ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

Some of the hidden words are soundalikes and some are hidden in longer words

1.

Who led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan and, according to the Bible, died at the age of 110?

2.

Which British company founded by the father of the current chairman in 1960 is one of the UK’s largest employment and recruitment agencies.  Its website is the most visited commercial job site in the country and it employs 3,000 permanent staff in 180 locations?

3.

What is the largest town on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.  It is home to a famous pipe band?

4.

What is the county town of Fermanagh the scene of a bombing on Remembrance Day 1987 that killed 11 people?

5.

Which 19th and early 20th century Anglo-American novelist’s works include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians and The Ambassadors?

6.

Which 1970s pop band had hits with The Bump in 1974 and Fancy Pants in 1975?

7.

Who was the 6th president of the United States serving from 1825 to 1829?

8.

Which famous sports commentator commanded a Sherman tank in World War II and, alongside his commentating career, worked in advertising after the war.  He created the slogan, 'Opal Fruits – made to make your mouth water' for Mars in the 1960s?  (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

Sp

Which name connects a Leeds United centre forward of the 1970s and the guitarist of punk band The Clash?  (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

1.

What is the state capital of Illinois in the USA?

2.

Providence is the capital of which US state?

3.

From which musical does the song Big Spender come?

4.

Which musical does the song How to Handle a Woman come from?

5.

Which group of organic chemicals are widely used by the food and drinks industry to create artificial flavourings for products?

6.

Ethanoic acid is more commonly known by which name?

7.

What is the total purchase cost of all 3 red properties in the game Monopoly?

8.

What is the total purchase cost of all 3 yellow properties in the game Monopoly ?

Sp.

Complete this Karl Marx quotation by giving the 2 missing words: "From each according to his xxxxxx, to each according to his xxxxxx"

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

One of the hidden words is a soundalike

1.

Which TV drama series ran on ITV from October 1984 to August 2010 and with 2,400 episodes was, at its conclusion, the longest running drama series of its kind in the UK?

2.

Who won the Men’s Singles Title at Wimbledon in 1982? (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

3.

Which polymath and scientist who lived from 1706 to 1790 invented, amongst other things, the lightening rod, bifocal glasses and the urinary catheter?

4.

Which biblical figure was the father of Isaac and was ordered by God to leave Mesopotamia?

5.

What is the Latin name of the Greek mythological character who took 10 years to return home following the sacking of Troy?

6.

This fashion designer was born in The Bronx in 1942 and founded the fashion house that bears his name in 1968.  A vibrant brand to this day he gives his name to a range of perfumes, watches and jewellery as well as clothing.  Name him. (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

7.

Which famous scientist won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 and is widely credited with splitting the atom in 1917 upon which he also discovered, and named, the proton?

8.

In J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings what is the name of the land that lies beyond the Blue Mountains and is the westernmost land of the continent of Middle Earth?

Sp.

Which English king was the last to lead his troops into battle?

ROUND 4 - Pairs

1.

What was the name of the Italian hilltop Benedictine monastery that was the site of a bitter four month battle between January and May 1944?

2.

Which three words, consecutive in the dictionary, mean:

• bullets or pieces of metal contained in shell,

• a scrap or fragment of garment,

• a small long snouted mammal?

3.

Stephen Covey’s influential 1989 book featured how many habits of highly effective people?

4.

Which Shropshire town with a semi-ruined castle, sits on the A49, 20 miles west of Kidderminster and has a station on the main Crewe to Cardiff mainline railway?

5.

Which three words, consecutive in the dictionary, mean:

• a sudden shivering due to fear,

• to move with a scraping or sliding or dragging motion,

• avoid, keep clear of, eschew?

6.

Name any four of the five D Day Landing Beaches.

7.

Which Shropshire town on the River Severn is at the cross roads of the A458 and the A442 and is the northern terminus of the Severn Valley Railway?

8.

What is the surname of the businessman whose eponymous national high street chain has 1,160 outlets.  He has a regular column in The Daily Telegraph and has written a series of management books including The Complete Guide to Upside Down Management and How to Ride a Giraffe?

Sp.

Aboard which ship did Napoleon surrender post-Waterloo in 1815?

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

There are soundalikes - two of the theme links are part of longer words and another is in more than one word

1.

Which Elvis Presley song includes the following lyric immediately before the eponymous refrain?

2.

Though born in London, Kayvan Novak, star of the TV comedies Fonejacker and Facejacker, is which nationality by parentage?

3.

Name the footballer: 3 times he set transfer fee records totalling £280,000; he scored 237 goals in 404 games for the club he played for most (being the second highest scorer for that club); he is the joint record goal scorer for his country with 30 goals in 55 internationals; and is the only player from that country to have won European Footballer Of The Year award.

4.

