1.

Announced by John Benson what five words follow “From Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week, its......”?

2.

Written by William Shakespeare what five words follow “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears....”?

3.

Which venue was the 'home' of the world land speed record from the 6th November 1909 to the 6^th July 1924 and is the only location where the record has been broken on English soil?

4.

Who is the only female from the world of athletics to have won the BBC sports personality of the year without having won an Olympic medal of some description?

5.

Where precisely would you now find the 25.5m tall obelisk weighing 327 tons that was originally erected at Heliopolis in the fifth dynasty of Egypt until moved by Caligula to adorn his new circus in 37AD?

6.

Name the Roman Goddess of plenty who shares her name with Professor Sprout, the teacher of Herbology at Hogwarts Academy.

7.

In the song Fairytale of New York what did Kirsty MacColl claim that Shane MacGowan had promised was beckoning her when he first took her hand on a cold Christmas Eve?

8.

In the song by Michelle Shocked from which city did the letter come that bore the lines “Hey ‘Chelle, What’s it like to be in New York City, New York City imagine that, What’s it like being a skateboarding punk rocker, Leroy says send a picture”?

Sp.

What is the state capital of British Columbia?

1.

The dandy roll, invented in 1826, made possible the mass production of what security feature necessary for the burgeoning world of nineteenth century commerce?

2.

Used by many railways, including the Ffestiniog from 1832, who or what was a dandy cart specifically designed to carry?

3.

Which Donizetti opera takes its title and storyline from its heroine who was crowned Queen Consort of England on the 26^th of December 1533?

4.

Which Donizetti opera takes its title and storyline from its heroine who was crowned Queen Consort of France on the 10^th of July 1559?

5.

Which character in a Dickens novel was given his name on the basis that he was found after Swubble but before Unwin and Vilkins?

6.

In which Dickens novel did a character adopt the alias Nemo, the Latin for nobody?

7.

Both Uranium 235 and Uranium 238 decay to a stable isotope of which element that has the atomic number 82?

8.

Which radioactive noble gas with the atomic number 86 occurs naturally in the decay sequence of both Uranium 235 and Uranium 238?

1.

In the scene where Marty introduces a bemused and sceptical 1955 audience to Johnny B Goode in the film Back to the Future who does Marvin, the band’s leader, telephone to let him hear this strange new sound?

2.

Who played the lead role in the television drama Ironside from 1967 to 1975?

3.

What is the name of both the rocky promontory that forms the most southerly tip of the county of Dorset and the lighthouse that sits upon it?

4.

The Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service from Oban to Craignure, taking about 45 minutes, serves which island?

5.

Which Manchester resident had a particularly productive 1888 marrying the renowned Moravian violinist Wilma Neruda as well as receiving a knighthood?

6.

Name the proponent of gangsta rap, born Cordozar Calvin Broadus on October 21^st 1971, who as an erstwhile member of the Rollin 20 Crips gang was acquitted in 1993 of the murder of rival gang member Philip Woldemariam?

7.

Which play based on a novel by Susan Hill and dramatised by Stephen Mallatratt has been running non-stop at the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden since 1989 and is getting close to its 10,000^th show?

8.

What old English noun for hip or haunch is derived from the Norse verb 'to squat'?

Sp.

Name the sportsman who in the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing was partnered by Ola Jordan, while his wife, who was also competing, was partnered by James Jordan the husband of the aforementioned Ola?

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Who plays ring leader Mickey Stone in the BBC television production Hustle and was recently seen on stage in the west end production playing Brick in Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

2.

During the 1971 tour, the only time the Lions have won a test series in New Zealand, who individually scored 30 of the Lions 48 points in the four tests with a try, three conversions, five penalties and two drop goals?

3.

Who kept goal for Brazil in the 1970 Football World Cup final?

4.

Which organisation, founded by Manchester graduate Tom Bloxham, links the following listed buildings in the 21^st Century: Lister’s Mill in Bradford, Fort Dunlop in Birmingham and the Midland Hotel in Morecambe?

5.

Complete the original line-up of Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant on vocals, Jimmy Page on guitar, John Bonham on drums and......

6.

In 2002 a bid of £49.5m, the highest price ever paid at a London auction house, was necessary to secure the ownership of a piece of art by Rubens.  What was the biblical subject of this painting?

