1.

Which Durham county cricketer was this season’s leading wicket taker in the County Championship with 70 dismissals?

2.

What is the common name for the species of bird, correctly Phalacrocarus, which is central to the traditional Japanese practice of ukai?

3.

The work of the artist Victor Hartmann inspired which piece of music, a showpiece for virtuoso pianists, first performed in 1874?

4.

Four US states have a stake in the Four Corners National Park.  Colorado and New Mexico form the Eastern half.  What two states form the Western half?

5.

What is the name of the Trade Union formed in 2004 through a merger of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and the Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades?  Its name is a word that can also be found on a British standard monopoly game board.

6.

Which edible has a variety called Green Utah described as being, 'crisp, tender and stringless with a rich nutty flavour'?

7.

What is calculated by this formula: ⅓ Π r² h?

8.

In January 2012 the NIESR rejected Migratlon Watch UK’s assertion that East European migrants were responsible for the UK's high unemployment. What do the initials stand for?

9.

Which county in England is home to the remains of Bolingbroke castle, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby and a youth hostel called Woody’s Top?

10.

What is the common name of the mammal that is the only extant species of the genus ornithorhyncus, ancient Greek for bird snout?

11.

The River Bug flows through which three countries?

12.

Who is the publicity conscious MP for Don Valley who was once accused by fellow MP Oona King as being, “more interested in the way she looks than the policies she presents"?

13.

Which poem by Tennyson includes the line “the mirror cracked from side to side” that provided the source for the title of the Agatha Christie novel?

14.

In which 1963 film, set almost exclusively in Second World War Germany, does Flight Lieutenant Hendley comment to Flight Lieutenant Blithe “He’s a crazy mixed up kid that Werner but I like him”?

15.

Celia Dawson and Alan Buttershaw, played by Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi, feature in which BBC romantic drama, first broadcast in 2012?

16.

Which Durham county cricketer was selected as the Professional Cricketers Association Young Player of 2013 after scoring 615 runs and taking 42 wickets in this season’s championship?

17.

What is the common name for the species of bird, correctly the Sulidae Morus, whose chicks fall prey to the traditional guga hunt held on the Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir every August?

18.

The victory of the Austrian Army, led by an eighty one year old Field Marshal, over Sardinia at the battle of Custoza in 1848, inspired which piece of music first performed later that same year?

19.

Four US states have a lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Michigan and Illinois are the two most populous. Which two are the lesser?

20.

What trade union was formed in 2001 through a merger of The Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists with The Engineers and Managers’ Association.  Its name is also a word that can be found on the sign of a famous riverside pub in Wapping?

21.

Which edible has a variety called Plum Purple, described as follows, 'a firm white flesh, it is hardy and stays crisp with a sweet but spicy flavour'?

22.

What is calculated by the formula: (2 Π r² ) + (2 Π r h)?

23.

PPARC was spun out of the Science and Engineering Research Council. It is responsible for British facilities in La Palma and Hawaii and publishes a house magazine called Frontiers.  What do the initials stand for?

24.

Which county of England is home to the remains of Dunstanburgh castle, RAF Boulmer and a youth hostel called Once Brewed?

25.

What is the common name of the mammal that is the only extant species of the genus sacrophilus, ancient Greek for meat loving?

26.

Which capital city lies on the River Dnieper?

27.

Who is the publicity conscious MP for Mid Bedfordshire once described by TV presenter Cathy Newman as “a tropical bird in amongst all that dull, grey, plumage on the Commons benches”?

28.

Mark Haddon’s book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, took its title from a line of dialogue in a short story published in 1892.  Name the character who spoke the original line.

29.

In which 1968 film, set almost exclusively inside Second World War Germany, does Major John Smith send a broadcast message “Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy”?

30.

Husband and wife Joe and Pauline Pearson played by Jim Moir and Gina McKee feature in which BBC drama first broadcast in 2012?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

What is the pH of the urine of a healthy human? (no decimal place is required)

2.

