1.

The bishop who is resident on the Isle of Man is known as the Bishop of Sodor and Man.  To what does Sodor refer?

2.

Which creatures fire darts of calcium carbonate at each other during mating rituals that can last up to six hours?

3.

According to the Bible which word used as a means of identifying the Ephraimites, did they find difficult to pronounce?

4.

Lord Arthur Ponsonby is best remembered today for which quotation (appearing in his book Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War published in 1928)?

5.

Name two of the three women tennis players who have achieved the grand slam since the war (i.e. winning all four major championships in the same year).

6.

Which modern day country occupies the majority of the area previously known as Bessarabia?

7.

Which two letters when placed in the same order before and after the three letters H-A-T form a word?

8.

Which poker hand, now known as the ‘dead man's hand’, was wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot dead?

1.

In World War II what was the 1943 Operation Chastise better known as?

2.

The Italian Serie A is nicknamed the Scudetto.  How does this translate?

3.

In October 2002 a team of students became the first university based football team since 1880 to reach the 1st Round proper of the FA Cup.  From which university did they come?

4.

When does the day known as Merry Monday, Hall Monday or Collop Monday fall?

5.

Specifically what links Santa Fe, Trenton, Concord and Albany?

6.

What was John Wayne’s last film?

7.

What is missing from the following list of operas: The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie and The Twilight of the Gods?

8.

What does the initial J stand for in the name J D Salinger?

1.

Name one of the European capitals of culture for 2010.

2.

The sculpture L'homme Qui Marche was sold recently at Sotheby's for £65 million, a record at auction for any sculpture.  Who was the artist who sculpted it?

3.

For which Rugby union club does Jonny Wilkinson play?

4.

What was the nickname of the World War II American General Stilwell?

5.

What did Sosigenes of Alexandria derive in 46 BC that is still in use today?

6.

Who was given his first name (by which he is commonly known) on account of his frequent use of an interjection which can be translated into English as ‘man’ or ‘hey’?

7.

In 1959 the Bristol born Trevor Herbert Stamford had six non-vocal hits in the pop charts for a cumulative 83 weeks including two number ones.  How is he better known?

8.

Before becoming Henry III of France in 1574, Henry of Valois was the elected king of which European nation?

1.

In which year was the breathalyzer test introduced in the UK?

2.

In which year was the first live televised English football league match?

3.

In Greek mythology who was the Goddess of Health?

4.

In Roman mythology who was the wife of Vulcan?

5.

Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee used what name from the 1930s both as a pseudonym and as the detective hero of their novels?

6.

The Case of the Velvet Claw by Erle Stanley Gardner is the first novel featuring which private investigator?

7.

What is the common name of the herb Artemisia Dracunculus?

8.

What is the common name of the herb Brassica Nigra?

ROUND 5 to 8 Bingo

The text of each question makes reference to the question number

1.

Who had a massive 1991 hit with The One and Only?

2.

The Two Jakes was the 1990 sequel to which film?

3.

4.

Which city was infamously sacked during the 4^th Crusade?

5.

What was the first product advertised on Channel 5?

6.

Who wrote and directed the 1999 psychological thriller The Sixth Sense?

7.

Which car company originally made a lightweight open-top two-seater called the Seven? (Caterham still make replicas)

8.

9.

In music, what is the ‘curse of the ninth’?

10.

What is a TENS machine? (A reasonably accurate description will suffice)

11.

The 11^th State is also known as the Empire State.  Which is it?

12.

Who was the only one of the Twelve Apostles to die of natural causes?

13.

The 2000 film Thirteen Days, starring Kevin Costner, deals with which major event of October 1962?

14.

Which family of terrestrial crustaceans has 14 legs?

15.

In the US Constitution, the 13^th amendment abolished slavery, and the 14^th attempted to define citizenship.  What was the Fifteenth Amendment?  It was ratified in 1870.

16.

What is the name of the note which takes up 1/16 of a bar?

17.

How many monarchs of England were there during the 17^th century?  Count co-rulers separately.

18.

Chlorine has the atomic number 17 and potassium has the number 19.  Which element has atomic number 18?

19.

Who had a 1985 hit with the anti-war message song 19?

20.

In which European country is there a region called Twente?

21.

Serving as President from September 1881 until March 1885, who was the 21^st President of the USA?

22.

Who is the main protagonist in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22?

23.

The A23 runs between which 2 towns/cities?

24.

What is the name of Keifer Sutherland’s character in 24?

25.

Which Olympic sport requires 25 points to win a set?

26.

Which city was hit by a devastating earthquake on 26^th January 1531?

27.

28.

Which Summer Olympics were the XXVIII?

29.

How is 29 written in hexadecimal?

30.

What is the usual name of the Aria and 30 Variations for Harpsicord by JS Bach?

31.

Which is the nearest capital city to the coordinates 31° N & 31°E?

32.

Which area of Greater Manchester is postcode M32?

33.

34.

35.

This American guitarist, singer and songwriter died in a helicopter crash aged 35 in 1990.  He is widely considered to be one of the most influential blues guitarists in history.  Who was he?

