ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

Much in the news earlier this year, for what does the or stand in the acronym Libor?

2.

During the 2011–12 Barclays Premier League season which was the first club Manchester City failed to beat and was also one of only two clubs that Robin van Persie failed to score a league goal against?

3.

The former MP for Stretford and later Davyhulme, Winston Churchill, was what relation to the British Prime Minister of the same name?

4.

In darts what is the standard height above the floor of the bullseye? (answer to be given in feet and inches)

5.

Which British airline began life in 1953 with charter flights from Southend Airport, became the UK’s largest independent carrier by the mid-1970s and following financial problems was bought by British Airways in 1992 for the princely sum of £1?

6.

The naval battle of Cape Matapan was fought during which war?

7.

Devised by mechanical engineer Frederick Methvan Whyte in the early twentieth century, Whyte notation is a system used to classify what?

8.

Who presents the weekday BBC Radio 2 show that features the PopMaster music quiz?

9.

Which canal is carried over the Manchester Ship Canal by the Barton Swing Aqueduct?

10.

What name is commonly given to trees and shrubs of the genus Ilex?

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ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Paired with Round 6

1.

It’s September 11th 1978 and a BBC World Service correspondent is walking over Waterloo Bridge just about to make news himself.  What was his name?

2.

What name was given to Britain in George Orwell’s 1984?

3.

‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘Goodbye’ are the only words found on what?

4.

In a standard pack of cards what feature of their depiction is shared by the Jack of Spades, the Jack of Hearts and the King of Diamonds?

5.

The border between which two countries is the longest land border in the world?

6.

Which place is featured in the first line of the Edward Lear limerick of which this is the second line: “Who frequented the top of a tree”?

7.

What was the name of the 1998 British Toy of the Year?  It spoke a language based on Japanese grammar with a polyglot of Hebrew, Chinese and Thai.

8.

Auckland Castle is the official residence of whom?

9.

What’s the connection between:

• Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson

• Hollywood’s first Western megastar whose films were made mainly in the silent era

• A Vesta Tilley music hall song about an aristocratic young idler who pursues a life of leisure in the West End of London?

10.

Identify the single letter misspelling in this Slade Number One title: Cum On Feel The Noyze.

11.

Who was the Labour candidate for the post of Mayor of London in the 2000 elections?

12.

Which two European Capital cities are 60 km apart by road?

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Wordle Round

‘Wordles’ are randomised word pictures created from text.  A word’s size in the picture is determined by the number of times it occurs.  Common English words (e.g. ‘and’ and ‘to’), as well as title words and proper names that might make it too obvious, are omitted.  For longer texts only the 150 most frequently occurring words are used.

1.

Identify the Bob Dylan song from these lyrics.

2.

Identify the Bob Dylan song from these lyrics.

3.

Identify the folk song from these lyrics.

4.

Identify the folk song from these lyrics.

5.

Identify the Cole Porter song from these lyrics.

6.

Identify the Cole Porter song from these lyrics.

7.

Identify the 20th century poem.

8.

Identify the 20th century poem.

9.

Identify Nursery Rhyme.

10.

Identify Nursery Rhyme.

11.

Identify the Abba hit from these lyrics

12.

Identify the Abba hit from these lyrics

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden Theme

Each answer contains a word that belongs to a relevant set

1.

Who holds the record for the most football international caps for Scotland?

2.

To which much loved author and humorist did biologist Richard Dawkins dedicate his book The God Delusion, writing on this person’s death that “Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender.”?

3.

What’s the name of the 6th book of the Old Testament – between Deuteronomy and Judges – that largely concerns the story of the Israelites entry into Canaan?

4.

Who won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor in 2012 for a film released in 2011?

5.

Which 1981 film won BAFTAs for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay and starred John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, and Clare Grogan?

6.

Who was the Langworthy Professor of Physics at the Victoria University of Manchester between 1907 and 1919?

7.

Which right wing American author wrote The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games amongst many other espionage and thriller novels?

