ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

Which 1997 film concludes, somewhat ironically given what is happening on screen, with the sound of Tom Jones singing “You can keep your hat on”?

2.

Where within London travel card zone 2 can you find a blue plaque issued by Comic Heritage honouring Willy Rushton?

3.

Which retail chain recently launched its latest advertising campaign 'The new breed' featuring Spud, a British bulldog, being carried in a Philip Lim handbag; Pepper, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, in a bag from Marc Jacobs; and Dozer, an English Bull Terrier in one from Sophie Hulme?

4.

He was born in Prague in 1619, the fourth son of the soon to be deposed King of Bohemia.  He was a nephew of Charles I of England and, through his youngest sister’s marriage, also an uncle to the Hanoverian George I.  He now lies buried in Westminster Abbey.  Who is he?

5.

In which Moray town would you find the Strathisla distillery, the headquarters of Chivas Brothers, whose single malt defines the taste of Chivas Regal?

6.

Which 1966 film has the final line “What’s it all about? You know what I mean” delivered straight to camera by the character played by its leading man, Michael Caine?

7.

What is the English title of the 2008 novel by Jo Nesbo that was published as Hodejegerne in Norway?

8.

The encore at the annual New Year’s Day concert by the Vienna Philharmonic traditionally comprises of a polka, the Radetsky March and which waltz composed in 1866 by the younger Johan Strauss?

Sp.

Which football club were elected to the Third Division North of the Football League in 1923, occasionally played their home games at the 80,000-capacity Tower Athletic Ground until they failed to be re-elected in 1951 and were replaced by Workington Town?

1.

In which Century did the Venerable Bede, the only Englishman to have been made a Doctor of the Church, die?

2.

Who created Mister Mistoffolees, a character who could “play any trick with a cork or a spoon and a bit of fish paste”?

3.

Which Oxford fellow created the fictional demon Screwtape, an Undersecretary of a department in the Lowerarchy of Hell?

4.

In which Century did Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have been Pope, die?

5.

You venture out to a bijou bistro in Billinge where you order a starter of Potage Saint Germain.  The waiter brings you a thick soup made from which principal ingredient?

6.

A member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy how is, or was, Richard Bingham, born on the 18th of December 1934, better known?

7.

A member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy how was, Francis Pakenham, born on the 5th of December 1905, better known?

8.

What ingredient does Nigella Lawson recommend sourcing from the Lot-et-Garonne region and soaking overnight in Armagnac in her deluxe version of 'Devils on Horseback'?

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

What commenced life when it was granted a Royal Charter in 1588, reached its zenith in 1834, but is perhaps now best known as a piece of cockney rhyming slang?

2.

Which Redditch based motorcycle manufacturer, whose logo featured a military cannon below the slogan “made like a gun', launched a model called the Bullet in 1932?

3.

What is bound by Walton Lane, Priory Road, Arkles Lane and Anfield Road and is also the home of the Grade II listed Victorian masterpiece, the Gladstone Conservatory?

4.

What common name is given to those species of bird that belong to the genus circus?

5.

Which town was the birthplace of these two culinary delights: Marmite in 1902 and Branston Pickle in 1922?

6.

Who’s next on this list: Idi Amin, Daniel PIainview, Harvey Milk, Otis Blake, King George VI, George Valentin and…..?

7.

Which tube station lies between the Elephant & Castle and London Bridge on the Northern Line?

8.

In which 1971 film did Bambi and Thumper appear in minor roles as villainous bodyguards?

Sp.

A train leaves Aberdeen at 7:52 bound for London Kings Cross.  At which station does it stop at 12:27 assuming it is running on time?

ROUNDS 4 & 5 - The Selection Box

Two rounds of pick your own blockbuster questions with pairings, treblings, eighteen pictures and nine mini hidden themes.  In front of you are 9 chocolate wrappers.  Each chocolate comes with 3 questions - two are pictures and one verbal.

Six of the nine pairs of pictures and five of the verbals share the same subject matter.

All three answers for any given chocolate share a connection, a mini hidden theme, with that chocolate. However there is a variety of mini themes spread across the chocolates.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Name the boat race winner and history graduate holding the skull.

5.