Which semi-precious gemstone, chemically quartz coloured by iron impurities, takes its name from the ancient Greek for 'not intoxicated', a reference to the mistaken belief that it offered protection from drunkenness?

3.

What archipelago consists of Hirta, Soay, Boreray, Dun and a host of islets and sea-stacks?  There are only about a dozen temporary residents over winter but a growing number of summer visitors, predominantly ornithologists, who usually arrive by way of chartered boat from Leverburgh or Uig.

4.

Which grape variety shares a name with the fifth most populous city in Iran?

5.

Which semi-professional football club play their home games inside the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside and are nicknamed The Nash?

6.

Which musical instrument is usually housed in a belfry or bell-tower and consists of at least 23 tuned cast bronze bells controlled via a keyboard.  A striking example can be found at Loughborough?

7.

Complete the words of San Francisco journalist Herb Caen who wrote in November 1978 “Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir along comes a punk rock band called…”.

8.

The characters in the three title roles, Frances Henshall, Stanley Stubbers and Rachel Crabbe are the chief protagonists in which play currently attracting sell-out audiences in the West End?

9.

Who would answer to 'dogsbody' at RAF Tangmere from 18th March to the 9th of August 1941?

10.

Which circuit has been host to 63 Grand Prix since the inaugural Formula One Championship in 1950 and as such is the most used venue in history of the Championship?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Who is the actor in no need of a haircut?

2.

Who is the jazz singer seen here in 1952?

3.

By what name is the rapper born Tracy Lauren Morrow better known?  A part time actor, his credits include New Jack City, Johnny Mnenomic and Tank Girl as a mutant marsupial.  Don’t ask.

4.

Which Dickens novel is set in the fictional northern town of Coketown?

5.

The duet, I Know Him So Well, is sung by the characters Florence and Svetlana in which musical, first staged in London’s West End in 1986?

6.

The River Goyt has just three named tributaries. The Toddbrook at Whaley Bridge is the first, the Etherow at Marple is the third, but what is the second?

7.

What brewery is based in the village of South Elmham near Bungay, Suffolk?  It uses distinctive oval shaped bottles for its bottled beers and has marketed a gluten free beer since 2007.

8.

Which Disney cartoon character, with a voice provided by Cliff Edwards, sang When You Wish Upon a Star, the winner of the Academy Award for best original song in 1940?

Sp.

What is the name of the bridge, designed by Brunel and opened in 1859, which carries the main railway line across the River Tamar?

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

What piece of forestry can be found immediately to the north east from where the woozle wasn’t?

2.

What song by Prof Green, featuring Emeli Sande, was a UK number one single in 2011 and includes the lyrics: “I wanna sing, I wanna shout, I wanna scream til the words dry out”?

3.

What comes next in the sequence: Cardiff South East, Ebbw Vale, Islwyn, Monklands East, Derby South and….?

4.

Which Gloucestershire town is home to the Wellington Bomber Aviation Museum, has a train station on the Cotswold Line linking Oxford and Worcester, and is located on the crossroads of the Fosse Way and the A44?

5.

What is the title of this painting described by critic Giles Tremlett as follows, “Connoisseurs of early smut know that somewhere in this 16th-century painting there is a nude figure with a posy of flowers sticking out of its bottom”?

6.

From which sword and sorcery film of 1988 is this still taken?

7.

Three clubs in the Skrill Conference Premier League play their home games inside the M25. Barnet and Welling United are two. Can you name the third?

8.

Which football club founded by Englishman Tom Griffith won the first ever Swiss Championship in 1897-98?

Sp.

The Fifteenth World Championships organised by FINA were held in Barcelona this summer for which sports? (single word collective name required)

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

The American public learned of the identity of number one, section two of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement on September the 22nd 1964. Name the agent in question.

2.

Who, somewhat appropriately, starred in a 1939 B-movie called Million Dollar Legs as Carol Parker with her then husband, Jackie Coogan?

3.

Who is missing from this inaugural list issued in 1936: Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb and…?

4.

5.

What title did that fawning weasel Disraeli have conferred upon Queen Victoria by way of the Royal Titles Act on 1st of January 1877?

