ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which large rock, 1109 ft high, guards the entrance to the Firth of Clyde and was celebrated in a sonnet written in 1818 by Keats?

2.

At which east coast headland, a Mecca for birdwatchers, can be found the only permanently manned lifeboat station in Britain?

3.

Which Canadian rock band was awarded a Grammy in 2011 for the album The Suburbs?

4.

Which American was awarded a Grammy in 2010 for her album Fearless?

5.

In which country is the Temple of Heaven? 

6.

In which country is the Pyramid of the Sun?

7.

In which Lancashire community, historically a cotton town, do the Britannia Coconut Dancers perform their Nutters’ Dance every Easter Saturday? 

8.

Which small Derbyshire town is the scene every Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday of an annual (and very robust) game of football between teams drawn from the opposite banks of the Henmore Brook with the goals three miles apart?

1.

Which work by James Baldwin, considered one of the most influential books about race relations in the 1960s, contains two essays: My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation and Down At The Cross — Letter from a Region of My Mind?

2.

Which group’s first number one UK hit was Never Ever in 1997?

3.

For his direction of which film was William Friedkin awarded an Oscar in 1972?

4.

Which journalist who died in 2005 presented with Brian Redhead, amongst others, the BBC Radio 4 programme Today between 1970 and 1976, and between 1978 and 1986?

5.

Who presented BBC TV’s Nationwide between 1969 and 1977 and BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time between 1973 and 1979?   

6.

In which Christmas carol would you hear the words “Radiant beams from thy holy face”?

7.

Following the 1958 World Cup Finals who did journalists vote best goalkeeper beating Lev Yashin by 356 votes?

8.

On TV who played Truly, more correctly Herbert Truelove, in Last of the Summer Wine?

ROUNDS 3/4/5/6 - Bingo Quiz

Choose your question number

1.

What is the most populous Indian city?

2.

Which record by the Jam was their first UK top ten hit and opens with the words, “Sup up your beer and collect your fags”?

3.

Which railway station, opened in 1841, was the first railway station in the City of London and appears on a standard UK Monopoly board?

4.

In which Oxfordshire village does the RAF have its main strategic base?

5.

With which country would you associate the 'Rose revolution' of 2003?

6.

Who made the first proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989?

7.

Which Spanish tennis player won the Wimbledon men’s title in 1966 when he defeated Dennis Ralston in the final?

8.

By what nickname is Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 known?

9.

Operation Thunderbolt was the name given to a raid on which city in 1976?

10.

Which river flows through Halifax and Wakefield?

11.

Which Mr Man lives in Coldland and has a very blue face?

12.

Who became the object of Pelias’s suspicions when he lost a sandal in the river Anauros?

13.

Medically what is the common name for an ecchymosis?

14.

Which famous pub stands at the foot of Castle Rock in Nottingham’s city centre?

15.

Why was the premier event in the National Hunt racing season at Cheltenham cancelled in 2001?

16.

In the USA on what day of the week is Thanksgiving Day celebrated?

17.

Which range of hills, known for their spring water, gave inspiration to the music of Edward Elgar?

18.

Which insect of the order Dermaptera is sometimes called a twitchbell?

19.

In which city, the birthplace of the Bauhaus Movement, are the tombs of both Schiller and Goethe?

20.

Which 36-storey office block was built in the West end of London 1963-67 and remained empty for several years giving it a reputation as a monument to the evils of capitalism?

21.

With what will farmer Michael Eavis always be predominantly associated?

22.

Which alcoholic drink is known to the locals in its original place of manufacture as ‘Dog’?

23.

In The Canterbury Tales what musical instrument was the Miller fond of playing?

24.

Who once said, “The land of my fathers? My fathers can have it.”?

25.

Which website did Google acquire for $1.65 billion in 2006 less than two years after the site had first appeared?

26.

Which BBC TV drama thriller is currently screening in the UK and centres on a murder investigated by both sides of the law, cops and criminals?

27.

On which thinly populated island in the Inner Hebrides did George Orwell write 1984? 

28.

Which sexual practice is referred to in the Liverpudlian expression 'get off at Edge Hill' and why?

29.

On the Pink Floyd album Animals is a picture of which building designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott?

30.

Which two people shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993?

31.

Which publishing house, set up in 1986, became the envy of other British book publishers when it secured the Harry Potter books in 1997?  

32.

Which Grimsby MP temporarily changed his surname to Haddock in 2001 in order to promote the town’s fishing industry?

33.

Which town in Berkshire was tragically in the national headlines on August 20, 1987? 

34.

Of which stone is nephrite one of the two only true varieties?

35.

What name is given to the Scottish bluebell?

36.

What metal does sphalerite chiefly produce?        

37.

Which tourist attraction can you visit at the hamlet of Bodelva in Cornwall?

38.

With which musical instrument would you associate Pablo Casals?

39.