7.

Who entered Parliament in 1922 as the member for Limehouse and comes next in a list of famous Englishmen and women that was compiled in 1981: Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden…..?

8.

Who plays the title role in the recent BBC television production Sherlock and was recently seen on stage at the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan’s play After the Dance?

Sp.

What is the name of the mineral that chemically is Strontium Sulphate, leaves a white streak, has a Moh’s reading of only 3.0 to 3.5 but does exhibit a perfect cleavage?

1.

Which Chinese treatise from the 6^th century BC is the source of the proverb “if you know both yourself and your enemy you can win a hundred battles without a single loss”?

2.

Which motor vehicle, launched in May 1958 and built at Abingdon, was known affectionately as the Frogeye? (both the make and model are required)

3.

Which bird, correctly the circus aeruginosus, has about 360 breeding pairs in the United Kingdom and can be seen throughout the year at breeding sites that include Leighton Moss in Lancashire, Minsmere in Suffolk and the Nene Wash in Cambridgeshire?

4.

In 2008 BBC broadcast a television drama entitled Consuming Passion written by Emma Frost and starring Emilia Fox as a celebration of the centenary of which partnership?

5.

In which Derbyshire town did Herbert Froode establish his friction material business in 1897?

6.

In 2008 a bid of £40.9m, the second highest price ever paid at a London Auction house, was necessary to secure the ownership of a work of art entitled Les Bassins aux Nympheas.  Painted in 1919 what was the subject of this impressionist painting?

7.

Which publisher, established in 1865, famously carried Beatrix Potter and the Observer Book series amongst its titles?

8.

What office was abolished by the Local Government Act of 1972 except in the City of London, where it remains a requirement that any candidate for the post of Lord Mayor must already have been elected to this position by one of the City’s 25 wards?

Sp.

Which organisation, created by a merger in April 2008, employs 23,000 people across 130 countries, and has its main operational centre at Lunar house in Croydon?

1.

Which poet wrote the 1936 poem The Night Mail which included the immortal lines “This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order” especially for a GPO documentary film?

2.

Name the duo who in 1963 wrote and performed the comic song Slow Train which included the immortal lines “no churns, no porter, no cat on the seat, at Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street” as a paean to the nation’s disappearing rural railway network?

3.

What is harvested from the droppings of the Asian Palm Civet for human consumption?  Lovely!

4.

What deliberate addition is made by Sardinian cheesemakers to assist in the ripening of Casu Marzu, a cheese once banned by the EU on the grounds it was a danger to public health?

5.

Who, by virtue of playing for his University against Northamptonshire in 1925 and 1926, became, on winning the Prize for Literature in 1969, the only Nobel Laureate to have played first class cricket?

6.

Which winner of the Nobel Prize for literature proved to be the shortest lived literature laureate, dying only two years after receiving the award in 1957 despite being its second youngest recipient?

7.

How did the life of John Jacob Astor IV, at the time the richest American alive, come to an unexpected end at the age of 47 when he was returning from an extended honeymoon in Europe with his new wife Madeleine, then aged just 18?

8.

The world was deprived of which outstanding literary talent at the tender age of 29 when the schooner Don Juan sank in a squall on the 8^th of July 1822?

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Which team in the NFL have a horseshoe logo on their helmets?

2.

Who or what, in an offstage incident, kills Antigonus in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale?

3.

Who was the last British monarch to succeed their second cousin?

4.

Some seventy years ago, while angels were dining in the Ritz, where in London provided, admittedly rather improbably, a safe haven for a popular songbird?

5.

Although also the patron saint of some rather mundane professions, who, having led God’s Armies against Satan in the Book of Revelation, was an automatic shoo-in to be the patron saint of paratroopers?

6.

What was the title of Conrad’s debut novel, published in 1895, in which the chief protagonist, a Dutch émigré, sits idly in his expansive trading house in the Borneo jungle where nobody comes to trade while he slowly descends into insanity?

7.

Which motion picture of 1959 had as its penultimate line “I’m a man” the perfect riposte to which came from the character played by Joe E Brown “Well nobody’s perfect”?

8.

The English language edition of a novel and the accompanying movie, the winner of the Academy Award for the Outstanding Film in 1930, had a title that proved to be a rather inspired, if not technically correct, translation from the original German.  What was the title of the film?