6.

“Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours that they meant to murder him.”  Name the seventeen year old gang leader who committed the deed.

7.

8.

Which novel, first published in 1719, opens with the following lines: “I was born in the year 1632 in the City of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen.”?

Sp.

Which best-selling author has written a series of thirteen novels following the fortunes of the Courtney family in Africa from the seventeenth to the twentieth century?

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Which thoroughfare in London, named after a senior member of the Peerage of England is, according to the BBC’s own website, the address of Broadcasting House?

2.

Complete the lyric of a UK number 6 single from 1989 “Not to put too fine a point on it, Say I’m the only bee in your bonnet, make a little….”.

3.

4.

Which decade saw the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in which China ceded Hong Kong to the British, Adolphe Sax patent the saxophone, and William Makepeace Thackeray publish Vanity Fair?

5.

What was the make and model of Field Marshal Montgomery’s staff car, registration number M239459, that was in use from 1941 in North Africa through to 1944 in Italy and which he nicknamed 'Old Faithful'?

6.

Which Chicago based jazz funk band released the cult album The Awakening in 1971 on their very own short lived label, Scarab Records?

7.

Who threw a dinner party for Sir Isaac Newton and Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise with roast Grasshopper and Ladybird sauce on the menu, although Ptolemy, a vegetarian, had to bring his own salad?

8.

Sp.

What title did John of Gaunt’s eldest son assume on the last day of September 1399?

1.

Whose historical novel concerning French Army Officer Captain Dreyfus, falsely convicted of spying in 1894, was published last month and entitled An Officer and a Spy?

2.

The Vanity of Small Differences, comprising a series of six tapestries, is currently the title of a temporary exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery.  Who is the artist responsible?

3.

Nick Matthew from Sheffield is a current world champion in which sport after winning his third title in Manchester earlier this month?

4.

Who became the Secretary of State for Scotland last month?

1.

Six hours and thirty one minutes is the record time for a women’s tennis match. It took place in in the first round of the Virginia Slims tournament of 1984 when Vicky Nelson beat Jean Hepner 6-4, 7-6.  An unremarkable score-line but it featured one rally which lasted for how many minutes?  The closest wins.

2.

Okay then how many shots did the rally take?  The closest wins

3.

The point in question took place when Hepner was serving to win the second set tiebreak and take the match into a third set.  How long in minutes did the whole tiebreak game last?  The closest wins.

1.

Which Durham county cricketer was this season’s leading wicket taker in the County Championship with 70 dismissals?

(Graham) Onions

2.

What is the common name for the species of bird, correctly Phalacrocarus, which is central to the traditional Japanese practice of ukai?

Cormorant

(used in fishing where a wire loosely tied around the bird’s throat allows it to swallow small fish but not larger ones which are then extracted by the fisherman)

3.

The work of the artist Victor Hartmann inspired which piece of music, a showpiece for virtuoso pianists, first performed in 1874?

Pictures at an Exhibition

4.

Four US states have a stake in the Four Corners National Park.  Colorado and New Mexico form the Eastern half.  What two states form the Western half?

Utah and Arizona

5.

What is the name of the Trade Union formed in 2004 through a merger of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and the Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades?  Its name is a word that can also be found on a British standard monopoly game board.

Community

6.

Which edible has a variety called Green Utah described as being, 'crisp, tender and stringless with a rich nutty flavour'?

Celery

7.

What is calculated by this formula: ⅓ Π r² h?

Volume of a cone

8.

In January 2012 the NIESR rejected Migratlon Watch UK’s assertion that East European migrants were responsible for the UK's high unemployment. What do the initials stand for?

National Institute for Economic and Social Research

9.

Which county in England is home to the remains of Bolingbroke castle, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby and a youth hostel called Woody’s Top?

Lincolnshire

10.

What is the common name of the mammal that is the only extant species of the genus ornithorhyncus, ancient Greek for bird snout?

Platypus

11.

The River Bug flows through which three countries?

Poland, Ukraine and Belarus

12.

