1.

Who is the fictional proprietor of the British satirical publication Private Eye?

2.

At which battle, fought near the Northumberland village of Branxton on 9 September 1513, was the invading army of King James IV of Scotland routed by an English force led by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey?

3.

Which city, birthplace of both Anne of Cleeves and supermodel Claudia Schiffer, is the capital of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia?

4.

After whom was New Orleans International Airport, formerly known as Moisant Field, re-named in July 2001?

5.

Which 1957 film, his first in colour, did Elvis Presley refuse to watch again following his mother’s death in 1958, as she appears as an audience member in the film’s final song scene?

6.

Yellow-winged Darters, Common Hawkers, Keeled Skimmers and Wandering Gliders are all species of which insect?

7.

Which British independent record label, which began releasing records in 1977, shares its name with a 1968 album by The Rolling Stones?

8.

Which Salford-born songwriter, a part-owner of Stockport’s Strawberry Studios, wrote the Yardbirds’ hit For Your Love, Herman’s Hermits’ No Milk Today and The Hollies’ Bus Stop?

9.

Which fictional brand of cigarettes features in episodes of The Simpsons?

10.

Tom Tom Club, who had minor UK chart success during the 1980s, was founded by husband and wife Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.  They are better known as members of which much more successful group?

11.

In 1969 he founded Dandelion Records, which was named after his pet hamster. In 1986 he helped establish Strange Fruit Records, which is the primary distributor of BBC concert recordings.  Who was he?

12.

The chemicals Icaridin, Tetramethrin and DEET are commonly used as what?

13.

Former Good Life star Felicity Kendal is currently appearing as Florence in which Noel Coward play at London’s Apollo Theatre?

14.

Originating in North Africa, but also popular in France and Belgium, what sort of food is Merguez?

15.

Who plays the title role in the ITV drama series Foyle’s War?

16.

Who plays the title role in the ITV drama series Kingdom?

17.

Originating in Southern Germany, what sort of food is Hefekranz?

18.

Former Pop Idol star Darius Danesh is currently starring in Trevor Nunn’s musical adaptation of which literary and film classic at The New London Theatre?

19.

An oil extracted from the plant species Cymbopogon has anti-fungal properties, and is reported to calm barking dogs, although its principal use is as an insect repellent.  How is this oil commonly known?

20.

Completed by his widow Sheila, what is the title of the posthumously-released autobiography of John Peel?

21.

The Other Two had minor UK chart success during the 1990s, including the single Tasty Fish which was named after a Stockport chip shop.  The group consisted of husband and wife Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert; as members of which much more successful group are they better known?

22.

In The Simpsons, Mr Burns’s assistant Waylon Smithers is rumoured to own Springfield’s largest collection of which doll?

23.

The Roberta Flack hit The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was originally written for his wife, Peggy Seeger, by which Salford-born songwriter?

24.

Which British record label, which has released material by, amongst others, Dire Straits, Black Sabbath, Status Quo and Razorlight, shares its name with a 1958 Hitchcock thriller?

25.

American, Australian, Brown-banded and Madagascar hissing are all species of which insect?

26.

Which 1957 film, in which he played Vince Everett, did Elvis Presley refuse to watch, as his co-star Judy Tyler died in a road accident shortly after filming ended?

27.

After whom was Johannesburg International Airport, formerly known as Jan Smuts International, re-named in October 2006?

28.

Which city, birthplace of both Gottlieb Daimler and Jürgen Klinsmann, is capital of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg?

29.

Which battle, fought at Westonzoyland, near Bridgwater in Somerset on 6 July 1685, effectively put an end to the ‘Monmouth Rebellion’ against James II?

30.

Which British Prime Minister did the satirical publication Private Eye frequently refer to as ‘The Grocer’?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written - Pictures with a theme

1.

Who is this?

2.

Who is this?

3.

Part of a famous film industry partnership, who is this?

4.

To be seen in Aberdeen, whose statue is this?

5.

Who is this Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner?

6.

Under which name did this pop duo have chart success during the 1980s?

7.

Name this British sports journalist, who died in March 2007.

8.

Who is this?

9.

Name this Texas Chainsaw Massacre character.

10.

What was the title of her best-selling debut album of 1984?

1.

Which James Bond film features the villain Hugo Drax, played by French actor Michael Lonsdale?

