ROUND 1 - A Brief History of Manchester

1.

Richard Percival, a linen weaver who was shot in Market Street, Manchester, was the first casualty of which conflict?

2.

In 1727 Helen Morrison placed the first advert of its type in the Manchester Weekly Advertiser.  She was later sent to a lunatic asylum.  What was she looking for?

3.

“But the most horrible spot lies immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity."?

4.

Who was the last British Prime Minister to be born in Manchester?

5.

On 25^th March 1893 which major sporting event was held in Manchester for the only time?

6.

The first one opened on Stretford Road in Manchester in 1894.  There are now over 700 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  There are another 300 worldwide.  What are they?

7.

In 1937 which writer described Manchester as “the belly and guts of the nation”?

8.

“This is Kindly Light calling Manchester, come in Manchester, this is Kindly Light”?

1.

In which year did the following events occur:

• The death of James Joyce,

• the birth of Bob Dylan,

• the sinking of the Bismarck?

2.

In which European city is the Nymphenburg Palace?

3.

Which English city is 39 miles from Nottingham, 85 miles from Manchester and 143 miles from London?

4.

What word connects an Irish fishing boat, an American blues singer and a position in a rugby team?

5.

Its recipients include Charles Bronson, James Garner, John F Kennedy, Lee Marvin and Kurt Vonnegut.  What is it?

6.

Which movie villain appeared in films in 1977 and 1979 and was played by Richard Kiel?

7.

The most serious took place in 122 BC, 1669, 1928 and 2002.  The most recent took place last month.  What are they?

8.

They have featured in Eugene Onegin, the Three Musketeers, War and Peace, Blackadder and Dr Who.  What are they?

ROUND 3 - Hidden Link

The answers have a scientific link and are in a specific sequence

1.

What is the missing city in the title of this album by The Housemartins: London 0  ………. 4?

2.

Which group, which had albums called Penthouse and Pavement and The Luxury Gap, took their name from the novel  A Clockwork Orange?

3.

Which composer, born in 1811, composed works including the Faust Symphony and Liebestraume for piano?  (surname needed for the link)

4.

Which composer, born in 1803, composed works including the The Damnation of Faust and Symphonie Fantastique?  (surname needed for the link)

5.

Which author won the 1990 Booker prize for Possession? (surname needed for the link)

6.

What is the capital of Guinea?

7.

What is the capital of Chad?

8.

Which author won the 1990 Booker prize for The English Patient? (surname needed for the link)

Sp.

Who won the 1980 series of Mastermind?  (both names needed but first name needed for the link)

ROUND 4 - The Lego Picture Round

All the images have been recreated using Lego bricks

1.

Name the classic album cover.

2.

Name the classic album cover.

3.

Name the film.

4.

Name the film.

5.

On which island was this photograph posed?

6.

Who is the man with his mouth open just to the right of the man in the pale suit?

7.

Name this painting.

8.

Name this painting.

Alternative ROUND 4

Same answers but not clued with pictures

1.

Which 1979 album included the following tracks: Wrong ‘em Boyo, Spanish Bombs, The Guns of Brixton and Lost in the Supermarket?

2.

Which classic 1984 album included the following tracks:  Darlington County, Working on the Highway, Glory Days and Dancing in the Dark?

3.

From which 1969 film does the line, “Who are those guys?” come?

4.

From which 1994 film does the line, “Bring out the gimp” come?

5.

On which island was Jack Rosenthal’s famous Pulitzer Prize winning photo of marines raising the Stars and Stripes posed?

6.

Whose assassination was the subject of Robert Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph?

7.

Which iconic painting, which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts a Greenwich Village diner and its occupants viewed through a large window?

8.

Which iconic painting, which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts a famer and his unmarried daughter in front of a wooden framed house (which still stands in Eldon, Iowa)?

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme with Pairs

1.

Which English explorer (1554 – 1618) twice led unsuccessful expeditions to find the fabled El Dorado?

2.

