1.

Who, according to The Bible, was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later wife of King David?

2.

Who is the first English wicketkeeper to score a test century on his debut?

3.

Daniel Handler writes children’s books under what pseudonym?

4.

Massacre of the Innocents was sold at Sotherby’s in 2002 for £49.5 million and The Calydonian Boar Hunt by the same artist was sold to the Getty collection for an undisclosed amount in 2006.  Who was the artist?

5.

Serotine, Brandt’s and Noctule are all species of which British mammal?

6.

What was the Christian name of Hudson the butler played by Gordon Jackson in the TV series Upstairs Downstairs?

7.

In Norse Mythology Aegir was the god of what?

8.

The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.  In which state is Fort Sumter?

9.

In 1948 who became the first goalkeeper to captain the England football team since 1873?

10.

A Blue Plaque at 93 Werneth Hill Rd., Oldham celebrates the birth of which composer?

11.

Whose law states that “The product of the pressure and the volume of an ideal gas at constant temperature is a constant”?

12.

Who directed the 1934 film It Happened One Night?

13.

Which French artist was a labourer helping build the Panama Canal before producing early works including Breton Girls Dancing and Breton Village In The Snow  his later more famous works include The Yellow Christ?

14.

Dobbin and The Marquis of Steyne are characters in which of William Makepeace Thackeray’s books?

15.

In the TV series Brideshead Revisited who played Lady Marchmain?

16.

Which band formed in 1997 took their name from a football team that former Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe played for?

17.

Jebel (Djebel )Toubkal is the highest peak in which range of mountains?

18.

Lake Chicot is the largest example in North America of which sort of geographical feature?

19.

In the film A Matter of Life and Death who played Squadron Leader Peter D. Carter?

20.

Broad-bodied Chaser, Ruddy Darter and Brown Hawker are all species of which British insect?

21.

In 1759 the British fought in the Battle of Minden in North Germany.  In which war was this?

22.

The character Artemis Fowl was created by which author?

23.

There is a Blue Plaque on a house on Northenden Road, Sale, to celebrate the fact that which playwright was born there?

24.

According to Norse Mythology the wolves Skoll and his brother Hati would devour what, that started Ragnarok, the end of the cosmos.  There are two answers required?

25.

Which future Prime Minister became Minister Responsible for Munitions in the World War I coalition government led by Herbert Asquith?

26.

According to The Bible who succeeded Moses as the leader of the Israelites?

27.

In which book by Charles Dickens would you find the characters Luffey and Dumkins?

28.

Following the resignation of Herbert Asquith in 1915, King George V invited whom to form a government, but the person invited deferred to David Lloyd George as he believed he was better placed?

29.

Which band won a Grammy award in 2008 for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for their song Makes Me Wonder?

30.

Whose law of partial pressure states that “The total pressure of a mixture of ideal gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of its components”?

1.

In which sport did Britain’s Ian Heaps became World Champion in Poland in 1975?

2.

For how long does the Chief Scout in Britain hold the position?

3.

Which of the armed services was awarded the first Victoria Cross?

4.

What is the role of a Deemster on the Isle of Man?

5.

Rigel and Bellatrix are stars in which constellation?

6.

In the periodic table the Halogens consist of five elements: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and which other?

7.

Who is the current Bishop of  Manchester?

8.

Which Irish city stands at the mouth of the River Corrib?

9.

In which year did the Peterloo Massacre take place?

10.

George Lockhart was involved in entertaining people in Blackpool for 30 years then in Manchester for 32 years. In what capacity?

1.

Where might you find Merlin, Arthur, Galahad, Vyvyan, Lancelot, Garnet, Topaz, Opal, Amethyst, Moonstone, Pearl or Sapphire each Saturday?

2.

Which two countries share a border but have their capital cities farthest apart?

3.

What name connects Percy Sugden, Cluedo and a small village in the Ribble valley that holds the annual Scarecrow Festival?

4.

What is the only country in Europe whose name in the country’s native language starts with the letter ‘O’?

5.

One opera, one violin concerto, one ballet, seventeen string quartets and thirty two piano sonatas but how many symphonies did this composer write?