Which accounting firm ceased trading in 2002 as a result of its handling of the auditing of Enron?  Though subsequently exonerated by the Supreme Court of the United States, it has never resumed as an active business.

5.

Which 19th century opera has the alternative title The Futile Precaution?

6.

What fictional surname links the comedians Graham Fellows and Roy Hudd?

7.

Which 20th century black comic novel is set in SE London and is built around the relationship between the twice runner-up Young Funeral Director of the Year and his best friend Curly?

8.

Which post-war English new town was built in response to the local district council surveyor's report titled Farewell Squalor and was named after a local trade unionist, councillor and preacher?

Sp.

Which retired Edinburgh professor has this month been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics?

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Which famous British brand, first developed in Macclesfield in the 1880s, was named after the Latin meaning 'strength of man'?

2.

Which Japanese sports brand takes its name from the Latin phrase meaning a sound mind in a sound body?

3.

What forename and surname are shared by a US film actor (1930-1980) who was known 'the King of Cool' and a British born video artist who won the Turner Prize in 1999?

4.

What forename and surname are shared by a US film actress born in 1982 and a woman born around 1555 but about whom little is known other than a legacy that she famously received upon the death of her husband in 1616?

5.

Which novelist wrote the Rabbit Angstrom series of novels?                                                 

6.

Which novelist wrote the Cadfael series of novels?

7.

Which cricketer's Test Match career spanned 27 years from 1949, when he made his debut as an 18 year old, to 1976 when he played his last Test at the age of 45?

8.

Whose career as an astronaut spanned 36 years from 1962, when he became the 5th person in space, to 1998 when he became the oldest person in space at the age of 77?

Sp.

Which sin have the inhabitants of Dante's First Circle of Hell committed?

ROUND 7 - Only Connect

Some questions ask for the link and some ask for the 4th in the sequence - choose a number between 1 and 10

1.

What is the link between: Rose, Bay, Lancet and Eyebrow?

2.

What is the link between: Dominions, Virtues, Powers and Principalities?

3.

What comes next in this sequence: Kingdom, Phylum, Class and ?

4.

What comes next in this sequence: Methane, Ethane, Propane and ?

5.

What is the link between: 100 Philosophy and psychology, 200 Religion, 300 Social sciences and 400 Language?

6.

What comes next in this sequence? Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and? 

7.

What is the link between:  Colombia, Brazil, Gabon and Congo?

8.

What comes next in this sequence: F, Cl, Br, and?

9.

What is the link between: Barbara, Ana, Monica, Rosa?

10.

What is the link between: Nemesis, Air, Thirteen and Rita?

ROUND 8 - 'Top to Tail'

The last letter of the answer to question 1 is the first letter of the answer to question 2 and so on until the last letter of the answer to question 8 becomes the first letter of the answer to question 1

1.

David Bowie got to number 1 in the charts in the summer of 1980 with which song?

2.

What was the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1947 and 1950? (forename and surname needed for letter link)

3.

What is the name of the stadium where Coventry City are plying their trade this season?

4.

Which Woody Allen film of 2006 shares its name with an Evelyn Waugh novel of 1938 and a board game of the fifties and sixties?

5.

In Sweden it is called a gem and in France it is called a trombone.  What is it called in Britain?

6.

Who said "Practically every game played internationally today was invented in Britain, and when foreigners became good enough to match or even defeat the British, the British quickly invented a new game"?  (forename and surname needed for letter link)

7.

Which bridge across the Thames lies between Chelsea and Lambeth Bridges?

8.

Which country's capital is named after the fifth President of the United States of America?

Sp.

Which Football League team's ground is called the New York Stadium?

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

Some of the hidden words are soundalikes and some are hidden in longer words

1.

Who led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan and, according to the Bible, died at the age of 110?

Joshua

2.

Which British company founded by the father of the current chairman in 1960 is one of the UK’s largest employment and recruitment agencies.  Its website is the most visited commercial job site in the country and it employs 3,000 permanent staff in 180 locations?

Reed

3.

What is the largest town on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.  It is home to a famous pipe band?

Campbeltown

4.

What is the county town of Fermanagh the scene of a bombing on Remembrance Day 1987 that killed 11 people?

Enniskillen

5.

Which 19th and early 20th century Anglo-American novelist’s works include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians and The Ambassadors?

Henry James

6.

Which 1970s pop band had hits with The Bump in 1974 and Fancy Pants in 1975?

Kenny

7.

Who was the 6th president of the United States serving from 1825 to 1829?

John Quincy Adams

Note to QMs: all 3 words are required for a correct answer

8.

Which famous sports commentator commanded a Sherman tank in World War II and, alongside his commentating career, worked in advertising after the war.  He created the slogan, 'Opal Fruits – made to make your mouth water' for Mars in the 1960s?  (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

Murray Walker

Sp.

