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WithQuiz League paper  23/10/13

Set by: The Men They Couldn't Hang

QotW: R2/Q2

Average Aggregate Score: 70.4

(Season's Ave. Agg.: 68.4)

"As usual another very cleverly crafted quiz from TMTCH.  We loved rounds 4 & 5 and wondered how long it took TMTCH to put it all together."

"Great, inventive paper from The Men, easily the best of the season so far."

 

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme and Pairs

1.

In which Shakespeare play does the King of Bohemia disguise himself as a shepherd to attend a sheep shearing festival?

2.

Which Welsh international footballer was the oldest to represent the principality when aged 45 years and 229 days in 1920, as well as being the oldest player to play for both Manchester City and United?

3.

Who, after a career in the US Army lasting a mere 4 months, found great success when acquiring a gas station and its associated refreshment facilities on US Route 25 connecting Ohio to Georgia?

4.

Who released his debut single That’s My Goal on the Syco label in December 2005 seeing it become the UK Christmas number one single of that year?

5.

According to Half Man Half Biscuit six things were required to complete the big match atmosphere: the crowd, the dugout, the floodlights, a headless centre forward, and a goalkeeper with no arms were five; but a team resplendent in what completed the list?

6.

Of which fortification on the Hudson River did the traitor Benedict Arnold take command on 3rd of August 1780, promptly offering to sell it to the British for £20,000?

7.

Which Briton in 2008 became only the second woman to win a medal in two different summer Olympic sports?

8.

What, according to Lord Darlington in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, are the two things that a cynic knows?

Sp

Which university is based largely in Edinburgh and was ranked at 66th in the Times Guide for 2011?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

What institution can trace its existence back to the eleventh century and gave its name to a parliamentary constituency that was created in 1603 and abolished in 1950.  Its MPs have included Peel and Gladstone?

2.

What structure was officially opened in 1928 and gave its name to a parliamentary constituency that was created in 1983 and abolished in 2010.  Connecting two of the most deprived communities in England it was one of Labour’s safest seats?

3.

By what Latin name is Gerard Gerards, born in Holland in 1466 or 1467 and commemorated by having an EU Education policy named after him, better known?

4.

By what Latin name is Gerard de Kremer, born in the County of Flanders in 1512 and commemorated by having a Belgian museum dedicated to cartography named in his honour, better known?

5.

Which eponymous opera character is the lover of the artist Mario Cavaradossi in a piece by Puccini?

6.

Which eponymous opera character is the deformed jester to the Duke of Mantua in a piece by Verdi?

7.

What mineraloid and semi-precious gemstone is a hydrated form of silica?  Although deposits have been worked across the globe, 97% of the current world output is mined in Australia.

8.

What mineral, a semi-precious gemstone, is a hydrated form of aluminium and copper phosphate and was known to have been mined by the Ancient Egyptians in The Sinai peninsula five thousand years ago?

Sp.

What kind of an animal is a fer-de-lance?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Gene Hackman won an Academy Award for Best supporting actor for his role in Unforgiven but for his role in which film did he win his solitary Academy Award for Best Actor?

2.

From which unit of the British army are the members of the motorcycle display team nicknamed the White Helmets exclusively drawn?

3.

Name the legendary fly half who scored all 21 of Argentina’s points in the famous 21 all draw with the All Blacks in 1985.

4.

Which band, fronted by the glamorous Louise Werner, took their name from a Woody Allen film of 1973 and released their debut album Smart in 1995?

5.

Which company was formed in 1850 with Henry Wells as President and William G Fargo as Secretary; two men who would later be instrumental in forming Wells Fargo to carry mail to California?

6.

Which billionaire said in 2001 “you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”?

7.

What is the common name for the species, correctly called the ectopistes migratorius, which is thought to have become extinct when Martha died in Cincinnati zoo on September the 1st 1914?

8.

