ROUND 1 - ‘Famous Four’

Each question consists of a list of 3 members of a group of 4.  Name the fourth.

1.

Sandie Shaw, Lulu, Buck’s Fizz.

2.

Lady, Midsummer, Michaelmas.

3.

William Harrison in 1841, Zachary Taylor in 1850, Warren Harding in 1923.

4.

Speech and expression, Worship, From want

5.

Cirrus, Cumulus, Nimbus.

6.

Sahara, Australian, Arabian

7.

Graham Cox, Alex James, Dave Rowntree.

8.

Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs.

ROUND 2 & 3 - “Why Couldn’t I Have That One?” (Part 1)

Hand out the index of the 9 subjects (8 plus one spare) to be used in Rounds 2 & 3.  Each player in the team going first must chose a subject.  The pair of questions must be used for that player and for their counterpart in the other team.

1.

A Year in Question

(Team 1)

This year was particularly bad news for English composers and American gangsters - as Delius, Elgar and Holst died along with Bonnie & Clyde, Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Faced Nelson.  Which year? (no leeway)

2.

A Year in Question

(Team 2)

This year was particularly good news for actors and tennis players - as Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke and Tom Hanks were born along with Bjorn Borg, Martina Navratilova and Sue Barker.  Which year? (no leeway)

3.

Battles

(Team 1)

In August 1922, the decisive battle of Dumlupinar took place. Which European war was effectively brought to an end as a result of this battle?

4.

Battles

(Team 2)

Which Napoleonic War battle of 1813 involved over 600,000 soldiers and was known as The Battle of the Nations?

5.

Business

(Team 1)

Which telecommunications company takes its name from a 2000 year old Sardinian village?

6.

Business

(Team 2)

With which business did David Quayle and Richard Block make their name?

7.

Connections

(Team 1)

What name is connects a New Zealand Film Director, a Jesuit martyr and a Margery Allingham character?

8.

Connections

(Team 2)

What name connects one of Britain's largest house-builders, the 1896 winner of the Epsom Derby and the bush that the Greeks knew as The Food of the Gods?

9.

Derbyshire

(Team 1)

In which Derbyshire village was the first water-powered spinning mill built under the direction of Richard Arkwright?

10.

Derbyshire

(Team 2)

In 1932 the British Workers Sports Federation organised a mass trespass of Kinder Scout. Two groups started from either side of the Pennines - but from which Derbyshire village?

11.

Edgy Films

(Team 1)

Which book by Hubert Selby was banned in the UK in 1968?  Later made into a film (in 1989) with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Steven Baldwin, the novel covers inner-city life in the 1950s.

12.

Edgy Films

(Team 2)

The plot of which film follows a girl's effort to raise sufficient money to fund a trip to try out as a cheerleader for the fictional Texas Cowgirls?

13.

Poetry

(Team 1)

Which poet wrote the following line in his poem Locksley Hall: "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love"?

14.

Poetry

(Team 2)

In the poem Locksley Hall, what is Tennyson referring to when he uses the term “grooves of change" in the following lines: "Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range.  Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change"?

15.

Saints

(Team 1)

Which saint lived from 909 – 988, was Abbot of Glastonbury and later on Archbishop of Canterbury?  Until St Thomas Becket's fame overshadowed him he was the favourite saint of the English people.

16.

Saints

(Team 2)

Who was the patron saint of England before being replaced by St George in the 13th century?

17.

Words

(Team 1)

If you were invited to a Braai-Vleise in South Africa, where would you be going?

18.

Words

(Team 2)

What word means the following: the narrow feathers on the neck of a fowl, a feather plume on a military hat, and the hair on the nape of the neck?

1.

What courtesy title is borne by the son of the Earl of Wessex?

2.

What courtesy title is borne by the son of the Earl of Snowden?

3.

What are the 4 official languages in Singapore?

4.

What are the 3 most widely spoken languages of South Africa?

5.

Since the world snooker championship became a knockout tournament in 1969, who is the only champion to have won every time he has reached the final?

6.

The Crucible Curse refers to the fact that no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship in the modern era has successfully defended his title. Name either of the players who have come closest, each reaching the final after their first and only title.