6.

Why should every philosophy student know the Danish word for churchyard?

7.

In addition to the Metro system Paris has a rapid transport system linking the capital and the suburbs.  It has 5 lines denoted by the letters A to E.  What is it called?

8.

An American state, an American city, a precious metal, a Roman goddess and a weapon – what’s the link?

9.

From which film does the following line come:

“A boy’s best friend is his mother”?

10.

“It is death.  It is death.  It is life.  It is life.  This is the hairy man who caused the sun to shine again for me.”  These words are a translation of a song you might hear at the start of which event?

11.

Which is the newest of England and Wales’ National Parks?

12.

In the Paris Olympiad of 1900 Leon de Lunden of Belgium won the gold medal in the only sport in Olympic history that involved the deliberate killing of animals.  What was it?

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Pictures

 Each picture shows a well-known person particularly associated with Withington or Didsbury (Questions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11) or with Stockport (Questions 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12)

The QM should ensure that the Stockport team gets the questions relating to Withington/Didsbury people and the WithQuiz team get those relating to Stockport people

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

1.

In a sporting context what do Perth and Paisley have in common?

2.

Who was MP for Chelmsford from 1964 to 1987 after which he became Baron Fawsley?

3.

Which famous public school’s song contains this stanza:

“The battle’s to the strongest, might is always right.

Trample on the weakest, glory is their plight.

Let our motto be broadcast, get your blow in first.

            She who draws the sword last always comes off worst.”

4.

Where would you find a statue of the late Sir John Betjeman?

5.

What was the direct consequence of the death from appendicitis of islander, Mary Gillies, in January 1930?

6.

Which Grade II listed Manchester church, designed by architect Desmond William, with a celebrated mural above the altar by artist Robert Brumby, has just celebrated its 40th anniversary?

7.

In what phenomenon would you find luminous plasma created by a coronal discharge originating from a grounded object?

8.

How is Sydenham’s chorea better known?

9.

Which famous jazz song starts with the lines:

“We are trav'ling in the footsteps

Of those who've gone before,

And we’ll all be reunited,

            On a new and sunlit shore,”

10.

What links Shaznay Lewis and Melanie Blatt?

11.

What is currently coached by Michael Potter and captained by Keiron Cunningham?

12.

Who won an Oscar as Best Supporting actress in the 1954 film On the Waterfront?

1.

What is the name of the National Lottery draw game where players pick 5 numbers from a range of 1 to 34 and one number from a range of 1 to 14?

2.

Which city is generally considered the coldest national capital in the world with temperatures regularly reaching -35°C?

3.

What name links the poem At Lords by Francis Thompson, Dinky toys and the actor Leigh Lawson?

4.

What is the only country in the world whose name in English starts with the letter ‘O’?

5.

Which instrument of the modern orchestra can play the lowest note?

6.

Which national capital city has a name meaning Blackpool in the local language?

7.

Which is the only London Underground station with the same name as a station on the Paris Metro?

8.

One of Henry VIII’s wives, the personal emblem of Richard II, Abu Dhabi, Harold II and Skipton in North Yorkshire – what’s the link?

9.

From which film does the following line come:

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”?

10.

Arthur Caiger in his white boilersuit was traditionally seen conducting the singing of what?

11.

Which of England and Wales’ National Parks covers the largest area?

12.

What Olympic distinction is held by the Devon and Somerset Wanderers team?

1.

Which country will provide the opposition to the England Women’s Football team in Thursday’s European Championship Final?

2.

Earlier this year, who topped the UK album charts for the first time in almost forty years with the album Together Through Life?

3.

Who will replace Sir Terry Wogan as host of Radio 2’s weekday breakfast show next year?

4.

The musical Guys and Dolls is based on the works of which American writer?

5.

Why was propofol in the news this summer?

6.

Which trees of the genus Fraxinus are the traditional source of the wood used to make baseball bats?

7.

The Norfolk village of Burnham Thorpe is famous as being the birthplace of which British hero?

8.