What BBC television programme has used an instrumental version of the Beatles When I’m Sixty Four as its theme tune since the 1980s due to the appropriate nature of the lyrics in the original?

Sp.

Which UK top 10 single in 1965 incorporates the following lyric “Although she may be cute, she's just a substitute because you're the permanent one”?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUNDS 4 & 5 - The Shopping Basket Rounds

Two rounds of pick your own blockbuster questions with nine mini hidden themes, eighteen pictures and nine verbal questions.

In front of you are 9 brands from the supermarket aisles of non consumable goods. Each brand comes with 3 questions - two are pictures, and one verbal.  All three answers for any given brand share a connection, a mini hidden theme, with that brand.

 

 

 

Toilet Duck

Q1

Picture

Q2

Picture

Q3

Verbal

 

 

 

Mr Muscle

Q4

Picture

Q5

Picture

Q6

Verbal

 

 

 

Old Spice

Q7

Picture

Q8

Picture

Q9

Verbal

 

 

 

Bang

Q10

Picture

Q11

Picture

Q12

Verbal

 

 

 

Fairy

Q13

Picture

Q14

Picture

Q15

Verbal

 

 

 

Finish

Q16

Picture

Q17

Picture

Q18

Verbal

 

 

 

Head &

Shoulders

Q19

Picture

Q20

Picture

Q21

Verbal

 

 

 

Crest

Q22

Picture

Q23

Picture

Q24

Verbal

 

 

 

Sure

Q25

Picture

Q26

Picture

Q27

Verbal

1.

Name the knight of the realm in the bowler hat clearly enjoying a moment on the footplate.  A keen ornithologist he kept and bred several species of exotic duck on his estate, Salisbury Hall, near St. Albans.

2.

Name the knight of the realm and son of a Royal Navy officer clearly at home behind the camera.  A keen ornithologist he named his daughter Dafila, the scientific name for the pintail duck, and his son Falcon.

3.

A covert operation run for Naval Intelligence by keen ornithologist Ian Fleming was named after a species of exotic duck.  He would later use it as the name of his Jamaican estate but, confusingly, not as a title of one of his Bond novels.  Name that duck.

4.

Name the muscle indicated by the red area.

5.

Name the muscle indicated by the red area.

6.

What is the name for the group of four muscles which together hold the head of the humerus in the shallow glenoid fossa of the scapula thereby maintaining the stability of the shoulder joint?

7.

Name the spice that will be produced when this crop of orchids is harvested.

8.

Name the spice pictured which may be derived from either the whole or ground seeds of Elletaria a member of the family Zingiberacea.

9.

Which spice is derived from the dried flower buds of the szyzgium amoraticum, a member of the family myrtaceae, commonly known as myrtle?

10.

Name this engineer born in Derbyshire and knighted in 1968.

11.

Name this scientist born in Yorkshire and knighted in 1972.

12.

Complete the final stanza of the poem The Hollow Man by TS Eliot “this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends….”?

13.

Identify the Fairey built aircraft that was operational at the start of the Second World War from a single sprue taken from an Airfix 1/72nd kit.

14.

Identify the Fairey built aircraft that was operational at the start of the Second World War from sprues taken from an Airfix 1/72nd kit.

15.

Which Fairey built aircraft was the first to break the 1000mph barrier?

16.

The winner of which race was decided by this photo finish? (race and year are required)

17.

Who won a gold medal on the evidence provided by this photo finish?

18.

Which Summer Olympic Games was the last to award solid gold medals to event winners and the first to utilize photo finish technology to decide the positions? (year or city will suffice)

19.

Name this noteworthy Englishman who wrote about the source of his far-sightedness on the 5th of February 1676.

20.

Name this noted dancer (seen here in a portrait by Henri Regnault) who made a gruesome request in return for one particular performance.

21.

Who wrote the short story Head and Shoulders which appeared in a collection of the author’s short stories entitled Flappers and Philosophers in 1920?

22.

