1.

England has four Catholic archbishops.  Westminster, Birmingham and Liverpool are three.  Can you name the fourth?

2.

Peter Twiss broke the world air speed record for a manned air breathing craft on the 10^th of March 1956 with a speed of 1,132 miles per hour when flying which make and model of British aircraft?

3.

What was found to be surrounded by the Monoceros Ring as recently as 2002?

4.

Which UK number 1 single from 1979 has the opening line “I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two” and was, quite appropriately, the first single to be played on MTV when it started broadcasting in 1981?

5.

To which order in the animal kingdom did this fossil belong?

6.

Which food brand, introduced to the British public in 1902, takes its name from a French large covered earthenware or metal cooking pot; an image of which appears on the brand’s packaging?

7.

A modern statue outside a pharmacy in Weisloch commemorates the events of 5^th of August 1888, when a female customer called Bertha, on her way to visit her mother in the town of Pforzheim, stopped  to purchase a quantity of the laboratory solvent Ligroin.  What was the surname of the customer?

8.

Which Booker prize winning novel of 1981 has its main protagonists endowed with special powers on account of having been born in the very first hour of the 15^th of August 1947?

9.

The Second Defenestration of Prague of 1618 is considered by many to signal the start of which conflict?

10.

Who was commissioned to paint the large mural Guernica for the International Expositione des Arts held in 1937 in Paris?

11.

What line taken from the film that won the Academy Award for Best picture in 1939 immediately follows: “Where shall I go to?  What shall I do?"?

12.

Which nation won the Olympic Football tournament in 1900, 1908 and 1912?

13.

A footpath heading north out of the village of Barber Booth, beside the infant River Noe, leads up Jacobs Ladder towards the summit of which 2088 feet high hill?

14.

Name the Fianna Gael politician who assumed the office of Taoiseach on the 9^th of March this year.

15.

In which British town or city would you find this monument immortalized in a song published in Gammer Gurton’s Garland of 1784?

16.

There are only 26 Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords but 44 Anglican bishops.  Only five of them, the five great Sees, are guaranteed a seat, the rest have to take turns.  Canterbury, London, York and Durham are four of the permanent holders.  Can you name the fifth?

17.

Which make and model of aircraft currently holds the air speed record for a manned air-breathing craft of 2193 miles per hour, a record that has stood since 1976?

18.

What was estimated by Allan Sandage in 1958 to have a value of 75 kilometres per second per megaparsec; an estimate that has since proved remarkably accurate and has achieved a high degree of consensus?

19.

Which number 1 UK hit single from 1982 has the opening lines “Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad on the radio”?

20.

To which class in the animal kingdom did this fossil belong?

21.

Which food brand, introduced to the British public in 1890, takes its name from a contraction of two words in Latin which translate to 'the strength of man' in English?

22.

Marc Brunel, having fled Revolutionary France, married Sophia in Holborn on the 1^st of November 1799.  They had met when she had been a governess in Rouen but what was the surname of the bride before the ceremony?

23.

Which Booker prize winning novel of 2002 has two chief protagonists; one, Piscine Molitor Patel, is named after a Parisian swimming pool, and the other, Richard Parker, shares a name with a nineteenth century teenaged victim of cannibalism and weighs 450 pounds?

24.

The Battle of Blenheim in 1704 was a pivotal moment in which conflict?

25.

The Fiddler on the Roof, painted in 1912 two years after the artist had relocated to Paris, was the inspiration behind the title of the musical.  Can you name the artist?

26.

What line taken from the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1943 immediately follows this one: “Mon Capitaine, Major Strasser has been shot”?

27.

Which nation, despite never having won the FIFA world cup, won the Olympic Football tournament in 1952, 1964 and 1968?

28.

A footpath heading northwards out of the village of Threlkeld on the A66 leads up Sharp Edge to the summit of which 2848 feet high hill?

29.

Who retired as President of the Irish Republic earlier this month?

30.

Which British town or city, immortalized in a folk song celebrating a once annual event that was last held in 1788, is the subject of this photograph?

1.

How many countries share a land border with Austria?

2.

Which chemical element with the atomic number 5 is used as an additive in making heat resistant glass?

3.

Who entered Parliament in 1868 as MP for Stirling Burghs and is the only man to have been both Father of the House and Prime Minister simultaneously?

4.

John Connolly, Terry Paine and Ian Callaghan are three of the four founder members of a sporting 'club', which so far has had no occasion on which to increase its membership.  Can you name the missing member?

