1.

Which 20th Century campaigner and writer was the mother of Baroness Shirley Williams?

2.

Which element, atomic number 23, takes its name from the latinized name of the Norse goddess Freyja?

3.

A star-studded version of which 1972 song was released as a BBC charity single in 1997?  It was the UK's number 1 single for 3 weeks.

4.

The 1994 FIFA World Cup Final was played in which city?

5.

How many claws does a domestic cat have?

6.

Specifically, what part of the body is affected by blepharitis?

7.

8.

Which fashion label was initially set up in 1982 from a stall in Camden market by Morecambe-born Wayne Hemingway and his wife Geraldine?

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

Which African capital city has the same name as the second largest city in Lebanon?

14.

15.

16.

Which 20th Century British politician was the father of Baroness Margaret Jay?

17.

Which element, atomic number 46, has a name derived from an epithet of the Greek goddess of wisdom?

18.

19.

The final of the UEFA Euro 2000 tournament took place in which city?

20.

How many toes does a domestic pig have?

21.

22.

23.

Which sporting star has a line of designer clothing called Aneres?

24.

25.

The All-Ireland Gaelic football championship is contested by 31 counties and 2 other teams.  London is one of these 'guest' teams.  Which is the other?

26.

Which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera features 8 ghosts all with the surname Murgatroyd?

27.

In 1949 which future broadcaster won the Manchester Mile while running for the Stockport Harriers Athletics club?

28.

Which Middle East capital city shares its name with a variety of grape?

29.

30.

It seems that John Adam's composition Short Ride in a Fast Machine was fated never to get off the ground at the Last Night of the Proms.  You already know that it was cancelled in 1997.  Well, they tried again four years later and once again it was cancelled at the last minute.  What was up this time?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

Which comedian describes himself as 'the funniest German living in Britain today'?

2.

Which Stanley Kubrick film takes its title from a line in Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?

3.

What in ancient Greece was the profession of a hupokrites, from which the modern word hypocrite is derived?

4.

When told of Harry Secombe's death who responded: “Good, now I won't have to have him singing at my funeral”?

5.

Which Iraqi-British award-winning architect shares her first name with the surname of a Manchester United footballer?

6.

What connects Douglas Adams, Yaya Touré and the Kumar family?

7.

Hector E Bonzo was the last captain of which ship?

8.

The Ishihara test is used to detect which condition?

9.

1966 is a year that will forever live in the memory of all Englishmen as the year when they finally got to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Erasmus.  Meanwhile , there was a World Cup Final to be played and at least a dozen people watched it on ITV.  Who was the ITV commentator?

10.

The Great Charlemagne, My Father is the title of which country's national anthem?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Originally founded as an inner-city adult education school in 1798, which English University was able in 1928 to move its main campus to a large parkland site to the west of the city thanks to a generous donation from Sir Jesse Boot?

2.

Two current managers in the English Premiership had the honour of being the captain of a Premiership winning team. Steve Bruce (Manchester United) was one.  Who was the other?

3.

Sworn enemies of the Hubert Lane-ites, how are William, Ginger, Henry and Douglas collectively known?

4.

In its verbal sense what word has the following dictionary definitions:

(1) to push, fold or turn (the edges or ends of something) so as to hide or secure them

AND

(2) to draw something (especially part of one's body) together into a small space?

5.

The composition of the 1969 song Sister Morphine was originally credited to Jagger and Richards - but after winning a legal battle, who earned the right to be credited as its co-write?  She is the great-great niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, patron saint of Stockport County FC.

6.

What is the modern name of the small Shropshire town that has been called the cradle of the Modern Olympic Games?  The Olympic mascot for London 2012 was named in its honour.

7.

'Once upon a time in South Central L.A. - it ain't no fairy tale' was the strap-line for which 1991 Oscar nominated film starring Cuba Gooding Jnr and rapper Ice Cube in his first film role?

8.

Sorry teams, it's barrel – scraping time!  The only useful thing this guy has ever done is to fit perfectly into this theme. He writes a twice weekly column for the Daily Mail.  The rest of the week he spends being obnoxious.  He was once summed-up perfectly by a book reviewer in The Guardian as being “the stupid person's Jeremy Clarkson”.  Who is he?

