1.

In which Shakespeare play is Claudio sentenced to death for seducing Juliet?

2.

In the Bible what was notable about Balaam’s Ass?

3.

August is a Wicked Month is a novel by which author?

4.

Bull’s Blood is a wine produced in which country?

5.

Which American city was previously known as Fort  Dearborn?

6.

In which sport are the terms Double, Octave and Site used?

7.

Which former prime minister died in 1850 after a horse riding accident on Constitution Hill?

8.

The term ‘The Beat Generation’ was first used by which US author?

1.

What is the French term for a person finishing last in a cycle race?

2.

At which New York night club did Duke Ellington’s orchestra act as the house band between 1927 and 1931?

3.

Who sings As Time Goes By and plays the character Sam in the film Casablanca?

4.

Which US president said  “Advertisements  contain the only truth  to be relied on in a newspaper”?

5.

What is dipped in oatmeal and fried to produce the Welsh delicacy laverbread?

6.

What is the common name for the garden plant Convallaria Majalis which has white bell-shaped flowers?

7.

What vice is Susanna’s Secret in the opera by Wolf-Ferrari?

8.

Which MP’s office at the house of Parliament was searched by the police earlier this year?

1.

How are the packs of cards used for the card games Piquet, Bezique and Skat obtained from the normal 52-card pack?

2.

Two constructor teams have announced that they will pull out of Formula One at the end of the season.  Name one of the two.

3.

The giving of Maundy money by the monarch is an old custom but this English king was the first to vary the amount given according to his age.  He was born on Maundy Thursday in Lincolnshire.  He set foot in Jerusalem during one of the Crusades and died in Westminster.  Who was he?

4.

Who was accused and convicted of the crime that was in fact committed by Major Ferdinand Esterhazy?

5.

How many cubes in total make up the faces of a Rubik’s cube?

6.

Who when in hospital towards the end of his life was asked why he was reading the Bible replied “I am checking for loopholes”?

7.

A wind that changes direction in a clockwise direction is said to veer.  What is the name given for the action of a wind that changes direction in a counter-clockwise direction?

8.

The faces of two non-presidents are on the US currency notes in circulation at the moment.  One is of Benjamin Franklin.  The other is of a signatory of the US Constitution who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury and the founder of the Federalist party which was opposed to Jefferson.  He died in 1804 after a duel.  Who was he?

ROUND 4 - Pictures - 'All right My Son!'

Each question has two answers, both of which are required in full for the points.  The second answer always contains a name that appears in the first but with the suffix ‘son’ - e.g. a pair of answers might be Andrew Neill & Leslie Neilsen (note ‘soundalikes’ apply)

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Sp.

1.

Which Hollywood actor, predominantly an action hero, is a surprisingly accomplished Blues guitarist?  A review of his most recent album Mojo Priest said “…somewhat like his acting career, it opens with several great tracks, but fades away disappointingly…”.

2.

Which Hollywood actor, predominantly known as a comedian, is a surprisingly accomplished Banjo player?  His new album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo has been very well received.

3.

Which poet and short story writer wrote the poems Tamerlane, The Bells and The Raven?

4.

Which poet wrote the collection known as Leaves of Grass?

5.

Which well known composer (who was not American, but lived there for many years) wrote a Choral Symphony The Bells based upon Edgar Allen Poe's poem.

6.

Which well known composer (who was not American, but lived there for some years) wrote a choral orchestral pieces called Sea Drift, based upon verses from Walt Whitman's "leaves of grass".

7.

Who died of cholera on November 6, 1893, nine days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony?

8.

Delius died of which disease, the late stages of which caused his blindness, paralysis and cardiac problems?

Sp1

Vaughan-Williams composed incidental music to a play called The Wasps.  Who, in the 5^th Century BC, wrote The Wasps, along with The Birds and The Frogs.

Sp2

It is postulated that Rachmaninov had which hereditary connective tissue disorder?  He was very tall, with long limbs and massive hands and suffered from arthritis and eye problems, but not the cardiac or aortic problems that can be fatal in this syndrome.

1.