What comes next in this sequence: Edmonton, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Auckland, Victoria?

40.

Which journalist, humourist and broadcaster was self-styled the 'Sage of Cricklewood'?

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

Two American states border eight other states; one is Missouri, what is the other?

2.

Which American state ceded land to the Federal Government in 1791 for the creation of the District of Columbia?

3.

In which country are there international airports coded BGO, TOS and SVG?

4.

In which country are there international airports coded HER, KGS and ZTH?

5.

In the grounds of which English maximum security prison, nicknamed 'Monster Mansion', is there a mulberry bush brought to England in the 16th century around which the women prisoners used to exercise?   

6.

At which prison were Roger Casement, John Christie and Dr Crippen hanged?

7.

Whose second significant work was The Science of Logic which gained him the chair of philosophy at Heidelberg in 1816?

8.

Which controversial German philosopher’s major work, considered a masterpiece, Being and Time, was published in 1927?

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Who was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications between 1994 and 2001?

2.

Which 1964 film is the only film to be nominated in every eligible category in the Academy Awards and won a best supporting actress for Sandy Dennis?

3.

Which musical comedy of 1924 includes the songs Tea for Two and I Want to be Happy?

4.

What is the principal pseudonym of the UK novelist Harry Patterson?

5.

Which astronaut, who was killed in an accident aboard Apollo 1 in 1967, was the second American in space after Alan Shepard?

6.

Who was the runner-up in the 2009 British Open Golf Championship? 

7.

Who caused controversy in 2006 when he publicly asked David Cameron, "Did you or did you not have a wank thinking of Margaret Thatcher?"?

8.

Which very popular TV series ran between 1974 and 1982 and was set in Walnut Grove, Minnesota?

ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which large rock, 1109 ft high, guards the entrance to the Firth of Clyde and was celebrated in a sonnet written in 1818 by Keats?

Ailsa Craig

2.

At which east coast headland, a Mecca for birdwatchers, can be found the only permanently manned lifeboat station in Britain?

Spurn Head

3.

Which Canadian rock band was awarded a Grammy in 2011 for the album The Suburbs?

Arcade Fire

4.

Which American was awarded a Grammy in 2010 for her album Fearless?

Taylor Swift

5.

In which country is the Temple of Heaven? 

China

6.

In which country is the Pyramid of the Sun?

Mexico

7.

In which Lancashire community, historically a cotton town, do the Britannia Coconut Dancers perform their Nutters’ Dance every Easter Saturday? 

Bacup

8.

Which small Derbyshire town is the scene every Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday of an annual (and very robust) game of football between teams drawn from the opposite banks of the Henmore Brook with the goals three miles apart?

Ashbourne

1.

Which work by James Baldwin, considered one of the most influential books about race relations in the 1960s, contains two essays: My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation and Down At The Cross — Letter from a Region of My Mind?

The Fire Next Time

2.

Which group’s first number one UK hit was Never Ever in 1997?

All Saints

3.

For his direction of which film was William Friedkin awarded an Oscar in 1972?

The French Connection

4.

Which journalist who died in 2005 presented with Brian Redhead, amongst others, the BBC Radio 4 programme Today between 1970 and 1976, and between 1978 and 1986?

John Timpson

5.

Who presented BBC TV’s Nationwide between 1969 and 1977 and BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time between 1973 and 1979?   

Michael Barratt

6.

In which Christmas carol would you hear the words “Radiant beams from thy holy face”?

Silent Night

7.

Following the 1958 World Cup Finals who did journalists vote best goalkeeper beating Lev Yashin by 356 votes?

Harry Gregg

8.

On TV who played Truly, more correctly Herbert Truelove, in Last of the Summer Wine?

Frank Thornton

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a retail outlet

ROUNDS 3/4/5/6 - Bingo Quiz

Choose your question number

1.

What is the most populous Indian city?

Mumbai

(accept Bombay)

2.

Which record by the Jam was their first UK top ten hit and opens with the words, “Sup up your beer and collect your fags”?

Eton Rifles

3.

Which railway station, opened in 1841, was the first railway station in the City of London and appears on a standard UK Monopoly board?

Fenchurch Street

4.

In which Oxfordshire village does the RAF have its main strategic base?

Brize Norton

5.

With which country would you associate the 'Rose revolution' of 2003?

Georgia

6.

Who made the first proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989?

Tim Berners-Lee

7.

Which Spanish tennis player won the Wimbledon men’s title in 1966 when he defeated Dennis Ralston in the final?

Manuel Santana

8.

By what nickname is Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 known?

Resurrection

9.

Operation Thunderbolt was the name given to a raid on which city in 1976?

Entebbe

10.

Which river flows through Halifax and Wakefield?

Calder

11.

Which Mr Man lives in Coldland and has a very blue face?

Mr Sneeze

12.

Who became the object of Pelias’s suspicions when he lost a sandal in the river Anauros?

