current head of state?

42.

In a sporting sense, what currently links the following 7 cities: Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid, Prague, Baku and Doha?

Tiebreakers

1.

Tom Farquharson was imprisoned in Dublin in 1922 for being a member of the IRA.  A British army officer, who was a close family friend, fixed it with the authorities that Tom could be set free provided he left Ireland immediately.  Tom did so, and duly took up goalkeeping as an alternative to freedom fighting. He went on to play at Wembley and win an FA Cup medal with which club?

2.

The above mentioned Tom Farquharson had a best friend in Dublin who played a leading part in the Easter 1916 uprising.  This friend went on to become Taoiseach from 1959 to 1966.  Who was he?

3.

When Barnsley last won an FA Cup Final, whom did they beat in the final?

4.

Barnsley’s triumph was only given muted media coverage because the newspapers were still full of reports about something that happened the week before.  What was that something?

5.

According to the CIA World Factbook, as of July 2007, what was the estimated population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

ROUND 1 - 'Gotta light, Mac'

Name these people

1.

A briefly successful pop group who reached No. 2 in 1970 with When I’m Dead and Gone.

McGuinness Flint

2.

A folk singer, composer, playwright and socialist, born in 1915 in Salford who wrote the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Ewan McColl

3.

A 6 foot, 3 inch Rugby player, born in Ballymena in 1940, who won 65 Irish caps and went on 5 tours with the Lions.

Willie John McBride

4.

A popular radio and TV broadcaster and journalist who has written books called Cider with Roadies and Pies and Prejudice; Peter Kay reckons he’s the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton.

Stuart McConie

5.

Belfast-born, Anglo-Irish left wing poet of the 1930s and friend of W H Auden; like Auden, his centenary was celebrated in 2007.

Louis McNiece

6.

American author born in Columbus, Georgia in 1917; her novels were written in the Southern Gothic style, including The Ballad of the Sad Cafe .

Carson McCullers

7.

American Democratic politician and businessman born in 1916; he left his job as President of the Ford Motor Company in 1961 to become  JFK’s Defence Secretary; he held this post until his resignation in 1968.

Robert McNamara

8.

Italian statesman, writer and political philosopher born in 1469; he wrote a famous handbook on the art of becoming a successful ruler.

Niccolo Machiavelli

ROUND 2 - '“….and never called me mother!'

1.

Which influential book by Dee Brown was subtitled An Indian History of the American West?

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2.

Which English writer and poet’s works include a novel called King Jesus and a memoir of the First World War entitled Good-bye to All That?

Robert Graves

3.

Published in 1948 and drawing heavily on his own fighting experiences in the Pacific during World War II, what was the title of Norman Mailer’s hugely successful first novel?

The Naked and the Dead

4.

Which 1932 book marked a rare departure from fiction by Ernest Hemingway and is a study of, and homage to, the Spanish bullfight?

Death in the Afternoon

5.

Which French phrase is sometimes used to describe a short period of melancholy and/or transcendence that comes (!) immediately after an orgasm?

La petite mort

(the little death)

6.

What word is used in theatrical slang to describe the moment when an actor breaks the belief in a character by laughing or causing another actor to laugh?

Corpsing

7.

Name this band: hardcore punk from San Francisco; formed in the 1980s; set out to offend both the far right and the liberal left; their 1985 album  Frankenchrist was the subject of a protracted obscenity trial.

The Dead Kennedys

8.

Name this band: punk band formed in 1977 in Belfast; split up in 1982 but have since reformed; like their compatriots The Undertones, they were championed by John Peel; their lead singer was Jake Burns.

Stiff Little Fingers

ROUND 3 - 'Sign on, sign on.....with a pen in your hand!'

1.

Which 12 year old Manchester building is underpinned by 270 giant steel springs which act as shock absorbers thus making it vibration free?

The Bridgewater Hall

2.

3 monumental buildings on the pier head are known as Liverpool’s 3 Graces.  The Liver building is one, name one of the other two.

(one from)

The Cunard Building;

The Port of Liverpool Building

3.

What is the official motto of Liverpool’s John Lennon International airport?

“Above us, only sky”

(however, Father Megson would have chosen: “Imagine no possessions”)

4.

East Manchester girl, Melanie Sykes shot to fame as a TV presenter after appearing in a series of adverts for which product?

Boddington’s Bitter

(The Cream of Manchester ....allegedly!)

5.

Which self-styled bard of Salford didn’t quite manage to write the following haiku:

“To convey one’s mood

   In seventeen syllables

   Is very diffic......”

John Cooper Clarke

6.

The following is from the chorus of which well-known traditional folk song:

“So fare thee well, my own true love,

  When I return, united we will be.........”  

The Leaving of Liverpool

7.

In which year did Everton beat Rapid Vienna to win the European Cup Winners  Cup Final only to lose the FA Cup Final four days later to Manchester United?

1985

8.

Everton beat Manchester City 3-0 in the 1933 FA Cup Final, according to eye-witnesses Kieran and Ivor.  It was a largely uneventful game with the favourites running out easy winners.  It is however, remembered in the history books as the final in which what were used for the first time?