Sp.

Which Thomas Hardy novel takes its title from a line in Shakespeare's As You Like It?

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'There's only two Andy Gorams'

(Two sets of clues are given relating to two separate people who share the same name.  Give that name - e.g.: the second US President and an American composer = John Adams)

1.

Current Manchester United footballer;

Radio 5 Live commentator and football correspondent.

2.

Scottish sailor who became a hero of the American Revolution before going on to serve in the Imperial Russian Navy;

Stage name of bassist and co-songwriter for Led Zeppelin.

3.

British-American actress (1932-2011) who won the first of her two Oscar awards for best actress in 1960 for her performance in Butterfield 8;

English writer (1912-1975) whose novels and short stories were largely overlooked during her lifetime but which are now highly considered.

4.

Stage name of singer born Marie Mc Donald Mc Laughlin Lawrie;

Sexually alluring young girl who becomes a fallen woman in a 1937 opera by Alban Berg.

5.

Canadian comedian and actor whose best known cinema roles include Wayne Campbell and Austin Powers;

A fictional embodiment of Evil in a series of slasher films.

6.

London born folk rock and folk jazz singer and guitarist who died in Kilkenny in 2009 - his albums include Inside Out and Solid Air;

Romantic artist born in Hexham in 1789 best remembered for his apocalyptic paintings and engravings such as The Deluge.

7.

One of only three individuals to have served in the Cabinet continuously under the Labour government from 1997 – 2010;

One of the three leaders of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381.

8.

Well known and sadly missed TV quiz show host;

The Earl of Orkney from 1273 to 1284.

Sp.

Comedian, broadcaster and panellist;

Author of best selling novels such as number9dream and Cloud Atlas.

ROUNDS 5 & 6 - WithQuiz style - Bingo Blockbusters

Choose your initials - the answers start with the same initial letters

1.

TBG

These genteel London folk were said to “live in squares and love in triangles”.

2.

CB

Geographical feature found in Dorset that separates the Fleet Lagoon from the sea.  It also features in the title of a 2007 novella short-listed for the Booker Prize.

3.

WH

English born original thinker (1578-1657) whose ideas brought revolutionary changes to the world of medicine. He dissected his own father – post mortem, I hasten to add.

4.

HP

The only race course in Scotland devoted entirely to flat racing

5.

C

When Hamlet looked at them he saw “a camel, then a weasel, then a whale”.  Joni Mitchell, on the other hand, saw “rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air”.

6.

G

In the Asterix The Gaul books, the name of the Druid that frequently provides various potions for Asterix.

7.

L

Capital city that has recently been named, for the second time in three years, the world's most expensive city for expatriate workers to live in.

8.

CWNT

It connects Helmsley and Filey Brig.

9.

THTC

Gritty 1972 Jamaican crime drama that starred Jimmy Cliff and was instrumental in bringing Reggae music to a wider audience.

10.

SOL

Became, in 1886, the first recipient of a ticker tape procession in New York city.       

11.

GDP

Currently the Shadow Cabinet Minister for Women and Equalities and formerly a presenter on GMTV.

12.

TDOPS

1967 minor UK, and major European, hit single for David McWilliam written after an encounter with a homeless man on the streets of Ballymena.

13.

D,A

The first two of the five stages of Loss and Grief as described in the Kuebler-Ross model now widely used in grief counselling.  The other three are Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

14.

D

Middle name of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

15.

BE

What you would have if your high-fallutin' doctor told you you had a periorbital hematoma.

16.

B

Broad sash or belt worn around one shoulder to support a sword or bugle carried on the opposite hip.

17.

M & S

Surnames of two of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century born within two
years of each other.  The 'M' was German and is still influential today.  The 'S' was born in Derby.
He was a polymath whose work had considerable influence on European thought especially on
the subject of evolution.  Today however his reputation has waned and he is only really remembered for his coining of the phrase "survival of the fittest".

18.

BAC

Phrase first used by the poet Juvenal to condemn the moral decline of the Roman common people and the pandering of its politicians to the shallow requirements of the populace.