7.

When Warwick Road station was renamed Old Trafford, to what was Old Trafford station’s name changed?

8.

When the Strand and Trafalgar Square underground stations were renamed Charing Cross, to what was Charing Cross underground station’s name changed?

ROUND 5 - ‘Who was first?’

In each case, we give you the second person to do something. You must give the first.

e.g. the answer to ‘Robert Falcon Scott 17th January 1912’ would be ‘Amundsen’ (since he was the first person to get to the South Pole)

1.

Louis I (the Pious) 814-846.  Who from 800 to 814?

2.

St. Linus c.64 AD -c.76 AD.  Who until c.64 AD?

3.

Tiberius 14 AD – 37 AD.  Who from 27 BC to 14 AD?

4.

Edmond Halley 1720 - 1742.  Who from 1675 to 1719?

5.

Brigham Young 1844 – 1877.  Who from 1830 to 1844?

6.

Admiral Karl Dőnitz in 1945.  Who from 1934 to 1945?

7.

John Landy 21st June 1954.  Who in Oxford on 6th May 1954?

8.

Numa Pompilius 715 BC – 673 BC.  Who from 753 BC to 715 BC?

ROUND 6 & 7 – “Why Couldn’t I Have That One?” (Part 2)

Hand out the index of the 9 subjects (8 plus one spare) to be used in Rounds 6 & 7.  Each player in the team going first must chose a subject.  The pair of questions must be used for that player and for their counterpart in the other team.

1.

Agatha Christie

(Team 1)

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890.  What is the name of her house above the river Dart with gardens now run by the National Trust?

2.

Agatha Christie

(Team 2)

What is the name of the island just off Salcombe with a well known 1929 Art Deco hotel which was the setting for her novel Ten Little Indians?

3.

Ancient British Roads

(Team 1)

What was the name of the Roman road which ran from Bourton-on-the-Water to Templeborough (near Rotherham)?

4.

Ancient British Roads

(Team 2)

At 220 miles, which was the longest of the Roman roads in Britain?

5.

Connections

(Team 1)

What connects Border, Cotswold, Longsword, Molly, North West and Rapper?

6.

Connections

(Team 2)

In what activity are the terms squop, squidger, scrunge and crud used?

7.

Cornwall

(Team 1)

What is the name of the most westerly administrative district of Cornwall containing Land’s End?

8.

Cornwall

(Team 2)

The oldest Christian church in England is a small ruined buliding just south of Newquay where a monk landed, who is the patron saint both of tin miners and of Cornwall.  Who is he?

9.

Derivations

(Team 1)

What common phrase derives from an old English law which prohibited men beating their wives with a stick greater than a certain diameter?

10.

Derivations

(Team 2)

What word is said to derive from the custom in ancient Babylon whereby a bride’s father would provide his son-in-law with mead to drink for a month after the wedding feast?

11.

Fish

(Team 1)

Under what name is the spiny dogfish commonly sold?

12.

Fish

(Team 2)

Under what name is the pollack now being marketed?

13.

Sport

(Team 1)

What ground name links Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Rhyl and Doncaster Rovers?

14.

Sport

(Team 2)

Darley Arabian and Byerly Turk are two of the three stallions that are the fathers of all thoroughbred horses. The third is much more commonly known today as Sheikh Mohammed's racing stable.  What is it?

15.

Tarot

(Team 1)

In a 78 card Tarot deck there are 56 cards in the 4 normal suits, a trump suit of 21 cards and which other card?

16.

Tarot

(Team 2)

What term do occultists use to describe the 21 trump cards?

17.

The Demon Drink

(Team 1)

Cucumber commonly replaces borage in which alcoholic beverage?

18.

The Demon Drink

(Team 2)

There are only two Pimms Cups (numbers 1 and 6) still made all year round.  What are the 2 base alcoholic beverages used in these?

1.

How many sides does a hendecagon have?

2.

Which temperature has the same value in both centigrade and fahrenheit?

3.

In Welsh road signs what does the word ‘Heddlu’ mean when translated into English?

4.

In Welsh road signs what does the word ‘Araf’ mean when translated into English?

