1.

Who in 1798 wrote the poem Lucy Gray?

2.

Perugia is the capital of which region of Italy?

3.

Name the ravine outside Kiev where in 1941 SS troops massacred more than 33,000 Jews.

4.

Which Irish songwriter, novelist and socialist (1928-1989) wrote the songs Liverpool Lou and The Patriot Game?

5.

Which French born artist completed 12 frescoes for Manchester Town Hall just before his death in 1893?

6.

“He became drinker, she became mother” is a typically succinct lyric from which song by Squeeze?

7.

In fashion, name the cashmere shawl made from the under fur of various Tibetan animals but especially the goat.

8.

Who became US President in 1801, having previously served as Governor of Virginia, Ambassador to Paris, Secretary of State and Vice President?

9.

What Japanese word means 'they who serve'?

10.

Which short novel by Tolstoy has the same name as a piece of music by Beethoven?

11.

What is the only club in the Football League to be named after the building in which they were founded?

12.

In which year did Mastermind first appear on BBC TV?

13.

Give any year in the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

14.

Ennis is the county town of which Irish county?

15.

In which Shakespeare play does a clock strike anachronistically? 

16.

Who in 1849 wrote the poem Annabel Lee?

17.

Pamplona is the capital of which region of Spain?

18.

Name the forest near Smolensk where in 1943 Nazi Germany announced that they had found the mass graves of thousands of Polish officers executed by the Soviets.

19.

The Auld Triangle is a song from the opening of which play by Brendan Behan, set in Mountjoy prison on the eve of an execution?

20.

The Baroque style of Stockport Town Hall was designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas and is based on his earlier design of which UK City Hall?

21.

“And now she’s two years older / Her mother’s with a soldier” is a typically succinct lyric from which song by Squeeze?

22.

What name is given to a lace or silk veil or shawl worn over the head and shoulders?  It originated in Spain but became associated with Catholic women everywhere when attending devotional services.

23.

Who became the 7^th US president in 1829?  Previously he had been a general in the war of 1812 and he was also involved in the war that led to the purchase of Florida in 1819.

24.

What name is given to the Samurai code of honour?

25.

The title of which 1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol is also the title of an Ian Rankin novel and a Joy Division track?

26.

Which English Football League club toured South America in 1914 and became the first international opponents of the recently formed Brazil national team?

27.

In which year did BBC2 revive the former Granada series University Challenge and thus usher in the Paxman era?

28.

Give any year in the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian.

29.

Carrick-on-Shannon is the county town of which Irish county?

30.

In which Shakespeare play does one of the leading characters wish to play an anachronistic game of billiards?

Sp1

Which English novelist (1825-1900) had the first names Richard Doddridge?

Sp2

Which American poet (1894- 1962) had the first names edward estlin?

Sp3

What office is currently held by Jens Stoltenberg?

Sp4

Who is the current  Danish Prime Minister’s father-in-law?

1.

Name the Preston born actor who played Steven Taylor, an early time-travel companion of Dr Who, before going on to become Blue Peter’s second longest serving male presenter.

2.

Which popular song with nonsense lyrics has captivated toddlers, teenagers and adults alike since it was first used on TV in its present format in 1976?  It was originally written in 1969 as incidental music for an Italian TV documentary about sexual freedom in Sweden.

3.

The Falklands are known in Argentina as The Malvinas.  From the name of which town is the word Malvinas derived?

4.

Name the Scottish boy band that had a number one hit in 1976 with Forever and Ever and included Midge Ure in their line–up.

5.

Together with biologist Robert Edwards, which obstetrician developed in vitro fertilisation?

6.

Comedian Vic Oliver was the first person to do what on 29^th January 1942?

7.

Which British politician, on his first visit to Northern Ireland as Home Secretary, failed to endear himself by declaring:  “For God’s sake, bring me a large Scotch.  What a bloody awful country.”?

8.

Which correspondence lasted from March 1946 to February 2004?

9.

Steve Pitts’ book 39 Days of Gazza describes Paul Gascoigne’s first foray into the world of football management at which club?

10.

In medieval universities logic and rhetoric were 2 of the 3 subjects that comprised the 'trivium'.  What was the third subject?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Linked

Each answer shares a common feature

1.

Which French defender replaced the suspended Laurent Blanc in the 1998 World Cup Final and famously man-marked the Brazilian Ronaldo out of the game?  He played for Chelsea from 1996 until 2001.

