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WithQuiz League paper  24/04/13

Set by: The Men They Couldn't Hang

QotW: R1/Q7

Average Aggregate Score: 70.7

(Season's Ave. Agg.: 68.8)

"Tonight's paper was a characteristic Hangmen effort with many of the varied and quirky themed rounds for which they are justly famous.  Thought-provoking seemed again to be the consensus."

 Most questions offered plenty of extraneous but fascinating information so that by the end of the evening you felt you'd been to a lecture on a range of subjects by a total enthusiast with some questions thrown in for good measure.

 

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

Everybody knows that Roy Rogers’ horse was Trigger but what was the name of his dog?

2.

Who, on 17th of March 1337, became the first Duke, as opposed to Earl, of Cornwall and was also one of the 26 Founding Knights of the Order of the Garter in 1348?

3.

Who on Christmas Day 2012 appeared on ITV as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham just two days after being Mr Stink on BBC1?

4.

What monument was unveiled by the then recently widowed Queen Mother on the 27th of September 1952 at a site one mile outside the Scottish highland village of Spean Bridge?

5.

What is the common name of the sub order Anisoptera, ancient Greek for 'uneven wings', of the class insecta?

6.

Jebl Toubkal, first climbed by Europeans in June 1923, is, at 13,671 feet, the highest peak in which mountain range?

7.

What satellite remains in geo-stationary orbit 22,400 miles above the Pacific Ocean and is equipped with electromagnetic cloaking baffles so that nobody outside a select workforce can know of its presence?

8.

What animal currently sits atop of the crest of Bradford City FC?

Sp.

What event in February 2013, won by Jimmy Johnstone in 3 hours, 8 minutes and 23 seconds at an average speed of 159.25mph, saw Danica Patrick became the first woman to start on pole position in a Nascar Sprint Cup Series?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - 'Two are missing'

Simply listen to the partial list and decide which two additional members are required to complete the club

1.

Two captains, one naval, one army, are missing: Lieutenant Bowers, Petty Officer Evans, a civilian Edward Wilson and…..

2.

Two actors are missing from this ensemble: Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Charles Bronson Horst Bucholz Brad Dexter and…..

3.

Two suggested topics of conversation are missing: shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, kings and…..

4.

Two musical acts are missing: Linda Martin, Niamh Kavanagh, Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan, Eimear Quinn and…..

5.

Two angels are missing: Destiny, Melody, Harmony and......

6.

Two characters are missing from a roll call: Pugh, Pugh, Barney MacGrew, Cuthbert and…..

7.

Two distilleries are missing: Ardbeg, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Caol Isla, Kilchoman, Lagavuilin and…..

8.

Two guests are missing from a gathering being held at York this year to commemorate a 75th anniversary: Dwight D Eisenhower, Dominion of Canada, Union of South Africa, Bittern and….

Sp.

Two of Britain’s Trident carrying submarines are missing: Vanguard, Victorious and…..

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme - 'The events of April 15th 2012'

1.

Who lost the race from Lunchville to Dinnertown, first shown back in 1989, because all he wanted to do was, “stuff his face with everything he sees from trucks to prickly trees”?

2.

Which legal post, once held by Thomas Cromwell, was occupied by Lord Denning from 1962 to 1982?

3.

What poem by the then poet laureate recounted the events of 25th of October 1854 and was recorded by its author onto a wax phonograph cylinder in 1890 two years before his death?

4.

Name the politician and agricultural reformer who increased the productivity of his land fourfold during his tenure of Holkham Hall in Norfolk.  After refusing a peerage 6 times he eventually succumbed, becoming the Earl of Leicester, in 1837.

5.

What cartoon created by Neville Astley and Mark Baker in 2004 has won the BAFTA for best pre-school animation in both 2011 and 2012 having been nominated every year since 2007?

6.

Which play by Arthur Miller is set during the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692?

7.

Loch Ness is, at 7.4 cubic kilometres, the largest freshwater loch by volume in Scotland, while Loch Lomond is the largest by area at 71 square kilometres but which other loch is the longest at 41 kilometres?

8.

What device, according to its inventor Doctor Emmett Brown in 1985, made time travel possible?

Sp.

Which cartoon strip features Sandra Burke and Tracey Tunstall who are regulars at the Dog and Hammer pub in Fulchester?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Pairs

1.