8.

Which local government district is based in Whitehaven, Cumbria?

9.

What was the name of the last Empress of Iran who was chased into exile in 1979?

10.

Which English Test cricketer made a century on his Test debut against Australia at the Oval in 2009?

11.

What’s the name of the county town of County Clare in Ireland?

12.

Ward Hill, the highest point in the Orkney Isles is found on which island?

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Paired with Round 3

1.

It’s December 3rd 1966 and you’re on a Royal Navy ship just off Gibraltar.  Which 2 national leaders might you see?

2.

Which northern town is thought to be the model for Charles Dickens’ Coketown, the setting for most of the action in his novel Hard Times?

3.

What is the name of the small piece of wood on which the finger is rested which is used to indicate the letters of the message during a ouija board session?

4.

In a standard pack of playing cards, the King of Hearts is the only king lacking what?

5.

Which country in the world has the most borders with other countries?

6.

Which place is featured in the first line of the Edward Lear limerick of which this is the second line: “Who danced at the end of a bough”?

7.

What was the name of the 2005 British Toy of the Year?  It was a hand held digital pet with a screen that featured amongst other things a ‘toilet’ icon, a ‘play’ icon and an ‘attention’ icon.

8.

Bute House is the official residence of whom?

9.

What’s the connection between:

• an Astaire/Rogers film

• what represents a kiss in Peter Pan

• George W Bush’s pet?

10.

Identify the single letter misspelling in this Slade Number One title: Sqweeze Me Pleeze Me.

11.

The death of the Mayor of the East Riding village of Wetwang was headline news when it happened in June 2005.  What was his name?

12.

Which two European Capital cities are 60 km apart by sea?

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Tiebreaker

How many novels did Barbara Cartland write in 1983?

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ROUND 1 - Stockport style - Verbal

1.

With which TV programme would you associate The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town?

The Two Ronnies

2.

Name this MP who was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Justine Greening

3.

Which group’s most recent top ten UK hit was The Anniversary Waltz - Part 1 in 1990, almost 23 years after they first reached the top ten?

Status Quo

4.

Civil aircraft from which country have registration numbers prefixed by the letters VT?

India

5.

This eighteenth century painting by Benjamin West depicts whose death?

General James Wolfe

6.

Who is the Prime Minister of Italy?

Mario Monti

7.

In which castle on the banks of the River Trent did King John die from dysentery in October 1216?

Newark Castle

8.

Which country has a capital city whose name is an anagram of 'Low Nigel'?

Malawi

(Lilongwe)

9.

England Test cricketers Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott both play for which county?

Warwickshire

10.

At this summer’s Wimbledon Championships, who did Andy Murray defeat in the semi-final to become the first British male finalist for 74 years?

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

11.

Of which Mediterranean island is this the flag?

Ibiza

12.

Why was eleven-year-old Liam Corcoran in the news in July this year?

He flew from Manchester to Rome without a ticket or passport

13.

Which country has borders with Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa?

Botswana

14.

The principal setting for Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors can be found in which modern-day country?

Turkey

(Ephesus)

15.

Which best-selling Irish author, whose works include the novels Tara Road and Scarlet Feather and the play Deeply Regretted By, died on 30 July this year?

Maeve Binchy

16.

Which celebrated American novelist, essayist and critic died the day after Maeve Binchy?

Gore Vidal

17.

The principal setting for Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost can be found in which modern-day country?

Spain

(Navarre)

18.

Which country has borders with Argentina, Brazil and Peru?

Bolivia

19.

Three members of which Russian feminist punk band were convicted last month of ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’?

Pussy Riot

20.

Sardinia

21.

At this year’s Wimbledon Championships, Jonathan Marray became the first British winner of the Men’s Doubles in 76 years. What was the nationality of his playing partner?

Danish

(Frederik Nielsen)

22.

England Test cricketers Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad both play for which county?

Nottinghamshire

23.