2.

What evolved from a nineteenth century poem called Defence of Fort McHenry?

3.

Rachmaninoff, Puschkin and the best-selling Gorbatschow are brands of vodka produced in which European country?

4.

Of all the chemical elements, fluorine, with a value of approximately 4, exhibits this property to the greatest extent; what name is given to the ability of a covalently-bonded atom to attract shared electrons towards itself?

5.

Which title is shared by a 1936 film starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich and U2’s first UK No.1 single?

6.

Which cricketer is Lancashire’s captain for the 2008 county season?

7.

Which American film director’s works include Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, West Side Story and The Sound of Music?

8.

Who is the lead singer of the Oxfordshire rock group Radiohead?

9.

Of which European country is Donald Tusk currently Prime Minister?

10.

Which Irishman is the Chief Executive of British Airways?

11.

With a population of approximately 800 and renowned for its whisky, what is the chief town on the Hebridean island of Islay?

12.

Which poet’s collections include North, Station Island, Seeing Things and Electric Light?

13.

Which four-letter word can be a village that is the capital of the Swiss canton of Aargau, a town with a castle in County Offaly, Ireland, and the unit of currency used in Ethiopia?

14.

Who is the most famous person buried in the graveyard of St. Martin’s Church in Bladon, Oxfordshire?

15.

Which composer, born on this day in 1870, wrote the operettas The Count of Luxembourg, The Land of Smiles and Paganini?

16.

Which artist, who died of syphilis on this day in 1883, produced works which include Olympia, Woman with Parrot and The Execution of Emperor Maximillian?

17.

Throughout his life, who or what did Winston Churchill refer to as ‘Black Dog’?

18.

Which four-letter word can be a small town at the southern end of Sardinia, a larger town on Croatia’s Adriatic coast and the unit of currency of Botswana?

19.

Which poet’s works include The Secret Rose, Responsibilities, The Cat and the Moon and The Winding Stair?

20.

It has a population of approximately 600 and is home to the Arran Brewery; what is the chief town on the Scottish island of Arran?

21.

Which Irishman is the Chief Executive of the low-cost airline Ryanair?

22.

Of which European country is Fredrik Reinfeldt currently Prime Minister?

23.

Who is the lead singer of the Scottish rock group, Texas?

24.

Which American film director’s works included Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed, The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape?

25.

Which cricketer is Lancashire’s registered overseas player for the 2008 county season?

26.

What title is shared by a 1961 horror film which starred Deborah Kerr and was based on the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw, and a 1988 UK No.1 album by Erasure?

27.

In chemistry, what name is given to the property which allows an element in a particular state to exist as more than one physical form, depending on the arrangement of its atoms?  For example, in its solid state carbon can exist as two very different forms: graphite and diamond.

28.

Renat, Level and Explorer are brands of vodka produced in which European country?

29.

Written in 1792, The War Song for the Army of the Rhine is now known as what?

30.

Which Hollywood star played the Bond villain Max Zorin in A View To A Kill?

ROUND 4 - Stockport style - Written - Pictures

1.

What is the name of this distinctively-shaped human bone?

2.

On which European battlefield can this monument be seen?

3.

Name the guitarist.

4.

What is the common name of this chemical compound?

5.

Who painted this view of Salisbury Cathedral?

6.

Name the album.

7.

Who is this two-time Nobel prize winner?

8.

Name the airline.

9.

Which football team plays home games here?

10.

Who is this?

1.

Which cyclist was the first non-European to win the Tour de France?

2.

Only six people have ever been granted Honorary Citizenship of the United States of America.  Who, in 1996, became the most recent?

3.

In the English language, what name - which also has a slang meaning with rather unpleasant connotations - is given to a word or phrase which is artificially created to meet a one-off need and isn’t widely re-used?  Examples include Edward Lear’s ‘runcible spoon’, Blackadder’s ‘contrafibularity’, Mary Poppins’s ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ and Peter Cook’s ‘unidexter’ in the One-legged Tarzan sketch.

4.

Although it has never been released as a single there, which is both the most requested and the most played song on FM radio stations in the USA?

5.

As known to generations of schoolchildren of a certain vintage, which three words complete the following sequence: amo, amas, amat...?

6.

What is the surname of the brothers who are the highest and second-highest first class run scorers in the history of Lancashire County Cricket Club?