5.

What name, first name and surname, is shared by a Danish footballer who plays left back for Zenit St. Petersburg, and a South African born English cricketer who plays for Hampshire and Rajasthan Royals?

6.

What name, first name and surname, is shared by a Manchester City player who has previously played for five other Premier League teams, and the coach of rugby league club Melbourne Storm, winners of the 2010 World Club Challenge?

7.

Travelling from King’s Cross to Newcastle by the most usual and direct rail route through which 3 Cathedral Cities would you pass?

8.

Travelling from Euston to Holyhead by the most usual and direct rail route through which 3 Cathedral Cities would you pass?

1.

Titan and Pandora are moons of which planet?

2.

By what name is the Pleiades star cluster better known?

3.

In medicine, a brachiotomy is the removal of what?

4.

How is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome otherwise known?

5.

Alphabetically, what is the last element in the Periodic Table?

6.

Bubbles of which element are responsible for the condition of divers known as ‘The Bends’?

7.

The starting price in rupees of a Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, is 1 lakh.  What is 1 lakh equivalent to in our numbering system?

8.

The top prize on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is 1 crore rupees.  What is our equivalent of 1 crore?

ROUND 1 - ‘Famous Four’

Each question consists of a list of 3 members of a group of 4.  Name the fourth.

1.

Sandie Shaw, Lulu, Buck’s Fizz.

Brotherhood of Man

(UK Eurovision Song Contest winners)

2.

Lady, Midsummer, Michaelmas.

Christmas

(Quarter Days)

3.

William Harrison in 1841, Zachary Taylor in 1850, Warren Harding in 1923.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(U.S. Presidents who died in office of natural causes rather than assassination)

4.

Speech and expression, Worship, From want

From fear

(FDR’s 4 essential human freedoms)

5.

Cirrus, Cumulus, Nimbus.

Stratus

(Basic cloud types)

6.

Sahara, Australian, Arabian

Gobi

(The world’s four largest deserts)

7.

Graham Cox, Alex James, Dave Rowntree.

Damon Albarn

(The pop group, Blur)

8.

Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs.

Anthony Booth

(Stars of Till Death Us Do Part 1966 – 1968)

1.

A Year in Question

(Team 1)

This year was particularly bad news for English composers and American gangsters - as Delius, Elgar and Holst died along with Bonnie & Clyde, Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Faced Nelson.  Which year? (no leeway)

1934

2.

A Year in Question

(Team 2)

This year was particularly good news for actors and tennis players - as Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke and Tom Hanks were born along with Bjorn Borg, Martina Navratilova and Sue Barker.  Which year? (no leeway)

1956

3.

Battles

(Team 1)

In August 1922, the decisive battle of Dumlupinar took place. Which European war was effectively brought to an end as a result of this battle?

Greco-Turkish War

4.

Battles

(Team 2)

Which Napoleonic War battle of 1813 involved over 600,000 soldiers and was known as The Battle of the Nations?

Leipzig

5.

Business

(Team 1)

Which telecommunications company takes its name from a 2000 year old Sardinian village?

Tiscali

6.

Business

(Team 2)

With which business did David Quayle and Richard Block make their name?

B&Q

7.

Connections

(Team 1)

What name is connects a New Zealand Film Director, a Jesuit martyr and a Margery Allingham character?

Campion
(Jane, Edmund And Albert)

8.

Connections

(Team 2)

What name connects one of Britain's largest house-builders, the 1896 winner of the Epsom Derby and the bush that the Greeks knew as The Food of the Gods?

Persimmon

9.

Derbyshire

(Team 1)

In which Derbyshire village was the first water-powered spinning mill built under the direction of Richard Arkwright?

Cromford

10.

Derbyshire

(Team 2)

In 1932 the British Workers Sports Federation organised a mass trespass of Kinder Scout. Two groups started from either side of the Pennines - but from which Derbyshire village?

Hayfield

11.

Edgy Films

(Team 1)

Which book by Hubert Selby was banned in the UK in 1968?  Later made into a film (in 1989) with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Steven Baldwin, the novel covers inner-city life in the 1950s.