Who was the only crowned European monarch (i.e. royal head of state) not to attend Charles & Diana's wedding, and why?

2.

Only two European Presidents (i.e. elected heads of state) did not attend Charles & Diana’s wedding.  Name either of them – the cou?ntries will do here – and say why they didn’t attend

3.

Which variety of grape is the main variety used to make Chianti wine?

4.

Which variety of grape is the main variety used to make (red) Rioja wine?

5.

One of the great lyricists of the 20th century was born a hundred years ago today.  He wrote the words for over a thousand songs including Jeepers Creepers, Moon River, That Old Black Magic and Days of Wine and Roses.   Who was he?

6.

Which much married US conductor, pianist and composer who is 80 this year collaborated with Mercer in writing the musical adaption for the Good Companions?

7.

Which creature (gulo gulo) is the largest land-dwelling species of the weasel family?  It lives in remote reaches of northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra.

8.

Which creature (lutra lutra) lives in the UK but was nearly extinct by the mid 1980s.  Happily it has now returned to the level of population and distribution that it had in the 1960s.

Sp1

Which grape is the main variety used to make Châteauneuf-du- Pape wine?

Sp2

Which predator (uncia uncia) lives in remote mountainous areas?

1.

For which international team does Emmanuel Adebayor of Manchester City play?

2.

Which international team does Wilson Palacios of Spurs play for?

3.

How did Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, make an important contribution at Wimbledon?

4.

Cyclops was retired in 2007.  How did Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce of the US Army Medical Corps help out?

5.

Which seasonal show has used Pop Looks Bach by Sam Fonteyn as its theme music since 1978?

6.

Which programme has used Drag Racer by the Doug Wood Group as its theme music since 1982?

7.

If Tom Armitage is the first at number 1, and Jonathan Trott the latest at number 645, what is the list?

8.

If Ravi Shastri was the first, and Andrew Flintoff the 708th, what is the list?

Sp1

Which sport is associated with Soul Limbo by Booker T and The MGs?

Sp2

For which international team does Roque Santa Cruz of Manchester City play for?

1.

In place names such as Chipping Barnet, Chipping Camden etc. what does Chipping indicate?

2.

Only 2 English Cricketers have been given out Handled the Ball in a Test Match.  Name either.

3.

Who died at the Hotel Samarkand in 1970?

4.

Which establishment founded in 1681 and residing in a building designed by Wren admitted females for the first time in March 2009?

5.

What links Danube, Dnieper, Dniester, Bug and Kazil?

6.

Poly Styrene sang with which group?

7.

Who was the only player to beat Pete Sampras at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000?

8.

Mount Vinson is the highest point where?

1.

What links: “Are you sitting comfortably?”, Frank Zappa and Fir Park?

2.

The youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature was British.  Who was he?

3.

Arthur Mailey playing for Australia in 1921 took all 10 Gloucestershire wickets for 66 runs.  His autobiography which was published nearly 4 decades later was appropriately called what?

4.

Which playwright wrote Antigone, Becket ou l’honneur de Dieu, Ring around the Moon and Time Remembered amongst others?

1.

In which Shakespeare play is Claudio sentenced to death for seducing Juliet?

Measure for Measure

2.

In the Bible what was notable about Balaam’s Ass?

It could speak

3.

August is a Wicked Month is a novel by which author?

Edna O’Brien

4.

Bull’s Blood is a wine produced in which country?

Hungary

5.

Which American city was previously known as Fort  Dearborn?

Chicago

6.

In which sport are the terms Double, Octave and Site used?

Fencing

7.

Which former prime minister died in 1850 after a horse riding accident on Constitution Hill?

Robert Peel

8.

The term ‘The Beat Generation’ was first used by which US author?

Jack Kerouac

1.

What is the French term for a person finishing last in a cycle race?

Lanterne Rouge

2.

At which New York night club did Duke Ellington’s orchestra act as the house band between 1927 and 1931?

The Cotton Club

3.

Who sings As Time Goes By and plays the character Sam in the film Casablanca?

Dooley Wilson

4.

Which US president said  “Advertisements  contain the only truth  to be relied on in a newspaper”?