Who is the publicity conscious MP for Don Valley who was once accused by fellow MP Oona King as being, “more interested in the way she looks than the policies she presents"?

Caroline Flint

13.

Which poem by Tennyson includes the line “the mirror cracked from side to side” that provided the source for the title of the Agatha Christie novel?

The Lady of Shallot

14.

In which 1963 film, set almost exclusively in Second World War Germany, does Flight Lieutenant Hendley comment to Flight Lieutenant Blithe “He’s a crazy mixed up kid that Werner but I like him”?

The Great Escape

15.

Celia Dawson and Alan Buttershaw, played by Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi, feature in which BBC romantic drama, first broadcast in 2012?

Last Tango in Halifax

16.

Which Durham county cricketer was selected as the Professional Cricketers Association Young Player of 2013 after scoring 615 runs and taking 42 wickets in this season’s championship?

(Ben) Stokes

17.

What is the common name for the species of bird, correctly the Sulidae Morus, whose chicks fall prey to the traditional guga hunt held on the Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir every August?

Gannet

18.

The victory of the Austrian Army, led by an eighty one year old Field Marshal, over Sardinia at the battle of Custoza in 1848, inspired which piece of music first performed later that same year?

The Radetsky March

19.

Four US states have a lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Michigan and Illinois are the two most populous. Which two are the lesser?

Indiana and Wisconsin

20.

What trade union was formed in 2001 through a merger of The Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists with The Engineers and Managers’ Association.  Its name is also a word that can be found on the sign of a famous riverside pub in Wapping?

Prospect

(the pub, The Prospect of Whitby, is named after a ship that tied up beside it)

21.

Which edible has a variety called Plum Purple, described as follows, 'a firm white flesh, it is hardy and stays crisp with a sweet but spicy flavour'?

Radish

22.

What is calculated by the formula: (2 Π r² ) + (2 Π r h)?

Area of a cylinder

23.

PPARC was spun out of the Science and Engineering Research Council. It is responsible for British facilities in La Palma and Hawaii and publishes a house magazine called Frontiers.  What do the initials stand for?

Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

24.

Which county of England is home to the remains of Dunstanburgh castle, RAF Boulmer and a youth hostel called Once Brewed?

Northumberland

25.

What is the common name of the mammal that is the only extant species of the genus sacrophilus, ancient Greek for meat loving?

The Tasmanian devil

26.

Which capital city lies on the River Dnieper?

Kiev

27.

Who is the publicity conscious MP for Mid Bedfordshire once described by TV presenter Cathy Newman as “a tropical bird in amongst all that dull, grey, plumage on the Commons benches”?

Nadine Dorries

28.

Mark Haddon’s book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, took its title from a line of dialogue in a short story published in 1892.  Name the character who spoke the original line.

Sherlock Holmes

(in Silver Blaze responding to a police detective who asks “is there something you want to draw to my attention?”)

29.

In which 1968 film, set almost exclusively inside Second World War Germany, does Major John Smith send a broadcast message “Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy”?

Where Eagles Dare

30.

Husband and wife Joe and Pauline Pearson played by Jim Moir and Gina McKee feature in which BBC drama first broadcast in 2012?

Hebburn

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

What is the pH of the urine of a healthy human? (no decimal place is required)

6

2.

Which semi-precious gemstone, chemically quartz coloured by iron impurities, takes its name from the ancient Greek for 'not intoxicated', a reference to the mistaken belief that it offered protection from drunkenness?

Amethyst

3.

What archipelago consists of Hirta, Soay, Boreray, Dun and a host of islets and sea-stacks?  There are only about a dozen temporary residents over winter but a growing number of summer visitors, predominantly ornithologists, who usually arrive by way of chartered boat from Leverburgh or Uig.

St Kilda

(the military, and its contractors, re-established a small year round presence as long ago as 1957 to track missiles fired from the range on Benbecula)

4.

Which grape variety shares a name with the fifth most populous city in Iran?

Shiraz

5.

Which semi-professional football club play their home games inside the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside and are nicknamed The Nash?

CurzoN ASHton

6.