Name this saint holding a skull as a mark of his contemplative nature. He was born in Cologne, was active in the eleventh century, and founded the Carthusian order.

6.

Which team play their home games in Bergen and won the Norwegian Football League in 2007, their first such success for forty four years?

7.

8.

9.

Which UK number one single of 1966 provided the appropriate background music to an early scene in the 1988 film Buster where Buster Edwards, played by Phil Collins, makes his getaway on foot from a gentleman’s outfitters?

10.

The Kit Kat club was an influential organisation in eighteenth century England. Forty eight of its most eminent members sat for a standard Kit Kat portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller.  Name the politician sitting for his portrait sometime between 1710 and 1715.

11.

The Kit Kat club was an influential organisation in eighteenth century England. Forty eight of its most eminent members sat for a standard Kit Kat portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller.  Name the architect sitting for his portrait sometime between 1704 and 1710.

12.

The Kit Kat Klub provides the opening scene for which film musical, the winner of eight academy awards in 1973?

13.

Name this current premier league footballer seen here celebrating his first, and so far only, goal for Scotland in 2009.

14.

Name this footballer seen here celebrating his sixth and last international goal in 2006.  He retired last summer having played in the Premiership for three different clubs and after amassing 67 caps, the seventh most by a Scottish player.

15.

Who scored 52 goals, a post war record in League football, during Peterborough United’s inaugural season in the Football League, 1960-61, when collectively they scored 134 goals which remains a League record?

16.

Name this Royal Navy vessel launched in 1820.

17.

Name this band whose debut album entitled Keep your Distance went to number 1 in the UK album charts in 1987.

18.

From which poem are the following lines taken: “The naked hulk alongside came, and the twain were casting dice; ‘the game is done! I've won! I've won!' Quoth she, and whistled thrice.”?

19.

Name this 60 year old Jamaican dub poet.

20.

Name this 66 year old Jamaican born opera singer.

21.

Name the 74 year old Jamaican singer-songwriter who recorded the single Madness in 1963, the record that, thirteen years later would provide the inspiration for the name of the British band.

22.

Name this light bomber, built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which entered into service with the RAF in 1937.

23.

Name this long range heavy fighter, built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which entered into service with the RAF in August 1940.

24.

Who crashed a Bristol Bulldog Mark IIa biplane K1676 on the 14th of December 1931 while attempting unauthorized aerobatics? 

25.

Who appears to be at prayer instead of milking the applause in his first ever One Day International in 1991?

26.

Name the female closest to the camera and the centre of attention when leaving the Old Bailey in 1963.

27.

Which former US Secretary of State is a gifted pianist and accompanied the award winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the National Medal of Arts Awards on 22nd of April, 2002?

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

RSPB Bempton Cliffs lies within which Site of Special Scientific Interest created in 1952 on the Yorkshire coast to protect an area of both geological and biological significance?

2.

Which single of 1978 features the following lyrics: “I could be a writer with a growing reputation, I could be the ticket-man at Fulham Broadway station”?

3.

On the cover of which album do the Beatles appear to be sending the semaphore signal NUJV?

4.

What concept, first propounded by nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford in 1907, was selected to be the title of a video game in which players assume the role of nuclear physicist Dr Gordon Freeman? It has achieved sales in excess of 9 million units since its launch in 1998.

5.

What breed of horse was John Gammage referring to when, in 1972 after redesigning the crest of a future UEFA cup winning football club, he said: “a noble animal, well suited to dominate our design and represent the club.”?

6.

What acclaimed food innovation, launched in 1928, was banned by the US Food Administration on January the 18th 1943 as part of the war effort to reduce wasteful packaging; the measure, as unpopular as it was unworkable, was rescinded on the 8th of March that year?

7.

Members of which subversive organisation, having stolen a Scorpion tank with which to invade the Houses of Parliament, ended up seeing the father of their leader’s girlfriend accidently spray his suburban garden with heavy machine gun fire wiping out his entire gnomery in the process?

8.

Who won 15 Champion Trainer of National Hunt Racing titles between the seasons 1988-89 and 2004-05 when he retired through ill health?

Sp.

#BBBOTS is a twitter platform for a television show needlessly resurrected by Channel Five.  What do the initials stand for?