Sp.

What was the title of a series of about 4000 cartoons, often of an anthropomorphic nature, that were drawn by Gary Larson between 1980 and 1995?

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Which song has entered the UK top 40 singles chart on four separate occasions, each time with a different recording artist, reaching number 16 in 1991; number 15 in 1995; a lowly number 38 in 1999; and finally in 2003 when it yet again peaked at number 15?

2.

Whose final volume of an autobiographical trilogy was published in 1991 entitled A Moment of War chronicling his experience in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War?

3.

Who has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for his work on Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down without enjoying success?

4.

In which comedy of 1951 does the character played by Stanley Holloway say to his unlikely accomplice, played by Alec Guinness, “By Jove, Holland, it’s a good job we’re both honest men” when of course they’re not?

5.

Which regiment of the British Army was formed in 1650 as part of the New Model Army and has as its motto “Nulli Secundus” or "Second to None" on account of it being the oldest infantry regiment in the army?

6.

Which Gordonstoun educated archaeologist has had the recently completed section of the Derby Inner Ring Road that connects Burton Rd to Normanton Rd named in her honour?

7.

Which outdoor swimming pool in the Borough of Wandsworth is, at 100 yards long and 33 yards wide, the largest pool by surface area in the United Kingdom?

8.

What was the name of the pub in Sedgefield, County Durham that was visited by Prime Minister Blair and President George Bush in 2003?

Sp.

It’s all very well this girl's just wanting to have fun but what, technically, is lambrini?

Spares & Tiebreakers

1.

There is a statue of Alan Turing in Sackville Park, Manchester.  What does he hold in his hand?

2.

In the novels by Ian Fleming what make of car does James Bond drive?

3.

The Roman province of Lusitania is largely analogous with which modern country?

4.

How many different teams have played in the FA Premiership since its inception in 1992?  (allow a leeway of 1 either way)

TB1

It is 65 miles, more or less, as the crow flies from Glasgow to Campbeltown in Argyll.  How long does the Scottish Citylink express coach number 926 leaving Glasgow Buchanan Street at 0900 hours take to arrive at Campbeltown travelling the fastest route by road?  Give your answer in minutes.  Closest wins.

TB2

What was the displacement in tons of HMS Campbeltown that was sacrificed in the St Nazaire raid of 1942?  Closest wins.

1.

Announced by John Benson what five words follow “From Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week, its......”?

The Sale of the Century

2.

Written by William Shakespeare what five words follow “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears....”?

"I come to bury Caesar"

3.

Which venue was the 'home' of the world land speed record from the 6th November 1909 to the 6^th July 1924 and is the only location where the record has been broken on English soil?

Brooklands

4.

Who is the only female from the world of athletics to have won the BBC sports personality of the year without having won an Olympic medal of some description?

Paula Radcliffe

(the medal winning winners being Hyman, Rand, Peters, Whitbread, McColgan and Holmes)

5.

Where precisely would you now find the 25.5m tall obelisk weighing 327 tons that was originally erected at Heliopolis in the fifth dynasty of Egypt until moved by Caligula to adorn his new circus in 37AD?

St Peter's Square, Rome

6.

Name the Roman Goddess of plenty who shares her name with Professor Sprout, the teacher of Herbology at Hogwarts Academy.

Pomona

7.

In the song Fairytale of New York what did Kirsty MacColl claim that Shane MacGowan had promised was beckoning her when he first took her hand on a cold Christmas Eve?

Broadway

(“When you first took my hand on that cold Christmas Eve you promised me Broadway was beckoning me, you were handsome, you were pretty, queen of New York city”)

8.

In the song by Michelle Shocked from which city did the letter come that bore the lines “Hey ‘Chelle, What’s it like to be in New York City, New York City imagine that, What’s it like being a skateboarding punk rocker, Leroy says send a picture”?

Anchorage

(“I mailed my letter off to Dallas but the reply came from Anchorage, Alaska”)

Sp.

What is the state capital of British Columbia?

Victoria

1.

The dandy roll, invented in 1826, made possible the mass production of what security feature necessary for the burgeoning world of nineteenth century commerce?

Watermarks

(in paper)

2.

Used by many railways, including the Ffestiniog from 1832, who or what was a dandy cart specifically designed to carry?