Which Italian explorer (1451 – 1506) discovered an island which is now part of The Bahamas and named it San Salvador?

3.

How was Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien (1939 – 1999) better known?

4.

How was Henry John Deutschendorf Jr (1943 – 1997) better known?

5.

Which District Line station in south west London is the terminus of the south west branch of that line?

6.

Which District Line station in west London is the terminus of and only station on its branch line?

7.

Which Bundesliga team is identified with left leaning sub cultures, has the skull and crossbones as its unofficial emblem, has been nicknamed 'The Brothel of the League', and has "I Got Erection” (lustily) sung by its supporters as its unofficial anthem?

8.

Which Ligue 1 club has played under 5 different names, been both fined and relegated for financial irregularities, has three times been bankrupted and dissolved or forced to merge with other clubs and finally won its first domestic championship in 2012?

ROUND 6 - The 'The' Round

All the answers are real or fictional characters who have 'The' as their middle “name”.  For example for the clue “Warlord and leader of an empire stretching from the Danube to the Baltic and from the Rhine to the Urals, he died in 453 AD” the answer would be Attila the Hun.  You will need to give the entire answer to get the points.

1.

Ruler of what is now a region of Romania, north of the Danube, a hero both there and in Bulgaria, born 1431 died 1476.

2.

Evil emperor who first came to the public’s attention in 1934 and who lusted after Dale Arden.

3.

Ruthless Scottish banker, known not altogether affectionately as a corporate Attila, had his knighthood cancelled in 2012.

4.

Although never seen nor heard, a fundamental part of weekend game show television from 1967 to 1975.

5.

600 year old gangster, crime lord and bounty hunter, living in a desert palace and having a liking for gambling, torture and slave girls.

6.

Soldier husband of Bathsheba, murdered by her lover.

7.

Hero who changes despair to joy, chaos to peaceful sleep and who is attractive to pigeons.

8.

Ethiopian double gold medallist in the men’s  5,000 and 10,000 metres at the Moscow Olympic games.

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Who is the main character in the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies?

2.

Who was Henry I’s daughter?

3.

In the Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn film Bringing Up Baby, what type of animal was Baby?

4.

Which band was formed in Dublin in 1962 by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy?

5.

Which band, formed in Hannover in 1965, contained the Schenker brothers Rudolf and Michael?

6.

At which racecourse is the Kentucky Derby run?

7.

This season's British Elite Ice League was won by a team from Nottingham.  What is the team's full name?

8.

Which novel by Howard Spring, set in 1930s Manchester, tells the story of artist Nick Gaunt.  It was made into a TV series in 1973 starring Prunella Gee and John Nolan?

Sp.

Who had a hit in 1963 with Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah set in the fictional Camp Granada?

ROUND 8 - The 'Not a Tribute' theme Round

1.

What form of punishment was abolished as a judicial penalty in the UK in 1948 although continued in use in one part of the British Isles until 1976?

2.

Which 1982 Booker-nominated novel by William Boyd is set in East Africa during World War I?

3.

In May 2001 he filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater.  In 2004 he said, "I think psychiatry should be outlawed."  In 2006 the Japan Memorial Day Association awarded him a special day because he had made more trips to Japan than any other Hollywood star.  Who is he?

4.

For his role in which 2008 biopic did Sean Penn win his second Best Actor Oscar?

5.

Which 1948 play by Christopher Fry is set “in a room in the house of Mayor Hebble Tyson” during the year "1400 either more or less or exactly"?

6.

What is known as jizya in Islamic law, was known as tributum capitis in the Roman Empire and was first levied in Britain in 1275?

7.

For her role in which 1980 biopic did Sissy Spacek win a Best Actress Oscar?  The late, lamented Levon Helm also appeared.         

8.

Which band had a had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with an a capella cover of Yazoo's track Only You?

Spares

1.

Which 1969 Number One hit featured the following places in its lyrics: Southampton, Gibraltar, Amsterdam and Vienna?

2.

Which classic song of 1977 begins with the lines: “I can’t seem to face up to the facts; I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax”?