36.

Department 36 or 36 Quai des Orfèvres (see picture) is the French equivalent of which British institution?

37.

Which Roman Emporer died in 37AD?

38.

Where is the 38^th Parallel an important geo-political division?

39.

Name two of the three actors to have played Richard Hannay in the film versions of The Thirty-Nine Steps. (1935, 1959 & 1978)

40.

Whose 2002 compilation album was called Forty Licks, (a pun on John Pasche’s iconic band logo)?

1.

Aquae Amemitiae was the Roman name for which British town?

2.

Which One Day Cricket Team is known as the The Steelbacks?

3.

What does the initial A stand for in the name A E Housman?

4.

Ossuaries dating from biblical times are commonly found in Israel.  Why did the ossuary purporting to contain the bones of James the Just arouse intense interest in 2002?

5.

Condate (meaning confluence) was the Roman name for which Cheshire town?

1.

The bishop who is resident on the Isle of Man is known as the Bishop of Sodor and Man.  To what does Sodor refer?

The Hebrides

2.

Which creatures fire darts of calcium carbonate at each other during mating rituals that can last up to six hours?

Slugs and snails

(accept either)

3.

According to the Bible which word used as a means of identifying the Ephraimites, did they find difficult to pronounce?

Shibboleth

4.

Lord Arthur Ponsonby is best remembered today for which quotation (appearing in his book Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War published in 1928)?

“When war is declared, truth is the first casualty”

(accept words to this effect)

5.

Name two of the three women tennis players who have achieved the grand slam since the war (i.e. winning all four major championships in the same year).

(two from) Maureen Connolly (1953), Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988)

6.

Which modern day country occupies the majority of the area previously known as Bessarabia?

Moldova

7.

Which two letters when placed in the same order before and after the three letters H-A-T form a word?

m-a

(mahatma)

8.

Which poker hand, now known as the ‘dead man's hand’, was wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot dead?

Two aces and two eights

(the fifth card is disputed)

1.

In World War II what was the 1943 Operation Chastise better known as?

Dambusters’  Raid

2.

The Italian Serie A is nicknamed the Scudetto.  How does this translate?

Little Shield

3.

In October 2002 a team of students became the first university based football team since 1880 to reach the 1st Round proper of the FA Cup.  From which university did they come?

Bath

4.

When does the day known as Merry Monday, Hall Monday or Collop Monday fall?

Day before Shrove Tuesday

5.

Specifically what links Santa Fe, Trenton, Concord and Albany?

Capitals of US States which have 'New' in their titles

(New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York)

6.

What was John Wayne’s last film?

The Shootist

7.

What is missing from the following list of operas: The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie and The Twilight of the Gods?

Siegfried

(they are the 4 operas form Wagner’s Ring Cycle)

8.

What does the initial J stand for in the name J D Salinger?

Jerome

(followed by David)

1.

Name one of the European capitals of culture for 2010.

(one of) Istanbul, Pécs, Essen (accept Ruhr for the latter)

2.

The sculpture L'homme Qui Marche was sold recently at Sotheby's for £65 million, a record at auction for any sculpture.  Who was the artist who sculpted it?

Giacometti

3.

For which Rugby union club does Jonny Wilkinson play?

Toulon

4.

What was the nickname of the World War II American General Stilwell?

Vinegar Joe

5.

What did Sosigenes of Alexandria derive in 46 BC that is still in use today?

The Julian calendar

6.

Who was given his first name (by which he is commonly known) on account of his frequent use of an interjection which can be translated into English as ‘man’ or ‘hey’?

Che Guevara

7.

In 1959 the Bristol born Trevor Herbert Stamford had six non-vocal hits in the pop charts for a cumulative 83 weeks including two number ones.  How is he better known?

Russ Conway

8.

Before becoming Henry III of France in 1574, Henry of Valois was the elected king of which European nation?

Poland

(accept Poland-Lithuania)

1.

In which year was the breathalyzer test introduced in the UK?

1967

2.

In which year was the first live televised English football league match?

1960

(Blackpool v Bolton Wanderers)

3.

In Greek mythology who was the Goddess of Health?

Hygeia

4.

In Roman mythology who was the wife of Vulcan?

Venus

5.

Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee used what name from the 1930s both as a pseudonym and as the detective hero of their novels?

Ellery Queen

6.

The Case of the Velvet Claw by Erle Stanley Gardner is the first novel featuring which private investigator?

Paul Drake

7.

What is the common name of the herb Artemisia Dracunculus?

Tarragon

8.

What is the common name of the herb Brassica Nigra?

(Black) Mustard

1.

Who had a massive 1991 hit with The One and Only?

Chesney Hawkes

2.

The Two Jakes was the 1990 sequel to which film?

Chinatown

3.

A triskelion or triskele

(or trinacria in Sicilian)

4.

Which city was infamously sacked during the 4^th Crusade?

Byzantium

(or Constantinople)

5.

What was the first product advertised on Channel 5?

Chanel No.5

6.

Who wrote and directed the 1999 psychological thriller The Sixth Sense?

M Night Shyamalan

7.