7.

The Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus, London is frequently referred to as Eros.  This is inaccurate, as the winged statue actually represent Eros’s twin brother; what is his name?

8.

Professional golfer and part-time model Natasha Shishmanian became the third wife of which British celebrity in August 2007?

9.

Bamboo Harvester, who died in 1970 at the age of 21, played the title role in which 1960s TV programme?

10.

To be found behind The Bridgewater Hall on Great Bridgewater Street in Manchester city centre, why is the pub called Rain Bar so named?

1.

Add together the following:

• the year in which The Christie Hospital moved from its original site to Withington

• the year in which the Hardcastle Road stand at Edgeley Park was destroyed by fire

• the year in which Withington Girls’ School was founded

• the position achieved by Stockport in the 2004 survey of the worst places to live in the UK

2.

At the 2005 General Election, John Leech was returned as MP for the constituency of Manchester Withington and Ann Coffey was elected in Stockport.  What was the combined total of votes cast for these two successful candidates?

1.

Who is the fictional proprietor of the British satirical publication Private Eye?

Lord Gnome

2.

At which battle, fought near the Northumberland village of Branxton on 9 September 1513, was the invading army of King James IV of Scotland routed by an English force led by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey?

Flodden (Field)

3.

Which city, birthplace of both Anne of Cleeves and supermodel Claudia Schiffer, is the capital of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia?

Düsseldorf

4.

After whom was New Orleans International Airport, formerly known as Moisant Field, re-named in July 2001?

Louis Armstrong

5.

Which 1957 film, his first in colour, did Elvis Presley refuse to watch again following his mother’s death in 1958, as she appears as an audience member in the film’s final song scene?

Loving You

6.

Yellow-winged Darters, Common Hawkers, Keeled Skimmers and Wandering Gliders are all species of which insect?

Dragonfly

7.

Which British independent record label, which began releasing records in 1977, shares its name with a 1968 album by The Rolling Stones?

Beggars Banquet

8.

Which Salford-born songwriter, a part-owner of Stockport’s Strawberry Studios, wrote the Yardbirds’ hit For Your Love, Herman’s Hermits’ No Milk Today and The Hollies’ Bus Stop?

Graham Gouldman

9.

Which fictional brand of cigarettes features in episodes of The Simpsons?

Laramie

10.

Tom Tom Club, who had minor UK chart success during the 1980s, was founded by husband and wife Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.  They are better known as members of which much more successful group?

Talking Heads

11.

In 1969 he founded Dandelion Records, which was named after his pet hamster. In 1986 he helped establish Strange Fruit Records, which is the primary distributor of BBC concert recordings.  Who was he?

John Peel

12.

The chemicals Icaridin, Tetramethrin and DEET are commonly used as what?

Insect repellents

13.

Former Good Life star Felicity Kendal is currently appearing as Florence in which Noel Coward play at London’s Apollo Theatre?

The Vortex

14.

Originating in North Africa, but also popular in France and Belgium, what sort of food is Merguez?

Sausage

15.

Who plays the title role in the ITV drama series Foyle’s War?

Michael Kitchen

16.

Who plays the title role in the ITV drama series Kingdom?

Stephen Fry

17.

Originating in Southern Germany, what sort of food is Hefekranz?

(Sweet) Bread

18.

Former Pop Idol star Darius Danesh is currently starring in Trevor Nunn’s musical adaptation of which literary and film classic at The New London Theatre?

Gone With The Wind

19.

An oil extracted from the plant species Cymbopogon has anti-fungal properties, and is reported to calm barking dogs, although its principal use is as an insect repellent.  How is this oil commonly known?

Citronella

20.

Completed by his widow Sheila, what is the title of the posthumously-released autobiography of John Peel?

Margrave of the Marshes

21.

The Other Two had minor UK chart success during the 1990s, including the single Tasty Fish which was named after a Stockport chip shop.  The group consisted of husband and wife Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert; as members of which much more successful group are they better known?

New Order

22.

In The Simpsons, Mr Burns’s assistant Waylon Smithers is rumoured to own Springfield’s largest collection of which doll?

Malibu Stacy

23.

The Roberta Flack hit The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was originally written for his wife, Peggy Seeger, by which Salford-born songwriter?

Ewan MacColl

24.