5.

In which year did the last beheading of a peer of the realm occur in the British Isles? (one year leeway either way)

6.

Which river, some 245 kilometres long, flows in a north-westerly direction through Picardy from its source near Saint Quentin to the English Channel?

7.

What was the alter ego of Edward Nigma, a criminal possessing a genius level IQ, who once admitted to his arch nemesis that “I might need help. I might be crazy”?

8.

What institution, a registered charity founded in 1977, was established in the grounds of Bretton Hall just one mile from Junction 38 on the M1?

9.

The severed head of which biblical character does Salome kiss in the Oscar Wilde play of the same name?

10.

Who drowned while swimming the Hellespont to visit his lover, Hero, when a breeze blew out her light which lit the way?

1.

Which Tom Clancy novel of 1984 introduced the character Jack Ryan, a CIA operative, and is set, in part, upon the USS Dallas?

2.

Which phrase first entered human consciousness in 1977 when it was used by General Jan Dodoma to fortify his troops defending the Yavin 4 base?       

3.

Which of the Nine Worthies, as first described by Jacques de Longuyon in 1312, was present at the Battle of Granicus?

4.

What came into effect on the 4th of September 1900 requiring, amongst other things, that its signatories refrain from engaging in aerial bombing and chemical warfare or from employing dum dum bullets?

5.

What was the real name of the Border Collie cross who starred on the big screen alongside Eric Sykes, Lionel Jeffries and June Whitfield in the comedy The Spy with the Cold Nose?

6.

Name the vocalist of Deep Purple who took the part of Jesus in the original 1970 album recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.

7.

What was the venue of the major public disturbance that occurred on the 4th of October 1936 when Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists, protected by over 10,000 policemen, were prevented from marching through the streets of the East End of London?

8.

What was the soubriquet of the World War Two B-25 medium bomber as used by the USAAF in the Doolittle Raid?

Sp.

In which royal residence did Queen Victoria die?

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Which CS Forrester novel gave rise to a 1951 film which provided Humphrey Bogart with his only Academy Award winning role?

2.

Which Derbyshire town is home to Parma Violets, Love Hearts and the Sherbet Double Dip?

3.

Whose epitaph, chosen by his mother, read “In loving memory of my beloved son, murdered by a traitor and coward whose name is not worthy to appear here”?

4.

Name the town in Connecticut that gave its name to a disease in 1975 which later transpired to be caused by the bacterium, Borrelia, and transmitted to humans by insect bites from certain species of the genus Ioxdes

5.

Which city was the venue for a successful attempt in 2009 to construct the largest Meccano model ever built, thirty years after the factory in Binns Road of that city, which had been the brand’s spiritual home, had closed its doors for the very last time?

6.

Where, in a popular song from the 19th century, was Mary Jane being courted by a man, not wearing a hat, in an exposed location not more than 1319 feet above sea level?

7.

Which uncompromising Glasgow born centre half holds the record for the number of League appearances for Crystal Palace, 571, in a career that stretched from 1972 to 1988?

8.

In Douglas Adams’ So long and thanks for all the Fish who, having provided Arthur Dent with an aerial sexual experience, was also present when Marvin translated God’s final message to his creation: “Sorry for the inconvenience”?

Sp.

Torquhil Campbell, safe in his ancestral seat at Inverary Castle, is the thirteenth holder of which hereditary title?

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

If, to Hungarians, it is Goncolszeker, or Goncol’s cart; and to the Dutch it is commonly the Steelpannetje or saucepan, then what is it to the English?

2.

Which BBC comedy, first aired in 1979, saw Peter Bowles play nouveau riche businessman Richard De Vere opposite Penelope Keith’s aristocratic Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton?

3.

Which freshwater lake with a surface area of 26,600 square miles is the largest to lie within the two tropics?

4.

In which US State would you find the summit of Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the famous long distance footpath The Appalachian Trail?

5.

Whose original alter ego was Jilted John?

6.

Bea Schwarz was the first to establish the causal link between the fungi Ophiostoma Ulma and which disease while she studied for a doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1912?

7.

What weapon was featured in the eponymous title of the 1952 film starring Gary Cooper as Major Alex Kearney?

8.

Which French monk, active in the seventh century, lent his name to a type of hazel nut on account of his saint’s day, August the 20th, coinciding with the usual ripening of the nut in England?

Sp.

What, with a motto of 'Preserving History, Honouring Excellence, Connecting Generations', attracts 350,000 visitors every year to Cooperstown in the state of New York?