Which country has a capital city whose name is an anagram of 'Bone Lamp'?

Belize

(Belmopan)

24.

Worcester Cathedral

25.

Who is the Prime Minister of Greece?

Antonis Samaras

26.

Whose death is depicted in this work by French artist Jacques-Louis David?

Socrates

27.

Which letter is used to prefix the registration numbers of civil aircraft in China?

B

28.

Which group’s most recent top ten UK hit was Alone in 1997, almost 30 years after their first top ten hit?

The Bee Gees

29.

Name this MP who was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Theresa Villiers

30.

With which TV programme would you associate The Phantom Flan Flinger?

Tiswas

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ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

Much in the news earlier this year, for what does the or stand in the acronym Libor?

Offered Rate

(London Interbank Offered Rate)

2.

During the 2011–12 Barclays Premier League season which was the first club Manchester City failed to beat and was also one of only two clubs that Robin van Persie failed to score a league goal against?

Fulham

3.

The former MP for Stretford and later Davyhulme, Winston Churchill, was what relation to the British Prime Minister of the same name?

Grandson

4.

In darts what is the standard height above the floor of the bullseye? (answer to be given in feet and inches)

5 feet 8 inches

5.

Which British airline began life in 1953 with charter flights from Southend Airport, became the UK’s largest independent carrier by the mid-1970s and following financial problems was bought by British Airways in 1992 for the princely sum of £1?

Dan-Air

6.

The naval battle of Cape Matapan was fought during which war?

7.

Devised by mechanical engineer Frederick Methvan Whyte in the early twentieth century, Whyte notation is a system used to classify what?

(by their wheel arrangement)

8.

Who presents the weekday BBC Radio 2 show that features the PopMaster music quiz?

9.

Which canal is carried over the Manchester Ship Canal by the Barton Swing Aqueduct?

10.

What name is commonly given to trees and shrubs of the genus Ilex?

Holly

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ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Paired with Round 6

1.

It’s September 11th 1978 and a BBC World Service correspondent is walking over Waterloo Bridge just about to make news himself.  What was his name?

Georgi Markov

(killed by the Bulgarian Secret Service with a poisoned umbrella)

2.

What name was given to Britain in George Orwell’s 1984?

Airstrip One

3.

‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘Goodbye’ are the only words found on what?

Ouija board

4.

In a standard pack of cards what feature of their depiction is shared by the Jack of Spades, the Jack of Hearts and the King of Diamonds?

They are shown in profile rather than full face

(like the other court cards)

5.

The border between which two countries is the longest land border in the world?

Canada and the USA

6.

Which place is featured in the first line of the Edward Lear limerick of which this is the second line: “Who frequented the top of a tree”?

Dundee

7.

What was the name of the 1998 British Toy of the Year?  It spoke a language based on Japanese grammar with a polyglot of Hebrew, Chinese and Thai.

Furby

8.

Auckland Castle is the official residence of whom?

Bishop of Durham

9.

What’s the connection between:

• Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson

• Hollywood’s first Western megastar whose films were made mainly in the silent era

• A Vesta Tilley music hall song about an aristocratic young idler who pursues a life of leisure in the West End of London?

Nicknames for numbers in Bingo

(Two Fat Ladies – 88, Tom Mix – 6, Burlington Bertie – 30)

10.

Identify the single letter misspelling in this Slade Number One title: Cum On Feel The Noyze.

Cum On Feel The Noize

11.

Who was the Labour candidate for the post of Mayor of London in the 2000 elections?

Frank Dobson

12.

Which two European Capital cities are 60 km apart by road?

Bratislava and Vienna

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Wordle Round

‘Wordles’ are randomised word pictures created from text.  A word’s size in the picture is determined by the number of times it occurs.  Common English words (e.g. ‘and’ and ‘to’), as well as title words and proper names that might make it too obvious, are omitted.  For longer texts only the 150 most frequently occurring words are used.

1.

Identify the Bob Dylan song from these lyrics.