19.

JS

Famous father of Lana Peters who died in November 2011 in a Wisconsin nursing home aged 85.

20.

IC

The given initials refer to its English name.  More properly its French name should be used by all.  Try telling that to the Germans who still call it Die Elfenbeinkueste.

1.

The Iroquois Cup is contested in which sport?

2.

Doncaster has two MPs in the Shadow Cabinet.  Ed Miliband is one.  Who is the other?

3.

Which team has the shortest name in the English Football League?

4.

Who in 1899 wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class?

5.

In The Life of Brian what is the name of Brian's mother?

6.

What is the national bird and unit of currency of Guatemala?

7.

In which year were dog licences abolished in Britain?

8.

Kosice is the second largest city in which EEC country?

9.

Who composed The March of the Women which was the anthem of the Suffragettes?

10.

What name is shared by the largest cities in both Oregon and Maine?

Sp.

What was the official attendance at the 1966 World Cup Football Final?

1.

Which 20th Century campaigner and writer was the mother of Baroness Shirley Williams?

Vera Brittain

2.

Which element, atomic number 23, takes its name from the latinized name of the Norse goddess Freyja?

Vanadium

3.

A star-studded version of which 1972 song was released as a BBC charity single in 1997?  It was the UK's number 1 single for 3 weeks.

Perfect Day

4.

The 1994 FIFA World Cup Final was played in which city?

Pasadena

5.

How many claws does a domestic cat have?

18

(5x2 at front + 4x2 at back)

6.

Specifically, what part of the body is affected by blepharitis?

The Eyelid

7.

Something Understood

8.

Which fashion label was initially set up in 1982 from a stall in Camden market by Morecambe-born Wayne Hemingway and his wife Geraldine?

Red or Dead

9.

1994

10.

Kilkenny

11.

D'Ascoyne

12.

Christopher Chataway

13.

Which African capital city has the same name as the second largest city in Lebanon?

Tripoli

(or Tarabulus as it is known locally)

14.

Paternoster

15.

Its title was deemed inappropriate after the recent death of Princess Diana

16.

Which 20th Century British politician was the father of Baroness Margaret Jay?

James Callaghan

17.

Which element, atomic number 46, has a name derived from an epithet of the Greek goddess of wisdom?

Palladium

18.

Trainspotting

19.

The final of the UEFA Euro 2000 tournament took place in which city?

Rotterdam

20.

How many toes does a domestic pig have?

16

(a mean 4x4 machine)

21.

The Vertebrae

(Spine)

22.

In Our Time

23.

Which sporting star has a line of designer clothing called Aneres?

Serena Williams

(Serena spelled backwards)

24.

2003

25.

The All-Ireland Gaelic football championship is contested by 31 counties and 2 other teams.  London is one of these 'guest' teams.  Which is the other?

New York

26.

Which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera features 8 ghosts all with the surname Murgatroyd?

Ruddigore

27.

In 1949 which future broadcaster won the Manchester Mile while running for the Stockport Harriers Athletics club?

David Coleman

28.

Which Middle East capital city shares its name with a variety of grape?

Muscat

29.

Priest

30.

It seems that John Adam's composition Short Ride in a Fast Machine was fated never to get off the ground at the Last Night of the Proms.  You already know that it was cancelled in 1997.  Well, they tried again four years later and once again it was cancelled at the last minute.  What was up this time?

Its inappropriate title in the wake of the recent September 11th terrorist attacks

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

Which comedian describes himself as 'the funniest German living in Britain today'?

Henning Wehn

2.

Which Stanley Kubrick film takes its title from a line in Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?

Paths of Glory

3.

What in ancient Greece was the profession of a hupokrites, from which the modern word hypocrite is derived?

An Actor

4.

When told of Harry Secombe's death who responded: “Good, now I won't have to have him singing at my funeral”?

Spike Milligan

5.

Which Iraqi-British award-winning architect shares her first name with the surname of a Manchester United footballer?

Zaha Hadid

6.

What connects Douglas Adams, Yaya Touré and the Kumar family?

Number 42

(meaning of life; squad number; TV address)

7.

Hector E Bonzo was the last captain of which ship?