Jefferson

5.

What is dipped in oatmeal and fried to produce the Welsh delicacy laverbread?

Seaweed

6.

What is the common name for the garden plant Convallaria Majalis which has white bell-shaped flowers?

Lily of the Valley

7.

What vice is Susanna’s Secret in the opera by Wolf-Ferrari?

Smoking

8.

Which MP’s office at the house of Parliament was searched by the police earlier this year?

Damian Green

1.

How are the packs of cards used for the card games Piquet, Bezique and Skat obtained from the normal 52-card pack?

All the cards below the sevens are discarded (aces high) to leave 32 cards

2.

Two constructor teams have announced that they will pull out of Formula One at the end of the season.  Name one of the two.

Toyota or BMW-Sauber

(allow either of the names in the latter team)

3.

The giving of Maundy money by the monarch is an old custom but this English king was the first to vary the amount given according to his age.  He was born on Maundy Thursday in Lincolnshire.  He set foot in Jerusalem during one of the Crusades and died in Westminster.  Who was he?

Henry IV

4.

Who was accused and convicted of the crime that was in fact committed by Major Ferdinand Esterhazy?

Dreyfus

5.

How many cubes in total make up the faces of a Rubik’s cube?

26

(three cubed minus one) 

6.

Who when in hospital towards the end of his life was asked why he was reading the Bible replied “I am checking for loopholes”?

W C Fields 

7.

A wind that changes direction in a clockwise direction is said to veer.  What is the name given for the action of a wind that changes direction in a counter-clockwise direction?

Backing

8.

The faces of two non-presidents are on the US currency notes in circulation at the moment.  One is of Benjamin Franklin.  The other is of a signatory of the US Constitution who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury and the founder of the Federalist party which was opposed to Jefferson.  He died in 1804 after a duel.  Who was he?

Hamilton

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Maxine Carr

(ex-girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley)

&

Scott Carson

(current WBA keeper)

7.

Big Ben

(the large bell in Westminster’s Clock Tower)

&

George Benson

(jazz / funk guitarist)

8.

The Robins

(Altrincham FC’s nickname)

&

Robinson Crusoe

Sp.

Mae West

(Lifejacket)

&

Perry Mason

1.

Which Hollywood actor, predominantly an action hero, is a surprisingly accomplished Blues guitarist?  A review of his most recent album Mojo Priest said “…somewhat like his acting career, it opens with several great tracks, but fades away disappointingly…”.

Steven Seagal

2.

Which Hollywood actor, predominantly known as a comedian, is a surprisingly accomplished Banjo player?  His new album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo has been very well received.

Steve Martin

3.

Which poet and short story writer wrote the poems Tamerlane, The Bells and The Raven?

Edgar Allan Poe

4.

Which poet wrote the collection known as Leaves of Grass?

Walt Whitman

5.

Which well known composer (who was not American, but lived there for many years) wrote a Choral Symphony The Bells based upon Edgar Allen Poe's poem.

Rachmaninov

6.

Which well known composer (who was not American, but lived there for some years) wrote a choral orchestral pieces called Sea Drift, based upon verses from Walt Whitman's "leaves of grass".

Delius

7.

Who died of cholera on November 6, 1893, nine days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony?

Tchaikovsky

8.

Delius died of which disease, the late stages of which caused his blindness, paralysis and cardiac problems?

Syphilis

Sp1

Vaughan-Williams composed incidental music to a play called The Wasps.  Who, in the 5^th Century BC, wrote The Wasps, along with The Birds and The Frogs.

Aristophanes

Sp2

It is postulated that Rachmaninov had which hereditary connective tissue disorder?  He was very tall, with long limbs and massive hands and suffered from arthritis and eye problems, but not the cardiac or aortic problems that can be fatal in this syndrome.

Marfan's syndrome

1.

Who was the only crowned European monarch (i.e. royal head of state) not to attend Charles & Diana's wedding, and why?

King Juan Carlos of Spain because the honeymooning couple were due to stop in Gibraltar on the royal yacht

2.