Shirt numbers to identify the players

(Everton were issued numbers 1 to 11 while City were issued 12 to 22)

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Name the popular ITV comedy series from the early 1970s in which Paula Wilcox sought romance and Richard Beckinsale sought ‘Percy Filth’.

The Lovers

2.

Who played the somewhat demanding Sir Lancelot Spratt in the series of Doctor comedy films of the 1950s?

James Robertson Justice

3.

According to legend, what lofty position of power was held for two years and seven months in the middle of the 9th century by a German woman dressed as a man?

The Pope

(Pope Joan...La Papessa)

4.

In which 1971 film directed by Ken Russell does an unusually sober Oliver Reed play the 17th century priest Father Urban Grandier who is accused of witchcraft by the even more demented Vanessa Redgrave?

The Devils

5.

Which tacky ITV gameshow was hosted by Nicky Campbell from 1988 until 1996?

Wheel of Fortune

6.

Name this rock star: born in 1946 in North London; aged 17 he replaced Doug Sandom in an iconic British rock band and quickly became a legend; his biography Dear Boy was published in 1998, exactly 20 years after his untimely but not unexpected death.

Keith Moon

7.

The following is a line from Strange Fruit, one of Billie Holiday’s most brilliant songs:

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit,

  Blood on the leaves and blood at the root”

What did this ‘strange fruit’ refer to?

The hanging bodies of American blacks, lynched by Southern mobs

8.

The original cover of the album Led Zeppelin IV (and countless posters and t-shirts connected with Stairway to Heaven) contains a painting depicting which character from the major arcana of the Tarot pack?

The Hermit

Theme: Each answer refers to one of the 22 characters depicted in the major arcana of the Tarot pack

(Question 7 refers to ‘the hanged man’)

ROUNDS 5-8 - Bingo Quiz

1

In which novel, set partly in the Second World War, is the main character called Billy Pilgrim?

Slaughterhouse 5

(by Kurt Vonnegut)

2.

In his book A Devil’s Dictionary what is defined by Ambrose Bierce as “God’s way of teaching Americans geography”?

War

3.

Whose diet consisted of “1 apple Monday, 2 pears Tuesday, 3 plums Wednesday”?

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

(popular children’s book by Eric Carle)

4.

Which king of England was married to Anne Neville?

Richard III

5.

The actor who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers shared his surname with an actor who, for many years, was the compere for which BBC light entertainment show?

The Good Old Days

(compered by the late Leonard Sachs; Andrew Sachs was the one who played Manuel)

6.

Who has just become the first British female to top the American singles charts since Kim Wilde in the 1980s?

Leona Lewis

7

For which 2007 film did Daniel Day-Lewis win his second Best Actor award at this year’s Oscars playing a character called Daniel Plainview?

There Will Be Blood

(he won his first playing Christy Brown in the 1989 film, My Left Foot)

8

In which song from The White Album do the Beatles address Mia Farrow’s sister and invite her to come out to play?

Dear Prudence

9.

Which 3 consecutive words in the dictionary have these meanings:

• to strike repeatedly (especially with the fists)

• a light shoe worn for dancing, tennis etc.

• German variety of wholemeal rye bread?

Pummel;

pump;

pumpernickel

10.

The female Russian tennis player, Dinara Safina, has a better-known tennis playing brother.  Name him.

Marat Safin

11.

In classical Greece, victorious soldiers were given ‘sulon’, which meant they had the right to pillage.  What English word is derived from the Greek word meaning ‘a place where pillage is forbidden’?

Asylum

(from a-sulon)

12.

In which film did Brad Pitt’s character say: “Just 'cos a guy carries a library card, doesn’t mean he’s Yoda”?

Seven

13

Which US Physicist and Director of the Manhattan Project, was called ‘the father of the atomic bomb’?

J Robert Oppenheimer

14.

Which Scottish Football League club play their home games at Palmerston Park, DG2 9BA, and are justly proud of being the only Scottish Football club to be named in The Bible?

Queen of the South

(as referred to in Matthew 12: 42 if you’re interested)

15.

Which bird is often stated to be the fastest animal on the planet in its hunting dive which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over 200 mph?

The peregrine falcon

16.

Recite the next 2 lines in this famous poem by Hilaire Belloc entitled Tarantella:

“Do you remember an inn, Miranda?  Do you remember an inn?

and the tedding and the spreading of the straw for a bedding”.

“and the fleas that tease in the high Pyrenees

and the wine that tasted of the tar.”

17.

Actor and bon viveur, the late Oliver Reed surprised nobody by dying in a pub. In which European capital city was that pub located?

Valetta

(Malta)

18.

Which popular British science fiction series, which ran from 1979 to 1982,  opened each episode with this prologue:

“All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.  Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life.  Medium atomic weights are available...”?

Sapphire & Steel

(with Joanna Lumley and David McCallum in the respective title roles)

19

Elgar’s Nursery Suite, written in 1930, was dedicated to which two young sisters?