Which British record label, which has released material by, amongst others, Dire Straits, Black Sabbath, Status Quo and Razorlight, shares its name with a 1958 Hitchcock thriller?

Vertigo

25.

American, Australian, Brown-banded and Madagascar hissing are all species of which insect?

Cockroach

26.

Which 1957 film, in which he played Vince Everett, did Elvis Presley refuse to watch, as his co-star Judy Tyler died in a road accident shortly after filming ended?

Jailhouse Rock

27.

After whom was Johannesburg International Airport, formerly known as Jan Smuts International, re-named in October 2006?

Oliver Tambo

28.

Which city, birthplace of both Gottlieb Daimler and Jürgen Klinsmann, is capital of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg?

Stuttgart

29.

Which battle, fought at Westonzoyland, near Bridgwater in Somerset on 6 July 1685, effectively put an end to the ‘Monmouth Rebellion’ against James II?

Sedgemoor

30.

Which British Prime Minister did the satirical publication Private Eye frequently refer to as ‘The Grocer’?

Ted Heath

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written - Pictures with a theme

1.

Who is this?

Ruby Murray

2.

Who is this?

Fran Cotton

3.

Part of a famous film industry partnership, who is this?

James Ivory

4.

To be seen in Aberdeen, whose statue is this?

William Wallace

5.

Who is this Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner?

Pearl S Buck

6.

Under which name did this pop duo have chart success during the 1980s?

China Crisis

7.

Name this British sports journalist, who died in March 2007.

Ian Wooldridge

8.

Who is this?

Crystal Gayle

9.

Name this Texas Chainsaw Massacre character.

Leatherface

10.

What was the title of her best-selling debut album of 1984?

Diamond Life

(Sade)

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a traditional wedding anniversary gift:

Ruby 40 years; Cotton 1; Ivory 14; Lace 13; Pearl 30; China 20; Wool 7; Crystal 15; Leather 3; Diamond 60 or 75

1.

Which James Bond film features the villain Hugo Drax, played by French actor Michael Lonsdale?

Moonraker

2.

What evolved from a nineteenth century poem called Defence of Fort McHenry?

The Star-Spangled Banner 

(accept American National Anthem)

3.

Rachmaninoff, Puschkin and the best-selling Gorbatschow are brands of vodka produced in which European country?

Germany

4.

Of all the chemical elements, fluorine, with a value of approximately 4, exhibits this property to the greatest extent; what name is given to the ability of a covalently-bonded atom to attract shared electrons towards itself?

Electronegativity

5.

Which title is shared by a 1936 film starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich and U2’s first UK No.1 single?

Desire

6.

Which cricketer is Lancashire’s captain for the 2008 county season?

Stuart Law

7.

Which American film director’s works include Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, West Side Story and The Sound of Music?

Robert Wise

8.

Who is the lead singer of the Oxfordshire rock group Radiohead?

Thom Yorke

9.

Of which European country is Donald Tusk currently Prime Minister?

Poland

10.

Which Irishman is the Chief Executive of British Airways?

Willie Walsh

11.

With a population of approximately 800 and renowned for its whisky, what is the chief town on the Hebridean island of Islay?

Bowmore

12.

Which poet’s collections include North, Station Island, Seeing Things and Electric Light?

Seamus Heaney

13.

Which four-letter word can be a village that is the capital of the Swiss canton of Aargau, a town with a castle in County Offaly, Ireland, and the unit of currency used in Ethiopia?

Birr

14.

Who is the most famous person buried in the graveyard of St. Martin’s Church in Bladon, Oxfordshire?

Winston Churchill

15.

Which composer, born on this day in 1870, wrote the operettas The Count of Luxembourg, The Land of Smiles and Paganini?

Franz Lehar

16.

Which artist, who died of syphilis on this day in 1883, produced works which include Olympia, Woman with Parrot and The Execution of Emperor Maximillian?

Édouard Manet

17.

Throughout his life, who or what did Winston Churchill refer to as ‘Black Dog’?

His regular bouts of depression

18.

Which four-letter word can be a small town at the southern end of Sardinia, a larger town on Croatia’s Adriatic coast and the unit of currency of Botswana?

Pula

19.

Which poet’s works include The Secret Rose, Responsibilities, The Cat and the Moon and The Winding Stair?

W B Yeats

20.