Which musical instrument is usually housed in a belfry or bell-tower and consists of at least 23 tuned cast bronze bells controlled via a keyboard.  A striking example can be found at Loughborough?

A Carillon

7.

Complete the words of San Francisco journalist Herb Caen who wrote in November 1978 “Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir along comes a punk rock band called…”.

The Dead Kennedys

8.

The characters in the three title roles, Frances Henshall, Stanley Stubbers and Rachel Crabbe are the chief protagonists in which play currently attracting sell-out audiences in the West End?

One Man Two Guvnors

9.

Who would answer to 'dogsbody' at RAF Tangmere from 18th March to the 9th of August 1941?

Douglas Bader

(it was his call sign)

10.

Which circuit has been host to 63 Grand Prix since the inaugural Formula One Championship in 1950 and as such is the most used venue in history of the Championship?

Monza

(it missed out in 1980 - there have been 60 grand prix at Monaco)

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Who is the actor in no need of a haircut?

Adrian Lester

2.

Who is the jazz singer seen here in 1952?

Dinah Washington

3.

By what name is the rapper born Tracy Lauren Morrow better known?  A part time actor, his credits include New Jack City, Johnny Mnenomic and Tank Girl as a mutant marsupial.  Don’t ask.

Ice T

4.

Which Dickens novel is set in the fictional northern town of Coketown?

Hard Times

5.

The duet, I Know Him So Well, is sung by the characters Florence and Svetlana in which musical, first staged in London’s West End in 1986?

Chess

6.

The River Goyt has just three named tributaries. The Toddbrook at Whaley Bridge is the first, the Etherow at Marple is the third, but what is the second?

The Sett

(at New Mills)

7.

What brewery is based in the village of South Elmham near Bungay, Suffolk?  It uses distinctive oval shaped bottles for its bottled beers and has marketed a gluten free beer since 2007.

St Peter’s

8.

Which Disney cartoon character, with a voice provided by Cliff Edwards, sang When You Wish Upon a Star, the winner of the Academy Award for best original song in 1940?

Jiminy Cricket

Sp.

What is the name of the bridge, designed by Brunel and opened in 1859, which carries the main railway line across the River Tamar?

Royal Albert

Theme: It’s hip to be square!  The final word or words of every answer can precede the word 'square' and still make sense

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

What piece of forestry can be found immediately to the north east from where the woozle wasn’t?

One Hundred Acre Wood

2.

What song by Prof Green, featuring Emeli Sande, was a UK number one single in 2011 and includes the lyrics: “I wanna sing, I wanna shout, I wanna scream til the words dry out”?

Read All About It

3.

What comes next in the sequence: Cardiff South East, Ebbw Vale, Islwyn, Monklands East, Derby South and….?

Sedgefield

(constituencies held by successive Labour party leaders whilst in opposition 1979-1997; Derby South was Margaret Beckett who was temporary leader)

4.

Which Gloucestershire town is home to the Wellington Bomber Aviation Museum, has a train station on the Cotswold Line linking Oxford and Worcester, and is located on the crossroads of the Fosse Way and the A44?

Moreton in Marsh

5.

What is the title of this painting described by critic Giles Tremlett as follows, “Connoisseurs of early smut know that somewhere in this 16th-century painting there is a nude figure with a posy of flowers sticking out of its bottom”?

Garden of Earthly Delights

6.

From which sword and sorcery film of 1988 is this still taken?

Willow

7.

Three clubs in the Skrill Conference Premier League play their home games inside the M25. Barnet and Welling United are two. Can you name the third?

Dartford

8.

Which football club founded by Englishman Tom Griffith won the first ever Swiss Championship in 1897-98?

Grasshopper Club Zurich

(note FC Zurich is an entirely different club)

Sp.

The Fifteenth World Championships organised by FINA were held in Barcelona this summer for which sports? (single word collective name required)

Aquatic

(swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open air swimming)

Theme: Stars of the Dawn Chorus! Each answer contains the name of a species of British Warbler

1.

The American public learned of the identity of number one, section two of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement on September the 22nd 1964. Name the agent in question.