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Who was created Baron of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham on the 13th of October 2008?

2.

Name the snooker player who was the beaten finalist in four of Stephen Hendry’s seven World Championship victories.

3.

Which Mercury Award winning singer had a UK top ten album in 2011 with Let England Shake?

4.

Which Academy Award winning singer had a UK number one album in 2009 with Together Through Life forty three after his first such album?

5.

In 1957 the US military dropped their phonetic alphabet in favour of the NATO standard, but what was their discarded code word for the letter 'R' that still remains in widespread use today?

6.

Which 1998 animated film has Kevin Spacey providing the voice of Hopper; a role akin to that of Calvera, played by Eli Wallach, in The Magnificent Seven?

7.

Which river is formed by the confluence of the Burnhope Burn and the Killhope Burn, and although it is only 60 miles long it was, until the local government reorganisation in 1974, the longest English river to flow entirely within one county?

8.

Name the former Cabinet Minister who once appeared as a five year old street urchin in the 1961 film A Taste of Honey based on Shelagh Delaney’s play of the same name?

Sp.

Which Harlequins back row forward became the first man to score four tries in one match while wearing the England number 8 shirt, a feat he achieved in a match against Wales in 2007?

1.

What is a Panamax?

2.

Who has scored the most tries, 38, for France in Rugby Union internationals?

3.

Which river for much of its length forms the border between Suffolk and Essex?

4.

What is the name of Noel Gallagher’s newly formed band?

5.

Who is the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police?

6.

Give a year in the life of Nero who famously fiddled while Rome burned.

7.

Name the only Englishman to have been married to Elizabeth Taylor.

8.

Where was British Railways last steam locomotive, Evening Star, built in 1960?

9.

Who starred opposite Judi Dench in the TV series As Time Goes By?

10.

Name the Russian author of the 20th Century classic The Master and Margarita.

1.

Whose recently published memoir is entitled Why Be Happy when you can be Normal??

2.

Rothesay is the largest habitation on which Scottish island?

3.

Which colourful bird, correctly the Bombycilla garrulous, is a winter visitor to the UK, although numbers will vary from a few dozen to an irruption of many thousands depending upon the food supply in Scandinavia?

4.

In the headline 'HEMP: a threat to our way of life' from the September 2007 edition of the house magazine for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers what does HEMP stand for?

5.

What does the title of The Bad Shepherds album Yan Tan Tethera Methera translate to in English?

6.

Pierre de Fredy refereed the very first French Rugby Championship in 1892.  Famed for another sporting achievement how was he better known?

How many tonnes did the Bismarck displace when fully laden?

1.

England has four Catholic archbishops.  Westminster, Birmingham and Liverpool are three.  Can you name the fourth?

Southwark

2.

Peter Twiss broke the world air speed record for a manned air breathing craft on the 10^th of March 1956 with a speed of 1,132 miles per hour when flying which make and model of British aircraft?

Fairey Delta (2)

3.

What was found to be surrounded by the Monoceros Ring as recently as 2002?

The Milky Way

4.

Which UK number 1 single from 1979 has the opening line “I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two” and was, quite appropriately, the first single to be played on MTV when it started broadcasting in 1981?

Video Killed the Radio Star

5.

To which order in the animal kingdom did this fossil belong?

(accept ichthyosaur)

6.

Which food brand, introduced to the British public in 1902, takes its name from a French large covered earthenware or metal cooking pot; an image of which appears on the brand’s packaging?

Marmite

7.

A modern statue outside a pharmacy in Weisloch commemorates the events of 5^th of August 1888, when a female customer called Bertha, on her way to visit her mother in the town of Pforzheim, stopped  to purchase a quantity of the laboratory solvent Ligroin.  What was the surname of the customer?

Benz

(it was the first time that one of the prototypes had ventured far enough from the workshop to need refuelling – the pharmacy had inadvertently become the first petrol station)

8.

Which Booker prize winning novel of 1981 has its main protagonists endowed with special powers on account of having been born in the very first hour of the 15^th of August 1947?

Midnight’s Children

(the day being the first day of Independence for India)

9.

The Second Defenestration of Prague of 1618 is considered by many to signal the start of which conflict?

Thirty Years War

10.

Who was commissioned to paint the large mural Guernica for the International Expositione des Arts held in 1937 in Paris?

Pablo Picasso

11.

What line taken from the film that won the Academy Award for Best picture in 1939 immediately follows: “Where shall I go to?  What shall I do?"?

"Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn”

12.

Which nation won the Olympic Football tournament in 1900, 1908 and 1912?

United Kingdom

13.

A footpath heading north out of the village of Barber Booth, beside the infant River Noe, leads up Jacobs Ladder towards the summit of which 2088 feet high hill?

Kinder Scout

14.

Name the Fianna Gael politician who assumed the office of Taoiseach on the 9^th of March this year.

Enda Kenny

15.

In which British town or city would you find this monument immortalized in a song published in Gammer Gurton’s Garland of 1784?

16.

There are only 26 Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords but 44 Anglican bishops.  Only five of them, the five great Sees, are guaranteed a seat, the rest have to take turns.  Canterbury, London, York and Durham are four of the permanent holders.  Can you name the fifth?

Winchester

17.

Which make and model of aircraft currently holds the air speed record for a manned air-breathing craft of 2193 miles per hour, a record that has stood since 1976?

Lockheed SR71

(accept Lockheed Blackbird)

18.

What was estimated by Allan Sandage in 1958 to have a value of 75 kilometres per second per megaparsec; an estimate that has since proved remarkably accurate and has achieved a high degree of consensus?

The Hubble constant

19.

Which number 1 UK hit single from 1982 has the opening lines “Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad on the radio”?

Come on Eileen

20.

To which class in the animal kingdom did this fossil belong?

(accept Crinoid)

21.

Which food brand, introduced to the British public in 1890, takes its name from a contraction of two words in Latin which translate to 'the strength of man' in English?

Hovis

(from 'Hominis vis')

22.

Marc Brunel, having fled Revolutionary France, married Sophia in Holborn on the 1^st of November 1799.  They had met when she had been a governess in Rouen but what was the surname of the bride before the ceremony?

Kingdom

(it’s where Isambard got his Kingdom!)

23.

Which Booker prize winning novel of 2002 has two chief protagonists; one, Piscine Molitor Patel, is named after a Parisian swimming pool, and the other, Richard Parker, shares a name with a nineteenth century teenaged victim of cannibalism and weighs 450 pounds?

The Life of Pi

(Richard Parker being a once captive but now shipwrecked Bengal tiger)

24.

The Battle of Blenheim in 1704 was a pivotal moment in which conflict?

The War of Spanish Succession

25.

The Fiddler on the Roof, painted in 1912 two years after the artist had relocated to Paris, was the inspiration behind the title of the musical.  Can you name the artist?

(Marc) Chagall

26.

What line taken from the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1943 immediately follows this one: “Mon Capitaine, Major Strasser has been shot”?

“Round up the usual suspects”

27.

Which nation, despite never having won the FIFA world cup, won the Olympic Football tournament in 1952, 1964 and 1968?

Hungary

28.

A footpath heading northwards out of the village of Threlkeld on the A66 leads up Sharp Edge to the summit of which 2848 feet high hill?

Blencathra

(accept alternative name of Saddleback)

29.

Who retired as President of the Irish Republic earlier this month?

Mary McAleese

30.

Which British town or city, immortalized in a folk song celebrating a once annual event that was last held in 1788, is the subject of this photograph?

1.

How many countries share a land border with Austria?

8

(Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein)

2.

Which chemical element with the atomic number 5 is used as an additive in making heat resistant glass?

Boron

3.

Who entered Parliament in 1868 as MP for Stirling Burghs and is the only man to have been both Father of the House and Prime Minister simultaneously?

(Sir Henry) Campbell Bannerman

(in case of query Churchill, Heath and Callaghan all became the Father of the House after they had stood down as Prime Minister)

4.

John Connolly, Terry Paine and Ian Callaghan are three of the four founder members of a sporting 'club', which so far has had no occasion on which to increase its membership.  Can you name the missing member?

Jimmy Greaves

(the club being for English players who played in the early stages of a World Cup Finals competition but were not selected for the final itself)

5.

In which year did the last beheading of a peer of the realm occur in the British Isles? (one year leeway either way)

1747

(the Jacobite-supporting Lord Lovat aged 80)

6.

Which river, some 245 kilometres long, flows in a north-westerly direction through Picardy from its source near Saint Quentin to the English Channel?

The Somme

7.

What was the alter ego of Edward Nigma, a criminal possessing a genius level IQ, who once admitted to his arch nemesis that “I might need help. I might be crazy”?

The Riddler

8.

What institution, a registered charity founded in 1977, was established in the grounds of Bretton Hall just one mile from Junction 38 on the M1?