Which MP for Gosport will stand down at the next General Election after it was revealed earlier this year that his expenses claims included £1,645 for a duck island?

9.

Which seaside town is the principal setting for the ITV drama series Foyle’s War?

10.

Which Oscar-winning film of the 1970s took its title from an American children’s rhyme which begins:
“Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn, Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in a flock?”

1.

Who, according to The Bible, was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later wife of King David?

Bathsheba

2.

Who is the first English wicketkeeper to score a test century on his debut?

Matt Prior

3.

Daniel Handler writes children’s books under what pseudonym?

Lemony Snicket

4.

Massacre of the Innocents was sold at Sotherby’s in 2002 for £49.5 million and The Calydonian Boar Hunt by the same artist was sold to the Getty collection for an undisclosed amount in 2006.  Who was the artist?

Peter Paul Rubens

5.

Serotine, Brandt’s and Noctule are all species of which British mammal?

Bats

6.

What was the Christian name of Hudson the butler played by Gordon Jackson in the TV series Upstairs Downstairs?

Angus

7.

In Norse Mythology Aegir was the god of what?

The Sea

8.

The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.  In which state is Fort Sumter?

South Carolina

9.

In 1948 who became the first goalkeeper to captain the England football team since 1873?

Frank Swift

10.

A Blue Plaque at 93 Werneth Hill Rd., Oldham celebrates the birth of which composer?

Sir William Walton

11.

Whose law states that “The product of the pressure and the volume of an ideal gas at constant temperature is a constant”?

Boyle’s Law

12.

Who directed the 1934 film It Happened One Night?

Frank Capra

13.

Which French artist was a labourer helping build the Panama Canal before producing early works including Breton Girls Dancing and Breton Village In The Snow  his later more famous works include The Yellow Christ?

Paul Gauguin

14.

Dobbin and The Marquis of Steyne are characters in which of William Makepeace Thackeray’s books?

Vanity Fair

15.

In the TV series Brideshead Revisited who played Lady Marchmain?

Claire Bloom

16.

Which band formed in 1997 took their name from a football team that former Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe played for?

Kaiser (Kaizer) Chiefs

17.

Jebel (Djebel )Toubkal is the highest peak in which range of mountains?

The Atlas Mountains

18.

Lake Chicot is the largest example in North America of which sort of geographical feature?

Oxbow Lake

19.

In the film A Matter of Life and Death who played Squadron Leader Peter D. Carter?

David Niven

20.

Broad-bodied Chaser, Ruddy Darter and Brown Hawker are all species of which British insect?

Dragonflies

21.

In 1759 the British fought in the Battle of Minden in North Germany.  In which war was this?

The Seven Years’ War

22.

The character Artemis Fowl was created by which author?

Eoin Colfer

23.

There is a Blue Plaque on a house on Northenden Road, Sale, to celebrate the fact that which playwright was born there?

Robert Bolt

24.

According to Norse Mythology the wolves Skoll and his brother Hati would devour what, that started Ragnarok, the end of the cosmos.  There are two answers required?

The Sun and Moon

25.

Which future Prime Minister became Minister Responsible for Munitions in the World War I coalition government led by Herbert Asquith?

David Lloyd George

26.

According to The Bible who succeeded Moses as the leader of the Israelites?

Joshua

27.

In which book by Charles Dickens would you find the characters Luffey and Dumkins?

The Pickwick Papers

they play for the Dingley Dell cricket team

28.

Following the resignation of Herbert Asquith in 1915, King George V invited whom to form a government, but the person invited deferred to David Lloyd George as he believed he was better placed?

Andrew Bonar Law

29.

Which band won a Grammy award in 2008 for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for their song Makes Me Wonder?

Maroon 5

30.

Whose law of partial pressure states that “The total pressure of a mixture of ideal gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of its components”?

Dalton’s

1.

In which sport did Britain’s Ian Heaps became World Champion in Poland in 1975?

World (Coarse) Fishing Champion

2.

For how long does the Chief Scout in Britain hold the position?

5 Years

3.

Which of the armed services was awarded the first Victoria Cross?