Name the Evo Stik Northern Premier League team who wear this crest on their shirts.  A soubriquet exists but is not required.

23.

Name the Evo Stik Northern Premier League team who wear this crest on their shirts.  A soubriquet exists but is not required.

24.

Who are the most northerly based team in the Evo Stik Northern Premier League and sport an ancient Greek helmet as their club crest?

25.

Who is holding the guitar?  She once claimed to be unsure as to how truthful he who swore to be true was when compared to a vendor in a fast food outlet.

26.

Who is holding the guitar?  He once claimed to be unsure as to the extent of the universe when compared to human stupidity.

27.

Which organisation founded in Glasgow in 1883 claims to have 500,000 members worldwide and has the motto 'Sure and steadfast'?

Go to Rounds 4 & 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Who narrated the BBC Radio 4 drama documentary Well He Would Wouldn’t He broadcast on 23rd of February 2013 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of an infamous trial that actually featured the narrator?

2.

Which Radio and television presenter’s autobiography The Centre of the Bed published in 2004 touches on an affair with Harold Pinter, a liaison that Pinter claimed to be the inspiration for his play Betrayal?

3.

Where is the only place on earth where you will find the red land crab, correctly called the Gecarcoidea natalis, whose annual breeding migration from rainforest to ocean’s edge can number 120 million individuals?

4.

The state of Minnesota has several nicknames. Which one makes specific reference to its two dominant industries of arable and dairy farming?

5.

Which character was played by Colin Bean and appeared in 76 out of the 80 episodes of Dad’s Army?

6.

(You buy one you get one free - I say you buy one you get one free - Q6 is a two for the price of one special offer)

Who released a single Where is the Love? from the album Elephunk in 2003?

7.

Aravind Adiga won the Booker prize in 2008 for his debut novel when aged just 33.  What was the title of that novel?

8.

Which brand sponsored Cricket’s National Village Cup in 2013?

Sp.

Which television comedy was set in Fenner’s Fashions and featured a militant shop steward played Miriam Karlin and her catchphrase 'Everybody Out'?

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

Which barrister is named after a distinguished Labour politician and is the current Director of Public Prosecutions?

2.

Which barrister who is named after a character in Hindu mythology and is the current Director of Liberty?

3.

Which icon, who died in 1977, was the subject of a 1963 silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol which, in 2009, was sold privately for a reputed $100m; a record price for a Warhol?

4.

Which fellow artist sat for a portrait by Francis Bacon in 1969 that is now expected to reach $100m when it goes under the hammer in New York next month; which would be a record price for a Bacon?

5.

You visit the trendy trattoria in Trafford.  Your waiter brings a dish of veal topped with prosciutto and sage; and served with a marsala sauce.  What did you order?

6.

You stay for a dessert.  Your waitress brings you a caudle made from egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine that have been whisked constantly over a simmering Bain-marie; flavoured with lemon peel, cinnamon and vanilla, and served with whipped cream and berries.  What did you order?

7.

The minor road over the Hardknott Pass connects the Duddon Valley to which of the Lake District dales to its West?

8.

The minor road over the Buttertubs pass connects Thwaite in Swaledale with which of the Yorkshire Dales to its South?

Sp.

Electrum is principally an alloy of which two metals?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Which song by Randy Newman connects Joe Cocker and the film 9 and a Half Weeks with Tom Jones and the film The Full Monty?

2.

Which short story published in 1939 features the supposed adventures of a pilot of a flying boat, a gifted surgeon, an assassin on trial, an RAF pilot on a suicide mission and a man facing a firing squad?

3.

Name the Australian who won the men’s 1500m gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics in a world record time.

4.

Ellen MacArthur’s trimaran in which she recorded the fastest time for a solo circumnavigation in 2005 was named after 2 main sponsors.  One was the French retailer Castorama but who was the other?

5.