2.

Darren Bent (2006); Scott Carson (2007); Matt Holland (2008) all won the Player of the Year award  in the given year at which Football Club?

3.

Born in 1981, who is the only person to win the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award for four consecutive years (2005 – 2008).

4.

In 2009 which horse won the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe?

5.

Name the 1988 film that contains this dialogue exchange:

O:   "You know the problem with you Brits? You don’t like winners."

A:   "Winners?"

O:   "Yeah, winners."

A:    "Winners - You mean like North Vietnam?"

O:    "Shut up. We didn’t lose Vietnam.  It was a tie!"

6.

Which song by a British group was the top selling single in the USA in 1983 and won a 1984 Grammy award for Song of the Year?

7.

Which British Prime Minister had a romantic obsession with Venetia Stanley while in office which led to him drinking even more than usual and becoming the inspiration for the popular song Another Little Drink Won’t Do Us Any Harm? (full name needed)

8.

Which veteran of the 1916 Irish Rising served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) from 1959 until 1966?  He is regarded as the father of modern Ireland due to his efforts to forge a permanent link between Ireland and the European Community. (full name needed)

Sp.

Which Womble was a shirker with a great interest in sleep and food?  His creator, Elizabeth Beresford, said he bore a striking resemblance to her teenage son.

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'Engerland, Engerland, Engerland' - Where am I?

The questions are paired

1.

I am in what used to be the county town of Westmorland.  It’s a peaceful place except for a few days every June when tinkers, New Age travellers and sightseers throng the streets for the famous Horse Fair.

2.

I am at the lighthouse on this Cumbrian headland now, steeling myself to begin Wainwright’s 190 mile Coast to Coast walk to Robin Hood’s  Bay.

3.

I am in a city now.  Earlier I visited St Philip’s, England’s third smallest cathedral.  I am now in a large Arts complex called the Custard Factory because the building used to be the old Alfred Bird custard works.

4.

I’m down the road in a Black Country town now.  This town used to be famed as the centre of Britain’s leather industry, a fact still commemorated in the nickname of its football team.

5.

I’m in a small village in East Anglia now.  Before the Dissolution the shrine here rivalled Canterbury as the foremost pilgrimage site in England. Anglo-Catholic pilgrimages were resumed in the 1920s and are still going strong.

6.

I’ve moved across to Suffolk now but to which town?  The town is associated with the last Saxon king of East Anglia.  I’m sitting in the Nutshell which, at 16 feet by 7.5 feet, claims to be England’s smallest pub.

7.

I’m on the Riviera now but alas it is the English Riviera.  I’m in the small, hilly fishing port at the southern end of Torbay.  William Prince of Orange landed here in 1688 to lead the so-called Glorious Revolution.

8.

I’m ending my holiday in the small Cornish resort that claims to be England’s oldest town.  At low water I am able to walk across the causeway to St Michael’s Mount which lies half-a-mile offshore.

Sp.

I am now in which English County?  I am in the village of Wroxeter which stands on the remains of the Roman city of Viroconium, once Britain’s fourth largest city.  

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

2.

In the 1969 song, name the character whose last transmission to Ground Control was: “Tell my wife I love her very much”.

3.

Which river rises in Mallerstang and wends its way through Cumbria for 90 miles or so before flowing into the Solway Firth?

4.

Though officially classified as a village which fishing port on the Isle of Man is often referred to as a city thanks to its cathedral which is the seat of the bishop of Sodor and Man?

5.

In which short story by Edgar Allan Poe is the narrator saved at the last moment by rats from a cruel death at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition?

6.

Which 1959 Hitchcock film reaches a thrilling climax with a chase across the top of the Mount Rushmore monument?

7.

An unintentional comment made about Eric Clapton’s new racing bike led to the title of which 1967 album by Cream?  It featured the hit single Sunshine of your Love.

8.

Named after a British surveyor in 1885 what is the name of Malaysia’s biggest and best known hill station and resort. It lies about 120 miles from Kuala Lumpur.

Sp.

In The Threepenny Opera by Brecht and Weill what is the full surname of Mack The Knife?

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Picture Round with a German theme

"For you Englischers, ze quiz is almost over - but first you must look into ze lights and tell us all you know about Germany"

1.

Name the German captain.

2.

Why did this young lady make the headlines in May 2010?

3.

Name this famous German.