What is the title of the song from the musical Mary Poppins that also promotes an activity traditionally undertaken during the Chinese holiday of QingMing?

2.

What is the title of the song from the musical My Fair Lady that has an opening line promoting an activity that would not be undertaken by someone suffering from gamophobia?

3.

To which phylum does the class cephalopoda, that includes squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, belong?

4.

To which class of the phylum mollusca do clams, mussels, oysters and scallops belong?

5.

Which are the only two of the ten Greater Manchester metropolitan borough councils not to be under Labour control?

6.

In Feb 2013, the Metrolink tramway system opened 2 new extensions. Can you name both of the new termini?

7.

In which national park would you find the geological feature and visitor attraction Goredale Scar?

8.

In which Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty would you find the geological feature and visitor attraction High Cup Nick?

Sp.

In the nineteenth century Dewsbury became the centre of the mungo and shoddy industry.  What was shoddy?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

1.

Who played the role of Anne Darrow in the 1933 film version of King Kong?

2.

In the eponymous film of 1975 what is the name of the son, born on the first day of peace, to Group Captain Walker, believed to be missing in action, and his wife Nora, and played in the film by Roger Daltrey?

3.

Who used a cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s The Power of Love as the soundtrack to their Christmas 2012 advertising campaign?

4.

What weighs thirteen and a half tons, was cast on the 10th of April 1885 at a foundry in Whitechapel under the supervision of George Mears, and remains in active daily service in 2013?

5.

Who ran a time of 9.80 seconds for the 100m in the US Olympic Trials the fastest ever recorded for a man over 30 years of age?  The athlete in question went on to win the bronze medal in the event at the London Olympics.

6.

What secretive organisation was founded on the 6th of September 1901 by officers in the Serbian army with the aim of establishing a pan Slavic state, independent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?               

7.

Which 1895 novel spawned a sequel The Hertford Manuscript by another author, Richard Cowper, which named the previously unidentified chief protagonist as Dr Robert Pensley, who, in real life, actually had disappeared without a trace on the 18th of June 1894?

8.

Which obscure football club are currently bottom of League Two and are almost certainly going to be relegated to the Blue Square Premier?

Sp.

Name the farmer who made his television debut in 1955 and was ably assisted by Sam Scrubbit.

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - 'Big noise coming to little sticky'

Last week we had Stockport County’s downward spiral through Blue Square Despair.  Now it is time to celebrate the Mighty Darlo’s progress to the brink of the Evo Stick Division 1 North. All answers are a habitation (or workplace) currently competing in this Division.

1.

Which entertainer, who died on the 6th of June 1973, had the catchphrase “I’m all there with me cough drops”?

2.

Who is the current Head Coach of the England Rugby Union team?

3.

In which city would you find the 'Monster’s Mansion', the largest maximum security prison in the United Kingdom, and the scene of Harold Shipman’s suicide?

4.

What town is served by Bank Quay railway station?

5.

Who, while acting as guest host on Have I Got News For You in June 2010, was taunted by John Bishop with “You should try panto”, to which the stand-in replied “I have. For the last 40 years.”?

6.

The Royal Horticultural Society’s Harlow Carr Gardens are on the western fringe of which town?

7.

Which shipbuilding company built the famous aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 1937?

8.

Which Derbyshire town was lionised in the Half Man Half Biscuit track The Light at the End of the Tunnel is the Light of an Oncoming Train by the description “It’s got no frills and it’s handy for the hills”?

Sp.

Name the Labour politician who was appointed as The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, a post that had been created by the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009.

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Complete this letter to the Guardian in 2006: “It is marvellous to see that the old tradition of county cricketers' wacky names continues….Yesterday we had J W M Dalrymple caught Mustard…."

2.

In which allegorical work by Edmund Spenser, published in 1590, does Una the personification of the True Church, travel with the Redcrosse knight to save her parent’s castle from a dragon?

3.

What was first used in US schools to observe Columbus Day of 1892 and is still commonly recited at the start of the school day, although the US Supreme Court has frequently ruled that no student can be compelled to do so?

4.

What name has been borne by 8 vessels of the Royal Navy; the last, a Leander class frigate, was decommissioned in 1985 although the name is scheduled to be carried by the seventh and final Astute class attack submarine?