(That two for the price of one offer has been extended for one more question)

At which geological formation did the pupils of the fictional Appleyard College in the Australian state of Victoria enjoy dining al fresco on St Valentine’s Day 1900?

6.

Nibs, whose only memory of his mother is that she always wanted a cheque book, was a member of which fictional gang?

7.

According to the Bank of International Settlements in 2012 the world’s sixth and seventh most traded currencies were the Swiss Franc and the Canadian Dollar respectively.  What came next in eighth place?

8.

Which Cathedral dedicated to the Holy Wisdom, was constructed in the 6th Century on the orders of Justinian I and remained the world’s largest cathedral by area until the completion of Amiens more the 500 years later?

Sp.

Who had a UK number 2 hit single in 1978 with Love Don’t Live Here Anymore?

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme and Pairs

1.

In which Shakespeare play does the King of Bohemia disguise himself as a shepherd to attend a sheep shearing festival?

A Winter’s Tale 

2.

Which Welsh international footballer was the oldest to represent the principality when aged 45 years and 229 days in 1920, as well as being the oldest player to play for both Manchester City and United?

Billy Meredith

3.

Who, after a career in the US Army lasting a mere 4 months, found great success when acquiring a gas station and its associated refreshment facilities on US Route 25 connecting Ohio to Georgia?

Colonel Sanders

4.

Who released his debut single That’s My Goal on the Syco label in December 2005 seeing it become the UK Christmas number one single of that year?

Shayne Ward

5.

According to Half Man Half Biscuit six things were required to complete the big match atmosphere: the crowd, the dugout, the floodlights, a headless centre forward, and a goalkeeper with no arms were five; but a team resplendent in what completed the list?

A Dukla Prague Away Kit

(to avoid any misunderstandings the song was about Subbuteo)

6.

Of which fortification on the Hudson River did the traitor Benedict Arnold take command on 3rd of August 1780, promptly offering to sell it to the British for £20,000?

West Point

7.

Which Briton in 2008 became only the second woman to win a medal in two different summer Olympic sports?

Rebecca Romero

8.

What, according to Lord Darlington in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, are the two things that a cynic knows?

"The price of everything and the value of nothing"

Sp.

Which university is based largely in Edinburgh and was ranked at 66th in the Times Guide for 2011?

Edinburgh Napier University

Theme: “Holy Catfish Batman!"

Each answer contains the surname of an actor or actress who appeared in the 1960’s television series.

"Back to the Batcave, Robin!”

Go back to Round 1 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

What institution can trace its existence back to the eleventh century and gave its name to a parliamentary constituency that was created in 1603 and abolished in 1950.  Its MPs have included Peel and Gladstone?

Oxford University

2.

What structure was officially opened in 1928 and gave its name to a parliamentary constituency that was created in 1983 and abolished in 2010.  Connecting two of the most deprived communities in England it was one of Labour’s safest seats?

Tyne Bridge

3.

By what Latin name is Gerard Gerards, born in Holland in 1466 or 1467 and commemorated by having an EU Education policy named after him, better known?

Erasmus

4.

By what Latin name is Gerard de Kremer, born in the County of Flanders in 1512 and commemorated by having a Belgian museum dedicated to cartography named in his honour, better known?

Mercator

5.

Which eponymous opera character is the lover of the artist Mario Cavaradossi in a piece by Puccini?

Tosca

6.

Which eponymous opera character is the deformed jester to the Duke of Mantua in a piece by Verdi?

Rigoletto

7.

What mineraloid and semi-precious gemstone is a hydrated form of silica?  Although deposits have been worked across the globe, 97% of the current world output is mined in Australia.

Opal

8.

What mineral, a semi-precious gemstone, is a hydrated form of aluminium and copper phosphate and was known to have been mined by the Ancient Egyptians in The Sinai peninsula five thousand years ago?

Turquoise

Sp.

What kind of an animal is a fer-de-lance?