Napoleon Solo

(the Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

2.

Who, somewhat appropriately, starred in a 1939 B-movie called Million Dollar Legs as Carol Parker with her then husband, Jackie Coogan?

Betty Grable

(although apparently the title didn’t refer to hers but those of a racehorse!)

3.

Who is missing from this inaugural list issued in 1936: Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb and…?

Babe Ruth

(being the first inductees to Baseball’s Hall of Fame)

(accept George Ruth but point out that the theme needs the answer 'Babe Ruth')

4.

(with DJ Spinderella)

5.

What title did that fawning weasel Disraeli have conferred upon Queen Victoria by way of the Royal Titles Act on 1st of January 1877?

Empress of India

6.

“Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours that they meant to murder him.”  Name the seventeen year old gang leader who committed the deed.

Pinkie

(from Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock)

7.

8.

Which novel, first published in 1719, opens with the following lines: “I was born in the year 1632 in the City of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen.”?

Robinson Crusoe

Sp.

Which best-selling author has written a series of thirteen novels following the fortunes of the Courtney family in Africa from the seventeenth to the twentieth century?

Wilbur Smith

Theme: Making Bacon! Each answer contains the name of a famous fictional pig....

Little Pig Robinson was a Beatrix Potter creation while Betty was the pig in A Private Function and recently the musical version Betty Blue Eyes

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Which thoroughfare in London, named after a senior member of the Peerage of England is, according to the BBC’s own website, the address of Broadcasting House?

Portland Place

(Wikipedia claim that technically Broadcasting House is in Langham Place, an extension to Portland Place; however the BBC only ever refer to it as being in Portland Place)

2.

Complete the lyric of a UK number 6 single from 1989 “Not to put too fine a point on it, Say I’m the only bee in your bonnet, make a little….”.

"Birdhouse in your Soul"

3.

4.

Which decade saw the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in which China ceded Hong Kong to the British, Adolphe Sax patent the saxophone, and William Makepeace Thackeray publish Vanity Fair?

1840s

5.

What was the make and model of Field Marshal Montgomery’s staff car, registration number M239459, that was in use from 1941 in North Africa through to 1944 in Italy and which he nicknamed 'Old Faithful'?

Humber (Super) Snipe

6.

Which Chicago based jazz funk band released the cult album The Awakening in 1971 on their very own short lived label, Scarab Records?

The Pharoahs

(their early line-up included Maurice White of Earth Wind and Fire)

7.

Who threw a dinner party for Sir Isaac Newton and Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise with roast Grasshopper and Ladybird sauce on the menu, although Ptolemy, a vegetarian, had to bring his own salad?

Jeremy Fisher

(in case of query Sir Isaac Newton was a newt not the mathematician)

8.

Sp.

What title did John of Gaunt’s eldest son assume on the last day of September 1399?

King Henry the Fourth

Theme: "The general synopsis Atlantic low moving eastwards filling slowly."

Each answer contains the name of a shipping forecast area

1.

Whose historical novel concerning French Army Officer Captain Dreyfus, falsely convicted of spying in 1894, was published last month and entitled An Officer and a Spy?

Robert Harris

2.

The Vanity of Small Differences, comprising a series of six tapestries, is currently the title of a temporary exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery.  Who is the artist responsible?

Grayson Perry

3.

Nick Matthew from Sheffield is a current world champion in which sport after winning his third title in Manchester earlier this month?

Squash

4.

Who became the Secretary of State for Scotland last month?

Alastair Carmichael

1.

Six hours and thirty one minutes is the record time for a women’s tennis match. It took place in in the first round of the Virginia Slims tournament of 1984 when Vicky Nelson beat Jean Hepner 6-4, 7-6.  An unremarkable score-line but it featured one rally which lasted for how many minutes?  The closest wins.

29

2.

Okay then how many shots did the rally take?  The closest wins

643

3.

The point in question took place when Hepner was serving to win the second set tiebreak and take the match into a third set.  How long in minutes did the whole tiebreak game last?  The closest wins.

107