A horse

(the horse pulled a train of empty wagons uphill from, in Ffestiniog’s case Portmadog, and rode back downhill in the dandy cart behind a fully loaded train under gravity)

3.

Which Donizetti opera takes its title and storyline from its heroine who was crowned Queen Consort of England on the 26^th of December 1533?

Anna Bolena

(Anne Boleyn)

4.

Which Donizetti opera takes its title and storyline from its heroine who was crowned Queen Consort of France on the 10^th of July 1559?

Maria Stuarda

(Mary Stuart)

5.

Which character in a Dickens novel was given his name on the basis that he was found after Swubble but before Unwin and Vilkins?

Oliver Twist

(by Mr Bumble who named the foundlings alphabetically).

6.

In which Dickens novel did a character adopt the alias Nemo, the Latin for nobody?

Bleak House

7.

Both Uranium 235 and Uranium 238 decay to a stable isotope of which element that has the atomic number 82?

Lead

8.

Which radioactive noble gas with the atomic number 86 occurs naturally in the decay sequence of both Uranium 235 and Uranium 238?

Radon

1.

In the scene where Marty introduces a bemused and sceptical 1955 audience to Johnny B Goode in the film Back to the Future who does Marvin, the band’s leader, telephone to let him hear this strange new sound?

Chuck Berry

2.

Who played the lead role in the television drama Ironside from 1967 to 1975?

Raymond Burr

3.

What is the name of both the rocky promontory that forms the most southerly tip of the county of Dorset and the lighthouse that sits upon it?

Portland Bill

4.

The Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service from Oban to Craignure, taking about 45 minutes, serves which island?

Mull

5.

Which Manchester resident had a particularly productive 1888 marrying the renowned Moravian violinist Wilma Neruda as well as receiving a knighthood?

Sir Charles Hallé

6.

Name the proponent of gangsta rap, born Cordozar Calvin Broadus on October 21^st 1971, who as an erstwhile member of the Rollin 20 Crips gang was acquitted in 1993 of the murder of rival gang member Philip Woldemariam?

Snoop Doggy Dogg

(accept current stage name Snoop Dogg)

7.

Which play based on a novel by Susan Hill and dramatised by Stephen Mallatratt has been running non-stop at the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden since 1989 and is getting close to its 10,000^th show?

Woman in Black

8.

What old English noun for hip or haunch is derived from the Norse verb 'to squat'?

Huckle

(the same source also apparently gives us “hunker down”)

Sp.

Name the sportsman who in the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing was partnered by Ola Jordan, while his wife, who was also competing, was partnered by James Jordan the husband of the aforementioned Ola?

Kenny Logan

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Who plays ring leader Mickey Stone in the BBC television production Hustle and was recently seen on stage in the west end production playing Brick in Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

Adrian Lester

2.

During the 1971 tour, the only time the Lions have won a test series in New Zealand, who individually scored 30 of the Lions 48 points in the four tests with a try, three conversions, five penalties and two drop goals?

Barry John

3.

Who kept goal for Brazil in the 1970 Football World Cup final?

Felix

4.

Which organisation, founded by Manchester graduate Tom Bloxham, links the following listed buildings in the 21^st Century: Lister’s Mill in Bradford, Fort Dunlop in Birmingham and the Midland Hotel in Morecambe?

Urban Splash

(responsible for their redevelopment)

5.

Complete the original line-up of Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant on vocals, Jimmy Page on guitar, John Bonham on drums and......

John Paul Jones

6.

In 2002 a bid of £49.5m, the highest price ever paid at a London auction house, was necessary to secure the ownership of a piece of art by Rubens.  What was the biblical subject of this painting?

Massacre of the Innocents

7.

Who entered Parliament in 1922 as the member for Limehouse and comes next in a list of famous Englishmen and women that was compiled in 1981: Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden…..?

Clement Attlee

(the list being from the infamous “your boys took one hell of a beating” commentary)

8.

Who plays the title role in the recent BBC television production Sherlock and was recently seen on stage at the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan’s play After the Dance?

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sp.

What is the name of the mineral that chemically is Strontium Sulphate, leaves a white streak, has a Moh’s reading of only 3.0 to 3.5 but does exhibit a perfect cleavage?