5.

Mikael Agricola, a sixteenth century Lutheran bishop, is famous for being the driving force behind the orthography, the rules of grammar and spelling, of which language?

6.

What was the nickname of the character played by George Cole in the original Saint Trinian’s films?

7.

Walt Disney’s Little Mermaid shares her name with which Shakespeare character?

8.

Whose potted biography is this:

1952 - born in Durban; 1965 - moved to Canvey Island; 1971 - frontman for Doctor Feelgood; 1976 - lent Jake Riviera £400 to set up Stiff Records; 1994 - died from lymphoma?

Sp.

Who, in a 1987 film, opted to have his real life father play the role of Carl Fox, his on-screen father, when offered a choice (which included Jack Lemmon) by the film’s director Oliver Stone?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - 'Sisters are doing it for themselves'

Last week we had fathers and sons.  This week it is questions on sisters who have achieved fame or notoriety.  All you have to do is identify both sisters from the given clues.

1.

A member of the Order of the British Empire who has been married five times;

The author of the novel The World is Full of Divorced Women

2.

The singer of UK number two single in 1988 entitled Got to be Certain;

The singer of a UK number two single in 2003 entitled I Begin to Wonder.

3.

A wannabe model named after the street where she was born in a taxi on the way to the maternity unit;

A shop assistant named after her sister’s toy doll.

4.

The winner of the 2007 series of Celebrity Masterchef;

The actress perhaps best known for playing Saffron.

5.

The winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her part in To Each his Own;

The winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her part in Suspicion.

6.

A model for Faberge who was named after the wine her parents were consuming on the night she was conceived;

An actress named after a Cuban village where her father and Nobel Prize winning grandfather liked to go fishing.

7.

The Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession: A Romance;

The biographer of Angus Wilson and Thomas Hardy.

(Both are Dames of the British Empire but do not speak to each other due to a dispute over the rights to using the family tea set in a novel.  Is it a storm over a teacup?)

8.

The covergirl of the November 2009 issue of Playboy;

Either of her elder twin sisters, one of whom was briefly married to the actor Troy McClure.

Sp.

The chess playing Member for Wallasey since 1992;

The chess playing Member for Garston and Halewood since 1997.

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

Spares

1.

Why was Canadian born joiner Michael Ibsen in the news recently?

2.

High performance cars, 4 x 4s, rally and race cars are usually fitted with a LSD.  What does LSD stand for in this context?

3.

Many ordinary road cars now come fitted with CVJs.  What does CVJ stand for in this context?

Go to Spare questions with answers

Tiebreaker

1.

Back in round 4 we ran into High Cup Nick which is on the route of the 270 mile long Pennine Way.  According to Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion how many 'walked' miles is it from the start at Edale to the Nick?  (closest wins)

2.

Back in round 4 we ran into Goredale Scar which sits on a short recommended detour off the Pennine Way. According to Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion how many 'walked' miles is it from the start at Edale to the Scar?  (closest wins)

Go to Tiebreaker questions with answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

Everybody knows that Roy Rogers’ horse was Trigger but what was the name of his dog?

Bullet

2.

Who, on 17th of March 1337, became the first Duke, as opposed to Earl, of Cornwall and was also one of the 26 Founding Knights of the Order of the Garter in 1348?

Black Prince

3.

Who on Christmas Day 2012 appeared on ITV as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham just two days after being Mr Stink on BBC1?

Hugh Bonneville

4.

What monument was unveiled by the then recently widowed Queen Mother on the 27th of September 1952 at a site one mile outside the Scottish highland village of Spean Bridge?

The Commando Memorial

5.

What is the common name of the sub order Anisoptera, ancient Greek for 'uneven wings', of the class insecta?

Dragonfly

6.

Jebl Toubkal, first climbed by Europeans in June 1923, is, at 13,671 feet, the highest peak in which mountain range?

Atlas

7.

What satellite remains in geo-stationary orbit 22,400 miles above the Pacific Ocean and is equipped with electromagnetic cloaking baffles so that nobody outside a select workforce can know of its presence?

Thunderbird 5

(how appropriate it is that David Miliband has more than a passing resemblance to Scott Tracey)

8.

What animal currently sits atop of the crest of Bradford City FC?