Which car company originally made a lightweight open-top two-seater called the Seven? (Caterham still make replicas)

Lotus

8.

LOST

9.

In music, what is the ‘curse of the ninth’?

The superstition that a composer will die after writing a ninth symphony

(as did Beethoven, Schubert, Dvořák, Bruckner, Mahler, Vaughan Williams etc….)

10.

What is a TENS machine? (A reasonably accurate description will suffice)

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

(Application of electrical current through the skin for pain control)

11.

The 11^th State is also known as the Empire State.  Which is it?

New York

12.

Who was the only one of the Twelve Apostles to die of natural causes?

John (the Evangelist)

(John apparently died of old age in Ephesus; Peter, Andrew, Philip, James the Lesser, Jude and Simon were all crucified in various positions; Matthew was stabbed; Thomas speared; James the Great was beheaded; Judas hanged himself.  That leaves only Bartholemew, who was flayed alive and then beheaded.

Choose your friends carefully!)

13.

The 2000 film Thirteen Days, starring Kevin Costner, deals with which major event of October 1962?

Cuban Missile Crisis

14.

Which family of terrestrial crustaceans has 14 legs?

Woodlice

(Oniscidea - accept also Pill Bug, essentially the same thing)

15.

In the US Constitution, the 13^th amendment abolished slavery, and the 14^th attempted to define citizenship.  What was the Fifteenth Amendment?  It was ratified in 1870.

To enfranchise former slaves and abolish racial restrictions on voting

(“…prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude")

16.

What is the name of the note which takes up 1/16 of a bar?

Semiquaver

(or demiquaver but do not accept the US version ‘the sixteenth note’)

17.

How many monarchs of England were there during the 17^th century?  Count co-rulers separately.

Seven

(Elizabeth I to 1603, James I to 1625, Charles I to 1649, Charles II to 1685, James II to 1688, William III to 1702 co-ruling with Mary II to 1694)

18.

Chlorine has the atomic number 17 and potassium has the number 19.  Which element has atomic number 18?

Argon

19.

Who had a 1985 hit with the anti-war message song 19?

Paul Hardcastle

20.

In which European country is there a region called Twente?

Holland

21.

Serving as President from September 1881 until March 1885, who was the 21^st President of the USA?

Chester Arthur

22.

Who is the main protagonist in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22?

Yossarian

23.

The A23 runs between which 2 towns/cities?

London and Brighton

24.

What is the name of Keifer Sutherland’s character in 24?

Jack Bauer

25.

Which Olympic sport requires 25 points to win a set?

Volleyball

(not beach volleyball)

26.

Which city was hit by a devastating earthquake on 26^th January 1531?

Lisbon

27.

Robert Johnson

(The Club comprises musicians who died at their peak, aged just 27, i.e. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain etc...)

28.

Which Summer Olympics were the XXVIII?

Athens

(in 2004)

29.

How is 29 written in hexadecimal?

1d

(16 = 1 leaving 13 which is signified by ‘d’ - the 16 hexadecimal digits are signified by the decimal digits 0 to 9 and the characters a, b, c, d, e and f so 13 = d)

30.

What is the usual name of the Aria and 30 Variations for Harpsicord by JS Bach?

The Goldberg Variations

31.

Which is the nearest capital city to the coordinates 31° N & 31°E?

Cairo

32.

Which area of Greater Manchester is postcode M32?

Stretford

33.

Who released this LP (Thirty Three & 1/3) in 1976 when he was 33 1/3 years old?

George Harrison

34.

Which European country would be reached by dialing 0034 (or +34) in the international dialing code?

Spain

35.

This American guitarist, singer and songwriter died in a helicopter crash aged 35 in 1990.  He is widely considered to be one of the most influential blues guitarists in history.  Who was he?

Stevie Ray Vaughan

36.

Department 36 or 36 Quai des Orfèvres (see picture) is the French equivalent of which British institution?

Scotland Yard

37.

Which Roman Emporer died in 37AD?

Tiberius

38.

Where is the 38^th Parallel an important geo-political division?

North and South Korea

39.

Name two of the three actors to have played Richard Hannay in the film versions of The Thirty-Nine Steps. (1935, 1959 & 1978)

(two from) Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Robert Powell

40.

Whose 2002 compilation album was called Forty Licks, (a pun on John Pasche’s iconic band logo)?

The Rolling Stones

1.

Aquae Amemitiae was the Roman name for which British town?

Buxton

2.

Which One Day Cricket Team is known as the The Steelbacks?

Northamptonshire

3.

What does the initial A stand for in the name A E Housman?

Alfred

(followed by Edward)

4.

Ossuaries dating from biblical times are commonly found in Israel.  Why did the ossuary purporting to contain the bones of James the Just arouse intense interest in 2002?

James was supposed to be a brother of Jesus Christ

(The ossuary was engraved with the words: "the bones of James, son of Joseph and brother of Jesus" and it would have been the first archaeological find verifying the existence of Jesus.  It is presumed to be a forgery.)

5.

Condate (meaning confluence) was the Roman name for which Cheshire town?

Northwich