With God on Our Side

2.

Identify the Bob Dylan song from these lyrics.

Just Like a Woman

3.

Identify the folk song from these lyrics.

Greensleeves

4.

Identify the folk song from these lyrics.

Barbara Allen

5.

Identify the Cole Porter song from these lyrics.

Anything Goes

6.

Identify the Cole Porter song from these lyrics.

I Get a Kick Out of You

7.

Identify the 20th century poem.

A Subaltern’s Love Song

(by John Betjeman)

8.

Identify the 20th century poem.

The Soldier

(by Rupert Brooke)

9.

Identify Nursery Rhyme.

I Had a Little Nut Tree

10.

Identify Nursery Rhyme.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

11.

Identify the Abba hit from these lyrics

Waterloo

12.

Identify the Abba hit from these lyrics

Mamma Mia

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

Each answer contains a word that belongs to a relevant set

1.

Who holds the record for the most football international caps for Scotland?

Kenny Dalglish

(102)

2.

To which much loved author and humorist did biologist Richard Dawkins dedicate his book The God Delusion, writing on this person’s death that “Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender.”?

Douglas Adams

3.

What’s the name of the 6th book of the Old Testament – between Deuteronomy and Judges – that largely concerns the story of the Israelites entry into Canaan?

Joshua

4.

Who won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor in 2012 for a film released in 2011?

Jean Dujardin

(for The Artist)

5.

Which 1981 film won BAFTAs for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay and starred John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, and Clare Grogan?

Gregory’s Girl

6.

Who was the Langworthy Professor of Physics at the Victoria University of Manchester between 1907 and 1919?

Ernest Rutherford

7.

Which right wing American author wrote The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games amongst many other espionage and thriller novels?

Tom Clancy

8.

Which local government district is based in Whitehaven, Cumbria?

Copeland

9.

What was the name of the last Empress of Iran who was chased into exile in 1979?

Farah

(Pahlavi)

10.

Which English Test cricketer made a century on his Test debut against Australia at the Oval in 2009?

Jonathan Trott

11.

What’s the name of the county town of County Clare in Ireland?

Ennis

12.

Ward Hill, the highest point in the Orkney Isles is found on which island?

Hoy

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Paired with Round 3

1.

It’s December 3rd 1966 and you’re on a Royal Navy ship just off Gibraltar.  Which 2 national leaders might you see?

Harold Wilson & Ian Smith

(discussing Rhodesia’s UDI)

2.

Which northern town is thought to be the model for Charles Dickens’ Coketown, the setting for most of the action in his novel Hard Times?

Preston

3.

What is the name of the small piece of wood on which the finger is rested which is used to indicate the letters of the message during a ouija board session?

Planchette

4.

In a standard pack of playing cards, the King of Hearts is the only king lacking what?

A moustache

5.

Which country in the world has the most borders with other countries?

China

(14)

6.

Which place is featured in the first line of the Edward Lear limerick of which this is the second line: “Who danced at the end of a bough”?

Slough

7.

What was the name of the 2005 British Toy of the Year?  It was a hand held digital pet with a screen that featured amongst other things a ‘toilet’ icon, a ‘play’ icon and an ‘attention’ icon.

Tamagotchi

8.

Bute House is the official residence of whom?

Scottish First Minister

9.

What’s the connection between:

• an Astaire/Rogers film

• what represents a kiss in Peter Pan

• George W Bush’s pet?

They are all tokens in the game of Monopoly

(Top Hat, thimble and Scottie dog)

10.

Identify the single letter misspelling in this Slade Number One title: Sqweeze Me Pleeze Me.

Skweeze Me Pleeze Me

11.

The death of the Mayor of the East Riding village of Wetwang was headline news when it happened in June 2005.  What was his name?

Richard Whiteley

12.

Which two European Capital cities are 60 km apart by sea?

Tallinn and Helsinki

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Tiebreaker

How many novels did Barbara Cartland write in 1983?

23

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