A bantam

Sp.

What event in February 2013, won by Jimmy Johnstone in 3 hours, 8 minutes and 23 seconds at an average speed of 159.25mph, saw Danica Patrick became the first woman to start on pole position in a Nascar Sprint Cup Series?

Daytona 500

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a model of motorcycle

Go back to Round 1 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 2 - 'Two are missing'

Simply listen to the partial list and decide which two additional members are required to complete the club

1.

Two captains, one naval, one army, are missing: Lieutenant Bowers, Petty Officer Evans, a civilian Edward Wilson and…..

Scott and Oates

2.

Two actors are missing from this ensemble: Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Charles Bronson Horst Bucholz Brad Dexter and…..

Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen

3.

Two suggested topics of conversation are missing: shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, kings and…..

Why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings

(Walrus and the Carpenter)

4.

Two musical acts are missing: Linda Martin, Niamh Kavanagh, Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan, Eimear Quinn and…..

Dana and Johnny Logan

(Irish Eurovision winning acts)

5.

Two angels are missing: Destiny, Melody, Harmony and......

Symphony and Rhapsody

(from Captain Scarlet)

6.

Two characters are missing from a roll call: Pugh, Pugh, Barney MacGrew, Cuthbert and…..

Dibble and Grub

(of the Trumpton Fire Brigade)

7.

Two distilleries are missing: Ardbeg, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Caol Isla, Kilchoman, Lagavuilin and…..

Bowmore and Laphroaig

(producing distilleries on Islay)

8.

Two guests are missing from a gathering being held at York this year to commemorate a 75th anniversary: Dwight D Eisenhower, Dominion of Canada, Union of South Africa, Bittern and….

Mallard and Sir Nigel Gresley

(the six surviving members of the A4 class of locomotive and all 6 are being gathered together to celebrate the anniversary of Mallard’s world record)

Sp.

Two of Britain’s Trident carrying submarines are missing: Vanguard, Victorious and…..

Vengeance and Vigilant

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme - 'The events of April 15th 2012'

1.

Who lost the race from Lunchville to Dinnertown, first shown back in 1989, because all he wanted to do was, “stuff his face with everything he sees from trucks to prickly trees”?

The red car

2.

Which legal post, once held by Thomas Cromwell, was occupied by Lord Denning from 1962 to 1982?

Master of the Rolls

3.

What poem by the then poet laureate recounted the events of 25th of October 1854 and was recorded by its author onto a wax phonograph cylinder in 1890 two years before his death?

The Charge of the Light Brigade

4.

Name the politician and agricultural reformer who increased the productivity of his land fourfold during his tenure of Holkham Hall in Norfolk.  After refusing a peerage 6 times he eventually succumbed, becoming the Earl of Leicester, in 1837.

Thomas Coke

5.

What cartoon created by Neville Astley and Mark Baker in 2004 has won the BAFTA for best pre-school animation in both 2011 and 2012 having been nominated every year since 2007?

Peppa Pig

6.

Which play by Arthur Miller is set during the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692?

The Crucible

7.

Loch Ness is, at 7.4 cubic kilometres, the largest freshwater loch by volume in Scotland, while Loch Lomond is the largest by area at 71 square kilometres but which other loch is the longest at 41 kilometres?

Loch Awe

8.

What device, according to its inventor Doctor Emmett Brown in 1985, made time travel possible?

The flux capacitor

Sp.

Which cartoon strip features Sandra Burke and Tracey Tunstall who are regulars at the Dog and Hammer pub in Fulchester?

The Fat Slags

Theme: Each answer contains a word connected with steelmaking, which resumed in Redcar this time last year

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 4 - Pairs

1.

What is the title of the song from the musical Mary Poppins that also promotes an activity traditionally undertaken during the Chinese holiday of QingMing?

Let’s Go Fly a Kite

2.

What is the title of the song from the musical My Fair Lady that has an opening line promoting an activity that would not be undertaken by someone suffering from gamophobia?

Get Me to the Church on Time

(gamophobia being a fear of marriage)

3.

To which phylum does the class cephalopoda, that includes squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, belong?

Mollusca

(accept molluscs)

4.

To which class of the phylum mollusca do clams, mussels, oysters and scallops belong?

Bivalvia

(accept bivalves)

5.