4.

Name this ancient city on the Moselle. Its main attraction is the Porta Nigra, the finest example of Roman architecture still standing in Germany. Karl Marx was born here in 1818.

5.

Why did this man make the headlines in February 2012?

6.

Of which famous son of Nuremberg is this a self portrait?

7.

Name this city. The  iconic photograph was taken on the morning of February 15th 1945 from the ruins of the historic Frauenkirche.  

8.

"They think it’s all over."  Not yet, thanks to this man’s late equaliser which brought the 1966 World Cup final into extra time.  Who is he?  (surname will suffice)

Sp.

Name the 16 year old (circled) looking very much at home in Nazi Germany attending the 1937 funeral of his sister.        

1.

In 1984 how many people were crowded into the afore-mentioned Nutshell, England’s smallest pub (16 feet x 7.5 feet), to break the previous record? The only stipulation was that only people of legal drinking age were allowed and that each person had to be holding a drink.

2.

On 2nd May 2009 Leinster met Munster in a Heineken Cup semi-final in Croke Park, Dublin.  The attendance set a new world record for the number of people at a rugby union club/provincial match. Give the attendance figure.

1.

Who in 1798 wrote the poem Lucy Gray?

William Wordsworth

2.

Perugia is the capital of which region of Italy?

Umbria

3.

Name the ravine outside Kiev where in 1941 SS troops massacred more than 33,000 Jews.

Babi Yar

4.

Which Irish songwriter, novelist and socialist (1928-1989) wrote the songs Liverpool Lou and The Patriot Game?

Dominic Behan

5.

Which French born artist completed 12 frescoes for Manchester Town Hall just before his death in 1893?

Ford Madox Brown

6.

“He became drinker, she became mother” is a typically succinct lyric from which song by Squeeze?

Labelled With Love

7.

In fashion, name the cashmere shawl made from the under fur of various Tibetan animals but especially the goat.

Pashmina

8.

Who became US President in 1801, having previously served as Governor of Virginia, Ambassador to Paris, Secretary of State and Vice President?

Thomas Jefferson

9.

What Japanese word means 'they who serve'?

 Samurai

10.

Which short novel by Tolstoy has the same name as a piece of music by Beethoven?

The Kreutzer Sonata

11.

What is the only club in the Football League to be named after the building in which they were founded?

Port  Vale

(Port Vale House, Burslem)

12.

In which year did Mastermind first appear on BBC TV?

1972

13.

Give any year in the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

161-180 AD

14.

Ennis is the county town of which Irish county?

Co. Clare

15.

In which Shakespeare play does a clock strike anachronistically? 

Julius Caesar

16.

Who in 1849 wrote the poem Annabel Lee?

Edgar Allan Poe

17.

Pamplona is the capital of which region of Spain?

Navarre

18.

Name the forest near Smolensk where in 1943 Nazi Germany announced that they had found the mass graves of thousands of Polish officers executed by the Soviets.

Katyn forest

19.

The Auld Triangle is a song from the opening of which play by Brendan Behan, set in Mountjoy prison on the eve of an execution?

The Quare Fellow

20.

The Baroque style of Stockport Town Hall was designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas and is based on his earlier design of which UK City Hall?

Belfast City Hall

21.

“And now she’s two years older / Her mother’s with a soldier” is a typically succinct lyric from which song by Squeeze?

Up The Junction

22.

What name is given to a lace or silk veil or shawl worn over the head and shoulders?  It originated in Spain but became associated with Catholic women everywhere when attending devotional services.

Mantilla

23.

Who became the 7^th US president in 1829?  Previously he had been a general in the war of 1812 and he was also involved in the war that led to the purchase of Florida in 1819.

24.

What name is given to the Samurai code of honour?

25.

The title of which 1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol is also the title of an Ian Rankin novel and a Joy Division track?

Dead Souls

26.

Which English Football League club toured South America in 1914 and became the first international opponents of the recently formed Brazil national team?

Exeter City

27.

In which year did BBC2 revive the former Granada series University Challenge and thus usher in the Paxman era?

1994

28.

Give any year in the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian.

284- 305 AD

29.

Carrick-on-Shannon is the county town of which Irish county?

Co. Leitrim

30.

In which Shakespeare play does one of the leading characters wish to play an anachronistic game of billiards?

Antony and Cleopatra

Sp1

Which English novelist (1825-1900) had the first names Richard Doddridge?