The Belgrano

8.

The Ishihara test is used to detect which condition?

Colour blindness

9.

1966 is a year that will forever live in the memory of all Englishmen as the year when they finally got to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Erasmus.  Meanwhile , there was a World Cup Final to be played and at least a dozen people watched it on ITV.  Who was the ITV commentator?

Huw Johns

10.

The Great Charlemagne, My Father is the title of which country's national anthem?

Andorra

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Originally founded as an inner-city adult education school in 1798, which English University was able in 1928 to move its main campus to a large parkland site to the west of the city thanks to a generous donation from Sir Jesse Boot?

Nottingham

2.

Two current managers in the English Premiership had the honour of being the captain of a Premiership winning team. Steve Bruce (Manchester United) was one.  Who was the other?

Tim Sherwood

(Blackburn Rovers)

3.

Sworn enemies of the Hubert Lane-ites, how are William, Ginger, Henry and Douglas collectively known?

The Outlaws

(in the Just William books)

4.

In its verbal sense what word has the following dictionary definitions:

(1) to push, fold or turn (the edges or ends of something) so as to hide or secure them

AND

(2) to draw something (especially part of one's body) together into a small space?

Tuck

5.

The composition of the 1969 song Sister Morphine was originally credited to Jagger and Richards - but after winning a legal battle, who earned the right to be credited as its co-write?  She is the great-great niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, patron saint of Stockport County FC.

Marianne Faithfull

6.

What is the modern name of the small Shropshire town that has been called the cradle of the Modern Olympic Games?  The Olympic mascot for London 2012 was named in its honour.

Much Wenlock

7.

'Once upon a time in South Central L.A. - it ain't no fairy tale' was the strap-line for which 1991 Oscar nominated film starring Cuba Gooding Jnr and rapper Ice Cube in his first film role?

Boyz 'n The Hood

8.

Sorry teams, it's barrel – scraping time!  The only useful thing this guy has ever done is to fit perfectly into this theme. He writes a twice weekly column for the Daily Mail.  The rest of the week he spends being obnoxious.  He was once summed-up perfectly by a book reviewer in The Guardian as being “the stupid person's Jeremy Clarkson”.  Who is he?

Richard Littlejohn

Sp.

Which Thomas Hardy novel takes its title from a line in Shakespeare's As You Like It?

Under The Greenwood Tree

Theme: Each answer contains a word with a connection to the Robin Hood stories

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'There's only two Andy Gorams'

(Two sets of clues are given relating to two separate people who share the same name.  Give that name - e.g.: the second US President and an American composer = John Adams)

1.

Current Manchester United footballer;

Radio 5 Live commentator and football correspondent.

Darren Fletcher

2.

Scottish sailor who became a hero of the American Revolution before going on to serve in the Imperial Russian Navy;

Stage name of bassist and co-songwriter for Led Zeppelin.

John Paul Jones

3.

British-American actress (1932-2011) who won the first of her two Oscar awards for best actress in 1960 for her performance in Butterfield 8;

English writer (1912-1975) whose novels and short stories were largely overlooked during her lifetime but which are now highly considered.

Elizabeth Taylor

4.

Stage name of singer born Marie Mc Donald Mc Laughlin Lawrie;

Sexually alluring young girl who becomes a fallen woman in a 1937 opera by Alban Berg.

Lulu

5.

Canadian comedian and actor whose best known cinema roles include Wayne Campbell and Austin Powers;

A fictional embodiment of Evil in a series of slasher films.

Mike (Michael) Myers

6.

London born folk rock and folk jazz singer and guitarist who died in Kilkenny in 2009 - his albums include Inside Out and Solid Air;

Romantic artist born in Hexham in 1789 best remembered for his apocalyptic paintings and engravings such as The Deluge.

John Martyn

7.

One of only three individuals to have served in the Cabinet continuously under the Labour government from 1997 – 2010;

One of the three leaders of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381.

Jack Straw

8.

Well known and sadly missed TV quiz show host;

The Earl of Orkney from 1273 to 1284.

Magnus Magnusson

Sp.