Which are the only two of the ten Greater Manchester metropolitan borough councils not to be under Labour control?

Stockport and Trafford

6.

In Feb 2013, the Metrolink tramway system opened 2 new extensions. Can you name both of the new termini?

Droylsden and

Rochdale (Railway Station)

7.

In which national park would you find the geological feature and visitor attraction Goredale Scar?

Yorkshire Dales

8.

In which Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty would you find the geological feature and visitor attraction High Cup Nick?

North Pennines

Sp.

In the nineteenth century Dewsbury became the centre of the mungo and shoddy industry.  What was shoddy?

Recovery of wool from rags by grinding it down to a fibrous state

(accept similar)

Go back to Round 4 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

1.

Who played the role of Anne Darrow in the 1933 film version of King Kong?

Fay Wray

2.

In the eponymous film of 1975 what is the name of the son, born on the first day of peace, to Group Captain Walker, believed to be missing in action, and his wife Nora, and played in the film by Roger Daltrey?

Tommy

3.

Who used a cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s The Power of Love as the soundtrack to their Christmas 2012 advertising campaign?

John Lewis

4.

What weighs thirteen and a half tons, was cast on the 10th of April 1885 at a foundry in Whitechapel under the supervision of George Mears, and remains in active daily service in 2013?

Big Ben

(accept the great bell in Queen Elizabeth Tower but point out the theme requires the given answer)

5.

Who ran a time of 9.80 seconds for the 100m in the US Olympic Trials the fastest ever recorded for a man over 30 years of age?  The athlete in question went on to win the bronze medal in the event at the London Olympics.

Justin Gatlin

6.

What secretive organisation was founded on the 6th of September 1901 by officers in the Serbian army with the aim of establishing a pan Slavic state, independent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

               

The Black Hand

(accept the alternative name 'Unification or Death' but point out that the theme depends on the given answer) 

7.

Which 1895 novel spawned a sequel The Hertford Manuscript by another author, Richard Cowper, which named the previously unidentified chief protagonist as Dr Robert Pensley, who, in real life, actually had disappeared without a trace on the 18th of June 1894?

The Time Machine

8.

Which obscure football club are currently bottom of League Two and are almost certainly going to be relegated to the Blue Square Premier?

Aldershot

Sp.

Name the farmer who made his television debut in 1955 and was ably assisted by Sam Scrubbit.

Daddy Woodentop

Theme: The final word or syllable of every answer can precede the word gun to make a common word or phrase

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 6 - 'Big noise coming to little sticky'

Last week we had Stockport County’s downward spiral through Blue Square Despair.  Now it is time to celebrate the Mighty Darlo’s progress to the brink of the Evo Stick Division 1 North. All answers are a habitation (or workplace) currently competing in this Division.

1.

Which entertainer, who died on the 6th of June 1973, had the catchphrase “I’m all there with me cough drops”?

Jimmy Clitheroe

2.

Who is the current Head Coach of the England Rugby Union team?

Stuart Lancaster

3.

In which city would you find the 'Monster’s Mansion', the largest maximum security prison in the United Kingdom, and the scene of Harold Shipman’s suicide?

Wakefield

4.

What town is served by Bank Quay railway station?

Warrington

5.

Who, while acting as guest host on Have I Got News For You in June 2010, was taunted by John Bishop with “You should try panto”, to which the stand-in replied “I have. For the last 40 years.”?

John Prescott

6.

The Royal Horticultural Society’s Harlow Carr Gardens are on the western fringe of which town?

Harrogate

7.

Which shipbuilding company built the famous aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 1937?

Cammell Laird

8.

Which Derbyshire town was lionised in the Half Man Half Biscuit track The Light at the End of the Tunnel is the Light of an Oncoming Train by the description “It’s got no frills and it’s handy for the hills”?

New Mills

Sp.

Name the Labour politician who was appointed as The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, a post that had been created by the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009.

Baroness Ashton

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Complete this letter to the Guardian in 2006: “It is marvellous to see that the old tradition of county cricketers' wacky names continues….Yesterday we had J W M Dalrymple caught Mustard…."

"....bowled Onions"

2.

In which allegorical work by Edmund Spenser, published in 1590, does Una the personification of the True Church, travel with the Redcrosse knight to save her parent’s castle from a dragon?