Celestine

(accept Celestite – even if he wasn’t a pope)

Theme: 'Boys with Bulls' - all answers contain a papal name

(Will QM at the Moss please pass on my apologies to the Pigs as Father Megson was given a wholly undeserved advantage in this round?)

1.

Which Chinese treatise from the 6^th century BC is the source of the proverb “if you know both yourself and your enemy you can win a hundred battles without a single loss”?

The Art of War

2.

Which motor vehicle, launched in May 1958 and built at Abingdon, was known affectionately as the Frogeye? (both the make and model are required)

Austin Healey Sprite

3.

Which bird, correctly the circus aeruginosus, has about 360 breeding pairs in the United Kingdom and can be seen throughout the year at breeding sites that include Leighton Moss in Lancashire, Minsmere in Suffolk and the Nene Wash in Cambridgeshire?

Marsh harrier

4.

In 2008 BBC broadcast a television drama entitled Consuming Passion written by Emma Frost and starring Emilia Fox as a celebration of the centenary of which partnership?

Mills and Boon

5.

In which Derbyshire town did Herbert Froode establish his friction material business in 1897?

Chapel en le Frith

(obviously a crossword lover would have spotted that the name Ferodo is an anagram of Froode)

6.

In 2008 a bid of £40.9m, the second highest price ever paid at a London Auction house, was necessary to secure the ownership of a work of art entitled Les Bassins aux Nympheas.  Painted in 1919 what was the subject of this impressionist painting?

Water lily pond

7.

Which publisher, established in 1865, famously carried Beatrix Potter and the Observer Book series amongst its titles?

Frederick Warne

8.

What office was abolished by the Local Government Act of 1972 except in the City of London, where it remains a requirement that any candidate for the post of Lord Mayor must already have been elected to this position by one of the City’s 25 wards?

Alderman

Sp.

Which organisation, created by a merger in April 2008, employs 23,000 people across 130 countries, and has its main operational centre at Lunar house in Croydon?

UK Border Agency

1.

Which poet wrote the 1936 poem The Night Mail which included the immortal lines “This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order” especially for a GPO documentary film?

W H Auden

2.

Name the duo who in 1963 wrote and performed the comic song Slow Train which included the immortal lines “no churns, no porter, no cat on the seat, at Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street” as a paean to the nation’s disappearing rural railway network?

Flanders and Swann

(although in a twist of fate Chester-le-Street station remains open to this day, sadly without churns and porters - I’m not sure about the cat)

3.

What is harvested from the droppings of the Asian Palm Civet for human consumption?  Lovely!

(partially digested) Coffee beans

(to make Kopi Luwak – the world’s most expensive coffee)

4.

What deliberate addition is made by Sardinian cheesemakers to assist in the ripening of Casu Marzu, a cheese once banned by the EU on the grounds it was a danger to public health?

Live Larvae

(accept maggots of the cheese fly)

5.

Who, by virtue of playing for his University against Northamptonshire in 1925 and 1926, became, on winning the Prize for Literature in 1969, the only Nobel Laureate to have played first class cricket?

Samuel Beckett

(at the time what Wisden called Dublin University still counted as a first class team)

6.

Which winner of the Nobel Prize for literature proved to be the shortest lived literature laureate, dying only two years after receiving the award in 1957 despite being its second youngest recipient?

Albert Camus

7.

How did the life of John Jacob Astor IV, at the time the richest American alive, come to an unexpected end at the age of 47 when he was returning from an extended honeymoon in Europe with his new wife Madeleine, then aged just 18?

He drowned when the Titanic sank

(although his pregnant wife was one of the survivors)

8.

The world was deprived of which outstanding literary talent at the tender age of 29 when the schooner Don Juan sank in a squall on the 8^th of July 1822?

Percy Shelley

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Which team in the NFL have a horseshoe logo on their helmets?

Indianapolis Colts

2.

Who or what, in an offstage incident, kills Antigonus in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale?

A bear

(as in “exit left pursued by...”)

3.

Who was the last British monarch to succeed their second cousin?

George the First

(from Queen Anne – both were great grandchildren of James I and while Anne had many closer relatives they were all disbarred on the grounds of religion)

4.

Some seventy years ago, while angels were dining in the Ritz, where in London provided, admittedly rather improbably, a safe haven for a popular songbird?