3.

Who is the manager of Southampton Football Club?

4.

What connects Beppe Grillo with Romford in Essex?

5.

What was significant about the date of the general election held on 27^th October 1931?

6.

Which Magic Roundabout character rode a tricycle?

7.

Discovered in 2005, which is the largest of the dwarf planets and the most distant object from the sun in the solar system yet discovered?

8.

Which famously picturesque castle sits in Loch Duich by its meeting point with Lochs Alsh and Long?

ROUND 1 - A Brief History of Manchester

1.

Richard Percival, a linen weaver who was shot in Market Street, Manchester, was the first casualty of which conflict?

The English Civil War

(he was shot in 1642)

2.

In 1727 Helen Morrison placed the first advert of its type in the Manchester Weekly Advertiser.  She was later sent to a lunatic asylum.  What was she looking for?

A husband

(accept partner or lover)

3.

“But the most horrible spot lies immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity."?

Friedrich Engels

(in The Condition of the Working Class in England)

4.

Who was the last British Prime Minister to be born in Manchester?

David Lloyd George

(in 1863)

5.

On 25^th March 1893 which major sporting event was held in Manchester for the only time?

The FA Cup Final

(it took place between Everton and Wolves at the Fallowfield Stadium -   Wolves won 1-0)

6.

The first one opened on Stretford Road in Manchester in 1894.  There are now over 700 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  There are another 300 worldwide.  What are they?

Marks and Spencers stores

7.

In 1937 which writer described Manchester as “the belly and guts of the nation”?

George Orwell

(in The Road to Wigan Pier)

8.

“This is Kindly Light calling Manchester, come in Manchester, this is Kindly Light”?

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

(by Jeanette Winterson)

1.

In which year did the following events occur:

• The death of James Joyce,

• the birth of Bob Dylan,

• the sinking of the Bismarck?

1941

2.

In which European city is the Nymphenburg Palace?

Munich

3.

Which English city is 39 miles from Nottingham, 85 miles from Manchester and 143 miles from London?

Lincoln

4.

What word connects an Irish fishing boat, an American blues singer and a position in a rugby team?

Hooker

5.

Its recipients include Charles Bronson, James Garner, John F Kennedy, Lee Marvin and Kurt Vonnegut.  What is it?

The Purple Heart

6.

Which movie villain appeared in films in 1977 and 1979 and was played by Richard Kiel?

Jaws

7.

The most serious took place in 122 BC, 1669, 1928 and 2002.  The most recent took place last month.  What are they?

Eruptions of Mount Etna

8.

They have featured in Eugene Onegin, the Three Musketeers, War and Peace, Blackadder and Dr Who.  What are they?

Duels  

Theme: Each answer contains part of the name of a film directed by Steven Spielberg:

ROUND 3 - Hidden Link

The answers have a scientific link and are in a specific sequence

1.

What is the missing city in the title of this album by The Housemartins: London 0  ………. 4?

Hull

2.

Which group, which had albums called Penthouse and Pavement and The Luxury Gap, took their name from the novel  A Clockwork Orange?

Heaven 17

3.

Which composer, born in 1811, composed works including the Faust Symphony and Liebestraume for piano?  (surname needed for the link)

Liszt

4.

Which composer, born in 1803, composed works including the The Damnation of Faust and Symphonie Fantastique?  (surname needed for the link)

Berlioz

5.

Which author won the 1990 Booker prize for Possession? (surname needed for the link)

(A S) Byatt

6.

What is the capital of Guinea?

Conakry

7.

What is the capital of Chad?

Ndjamena

8.

Which author won the 1990 Booker prize for The English Patient? (surname needed for the link)

(Michael) Ondaatje

Sp.

Who won the 1980 series of Mastermind?  (both names needed but first name needed for the link)

Fred Housego

Theme: Each answer begins with one of the symbols for the first 8 elements in the Periodic Table:

ROUND 4 - The Lego Picture Round

All the images have been recreated using Lego bricks

1.

Name the classic album cover.