ROUND 7 - Pairs - 'How did you get that name?'

1.

The surnames Tucker, popular in the north, and Fuller, popular in East Anglia, are both derived from the same medieval occupation. What did a Tucker, or a Fuller, do?

2.

It may now be idiomatic, but on what would a tucker, or a fuller, have hung his washed and beaten cloth to allow it to dry?

3.

What Soviet offensive, launched in September 1944 and ably supported by a nascent Czechoslovakian Army, later served as a prefix for a football club who, having been formed in 1948, went on to win their national league eleven times, the last being in 1982?

4.

What fertility goddess from Germania, described by the Roman historian Tacitus, later served as a prefix for a football club who went on to win their national league twice in 1930 and 1931?

5.

The inspiration for the name of which punk band came from a faded piece of graffiti celebrating Walton and Hersham’s successful challenge for the Athenian Football League title in 1969?

6.

The title of a song on The Vibrators’ debut album, and specifically one particular line from that song, which postulated how someone can tell when you are dead, would later provide the inspiration for the name of another punk band.  Name that band.

7.

8.

Astronomical discoveries have inspired the naming of several chemical elements.  Which element, the most abundant of the rare earth elements, was named after, what was then, the recent astronomical discovery made by Giuseppe Piazzi on the first day of 1801?

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

What phrase, made famous by another party a generation later, was actually first coined by Adam Smith in 1776 to conclude the following sentence "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may, at first sight, appear a project fit only for a…”?

2.

What is the nationality of racing car driver Juan Fangio?

3.

Which was the only aircraft type to have been fitted with the Rolls Royce Snecma Olympus 593 aero engine?

4.

What was the title of the highly acclaimed book by Anthony Beevor that won three major awards in 1999: the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, the Wolfson History Prize and the inaugural Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction worth thirty thousand pounds?

5.

If Victor Hugo’s Quasimodo was the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Alexandre Dumas’ Edmond Dantes was the Count of Monte Cristo, who was Gaston Leroux’s Erik?

6.

What was the flagship of Admiral Tovey, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, when along with HMS Rodney, she engaged the Bismarck on the 27th of May 1941 inflicting severe damage before a fuel shortage prompted her withdrawal?

7.

Which comet, discovered simultaneously and independently by both an American and a German, had its most recent perihelion in 1997, and is responsible for the Leonid meteor showers?

8.

What municipally owned facility, and now a major tourist magnet, was named after the Jesuit priest who, from his appointment in 1674 until his own death thirty five years later, was father confessor to Louis XIV?

Sp.

Who was the only President of the USA to have had three different Vice Presidents?

Spares

1.

Which nineteenth century novel opens in 1815 and concludes seventeen years later with the death of Jean Valjean?

2.

What country bordering the Black Sea stands between Turkey and Russia?

3.

Polaris, launched in 1912 from the Framnes yard in Sandjeford, Norway, would find everlasting fame on its final voyage while flying the Red Ensign but under what name?

4.

5.

In which English county would you find the Pevensey Levels?

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

Which 1997 film concludes, somewhat ironically given what is happening on screen, with the sound of Tom Jones singing “You can keep your hat on”?

The Full Monty

2.

Where within London travel card zone 2 can you find a blue plaque issued by Comic Heritage honouring Willy Rushton?

Mornington Crescent tube station

3.

Which retail chain recently launched its latest advertising campaign 'The new breed' featuring Spud, a British bulldog, being carried in a Philip Lim handbag; Pepper, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, in a bag from Marc Jacobs; and Dozer, an English Bull Terrier in one from Sophie Hulme?

Harvey Nichols

4.

He was born in Prague in 1619, the fourth son of the soon to be deposed King of Bohemia.  He was a nephew of Charles I of England and, through his youngest sister’s marriage, also an uncle to the Hanoverian George I.  He now lies buried in Westminster Abbey.  Who is he?

Prince Rupert

(of the Rhine)

5.

In which Moray town would you find the Strathisla distillery, the headquarters of Chivas Brothers, whose single malt defines the taste of Chivas Regal?

Keith

6.

Which 1966 film has the final line “What’s it all about? You know what I mean” delivered straight to camera by the character played by its leading man, Michael Caine?