Last Exit To Brooklyn

12.

Edgy Films

(Team 2)

The plot of which film follows a girl's effort to raise sufficient money to fund a trip to try out as a cheerleader for the fictional Texas Cowgirls?

Debbie Does Dallas

13.

Poetry

(Team 1)

Which poet wrote the following line in his poem Locksley Hall: "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love"?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

14.

Poetry

(Team 2)

In the poem Locksley Hall, what is Tennyson referring to when he uses the term “grooves of change" in the following lines: "Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range.  Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change"?

Railways

15.

Saints

(Team 1)

Which saint lived from 909 – 988, was Abbot of Glastonbury and later on Archbishop of Canterbury?  Until St Thomas Becket's fame overshadowed him he was the favourite saint of the English people.

St Dunstan

16.

Saints

(Team 2)

Who was the patron saint of England before being replaced by St George in the 13th century?

St Edmund

17.

Words

(Team 1)

If you were invited to a Braai-Vleise in South Africa, where would you be going?

To a barbecue

18.

Words

(Team 2)

What word means the following: the narrow feathers on the neck of a fowl, a feather plume on a military hat, and the hair on the nape of the neck?

Hackle

1.

What courtesy title is borne by the son of the Earl of Wessex?

Viscount Severn

2.

What courtesy title is borne by the son of the Earl of Snowden?

Viscount Lindley

3.

What are the 4 official languages in Singapore?

Mandarin (accept Chinese), Tamil, Malay and English

4.

What are the 3 most widely spoken languages of South Africa?

Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans

5.

Since the world snooker championship became a knockout tournament in 1969, who is the only champion to have won every time he has reached the final?

Ronnie O’Sullivan

6.

The Crucible Curse refers to the fact that no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship in the modern era has successfully defended his title. Name either of the players who have come closest, each reaching the final after their first and only title.

Joe Johnson (1987) or Ken Doherty (1998)

7.

When Warwick Road station was renamed Old Trafford, to what was Old Trafford station’s name changed?

Trafford Bar

8.

When the Strand and Trafalgar Square underground stations were renamed Charing Cross, to what was Charing Cross underground station’s name changed?

Embankment

ROUND 5 - ‘Who was first?’

In each case, we give you the second person to do something. You must give the first.

e.g. the answer to ‘Robert Falcon Scott 17th January 1912’ would be ‘Amundsen’ (since he was the first person to get to the South Pole)

1.

Louis I (the Pious) 814-846.  Who from 800 to 814?

Charlemagne

(Holy Roman Emperors)

2.

St. Linus c.64 AD -c.76 AD.  Who until c.64 AD?

St. Peter

(Popes)

3.

Tiberius 14 AD – 37 AD.  Who from 27 BC to 14 AD?

Augustus

(Roman Emperors)

4.

Edmond Halley 1720 - 1742.  Who from 1675 to 1719?

John Flamsteed

(Astronomers Royal)

5.

Brigham Young 1844 – 1877.  Who from 1830 to 1844?

Joseph Smith

(Mormon leaders)

6.

Admiral Karl Dőnitz in 1945.  Who from 1934 to 1945?

Adolf Hitler

(Fuehrer in Germany’s Third Reich)

7.

John Landy 21st June 1954.  Who in Oxford on 6th May 1954?

Roger Bannister

(Sub-4 minute mile)

8.

Numa Pompilius 715 BC – 673 BC.  Who from 753 BC to 715 BC?

Romulus

(Roman Kings)

ROUND 6 & 7 – “Why Couldn’t I Have That One?” (Part 2)

Hand out the index of the 9 subjects (8 plus one spare) to be used in Rounds 6 & 7.  Each player in the team going first must chose a subject.  The pair of questions must be used for that player and for their counterpart in the other team.

1.

Agatha Christie

(Team 1)

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890.  What is the name of her house above the river Dart with gardens now run by the National Trust?

Greenway House

2.

Agatha Christie

(Team 2)

What is the name of the island just off Salcombe with a well known 1929 Art Deco hotel which was the setting for her novel Ten Little Indians?

Burgh Island

3.