Only two European Presidents (i.e. elected heads of state) did not attend Charles & Diana’s wedding.  Name either of them – the cou?ntries will do here – and say why they didn’t attend

The President of Ireland (Patrick Hillery), because of the troubles in the North

or

The President of Greece (Constantine Karamanlis), because Greece's exiled monarch, Constantine II, (Charles’ second cousin) had also been invited

3.

Which variety of grape is the main variety used to make Chianti wine?

Sangiovese

(min 80%)

4.

Which variety of grape is the main variety used to make (red) Rioja wine?

Tempranillo

5.

One of the great lyricists of the 20th century was born a hundred years ago today.  He wrote the words for over a thousand songs including Jeepers Creepers, Moon River, That Old Black Magic and Days of Wine and Roses.   Who was he?

Johnny Mercer

6.

Which much married US conductor, pianist and composer who is 80 this year collaborated with Mercer in writing the musical adaption for the Good Companions?

André Previn

7.

Which creature (gulo gulo) is the largest land-dwelling species of the weasel family?  It lives in remote reaches of northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra.

Wolverine

8.

Which creature (lutra lutra) lives in the UK but was nearly extinct by the mid 1980s.  Happily it has now returned to the level of population and distribution that it had in the 1960s.

Otter

Sp1

Which grape is the main variety used to make Châteauneuf-du- Pape wine?

Grenache

Sp2

Which predator (uncia uncia) lives in remote mountainous areas?

Snow Leopard or Ounce

1.

For which international team does Emmanuel Adebayor of Manchester City play?

Togo

2.

Which international team does Wilson Palacios of Spurs play for?

Honduras

3.

How did Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, make an important contribution at Wimbledon?

He was known as Cyclops

(Cyclops was the original device that detected whether a ball was in or out)

4.

Cyclops was retired in 2007.  How did Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce of the US Army Medical Corps help out?

He was known as Hawkeye

(Hawkeye is the latest device to check whether a ball is in or out)

5.

Which seasonal show has used Pop Looks Bach by Sam Fonteyn as its theme music since 1978?

Ski Sunday

(it was also used for the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics)

6.

Which programme has used Drag Racer by the Doug Wood Group as its theme music since 1982?

BBC snooker coverage

7.

If Tom Armitage is the first at number 1, and Jonathan Trott the latest at number 645, what is the list?

The all-time list of test cricketers playing for England

8.

If Ravi Shastri was the first, and Andrew Flintoff the 708th, what is the list?

Shane Warne's test wickets

Sp1

Which sport is associated with Soul Limbo by Booker T and The MGs?

Cricket

Sp2

For which international team does Roque Santa Cruz of Manchester City play for?

Paraguay

1.

In place names such as Chipping Barnet, Chipping Camden etc. what does Chipping indicate?

Market or market place

2.

Only 2 English Cricketers have been given out Handled the Ball in a Test Match.  Name either.

Graham Gooch

(against Australia in 1993)

or Michael Vaughan

(against India in 2001)

3.

Who died at the Hotel Samarkand in 1970?

Jimi Hendrix

4.

Which establishment founded in 1681 and residing in a building designed by Wren admitted females for the first time in March 2009?

Royal  Hospital Chelsea

(accept Chelsea Pensioners)

5.

What links Danube, Dnieper, Dniester, Bug and Kazil?

They are all rivers that flow into the Black Sea 

6.

Poly Styrene sang with which group?

X-Ray Spex

7.

Who was the only player to beat Pete Sampras at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000?

Richard Krajicek

8.

Mount Vinson is the highest point where?

Antarctica

1.

What links: “Are you sitting comfortably?”, Frank Zappa and Fir Park?

Mother

(Listen with Mother, Mothers of Invention, and Motherwell)

2.

The youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature was British.  Who was he?

Rudyard Kipling

3.

Arthur Mailey playing for Australia in 1921 took all 10 Gloucestershire wickets for 66 runs.  His autobiography which was published nearly 4 decades later was appropriately called what?

10 for 66 and All That

4.

Which playwright wrote Antigone, Becket ou l’honneur de Dieu, Ring around the Moon and Time Remembered amongst others?

Jean Anouilh