Jason

13.

Medically what is the common name for an ecchymosis?

Bruise

14.

Which famous pub stands at the foot of Castle Rock in Nottingham’s city centre?

Trip to Jerusalem

15.

Why was the premier event in the National Hunt racing season at Cheltenham cancelled in 2001?

Outbreak of foot and mouth disease

16.

In the USA on what day of the week is Thanksgiving Day celebrated?

Thursday

17.

Which range of hills, known for their spring water, gave inspiration to the music of Edward Elgar?

Malvern Hills

18.

Which insect of the order Dermaptera is sometimes called a twitchbell?

Earwig

19.

In which city, the birthplace of the Bauhaus Movement, are the tombs of both Schiller and Goethe?

Weimar

20.

Which 36-storey office block was built in the West end of London 1963-67 and remained empty for several years giving it a reputation as a monument to the evils of capitalism?

Centre Point

21.

With what will farmer Michael Eavis always be predominantly associated?

Glastonbury Festival

(he founded it in 1970) 

22.

Which alcoholic drink is known to the locals in its original place of manufacture as ‘Dog’?

Newcastle Brown Ale

23.

In The Canterbury Tales what musical instrument was the Miller fond of playing?

Bagpipes

24.

Who once said, “The land of my fathers? My fathers can have it.”?

Dylan Thomas

25.

Which website did Google acquire for $1.65 billion in 2006 less than two years after the site had first appeared?

You Tube

26.

Which BBC TV drama thriller is currently screening in the UK and centres on a murder investigated by both sides of the law, cops and criminals?

The Shadow Line

27.

On which thinly populated island in the Inner Hebrides did George Orwell write 1984? 

Jura

28.

Which sexual practice is referred to in the Liverpudlian expression 'get off at Edge Hill' and why?

Coitus interruptus; Edge Hill was the last station before the terminus at Lime Street

29.

On the Pink Floyd album Animals is a picture of which building designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott?

Battersea Power Station

30.

Which two people shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993?

Nelson Mandela and

F W de Klerk

31.

Which publishing house, set up in 1986, became the envy of other British book publishers when it secured the Harry Potter books in 1997?  

Bloomsbury

32.

Which Grimsby MP temporarily changed his surname to Haddock in 2001 in order to promote the town’s fishing industry?

Austin Mitchell

33.

Which town in Berkshire was tragically in the national headlines on August 20, 1987? 

Hungerford

34.

Of which stone is nephrite one of the two only true varieties?

Jade 

35.

What name is given to the Scottish bluebell?

Harebell

36.

What metal does sphalerite chiefly produce?        

Zinc

37.

Which tourist attraction can you visit at the hamlet of Bodelva in Cornwall?

Eden Project

38.

With which musical instrument would you associate Pablo Casals?

Cello

39.

What comes next in this sequence: Edmonton, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Auckland, Victoria?

Kuala Lumpur

(Commonwealth Games)

40.

Which journalist, humourist and broadcaster was self-styled the 'Sage of Cricklewood'?

Alan Coren

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

Two American states border eight other states; one is Missouri, what is the other?

Tennessee

2.

Which American state ceded land to the Federal Government in 1791 for the creation of the District of Columbia?

Maryland

3.

In which country are there international airports coded BGO, TOS and SVG?

Norway

4.

In which country are there international airports coded HER, KGS and ZTH?

Greece

5.

In the grounds of which English maximum security prison, nicknamed 'Monster Mansion', is there a mulberry bush brought to England in the 16th century around which the women prisoners used to exercise?   

Wakefield

6.

At which prison were Roger Casement, John Christie and Dr Crippen hanged?

Pentonville

7.

Whose second significant work was The Science of Logic which gained him the chair of philosophy at Heidelberg in 1816?

(Georg) Hegel

8.

Which controversial German philosopher’s major work, considered a masterpiece, Being and Time, was published in 1927?

(Martin) Heidegger

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Who was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications between 1994 and 2001?

David Cameron

2.

Which 1964 film is the only film to be nominated in every eligible category in the Academy Awards and won a best supporting actress for Sandy Dennis?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

3.

Which musical comedy of 1924 includes the songs Tea for Two and I Want to be Happy?

No No Nanette

4.

What is the principal pseudonym of the UK novelist Harry Patterson?

Jack Higgins  

5.

Which astronaut, who was killed in an accident aboard Apollo 1 in 1967, was the second American in space after Alan Shepard?

Gus Grissom

6.

Who was the runner-up in the 2009 British Open Golf Championship? 

Tom Watson

7.

Who caused controversy in 2006 when he publicly asked David Cameron, "Did you or did you not have a wank thinking of Margaret Thatcher?"?

Jonathan Ross

8.

Which very popular TV series ran between 1974 and 1982 and was set in Walnut Grove, Minnesota?

Little House on the Prairie

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a fictional doctor