Which name connects a Leeds United centre forward of the 1970s and the guitarist of punk band The Clash?  (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

Mick Jones

Theme: Each answer contains the surname of a British gold medal winner at the London 2012 Olympic Games:

1.

What is the state capital of Illinois in the USA?

Springfield

2.

Providence is the capital of which US state?

Rhode Island

3.

From which musical does the song Big Spender come?

Sweet Charity

4.

Which musical does the song How to Handle a Woman come from?

Camelot

5.

Which group of organic chemicals are widely used by the food and drinks industry to create artificial flavourings for products?

Esters

6.

Ethanoic acid is more commonly known by which name?

Vinegar

7.

What is the total purchase cost of all 3 red properties in the game Monopoly?

£680

8.

What is the total purchase cost of all 3 yellow properties in the game Monopoly ?

£800

Sp.

Complete this Karl Marx quotation by giving the 2 missing words: "From each according to his xxxxxx, to each according to his xxxxxx"

Abilities / Needs

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

One of the hidden words is a soundalike

1.

Which TV drama series ran on ITV from October 1984 to August 2010 and with 2,400 episodes was, at its conclusion, the longest running drama series of its kind in the UK?

The Bill

2.

Who won the Men’s Singles Title at Wimbledon in 1982? (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

Jimmy Connors

3.

Which polymath and scientist who lived from 1706 to 1790 invented, amongst other things, the lightening rod, bifocal glasses and the urinary catheter?

Benjamin Franklin

4.

Which biblical figure was the father of Isaac and was ordered by God to leave Mesopotamia?

Abraham

5.

What is the Latin name of the Greek mythological character who took 10 years to return home following the sacking of Troy?

Ulysses

(do not accept Odysseus)

6.

This fashion designer was born in The Bronx in 1942 and founded the fashion house that bears his name in 1968.  A vibrant brand to this day he gives his name to a range of perfumes, watches and jewellery as well as clothing.  Name him. (forename and surname required to fit in with the theme)

Calvin Klein

7.

Which famous scientist won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 and is widely credited with splitting the atom in 1917 upon which he also discovered, and named, the proton?

Ernest Rutherford

8.

In J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings what is the name of the land that lies beyond the Blue Mountains and is the westernmost land of the continent of Middle Earth?

Lindon

Sp.

Which English king was the last to lead his troops into battle?

George II

Theme: Each answer contains the forename of an American president:

ROUND 4 - Pairs

1.

What was the name of the Italian hilltop Benedictine monastery that was the site of a bitter four month battle between January and May 1944?

Monte Cassino

2.

Which three words, consecutive in the dictionary, mean:

• bullets or pieces of metal contained in shell,

• a scrap or fragment of garment,

• a small long snouted mammal?

Shrapnel,

shred,

shrew

3.

Stephen Covey’s influential 1989 book featured how many habits of highly effective people?

Seven

4.

Which Shropshire town with a semi-ruined castle, sits on the A49, 20 miles west of Kidderminster and has a station on the main Crewe to Cardiff mainline railway?

Ludlow

5.

Which three words, consecutive in the dictionary, mean:

• a sudden shivering due to fear,

• to move with a scraping or sliding or dragging motion,

• avoid, keep clear of, eschew?

Shudder,

shuffle,

shun

6.

Name any four of the five D Day Landing Beaches.

(one of)

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword

7.

Which Shropshire town on the River Severn is at the cross roads of the A458 and the A442 and is the northern terminus of the Severn Valley Railway?

Bridgnorth

8.

What is the surname of the businessman whose eponymous national high street chain has 1,160 outlets.  He has a regular column in The Daily Telegraph and has written a series of management books including The Complete Guide to Upside Down Management and How to Ride a Giraffe?

(John) Timpson

Sp.

Aboard which ship did Napoleon surrender post-Waterloo in 1815?

HMS Bellerophon

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme

There are soundalikes - two of the theme links are part of longer words and another is in more than one word

1.

Which Elvis Presley song includes the following lyric immediately before the eponymous refrain?

Got A Lot o'Livin' To Do

(accept Got A Lot o'Lovin' To Do)

2.

Though born in London, Kayvan Novak, star of the TV comedies Fonejacker and Facejacker, is which nationality by parentage?

Iranian

3.

Name the footballer: 3 times he set transfer fee records totalling £280,000; he scored 237 goals in 404 games for the club he played for most (being the second highest scorer for that club); he is the joint record goal scorer for his country with 30 goals in 55 internationals; and is the only player from that country to have won European Footballer Of The Year award.

(Huddersfield Town, Manchester City, Torino, Manchester United, Scotland)

4.