London Calling

(by The Clash)

2.

Name the classic album cover.

Born in the USA

(by Bruce Springsteen)

3.

Name the film.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

4.

Name the film.

Pulp Fiction

5.

On which island was this photograph posed?

Iwo Jima

6.

Who is the man with his mouth open just to the right of the man in the pale suit?

Lee Harvey Oswald

7.

Name this painting.

Nighthawks

(by Edward Hopper)

8.

Name this painting.

American Gothic

(by Grant Wood)

Alternative ROUND 4

Same answers but not clued with pictures

1.

Which 1979 album included the following tracks: Wrong ‘em Boyo, Spanish Bombs, The Guns of Brixton and Lost in the Supermarket?

London Calling

(by The Clash)

2.

Which classic 1984 album included the following tracks:  Darlington County, Working on the Highway, Glory Days and Dancing in the Dark?

Born in the USA

(by Bruce Springsteen)

3.

From which 1969 film does the line, “Who are those guys?” come?

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

4.

From which 1994 film does the line, “Bring out the gimp” come?

Pulp Fiction

5.

On which island was Jack Rosenthal’s famous Pulitzer Prize winning photo of marines raising the Stars and Stripes posed?

Iwo Jima

6.

Whose assassination was the subject of Robert Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph?

Lee Harvey Oswald

7.

Which iconic painting, which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts a Greenwich Village diner and its occupants viewed through a large window?

Nighthawks

(by Edward Hopper)

8.

Which iconic painting, which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts a famer and his unmarried daughter in front of a wooden framed house (which still stands in Eldon, Iowa)?

American Gothic

(by Grant Wood)

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme with pairs

1.

Which English explorer (1554 – 1618) twice led unsuccessful expeditions to find the fabled El Dorado?

Walter Raleigh

2.

Which Italian explorer (1451 – 1506) discovered an island which is now part of The Bahamas and named it San Salvador?

Christopher Columbus

3.

How was Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien (1939 – 1999) better known?

Dusty Springfield

4.

How was Henry John Deutschendorf Jr (1943 – 1997) better known?

John Denver

5.

Which District Line station in south west London is the terminus of the south west branch of that line?

Richmond

6.

Which District Line station in west London is the terminus of and only station on its branch line?

Kensington Olympia

Olympia is needed for the answer to be correct

7.

Which Bundesliga team is identified with left leaning sub cultures, has the skull and crossbones as its unofficial emblem, has been nicknamed 'The Brothel of the League', and has "I Got Erection” (lustily) sung by its supporters as its unofficial anthem?

8.

Which Ligue 1 club has played under 5 different names, been both fined and relegated for financial irregularities, has three times been bankrupted and dissolved or forced to merge with other clubs and finally won its first domestic championship in 2012?

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a US State capital

ROUND 6 - The 'The' Round

All the answers are real or fictional characters who have 'The' as their middle “name”.  For example for the clue “Warlord and leader of an empire stretching from the Danube to the Baltic and from the Rhine to the Urals, he died in 453 AD” the answer would be Attila the Hun.  You will need to give the entire answer to get the points.

1.

Ruler of what is now a region of Romania, north of the Danube, a hero both there and in Bulgaria, born 1431 died 1476.

Vlad the Impaler

2.

Evil emperor who first came to the public’s attention in 1934 and who lusted after Dale Arden.

Ming the Merciless

3.

Ruthless Scottish banker, known not altogether affectionately as a corporate Attila, had his knighthood cancelled in 2012.

Fred the Shred

(Fred Goodwin, ex RBS)

4.

Although never seen nor heard, a fundamental part of weekend game show television from 1967 to 1975.

Bernie the Bolt

5.

600 year old gangster, crime lord and bounty hunter, living in a desert palace and having a liking for gambling, torture and slave girls.

Jabba the Hutt

6.

Soldier husband of Bathsheba, murdered by her lover.

Uriah the Hittite

7.

Hero who changes despair to joy, chaos to peaceful sleep and who is attractive to pigeons.