R D  Blackmore

Sp2

Which American poet (1894- 1962) had the first names edward estlin?

e e  cummings

(he preferred  the lowercase version)

Sp3

What office is currently held by Jens Stoltenberg?

Prime Minister of  Norway

Sp4

Who is the current  Danish Prime Minister’s father-in-law?

Neil Kinnock

1.

Name the Preston born actor who played Steven Taylor, an early time-travel companion of Dr Who, before going on to become Blue Peter’s second longest serving male presenter.

Peter Purves

2.

Which popular song with nonsense lyrics has captivated toddlers, teenagers and adults alike since it was first used on TV in its present format in 1976?  It was originally written in 1969 as incidental music for an Italian TV documentary about sexual freedom in Sweden.

The Mah Na Mah Na song

(used on Sesame St, Muppets and  The Benny Hill Show)

3.

The Falklands are known in Argentina as The Malvinas.  From the name of which town is the word Malvinas derived?

St Malo

(in Brittany)

4.

Name the Scottish boy band that had a number one hit in 1976 with Forever and Ever and included Midge Ure in their line–up.

Slik

5.

Together with biologist Robert Edwards, which obstetrician developed in vitro fertilisation?

Patrick Steptoe

6.

Comedian Vic Oliver was the first person to do what on 29^th January 1942?

Appear as guest on Desert Island Discs

7.

Which British politician, on his first visit to Northern Ireland as Home Secretary, failed to endear himself by declaring:  “For God’s sake, bring me a large Scotch.  What a bloody awful country.”?

Reginald Maudling

8.

Which correspondence lasted from March 1946 to February 2004?

Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America

9.

Steve Pitts’ book 39 Days of Gazza describes Paul Gascoigne’s first foray into the world of football management at which club?

Kettering Town

10.

In medieval universities logic and rhetoric were 2 of the 3 subjects that comprised the 'trivium'.  What was the third subject?

Grammar

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Linked

Each answer shares a common feature

1.

Which French defender replaced the suspended Laurent Blanc in the 1998 World Cup Final and famously man-marked the Brazilian Ronaldo out of the game?  He played for Chelsea from 1996 until 2001.

Franck Le Boeuf

2.

Darren Bent (2006); Scott Carson (2007); Matt Holland (2008) all won the Player of the Year award  in the given year at which Football Club?

Charlton Athletic

3.

Born in 1981, who is the only person to win the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award for four consecutive years (2005 – 2008).

Roger Federer

4.

In 2009 which horse won the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe?

Sea The Stars

5.

Name the 1988 film that contains this dialogue exchange:

O:   "You know the problem with you Brits? You don’t like winners."

A:   "Winners?"

O:   "Yeah, winners."

A:    "Winners - You mean like North Vietnam?"

O:    "Shut up. We didn’t lose Vietnam.  It was a tie!"

A Fish Called Wanda

6.

Which song by a British group was the top selling single in the USA in 1983 and won a 1984 Grammy award for Song of the Year?

Every Breath You Take

7.

Which British Prime Minister had a romantic obsession with Venetia Stanley while in office which led to him drinking even more than usual and becoming the inspiration for the popular song Another Little Drink Won’t Do Us Any Harm? (full name needed)

Herbert Asquith

8.

Which veteran of the 1916 Irish Rising served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) from 1959 until 1966?  He is regarded as the father of modern Ireland due to his efforts to forge a permanent link between Ireland and the European Community. (full name needed)

Sean Lemass

Sp.

Which Womble was a shirker with a great interest in sleep and food?  His creator, Elizabeth Beresford, said he bore a striking resemblance to her teenage son.

Orinoco

Theme: Each answer begins and ends with the same letter

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'Engerland, Engerland, Engerland' - Where am I?

The questions are paired

1.

I am in what used to be the county town of Westmorland.  It’s a peaceful place except for a few days every June when tinkers, New Age travellers and sightseers throng the streets for the famous Horse Fair.

Appleby

2.

I am at the lighthouse on this Cumbrian headland now, steeling myself to begin Wainwright’s 190 mile Coast to Coast walk to Robin Hood’s  Bay.

St Bees (Head)

3.

I am in a city now.  Earlier I visited St Philip’s, England’s third smallest cathedral.  I am now in a large Arts complex called the Custard Factory because the building used to be the old Alfred Bird custard works.