The Royal Navy
Awarded to Midshipman C.D.Lucas 1854 at Bomarsund

4.

What is the role of a Deemster on the Isle of Man?

Judge

5.

Rigel and Bellatrix are stars in which constellation?

Orion

6.

In the periodic table the Halogens consist of five elements: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and which other?

Astatine

7.

Who is the current Bishop of  Manchester?

Nigel Simeon McCulloch

8.

Which Irish city stands at the mouth of the River Corrib?

Galway

9.

In which year did the Peterloo Massacre take place?

1819

10.

George Lockhart was involved in entertaining people in Blackpool for 30 years then in Manchester for 32 years. In what capacity?

Ringmaster in the Circus

1.

Where might you find Merlin, Arthur, Galahad, Vyvyan, Lancelot, Garnet, Topaz, Opal, Amethyst, Moonstone, Pearl or Sapphire each Saturday?

National Lottery draw

They are the names of the machines used to select the winning balls

2.

Which two countries share a border but have their capital cities farthest apart?

Russia and North Korea

Moscow and Pyongyang

3.

What name connects Percy Sugden, Cluedo and a small village in the Ribble valley that holds the annual Scarecrow Festival?

Waddington

Sugden was played by the actor Bill Waddington; Cluedo was invented, and is marketed by, the games company Waddington; Waddington is a village in Lancashire in the Ribble valley

4.

What is the only country in Europe whose name in the country’s native language starts with the letter ‘O’?

Austria

Österreich

5.

One opera, one violin concerto, one ballet, seventeen string quartets and thirty two piano sonatas but how many symphonies did this composer write?

Nine

Beethoven

6.

Why should every philosophy student know the Danish word for churchyard?

It’s Kierkegaard

7.

In addition to the Metro system Paris has a rapid transport system linking the capital and the suburbs.  It has 5 lines denoted by the letters A to E.  What is it called?

RER

Réseau Express Regional

8.

An American state, an American city, a precious metal, a Roman goddess and a weapon – what’s the link?

Names of the ‘D’ Day landing beaches

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword

9.

From which film does the following line come:

“A boy’s best friend is his mother”?

Psycho

10.

“It is death.  It is death.  It is life.  It is life.  This is the hairy man who caused the sun to shine again for me.”  These words are a translation of a song you might hear at the start of which event?

Any Rugby Union match featuring the All Blacks

It’s a translation of The Haka

11.

Which is the newest of England and Wales’ National Parks?

The South Downs

12.

In the Paris Olympiad of 1900 Leon de Lunden of Belgium won the gold medal in the only sport in Olympic history that involved the deliberate killing of animals.  What was it?

Pigeon shooting

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Pictures

Each picture shows a well-known person particularly associated with Withington or Didsbury (Questions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11) or with Stockport (Questions 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12)

1.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poet Laureate

2.

Joanne Whalley

Actress

3.

Richard Madeley

Tesco's shopper

4.

Joan Bakewell

“Thinking man’s crumpet”

5.

Sir Marcus Sieff

M&S Chairman

6.

Jim Gannon

Erstwhile Manager of Stockport County FC

7.

Robert Donat

Oscar-winning actor

8.

Fred Perry

Wimbledon Singles champion

9.

Steve Coogan

Comedian

10.

Katie Derham

Newsreader

11.

Cath Staincliffe

Author of Blue Murder books

12.

Christopher Isherwood

Writer

1.

In a sporting context what do Perth and Paisley have in common?

Both have Scottish Football League teams whose name is prefixed by the word ‘Saint’

St Mirren & St Johnstone

2.

Who was MP for Chelmsford from 1964 to 1987 after which he became Baron Fawsley?

Norman St John-Stevas

3.

Which famous public school’s song contains this stanza:

“The battle’s to the strongest, might is always right.

Trample on the weakest, glory is their plight.

Let our motto be broadcast, get your blow in first.

            She who draws the sword last always comes off worst.”

St Trinian’s

4.

Where would you find a statue of the late Sir John Betjeman?

St Pancras station

5.

What was the direct consequence of the death from appendicitis of islander, Mary Gillies, in January 1930?