Quinn the Eskimo

8.

Ethiopian double gold medallist in the men’s  5,000 and 10,000 metres at the Moscow Olympic games.

Yifter the Shifter

(Miruts Yifter)

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Who is the main character in the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies?

Thomas Cromwell

2.

Who was Henry I’s daughter?

Matilda

3.

In the Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn film Bringing Up Baby, what type of animal was Baby?

Leopard

4.

Which band was formed in Dublin in 1962 by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy?

The Chieftains

5.

Which band, formed in Hannover in 1965, contained the Schenker brothers Rudolf and Michael?

The Scorpions

6.

At which racecourse is the Kentucky Derby run?

Churchill Downs

7.

This season's British Elite Ice League was won by a team from Nottingham.  What is the team's full name?

Nottingham Panthers

8.

Which novel by Howard Spring, set in 1930s Manchester, tells the story of artist Nick Gaunt.  It was made into a TV series in 1973 starring Prunella Gee and John Nolan?

Shabby Tiger

Sp.

Who had a hit in 1963 with Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah set in the fictional Camp Granada?

Allan Sherman

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a type of tank

ROUND 8 - The 'Not a Tribute' theme Round

1.

What form of punishment was abolished as a judicial penalty in the UK in 1948 although continued in use in one part of the British Isles until 1976?

Birching

2.

Which 1982 Booker-nominated novel by William Boyd is set in East Africa during World War I?

An Ice Cream War

3.

In May 2001 he filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater.  In 2004 he said, "I think psychiatry should be outlawed."  In 2006 the Japan Memorial Day Association awarded him a special day because he had made more trips to Japan than any other Hollywood star.  Who is he?

Tom Cruise

4.

For his role in which 2008 biopic did Sean Penn win his second Best Actor Oscar?

Milk

5.

Which 1948 play by Christopher Fry is set “in a room in the house of Mayor Hebble Tyson” during the year "1400 either more or less or exactly"?

The Lady is Not for Burning

6.

What is known as jizya in Islamic law, was known as tributum capitis in the Roman Empire and was first levied in Britain in 1275?

Poll tax

7.

For her role in which 1980 biopic did Sissy Spacek win a Best Actress Oscar?  The late, lamented Levon Helm also appeared.         

The Coal Miner’s Daughter

8.

Which band had a had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with an a capella cover of Yazoo's track Only You?

The Flying Pickets

Theme: All answers are linked to things I Blame Smoke Fairies would rather not have to remember about a recently deceased ex-Prime Minister......

Thatcher voted in favour of the restoration of birching in 1961, worked for Lyons on increasing the amount of air in ice cream, agreed to the stationing of US cruise missiles in the UK, abolished free school milk, used the phrase “the lady is not for turning” in a 1980 speech, was instrumental in introducing the so-called Community Charge in 1989/90, and took on the National Union of Mineworkers during the miners’ strike of 1984-85, which featured the use of flying pickets.

Spares

1.

Which 1969 Number One hit featured the following places in its lyrics: Southampton, Gibraltar, Amsterdam and Vienna?

The Ballad of John and Yoko

(by the Beatles)

2.

Which classic song of 1977 begins with the lines: “I can’t seem to face up to the facts; I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax”?

Psychokiller

(by Talking Heads)

3.

Who is the manager of Southampton Football Club?

Mauricio Pochettino

(we’ve got fed up waiting for this question to be asked!)

4.

What connects Beppe Grillo with Romford in Essex?

Five Star

(he is the leader of the Five Star movement in Italy and the band Five Star originate from Romford)

5.

What was significant about the date of the general election held on 27^th October 1931?

Last general election not to have been held on a Thursday

(it was on a Tuesday)

6.

Which Magic Roundabout character rode a tricycle?

Mr McHenry

7.

Discovered in 2005, which is the largest of the dwarf planets and the most distant object from the sun in the solar system yet discovered?

Eris

8.

Which famously picturesque castle sits in Loch Duich by its meeting point with Lochs Alsh and Long?