Princess Elizabeth and (the infant) Princess Margaret

20.

Which lake on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia has recently been identified as the site of a supervolcano which exploded 74 thousand years ago and is thought to have ushered in the most recent series of ice ages and accelerated the evolution of human beings?

Lake Toba

21.

The classic, highly popular Granada TV series, A Family at War, orginally broadcast between 1970 and 1972, concerned the trials and tribulations of a middle-class Liverpool family during the second World War.  What was the name of the family?

The Ashtons

22.

In which African country is Morgan Tsvangirai the leader of the political opposition?

Zimbabwe

23.

What was the purpose of Operation Pied Piper that began in London on the morning of September 1st 1939?

The evacuation of Britain’s children from the cities to the relative safety of the countryside

24.

Name the latest addition to this list: Princess Mary, Princess Anne, Princess Charlotte, Princess Victoria, Princess Louise, Princess Mary.

Princess Anne

(they are all Princesses Royal, past and present)

25

In 2003, Geoff Hoon attempted to reassure the British army that the Iraqi town of Umm Qasr was pretty similar to Southampton.  This prompted one squaddie to retort: “It’s nothing like Southampton.  The food is terrible, there aren’t any prostitutes and the locals keep shooting at us.  It’s more like……”.  Where did he think it was more like?

Portsmouth

(this question is dedicated to aggrieved Baggies fans everywhere)

26.

Who once famously stated on TV in front of millions of watching viewers that, “Great cooking is making doughnuts like Fanny’s.”?

Johnnie Craddock

(bless him!! - his full name required please)

27.

The opening stage directions of which 20th century play read as follows:  “A country road - a tree - evening - nothing to be done”?

Waiting for Godot

28.

Which historical queen has been played in a recently released film, based on the historical novel of the same name, by American actress, Natalie Portman ?

Anne Boleyn

(in the film The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson in the title role)

29.

According to the artist, which painting was inspired by “Lligat, my favourite Catalonian landscape and a very ripe camembert cheese”?

The Persistence of Memory

(by Salvador Dali)

30.

The Latin motto of the Order of the Thistle and of the royal coat of arms of Scotland is “Nemo me impune lacessit”.  How does this translate into English?

Literally:

‘None provoke me unpunished’

or more roughly:

‘Don’t meddle with me or else….’ 

(or anything to that effect)

31

Before going on sale nationally in 1987, what was sold as a stapled photocopy in and around the pubs of Newcastle for the price of 20 pence (30 pence to students)?

Viz magazine

32.

The plot of which Shakespeare play can be crudely summed up as: ‘a corrupt official demanding sex from a woman in return for sparing her brother from execution’?

Measure for Measure

33.

Which bizarre event in May 1941 caused Winston Churchill to comment: “The maggot is now in the apple”?

The landing of Rudolf Hess in Scotland

34.

Recite the next two lines of this well-known rhyme entitled Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns:

“Yesterday, upon the stair

I met a man who wasn’t there”.

“He wasn’t there again today

Oh how I wish he’d go away.”

35.

Often acclaimed as one of the capital’s most exciting drama venues, which London theatre is named after Sir Donald Albery and Dame Margot Fonteyn?

The Donmar Warehouse

36.

Who, when once asked what he thought about Western civilization, famously replied: “I think it would be a very good idea!”?

(Mahatma) Gandhi

37.

According to the lyrics of Ian Curtis, what will happen “When routine bites hard and ambition runs low”?

“Love will tear us apart”

38.

Which planet of the solar system has moons named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays?

Uranus

39.

Who was elected to succeed Vladimir Putin as President of Russia on March 2 2008, being scheduled to take office on May 7 2008?

Dmitry Medvedev

40

Of which best-selling, all-girl pop group was Beyoncé Knowles the lead singer before she went solo?

Destiny’s Child

41.

Of which European country is Grand Duke Henri the current head of state?

Luxemburg

42.

In a sporting sense, what currently links the following 7 cities: Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid, Prague, Baku and Doha?

They are all currently bidding to host the 2016 Olympic Games

Tiebreakers

1

Tom Farquharson was imprisoned in Dublin in 1922 for being a member of the IRA.  A British army officer, who was a close family friend, fixed it with the authorities that Tom could be set free provided he left Ireland immediately.  Tom did so, and duly took up goalkeeping as an alternative to freedom fighting. He went on to play at Wembley and win an FA Cup medal with which club?

Cardiff City

2.

The above mentioned Tom Farquharson had a best friend in Dublin who played a leading part in the Easter 1916 uprising.  This friend went on to become Taoiseach from 1959 to 1966.  Who was he?

Sean Lemass

3.

When Barnsley last won an FA Cup Final, whom did they beat in the final?

West Bromwich Albion

4.

Barnsley’s triumph was only given muted media coverage because the newspapers were still full of reports about something that happened the week before.  What was that something?

The sinking of the Titanic

5.

According to the CIA World Factbook, as of July 2007, what was the estimated population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

60,776,238