Ancient British Roads

(Team 1)

What was the name of the Roman road which ran from Bourton-on-the-Water to Templeborough (near Rotherham)?

Icknield Street

4.

Ancient British Roads

(Team 2)

At 220 miles, which was the longest of the Roman roads in Britain?

Fosse Way

5.

Connections

(Team 1)

What connects Border, Cotswold, Longsword, Molly, North West and Rapper?

All forms of Morris Dance

6.

Connections

(Team 2)

In what activity are the terms squop, squidger, scrunge and crud used?

Tiddlywinks

7.

Cornwall

(Team 1)

What is the name of the most westerly administrative district of Cornwall containing Land’s End?

Penwith

8.

Cornwall

(Team 2)

The oldest Christian church in England is a small ruined buliding just south of Newquay where a monk landed, who is the patron saint both of tin miners and of Cornwall.  Who is he?

St Piran

9.

Derivations

(Team 1)

What common phrase derives from an old English law which prohibited men beating their wives with a stick greater than a certain diameter?

Rule of thumb

10.

Derivations

(Team 2)

What word is said to derive from the custom in ancient Babylon whereby a bride’s father would provide his son-in-law with mead to drink for a month after the wedding feast?

Honeymoon

11.

Fish

(Team 1)

Under what name is the spiny dogfish commonly sold?

Rock Salmon

12.

Fish

(Team 2)

Under what name is the pollack now being marketed?

Colin

13.

Sport

(Team 1)

What ground name links Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Rhyl and Doncaster Rovers?

Belle Vue

14.

Sport

(Team 2)

Darley Arabian and Byerly Turk are two of the three stallions that are the fathers of all thoroughbred horses. The third is much more commonly known today as Sheikh Mohammed's racing stable.  What is it?

Godolphin

15.

Tarot

(Team 1)

In a 78 card Tarot deck there are 56 cards in the 4 normal suits, a trump suit of 21 cards and which other card?

The Fool

16.

Tarot

(Team 2)

What term do occultists use to describe the 21 trump cards?

The Major Arcana

17.

The Demon Drink

(Team 1)

Cucumber commonly replaces borage in which alcoholic beverage?

Pimms

18.

The Demon Drink

(Team 2)

There are only two Pimms Cups (numbers 1 and 6) still made all year round.  What are the 2 base alcoholic beverages used in these?

Gin and Vodka

1.

How many sides does a hendecagon have?

11

2.

Which temperature has the same value in both centigrade and fahrenheit?

- 40

3.

In Welsh road signs what does the word ‘Heddlu’ mean when translated into English?

Police

4.

In Welsh road signs what does the word ‘Araf’ mean when translated into English?

Slow

5.

What name, first name and surname, is shared by a Danish footballer who plays left back for Zenit St. Petersburg, and a South African born English cricketer who plays for Hampshire and Rajasthan Royals?

Michael Lumb

6.

What name, first name and surname, is shared by a Manchester City player who has previously played for five other Premier League teams, and the coach of rugby league club Melbourne Storm, winners of the 2010 World Club Challenge?

Craig Bellamy

7.

Travelling from King’s Cross to Newcastle by the most usual and direct rail route through which 3 Cathedral Cities would you pass?

Peterborough, York and Durham

8.

Travelling from Euston to Holyhead by the most usual and direct rail route through which 3 Cathedral Cities would you pass?

Lichfield, Chester and Bangor

1.

Titan and Pandora are moons of which planet?

Saturn

2.

By what name is the Pleiades star cluster better known?

The Seven Sisters

3.

In medicine, a brachiotomy is the removal of what?

Arm

4.

How is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome otherwise known?

ME

(Myalgic Encephalmyelitis)

5.

Alphabetically, what is the last element in the Periodic Table?

Zirconium

6.

Bubbles of which element are responsible for the condition of divers known as ‘The Bends’?

Nitrogen

7.

The starting price in rupees of a Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, is 1 lakh.  What is 1 lakh equivalent to in our numbering system?

100,000

8.

The top prize on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is 1 crore rupees.  What is our equivalent of 1 crore?

10 million

How many lakes are there in Canada greater in area than 3 square kilometers?

31,752