Alfie

7.

What is the English title of the 2008 novel by Jo Nesbo that was published as Hodejegerne in Norway?

Head Hunters

8.

The encore at the annual New Year’s Day concert by the Vienna Philharmonic traditionally comprises of a polka, the Radetsky March and which waltz composed in 1866 by the younger Johan Strauss?

The Blue Danube

Sp.

Which football club were elected to the Third Division North of the Football League in 1923, occasionally played their home games at the 80,000-capacity Tower Athletic Ground until they failed to be re-elected in 1951 and were replaced by Workington Town?

New Brighton

1.

In which Century did the Venerable Bede, the only Englishman to have been made a Doctor of the Church, die?

Eighth

(735)

2.

Who created Mister Mistoffolees, a character who could “play any trick with a cork or a spoon and a bit of fish paste”?

T S Eliot

3.

Which Oxford fellow created the fictional demon Screwtape, an Undersecretary of a department in the Lowerarchy of Hell?

C S Lewis

4.

In which Century did Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have been Pope, die?

Twelfth

(1159)

5.

You venture out to a bijou bistro in Billinge where you order a starter of Potage Saint Germain.  The waiter brings you a thick soup made from which principal ingredient?

(Dried) Peas

6.

A member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy how is, or was, Richard Bingham, born on the 18th of December 1934, better known?

Lord Lucan

7.

A member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy how was, Francis Pakenham, born on the 5th of December 1905, better known?

Lord Longford

8.

What ingredient does Nigella Lawson recommend sourcing from the Lot-et-Garonne region and soaking overnight in Armagnac in her deluxe version of 'Devils on Horseback'?

Prunes

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

What commenced life when it was granted a Royal Charter in 1588, reached its zenith in 1834, but is perhaps now best known as a piece of cockney rhyming slang?

Barnet Fair

2.

Which Redditch based motorcycle manufacturer, whose logo featured a military cannon below the slogan “made like a gun', launched a model called the Bullet in 1932?

Royal Enfield

3.

What is bound by Walton Lane, Priory Road, Arkles Lane and Anfield Road and is also the home of the Grade II listed Victorian masterpiece, the Gladstone Conservatory?

Stanley Park, Liverpool

4.

What common name is given to those species of bird that belong to the genus circus?

Harriers

5.

Which town was the birthplace of these two culinary delights: Marmite in 1902 and Branston Pickle in 1922?

Burton-on-Trent

6.

Who’s next on this list: Idi Amin, Daniel PIainview, Harvey Milk, Otis Blake, King George VI, George Valentin and…..?

Abraham Lincoln

(being Oscar winning roles)

7.

Which tube station lies between the Elephant & Castle and London Bridge on the Northern Line?

The Borough

8.

In which 1971 film did Bambi and Thumper appear in minor roles as villainous bodyguards?

Diamonds Are Forever

Sp.

A train leaves Aberdeen at 7:52 bound for London Kings Cross.  At which station does it stop at 12:27 assuming it is running on time?

Darlington

Two rounds of pick your own blockbuster questions with pairings, treblings, eighteen pictures and nine mini hidden themes.  In front of you are 9 chocolate wrappers.  Each chocolate comes with 3 questions - two are pictures and one verbal.

Six of the nine pairs of pictures and five of the verbals share the same subject matter.

All three answers for any given chocolate share a connection, a mini hidden theme, with that chocolate. However there is a variety of mini themes spread across the chocolates.

1.

Rockhopper penguin

2.

Chinstrap penguin

3.

4.

Name the boat race winner and history graduate holding the skull.

Dan Snow

5.

Name this saint holding a skull as a mark of his contemplative nature. He was born in Cologne, was active in the eleventh century, and founded the Carthusian order.

St Bruno

6.

Which team play their home games in Bergen and won the Norwegian Football League in 2007, their first such success for forty four years?

(SK) Brann

7.

Laurence Olivier

(in Marathon Man)

8.

(either)

Tom Courtenay

(or)

James Bolam

(in Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)

9.

Which UK number one single of 1966 provided the appropriate background music to an early scene in the 1988 film Buster where Buster Edwards, played by Phil Collins, makes his getaway on foot from a gentleman’s outfitters?