A snake

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Gene Hackman won an Academy Award for Best supporting actor for his role in Unforgiven but for his role in which film did he win his solitary Academy Award for Best Actor?

The French Connection

2.

From which unit of the British army are the members of the motorcycle display team nicknamed the White Helmets exclusively drawn?

Royal Signals

3.

Name the legendary fly half who scored all 21 of Argentina’s points in the famous 21 all draw with the All Blacks in 1985.

Hugo Porta

4.

Which band, fronted by the glamorous Louise Werner, took their name from a Woody Allen film of 1973 and released their debut album Smart in 1995?

Sleeper

5.

Which company was formed in 1850 with Henry Wells as President and William G Fargo as Secretary; two men who would later be instrumental in forming Wells Fargo to carry mail to California?

American Express

6.

Which billionaire said in 2001 “you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”?

Warren Buffet

(Obviously not a lifeguard as you should never go swimming when the tide is going out; do not try this at Morecambe - naked or otherwise)

7.

What is the common name for the species, correctly called the ectopistes migratorius, which is thought to have become extinct when Martha died in Cincinnati zoo on September the 1st 1914?

Passenger pigeon

8.

What BBC television programme has used an instrumental version of the Beatles When I’m Sixty Four as its theme tune since the 1980s due to the appropriate nature of the lyrics in the original?

Points of View

("Send me a postcard drop me a line stating point of view")

Sp.

Which UK top 10 single in 1965 incorporates the following lyric “Although she may be cute, she's just a substitute because you're the permanent one”?

Tracks of My Tears

Theme: All Aboard! All answers contain a word connected to railways

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUNDS 4 & 5 - The Shopping Basket Rounds

Two rounds of pick your own blockbuster questions with nine mini hidden themes, eighteen pictures and nine verbal questions.

In front of you are 9 brands from the supermarket aisles of non consumable goods. Each brand comes with 3 questions - two are pictures, and one verbal.  All three answers for any given brand share a connection, a mini hidden theme, with that brand.

 

 

 

Toilet Duck

Q1

Picture

Q2

Picture

Q3

Verbal

 

 

 

Mr Muscle

Q4

Picture

Q5

Picture

Q6

Verbal

 

 

 

Old Spice

Q7

Picture

Q8

Picture

Q9

Verbal

 

 

 

Bang

Q10

Picture

Q11

Picture

Q12

Verbal

 

 

 

Fairy

Q13

Picture

Q14

Picture

Q15

Verbal

 

 

 

Finish

Q16

Picture

Q17

Picture

Q18

Verbal

 

 

 

Head &

Shoulders

Q19

Picture

Q20

Picture

Q21

Verbal

 

 

 

Crest

Q22

Picture

Q23

Picture

Q24

Verbal

 

 

 

Sure

Q25

Picture

Q26

Picture

Q27

Verbal

1.

Name the knight of the realm in the bowler hat clearly enjoying a moment on the footplate.  A keen ornithologist he kept and bred several species of exotic duck on his estate, Salisbury Hall, near St. Albans.

Nigel Gresley

(which is why most of the A4 class including Mallard were named after birds)

2.

Name the knight of the realm and son of a Royal Navy officer clearly at home behind the camera.  A keen ornithologist he named his daughter Dafila, the scientific name for the pintail duck, and his son Falcon.

Peter Scott

3.

A covert operation run for Naval Intelligence by keen ornithologist Ian Fleming was named after a species of exotic duck.  He would later use it as the name of his Jamaican estate but, confusingly, not as a title of one of his Bond novels.  Name that duck.

Goldeneye

(which was a Bond film not be based on a novel by Fleming)

4.

Name the muscle indicated by the red area.

Rhomboids

5.

Name the muscle indicated by the red area.

Deltoids

6.

What is the name for the group of four muscles which together hold the head of the humerus in the shallow glenoid fossa of the scapula thereby maintaining the stability of the shoulder joint?

Rotator cuff

7.