Yorkshire Statue Park

9.

The severed head of which biblical character does Salome kiss in the Oscar Wilde play of the same name?

St John the Baptist

10.

Who drowned while swimming the Hellespont to visit his lover, Hero, when a breeze blew out her light which lit the way?

Leander

1.

Which Tom Clancy novel of 1984 introduced the character Jack Ryan, a CIA operative, and is set, in part, upon the USS Dallas?

The Hunt for Red October

2.

Which phrase first entered human consciousness in 1977 when it was used by General Jan Dodoma to fortify his troops defending the Yavin 4 base?       

"May the force be with you"

3.

Which of the Nine Worthies, as first described by Jacques de Longuyon in 1312, was present at the Battle of Granicus?

Alexander the Great

4.

What came into effect on the 4th of September 1900 requiring, amongst other things, that its signatories refrain from engaging in aerial bombing and chemical warfare or from employing dum dum bullets?

The (first) Hague Convention

(in case of query – they weren’t quick off the mark in anticipating flight as bombs had been dropped from balloons as early as 1849)

5.

What was the real name of the Border Collie cross who starred on the big screen alongside Eric Sykes, Lionel Jeffries and June Whitfield in the comedy The Spy with the Cold Nose?

Pickles

(more famous for finding the Jules Rimet trophy than acting)

6.

Name the vocalist of Deep Purple who took the part of Jesus in the original 1970 album recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Ian Gillan

7.

What was the venue of the major public disturbance that occurred on the 4th of October 1936 when Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists, protected by over 10,000 policemen, were prevented from marching through the streets of the East End of London?

Cable Street

8.

What was the soubriquet of the World War Two B-25 medium bomber as used by the USAAF in the Doolittle Raid?

Mitchell

Sp.

In which royal residence did Queen Victoria die?

Osborne House

(Isle of Wight)

Theme: 'A cut price cabinet' - Each answer contains the name of a member of the cabinet

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Which CS Forrester novel gave rise to a 1951 film which provided Humphrey Bogart with his only Academy Award winning role?

African Queen 

2.

Which Derbyshire town is home to Parma Violets, Love Hearts and the Sherbet Double Dip?

New Mills

3.

Whose epitaph, chosen by his mother, read “In loving memory of my beloved son, murdered by a traitor and coward whose name is not worthy to appear here”?

Jesse James

4.

Name the town in Connecticut that gave its name to a disease in 1975 which later transpired to be caused by the bacterium, Borrelia, and transmitted to humans by insect bites from certain species of the genus Ioxdes

Lyme

5.

Which city was the venue for a successful attempt in 2009 to construct the largest Meccano model ever built, thirty years after the factory in Binns Road of that city, which had been the brand’s spiritual home, had closed its doors for the very last time?

Liverpool

(a bridge requiring 100,000 parts to span the Leeds and Liverpool Canal for James May’s TV series Toy Stories)

6.

Where, in a popular song from the 19th century, was Mary Jane being courted by a man, not wearing a hat, in an exposed location not more than 1319 feet above sea level?

Ilkley Moor

('baht’at' being 'without a hat' in English)

7.

Which uncompromising Glasgow born centre half holds the record for the number of League appearances for Crystal Palace, 571, in a career that stretched from 1972 to 1988?

Jim Cannon

8.

In Douglas Adams’ So long and thanks for all the Fish who, having provided Arthur Dent with an aerial sexual experience, was also present when Marvin translated God’s final message to his creation: “Sorry for the inconvenience”?

Fenchurch

Sp.

Torquhil Campbell, safe in his ancestral seat at Inverary Castle, is the thirteenth holder of which hereditary title?

Duke of Argyll

Theme: 'Oh Mister Porter what shall I do?'

1.

If, to Hungarians, it is Goncolszeker, or Goncol’s cart; and to the Dutch it is commonly the Steelpannetje or saucepan, then what is it to the English?

The Plough

(obviously accept the Big Dipper but point out the theme requires the Plough)

2.

Which BBC comedy, first aired in 1979, saw Peter Bowles play nouveau riche businessman Richard De Vere opposite Penelope Keith’s aristocratic Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton?

To the Manor Born

3.

Which freshwater lake with a surface area of 26,600 square miles is the largest to lie within the two tropics?

Lake Victoria

4.

In which US State would you find the summit of Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the famous long distance footpath The Appalachian Trail?

Maine

5.

Whose original alter ego was Jilted John?

Graham Fellows

6.