The decision to evacuate the inhabitants of St Kilda to the Scottish mainland

6.

Which Grade II listed Manchester church, designed by architect Desmond William, with a celebrated mural above the altar by artist Robert Brumby, has just celebrated its 40th anniversary?

St Augustine’s

at All Saints

7.

In what phenomenon would you find luminous plasma created by a coronal discharge originating from a grounded object?

St Elmo’s fire

8.

How is Sydenham’s chorea better known?

St Vitus’s dance

9.

Which famous jazz song starts with the lines:

“We are trav'ling in the footsteps

Of those who've gone before,

And we’ll all be reunited,

            On a new and sunlit shore,”

When the Saints Go Marching in

10.

What links Shaznay Lewis and Melanie Blatt?

Both are members of the All Saints girl pop group

11.

What is currently coached by Michael Potter and captained by Keiron Cunningham?

St Helens Rugby League team

12.

Who won an Oscar as Best Supporting actress in the 1954 film On the Waterfront?

Eva Marie Saint

1.

What is the name of the National Lottery draw game where players pick 5 numbers from a range of 1 to 34 and one number from a range of 1 to 14?

Thunderball

2.

Which city is generally considered the coldest national capital in the world with temperatures regularly reaching -35°C?

Ulan Bator

in Mongolia

3.

What name links the poem At Lords by Francis Thompson, Dinky toys and the actor Leigh Lawson?

Hornby

Cricketer A N Hornby featured in the poem; Frank Hornby made Dinky toys; Leigh Lawson is married to Lesley Hornby otherwise known as Twiggy

4.

What is the only country in the world whose name in English starts with the letter ‘O’?

Oman

5.

Which instrument of the modern orchestra can play the lowest note?

Piano

6.

Which national capital city has a name meaning Blackpool in the local language?

Dublin

7.

Which is the only London Underground station with the same name as a station on the Paris Metro?

Temple

8.

One of Henry VIII’s wives, the personal emblem of Richard II, Abu Dhabi, Harold II and Skipton in North Yorkshire – what’s the link?

London Premiership football grounds

Anne Boleyn (Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, West Ham United);

Richard II’s emblem was the White Hart (White Hart Lane, Tottenham Hotspur);

Abu Dhabi is capital of the United Arab Emirates (Emirates, Arsenal);

Harold II won the Battle of Stamford Bridge (Stamford Bridge, Chelsea);

Skipton is the chief town of the Craven district (Craven Cottage, Fulham)

9.

From which film does the following line come:

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”?

Jaws

10.

Arthur Caiger in his white boilersuit was traditionally seen conducting the singing of what?

Abide With Me

at the FA Cup final

11.

Which of England and Wales’ National Parks covers the largest area?

The Lake District

12.

What Olympic distinction is held by the Devon and Somerset Wanderers team?

Representing England in the 1900 Paris games they won the only ever Olympic Cricket gold medal

1.

Which country will provide the opposition to the England Women’s Football team in Thursday’s European Championship Final?

Germany

2.

Earlier this year, who topped the UK album charts for the first time in almost forty years with the album Together Through Life?

Bob Dylan

3.

Who will replace Sir Terry Wogan as host of Radio 2’s weekday breakfast show next year?

Chris Evans

4.

The musical Guys and Dolls is based on the works of which American writer?

Damon Runyon

5.

Why was propofol in the news this summer?

It is the anaesthetic thought to have caused the death of Michael Jackson

6.

Which trees of the genus Fraxinus are the traditional source of the wood used to make baseball bats?

Ash

7.

The Norfolk village of Burnham Thorpe is famous as being the birthplace of which British hero?

Horatio Nelson

8.

Which MP for Gosport will stand down at the next General Election after it was revealed earlier this year that his expenses claims included £1,645 for a duck island?

Sir Peter Viggers

9.

Which seaside town is the principal setting for the ITV drama series Foyle’s War?

Hastings

10.

Which Oscar-winning film of the 1970s took its title from an American children’s rhyme which begins:
“Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn, Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in a flock?”

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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