Birmingham

4.

I’m down the road in a Black Country town now.  This town used to be famed as the centre of Britain’s leather industry, a fact still commemorated in the nickname of its football team.

Walsall

(the team is known as the Saddlers)

5.

I’m in a small village in East Anglia now.  Before the Dissolution the shrine here rivalled Canterbury as the foremost pilgrimage site in England. Anglo-Catholic pilgrimages were resumed in the 1920s and are still going strong.

Walsingham

6.

I’ve moved across to Suffolk now but to which town?  The town is associated with the last Saxon king of East Anglia.  I’m sitting in the Nutshell which, at 16 feet by 7.5 feet, claims to be England’s smallest pub.

Bury St Edmunds

7.

I’m on the Riviera now but alas it is the English Riviera.  I’m in the small, hilly fishing port at the southern end of Torbay.  William Prince of Orange landed here in 1688 to lead the so-called Glorious Revolution.

Brixham

8.

I’m ending my holiday in the small Cornish resort that claims to be England’s oldest town.  At low water I am able to walk across the causeway to St Michael’s Mount which lies half-a-mile offshore.

Marazion

Sp.

I am now in which English County?  I am in the village of Wroxeter which stands on the remains of the Roman city of Viroconium, once Britain’s fourth largest city.  

Shropshire

1.

Mike Baldwin

2.

In the 1969 song, name the character whose last transmission to Ground Control was: “Tell my wife I love her very much”.

Major Tom

(in Bowie’s Space Oddity)

3.

Which river rises in Mallerstang and wends its way through Cumbria for 90 miles or so before flowing into the Solway Firth?

River Eden

4.

Though officially classified as a village which fishing port on the Isle of Man is often referred to as a city thanks to its cathedral which is the seat of the bishop of Sodor and Man?

Peel

5.

In which short story by Edgar Allan Poe is the narrator saved at the last moment by rats from a cruel death at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition?

The Pit and the Pendulum

6.

Which 1959 Hitchcock film reaches a thrilling climax with a chase across the top of the Mount Rushmore monument?

North by Northwest

7.

An unintentional comment made about Eric Clapton’s new racing bike led to the title of which 1967 album by Cream?  It featured the hit single Sunshine of your Love.

Disraeli  Gears

(the roadie asked if the bike had them new Disraeli gears when he meant derailleur gears)

8.

Named after a British surveyor in 1885 what is the name of Malaysia’s biggest and best known hill station and resort. It lies about 120 miles from Kuala Lumpur.

The Cameron Highlands

Sp.

In The Threepenny Opera by Brecht and Weill what is the full surname of Mack The Knife?

MacHeath

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a British Prime Minister

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Picture Round with a German theme

"For you Englischers, ze quiz is almost over - but first you must look into ze lights and tell us all you know about Germany"

1.

Name the German captain.

Uwe Seeler

2.

Why did this young lady make the headlines in May 2010?

She won the Eurovision song contest for Germany (Lena)

3.

Name this famous German.

Martin Luther

4.

Name this ancient city on the Moselle. Its main attraction is the Porta Nigra, the finest example of Roman architecture still standing in Germany. Karl Marx was born here in 1818.

Trier

(accept Treves, its French name)

5.

Why did this man make the headlines in February 2012?

He resigned as President of Germany after accusations of corruption

(Christian Wulff)

6.

Of which famous son of Nuremberg is this a self portrait?

(Albrecht) Dürer

7.

Name this city. The  iconic photograph was taken on the morning of February 15th 1945 from the ruins of the historic Frauenkirche.  

Dresden

8.

"They think it’s all over."  Not yet, thanks to this man’s late equaliser which brought the 1966 World Cup final into extra time.  Who is he?  (surname will suffice)

(Wolfgang) Weber

Sp.

Name the 16 year old (circled) looking very much at home in Nazi Germany attending the 1937 funeral of his sister.        

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark

(aka Duke of Edinburgh)

1.

In 1984 how many people were crowded into the afore-mentioned Nutshell, England’s smallest pub (16 feet x 7.5 feet), to break the previous record? The only stipulation was that only people of legal drinking age were allowed and that each person had to be holding a drink.

102

2.

On 2nd May 2009 Leinster met Munster in a Heineken Cup semi-final in Croke Park, Dublin.  The attendance set a new world record for the number of people at a rugby union club/provincial match. Give the attendance figure.

82,208