The Faerie Queene

3.

What was first used in US schools to observe Columbus Day of 1892 and is still commonly recited at the start of the school day, although the US Supreme Court has frequently ruled that no student can be compelled to do so?

The Pledge of Allegiance

4.

What name has been borne by 8 vessels of the Royal Navy; the last, a Leander class frigate, was decommissioned in 1985 although the name is scheduled to be carried by the seventh and final Astute class attack submarine?

HMS Ajax

5.

Mikael Agricola, a sixteenth century Lutheran bishop, is famous for being the driving force behind the orthography, the rules of grammar and spelling, of which language?

Finnish

6.

What was the nickname of the character played by George Cole in the original Saint Trinian’s films?

Flash Harry

7.

Walt Disney’s Little Mermaid shares her name with which Shakespeare character?

Ariel

(somewhat bizarrely given that Ariel was a spirit of the air)

8.

Whose potted biography is this:

1952 - born in Durban; 1965 - moved to Canvey Island; 1971 - frontman for Doctor Feelgood; 1976 - lent Jake Riviera £400 to set up Stiff Records; 1994 - died from lymphoma?

Lee Brilleaux

Sp.

Who, in a 1987 film, opted to have his real life father play the role of Carl Fox, his on-screen father, when offered a choice (which included Jack Lemmon) by the film’s director Oliver Stone?

Mister Charlie Sheen

Theme: The Men They Couldn’t Hang come clean!  Each answer contains the name of a cleaning product

(in the case of Question 1 'Bold' is a detergent - onions don’t make you clean they make you smelly!)

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 8 - 'Sisters are doing it for themselves'

Last week we had fathers and sons.  This week it is questions on sisters who have achieved fame or notoriety.  All you have to do is identify both sisters from the given clues.

1.

A member of the Order of the British Empire who has been married five times;

The author of the novel The World is Full of Divorced Women

Joan and Jackie Collins

2.

The singer of UK number two single in 1988 entitled Got to be Certain;

The singer of a UK number two single in 2003 entitled I Begin to Wonder.

Kylie and Dannii Minogue

3.

A wannabe model named after the street where she was born in a taxi on the way to the maternity unit;

A shop assistant named after her sister’s toy doll.

Rosie and Sophie Webster

4.

The winner of the 2007 series of Celebrity Masterchef;

The actress perhaps best known for playing Saffron.

Nadia and Julia Sawahla

5.

The winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her part in To Each his Own;

The winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her part in Suspicion.

Olivia de Haviland and Joan Fontaine

6.

A model for Faberge who was named after the wine her parents were consuming on the night she was conceived;

An actress named after a Cuban village where her father and Nobel Prize winning grandfather liked to go fishing.

Margaux and Mariel Hemingway

7.

The Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession: A Romance;

The biographer of Angus Wilson and Thomas Hardy.

(Both are Dames of the British Empire but do not speak to each other due to a dispute over the rights to using the family tea set in a novel.  Is it a storm over a teacup?)

AS Byatt and Margaret Drabble

8.

The covergirl of the November 2009 issue of Playboy;

Either of her elder twin sisters, one of whom was briefly married to the actor Troy McClure.

Marge Simpson and either Patty or Selma Bouvier

Sp.

The chess playing Member for Wallasey since 1992;

The chess playing Member for Garston and Halewood since 1997.

Angela and Maria Eagle

Go back to Round 8 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spares

1.

Why was Canadian born joiner Michael Ibsen in the news recently?

His DNA 'proved' the remains in the car park were those of Richard the III

2.

High performance cars, 4 x 4s, rally and race cars are usually fitted with a LSD.  What does LSD stand for in this context?

Limited Slip Differential

3.

Many ordinary road cars now come fitted with CVJs.  What does CVJ stand for in this context?

Constant Velocity Joint

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Tiebreaker

1.

Back in round 4 we ran into High Cup Nick which is on the route of the 270 mile long Pennine Way.  According to Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion how many 'walked' miles is it from the start at Edale to the Nick?  (closest wins)

158

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Back in round 4 we ran into Goredale Scar which sits on a short recommended detour off the Pennine Way. According to Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion how many 'walked' miles is it from the start at Edale to the Scar?  (closest wins)

78

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