Which accounting firm ceased trading in 2002 as a result of its handling of the auditing of Enron?  Though subsequently exonerated by the Supreme Court of the United States, it has never resumed as an active business.

Arthur Andersen LLP

5.

Which 19th century opera has the alternative title The Futile Precaution?

The Barber of Seville

6.

What fictional surname links the comedians Graham Fellows and Roy Hudd?

Shuttleworth

(John - The Shuttleworths and The Paradise Club ; Archie - Coronation Street)

7.

Which 20th century black comic novel is set in SE London and is built around the relationship between the twice runner-up Young Funeral Director of the Year and his best friend Curly?

The Fowler Family Business

8.

Which post-war English new town was built in response to the local district council surveyor's report titled Farewell Squalor and was named after a local trade unionist, councillor and preacher?

Peterlee

Sp.

Which retired Edinburgh professor has this month been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics?

Peter Higgs

Theme: Each answer contains the surname of a Lancashire cricketer, and one contains the forename as well:

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Which famous British brand, first developed in Macclesfield in the 1880s, was named after the Latin meaning 'strength of man'?

Hovis

(hominis vis)

2.

Which Japanese sports brand takes its name from the Latin phrase meaning a sound mind in a sound body?

ASICS

(anima sana in corpore sano)

3.

What forename and surname are shared by a US film actor (1930-1980) who was known 'the King of Cool' and a British born video artist who won the Turner Prize in 1999?

Steve McQueen

4.

What forename and surname are shared by a US film actress born in 1982 and a woman born around 1555 but about whom little is known other than a legacy that she famously received upon the death of her husband in 1616?

Anne Hathaway

5.

Which novelist wrote the Rabbit Angstrom series of novels?                                                 

John Updike

6.

Which novelist wrote the Cadfael series of novels?

Ellis Peters

7.

Which cricketer's Test Match career spanned 27 years from 1949, when he made his debut as an 18 year old, to 1976 when he played his last Test at the age of 45?

Brian Close

(Yorkshire, Somerset & England)

8.

Whose career as an astronaut spanned 36 years from 1962, when he became the 5th person in space, to 1998 when he became the oldest person in space at the age of 77?

John Glenn

Sp.

Which sin have the inhabitants of Dante's First Circle of Hell committed?

Pride

ROUND 7 - Only Connect

Some questions ask for the link and some ask for the 4th in the sequence - choose a number between 1 and 10

1.

What is the link between: Rose, Bay, Lancet and Eyebrow?

All types of window

2.

What is the link between: Dominions, Virtues, Powers and Principalities?

Hierarchies of angels

(accept angels)

3.

What comes next in this sequence: Kingdom, Phylum, Class and ?

Order

(taxonomy classification)

4.

What comes next in this sequence: Methane, Ethane, Propane and ?

Butane

(Alkanes with increasing carbon atoms)

5.

What is the link between: 100 Philosophy and psychology, 200 Religion, 300 Social sciences and 400 Language?

The Dewey Decimal system

(the first four classifications)

6.

What comes next in this sequence? Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and? 

Götterdämmerung

(Ring Cycle Operas)

7.

What is the link between:  Colombia, Brazil, Gabon and Congo?

Sequential countries through which the equator passes travelling eastwards

8.

What comes next in this sequence: F, Cl, Br, and?

I

(iodine next in the sequence of halogens)

9.

What is the link between: Barbara, Ana, Monica, Rosa?

Santa

(all can be preceded by 'Santa' to make the names of cities in California)

10.

What is the link between: Nemesis, Air, Thirteen and Rita?

All rides at Alton Towers

ROUND 8 - 'Top to Tail'

The last letter of the answer to question 1 is the first letter of the answer to question 2 and so on until the last letter of the answer to question 8 becomes the first letter of the answer to question 1

1.

David Bowie got to number 1 in the charts in the summer of 1980 with which song?

Ashes to Ashes

2.

What was the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1947 and 1950? (forename and surname needed for letter link)

Stafford Cripps

3.

What is the name of the stadium where Coventry City are plying their trade this season?

Sixfields

4.

Which Woody Allen film of 2006 shares its name with an Evelyn Waugh novel of 1938 and a board game of the fifties and sixties?

Scoop

5.

In Sweden it is called a gem and in France it is called a trombone.  What is it called in Britain?

Paperclip

6.

Who said "Practically every game played internationally today was invented in Britain, and when foreigners became good enough to match or even defeat the British, the British quickly invented a new game"?  (forename and surname needed for letter link)

Peter Ustinov

7.

Which bridge across the Thames lies between Chelsea and Lambeth Bridges?

Vauxhall

8.

Which country's capital is named after the fifth President of the United States of America?

Liberia

(Monrovia - named after James Monroe)

Sp.

Which Football League team's ground is called the New York Stadium?

Rotherham United