10.

The Kit Kat club was an influential organisation in eighteenth century England. Forty eight of its most eminent members sat for a standard Kit Kat portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller.  Name the politician sitting for his portrait sometime between 1710 and 1715.

Robert Walpole

11.

The Kit Kat club was an influential organisation in eighteenth century England. Forty eight of its most eminent members sat for a standard Kit Kat portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller.  Name the architect sitting for his portrait sometime between 1704 and 1710.

Sir John Vanburgh

12.

The Kit Kat Klub provides the opening scene for which film musical, the winner of eight academy awards in 1973?

13.

Name this current premier league footballer seen here celebrating his first, and so far only, goal for Scotland in 2009.

Steven Fletcher

14.

Name this footballer seen here celebrating his sixth and last international goal in 2006.  He retired last summer having played in the Premiership for three different clubs and after amassing 67 caps, the seventh most by a Scottish player.

Christian Dailly

15.

Who scored 52 goals, a post war record in League football, during Peterborough United’s inaugural season in the Football League, 1960-61, when collectively they scored 134 goals which remains a League record?

16.

Name this Royal Navy vessel launched in 1820.

HMS Beagle

17.

Name this band whose debut album entitled Keep your Distance went to number 1 in the UK album charts in 1987.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

18.

From which poem are the following lines taken: “The naked hulk alongside came, and the twain were casting dice; ‘the game is done! I've won! I've won!' Quoth she, and whistled thrice.”?

19.

Name this 60 year old Jamaican dub poet.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

20.

Name this 66 year old Jamaican born opera singer.

Willard White

21.

Name the 74 year old Jamaican singer-songwriter who recorded the single Madness in 1963, the record that, thirteen years later would provide the inspiration for the name of the British band.

(accept Muhammed Yusef Ali)

22.

Name this light bomber, built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which entered into service with the RAF in 1937.

Blenheim

23.

Name this long range heavy fighter, built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which entered into service with the RAF in August 1940.

Beaufighter

24.

Who crashed a Bristol Bulldog Mark IIa biplane K1676 on the 14th of December 1931 while attempting unauthorized aerobatics? 

25.

Who appears to be at prayer instead of milking the applause in his first ever One Day International in 1991?

Clive Rice

(in South Africa’s first international cricket match post-apartheid isolation)

26.

Name the female closest to the camera and the centre of attention when leaving the Old Bailey in 1963.

Mandy Rice-Davies

27.

Which former US Secretary of State is a gifted pianist and accompanied the award winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the National Medal of Arts Awards on 22nd of April, 2002?

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

RSPB Bempton Cliffs lies within which Site of Special Scientific Interest created in 1952 on the Yorkshire coast to protect an area of both geological and biological significance?

Flamborough Head

2.

Which single of 1978 features the following lyrics: “I could be a writer with a growing reputation, I could be the ticket-man at Fulham Broadway station”?

What A Waste

3.

On the cover of which album do the Beatles appear to be sending the semaphore signal NUJV?

Help!

(because, in what may be an urban myth, H-E-L-P was adjudged unphotogenic)

4.

What concept, first propounded by nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford in 1907, was selected to be the title of a video game in which players assume the role of nuclear physicist Dr Gordon Freeman? It has achieved sales in excess of 9 million units since its launch in 1998.

Half-life

5.

What breed of horse was John Gammage referring to when, in 1972 after redesigning the crest of a future UEFA cup winning football club, he said: “a noble animal, well suited to dominate our design and represent the club.”?

A Suffolk Punch

(Ipswich Town)

6.

What acclaimed food innovation, launched in 1928, was banned by the US Food Administration on January the 18th 1943 as part of the war effort to reduce wasteful packaging; the measure, as unpopular as it was unworkable, was rescinded on the 8th of March that year?

Sliced Bread

(at the time it used a heavy gauge waxed paper to keep it fresh)

7.

Members of which subversive organisation, having stolen a Scorpion tank with which to invade the Houses of Parliament, ended up seeing the father of their leader’s girlfriend accidently spray his suburban garden with heavy machine gun fire wiping out his entire gnomery in the process?

The Tooting Popular Front

8.