Name the spice that will be produced when this crop of orchids is harvested.

Vanilla

8.

Name the spice pictured which may be derived from either the whole or ground seeds of Elletaria a member of the family Zingiberacea.

Cardomom

9.

Which spice is derived from the dried flower buds of the szyzgium amoraticum, a member of the family myrtaceae, commonly known as myrtle?

Clove

10.

Name this engineer born in Derbyshire and knighted in 1968.

Barnes Wallis

(responsible for all the biggest bangs the RAF had to offer in the Second World War and how handy that he should resemble an elderly Michael Redgrave)

11.

Name this scientist born in Yorkshire and knighted in 1972.

Fred Hoyle

(who denied the existence of the biggest bang of all time)

12.

Complete the final stanza of the poem The Hollow Man by TS Eliot “this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends….”?

"...not with a bang but a whimper"

13.

Identify the Fairey built aircraft that was operational at the start of the Second World War from a single sprue taken from an Airfix 1/72nd kit.

Swordfish

14.

Identify the Fairey built aircraft that was operational at the start of the Second World War from sprues taken from an Airfix 1/72nd kit.

Battle

15.

Which Fairey built aircraft was the first to break the 1000mph barrier?

Delta (2)

16.

The winner of which race was decided by this photo finish? (race and year are required)

2012 Grand National

(Neptune Collonges)

17.

Who won a gold medal on the evidence provided by this photo finish?

Christine Ohuruogu

(400m world Athletics Championships 2013)

18.

Which Summer Olympic Games was the last to award solid gold medals to event winners and the first to utilize photo finish technology to decide the positions? (year or city will suffice)

(either)

1912

(or)

Stockholm

19.

Name this noteworthy Englishman who wrote about the source of his far-sightedness on the 5th of February 1676.

Isaac Newton

(“if I have seen further it is through standing on the shoulders of giants”)

20.

Name this noted dancer (seen here in a portrait by Henri Regnault) who made a gruesome request in return for one particular performance.

Salome

(“give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist”)

21.

Who wrote the short story Head and Shoulders which appeared in a collection of the author’s short stories entitled Flappers and Philosophers in 1920?

F Scott Fitzgerald

22.

Name the Evo Stik Northern Premier League team who wear this crest on their shirts.  A soubriquet exists but is not required.

Darlington

(1883)

23.

Name the Evo Stik Northern Premier League team who wear this crest on their shirts.  A soubriquet exists but is not required.

Lancaster

(City)

24.

Who are the most northerly based team in the Evo Stik Northern Premier League and sport an ancient Greek helmet as their club crest?

Blyth Spartans

25.

Who is holding the guitar?  She once claimed to be unsure as to how truthful he who swore to be true was when compared to a vendor in a fast food outlet.

Kirsty MacColl

(“There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis but he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you.”)

26.

Who is holding the guitar?  He once claimed to be unsure as to the extent of the universe when compared to human stupidity.

Albert Einstein

(“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.”)

27.

Which organisation founded in Glasgow in 1883 claims to have 500,000 members worldwide and has the motto 'Sure and steadfast'?

Boys Brigade

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ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Who narrated the BBC Radio 4 drama documentary Well He Would Wouldn’t He broadcast on 23rd of February 2013 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of an infamous trial that actually featured the narrator?

Mandy Rice Davies

2.

Which Radio and television presenter’s autobiography The Centre of the Bed published in 2004 touches on an affair with Harold Pinter, a liaison that Pinter claimed to be the inspiration for his play Betrayal?

Joan Bakewell

3.

Where is the only place on earth where you will find the red land crab, correctly called the Gecarcoidea natalis, whose annual breeding migration from rainforest to ocean’s edge can number 120 million individuals?

Christmas Island

4.

The state of Minnesota has several nicknames. Which one makes specific reference to its two dominant industries of arable and dairy farming?

'The Bread and Butter State'

5.