It has a population of approximately 600 and is home to the Arran Brewery; what is the chief town on the Scottish island of Arran?

Brodick

21.

Which Irishman is the Chief Executive of the low-cost airline Ryanair?

Michael O’Leay

22.

Of which European country is Fredrik Reinfeldt currently Prime Minister?

Sweden

23.

Who is the lead singer of the Scottish rock group, Texas?

Sharleen Spiteri

24.

Which American film director’s works included Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed, The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape?

John Sturges

25.

Which cricketer is Lancashire’s registered overseas player for the 2008 county season?

Brad Hodge

26.

What title is shared by a 1961 horror film which starred Deborah Kerr and was based on the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw, and a 1988 UK No.1 album by Erasure?

The Innocents

27.

In chemistry, what name is given to the property which allows an element in a particular state to exist as more than one physical form, depending on the arrangement of its atoms?  For example, in its solid state carbon can exist as two very different forms: graphite and diamond.

Allotropy

28.

Renat, Level and Explorer are brands of vodka produced in which European country?

Sweden

29.

Written in 1792, The War Song for the Army of the Rhine is now known as what?

La Marseillaise

(accept French National Anthem)

30.

Which Hollywood star played the Bond villain Max Zorin in A View To A Kill?

Christopher Walken

ROUND 4 - Stockport style - Written - Pictures

1.

What is the name of this distinctively-shaped human bone?

Clavicle or Collar Bone

2.

On which European battlefield can this monument be seen?

Waterloo

3.

Name the guitarist.

Johnny Marr

4.

What is the common name of this chemical compound?

Arsole

(accept ‘arsenole’; it is a pyrrole in which a nitrogen atom has been substituted by arsenic)

5.

Who painted this view of Salisbury Cathedral?

John Constable

6.

Name the album.

Blonde on Blonde

7.

Who is this two-time Nobel prize winner?

Linus Pauling

8.

Name the airline.

Emirates

9.

Which football team plays home games here?

Chicago Bears

10.

Who is this?

Des Browne

(Secretary of State for Defence & Scotland)

1.

Which cyclist was the first non-European to win the Tour de France?

Greg LeMond

2.

Only six people have ever been granted Honorary Citizenship of the United States of America.  Who, in 1996, became the most recent?

Mother Theresa

3.

In the English language, what name - which also has a slang meaning with rather unpleasant connotations - is given to a word or phrase which is artificially created to meet a one-off need and isn’t widely re-used?  Examples include Edward Lear’s ‘runcible spoon’, Blackadder’s ‘contrafibularity’, Mary Poppins’s ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ and Peter Cook’s ‘unidexter’ in the One-legged Tarzan sketch.

Nonce word

4.

Although it has never been released as a single there, which is both the most requested and the most played song on FM radio stations in the USA?

Stairway to Heaven

(by Led Zeppelin)

5.

As known to generations of schoolchildren of a certain vintage, which three words complete the following sequence: amo, amas, amat...?

amamus, amatis, amant

6.

What is the surname of the brothers who are the highest and second-highest first class run scorers in the history of Lancashire County Cricket Club?

Tyldesley

(Ernest and Johnny)

7.

The Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus, London is frequently referred to as Eros.  This is inaccurate, as the winged statue actually represent Eros’s twin brother; what is his name?

Anteros

8.

Professional golfer and part-time model Natasha Shishmanian became the third wife of which British celebrity in August 2007?

Chris Evans

9.

Bamboo Harvester, who died in 1970 at the age of 21, played the title role in which 1960s TV programme?

Mister Ed

10.

To be found behind The Bridgewater Hall on Great Bridgewater Street in Manchester city centre, why is the pub called Rain Bar so named?

It is in a building which was formerly an umbrella factory

1.

Add together the following:

• the year in which The Christie Hospital moved from its original site to Withington

• the year in which the Hardcastle Road stand at Edgeley Park was destroyed by fire

• the year in which Withington Girls’ School was founded

• the position achieved by Stockport in the 2004 survey of the worst places to live in the UK

5769 

(1932, 1935, 1890 and 12)

2.

At the 2005 General Election, John Leech was returned as MP for the constituency of Manchester Withington and Ann Coffey was elected in Stockport.  What was the combined total of votes cast for these two successful candidates?

33,941

(15,872 and 18,069 respectively)