Berkeley Square

("..there were angels dining in the Ritz and a nightingale sang in....")

5.

Although also the patron saint of some rather mundane professions, who, having led God’s Armies against Satan in the Book of Revelation, was an automatic shoo-in to be the patron saint of paratroopers?

St (or the Archangel) Michael

6.

What was the title of Conrad’s debut novel, published in 1895, in which the chief protagonist, a Dutch émigré, sits idly in his expansive trading house in the Borneo jungle where nobody comes to trade while he slowly descends into insanity?

Almayer’s Folly

7.

Which motion picture of 1959 had as its penultimate line “I’m a man” the perfect riposte to which came from the character played by Joe E Brown “Well nobody’s perfect”?

Some Like It Hot

8.

The English language edition of a novel and the accompanying movie, the winner of the Academy Award for the Outstanding Film in 1930, had a title that proved to be a rather inspired, if not technically correct, translation from the original German.  What was the title of the film?

All Quiet on the Western Front

(Remarque’s original title Im Westen Nichts Neues literally translates to “Nothing new in the West”)

Sp.

What was the title of a series of about 4000 cartoons, often of an anthropomorphic nature, that were drawn by Gary Larson between 1980 and 1995?

The Far Side

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Which song has entered the UK top 40 singles chart on four separate occasions, each time with a different recording artist, reaching number 16 in 1991; number 15 in 1995; a lowly number 38 in 1999; and finally in 2003 when it yet again peaked at number 15?

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

(by Union featuring The England Squad, Ladysmith Black Mombaza, Russell Watson, and UB40)

2.

Whose final volume of an autobiographical trilogy was published in 1991 entitled A Moment of War chronicling his experience in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War?

Laurie Lee

3.

Who has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for his work on Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down without enjoying success?

Ridley Scott

4.

In which comedy of 1951 does the character played by Stanley Holloway say to his unlikely accomplice, played by Alec Guinness, “By Jove, Holland, it’s a good job we’re both honest men” when of course they’re not?

The Lavender Hill Mob

5.

Which regiment of the British Army was formed in 1650 as part of the New Model Army and has as its motto “Nulli Secundus” or "Second to None" on account of it being the oldest infantry regiment in the army?

The Coldstream Guards

(in case of dispute, The Grenadier Guards claim to seniority is based on the fact that while they were formed in 1656 they were part of Charles II’s bodyguard and so have served the monarchy, but not the country, longer than the CG)

6.

Which Gordonstoun educated archaeologist has had the recently completed section of the Derby Inner Ring Road that connects Burton Rd to Normanton Rd named in her honour?

Lara Croft

(who was, so to speak, 'conceived' in Derby)

7.

Which outdoor swimming pool in the Borough of Wandsworth is, at 100 yards long and 33 yards wide, the largest pool by surface area in the United Kingdom?

Tooting Bec Lido

8.

What was the name of the pub in Sedgefield, County Durham that was visited by Prime Minister Blair and President George Bush in 2003?

Dun Cow

(a popular pub name in that county as legend insists that Durham Cathedral was sited where a dun cow was found!)

Sp.

It’s all very well this girl's just wanting to have fun but what, technically, is lambrini?

Perry

Spares & Tiebreakers

1.

There is a statue of Alan Turing in Sackville Park, Manchester.  What does he hold in his hand?

An apple

2.

In the novels by Ian Fleming what make of car does James Bond drive?

A Bentley

3.

The Roman province of Lusitania is largely analogous with which modern country?

Portugal

4.

How many different teams have played in the FA Premiership since its inception in 1992?  (allow a leeway of 1 either way)

44

(accept 43-45)

TB1

It is 65 miles, more or less, as the crow flies from Glasgow to Campbeltown in Argyll.  How long does the Scottish Citylink express coach number 926 leaving Glasgow Buchanan Street at 0900 hours take to arrive at Campbeltown travelling the fastest route by road?  Give your answer in minutes.  Closest wins.

265 minutes

(It is scheduled to arrive at 1325; geographically it has to travel north before it can turn southwest; distance by road is 137miles, and although designated as A roads they are dodgy)

TB2

What was the displacement in tons of HMS Campbeltown that was sacrificed in the St Nazaire raid of 1942?  Closest wins.

1260 tons