Comedian, broadcaster and panellist;

Author of best selling novels such as number9dream and Cloud Atlas.

David Mitchell

ROUNDS 5 & 6 - WithQuiz style - Bingo Blockbusters

Choose your initials - the answers start with the same initial letters

1.

TBG

These genteel London folk were said to “live in squares and love in triangles”.

The Bloomsbury Group

2.

CB

Geographical feature found in Dorset that separates the Fleet Lagoon from the sea.  It also features in the title of a 2007 novella short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Chesil Beach

3.

WH

English born original thinker (1578-1657) whose ideas brought revolutionary changes to the world of medicine. He dissected his own father – post mortem, I hasten to add.

William Harvey

4.

HP

The only race course in Scotland devoted entirely to flat racing

Hamilton Park

5.

C

When Hamlet looked at them he saw “a camel, then a weasel, then a whale”.  Joni Mitchell, on the other hand, saw “rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air”.

Clouds

6.

G

In the Asterix The Gaul books, the name of the Druid that frequently provides various potions for Asterix.

Getafix

7.

L

Capital city that has recently been named, for the second time in three years, the world's most expensive city for expatriate workers to live in.

Luanda

8.

CWNT

It connects Helmsley and Filey Brig.

Cleveland Way National Trail

9.

THTC

Gritty 1972 Jamaican crime drama that starred Jimmy Cliff and was instrumental in bringing Reggae music to a wider audience.

The Harder They Come

10.

SOL

Became, in 1886, the first recipient of a ticker tape procession in New York city.       

Statue of Liberty

11.

GDP

Currently the Shadow Cabinet Minister for Women and Equalities and formerly a presenter on GMTV.

Gloria De Piero

12.

TDOPS

1967 minor UK, and major European, hit single for David McWilliam written after an encounter with a homeless man on the streets of Ballymena.

The Days of Pearly Spencer

13.

D,A

The first two of the five stages of Loss and Grief as described in the Kuebler-Ross model now widely used in grief counselling.  The other three are Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

Denial, Anger

14.

D

Middle name of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

Danger

15.

BE

What you would have if your high-fallutin' doctor told you you had a periorbital hematoma.

Black Eye

16.

B

Broad sash or belt worn around one shoulder to support a sword or bugle carried on the opposite hip.

Baldric

17.

M & S

Surnames of two of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century born within two
years of each other.  The 'M' was German and is still influential today.  The 'S' was born in Derby.
He was a polymath whose work had considerable influence on European thought especially on
the subject of evolution.  Today however his reputation has waned and he is only really remembered for his coining of the phrase "survival of the fittest".

Marx and Spencer

(Karl and Herbert)

18.

BAC

Phrase first used by the poet Juvenal to condemn the moral decline of the Roman common people and the pandering of its politicians to the shallow requirements of the populace.

Bread and Circuses

19.

JS

Famous father of Lana Peters who died in November 2011 in a Wisconsin nursing home aged 85.

Joseph Stalin

(she was formerly known as Svetlana Alliluyeva)

20.

IC

The given initials refer to its English name.  More properly its French name should be used by all.  Try telling that to the Germans who still call it Die Elfenbeinkueste.

Ivory Coast

Extra time Round - Stockport Style - Written

1.

The Iroquois Cup is contested in which sport?

Lacrosse

2.

Doncaster has two MPs in the Shadow Cabinet.  Ed Miliband is one.  Who is the other?

Rosie Winterton

(Chief Whip)

3.

Which team has the shortest name in the English Football League?

Bury

4.

Who in 1899 wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class?

Thorstein Veblen

5.

In The Life of Brian what is the name of Brian's mother?

Mandy

6.

What is the national bird and unit of currency of Guatemala?

The Quetzal

7.

In which year were dog licences abolished in Britain?

1987

8.

Kosice is the second largest city in which EEC country?

Slovakia

9.

Who composed The March of the Women which was the anthem of the Suffragettes?

Ethel Smyth

10.

What name is shared by the largest cities in both Oregon and Maine?

Sp.

8

1 goal = 3 points;

final score 4-17 (29 points) to 6-8 (26 points)

What was the official attendance at the 1966 World Cup Football Final?