Who won 15 Champion Trainer of National Hunt Racing titles between the seasons 1988-89 and 2004-05 when he retired through ill health?

Martin Pipe

Sp.

#BBBOTS is a twitter platform for a television show needlessly resurrected by Channel Five.  What do the initials stand for?

Big Brother’s Bit On The Side

ROUND 7 - Pairs - 'How did you get that name?'

1.

The surnames Tucker, popular in the north, and Fuller, popular in East Anglia, are both derived from the same medieval occupation. What did a Tucker, or a Fuller, do?

Wash  cloth

(and thicken woollen cloth)

2.

It may now be idiomatic, but on what would a tucker, or a fuller, have hung his washed and beaten cloth to allow it to dry?

On the hooks of his tenter

3.

What Soviet offensive, launched in September 1944 and ably supported by a nascent Czechoslovakian Army, later served as a prefix for a football club who, having been formed in 1948, went on to win their national league eleven times, the last being in 1982?

Dukla

(as in Dukla Prague; the club, made famous by its away kit, was originally for serving soldiers)

4.

What fertility goddess from Germania, described by the Roman historian Tacitus, later served as a prefix for a football club who went on to win their national league twice in 1930 and 1931?

Hertha

(as in Berlin; accept goddess’s alternative name of Nerthus)

5.

The inspiration for the name of which punk band came from a faded piece of graffiti celebrating Walton and Hersham’s successful challenge for the Athenian Football League title in 1969?

Sham 69

6.

The title of a song on The Vibrators’ debut album, and specifically one particular line from that song, which postulated how someone can tell when you are dead, would later provide the inspiration for the name of another punk band.  Name that band.

Stiff Little Fingers

(“if it wasn’t for your stiff little fingers no-one would know you were dead”)

7.

(either)

Ytterbium

(or)

Yttrium

(Ytterby being the village)

8.

Astronomical discoveries have inspired the naming of several chemical elements.  Which element, the most abundant of the rare earth elements, was named after, what was then, the recent astronomical discovery made by Giuseppe Piazzi on the first day of 1801?

Cerium

(after Ceres)

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

What phrase, made famous by another party a generation later, was actually first coined by Adam Smith in 1776 to conclude the following sentence "To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may, at first sight, appear a project fit only for a…”?

"...nation of shopkeepers"

2.

What is the nationality of racing car driver Juan Fangio?

Argentine

(obviously accept Argentinian but point out the theme needs Argentine)

3.

Which was the only aircraft type to have been fitted with the Rolls Royce Snecma Olympus 593 aero engine?

Concorde

4.

What was the title of the highly acclaimed book by Anthony Beevor that won three major awards in 1999: the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, the Wolfson History Prize and the inaugural Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction worth thirty thousand pounds?

Stalingrad

5.

If Victor Hugo’s Quasimodo was the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Alexandre Dumas’ Edmond Dantes was the Count of Monte Cristo, who was Gaston Leroux’s Erik?

The Phantom of the Opera

6.

What was the flagship of Admiral Tovey, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, when along with HMS Rodney, she engaged the Bismarck on the 27th of May 1941 inflicting severe damage before a fuel shortage prompted her withdrawal?

King George V

7.

Which comet, discovered simultaneously and independently by both an American and a German, had its most recent perihelion in 1997, and is responsible for the Leonid meteor showers?

Temple Tuttle

8.

What municipally owned facility, and now a major tourist magnet, was named after the Jesuit priest who, from his appointment in 1674 until his own death thirty five years later, was father confessor to Louis XIV?

Père Lachaise cemetery

Sp.

Who was the only President of the USA to have had three different Vice Presidents?

Franklin D Roosevelt

(John Garner, Henry Wallace and Harry S Truman)

Spares

1.

Which nineteenth century novel opens in 1815 and concludes seventeen years later with the death of Jean Valjean?

Les Miserables

2.

What country bordering the Black Sea stands between Turkey and Russia?

Georgia

3.

Polaris, launched in 1912 from the Framnes yard in Sandjeford, Norway, would find everlasting fame on its final voyage while flying the Red Ensign but under what name?

Endurance

4.

James Toseland

5.

In which English county would you find the Pevensey Levels?

(East) Sussex