Which character was played by Colin Bean and appeared in 76 out of the 80 episodes of Dad’s Army?

Private Sponge

6.

(You buy one you get one free - I say you buy one you get one free - Q6 is a two for the price of one special offer)

Who released a single Where is the Love? from the album Elephunk in 2003?

Black eyed peas

7.

Aravind Adiga won the Booker prize in 2008 for his debut novel when aged just 33.  What was the title of that novel?

The White Tiger

8.

Which brand sponsored Cricket’s National Village Cup in 2013?

Yorkshire Tea

Sp.

Which television comedy was set in Fenner’s Fashions and featured a militant shop steward played Miriam Karlin and her catchphrase 'Everybody Out'?

The Rag Trade

Theme:  Welcome to the Pudding club.  All answers contain a word (or two) that can precede pudding

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

Which barrister is named after a distinguished Labour politician and is the current Director of Public Prosecutions?

Keir Starmer

2.

Which barrister who is named after a character in Hindu mythology and is the current Director of Liberty?

Shami Chakrabarti

3.

Which icon, who died in 1977, was the subject of a 1963 silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol which, in 2009, was sold privately for a reputed $100m; a record price for a Warhol?

Elvis Presley

4.

Which fellow artist sat for a portrait by Francis Bacon in 1969 that is now expected to reach $100m when it goes under the hammer in New York next month; which would be a record price for a Bacon?

Lucian Freud

5.

You visit the trendy trattoria in Trafford.  Your waiter brings a dish of veal topped with prosciutto and sage; and served with a marsala sauce.  What did you order?

Saltimbocca

(alla Romana)

6.

You stay for a dessert.  Your waitress brings you a caudle made from egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine that have been whisked constantly over a simmering Bain-marie; flavoured with lemon peel, cinnamon and vanilla, and served with whipped cream and berries.  What did you order?

Zabaglione

(accept alternative sabayon)

7.

The minor road over the Hardknott Pass connects the Duddon Valley to which of the Lake District dales to its West?

Eskdale

8.

The minor road over the Buttertubs pass connects Thwaite in Swaledale with which of the Yorkshire Dales to its South?

Wensleydale

Sp.

Electrum is principally an alloy of which two metals?

Gold and silver

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ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Which song by Randy Newman connects Joe Cocker and the film 9 and a Half Weeks with Tom Jones and the film The Full Monty?

You Can Leave Your Hat On

2.

Which short story published in 1939 features the supposed adventures of a pilot of a flying boat, a gifted surgeon, an assassin on trial, an RAF pilot on a suicide mission and a man facing a firing squad?

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

3.

Name the Australian who won the men’s 1500m gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics in a world record time.

Herb Elliott

4.

Ellen MacArthur’s trimaran in which she recorded the fastest time for a solo circumnavigation in 2005 was named after 2 main sponsors.  One was the French retailer Castorama but who was the other?

B & Q

(both owned by Kingfisher plc)

5.

(That two for the price of one offer has been extended for one more question)

At which geological formation did the pupils of the fictional Appleyard College in the Australian state of Victoria enjoy dining al fresco on St Valentine’s Day 1900?

Hanging Rock

6.

Nibs, whose only memory of his mother is that she always wanted a cheque book, was a member of which fictional gang?

The Lost Boys

7.

According to the Bank of International Settlements in 2012 the world’s sixth and seventh most traded currencies were the Swiss Franc and the Canadian Dollar respectively.  What came next in eighth place?

Hong Kong Dollar

8.

Which Cathedral dedicated to the Holy Wisdom, was constructed in the 6th Century on the orders of Justinian I and remained the world’s largest cathedral by area until the completion of Amiens more the 500 years later?

Hagia Sophia

Sp.

Who had a UK number 2 hit single in 1978 with Love Don’t Live Here Anymore?

Rose Royce

Theme: Each answer makes reference to a famous or type of garden (Sophia Gardens is home to Glamorgan Cricket Club)

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