Bea Schwarz was the first to establish the causal link between the fungi Ophiostoma Ulma and which disease while she studied for a doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1912?

Dutch Elm

7.

What weapon was featured in the eponymous title of the 1952 film starring Gary Cooper as Major Alex Kearney?

Springfield rifle

8.

Which French monk, active in the seventh century, lent his name to a type of hazel nut on account of his saint’s day, August the 20th, coinciding with the usual ripening of the nut in England?

St Philbert

Sp.

What, with a motto of 'Preserving History, Honouring Excellence, Connecting Generations', attracts 350,000 visitors every year to Cooperstown in the state of New York?

Baseball Hall of Fame

Theme: 'They think it’s all over…. for these grounds it is now'

Each answer contains the substantive word from the name of a football ground that once hosted League football

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Who was created Baron of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham on the 13th of October 2008?

Peter Mandelson

(and the chimp-chokers are welcome to him)

2.

Name the snooker player who was the beaten finalist in four of Stephen Hendry’s seven World Championship victories.

Jimmy White

3.

Which Mercury Award winning singer had a UK top ten album in 2011 with Let England Shake?

P J Harvey

4.

Which Academy Award winning singer had a UK number one album in 2009 with Together Through Life forty three after his first such album?

Bob Dylan

5.

In 1957 the US military dropped their phonetic alphabet in favour of the NATO standard, but what was their discarded code word for the letter 'R' that still remains in widespread use today?

Roger

(logically pilots and air traffic controllers should use 'Romeo' to confirm they have 'Received' a communication but apparently only Australians do so habitually)

6.

Which 1998 animated film has Kevin Spacey providing the voice of Hopper; a role akin to that of Calvera, played by Eli Wallach, in The Magnificent Seven?

A Bug's Life

7.

Which river is formed by the confluence of the Burnhope Burn and the Killhope Burn, and although it is only 60 miles long it was, until the local government reorganisation in 1974, the longest English river to flow entirely within one county?

The Wear

(flowing entirely within County Durham until the creation of Tyne and Wear)

8.

Name the former Cabinet Minister who once appeared as a five year old street urchin in the 1961 film A Taste of Honey based on Shelagh Delaney’s play of the same name?

Hazel Blears

(bet she didn’t dare claim her expenses!)

Sp.

Which Harlequins back row forward became the first man to score four tries in one match while wearing the England number 8 shirt, a feat he achieved in a match against Wales in 2007?

Nick Easter

Theme: 'Can you get by without your rabbit pie?'

Each answer contains the name of a famous fictional bunny

(in the case of query the 'We’re-rabbit' was a villain in Wallace and Gromit

1.

What is a Panamax?

A ship

(Technically as large as you can get but still small enough to fit through the Panama canal)

2.

Who has scored the most tries, 38, for France in Rugby Union internationals?

Serge Blanco

3.

Which river for much of its length forms the border between Suffolk and Essex?

The Stour

4.

What is the name of Noel Gallagher’s newly formed band?

High Flying Birds

5.

Who is the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police?

Peter Fahy

6.

Give a year in the life of Nero who famously fiddled while Rome burned.

37 – 68 AD

7.

Name the only Englishman to have been married to Elizabeth Taylor.

Michael Wilding

8.

Where was British Railways last steam locomotive, Evening Star, built in 1960?

Swindon

9.

Who starred opposite Judi Dench in the TV series As Time Goes By?

Geoffrey Palmer

10.

Name the Russian author of the 20th Century classic The Master and Margarita.

(Mikhail) Bulgakov

1.

Whose recently published memoir is entitled Why Be Happy when you can be Normal??

Jeannette Winterson

2.

Rothesay is the largest habitation on which Scottish island?

Bute

3.

Which colourful bird, correctly the Bombycilla garrulous, is a winter visitor to the UK, although numbers will vary from a few dozen to an irruption of many thousands depending upon the food supply in Scandinavia?

Waxwing

4.

In the headline 'HEMP: a threat to our way of life' from the September 2007 edition of the house magazine for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers what does HEMP stand for?

High-altitude Electro Magnetic Pulse

5.

What does the title of The Bad Shepherds album Yan Tan Tethera Methera translate to in English?

One, two, three, four

(It's the Cumbrian fells dialect used by hill farmers to count sheep)

6.

Pierre de Fredy refereed the very first French Rugby Championship in 1892.  Famed for another sporting achievement how was he better known?

Baron de Coubertin

How many tonnes did the Bismarck displace when fully laden?

50,300